Chapter 2
The briefing room was fairly large, about the size of a high school gymnasium. There were a few rows of chairs placed in front of a rolled-down screen sheet and a projector mounted on a trolley. Raleigh eyes it speculatively, considering how much the Jaeger Program's financial support had obviously dwindled since he'd left.
Since he'd been a few minutes early in arriving at the room, Raleigh was the first person there. He seated himself down in the front row, glancing idly around and waiting for someone else to show up. Over the next ten minutes, the other crews entered; first was the Wei triplets, then the Kaidonovsks, and finally the Hansens.
Then surprisingly, someone else enetered. One men and a women, both of them Japanese in appearance, walked into the room with a casual grace to their movements. To Raleigh's surprise, he recognized both of them instantly.
"Ozaki?" Raleigh called, standing up.
The girl turned around, a grin lighting up on her face as her eyes light up with joy. "No Way… Is it you, Raleigh?"
Raleigh laughed, stepping forward and hugging Ozaki briefly. "It's been too long, man!"
Shinichi Ozaki grinned back at him, following Raleigh over to the seats and sitting down next to him. "Raleigh Becket! It's been far too long, my man! What brings you back to PPDC? And into G-force, No less?"
"The Marshall tracked me down and told me about this mission. At first I said no, but after seeing what Godzilla did to Blue Thunder. It reminded me of Yancy." Raleigh said "So I said yes to take down the monster who took my brother away from me."
Ozaki looked at Raleigh and remembered about that day when he learned about the death of Yancy and the disappeared Raleigh. He was hurt to know that the only friend he ever knew was still hurting.
"Hey man come on, we will get that damn lizard." Ozaki replied "Godzilla will pay with his life for what he has done to this world. He and his kind will fall."
The girl, now sitting on the other side of Ozaki, extended her hand. "Lieutenant Akane Yashiro, nice to meet you, Raleigh."
"Likewise ma'am." Raleigh replied, shaking her hand.
Akane eyed Raleigh critically. "So you're the one who fought a Cat-five by yourself, huh?" A grin came across her face. "Nice work."
"Thanks, Akane." Raleigh acknowledged, a puzzled expression forming on his face as he realized something. "Wait, I only saw four Jaegers in the bay, counting Gipsy, during the tour Marshall gave me. What is the one you two are going to be Piloting?"
Akane smiled as she grinned at Raleigh. "Let's just say that it's the most costly built Mech on the planet. And it's one of Kind!"
"Raleigh, you're likely to see the Mech after the briefing," Ozaki explained
They turned as footsteps sounded through the room. Marshall Pentecost entered, followed by four others. Two of them, a young man who looked to be in his 20's with tousled brown hair and glasses and an older man with a bowl haircut and a cane, seemed to be in the middle of an argument. They were followed by two young Japanese women: one was petite with short dark hair, and the other was slightly taller with mid-back-length hair.
"Ladies and gentlemen," Pentecost spoke. "Rangers. Thank you for all of you coming today. I want to take this movement to officially welcome you all to the newly formed G-Force, and to thank you all for being part of this mission. Your participation is, in itself, a testament to your courage. Before we begin, I like to add that Ms. Miki Saegusa and her team are not here on base. She has left for an island sometime before this briefing started. Now I want to introduce the scientific team that will be advising G-Force."
Pentecost gestured to the two men who had been arguing, who had managed to regain some semblance of calm and were basically ignoring each other. "From right here at our Hong Kong base is, we have Drs. Newton Geiszer and Hermann Gottlieb."
The younger man with the glasses, Dr. Geiszer, stepped forward. "Just call me Newt," He said. "Only my mother calls me Doctor." While he grinned at the joke, no one else found it funny. Clearly sensing that his attempt at humor had fallen flat, Newt quickly withdrew to stand next to Gottlieb.
"Next, we have Asagi Kusanagi, from the Tokyo Shatterdome, same as Miki." Pentecost said, indicating the taller Japanese women with mid-back-length hair. The young women had a strangely calm tone about her as she glanced across the group of pilots. She looked at them as if she was studying them.
"Next, we have Ms. Miyuki Otonashi, from the PPDC Kaiju Research Institute in Osaka." The other Japanese women smiled in a friendly manner as she looked around the room. Raleigh noticed a change in Ozaki's focus from where he sat beside the Japanese pilot, and smirked to himself.
"So he likes Miyuki huh. This is going to be fun!" Though Raleigh
"Now let's get started, shall we, Ladies and gentlemen? Pentecost said, retaking his position in front of the projection screen. A brief squabble between Newt and Gottlieb ensued over the control of the projector, but Newt finally rolled his and groaned after a few seconds, admitting defeat. He walked over and switched off the lights, while Hermann hit a few buttons on the computer, activating the projector.
The room went dark for a moment, until the projector lit up, producing a picture on the screen. The picture was a picture of Godzilla back in the 1950's.
"Seventy-one years ago the first Kaiju was born." Pentecost said, indicating the screen, "Godzilla was first sighted in the south pacific ocean. Then he was sighted again by Odo Island, and then he moved in for the attack in Tokyo bay. The SDF engaged the monster and tried to stop it. But they were no match at all for Godzilla. Godzilla wiped them all out in no time at all. Then he moved on to Tokyo. There he killed thousands. After the attack Godzilla went back into the sea. Then after that in 2018 Godzilla came back. After that he disappeared again. Then he came back again a few years later. And we all know how that ended. Then again in 2025. He took out a Kaiju and the Jaeger." Pentecost said, and then he looked at Hermann and nodded his head
A new image came up, this one showing an island in the South Pacific Ocean. The Island was called Adonoa Island. There on the image was a grey thing in the center of the center of the island.
"We have looked over this picture for a few hours now. But we still can't figure out what it is on that island. That is why Ms. Miki Saegusa and her team aren't here with us. She went to the island to check out this thing on the island." Pentecost said
Pentecost looked over at Miyuki and nodded. It was her turn to speak. Hermann moved away from the projector. Miyuki stepped up and changed the picture to a strange looking metal.
"This pilots is the metal known as Reverse Carbon-Carbon, or RCC, it is designed to withstand intense heat. It is the same metal that is being put on and used on your Jaegers as we speak. It is also used on space shuttles as it is entering the atmosphere of the Earth. If it can withstand that! Then there is nothing that it should be used against even Godzilla's Atomic ray." Spoke Miyuki
"And we're sure that this new armor will work against Godzilla?" Akane spoke out
"Absolutely," Hermann said as he butted into Miyuki's speech. "I performed all the necessary calculations myself, and everything checked out."
Newt snorted, Hermann's head snapped around, and he shot his fellow scientist a glare.
"While Dr. Gottlieb and Miyuki were responsible for helping to improve the Jaegers so that they can better fight Godzilla, the task of analyzing our foe goes to Dr. Geiszler," Pentecost continued, indicating Newt with one hand.
"Awesome! My turn!" Newt said, earning another glare form Hermann. The younger scientist stepped forward and started to press keys, bring up a video on the screen.
"Okay, this video is from 2029 in New York," Newt Said. "The first time Godzilla had been seen since 2021." He hit a button, and activated the video
The film had been obviously filmed inside a helicopter circling the city, but it was instantly recognizable. There were already four Jaegers in the city. Three of them were Mark III Jaegers: Red Ocean, Molten Magma, and Blue Diamond that were there.
The Kaiju they were facing was a Kaiju, codenamed Zilla. It was the 2nd one of its kind like the one before it. It had a box like head, long arms with long sharp claws to go with it, a long powerful tail, two long powerful legs, and a mouth full of teeth.
As the video opened up, the three Jaegers were facing off with Zilla near the harbor, when suddenly the water began to bulge in an upright manger. Columns of water came crashing back down into the harbor. When it was all over the only thing there was a massive body as the newly revealed monster came from the bay.
And there he was.
Raleigh sucked in a breath as he saw the image on the screen. The monster that killed his brother.
Godzilla, The King of the Monsters. A gigantic creature with charcoal-grey scaled skin, a wide barrel-like chest, pillar like legs, a long think tail, and three rows of bone-white, spiky dorsal plates running down his back. His white-soulless eyes, burning with wrath, and his roar, a sound of tearing metal, and loud enough to break glass. It was said throughout the Shatterdome that when Jaeger pilots wanted to scare each other, they told stories of Godzilla. Since he had defeated a total of 12 Jaegers in the eight years he'd return, nine of which had been completely destroyed, his reputation was well-deserved.
And Raleigh had signed up again to fight against Godzilla again. Perhaps agreeing to become a Ranger again hadn't been a good idea after all.
As the video continued to play, Godzilla emerged from the harbor, stepping out onto land and moving towards the Three Jaegers and their Kaiju opponent. As Godzilla approached them, Red Ocean and Molten Magma actually backed away, their pilots apparently stunned by the sight of the First Kaiju. Zilla, however, turned and bellowed a roar of challenge, unafraid. Godzilla let out a deep rumbling growl, totally unmoved by the other Kaiju's roar of challenge.
Rushing forward, Zilla leaped into the air, intending to knock down Godzilla. It was useless, of course, As Godzilla stood there and waited for Zilla to get closer and then spun around and nailed it with his tail, and Zilla was sent back and into a building. Godzilla turned around and his back started to slowly glow. He was Building up his Atomic Breath. Godzilla sucked in air and unleashed it on the building that Zilla was at and brought it down on top of him. Godzilla then lowered down his head and continued to fire his Breath. From within the inferno, Zilla let out one final roar of agony before there were sounds of large explosions. After about ten seconds, Godzilla closed his mouth and stopped the attack. Godzilla lowered his head and watched as the flames that were now Zilla were burning him. Godzilla then let out a loud roar and turned around and stopped and looked at the three Jaegers standing nearby.
Despite having seen Godzilla kill Zilla in about ten seconds, the Jaeger pilots stupidly decided to attempt an attack; Rec Ocean went in first, Ocean charged, aiming to take on Godzilla head on, while Molten Magma circled around from the side, trying to get behind Godzilla. Godzilla roared angrily, and collided with Red Ocean with thunderous force. The two titans locked arms and began to push each other forward, each trying to knock the other off balance. Red ocean was losing, up until Molten Magma came behind Godzilla and put him into a head lock. And then grabbed him and turned and slammed Godzilla down onto the ground. Then Magma jumped away and all three Jaegers opened fire on Godzilla as he was down.
However, this only lasted for about a minute before Godzilla's body started to glow brought blue. An instant later, there was a blinding flash of light and the image cut out.
A moment later, the video picked up on another camera on another helicopter. The camera focused in on the thick cloud of smoke, clearly rising from the spot where Godzilla and the three Jaegers were.
After a long, tense moment, Godzilla came out of the smoke and then waded back into sea. The helicopter moved inland, heading for the spot where the jaegers were, but all they could see was smoke. Then slowly the smoke cleared and there they were the Jaegers. They were all blown apart. There was no way any one could have lived.
"As you might have guesses, the first battle between Godzilla and a Jaeger didn't go too well," Newt said "He was at a disadvantage there for a moment, but that only lasted a minute until he used his nuclear pulse to disable the Jaegers.
Newt tapped another key, bringing up another video; this one showed Godzilla facing off against the first G-force on an island in the South Pacific. "Okay, so this is the first G-Force, Blue typhoon, Big Wolf, and Dragon Buster, were chosen for this mission because they had complimentary skills and abilities; Blue Typhoon was a heavy hitter and powerful in hand to hand combat, Big Wolf was good in long-range weapons, and Dragon Buster was light armored but much faster than the others and had the state of the art weapons for use on Godzilla, and more agile than the other two as well. That combination worked very well together; unfortunately, against a monster like Godzilla, it wasn't enough."
Newt tapped another key, activating the video. Godzilla was grabbling with Blue Typhoon, while Big wolf was getting its long-range missiles ready to lock on and fire. Dragon Buster rushed in from behind, deploying its pair of Japanese shaped knives from both of its arms. Pivoting, however, Godzilla spun, dragging blue typhoon with him, and shoved outwards, slamming Blue Typhoon into Dragon and sending both jaegers staggering backwards. He then turned to face Wolf, just as it was firing it missiles. A dozen missiles struck Godzilla head on and detonated in a massive explosion. Wolf moved in with its plasma cannon armed on it right arm, but Wolf was caught off guard when they saw Godzilla's back lighting up slowly as the Blue flames on his spikes grew brighter. A moment later the Beam was unleashed out of the smoke and struck Wolf in the right knee. The knees joint was blown apart by the beam and the power behind the Legendary Godzilla, and Wolf toppled over and tapped out of the fight.
A few seconds later, Blue Typhoon and Dragon Buster were back up and back to help, but Godzilla was ready for them. He waited until they close enough, then he suddenly whirled around 360 degrees. His massive tail crashed into Dragon's chest, knocking the Jaeger over and back off its feet, but missed the slower moving Typhoon. Pivoting, he fired his Atomic Breath that struck dragon head on. The Jaeger's torso exploded, blown out from Godzilla.
With both Wolf and Dragon down, Blue typhoon was left. Typhoon went on a furious, all-out attack, pounding on Godzilla with everything it had. After a few long minutes, it managed to wrap itself around Godzilla's neck, pinning itself awkwardly against its side as it hammered powerful blows to Godzilla's back and neck. For a movement it looked like Typhoon was winning.
Then Godzilla's back started to glow blue as it was getting ready to finish this thing off. He looked at them through the head of the Jaeger and just before he unleashed his Atomic breath he cracked a smile. Typhoon let go of Godzilla, but it was too late for them. Godzilla unleashed it and blow off the Jaegers head. The Jaeger went limp and fell to the ground. Godzilla looked around, surveying the destruction he had caused, and then let out a deafening roar of triumph. The video ended.
"Basically, Godzilla won by separating the Jaegers, forcing them to function separately instead of fighting as a unit," Newt said. "He took out Wolf first to neutralize it's long ranged weapons, then took out Dragon next since it was lightly armored and more vulnerable, before taking on typhoon with his full force."
Turning back to front, Newt looked over to Pentecost, and then continued. "There are two things that we learned from this battle," He announced. "The first one is the idea of having different Jaegers come together as a fighting force is a good idea, but doesn't isn't good in battle. They could have won, but Godzilla got them away from each other, that is where it failed. They worked well as a team but not so good when they are on their own against Godzilla. They were all at a disadvantage when they had to fight on their own. Now to overcome this, the new G-force will consist of Jaegers who can work on their own and together, but you all have to remember this is Godzilla and he will try and get you guys away from each other."
"The other matter that is noticeable in this video," an accented voice pointed out, "Is Godzilla's intelligence."
All eyes went to Asagi, who had just stepped forward. She glanced around the room. "What? Don't tell me nobody noticed!" She turned to Newt. "Could you please rewind?"
Newt tapped several keys and scrolling back through the video, until Asagi called out, "Stop!" Pausing the video at that point where Godzilla spun around and used his tail on Zilla and knocked it into a building, Newt nodded. Asagi smiled in thanks, then walked over to the screen, indicating the picture of Godzilla. "Now, when Zilla was about to attack him, Godzilla did not do what you might expect. If he was at the same level of intelligence as one of the Kaiju form the Breach, he would simply have braced himself and taken the attack head on. Instead, he was smart enough to counter in the most efficient way possible, which inflicted a significant amount of damage to Zilla without damaging Godzilla himself.
"Next, there's the fact that he knew what to do in order to guarantee victory against G-Force." Asagi nodded to Newt, who fast forwarded it to the point where it was Godzilla was facing Big Wolf and Dragon Buster. "As Dr. Geiszler pointed out, the only reason that Godzilla was able to win so easily was because he was able to separate the three Jaegers comprising G-Force, taking them separately. But if you look closely, it's obvious he did that deliberately, knowing that he could reduce the threat and take his enemies down more easily if he followed this method. He formed a plan, and then carried it out; that's undeniable proof that the First Kaiju has much more intelligence than it would appear. This makes him highly dangerous. The ability to create and carry out complex strategies and plans is restricted to only few things on Earth today: dolphins and whales, great apes such as gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans; and of course, humen. No retile has ever been intelligent enough to do things like this; they don't have the brain space or intelligence for abstract concepts such as planning."
Asagi pointed to the image of Godzilla on the screen. "With one excetion; this retaile. Godzilla is, without a doubt, the single most intelligent retile the has ever seen. He can think and plan; he may even be self-aware."
Check Hansen sighed, "okay, so the lizard's smart. What's the big deal anyways?"
"The big deal, Ranger Hansen,: Pentecost cut in, "Is that this is not a mindless killing machine that we're dealing with here. Godzilla is not just smarter than any Kaiju that has come through the Breach; he's as intelligent and cunning as he is powerful. He can think, plan, and strategize just as well as anyone in this room can. Do not underestimate him, in mind, or in body." Pentecost said as he got up
Back on the Island
Miki and her team were getting closer to the center of the island. The closer they got the more the wind picked up. They finally arrived at the center and in the center was alone egg. They slid down the slope of the center and walked to the egg.
"So what do you think it could be?" Asked someone
"It looks like a dinosaur egg, to me anyway." Said someone else
Miki bent down and looked at the plants that were growing around the egg.
"This is strange to see plants like this growing around this area and around the egg." Thought Miki
"Team I want to set up camp here and study this egg and the plants. Come on people get to work!" Said Miki as she stood up and told her team to get unpacking
It told them about 3 hours to get the things unpacked and up and working. When this was done they got to work on studying the egg and the plants. Miki was studying the egg herself. Every time she is on these types of things she works alone. She was working on the computer as the sensors that were on the egg were sending some weird data. The data was saying that there was something inside the egg.
"That can't be right at all. Nothing this old could be still alive after all this time," thought Miki as she was reading the data sheets. "But according to this there is something alive inside the egg. What the hell is going on?"
As the camp was studying the plants and egg. Something else came out and landed on the rocks on the cliff. Some of the team look up and saw a large bird up there. They called for everyone to come out. When they did they all turned white. What they were seeing was a long red body, with massive wings, a skinny neck, a head with three horns and a beck. It was Rodan.
"Rodan but how, I thought the SDF got rid of him back in the 1970's, and why is he here for." Wondered Miki
Rodan flapped his wings and flew off the cliffs and went and attacked the team. The winds blow and tents were blown away and fires happened in the site. Everyone grabbed what they could and ran for it back to the helicopter, all but Miki. Miki stayed at the site and wouldn't go. Ms. Mayumi Nagamine stayed with Miki and they both ran to the edge of the island were the ocean started. They stopped and turned around and saw Rodan. He was just flying above them
"Why isn't he attack us?" Asked Mayumi
"I don't know, Mayumi? Said Miki
Just then Miki got a sense of something coming. She turned around and there it was. Something was coming to the island. Then the water exploded as a bright blue beam came out and hit the rocks that Rodan was sitting on. He got off them and took back to the skies. The monster that had attacked was none other than Godzilla, himself. Godzilla was swimming toward the island when Rodan came down and attacked Godzilla. Godzilla continued to the Island and came onto it and walked up the side of it leading it to the sea. Godzilla roared as he was finally here on the island.
"Godzilla!" Miki was wondering why he was here
"What's he doing here?" Thought Mayumi
Rodan came down and slammed into him making him lose his footing and slammed into the cliffs as hundreds of pounds of rocks fell on top of him. Rodan flew over the cliff and waited to see if there was any movement, and sure enough there was. Godzilla blasted the rocks off him using his nuclear pulse. Then he turned his head up and saw Rodan. Godzilla roared at Rodan to come down here and fight. And Rodan roared telling him fine. And he came into a nose dive. Godzilla waited for the right movement and slammed his tail into Rodan. Then he continued to do so as Rodan was on the ground. Then he turned around and blasted Rodan with His Atomic Breath.
As the fight was happening the Helicopter came and got Miki and Mayumi out of there. Just when they there getting out of there. Godzilla finished his battle with Rodan and wnet after the Helicopter. Godzilla turned around and walked back to the ocean and went back under the waves. Miki looked to her right and there was the egg. It was safe and coming with us back to the lab in Tokyo to be studied.
"Fuck the Shatterdome. They won't get this egg. I want to know why Godzilla came to the island for. Was it for this Egg. I hope I know what I'm doing is right. Because if he went there for the egg. then I might have just sent people to their deaths." Thought Miki
