Godzilla and Gamera: The First Final War
Chapter 3: 9 YEARS!?!
1995 A.D
Captain Gordon
After several hours with the local officials, a mixture of praise and questioning, we finally sat down with the ornithologist, and the man from the Kaiyu-Maru transport ship. As I sipped some draft beer, I quickly came to realize something was going on here that had more to do than just odd monsters we had never seen before.
"So Yoshinari, how did you come across that giant turtle?" I ask as I drink my brew. "We were transporting 10 tons of plutonium for a nuclear reactor, and ran across an atoll-turned out to be the turtle. We're just thankful the ship wasn't breached or the water would be ruined for thousands of miles" Yoshinari replies.
"Wait wait wait, hold on a minute. You were transporting radioactive materials-without a full military escort!?!" Kazama shrieks, obviously referring to the King of Monsters. "Well we had no idea that we'd run into that giant turtle; never before has the world seen giant monsters until yesterday" Yoshinari argues.
"What are you talking about? Don't you know about the dangers of Godzilla?" I ask, wondering how they couldn't worry about the King of Monsters.
"Godzilla…what's a Godzilla?" Mayumi asks innocently.
That was when I lost it.
"WHATS A GODZILLA!?! The King of Monsters, the Nuclear Leviathan, the embodiment of destruction and disaster; Godzilla is the most powerful creature in the world!" I bellow, close to blowing a fuse from their ignorance.
Shin'ichi Ozaki
As I saw Gordon ranting and turning red, I realized it was time to intervene. "Ok, lets calm down sir; no need to cause a panic" I say as I pull him aside from the crowd. "But surely they know of the danger of Godzilla, what if he-" "-That's just it Captain…I'm not so sure they have heard of him" I continue, cutting him off before he could rant again.
Upon hearing me, Gordon began to calm down, and realize the full implications of what I was suggesting. "Then lets find out, its important that we understand what's going on around here" Captain Gordon commands. "Yes sir" I reply, giving a quick salute.
As we walked back to the group, we saw that Mayumi and her superior were talking in a hushed tone. However, my heightened hearing let me understand it all. They thought Captain Gordon was mentally unstable.
"So, what do you know about that giant turtle Yoshinari?" I ask, wondering if perhaps they had dealt with it before. "We found things on its back while it was floating in the Pacific, we thought it was a small atoll. There were dozens of odd amulets buried in the soil on its back, and we found a giant slab with ancient runic hieroglyphics" Yoshinari replies. "We've managed to translate them" Naoya says as he joins us.
"Where have you been sir?" Yoshinari asks as a girl follows Naoya to sit down. "I had to get my daughter, we're going to be up late tonight with our mysterious guests suddenly appearing in that UFO" Naoya says. "Hey, its call the Gotengo, and it was made by humans if you don't mind" Captain Gordon says irritably. "Well what about that slab? Did we manage to translate the runes?" Yoshinari asks, shifting topics before Gordon could get fumed again.
"Yes, here is a transcript of the translated runes" Naoya says as he hands the paper to Yoshinari. We quickly gathered around to read these runes.
"The last hope, Gamera. We bestow it to the cradle of time. May it waken with Gyaos, the shadow of evil" Yoshinari reads aloud. "Gamera…so that's its name" I say as I look at the runes. "Well what I want to know, is why you folks claim you know nothing about Godzilla" Kazama adds, who like Captain Gordon, was also irritated at their apparent lack of knowledge.
"Its 1995 AD, there have not been any giant monsters for ages-if ever" the girl comments.
That's when all hell broke loose.
"Whoa! Wait, 1995? The year is 2004; what's with this 1995 nonsense?" Kazama blurts out. "No, its 1995, check the calendars" the girl continues.
Immediately, Kazama leapt up to the wall, and went wide eyed. "Captain, you'd better look at this!" Kazama yells, his tone very worried. I joined them too, as did Miyuki and Akiko.
"No…it can't be, have we…gone back in time?" Miyuki asks, her tone hollow and hushed.
"No, not through time, we've traveled…to another universe" I say, remembering my studies of physics in my spare time.
"What do you mean Ozaki?" Miyuki asks as she turns to face me, the others did so as well. "When the Gotengo fired its Maser, and Godzilla fired his atomic ray…the energies must have collapsed time and space, and opened a wormhole. Then the wormhole sucked us inside, and into this realm, where giant monsters aren't as abundant, and have not been seen till now" I continue, explaining the chilling reality that had come to be.
"And if there have been no giant monsters, and no Godzilla…that means…there's no special unit of the self defense force to fight them" Captain Gordon says with shock. "We'll worry about Gamera and the Gyaos tomorrow, neither are around for the time being" Naoya says reassuringly.
"9 YEARS!!! Its 9 years behind the age we know, and yet you idiots have no way to defend yourselves!?!" Captain Gordon screams. "Well we've never encountered giant monsters Captain Gordon, so we have no special jurisdiction for this kind of situation yet" Mayumi's superior replies firmly. "Ok, lets all calm down; I think we've had enough for one day. Its time for bed; come on Asagi darling" Naoya says, leading his daughter away. "Agreed, we need rest crew; come on everyone-back to the Gotengo" Captain Gordon says as we get up and head back to our ship, which we had landed at the port.
"We'll figure things out tomorrow, even we deserve a rest Captain" I say, as I pat his back. "Yeah, but I can't help but wonder…what happened to Godzilla?" Captain Gordon says, as we head back to the Gotengo.
Narrator
In the depths of the sea, the King of Monsters had finally regained his strength after being thrown through the wormhole. And now, having sensed a source of Nuclear energy, began his trek back to the mainland, heading in a northern direction.
