Chapter 7: Hostile intrusion

The trip back to his hotel, though uneventful, but still, Howard was unease by the fact that someone might have figured out his intentions and is now waiting for him to return to his hotel room and by extension, Thomas Maddison, his agent. Instead of driving back to his hotel, James Howard decided to make a dash over at the Akihabara district. "I have to switch my car. If I go one like this any longer then I'm dead." He muttered, his voice crackles with paranoia and he felt the discomfort of being watched grows ever more ominous. Watching the overhead view from a spy satellite, Kiryu, like a predator monitors his prey moving around Tokyo like a lab rat in a maze. A flurry of radio traffic from the Japanese National Public Safety Commission fills the airwaves as Howard continues his Maskirovka. "Savvy guy, isn't he?" Commented Chujo, watching the live feed with Kiryu.

Howard was now on Highway 305, passing over the Takashimaya Shinjuku building and approaching the intersection. His car made a right turn at the intersection, the American keeps on driving down the 305th Highway, hoping that he might be able to find some place to switch car. But little did he know, the Japanese have already planned out his arrest. The Public Safety Commission has even sent agents to tail Howard and catches him out on the streets of Tokyo. Behind Howard's car were two Japanese agents following him closely, trying to corner him in a secluded place and apprehend him. "He is no fool, but he is no fox either. He's making a phone call to his associates, I will try to triangulate the receiver's ID and position." Kiryu focuses the bulk of his processing powers into piggyback riding the cell phone signal from Howard's car back to the hotel area near the airport. The MechaGodzilla soon detected the second male voice answering Howard's call with reservation and paranoia.

"Hello? Howard, what is it? You were supposed to be back here by now! What's going on out there? (Howard's reply came through telling Thomas that he's being followed) Really, lemme guess, the Public Safety Commission guys and undercover police are trying to bag you? Alright, give me a second to track your location." Kiryu soon demonstrates his skill and proficiency in SIGINT and ELINT when he effortlessly, trace the call all the way back to Park Hotel near the Shinagawa area. He gently, step by step pin points the exact room of the two Americans and its floor.

"Location confirm. His associate is holding out in the 12th floor of the Park Hotel, room 1214. Colonel Togashi, do we have any assets to apprehend the suspect's associate to dispatch?" Asked Kiryu, much to the dismay of Colonel Togashi, he was worried that Kiryu might disturb the humans of the agencies by directly ordering and coordinating them via the intercoms. "How many times do I have to tell you? Any orders to authorize such an arrest have to be made by a commanding officer or the institutions responsible for national security." He grunted his answer at Kiryu, who in turn reply with a technicality at his human commander.

"Just now sir. But with respect, (Even I have any of you) we might have only one chance at this. If we hesitate, then we might lose one of them. That could have a severe consequence for us in the near future." Togashi was frustrated by Kiryu's insistence and at times, pestering, he rushed over to the phone and make a call to the National Public Safety Commission to hasten up the arrest of both men. "Just give me a minute, you overgrown hunk of metal. Any orders have to come through me first for obvious reasons that I don't need to explain."

The agents on Howard's tail were keeping their distance, patiently boxing the American into a trap, when suddenly, their phone rang up. "Yes?" One of the agent on the passenger's seat pick up and answer the call. "Really? Hasten up our actions now? We'll get it done in a minute, the guy is almost cornered. We'll then commit some of our assets to the other one as soon as we have him in custody." The agent then hung up his phone and put it back into his pocket. He taps the shoulder of his colleague to hasten up their work on the streets. The driver then picks up his radio and inform the other agents to prepare for a hasty snatch and grab.

"This is Habu Snake, reel it in, repeat, reel it in. The mouse is cornered." The other agents likewise quickly rolled out of their hiding place and converge on James, their cars at first, kept their distance away from James, but then, they slowly crept up around the American, locking him firmly in one tight black box. Kiryu was eavesdropping and monitoring the operation of his humans' side, began to jam the communication link between James and his associate, Thomas Maddison. The MechaGodzilla jams the connection between Maddison's laptop to the spy satellite he was using to direct Howard.

Maddison's satellite view begins to stutter and buffer, live feeds begin to fail and eventually, the American was left without any method to communicate and direct his accomplice. Soon, Howard was forced to pull over, he stepped out of the car and was pummeled by the Japanese agents, they kept him lying down on the ground and handcuff him. "Suspect is now in custody, dispatching additional assets to secure second target now." The Japanese agents quickly directed other counter espionage agents over the Park Hotel to arrest Thomas Maddison. They maneuver through the streets of Tokyo as fast as they can to secure the target, but little do they know, Maddison wasn't the hapless fool Howard was.

Back in his hotel, it was far too clear to Thomas that James was arrested by the Japanese government, sooner or later, he'll too be cellmate with James. He quickly wraps up his belongings in his room. Whatever he couldn't bring along or too incriminating to fall into the authority's hands, he burned it. He then ran out of his hotel room as fast he could and leave the keys to the receptionists. Thomas then slipped away and melt into the crowd of Japanese and tourists in the city, hiding his face with a pair of shades, trench coat and a Purdy Hat.

By the time the Japanese agents managed to search his room, they found nothing but burned papers with little to make out. "This is Katana, we're in the suspect's room but nothing here. Whoever was using this room has left in a hurry and he burned whatever hand written evidence he had." The Japanese agent informed his superiors as to their efforts and findings. "Affirmative Katana, not all is lost yet. I managed to download copies of his emails and correspondences, whatever you lost in this search, I got your paycheck covered." The Japanese agent's expression suddenly turned from professional calm and exact confidence to cat like curiosity and surprise. "Who is this? Identify yourself." He asked the caller with the baritone voice. "I've been monitoring your efforts. You've performed quite admirably, I must say. You and everyone else know me as Kiryu. I need a person of your caliber to perform certain tasks I can not accomplish myself. Can you do that?"

The Japanese agent finds himself confused and unable to immediately comprehend the magnitude of his situation, he simply nods and reply with a yes. "Of course, I can do it. The name is Yamadera Togusa, how will I call you back? (Kiryu reply with a vague but useful answer) Just look at the number you left in the text? Very well then. But just to be clear, I'm not comfortable with taking orders from some overgrown mechanical dinosaur. (Kiryu returns with his remark and end the call) Huh, the guy is rather easy on terms." Togusa slips his phone back into the pocket and leave the crime scene with the other agents in tow. Their work here is done for the time being. "So how do you like being the mission control?" Asked Togashi, Kiryu in turn was rather calm and reserve with his answer. "Better than being a statue I think. Now let's keep an eye out for Godzilla and let them do their thing with Howard's handler. I'm worried that he might come back to haunt us again."

But while the humans are still wrapping up their troubles, another was brewing from the ocean floor. Godzilla has been waiting for his wounds to heal, ever since his last encounter with the "Metallic one" he has been waiting for a chance to rematch and settle the score once and for all. Now that he the wounds have become scars, he can begin his journey to Japan and wreak havoc on the humans again and restore balance the order of things, by eliminating his mechanical twin.