Chapter 8: Honolulu's Demise, Two MUTOs?
Date: May 21, 2014
Time: 2048
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii
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The ground trembled and the air was being flooded with the sounds of war being waged on an atomic scale. The MUTO was engaged with Gojira, jumping into the air and flying about trying to bite and stab him as Gojira countered with bites and swipes of his own. At one point, Gojira's tail came dangerously close to the train cars where Ford had been helping the other civilians off the train cars. Fire trucks had arrived with ladders to help offload the passengers, and Ford made sure the kid was still with him as he continued to assist the fire fighters.
The impact of Gojira's tail on the ground nearby made the firetrucks jump nearly eight feet into the air, along with the train on the tracks. Several of the cars in the back began to fall off of the tracks, dragging the rest of the train with it one by one. For turned around and picked up the kid, yelling at everyone to run. The train came down and struck the ground with great force, but nothing compared to that of Gojira's tail. Ford managed to reach a safer distance from the action with the kid in hand, but as he looked back to the train he realized the fire fighters had also been caught in the wake of the train's descent to the earth. Ford bowed his head in sadness and respect, looking up again as the sound of Gojira's roar snapped him back to reality.
The giant reptile had just snapped the MUTO's shoulder into its jaws and was swinging it around back and forth like a rag doll. The MUTO grew desperate to get away, and began striking at Gojira's face with its hooked forearms. Gojira just barely avoided a direct strike to the eye, but received a nasty scratch across it all the same as he let go. The MUTO flew out and away from him and circled around back and began jumping on Gojira's back jabbing him with its claws. Gojira's hide was tough, but repeated attacks over and over to the same locations began to compromise it and blood was finally drawn from Gojira's lower back just to the right of one of his spines.
Gojira cried out in pain and snarled as he swirled around and latched onto the MUTO's arm with his right claw. Pulling it in, Gojira used his head as a hammer and smashed the MUTO across the chest sending it flying like a child's toy through the air and to the ground. The MUTO fell directly into the terminal of the airport, and Gojira wasn't about to let it get off easy. He trudged forward and stomped through the terminal, hundreds of people still running about scattering like ants beneath his feet as they slammed into the ground. The MUTO scrambled to its feet, clawing at the earth to force it upright as Gojira's foot came down on its hind leg. The MUTO let out a terrible shriek and insanely clawed and stabbed Gojira's leg, but Gojira stood firm.
It was then that unexpected 'help' arrived as more carrier aircraft and helicopters arrived and opened fire on Gojira. The planes had acquired permission to engage with missiles, and two of them struck Gojira on the side of his neck knocking him off balance for a moment and releasing the MUTO. The smaller winged creature made it to its feet and opened its wings as Gojira reeled. The massive reptile turned its attention back to the MUTO and tried to grab hold of it, but the nimble monster managed to leap into the air and flew away and out of Gojira's reach.
Gojira watched as the MUTO flew away and immediately gave chase. The flying MUTO was much faster than Gojira, but it was not fast enough to escape Gojira throwing objects at it. He grabbed a few cars and chucked them through the air like baseballs at the MUTO's back, striking it and knocking it into a building. The building came down, with all of the people trapped inside as a result of the earlier tsunami going down with it. Gojira trudged forward as the MUTO broke free and took off again. Gojira snarled and released a roar, trying to goad the flying creature into returning to accept the challenge. The MUTO continued its course and entered open air space above the ocean with Gojira in hot pursuit. The monstrous reptile descended into the water leaving only his spines visible above the surface as the military looked at the devastation in the wake of the battle.
Dozens of buildings were demolished. Most of the city within approximately one mile of shore had been buried under close to eight meters of water from the tsunami resulting from Gojira's initial approach. Hundreds of vehicles were destroyed. The entire airport was demolished. The train tracks were damaged and unusable. And the countryside had been damaged with nearly four acres of wooded areas burned down from the crashes of the jets earlier before the MUTO moved down into the city. The damage was severe, but that wasn't the biggest issue. Gojira and the MUTO had both injured one another, but neither was dead. With two large monsters nigh impervious to modern weaponry running loose, things just kept going from bad to worse as they received word that both of them were now heating towards the United States west coast in the direction of California.
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Date: May 22, 2014
Time: 1100
Location: Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository, Nevada
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A team of three military jeeps and two helicopters were en route to the repository. Their orders: to locate and destroy the second MUTO spore.
Upon their arrival, they entered the facility and began a room by room search for the MUTO spore. One by one the room viewing vents were opened, the rooms scanned, and the all clear given. This continued for several minutes longer until at last a viewing vent was opened and a burst of light shone through. The soldier at the door called his comrades over to him. With weapons drawn, the soldiers slowly opened the door and looked inside.
The entire room, along with several of the other rooms both above and below the spore were now gone. Something had broken loose out of the mountain, and as the soldiers gathered around to survey the wreckage to the facility, the eye of one soldier was caught by what looked like movement in the distance. He reached for his binoculars and lifted them to his eyes, dialing in the proper distance until the form of a monster appeared in his view. It was near identical to the other MUTO, but it had no wings and appeared to be much larger. What was worse was that it was heading directly towards Las Vegas.
"Get me admiral Stenz," he said.
"Yes sir," came a response.
He extended his hand and waited for the phone to be given to him, and once it was the admiral answered the call.
"Admiral Stenz, speaking."
"Sir… We may have a problem," the soldier began.
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Date: May 22, 2014
Time: 1118
Location: USS Saratoga, trailing Godzilla as he swims towards the California coast
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"Where is it now?" Stenz demanded.
"Sir, it's right outside the city and closing fast."
"Scramble all jets. I want this thing taken down now!" He ordered.
"Yes sir."
Dr. Serizawa and Graham both looked at each other before looking back to the screen. The MUTO was a near perfect copy of the other one, but much larger. As the doctors watched the screen, the MUTO engaged a series of attack helicopters sent after it. In order to combat them, the MUTO started climbing the skyscrapers until it realized they could not hold its weight. So instead, it began using them as launch pads before they could break to jump into the air and swat the helicopters down.
"It's nearly 300 feet… That's much larger than the other one," Dr. Graham commented.
"But what does that mean doctor?" Stenz asked.
She shook her head, thinking of an answer.
"A different sex?" She asked.
"… A female," Serizawa confirmed.
"So what does that mean doctor?" Stenz asked.
Serizawa looked to the admiral.
"When the male MUTO was confined to the plant, it was sending out a call of some kind. Perhaps a mating call."
"Yes, it's possible. If they are in fact male and female then there's a very high possibility they're going to try to reproduce," Dr. Graham added.
"Then what about… did you call it Godzilla?" Stenz asked.
Serizawa looked at the admiral, but rather than correct him he only nodded.
"That will do," Serizawa commented.
"You called him an "alpha predator," is that right?" Stenz inquired.
Serizawa nodded.
"If he really is hunting these things, how did he know to come now? Why didn't he come fifteen years ago when the MUTO first appeared at the plant as a juvenile?"
Serizawa shook his head.
"I do not know the answer… But I think Gojira has been listening. He must have sensed the MUTOs calls and emp attacks, and has now come to the surface to destroy them."
"Admiral! We have tracked the MUTO's estimated course to San Francisco Bay. Godzilla is continuing his present course as well, following the male MUTO."
"Right," the admiral responded.
He looked to the captain.
"What do we have captain?"
"Sir, we have decided to use a nuclear warhead and drive it approximately twenty miles out to sea. The radiation will lure in the MUTOs, and the MUTOs will lure Godzilla. We can kill all three of them using the sheer force of the blast with minimal fallout damage to the coastal cities."
"Wh-What?" Dr. Graham asked, astonished.
"We tried that before! These creatures, they all feed off of radiation."
"That was the 50's. We're talking thermonuclear yield. Megatons, not kilotons. It makes the bomb we dropped on Godzilla in 1954 look like a firecracker," the captain said.
"Well, that's it. Prep the warheads, get them ready to move out as soon as possible," the admiral ordered.
"Yes, sir!"
Dr. Graham shook her head and walked out, too astounded by the choice made to bear listening any longer.
"Admiral," Serizawa said quietly.
"Yes, doctor?"
"Gojira may be the answer."
"What do you mean doctor?"
"Gojira is hunting the MUTOs admiral. I believe you should let nature take its course. He can defeat them."
"I'm sorry doctor, but I am sacrificing lives every minute just to keep one of these things in sight and now I have two more to worry about. At this point, the highest priority is protecting the safety of our citizens."
Dr. Serizawa remained silent, but then handed him an old pocket watch. The admiral took the watch and looked at it.
"It's stopped," he said.
"8:15am. August 6, 1945," Serizawa responded.
"… Hiroshima."
"It was my father's," Serizawa said quietly.
With that, Serizawa left the command room.