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Project: Doomsday

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"If that's true, we have to get out of here now," Whyley said, straightening his back. "Tao, we have to go to the nearest city."

They both sprung into action, not wasting a second.

Mi Sun came around and kneeled in front of Amara's chair. "What do you mean it's coming for you? How do you know?"

Her eyes drifted to the water past Mi Sun. It was too hard to look at her. She should have said something months ago. "I think I'm connected to it."

"But, how? Did you know? Why didn't you tell me?"

Past Mi Sun, Godzilla was staring at her, still hunched. Angry, that's what he was. It rolled off him in waves. The blue faded from his dorsal plates, leaving them in the dark.

"I started having nightmares, I don't know, a few months ago? I didn't think much of them. I figured they were just some weird side effect of everything else that's been going on."

"Nightmares of this thing? Was it talking to you like Godzilla does?"

"No, not talking, just thinking. At first its thoughts were really obscure, but they've been clearer recently."

Mi Sun gripped her arms tighter, almost painfully. "What was it thinking about?"

"Mostly pain… and pressure. But it's been trying to get to something. I didn't know what it was at first, but it can't be a coincidence."

It was following her, just like Godzilla did, even when he wasn't sure why. He was driven by curiosity. But this thing was different. Its inquisitiveness wasn't for the sake of learning. All it wanted was to kill. To destroy.

But why? And why was she connected to it? According to Godzilla, the titan wasn't natural. How could she be connected to something that wasn't natural?

What made it unnatural?

It isn't possible.

"It wants to kill me." Amara looked at Mi Sun. "No, not just me. It wants to kill everything."

A deep growl rattled through the air. Godzilla bared his teeth and flexed his claws. He turned away, towards the north.

I will destroy it first.

"Godzilla, no, wait!" She reached out as if she could stop him.

It was too late. The earth shook under his footfalls into deeper water. He leaned forward, and like a massive torpedo, he disappeared under the surface.

I will not wait.

What about what you said about humans?

I do not care about humans. Only you.

But I'm a human.

Then perhaps I do care.

Mothra came back around, her glow turned from blue to orange. She let out a cry and flew off in the same direction.

Mi Sun ran to the other side of the boat after them. "Where are they going?" She spun back towards Amara.

"Godzilla's going to fight it. I can't stop him!"

Mi Sun looked over to Whyley and Tao. "We have to go, now!"

"We're working on it," Whyley called back.

Where would they go though? Would Whyley or Mi Sun be able to find a ride out of the country fast enough to steer it in a different direction before it reached Tokyo?

In less than a minute, Tao had the boat started and Whyley pushed it off of the logs back into open water.

"How far to the nearest town?" Mi Sun hollered over the boat's engine from Amara's side.

Whyley came down the steps to the deck where Amara and Mi Sun were. "Tao says there's a city fifteen minutes away."

…

They sailed north along Taiwan towards a yellow glow along the horizon. Mi Sun and Whyley had their phones at the ready, checking for any sign of a signal. Mi Sun waiting to call Ilene, and Whyley, Matt.

Amara joined Tao near the wheel. There was a bulb overhead that cast light over him, diffused with salty air. A frown replaced his usual easy going smile as he looked ahead.

Something was different. Something in the air. Maybe it was her own attachment to the creature, or maybe it was the drastic change in the atmosphere from earlier that day. Why couldn't things just stay like that? The warmth and peacefulness of Yonaguni Island was mesmerizing, like a sedative to blur out the troubles of the real world, only to be brought crashing back down the second she left.

But if she stayed, then who knows what kind of destruction the creature would have caused before it reached her. She would have seen it on the news as a spectator like the times before. However, now she was involved, and somehow connected. Now it was up to her to do whatever she could to prevent another disaster.

And do whatever she could to protect Godzilla.

There was something about this creature, this thing that was very, very off. Godzilla couldn't comprehend it, and Mothra was upset by it, so much so she had undergone her entire metamorphosis in a month, even if it did mean she was weaker.

And despite that, she left ahead of Godzilla to fight a creature she did not know. Would she sacrifice herself again?

"Ganbatte ne, Amara." Tao's eyes were sincere.

It was people like him that deserved to be protected. Him, his family, and all the other families of not only Yonaguni, but of the world. People like her, that haven't been affected before, and ones that already have.

This creature could not get to Tokyo, she couldn't let it. And if it did, it was up to her and Godzilla to stop it with minimal damage. Would Tokyo even be able to evacuate in time?

She wiped a tear that escaped her eye. "I don't even know what that means."

Tao pondered for a second, then a timid grin graced his lips. "Keep fighting."

"Thanks Tao, I will."

People like him.

From below, Mi Sun hopped up from her chair and held her phone up. Whyley, who was pacing once again, stopped and held his phone up as well.

City lights came into view, reflecting off the calm water of a harbor. Before Tao was able to dock, Whyley dropped his phone from his ear. Matt must not have answered.

Mi Sun, however, had more success. She had a hand up to her other ear while talking quickly. Amara came down the stairs. What news did Ilene have?

"You're following Mothra? She's heading toward Tokyo, isn't she?" Mi Sun bit her lip while listening to the response. "Yes, I just saw the email, do you know what it is?" A pause. "What do you mean an unknown titan. it's not from a monarch facility?"

"Mi Sun." Amara touched her arm. "We need a ride, now"

She gave a quick nod. "Hey, listen, we need a ride asap. We're in Taiwan, Yilan city." Another pause. "I'll explain later. Yes. Rick and Sam? Yes, that's perfect! We'll be there." Mi Sun ended the call.

"We're meeting Sam and Rick at the airport in an hour. They just left China. Ilene and Ling are following Mothra."

"Did they say anything else about the titan?" Whyley asked from beside Amara.

"Yeah, it's still headed straight for Tokyo. The military sent out a near by aircraft carrier to it's vicinity and it went out of its way to sink it."

It went out of its way? Why though, why was it so evil? Its thoughts were so incoherent, it didn't even know what it was. Yet, it wanted to kill, to cause pain. If it got to her, it would be the end.

His frown deepened. "Did they try bombing it yet?"

"I don't think so." Mi Sun shook her head. "Ilene said it was getting too close to Japan to command a nuclear strike. Tokyo and the surrounding areas are still being evacuated. They're hoping it's aquatic and won't come onto land, but no one can get close enough to see."

It wasn't a risk they could take. Titans were capable of anything. Rodan burst out of a volcano, Mothra transformed into a moth, Godzilla was a nuclear bomb. What extraordinary thing would this titan do?

Tao called over to them. The boat was secured to the dock.

"Come on." Whyley led the way off the boat.

Mi Sun held the railing. "We need to find a taxi, first thing." She looked down at Whyley descending the ladder. "You haven't been hiding an ability to speak Mandarin, have you?"

Whyley landed on the dock. "Unfortunately, no." He matched Mi Sun's cool tone.

The constant tension between them was getting old. Yes, Mi Sun had a right to be upset because of what he'd done in the past, but they needed to look beyond that and work together. Without him, they wouldn't have made it this far.

Her feet landed on solid wood. It was strangely still compared to the gentle sway of the boat. She joined Whyley and Mi Sun farther ahead.

Whyley pointed behind her with a raised eyebrow. Back on the boat Tao was waving to them, his smile was small but sincere. Perhaps he was wondering if they'd ever meet again.

Past the docks was a fairly busy street. Thankfully, it didn't take long flag a taxi. Whyley hopped in the front seat while Amara got in the back with Mi Sun.

The man knew enough English to figure out their destination and drove down the dark streets of the foreign city. Despite how late it was, there were many cars and pedestrians out. Mi Sun rolled down her window to let in the warm air filled with exotic smells. It did little to remedy the stifling tension.

What if they didn't make it in time? Would it go out of its way to destroy the city as it did the aircraft carrier? Mothra went ahead though, she would protect the people. She seemed much closer to humans, much more willing to help. Did she manage to lay an egg this time? If not, how would she come back if something bad happened to her?

Godzilla would know. If Mothra needed to be protected, he would protect her. He would fight. Ghidorah was another apex predator, and he defeated it. This titan wouldn't be any different.

Whyley dialed his phone again, putting it up to his ear. "Matt's not answering," he said, dropping the phone back onto his lap. "Either something happened to him, or he's working, and neither of those are a good thing."

"Why?" The first reason made sense. Matt was a nice enough guy once she'd gotten to know him, but why was it bad if he was working?

Whyley twisted around in his seat to face her. "It means Jonah's on the move. He has something to do with this, I know it. He was probably the one that woke it up."

Mi Sun looked up from her own phone and met his eye. "You think it's possible that he didn't learn from the last time? He can't control these things."

"His last plan only went to shit because Monster Zero woke up the rest of the titans. He wanted balance not total destruction. This one isn't doing that."

"So you're defending him?" Mi Sun asked, raising her chin.

Whyley kept his tone even. "No, I'm telling you what he told me."

"Mass extinction is bad, but total destruction of cities is fine?" Mi Sun's voice cut through the air like a knife. "Listening to a single word he told you shows just how stupid you are. Genocide isn't how you save the world, eco boy."

"What is right is irrelevant. It's human against titan. And humans are the aggressor, acting out of fear. That's just how it is. I don't know if you noticed, but saving Godzilla hasn't been going very well. In fact, it's only making it worse."

His words stung.

Mi Sun didn't back down. "So what, you're on his side?"

"No, I'm not. It's just how things are, like it or not. Our interfering is doing more harm than good. As hard as it is to hear it, maybe Amara's connection should have stayed broken. Not for our sake, but for his."

"You have no right," she said darkly. "You're just as responsible as us for everything that's happened. In fact, because of you, hundreds of people have died, both in Costa Rica and Los Angeles."

"I know that! Why do you think I'm here right now? Matt's probably dead, and so am I, and my family. I've risked everything to be here!"

Mi Sun glared at him. "You risked it all when you decided to join Jonah."

"I—"

"Can you guys stop!"

It was all too much.

Both of them looked her with hard expressions. "I can't take back what's happened, and neither can Whyley. Because of us, Godzilla has become the villain again. But it's not human against titan. It's more complex that that." She looked between them. "What about today? Didn't that mean anything to you guys?"

Whyley's expression didn't change. "Yonaguni is a tiny island that's worshipped him for hundreds of years. That's ten to the negative fourth of the world population," Whyley answered.

"But they're not the only ones. There are more people like us all over the world!" First Godzilla, now Whyley. When did everyone lose hope? "If it's our fault for making things worse, then we're responsible for fixing it."

"Did you not hear what I just said? Fixing things is what's making it worse. If Godzilla goes to Tokyo, they're going to kill him, along with the other titan."

"You don't know that. If anything, it's the last time we have the opportunity to show them he's on our side. It's not the chance we wanted, but it's the only chance we have left."

…

When they arrived at the airport, Sam was standing out front as arranged with Mi Sun. He was fidgety, looking around for them and then back down to his phone that illuminated his face. They exited the taxi and the driver sped off, probably wanting nothing more to do with them.

Sam rushed over, greeting Amara and Mi Sun before his eyes fell on Whyley, quickly scanning him. "You guys have a military escort?"

Though Whyley was wearing a black t-shirt, he was back in his military grade pants and boots. His massive olive drab backpack contained everything else; his jacket, sketchbook, and Mi Sun's laptop.

"Lieutenant Whyley, UNTDA."

Seemingly satisfied, Sam waved them to follow him into the building. "Huh, I thought you guys were being deployed in Japan right now."

"That's because he's a spy," Mi Sun said just loud enough for Amara to hear as the other two led the way.

"As of fifteen minutes ago, the unknown titan was one hour away from Tokyo bay. Mothra is en route to meet it shortly after. Both Ling and Ilene insist she's going to fend it off." He looked back over his shoulder at them. "We're still not sure on Godzilla's location."

Amara's eyes met Mi Sun's in a passing glance. Should they tell him? Godzilla would make himself known once he got to Tokyo, so would it even matter?

Of course it would. She would be accountable if anything went wrong because of her failure to tell them about Godzilla's location. Sam was nice, but that didn't mean he wouldn't report her for withholding information.

Mi Sun answered Sam. "He's likely heading there too."

"You think? He was in pretty bad shape after what happened in Los Angeles." He held up a badge at a security guard, who stood aside to let them pass.

"He may have healed by now. We have no way to tell he's been exhausted of excess radiation in order to do so." Mi Sun walked shoulder to shoulder with him.

"Either way, we're going there to assist the military in any way we can. Or goal will be to drive it away from the coast an eliminate it if it continues to pose a threat." He cleared his throat. "Which seems likely based off the destruction it's caused so far."

Sam was right, driving it away was the only option. Instead of arguing in the car, they should have discussed how to do that.

But it was only an hour away from Tokyo. Was there even enough time to lure it away?

They exited the building onto the tarmac. Not too far away was an aircraft with the Monarch emblem. It was the same as the one she rode in China. A strange amalgamation of a helicopter and a jet, called an Osprey. The engines fired up, kicking up dust as it grew louder.

Sam climbed in, followed by Mi Sun.

Whyley stopped Amara from getting in. "Can you tell what its thinking right now?" he yelled in her ear over the noise.

She shook her head and wiped the hair that whipped over her face. "No, why?"

"We need to make sure your plan will work before we try it. If we try to lure it away and it doesn't follow, you're separating yourself from Godzilla as well."

"I thought you didn't agree with our connection."

"That doesn't mean I don't think Godzilla will react to it. Whatever happened in that cavern, you chose to reconcile your bond. You can't abandon him, not anymore."

"Come on," Mi Sun called from the aircraft.

Amara nodded at Whyley before getting in. "I'll try."

Rick was sitting in the cockpit leaning out the narrow doorway into the fuselage, his casual clothing contrasting with the pilot in full military gear beside him. "Hey guys, long time no see. Love to chat, but we're in a rush so buckle up."

Whyley sat down beside Sam and strapped himself in with practiced ease. Amara took the spot across from them, next to Mi Sun.

After securing her harness, Amara closed her eyes. Focusing on the headache wouldn't be too difficult. If she reached it while trying to contact Godzilla, actually trying to reach it should be easy.

"So uh, what are you guys doing in Taiwan anyway?" Sam asked over the wine of the engine.

Mi Sun or Whyley would answer. The faster she reached the titan, the better.

The jet began to rise off the ground. A weightless sensation tickled her stomach.

"We were looking for Godzilla." Came Mi Sun's response.

The whirring grew louder, only making the headache worse. She just had to keep thinking about the pain. Like a fish caught on a hook, she had to let herself be reeled in.

"Did you find anything?"

It was brighter, throbbing and pulsing.

Piercing, cracking, popping, reforming from the inside out. No pressure to hold it back.

Things all around, moving on their own. Hard and solid. Soft and red. It was satisfying to rip them apart.

More. More were here.

Brighter and brighter.

More things to kill. To tear.

More, more, more.

"Listen, Sam, I think we need to take a detour—" Mi Sun flinched when Amara grabbed her wrist.

"No, we have to go to Tokyo, now," Amara said between shallow breaths.

This thing wanted to kill. It was curious, morbidly curious. It only had one thing on its mind. It didn't matter what it was, this thing was going to destroy it. Once it made it onto land, it wasn't going to stop until there was nothing left.

All eyes were on her. Sam's, Whyley's, Mi Sun's, even Rick's from the front seat.

Sam looked confused. "Yeah… that's where we're going."

Whyley pulled out Mi Sun's laptop from his bag. "Dr. Coleman, I was wondering if you'd help me with something?"

Sam looked between Whyley and the laptop. "Yeah, sure. What do you need?"

"I need help accessing some files that I believe pertain to the unidentified titan."

"What do you mean?" Sam asked slowly, his eyes now glued to the laptop.

That's right! Sam was the Monarch technology director. If anyone knew how to hack, it was him.

Whyley typed away at the keyboard while Sam watched on, something akin to shock showing on his face.

"Wait, are these…How did you find them?"

"Jonah's files. These ones have an extra layer of security I can't get through."

Sam hastily took the laptop from Whyley and began typing without further comment. He looked completely focused while everyone else waited in utter silence.

How long would it take him?

"I'm in."

Not very long, then.

Whyley leaned over for a better view of the screen, scanning it. "Holy shit."

Mi Sun reached to unbuckle her harness. "What is it? Tell me."

"Project Z CRISPR ALPHA," Whyley read aloud. "I can barely read this."

Even Sam looked bewildered.

"Wait, CRISPR? As in the gene editing one?" Amara looked to Mi Sun.

"Yes that one!" Mi Sun suddenly got out of her restraints and grabbed her laptop. She sat down beside Whyley, shaking her head as she began to read. At first, she leaned closer to the screen, then slowly slouched back into her seat. Her eyes were wide and disbelieving, her head slowly shaking back and forth.

Amara reached for the buckle of her harness. Was she going to read it out loud? "Well? What is it?"

Whyley and Sam were leaning over to try to see the screen.

Mi Sun hesitated, then her chest heaved with a breath. "They made a titan."

From the front, Rick gaped. "That's not possible."

He was right. Science wasn't at that point yet, surely. Creating a creature—let alone a titan—wasn't possible, and even if it was, it wasn't ethical. Where would Jonah even find scientists who would do such a thing?

If Whyley was pretending to not know about it, he was doing a good job. He stared blankly at the floor ahead, his lips pulled into a tight line.

"What do you mean they made a titan?" Sam asked slowly.

"Exactly that. They used DNA from Ghidorah's head as a baseline. On it they found a piece of Godzilla's flesh which they isolated, broke up, and spliced into Ghidorah's, with the goal of making it radioactively stable and to increase growth rate."

"Were they aiming to recreate Ghidorah? Because whatever's on its way to Japan is definitely not." Rick had gotten up and sat beside Mi Sun.

"No, it looks like they wanted to make something stronger. Using that DNA, they grew two hundred embryos in different environments. But the only one that survived was submerged in salt water, and only for a few days."

"Embryos from what?" Rick asked. "Lizards?"

"Probably Ghidorah's stem cells," Amara answered quickly. Would they stop interrupting?

Mi Sun nodded. "They then spliced in DNA from crustaceans that had attached themselves to the head in order to make it more stable in the saline environment." She squinted at the text. "But there was a side effect. The crustaceans were mutated by the oxygen destroyer fallout, but instead of reacting negatively with the radioactive cells, it enhanced them, making the specimens grow even faster.

"Only one made it past day three. Its growth was exponential, doubling in size by the day in the early stages of growth. They had to put it in the pacific once it outgrew the containment facility. Even then, its body was growing much faster than its brain, rendering it unconscious with minimal brain activity until fully formed."

That's why its thoughts were so disjointed, so simple. Its brain wasn't developed yet.

"Is there more?" Sam asked.

"Yes, whoever wrote this declared the experiment a failure due to multiple factors, and recommended immediate termination. However, termination failed, and the specimen escaped." Mi Sun paused, reading. "The project was renamed. Project: Doomsday."

Rick looked from the screen to Mi Sun. "I don't suppose this happened recently?"

"Looks like the attempt was on September fifth…the same day as the earthquake."

Rick ran a hand through his gray hair. "So they zapped it and pissed it off, then it swam around for a bit before beelining for Tokyo? What's it doing?"

Everyone sat in silence, eyes on the ground. It would be so much easier if they—

Whyley perked. "That's it, that's why it's following you!"

Everyone turned to Whyley who stared at Amara as if she held all the worlds answers in her eyes.

"They used Godzilla's DNA, that's why you're connected to it."

Sam and Rick glanced between them, confused as ever.

"What?" No, why did he have to say it?

Mi Sun turned to him. "We don't know that for sure."

"What else would it be? It's following her just like Godzilla does, no other titans do that."

The dreams, the visions, the feeling of being suffocated. It was no different than with Godzilla, simply through a different perspective. But the pull was never as strong, never as clear. It was manufactured, faulty, a side effect that wasn't meant to be.

"Wait, no, I think he's right. When I resisted the connection to Godzilla, I had a similar headache."

"What are you guys talking about?" Sam finally asked.

Mi Sun's eyes met hers. "They're on your side, Amara. Just tell them."

"You said it yourself, we can't do this alone. You trusted me, now you have to trust them," Whyley urged.

But Sam and Rick weren't just two individuals, they were Monarch. Monarch who would protect the titans in one breath, and kill them with the next. Could she really trust them?

Even if they somehow believed her, what if they asked her to prove it in order to call off the military? Then the government would find out and she would turn into a science experiment, or even put in jail for withholding information when they searched for Godzilla.

But, in the other hand, would they stop hunting him otherwise? Would the battle between man and titan ever end? Out of seven billion people in the world, she was the only one that could speak for Godzilla, the only one who could defend him. She was his voice.

"I can understand him," she said. "Godzilla, I mean."

"Huh?" Rick's eyebrows rose.

Sam cocked his head. "What do you mean you can understand him?"

"Like the twins can understand Mothra."

Something must have clicked in Sam's head as his expression changed. "Wait wait wait, is that why he showed up at the base when you were there?"

Everyone's head swiveled towards Sam. No one other than them knew what he was talking about.

"He wasn't happy I was there."

"And you called him to the island," he added.

"I convinced him."

"Then what happened? Why did he freak out on the island? What happened in Los Angeles?"

The pain, the panic, the sense of dread. "It's the titan. It's connected to me, not Godzilla. He can sense it, but not what it is. Mothra too, that's why she hatched so soon. They knew something bad was going to happen, but not what."

"Because it isn't a true titan." Sam looked down. "But why haven't the other titan's reacted?"

Mi Sun answered, "It hasn't called out yet. The other titans don't know. Mothra seems to be more sensitive than other titans as well. She hatched just before Ghidorah woke up too."

Rick cleared his throat. "So now that we're on the same page, where is Godzilla now?"

"Somewhere below us, he's going to fight."

Rick shook his head. "Well, there goes Tokyo."

…

Go Go Godzilla!