A/N Hey, guys. I'm back with the seventh chapter of the Godzilla fanfic. First of all, I want to apologize in advance for not updating for so long because I'm in final year of college and I got to stay focus on school stuff with reading week and studying for tests and exams. But anyway, in this seventh chapter, Will, Bianca, and Sonya discover the MUTO in Honolulu and the story of the monsters are about to become a reality. So, sit back, and enjoy this seventh chapter.
I only own my OCs. All of the characters belong to Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures.
U.S.S. Saratoga, May 15th, 2014
Ford and Joe were both taken to the flight deck where a chopper was waiting for them to take the pair to Honolulu, and from there back to San Francisco. As they approached, one of the other soldiers gave them a short debrief about the plan ahead for the two of them.
"Sirs, right now we're fifty miles from Hawaii. This transport will take you there. You capture a commercial flight back to San Francisco!"
"Good luck, Lieutenant Brody! We'll see you soon!" Bianca called.
Ford nodded, helping to lift his father's bed into the chopper across the back seats as carefully as possible. Joe was still in rough shape, but his vitals had all been fully stabilized and he was on a fair dose of painkillers. He was sleepy, and half the time didn't know what was going on, but he was alive. For now, that was all Ford was worried about. The doors to the chopper closed, and they were both air lifted away from the carrier towards Hawaii.
Back on the Saratoga...
Bianca, Sonya, and I were inside the carrier's planning room while Doctor Serizawa was looking through the information stored on their databases about the calls going out from the MUTO before. Each time he pressed the next button, the next call pattern would emerge on screen. Until…
"Keep scrolling… Near the end, before the emp," Graham said.
Serizawa jumped ahead a bit towards the end where they saw not one call, but two. The second one even stronger than that of the MUTO's call.
"There, something responded," Serizawa stated.
Meanwhile with Ford...
Back in Honolulu, Ford was on a train leading to the airport while Joe had been taken there directly by ambulance. Ford didn't like the idea of leaving his dad's side in his condition, but he was no medic and he trusted those who were medics to do their jobs safely and efficiently. He brought out one of the toys he'd found back at the house in Janjira, an old soldier figure which he turned around in his fingers a few times.
"Aloha, and welcome aboard. The train will begin moving shortly. Remain seated, and no smoking. Thank you!" The train announcement said.
Ford looked up in time to see a child in a red shirt and blue baseball cap watching him and looking at the soldier action figure in his hands. Ford offered the kid a small smile, looking about and letting out an exasperated breath.
"Please remain clear of the automatic doors," the announcer informed.
Ford then heard the sound of the child's parents clamoring for their son, Akio, to get away from the doors. They were speaking Japanese, and Ford's was more than a bit rusty. The child was closed inside, crying for his parents as they tried to get the door to open. Ford immediately stood up and rushed over trying to help pry the door open to let the kid out, but it wouldn't budge. The train lurched forward and began moving, with the kid and parents both running along the train keeping eye contact and hoping that it would stop.
Ford ran to the kid and caught him, trying to remember how to say to the parents that it would be all right.
"It's okay, I'll bring him back!" He shouted, gesturing with his arm moving in a circle hoping they'd understand that he'd stay with the kid until the train came all the way back around.
"Hey, okay. It's okay. I'm gonna get you back to your mom and dad okay?" Ford said.
Akio nodded a few times.
"Kay. Is this what you want?" Ford asked, holding up the soldier for Akio.
Akio slowly reached out to take the soldier, a bit shy but happy to receive a present.
"Take good care of him for me… I better not miss my flight kid," Ford said as he sat down next to Akio.
Meanwhile back in the planning room...
Serizawa was jotting down some notes when he heard the captain addressing the admiral.
"Admiral, we received an intel report. We lost track of a nuclear cooler fifty nautical miles northwest of Hawaii. Could be the MUTO," the captain said.
Serizawa looked up, rather alarmed and turned to face the admiral.
"Just got word of a missing Russian sub in the North Pacific… Martinez," Stenz said, looking to one of the soldiers monitoring their communications.
"Aye sir, special forces team Sparta One is picking up a distress signal Northwest of Diamond Head on the island of Oahu. They're on the ground and headed to the beacon," Martinez responded.
"What do you think is there, Doctor Serizawa?" I asked.
"I don't know. The MUTO is looking to feed on radiation," Doctor Serizawa responded.
In the jungles of Oahu just outside the main city, the teams trudged through the damp woods on their way to find the cooler which was lost. Along the way, they heard the sounds of the forest coming alive all around them. The bird with their long, high pitched, almost mournful calls chilled them to their bones. A primal sense of dread building in each of their hearts as they moved through the darkness. They may have been soldiers, but they were still human and they knew that something beyond their understanding was at work here. Something that was much worse than any enemy with a gun they could ever hope to face.
"Anyone wanna tell me why we're looking for a cooler in the middle of the jungle?" One soldier asked.
"Probably a glitch. Russians said they got a ping from this location," another one said.
"Hey I got a reading, it's right up ahead," said another.
The lights from the helicopters giving them aerial assistance broke through the canopy of the trees above lighting their path as the wind from the blades brought the forest to life all around them. Massive leaves and branches waving about angrily beneath the sudden change in the wind, only to be calmed once it passed by overhead.
"Sparta One this is Hawkeye, we're getting a signal off the transponder, range thirty meters. Looks like you're getting warmer," the chopper pilot said.
As the men kept walking, the beep of the reading increased in volume and frequency. Faster and faster, louder and louder, until at last they came upon what they had been looking for.
"What the hell?" One of them asked.
They all stepped forward and saw a giant object covered in white goop. Sparta One's lead came forward and used his hand to wipe away some of the goop, revealing the radiation warning label beneath. He picked his hand up, watching the goo ooze and fall off of his hand.
"Jesus…" he said quietly.
Another bit of goop fell down from above him, and he looked up while shining his flashlight in the same direction. Up, up, up. Finally, he saw the propeller of a submarine above his head in the trees, and neither he nor his team could believe what they just found.
"Oh my god," he exclaimed.
Just then the chopper lights fell upon them as well. The sub lit up under the lights and showcased the fact that it was all being held in the air by the trees with something moving around next to it. The lights from the choppers didn't quite reach whatever was moving, but they all knew in the backs of their minds what it was.
"Charlie 3, we have located your Russian sub…" He said.
"And you're not gonna believe what else we found," one chopper pilot said.
"Holy shit," the co-pilot whispered.
They shone their lights down just in time to witness the MUTO picking the subs nuclear reactors out and swallowing them. The MUTO dove back into the sub as the chopper pilots looked on in horror at what it was doing and how it could be doing it.
Back on the USS Saratoga, Admiral Stenz watched the live thermal feeds from the soldiers and the choppers.
"Seems to be rising… possibly twenty to thirty meters above the tree line. Can't tell how wide it is," the chopper pilot reported.
"Cat's out of the bag doctor, no more secrets. Our highest priority now is safety. There's close to a million people on that island," he told Serizawa.
Serizawa himself bowed his head, saddened, as a scientist, by the prospect of having to destroy the MUTO. But ultimately, it was for the best.
Just then, alarms started blaring through the room.
"We're picking up something else, approaching from the Pacific," said one of the soldiers monitoring the satellite and sonar screens.
Serizawa looked up, turning his head to look at Dr. Graham as he then walked out of the room as the admiral declared that everyone must go to general quarters. Dr. Graham followed Serizawa into the hallways, wondering what he was up to.
"Doctor Serizawa! Wait! We're coming with you!" Sonya shouted.
"Where are you going?" She asked.
"Up to the flight deck, I think he is coming!" Serizawa said.
"What are you doing?"
"I have to see this," Serizawa said, gesturing for her to remain behind as he continued running through the halls.
"Don't worry about us, Doctor Graham. We'll let you know what we see," I said.
On the flight deck, as the four of us made it there, we watched an F-35 and an F-18 being deployed from the runways of the carrier to engage the MUTO. Again, this saddened Doctor Serizawa, but if the MUTO's destruction protected the lives of all the people on the island and stopped him from coming, then so be it.
In the Beaches of Honolulu...
Back on the beaches, a luau was taking place and the sight of helicopters flying overhead caught the attention of quite a few of the party goers. They all stopped what they were doing to watch, unsure of why helicopters, let alone military ones, would be flying around here.
A little girl sat in her chair, watching the helicopter as it dropped several men onto the rooftops who all took positions along the edge watching and waiting for something to happen.
Meanwhile on the Train With Ford and Akio...
On the train, Ford sat quietly with Akio as he heard the sounds of the airplanes flying by. He turned his head to take a look, with Akio turning all the way around and practically plastering his face against the glass to see. His cap was in the way on the first try, so Akio flipped it back so he could get closer to the glass. Ford chuckled slightly at seeing this, but his smile disappeared as he caught sight of the two planes roaring out towards the jungles not far away.
Back in the Oahu's Jungle with the Soldiers...
"Two, Charlie 6 we are circling the target. Go on your command… Standby, I got a visual. Bogey at my twelve," said the F-35 pilot.
In the distance he could see the helicopter light shining down towards the jungles with the reflection of the light off the sub as well. The MUTo was moving around as well, taking swipes at the choppers as it was clearly annoyed by their shining lights down on it while it was feeding. The MUTO roared out angrily as it tried to finish its meal, with only the one last core remaining before the roar of the plane engines caught its attention and it dropped the container down towards the soldiers who all dove away to avoid being crushed by it.
"Be advised, preparing to engage target," said the F-18 pilot.
"Guardian 3, we're getting movement down here," said one of the Sparta One team.
The MUTO's right front arm began to alight with a reddish orange glow along the curved hook at the end leading partially up the forearm as it was slowly raised into the air. The MUTO let out another roar and its body tensed, signaling it was about to strike.
"Take cover!" The soldiers yelled.
The MUTO slammed its arm down on the ground releasing an emp blast through the area The first to shut down were the choppers and the lights they were using to keep tabs on the MUTO. The planes came forward and were too late to evade the blast. All of their systems shut down, and their planes went dark.
"I've got no power! I say again I have lost-"
The plane went down, crashing into the ground and sending a shock wave at the soldiers who were in the way. Two of the men were killed instantly by the concussive force of the blast, while others were thrown several feet but survived though they wished they didn't after a few moments.
The explosion lit the skies in the distance as the train continued on ahead. However, the lights went out along the track eventually catching up to the plane and stopping it as well. It lurched to a halt, throwing everyone off balance as Ford caught Akio and held him close to keep him safe as Ford steadied himself against the sudden stop.
"You all right?" He asked, with Akio giving him a nod.
"You give it ten seconds, light's are gonna come back on," he assured the boy.
"It's okay," he said as he held Akio's hand.
Ford himself was a bit perplexed for a moment, but then he remembered that the MUTO used an emp attack. He wondered if that was what it was, or if it was just a malfunction. But then again, with the military here, why would it just be a malfunction. Ford could only hope now that this was the end of it and that if the MUTO was here, it was staying away from him and the boy. He needed to get the boy home, and then he needed to get home himself. The last thing he needed was for the MUTO to stop him.
And I will end the seventh chapter there for now. So, what did you guys think? The story is definitely picking up in the MonsterVerse. But, anyway. Are you guys excited for Godzilla vs Kong? Millie Bobby Brown will be back in the movie and I can't wait to see how it goes. The first arc will wrap in the next few chapters and the second arc will begin with King of the Monsters. So you guys know what to do. Drop those reviews, favourite, and follow.