A/N Hey, guys. Welcome back to the seventeenth chapter of my Godzilla fanfic. This chapter continues the second arc King of the Monsters. First of all, I want to thank some of you guys for sticking around because that's what allows me to keep going with stories like this. In this chapter, Will, Bianca, and Sonya meet Sam Coleman and Mark Russell and the three of them learn about the device called the Orca and the purpose of the device itself. So sit back, and let's get to the seventeenth chapter.
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New York, May 19th, 2019
It was a beautiful day in New York. I was here exploring around Central Park with Will and my cousin. I couldn't really forget about what happened five years ago in 2014 that involved Godzilla and the MUTOs. While we were exploring around, we heard something in the skies, I looked up and saw an Osprey trying to touch down the ground. After the Osprey lands, the rear doors open and the three of us saw Doctor Serizawa and Doctor Graham walking out of the Osprey with another person. I let out a deep breath.
"Doctor Serizawa. Doctor Graham," I greeted.
"Ms. Taylor, Mr. Carter, and Ms. Jackson," Doctor Serizawa replied.
"Did something happen?" Will asked.
"There's been a breach at the Outpost 61 in Yunnan Rainforst. We need the three of you to come with us," Doctor Graham responded.
"We don't have much of a choice now, do we?" I asked my cousin and her roommate.
"I guess not," Bianca responded.
The three of us walked towards the Osprey as the rear doors closed. We sat down on the seats and strapped the seatbelts on as the pilots got us up in the air.
"Doctor Serizawa, Doctor Graham. Who's this?" Bianca asked.
"I'm Sam Coleman. I'm the Head of Technology for Monarch," the man responded.
"Nice to meet you Mr. Coleman," I said as I shook his hand.
"We're glad to have you three on board with us for the time being until we can solve of the ongoing situation," said Sam.
"So where are we going?" Will asked.
"We're heading to Colorado and we're picking up a guest along the way," Doctor Graham responded.
"Hopefully he can help us solve the situation," said Doctor Serizawa.
Meanwhile, in Colorado…
A pack of wolves was hard at work tearing apart a carcass of the buck they'd just brought down. Their snouts were still covered in fresh blood as they growled, grunted, and barked at one another while establishing their pecking order.
Looking at them through the lens of his long-distance camera, shielded by a fallen tree trunk, Mark Russell snapped picture after picture while listening carefully to their vocalizations through his directional microphone's mixer connected to his computer. He closed his eyes as he processed the sounds in his head, filing them into various memorized categories in his brain while they continued their feast.
However, the sounds of helicopter blades in the distance whirring caught his, and the wolves, attention. They scattered into the trees nearby as Mark took off his headphones and stood up to observe the chopper coming down to the clearing nearby. And as his eyes landed on the MONARCH symbol on the bottom and sides, his jaw immediately went rigid. The sight of Doctor Serizawa and Doctor Graham emerging didn't help his mood any either.
At his cabin nearby, Doctor Serizawa and Doctor Graham gave him a brief update.
"The feed cuts there," Doctor Graham said, showing him the last available footage of Madison and Emma Russell being escorted out of the temple by the mysterious man and his crew.
As he watched Mark's jaw was set, his lips tight, and eyes practically on fire as he looked towards Doctor Graham while she continued her part of the briefing.
"The few survivors we recovered haven't given us much more than what the footage allows. But we have confirmed that Emma and Madison were the only ones taken," she concluded.
"I'm sorry Mark," Doctor Serizawa whispered.
"I should have been there for them," he whispered, his hand in his hair tightening around a tuft of it and tugging slightly.
His head shook left to right a few times as he bared his top row of teeth from behind his lip, trying to calm himself.
"… Who are they?" he asked quietly.
"We don't know yet. But-" Doctor Graham replied as she walked around towards the video monitor, and using its touch controls she began zooming in on the mysterious device in Emma's hands.
"-We believe they were after this," Doctor Graham concluded as the picture becomes clear.
Mark looked back and forth between them.
"You didn't!" he said in disbelief.
"I guess he knows something about the device," I said.
"It's the Orca," Sam replied.
"Uh, that's why we think they need Emma. She believed that if we could somehow replicate the bio sonar the Titans use to communicate-" he continued, but he was cut off in mid-sentence.
"I know what the hell it is, I helped build the prototype!" Mark snapped as he looked back and forth between Doctor Graham and Doctor Serizawa.
"Who's he?" Mark asked.
"Uh, I'm Sam Coleman. I'm the Head of Technology. I joined MONARCH uh, shortly after you left. I'm a big fan of your wife…'s work. Your wife's work. And you. And, that just came out so weird. I'm sorry," Sam stuttered.
"Emma and I destroyed the prototype," Mark said on a growl.
"And then Emma decided to rebuild it… After San Francisco she went home to Boston and spent the last several years developing it. She thought it could help-" Doctor Graham tried to say.
"Would help what? To play God?" Mark retorted angrily.
"No, no. No. To help prevent another attack!" Doctor Graham tried to say in defense.
"The Orca was a grad school science project! It was meant to keep whales away from the shoreline and stop the mass beach die offs. It wasn't meant for you to talk to your little creatures out there!" Mark began.
"Listen to me. They'll think it's one of them. But if you use the wrong frequency on one of em… Then you're going to be responsible for a thousand San Franciscos!" he whispered forcefully.
"Which is why we need to get it back. Emma always said nobody knew the Orca better than you," Doctor Serizawa stated calmly.
"It shouldn't even exist," Mark retorted, moving to the window to try and calm himself.
"That may be, Mark. But it does. And now it's fallen into the wrong hands. And right now, the Orca is the only thing keeping Emma and Madison alive," Sam said, trying to diffuse the situation.
"I was about to ask what the Orca is and what it does, but I guess we got the answer already," said Bianca.
"Mark, we know you're hurting. But if we find the Orca, we'll find your family… I promise," Doctor Graham said calmly.
Mark unclenched his fists followed a deep breath, and turned swiftly on his heel.
"… When do we leave?" he demanded.
"We're leaving in a few minutes," I responded.
And that will end the seventeenth chapter for now. So, what did you guys think? Was it a cheesy chapter? In the next chapter, Will, Bianca, and Sonya travel to Castle Bravo with Mark, Doctor Serizawa, Doctor Graham, and Sam and the three of them will meet Colonel Foster and the G-Team, as well as Doctor Ilene Chen and Doctor Rick Stanton. You guys know what to do. Drop those reviews and let me know what you think of the second arc so far.