A/N Hey, guys. Welcome back to the eighteenth chapter of Godzilla Meet the Civilians fanfic story. First of all, I want to thank some of you guys for dropping the reviews. I know I say thank you a lot, but I really do mean it because that's what allows me to keep going with the stories like this. And second, this is the continuation of the second arc. In this chapter, Will, Bianca, and Sonya travel to Castle Bravo and they meet the members of the G-Team, led by Colonel Foster as well as meeting Ilene Chen and Rick Stanton. So sit back, and let's get to it.

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Miles Out of Colorado, May 19th, 2019

The MONARCH chopper raced through the air through a sea of clouds, descending just low enough to be out of the way of turbulence while seeing the beauty of the ocean beneath and the setting sun on the horizon. Will, Sonya, and I watched as Doctor Graham spoke to Mark.

"When was the last time you spoke to Emma?" Doctor Graham asked.

"About three years ago. After San Francisco we went back home to Boston… Tried to put the pieces back together. Emma dealt with it by doubling down on work and saving the world… And I started drinking," Mark responded, with his voice quivering ever so slightly.

He closed his eyes momentarily as a stream of memories seared through his mind. And as he opened his hand and his eyes, he looked back over at Doctor Graham.

"I can't tell you how much I hated myself for letting Maddie see me that way," he whispered.

Doctor Graham gave him a sympathetic nod of her head, as she had nothing to offer of comfort to such a statement.

"Uh, you mind if we cut in here?" Sam asked.

"It's just, you're gonna wanna see this," he said, handing Mark a tablet.

The three of us got up from our seats and looked at the tablet, showing the bioacoustics of the existing Titans who are still in dormant.

"Emma combined the bioacoustics of different Titans to create the Orca's signal. A sort of… Baseline frequency that all the creatures seem to respond to. Attracting them. Repelling them. Even at times calming them down. It's pretty remarkable, actually," he said, getting lost in his excitement over the concept.

"The problem is we don't know which Titans she combined. But if you can identify those frequencies we'll be able to track the Orca and find Emma and Madison," Doctor Graham stated optimistically.

"Jesus!" Mark whispered as he continued to scroll through the tablet.

"How many of these things are there?" he asked.

"Seventeen. And counting after Gojira," Doctor Serizawa stated.

"Seventeen?" Mark asked, totally aghast.

"Seventeen Titans and counting? That must be a lot of Titans out there in the world," I said.

"Most of them were discovered in deep hibernation. While others we've contained at top secret sites around the globe. Cambodia, Mexico, Skull Island. We even found one in Wyoming… They're everywhere," Doctor Graham said softly.

"Why don't you kill em?" Mark asked.

"The government wants to. But Emma and I believe some are benevolent," Doctor Serizawa replied.

Mark could barely form a response to what he'd just heard. His mouth opened part way, but failed to form words for a long moment before he found his voice and whispered angrily at Doctor Serizawa.

"Don't kid yourself," said Mark.

"Uh… Hey look at that! We're here," Sam said, breaking the tense silence which had formed in the chopper.

"Castle Bravo this is Raptor One. On direct approach," First Lieutenant Lauren Griffin, one of the Osprey's pilots informed over the radio.

Monarch Outpost 54, Bermuda

"Raptor One, you are cleared for assisted descent to Pad 4," the communications officer responded over the radio.

"Sensors set for three meters. Beginning subsurface descent," another officer replied.

The chopper circled around what looked like a simple shipping container platform split apart and opened a massive tunnel leading down below the ocean's surface large enough for the chopper to descend through as the Osprey begins making a slow descend on the tunnel. The three of us then looked outside at the technology that created this massive underwater structure. The tunnel almost seemed to go on forever.

"This is new," Mark remarked.

"Yeah, we call it Castle Bravo. Our new flagship facility. Built to track and study Godzilla on his home turf," Sam said.

"I thought he was missing," Mark retorted.

"Well. Only if you don't know where to look," Sam replied with a smile.

After the Osprey landed, the rear doors opened and we walked out and we saw a woman wearing a military uniform waiting for us.

"You three are Ms. Jackson, Mr. Carter, and Ms. Taylor?" she asked.

I nodded.

"Colonel Diane Foster. I'm in charge of the G-Team. Follow me please," Colonel Foster instructed as we followed her to a conference room. After a few minutes of painful walking, we made it to the conference room where some of the personnel were seated. The three of us took a seat as the meeting began.

"As you know, at approximately 0700 hours, our containment site in China's Yunnan Rainforest was raided. The specimen, code name Mothra, escaped. But she cocooned herself later under a nearby waterfall," Doctor Graham began.

"Our Dr. Emma Russell and her daughter Madison were taken hostage. This is the man we are believe to be responsible," Doctor Graham continued as a picture of a man appeared on the screen.

"Alan Jonah. A former British Army colonel turned eco-terrorist. Obsessed with restoring the natural order. And to fund his operations, he began trafficking in a new and dangerous market: Titan DNA," she concluded.

"I wonder what he got in return while doing one of the dangerous hobbies," Will stated.

"This man is definitely considered dangerous. Whatever he is planning, we should beat him and his men to it before they get ahead of us," Bianca suggested.

"What the hell is someone gonna do with a giant worm?" asked Staff Sergeant Anthony Martinez, one of the soldiers attending the meeting.

"Are you kidding me, Martinez? What can't you do with it? Pharmaceuticals, bioweapons, food. Hell, there isn't a country or company on the planet that wouldn't want to get its hands on one of these suckers. And don't forget, this is just a larva. A baby. After it cocoons itself, something else is gonna crawl out. Something bigger… Meaner," Doctor Rick Stanton stated.

"We don't know that, Rick," Doctor Ilene Chen retorted.

"Oh yeah? Just wait for it, Chen," Doctor Stanton replied.

Doctor Chen rolled her eyes at Doctor Stanton as Colonel Foster stepped out to begin her section of the briefing.

"Our intel indicates that Jonah wants to capture this specimen. Alive. And this means that he and his mercs won't be far behind. At 0500 hours, we'll ship out to launch a joint operation-" Colonel Foster began.

"I wouldn't bother," Mark interjected.

"Excuse me?" Colonel Foster asked.

"This sounds like a duck hunt to me," Mark continued.

"Uh, Mark, why don't we let Colonel Foster finish-" Sam tried to say politely.

"It's a decoy. A diversion… How many ways do I have to describe it?" Mark asked as he stood from his chair.

"Look, they've already got Emma and the Orca. Why would they want just this one when they've got the keys to your entire magic kingdom of horrors back here?" he asked, gesturing to the screen behind him which showed the locations of all the Titans, and the facilities housing them worldwide.

"I think they want you to go after this Mothra so they can go after a real prize. Something bigger," he concluded.

Doctor Serizawa and Doctor Graham silently shared a brief, concerned glance with one anther as both of their eyes shifted between a few key facilities on the map on the wall. Africa, Eastern Europe, and… Antarctica.

"… Right." Colonel Foster said, her head tilted slightly.

"Mark. This is not the first specimen they've captured. They know what they are doing," Doctor Serizawa said.

"That's not just a specimen. I've got an ex-wife, and a daughter out there… In case you'd forgotten," Mark growled.

"No. No one has forgotten that, Mark," Sam replied.

"But to uh, to remind you, you were brought on here to help track the Orca and to advise us-" he tried to continue.

"I advise you to kill these things. All of them. Especially him," he said, pointing to a picture of Godzilla rising out of the water behind him.

"You wanna make sure these things don't fall into the wrong hands? You kill them, and the Orca's useless," he stated flatly.

Doctor Serizawa and Doctor Graham both looked away slowly and sighed through their noses, Doctor Serizawa rubbing the bridge of his nose.

"Emma wouldn't have wanted that. Even to save her life," Doctor Chen retorted calmly.

"Well it wouldn't be the first time Emma put all of this before herself, or her family, would it?" Mark asked.

Doctor Chen had no answer for that, and all she could do, along with everyone else and the three of us, was watch Mark walk out of the room without another word.

"Dude hates Titans," Chief Warrant Officer Jackson Barnes said to Sam.

"Yeah, well, you would too, if you were him," Sam said quietly in Mark's defense.

And that will be the end of the eighteenth chapter for now. So what did you guys think of the second arc so far? Was it cheesy? In the next chapter, Godzilla makes his return for the first time in five years and this time he's not happy about something. Also, the next chapter will switch up to Will's perspective. And you guys know the drill. Drop those reviews, favourite, and follow.