A/N Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the twentieth chapter of Godzilla Meet the Civilians fanfic. First of all, I want to thank you guys for sticking around with this story and where this is going. And second, this chapter is the continuation of the second arc King of the Monsters. In this chapter, Will, Bianca, and Sonya travel to the Outpost 32 in Antarctica and the three of them are about to encounter one of the most dangerous monsters in existence, and that monster is Monster Zero. And this chapter will be in Bianca's perspective. So sit back, and let's get to the chapter.
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USS Argo, Monarch Command Ship, Coast of Antarctica, May 19th, 2019
After boarding the Monarch's command ship, the USS Argo, we were on our way to the Outpost 32 in Antarctica, the coldest continent in the world. Doctor Graham, Doctor Chen, and Doctor Serizawa was briefing everyone on what we're about to come across once we land in Antarctica.
"The specimen at this site is kept it entirely off-book. But it seems to be another apex predator," Doctor Graham began.
"Emma called it Monster Zero," Doctor Serizawa added.
"It may have been a rival alpha to Godzilla. Battling for dominance over the other Titans," Doctor Graham continued.
"Doctor Chen?" Doctor Serizawa asked.
"I've been scouring through thousands of years of myths and legends. But it's almost as if people were scared to even write about it," Doctor Chen added.
"As if it was meant to be forgotten," Doctor Serizawa concluded.
"I read through one of the papers my late parents left. There was a cave painting displaying Godzilla fighting Monster Zero. And they would fight for years to see who would be the true dominant of the Titans," Will stated.
"You're saying they would fight each other in years to decide who would be the true Alpha to all of the existing Titans?" I asked.
"Yeah. And I think we're about to find out ourselves when we get to Antarctica," he responded.
"Sorry, I hate to crash the party. But I got some bad news," Doctor Stanton said as he walked up on the group.
"You could just say "news." It's always bad," Officer Barnes said irritably.
"We lost Godzilla. Dropped of the scan near Venezuela," Doctor Stanton added.
"Dropped off?" Mark asked.
"I'm telling you, Doctor Brooks was right. It's the Hollow Earth. That's how he moves around so fast, using these underwater tunnels like wormholes. Just like, zippin' around," Doctor Stanton finished as he used his hands to mimick the movements.
"Everyone look sharp. We're approaching the base," Colonel Foster announced.
All of us went to grab the winter coat as well as winter hat to keep ourselves warm from the extreme cold weather and we walked to the hangar and boarded two Ospreys.
Once the hangar doors were opened, the two Ospreys were deployed and we were on our way to the Outpost 32.
"If they're looking to extract genetic samples they'll be here, in the bio labs," Doctor Graham stated, pointing at a blueprint of the base on the screen.
"All right, two minutes! Check your equipment and stand by the door!" Officer Barnes ordered.
Slowly the Osprey descended. And as it touched down the soldiers were the first off, guns at the ready and checking every corner as they moved. Inside the main Osprey, the rest of us saw the real-time cameras showing what the soldiers were seeing on their monitors as they entered the ominous and now deadly outpost proper. We held our breaths, waiting to see what will happen. Inside the facility, an explosion rang behind them knocking them off balance.
"Ambush! Ambush!" Officer Barnes shouted as all of us had sucked in a startled and horrified breath.
"They knew we would be arriving," I muttered.
"Team under fire! 360 ambush! We're taking heavy losses!" Officer Barnes shouted into the comms.
Doctor Chen's eyes were wide as she stared at the screen.
"Break right!" Colonel Foster shouted.
As she and her team moved around the corner, they began to fire at incoming figures. And, as Mark watched the screens, the world slowed to a crawl as the images of Madison and Emma appeared, being dragged along behind Jonah.
"Hold your fire! Hold your fire! We got friendlies!" Colonel Foster shouted, Mark leaning in towards the screen with a tightly set jaw.
Finally, it became too much. Mark turned away, and just like that he was gone.
"Mark?" Doctor Serizawa called.
"Hey guys. I'm getting an EKG reading," Doctor Chen noted, pointing at the scanner.
Doctor Serizawa observed the screen a moment before looking back towards the monitors with the soldier's feeds.
"Something is coming," Will stated.
Then, an explosion was heard, causing everyone to draw their attention at the sound.
"What the hell was that?" Will asked.
"Jonah and his followers detonated the explosives they rigged," Sonya responded.
Mark and the others had just made it out and were sprinting for their own chopper as the ground beneath their feet began to give way. One soldier was unable to escape the rapidly moving cracks in the Earth, and fell into the abyss with a shriek of terror as Mark jumped over it. The main facility's central operations platform collapsed, falling into the pit which was now glowing with golden light. Explosions erupted from within as more of the outpost fell to ruin. Fuel igniting. Electrical circuits breaking loose and mixing with other open circuits causing mass fires within the icy chasm which had begun to open above Monster Zero's chambers. Mark looked over his shoudler slowly, and there was Emma on the Osprey. Her finger struck the screen, and the Orca began emitting a new frequency pulse.
Deep in the ocean depths, a blue light flashed brightly scaring away a pod of whales as a massive object sailed past them. As the Orca's pulse vibrated through the water, the massive object's speed rapidly began to increase.
Back on the ice, Mark, Staff Sergeant Martinez, Colonel Foster, and Officer Barnes all looked down as the wind suddenly changed directions. Below them, and between their feet, the foggy mist created by the snow layer began racing backwards towards the chasm as if it was being sucked into a vacuum.
And then... The growl.
The ice opposite them cracked and crumbled away as they looked into the cavern. The smoke and fog below had calmed, but that growling began to grow louder as flashes of golden light, almost like lightning, began arcing through the haze. Doctor Serizawa and Doctor Graham emerged from the Osprey and walked towards their friends, only to pause as the growls reached their ears. The three of us walked out of the Osprey when we heard the sounds of the growls.
As they watched, a large plume of the smokey mist began rising from the center of the gloom. And then, from the smoking abyss... A long, arched, gleaming golden object appeared and began rising into the sky. And as it rose higher and higher, a spiked club-like end seemed almost to open, as if it was some kind of massive multi-switch blade, causing ice to shatter and fall off of it as it continued its slow arc and disappeared down into the abyss once more.
All around them thunder began crashing, and arcs of golden lighting screeched through the skies.
The first golden object was followed by a second, identical in every way. It too arced through the air and extended its knife-like protrusions before an unholy sight befell their eyes.
The head of a draconic creature emerged from the gloom. Eyes shut tight with snow and ice falling off its long, muscular neck. Suddenly, the eyes snapped open, and a flash of lighting raced behind it illuminating its silhouette as it opened its mouth with a long hiss. And then a second head emerged, shaking snow and ice from itself with clear agitation. And finally, a third head rose from the gloom. Its lips curled up, revealing long rows of teeth wtihin its draconic maw as it slowly shook its head.
"Holy shit," Will muttered.
"Is that Monster Zero that was mentioned before when we were on the Argo?" I asked.
"That's definitely the three headed demon," Sonya responded.
"You gotta be kiddin' me," Officer Barnes said in disbelief.
The central head gave a small roar, and its tail slammed down into the ice not far from Mark's group. The impact shook the earth beneath them, but not enough for them to lose balance. A fact they quickly took advantage of.
"Fall back! Fall back! Get to the chopper!" Officer Barnes shouted as Mark and the rest of G-Team starts running to the Osprey as the center head roared to the skies, almost as if it was announcing its presence to the world. The head on the right curled downward towards the ground, looking intently at the ice before it gave a straining growl. And suddenly a massive wing broke through the ice and slammed down on the ground. This was followed by a second on the opposing side, and Monster Zero's three heads all reared up and roared as one.
"Open fire!" Master Sergeant Hendricks shouted as he and several soldiers turned around and began unleashing a hail of bullets.
The head on the right leaned down and began to sniff the tiny creatures firing whatever tiny lights at it they were trying to use as weapons. And as it watched its lips curled back almost into a smile.
Meanwhile, Mark made it to the chopper followed by Colonel Foster and the others.
"We'll do an emergency vertical take off at max RPM! Number two's still speeding up!" Colonel Foster announced.
The blades began spinning again, breaking the icing that had formed, and the chopper began to shake slightly as it prepared for take off.
Back at the battle, if it could be called that, the central head bashed into the right head and gave it a stern growl. The right head dipped back in submission, but let its displeasure be known as it snarled towards its sibling. The center head looked to the left, which growled in agreement as they all began to rear up high into the sky. And from within the core of the creature, golden lights began flowing up through its chest, into its necks, and even glowing from their eyes.
And as the light pulsed through its body, seemingly igniting a greater level of electrical inteference in the skies behind and around it, the heads reared up and all took aim.
"Oh shit," Master Sergeant Hendricks exclaimed.
The three heads screamed in unison as they unleashed a torrent of golden lightning from their mouths which instantly disintegrated most of the soldiers below. Those who weren't hit directly were burned alive on the spot from how hot the air around the lightning bolts were, and fell down dead on the ice.
The electrical disturbance of Monster Zero's attack caused sparks to shoot through the interior of the chopper as it struggled to spin both engines enough to take off, and with that surge the chopper lost power.
"What the hell?" Will shouted.
All of us looked out the window and observed on what just happened.
Monster Zero's central head looked towards the slowing blades of the chopper with curiosity, but noticed its right-most sibling licking the charred remains of the soldiers they'd just slaughtered. Leaning down quickly, it growled loudly into its sibling's ear earning a hiss of reluctant agreement in reply. And then, together, they set their sights on the chopper as the creature began walking slowly towards it.
"This is Raptor One to Argo! Requesting immediate urgent extract! Again! I say immediate urgent extract!" Colonel Foster called into the radio.
"Griffin, get us the hell out of here!" Sam shouted as First Lieutenant Griffin tries to get the Osprey's engine going.
And that would end the twentieth chapter for now. So, what did you guys think? When I watched the movie and saw King Ghidorah's official appearance, I was really terrified and the roar made my own skin crawl. In the next chapter, Godzilla makes his appearance and fights Monster Zero in the coldest continent in the world.