A/N Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the twenty-fourth chapter of the Godzilla Meet the Civilians fanfic. First of all, I want to thank you guys for reviewing this story because that is what allows me to keep going with a story like this. And second, I started school yesterday after the two week holiday because it's my final year of college. In this chapter, Godzilla returns to fight Monster Zero for the second time and Mothra finally comes out of her cocoon and is about to reveal herself to the world. Also, this chapter switches up to Bianca's perspective. So sit back, and let's get to it.
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USS Argo, Miles Away From Isla De Mara, May 20th, 2019
After sucessfully retrieving Raptor One, the citizens got out of the osprey as technician officer Zellner gets them to evacuate to safety.
"Thanks for the lift!" Barnes said to Mark.
The happiness is cut short when Monster Zero's screech caught everyone's attention. They turned around and the three headed demon was flying towards them.
"Oh god," Mark whispered.
However, just as Monster Zero reached the Argo and was about to destroy it in its powerful jaws, a familiar roar was heard as Godzilla breached out of the water like a giant whale grabbing the right head's neck in his jaws and dragging Monster Zero down into the ocean.
Mark's face shifted from acceptance to shock as he was pulled back by one of the soldiers before he would have inevitably slid out of the Argo's open bay doors to his death. Now in safety, they all retreated to the bridge as the Argo flew away at top speed while continuing to track the oncoming Oxygen Destroyer.
Down in the waters below, Monster Zero's massive wings proved to be his greatest disadvantage. With such massive surface area they generated so much drag it was almost impossible to move them through the water at all. Godzilla, meanwhile, cut through the water like butter, circling Monster Zero and grappling with him while keeping him under like a crocodile does its hapless victims. As the Argo began to retreat in earnest, they looked back at the disturbance in the water to see Godzilla's spines cutting the surface and continuing to circle forward like a series of shark fins in a feeding frenzy.
"You made it. The military launched the Oxygen Destroyer and it's gonna kill both Godzilla and Monster Zero," I said.
"How long until it gets here?" Will asked.
"Not long. We have to get out of here immediately," Sonya responded.
"We're gettin' outta here. Military launched a weapon. It's gonna kill 'em both," Doctor Stanton said.
"Well, it's not the worst idea," Mark replied.
In the water, Godzilla continued circling and dragging Monster Zero down, down, down into the depths while pulling hard against the right-most head's neck now caught in his jaws.
"Oxygen Destroyer incoming, and we just cleared the blast zone," Doctor Stanton announced.
"How long till it hits?" Colonel Foster asked.
"Ten more seconds," Doctor Stanton replied.
"Whoever's idea was to launch an Oxygen Destroyer, is completely out of their minds," I said.
Godzilla's circling and tugging finally pushed the right-most head to its limit, and as Godzilla gripped the neck with his powerful claws and yanked hard to the left, the head snapped off in his jaws and instantly went limp with brown-red blood pouring profusely from the wounds as a light high in the sky began to grow brighter and brighter.
"Ten. Nine. Eight. Seven. Six. Five... Four... Three... Two... One...," Doctor Stanton stated.
The missile pierced the water's surface, and a muffled explosion followed by a massive orb of green light erupted from the gloom and illuminated the sky as if it were the sun. For several long seconds, the sound was sapped from the world. And as the light faded, a massive mushroom cloud appeared over the blast zone in the water. This was all followed by a massive concussive shock wave which shook the Argo violently in the skies beyond.
I held onto a workstation to keep my balance and everybody else, including my roommate and my cousin did the same.
Down in the waters below, fish began floating belly up by the hundreds of thousands. And the ocean had gone still as stone.
"That's a lot of fishes in the ocean, I'll say that," said Will.
Serizawa and the others all shared in their shock at just how quiet the world had become.
But suddenly, from beneath the water, a large dark shape began to grow. Everyone leaned forward towards the feed, hearts racing, as the shape grew larger and larger. However...
Bursting free of the dead ocean was Monster Zero. Breaking the surface, his wings finally gained the lift needed to propel him up and out of the water and into the air he called home as his two remaining heads roared with a mixture of determination and pain from the battle.
"What the hell?" Will asked.
"How did Monster Zero survive that?" I asked.
"Jesus..." Mark whispered.
"Doctor Stanton, can you locate Gojira?" Doctor Serizawa asked.
"Yeah. I got something," Doctor Stanton replied.
Godzilla's heart rate played through the speakers as the signals came through.
"His vitals are fading. Radiation levels plummeting," he said, his voice lower and less lively than before.
I looked up, my eyes widened.
"Oh my God," Will muttered.
The pulse of Godzilla's heart slowed with each successive beat, and the sounds the microphones picked up of his weakened growls also began to fade.
"Come on, big guy. Fight it!" Doctor urged quietly.
One final beat, and Godzilla's heart went still followed by the ring of the flat-line reading. Doctor Stanton took off his headphones, turning towards the others as he silently shook his head.
"He's gone," he stated.
As Doctor Stanton said this, I fought off the tears that were about to fall from my eyes and Will walked back to his workstation and sat down in silence. Godzilla was our only hope of stopping Monster Zero. I was at loss for words now. And Sonya had the same expression.
Doctor Serizawa's head lowered and his stability faltered as he nearly toppled over in disbelief. Doctor Graham put a hand on his back to stabilize him, helping him to a chair as he leaned back and removed his glasses. Doctor Chen moved closer to him as well, putting her hands on one of his to offer whatever comfort she could as he fought to regain his breath.
Mark stared at the flat-line reading, but as he did so he didn't feel the satisfaction he'd thought he would for these last five years. Instead, it was more a feeling of... Defeat.
"Looks like you got your wish, Mark," Doctor Serizawa finally said, still struggling to breathe properly.
"Sensei, let's go. You need to get some rest," Doctor Graham stated as she took one arm and Doctor Chen took the other to help walk him to his quarters.
Mark looked back to the monitor with Godzilla's flat-line vitals, and he felt his stomach drop as a wave of confusion and nausea overtook him.
All around him, everyone's faces had darkened. The light of the world outside had dimmed as the sun began to set. And the world itself seemed to cry as a rainstorm began gathering in the skies all around the Argo, pelting its windows and forward view pane with droplets of water.
Monster Zero, meanwhile, landed on the Isla de Mara volcano, now gushing lava down its slopes. As it did so, the center head looked at the right stump and noticed a thin, plastic-like covering with something happening beneath it. Something wriggling. Growing. Like a tongue flipping and lashing out in all directions. Biting the cover and tearing it away, the sickening sight of Monster Zero's right-most head regrowing by the second filled the Argo's monitor feeds. Several on the vessel covered their mouths or looked away, until at last the head regrew completely and joined the other two in a roar of unified triumph to the heavens above.
As the call reverberated throughout the world, the Titans, all previously slumbering or in suspended animation, began to awaken together. At Outpost 55 in Sedona, Arizona, the legs of an arachnid-like Titan erupted from the ground in an oil field. At Outpost 67, in Munich, Germany, what was once thought to be a mountain burst to life shaking off hundreds of tons of rubble as a massive white eye snapped open. At Outpost 75 in the Sudan, the facility was shaken by an unseen creature in the smokey haze.
In the bunker, a few thousand miles away, Emma and Jonah looked on as Monster Zero continued roaring with Rodan appearing in the skies high above and circling like a hawk waiting for the right moment to strike.
"I thought we were going to release them gradually. One at a time," Jonah said, looking at Emma out of the corner of his eye.
Emma, in response, shook her head in disbelief.
"I'm not the one doing this," she whispered back.
Jonah looked at the monitors again as Rodan, surprisingly, landed beneath Monster Zero and seemed to bow in submission.
"Long live the King," Jonah proclaimed, walking to his quarters with his men following him as Emma stared in wonder and horror.
Emma belatedly turned around and made eye contact with Maddie, who was the only one that hasn't left the room.
"You're a monster," Maddie stated as tears started to form on her eyes.
Maddie walked away, leaving Emma in a state of shock by her daughter's words.
Mothra Cocoon Site, Yunnan Rainforest, China
"Castle Bravo, this is Containment Team Mosura, do you read? Over?" Martin, one of the communication officers asked.
"Castle Bravo, this is containment team," he repeated.
"Anything?" Came a voice in the camp.
The voice belonged to Doctor Houston Brooks, now an elderly man.
"Doctor Brooks. We've lost contact with the Argo, Castle Bravo, and all other containment sites. Angkor Wat, Skull Island, Stone Mountain. All the Titans. They're escaping," Officer Martin told him.
Doctor Brooks walked around and looked at the screens intently.
"Wait, wait, wait. It's... It's him," he said, pointing to Monster Zero.
"He's the one doing this. They're responding to his call," Doctor Brooks continued as he looked at the screen of Monster Zero unleashing his high pitched roar.
Suddenly, thunder crashed in the skies and the earth trembled beneath their feet.
"Oh, God! Where's Doctor Ling?" Doctor Brooks asked.
"She's outside," Officer Martin replied.
Coming out of the tent, Doctor Brooks scanned for Doctor Ling and spotted her at the edge of the containment barrier staring intently at the waterfall.
"Doctor Ling! We've lost contact with MONARCH!... Doctor Ling?" he called.
She would not move.
The cocoon, just barely visible behind the waterfall, began uttering a clicking sound as a soft blue light began pulsing within. Doctor Brooks looked up, cleaning off his glasses, and the rest of the MONARCH staff all gathered around the platform watching the waterfall. And then, amidst the clicking and the pulsing light, a single long, sharp tendril emerged and stretched forward out of the waterfall accompanied by a soft screech.
Electricity began going haywire as lights and devices started to short out.
However, rather than panic, all the MONARCH staff began to... relax. They couldn't put their finger on why. They should be panicking right now. Running for cover. Mothra was about to hatch from her cocoon. A Titan was about to emerge from the waterfall and potentially attack their base! And yet... They couldn't help but all remain calm and stare at the waterfall.
Everyone at the China containment facility could hear it. Soft, tribal music accompanied by soothing vocals of a beautiful melody resonating within their bodies and putting their minds and souls alike at peace.
A blue eye flashed from behind the water, and the form of a large insect began to emerge from the top of the cocoon behind the falls and crawl down towards the base. Her shadow, backlit by the light pulsing within the cocoon which still held the majority of her emerging wings, crawled lower and lower towards them as the music swelled. Doctor Ling removed her hood, a perfect twin to her sister Ilene on the Argo, looked up in wonder as a tear of joy ran down her smiling face.
She was the first in her family for potentially dozens of generations to actually see the beautiful form of Mothra in all of her majestic glory. And as Mothra spread her wings beneath the falls, illuminating them from base to tip, she released a shriek and spread her front arms announcing her arrival to the world.
And that's the end of the twenty-fourth chapter for now. So what do you guys think? Mothra finally comes out of her cocoon at last and she is about to reveal herself to the rest of the world. In the next chapter, Will, Bianca, and Sonya learn the history and why Monster Zero is one of the dangerous Titans to exist. You guys know what to do. Review, favourite, and follow.