I personally really like the end to this chapter.

Ozaki trailed behind Miyuki as they walked from the facility in relative silence, Ozaki was hesitant on saying anything to her because of their awkward introduction. He had had no idea that she would be meeting them there, otherwise he obviously would have never said the things he did. He shook his head as he replayed the events in his head. Well, what had happened had happened. He couldn't do anything other than move past it and hope the biologist did so too.

He watched as she walked on ahead of him, curiosity filling him as he looked at her shapely form. "Hey," Ozaki called out to her, "Are you really a biologist? You look more like a model to me." Miyuki didn't even turn around as she replied, "Well, I thought that all mutants had more muscles than brains and only thought about fighting." As she finished speaking they reached the car, and Miyuki turned around to regard Ozaki. "But I see some can be quite flippant too. Looks can be deceiving," she added in a slightly snide tone. Ozaki blinked, taken aback by her comment. Well that wasn't quite the conversation he was hoping to start. Well, two can play at that game.

He scoffed before replying, "Guess so. I could say the same about you as well. Look at you, you're a wannabe model turned bug collector." Miyuki crossed her arms and put up a false smile, having had enough of Ozaki's remarks. This bodyguard had really been testing her, and she'd only been with him for five minutes. "Let's get a few things clear, okay?" Ozaki looked up in slight curiosity, "Go on." Miyuki let her arms drop to her sides, "First, I don't want you getting in my way," she looked at Ozaki sternly, "Second, don't talk to me unless I ask you a question." Ozaki wanted to roll his eyes, but instead chose to add a smart remark. "Does that includ-," The young biologist would have none of it however, cutting him off with, "In fact, don't even look at me. Unless it's essential."

With that taken care of, Miyuki nonchalantly tossed the car keys to Ozaki and entered the car. She didn't agree with needing protection just to study a couple of deceased monsters, and her doubts had only been reinforced when she had her interaction with this mutant. Sure, it was understandable that security would be raised after the extremist eco-terrorist group had attempted to raid Area G in order to free Godzilla, but that was old news. Most of the people behind that had been caught already, not to mention that it hardly meant that someone like her would be targeted by them. She inhaled deeply as she waited for Ozaki. She would only have to deal with this guy for a few days at most, then she'd be done with it.

Ozaki stood there with the keys in his hand as the biologist got into the car. It just wasn't his day was it? To make matters worse, Ozaki spotted Kazama strolling towards him out of the corner of his eye. Kazama reached his friend and stopped. "Mutant babysitter," he declared out loud. He chuckled to himself as he looked towards the car with the biologist. "I think they made a good choice," Kazama turned back to Ozaki, "Well good luck on your mission." Ozaki sighed to himself as Kazama clasped his hands behind his back and strolled off.

It was going to be a long day.

At the Defense Force Museum, two colossal beasts stood, unmoving, in a gigantic interior built over them. Workers bustled about, drilling into the rock layers that covered both beasts, attempting to gather samples in order to learn more about these curious creatures.

"I don't quite know what to make of them," the lead professor stated, more to himself than to anyone in particular. He turned around and regarded Miyuki and Ozaki, who both were busy looking in awe at the gigantic mummified creatures. Dr. Hachiro Jinguji spoke, "They're some kind of hybrids. Half animal, half machine. Cyborgs, if you will."

Dr. Jinguji turned back towards the petrified monsters. "We examined their outer envelopes and found them to be over twelve thousand years old." Miyuki looked at the professor in surprise once his words set in. "But that's impossible, right? This technology didn't exist that long ago!" The professor nodded silently at Miyuki's statement, before murmuring, "Not on this planet, that's for sure." Miyuki just couldn't wrap her head around it, there was no way that these creatures were that old! It just didn't make any sense! There had to have been something that was throwing off the calculations, or it could have been an error of sorts!

Almost as if thinking the same thing, Dr. Jinguji mentioned, "But the dating is correct. We ran it through multiple times and even sent the samples off-site to make sure we weren't crazy." Miyuki understood what the professor was hinting at. "So you mean," she said slowly, "that these cyborgs could be from another planet?" Dr. Jinguji remained still for a moment, before slowly nodding in the affirmative. It was a crazy theory of course, but it was the only one that made any lick of sense.

While the two professionals discussed with each other, Ozaki took the time to really look at the two monsters. They were both bizarre looking things to say the least, but Ozaki had experience fighting bizarre-looking monsters. These things were just more attractions for the freak show, the only difference being that these two were already dead.

He examined the first creature. It seemed to have a trio of wings nestled into its back, but these wings looked more like fins instead of traditional wings that would come to one's mind normally. A row of vicious-looking blades lined the long tail, which ended with a sort of pincer looking thing with four tips to it. The creature's abdomen was even weirder, as a row of blades was connected to it, making it look almost like a saw of sorts. It had gigantic blades for hands, the shape of them looking almost like scythes, but Ozaki honestly couldn't tell if it was the room's lighting playing tricks on his eyes or not. Finally he looked at the monster's actual head. It seemed to have a beak planted onto its face, with sharp mandibles on either side of it. It didn't have two eyes like most monsters, instead only being adorned with a single eye that looked more and more like a visor the longer he kept staring at it. A row of blades were fixed to the back of its neck leading to the top of the head, where a large blade stuck out, giving it a sinister look as it stayed suspended in rock.

Ozaki moved onto the next monster. This creature didn't seem to have as many blades to it than the other one did, but he didn't doubt that it would've made it any less dangerous. The monster seemed to have blades sticking out the sides of its tail, but it was otherwise much shorter than the one of its brother. The monster had large smooth coverings over its back, almost like some kind of insect where they would part and reveal wings underneath. While the head of the other monster was rested atop of a neck, this creature didn't seem to have one to speak of, giving it a sort of stumpy appearance. Two large bulbous eyes were fixed to either side of its head, along with two antennae planted above, making it seem more like an insect to the mutant. This was only reinforced with the gigantic horn resting on the thing's head, a long thing with a sort of multi-pointed end sitting at the very tip of it. The addition of what looked like multiple mandibles only fueled Ozaki's comparison. What was most interesting about this creature, however, were its "hands". Anything that seemed like normal arms ended at the elbows, which from there colossal drills were fixed to either appendage. Ozaki was sure that drills such as those were capable of dealing out extreme damage to anything unfortunate enough to cross their path.

Looking at both of the monsters together gave Ozaki a sense of unease, but before he could wonder why, Miyuki's voice snapped him away from his thoughts. "I see here that M-base was discovered in it." Dr. Jinguji nodded, "Yes. Human DNA. It has four bases," the professor brought up his hand as he listed them out on his fingers, "Adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine." Dr. Jinguji glanced at Ozaki and humorously noted the look of absolute perplexion fixed on his face. "There's a fifth base that's particular to mutants," both Jinguji and Miyuki looked at Ozaki. "We have called this fifth base, 'M-base'," both scientists looked at the monsters before them. "M-base has been found in these monster's tissue."

If Ozaki had to be honest, he didn't have a shred of an idea what the two were talking about, but he played along and nodded his head respectfully, acting as if he understood their scientific mumbo-jumbo. Miyuki looked at Dr. Jinguji in astonishment. "You mean to say that mutants aren't a metamorphosis, and they may have genetic links with these creatures from another planet?" Both scientists turned to Ozaki, with Miyuki speaking. "Ozaki, it seems you three are related. Say hi to your relatives." Ozaki scoffed, the wave of unease still not gone, before muttering, "Totally ridiculous."

Both Miyuki and Jinguji turned and began heading for the exit to make their way to the labroom nearby, leaving Ozaki alone with his relatives. He shook his head to himself. There was no way he or anyone else on Earth could be related to these things, he just couldn't believe it. He still couldn't shake off his sense of unease he felt around these monsters, which puzzled him. He had fought against so many of these things, why was he just now seemingly scared of two dead ones?

Before he could turn and join the two scientists, a sharp pain sliced through his head! Ozaki gasped, clutching his head in agony with both hands! Where the hell did this come from!? He gave another gasp of pain as he felt the pain in his head once more. Ozaki clenched his eyes shut in pain, it felt like his head was being split in two! The pain suddenly stopped. Ozaki found himself looking at the ground, his hands still grabbing at his head. He immediately noticed the quiet. Only a few moments ago the museum was full of scientists working and creating sounds of all sorts. Now there was only an unnatural silence.

The sense of unease grew, no, not unease, it was total dread now! Ozaki looked up, and felt his breath catch in his throat. Before him the same bladed monster stood, but now it was completely free of its rocky exterior, revealing advanced cybernetics and its entire assortment of silver blades and blue-black armor. There was no trace of the rock that had once covered it, the thing looked completely free from its rocky prison! Ozaki took a step back in shock as he gaped at the monster's blood-red visor. It stood in the same ominous position as it had been when it was covered in rock, not moving a muscle. Ozaki turned away from it, trying to give a shout, a warning, anything to Miyuki and the professor! But no sound escaped him. Both scientists had disappeared, along with everyone else in the museum. Ozaki was totally alone. He turned back around towards the monster, and gasped. Its head had changed position, and it was now looking straight at Ozaki. It opened its mouth, revealing row after row of sharp teeth, before letting out a long, horrific electronic screech! Ozaki gave a silent shout as he stumbled back and fell to the ground, his ears ringing as the creature screeched. He looked up, just in time to witness the monster's single blood-red eye begin to let off a bright glow before-

"Ozaki." He snapped his eyes open, looking around in alarm. "Ozaki, are you okay?" he heard again from behind him. "Ozaki?" Ozaki turned his head, looking at the worried faces of Miyuki and Dr. Jinguji standing by the exit. "You tripped and fell," Miyuki called out to him, "Are you okay?" Ozaki took a second to take in a shaky breath, before responding, "Yeah, I'm alright. Just give me a second." Miyuki didn't look totally convinced as she watched him lift himself from the ground.

Ozaki dusted himself off, before beginning to walk towards the pair at the exit. He stopped and turned around, giving himself a chance to look at the monsters. Both were covered in rock, neither had moved an inch. Multiple scientists were still hard at work on both of them. He looked away and shook his head, it had all been some crazy hallucination, that's all. He kept telling himself that as he began walking again towards Miyuki and Dr. Jinguji.

But the feeling of unease never went away.