Chapter 6: Formulation of a world wide strategy.
Manhattan, New York.
To an observer, the city of New York bustled with life 24 hours a day and it seemed nothing could dent it. Even after the September 11 attacks, the life never seemed to leave the city. Of course, the fear of another similar attack or even a worse case scenario always haunted the minds of the citizens but they learned to push it aside and move on with their life. They had good reason to think so since many problems with the international world, with much of it being terrorism flowed through the UN, which resided in New York. Still, they could sense if something big was about to happen and tonight was just such a night as onlookers saw that the UN building became crowded again with dignitaries and security personnel. Fighters and helicopters also took to the sky around the UN in order to protect it from external and internal threats.
As the limousine sped through the traffic to the UN, its occupants took the time to review the last of the notes they soon planned to present to the rest of the world. They hoped that they weren't missing anything for what they had been literally explosive to everyone involved. After looking over the notes, the head of the group, Ambassador Samuel Roberts turned and asked, "Are the Japanese on their way right now"?
One of his aides nodded and replied, "They'll meet us at the entrance". The ambassador nodded and the aide continued on, "Also the latest information has been sent to us". Roberts turned and once he saw the latest updates, he winced at its contents for they listed more monster attacks and also had details of the arrival of Godzilla, the most recognizable and dangerous monster to humanity itself. It also had reports of uprisings by various groups and renegades all over the world in the name of world annialation. Already suicide bombs had detonated in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Europe as the instigators attempted to take their own lives on the belief that it was the honorable way out. Roberts put his thoughts aside as the limousine pulled into the United Nations along with many others.
The Japanese delegation to the UN was already there and its head, Ambassador Suzuki Nomura made his way to Roberts as soon as they headed towards the entrance. After both ambassadors shook hands, Nomura replied, "Are you ready for what we have to do"? The American replied, "I supposed you've read the same information that I had"? Nomura nodded and replied, "Truly these are frightening times for us all". Roberts nodded and saw the Japanese man's face darken as he remembered nightmares that he saw as a kid and anyone could tell in a crisis like this why his face as well as the faces of the others in the Japanese delegation became sorrowful and guilt ridden. Everyone knew why and they left it at that as they headed into the UN building.
UN general assembly.
The room was crowded to capacity as the ambassadors and the reporters took their seats. Amid the crowd, both the Japanese and Americans realized the trouble that they would soon go through to present the plans that both the Japanese and Americans governments agreed to combat the threat. As soon as everyone took their seats, the announcement came in of the arrival of the UN secretary general.
The UN secretary general arrived moments later and immediately everyone could see that despite his attempt to keep himself together, the arrival of the monsters added another problem for the beleaguered UN secretary general. In addition to this threat, the secretary general had to deal with political infighting especially with the United States in cases of the prologue to the Iraq War of 2003. Among the many bad legacies left by the previous administration was the damaging of relations between the United States and the UN, which Richardson had barely started in trying to heal.
As the secretary general took to the podium, the room suddenly darkened and a huge screen lit up with images of the attacks. The man paused before starting his speech, "We've gathered here tonight to discuss a way to combat the threat that has suddenly crossed from the 20th to the 21st century". He then paused before saying, "Now we have to truly find a way to combat this for not only Japan is in danger the rest of the world is at this very moment". The secretary general turned to the Japanese ambassador and announced, "Mr. Nomura here will start off with the information his government has followed by Roberts with the information the US has collected thus far". He stepped down and nodded to the Japanese took to the podium. After taking a deep breath, the Japanese ambassador started his speech.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I wish I didn't have to be the bearer of news that could be apocalyptic in nature but unfortunately, we face just such a situation at this very moment". He then activated a huge screen which showed the Earth without any orange marks but then as the clock went buy, the events of the past few weeks started to play out, first with the three monsters from space and then with the orange marks appearing all over the globe representing the monsters attacks. Nomura continued on, "The attacks occurred several weeks ago and already many countries have been attacked and although resistance has been stiff in many places but there has been no success thus far". He waited while the other absorbed the information and argued among themselves before some started to turn to the ambassador and soon he was swamped with questions. He silenced them by telling, "Right now we're gathering as much information about the situation as best we can and whatever information we have to share with you, we will immediately give it in return for your help in combating this threat".
The room suddenly became silent for a minute before several of the other countries that weren't really friendly with the United States and Japan started speaking up, in particular the Middle Eastern countries screaming out loud in anger. Some of them even went far to reply the monster attacks were part of God's punishment. Nomura winced but he kept his cool as the shouting match continued with the briefing, "Right now we're sending help and information to all those that request it as well as humanitarian aid for the victims in the war zone". He paused for a moment looking at all of the faces of the audience before deciding to cut his loses. The ambassador turned and walked down the steps as the American ambassador moved up the steps to take over the discussion.
Roberts immediately looked over at the audience and said to himself. "Though crowd" before he started his portion of the briefing, "Right now, we're trying to develop countermeasures to meet the threat but it is going to take some time and not every monster is the same case as that of Godzilla". He paused before continuing on, "Therefore we need to find out a way to combine all of our assets together fore we stand a better chance by standing together or we all fall separately". Roberts paused before continuing, "What I propose is the recreation of the UNGCC center". He started to give specifics on why such an action took, "We still have the original building and the notes about how the branch was run so all we have to do is to restart it". With that, the US ambassador ended his section of the briefing then stepped down before the secretary general took his spot and started talking with the delegates.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, from what the ambassadors of the two countries have told us, we have truly difficult times ahead and right now we have to consider our options carefully and hope that we don't have a repeat of the mistakes that plagued us when the world dealt with the terrorist problem". The secretary general paused before ending his speech, "This institution was created to prevent another catastrophe like the ones that haunted the 20th century and now one of those threats has crossed over to the new", "Perhaps this is a blessing in disguise since now we can truly prove that the UN works". He was not kidding since the UN had dealt with something like this before and it also needed something to redeem itself after the Iraq fiasco and perhaps a re-match against an old nemesis was just what the doctor ordered.
The council soon erupted in debate as the delegates struggled to form a plan to deal with this with the British, Russians, and Chinese to a certain extent siding with the Americans with many others being neutral and some protesting very loudly. In fact some of the Islamic countries objected and replied quite harshly that the arrival of the monsters, especially Godzilla was a punishment among the Japanese and the west. The Americans themselves became angered when the countries in opposition used the harsh fact that both the Japanese and the Americans themselves were responsible for the creation of the monster. Both knew that the statement clearly was a statement to Hiroshima and it took much diplomatic training to retain control as the conference continued on.
Fortunately, the conference came soon to a close but unfortunately, it didn't go according to plan. For although the delegates virtually agreed on the need to work together but then as usual in politics, every detail had to be tortuously argued out. The secretary himself had to order the chamber to calm down and soon the conversation resumed. After a while the secretary announced, "After much deliberations, we've decided to agree in part to the suggestions of Japan and Americans but also left the decisions to the countries involved in the fighting.
This really angered both since what the president and the prime minister wanted was to reestablish the UNGCC. It felt reasonable to the American and Japanese diplomatic groups since it had already a basis but the French ambassador spoke for the opposition when he said, "After what happened in Iraq, we can't trust the words of the United States or its allies and we must see for ourselves the true nature of the threat and as for a UNGCC, it would place control in the hands of the Japanese along with that of America". Nomura almost seemed ready to leap across and choke the French ambassador but his staff and his Japanese demeanor helped restrained him from taking any unnecessary violent action.
As the council session ended, Roberts went to Nomura and told him, "Well we did get some of what we wanted". The Japanese man looked at him at shock but to Roberts, who had not seen up-close what Godzilla was capable of, continued by mentioning, "If this was done even a year ago, we wouldn't have this type of answer so we should be pleased with what we've achieved here today".
The Japanese man replied angrily, "Unfortunately it will not be enough and now the nightmare that my people faced all those years ago will soon visit itself upon the world". Both men stayed silent after that remark as security escorted them through the huge crowd of reporters, ignoring requests to answer questions from the reporters.
Tokyo.
The young woman was one of the many who watched the proceedings at the UN and one who had the most stakes in the conflict since she was one of the most famous survivors of the last war. After watching the drama and play out in the UN, she angrily turned off the television and turned to look out at the afternoon sky. She soon focused on Shinjuku, Tokyo Bay, Haneda International Airport, and other places in Tokyo where the titanic battles against Godzilla took place.
As she mused over the situation, she suddenly heard a small musical sound behind her. She immediately turned to see a gold mist around her, which soon took the form of a large moth with two small human figures right behind the creature. The young woman instantly recognized them and recognized the sad looks on their faces, "I assume that this has something to do with what has been going on as of late".
The two small figures known as the Cosmos nodded and replied, "That what you wished for has now come to pass and now millions of people will die because of it". The young woman's face contorted in anger but said very calmly and grimly, "The darkness of humanity started this mess long ago". Both Cosmos nodded in return at her statement but said, "True but right now they're trying to stop it and not all should be judged".
Segusa turned sadly at the sky and said to herself, "I once thought that too but after what happened I lost that belief". She turned to the Cosmos who meditated silently on the matter before mentioning, "You should not let the past cloud your judgment especially at this day and age". Segusa waved dismissively and said, "War does that to people and after what I saw, you would probably agree with me as well". Seeing that the telepath would not budge, the Cosmos silently bid their goodbyes and disappeared". Seeing that there weren't any more visitors, Segusa turned back to the skyline and watched the sight even as it stirred old memories and wounds within her.
Sorry for a lack of monster action so far. Also how well have I done in this story and does this bring back memories of the movies themselves.
And finally, sorry if this doesn't turn out as well as the other ones.