Chapter 9: Robot Construction and allies return.
Diet Building, Tokyo Japan.
Ever since the monster crisis began, the lights of the Diet building always remained on for important visitors stopped by for meetings with the Japanese to coordinate a worldwide defense. Tonight was just such another one as limousines from the embassies of the United States, Russia, China, and the EU pulled up to the entrance and disgorged their passengers. Soon, security guards ushered them inside to a meeting room where Japanese Defense Minister Nakamori and the Japanese JCS awaited them.
As each took their seats, aides handed out stacks of papers and as soon as everyone had arrived, Nakamori took his seat at the head of the table. The defense minister watched intently as the others looked at the notes concerning the largest weapons ever built by mankind. After a while, he spoke, "Does anyone have any questions that they would like to ask"?
Not surprisingly, Henry Davidson was the first to ask since he had the most information on hand about the matter, "Now I see what you meant about the scale of what we are all attempting defense minister but even if we were to proceed right now, it would take the better part of a year to pull this all together". He didn't have to add what could happen in that amount of time since casualties were already too high no one dared think about the total numbers spiraling upwards even more.
Nakamori nodded and replied, "It will have to be an all out effort on all of the defense industries especially those that are skilled in robotics to pull all of this together". He paused before continuing, "To facilitate this process, we'll send our scientists to work with yours in order to attempt to speed up the process".
Davidson nodded but then asked, "How are we to divide the responsibility up between ourselves"?
Nakamori replied, "Japan will be the final assembly point but the parts for the respective robots will be manufactured in the different countries and it will depend on the robot manufactured".
Next up on the list was Russian Defense Minister Dimitri Pavelokov who had just flown in after walking personally through the devastated ruins of Moscow. The sight shocked him as well as that of the Russian Prime Minister and therefore, he was very interested in what they had to say. After reading through the notes, especially the costs of constructing these huge machines, he turned to Nakamori and asked bluntly, "Will we receive financial aid for our troubles".
Nakamori replied "Right now, we're trying to work out the financial side for those nations whose economies have been directly devastated".
Davidson also replied, "Right now we're also negotiating with the IMF in order to provide financial aid for the nations impacted by the crisis".
This however forced Pavelokov to ask, "What about the access to technology to construct these machines"? When everyone looked at him, he explained his reasoning, "All our countries have different levels of investment technology and that we have to watch out how we spend to gain such access".
Nakamori paused before saying, "I've been ordered by Prime Minister Hiragashi to tell you that we'll gain as much access as possible to develop the weapons". He then changed the subject by stating, "Let me show the weapons that all of you will be contributing to their construction". He activated several switches and the room darkened for a moment before several screens turned on.
The screens showed footage from the last war of three large robotic creatures. Two of them resembled King Ghidorah and Mecha-Godzilla while the third had cones in the place of hands, a large lower body and a small face with a drill for the nose.
After a few minutes, Nakamori switched off the footage and reactivated the lights. For a moment, there was silence before Nakamori asked them all, "Can I rely on you all to assist". Everyone nodded in grim assessment of the Japanese man's request and he immediately added, "Copies are available for you to use if you need them", "Now let us turn to other matters". A world map appeared with red circles displaying the monsters as they appeared on the satellites. To everyone, the combined damage of the circles resembled a horrific plague. Aides arrived with drinks as everyone settled in for a long night's work.
Tsukuba City.
Called the science city, Tsukuba was created by the Japanese government who another metropolis city that could compete with Tokyo as well as relieve its overpopulation problem. Unfortunately it never really achieved that goal and for many days, it resembled a ghost town. Despite that, it became a leading center for education and research into the newest discovers of mankind. However, it had served another function for the Japanese people in the previous century.
In the early1990s, it was the center of worldwide operations against the monster known as Godzilla and others like him. During that time, they city underwent a boom as the requirements of housing an international army became necessary. After the end of the first war, with the budget spiraling down to zero, the city returned to its normal routine. However, the UNGCC complex still stood as a symbol of world unity against the darkness. Now, with that very darkness returning and the world very much divided, technicians scoured around the abandoned facilities to get them back on line and prepare for the eventually arrival of people from around the globe who would battle against the kaiju. Among them were veterans who thought that they had served their time in hell for the benefit of humanity.
As he walked through the halls of the manufacturing areas, Kazuma Aoki took in a deep breath as he suddenly remembered his tour of duty here. He had been the developer of the Garuda class warship but then became a pilot and managed to dignify himself in battle despite being clumsy somewhat and having a liking for flying dinosaurs.
After hearing about what had happened, a few government officials stopped by his house and soon Aoki found himself dragged back into the war he thought he had left years ago. He mused to himself, "At least I hopefully won't have to pilot again". Despite his success, his time at G-force left him with a somewhat bad experience in his mouth although he knew he was partially responsible for some of those comedic incidents.
He turned to his notebook computer and several "blank" CDs which contained many of the notes of the weapons development that he personally participated in, "Well, looks like it's time for you to fly once again Garuda".
Shinjuku:
Though the psychic woman had a row of nightmares that all war veterans had, she managed to block them out and managed to deal with them without having to see a psychiatrist and have her head checked, it still numbed her during the morning and that was before the darkness returned. Now, she could barely get any sleep as the images of monsters from the past plagued her mind.
This time though, the moment she closed her eyes, the nightmares assaulted her with a savage ferocity. It showed Godzilla along with an enormous devil-like bat monster battling each other in the Anake area of Tokyo. Even though she tried to blink her eyes and tell herself that the sight in front of her wasn't real, the smells and the sights still remained fresh as if it had occurred yesterday.
As soon as the devil-bat monster turned towards her, she started to run but the monster's burning yellow eyes kept her in place as a white mist of death rained down upon her. In a few seconds, her skin started to dissolve and she screamed as "death" claimed her.
She woke up sweating profusely and headed towards the restroom to wash her face. After calming down, the psychic turned to look at the skyline of the nightlife of Tokyo since it helped to focus her scattered thoughts. Right now she would need all the time in the world to think about her decisions thus far. She felt right that humanity deserved this but a small part of her conscience told her otherwise and stated that to think that way was to betray all of the sacrifices made during the first war. Segusa winced as she started to feel the first signs of another headache.
The young woman walked towards a small bookshelf and picked out one of the books before turning on the lights and settling down to read hoping that she could find some desperately needed answers to her harsh question.
Infant Island.
Despite being close to Indonesia, the island has virtually been untouched by humanity ever since the Cosmos incident of 1992. No human has ever landed on these shores and it allowed nature to rehabilitate the island to a certain extent.
This suited the Cosmos fine as they observed their surroundings and perhaps beyond the reaches of the ocean. Both had much to deal with on their minds as they observed the events occurring in the outside world and whether to intervene. Segusa's words haunted them but after a long while, they decided that the anger of the past should not cloud the present world and that this generation and all future ones should deserve to survive this great horror.
They turned and walked up towards the waiting giant butterfly. After communicating telepathically with the two tiny beings, Mothra took a large flap of her wings before taking off into the night sky. Both turned and prayed that the creature and their protector would be able to survive for not only Godzilla and Space-Godzilla were still alive but there were other monsters, some even more powerful dangerous than the legendary nuclear saurian and his space-borne counterpart.
Arctic Ocean, near Siberia.
The Arctic Circle held many relics that traveled back to an age before humanity emerged from the primordial ooze. Many treasures and artifacts rested in the wastelands and some were dark dangers unleashed upon the previous beings that inhabited Earth (such as the Cosmos) for their abuses on the planet.
Now, with the Earth in danger again, one of the hidden objects started to rumble. The iceberg that held it, started to turn red as it melted under the intense energy the object gave off. Soon, the iceberg completely shattered and the creature roared for the first time every since its "death" in 1992.
The black caterpillar-like creature observed its surroundings as if searching for prey before it headed back deep into the ocean and soon into the Earth's crust. Within a few minutes, the monster disappeared as if it was never there at all.
Notes:
1. The reason I didn't have a scene of them using nuclear weapons was because all knew Japan's stance on the matter and because it was nuclear radiation that revived some of these monsters.
2. In addition to Miki Segusa, several other famous characters will return or will have their names mentioned in this new war.
3. I'm wondering whether I should include Biolantte in here as well as King Kong. Does anyone think I should do so (if I were to include King Kong then I would also include Mecha-Kong as well)?
4. I know this sounds dumb but does anyone think I should add a few more monsters besides the ones I already have planned in my head (Destroyah is one of the planned monsters and blame the question on watching a copy of War of the Gargantuas).
As always, please read and review. And sorry if it wasn't that long since this particular chapter, while being formed was pretty short due to no monster battles.