Nature's Revenge.

Goro Maki took a deep breath as he looked around the cabin on the yacht. The Glory Maru was a lovely boat, that was certain but it was large enough and flashy enough to attract the attention of the Tokyo coast guard, which was what he was aiming for. Looking around the main cabin, he looked down at the chart arranged neatly on the table.

"Gojira is here," he murmured, shuddering to himself as he tried to imagine what kind of devastation there would be to come. For decades since he had discovered the effect on wildlife in the vicinity of those dumped barrels of radioactive waste foolishly dumped into the ocean where the waste could leak out and contaminate the seafloor. When he had explored and surveyed the seafloor and discovered the radiation had affected life on the seafloor which had existed on the Earth long before the dinosaurs had existed, and as a result obeyed laws of nature which had been more flexible than they were in this day and age.

He knew the creature was here.

Ever since he had discovered that life on the seafloor was being affected and he had written a theory that the nuclear waste could force them to evolve over a short span of time, only to be laughed at and mocked for his theories, Maki had needed to steal money for his own financed expeditions to continue his research because the few universities that would allow him to work for them while he worked for that American energy firm were far from open-minded enough to let him work for them, so he'd needed to take the law into his own hands. But it worked and got results, and he had learnt how to track down the creature and he had tracked it down to Tokyo bay. Why the creature he had named Gojira, God incarnate, would be drawn to Tokyo, Maki genuinely did not understand. But it didn't matter, and in a few hours from now, the creature would be storming over Tokyo, evolving with every single burst of radioactivity as the nuclear power contained within forced it to evolve.

When Maki had been a young boy, he had read a translated version of Herman Melville's Moby Dick, but it wasn't until he had become an adult and he had discovered Gojira that he had started to finally understand the weird connection between Captain Ahab and Moby Dick, the white whale which had crippled him, and what had driven Ahab to seek revenge for years. But his relationship with Gojira was more complex and less single-minded than Ahab's.

Maki turned away from the chart. According to his instruments, in a few hours, Gojira would emerge, hyper evolving at an impressive and scary rate when it suddenly appeared in the bay for all to see, and he laid eyes on the small purple origami bird on the neatly arranged document folders. It was his latest work and his theories, but Maki knew the Americans possessed a copy and they would likely give the Japanese government information relating to the creature, but it didn't matter in the long term; the folders here on his yacht merely contained his latest work.

"Now do as you please," was labelled on the folder. After the way he was treated, expelled from his university and forced to leave Japan when he had discovered Gojira, named after the creature from his home island, that was as far as Maki was willing to go. The folder and the one in the Americans' possession contained all of his notes about Gojira, a previously unknown undersea life form that had not only fed on nuclear waste but had mutated rapidly over a course of many years. While he had been expelled from his university for his theoretical work, which Maki now realised was a big mistake, but at the time he had been terrified by the implications of his discovery that he'd written articles and they had gotten him expelled, he had continued his research.

"Now do as you please."

Maki had written that final message knowing that he was now running out of time. He wasn't like Gojira with the endless supply of nuclear energy rapidly rejuvenating him and granting him incredible strength, he was an old man who had spent years climbing a mountain and now that he had reached the top of it, all he wanted to do was collapse and die of exhaustion. And besides, his cancer was starting to take its toll. He had contracted cancer primarily due to his long years of exposure, studying Gojira. But he had braved it by returning to his home country, which he had done for two reasons; one, because he had wanted to see Japan and admire what had changed and what remained the same, and because he was determined to take it to heaven when he finally died. America was good, but it wasn't home and he had never gotten used to the American way of life anyway despite living there for years, and lastly, because Maki had discovered Gojira was here, in Tokyo itself.

Maki sighed, and he went out of the cabin and stood by the rail. The lights of the city reflecting off of the water in the bay were mixing with the early lighting of dawn. It was a beautiful vista. Maki only hoped it would survive, but he had confidence; he was hopeful that the Japanese would work with the Americans, and they had access to the chart which he had designed to be comprehensive when it was folded into origami. He had no doubt the two parties would discover that it was radiation-based and they would see the creature's weakness in the blood and they would find a way to shut it down so it couldn't mutate any further, but the long term was out of his hands.

He took a deep breath and he picked up the heavy chunk of stone he had rigged up using a deflated life jacket before he picked up a bottle of drugs. He opened it and swallowed the lot. He jumped in the bay's water and kept his mouth open. This might be cowardly, jumping to his suicide, but he didn't want to be caught by the Japanese or the Americans.


Author's Note - Shin Godzilla's Maki, the scientist who predicted and studied a creature mutated by nuclear waste that continued to evolve throughout the course of the Shin Godzilla movie was a mystery, but I can't help but think about his motives.