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A Child taking on Adult Responsibilities.
Dr Ilene Andrews watched on the monitor screens as the drones flying over Skull Island's containment hub following the permanent destruction of the place through terrible storms followed the movements of the surviving strange fauna of Skull Island, marvelling at the creatures she was seeing; when the island had originally been discovered by Monarch back in the 1970s and that ill-fated expedition had travelled to the island only to be stranded by Kong, who had attacked them when their seismic charges woke up the Skullcrawlers on the island, Monarch had been spending years studying them.
In fact, a large amount of what they had discovered had gone into their studies of other MUTOs, or Titans. One thing they had learnt about Kong was he had been forced to grow up very quickly, too quickly, and he was forced to take on adult responsibilities and defend the Iwi from all threats.
But while some Monarch scientists believed their studies of Skull Island was long since over, Ilene was not so dismissive. She believed the island held so much more than what others believed.
Suddenly one of the drones caught sight of Kong as he went around the island; Monarch had discovered the great ape titan generally patrolled the island for any hostile natives, like the Skullcrawlers.
Ilene grimaced at the thought of the Skullcrawlers; massive, agile lizard-like creatures that were perpetually hungry that had the same flexibility as a hot-blooded snake. The Dr Ilene Andrews who had come to Skull Island had heard of the Skullcrawlers, even seen footage collected over the years by other Monarch researchers, some of them who had been unlucky and were killed, the Dr Ilene Andrews who had spent the last few years of her life on Skull Island was a veteran of encounters with them and dissecting the Skullcrawlers that were killed by Monarch or Kong. The ape showed no mercy towards the creatures, and he never let them escape him when they encountered him.
When she had first arrived on the island, Ilene had learnt about Kong's history, she had to in order to study and observe him. Kong had raised himself when his parents had been fighting the Skullcrawlers and he had grown up on his own ever since. Several people called him a child taking on adult responsibilities, and they were right. But she felt sorry for him as well; he had grown up alone, he had no family, no companions his own age and would be able to understand him, and on top of that he was forced into battle against the Skullcrawlers and the other hostile natives of the island.
Even now he had major threats in the face of governments or terrorists who had ignored the doctrine the titans should be left alone and that they were too powerful, too unpredictable and too dangerous to be used the way they wanted.
But the biggest threat lay in Godzilla.
If the Alpha was challenged by Kong, the ape titan would find himself in a battle to the death. Ilene wondered if he would have survived an encounter with Godzilla had Godzilla bothered to attack Skull Island around the time of the 70s, but she quickly killed the thought. Kong was highly intelligent, like a regular ape in the real world. He was known to use melee weapons, so they could have evened things out, but whether it would have done any good against Godzilla's power…Ilene could not say, and she didn't dare say.
Kong might have been a child back then, but he wasn't anymore.
But as the years passed, and more of his old habitat…failed, Ilene knew that sooner or later, despite her best efforts, Kong would need to be moved. He was not a child anymore, but he felt like her baby.
