(Chapter 3: Myths and legends, kings and queens)
Some time had passed, the seven had escaped far enough away from the shores of Isla De Mara. Laura sat alone on a chair, looking down at the floor with a defeated sigh. Although the squadron of colonels came close, they still were short of killing Kaiyo Hanson, he was still alive, and the Red Bamboo was still strong.
A single tear leaked from her eyes, rolling down her cheeks with a black streak due to her makeup sliding off thanks to her tears. She clenched her fists tightly, her depressed look turning into that of rage. She was infuriated that Kaiyo managed to get away with killing her mentor, and she was even more angered at how she had been crying, the beautiful blonde always thought that crying was a sign of weakness, especially being in the G-Team.
"Why the long face, babe?" Kenny was heard asking from right in front of her, she was slightly startled, not expecting Kenny to be there, yet she was happy nonetheless.
"Oh, Kenny. I wasn't expecting you to be here." Laura said with a slight chuckle, wiping away the wet marks that her tears had left behind, trying to hide the fact that she was crying. Kenny wouldn't be fooled so easy as he saw the dark streaks of mascara and makeup.
"Sorry about that, I didn't mean to startle you." He answered, tugging a chair out from a supply closet and taking a seat right in front of the beautiful Russian born blonde.
"Oh, it's fine. I am upset though.." She sighed softly, her look of disbelief returning to the floor, looking down at Kenny's boots.
"What's wrong? Feel free to tell me. I'm here for you."
"I am upset at the fact that I failed to save our mentor, I really let myself down. I'm sorry if I let you down, I am even more upset that we failed to kill that son of a bitch when we had a chance."
Kenny placed his hand on Laura's shoulder and patted her gently, a warm smile coming upon his face, one that soothed the blonde's soul.
"Laura, you're not a failure in my eyes. You are perfect, when we were training and sparring with one another in the academy under the tutelage of Jackson Barnes, I knew you would come far. We've been through thick and thin, we are still here. You can never let me down, you can only improve, as perfect as you are, you can get better. Me and you, we will be role models to all of the rookies. Me and you are gold standards in a company full of great people, just remember this conversation, we still have a chance to blossom like the most beautiful of diamonds." Kenny spoke in a soothing, calming, charming voice to Laura.
"Kenny.. I-I.." A few tears began to roll down her cheeks and she began to wipe away the tears, but Kenny suddenly wiped them away for her.
"It's okay Laura, I understand the pain and the tears that leak from your amazing eyes." He tried to speak but Laura spoke immediately.
"But, you don't understand Kenny. Crying is a weakness.."
"Crying is not a weakness, that is what the cowards say. That is what people who try to be tough say, crying is no weakness. Tears show heart, they show emotion. It is okay to cry, I know who you are. You are a gorgeous determined woman who has put herself through emotional trauma and physical pain to get where you are now, tears don't define you. You have a great, pure heart, a very fiery and determined one at that. The best people in the world, those that are living and those that have passed away and have been immortalized as legends, they share the same heart as you. Your attributes are rare in this wicked world, it is what makes you special. One day, our status shall be so great that we will be immortalized forever in a bronze statue. Not as a role model to rookies and G-Team soldiers of the future, but a role model to the whole world."
It was then that Laura and Kenny looked into each other's eyes, their windows to the soul appearing to twinkle as they shared loving expressions. Kenny had filled Laura's shattered heart with hope, his words empowered her. The two of them heard a door opening from down the hall, they could see the silhouette of Ford Brody from where it had been opened.
"Hey, I need you two to come help us out. Radar is detecting a shit load of objects in the distance, I've got no clue what they are." Ford warned, the radars had detected several fairly sized dots, or perhaps they were clusters of smaller objects, not too far from where their submarine was.
"Alright!" Kenny called back in response, getting up from his chair and gently patting Laura on her shoulder, causing her to give him a sweet smile again.
The two entered the control room, where everyone else was at. Kenny glanced at the monitor on the radar to see all of the dots, some bigger than others. Alan Haas looked over at Laura to see her bloodshot eyes from how hard she was crying.
"Is she high?" Alan joked, getting a rough nudge from Andy William's shoulder, Laura didn't care as she was focused on the radar.
"Turn on the light, we can probably see what we are in for." Kenny suggested, Mark Russel was on edge about what those dots were on the radar, his daughter appeared to be somewhat worried.
"I swear to God, if there is a whole horde of those same things that we are running from, living down here. I will shoot myself." He groaned, ready to accept the reality of the situation if his theory proved to be true.
The light at the front of the sub flashed on, the camera catching everything on film. It was shown on a large monitor within the control room, they appeared to be right in front of a wrecked ship. This was no ordinary ship though, it was a very old, rotten one, made out of wood. This ship had to have dated back to the 1700s at most, almost all of it was covered in barnacles and beautiful oceanic debris that made it look like an actual large piece of coral, but it was obvious that this was an ancient shipwreck.
That wasn't the only thing laying around where they were, as the submarine began to go upwards. The crew within got a better look at what they were seeing, what they saw, shocked them all.
There was old airplanes from World War 2, covered in barnacles and rust. There was more than seven of these planes laying here, all fairly close together. A large cruise ship was seen, it appeared to be more recent. This was the cruise ship that was attacked by the godzilla esque reptilian beast that had been reported in the newspaper only recently.
On a large mound of sand or debris, layed five jets that went missing back in 1945 during a training session. In the distance, a martin mariner plane was seen partially buried under sand and rock.
There was another ship that had vanished in 1918, the USS Cyclops. It had rotted so much that pieces of it began to fall off, some were even dangling from the mangled remains of the ship. Further away was a ship that met a similar fate, the USS Scorpion, which had disappeared in 1968.
As the submarine continued to float up further and further, the more shipwrecks, and wrecks in general, they seen. It was a graveyard of ships, planes, and various other things. They all looked at each other in stunned silence.
"Ford, where are we?" Laura asked, her voice sounding as if she already knew the answer. The scenery spoke for itself, they were at the bottom of the Bermuda Triangle..
"Were at the triangle, which means OutPost 54 shouldn't be so far away." Ford said, taking a close look at all of the monitors to see if they were malfunctioning, thankfully, none of them were.
As the Monarch submarine traversed through the valley of doomed vessels, the large clusters of red dots began to go away. What would be in front of the submarine now, was two massive dots. Larger than the clusters, this had to be two titans, there shouldn't be no wreckage pile as massive as these dots were implying them to be.
"Shine the lights at full power, we need to see what this is.." Ford said, part of him wanting to man the guns on the submarine.
The max lights boomed on, shining and illuminating the front of the submarine for many miles. Again, what they saw shocked them all. Far in the distance, at least five miles, were two giant pyramids. These pyramids were in perfect condition and seemed to be glowing or shining despite being in the pitch black waters of the ocean floor.
The silence of the ocean, combined with how perfectly still everything seemed to be, made these pyramids somewhat ominous. They were a pleasant sight to see regardless, a beautiful emerald glow emitting from these two pyramids.
"Should we proceed? This is the Bermuda Triangle. I don't want something to come out of those pyramids and bust this sub, we need to get as far away from here as possible." Mark Russel suggested, followed by a nod of agreement from Madison Russel.
Ford Brody and Kenny Anderson manned the guns, proceeding towards the pyramids, expecting anything at this point. As they got closer to the massive pyramids, they discovered that the structures weren't as big as once thought. These pyramids were around eight hundred feet tall, towering over the most well known pyramids in the world.
To their right and to their left, there were rows of giant pillars that would lead to the pyramids. These pillars had illustrations of large saurian creatures with spines on their backs, including one that looked strikingly similar to what had attacked them at Isla De Mara hours ago. One of them had what appeared to be a large turtle roaring at Godzilla, there were a few more illustrations that were of unknown creatures.
"Incredible.." Madison gasped in awe of all of these illustrations, these were products of their time. Detailing untold history that had been forgotten for God knows how many years, the crew began to notice large mounds in the ground. Some of these mounds had illustrations on them too, one of them had a massive hole on the side.
"Don't go in there, that would be very unwise." Alan warned, gazing into the hole on the mound. This could be a gateway to the Hollow Earth, or perhaps something else entirely.
"How about we get out of here before anything else happens? Does that sound like a good idea?" Mark Russel asked, not wanting to spend anymore time down in this dark, mysterious abyss that was the Bermuda Triangle.
Andy Williams decided to tag along with Mark Russel and agree to what the man was saying, he did not want to end up dead in these dark waters.
"Mark is right, Ford. We best get to our Outpost as quick as possible before we end up like all of these ships and planes." He said, Ford understood his men and their concerns. He began to guide the submarine towards Outpost 54, staying fairly close to the ocean bottom so they wouldn't get sucked down into the clutches of the triangle.
Back at Isla De Mara, Kaiyo and the Red Bamboo had brought themselves back together after everything went off the rails when the saurian titan had intercepted their battle against the squadron of colonels.
"We have to kill that thing, we would have had those bastards if it didn't show up.." Kaiyo said to one of his men that was standing in front of his desk, he was infuriated at how another chance to cripple the G-Team and Monarch, had been squandered by a titan.
"How do you suppose we do this? Dealing with them is hard enough already." The soldier asked, finding that Kaiyo's goals were getting more insane to accomplish.
"A new weapon was used back in 2019 when Godzilla was fighting Ghidorah out in those waters, it was dubbed as the Oxygen Destroyer. It was supposedly a prototype, Monarch has been attempting to make a full powered version and the most up to date design. If the prototype was enough to stop Godzilla's heart, just imagine what a completed weapon could do." He explained with a devious grin growing on his face.
"How are we going to get those weapons? We don't even have any sort of blueprints or instructions on how to create it.." The soldier asked, once again questioning his leader.
"I've got a smuggler in Monarch, he has been working with me for quite some time. He was last seen up in Boston at the Global Defense Force organization, at that location, they are testing out new weaponry, testing out their own organic titans, and training an already amazing G-Team to be a more deadly force."
Kaiyo got up from his chair and walked down the hall into another location, he grabbed the phone from off the wall and dialed up the number of his anonymous colleague that was working within Monarch.
"Kon'nichiwa, kaiyōdesu. Anata wa mada mēzā bakudan no aojashin o okurimashita ka? Sugu ni hitsuyō ni narimasu." The crazed jap spoke to his colleague on the phone in his japanese language, not wanting any potential traitors to hear what he was saying.
Kaiyo hung up the phone moments later, clapping his hands in some sick delight. Hell, he was even laughing, overjoyed with his own arrogance that he could potentially end this titan's life.
"Otoko wa ōsamadesu" He said to himself, folding his arms and propping his legs up on the table that he sat next to. All in one day, he was able to lower morality and hope significantly to the colonel squadron and had the device to end a titan's life.
(Outpost 54, Castle Bravo)
The colonels stood in a large control room with the blast doors closed, no titan was looming around their facility. It was a sigh of relief for them, they had got to the outpost at the right time.
"How is the tracker coming along for the thing?" Mark Russel asked as he walked into the room from down the hall, holding a glass of wine in his hand.
"Current tracking says that the beast is heading towards Ireland, the path is being projected towards that area. Territorial routes are so far, unknown." Dr. Stanton explained, the predicted path that the monster was taking appeared on the large screen in the room, to which everyone gazed upon.
It shows a map of the world, with the monster leaving a trail from where it was last seen at Isla De Mara. So far, the beast had made it halfway out to the Atlantic Ocean, the thing was heading upwards slightly going for the UK or Ireland.
"Well I'll be damned, we just got here and that thing is halfway there!" Kenny exclaimed with surprise in the tone of his raised voice, wondering if there was any time to get ready to protect Ireland or the United Kingdom from this monster.
"It's an amphibious titan, what do you expect?" Laura sighed, uploading pictures of the beast onto the computer.
A picture of the titan appeared on the screen, it was when they had made it safely to the submarine and were rolling out to sea to make an escape. The first thing that almost everyone pointed out, is that it looked similar to Godzilla with how the body was shaped.
"My gosh, guys, did you get attacked by Godzilla?" Stanton asked with a slight chuckle, wanting to bury his hand in his palms for the squadron pissing off one of the world's most greatest protectors.
"No, it is not. This thing is around one hundred and fifty feet tall at most, the true height of it is unknown but that is my best estimate." Madison replied, the whole room went silent.
"So if that thing looks so similar to Godzilla, what is it doing being so much smaller than a full grown specimen of his kind?" Alan Haas questioned, a worried feeling growing within him.
"It means that the thing is still a child, the real question is, where is big momma?" Stanton asked, looking directly at Haas.
"I've got no clue, from what we've studied about Godzilla's kind in the past. Is that his kind lived in small tribes of just a few members, they moved as a pack. Now I don't know if that mentality was broken after the Muto parasites starting screwing the natural order up all of those years ago, but the mother of this thing has got to be somewhere close." Kenny added on.
"Please don't tell me you attacked the thing.." Stanton went on to say, his voice full of worry.
"Sorry to burst your bubble chap, but we did." Ford Brody answered, marching into the room.
"Ahh for Christs sake, you've done it now!" Stanton cried out before breaking into nervous laughter.
"Well we can't just sit back and let that thing attack us? We've gotta defend ourselves." Andy Williams answered for the colonels and Ford.
"You've got a name for this thing, Madison?" Mark asked, his daughter had taken Dr. Chen's place as well as Emma Russel's place after they were both killed.
"I've done a lot of digging after placing the image on search, I've got a few descriptions. Back many years ago, legends called these things Gorgo, the adults were known as Ogra. These creatures lived alongside Godzilla, or were close relatives to his species as ancient cave paintings depict these things." Madison explained, the monster that they happened to be all dealing with was known as a Gorgo, according to legends.
"Fitting, since there was a dinosaur known as Gorgosaurus." Kenny answered.
"Well, ladies and gentlemen. I'm afraid that we cannot sit on our asses for too long, or else those poor people in the UK or in Ireland are gonna be in danger of getting an ass kicking from Gorgo.."