Chapter two, then. Enjoy!

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ASSIGNMENT

JSDF Base, North of Tokyo, Japan

"Miki!" Miyuki snapped as she pushed the door into the rec. room open, "What do you think you're doing?"

Miki turned round sharply, her arm still in the white cast, from where she'd been opening the window.

"I told you, it's fine," She insisted.

"You didn't even take the painkillers, did you?" Miyuki asked.

"I don't need to dope myself up to deal with this," Miki answered sharply. "Besides, I hate those things."

"True," Miyuki remembered, suddenly feeling a sharp pang of guilt. How could she have forgotten something like that, after what the poor child had been through before being found by the JSDF? "But all the same: Get your backside on the sofa."

"It's just an arm," Miki insisted, "I can still do things."

"Yeah, things like sitting down," Miyuki pointed. "Come on, Miki. Humour me."

Exasperatedly, Miki slumped down onto the sofa.

"Besides, it's not like you're missing anything," Miyuki reassured her, "And your pet lizard hasn't gotten himself into any more trouble… mainly because he hasn't left the dock in the last week."

Miki nodded quietly, turning to look out the window as Miyuki walked out of the room, leaving her alone.

She could still feel his concern pressing into the back of her mind. It was understandable; he was protective enough of her to have killed and burned down a warehouse, and now she was injured. He was staying close, making sure that no further harm came to her, like a parent bird with an injured chick.

She muttered into the link. The incoming flood of emotions told her, all concern and worry. It was pure feeling pouring into her mind, like words made from pure emotion. In some way, this method of communicating was even better than speaking; it was pure, untainted. Nothing was concealed. Godzilla 'said'. The word stung at Miki, almost as badly as the realisation that it was true.

She shut her eyes, trying to tell him through the link, in their own way, that she would be OK, that with time her injury would heal; just not as fast as his did.

Godzilla's deep, rumbling 'voice' insisted. She wasn't sure why she always interpreted his thoughts in such a voice; maybe it was just the way she imagined he might talk.

Nevertheless, a week ago, she'd seen the side of him that, deep down, she knew she'd been in denial about. Before she'd blacked out, she saw him go after her attackers, and at that moment, there was none of the warmth or love she sensed now; just pure rage, hate and vengeance.

Takuya might have had a point; Godzilla might have imprinted on her, she might even have 'adopted' him, but at the end of the day, he was still a wild animal.

She remembered the old saying, and wondered just how true it would turn out to be.

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Briefing Room, 2 hours later

"So what's happened this time, Doug?" Kazama asked.

"Well, I'm aware that the situation here is rather… tense," Gordon answered, nodding to Miki, who seemed to refuse to meet his eye, "But as you know, I've been ordered to put a team together to deal with the current situation, and that's you people."

He placed a small number of photos on the desk.

"This morning, a minor eruption occurred at Mt. Aso," He explained.

"Yeah, it was on the news," Miyuki answered, "They said there were no fatalities."

"And so far, that's correct," Gordon answered, "What the news didn't mention… was this."

He pushed one photograph forward, a picture of the top of the volcano. In the middle of the pillar of smoke was a sillhouette of a pair of a huge something, with wide bat-like wings and a tail swinging through the air behind it.

"We don't know what his thing is," Gordon pointed out, "But it's wingspan is estimated at nearly 270 feet. When it came out of the volcano, we believe it was doing almost Mach. 1."

"That's impossible," Miyuki spoke up, "No living creature can move that fast."

"Not that we know of," Gordon answered, "You're the new unit for dealing with these things, so your job is to find out exactly what and where this thing is; unfortunately, we lost it after it emerged, thanks to the eruption."

"No mistaken identity this time?" Miki asked.

"They're not that stupid," Gordon answered, "We don't know what this thing is, where it's come form, what it's capable of or what it's going to do. Therefore, this thing is now a national defence priority."

"Then we're off to Mt. Aso," Osaki finished, "When do we leave?"

"Immediately," Gordon answered, "We travel by boat, but…"

"Miki," Takuya realised.

"18 and over?" Miki asked cynically.

"No. 18 and over with two fully functional arms. Sorry, kid, but there's no way I can convince anyone to bring an injured 15-year-old into a Military operation. Besides: You will have one extra hand on this."

"Who?" Osaki asked, surprised.

The door behind them swung open, and a somewhat familiar tall, attractive woman stepped inside.

"Me," She answered Osaki's question.

"Special Ops agent Akane Yashiro," Gordon introduced her.

Miki looked up in genuine surprise. She definitely hadn't expected to see Akane again so soon after she just vanished.

"Didn't see that coming," Kazama broke the stunned silence, before saying under his breath, but not quite quietly enough: "Man, she's hot…"

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Dock

Miki, Akane and Osaki stood staring up at the side of the ship.

"You have got to be kidding me," Osaki stated as he looked further up at Kazama, who was on the railing.

"Did it yesterday," Kazama beamed proudly.

Spray painted onto the side of a ship was a dark-green sideways cylinder, which on the left hand side turned into a sideways silhouette of Godzilla's head, jaws parted. There were even a few spikes along the whole thing. The words 'G-Force' were stencilled inside it, with the large 'G' inside the Godzilla head.

"G-Force?" Osaki asked.

"Yup," Kazama answered with a grin, "That's us. Gordon said we were a team, so we need a name and a logo."

"Is he always like this?" Akane asked.

"You get used to him," Miki shrugged. "Look, I… I wanted to say 'thanks'. About the whole thing last week…"

"I was just doing my job," Akane answered flatly, "Frankly, having a child involved in a situation like this…"

"Everybody get moving," Gordon ordered from the side of the boat.

"So why are we taking only one group of people?" Akane asked as she stepped aboard.

"Because of what happened the last time we left the place with lax security," Osaki answered, "Although I doubt anyone would be stupid enough to try anything after what Godzilla did to the last bunch who tried."

OK, there's chapter 2, which got pretty hard to write before the end. I was trying have Akane come off as 'cold' rather than a total bitch. I'm not sure how to write her, since, ironically, "Godzilla Vs MechaGodzilla III" is the only Godzilla movie I haven't seen. There's also one more human character from the movies left to introduce, as it happens.

All reviews welcome!