Godzilla Kanreki chapter 2.
Tochaku.
In a meeting room were the biologists in question and another gentleman. Marine Biologist Akira Ogata, specialty in marine fauna, as well as Biologists Kazuo Hara and Shinya Tsukamoto. All in suits and ties, save for Ogata, who wore a tan jacket with a white scarf. He was the older of the three and balding. Included was a fourth man, no one had been privy to until now, Paleontologist and chemist Dr. Ishiro Serizawa, a young man in his 50s. Hiromi Oatama and Rando Yaguchi sat across from all of them. Serizawa spoke up, "Gentlemen, we have a crisis here. My team and I have discovered something that may explain the creature." The blinds were drawn and a projector was turned on. The film was a grainy black and white print of war footage. "1954. The first time a nuclear submarine explored the deepest depths of the ocean, it awakened something. The creature you saw today." The image of the creature appeared, again an old photo, and the beast was massive, even if it was just the back of it above the water and it's giant fins pointing up like mountains. The two government advisors looked on in surprise. "Wow." Rando said at the sheer size of the beast. Serizawa cleared his throat. "We have named it Gojira, after the name it was given by Odo Island. Based on this photo, it is 108 meters tall. Now, when the Americans first found it, they decided to try to kill it as it had begun attacking their ships. Normal weapons were used, and failed, so they decided to test their hydrogen bomb on it. " Footage showed the test as Gojira swam up to then vanished in the flash of the blast and mushroom cloud. "Was it destroyed?" Serizawa continued, "At the time it was considered to be, that is until a few days ago. A nuclear sub went missing not far from the test area and sunk. The distress call made had mentioned a giant beast on sonar and an odd sound was discovered on the audio recording." He played the recording and it sounded to many like a giant whale, but louder and deeper in tone.
"Gojira", Rando said. "What does it mean?" he asked Serizawa. Serizawa took out a sheet of paper. "On Odo Island where he is from it means 'God Incarnate.' A violent one, according to legend. "
"So, this thing. Why was nobody informed of this?" Rando inquired. Serizawa set a folder down. "Marine Biologist and vehemently anti-nuclear professor Goro Maki was working with my group Monarch to study the effects of the nuclear tests on the creature. When he found the creature was not killed, he tried to warn Monarch, but the Americans silenced him before his findings were made known to the rest of Monarch. "
"So what became of Dr. Maki?" Hiromi asked. Serizawa got out a big yellow envelope and handed it to her. Written on it in kanji was, 呉爾羅. She opened the envelope and read it's contents, from Dr. Maki's report. This included old photos from '54 and documentation of the events of the tests done to try to kill the creature. "So no remains were found after the tests? Why now then would it come back?" she asked Serizawa.
Graham and Serizawa looked at one another. "We think it appeared only now because it took that long to heal, if it ever did at all. A bomb that powerful would have done serious damage to it, even as close as it was to the blast. Unfortunately, we just don't know." Serizawa said. "For now keep this to yourselves. We don't want to cause a panic."
Meanwhile the creature seen swimming from Odo island was moving onward toward where it was headed. Ships seeing it reported what looked like a sea serpent, but with boiling lava steaming the ocean around it. In the Prime Minister's Residence, the ministers, advisors, and so on were in a meeting discussing plans when reports came in of the creature heading for Tokyo that they had seen earlier.
Pleasure boats in the harbor of Kamakura were having parties. Immune to the events that were going to play a part in the lives of thousands. On one boat people were enjoying themselves until a loud boom shook the boat. People stopped immediately wondering what was going on. The boat shook as it heaved up violently then flipped as something massive had shoved the boat away. People screamed as they fell into the sea as the boat sank.
On other boats people noticed a large shape in the water moving away from the sinking boat. Then to the horror of the people in the sea and those on the other boats watching large jagged mountainous spines broke the surface. The sea began to boil and many boats trying to rescue had to leave due to the heat burning the paint off the hulls. The screams for help died out as people in the water were cooked alive! The water seethed as the massive object moved away.
"This is unbelievable what we are seeing." A reporter in a new helicopter said as the massive shadow emerged from the water. "A massive unidentified sea creature has come out of Kamakura Bay and is heading right to the city." On the beaches people ran screaming as the creature shoved boats aside or crushed them together as it moved closer to land. The waves it created caught some off guard and swept them into the churning sea. Godzilla made landfall sending debris flying as it stood on land, crushing everyone or everything in it's path.
"This is Kamakura Disaster Prevention. This is an emergency evacuation order. A colossal-size unidentified creature has come ashore. Everyone is urged to evacuate the city immediately. Repeat. Evacuate immediately. Please follow the instructions of police and fire personnel. " The PA announced as people ran for safety. People ducked as the serpentine tail swung over them, smashing roofs of houses. The ground shook as if in an earthquake as the giant beast walked past. Blood splattering building and people as it bled from it's neck. The blood upon hitting people made them liquefy into boiling puddles as the heat melted flesh from bone. Cars in the way lost their tires as the tires burst from the high heat. It was like a flood of red behind the giant creature as it walked on.
At the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building people were scrambling to get things in order for safety zones and evacuations of any people in the area. The Tokyo Disaster Control KQ, 9th floor. Governor of Tokyo, Kozuka, went down into the control room with the Tokyo Lieutenant Governors Tahara and Kawatama behind him as well as Superintendent General Onchi. "What took so long?" Kozuka demanded as people stood and bowed as he entered. "Nothing in the first response manual applies here." Tahara said. "We've also got word from the PM to conduct immediate evacuation measures." Kozuka sat at his chair, "Just expedite an emergency plan on the fly." He said. "We've never drilled for this kind of thing." Someone said. Tahara added his input as he sat to Kozuka's right. "A city wide evacuation will cause a general panic. Citizens will have to self evacuate." Onchi added his, sitting to the left of Kozuka, "We'll make every effort to control traffic."
Prime Minister's Residence.
"What is going on out there?" he demanded. "I need to reassure the public clearly."
In the press room, Chief cabinet Sec. Ryuta Azuma was in his uniform giving a briefing as reporters took notes or used camera and any media to send it to the public. "We have set up emergency control centers to combat the large unidentified life form that has come ashore. " he said. "We are crafting a full scale response to secure citizen safety, including coordinated evacuation with Tokyo and federal Government agencies."
People not in the area were seeing the news on their phones or in Shinjuku on the giant tv screens. What they were seeing was a horrific sight of a massive 389 foot creature wading through Kamakura and heading into Tokyo. News helicopters buzzing near it were showing the massive size of it. The carnage was also visible and people watching felt sick to what they were seeing as the monster crushed people who didn't get out of it's path. Crowds of people all going in any direction, but mainly away from the behemoth.
The creature itself kept on walking. It's long tail and massively thick legs moving it forward. As Godzilla walked, it passed the Enoden railway and kicked a pair of trains skyward and sent them hurtling into nearby homes. Nothing was slowing it down.
The Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gu Shrine.
People watched in horror as the giant mutant leave smoke and destruction behind it. Children wailed, consoled by their parents, but that didn't help the fear everyone felt at what they were being witness to.
The creature continued to walk through everything like the houses and buildings were not there. It continued to move until it went back to the sea leaving destruction behind it as it waded back into the water, steam billowing and covering it over as it submerged after an hour of being on land.
The portion of Kamakura that was leveled burned well into the night as citizens struggled to make sense of what had happened.
