Yaguchi walked slowly through the Kamata district; everywhere he looked, there were shattered buildings, crushed cars and small boats that had been smashed to splinters. It was hard to believe only a few days ago, a seemingly straightforward investigation into an abandoned yacht in Tokyo Bay before the boat was destroyed and the Tokyo Bay aqua line was flooded.

So many in government had assumed the disaster was being caused by geological activity, a submarine, or a whale, but Yaguchi wished it was that simple.

A mysterious and powerful beast, so totally alien to anything previously documented and investigated by science was responsible and it crawled out of the bay, and crawled inland for miles before it stopped, and stood up and it let out a bellow that echoed through the air. Yaguchi had watched in stunned disbelief as the creature just evolved right before the eyes of everyone watching.

It was evolving.

The Prime Minister had the opportunity to kill the thing there and then, but civilians fleeing the zone had made him decide to abort; looking back, especially after seeing how quickly the creature had evolved, and how resilient it was, he doubted anything could have been done about it. Even at that stage.

Later, it was proved that the creature, known as Godzilla, was constantly evolving. Its body was so full of nuclear radiation that its form changed every moment. But the city suffered its greatest level of damage during the night when the USA bombed the creature and wounded it, but it lashed out, blasts of atomic rays that shot out of its mouth and its back spines like laser beams, or flame throwers. Tokyo was devastated. Hundreds of people unlucky enough to still be trapped, or too stubborn or stupid to leave had died. The Prime Minister and other government officials had also died.

But when the atomic beams shot out of Godzilla's mouth, finally they understood some of the rules that the whole disaster played by.

Godzilla was not a creature they could understand.

If it could evolve to that degree, what chance did they have?

That night, so many plans for destroying Godzilla came out. The USA wanted to use the nuclear bomb on Godzilla, believing that if they pumped in enough energy, it would just die. But the idea was a nightmare. In the end, Yaguchi's team, working with dozens of companies across the planet, had come up with a solution. They froze Godzilla and gave it a new coolant that froze it like a Gorgon's statue.

Now, they had to pick up the pieces.

Yaguchi honestly didn't know why he had come to this part of the city; it was likely because it happened to be the least heavily irradiated part of the ruins that were now dominating one of the most technologically advanced cities on the planet. Thinking about nuclear radiation made him scowl, and he asked himself if there were other prehistoric organisms living down at the bottom of the ocean depths that had existed for so long they had sidestepped extinction multiple times, and the laws of nature were ever so slightly different for them to the degree that nuclear radiation which was toxic to modern day life, could evolve the same way.

He had a horrible feeling this would and could happen again, especially after learning how much nuclear waste was on the bottom of the sea and forgotten about. In many ways Yaguchi wished Goro Maki, the disgraced anti-nuclear zoological professor who studied mutations caused by irradiation who'd predicted the creature, had appeared; his expertise would have greatly helped their cause.

But the scientist had vanished into thin air; he had merely set the boat adrift in Tokyo Bay, leaving behind enough of his research notes and a pair of shoes.

There was no doubt in Yaguchi's mind, and those who'd pieced together everything left behind, that Maki had known where the creature was the whole time.

How else could he have gotten everything timed to perfection?

Yaguchi felt mentally and physically exhausted; he and his staff and the team who'd gone over the notes had been working for days for a solution to stop Godzilla, with little rest, never mind food and sleep. Right now he wanted to see a part of the city that had barely been saturated by radiation; he had seen enough of Godzilla's vast dinosaur-like size with those weird things on its tail, signifying this was not the end by a long shot, to last a lifetime.

But he had seen those humanoid-like creatures forming on the tip of Godzilla's tail; they resembled something like a mutated human, with the same dorsal spines as Godzilla, but what they were capable of or what they'd do if a human was nearby, nobody knew. All Yaguchi and the others knew was this, if Godzilla moved, a thermonuclear strike would go ahead; Considering how far the Americans were willing to go, and what Godzilla had done, Yaguchi could hardly blame them, but he privately believed it was a bad move.

And after seeing the devastation, especially the irradiated parts of the city, Yaguchi firmly believed if Godzilla came back, and evolved again and again, it would wipe out the human race.

Author's Note - I wish Shin Godzilla received a sequel, it would be interesting to see if there were other prehistoric life forms which had begun evolving like Godzilla.