N.I.G.E.L. Audio-Visual Recording
June 30, 10:12 AM HST
{Camera online. Mendel Craven looks into the camera, tinkering with N.I.G.E.L. on a beach. Elsie Chapman is nearby, lying down on a parasol lounge chair, while Randy Hernandez is unpacking a cooler box. Further away from them, Nick Tatopoulos, Audrey Timmonds and Animal Palotti are visible and in conversation.}
Elsie Chapman: "Oh for Pete's sake Mendel, can't you keep your hands off N.I.G.E.L. for one day? I can't believe I have to compete with a robot."
Mendel Craven: "Sorry Elsie. I was just thinking of having N.I.G.E.L. record videos and take photos of our vacation ."
Randy Hernandez: "Only you would bring a robot to a vacation, Doc. But hey, not a bad idea to let the little bot be our cameraman. Maybe he can catch a video of me dancing the Luau with Monique."
Elsie Chapman: "Still, I get the feeling you would put sunscreen on N.I.G.E.L. first before putting it on me."
Mendel Craven: "Coming!"
{After Craven returns to Elsie's side, N.I.G.E.L. detects motion opposite of the team and turns the camera to the right, facing the shore. A crowd of beachgoers gathers round and points towards the sea.}
Beachgoer 1: "Do you see that?"
Beachgoer 2: "Yeah, is that a shark?"
{People in the water see the dark shape and begin screaming and flee in panic. Other people along the beach begin shouting out 'Shark!"}
Elsie Chapman (V/O): "Shark attack?"
Randy Hernandez (V/O): "That's definitely no shark! Nick!"
Mendel Craven (V/O): "Oh no! N.I.G.E.L. get out of there!"
{The crowd of beachgoers flees. N.I.G.E.L. begins to move backwards. A hissing sound is audible as a rushing brown creature takes the robot in its mouth, obscuring the camera. End of footage.}
H.E.A.T. Island Security Camera Footage Transcript
June 30, 10:12 AM AKST
CAM A1 Feed : {Komodithrax returns from a hunting trip, dumping a pile of fish onto her nest, deep in the forest of the island. She starts calling out for her family, but only Godzilla appears. Curious as to Kori's whereabouts, she calls out again. After a brief pause with no response, Komodithrax begins to search for her child.}
{Video feed cuts between various cameras across the island as they detect Komodithrax passing through in her search. Unable to find Kori, Komodithrax cries out to Godzilla for help, panicking at the loss of their child.}
CAM G8 Feed: {Godzilla begins looking for Kori too, sniffing out her most recent trail and following it back to H.E.A.T. Headquarters, currently unoccupied with the Heat-Seeker gone, signifying that the team had already left. He calls out to Komodithrax and she arrives as Godzilla nudges his head over to the sea. Komodithrax snaps at him and urges him to go, and Godzilla swims away at high speed.}
WIDF News Report Transcript
{Broadcast opens up in the WIDF newsroom with anchorman Charles Caiman.}
"Ladies and gentlemen, we interrupt this broadcast to bring you live to the streets of Honolulu for an urgent news report. Audrey Timmonds is on the scene. Audrey?"
{Feed switches to Audrey looking at the camera as a flood of people run away in screaming terror.}
"Chuck! Citizens are fleeing for their lives as a flying monster has descended on the city!"
{One of the fleeing civilians, an older native Hawaiian man, grabs Audrey by the collar and points away towards the source of the panic.}
"It's the Kupua! Run!"
{Audrey pushes the man's hands off of her and he continues running. Suddenly, the monster screeches and passes overhead, blowing a fierce gale of wind that forces everyone to take cover. Cars and other debris are tossed down the street from the force of the wind. After the wind dies down, Audrey and Animal head out to the street again to catch footage of the creature. Sirens wail as police cars drive down the ravaged street, chasing after the beast.}
"It appears to be a giant…flying reptile! Police units are already in pursuit, but I doubt they can hold this creature off on their own!"
{Godzilla's roar is audible, and the camera swings towards the coastal road where Godzilla emerges from the water. The H.E.A.T. Copter flies above and ahead of him towards the mutation as it perches on top of a building. Animal zooms in to get a better look, showing a giant green lizard-like mutation with four limbs and two large wings, vaguely dragon-like in appearance with its crested head and brightly-coloured frill. The mutation growls in response to Godzilla.}
"Godzilla has arrived with H.E.A.T!"
{Audrey and Animal take cover as Godzilla stomps down the street. Animal peeks out to get a glimpse of the action, seeing the winged lizard leap off the building and swoop down on Godzilla, clawing at him and grappling with him. The battling mutations slam into and grind against the buildings around them with their bodies, causing the debris to rain down on the reporters. Screaming and roaring and stomping flood the microphone before it cuts to static. The feed switches back to the newsroom.}
"We apologize for the technical issues, we'll reconnect with Ms. Timmonds when we-
"Chuck? Chuck, can you still hear us?"
{The broadcast switches back to Animal's camera feed before Caiman can talk further. The scene has now switched to the waterfront of Honolulu, where Godzilla and Kupua are brawling amidst the buildings. Godzilla's atomic breath can be seen pluming upwards as he aims for the flying lizard and keeping him at bay.}
"It looks like Godzilla has this monster on the run! It shouldn't be long now!"
{The faint figures of the H.E.A.T. team are visible down at the beach, with Nick, Monique and Randy shooting at Kupua with tranquilizers and laser rifles. A brown, human-sized reptile runs up behind them, just as their shooting attracts the flying reptile's attention and it swoops down on them. Audrey yells out.}
"Watch out!"
{The gust of wind from Kupua's air dive forces Audrey and Animal to duck, but the camera slips free from Animal's grasp and tumbles wildly in the air until it falls to the beach, cracking the lens. The damaged camera shows the sea as the mutant flying lizard flees the scene, holding something in its claws. A high-pitched bleating and whining can be heard from whatever Kupua had carried away with it. In the background, Godzilla can be heard roaring even more furiously at it. The camera fades to static.}
End of broadcast.
Nick Tatopoulos' Journal
June 30
It was supposed to be a holiday for me and my team this week, but it appeared that fate had other plans. A summer vacation in Hawaii was an opportune moment for me since Audrey and Animal were on assignment there at the same time. I figured my team could use a warm and tropical relaxation, since most of us had yet to adjust to the arctic climate of Alaska. Personally, I was getting tired of the the current wave of publicized fame Cameron has been riding on with ICE. He hasn't contacted me since Rio, but I can tell he's doing this just to spitefully outdo H.E.A.T. in a way that doesn't land him in prison. I was hoping that a good time on the beach would make me forget about it.
However, unbeknownst to all of us, Kori had snuck aboard the Heat-Seeker when we left for Honolulu. She hid so well that she even managed to give Monique the slip, but after what we just dealt with, she's promised to tighten up security.
We didn't even realize Kori was with us until we were already dressed and on the beaches, and she just barrels right out of the surf right through a public beach to chew on N.I.G.E.L., freaking the locals in the process. We had to drop everything and handle her, but how does one ground a thirteen foot lizard? At least once I showed up, she calmed down tremendously and we shifted our priorities to getting her back on board the Heat-Seeker before she attracted too much attention. I was worried that Audrey would take the opportunity to film this, she's had a way with milking my work to further her career, but Kori is an exception. She, more than any member of my team, was sentimental to Godzilla's new family. I remember how she joked at a dinner about how Godzilla managed to secure a more steady relationship before we did. I know she and Kori didn't exactly have the most amicable relationship, but I was glad to know that she too respected my wish to keep Komodithrax and her child under wraps.
Unfortunately for us, Kori's presence was only the beginning of our problems. Without warning, a new mutation had descended upon Honolulu - a giant flying lizard the natives believed to be a Kupua, a local supernatural being. Of course, later analysis of this creature bore out my hypothesis that it was yet another mutation from French Polynesia, much like Godzilla, Crustaceous Rex, the Giant Turtle, and Komodithrax. I begin to ponder the possibility of investigating those islands, perhaps I may find evidence of any new mutations that have yet to surface.
My team and I, and Godzilla of course, had to cut our vacation short to deal with this mutation. Unlike normal flying lizards of the Draco genus, which were mere gliders, Kupua was a true flier, the first flying reptile on Earth since the extinction of the pterosaur. With this advantage, Kupua ravaged the city and fought Godzilla to a draw.
As my team moved to assist Godzilla, I ordered Randy to get Kori to safety and keep her out of danger. Unfortunately, she listened only to me so I did my best to get her to stay inside a building, but I could only do so much when she's as strong as a leopard, and she didn't want to stay away from her family and felt it was safer to stick to me and my team. Matters were further complicated when Kupua set his sights on Kori as prey and captured her, fleeing the island of Oahu and heading for Maui, presumably to nest and feed. I've never heard Godzilla sound so mournful and enraged, and before I could calm him down he charged straight into the ocean after them. We had no choice but to follow immediately.
We took the H.E.A.T. Copter to survey the island and search for Kupua's nest. Godzilla had already made landfall and stomped through both towns and forests, desperately searching for Kori. It wasn't long before we found the nest, up the slopes of one of the island's mountains, but we had to land because Monique couldn't evade the flying lizard forever. While Elsie, Monique and Randy did their best to assist Godzilla and keep Kupua occupied, Mendel, Audrey and I climbed up the mountain to find and rescue Kori.
When we finally reached the nest, it was an awful mess full of animals stored away for consumption. I'm not one to assume the worst, but after calling for Kori and getting no response, I panicked and worried that Kupua had swallowed Kori whole already. Mendel and Audrey had to snap me out of my anxieties and climb into the nest and find her. There was no sign of her and I felt my worst fears bubble up again. I ran out of the nest and into the forest in a frantic rush, hoping that Kori escaped the nest and fled into the woods. Audrey caught up to me two minutes later and comforted me, and that was when Kori pounced at us out of the bushes, elated to see us. As I write this entry here at headquarters, Kori is sleeping at the foot of my bed, and I feel more grateful than ever that she is safe and sound.
With Godzilla's daughter safe and sound, we headed back to the Heat-Seeker. We returned just in time to see Godzilla counter Kupua's swoop with a point-blank blast of atomic fire, sending the charred creature into the forest. We were on the boat cheering as Godzilla approached the downed Kupua's body, but we were all caught by surprise to see the mutation had survived. Kupua hissed at Godzilla and fled out into the Pacific, perhaps to lick his wounds. Although we were disappointed that the mutation had escaped, what mattered was that Kori was okay.
In the aftermath, Audrey gave a news report lying that Kori was eaten by Kupua to keep her existence hidden, and we took credit for defeating the mutation. Although we had come to Hawaii to take a break from our job, we came away with a much-needed boost in publicity.
Putting my worries aside, I doubt Kori would sneak on board again after this. I do believe she has learned, the hard way, to stay with her mother until she's grown enough to become independent. But as I have seen, Kori is an inquisitive creature, and I wonder if the thrills of the outside world only embolden her burning curiosity.
A/N: I fumbled the updates and left a few things unchanged, so apologies for the confusion!