Sorry for this everyone, I had this updated on my ao3 account and haven't realize I didn't do the same here. So here we are. Hope you all enjoy, I am working on chapter 3 right now
Izuku gripped the leather bag tightly in her hands, sitting between Neito and Hitoshi. To the side, Dr. Graham and Uncle Mark were talking about the last time Uncle Mark spoke to Aunt Emma. The man had been shocked when the four kids were brought and even more shock when he saw Izuku. The girl had squeak when he pulled her into a hug, his blue eyes filled with many emotions between sadness, happiness and anger.
Now thought they were flying over a vast ocean, through a series of clouds in an osprey. She looks up when Sam Coleman, Monarch Director of Technology came over with two tablets, "Uh…mind if we cut in here?" he hands both tablets to Mark and Izuku, "Its just that you want to see this," Hitoshi leans over Izuku's shoulder a bit, as she looks at the familiar blueprints of the ORCA, "Emma combined the bioacoustics of different Titans to creat the ORCA's signal," swiping the screen, looking at the x-rays of many Titan skulls, "A sort of baseline frequency that all the creatures respond to. Attracting them, repelling them, even at times calming them down.
"Titanus Volca," Hotaru was reading Uncle Mark's tablet, "Titanus Muto," she frowns at the Muto, "Titans Roc, Titanus Thunderbird, Titanus Northern Sea Serpents," she whistles there are sure a lot.
"Yeah but why does some of them have names," Neito asked, "Like Godzilla or the Volca called Rodan,"
"Inko named them…while Serizawa was the one who research about them from Ancient Times, Inko was the one who researched them when they walked among us before the Dawn of Quirks. Old newspaper clippings she found was how she found out about Rodan's name and Mothra's," Melody smiles but Dr. Graham sighs.
"The problem is we don't know which Titans she combined. But if you can identify those frequencies, we'll be able to track the ORCA and find Emma and Madison," she looks to Mark but he was frowning as he swipes at the screen.
"Jesus. How many of these things are there?"
"Many…very much more but besides Godzilla the others are asleep., deep in hibernation when they were found,"
Dr. Graham nods her head, "While others, we contained at top secret sites around the globe. Cambodia, Mexico, Skull Island. We even found one in Wyoming," she sighs, "Their everywhere,"
"Why don't you kill them," Uncle Mark says in horror but yelps when a foot slams in his ankle. He turns to see Izuku glaring at him, while Neito, Hitoshi and Hotaru snicker.
"Not all of them are are like the Mutos who attack," she takes a deep breath, "I understand your grief," pain flash through her eyes thinking of her mom, "But you shouldn't blame Godzilla for what happen…he was just doing his job,"
Uncle Mark sighs, but Serizawa smiles, "The government wants to," Hitoshi snorts at this, rolling his eyes, "But Emma and I believe that some are benevolent,"
Before Uncle Mark could say anything the sound of beeping was heard and Sam coughs, "Uh hey, look at that. We're here," Izuku sits up, following Uncle Mark to the cockpit. Her eyes widen as an oil rig appears from behind the clouds. The pilot begins to speak through her transceiver, "Castle Bravo, this is Raptor One. On direct approach,"
Izuku raises an eyebrow at the name, "Really? After the bomb you guys hit Godzilla with?" She shakes her head when Serizawa laughs.
"Raptor One, you are cleared for assisted descent to pad four," a voice calls through the radio as they went down, the landing pad splitting apart. Izuku grips tightly as the osprey shakes, descending down into a large facility that was filled with submarines, helicopters and even the remains of some Titans. Izuku grimaces at the very large head of the female muto.
"This is new," Mark remarks and Sam nods his head.
"Yeah we call it Castle Bravo. Our new flagship facility, built to track and study Godzilla on his own turf,"
"I thought he was missing," Hotaru comments and Aunt Melody chuckles.
"Well, only if you don't know where to look,"
Soon Izuku sighs as she sits with the others in the cafeteria . Aunt Melody and Uncle Mark had joined a meeting to talk about Mothra and about the men who took Aunt Emma and Maddie. She wished that she could had joined but she knew that adults were iffy on what children could do, Hotaru had hissed at that angrily, mumbling about how the four of them haven't been children for a long time.
She chews on her biscuit as she sits up, picking up the empty tray that used to hold a bowl of soup and some rice. She goes over to the counter but yelps when she bumps into someone. Groaning in pain she blinks at the boy about her age. He had black scales covering his body, his arms were in fact large wings, almost bat-like with four phalanges extending from his wrist and an additional phalanges that extended from the sides of his torso, all which ended in blade-like tips that emerged from the wing membrane. He had two tails swishing behind him, a tuft of purple feathers at the tip.
What really caught Izuku's attention was the fact that he had two heads both dragon-like but ending with a beak that bears a strong resemblance to a bird of prey. The right head's beak was golden unlike his left head. Both have two horns on their head that are curled. While six horns on the side of their heads, three on each side which were also curled. They have purple feathers that spiked up a bit and went down the spine of their very long necks. They were a black sleeveless turtleneck, the slits on the sides being big enough to let their wings through and were wearing maroon pants.
"I'm so sorry," the right head hisses out, their red eyes looking at her in concern, "We should have been watching where we were going,"
The left head nods his head, their golden eyes shining in interest, "Though, you are new here! My names is Hisombra…but I go by Sombra and my brother here goes by Fumikage,"
"Nice to meet you Sombra, Fumikage," she nods her head at them, "I'm Izuku,"
Sombra's head went up, "Oh so you're Izuku! Tia Melody told us about you," Izuku blinks at that, she never knew that her Aunt Melody had a nephew or even a sibling. All she knew about Melody was that she became a Hero, very late, taking lessons from Nedzu and was good friends with her mother who went to U.A's business course.
"Tia Melody is taking care of us until Mama wakes up," Fumikage explains and Izuku nods her head, figuring that their mother might be in a coma at the time.
Antarctica
Maddie flinches, the sounds of gunshots echoing through her ears. She grimaces in pain when her mother grips her shoulder hard in some way of comfort. She shivers and not from the cold, but from the screams as the gun firing continues, "I'm scared," she whispers, trembling.
"I know…me too," mother whispered as Jonah and his men came back onto the osprey. Ordering them to get up, Maddie grips her mother's hand tightly as cold air blows harshly on her face. The wind howled around them as they walked forward towards the base, "Eyes straight ahead. Deep breaths. Just like we talked about,"
Maddie gulps but her yellow eyes flicker to one of the bodies now laying face down in the snow, blood staining the white as it pools out of the carcass. Heading inside, they walked past more bodies of Monarch and into an elevator.
She stares straight ahead as the elevator went down, before she turns her gaze to Jonah. The man was rubbing his face but stills when he sees her staring at him. He slowly lifts his hand up, a smiles forming on his. Maddie just stares at him before rubbing her eye, with her middle finger.
Jonah rolls his eyes but at that moment the elevator stop. Maddie slowly brings her hand over to her mother's but the woman ignore her, following the group out onto the platform.
"Mother of God," Asher whispers but Jonah chuckles, shaking his head.
"She had nothing to do with this my friend," standing before them was a wall of ice. Maddie shivers and not just from the frigid cold air that she could feel in her bones. Staring at the silhouette of the being, she couldn't honestly believe that something like it could be trapped within the ice, that it wasn't just waiting for them to let their guard down and break free to kill them.
" Honestly…I think they wouldn't even notice us…we're…just ants to them," she takes a deep breath, gripping a railing tightly, "Monster Zero,"
They headed deeper down, deeper down where the air wasn't only cold but tense. Like she couldn't breathe at all. She stills as her mother places a hand against the ice in awe, taking a step back when she felt…no heard the sound of a heartbeat.
Taking another breath of air, she idly listens to Jonah as Asher reports that the members of the Outpost were able to send an emergency beacon. A part of her felt hope for that, maybe Monarch would get here before they could release Monster Zero. Because standing so close, even though the being was trapped, she had no idea why her mother and the others thought they could control…how something so mighty while still trapped…made Maddie realize how…insignificant she was.
She felt pain in her leg, even as the drills slowly created holes in the ice, where the bombs will be placed. Kneeling down she rubs it, watching as her mother started up the ORCA.
Izuku chuckles as Sombra growls when Hotaru smirks at him, holding the game controller in her hands. After finishing their food, Hisombra had showed them to the gaming room, where the two brothers had pulled out Mario cart. Hotaru, Neito and Hitoshi had gladly joined Hisombra in the game but Izuku just watched, rubbing her hand.
She jolted up when the rumbling and shaking begun. The tv began to fritz out when a voice speaks out through the intercom, "All personnel, report to battle stations. Code red. All personnel report to battle stations. Code red!"
"What the hell is going on?" Hitoshi asked, quickly standing up.
"Something's wrong," Fumikage whispers before he drops the controller and runs off. The Odo Four look at each other before they quickly follow them. Finding themselves in some sort of command center, Izuku grimaces a bit, looking at her hand as she rubs at it. The mark of weird black scales slowly began to itch.
"He's never been this close before," Illene Chen, who Izuku remembers helping her mother and Serizawa with building profiles of the Titans they found, who didn't wake up during the Awakening as they called it.
"He's taking out our observation drones," Dr. Graham points to the screens to Serizawa whose eyes are wide as he turns around.
"Tradgetory?"
"Straight at us!" Rick replies with fear in his voice as he sits down, "1,200 meters and closing,"
Foster's eyes were narrow in concern before she nodded her head towards four people, "Barnes, Martinez, Hendricks, and Angilas. I want you on those Crows now!" three of the people she named quickly walked over but one stood in place. Scars covered litter his face, his dark skin slightly pale in the light from the screens. Running his hand through his short bronze hair, his yellow eyes flicker to Melody, whose blue eyes were filled with confusion. But she slightly nodded her head and Angilas quickly joined the others at the CROWS.
The lights of the base flicker on, the large guns whirring as they point and aim. Izuku stepped closer, rubbing her hand more as the shields slowly went down, "Dr. Stanton. Do you have his bioacoustics?" Izuku turns her head to Serizawa
Large beating was their answer and Izuku took a deep breath at hearing Godzilla's heartbeat, "Okay he's closing. We're at 800 meters,"
"His movements are erratic. Heart and breathing elevated,"
"He is definitely not happy about something," Sam said and Hitoshi looks at him with a raised eyebrow.
"Ya think?" he asked in disbelief but turned his gaze to Izuku who was staring at the shields. He looks at her worried before he shakes his head, "Are you really going to shoot at him? Do you not remember what happened at the Golden Gate Bridge?"
"How are they getting all of this?" Uncle Mark asked Ilenne who crossed her arms.
"Emma isolated Godzilla's bioacoustics. It allows us to track him. Even to get his vitals," the base begins to rumble again, Izuku almost falling over if Hitoshi didn't grab her. A loud roar rumbles in their ears.
"Circling now, closing in, 200 meters," Izuku takes a shaky breath before she stills, her eyes widening.
"Pup…why did they take pup here? If they hurt the pup, I will make them pay!"Izuku closes her eyes, her hand beginning to burn and itch even more.
"All teams in position, weapons hit, ready to engage on my command," Izuku trembles even more. Fear in her heart she quickly covers her ears when a roar of rage and anger erupted from the waters.
"Hold your fire!" Serizawa orders, "We don't know he'll attack,"
"He will if you keep those guns on him," Uncle Mark states, making them look over to him, "Now I want him dead more than anything but unless this is a fight you know that you can win, for God's sake, stand down," another tremble was felt as a rumbling ward heard.
"How dare you…take my pup…threaten me!"Izuku looks around in confusion, not noticing Aunt Melody's blue eyes staring at her in confusion. Not noticing Sombra's jaw dropping in shock, Fumikage staring at her with wide red eyes, their feathers poofing up. Lights flicker on and off, the screens fizzing out.
"Stand down," Serizawa orders once again but Foster shakes her head, glaring at him.
"You can't be serious,"
"I am," he says turning on his heel to stare at her, "Stand down,"
Izuku sighs when Foster begins to order to stand down. When she hears a sigh, she looks over to Angilas who takes his hand off the controls, sighing in relief.
"You scared of fighting the big guy?" Neito asked jokingly and Angilas chuckled, looking over at Neito with his yellow eyes.
"Who wouldn't be? G is scary when he is pissed off," he jokes but then stills as Godzilla's heartbeat begins to slow down, "Looks like he's beginning to calm down,"
"I mean…this is his territory isn't it," Neito ponders, "I don't think I would be too happy to have a gun pointed at my face in my own home," he then looks up as Izuku begins to walk towards the metal covered window, "Zu?" he whispers, turning towards Hitoshi and Hotaru, "What do you think you are doing?"
"Open the shields," Izuku states, making even Mark look at her crazy, "I..," she shakes her head, not about to tell them that she thinks she could understand him.
"Oh, yeah, sure. Let's bring him in for a beer. Kiddo I have missed you but are you out of your goddamn mind?"
"It will let him know we're not a threat," Izuku cringes at the weak attempt, rubbing against the black scales on the palm of her hand. She turns her gaze to Serizawa who stares at her, his eyes flickering to her hand before turning his gaze back to her. Izuku frowns at this but stares at him pleading before he nods his head.
"Do it,"
Stanton sighs, placing his head on the tables as the shields slowly open, revealing the blue light emitting from the dorsal fins of Godzilla. Izuku gasps, staring at him in awe as he slowly swam towards them, a loud thrum ringing in her ears.
"What's with the light show?" Hotaru asked, her wings pinning against her back. She jumps a bit when a hand gently touches her shoulder, and she looks up to see the kind blue eyes of Melody.
"Its an intimidation display. Like a gorilla pounding on his chest,"
Angilas snorts, "Don't let Kong hear you say that….I think he may get insulted," he frowns a bit, his eyes flickering to Izuku and Godzilla and he turns his head to Melody who walks over, "Well I think this explains somethings on why he had been swimming around Musutafu for the last few years,"
Melody frowns, closing her eyes, "Yes…we should had realized so much sooner," she opens them, staring at the patch of black scales on Izuku's arm.
Everyone watches as Izuku stands in front of the glass, staring at the orange eyes she hadn't seen in years. Slowly, she raises her arm, pressing the hand that held the black scales against the glass. With bated breath, everyone watches as Godzilla rumbles.
Izuku watches as those orange eyes flicker to the other members of Monarch, narrowing slightly before he began to swim backwards, everyone sighing in relief as the lights began to fade away.
At least until Godzilla roars out swimming by the window, a furious light of blue shining out of his dorsal fins, making all of them scream in fright as the base shook. "Oh Jesus!
They all stared in silence, hearts pounding against their chests. "Can we please close the shields now," Stanton breaks the silence pleading as he bangs his head against the desk.
But Mark walks over to the screen, his face scrunched up, "Show me his territorial routes," he rolls his eyes when Stanton asked why, "because I want to start a boat tour," he glares, "just do it,"
As soon as the routes were shown up on screen, Mark looks at them closely. Foster slowly walks over, "You care to tell us what you're looking for?"
"When an animal leaves his hunting ground, it's usually because its threaten by something," at this, Graham orders for Stanton to run a course projection, "We got to go after him…he's looking for something," Mark reasons and Melody nods her head at this.
"It may be the Orca…he might think its a rival Alpha Titan,"
Serizawa frowns and turns over to Dr. Stanton, "Dr. Stanton, what's your projection,"
Izuku felt dread well up in her as Stanton sighs, rubbing his forehead, "All paths have him landing in the same place...Antarctica,"
They were all silent, the air so thick you could cut it with a knife. It was only broken by the sound of Sombra whimpering, Melody quickly pulling her nephew into her arms, her own blue eyes widen in fear.
"What's in Antarctica?" Hotaru asked what Izuku was thinking in her head. A part of her didn't want to know…all she felt was…dread.
Angilas sighs, brushing his hand against the scar that went across his face, "Monster Zero,"