Chapter 2: The Message
The two investigators walked through the room, looking for any clues. The taste of copper was in the air. The body of the deceased slumped over in the corner, blood smeared everywhere. One of them paused to look at the message written in blood on the wall closest to the body.
SHE WHO MAULS
The body was, for lack of a better term, torn apart like an animal had mauled it. Just like the message. The young woman with the long, wavy brown hair stared at the message with her blue eyes before declaring "I don't think this is a copy cat killer, Vega."
The young man with the short black hair and gray eyes looked at her. "You're sure, Veronica?" he asked. She pointed at the blood all around the room. "Positive, there's more blood in this room than should have been possible for this guy's body to hold. Either there's another victim whose body we've yet to find or his body was forced to produce more blood than it can hold" she said gesturing to the dead man slumped on the wall "and we only know one killer who can do that."
"Let's wait for forensics to see if all this blood is a match for him first before we jump to conclusions, we need to know she's actually back before we contact G-Force." Vega replied.
She might be right. I hope to God she's wrong. I don't think we can catch a killer like this, he thought as a chill ran down his spine.
A week later...
Giant Praying mantis called Kamacuras stood in the city, but they were not here to eat but to fight. The swarm formed a circle around an enemy they could not see but knew was there. Suddenly several of them took to the sky, their wings beating. They flew in circles around their enemy, before they too turned invisible. It didn't make a difference. Gore and blood sprayed into the air as those Kamacuras turned visible again, their bodies flying into one direction, crashing into buildings, their heads falling in another direction, like they had been cut off by a giant sword.
The remaining Kamacuras looked around for any sign of where their enemy currently was. One of them goes stiff and them limp as a slit appear on it's neck, blood spraying upward before raining back to the ground. The silhouette of the monster called Godzilla appeared thanks to the blood covering it's body. The dead Kamacuras body leaning against his sword like elbow blade. Seeing his camouflage was blown the creature stopped manipulating the light around his body, turning back to fully visible to the naked eye.
The monster was the stuff of nightmares. It looked like a dinosaur but unlike any known to man, standing upright like a person, it had 3 rows of knife like spikes or dorsal plates on it's back that curved upwards towards the sky. The long tail ended in a bone blade curved downwards, the creatures elbows extended into sharp bone structures with many points and edges, they almost looked like wings. The creatures body was covered in powerful muscles, but not overtly so like a body builder, more jacked like Bruce Lee, the thing even had abs. If one looked hard enough they could see bones or organs through the muscles.
In fact the creatures entire skin was an opaque blue-gray, allowing light to pass through it, some patches of skin such as the head and chest were even transparent light blue-clear skin allowing the world to see his skull through his face, and the ribs, heart and lungs through his chest. As well as another organ that served a deadly purpose. Blood vessels could be seen all through out the creatures body thanks to it's skin's nature. But the worst thing was it's eyes. The eyes had black sclera and blood red iris that glowed either due to the creatures radiation or a form of bio-luminescence.
Godzilla let loose with a blood curdling roar challenging the remaining insects to fight him. Before they could respond the mysterious organ resting between Godzilla's stomach, heart and lungs began pumping. Godzilla's skin became transparent on all of his body while the blood vessels in Godzilla's body began to glow green, slowly spreading to the blood veins of his dorsal plates and the rest of his body. Soon he looked like a skinless Godzilla skeleton with organs hanging on it's bones, like a glow in the dark toy for anatomy class, while his blood red iris glowed ever brighter. Godzilla opened his mouth and fired Acid Atomic Breath. The glowing emerald green ray shooting out like a laser beam while green flames danced on the top and liquid acid vapors spread out as a fog to the sides and liquid dripped from the bottom.
The burning hybrid stream of radioactive plasma and liquid acid disintegrated the unlucky Kamacuras it made contact with, it's center mass being vaporized instantly while it's limbs that weren't immediately burned by the plasma caught on fire from contact with the strange glowing liquid acid, green fire consuming it. The building behind the Kamacuras melted away, the corrosive heat and liquid slowly spreading, also alight with green fire. The blast had traveled through the building leaving a large crater in the ground, the heat from the plasma having turn the sand into glowing molten glass while a pool of steaming bubbling acid rest at the bottom.
The Kamacuras near the victim had some of the acid droplets rain on them, their exoskeletons being discolored in places. Godzilla turned around and fired blood from the corner of his eyes like a giant horned lizard, the streams hitting one of the mantis right in the face, the creature in it's confusion flew away, covered in dripping blood. The other Kamacuras ran at the dinosaur monster. One of the giant mantis tried swapping him with it's large claws, Godzilla caught both before kneeing the creature in it's gut, stunning the insect. Godzilla twisted one of it's claws and punched right into it's elbow, breaking it's arm. The insect shrieked. Before Godzilla could do anything else the rest of the monsters dog piled on him, biting and scratching at the monster king.
The skin on his back between his rows of dorsal plates inflated before dispersing a green cloud of toxic chemical smoke. The bugs immediately backed off, falling to the ground their legs kicking at the air before slowing down, like they had just been sprayed by a giant can of bug spray, the only movement being their body spasms, before slowing into stillness. Godzilla, got up. Bleeding from the scratches and bites but otherwise unharmed. The mutant let out a thunderous roar of victory before turning his attention to the city and destroying what remained. The footage paused. Soon older footage was shown. It was Godzilla attacking a city but he looked much different, his skin was black and white, his breath was a white vapor like breath, his spines glowing with the white vapor, and the spines were shaped like maple leafs instead of curved blades, there were no bony blades extending from the elbows and the tail had no blade. He was also much smaller, nor did have the muscles from the newer footage. For all intents and purposes he looked more like a normal animal in this footage than the newer one.
Dr. Tizo looked at his class. It was the second day of teaching the new G-Force hopefuls about Godzilla before moving on to other monsters. "After Godzilla first appeared he has gone through several mutations. Some of these mutations were in result to attempts to kill him. Chemical weapons have changed his atomic breath to also produce acid. This acid is in a state between liquid and gas, we still do not know why it does not instantly burn away when it is in contact with the plasma of his ray."
He paused for a moment, "the adaptation to chemical weapons has also allowed it create a cloud of nerve gas like agent." Pics showed on the screen behind him, showing the dead bodies of humans and animals that had suffocated, foam at their mouths. "Because of this adaptation he started to attack chemical plants as well as nuclear plants, even as going so far as to find and consume a Nazi stockpile of nerve gas that had been missed by the U.N.. Things only got worse in the 60's when a terrorist organization called the Red Bamboo Army tried using weaponized diseases and viruses on him, left over stockpiles from the infamous Unit 731 from Japan's dark days in the second World War."
The screen behind him than showed pictures of the Kamacuras that had been shot with Godzilla's blood, boils and warts and rashes covered it's body, one side of it's head had swollen bigger than the other. The pictures changed now to people and animals that had similar conditions. "Godzilla's blood has several deadly viruses and diseases in it such as HIV, AIDS, Ebloa and many more, some never before seen. When people and animals come in contact with this blood it's 100% fatality rate. The most we can do is put them down."
The images on the screen switch back to the battleground but today. "It's been 20 years since his battle with the Kamacuras and there are still pools of acid, much of that area of the city has been fenced off. It is easily one of his most devastating attacks."
The picture switch to a golden 3 headed dragon like alien known as King Ghidorah. The pic on the left had text saying "Before Acid Atomic Breath", showing it in it's beautiful golden luster, the pic on the right said "After Acid Atomic Breath" showing many scales had shriveled up, fallen off or turned black.
"That should finish our lesson on Godzilla. Tomorrow we shall talk about Rodan and how to fight him." The class all got up to leave when one student asked "Dr. Tizo, which chemical weapon had he adapted to?". All the other students stopped. One even spoke up and said "yeah you said he got his nuclear powers from atomic tests and his biological weapons from man made viruses. But you skipped out on what chemical weapon."
Dr. Tizo was silent for a moment. He was honestly glad they had asked the question, he'd get in less trouble with the brass now that he wasn't telling them this unprovoked. "Are any of you familiar with a man named Daisuke Serizawa?" His student stared at him like he was an idiot. Who could not know Dr. Serizawa? The man had single handedly killed the first Godzilla with a new weapon he had created from a new energy source he discovered by accident when testing chemical reactions to oxygen, he also killed himself to make sure said new energy could never be misused by humanity ever again, even destroying his blue prints.
"We thought he had saved the world, and killed Godzilla. He did. For a year. Slowly, over the years Godzilla's cells had survived and multiplied. A year later he came back stronger, heavily mutated."
"Professor, are you saying he fed off the Oxygen Destroyer?" asked a student.
Dr. Tizo looked at his student "Not at first, had we had a bit more time the last cells would have died and that would have been the end of Godzilla. However, he eventually became immune to it, worse he started feeding off of it and used it as fuel to grow a new body as well as gained new powers such as his augmented Atomic Breath."
He took his glasses off "Godzilla is now powered not only by nuclear weapons but also by the Oxygen Destroyer, the one weapon many people consider far worse than any atom bomb or dirty bomb ever made by man."
The dread in the room was deep. Students who were not a moment ago were ready to leave seemed to have forgotten their rush. There was a knock on the door frame as the secretary walked in. "Excuse me Dr, there are two detectives here to speak with you, they're in your office."
"Yes, thank you, I'll be there shortly" he said to the young lady as she bowed and left. Dr. Tizo left as did the students. Dr. Tizo was wondering why law enforcement was bothering him. Probably another G-Force troop being charged with a DUI. He thought about how messed up the world he was living in when he hoped that was the worst reason for why they were here.
