History Shows Again and Again

Chapter 1

November 17th, 2014

Twenty-two year old Zachery 'Zeek' Martin wasn't expecting anything when he published the paper six months after the San Francisco battle as well as four months after the fight with the MUTO Prime. It was simply something about the theories of the ancient civilization and these prehistoric predators and creatures and cryptids. He was just expected to either be decently known or laughed at.

He was not expecting a knock on his apartment door two months after his publication and he certainly was not expecting Doctor Ishiro Serizawa and his assistant, Doctor Vivienne Graham standing there, clearly for business while he was still dressed in his muscle shirt and pajama pants with his short, dark brown hair a mess.

"Uh...hello? Can I help you two?" Zeek finally asked once he finally got over his shock before silently berating himself. Why did he have to ask like that?

"We would like to talk- if that's fine, of course." Vivienne spoke.

"Sure, as long as you don't mind my unprofessionalism." He managed to joke before taking a step to the side and watched as the two walked in. "Go ahead and sit on the table. Do you want any coffee?"

"No thank you." Ishiro stated as Vivienne shook her head before they sat down at the table. Zeek walked over and sat as well, looking at the two of them.

"So...you both wanted to talk to me?" Zeek shifted in his seat.

"My name is Ishiro Serizawa, I'm the head of MONARCH. This is my assistant, Vivienne Graham and we have a proposition for you."

"A proposition?"

"We've read your paper." Ishiro stated as Vivienne opened a briefcase that they had on them. "And we'd like to bring you on MONARCH."

"My paper? But that was all just speculation. There's just the slimmest chance that what I wrote is true."

"And it turns out that it is true." Vivienne stated as she set down a folder on the table. "This proves it."

Zeek's brown eyes flickered between the two of them before looking down at the folder before reaching for it and opening it. He took out the first photograph and his eyes widened slightly.

It was clearly a picture of a cave wall with some paintings on it from some ancient civilization but what was in it was something he was not ready to see at all. A large reptilian shape was towering over stick figures that were below it. The larger shape was on two legs with a long tail and what looked like a spiked back.

To the left of the shape was another one that was quadruped. It had a shorter tail and looked like it had a spiked...shell...on its back as well as a nose horn and a crown of horns on top of its head. The two shapes didn't look like they were battling, it was more like they were standing together.

"What is this?"

"This is a cave painting." Ishiro answered. "Found on Daikoku Island. It was found a month after the battle at San Francisco. As you can see, whoever drew this frew Gojira and another, though we don't know what species it is. This isn't the first time we have seen a Gojira individual appear in cave paintings and the like."

The next photograph was of tablets that were inscribed and were in more detail than the other one. There was a Gojira individual in front of a red sun and pink clouds. His body was facing the sun but it had its head turned to look back. It was standing in a blue sea and below that, on the yellow sands were bowing people.

"Those tablets were inscribed in Phoenician. It's the earliest recorded contact between the levant and the far east." Vivienne explained. "This individual is known to be seen as the Japanese deity Raijin and the Ancient Semitic Sea God Dagon. It fell prey to Jinshin-Mushi- MUTO Prime- and became an incubator with the eggs laid in his body."

"Okay, so I'm right- what does that have to do with you guys wanting me in the organization? You seem to have everything down."

"You have more things right in your paper than wrong. Listen, you don't have to make the decision right now. We'll let you think about it." She told Zeek. "We just want you to know that it was on the table."

Zeek stared at the two before his eyes drifted down to the photographs and he bit the inside of his cheek. When he wrote and published that paper, he never would have guessed that this would be the result of it.

His eyes went back up to the two who still sat across from him. He took a deep breath and made up his mind right then and then.

"Yes."