History Shows Again and Again

Chapter 9

May 2019

"Osprey landing. I repeat, osprey landing." a voice came over to PA, making Zeek perk from his spot at his desk. He quickly got to his feet, grabbing his two notebooks and scampering out of the room and made his way to the large room that held the female MUTO head and made a b-line to the osprey. He could see Sam, Ishiro and Vivienne walking out, followed by a man he didn't know.

"Welcome back Ishiro, Vivienne, Sam." Zeek greeted the three.

"Hey Zeek." Sam waved slightly.

Ishiro glanced at the two notebooks. "You've been busy?"

"Yep. been writing out the new data into the facts book. It distracts me." shrugged the man.

"Zeek." Vivienne spoke up, causing Zeek to look at her. "We'd like for you to meet Mark Russell."

Zeek blinked before looking at Mark, his mind catching up to who this man really was, and then held out his hand. "Nice to meet you Mark. I'm Zachery Martin, but you can just call me Zeek, everyone does."

"Likewise." Mark gripped his hand and they shook before Zeek pulled away and then Sam decided to open his mouth.

"He's more or less our Godzilla expert. He has the facts that we have so far gathered up and he has all these theories about him."

"I'm not really a Godzilla expert." Zeek shot a look at Sam.

"We need to get to the meeting." Ishiro stated before anyone else spoke, causing the other three to look at him. They followed him to a meeting room where everyone else was already there, waiting for them. Once they were situated, the meeting began.

"As you know, at approximately oh seven hundred hours, our containment site in China's Yunnan Rainforest was raided." stated Vivienne as the monitor behind her changed to the said rainforest and the exterior of the Temple of the Moth. The specimen, codenamed Mothra, escaped. Only to cocoon itself later under a nearby waterfall."

The screen changed again for footage of Mothra under the waterfall, noiselessly roaring at the helicopters in front of her. Then, a picture of Emma came up, as well as Madison.

"While Doctor Russell and her daughter, Madison, were taken hostage. This is the man responsible, Jonah Alan." The said man's picture came up. "A former British army colonel turned ecoterrorist who is obsessed with restoring the natural order and to fund his operations, he began trafficking in a new and dangerous market. Titan DNA."

"What the hell is someone gonna do with a giant worm?" asked Martinez.

"Are you kidding me, Martinez?" Rick shot back. "What can't you do with it? Pharmaceuticals, bioweapons, food...hell, there isn't a country or a company on the planet that doesn't wanna get its hands on one of these suckers. Remember, this is just a larva. That's a baby. After it cocoons, something else is gonna crawl out. Something bigger, meaner..."

"We don't know that, Rick." Ilene cut in.

"Oh yeah? Just wait for it, Chen."

"Our intel indicates that Jonah wants to capture this specimen." Foster spoke up. "Alive. Which means that he and his mercs won't be far behind. At Zero five-hundred, we'll ship out to launch a joint operation--"

"I wouldn't bother." Mark stated, cutting her off.

"Excuse me?"

"Sounds like a duck hunt to me."

"Uh, Mark, why don't we let Colonel Foster finish--" Sam tried to say but Mark got up.

"A decoy. A diversion. Look, they've already got Emma and the ORCA. Why would they want just this one when they've got the keys to your entire magic kingdom of horrors back here. I think they want you to go after this Mothra so they can go after a real prize. Something bigger."

"Right." Foster took a deep breath.

"Mark," Ishiro began. "This is not the first specimen they've captured. They know what they are doing."

"That's not just a specimen. I've got an ex-wife and a daughter out there," Mark looked down at Sam. "In case you forgot."

"No, no one has forgotten that, Mark." Sam replied back. "But, uh, need I remind you that you were brought on here to help track the ORCA, and to advice us--"

"I advise you to kill these things. All of them." Mark pointed at the picture on the screen behind him, at Godzilla rising out at the Bikini Atoll. "Especially him. You wanna make sure these things don't fall into the wrong hands? You kill them, and the ORCA is useless."

"Emma wouldn't have wanted that." Ilene stated. "Even to save her life."

"Well, it wouldn't be the first time Emma put all of this before herself or her family, would it?"

"What do you propose then, Mark?" Zeek spoke up, making Mark look at him. "You have your own pet monster lying around? How about an acidic sludge one? A Transformer parked at your home? Please, tell me how to kill the Titans? The way I see it, the only thing that can kill them is each other. No modern weapons can harm them except for maybe Kong."

Zeek watched as Mark set his jaw before he turned and stalked out of the room.

"Dude hates Titans." Barnes observed.

"Yeah, well, you would too if you were him." Sam told the other.