Colossus By Design: Entry 0102 - A Beginning & End

[June 20, 1943]
[Unknown location, former South American continent]

[Dr. Daisuke Serizawa and Dr. Kyohei Yamane, along with several guides, walk through the dense forest]


(Daisuke Serizawa): Hurry up, old man!

(Kyohei Yamane): Easy for you to say! You aren't the one who's carrying nearly 100 pounds of research equipment!

(Daisuke Serizawa): That's all YOUR equipment. I told you before that we weren't going to need that much gear.

(Kyohei Yamane): Hey, you can never be too sure!


[Head guide motions for the rest to follow]
[Others follow him; they come upon a bright light shining through an opening in the thick foliage]


(Daisuke Serizawa): Is that it?


[Head guide nods]


(Daisuke Serizawa): Hey! Old man!

(Kyohei Yamane): Daisuke, I swear, if you call me that one more time--

(Daisuke Serizawa): Relax. We're here.


[Group steps through the opening; they're briefly blinded by the light]
[Group's eyes adjust; they now stand before a vast open expanse of flowers]


(Kyohei Yamane): By the gods..... it DOES exist.

(Daisuke Serizawa): I told you. Let's get some samples and bring them back for the emperor.

(Kyohei Yamane): Serizawa, if these are as dangerous as you say.......

(Daisuke Serizawa): Calm down. They're only dangerous if you open the seed pods.


[Group walks through the sea of flowers; the guides become anxious]


(Kyohei Yamane): Uhhh..... Serizawa?


[Dr. Serizawa begins collecting samples of the plants and putting them into various jars]


(Daisuke Serizawa): Yes, Kyohei?

(Kyohei Yamane): Maybe we shouldn't--


[One guide, younger than the others, opens up one of the pods out of curiosity]
[Head guide shouts at him in Spanish,but is too late]
[Toxic gas is sprayed from the opening into the young guide's face, causing an immediate dissolving effect]
[Chain reaction of gases begins to occur after the first pod's opening]
[Group runs back towards the opening to escape the chain reaction of toxic dissolving gases]

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[October 18, 1963]

[U.S. fleet vessel is carrying Dr. Kyohei Yamane and Robert Oppenheimer]


(Kyohei Yamane): So...... that's it then.

(Robert Oppenheimer): Indeed.

(Kyohei Yamane): I don't believe he's gone, you know.

(Robert Oppenheimer): How so? You saw him disappear after those last tests. Even if we didn't kill him, we sure as hell scared him off.

(Kyohei Yamane): Perhaps. But perhaps he merely grew tiresome of our antics, and went back into the depths.

(Robert Oppenheimer): Either way, we won't be testing any more nuclear bombs in the Pacific anytime soon after the treaty. It's a good thing he decided to disappear when he did.

(Kyohei Yamane): I have a feeling we might see more of the likes of him again.

(Robert Oppenheimer): Is that so?

(Kyohei Yamane): Yes. We need to be ready.

(Robert Oppenheimer): The governments don't want another nuclear incident, which rules out further bombings. So........ what do you suggest?

(Kyohei Yamane): We need to develop effective countermeasures. Devices more than capable of suppressing him and his kind.

(Robert Oppenheimer): I would think that only a warmonger would come up with a plan like that.


[Yamane thinks to himself]


(Kyohei Yamane): That isn't bad......

(Robert Oppenheimer): What?

(Kyohei Yamane): Robert, I think I rather like the name of 'Warmonger'. 'Project Warmonger'.