Colossus By Design: Entry 0140 - The Monster's Soul

[March 1, 2146]
[Atlantean ruins, seafloor of the Chinese Ocean]

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Director Jiro Ifukube, Dr. Laura Reed, Dr. Wei Ho, and Dr. Anna Maxmioff enter a dark room at the top of the stairs of the Atlantean structure. The door suddenly closes behind them as lights activate all around the room.

The group is visibly stunned; they marvel at the multitude of hyper-advanced and ancient-looking technology strewn about the room. In addition to them, several large clear cylinders are present; each one has glowing green liquid and a small lump of flesh hooked up to sensors in the top and bottom of each container.


(Jiro Ifukube): What is this place?

(Unknown): A very good question indeed, Jiro.


Director Ifukube is visibly startled at the response, as it's from a voice he doesn't recognize and apparently emanating from the room itself. The Director and his associates look frantically around the room, trying to locate the source of the mysterious response, but to no avail.


(Unknown A.I.): Save it. I am what your people in this day and age would call an 'artificial intelligence'. We Atlanteans don't quite say it the same way, of course.

(Jiro Ifukube): An A.I.? An Atlantean A.I.?

(Unknown A.I.): I can see that my presence as an ominous voice doesn't bode too well with you, so I will take on a form more suitable to process.


After the A.I. voice says this, a holographic image appears right in front of the group, possessing the appearance of a Greek-looking old man wearing a toga-like cloth with clear Atlantean decoration.


(Unknown A.I.): Better?


Director Ifukube can do nothing but nod, for the hologram is so advanced that it appears indistinguishable from reality.


(Jiro Ifukube): Uhh... errr......

(Zeus A.I.): I shall go first. I am an artificial personality, derived from the Atlantean High Minister and head scientist, Zeus.

(Jiro Ifukube): Zeus?

(Zeus A.I.): Yes. I know why you're here. Our guardian told me of your arrival, and I have made accommodations for you and your allies to learn and train yourselves, using our knowledge and technology.

(Jiro Ifukube): If you don't mind me asking.....

(Zeus A.I.): Of course not, Jiro Ifukube.

(Jiro Ifukube): Is there anything that can be done for my student, here?


Director Ifukube helps Dr. Reed to her feet, whom is still quite shaken.


(Zeus A.I.): I personally cannot, unfortunately. I can, however, offer this.


One of the Atlantean devices springs to life; a compartment slides out, revealing an amulet shaped like one half of a yin-yang symbol. At the sight of this, all signs of anxiety disappear from Dr. Reed; she immediately makes headway for the amulet and holds it up in her hands, carefully looking at it in the light.


(Laura Reed): This is a Shield of Gamera amulet, and fully intact one at that! I was researching these!

(Zeus A.I.): That is correct, Laura Reed. It is for you.

(Laura Reed): I don't know what to say..... This could be invaluable to our scientific understanding of your creators' culture!

(Zeus A.I.): There is much more to it than that, Priestess Reed.

(Laura Reed): Wait, wha--


The Shield of Gamera suddenly begins to glow an orange colour within Dr. Reed's hands; it turns a permanent black and rust colour. Dr. Reed holds onto it tightly with tears rolling down her cheeks; her colleagues stand still, unsure of what just happened.


(Anna Maximoff): Laura, are you alright?

(Laura Reed): No, I'm not, Anna....... I..... I can feel him.

(Anna Maximoff): What?

(Laura Reed): I can feel his heart...... his mind........ his soul.......

(Anna Maximoff): Whose heart?! What's going on, Laura?!


Director Ifukube, Dr. Ho, and Dr. Maximoff all huddle close to Dr. Reed.


(Laura Reed): Gamera. I can feel everything about Gamera.


Outside of the structure, whilst the Warmongers are engaging in some physical combat training as Godzilla lies down to sleep, Gamera roars upwards with eyes glowing bright orange. This immediately draws the attention of Godzilla and the Warmongers, who all stare at Gamera's apparently random outburst.

Within the pupils of his glowing eyes, a black and white yin-yang symbol can be made out ever so slightly for the briefest moment before disappearing.