Colossus By Design: Entry 0089 - An Eye For An Eye

[January 1, 2145]
[Antarctica]
[Global Union of Divisions Headquarters]
[Meeting room]


(Jiro Ifukube): Play the footage.


[Holo-projection plays footage captured of the testing of the first prototype of the 'Oxygen Destroyer' created from Dr. Daisuke Serizawa's notes]
[Dr. Ifukube and his colleagues are visibly intrigued and worried about the results]


(Jiro Ifukube): Dear lord...... what just happened?

(Laura Reed): Well, sir, according to the data gathered, the individual oxygen molecules from the surroundings were drained into the organisms within range.

(Anna Maximoff): And after the oxygen was concentrated into the organisms, it began tearing apart their molecular bonds.

(Wei Ho): That's what gave off the illusion of the beings 'decaying' before our eyes. As the oxygen molecules ravaged the bonds, they scattered the remaining into such small pieces and so widely that they were virtually invisible.

(Jiro Ifukube) I see.

(Laura Reed): Sir, oxygen doesn't react like that, and under normal circumstances I would've deemed it all simply make-believe. But....

(Jiro Ifukube): But we all know better than that.

(Anna Maximoff): I detected trace amounts of non-standard DE energy from the oxygen deprivation process.

(Wei Ho): Yes, the energy detected followed a direct correlation with the process.

(Jiro Ifukube): So, we now know that, somehow, non-standard DE energy draws in oxygen molecules from the surroundings, concentrating it in any biological organisms within range. And then the oxygen molecules ravage the molecular bonds of the matter within the organisms within a short time-frame, followed by dispersal that leaves virtually nothing left of the individuals.


[Dr. Ifukube turns away from his colleagues, looking visibly stressed out]


(Laura Reed): Sir? Sir?

(Anna Maximoff): Sir, what do we do now?


[Dr. Ifukube does not respond]


(Anna Maximoff): Sir!

(Wei Ho): Excuse me, but......


[Others turn to Dr. Ho]


(Wei Ho): Sorry to interrupt. I've been looking at these notes, and I see references not only to a Dr. Serizawa, but also, get this.... Dr. Yamane.

(Anna & Laura): Dr. Yamane?!?


[Dr. Ifukube turns around]


(Jiro Ifukube): The famed ancestor of Satoshi Yamane, current Warmonger guiding mind behind Serizawa's Light. So..... my suspicions were correct.

(Laura Reed): Suspicions?

(Jiro Ifukube): Indeed. Kyohei Yamane was an old friend of Daisuke Serizawa. I suspected that he and Serizawa worked collaboratively on this project of theirs.

(Wei Ho): That's not all.

(Jiro Ifukube): Hmmm?

(Wei Ho): Says here that they originally designed this device to be used against the Americans during WWII, but the atomic bombs were dropped before it could be completed.

(Laura Reed): What else do the documents say?

(Wei Ho): Well, it also says here that Serizawa was the main researcher of the Alpha, but he died on one such expedition. Shortly after, Yamane was approached by the U.S. to aid in research for their nuclear bombings of the creature.

(Anna Maximoff) Very interesting. Perhaps they possess the last thing we need to truly understand--


[Sudden quakes cut off Dr. Maximoff as well as shake the foundations of the base]
[Soldier rushes into the meeting room]


(Soldier): WE GOTTA EVACUATE!

(Jiro Ifukube): WHAT'S GOING ON?

(Soldier): IT'S THE EPSILON! IT'S HERE!