The Devil with Three Heads

In 2014, the existence of giant superspecies is revealed to the world as Godzilla clashes with the two M.U.T.O.s in the center of San Francisco. Unleashing devastation upon the urban center, the world watches as Godzilla defends our world and restores balance to the natural order. The time has come for MONARCH to step out of the shadows.

When MONARCH stepped out of the shadows, it became an international agency operating in almost every major country. Interest was placed in countries with a great reliance on nuclear energy or with nuclear stock piles. Billions of dollars where thrown at the agency, particularly by the United States, the organizations founder. As well as China, Japan, Russia, India, Pakistan, Britain and France. For once all the great nuclear powers seemed to agree on something, that Monsters exist, and they have the potential to bring the world to its knees.

Naturally, MONARCH established its presence everywhere. With offices in every major country, facilities set up across the world. They recruited the best and brightest scientists from every field to study whatever they could find. The agency was headed by three individuals of note, Doctor Ishiro Serizawa, Doctor Vivienne Graham and Dean Martin. The Doctors served as heads of research and biology, whilst Dean Martin headed the agency. Always trying to give the Doctors as much room to work as he could.

Doctor Serizawa's work revolved around Godzilla, so the called, King of the Monsters. Or at least that's what the media ran with after the events of the Battle of San Francisco. Currently Godzilla mostly hung around the South Pacific, occasionally spotted by local fisherman in the Philippines. The American's and Chinese usually on the creature's trail, with Doctor Serizawa and MONARCH at the head of the pack.

Godzilla seemed to be in his own little world so to speak. Not carrying much for the Destroyers and Carriers usually within shooting distance of the Kaiju. No nation was dumb enough to fire on the beast. Though much of MONARCH's attention seemed to drift away from Godzilla, and towards Siberia. The Russian's found something in 1959 around Antarctica , they allowed MONARCH to establish a base there after they found Monster Zero. That was the code name for it at the very least, nobody at MONARCH truly had the opportunity to study this Monster Zero. It was the height of the Cold War after all. But now, after the Battle of San Francisco, the Russian's seemed a bit more open to having Monster Zero looked at.

Doctor Vivienne Graham headed the agency at the Russian facility in Antarctica. Somehow, even with the Russian's loosening the red tape, MONARCH only seemed to put even more around the area. The Russian military was even on standby, as MONARCH examined the Monster. Eventually, they brought on a few more researchers to look at the new M.U.T.O.

In the early spring of 2019 three men were escorted by high ranking guards from both MONARCH and the Russian army. They where somewhere in Northern Antarctica, along one of the countless ice sheets. All of them where checked for phones, camera's and the like. Nobody wanted word of Monster Zero getting out. The world was already shacked by Godzilla, it was best the international public was not living in fear every waking moment. All three men where then escorted to an interrogation room and where asked to wait for Doctor Vivienne Graham. They sat in a room with a two-way mirror with a large table and only six chairs. The boredom did not sit well with the three men, who became on edge rapidly. One of them, the young Biologist from American decided to break the ice between the three.

"Right, so…if we're gonna be here a while. Mine as well the get introductions out of the way." The Biologist said, turning to the Russian Geneticist with an outstretched hand. "I'm Nick, Nick Tatopoulos."

The Russian Geneticist, shock his head slowly, smiling slightly.

"Boris Palvov, Geneticist from the University of Saint Petersburg it's a pleasure." The Russia replied, in flawless English. If it was not for his accent you could hardly tell the man was Russian.

Both men turned to face the older man, the Japanese Paleontologist. He smiled a bit before letting out his hands for the other two to shake.

"Shinzô… Shinzô Mafune…PHD…" Doctor Mafune replied, as the younger scientists shock his hands.

"Does the PHD stand for Piled Higher and Deeper?" Nick asked in gest.

"No, it stands for Paleontologist, Highly Disciplined." Doctor Mafune replied with a wizened grin.

Boris chuckled a bit, this old man was sharp for his age. The scientists chatted it up for a moment before finally Doctor Vivienne Graham arrived, escorted by MONARCH soldiers. There was a moment of silence that echoed within the room. Until Doctor Graham motioned to the projector on the wall. She then began her presentation.

"Welcome to Antarctic Research facility, you all probably figured out why you are here." The good Doctor said as she motioned to the first slide on the presentation.

It showed the MONARCH logo for a brief moment with the familiar words of 'For Monarch Eyes Only'. The next slide showed an image of Godzilla battling the MUTO's that attacked San Francisco.

"We need to study and prevent something like this from ever happening again. Thankfully, Godzilla is mostly territorial…but he's not the subject this research." Doctor Graham said, as the next slide depicted a cave painting that was hard to make out. It appeared to be some sort of dragon like creature with three heads looming over the researchers. "This is Monster Zero, the Alpha Predator to rival Godzilla, a superspecies."

Nick Tatopoulos chuckled a little looking at the primitive cave painting.

"Radiation or no, Hollow Earth or no, Giant Monsters or not…There's no way something like that exists. You don't find Three-Heads in any living thing, let alone an actual dragon in the world. It's pure fantasy." Nick replied, slyly putting his hands behind his back.

"I must concur with Doctor Nick. What on Earth would that thing eat, besides are we to go off of a cave painting rather than scientific theory?" Asked Boris Palvov, Doctor Mafune raised his shaky old hands.

"It's not impossible for something like that exist…just highly improbable." Doctor Mafune eventually conceded, the other two guards shared a knowing look as Doctor Graham returned to her PowerPoint. She went onto explain the usual drivel of what MONARCH did as an organization that the three scientists had heard a thousand times before at this point. At the end of it all, Doctor Graham smiled ever so slightly.

"I understand you three are still about skeptical about Monster Zero. Well, we are prohibited from circulating photos of…It…so you'll just have to see it with your own eyes." Doctor Graham said before beginning to file out of the room and waiting for the scientists and guards to follow behind. They walked all around the containment facility from classified room to restricted access area. Until finally they arrived at what appeared to be a large freight elevator.

"Gentleman, what you are about to see must not be shared with the world under any circumstances…if you share what you are about to see with any unauthorized personnel you will be shot." Doctor Graham said lifelessly, all three of the scientists nodded but also appeared noticeably shocked by the statement. Nick swallowed hard as he made a passing look to one of the guards who eyed him back emotionlessly. All six Monarch personnel loaded onto the freight elevator. It was a long slow way down into the depths of the ice sheet. Doctor Graham eventually broke the relative silence by pulling out a small notebook and began to read it.

"Emperor of all these realms of gloom, stuck from the ice at mid-point on his breast. And I am more a giant than any giant measured to his arm. So now you'll see how huge the whole must be, when viewed in fit proportion to that limb. If once he was a lovely as now vile, when first he raised his brow against his maker, then truly grief must all proceed from him…How Great a wonder it now seemed to me to see three faces on a single body." Doctor Graham said in a calm voice.

"The Divine Comedy?" Boris asked curiously. "What does that have to do with anything?"

The Elevator came to a stop, and then the doors opened. Then the scientists cast their eyes upon possibly the greatest and most terrifying thing they had ever collectively seen in their entire lives. Incased in the ice, stood a massive organism. Only the upper body of course. They could only make out so many details of that massive creature. It must have been five-hundred feet tall at least. It was breathe taking creature truly, with long wings and three long dragonic heads just like the cave painting. There was a light bronze coloration to the creature. One thing was certain, it was relief that creature was dormant. Scientists and army soldiers monitored its every movement from makeshift laboratories and observatories.

"The Devil has Three Heads." Doctor Graham said as the scientists watched the creature speechless wonder and horror.