“It looks like,” muttered the Doctor, “we need to find a live specimen of the creature this DNA belongs to.”
“Where can we possibly find that, Doctor?” asked Yoshimura.
“Yes, finding DNA that isn’t from your home planet is rather like finding your home star in a galaxy. You said you found the strand here on Monster Island?”
“Yes, around Gojira’s cave.”
“Goji-? Oh, yes!” The Doctor remembered the original Japanese name for the most famous Kaiju in existence. “Well, that’s a good place to-!” She opened the lab’s door and there was the tall woman pointing a gun at her. “Ah, how do you do,” she said.
“Back away, Time Lord,” replied the woman. “You will listen to and obey my instructions.”
“…I don’t believe I’ve had the pleasure,” remarked the Doctor. “It’s terribly stuffy in here. I don’t think you should carry something so heavy.” She knocked the gun out of the woman’s hand. The woman then tried to perform a knife-hand strike to the Doctor’s throat, but the Doctor blocked and toppled the woman. The woman then tripped up the Doctor and reached for the gun, but Yoshimura took it away. The Doctor then pressed her thumb onto the back of the woman’s neck. The woman started convulsing, then the skin split away to reveal another life form, humanoid with gray skin, black veins running up and down the body, and a faceless, angular head. Yoshimura and the Doctor gasped.
“Xilien!” they said. Yoshimura then looked at the Doctor.
“You met them?” he asked.
“They were much more civilized before they allowed a computer to command their rulers,” replied the Doctor. “And I do believe her DNA has the same base pairs as our mystery DNA.”
“Couldn’t hurt to check,” mused Yoshimura. He went to get a slide prepared, but the Xilien sprang to life again and grabbed him by the throat, retrieving the gun and pressing it to his head.
“WAIT!” called the Doctor. A distorted voice then came from the Xilien.
“Yoshimura’s not my only hostage, Time Lord,” she warned. “Your three dark-skinned friends are with me. Unless you obey my instructions, this base will be painted gray. Brain matter gray. Understood?” Well, that put the Doctor in a bit of a pickle.
“…Very well,” she said.
“I knew you’d see things my way,” remarked the Xilien. “Come with me.”
Dr. Sato walked through the EDF base, looking for Professor Yoshimura. As she looked, she accidentally bumped into Commander Takahashi. “Oh! Sorry, Commander!” she said.
“I was the one that wasn’t paying attention,” replied Takahashi. “It’s my fault. Although, now that you’re here, have you seen Commander Smith?”
“No. I was going to ask you if you saw Professor Yoshimura. He’s not in his lab. …Come to think of it, neither is that Doctor.”
“And I haven’t seen Dr. Smith or Dr. Davies either,” remarked Takahashi. “Something’s wrong.” He activated a nearby wall-mounted comms unit. “All hands, this is Commander Takahashi. Our UNIT Europe allies, Professor Yoshimura, and the American civilian doctor are missing. I want this base searched from top to bottom.” Soldiers and scientists all over began a search at that order.
The Xilien was using a jeep to transport her hostages to a huge mountain with a titanic-sized cave opening up. “Gojira’s cave!” whispered Yoshimura.
“Is anybody home?” asked Martha.
“He’s always resting in there at this time of day,” replied Yoshimura.
“Got his naps mapped out, hm?” chuckled the Doctor. The Xilien then pressed a button and the jeep’s engine went quiet while still moving. “Don’t want to wake a slumbering titan, hm?” guessed the Doctor.
“He’s proven to be a useful watchdog, even if he’s an unwitting one,” replied the Xilien. The jeep then drove into the main cavern. There, slumbering on the cave floor with his head resting on a rock shelf, was a massive, charcoal-gray lizard with oak-leaf shaped dorsal plates running down to the tip of his tail. He had hands with massive claws on each fingertip and talons on each of his toes on his foot.
“…Godzilla,” whispered William almost reverently. Yes, this was the King of the Monsters. Every time Godzilla snored, his lips curled back so one could see his sharp teeth.
“Never thought I’d see him this close,” shuddered Mickey. The jeep stopped by the rock wall near Godzilla’s hindquarters.
“Out,” ordered the Xilien. Her hostages got out as she revealed a hidden keypad. She typed a code in and part of the rock wall slid away to reveal an elevator. “In,” she ordered.
“Teatime already?” asked the Doctor.
“Doctor!” protested Martha.
“Trust me, I know what I’m doing,” soothed the Doctor. She and her group entered the elevator. The Xilien then pressed the down button, the elevator doors closed, and the elevator went down. Unbeknownst to them…Godzilla was not as asleep as they thought! He opened a blazing amber eye! He could sense a threat coming and the tiny gray one was leading the forces responsible for it!
The base was searched from top to bottom. A Lieutenant spoke with Takahashi and Sato. “Sorry, Sir,” he said, “but we can’t find them.”
“They’re somewhere on this island,” insisted Sato. “That blue box the Doctor travels in is still here.”
“Keep up the search,” ordered Takahashi. “We’ll search the island after an hour if they’re not here.”
“Yes, Sir,” replied the Lieutenant. He saluted and left. Takahashi then looked to Sato.
“You UNIT people always vanish at the worst times!” he complained.
“We’re supposed to protect Earth from extraterrestrial threats,” replied Sato. “Maybe the Doctor found one.”
“…If she did, she might have been kidnapped by said threat,” muttered Takahashi. He called up the security room. “…Takahashi here. Are there cameras in the lab? …Pull up recent footage. …What?! Yuki?! …A Xilien?!” Sato’s eyes widened behind her glasses when she heard the word “Xilien”. “And she has Professor Yoshimura as a hostage?! …Can you see where she went?! …That would account for the jeep missing! Where did it go?! …I’m sorry, the cave?! …Get a team organized! We’re going to the cave!” He hung up.
“Why would she take them to Gojira’s cave?” muttered Sato.
“Whatever the reason is,” replied Takahashi, “it’s not gonna be a good one. And if the Xiliens are here, they may summon that cyborg chicken of theirs.”
“You are correct,” said two women’s voices in unison.
“Who said that?!” yelped Takahashi.
“Look!” called Sato as she pointed out two women, dressed as island priestesses and about two inches tall on the table.
“The Shobijin?!” gasped Takahashi. “So Mothra’s getting involved?”
“She has no choice,” replied the two tiny beauties, the Shobijin. “Her greatest enemy is returning thanks to the Xiliens’ control. Earth must be protected. She is bringing one who was once human and now lives as a plant Kaiju.”
“Plant Kaiju?” muttered Sato. “…Biollante?! She fought Gojira!”
“Now the younger sister of Godzilla must fight with him and Mothra to defeat the Xiliens’ servant. And Godzilla will have to work with the Kaiju of Time, the Timeless Child.”
“The Timeless Child?” asked Takahashi. “Never heard of that Kaiju.”
“You met her, Takahashi,” said the Shobijin. “She arrived in that blue box of hers.”
“…The Doctor?” asked Sato.
Speaking of which, the Doctor and her group were led out of the elevator with other Xiliens in human disguises working various instruments. One of them, a male, looked over and saw the group. “Controller, you brought humans here?!” he protested.
“Controller?” asked Yoshimura. “Our kidnapper is your leader?”
“I am,” replied the Xilien woman. “And to answer your question, Commander, that particular woman,” she pointed to the Doctor, “is a Time Lord.” All Xiliens stopped their work to gawk at the Doctor.
“A Time Lord?!”
“I thought the Daleks killed them all!”
“Oh, my family’s waited EONS for this!”
“Oh dear, the memory of the Xiliens is rather long,” muttered the Doctor. She turned to her companions. “During the Dark Times, the Time Lords and Xiliens went to war. We devastated their home planet, practically boiling their seas”
“Water is more precious than gold to us,” explained the Xilien Controller. She then turned to a subordinate. “Re-skin me.” The subordinate typed in computer commands on his console, then a tube appeared from the floor. The Xilien Controller then stepped into the tube. The tube shut and light spilled out from its seams. After a minute, the light faded and the Controller, now wearing her old human disguise, stepped out. She was now wearing a leather trench coat as well as black military gear. “Much better,” she said. A Xilien then handed her a pair of visor-style glasses. She put them on and grinned. “What do you think?”
“Can you get on with the gloating, please?” groaned the Doctor.
“And give you an opportunity to thwart me?” scoffed the Controller. “No. I’m saving my gloating for after we harvest you lot.”
“Harvest us?!” yelped William.
“Making my new skin is quite expensive and my soldiers need to be fed,” replied the Controller. “Your mitochondria will make an excellent food supply!”