Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)

1. For most of human civilization,

2. we believed that we were Earth's most dominant species.

3. - We believed that life...

4. could only exist on the surface of the planet.

5. Well, after a certain point, you have to wonder

6. what else were we wrong about?

7. We have mapped

8. less than five percent of Hollow Earth.

9. But our ecosystems are linked in ways

10. we never could have imagined.

11. We are not two separate worlds.

12. We're one.

13. Kong is settling in to Hollow Earth.

14. So, the big guy likes his new home.

15. We think so.

16. His species was a very social one.

17. It's not natural for Kong to be so alone.

18. He's the last of his kind.

19. - Every day he searches

20. for a family that he'll never find.

21. What about Godzilla?

22. Godzilla's on the surface, Kong is below.

23. As long as they don't venture into each other's territories,

24. we've got nothing to worry about.

25. - Humanity is lucky...

26. Godzilla's fighting the battles we can't.

27. With some critics

28. calling out Monarch

29. for the billions in taxpayer dollars...

30. going to Hollow Earth and classified technologies

31. like the mysterious Project Powerhouse.

32. Well, here to discuss,

33. Monarch's own, Doctor Ilene Andrews.

34. Let's start with Godzilla. He stopped the attack in Rome,

35. but he's still in the city. Should we be worried?

36. It's clear to us now

37. that Godzilla is a Titan who protects us

38. from other malicious Titan threats.

39. Kong's heading in for the night.

40. Looks like it was another rough one.

41. That's the farthest he's gone yet.

42. Maybe he was looking for a date.

43. Good luck with that.

44. I hope he's up for some interspecies romance.

45. whoa.

46. Sinkhole detected

47. in Sector Five.

48. That's Kong's hunting ground.

49. Whoa. It keeps doing that.

50. More electrical anomalies?

51. Nah, I don't think so, man.

52. I haven't seen anything like this before.

53. Well, we should tell Director Hampton.

54. I'll type it up.

55. This whole place is an anomaly.

56. - It's so weird.

57. Tell the Italian military Rome would be flattened

58. if it weren't for Godzilla.

59. They can threaten him all they want.

60. Just tell them to find another scapegoat.

61. Director Hampton, what's up?

62. Well, Outpost One is still a nightmare,

63. and they sent this over.

64. I thought you might want to take a look.

65. Is this from the sensor array?

66. Yeah, we've been getting some pretty weird spikes.

67. I mean, it could just be regular interference.

68. - Yeah, but it keeps happening. - Mm-hmm.

69. We should prep a survey team just in case.

70. Okay.

71. And what about Godzilla?

72. Oh, he's still sleeping. Like a big angry baby.

73. Let's hope it stays that way.

74. Everyone,

75. eyes on your own paper, all right?

76. Let's make sure we circle the answers

77. really, really clearly.

78. Jia!

79. Your daughter is intelligent,

80. but she's not engaged.

81. Her grades are slipping,

82. she's not interacting with any of her friends.

83. And these problems aren't going away, Doctor Andrews.

84. They've been getting worse.

85. Okay, I'm sorry.

86. She's just still adjusting to our world.

87. I understand that,

88. but we have a number of students

89. who are culturally displaced and—

90. Sure, but her culture's not displaced,

91. she is her culture.

92. She's the last living member of the Iwi tribe.

93. We're just trying to reach her.

94. I know. Join the club.

95. Come on.

96. For centuries,

97. the Iwi tribe were the guardians of Skull Island,

98. the ancestral home of the great Kong.

99. But when shifting storm patterns

100. destroyed the island, the Iwi were annihilated...

101. - ... with only a single member

102. of the tribe having survived.

103. - A young girl...

104. found and rescued amid the punishing storm.

105. Her fellow villagers were lost to the tides.

106. Gone to history, just like the great Kongs themselves.

107. Holy shit.

108. - The Iwi were unique...

109. in the sense that they had no spoken language.

110. Many believe that tribe members developed

111. the ability to communicate...

112. We're gonna figure this out.

113. Where will you be

114. when the next Titan attacks?

115. How will you protect the things and people

116. that matter most to you?

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122. but Gargantua does.

123. - Okay, Titan truthers!

124. - Oh, we have got a lot...

125. to unpack on today's show.

126. Recording in progress,

127. go away!

128. Uh, yes. I just want to let everyone know

129. that there is no...

130. - I'm gonna kill...

131. Unbelievable! What?

132. Uh...

133. Hi, Bernie.

134. Ilene Andrews, we met in Hong Kong.

135. Oh. Oh.

136. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

137. Hong Kong. Yeah, that was so long ago.

138. So, no, God, uh, yeah.

139. That was when my hair was longer.

140. You cut your hair.

141. Highlights too, it's nice.

142. I was wondering if I could get your help with something.

143. - Me? - Mm-hmm.

144. Uh, sure.

145. Sure, yeah. Of course, yeah. Come on in, Doctor Andrews.

146. - Okay. - Yeah.

147. Just straight down that hall there.

148. To the left. Okay.

149. Have a seat. What can I help you with?

150. You know, mi casa es su home.

151. Okay, so. The sequence on the right,

152. this is a signal that's been interfering

153. with our equipment in Hollow Earth.

154. - Okay. - And, uh...

155. And these are drawings by my daughter, Jia.

156. And you're gonna think that I'm completely insane.

157. No, the patterns are the same in the middle section.

158. Yes. Exactly.

159. Thank you.

160. Look, our analysts,

161. they don't know what to make of this.

162. They're talking in circles,

163. they're saying "radio interference,"

164. "coincidence," but I...

165. I know that you think outside of the box.

166. I didn't know who else to turn to.

167. And they sent you here because...?

168. No, no one sent me. I came here on my...

169. You know, that's what's ironic.

170. You know, Monarch wouldn't confirm

171. my crucial part in taking down Mechagodzilla,

172. which cost me thousands of...

173. hundreds of subscribers on my blog.

174. Oh, and the trolls...

175. the trolls online, they question

176. every single thing that I put up.

177. Especially this one troll.

178. This one troll named ghidorastan64.

179. You ever heard of him?

180. - No, I don't think I have. - Great,

181. because he's a trash bag, okay?

182. I'm more qualified than half of those people

183. that you have working over there.

184. I knew what Godzilla was going to do

185. before anybody at Monarch said...

186. Which is why I am here, Bernie.

187. I am here. Okay?

188. Can you help me or not?

189. That depends.

190. Are you the new boss down at the Mess?

191. The what?

192. The Monarch Hollow Earth Station.

193. The MHES, the Mess.

194. Yeah, nobody calls it that.

195. I run the Kong research division

196. but technically Director Hampton is in charge

197. - of general operations. - Hmm.

198. Well, Director Hampton doesn't have a kid

199. who can talk to Kong.

200. You want to go to Hollow Earth.

201. I'm so glad I didn't have to say it.

202. I thought you were never gonna ask

203. - but I really do need proof. - No, I'm not asking.

204. I mean, that would help me with my bona fides

205. for my blog. And I knew that you would be the person

206. - to help me do that.

207. Okay. Well, if this happens, and that is a big if,

208. then Monarch would need, you know,

209. whatever you guys call it. Final cut on anything in...

210. Whoa. I'm sorry, final cut? No, no, no.

211. You know, that will destroy my journalistic integrity.

212. Shit.

213. No really true, good documentarian gives final cut.

214. I could make you a producer.

215. Okay, okay! Fine! Final cut! Final cut! Fine!

216. Look, something is happening to my daughter,

217. and I have no idea how to fix it.

218. You work out what's going on,

219. and I will get you anything that you want, okay?

220. That is a promise.

221. Well, anything is a lot,

222. but that's very generous, but I...

223. - And we have to go. Right now. - What?

224. Godzilla is on the move again.

225. Okay, listen to me.

226. If Godzilla's on the move, he senses a threat coming.

227. We don't know what it is.

228. And you're not concerned?

229. Of course we're concerned, Senator.

230. That's why we're monitoring the situation.

231. Monitor the fact that if Godzilla heads...

232. What is it? You just...

233. - And I am telling you, - We have a problem!

234. Senator...

235. that Kong doesn't leave Hollow Earth.

236. Which is why Godzilla has no reason to retaliate.

237. - What's he doing up here? - No idea.

238. - Well, does Godzilla know? - Not that we can tell.

239. Yeah, well, it's only a matter of time.

240. And what happens if Godzilla starts heading this way?

241. Then we all run like hell.

242. Get up, let's go!

243. Keep it up. Come on. Let's go.

244. Sedatives in place.

245. All right, the good news is

246. it's just an infected tooth.

247. But luckily, you've come to the best doctor in town.

248. All right, Kong sedation at a 100%.

249. Vitals stable.

250. Trapper, you are clear to swap

251. the damaged tooth with replacement.

252. Way-hey!

253. Touchdown, Trapper.

254. Whoa. Fella.

255. What'd you have for breakfast?

256. All right?

257. Yeah, this sucker's ready to come out.

258. Whoa.

259. All right, let's roll!

260. There she is.

261. Trapper.

262. Thanks for getting down here so fast. Nice work.

263. You are most welcome.

264. It's not every day you get to climb

265. inside a 300-foot ape's mouth, is it?

266. Yeah. And you're sure it's gonna be strong enough?

267. The tooth? Yeah.

268. That's the same polymer composite

269. they use on the vehicle heat shields.

270. He could chomp through

271. the Eiffel Tower with that thing.

272. Well, good teeth aren't gonna help

273. if Godzilla senses that he's up here.

274. Well. You can't have a Titan with a toothache,

275. can you?

276. - No. - Don't worry.

277. Couple of hours he might be a bit groggy,

278. but he'll be good to go back down.

279. You know, when I first heard that you were gonna be a vet

280. I thought no.

281. That is way too boring

282. - for Trapper.

283. Then you go and become the weirdest vet in the world.

284. Yeah, it's basically me and Doctor Dolittle.

285. Except my animals are bigger.

286. I thought finally, someone has made him grow up.

287. Nope. Someone tried that back in college,

288. - but... didn't really work. - Oh, yeah?

289. Yeah, what was it she said to me?

290. "Trapper, you are not a serious person."

291. Oh, she sounds very smart.

292. Yeah, ish. She got a PhD.

293. - Two, actually.

294. How's the kid doing?

295. You know. Struggling.

296. Trying to find her place in the world.

297. Yeah, I know how that goes.

298. Don't worry, she'll be all right.

299. She got a good mum.

300. Doctor Andrews. Your guest has been asking for you.

301. Please don't take this the wrong way,

302. but can I just say,

303. that your research library has many glaring omissions.

304. I had to call in some serious favors

305. from my Discord chat. They were not...

306. Bernie, do you have something?

307. Yes, I've got something. I do have something.

308. Whatever signal you guys are picking up,

309. okay, we have seen similar patterns repeating over time.

310. And each spike corresponds with a specific Titan event.

311. Can you hold this, please? Thank you so much.

312. Okay, check this out.

313. See this? King Ghidorah, huh? First encounter with Godzilla.

314. - Mm-hmm. - Here, uh,

315. discovery of Skull Island.

316. All right. So what you're saying is that these signals

317. - aren't just random patterns. - Yeah, it seems that way, yes.

318. And Godzilla's picking up on it?

319. Oh, I can do you one better. Now, look,

320. I've looked at points of similarities

321. in each wave form and I compared them

322. - to that pattern, and... - Bernie, what are you saying?

323. It's a distress call!

324. It's a distress call. A psychic energy SOS.

325. Now, if your daughter is seeing these symbols,

326. then something down there is calling for help.

327. Regular soundwaves,

328. they can't propagate this far without decay. This?

329. This is something that we have never encountered.

330. - And it's getting stronger. - You got a working theory?

331. Yeah, telepathic alien language.

332. It's some sort of distress signal.

333. Signal? From what?

334. Or from who.

335. Well, whatever it is,

336. this is why Godzilla's on the move?

337. We can't say for sure. But it seems that way.

338. Well, we have to figure this out fast.

339. The wolves are already at our door.

340. The government has been looking for an excuse

341. to take over Hollow Earth operations.

342. And the corporations are licking their chops.

343. Yeah, because who wants to be rich

344. and get rid of all the monsters?

345. I mean, that'd be terrible, right?

346. We'd better find the source before D.C. gets wind of this.

347. Okay.

348. I'm giving you full operational oversight.

349. Take a small team. Mikael, make it fast

350. and don't let anyone die.

351. We'll be in and out of there before nightfall.

352. You, uh, you feel like going for a ride?

353. Thought you'd never ask.

354. Attention, all hands.

355. Prepare HEAV three for Hollow Earth launch

356. in T minus five minutes.

357. There's no response from the Hollow Earth outpost.

358. Their radios must be down.

359. Well, then that's our first stop.

360. Copy that.

361. All right, wakey wakey, everyone. Kong's up.

362. Hey. Hey! Doctor Andrews. Hey. Come on, we had a deal!

363. Bernie, this isn't sightseeing.

364. It's a reconnaissance mission.

365. So, I see how it is.

366. When you need something, it's all

367. "you're so smart, Bernie, you're so capable, Bernie,

368. "I'll subscribe to your Titan blog, Bernie,"

369. and when I deliver it, you toss me aside.

370. Okay, look. This could be dangerous.

371. Come on.

372. I'm no stranger to danger.

373. I didn't mean to rhyme that time.

374. Look, you owe me. Okay? I helped crack this thing.

375. This could be like last time, when we saved the world.

376. Remember? Hmm?

377. - Mikael? - Yeah.

378. Prep a seat for one more.

379. Thank you, Doctor Andrews! You will not regret it.

380. You're kidding, right?

381. I'm the plus one. Hello.

382. Systems online.

383. - Whoa. Oh. Whoa.

384. We're online.

385. We are going to Hollow Earth.

386. I am going to Hollow Earth.

387. Oh, my God. What am I doing?

388. So, is there, like, a in-flight briefing

389. that I should know about? You know...

390. - Yeah, there is. - He's very...

391. There's no parachutes, no flotation devices,

392. you touch any of this stuff,

393. you lose your hand, and if you die,

394. make sure it's outside my vehicle.

395. Good briefing. Great briefing.

396. Don't take Mikael too personally.

397. Aggression is his love language.

398. All right, Mikael. Let's punch it.

399. HEAV one,

400. you are clear for launch.

401. Let's do this.

402. Just try not to swallow your tongue.

403. What? Try not to swallow my tongue?

404. I don't exactly know what that means.

405. Base to HEAV,

406. you're clear for entry.

407. On your count,

408. - Doctor Andrews. - Three.

409. - All right, let's go. Two.

410. I'm not ready.

411. And one. Oh, my God!

412. I'm turning into water.

413. Flight systems active.

414. - Systems stabilized.

415. All systems good,

416. - Doc. - How's everyone doing?

417. You all right?

418. - Never better. - Yeah?

419. Bernie, you good?

420. - Nice one. Oh, wow. Whew.

421. Looks like Kong is headed home.

422. - How far to the outpost? Hundred klicks.

423. They're still not answering comms.

424. Proximity alert.

425. Predators, nine o'clock.

426. Where? What?

427. Those are vertacines, Mikael.

428. They're called vertacines.

429. - Um, are they a problem?

430. No. They're totally harmless.

431. Unless you get 'em riled up, and then they pack

432. about a lightning bolt worth of bioelectricity.

433. Predators know to stay well away.

434. Which makes them the perfect chaperone

435. if you happen to have a cool biomimicry camouflage.

436. Which we do.

437. - Talk to me. It's not good.

438. Godzilla just made landfall in France.

439. Ground team is five klicks out.

440. We got picture.

441. Oh, my God. It's a nuclear facility.

442. Atmospheric radiation levels

443. are dropping. He's absorbing it.

444. Okay, he's charging for something.

445. Godzilla consumed

446. a huge amount of radiation.

447. He is clearly preparing for something...

448. Out of range.

449. Damn it.

450. We're coming up on Outpost One.

451. Oh, God.

452. Oh, well, now. That doesn't look good now, does it?

453. You seeing this, Doc?

454. Yeah. Yeah, I'm seeing it.

455. Well, there's no heat signatures.

456. So much for survivors.

457. God, have some respect. These people had families.

458. What could have done this?

459. I don't understand,

460. we've had this outpost for years without incident.

461. So, why attack now? What changed?

462. Hey, Doc. There's a camera here.

463. You reckon you can pull any footage off of that?

464. Oh, shit.

465. You think Kong did that?

466. No, that's not Kong. That's something else.

467. Yeah. Let's get off the ground

468. before that something else comes back.

469. Saddle up. Let's hustle.

470. Are you getting anything off that thing?

471. Yeah, I'm just...

472. Oh, my God.

473. What?

474. Here. Take a look.

475. It looks like an ape. But that's impossible.

476. What the bloody hell is that?

477. I have no idea.

478. - Whoa! No! Whoa.

479. Mikael! Mikael!

480. I'm working on it!

481. Come on, you...

482. God! Okay, okay, okay!

483. The hell was that, Mikael?

484. Calm down. Calm down.

485. It must've been the signal. The same electrical

486. disturbances were happening at the outpost.

487. Oh, come on. Come on.

488. She says it's coming from that ridge point.

489. Well, let's take a look.

490. I'll get as close as I can.

491. The Hollow Earth.

492. A world untouched by mankind.

493. Is this how Neil Armstrong felt

494. when he stepped on alien soil?

495. Is this one small step for me,

496. and one giant leap for...

497. Who are you talking to?

498. Are you kidding me?

499. Right down the lens? It's a documentary.

500. You wanna be natural. Just walk, if you just walk.

501. - All right, just keep... - Yeah, just... Okay. Take two.

502. The Hollow Earth. A world...

503. All right, guys. That ridge you pointed out

504. is about two miles straight ahead.

505. I'm getting eaten alive out here.

506. Oh, look at that. I must be tasty too.

507. Kill it.

508. Only female mosquitos drink blood.

509. So they can grow their eggs.

510. She needs it more than me.

511. Wait.

512. What? - What's the holdup?

513. Not this way.

514. What? Why?

515. Yeah, we gotta take a detour. There's something here.

516. Where, here? Like here, here?

517. Hey.

518. Nah. I'm not picking anything up.

519. No. Something doesn't smell right,

520. and it's not just you, Mikael.

521. Can you smell that? It's like rotting flesh.

522. It's probably just a carcass upwind.

523. - We keep moving. - Mikael, hold up.

524. Listen, pal. I'm gonna trust

525. my state of the art thermal over your

526. Ace Ventura hippie-dippie sixth sense

527. all day long. You got me?

528. There's no need to call people names. We're just...

529. Hey. And as for you, freak show,

530. if you don't shut it, I'm gonna take that camera,

531. I'm gonna shove it right up your arse.

532. I'm in charge, we move.

533. Why don't we just listen to somebody calmer?

534. I said I'm in charge.

535. I'm in charge!

536. Whoa!

537. - Run!

538. It was a tree. It was a tree!

539. Wait, wait, wait.

540. We should be all right. We should be all right.

541. Those things don't reach that far.

542. He was just eaten by a tree.

543. What you doing, Doc?

544. I'm trying to call the Base for extraction.

545. It's just, one minute he was there, right?

546. He was right in my face. And then, a tree!

547. - Outta nowhere! - I know, man.

548. I know. That's heavy.

549. But that's the natural world, man.

550. "Red in tooth and claw."

551. Tennyson. You just watched a man

552. get devoured by a topiary nightmare,

553. and you want to quote Tennyson? Down here?

554. Yeah. Yeah, man. He knew all about it.

555. "Let love clasp grief," man. Come here.

556. Mm.

557. You know, humans, we think we took

558. ourselves off the food chain,

559. but maybe, maybe the Titans are here to remind us.

560. I think that there is something

561. seriously wrong with you.

562. - Okay. - Mm-kay.

563. - Okay. - Mm.

564. It's not working.

565. We better move on. We'll mourn later.

566. Jia. Come on.

567. - Come on, bud. - But the...

568. He was eaten by a tree.

569. I don't... I don't want to die like that.

570. Not by a tree.

571. Tower,

572. we can't get any closer than this.

573. Godzilla's burning hot with radiation.

574. Whatever he's headed for has him really pissed off.

575. This is Base

576. calling Fifteen Alpha, over.

577. Fifteen Alpha responding.

578. Godzilla's current trajectory is showing

579. him heading towards the Arctic Ocean.

580. What Titans are in the area?

581. Looks like he's hunting Tiamat.

582. Classified file three two four.

583. Titanus Tiamat.

584. Titan nineteen.

585. Extremely aggressive, territorial.

586. Weaponizing her body of razor-sharp scales...

587. Tiamat's Arctic lair sits in the direct path

588. of electromagnetically charged solar winds,

589. making it the largest stockpile of energy on Earth.

590. If Godzilla takes down Tiamat, he'll supercharge.

591. It's ruins.

592. Human civilization?

593. Down here?

594. Hey.

595. Yeah.

596. The markings are older than the ones

597. on Skull Island. Centuries older.

598. But the architecture is consistent with the Iwi.

599. Whoa.

600. Oh, this is remarkable.

601. Now, that's weird.

602. There's no moss on these ones.

603. Hello.

604. Mothra.

605. Queen of the monsters. In Hollow Earth.

606. Her lineage must go back further than we thought.

607. Yeah.

608. No, no, no.

609. What is that? Whoa!

610. Hey!

611. Whoa, whoa, whoa!

612. It's like some kind of a irrigation system.

613. Only this predates everything

614. Mesopotamians, the Lemurians...

615. I mean, these guys were the first, man!

616. - Jia. It just keeps going.

617. - Wait, wait, wait. - Oh. Sorry.

618. Oh, whoa. What the...?

619. Now, that is a trip.

620. Great Mulder and Scully, look at that.

621. What could have created this?

622. Ancient alien astronauts.

623. Yeah.

624. Look at this here.

625. The water's running underneath.

626. And this is organic.

627. Yeah.

628. Some kind of bioelectric hub.

629. It's like camouflage.

630. Wow.

631. Should she be doing that?

632. She shouldn't be doing that, right? Should she...?

633. This must be the source of the signal.

634. Oh, we've gotta check this out.

635. Yeah.

636. Okay. Go, go, go. Go.

637. Fifteen Alpha reporting to base.

638. We're entering Tiamat's domain,

639. but something is off.

640. Tiamat's energy is distorting our radar.

641. We don't have a visual on Godzilla.

642. Take us forward, silent running...

643. - Yes, sir. - ... five knots.

644. Mayday! - Get that out!

645. Get that out!

646. I need a status report!

647. That's right.

648. He's gone to Tiamat's lair.

649. Wait, wait, wait.

650. Wait, what did she say?

651. She says we're not alone.

652. See? I knew it. I knew I felt something.

653. Come on, then.

654. Go.

655. Oh, my God.

656. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

657. It's going away. It's going away. Okay.

658. Oh, my God.

659. Oh, my God.

660. What?

661. It's an entire Iwi civilization,

662. protected within Hollow Earth.

663. These structures, they look like they've been

664. carved from some enormous quartz crystal.

665. That must be their energy source.

666. I'm feeling the energy,

667. but let's just keep it together, all right?

668. Oh, my God. It's an undocumented vortex.

669. Looks like several of them, actually.

670. Routes to the surface.

671. These could lead all over the Earth.

672. Oh, wow. That's incredible.

673. You should make eye contact with them.

674. It's considered polite.

675. Yeah, this is not working for me.

676. - Oh.

677. How are they communicating?

678. Telepathically.

679. Okay. No, I, no, no, no. You can't take her.

680. I think she's taking her to the...

681. Well, let me come! Hey! Hey! Hey!

682. Hold on, okay, we're not resisting.

683. Wait, wait, wait.

684. I don't know where she's taking her! Hey!

685. Okay.

686. - Okay, come on. Okay. - Let's go, let's go.

687. Whoa. Oh.

688. Can I?

689. Thank you.

690. Of course.

691. What's she saying, Doc?

692. The beacon that we've been following, it's...

693. It's the Iwi calling for help.

694. Oh. Whoa.

695. So, wait. They send out this SOS, and then what?

696. Godzilla hears it?

697. Yeah. They woke him up.

698. An SOS for what? They already live

699. in a nightmare monster hellscape.

700. What could possibly scare them?

701. Hey. She can understand everything that you say.

702. - She understands me? - Oh, good.

703. And a nightmare monster hellscape

704. is a wonderful place to raise a family.

705. Oh, wow.

706. This whole room is covered in Iwi script.

707. It says that in the beginning,

708. Hollow Earth lived in harmony with the surface world.

709. The Titans were the guardians of nature

710. and the Great Apes became the protectors of humanity.

711. But a great evil threatened the peace.

712. A powerful and ruthless ape

713. desperate to conquer the surface world,

714. led his tribe into war against the one they call...

715. The Monster Who Ate a Star.

716. Godzilla.

717. There's more.

718. The war with the Apes nearly destroyed Godzilla.

719. But after a great battle,

720. he imprisoned the apes

721. in a fiery realm of Hollow Earth.

722. Their false king remains obsessed

723. with reaching the surface.

724. The Iwi call him the Skar King.

725. Trapped within their subterranean realm,

726. the Skar King harnessed a terrible power.

727. The ancient Titan, Shimo.

728. He controls her with pain.

729. Her power covered the Earth in the last ice age.

730. We brought Kong down here.

731. He's been looking for others like himself,

732. going deeper into Hollow Earth

733. and getting closer to their prison.

734. The Iwi must have known it was just a matter of time,

735. and that's why they've been

736. calling for help, and that's why Godzilla's changing.

737. He's gearing up for World War Three.

738. Okay, but he barely survived last time.

739. What's Godzilla gonna do on his own?

740. He won't be on his own.

741. The Iwi believe that at the end of the world,

742. one of their own will return...

743. and awaken Mothra, defender of the Iwi...

744. and ancient ally of Godzilla.

745. They believe that their savior will be

746. an Iwi from Skull Island.

747. That seems like a lot to put on one kid.

748. This is Monarch Air Team to Base,

749. tracking over Godzilla's location.

750. We've closed the shipping lanes within 300 miles.

751. Plasma readings indicate he's absorbing everything in there.

752. You know, I made a deal with myself

753. when I became a mother.

754. I said to myself, "I don't care what you have to sacrifice...

755. what you have to give up,

756. you will do right by that little girl."

757. I just never thought that

758. the thing I'd be giving up would be her.

759. Look, you don't know that.

760. Really?

761. Trapper, before we came here

762. she said that she didn't belong anywhere.

763. If this is the life that she wants,

764. then I have to give her up.

765. Am I having a funny turn

766. or does everything feel lighter down here?

767. Wait, wait, wait.

768. What are they doing? That must weigh a ton.

769. Yeah. Yeah, see,

770. I don't know how they can do it...

771. but somehow they're able to move the pyramids' positions,

772. which disrupts the

773. gravitational pull down here,

774. and that's how they run their city.

775. An entire civilization

776. built off the manipulation of gravity.

777. God, I wish was streaming this live!

778. What you gonna do with that, Bern?

779. Look, I know what you're thinking,

780. but you don't understand. Okay?

781. To have been through what I've been through,

782. seen what I seen

783. and have absolutely nobody believe you.

784. This place...

785. This place is special, man. It's magic.

786. How long do you think it'll stay like that

787. if you start posting that about, hmm?

788. Like, you look at any isolated tribe or community,

789. how many of them

790. survive contact with the outside world, hmm?

791. You know I think you're brilliant, don't you?

792. You already saved the world once.

793. Can't take that away from you.

794. Could you say that all again?

795. The last part, so I have it on footage.

796. What?

797. Oh, well, we have to find out what that was, right?

798. Oh, my God.

799. Is that a mini-Kong?

800. How did they find this place?

801. He must have sensed Jia.

802. That arm looks bad.

803. Yeah. That's worse than bad.

804. That's frostbite.

805. I'd better go take a look.

806. Warning, detecting altered energy signature.

807. Oh, my God. He's changed.

808. I know, I know. Nobody likes a dentist.

809. Let's get a look at that arm, big guy.

810. Trapper, he looks really hurt.

811. Yeah, it's not great. I'm seeing nerve damage...

812. significant tissue loss.

813. So, what are we saying?

814. He's not gonna last a day down here with only one arm.

815. Yeah, communication to the surface is still out.

816. If I can get back to the outpost,

817. I think there might be some supplies

818. that we can use.

819. I don't think a massive cast is gonna solve the problem.

820. I wasn't talkin' plaster of Paris.

821. I'm thinking more along the lines of, uh...

822. Project Powerhouse.

823. You can't be serious?

824. Oh, I'm deadly serious.

825. That prototype was almost finished

826. when they pulled the funding.

827. All right, well, what are you still doing here?

828. I love you, too, Doc.

829. Project Powerhouse, what is... what is that, exactly?

830. After Mechagodzilla,

831. we realized that there were some threats that

832. even Kong couldn't face.

833. So, we started working on some minor augmentations.

834. Oh.

835. Wait, what kind of augmentations?

836. Making one of the strongest Titans

837. even stronger didn't go over so well.

838. So, we got shut down.

839. Lucky for us, the prototype

840. had already been transported to Hollow Earth for testing.

841. It's stored in the armory at Outpost One.

842. Autopilot engaged.

843. Woo-hoo!

844. What do you think of that?

845. That's one hell of an augmentation there, Trapper.

846. Only the best for Mr. Kong.

847. All right, it's ready to go.

848. Those injections should heal the frostbite up nicely.

849. All right, there he goes.

850. He's moving.

851. You got this.

852. Look, it's a bit rough and ready, but it should hold.

853. It's good. It looks good, Trapper.

854. Damn good.

855. - Here we go. - Yeah.

856. He's either gonna love it

857. or he's gonna rip it off with his teeth.

858. I think he loves it! Yeah?

859. Skar King.

860. Hey, hey! What did you tell him?

861. Oh.

862. Where's he going?

863. Godzilla won't come down here unless Kong brings him.

864. Okay, the last time those two met up

865. it was almost the end of Kong.

866. He is taking a hell of a risk.

867. If Kong invades his turf, could start a war.

868. Yeah, that's a suicide mission.

869. But if Kong draws Godzilla down here...

870. they can make their stand in Hollow Earth

871. and then there's a chance that

872. Godzilla can stop Skar King and Shimo

873. from reaching the surface.

874. We are absolutely certain

875. that she can pull this off, right?

876. It's why Jia was called here.

877. Only an Iwi from Skull Island can awaken Mothra.

878. And Mothra is the key to Godzilla

879. protecting this place,

880. and its pathways to the surface.

881. She's gonna be all right.

882. - Uh-huh. - She's gonna be all right.

883. Hey, she's evacuating the villagers.

884. Gravity! Gravity! The pyramids and gravity.

885. Yeah, I got it! I got it now!

886. Tell me on the way. Come on, come on!

887. While we are throwing random shit at the wall,

888. permission to take the HEAV? Rally some reinforcements.

889. To the surface? No, there's no time.

890. No, this idea's way weirder than that.

891. All right, we're underneath the pyramids.

892. Now what?

893. Gravity.

894. Iwi technology.

895. With the chemical reaction,

896. this liquid metal becomes an engineering mechanism

897. forcing the two electromagnetic pyramids

898. together, causing an anti-gravity shock wave.

899. But only for a few minutes. Or maybe less.

900. Which should keep those things from the portals.

901. After that, everything that is up

902. will come crashing down.

903. They're here.

904. We're not gonna make it. There's not enough time.

905. We need something to slow them down.

906. Yeah, but what else can we do?

907. It's vertacine mating season.

908. No way.

909. Your carriage awaits.

910. I'm gonna kiss you on the mouth!

911. Come on. Go, go.

912. Buckle up, you beautiful people.

913. Up and away. Yes!

914. No! The engine's out.

915. The gravity surge must have taken out

916. the power-battery-thing.

917. Yes! Yes!

918. She's protecting the portals.

919. Oh, God!

920. Oh.

921. Look.

922. Jia, you're safe! Come here.

923. Look, I...

924. "What am I talking a..."

925. I...

926. - You all right? Yeah? - Mm-hmm.

927. - Mm-hmm. - Yeah.

928. Thank you, thank you.

929. Yeah, saving the world is kind of our thing.