Giant screens in the main room of the EPB headquarters alternated between different channels reporting the offensives against both Battra and Mothra, the latter of whom was making her way into Tokyo. Battra was slowing down its march to the East. Other screens showed satellite imagery of the monsters in Japan, plus Godzilla's rapid advance through the Sea of Japan; he would reach Sagami Bay by nightfall.
Oblivious to the constant stream of bad-to-worse news that was flowing into the room, Professor Fukazawa, Miki Saegusa and Masako Tezuka were discussing Miki's comments at the meeting.
"Do you know where the machine is being kept?" Masako asked.
Miki shook her head. "Mothra can feel it, but she hasn't told me explicitly where it is. In any case, I don't think she could articulate its location in terms I would understand; she is not familiar with modern-day Japan."
Fukazawa nodded in understanding. "If it really was the Maritomo company that stole it—they were the only ones that knew about it—there are many places where they might hide it."
Masako sighed. "There's no way we could authorize a complete search of all of their facilities on such short notice. Mothra and Battra will have leveled most of the country by then. And we certainly can't ask them."
The three of them stayed silent for a moment.
"I got it!" exclaimed Fukazawa. "Takuya!"
Masako looked at him incredulously. "You think he stole it?"
"No," he replied. "But if the Maritomo company has it, they've probably tried to contact him."
"You're right!" agreed Miki. "He's the only one they know who can read Naacal. They'd probably try to bring him onboard to help them."
Masako looked down and face-palmed. "So, where do we find him?"
"I have an idea!" replied Miki. "Follow me!" She led them to an empty room. She motioned for them to sit down. She remained standing, her eyes closed. She breathed deeply, inhaling for several seconds, holding for several more and than exhaling. After a couple of minutes, she smiled and began singing.

Mosura ya Mosura
Tasukete yo te yobeba
Toki o koete
Umi o koete
Nami no yo ni yatte kuru
Mamorigami

Mosura ya Mosura
Yasashisasae wasure
Arehateta
Hito no kokoro
Inorinagara utau
Ai no uta

"I know where he is! Mothra could sense him better than she could sense the machine itself."

***

Although Battra had completely wiped the welcoming committee of tanks and artillery, a second, more-powerful assault outside of Okazaki was more successful. But before that, the monster had cut a terrible swath through Okazaki, reducing its buildings to rubble and burning its population to cinders. Not even the Okazaki castle survived the maurading Battra, who blasted it from afar and reduced the 500-year-old relic of Japanese architecture into ashes. The JSDF tried minimize damage by lining the Yahagi River with mines and driving the creature upstream, but Battra ignored the explosions and moved forward.
Thus, the JSDF hid the artillery and missile batteries in the forests outside of Toyokawa and waited for the monster to leave Okazaki. When it moved into this more sparsely-populated área, the military opened fire on Battra. A ruthless bombardment of artillery pelted the monster's carapace until it had penetrated it in several places, severely injuring the monster. Yellow-green blood squirted all over the place, instantly melting any animal life that came into contact with it.
The creature had fought back, using its low energy reserves to fire its lightning ray at its attackers. It destroyed dozens of military vehicles and claimed dozens of lives, but it was eventually stopped it its tracks. Battra fell over to the side and was soon unconscious.

***

The maser cannons engaged in a prolonged game of cat-and-mouse with Mothra through the steel canyons of the Shibuya district. The larva wriggled its way through the commercial center, while the maser tanks stayed on the side streets, strafing the monster and flanking it, and then hiding behind buildings before Mothra could attack them with her corrosive silk. A few stray blasts from the maser cannons obliterated the Shibuya 109, bringing tons of rubble down upon Mothra.
It wriggled free and started following the tanks, who started to retreat toward the Cerulean Tower. As Mothra came into view, two canons fired and struck the insectoid beast between the eyes. Mothra squeaked in pain, and responded by firing a line of silk at the middle floors of the tower. The webbing stuck, but Mothra didn't cut the line. Instead, it began to creep away backward, pulling the line of silk. Suddenly, the stress on the line was so great that it began to pull at the architecture. The structure of the tower began to buckle under the force of the powerful silk strand. Finally, the tower collapsed and Mothra pulled the upper half of the Cerulean Tower onto three maser tanks, which exploded instantly.
Suddenly, Mothra switched directions: instead of moving north toward Mount Fuji, the monster turned southwest, heading toward the neighboring district of Setagawa, and then to Yokohama.

***

Just South of the Izu Islands, a fleet of warships sent in by the JMSDF surrounded Godzilla. A series of depth charges exploded around the monster's location, bringing the familiar dinosaurian behemoth to the surface. Torrents of water fell from his charcoal-black hide. He grinned at the destroyers that surrounded him, baring his mouth and its double-row of teeth. He let out a threatening elephantine bellow, challenging the destroyers to a death match.
The Kongo-class destroyers drew in closer to the nuclear nethelim of a monster. In a coordinated attack, dozens of Harpoon surface-to-surface miles fired from their pods, guided by the Aegis system to strike Godzilla in his chest and neck. Huge explosions buffeted the monster, explosions which would normally tear through the hull of an aircraft carrier. Godzilla shrieked in pain as the armaments ripped through his hide and sent pieces of his flesh into the Sea of Japan.
Even before the smoke cleared, hundreds of 54-caliber shells fired from the ships' Melara compact guns ripped deeper into the monster's exposed hide. Simultaneously, the radar-guided Phalanx CIWS guns opened fire, hitting Godzilla with a fuscillade of hundreds of thousands of rounds of 20mm ammunition. Godzilla tried to submerge to avoid the firepower, but strategically-placed mines were detonated, driving the monster back to the surface.
Godzilla's usual bell-like roar was replaced with a lingering screech of pain. He tried to block the explosions with his forearms, but he was now blocking the wrong part of his body. Dozens of Sting Ray torpedoes fired from the ships' anti-submarine defense system rocked Godzilla's midsection, further injuring the beast.
Godzilla's sneered and grunted. Blue lightning danced along his spines, which began to glow. The air around the monster began to crackle as the energy emitted from Godzilla's spines began to heat it to hundreds of degrees. Blueish-white energy began to gather around the monster's mouth.
Before he could fire his breath, several beams of energy struck his neck and chest. Losing his concentration, Godzilla looked up to see where the attack had come from. A squad of four VTOL aircraft—adapted from the Harrier jet—outfitted with twin maser canons flew in, blasting Godzilla with beams of microwave energy that could melt a tank. With intelligence received from the destroyers' initial attack, the pilots focused their state-of-the-art beam weapons on Godzilla's throat and chest.
Godzilla had a hard time focusing his attention with the attack coming from both sea and air. The wounds in his throat grew as the amplied microwave beams tore deeper into his flesh. At the same time, more destroyers were closing in, ready for a second bombardment with harpoon missiles.
Once more, Godzilla's dorsal spines began to glow. In fact, his entire began to glow, first blue and then white. The sea around him bubbled and boiled, almost obscuring the monster in a white vapor, quickly heated to hundreds of degrees. All of the sea life around him began to disintegrate. Suddenly, Godzilla let out a pulse of nuclear energy, which spread in all directions. All of the destroyers in the fleet instantly exploded, their crews vaporized by the heat. At the same moment, the VTOL maser aicraft also exploded. In fact, the aircraft carrier that had carried them into battle, located some 20 miles away from the battle, also exploded. In less than 5 seconds, Godzilla was the only living thing in the Sea of Japan in a 30-mile radius.