— White House - Situation Room —
24 hours after Natchez was attacked, President Jonah Crump sat at the long conference table, facing the large screen at the end of the room that compiled the situation from the beginning until now.
"Okay, we finally drove it back to the river. The question is, what do we know about this oversized snake? How can we kill it without turning half of Mississippi and part of Louisiana into a fallout zone?"
The four-star general, General Hammond J. Thompson, reached for the remote and turned on the screen.
The screen began playing footage recorded from soldiers' body cameras, showing the battle between the National Guard, federal forces, and the Kaiju known as the Leviathan.
The recording showed countless attacks striking the Leviathan. Whether artillery shells, rockets, missiles, or ordinary bullets, every attack was blocked by a blue shield-like barrier that appeared whenever it was hit.
The general paused the video at one of those moments.
