Kong grabs Godzilla and headbutts him sending him reeling. Godzilla attacks the convoy, tearing through ships and reaching out for Kong, eventually managing to draw him out. Navy that carries a sedated and restrained Kong. Nathan, Ilene, and an Apex team led by Walter's daughter Maia board a modified barge escorted by the U.S. Nathan meets with Ilene and after a heated debate, convinces her to let Kong guide them through the Hollow Earth via an outpost in Antarctica by arguing the threat of Godzilla. He agrees after Walter reveals that Apex has developed HEAVs, specialized crafts able to withstand the pressure exerted by the gravity field upon inversion unlike regular ones, which caused the death of his brother. Nathan is initially hesitant as his brother died in an expedition to the Hollow Earth due to a strong reverse-gravitational effect. Madison Russell, an avid listener of Bernie's podcast, enlists her friend Josh to investigate Godzilla's activities alongside Bernie, as she believes he would not turn on humanity so easily.Īpex CEO Walter Simmons recruits Nathan Lind, former Monarch scientist and Hollow Earth theorist, to lead a search for a power source into the Hollow Earth, the home-world and spawning site of all Titans.
During the rampage, he stumbles on a massive device that seems to be emitting a noise that is angering Godzilla. However, Godzilla suddenly attacks the facility causing mass hysteria where Bernie is allowed escape. In Pensacola, Florida, Bernie Hayes, an employee of Apex Cybernetics and host of a Titan conspiracy theory podcast, surreptitiously extracts data regarding sinister activities at their facility.
Jia returns to Ilene and reaffirms that Kong is angered at his containment, while another MONARCH official questions Ilene about off-site solutions, which Ilene shoots down due to their risk and the island being the one thing protecting Kong from Godzilla, stating "there has to be another way". Taking notice of her offering, he throws a large tree at the "sky" revealing the true nature of the containment facility and expressing his extreme displeasure at being trapped inside against his will.
Kong is visited by Jia, the last Iwi native and Kong expert Ilene Andrews' adopted daughter, who is deaf and communicates with Kong via sign language. A few years after Camazotz brought his storm upon Skull Island, Kong is being monitored by Monarch within a giant biodome built to contain him safely.