Wrath of God
Chapter 1: Choices we make
April 1999,
Vostok station, Antarctica
The Russian research station had become a battle station. The members of E.D.F. and U.N.G.C.C. were forced to take over the facility for a dangerously obvious reason. Their most powerful antihero was on a rampage because some idiosyncratic fools tried to blow him up with TNT.
"I wonder how such lunatics are on a loose?! I mean, what they thought TNT would do better than all the weaponry humanity has developed over the span of fifty years." spoke Dr. Miyuki Otonashi, the head of the E.D.F. science department.
"There's no time to quibble about that right now." Said Douglas Gordon "Quick, what's the status of MechaG and Super X-3."
"This is captain Ozaki. MechaG has lost laser canons, plasma grenade at 68%, mega buster is up for only 4 more shots. Also the armor plates are eroded up to 39%."
"Captain Kuroki from Super X-3, we lost the U.L.T. maser. Freezer missiles and cadmium shell payloads reduced to one-third."
"Two things. First, I hope those TNT using dumb wits die in a fire. Second, how in the world is that monster creating enough heat in this already supercool environment to damage those high heat resilient machines. " barked Gordon.
"It's irrelevant. We can still make it back in one piece. " the prodigious young scientist said with a smirk.
"Then please for God's sake stop goofing around and reveal your master plan. " came Gordon's words.
"Are you sure he won't get mad just in case the plan fails?" asked Miki Saegusa.
"We will succeed." There was sheer confidence in the doctor's voice. "OK, listen up. Lure the big guy to the iceberg situated at 800m straight north. The ice there is relatively brittle and a cavity can be easily opened around it. Head there and empty your remaining firearms on the grounds around the Target's location. This will trap him there until some idiot releases him."
"How are you so sure that this is going to work?" Gordon asked with suspicion.
"I've been studying him recently and his body is slowing down due to the low temperatures. So pushing him into a cool pit for a few time would be enough to render him into suspended animation."
12 Miles East of Vostok
The flying tank and the mechanical titan stood their ground against the most terrifying creature of all time as the were the last line of possible defense against the assaulter of mankind.
Their enemy, a 100m tall living nuclear powerhouse, has survived the many extinction events that shook the planet's ecological systems not to mention that the said beast has also bested every numbskull brave enough to challenge him. The ancient creature of unrivaled power, unbreakable will and untamable strength lashed out at his mechanical doppelganger head butting it square in the chest.
The man piloting one of the most advanced weapons felt the impact deep to his heart as he cursed the monster. The machine itself was thrown over half the distance towards their destination.
The resilient aircraft, the second opponent of the King of the monsters, was willed forward by its captain and went gliding through the bone chilling air at mach1.4 and beside the target. Godzilla was used to these kind of things but the low temperature made his body a bit more stiffer and the construct of man zooming past his head proved to be easily stunning.
The dorsal fins that were sported on the back of the monster King flashed an ominous bluish purple and a similarly hued beam of radioactive energy emerged from his maw like the eruption of a volcano, zapping a distance of 500m and striking the airborne Carrier dead on shaking it off the balance. MechaG fired half of it's remaining energy through the plasma grenade distracting Godzilla long for the duo to reach their field of advantage.
Godzilla regained his sense of balance and direction in no time and marched towards the two machines. Reaching the location of his enemies he looked out for them but found the spot oddly empty. He moved on towards and past a massive iceberg. The King stepped right into the trap set up for him. A flurry of blasts caused by the mega buster and small pulsejets of the plasma grenade enveloped his surroundings. The ice beneath the mighty saurian cracked and bulged inwards becoming a pit of deadly cold. Godzilla tried to get away but he was rammed by dozens of freezer missiles and cadmium shells. All attempts were futile because of the brittle nature of the ice beneath and the tyrannical beast was plunged deeper into his icy prison. The iceberg shattered as well and added to efforts of the puny humans to conquer a god.
Godzilla the King of the monsters was defeated or rather trapped by the combined wit of the humans.
Vostok station
Everyone rejoiced their victory except for one. Miki Saegusa without a doubt was ensured that it was Godzilla's own choice to some extent that allowed them to triumph. She shared a bond with the titan and had felt the incredible power that flows through his body.
"Now its time to move on to the next prey." Said Dr. Otonashi stretching her body.
"What?! There's another?!" came the shocked reaction of the commander and the two captains in a chorus.
In fact all the personnel were intently focused to get the answer. Is there another monster going rampant or is this some kind of unnerving joke.
"There's no more rogue monsters at the moment so calm down." The young brunette replied in a cheerful voice.
"So what was that 'next prey' thing about?" Sho Kuroki asked to clear the commotion that arose.
"There's a research project that will be conducted near the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station. It'll be initiated in a month and despite being nerdy about all this, I'm drained straight to my soul due to all this. I would probably go on a vacation and …." Otonashi was stopped in between her quibbling yet again by the commander and he pointed towards the screen showing the pilot of MechaG, Shin'ichi Ozaki scratching his head while repeating the words Antarctica and expedition.
"Hey, Ozaki? What's itching your brain?" asked the burly commander.
"Uh….does this project include someone by the name 'Katsuragi'?" said the pilot.
"Yes. Well its surprising to know that you have that information." replied the scientist.
"I was asked to join the carrier fleet during the research but I humbly turned them down as I'll be going on a vacation and won't come back before a month or some apocalyptic event befalls."
The screen was closed immediately by Gordon, who was pissed at how he had to work hard even in crammed up situation and one of his best soldier is getting a relief from the burden of duty. He then ordered everyone to prepare for their trip back home.
September 2000,
The South Pole, Antarctica
*Darkness*
She opened her eyes slowly and dizzily only to see her father to melt away like some cheap plastic. She clenched the cross around her neck as a river of tears flowed down her cheeks and she fought the pain. The pain of loss and the agonizing wound in her chest.
At a great distance the heat from seeds of life melted the ice prison of their own doom as a scaly clawed hand erupted from the weakened shards of ice and the surrounding area shimmered with a deep blue hue.
The girl witnessed the killers of her father. Four giant humanoids glowing a deathly white with each harboring a reddish black orb in their chest, two eyes reminiscent of the orb on their oval face and strange wings like appendages jutting out of their shoulders and ascending into the darkness over them enveloped by rainbow colored but predominantly red halos. One of the giants also sported a third eye on it's forehead.
She expected her end, but destiny had other plans. One of the giants was pushed by something followed by streaks of azure flames appearing over it's body before consuming it's entirety. Then the Adam exploded into a pool of boiling blood and ionized gases devastating a huge region in it's vicinity. Now only a giant cross was left in it's place. The escape pod safeguarding the purple haired teenager was shook by the force of the blast and the girl looked at the wielder of that power and her heart froze at the sight of a familiar yet terrifying form. The other three turned their gaze towards the source of their inconvenience only to meet the burning glare of death. Fiery orange eyes, with a murderous red hue in them positioned in a reptilian head with spear like teeth the size of full grown humans fencing the mouth, returned the gaze of the three.
The King of the monsters looked at the things which dared to threaten his home. To the Adams Godzilla was a obstruction in their objective on the other hand Godzilla was determined to save his home. The walking god threw a thunderous roar, *SKREEOONGKKK*, which for a brief moment stunned the Adams and slightly added to the pain of the only survivor of Katsuragi Expedition.
The Adams advanced on Godzilla and as a response the King charged his dorsal fins and in a blink of an eye unleashed his atomic breath catching the three-eyed one off-guard and pushing the other two aside with the blast force. But the Adam managed to survive the nuclear onslaught though it needed time to pull itself together, to which one of the other two threw it's Lance of Longinus at the saurian which pierced the scaly hide of the beast up to a few meters. *This hurts a little.* Then the second one did the same with successfully piercing the other side of his hide. *They're not making it back alive.*
The saurian pulled the lances out of his hide as the wounds began to vanish from his body. Then all of a sudden he started to feel something slipping. The back of his head felt weird. He focused his mind on the sensation and that's when dread reigned all over him for the first time in his life. The Marine life began to vanish from the oceans around the world. This is no natural event occurring on it's own. The King started to put the pieces in place and the answer to his dilemma came in the form of an optical energy blast from his two attackers. Godzilla was thrown to the ground and when he got up, something stirred deep inside him.
*YOU DESECRATED MY HOME. KILLED ALL THE INNOCENT LIFE.
PAY. WITH. YOUR. SOULS.*
This thought soared through space and into the very minds of the Adams. They unwittingly called upon their own demise.
The beings of light fired lances of light from their eyes but upon impact the energy beams danced around the King's titanic frame before seeping deep into the dorsal fins reminiscent of maple leaves and rising flames. Godzilla charged towards the Adams but he ran into a strange orange wall of light before he could tear these insolent weirdos limb-by-limb. This however didn't stopped him as he dug his claws in the A.T. field and effortlessly tore it like paper. Response to his assault came from the eyes of the Adams as they fired another barrage of energy blasts. The Leviathan didn't sustained any lasting damage and unleashed his fury as he let loose a terrifying super explosion from every square-inch of his body that devastated everything in a 3mile radius save for the escape pod. The Adams weren't unharmed, evident from their mangled and deficient frames. Godzilla approached his preys and stood over their heads like a mountain while his face was silhouetted by Doors of Guf in the sky. Yet the burning glow emanating from his eyes managed to reach the three seeds. Realizing that any further attempt would be futile the Adams retaliated by unleashing lances of light that struck Godzilla square in the chest pushing him away a little so that they can get up again. The Adams didn't healed their forms but fed the power back into their respective S 2 engines destabilizing it. The result of this was a explosion of humongous proportions that obliterated the land of ice and chiseled away the scales and flesh of the ancient beast remarkably.
After a short passage of time, probably minutes, the saurian regained his sense of balance and found himself floating in the remains of his failure. An ocean devoid of life and full of blood. There was nothing left save for the four huge crosses in the place of Adams and frozen yet existent Doors of Guf over them. When he was about to give in to his desolation he felt nothing but a single spark of life. Nearing towards its location he familiarized it to be a human. And a human was there indeed albeit in a strange capsule like thing which spared her the life.
The girl started to lose consciousness as, what would be named second impact, affected her to the point of near-death. She saw the scarred face of the other survivor looking with fiery orange eyes drained of life. *Darkness*
12hours later,
Coast of Fukushima, near the U.N.G.C.C. research facility
The waters were tinted red all of a sudden around the globe and sea level began to rise not to mention the drastic earthquake that changed the position of sun in the sky. The research facility was relatively safe because it was 500m above sea level and was designed to withstand earthquakes and tsunamis. But it was still prone to the nuclear powerhouse coming straight for them.
"Wasn't he supposed to be trapped in the Antarctic ice at the moment?!" barked Gordon.
"Satellite feeds show that there was an explosion at the South Pole which seems to have melted the ice." replied a somewhat panicked Otonashi.
"Great! Now he has blown Antarctica. Is there something else he would like to mess up?!"
"He is not here to destroy. He had nowhere else to approach." said the psychic named Miki in a depressed tone which didn't go unnoticed.
"What do you mean?" asked Gordon with curiosity and worry clear in his words.
"We have to go out for the answer." came the unclear reply.
Everyone moved out of the room as they were told by Miki. At the shore they saw three rows of dorsal fins closing in on them and slowing down before finally stopping about 40m away. Godzilla stood up from beneath the bloody water. Tons of seawater, which for some reason smelled like blood fell off the titanic saurian. The eyes of all were stunned at the sight of a bruised Godzilla holding a metal cylinder like object in his left claw. But what startled them most were the eyes that were now devoid of the spark and glory they once boasted. The saurian gently placed the cylinder before them and slowly started to stride back into the sea. Ozaki and Gordon went to the cylinder and opened the pod only to be baffled by a wounded girl lying in there on the transparent side of it. They pulled her out and laid her on the ground. The girl was somewhere around 14 or 15 years in age, with dark purple hair, albino skin, a cross hanging around her neck and a sickening wound in the chest.
Misato Katsuragi cracked her eyes open to get a hint on her situation. Otonashi and Miki rushed in to ease the effort of the girl to get up. She saw the saurian leaving for the deep reaches of the sea and mustered his name.
"He brought you here." came the words of a woman with short brown hair reaching to her chin.
"Do you remember what happened to you or how you ended up being with Godzilla?" asked the brunette in a lab coat.
The response came in the form of her sobs after which she blacked out. Gordon carried the girl in his arms to the medical wing inside the research center. Otonashi attended to the girl's wounds while another personnel attached an IV and a oxygen mask.
"I have many questions but only one is nagging me the most. What happened with Godzilla? I mean how was he so much bruised and battered?" asked the commander of E.D.F.
"I don't know. He didn't let me see." said Miki gravely.
"I've got a really bad feeling about this."
December 2004
Ozaki residence
Dr. Miyuki Ozaki received a letter from the U.N. with a job offer at the new science and military organization NERV. The mysterious 'Project E' which began in 2002 claimed the life of two of the most brilliant scientists of the world. The unnerving similarity between them and her was that they all had a single child whose age is nearly 4.
They claimed to save the world in case a catastrophic event like that at Antarctica in 2000 occurred. "Fools" was the only word that escaped her lips. Her attention was drawn by a little girl wearing a frock and a small straw hat.
"Mommy, I saw fishes with Kazama uncle." said the little girl with an ear to ear grin.
"How many fishes were there, sweetheart?" asked Miyuki with a warm and gentle smile.
Satomi Ozaki, the daughter of Shin'ichi Ozaki and Miyuki Otonashi started counting on her fingers and said "47 fishes Mommy."
The amused woman picked her up in her arms when Ozaki entered the room with a rather tired face.
"What wrong with you? You look pale like tofu." asked his wife.
He cocked an eyebrow on the apparent comparison of himself with tofu. He justified the weirdness with the notion that scientists are usually miserable at things other than science. "She actually counted the exact number of fishes, made Kazama jump into the pool with dolphins and spent one whole hour to chose what to eat which ended up being a Burger and a juice can."
"My sugarplum had lots of fun today. Didn't she?"
"And drained Kazama to the point of fatigue."
"Well that's perfect."
"How exactly?"
The answer stopped before coming out as Satomi slept in her mother's embrace and she took her to the bed. Ozaki sat on the sofa and then looked at a picture hanging on the wall to his right. The picture contained a dinosaur like beast standing upright with mammalian traits pronounced despite the reptilian visage. The beast sported 3 rows of maple leaf shaped dorsal plates with a larger central row running from the base of his to the tip of it's long crocodilian tail. The train of thought in his head was stopped by the voice of his wife.
"I'm refusing U.N.'s offer." she said.
"Why? Lost interest in science, huh?"
"No. Two things. First, I don't want to leave Satomi and you. Second, I know what happened back at Antarctica in 2000 and how we are still alive."
She looked first at his husband then at the picture of the saurian. Her face showed the regret that she still had. A hand gently rested on her shoulder.
"We owe him. Everyone does. But what happened is beyond our ability to change. We made choices and got the results. It could have been worse." said Ozaki to comfort his wife.
Miyuki started to weep and was embraced by her partner.
"I won't stop you if it makes you feel better. But I know how you feel. I won't get to enjoy hot springs in winter because there's no winter season anymore." Ozaki said out his thoughts.
Miyuki looked up at him with a tearstained but deadpanned face.
"Uh… I'm so-…."
His apology was cut short when Miyuki backed away and slammed her heel on his right foot all the while covering his mouth with her left hand to avoid his scream that may wake up Satomi. Ozaki pulled off his leg and started shaking it as another attack came in the words of his beautiful yet sometimes dangerous wife.
"You won't be getting any dinner tonight and that's final." announced the brunette and left the room.
"Thank goodness it was not a physical punishment like the foot crushing heel." exclaimed Ozaki and unknowingly said out loud "I'm happy that Kazama ordered a full course meal or I had to sleep on an empty stomach. I wonder if all the scientists are this much demonic."
The door at the corner of the room opened and Miyuki emerged through it with a happy smile having heard everything.
"Honey?"
"Yes?"
"So you think I am demonic? "
"What?! I never ever in my life said or thought anything like that. Trust me, please. I'm being absolutely honest. I tru-"the speech was halted when Miyuki played a CCTV footage on her PDA that was recorded when Ozaki said that.
A bead of sweat flowed down his face as his wife closed in on him cracking her knuckles.
"And you were saying that you only had a Burger and a juice can. So where did the full course meal part came from." Miyuki growled with a angry smile on her face that struck terror in the heart of the brave E.D.F. soldier.
Ozaki let his survival instinct take over the command and he quickly moved out of the incoming fist and ran out of the house screaming "I will explain it all later."
Miyuki chased him up to the exit of their house and then roared at her evading husband "Shin'ichi Ozaki you better come back right now or I'll never let you step in the house again!"
"If I come back then I won't be able to see the outside world for over a month." responded a distant Ozaki.
"You deserve that. And try your best because I will even dig out from the depths of hell if you manage to hide there." Yelled the brunette scientist.
Ozaki then heeded her advice and ran away to hide from his enraged life partner as good as possible.
Half an hour later
The house of Katsunori Kazama
The elite soldier of E.D.F. just received a phone call that scared the daylights out of him. He was hastily packing his clothes planning to go on a long holiday trip. He was so consumed with his packing and the terror that rooted in him that he failed to notice the sound of careful footsteps. Then a hand came resting on his shoulder along with a ghostly whispering of his name "~Kazama~". The terrified soldier shrieked and jumped away from the hand yelling "It was not my fault. Ozaki volunteered to join me."
"What did I joined you for and why are you so scared" asked the fugitive from home, Ozaki.
Kazama turned to look at the unexpected visitor. His emotion transitioned from fear to annoyance and rage. "You fool! You just gave me a heart attack."
"Is something wrong?"(looks at bags stuffed with clothes) "Are you going somewhere?" asked Ozaki.
"Miyuki just called me and said that she is coming here."
"Whaaaat?!(=\)
"Yes and that's why I'm going on a long vacation because you doomed me along with you. Your actions-"
"Stop blaming me. Its all your fault…."
The two elites quarreled while their villain entered the building with shock guns. Miyuki reached the room holding the two to-be victims of her and before any of the two could make an escape attempt both were shocked brutally. Smoke rose from their bodies and their hair stood up in perfect spikes.
After a while of torture later
"Call the ambulance yourself. I'm out of here." With these words Miyuki Ozaki left for her home leaving the two soldiers lying on the floor still trying to recover from their trauma. Then they both black out, snoring shakily.
This is my first fanfic. I hope you enjoyed reading this absurdity.
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This story takes inspiration from Greek mythology, Christian theology, metaphysics and real world science.