Hail to the King

by Thuktun Flishithy

STANDARD DISCLAIMER: I do not own the rights to either Godzilla, Zone Fighter, or Evangelion. This is a non-profit fanwork.

The astonishing event that altered the courses of two entire worlds had begun as a secretive experiment on an isle in the Ogawasara chain, formerly called Chichi-jima and now known to the public as "Monster Island", where the some of the most fearsome creatures in the world were contained and studied. The island had been chosen for the experiment due in part to its remoteness from human civilization and its already impressive scientific facilities. The experiment's nature was unknown to the public, all they knew was that it was called "Dimension Tide", a rather unassuming name. Little did they know how much impact it would have on the world.

Captain Gordon of the Earth Defense Force stood like a stone statue, observing the experiment unfold before him. Of course, it was only through a viewscreen. The actual experiment was farther away, a good kilometer from the main base, as it was considered too dangerous to be in the building itself. Turning his head slightly, he spoke to the young woman at his side. The woman was small, only coming up to Gordon's chest, and wore the standard uniform of those assigned to Monster Island.

"Miss Saegusa, are all the monsters secured? I don't want one of them barging in and smashing the generator."

Miki Saegusa smiled, an almost blissful look on her young face. "Rodan and Anguirus are on the other side of the island, resting. Varan, Manda, Baragon, Kumonga, and Gorosaurus are contained within their forcefields and Gojiran scent emitters are turned up to maximum."

"And Godzilla?" Gordon asked. The idea of the 100 meter tall radioactive dinosaur investigating and potentially damaging the experiment was not an appealing one, especially considered the dangerous forces at work.

Miki furrowed her eyebrows in concentration, probing once more for the titanic saurian with her mind. "He's sleeping in the lagoon, as we previously checked. It'd take something big to wake him up, so we have little to fear."

Gordon nodded curtly. "He's always enjoyed his beauty sleep." He turned to the scientist at the main computer console in the control room, a middle-aged woman in a red lab coat. "Miss Ontonashi, start up the experiment. Low power, we don't want to make it too big."

Miyuki Ontonashi nodded and started up the experiment. A kilometer away, large generators whirred to life, feeding power into the device, which looked like something more at home at CERN than a tropical island . In the center of the machine, a microscopic sphere appeared, perfectly round and blacker than coal.

"We have an event horizon." Ontonashi said excitedly. "Shall I feed more power into it?"

Gordon shook his head. "Let's not take any chances. This is a first-time experiment, remember? Cut the power."

Ontonashi nodded and did as told. It was then that everything went to hell, as experiments were wont to do in this world for some unknown reason. Instead of eventually disappearing, the black hole began to expand, ever so slightly. The machinery surrounding the hole began to groan and tear from the stresses placed on it. It got to the point that Gordon and the others could hear it from the base.

"Of course," Gordon grumbled.

Suddenly, Miki put her hand to her forehead. "Captain Gordon, Godzilla's woken up! He's heading for Dimension Tide!"

Sure enough, a familiar roar rolled across the island, a sound that had struck terror into the hearts of men and monsters alike. Godzilla trudged forward, his jagged dorsal spines clattering with each step. He was moving quicker than usual, seemingly in a hurry to get to the Dimension Tide. Roaring once more, he finally made it to the large machine and began clawing at it, tearing huge gashes in the metal. Had Godzilla been trained in theoretical physics and briefed on the experiment, he would have realized that this was a very bad thing to do.

Elsewhere on the island, the other monsters were losing it, which would have been an absolutely terrifying sight for any hapless person nearby. Baragon began furiously clawing at the ground with his large front paws, trying to ignore the fearsome scent of Godzilla emitted by nearby sprayers. Anguirus, who treated the barriers as mere nuisances and simply lived on the island because he enjoyed the climate, roared and began to trot towards the machine as well, tearing a huge path through the forest and any wall unfortunate to be in his way. Rodan spread his wings and took off, a sonic boom following in his wake.

They were too late. It happened so suddenly that many workers at the base thought they were hallucinating. The machine crumpled inwards, revealing the still microscopic black hole. Godzilla, a storage depot, and thousands of tons of earth were pulled in, disappearing into the puny nothingness of the singularity. As quickly as it had appeared it vanished in a blinding flash of light, leaving a perfectly smooth and neat hole in the ground. The surrounding air rushed in to fill the sudden vacuum, resulting in a hellish cacophony of noise.

Gordon and the others simply stared at where the mighty titan had stood, shocked. Anguirus and Rodan arrived at the site, looking for their ally and friend. Anguirus stepped into the crater and sniffed around, hoping to find his old friend somewhere in the crater. When he realized that Godzilla was gone, he roared softly. Rodan stood nearby, looking as forlorn as a mutated pterosaur could.

After a few moments of silence, Gordon turned to Ontonashi. "Get another machine ready, ASAP."

"I beg your pardon?" Miyuki asked. "Did you just what happened? Why would you want to replicate that?"

"There's no way in hell I'm just going to give up our most powerful defender. You said it yourself, Dimension Tide doesn't destroy things, it sends them elsewhere. An alternate universe or dimension or something. We need to find that place and get him back." Gordon replied stonily. He turned to Miki, who was trying her best to stifle some tears. "Contact Rodan and Anguirus and try to calm them somewhat. I don't want those two monsters to get agitated."

Miki nodded. "Yes, sir," she said weakly. She closed her eyes once more and reached out to the two kaiju.

Gordon activated his wrist communicator. "Ozaki, get the Super X on standby and tell the security team to be on high alert."

"Roger." Ozaki replied over the communicator.

Gordon paused briefly, then turned back to Ontonashi. "What was in that storage depot?"

Miyuki pulled up some data from the computer and read it over. "Mainly samples of kaiju tissue. It also had the Zone Capsule," she said.

Gordon grunted. "All the more reason to find Godzilla. We need to hurry with the operation, Dr. Otonashi. Get to work."

As everyone set to work, Gordon wondered just where Godzilla could have gone.

Somewhere over the ocean in another world, a hole appeared in space and time, dropping 70,000 tons of giant saurian with a mighty splash. Godzilla thrashed about in the water, trying to regain his sense of balance after his strange trip across universes. It didn't help that it was nighttime. Finally, he rose from the waves, growling angrily. It was then that the stench hit him. If it wasn't for his stubborn pride, he would have retched. It was the smell of death, something all to familiar to the radioactive leviathan. His senses were so keen he could even tell apart the various species of the dead. He smelled sharks, whales, countless fish... and humans.

Godzilla was confused. Where could all of this death have come from? It extended beyond the limits of his senses, the amount was truly staggering. It reminded him too much of the aftermath of Ghidorah's attack during the Cretaceous, when the demonic hydra had nearly succeeded in killing the world. He searched the waters, looking for any signs of life with all of his senses. Nothing. The seas were lifeless, devoid of anything larger than plankton. Could the strange incident that brought him have done it? He dismissed the notion quickly. He had survived, surely the other monsters should have as well.

As he continued to ponder what had happened, his shock and confusion turned into rage. Something had done this to the world. Something had rendered the seas lifeless and upset the balance of nature that he had sworn to protect aeons ago. Something had killed countless humans and his friends as well.

Something had killed his son.

He roared again, an animalistic howl of rage that could be heard for miles around, the very sea around him trembling before its fury. He would find what had done this and make it pay with its blood. An evil on this scale could not go unpunished, he must destroy whatever had broken this world.

Coincidentally enough, he could sense something now, a large creature close to his size swimming far away. It felt off, like something unnatural. If he were thinking more like a human, Godzilla would have described what he sensed from it as a "creepy vibe." Was this the thing responsible? It was possible, but he had no way of knowing for sure.

There was only one way to find out.

He began swimming after it, his powerful body gliding through the waves faster than any naval vessel, an impressive feat for such titanic creature. His dorsal spines sliced through the water, leaving waves that could capsize small boats in their wake. Soon he would find the thing and avenge this bloodshed.

The King was on the hunt.

NEW A/N: I have edited this chapter, fleshing it out a bit more and fixing some inconsistencies it had with the later chapters.

A/N: This is my first fanfic. Godzilla is a composite from his various incarnations. He's like the Showa version in that he's ultimately a good guy and has the same level of intelligence. However, he's more like Final Wars in terms of power and more like Heisei in terms of temperament. As for design, imagine a slightly more muscular Final Wars version with more rounded out dorsal plates and the Heisei head design. He's also very old like the 2014 version. Please R&R!