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Rebecca groaned, rubbing her eyes. It looked like Dragon was still assembling the list that she'd asked her for - almost all of the names she was after weren't here yet.
She moved her mouse aimlessly, thinking. Should she wait for Dragon to finish making the list, or hunt down the rest of the names herself? The Earth Bet names were the most pressing ones, but considering what was coming, being familiar with the other kinds of parahumans in the other Earths might soon be a necessity, rather than a hobby.
She was saved from having to decide by the ringing of her mobile phone. She sighed, but answered it. "Director Costa-Brown, PRT."
"Ah, Costa-Brown! I was just looking for Alexandria - I don't suppose you know where she is?"
"Legend?" Rebecca blinked. "We've talked before about calling me at work - "
"Rebecca." Any humour in Legend's voice evaporated. "We need you. Now."
Within five minutes her body double was in place, her costume was on, and she was half-way across the Atlantic homing in on the GPS coordinates Legend had sent.
There was no real need to tell her what the problem was - she could see it while still five miles out. The beast had to be pushing 300 feet at least. It sort-of reminded her of a Tyrannosaurus Rex with it's stance on two legs, but it's tail was far lower to the ground, and its arms were larger. Down it's back were spines like those from a Stegosaurus, and it's skin looked like it was comprised entirely of keloidal scarring.
She was snapped out of her surprise by the sight of multiple laser beams crashing into the beast from the side. Legend. Within a moment, she spotted her old teammate and had zoomed over to him.
"Alexandria!" He greeted her, in what would have been a cheerful manner if it weren't for the sweat down his face. "So glad you could join me out here!"
"What the hell is that?!" She screamed at him.
The beast gave a fierce, primordial roar, already back on its feet and beginning to charge across the small island towards them. Legend and Alexandria both scattered, circling around to the other side of the creature and watching it crash into the ocean.
"It's not an Endbringer, in case you were wondering." Legend seemed to be getting cheerier by the moment, possibly relived that he had backup now. "For one thing, this thing actually seems to care when I attack it."
"Where is the rest of your team?"
"We're too far away from New York for them to keep up with me. I need help from people who can fly fast and punch hard."
"So you thought of me."
The creature turned around with surprising speed, its spines suddenly glowing blue. It roared again, and Alexandria was only slightly surprised to see a plume of blue energy erupt out of the creature's mouth. Alexandria flew to one side, but Legend just turned to light and bathed in the energy.
"Whew. Thanks buddy, I needed the top-up." Legend wiped his brow. "The locals have been calling this guy 'Godzilla'. Y'know, on account of it being a terrifyingly powerful lizard. Apparently, he just showed up out of the ocean a few minutes ago, no clues as to where he came from."
So saying, Legend unloaded another salvo of lasers into the creature, this time freezing the targeted skin on contact. Godzilla roared again, the frozen areas already steaming as the ice sublimated.
"I've been trying to keep him away from the populated islands around here, but the guy just keeps getting back up no matter what I do to him. You think you would have any more luck?"
Alexandria took that as the challenge it was. She flew in close to the creature, zipping under its clumsy claw strike and around its torso until she was flying along its tail. She grabbed a particularly sturdy-looking spine and pulled.
By the feel of things, Godzilla weighed somewhere around a million tonnes. Heavy, not not too heavy for her. With an undignified screech from Godzilla, Alexandria lifted him bodily into the air. Then, with a great scream of effort on her part, swung the massive monster around by its tail. Forwards. Backwards. Forwards again, and then one complete rotation to slam the giant monster into the ground with a ground-shaking boom.
Godzilla sank a good ten metres into the ground. Cracks in the ground shot outward from him like the threads of a spiderweb. Trees toppled over, and a think layer of dust floated up out of the ground.
Then Godzilla rolled to its feet and breathed that blue plume of energy in her face.
Legend tackled her out of the way of the blast, shaking his head. "This guy can really move when he wants to!"
"I thought you said it cared when you attacked it!" Alexandria yelled.
"It does!" Legend fired yet another salvo of lasers into Godzilla. "It gets angrier!"
The fight progressed in much the same way for the next few infinitely-long minutes. Godzilla had trouble just catching the two Triumvirate members, and didn't seem to have any way to really hurt them. But on the same vein, the giant lizard seemed to recover and heal from anything they did to him and returned right back to attacking them.
"It's like fighting a giant, slower version of Crawler!" Alexandria screamed, currently performing the rather un-heroic act of trying to throw boulders into Godzilla's eyes. "Only without the adaptation, thank God!"
Godzilla spun around, trying to swat the annoying bugs with his tail, but to people used to fighting the (must faster) Leviathan he might as well have well pirouetted. Both heroes ducked under the attack easily.
"Yeah, but just like Crawler I don't see an end to this fight!" Legend replied.
Godzilla's spines once again started glowing blue, the tell-tale sign of that blue energy plume attack. Both heroes flew down to dodge it -
- and were both caught off guard as Godzilla suddenly swiped with his tail instead.
The half-second of surprise was all it took for the enormous appendage to slam into Alexandria and Legend, sending both sprawling through the air.
Godzilla quickly pressed his advantage by stepping forward, seeking to crush the two underfoot. Alexandria got her arms up just in time to catch nearly a million tonnes of lizard on the way down.
Legend zipped out from under the giant scaled foot and started peppering Godzilla with lasers, trying to get him to get off him teammate, but the lizard was determined. While Alexandria was still trying to get proper leverage, it leaned down, it's dorsal fins glowing blue once again...
...before abruptly, a new voice boomed out from behind Godzilla's head. "SLEEP."
Godzilla's eyes widened, then ever-so-slowly closed as the monster began to sway on its feet. Feeling the weight above her shift, Alexandria heaved, and Godzilla topped backwards off her and fell down onto his back. He did not get back up.
"Sorry I'm late." Eidolon apologised, floating down to Alexandria (Legend right behind him). "All those with Mover powers were busy, and it took me a few minutes to get one of my own."
Alexandria sighed. "You called Eidolon as well, Legend?"
Legend shrugged. "Nope. Not me."
"You two do know that cape-watchers are a thing, right?" Eidolon asked. "When two of the Triumvirate go flying off who-knows-where, people notice. People who worry. People like me."
"So what's the deal with this thing?" Eidolon looked down at Godzilla, scratching the outside of his hood. "Man or monster?"
Legend shrugged, and floated down closer to the downed lizard. "Could be either, really. Might be a really smart lizard, might be a really stupid (not to mention extreme) Case 53..."
Behind Legend's back, Alexandria glanced at Eidolon, who saw her looking and shook his head just enough to be noticeable.
"...but I'm thinking this was made by Nilbog or someone like him." Legend finished, unaware of the byplay behind him. "What was the name of that other monster-maker? You know, the one that keeps showing up on Earths he shouldn't be able to get to?"
"The Count of St. Germain." Alexandria answered. "And the Count is a group, not a man."
"Right, him. Er, them." Legend said. "They could be behind something like this."
"Maybe." Alexandria said morosely, something neither of her long-standing friends missed. Legend and Eidolon shared a look.
Ultimately, Legend cleared his throat. "Something bothering you, Alexandria?"
"It's too weak to be an Endbringer, too monstrous even for the 53s, and if a bio-Tinker made it, what's it doing attacking a sparsely-populated island in the middle of the ocean?" Alexandria's mouth twisted into a grimace. "Its another example that the rules are changing from the ones we knew."
Legend floated around in front of Alexandria. "Listen, Alexandria, I know this is confusing, but I'm sure there's a rational - "
He made to clap Alexandria on the shoulder, but she swatted his hand away. "Don't kid yourself. You've seen the same reports I have. Parahuman incidents are skyrocketing even faster than Number Man's calculations. His maths is never wrong - if his models are wrong, it's because we don't know enough about what's really going on."
Eidolon spoke up. "Did something happen?"
For a moment, Alexandria was quiet.
"Meet me at the compound tonight."
And with that, she flew off, leaving the two men along with the lizard.
...
"Um, so, what are we going to do with this thing, exactly?"
AN: There's a thread on SpaceBattles that discusses how Worm's Parahuman Response Team (PRT) would categorise characters from other settings. After a hundred or so pages of that, people began to feel sorry for the version of the PRT that had to deal with all the random overpowered people being discussed.
And so a story began...