My first fanfic! It's mostly Star Wars and Godzilla stuff, but some scenes are parodys of other works. This story is also set in between ROTS and ANH and is also set after Final Wars.
Note: I'm not really sure if this is what would really happen if Darth Vader had met Godzilla. This is only my conception of how the conflict would go.
All characters belong to Lucasfilms and Toho. All rights reserved.
Chapter 1: The lion's den
Deep in the outer reigons of space, a lone imperial shuttle makes it's way through the abyss. It's very unusual for a ship like this to be even off the ground without at least two fighters acting as bodyguards for it, but today is different. All fighters with their pilots are elsewere.
Inside the white, oddly-shaped craft, a dark, helmeted figure sits in the cockpit. Silently, he guides the shuttle through the vast blackness with the most boring of ease, his hollow, mechanical breathing echoing off the walls. Suddenly, one of the many contraptions on his dashboard starts ringing to the tune "The Imperial March" by John Williams. The ominous-looking pilot raises a gloved hand and presses a small blue button on the device. Almost instantly, a small, blue, glowing hologram of a humanoid emits from a disk behind the steering wheel. The humanoid is old and frail, his face hidden behind a large hood. All that can be seen of it was his unfriendly, insidious mouth.
"What is thy bidding, my master?" said the dark pilot as he gazes at the oncoming message being played before him.
"Lord Vader." creaks the old, cloaked man, revealing himself to be none other than Emperor Palpatine, ruler of the grand empire of the galaxy and ultimate sith lord, "What is your current position?"
"I am nearing the planet now." replies the helmeted pilot, who is none other than the infamous sith warrior Darth Vader. Apprentice to the Emperor and leader of the 501st leigon, "Vader's Fist" as they call themselves.
The shuttle glides towards a medium blue and green planet with a small, grey moon.
"Good. Good. Have you established any contact with the stormtroopers you sent down?" said the Emperor, a smile spreading on what can be seen of his evil face.
Vader simply replied "Not yet. I'll just have to land near the area where they last contacted me. I'll use the force to find them from there."
"May the force be with you, Lord Vader. And beware, for the planet's protector may be watching."
The hologram flickers out, as the shuttle glides ever closer towards the planet.
Pah, thought Vader, the planet's protector is nothing more than a pile of bantha poodoo that some drunk smuggler came up with in a cantina just to get some high kicks. These so-called "legends" are stupider than an ill-educated Gungan, and that's saying something.
"Approaching destination." beeps an atromech droid plugged in the back corner, "Destination: Earth."
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Darth Vader's mission log:
A strange blue and green planet has been alerted to the Empire and the Galactic Republic far beyond the outer rim. About 25 parsecs to be exact. Seven to eight other planets have been discovered in the same system surrounding the same sun, but the third planet, the blue and green one, appears to be the only one capable of sustaining life. Readings indicate that the planet is called "Earth"; a simple, short name unlike Coruscant, Kamino or Tatooine. Readings also indicate that there is a dominant species populating most corners of this new world, on six of its seven continents. Dominant, but rather primitive. Scannings indicate that their humankind has only travelled into space a few times, and even then they never progress past their own moon. I on the other hand fly through space at least twice a day.
My mission is to send the 501st legion down to the planet and exterminate their defence forces, leaving the planet for the empire to claim. They appeared to be doing a tremendous job when they first landed, but a little while later we lost contact with them. Now my mission is to head down to the planet and find out what had happened to them. The officers aboard the Death Star and all of my imperial star destroyers say that the planet's fabled protector is responisible for the missing stormtroopers. Even my master, Emperor Palpatine, believes that the creature plays some part in his disturbed plans. I don't believe any of them. No matter what had happened on Earth, it is impossible for a creature that large to have survived my stormtrooper onslaught, and that even depends if it exists in the first place. I even reached out with the force a couple of times to confirm its non-existence, and recieved no signals of any abnormally large creature.
The imperial shuttle lands in a street somewhere in one of the planet's larger cities, close to where the 501st legion was dropped off earlier. It was located on a large island a couple of hundred kilometers from one of the bigger continents. According to Darth Vader's astromech droid, the island was titled "Japan", and the city he had landed in was named "Tokyo". Vader then steps out of the ship and surveys the area he has landed in.
The entire street was deserted. Silence echoed all around him. Not a single bird tittered. Not a single mammal scurried. The whole scene had some kind of eerie feel, like he had walked into a room just after someone was murdered in it. There was not a single living life form around him. Not a single LIVING life form. Vader looked around and saw several corpses of Earth humans lying everywhere.
At least my stormtroopers have done their job, the dark lord thought as he started walking down the road.
Strangely enough, there were barely any blastmarks on the humans. Vader walks up to one and examined it. Well, there were blastmarks. They just looked more like fatal burns than laser bolt holes. Maybe the stormtroopers had found some sort of earth weapon that could throw fire or something.
Darth Vader then stands up and studies the other corpses around him. Upon closer examination, Vader discovered that some of the bodies were actually some of his own stormtroopers, and that they were so burnt and disfigured that they were barely recognisable.
This was blasphemy! The humans were primitive. Their weapons were too primitive to outmatch the swiftness and power of the Imperial army. It was impossible for any Earthling to scorch whole stormtroopers alive like that.
"What could have done this?" Vader wandered aloud as he continues to search the streets for any survivors.
Now that he thought of it, there were barely any alien species in the galaxy who kills in battle by burning their victims. Not even the Daleks were capable of doing such damage in this way, so he couldn't have been beaten to this prize by a rival race.
Darth Vader then walks up to an enormous crater in the middle of the road. He leans down to take a look at it, thinking it was a blast mark from one of the AT-STs he sent down with the stromtroopers. Almost instantly, he felt an extremely large disturbance within the force. As if something big and dangerous was nearby. The disturbance reached right inside him and started tugging at what was left of his brain cells. For a second, everything went black. Vader couldn't see anything. He suddenly saw a face fly out of the darkness. A hideous, reptillian face, screaming at him. Fire flying out of his mouth with the wails of countless billions being scorched alive around him. The face then dissolves in a mass of bubbles and turnes into a lizard's skull, staring at him from the blackness.
At that moment, the sith snaps out of his vision when the ground around him starts to tremble. The tremor grows more and more intense, until Darth Vader loses his footing. He would have fallen flat on his face if it weren't for his force manipulating abilities keeping him upright. The earthquake kept on raging, and moving! Vader could sense the disturbance in the earth moving slowly beneath him, under the road he was standing on. It almost felt as if something was alive, and making it's way down the sewer lines.
Eventually the shaking subsides, and the sith lord could come to a standstill. He glances around, using the force to probe the street, seeking to see if anything had been damaged. His mental searching leads him to a narrow alley, about ten meters away from the crater where he was just about ten seconds before. But Vader's slow walk quickly turns to a swift one as he senses human life. Human life! For the first time ever since he landed on this primitive rock he had sensed proper humanoid life. And not just any human life. As Vader strides down the alley, he finds the commander of the 501st legion he sent down. Vader walked up to the stormtrooper general and studied him. He looked in a bad way. His normally white armour and helmet were scorched black with tooth marks in them. Blood was pouring from a wound in the shoulder where the armour had broken away. But the worst of the damages would be his legs. They were both severed from his torso and were lying just a meter away in a pool of blood.
Darth Vader was shocked beyond belief. This was worse than any of the other bodies he found near his ship. Now he was absolutely convinced that the earth humans hadn't done this.
Studying the bite marks ringing the stormtrooper's torso, he could tell that he was bitten in half by some sort of an animal. A very large one at that. And it was obviously some sort of superpredator.
But what? Vader thought as he stares at the marks, perplexed.
At this, the stormtrooper, or what was left of him, groaned and raises his head. He is still alive!
Not skipping a beat, Vader kneels down over the dying figure and whispers "Who did this to you?"
By now the Stormtrooper was wide awake, and he started to babble.
"It was horrible! Humans and troops being burned alive! Explosions! No-one was spared!"
Not listening to this random ramblings, Vader spots something in the near by rubbish dumpster. He leans forward and picks it up. Looking closely at it, he identifies it as a cigarette lighter. According the the archives, earth humans use this contraption to light tubes of drugs and inhale the smoke.
Not wasting another second, Darth holds the lighter in front of the stormtrooper's bloodied face. He ignites it and says in a slow and steady voice "What did you see?"
Instantly, the stormtrooper stops talking and stares at the flame in front of him, captivated by the flame. Reassured, he whispers in a barely audible tone.
"Godzilla."
That's all I had planned for this first chapter. It was really intended just to explain what Darth Vader was doing in Godzilla's territory in the first place. The big G will appear in the next chapter and the fight will begin, I promise.
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