Hello everyone! When I last left you, the Statue of Liberty was bitten in half by momma Clover. No destruction this chapter but you get some dismemberment. Enjoy!
A Second Threat
Ruins of Manhattan, 5 am;
The entire group looked on in terrified shock at the Statue of Liberty. The once proud symbol of American freedom had been decapitated the night before by the first creature but that paled in comparison to the sight before them now. From what could be called the statue's waist up was gone. Looking more closely showed what looked like massive claw marks on the base and at the waste was one enormous bite mark, it looked as if something had bitten the statue in half! The original height of statue was 151 feet tall not including its pedestal, now it was half that, meaning the maw of something large enough to do that was at least 75 feet long, and from the marks, its teeth were fittingly massive. "What on earth could do that?" asked Rob, already feeling the sense of dread crawling through his thoughts of what had to of done that, another monster, an adult.
The group followed Sergeant Pryce back into the base. He set down, rubbing his temples, the man was unsure what to do. "Sergeant, what in the world is going on?" asked Beth.
"What do you expect me to know that you don't? The Statue of Liberty has been torn in half, there are massive foot prints outside and the first creature's body is gone. What on god's green earth would have any reason to do that?" asked Pryce, obviously in no mood for the question.
The group looked down, knowing full well what would have reason to come here and take the body of the dead monster, its parent, its 700-1000 foot long parent, its parent that had a mouth large enough to eat half the Statue of Liberty in one bite. "So the monster's parent came here to take its son's body back to the ocean. What now? It's got what it wanted, it'll head back to the trench." said Rob, trying not to think of the destruction that monster could cause.
"No, I don't think it's got what it wants." said Pryce, intense look on his face. "Have you ever seen the movie The Beast? A town is menaced by a giant squid, they manage to kill it but find out they killed a baby. Well the mother comes to retrieve her son's body and does but that wasn't enough, she wanted revenge for her kid. Now our monster has her son's body but what if she wants revenge?"
The group looked shocked. The infant had left Manhattan destroyed and in rubble, his mother was enormous, easily three times the size of the monster that had been killed, there was no telling how much destruction she could cause. "What do we do?" asked Lily.
"Well I honestly have no idea. Do you have any idea how much firepower it took to kill this one? We had to use an entire fleet of bombers' entire payload of bombs and a GBU-43/B Massive Ordinance Airblast Bomb, which we've so appropriately nicknamed the Mother of All Bombs, just to kill this one and you told us yourself, it was still alive after that!" yelled Pryce "Pretty much the only thing more powerful than a MOAB we have is a nuke and if that monster comes on American soil, we can't use that to kill it."
The group just stood in silence at that. "So what about evacuations?" asked Rob.
Pryce quickly got on the radio to the White House and told the president of the situation. Once his conversation ended, he came back to the group. "Well I just received a promotion to general, I'm now in charge of combating the adult if she turns up on American soil, lucky me." said Pryce, laughing a little. "I've wanted a promotion for years but apparently I have to kill a giant monster to get it." he looked at the group. "You still have your camcorder?"
"Yeah." said Rob, a little surprised.
"You recorded the entire night right?"
"Well our friend did."
"Good, because at the moment you're the only witnesses we have that recorded that night from beginning to end, if there are others they'll be found but right now everyone in this base are as close to experts on this thing that we have, I was ordered to take you to the Pentagon as soon as possible."
The group was about to reply when gunfire and screaming came from outside. The group ran outside but froze as they saw what was happening. A single parasite was outside but it was at least the size of a car. It had already torn one solder apart and was ignoring bullets striking its skin. It rushed at another, the man fired at it but his gun proved useless. It leapt on him and took his head off in one bite. It turned to the other soldiers firing at it and leapt pinning two down and biting a third's torso off before sinking its snout into the other two.
"Don't try anything stupid." said Pryce as he ran into the base. The monster parasite turned as it noticed the group. It leapt at Beth, she screamed but the monster suddenly seemed to just explode, covering her in its blood. Rob quickly ran over to calm her down as Pryce walked up holding a smoking bazooka.
"What was that thing?!" yelled Lily.
"It looked like one of the parasites from the young one but it was huge." said Rob, in shock.
"My guess, bigger creature, bigger bugs." said Pryce, tossing Beth a towel. He looked at the remains of the parasite and the solders. "More food in a bigger body."
"But there were hundreds of theses things on the young one." said Rob in shock.
"And I bet there are hundreds of theses things on the big one."
Deep Ocean Trench, 5:15 am;
The mother mourned in the depths over her dead infant. He was all she'd had, her only family, her mate had died before her son's birth, she was all alone now. She curled her enormous, heavily muscled main arms around her murdered brood, letting out resonating wails of anguish and sorrow. She knew the creatures that lived on that surface world had done this, they'd killed her son, they'd pay. She let out a roar of rage that would be heard miles away, human sonar would detect the monster's angry howl, unknowing of what it was but all manner of sea creatures new very well what it was. It was a declaration of war, the colossus now declared war on mankind, on those who had killed her child in cold blood. In her mind she made an oath, for every drop of her son's blood that had been spilled, gallons of human blood would be spilled…
Alright, next chapter our vengeful monster begins her rampage of death and destruction! If you want me to update quicker, tell me in a review!
