Ok it took awhile, but here it is. I wanted to do something a little different with these daikaiju, and *gasp* a surprise twist! :O

Hope you all enjoy

Chapter 8 - "Millenium"

(Tokyo, Japan: Six minutes to millennium)

Outside the tower, the battle of the millennium had begun. Gigan raced forward, arms outstretched and ready to slash. Godzilla charged, and ducked as Gigan swung. He slid pass Gigan and turned around, firing an atomic ray into Gigan's back. The blow knocked Gigan down, but not for long. Gigan took to the skies. He fired his orb cannon, and an array of colorful green and purple orbs showered down. Everything exploded around Godzilla.

Amidst the chaos, Godzilla managed to pinpoint Gigan. He fired another ray, which struck Gigan. As he fell, Godzilla grabbed for his tail and spun Gigan in circles. He hurled Gigan, but he caught his balance. Gigan roared in defiance, smacking his scythes together.

Thorne led the way as he and the others searched for an exit. Not far ahead was an EXIT sign. He pointed, and the group followed a sharp turn. As they rounded the corner, there was a high-pitched squeal, followed by gunfire. Another bug man.

This one was rather large and black, crawling on all six legs. It's giant head supported to yellow eyes and large fang-like mandibles. Fillyp and Thorne shot at it, but it knocked Thorne into the nearby wall and lunged for Shota and Yumi. Fillyp fired his semi-automatic, and the beast was distracted monentarily.

Shota, Yumi and Kouta took the chance to run, but Eric was pulled back. He screamed for help as he was dragged down the hall and into an elevator shaft. There was no elevator, just a drop straight down into the abyss. When he was turned around, Eric saw his captor.

"Hello, boy," the pale man said. He was foaming at the mouth, which was nothing more than a black hole with several mandibles reaching out and snapping at Eric's face. He looked like a giant cockroach wearing a tattered white shirt. The pale human mask he wore was peeling off, revealing the ugly truth that lie underneath.

Eric looked over his shoulder at the bottomless pit.

Those hideous black eyes stared into Eric as he spoke. "Looks like a far drop. Are you scared? Is that fear I smell? Ha. It is the one thing that holds you back, that keeps you forever one step below us...

As he continued talking, Eric reached into his back pocket.

"For centuries you have been carelessly killing anything in your paths. Well, tonight it looks like the tables have turned. I have been waiting for this moment for a very long time."

Eric held tightly to something in his hand, something Thorne had given him just a few moments ago. "You're the one who killed Miki and set Godzilla on a rampage. Because of you, your plan is flawed. Godzilla will win tonight, and you'll all go back into hiding until we come for you. Believe me, we'll kill you all. This is our world, not yours."

"How can you be so confident? Your race is pathetic." He pulled Eric close, breathing on him. The putrid smell of human flesh lingered. "You don't know what it means to survive."

"We don't want to survive," he said, pulling his hand out from behind him. "We want to live!"

The pale man screamed as Eric dug the taser into his face. For a moment he let go, and Eric tried to catch his balance without falling backward. He leapt back into the hallway, and turned around. The pale man lunged at him, and he jabbed the taser down his throat. The cockroach leader let out a hideous, bone-chilling wail of pain. He writhed and shook violently, then backed up to the open elevator door. His anger building inside him, Eric felt his own rampage.

"This one's for Harper." He ran forward and kicked the pale man into the elevator shaft. Down he fell into the darkness, as if sucked in by a black hole. Eric sighed, turning around to catch up with the group.

He heard a loud shriek coming from the elevator shaft. Turning around, Eric looked down. The pale man was crawling back up! Hurriedly, Eric did the only thing he could think to do.

He hit the down button.

There was a sound of grinding metal, then a snap as if something broke loose. The sound of something heavy grew louder, and just as the cockroach was reaching out to Eric, the elevator crashed down, smashing the bug and falling to the bottom of the building.

"Eric!" Thorne yelled from the end of the hall. Eric turned and began to run. He followed Thorne to the others, who waited for them down by the stairs exit. Marcus was there waiting for them.

"Are you okay?" Yumi asked, touching Eric's ripped shirt.

"I'm fine," he said. "Let's just get the hell out of here."

Thorne nodded. "Good idea. Marcus, lead the way."

Marcus kicked open the door to the stairs, and scanned the area for bugs. He motioned everyone to follow. First Shota, then Yumi and Kouta and Eric ran down the stairs, while Thorne and Fillyp took up the rear.

"Bugs below!" Marcus shouted, shooting several flights below. The group peered over to see several cockroach humanoids climbing the stairs and walls. Thorne and Fillyp leaned over, and the three began taking out the cockroaches one by one. Some stayed down, others got back up and kept climbing.

"If we make it out of this," Kouta said to no one in particular, "Let's all take a vacation."

(3 minutes to millennium)

Gigan fired his laser, trying to aim for Godzilla's eyes. Godzilla took cover behind a burning building. Gigan rushed forward, tearing the building down. When it fell, Godzilla was nowhere to be seen. Confused, Gigan scanned the area.

Behind him, Godzilla was about to fire another blast at Gigan in the back of the head. Gigan was quick though, and he spun around. Using his other scythe arm, he split it into his three-clawed pincer arm and grabbed hold of Godzilla around the waist. Squeezing, he sunk the blades deep into Godzilla, who roared with pain. With all the strength he could muster, Gigan lifted Godzilla above his head and threw him. He crashed to the ground, and struggled to get up. Gigan took the chance to fire his buzz saw, and the blade popped out. It spun along the ground toward Godzilla.

Godzilla saw the blade coming but didn't immediately get up. He waited. No fear remained in him. In its place, sadness ruled. And where there was sadness, there was anger. He looked up at Gigan, who was motionless. He made no other attempts to attack Godzilla while the buzz sped closer.

At the last minute, Godzilla got up. He dodged the buzz saw, and fired an atomic ray right into Gigan's open chest. The explosion was great, nearly splitting Gigan in two. He remained standing, though his torso looked like a mesh of wire, metal and blood.

Godzilla charged and threw himself into Gigan. He punched, he kicked, he bit down hard into the cyborg. The head was dislocated, and an arm fell off. The king had so much rage in him that he didn't stop until there was nothing left in front of him to fight. He was holding chunks of wiring. Godzilla dropped it. Gigan lay at his feet, dismantled. He looked to the sky, but this time he didn't roar.

Instead, he turned and marched toward the building where Miki had been held prisoner. Somehow he knew exactly where she was, and he reached his claws forward. He broke off part of the building, and scooped up the room where Miki was held. Then he lay her in a park several blocks from the building. His mother looked weak and frail compared to when he was born.

The sadness was replaced once again by anger, and Godzilla turned back to the building. His dorsal fins began to glow, and a great power was surging up from his throat.

"We're almost there!" Thorne shouted as he and the others ran down the stairs. "Don't stop running!"

From above and below, giant cockroach people hissed and clawed at the band of seven. All their attacks missed as the humans fled for their lives, trying to reach safety.

A tremor rocked the building and large chunks of cement fell from the top of the stairs. A few chunks took out some of the bug men, but the building continued to shake. Kouta, Fillyp and some others grabbed to the railing for support.

"No! We have to keep going!" Thorne shouted. "Just a few more flights!"

The violent quake shook some bug men off the walls and down to the huddled humans. Marcus and Fillyp shot at them, knocking the ugly beasts over the railing to the bottom floor.

"I'm so sorry for everything!" Yumi shouted, holding to Shota for dear life. "I don't want things to end like this."

"They won't," he said, pulling her to his face. He looked her in the eyes. "They won't."

They kissed again, and ran.

Godzilla fired his atomic ray, and the top half of the building was disintegrated. Slowly, the building started to collapse on itself. He looked down and noticed a tiny group of humans running out from the bottom. More curious than angry, he let them pass. For all he knew they were friends of Miki's.

Then a new sound came, a squeaking sound that filled the building. As it fell apart, he could see tiny brown specks buzzing about inside. One of the specks landed on Godzilla, and was crawling up his leg. Using his nuclear pulse, he fried it charcoal black. The roasted bug fell off his leg and down into the rubble, where dozens of the brown specks were scurrying.

Godzilla fired another ray, wiping out every last speck he could find.

A strange metallic sound came from not far away, and Godzilla turned his head. It was Moguera II, rolling along. It turned to Godzilla's direction and headed for him. With only a few football length's distance between them, Godzilla and Moguera II faced each other.

Moguera II was given orders, and opened its maser cannons. Its central cannon also opened up, glowing. Godzilla simply stood there, unsure of what would come next.

(Global Defense Force Headquarters: 12:01 am: January 1st, 2000)

"Stand by to attack," Sho said over the intercom. He sighed, rubbing his forehead. As much as he didn't want to, he knew there was no other choice. Like his father before him, Godzilla was getting out of control. He had to be stopped.

Kazuto gasped. "Sho. Come look at this."

Sho rushed over, pushing his reading glasses to up his nose. He took a piece of paper from Kazuto's hands. "What is this?"

"It's the message Arogod relayed across the globe. The team here has finally deciphered it, but..."

He looked to Kazuto. "But what?"

"Read it."

(Tokyo, Japan: 12:04 am: January 1st, 2000)

Godzilla sensed danger, and prepared for a battle. Moguera II was powering up all of its beam weapons, and in less than a minute the fireworks would begin again.

There came a strange sound that distracted Godzilla. He let his focus off the mecha, and listened carefully. Something large was stirring not far away. He looked out to where the Atragon and Arogod had fallen. Though it was hard to see, the crystal giant was...moving. It was actually moving! The more it twitched, the more it cracked. Suddenly the entire form cracked and began to fall apart. The crystal arms, the body, everything was breaking away and falling to dust on the street. Moguera II also turned, and they both watched as something unexplainable happened.

From out of the crystal kaiju, a gelatinous form floated. It quivered, tasting the night air. A tentacle rose from the broken fragments, then another. As it hovered above its former shell, the clouds above began to swirl, changing colors.

(Global Defense Force Headquarters: 12:06 am: January 1st, 2000)

Sho scanned over the message, reading aloud. "We come from another time, another place. We are different but the same. Rule must come, change be made. Power. We seek power of this rock you live on. The power must come to us, make us perfect. The one with all will be most powerful of all creations. No stopping. No dying. Only rule. Our rule. Forever."

He put the paper down, clearly shaken.

"And it's not Arogod," Kazuto said quietly.

"What?" Sho said.

"It's not Arogod. When they deciphered the message to our language they were reading it backwards."

Sho looked back at the paper. "Dogora?"

(Tokyo, Japan: 12:06 am: January 1st, 2000)

The sky lit up like the northern lights as this new enemy approached. Beautiful though it was, Godzilla felt threatened by this strange monster. It made no sound. It showed no signs of attacking. It merely floated like a ghost, like a jellyfish in the sea. It floated toward the two daikaiju.

Godzilla took a step back. Moguera II aimed its cannons. A soft melodic sound came from the floating kaiju, and it began to flash an assortment colors. Stretching out its limbs, it reached to the ground and brought up hordes of amoebagen. It pulled them from the crystal shell once called "Arogod," and from the battleship Atragon. Everywhere its tentacles touched, it absorbed the radiation and grew larger. In a few seconds, the monster nearly doubled in size.

"Oh my god," Thorne said as he and the others watched from a safe distance. "It's sucking up every last bit of amoebagen it ever collected. If it doesn't stop, it'll be the most powerful organism in the galaxy, possibly the universe."

"Is there anything we can do?" Kouta asked.

Thorne shook his head. "All we can do is pray to Godzilla."

The floating monster now took up a good portion of the sky, disappearing into the strange colorful clouds above. From out of the clouds, large transparent tentacles whipped about. After all the absorption, a new and more powerful enemy beyond anything Godzilla could've imagined was hovering before him. Dogora was born.

Godzilla looked to Moguera II. Somehow the mecha (or rather, those controlling the mecha) seemed to be in agreement with the king. GDF had bigger fish to fry. They aimed all weapons at Dogora.

They sat there a minute, and all was quiet. Godzilla breathed heavily. He was shaken by what lay ahead, but he thought back to his mother and regained his courage. Just like she stood up for him, he must stand up for himself. For the world. The very balance of life depended on it.

Moguera II made a sound, and the three maser cannons were glowing. Godzilla followed suit, and his dorsal fins sparked. Together, man and monster, they would fight as one against this new and mysterious threat.

They fired at the same time, and all beams hit the clouds and lit up the sky. Dogora's tentacles thrashed this way and that. One hit Moguera II and it fell on its side.

Godzilla fired another atomic ray, but it did no good. The clouds were glowing and flickering, and suddenly they swirled as Godzilla's beam was fired back at him. The king dodged the attack, but didn't dodge the tentacle. It wrapped around his chest and neck and squeezed. Godzilla sent off a nuclear pulse, but Dogora sent the attack right back through his tentacles. The shock burned Godzilla's skin, leaving a mark across his body. As the tentacles burned deeper, Godzilla smacked at the tentacle with his tail. It went right through it.

Not far away, something let out a mechanical roar. A large form flew by Godzilla and landed a couple hundred yards away. Godzilla couldn't believe it. It was Gigan. He watched as small little strings and wires spread out from his scythe claws and put back together his chest and stomach. He was self-repairing.

Gigan looked at Godzilla, then looked up at the clouds. He began speaking to Dogora, and Dogora quivered and glowed. Gigan was growing agitated. He reached out a scythe claw, as if asking for something. Dogora brought a tentacle down and smacked Gigan violently. Gigan was taken aback. He had been betrayed. Dogora had consumed all the amoebagen they'd collected, and he didn't plan on sharing.

Another tentacle came down, and another. Several tentacles wrapped around Godzilla and lifted him off the ground. He was slowly being taken into the clouds above. The clouds opened to him, and he closed his eyes.

"No!" Eric yelled, watching the king of the monsters being devoured by Dogora.

As he watched, Gigan stood frozen in his tracks. Something was whirring in his head. He was thinking. About the moments he'd shared with Shiigan for centuries, about the alliances he'd made and the battles he'd fought. For a moment time stood still. Gigan now realized he was alone. He took in the situation, and knew what came next. During his short stay on this planet, Gigan had discovered things about himself he thought he could never do. Tonight, he would discover one more thing. He had a choice.

Gigan raised his scythe arms, poising for battle. He let out a low hiss. Dogora paid him no attention. He crouched down, and shot himself into the air. At great speed he flew into the clouds and...

There it was. Dogora. Above the clouds he could see clearly, and Dogora was at least ten times Gigan's size. The jellylike mass quivered as it inserted the king of the monsters into its body. Gigan dove. He sliced his way across Dogora's body, firing his laser. Every now and then a tentacle came up to smack at Gigan, but they missed. He fired his orb cannon and showered Dogora in explosions of heat and radiation. The daikaiju only consumed the power, and began to chase after Gigan. In a hasty act, Gigan fired his buzz saw. The giant saw flew down and split right through Dogora. It traveled through his body and exited out the other side, splitting the jellyfish terror in two. As it did so, Godzilla was free to fall back to Earth.

Godzilla opened his eyes to find himself falling. Just before he hit the ground, something caught him and set him down on his feet. When he turned, he froze. Gigan made a chirping noise as Godzilla, then looked up at Dogora. Godzilla understood. For their own reasons, they had to put their personal problems aside. This battle would not be won otherwise. Dogora had split in two, and both halves were forming into whole daikaiju. Godzilla and Gigan looked up. Two Dogoras. Both big and menacing.

Gigan's belly buzzed as he clashed his scythes together. Godzilla's fins sparked and glowed. They were ready. This would be the battle that Earth would remember. This was the battle of the millennium.

Chapter 9 is also up!