Mothership

The Navigation room was small. Not too small, though. We could all manage to fit in it. It was dark, too. The navigation tool itself was a floating cube. Mothra called it a...Holo...holo...holograham? Holo...holo-something. Something like holograham. I guess that means it floats and stuff. I dunno. Big G was looking a little better. That hole in his chest healed up pretty well. It's still there, just smaller. No biggy, right?

"Alright," Mothra says, "does anyone know how to use a hologram? I mean, I know how to use them, but these alien types are beyond my understanding."

"Wait, so you know everything in the whole universe but-" Anguirus started.

"Shut it...Now, I know many things, just not this. I mean, this language is...the language written on the cube is...it's, well, Ancient."

"Ancient?" I asked.

"Ancient. It's the old language of the Gods. I only understand Modern Ancient, which is a watered-down version of the original. The only people who know Pure Ancient are either extinct civilizations, or...other gods, like my mother and grandmother...and, most likely, King Ghidorah and his family."

"You're fucking us, aren't you?" piped up Goji. "You expect us to go and ask the Three-Headed Prick for help?"

"I-I never said we had to go get his help. We just...There's a slight chance we could get help from my family. Unfortunately, my mother and grandmother aren't available right now. They've been in hiding on Earth, protecting my eggs and fending off the aliens and Crawlers. That's why you never saw them...although, I have a different alternative..."

"What?" Anguirus asked.

"I didn't want anyone to know this, because he is an unreliable source at times, but I have...I have another offspring. His name is Leo. He has more of the Ancient in him, so I had to defy the time/space bond. I sent him to an open pocket of time. It's like an alternate universe, but it exists in this timeline, and...it's complex. Basically, I sent him to a world where the only monsters that exist are the Divine Moths. The Ghidorahs wanted his Ancient blood, and, well, they traveled to the time pocket. Last I heard, he became an Eternal. That's one of the highest form of god, and only a small number of Divine Moths make it to that form. I could contact him, but that would mean I would have to deliberately go into the time rift. And, even then, the odds of me finding the time pocket are slim."

"So," G said, "you're telling us you want to find your long-lost son, who happens to be a true deity with the Ghidorah family on his ass, and to make matters worse, he's in a different world that's hard as shit to find? I don't think we'll have the time for that. Couldn't you send a signal or something?"

"I could, but that could also attract the attention of the Ghidorahs, and we all know how tough just one Ghidorah is. We either go and find Leo in his time pocket, without grabbing too much attention, or we bring the whole party here. Both of those choices are dangerous."

"What about a third option?"

"The only third choice that I can think of is...well, we talk to King Ghidorah. Our King Ghidorah. But I don't think he'll want to comply with us that easily."

"As usual, we're going to have to do stuff the hard way," Anguirus said.

"There has to be an easier option," I say.

"The easiest option of them all," Mothra explains, "would have to be finding and bringing Leo back here, with as little to no notability from the Ghidorahs as possible. If we all plan on doing everything as fast as possible, I'll have to go through the rift with someone else. Someone who can help me get Leo out of there and quick. Someone who can still fight well, in case of an encounter with a Ghidorah."

"You gotta be kidding me," Goji sighs. "You know what? I'll go. I'll do it."

"But, Gojira, if something happens...if you die...I mean, you haven't laid an egg yet. If you die, you won't have a son, and he won't have a son, and so on."

"It's a chance I'm willing to take. If I'm gonna be in the modern age, I might as well be a part of the 'new way'."

"Alright. Goji and I will go into the rift, try to find Leo, and get out of there as fast as possible."

"W-Wait!" Varan exclaimed. "What about the thing in the rift? The thing that's going to be coming through to this world?"

"Oh, yeah. That...I'm certain it won't interfere with us, and vise-versa, right? It's a chance I'm willing to take." Goji smirked at Mothra.

"Then what do we do?" I asked. "Sit here and look pretty?"

"No, I need you guys to...er...just make sure nothing goes wrong here. Don't...uh...Don't let any of the other monsters know what's happening. If they try to fight, do your best not to die." She and Goji left the Navigation Room. I watched them leave. I also noticed my fellow monsters looking at something behind me with a terrified look.

"...What's the problem?" I only got a finger pointing behind me as an answer. I turned around to see a red light floating in air, just behind the navigator.

"Ssshhooo..." the voice of Gigan sputtered. "You thought it wash the end of me? You thought I would jusht run off from Ghi-dork-uh, making empty promisheshesh of upgrading myshelf? Hahahahahahahah...oh, man. You thought wrong. Ash shoon ash I ran off, I got a hold of the Mothership'sh shignal. I found my way up here. I upgraded myshelf. I am no longer Gigan 2.0. I'm not even Gigan 3.0. I'm now Gigan 3.5, bitchesh. And I'm gonna show you what it feelsh like to be treated like shcrap metal."

We could barely make out what he looked like in the dimly-lit room. It looked like Gigan, but his body was...bulkier, more armed...even more evil than before.

"You grab the chicken by the wingsh," he says, "you get the talonsh, bitchesh."