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GODZILLA: Of Humans and Demons

4-3

Sentiments

United Earth soldiers were placing thermite explosives in key points. Flares were being setup for launch. The motion detectors were being set up. The ground shook. It was Godzilla. He was coming back. The soldiers saw Godzilla holding a dead Gorosaurus in his arms. The head was bending backwards. Godzilla throws the corpse off to the side. The Raijin was not far behind Godzilla. The United Earth forces looked over the corpse. Sure, there were signs of the monster being devoured, but the neck was completely obliterated. The joint connecting the neck and the skull was crushed by some tremendous force. This had to have been the work of the Ghost Godzilla responsible. The question now is why would it bother to kill this Gorosaurus when it was clearly after something else.

Godzilla simply stood still like a statue, watching over the humans as they studied the body. His presence was imposing and somewhat like a deity staring down a flock or herd of mortals doing what mortals usually do. Godzilla looked at the humans with nothing but distrust. He briefly looked up to the sky but then looked back towards the ground, looking over the humans again. Haruo watched Godzilla carefully. He had just about as much reason to distrust him as Godzilla would distrust humans.

"You seem very unforgiving towards Godzilla." Miki said. "Coincidentally, he is very unforgiving to us as well."

"He made mankind suffer, and for what? To try and fix the planet? All of the destruction he caused—"

"Were caused by both his hands and by humanity's hands themselves." Miki said. "I can understand that you hate him for every other possible reason, but at least try to understand his actions from his eyes."

"Why are you sympathizing with him?" Haruo asked.

"Because... I looked into his mind myself." Miki said.

Haruo looked to Miki, completely surprised.

"You what?" Haruo asked.

"I looked into his mind." Miki said. "He has the same sentiments as a human being does."

"That still doesn't change the fact that he did some really terrible things that mankind can't exactly forgive." Haruo said.

"But—!"

"Saegusa, was it?" Metphies interjected. "Please understand that even what you say is true, that doesn't mean that Godzilla and Humanity will not so easily reconcile. Even if we face a common foe, Godzilla still distrusts humanity with every possible reason it has to distrust humanity."

"Besides, he knows he has bigger fish to fry and so do we." Leland said. "Focus on the task at hand. The theories can wait."

"Speaking of which, I think I understand why our Ghost Godzilla did this." Lazzari said.

"Report." Leland said.

"We found some wood from a tree in its feet. We can assume that the Gorosaurus accidentally broke a tree, and the sound must have gained the Ghost's attention." Lazzari said. "Because it heard the sound, the Ghost must have attacked the Gorosaurus under the impression that his opponent was present. The Ghost must have realized a second later that it wasn't the opponent he was looking for using its other senses and some logical reasoning."

"So we know it follows sounds, smells, and by feeling the air and ground around it." Leland said. "But that doesn't rule out sight."

"We can induce that it has poor eyesight or is just blind since it took it only a second to figure out something was close to it." Lazzari said. "With all of that in mind, we can therefore assume that it primarily depends on sound and some form of echolocation."

"So it can only tell that a monster is nearby mostly by sound." Leland said. "We can make use of that."

"But that means we'll have to be on radio silence." Haruo said. "Interference or not, that doesn't change the fact that one sound could give us away."

"So when is the Gotengo coming back now that Godzilla isn't exactly hostile with us?" Adam asked.

"Trust me, the Gotengo will return." Tsubasa said. "Regulations demand that after a certain amount of time has passed, the ship must head back to the former danger zone to confirm the survival of the away team or teams sent down to the ground."

"So it'll come back." Adam said. "Good... I don't want to die here."

"You're not the only one who doesn't want to die here." Tsubasa said.

She turned to see the small MG holding an insect in its mechanical claws. It was acting perplexed by the insect. The MG placed the insect down and began to look around.

"Now when did our little robot Godzilla started to pick up a hobby?" Tsubasa asked.

"A robot with hobbies? As if." Adam said.

"I don't know. The Houtua must have had him for quite a while." Tsubasa said. "Even a robot might start mimicking human behavior after being around a human for a certain amount of time."

Minya turned around. He thought about a number of things. Among those things was that loud roar from Gojira. He heard of such an attack. Yes... the Zen-oh Sakebi (Almighty Shout). It was the technique of turning the voice into a powerful weapon. He has mastered the Rai in terms of simply projecting it at his own will. Turning it into a blade and firing an energy blast that can tear through mountains with ease. He has never considered applying such a powerful force through other means such as making his voice so powerful that it crushes everything. If he remembered how Gojira fired it off, he must have charged up his energy first.

His back fins charged up with energy. He tried to imagine just how loud the roar must have been to become so destructive. With that thought in mind he backed his head up and roared as loud as he could. He roared... but nothing happened. Was he doing it wrong? Was the ability exclusive? Or was he not charging up a good amount of energy? He couldn't afford to look embarrassed, especially in front of the god of his people. But before he could try another attempt, he felt something smacking him over the back of his head. He tumbled, but quickly recovered. He turned to Gojira who simply looked annoyed with him.

"What are you trying to do, boy?" He asked.

"Well... you used your voice as a weapon so I—"

He heard the monster let off an irritated growl.

"Well then you're doing it wrong." Gojira said. "And besides, unless you have lived as long as I have, you can't possibly try to learn it that easily."

He turned to the west.

"Watch carefully." Gojira said.

His fins sparked with energy flowing around his back. Gojira unleashed a howl where a powerful shockwave shot out and obliterated the ground ahead of him. Minya looked amazed. Gojira turned to him.

"What makes you think you can easily learn to do that?" Gojira asked.

"My ancestors have done it the same way as you have done it." Minya said.

"As if." Gojira scoffed. "Now if you'll excuse me, I need to rest."

Gojira turned and walked away. Minya looked at the ground. He stood firmly on the ground. He straightened his tail out. His back began to generate energy as his back lit up with electrical impulses.

'A voice to shake the heavens...' Minya thought.

He roared as loud as he could. A huge shockwave shot out and razed the ground ahead of Minya.

Godzilla quickly turned towards the Raijin. Mostly everyone was looking at the Raijin as it stood amazed at what it had accomplished. Orga laughed while mostly everyone just looked in awe. This was the first time Godzilla has ever looked in shock and awe.

"He's only a kid and yet he managed to do something like that?" Adam asked. "He's even got Godzilla looking at him like he's seen a ghost!"

"Huh... it took Godzilla 20 millennia to learn such an ability and it took a child only a day and a half to learn it..." Lazzari said.

"Orga is having a field day with this one..." Yuko said.

"Now I've seen everything." Leland said.

Minya looked in awe at his accomplishment. He began to dance to his accomplishment, jumping up, raising his right knee and raising his left arm to his head and alternated his knees and arms as he continued to dance.

Godzilla watched as the boy continued to dance with his achievement. It took him 20 millennia to learn that ability and got it to work and this child just did it like it was the easiest thing to do.

This child was getting very troublesome that any sort of joke about it now would—

"So, does the King of Monsters want an adoptive son now?" Battra taunted.

"If you telepathically breathe a word of this to any other monster on the planet, I will gut you like a Kamoebas." Godzilla said. "And why would you think I would adopt a child?"

"Do you want to?"

"No."

"Well jokes on you, you're gonna have to."

"WHAT?!"

"Just take care of him. You know how Mothra is with orphans..."

Godzilla growled with irritation in his voice.

"Fine... if it will get her to stop pestering me about it, I will." Godzilla said.

Minya heard Gojira talk to him. He turned to Gojira.

"I'm going to lie down and rest. You should too." Gojira said. "But do not get the wrong idea. That doesn't mean you should lie down next to me."

Gojira went off a bit and lied down on his stomach, shaking the earth with his very weight. Minya decided to get some rest himself. He laid down on his stomach and rested.

"It's going to be dark." Leland said. "We'll have to set up defensive fortifications and keep an eye out for our ghost."

"But how will we know when it will come back?" Yuko asked.

"I can sense it." Miki said. "It will return. There is no room for doubt."

"Well we better hurry then." Leland said.

Later...

The sky was dark. The Gojirans had set up their camp outside the Houtua village. They were conducting a ritual of sorts. Soldiers danced with flaming sticks in hand, twirling them around, throwing them in the air and catching them. Biyo was singing hymns and mantras. This was to prepare the Gojiran army for battle just before sunrise. While this had continued, the Houtua were in their chambers discussing the situation before them.

"The People of the Burning Mountain dance with the song of preparation. The Passing Crows and the Shining Valley People rest." Maina and Miana spoke.

"The Son of Dagon and the Burning Mountain slumber." Bakura and his twin brother, Bakuro said. "We have spoken with Battra. He proclaims to aid the Passing Crows and the People of the Shining Valley."

"To Mothra and Battra, a song of farewell." Munak said. "The Egg becomes restless."

"Restless?" The twin sisters and the twin brothers sounded off.

"The Child of Mothra will sing its song of life soon. When the sun rises, the Egg will hatch and the Child will sing the song of life." Munak said.

Mothra carefully observed her egg. It was glowing a lot. Her child was becoming more and more active as time went by. Her worry grew. She didn't want her child to hatch now. The world was much too dangerous for her, especially with that horrid monstrosity out there killing monsters left and right.

Dan was sneaking around in the camp of the strangers, hoping to find something really valuable to take back with him. He never saw tents like the ones before him. They were all so big and were in very strange shapes, like obelisks that laid down on the ground. He tried looking for an entrance to these tents, but could find nothing. Dan kept looking and looking until he saw a door. Dan opened the door. He ventured through the steel halls, being mindful of his footing. He caught the sight of one of the females in a room. She was wearing very strange clothing. He scratched his head, trying to make heads or tails of it. He saw the outfit the strangers wore when they came to the prison chambers. It was beginning to make sense. This must be a layer of clothing that was supposed to protect them from the world around them. Interesting...

But what about the female? Were the females of these strangers better than the women in The Nest? Were they more... visually pleasing to the eye? He had to know just what was under those clothes. Just a tiny peep. Nothing more, nothing less. He looked around. No one else was here. He slowly reached out. He felt something tapping his shoulder and quickly turned around, only for everything to go immediately black afterwards.

Jira couldn't believe it. This Rodanian was a pervert. If there was anything about them she didn't like was that they were perverts and thieves. She silently dragged the Rodanian out of the strange tent and got up to a tree and left the Rodanian there.

Rilu-elu finished up with that block of the machine. The reactor has been repaired, weapon systems should be operable, motor functions should be restored. One thing had preoccupied his thoughts. The secondary computer. He ran a diagnostics check on it earlier. The sequences it was running looked awfully similar to DNA. Was it a coincidence? For what reason was a second computer even needed? The Bilusaludo quantum computer was enough. He needed to know why a secondary computer was installed. He checked the head of the unit. It read something on it.

Multipurpose Fighting System Type-70 Kiryu

Wait a minute... that name. That matches up with the way the official designation of the Jaguar Js, Type-38 Mobile Combat Uniform Jaguar Japan Specification. That means this replica of Mechagodzilla was actually built by humans. It must have been built recently and the damages must couldn't have been caused by monsters.

That means...

That means it was deployed into battle and was damaged. It must have gotten lost and ended up here and out of self preservation, it created a small scale version of itself just before its body completely went into low power mode.

Something about all of this is strange.

The Very Next Day...

It was daytime. All the preparations were complete. Now all that was left was to wait for the Ghost Godzilla to appear. The sky was getting cloudy. Now the question was whether or not Miki could sense the spectral beast coming. United Earth forces were put on high alert.

The Houtua sat in their temple, meditating.

"The Black Beast has come." Munak said. "Its song of battle flies across the winds. The spirits crave the smell of blood. It brings death, so proclaims the Egg."

"Its here." Miki said. "It's coming here."

"Sensors." Leland said.

"We got movement. It's coming from the west. It is steadily approaching." A soldier said.

"Alright, I want a final check on everything." Leland said.

A Gojira soldier sounded the horn off. The Raijin's eyes opened wide. The beast started to rise up. The Raijin stretched its limbs.

Minya looked up and saw the black raindrops. The spirits of the past kings draw near. They seek to challenge him. Minya took a stance and anticipated his foe.

Mothra got up to the mouth of the caldera, waiting for the beast to come near. She looked to her egg. It wobbles slightly. The child inside was impatient. It wanted to join its mother in combat. Mothra chirped softly.

Black footprints were seen. More and more footprints showed up with each second. The footsteps could be heard.

Godzilla woke up. He slowly raised his head and turned to the direction of the disturbance. The boy was up as well.

"It is slowly coming towards the perimeter." The soldier said.

"Good..." Leland said.

"So we're just going to let him fight?" Haruo asked.

"Unfortunately. Our weapons wouldn't hurt it and it's physical body is anchored in a different dimension and light is the only way to flush said body out." Leland said. "We don't even have EMP probes on hand."

"Besides, it exists in ways that completely defy what we interpret as existence." Lazzari said. "It has no mass, no weight, doesn't emit radiation, has no body temperature, it doesn't even have definitive form whatsoever. We don't know if it is made of matter or antimatter. All that we know is that we can see and theoretically touch it, but to discern anything about it would be meaningless."

"It is simply a creature that has no shell created by the minds of those who have been long dead and no longer have a vessel in the world of the living." Metphies said. "Made of god and the void, no will to break, no voice to cry suffering, no mind to think. It is the avatar of emptiness. Is it even alive? Or perhaps it is not alive at all. It may not even be dead. It could be both or it could be neither."

"Lets focus on the task at hand here." Leland said. "Let's just hope that Belu-be also finishes those repairs before it gets here."

"You're not thinking about—"

"If we can recover it fully intact, maybe we'll find out more about it." Leland said.

"Belu-be here." Rilu-elu said.

"Yes major, go ahead." Leland said.

"I have finished most of the repairs on the replica. But there's something that I think you must know." Rilu-elu said. "There is something written on the machine's head. It says MFS-70 Kiryu on it."

"Kiryu? Are you sure?" Tsubaki asked.

"Yes, it says it." Rilu-elu said. "Is it correct to assume that you humans made it while we were gone?"

"Yes... it was. We built it to act as a means to safeguard Mechagodzilla City from any external threats other than Godzilla." Tsubaki said. "A few months ago, we activated it after we finished its construction, it went out of control for some reason and we tried to shut it down. It escaped for some reason. When we found out where it was, all we found a moments later was what appeared to be some form of confrontation."

"And what exactly did it confront?" Leland asked.

"Well... while we were analyzing the surroundings, we picked up energy readings similar to neutrons." Tsubaki said. "Sure, in combat situations dealing with swarms of monsters, the city would shift itself to form convergence neutron cannons and fire on whatever was within five kilometers away. But the city never fired a single converged neutron blast. So the only logical conclusion we could make was that whatever attacked Kiryu obviously didn't come from Mechagodzilla City."

"But if it didn't come from Mechagodzilla City, then... then what exactly attacked it then?" Rilu-elu asked.

"Sir, it's getting closer!" A soldier said.

"We'll continue the conversation later, let's just focus on the operation for now." Leland said.

"Right." Rilu-elu said. "I'll keep monitoring the repairs. Belu-be out."

They heard a roar coming from the Raijin. Minya was ready for a fight.

The black footprints began to appear at a faster rate, speeding towards Minya. The blackened Godzilla materialized in front of the Raijin, standing up rather menacingly tall. A bright light shines. The ghost roared at the source of the light.

"Do it!" Leland ordered.

The explosives were detonated and a ring of fire circled the two monsters. The sound of drums could be heard.

"Those Gojirans are really getting into this sort of thing..." Yuko said.

"They definitely are..." Haruo said.

Minya and the Black Beast kept their distance while moving in a circle. Minya kept his eyes on the beast. They stared into each other's eyes as they continued to move. A lightning bolt came down and sounded off.

Minya was the first to attack. He rammed his upper body into the beast, knocking it back. The beast swiped at him. He ducked and backed away. He twisted his body and swung his tail down on the head. The beast caught the tail strike and pushed the tail back. The beast makes mock lunges. It was keeping its distance, waiting for the opportunity to over power the small Raijin. Minya charged at the same time the beast did. They slammed into each other and pushed against one another. The two grappled with each other, neither side willing to let go. The two struggled with each other.

The bigger kaiju broke off the hold and swiped at the Raijin. The Raijin was smacked in the face. The Raijin stumbles before recovering its footing. The Raijin grappled with the beast once again. Minya kicked the Black Beast back. He jumped back to gain some distance. He charged up his energy and focused it. A ball of light began to grow bigger and bigger before it spun into a spiraling beam. The beam slammed into the beast and blasted it back. He charged up for an even more powerful blast. The Black Beast began to charge up energy.

The two monsters shot energy beams at each other. The beams collided with each other. The beams struggled against one another, trying to overpower the other. They continued to push back and forth. The black beam the beast fired pushed towards Minya and blasted him back.

"What the hell?" Leland asked. "Analysis!"

"The Ghost Godzilla's atomic breath... it's significantly higher than the smaller Godzilla..."

"It's higher?!" Haruo asked. "How high?!"

"About 1-1.5 terrawatts higher..."

"A terrawatt higher?!" Leland exclaimed.

"Sir... the sensors received strange electromagnetic pulses coming from the smaller Godzilla just a few second before it fired its atomic breath."

"Huh?" Haruo asked. "What do you mean strange electromagnetic pulses?"

"Where are they coming from?" Leland asked.

"Well... that is what's so strange about them. They aren't coming from the dorsal fins."

"Where then?"

"From within the core of the smaller Godzilla..."

Leland and Haruo looked to each other. They then looked to Lazzari.

"Martin, is it possible that there could be a second amplifier organ?" Leland asked.

"A second organ? Like a mutation? Well... that could be possible." Lazzari said. "But if Minya was indeed born with that kind of mutation, you'd think he'd notice something by now."

Leland and Haruo looked to the Raijin as it got up.

"What if... what if didn't activate?" Haruo asked.

"Yes... if it was inactive all this time, then surely now it's beginning to activate..." Leland said. "But how would he activate it?"

Minya got back up. He began to charge his energy up. It wasn't enough. He had to charge up even more energy. He had to charge up even more energy than he could. Sparks ran across his back. The Black Beast was charging you energy as well. Minya began to charge up even more.

The Raijin's entire body was glowing with electromagnetic energy.

"What is he doing?" Yuko asked.

"He's taking a risky option is what he's doing!" Lazzari said. "He's trying to reproduce the effect that caused Fillius to explode!"

"What?!" Haruo exclaimed.

"Yes! He's trying to push his body to its limit!" Lazzari said. "If he overloads, he'll risk blowing himself up!"

A shining blue light pulses through the Raijin's body. The pulses were slow.

"A Cherenkov light?" Lazzari asked.

"Cherenkov?" Tsubasa asked.

"Yes, it's a light that comes from an underwater nuclear reactor... meaning those pulses are signs of Cherenkov radiation build-up..." Lazzari said. "If he keeps this up, he might just fire an atomic breath even more powerful than Godzilla's..."

"But Godzilla managed to fire off a beam of 3 terrawatts worth of energy, how can something based off Godzilla do that?" Tsubasa asked.

"Well... evolution has an odd way of working, that I know." Lazzari said.

'Not enough! Not enough!' Minya thought. 'I need more!'

He felt his body burning with energy all over his back. He felt energy burning from within his chest. He roared as he felt his energy beginning to reach a peak.

'I'll do it! I'll surpass my father! I'll surpass Gojira!' Minya thought. 'I'll make this world know that I'm the strongest so that all will look and revere me!'

A burst of light came forth as electric particles danced around the Raijin, creating a huge aura-like effect. The particles were being sucked into the mouth. It reared back and then, as it's pupils shrunk, a huge blast of light, accompanied by two spiraling beams shot straight forth, followed by a loud bellow. The large, spiraling beam blasted through the beam of the Black Beast and slammed into it. The Black Beast began to break apart, piece by piece. The blast gouged out pieces of the earth as the beast slowly disintegrated. The beam shot straight forward and began to dissipate. The sky became clear.

A/N: And we're back!

Minya surpassing Godzilla

I mean... evolution has a strange way of working.

Godzilla being a father

I mean, this Godzilla isn't exactly the type of Godzilla who knows how to raise children, but he'll have to put up with it.

Mystery attacker

I wonder who it could be?

Until next time folks!