Sea of Tranquility: All-Out Attack!
Downtown Tokyo-3…
"Primus forgive me for what I am about to do…"
Recalling his revival of Omega Supreme, Prime plunged his Energon Sword into Shin Godzilla's hide!
The injured monster roared as energy surged into its body, exponentially boosting its power!
"Wait! Prime, stop! What the hell are you doing?!"
A panicked and somewhat-betrayed Misato cried over the comms.
"Shin Godzilla is the only opponent that stands a chance against Ghidorah!"
"No, no, no! All Reinforcements to Point C!"
"I'm sorry, Misato. This is the only way we can surely win."
Inside Shin Godzilla's subconscious…
Goro Maki opened his eyes.
To his shock, he found himself in his old office at Kyoto University.
"Professor…"
He looked forward and saw his two best students.
None of them had apparently aged a day since 1999.
"Yui. Kyoko. What are you two doing here?"
"You gave our children and us a nice thrashing back there," Kyoko responded.
"That was… I'm sorry, but that wasn't me at the helm."
"We know," answered Yui.
The professor suddenly snapped.
"Oh, like hell, you knew! You shouldn't have done what I did. Sold your souls to those monsters!"
"It was the only possible outcome."
"What about your husbands? Your children? Do you honestly think they deserved this pain?"
Maki began to cry.
"I was on an expedition to Sierra Leone before I returned to the University. The civil war started, and we had to evacuate. A reporter friend of mine stayed and sent me pictures of everything that happened afterward. The thought of children having to endure and fight in that…"
Maki shuddered.
"Do you honestly want your children to face the same fate?"
"No."
Kyoko answered.
"But a mother must be ready to sacrifice everything for her child, including her soul and her sanity."
"You're absolutely right about Seele, Professor."
Yui interjected.
"They are monsters, and for that reason, we sacrificed ourselves to give our children a fighting chance and a better future. With our new friends, they won't have to suffer."
Maki sniffled and smiled.
"You always did make the class brighter, Yui."
Back outside…
Shin Godzilla's eyes lit up bright blue!
The lumbering beast stood back up, glaring at its new foe!
Suddenly, its body started to mutate!
Its arms grew more muscular!
Its torso and legs became slimmer!
Two additional rows of dorsal plates grew on its back!
Its tail shrunk to half its former size to maintain balance!
In short, it transformed into an upscaled Shin Jr.!
Goro Maki, now with restored sanity, assumed full control of his new body and let out a mighty roar!
"AAAYEEEEEOOOOOOUUUUUUUGH!"
Now in a more agile form, he bolted at the new foe with terrifying speed!
Ghidorah, flying away to evade the berserk Eva-02 and Omega Supreme, intercepted Godzilla and collided violently!
The two titans grappled with each other for a time, Ghidorah trying to bite Godzilla with his three jaws and drain his life energy!
However, Godzilla counterattacked with his dorsal beams, injuring the Golden Dragon and forcing him to back off!
It was at this point that all the assembled combatants converged on the spot.
Spike, Twilight, and Mothra let loose more beam attacks!
The rest of the Autobots fired the last of their heavy weaponry!
Evangelion Units 01 and 00 rejoined the fray with a withering hail of positron fire!
King Ghidorah, realizing that he had been outmaneuvered and surrounded, tried to break out and retreat!
Unfortunately for the Golden Demise, Jet Alone and Unit-02 leaped and clung onto his legs, slowing him down!
Godzilla, tapping into Maki's intelligence, unleashed his violet atomic breath, which struck Ghidorah with pinpoint accuracy!
Ghidorah collapsed to the ground with a gaping chest wound!
As he stared up at his hated foe, Ghidorah fired one last, defiant burst of lightning!
To his shock, Godzilla absorbed the energy from his lightning and shot it back at him in the form of an enhanced atomic breath!
Thus, the Golden Demise met his fiery demise.
Shinji, Asuka, and Mana looked up at their former foe.
Godzilla stood still, as if in contemplation.
The Autobots and the Nerv/JSDF forces remained wary, still readying their weapons.
It did, after all, attacked Odawara and Tokyo-3, to begin with.
A long, tense silence ensued.
Eventually, Twilight had an idea gained from her prior experiences.
With a wave of her hand, her eyes and palm glowed brightly.
"Who are you?"
She asked in a clear voice.
To everyone's shock, the monster replied in a low-pitched, almost-human voice!
"Goro Maki."
"Why did you attack us?"
"You attacked me first."
"Were you trying to warn us?"
"Yes, others will come…"
"The Angels?"
"No, like me. Like Ghidorah."
"Sorry for the misunderstanding."
"Ikari."
Gendo and Shinji paused in fear.
"Soryu, Akagi…"
Asuka and Ritsuko gasped in fear as well.
"Fuyutsuki, Katsuragi."
The Sub-Commander and Major were no exception, either.
"By the end of this year, all of you will suffer…"
Twilight stopped the translation spell, aware of Maki's past and the possibility of a vendetta.
His interrogation done, the Monster King turned away and began heading back towards the ocean.
"Major! Should we pursue?!"
"Negative, Kirishima. We spent the last of our coolant on the flying hostile."
"Is that it?! We're gonna let him get away again after everything he's done?!"
Asuka angrily grumbled.
"He knew our names…"
Shinji said in a hushed whisper.
The shock of the Monster's revelation had shaken off the effects of Protocol 777.
"Everyone return to base. Prime…"
Optimus, now shrunken to his average size, sighed.
His emergency maneuver had undoubtedly withered Misato's trust.
"Next time, a word of warning would suffice."
"Understood, Major."
Commander's office, Nerv HQ, several hours later…
Fuyutsuki had never seen Gendo this upset.
Usually, his former pupil made enormous efforts to maintain composure.
Now, he was loading bullets into that CZ-75 pistol he hardly used.
"Damn that Cassin! If he hadn't dragged Maki into that treacherous little science project of his, we wouldn't be in this mess!"
Gendo shouted, a rare feat for him.
"Cassin's already dead, and I'm pretty sure 9mm bullets won't do anything to Maki in his current state."
Fuyutsuki dryly responded.
"Besides, I recall you saying you wanted Maki to screw over Seele."
"Yes, by killing the Angels! Not by inviting another army of freaks to attack us! On top of that, now everyone knows our connection to the Old Men!"
"Not quite. A quick search of the Kyoto University archives and databases will reveal Maki's tenure as a faculty member. If anything, it's proof that he still has some memories of his former self."
"All the more reason for Seele to hunt him down."
Fuyutsuki scoffed.
"In that case, they'll have to increase our budget."
Suddenly, a thought occurred to Gendo.
"Is Agent Uchiyama available?"
"Luna? I believe she's briefing the newly-arrived Autobots on today's events."
"Excellent. I have a new mission for them."
"And what would that be?"
"They are to take down the interloper Megatron and his syndicate. It should be easy for them, seeing as they were old enemies."
"And who do we call for backup if more Angels and those Pattern Orange beasts arrive?"
"We've just received four additional Evangelion units and another reserve pilot on top of Unit-02 and the Second and Fifth Children. It would be a serious crime if we wasted the UN's time and resources."
Suddenly, Kaji burst into the room!
"Bad news, sirs."
"What is it?" ordered Gendo.
"We just lost Units 03 and 04."
To be continued…