(Godzilla: Kingdom Come)
Following the events of Gorgo in 2026, the colonel Skull squad has many months to heal. The world is at peace, but Monarch isn't. There have been multiple senate hearings following the decimation of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Things are only about to get worse, strange beings from an unknown world arrive. Their goal: To destroy Godzilla so their 'ultimate weapon' has no resistance…
(Prologue)
Ever since President Donald Trump created the space force, initiatives had been made for an air base to orbit around the Earth similar to the International Space Station, sitting on a large man made rock. The project was funded by NASA and Monarch, the size of the base was like that of a two story house. Large enough to fit quite a few people within as well as the equipment, soldiers and scientists were in total control of this base as it orbited around the Earth. Closely monitoring titans and anything else related to planetary systems.
Sgt. Martinez and Captain Butler were overseeing a weekly inspection of the base. Martinez had just completed his routes around the structure and was approaching the airlock door to come inside. Airlocks allowed people to walk freely on their feet within a structure instead of floating around due to no gravity, it was leagues more comfortable than floating around all the time.
Captain Butler, requesting clearance to enter. The captain raised his eyebrow in confusion, he thought everyone had made it back within the safe confines of the base.
"Who is this?" Captain Butler asked, speaking into the phone in which played through the speaker within the helmet of the worker on the outside.
"Sergeant Nate Martinez?" The voice asked, this made Butler even more confused, he looked to the man next to him, the man sitting next to him was Sgt. Martinez, but the voice on the outside of the base sounded the exact same.
"Lieutenant Willis, are you playing tricks with me?" Captain Butler asked, Lieutenant Willis was one to always play tricks and pranks on all of the personnel. He was good at imitating voices, Willis always pissed Butler off when he did the best voice of Ford Brody, a good friend of Captain Butler.
"No, I'm not bullshitting you. I'm Sergeant Nate Martinez, could you please open the airlock? This is making me uncomfortable." The man on the outside asked, Captain Butler looked over to his side to see Sgt. Martinez again, Martinez shrugged his shoulders.
"Am I high, Martinez? Please slap me in the face if I am." Butler requested, Martinez gave the cap a good hard slap across the face.
"Well shit, I ain't high. Something funky is going on up in here."
"Just open the airlock doors, just so we can put an end to this bullshit." Sgt. Martinez requested, Captain Butler swiped his hand on a screen in which said Open Airlock.
The doors boomed alive and slowly opened, the astronaut on the outside slowly floated inside and landed on his feet as the doors closed up again. When the astronaut removes his helmet, Sgt. Martinez and Captain Butler were surprised to see that it was none other than Sgt. Martinez. So now there were two Sergeant Martinez, something didn't make any sense at all.
"I'm wanting to know what the hell is going on right now.." Butler growled, taking out dual pistols and aiming them at the heads of the two duplicate men standing at his front.
"Relax sir, this is a big misunderstanding." One of the two Sgt. Martinez's pleaded.
"A big misunderstanding, you know what else is a big misunderstanding? How people think my cock is little. How the hell is this not a misunderstanding!?" Butler screamed, his voice full of sarcasm.
"This is some weird shit." The other Sgt. Martinez groaned, placing his face into the palm of his hands. Butler turned his back to one of them and aimed both guns at the other Sgt. Martinez with a hateful scowl on his face.
"Tell me what the hell is going on, right now." A strange shadow began to move behind Butler, but he didn't notice it one bit.
"Captain B-Butler… Turn around…" Sgt. Martinez pleaded, Captain Butler's heart remained hard and he shook his head.
"No, not until you tell me what the hell is going o-" something wet dripped onto the top of his head, sliming up his hair. He slowly turned around and the last thing he saw was the large fangs of some sort of baboon type creature sinking into his face with a horrid flesh ripping noise.
Sgt. Martinez backed away as the other duplicate of him revealed itself, the true form. It looked like some sort of humanoid gelada baboon, the fangs and the gums were bared as the entire face of his captain was torn from the head. He was killed instantly as the bite force of this humanoid monkey alien just crushed the captain's skull with ease, blood and saliva dripped from the large fangs.
"What the hell are you?" Sgt. Martinez asked, his voice full of fear. The gelada looking humanoid alien slowly turned around and grabbed a pistol from the table, slowly aiming up at the head of Sgt. Martinez, opening fire.
The alien wiped its hands through the large mane of hair on its head and upper back, licking away the blood from its lips with a forked tongue. It pounded its chest, hollering and shouting like some sort of demonic chimpanzee. The roar echoing throughout the base, multiple other roars in which sounded almost the exact same rang out, several more of the same thing appeared out of the shadows. These were the Black Hole Planet Aliens, Captain Butler had no idea he was working with these things in which were disguised as humans.
One of them pointed towards Earth, glaring out of the window.
"Send, Bagorah…" The leader of the troop growled, copying the message from their king back on their homeworld within the Bootes Void…
(Chapter 1: The healing process)
The colonels were throwing a party at Castle Bravo. It had came up on the one year anniversary of Kaiyo Hanson's demise. One of their many struggles was destroyed at last, but they weren't out of the thick of it yet.
Everyone was dressed in a tuxedo and all of the women were dressed formally for this party, some 1960s soul music was blaring in the background such as Sam Cooke or the Temptations. The vibes to this party were happy and cheerful, after all, it was a celebration.
Kenny strolled down the hall, jiving and dancing to the music that was playing. Getting some cheers from a few of his buddies, he approached the bar once he made it into the control room. It was a packed house within the control room, the blast doors remained closed if Godzilla swam by to take a curious peek within, nobody likes a party pooper.
Laura was serving people at the bar, handing them wines and some beers and other sorts of celebratory alcoholic beverages.
"Hey Laura, mind giving me some of that tequila?" He asked, taking a seat on the stool. Laura smiled and nodded her head, she went to go get her partner's tequila. The colonel peered over at Ren Serizawa, who was sitting alone at a table with a glass of wine.
The son of the late Ishiro Serizawa had a far away glance in his eyes, as if he was traumatized or depressed about something. He hadn't seen or heard from his father ever since 2020, the truth still wasn't given to him. The only reason Monarch never spilled the beans, is to prevent another betrayal. What they didn't know, is that Ren Serizawa was on the side of the Red Bamboo after Kaiyo told him the truth about his father.
During Kaiyo's time on this Earth, before he was killed in the crash of his warship. He had a slight bond with Ren's father, Ishiro would always find ways to tie Godzilla with Ren and even blamed Godzilla for inspiring him to raise a son, hell, nobody at Monarch knew if the Big G had a son.
However, Ren didn't plan on turning back from Monarch. He wouldn't cause any harm, at least for now. He liked his position and found taking his father's spot to the quite thrilling, but he was stressed and deeply saddened at the fact that Monarch could never tell him the truth about his father's passing.
"What's up with Ren, he's been sitting alone by himself, freaking loner…" Kenny snickered, Laura growled in which shut him up. Kenny knew not to mess with people that Laura cared for, she would always beat him during their training years at the academy.
"He's been stern and quiet, he keeps to himself, like that of Kong." Laura answered as she slid Kenny his glass of tequila.
"Wasn't his father always like that, keeping quiet about things and getting people's heads out of their asses with one liners, sounds like something you'd hear from movies, I tell ya that much. I guess it just runs in his family, a Serizawa thing, ya know?"
"Ishiro Serizawa was always like that because…" Laura paused, not wanting to speak much of Ishiro's past out of respect for the late great scientist.
"It is because he had nothing else to live for, nothing else to talk about. He lost Graham, which was his closest friend and colleague that he had. He lost his father, he lost a lot in his life. Of course, he had his son, but his love for Godzilla and all things in nature rivaled that of his own love for his son. That is why we never told Ren those things."
"Damn, we should tell him about those things. The fact that he doesn't even know that his father is alive or not is quite jarring."
"Go talk to him, he'll probably have more trust in the colonels than anyone else in this business."
Kenny got up and took the whole bottle of tequila over towards Ren, his glass was empty. His gaze directed itself towards Kenny, and his eyes quickly darted away towards other people partying.
"What's good Ren? Want another glass of this fine tequila?" Kenny asked, offering the beverage towards his fellow Monarch employee.
"I don't want anything, I've gone through three drinks already. Do you see me as a drunkard?" Ren growled, glaring at Kenny, which caught the colonel off guard.
"Easy man, calm down. You've been down in the dumps recently, could you please tell me why? Or is being this badass made of stone, something that runs in the family?"
Ren's anger only built up higher when Kenny spoke of his family in a joking way, the japanese scientist took his family seriously and wouldn't tolerate any mention of it in any way except being praised.
"Could you not talk about my family? I thought we've gone through this, don't speak of the Serizawas unless it is praise and only praise. I'm tired of my bloodline being rubbed the wrong way, my grandfather was villainized due to his time in Japan during the 2nd World War, and my father was villainized by the government. I can't handle it any longer, that's why I'm staying relatively silent." The scientist explained, his voice sounding defensive and aggressive.
"Sorry, I kinda forgot." Kenny tried to answer with some nervous laughter, but Ren wasn't having any of it.
"Bullshit, you didn't forget anything. I've known you ever since I joined this company, I didn't join not too long after you and all of the other colonels came in through the academy. I know of you and your jokes. As a matter of fact, come with me." Ren growled, seeing right through Kenny and his joking lies.
Ren got up from his seat and ushered Kenny to come with him down the hall into a room full of Monarch memorabilia, it was dimly lit due to no one entering that room at this time. Only Ren and Kenny stood in the room.
"Colonel Anderson, look at that wall," Ren requested, pointing to a large wall in the back of the room. The wall had multiple letters, newspaper clippings, pictures of titans, and Monarch files scattered all over it. Dating back to the 1940s and some as recent as a few weeks ago.
"It is a nice wall, got a lot of important stuff on it." Kenny sighed in yet another joking tone, Ren didn't care for his attitude at this point, he wanted to show the colonel something.
"Look closer to where I'm pointing."
Upon further inspection, Ren was pointing to a picture of Dr. Ishiro Serizawa, when he first joined the company during the 1980s. Dr. Serizawa had a cheerful smile on his young face, full of life and happiness of his future career, next to him was Ken Anderson, Kenny Anderson's father.
"My father, and your father, Colonel Anderson. That little blonde teenage boy is your father, he had a future in the company too and boy did your old man support mine. That was a man who had everything in life to live for, he took pride and happiness into everything he did, including his never ending hunt for Gojira."
"And..?"
Ren then stared deeply into Kenny's eyes, the look on the japs face said everything. The look on Ren's face was that of rage and boiling anger that had been building up within his chest for several months as of now, he had known his father sacrificed himself to save the world from Cthulhu back in 2020, seven years ago. It was the face of a man who had been wronged, who had been lied to and now he only found out.
"For seven years, I've been fucking lied too."
Kenny's heart stopped and resumed beating, he had no idea that Ren knew about the fate of his father.
"How did you kn-know..?"
"I spoke with Kaiyo, your most hated enemy until his death. He told me everything, my father committed a bold act of sacrificial suicide by using his version of the Oxygen Destroyer back in 2020 to destroy Cthulhu. My father had nothing left to lose, and I know from experience that he would blame my estranged relationship with him, on Godzilla."
Kenny balled up his fist, Ren was apparently a traitor, but he did not commit any acts of evil on Monarch yet. As angry as the colonel now was, he was speechless.
"I didn't even join Monarch until one year after he died, and even then, I could've been told something. I didn't like my father that much, because he seemed to cherish that stupid lizard over me, but I still loved him and respected him as a parental figure. He had everything taken from him over the course of many years, he had friends killed, Vivienne Graham is dead. There was no one else in his life, and that is why he chose to end it himself for the better of humankind. That is the truth that had been wrongfully kept from me for seven god-damn years…"
Kenny sighed and went to speak, but Ren quickly silenced him.
"I feel betrayed, Colonel Anderson. I have worked with this company for seven years, not a single time, was my father ever mentioned around me. I understand that Monarch and the Skull Squad has been betrayed and screwed over many times, because nobody had the balls to tell me about my father's fate, because had the fucking audacity to get off of their lazy asses and tell me, I sold GDF and G-Team weapons to the Red Bamboo. So yeah, you can put me on your long list of betrayers, that list is only going to grow. It is inevitable at this point."
"Ren, I'm gonna need you to turn around with your hands behind your back. You're gonna be put in the prison wing for screwing us over, I don't know who to trust anymore. Here's some advice, be grateful for what you have…" Kenny was again interrupted before he could finish speaking his sentence.
"Unless you want the truth being spilled to the entire world, unless you want the Red Bamboo coming back and attacking your ass, I'm not turning around and willingly let myself get arrested. Be thankful that I didn't attack you bastards during this party, all of you liars would be dead within minutes, every single one of you. I won't kill any of you, I won't further damage this company or cause it trouble as I still have some sort of mutual respect for it, but I will not be lied to again, do you understand?"
"Just be grateful for what you still have Ren, do you have anything to make you ha-" Kenny was once more interrupted.
"How the hell can I be grateful when I don't have shit anymore, I don't have my father, I've lost one of my eyes, I've got to wear this stupid eyepatch. My father had a Vivienne Graham, who do I have? I had Kaiyo because at least he told me the truth about everything, but you killed him."
"Kaiyo killed himself, Ren. He died along with his cause, and here is another warning. If I get lied to again, if I ever get fucked with again, if I ever get screwed over again. I will revitalize the Red Bamboo, the world hates Monarch, the world hates you. The world hates all of us working here, governments will send more than enough troops for me to start up the RB again and we will kill Godzilla, not a prediction, but a statement."
"Don't be like that Ren, can you try to be like your father, please?"
"I find it hard to be like my father when all you fools have done is lied to me over all these years, if I feel the need to, I will be the exact opposite of my father."
"Ren, I'm going to ask you to calm down. We don't need another Kaiyo Hanson in our case, please try your best to refrain from harming us." Kenny pleaded, wanting desperately to not have another situation in which the colonels almost die again.
"I'll try, but I need myself some alone time. Leave me." Ren growled, almost in a demanding tone, Kenny did as was told in attempts to avoid a fight in which would bring about the Red Bamboo.
"GUYS!" A voice was heard screaming from in the control room, where the party was taking place. It was Rick Stanton with some urgent news, everyone came bolting in to see an alert message on the large screen within the room.
A rogue titan had been spotted at the Outer Banks of North Carolina, a red dot was pulsing red at the location on the world map on the large screen. The colonels, despite being in their party apparel, lined up to see what it was.
"Zoom in, what titan is it?" Laura asked, gazing at the screen intensely. Dr. Stanton clicked on the red dot and a bio-acoustic log popped up. If any bio-acoustic popped up if they clicked on a pulsing red circle, it means that the Monarch scientists had already found it.
"Recorded video audio seems to match the ones belonging to Titanus Behemoth." Stanton explained.
"Behemoth? I thought he was co-existing with humanity now, after Godzilla was crowned king.." Alan Haas said in confusion with a raised eyebrow.
"Well, the acoustics seem to indicate that manny from Ice Age is pretty pissed off right now. Something must have ticked him off really well in order for him to come to land." Stanton added on.
"Well we've gotta figure out a way to sto-" Germaine's sentence was cut off when a rather excited Dr. Stanton cut him off.
"We don't need to get involved, a hell of a big lizard is on the way to stop his ass…"
A/N: Ladies and gentlemen, it is finally time that Godzilla gets his own story in my Custom Monsterverse ever since the first installment back in 2017. I am sure it has come a long way, hopefully this story will get the viewers back to the universe. Good news too, the next two stories will be related to the Big G, so expect some pretty memorable and amazing moments to come. Feel free to leave a review of this new installment or some advice, or an idea for this story or the next.