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A/N: Sorry, college has become a pain in the but, especially with COVID-19 running around. Here is the latest chapter.
GODZILLA: Of Humans and Demons
4-4
Kiryu and Akira
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.
The whole world surrounding Minya had gone dead silent. The silence was then broken by a low grumble from Minya himself. Suddenly, he bellowed to the sky.
The United Earth forces looked in awe as the soldiers roared along with the small Godzilla. Then there was silence once again.
"What… was that just now?" Lazzari asked.
"It was… a funeral send off." Tsubasa said.
"A funeral?" Leland said.
"In their tradition, it was customary to honor their dead warriors with a solemn cry towards the heavens. For them, it is their way of sending the souls of their dead brethren to the other side where they shall be judged whether they are worthy of entering Mihara." Tsubasa said. "This goes for their leaders as well. When a new king emerges among the tribe, the old kings return to test the strength of the new king. A fight to the death. If the new king wins, he must honor their death and send them back to whence they came."
"So that's it? Just a funeral?" Haruo asked.
It was… oddly depressing. He knows how Minya felt, losing parents to a monster. That funeral… he didn't want to see it again. No more funerals, but that would mean killing Destroyah once and for all. That was the only goal in mind now. He heard the Gotengo making its way back to the mountain.
"We'll be taking the unit back with us. HQ will want to get its hands on the data it has." Tsubasa said.
Elsewhere…
Munak handed a strange, flat object to Kiryu.
"Take it with you. You no longer have to stay with us." Munak said. "The Egg has proclaimed that you must head to your true home in the Shining Valley. It is for the future of not only the Houtua, but the future of all life that lives. Carry out the will of Sakaki. Let the Passing Crows know of his knowledge."
Kiryu nodded. He walked out.
The United Earth Forces we're packing up and putting everything in the landing ships. The Anguira and Rodanian were coming along as well. They were heavily restrained as to keep one of them from transforming. Haruo heard mechanical footsteps. He turned to see the mini MG. It handed him a drive of some sort. The machine turned to face countless Houtua.
"Let me guess, they want you to come with us?" Haruo asked.
The machine turned to him and nodded. The machine got on a landing ship and curled up. Everyone got on the landing ships.
Minya watched as the vessels went into the Gotengo. The ship began to leave. He waved his hand at the ships and looked to Gojira. Minya began to follow the ship, but stopped to suddenly feel something biting his tail. He turned around and saw nothing. Odd… all he had now was a weight on his tail. He began to follow the ship.
Mothra went back up to her mountain and looked into the caldera. She noticed that her egg had broken open. And next to it was an already sleeping Battra.
Her child had hatched and was now missing.
She looked around anxiously. She then saw something very odd. A section of the forest the Raijin was moving over suddenly came alive, but as it did, it vanished. Mothra felt obliged to follow. She woke Battra with a hiss. She chirped to Battra, telling him to guard the mountain. She took to the sky and began to fly up.
Minya felt the weight on his tail. It was becoming irritating. He didn't like that something was keeping his tail down. He stopped and looked back. Then he saw something very odd. The ground behind him cane alive, but then vanished.
'Goros?' He thought.
He remembered stories of Goros having an ability to blend into their natural surroundings with a camouflage that changes to match the environment around them. Maybe they were stalking him. Goros stalk their prey by lying down on the ground because their bodies allow them to basically blend in with their environment. These things were intelligent, being able to hunt in small packs of two to four individuals each. Whenever they mark their territory, no animal in their right mind would step into their territory and any animals ran through their territory would do so without stopping. Goros have incredibly powerful legs that they would use to leap great distances and be able to kick their prey down before opening their jaws wide and swing their heads down before closing the mouth and rip off a good chunk of flesh by slashing away at the flesh and splinter the bones. The arms were fairly short, but could dig through the ground.
Suddenly, he felt something that was wrong once again. He sniffed the air around him.
No… there weren't any Goros nearby… but something was there. And…
It must be attached to his tail.
He quickly began to shake his tail around a lot until suddenly, he saw a giant brown caterpillar suddenly fly into the air and crash down into the forest. He went back to where he was going.
Much Later…
Kiryu got up and walked out of the landing ship and got off the Gotengo with all the others. The machine looked around the place. It felt like a place to call home.
Yes, a home to live under. A home he was comfortable with.
"A data drive?" Mulu-elu asked.
"Yeah, I wonder what's in it." Leland said. "Can we get anything out of it?"
"Let's find out." Mulu-elu said.
The data drive was put into the console.
"The data seems to be encrypted. I'll have to decrypt all the data. It will take some time." Deinde said.
"How long?" Leland asked.
"Calculating…" Deinde said. "About five minutes."
"Alright then, get to work."
"Decrypting data now…"
Deinde went to work.
"We'll let you know when it's done." Mulu-elu said.
"A hover bike squad just spotted something nearing the perimeter." A Bilusaludo operator said. " They say it's the smaller Godzilla."
Minya could see a large cloud up ahead. He knew that ship went there. Could it be… the ancient Machina city hidden in the cloud of Fuji? He stopped and thought about this. He had always wanted to go there, but his father told him that it was forbidden to go near Fuji, for there lies the Forbidden Machina City or as the Houtua called it the Shining Valley. It was said that the city had a conscious will. None dare venture near the city out of fear that by doing so, the city would feel threatened and ensure that said threat is killed and later assimilated into its structure. The living metal that it was made up of was like a poison. Once it enters through the skin, it spreads until it completely makes the body a part of the metal itself. It also housed defenses that were powerful enough to repel an assault by any creature other than Gojira.
"He stopped…" Leland said. "But why?"
"Probably some primitive superstition." Mulu-elu said.
"That would be the correct assumption." Deinde said. "The native tribes saw this place as one in which none were allowed to enter. Barring all of you, no one was allowed in, and frankly, since they discovered me while I had been semi-active, there was a good reason."
"So they can't just go near or even try to enter the place or what? They'll die?"
"More or less." Deinde said. "Again, I wasn't fully active or aware of what the nanometal was doing, so again, they only reacted the same way the immune system of an organism would when a pathogen invaded the body."
Minya wasn't sure if he should enter the forbidden city. He weighed his options.
No.
He was no coward.
He didn't come this far to run.
He began to walk steadily into the cloud, his vision being blocked by the clouds. He wished he could see where he was going. He kept going and going.
Suddenly, the ground beneath him gave way.
He lost his balance and tumbled down. After tumbling down for at least a minute, he got up and looked at what appeared to be a large city made of metal. He looked in awe. He got on his stomach and emerged from the Raijin. He jumped down and took his first few steps into the city.
Kiryu looked to the MG Mk2 that was being constructed. Perhaps this was how he was created. Yes… being constructed like this unit. He had never considered himself to be a living being. He had no organs to speak of, though his hardware and software would constitute things like thoughts and bodily functions. He wasn't sure if he was, in a sense, alive. In order to be a living being, one must be aware of his/her actions, must have a mind that is autonomous, and was capable of thought.
"Decryption complete." Deinde said.
"So, what do we have?" Mulu-elu asked.
"Log entries, video logs, statistics, data files, and much more." Deinde said.
"Alright, let's gather up the senior staff and broadcast the information to the Aratrum." Mulu-elu said.
Later…
All the senior staff had been gathered for the meeting.
"Alright then, start with the video log entries." Rebecca said.
"Opening entries…" Deinde said.
A feed showed up on the monitor. Haruo looked in shock to see a man that seemed awfully familiar.
"F-Father?" He muttered.
Yes… the man was definitely Akira Sakaki. He could always remember that face.
"Hello. If you are receiving this message, then… oh who am I kidding? I'm not good with this…" the man said. "Look, I know I may not be around when you come back, but, let me tell you something that I think anyone should know right about now. It's… about Godzilla. He… he hasn't been himself lately and I fear that it might have something to do with something far worse than Godzilla. Lately, there have been reports of a new monster running around and… it's got everyone frightened. The reason being that this monster is no different, or perhaps is much more aggressive and intelligent than Godzilla."
Aratrum
Mori and the Central Committee watched.
"Could he be referring to Destroyah?" Takeshi asked.
"That's a likely assumption." Halu-elu said.
"This thing… how should I say this? It's like Godzilla in the sense that it's a genetic aberration. But upon examining a piece of the creature that attacked us recently, I can safely say that is not just an aberration." Akira said, "This thing… it's DNA is entirely different. It's a quadruple helix, making it the most genetically advanced monster to ever exist."
"A highly genetically advanced organism?" Endurph asked. "Unbelievable…"
"For such a thing to exist with such aggression and intelligence…"
"Whatever it is, it is obvious that with its ability to destroy anything on a molecular level with an unknown chemical agent, the ability to breakdown and combine and even to resist Godzilla's atomic breath, this thing could be the pinnacle of a different kind of evolution." Akira said, "To what end, I am not certain. All I know is that as long as that thing is around, neither humanity or monster is safe from it. It will relentlessly hunt down its prey and kill it when the chance presents itself."
The log ended.
"A different kind of evolution…" Halu-elu said, "The kind that kills and takes from the strong to strengthen itself. It truly is different from Godzilla."
"And perhaps it is even more terrifying than before." Endurph said.
Mechagodzilla City
"A genetically advanced creature…" Mulu-elu said, "That thing can't be a natural animal. It must be some kind of bioengineered monstrosity."
"That would be the most likely case. Such genetic complexity is impossible, even for Godzilla." Lazzari said.
"Load the next log." Rebecca commanded.
A new log was being put on display. Now the man on the feed looked older.
"My worst fears have come to pass." Akira said, "As long as this thing exists, the probability of an extinction level event is more than likely."
The whole room was filled with muttering.
"Extinction?" Kenichi muttered, "Now that's something I feared J-MO7 would bring down."
"It's everything we have feared." Hayashida said.
"Damned crustacean…" Takaki said.
"This is much more serious than what we anticipated." Takayuki said.
"This thing is continuing its hunt for Godzilla, even now, it still searches for Godzilla, hoping to kill and later consume the King of the Monsters." Akira said, "Whoever is listening, it is imperative that Destroyah be destroyed before it is too late."
'Father…' Haruo thought.
"I fear that if it consumes Godzilla and assimilates all of Godzilla's DNA into its genome, it will reach a stage where it will be impossible to kill it…" Akira said, "Please… you must kill it by any means necessary. If it continues to live, it will destroy not only the ecosystem, but this entire planet as well."
The whole room was clouded with muttering.
Aratrum
"The whole planet?" Takeshi asked, "As if the stakes weren't high enough…"
"First Godzilla, now this…" Halu-elu said.
Endurph was silent, but his hands were shaking and he had a grim look on his face.
Mechagodzilla City
Haruo clenched his fist.
'I won't let that bastard get the chance.' Haruo thought, 'No one is giving him that chance. I swear it!'
Alarms sounded.
"Enemy combatants detected. All forces are to mobilize immediately." Deinde said.
"An attack?" Takaki asked, "All forces scramble immediately! Code Red! Condition One battlestations!"
"How many are we looking at?" Mulu-elu asked.
"Multiple contacts. Readings suggest that it isn't Godzilla or a cluster of Meganula." Deinde said.
Outside Mechagodzilla City
An army of machines were marching. Along with the machines was a monster that looked like a cross between an aquatic dinosaur and bird, clad in metal with a red eye with sickle shaped hands with chainsaw-like teeth running along the blade.
The threat Destroyah poses
Yeah, that's how threatening Destroyah is.
Gigan
Yeah, its Gigan.
Stay tuned for next time.
