(Chapter 8: Kong vs Titanosaurus! The hunt for the enemy..)
Kenny stood in the submarine docking bay of Outpost 04 with Captain Gordon and Laura, the others were still healing up after what went down at Outpost 54.
"The drones are stored in compartments on the side, when you get close to the island, go under the water and release the drones when a titan is close by." Captain Gordon explained, Laura gave her boyfriend a salute.
"Good luck sweetie." Laura said as she embraced him, Kenny done the same as the two locked lips seconds later.
"Thanks babe, I'll try to be careful." Kenny said after kissing Laura.
"No, you will be careful." She giggled, Kenny chuckled lightly.
"Oh, I'll be careful."
"Tsh, lovebirds..." Gordon chuckled before leaving them to themselves.
"I'll return to you, but now is the time for the USS Anderson to take flight." Kenny joked as he typed in the coding to open the submarine, the latch was pulled shut, then locked.
A warm smile spread across Laura's lips as the large submarine slowly descended into the water, she hoped that Captain Gordon would lead them to great heights. Although she missed Ford Brody dearly, this new leader seemed to show no mercy for the enemies that have tormented them for so long. Now it would be time to foil their plans once and for all.
(New Madrid, Missouri)
Andy Williams was on a leave from Monarch, sitting on his sofa within his home within the town of New Madrid. His phone buzzed, and he decided to check whatever notification he had received.
***President of the Global Defense Force, Alan A. Haas has decided to step down due to political and government pressure. After a staff meeting, a vote was decided to elect Vergil Snow. Haas has stated that he was the only one that had a vision of the future for the organization, and has great leadership qualities***
Andy chuckled in disbelief, shaking his head. He couldn't believe that so much has happened already, from Florida getting sacked, to Outpost 54 getting destroyed, he was glad that he left Monarch at the right time.
"I hope that kid knows what he is doing." Andy said to himself with a sigh, as much as he despised Monarch prior to leaving, he had worked to build the GDF from the ground up, and all of the founders had left Monarch, the parent company of the GDF.
Although he had respect for Vergil, he doubted his leadership. The weight of the world was on his shoulders, and he was still nothing more than a private. He was afraid of what would end up happening if he made the wrong decisions.
He opened up his contacts list on his phone, the contacts for the Kaiju Club were still there, he hadn't deleted them yet. He had deleted all of the other contacts such as Kenny, Laura, Ford Brody, and other personnel that he got close with.
Andy deleted most of the Kaiju Club contacts with the exception of one, Alan.
Alan Haas was one of the most proudest people, although he wasn't the mastermind behind the company, he took great pride in what it was. The GDF had made leaps and bounds, especially under Alan's leadership.
All it would take is a few things to go totally wrong, although Vergil's brother was the mastermind behind this whole organization, he did not trust Vergil himself to lead it.
He attempted to call Alan, but he knew that he wouldn't answer. Not with the whole Kaiju Club being disbanded, but he left him a voicemail:
"Hey Alan, this is me: Your old pal Andy Williams...I've seen that you are retiring from your position as leader, and you've given it to Brayden's younger brother. I will not doubt the intellect of his older brother, and their father, but Vergil is still a young fella at heart, and I have a bad feeling about this. I wish to see the GDF be a successful organization, not to be run into the ground by stupid decisions. If Vergil starts to make piss poor decisions, we have to take it back from him. The weight of this planet is on his shoulders, and I do not think he is strong enough to withstand the pressure. If you receive this message, feel free to call me. I haven't deleted your contact yet, I dunno if you've deleted mine. If you open this up, please call back and respond."
Andy stopped his recording, and placed his phone down before heading into the kitchen to pour a shot of whiskey. He wasn't too far gone, but he wasn't in the right state of mind ever since he retired either.
As soon as he pressed the shot glass to his lips, a loud knocking came from his door, startling him enough to drop the alcoholic beverage. The glass shattered on the floor, causing him to curse under his breath as he was careful to avoid stepping on the sharp shards on the floor due to him being barefoot, not wanting to slice the bottoms of his feet open.
Once he opened the door, his eyes went wide. It was a soldier decked out in armor, holding an assault rifle in his arms.
"What the, what are you doing here?" Andy asked, sounding concerned as he looked beyond the soldier to see a tank rolling down the street with some soldiers following behind it.
"The president of the United States has issued a military presence to be established in every county, in every state in the case of another attack from those monkey people. The risk still remains incredibly high." The soldier explained, Andy look bewildered.
How could those monkey men attack a town such as New Madrid? The only thing it was significant for is the New Madrid Seismic Zone. Could those sagoths be wanting to somehow trigger another earthquake?
"Do you have a basement?" The soldier continued, Andy chuckled as his mind had settled on the assumption that the monkey people were wanting to trigger an earthquake.
"Do I have a basement!?" Andy began, asking himself in shock, he did indeed have one.
"Yeah, I've got a basement. What for?"
"If things get ugly, you may want to get into the basement. If shots began to get fired, get to safety." The soldier warned, Andy only chuckled, the soldier appeared to be confused.
Two negatives, and no positives. Sagoths came from the Hollow Earth, beneath his feet, and an earthquake is even worse. Being in a basement during a sagoth invasion is one of the worst, if not, the worst place to be.
(Somewhere within the South Pacific...)
It was on the Westernmost shore of an island within the South Pacific Ocean, not Monster Island, but around five hundred miles from it. Floyd stood within a cave high up on a rock, gazing out to view MechaGodzilla standing tall near the shore. The gigantic mech recharging, prepping itself for the next attack or battle against a titan. Titanosaurus was resting beneath the waves in which were crashing into the rocks on the outskirts of the island.
"We need to attack Kong next, we've already destroyed Godzilla. Monster Island is not too far away." Floyd spoke into a transceiver to Alan Jonah.
"Good, let Titanosaurus rest, and let MechaGodzilla continue to power up for the next fight." Alan Jonah was heard responding, glad to hear this news that Godzilla had supposedly fallen in battle, when in reality, he was heavily injured.
"How are we going to get Titanosaurus to the island though?" Floyd asked.
"Hackers, I've seen pictures of what Outpost 33 has been reduced too. While many buildings have been destroyed from the alien MechaGodzilla from before, a couple of towers remain. Dr. Mafune is going to broadcast the specific bio-acoustic that will lure Titanosaurus to the island, where he will destroy Kong." Alan Jonah answered, already one step ahead of Floyd.
"Good, I'll just wait for Titanosaurus to arrive after killing Kong." Floyd replied.
"Alright, Titanosaurus a few hours to rest. I shall let you know when to launch him." Alan Jonah said, he had a time set for noon, Pacific Time.
(Monster Island, 2:30 PM PCT)
A submarine was approaching the island now, the aerial drones were soaring high above the waters of the South Pacific Ocean. The man within the submarine was none other than Kenny Anderson, he had got a head-start towards the island before Titanosaurus, therefore the aquatic titan was a bit late, but he was approaching the island fast just as the Monarch submarine was.
"Alright, Colonel Anderson, you're approaching the island. The perpetual storm is in the distance, prepare to lower beneath the waves again." Captain Gordon warned, Laura was within the control room, watching the large screen from Outpost 04.
"Affirmative, Captain." Kenny replied, guiding the submarine beneath the waves as he got closer to the storm in the distance.
One of the drones high above the submarine caught something moving within the water far off to the side of where the submarine was located. Something large was causing these movements in the water.
"Colonel Anderson, you may want to check your radar too. We've got some movement in the water near you." Captain Gordon warned, and so Kenny turned on the radar to see a large red dot moving North of him, just barely on the radar.
"It's a titan alright, I've got movement just barely on the radar, moving North towards the shore of the island." Kenny responded with a smirk, pressing another button to release the aquatic drones.
The drones activated their cameras, as well as the radiation detector within them. Following the path that the titan had made as it moved towards the island, this could be any titan, because satellites had caught Godzilla roaming throughout the island earlier, but it could also be Titanosaurus, or any amphibious titan of that matter.
From the outpost, Laura was in control of the aerial drones. They continued to get closer and closer to the massive storm in which surrounded the island, it wasn't as violent as before, but it was still strong enough to take down the drones if they went too slow through the clouds.
"Alright, Colonel Belinsky, we're going to need to activate the boosters, we've got to punch through the storm." Captain Gordon commanded, his voice sounding calm and collected, he knew what he was doing.
"On it, Captain." Laura said as she controlled the aerial drones to go faster, tiny rocket boosters on the backs of the drones launched them into the storm, heavy rain pounded the drones, and lightning struck close, sometimes a bit too close. The loud booms of thunder rattled them as they flew, but it was only for a moment, as after twenty seconds had passed, the drones punched through onto the beautiful island.
The boosters were stopped once the sunlight reached the drones once again, and they began to hover around a large rock nearby as they waited for whatever aquatic beast shown itself.
After around a minute passed by, Titanosaurus emerged from the large clouds with a low grumble. His eyes gazing around his environment, as he began to move through the massive field he had entered on, a large jungle was within the distance. The island was shaped like a Skull, the location where Titanosaurus and the drones had entered, was at the top of the skull in the middle. The ruins of Outpost 33 were located on the right side of the skull, right above the left "eye" of the skull shaped island.
Back up at the ERR HQ within Alaska, Dr. Mafune activated a high frequency sound to enrage Titanosaurus, to get the beast in a fight with Kong.
As the high frequency sound shrieked into the highly sensitive ears of the aquatic saurian, the beast clawed at his head, thrashing his body around to try and get rid of the noise, but it just wouldn't leave him. However, something would take the noise out of his head, in the form of a massive boulder smashing into his head!
Kong had arrived, the great ape had been seeing visions of this exact creature causing chaos on what was once his island. Kong closed his eyes slowly, having a telepathic vision of Godzilla. The King of the Monsters was coming to help him out, for he could also sense Titanosaurus as well. The bad news is the fact that Godzilla was on the Southern side of the island, and Kong along with Titanosaurus was all the way at the Northernmost side of the island, almost on the beach itself.
With Titanosaurus evidently still stunned from the noise, added on with the boulder smashing into his head, Kong decided to rush this trespassing monster!
The ape nailed the aquatic titan, knocking him down to the ground with an explosive boom. Kong didn't waste no time as he would only then proceed to lunge on top of Titanosaurus, raining down brutal fists from his dominant right hand as hard as he could, evident by his teeth gritted, and strained facial expression.
Titanosaurus could feel his head getting pounded in, each strike putting tiny cracks in his skull, insignificant, but if his head was to continuously get wailed on, it would eventually split open. The ancient dinosaur also knew with these repeated punches, what Kong was doing.
When Kong tried to bring his fist down again, Titanosaurus seemed to fight through the severe pain in his head, latching his jaws on the great ape's fist.
Kong roared in frustration, as well as some pain. He wouldn't surrender that quickly though, he used his other arm to fight back by ramming his elbow into Titanosaurus' head over and over, elbows arguably do more damage than punches do, and it was evident here as a cut opened up on the snout of Titanosaurus, this fight was looking more like a UFC fight than a titan battle.
The pain would grow too much for Titanosaurus to handle, and he would release Kong's trapped fist. The ape took a few steps back, allowing his enemy to slowly get up. The guardian of Monster Island gazed down at his messed up hand, bite marks near his knuckles were seen, bloody marks were seen all over it too. Seeing the blood only angered Kong, and as he went to run at Titanosaurus again, he had turned around...
The tip of his tail opened up into a fan with a fleshy tearing noise, his body pivoting left and right, mighty gusts of monstrous wind slammed into Kong. If they were strong enough to eventually topple over even Godzilla himself, you know darn well they would do the same for Kong.
The wind immediately began to push Kong back, his matted, brown fur billowed and ruffled around the wind, his beard was blowing around as well. His legs became wobbly, looking more comical than anything else as the ape struggled to stand.
It was then that dirt, and small rocks began to hit Kong in the eyes, stinging his eyes, forcing a pained grumble from the simian titan. The ape brought his hands up to his face to try and cover up his face, but the wind began to slowly lift Kong off of his feet, and the ape surely felt it too.
As strong and determined as Kong was, he couldn't stop himself from being flung back by the winds, he groaned as he came smashing into the ground.
The key factor in Kong's fighting style was his ruthless aggression, when he was in a fight, his adrenaline spiked, his mind became overcome by a sensation of rage. If he received too much damage, a "berserker rage" would take over, no matter how injured he was, he was suddenly given a second wind. Not to mention when a lightning bolt struck an open wound, the science had yet to be explained, but Kong would get fueled with an almost supernatural strength, rage, and determination to wind.
Once Kong hit the ground, he slowly rose back up to his feet, seeing that his enemy was still sending the winds in his direction. The ape rolled out of the way, noticing that it could be described similar to a rip current within the ocean.
Titanosaurus' wind attack only moved in one direction, if one was to move out of the wind's direction, they would only feel a strong gust. For titans, they wouldn't hardly feel anything, but humans and smaller architecture would be damaged akin to the liking of an F-2 tornado.
Kong rushed forth again, jumping at Titanosaurus when he got close, parting the winds. Thanks to the wind suddenly slamming into his face, he was blinded momentarily as he hit the ground hard. He felt his body being pushed, but he reached at the tail, managing to grab hold of it, stopping the winds so suddenly.
Titanosaurus wailed in surprise, completely shocked at how Kong was able to grab his tail despite the winds. He tried to get the ape off of him, but Kong was not letting go anytime soon.
Kong pulled Titanosaurus in close, grabbing him at the base of the tail, and one of his legs, swinging the beast around as it struggled within his grasp, after spinning twice, the ape released his foe, launching him into the ground once again.
The mighty ape was feeling very confident and dominant in the fight so far, he thought that Godzilla wouldn't be needed for this battle. Trying to intimidate his enemy, Kong pounded his barrel chest and roared into the skies above him. Titanosaurus, feeling extremely agitated at this, slowly got back up to his feet once again. Rising from his horizontal stance to his intimidation display of his vertical stance, towering over Kong.
The simian beast wasn't scared, he wouldn't feel threatened by an opponent he had been decimating so far. Kong blindly charged forwards, roaring viciously as he lunged into the air. Throwing what appeared to be a superman punch into the gills of Titanosaurus, but the fist would never connect as the ape was swatted out of the sky when the tail of his enemy smacked him!
Kong hadn't been sent flying like this in ages, and he howled once he struck the ground hard, dirt went flying high into the air before crashing down upon his body. Titanosaurus let out a satisfied cackle as he slowly approached the downed ape, Kong wouldn't be so easily defeated though.
The mighty simian beast picked himself back up, rushing at Titanosaurus once again with a rapid flurry of elbow strikes to the neck area of the enemy. They appeared to be working as they forced Titanosaurus back some, but the aquatic titan would eventually duck and swing his neck/head into Kong's torso like a giraffe does when fighting.
Kong had the wind knocked out of his body when the body of his foe connected with his, the ape shuffled back on his feet with his arms covering up the spot that Titanosaurus struck him at.
Kong went to fight back, attempting to go for an open hand slap to the head of his foe only to have Titanosaurus latch onto his forearm. Kong roared in pain, with his right arm caught and his left arm being free.
Titanosaurus clamped his jaws down on his arm harder, Kong could feel the bone beneath all of that muscle and skin beginning to shake under the pressure. The ape roared in agony, but he continued to desperately fight. He balled up his fist on his left arm, swinging it into the neck of his foe with a loud echoing smack.
The tight grip of the jaws were loosened, but they were still having a decent hold on Kong's arm. The ape growled in frustration, and continued to slam his left arm down on Titanosaurus' neck like a club. The pain would overwhelm the aquatic titan, forcing him to release his simian opponent, but the damage had been done.
The dominant right arm of Kong had been neutralized, at least for a while. The guardian of Monster Island held his injured arm with his left one, his chest heaving up and down as he took in deep breaths. The ape growled as he began to back away some, believing that this fight had dramatically shifted into his opponent's favor. Titanosaurus slowly approached, gnashing his sharp fang-like teeth.
Kong then remembered that dorsal plate that he had found, he had placed it somewhere nearby after having the sudden telepathic vision of Titanosaurus. He would let out a defiant roar before seemingly retreating, but Titanosaurus gave chase!
As the two titans rushed across the gigantic field, they approached a rocky hill, it would seem gigantic to regular humans, along with megafauna, but for titans, it seemed ridiculously small. The dorsal plate had been dropped down on the rocky hill, it stuck out like a sore thumb among all the other jagged rocks that made up this hill.
The ape let out a roar as he heard Titanosaurus gaining on him, deciding to suddenly stop in place, spinning around as he rammed his fist right into the neck of his enemy. Titanosaurus wailed in pain, stunned for a brief moment of time.
Kong had seen the destructive power of this dorsal plate first hand after testing it out recently, this could be a saving grace. The gigantic gorilla, grabbed the spiny plate with one hand. Holding it tightly, a teal steam began to leak from the dorsal plate.
Titanosaurus shook his head to clear the cobwebs before roaring furiously, rushing towards Kong at full speed. The mighty ape roared in defiance as he jabbed the dorsal plate into the gut of his foe, a gigantic blue blast knocked both titans away from each other. Kong was actually sent flying, the force of the blast had knocked him out!
Titanosaurus was just barely standing, but he had won this battle. The aquatic titan groaned, even though he had won, the damage had been done to him as well. A large scorching gash had been placed in his abdomen, and he was too weak to continue fighting. It would be unwise to continue fighting, and Titanosaurus decided on his own merits that it was time to leave this island.
This is when the plan was going the way it needed too, the overhead drones followed the waters movements as the aquatic beast swam away. Including the underwater drones, the aerial drones had captured the battle all on camera, broadcasting it to Outpost 04.
"Colonel Anderson, you may want to follow close behind those aquatic drones, they have a chance of losing signal, and sinking to the bottom of the ocean if they stray too far away from where they came from." Captain Gordon spoke into the built in transceiver within the submarine.
"Aye aye cap!" Kenny answered, turning the submarine in the direction of the drones as they followed after the injured Titanosaurus.
(3:30 PM, Undisclosed Location in the South Pacific)
A couple hours had passed on after the battle at Monster Island, the submarine, and the drones had been following close behind Titanosaurus, but at a safe distance to not get his attention.
Kenny smirked as he gazed on the video screen within the submarine, seeing what appeared to see the silhouette of an island in the distance. The camera feed coming from the aerial drones, this plan was going to work no doubt.
"This is perfect, I think I've found the location." Kenny announced to the transceiver, his voice being broadcasted to Outpost 04.
As the submarine along with the drones, including Titanosaurus got closer to the island. Another silhouette began to pop up on the screen, appearing to be something similar to Godzilla. The thing is, the Big G had been sighted on satellite footage on Monster Island, communicating with Kong after his battle with Titanosaurus earlier.
This had to be MechaGodzilla, it had to be.
"Laura, activate the boosters on those drones, take them to being directly above this island. Use the tracker to see the longitude and latitude, I think I've caught sight of MechaGodzilla!" Kenny announced, determination and excitement filled the tone of his voice.
"On it!" She said as she pressed down the button to boost the aerial drones, before heading down the hall to see the longitude and latitude on the correct tracking device.
Her eyes examined the wall of greyed out numbers, immediately seeing the green numbers of the drones currently in use. Suddenly, the green numbers went to red...
When the numbers went to red, it meant that the drones had been destroyed.
"Dammit!" Laura screamed, pounding her fist into the wall.
"What is it!?" Captain Gordon exclaimed, Laura came storming back into the control room.
"The damned drones have been destroyed!" She answered.
"What!?" Captain Gordon screamed furiously.
Back on the island, Floyd was sitting in the cockpit, he could see the drones coming in from afar.
"That won't work..." he growled, but what he didn't know is that there were other drones coming at him from below water, ones that he couldn't see.
"Kenny, the drones have been destroyed. Can you tell me the longitude and latitude of your current location?" Laura asked, her voice crackling through the transceiver.
"Yes, I'll send you the longitude and latitude of the aqua drones soon. Just give me some time, alright!?" Kenny said, followed by him pleading with Laura to give him time to land.
"Alright." Laura replied.
"What did he say?" Captain Gordon asked, Laura turned to face him.
"He said that he'll need some time." She explained, Gordon growled at this.
"Fuck his time! That MechaGodzilla is a hijacked one from the GDF hangar, call up there immediately, and see if they can figure out where he is!" Captain Gordon barked, becoming angry.
"Wait, you're right!" Laura said, quickly pulling out her phone to call Alan Haas, only to be immediately sent to voicemail.
"Fuck!" She screamed, beginning to lose hope.
"C'mon, Colonel Belinsky, THINK!" Captain Gordon screamed at the top of his lungs, Laura shook her head in disbelief. There was complete silence in the room following his outburst, Laura struggled to think.
"Laura, we cannot afford to have another city be wiped off this planet, we cannot afford to have millions of lives be put at risk. Is there any other way, we can potentially find this island!?" Gordon said, his voice raised, struggling to calm down.
There was a submarine tracker all the way down in the submarine docking bay, which was at one of the lowest levels. It would take some time for her to reach the room when they all had potentially moments to spare before Floyd found out what was happening.
"The submarine tracker..." Laura muttered as she got up before sprinting down the hall towards the nearest elevator.
"Hurry, Colonel Belinsky!" Captain Gordon screamed.
Back at the island, Floyd seen Titanosaurus emerge from the waters, marching up to the island to rest. Floyd had noticed the radar before the aquatic titan arrived on land, but then he noticed a smaller dot, and around five other significantly smaller dots.
"Nice try, but now you're finished..." Floyd said, MechaGodzilla took aim at the water with his railguns on the gauntlets around his gigantic mechanical claws.
Gigantic tracer rounds began to unload into the water, pounding into the ocean at rapid speed!
Kenny heard tapping noises all around his submarine, he also noticed one of the drones explode in the distance.
"Shit..." He cursed before taking the submarine deeper into the water, he could only hope that they would be able to find a way to completely figure out the exact location or what this island was called.
"Prepare to be destroyed!" Floyd screamed at the top of his lungs as he activated the maser cannons within the mouth of MechaGodzilla. The submarine continued to descend deeper, and deeper into the waters to avoid the attacks coming from the island. He suddenly noticed that all the other aqua drones had gone offline, and as soon as his eyes caught glimpse of this, a gigantic surge suddenly pushed his submarine into a spin.
I've got to circle around to a point where I don't get fucking murked... Kenny thought to himself, starting to guide the submarine around towards the Eastern side of the island from where he was, going as fast as the submarine could go.
At Outpost 04, the elevator began to lower Laura down towards the submarine docking bay. Her heart raced within her chest, afraid for the well being of her boyfriend.
"Laura, I'm running out of time!" Kenny exclaimed into his transceiver, this made Laura even more afraid now.
"What? Please don't tell me that!" She pleaded, her voice breaking into a worried whimper.
"I've got to tell the truth, I would rather tell you what is right than lie to you. I'm getting shot at, the other drones have been wiped out." Kenny answered in a calm, collected manner.
"Dammit, I thought you would be okay!" Laura screamed, collapsing to her knees.
"I'm gonna try, and I'll make it. Even death cannot keep me from coming back home to you, there'll be a fight if this is the case..." Kenny said, expressing more love for his beloved Laura.
The elevator buzzed before the doors swung open, and Laura bolted out from the door, sprinting down the hall towards the docking bay as fast as she could.
Back on the island, Floyd continued to control MechaGodzilla, firing more and more of those anti-titan railgun rounds into the water. The sick bastard was laughing maniacally as he did so, wanting to eradicate whoever was within the submarine.
"I can't see shit..." Kenny growled, turning on the lights as the water began to get too dark to see. He noticed a tunnel going through the island at an angle, this could protect him from being hit, it was much wider than the submarine, so he could bring it to a stop if he wanted.
It was no longer MechaGodzilla's job from attacking the sub, it would be Titanosaurus'.
Titanosaurus growled as he rushed back into the waves, using his senses to guide him after the submarine. Luckily enough for Kenny, he had guided the submarine into the tunnel, and had turned off the light after his radar had detected something large approaching him.
Laura approached a door, opening it to enter the submarine docking bay. Only one was being used, which was the one that Kenny was in control of far down in the South Pacific. The blonde rushed down to the tracker in which displayed the coordinates of Kenny's sub.
****Lat: -25.066668... Long: -130.100006*** is what appeared to be displayed on the screen, Laura pulled out her phone again, taking a picture, sending it up to Captain Gordon.
Laura typed the coordinates into her phone, and what came up was the Pitcairn Islands. Finally, the location of Titanosaurus and MechaGodzilla had been discovered, and Floyd was unaware of this...