KellHound270s Work

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Hoo, boy! Looks like the heroes have their hands full now!

Also, remember that I said that this is based off of an idea I had to make Godzilla (2014) better. It's not supposed to be a direct parallel between the MCU and the MV.

Enjoy, and please R&R!

Chapter VI

The Avengers had all been assembled together on the Navy aircraft carrier Saratoga. They were sailing in the direction that the beast from Janjira was going, although, for all they knew, they were going in the wrong direction.

Captain America was sitting next to Thor, who was trying to get a lid on the moment. Falcon was leaning against the wall next to Steve. Bruce Banner was reading a book on the opposite side of the room.

Also in the room was Stark and Rhodes, who didn't get their suits in time for the expected fight against the beast. They weren't mad, but it gave Tony a reason to brood.

Fury then walked into the room, with Barton and Romanoff in tow. Tony lifted his head upon noticing their presence.

"Where's Loki's scepter?" he asked.

"Somebody got to it before we could," Romanoff replied, her face disappointed. "The mole they spoke of wasn't us."

"Damn." Tony was visibly upset.

"That's why it woke up," Rhodey said. "It's source of sustenance was taken."

"One of the engineers said that power output was at 100 percent," Fury stated.

"So it was just coincidence?" Rhodes looked at him with an expecting stare.

Fury, unable to make a suitable argument, shook his head and looked away.

"OK, then. That engineer must be in on it."

"We've already got his name. Wolfgang von Strucker."

"We better get after him," Steve said.

"We have more pressing matters to attend to," Barton interjected. "Like that massive lizard that walked out of Janjira."

"That was a reptile?" Thor finally raised his head, looking at Clint. "It's face looked like a bear's, and it walked on its rear legs."

"We've got scales from the site. It's definitely a reptile."

Fury's earpiece went off, prompting him to place his hand on his ear. He listened briefly, before lowering his hand.

"The doctors want to see us," he said.

Serizawa and Graham set up the room for a theater-like debriefing. The Avengers, plus Fury, walked in. After being introduced properly, the scientists proceeded to begin the presentation.

"In 1946," Serizawa started, "a creature was discovered in the seas of the Far East. My father, a fisherman at the time, saw it, and dubbed it Shinomura, or 'Swarm of Death.'"

The projector showed a drawing of a centipede-like creature with large, membranous wings and a scythe at the end of its tail.

"Later, in 1954, when the Nautilus first explored the deep ocean, it awakened something."

"At first, the Americans thought it was the Russians," Vivienne added. "The Russians thought it was them. But they had woken up something entirely different."

The projector then showed footage of a nuclear test site. Two seconds before the countdown finished, a massive creature rose from the ocean, the most prominent feature being its enormous back spines. The video paused.

"Him." Serizawa pointed at the beast. "My people call him... Gojira."

"An apex predator from the Permian Era, when the Earth was ten times as radioactive as it is now. In all intents and purposes, a god."

Thor could feel his title being threatened, even though he was genuinely terrified of the beast.

"The two creatures encountered each other on Moansta Island, where Gojira destroyed half of Shinomura. However, because of Shinomura's composite nature, the other half lived and left, his radioactive trail attracting Gojira."

"Eventually, under the guise of a nuclear test, my father, then-director of Monarch, ordered a nuclear strike. Shinomura was killed, but Gojira survived."

"And this monster was what we saw at Janjira?" Tony asked.

"Yes," Serizawa replied.

"His spikes are different. In the footage, he has triangular spines, like rocks. Now, he has maple leaf-shaped spines, like crystals."

"These creatures, because of their food source, mutate at astonishingly fast rates. The nuclear strikes in the Pacific, while intending to kill him, only served to make him stronger."

"How big was he in the 50's?"

"350 feet. He has grown by 43 feet since then."

"Can we kill him?"

"I doubt it. I also doubt there will be reason to kill him, as he largely stays away from populated regions, unless he's provoked."

"There is something else," Graham interjected. She changed the picture to that of an enormous skeleton that bore some resemblance to Gojira. "The year the plant collapsed, we were in the Philippines, where we found a member of Gojira's species that had died long ago."

"How big was he?" Bruce asked.

"This creature, which we have named Dagon, was 270 feet tall. We have discovered, through genetic testing, that Dagon was Gojira's father."

"What killed it?"

"Parasitic spores." The picture changed to two stalactite-like formations. "Eggs of a creature that hunted Gojira's species for sustenance, like the wasp and the spider."

"Where are these spores?"

"Yucca Mountain, in a shielded room specifically for them. They won't be hatching anytime soon."

"Excuse me," Thor said, raising his hand. "Why would he be interested in going East? He seemed to be angry, like his world was being threatened."

Serizawa was quiet, as was Graham.

"He was angry?" he asked.

"Yes. His roar sounded like a declaration of war."

"It can't be the spores," Graham stated. "They've been quiet since they were moved."

Serizawa nodded. "It must be something else."

A voice crackled over the intercom. "Will Dr. Serizawa, Dr. Graham, Director Fury, and the Avengers please come to the bridge?"

"Here comes the bad news train," Tony remarked.