KellHound270's Work

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Hey guys! Another chapter is here!

Since quite a few of you wanted to know if the MUTO's would appear in the future, I can tell you that they will.

In fact, there will be more than two.

Enjoy, and please R&R!

Chapter XVI

San Francisco, California

Jon raised himself out of the San Francisco Bay, his appearance changed significantly since Hawaii.

His tail was now covered in long, keratinous spines. His arms were covered in dark blue feathers, and his head was covered in an extra layer of bone. He now possessed an enhanced metabolism, now able to absorb radiation as a food source, like the monsters he had parasitized.

He double-checked the area around him, making sure nobody saw him. The coast clear, he walked onto the walkway where many people went for nature hikes. It had a decent view of the city that owned it.

As he shifted back to his human form, he heard a loud hissing sound. Looking up, he saw the source of the sound.

Leviathan slithered through the nearby woods, pushing trees to the side with its bony head. It failed to notice the humanoid nearby who possessed its same genes.

Leviathan had every intention to go into the city. It sensed the radiation pulsing from its heart. It had the drive to claim the city as its own, the radiation being bountiful enough to claim for the time being.

However, it was distracted from its journey by a loud scream. Looking to its left, it failed to notice the winged figure attack it from its right.

Mayura grabbed Leviathan by its head, his talons hooked onto its eye sockets. Leviathan roared at Mayura's grip, struggling to get him off. Eventually, he twisted his head enough to force Mayura's talons to let go.

Freed of the bird's grasp, Leviathan attempted to push Mayura away with its boiling water attack. Mayura easily dodged it, and countered it with a ranged attack of his own, flicking his tail feathers at Leviathan, causing the attached spines to fly at Leviathan, embedding themselves in its skin.

Leviathan screamed in agony before snapping its jaws at Mayura. It successfully managed to lock its jaws on one of Mayura's legs. Mayura shrieked as he flapped his wings at a much faster rate. He actually managed to lift Leviathan's front half off the ground, before Leviathan's jaws gave out and it fell.

Mayura gave Leviathan one more wound, a harsh scratch across its neck. Mayura, content with his work, flew off, sailing to his king to tell him the location of his enemy.

Stark, Rhodes, Wilson, and Thor landed in the parking lot of the San Fran Reactor. With Tony and Rhodes leaving their suits in the lot, they walked into the Reactor to talk to the manager.

"So there's a giant snake coming to this city to devour the reactors?" the manager asked. "Have you gone daffy?"

"We've all seen it, Mr. Lee," Sam insisted. "And we have the Navy to prove it."

Mr. Lee sighed as he sat down. He took off his dark sunglasses to clean them, before placing them back on. He stroked his white mustache briefly before responding.

"This plant can't just be turned off. We need to tone it down steadily, like how you turn down the volume on a radio, except it's much slower and more painstaking."

"We just need to start toning it down for now," Tony said. "The Avengers and the Military will try to keep it from destroying the plant."

Lee sighed again, before picking the phone on his desk.

"Adam?" he greeted. "We need to evacuate. Start the shutdown process."

"On it, Stan," the man on the other end replied.

"Thank you, Mr. Lee," Tony said.

"Just go do what you crazy kids always do, will ya?"

Godzilla swam towards the small gap in the land that separated the Bay from the ocean. He intended to go straight into the bay to try an ambush attack, but the gap was too shallow for him to stay submerged.

He raised himself out of the water, ignoring the ships that were directly above him when he arrived. As the Navy Destroyers slid off his back, they fired at his spines. Godzilla wasn't pained by their shots, but he felt them nonetheless, angering him somewhat.

Finally, his body was upright. He could see that he was obstructed above the water as well, as a red bridge had been built across the gap. He was angry that the humans had obstructed his path, even before they knew he needed to pass.

The Destroyers kept firing at Godzilla's back, but now they were complemented by tanks firing at his front. Godzilla's patience was wearing thin. He just wanted this to be over with. Humans obviously had no idea what was best for them.

He raised his tail, pushing a few Destroyers to the side and throwing their aim off. He slammed it back down to push the Destroyers further away, some even getting beached onto the sides of the gap.

Of course, he still had to deal with the tanks on the bridge.

He pulled at the suspension cables that seemed to hold it up. As strong as Godzilla was, these cables were as strong as the ones back in Japan.

Finally, one of the tanks managed a shot directly on his gills. Pained beyond a simple sting and extremely pissed off, Godzilla walked straight through the bridge. He roared in anger at what the humans did to him, warning them not to try it again.

A draconic form followed closely behind Godzilla. Slithering past the shipwrecks the king had caused, Bakunawa looked at the bridge and the wreckage. Unlike Godzilla and Mayura, Bakunawa actually held some sympathy for the humans. They had their flaws, true, but they deserved to live on this Earth as much as he and the others did.

He noticed that a small human child, through sheer luck, had survived Godzilla's rampage. The poor kid was swimming fearfully in the water, trying to get to the shore.

Bakunawa ensured the kid's survival by lifting him onto his snout, and gently angling his head so the child would slide off safely. After ensuring that all the humans he could save were safe, Bakunawa continued on his way, following Godzilla into the Bay.

Jon walked through the city, having stole clothing from a camper. He was looking for the same creatures he had suckled off of, hoping to find a way to assist them.

So far, he could only think of ways to benefit from them. He didn't want that. He wasn't the creature that he was born from.

He stopped when his ears picked up something from across the street. A group of men were whispering amongst themselves, talking about things like killing the monsters and weaponizing them instead.

Unusual talk during an evacuation. Talk that Jon would not hear of.

Seeing the men, he walked toward them. While he walked, he heard them talk about their infiltration of Monarch and their goals of using the monsters to bring the world to its knees.

He knew exactly who they were: the same people who "killed" Bucky Barnes. The same people who made Bucky fight his best friend. The same people who killed S.H.I.E.L.D. like the leech they were.

HYDRA.

He wasn't about to let them bring down the very institution he helped create.

"Hello, boys," he greeted, trying to be polite about about his interruption. "And girl. I couldn't help but listen in to what you said. I'm afraid, since I'm one of the founding fathers of Monarch, I have to take you in."

The group of HYDRA agents looked at each other briefly, before looking back at Jon, with wide, predatory smiles on their faces. The lead agent pulled his arm back, obviously going for a weapon.

"Hail HYDRA," he said.

The man lunged forward, attempting to stab Jon. Jon simply swatted his arm away, using enough force to break the man's wrist.

The next man lunged at Jon, who stepped to the side, backhanding his neck, rendering him out of order. Permanently.

The woman of the group pulled out a gun and fired it at Jon. Each bullet made their mark, but he never fell. Within ten seconds, his cells had pushed the bullets out of his body.

Grinning, he took the last two men easily, choke-slamming them with enough force to dislocate their trachea's.

All the men down, the woman tried to run away. She was stopped by a prehensile object wrapping around her leg, pulling her back and slamming her into a trash can.

Jon reeled his tail back in, having stretched it far enough to induce pain. He turned to the man with the broken wrist, who was in too much pain to go anywhere. He picked him up with one hand, his face inches from the man's.

"Who do you work for?" Jon asked, his voice steadily becoming a harsh growl.

The man refused to say anything, only maintaining a cruel smile. His smile, however, disappeared when Jon raised his tail high enough for the agent to notice. His face began to transform as well, his head growing a smooth, bony forehead and his regular jaws accompanied by a set of mandibles.

"I will ask you again," Jon growled. "Who do you work for?"

The spike of his tail now at the agents throat, Jon finally got an answer.

"Wolfgang von Strucker!" the man replied, fearful for his life.

Satisfied with the answer, Jon dropped the man, walking over to the woman, who was just now waking up. To prevent HYDRA from knowing that he knew, Jon had slit the man's throat with his tail.

"Where is Mr. Strucker?" Jon asked the woman.

"You will refer to him as Baron von Strucker," the woman coldly replied. "And you will never find him."

Angry at her reply, Jon stood up straight, his arms growing long membranes, covered with rough, dark-blue feathers. His entire body became scaly and rough, except for his head, which was covered in smooth, white bone.

His anger reaching its summit, Jon roared in her face, causing her to scream in fear.

"WHERE IS HE?!"

Mayura flew through the city, turning himself sideways to fit through narrow gaps. Finally reaching his desired location, he landed on a building near the shoreline. He screamed, calling to the one he called 'King.'

And his king responded, rising from the bay. Mayura relayed to him the source of radiation that Leviathan intended to claim.

Godzilla, in turn, told him that a source of radiation was detected in the hills. He wanted Mayura to bring him the source, and he would reward him with a share of the source in the city or, if it came to it, the body of Leviathan.