Return of the Destroyer

Chapter Five: A Nightmare Reborn.

Tokyo, Japan.

Neo felt himself falling through the air. The wind was a light cool touch against his dark blue scales, and there seemed to be almost no sound that he could hear, aside from a laughing roar from that… beast. The smell of blood assaulted Neo's nostrils, as he had managed to escape Its grip by wrestling away the hand, and then quickly slicing at the beast's floral chest with an arm blade. It had for just a moment relaxed Its grip, giving him time to blast a corona beam in Its face, and thus began his free-falling descent into a human city. The silence was soon broken as he landed directly on a long-abandoned building, reducing it into a huge cloud of dust and rubble. He quickly rose to his feet, sent out several crystals jutting out of the ground, and began glancing at his surroundings, trying to find Destoroyah. This was a city that seemed unfamiliar to Neo, as when he had journeyed to the human world, he was looking for a city with a direct power source, namely a tower. So, most likely, he had passed over this city without taking a glance at it. Meaning he was at a big disadvantage.

"Where are you hiding freak?"

Neo quietly grabbed one of his crystals, so as not to get that creature's attention while he was woefully underprepared, and began to absorb the mana out of it, recharging himself for the battle ahead. He had expended most of his energy during his battle with his brother, and lost quite a bit when he pulled off that little move to save the dumbass who had gotten himself caught by the abomination. He was so sure that move had been enough to kill It, and yet It had lived, only changing into a much bigger form. Hearing a taunting laugh somewhere in the distance, he glanced around quickly, only to see nothing at all. Neo noticed that his breathing was beginning to become faster, and that he felt cold all throughout his body. This was something…. that he had never really felt before. Soon enough, a nagging thought became present in his mind, that this "Destoroyah" could possibly… kill him.

"Am I…. afraid?"

Neo remembered the burning pain of his flesh being melted away, how it sloughed off him like magma on a volcano. He remembered how much Destoroyah seemed to enjoy the pain and suffering It caused, and how It gloated about killing father. All of them seemed to believe that father was dead, but Neo believed that it was an elaborate ruse they had come up with to protect him from his fate. And yet, Neo was starting to believe that there was some truth behind the repeated statements of "Godzilla is dead, leave now." He had glanced into Junior's eyes when he agreed to have his mind probed, and as much as Neo lied to himself, Junior was being completely honest. Neo was truly starting to believe his father was dead, at the claws of a destroyer.

And It wanted to finish what It started.

Neo could feel his mind and thoughts becoming erratic, so he calmed himself down by consciously slowing down his breathing, and glancing up at the night skies glittering with stars and planets. It was quite beautiful out, and very much reminded him of how vast space could be, and how much he enjoyed being out there. Unlike Earth, outer space was very quiet, and was endless. There was plenty of places to see, and stars to feed off of, so much so he had not tasted any flesh of otherworldly animals, or those on Earth. Neo knew he hadn't explored much of space, most likely about 10%, and yet, it helped keep him calm in situations like these. If it weren't for his mission, among other things he was facing, he felt like that he could explore space forever. Neo noticed a tear running down his cheek, as he felt a certain memory come back to him. It popped up from time to time, and yet it never changed what he saw in his mind. He always saw it from the perspective of a human at first, a human female to be exact. She would always be minding her business and tending to her plants, until he would always hear an explosion, and then watching as his vision went completely dark. And next, he would see a beautiful lake, and in the middle of it, a strange large rose. It was at night, filled with a mist that kept it hidden, and the rose would always cry out a phrase that always made Neo… shudder.

"I-i-it h-hur-t-t-s b-badly. Father…. please. H-h-help m-m-me…."

The memory would always fade right there, leaving Neo sorrowful for a reason he could not explain. His thoughts began to drift back to the vastness of space, as the pale moon shined above the abandoned city. Of course, exploring space wasn't always peaceful, and he could count the number of times he had been rudely interrupted while living in his element. Once he battled a machine that the humans had sent to defeat him, all because he had drifted too close to one of their space stations and destroyed it. More recently, on his journey back to Earth, a strange alien called "Baltan Seijin" challenged him to a duel, for a reason Neo did not care about. Baltan had the ability to duplicate himself, a big ego, and one of the most annoying laughs he had ever heard, so much so that despite Neo managing to get the alien to retreat, he could still hear that damned laugh. In fact, he could hear the laugh right now, despite Baltan not even being near the Earth. He felt his breathing slow down, and he no longer felt the cold sweat that he had developed. Now calm, Neo generated two arm blades, and began to look around and listen to his surroundings.

"I'm right herrrreeeee…..."

A quick corona beam went in the direction of Its voice, and blew up a tall building, only for there to be nothing behind it. A small fire was started, and began to spread around to the other buildings. Neo listened and heard the whoosh of flapping wings, and waited until he heard the boom of something heavy landing. Another corona beam was fired at the location, this time blowing up several buildings and starting another small fire, which was illuminating the dark abandoned city. It wasn't there of course, meaning that It was either faster than Neo thought It was, or he was slower.

"This is a fun game," It mocked, "I love a good game of hide and go kill."

"You gave yourself away, idiot."

A third corona beam went to the location of the voice, and this time there was a grunt of pain, and Neo turned swiftly around to see Destoroyah standing right behind him. He could see a mark where the beam had hit the beast, and quickly swung his arm blades full force, drawing yellow blood from the beast. Retracting the blades, Neo encased his fist in crystal and led with a powerful punch, getting It right in the maw. Another punch was attempted, only for the beast to catch the fist in Its own hand. With a huge toothy grin and a malicious stare, Destoroyah backhanded Neo with Its free fist, sending him flying into the flames he had started. While fire wouldn't affect him, the backhand had managed to bruise him, and cause his mouth to start bleeding. The metallic taste of his own blood wasn't the priority here, rather it was killing Destoroyah, who was walking through the flames like a devil out of hell. Neo transformed into his flying form, and flew towards the sky, followed by Destoroyah flying with Its massive draconic wings. Firing out ring like energy pulses, Neo watched as Destoroyah dodged each one, something that he would've not expected from such a big and stocky beast. Its horn began to glow, much like Neo's crest, and as Neo launched several crystal blades at Destoroyah, It swung the horn around rapidly, creating an energy blade that destroyed the crystals effortlessly. It began to charge up Its micro-oxygen beam, and as soon as it fired it out, Neo quickly countered with a corona beam. The purple and white beam clashed with the orange beam as sparks of energy began to create an orange and purple glow that could be seen from miles. Had Neo and Destoroyah been paying attention, they might have noticed that the glow was starting to attract attention, one from a group of monsters headed to that location, and the other from the humans, who began to scramble their forces, including the Super-X3.

"Damn it," Neo thought to himself, "I can feel my energy ebbing away, and when it's gone, then I'm screwed. I've got to find a way to win this struggle. Unless…. YES! THAT'S IT!"

Destoroyah's joy began to increase as It pumped even more power into the beam, watching as the orange wavy beam began to slowly retract, meaning It was even closer to winning. It thought to Itself, "What's the matter weakling?! DON'T YOU WANT A FIGHT?! WELL, I GAVE YOU ONE! AND NOW YOU CAN KNOW THE MEANING OF DESPAIR!" As the orange beam cut off, and the micro-oxygen beam flew towards Neo at great speed, it was right about then that Destoroyah realized, It had fucked up. The beam did reach its target, that is a target that had diverted the orange beam into forming a clear shield with various geometric designs, and thus it bounced off the micro-oxygen beam easily, returning it to the sender. The beam hit Destoroyah in Its face, knocking It off balance, but not harming It. Neo then began flying full force at the demon, and summoning crystal growths on his hands, he trapped Its arms at the sides, and bit down on Its neck with his very sharp fangs. The blood tasted like rotten flesh, but Neo ignored the rank taste, and using his determination, began to fly upwards towards the atmosphere, keeping Destoroyah from being unable to attack him.

"Come on demon, don't you like to fly? Then tell me, HOW DO YOU ENJOY THIS?!"

Neo screamed that as he broke through the atmosphere, and then began flying towards the city like a bomb dropped on its target. Destoroyah was attempting to break free, even using Its tail to try and strangle Neo, but It couldn't reach Neo's neck through his crystal growth. Neo charged more energy, starting to surround himself and It with a purple aura, and began to fly even faster, so fast he heard a sonic boom reverberate around his ears. Destoroyah let off one final scream of rage until….

BOOM!

An explosive cloud of fire and dust toppled more of the abandoned cities in Tokyo, and shattered some of the growing crystals around them. In the crater, which would be deep for a human, but not so much for a Kaiju, Neo painfully got up, feeling that he had shifted back into his land form. He felt that one of his legs were broken, that he was bleeding from several places on his body and missing parts of his tusks, and some of his dorsal plates had broken off, leaving blood to leak out of there. His two shoulder crystals were smashed to pieces, meaning that his powers were greatly diminished, and that the only way to regenerate them was to find one of the crystals he had the foresight to put in the ground. Neo began to feel a strange feeling in his stomach, and then felt bile rising to his throat, before it came rushing out of his mouth, leaving his throat feeling raw and warm, a very rancid taste in his mouth, and a puddle of greenish liquid mixed with speckles of blood. He began to limp over to a nearby crystal, only to hear something behind him.

"Was that your best?"

He turned around, and saw Destoroyah rising up from the crater, covered with similar wounds and Its wings damaged beyond repair, but other than that, somehow still alive despite the power he put behind the attack. Neo weakly tried to use his telekinesis, but found himself unable to access the power, as Destoroyah began striding over to him. It grabbed one of his arms, and with a loud snap, broke the arm with ease.

"AAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH!," Neo screamed as the pain became unbearable, and he saw white bone sticking through his tough skin. Destoroyah then used Its claw tail and grabbed him by the neck, holding him close to Its face.

"Let me repeat that, was that your best? I don't have all day, although your fear and despair are ssssooooo delicious," Destoroyah taunted Neo, as Its long tongue came out of Its mouth, and licked his face. The salvia felt very warm and sticky, and left Neo absolutely disgusted. With nothing else he could do, he spat in the destroyer's face. It glanced at him and said, "I guess that was your best," and tossed him away, right next to a stack of crystals. Neo grabbed one of the crystals, and began to drain the mana from it, regenerating his shoulder crystals, right before Destoroyah realized what It had done wrong.

"No, THIS IS MY BEST!"

Neo lunged for Destoroyah, and with his free arm, touched Its forehead and let his crest grow orange, so he could enter the beast's mind, and destroy It from within.

Neo was floating through a pure black void, fully healed, and looking through the memories of Destoroyah, hoping to find a weakness that could help him end Its presence on Earth. The first memory he came across seemed to be in the ocean depths, something which did not surprise Neo, as given the crustacean design of the beast, It must have originated from there. Neo dove in, and heard the voice of It trying to stop him.

"NO! STAY OUT OF MY MIND!"

"I don't think I will," Neo sniped at the voice of the indignant Destoroyah, as he saw himself surrounded by water. He looked around, watching as the sea life drifted by silently, and paid him no heed. He could not seem to locate Destoroyah anywhere, until he heard an echoing sound of repeated words break the silence of the sea.

"Feed. Feed. Feed. Hungry. Hungry. Gojira. Gojira. Eat? Feed. Eat. Eat. Eat."

Neo then realized that the voices seemed to be coming from all around him, and then he realized something. "Of course," Neo whispered in awe, "Evolution always begins at the smallest organism, and you were no different, were you?"

"Why don't you keep watching? It gets better."

Neo watched as the micro-organisms scrambled about, repeating those words verbatim. Who was Gojira exactly? As if to answer Neo's question, he saw movement in the distance, and a titanic being stand up in the dark murky depths of the ocean. It… looked familiar…..

"Father?!"

The figure began to stand up, his silhouette indeed bearing a similar resemblance to Neo's father, but Neo then saw how the dorsal plates and head looked, and realized it was a member of the species that he, Junior, and Godzilla were from. This was Gojira, the name that Destoroyah referred to Junior as. It most likely thought every being that looked like that was called Gojira.

"What are you doing here intruders? I don't know of you," Gojira addressed an unknown party, "Leave me be. I've already taught you a lesson."

"Humans," Neo whispered as he saw two smaller beings walking in the water, one of them holding a long cylindrical device. As one of the humans placed the device down, Gojira stared curiously at the device, while the other human went to the surface. The one who remained behind, cut the tube that connected them to a possible floatation device, what humans called a "boat" to be exact, and fiddled with the device. At first, nothing seemed to happen, until Neo saw a fish gasping, and then dissolving into a skeleton. His eyes widened with horror as more and more began to die, and even the human collapsed soon enough. Gojira himself started to struggle for air as well, and attempted to reach the surface, just for a little air. But it was too late, and after one final scream of fear and pain, he sunk to the bottom, and turned into a skeleton. Neo felt sick to his stomach, when he heard the micro-organisms start to speak up about what he was witnessing.

"Something's happening. Something's happening. Agony. Pulse is racing. Mental torture. Can't ignore it. Something's happening. Something's happening."

"Ahhh…. You came in here expecting to destroy me, right? Well, now I am in control," Destoroyah laughed with ravenous glee, "And now it's you who will go on a ride, one that I decide."

"Oh no," Neo gasped. He had been sloppy, and now It had complete control of where he was going to go. The scene before him dissolved, and now the micro-organism was elsewhere, this time above the water. Other micro-organisms, looking like smaller horseshoe crabs, were converging together, and touching their mandibles together. They began to utter a phrase in tandem as they began to mold together into 6 or 7 distinct shapes, which resembled Destoroyah in the form It had during the battle on the island, but lacking the claws and the spears.

"Strong together, we unite. Faster together, we unite. Intelligent together, we unite. Together, WE SURVIVE!"

Neo watched as the memory faded into a chaotic scene inside of a human building, and with terrified humans running away. They were dressed in some sort of armor, and were holding some of their weapons, and yet, they were being beaten back by Destoroyah. He saw one human firing their weapon, and it doing no damage to the demon standing before them. Another was hit by a white mist fired from one of the clone's maw, and fell to the ground with a bloody hole in their chest. There were a ton of corpses lying on the ground, some completely unrecognizable, and soon enough, the creatures broke outside, and began attacking the rest of the human army. Neo saw as one creature went after a human female, who was a non-combatant. Its eyes narrowed in pleasure as It began to torment the poor girl by chasing her and attacking the vehicle she was in, until several soldiers came with a flame machine, which terrified the creature.

"Could that be…. Its weakness?"

"OH, I DON'T THINK SO!"

Preventing Neo from seeing what was going to happen, Destoroyah transported the space clone to another memory, this time in daylight and outside of the building that the creatures had hidden in. The humans had come back in very large numbers with some of their war machines, a whole row of them. Neo had seen some of these before, but to him, they were like small annoying bugs, whereas to the creatures, they were death incarnate. Blue lasers fired everywhere, scattering the creatures around and causing them to flee together in panic, as explosions came all around them, a few of them managed to retain their composure, and herded the others into the building. Uniting in a circle once again, as the building began to crumble before them they began their eldritch chant as energy coursed through each one.

"Strong together, we unite. Faster together, we unite. Flying together, we unite. Destroying together, we unite. TOGETHER, WE ARE DESTOROYAH!"

The creatures merged together, into a very familiar being that burst through the building with an earsplitting screech, followed by maniacal laughter. As the human soldiers began to panic on the ground, Destoroyah bellowed only one sentence, "I WILL NO LONGER BE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE FOOD CHAIN!" It began to laugh like a lunatic as It fired the purple and white beam off rapidly, making sure to destroy all of the war machines. At one point, It saw a group of fleeing civilians who had come to see what was happening, and with glee in Its eyes, another beam went towards their direction, killing them instantly.

"No….no..," was all Neo could say after seeing that act of cruelty, "They were innocents, they were just trying to escape, and you killed them….."

"Like you did those people on the space station, and indirectly when you were flying towards that tower," Destoroyah giggled, "and also you tormented the whelp to try and get his father to fight you."

"How did you-?"

"I can see your thoughts as well," Destoroyah revealed to the shocked Neo, "And now, it's time I showed you what I did to your father." As Neo watched the demon grow wings out of Its back and take flight, the memory faded away, and a flurry of memories assaulted his eyes and mind. Neo saw the flying beast slaughtering more innocents, before transforming back into Its land form when It saw Junior in the city. He saw It cruelly beating down the young kaiju, just because he happened to be there. He saw It get tossed into a power plant and begin to burn alive in the flames, only to burst out of Its carapace and become the devil It was now. And then…. He saw it murder Junior in front of father. It laughed and laughed as the light left his eyes, and Neo's blood ran cold when he saw his devastated father. It was right about then when Neo fully began to understand why Godzilla had chosen to punish humanity, for he had been the last of his kind when they first tested their weapons of mass destruction. A memory came to Neo's head, something he had never seen before, of Godzilla lying on a beach, with three small creatures before him playing around with each other, before they became aware of the mushroom cloud in the distance, and the oncoming firestorm. The creatures turned to Godzilla, as the firestorm came even closer and closer.

"Look at me Ichi, Ni, San. Don't look back, look at me. I want to say thank you, for being there for me at my lowest."

As Godzilla turned his back to the storm, shielding the little creatures from it, Neo could only watch as they were engulfed, and a creature that was the last of his species, became the first and only to his knowledge. The memory ended, and came back to the place where Junior had died, and Godzilla lost his only son. Godzilla was there, glowing red, and with Destoroyah reduced back in Its smallest form. Godzilla bent over his son's body, and nudged it, hoping to get the smallest amount of life from him.

"My baby boy…. please don't leave me. I can't lose you again," sobbed Godzilla as he continued to nudge him, "Please wake up…..We'll go home together, and…. I'll help you get better….." As he continued to sob, some of his flesh began to heat up and slough off, turning into liquid as it the ground. The humans began to fire weapons at Godzilla that seemed to cool him down, but it would not be enough to save him. As they continued to fire, and as Godzilla's flesh continued to melt off revealing molten bone underneath, he only said one more thing, "It should've been me…..Please, take me…..I don't want him to be alone…. Let his papa go with him…. Please…" As Godzilla's last tear exited his eye, the rest of his flesh completely melted off, and thus, the King of the Monsters…. was no more.

"…I…..was….the monster all along….. I tried….. to murder…..an innocent who was wronged…. What have I done?!"

Neo felt sick to his stomach upon coming to this realization, now knowing that the ends did not justify the means. Those people in the space station would not be coming back to life, nor would the ones in the city he had destroyed. And Junior was most likely never going to forgive him for what he had done, and he would never forgive himself. He was no longer in denial about what had happened, his father was dead, and his purpose had been one that would've taken away the happiness a tormented creature had finally gained. Neo thought back to the words the voice had told him, "You will not find what you are looking for," and cursed his stupidity, for not listening to what the voice had to say. He couldn't take it anymore, and decided to get out of Destoroyah's mind before It could torment him even more.

As the orange glow faded from his crest, Neo barely had time to react before Destoroyah took advantage of Neo's sorrow, by opening up Its floral pattern on Its chest. Neo put up a shield, but it was too late to block the beam that came out of the chest, and it easily broke the shield, sending Neo flying into a building, and collapsing it onto him. He tried to get himself to stand back up, grab a crystal, and heal, but found that he didn't have the willpower. Destoroyah walked over to him, and noticing the gaping wound the chest beam had given him, began pushing Its arm into the wound, causing Neo even more pain. It then decided to talk to Neo as It continued to torture him, after stepping on his broken arm.

"So, you've heard from that same voice as well, how interesting. And yet, unlike me, you refused it, preferring to try and kill Godzilla on your own. Well, look where that got you, lying on the ground before me, and broken in more ways than one. HOW AMUSING!"

"Just, hurry up and kill me already, because that's what you get off on, isn't it?"

"Oh no, you don't have my permission to die just yet, because I feel like you have many things to offer to me," Destoroyah replied, "Such as taking your power for myself, which I feel like I can do, or maybe even being my attack dog once I kill the whelp and his friends. And then, I will go after the voice myself, with you by my side, and we will kill him together. After that, then you have my permis-GAHHHH! C-c-cold…."

Before Destoroyah could finish Its sentence, a beam of blue had come out of nowhere from a human flying machine that burst out of the sky and followed with a series of missiles. Neo watched as Destoroyah leaped into the air, despite Its damaged wings, and with a swipe of Its glowing horn blade, cut down the machine easily, and sent it crashing to the ground, with a whole wing missing. Neo began to think about all he had witnessed, and then thought back to what Destoroyah had told him about the voice. By all accounts, Destoroyah should not have survived after being reduced to only one form, and yet, here It was. The voice seemed to be everywhere, and seemed to appear whenever someone was at their lowest, in Neo's case, when he was having rightful doubts that his father was still alive. The voice must have appeared when Destoroyah saw Junior revive, no doubt from the radiation his father let off as he died, and unlike Neo, It took the deal, and was now more powerful than before, if the power of Its energy beams were anything to go by. And yet, It was ungrateful, and wanted free reign to hurt others, no doubt caused by frustrations from being on the bottom of the food chain for eons. Neo realized that he was in no state to attack the creature, or that he was not strong enough to kill It, and if he was right, there was something much more dangerous than Destoroyah out there. Something older than time itself. Something that had spoken to him once, and may have taken advantage of him had he agreed to the terms. Something…sinister. Neo began to realize, that he now had a new purpose, one that he could follow up on as soon as Destoroyah was defeated, and as soon as he came to terms with what he had done, and who he was. Neo then noticed that there was what appeared to be a smaller version of Mothra watching him, only instead of having cream colored fur with orange and black highlights, this one had red fur with blue highlights, and multicolored wings with orange and black swirly patterns and blue eyespots. It flew off soon, followed by another moth that was blue and yellow with similar patterns on the wings and red eyespots, and a black and red moth that lacked fur and antenna, having an exoskeleton that was sharp and sleek looking, yellow translucent horns on its head, and bat-like single wings with red and yellow patterns as opposed to the double segmented wings that Mothra and the other moths had.

"I remember you," Destoroyah growled when It looked at the downed Super-X3, and the pilots in their radiation proof suits, "It was you that prevented my escape, and who crippled my wings long ago. Well, IT'S TIME I REPAYED THE FAVOR!"

"NOOOO," Neo screamed in fear, but it was too late. Destoroyah fired Its micro-oxygen beam right at the humans as they finally broke free of the jet.

Only for something to burst out of the night sky, and block the shot with a glowing golden symbol that Neo recognized.

Mothra put down the shield and stared at Destoroyah with righteous fury in her eyes, who turned around slowly, and saw Angurius and Godzilla Junior staring at It as well, with a similar fury in their eyes as well, one who was angered at how It had tormented a friend, and the other, who wanted to avenge the death of a father.

It was time for round 2.

And here it is, the next chapter of Rebirth of the King, completed earlier than I thought it would be. So, looks like Neo has had his denial shattered in a devastating way, and now realizes that well, he was the bad guy all along. It's a good thing that Mothra and the others have come to take on Destoroyah, but can Neo ever recover from the realization about what he did? And yes, I do believe that he has memories from both Godzilla and Biollante, but they have been scrambled about because of the circumstances of his birth, so he remembers them at inopportune times. Anyway here is the voice cast with some new additions.

Johnny Yong Bosch as Godzilla Jr (adult and teen).

Dan Southworth as Neozilla/SpaceGodzilla.

Sumalee Montano as Mothra.

Matthew Mercer as Angurius.

Yuri Lowenthal as Mothra Leo.

Marc Diarson as Godzilla.

Quinton Flynn as Rodan.

Willem Dafoe (Leader), Dave Wittenberg (Nutcase), and Kevin Michael Richardson (Vicious) as Desghidorah.

Fred Tatasciore as Destoroyah.

Patrick Seitz as Grand-King Ghidorah.

Tony Jay as The Master.

James Earl Jones as Gojira (Godzilla 1954).

Sigourney Weaver as Biollante.

Cathy Weseluck as Godzilla Jr (child).

So, next chapter, it's time for the battle with Destoroyah, who is much more powerful than before. Can our heroes triumph over It? Will they be able to discover Its weakness before it is too late? Find out next time on Godzilla Rebirth of the King. And what is the next saga about exactly?

Thank you all for reading my story. I'm glad you enjoy it.

See you later

P.S. I stated in a review that I think Mothra and Godzilla could've been friends had he not been so driven to punish humanity for what they did. I think they might have taken it further than that, and become a couple. Of course, that would happen if Godzilla had not killed Battra, thus forcing Mothra to take his place in stopping the meteor. And yes, Junior and Leo would've been raised together, as opposed to meeting as young adults (or a Divine Moth that is ready to go into his Imago state in Leo's case).