Welcome back to Chapter Seven Everyone! I know that you were waiting patiently for it! I know I haven't been updating the story but I took some time off from writing stories to try a hand at animating a Splatoon story using Garry's Mod. The story relates to the new story I had recently released.

However, these past two months have been a bit rough for me. First, my internet decided to go down for the past few weeks. Second problem that I been having to deal with, is tooth issues. I been having to visit the dentist for this past few weeks to get it cleared up. Tomorrow will hopefully be my last visit, so I can get back to normal life. The updates are slower then I promised, but life may interfere with how fast I may put these chapters out. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this chapter.

Chapter Seven: Attack

Three looked around the area of the island as it approached. It wasn't an island, it didn't look like any of it. Because all the ice had melted and caused the rise in sea level, most of the island was almost completely underwater. If it wasn't for the mountainous terrain, the humans wouldn't have been able to find it on the chart. From what Mark and Madison had detailed, it was called Infant Island.

The place and location was somewhere between what would have been Indonesia and the Philippines, similar to how the city of Inkopolis was built on the mountainous terrain of what used to have been Japan. Infant Island, apparently was the place of home to one of titians from 2019 called Mothra. A giant moth that battled with and against Godzilla throughout the years.

While Godzilla could have been the only titian alive, Mark insisted that it was possible for Mothra to reincarnate upon dying in battle, as seen on multiple occasions. There was also apparently suppose to be people living on the island as well though it wasn't likely. Mark insisted however that this place was the home of Mothra and it was possible that she was not awoken yet.

The three agents were no longer in their uniforms, just dressed in Salmon Run outfits. While it was unlikely that they were here for collecting anything from salmons, they did need the life preservers in case anything happened. As soon as the boat had come to a stop, the humans and the three agents departed and went ashore. Though most of the island was underwater, the humans and agents quickly found out that the various caves and tunnels were untouched.

After what seemed like hours, the two humans and three agents came across what seemed to be relics of a past civilization. There were paintings lined across the walls of the cave, depicting battles that had happened in the past. From the flashlights that Mark and Madison had brought along, Three found the paintings to be a little creative. The cave had began to widen, eventually opening to a large dome. They could tell due to the sunlight that was coming in from a gaping hole on the top. The hole was probably for Mothra to get in and out of this place. From the hole, the light shined down to a moderate sized temple from the look of it. From where they were, they were just able to see the top of the temple having a large circular structure.

The group headed down to the temple to investigate and as they approached, they started to hear singing. It sounded liked it was coming off to the side. While the agents couldn't understand the language that the song was sung in, they were amazed by how majestic it was. On a clearing beside the temple, the humans could see two small fairies. They were the ones that were singing the song. The group stopped a fair distance away to the two priestesses.

"Welcome! You came seeking help, is that right?" The agents couldn't understand what they were saying but the humans could thanks to the translators.

"We were wondering if Mothra can help us find Godzilla." The two fairies consolidated to one another then towards the humans. "I am sorry but Mothra cannot help you. She has gone a great journey."

"Come up to the temple so we can show you."

From seemly out of nowhere, a small moth landed beside the two fairies. This looked like to be a small fairy version of Mothra. The two fairies got on the moth and gave the hand signal to follow them. As the two humans and three agents reached the top of the temple, the stones below them began to shake. The temple beginning to rise up towards the gaping hole at the top. The agents looked down into the circular structure, finding a massive egg. The temple reached the top of the hole, which could have been the top of a mountain.

"She gave her strength laying this egg before going into battle; For thousands of years, we lay dormant... watching this egg... waiting for it to hatch and continue the cycle." The circular structure opened up a little, revealing the egg more to the agents. The three agents looked up at the egg and to the two fairies.

"Is it possible that Godzilla will try to destroy our civilization?"

"While Godzilla did destroy humanity in the past, if you can prove to him that your kind can change." The two fairies simultaneously summoned a glowing orb, directing it to the agents. "As your kind is apart of the Earth now, Mothra will be your ally."

The orb hovered a few meters from three agents. Eight, being the most curious of the three agents, reached up to tap the orb a couple of times to test if it was solid. "This has the ability to communicate in time of need, whoever breaks it will be able to communicate with Mothra or Godzilla."

"So only one person will be able to communicate. Is that right?" Before the two fairies could answer, a sudden horn like sound began to wail through the air. The horn was coming from the boat that they came on, still anchored from afar.

"Oh no..."

Recognizing what that horn meant, Three, Four and Eight quickly looked around, preparing their weapons. Seeing the agents get into battle stance made Mark and Madison also prepare themselves to what seemed to be an upcoming battle.

The agents knew what to expect as salmons began to emerge from the water around them. The salmons were made up of the usual: Chums, Cohocks, and Smallfry.

"Salmons? How did they get here? Did they follow us?" Three looked with concern as some of the salmons laughed while several Steelheads began rising from the water as well, moving towards the three agents. Before Three could coordinate a strategy on how to deal with the salmons. Four eagerly fearlessly charged forward and began blasting away at the salmons with the Clash Blaster the boat crew gave her.

"FOURRRRR!" Three wanted all of them to fire at the same time, but that has gone out the window now.

She was mad at Four, but not for long as the younger agent was successfully taking out salmons left and right, even before they could begin swing their frying pans. The agent couldn't help smiling as she and Eight joined in on the fun. One thing was common though, they all loved splatting salmons as much as octarians since they couldn't do much, being easier to deal with, that is.

Three handed Mark the orb and said. "Mark! Madison! Get back to the boat! We'll try to cover you as best as possible!" Mark and Madison followed Three's order, inflating a boat to get away from the horde, using their legs to kick and stomp on the salmons while protecting the twin fairies... if these hideous creatures were into eating small things. Mark could see agents fighting their way through the salmons. Eight twisted around, sort of in a dancing pattern as she fired the Aerospray MG that was loaned to her. The low damage that the Aerosprey had made her take caution however since there were a lot of Salmons come for her.

Three had the same success with the Zap 85 that she had. Despite quick reflexes and accuracy was her best bet, the weapon alone wasn't going to be enough to deal with the horde. As it was a waste to use ink on the smallfry, she worked out how she could deal a blow to the enemy while conserving ink at the same time.

She grabbed a smallfry that was the closest to her and gained some distance from the other smallfry to avoid being surrounded. As the smallfry screamed at the horror of bring grabbed, she gave it a grim smile. She aimed and threw it full speed at a clum's frying pan, it still screaming the whole way, smashing into the steel and turning it into mush. The energy transferred into the frying pan, making a loud bang as it flew backwards, out of the fins of it's own user. The pan went splat into several Salmons, taking them out like bowling pins.

"Agent Three Scores!"

Smallfry stopped in their tracks, keeping their distance away from the agent, some began running for their life afraid, while others continued to come toward her. She hurriedly grabbed another smallfry, then another, throwing them at the larger salmonids. Having shown what she could do to the smallfry, she turned her attention to the rest of the horde of the overgrown fishes. As there were no more need to throw anymore smallfry, she could her own weapon now.

The agents so far had splatted close to twenty one salmons within the thirty seconds since the first appearance. After a minute or so, the horn on the boat began to go off again, making the agents turn their attention to the water. Steel eels and Snatchers began to rise from the water and towards the egg. The countless Snatchers, probably close to a hundred were swarming around the giant egg. The agents and two humans caught on what the snatchers were trying to do.

"They think that Egg is one of theirs! Splat them!"

The Salmons were trying to steal the egg, and if they ended up being crushed trying to; The egg would start rolling from it's stand and into the water where that would mean the end of Mothra. Three went for the egg and began to eliminate the threat. She went into her squid form and jumped through the snapping jaws of a steel eel then proceeded to jump through the body of another, though a gap between the inkjets.

Eight and Four distracted the steel eels, luring them away from Three to the other side of the island. Without anything to interrupt her, Three picked off the Snatchers just as they were about to synchronize picking up the egg. Thankfully for her, the crew on the boat wanted to help and had launched a rocket containing an inkrail. The rocket landed in front of Three, deploying a large circular path that went two times around the egg and ended back where she was at. She got onto the inkrail, balancing herself as the ink rail carried her to the Snatchers.

None of them were paying any attention to her... as expected.

With careful timing, she took shots at the Snatchers as the rail directed her around the egg. She managed to take out a dozen snatchers before her ink was depleted. She thought she might have been able to take a couple of more down but it was what it was. Once her ink was refiled, she went back on the attack. As the inkrail took her around the egg again, she took another few shots at the snatchers and managed to take down a dozen again before the inkrail turned away and ended.

Despite losing close to twenty six of their own, the snatchers were able to easily replace the ones that went down. Three jumped to begin the ride again, stocking up on ink again as she needed to buy time for Four and Eight to come help once they were finished with the steel eels.

Meanwhile with Eight and Four, they had managed to led four steel eels away and towards the middle of two pillars. Eight went left to right while Four went right to left, crossing paths and tangling the steel eels that were following them. They both got to higher ground on each end and attacked at the same time. The salmonids piloting the steel eels in the rear couldn't do much as the agents came around and fired their weapons.

"Booyah! Nice Teamwork Eight!" The steel eels exploded once their pilots were taken out, creating a nice display of fireworks.

"Than-AHH!" Before Eight could finish, Four quickly charged forward, using her body to push Eight over as she was nearly about to be eaten by a Maw that appeared below. Four pulled Eight up with her free hand, pointing to Three.

"She needs help!"

The two agents ignored the salmons and made a break for the egg. Three was lagging behind at stopping the snatchers. "She can't take them all. Use your special, Eight."

Eight grabbed one of the packs that were wrapped on her cap and cracked it open. She was expecting the Bomb Rush special but became equipped with a Sting Ray special. Eight was horrified as this wasn't the weapon that she wanted. She didn't have time to hesitate as the combined strength of the snatchers was able to bring the egg up in the air.

The octoling became worried now, concerned about the egg and what was contained in it. The sting ray was devastating, for her at least. She wasn't sure if a giant monster could take that kind of punishment, especially if it was in the larva stage. She gulped and fired up the sting ray, aiming the gigantic beam at the snatchers. The special only lasted for seven seconds, but she only had to aim. All the snatchers below one side of the egg were vaporized as the beam hit them.

The egg quickly became unbalanced and fell to one side. As the unbalanced side hit the ground, the snatchers that were already struggling to hold the egg up were crushed by the weight. Thankfully, the egg settled back on it's stand with little to no damage.

Three was able to calm down a little now, having to not face overwhelming odds. It was a risky move but an act of quick thinking by Eight. With the snatchers defeated, the agents noticed that the salmons had began to change their behavior by growling and banging their pans together loudly. The salmons began to change at the agents and the egg.

The three agents countered by using their specials, to help even the odds. Four used both of her bomb rush specials while Eight used her other sting ray. Three had the splashdown special, meaning she could take out a large group if she was surrounded.

Unfortunately for the agents since the salmons were coming from everywhere. Four was the first to go down, quickly being overwhelmed as her clash blaster couldn't keep up with the salmons. She screamed as she was splatted from being hit by multiple frying pans. Since there wasn't a respawn point nearby, the only thing that saved her was the lifebuoy she had on her back.

"Help me!" Four made her buoy bounce up and down to get the attention of her fellow agents.

"Four!"

Three reacted quickly, pulling Eight back to protect the octoling from being overwhelmed as well. Three pushed forward with Eight in tow to where they could see Four's buoy; Right in the middle of the salmons that splatted her. Three used her splashdown, taking out the salmons to clear the way for Eight to revive Four.

"You okay, Four?"

"Booyah! Thanks Eight!"

The three agents regrouped and rushed to the egg to defend it. The salmons began to swing their frying pans at the shell of the egg as hard as they could with the intent on harm. The boat horn sounded again as Several Stingers and Drizzlers now appeared and began to target the egg, intending to destroy it and fry whatever was inside. If they couldn't take the egg for themselves, they might as well destroy it so the inklings couldn't take it.

The agents quickly fought through and eliminated the primary threats, only to find out that more were appearing from the water. It was a repeating process of having to splat wave after wave. By now, the agent had to use just about anything to keep the salmons away from the egg, even if it meant picking up the chum's frying pans and bashing their heads in once their ink ran out. This however, didn't deter the overgrown fish as they kept coming with more numbers.

The three agents tried everything they could to keep the Salmons away but there were just too many for the three to deal with. The stingers that were still active were firing at the egg. Pretty soon, the agents had became tired from running back and forth around the egg. Their hands were numb from having to squeeze the trigger of their weapons. The three were resting, holding onto each other's shoulders for support. "What are we going to do, Three?" The agent's answers came when a erupting jet of water began to shoot up in the air, forcing the three agents to look. The three agents could see three spines slowly rising from the water, coming towards them. Water began displace from a rising head followed by a loud roar. It was Godzilla!

The three agents started to cheer on the monster as he began to step from the water and towards the egg.

Most of the salmons scattered upon seeing the giant monster, evacuating into the water. The stingers turned their attention to the giant monster, clearly showing fear as they began to fire their green beams at the monster desperately. To Godzilla, the pain he was feeling was nothing short of mosquito bites.

"Begone!"

Godzilla began to power up his atomic breath and began to obliterate everything in sight. The salmonids that were foolish enough to stay to try to fight the giant were sent away into the afterlife. Three dropped her to her knees from exhaustion, dropping what was in her hands, followed by Four and Eight. They had done it! They were able to pull through.

Mark and Madison watched from afar on the boat with satisfaction. There he was in plain view! Madison was checking the details from the Monarch lab. The results of Godzilla's height, weight, and physical appearance came back different. The previous data when he was last seen was compared to now: More taller, longer, and more bulky. He was definitely bigger now.

As if Godzilla showing up wasn't enough for the agents and the humans, there was simultaneously a loud cracking sound coming from the giant egg; followed by a loud shriek. The egg broke open to let the creature that was inside roll out. The creature wasn't anything pretty based on it's looks but that didn't matter much. Madison remembered of her time in that lab with her mother when she first encountered Mothra back in 2019. It looked exactly like what she saw back in the lab. The features of two blue eyes, stubby legs, and shell like body told the humans that it was indeed Mothra.

The last of the salmons entered the water, leaving only the two monsters and the three agents on the surface. While it was indeed safe to return to the island, there was the fact that two monsters that were capable to causing destruction if angered. The two humans made their way back on the island, releasing the two fairies. The two fairies got onto the fairy mothra and and flew towards the giant larva. Once they were close enough, they began speaking in a language that seemly only Mothra could understand. The twins carefully explained to Mothra about Godzilla and how the world had changed from the departure of the humans. Mothra faced Godzilla and responded with a calm shriek. She understood that humanity was all but replaced by a new generation of lifeforms.

Godzilla calmly decided to roar back. He went through explaining about what had happened after that battle in 2019, why he drove humanity off the planet, and how only he remained on Earth after all the other titans had passed. She understood that they were the only two monsters remaining on the earth. Their duty was to protect Earth... and everything living on it.

The two twin fairies came down to the two humans and three agents, turning back into their human forms. Somehow by some miracle, the agents were now able to understand the fairies

"Mothra and Godzilla has agreed to travel back with you back to your city."

The two humans looked at the three agents for their opinions, receiving nods from them.

"Well, how about you?" Three asked.

The two fairies looked directly at the older agent with smiles. "The time has come for us to move on... our own life force is about to come to an end." Three, Four, and Eight put two and two together and understood. Thousands of years have passed for them. The two fairies then looked at the two humans. "As long as Mothra is here, she will continue to protect Earth."

The two fairies looked around as sparkles began to start to surround the two of them. The sparkles began to surround the fairy mothra as well. "We have to go now... As we said, In that orb is the ability to communicate with both Mothra and Godzilla. Whomever decides to break it will be able to speak to them..." The twins waved as they began to fade out of existence.

The agents looked at where the fairies were and looked at the humans. "So, what do we do now?" Asked Eight. The agents looked on as both the monsters began to head in a direction. Based on the direction, the agents could guess that the monsters were heading to Inkopolis. "I think we can head back to Inkopolis now." Three was sure that they could talk to Godzilla over at Inkopolis, just away from the city since everyone wouldn't take it lightly about the monster showing up. The agents and humans nodded in agreement before making their way back to the boat.

Under the water, the last of the salmons had swam into a hatch on top of the submarine that had suctioned itself onto the boat. Once all the salmons were onboard, the submarine began to start it's engines. The salmon submarine unsuctioned and began making a hastily retreat to Inkopolis. The salmon submarine was going full speed which made it's propellers generate a lot of bubbles. The bubbles popped on contact with the shallow water and made alot of sound.

The sound was easily able to be picked up by the sonar of the other submarine from earlier. It began to follow closely behind, like a hunter killer. On the side of the submarine was an octarian flag. The octarian submarine wasted no time launching two torpedos at the other submarine that was ahead. The salmons were unable to hear the launch of the torpedos due to it being at the direction where the back of the sub was. For the octarian submarine, there was no attempts to evade the torpedos.

The two torpedos striked home on contact with the back of the salmon submarine. The explosions taking out the engines and the flooding the ballast tanks. The salmon submarine began to sink to the bottom, it's surviving crew doomed to their fate. The octarian submarine silently passed above transmitting a signal. It's mission of scouting the activities of the agents completed.

Well, there you have it, an end to the chapter! Yeah! I decided to bring Mothra back alive. Yes, I kept in mind about Mothra and how she is reborn upon death. I didn't want to come to reveal her until the time was right. Also, If your wondering what the song the two priestesses were singing, it's called 'Sacred Springs' which appeared in the several movies that were produced by Toho studios.