A/N Hey, guys. I'm back with the twelfth chapter of this Godzilla series. First of all, I want to thank some of you guys for sticking around with this story because of where the whole plot is going. And second, the first arc is going to wrap up soon and the second arc King of the Monsters will begin. In this chapter, Godzilla arrives in San Francisco to face the MUTOs, disrupting the ongoing evacuation on the Golden Gate Bridge. And this chapter will be Sonya's short point of view. I'll see you guys at the bottom of the chapter.

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Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, May 16th, 2014

The Golden Gate Bridge stood tall and proud in the misty morning light as hundreds of cars and buses all filled its length and caused it to flatten and dip slightly due to the immense weight. A pair of F-22 Raptor jets flew by overhead as the children in the buses all yelled and clamored amongst themselves as they were too innocent to understand the urgency of the situation. The fact that the bus ride had stopped meant it was play time to them, even with all the chaos of the bridge going on around them.

The police had barricaded one end of the bridge and stopped all traffic from leaving due to the imminent arrival of Godzilla, but they weren't about to tell that to the people on the bridge. Less panic right? One officer walked over to the bus Sam was on and tried to let the driver know that they weren't going anywhere, but the poor driver was unable to hear him due to the children's screaming behind him.

"What? I can't hear you!"

He turned around.

"Kids, please be quiet!" He pleaded.

The police officer had already left though to warn other drivers, and Sam was the only child sitting quietly watching the driver's struggle. He was still thinking about his mom and dad and how his dad hadn't come for them like he promised. Suddenly, all the children moved to one side of the bus to watch as a tank rolled up and smashed the guard rails where people would walk across the bridge to take up a defensive position. The children thought it was awesome, yelling and pointing because of how cool it was. But what was better than one tank? Two? Three? No, how about a crap ton?!

Tank after tank rolled up and took positions along the bridge. The soldiers all took up their positions as well as the police. Soldiers and officers running too and fro taking up positions along the bridge as the children looked on completely oblivious to the danger which they were in. The driver dipped his head and set it against the backs of his hands which rested on the steering wheel. Laura, sitting on the isle opposite Sam, was similarly rubbing her temples annoyed out of her mind at the kid's not calming down or shutting up.

"Hold position until you get a clear line of sight!" one of the soldiers on the bridge yelled.

Below the bridge military ships began taking up positions across the bay. Their horns blared signaling their arrival and intent to move to their designated location, and the children's yelling only got louder. The poor adults closed their eyes and both tried their best to tune the children out, but it was no use. Their excited cries were just too loud, and their innocence and ignorance to the danger was painful.

However…

The children finally went silent after a few moments, but it was not of their own choice or willpower. Their youthful fascination with the unknown was what silenced them this time, and the sound that caused this remarkable phenomenon was the sound of Godzilla's roar echoing across the bay. That low rumbling and guttural call rising in pitch at the end cut through the misty morning air like a knife and caused the children to go silent almost immediately. Laura and the Driver exchanged nervous glances, and the driver wiped away a bit of fog from his window which was generated by the heat of all the people in his bus versus the colder temperatures outside.

There was a long and uncomfortable silence after the roar faded. The children all looked about, but none of them dared say a word. The adults were frozen in place, as were the soldiers and police officers outside. Other adults who'd abandoned their vehicles to cross on foot with their umbrellas to protect them from the rain also had stopped cold wondering where the sound had come from. Sam moved over to one side of the bus and looked out the window. He saw the ships, one or two of them blaring their horns in the distance, before suddenly a sea gull smashed into the window and cracked the glass. The impact startled all of the kids, but that was nothing compared to the fact that there were now hundreds of birds filling the skies and taking off in the opposite direction from the bay.

The soldiers on board one of the destroyers nearest to the ocean at the edge of the bay watched the birds overhead, certain that this was a warning as to what was to come.

"Port side, 200 meters!" One crewman yelled.

Another soldier down below on deck walked to the edge and looked out into the fog, and what he witnessed sent a chill down his spine.

Out in the water of the Pacific was a mound of water that was fast approaching them. The surface of the water broke revealing a set of long jagged spines, and it was racing towards the boat at great speed.

"BRACE!" He yelled.

Everyone on the boat immediately grabbed the edge or whatever else was next to them that was secure to steady themselves against the coming impact, but it didn't come. The massive form of Godzilla stopped cold in the water about a dozen meters away, but the waves produced by his approach caused the ships to list dangerously to the sides. One destroyer vessel almost capsized due to how large the waves were, and the ships were forced to ride them out until at last they settled down and they regained their positions. All the while, Godzilla had remained still.

"Hold your fire! Hold your fire!" Called the captain of the vessel called over the speaker system.

The soldiers began gathering at the edge of the boat to look at the massive form of Godzilla, who is not moving an inch. His back was fairly round, and had around three or four rows of large spines running down the length of him. They were fairly large towards the middle, but got smaller towards the end. The skin was a sort of grayish hue with mild shades of green underneath, and was very rugged and rough.

"He looks a bit smaller than he did on the television broadcasts," one policeman back on the bridge said.

"Yeah, I thought he was supposed to be a lot bigger," another one said.

One soldier standing nearby at the edge of the bridge looked over at them. His brows were furrowed and his eyes a bit wider than normal in his shock at their ignorance and, frankly speaking, stupidity. As he looked back out to the water and he thought about the soldiers on the ships, his heart sank as a rumbling sound began to fill the air.

Godzilla's back dipped slightly, and then it began to rise out of the water. What was once a "back" turned out to be nothing but Godzilla's tail. It crashed out of the water and rose up higher and higher into the air. This section of his tail by itself had to have been at least the length of a football field, if not longer. It rose up until it was nearly vertical before slamming back down into the water. The giant walls of water which rose into the air nearly reached as high as his tail had, and the soldiers all watched in pure shock and amazement as they felt the ship beneath their feet begin to rear up. They spun around and saw that Godzilla's true back and his primary set of dorsal spines were rising up between another set of ships behind theirs.

"Holy shit," the crewman cursed.

One ship was caught in-between his spines, and got stuck in them as his back rose out of the water. The policemen on the bridge almost fell to the ground as they felt their legs buckle in shock and horror, and the soldiers all put their weapons against their shoulders and prepared to do what they knew was pointless. Godzilla's back rose out of the water yet further, and one of the ships began to fall back and away from him into the water. Its stern fell beneath the waves, and the alarms began sounding frantically before the ship managed to level out and float backwards in the wake created by Godzilla's surfacing.

As the ship fell away, the soldiers on the deck who braced themselves watched the spines rising up and took note of just how big they were. The largest one had to be at lest fifty to sixty feet long, if not a bit longer. Godzilla's impossibly large form effortlessly pushed the ships away with the force of his surfacing alone, and despite the ship caught in his spines he managed to push his way forward. On board the ship which had fallen back, the orders from above came through.

"Fire, fire, fire!" They yelled.

The first shot was unleashed, and the explosion of the shell against Godzilla's spines lit the sky around his body but ultimately failed to do anything at all. Godzilla didn't even flinch. He continued on his present course forward, dragging the ship caught in his spines with him which was now sending an S.O.S. signal. The soldiers on the bridge looked out across the water and were horrified at the scale of Gojira. They'd seen how big he was on the news broadcasts and through their briefings, but seeming him in person was a whole different beast on its own. Looking out into the bay, he was easily three times larger than any of the ships sent out against him in terms of girth, and several times longer. His tail whipped about behind him and slammed down in front of one of the other ships behind him, frightening everyone on board halfway to peeing themselves.

The ships began sending out more and more shells and missiles towards Godzilla, and those which failed to make contact flew on a course for the Golden Gate Bridge. Racing over the bridge and through the gaps between the cables, the missiles flew overhead and the driver of Sam's bus had enough even before he heard the children scream in terror as the realization that they were in danger finally struck home. He threw the bus into gear and slammed his foot down on the accelerator and raced forward along the street crashing through the police barricades as he attempted to flee to safety. Before he could, however, he was stopped in his tracks when one of the missiles struck the cabling and sent a section of it down in front of his bus.

The soldiers began running to the edge of the bridge and attempted desperately to reach the ships.

"Striker, there are civilians on the bridge! Hold your fire! Hold yo-"

They had to duck as more missiles flew towards them, but the missiles were intercepted by the rising form of Godzilla. The missiles struck his spines and side as he stood up alongside the bridge, the ship which had been caught in his spines having since fallen into the water onto its side spilling the crew and supplies on deck into the water around his legs.

"Open fire!" The soldiers yelled.

Godzilla's body finally rose up for all to see as the order was given. His tremendous figure loomed tall over the bridge as he straightened out his head and neck and let out an Earth shattering roar. The children covered their ears, as did everyone within range.

The children managed to look up in time to see his form in full as the soldiers began firing their weapons. His head was fairly flat on top and box shaped towards the front with a square-ish nose though it was rounded off near the edges. The cheeks flared a bit underneath the eyes, but were ridged and fortified with rough scales. His jaw was large and muscular, looking very similar to that of a Nile Crocodile at the hinge though his mouth was overall much shorter. The eye ridges were forward in a perpetual frown, and his large eyes beneath them glanced down at the bridge and the children could swear that he was looking at them for a moment. Whether that was truly the case or not was anyone's guess, but that single moment was enough to strike fear into the children's hearts.

His neck was dense. That was the best word for it: dense. A thick and well muscled neck lined with gills along the sides and the tell-tale scarring from where the MUTO had attacked them during their first fight. His shoulders were forward in a similar fashion to a theropod dinosaur's, but much thicker and more human in terms of their length in proportion to his body. His chest was covered in very pronounced and large scales which almost looked like the underside of a turtle, but it wasn't a shell. His well built torso was thick and packed with muscles that rippled with every movement and exuded raw power like nothing anyone had ever seen before. Human body builders liked to pump iron to look good, but compared to the natural strength that was implied by Gojira's very being, they were nothing.

Godzilla's claws were covered in overlapping scales along his fingers, ending in long and wicked claws. His spines were rough and uneven, not one appearing exactly like the next. Each one had a unique shape, though each one had more than one spike on it. The scales covering his body were very large and rugged, giving him a very tough and gritty exterior. Everything below the bridge was invisible, but everyone who saw him rising above the bridge was certain that it was more of the same. Rough, rugged, powerful, and dangerous.

The sounds of bullets flying about brought everyone back to their senses as Godzilla's right claw found its way to the cabling of the bridge as a couple more missiles struck his sides. The bus driver didn't need another cue. He threw the bus into reverse and floored it, backing away just enough to clear the fallen cable and continue on unimpeded across the bridge to safety as the military continued to engage Godzilla.

The tanks on the bridge pelted his stomach. The soldiers littered his skin with bullets. The ships fired missiles into his other side all along his body. And the planes flying about overhead launched missiles at his chest and neck. All in all, it was an unpleasant experience.

But Godzilla was not about to be swayed or bullied like this. He leaned down, letting go of the bridge's cabling as he did so until his face was level with the bridge. His enormous eye rolled to the side until it landed on one of the soldiers whom had been previously firing at him. The soldier stopped firing and looked into Godzilla's eye, and he could swear that the eye was saying "You're a dead man."

Godzilla stood up rather fast for something of his size, and he let out a long growl towards the ships in the bay in warning. His back arched slightly and he made sure to give a full display of his spines and his aggression by flaring his hands slightly to the side. But this did nothing to stop the onslaught. The ships continued to pelt him along with the tanks and planes, and Gojira pulled his upper lip back exposing his teeth as he let out a roar of warning. It was one short roar, but it should have been enough. Alas, it wasn't. The humans kept firing at him.

Finally, Godzilla has had enough.

He snarled in full and opened his mouth to roar, lunging forward and throwing his arms out to the sides as he roared as long and as loudly as he could. The firing stopped for a brief moment, as the sheer decibel level forced those launching the attacks to stop and attempt to protect their ears against the audio assault. Godzilla closed his mouth and looked out across the bay, but after a few seconds the firing resumed. He snarled once more, as they had ignored his final warning and now he was done pretending they weren't here. They were not his objective, but they were now officially in his way.

Godzilla looked over to the ship nearest him which was about one hundred meters away. It had been one of the ships firing at his lower stomach, and his nose scrunched as he let out a growl and walked towards it. The ship began firing more frantically, and launched missile after missile into his chest and throat trying to stop him. Godzilla leaned forward and roared, the long and angry call being interrupted by one lucky missile finding its way into his mouth. Godilla's roar was cut short and replaced by a cry of pain as he closed his mouth and shook his head. His back straightened and he shook his head again, temporarily stunned by the explosion in his mouth. This didn't last long as he almost immediately shook it off and growled at the ship again. He roared once more and raised his right hand into the air and slammed his claw down on the bow of the ship.

The mighty vessel's bow sank below the waves under the pressure of the strike before snapping off completely. The ship began taking on water immediately and the abandon ship alarms began blaring. Godzilla didn't much care for the alarms, and so he once again raised his claw into the air and slammed it down into the ship. This time though it was the ships's central region, and he pushed the entire vessel beneath the water with one hand before there was a small jerk in his shoulder and what remained of the ship surfaced again in two distinct halves. The two halves began to sink after a few moments.

Godzilla looked to the other ships as they continued to fire at him. He singled out a ship around two hundred meters away and trudged towards it. The ship began to back up, but it was headed right for another ship which began blaring its horn and sounding alarms. The two ships collided because the first was unwilling to stop trying to get away from Gojira as he advanced, however it was too slow to evade him. Godzilla made it to the ship and grabbed the bow, pulling it in close and leaning his face down right to the deck and letting loose with a roar as loudly as he could. The entire crew on deck in the path of his roar were killed instantly by the sheer force of the roar, to say nothing of the decibel level's effect on their brains causing several instant hemorrhages and ruptures in the arteries and major organs which couldn't take the blast wave.

Those below deck were severely compromised, but didn't die immediately. Godzilla closed his mouth and pulled the ship in closer and grabbed it with both hands. He lifted it up by its bow until the weight of the ship snapped the rest of it away leaving only a small amount left in his hands which he dropped into the water. He stepped forward and was about to finish the two ships off for good when suddenly he was struck in the neck on his left side where the MUTO had attacked his gills. The attack caused a small amount of pain, and he saw the culprits were a pair of F-22 Raptors racing by overhead. As they started to circle around for another run, Godzilla knelt down to make himself appear smaller.

The soldiers on the bridge were wondering what the hell he was doing, but it soon became clear what he was up to. As the planes came down and launched their missiles, Godzilla started standing up rapidly and opened his mouth. One of the planes was caught in his jaws while the other smashed into the side of his head and exploded. The plane in Godzilla's jaws was crushed almost instantly and quickly left to fall into the water as Godzilla let out a short roar of victory. But it didn't end there. Godzilla was again struck on the sides by the ships which remained. They all started letting loose on him in a last ditch effort to drive him away or kill him, and to counter this Godzilla went down and disappeared beneath the water.

The ships were forced to stop firing as they waited for Godzilla to surface. The wait was not a long one. Godzilla began surfacing beneath one of the battleships, his body perpendicular to the ship as his spines caught it along the middle and ripped the ship in half as he surfaced. The ship fell away in two halves as Godzilla stood up and felt the sting of more missiles hitting him again and again. Another destroyer was right by his side, and he turned towards it and body slammed it beneath the waves. The waters went still with both Godzilla and the ship hidden beneath the waves. After a few moments the debris from the ship floated to the surface along with dozens of bodies of the crew before signs of Godzilla's surfacing once again threatened the surface of the water.

He was in the center of the bay now, with the remaining ships scattered about him in a circle. His spines broke the surface followed by his head and the rest of his body until he was completely visible again and he roared in fury.

All around him the ships opened fire simultaneously and pelted his body over and over again hitting him everywhere and anywhere they could. The face, the neck, the chest, the stomach, the sides, the legs, the spines, literally everywhere that a missile could travel Godzilla could feel the sting as he was bombarded by a constant barrage of firepower. Godzilla turned his head to the side, but it was a mistake as another lucky missile struck him just below the eye. Godzilla's eye snapped shut as he let out a roar of pain before shaking it off. Four ships had moved in now, and were within striking range. Godzilla began to turn to one side, positioning his legs and hips just so before using his tail as a battering ram. The crack of a sonic boom echoed across the bay as his tail literally whipped through the air just above the surface of the water and smashed all four ships in range, splintering them instantly and sending a rain of debris out across the water towards the other ships.

Back in Oakland, Doctor Serizawa and Admiral Stenz were watching the battle and the four of us watched in horror as Godzilla continued to roar non-stop.

"Admiral, call off your ships," Doctor Serizawa pleaded.

Admiral Stenz looked to Doctor Serizawa.

"Excuse me?" Admiral Stenz asked.

"They cannot stop Godzilla. They are wasting their lives," Doctor Serizawa continued.

Admiral Stenz's mouth tightened and he grabbed Doctor Serizawa's lapels and slammed him into the wall.

"My men are not wasting anything doctor!" He said in a pure and unbridled rage.

Admiral Stenz let go of Doctor Serizawa a moment later, but was still no less angry with his statement. He turned to the others, and let out a sigh of frustration.

"Admiral Stenz?" Bianca questioned.

"Call them off," he ordered.

"All ships, stand down. I say again, disengage immediately," I ordered through the comms.

Godzilla felt the sting of a few more missiles and roared in fury, but then all went quiet around him. The ships stopped firing, and Godzilla looked around to each of them in confusion. Slowly, the ships all backed away and began gathering at the other end of the bay towards the ocean. Godzilla was glad to have the missiles finally stop pelting him, as it was more than a little annoying having those tiny pellets hitting him every other second. He turned around and headed towards the bridge, but stopped as he reached it.

He remembered looking down at the soldier before, and he knelt down slightly to examine the bridge. There were more soldiers and tanks along the length of the bridge watching him, which earned a small snarl of warning just as a reminder not to attack him. But then he saw others whom he hadn't seen before. Other humans on the bridge inside the buses and cars watched him as well, and Godzilla stood up. He looked beyond the bridge to the city. The MUTO's were there somewhere. He could sense it. He looked down towards the bridge again and then looked over towards the city along the bridge. The line of cars and buses extended well into the city itself which meant it really didn't matter if he went around or not.

Finally, he made a decision.

Godzilla took a single step forward and his torso smashed through the bridge sending dozens of cars, tanks, soldiers, and police officers falling down into the frigid waters below as he continued through unimpeded. After taking a few more steps he stopped and looked back at the bridge. He saw the damage he'd caused and the buses and cars he'd sent into the water and wondered for an instant if he'd made the right choice. However, the threat of the MUTO's was more important than a few of these human lives to him. Ultimately if he'd gone around the same thing would have happened on shore. There was no more time to waste on these puny humans.

He marched onwards, determined to find and destroy the MUTO's once and for all.

And that would be the end of the chapter for now. So, what did you guys think? In the next chapter, Will, Bianca, and Sonya have a short reunion with Ford and the US military plans the HALO drop insertion to retrieve the remaining nuclear warhead. If you guys haven't checked out my other stories, please do check it out and let me know what you guys think. And you guys know what to do. Drop the reviews, favourite, and follow.