Chapter 31: The Heist
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Breaking into Kiryu's secret labs wasn't an easy task.
For one, it was located only 30 miles from the front line so reinforcements were within walking distance. Secondly, almost 100 jaegers were either in, around, or stationed on the base. And lastly it has enough defenses to destroy anything coming near it. Every time the military sends a drone or a UAV to gather intelligence about the base it gets destroyed. There are no internal scans of the base and there are only a handful of aerial photos. Godzilla and his allies will be going in essentially blind.
But, that might change. 16 hours after Rodan took off to retrieve a jaeger's corpse he is seen flying back towards Yucca Mountain. Godzilla squints against the glare of the desert sun as Rodan's fiery figure soars towards him and clutched in his talons is the upper body and head of an entire jaeger. Fluids still dripping from it's severed pipes and cables. Rodan roars and drops the torso at Godzilla's feet. He lands and bows. Godzilla notices several massive cuts and scrapes covering his body. One of his wings has a massive cut on it. Mothra quickly rushes over and begins to heal his wounds. Rodan lifts his head and thanks her. He then turns and faces Godzilla.
"There. As you requested. The amount of work I had to do to get this thing is more than enough to prove my allegiance."
"Where did you grab it? Judging by your condition it must have been at the base."
"No. I wouldn't have returned if I went there. I flew to the front line and fought one. We traded blows, I ripped off his torso and he almost cut my wing off but I managed to get away before more arrived. I made sure the head was left intact in order to preserve it's memory units."
"Good. Thank you Rodan, with this we might have a chance to rescue Battra."
Godzilla looks down and several military trucks roll up to the jaeger. Rodan and Godzilla step back as they pile out of the trucks. Several of them begin to cut a hole into the head. One man steps out of a car and walks up to Godzilla's feet. Many badges and medals cover his uniform. White patchy hair sprawls across his head. Two soldiers square up beside him. Godzilla bends down to talk to the man.
"Good evening Godzilla. My name is General Curtis Wayfield. I am not here to fight you but I am here to negotiate. As you can see we are dealing with a threat that no-one has ever dealt with before. This...Kiryu...as you call him, poses a direct threat to not only the United States, but to all of mankind."
Godzilla squints his eyes at him. General Wayfield steps forward and waves a stack of paper.
"In my hands are direct orders from the president of the United States to work with you and your kaiju allies to stop Kiryu from wiping out our race. He also gave us the order to give you anything you need to accomplish this goal. As such we are going to be working much more closely from now on."
Godzilla moves his head closer and whispers so he doesn't blow out the man's eardrums.
"All I need from you is your word that me or my family will not be harmed by your kind after Kiryu is destroyed. We have put our lives in danger to protect your kind from Battra and Kiryu's wrath."
"And what of Rodan? He is responsible for the deaths of thousands of our sailors and has wiped out all of our pacific fleets. Because of his actions Hawaii has fallen and so have many other Pacific islands. He was also a former affiliate to Battra. Why should we spare him?"
"Because he is my friend. He was misguided. Although he has killed thousands, billions more would die if he didn't join our side. Even though our past is rough, there isn't anyone I wouldn't rage into battle with than him."
Godzilla turns his head and looks at his friend. Rodan nods his head as a smile forms on his face. Godzilla turns back to talk to Wayfield.
"I see. If that is what you wish, then consider it done. Official pardons for all three of you will be given once Kiryu's head is delivered straight to my doorstep. Until then, your lives are worth nothing."
"But there is someone we need to help us with this mission. Someone who knows Kiryu more than anyone else alive. We need the lord of darkness himself, Battra."
Wayfield spits out his coffee onto the ground. Godzilla moves back just a smidge. Wayfield laughs and looks up at Godzilla.
"Battra? BATTRA?! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! He is the reason why an entire CONTINENT has been wiped off the map! He is the most wanted creature in all of human history! Hundreds of millions of lives have been claimed by his hands! NO! Absolutely not!"
"He is the only one alive who knows how to stop Kiryu's bomb. He is the only one who knows how to crush his army. I hate him just as much as you do and if it were up to me I would crush him in my claws but we need his help. His mind and his powers are what we need to defeat Kiryu and Gigan. Without him your world is doomed. The only way I will guarantee that your race will be left alone after Kiryu's defeat is if we receive these three things."
Godzilla raises one of his hands. He sticks out one of his fingers.
"One. Me, my mate, and my friends are to be spared and allowed to roam the Earth without harm or threat. We will make sure not to trample your cities as long as you don't attack us. Two. My children's eggs are to not be tampered with. If we find that anything is wrong with them you best believe your life is finished. And three. You are to assist us in capturing Battra, alive, and allowing him to recover and fight with us. After Kiryu is destroyed you can do whatever you want to him."
General Wayfield looks down and sighs. He stares at the fine grains of sand on the ground below and then brings his head back up to face Godzilla.
"Consider it done. Do you have any idea on how to rescue Battra?"
Godzilla turns his head towards the jaeger's remains. A smile forms on his face.
"I have an idea."
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Yucca Mountain: Three days later.
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The plan was simple.
In order to rescue Battra from the lab, they needed to gain access to the underground facilities. However this can only be done through the main building. Using the harvested weapons and armor from the jaeger, a nuclear powered exo-suit will be constructed and given to Godzilla. Using it he will stomp and smash and destroy everything in his path as he marches towards the lab. This will draw the jaeger's firepower away from the skies and towards Godzilla. Wayfield will then launch several EMP armed missiles into the base to disable everything. This short span of time will allow Mothra and Rodan to break into the underground facilities without being spotted. They will then locate and remove Battra from his holding cell and will fly out of the base with him. Godzilla will have finally arrived when they leave and he will detonate the nuke powering his armor and destroy the base. Because he is the strongest of the three he will be able to absorb the force of the blast and the radiation so it doesn't release radiation into the environment. If everything goes according to plan, this entire event will transpire within two hours.
It wasn't long before the fighting began.
Godzilla, with his jaeger exo-suit mounted to him, began his crusade into the Legion of Doom's territory. At first, nothing stopped him. Then jaegers began to crawl from the shadows of the bombed-out earth and started to attack him. And then when he was only 30 miles from the base the real fight began.
Godzilla became an unstoppable force. Whole teams of jaegers would simply be walked over. Every step brought the base closer and closer to him. Soon enough, when he was 20 miles away, humanity arrived with back up. Jets, artillery, and missiles began to fall on the encroaching jaeger army as Godzilla continued to plow through. Using the metal blades he affixed to his arms, Godzilla simply sliced jaegers in half as they got near him. Missiles fired from his shoulders as he trudged forward. The only thing that mattered to Godzilla now was to keep moving forward. And once he reached 10 miles, it was go time.
Wayfield fired three EMP missiles from hidden missile silos deep in ally territory. Within ten minutes, the missiles struck the base and detonated. Godzilla squinted against the orange and blue blast lit up the night sky. Seconds later, every light in the building shut off at once. Godzilla had just finished ripping the head off a jaeger when he looked up and saw Mothra and Rodan dive into the building from above.
Mothra and Rodan crashed through the roof and floor and landed on the first floor of the facility. It was pitch black. The only light coming from Rodan's fiery embers and Mothra's wings and eyes. Mothra shakes herself off and squints in the darkness.
The room they were in was a storage room. Massive stockpiles of unobtainium, nuclear fuel, and various other metals and substances were piled up around the room. Many of them ripped out of cargo ships or bored out the Earth itself. Mothra closes her eyes and concentrates on Battra's connection. She feels his weak pulse and anger. She reaches out to him, struggling to find him. Finally, as if she had grabbed hold of an invisible rope, she found him. Six floors down and surrounded by guards. In order to get to him they have to wander the corridors and floors of this labyrinth of a facility.
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Legion of Doom headquarters: 30 minutes after the raid began.
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A jaeger flies into the throne room and quickly runs up to Kiryu. Gigan steps aside as Kiryu quickly jumps to his feet. The jaeger looks up at him.
"There has been an attack! Godzilla and the humans have formed an alliance and are laying siege to the broadcast facility! They are trying to free Battra!"
Kiryu looks over and grabs Gigan by the neck. He throws him onto the floor and shouts at him.
"DO NOT LET THEM ESCAPE! DESTROY THEM!"
Gigan jumps up and takes off towards the base. The jaeger quickly follows him out of the room. Kiryu watches them leave and he angrily fires his plasma cannon into a wall. He turns to yell at the other jaegers next to him.
"My entire life's work is stored there! My experiment is there and if she is killed our plans are ruined! RUINED!"
Kiryu retracts his cannon and storms off into his lab.
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Underground facility: 1 hour and 15 minutes into the raid.
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Rodan and Mothra are crashing through walls and floors searching for Battra. Soon enough, they reach the bottom floor. The bottom floor is a long rectangular shaped room. On the walls lie the still and motionless figures of guard jaegers. Mothra's cyan glow casts a dim light on the concrete walls beside them. And there, on the far wall in front of them lies a tall glass canister. A mint-blue glow radiates from it. Large cables and tubs run in and out of the canister and locked up inside it is Battra. Mothra gasps and rushes over. She places her front legs on the thick glass. She taps it several times. Battra slowly opens his eyes and glares at her. He recognizes her and then lowers his head. Mothra frantically turns to Rodan.
"We have to get him out of there! He's dying!"
Rodan awkwardly flies up on top of Battra's canister and starts to rip out cables. After locating the one connecting Battra to Kiryu's mainframe he rips it out and Battra's head slumps forward. Mothra screams.
"JUST SMASH IT OPEN! HE'S GOING TO DIE! HURRY!"
"I'M TRYING MOTHRA OKAY! THIS IS REALLY STRESSFUL!"
Rodan grabs a hold of the canister and starts to flap his wings as hard as he can. Metal begins to groan. Seconds later the metal beneath the canister snaps and Rodan quickly lets go of it. It crashes to the floor below and the thick glass begins to crack. Rodan picks it up again and slams it onto the ground. More cracks form. He does this one more time and finally the glass shatters. Mothra flips the container over and starts to rip off the clamps holding Battra in place. His lazy eyes watching them free him from his shackles. Finally the one holding his neck in place is removed and Mothra drags him out of the canister. He begins to cough up blood. Mothra wraps her wings around him and begins to heal as much as she can. Many of his outer wounds start to close. He weakly turns his head towards Rodan.
"You shouldn't have come here."
"But we came back for you!"
"You've doomed us all."
Just as Battra finishes his phrase the lights kick back on. The EMP affect has run out. Rodan quickly runs over and rips the heads off the guard jaegers before they get a chance to reactivate. Battra turns to face his sister.
"Leave me. He knows you came. Let me die. I can't let him take anything else from me."
"We aren't leaving you here. We need you. Only you can stop Kiryu."
"There is another."
Mothra confusingly turns to her brother.
"Who?"
"Your son."
Mothra stares blankly at Battra for a few seconds. Seconds later the ground shakes and Godzilla's distant roar is heard. Flakes of dust shower them. Rodan rushes over.
"We need to hurry! When that bomb goes off this entire base will be incinerated! Grab him and attach him to my back and let's get going!"
Mothra quickly sprays a thick layer of silk on Rodan's back and painfully drags Battra onto it. She then sprays another layer to hold him in place. Battra groans the entire time. The trio then begin to book it through the base as loud explosions ring in their ears. Almost like a chicken, Rodan does short bursts of flight to move from floor to floor. Godzilla roars and then a loud crash shakes the building. Gunfire rings throughout the base. The electrical crack of plasma cannons roar through the base. Just then, a blue bolt of plasma slams into Mothra's side. She cries out and is slammed into the wall next to her. She turns around and sees Rodan rip the jaeger that attacked her apart. Just as she is lying in a pile of rubble she feels a pull. Not a physical one but an emotional one. Her heart rings in longing. She turns her head and spots it. Her daughter's egg. Fixed on a pedestal with cables and tubs running into it. A constant green pulse comes from the egg.
Mothra cries out and quickly limps over to the egg. She places her first two sets of legs on it and buries her head into its silky surface. She begins to cry. Rodan quickly rushes over and tries to pull her off.
"MOTHRA! THE BASE IS COLLAPSING! WE NEED TO GO NOW! WE CAN'T STAY HERE!"
Mothra slashes at him. A deep cut forms on his face. He cries out in pain.
"I WON'T LEAVE HER! NOT AGAIN!"
"NONE OF US WILL LEAVE HERE IF YOU STAY! I CAN'T CARRY HER! LEAVE HER!"
"NO!"
Rodan quickly turns to leave as the room around them begins to collapse. Mothra quickly reaches out and grabs him. He turns his head and faces her. Tears stream down her face. Battra continues to struggle to maintain consciousness. She must choose. Her brother or her daughter. Both have an equal chance of killing Kiryu, and both are powerful enough to do so. Lea, her own flesh and blood. Or Battra, her evil twin brother. She frantically looks at both of them, and makes a choice.
On the outside of the base it is like the surface of hell itself. Fire covers everything. Godzilla's roars ring out across the battlefield. Chunks of jaegers lie across the ground. Missiles and artillery shells rain down across the battlefield. Reinforcements from the front line have showed up along with more help from humanity. Godzilla has finally made it to the base. He quickly slams through the outer wall and plows into the building. His swords, which are chipped and beginning to dull, continue to slice through everything in his path. His atomic breath cuts down anything left. After crashing through many layers he finally reaches the center radio dish. This massive radio dish broadcasts every command Kiryu gives to every active jaeger on the planet. Godzilla quickly pulls off the nuclear bomb on his chest and begins to set the timer. Just as he is finished pushing the massive buttons on it he hears a crash in front of him. He looks up and sees Rodan's fiery trail fly by. Moments later Mothra sails by. Godzilla sends out one last radio message to Wayfield.
"Mothra and Rodan are out. Pull back your men. My time has come."
"Roger that. Good luck."
Godzilla looks down at the timer.
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Godzilla holds the bomb close to his chest. He braces for the blast.
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Godzilla closes his eyes as a massive wave of radioactive heat penetrates deep into his skin. His cells begin to lap up the energy. The shockwave levels the base and the surrounding area. The heat can be felt for miles. A thick white ring sprawls out from the flash as a mushroom cloud quickly sprouts. The flash dies down as the air around Godzilla begins to boil. Anything left in the blast is immediately disintegrated. Godzilla is thrown far from the detonation site and is sent slamming into the earth below. Chunks of land the size of city blocks are displaced by his mass. The charred remains of jaegers shatter like glass when he slams into them. Finally he slams into a hill and lies there as the heat from the blast begins to bake his back. He blacks out.
It wasn't for another few hours or so until he woke up again. Godzilla slowly opened his eyes and began to roll back over. His skin cracks. Ash had begun to settle on him. The mushroom cloud has almost dissolved into the sky. Ash falls from the sky. Godzilla, groaning in pain, slowly gets to his feet. Sheets of ash and rubble slide off of him. His exo-suit falls right off. He looks down and right where the bomb detonated is a huge burn. Black in color and sprawling across his chest. The insides of his arms are also burned black. Scales from his skin begin to flake off as he moves. His joints cry out in pain. Groaning in agony, Godzilla turns north and begins his trudge back home, leaving the smoldering crater of the jaeger facility behind him.
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Yucca Mountain base: two days later.
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After two days Godzilla finally spots his home. Rodan lies on the desert ground soaking up the sun but Mothra is nowhere to be seen. He lets out a roar and Rodan quickly jumps up and flies towards him. He lands at his feet and bows. He then looks up at Godzilla's radiation burns.
"Oh my god! You look like burned rubber! Come here let's get you fixed up."
Godzilla sits down but sees no-one else except Rodan.
"Rodan, where is Mothra?"
Rodan's face goes pale.
"She hasn't left her nest site since we got back. She flew back here and went straight there."
Godzilla stands up and begins to walk towards the circular hole entrance to the nest. He puts his head up against the side of the silk cover and listens. He hears Mothra crying. Why is she crying? Didn't she get over the death of her daughter? Just as he questions himself Rodan taps him on the shoulder. Godzilla turns around and standing right next to Rodan is Battra himself. Wrapped in a thick silk covering that makes him look like a burrito with legs, he squints his red eyes at Godzilla. He simply exhales.
"I see you survived the blast. Well, mostly."
Battra gestures to Godzilla's burn wounds.
"I would heal them for you but I don't have any wings. Until then I'm just stuck walking around. I don't understand how you can live walking all the time. It gets so boring. Like how do you-"
"Why is she crying. What happened down in that basement that has made her like this?"
Battra simply gives him a smug look.
"She made a choice."
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Author's note: Not much to say really but thank you guys for still reading this thing. The end is near and believe me you don't want to miss it. It won't be long before I post another chapter but until then stay safe my friends.
Random: Why is Among Us so popular now. It's a two year old game that no-one really cared about. It's fun to play but why did it all the sudden get so damn popular. Oh well.