Chapter 5: Godzilla vs the Female Titan
The Female Titan gasped loudly as her back slammed into back of one of the massive trees of the Titan Forest. Her blue eyes glared at the towering monster, she was around fourteen meters tall, but Godzilla had grown from his original siting to at least twenty. On top of that it was obviously he was far stronger than her. He didn't get the title King of Monsters for nothing.
She narrowed her eyes when his fins began to glow bright blue. Godzilla threw his head back before firing his atomic breath directly at her.
"She dodged it!" Armin gasped from Mikasa's side, as the Titan did a baseball slide and went directly under the blast of energy.
Armin's eyes widened in shock when the Titan spun on her heel and slammed her foot into Godzilla's face, sending him stumbling backwards.
Levi scooped up the still shellshocked Petra in his arms and leapt away from the battle along side Mikasa while Armin just stood watching the battle closely. "Armin! Watch out!" Mikasa called out toward the scout who was watching out for everything but himself.
Godzilla was far more powerful than the blond headed Titan, but she was far faster. The massive Kaiju just couldn't get his footing as she kept on a barrage of punches to the chest as well as swift snap kicks to the face. She took several steps back and raised her fists in a familiar fighting stance for Armin. Godzilla rushed toward her and she gave a hard kick to the leg making him stumble, as she jumped out of the way.
He charged her again and she caught him by the neck and did a hard leg sweep, sending him stumbling again. "Armin!" Her ears perked at the sound of Mikasa' cry. Godzilla had slammed into a tree and sent it falling toward the oblivious blonde scout.
To everyone's amazement the Titan caught the tree on her shoulders and glanced toward Armin to see if he was ok. Mikasa slammed into him while swinging with her 3DM gear and lifted him away. She glanced up to see Godzilla charging his atomic breath again, and as he prepared to fire, she slammed the massive tree into him, sending him falling, hitting multiple trees with his attack but not her.
"Why do you want Godzilla?" Armin screamed at the Titan, "Why are you after Eren?!" he asked as the two faced each other again.
Armin blinked when she glanced directly toward him and it looked like she smirked.
Before Godzilla could react she dove past him, right toward Armin and Mikasa. Armin yelped when the Female Titan grabbed Mikasa in her hand.
Godzilla turned to follow the movement and could only watch as the Female Titan slammed her fist with Mikasa against a tree hard.
The impact heavily dazed Mikasa, making her go limp in the monster's hand. As if some buried instinct, Mikasa began mumbling a song on her lips softly. "Mosura ya… Mosura… Dongan … kasakuyan … indo… muu…"
The Female Titan narrowed her eyes as she heard the soft singing, and to Godzilla and Armin's horror, she reached up and placed the barely conscious Mikasa into her mouth.
Godzilla's eyes widened as he stared in pure shock before he bared his teeth and released a loud furious roar at the Titan. "Eren! Be careful! We might still save her!" Armin cried out, and the monster glanced toward him with a rageful look that said he knew before he ran straight toward the Titan.
The Female Titan took a fighting stance, before throwing another kick toward the Monster's head. This time he ducked the attack and spun around and slammed the Titan in the chest with his tail, sending her flying through a tree. Before the Titan could steady herself, Godzilla slammed his full mass into her, sending her against another tree. She snorted through her nose when the Kaiju swiped her face with his claw but refused to open her mouth. The Monster slammed her twice with the tail sending her to her the ground. He stomped her in the chest twice with his massive foot before pressing down on it completely causing her chest to partly collapse.
The Titan clawed desperately against his leg, but Godzilla refused to budge. He reached down with both hands and grabbed her face. He lowered himself and roared loudly in her face. She still refused to open her mouth. Godzilla gave her a hate-filled snort, before moving his clawed hands to her mouth, gripping the front of her face with one, then forcing his fingers into her mouth with the other.
The female Titan's eyes widened in terror as he began to pull at her jaw. Blood and saliva flew as her facial muscles tore and jawbone was ripped from her sockets. He threw it away as he saw the steam of her already trying to regenerate from the injuries. But on the now lolled out tongue laid the unconscious Mikasa. Godzilla caught her in his hands and lifted her protectively in his grasp. He placed his other hand over her and glared down at the gravely injured titan as his dorsal fins began to glow blue, then red.
Armin caught a glimpse of a green cloaked figure ejecting from the back of the female Titan's neck, just as Godzilla released his full power atomic breath destroying the Female Titan's upper body.
Armin bit his lip as Godzilla rose and roared in victory. Armin had a theory, but he didn't like it. He had to be wrong. He sighed as Godzilla turned and began carrying Mikasa back toward population.
"All forces, fall back to the wall!" Levi called, placing the trembling Petra in the back of one of the wagons and the group of Scouts and G-Force began making their way back. There was much to report.
-G-
"We told you to be careful," the Warchief chastised as the young woman sit with her feet dangling off the side of the wall, while he and his son glared at her. "Do not attack Godzilla head on. And never fight him at all alone. Do you not realize you could have been killed? Then who knows would have ended up with the Female Titan!"
"I know. And I had him," She replied, "I thought I had him back enough that I could take her and run. I miscalculated."
"Or were you distracted by who else was there?" the Warchief's son asked.
She narrowed her eyes, "I wasn't distracted at all." She sighed and glanced down over the town. "Taking her is going to be difficult."
"You'll have to catch her alone," the Warchief's son stated, "He's too powerful and protective."
"Good luck with that…" she gave a halfhearted laugh, "they're joint at the hip."
"Perhaps we should focus our attention then on the triplets," the son stated, adjusting his glasses, "they can handle Godzilla. Then we can focus on taking her."
"I don't think we can depend on them," the Warchief said, glancing out over the sunset. "There is no guarantee that they'll work with us. The purpose of taking the triplets is we can't allow them to get on the playing field. At least not yet. They're too powerful and too dangerous."
"So, what do you want me to do?" she asked, glancing at the two.
"Lay low, and wait," the Warchief instructed, "Only use your abilities in defense for now. We may have to get all of you involved in taking the girl."
"Yes sir," she nodded.
"Dismissed," the Warchief said, crossing his arms.
The two watched her leave before the Warchief chuckled, "Father?"
"Perhaps, it's time to let Godzilla know he's not the only King in the walls," he smirked, "What do you say?"
-G-
The first thing Mikasa noticed when she regained consciousness was her head hurt. The second thing was that she was comfortable and warm, familiar, it was her bed at the G-Force HQ. Slowly, she allowed her eyes to flutter open. She took in her surroundings before noticing something peculiar. Eren was on a bench by her bed fast asleep.
"Eren?" Mikasa's voice almost squeak from lack of use. He blinked awake before looking at her drowsily for a moment then his eyes widened when he realized she was awake.
"MIKASA!" Eren shot to his feet. "You're ok!"
"Eren?" She blinked in confusion as he looked her over.
"How do you feel? Do you hurt anywhere?" He asked, brushing some of her bedhead hair from her face. "Are you hungry? I can get you some soup or something! Oh, you've got to be thirsty, I have some water over here, let me find a straw."
"Uh…" She flushed at the attention and wasn't even sure what to say.
"Oh, Hange will need to know you're awake!" He stepped back, "I'll be right back! Don't go anywhere! I'll be right back in one second! I promise. I'll be right back…" He ran to the door of her room, and stuck his head out, "SHE'S AWAKE! HANGE, ANYONE, SHE'S AWAKE! BRING SOUP!" She blinked when he rushed back to her bedside, "See just a second."
"Um… Eren?" She sat up awkwardly, but Eren quickly put his arm around her.
"Easy," Eren said, "let me fix your pillows," he said, grabbing her pillows while holding her in a seated position, and placing them to support her. "There, now just ease down against them, nice and careful…"
"Eren?" She wasn't sure what to think at the moment, and Eren really wasn't giving her time to do that.
"You're ok," He said, and her face went red as he touched her cheek, "You're ok, Mikasa. You're ok. Everything is ok. You're ok. Everything is fine."
"E-Eren?" She squeaked as tears began to form in his eyes. "You're really ok?"
"Someone get me a sedative," Hange said as she and her assistants entered the room.
"Sedative? Is something wrong? Is she hurt?" Eren glanced toward Hange and tightened his grip on Mikasa' shoulder.
"It's not for her," Hange said, glancing toward Eren, "It's for you. You need to calm your ass down."
She then turned toward Mikasa, and shined a small light into her eyes, "Open up," She said, grabbing her chin and made her open her mouth, "Say AHHH…" Hange closed one eye and looked down her throat. "Somehow you made it out with a light concussion and cracked ribs, Mikasa." Hange stood up, "But I think you'll be ok soon enough," She glanced toward Eren, "See, now calm down."
She then turned back to the girl and pulled out a notepad. "Now tell me, what was it like in the Titan's mouth? What did the tongue feel like? Saliva? Breath smell? Gum texture? Tell me everything you can remember!"
Mikasa blinked, she was not aware she was even in a titan's mouth. And Hange was disappointed to learn this. Someone getting that up close and personal with a Titan and living to tell the tell was exceedingly rare.
"You were out for hours," Eren finally said after Hange and her assistants left them alone. "I… It scared me…" Eren glanced away, "It's always annoyed me… you saving me. But I never… I never considered you in danger yourself." He glanced at her, "Is… is that what it's like for you when I do something stupid?"
Mikasa chuckled as Eren unconsciously gave her another spoonful of soup. She swallowed and glanced to her best friend "Sounds pretty similar, actually." Mikasa gave him one of her rare warm smiles.
"Eh… that can't be pleasant… you're much stronger for dealing with it better than I do… I've been a wreck…" Eren mumbled, running his hand through his hair, "So, I'll try my best to stop scaring you then if you never scare me like that again. Deal?"
"Deal," Mikasa nodded, tugging at the scarf around her neck. She took another spoon of soup from him before she reached over and placed a hand on his. "Eren?" She asked, getting his attention. When he met her eyes she smiled softly, "I'm ok."
He smiled, and glanced away, but she did catch the tears start forming in his green eyes.
-G-
Elsewhere in the castle-like base, another couple was roused to Eren's yelling. "Sounds like Mikasa woke up," Annie said, snuggling into Armin's bare chest. "Going to go see her?"
"In a minute," Armin said, wrapping his arms around her tighter.
"Is something the matter?" Annie asked, placing a gentle kiss on his shoulder.
"Just was thinking about your roommate," Armin lied.
"Hitch?" Annie snorted, with a hint of jealousy, "I mean, she's not hard on the eyes, but not something a girl wants to hear after all we did last night."
"No, just that's two nights you've disappeared and not come back home," Armin said, "Not that I'm complaining… but just don't want her to think less of you."
"Ah, she stays out all night more than I ever thought of," Annie replied, rolling over to lay on his chest a moment, "And my apartment isn't home. Home is where I can let my guard down and be me."
"So… is this home then?" Armin asked, with a small playful smirk.
"Yet to be determined, Arlert," Annie replied, rolling back to his side, and laying her head on his chest. "But you are comfortable."
"Good to know…" Armin said, wrapping her in his arms, enjoying the pleased sigh she gave at the movement.
He was glad she was where she couldn't see the tears in his eyes, as he silently prayed to be wrong. He couldn't be right. She couldn't be her. She couldn't be the Female Titan…
Could she?
To Be Continued…