A/N: Welcome, everyone! Before the story begins, here's a bit of background on it.. I am a huge fan of the MonsterVerse and, no matter what anyone else says, King of the Monsters will always be the best movie in the series. Quite frankly, I was a bit disappointed that lots of the minor characters from KotM were absent in Godzilla vs. Kong, and that Mark Russell had such a small role. So I decided to revisit KotM and spend some more time with these characters.

I think this goes without saying for a fanfic, but I do not own Godzilla.

Prologue: The Other Titans

MONARCH OUTPOST 56 – ISLA DE MARA, MEXICO

As King Ghidorah perched atop Isla de Mara, regrowing his third head, San, he decided it was time to summon the planet's other Titans. Doing so and unleashing the natural disasters the Titans were capable of causing would terra-form the pathetic planet into one similar to his homeworld. That icy prison in Antarctica had been very unpleasant.

The time has come, Ichi, the central head, telepathically transmitted to the others – of course, in the language of the Titans, not in English.

To do what? Ni, the right head, replied, Chase after those pests who tried to destroy us? I wanna get some revenge!

No. To summon the other Titans. The alpha has fallen, and we shall be the new alpha.

Do we have to? San asked as Ichi tore off the loose flesh around his new head, I'm sure there's a bunch of dead bodies in that town down there that we can lick up like in Antarctica. They were soooo yummy.

SHUT UP! Ichi and Ni yelled at him.

Ichi continued, Let us summon the Titans.

MONARCH OUTPOST 14 – MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES

At the Monarch Outpost in the Philippines, the Titan known as the MUTO Queen had been trapped for years under a forested mountainside. The Titan wasn't particularly aggressive but wasn't one of the more docile Titans either. She mostly resembled the MUTOs Godzilla had fought in 2014, except being a bit larger and having a crownlike structure on her back. But as soon as the MUTO Queen heard Ghidorah's call, she immediately attempted to break out of the facility. The guards, unaware of the recent incidents at Outposts 32 or 56, didn't see the attack coming. The MUTO triggered several EMP attacks throughout the Outpost before bursting through the mountainside and tearing a path of destruction to the shore, where she dove underwater and headed towards Ghidorah's location.

MONARCH OUTPOST 33 – SKULL ISLAND, PACIFIC OCEAN

On Skull Island, Monarch had established on Outpost to keep an eye on Kong, as well as the other creatures known to dwell there, shortly after the events that occurred on the island in 1973. Of all the creatures on the island, Kong was the only one considered to be a true Titan…unless more giant Skullcrawlers existed far below the surface. But when Ghidorah's call reached him, Kong didn't have the same reaction as the other Titans. He knew that this was not the rightful alpha, but merely an invader. Kong was a true alpha, and wouldn't obey this impostor. He broke free of Outpost 33, but not to do Ghidorah's bidding - to try to stop him. Unfortunately, Kong soon discovered that there was no feasible way for him to escape the island, as swimming quickly weakened him. He stood on the shores of Skull Island and roared in frustration and helplessness. For the first time in his life, Skull Island felt like a prison.

MONARCH OUTPOST 49 – LOCH NESS, SCOTLAND

At Loch Ness in Scotland, Monarch agents didn't notice any major differences in the Titan Leviathan's behavior, as it often left the lake via tunnels connecting it to the Hollow Earth. The only difference when it left this time was a speed, an urgence in its departure, as though it had a specific location to reach. However, they soon lost its trail deep in the Hollow Earth.

MONARCH OUTPOST 53 – STONE MOUNTAIN, GEORGIA

At the Outpost in Stone Mountain, Georgia, power had been knocked out by the tropical storm King Ghidorah created on his way to Isla de Mara. In the already dim light inside Stone Mountain, it was all too easy for the Titan Tiamat, responding to Ghidorah's call – which could be faintly heard on the wind – to create a spray of poisonous vapor, blinding all the guards. Tiamat then used her powers of controlling water to create a water torrent that blasted through the side of the mountain and led into Stone Mountain Lake. From there, she continued to flee until she finally reached the Gulf of Mexico and headed west.

MONARCH OUTPOST 55 - SEDONA, ARIZONA

Underneath the desert in Sedona, Arizona, Titanus Scylla heard Ghidorah's call and awoke. She used her gigantic, sharp-tipped legs to tear free of her enclosure, then cut her way through any resistance from the Monarch agents in the base. Afterwards, she burrowed through the ground to the surface, destroying several oil wells situated above the Outpost. Upon reaching the surface, Scylla let out a mighty screech and headed north to wreak havoc elsewhere.

MONARCH OUTPOST 57 – MACHU PICCHU, PERU

Underneath Machu Picchu in the heights of Peru, Ghidorah's cry was heard by a Titan very similar to Rodan, possibly even of the same species – Monarch had never definitively learned this. But this specimen, Titanus Quetzalcoatl, had been dormant since his discovery, and likely for centuries before that. But when the roar of the new alpha reached his ears, he awoke, too suddenly for anyone to properly react. Quetzalcoatl melted his way through the top of the facility with lava from his wings and flew into the heavens, destroying the ancient ruins with a clap of his gigantic wings.

MONARCH OUTPOST 58 – RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL

Just outside Rio de Janeiro, Monarch Outpost 58 was suddenly obliterated by the mighty tusks of Behemoth, who up until being summoned by the new King of the Monsters had been the most docile Titan found by Monarch, despite the potential for his tusks to deal great damage. He trampled through the nearby city despite attempts to stop him, and once he left, dense foliage grew in his wake. In a matter of hours, Rio de Janeiro became a lost city buried in the jungle.

MONARCH OUTPOST 61 – SANTA MARTA, COLOMBIA

In Colombia, the Titan known as Sargon, one of Monarch's most recent discoveries, was one of the first to hear Ghidorah's call. Like in Georgia, the monster's cry could be heard, but nobody suspected anything of the sound from far to the north. That is, nobody suspected anything of it until Sargon, a gigantic beetle with a scorpion's tail and spikes down its back, burst through its underground containment area deep in the jungle and went on a rampage, poisoning all land and life nearby with blasts of acid from its armored tail and dripping mandibles.

MONARCH OUTPOST 65 – CAIRO, EGYPT

One of the earliest of Monarch's Titan discoveries, Sekhmet was contained in an Outpost beneath Cairo, Egypt. At such a great distance, Ghidorah's call was inaudible to humans and only heard by Sekhmet. The giant winged lioness broke free of the Outpost and headed not west towards her new king, but east. The call sent to her had been unique – Ghidorah had a special purpose for the feline and her unique powers.

MONARCH OUTPOST 66 – MANPUPUNER ROCK FORMATIONS, RUSSIA

Far away in Russia, King Ghidorah's call was answered by Titanus Amhuluk, one of the most insidious creatures discovered by Monarch. The treelike, demonic Titan tore through the Outpost with his large vine limbs, crushing anyone who fought back under his massive bulk. He burrowed to the surface by using his limbs like tree roots to pulverize the overlying rock, destroying three of the seven Manpupuner Rocks in the process. He then turned and headed west, cutting a trail of terror through the countries of Eastern Europe.

MONARCH OUTPOST 67 - MUNICH, GERMANY

Underneath what the outside world thought was a hill in southern Germany, Ghidorah's call was heard by Titanus Methuselah, whose giant, stony back was actually the hill. Due to his camouflaged, dormant nature, Monarch had taken no efforts to contain Methuselah while constructing Outpost 67 underground around him. Methuselah was not even aware of the Outpost's presence, and before Monarch agents in the Outpost could muster any sort of response to Methuselah's awakening, the Titan was long gone to the north.

MONARCH OUTPOST 68 – VOLUBILIS, MOROCCO

Meanwhile, in northern Morocco, underneath the ancient city of Volubilis, the Titan Baphomet stirred inside Monarch Outpost 68. One of the smaller Titans – though still over two hundred feet tall – Baphomet was a giant deer with batlike wings and a rack over seventy feet wide. Upon hearing Ghidorah's call, he reared on his hind legs and extended his wings, then broke through the top of the Outpost with his twisted, gnarled antlers. Less than half an hour later, the city of Casablanca fell in his rampage.

MONARCH OUTPOST 75 – JEBEL BARKAL, SUDAN

Inside the rock structure known as Jebel Barkal in Sudan, Titanus Mokele-Mbembe had been contained for several years. The Titan, like Godzilla, resembled a dinosaur. He had a body similar in shape to an elephant, but reptilian instead of mammalian, with a crocodilian head, large tusks and a trunk, a nasal horn, and an extremely long tail. Mokele-Mbembe easily broke free of his containment unit inside Jebel Barkal by blasting a stream of energy similar to Godzilla's atomic breath out his trunk from its storage point inside his horn and lashing out with his destructive tail. Mokele-Mbembe dealt such severe damage to Jebel Barkal in his escape that, minutes later, it caved in, killing any Monarch agents present who had survived his initial attack.

MONARCH OUTPOST 77 – DEVILS TOWER, WYOMING

When Ghidorah's call reached Monarch Outpost 77 inside Devils Tower, the Titan who was imprisoned – the only Titan for which Monarch had used this term – there did not respond. Titanus Abaddon was his name, the second most dangerous Titan discovered by Monarch – after Monster Zero and before Amhuluk. Instead of replying, he chuckled and thought, I do not serve you, false alpha…steward would be a more fitting term. I serve only myself, and will escape at a time of my choosing, when the time is ripe for me to depose you and be the proper, the rightful alpha. But not yet…. And then he resumed his slumber inside the rock formation. In the following hours, the Monarch agents at Outpost 77 puzzled over Abaddon's inactivity after hearing of the other rampaging Titans all around the globe.

MONARCH OUTPOST 91 – MOUNT FUJI, JAPAN

Minutes after Ghidorah's call rang out, the top of Mount Fuji exploded, spraying debris all the way to Lake Yamanaka, over eight miles away. Emerging from the top of the mountain, now just over half its original height, was Yamata no Orochi, an eight-headed dragon. Though he was larger than many of the other Titans – not to mention having nearly three times as many heads as the similar King Ghidorah – he was not viewed as a major threat due to being far weaker than his fellow draconic Titan. Orochi possessed no regenerative powers, storm-creating abilities, or alpha status among the Titans; he simply breathed fire like many mythological dragons. Monarch agents had long theorized that he and Ghidorah were related but had found no evidence of such. Orochi crawled from the gaping hole atop Mount Fuji and spread his massive wings, taking flight into the overcast skies above Japan.

MONARCH OUTPOST 92 – ANGKOR WAT, CAMBODIA

Beneath the temple complex at Angkor Wat in Cambodia, the monstrous serpentine Titan Typhon broke free of Monarch Outpost 92 and burst through the ground, destroying the ancient structures. Typhon had thirteen heads, twelve extending from his neck and another on the tip of his tail. All these heads spat corrosive acid and had long, constricting tongues, and his body was supported by six legs as thick as tree trunks. The Titan's armor was as strong as an armored car. He continued west through Asia, within hours overtaking Myanmar and Bangladesh among other countries.

MONARCH OUTPOST 99 – ULURU, AUSTRALIA

And finally, beneath Uluru in the Australian Outback, the creature known as Bunyip escaped an underground lake. He resembled a giant crocodile with the head of a bird and spikes along his sides and down his back. Just like at Monarch Outpost 75, the rock structure he was contained in collapsed in his wake, but this time several of the Outpost's Monarch agents were able to escape in a pair of Ospreys. Bunyip then headed east towards the coast of Australia, where he proceeded to wreak havoc.