Hi again. My story has gained a lot more traction recently. I don't know why so many more people suddenly checked out my story. My best guess is someone was curious, saw how poorly the Prologue was written, and quit. If you are reading this, thanks for giving my writing a chance! As you can tell by the title of this chapter, I am including some of the more insectoid kaiju and other creatures. Nothing else for me to say in this little "Author's Notes" section. I know only 2 people have written reviews on my story. If anyone could take just a few moments to write anything, whether it be a simple compliment or sentence of advice. That's all! Enjoy the chapter!
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Chapter 7: Insectoid Problems
Houston, Texas, United States
Kamacuras jumped high upwards, using all the energy he had to force his legs off the ground. He barely missed a missile exploding right where he was standing.
While most of the other Titans could easily shrug off one of the biped's weapons, for him, they were a lot more deadly. There are plenty more of his kind. However, they are smaller. Less intelligent. Different colors. They went down as easily as those ants or the insufferable purple dragonfly things.
He doesn't fare much better. Those explosions would knock him off his feet, and burn his delicate wings and limbs. Some of their fire stingers weren't as strong as others.
Some merely annoyed him, causing slight pain where they impacted. Others could likely reduce him to shattered limbs if they found their target.
Another explosion rang out near him. It just missed, the fireball expanding outwards, radiating a small blast wave and heat around it. It irritated him, the heat making him uncomfortable.
Glancing around, the giant mantis saw several bipeds moving along the ground. They quickly spotted the large creature standing in the middle of the street. They pointed some sort of black things at the kaiju.
Kamacuras saw several flashes coming from the things and felt a slight irritation all across his body, almost as if he was being peppered by water falling from the sky. However, the day was merely cloudy. No rain.
The blue-green creature decided that the odd sensation was coming from the biped black things. They didn't hurt, but this was still a fight. Even if it wasn't, Kamacuras knew his orders. Destroy every last biped he could. The Three-Headed Terror made that abundantly clear in their first terrifying encounter.
The mantis leaped forward. His legs crushed some sort of metal thing. It caught on fire and made a loud and annoying noise. He angrily looked down on the bipeds. He heard a noise emerge from one of them. The call was cut off by scythes cutting the bipeds down where they stood.
No other obvious threats nearby, so he moved on. Rounding a corner, he saw several more bipeds with the same black stick things. There were also two... biped large moving things... He didn't know what to call them. Those creatures surely had a name for their things. He doesn't know their language, or what the other Titans would call those weird green things with circles instead of legs.
They pointed their black stick things in his direction. Once more, he felt the same sensation as if he was out in the open during a storm of thunder and rain. He lunged forward, ready to annihilate these puny things.
His scythe limbs tore through several of them, cutting them in half or knocking them dead through blunt force alone. Then, a true explosion rang out. A sudden sharp pain emanated from his side. Screeching in pain, the insect looked away from the wound at the sight of a green-yellow substance flowing from the gash on his side. It's the insect equivalent of blood, in a way. The sight of that ooze leaking out of his body made him sick. Kamacuras quickly turned away, trying to ignore the pain until he finished this fight.
In a few quick moves, he destroyed the rest of the bipeds and their weird moving things.
Giving some time to inspect his wound, his yellow eyes took in the sight of the nasty injury. It would heal, but right now, it stung badly and bled.
He shook his head, trying to block out the pain. He moved on to the next place, rounding another corner, around a tall nest. He saw another one of their moving no-leg things in the middle of the path. No other bipeds in sight. It came to a halt once the mantis came into view, blocking off the area between their tall nests.
The mantis kaiju landed in front of a biped moving thing, which had a long pointer, where those fire stingers came from. There was no life coming from it. This thing was made of metal. Not even alive. However, he knows there are bipeds inside of this weird thing, and it is harmful. This thing would have to be destroyed, and the mantis knew just how to accomplish that. One of his scythe-like limbs pierced down into it, easily moving through whatever armor it had and right through into the ground. It exploded moments afterward, giving the creature no time to react.
He was sent flying uncontrollably through the air. Not by his delicate wings, but by the force of the explosion. It sent him crashing into the side of a building before falling to the street below along with a heap of rubble and debris.
Kamacuras groaned in pain once he recovered. However, he felt immense pain in one of his legs. Turning back to look, he saw that a mountain or rubble had buried one of his walking limbs.
The blue-green mantis tried to move, but he wouldn't budge. His yellow buggy eyes took in the sights around him. It was all just towering human nests everywhere, many damaged and burning.
For any of the actual Titans, this wouldn't have been a problem. Kamacuras was stuck.
There was nothing else he could think. Plain and simple, he couldn't move.
He made a worried chittering sound. What to do now? There was nothing nearby that could help him.
After some time, a few bipeds showed up. They pointed small things at him but didn't fire. A few of their land-moving things showed up too. Some had those pointy fire stinger things. A few bipeds got too close. He slaughtered them in the blink of an eye with his scythes. However, he couldn't blink. His insectoid eyes were always open, only really blocking out the sights in his mind when he wanted to rest or "sleep".
They stayed back, keeping their fire stingers pointed right at him. They knew he was stuck. Kamacuras waited for the inevitable barrage of fire and pain. He was helpless. Weak. Injured. The perfect prey. If a Megaguirus Queen or Kumonga was here, the mantis would have already been torn limb from limb.
Why... Why aren't you bipeds attacking me? His chittering question went unanswered by his watchers. They only seemed to grow nervous or confused by his cry.
The blue-green creature slumped down. His head was now resting on the ground. The bipeds walked closer. He didn't bother swiping at them. What was the point?
He couldn't move or do anything useful for the Alpha. It was unlikely another Titan would come and help him. He was at the mercy of the very things he was ordered to kill.
Humiliating...
Karachi, Pakistan
The entire area was a wasteland. Decimated by nuclear fire, the lands west of Karachi were made uninhabitable. Even Pakistan's largest city had to be evacuated.
The Pakistani government had gambled everything to stop Titanus Kumonga. Despite the protests from various other nations and Monarch, they had chosen to launch a nuclear warhead anyway.
Now, the Pakistani military, which had only a few days ago been battling to keep Kumonga out of their city, was evacuating that very same city of its people. Radiation levels had spiked everywhere. The area was dangerous.
Many experts had warned of the damage such a destructive weapon would cause. Monarch scientists and researchers weren't even sure if a nuke could kill a Titan.
This nuclear weapon was many times more powerful than the atomic bombs that had leveled the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki so long ago. The start of the Atomic Age was credited with the awakening of the Titans.
Godzilla and Shinomura had first emerged from slumber so long ago because of radiation. Nuclear submarines in the lower depths of the Pacific awakened the now-former King of the Monsters. Shinomura had risen from his sleep because of other creatures, giant crustaceans that came out of caves and tunnels below the surface for the same reason as Gojira.
Atomic weapons and the nuclear technology that resulted from them brought the Titans back into Earth's ecosystem. While it may have been inevitable for any of the Titans to rise out of slumber or emerge from the Hollow Earth eventually, humanity ensured it would happen back in the 50s.
A drone had been sent out by the Pakistani military to try and find the charred remains of Kumonga. They guessed that it had to be dead. They were confident that the giant spider had not survived the force of the blast.
Godzilla had survived many atomic weapons in the past. Shinomura barely managed to stay alive after nearly being completely disintegrated by an atomic bomb during the Cold War. Much more recently, King Ghidorah and Godzilla both survived the Oxegen Destroyer, the now most powerful and destructive weapon man had yet created, even if the latter barely survived it.
The drone flew across the barren landscape. Radiation readings were off the charts. However, thus far, the drone's camera only showed the burnt remains of the land and any military units that didn't get out in time.
The last recorded position of Titanus Kumonga was checked first. The generals piloting the drone were hoping for a sigh of relief upon seeing the charred and burnt remains of a dead eight-legged creature.
There was no giant spider there.
Instead, off to the side of the screen, a web of some sort of white, silky, substance covered the camera view, and then the feed cut. However, right before it did, the audio played the sound of an extremely pained and forced chirp, one that matched all known sounds and calls from the purple-eyed spider.
Pain. An agonizing, absolutely excruciating pain. He couldn't bear it. Every single second his entire body hurt. His purple eyes could barely take in his surroundings. He wasn't even sure if all eight were even there.
It took so much energy to produce enough webbing to down that biped flying buzzer.
The arachnid chittered in pain just trying to move his legs, barely taking a few steps before just about falling to the charred ground beneath him.
This place wasn't his home. He had only just gone into slumber around here a long time ago.
What vision he did have showed a wasteland he had only ever heard of being possible. Now, he was seeing this destruction with his own eyes.
Kumonga was in very bad shape. His normally yellow-striped and dull-colored body was now charred black and burned. Ash covered nearly every part of him. His movements were unsteady and slow. He felt like he would fall to the ground again every second.
How am I still alive? That question resonated in his mind. Whatever that radiation explosion was, it was powerful. Likely some biped creation to try and kill him.
He took another few slow steps forward. The pain was just a constant burning all over his body. His mandibles barely moved. The normally "talkative" spider barely made a sound.
Nothing felt right. Another shaky step forward. One of his legs stepped on something hard. He paused. The giant spider slowly backed up, just moving his legs in reverse. Looking down at the lifeless dirt, he saw that this wasn't just a rock or something. It was the destroyed remains of one of their moving things that used circles.
No sign of anything alive. The arachnid guessed that perhaps some of the bipeds that were fighting him might have also been caught in the blast.
The Titan couldn't believe this had happened. It was all so surreal. Urgh... This... How am I supposed to get out of this mess? The question seemed impossible to answer.
He was on the brink of death. Well, his only burns and pains were external. Superficially, he looked terrible. Besides that, he was weak and just about unable to move. Even if the spider made it out of this wasteland, what would he do?
He definitely can't follow the Alpha's orders in this condition. His home is west of here. Yes, perhaps he could try and go there. He had a particularly large cave that he called home. It had been filled with webs big enough to support him.
He just wasn't close enough to his den when he was forced to go dormant.
And the sky. Turning his gaze upwards, his clouded vision saw not the endless blue and white puffs, but a grey and dark cover over it all. No light shone through.
And... It was, getting darker? Was it nighttime already?
Kumonga let out another low cry of pain, but it barely made it out of his mandibles.
He just wanted the pain to end.
I need help... But who would help me?
He had one idea. Yes, he had tried to eat her once, but it was only because the spider needed something to eat. She is benevolent, kind, and forgiving. Yes, Mosura was his best chance at survival.
Mustering up what little energy he had left, Kumonga lifted himself upwards a little, moving a few feet higher off the ground, really stretching his aching legs. He let out a loud, screeching chirp. A cry for help.
Almost immediately, Kumonga collapsed to the ground. His legs gave out, and he was now sprawled out against the clustered and irradiated dirt.
All he could do now was try and wait. Once Mosura gets here, she can heal him.
Maybe... Working for this new Alpha was a bad decision... I never want to see another biped again...
Almaty, Kazahstan
Megaguirus calmly landed on top of a biped structure. The stone and metal thing shook under the mere force of the landing. All around her, the air was filled with hundreds of Meganulon that began swarming through the city.
The dragonfly insects picked up any screaming bipeds they could, either killing them on the spot or carrying them away. Anti-Air guns fired their rounds into the sky, trying to down as many of the swarm as they could.
An explosion rang out nearby, leaving a human nest in ruins, with several dead Meganulon littering the ground around the smoking remains.
Bipeds ran through the streets, running for cover or trying to take out the many insects overhead.
The Meganulon Queen observed a grisly sight. Three bipeds were just about to enter one of their nests when a few of her subjects caught up to them. One Meganulon immediately tore into the chest of one biped, instantly killing the creature. The other two cried out in panic, with one now pulling desperately on some sort of... see-through thing.
The second biped's screams were silenced by another Meganulon, which had dived down from above, hitting the biped on the head and making him fall to the ground. It was promptly killed by a serious wound to its neck. The third biped fell to the ground with a thud shortly after, but not before one of its arms was pulled off by an insect.
The bloody sight unsettled her. Yes, they had to do this, partly for food, but mostly under the orders of the Alpha.
The Alpha wanted these bipeds all dead. Megaguirus knew these things well. Her swarm had raided these bunch of nests many times in the days long past.
They didn't pose a threat to her directly. As long as her swarm kept away from the biped homes, they left each other alone. And apart from that, she could be considered a Titan.
Most Meganulon Queens weren't as big as her. They were about double the size of the rest, while Megaguirus was about quadruple the size.
Why am I this big anyway? It was an interesting question. She had always been curious about this one fact. It made her unique and different from her sisters and mother.
She had just been born this size.
Another difference between her and the rest of her kind. Megaguirus and her swarm were the only ones left on the surface. All the other hives had gone Underground when things went bad.
Perhaps they made the right choice. Just about all the species left up here were down to one left. Sure, she, along with many of the others, had more of their kind elsewhere Underground, but it was difficult to even find the tunnels up here.
Her hive suffered tremendously. That dangerous foe had nearly wiped them out. It was the old Alpha that saved her hive, despite the numerous times she had personally attacked him.
Megaguirus was drawn from her thoughts when a Meganulon hit her head. Annoyed by the interruption, she snarled at the worker dragonfly.
It backed up, chittering in apology. However, before it could fly more than a few feet away, Megaguirus saw a missile flying in their direction.
Without thinking this through, she grabbed the smaller insect in her claws, careful not to crush her. She turned to fly out of the way, but she was too slow. The explosion caused a burning pain in her back. Her wings were thankfully undamaged.
However, the sudden pain made her drop to the ground below with a loud thud. The smaller insect, chirping in alarm at what happened to her queen, flew up to her head. It let out several more panicked chirps, gaining the attention of the rest of the hive.
They immediately saw that their queen was in danger and stopped everything they were doing. Several Meganulon that were carrying bipeds dropped them mid-flight, inadvertently still killing them. Many more stopped attacking the bipeds and their metal things. Many were left shaken, injured, and confused by the sudden halt in the attack. The Meganulon all flew in the direction of their Queen. While several were taken down by Anti-Aircraft fire on the way to her, they completely ignored the bipedal things they were just ceaselessly killing minutes ago. They swarmed around her, blocking her view like a white puff in the sky when she flew through them.
Ugh... Why... Why did I do that? She risked her life for a lowly worker. One that would only live for a few decades anyway.
Queen Meganulons weren't supposed to care for the lives of an individual. Their own lives were the most important. If she dies, so does the hive. Perhaps, out of kindness?
Kindness... Kindness... That feeling... It puzzled the mutated Queen just thinking about it. After a little bit of time, she flapped her wings and began to fly back home. Her swarm was not far behind. They stayed in a protective formation around her every second.
This was why she should just stay in their home rather than go out with the rest of the swarm. She had always longed for adventure, excitement, and fun. This was where it got her. In the back of her mind, she knew that a danger such as this was always a possibility whenever she left the hive without a swarm of hundreds of her workers protecting her.
She'd just stay in her chamber and rest. It wouldn't take long to recover. She'd have to explain this whole incident to the King...
Unlike most insects, such as the Giant Bees and Giant Ants, the Meganulon King didn't only serve to mate and die. it stuck around in the hive with its Queen afterward. They don't do much, but they can be excellent fighters if it ever came down to that.
That was not an interaction Megaguirus was looking forward to with her smaller mate.
Bogota, Colombia
Quetzalcoatl and King Ghidorah continued flying over the continent. While the smaller feathered creature was faster than the new Alpha, she slowed her pace so the Three-Headed Titan could keep up.
Despite all the time they had to dwell on this topic during their long flight, all three heads couldn't figure out this one thing. What were Bees? They had never heard of anything like those on their home planet. All they could guess is that there had to be some, as Quetzal said she was dealing with multiple, and that they were enough of a threat that a Titan like her can't reasonably stand up to them.
While Ghidorah had yet to see her combat abilities, Ichi had to guess that this colorful creature had to be at least proficient in combat, or have some sort of special ability. Most of the other big creatures like them had some sort of unique or special something to them.
That serpent, Tiamat, had some control over water. At least enough to partially manipulate it.
That one with many legs and a shell, Scylla, could lower the temperature around her. They had noticed when flying by that desert that it was colder than it should be for a place like that.
Kamacuras was... Wait, is there anything noteworthy about that bug? Ichi's question went unanswered by the other two heads. Quetzal chimed in with a single call. The meaning was short and simple. No, not really.
So, what does this one have that is unique? Ichi had to admit, that this one is the most colorful and feathered creature they've ever seen. So many feathers with different colors. Red, blue, green, yellow, and white.
That can't be it, right? There has to be something more. Powerful winds like the bird of fire? Healing powers like that moth? A nullifying ability like that black parasite? Spreading darkness like that bat?
Ichi, you're overthinking this. The center head turned to face Ni. He had a point. There was no reason to think about this so much. San chimed in with his idea. Why don't we ask her?
Ichi opened his jaw to answer the other head. However, before any sound could emerge from his mouth, they heard an explosion down below them. Stopping to fly in place, all three heads of Ghidorah turned to look at the ground. They realized that they were now flying over a biped bunch of nests.
Smoke was filling the sky in many places. Fires billowed from many nests. The noises of destruction and combat were loud. A biped nest suddenly collapsed, leaving behind a pile of rubble obscured by dust. When it cleared, they saw another Titan.
The giant beetle smashed through another biped nest. An explosion rang out, hitting the creature on its back.
Sargon looked up, seeing the Alpha and Quetzal flying in the sky above. He called out to them. However, in this moment of distraction, another explosion rang out, this time on his head.
He cried out in pain, stumbling into a biped structure, making it collapse as he tried to regain his bearings.
King Ghidorah roared orders to Quetzal. They were simple. Help the beetle. After a short pause, the feathered creature reluctantly nodded. With a loud screech, she dived down, heading towards the nests below.
Ghidorah swooped down as well, crushing several nests into dust just by his wings hitting the ground.
Sargon used his horn to smash into another biped nest, while his legs crushed smaller objects below him.
Quetzal's talons raked the tops of several biped nests. However, she was unusually cautious and slower to attack.
Three yellow beams of electricity sweep across the landscape, demolishing everything they hit and vaporizing many bipeds.
In the end, what likely would have taken the beetle much longer by himself, if he could do this alone in the first place, Quetzal's and mainly Ghidorah's help left the capital of Colombia in utter ruins, with few buildings left standing and only a handful of survivors remaining in sparse pockets throughout the rubble and broken streets.
Sargon bowed to Ghidorah, his mandibles moving a little as he chittered thanks to the Alpha.
Without a word, the Three-Headed Devil flew back up into the air. Quetzalcoatl flew up after him. She took the lead, continuing to lead him to her home.
While they both flew in silence, mostly because Quetzal was too nervous to talk much, and Ichi was lost in his thoughts, San finally broke the silence. He let a chittering call out of his jaws. Directing the sounds at the colorful flyer, he asked one simple thing.
Quetzal, what is a Bee?
Now, I just wanted to address a few things. First of all, the main Kamacuras I'm following for my story, from Final Wars, is the "biggest" of his kind, and barely considered a Titan. Second, I made up most of everything related to how the hive works for Megaguirus. We don't know much about how they work as a species outside of Godzilla vs. Megaguirus and Rodan(1956). Lastly, I know Sargon isn't a real Titan, I think only being a placeholder, never meant to be a beetle Titan. Oh, one other thing. Yeah, Kumonga should probably be dead. There's little chance either Showa or FW version of the spider could survive a modern nuclear warhead. However, for my story, I think it will fit better into this rather than leave him as dead(also he's one of my favorite kaiju, I'm not killing him). That's all! I don't have a consistent upload schedule, but hopefully, the next chapter will be out in a few weeks.