Godzilla (c) Toho Co., Legendary Pictures, Warner Bros.
Transformers Prime (c) Hasbro
In Jasper, Nevada...
Chaos and terror were rampant in the once-quiet town of Jasper with the citizens running about the streets in terrified panic. The roads themselves were littered with not only busted cars and papers, but also debris coming from most of the buildings that were destroyed and razed while some had been chomped on. The US Army were also within the city with many of the soldiers focusing on the evacuation efforts to help the panicked citizens calmly evacuate. However, the efforts were, more often than not, derailed when the ground caved underneath their feet. Screams of horror resounded more loudly from the citizens in one block of the town with the soldiers being swallowed up by the sinkhole along with the unfortunate innocents as they were in the wrong place and the wrong time. The sinkhole continued to widen with the ground collapsing faster than most people could clearly escape from.
As the hapless citizen fell and tumbled into the pit, something massive suddenly popped out from the ground in the form of a gigantic flat, blunt head with a spiky frill and a singular row of broken horns that opened its mouth wide exposing jaws lined with double rows of large sharp teeth. The screams were suddenly silenced when the monster slammed its jaws shut, swallowing its inadvertent victims down its throat. The remaining buildings and telephone poles collapsed into the hole as the creature crawled out gradually from the sinkhole. Its body was revealed to be generally crocodile-like with dark cobalt scales with some black patches of scales predominantly on its tail. It walked on all of its three pairs of limbs, and having a stocky, barrel-shaped body armed with lethal spikes like a porcupine. The tail was armored and ending in a spiked tip that had three pairs of bony thagomizers similar to that of a stegosaur. The Titan let out a booming, deep scratchy roar that made the air tremble, scaring more of the panicked people of Jasper. The beast, Rokmutul, noticed that its spiky tail was entangled by some wires coming from the toppled wire poles.
Grunting with an annoyed snort, it casually flicked its armored tail with the abrupt movement cutting the wires off with the cut off ends landing onto the streets haphazardly with some people being crushed or electrocuted by the uncontained sparks as a result. Standing at 70 meters or 230 feet tall at the shoulder and 110 meters or 360 feet long, this monster was basically a walking living tank outfitted with spikes all over.
Rokmutul started stomping through the crowded, messed up streets of Jasper with its three pairs of feet demolishing cars and creating gaping footprints in the pavement with some punching through the roads. Without much thought, the frilled crocodile-like monster rammed through several houses and apartments, causing tremendous devastation of property as it seemed to wander aimlessly through the city, not caring of the hapless screaming populace that were still trying to evacuate from Jasper. The giant reptilian Titan was looking for something as it was scanning the new environment with its pale gray eyes and sniffing the air. It was interrupted when several artillery shells struck the monster on its left flank.
More surprised rather than hurt by the barrage, the Rokmutul turned around to see a platoon of M1 Abram Tanks that were shooting artillery slugs out from their cannon muzzles at it. The monster grunted curiously as to why the strange armored beetles were shooting weirder things that break up and explode upon impact on its armored body. The National Guard soldiers were taking positions beside the tanks and/or standing on top of the building rooftops, firing their assault rifles at the Titan. The Rokmutul was still hardly affected by the Army's attempts to harm the creature to give Jasper's citizens more time and breathing room to evacuate the city as it curiously examined the tiny humans. One of the soldiers that was positioned on the local hardware store's rooftop rashly grabbed a grenade launcher out from his bag and quickly loaded it with ammo as soon as he saw that his friends were in dire danger with the Titan getting too close to the platoon on the ground.
He fired with the grenade torpedoing towards the Rokmutul's head. It struck and imploded upon impact between the ear and the frill, which made the Rokmutul startled as the beast roared out in shock. The projectile didn't harm as so much as provoked it into aggravated aggression where Rokmutul concluded in its relatively simple mind where enough was enough and these strange pointed rocks hurt like heck. Thus, the monster struck back angrily by raising its forelimb up and slammed it down onto the soldiers and an M1 Abrams Tank, decimating them in one swoop with the tank being pulverized into scrap metal. The National Guard screamed both out of rage and fear as the Titan's counterstrike suddenly broke their line of defense as they fired with all they got at the beast. However, it proved futile as the their shots were nothing more than like mosquito bites to the armored prehistoric giant and in its wrathful, provoked state, the Rokmutul saw them as annoying obstacles to be put down. The monster roared as it dug its first horn and snout into the pavement and tore up the stretch of road when it charged swinging its armored head upwards, sending men, tanks, and debris flying all over. The Rokmutul quickly stood on its third pair of hindlimbs and lunged at one of the tanks in freefall. With one snap, the tank was completely destroyed by the Titan's sharp fangs. It then swiped its spiky tail at the last of the platoon, bludgeoning all of the remaining soldiers and skewering two tanks in the process as they stuck onto the thagomizers. The spiked Titan then used them to give its tail strike more weight to it as it whipped its tail onto the local hardware store with the few soldiers stationed on the roof falling to their deaths as the building exploded.
The Rokmutul let off a dismissive grunt thinking it was over before it was pelted to its armored back from above by a barrage of missiles courtesy of a squadron of F-35 from the US Air Force. The Titan snarled, becoming more irritable by the strange armored beetles and metal birds as a second platoon of M1 Abram Tanks rolled in some sixty feet away from the gas station unleashing their artillery rounds on the giant monster.
Rokmutul snarled, becoming more annoyed with the humans pestering it as it stomped its way towards them demolishing Memorial High School with most of the staff and students evacuated before this disaster happened. However, the same couldn't be said about the police force assisting in the evacuation and assisting some of the soldiers safeguarding the evacuation route. When the monster charged, many of the men in uniform were tossed aside by the Rokmutul's momentum and some unfortunate enough were crushed by one of the monster's many feet.
Passing underneath the swinging thagomizer tail, a pair of vehicles: a chrome blue sleek motorcycle and a yellow and black stylized Camaro car were speeding through the road swerving around to avoid the massive footprints and boulders of debris lodged into the pavement that became road hazards. Riding on the blue motorcycle, was a young teenage boy with his biker helmet on while his two younger peers, a young twelve-year old boy with glasses and brown spiky hair, and a fifteen-year old Japanese girl with a slightly punkish twintail hairstyle were riding in the yellow Camaro with the girl sitting in the driving seat. As for the Camaro itself, it didn't needed to be handled and driven manually as the steering wheel moved on its own without any assistance from the girl.
"I hope we're not too late," said the helmet-wearing boy riding the blue motorcycle when that very same motorcycle he's riding on spoke next in a feminine, tough voice.
"Me too, but that's not the only thing that worries me."
"I wish we can do something instead of just regulating ourselves to the sidelines and rescuing Jack's mom. I mean, this is our home, and this is very disheartening for us to stick to the shadows with the way things are," said the glass-wearing boy on Jack's left as the Camaro's windows were rolled down for him to hear the boy clearly, who was distressed and worried for his friends and family that were probably still somewhere in Jasper.
The yellow Camaro beeped something since the "car's" vocal cords were damaged long ago. The girl sighed, understanding somewhat what the car was saying to the kids in the front seat.
"I gotta agree with Raf. Why we have to be hush hush when we ought to be out here with guns blazing and pointed at that thing?!" the pink-highlighted haired teenage girl complained as she pointed her finger at the Rokmutul that was rampaging wildly towards the National Guard.
The car beeped again with a tone indicating that the car understood what the boy was saying, but knew otherwise how going all out in this situation would only complicate matters for this mission and more.
"Miko, that may make the people more hysterical than they could afford right now," Jack disagreed as he, Raf, Miko, and his mom were the only ones out of all of the people in Jasper knew the secret identities of the motorcycle and the Camaro Car they were riding on.
"Oh come on! For once, we have to let loose, or otherwise...!" Miko was about to complain and argue further until the motorcycle interrupted.
"We'd be captured with the other possibility of us being caught in the crossfire! As of right now, this is already risky on its own." the motorcycle butted in.
"Yeah, and I am not sure how the soldiers will react to you Transformers should we have to fight that creature." Jack reluctantly agreed.
"Wouldn't Mr. Fowler have informed these army guys in secret about us in advance?" Raf questioned as they turned around the intersection onto the road leading to town's local hospital with the sounds of the Rokmutul's roars and the artillery shells exploding ringing throughout Jasper.
"Even Agent Fowler is limited in how much people he would be willing to indulge info about our secret existence," the motorcycle answered grimly.
"Arcee's got a point, Raf. The National Guard might not be the best people for Mr. Fowler to inform that there are robot aliens that can transform into cars, hiding out in the middle of Nevada for so long. There's a good chance that the National Guard might see Arcee and Bumblebee as much as a threat as that monster if they suddenly transform out in the blue." Jack said.
"Well, ain't that helpful," Miko said sarcastically and Raf sighed at how complicated the adult world was when it comes to government.
Then the yellow Camaro beeped.
"Bumblebee says we should be approaching the Jasper Hospital. Hopefully, that area is nearly evacuated." Arcee informed them.
Jack's hands on the steering handles tightened their grip as the hands squeezed out of both hope and nervousness for his mother. "She'd better be okay." He said worriedly.
The situation with the National Guard and the US Army was less than stellar as the six-legged, frilled crocodilian Titan kept decimating their forces. The formation had completely fallen into disarray with the infantry turning to run away from the rampaging monstrosity that was the Rokmutul. The said carnivorous monster, after flipping a couple of tanks and Humvee jeeps into the air with a toss of its frilled head, immediately lunged onto a small group of soldiers that were unfortunately within striking distance. One of the soldiers saw what was about to befall onto them, and knew she and her friends weren't going to make it.
"Hal! Watch out!" She pushed her best friend out of harm's way by the tightest margin as the monster's jaws snapped her and the rest of her buddies, leaving Hal nearly disoriented from nearly being bitten into a bloody pulp as he fell onto the dirt.
Confused and still trying to comprehend what just happened, Hallorum's mind shut down when he saw a bloodied and bisected Hannah, now dead with a blank look of horror on her face, dangling from the monster's car-sized teeth by the thread of her innards. The sight of her and his unit being gobbled up by the Rokmutul left him shellshocked and unresponsive to the point that his supervisor of the unit, Capt. Kendall had to yank him out of harm's way.
"MOVE!" Capt. Kendall hollered desperately as he ran and dragged Hal, saving himself and the shellshocked ensign from being pulverized by the Rokmutul's clawed foot.
The Rokmutul roared, going after a fleeing trio of tanks and his short burst of speed enabled it to catch up to the tanks within short notice. Then, like a mountain being dropped on to them, the tanks were flattened underneath the force of the monster's stout snout. The squadron of F-35's were still bombarding it with missiles, but at this point, the Titan was more irritated than surprised. Having enough, the Rokmutul spotted a gas station nearby ambled its way towards the place with greater ease because of less gunfire it had to go through after thoroughly trashing the Army ground infantry. The monster eyed the squadron circling wide around the town for another round of bombardment, then with perfect timing, the monster whipped its tail hard, batting the gas station and the last remaining defiant M1 Abram tanks up into the air where they sailed towards the squadron.
One of the pilots' eyes widened in horrified surprise when he saw the objects flying towards him!
"Oh shit! Break up! Break up!" The pilot screamed as he turned his fighter jet in attempt to avoid tank, but was unfortunately hit by the gas station roof with the jet's right wing being clipped off.
His wingmates met their own tragic fate such as one got a tank directly slammed into his cockpit, destroying both him and the jet in one destructive explosion. The other wingmate, Lt. Martinez, had his engine explode from a gas fueling stand with the leaked fossil fuel mixing with the combustion that caused the jet to explode from behind.
Rokmutul purred and watched some of the flaming wreckage hurl from the sky into the outskirts of the devastated town.
The wrecks landed haphazardly in front of the evacuation helicopters where the civilians would be transported out to safety. Unfortunately, one of the flaming wrecks crashed into one of the helicopters, killing the pilots, military personnel, and a good chunk of Jasper's civilians. The people screamed as terror overtook them with the soldiers now more hard pressed to calm them down, some of them failing miserably as some civilians pushed and even fought them to get into the helicopter out of sheer desperation.
In the Autobot Outpost hidden in the desert of Nevada, Ratchet, the Autobot Medic with an ambulance for his alternative vehicle mode, and Optimus Prime, with a advanced military truck for his own alternative vehicle mode, could only watch in grim despair at the monitor that showed everything of what's happening in Jasper.
"Good Primus...the US Army is being slaughtered and the evacuation is only 20% complete," Ratchet said with aghast at the destruction caused by Rokmutul. His blue optics reading the growing statistics of casualties both civilian and military that were in Cybertronian numbers.
"We just didn't have enough time to react, let alone comprehend what in the Pits had just happened," Wheeljack commented sourly on the disastrous situation. "Not to mention, how abrupt that Fowler had to put us on hold, which certainly reminds me of a certain someone," the Wrecker spat as he looked to Ultra Magnus, Optimus Prime's second-in-command with a brief glare before refocusing on the monitor.
"This situation requires extreme discretion, Wheeljack. There is no guarantee that the planet's sentient natives would react positively to our presence in their current state." Ultra Magnus apparently caught onto the glare and reminded him to try to put him in line.
However, that only made Wheeljack irritated at his uptight commanding style as he said back, "Yeah, I understand, but now this is not the time to be hiding in this bunker and staying put! Heck, we Wreckers should be out there, bringing down the rain of fire on this monster! Not sit and watch innocents become lizard food!"
"That is not up for you to decide, soldier. There is a reason why we had to make a pact with Agent Fowler and the US government to keep our missions in protecting the Earth from the Decepticons in secrecy."
"That may have worked up until now, but it's proving more of an hindrance to us and to them rather than it's helping," Wheeljack hissed, not buying Ultra Magnus's argument, which was technically true. However, Wheeljack wasn't one to sit and wait to see how the situation plays out before acting, thus being forced to do so for this one didn't sit well with him.
"Agent Fowler clearly said that unless we get those people out of harm's way, there's no way we can run out there without exposing ourselves and putting him, Ms. Darby, and the kids in a tough spot, especially with the humans' media being quick to hound them til the cyber hounds howl," Ratchet said, helping Ultra Magnus out.
"Correct. Going out there with guns blazing will possibly escalate the situation, not to mention putting us into crosshairs with a native hostile lifeform that we have no idea about." Optimus emphasized on the last part because the crocodilian-like Titan just surprised them out of nowhere when it had burst out from a spire half an hour ago!
"With all due respect, Commander, but I have to agree with Jackie on this one. People are dying out there and Arcee and Bumblebee are risking their lives to help Jack find his mom. Don't you think we should at least give them a helping hand while at least doing something about that...thing that just popped out of nowhere?!" Bulkhead interjected. Usually the more reasonable of the Wreckers, but having to be put on hold and witnessing innocent humans fall victim to the Rokmutul frustrated him greatly. And he honestly wanted to be out there to give a good ol' bashing to that monster.
"That may be sooner than you think, Bulkhead." Agent Fowler's voice sounded out from the monitor as his face appeared on the holographic monitor. Optimus, who had been watching the screen for updates on deteriorating situation, and Arcee and Bumblebee's rescue mission, was surprised to hear back from Agent Fowler, who had warned them to stay tight in the Autboto Outpost.
"Agent Fowler? What's the change in the situation that's prompting you?" Optimus asked cautiously of the overweight African American agent, who clearly had seen better days as his hair was slightly disheveled and with sweat evident on his complexion.
"It has gotten much weirder than I checked the last time. Remember the Level Six tropical hurricane the news reported that it would reach Orlando, Florida in two days?" Fowler said, making everyone's robotic eyebrows to be raised in perplexed curiosity.
"The one that had been tearing up this human city of Rio Janeiro in the country, Brazil?" Smokescreen, the youngest member of Team Prime with a stylistic, yellow and blue sports car for his alt mode, mentioned from having watched enough of the planet's popular news media to catch on the events happening to Earth more so than his peers.
"Yeah, the one that had just torn up Jamaica into No Man's land just yesterday. You might want to check the weather forecast on that one because something's fishy going on with that hurricane ever since that six legged crocodile busted out of brumation," Fowler looked more urgent and worried than before with his brows creased.
Ratchet punched in the digitally advanced keyboard, pulling up the weather forecast and blowing it up to a viewable size on the monitor. What it showed caused Optimus, Ratchet, the Wreckers and even the stoic, by-the-book Ultra Magnus, except Smokescreen, to widen their optics as the previous data showed it going on the predicted path towards Florida. That was only an hour ago, but now instead of going in the northeastern direction, it had sharply turned around in a more western direction.
"By Primus..." Ratchet muttered worriedly as he was quickly understanding what was causing Fowler to be anxious.
"What's the big deal? The weather forecasts are more often than wrong, so I don't know why you guys are freaked out all of the sudden?" Smokescreen asked curiously with the shrug of his robotic shoulders.
"Kid, we may not be experts on how weather here works on Planet Earth, but hurricanes usually are not supposed to get stronger upon reaching inland," Wheeljack pointed to how the hurricane was increasing in strength and size as it now engulfed half of Lousiana.
"And it is has just passed onto Oklahoma approaching Colorado!" Fowler said in alarm as the hurricane flew past Lousiana in such a short time.
"That's towards Nevada!" Ratchet said in astonishment.
"That can't be right! That's more of a tornado than a hurricane!" Bulkhead stated as hurricanes often stay near coastal states and not beyond into the mainland.
"It's not the only anomaly headed our way. Just seconds ago, our satellites detected an uptick surge of radioactivity coming from southwestern part of the Sierra Mountains right in Nevada!" Fowler said before he put up another map that showed a multi-colored blot with the redish purple in the center of the oval being the strongest in terms of radiation levels while the orange outer levels were weaker.
"How in Cybertron's name did that appear out of nowhere?!" Ratchet was nearly screaming with his processor scrambling to comprehend the absurdity of the development.
"I don't know! It just suddenly appeared out of nowhere when the hurricane appeared in Colorado." Fowler stated. "More accurately, like it exploded out of nowhere with one mountain blown in half before we lost contact with the drone!"
Optimus narrowed his optics at the Rokmutul that had just stomped through the burning, smoking heap that was once the gas station.
Arcee and Bumblebee arrived to the Jasper Hospital that was perfectly intact with the exception of a couple of ambulances parked by the street. However, their timing was proven too late as they almost failed to notice a huge shadow that was the Rokmutul as it pounced after squadrons of helicopters.
Bumblebee's optics widened wider than saucers as he screeched, shielding the startled Raf and Miko from what was about to come. Arcee and Jack duck for cover behind an alleyway when the Rokmutul landed ungracefully, crashing into the hospital, destroying it into flattened pieces of rubble with the shockwaves hitting Bumblebee. They struck him hard like punching him in the salvo with the yellow and black scout sent tumbling away from the road with the young kids screaming underneath his chassis. Cars and the two ambulances were sent flying messily across the street before they plummeted into the pavement with some colliding into apartments.
The Rokmutul chomped its jaws with explosions resulting in its mouth coming from the helicopters being pulverized into scrap metal. The Titan spat them out before again attempting to bite a small number of them that flew out of harm's way with their guns firing off multiple rounds into it. Predictably, the bullets bounced off the ceratopsian-crocodilian monster's tough, armored hide. Rokmutul snarled before lunging again with its jaws snapping thin air again as the helicopters dodged quickly. It even stood on its third pair of hindlimbs, swinging its two pairs of limbs to swat off the helicopters like a bear to a swarm of bees. As it happened, its tail inadvertently gouged out the very apartment Arcee and Jack Darby were hiding underneath with its sharp thagomizers.
"Uh oh...WATCH OUT!" Jack didn't need to say it twice to Arcee as she scooped him up and dashed outside the alley and away from the crumbling building as she transformed into her motorcycle mode with Jack riding once again. They sped towards where Bumblebee, Raf, and Miko were with Bumblebee's back slammed into an abandoned trailer truck near a blazing McDonald's. The door panels on his shoulders were clipped off and his exterior having its paint scratched off in several places. Clutching protectively to himself were Raf and Miko, who were shaken, but physically okay from their near life-and-death experience.
"Bee! Bee!" Arcee ran hurriedly to where he was as he dazedly shook his head.
"Jack!" Raf and Miko cried when Jack also ran up to them and hugged them tightly as he breathed in sigh that his friends were okay.
"Good God, you guys are alive, not flattened into some pancake," Jack said.
"I almost passed out," Raf said groggily, still reeling from being tossed about along with Bumblebee.
The scout transformer whirred and beeped something to Arcee while gesturing to the Rokmutul with its attention focused on the military helicopters that were slowly luring it away from the now demolished Jasper Hospital. Arcee's jaw clenched with her expression now darkened as she assessed that their rescue mission was possibly a failure as the likelihood of June Darby surviving had been currently drastically reduced. Especially when several thousand tons of monster flesh came bearing down on a hospital that had no chance of withstanding from such mass and momentum.
"Scrap..." Arcee muttered darkly.
Jack, Raf, and Miko turned away from each other only to see what was left of the hospital in ruins. The older teenager felt his world starting to fall apart as he could envision clearly in his mind his mother doing her best to reassure her patients only to have her own life snuffed out unawares when the reptilian predator plummeted onto the hospital.
Driven by many emotions all at once, he sprinted much to the surprise of the others that were still trying to get their bearings together.
"Jack?!" Raf shouted.
"Wait! It's too dangerous! Get back here!" Miko ran after him, prompting the twelve-year old prodigy to run after Jack, who was now acting on pure emotion and instinct.
"Bumblebee! Retrieve him-," Arcee tried to say only to find Bumblebee running over in the same direction towards the demolished hospital as the kids were. "Damnit!"
She was then interrupted by the beeping on her com near audioreceptors as she knew the call was coming from Autobot Omega Outpost. She activated her com as she responded,
"Arcee reporting."
"Where's Mrs. Darby and how is she?" Optimus' voice sounded.
"The hospital...it...it was crushed by the monster when it went after the military helicopters." Arcee let the words hang just for Transformers and possibly Fowler listening in on the report. "As for June Darby, we haven't found her yet. And I am doubting our chances that we would."
She could hear Optimus grunting in frustration and the others muttering. She could even hear Wheeljack and Fowler swearing in the background.
"What a complete disaster this is turning out to be," Wheeljack growled.
"It's not even over yet, Wheeljack, when that hurricane comes to crash in." Ratchet's stressed voice was heard.
"Ratchet? What is it?" Arcee questioned with her robotic eyebrows raised.
"Arcee, you, Bumblebee, and the kids better find Mrs. Darby quickly and leave Jasper as soon as possible! That monster would be the least of your worries, especially when you have a massive storm coming your way."
"How big and troublesome is this storm, Ratchet?"
"Think of Hurricane Katrina, but four times worse and enough to tear Denver apart," Ratchet's ominous description of the new incoming disaster was enough to make her spark go cold.
"By Primus...and what is the ETA for the storm?!" Arcee asked, wanting, yet dreading to hear next answer from the medic's mouth.
"Less than 3 minutes." The grave answer almost caused her to blink twice, thinking it was some joke, but the seriousness in Ratchet's tone proved otherwise.
"That's not enough time! The hospital is a mess!" Arcee pointed out.
"That is why you need to find Ms. Darby now. If that fails, you have to get everyone out of Jasper lest you wanna be suck into the eye of the storm! Ratchet's going to open up the Ground Bridge and send in Bulkhead and Smokescreen to retrieve you!" Optimus said urgently.
Back at the base, the rest of Team Prime was watching the communication between Optimus and Arcee happen when something weird happened.
"What abou- *tzzzt!* - the mon- *tzzzt!*" The communication immediately became glitchy and scratchy with her voice now breaking up.
"Ratchet, something's messing with the signal!" an alarmed Optimus interjected.
"Same here on my end! It has to be the storm! It's approaching closer! Sooner than we expected!" Fowler's began glitching up as well.
"That escalated rather quickly!" Wheeljack commented and all of the sudden the base began to shake with tremors and lights flickering tremulously.
"Optimus! We have to open up the Ground Bridge to extract Arcee's team from Jasper!" Ultra Magnus hollered out, knowing it's now or never before the storm could swallow up the town.
"What about the evacuation?! We're not just going to leave them between a rock and a hard place, are we?!" Smokescreen didn't waste time mentioning a good portion of the population still straggling behind in Jasper. He couldn't bear to watch the innocent humans suffer the storm while the Autobots could still do something about it.
"Only half of the population has been evacuated from Jasper! If you're thinking what I think you are, your base cannot handle the other half. Not to mention, that will publicly expose you to the entire American public with all of our secrets out!" Fowler complained against this as this could put a severe strain on his Department's resources to accommodate the aftermath, logistically and financially.
"You might be right, Fowler! But leaving them to their potential fate of death goes against the very creed as to why we Autobots chose to protect this planet! And we will be condemned if we start behaving like the Decepticons now in such trying times." Optimus rebuked.
"I'm no fan about how this situation is panning out, but that is a mega gamble that you're taking, Optimus, and my superiors will-*tzzzt!* *Scrrrtch!*" Fowler's communication was now also dying out as the hurricane became more severe over Nevada's airspace.
"Agent Fowler! We are losing your signal!" Ratchet tried to amplify the signal, but it was too late as all channels began experiencing the same problems.
"No *tzzzt!* sh*scrrtcch!* I am ev*tzzt!* losing *sscrrrtch!* feed on *scrrtcch!*" Fowler's voice could barely be made out of the static and glitching.
"Ratchet! Open up the Ground Bridge now!" Optimus commanded.
Ratchet tried to type in the exact or proximate coordinates of the Jasper Hospital, but he immediately ran into problems as the mega hurricane outside the base screwed up the satellite feed as well.
"I can't! The storm's blocking our satellite feed due to the abnormal amount of electromagnetic interference!" Ratchet was madly punching on the keyboard trying to get any coordinates, but the results were the same as the high level thunderstorms intensified on the holographic map of the monitor.
Arcee turned around to hear several thunder claps in the distance and she saw dark, menacing thunder clouds with tornados rolling in upon Jasper like dark tidal waves of an angry ocean. The Rokmutul was increasingly agitated by the storms as well and weirdly, nervous as well, which spoke volumes to her that something was awfully wrong and it wasn't just the storms.
There was something...hellish and sinister in the heart of the mega storm. Coils of fear and dread were starting to constrict in her spark with her instincts screaming at her to run.
She tried to turning on the com again only to find it completely dominated by screeching static at this point. She quickly turned it off and ran towards Bumblebee, Jack, Raf, and Miko when they had just found the unconscious and dusted June Darby among the rubble after they dug her out of it.
"Mom! Mom! Wake up! It's me, Jack!" Jack was shaking his mom's head that had a small trickle of blood flowing from her forehead. Unfortunately, she wasn't responsive to him. Miko pressed her head against June's chest to hear for her heartbeat.
"Is she...?" Raf asked her nervously, to which the Japanese punk girl slowly looked to him and Jack and solemnly shook her head with her expression that said it all.
Everyone's spirits sunk as June was on the verge of death.
The light in Bumblebee's optics dimmed noticeably with his eyebrows declining downwards. He let out a soft, heartbroken whirr with Arcee just walking in on the scene.
"Guys, did you find-?" Arcee was about to question until her words died on arrival when she saw how mellow and miserable her unit was. The sight of June's damaged body confirmed her worst fears to be true. Her body went into autopilot as she sunk to her knees with a shocked expression that underlined her attempt at denial of the reality in front of her..
Jack was on his knees with a stone-faced, nearly lifeless face as his mind was throthrown into chaos. He didn't even register the roaring sounds of the Rokmutul, the spunds of thunder, or the feeling of raindrops splashing against his face.
It was his Mom's hand touching him weakly, yet lovingly that brought back to him some semblance of sanity. It snapped him out of his funk. He tremulously looked down onto June's loving face created all the more tragic with her mouth in a sad smile stained by blood leaking through the corners.
"M-m-m-Mom?" Jack stuttered with his voice emotionally charged at the sight of her loving, caring eyes that still possessed whatever light was left in them.
"Jack...my son. Thank the Lord...you are...a-a-alive..." June spoke weakly before she coughed out blood.
"Mom! Don't speak, your lungs are damaged!" Jack felt his heart relieved, but more anguished at the sight before him when he saw a splinter of metal lodged deep into her chest narrowly missing her heart.
"Mrs. Darby!" Arcee shouted with alarm, "Conserve your strength until we open the Ground Bridge!"
The dying nurse coughed up another glob of blood that messily coated her mouth in crimson. June held up her hand and shook her head much to the distress of her son and his friends.
"It's...*cough*...too late...Ratchet...*cough*...may not even save...me...in time..." she said with her life slowly fading as the storms intensified.
"Please don't say that, June! We need you to hang on just a little longer!" Arcee said with desperation now coloring her voice as she was to started tearing up. This was starting to become too reminiscent of the losses of Tailgate and Cliffjumper.
Miko covered her mouth with tears rolling down her face, whimpering miserably that June will inevitably die. Raf took off his glasses, closing his teary eyes shut.
Jack was stunned. He didn't know how to react and there's nothing he could do for her. "Mom..."
"I am proud of you...your friends...Fowler...the Autobots...Optimus Prime...*cough!*" June said, becoming slower and slower with her strength fading away. "I...am...proud...that...to be...your...mother, Jack."
Jack's eyes teared up and he wasn't prepared when she used all of her last strength to give her son a kiss on the cheek, despite her blood staining it. She whispered,
"I love you..."
Silence reigned as the others had lost their words and part of their souls and sparks. They knew this was it.
Jack was shocked with his mind shutting down for a nanosecond until it rebooted. When he finally came to, he saw his mother still smiling lovingly like she always had whenever he came home from school or work.
However, that was when he saw the light of her life dimmed from her eyes until they were no more. She closed her eyes for the final time as her body became limp, leaning against her son.
She had died. She was gone forever.
Fate had proven to be a cruel mistress as a lightning bolt came close to striking Miko, who screamed hysterically and stumbled backwards.
Bumblebee screeched out in alarm, sheltering her protectively. Raf looked around and saw the rain-drenched town being surrounded by lightning bolts randomly striking about and tornadoes tearing up the land.
Then came the trio of the bell-like cackling sounds echoeing from the heart of the storm.
"What was that?!" Miko screamed.
"I don't know, but probably not good for us...not even that thing." Arcee gestured to the Rokmutul that was glaring through the dark clouds. As the banshee-like, laughing roars sounded off with tremulous echoes bouncing off the clouds, the Rokmutul snarled with its eyes turning into slits and its fangs all bared. The helicopters halted their assault as did the fighter jets with one of the pilots wondering,
"What in the Lord's name is making those sounds?"
The already terrified civilians and soldiers stopped whatever they were doing, staring at the swirling large mass of dark clouds in the center where the noises were coming from.
"What on Earth is that sound?!" Wheeljack questioned with his warning senses all screaming red flags.
"I am going to put up the visual," Fowler pulled up a livestream feed of Jasper surrounded by the storms via aerial drone.
All of the Autobots stared with tensed silence with the exception of Smokescreen making a hard gulp. Optimus narrowed his optics further into a disturbed scowl.
The lightning flashed again in the cloudy center mass revealing the blurry silhouette of a flapping, massive bat-like wing. Then another showed a silhoutte of three serpentine heads.
"Something's alive in the heart of the storm," Raf said fearfully as he hugged onto Jack, who was still grieving for his dead mother.
"And I have a very bad feeling about it." Arcee grimly voiced with a dark frown.
Then the clouds were forcefully parted away by the new monster's enormous, 2,564 foot long wingspan of its wings revealing the beast to be a three-headed, golden wyvern-like dragon with twin tails ending with spiked cudgels and lightning bolts surrounding its very being, acting as a malevolent, chaotic aura. King Ghidorah's three draconic heads all let out otherworldly, maniacal screams, announcing his arrival, which sent chills of terror throughout everyone involved, including the Rokmutul.
The kids, even the grieving Jack huddled against each other, scared out of their wits.
"Holy Primus!" Arcee shouted, being thrown back both by the sudden gusts of wind and horrified surprise at the sight of how gigantic this new monster was with its giant wings.
Ghidorah landed with his titanic mass causing the entire town of Jasper to tremble and shaking everyone off their feet.
"GAAHKK!" Arcee crashed onto her back and the same happened with Bumblebee as he squealed out of shock.
"Shit!" Jack swore as the kids were literally bounced off two feet into the air before crashing onto their butts.
The Rokmutul had a better time steadying itself thanks to its six feet clawing itself into the pavement for better anchorage.
Civilians were tossed about, more so in the evacuation helicopters and buses.
Ghidorah's tail cudgels unsheathed their bony, sword-like spikes. The heads surveyed their surroundings with the right head roaring out into the heavens with lightning and thunder clamoring in the clouds.
"Primus help us..." Ratchet stammered with dreaded terror coloring his being upon witnessing the appearance of King Ghidorah as the three heads, the bat-like wings, golden, ridged snake-like scales, and the dinosaur-like feet all match the description of many horror stories told throughout the civilized galaxy about this evil creature of the cosmos.
"Oh you gotta be kidding my pedals," Wheeljack, his usual flippant, daredevil attitude, had gone a 180 degree change into an uncharacteristic expression, which makes the atmosphere in the base all the scarier.
"Guys, it's that what I think it is!" Smokescreen remembered the sinister reputation and the storms heavily associated with this monster that had been the cause of so many alien civilizations and worlds being decimated in certain world-shattering events that could only be described as biblical or apocryphal according to lost texts he read in the Hall of Records.
"King Ghidorah," Optimus stated the creature's ancient name gravely with the situation now more dire and life-threatening for the planet with Monster Zero now thrown into the mix.
The said three-headed extraterrestrial hydra stood on his strong hind legs with his wings fully spread out in his terrifying glory. Ghidorah let out ear-piercing, dominant calls of power simultaneously from all of his three heads with lightning bolts being fired off from the pointed tips of his giant wings! The lightning bolts shot all over Jasper with many of them striking several houses, destroying countless helicopters, disorienting the fighter squadrons, and some of the cliffs in the process. The Rokmutul was partially electrocuted by the devastating light show as the bolts struck its face, making the crocodilian monster squeal in pain, caught off guard by Ghidorah's overpowering display of dominance.
"AH! Our eyes!" Miko and her friends were blinded by the frightful, bright bolts as they were in closer proximity to Ghidorah than anybody else in Jasper.
Jasper's civilians, already scared of the recent monster attack, turned into hysterical, desperate people as they now pushed and shoved their way into the crowded buses and the helicopters, trampling each other with some crushed underneath their footsteps.
"No!" Optimus shouted, angered and scared of what was happening to the populace while the Autobots had their jaws drop at how the dragon effortlessly destroyed half of Jasper without even trying with helicopters and jets plummeting to their fiery doom like falling stars.
"Jesus Christ! Optimus, Jasper is going to be annihilated! Forget about hiding, we need you out there right now!" Fowler hollered clearly panicked and scrambling out of his seat as he went to pilot his helicopter with the transmission ended.
Optimus shouted at the top of his lungs the loudest he had ever done in light of the disastrous turn of events, "RATCHET, REPAIR THE GROUND BRIDGE! AUTOBOTS, WE HAVE TO ROLL OUT IMMEDIATELY!"
King Ghidorah had already engaged in battle with an infuriated and provoked Rokmutul, who was biting onto the middle head, but was retaliated against immediately when the right head and left head fired concentrated bolts of gravity lightning beams from their jaws, which hit its sides. The Rokmutul was forced to let go of Ghidorah's middle neck as its sides burned and sizzled being electrocuted by the Gravity Lightning beams. The pain gave Ghidorah the opportunity to lunge at its neck, but the bony frill prevented him getting a good bite on the crocodile-like Titan. The Rokmutul saw the left head trying to go for it and quickly swung its spiky tail right into it. The spikes bludgeoned it, slicing across the jaws and face. The left head squealed in a hissy fit of having its element of surprise ruined. The middle head bit onto the left's horns. The wounds healed very quickly, which allowed the middle head to give it a head butt to discipline harshly it for being so reckless. The left head whined submissively to the middle head's harsh cackling. The Rokmutul tried to swing its spiky mace-like tail only for the right head to blast it, injuring it. The Rokmutul didn't even had the chance to recover this time as all three heads fired their concentrated Gravity Beams all at once onto the Rokmutul, which sent it skidding and tumbling through two town blocks.
The Rokmutul rolled back itself up, grinding the ground with its front limbs for a rushing headlong charge. The six-legged crocodilian Titan roared before it charged at King Ghidorah with the impact sounding like ten gun cannons firing off at once. The golden hydra hardly flinched when the Rokmutul's horned head hit his muscular torso. The dragon kicked the smaller Titan right in the snout sending it stumbling away. The Rokmutul shook its head to clear the ringing out of its rattled brain. One of Ghidorah's twin tails coiled around the base of the Rokmutul's tail and without warning, yanked the Rokmutul off of its six feet completely with the crocodile-like beast yelping in despair. Ghidorah then swung and dragged the Rokmutul through the ruined town, decimating roads, and buildings in the process.
Arcee was desperately leading her ragtag unit to safety when she saw the Rokmutul being swung towards them.
"Look out!" She quickly transformed into her default humanoid mode with Bumblebee following her lead while clutching their human comrades protectively as they had to execute a ducking slip underneath the smaller monster to avoid being run over. For Jack, everything was in slow motion as things were happening all at once with his mind still reeling from the death of his mother. Time next went back to normal as the Rokmutul soon passed over them as Arcee and Bumblebee immediately transformed into their vehicular alt. modes with the kids nearly out of breath and hysterical.
Bumblebee whirred loudly.
"We're not even out of the woods yet," Arcee said dreadfully, knowing things were just getting worse.
The winged hydra screeched maniacally as it then lifted itself into the air, briefly hovering with the defiant Rokmutul in tow. He slammed the crocodilian monster onto the ground before pinning it with his feet. The talons dug deep into the Rokmutul's chest, drawing blood with the Titan gasping for air with its air supply cut off. The alien dragon hydra flew quickly 1000 feet into the sky above Jasper with lightning flashing and thunder roaring as Ghidorah almost laughed sadistically at the grievous pain it was inflicting upon the Rokmutul, who flailed about in an attempt to free itself. It was all for naught as Ghidorah then let go of the Rokmutul only for the hydra to spit the trio of concentrated Gravity Lightning Beams onto its weaker underbelly, accelerating the fall with Rokmutul burning up through the atmosphere.
Unfortunately, the point of impact happened to be in the middle of the town where the ruined gas station was spewing out gasoline all over the place. The Rokmutul's crash ignited a massive explosion that burned some of the remaining helicopters, buses and unfortunate stragglers that couldn't get out of the city limits in time.
The shockwave also struck Arcee and Bumblebee, who were all unfortunately close to the epicenter.
"AAAHHH!" Arcee was the first to be blown off and she crashed into mess of what was once a bookstore. She barely managed to survive when part of the ceiling collapsed onto her legs.
The same couldn't be said for Bumblebee as he had Jack, Miko, and Raf to protect. His crash was less than pleasant as he busted through an unstable apartment.
Their screams of terror were abruptly silenced when the building collapsed onto them.
"BEE! JACK!" Arcee couldn't believe how everything was rapidly falling apart, including her mission. She trief to stand up, but her left leg was busted with her metal exoskeletin badly dented and warped. It was sharply painful to bear.
However, an even greater pain in her spark resurfaced as this was like losing Tailgate and Cliffjumper all over again, but ten times worse than the pain of both of those personal losses put together. Arcee punched away a crumbling wall in despaired anger and frustration.
"DAMNIT!" Arcee swore out loud, unintentionally giving her position away to King Ghidorah whose interest was piqued when his eyes caught onto the Cybertronian; a race of sentient robots he had not seen in a long while. Arcee struggled to her bearings, made all the more difficult with her left leg and knee joint working against her in their current damaged state.
That was all she managed to do before her spark froze when she heard King Ghidorah landed directly behind her. His bloodchilling banshee wailing and cackling bombarded her audioreceptors furiously that she was afraid to face him. However, due to his flexible, snake-like muscles, the middle head snaked around with his red, malicious slit eyes meeting her traumatized blue optics.
Arcee gasped with her spark virtually up her throat as she tried to gulp, but found it impossible to do so with her body paralyzed by the dragon's cosmic, supernatural aura. Ghidorah hissed with his three heads eyeing her like snakes to a terrified squirrel with his tails rattling their cudgels. Arcee was trapped and she was hardly in any position to fight back or run as the beast had enormous range and reach that were very difficult to overcome. Ghidorah clearly enjoyed every second of her being suffocated by her own instinctual fear of him with the heads' jaws curled into devilish, sinister grins that revealed their sharp fangs. The left head laughed gleefully as it leered right in front of her with its forked tongue flickering out. Arcee shuddered with her senses being revolted by the serpent's hideous breath as its odor reeked of bloodbath and death. She closed her optics shut, feeling terrified and repulsed by the reviled forked tongue touching her, examining her. A minute felt like torturous, searing eternity to Arcee while the creature purred sadistically at her pitiful, delicious state.
Arcee, out of desperation and not being able to bear having the despicable tongue taste her, screamed, transforming into her motorcycle just to attempt to escape from the monster. Because of that, though, she failed to take into account her injured leg, her pain caused her to transform back at the worst possible time. She tumbled jusy a short feet away on the road. The blue femme whimpered before Ghidorah's spiky, cudgel smashed the road in front of her.
The dragon laughed with all of the three heads mocking at her failure. They reared up with their necks pulsing and glowing ominously with energy.
The Ground Bridge appeared 400 feet behind the dragon as Optimus Prime, Ultra Magnus, Smokescreen, Bulkhead, and Wheeljack hurriedly rush out of the portal. They were greeted by the heart stopping sight of the wyvern-like Titan about to blast Arcee into oblivion.
"ARCEE!" Optimus Prime shouted while firing his Gatling Gun at the monster, but Ghidorah hardly felt the blasts due to his 600 foot tall stature and ridged scaly armor. The beast continued to charge up his energy for a killing blow.
"You have to run the hell out of there!" Bulkhead shouted desperately, hoping that his voice would be enough.
However, Arcee was too hindered by the pain and the suffocating fear that locked her body in place while her entire life flashed before her optics to do anything or even register his words.
Wheeljack glared hatefully at the hydra before he unsheathed his dual katanas and charged at one of the twin tails with Ultra Magnus joining the desperate attempt with the Forge Hammer of Solus Prime.
Fowler was speeding his helicopter towards the scene like a madman muttering, "Come on come on come on, damnit!"
Just when it appeared to be curtains for Arcee, a bright stream of blue light penetrated through the storms from the west. The radioactive heat ray struck the three-headed hydra with so much momentum and energy that a shocked and unprepared Ghidorah was blasted flying unwillingly into a town block. King Ghidorah screamed angrily as he crashed onto his side.
The Autobots halted and Fowler slowed his helicopter down with all of them flabbergasted and confused as to what the heck just happened. All of the sudden, thunderous footsteps sounded off like redwood trees slamming the ground. The ground shook with a consistent pattern that something was big was approaching.
Arcee was snapped out of her resigned state when she saw Ghidorah being punched by the azure beam of pure radioactive power. Next everyone heard the distinctive sound which sounded like a scratchy, echoing foghorn mixed with the booming roars of lions and elephants.
"SKRRREEEEEEEOOOOOOOOONNNGGGGKKK!"
Everyone slowly turned around to see a massive dark being with blue light glowing behind it, shadowed by the storm clouds. Ghidorah, who had just recovered, snarled disdainfully, knowing his ancient rival had arrived.
Then a massive, tree trunk-like foot with four sharp claws and very dark gray, crocodile like scales stomped into clear visibility. Next, the entire body was revealed as it stomped out from the dark clouds as stocky or heavily-built packed with some considerable fat and lot more muscle underneath rough crocodilian-like scales and plates. The reptile's face was blocky like a cross between a bear and Tyrannosaurus rex; its neck was broad bearing similarity to that of an eagle's neck and has shark-like gills on either side of its neck. Its eyes were small and of golden yellow color that were now glowing a threatening blue. The teeth that lined this monster's jaws were like giant, bus-sized spikes that could puncture through flesh, bone, and steel and there were ninety-two of them in total. The head and neck leaned forward and the nostrils were separated, being on opposite sides of the snout. The chest was rather wide and beefy for a reptile that support powerful shoulders, which anchor strong muscular arms and hands ending with sausage-shaped fingers armed with sharp, long claws. The reptilian, bipedal monster sported a lengthy, crocodile-like tail with a slightly rounded tip at the end, making this monster's length 697 feet long. The monster stood at 493 feet tall.
The most distinctive characteristic were the reptile's maple-shaped dorsal plates which were illuminating in a Cherenkov blue light. The dorsal plates' protrusions had sharp tips that look like they could cut through steel if given the chance and if should the creature be ambushed from above. There were eighty-nine of them running down its back to the tip of its tail with three large central dorsal plates running from mid-way down his back. The veins on the dorsal plates could be visibly seen with the plates glowing.
This was none other than Godzilla, King of the Monsters.
There was a whirring sound to him as his spikes illuminated and body rumbled with unadulterated atomic power on par or greater than man's nuclear bombs. Godzilla rumbled as his foot stomps shook the very ground of Jasper.
"SKREEEOOONNKKK!"
"Well...son of a gun, it can't be," Fowler was blown away as he now recognized what or rather who this monster was as it struck a stark resemblance to the titular monster of the Japanese Godzilla movies he and his son used to watch together.
The rest of Team Prime helped Arcee up to their feet as she wobbly stood up with Ultra Magnus asking her,
"Are you alright. soldier?"
"Other than a broken leg and having a brief brush with death, I am fine, but-," Arcee was interrupted from a closer giant foot stomp from behind. Team Prime swerved around to see King Ghidorah standing up on its hind legs instead of all fours, wings folded, and his tail cudgels shivering to give off threatening rattling sounds. All three heads glared hatefully at Godzilla with the left one flickering its tongue through a psychotic grin, the right head gaping its jaws, hissing while baring its sharp teeth and fangs, and the middle one crying out an angry shriek, challenging Godzilla back.
Godzilla narrowed his still glowing, heated reptilian eyes and hot air was snorted out from his blaring nostrils as he growled, determined to kill his hated enemy.
Ghidorah snarled as he stood up to his full height and unfurled his wings knocking away ruins and power poles in his threatening display of dominance not unlike Godzilla's glowing spines and tail slapping. Thunder clamored loudly as if the clouds were announcing an epic, bloody battle not seen for millions of years. In the midst of the chaos, the injured Rokmutul took this unexpected opportunity to escape by burrowing into the ground outside the town limits with the two alpha Titans stealing everybody's attention.
Tensions were briefly at an all-time high with both Alphas facing each other until Godzilla was the first to cut through the tense atmosphere by screaming out in an earth-shaking roar, which was basically an all-out declaration of war that also shattered windows and forced everyone to cover their ears.
"SKREEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNKKKK!"
King Ghidorah...
"SSCRREEEAAAWWW!"
"REEEAAAAHHHHWWRR!"
"SCCREEAAAAAHHHRRRR!"
The hydra charged, galloping towards Godzilla with the clear intent to kill and destroy.
"Everybody, roll out of the way!" Optimus shouted to his team, as he quickly transformed into his all-terrain expeditionary fighting vehicle mode.
"Whoa!" Bulkhead was blown at the astonishing speed the Titans were barreling at each other and almost got crushed by Ghidorah's feet if he hadn't transformed into his dark green SUV and sped off like the others.
Likewise, Bumblebee had recovered and saw what had happened. He nearly had an equivalent of a heart attack seeing Ghidorah's spiked tips barreling towards him before he transformed on the go taking the trio of his human companions that were just as shellshocked and almost had a heart attack like he did.
"Holy shit! There's a monster fight going on!" Miko hollered with adrenaline pumping through her veins as she was a huge fan when it came to monster fights.
"We have to get out of here!" Jack screamed.
On the other end with Godzilla charging, one of the last unburnt buses happened to be in the Monster King's path. Though it missed being stomped, it was pushed over by Godzilla's tail with the people dearly horrified and hanging on to their seats unsuccessfully with mothers panicking and little kids crying and being hurt by the throngs of people. The bus driver was even thrown off his seat as the bus was thrashed to the side and being swept dangerously off the road.
The Titans roared and snarled at each other as Godzilla grappled Ghidorah's left head and put it into a chokehold for Godzilla to bite and sink his teeth into the dragon's flesh. The teeth pierced through the hydra's ridged scales with the left head squealing squeamishly. The middle head directed the right head to bite Godzilla's shoulder. Unfazed the King of the Titans slammed the head hard into the smoldering ruins of the gas station, burning it in the process. The left head screamed in rage. The central head, or the Alpha head took matters into its own jaws by biting Godzilla right at the gills, making the King of the Monsters relent its grip on one of its subordinate heads. Ghidorah quickly retaliated by biting his hand, wrist, and throat simultaneously. Godzilla growled and grunted as the hydra shocked him with electric bolts electrocuting his scaly skin. He lit up his spines as he discharged his azure Atomic Heat Ray into Ghidorah's chest with the force of the blast harsh enough for Ghidorah to unlatch his jaws, but Ghidorah struck back by discharging Gravity Lightning bolts right onto Godzilla's face and chest, disorienting the Monster King so much that he fell onto the ground with a large thud and his armored tail almost crushed Team Prime in their tracks on their way to the evacuation point.
"GAH! Oh that son of a bitch!" Wheeljack was very close to being flattened into a pancake, which he didn't appreciate.
"AAAH!" Raf yelped with Bulmblebee screeching to a dead halt with the little boy shouting, "That's way too close for me for one day!"
"Smokescreen!" Arcee shouted fearing that the tail might have crushed him.
Thankfully, that didn't come to pass as Smokescreen shouted, "I'm fine! Glad that I had this baby along!" He pointed to the Phase Shifter he's wearing on his wrist that when activated would allow him to phase through solid objects without consequence.
Bumblebee sounded an irritable whir indicating he thought he was going to witness another person close to him die after June's death.
"Yeah, that cockiness of yours is going to get us into scrap one of these days, kiddo! And I will make damn sure to kick you in the aft and more for that!" Wheeljack growled.
Godzilla's tail lifted off as the Monster King was starting to rise back up. Ghidorah backpedaled away from the Monster King with his twin tails rattling while heads snarled and cackled at Godzilla, taunting him.
"Keep moving! We have to reach for the evacuation point while picking up any stragglers along the way! Jasper is officially lost!" Optimus declared.
As the Autobots sped off, Godzilla rose up, angrier than ever as he roared once again. He whipped his tail around, kicking up debris and broken cars into the air as it smacked hard into King Ghidorah, nearly tripping up the false King of the Titans with right head screaming bloody murder.
Up in the air, Fowler was also screaming bloody murder twice as he not only he had to dodge several bolts of lightning, but also had the unfortunate pleasure of having to steer his helicopter right after Ghidorah's wing inadvertently smacked it lightly.
"I am getting too old for this kind of action! And Pentagon does not pay me enough to cover a damned monster movie!" Fowler hollered, wiping the sweat off of his face while driving his helicopter following Team Prime for rendezvous. Once he had gotten enough altitude where it was safer, Fowler watched the fight ensue as Godzilla and Ghidorah went into the second round of the brawl with Godzilla clawing at the golden dragon's chest and shoving his body mass into the dragon. Ghidorah's bigger size prevented the dragon from budging an inch as Ghidorah dug his talons into the ground. The hydra bit Godzilla again this time close to the eyes and Godzilla squealing in painful response. The left head discharged a Gravity Lightning Beam at Godzilla's neck with the Monster King pained by the concentrated electric shocks.
Godzilla groaned and his tail slammed into the ground to his left. Slowly and picking up speed, his spines from the tip of his tail lit up in bluish fire until the three middle ones lit up. Godzilla heaved and sucked the air breathily with a wet sound as he prepared to discharge a stronger Atomic Heat Ray. His target...the central, leading head of King Ghidorah with the hope to end this fight with his ancient enemy dead or at least, severely incapacitated. Godzilla next spat out his Atomic Heat Ray, but Ghidorah swerved his heads and serpentine necks around, avoiding the deadly, fiery radioactive projectile. Ghidorah ducked with the agility of a cobra and with a unified screech, he unleashed all three of his Gravity Lightning bolts right into Godzilla's chest knocking him over, which threw his entire aim of his Atomic Heat Ray way off as he fell with the Heat Ray destroying more of the town. The ray nearly hitting the Transformers that resorted to running in the alleyway as destruction rained upon them with buildings exploding in a row. The Autobots covered themselves with their arms from the debris with the exception of Bulkhead who had to carry Arcee over due to her injured leg. The kids ran as fast as they could with Bumblebee busting through the trash cans and fences with the Optimus and Ultra Magnus clearing the walls for their escape.
"Go go go! Don't stop! We have to keep moving!" Prime hollered.
"Stay with us, Jack!" Miko cautioned to a very distraught Jack who was trying to keep his head in the game of survival in spite of his troubled emotions clouding his head. Following them were other civilians that had been trapped by the ensuing carnage.
Godzilla continued to be dragged beyond the town's northern limits before he was forcibly backed into a rock spire. Ghidorah diverted some of his firepower onto the cliff, which exploded, creating a rockslide. Godzilla let out a high-pitched roar as he was quickly buried underneath tons of rocks and boulders.
Team Prime and the survivors ran out into the town square, where they had finally rendezvoused with the last of the Army soldiers in charge of the evacuation, but tragedy struck when Bumblebee was snatched up by one of King Ghidorah's heads, alarming everyone with the civilians going into hysterics.
"BUMBLEBEE!" Jack was aghast and horrified with his heart sinking upon seeing his first Transformer friend being ripped away from him.
"NO NO NO NOOOO!" Raf and Miko were heavily distraught as so were Team Prime with Optimus Prime falling onto his knees as he witnessed Bumblebee screaming to his last as Ghidorah's two heads ripped the poor scout in half with the middle head chomping the upper half.
Arcee, now seeing red, screamed out her war cry as she limply charged at the beast with the deaths of her former partners, Cliffjumper and Tailgate, haunting her.
"Arcee! Don't! It's too late! Bee's gone!" Bulkhead and Smokescreen had to hold her down as she screamed her throat out with Energon tears seeping from her eyes as grief took hold of her. Jack became numb with his mind shut off to the world while Miko and Raf cried, mourning for the death of their closest alien friend, who was the first to befriend them and introduce them to the Autobots.
King Ghidorah tossed away what's left of Bumblebee aside and cackled sinisterly at the state of misery the heroes and survivors were in. The surviving populace broke down into despondency, seeing that there was no where to run. The US Army hastily readied their weapon in spite of knowing that their weapons and training would do them no good against such an insane, multifaceted force of death.
Optimus slowly stood up with a somber face behind his face mask that belied whatever courage he could muster to face the three-headed dragon. He unsheathed his Star Saber and held it in front of his face when it glowed blue.
Ghidorah thought nothing of it as he crept on the ground with his necks slithering towards them.
"I won't let you pass, demon," Optimus said as he aimed the sword's glowing blade at Ghidorah.
Fortunately, the Autobots would get the break that they needed as several missiles slammed into Ghidorah. Everyone looked up to see squadrons of F22 and F35 breaking through the storm barrier, unleashing their barrage on the three-headed drake, who was caught off guard by the unexpected reinforcements.
"Good job, boys! That ought to buy them some time." Fowler said to the captain leading the squadrons. He then switched frequencies to Team Prime as he said,
"Okay, Prime! Now's your chance to bust you and your Bots' pipes outta there with the three-headed freak's attention focused elsewhere!"
"Will do, Mr. Fowler! And thank you." Optimus Prime with momentary relief flooding his system.
"Don't mention it, Prime!" Fowler ended the transmission.
Then just like perfect clockwork, the Ground Bridge opened up after Ratchet had done extensive repairs on the machinery.
Speaking of the medic, Ratchet sounded off on the com, "Optimus, the portal's up! Bring everyone in now!"
"Roger that, Ratchet! Back to the base and bring the survivors in!" Optimus ordered.
As soon as he said those words, however, fate played a cruel trick on them as some missiles not only bounced off of Ghidorah's wing membrane when he covered himself from the barrage, they ricocheted towards the civilians.
"Oh no, you don't!" Bulkhead rushed in front of the survivors and shot down two of the missiles. He failed to spot a third one that accidentally struck both him and the remaining populace, injuring the former and incinerating the latter.
"Bulkhead!" Optimus hollered out upon seeing him damaged with burning gouges in his body. Every individual scattered about to avoid the deflected missiles with the Autobots attempting to destroy them. Wheeljack sliced apart the missiles that got too close to him while Smokscreen phased through the missiles after activating the portable relic. The Prime himself began firing at the other deflected missiles hoping to avert another disaster upon another.
A major saw that his Air Force buddies' efforts to distract the dragon were inadvertently used against them as he went to his Humvee and grabbed the radio as he hollered,
"This is Major Law, speaking! Hold your fire, Sgt. Keagan! I repeat, hold your fire! We're taking friendly fire down here!"
"Incoming!" One of the soldiers tried to warn one that was headed for Jack.
"Jack! Get out of there!" Miko screeched.
"Huh?" Jack turned around to find the missile heading for him! His entire life flashed before his eyes before something slammed him away.
"ACHK!" Jack slid on the pavement and heard a feminine scream in spite of the ringing in his ears. A cold chill ran down his spine as he knew who that scream belonged to.
He saw Arcee, whose sleek, slender frame was damaged almost beyond recognition with burns and metal shards stuck into her, slumped unconsciously on the road.
Godzilla just emerged from the rocky rubble, truly pissed off. Ghidorah noticed this, but he had decided this skirmish had gone on for too long to his liking. With the great flapping exertion of his wings, he leaped high into the air and soon flew up into the dark thunderous skies, disappearing into the darkness but not before he left with a mocking cackle.
Enraged that his ancient archnemesis had cowardly denied him his victory, Godzilla roared furiously to the heavens with Jasper around him left in devastating ruin as a result.
End of One-Shot 3