Godzilla (c) Toho Co., Ishiro Honda, Legendary Pictures, and Warner Bros.
Sonic the Hedgehog (c) SEGA, TMS Entertainment, and Hajime Kamegaki
Tragic Theater
Prologue...
KRATHOOM!
KRATHOOM!
SKKRREEEEEOOOOOONNNNNGGGKKKK!
Station Square was in fiery ruins. What was once a beautiful, hustling-bustling metropolis had been reduced to smoldering wrecks with skyscrapers becoming crumbling towers that signify only empty promises. Fading relics of a time not long ago when the city had so much to offer. Streets were flooded deep with hot, boiling water that originated partly from the sea, but rather from a more catastrophic cause of the aqueous godly entity. Former protector of a colony of Chao in ancient times that destroyed Knuckles' clan and was sealed in the Master Emerald by Tikal until Dr. Eggman released it in his plan to conquer the world. However, the entity turned on Eggman transforming into a a giant serpentine dragon-like beast with a mouth extending far beyond its eyes and scale-like skin and large tentacles extending from its body.
However, Dr. Eggman's uprooting of the natural ecosystems to unearth the Chaos Emeralds and more recently, Chaos' hellbent revenge to destroy the world inadvertently attracted a much bigger and angrier monster. An ancient archosaurian leviathan from the depths of the ocean where it had long slept underneath the earth in Atlantean ruins, a mysterious civilization long lost to time that became its home, its lair where radioactive mana was still plentiful as its energy source.
The Ultimate Alpha Predator.
The Titan who was, for all intents and purposes, the God of all Titans.
The King of the Monsters.
Or, rather...
Godzilla.
It was he who had awoken amidst the chaos caused by Dr. Eggman in his unending quest for power and world dominance. He had been watching what was happening on the surface world from the depths of the sea unseen for a long time. That was until Perfect Chaos had flooded Station Square and was angered by the drastic shift of the Earth's mana that not only threatened to destroy the balance of nature, but also awaken other more malevolent, aggressive monsters; Titans that would make Chaos look like small fry compared to them. So this King of the Titans decided enough was enough and directly confronted Perfect Chaos into a vicious battle between the two that ended with Godzilla overpowering and decimating Perfect Chaos until the water god was no more.
Which led to Station Square's current, ruinous predicament in a sea of fire and steaming, receding flood water in the disastrous aftermath of the King of the Monsters and the transformed water creature. As more of the water evaporated after Chaos' death, the damage done to the roads, highways, and smaller buildings that were previously underwater became more apparent. So did the unprecedented number of deaths because many citizens who couldn't escape in time perished drowning. Firefighters, police officers, and GUN soldiers helped the surviving citizens navigate through the flaming wreckage and still flooded sections of the city to escape and help those who were still trapped.
On a ruined highway, among the small crowd of despondent citizens were several heroic anthropomorphic Mobians Tails "Miles" Prower, Amy Rose the pink Hedgehog, Cream the Rabbit, Cheese her Chao companion, Vanilla the Rabbit, who was Cream's mom; Knuckles the Echidna, Vector the Crocodile, leader of the Chaotix Detective Agency comprised of him, Espio the chameleon ninja, and Charmy the young bumblebee. Others in the group were Big the Cat with his pet frog, Froggy, perched on his wide shoulder, Tikal and her colony of Chao, a trio of multicolored birds that were Lily and a red bird and black bird that were once Eggman's E-100 series robots. All of them were disheveled, covered in soot, exhausted, disheartened and emotionally drained. What should have been victory didn't turn out that way for them as the city was thrashed thoroughly, and a lot of good people of Station Square were either dead, injured, dying, or were missing, unaccounted for. One of their kind, a certain blue hedgehog was one of those unaccounted for.
Accompanying them along side by side were their human companions. Friends that the Mobians had made and saved them on numerous occassions. People who had traveled with them on their adventures and helped save their own world from Dr. Eggman's many schemes. They, too, like the Mobians, were distraught, emotionally hurt, tired, and covered in sweat and soot in their search for Sonic the Hedgehog, who had been grievously injured in his Super Sonic form amidst the battle between the King of the Monsters and Perfect Chaos and was nowhere to be seen. That was practically unheard of and more so, disbelieving to their eyes as Sonic would have saved the day while not affected by anything thrown at him by his enemies in his Super form, but that all somehow changed with Godzilla.
"Sonic!" Shouted a teary-eyed Chris Thorndyke, son of Nelson and Lindsey Thorndyke, running desperately ahead of the group that were searching through the hazardous ruins looking for the blue hero.
"Sonic! Sonic, where are you?!" Amy, equally teary-eyed and heartbroken, called out to her unrequited love interest, desperate to hear his voice, even if it was only a whimper of him. The pink Hedgehog had been devastated and shocked like Tails and the others when they witnessed Sonic quickly losing his Super Sonic powers and immediately suffering radiation burns when he became exposed to Godzilla's tremendous aura of nuclear radiation that also adversely affected Chaos during the course of the battle.
"SONIC! It's me, Tails! Can you hear me?!" Tails hollered out with his voice echoing through the hellish night colored in infernal colors by a sea of flames.
"Hey, Sonic! You reckless idiot! Give us a shout that you're okay!" Knuckles said in more brusque terms, but nonetheless sincerely concerned for his friendly rival. "Come on, Sonic! This isn't funny!"
"Damnit! Where can he be?!" Vector growled, increasingly frustrated with their rescue efforts bearing no fruit and Station Square becoming more and more dangerous the more they ventured into the razed battlefield that happened between the giant monsters.
"I can't sense his presence when they're so many others dying with all of them screaming in agony," Espio said darkly with his sharp senses overwhelmed by the smells of smoke, evaporating water, sulfur, and blood permeating everywhere in the atmosphere with agonizing sounds of the dying and crumbling noises of buildings.
"I am tired and hungry...," whined Charmy as he was close to passing out from sheer exhaustion with others around him tempted to do the same with the heat around them unbearable.
"Sonic! Sonic! Oh, Sonic! Please give us a holler or a cry to let young master Chris know you're okay! I will make you good chicken noodle soup to eat!" Ella, the plump maid of the Thorndyke family with burnt sienna skin and wearing a blue dress, and a white apron, screamed as she quickly ran up to Chris's side.
"Mister Sonic!" Mister Tanaka, the Thorndyke's Japanese butler, was calling out with his usual trim, neatly cleaned outfit now dirtied with soot and dust from searching through the wreckage for any signs of him, but was starting to lose hope. It wasn't hard to with the environment so bleak and devastated with the future ahead looking dark and uncertain.
Chuck Thorndyke, Chris' paternal grandfather, scientist, and inventor of the family who had worked alongside with Tails on many innovative inventions to stop Eggman, looked more older than he actually was with the destructive battle and exhausting attempt to look for Sonic had taken a toll on him as he had a wearied look that was in stark contrast to his more optimistic and jovial outlook.
"Oh good Lord from above, please let it be by Your grace and mercy that Sonic is not dead," Chuck whispered somberly, praying and hoping not to see the worst outcome that would tear his grandson apart and also wreck him emotionally.
Up above in the smoky dark skies of Station Square, the helicopter for the Station Square TV News with the female ace news reporter and her cameraman on board flew slowly allowing the latter to film the tragedy that has happened below with the former, for once, mourning in silence as Scarlet Garcia had lost any words to say.
In the White House, the mood was melancholic and depressing with Topaz silently crying for Station Square, the multitude lives of innocents that have been snuffed out by the millions amidst the unprecedented destruction of the city. Her partner agent, Rouge the Bat, who was a jewel thief and Knuckles' foil and rival, her usual independent, calculating, flirty persona had vanished, replaced by her cold expressionless attitude that betrayed her internal anger and sorrow when she averted her face away from the scenes of death and destruction shown on the television.
The Cabinet members and senators close to the President that had gathered around the television were horrified and rendered aghast of the devastation, the untold amounts of lives already lost and will be thanks to nuclear radiation affecting those in proximity to Godzilla, families torn apart, and the mind-boggling levels of property destruction. Some were already debating with each other heatedly of what to do next in terms of recovery efforts, how much resources would have to be drained, and how this incident would change not only the gravity of America's politics but the world forever.
Christina Cooper, the current Presidential Advisor to President Michael who had replaced her predecessor when he was fired for his irresponsible, and illegal misconduct, was in horrible, emotional shock with her hands covering her mouth. Her intelligent, rational mind tried to wrap around the horrific outcome she had witnessed of the catastrophic battle between Godzilla and Perfect Chaos with Sonic being the shocking casualty, but failed many times over. President Michael, himself, was mentally and emotionally drained with his face the epitome of stress, exhaustion, pity, and sadness as he was on the phone with his hand palmed against his face, eyes half-closed and darkened, and his fingers rubbing deeply into his forehead.
"SOOONNIIIIC!" Chris hollered with his cheeks stained with many tears as hope for finding his best friend dwindled every minute fruitlessly searching for Sonic further within the heart of the city.
Godzilla's thunderous roar echoed louder throughout the crumbling, flaming wreck of Station Square.
With the Thorndyke also were his classmates from school: the dark-skinned Danny, the ginger-haired Frances, and the wheelchair bound, paraplegic, blond-haired Helen accompanying him, also doing their best to help find the blue hedgehog amidst the carnage. Helen was visibly distraught and traumatized by all of the pain, death, and misery around her with the dead's faces were some of her family's friends that she had known since she was a toddler. However, she couldn't give up and breakdown. She didn't want to. She needed to stay strong for Christopher, her closest friend, who was hurting and close to breaking down just like everyone else.
Then they heard something loud and creaking. The kids, Tanaka, and Elle look up to see a skyscraper that toppled midway when Godzilla and Perfect Chaos tussled with each other in their brawl. Underneath them were another family that hoped this building would be their temporary refuge, but had now proved to be a ticking timed death trap as they screamed their heads off, scrambling frantically to escape from their inevitable doom.
"Carl! Get out of there!" Christopher screamed and without thinking, rushed to try help them with everyone else behind him yelling at him in protest.
"Chris! NO!" Tails, Danny, Frances, and Helen hollered, horrified of what he was about to do with the building falling faster onto the ground.
"Young master!" Elle screamed in terror, running after him, but the boy proved too quick for her to catch.
"Master Chris!" Tanaka ran regardless to save his master from certain death.
Amy and Cream gasped with the birds screeching in frightful shock.
"Kid, come back!" Knuckles sped, gritting his teeth both agitated and dumbfounded with the boy. Chris was too far away to listen and too focused on trying to save one of his other school friends from being crushed by the plummeting structure. However, fate would prove to be cruel and unforgiving as another boy, younger or likely around Chris's age, that managed to run ahead of his parents with the shadow growing larger and his world becoming darker lunged out his hand towards Chris' in vain hope for salvation. That was quickly vaporized when the building slammed onto the boy killing him and the shockwave and gust blowing the desperate and heartbroken Christopher away, sending him skidding harshly against the asphalt with his hands and legs get scratched up in the process.
Chris groaned painfully with his hands and one of his legs bleeding and the other bruised as he sat up. He wished he shouldn't have when he saw Carl, his lifeless eyes and his lower half gone, leaving only the upper one remaining with the torso bisected. Christopher felt sick with bile going up his throat so fast that he could only turn over and vomit facing the road with his hands pained and hurting on his palms. Tears dripping profusely from his eyes as he cried from too much of the tragic twist of events that had screwed everyone and everything up. Tanaka, Tails, Amy, and Danny were the first to reach him with the butler quickly grabbing out his tissue to wipe away the gunk from Chris Thorndyke's mouth.
"Young master...," Tanaka saw the bleeding scratches from the boy's palms and on one of his knees with Elle hashing out a first aid kit and getting the young Thorndyke to open up his own palms as to treat them quickly. The butler looked up to see what became of Carl with Danny, Frances, and Helen asking Chris if he was okay, at least, physically. Chris responded with a tearful shake of his head.
Tanaka muttered with his eyes downcast as he saw the gruesome fate of Chris' schoolmate, "By the gods...he's gone."
Danny, Frances, Helen, Tails, and Amy muffled their whimpering, weak gasps of horror and misery when they saw the lifeless eyes of Carl and knowing that his entire family was crushed underneath the rubble of the fallen skyscraper. Cream hugged onto her mother crying with the sight of dead Carl breaking whatever remarkable will she had as someone of her age to remain strong. Cheese was no different. Danny dropped to his feet when he next punched the road not caring if his own fist hurt because he was already hurt by the devastation around him. He yelled out angrily, swearing for the first time,
"DAMNIT!"
Nobody moved to correct the dark-skinned friend of Chris for his colorful language. Everyone was too emotionally scrambled and scarred to do so with the possibility of Sonic being dead or on the verge of dead becoming more and more likely. Frances and Helen embraced each other, whimpering and crying their fragile hearts out. Tails drooped his head and tails as he mourned for Carl and out of fear that his worst, darkest fear might be realized. Amy Rose broke down with her knees wobbly as she tripped, heartbroken and extremely distressed that not only had her love of her life had not saved them and Station Square from the monsters, but that Sonic wasn't very likely to come back alive, abandoning her to a ruined, empty existence.
Knuckles, out of extreme frustration and anger that bellied his sorrow at the fact that he lost his friend, bellowed out and punched with his spiked fists a nearby car already distorted by lamplight that had fallen upon it.
"WHY?! WHY, SONIC?! THIS WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HOW THIS ENDS WITH US! WHY DID YOU HAVE TO BE SUCH A JERK TO LEAVE OUT ON US ON SUCH A DISASTROUS NOTE LIKE THIS?! WHY COULDN'T YOU HAVE BEEN MORE CAREFUL?! WHHYYYYYY!"
Knuckles final punched shattered both the car and the lamppost with all of his remaining strength exhausted from all the events today and his angry raving. He fell onto his knees and weakly punched the ground, barely making a dent. The Chaotix were overwhelmed and disheartened by the failure of their mission of such magnitude on a professional and personal level.
"It seemed our luck could only take us so far, boys," Vector dismally conceded as he sat down resignedly.
"We have failed Sonic." Espio said grimly, "I...have failed him and I have failed my master with this calamity. How shameful!"
"D-d-does...this mean...it's...over for us?" Charmy hiccupped in between his sobs as none of the Chaotix would even answer him.
Froggy croaked mournfully with Big sitting down, tired and desolate.
"I know, Froggy. I wanna go home too." Big said depressingly.
Chris sobbed with both Elle and Tanaka hugging him, doing their best to comfort him and themselves as Godzilla and Chaos' rampage and Sonic's death had left them scarred as well.
Chris heard Chuck slowly walking towards him with heaviness in his steps. The expression on Chris' grandfather was marred with a mix of heart-shaking emotions as the death of Sonic had torn him up just like it had done to his grandson.
Chris said, "Grandpa..."
"Christopher..." Grandpa said sullenly.
"Grandpa..." Chris weakly choked on his tears with Elle and Tanaka reluctantly letting him go. "Is this what hell is like?"
Grandpa Chuck carefully and slowly shook his head, "No. It is much worse."
"Then if it is worse? Then why couldn't we find Sonic? Why is Station Square burning?" Chris ambled dejectedly like a zombie, "Then why did Sonic say he wouldn't leave me?! Why did he make such a promise he couldn't keep?! Why are we hurting and dying, Grandpa?!"
"Christopher..." Tails choked with sympathy with more tears staining his face.
"Was it all a lie?! Was it...?" Christopher said before Chuck tenderly embraced him with his grandson crying onto his sleeved shoulder amidst the hellish ruins of Station Square. Tikal could only lower her head in self-condemned guilt and shame with the Chao colony behind her despondent. The spirit echidna anguishing that it was her fault that she failed to keep Eggman from breaking Chaos free from the Master Emerald weakening her hold onto him. She internally blamed herself for allowing this to escalate to the point where Godzilla got dragged into a conflict he was forced to participate in against his will, which served to rile him into great wrath. And with the Chaos Emeralds destroyed and lost to the wind when he decimated Perfect Chaos with them, there was no way she could fix this horrendous disaster she was indirectly responsible for without the Master Emerald.
Up in the air in the Egg Mobile that they used to escape from the Egg Carrier II that was annihilated by Godzilla, even Dr. Eggman, Decoe, Bocoe, and Bokkun were solemnly silent with the evil doctor strangely not jubilant with glee. He ought to be celebrating at the demise of his archnemesis that had hounded him and stopped his plans multiple times. However, that felt hollow to him when Sonic's demise was caused not by his own evil genius, but rather by the most destructive force of nature that he had no way of anticipating its existence.
Then that was when they all heard Godzilla's roar.
SKRRREEEEEOOOOOONNNNGGGKKKK!
And it was closer and louder this time.
The President, whose hand was still pressing his cellphone to his ear, watched when the TV showed footage of the 493-foot tall Godzilla lumbering through a taller skyscraper that crumbled and disintegrated upon contact with his bumpy, rough crocodilian-like scales.
The person on the other end of the call was none other than the famed Dr. Ishiro Serizawa of the secret scientific organization, Monarch, that was forced to step out into the shadows earlier two years ago due to a similar incident with Godzilla and the two MUTO creatures in San Francisco, California. A government organization tasked with the purpose to study Godzilla and other Titans like him.
His voice, sounding wise beyond his years from experience of what he had witnessed of the Titans, said to the President, "You asked me once, Mr. President, why Monarch continues to exist. Why your government continues to fund our existence."
"I'll tell you the very same words I have once said to Admiral Stenz when he asked me about Godzilla in San Francisco's situation not too dissimilar Station Square's. The motto that is the basis of why Monarch has to exist."
Godzilla stomped, emerging from the dust cloud of the crumbling skyscraper he walked through.
"The arrogance of man is thinking nature is in our control..."
The onlookers watched on with newfound fear, awe, and hatred for the King of the Monsters that was indirectly responsible for Sonic's untimely demise.
Tikal gasped, almost screaming while choking with the Chao lamenting in wailing cries as they saw in Godzilla's clawed hand the decaying, melting head of Perfect Chaos.
"And not the other way around."
Tails looked on with both reverent and repulsive fear of Godzilla as he should have been absolutely hating Godzilla's guts for emitting the very 'kryptonite' energy to Super Sonic's chaos energy that claimed both his best friend and Chaos' lives.
Cream hid behind Vanilla with her mother shielding her protectively from Godzilla as he passes them, engulfing them with his massive shadow thanks to his muscular bulk and the three rows of distinctive maple-shaped, sharp-pointed dorsal plates on his back.
Chris' sad, mournful eyes transformed into that of seething, angry glare full of resentment towards Godzilla, responsible for killing Sonic the Hedgehog and now having turned his world upside down.
Godzilla saw the sun rising from the horizon and he let out a kingly guttural declaration that announced his reign over the coming of the new Age of Titans had only just begun.
SKKRRRREEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNGGGGKKKKK!
SONIC X
GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS
End of One-Shot #6
A/N: This is a short one with Legendary's Godzilla being the main monster and sole focus. This iteration of Godzilla, even if he does not intentionally hate or despise humanity like previous iterations, still negatively affects humans and humanoids getting caught in the middle of his fundamental, important role as the planet's alpha predator. The very beginning scene of Godzilla King of the Monsters encapsulated very well how small and insignificant humanity and perhaps other intelligent humanoids are compared to the god-like Titans, whose powers and presence could tear down nations with ease.
This a heavy AU of Sonic's universe where my take on the Chaos energy needed to have a kryptonite, or antithesis to make Sonic and others less dependent on the Chaos Emeralds and/or think twice on using their energies against radioactive giant monsters. Possibly something that I could explore my if I should make this a wholly dedicated fanfic of its own.
But for now, this is to showcase the helplessness and powerlessness of men in the face of threats and natural phenomenon that we can't fully understand. I hope you enjoy this chapter. I will see you all next time.