Godzilla (c) Toho Co., Warner Bros., and Legendary Pictures
Overwatch (c) Blizzard Entertainment
A/N: This chapter will be my first attempt to do a two-shot short story of sorts starting with the general history of how my Overwatch/Godzilla AU history will play out. The events described here that will lead up to the second chapter of this story or part 2 where the timeline will point to a one-shot focusing on Mothra. This is my first time doing a general history/timeline, so it is going to be far from perfect. So please, I would appreciate constructive criticisms on how to write a timeline for a future chapter or fanfic work next time.
Other than that, this will be quite joy ride as I have included not only Monsterverse's main Titans, but also some monsters from the Godzilla franchise that you may or may not recognize right away. Consider this to be my love letter to the Godzilla franchise and its rich history and library of very memorable kaiju.
Overwatch X Godzilla Animated History
Overwatch...
They were the global peacekeeping force and an engine for innovation, making advances in scientific fields as varied as space exploration, environmental protection, and medical research. It was founded in the year 2335 by the United Nations to stop the Omnic Crisis. After the Omnic Crisis in 2340, Overwatch experienced a tremendous rise in prominence. New funding and resources gave the now-public organization far-reaching global influence. They had gathered many skilled, renowned, and amazingly talented fighters, scientists, and doctors from all over the world to form the ultimate organization of peacekeepers. With this grandeur change in their remit, the leadership of Overwatch turned to Jack Morrison, who was promoted to Strike Commander. Ana Amari became second-in-command after Morrison. Gabriel Reyes was assigned to lead the newly-formed Blackwatch, a secret covert team of Overwatch.
Many of Overwatch's prominent operatives joined during this period. One such was Dr. Angela Ziegler, a renowned medic from Switzerland known by her call sign Mercy. A peerless healer who lost her parents in the war, Mercy became Overwatch's head of medical research, seeking to leverage her work for healing on the front lines. Overwatch also welcomed Winston, a super-intelligent, genetically engineered gorilla from the overthrown Horizon Lunar Colony, as a scientist and soldier.
Of Blackwatch's roster, little is known. Many of them used to be criminals, such as Jesse McCree, a former member of the Deadlock Gang. McCree was captured after Overwatch raided the gang's base of operations, and he was given the option to join Overwatch or go to prison. Taking up Overwatch's offer, McCree was brought under the wing of Reyes. Another agent of Blackwatch was Genji Shimada, the youngest son of the felonious Shimada Clan. After his fight to the death with his brother, Genji was brought back to life in a cyborg body by Overwatch. He joined Blackwatch and joined the effort to bring down his former clan.
During the first decade of Overwatch, the organization began to diversify with several organizational spin-offs branching due to Overwatch's global popularity, success, and generally positive reputation with the public. One of them was Monarch, an Overwatch-based scientific organization, whose goals were more focused on hunting and studying on very specific, unsusual natural phenomenon in the form of large-bodied cryptids that would later be classified as massive unidentified terrestrial organisms (MUTOs) and nicknamed as Titans. Howard O'Brien and Yoshimitsu Tanaka, both cryptozoologists who used to work in Overwatch's science division, founded the organization in the year 2344 with Howard officially becoming Monarch's first Chairman with Tanaka being his second-in-command as Chief Minister.
Monarch's ever first case was the Shinomura, a deadly hive-minded radioactive creature composed of many smaller composite lifeforms that was roused from its slumber by Talon, a terrorist organization hellbent on making humanity stronger through conflict through any means necessary, when they conducted an illegal nuclear bomb test that detonated within their secret cell in Hiroshima on August 9th, 2345.
One of Monarch's operatives, Eiji Serizawa, also was intrigued by eyewitness accounts of a "giant lizard that walked like a man" that seemed to be chasing Shinomura throughout the South Pacific islands. Serizawa called this creature "Gojira," after Odo Island legends describing him.
Shinomura appeared again later when it flew to Tokyo to wreak havoc on the oil refineries. Gojira emerged from Tokyo Bay and shouted out his distinctive, thunderous roar that was heard around the world for all to hear. The destructive fight between Gojira and Shinomura in Tokyo on Nov. 3, 2354 led to half of Tokyo both being torn down by the brawling creatures and by JSDF's intervention in their failed attempt to kill them, which resulted in massive casualties with many more dying from the nuclear radiation exhumed by both creatures in their wake and untold levels of property destruction.
In the famous, apocalyptic words of American reporter Steve Martin, who came up with the infamous moniker that the whole world will know the beast by for decades to come based from Odo Island's folk name, that summed up this world-shattering event perfectly,
"Godzilla and Shinomura has turned the heart of Tokyo into a sea of fire. Beneath the flames, thousands lie dead or dying. I wish I could deny it, George. I wish I could refuse acceptance of what is happening before me. But my eyes tell me the horrific truth: it is all real, all happening, and too terrible for words. […] Nothing can save the city now."
The Shinomura escaped, fleeing from a losing battle against the archosaurian Titan, who delved back into the waters of Tokyo Bay and beyond to pursue his enemy. This event was what officially made it clear to the world that monsters were not just figments of imagination relegated to the realm of fairy tales and make-believe myths and folklore.
Monsters were real.
The news media were quick to pick up the English translated name Steve Martin coined for Gojira along with creating another infamous tagline and nickname that would fire up people's newfound fear, fascination, reverence, and hatred for the monster the most around the globe on the sensational headlines...
GODZILLA, KING OF THE MONSTERS!
Along with other headlines that focused mainly on the horrifying spectacle of Godzilla and the life-changing effect he had on the world...
THE INCREDIBLE, UNSTOPPABLE ATOMIC DRAGON OF THE PACIFIC!
RADIOACTIVE DINOSAUR TURNS TOKYO INTO A SEA OF FLAMES!
MOTHER NATURE UNLEASHES PREHISTORIC FURY ON MODERN MAN!
50 MILLION JAPANESE DEAD! RADIATION BURNS AND KELOID SCARS PRESENT ON VICTIMS!
RADIATION POISONING RUNNING RAMPANT ACROSS JAPAN FROM HIROSHIMA AND TOKYO!
MONSTER STRIKES FEAR INTO FISHING INDUSTRY! PRICES SPIKE UP AFTER FISH CAUGHT IRRADIATED!
PRIME MINISTER SHINGEN MATSUHITO ISSUES NATIONWIDE EMERGENCY!
STOCK MARKET EXPERIENCES DIRE STRAITS IN JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA, AND TAIWAN!
EAST ASIA ON HIGH ALERT FOR GODZILLA! STATE OF WAR!
CALIFORNIA NERVOUS OF RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT! BEACHES CLOSED!
Monarch and Overwatch cooperated with the United States Navy, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, and the Republic of China Navy to lure Godzilla and Shinomura to Bikini Atoll, where both were thought to be killed by the Castle Bravo nuclear bomb. Shinomura was confirmed to be destroyed by the bomb's blast by Overwatch's operatives. Godzilla, however, managed to survive and wasn't detected in decades. Monarch came up the official classification for Godzilla as Godzillasaurus rex, or Godzilla Lizard King.
Not too long afterwards in 2356, Monarch and Overwatch discovered another MUTO in Isla de Mara's active volcano where the creature, codenamed "Radon", was found in pyrostasis in the magma. The operatives and scientists noted that Radon's body structure resembled that of a Pteranodon, crest and all, but far larger and with new features more commonly seen in birds of prey like eagles and hawks such as grasping talons and feather-like molten scales on her wings. Attempts to secure the area and build a facility to contain and study the creature had been derailed by Talon's operatives. The ensuing fight between Overwatch and Monarch vs. Talon accidentally resulted in awakening giant, carnivorous dragonfly species closely related to the Meganeura of the Carboniferous Period from their slumber. Upon their awakening, the previously dormant Meganulon nymphs immediately attacked all parties involved with Overwatch, Monarch, and Talon having been inflicted with grievous of losses next to the local villagers with several of them and lot of cattle falling victim to the prehistoric insect's ravenous appetites. The Meganulon mauled their victims deep into the jungle and hidden entrances into caverns of what were once Aztec temples that lead into the volcano where the nymphs feasted on them, which would catalyze their metamorphosis into their adult forms with wingspans that were reported to be the size of eagles.
Monarch and Overwatch's failure to contain the situation along with Talon's involvement forcibly prompted the United States Armed Forces and Mexican Armed Forces to intervene. Overwatch and Monarch agreed to cooperate with United States Army's General Thomas MacArthur and Mexican Armed Forces Commander Romero Guerrero on the joint military operation to deal with the immediate threat of the Meganula with Monarch's Professor Kyuichiro Hirata acting as the advisor on the creatures. The subsequent operation in quashing the Meganula swarm was successful, but had inadvertently awoken Radon who had been disturbed by all of the commotion from above. Radon's awakening caused the volcano to erupt and an earthquake to tear the Mexican town apart. Her internal combustion system of magma and her extreme tolerance to heat and magma protected her from the erupting lava as she slowly rose out from her nest to wake up to a world drastically changed from the one she was used to. Radon let out a crowing roar announcing her presence to the entire world before she took off into the air, flying at supersonic speeds as such that her huge wingspan generated cyclonic drift streams that had leveled the entire fishing town with structures being literally ripped off out of the ground and into the air while simultaneously being burned by the shed embers and molten rock from her wings.
The pursuit for Radon by the Mexican Air Force in the skies above the country of Mexico ended horribly when Radon both outsmarted and overpowered their fighter jets, sending all of the pilots to their fiery graves. She would continue on north flying over the US-Mexico border and into states such as Texas, New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona where she met more resistance from the US Air Force and Overwatch. However, just like before she managed to outfox them using high maneuvering, aerial acrobatics as Winston would say in his written observations, "with predatory grace befitting an eagle or a phoenix." Then came another horrific twist as Alaska's volcano, Mount Spurr, erupted and emerging out forth from the mouth of the volcano was another pterosaur-like monster like Radon, but slightly larger with two dragon-like horns that were twice as long as Radon's singular crest and scale-feathers being larger and glowing bright red-orange in contrast to Radon's red-pinkish glow, making this creature gaudier than her. It was then that Winston, Morrison, Ana Amari, Prof. Kyuichiro, and another Monarch operative Shigeru Kawamura realized that this creature and Radon were of different sexes of the same species with Radon being the female and the one emerging from Mount Spurr the male. This led to the operatives to codename the male "Rodan".
Rodan soon afterwards, took off flying into the air with his own supersonic flight with Mount Spurr exploding and Anchorage literally ripped off from the face of the earth with his cyclonic drift streams. Rodan flew into Washington and faced opposition from the state's National Guard's fighter jets, but unfortunately, they met their tragic end as well when Rodan unleashed his new ability in the form of his dark red Uranium Heat Ray spat from his throat and serrated beak, shooting all of them down. Rodan soon approached Mount St. Helens with his presence merely causing the giant stratovolcano to erupt and he perched into the mouth of it. Rodan performed a destructive displaying ruckus with his wings accelerating the lava flow as they chipped away some of the rim with the most horrifying part coming from when Rodan spat out his Uranium Heat Ray onto the surrounding landscape with the recently constructed town of Joshua built near the Mount St. Helens National Park bearing the brunt of it with already terrified populace now scared out of their wits, frantically trying to escape the lava flow while trying to avoid Rodan's scorching heat ray. It was his mating display and the operatives' suspicions were confirmed when Rodan had splayed out his wings with his scales lighting up brightly and let out his booming screech that served both as a territorial warning cry, but more importantly, also as a mating call that echoed for hundreds of miles all the way to San Diego where Radon was flying over.
Radon responded in kind with her own call and flew towards the state of Washington. Irate and shocked, General Thomas MacArthur ordered all of the National Guard and Armed Forces to converge onto Rodan to stop him, much to the protests of Prof. Kyuichiro and Shigeru as they knew this battle would not end well for everyone after their own experiences with Godzilla and Shinomura in Tokyo. Heedlessly, the Armed Forces, the National Guard, and Overwatch converged onto Rodan as he flew into Joshua, wreaking havoc onto the medium-sized town. The ferocious, intense war of Overwatch and the United States Armed Forces against the pterodactyl monster ensued with the National Guard Air Force Units from Oregon and Idaho doing their hardest to keep the female Radon distracted from reaching the male Rodan. The biggest deployment of the United States Armed Forces and Overwatch's agents against the largest flying vertebrates in history.
It was also the bloodiest stalemate as casualties mounted and grew at a shocking and unbearable rate as the military's conventional weaponry, the advanced technology of Overwatch, and even the heroics of Overwatch's prominent agents like Jack Morrison, Ana Amari, Winston, Mercy, Reinhardt, Torbjorn, Genji Shimada and even Gabrielle Reyes brought into the mix didn't do anything to stop Rodan's rampage. In fact, they only had succeeded in angering the male pterosaur with Rodan at an all-time high on his hormones and his predatory hunger. Joshua was being ripped apart with the surrounding forests in the National Park burnt into infernal forest fires by the second eruption of Mount St. Helens. Time was more on Rodan's side as he wasn't affected by the lava, and only the human forces were. With resources dwindling and more of their manpower being wiped out at every minute, the US Armed Forces were forced to retreat with Overwatch's heroes now on the defensive to hold Rodan back as best as they could to prevent it from going after the beleaguered US Army despite themselves being worn out and wounded with Amari and Tobjorn knocked out cold.
However, even that plan was doomed when Radon, having finally overcome the annoying National Guard Air Force squadrons, flew towards the retreating army, blocking their escape route as she spat out her own violet Uranium Heat Ray. The nuclear heat ray fried the remaining tanks and mechs with the human and Omnic soldiers vaporized. Some entire platoons were scooped up by Radon's grasping talons with the rest ripped away into oblivion by her cyclonic drift streams. Overwatch's operatives barely escaped the combined wrath and powers of the male and female Rodans with their lives. Rodan and Radon paired up, officially becoming the first documented MUTO mating pair when the two pterosaur Titans flew majestically and beautifully like an aerial ballerina above Vancouver with the two solidifying their lifelong bonds together as husband and wife by locking talons and divebombing towards the city from 90 miles up in the sky. At the last minute, the pair unlocked their talons and pulled up just in time for them to unleash cyclonic drift streams from their wings, thus began the near absolute destruction of Vancouver with 80% of the city lost with a quarter of the population gone.
While the event was the momentous, pivotal milestone for the monstrous lovebirds, it was the most catastrophic disaster to have ever happened on American soil, being comparatively neck to neck with the Tokyo Incident of 2354 in terms of lives lost and infrastructure reduced to near nonexistence. It was a bitter pill of defeat to swallow for the US military with Thomas MacArthur disgraced by this disastrous failure. A shameful lesson of humility for him to learn to this very day with his pride fractured from seeing how many of his men he had let down due to his shortsightedness. For Overwatch, this, coupled with the blunder of the Tokyo Incident of 2354, would be another black stain on their record to haunt them for years to come with Ana Amari and Tobjorn having to recover dampening the organization's morale. Monarch was the only party to come out relatively unscathed despite what happened on Isla de Mara as they opted out from committing their manpower to what deemed a losing battle against Mother Nature. The United States and Mexico had no choice, but to heed Professor Kyuichiro's advice to leave the Rodans alone with Radon now living with her new life partner in Mount St. Helens to begin constructing their new nest. Both of their territories now merged into one ranging from Alaska down to Isla de Mara. The official classification for both Rodans as a species was Aquiladactylus rodania.
Isla de Mara was to be deserted and left alone as no man's land with the town ripped apart to the point it became uninhabitable to people. Wildlife and the jungle would quickly reclaim the village.
The various headlines in the digital news medium in the aftermath went like this...
RODAN! MOST HORRIFYING HELL CREATURE TO EVER MENACE ALL MANKIND AND OMNICS!
MT. ST. HELENS ERUPTS THE SECOND TIME! MUCH WORSE THAN THE FIRST!
MT. SAINT HELENS, WASHINGTON! NEW HOME OF THE PREHISTORIC DEMONS!
OVERWATCH SUFFERS BURNING DEFEAT BY 200-MILLION YEAR OLD PTERANODON!
MONSTER LOVEBIRDS LIGHT UP VOLCANOES IN THE WEST COAST! (AND ALASKA!)
THUNDERING OUT OF UNKNOWN SKIES! SUPER SONIC HELL CREATURES RIP UP SAN DIEGO, LOS ANGELES, PORTLAND, VANCOUVER AND SEATTLE!
MEXICO IN STATE OF EMERGENCY! PRESIDENT ANTONIO ISSUES ANGRY REBUKE OF OVERWATCH!
UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES IN DISARRAY! DEFEAT PUTS MAMMOTH-SIZED DENT INTO MORALE!
HUNDREDS OF MEXICANS FLEE TO CENTRAL AMERICA! GUATEMALA AND BELIZE OVERWHELMED!
EL SALVADOR AND HONDURAS PROPPING UP EMERGENCY CHECKPOINTS AT BORDERS!
WEST COAST UNDER MARTIAL LAW! FEAR REIGNS IN THE ROCKIES! FLAMES OF HORROR SET THE FOUR CORNERS ABLAZE IN PARANOIA!
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE IN TROUBLE AS STOCKS NOSEDIVE! PANIC AND WORRY GRIPS WALL STREET!
MONARCH'S PROFESSOR KYUICHIRO HIRATA ISSUES APOCALPYTIC WARNING ON FURTHER MILITARY ACTION AGAINST THE RODANS!
US PRESIDENT JONATHAN HARRISON TO GIVE COMFORTING SPEECH TO A SHELLSHOCKED AMERICA!
Years later in 2360, Eiji told his son Ishiro about his experiences and belief that Godzilla was still alive somewhere. After Ishiro's father died, he was approached by Shaw, a representative of Monarch and his father's colleague, who offered him the opportunity to join the organization and continue his father's work. Ishiro Serizawa readily agreed and became a member of Monarch and a part-time member of Overwatch.
In the year 2362, the public were beginning to question the wisdom of collecting so many powerful individuals under Overwatch's umbrella and protesting that further action needed to be taken about the monsters. Tensions formed between Jack Morrison and Gabriel Reyes after the former was promoted to Strike Commander and the latter demoted to Blackwatch commander. The disastrous debacle of the Rodans was still fresh on everybody's minds, which didn't help any efforts to mend the rift with Gabriel also blaming O'Brien and Tanaka for holding back the help Overwatch would have desperately needed.
A new addition to Overwatch's agents roster appeared around this time under the name Lena "Tracer" Oxton. A malfunction during her test flight of the experimental Slipstream aircraft had cast Lena adrift in time. Thanks to Winston's development of the chronal accelerator, it not only anchored her in the present but also granted her the fantastic time-bending abilities. Shortly after she was transferred from flight operations to field combat training, Tracer later became one of Overwatch's most effective field agents.
As for Monarch, in that same year, Monarch and Landsat conducted an expedition to an island in the South Pacific called Skull Island, with Dr. Carl Denham, Professor William Randa, Houston Brooks, and San Lin representing the organization. At this point, the growing rift between Morrison and Reyes was starting to affect the partnership between Overwatch and Monarch, causing both Monarch's Chairman O'Brien and Chief Minister Tanaka to already foresee potential trouble ahead for Overwatch further down the road.
Upon breaching the surrounding storm system, the expedition successfully landed on the island, but suffered heavy casualties due to the presence of unprecedented numbers and varieties of active kaiju lifeforms. There they would encounter the god-like primate superspecies, Megaprimatus kong, his rival dinosaurian superspecies, Gorosaurus dynastes, and their mutual, hated enemy of hypervorous species of highly derived, two-limbed diapsids called the Skullcrawlers.
Other species documented were the man-sized, arboreal Yi Qi-like descendants classified as Australornithoides, the infamous predatory species of giant mantises called Kamacuras, and the vicious, cunning packs of Venatoraptors.
Two species of tyrannosaurian Titans in the form of the armored, hypervorous berserker tyrannosaurs called the V. rex, whose blood veins bulge and their bodies hulk up into bigger, more powerful monsters with their rage enhanced to a psychotic degree. The equally angry, feathery-maned tyrannosaurs that have osteoderms, two rows of sharp bony, crown-like crests on their snouts, and long spines running from neck to tail classified as Gladiotyrannus imperator.
The sinister, silent pterosaurian azhdarchid descendants called Tree Walkers, Boarcroc-like crocodilian predators with fin-like frills and gills, and short-tempered, mountain-like Triceratopsian dinosaurs called Ogreceratops, and a lot more fauna oddities.
The survivors were aided by a native population that had been isolated for so long they comprise of three different human species, both old and new, as well as a stranded pilot that had crashed on the island during the Omnic Crisis. Few made it out alive, but they managed to return with evidence, in the form of Carl Denham's films, of a primordial ecosystem of incredible prehistoric creatures ruled by ancient beast-like gods.
After returning from Skull Island, Randa, Brooks and Lin debriefed survivors, James Conrad and Mason Weaver, before presenting them with a slideshow, showing four ominous cave paintings, with each depicting a giant creature with two of them being familiar: Godzilla and Rodan, while the moth and the three-headed dragon were yet to be found.
About a decade later, it was May of 2375 when things came to ahead. At the same time the uprising started in King's Row by the omnic extremist group Null Sector, another MUTO was found seemingly frozen in ice within a nearby deep cavern in Siberia 30 miles away from the Tunguska Crater. This time not by Monarch, but by a team of Russian paleontologists that were supposed to find fossilized, or frozen Ice Age mammals. It was a giant Ankylosaurus-like dinosaur with his body generally typical of what most people think of ankylosaurs: portly, oval packed with a lot of muscles and some fat, densely covered in armored dark blue scales, bony plates and a lot of sharp, pointy spikes on his dorsal carapace, shoulders, knees, and tail, the tip of his tail ending in spiky, mace-like club. However, the scientists noted several features not found in the said dinosaur group like the limbs being more structured like that of a rhinoceros or ceratopsian. More importantly, the monster's head was more like that of a ceratopsian with a longer snout having a long nasal horn and the skull adorned with a spiky frill with red eyespots not unlike that of a Styracosaurus. The jaws were more like a mix of ceratopsian, crocodilian, and entelodont features with the tip of the jaws ending in a sharp, curved beak, most of the mouth lined with sharp flesh-tearing teeth and the back of his mouth were lined with crushing molars.
The monster was classified as Angirasaurus siberiensis, which was named after the Russian ice dragon of legend, Angira. Subsequently, that led to the leading paleontologist, Dr. Ivan Tartakovsky to codename it, "Anguirus", which would later be adopted by Monarch operatives in naming the creature.
If what had happened in England with Morrison going against the English government's prohibition was bad, then what happened in Siberia and the following events would make that look like a cakewalk. Because as soon as one of the paleontologists tried to chip away at the ice covering one of the frill spikes with her pickaxe, the cavern suddenly quaked. Then much to the Russians' horror, the armored monster's eye opened revealing grayish lavender iris amid a brownish-orange sclera. Anguirus had not been frozen dead at all, but instead he was in an extreme form of brumation with his metabolic rate reduced to a nth degree. That was until the Russian paleontologists happened to intrude into the cave, which they were now paying dearly a steep cost for that as the cavern walls around started to crumble with the Ankylosaurus-type Titan breaking away the excessive ice around him. The team hurried frantically to escape from the cave, but the falling stalactites and frozen rocks crushed all, but Dr. Ivan Tartakovsky.
The sole surviving paleontologist barely escaped from being crushed by the collapsing cavern, but he had to witness the terrifying full glory of Anguirus emerging from the crumbled pile of ice and rocks. He would later testify that when Anguirus had all of his four limbs erected, the ankylosaur Titan's body emitted much icier temperatures ranging from 0 to -25 degrees Celsius, creating freezing clouds around him that would make smaller creatures like him experience frostbite and the forests around him freeze and covered in snow. It was also noticed that Anguirus' body seemed to also be part mineral with spikes of pure diamond grafted onto pieces of his armored hide, his club-like tail, his carapace, even his horns on the back of his skull were composed of diamond with only his rhinoceros-like nasal horn being wholly made of bone.
Scared that the glacial dinosaur might have noticed him, Tartakovsky ran to his jeep and sped off immediately, hoping to lose the beast. Fortunately, that was the case as he saw the armored giant roam across swaths of forests with the beast not even caring that he was ever there at all. After observing Anguirus feed on a patch of trees and feast on a herd of wild boars unfortunate enough to be caught in his jaws, Anguirus dug through the earth creating a huge crater very much like the Tunguska Crater, which the Titan was now known to be the main cause of. The Titan disappeared into the earth.
Despite Overwatch's name being smeared by the English government for going against the prohibition, they were focused on taking down Talon by apprehending one of the heads of the terrorist organization, "The Successor" Doomfist. However, during the battle, an earthquake not of Doomfist's making suddenly happened, throwing everyone off. Then what burst out from the ground beneath their feet proved to be a terrifying, near-death experience for Doomfist, Winston, Genji, and Tracer as a loud, ear-shattering roar sounded off, which sent them all flying with asphalt and stone pelting them, and nearly caused them to be deaf.
Anguirus had unexpectedly arrived in Singapore. The Russians, Monarch, and Overwatch were prepared for Anguirus to pop up in Moscow, but not in Singapore so quickly. The armored dinosaur's abrupt interruption brought unnecessary chaos and panic to the citizens of Singapore with the island city's military force scrambling to muster themselves into action. But the dinosaur had already spurred into action with his first order of business was to locate the most recent shipment of nuclear-powered freezer coolant units. Infuriated and peeved that Anguirus had unwittingly denied him the opportunity to test his enemies' powers and limits, Doomfist rushed at the armored Titan, and attacked the beast's heel with his Rocket Punch hoping to cripple him. Because, however, Anguirus' hide was so strong, and heavily armored with thick plated scales even by Titan standards, the giant ankylosaur didn't feel the blow with his hind foot not affected by Doomfist's offensive action at all. Also the dinosaur was so heavy by 162,000 tons that it didn't even flinch when Doomfist slammed the ground, causing an earthquake and spires that would even send Reinhardt flying. In fact, none of Genji's slicing attacks and ninja-like reflexes, Winston's super enhanced gorilla strength, weapons, and berserker abilities, and certainly not Tracer's attacks could hope to penetrate through his extremely durable hide, let alone bother it. The closest being Tracer landing a lucky shot close to Anguirus' armored eyelids, which finally got the armored dinosaur's attention. However, it proved to be fatal as Anguirus quickly grew tired and annoyed of the Overwatch agents and one of Talon's top head honchos bothering the crap out of him. Enough was enough as Anguirus retaliated with minimum effort. That minimum effort was all it took to defeat and nearly kill Genji, Tracer, Winston, and even Doomfist with Anguirus having all of the mineralized, bony spikes, the unforgiving blizzards, the oscillatory roar, and his spiked tail club overwhelming them in a short amount of time.
Genji's cyborg body became frozen in a sheet of ice with his advanced combat systems overwhelmed by the extreme cold temperature of Anguirus' ice-based attacks, effectively becoming a prison and death trap for whatever's left of his flesh and blood with his joints immobilized as he slowly succumbed to hypothermia. Tracer became delirious in and out of consciousness with her bodily systems shutting down including her chronal accelerator, which would threaten to disappear her, along with frostbite inflicting grievous biting cold pain onto her limbs due to her exposure over time to the freezing aura surrounding Anguirus and the blizzards. Winston was frozen solid in a massive wall of ice by Anguirus' oscillatory, freezing roar as he sacrificed himself to save several surviving soldiers that were also trying to protect the evacuees from the destruction that threatened to crush them. Doomfist suffered the worst of Anguirus' prehistoric cold war brought upon them with his prosthetic gauntlet arm bitten off clean from his body by the great biting power of Anguirus' jaws, his flesh-and-blood left arm and fist bloodily shredded into mincemeat due to the self-inflicted wounds he suffered from punching onto the rough sharp edges of Anguirus' spikes out of desperation, and his torso nearly bisected in half by Anguirus' spiky tail club with the only thing connecting his upper and lower halves were his intestines, barely hanging on by thin threads.
Anguirus wasted little time locating the nuclear-powered coolant units in the cargo ships that just docked in Singapore's harbor. Whatever resistance Anguirus faced from Singapore's Armed Forces, he simply let the cold aura around him completely freeze and short-circuit their weaponry and system. The abnormal weather turned each of the tanks and Omnic mechs into frosted tombstones of soldiers dead from the cold they weren't used to. Building apartments turned into freezing death chambers with the victims frozen in their last moments. Upon reaching the dockyards, Anguirus proceeded to rip into the cargo ship carrying the new coolant units and feasted on them, which were crucial to powering Singapore's economy with nuclear energy as well as provide the infrastructure necessary for energy-efficient air conditioners in the tropical climate. Once it had finished its meal on the now depleted coolant units, he curled into a ball and formed a sort of spikey chrysalis. His body cooled while processing all the nuclear elements it had amassed into a new, thicker hide. All attempts at breaking the armor were ineffective and costly with the extremely cold mist creating a jagged glacial fortress around the creature, granting it further more protection that rendered any future operation against it impossible. Overwatch's agents, such as Mercy, Mei, Moira, Jesse McCree, Reinhardt, and Wrecking Ball were sent to mainly rescue their fallen agents and quickly heal them of their critical injuries enough to send them safely to proper medical institutions for advanced medical treatment for their cryo-injuries. Mei, Overwatch's peerless climatologist, along with some of the members of her own team hailing from Watchpoint: Antarctica had the secondary objective of studying Anguirus' cryo-physiology and abilities and both their short-term and long-term effects on Singapore's tropical environment just like there was another Overwatch team of climatologists studying the environmental effect the Rodans' pyro-derived abilities and physiology have on Alaska's arctic environment.
Monarch sent Dr. Ishiro Serizawa, the son of Eiji Serizawa, veteran Professor William Randa, the recently recruited Dr. Tartakovsky, experienced tracker and former British SAS officer, James Conrad to Singapore to represent the organization with Agents Kobayashi and Shigeru as their pilots of the USS Icarus, a heavily modified C-5 Super Galaxy with a large control room cockpit serves as a bridge and operations center with full access to the Monarch communications and control network as well as US Military command.
Anguirus' short term environmental effects were already apparent with Singapore quickly turning from a tropical, blistering hot city into a very cold, icy wasteland with the harbor and skyscrapers covered in snow and frost, the immediate seawater turning into floating chunks of ice, and the humid air transformed into blustering bone-chilling gales bombarding the area within a 20-mile radius of the chrysalis. A multitude of species of tropical fish and birds, whose bodies and physiology were ill suited to the foreign arctic environmental conditions died quickly from frostbite and hypothermia. All of the tropical plants withered and died immediately. A lot of Singaporeans fell sick and some died with the temperature scarily plummeting from the 90s to -10's in Fahrenheit at the drop of a hat.
McCree commented with ominous words of this unusual, jarring change of weather caused by Anguirus,
"That spiky ol' armadillo really knows how to make Siberia up there feel warmer than Singapore down here. That is saying quite a lot."
Reinhardt, McCree, Wrecking Ball, James Conrad and Kobayashi went to capture Doomfist where he was still lying in the same ice-frosted street on the verge of death with his body bisected and covered in frost. Just as Wrecking Ball was about to check on Doomfist's vitals to be sure if he's alive or not, a sniper shot from above would have killed the anthropomorphic, hyper-intelligent hamster if it weren't for James Conrad's sharp eyes and sharper instincts that shoved Wrecking Ball out of harm's way. Widowmaker was the culprit and she gave the signal for Talon troopers and enforcers to ambush the Overwatch and Monarch operators. Initially, Overwatch's agents managed to dispatch most of the terrorists with little problem, even allowing James Conrad to engage in a brief battle with Widowmaker before Talon small group of reinforcements of Enforcers and two genetically-modified Heavy Assaults forced the British Monarch Operator to back off having to deal with more Enforcers while Reinhardt, Jesse McCree, and Wrecking Ball having their hands full with the duo of larger, more armored Heavy Assaults; with one armed with dual buster swords and the other with a giant spiked mace. This distraction enabled Widowmaker and the remaining Enforcers and a regular Heavy Assault to retrieve the near-dead Doomfist with Agent Kobayashi doing his best to stop her, pursuing them up through the stairs of the skyscraper with James Conrad following not too far behind. She placed EMP trap on one of the only two elevators as to force the Monarch and Blackwatch agents to use the stairs, slowing their chase. She and her team reached the helipad where a Talon transport helicopter was waiting for them. Managing to hurriedly transport Doomfist in a life-support, medical capsule and roll him up the transport helicopter, Widowmaker and the Talon paramilitary forces were just about to lift off with McCree and Agent Kobayashi just arrived onto the helipad too late as the aircraft escaped with Widowmaker having accomplished her mission.
Then, to everyone's horror, Godzilla arose from the sea not at all affected by the Castle Bravo nuclear blast two decades ago. Upon his arrival, Anguirus reawakened from his chrysalis state and engaged the King of the Monsters in battle. However, his reawakening was rather premature, which did not give him enough time for the armored quadruped's new armor to fully form. His now deformed spikes didn't prove to be as sharp as they were before with Godzilla snapping them off, overwhelming the dinosaur Titan's natural defenses. The bitter, cold winds were the only saving grace for Anguirus as Godzilla was used to sleeping in zero degrees Celsius of the extremely deep depths of the Pacific Ocean, but not minus ten degrees Celsius, which reduced the heat of Godzilla's atomic heat ray, thus reducing it's potency. That still didn't stop Godzilla from physically trashing him as he managed to inflict some injuries on Anguirus. As a last resort, Anguirus detached his tail as he burrowed into the earth to escape. The tail wriggled about even attacking Godzilla for extra measure before he fried the severed appendage with his Atomic Heat Ray, leaving only the tail club remaining. Everyone was tensed up, not knowing what to anticipate with Godzilla whether he'd attack or leave. Thankfully he chose the latter much to everyone's relief.
Godzilla's brief, yet destructive reappearance left the entire world stunned. The next couple weeks were spent debating and panicking about what appropriate measures should be taken for the threat Godzilla represented. Overwatch was no different with tensions flaring between Morrison and Reyes on what to do with Godzilla with the former taking more of a defensive, safe approach as he was not one to sacrifice lives away callously into a hopeless battle he knew that no one could win, one of the few things he and Dr. Ishiro Serizawa saw eye to eye on. Reyes obviously disagreed, taking on a direct, offensive approach of bringing the fight to the monster when Godzilla wouldn't expect it, he argued, in contrast to fighting with a purely defensive battle against it when Godzilla has time on his side to just wear and tear their agents' morale down. Morrison rebuked such a plan, quickly pointing out that A. they have no idea where Godzilla lives in the vastness of the ocean, and B. they'd be fighting on Godzilla's turf with monster having all of the home advantages of his environment against them. The Overwatch commander was more for best offense, best defense as, he argued, at least on their home turf they'd have their own home advantages with the addition of being able to improvise on the dime to surprise the monster if needed. The bickering continued with some of them quickly degenerating into shouting matches between the two with a distressed Mercy and a disappointed Ishiro Serizawa watching on, their efforts to mend the rift fruitless.
Meanwhile, Anguirus regenerated while moving beneath the Earth's crust. He resurfaced in Iceland, now with stronger, more complete armor, and gorged on the energy of the island's volcanos with all of the half-crystal, half-bone body spikes and tail spikes, longer, bigger, and sharper, including his bony nasal horn. Anguirus had a brief, destructive stroll Reykjavik before swimming, briefly hopping onto southern Greenland. From there, he finally swam again and set foot on Quebec, Canada. Godzilla was quick to pick up on his trail, and the two monsters met up in Manhattan, New York. After a long battle of attrition, during which the city was utterly devastated including several important landmarks like the Empire State Building, the World Trading Center, and the United Nations Headquarters, it was Anguirus that found the advantage this time. Having slowed down Godzilla's metabolism as well as freezing him more potently with the ice mists around Anguirus much stronger, The Monster King became sluggish enough for the ankylosaur Titan to inflict grievous damage, running Godzilla over when he rolled into a destructive spiked boulder of death, bombarding him with his oscillatory, polar roar that destroyed Godzilla's hearing and froze him from head to chest followed by disemboweling him in the gut. Anguirus knocked him out cold (no pun intended) with a knockout tail swing that severely dislocated Godzilla's jaws and tore off half of his face thanks to the tail spikes.
Before Anguirus could deliver the final blow, another, familiar piercing cry rung through the cold, blustery blizzards. The gray snowstorms transformed as snowy blizzards melted into cold rain as a gigantic fiery winged shape divebombed onto New York in bombastic hellfire. Anguirus was blinded by the bright fire surrounding the being before the massive wings forcefully parted the glowing embers, ashes, and molten rock away to reveal itself as none other than Rodan, The Rogue Phoenix of the Skies. Overwatch was horribly shocked with Reyes, in particular, taking the intrusion of the pterodactyl Titan not too well as the psychological scars of defeat from Overwatch's losing battle with the Rodans were still painfully fresh. Rodan was on his hunting trip to find food for his mate and the chicks soon to be hatched in Mt. Saint Helens when he sensed the presence of two of his familiar rivals as well as picked up the audible grunts, roars, and cries emanating from the battle, which drew him to stumble upon the battle's outcome with Godzilla brutally defeated and seemingly dead. Seeing the clear opportunity to kill two birds with one stone to both assert his claim for the title as the new King of the Monsters and to kill the exhausted victor to provide more meaty sustenance to sustain his soon-to-be family, Rodan went aggressive on Anguirus. Manhattan became engulfed in an apocalyptic battle of fire and ice as the monsters clashed tooth and claw with their respective elemental powers of heat and cold colliding violently, creating thunderstorms with the cityscape transformed into a distorted dichotomy between primordial opposite elements. In the end, Anguirus was defeated after exhausting himself from his battle with Godzilla, but he stubbornly refused to accept Rodan as the new Alpha by throwing up frosted debris into the fiery pterodactyl's face and then slamming his spiked body into Rodan, which sent him crashing into a city block.
Anguirus burrowed into the earth and retreated, leaving Rodan more frustrated than physically hurt that his status as the supposedly new King of the Monsters had not been acknowledged. He took out his frustrations on the Statue of Liberty, blasting her into smithereens with his crimson Uranium Heat Ray much to Morrison's acrid displeasure as he viewed it as a desecration of his country's sovereignty. The fire Titan flew away but not without divebombing into the sea and snatching an American nuclear sub out of the water with his talons. The City that Never Sleeps was left devastated with the citizens traumatized despite the US Army and Overwatch's best efforts to mitigate the situation while Monarch monitored Godzilla, who was now in a coma amidst the ruins of Madison Square Garden. He was discovered to be regenerating via a secondary brain in his hip region.
It sparked a serious dilemma in a private meeting with the increasingly war-hawkish, agitated Reyes, a surprisingly angry Reinhardt, who was tired of not only losing, but also seeing millions of innocents die under his watch while on the sidelines, Tobjorn, Wrecking Ball, many generals and admirals of the Armed Forces, and the irate mayor of New York City, Gordon Hawkins, on one end. On the other hand were most members of Overwatch erring on the side of caution, even Tracer, Winston, and Genji, whose lives were previously at stake thanks to Anguirus, a more cautious, careful General Thomas MacArthur belonging to a minority of the US military leadership that were wary of a direct, retaliatory operation against the monsters, and Monarch's scientists and agents with Chairman Howard O'Brien, Chief Minister Yoshimitsu Tanaka, Doctors Ishiro Serizawa, Ivan Tartakovsky and Professor Randa Williams being the most prominent. In the middle were Jack Morrison, Admiral Stenz of the US Navy, the President of United States, Jonathan Harrison, First Lady Anna Harrison, and Vice President, Michael Asher.
Either take advantage of Godzilla's more vulnerable state to rid the world of his menace, and then merely hope that somehow the same can be done to Anguirus and Rodan. Or allow Godzilla to heal and allow him to confront both the pterosaur and ankylosaur Titans as he was the only one known creature best evolved to battle them head-on.
A difficult compromise was reached as each side had very strong arguments and impassioned opinions about the matter that made it almost impossible to please all of them. The solution...
A series of remotely activated bombs were placed inside Godzilla as he healed to be detonated when/if he was victorious.
The solution created mixed feelings among them with most war hawks opposing it saying it wouldn't be enough, though some were okay with it. The more cautious folks, especially Monarch's people, were iffy about it either with only a few explicitly said that they agreed with having some sort of failsafe measure or safety insurance should Godzilla turn around to attack humanity. Gabriel Reyes and Ishiro Serizawa came out of the meeting none too pleased with the outcome and with each other as the former wanted nothing to do with the latter. Ishiro was noted to have the coldest, terrifying glare that anyone and even his colleagues were caught off guard by, considering his reserved and mild-mannered personality.
Rodan came back to the volcanic nest and his mate with the defunct nuclear sub in tow. Both he and Radon fed on the nuclear reactor as the latter incubated her eggs with the radiation leaking from the torn up submarine to guide the development of the nearly fully-formed chicks inside the eggs. However, Anguirus burrowed out from the ground in Yellowstone National Park, right in the core of the mated Rodans' territory and began stirring up things as he devoured some bison and elk to satisfy his protein needs and clawed away at the rock formations to get at the hidden rare minerals to supplement his horn and spikes. The omnivorous ankylosaur let out a trumpeting, guttural roar reverberating for hundreds of miles, announcing his takeover of this piece of land and daring anyone to come to take it from him. Rodan and Radon heard the challenge from afar and emanated their squawking roars back at Anguirus. Rodan, determined to end the defiant armored Titan for not acknowledging his new role as the King of the Monsters, flew off from Mount Saint Helens while Radon stayed to protect her eggs and the nest.
Godzilla soon appeared on the other side of the continent via pockets connecting from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. He wasted no time stomping on Washington's shores, through the desolate city of Vancouver ignoring Mount Saint Helens. Rodan and Anguirus collided in their second battle with the two now determined to end one or the other. When Godzilla finally joined the fray, the three engaged in a vicious three-way brawl dangerously to the now, active rumbling Yellowstone Caldera that was activated due to the incendiary nature of Rodan with the infernal heat and scaly embers shed off from his wings being the catalysts. The entire national park had been thrown into chaos with animals fleeing from their ecosystem being torn apart, and visitors and Wyoming residents frantically evacuating the surrounding area. After two days of fighting tooth & claw with sheer willpower and determination, Godzilla finally gained the upper hand over the Firebird Demon and the Ice Dragon. Anguirus had a chunk of his neck bitten off with his face brutally clawed off in spite of the Monster King cutting his own hands from touching the sharp horns. Rodan had lost one of his horns with his wings' layers of molten scales flayed off savagely. Worse still, he was impaled through his spike-covered sternum by Godzilla using the snapped off half of Anguirus' nasal horn to stab him in the chest with magma-like blood leaking profusely from the dire puncture wound. The ancient archosaur had finally put the pterosaurian and ankylosaurian Titans in their place and retained his crown as the King of the Monsters. The bombs within the victor were activated, but not to the desired effect. Godzilla's internal radiation had rendered most of the bombs nonfunctional. The damage was still enough, though, to force him to cease activity to regenerate.
Then before Overwatch could do anything, Yellowstone Caldera erupted with the ground splitting apart. The entirety of Yellowstone National Park was destroyed and when the ground gave way to the magma spouting out from the geysers with the entirety of the regions' varied landscapes burning into ashes. The ground underneath the ancient combatants swallowed them into fiery depths of the earth with the last sound heard was Godzilla's high pitched roar.
To be continued...
Monarch/Overwatch Profiles
GODZILLA
First Sighting:
Pacific Ocean, 2354
Specimen
Scientific Classification:
Godzillasaurus rex
Monarch Classification:
Gojira/Godzilla
Nickname(s):
King of the Monsters
Atomic Dragon of the Pacific
The Apex
God of Destruction
Size:
150 meters (495 feet tall)
315 meters (1,155 feet long)
Weight:
155,000 tons
Threat Rating:
Moderate - Extreme
Species:
A giant, amphibious archosauromorph-type of reptile with his genetic roots extending back to the Carboniferous Period. Possibly related to the ancestor of all archosaurs, including dinosaurs, crocodiles, phytosaurs, pterosaurs, and birds.
Nature:
Bio-atomic
Behavior:
Protector/Territorial
History:
Godzilla is possibly the last surviving member of a species of gigantic, amphibious proto-archosaurian reptiles that existed in an unknown era of time when the planet was bombarded by ten times the radiation than it is today. He and his species ruled Earth probably during the Permian Period as ancient apex predators, keeping in check other radiovorous gigafauna before the Permian-Triassic Event forced him and others like him to flee deep underground, or to the deepest parts of the ocean where they managed to sustain themselves with the planet's natural geothermal radiation from its core. Godzilla remained dormant underwater for hundreds of millions of years with the exception of the Maastrichtian Stage of the Cretaceous Period when the Earth experienced a longer period of explosion of radioactivity levels that were recently found to be twice as potent as the Permian Period's, which spawned a greater evolution of newer Titans. After the extinction of the dinosaurs, he became dormant once more, appearing occasionally at various points in human history, inspiring the mythologies of several cultures.
However, it is assumed the subject was disturbed from his slumber either from Talon's illegal nuclear bomb testing in Hiroshima on August 6th, 2345, or the appearance of the hive-based M.U.T.O. (Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organism) designated as 'Shinomura' (named after the Japanese word Shi no Mure or 'swarm of death'). Throughout the late 40's before disappearing on 2350, Godzilla and the Shinomura appeared along the Pacific before the former gained the codename "Gojira" after a dragon of Odo Island legend by Eiji Serizawa. In the two attempts to search for him by the U.S.S. Nautilus, in the early days of 2354, Godzilla had reawakened and resulted in the disappearances of American, Japanese, and Russian nuclear submarines before resuming his hunt for the Shinomura (or both Shinomura specimens as an isolated cell sample from the creature grew into another Shinomura and escaped Monarch captivity in search for its counterpart). The existence of Godzilla was heavily debated until November 3, 2354 when he and the first Shinomura converged on Tokyo and a battle ensued with more than half of Japan's capital city set ablaze and the radiation contaminating almost all of it. The Shinomura retreated when it was badly wounded with Godzilla following it in pursuit until they were lured to the Bikini Atoll by Overwatch and the US Navy where the second Shinomura hooked up with the first one. Again, Godzilla engaged in a vicious battle against both Shinomura, which ended up with one of them being killed. In an attempt to kill both of the creatures, Admiral Thomas Grant ordered the implementation of the thermonuclear bomb on December 1st. Though the Castle Bravo bomb killed the Shinomura, Godzilla survived without a scratch and disappeared for decades.
In May 10, 2375, Godzilla revealed himself to the public eye once again following the insurgence of another MUTO, Anguirus, one of his ancient rivals. He surfaced in Singapore, which was then both frozen by Anguirus' earlier rampage against Genji, Winston, Tracer, and one of Talon's head honchos, Doomfist, and also flooded due to his massive size. He engaged in a brief fight with Anguirus before the ankylosaur retreated, burrowing into the ground for safety. Godzilla later resurfaced in New York where he engaged in a bloody, lengthy battle with his armored dinosaurian rival and he was almost killed by Anguirus before Rodan interrupted, attacking the armored Titan to assert his own dominance. Anguirus retreated with Rodan flying away, leaving New York in ruins.
Godzilla was in a coma, recovering via his second brain in his hip when Overwatch, the US military, and Monarch came to a difficult compromise of placing remote bombs inside him should he win against both Anguirus and Rodan. Godzilla later swam from Atlantic Ocean to suddenly resurfacing from the Pacific Ocean through unknown means yet to be discovered as he lumbered through Washington all the way to Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. He fought both of his ancient rivals in a savage brawl, incapacitating them both before the caldera erupted with the ground collapsing, swallowing all three combatants into the huge fissure.
Behavior:
When first sighted in the 40's and 50's and 2375 of the 24th century, Godzilla displayed behaviors commonly found in territorial predators and seemed to have a very single-minded motivation in attacking rival species such as the Shinomuras, Anguirus, and Rodan. He's aloof to humans at best, or indifferent to them at worst. However, ever since the Castle Bravo bombing, Godzilla has since then displayed much more hostile and unpredictable behaviors, tending to retaliate against military fire or purposefully tearing his way through populated areas to get to his rivals. In both cases, Godzilla has shown dolphin-type levels of intelligence in terms of planning and self-awareness of his surroundings.
Unique Features & Abilities:
Godzilla is specifically evolved to absorb and metabolize radiation effectively thanks to his large maple-shaped dorsal, spinal plates that store up excessive nuclear energy for further use in battle or lean times when radiation is less plentiful despite being carnivorous in nature as he had been reported to prey on whales occasionally. It is this adaptation that allowed him and other Gigafauna like him to survive.
Godzilla is able to expel excess radiation in the form of his Atomic Heat Ray, a Chernokov radiation-laden beam of plasma energy, resembling blue fire from his mouth. This attack both burns and poisons his opponents and the environment with deadly radiation. More recently, he has been discovered to have another ability when he generates and releases the excess radioactive energy via battery-like muscles on his sides and through the pores existent between his scales as an EMP-like shockwave called 'Nuclear Pulse', which could short out electronics and inflict devastating stun damage on other Titans. Godzilla, however, prefers to fight up close and personal with his enemies as his brawny physical stature is more than enough to crush them.
And what remains will be torn apart by wickedly hooked claws and teeth. The force generated by his swinging tail is enough to cause shockwaves through the air, and shatter bedrock.
His eyes can be shielded by ghostly white, diamond-hard nictitating membranes. Most of his senses are attuned to nuclear energies, including a directional sense of smell, and an "aura-sense" similar to radar that may have evolved in response to a variety of flying enemies. He is most maneuverable in water, capable of powered cruising at over 100 knots. His tail generates moving whirlpools that aid in thrusting him forward with minimal effort, like hydraulic turbines.
Studies of Godzilla's scales and blood samples taken from the 2375 New York incursion reveal that Godzilla possesses incredibly strong and fast regenerative abilities due to his nuclear-powered cellular structure that enabled him to absorb large amounts of radiation. Whether it is an integral feature for the Godzillasaurs, or a mutation acquired by the nuclear bomb would require more testing to confirm either of them.
Due to his amphibious nature, Godzilla possesses gills on each side of his neck that enable him to extract oxygen from the water. On land, his gills become enclosed by flexible armored scales and he will use his lungs to breathe.
Godzilla's bones are believed to be as strong and dense as titanium, steel, and tungsten alloys. It is this astonishing skeletal structure that enabled him to walk on land without collapsing from his own weight.
RODAN
First Sighting:
Isla de Mara, Mexico (Radon), Mt. Spurr, Alaska (Rodan)
Specimen
Scientific Classification:
Aquiladactylus rodania
Monarch Classification:
Radon & Rodan
Nickname(s):
Samurai of the Skies
Aquila Diablo
One Born of Fire
The Fire Demon
Pteranodon Buzzard from Hell
A Titan Winged of Fury
Size:
Radon
67 meters (220 feet tall)
Wingspan - 359 meters (1,180 feet long)
Rodan
83 meters (275 feet tall)
Wingspan - 413 meters (1,356 feet long)
Weight:
Radon
45,000 tons
Rodan
50,000 tons
Threat Rating:
High
Species:
Giant predatory, biolithic pterosaurs of the Aquiladactylus genus whose ancestry dates back to the Jurassic Period, possessing strong affinity to volcanoes as the Earth experiences in a sharp, yet brief increase of radiation levels in the late Cretaceous.
Nature:
Bio-Incendiary
Behavior:
Territorial/Destroyer
History:
Radon was first discovered slumbering in the volcano of Isla de Mara, said to be haunted by evil spirits and monsters by people of the neighboring islands. Radon emerged from the crater when fights between Talon operatives and the combined expeditionary forces of Overwatch and Monarch caused the chipping away of the caves, which caused the subsequent breakouts of the Meganulon and later on, the ensuing military operation that proved to be the last straw for her.
Radon left behind a trail of destruction in her wake as she flew north through Mexico and the western states while repeatedly outsmarting and overpowering her pursuers, which were the US Air Force and Overwatch. Rodan woke and emerged from his volcanic nest in Mt. Spurr, Alaska, possibly in response to hearing her squawking screams. He soon devastated Anchorage leaving a burning, immolated mess of it in his wake as he soon made his way to Mt. Saint Helens with his bio-incendiary body causing the giant supervolcano to erupt once more as he began his territorial and mating displays to attract the female's attention. Radon heard the male's calls and flew to Washington where along the way she was repeatedly attacked by the National Guard Air Force units from Idaho and Oregon. Soon the two Rodans finally met, combining their aerial prowess and destructive pyrokinetic abilities that destroyed the Army and Air Force units and forced the demoralized and defeated Overwatch agents to retreat, barely escaping with their lives. The Rodans shortly afterwards destroyed Vancouver in their intimate aerobatic dances that sealed the lifelong bond and commitment to each other as husband and wife. The two mated in Mt. Saint Helens where it would become their newfound shared nest as their home territories and ranges now merged together and expanded from Alaska to Mexico. They were to be left alone for a while with the United States Armed Forces and Overwatch forced to lick their own wounds as they had no more appetite to launch another military expedition upon them.
The two Rodans spent the next ten years building and reinforcing their new lair with materials taken from the largely abandoned cities of Vancouver and Seattle in the form of scraps of skyscrapers, rusted vehicles, and broken down bridges. Each Rodan would take turns as one would hunt to provide food for themselves while the other would protect the nest. During that time in April 2nd of 2366, Radon and Rodan finally mated after their volcanic lair and nest was completed. Then in March 15 of 2367, Radon laid her first clutch of five eggs in the nest. She and Rodan quickly became more and more fiercely protective of their lair that would house their growing family as the years of incubating went by to the point that any sound of some airliner jet flying by was enough to provoke either her or Rodan into aggression.
It was this way for a while until May 5th of 2375 when Rodan had encountered Anguirus standing over an apparently dying Godzilla in New York, in which Rodan saw the opportunity to assert himself as the new King of the Monsters by fighting and subduing the ankylosaurian Titan to force it to accept his claim to the title. However, though Rodan had managed to defeat Anguirus, the armored saurian refused to acknowledge him as the new King and rolled over him in defiance. Rodan, more frustrated than hurt, flew back to his mate with the American nuclear sub he caught in his talons. Before he and Radon could even enjoy feasting the nuclear reactor, Anguirus appeared and bellowed out a roar, challenging the Rodans to take back the territory he had just stolen from them in Yellowstone, Wyoming. Incensed with fury, Rodan flew over to Wyoming to drive away and, if possible, kill the armored dinosaur for intruding into their territory and to finish off what he had started while Radon stayed to protect lair and her eggs. The tables turned against Rodan and Anguirus when a recovered and infuriated Godzilla charged into the fray where the three engaged in a bloody, vicious brawl in Yellowstone National Park. After two days of fighting, Rodan lost the battle with one of his cranial horns broken off and having his spiked chest impaled by Godzilla wielding Anguirus' snapped off nasal horn like a makeshift dagger. The battle ended with Godzilla being the victor and retaining his crown as the King of the Monsters, but it wasn't to last as the giant caldera erupted and the ground split opened, swallowing up all three, including Rodan.
Behavior:
The Rodans have an aggressive and fierce streak to them as they're very territorial not unlike eagles and hawks. The pterosaurs also have the intelligence equivalent to that of a crow or a raven, which makes them all the more trickier and unpredictable. In terms of diet, they have hunted Meganulon, humans, whales, sharks, and dolphins while supplementing their food with a good dose of radioactivity coming from a nuclear submarine's power reactor.
Unique Features and Abilities:
Bio-Volcanic Nature: The Rodans possess an internal volcanic combustion system, causing them to radiate heat, the temperature of which can reach up to 1200°C. This is what enables them to survive in molten-hot temperatures due to armored, rock-like, feather-shaped scales on their bodies and wings which contain traces of volcanic sediment.
Cyclonic Drift Streams: When flying at top speed, each individual's massive wings are powerful enough to create a sonic thunderclap that can level entire cities as they fly overhead.
Uranium Heat Ray: Each of the Rodans possess an Uranium-based oral attack reminiscent of Godzilla's atomic heat ray.
Expressive Crest/Horns: All Rodans have the ability to shift the colors of their horns from subtle to dramatic, bright or dark colors in less than a second to express their emotions or enhance their threatening displays like chameleons or cuttlefish.
ANGUIRUS
First Sighting:
Tungusken Crater, Siberia, 2375
Specimen
Scientific Classification:
Angirasaurus siberiensis
Monarch Classification:
Angira/Anguirus
Nickname(s):
Underground Ice Dragon
The Living Glacier
The Howling Bane of Siberia
One Who Brings about Blizzards
Spiky Ol' Armadillo
The Rolling Boulder of Pain
Size:
95 meters (312 feet tall) on all fours
120 meters (393 feet tall) semi-upright
Weight:
162,000 tons
Threat Rating:
Moderate
Species:
Newly discovered species of ankylosaurs whose ancestry is traced back to about early to middle Cretaceous with the genus diverging from the main ankylosaur evolutionary path and mutating into Titans by the brief uptick in radiation levels. The species went from herbivorous to omnivorous in their diets.
Nature:
Bio-Cryogenic/Bio-Terran
Behavior:
Destroyer
History:
Anguirus had been disturbed from his brumation by a group of Russian paleontologists accidentally stumbling into his cave. He broke out, causing the cavern to crumble around them, killing all, but Dr. Ivan Tartakovsky. He woke up and briefly feasted on a couple swaths of forests and some animals like wild boar before he burrowed into the earth. He later emerged from underground onto Singapore where he had inadvertently interrupted the mission that Genji, Winston, and Tracer had been given by Overwatch to apprehend Doomfist as the beast was drawn to the recent shipment of nuclear-powered freezer cooler units to feast on them. Anguirus quickly retaliated when Tracer nearly shot him close to his armored eyelid, which resulted in a one-sided rampage with the cryogenic dinosaur overwhelming the Overwatch agents and Doomfist with his ice-based abilities, heavy scaly armor, and sharp spikes. After he rendered them out of commission, Anguirus stomped into the harbor and proceeded to bite through the cargo ship carrying the food source he needed to sustain his cryogenic/mineral-based physiology. After feeding, he curled into ball and turned into a spiky chrysalis with his ice blizzards turning the harbor and the surrounding skyscrapers into an unusual frozen wasteland to grow newer and stronger armor.
However, when Godzilla entered into Singapore's bay, Anguirus was forced to awaken prematurely, making his biological mineralization-hardening process incomplete. This rendered him vulnerable to Godzilla's attacks with his natural defenses' effectiveness lowered. The only saving grace were the ice blizzards around him that nullified the devastating potency of Godzilla's Atomic Heat Ray to a considerable degree. However, his injuries forced him to retreat with shedding off his tail for good measure to escape from being incapacitated or possibly killed by Godzilla. He wondered deep underneath the earth's surface for a couple of weeks, regenerating and his armored osteoderms and spikes growing stronger and sturdier until the process eventually completed. He resurfaced in Iceland stronger than ever after absorbing the geothermal radiation from the island's volcanoes. He briefly rampaged through Reykjavik before he turned southwards towards Manhattan, New York where his old rival confronted him once more. After one day of relentless fighting, Anguirus had the upper hand with his spiky armor and bone-breaking weaponry inflicting grievous damage onto the King of the Monsters. He almost landed the killing blow had it not been for Rodan, who had heard and sensed the commotion going on from the destructive brawl. Rodan, who thought that this might be the opportune time to establish himself as the Alpha, attacked him almost immediately with the violent clash of their respective, opposing elements transforming the city into a desolate, dichotomic battlefield with the intense heat of Rodan's hellfire colliding against the frigidity of Anguirus' blizzards that created these thunderstorms and cold rain, wreaking havoc on the weather.
Anguirus retreated as he was exhausted earlier from his battle with Godzilla. He hid somewhere in the Arctic regions of Canada before he resurfaced again in Yellowstone, Wyoming right in the heart of Rodan and Radon's territory. The ankylosaur Titan devoured chunks of the forests and wildlife, but his real prize were the undiscovered deposits of uranium deposits buried beneath the rocky formations. Rodan didn't take too kindly to the interloper making a messy ruckus of their land and resources, basically challenging the Rodans' authority as apex predators of their newly established territories. Soon Rodan and Anguirus fought each other again, this time with a recovered and frightfully ticked off Godzilla later joining the fray with their three-way battle to the death causing the caldera to reach its breaking point. After two days of fighting, Anguirus had the worst to suffer from Godzilla as his nasal horn was snapped off when the ancient archosaurian Titan sidestepped his charge at the very last minute causing his horn to get stuck being embedded too deep into one of the rock formations and Godzilla taking the opportunity to knee the angry ankylosaur in the face. The force of the kick was what caused his horn to snap off followed by Godzilla ripping a chunk of his neck off with his jaws. Anguirus tried to tail whip him, which resulted in Godzilla bending it at an unnatural angle and dismembering it with his Atomic Heat Ray. Out of desperation, Anguirus even attempted to unleash his oscillatory, Arctic wave like he had done to his rival before in New York, but Godzilla was having none of it as he headbutted his softer underside so hard that he literally knocked the wind out of the ankylosaur, whose own sheer tenacity was being overwhelmed by Godzilla's vindictive, determined drive to thrash him. Anguirus collided against the cliff face of a rocky outlook. Dazed and seriously hurt, a disoriented Anguirus tried to shake off the stars from his eyes, but Godzilla ended that chance when the bipedal ancient reptile swiped him right in the left side of his face and frill that chunks of flesh flew all over with his own eyeball severed from his eye socket as well having his brain knocked out with his armored skull the only thing that stood between unconsciousness and death.
Anguirus had been defeated along with Rodan being rendered incapacitated. Godzilla unleashed his domineering roar, coming forth from his toothy maw to signify that he was still the King of the Monsters.
However, the caldera had erupted right underneath their feet with the tremors so catastrophic that the earth of Yellowstone National Park split open with Godzilla, Rodan, and Anguirus falling into the widening fissures as Yellowstone and half of Wyoming became the center of a massive eruption that would impact the world forever.
Behavior:
Because of his omnivorous habits, Anguirus was by no means a gentle giant. In fact, he was more of a battle-hardened gladiator as he was very territorial and has no hesitation in violently attacking anyone or anything that happened to get in his way like a rhinoceros on steroids. The quadrupedal dinosaur was also pugnacious and tenacious in his attitude with his "attack first, ask questions later" mentality, meaning that he would stubbornly fight to the very end until either he is killed or his enemy is dead.
Unique Features & Abilities:
Anguirus possesses the thickest armor ever recorded from a Titan as his scaly osteoderms are even strong enough to withstand Godzilla's Atomic Heat Ray.
Anguirus seems to have rock and other crystalline structures grafted onto his skin, making this Titan part mineral. The armored carapace on the Titan's back is embedded with slivers of pure diamond that lap over his back akin to a cape made of sharp, crystal spears. This also extends to the club on his tail. He has a mysterious internal polar system, which enables him to create an aura of voluminous clouds of absolute zero temperatures and summon torrential ice blizzards. If Rodan was a Titan forged in fire, then Anguirus is a Titan born of both Ice and Earth itself.
His oscillatory wave would not only render his victims deaf for a long while, but they could also freeze them in place as the cold eats away at their energy, affecting their metabolism adversely.
Anguirus' spikes and horns are sharp enough to pierce through Godzilla's tough crocodilian-like hide.
The Titan could roll into a ball not unlike an armadillo, hence why Jesse McCree called him one, as he could gain speed with it and turn into a living spiked, rolling juggernaut.