Age of the Titans

by GojiGrimlockSaurus

In honor and tribute of Godzilla: King of the Monsters, this one-shot series will mostly focus on Godzilla and King Ghidorah. This will focus on how each fictional universe will react to them and other Titans when they stomp into the fray. As monsters vie for supremacy, all hell will break loose, and nothing will ever be the same. As one wise scientist said, "Let them fight."

9. Monarch Watch Titan Files

Godzilla (c) Toho Co., Legendary Pictures, Warner Bros.

Overwatch (c) Blizzard Entertainment

Them! (c) Warner Bros.

The Black Scorpion (1957) (c) Warner Bros.

Ts-Eh-Go from Godzilla the Series (c) TriStar and FoxKids

In addition, I'd like to give credit to DeviantArt artists, KaijuSamurai, Transapient, WoodZilla 2000, Trollsman, Toonholt, and NecroTitanDesigns for their artwork, which is where I draw heavy inspirations from when it comes to some of my Titan creations and lore-building of this customized Heisei-Monsterverse Universe I am creating.

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Monarch Watch Profiles

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GODZILLA [Updated]

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 Ultimate Apex Predator

The Dragon Guardian of Odo Island

God of Destruction

Giant Lizard Beast

Big Guy

Big G

G-Man

Size:

150 meters (495 feet tall)

315 meters (1,155 feet long)

Weight:

155,000 tons

Threat Rating:

Moderately High to Extreme

Species:

A giant, amphibious, bipedal archosaur-type of reptile with his genetic roots extending back to the Carboniferous Period. Possibly related to the ancestral line leading up to the divergent families of ornithodirans (dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and birds) and crocodylomorphs (crocodiles, phytosaurs, aetosaurs, and raisuchians). Godzilla's species has evolved physical characteristics convergent to other groups of the archosaur family: Having two pillar-like feet with huge toe claws and a thick yet very long, whip-like tail similar to a sauropod, three rows of large jagged, maple-shaped dorsal plates akin to that of a stegosaur, a osteoderm-laden, scaly hide similar to that of a crocodile albeit the armor plates were more tightly packed, and a powerful jaw several times more powerful than a Tyrannosaurus rex, with the exception of a pair of brawny, powerful arms with hands having four sharp-clawed fingers and an opposable thumb, which allows them to grab on to their prey or surroundings; a trait normally possessed by great apes.

Nature:

Bio-atomic

Behavior:

Protector/Destroyer

History:

Godzilla is possibly the last surviving member of a species of gigantic, amphibious, bipedal crocodylomorph descendants of basal 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.

Some time after the eruption, Godzilla slowly rose out from the Yellowstone supervolcano, relatively unscathed apart from the serious wounds he received earlier in battle, which were healing rapidly thanks to his highly potent regenerative power of his G-Cells. His dominance display of firing his Atomic Heat Ray sky high into the air managed to bring newfound fear to the helpless heroes as well as to rub salt into their wounds, illustrating their futility to try stop a conquering bestial god they had no chance to do so in the first place.

After Godzilla followed it by shouting out his victorious roar, he left from the devastated states of Wyoming and Idaho and lumbered through Oregon before he finally reached the Pacific shore to submerge into the seas.

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 and 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.

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RADON and RODAN [Updated]

First Sighting:

Isla de Mara, Mexico (Radon), Mt. Spurr, Alaska (Rodan)

Specimen

Scientific Classification:

Aquiladactylus rodania

Monarch Classification:

Radon and 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. The female 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. The male Rodan was larger than the female 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.

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.

There had been no signs of Rodan and Anguirus's bodies, though another report from Monarch's satellite feed would later confirm that the male Rodan survived thanks to his volcanic physiology, albeit injured with a gaping hole in his chest. He was found recovering in the lair in Mount St. Helens with Radon tending to his injuries and their first chick just about to hatch out from its egg with the Rodans officially becoming parents.

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 1200C. 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.

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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.

It was initially thought that Anguirus didn't survive along with Rodan during the eruption. However, with later reports that Rodan did indeed survive, that increased the possibility that the ankylosaur Titan might have as well. It wasn't before long before that turned into reality when the Frost Giant arose from his slumber in the midst of the Swiss Alps. This was also when Gabrielle Reyes assaulted Overwatch's Swiss HQ. After the ursine Titan overwhelmed Overwatch in Zurich, Anguirus burst out from the ground, killing Jack Morrison and incapacitating Reyes in the process. After he ate the nuclear detonator bomb set in place by Talon operatives, he was on the defensive when the infuriated Frost Giant charged at him. With his icy aura of blizzards and mist having no effect on the bear Titan, Anguirus fought back tooth and claw. While the Frost Giant clawed and bit at him, he gored the bear with his spikes and horns. When the battle was still coming to a close, Anguirus was still more ready to fight on, despite being bruised and clawed viciously, to the point he eventually could have killed the Frost Giant if the bear hadn't wisely backed out and retreated.

Waiting until the Frost Giant was completely out of his sight, Anguirus burrowed into the earth, presumably heading back home to Siberia.

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 and 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.

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ANCESTOR ANTS

First Sighting:

New Mexico, USA, 2376

Specimen

Scientific Classification:

Deinomecia antecedus

Monarch Classification:

Ancestor Ants

Nickname(s):

Atomic Ants

Gi-Ants

Them!

Ant of the Apocalypse

The Horde

Red Swarm of Death

Size:

Scout – 1.5 – 3 ft. long

Worker – 4 – 7.5 ft. long

Soldier – 9 – 15 ft. long

Warrior – 20 – 28 ft. long

General – 50 – 90 ft. long

King – 120 – 165 ft. long

Queen – 190 – 230 ft. long

Weight:

190 lbs – 88,000 tons

Threat Rating:

Low – Moderate – High

Species:

An ancient species of eusocial insectoid Titans, belonging to the order Hymenoptera. These prehistoric ant-type Titans were roused from their suspended animation by the Yellowstone Eruption and the meltdown of a recently established nuclear power plant 155 miles west from Bernalillo.

Nature:

Bio-Terran

Behavior:

Hive Mind/Destroyer

History:

These giant, prehistoric ant Titans were roused from their eons of suspended animation deep beneath the earth on April of 2376, a year after when the Yellowstone supervolcano erupted that released tons of radioactive ash clouds across the southwestern United States. The combination of intense heat from both the ash and deserts, and then the acid rains weakened the critical infrastructure of a recently established nuclear power plant 155 miles west from Bernalillo. The meltdown of the reactor was the final catalyst that stirred the dormant nest of the Ancestor Ants from their slumber to their awakening.

New Mexico's State Police first clue to their carnivorous threat was a traumatized young girl that they found her wandering about in the desert in a rather catatonic state. They later discovered that about 65 miles away from where she had walked from was a vacation RV trailer where they had found evidence that the girl had been there witnessing something attacking her family and destroying the trailer. None of her family members had been located.

Later that night, after Sergeant Haroldson and Trooper Johnson secured the scene of the crime, the former went missing when they both heard the strange chirping noises as Trooper Johnson left Haroldson behind to investigate with the only things the Sergeant had heard the last of him were several gunshots and Johnson's bloodcurdling scream. At the same time, Ashe and her Deadlock Gang were in a state of panic when she and her henchmen found two of their own, who were picked for the night guard duty, also missing. Ashe quickly organized a rescue and search party along with giving them orders to shoot the unknown attackers on sight. Unfortunately, they only found one of their missing outlaws with his body snapped in half with one of his arms hacked off at the elbow and his insides ripped open along with a huge amount of formic acid covering his corpse.

It didn't take long for the United States Army, the FBI, and Monarch to respond to these startling series of vicious incidents to investigate the causes behind them with the latter filling in for Overwatch as the global peacekeeping force was too embattled in controversies to intervene. The Department of Agriculture sent myrmecologists, Dr. Daniel Medford, and his daughter, Gwen Medford, to assist in the investigation. It also didn't take long to encounter by pure chance on one of their numerous investigations that they finally got a good look of the true culprits.

They were none other than the Ancestor Ants that had been foraging across New Mexico and possibly into Arizona to look for new building materials to rebuild their hive nest while wreaking havoc onto the terrified locals.

One ant, a Scout, was accompanied by two worker ants that were raiding a farm as their target was the grain storehouse. The Locker family hid and locked themselves in the barnhouse with the husband mauled and killed by one of the worker ants. Following instructions from the elder Medford and Monarch agent, Dr. James Whitmore, Haroldson and FBI agent, Robert Graham, shot off the scout's antennae, blinding it before they managed to finish it off. However, they have alerted the two worker ants and their loud shrieks attracted the ire of several hundred giant ants with the soldier ants that were as big as elephants, and the warrior ants taller than a double-decker bus, accompanying the workers as they quickly scrambled towards the farm with the dead ant's scent being an SOS signal to them. With time running out, Graham, Whitmore, and Gwen had to bust down the barnhouse door, releasing the panicked animals out into the open. They managed to rescue the family, but they quickly faced an uphill battle with the ants already upon them. The soldiers, despite their advanced armor and weaponry, were quickly overwhelmed by the ants' overpowering strength in sheer numbers. Many of the barn animals met their gruesome fate at the mandibles and mouthparts of the gigantic insects.

The Medfords, Haroldson, Graham, Whitmore, and the rest of the Locker family fought desperately with themselves being holed up in the family house. Haroldson became critically injured by one of the soldier ants while Mrs. Locker's two sons were abducted by the worker ants. Fortunately, things turned around when Jesse McCree intervened. His flash bomb and his exceptional deadeye precision scared the invasive horde off temporarily just enough for the Medfords, Graham, and Whitmore to escape, helping the Locker family evacuate with Dr. Daniel Medford and Uncle Ackerson helping Haroldson up, carrying him onto Jesse McCree's pickup truck. Unfortunately, the ants carried off the Locker boys far off from the area before the agents could even see them in the midst of the massive horde. The former Overwatch gunslinger and Graham bombed the entire Locker farm on fire to kill off as many ants as they could before they sped off. The explosion killed a sizable portion of the horde, but it wasn't enough as the giant ants quickly conquered the area.

The ants were soon on the offensive again in greater numbers as they swarmed the western portion of Rio Rancho. The General ants were the ones directing orders to their smaller brethren, coordinating the monstrous insect army with simple yet effective strategies that overwhelmed the local militia and the National Guard. The soldier and warrior ants did most of the heavy lifting, killing their enemies while the worker ants wasted no time pillaging every building and home, tearing them down to bring back to their hive nest.

Urgent news broke out that Rio Rancho was besieged by the newly established giant prehistoric ant colony. They hopped onto the vertical airlift and flew there as fast as possible. By the time they reached Rio Rancho, it was already a warzone with the National Guard overwhelmed with much of their infantry wiped out by the relentless army of ants, despite the heavy bombardment from the fighter jets with their barrage of missiles. They did the best they could to rescue a small number of survivors that were trapped amidst the carnage. However, Jesse McCree ran out of ammo for his Peacekeeper, which limited his use for his Deadeye ability, after fighting and killing many multitude of the prehistoric carnivorous ants as their numbers seemed endless and ever growing. Outnumbered and trapped in the middle of the city with dinosaur-sized soldier ants approaching them at every corner, there was no way out this time and with hysterically scared civilians in tow, the stakes proved to be almost impossible to overcome.

Then something unexpected happened as another monster bigger than the largest of the warrior ants busted out from underneath the asphalt. A predatory Titan or MUTO that bore great resemblance to that of the Triassic raisuchian, Saurosuchus, but bearing the overall body structure and coloration of the region's Gila Monster. The reptilian monster ambushed several unaware worker ants, crushing them in its heavyset jaws. Its abrupt attack momentarily disrupted the hive mind of the giant ant horde before they hastily reorganized, immediately going onto the offensive against the creature. Though the creature was swarmed by the horde in seconds, the larger reptilian Titan didn't seem too concerned about its enemies biting it all over thanks to its tough, pebbly scales and rough scutes. The reptile quickly crunched the ones that had gotten too close to its toothy jaws. It even did a body roll that crushed its attackers and several buildings in the process before it unleashed its Napalm Heat Ray onto the horde and rolled into the intense fire, cooking many of the giant prehistoric ants to their deaths when its body became wreathed in its own napalm flames. Eventually, the leading ant General that was noticeably bigger than the other ant Generals called them off. The ants retreated while the less fortunate too slow to scatter on time were scorched to death by the reptile's newly revealed napalm breath.

Behavioral Traits:

While their modus operandi is typical of most ant species, being of a hive mind and having a strict eusocial hierarchy, their intelligence is atypical even of their very minute relatives as it is extremely high comparable to dolphins. Not only were the larger and higher-ranking brethren aware of their surroundings and their enemies, but they could sense what their opposition is up to and could plan pre-emptive strikes against them before the enemies even had started. The scout does most of the reconnaissance while the workers raid and collect materials back to the nest colony on chemically predetermined paths. Soldier ants would be the grunts that carry more of the offensive power than the average Ancestor Ant worker. Warrior ants would be the elite; stronger, more heavily armored, and more aggressive than the soldiers as they're basically the attack dogs. Leading them all would be the Generals as they're the ones directing the horde while taking orders from the King, or the Commander-in-Chief, who in turn, ultimately takes orders from the Queen, the mother of the entire hive colony as well as responsible for its existence via reproductive means. Backed up by their tougher-than-normal exoskeletal bodies packed with shocking amounts of strength, the Ancestor Ants are a force to be reckoned, both individually and collectively as a colony.

Unique Features and Abilities:

Chemical Trail Navigation: Once a Scout ant leaves pheromones behind wherever it goes, they become signals enabling the ants to map out the distance and features of the environment.

Telepathic Hive Mind: Connected together mentally allows the ants to communicate through their antennae whatever they pick up visually or scent wise far and wide to other hive members. This ability is what enables the higher-ranking individuals to communicate orders directly to their smaller, lower-ranking brethren and coordinate their collective movements very precisely. They could also sense the presence of threats from afar, allowing them premeditate on a suitable plan of action to deal with them accordingly.

Radioactive Formic Acid Bite: All ants possess this lethally toxic bite with the formic acid mutated long ago by radioactivity to turn it into a more formidable substance that can eat through metal. The victims suffer from being poisoned by radioactive toxins that could cause accelerated forms of cancer, cause paralysis, and degrade their internal organs into mush rapidly. Larger victims like Titans with softer skin would be knocked out with their hyperactive immune systems spending days to combat the degradation.

Snap Jaws: The Ancestor Ants are equipped with long, sword-like serrated mandibles that could snap shut extremely quick, delivering sharp painful bites that could crush bones. They could reach speeds up to 390 km/h with the jaws closing at an average speed of 90 microseconds. Energy is stored in a thick band of muscle and explosively released when triggered by the stimulation of sensory organs resembling hairs on the inside of the mandibles. The mandibles also permit slow and fine movements for other tasks.

Swarming Overheat: When confronted by a larger opponent, the ants would swarm all over the enemy's body at once and use the combined heat of their bodies as a collective to skyrocket the enemy's body temperature up to precarious levels that the enemy would die or lose consciousness from over-exhaustion, heat stroke, or multitude of toxic bites. Perhaps a combination of them all.

Winged Forms: All males and some females have wings that enable them to travel long distances. The soldier drones have wings covered by bony plates to protect them during combat. Warriors would have spiked, bulkier armor plates covering their wings despite spending most of their time being terrestrial brutes locomotion-wise, while the more agile and smarter Generals possess another pair of wings. The King Ancestor Ant possesses two pairs of much bigger armored wings that have bladed edges on the armor plates that would enable him to cut through airborne enemies like a hot knife through butter.

King and Generals Within the Eusocial Hierarchy: An unusual aspect of the Ancestor Ant's eusocial hierarchy is the inclusion of a King and Generals. A King that could more or less stand on somewhat equal grounds with the Queen even though she still has the ultimate authority in the relationship. This is found nowhere else in the Hymenoptera species, which leads a lot of myrmecologists and evolutionary biologists to wonder if this was a primitive trait, a leftover vestigial feature from their more ancestral species, or rather a new evolutionary adaptation in response to more dangerous predatory Titans preying on them. Regardless, it is interesting to note that the King and his Generals would often direct and coordinate the swarms into battle against their enemies. The Generals would be distinguished by a protruding spine curved inwards placed on their thorax between their wings. They are often found on the battlefield battling alongside their smaller brethren. If the threat is too big or strong for even the Generals, then the King would likely get involved and he is a very strong and cunning adversary only second to the larger and more robust Queen. He is distinguished having an armored head armed with a crown comprised of two horns placed behind his antennae, possessing longer mandibles half the length of his entire body, and heavily armored forelimbs armed with thick pincer claws. The King also possess additional powers that none of the smaller brethren, including the Generals, have such as spitting formic acid, a wasp-like tail stinger, and wings generating shimmering sonic waves around his armor blades that enable him to cut cleanly through the densest and thickest metals.

The Queen is a wingless, hulking behemoth with a spiny neck and shell with her armored abdomen swollen and engorged with thousands of trucks-sized eggs. She is supported by two pairs of massive, long armored limbs. She is not to be underestimated as a pushover as her pair of forelimbs evolved into muscular arm-like appendages ending with slender exoskeletal hands with each of her four digits armed with steel-like claws that function like the King's wing blades. Her abdomen should not be brushed off either as it extends into a thick reptilian tail-like appendage ending with a spiked club. Her head was the most disturbing as she has two pairs of composite eyes and three pairs of flexible, serrated curved mandibles that could close together both horizontally and vertically to form a beaked jaw concealing her real fused mouthparts, giving her a dinosaurian-like appearance to her. She'd use mostly brute strength to win her battles, but she'd be foolish not to take advantage of her telepathic powers to command her entire hive from time to time to turn the tide of battle to her favor. She spits out a continuous stream of weaponized formic acid for long range combat.

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GILA

First Sighting:

New Mexico, USA, 2376

Specimen

Scientific Classification:

Gilasaurus horridus

Monarch Classification:

Gila/Gilasaurus

Nickname(s):

The Demon of Gila River

Nuclear Gila Monster

Mutant Yellowbelly

Scaly Roughneck

Size:

220 feet long (quadrupedal)

300 feet tall (rearing up on hind legs)

Weight:

75,000 tons

Threat Rating:

Moderately High

Species:

Ancient species of helodermatid lizards with orange rusted red scales and wavy striations of dark brown that quickly grew and mutated into Titans in an arms race with the Ancestor Ants during the middle to late Cretaceous. The head, unlike the Gila Monster and the Mexican Bearded Lizard's blunt heads, resembled more of Saurosuchus with jaws and teeth specifically designed to slice and puncture through thick armor. These lizard Titans evolved to have stronger osteoderm plates on its head and arms. Thicker pebbly scales that some grew into legitimate bony spikes, particularly on his back down to the base of his tail. The most significant are the extensive belly and chest scales that have been hyperdeveloped into steel-like, segmented plates with minerals of jasper and molten gold embedded in it. The fat, stocky long tail has armored, segmented plates with five spikes on each of them partially made out of jasper as such when they could glow lava orange when the monster charges up with radioactive napalm energy.

Nature:

Bio-Atomic/Subterranean/Volcanic

Behavior:

Territorial

History:

Gila is the first of his species to be witnessed and documented by Overwatch and Monarch, belonging to the family of Helodermatidae, which their evolutionary history could be traced back to the Cretaceous Period. Awoken by the aftershocks of the Yellowstone Eruption, Gila emerged from his cave lair situated between the subterranean Paleo-Albuquerque Ecosystem and the Albuquerque Basin, which this ancient Titan ecosystem is located many miles beneath the latter. The aftershock also displaced much of the rock and soil that had sealed the cave tunnels to the ecosystem for millennia, enabling the lizard Titan to crawl through the tunnels without the need to exert more effort into burrowing his way through to the subterranean volcanoes first to satiate his immediate hunger for geothermal nuclear energy.

That was also how he was able to sneak upon the small portion of the horde of his natural enemy that had ambushed Ashe and her Deadlock Gang where the notorious, highly dangerous bandits were forced into a desperate defensive battle as the irradiated prehistoric insects quickly overcame their elusive, tricky defense systems of their hideout. That was when the very same reptilian Titan appeared out from the ground. He immediately attacked the ants, rushing in with his toothy snout and heavyset jaws snapping down on several ants instantly like a beartrap with their exoskeletal bodies pulverized like a grape. In the ensuing battle of the monsters, the gang's hideout had been crushed, which took down nearly all of their weaponry and a couple of the henchmen with it. After the monster drove off the ants, Ashe and her Deadlock Gang attacked the Titan hoping to drive him away, but their tech and weaponry had inflicted no lasting damage and only succeeded in provoking Gila into retaliation against them. It proved to be swift and brutal with all of her gang wiped out, leaving her and B.O.B. as the only survivors.

His second appearance was in Rio Rancho where he encountered a larger horde of the Ancestor Ants ransacking the western portion of the city. He ambushed several unaware worker ants, crushing them in his heavyset jaws. His abrupt attack momentarily disrupted the hive mind of the prehistoric ant horde before they hastily reorganized, immediately going onto the offensive against the creature. Despite Gila being swarmed by the horde in seconds, the larger reptilian Titan didn't seem too concerned about his enemies biting it all over thanks to his tough, pebbly scales and rough scutes. The reptile quickly crunched the ones that had gotten too close to his toothy jaws. He performed a body roll with his spikes and steel-like plates bludgeoned and squished the attacking ants into gory puddles of detritus and exoskeletal fragments.

The ants retreated while the less fortunate too slow to scatter on time were scorched to death by the reptile's newly revealed napalm breath. The onlookers could only watch with terrified awe as half of Rio Rancho burned into ashes. The only small consolation was that the Gila Monster-like Titan's rampage was short-lived with the reptile not interested in tearing up the city any further than it had already. However, that didn't change the fact that it contributed greatly to Rio Rancho's destruction in its fight against the numerically-superior giant ants. The reptile blasted a giant, continuous hole into the streets as it then clawed the rest of its way underground, disappearing deeper underneath.

The war between Gila and the Ancestor Ants got the world's attention with Overwatch and US President Jonathan Harrison sending Tracer, Winston, Mercy, and General Thomas MacArthur to assist the ongoing investigative expedition in New Mexico. The scientific-military expeditionary force utilized the latest thermonuclear sensory and geo-seismic technologies to locate the tunnels created by both the Ancestor Ants and Gila with each having distinctive characteristics that distinguish them from naturally-made caverns. That led them into the Paleo-Albuquerque Ecosystem, a prehistoric, hyperfaunal ecosystem in a vast subterranean valley surrounded by volcanic mountains and enormous aquifers that supply the ground water needed to feed the lakes and rivers snaking through an otherwise subtropical arid environment, which consists of semi-evergreen rainforests with areas of arid shrublands and savannas that seemed to be marred by ashy areas of molten volcanic ground and geysers. A striking contradiction when some of these areas coexist with the more pleasant bodies of subterranean freshwater. Like Skull Island, the fauna was a mix of both ancient species and relatively recent newcomers with most of the inhabitants having their evolutionary lineages and ancestry hail mostly from the Mesozoic era with some from the Paleozoic, predominantly Carboniferous. There were fewer mammalian monsters from the Cenozoic compared to Skull Island.

The expeditionary force treaded carefully as best as they could through this strange prehistoric wilderness dominated by reptilian and arthropod Titans. Try as they could, however, they suffered from slip-ups and dangerous encounters with less-than-pleasant indigenous life forms. At one point, the entirety of the team were almost crushed to death by a stampeding herd of chasmosaurine ceratopsians instigated by mutant roadrunners that have undergone atavism thanks to the fallout of the Yellowstone Eruption resembling wicked-looking Troodons with long, stiff reptilian tails, bat-like winged forearms, and sickled claws. When the group finally stumbled onto the Ancestor Ants' territory, they encountered the Locker sons miraculously alive in spite of weeks being trapped behind a complex, fleshy prison systematically constructed from the fallen skeletal remains of Gila's ancestors and the ants' own hardened saliva. Their movements to free the boys attracted unwanted attention via vibrations travelling through the walls of the colony as they were soon attacked viciously by the monstrous ants with the Ancestor Ant King joining the fray. Many soldiers had lost their lives and Uncle Ackerson sacrificed himself to save his sister-in-law and nephews from being picked off by one of the Commander Ancestor Ants. If it weren't for the unexpected intervention of Gila and him battling the King Ancestor Ant to a standstill, total destruction would have been assured for the expeditionary force.

The aftermath was the last straw that broke the camel's back for some people, particularly Ashe, B.O.B., and General Patrick. Ashe and General Patrick revealed their plan to kill both the Ancestor Ants and Gila in one swoop by blowing up the entire ecosystem to avenge the people very dear to them. Winston, Whitmore, Daniel and Gwen Medford tried to explain to them that such an untenable plan would endanger the Locker sons trapped in the Ants' territory. It would force the Titans out of their homes and lash out at human civilization in retaliation, which would very likely spark a disastrous war that humanity and Omnics would inevitably lose. However, their pleas fell on deaf ears with both Ashe and General Patrick consumed with vengeance. The latter having his sense of duty warped by the soul-crushing grief from having to personally end his own son, who suffered a slow, horrible death from the radiation burns eating him from within and without that were resultant of Rodan's earlier attack on Washington. When Dr. Whitmore tried to reason them out of their dark path, he was shot in the leg by General Patrick out of resentment for Monarch, falsely claiming that they cared more for the monsters than for the loss of human life that resulted from the Titans' rampage. The team parted ways with Patrick's group trekking to the largest central volcano of the Paleo-Albuquerque Valley to plant explosives there while Thomas's group headed back to the jungle to regroup.

Came midnight, Ashe and General Patrick were about to set their plan into motion when Thomas MacArthur, Haroldson, Tracer, Jesse McCree, and Graham stopped them at gunpoint from pushing the detonator that would have ignited the explosives, blowing not only the valley, but also New Mexico above to kingdom come. Regardless, General Patrick's plan was rendered futile as the Ancestor Ants have already long sensed miles away what Patrick and Ashe were about to do with the soldier drones already disabled the explosive placed at the entrance of their core territory. Instead the whole colony has now ambushed the opposing groups that were locked in a stalemate. Ashe was brutally mauled by a Ancestor Ant warrior while B.O.B. was savagely dismantled by the ant soldiers' sharp mandibles. MacArthur and Roberts' units suffered heavy losses that stripped them to just surviving two or three soldiers compared to the fifteen men from earlier in each unit. MacArthur suffered having his leg almost hacked off by an Ancestor Ant General when he pushed a shellshocked, mortified Patrick out of harm's way. Graham was in a fight for his life against several worker ants and soldier drones while Winston, Tracer, and Jesse McCree were locked down in combat with the Ancestor Ant King.

Gila, once again being drawn to the conflict, charged into the fray taking out large portions of the ant colony before going straight for the Ant King. The two apex monsters engaged in a vicious fight with both inflicting serious wounds upon one another with Gila slowly gaining the upper hand over his hated enemy. Just when Gila was able to taste victory, the Queen, the mother brain of the entire colony, got the jump on him from bursting out from the ground. The Gila Monster-like lizard Titan was then quickly overpowered by the Queen and King so severely that the weakened reptile succumbed to unconsciousness from his many injuries. The Ancestor Ant King returned his attention onto the fleeing humans and intelligent gorilla scientist and pursued them, leaving Gila for dead while the Queen dragged him to her lair. The reunited smaller Monarch-Overwatch expeditionary team sped desperately their way out of the tunnel that led somewhere out into the Sandia Mountains with Albuquerque basically about 40 miles in front of them.

General Patrick, guilt-ridden and ashamed of letting his grief cloud his judgment that enabled his almost entire unit to be devoured by the voracious ants, chose to sacrifice himself in his last attempt to seal the cavern to at least give the group at least enough time to escape and call for help. His sacrifice wasn't totally successful as the Ant King pulverized him into a bloody stain with one of his pincer claws, but not in vain either as it did stall the horde just enough for the US Air Force and the National Guard coming from Texas to arrive in the nick of time as they along with the Overwatch heroes battle against the swarm of the smaller Ancestor Ants invading Albuquerque. A chaotic battle ensued with northeastern Albuquerque being devastated greatly as heavy casualties amounted on both sides. The Ant King was seemingly unstoppable but with bold bravery from Haroldson, Graham, and Winston, they managed to irk him enough to lure him away from Albuquerque.

Jesse McCree, Mercy and Tracer went back through the tunnel and back into the Paleo-Albuquerque Ecosystem to attempt to rescue the Locker sons one last time from the clutches of the Ant Queen. They managed to rescue the boys, but risked attracting the ire of the dinosaur-like Ant Queen along with her brood. Seeing that there was no alternative, Lena fired her Pulse Pistols at the eggs with McCree quickly catching on as he too fired shots of his Peacekeeper onto the multitude of clutches of Ancestor Ant eggs with Mercy boosting their damage output thanks to her Caduceus Staff. Their actions caused a violent chain reaction as the bursting of eggs also caused the lava to erupt and also reactivate the explosives, damaging the colony. Enraged and infuriated, the Ant Queen lashed out, but was immediately tackled into the wall by a now fully-recovered and pissed off Gila, who had been freed from his bonds via explosion. The two fought viciously as the Ancestor Ant colony around them crumbled, falling apart by the seams with radioactive molten lava pouring in. Jesse, Tracer, and Mercy protected the Locker boys as they battled their way out from the collapsing colony through angry Ancestor Ants. They reunited the boys with Laurie Locker and Dr. James Whitmore and rushed to help Winston, Haroldson, and Graham combat the Ant King and what was left of the horde in the southern portion of the Sandia Mountains. Haroldson suffered direly from having his back and legs melted away by the King's formic acidic spit as he put himself in harm's way to protect Mercy, who was in the midst of quickly healing wounded men.

Gila was winning in battle against the Queen in spite of the serious gashes and caustic wound she inflicted upon him because of her clawed forelimbs and beak-like mandibles. The battle ended with the Ancestor Ant Queen killed when he blasted through her thorax and cooked her insides. He then dealt with the Ancestor Ant King up above on the surface after burrowing through the earth up into the Sandia Mountains where the two then battled for one last time. The battle concluded with Gila being victorious and the Ancestor Ant horde scattered and in disarray. Haroldson soon died of his grievous injuries after the battle. The survivors watched Gila leave, heading back to the subterranean Titan ecosystem. They later rendezvoused with General MacArthur on Tramway Boulevard where the helicopters picked them up to head back home as to report their findings.

Unique Features and Abilities:

Internal Volcanic Combustion System

Hyper-Evolved Underside Armor: The underside scales covering his chest and belly had hardened into steel-like, mineralized armored plates to the point that no amount of blunt or cutting force could penetrate them. Combined with already sharp spikes and considerably tough, segmented scutes covering his back and tail, it makes him very difficult to kill or incapacitate.

Fat Tail: Like the minute cousin it bears resemblance to, the lizard Titan possesses a long stocky, fatty tail covered in segmented bony scutes and spikes that stores excessive radioactive energy for the leaner times. It also acts as a fifth limb for support when the creature stands upright and it could be used as bludgeoning weapon as it bears similar to that of a European mace. The spikes and the gaps between the armor plates glow red-orange when Gila charges his Nuclear Napalm Heat Ray.

Nuclear Napalm Heat Ray: A signature energy-based, long range weapon of Gila. When the lizard Titan puffs up his flexible armored chest, spines, gaps, and cracks on his body and segmented armored plates glow red-orange. When he is done charging, he spits out a continuous stream of gelling agent mixed with hydrogen peroxide from his jaws while his mouth's venom glands secrete hydroquinone to create the combustible chain reaction in form of a continuous stream of burning napalm. Unlike Godzilla's azure Atomic Heat Ray, the napalm sticks onto his opponents for quite a while causing severe burn damage that could eat through skin and scar muscle tissue with third-degree burns. It is what Gila uses to also compliment his burrowing into the earth. This is the first time that an extremely large-bodied organism was documented of naturally producing the chemicals needed to create napalm within his body.

Bone-crushing Teeth Jaws

Pyro-Venomous Bite: A modified version of venom excreted from his jaws that contain inflammatory toxins that would cause irritant burn-like symptoms within the organs and lymphocytes while the nervous system would experience shut down with the heart being the first to suffer as the most severe to come from it being an acrid heart burn or heart attack.

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FROST GIANT

First Sighting:

Zurich, Switzerland, 2376

Specimen

Scientific Classification:

Ursus jotunnus

Monarch Classification:

Frost Giant/Utgard-Loki

Nickname(s):

Mammoth-Tusked Bear

Zangief

Mountain Cave Demon

Bearded Grizzly

Size:

265 feet tall (Quadrupedal)

315 feet tall (Upright)

Weight:

90,000 tons

Threat Rating:

Moderately High

Species:

Ancient Cave Bears with muscular, somewhat chubby, half-ursine, half-humanoid bodies with grayish brown fur. They possessed giant curved tusks that were half-calcium and half-mineral growing from their lower jaw, shaggy, hairy beards growing from the chin to their wide, thick shoulders, turquoise armored carapace on their neck and back made of actually condensed hair, and muddy-brown scaly plated forelimbs and paws grown with sharp spikes acting as gauntlets and digits armed with ice-blue, long hyperextended claws. They have a crowning mohawk of curved bony spines on their heads. These 'Frost Giants' were ancient relatives of the actual Cave Bears that once lived alongside them in the Pleistocene Period. These beasts were exposed to the geothermal radiation to become what they are today.

Nature:

Bio-Cryogenic

Behavior:

Destroyer

History:

This species of prehistoric ursine Titans once ruled the western and northern arctic regions of Eurasia from the Pleistocene Period AKA the Ice Age to the history of ancient human civilizations, which included the Roman Empire and the Dark Ages when Vikings, Celtics, and Goths existed. Like Jormangundr, Frost Giants featured prominently in Norse mythology, but in reality they were an ancient species of giant mammalian predators that once roamed almost half of Europe and northern Russia in greater numbers, with the exceptions of Spain and southeastern Europe. When the Vikings first encountered these monstrous bears, they thought they were looking at the Jotunn AKA Frost Giants from Jotunheim. The terrifying battles or disastrous incidents between the ancient European tribal peoples and the ursine beasts probably what sparked many of the myths about giants and the threat they represented. When food became scarce most of them hibernated deep into the mountains or isolated glaciers hence why the mountains would often be associated with the Jotunn.

In 2376, one of them was awoken from his hibernation in the Swiss Alps when unaware Talon operatives placed a nuclear detonator bomb within Overwatch's Swiss Headquarters with the scent of radiation reaching to the bear's keen senses. Compelled by extreme hunger that overridden his initial state of confusion with the unfamiliarity of the new world in front of him, the Frost Giant rampaged without any regard for the small towns and the city of Zug in his way. When he finally reached into the heart of Zurich, the male was already on top of Overwatch's Swiss HQ where Jack Morrison and Gabrielle Reyes were about to fight each other personally. Their duel was abruptly interrupted before it had even begun when the Frost Giant clawed away at the base, utilizing his armored paws and claws to get at the nuclear proton bomb hidden in HQ. Thousands of personnel died, including the UN investigation team.

After swatting away Jack Morrison, Gabrielle Reyes, and Mercy by utilizing only a meager portion of his full strength, the Frost Giant's chance for a meal was interrupted by Anguirus bursting out from the ground with the ankylosaur's generated ice mists killing Jack Morrison and incapacitating Gabrielle Reyes. When Anguirus chomped on the nuclear detonator bomb, that provoked Utgard into an vicious altercation with the armored dinosaur and the two fought one another tooth and claw. Their brawl wreaked havoc and chaos onto Zurich with Overwatch's Swiss HQ demolished and three-quarters of Zurich destroyed and frosted over into an arctic, ice-ridden wasteland with multiple casualties, mostly citizens and good half of the Swiss Army either frozen, dying from frostbite, or crushed to death.

The battle ended with both combatants heavily wounded. Utgard ultimately had to back down when he saw that Anguirus was still standing strong despite the serious claw and bite wounds he had inflicted upon the giant armored saurian whereas, the bear himself was exhausted with his own body slowly weakening from the wounds he received from the horns and spikes of his opponent. The male Frost Giant ambled away from a ruined Zurich where he finally reached Beznau where he encountered resistance from the fiercely determined, yet weakened Swiss Army, ignoring them this time as their conventional weaponry only stung the bear a little in the wounds he had received. Once he reached the active nuclear power plant where authorities attempted to shut it down, he tore into it like a grizzly would to a bee hive with the Swiss Air Force's Northrops and Boeings being the bees to Utgard. Once he was done crunching on the nuclear reactor and absorbing the radiation he desperately needed to jumpstart his metabolism and recovery, he left for the English Channel where there was no military resistance from France, Germany, or England as these nations didn't want to face the same humiliation militarily like Switzerland had suffered.

As for Beznau, even though the Frost Giant absorbed much of the nuclear radiation, there was enough amounts of it to cause the city to temporarily shut down out of dual national safety as it involved Germany with Freiburg being the closest German town in proximity to the radiation fallout. That and Zurich's devastation had put a significant dent into Switzerland's economy that may take years for the small European country to recover from.

Unique Features and Abilities:

Bio-Cryogenic Nature: Like Anguirus, Utgard has an internal biological, cryogenic cooling engine that grants him resistance to the sharp cold, arctic air. This what causes the spikes on his armor and back to be perpetually covered in ice crystals as well.

Tough Plated Armor: Turquoise armored scales on his back, specifically where his shoulder blades are and his neck are what enable protection for the most vulnerable parts that most predatory Titans would likely target.

Scale-plated Arms and Paws: The modified hairs that have been tightly condensed together as well as some bone growth turn his arms into naturally-evolved armored arm braces that would not only protect his limbs from severe damage, or at least nullify it to a degree, but could also be used to bludgeon enemies.

Cryogenic-Inducing Claws: The long claws are coated in a bluish, cooling retardant substance secreted from glands in the paws. When Utgard claws into a Titan, the claws sort of inject the substance into the wounds, albeit with less precision and finesse than a cobra bite. Nevertheless, this substance actually freezes blood cells in the body causing a chemical chain reaction where the bodily processes start to slow down, affecting metabolism, causing symptoms with headache, loss of vision, heart failure, increased respiratory difficulty, and lethargy being primary examples. However, it is ineffective against ice-based Titans or creatures heavily armored with Anguirus having both attributes.

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KUMONGA

First Sighting:

Arizona, USA, 2376

Specimen

Scientific Classification:

Speiga claytonii

Monarch Classification:

Gogyeng Sowuhti/Spiega/Kumonga

Nickname(s):

Spider Grandmother

Miss Bigly Ugly Spider

The Weaver of Fate

Eight-Legged Freak

Guardian of Destiny

Size:

Height: 180 feet tall (55 meters)

Length: 214 feet long (65.5 meters)

Weight:

33,000 tons

Threat Rating:

High

Species:

Prehistoric golden silk orb weaver-like spider Titan with the cephalothorax being white, her legs being striped black and golden yellow. Her brown crown-shaped, spiky abdomen has a black stripe running down the middle that's broken up by three pairs of yellow 'eyespots' with the other five having each 'eye' on opposite sides of the abdomen. The underside of her abdomen bears an hourglass red-orange mark like that of a brown widow spider.

Nature:

Bio-Terran/Radioactively Venomous

Behavior:

Predator

History:

Kumonga and the ancient spider species she belonged to first came into being during the transitional phase of time between the Permian and Triassic Periods around the same time that Ts-Eh-Go and his species first appeared. Starting out as giant-sized as they could be, big as dinner plates, the Spiega were locked in evolutionary conflict against the Sasori mortificus. During the late Cretaceous was where they reached their peak as they grew to enormous sizes and gained new abilities to acquire any advantage over each other with Kumonga more focused on her ability to manipulate webs, her agility, and being able to asexually create her own offspring while Ts-Eh-Go was more for brute strength, tougher armor, and ability to spit acid from his tails. After the K/T Extinction Event, both species were forced into eons of suspended animation when there's no longer adequate radiation levels and sizable prey items to sustain their metabolism growth, and ravenous lifestyles. The spiders remained dormant right into the 24th century until the Yellowstone Eruption happened.

Kumonga had awoken, but she and her brood remained in the cave lair in Black Mesa, Arizona after feasting on the "naïve" native Puebloan tribe that worshipped her as the Spider Grandmother of Hopi mythology as her hated nemesis had not yet awoken. Their brief time of respite was interrupted by a group of young mine thieves that unwittingly ventured into their territory unaware of her presence. She attacked all except one who wasn't foolish enough to intrude into her home and had them stuck onto her silky webs for herself and her brood to feed upon. Later at sunset when the Arizona Army National Guard and the state troopers under General Joshua Collins and Sheriff McAucliff along with Monarch scientists, Dr. Harris Mastings and Dr. Stephanie Clayton, broke into her cave to look for the dead thieves, she commanded her younger brood to attack them. A terrible onslaught ensued with the Spiega being on the offensive and killing much of the human and Omnic American soldiers in their wake. If they lost some, the Spiega will always have more of their younger peers to replace them. The two young Kumonga males along with their siblings pursued the fleeing humans out into the open beyond the cave entrance where they were met with more resistance from the Omnic battlemechs, hover-tanks, and specialists armed with napalm flamethrowers. Many of them perished in flames, but not before taking down some of the men with them.

Despite having her cave entrance sealed by the US military, Kumonga was far from defeated as she sensed the return of her old rival waking up in Mexico. Using the subterranean tunnels connected to the deep back end of her lair, she and her multiple offspring escaped underground without notice. By the time Dr. Harris and Dr. Stephanie realized what happened it was far too late. Crawling through the underground passageways that connect to caverns leading to the Cave of Crystals, Kumonga and her brethren finally arrived in Chihuahua, the largest state of Mexico. Kumonga and the other Spiega briefly feasted on a small village in the countryside before the arrival of Ts-Eh-Go and the Sasori prompted them to advance once more, traversing the high hills and cliffs to get to Chihuahua City. Once there, they used the buildings to construct silky web constructs to set the stage for their long awaited battle with the scorpions.

Then the giant spiders ambushed the unaware scorpions in earnest with Kumonga leading the charge when she spat out a thread of silk onto Ts-Eh-Go. It was there the fighting styles couldn't be any clearer and more contrasting between the two to the world observing this clash of the arachnid monsters go down in Chihuahua City. Whereas Ts-Eh-Go was almost purely brute force and straightforward aggression, Kumonga was surprisingly nimble and agile for a monstrously enormous spider as well as wily. Both of the arachnid titans have heightened senses, but Kumonga's was sharper with her spider-sense aiding her tremendously in dodging and parrying Ts-Eh-Go's heavier, powerful strikes with her sharp-pointed limbs. However, Ts-Eh-Go's high levels of aggression and very durable exoskeleton countered Kumonga's extrasensory advantages and quicker reflexes. Plus, his claw pincers and acid spits easily shredded whatever webs Kumonga could throw at him in spite of them being 20 times stronger than steel and nine times more elastic than nylon that could easily put a halt to a runaway train and even Genji's blade from cutting it through. Then there were the observations that Kumonga somewhat maintained a sense of a maternal bond with her offspring even during battle as to assist them when they're in dire trouble. Ts-Eh-Go, on the other hand, displayed more animalistic and brutish behaviors as he was the biggest and strongest of his kind, ruling by fear and aggression. The smaller Sasori follow him out of necessity for survival. Even then, survival was not always guaranteed as Ts-Eh-Go would nab even one of his smaller brethren, apart from the younger Spiega most of the time, and brusquely toss them against Kumonga to maximize any chance to stun and trip her up.

The conflict quickly turned into a battle of attrition at a deadly stalemate with Spiega and Sasori species suffering heavy losses and Chihuahua City being webbed and corroded all over the place. Kumonga and Ts-Eh-Go were in deadlock as neither could decisively deliver a blow to one another.

Then the Mexican Air Force sent their bombers armed with napalm bombs to put an end to the conflict to prevent further loss of life and property brought about by the feuding Titans. A burdensome, controversial decision that would haunt former Mexican Vice President and current replacement of the late President Simon Hernandez, Samuel Guerrero for the rest of his career. Chihuahua was bombed into oblivion with Spiega and Sasori species incinerated with the surviving giant arachnids fleeing the city with some of them gunned down by tanks and walker mechs. Kumonga and Ts-Eh-Go themselves were scorched and heavily wounded by the bombings, forcing them to retreat in order to regroup and to recover elsewhere. They left Chihuahua City a flaming wreck of this once beautiful industrial city and their eternal rivalry unfinished.

Unique Features and Abilities:

Webbing: She could shoot thick silky webbing and a stinger from her mandibles. Kumonga's web could split mid-air into a wide net that could ensnare her foes, restricting their movements. She could also create walls of webs between buildings where she could crawl vertically and also trap her victims.

Sharp Legs: Kumonga had long legs in sharp points which can be used to skewer opponents, crush through materials, and climb or manipulate the very walls of webbing she had created.

Pedipalps: Prehensible pedipalps that can be used to grab small prey.

Regenerative ability: She could regenerate a severed leg it had lost to Ts-Eh-Go when he cut it off with his pincer claw.

Stinger: A venomous stinger that she spat out that killed one of the Sasori scorpions.

Parthenogenesis: She could asexually reproduce her own offspring if there's no available male to mate with.

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TS-EH-GO

First Sighting:

Puebla, Mexico, 2376

Specimen

Scientific Classification:

Sasori mortificus

Monarch Classification:

Ts-Eh-Go/Sasori

Nickname(s):

Black Sting

Dark Guardians of the Underworld

Acid-tailed Scorpions

Avatars of Malinalxochitl

Size:

164 feet tall (50 meters)

262 feet long (80 meters)

Weight:

53,000 tons

Threat Rating:

High

Species:

Prehistoric species of Titan closely related to the Pulmonoscorpius of the Carboniferous Period and first appeared in the late Permian period. The carapace of the regular Sasori that average about 180 feet long are imbued with jagged obsidian scutes with the most prominent ones on their tails, giving them a gleaming jet-black coloration. The alpha Titan individual, Ts-Eh-Go, has more of a sapphire coloration, lighter blue underside with a singular row of chili-red blotches running from the base of the mesosoma or abdomen up to the tail stinger. The scorpion Titan is obviously armed with crushing pincer claws that could not only destroy the sturdiest metals, but also cut through Kumonga's webs. However, it is Ts-Eh-Go's asymmetrical mouthparts that make him stand out from other scorpions as one of the mouthparts was elongated like a saber-like fang.

Nature:

Bio-Terran/Radioactively Venomous

Behavior:

Predator

History:

First discovered by the Aztecs, Ts-Eh-Go briefly was aroused from his slumber by their curious nature and attacked them. The Aztecs were overwhelmed and humbled by the arachnid Titan, believing him to be the avatar of Malinalxochitl guarding the entrance into the Underworld. Some of the ancient Central American people built a temple and altar around the lair. A dark secret cult was formed around Ts-Eh-Go, performing human sacrifices to dedicate to and to appease the monsters. When the cult was captured and destroyed by the other Aztecs that deemed them to be too dangerous and fanatical to them, Ts-Eh-Go and his ilk were denied their easy source of food when the soldiers sealed the entrance to the cave under orders of the Aztec ruler. They were forced into hibernation when the radiation levels of the magma coming from the nearby Poppcatepatl diminished as well. Thus, they slept while the Aztec empire had gradually fallen in timing with the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors. Time had passed until into the 24th century.

When Popocatepetl erupted, Ts-Eh-Go, the giant prehistoric scorpion Titan and other smaller individuals of his ilk arose from their dormancy once more beneath the derelict, abandoned Aztec temple dedicated to Malinalxochitl. The scorpions attacked San Corazon with the Mexican military mounting inadequate defenses against them. The horror didn't stop there as the giant scorpions advanced onto Mexico City. While Mexico City had the evacuation underway, it didn't prevent casualties to pile up quickly as soon as Ts-Eh-Go and his ilk stalked through the city streets for the citizens still trapped in the city limits with the Mexican army tanks wasting no time in bombarding the giant arachnids with artillery shells and laser blasts. In spite of the military's best efforts that resulted in killing some of the smaller, inexperienced younger scorpions, Mexico City suffered greatly as the larger, more wily individuals, including Ts-Eh-Go himself, were mostly unaffected with conventional weaponry bouncing off their exoskeletal shells. Their pincer claws and tail stingers tore apart the heavy armor plating of the tanks and Omnic battlemechs like paper. Ts-Eh-Go was even observed shooting out streams of acid out from his tail stinger that melt through layers of steel.

Came nightfall, the scorpions returned to their underground lair after they had conquered Mexico City. However, despite their cave entrance and the tunnel they had created underneath New Mexico City being sealed off, Ts-Eh-Go and his ilk took refuge in the underground caves before resurfacing in Chihuahua. Some of the people in Chihuahua had been killed and mauled by the prehistoric scorpions before Ts-Eh-Go had his rampage abruptly interrupted by a spit of silky webbing to his face. Not too soon were his smaller brethren being ensnared in silky webbing by the giant Spiega spiders.

Kumonga, the more gigantic matriarch spider herself, had finally arrived onto the scene to kill her mortal hated enemy. The titanic duel between Kumonga and Ts-Eh-Go ensued with most of Chihuahua devastated; buildings and roads were demolished by Kumonga's legs, Ts-Eh-Go's tail stinger and claws, and also either entangled in the spider's skyscraper-sized silky webs or melted into oblivion by the acid streams secreted out from the scorpion's tail. The battle ended in a draw when the Mexican Air Force sent their bombers that unleashed a bombardment of napalm bombs onto both Titan species. Many of the smaller brethren of both Kumonga's and Ts-Eh-Go's species have been incinerated by the blasts. Kumonga and Ts-Eh-Go themselves have been scarred by the explosive napalm, forcing them to retreat underground.

Any attempt to locate the arachnid monsters had not been fruitful as of late. Despite countless searches even into possible caverns and sinkholes, the mission had to be called off with Kumonga and Ts-Eh-Go declared MIA.

Unique Features and Abilities:

Exoskeletal Carapace: The carapace is made out chitinous and elements of obsidian embedded into its composition, making the armor tougher and more jagged with spiky protrusions resembling unpolished obsidian flint. A formidable defensive trait useful for protection against larger Titans or others of his own kind.

Crushing Claw Pincers: The first major characteristic of every scorpion and Ts-Eh-Go is no exception. Ts-Eh-Go's claws were specialized to crush bone, snap limbs off, and cut through Kumonga's tough, fibrous webbing like scissors through paper. The cutting edge of each claw is sharp enough, but it is the pressure they exert is the killer. Amount of pressure is equivalent to 20 alligator bites.

Tail Stinger: The second major characteristic that every scorpion possesses. Ts-Eh-Go contains the usual anatomical traits needed for a venomous, toxic sting such as a vesicle, or telson containing the pair of poison glands, located right above the stinger. It also contains another gland for acidic streams. The pair of poisonous glands contain deadly neurotoxins that could disorient larger monsters with intense pain, vivid hallucinations, dizziness, abnormal twitches of the muscles, nausea, vomiting, and nightmares for weeks, despite it not being fatal thanks to their bigger bodies. For any organism about the same size or smaller than Ts-Eh-Go though, it is a death sentence as the toxins attack the nervous system causing paralysis, assaulting lymphocytes that lead to dysfunctional organs, causing heart failure, convulsions, and shock. Any or a combination of these things would cause death. Ts-Eh-Go could also excrete a stream of hydrofluoric acid that upon contact would eat into any surface away almost instantly.

Asymmetrical Mouthparts: One of the mouthparts has evolved into a saber-like fang meant to butcher tougher body parts of his victim while eating.

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KING KONG

First Sighting:

Skull Island, 2362

Specimen

Scientific Classification:

Megaprimatus kong

Monarch Classification:

King Kong

Nickname(s):

King of Skull Island

God of Skull Island

The Beast God of Thunder

Alpha Ruler of Primates

King of the Gorillas

The 8th Wonder of the World

The-Mountain-Who-Thunders-Death

One Who Thunders From Skull Mountain

Size:

220 feet tall (when on all fours or knucklewalking position)

270 feet tall (when fully upright)

Weight:

50,000 tons

Threat Rating:

Moderate

Species:

Large, rare ape-like Titans from Skull Island that possess common physical and genetical characteristics of gorillas. However, they also share some similar traits found in chimpanzees suggesting convergent evolution in response to the harsh hyperfaunal environment of Skull Island and that there was another earlier split off from the ancestral line of ape-like hominoids that would become the gorillas of Africa. An unknown offshoot that began around roughly 7.3 million years ago when these basal African hominoids traveled through Asia and somehow landed on Skull Island around 6.8 millions of years ago. They were probably not native to the island at first, but then later evolved into an indigenous Titan superspecies after exposure to geothermal radioactivity from the island's volcanoes. Megaprimatus greatly resemble that of gorillas with traits such as high-crested, rounded heads with strong, powerful jaws powered by strong muscles anchored from their sagittal crests to their mandibles, arms longer and more muscled and heavily built compared to their hindlimbs, barrel wide chests, stocky, big bodies with huge muscles, large patch of efficient solar-powered hairs containing algae-derived chlorophyll that draw extra energy from the sun and are arranged across their backs in a pattern vaguely resembling a silver skull. They have a few key differences setting them apart from gorillas in that they don't have a herbivorous beer belly, but rather chiseled, muscled abdominal torsos. Their diet is more akin to that of chimpanzees being omnivorous or leaning more towards carnivory and the key bones in the hip and lower spine support a bipedal, human-like stance for a longer time than gorillas.

Nature:

Bio-Electrical/Bio-Terran

Behavior:

Protector/Territorial

History:

First having arrived on Skull Island around 6.8 millions of years ago, Kong's predecessors quickly evolved and mutated into gigantic Titan superspecies, which puts them in direct competition with the island's original apex predators. The Titan superspecies of dinosaurian theropods from the megaraptoran clade called Gorosaurus dynastes. The apes' evolution challenged the dominance and authority of these highly derived Titan descendants of coelurosaurian, basal tyrannosauroids such as Megaraptor and Fukuiraptor. For millions of years, Megaprimatus kong and Gorosaurus dynastes competed for the supremacy of the island as indicated by numerous remains of Gorosaurs with broken jaws and Kongs with arm and rib bones punctured by Gorosaur teeth and claw marks.

Things changed with the invasion of the Skullcrawlers, however. While the Kongs settled with an uneasy truce with the Gorosaurs to combat this new threat, it didn't change the fact that they were up against a brutal, insatiable species of diapsid, two-armed reptiles that were not afraid of death.

What followed was an all-out war between what had become the three most powerful super species on the island. For millions of years, the numbers on all sides dwindled. The conflict culminated at the birth of Kong, which may be as old as two million years ago. Kong was orphaned at a very young age. He grew to adulthood by his wits and strength, and slowly began to take back the island from the remaining clan of Skullcrawlers. The expedition of 2362 was privileged to witness the climax of this age-old struggle, as the Apex Primate finally defeated the ruthless Skull-Devil, Ramarak, leaving him as King of Skull Island. His rule would begin with a brief span of relative peace… until the larger forces of the world began to wake up…

Unique Features and Abilities:

Superhuman Strength: As expected for the King of a land like Skull Island, Kong is a powerhouse. He is incredibly strong, even for his size, and has been observed lifting, throwing objects and other kaiju twice his mass. His thick hide, covered in a layer of matted, bristle-like fur, is surprisingly durable, as he is more than capable of smashing solid stone with his fists. The bite-force of his jaws are also extremely strong, and is accentuated by sharp canine teeth.

Primate Agility: Kong is quite nimble in spite of his large muscle mass. Combined with his incredible dexterity, which is characterized by his hands and feet both having opposable digits, he is able to traverse through the treacherous labyrinth-like canopies of Skull Island's Super Jungles, clamber onto cliff walls, and climb onto mountains with great ease.

Intelligence: Kong, like all great apes, is a highly intelligent creature capable of strategizing two steps ahead of his enemies. This same trait is what enables him the important advantage of primitive weapon usage, or to put it simply, being able to grab whatever object that could be used as a weapon. He is also able to learn and quickly adapt to changes in the environment by implementing improvised, advanced fighting tactics to turn the tide of battle to his favor.

Electrical Mana: Megaprimatus are god-like apes evolved to harness a power unlike any other and that no other Titan so far is capable of doing. Kong is able to draw upon the bio-electrical forces generated by the almost mythical life-energy cycle unique to Skull Island's Titan fauna ecosystem. He gathers and channels this powerful energy through his body for a wide range of uses from simply producing a defensive aura to executing a Thunder Clap where he slammed his palms to create electrical shockwaves that short-circuited highly advanced tech even with the most sophisticated electrical surge protectors and electrocuted his monstrous foes in front of him. His last resort was Mana Burst, an extremely powerful all-encompassing attack that could be felt for miles, but it is taxing on Kong with nearly all of his energy reserves depleted. The true limits of this power has yet to be determined.