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."

15. Titanosaurus Part 1

Godzilla (c) Toho Ltd., Legendary Pictures, and Warner Bros.

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED/SEED Destiny (c) Mitsuo Fukuda, Sunrise Inc.

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TITANOSAURUS

Reported Sighting:

South Pacific Paleo-Sphere (a vast unusual Bio-Sphere stretching across the North and South Pacific, bordered or defined by the Mariana, Philippine, Bougainville, Tonga, Izu Bonin, and Japan trenches), 1989

Specimen

Scientific Classification:

Titanus sauropisces

Monarch Classification:

Titanosaurus/Taniwha

Nickname(s):

Dr. Mafune's Dinosaur

Size:

650 feet tall (minus the large tail fin)

2,778 feet long

Weight:

151,498 tons

Threat Rate:

Low to Moderate

Species:

At first, Titanosaurus was thought to be the sole surviving species of spinosaurs, a family of sail-backed, crocodile-snouted theropod dinosaurs of the early to middle Cretaceous, as he shares many physical similarities to them such as his tapering, triangular crocodile-like snout, relatively long, flexible neck, two fan-like sail fins: One on his head and neck, the other on his back, powerful hindlimbs with partially webbed feet, and strong, lengthy forelimbs with partial flippers armed with sharp claws. The only exceptions are his immensely strong tail ending with an enormous fish-like tail fin and the two pairs of horns with the smaller pair growing from his bony eyebrows while the larger pair grow from behind his cranium, granting him a rather draconic appearance. However, genetic testing and phylogenetic assessment later revealed that Titanosaurus was entirely something else.

The dinosaur-like beast was part of an entirely new group of animals that blur the line between amphibians and reptiles called Pseudoreptilia. Prehistoric animals that are highly derived amphibians that started out as aquatic, underdeveloped tadpoles, but growing up into adulthood, they take on more reptilian, land-based characteristics such as hardened scaly skin, more developed, straighter limbs, heightened senses, strong air-breathing lungs, and powerful tails while still retaining some of their amphibian ancestry such as their ventral gills, fish-like fins, and pores between scales that enable absorption and respiration of oxygen from the water. They are basically the amphibian versions of dinosaurs and Titanosaurus is the monumental pinnacle of this group of peculiar animals.

Nature:

Bioluminescent/Bio-Terran

Behavior:

Passive Aggressive

Unique Abilities:

Titanosaurus is highly adapted for life in the deep sea. His reddish coloration makes him nearly invisible to other abyssal inhabitants, as red light doesn't penetrate far into the ocean. Five pairs of external gills along the ventral side of his neck are home to colonies of bacteria that assist in respirating a variety of volcanic chemicals, similar to those found within the bodies of giant tube worms. The many folds within the skin of his ventral regions increase surface area for better oxygen extraction as well. He does not rely on any form of sonar, but possesses a very sensitive lateral line system across his body, allowing him to detect even very faint movements and construct a three-dimensional map of his surroundings in pitch darkness. This allows him to move silently within the abyss, attracting as little attention as possible.

Despite being adept in the dark, Titanosaurus retains large, functional crocodile-like eyes, which are very sensitive and can detect the still poorly-understood phenomena of hydrothermal light and seismic light. This sensitivity, however, makes him almost totally blind on the surface, where he must protect his vision with dark green nictitating membranes, giving his yellowish eyes a greenish tint. His lateral line is also easily provoked by hypersonic frequencies, which he is quick to respond to. Like many deep-sea organisms, Titanosaurus is bioluminescent, which is activated in ever-changing patterns along his dorsal fins, possibly as a form of communication, though he is the only member of his species observed thus far. Under stress, he is able to produce a sudden, very intense blast of light all across his body, stunning attackers.

Physically, Titanosaurus is sleek, but still very powerful. He easily outpaces Godzilla underwater, and is highly maneuverable and graceful. On land, however, he is much more cumbersome. Even so, he retains use of his powerful claws, spike-like crocodilian teeth, and immensely strong tail, whose thrashing is able to create whirlpools underwater and gales in the air. A strike from such an appendage is estimated to be enough to level the average city building. At times, even his terrestrial clumsiness plays in his favor as he violently throws his weight around. His hide is coated in thick layers of large, overlapping mineral scales for flexible protection.

Titanosaurus doesn't solely rely on his physical brawn, however, as he has a specialized "lung" coupled with a specialized pair of glands that together produce extremely hot, highly-pressurized water that boil at about 80 degrees Celsius when he shoots forth his scalding hot geyser breath from his mouth.

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Gundam SEED Apex -Titanosaurus Part 1

Cagalli Yula Attha-Zala had been not having a good sleep today. In fact, the times she did have any at all that lasted more than six hours she could easily count them all with her five fingers on one hand. Her restless, worried mind barely allowing her the enjoy the benefits of a full night's sleep. The blonde-haired, female Chief Representative of Orb had not been the same mentally despite doing a really good job of looking steely composed exterior-wise when it came to conferences with delegates from other superpower nation-states like the Atlantic Federation, the Kingdom of Azadistan, the Advanced European Union, The Constitutional Republic of Judah, and ZAFT. Most of the time, especially when she's on television having to make announcements regarding major policy decisions, she's majestic and powerful as the Lioness of Orb she was just like her predecessor and father, Uzumi Nara Attha, who was the "Lion of Orb" during throughout most of the First Alliance-Plant War until he had to blow himself up to prevent the Earth Alliance from conquering the Kaguya Mass Drive.

Or at least, she was like that on the outside for the majority of the time, but more recently she began showing signs with more of an angry and annoyed expression showing up even in her calmest moments thanks to certain annoyances.

Very large and earth-shaking annoyances.

Ones that caused massive headaches and long nights at her office desk among other issues that touch on more mundane domestic, international issues like trade agreements, tax incentives, infrastructure repair, etc, and counting a huge handful of matters regarding her country's military that just so happened to be related somehow to the major annoyances as well. Ones that have, more often than not, robbed her of the precious hours of sleep.

Pretty much another day being the Chief Representative of Orb and Commander-in-Chief of Orb's military. The beautiful, yet tired Lioness in her transparent night-gown with her shoulders bare and her cleavage visible stayed in the queen-sized bed for a few minutes, both looking over the official itinerary for the day that she created on her iPhone as well as dreading whatever unexpected twist could screw her day over. Looking down and seeing the handsome face of her husband and Admiral of Orb's military, Athrun Zala, calmed down her uneased mind even if it was temporary and momentary.

Looking at her clock, it was 6:28 AM with the sun's light just starting to rise. Two minutes before the alarm sounded.

Deciding that the alarm was not worth it, Cagalli reached over above Athrun and turned the alarm off, which her action was enough to wake him up. He let out a soft groan as he slowly blinked, opening his emerald eyes to see his wife already sitting up.

"Morning, Athrun," Cagalli said gently to him in spite of the exhausting night she had to go through yesterday. Athrun rubbed his eyes, slowly pushing himself into his sitting position shirtless showing off his lean, powerful musculature and relatively youthful face with his characteristic dark blue hair despite close to approaching to the age of 40, albeit with the beginnings of a wrinkle here and there. Cagalli seemed to have hardly aged and not have lost any of the ferocious, wild headstrong beauty that made him fall in love with her with her hair being slightly longer at her current age of 40 than when she was younger.

"Morning, Cagalli," Athrun greeted back. "What time is it?"

"6:30 AM."

Athrun yawned, stretching his arms, which caused Cagalli to involuntarily stretch hers.

"Cagalli, about last night...," he spoke.

"Athrun, I'm sorry for what I said to you. It was wrong of me to vent all of my frustrations on to you," she interrupted with regret lingering in her voice, "It's just..."

Athrun brushed her golden locks while gently caressing her cheek as he offered a comforting smile with a forgiving look in his eyes.

"I knew you had a lot of things on your mind and you were stressed out from the long day. It's just that I decided to not let my emotions drive me to do something I'd regret when you were not yourself."

"Haumea...you also had a long day, especially, having to argue with those APEX guys as in how did they allow some of the Titans escape under their noses recently." Athrun nodded, recalling how much he gave Chairman Spielberg an earful about the recent Titan escapee, Rhedosaurus, from Tasmania, that strayed too close to the shore for Orb's comfort while it was hunting for Macro-sized species of Tuna in the water.

"That's one story I think it'd better be told at the dining table. Everyone had a long day, me, you, Leonidas, Kira, and even Lacus."

"That's true. Speaking of which, Lacus told me that she's still worried for Kira." Cagalli said, "I could see it in her eyes even with her cheery facade on. Later, I tried to talk to Kira as his sister. He...hasn't forgiven APEX for seducing Feldt into their ranks. It's still a sore subject for him and Lacus, Athrun. And one he hasn't been able to get over and I honestly can't blame him."

Athrun sighed at that. He remembered how shocked and angry his best friend sounded when he found out that Feldt joined APEX without the entire family exactly knowing about it until it was too late. Kira Yamato came close to wanting to pilot his new Gundam mobile suit, the ZGMF-X30A Absolute Freedom, up straight to APEX, wreck them apart, and grab his adopted daughter and bring her home. Thankfully, Lacus and their eldest twin children, Hikari and Lara, snapped him out of his enraged state with some help from Athrun and Cagalli. However, it still left a bitter aftertaste to Kira and Lacus despite having finally come to terms to accept that Feldt chose to join APEX out of her own volition. Orb's power couple also had grown a rather cautious and more apprehensive view of APEX as well even though they were not as incensed as Kira was. Athrun understood what it was like to be at Feldt's age or older in that one would think of himself or herself better at making decisions than the parents. It still didn't make the fact of his adopted niece's secretive enlistment into APEX any less painful or grinding to him personally, but he felt that this was one that Kira should have seen coming a mile away.

"Cagalli...he still needs time to sort his emotions out. It's how families work as much as it can be distressing at times. Let Kira, Lacus, and the rest of their children iron out their issues. We need to take care of our own. So don't worry...okay, dearie?" Athrun stroked her cheek gently.

"I don't know what to do, Athrun. APEX's recruitment of Feldt may have stoked the flames, for which I still have not forgotten them for that, but I hate seeing Kira hurt himself like this," Cagalli answered, clearly understanding the pain that Kira is going through that was probably similar to how her adopted father felt when she had not returned to Orb immediately and became part of the Desert Dawn.

"Just give it time." Athrun said as he kissed Cagalli on the cheek before his wife returned the gesture by kissing him fully to his lips with their bodies pressing upon one another intimately. It went on for a minute or so before they slowly pulled away from each other with her tears dried away with her expression more relaxed than it was before.

Cagalli rose as she went to the royal bathroom to shower.

Athrun turned on the flat-screen television, flipping through a few channels, and only to stop and pause when it came to the Orb Pacific News Network. It showed a senate hearing in Washington, D.C.

Stephen Spielberg, Ferris Randa, and Suzanne Watson were there, looking beleaguered and tired. He remembered a similar inquiry not too long ago with his wife, he, and the other ministers of the Orb Union being the ones conducting it when it was Dr. Emma Russell in the hot seat at the time. He didn't envy anyone being placed in the hot seat.

"The Chairman of the mysterious APEX organization along with his colleagues will face a second intense round of grilling as the Atlantic Federation government is in a serious debate as to whether it is sustainable in the long run to contain these creatures for further study or have them all eliminated altogether," the anchor was saying, "and rumors persist that APEX may be hiding more creatures discovered since the Attack on San Francisco of CE 85 and the Yellowstone Eruption of CE 87, which left parts of the western United States uninhabitable with federal cleanup crews still investigating for any lingering traces of radioactivity and signs of more Macro species. Both are historic tragedies that changed the world forever once again and had torn apart the long-sought-out peace that ZAFT Chairwoman Lacus Clyne-Yamato and Orb Union's Cagalli Yula Attha-Zala worked so hard to create after fighting in two Bloody Valentine Wars. The day the world discovered that monsters are real..."

Some people had known there were monsters in the world for centuries. Generations. However, most of these monsters lurked or lied dormant in the most remote corners of the world. They kept to themselves. They were watched, and in some cases, contained by APEX. But ten years ago, when the male MUTO broke free from containment in Japan and charted a path of destruction from Japan, through Honolulu, and finally San Francisco, where it and the other awakened monsters: Godzilla, the female MUTO, Rodan, Radon, and Megaguirus and her brood of Meganulon, converged onto each other. The Rodans had awakened from their slumber in the volcano that was their nesting lair above the town of Isle de Mara and their supersonic flights left the island town a shambling mess. The subsequent awakening of their mortal enemies were the Meganeura-like Titans called Meganulon that have an alpha queen of their own dubbed Megaguirus. They terrorized and rendered Alto Lucero desolate after feeding on the Laguna Verde Nuclear Power Plant to restock their nearly depleted reserves. The collision between these ancient aerial monsters happened above in Mexico's airspace before Megaguirus tried to escape from the pterosaurian predators, eventually flying into San Francisco with the Rodans hot on her stinger-like tail. The fact that monsters exist became public knowledge. The world learned of the Godzillasaurus rex and the Aquiladactylus rodania.

Eight years ago, the world was rocked again by the awakening of another Titan emerging from the Tunguska Crater, Siberia. An ankylosaur-type dinosaurian Titan with bio-cryogenic abilities and earthly mineral-like composition classified as Angirasaurus siberiensis. The monster was named after the Eurasian 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 APEX operatives long ago in naming the creature. It was when Godzilla and Anguirus clashed thrice. The first time was in Singapore when Anguirus had not yet finished his mineralizing process to harden his spikes and shell when forced out of his icy chrysalis prematurely. The second time was in New York when Anguirus rampaged from Iceland, across the northeastern Canada all the way to Manhattan where he and Godzilla fought once again. This time, Anguirus had the upper hand in the battle of attrition, overwhelming the Monster King. He almost killed Godzilla with his body being better armored and armed with sharper spikes if it hadn't been for Radon II, who was one of the offspring of the first two Rodans from the San Francisco attack, interfering at the 11th hour, that resulted in Radon II defeating the exhausted armored Titan before Anguirus retreated. The third and final time was when Godzilla, Anguirus and Radon II fought at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming with the ensuing earth-shaking clash causing the extremely dormant supervolcano to suddenly erupt only for Godzilla to come out from the supervolcano as the victor retaining his crowning title as King of the Monsters.

A few months later, Godzilla reappeared to fight the MUTO Prime, this time in more remote places with less damage and fewer collateral deaths. Then he once more returned to the depths of the ocean. However, the troubles were far from over as at around the same time, New Mexico suffered the aftereffects from the Yellowstone Eruption as giant ant-like Titans dubbed the Ancestor Ants awoken from their suspended animation and terrorized the state in their attempt to strengthen their hive. This resulted in attracting the subterranean Paleo-Albuquerque Ecosystem's apex predator, Gilasaurus horridus, or Gila, up onto the surface where it carved out its own path of destruction in its goal to eradicate the Ancestor Ants.

Since CE 87 till CE 95, humanity lived in fearful terror of subsequent Titan attacks, which caused housing market to crash as the value of waterfront property plummeted. Schoolchildren drilled to evacuate in case of a monster attack. Various nation blocs, including Orb, ZAFT, and the Atlantic Federation were forced to focus larger financial expenditures into expanding their military, and creating new technologies, mobile suits, specialized elite teams meant to hunt down Titans, and military/scientific divisions specifically to counter a possible Titan attack. It was also during the latter half of CE 87 and the beginning of CE 88, that the major ecoterrorist organization, the Red Orochi, arose into public prominence as a reactionary, radical force attempting to restore balance to the natural world by destroying military facilities keeping the Titans captive. Months later, the counter-reactionary, private paramilitary organization, ARC Knights, came into public existence primarily waging war against the Red Orochi with their goal being to end all conflict and the destruction of any source that instigates conflict, which included the Titans.

As the monsters' existence came to light, so did APEX. Scientists from the organization were called before various government bodies and questioned at length about their intentions and methods. In the years since the attacks, intelligence agencies, investigative reporters, and independent journalists such as Miriallia Haw-Elsman, Steve Martin, Audrey Timmonds, Kinue Crossroads had come to believe that recently awoken monsters like Godzilla, the MUTOs, the Rodans, Megaguirus, Gila, Ancestor Ants, Kumonga, Ts-Eh-Go, the Frost Giant, Rattlor, Yellowbelly, Kamacuras, Oodako, Gezora, Ogra and Gorgo, Jirass, Maguma, and Rhedosaurus weren't the only monsters out there.

Athrun turned his gaze from the TV screen when he heard Cagalli coming out from the shower. He looked to the door to see Cagalli wrapped around in her yellow towel, leaving only slightly moist blonde hair exposed to the rising sunrise, which made her hair glow beautifully like fire with droplets making the locks gleam like gold that complimented her fair complexion.

"You're beautiful as the fire goddess with the sun shining on you," Athrun complimented. Cagalli giggled softly with a light blush on her cheeks as it was always sincerely true and cute at the same time. Her stress and grievances momentarily forgotten, but the moment didn't last long when they heard something beeping loudly going on from downstairs.

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Lionelle pushed aside some of her college textbooks on the dining table to make room for her laptop. She checks through her emails with more than half of them being college events, note/packet attachments from her college professors, and some school promotions. The other half being social media notifications of text messages and posts from her friends and family, usually coming from her classmates; some of them being foreign exchange students, like Saji Crossroads from the Republic of East Asia and Louise Halevy from the AEU, her older brother, Leonidas, who was in the Orb military and the four Yamato children: Hikari, Lara, Lianette, and Haru. While she was usually perked up for that kind of stuff, she was more interested for a set of emails belonging to a certain adopted family member into the Clyne-Yamato clan. There she found them, recent emails belonging to Feldt. The ones she hadn't opened yet. Life in college wasn't always fun for Lionelle. In fact, most of the time, she was very busy considering the kind of engineering courses she's undergoing through, but she made some time to talk to Feldt when she wasn't usually swamped to keep in touch with her even after all of the family drama surrounding her enlistment into APEX. There hadn't been many emails from Feldt since she joined APEX, so it had to be from a very secured personal device that wouldn't be tracked down by potential hackers and all that.

Then there was her uncle and aunt from the PLANTs. In the past, Kira and Lacus were more jovial when the family was together and her Mom and Dad had hung out with them. She recalled the happier times she, Leonidas, and Marigold, her younger sister, hung out with the Yamato twins, the middle child, the youngest, and the adopted child of the Clyne-Yamato. Long time friends she had known growing up with them since childhood. That hardly changed after all these years. When she managed to contact either her uncle, who was the PLANTs' National Defense Committee Chairman, or her aunt, who was Chairwoman of the Supreme Council of ZAFT, they seemed to have not changed much after what had happened recently.

Sadly, it was a façade. Lionelle could clearly see it crack whenever she tried to bring up the subject of Feldt with their mood changing with uncomfortable tension in the air. It was obvious with Kira Yamato as he would have this look of disappointment and resentment on his face, not so much for Feldt herself, but for APEX being the shadowy, manipulative organization that had the gall to recruit her to plunge her into a dangerous world of darkness she's not prepared for without his knowledge.

Lacus, on the other hand, was somewhat more supportive of the choices her adoptive daughter decided to do, albeit very reluctantly. At times, Lionelle could see that the Chairwoman would have a forlorn expression that spoke volumes of how she was still internally torn of what to make of that fateful day. Because Lacus loved her children so much that it pained her that Feldt wasn't really forthright and honest with her and Kira about her heart's desire to join APEX. She suspected it must be the same emotionally for the other Yamato children in spite of having moved on from the drama, though Lionelle dared not to bring it up to any of them yet, for she knew little how well they would react to such a touchy subject.

Next was her parents. Initially, her father and mother had been rather very disappointed that Feldt would enlist in a mysterious organization that kept dark secrets about the Titans that had torn apart the very world peace they had fought through blood, sweat, and tears to realize after two Bloody Valentine Wars. Thankfully, after a while, they calmed down and had begun to respect Feldt for following her dreams and standing by her decisions even if they didn't like them or disagreed how she went about it. At least, Athrun was easier to talk to regarding Feldt and APEX as he had a calmer, more level-headed, thoughtful approach to situations than most men. Her mother, on the other hand, was the opposite of her cool-headed husband when it comes to APEX. While not as resentful as her brother, she holds a fiercer, less forgiving temperament than Lacus towards APEX for lying to the whole world to keep such costly secrets in their closets of skeletons, no matter how good their intentions were in trying to not rock the metaphorical boat. Her headstrong mother would be harder to talk to as she more or less already made up her mind about APEX as a not-so trustworthy organization to temporarily ally with when necessary regarding a Titan attack on Orb, but otherwise, to keep apart at a Gundam's arm length.

She let out a breath and clicked on a recent email. It read,

Hey Lionelle! It's been a long while since I've talked to you. I hope you're doing well in college. BTW, I took some pics of a pride of lions while in Africa studying the wildlife there for months! Aren't they so majestically cute? They made me think of you, Leonidas, Marigold, and Uncle Athrun and Auntie Cagalli.

Lionelle loved lions, they were her favorite animals. Feldt knew that. While she wasn't an avid animal lover like her adopted relative, something about lions appealed to her on a much deeper level than most animals she saw in the zoo, apart from their kingly appearance. Also the cubs were cute in the picture, and not many things could beat the cuteness factor of a baby lion with its big innocent eyes, short kitten face, and soft fur just waiting to be petted. Another thing lions struck her personally is that they reminded her of what her family represented to the general public. Her own name is a not-so-subtle reference to the word 'lion' just like her older brother's name. Her family has often been called the Ruling Lions of Orb by the public starting with her grandfather on her mom's side of the family. Her mother is called the Lioness of Orb for her current position as the current Chief Representative of Orb. Even Cagalli's decommissioned Strike Rouge had the symbol of a roaring lion imprinted onto its shoulder.

While she was happy that Feldt was getting to live out the dream of her passions out in the field, she couldn't help but be saddened that she was more at home with the animals than she was with people. Feldt would often be quiet and demure around her siblings, her friends, or strangers, not speaking much other than playing with her orange Haro, a birthday present her father built for her. When it comes to animals, whether it be dogs, cats, birds, and even cold-blooded reptiles like lizards, turtles, and some snakes, Feldt would be a completely different person, especially when it comes to her best friend, which is her pet dog, specifically of the Golden Retriever breed, named Charlie. Being more active, cheery, and energetic like rolling on the ground with Charlie, playing fetch, jogging with him on a walk outside, and petting and hugging him. Sometimes she would even talk to him and understand his vocalizations and body language as if he was a human friend. Speaking of the dog, Lionelle saw a couple of pictures with one showing Feldt sitting on the savanna with Charlie, four lion cubs, and a lioness and the other with Charlie watching calmly, but protectively Feldt petting a male lion on his mane with their faces rubbing each other affectionately. The lions not attacking a dog is, of course, not something to sneeze at, but it was Feldt being so close to one of the most dangerous man-eaters without any signs of fear or visible marks of being clawed at was what surprised the oldest daughter of the Attha-Zala family.

Feldt never ceased to surprise Lionelle with her uncanny ability to pacify and communicate with wild animals, especially the apex predators such as even a dinosaur, more specifically an Allosaurus, in recent memory. She had done some strange stuff with animals by accident starting with her first incident in the Aprilius One Zoo where she, as a seven year old, fell accidentally into an African leopard enclosure and unknowingly activated her Seed power in her moment of terror. The beast, instead of mauling her, reacted the opposite by actually coming up to the terrified girl with curiosity before it surprisingly became docile like a house cat when the big cat cuddled her and gingerly licked the bruised wound on her knee. Feldt calmed down when she saw that the leopard was strangely being friendly to her when she heard a strange feminine, soothing voice speaking in her head that she claimed coming from the spotted feline. Feldt was unharmed for the duration of the time she was in the enclosure with the leopard being protective of the child when zookeepers finally entered into the space. The leopard almost killed one of the men if it weren't for Feldt commanding the beast to stop hurting the man, despite not fully comprehending what she had just done, much to the further astonishment of her foster parents, her foster siblings, the Attha-Zala family, and everyone else, including Shinn Asuka and his son at the time. It became the hot headline and topic for the month.

That was only the beginning. Since then, Feldt accidentally applied her uncanny power onto more zoo animals, her best canine friend, and even the local urban wildlife, slowly starting to grasp the nature of her power, but not without encountering some unfortunate mishaps along the way.

Things came to ahead with the latest showcasing of her suspected Seed/Newtype ability that truly took the cake when three years ago, she was on vacation with her family down in San Diego when a mutant superspecies closely related to Allosaurus, dubbed "Atomic Rex" stomped into the city in its relentless hunt for food after being driven out of his own territory in the subterranean Paleo-Albuquerque Ecosystem by another mutant Atomic Rex. Without warning, Feldt grabbed a nearby car and drove towards the danger much to the horror of her foster parents, adoptive twin siblings, and her pet dog. The meeting proved to be very testing for Feldt to take her SEED superpower to its limits at the time when approaching the prehistoric mutant saurian as he wasn't in any affable mood with the allosaurian Titan being both too angry, confused, and hungry for his simpler bird-like brain to comprehend the new, unfamiliar environment completely alien from the primeval, tropical jungle-like environment it had grown up in. Three times Feldt had to break concentration to dodge from being chomped, stomped, or scorched by the creature's combustible Fire Burst spit. Feldt was partially successful in her fourth attempt as her newfound Newtype ability temporarily halted the creature's rampage before the mental strain from pushing her telepathic powers to the max proved too taxing for her to continue as she fainted. The Allosaurus Titan roared retaliatorily, hovering its large jaws over her with fangs bared, hot drool dripping over, and fire building in its throat to readily end her once and for all. By the time that Kira, Lacus, and Charlie arrived at the scene thanks to Kira's robotic bird, Birdy, guiding them, it was too late with the dinosaur Titan ready to burn her whole. Kira almost had a heart attack, Lacus nearly fainted right there and then, and their family dog barked worriedly with certain death now coming to claim their adopted daughter.

The mutant Allosaurus would have finished Feldt and possibly killed them as well if it weren't for the intervention of Hikari and Lara in their ZGMF-X20A Hero Gundam and the ZGMF-X15A Serenity Gundam, and the Atlantic Federation forces posted in a maritime military base off the coast of Los Angeles and from the Edwards Air Force Base. The Atomic Rex individual, who would later be nicknamed "Gwangi", that got locked into a long-drawn out ferocious battle with the Hero and Serenity Gundams was later defeated from having exhausted itself and sustained serious wounds from the combination of heavy artillery and Anti-Titan weaponry of the mobile suits as it went into a deep coma for its body to recover like a laptop would if its operating system was infected with viruses. The dinosaur would later be transported to a highly classified location until APEX and the Atlantic Federation government could come to a compromise for what to do with the beast, in which the negotiations to this day had yet to bear any meaningful results. However, the psychological effect it had on the Clyne-Yamato family was more profound as Feldt's brush with death contributed to her adoptive family's direction to become overprotective of her in anything to do with Titans and APEX in the years to come.

Lionelle scrolled through more pictures of Feldt observing and interacting with more of the African wildlife like her being climbed all over by curious baby chimpanzees with their mothers watching and in some instances, she getting friendly with some of the adult chimpanzees of the troop, including the alpha male, in the jungles of the Central African Republic. It stung Lionelle heavily in the heart with jealousy.

Sure, she knew it was more complicated than what the pictures were trying to tell otherwise, especially when one has to consider that Feldt's part of the most sketchy scientific organization on the face of the planet. Still, her adopted cousin was always out in the wilderness doing the things she loved with a passion. With lions, Nile crocodiles, an African rock python, water buffalo, wildebeest, gazelle, secretary bird, cheetah, zebra, baboons, wild dogs, leopards, chimpanzees, gorillas, elephants, hippos, and even the temperamental black rhinoceros.

Why Feldt could be genuinely smiling, spending time intimately with the animals, but not with the people that truly cared for her?

Three of the pictures with the first one being a big family portrait of the Clyne-Yamato family that included Feldt's adoptive grandmother, Caridad Yamato; her own Attha-Zala AKA 'Lion' family, which also included her godmother, Asagi Caldwell-Dunkelman; the Asuka-Hawke family, comprised of Shinn Asuka, Lunamaria Hawke-Asuka, Hayato Asuka, Mayu Asuka, who was named after her late grandmother, including Meyrin Hawke-Hamilton; Yzak Joule and Shiho Hahnenfuss-Joule; Dearka Elsman and Miriallia Haw-Elsman; and Mu La Flaga and Murrue Ramius-La Flaga, along with Andrew Waltfeld all together in the Orb Civilian War Memorial.

The second picture being a selfie with her siblings and close friends comprising of a happier Feldt, Hikari, Lara, Lianette and Haru Yamato; Leonidas, herself, and Marigold Zala; Hayato and Mayu Asuka, and the Hamilton twins: Shelby and Chelsea; the Joule children: Wayne, Weiss, and Victor; Katsumi Dunkelman; the La Flaga children: John, Mary, and Keagan; and finally Daniel Elsman with most of them were either in high school or college, except for Dearka and Miri's kid being in middle school.

The third being another selfie, which was more recent, this time with just Feldt, Lianette, and Lionelle. Feldt was more withdrawn and vulnerable after her miraculous recovery from the Allosaurus Attack on San Diego, but still tried her best to smile, though it came off as sad rather than happy despite her best attempt. It made Lionelle think of the simpler times, the games they played, the orange Haro that would get them laughing their heads off, the times they shared confiding to each other their accomplishments, fears, failures, and triumphs. Feldt was trying to reconnect with her. Maybe it would be worth the try.

Lionelle hit the reply tab and placed her fingers on the keyboard, trying to think how to start off her message.

What could she say? So much had happened in the years since Feldt's absence that it was hard to know where to start. How much could she tell her without making her adopted cousin feel more burdened by what's going on with her family?

She was so lost in her own thought process that she almost didn't hear voices echoing from the corridor into the kitchen saying about smelling something smoky in the air.

"Hey, Louise...ugh!...is it just me or is my nose picking up smoke in the house?!"

Then right on cue, the smoke detector started its shrill beeping.

Her amber eyes widened in a panicked expression as she bolted out of her chair.

"What the?! Shit! No no no no!" She yelped. She had forgotten that she was still cooking hash browns with the sausages, roasted bell peppers, eggs already done for herself, two guests, her younger sister, and her parents. If she hadn't smelled that they were burning, she certainly did now as smoke boiled up from the pan of incinerated hash browns, filling the large kitchen with a gray haze and the smell of ruined fried potatoes. And her shout attracted the attention of her two guests that were her college friends, the aforementioned transfer students from the Japan region of the Republic of East Asia and the AEU, Saji Crossroads and Louise Halevy. Both of them that had gotten a little too heavy on the drinking in a party last night celebrating their well-earned grades from the mid-term exams to the point that she had to drive them to her home as her family manor was relatively closer to the bar than the bar was to their university on the other side of Onogoro Island.

"Whoa! Something's definitely burning! What's cooking?!" Saji waved the smoke away from his face the moment he got bombarded by it when entering the kitchen.

"Forget about that, Saji! We have to help her!" Louise rushed in, covering her mouth to not breathe in the smoke, "Oh my God, Lionelle! You're burning the hash browns!" She said in a muffled scream as she went to grab a mitten and a wet towel to douse out the flames.

"Yeah, sorry about that, guys!" Lionelle yanked the pan off the stove, but it was way too late. The hash browns were now pancakes of charcoal. Saji quickly turned the stove off. Louise slapped it and covered it with the wet cloth that managed to douse the flames. Out of the corner of her amber eye, she saw her mother and father enter the kitchen followed by Marigold. Oh great.

"Lionelle? What just happened in this kitchen that's now all smoky?!" Cagalli said.

"Morning!" Lionelle blurted out as she scrambled to turn the smoke alarm off. "Mom! Dad! Marigold! I made us breakfast!"

"Made? More like you burned fries!" Marigold retorted.

"Good Haumea," Cagalli swore as she helped with the mess while Athrun grabbed a fire extinguisher to cool the stove down. "What's on the menu?"

"It's breakfast sausages, eggs, toast, and what was once...hash browns."

"Which from the menu would you recommend?" Athrun asked.

"Best to leave the hash browns alone. Not healthy." Lionelle chuckled.

"Thanks," her father said, putting the fire extinguisher away.

Saji turned to the counter, sitting down. He glanced at the laptop.

"Hey, um, were you busy working homework?" He asked out of curiosity.

"I was finishing up on some of it," Lionelle lied, putting the plates on the table. However, she's not really good at lying as her younger sister could somehow tell it was, and a poor one at that.

"Really, sis? Enough to get you distracted to not smell the smoke?" Marigold said, which made her mentally face palm. Of course, her younger sister would be too smart to fall for her lame excuse. The fact that their mother didn't buy it either with a stern expression only reinforced how transparently shoddy it was.

She sat, placing her plate down and contemplated when her dad came in with a questioning look of his own as he heard it all.

"Feldt had been emailing me for a while." Lionelle finally admitted.

Relief flitted across Athrun's face, quickly replaced with concern before switching to a neutral expression. Cagalli kneaded her forehead with her fingers as she felt somehow, someway the subject of her adopted niece from last night would come back to bite her in the butt. Marigold was saddened upon hearing this as she had missed her dearly. Saji and Louise perked up at that since this was the first time they had ever heard of this. Her mom was doing her best not to freak out, though it was only partially successful while her dad was keen to listen much to his credit.

"How's she doing?" Marigold softly asked.

"She looks more happy and energetic," Lionelle commented, "Gained quite some muscle tone to her. That's a plus. And Charlie's fine. I'd say he's more at home in the wild than being in a mansion."

"That's good. At least, Feldt and Charlie are doing well from the sounds of it," Marigold smiled a little as she would sometimes have nightmares that Feldt would be chomped or stomped by some giant monster breaking out from containment and she could only witness and not do anything to save her. She cut off part of the sausage into a manageable piece.

"Have you responded?" Athrun questioned.

"I haven't even started reading through her most recent one." she said as she took a bite of her roasted peppers.

"Dearie," Cagalli began bluntly, "I am not sure if you should respond to her."

"Mom, I do not-"

"Especially about her father and everything else that's been going on."

But that was the issue. Feldt may have been aware of what her adoptive father and mother had been up to on the news, but she really wanted to hear it from other people close to her how her adoptive parents were really doing. She deserved to know.

"That's unfair to not tell her really what's going on with Uncle Kira, and Auntie Lacus." Lionelle insisted.

For a moment there was silence until Athrun broke it.

"Listen, I talked to your Uncle yesterday. Let's just say he's still not a big fan of this secret scientific organization Feldt is currently part of. And Lacus has been losing patience with APEX for them consistently prioritizing the protection of their magical kingdom of horrors over answering to the Supreme Council's calls for their questioning."

"I am aware of that, Dad, but it is still not right to leave things the way they're right now. At least, Feldt deserves to know what's happening with her family and with us." Lionelle said.

"Believe me, Lionelle. I wish it was that simple. But as it stands right now, APEX is in good graces with no one... not even Orb, after the global-wide turmoil and carnage they have been indirectly responsible for." Athrun explained somberly as he munched on the scrambled eggs.

Lionelle looked down onto her plate uncomfortably, recalling the fateful night she watched the live feed coverage of the Battle of San Francisco between Godzilla, the Rodan pair, the MUTOs, and Megaguirus. At the time, she was in middle school when she heard her parents screaming bloody murder after hearing from the shocked Lacus Yamato how Hikari was found almost dead protecting his twin sister and Leonidas from being crushed about in their decimated bus amidst Godzilla's confrontational skirmish against the giant, lava biolithic pterosaurs before he was forced to team up with the same prehistoric fiery avians to defeat their gigantic arthropodal adversaries that wanted them both dead. The aftermath was even worse when she sat with her exhausted and emotionally spent mother and her peers, she could hear her powerful uncle, the famous ace pilot of the Strike Freedom, responsible as part of the Three Ship Alliance that ended two Bloody Valentine Wars, crying and wailing along with Aunt Lacus with both kneeling by the hospital bed where their oldest son was unconscious with bandages all over and more with his fate uncertain until his miraculous recovery.

How peace had been shattered. How the world around her changed not for the better since then with more Titans being discovered and some having awoken to wreak havoc that caused humanity to live in fearful terror again and their hearts to harden from the attacks of prehistoric terrors unleashed by an angry, embattled Mother Nature. Things have happened so fast at a chaotic, sporadic pace. No one knew what was going to happen within a week, let alone a month from now, or more. Not even her father, or her very perceptive Aunt.

"Then do you honestly believe that Uncle Kira, Auntie Lacus, Feldt, and the others will be okay if things continue in their current trajectory?" She pressed.

"The only thing I can say honestly is that only time will tell." Cagalli said. There was just too much going on to even comprehend with everyone more or less walking on eggshells. "Lionelle, I know things haven't been easy for you. You're hurting. We all are, but the only way to make the world better is to make the best use of the present. Let the future worry itself." She assured her oldest daughter. It might not be her best, but considering the strange times they're living in, it was good enough.

"Thanks, Mom and Dad." Lionelle gave a tiny smile as she took a bite out of her sausage and toast.

"So, Lio, who are your friends?" Marigold referred to the Japanese and Spanish (AEU) transfer students sitting to Lionelle's right.

"Oh...shucks! Marigold, this is Saji Crossroads from Japan. Saji, this is my younger sister, Marigold Zala."

"Nice to meet you, Marigold." Saji greeted.

"You as well, Mr. Crossroads," Marigold said cheerily taken in by his handsome face.

"Thank you, but you don't have to be that polite. Mr. Crossroads is my father." Louise chuckled at her boyfriend's bashful expression from being flustered by the younger blonde ball of energy.

"Marigold, this is Louise Halevy from Spain of the AEU. Louise, meet my younger sister."

"Wow! You have the most shining blond hair I've ever seen, Ms. Louise." Marigold squealed with stars in her eyes as Louise's hair seemed to shine like gold in the sun. The said transfer student giggled cutely at how honest and sincere the youngest Zala sibling was.

"Thanks! You're quite hot yourself like your mother. Nice to meet you, Marigold." Louise waved her hand in greeting. Athrun and Cagalli chuckled, watching the introductions in amusement, which thankfully broke up the tense atmosphere from earlier.

"I got so caught up in the conversation. Sorry to bore you with the awkward talk." Lionelle scratched her dark bluish hair with a slight blush on her face.

"Hey, it's okay, Lionelle. I've been through worse." Saji chuckled.

"Besides, the food you cook is delicious and better than some of the generic breakfast items we're usually served with." Louise complimented as she savored the food.

"That I can agree, which is why I like to cook my own food as much as my schedule allows it." Lionelle said.

"Yeah. By the way, Mr. Zala, me and Louise never got the chance to thank you and your wife for your hospitality. Thanks for letting us crash into your manor despite being so late." Saji bowed his head and so did Louise, in gratitude to the family patriarch.

"Yeah, no problem. I am just glad that our daughter is safe and she had fun with you two. So how are you two faring currently?" Athrun asked as he began drinking his coffee.

"Apart from a dull headache, we're okay. I just wished we hadn't gone wild crazy with the drinking. That beverage was too addictive." Saji groaned a little.

"Agreed. Ugh, my mind is still hazy and my lower half felt sore like somebody squeezed and punched something into me." Louise blurted out, which made Saji and Lionelle blush a storm from the implied, graphic picture with the former almost spitting out a piece of sausage he was chewing on. Marigold nearly choked on her tea, and Athrun spit his coffee to the side in shock. Cagalli cleared her throat with her arms crossed and her expression glaring towards the two of Lionelle's friends basically warning them not to go any further on the rather raunchy subject.

"Ah...whoops..." Louise finally blushed redder than a tomato when she realized how still loopy her head was, withering under the Zala matriarch's lion-like glare. Saji sighed regretfully with his right hand palming himself in the face with the headache flaring again.

Lionelle had her own facepalm, mentally lamenting at the awkwardness and uncomfortable tension returning in full force with her appetite all but lost.

"Lionelle." Her mother's voice sounded calm, but there was a certain underlying menace to it that promised pain if she dared to lie to her. She very reluctantly uncovered her face not daring to see an aura of menace surrounding her mother's being that brought a suffocating menace that permeated the kitchen. Everyone was dead still, not wanting to set the Lioness off and pounce on any of them. "What else did Saji do at the party that we should know about, hmm?"

Uh oh. She sounded more like her Aunt when she's really royally pissed off, which was a terrifyingly rare occurence, and probably was influenced by her as well. Lionelle gulped as she was now in the hot seat and she could clearly see that Saji and Louise were doing their hardest not to freak out with sweat starting to break from their skin.

'Gods, kill me now...And Louise, when this weekend is over, you and I need to talk about you running your big mouth!' Lionelle screeched mentally at Louise for unintentionally getting her into trouble with them thanks to her residual drunkenness.

Then, much to both her relief and confusion, the loud cacophony of alarm sirens cut through the air. It sounded worrying to Lionelle, Marigold, Saji, and Louise.

Cagalli and Athrun rushed from the kitchen frowning, eyes wide and lips pulled tight. Their family butler opened the double mansion doors for them as they stopped outside with the Attha manor resting on a mountainous ridge overlooking the entire city of Onogoro and the coast beyond. The young adults and teenager joined them.

"You think it's going to be okay?" Louise asked nervously.

Saji answered, "I think we will be fine, Louise." He put his arm around her, doing his best to reassure her despite even deep in his bones, he's not sure himself.

"We're not being attacked, are we, Lio? Is Leon okay?" Marigold looked to her older sister.

"I don't know," Lionelle asked with her throat dry at the thought of something horrible happen to their older brother, who's currently posted at Orb's main military base.

Athrun heard his cell phone ring from his pocket, which he retrieved it from there, pressed the answer tab, and put it on speaker, "Yes?"

"Admiral Zala," a male voice sounded, "We need you and the Commander-in-Chief at the Defense Headquarters. The Titan that escaped from APEX's Outpost 89 at the Ogasawara Islands and disappeared from a month ago has reappeared in the Marshall Islands. And Akira Serizawa and others from APEX are here and they need to talk to you both."

Athrun became perturbed by what he had just heard with Cagalli narrowing her eyes. The Athrun looked at Lionelle and Marigold, with his composure regained. He handed the phone to Cagalli.

"Rear Admiral Amagi." She addressed the man on the other side of the call.

"Chief Representative Zala..."

"Amagi, get your men to pilot a Heli to pick us up." She said.

"The Heli just left now. ETA to your location in two minutes."

"Understood. We'll be on our way to you. Over and out." Cagalli gave the phone back to Athrun.

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Five minutes later...

After getting off the Heli, Cagalli brisk-walked through the corridor of the military base in her Orb Commander military uniform with Athrun in his Orb Admiral uniform accompanying her along with a couple of elite bodyguards and one officer. Walking behind them were Lionelle, Marigold, Saji, and Louise thanks to the university and the metropolis already in lockdown, leaving them no other place to go but to follow them as they'd be safer than in the public shelters.

Nobuyasu Amagi, the rear admiral, met them in the corridors. He was older than Cagalli and Athrun, around in his late fifties. He had dark brown hair grayed along with wrinkles at the corners of his eyes and cheeks, making him look similar to his predecessor. He had an air of professionalism and authority next to Athrun's he had developed during the Second Bloody Valentine War and maintained since then. He may not have kids, but he loved being around the younger generation as it brought out the softer side of him rarely seen by his peers. Sometimes he has been an unofficial second guardian to Athrun and Cagalli's offspring, particularly, to Leonidas in the young man's early years in the military.

"Chief Representative Cagalli and Admiral Athrun, good to see you both," he saluted them, but his expression turned from surprise to concern when he saw Lionelle and her younger sister and peers. With all due respect, but are you sure it is safe for them to be here?"

While it was clear that Amagi meant well to the Attha-Zala family, it came off as off putting to Saji and Louise who didn't know him as well as they did and thought he was looking down on them.

"They're fine, and I authorized them to be here. However, we have more important things to address such as this runaway Titan. Any changes to its current trajectory?" Cagalli said urgently cutting the conversation from potentially becoming awkward to the newer arrivals.

Amagi nodded reluctantly, acknowledging that now's not the time and place to question her decision. He had much bigger fish to take care of.

"Unfortunately, Ma'am, the beast's trajectory remains unchanged. Our patroling fleet tried to lure it away using nuclear materials to oversized fish chum, but the animal didn't take the bait." Amagi stated, "Then we used the supersonic frequencies, but instead of detering it, the creature actually charged at the ships, attacking them."

"What?" She said, shocked, and the same went for her husband regarding that this particular Titan was not known for being aggressive and confrontational like Godzilla.

"What happened then, Amagi? Were there any casualties?" Athrun butted in.

"I am sad to say it is true, sir. The fleet lost one of their Aegis-class battlships, Saika, with seven confirmed dead and a hundred injured out of 200 men the fleet managed to recover. Three-hundred others remain unaccounted for, including the ship's captain. The beast even destroyed five of our Washikaze after spitting scalding pressurized water from its jaws before diving back, disappearing from our radar again."

Athrun snarled, hissing quietly,

"Damnit." He breathed through his nose, "What about our coastal defensive lines?"

"I already had the men ready the artillery units and the pilots with their mobile suits. We put a red alert for everyone and that includes Hachiman. Captain Richard already had ordered his mobile suits to be on standby. Lieutenant Asagi and Ensign Mayura are already patrolling the port and the surrounding sea with their custom mobile suits." Amagi reassured him. Lionelle and Marigold perked up at the mention of their older brother and their godmother.

"And the containment system?" It was Cagalli next who inquired him.

"It has not been tested, Lady Cagalli. So this will be our only opportunity and chance to see if it works."

She didn't necessarily like the answer. It was unfortunate in that APEX have secrecy and larger flexibility of more space along with a ready specimen on their side to effectively test the kind of similar technology the Orb military was attempting now. Whereas, Orb being a small island wouldn't have that luxury as such a thing would be more easily noticeable and draw unwanted attention. Not to mention that animal activists would raise one hell of a fuss and clash with the people wanting the Titans destroyed or contained, creating an annoying chaotic public relations situation that the government would rather not deal with. Still, it was better than having nothing prepared for a Titan to come ashore unopposed.

Cagalli finally nodded after a short pause.

They were arriving upon an automatic door. Once Cagalli passed through the security scanning system, they entered into the Command Center. Passing through the entrance, Lionelle was taken aback by the multiple military personnel working with multiple widescreens of several high-tech, military grade monitors keeping track of the topographical features of Onogoro Island, the location of military units, sonar frequencies, mobile suit stats, etc., and she could hear the hushed gasps behind her coming from Marigold, Saji, and Louise, which earned some questioning looks from the personnel. She looked to her left to see the familiar woman having amaranth pink hair and turquoise eyes in her pink jacket with an APEX logo imprinted on the left sleeve and green formal shirt and light blue skirt. The 19-year old woman was none other than Feldt "Grace" Yamato. The very sender of the emails Lionelle had been reading from. Accompanying her was Charlie, the Yamato family's pet yellow retriever and dear friend to Feldt.

'She's here!' Lionelle said, clearly surprised in her thoughts that Feldt and Charlie would be here at all. She also took note that her adopted cousin was accompanied by five older persons also belonging to APEX thanks to the APEX logo imprinted on different parts of their respective clothing articles and how close they were to Feldt.

The first of them Lionelle noticed was a youthful Japanese woman that shouldn't be any older than in her thirties with a fairly subtle, somewhat naive, yet strong, wise personality with a beautiful complexion and a bobcut-like hairstyle. She had heard of this woman before on television conferences as she was the Director of Newtype Studies that was researching the worldwide phenomenon that apparently the presence of a Titan would increase the likelihood of latent Newtype abilities being awakened among random individuals for reasons that were yet to be explored. She could tell that there was more to the woman than appearances alone could tell her if the feeling she got from how the woman is closest to Feldt is likely that of a mentor to student relationship of sort, which was not totally surprising as Feldt was long suspected to be a Newtype for not only being strongly attuned to nature, but also being able to converse with animals with unnatural ease.

She looked to the second one and he wasn't what she expected him to be. He looked even less like a scientist and more like someone that had just exited out of a rock concert with black, messy hair and stubbing of a shaved beard on his chin and bottom of his jaw with sharp cheekbones. His getup was almost diametrically opposite to what he normally wore; a black button-up shirt, a black leather jacket, black slacks, black dress shoes, even dark glasses. She knew him only by reputation, which was exemplified by the infamous Chaos Theory that challenged the linear understanding of weather systems, ecosystems, and natural disasters, especially Titans.

The third man was more polished, younger, and seemed bit more skittish than the others of the group with a short, cleanly shaved beard and formal business suit. Even by the posture and mannerisms, she could see he'd be more at home in the high-tech industry as a salesman rather than as a scientist in APEX. But then again, there are other positions in the secretive scientific organization other than the roles of scientist and military-like special forces, so maybe this man would likely be in the communications or tech job. His voice that hit on technical jargon from the sounds of it, which would even fit perfectly in an iPhone advertisement, backed up her deductions.

The last two were more recognizable as she knew, more or less, who the older Japanese man was thanks to the distinctive brown gentleman jacket, the shaved mustache, the sideburns around the edges of his cheeks, the short, spiky jet black hair that was showing some signs of graying, and the scar across where his left eye once was that was now covered in a black eyepatch. The second person, who was a female about five years younger than the man she's accompanying and three years older than the Japanese lady, has a dark brown hair with blonde highlights that goes down a little past her shoulders with the features of her face being sunken and less supple than they once were, but her complexion otherwise still being beautifully youthful, if not, worn out in some places, especially around the eyes where there were slight traces of bags under them indicating how dedicated to her work she was. She wore a gray jacket suit with a dull red collared shirt underneath, and black pants. The older Japanese professor of the two was currently arguing on the monitor with Orb Commander Lucas Englehorn, who was not backing down and had his arms crossed.

"I am warning you that this current course of action will only further infuriate Titanosaurus to wrath to the point of no return that will result in Onogoro's destruction, Commander. You must call off your forces before it is too late, or at the very least, tell Admiral Zala to avert Orb's forces away from engaging the Titan." Serizawa pleaded.

"Doctor, I know where you're coming from, but I have a duty to follow and that is to fight for the 10 million civilians to ensure their protection from all threats, especially the threat we're faced with right now. That means, I cannot heed your advice to pull our troops away and risk leaving Orb vulnerable to attack from this monster." Englehorn retorted.

Akira Serizawa shook his head in exasperation pinching his nasal bridge.

"With all due respect, sir, but the last time a certain Atlantic Federation admiral said those very similar words to Serizawa and his lovely assistant here in trying to stop Godzilla, the MUTOs, the Rodans, and Megaguirus with so-called conventional weaponry by the book...um, I have to say in plain terms, that it didn't go well for everyone with a lot of soldiers and citizens dead. Nothing else to show other than a destroyed San Francisco with Godzilla and the Rodans inadvertently saving mankind from being monster chow." The rock star-like scientist chimed in with his own two cents' worth, "Uh...I think this...little operation you and everyone in this bunker have cooked up will backfire...um, quite massively in the literal sense."

"Dr. Malcolm, I have no time to entertain in your ridiculous fantasy, the so-called "Chaos Theory" as the threat that will bring chaos to Orb swims closer to shore if it is not stopped now. Frankly, I have no time to be arguing with you APEX lot when I should be preparing the defenses!" Englehorn referred to the screen map of Orb's military forces concentrated not just at the port, but also at the northwestern sea 5 miles away from the coast.

"Ah! Commander, see that's where you misunderstand. It's not a matter of whether if it will happen, it's a matter of when. Chaos is inherently inevitable. This will only exacerbate it, accelerate what could be a somewhat salvageable confrontation to the point you don't even realize you have just jumped off from the point of no return, falling into the abyss." Ian Malcolm said humorlessly with an ominous undertone.

"Ahem, if I may, sir...what Malcolm was trying to say is that there is more to what's going on with Titanosaurus than meets the eye, Commander," the well-shaven Sam Coleman intervened to help the irritated Englehorn make sense of the Ian Malcolm's rather eccentric manner of speech.

"And exactly what is there more to a mindless giant beast about to make landfall onto the Land of Peace, Mr. Coleman?" Cagalli shouted from above the balcony with her voice attracting the attention of APEX's scientists and Feldt upwards where she and her royal family had been watching and listening to the back-and-forth conversation for quite some bit of time.

Feldt felt her turquoise eyes widened at the familiar faces of not just her adoptive uncle and aunt, but also of Lionelle and Marigold. Charlie's barking of excitement from seeing long lost faces of people he hadn't seen in a long while made the familiarity between Feldt and Lionelle all the more apparent. Lionelle was the same vice versa.

"Lionelle? Lio?!" Feldt exclaimed.

"Feldt! Charlie! OMG, it's you!" Lionelle couldn't suppress her shock and overwhelming joy of seeing her long-lost adopted cousin right here in Orb of all places as she rushed down the stairs ahead of her family, Amagi, and the bodyguards with Marigold following her in suite seconds later in the same emotional state as her older sister.

"Lio! Marigold!" Feldt pushed herself away from the young Japanese woman, who was her sensei or mentor in training her Newtype psychic powers to a greater degree of self-control and disciplined technique. The woman didn't mind that her student had been longing for this moment to reunite with her childhood friends she hadn't talked to in a long while as Feldt had privately confided to her how heartsick she was that she missed dearly the family and friends she had willingly left behind to pursue the dreams of her passion. Feldt definitely was in a strange spot in the sense she was living in between two worlds that were at odds with each other, a dilemma that Miki Saegusa could personally could relate to the girl for as she was in the similar situation at about Feldt's age or younger many years ago when she first discovered her own abilities by accident.

"Feldt! We missed you!" Marigold squealed as she was the first to rush down the stairs to greet her adopted cousin. She and Feldt caught each other in a strong hug after having not seen each other face to face for so long. Lionelle rushed to hug them both, and Charlie beat them to it when he performed an inadvertent body slam onto the girls with all of them enjoying their reunion in joyful laughter.

A momentary peace of what was otherwise a stressful, urgent situation for everyone involved. Serizawa smiled gently upon the scene, but upon not forgetting what he had to do to try avert a potential catastrophe, his expression switched back to that of seriousness and urgency as he walked towards Cagalli and Athrun.

"Chief Representative...Admiral...it's good to see you once again. With all due respect, however, I must stress to you that your forces should not engage with Titanosaurus."

Athrun's expression turned grim. He looked to the monitor with Commander Englehorn in it and said to him, giving the beard-shaven man of German descent his orders,

"Put our ships and mobile suit teams on standby, Commander Englehorn. The moment should Titanosaurus attack the containment barrier, have them fire on my command."

"Aye, sir!" Englehorn saluted before he signed off, which Feldt made her gasp, with her eyes widening in distressed worry and Charlie to whine, sensing her distress affect him as well.

"No, Uncle! Please, they mustn't hurt Titanosaurus! He's innocent!" Feldt screamed hysterically, startling everyone, including Lionelle, Marigold, and her foster cousins' friends at her sudden outburst.

"How in Haumea's good name can you be sure that this monster is not like the others?!" Her aunt shouted in disbelief.

"That's because he's my friend for a while now and I know he wouldn't do something like this!" Her answer certainly raised eyebrows from anyone not part of APEX.

"Wait!" Lionelle's mind was racing a hundred mile every second on the likely possibility that sounded crazy even considering Feldt's strong connection to animals, "Are you saying that you-?"

"I have befriended with the Titan!"

"Hey, come on, cousin! I know you're just trying to be funny to lighten things up in coming up something ridiculous as in making the beast your pet, am I right?" Marigold called out what she thought was another poor attempt to be humorous created by Feldt in stressful situations. However, she saw no laughter or chuckling from her usually shy cousin when Feldt heatedly glared back at her with cold fury.

"Whoa...oh, um...," Marigold stammered, "Feldt, you're joking. Aren't you?"

"Am I? Do I look I would joke about my friend in trouble, Marigold?" Feldt hissed at her.

Marigold was taken aback by the revelation and so was Lionelle.

"Feldt...," Lionelle was almost out of breath with her jaw dropped onto the floor at the implication of Feldt's extent of her powers.

Saji and Louise were totally gobsmacked and lost as evident when the former spoke out,

"No way...what the heck is going on here?"

"Lio! This is insane! Why didn't you tell us that your adopted cousin was that girl that temporarily stopped a freaking atomic Allosaurus in San Diego years ago?!" Louise's reaction didn't help the situation as an embarrassed Lionelle was struggling to find words to salvage the escalating situation. Louise chuckled humorlessly before laughing out loud in an uncomfortable mix of disbelief and anger that creeped out Lionelle. From the looks of everyone in the room, Lionelle wasn't sure if it was from the startling revelation of Feldt's newfound telepathic relation with Titanosaurus, or if it was from Louise's laughter that borderlined on insanity. Maybe both which was very likely as she could see her mom and dad's flabbergasted expressions. Even veteran Amagi and the quiet, reserved Miki Saegusa wasn't immune with their own faces in a state of bewilderment.

"First, an Allosaurus. Now a Titan, a freaking monster! Quite the upgrade in friends in weird places!" Louise said in a dark, mocking tone.

"Don't you dare call my friend a monster! HE'S NOT!" Feldt roared with her eyes now illuminating brightly in an azure light, startling everyone in the room and unconsciously activating her unique SEED ability of telepathy.

"Louise, shut up!" Saji shouted in alarm and fearful worry as she saw Feldt not only glaring more heatedly at the two, but also her turquoise eyes starting to glow brightly in terrifying illumination as she was losing control of her power. Miki Saegusa was the only APEX personnel of the group to know what that meant and what she had to do now while the rest, except the other APEX scientists, had no clue and were caught off guard in alarm of the sudden surprise.

"Feldt, calm down." Miki went in front of her student and snapped her fingers loudly with the sound abruptly bringing her back to her senses from many years of training. The girl's eyes became calmer as she had to breath deeply to calm herself down.

"Sensei, I am sorry. I'm sorry! Oh dear, don't tell me that it happened again?!" Feldt panicked as she knew she might have accidentally triggered something terrible.

"Unfortunately, yes...," Miki said grimly, which only made Feldt cover her face with the palm of her hand.

"Oh Haumea...no no no no!" Feldt muttered in panic with Miki placing a calming hand onto her, gently making shushing sounds to try ensure she would not freak out anymore than she already did. Charlie came up to her as rubbing his furry body up against hers.

"Okay! Can anybody understand what the hell we just witnessed?!" Louise shouted, clearly baffled by the unnatural light show that just happened, which got the whole room in a louder cacophony of voices ranging from confusion to terror.

Until Cagalli had to raise her voice so terrifyingly loud and fierce that she more like bellowed like the lion she was aptly titled for.

"SILENCE!"

The room fell deathly silent at her roar.

'Uh oh...now mom's truly pissed,' Lionelle mentally gulped as the lioness from within her mother now blowing her lid off.

"IF YOU ALL HAVE THE TIME TO SIT AND GAWK AT OUR LOVELY CONVERSATION HERE, THEN YOU ALL BETTER GET BACK TO YOUR POSTS IMMEDIATELY!" Her roaring authority left no argument for any of the personnel, who were quick to go back to what they were doing as to not to incur the further wrath of their Commander-in-Chief that was now in no mood for any more shenanigans. The young adults wisely kept their mouths shut with Saji and Louise truly appreciating much better why their friends' parents were not to be trifled with.

Malcolm chuckled somewhat insensitively to the turn in the situation as he said, "There it is folks, the Chaos Theory in motion."

"Oh shut up, Ian," Samantha groaned irritably sounding like a certain white-haired, eccentric biologist of theirs. Unfortunately, Malcolm's timing couldn't have been poorer with Cagalli now having the entirety of them in her sights.

"As for you!" The APEX scientists became the next object of her fury as she rounded onto them, "Maybe Kira was right to have you and your Titan-studying coalition under great suspicion if what I saw was anything indicative of the shady stuff you've been doing with my adopted niece!"

"For all due respect, Chief Representative Attha-Zala, that's where you-" Miki was stopped when Akira put his hand up to stop her, no matter how well-intentioned she was in defending her group against the accusation. He could clearly see that the ruler of the Orb Union was not to be swayed so easily once her mind has made up.

"We have no time for this if you guys have nothing useful to contribute," Cagalli said sourly.

"Which is we need you and Admiral Zala to hear us out before you order anything else. We think that Titanosaurus' unnatural shift in his usual modus operandi had something to do with the Red Orochi infiltrating the Ogasawara Islands." Serizawa said.

"Serizawa, you have only some minutes to explain what's making Titanosaurus go bonkers. Time's running really short and if you can't adequately do that, then we'll resume with the protocol you guys should have executed earlier when you had the chance," Athrun stated in no uncertain terms that he's open to suggestions, albeit with not much time and patience on his hands. Sam Coleman, understanding how quick they had to at least try to convince him of what they discovered, had to answer now,

"Mr. Zala, Titanosaurus might be swimming towards Orb against his own will. In layman terms, something is forcing him to act out of character as he is not one to launch unprovoked attacks on humans, let alone bother to swim out of his natural habitat in such a drastic manner."

"And what is that exactly?" Athrun said skeptically.

However, their conversation was interrupted when the room suddenly flashed red due to the Code Red Emergency followed by the ear-shattering sound of an drum-booming, elephant-like screeching roar.

The sound that had everyone alarmed, especially the APEX scientists with Feldt screaming,

"He's already here!"

"How in Haumea's name did we allow him to sneak under our nose?!" Amagi roared incredulously.

"Oh no..." Lionelle paled when the screen showed the live camera feed of the ocean exploding outwards with water splayed all over with Titanosaurus lunging from beneath the surface where the aquatic-based version of the space-bound Izumo-class battleship that have atmospheric adapter stabilizers, Hachiman was hovering above like a crocodile when his crocodile-like jaws clamped onto the starboard of the battleship. The beast dragged the ship down into the sea in enormous splashes only to resurface again with his flippered forelimbs grappling onto the ship with his claws hooked through into the metal of the Izumo-class Hachiman. Titanosaurus already ripped apart one of the rear engines with his sharp spike-like outer teeth and two inner rows of teeth in his mouth inflicting a lot of tearing damage into the ship's armor as he then violently yanked it off from the ship.

"Brother!" Lionelle and Marigold yelled in horrified terror for Leonidas who was on that ship and now in grave danger.

"Oh shit! Shinji is in there!" Saji also yelped in terror, remembering that his older brother, Shinji Crossroads, who worked as a mobile suit technician aboard the battleship, was also in grave danger. Perhaps even more so as the hangar would be quickly trashed with a lot of things that could kill him. He loved his brother and it would devastate him and Kinue if they lost Shinji. All of the Crossroads siblings had already lost their father recently and they were trying their hardest to move on from his passing. Saji wasn't sure if they, especially himself, could bear losing anymore of their own.

Louise trembled in trepidation upon hearing her boyfriend's older brother was in dire straits with Titanosaurus mauling the Hachiman around like a crocodile to wildebeest in the water.

"Please, to whoever god hears me, don't let this be another London!" She cried desperately in her head from being triggered by Titanosaurus' similarities to another monster that destroyed her family. Around two months before the San Diego Terror happened, Gorgo, an adolescent member of the pseudosuchian Titan superspecies, Gorgosuchus brittania, was discovered and captured by a local fishing fleet with assistance from nearby Royal British Federation Navy after the young dinosaur-like reptile had awoken from his slumber in the underwater cavern under the volcanic Nara Island that erupted off the coast of Ireland. Because of hearing Gorgo's distressful cries during the stressful period of his capture and transportation to London, Ogra, the much bigger mother of the adolescent Gorgosuchus, rose from the depths of the sea consumed with boiling fury only another mother would understand after losing her child. She unleashed it onto a woefully unprepared England with the country ill-equipped to stop Ogra as the British had no experience in dealing with a Titan attack. Upon swimming into London's bay and wading through the Thames River, Ogra rampaged through the metropolitan city of London that stood in the perilous way of her warpath, following the scent of Gorgo emanating from the secreted oily substance left behind by him. Louise and her family were in the Big Ben attending her cousin's wedding ceremony at the time Ogra singlehandedly tore apart any structure and warship that dared to oppose her. That, unfortunately, included the Big Ben. Many lives were lost, including her cousin's and his fiance's, when Ogra tore down the iconic bell tower. Louise and her parents managed to escape, but everything kept escalating when the ARC Knights showed up fighting both the Atlantic Federation military and Ogra at the same time. Then Godzilla arrived onto the scene to stomp down the chaos. He immediately got into a violent scuffle with Ogra with the mother Titan refusing to stop her relentless search for Gorgo. Louise was almost killed in the ensuing Titan brawl, but her parents sacrificed themselves to save her from being crushed by Godzilla's massive bulk when Ogra managed to wrestle him down to the ground in spite of her relatively smaller stature of 355 feet tall compared to the King of the Monsters' larger stature of 495 feet tall. Even when the fight overall concluded on a less disastrous note when Gorgo was freed from the zoo and returned to his mother by a kind-hearted boy named Sean risking his own life to prevent further fighting between the two warring Titans that would have completely annihilated London, it was not so with Louise who watched her parents crushed into bloody oblivion right in front of her with Ogra and Godzilla too caught up in their ancient animosity, pummeling the hell out of each other to even notice her.

By the time the firefighters found her, she was a half-conscious mess. When recovering in the hospital with Saji having finally arrived to check up on her with as much time as he could humanly afford, she was unresponsive due to the great trauma she was inflicted upon from such a horrific series of escalating events. And even after having recovered enough to be able to function properly in the outside world to be released from the hospital, she came out a changed woman. She now hated the Titans, specifically Godzilla, Ogra, and Gorgo. She hasn't fully yet come to terms with the death of her parents and her own survival that came at their expense, thus still suffering from PTSD nightmares to this very day. With Saji's diligent care and vigilance by her side, they have subsided somewhat in frequency, but she has to take medication and have her own exposure to certain external stimulants, whether it'd be news events or certain monsters, drastically reduced as to not reopen any old wounds she sustained from the "Siege of London".

This with Titanosaurus bearing relatively physical similarities to Ogra and the fact that her boyfriend's brother was on the verge of being pulverized in the Hachiman reminded her too clearly of her brush with death and her parents' demise in London. It was a miracle that she hadn't gone into a PTSD meltdown yet, but she would still would have if it weren't for Saji noticing the signs he had grown accustomed to prevent.

"Louise...don't look," Saji went in front of her to hug her to shield her from what was occurring on the monitor. Louise was still trembling and whimpering with her eyes all shut and watery with tears leaking through. Feldt looked on to the two with genuine sadness and understanding that there were more people like Louise than there were individuals like herself.

"Leonidas!" Cagalli shouted fearfully before she angrily shouted towards Athrun and Amagi, "Have all of our ships and mobile suits fire on that damned sea monster!"

"But Ma'am, we'd risk hitting one of our own, especially when its your son and Asagi's daughter in there!" Amagi protested as they could unintentionally inflict friendly fire on the Zala Unit, the best that Orb's military has to offer, affecting the morale of the troops.

"Then we have to do our best to avoid hitting the Hachiman! Concentrate our fire only on Titanosaurus!" Athrun shouted, covering for Cagalli as she was now gritting her teeth at the screen.

"Yes, sir!" Amagi quickly saluted before he relayed the order to every personnel in the base to transmit it to the other navy fleets and mobile suit units.

"Chief Cagalli! Admiral Zala! I am going to go ahead in the Raiden to rescue the Hachiman! No way I am going to sit on the sidelines and allow that sea dinosaur to kill them!" Asagi shouted appearing on the screen with her profile video and referring to Leonidas and her own daughter, Katsumi.

"I am going to help her! So we would appreciate it very much if you can cover our backs while we rescue the kiddos and Captain Richard from their predicament!" Mayura's profile video appeared on the screen declaring her intentions to help her partner.

"Roger that! You have my permission to leave the port to rescue the Hachiman. We will send Juri to cover the main port! Make sure the Hachiman and everyone on board the ship must not be destroyed at all costs! May Haumea help us! Over and out!" Cagalli granted it.

"Yes, Ma'am! Over and out!" Asagi and Mayura affirmed before their profile screens disappeared.

"Admiral!" Commander Washington Katagiri, head of the Titan Crisis Investigation division branch of the Orb military, popped up on screen as he had dark brown hair, a thin nose, long chin, and black eyes covered by eyeglasses while he wore a black coat suit. The look on his face was that of anger and astonishment as he reported to Admiral Zala, "The Gotengo just launched on her own!"

"WHAT?! What the hell is Captain Gordon doing this time?!" Athrun shouted, now enraged that the American-born Captain of the Gotengo was now going potentially rogue of all the times he chose to do so. Gordon Douglas was one of the very few people that could manage to get under his cool-headed skin due to his hard-headed, stubborn, strong-willed personality to do things mostly on his own hunches rather than being simply content to just obey orders to the letter. Especially when it comes to a certain King of the Monsters that he held a personal grudge against for many years.

"He said Godzilla is coming from the Hawaiian Islands northeast of us!" Washington explained, which had the room stunned out of terrible fear as Godzilla was now involved, making their situation all the more dire and unpredictable.

"Godzilla?!" Saji trembled, remembering the terrifying, magnificent legends his grandfather spoke to him about Godzilla that were passed down from many generations of his family long ago dating back to 1954.

Lionelle held back her gasp, but her worries have now increased tenfold with now Godzilla more likely dropping into the fray, the very Titan that almost claimed the lives of her older brother and cousins. Whenever Godzilla is involved, anything could snowball into a bigger mess than they could humanly handle.

"Can you verify Gordon's words are true, Commander Katagiri?!" Dr. Serizawa spoke up.

"Doctor Serizawa! I have no obligation to answer to you or your colleagues from APEX not after what happened with San Francisco and Yellowstone," Katagiri said with disdain and subtle venom for the man, which riled up Samantha and Miki as both hated the man for his unscrupulous character and hawkish attitude towards the Titans.

Thankfully, Athrun intervened before any unnecessary conflict could arise as he urgently commanded the head of the TCI,

"Just do what the doctor ordered, Katagiri! Show us the path route for Godzilla!"

"As you wish, Admiral. I am pulling up the calculated Godzilla's trajectory route right now!" The digital map containing all of Godzilla's global migratory routes that snake through pretty much all of the world's oceans appeared right of Katagiri's screen. Then the highlighted route showing Godzilla's current estimate trajectory in red appeared, showing a roughly curved southwards path from one of the Hawaiian islands down towards Onogoro Island.

"I hate it when that man was right on his hunches," Cagalli sighed. More often than not, she butted heads with Gordon Douglas when it came to military strategy towards Godzilla more than anyone else, making herself question her decision to promote the insubordinate Gordon to the position of captain for one of the newest lines of ships in the Orb Union Navy when there could have been others more qualified, less brusque, and calm-headed for the job.

"At least, we are on the same page when it comes to Gordon's...uncanny intuition, Mrs. Zala." Katagiri responded, commenting with reluctant admiration mixed with exasperation for his subordinate intuitive senses.

"That man can drown in the ocean fighting Godzilla for all I care." She said and then turned to Athrun. "Tell me we have the Bishamonten to reinforce the Hachiman!"

"I would advise you to hurry on that, Mrs. Representative of Orb, because this brawl is already turning south real fast," a voice broke in and another profile screen popped up besides Katagiri's much to the Head of the TCI's bewilderment and shock. A very familiar face with nerdy-looking glasses, white hair, wrinkles on his face indicating his age to be somewhere in his fifties.

"Whoa! What the-?! How did you get into our mainframe?!" One of the communicators shouted.

Feldt widened her eyes and smiled in recognition. "Uncle Ricky!"

"Hey, Feldt! Hope Doom-and-Gloom-Doctor-in-Black didn't decide to give ya some weird chaotic advice on dating with Miki and Serizawa around," Stanton joked much to the horrified consternation of her Aunt and Uncle and blushing embarrassment of her Zala cousins and friends, to which Feldt chuckled much to the shock of those closest to her again. Lionelle almost felt her brain shut down at the thought of someone like Malcolm trying to date her adoptive cousin, or anyone like her due to the huge age gap between the two.

"Rick, I might be looking for a future Mrs. Malcolm, but I can't help but not take you seriously when you had been divorced with a bit of alcohol dumped on you for being a workaholic thrice!" Malcolm retorted half-humorously. "And besides, I don't wanna give her adoptive father anymore incentive to have our asses shut down."

"At least, I have beer to drink toast to my marriage to my career, Mr. Chaos Theory while you have yet to find a solid marriage to drink toast to."

"Touche, Rick." Malcolm conceded. "Touche."

"Can those two ever stop getting on each other's funny bones for once?" Sam whispered, facepalming at the ongoing so-called comedic rivalry between the two eccentric scientists.

"Okay, Rick, jokes aside, I doubt you're here for a social call. We have a situation going on here with Titanosaurus!" Miki reminded the doctor with an irritated look in her eyes that she's not a fan of either his or Malcolm's humor.

"I agree with Dr. Saegusa on this! You better have something important to report other than make inappropriate jokes at my niece's expense!" Cagalli snarled while cracking her knuckles to emphasize she wasn't having anymore inneundos for the day.

"Eep!... your mother is one scary lady, Lio." Louise whispered to Lionelle, who nodded wearily.

"Yeah, about Titanosaurus' forced temper tantrum? We may have found something peculiar in his skull when we came across its signal before losing it when Elvis Pressley lost his temper." Stanton explained, "That's the good news, well, kinda. You wanna know the bad news?"

"What is it?" Feldt asked warily.

"You guys are not going to like it. Remember Rodan the Second?"

"I have a bad feeling of what you're about to say next," Katagiri could see it coming.

"Yeah, I'm not a fan of it either, Mr. Katagiri, because Big Bird's son just flew out of his roost with Mt. Yasur erupting. Guess where his destination is?"

Another same map appeared, this time showing global air routes similar to that of airliners and shuttles but for the second male Rodan. The highlighted crimson air path for Rodan was indicated to be on the roughly eastern trajectory towards the Orb Union just like Godzilla's southwestern trajectory towards the island nation. The red arrow shape representing Rodan the Second was shown having a shorter estimate time of arrival in 10 minutes compared to Godzilla's, who was represented by a darker cobalt color, to be 30 minutes with the Gotengo intervening to attempt to halt the King of the Monsters.

"Oh shit," Akira Serizawa, Sam Coleman, Feldt, Amagi, Lionelle, Saji and Louise said with all of their color drained from their faces.

"I wish I wasn't right all the time," Malcolm gulped with sweat pouring from his face.

"You're preaching to the choir, Ian," Sam Coleman said.

"You've got to be joking..." Athrun sweatdropped as now they not only have to deal with one, but three monsters coming right onto Orb with no guarantee the island nation superpower will come out completely unscathed, if at all, on top of his oldest son now in dire straits with the Titanosaurus maltreating the Hachiman abusively.

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Titanosaurus just ripped off one of the rear engines of the Hachiman with his toothy jaws and the wrenching twist of his long neck. The rip mark of where the rear engine and Lohengrin was torn off sizzled and crackled with sparks flying all over with fire bursting all over. From further pressure exerted onto the machinery by the jaws, the engine exhaust exploded when the teeth ruptured the fuel cells. The bioluminescent patterns on his fins and sails were flashing, pulsing, and swirling in menacing illuminations indicating his aggression and stress was at an all-time high.

Captain Richard of the Hachiman as he and his crew were struggling to hold onto anything that would prevent them from being tossed about, though that proved to be more difficult than expected with the beast shaking them about vigorously tearing their battleship apart. Some had already lost their grip were knocked about unconscious from impacting hard headfirst into a each other or the wall.

"Captain! We have lost our right rear engine and Lohengrin!" Hammond Kisaka, his Vice Captain and son of Ledonir Kisaka, yelled in alarm.

"We have to strike back! Aaron Connors, have our Gottfrieds aimed at the gills!" Richard Alexander shouted his orders out loud amidst the panicked screams of his crew and warping and tear of the metal caused by Titanosaurus' claws.

"Right away-GAHK!" Aaron bumped his body against the console of his station when the aquatic Titan shook the ship this time when one of his massive flippers slammed against the atmospheric adapter stabilizer, damaging it with serious gashes into the base metal.

"Right atmospheric stabilizing engine disabled! Almost destroyed!" Kai Johnson, the ship's Communications Controller, cried out in alarm.

"Fire the Gottfrieds!" Richard hollered, trying to cut through the chaos dominating aboard his ship.

The Gottfried Beam Gun positioned on top of the battleship aimed at the gills between Titanosaurus' head and neck. He saw the turret aimed for his weak spot at the corner of his eye.

"FIRE!" Kisaka hollered out at the top of his lungs.

The cannon turret fired its dual lasers. Titanosaurus tried to swerve away from harm's way. The Titan was only partially successful as the the blasts struck the rear end of his head where his earhole was. But he was nearly blinded by the explosive energy to his left eye and it was dangerously close to damaging his sensitive gill structures. Titanosaurus screeched out in horrific agony, his pained banshee-like, trumpeting roar not only rendering the air to quake, but also breaking the auditory limit of those in the Hachiman as they were practically blasted point blank with the intensely ear-splitting sonic waves.

"AAAHH!" Captain Richard pressed his hands hardest against his ears to cover them, but it proved to be fruitless as the noise still managed to screech onto his eardrums regardless his efforts to save his hearing. "DID WE HIT IT?!"

"DIRECT HIT, SIR! BUT IT'S STILL RELENTLESS IN ITS ASSAULT!" Aaron hollered at his loudest as much as his lungs could enable to try overcome the overwhelming auditory assault.

"WHAT?!" Richard had a hard time hearing past the ringing within his ears when the ship suddenly jolted again, confirming the younger operator's words. Everyone screamed despite being deaf along with the noise of something else being torn away from the Hachiman.

"Captain! We just lost one of our Gottfrieds!"

"Keep firing whatever cannon and gun this ship still has! We got to force this monster to release us, or he'll crush us into sardines!" Richard hollered.

"Aim the lower Gottfrieds and fire our CIWS at Titanosaurus!" Hammond shouted calculating estimates of whatever weapons and ammo the Hachiman still has at its disposal for every heartpounding second.

The Hachiman had the CIWS positioned on the side of the ship. The ones not torn apart fired, including the lower Gottfried cannon built underneath the battleship, with their rounds impacting against the beast's pebbly hide. Other than annoying the Pseudoreptile, the rounds have no lasting damage on the scales as they bounced off of them. They only succeeded in angering the Titanosaurus as the dinosaur-like amphibian screeched angrily in response. He slammed his left flippered arm onto the damaged atmospheric engine, ripping it off completely. He then lunged his head onto the upper nose of the battleship and the forceful momentum of his attack plunged it into the water in spite of the bombardment he's under.

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End of Part 1

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A/N:

Sorry for the long wait, but I needed to have a good break for a while working bits and pieces of this while balancing my time with work between two different part-time jobs. Also I was having fun with Monster Hunter World: Iceborne with that game getting me hooked onto the new monsters and environments for me to explore and hunt. The another thing is that I intended this chapter to be longer, but when I found myself struggling to write beyond this point, that's when I realized that wouldn't do a good job of writing a good story with great quality as much as I can muster. And it would be too long to fit this long one-shot in one chapter neatly, thus, I am going to make this a two-part one-shot story.

Depending on how fast I can finish with all the other stuff going on around me, including already getting started on writing for other Godzilla and Monsterverse-related shorts, it could be a few weeks or so. I haven't given up on writing more Godzilla stories, but I want to deliver good quality stories and I don't wanna rush them because I'd be doing a disservice to fans like you that have grown to love the series. I will take my time and I can only hope you will be patient with me as I juggle between this, which is my passion, and life in general.

That is all want to say as to let you all know I am well alive and kicking.

I hope you will enjoy the hard work I put into this chapter. If there is any flaws in how I characterized the characters and stuff, point them out. I appreciate whatever constructive criticisms you all have for me so I can continually improve.

Thanks!