Author's Note: Here we go! A Servant Summoning! Hope everyone is doing great! I also loved Godzilla King of the Monsters 2019 movie!
Oh! For those still wondering about Godzilla in this fic, he's an amalgamation of the different Godzilla throughout the movie franchises. Only the movies, games, comics, novels, and anime not included.
Clockwork Bun Bun: There is plenty of Kaiju-sized things in Nasuverse I could use in this fic. I might have something planned as well, as I did hint at Velber when concerning Ghidorah.
Daemon of Crawling Tentacles: I plan to have many kaiju make an appearance or cameo mentioned.
King of Fans: Yep, which is likely what will happen.
God-King Ghidora: Yeah, sheesh, Hakuno gets in so much trouble all the time.
Darklinks100: Thank you!
Enjoy the chapter everybody! A mistaken wish that leads to consequences, that which inadvertently brings either salvation or demise to mankind by a creature who knows rage against them; The King of Monsters.
Digital/Kaiju
Chapter 11: Garden of Kaiju
"What do you mean you lost them?" Major Hicks shouted through a radio. "It's a sixty-meter tall mutant iguana! It can't just disappear without a trace!" He argued, tapping fingers anxiously against the equipment.
Miki Saegusa watched the U.S armed forces recollecting themselves in a panicked display within the room, though it was equally as much as a fanatical shouting match as the Japanese SDF back home. It had been a few hours since the initial confrontation against the agile kaiju, but even with the forewarning by Nia and Miki's own psychic abilities, it was understandably difficult to prepare for a burrowing and swimming monster. This new kaiju didn't have the raw destructive power or durability as others before it, given that the military's weapons did injure the creature with smaller caliber firearm. The problem lay in that it was stupendously quick-footed, coupled with its multiple escape methods, it could evade the armed forces entirely.
She wasn't obtaining anymore non-voluntary psychic visions, and manually focusing her powers only provided a bare glimpse of events Miki couldn't understand, but knew who it related to.
The image of a brown-haired girl under the light of a full moon.
Her eyes glanced outside the window, ignoring the base's ongoing and looking to the sky, where hung a bright full moon in a clear sky.
But attention was taken by a sudden alarming shout, she looked to spot a female soldier saying, "Major! T-There's another kaiju heading this way!"
Another kaiju? It couldn't be Mothra, it was still in the calculated period of her reincarnation, so what other monsters would-
Miki's eyes widened in realization.
She had made a mistake, believing that their connection was akin to a psychics with another kaiju. But that was incorrect, woefully incorrect, it ran deeper than that. The monster of monsters was chasing after his link, the vision she had before now became much clearer as to its meaning…
Godzilla.
Major Hicks looked to the soldier, "What's the estimated point of arrival?"
"An hour or less, sir," She replied. "The US Destroyer Homefree is tracking it, but its speed is faster than they can pursue for long."
He turned to Miki, "Anything from Predictive Analysis," He inquired for information about the Kaiju from psychic abilities.
Miki Saegusa answered, "It's Godzilla. Kishinami specializes in him, he's radioactive, one-hundred meters in height, impervious to most conventional weaponry the SDF deployed."
"Great, one expert on the new monster and she's MIA. So what am I supposed to do?" Major Hicks questioned sarcastically. "Let this new Kaiji stomp to the city unheeded?"
"Yes," Miki replied without hesitation. "Godzilla wiped a large section of defense without a scratch dealt to him. But he ignored them when they weren't firing."
"I can't just do that, ma'am," He replied. "Did nothing hurt it? What about Maser technology?"
"Only seemed to agitate Godzilla," She pressed her points. She thought for a bit, "Focus on the kaiju you're dealing with now. Lure it closer to shore, so that Godzilla can fight it without having to trek through the urban environment."
"You sound confident that this… Godzilla… Will kill the mutant iguana."
"He destroyed Manda easily enough and that kaiju was near equal in size to the that kidnapped my companions," She replied. Miki nodded her head, "I know Kishinami and Tatopoulos are alive, I can feel it."
The Major took a deep breath, rubbing his head with a free hand, his brow furrowed in deep thought. "Alright, I have no better options right now. Chain of Command is in a bit of a mess, so I'll follow your advice."
Miki didn't blame them, the new mutation had arrived in an expected manner and utilized the urban cityscape with cunning intellect to avoid the military's more lethal weaponry.
But… Even though she could sense Nia and Hakuno's presence, that didn't change the worrying gut feeling in any way…
Hakuno Kishinami hadn't gotten used to the stench, the scent of unpreserved fish slowly rotting filled the air. It wasn't unexpected, this entire underground area had giant schools of fish covering large swaths of the ground, all died from suffocation. But, Hakuno wasn't concerned about sea life as she was for the hundred if a little over, of enormous eggs all around her and her companions. The notion that all these creatures would hatch and proliferate implied certain doom on planet Earth from overconsumption of resources at a rate exceeding multiple times mankind's own.
It didn't take a genius to figure that out, even as new to this kaiju world as Hakuno was, she could do the math in her hear about the theoretical scenarios.
The building's size was very impressive, although they were underground, around it had additional floors up to likely three to four stories. It was some sort of massive mall, but its middle interior had been decimated by the nest's creation, and whatever escalator that would've led up had been torn down. Hence why they were heading toward the exit ways, it was likely an emergency staircase was nearby.
A miracle this place even had any electrical power to enable the lights, though O'Neill and the other soldiers were using flashlights attached to their uniforms, the latter ahead of the group while O'Neill covered the flank. The Sergeant had his small firearm, some sort of pistol in his hand while Dagerhold carried a more dangerous large-sized firearm.
Hakuno barely knew anything about modern weaponry, outside of general descriptions, as such what Dagerhold held was to her some advanced assault rifle.
"Ma'am," Dagerhold said as he grabbed Hakuno by the hand and helped her step up a rather steep piece of rubble.
"Thank you," Hakuno said. "Earlier… I'm sorry."
Dagerhold looked a bit confused, "Do you mean during that chase?" He questioned.
She nodded, "You tried to get us to safety, but were caught up instead."
"Ma'am, I am trained for shit to go south, and we all knew the risks when it involved kaiju," He spoke. "Don't blame yourself what was outside your control, besides, we're still alive and that's always a victory."
"But…" Hakuno felt a bit bad, presumably because the Kaiju had attacked because of her presence in the first place. Many people had died, and although she logically knew that it wasn't her fault, she still felt somewhat responsible.
"I volunteered to be your driver," Dagerhold stated. "And I can't exactly have just left you. You remind me of my little niece, sorry for comparing, but I felt perhaps a bit protective."
"I understand," The brown-haired girl responded.
"Careful, Hakuno!" Nia shouted in concern just as the magus girl nearly tripped on some rubble. "You could hurt yourself easily with all these objects around."
"Be cautious, there could be sharp material underneath the fish as well," Sergeant O'Neill said.
"I know," Hakuno replied.
They didn't need to treat her as helpless or a child, perhaps it was just instinct considering she was the youngest in the group, but they had likely seen her capabilities back in the vehicle when using that Code Cast. As she brought that up in her thoughts, apparently she had unlocked new equipment from the Regalia that gave her access to new Code Casts. That was fortunate to now have Formal Wear, or Mystic Code, instead of relying purely on the only two Code Casts she knew otherwise.
There were three additional Code Casts that were now available, all of which the information was shoved into the head during that tense moment: Resist Flame 128, Agility 32, and Decoy 16.
Considering the earlier incident, she can use Resist Flame on objects other than a Servant, but she didn't know whether Agility could be used on regular people, not to mention she was unfamiliar with the Decoy Code Cast; given its name, it could be used as a distraction by creating a fake digital copy.
A fake digital copy...
How appropriate for someone like her.
Hakuno Kishinami pushed that thought away, it wasn't true, while she may be a digital replication of a person, that didn't mean she was a fake of her real counterpart.
The noise of something squirming dragged the magus from her thoughts, she faced the direction where the sound came from but only the sight of the giant reptilian eggs greeted her vision.
An instinct of danger, honed through the rigors of the Moon Holy Grail War, forewarned her of a coming threat.
Her eyes narrowed, staring at the eggs, she heard the voice of Nia call just a few meters ahead, but the sight of the egg suddenly shaking quickly alarmed her.
How long exactly had this nest been here…?
She's not going to foolish stand around to watch it happen.
What's up with her bad luck?
"We need to move," Hakuno said as she quickly turned around and began quickening her pace. She moved past Nia Tautopolus who looked puzzled at her, before recognizing the moving state of the surrounding eggs.
"Oh shit! Let's go!" Nia exclaimed everyone's opinion, her, Dagerhold, and O'Neill burst into a sprint.
They all proceeded to rush, forgetting the stench and tossing away caution in the wake of the new situation. Hakuno Kishinami was now running, an experience she had plenty of in her time within the Moon Cell's Arena. She ducked as an arm shoved out of an egg, nearly impacting against her head if not for the last-minute dodge.
"There's an entrance to the halls there!" Dagerhold yelled.
It wasn't a straight path and weaving around these large-than-man eggs was getting progressively harder, especially now that the hatchlings within were leaving their incubated shells and stepping out into the outside. They were close to the destination when one of the hatchlings stepped in their direct path, with no way to circumvent around the creature.
Hakuno Kishinami stopped abruptly in front of the creature, the feeding creature had just finished and gulped down whatever fish had been on the floor. It looked to her and the others, a keen sparkle in its eyes as it Hakuno heard the inhaling of its nostrils near them. It appeared to be about two to three meters tall, towering over her easily, dark gray reptilian scales with underdeveloped along its back. The head appeared a bit oversized for its body, jaws large enough as to chomp down on her entire head.
The hatchling looked directly at her, then proceeded to screech a light pitched roar.
Her magic circuits ignited with the brief imagery of a burning city.
The magus raised her arm hastily and put her open palm facing the creature, "Code Cast: Hack!"
She didn't want to wait for the soldiers to fire their firearms, though she had a gut feeling it they would be in short term. A sudden burst of yellow electrical energy appeared against the newborn kaiju, which's screech had quickly changed into a painful cry as it fell against the ground twitching.
It was stunned, temporarily paralyzed, Code Cast Hack did little damage but had the capability to halt an opponent's action. Against a Servant, it would be like stopping their movements for a second or less, depending on Magic Resistance, but on a living creature, the effects were quite more potent.
She glanced back, Nia was shocked by her action, understandably. But O'Neill and Dagerhold, while having noticed it, still kept their firearms trained on the downed creature, discipline keeping them from freezing. Hakuno Kishinami motioned to continue moving as she walked past the collapsed hatchling, which was still alive, fidgeting slightly, it wouldn't be for long.
"Let's keep going," Hakuno pressed on the importance.
O'Neill slapped a hand on Nia's shoulder, taking her out of her stunned expression. She nodded and they all passed by the creature. The magus girl continued leading on…
She didn't expect another one appear right around the corner, rushing forward and headbutting the right side of her body with immense strength. Although she was excellent in battle awareness, that didn't make her infallible. Hakuno Kishinami heard the immensely loud triggering of gunpowder echo in her eardrums as her body was flung towards the ground.
Pain.
It hurt… It hurt a lot.
But it wasn't as bad… It didn't match the same measures of pain she had experienced before. This was nothing compared to the creeping chill of death.
Hakuno pressed herself back up, her right arm, shoulder, and muscles around the ribcage ached from the impact of the creature's hard head. But it wasn't broken, rather, her left arm was the problem, the clothing had been torn into a gash, as sharp rubble presumably glass embed into her upper arm, below the shoulder.
Luckily, it didn't seem to have pierced bone, but red liquid oozed and coated the cloth, she could vaguely spot tiny blue data particles emitting from the wound. A reminder of her true origins, her state of being, a Digital Human.
But, just an injury, it would heal-
Rage.
Hakuno took a sharp intake of air as her servant, Berserker, leaked his emotion through the Master-Servant connection.
Godzilla was not happy.
After all… An injury meant she was that much closer to death… That much closer to Berserker's own demise.
An attack against her was an attack against him.
"Please… Calm down," Hakuno said, trying to convey it in some way to her faraway Servant.
"Get up, Hakuno!" Nia shouted.
"No time to worry about the pain!" O'Neill hoisted her up by right-side, already having noted injury. He aimed his weapon to a creature that Dagerhold was blasting away with his weapon, downing it into a corpse of blood and flesh.
Hakuno Kishinami eyes darted around as she realized more would be attracted here by the noise, rather than remain wary.
Threat to Designated Inheritor Detected.
A robotic voice, which she identified as the Regalia, echoed in her thoughts.
Couldn't she just have some peace in her own head…? The pain was distracting as it is.
She gripped her left arm, feeling the warm fluid with her right hand, her own crimson blood leaving the sanctuary of the body. This scent of blood would no doubt worsen the situation, drawn to her injury and with the quickly deplenishing fish supplies, the kaiju hatchlings would begin to hunt her… And through her, the others as well.
Her Command Seals stung.
"Move it!" O'Neill ordered as the group continued to navigate through this labyrinth of rubble and broken eggshells.
"Sir, three o'clock!" Dagerhold brought his assault rifle and released another burst of rounds towards the creature appearing.
"Code Casts: Hack!" Hakuno released the grip on her left arm and aimed with her right open palm, letting loose the digital magecraft on the charging creature. The magical energy caused it to collapse, Dagerhold's bullets finishing it off.
She grimaced, her eardrums were vibrating from the intense noise, the echoing noise of gunshots over the fire and flames of a burning city. Hakuno shook her head, pushing away the memory, and continued into the entranceway into the hall. O'Neill and Dagerhold quickly turned around as they all entered, and closed the double doorway back into the nest.
A moment of relief.
"I see an emergency stairway over there," Nia pointed out between ragged breaths, forcing herself to stand straight and not bend over to gasp.
Hakuno Kishinami was doing exactly that, blood dripped from her left arm.
"Let me see that wound," Sergeant O'Neill said.
She nodded and allowed him to inspect her injury. Nia grimaced as O'Neill pulled free the arm sleeve and revealed the pulsing injury coated in deep red, a chunk of glass embedded inside, but was certainly large enough that it could be pulled out.
He blinked puzzledly, as did Nia, at the tiny particles floating from the wound, "Dagerhold hand me your kit," He ordered.
The other man had just barricades the door then reached for a pouch and took it off, handing it over to the Sergeant. "Sir, this door won't last against multiple hits if those creatures attempt to ram it."
"Just need a few short minutes," O'Neill began. "Ma'am, just stay calm and take deep breaths," He stated firmly changed his clothes to sterile brown rubber-like ones and then brought out a package with the words combat gauze and ripped it open.
"Don't panic, Hakuno," Nia Tatoupolus attempted to reassure.
"I'm aware," Hakuno said. This was hardly the first time she had been injured, not that they would know. "You can go ahead, O'Neill."
He pulled out the glass with practiced movement, then proceeded to apply the white material into her wound, it stung, immensely so, Hakuno breathed sharply for a second but reminded herself that it would be fine. After filling the gash, O'Neill continued to steadily pressure the whole injury with the rest of the gauze.
Nia walked next to Hakuno, "You… Took that rather well."
"I've gotten hurt before," Hakuno replied. "An arrow struck me, had to get it removed by the school nurse."
"Oh, so… I guess glass isn't as bad?" Nia replied unsurely.
"Still hurts as much," The magus said. "But I know I'll be fine."
"Alright…" She was clearly still staring at the wound, but it wasn't that in which her eyes were directed at, but rather the small particles that leaked out through the gauze. "You… Don't feel strange or anything? You're… It's like…"
"Nothing else," Hakuno replied. "Maybe it's my powers? I can't control it."
Nia had a face of doubt, while it was that children Hakuno's age couldn't control their psychic abilities, there was nothing remotely similar to what Hakuno has done or was bleeding out… Technically.
But it seemed Hakuno's rather monotone face had worked in her favor, Nia likely believed that Hakuno didn't know anything about it except for it being her 'powers'.
However, there was a crucial flaw.
Hakuno had already demonstrated a measure of control with her Code Casts. In that way, the magus had just lied to her.
O'Neill wrapped a large bandage around Hakuno's arm and gauze, the bleeding had stopped and she was no longer in immediate danger. After finishing, he took off the sterile gloves, they were partially coated in blood and equipped in the previous set.
She looked at the treated wound, then to O'Neill, "Thank you."
A sudden bang echoed from the doors, an indention of metal formed and the noise of the creatures echoed from behind it. They were drawn to the scent of blood, not of their own kind, Hakuno Kishinami.
"Let's get moving, we need to alert command," O'Neill said.
The entire group started moving towards the stairs entrance, Hakuno Kishinami wondered why exactly the soldier's communications weren't connecting through. Although they were a floor below ground, the building itself didn't have earth separating the different floors, especially back in the nest itself. So that means there was another factor, electromagnetic interference or otherwise.
Another resounding bang echoed from the back into the nest, Dagerhold grabbed the handle to the door into the stairs and opened it wide.
Only for there to be a creature right in front of them having come down from the upper floor through the stairs.
"Oh shi-!" Dagerhold shouted as he made to grab for his weapon, but the kaiju infant was already upon him leaping in a motion like a large cat pouncing on its prey.
Time slowed.
Hakuno Kishinami's body moved dreadfully slow as her reflexes, quickened to such a pace as to see everything occurring at a fraction of the speed, couldn't match with her physical capabilities. Within the Moon Cell, this practiced skill served well in ordering a Servant to conduct lightning-fast actions, but now it was a curse to watch helplessly as the magus' tried to desperately quicken her body to use a Code Cast in order to save the man.
She could have helped.
But it was too late as the hatchling kaiju tore apart Dagerhold's head with its jaws and claws embedded deep into his body. A cry of pain and complete silence within the span it took for her to blast magecraft off the creature, which was forced back and paralyzed by the spell, didn't save him as he was already dead.
It happened so quickly, how vulnerable an individual was without the protection of their own Servant. Of course, Hakuno had known as well, times where her Servant could not protect her… But…
The blood oozing outward in large quantities from Dagerhold's corpse upset her stomach.
An image of death, colossal buildings burning over the echo of war in the background. Why? Why? Why? Why?
She clenched her fist and forced herself to look away, it was another case of death, dying, nothing so new to her. She barely knew him, just another individual, a stranger...
As she collapsed, Hakuno noticed them, dozens upon dozens of corpses of dead students surrounding her… All people who only wanted to remember who they were… All lifeless.
She was to now become one of them… She didn't want to die.
O'Neill shook her head. He checked Dagerhold, then gripped a pair of dog tags and took his assault weapon.
Hakuno Kishinami stepped aside and began pacing down the hall instead, the loud creaking noise of metal bending took attention that the door barricade would break shortly. Her magic circuits had been activated for a while and they were beginning to burn, she placed a hand against a wall… Then it opened, she nearly stumbled.
"The elevator works!? Are you kidding me!?" Nia said upset, a face of anger dotted her expression, it was perhaps a method to cope.
The doorway from the nest slammed open to reveal three more kaiju creatures
Re-Adjusting Servant Spiritron Efficiency. Queueing Servant Summoning Matrix.
"Get in!" O'Neill shouted as both Hakuno and Nia entered the elevator and O'Neil followed with gunfire at the creature, injuring one and causing the others to hesitate on attacking.
Nia slammed the close door button, forcing the elevator doors closed.
Hakuno lay against the back wall of the elevator.
They were trapped.
Trapped again in a realm of death.
Why did she have to deal with this? How come so much death was following her? Did the Moon Cell not forced her to have enough? Now instead of causing death herself, it was indirectly linked?
It wasn't fair.
She was angry, enraged at the ideal that she could be tied so intimately to the dying.
Sure, Hakuno Kishinami was just a digital copy.
But that didn't mean she couldn't live!
And if the moon would not accept that?
Then she'd just cut through the line of death to pass to the other side!
Warning: Dangerous Servant Request accepted.
The elevator rocked, shook, and vibrated with intensity. Hakuno, Nia, and O'Neill were forced to the floor as the shaft accelerated suddenly up and down, up and down, up and down… It felt as if gravity pressed, the lighting among the elevator floor buttons flickered in and out repeatedly, randomly, without reason, just as much as the ceiling light bulb. The electrical signals that marked the current floor shifted quickly through numerous numbers as if the entire world shifted into a supernatural domain.
A bright red crimson glow emitted from Hakuno Kishinami's Command Seals.
Her magic circuits surged with od, magical energy channeling through her body with great quantity, consumed and utilized as quickly as she could bring it forth.
Her eyes widened as the light, aside from her pain-racking Command Seals, flickered off and on, one moment there was only the three individuals in the elevator… Then appeared a fourth standing unhindered by the shaft's motions.
And the light of a full moon pierced through the veil lacking any windows.
The vibration came to a stop, the lights halted their flickering, and the current floor number returned to its prior state as if nothing had occurred.
But Hakuno Kishinami knew what had happened.
In front of Hakuno stood a Heroic Spirit, a woman with her back turned to the magus. Her top was adorned with a red jacket with white fuzz around the neckline, it coated over what appeared to be a deep blue kimono which trailed down her legs before ending above a set of black laced boots. Her complexion was fair white, with short-cut black hair which reached down below her chin, but no farther. In terms of height, she was only a little taller than Hakuno was currently, around 160 centimeters, and looked well-toned.
She seemed a little annoyed, but it quickly vanished into acceptance. She turned around and faced Hakuno Kishinami, an arched brow at seeing her, but it returned to a monotone face despite those void-like black eyes, not too dissimilar to Hakuno's star-lit ones.
"Servant Assassin," Her voice sounded calm and collected. "Pleased to meet you. I guess that works for a quick greet, just be sure that I'll cut through your enemies for you."