Chapter 10-Final Conquest: Part 3
This is the last part of the Final Conquest story arc. I suggest you read the other two parts before this one to refresh your memory and to get caught up. If you are ready, then continue. I hope y'all are enjoying my story so far because I have put around 30 hours or so into it so far.
The star was bigger. In fact, it wasn't a star, but a colossal asteroid that is heading straight for Earth. In the short span that it appeared in the sky, it got larger and larger. Now, it is a huge white splotch in the sky. Battra and his men, along with the Kaiju, have noticed this light in the sky. The thing is, no-one knows what it is. The concept of asteroids was not a thing. To them it was just a super bright star. Little do they know what's going to come. Battra and his forces have spotted the royal palace. The sight of it is glorious. Once the palace was in sight Battra called his forces to lay low in the nearby jungles. They were not going to attack immediately. They wanted Commander Dex's forces to arrive before the signal to attack was given. After about a day or so of waiting, a messenger Muto flutters down to Battra. He bows.
"Supreme leader, Commander Dex's forces are in position. They encountered no resistance along the way here. Do we begin the assault?" the messenger inquires. Battra clacks his pinchers while he thinks.
This is the last time he will be able to stop this attack. He can prevent the deaths of thousands of Kaiju and Muto alike. He can stop this war and maybe join back with the Kaiju. But he craves power. His sole purpose is to destroy the Kaiju and rule the world. He gives his response.
"Tell him to attack immediately. Crush anyone who stands in our way." Battra clacks his pinchers again. The Muto bows again and leaves. Battra turns to speak.
"Attention, my brothers. Today, is a historic day. It is the day where we claim what is ours! And tonight, we will dine in their palace! Go my men! Destroy them...destroy them all."
Almost in unison, every Muto charges through the jungle. Trampling trees and smashing rocks in their path. Hundreds of flying Mutos slice through the sky. Within moments, Commander Dex's forces rise into the sky. The sky is black with Mutos. Their large wings and screeches are heard from miles away. The stomps and roars of the other Mutos can be felt from miles away as well. Within moments, the siege begins. There is no turning back now.
Two miles away, inside the royal palace.
A Rodo watches from his post. He scans the jungle looking for any sign of Muto or Kaiju. He begins to doze off. But a loud screech jars him awake. The sheer sound of it echoes throughout the area. He looks towards the sound and he sees it. The most horrifying thing any Kaiju can see. Thousands. Literally thousands of Mutos are flying towards the palace. He looks down and sees thousands of Mutos charging towards the palace. He is stunned. His commander screeches for the other Rodos to get up and counter them. For Rodan, this is going to be a long fight. Rodan walks to the edge of the building and takes off. His large red wings leave a trail of embers behind him. Within just a couple seconds, thousands of Rodos take flight. Thousands of other troops pour from the castle walls. Thousands of Anguiri, Gojiras, and dozens of other kinds of kaiju all charge out to meet the Mutos. The sounds of their footsteps hammering into the Earth can be heard for miles around. And exactly two minutes since Battra gave the order to attack, it begins. The Rodos make contact with the flying Mutos, and the ground forces collide into each other. All the while the asteroid is coming closer. It will strike in just a handful of minutes.
The blue atomic breath beams slice across the battlefield. One by one, Mutos are cut down like grass, but many more replace them. Rodos and flying Mutos are dropping like flies. The contact of the Anguiri's spiky tail on Muto flesh echo across the battle. The Kaiju are holding the Mutos back. Both sides can't gain any land. Although the Kaiju are outnumbered, they are more powerful and can take more hits than a Muto. One fully grown Gojira can take on two or three Mutos at once. Rodan is dodging and weaving through the mass of Mutos for one thing, Battra. Since Rodan is by far the best Rodo in terms of combat, he was tasked with finding and eliminating Battra. But what Rodan doesn't know, is that Battra hasn't left his command base yet. He is watching the battle from afar to make sure it is going well. As for Commander Dex, he is plowing through Kaiju like it is nothing. His six legs make him way faster than his Muto brothers and sisters.
Meanwhile, back in the palace itself.
The very few kaiju that are inside the palace still are tasked with one thing: Don't let any Mutos inside. Mothra and Godzilla are still in the basement. They have no idea as to what kind of madness is happening outside. Both of them are just sitting down on the ground talking to each other about what could be happening when Anguirus bursts into the room.
"MOTHRA! GODZILLA! THE MUTOS HAVE ATTACKED! GET OUT OF HERE NOW!"
Godzilla and Mothra both jump up and bolt for the door to the underground tunnels. Mothra says goodbye to Anguirus and runs into the doorway. Godzilla closes it after her. The tunnels are dark, damp, and have a dank atmosphere to them. Godzilla has memorized which tunnel leads where. After a couple frantic minutes of the two of them running around in the dark, Godzilla finds the exit. A large rock covers the exit of the tunnel. Godzilla grabs the rock and rolls it over and the harsh light of the sun hits them in the face. The sounds of the battle ring in their ears. The river that is connected to the exit runs all the way to the ocean. If they follow it, they will reach the Atlantic by nightfall and they can escape north to friendly territory. Godzilla walks slowly. Mothra jumps on his back so she can rest her legs. Unlike Godzilla, she can't walk for very long. She is made to fly.
"Where are we going, hopefully away from the Mutos," Mothra chirps.
"I don't know where to go. My dad never showed me where to go. He was so confident that the Mutos won't attack our home." Godzilla groans.
Mothra looks to the sky and sees the asteroid in the sky. It is massive. Although it hasn't entered the atmosphere yet, it is getting close. In less than 20 minutes it will begin to heat. It won't be long before it enters Earth. Mothra ask Godzilla about the asteroid.
"I don't know what it is, but whatever it is we shouldn't worry about it. We need to find somewhere to hide so we don't get caught and killed."
The two of them follow the river slowly. It won't be long before the asteroid does impact.
The Mutos have made a breakthrough. After one massive push on Battra's side, they break through the defensive line. More Mutos continue to pour from the surrounding jungle. Battra takes flight to join his men. He gets into the air and scans the ground. He is looking for someone. Aha! There he is. Dagon and his mate are on the field. Both of them choke slam a Muto. Battra sees the perfect opportunity and dives down. One thing he has learned while being a Kaiju general is that the Gojira's main weakness is the neck area behind their head. If you can slice a deep enough cut into the soft tissue there, you can internally decapitate them. And with help from the Mutos, he was able to perfect his technique. Battra tucks his wings in and dives down. His target, Dagon's mate, Maregon. He puts his front legs in attack position and locks on to her neck. Just as she turns around to punch a Muto, he slices, and he slices deep. He looks back and sees one of her main dorsal plates come clean off. Blood spills everywhere. Maregon stops and gasps for breath. Dagon stomps on a Mutos head and turns to look at his mate. She is bug eyed. Blood is pouring down her back as her neck and spinal cord is sliced apart. She drops down onto the ground.
"Maregon? MAREGON! WHAT HAPPENED? WHO DID THIS?" Dagon is holding his mate in his arms. He looks down at her. She looks at him one final time. She is gone. Dagon slumps over and begins to fill with anger. He knows who did this.
"BATTRA! WHERE ARE YOU!" Dagon scans the sky for the black moth.
He spots him. His red, black and yellow wings shine in the sun. Dagon begins to charge up his atomic breath. Battra spots him and comes in for another dive. He is diving head on towards him. Just as Dagon is about to fire, Commander Dex slams into him. Dagon fires his breath and it burns the ground. He turns around and Dex barely misses the blue beam. He raises his two front legs and brings them down hard on Dagon's chest. Dagon grabs him but then feels a deep slash on his back. Two of his plates are cut clean off. Battra screeches and soars right past him. He banks around and comes in for another run. Dex roars right into Dagon's face, but then roars again in anger. Using all his strength, he punches clean through Dex's soft underbelly. Dex spurts blood out of his mouth and collapses onto the ground. Dagon pulls out his fist just as Battra comes around. Dagon grabs the moth and slams him onto the ground. Battra screeches and shoves his head forward.
For those of you who don't know, Battra has a large spike right in the middle of his head.
Dagon grabs the spike and snaps it. Battra screeches in pain. He raises his front legs and slices down. Two deep cuts are left in Dagon's face. Dagon roars and raises Battra's spike. Just before he can stab him, Commander Dex uses one of Dagon's severed dorsal plates as a dagger. It pierces right through his torso. Dagon gasps and drops Battra's spike. Dagon clutches his chest, looks at Battra with his cold, red eyes, and collapses onto the ground. Dagon dies right next to his mate. Battra gets back up and sees Dex drop down too. Battra rushes over to his side.
"Dex, you saved me life. Let me save yours."
Battra wraps his wings around Dex's body and begins to send healing aura into him. Within seconds, Dex's gaping hole in his chest is healed. Dex takes a deep breath of air.
"Thank you, Battra, I am forever in your debt," Commander Dex sits up to face Battra.
Battra grabs is broken horn and heals it back onto his body. After dusting himself off he looks around the battlefield. The Kaiju are all but finished. Their king is dead. And their palace is burning. It won't be long before they surrender. But one thing is still there, the asteroid. This time, it is entering the atmosphere. The roar of it being burned fills the air. Everyone stops fighting to stare at it.
The asteroid is absolutely massive. It is the size of the entire state of Rhode Island. The orange and red glow of it brighten the sky. It begins to break apart into smaller pieces. Battra senses something, he senses someone of extraordinary power. He feels, a deep and unexplainable fear. Within seconds, Battra jumps into the air.
"RUN! RUN ALL OF YOU! THAT THING IS GOING TO KILL US! GET OUT OF HERE NOW!" Battra soars far into the air.
Almost immediately, both sides look at the fleeing moth and run away too. Both sides run the same direction...north. But it is too late. Seconds after Battra gives the order to run, it makes contact in the Gulf of Mexico.
At first, a blinding white light pierces the sky. All sound is muffled. Then, as if the world is ringing like a bell, the ground warps and begins to ripple. Cracks as wide as whole cities open up in the soft ground. Sinkholes and pits of death open up and swallow whole squads of kaiju and entire miles of land. Then, the heat. The heat of 10,000 suns bake and cook everything. Flesh begins to boil as the fleeing kaiju run away from the blast. Even the dinosaurs that ran with the kaiju couldn't keep up. After about 30 seconds of everything being blinding, baking and being consumed by the Earth, the world calms down. Although the earthquakes are still going on, another event is about to take place. Everyone stops running and looks back. All they see is a blue wall. A wall of water. A wall that is a mile and a half in height. And it is coming right for them.
Godzilla and Mothra both looked back and saw this entire event. The second the asteroid hit they bolted underground. Mothra soars deep into a sinkhole that opened up. Godzilla is right on her heels. The sounds of boulders and rocks crashing down makes communication impossible, and within moments the two get separated. Mothra sails into a larger cave. She dodges and weaves through falling rock but one hits her right in the face. She slams into the ground. She starts to get back up but a boulder the size of a building drops right on her right wing. She is trapped. She screams into the darkness as the entrance to the cave is sealed shut. Godzilla manages to get into a more stable cave but he gets sealed in. They have been swallowed by the Earth.
The tsunami slams into Cuba and Florida at almost the speed of sound. It flattens everything in its path. And once it hits the royal palace, the entire building is crushed to dust. Almost every Muto and Kaiju on that battlefield drowned. The impact of the asteroid released unparalleled amounts of ash and volcanic material into the air. Within hours, the sky of the world is black. The sun can't reach the surface on two thirds of the globe. Battra managed to fly and watch the whole event from the sky. Rodan did the same. Anguirus got swept into the tsunami but managed to survive without a scratch. Commander Dex also managed to survive. He got swept into the tsunami too. He was thrown around and he slammed into rocks, trees, even bodies, until he finally clung onto a tree. It snapped but he floated on it until the tsunami stopped moving. The impact zone is barren of all life. A cone of rock almost 60 miles in diameter forms a bowl that stops all water from returning into the area. But lying in the center of the impact zone, is a rocky sphere. A matte black, perfect sphere made of stone.
Three days after impact.
Battra lands in the bowl. He spotted this sphere from the air. It doesn't look natural. The sphere is just resting on a flattened area of land. Ash and dust still fills the air. A sort of humming is coming from the rock. Battra walks up to it and touches it with on of his middle arms. It is cold. Ice cold. But right after he removes his arm the area where he touched it cracks. Battra jumps. He is frightened beyond his wildest dreams. He jolts behind a nearby rock and watches from behind it. The spidery cracks criss-cross the sphere until it shatters into dust. Inside the sphere is a golden ball of flesh. Battra ducks behind the rock. The flesh begins to move, and two large golden wings spring out. Two spiked tails shoot out. Two massive legs stand the entire figure up, and lastly three heads rise into the air. Each of them sporting a huge set of spikes and teeth as sharp as razors. All three heads open their eyes. A fiery crimson pierces the air. The being takes its first breath of air and looks around. All three heads scanning the area. The middle one opens its mouth to speak.
"It is foolish to hide from me, creature. It is wise that you reveal yourself,"
Battra's wings are trembling. He walks from behind the rock to face the being. He is almost 5 times as tall as him. The massive golden wings are almost double his wingspan. And his three massive heads can easily swallow him whole. Battra trembles as he speaks to this foreign object.
"Who are you? What is your purpose here?"
The being closes its three pairs of eyes. The middle head opens them and speaks. It's icy breath shakes Battra to the bone. The creature rattles its tails.
"We are Ghidorah, The Consumer of Worlds."
And thus concludes the second major story arc. Ghidorah's arrival is going to really shake up the game here. Let me know how I did with Ghidorah's entrance. Poor Battra, he just got the title as Emperor too. If I can, I will post another chapter soon. Until then, I will see y'all soon.