(Chapter 7: Ogra takes New Mexico)
The G-Team colonel squadron was in hot pursuit against Kaiyo's Red Bamboo, it was a race against time before New Mexico would be in trouble. Construction of a new flying airship with homages to the Argo was underway at the GDF HQ up in the ruins of Boston.
For right now, the colonels were using an osprey to fly after the Red Bamboo fleet of the skies, Dr. Rick Stanton provided the gang updates as they frantically flew towards Kaiyo's monstrous air force. Stanton would usually be in the mood for a joke, he always was, but now he was being very serious with his work as he saw the dastardly sight of Gorgo being practically tortured and then knocked out cold.
"Alright Skull squad, our mission is to intercept whatever the hell Kaiyo and his Red Bamboo are planning to do. The only info we have is that he is headed towards New Mexico thanks to a telecommunicator broadcast where they captured Gorgo. We are to stop that son of a bitch at all costs." Ford announced as he flew the osprey in the direction of New Mexico, he hoped to intercept the Red Bamboo air fleet before they could even reach the state. The colonels were flying West while the Red Bamboo was flying North.
Dr. Stanton's face appeared on a tablet, being held by Kenny. Within his head, he had hoped that this would be that final push in which the Skull Squad needed to finally put an end to that bastard Kaiyo.
"Bad news, I just got a bio-acoustic from close by. Just a few miles away from the Outpost, I don't know what the hell it is, but after listening to Gorgo's acoustics and this one's, it sounds the exact same, except way deeper. Must be a big mama, and she's pissed." Dr. Stanton warned, everyone within the osprey looked at each other.
Shit.. Ford thought to himself, now New Mexico could be in danger if they were late of saving Gorgo.
"What the hell does New Mexico have that the Red Bamboo wants so badly?" Kenny groaned with a roll of his eyes.
"Titan execution facility, apparently they are planning on hosting a public execution of Gorgo. That senate hearing that you fellas intercepted a couple weeks back was Kaiyo being completely funded by the US government to execute any titan if the Red Bamboo had a chance to catch one." Dr. Stanton sighed.
"Are you fucking kidding me? Titan execution facilities, what the hell has the world come to?" Kenny growled, pounding his fist on the empty seat next to him.
Ever since 2019, emergency titan execution quarters had been built in every single state. It was a simple process, the titan would be bound to the ground by high tension wires and cables. A paralyzing dose of electricity would be delivered before a large bowl shaped device was slowly lowered onto the head of the monster, another claw shaped device grabbed hold of the monster from behind. A lethal shock would be delivered, continuously filling up the monster until it died.
There were different types of execution facilities, it depended on the type of titan. If it walked on two feet, then they would be transported to the facility to kill off a beast that stands on two feet. Those facilities were common.
If a titan was bigger, the execution facility was designed differently. What people didn't know, is that Ghidorah was currently chained up at an execution facility built by Monarch. The Earth's Rightful Rulers originally had one of Ghidorah's severed heads until they were caught at some point in late 2020, not too long after Godzilla and Kong got into a devastating brawl.
Execution facilities were also built upon the titan's weakness, since Ghidorah was powered by radiation and high voltage of electricity, a spike would be used to drill through the brains of the heads. Most titan execution facilities had been built by Monarch in order to destroy rogue or destroyer class titans, however, thanks to the impatience of the governments, execution facilities had been built for even peaceful titans. As grim as it sounded, a facility had been built for Godzilla too. The execution facilities for even peaceful titans, had been built against Monarch's will. If only Dr. Ishiro Serizawa saw this…
Meanwhile, Kaiyo was speaking into a teletransmission microphone in which was being played to the crowded streets of New Mexico. They had been waiting for Gorgo's execution, especially the ones who fled from Isla De Mara after the destruction of their town in 2019.
"Ladies and gentleman of the beautiful state of New Mexico, rejoice! You are all about to witness the execution of a monster that had been terrorizing the shores of old Mexico. Many of you have been moved from down in that area to here. The Red Bamboo has the beast completely immobilized, you will not be fearing for your lives any more. We are here to rid the Earth of these giant demons walking among us, we are the saviors of the modern day Earth. We will no longer live in fear and terror of these damn things, clear the streets of the execution zone. We are coming really soon!" Kaiyo boasted over the loud speakers that blared throughout the city of New mexico.
The execution zone was already being prepared for Gorgo's arrival, it wouldn't be long. Civilians had crowded around the execution zone, chanting and cheering for the Red Bamboo, it was crazy. Flags of the anti-titan organization were waving in the crowded streets, Monarch banners and flags were burning.
One of the signs in which was being paraded around said "Death to Monarch," on it. The public had no remorse for the titans, none at all. Police started moving the rioters away from the zone, the high amounts of electricity would not only take out Gorgo, but also fry anyone that stood close to it within three hundred feet.
Red Bamboo gunmen crowded the streets too, making sure there would be no resistance against Gorgo's death. Things would be getting very nasty when the colonels reached New Mexico, it would be a gunfight.
The day continued on and on, eventually turning into night. Fast flying had the risk of dropping Gorgo from the skies, due to the smaller stature and size of the young Gorgo, a mere fall from a great height would doom him, but it isn't what Kaiyo wanted. The japanese bastard wanted to execute him in front of a crowd of thousands, not knowing Ogra was hunting him down thanks to Gorgo's scent being left through the air.
Military was at the ready within the city, in case any big bad monsters came to rescue Gorgo. Their rescue would be shut down, the osprey of the colonels landed on top of a nearby building close to the execution zone, the voltage wouldn't harm them if they were to be within a building or on top of one. The colonels and general quickly left the osprey and began to speak amongst themselves.
"Good God, look at all of those stolen masers. The city of Albuquerque is gonna be a hot mess once all of this is over and done." Kenny sighed, seeing the large scale crowd wanting to see the demise of Gorgo. Suddenly, Dr. Stanton's voice broke in on the transceiver.
"Guys you better hurry the hell up, big momma is coming fast!" He warned, an alert buzzed on Laura's wrist device, a titan warning had been issued for all of New Mexico. Ford Brody saw something flying in from the distance, it was a large jet, slightly smaller than the Argo, carrying a large object within a weighted blanket.
"Colonels, they're here." Ford warned, pointing towards the large jet and the fleet flying in behind it.
"We best get our asses inside, if they see us, Albuquerque is gonna get shit on if we don't." Laura explained, the colonels and general all headed within the building for safety. The entire structure had been emptied, all personnel had left to witness the execution of Gorgo.
As Gorgo was lowered into the execution zone, high tension wires were turned on. A massive gate enclosed the beast slowly but surely to ensure no escape. Various machinery began to pick and claw at him as large clawed machinery with shackles on the ends began to ensnare him, two shackles wrapped around his wrists, delivering a huge electric shock to wake him up. Gorgo growled as his body was jolted, only to realize that his arms had been immobilized.
The crowd surrounding the execution cage booed loudly, cursing and spitting at the now enraged beast. Blood and dried up blood soaked him, pain wracked his body as everything started to reoccur to Gorgo what had happened earlier.
Kaiyo Hanson himself marched out from a platform, overlooking the execution zone. He stood at a podium with Red Bamboo gunmen standing behind him, menacing glares all around. A smirk on his face, the cruel jap's brutish desires were all coming true right here.
Gorgo thrashed around, but the more he struggled, more electricity was pumped into his body, causing him to roar out in pure agony. He stomped around, but there was no ground to break beneath his feet. Escape would be practically impossible, but he would keep trying.
Gorgo thrashed his tail hard into the high tension wires on his left side, it delivered a high voltage shock that almost made him black out, but he remained standing. The strike of his tail was strong enough to break through the high tension wires, stopping their function. He could only see out of one eye, his other eye had been gouged out earlier, the pain still within his head, haunting him.
"Fear not, people of New Mexico. This monster cannot escape, much studying has gone down over the past few years about their strengths and their weaknesses. Let this moment forever let the beasts know that the might of humanity is equal to that among theirs, histories prove that at one point in time, we enslaved these things, and like cowards, we freed them. Feast your eyes!" Kaiyo boomed into the microphone as a large claw jetted out from a gigantic wall behind Gorgo, the beast charged forwards, and was shocked again by the large electric cage, halting his struggles once more.
"It is time to show that the titans are below us!" Kaiyo screamed as a large claw shaped device began to lower on top of Gorgo's head, the claws clamping shut around him tightly, causing him pain and discomfort as he couldn't even breathe anymore due to the pressure on his snout.
Kaiyo marched into a large metallic box like structure, standing within the structure would keep him safe. It is also where the killswitch was for the execution device was, he was taking slow steps, wanting Gorgo to suffer before he died. The people of New Mexico cheering their 'savior' on.
Kenny, overcome by rage, took a sniper rifle, in which had been modified by Monarch, and bashed open a window to take aim at Kaiyo from afar.
"That son of a bitch pays for the people he has killed and has hurt so far, tonight is the night that fucker dies." He growled under his breath as he patiently waited for Kaiyo to stand perfectly still.
"It is time to show the titans, that man…" Kaiyo continued, turning around to face the killswitch. Gorgo continued to thrash around rapidly, his tail swinging and slamming into the high tension wires.
"Man, IS KING!" The jap boomed loudly as he pressed hard on the killswitch almost at the same time that Kenny fired the shot, massive blue sparks flashed from the execution zone as the machine pumped millions of volts into the body of Gorgo, causing his whole body to tense up and go stiff. The sparks overcame the bullet and slowed it down, causing it to fall short of the window in which only protected Kaiyo.
Kenny saw that the bullet missed him via the scope on the rifle and he screamed with rage, hurling the rifle out of the window, sending it falling to the streets below. That would prove to be a mistake as it took out a civilian.
A loud whimpered cry was heard from Gorgo before everything went silent, the beast fell limp. The titan radiation levels in the area were dramatically sinking lower and lower, then spiking to none. Gorgo was dead, executed by the facility. Kaiyo got what he had wanted, the people cheered and the bastard began to laugh loudly. He felt victorious, but the conflict wasn't over just yet.
Not too long after the radiation levels of Gorgo came to a halt, there was another spike in radiation. It kept growing and growing, something had arrived. Far off in the distance, the ground began to quiver and quake. It was far enough away from the city that people couldn't really feel it, but they would see it within moments.
Sirens began to blare across Albuquerque, getting the people into a crazed panic. Military began to make their move, and so did the Red Bamboo gunmen and gunwomen. The colonels looked at each other from within the building they stood in, Ogra had arrived, the mother of Gorgo had arrived and what she would be seeing, would only make her even more angry than she already was.
"We failed guys, now we must evacuate the city in the quickest way possible." Ford explained with a sigh, Kenny chimed in.
"Evacuate the city? That thing is already here…"
Just then, a loud boom erupted across the city. The large head of Ogra emerged from the depths of the Earth, using a hollow earth passageway to find her way directly under the city. Citizens began to scream and run in a hectic pattern, military officials scrambled to keep everything under control, but it was impossible as there was a loud roar of fury echoing across the buildings.
"Move it, get to your homes and don't come out until we say so!" A Red Bamboo gunman shouted out to the civilians as he rode on the back of a truck full of fellow gunmen, Kaiyo watched Ogra steadily approaching the city from afar thanks to his high elevation within the watchtower of the execution facility.
"Son of a bitch…" He said to himself, not knowing there was a mother to this thing. His heart began to pick up the pace as he thought of something to do. The man knew he would be directly responsible for the deaths of thousands.
"Good citizens of New Mexico and Albuquerque, please evacuate to the nearest shelters or subways. This is not a drill, a titan has been spotted. I repeat, this is not a drill! Once again, a titan entered the city of Al-" Kaiyo's sentence was cut short when the window shattered, he allowed his body to collapse, the bodyguard to his right collapsed with a scorch wound on the side of his head, a noticeable bullet hole was also right at his temple.
"Oh shit…" Kaiyo muttered as his secondary bodyguard got down low, it was then that Kaiyo realized that the colonels were in the city somewhere, who else would be going after him if the governments across the world funded him?
"We need to get the fuck out of here, right now."
Another round hit the wall, burning some wood and papers, creating a fire. Then another round slammed into the wall, making the flame grow even larger. Kaiyo and his secondary bodyguard desperately crawled towards the exit slowly in the prone position, so they wouldn't get blasted.
"What about the other guy?" The bodyguard asked, referencing his partner who was just shot dead.
"Fuck him, he's gonna be cremated anyway by the fires."
The two crawled through the exit and they were safe from the colonels for now, they began to race down the hall towards the elevator. Kaiyo began to pull out his phone to call in a big weapon for Ogra specifically, this could potentially get him in loads of trouble.
"Kaiyo to US military, get me the Anti-Titan Bomb now. We're in Albuquerque, New Mexico. A large beast has entered the city and everyone is in danger, I've evacuated most of the citizens to underground shelters."
"We need to get to that execution zone and kill that son of a bitch, this is our last shot we've got for the majority of this whole year. If we fail, we fucking fail, let's move!" Ford shouted as he darted down the hall with his GDF shock rifle in his arms, the colonels followed after him.
Ogra's roar shocked the city once again as her loud explosive footsteps warned everyone that she was near, Gorgo couldn't hear or feel anything, he was still lifeless and bound in the wires. Blood leaking and dripping freely from his mouth and every hole on his body.
A few military jeeps lined up on a road that would lead out of the city, a few tanks had lined up as well. They all began to fire upon Ogra, their attacks having absolutely no effect on her massive frame. In a single swipe of her tail, she disposed of her attackers instantly and with authority, and then she continued her march towards the city with a mighty roar of anger.
The Red Bamboo fighter jets rushed towards her, firing rapidly at the beast. She growled, those damn pesky jets would be very annoying, but like mosquitoes to a human, they would be disposed of as well. She swatted down three jets with one strike, making them explode on impact, the burning remains falling into the city of Albuquerque far below.
When the burning remains of the jets slammed into the ground, fireballs and sparks were thrown everywhere, catching some civilians on fire and breaking into stores and other places through the windows, starting fires within them.
Ogra approached the first building and effortlessly plowed through it shoulder first, making the building seemingly burst. Hundreds already killed through that first move into the city, chunks of the buildings rained down on the helpless panicking citizens and military men beneath her, she even trampled down some of them as she continued her trek to the fallen son.
She felt a few touches on her side, they were coming from within another building and with a single swipe of her large arm through it, the attackers were disposed of, as well as another building being ruined. She let out another furious roar, nothing would stop her.
The colonels made their way through building after building, going out into the streets would be suicide at this point as fighter jets were falling to the ground, the remains either burning or crushing people, maybe even doing both at the same time. The colonels could see what was going on all around them.
"Innocent people are fucking dying thanks to that madman." Kenny groaned, everyone knew what madman he was talking about.
Laura noticed a large crate with a flammable logo sitting out to their right, it closed off the alleyway between the buildings. Some large flammable crates were also blocking off several streets in the city, making escape even harder for the already doomed civilians.
"What the hell is that there for?" She asked Ford, he didn't even know, but the assumption is that it wasn't for anything good.
A fighter jet dove towards Ogra, firing towards her eyes under the command of Kaiyo. Instead, she opened up her mouth and sucked in the jet through a great current of air, clamping her jaws around the jet, making it explode. She growled, smoke jetted out from her nostrils as she continued her march.
The colonels looked up after taking a quick peek out into the streets to see what appeared to be some sort of armored blimp, it had a massive gun on the underside, it was a maser gun as a matter of fact, a large one.
"What the hell…" Ford said in shock, the blimp was colored black with a large red symbol for the Red Bamboo. They were manufacturing their own maser guns, when Monarch and the GDF only had the blueprints, or so they thought.
When Mercutio of the Earth's Rightful Rulers invaded the GDF base in 2026, he took some blueprints for several future weapons to combat against the titans. Once the Red Bamboo began to flex their muscle, the blueprints were given to them in secrecy. To which Monarch had no clue of, hell, Monarch didn't even know that APEX was following the GDF's every move.
The blimp was a massive one, easily dwarfing any other zeppelin or jet in history. This was only one of the many armored zeppelins in which were being manufactured by the Red Bamboo, APEX, and Monarch. The blimps were so large that they could even rival the Argo jet and the Atragon, as a matter of fact, these armored zeppelins would be taking their place until a new state of the art warship was created.
"Wait a minute, look up there on top of the hospital!" Brayden Snow pointed out, seeing a few Red Bamboo choppers parked up on the heli-pad of the hospital.
"I've got a plan."
Within seconds, the Red Bamboo gunmen in which were watching over the helicopters, were shot dead from the colonels hiding in the darkness. There was another loud explosive bang, Ogra had plowed through another building once again.
"Ignite them." Kaiyo ordered another one of his fighter jets, the colonels rushed across the street, climbing over the many cars with dead drivers within them. It was hectic as people made the cars and vehicles rock around thanks to their panicking bodies slamming into them blindly.
Two Red Bamboo jets swooped down towards the streets as the colonels finally made their way inside of another building across the street, getting ever closer to the execution zone. They were lucky to make it inside, a loud boom came from behind them, followed by massive amounts of screams, then another explosive boom, followed by Ogra's roar.
The colonels and Ford Brody turned around to see a massive amount of fire, the flammable crates had burst into flames, spreading across the cars and vehicles, making them catch fire. Only adding to more destruction, it wasn't just fire within the crate, it was a shitload of napalm. Kaiyo was trying to engulf the whole city in a blazing inferno, taking everyone out with it, and hopefully Ogra too.
"Holy shit…" Kenny muttered to himself, Laura heard him.
"That would be an understatement, we've gotta move." She warned, the colonels rushed for the stairs and instantly began to dart up them as fast as their legs could carry them. Ogra's roars vibrated the walls as they climbed further and further up.
Kaiyo saw almost every single street turn into a blazing inferno thanks to his special strategy, black smoke billowed high into the sky. The fires took out some of his own men, but he couldn't care less for them, it is how ruthless this bastard was. It made him laugh, the demise of so many lives in an instant just to take out a titan.
Ogra growled as the flames didn't even reach her waistline, but even the fires didn't cause her legs damage. She let out a loud roar into the sky again, almost all resistance had been disposed off down in the streets. It would be smooth sailing, until a blinding flash of light occurred in the sky and she was knocked right through a burning building. The armored zeppelin warship had fired at her with the maser cannon, knocking her off of her feet and into a building.
Ogra growled in determination, unlike her son, one maser shot wouldn't be enough to bring her down. She rose back to her feet and let out a roar of defiance up at the armored warship, suddenly, several fighter jets were deployed out from the warship's bottom latch. Like a swarm of angry hornets leaving their disturbed hive, and Ogra was ready to face them.
The beast opened up her jaws and began to suck in all of the fire where she stood, her chest pumping up fuller and fuller. The cracks in her thick, scaly hide, began to glow orange, and so did her eyes. The small spiky ridges on her back began to glow orange, the hum of radiation intensified as she continued to huff in the flames until she could no longer do it anymore.
The fighter jet squadron continued to rush down upon her, and that is when she unleashed a gigantic stream of fire from her mouth. Similar to Godzilla's atomic ray, but it wasn't shere atomic radiation, it was fire. Her chest slowly deflated back down to normal size after many seconds of holding the fiery ray, the flaming beam burning and destroying many of the jets that were descending upon her.
Kaiyo had turned his head to see what was going on, he couldn't believe it. This thing was just like Godzilla, he didn't know Gorgo and Ogra belonged in the same titan family or species. He balled up his fists in anger as all of his resistance was proving to be futile. He looked to his bodyguard and a smirk cracked on his face, one of insanity.
"She won't last. I know she won't."
A rescue helicopter lowered, picking up both Kaiyo and the bodyguard. The chopper would be returning to the armored zeppelin, the only ones that would be inside were the pilots along with Kaiyo and his bodyguard, and perhaps a few gunmen too.
Eventually, the colonels reached the top of the building and saw that the rescue helicopter containing Kaiyo was already high in the sky. Kenny cursed under his breath, everyone looked at Ford.
"We can't let them get away, not this time. We can't surrender, what the fuck do you want us to do?" Kenny screamed, getting agitated at this whole situation, he couldn't live with the fact that Kaiyo might just escape their clutches for a fourth time.
"I've got a plan, take off our uniforms and put the uniforms of these Red Bamboo terrorists on. We're stealing their choppers and getting the hell in that warship, it's game on."
The colonels and Ford Brody went right to work as the Red Bamboo fleet continued to attack Ogra, just a few fighter jets remained. One fighter jet rushed by her head, she turned around and from out of the blue. A large tongue shot out from her mouth, pulling the jet in like a frog's tongue.
Kaiyo didn't see what the colonels were doing, he was too focused on getting the hell out of New Mexico. That anti-titan bomb was coming at a rapid pace, the large silo that contained the missile wasn't far. It was located around ten miles away from Albuquerque, so it would be there in a matter of minutes.
"If those damn colonels aren't dead, they will be.." He growled, whether he was right about the situation or not, had yet to be seen…
A/N: Cliffhanger! What will be the fate of our beloved colonels, find out in the next upcoming chapter of Gorgo!