Part 1: The Lab of Monsters

Chapter 1: The Calm before the Storm

4 weeks before the Revelation…

Ethos stretched his arms as he walked out of the car. Last night was certainly an eventful one… destroying Tanaka's Monsters and everything ... Naegi and Kirigiri stepped out of the car too and the three of them looked at the new Headquarters of the Paranormal Branch: a nice looking house-mansion. Then each one took at least one cardboard box, and headed for the door. Naegi had the keys and opened the doors to their new home.

The entrance hall was pretty spacious; the living room was connected to it. The Kitchen was not far from the entrance and in the back were the toilets. Then there was the stairs leading up to the second floor where the bedrooms were. And in the third floor two more bedrooms and the attic room.

The trio looked around, deciding which bedrooms they'll take and which one will become the guest's rooms. There were already beds and some other furniture like tables. So installing themselves in won't take that long, hopefully.

"New house! I certainly missed living in a house." Ethos smiled.

"Same here." Naegi followed, "But no more canteen though. We'll have to cook."

"Oh… I forgot… well… looks like we have to go buy something for dinner!"

"Don't worry, I brought some pasta from the canteen of the 14th Branch."

They spent the rest of the day installing their stuff and moving around most of the furniture.


Their first night in their new room and new big bed… was a very torrid one for the young couple. Kirigiri collapsed on her fiancé's body exhausted, resting her head on his sweaty chest both panting after the 'exercise'. Their face flushed from the heat, they looked at each other before exchanging another kiss.

"Wow… that felt fantastic." sighed the lavender haired woman.

"It sure did. It's much more comfortable in a good bed than the ones the Branch headquarters had." The ahoge man smiled.

They rested like that for a solid minute in silence, breathing in sync. They almost drifted to sleep, if Kirigiri didn't moved up again and smiled naughtily.

"What about we go for a second round?"

Before Naegi could answer, a voice boomed from behind the wall.

"That was round one?!" Ethos shouted.

The couple immediately widened their eyes as wide as dinner plates and looked at the wall.

"Ethos?" they called at the same time.

"Urg! Hate these walls! You know what? I'll go to sleep on the couch downstairs. You guys do whatever you want." He said before they heard a door opening.

Naegi put his trousers and walked towards the door, he opened it slowly and large enough to peek at the stairs to see the form of Ethos going downstairs, he also saw him making weird disgusted faces.

"It looks like he really went downstairs." Naegi said as he slipped back under the sheets with Kirigiri.

Well, their sexy ambiance turned into a really awkward one, as they were now red from embarrassment.

"S-So…? About this seco-"

"I'm no longer in the mood, Makoto. Let's sleep." She cut him off.

"S-Sure."

They awkwardly went to sleep but ended up cuddling under the sheets. The next morning, when they walked downstairs and towards the kitchen, Ethos was waiting for them with a mug of coffee and coffee ready for them. He looked at them with a mischievous grin.

"Hi 'Beast', 'Tigress'..." he said in a mocking way.

While Naegi blushed like a tomato, Kirigiri just sent a glare that could kill the Destroyer. She had to hold her urge to pour some boiling coffee on his head. But instead she just ignored him, took her cup of coffee cup and said that she'll go to work.

Naegi kissed her goodbye and Ethos waved at his ex-boss. And she went out.

"I'm gonna move to the third floor. Maybe the ceiling is thicker than the walls."

"Please don't tell me we were that loud!" Naegi exclaimed, his face still red.

"The walls are pretty thin… so when your bed hit it, it vibrates and started to shake my bed. I'd rather not tell you about the surprise of waking up to your moa-"

"Alright! Alright! Stop! We still have work to do in this house." Naegi cut him off.

"Yeah, you're right." Ethos smiled as he stood up.


3 weeks before the Revelation…

It took way more time than expected to accommodate the house to their liking but they finally did it! They installed an office's room on each floor (one for Kirigiri in case she'll be sick and couldn't go to the Branch 14 building). Ethos used the attic to store most of his Kaiju onesies while he put his tools in his new office.

Now that they were done, they deserved a celebration!

Obviously, Naegi and Kirigiri invited their friends and Komaru. Ethos, for his part invited Seiko, Ruruka and Izayoi. It was much harder to bring these three together than expected, specially with Ruruka not wanting to socialize with 'kids' and the masked woman.

Ethos noticed once everybody was there, that the group was divided, at least Seiko was glad to be able to know more about the Survivors of Hope's Peak. But Ruruka and Izayoi just stood in a corner, now that he remembers, it was always like that back in the days.

"Come on guys! Be a bit more social!" Ethos pleaded.

"I'd rather not befriend potential traitors." Ruruka answered, her boyfriend just nodded.

Oh, so she still had that trust complex. Well, that never stopped the kaiju fan before!

"Well we're friend, right? Come on, just… i don't know… share your pastries? Hina loves that! And I'm sure Komaru too! And you Sonosuke, you can talk about the weapons you're working on! You know, for the Paranormal Branch! I'm sure Makoto would be very interested." Ethos smiled.

The couple looked at each other and whispered, then they turned to their friend and finally accepted and joined the rest of the group. Though Ruruka did her best to avoid Seiko. He'll have to do something about that too one of these days.

The party actually went pretty well and he never thought he'll see Ruruka smile like that, it wasn't as bright as when she's with Izayoi, but it was some sort of happy smile indeed. Now if only the blonde blacksmith could chill out each time someone made his girlfriend smile, it would be perfect.

Eventually the party came to an end, Ethos' friends had to leave. And soon after, the others too.

"Hey if you guys want to spend the night or live here with us we have many free rooms! Also I'm sure it would calm down the two bunnies." the black and red haired man smirked.

This proposition earned two glares from the engaged and now enraged couple (though one of them was red as a tomato), two disgusted stares from Togami and Fukawa and finally three confused faces from Asahina, Hagakure and Komaru.

"You guys have bunnies here?" Asahina asked.

"Yeah, and I think they'll kill me tonight in my sleep." Ethos started to sweat as he could feel their glares piercing the back of his skull.

Unfortunately no one accepted his invitation … yet. Not even Komaru who was now living with the writer.

"Ethos… we need to talk." Kirigiri said in a dark tone.


2 weeks before the Revelation…

They worked and worked. The Paranormal Branch's job is to look for monsters that could represent a major threat for the Hope. But the Guardian Kaijus and Godzilla went back to wherever they resided. Their only lead to some locations were from the documents Munakata's team retrieved from the UPDPC's lab they found.

Unfortunately, there was nothing about kaijus. But there was information about the locations of other UPDPC headquarters! And as promised, when the brunet talked to Munakata about the probable location of the facilities, the vice-leader sent some groups from different branches to investigate.

They wouldn't travel a lot, but their work was certainly important in this era of Monsters and Despair.

Togami came to visit them that evening, 'escaping Touko' he said.

Since when did he start to call her by her given name?

Anyway, he spent the evening with Naegi and Ethos, talking about possible kaijus being actually real.

"At least we can say that most kaijus of the Heisei era are made up!" Togami said.

"Heisei era?" Naegi asked.

"Yes, a Kaiju era that started in 1984 and ended in 2006 with a Gamera movie, but in the Godzilla series it ended in 1995", Ethos explained, "By the way, we don't know if kaijus other than the Godzilla Universe exist too! Maybe Gamera is real too!"

"We don't know, but as I said: some Heisei monsters must be made up like Biollante or Destoroyah."

"Oh I remember watching those!" Naegi smiled.

"Yeah. Can you imagine how in how much trouble we would be if Destroyah was real?" the destroyer kaiju fan laughed.

After that statement… An awkward silence filled the room between the three men.

What if Destroyah was real?!


At the 9th Branch Headquarters…

Sonosuke Izayoi, the Ultimate Blacksmith, was looking again at the weapons blueprints of UPDPC, all very interesting and most of them rather easy to make. But he was sure that there was still room for some improvement.

As he was about to call it a day and go home, he got a call from the reception of his Branch.

"Sir, there's someone here for you."

"Who?"

"Ethos Oroya."

He didn't plan a meeting with him. It can only mean that he's here to annoy him!

"Don't let him in-!"

Suddenly the door of his office got kicked open, revealing the Destroyer.

"Sonosuke!"

"God dammit." The blonde man cursed.

"Dude! You must create ice weapons!" Ethos shouted.

"... what?"

"In case Destroyah is real!"

"...what?"

"You know… Godzilla vs Destroyah…?"

Izayoi just stared confusedly at his friend. Then made the mistake.

"I never watched Godzilla vs Destroyah-" he started.

"The FUCK is your problem!?" Ethos suddenly exclaimed, startling his friend.

"What?"

"Guess what we're seeing right now, bitch!" The robot armed man spat as he pulled out a DVD from his suit, walking towards the PC on Izayoi's desk.

"I just said- wait did you just carry th-"

"I thought we were friends…" Ethos sighed in disappointment as he was already putting the DVD inside the PC.

The red Blacksmith groaned in annoyance as he asked for an explanation of an 'ice weapon'. After he got it, he explained that they didn't have the technology nor the technique to be able to build such weapon.

But, maybe UPDPC created a weapon like that. So if they wanted such weapons, they should find their labs.

Ethos worked twice as hard at analyzing the secret organization's documents since that day.


The next two weeks went pretty quickly, there wasn't any new information about UPDPC, and no Kaiju sighting. At least the two agents were sometimes needed for other works so they wouldn't get too bored.

Hagakure was sent to a mission with team SLOMA from Branch 14 the night before. Kirigiri said that she had enough of seeing him do nothing all day long, so sending him in a mission with one of the best teams of Future Foundation might motivate him.

Today was a off day so Ethos asked once more to his friends to come to his house so they could spend the afternoon together, except Hagakure who was still on a mission.

After some begging, they accepted and they all spent the afternoon chilling, watching a movie (Godzilla VS Destroyah), making them all understand why indeed Ice weapons will be more than necessary if the devil looking kaiju existed. They also did some karaoke and finally they (Ethos actually) decided to play the King's game.

They were ten in total, so ten sticks, 9 numbered from 1 to 9 and the last one with a red stripe. When everyone draws a stick, the one with the red stripe becomes the king and gives an order that is absolute.

"Alright! Let's do this!" Asahina, Komaru and Ethos exclaimed, all excited.

"I can't believe I'm playing this again…" sighed Makoto, earning multiple nods from his friends.

They all drew a stick and Ethos was the first King. He asked for number 4 and 6 to kiss, making more than a few raise their eyebrows . What on earth was he doing?

Well anyway, it was the Naegi siblings, so they kissed each other cheeks, nothing weird except for Touko making a weird comment of brother complex.

Next round, Ethos got king again. Already raising suspicions from the others as he asked again for two numbers to kiss. This time it was Togami and Fukawa, which made the latter squeak in delight and mentally thanking the destroyer for this.

Hoping that no one saw it, Togami was slightly blushing, but his friends noticed anyway. The kiss they exchanged was way too short to be considered as a kiss, almost a peck. Even if Asahina, Komaru and Ethos let out a sigh of disappointment, Fukawa was more than pleased and she almost passed out.

The next round, Komaru got king and having no idea of what to ask for, she just asked number 5 to take the top off, during the next two rounds. Again for Touko's delight: number 5 was Togami.

Next round's King was Ethos again, and unsurprisingly he asked two other numbers to kiss, this time it was Togami and Naegi. While everyone was grinning, Fukawa was glaring at the ahoge man.

The following round, Naegi turned out to be King and he just asked number 8 to speak another language.

"Ok." Izayoi said.

Everyone was waiting for him to say more… but no sound came out of his mouth.

"You… aren't going to talk?" Ethos asked.

"No."

Ruruka kissed a grinning Izayoi, proud of his 'trolling'.

Ethos won again at the next round, now everyone was having doubts that he was cheating somehow.

"I want number 1 and 2 to go upstairs and come back in a kaiju onesie!"

Kirigiri sighed and stood up, Komaru following her. After some minutes they came back. The lavender haired detective came back in a Mothra onesie and Komaru in the Destroyah one.

They sat back at their place. Everyone had a little smile on their faces. Komaru commented about how cool the monster onesie she was wearing was. Kirigiri was as stoic as ever, but she wasn't showing discomfort of wearing the suit.

Ruruka turned out to be King at the next round. And she proudly ordered for number 7 to spank 3's butt!

"I'm number 7." Ethos said.

"Oh God…" Izayoi blanched, making everyone widen their eyes.

"Ohoho~ I promise I'll be nice." Ethos grinned seductively, making the Blacksmith glare at him and Ruruka close to laugh out loud.

Everyone was holding back a chuckle at the scene in front of them, thought Seiko looked worried for Ethos' safety.

"You hurt me and I swear, I'll cut your other arm." Izayoi threatened.

"Ok then, not with the robot arm then…" the robot armed man said with a hint of sadness in his voice.

The blonde man dressed in red reluctantly bent over, embarrassment present in his eyes as he looked at his girlfriend who mouthed a sorry, but it didn't hide the amusement on her face.

That's right, he's doing this for Ruruka, not Ethos. She asked for this. He must endure this. For her-

"So how many spanks? Five?"

"No! One! One!" The confectionist and blacksmith shouted in disapproval at the same time.

"Like hell I'm letting you touch Yoi-chan's butt more than once!" Ruruka growled at the destroyer.

"Fine! Fine! One it is."

At this point the siblings and Asahina were looking away, holding their laughter.

Ethos got himself in position behind Izayoi.

"So… should I spank upwards or sideways, or-"

"Just do it already."

"Wowow~ Don't be so impatient, it's coming." Ethos grinned and slapped his friend's butt, fearing for his arm, the hit wasn't that strong but Izayoi yelped in surprise.

"I'm gonna kill you." he glared.

"I love you too, man." the black and red haired man grinned.

They all went back to their seat for another round and… Ethos was king again and ordered for two numbers to kiss. This time it fell on Seiko and Asahina. But they kissed each other's cheek. Ethos just groaned.

Everyone accused the Destroyer of cheating as he got King's role way too many times, not even Naegi, the Ultimate Lucky Student, got to be king. He admitted his crime pretty quickly.

"I just… i don't know this morning I thought: 'Why not make two pretty girls kiss?'" He 'explained.

"Calling us pretty won't save you." Kirigiri said darkly.

Like a hero coming at the right moment, Hagakure opened the front door. But he was panicking as he shouted Ethos and Naegi's names.

"What's the matter?!"

"A-A… A monster! It killed SLOMA! Killed all of them!"

All the happy ambiance of the party flew out of the window.

"What?! When?!" Naegi asked, panicked.

"Last night! During the mission!" Hagakure exclaimed before explaining what happened.

"You said it happened last night?! Why didn't you call?!"

"I forgot my phone was in the chopper during the mission! But then it crashed!" The Clairvoyant whined.

"But why didn't you called with that woman's phone?!"

"I don't know your numbers by heart!"

"What about Future Foundation!?" Everyone was sounding desperate.

"I don't know the number either."

At that, almost everyone exploded.

"Dude! There's posters of Future Foundation for contact at every corner!" Ethos roared, infuriated.

"... really?"

Everyone groaned in annoyance.

"Can we at least watch the monster? Might be some kaiju offspring or something else." Ethos asked, his metal hand against his forehead.

"Oh yes! I have the pictures in my pocket! That girl was really nice to copy them for me." Hagakure laughed as he took three papers from his pocket and handed them to Naegi and Ethos.

Naegi looked down at the pictures and saw the blue four legged creature that looked like a shark with legs. He saw the blood around it's mouth, claws and blade at the tip of the tail and understood that this creature wasn't one to be reasoned with. It was dangerous. He frowned at the pictures but when he heard Ethos gasp he looked up at him.

His eyes were wide open in terror, his mouth open. Seiko asked if he was okay. He shook his head.

"This… is Magalon! He… he should be dead! He's one of Tanaka's monsters!" The Destroyer shouted.

"But you said you activated the destruction protocol!"

"I did and it's unstoppable… that must mean he was out of his cage when I destroyed the other monsters… but… how many survived? There were fifty monsters!" Ethos panicked.

"And this one looks very dangerous…"

"There's something else…" the destroyer said, fear present in his voice.

"What is it?"

"Magalon wasn't bigger than a pup! Here he looks like a big wolf! Maybe it's the angle-"

"Oh no, he was enormous! Like the size of a tiger!" Hagakure stated.

"Something was going on in the lab. I'm gonna call Munakata and tell him about this so we can go over there as soon as possible." Kirigiri said with seriousness as she turned around and walked towards her office.

"I'm gonna call Steve Woods to come and get us." Naegi said.

Ethos looked down… he should have stayed… it's been one month since Magalon was out there… and who else? How many other were out too?

He looked up at his friends, most of them had a worried look.

"Looks like… I'm going back to the lab of monsters."


Baka's notes: DUN DUN DUN!

They now know that some monsters were not there. What will happen inside the lab?
You'll know in the next chapter: Six Monsters.

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