Baka's notes: I hope you guys will like the chapter. 7 months writing it ...

And not super proud of it :/

Also, an interaction between Naegi and Juzo is directly a wink to another one of my fic: Patience Mission. So if you didn't read it, you might be surprised.

Do not comment me about that being too weird, you were warned.


Chapter 6: When Everything Goes Badly

Somewhere above the spot Godzilla encountered the Monster of Despair, a helicopter was in standby to manage the giant monster submerge in salty water. Inside the helicopter was Kamui Focsfang and two other men. She looked down from the window at where the Monster of Despair was supposed to be. She needed to monitor the creature while it was feeding itself with fishes and other aquatic life. She just got a satellite report that the Future Foundation boat where the Bunny-Rhino creatures were just exploded. Which meant that the Organization of Hope was on the move just as planned and were probably on Jabberwock by now…

Now was the time to strike again. She grabbed her headphone and microphone.

"Focsfang-san." The man beside her called out, "I have some questions…"

Kamui sighed, "Make it quick." she responded.

"Alright. Well… I have to say that it's impressive how you managed to tame those creatures. And so easily too! The only person the creatures listened to was their babysitter and also their creator, Tanaka Gundam. But you did it so easily… As if you were an ex-Ultimate student…" the man grinned under his bandaged nose.

The traitor glared at the man for a few seconds before talking again.

"That's correct… I was known for a short time as the Ultimate Tamer…"

"Hahaha! I knew it!" the man exclaimed, "But how come there is no file about it? We looked into the old student lists and found no Tamer among them… So what's the deal with that?"

"... I was from the 71st class and I dropped out after 4 months."

"You what?!"

"That's enough. We have work to do…" she paused for a second, squinting her eyes at the man as if trying to remember something, "...you…" it was his name.

"You forgot my name? For the last time it's-"

"Don't have time, don't care." Kamui cut him off as she put her headphones on and grabbed a flute.


That creature was strong, that's for sure. But not intelligent. At least not like He was.

Godzilla tried to communicate with his opponent but to no avail. The creature was furious for having its lunch interrupted and just kept hitting the other leviathan with its strong tentacles.

But the King of Monsters was more experienced in underwater battles and managed to dodge the most threatening blows. He then swam towards the creature's side to deliver one of his own kind of punch.

The hit landed on the side ribs, probably breaking some, and sent the Abomination away. It rubbed the wounded area with one of its tentacle with a whine. This made the giant lizard scoff in mockery at the creature's weak attitude.

The tentacled monster snarled and folded its thin and powerful hind legs, ready to kick itself off Godzilla and resume the fight. But at the right moment when it was going to kick away, it raised its head straight up, as if listening to something.

It then turned its head in one direction, at something, it looked back at Godzilla and then the thing He couldn't see, two times before roaring. The creature opened up its two largest tentacles that acted also as two muscular arms, wide open.

So, it was going to hit again, Godzilla raised his arms to protect himself. The abomination swung its arms towards the King, ready to slam them on each side of him. But something unexpected, or rather he should have thought about it, happened: instead of hitting him, the tentacles wrapped itself around his body. Confused, the radioactive lizard didn't have the time to react as he was pulled towards the monster who had flipped around so Godzilla's body and face will get kicked.

The hit was painful and the push harsh. The monster just used the other kaiju as a launching pad to propel itself towards its destination. And as a bonus, it disoriented Godzilla with the few spins he did as he sunk deeper in the depth of the ocean. It only took a couple of seconds for the King of Monsters to regain his senses and see that the creature was already far.

It could swim fast, very fast!

Godzilla roared and gave chase, he was definitely slower than the creature, but he'll catch up to it, of that he was certain.


Lucy (the XJZ) landed on the first Island's beach without any problem where the ex-Remnants were waiting for the Future Foundation agents coming back from their expedition in the now destroyed boat.

The agents stepped out of the plane.

"We're back!" Naegi smiled.

"Welcome back," Hinata smiled back, "Good work I guess? It was hard to miss."

"That's right! Ibuki jumped like five feet in the air with the big explosion! You guys sure know how to do overkill extermination!" Ibuki exclaimed.

"A-Ah, no... "

"The room where we were supposed to install the bombs was occupied by the targets, but someone made a noise…" Togami explained before glaring at the Clairvoyant who was avoiding Fuyuhiko and Peko for some reason,"... and we got chased by a swarm of monsters. We had no choice but to throw the bombs randomly during our escape."

After a few comments about how difficult and scary that must have been, someone who was missing when Naegi arrived joined them.

"Hey, everyone! I heard a giant explosion! Is everyone o-" The ex-Ultimate Luckster of class 77 started but stopped immediately when his eyes landed on Naegi, his eyes slowly widened up like dinner plates.

"Oh boy here he comes…" Souda sighed.

Komaeda threw in the air what he was holding in his hands as he dashed towards the younger ahoge boy. A yelp was heard coming from the object that was quickly caught by Hinata.

"Oh my Goodness! It's you! It's such a pleasure to see you again in more normal circumstances!" He exclaimed then grabbed Naegi's hand with both his metal and flesh hands and started to shake it.

""U-Uh…"

"And I am so sorry about my actions at Towa City towards your sister and your friend. I never had the chance to apologize! I felt so bad since I woke up to not having the opportunity to do so! But now I did it!"

Naegi was getting a bit uncomfortable, he did want to talk about these subjects with Komaeda and hear him out, but it wasn't the time for that. Before Komaeda opened his mouth again, a voice no one expected to hear called him.

"Komaeda, stop. Can't you see you're making him uncomfortable?"

Everyone turned toward the owner of the voice, Juzo in particular was the most surprised, and he didn't try to hide it.

"M-M-Munakata?!"

Munakata Kyosuke smiled at him.

"You did a good job Sakakura."

"Wh-Wha-What are you doing here?! How did you get here?!"

But suddenly Ibuki dashed towards the Second Head of Future Foundation and hugged his large belly.

"Hmpf." the silver haired man sighed.

"What the- GET OFF OF HIM YOU-... Wait a sec…"

The boxer looked around and saw that the Remnants were snickering and so was Naegi and Togami, only Hagakure and Gozu were as confused as he was. He connected the dots and understood what was happening.

"You're not Munakata! You're the Despair Impostor!" He yelled and pointed an accusatory finger at 'Munakata'.

"I apologize for the small prank. But I couldn't wear my Byakuya Togami disguise while the real one was around." Maro explained.

"I don't care!"

While Juzo was arguing with the ex-Remnant, Naegi approached Hinata and the tablet he was holding. The Ultimate Hope smiled at the screen and waved at it.

"Hello Nanami-san, how are you doing?"

The screen lit up to show a face of a young woman with short hair looking kind of sleepy.

"Hello Naegi-kun, everything is fine since big brother Alter Ego and Hajime rebuilded me from the saved data big brother salvaged." she smiled, "Plus! Souda-kun is working on a robotic body for me!"

"Wait, really?"

"Yeah, having to move her around and install screens everywhere would be a pain and would need lots of materials that we don't have the right to ask for without raising suspicion. So we decided it would be easier to give her a body. Well until we get good material for making a more human body, Souda is working on a bipedal robotic body that has what she'll need to speak, listen and look around by herself." Hajime explained with a smile.

Naegi looked at them like a proud parent seeing his children getting along. He was also glad that their rehabilitation was going smoothly, he suddenly got an idea and asked Woods if he could give him the screened communication device as he needed to talk with Ethos for a quick report on the situation.

Gozu asked why they needed to call him, the answer was simply that he's the only other member of the Paranormal Branch and to see if he had any information of the next target… and also he'd like for Ethos and the 77 kids to maybe patch things up since the Destroyer was in the front row with the Despairs during the Tragedy.

The device managed to connect and after a few seconds Ethos appeared on screen, they could see Izayoi walking behind him going and coming with different tools on hand each time he walked past the camera.

"Hey Makoto! What's up? How did it go?"

"Well no big injuries but we couldn't sink the boat. So we blew it up." Naegi explained with a embarrassed smile.

"Oh damn. Well at least the Bunhinos were exterminated right?"

"Yeah. We made sure that none got in the plane when we took off." the brunette nodded.

"Alright good. Do you need anything else?" Ethos asked as he could feel the blond blacksmith glaring daggers behind him.

"Yes! Say hello, please." Naegi smiled as he moved the tablet so Ethos could face the awakened ex-student of the 77th Class of Hope's Peak.

The smile on Ethos face disappeared and turned into a neutral face, staring at the kids in front of him through the screen. He greeted them politely, calling them each by their family name, sign that he couldn't see them as friends or acquientences again after all that happened. He knew that it wasn't their fault but the painful memories of his time during the Tragedy overpowered the good ones, when he was proud to be a senpai of some sort to the new kids.

"Hi!" Komaeda smiled and waved at the screen.

The ex-Remnants also were a bit uncomfortable to see such a serious face on the Destroyer who they remembered to be always smiling a bit stupidly when he saw any of them. Only Hinata who didn't know Ethos raised an eyebrow in confusion. Sonia and Souda in particular were feeling very embarrassed because of the time they saw him during their Despair 'phase' they only laughed at his misery.

Seeing no reason to stay online any longer Ethos announced that he had to go, his new robotic arm won't build itself on its own.

At hearing 'robotic arm' Souda jumped in front.

"W-Wait! Eth- her… Oroya! Can I see your robotic arm?"

"Oh. Well the thing is, it got broken." Ethos scratched his head, "Sonosuke and I are working on a new one."

"Oh… Maybe I can help? I mean I did that guy's robotic arm." Souda added, pointing at 'that guy' being Komaeda who just smiled again and waved with his prosthesis.

"Will you install a rocket punch?" Ethos asked seriously despite his eyes shining in excitement.

Izayoi widened his eyes in anger behind him.

"What's the point of a robotic arm without a rocket punch?" Souda laughed.

"I have a rocket punch?" Komaeda asked.

"... Except you."

"Haha, good choice." the white haired ex-remnant laughed.

"Soud- Kazuichi! We have a de-" Ethos stopped as he could feel the burning glare coming from Izayoi piercing his back. The black and red (haired) man turned around and brought his friend in front of the screen, "I have an idea!"

Souda let out a screech of fright seeing the blacksmith scary glare, Ethos explained that Izayoi and Souda could work together since the blonde man had the dimensions of his old arm, the mechanic could use those to have some ideas of designs!

Izayoi glared at Ethos then at Souda, even if he didn't want to work with an ex-Remnant… It would save a lot of time to start working on the new anti-kaiju weapons…

"Alright… But just because you need to work Ethos and I know that if I said no you'll just annoy me till I change my mind."

"You know me so well, I'm touched." Ethos smiled and brought his hand to his chest, making Izayoi sigh, roll his eyes and leave the room.

"I'll contact you tomorrow." he said before closing the door.

Ethos squeaked in excitement on having a new arm. Sonia decided to step forth too as she gently asked Souda to move away, which he did with pleasure.

"Oroya-kun, since it's been a looong time since I watched a Godzilla movie… I was thinking if we could do a marathon like we used to do back in Hope's Peak." she asked with a smile.

The Destroyer answered that smile with a bigger, goofy one.

"Of course! I have pretty much half of them with me right now! We can start no- Okay, maybe another day because I got to go now. I could swear I just heard a sword getting unsheathed. But we'll talk again! Goodbye kids!" Ethos waved before stopping the communication.

Naegi was looking at Souda and Sonia with the pride of a father seeing his kids getting new friends. His plan worked and the ex-Remnants were slowly getting a better image now that Ethos and Izayoi were kind of comfortable with them to the point of working together and watch movies together.


During their walk to the weapon testing room, Ethos had an uncertain look on his face. Izayoi noticed it.

"What's the matter?" he asked.

"Hm… I think I forgot to ask something important to Naegi… Bah, if I forgot, it probably wasn't that important.." the Destroyer explained as he entered the room after the blacksmith.


"Alright! Fun time is over!" Juzo exclaimed, "Let's go home and do the reports."

He shouted this order clapping his hands in annoyance to bring everyone back to earth. The ex-Remnants looked at each other before Hinata coughed twice and took a step forth.

"Hm… We were thinking that maybe you'd like to stay a bit before leaving? It's been a while since we saw Naegi and Togami and we had prepared a barbecue for this occasion." Hinata suggested.

Naegi and Hagakure looked really happy at hearing this but it took one look towards Juzo to see that he was rejecting the idea of staying another second here.

"Huh? No way in hell I'm eating something you criminals prepared!" He spat.

The ex-Remnants reeled at the insult, they have expected some resistance to the proposition, but Naegi was having none of it and stood by their side.

"Frankly, I'm exhausted of all that running in the boat. A barbecue would certainly be welcome to relax a bit." He said, but there was something weird in his voice. It was a mix of anger and challenge.

And Juzo noticed that immediately as he frowned threateningly at the young man.

"Oh really? Well can't you 'relax' in the plane ride? Unlike a lazy-ass like you, I have a report to write."

"The world doesn't turn around you. Maybe the others are also tired?"

The ex-students of class 77 looked at the Symbol of Hope with wide eyes. Surprised and mostly shocked to hear the young man being so rude to a superior.

"What the hell is going on?" Kuzuryu asked out loud.

"Yeah! I'm pooped man!" Hagakure whined, enraging the boxer more.

The situation dawned on the other agents of Future Foundation as memories of an episode where Naegi and Juzo were in a mission together that ended up in a huge fight.

As Juzo was trembling in anger, his fists clenched turning white from the pressure.

Naegi had a smug grin on his face, "Didn't think about it uh? You dumb fu-"

"Well! There's a problem though!" Exclaimed Woods to stop the argument there, "When the boat exploded I heard something hitting Lucy rather badly… So I think it's better I do a diagnosis before leaving. You can use that time to relax however you want! I'll give you a call when it's ready to go. What do you think Sakakura?"

Juzo stared at the pilot and asked if he was sure it was necessary, highlighting the fact that he really didn't want to stay on the Island with the ex-Despair. But Woods just glared at the boxer and said that he was serious. It took some seconds for Juzo to finally give up and agree to stay a bit longer. But he wouldn't be joining the barbecue.

He asked if there was a working computer, so he could at least write the report. There was at the Hotel lobby on the first Island. Togami said that he'll also go there to write his report.

So, Naegi, Hagakure and Gozu were going to the barbecue. The masked man joining only to keep an eye on the group, just in case.

Souda asked Woods if he could help with the diagnosis on the plane, eager to know more about Lucy. But unfortunately, he wasn't allowed to do that. But the pilot promised that if he really needed help he'll ask him.

Finally, Mahiru also stayed on the first Island. As she woke up only less than 24 hours earlier, she was still confused with all the memories clashing in her mind and wanted to relax a bit while walking on the beach. Maro, the imposter, said that he'll stay with her for support as he was the first one to wake up from the coma.

Now that the plan was settled everyone separated to do their own business. But Togami stopped Woods before the old man could get on the plane and leave to the fifth Island.

"Tell me Woods… I don't remember hearing anything hitting 'Lucy' when leaving the boat."

The old pilot sighed and smiled to the young man.

"You got me kid, but there's no way in hell that I'm going on flying with those two children fighting like cat and dog." he said with annoyance as he pointed at the 'children' being Naegi and Juzo who were still glaring at each other, "Let them calm down then we can go home. "

"... You made the right choice." Togami nodded in agreement.


Now that he was in front of a laptop without any kid yapping around, Juzo could finally start working on a report for Munakata. There was someone else in the room though: Togami. But thank goodness he was very quiet as he also was working on a report for Kirigiri.

The Heir stopped writing for a second to stare at the screen. He then passed a hand through his hair and sighed. He looked at his only companion in the room.

"How on Earth is your hair still like this morning? How did it not get messy with all that happened?" He asked the boxer.

"... Really? Now is not the time to ask silly questions. I have work to do." Juzo glared at the blonde man before turning back to the computer, Togami imitating him with an annoyed click of his tongue.

After a few seconds of silence, Juzo let out a 'It's gel' before getting back to typing.


Mahiru was at the first Island's beach, taking a few pictures and looking around, welcoming the silence. Maro, still disguised as Future Foundation vice-leader, was not far behind in case of assistance.

Assistance that she gladly welcomed when she suddenly started to tremble and held her head tightly as flashes of her crimes as Despair filled her mind, mixing with her memories of a normal school life.

"It's alright. We all went through this. You'll be fine." the Impostor said while keeping the photograph steady.

"Was it that horrifying?"

"That's right. In a few hours it will calm down. I know you can do it."

Mahiru chuckled, "Thank you…" She took another picture of the beach to change her mind, once the photo taken, she looked at her device and squinted in confusion, "What's this?" she looked up again.

"What's the matter?"

"Look over there!" Mahiru said as she pointed towards an area on the beach. She stepped towards it, followed by Maro. "Are those… Footprints?"

"Hmm…" Maro kneeled down to have a closer look on the small holes on the sand, "Yes. From bunnies. I'd say… At least two."

Mahiru was about to suggest that the bunnies could be coming from the farm not far from the beach, but there were no footprints coming from the farm. These prints were going only one way and it was coming from the sea… She followed the footprints towards it source and saw some wooden planks.

"Was that always there?" she asked as she pointed at the debris.

Maro looked at where she was pointing at and a sense of dread filled him as he approached the planks. He flipped one and the logo of the Future Foundation was on it.

"Is… Is this from the boat?" Mahiru asked as she looked at the still fuming and sinking boat.

"Some monsters probably survived! We need to warn Togami! Now!" Maro stood up and started running towards the hotel.

The photographer took some pictures before following the Impostor.


The barbecue at the second Island's beach was going pretty well, even though most of the ex-Remnants were having fun as Gozu and Naegi were chatting with Hinata who was cooking the meat. Hagakure was just talking with Komaeda about his future.

Everything was going pretty well until Souda noticed something not far from the beach, in the sea. The smile that appeared on his face caught the intention of the people near him.

"Whales!"

Everyone who heard him ran towards the beach and the rest of the people joined the group there to see that indeed there were a couple of whales tails slapping the surface. It wasn't the first time for the ex-Remnants to see this sight but for the Future Foundation agents, it sure was.

"There seems to be two or three whales", Hinata analysed, "Maybe a mating ritual or a dance?"

As he said that, a whale lifted its body out of the water before falling back in, making the young adults go 'wow'. Then a second one imitated the previous whale, emerging more of its body out of the water. Hinata's smile slowly turned into a frown.

"Wait… Something isn't right."

And suddenly another whale jumped right out of the water, as if thrown out, flying a dozen meter in the air.

Everyone stopped their cheering, staring at the scene with wide eyes full of dread, something wasn't right.

And as if on cue, a giant purple tentacle emerged from the water and grabbed the whale mid-air to pull it back in the sea violently.

No one said a word nor moved, shocked by the unnatural scene that happened in front of them. The water near that spot was turning a tint of red… When they saw the shadow that they thought was a whale slowly approaching them, they stepped away from it quickly.

Then the shadow stopped. And after a few seconds of complete silence two enormous tentacle shot out of the water on both side of the beach, they hit the ground, shaking it and thrashed around, looking for a grip.

"Everyone! RUN!" Naegi and Hinata shouted.

The two massive tentacles clung on the rocky walls of the cliffs encircling the beach. Between the screams, the shouts and the fangirling screeching of seeing a real life kaiju in front of them, the group all ran towards the tunnel in the mountain. Some of them looked back to see at the head of the creature emerging from the water.

It had grey and white skin with some red spikes on its neck. Big red eyes were glaring at the group running away. It had a yellow trident-like horn on its forehead. But the most important was the long and thin blade-like spiky muzzle with a yellow spear on the tip and on the lower jaw all red and split in two was a whale, the razor sharp edges of the mouth perforating the skin through the bone. Blood oozing out of the poor aquatic mammal and dripping in the ocean.

"Hinata! Do something!" Souda screamed.

"What do you want me to do?! There's no 'Kaiju Hunter' talent- Wait a sec…"

Silence as everyone stared at the Artificial Hope.

"...Nah, that's 'Cryptid Hunting'. Completely different and useless." Hinata sighed.

"There's a Cryptid hunting talent?"

"Wow! So impressive! As expected from-"

"NOT NOW KOMAEDA!" everyone cut him off and he apologized with a smile right after.

The giant monster noticed the humans running inside the tunnel. It snapped its jaw shut, slicing the whale in half, killing it for good as the cut parts fell in the water. The grey kaiju pulled itself up and on land. It was massive, and had six more tentacles: two small ones on the chest, and four less massive ones than the two 'arms' on its back. It had a spiky grey tail with a red bulbous underbelly. And finally two reptile powerful legs. Legs that didn't missed a second to flex and push the creature high up in the air jumping on the mountain side, ready to jump a second time to the other side where the group will appear to ambush them.


"Hm? Did you hear that?" Juzo suddenly asked to his silent colleague a few tables away from him.

"Hear what?" Togami asked back.

"I dunno… Noises coming from the kitchen… I swear if it's those Despair scums trying to-"

Togami sighed audibly, "Maybe they needed something for their barbecue. I'm going to see. You just keep working." he said in an ordering tone.

The boxer just clicked his tongue and turned back to work, but kept an eye out suspiciously. Not even a minute later, the heir came back. But walking faster than he should. Even more worrying was when he grabbed his gun from the desk.

"Don't ma-"

"I KNEW it! Those fuckers are going to regret it!" Juzo exclaimed as he stood up and stormed out of the room.

"No, you idiot!" Togami yelled before quickly following him.

"WHAT THE FUCK?!"

Togami joined Juzo in front of the kitchen, the boxer was just standing there, looking at the ground with an irritated expression, ready to explode.

When he looked inside the kitchen, five small bunnies with big horns were staring back at the big man with wide eyes. There was some Chicken wings and fruits scattered around the floor.

There were Bunhinos on the Island. And they were eating. One of them was particular: the tip of its horn was split in three like a trident.

Neither parties said a word or made a noise. The five Bunhinos were staring at the duo of Future Foundation, Juzo was glaring at them and Togami slowly cocking his gun, hoping to at least kill one of them before they flee.

But suddenly a loud thud startled everyone. The two humans looked on the floor where the noise came from. It was a bag of flour. Then they looked up to see another Bunhino, smaller.

The Trident Bunhino roared and all six monsters ran away from the duo.

Togami aimed quickly and took a shot. Luckily, it hit the lizard tail of one of the creatures, cutting it and leaving a trail of blood.

"Hurry! We need to catch them before they multiply!" Togami exclaimed and chased them.

"I knew those damn kids were behind this!" Juzo spat before running too.


Maro and Mahiru just reached the gate of the Hotel when six white creatures just ran pass between their legs.

"Wh-What was that?!"

"Out of the way!"

Then they were pushed aside by the boxer and heir.

"Ah! Togami-kun!" Mahiru exclaimed before also giving chase, followed by the Impostor.

"M-Munakata?! What a- Rah! It's you again! I have no time to deal with you Despair! I knew you couldn't be trusted!" Juzo exclaimed in anger, not stopping running for a moment.

"Wh-what? What happened?!"

"We found Bunhinos in the kitchen. Those were the creatures you just saw. We need to warn the others and kill them before they find something to eat." Togami explained quickly.

"And I know you guys were the ones who brought them here!" Juzo accused.

"What?! They came from the boat!" Mahiru frowned, "They got here from the beach on top of a wooden plank with a Future Foundation logo on it. It must have been blasted here with the explosion. I even took a picture to prove it!"

"We'll see that later… Damnit, there was wood on the boat. Why didn't we think about scanning the debris in case of survivors?" The Heir grumbled at the group's inadvertence.


"Everyone to the cars!" Fuyuhiko yelled to the rest of the group once they came out of the tunnel.

As they were running, a loud noise echoed behind them and a giant shadow passed over them a short moment later, then a crash. The monster just jumped over the mountain and landed in front of them, leveling the diner in the process.

"Back inside! Back inside!"

Not needing a second warning, everyone made a U-turn and got back inside the tunnel as the creature turned around.

It was ready to see them all scream in terror but instead just saw them go back in the minuscule cave. Not that it will stop it as it got ready to jump over the mountain once more. It jumped over and quickly turned around, ready to greet the humans with a large tentacle on the head. But after a dozen seconds, no one was coming out of the tunnel.

The moment the giant monster jumped, Hinata yelled to the others to run to the cars while it's confused. The creature was distracted long enough for everyone to get inside the three cars that were spared: Naegi, Hinata, Komaeda, Fuyujiko and Peko were in the first one that lead the others. Akane, Hagakure and Sonia were in another and finally, Gozu, Souda and Ibuki were in the last one.

BRRRREEEEEOOOOAAAAAAAGK

The giant monster screeched from the top of the mountain when it saw the cars with the humans inside getting away. The creature jumped off and slowly walked to the road, eyes not leaving their target. The purple tentacles wrapped around the creature's body tightly, then it spit a dark green slimey saliva to the ground from the beak and finally slammed its body on top of the slime puddle. Talons digged on the ground, the creature pushed its strong legs and started running. The large and heavy torso, wrapped in its tentacles, slid on the slime easily, spreading it a bit everywhere which allowed the creature to catch up with the cars.

Meanwhile, in the leading car driven by the young ex-Ultimate Gangster, Naegi quickly took out his phone and started a video call with Ethos.

"Hey Makoto, missing me al-" the Destroyer smiled.

"Ethos! We need information on the Monsters of Despair, ASAP!"

"Wh-What's wrong?! What's that noise?!"

"This is what's wrong!" the brunet screamed and pointed the camera to the giant monster that was catching up to them.

"HOLLY SHIT! I'm on it! I have them right here!" Ethos panicked behind the screen and ran away, a few papers flew by the camera and he appeared again with a heavy bloodied paper, "I have very bad news, that paper is way too dirty to read anything on it and we have no reports of the team that went back to the lab yet. All I can say it's that this monster was supposed to be the size of a cub, she's female and under her blade-thin 'beak' are razor sharp blades instead of teeth but has three venomous flexible tongues-fangs."

"Oh perfect…"

"I'm gonna call her 'Bladepik' you know bec-"

"Ethos. Not now." Naegi frowned.

"R-Right… Anyway! I'm sorry I can't do much. You guys should get into the XJZ and leave the Island, that sounds as the best option." the black and red-haired man said.

"We're not leaving our comatose friends." Hinata glared at the screen.

"I meant to lure the monster away, if it is actually chasing you. But there's only one way to find out. I'll try contacting the team in the lab. Good luck kids." Ethos said before logging off.

The ground suddenly shook and when they looked back, they saw that the creature's gigantic head was just behind them, the mouth open with a single tentacle-claw coming out of the darkness under the beak.

TMoD #12: Bladepik

The said tentacle tried to skewer one of the car but wasn't fast enough and smashed the ground instead.

"Jesus! It's right there!"

Another crash behind the three cars.

After a few screams and curses, they planned what to do. They needed to reach the bridge to the center Island, go to the fifth Island, get to the XJZ with Woods and then grab the others to lure the beast away from Jabberwock. It should work. It needed to work!

Another crash, quickly followed by another one. The creature had now two of its tongue out.

It won't be long before the monster towers over the three cars, that's when Hinata got an idea and asked Pekoyama if she could stand on the roof of a moving car. With a little hesitation she nodded and followed Hinata on the roof.

"Peko, be careful, okay?" she heard Fuyuhiko say, she nodded to him.

"Now what?" she asked her friend once they were both steady on the roof.

"Take out your sword, give me the sheath and protect this car from the tongues while I protect the other two." the green and red eyed young man explained quickly.

"Can you do it?" she asked as she unsheathed her sword and gave the sheath to him as asked.

"Yeah. Be careful! here they come!" Hinata exclaimed and jumped on Sonia's car's roof and with a swing worthy of a Pro Baseball Superstar, he deflected the incoming clawed tongue.

The Bladepik stopped moving for a second, startled by the counter but quickly resumed her chase, glaring at the small human on top of the vehicle. She tried again to skewer him with its tongue but it got deflected again with a swing. She repeated her action but got the same result.

Starting to see red, she pulled out from under her beak her third tongue and mainly focused on the young human who expertly countered any assault despite the girly scream coming out of the vehicle.

"Hinata! We're reaching the bridge!"

"Hng! Understood!"

After a final knockback, Hinata joined Peko on top of their car and the three cars went on the bridge. Hagakure was about to stop and laugh at the creature for it size being too bulky to get on the wooden structure, but when he saw the Bladepik not wasting a moment to dive in the water beside the road he shrieked and step on the gas.

The creature's swimming was definitely faster than running. She was already catching up to them, two tentacles out of the water, pointing at the trio of cars. Ready to smash them. But they didn't. Actually, the monster stopped dead in its track for some reason. But only for a few seconds.

Naegi's group didn't waste that opportunity to speed up and reach the main Island.


On the bridge to the first island, six white fast little silhouettes ran away from four much taller one at a rattling pace.

"Come back, you little shits! Damn why are they so fast?" Juzo panted in the middle of the road.

"Uff… Uff… We can't keep running behind them like that. We already lost them." Mahiru said out of breath.

"At least one of them is leaving a bloodtrail behind it." Togami added, taking his breath.

"But we can't waste much time here. I suggest that one of us go and warn the others about the Bun-" Maro started but got cut by the boxer who raised his hand to shut him up.

"Shh… Can you brats hear that?" he said, bringing a hand to his ear.

As everyone kept quiet, they could hear a strange noise coming their way. It sounded like a motor but also stomps. It was only for a couple of seconds before the noise reached them and took them away.

"Wh-What the hell?!" Togami gasped for air as he was grabbed by the neckband of his suit by one big muscular hand.

"I-I got them!" the baritone voice of Gozu stammered, holding in each hand one of his comrade.

"Same here, what about you Owari?" Hinata asked, laying down on the roof of Sonia's car, holding Maro with one hand while Akane was holding Mahiru.

"I got her. I'm pulling her in now!"

"Wait wait wait!" the redhead ex-Remnant yelled but the gymnast didn't listen and pulled her in the car by the window.

She then opened the door for Hinata to slide Maro in.

Meanwhile Gozu was holding on Togami and Juzo's clothes tightly.

"What the fuck are you doing Gozu?!" Juzo screamed.

Hinata jumped on their roof and opened the door on the other side of the car where Gozu wasn't sticking out the window with both hands occupied. Hinata grabbed Togami and pulled him on the roof, kept a hand on him and guided him to the other side.

"We're running away from the monster!" Gozu answered.

"What monste-"

Suddenly a giant gray head with a yellow trident horn and red eyes emerged from between the trees, very close to the group of cars. Bladepik cut through the forest to catch up with them.

BLLEEEEAAAAARGK

It screeched.

"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU?!" Juzo screamed back at it as he was pulled in the car by the wrestler.

The monster was too close now, she closed her mouth and raised her head, eyes still glaring at the cars.

"Guys… I don't think I can counter that…" Hinata said as the shadow of the monster head loomed over them.

"Oh God, IT'S GOING TO CRUSH US!"

Bladepik raised her head higher, and when she noticed its shadow on all three cars, a sadistic pleasure appeared in her eyes.

But as she was about to crush them, a giant blue flaming torrent crashed on the side of her face. Startling the monster enough for her to crash on her side. The tremor forced the cars to stop.

Everyone looked at the fallen monster that was grunting in pain, the left side of her face burnt. Then they all looked at the source of the surprise attack and every single one of them gasped in horror.

Freshly emerged from the ocean, blue flames still escaping from his maw with yellow eyes glaring at his enemy. Water sliding off his dark green scales, the second monster arrived to the archipelago to finish off his previous opponent.

The King of Monster Godzilla was here.

Sonia nearly jumped out of her window as she screeched in excitement.

"I always wanted to do that!" she squeaked.

The princess took a deep breath, pointed at the new monster, her eyes sparkling with stars and screamed:

"IT'S GODZILLA!"


Baka's notes 2: 7 months without posting anything.

Next in queue: Normality in Lobotomy! I know many people were impatient for the next chapter of the LC crossover. It's coming people!