Authors note: The chapter title will make sense later on. Not a whole lot to say here except a lot of stuff happens here, and it'll pave the way into something truly epic as the story goes along, and all I'll say is that what happens here, is only a taste of what's to come in the long run. I hope you enjoy.
Chapter 4: The G-Squad
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"SCEEONK!" Roared Godzilla in a high pitched tone, trying to intimidate the Meganulon.
"Aww, he's trying to be threatening." Said Mabel, hearing the high pitched roar. "That's so cute."
"That's not what they think." Said Wendy, pointing to the Meganulon, not indimidated by the roar as they moved in to attack the group, each of the giant earwig like creatures going to each monster to fight.
Godzilla was the first to strike, as he stepped forward and swung his tail at the Meganulon coming towards him, hitting it right in its face and knocking it down on its side, surprising the humans at how strong Godzilla was for just being born. The rest of the Kajiu are the same way, as Mothra held back a Meganulon by spraying some kind of silk at the bug, driving it away as it tried to remove the silk wrapped around its body, while Anguirus went head on against a Meganulon by ramming it with his head, pushing the bug away from him until it hit the rocky nest, and Rodan held off the last Meganulon by flapping its wings and creating powerful gusts of wind to blow away the last bug from the group.
"Are Kajiu usually this tough from birth?" Asked Dipper, surprised that their Kajiu are putting up a good fight against the Meganulon.
"Kajiu are more powerful than you think, and will only get stronger as they grow." Said the fairies.
"I'm just surprised at how calm you two are when there's giant bugs trying to eat us." Said Wendy.
The Megaulon were pushed back, but did not give up their prey so soon, as the bugs tried to advance again, two of the bugs tried at least since Mothra was still spraying silk on her Meganulon foe that was struggling to break free from its silky containment, while Anguirus kept pushing his Meganulon foe forward into the rocks, constantly heat butting it to keep it from even trying to swipe its claws, as the Meganulon on Rodan's side crawled with another Meganulon towards Godzilla, who responded to the double team by swinging his tail at both the bugs, hitting one of the Meganulon down while the other managed to grab the monster's tail, making it yelp from the sudden force.
"Hey! Leave him alone!" Shouted Dipper, giving the fairies to Soos to hold while he ran to the giant bug and punched it in the eye, making the bug release Godzilla's tail from its grasp as it chirped in pain, turning its attention to Dipper. "Crap."
The Meganulon then used its claw and hit Dipper on his side, knocking him down onto the rocky floor and crawled up to him to grab with its sharp pincers, until Mabel jumped on the creature's back, and punched it in its other eye.
"Leave my brother alone you big jerk!" Exclaimed Mabel, as the Meganulon tried throwing off the girl and failed to notice Godzilla grab its pincer arm from the right, making Mabel jump off just in time as Godzilla pulled the bug away from Dipper and throw it on the ground, flipping it upside down as the Meganulon struggled to get back upright.
The other Meganulon that got knocked down tried getting back up, but to no avail as Rodan came along and was already flying at a low altitude above the bug to peck it's face, preventing it from getting up to help its other kin, while Anguirus managed to use enough force to push his Meganulon foe hard enough to make the rocks it was being pushed against fall down, making a big gap in the nest as Anguirus avoided the tumbling rocks while the Meganulon was not so lucky, and was hit by the rocks and tumbled away from the nest, and by the time Mothra was done spraying silk, the Meganulon foe it fought was too entangled in silk to press on a fight as it was more focused on running away while freeing itself from the silk.
The other Meganulon then decided it was time to run as well, realizing that it was not worth fighting anymore as they all managed to get up and crawl back from where they came, as the small Kajiu let out victory cries to signal their win against the bug menace. The rest of the group went up to Dipper, with Mabel helping the boy get up.
"Are you alright?" Asked his sister, worried if her brother was hurt.
"Besides getting the wind knocked out of me, I'm fine." Said Dipper, looking at Godzilla to see the dinosaur go up to him and lick the boy's face, making him chuckle. "I know, I know. I'm okay."
The rest of the group went over to check their Kajiu, as Mabel walked up to Mothra to give her another hug to thank the caterpillar, while Wendy went to Rodan to see if he was alright, as he landed next to Wendy lowered his head on her shoulder again, making Wendy pet the pteranodon, and Soos walked up to Anguirus to see him roar happily.
"Our little bad asses." Commented Wendy, amazed at how good the young Kajiu were at defending themselves so quickly.
"Yeah, our bad asses." Said Dipper, starting to warm up to having his own Kajiu guardian, maybe even a friend.
"Guys! Anguirus just helped us find a way out the nest." Called out Soos, as the humans with their Kajiu guardians walked up to Soos to see it was true, a large gap was in the rocky nest for everyone to leave.
"Anymore bugs we have to worry about?" Asked Dipper, not willing to get into another fight.
"No. Just the ones coming out of that lake." Said Soos, pointing to the cave lake to revel dozens of Meganulon crawling out of the lake towards the nest.
"I guess they brought friends." Said Wendy, as Mabel noticed something to her right and saw another horrible sight.
"What about them?" Asked Mabel, making the group face the right to see dozens more Meganulon coming from where the group had entered in from the nest, but they were more slender and brown in color.
"We can't take them all on." Pointed out Wendy.
"I don't think we have to." Said Dipper, seeing the two groups of Meganulons chirped aggressively at one another, showing off their sharp pincers to make each other back off from the group, as if they were fighting over them.
That quickly became the case as the two groups charged at each other, neither willing to back off from each other as they clashed pincer claws and grappled, giving the humans and their Kajiu a chance to escape.
"I hope you know a shortcut out of here." Said Dipper to the fairies on Soos's shoulder.
"Yes. Just keep going towards there." Said the faries, pointing to the large cave hole on the other side of the cavern. "There is another entrance that leads to the outside world."
Dipper nodded in thanks as he and his group went to this cave, while going slow enough for the smaller Kajiu to follow and to watch to make sure they don't run off, escaping the bug war going on in the cavern behind them.
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After more hiking upward from the cave, the group finally escaped from the cave darkness and into the surface world once more, revealing it to be a starry night out as the humans were finally relieved to be out of the cave, Mabel being so glad that she kissed the grass on the ground while the smaller Kajiu looked at their human caretakers puzzlingly, wondering what was wrong with them, with Dipper being the first to notice this.
"What? Nothing wrong with almost dying?" Dipper asked Godzilla, who just roared softly at the boy. "Yeah, Of course not."
"I've seen a lot of crazy things in this town my whole life." Said Wendy, shaking her head as she pointed at the Kajiu. "But this, this tops it all."
"And the giant bugs." Reminded Soos.
"And the twin fairies." Reminded Mabel.
"And pretty much everything else in that cave." Said Dipper.
"Yup. Tops all of that." Said Wendy, as she looked at her Kajiu, smiling at the Pteranodon. "But in a way, it feels worth it. With these little guys with us, who knows what kind of trouble we could get into?"
"I got to say, going into a scary cave to get eaten alive by giant bugs, not worth it." Said Soos, as he looked at his Kajiu as well. "But getting out of the cave to make new friends who are awesome monsters, totally worth it."
"Yeah. I mean, just look at this!" Said Mabel, showing off Mothra to the group. "When is anyone ever going to have a cute and cuddly caterpillar as a friend? *GASP* you have to meet Waddles! You'll be the best playmates ever!"
Dipper chuckled at her sister's antics, as the rest of the group waited on Dipper's say in the whole matter, even the Kajiu were looking at him at this point.
"Well… At first I didn't want to have these Kajiu in the first place, I thought they were gonna eat us." Laughed Dipper nervously, clearing his throat to finish his sentence. "But, they proved me wrong and maybe, just maybe, they'll be our greatest friends."
"Then you all choose to accept the responsibilities of caring for your new guardians and friends, the future guardians of this earth?" Asked the fairies, as Dipper smiled and held his and out in the air.
"We do. And it'll be our promise, a promise we will all keep." Said Dipper, as Mabel put her hand on top of Dipper's.
"Together." Said Mabel, smiling at Dipper as Wendy put her hand on top of Mabel's.
"Hell yeah." Said Wendy, as Soos put his hand on top of Wendy's to complete the promise.
"Ditto, dudes." Said Soos, as they all made a promise to care and nurture their Kajiu, as Soos raised his hand up and exclaimed "GO, G-Squad!"
"What?" Asked Dipper, confused as to what Soos said.
"G-Squad. You know, our team name." Said Soos, trying to explain himself. "I mean, we all have cool monsters so we should have a cool name. What do you say?"
The group just stared at Soos, unsure what to say to what they thought was a ridiculous name.
"Uhh,"
"I dunno."
"That's um… creative?"
"Oh, come on!" Said Soos, disappointed at the group's reaction to the name, looking at the fairies still on his shoulder. "Fairy dudettes. What do you two think?"
"It is a… interesting name." Said the fairies. "But very fitting to you humans."
"See dudes? They think it's good." Said Soos proudly.
"Just don't say that out loud around people." Said Dipper, rolling with the name with Mabel and Wendy agreeing.
Soos saluted Dipper while Wendy let out a huge yawn.
"Oh jeez. I need to go to bed after all this, forever." Said Wendy, expressing how tired she is.
"Yeah, we should head back." Agreed Dipper, as he turned to the fairies for help. "You guys know where Gravity Falls is from here?"
"The town you seek is in that direction. We will go with you so you do not get lost." Said the fairies, as the group and their Kajiu walked towards where they needed to go in the woods ahead.
Godzilla then stopped in mid place, turning around him to look at a particular part of the woods at the left, suspiciously eyeing that area as if he knew someone was watching him. He brushed it off and continued to follow the group, while Godzilla's suspicions were confirmed, as a slim figure stared at the beast walking away.
"That's right, you know I'm here. You always knew."
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After walking through the woods, the group arrived back at the Mystery Shack, which had no one around it since it was now nighttime, as the humans looked around the area to see if anyone was there. Luckily, no one was there as they walked over to Soos's parked truck by the shack.
"Well, great first day we had back here." Said Dipper with Mabel nodding in agreement.
"You said it." Agreed Mabel.
"So uh, what do we do now? About the Kajiu I mean." Asked Wendy. "We can't just let them go."
"You will all need to take care of them now." Said the fairies. "Once they have bonded with their guardian, the bond can never be broken."
"I guess I'll take Rodan to my place." Said Wendy, not sure what else to do as the Pteranodon as he squawked. "My family is on one of their camping trips so he could hang out there for a while."
"I can do the same thing." Said Soos, looking at his truck to figure out what to do with Anguirus, cocking his head at the handyman. "If anyone asks, I'll say Anguirus is a giant porcupine, they'll buy it."
"That leaves me and Mabel with Godzilla and Mothra." Said Dipper, looking at the two Kajiu. "I'm not so sure if Grunkle Stan will let us keep them."
"Yeah he will. Let's just use our twin powers of adorableness." Said Mabel, thinking of a solution. "Not even Stan can resist it."
"Grunkle Stan?" Asked the fairies, who sounded confused by the name as if they recognized it but were unsure.
"He's our great uncle and owns the Mystery Shack." Explained Dipper. "But if you're looking for a mystery there, don't be too surprised."
"Hey, wait a minute. We never really introduced ourselves to you two, did we?" Asked Mabel, as she began introducing herself to the fairies. "My name is Mabel. My nerdy brother's name is Dipper."
Dipper ignored the quip as he tipped his hat to the fairies. "Nerds are not so bad by the way."
"These are our friends Soos and Wendy." Said Mabel, pointing to the two friends as they introduced themselves as well.
"We are glad to know who you are." Said the fairies, as they introduced their names and talked individually for once.
"I am Lora."
"And I am Moll."
"And we see no need to introduce the others." Said the fairies, as the group looked at the small Kajiu, who all seemed to be getting along with each other.
"Well, we should get going now. I need to sleep for work." Said Wendy, as she yawned again.
"We'll see you little dudes later." Said Soos, as he went to his truck to get Anguirus to climb in the back, while Wendy got her bike as Rodan followed, ready to fly with her to her house.
"Wait! There is something you should all know before you go." Exclaimed the fairies, getting everyone's attention. "There is a man around here, who is a demon in disguise. He may call himself a friend to you by the name of William, but he is not to be trusted."
"A demon? What's his problem?" Asked Wendy, wondering what was so dangerous about the demon besides that well… he's a demon.
"That we do not know. All we truly know about him is that he likes to play dangerous games, games that could endanger many. Always be on your guard." Warned the fairies.
"Don't worry about it. He won't mess with the G-Squad." Said Soos, while the rest of the humans were still kind of iffy about the name. "It'll grow on you dudes."
The group nodded, taking the message into heart as the fairies asked Soos to pick them up and put them on Dipper's shoulder, as the two friends left the shack saying their goodbyes, with Wendy riding away on her bike with Rodan flying close by, while Soos got Anguirus on the back of his truck and drove away, as the twins waved goodbye to see their friends tomorrow, leaving them with Godzilla and Mothra to take care of.
"Stan is not going to like this." Said Dipper, looking at the two Kajiu to figure out what to do with them. "We might not even have any room for them."
"We'll think of something." Said Mabel, as she motioned Dipper to let the fairies go on her hand, as the fairies did so and Mabel set them down next to the two Kajiu. "Can you watch them for us a bit?"
The fairies nodded at the twins, who went up to the Mystery Shack entrance and knocked on the front door, as Godzilla made impatient growls, wanting to go inside while Mothra chipped at the dinosaur, as if she was telling him to calm down. Stan opened the door from behind to see the twins standing in front of them, smiling nervously as they greeted him.
"Hi Stan! We're back from doing teenage stuff and totally didn't go in an underground cave where we almost got eaten by giant bugs and made friends with baby monsters and twin fairies." Said Dipper rapidly, trying to break the tension with nervous laughter. "HAHAHA! Just ordinary teenage stuff."
Stan lowered his eyes at the boy, before looking at Mabel to see what she had to say about this.
"What he said." Said Mabel, agreeing with Dipper's lie as Stan sighed heavily.
"You two got in trouble with the law, right?" Guessed Stan, as he shook his head. "What was it, weed? I'll hide your stash if I have to."
"What drugs? No. We-
"Its Wendy, isn't it? I bet her friend skinny jeans had some and shared it with you." Said Stan, suspecting that the twins smoked pot. "I know the feeling."
"Stan! We didn't smoke anything. We uh." Dipper just had to admit the truth, not able to come up with a better lie to the conman. "Mabel?"
"We found some new friends and we're wondering if they can stay with us for a while?" Asked Mabel, as Stan sighed again.
"I wouldn't mind having some more free labor. Who are they?" Asked Stan, making the twins look at each other nervously.
"Promise you won't freak out?" Asked Mabel, making Stan scoff.
"I've told you two that I've seen all kinds of crazy stuff in this town before." Assured Stan, confident that he wouldn't freak out. "What could be so bad about your friends?"
The twins stepped back to let Stan come outside to see for himself, as he walked out to see Godzilla, Mothra, and the twin fairies look at the old man, who stared at the strange group in shock and horror, particularly at Godzilla.
"Stan? Are you okay?" Asked Dipper, concerned about his Grunkle as he ran back inside the Shack and ran up the stairs, shrugging his shoulders at the fairies as they ran after him.
"Grunkle Stan?" Called out Mabel from downstairs, wondering what was up with her Grunkle as she and Dipper went upstairs as well.
The twins saw Stan come from his room at the hallway upstairs, looking at the twins with fright as if he's seen a ghost, and noticed that he had a loaded revolver in his hand.
"Stan? What are you doing?" Asked Dipper, concerned as to why Stan had a gun with him.
"Get the pig and go to your room." Said Stan sternly, putting on a serious face as he tried going past the twins, who blocked him from going forward.
"What the hell are you doing?" Asked Dipper, wondering why Stan wanted to shoot his new friends.
"Saving us." Said Stan, as he tried going forward while the twins still blocked him. "Get out of the way."
"No." Said Mabel, not wanting to let Stan go through. "We want to know why your ackin cray-cray."
"Mabel's right. Why do you want to shoot them?" Agreed Dipper.
"Not all of them. Just Godzilla." Said Stan, letting the name slip from his tongue by accident, raising the twin's curiosity. "Damn it, I've already said too much."
Stan then pushed the twins out of his way, cocking his revolver while went downstairs with the twins following close behind. Mabel ran past Stan, blocking the door while Dipper stood behind him.
"You know who he is?" Asked Dipper, wondering how Stan knew Godzilla.
"WHAT he is." Corrected Stan. "And he's nothing but a menace."
"A menace? He saved our lives." Said Dipper defending Godzilla. "When we said teenage stuff, we went to a cave and got attacked by bugs. Long story short, we met him and some of his friends and they saved us."
"Others?" Asked Stan, even more frightened than ever. "Jesus Christ, I knew I shouldn't have let you two go."
"What is your problem, Grunkle Stan?" Asked Mabel, getting angry at her Grunkle's rash actions. "What did he ever do to you?"
"Look, you two don't understand." Said Stan, trying to explain himself. "That thing out there, what you call a friend, it's not as friendly as you think."
"He seems fine to me." Said Dipper, still not convinced about Godzilla.
"Maybe now he's seems cute to you, but he'll grow up to be the greatest threat in the entire world." Said Stan, walking up to the front door. "I'm not letting it happen again."
Mabel tried to get Stan to stay where he was, but Stan was still quite strong for the girl, as he lifted Mabel up and gently put her down behind him, and walked outside to see the Kajiu again, who were alarmed when Stan pointed the gun at Godzilla.
"I'm not letting the world go back to hell again." Said Stan, close to pulling the trigger to end Godzilla, who roared at Stan since he saw the old man as a threat.
"Stanford!" Shouted the twin fairies, making Stan hesitate from pulling the trigger as the twins rushed outside to try to stop Stan, as he lowered his gun to notice the twin fairies on top of Mothra."Stop this madness!"
"Lora? Moll? Is it really you?" Asked Stan, hearing the familiar voiced which shocked the twins.
"Say whaaaaaat?" Said Mabel, sharing the same surprised with Dipper that Stan knew the fairies.
"Yes Stanford. Don't do this, we need him now more than ever." Said the fairies, trying to convince Stan to not kill Godzilla. "We know you have strong feelings about him, but let us explain. Please."
Stan sighed and put his revolver away, and walked up to Mothra to get the fairies, who chirped intimidatingly while Godzilla growled at him, as the fairies told the Kajiu to calm down and went to stand on Stan's hand.
"Kids, stay here. I need to have a chat with some old friends." Said Stan, as he walked inside the Shack and closed the door behind him, leaving the twins to watch their Kajiu, and walked up to them to comfort them.
"Easy there." Said Dipper, petting Godzilla on his head while Mabel did the same with Mothra, calming the Kajiu down.
It didn't take long for Stan to come back out with the fairies, as Stan was calmer now about the Kajiu situation, although Godzilla gave the old man a nasty look when he wasn't looking.
"Okay, so we talked it out and they convinced me not to shoot your… friend." Said Stan, cautiously eyeing Godzilla as the Kajiu snorted rudely at him. "You kids can keep them, just take good care of them. I don't want to see anything broken because of them."
The twin siblings were relieved that Stan wouldn't shoot their new friends, although the old man wasn't finished.
"But. They can't come inside since they're too big, so they have to sleep outside." Said Stan sternly, not wanting to hear anything from the twins right now. "Understood?"
"Yes, Stan." Said the twins, agreeing with the terms, as if they had a choice.
"Okay. Lora and Moll are also going to be staying with us for a while, so make sure the pig doesn't try to eat them." Said Stan, as he signaled the twins to go inside. "Now get to bed. You two got work tomorrow. I still need to talk to my friends."
The twins nodded as they followed Stan inside, not before saying their goodnights to their Kajiu, as they went upstairs to get ready for bed, while Stan pointed to his eyes and to Godzilla's.
"I'm watching you, you little tyrant." Said Stan, annoying Godzilla before he went back inside, as Godzilla looked at Mothra and roared confusingly at her about Stan, and chirped just as confused as Godzilla, before going to a spot nearby the shack to rest.
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After brushing their teeth, the twins were now in their bed attire, Mabel was wearing a purple night gown while Dipper was finally wearing boxers and a white cutoff t-shirt instead of his regular clothes, with the twins now in their beds as Mabel got comfortable in her bed with her pet pig by her side while Dipper just stared at the same page about the cave, now even more curious about this whole Kajiu thing, especially about Godzilla since Stan seemed to have such a negative reaction about him and Kajiu in general, along with knowing the fairies they had met earlier, and were now staying with them. It just opened up a whole new mystery for Dipper to uncover this summer.
"I guess there's no way avoiding a mystery in this town." Said Mabel, seeing Dipper's eyes glued onto his journal.
"I guess not. And I thought that whole portal thing would be the end of it all." Said Dipper, thinking back to that memory. "How wrong was I?"
"Very wrong." Agreed Mabel. "I'm just glad you don't wear the same clothes forever."
Dipper smirked at the comment, before closing the journal and putting it away in the desk drawer. "You have a good point."
"I always do." Said Mabel, smiling back as Dipper shut the lamp light off and got comfortable in his bed as well.
"Tomorrow is going to be crazy." Said Dipper, lying down in his bed as he drifted off to sleep, thinking about what he was going to ask Stan and the fairies tomorrow, they were too many questions but he still planned to ask them sometime. "I just know it."
"No talk. Sleep now." Mumbled Mabel, wanting every desire to sleep. "Nite Dipper."
"Nite Mabel." Replied Dipper, as the twins slept soundly.
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Back at the rear of the cave entrance that the Mystery Shack crew came out of, several creatures came crawling out of the cave onto the surface world, which had been years since they have seen the surface. They were the Meganulon of the brown variant, who came out victorious from their little turf war against their larger cousins, as they prepared to explore the surface world once more for the proper prey, chirping to each other to wander into the woods and hunt for prey.
While the Meganulon have entered into the woods, they were followed by a more larger Kajiu, who fed on the dead and fleeing Meganulon from earlier in the cavern, revealing the Kajiu to be some kind of giant stone crab, though it looked similar to a lobster instead, colored in a reddish brown and reached to be about twenty five meters, as it moved its antenna around to find out where to go, and also walked into the woods to find not just a food source, but also a new home on the surface world in Gravity Falls.
But it would not be the first of the larger Kajiu to surface, as more Kajiu throughout the night have risen after each one to expand their territory and find a new home on the surface, but not all went to Gravity Falls, such as a pair of giant mantis, one being the same kind that the mystery shack crew had encountered earlier, while the other was green and ten meters taller than the other, another Kajiu being the same giant spider that was encountered earlier as well, and the last one so far was a giant twenty meter rock turtle, emerging from the cavern lake to leave its old lair to find a new lake to inhabit. It would not be the last of the underground Kajiu to rise, for more larger and powerful Kajiu lied deeper down the cavern, sensing that it would be time to wake up for another day, as the slim figure that watched Godzilla earlier saw the whole thing unfold and smiled gleefully, knowing full well what this would start in the future.
This would only be the beginning of a new age.
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Disclaimer: I do not own Gravity Falls or Godzilla.