Authors note: So by the title of the chapter, there's gong to be a lot of explaining of origin stuff, stuff with Godzilla and the other Kajiu as well, so I can establish what kind of universe this is since it's my own version of Godzilla, while using stuff from the Godzilla movies as well, including a special someone mentioned in this chapter that will probably make a grand appearance MUCH later on. Other than that, hope you enjoy and review.
Chapter 7: Old Origins
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After Godzilla and Rodan had finished eating their fill of the stone crab, they helped out with Mothra, Anguirus, and their caretakers with cleaning up after the chaos the town had suffered with the Meganulon attack throughout the rest of the morning, removing trash from the streets, clearing rubble from the supermarket, and disposing the corpses of the dead Meganulon, much to Rodan's delight since he enjoyed consuming the bugs, and clearing the remains of the stone crab out of the town.
Surprisingly enough, most of the town who saw the monsters accepted them into the town as their new inhabitants, considering their strange history with the supernatural, this kind of thing was normal with them and didn't just tolerate the Kajiu, but accepted them as their saviors, along with their caretakers Dipper, Mabel, Soos, and Wendy, with the Pine twins being the guests of honor since they were back after two years away from the town, making a mark on the small town's history yet again. The townsfolk even offered rewards to their saviors, while the humans and Mothra declined the offers, The rest of the Kajiu were more than happy to accept their rewards, more food that they so craved for the day.
Not everyone saw the chaos in the town however, such as a few familiar faces that the Pine twins talked to such as Robbie, who claimed he was asleep throughout the morning instead of cowering in his bed, texting Tambry every few seconds if she was alright, and Pacifica who insulted the Pine twins and called their Kajiu 'Smelly circus animals", but in reality, she was just jealous that she didn't have one herself. And while most of the townsfolk were okay with the monsters, there were a few that didn't think so highly of the heroic beasts, not just Robbie and Pacifica, but also the most prominent Kajiu hater being Stanford Pines, who had to walk all the way to town with the fairies since his car was stolen by someone who wrote an I.O.U. in blood.
Stan was now in the town with the fairies on his shoulder, exhausted from walking and searched for the twins and their friends, who were easily spotted at the wreaked supermarket, helping out clear the last of the rubble with Godzilla, who Stan eyed at furiously and frightfully, paranoid of the Kajiu while calling out to his grandniece and grandnephew.
"Kids!" Shouted Stan to the twins, who stopped what they were doing when they heard their Grunkle call out, as he walked over to the kids angrily. "What just happened here?"
"Stan? Where's your car?" Asked Dipper, hoping that the car William drove away with wasn't his.
"Some sick freak stole it and left a note in blood." Explained Stan, confirming Dipper's suspicions that William stole the car he drove. "But forget about the car, did Godzilla do this?"
"Stan, it's not what you think." Said Dipper, preparing to defend Godzilla. "He didn't do this on purpose."
"Oh really? Not on purpose, but still destroyed half the building." Said Stan, raising his voice at the twins as he pointed at the half destroyed supermarket. "I told you two to take care of them, I told you I didn't want to see anything broken because of those things."
"Grunkle Stan, it wasn't their fault." Said Mabel, trying to get the blame off the Kajiu. "It was these huge bug things, I think they followed us from the cave."
"The Meganulon?" Asked the fairies.
"Yeah. And there was also this huge stone crab too, but Godzilla killed it so we won't have to deal with it." Said Dipper, while the fairies appeared to be concerned at the mention of the crab.
"He turned that crab into lunch with that breath thingy he learned." Said Mabel, remembering the breath attack Godzilla used.
"Breath thingy?" Asked Stan, before realizing what that breath thingy was. "Oh god, he already know how to do that?"
"It saved the town." Argued Dipper.
"I'm surprised it didn't destroy the rest of the town." Said Stan, while the fairy's expressions still looked dire.
"Are you sure it was a stone crab?" Asked the fairies.
"Yes, or at least it was a crab." Said Mabel, while the fairy's grim expression did not change.
"That must have been Ganimes." Said the fairies, before looking at the twins again. "What else followed you?"
"Nothing else, just those things. Why?" Asked Mabel, who saw the fairies look at each other concerned.
"There may be more than the Meganulon and Ganimes to worry about." Said the fairies, even getting the attention of Wendy and Soos, who walked next to the twins.
"What was that? I thought I just heard you say there's more to worry about." Said Wendy, not wanting to believe what she just heard.
"There is. If the Meganulon followed you all the way to town, then their predators such as Ganimes did as well, along with any predators the other has and so on." Said the fairies, making the entire human group concerned. "There may be worse Kajiu to come than Ganimes."
"I can't believe this." Said Stan, covering his face with his hands in disbelief.
"It's not so bad, everyone likes our Kajiu." Said Dipper, pointing to Mothra playing with the town children, while Anguirus and Rodan were busy eating their food rewards, fascinating the townsfolk. "They think we and our Kajiu are heroes."
"That's how it started with Godzilla too." Said Stan. Shaking his head at the sight. "First he acts like some kind of savior, only for people too late realize that he doesn't care about them at all, just himself and to destroy anything he doesn't like."
"You know, that reminds me. You never answered my question about Godzilla." Said Dipper, as he began asking a question. "And what do you mean that's how it started? It sounds like there was another before him."
"And you'll never get your answer except that you're grounded for the rest of the day." Said Stan sternly.
"But-
"But nothing." Interrupted Stan, who then faced Soos and Wendy. "Soos. You're taking everyone except me and the fairies to the shack by truck, AND you'll work overtime for the rest of the week with Wendy."
"Stanford." Said the twin fairies, getting the old man's attention.
"You know I can't just let this slide." Said Stan, as the fairies looked at Stan as if they wanted to talk again. "Oh Jesus."
The group eventually complied, not wanting to upset Stan any further as they walked back to Soos's truck, while Godzilla eyed the group, knowing that something was wrong.
"Tell your friends to stay behind, I don't want them around the shack anymore." Ordered Stan.
"Stanford." Said the fairies again.
"No! I'm not dealing with them around the Shack again." Said Stan, not tolerating the Kajiu any longer. "Besides, they look like they're enjoying themselves."
Dipper sighed heavily as he turned to Godzilla, who didn't look too happy with what Stan said.
"I'm sorry buddy, I got to listen to him." Said Dipper sadly, as Godzilla roared in protest. "You go get to know everyone in the town, you'll like them."
Godzilla didn't like to listen to people, but he could tell from Dipper's face that he was in serious trouble right now, as he walked back town to tell the other Kajiu that they had to stay behind for now, but not before looking at Stan and snorting at him before walking away.
"He's too much like his father." Mumbled Stan, with only the fairies hearing him.
"You don't know that." Argued the fairies, while Stan walked ahead of the group so they wouldn't hear the rest of the conversation, as he walked back to the shack while having another conversation with Lora and Moll, while the rest of the group got back in Soos's truck in the same seats they were in before.
"I can't believe this crap." Said Wendy, frustrated with Stan and his attitude. "We saved the town and we get punished for it?"
"Stan must have some kind of prejudice for a reason." Pointed out Dipper. "He wouldn't say anything otherwise."
"But why?" Asked Mabel, still confused at Stan's hatred towards Kajiu. "Our Kajiu are nice."
"I caught on that Stan said Godzilla was too much like his father, implying that there must have been another Kajiu just like him." Said Dipper, remembering Stan's words before he left. "Maybe Stan had a bad experience with Godzilla's possible father?"
"What could have been so bad about him that he hates all Kajiu?" Asked Wendy.
"Well, maybe his father wasn't such a nice monster like ours." Guessed Dipper.
"You think people would have known about a mean giant monster years ago." Said Mabel, finding something off about the guess.
"Yeah, it's almost like some kind of… conspiracy." Said Soos in dramatic fashion, which really made Dipper think.
"You could be right, but we should ask Lora and Moll about Godzilla." Suggested Dipper.
"If Stan lets us." Said Mabel. "Hopefully Lora and Moll convince Stan to let us off the hook."
Dipper nodded in agreement with his sister, as Soos sighed at the whole Stan thing.
"Everything is a struggle for the G-Squad." Commented Soos.
"You know, I'm kind of getting used to that name." Said Wendy, not really minding the name as much.
"Well, what else should we call ourselves?" Asked Dipper. "We did just stop a bunch of Meganulon from eating everyone."
"And Godzilla and Rodan just beat down a giant crab." Said Mabel, remembering how Godzilla finished off the crab.
"We can't just let Mister Pines put us down, we're heroes now." Said Soos, encouraging the rest of the group and cheering them up. "Heroes always have to stand up strong no matter what."
"Wow dude, that's some pretty inspirational stuff." Said Wendy, agreeing with Soos with what he said.
"Your right, Soos. We shouldn't be so upset over Stan." Agreed Mabel. "We just saved everyone in that supermarket from getting killed."
"Then our Kajiu saved the rest of the town." Added Dipper. "Lora and Moll may have said that there's more than where that came from, but we'll be ready for it."
"Go G-Squad?" Asked Soos, before he started the truck.
The rest of the group smiled at each other, finally agreeing with the name as they began to all cheer at the same time.
"GO G-SQUAD!"
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While the group almost reached the Mystery Shack, Stan was now waiting for the rest of the group, with Soos parking his truck and stepping out with the rest of the group, while Stan sighed as he looked at the fairies, before looking back to the group.
"Okay. I've decided that grounding you two on your second day back is too harsh of me to do." Said Stan, reliving the twins of being stuck in the Shack. "But you'll work overtime with Soos and Wendy for the rest of the week instead, you need some kind of punishment."
The twins didn't protest to that punishment, although they would work more, at least it would be with their two closest friends.
"And I want to say that… I'm sorry for flipping out on you kids like that." Said Stan, apologizing for his attitude, which really raised suspicion among Dipper, Stan would never say sorry like that. "Just, be careful next time, okay?"
The twins nodded in agreement, while the group could hear rumbling footsteps behind, turning back to see their Kajiu had followed them all the way from town. Stan just sighed and pinched his fingers between his forehead, not wanting to deal with the Kajiu today, especially Godzilla.
"Stan, we-
"Forget it, just go do whatever you want. Work will start tomorrow." Said Stan, frustrated at the Kajiu's stubborn nature. "And take the fairies with you, I need to be alone for a while."
Stan then picked up the fairies and put them on Mabel's shoulder, while he just went in the shack, but not before giving Godzilla another look as he went inside, not wanting to deal with the Kajiu today.
"Okay, Stan is just acting weird now." Said Wendy, shaking her head at Stan's actions. "One moment he's furious, the next moment he slaps us on the wrist and calls it a day."
Dipper looked at the fairies. "What did you tell him?"
"We told him to not give harsh punishments to heroes." Said the fairies, making the group feel flattered by the statement.
"Anything else?" Asked Dipper, expecting a bigger story to it.
"We know you want information about Godzilla." Said the fairies, making Dipper act a little nervous. "But it's about time you knew."
The fairies then prepared to tell the group about Godzilla, as they all paid attention to every word they said.
"In the year of 1954, your kind performed what you called nuclear tests near the pacific islands, close to Japan, our old home." Said the fairies, already grasping the whole group's attention. "You humans wanted to test out a new weapon called the hydrogen bomb to see its effectiveness, but in the process of testing, you had awoken an ancient beast slumbering in the depths of the ocean. That creature was Godzilla."
"So there was another Godzilla before ours." Said Dipper, making the fairies nod. "How old is Godzilla?"
"Millions of years. Godzilla was the last of his kind when he was awoken, and he was furious at humanity for disturbing his slumber and changing him into what he is now." Said the fairies, confusing the group by that statement. "Godzilla was never like the way you see him now, he used to be an ordinary creature until the hydrogen bomb, which mutated him and gave him incredible size and power from the vast amounts of radiation, which is how he was able to do the atomic breath attack you described."
"Is that why our Kajiu are so big too? Were they affected by all this radiation?" Asked Wendy, to which the fairies nodded in agreement.
"Godzilla was not the only victim, for all the Kajiu you see now are descendants of their parents who have been affected by the fallout, but Godzilla was the first and most scarred of them all." Said the fairies, as they began dreadfully talking about what happened next. "Godzilla wanted to punish humanity for its sins of misusing nuclear power and damaging the world, so he arrived to Japan and attacked the city of Tokyo."
This made the group shocked at what they heard, they wouldn't think that Godzilla would do something like that, especially not after seeing him save the town. The fairies then continued with their story.
"It was a devastating attack that cost thousands of lives and thousands more from the radiation he left behind, leaving the city in ruins, just like the aftermaths of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, affected by similar attacks of nuclear power and fallout." Said the fairies, lowering their heads in respect for the dead. "Japan's armies tried everything they could to stop Godzilla, but he crushed everything that was in his way, decimating the military and causing Tokyo to burn in fire and poison the land with radiation."
"And somehow people just forgot about a giant monster attack on Tokyo?" Asked Dipper.
"Your governments knew the world would panic over an attack like this, so they lied to their people and called the attack a massive earthquake, dismissing any evidence of Godzilla." Said the fairies, which made Soos sigh.
"What'd I tell you before? Conspiracy." Said Soos, who knew that it was all some kind of cover up.
"Did they ever… you know. Kill Godzilla?" Asked Mabel.
"After the devastating attack, humanity knew that Godzilla would do the same to the entire world, so one scientist by the name of Doctor Serizawa created some kind of weapon he called the Oxygen Destroyer that could kill Godzilla." Explained the fairies. "It succeeded, but with a cost. Serizawa destroyed all of his work on the weapon and sacrificed his life so humanity would not be able to create and use the weapon for Humanity's own gains. He wanted his device to help humanity, but knew far too well that after seeing its power kill Godzilla, humans would use it to do the same to others, so he destroyed everything involving his creation."
This made the group even sadder than before, while they don't really think or talk about it too much, they knew their species was a violent one, and they learned in history classes and read stories on how violent humans could be, they were even worse than the Kajiu, making Serizawa's sacrifice noble and heroic, but also in vain.
"So how is there a new Godzilla even now?" Asked Dipper, with the group hoping that their dark assumptions were wrong.
"Unfortunately, history repeats itself in humanity. They may never be able to create an Oxygen Destroyer, but they continued their harmful actions with nuclear power, only the survivors of the Tokyo attack learned their lesson, but they were few in number." Said the fairies, making the human group's fears come true. "Humanity eventually awakened another Godzilla, one even more powerful and rage filled then before, along with several other Kajiu including the descendants of Mothra, Anguirus, and Rodan, with several other Kajiu as well, plunging the whole world into chaos, attacking cities and killing thousands, while Humanity's governments continued to hide their existence form the populace, and silencing anyone who experienced an encounter with the Kajiu."
"Even after all the Kajiu popping up over the years, they still wouldn't say anything?" Said Wendy, surprised that after several Kajiu attacks, no lesson was truly learned.
"That's horrible." Said Mabel solemnly, looking at the Kajiu behind the group. "They would had normal lives if it weren't for all of that crazy stuff years ago."
"And it all continued throughout 1954, all the way up to the year 1996, when most Kajiu had disappeared from the world except the second Godzilla, who had a child with him as well, and that child is your Godzilla's father." Said the fairies, looking at the giant dinosaur who was now playing with the other Kajiu. "But there was also the rise of the newest and most dangerous Kajiu, even more powerful than Godzilla, a horrible creature born from the Oxygen Destroyer that killed Godzilla and grew over the years known only as… Desotroyah."
Now that statement really struck the group, something more powerful than Godzilla? That sounded like a myth, but if a creature born from the very same weapon that killed Godzilla was more powerful than him, it had to be true, and who were they to not trust the word of fairies.
"But even Desotroyah was not the worst part, the worst part was Godzilla's dying." Said the fairies, which confused the group again.
"Because he wouldn't be able to stop Desotroyah, right?" Asked Dipper, to which the fairies shook their head.
"No. when Godzilla was dying, he had consumed so much radiation in his lifetime, he was beginning to go into a meltdown of sorts." Said the fairies, which Dipper knew what they meant by that statement.
"Like a nuclear reactor." Said Dipper fearfully, making the fairies nod.
"When Godzilla was dying, the humans knew that if he died, his body would melt from the intense temperature rising and would sink so far into the earth, his remains could destroy the core of the planet and destroy the planet itself." Said the fairies, which worried the group greatly. "But the humans managed to prevent Godzilla from doing so, he still died but only did enough damage to render Tokyo inhabitable.
"But Tokyo is fine now." Said Mabel, making the fairies finish their statement.
"That is where your Godzilla's father come into play. Somehow, the Godzilla that died managed to transfer all of his radiation energy to his son, who absorbed it all to become a newly full grown Godzilla, draining all of the radiation from Tokyo and making it habitable again." Explained the fairies. "After that, Godzilla's father disappeared from the world with the other Kajiu, never to be seen again until now."
"Where did he go?" Asked Dipper.
"He came here to Gravity Falls. Knowing that the humans would try to search for him, he came here knowing that I would be the last place they would find him, it was also where several other Kajiu around the world have come as well, and created the underground cave with the help of Mothra, Anguirus, and Rodan's descendants, and even had their young with them to protect." Said the fairies. "We then offered our help to the old Kajiu, to protect their young and raise them to be guardians of the earth instead of destroyers or wild beasts, which we did with Mothra all the time. Then the old Kajiu had finally laid to rest underground, and as they died, they also transferred their energies to the eggs of their unborn children, giving them great strength as you see now, so that they would be born anew to protect the world."
The group just stood in silence. It was probably the most interesting story they had ever heard in their lifetime, nuclear fallout, giant monsters, government conspiracies, supernatural and science elements blended together, it sounded like insanity but at the same time, it was fascinating.
"Wow… I mean just, wow." Said Dipper, completely speechless from what he heard. "I don't even know what to say."
"We understand that it is a lot to take in." Said the fairies, knowing that this kind of knowledge can make a human think for some time.
"I have only one question." Said Soos, wanting to ask a question. "This Desotroyah dude, he's dead right?"
"Godzilla and the humans briefly worked together to destroy the great destroyer himself. He will never come back." Said the fairies.
"Well uh, I still have some questions not relating to Godzilla specifically but, it's more about-
"Stanford." Finished the fairies for Dipper. "Those questions you will have to ask Stanford, not us. We promised him not to tell you."
The group stood silent again, still trying to take in what they just heard as they looked at their Kajiu, seeing Godzilla and Rodan compete with each other to see who can jump higher, while Anguirus tried learning a new trick for himself and curled himself up into a ball and began rolling around, not noticing that he hit a tree and unrolled dizzily, while Mothra did the same thing and managed to be more successful, unrolling properly while Anguirus just shook his head and tried rolling around again, while the humans just pitied the Kajiu, especially Godzilla, who still looked like a loving creature to everyone's eyes and had a hard time believing his kind could be destroyers of the world.
"What does Stan see in you?"
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"He can't be back, why the hell is he back?!" Said Stan to himself, still in disbelief that Godzilla was here as he went up to his room, wanting to be alone for the rest of the day in the shack. "And now I'm letting him stay here with me? After everything he's done? What the hell is wrong with me?!"
Stan was now in his room, rummaging through his drawers to find something, hoping that it was still there. Eventually, he took out what looked like an old photo and held it to his chest, and began tearing up when he merely touched it.
He didn't want to look at it, but at the same time he felt like he had to, to not forget what was in the photo, as he sat down on his bed and stared at the photo, which appeared to have Stan in his younger years with several members of his family in, striking him at his heartstrings as he stared at the photo, but what struck him the most was the child he held up his back, who appeared to be a twelve year old girl.
"Oh god." Said Stan, unable to hold his tears back any longer as he cried. "Please… please forgive me."
He couldn't bear the sight anymore and dropped in on his bed, not even sure if looking at that photo was the right thing to do, to bring back that emotional pain he kept hidden after all these years, as he quietly mumbled to himself.
"Please forgive me."
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Disclaimer: I do not own Gravity Falls or Godzilla.