Authors note: So it took a while for this chapter because of writers block and real life catching up to me (Goddamn College), so don't expect me to upload as frequently since I need to study my ass off for college. This chapter also takes a departure from Gravity Falls but I guarantee you, it's worth it. Not much to say except I hope you enjoy the new chapter.
Chapter 11: A Rude Awakening
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William was close now, close to where he needed to be after the few days driving. He was no longer driving on a road now but off-road instead, right in the middle of the woods where many people would think they're lost. Little did others know that there was more to these lost woods in the state of Oregon than trees, as William drove up a small hill that overlooked what he had been searching for.
"Finally." Said William, glad to have arrived to his destination. "Now to go get my friends."
What William was looking at now is a secret government facility, it looked like an ordinary building that you would see in many cities with government facilities, a ten story building with the appearance of a CIA agency building, large satellite dishes were on the roof and the building was surrounded by an electric fence that only had one entrance with a guarded checkpoint, the building may look like an ordinary government facility, but it was what inside that counts, as Will ducked for cover when he saw a Blackhawk helicopter labeled EDF on the side came flying towards the building, and began to land on the large helipad the building had on its roof.
"EDF huh? Guess they're getting ahead of my little games." Said Will to himself, slightly annoyed at the EDF for getting involved with his little charades. "I'll have to rush things then."
William then sneaked down the hill, making sure that no guards spotted him sneak close down to the facility, it was quite easy since there were not as many guards in the facility.
"Heh. Still has crappy security." Said William, thinking about the facility. "Good thing I know all the kinks."
William knew exactly what he was doing here. Over the past two years, he had scouted out this particular facility for every single thing he could take advantage of, planning his every move on how to infiltrate the building and get out without anyone noticing, at least not noticing him.
William knew exactly what was in that building, what the government kept hidden inside. It may look like an ordinary top secret facility that has tons of secret information, but deep in the building was something far more interesting and dangerous than files of government secrets, something that only the government and William knew about, and William had every intention to reveal the dark secret hidden inside.
As William circled around the facility, using the incoming shadows as cover from the setting sun that made the skies darken, he stopped in a certain part of the chain link electric fence that had a slight defect, slight as in this particular part did not have electricity surging through it, giving William the perfect opportunity for entering the facility as he pulled out some wire cutters from his blazer pocket.
"I'm like a jack of all trades. Except my name isn't Jack." Said Will to himself, as he cut the chain fence enough to cut out a small hole for him to fit through.
William easily slipped through the hole with ease, getting the easy part of breaking in out of the way, the hard part would be getting inside the building itself.
William looked around his surroundings as he crouched walked, dodging the attention of any patrolling guards that came by while whistling the Mission Impossible theme to himself, clearly enjoying himself while sneaking inside the government facility.
"I am amazed how crap the security is." Said William to himself, surprised at how easy it was to infiltrate the facility, as William began frowning. "These dumb humans really did think the Kajiu were gone."
Then a devilish smile cracked on William's face as he found the back entrance of the facility, as he slowly opened the door to where he needed to be to enter the building.
"I'm gonna have so much fun."
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William was now sneaking around the long hallways of the facility, they were now empty since most of the staff were busy in their reported positions of the facility, giving William a better chance to sneak around undetected, the only problems he had were the security cameras that covered the hallway, along with a government agent walking down the hall towards William's position, who was hiding in the left corner of the hallway.
All William had to do now was wait, wait for the agent to walk down the end as William peeked around the corner, seeing the agent close enough to grab and did so, quickly wrapping his cane around the agent's neck, just in time before the camera at the end of the hallway could turn to see William's action at hand.
"Hey pal. How you doing?" Whispered William evilly, as the agent struggled from William's grip while gasping for air.
William then dragged the agent to a door close by which was some sort of janitor's closet, with the last sound that could be heard before closing the door was the snapping sound of a broken neck.
A few minutes later, William came back out in a different attire, now dressed up in the agent's clothes, wearing the black suit and black shades to cover his eyes since walking around with an eye patch was a bit too conspicuous, while he still kept his cane with him since he could easily come up with an excuse for the cane and took out his I.D. card, which showed that the agent had a high level of clearance in the facility.
"Lucky me." Said William to himself, smiling as he went outside to see if anyone was around and walked back down the hallway he peeked from to get to his destination on the other side.
William then turned right to see an elevator with what appeared to be another agent and what appeared to be a middle aged scientist with grey balding and glasses, as William walked up to the two people casually.
"You two waiting for something?" Asked William, as he showed his I.D. card while covering the picture on it. "I'm with you guys too."
The two people looked at the card quickly before the scientist spoke first.
"You're earlier than usual agent, good." Said the scientist, as the elevator arrived and opened its doors and the three people entered, unaware of William's disguise as the agent pushed the elevator button to make the elevator button go downward, which was quite unusual since William was on what was supposed to be the first floor.
"What's with the cane?" Asked the agent, trying to make small talk as the elevator went down.
"I had a hiking accident a few weeks ago. Broke my ankle and had to be off duty for a while." Lied William.
"You recovered pretty quickly." Said the agent.
"It still kind of hurts, so that's why I have this with me." Said William, pointing out the reason for his cane.
"Hope you feel better." Said the agent, as the conversation died down while the elevator kept going down.
"So, what exactly are we here for?" Asked William, wondering what he was on time for.
"You don't know why you're here?" Asked the scientist.
"I was told I had clearance to something top secret but never really told what it was." Lied William, hoping that the two humans would believe him.
The scientist then sighed at what he heard as he turned towards the actual agent next to him. "Are your people this secretive?"
"We don't tell our own people everything until they see it themselves." Responded the agent. "You can try to tell him now."
"Very well." Said the scientist, as he began to brief William on what they were talking about, as the elevator reached its destination at the bottom, opening the doors to reveal more metallic hallways and floors, as the three stepped out to walk through the hall to the door at the end.
"Underground facility?" Asked William, making the scientist nod in response.
"That's right. We built this decades ago when we made a fascinating discovery." Explained the scientist, as the three walked down the metallic hall. "You are aware that our government hides dangerous secrets from the public?"
"Yes. Supernatural creatures, prototype technologies, etc. Extraterrestrials being your specialty." Answered William. "Is there a U.F.O. hidden down here?"
"Not exactly." Said the scientist. "Archeologists in the 1970's had discovered something truly fascinating in the Oregon State, an extraterrestrial lifeform, mummified deep in the earth's crust."
"An alien mummy?" Asked William, wondering if the scientist was actually talking about who William thought it was. "How large?"
"A very large mummy, reaches about sixty five meters hence the reason why we're so deep underground." Said the scientist, as the three people reached the door at the end and opened it to reveal some kind of office area. "There are more interesting things than its size however, since its age is only ten thousand years old."
"Really?" Asked William, pretending to be surprised.
"Really." Replied the scientist, as the three walked through the office area. "And like the agent said earlier, it's better to see it for yourself since well… the creature is hard to describe."
"Oh come on, how hard could it be?" Asked William, wanting the scientist to try to explain what the alien mummy looked like to make sure if it really was the same monster William knew it was. "Lay it on me."
"No need, we're already here." Said the scientist, as the three reached the end of the office complex to the scientist's main office, which had nothing interesting except the large windows that covered the entire left side of the complex, which appeared to have some kind of window shutters blocking whatever view it had on the other side.
The scientist then pressed a button on his office desk to open the large shutters, revealing what the scientist was talking about the whole time as the three got a good look at what they saw.
The windows showed a large area that was some kind of containment room, with tall and long walkways surrounding the object of interest that took up most of the room, and had large chains and wires holding the object above in place, that object being the alien mummy.
The mummy itself had its entire body dried up in earth and was not moving at all, and appeared to be sixty five meters tall like the agent said, but it also had a very strange appearance despite the mummified appearance which did not give much detail. It looked like the creature has large steel hooks for hands and smaller ones on its feet, along with sporting some kind of circular saw weapon on its frontal abdominal region, along with having three long sails on its back and had a metallic beak with metallic mandibles close by, it also had a row of curved metallic spike like spines on its tail and neck, with a sharp metallic horn on top of its head and some kind of red visor on its face that acted like its eyes along with a smaller red cycloptic visor eye just above the larger visor, truly a strange creature to look at.
"That's an uh… interesting creature." Said William, pretending to be fascinated.
"Very interesting indeed." Agreed the scientist. "We don't have much information to give on the creature, mostly because funding for the project has been cut back for more pressing government matters, what we do know asides from the creature being of alien origin is that the metallic parts of the alien along with the visor appear to be cybernetic enhancements, giving rise to the theory that a separate alien race created the creature, not much else is known, again, due to a lack of funding for the project."
"If we only had more money, we could discover so many secrets that the creature holds, but with everything going on in the world today such as Russia's involvement in Ukraine, the rise of ISIS, etc. We don't have the proper funding or resources to do so." Said the agent, shaking his head while staring at the creature. "All we can do now is preserve and contain it."
"I suppose the creature has a name?" Asked William, preferring to give the alien a name, a name he already knew.
"We don't its real name, but we have given it a code name that perfectly suits the strange creature." Said the scientist. "We call it, Gigan."
William couldn't help but smile at the name, knowing that the code name for Gigan really was his actual name.
"A strange name for a strange creature, fitting." Said William. "Is it still alive?"
"Believe it or not, we've recently detected faint life signs from Gigan." Answered the scientist. "We've theorized that the alien creature may be in some sort of hibernation."
"What if it wakes up?" Asked William.
"There's no way the alien creature would be able to wake up by itself." Said the agent.
"By itself?" Inquired William, wondering what the agent meant by that statement.
"The creature would need a massive outside force to wake it. Gigan isn't wounded or has any form of severe harm to it, it's just asleep." Explained the agent. "But there's nothing that could wake it up."
"Except Kajiu." Said the scientist. "We all heard about what happened."
William was curious about this conversation, since he was not exactly sure what the scientist was talking about, he assumed it may have had something to do with the EDF helicopter coming to the facility earlier, but played along anyways to get some answers. "Yeah, no surprise that they're coming back."
The agent turned to the scientist with a clear expression of annoyance. "How many times are you going to say it? Yes, we know we should have paid more attention to possible Kajiu activity. Yes, we shouldn't have completely forgotten about them after the last Tokyo incident in 1996. But we had more pressing matters than monster hunting, doctor."
Before the doctor could retort back to the agent, someone came bursting into the office room, it was another agent who had a look of fear and concern on his face, he looked sweaty and panted heavily, as if he had seen something horrible.
"Sir… we have a… big problem." Said the panicked agent, out of breath as the other agent went to him to see what the problem was.
"What are you talking abo-
All of a sudden, loud rumbling noises shook the underground, and if you could listen closely, loud booming noises were heard as well, sending a look of shock to everyone except to William, who seemed more confused than frightened.
"What the hell was that?" Asked the agent, demanding to know what that was.
The more exhausted agent just shook his head, only saying one word that completely summarized the situation.
"Kajiu."
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Above the surface of the government facility, the loud booming noises came from explosions caused by the said Kajiu that was mentioned earlier, the Kajiu being a large bat creature emiting powerful sound waves at the ground, Bagorah.
Bagorah was not here just to cause destruction, for he had waited all day in the cave at Gravity Falls for the continuation of his pursuit of his prey, the EDF helicopter that had escaped his jaws from before. He had waited all day for his redeeming chance to finish his hunt, able to track the helicopter due to his extra sensitive hearing, always managing to pick up the faint sounds of the helicopter's whirring to be able to track the fleeing prey to what Bagorah assumed was its own lair, a lair that had even more prey to feast on, and despite humans being small prey for himself, Bagorah had developed a quick taste for the sweet taste of human flesh.
Bagorah had just used another one of his powerful sound waves as echolocation to search for his fleeing prey, which was so powerful that it had caused the building to rumble, while the humans in the complex panicked at the sight of Bagorah, unable to stop whatever goal the giant bat wanted to pursue, they were just prey to him.
Bagorah then flew on top of the building, landing on the roof and faced the helicopter that landed on the helipad, searching the rooftop for the last EDF soldier that got on the chopper while the pilot and a few other humans just panicked and were unable to flee since Bagorah blocked the entrance to the building.
Frustrated that the EDF soldier he was hunting for was not on the roof, Bagorah used his sound wave attack to blast the helicopter away from the roof, along with the poor humans trapped with him as they fell to their deaths, while Bagorah flew down to where he blasted the humans, as he chomped down on the fallen humans while picking up the screams and footsteps of the rest of the fleeing humans who rushed inside the building for cover and safety.
Bagorah, not wanting any further prey to escape from his grasp, faced the building to let out a powerful sound wave of his echolocation, powerful enough to cause the very foundation of the building to shake and shatter all the glass windows in millions of pieces and deafening anyone inside the building, while the underground part of the complex just shook and rumbled, causing small tremors while making the metallic structure vibrate, shocking everyone underground even more so than before, since whatever Kajiu above causing the destruction could have serious repercussions to the entire Gigan project, though William couldn't be any happier for the unexpected twist of events.
"We need to evacuate now!" Said the panicked agent, as he led the rest of the group to flee the facility. "We managed to get a distress signal and EDF will respond with military forces, so we just-
Before the panicked agent could finish, William pulled out the sword from his cane and stabbed the agent in his jugular, sending the agent down bleeding on the floor, while the other agent tried to pull out his pistol, but William managed to stab the other agent right through the stomach, making the agent drop his gun while the scientist tried running from the scene, though William was quick and managed to grab the gun from the ground and shoot the scientist in the back twice, making the old man topple on the floor while William put his cane sword away and casually walked over to the scientist, flipping him on his back so he could see his face.
"Why?" Asked the scientist, having no clue what just happened.
William just grinned as he slowly kneeled down to his face. "Just because."
William then shot the man in the head, ending the scientist's life while the rumbling grew stronger than ever, as William looked at Gigan outside to see the Kajiu's visor beginning to light up red as the earth on his body began to fall off and could even see the alien Kajiu start moving his limbs around.
"Time to go." Said William to himself, as he rushed out to the elevator, knowing full well that this building would be nothing but rubble. "A shame this had to happen, I had an entire unnecessarily complicated plot I wanted to use… oh well."
William just ran to the elevator and pressed the up button, waving goodbye to a few of the staff who tried to rush in the elevator inside with him, but William just pushed them away with his cane while ignoring their cries for help, neglecting the fact that Gigan was now awake.
And he was not very happy.
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Bagorah was now busy trying to bring the building down, as he flew straight into the building in a bloodlust, seeking to fill his empty void of a stomach as he used his sound wave attack, amplifying it to blast away part of the building to reveal the panicked humans inside, who could only scream in terror as Bagorah swooped down and consumed them all in one bite, leaving no morsels untouched as he blasted another part of the building, revealing more humans to consume for himself.
One of those humans was Private Stevenson, who just stared at Bagorah in great terror, not expecting the giant bat to follow him all the way back to the base, as he closed his eyes to accept his fate.
Before Bagorah could even open its mouth, something from underground began to rumble, shaking the ground as large hook arms sprouted from the ground in the middle of the building, causing most of the humans including Stevenson to fall and become covered in the building rubble, with the very last thing he saw was a sixty five meter Gigan towering above before being covered in rubble, while Bagorah screeched at Gigan for being a possible contender for his food source.
"KKKREEEEEE!"
Gigan however was not intimidated by the giant bat as he roared back in response, ready to fight Bagorah to brush up on his technique, shaking off the rest of the earth on him to reveal his true color scheme, with most of his torso and the top of his tail being yellow scales with his sails also colored yellow, and the rest of his body colored with a green hide, while showing off his more metallic cybernetic enhancements which were colored chrome white, as Gigan was eager to stain his hook hands with the blood of his new foe.
"SKEEEURRNT!"
Bagorah began to emit a powerful soundwave to blast Gigan away, though Gigan managed to quickly avoid the blast due to his own swift speed, as he jumped sideways to avoid the blast while returning a blast of his own, lighting up his large visor and releasing a red energy blast, similar to a cluster bomb since several red lasers split towards Bagorah into a cone shape and exploded, hitting Bagorah multiple times simultaneously and hurt the giant bat creature, not expecting the heavy firepower as Bagorah stepped back in pain, while Gigan took the opportunity to lunge at the bat.
Gigan readied his hook hands and used his right hook to hit the disorientated Bagorah in the head, successfully following up with his left hook in the same area, before using both hok hands to uppercut Bagorah on its lower jaw and knock it away on its back.
Gigan then jumped towards Bagorah, intending to impale the giant bat with his hook hands but failed when Bagorah snapped his head back up to emit another sound wave, strong enough to send Gigan flying back into the already crumbled building and give Bagorah a chance to get himself up and fly up in the air.
The fallen alien cyborg quickly recovered from the blast and stood up to see Bagorah flying above, as Gigan extended his sails out to activate his anti-gravity ability to give himself the same ability of flight and followed Bagorah around, ready to engage in a dogfight with the giant bat. Gigan fired another one of his cluster lasers at Bagorah, who did an aerial loop to dodge the cluster and stopped midway in the loop to dive down on Gigan, who managed to turn himself around to face Bagorah and fire another cluster laser at the diving bat, who was unable to avoid the blast in time and lost his focus on Gigan to endure the blast, giving the alien cyborg the chance to dodge the fast dive and make Bagorah almost crash into the ground, who managed to spread his wings at the last second to fly back up to face Gigan in the air.
Bagorah then spotted Gigan flying straight towards him, as the alien cyborg began to spin his abdominal buzz saw, ready to unleash a swift and painful attack and flew just under Bagorah, with Gigan's buzz saw coming in contact with Bagorah's flesh on his shoulder, slicing through the bat's hide like paper and gushed blood, making Bagorah screech in pain as he tried to keep himself flying straight while Gigan circled for another strike, flying behind him and slicing Bagorah's other shoulder to make the bat plummet down on the ground, but not before Bagorah managed to grab Gigan by his neck and take him down to freefall with him.
Gigan was resourceful though, as he took advantage of the freefall to inflict more pain on Bagorah by turning himself around to grabble Bagorah, wrapping his hook hands around his back and activated his buzz saw once more, pulling Bagorah to the buzz saw to slice the bat's torso and sprout out blood as it screeched in even further pain before crashing down into the government facility with Gigan, crumbling down whatever was left of the building, while William who had barely made it out, just watched the entire fight from a distance, clearly enjoying the gruesome spectacle while noticing the EDF reinforcements, coming in with several Apache attack helicopters and F-16 Raptors with a black coating.
To the EDF's surprise, Gigan had burst out of the ruins of the government facility with Bagorah in his grasp, as the cyborg alien threw the giant bat in the air, unable to try to even fly because of the severe lacerations it suffered, as Gigan twisted his body around and used both his hook hands to twist back and hit Bagorah with enough force to send the giant bat flying right at the EDF forces, managing to destroy a few helicopters who couldn't avoid Bagorah's mass as the bat crashed down into the woods and struggled to get up, limping in pain and barely managed to fly away from Gigan, who was now focused on the EDF forces.
"Holy shit! Gigan is loose! Open fire!" Ordered the leading helicopter pilot, as the Apaches fired their missiles and high caliber guns at Gigan, while the F16's above locked on Gigan to fire their missiles as well, hoping to hurt the cyborg in some manner.
Gigan was not impressed with the human attacks, shrugging off the missiles impacting him as he charged his smaller cycloptic eye, unleashing a steady long range laser beam at the helicopters, easily blasting most of the helicopters out of the sky, while the few helicopters were ordered to retreat, as Gigan launched another laser beam at the retreating helicopters to finish them off.
Next were the jets to take care of, who Gigan engaged in flight as he shot cluster lasers from his main visor at the jets when he caught up to them, blasting them one by one, even getting a few by slicing them with his buzz saw, until only one jet remained out of the entire attack force.
"Oh god! Please no!" Screamed the pilot, not wanting to die as he flew off as fast as he could, until Gigan managed to catch up with the jet, flying in a speed of Mach three as the cyborg slashed the jet with his hook hand before landing back down close to the government facility, which was all but a smoldering rubble.
Before deciding to fly away, Gigan charged his smaller eye and unleashed a final laser beam on the ruined facility, spreading the ray all over the building to destroy whatever was left of it out of sadistic glee and rage, glad to finally be free after thousands of years of hibernation, as he flew off into the night sky to the next location he needed to go, leaving the ruined and vaporized facility behind with no survivors to Gigan's knowledge, as William just watched gleefully at what had happened and saluted Gigan as he flew away to wherever the cyborg had to go.
"Godspeed, you lizard, bird, roach, robot thing. Godspeed." Said William happily, wiping away a happy tear from his eye at the destruction.
"Now the real fun begins."
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Disclaimer: I do not own Gravity Falls or Godzilla.