Chapter Nineteen
It was, at that moment, endgame. As the corpse collector didn't know, the men and women of Commander Aso's G-Force—which by know incorporated the entire DFE and most of the world's armed forces—were engaged in battle with their most dreaded foe. With this army flying ten flags; America, Britain, Russia, China, France, Germany, Japan, Canada, South Korea, and Spain; it was as if General Dwight D. Eisenhower's Allied Expeditionary Force had been reborn. (For Ike it was Hitler and the Nazis on Normandy; for Aso it was Ghidorah and the Swarm at Chesapeake Bay.) This fight was being fought on the Atlantic Coastal Plains of Maryland and with seemingly every last man in the America's First, Second and Fourth Armies taking point it was meant to be victory or death, all or nothing. That was because the demon was heading straight towards the capital of the United States and clearly sought nothing but its destruction.
The humans and their monster allies—Mothra & Battra and Tuol & Quetzalcaotl—were ready to fight with everything they had and had a secret weapon that they hoped might win the war. At the moment those select humans were on a boat in Washington DC's Tidal Basin, the body of water surrounded by Japanese cherry trees, next to the Potomac and bordering the National Mall. There, Kyle Martin, Miki Seguesa, and Dr. Hayashida were feverishly working on Project Telepathy. On seeing that King Ghidorah was already heading towards the capital, the plan had been to make the final touches as the boat was sped on the Potomac towards the Bay. However, the demon had proven faster than they had expected and the sheer savagery of the battle made a trip there impossible. The only way now was to wait for a helicopter to pick up the team working on Project T and take them to the battlefield or, God forbid, wait for King Ghidorah to make his way to the city.
In the research vessel Calico, these three and several others were working amidst the cold. The Tidal Basin and the Potomac were already freezing over and a few scattered flakes were falling from the sky, a reminder of how cold the world had become since the coming of King Ghidorah (both literally and metaphorically). Brushing aside snow as he did so, Hayashida was quickly installing the various components of Project T into their various places; it wasn't going to be as easy as before. Last time, they had years to make this device for Godzilla and weeks to deploy it; now they had months to adapt it and hours to fire.
"You there," said Hayashida, "give me that circuit board."
The man handed it to the scientist saying "Yes, sir."
The assistant was getting the desperately needed pieces to the assembly as the master commanded made his machine; in as high risk a gamble as this, Hayashida trusted nobody but himself. Kyle, meanwhile, was at the keyboard, programming the computer systems that would merge Miki's mind to King Ghidorah's. As for Miki herself, Belvera was with her, training her mind and giving her every last ounce of psychic strength that she could in preparation for the coming mental battle. As she rubbed her temples and ignored the cold that froze her breath, Miki knew that she would need all her power to complete this test. If successful, then the Monster Wars would be over in one fell swoop and the world would be saved. If it failed… considering what happened to Meru, Miki tried not to think of that.
However, it was rather hard not to think of that with how the din of battle was heard through the empty city from over thirty miles away. (God knew that their ears were beginning to ache from the monster crickets' sonic attacks; they could imagine what it would be like for those on the battlefield itself.) If our band of heroes were to have looked up, they would have seen it wasn't just the Washington Monument that dominated the skyline; instead, blast after blast shoot up into the sky as well as explosion after explosion. Yes, from that far away, the people could have heard the sounds of war from the not so far off war zone.
For those on the battlefield, however, such a bit of information would hardly have been surprising, considering the battle they were fighting at that moment. One Apache helicopter was rocked by an explosion as a bee-hornet it shot to bits splattered across the front of it. The pilot cursed as the gore was smeared across his machine's windshield and began to gum up the propeller blades. "Pilot to base, pilot to base! Helicopter compromised, requesting immediate permission to return to base!"
On receiving permission to do so, the pilot hastily steered his wobbling machine back to Andrews Air Force Base, the nearest friendly territory, all the while protected by friendly fire. At that moment, a monstrous firefly flew in a kamikaze flight against the fleeing helicopter but at that moment it exploded in a fireball that gave the monster insect its name. On closer inspection, the monster was seen to have been destroyed by a burst of maser fire from the ground. The saved pilot looked down and smiled as he saw the smoking turrets on Land MOGURA protruding from the soil and smiled. On the ground, Glen at the guns and Fuji at the pilot's control, looked at each other and gave each other a high five. However, they turned their attention back to the battle soon enough.
With that, Land MOGUERA tore itself from the ground where it had been fighting burrowing insects to join the battle topside. After Fuji checked the rearward camera to make sure that no monsters were coming from the tunnel behind them, he looked across the battlefield and gunned the engine. Racing forwards across the sand and reeds of the shore on its tank treads, Land MOGUERA—the transformed upper half of the true MOGUERA—now ran over insects by the hundreds and blasted to pieces many more with its maser fire. The super tank raged forwards, unstoppable, invincible, it seemed as if nothing could stop it.
On seeing the vehicle racing as it was, a giant beetle took a flying leap atop the super tank and tried to destroy it. On doing that, it landed on the nose cone of the vehicle and began slamming its pincers against the metal of the machine. Unfortunately for the giant beetle, the nose cone was actually a drill and it was thus torn to pieces when it was activated. With its drill activated, Land MOGUERA kept destroying bugs it speared by the hundreds but still the battle was far from won.
If a person were to have fallen back they would have seen that across the whole of the snowy plains, the shores and the waters, the battle was being waged left and right, everywhere at once. On the frosty waters, gunboats were blasting anything on the water and around it. In the air, AH-64 Apache helicopters were engaging in air-to-air combat with flying insects in an effort to gain air supremacy; at the same time maser jets were blasting their insectoid quarry on the ground. At the ground itself, Abrams tanks were blasting with depleted uranium shells while maser tanks were firing their energy beams.
It was a savage and hellish battle where the screams of dying men were mingled with monsters' cries of horror and sudden death. However, neither side was ready to yield; both were determined to see their enemy destroyed. Fighting through snow drifts and sand and mud, soldiers in vehicles and on foot, in tanks and commanding artillery, with M-60s machine guns and bazookas, were trading blow for blow with the Swarm's clashing fangs and poison stings. Though the nation and the world were both in ruins, though the brave men there were dying by the hundreds every moment, the ragged, cold, starving, and exhausted soldiers that fought that day ceded not an inch to their enemies. The battle was not Normandy; in its frozen savagery, it was Stalingrad.
Such was the case when the humans stood ready to destroy the Swarm's master.
Far from being a leader that commanded far away from the battlefield, King Ghidorah raged on the battlefield against the humans that stood against him. The sleek and powerful Gryphon flew against the monster, blasting away with its maser beams and dodging the return fire with Tsujimori's orders. The uglier, but far stronger, Star Falcon—transformed lower half of the MOGUERA—was attacking like a bat out of hell, wreaking the vengeance of its pilot, Lieutenant Santos. With Gravity Beams missing their targets, King Ghidorah arched back and spread his wings and released his Crimson Lightning in a scatter shot.
One streamer of energy struck the Gryphon; from inside, Tsujimori cursed and told her men to prepare for evasive action. Not so with the battle ready Santos; he banked his plane back and dodged the beams as he opened full fire. One concentrated burst struck the demon at the base of the neck and it hurt the beast. (At which point, Santos gave a quick prayer of gratitude; these modified energy beams worked like a charm.) With red eyes gleaming, a black hate burned inside the demon and he fired a combined Triple Beam at his foe; it was in vain however, because Star Falcon managed to dodge it by a mile.
Santos smiled and screamed "You think you're so tough? You ain't nothing!" At that Star Falcon turned around for another attack and opened fire in a chain gun like barrage, barrel rolling as it did so. Such evasive maneuvers were more than necessary with the onslaught the demon returned. Dodging and weaving, the Lieutenant frowned, "So, you want to fight to the death, eh? Bastard!"
With that Santos increased his ferocious assault and it was reinforced with Tsujimori's help. Such an effort was crucial; although King Ghidorah's attention was occupied with the battle he had to be kept distracted until reinforcements came. Until they arrived, the humans couldn't risk the demon using its Fear and destroying the armies sent against him with a thought. However, help was not long in coming.
It came in the form of Mothra & Battra and Tuol & Quetzalcoatl.
In red rage, the three-headed monster tried to crash his heads into the planes and use them as weapons but as he was about to do so, he felt all three jerk back and grow suffocated. As the demon tore and shook his heads back and forth, he saw that a sticky, burning, and seemingly indestructible silk covered them. He used his great strength to finally tear through the silk that bound him and when he did he howled his hatred. This was intolerable! Who was it that did this? Who dared defy the Prince of Skyllans?
A loud long chirp said that it was Mothra that dared. Due to King Ghidorah's very presence disrupting the life force of the Earth, Mothra had been unable to ascend to her adult form and therefore had no choice but fight on as a larva. Even so, the "tiny," brown, 120-meter long worm wiggled across the frozen shoreline towards her giant foe and from the glint in her tiny beady eyes, it was clear that she was determined to fight on. As for the foe, such an action on the maggot's part was so pathetic that it was to laugh.
King Ghidorah walked against the maggot worm, determined to crush it beneath his heel but as he did so, an excruciating bolt of energy lanced through his back. Infuriated, the demon whipped around yet even as he did so another blast of energy was fired straight at his eyes. With all three faces, the demon scowled because even before he saw his foes, he knew whom it was. The wavelength of energy indicated a Prism Beam (though adapted to override his energy absorption) and that meant Battra.
Not disappointing, the Black Mothra was there, hoisting the front half of his black, red and yellow body erect on his many back legs. (Like his sister, Battra was unable to assume adult form due to King Ghidorah having corrupted Earth's mana.) With red eyes glowing, black mandibles clacking, and yellow horn glowing, the hideous and savage brother of Mothra screamed for the demon's blood. The King of Terror threw his head back and hurled a volley of fireballs from his mouths; with that, the ground around the 90-meter long Battra fairly exploded yet the creature refused to back away from his foe. Why should he when more help was yet to arrive?
Even as King Ghidorah was shooting fireballs at his hated foe, a new enemy came. Two stone fists shot out from the sandy soils of the plain and they grabbed Ghidorah's legs, yanking him downwards. Howling as he fell, the three-headed monster fell on his backside and howled again as the stone fists smashed against him once more. Tearing himself from the soil, Tuol grabbed and was trying to break the grounded demon's legs. With that, the three-headed monster shot his two tails back and tried to right himself, but even as he did so, a mammoth boulder of a hand slammed him back on the ground.
King Ghidorah raised his necks to fire his devastating Gravity Beams but that proved to be impossible when something coiled around his chest and the base of his necks. The Prince of Skyllans gasped and was paralyzed as he felt a crushing, constricting, suffocating squeeze. With six eyes feeding him three images, he saw Quetzalcaotl, the son of Manda, choking him thrice over. With that, he then felt twin needles plunge into the base of his middle neck, delivering poison.
Enraged, King Ghidorah loosed a barrage of electricity through his skin that blasted off both the son of Manda and the stone giant. Even as that happened, the demon was webbed once more by Mothra and shot with Prism Beams by Battra. With the two other monsters already getting up for another assault, the battle was far from over.
With that, Tomas Santos looked out of the cockpit of the Star Falcon and gave thumbs up to Moll and Lora who were flying at his side atop Fairy. On seeing this, the two Elias sisters nodded as the Star Falcon, and the Gryphon, peeled away from the battle with King Ghidorah in order to help his fellow pilots in Land MOGUERA. They couldn't afford to get into the monsters way and they were needed elsewhere. This was evident as the two super planes went to destroy the demon's army as they fought the battle that raged all around them.
Back in Washington DC, Miki was in deep psychic meditation to ready her powers when her eyes flew open. She felt a chill run down her back and it wasn't from the snow. She gasped. "No, not him…"
Careful to speak quietly so as not to alarm the busy others on the deck of the Calico, Miki looked to Belvera and whispered. "It's not him, is it?"
Stroking the Shield of Elias for reassurance, Belevra grimly nodded from her saddle atop Garu-Garu. "We were worried about this; King Ghidorah killed his family and destroyed his entire world. How could he not want revenge?"
"But if Godzilla comes now, the entire battle might be ruined!" Miki frantically looked back and forth in worry before continuing. "Where is he?"
"He just came into the Bay from the Atlantic. He'll reach the fighting and King Ghidorah in a matter of minutes."
Miki sighed. "I'm not strong enough to reach him; my telepathic range just doesn't go that far. Can you do anything Belvera?"
The black clad fairy shook her head. "I could reach him, but you're the only one he listens to and YOU can't risk straining yourself with trying to go that far. You're going to need every bit of strength to be able beat King Ghidorah."
Miki asked, "Then what can we do?"
Belvera looked grim and resolute. "I'll telepathically contact Aso at Army Headquarters here at DC. He'll know what to do."
Her protégé sighed. "I hope."
In the Bay, one crew on a gunboat was engaged in a fierce battle with a giant water boatman insect. It was as big as their boat and even as it fell dead into the water by a hail of withering canonfire, another took its place. As this happened, the pilot received orders for evasive maneuvers and he gladly complied. But it was as this happened that he heard orders coming in from the radio.
He cocked his head around and shouted, "Sir, we're being hailed by HQ. Aso himself says that we have to fall back and get out of the Bay."
From the deck of this ship where he was firing his revolver for that little bit that helps, the captain said, "Yeah, well tell him were a little busy right now!"
"Sir, I think you're going to want to listen to the Commander."
"Why?"
"Because Godzilla's coming this way!"
Right on cue, there was huge swell of water in the Bay; it began rising up like an enormous bubble until it seemed like it could rise no more. When that happened, the bubble fairly exploded in a tower of water and frost and ice and a very familiar roar sounded through out the land. As that happened, everyone there on the battlefield turned around and froze; all went silent. It was Godzilla and he was ready to rage.
At that humans and monsters of both sides cursed their luck because they knew that Godzilla wanted King Ghidorah dead and they also knew that he would destroy however many of either side to do it. Seeing this in Star Falcon, Santos took the initiative and spoke into his comm-link. "Tsujimori, we have to stop King Ghidorah and we can't let Godzilla get in our way. Keep him busy while Glen, Fuji and I make the MOGUERA."
"But sir—"
"Just do it!"
With that, Gryphon immediately opened fire on the target and began evasive maneuvers in order to get Godzilla's attention. In the other super-plane, Santos gave the order to Glen and Fuji in Land MOGUERA but in hearing it, they gasped. Never taking his eyes from the screen as he piloted the vehicle, Fuji said "Boss, we can't do that! That combining thing hasn't been fixed yet."
From high in the sky, the Lieutenant frowned. "No choice. We have to let Mothra and the others beat King Ghidorah and we have to stop Godzilla anyways. We've fought him before, we know what to expect so c'mon and do it!" With that, Glen and Fuji reluctantly nodded to each other and programmed their half to the machine to engage in docking sequence even as the Lieutenant programmed his half as well. With that, as it was some Power Ranger Zord combination, the machines came together.
Santos seemingly plunged Star Falcon to the ground in a death dive, but at the last moment it pulled it backwards. Now in a vertical position, the plane pulled its wings inside even as the nose cone folding against the body. The back half of the plane then split in two to form the legs of a humanoid was machine. Landing and skidding to a stop from the momentum of its movement, Star Falcon turned itself from a plane to lower half of the robot.
As for Land MOGUERA, Fuji accelerated it to the maximum speed and, at the last moment, it shot itself into the air. As that happened, the super tank folded its treads into itself and withdrew its drill, replacing it with the head of the machine. At the last moment before connecting with Star Falcon, the tank repositioned its cannons into their place as arms. Using the machine's limited flight ability, Fuji made it land atop the transformed Star Falcon.
With that, the two operators moved to a mini elevator that took them from their sub-cockpit to the main one where Santos soon joined them. Taking their posts, the three looked out from the viewing port of their mighty robot, the MOGUERA even as their commander reported this to Aso.
Fuji looked to his lieutenant and said "Navigation systems are online, sir."
Glen nodded. "Weapons are reporting 100% sir. We are ready to commence operations."
In his command chair, Santos looked to his computer screen and frowned. "Yeah but they won't last long. Like you said, the docking sequence wasn't perfect and that means that we only have a short period of time. We're going to have to take out Godzilla now."
"Tsujimori MOGUERA is on line, break away and tell everyone to fall back." Santos knew it was going to be even more dangerous and difficult than last time but he wasn't afraid. Whether leading troops into battle or piloting a super plane or commanding a giant robot, Santos was ready for anything and that included the situation he was in now. He looked to his men and said "Attack!"
And so they did.
However, in another battle, the combatants needed no such encouragement. That was the battle waged between King Ghidorah and the four monsters sent against him—Mothra, Battra, Tuol, and Quetzalcoatl and it was a fearsome one. Shooting up from a jumping coil as if she were a fruit fly larva Mothra landed on King Ghidorah's back and clamped her tiny jaws on him. At that pain, King Ghidorah shook and threw his body around; he then leapt up, arching his back as he did so, and threw his body and his necks forward to cast the larva off. Screaming as she was shot forwards, Mothra landed with a bruising thud on the ground; she quickly wiggled away as the space demon tore open the ground with his Gravity Beams.
However, before the three-headed monster could press the attack, he felt a lancing pain through his wings from Quetzalcoatl's claws. Intolerable! Would he have to face Tiamat's entire brood? King Ghidorah tried to strike the son of Manda but the serpent was as fluid as water and dodged every strike. Instead, the serpent lord struck with poison fang and razor claw and body and tender wing aggravating the demon more and more. In retaliation, King Ghidorah let loose a charge of electricity through his skin to ravage his opponent but having been taught the enemy's style of battle, the son of Manda moved quickly enough away with a flap of his wings.
Quetzalcoatl may have been faster than the King of Terror but he wasn't faster than the speed of light as was shown when the evil one fired a barrage of Gravity Beams at his foe. The beams hit their mark and the serpent shrieked in agony. Feathers and scales were blasted off and the monster's skin was burned raw but as this was happening, Tuol smashed his stone fists into demon's side. Seeing what he was up against, King Ghidorah shot a volley of fireballs but the shots did little more than anger the rock man. Then before, the demon had a chance to dodge, Tuol smashed his fist into the three-headed monster with such force that gasping thing was lifted off the ground.
The ugly stone idol then reversed his rocky arms and began crushing King Ghidorah in a vise like bear hug. Though the space demon felt organs being crushed and bones being snapped, he also felt a sadistic glee; any who touched him would perish from his Taint. For the idol to hold him like this, it was only making his own suicide! That was when he felt Tuol, with strength undimmed, tighten its hold and crush him.
Inside heads that threw themselves this way and that far above the stone giant's short, squat body, King Ghidorah thought, if his thoughts could be made words, what was happening? Why wasn't the Taint working! As if he knew what the foe thought, the idol's hideous face grinned, malformed stone teeth clacking against stone lips. Corruption of the flesh has no effect against one who is made of stone!
Taking advantage of this, Battra opened fire with Prism Beams from eyes and horn with all his might against the demon. Bit by bit, King Ghidorah was being worn down, but those arrayed against him left the foe not a single chance. At this the savage one's sister shot her webs to trap and ensnare the demon and to injure him as well for the web was a burning web. From his position, Tuol clamped down on King Ghidorah's right neck with his massive stone teeth and with all his strength.
Refusing to go down so easily, the Prince of Skyllans shot himself several thousand feet into the air with Tuol clinging to him and then let himself fall to the ground in an effort to send the stone giant off. With a crash that made the whole battlefield shake, the three-headed monster and the idol crashed but only King Ghidorah walked out from the sandy crater. Though Tuol's stone body was strong as rock, it was also as brittle; he was broken into various pieces and with nothing but sand to absorb, it would be awhile before they managed to rejoin. With that, the demon then launched a three pronged attack even as his wounds closed themselves. With his middle head he blasted and burned Quetzalcoatl with a hellish fireball; his right head sent Battra flying off in pain with his Gravity Beams; and he levitated Mothra to send her crashing down with a reversed Beam.
He was going to follow up with Crimson Lightning but before he could do so the Gryphon and a squadron of F-14s let loose their missiles and masers. Angered at the insolence of the maggots, he sent the Crimson Lightning at them; Tsujimori's plane was able to evade the action but the others were not. With that, Quetzalcaotl plunged his fangs straight to the gums on the foe's thigh leaving King Ghidorah to howl. With that, the Prince of Skyllans clamped his venomous needle teeth against his foes back and the son of Manda wailed as he was torn off and cast aside like a rag doll. The serpent did not move
The four had suffered their first casualty but it would certainly not be the last. Seeing his friend cast aside, Tuol pulled himself from the ground where he had fallen, having taken stone and sand he had absorbed to return. But however weak the sand was, so would Tuol be; indeed, even as he struck the foe, sand was dusted from his fist.
Yet even as King Ghidorah fought these enemies, his greatest enemy fought his own battle. With blazing speed, Godzilla clawed with a right hand and then a left before delivering a lunging bite. With armor already compromised, the MOGUERA was damaged even more cruelly and in its cockpit, the crew was showered in sparks. Santos barked, "Fuji, pull us back! Glen put out the fire!" Doing as they were told, yet coughing from the smoke that was beginning to full the cockpit, the men frantically went to their duties.
However, Fuji didn't move the robot a moment too soon because Godzilla resumed his attack. At that, the King of the Monsters fired his Atomic Ray at the robot and the robot shielded itself with its arms; it wasn't enough, however, as the robot's outer skin began to peel off. Godzilla then raised up his hands in a double hammer fist but as the twin fists came down MOGUERA smashed its weapons pod against the Supersaur's throat. Clutching at his neck, the monster raised his leg and kicked at the machine's hip in a ferocious countermove, thus sending it off balance. At that, even as he dodged the robots blows, the King of the Monsters looked to the Prince of Skyllans and roared; later, the Elias said that Godzilla's communication came to the effect of "Don't think it's over between us Ghidorah. These dolts are but a prelude to our final battle!"
Fighting the remaining three that still fought him, King Ghidorah shrieked his evil shriek. (The Elias said that his words would be "You fool, it's never over between us!")
His face a grimace of rage, the King of the Monsters was caught off guard when the metallic monstrosity shot him point blank in the face with its Plasma Laser Guns. His face burnt and bleeding, Godzilla was nevertheless able to do a roundhouse tail whip against the robot. However the MOGUERA caught the tail with its arms (though it still sent a helluva jolt through it) and smashed it's drill nose into the tail. The King of the Monsters screamed and tore his tail away with blood and gore spurting. Enraged, the saurian lowered his head and crashed the machine in a mighty head but that damaged the chest's Plasma Laser Cannon.
In the damaged command center, Santos growled, "Clavos de Cristo, we're at Damage Level Nine! How much longer before we're scrap?"
"Not much longer sir," said Glen. "At this rate, we'll be down and out in a matter of minutes. That, or the systems will fry from the inside from improperly docking."
"Damn… Alright, Glen I want you to fire PLG and SGMs then for you and Fuji to get to Land MOGUERA while I begin separation sequence."
As per its operators' commands the mighty machine fired a barrage of Laser fire from its eyes even as Spiral Grenade Missiles shot out from the weapon pods and began to drill underneath the monster's skin where they exploded. Godzilla was further aggravated when an entire tank corps opened fire at the beast from three directions. This gave the MOGUERA enough time to separate into tank & plane and get to relative safety. Thinking to repay their comrades, the men inside Star Falcon and Land MOGUERA opened fire against the King of the Monsters to give the tank corps the time to escape. As for Glen, Fuji and Santos, the super plane was already streaking away and the tank was already underground when Godzilla turned his attention to them.
So they were gone? So much the better for what the last of the Supersaurs had in mind; and that was to destroy his enemy. He'd deal with the wretched mammals later; right now he had something more important to do.
He wasn't the only one. As for King Ghidorah, he levitated Tuol off the ground with reversed Gravity Beams making him helpless; with that, he sent the idol crashing atop the helpless Mothra as she tried to wiggle away. The poor creature was nearly crushed to death by the falling stone and, as for Tuol, the fall left him to crumble to rubble from which sand ran.
Infuriated at what had happened to his sister, Battra launched himself to attack. He plunged into the ground and fairly flew through the soil towards King Ghidorah. Logically speaking, the three-headed monster should have flown into the air but he stayed on the ground to wait for the Black Mothra. With that, Battra shot out from the ground and stabbed King Ghidorah's foot from below with his horn. The Prince of Skyllans roared at this and stepped back but he did not move his eyes from his enemy at this. Battra then threw himself at the foe as hard as he could to impale his horn into the demon's black and frozen heart.
He made it.
King Ghidorah howled and vomited black bile at this and the mighty horn caused him great pain. Even so, the three-headed monster, mad with delicious agony, grabbed Battra with his three heads and tore him from his body. With that, the Black Mothra's horn was snapped off, much to his pain, and he was killed by a most horrific blast of point blank Triple Gravity Beams straight to the head. To make sure that his foe was dead, the demon combined all his power into an even stronger Triple Beam that fairly blasted the Black Mothra into bloody chunks. King Ghidorah then pulled out the horn from his body with his right head and he looked towards his most hated foe with the other two.
As for one's enemies, Tuol was destroyed, Battra was dead, and Mothra & Quetzalcoatl were terribly injured. As for the other's foes, the human soldiers were routed and the robot giant had withdrawn lest it be destroyed. King Ghidorah shrieked his hate. Godzilla roared his rage. Defiance had been declared between them even as war raged around them and with that, they fought, ready to fight, fight until death.
From high up, far above the battlefield, Moll and Lora watched this take place. They saw this from atop Fairy's back and wept. They saw and heard the din of battle, even as they saw men and monsters spill the same blood on the same mud. How could the humans be so blind, thought Moll? Why had they fought Godzilla when he could be their only hope of survival?
From a love filled heart that was about to break, Lora saw all this from over the fairy moth's head; she spoke the words that her elder sister thought. "Oh Mothra! This… this is madness. Moll, we were there the first time that King Ghidorah came, the humans didn't fight like this back then. This isn't battle, its butchery! Battra is dead and Mothra's going to die! The fight is lost and we've got to get them out. What can we do to save them?"
Impassive as she watched the battlefield roiled like a cauldron far beneath her, Moll searched her mind for wisdom. She then looked away and ignored the hand that grasped her arm. "There isn't anything we can do. The battle is too fierce and the combatants too savage. Battra will live again as long as Mothra does and she isn't dead yet. For now, all we can do is hope that their sacrifices won't have been in vain and that Godzilla will be able to finish what they began."
Wiping away her tears as she heard that, Lora nodded and said, "I hope you're right."
King Ghidorah and Godzilla looked at each other ready to fight yet again; neither made a move and neither turned away from the other. Each knew that they were eternal enemies and that their fates would be forever intertwined until the other was destroyed. For those that were there that day and lived to tell the tale, they would tell their children and grandchildren of how it seemed that the whole world grew silent at that moment before the two eternal foes finally struck.
King Ghidorah lunged with his right head and then his left before throwing his body forwards to smash his three heads against the enemy's body. Godzilla was stunned at this but he returned blow for blow when he delivered a hooking claw strike that tore open the demon's chest and sent a downward double hammer fist that broke the demon's wings. The three-headed monster wailed at that even as he spun around to deliver a strike with his poisoned club tails. They struck home and the King of the Monsters held back his scream even as tore it out of his bloody flesh to fire the full force of his Atomic Ray.
With that, Ghidorah returned fire with the full force of three fireballs and executed a flying kick yet before the beast even landed, Godzilla followed him into the air and struck him hard with a leaping roundhouse tailwhip. The Prince of Skyllans was sent wheeling towards the ground and he made the whole battlefield shake when he hit it. But he wasn't beat yet because even as Godzilla ran towards him, the demon spun like a top on his toes and managed to trip the King of the Monsters with his twin tails.
Godzilla was down on the frozen ground but before he could react, the three-headed monster slammed his tails again and again into the foe's chest, determined to drive the spines straight through the heart. Easier thought than done with how the Supersaur, though bloody and injured, grabbed one tail with his teeth and the other with his hands to pull the demon to the ground. With that, Godzilla clamped teeth inherited from the tyrannosaur on the enemy's chest to tear off a cold chunk of pseudo flesh, burning acid blood spraying all the while. The venom burned Godzilla's skin and left it smoking; in his smoking, deformed face his eyes were left blind. It was something that had been suspected but seen for the first time that day; though whatever injury managed to pierce the monster's nigh impenetrable hide was healed in moments, this power to heal was neutralized by King Ghidorah's Taint. As such, it was a battle of attrition and only God knew who would win.
So now, having escaped his enemy's clutches, the Prince of Skyllans charged his power to open fire with a combined Triple Beam. But on land as in water Godzilla could see with sight beyond sight and was prepared for this. He blocked his face with his arms and though he was pain unimagined, he stood his ground and, listening to the sound of his enemy's movements, opened fire with a Red Spiral Ray. It struck home and left King Ghidorah with a bloody, gore-dripping hole in his wing. As for the monster himself, he smirked because he was startled though not surprised. He knew he could expect Godzilla to be blind, yes, but helpless, never!
Not letting up for a second, the evil one beat his wings to generate hurricane winds even that sent soil and stone flying towards the enemy, indeed not only that, but men and monsters were blown away like leaves. As for Godzilla, he stood his ground, his time away from the King of Terror's touch allowing his eyes to see blurs and shapes. Yet he would not wait for this to be completed and charged forwards needing only Ghidorah's stench to guide him. Godzilla struck home in a ramming head but that sent King Ghidorah sprawling but he just as quickly got back up, his three heads crashing against the enemy's body. Braced by his own tail, Godzilla had not fallen down but was now ready to strike back.
He charged forwards and delivered claw strike after claw strike before slamming his shoulder into the three-headed monster. King Ghidorah was taken aback by this and lashed back and forth, swinging his long necks like a cat-o-nine-tails before trying to clamp his outer heads onto his enemy's eyes. Enraged at such an underhanded attack, Godzilla ducked his head and clamped his own jaws onto King Ghidorah's right head in an effort to crush it like an egg. Remembering what happened last time, the three-headed monster slammed his clubbed tails into Godzilla's side in an effort to tear it open. When that didn't work, he ran a current of billion volts through his skin; at that Godzilla wrapped his arms around him to crush him in a bear hug, further aggravating the injuries wrought by Tuol and the others.
With that, King Ghidorah deployed his secret weapon, the one tool that would guarantee him victory in this battle: the Swarm.
Godzilla was beating his hated enemy to death with such ferocity that he heard neither heard nor cared for anything else; that would prove a mistake. As this happened, a horrific buzz filled the air and all others on the battlefield saw it come as a black wave that lifted from the ground to blot out the sun. With that a column of maggots, flies, mantises, roaches, beetles, dragonflies and more mobbed the King of the Monsters. Godzilla was stunned at this and desperately tore at the things that covered him but when he saw that King Ghidorah was trying to get away, he roared and used his Atomic Shockwave to blast the insects off. In his weakened state, this attack further exhausted him.
Even so he rose from the roasted corpses of his hated enemies to lunge against the enemy and to kill him. Yet even as he did so more and more of the Swarm rushed over him, biting, stinging, clawing, all in an effort to delay him. Once again, the King of the Monsters used his Atomic Shockwave but now it was noticeably weaker and left its user considerably more exhausted. Godzilla tried to get up he tried to fight and he tried to burn them away but for every one of the Swarm he crushed, a hundred took its place. There was just too many of them and even though he would certainly break the Swarm's power that day the real enemy was going to escape.
Such a thought burned inside Godzilla and he would not let it come to pass. He would not! The monster insects kept swarming about him, some the size of men and some the size of Mothra, and they would not yield. As they covered him and attacked with their stingers and pincers, they seemed certain to win by sheer weight of numbers. But his power connected to his rage, Godzilla roared so loud as to be heard in Japan and let loose a Shockwave the likes of which burned everything in a radius of over a thousand feet. Brought to his knees by this, he was left in a crater filled that stank of decay; his body was smoking and twitching ash-covered corpses surrounded him. Not only that, but past him humans began to suffer from the beginnings of radiation sickness and all electronics were shorted out through much of the Chesapeake Bay battlefield.
Yet it was when Godzilla looked up from the sandy coast that was the battlefield, he saw that all he had done had been all in vain because that was when he saw King Ghidorah fly up and away through the gray windblown sky towards his final target. Godzilla rushed to his feet and took aim with Atomic Ray but it was no use; King Ghidorah was already too far away to strike, instead easily dodging the blue nuclear fire sent against him, despite the broken wing. The Prince of Skyllans had flown away and escaped his vengeance and was now just a speck in the sky.
By this time, the Swarm was routed. It had been ground away all through the battle and its remaining power had been broken in the fight against Godzilla. It was with that that the King of the Monsters turned to the humans that had fought there that day and he looked at them. He looked this was and that, seemingly scrutinizing the mammals that had shared the battlefield. At that, the whole area grew silent and nobody breathed; from atop Fairy where the Elias looked to the battle below to HQ where Commander Aso saw this on the monitors, everyone was frozen. Everyone asked… what would Godzilla do next?
He would destroy them! In mad raging anger, he let loose a fully powered Red Spiral Ray against every single thing that moved. The last ragged remains of the attack force there were caught off guard by this and were quickly torn to shreds. True, G-Force had been created to fight Godzilla and had done so for well over ten years but through most of the of the Monster Wars it had not had to fight Godzilla as it had before this all began. Now they were sending troops, aircraft, artillery, armored vehicles, and everything else to fight the beast.
According to the Elias when they were asked after the battle, Godzilla was driven to destroy by sheer hatred. King Ghidorah had been his enemy and his alone to kill; the humans had delayed him and had thus robbed him of his vengeance. In his hatred at seeing the foe escape, the rage went beyond all reason and drove him only to destroy. Very soon the G-Force soldiers were on the ropes and had too flee for their lives; that they had no choice in doing so was made clear when Commander Aso gave the order to retreat. They had to withdraw and regroup in Washington DC which was now under attack by King Ghidorah. But because of how Godzilla raged against them, that would never happen.
In Washington DC where the Calico was moored in the Tidal Basin, sat our band of heroes. With the ESP helmet that she used to enter Godzilla's mind at her side, Miki was deep in concentration and set in the traditional lotus position, preparing for when she would have to face the evil one in his own domain. Miki did this alone with Belvera having gone into a seizure at Battra's death. It was with that moment that her eyes flew open and they shone gold; with Godzilla's strength her face was carved as stone and she said "King Ghidorah has come."
A t that, Hayashida and Kyle Martin whipped around to see her with frightened eyes. Kyle found himself short of breath but kept his head. "He's coming… how much time do we have?"
Miki shook her head. "None. Look there and know that the time is now."
At that moment, a bloodcurdling shriek cut through the entire city, a scream that shattered the windows of a hundred buildings and the hopes of a thousand hearts. That was because this was the day that a city of treasures was to die. It was with then that the shadow of the dragon and of the apocalypse itself spread itself and darkened the sky as if it was Satan himself blotting out the sun with iron wings. But it was not the devil, though it surely seemed to some as if it was; instead, it was the devil's hammer.
All of a sudden, a golden blur fell from the sky faster than the proverbial speeding bullet with such force that the World War II Memorial was pulverized by the sheer force of the sonic boom; however, instead of breaking off the movement, the blur rocketed forwards. In less than a breath, the blur, strafing the ground at less than two hundred fifty feet, sliced the Washington Monument in half with its wings. It than shot past it over the National Mall and exploded the magnificent Capital Building (and the twenty foot tall bronze Statue of Freedom at the top with it) with the power of gravity gone wild. With that done, it rocketed upwards and let it all sink in before continuing on his rampage.
Having danced to the sky as if part of some perverse aerial ballet, King Ghidorah began an aimless, chaotic attack, destroying anything unfortunate enough to be caught in his sight. Gravity Beams, Crimson Lightning, random fireballs, the Taint, the Fear, they were all used to the maximum and past it. Very soon, block after block was vaporized and countless structures were reduced to dust; worst of all, the death toll would prove to be astronomical.
However, that was not only because of the attack itself, not only because of how Taint was making people drop dead in the street, not only because Fear was creating a mad panic and making people commit suicide at the drop of a hat. It was because the President had refused to let the city be evacuated until it was far too late. He had been able to do it not only because he was Chief Executive and such but also since he was Commander-in-Chief and was it wartime and martial law had been declared he could basically do whatever he wanted. As to why, well if he were to have called for an evacuation then that would have meant that he was faced with somebody stronger than he was, no? He couldn't admit to that now, could he?
As for where the man himself was, he had, as of yet, refused to evacuate and was at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Ensconced as he was in the White House, the Oval Office to be precise, he had a surprisingly good view of the destruction being wrought on the capital and, chillingly enough, seemed utterly blasé about it. He just stood there in front of the Oval Office's main window with his hands behind his back, watching indifferently as the carnage came, not caring about it one bit. Instead he broke his silent revelry only to murmur "So that's King Ghidorah…"
It was at that moment that the Vice President rushed into the office with a panicked look on his face. "Sir, there you are! Sir, please, we've got to get you to a secure location right away."
At that, the startled Devlin Emmerich just turned about and asked, "What was that? What did you say?"
Franklin Smith couldn't believe it. "Sir, I said that we have to get you somewhere safe. We're already cut off from the outside but we can still get you to the White House's bomb shelter."
Emmerich shook his head. "I appreciate your concern Frank, but don't bother. He's not coming here; the fact that I haven't gone stark raving loony and drunk battery acid proves it. I have a feeling that this is the one place that he won't destroy. Something of an 'I could destroy you at any time but not today,' thing. Funny though, this is the first time that I've ever actually seen the damn monster with my own eyes."
The day would prove the President right; the three-headed monster would indeed spare the White House. Whether or not it was for the reason that President Emmerich said only God knew, but the man was left untouched to watch the carnage unfold before him. "Oh no, there goes the Smithsonian and three of its museums… and so does Arlington Cemetery. Wait a minute… is King Ghidorah levitating the corpses out of the graves? …That's the end of the Iwo Jima statue and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Good. Serves them right for not putting my face on the one-dollar bill. Remember Frank, they're the ones that make America's money."
All of a sudden President Emmerich began chuckling as he turned his back to the window to look at his right hand man. "You know, I bet that after that crazy monster blasts the National Archives he's going to go to the Lincoln Memorial." At that Franklin Smith was shocked to see it all happen just as his boss said and that included the next words. "And right now I bet that King Ghidorah is actually at the Lincoln Memorial, demolishing it."
The President turned to see that it was exactly as he had predicted. Now the Prince of Skyllans was beating with his wings to clear away the rubble from that holy temple even as tore the head off of the Lincoln statue and crushed it between the jaws of his middle head. It was a final insult towards America's most noble and beloved leader. Emmerich sighed. "Emancipator meets Terminator. I wonder if those G-Force guys are capturing this on tape."
The Vice President gasped in horror at this American Nero, fiddling as Rome burned. "Sir, what are you doing! What's wrong with you! Do you have any idea what's going on? We've got to get away. It's our fault sir, we brought this monster here!"
At that remark President Emmerich whipped around, his distorted with rage and his body trembling with hate. "What did you say?"
At that moment Franklin Smith was beginning to feel more fear than he already did. "Mr. President, now just calm down please listen…"
"Don't you tell me what to do. You dare join those madmen that blame me for the things that Ghidorah causes? 'We brought this monster here.' That's ridiculous you fool!"
Emmerich then picked up a small chair and threw it at the window, breaking it into a thousand pieces. He then ran towards the window and leaned out, screaming and shaking his fist at the three-headed monster all the while. "GO ON GHIDORAH, DESTROY THE CITY! I'LL REBUILD IT AGAIN, YOU'LL SEE!"
Meanwhile, on the Tidal Basin, Miki and the others saw that the madness had gone on for long enough. They saw that the demon had gone north past the Memorial, leaving the Constitution Gardens in flames, and was now destroying the various government buildings along Virginia Avenue. Destroying as he was a city of treasures, three-headed monster was is a virtual orgasm over the surge of bloodlust and destruction and murder he wrought there. It was as if he were some virus, drawing strength from the pain and misery he wrought on others, drawing power from despair.
And it was during this mad surge of power that he finally noticed Miki and her motley crew watching him. To King Ghidorah, individual humans were less than insects, nothing but microbes with pretensions of significance, but he sensed that these humans were something more. He didn't know it, but up until that moment, Belvera had been using all her psychic power to shield them from his sight. A difficult thing with how she had almost suffered brain death with the murder of Battra, but she forced herself to do it, if only for Battra's sake.
However, it had been too much, far too much, and she had passed out from the unbearable stress and emotional agony. It was with that revelation of this the humans that King Ghidorah finally saw the only humans that stood against him. Fairly laughing (if such a term could be applied to a demon) at this last pathetic enemy, the Prince of Skyllans flew slowly towards them intending to savor the moment and their torment. When this happened, time itself seemed to slow to a crawl.
As such, every movement of Kyle Martin could be made out as he took aim from the Calico with a modified shoulder mounted tank killer Javelin missile launcher. The smoke of the shot could be made out, as could the movement as the EMP field protected shell that was fired raced towards its mark. Indeed, it seemed as if when the shot hit King Ghidorah, that it took ages for him to react and for lightning to shoot out from his body as a sign of pain. It took even longer for the computer on board ship to signal that the neural link up had been made between King Ghidorah and Miki Seheusa.
However, if time had slowed, it was immediately put back to its normal course when a deafening heart wrenching scream of agony came from out of Miki. Panicked by the sight, Kyle Martin immediately rushed to her side to take off the ESP helmet, but Hayashida stopped him, saying that it was the only way. As for the "person" on the other end of this, the King of Terror lost all control of himself as a consequence of his pain and sailed past the Tidal Basin that the humans' ship was on. (In the process, making the water blast this way and that and making the ship almost capsize.) He instead had landed on the other side, thrashing and foaming at the mouth as he did so. Then, at the same moment, both woman and monster screamed one final agonizing scream as the computers aboard the Calico fairly exploded in a shower of sparks, all this before the two went limp, leaving only smoke and silence.
At that Kyle could contain himself no longer and rushed towards the woman he loved. Frightened and panicked he shook her by the shoulders and said "Miki! Miki are you alright? Answer me please!"
It was then that Moll and Lora came riding in on Fairy. Though it pained her, Moll knew that she and her little sister had to leave Mothra and the others to take care of themselves. They were needed here because they knew that with Belvera down that Segeusa would need all the help she could get to make it through King Ghidorah's blackened soul—that is if he even had a soul. At that moment, they were just hovering above the ship, overlooking the charred husk of what had once been the very capital city of America itself. Moll and Lora knew what had had happened, but neither dared act for fear that they might destroy their pupil from the inside out. Instead, the twin faye knew that only one being had the slightest chance of saving her and he was already there.
Then with a suddenness to make a man jump, Miss Segeusa gasped for air and began ragged breath. Risking a look over at King Ghidorah, Kyle saw that the monster was limp on the ground, unmoving and seemingly comatose. Then ignoring that, he turned back to the woman. "Miki are you there?"
Those would prove to be the most ironic words he ever spoke.
On hearing Kyle, "Miki" laughed, but it was a harsh, pitiless laugh without joy or hope, a laugh from something beyond darkness, beyond sin. It was a laugh from someone in who there was no goodness, no love, and no mercy. It was a sadistic chuckle to be expected from Vlad Dracula as he saw men "twitching like frogs" as they died impaled on poles or from Adolf Hitler as he learned that so many members of an inferior race had been tortured to death at Auschwitz. It was with that the Miki Segeusa looked up at Kyle with a psychotic look on her face, one of hatred and malice and cruelty. Then, with red glowing eyes and a voice that was made of a thousand souls burning in Hell, "Miki" smirked and said, "Yes human, I'm here."
At that, Kyle motioned for Hayashida and the others on the boat to stand away and let him talk. "Miki, are you all right? Do you feel OK?"
Speaking in a low guttural, bestial growl, the person in question slowly shook her smiling head. "Now, now Mr. Martin, let's make something clear and that is while I do appreciate your concern, you aren't speaking to Miss. Segeusa. You're speaking to he whose mind she tried to enter."
"Miki, I know you must feel confused right now but—"
"SILENCE MAGGOT!" roared the Miki who was not Miki as she or he grabbed Kyle by the throat and hoisted him into the air. With glowing red eyes, he said, "I want you and everyone else here to know that I am NOT that scrawny little female! Do you hear me? Do you understand!" With that she/he threw the gasping man aside like a rag doll, leaving him to nurse the deep bruises that had appeared all over his throat.
On the ground and barely able to breathe, Kyle nonetheless forced himself to speak. "So you're not Miki, you're King Ghidorah."
At that, he made Segeusa's lips smirk. "Yes I am but you do not believe that. Instead, you believe that I am your precious Miki thinking that that I am King Ghidorah. Let me show you something. Do you see that building over there? That's the, the…" the demon searched the woman's mind until he found it. "…The Jefferson Memorial. See it? It's the one past the Basin we're in and past the Cherry Trees. Or at least it will have been."
On his feet, Kyle nodded.
With that, with her hair moving and lifting up as if the wind were blowing, with red eyes glowing bright, he arched her back and lunged forwards, firing a lightning like bolt of energy from her mouth at the Memorial, making it explode. Then, even as her mouth was still smoking, he waved her hand in front of a technician on the boat making him fall to the ground screaming as his skin began peeling off. By the time Hayashida had gotten to him and checked his pulse, the man was already dead. A demon spoke with a woman's mouth to say, "Now have I convinced you?"
In horror, Kyle stumbled backwards before forcing himself back up. "Oh my God! What the Hell's happening!"
On hearing that, Miki's head arched back and swiveled about but it was King Ghidorah who spoke through a mad grin. "Little man, haven't you been listening to anything I've said? Perhaps I should repeat what I've said and say it very slowly.
"I do have to admit, however, that you did have an interesting idea. You place a device on my back so that you might be able to claim my mind and make me do whatever you want. But what would that have been? For me to crawl back into that accursed meteor prison? For me to go away forever? For me to commit suicide by flying into the sun? I don't know what you were planning nor do I really care because what matters is what is happening know."
At that Miki/King Ghidorah began pacing, whilst her hands were placed behind her back. "You did indeed have an interesting idea though I must admit that it was a totally stupid one. Do you really think that your precious Miki Segeusa had any chance of defeating me with her pathetic strength? Do I not deserve a greater effort! No, your little mind reader never had a chance of winning against me and I'm surprised that she had the audacity to try. The Elias should have told her that I am as far beyond them as they are beyond you Kyle Martin." At that, the demon smirked with Miki's mouth. "But of course, if you humans WANT to prolong your agony I encourage you. It makes killing you all the sweeter."
At that nobody on the deck dared to move or dared to speak. Kyle was the only one and right now he was wishing that he had inherited more of his grandfather's communications skill. "…King Ghidorah…"
"Yes?" purred the demon. "No." At that moment, the evil one began trembling and losing the smug on Miki's face. "What… No I won't let you!"
"Get out of my head!" screamed Miki.
Then in his demonic growl, King Ghidorah bellowed "Shut up woman or I'll beat you down!"
All of a sudden, Moll and Lora swooped down on Fairy and zipped down in front of Miki's face. "Please you must fight it!" said Moll.
"I am!" she screamed as she clutched her head.
Frightened, Lora cried, "Please, you can't let him beat you!"
The duel between the two beings inside one body continued, vows and curses flying, until all of a sudden, the body fell to the ground. Then, curled into a ball on the ground and crying, Segeusa looked to Kyle and whimpered. "Kyle… help me. Give me your hand… please.
"Don't worry love, I'm coming…" Yet at the last second before he gave her his hand, he stopped dead in his tracks and his face became as stone. He took back his hand and scowled at Ghidorah. "You almost fooled me."
At that the demon got Miki's body back up and dusted himself off. "Oh well, it was worth a try now wasn't it and we've all got to try our best. That's just the way things are."
Kyle slowly took one step back and slightly trembled. "What are you?"
"I am despair. I am suffering. I am the cry of the wounded beast, the whimper of the forgotten child. I am your worst nightmare made flesh. I am wickedness. I am the devil's hammer. I am King Ghidorah."
"Why are you doing this? Why do you do these things?"
"I do this for the sake of chaos. I do it to destroy. I do the things I do to bring forth a world of darkness. I do it because all that lives disgusts me, because all that is good and clean I despise. I kill for the pleasure of killing, I kill to know that I have the power to do so, and I kill so that all shall see me for the cancer that I am."
At that Kyle frowned. "Then you admit it, you're evil."
King Ghidorah smiled with Miki's mouth and laughed with her voice. "Am I evil? Yes, yes I am. Let all that hear this know my words and know fear! I was spawned by a pact the Space Hunters struck with he who is the Prince of Darkness and the Father of Lies, he who is the King of Evil. I was made to be their sword but I turned out to be their Sword of Damocles when I killed them all, every last one of them. I am evil, pure evil for I follow in the footsteps of those that refused Leviathan's command to kneel before the mewling race of men, that renounced the light of God to ally with the seven headed great red dragon! I'm not some wrym that merged his soul with that of a demon to thus be absolved of some blame. The demon made me do it! HA! Nor am I some weakling necromancer who delights in killing but says that it's not for the sake of evil but to 'avenge' some poor lost souls. Wretched, the most pathetic thing I ever heard."
It was then that Belvera groggily woke from her slumber and gasped in fear at what she saw. After checking to see that the Shield was still on her arm, she looked to her sisters on their aerial steed and nodded; they would combine all their energies to save Miki the moment they had the chance.
Miki's body then began pacing. "However, I am not above making deals, we can talk. I've looked through Miss Segeusa's mind and it is an interesting one with its psychic powers but not something that I hadn't seen before in my travels. An interesting thing I found is how much she loves you… and how she also loves Godzilla as well. Amazing, couldn't tell which one of you two she loved the most."
At that, Kyle felt his heart drop and stomach turn.
"Godzilla…" continued King Ghidorah. "I remember the first time I ever saw him. The Space Hunters had sent me to do battle on this Earth some 65,000,000 years ago to see just how strong I was. It was there that I saw the Supersaurs and learned that Titania, the Elias' mother, had prayed to Leviathan the Great Dragon to give rise to them. After killing both Gigantis and Anguirus and learning that they were created to do battle against me, I thought that perhaps I would find a victory here, greater than any to be expected. I admit to some level of combat but not a one was capable of satisfying me… Except for Godzilla.
He had a far away look on Miki's face. He sighed and spoke in a dreamy voice. "He was the only one ever worthy of facing me for he was the one warrior that dealt me my only defeat. In doing battle against me, he fought tooth and nail, he fought a war of annihilation." At that, the demon giggled. "But then of course the King of the Monsters ought to do so, how could he not after I killed his precious little mate… and their unborn son and his parents and his best friend and his pack and I just lose count of them all. Ha ha!"
On hearing such words, Kyle actually felt a trace of pity for his old enemy. Though he had heard that story before, he had never actually believed it just as for so long he had refused to believe that the kaiju were anything more than mindless animals. Could it be true? Was Godzilla actually able to feel some measure of love? It was with such thoughts that the demon spoke.
"Yes Kyle, my old enemy is capable of love. As I inhabit Miki's body, I have access to her powers and that, of course, includes her telepathy. That also means that I can see into your mind as well and see that you also call the King of the Monsters enemy. Would you care to join forces? We could work together and see him destroyed. Think of it, your brother avenged, the world rid of Godzilla's threat forever. Isn't that what you always wanted?"
Kyle frowned as he heard this. "'All this will I give you if you but fall down and worship me.'"
On hearing that, the evil one smiled and wagged Miki's finger. "Very good! You know the deceit and treachery of he who made me in his own image. But what of another deal, I leave this piece of meat in exchange for your soul? A high price but with how I'm trapped here…"
Kyle folded his arms and said, "As powerful as you are, I've got the feeling that you could leave her body and return to your own at anytime. I've also got the feeling you could even remote control your body, not to mention how I bet that you would never keep your word. With both your power and Miki's knowledge and abilities, who knows what you might be able to do?"
A genuinely surprised look came across Miki's face even as King Ghidorah made her face turn to the three upraised heads of his own body. With that, the evil one made his own heads and Miki's nod at each other. "Clever boy! No wonder Miki likes you."
At this, Kyle found himself without words and without thought; he just stood with a dry mouth and looked for words to say. Thinking to buy some time, he at last he tried to speak. "King Ghidorah, I… I know there is much we can learn from each other if we can negotiate a truce. Can there be a peace between us?"
"Peace?" At that he crossed Miki's arms and spat. With a nauseated look on her face he said "No peace."
"What is it that you want us to do?"
With red eyes glowing, the demon smiled. "Die…" Then the evil one held out his hand and began to slowly close it into a fist. As this happened, Kyle clutched his chest and began gasping; he fell to the ground and began screaming. "DIE!"
On seeing this, Hayashida and everyone else on the boat piled on top of Miki, beating her senseless yet it was not enough with King Ghidorah amplifying her strength tenfold. On the ground, she/he was kicking and screaming and sending the people there flying right and left, off the boat
and into the water. With that, Moll, Lora, and Belvera rushed to their aid and focused all their psychic strength against the demon. At this, King Ghidorah screamed his fury as the fairies cast a spell of exorcism. The monster's scream grew louder and the boat quaked but still the three sisters did not move.
Instead, they pulled out their swords in which their pendants of Courage, Wisdom, and Love were kept; Belvera was at the center pointing the enchanted blade at its target with her younger sisters placing their blades beside hers. All three chanted the holy incantation even as the eldest placed the Shield of their father atop the hilts of the blades. With that, a tremendous beam of energy shot out from their glowing blades and struck Miss Miki Segeusa.
When that happened, Miki began writhing madly as if she were having an epileptic seizure and electric bolts began shooting out from her body. The bolts left those they touched incapacitated and everyone withdrew. The three Elias pressed their attack and forced themselves to exert every ounce of their power until they began to sweat blood yet they would not yield. Then in one final surge of power they invoked the might of the Cross, the might of the Trinity, and poured into the tormented woman the power of Love, Wisdom, and Courage. With that, King Ghidorah gave one final cry before departing from them in an explosion of light and settling back on his body as a cloud of darkness.
At that King Ghidorah was once again what he was, the three-headed monster. Cockily, he got to his feet and, thinking that he taught the humans enough for one day, spread his wings and flew off into the sky.
Back on the Calico, every thing was in shambles. G-Force's last best hope was destroyed, even as it's best and brightest was at death's door. It had all been for nothing and it seemed that they were indeed helpless against King Ghidorah. As for Kyle himself, everyone on the boat surrounded him even as he cried, holding Miki's trembling form. She was barely conscious and was crying uncontrollably in Kyle's arms. Only God knew what she saw while in King Ghidorah's mind but what they did know was that her pale, bloodless skin was ice cold and that her lips were blue. (Kyle would later remind himself of how Dante's Inferno spoke of the last circle of Hell, where Lucifer holds court as he gnaws the skull of Judas, as being a place of ice.)
As he crouched down, cradling the woman he loved, Kyle whispered "Can you hear me Miki… We're going to make it. It's going to be all right."
At that Miki looked up at him as she sweat a cold sweat and she shook her head. "No Kyle. It's not going to be all right." She swallowed and said "I've seen his thoughts, I know what he's planning to do. He's a monster… He's raped whole solar systems to extinction, destroying everything and killing everyone. Every bit of suffering he causes just makes him stronger, every ounce of hatred gives him power. All the stories they've said about him being the killer of all that live are true… and we're next."