Epilogue
It was with that black day, that King Ghidorah left America to its own devices and continued his rampage elsewhere. The US was sick, cold, and starving; it bordered on collapse and could easily go that way with how the Swarm still looted and killed even with the Prince of Skyllans having abdicated his role as Swarm Lord. As for President Emmerich, this American Caligula boasted of how he had refused to bow before the three-headed monster and had instead stayed in the capital to spit in his face. Nobody believed that it happened as he said it did and the little scheme did little to enhance his popularity.
As for the rest of the world, it didn't fare much better.
Now, more than ever, the promise of final victory that Secretary General Santos gave at the dawn of the Monster Wars seemed ever more distance. Everywhere, mass stampedes of refugees ran without order and without goal because everywhere, nation after nation was wiped from the face of the Earth. Looting, riots, kaiju attack, starvation, disease, all these compounded the misery King Ghidorah wrought upon the entire Earth. In Israel, a people that had fought a war of survival the day after their new Promised Land was born valiantly fought to the last man but to no avail as Masada fell again. In India, the few remaining government officials met in a railway station even as an exodus of people left for the imagined safety of the Himalayas. In Mongolia, the capital of Ulan Bator collapsed entirely, leaving the people to flee to the countryside and be ruled by warlords unseen since the days of Genghis Kahn.
Fear and misery and despair gripped the world and it seemed as if it really was the end. In darkened corners and back alleys, what little of them remained with world wide city destruction, rumors began circulating of nuclear weapons and of a top-secret Black Hole Gun along with rumors of nuclear winter and of Earth being sucked into galactic oblivion. With the natural disasters and famines and epidemics that accompanied the global destruction caused by King Ghidorah either scenario seemed preferable. In fact, human civilization seemed to border on collapse even as it seemed that the human race itself would go extinct in a single lifetime.
However, some people said that that wasn't going to happen because it already had. To be in a place of despair and of suffering, to be in place of torment and of torture, was this not proof that their worst nightmares were confirmed? Yes there were people who not only said that they were already dead, but that they were in Hell, that they'd all died and gone to Hell. However, the people that said that were wrong. That was because Hell can't get worse and with King Ghidorah on Earth, things were going to get much worse.