The Ultimate Plot Device II
"Destroy All Enemies!"
Conceived by Sho Tsuzuku and Sheo Darren on a boring day with too much booze at hand with Gouki within hearing range
Written by Sheo Darren under threat of death from Gouki for calling him by his bastardized Capcom USA name
Continued by Sheo Darren after years of hiatus following Gouki giving him an epic ass-whooping worthy of a three-movie deal with accompanying mega franchise (not to mention Kyugan's superb one-shot comic depiction of the original– thanks a lot, buddy!)
Chapter 07
Ultra Gouki
(a.k.a. Gouki and Ultraman versus Godzilla)
Disclaimer: I don't own Street Fighter, Evangelion, Godzilla and Ultraman.
Dedicated to GalaxyFalcon and Kyugan.
Special Observatory Deck, Tokyo Tower, Minato, Tokyo, Japan.
The Ikari family was enjoying their Sunday outing. Father Gendou bore eldest son Shinji up to the long-range viewer. Mother Yui held little Rei's hand.
"Wow, Dad! I can really see Mount Fuji from here! And is that the Photon Power Lab?"
Gendou chuckled.
"Hey, Dad, what's that?"
Curious as to what Shinji had seen, Gendou first lowered his son before peering through the viewer himself.
The ocean was frothing rabidly.
What?
Doom arose from the Pacific as the god of lizards walked the world anew.
The skyscraper-sized dinosaur marched into Tokyo. Its bulk crushed convoys and demolished buildings.
Armored plates lining its spine in a double row glowed. Its fanged maw spewed blue-white destruction. Everything touched by the beam vaporized.
The Japanese Self-Defense Force sallied to defend their homeland. Air Force fighters buzzed the monster. Army attack choppers and tanks engaged at close range. Infantry charged screaming.
They died quickly but bravely.
And the monster kept coming.
The Ikari family watched stoically as Tokyo burned and crumbled before them.
They had chosen to stay. The elevator had broken down in the stampede that followed. There was no way to escape their fate.
If this was the end, they wanted to go together, like a family.
Gendou and Shinji stood side by side. Yui crooned a lullaby to the sniffling Rei.
Maybe if the canceled Evangelions had been built, Gendou allowed himself to consider. But the disaster in Antarctica years ago ended that project like a period ends a sentence.
Perhaps this is for the best...
"I love you," he told his family.
"Gendou…"
"Dad…"
"Papa…"
The monster turned towards them.
Something whizzed outside. Startled, he blinked, and then tried to follow the black blur.
Faster than a speeding bullet, leaping tall buildings in a single bound, the blur landed on the monster's head. The resulting rolling thunder cracked the thick glass of the Special Observatory.
"What the!" Gendou exclaimed.
Gouki grinned.
This monster was different from the one he'd fought in New York. It not only survived a Misougi to its head, it was fighting mad instead of stone dead.
"Truly… you may yet to deserve the title 'Godzilla'…"
"(Look out, Gouki!)"
Iliya's magical warning was unnecessary. Gouki had already spotted the flaming asteroid from earlier.
Strange… it headed straight here as if it intended to land in this city…
He dodged out of the way, phasing through several buildings, leaving afterimages in his wake.
The asteroid dodged around the buildings and continued to follow him.
Provoked, Gouki confronted his stalker.
Greetings, Gouki, said the asteroid.
The Ansatsuken Master stopped just short of launching a Shun Goku Satsu. "Who are you?" he growled.
My name would translate to Hayata in your tongue. I come from the Land of Light in the M78 Nebula. I am the Chief of Space Garrison Milky Way Office. My mission is to protect the peoples of the universe from monsters like Gojira.
Unfortunately, the polluted atmosphere of your world hinders my power. To physically manifest on this world, I need a human host.
I need your help, Gouki. Let me lend you my power.
"I do not need your help," Gouki growled, "Or anyone's help. I will win this fight with my own bare hands."
Then let me at least bring you up to size, so to speak.
Tokyo trembled.
Gendou gaped at the titan that arose between his family and impending death.
The firestorm-maned human was just as big as Gojira. He wore a tattered black gi with the ideogram for Heaven burnt into its back.
The giant man shimmered as he took up a traditional karate stance. His foot stomp shook the shattered metropolis around them.
"HOOOHHH!!!"
"S-Superman?" Gendou whispered.
"No, Dad," Shinji exclaimed. "He's Ultraman!"
Far away, Keel Lorenz buried his face in his hands. "Whoever wins, Instrumentality loses…"