IV
Inferno
Yuki sat in the cockpit of the SuperX-3 waiting. The SuperX would lead the combined air assault on the incoming Gyaos.
"thirty minutes to contact." General Voloth's voice came over the radio. The plan was to let the Gyaos get in close and then rip them to shreds with an air assault. Yuki had no problem with this. He had face many Kaiju in his life from Godzilla, to Destroyah he was not afraid. He checked his controls again. All was fine as usual. Then a blip appeared on his radar screen. He looked at it.
"Probably just a news chopper." He sighed and turned back to his preparations. The radar beeped again he looked to find several more blips had entered their airspace. He pulled up a visual form the many hull mounted cameras. His eyes widened. "Damn, they set us up!" He clicked his mike. "Attention I'm tracking a small assault force of Gyaos that are coming from the south." He prepped the boosters and took off. "This is Yuki all planes get off the ground now!" He yelled as he rose into the sky arming weapons.
"Belay that!" Voloth's voice snapped. "Colonial you have no clearance to take off." Yuki's hands flew across the keyboard sending images of the oncoming surprise attack.
"There's my clearance you Russian prick." He growled banking the aircraft to face the attackers. By now the Gyaos group was closer several planes and helicopters had seen the strike force and prepared to take off. The Gyaos struck, not the flying group approaching from the south, but a group that had crawled from the west. Gold beams of sonic energy lanced through the defenseless aircraft from the tree line. Explosions rippled through the air field. Yuki gasped at the destruction wrought by the monster's sneak attack. He banked towards the tree line and fired a salvo of missiles. Explosions uprooted trees and burnt the brush. The cries of the dying Gyaos could be heard through the armored hull of the SuperX. Assured that at least one threat was taken care of Yuki turned his attention to the Gyaos approaching from the south.
"Colonial, the swarm has speeded up and will reach us in ten minutes, get every aircraft in air now!" Voloth demanded.
"We're a little busy.' Yuki growled as his twin avenger cannons literally ripped the oncoming Gyaos apart. When the last threat was gone Yuki allowed himself to breath. "Sound off. How many planes we got left?"
"We lost about a third of our forces sir." A pilot replied. "Half of the remaining craft a damaged and can't fly."
Yuki cursed at this news. "Get all planes that can fly in the air now!" He ordered and banked against this time heading for the front line.
Asagi and Mayumi stopped to rest on a fallen support beam. Ayana and Moribe found a broken boulder and stat on it. Ayana leaned on Moribe's shoulder. He put his arm around her. Asagi smiled. At least some good has come from this terrible situation. She thought watching the two. Mayumi looked at her watch.
"We'll rest for five minutes then we need to get out of here before the Gyaos show up." She stated through clinched teeth. Asagi put a hand on her friend's arm to give her support.
"We will get through this." She assured the older woman.
"But how?" Mayumi replied.
"Through faith." Came a new voice. The group turned to see a woman walking through the wreckage. "My name is Miki Saegusa and with your help I can save Gamera." The woman said.
"How do you intend to save Gamera?" Ayana asked. The woman walked forward to Mayumi's side. She produced a red gem on a circlet of silver.
"First I take care of you." She smiled and placed on hand on Mayumi's swollen ankle and in the other she clutched the pendant. Miki closed her eyes and focused. Her body began to glow with light. The group watched as the light flared where Miki touched Mayumi and then faded. Miki stood back up.
"Try to walk." She said. Mayumi obeyed and stood up. She gasped in surprise.
"I can stand, there's no pain." He smiled. "How?" Asagi asked Miki. Miki smiled and touched Asagi's arm. Immediately they were transported to another place. Asagi found herself in a cave with bright paintings on the wall. "Where are we?" She asked looking in wonder around the room.
"This is Infant Island." Miki began. "We are not really her, but this is where I brought you when we linked minds."
"Linked minds?" Asagi asked.
"Yes. I was born a psychic, and you were given the gift when you linked with Gamera."
"Linked?" Asagi looked confused. Miki smiled.
"Yes, through the stone."
"But the stone was destroyed nearly a year ago." Asagi explained. "Since then Gamera has become more and more violent."
"Yes he has. You have the power still within you and I can help you reach Gamera and perhaps together we can save this world." Miki smiled and held out her hand. "Will you help me?"
Asagi paused then gripped Miki's hand. "I will."
It was a massacre at the front line. The Gyaos had snuck attack groups in on all sides of the defenses. Yuki watched in horror as the remaining carrier covered in Gyaos that had attacked from the water was destroyed by a salvo of Typhoon Devastator missiles. Six of the eight Ajax tanks were burning along the shore. The Remaining ground forces backed up to protect the missile pods. The giant Maser Battery glowed green and fired its deadly weapon vaporizing several Gyaos. Yuki trained his cannons on the nearest of the avian horrors and fired. Two black jets resembling pterodactyls dropped from the clouds and began to tear through the Gyaos with cannons and a glowing blade on each wing. Yuki smiled impressed by the Storm Sworders. He nodded his head in respect then returned to his grim work not noticing the dark shape on the horizon.
Gamera stood among the inferno that blazed in Kyoto. He drew the flames to him and began to store up power for the fight he new would be his last. His suicidal crusade against the Gyaos had brought him to his death battle. He took solace in the fact that he would die with honor. As the still raging tempest began to douse the fires overtaking the city Gamera waited his eyes on the northern sky.
The group began to move back the way they came. Miki led the way as if guided by some unnatural force.
"Did anyone link with the other monster?" Miki asked as she moved through the ruble.
"I did." Ayana said in a small voice.
"I thought so can you here this?" Ayana stumbled backwards surprised.
"I'll take that as a yes." Miki smiled and continued to move on. "Ayana, you like Asagi have psychic powers from your link with the monsters."
"I'm psychic?" Ayana gasped.
"Yes and if we make it out of this I'll teach out how to hone your new powers till their like mine.
The pandemonium that was the battle field north of Kyoto was shattered as the ground began to quake. Yuki risked a glance at the cracking earth wondering what new horror rose up against them. Megalon burst form the ground with a roar. His drills still spinning he fired a bolt from his cranial horn. The Gyaos attempted to escape but was caught and enveloped in fire. Megalon roared again and began firing into the cloud of Gyaos. The Gyaos fought back their beams scoring his armor. He opened his mouth and fired a ball. The ball flew into the swirling Gyaos and exploded. Yuki smiled finally they had gotten a break. He continued to fire and burn Gyaos from the sky.
Infernos watched the devastation from a distance. These humans were quite ingenious in their war against his brood, but like the Atlantians they would fail. He relayed orders to deal with the massive gun tanks first then the fighters. The ground began to shake as Megalon returned to the fray. Infernos growled the mechanical beast was beginning to annoy him. Megalon burned through his brood weakening their numbers. Infernos racked his mind trying to find a way to bring an end to the ancient avenger. A green bolt from the Maser Battery flashed by. Infernos smiled and reached out with his mind.
The three man team in charge of the Maser Battery were working as hard as they could to burn the Gyaos from the sky and trying not to be killed. The armed guards outside the control box had already been picked off by the Gyaos and the four tanks that surrounded the Battery were no more than burning wrecks. As the Gyaos swooped in close the commander pulled his pistol from his holster and moved towards the door. He turned to the gunner.
"What ever happens keep firing." He ordered and stepped outside. Gunshots rang out followed by a scream then silence. The gunner began to shake as the fear over took him. He felt a hand on his shoulder. The gunner jumped and screamed only to find the commander smiling down at him. The gunner sighed.
"Oh commander, I thought you were dead."
"Don't worry, now target the new monster." The commander spoke in a slow calm almost hollow voice.
"But isn't it helping us by killing the Gyaos?" The gunner asked confused. The commander smiled and shook his head.
"After it finishes the Gyaos it will turn on us. If we attack now the Gyaos can be finished up by our forces." He spoke. The gunner still didn't think it was right but he was the commander so he targeted Megalon.
Megalon swung his drill arms around turning every Gyaos they touched into bloody pulp. He burnt many more with his horn and napalm bombs. He was just about to fire his horn ray again when a green beam burst though his chest. Megalon looked down at the hole as the entire Gyaos swarm dive-bombed the ailing machine. They pealed off at the last second and Infernos himself floated down and ripped Megalon's head off and threw it into the Maser Battery. The explosion hid Infernos' escape to safety as the Gyaos returned to their butchering of the defense forces.
Still following Mothra Godzilla made landfall in Japan. He stomped through the forests following the giant insect that enraged him. Mothra was surprised by Godzilla's single mindedness, but continued towards Kyoto none the less. As the giant moth goddess floated on in the purple night sky two small object flew near her. Moll, and Lora on a fairy Mothra, and Belvera on the dragon beast Garu-Garu. The twin Elias were busy talking strategy with Mothra Belvera drifted back and opened her mind.
Godzilla felt a strange presence in his mind not unlike the young woman from his youth. The presence shifted through his memories and those he still carried from his father. Godzilla roared as he was forced to relive both lives the good and bad then the presence left. Belvera frowned at what she saw.
"The humans are worse than we were." She muttered having glimpsed the holocaust that was Godzilla's life. Belvera also felt a dark presence in the north east. She probed the darkness she felt and shrank back. "Death Ghidorah." She whispered the ancient demon's name. She probed deeper trying to find out where the beast was and if he was a danger to Mothra.
Belvera was in darkness she could see nothing. Oblivion that could be the only way to describe where she was. No light, sound, wind, just a vast nothingness.
"Welcome to my prison fairy how do you fancy it?" A dark sick voice called out through the darkness.
"Who are you?" Belvera called her voice shaking from fear. The voice laughed a dark sickening sound.
"You don't know me fairy, but you knew my brother very well." The voice hissed. Three sets of blood red eyes shone in the darkness. Belvera held out her hand and uttered a few words in a ancient tongue forgotten long ago on this world. A sphere of light formed in her hand, illuminating the room. She gasped as she looked upon the dark form of Death Ghidorah. The monsters three demonic heads laughed as she recognized him. Belvera called to her sisters in both voice in telepathy but there was no reply.
"You waste your time witch. I am blocking your connection to you beloved sisters." He laughed again clearly enjoying Belvera's panic. "Now you're mine." The blackness rushed up and enveloped her. Belvera felt her body, mind, and spirit being filled with the darkness. "With you has my new body I will destroy this world."Death Ghidorah hissed. As the darkness took her Belvera called for Mothra. A bright light blasted the darkness away and Belvera found herself back on Garu-Garu Her sisters looked at her.
"Are you okay?" Lora asked. Belvera shook herself.
"I'm fine." She growled looking to the north east and shivering. "We should quicken the pace." She stated and flew on. Moll watched after her sister fearing that indeed something was wrong but they had no time to deal with it now. She urged Fairy on and soon they were keeping stride with Garu-Garu and Mothra, Godzilla close on their heels.