I got a lot done over thanksgiving, so here's another chapter!

Gaiion pounded the desk in front of him. "No!" he cried. "It's not possible! How could Megalon be defeated!

This time, I really smiled. "I tried to warn you…" I teased.

Gaiion didn't answer. For a long time, eerie silence filled the room. On the screen, Godzilla walked away, his footsteps breaking the silence like rumbling thunder. Eventually, the noise died down.

Gaiion spoke ominously soft. "Get… them… out" he whispered.

The guards turned around and began to push the rest out of the entrance. But Goro shrugged them off. "We can figure it out ourselves" he said, walking out towards the golden circle without any help, going down back towards the crystal room. I snorted. Typical Goro.

Soon, everyone on the team was gone except for me. "Akira…" Gaiion called from behind me. I turned around, surprised he knew my name.

Gaiion smiled. "Don't be surprised that we know about you. We've been monitoring you. We even know about that little incident this morning." I stared at him, wide-eyed, as he continued.

Gaiion took a few steps closer to me. "Why do you still help them?" he asked, near-innocently.

I looked off into space for a while, thinking for an answer, and acting I wasn't going to say anything. But eventually, my mouth opened. Before I could stop myself, sound became to pour out of my mouth. There was no turning back now.

"I… I don't know. I'm completely torn. I love… I had loved someone, but now she's gone. I almost thought she could replace her… but now that I know Kazuko was in that fucking secret I…"

I couldn't bring myself to say more. My throat felt swollen up, making it hard to breathe and painful to swallow. Gaiion might have smiled, but I wasn't sure, because I was looking down on the ground. I heard his shoes step across the floor. "Tell me, what was the girl's name?"

The way he asked slightly scared me. The way he spoke the words sounded like he was trying to hide something. I kept fighting against the swelling in my throat, pushing out air and pulling in tears. "Erika" I whispered. "Erika Shiragami."

Gaiion sighed. "Oh yes, we know a lot about her. But you know what? I think I can help you with that problem."

"When did you ever care about helping me?" I spat.

Gaiion sighed again, sadness filling his voice. "Well, we just want to show you how to make the right choice. Erika had secrets, also. She wasn't even who an American girl, or a full Japanese girl. She was part abomination. All we care about is helping the earth. We don't want to kill you humans. We've been here all this time Akira."

As Gaiion was talking, I glanced up slightly past my messed up hair, only lifting my eyes up, so I could see his expression. He was smiling.

"Stop lying!" I shouted. My fist aimed straight for his head, clenched in fury. He ducked, backing away. At least five guards rushed towards me, but I swiftly reached for my holster, taking out the gun I had, and arming myself. The charge stopped.

I felt like I was completely frozen except for my mouth. "It's always lies. Secrets. Alliances. You think you're so cunning, when in reality no one can be trusted, even with your supreme secrecy. You want my help? I don't give a shit."

I turned around and stormed out of the room. As I turned out towards the golden circle, I gripped the gun so hard that it fired at the ceiling, making a loud bang as Gaiion and his guards disappeared from sight.

"It's your death sentence" Gaiion hissed.

I walked down the large tunnel, my anger blinding me even more in the darkness. The air left and entered my lungs in huge breaths, but I had no luck in calming me down. I was sure the rest of the group had left.

I stopped for a second at the end of the tunnel. Was this how I was going to live? Lonely, and in the dark? I had to trust someone.

I walked out of the tunnel; beginning up the stairs that seemed to go on forever There was a railing on the side that I hadn't noticed before. After a while of climbing and thinking, I stopped and looked over the side.

Was life really supposed to be like this? What if people were always supposed to live in the wild, live on their own, and trusting nothing? However… this is now. What am I thinking going on like this? What's even running through my head now?

SCREEE! I jumped to the side as something charge towards me. I flattened to the ground as the large, hideous thing barreled over me. I quickly stood up to face the hideous form of Meganulon.

The insect opened its ugly jaws wide, pink mandibles and organs clicking around inside. Before I knew it, something large as pink like a rope shot out from its mouth. I ducked again as it shot past me, sharp claws clicking on the railing.

In terror, I fired a round form my gun, blasting the tongue-thing in half. The Meganulon shrieked, staggering back against part of the railing. As the metal began to fight, I fired four more rounds into the Meganulon. The insect kept recoiling, the railing kept creaking. On the final round I fired, the Meganulon's shriek became louder as the section of the railing snapped.

As it flipped over the side of the stairs, I could see the snapped back impaling its side. The hideous worm flipped out of sight. The scariest thing wasn't its shriek, but when the noise was cut off and replaced by a dull, echoing thud on the ground. I winced, covering my eyes from the mess below.

Above me, there was another Meganulon shriek. How many of those damn things did we release? I thought suddenly, racing up the stairs.

When my legs burned like fire and my muscles ached, I finally peeked over the top of the stairs. There were shrieks outside, but there was no view of anything. I loaded my gun, and clicked it slowly as I stepped silently towards the small opening of the building.

My foot froze before it touched the ground as I heard soft plinks above my head. It looked up, but there was nothing in the darkness in the building by the roof. It crept slowly forward again.

BANG! My gun fired another round as something rammed me in my gut. I was blasted back, pulling the trigger and firing the gun. I felt like the wind was everywhere but inside me as my side crashed against the ground.

I held my hands up to my head, expecting a Meganulon to rip my head off. When nothing happed, I looked up to see the dead body of a Meganulon hanging over the entrance, a blue, bloody hole leaking from where its eye was. The huge worm fell limp from the ceiling and didn't twitch.

I quickly ran out the entrance, leaping over the body of the thing and not stopping until I was sure the thing was unmoving.

Gasping and heaving, I turned around from the empty plain that face Mount Fuji and back to Under-Tokyo.

My eyes opened in surprise and I stood up straighter as I saw a swarm of at least 10 meganulon block the entrance to the city. They gathered around something by the entrance, growling and shrieking at something. There was a bang, and shrieking, a Meganulon fell onto the ground, dead. For a second, I thought my ears picked out the sound of Goro's voice.

I ran forward, getting my gun ready. The only thing I could pick up was vibrating. All the sounds and shrieks filled my ears and made it hard for me to distinguish sound. I jumped suddenly as I neared, my already tried legs relaxing as the wind supported them.

I landed on the back of the nearest Meganulon, my gun already ready. My legs weren't expecting the impact, and they buckled under the weight of my body. I slipped against the rough armor of the Meganulon, and I hit the ground, covering my head as the meganulon charged over me in a blind rampage. As the worm passed over me, I managed to fire my gun, blasting a bullet through the worm's body. As it shrieked, blood and guts blinded me, getting into my eyes and the smell getting to my nose.

My mouth tasted like acid and my eyeballs felt like they were on fire. I wiped the now-steaming blood from my eyes, bending over in pain. As my eyes strained to open, something latched onto my arm, claws piercing my skin. I screamed as I fell over, a Meganulon dragging me closer and tearing at my body.

I hit the ground, and as my head snapped back up again, I saw Kazuko, a bladed meganulon leg sticking right through her right shoulder. Hayato was bending over, blood oozing from his leg.

Acid overwhelmed my eyes and dust flung into my mouth as my senses went back into darkness.

Gaiion's words echoed in my mind: "It's your death sentence."

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