Chapter 8
Kaiju World War
And so, at the exact same time all around the world, the kaiju rose up from the earth. Without warning, sixteen giant monsters were set loose upon the world. Peculiarly, they all headed for the biggest and most populated cities.
As their homes burned, the people believed that they were witnessing the end times.
Some people expected the world's end to be in the form of nuclear war, or an asteroid, or natural disasters, but few expected an army of marching monsters.
The cost of the attack would be unimaginable. The damage, unrepairable. The combined armies of the world hardly stood a chance.
Not even the GFAAU was prepared to handle such an assault. However, it would not stop them from trying.
Manda, the Kamacuras, Anguirus, Rodan, the Caesars, Ebirah, Zilla, Kumonga, and Monster X were set onto the Earth. The cyborg Gigan also joined in, being teleported into the middle of Tokyo.
Mankind had driven away the only help that could have done anything. The tired, beaten, and still heartbroken Godzilla was resting on Infant Island.
Mothra, the old deity, was unsuitable for heavy combat and was resting as well.
Mankind was on their own. Their chances of success were extremely slim, just as planned.
It was a little after eight in the morning.
Vincent was in his lab with a few other of his assistants getting ready to run tests on the G-cells.
Then sirens went off again.
Vincent turned the television on. Several people, apparently frightened, were talking in boxes on the news.
From what Vincent would make out, it sounded like mass chaos had engulfed multiple parts of the world. Then the word "monsters" came up, multiple times. Everyone on the show seemed confused.
What really made Vincent's stomach sink was when the news feed rolling on the bottom of the screen began to list cities, a lot of cities, major cities all over the world.
One guest on the show mentioned the end of the world. At that moment, Vincent honestly believed it. The last city Vincent read was Tokyo.
The monster that had attacked Dubai had appeared in Tokyo.
Vincent was heading for the deeper part of the base for safety when saw a man in a Gotengo II engineer's uniform with a very familiar build. The mustache was a giveaway too.
Despite his efforts to cover his face with a cap, Gordon was discovered by his friend.
"Gordon?!" Vincent was surprised. "What are you doing?"
"Ah man! I didn't want you seein' me like this. I got on her, Vince! I signed up when we got here and passed all the tests! I'm an engineer on the Gotengo!"
"Do have any idea of what's going on? Every major city on Earth is attacked by these giant monsters! That ship doesn't stand a chance!" Vincent pleaded.
"Well, to be honest, I'm also hoppin' on the ship cuz' I thought it was safer than this hole," Gordon smirked. "Plus, I really wanna get out'a here."
"Damn it, Gordon," Vincent stressed. "Have you snapped?"
"Well, ya. But that's beside the point." Gordon winked and slapped Vincent on the back as he walked past him.
Gordon made his way to the Gotendo hanger.
His eyes widened as he saw the great airship gearing up. Restraint arms were being removed. Steam spewed out of vents along the hull. This was what he had been waiting for: a chance to serve on the Gotengo II. A part of him feared that one of the monsters could easily tear the ship apart if they got the chance, but he had faith in her.
"Men, this was a tough decision," Aso began as he stood before the fully suited up GFAAU. "But I made it having complete confidence in you all. The five of you are going to split up."
"We've got a bloody monster here in Tokyo!" Jason proclaimed. "Why don't we gang up on this one first?"
"The G-Force can handle Tokyo since our base is right here. Also, you'll have full backing and partial control of the respective nations' militaries," Aso answered.
Glenn lit up a cigarette. "You're splitting up the men you trained to function as a unit."
"Men..." Aso started. His voice changed. It went from its usual powerful and stern tone to a softer, more open and vulnerable tone. "I know this seems crazy. I know it seems like a suicide mission. But the entire world is engulfed in fear. Everything is plunging into chaos. We're all doing our parts. I need you to do yours."
"Fignya!" Anton cursed.
"You can count on us, Admiral," Glenn answered. "Where's our first stop?"
The Gotengo II revved up its engines in the hanger. It wasn't going to lift off out from the huge sliding doors in used to come in. For launching, the ship used a tunnel that led into Tokyo Bay. It would emerge outside the city to avoid any giant monsters and gain the advantage of ranged attacks first.
Andiral Aso was not piloting the Gotengo. He needed to remain at G-Force base and lead the global operation. He had put a different captain at the helm of the airship: Captain Emmerich. Emmeric was sent over from Germany to gain experience captioning an airship because Germany was working on it's own airship program.
"Are we set to go, XO?" Captain Emmerich called out.
"All set, captain!" the XO replied.
"Launch Gotengo!" Captain Emmerich ordered.
And with that, the Gotengo II began its run out of the long launch tunnel. Its jets burned white hot. Its drill spun faster and faster. Sliding doors slammed shut behind the ship. Then Sliding doors opened up in front of it. Water from Tokyo Bay came flooding in. The ship's drill aided in plowing through the rushing water as it left the tunnel and entered Tokyo Bay. Then it broke the surface and jetted away from the city.
Unfortunately, the cyborg Gigan had turned his raging red eye in the airship's direction. There was something different about his eye It looked brighter and redder. There were also what looked like huge cracks within it.
Gigan's red fins fanned out as he leapt into the air. He headed towards the ship.
"Captain! The cyborg monster is gaining on us!" a crew woman informed.
"Oh my god! We just got out of the hanger!" Emmerich complained. "Accelerate!"
The crew woman looked at her monitor. "Captain, the calculations show that it's impossible for us to out run the cyborg if it maintains its current velocity."
"Son of a…" The captain put his hand to his forehead in frustration.
Gordon was at a terminal behind the captain keeping track of engine temperatures. He did not trust this new captain.
"What kind of armaments do we have?" Captain Emmerich asked.
The crew didn't respond. It was a very unusual question coming from a captain. Emmerich knew nothing about what he was in charge of.
"The full metal missiles'll slow the bastard down," Gordon murmured.
The captain had heard Gordon. "Lock on and fire full metal missiles!" he ordered.
Six missiles shot out the sides of the ship with white streams of smoke behind them. They curved backwards and had Gigan dead in their sights. One pair almost hit the monster, but he ducked and they flew past him right between his fins. The next pair was not outsmarted by Gigan. They were about to hit, but both were destroyed by Gigan's laser. As Gigan flew through the cloud of flames made by the explosion, he was caught off guard by the last pair of full metal missiles. Gigan went from seven hundred miles per hour to zero in an instant. He plummeted and crashed into the bay below.
"Direct hit. Target neutralized." The crewwoman reported.
"Good. Now let's get to Seoul," said the captain, relieved.
Below, Gigan looked up at the escaping ship. He wanted to pursue it, but an order that echoes in his crazed head told him to stay in the city.
Gigan was not as he was in Dubai. The substance was in his blood and in his brain. He was not thinking straight, which was probably why he got hit by those missiles. The acidic like substance made him go mad. But to him, it was a good kind of mad. One could see it in his eye. What should have been a deep, smooth red looked like broken glass that was leaking blood. Gigan was not controlling his body, the substance was. Gigan felt it as numbness and power combined into a strange mixture.
Tanks and jets approached. Gigan heard them. He turned his head and saw a massive army that hungered for his blood. He would give them none.
With a leap and a wild flurry of blades and red lasers, Gigan began to wipe out the army.
Soon afterwards, the Gotengo was approaching the city of Seoul where the monster Ebirah was waging his assault.
"I'm sorry we couldn't be introduced under better circumstances," Captain Emmerich told the members of G-Force, "but I'm proud to be able to direct a fine group like yourselves."
None of the members of G-Force replied. They could sense something lacking in him, something Admiral Aso had.
"Well, then," the response made Emmerich feel awkward. "Mr. Ozaki… or, uh, Ozaki San? or Mr..., you'll be deployed shortly. Are you ready?"
"Yes, sir," Masahiro replied unenthusiastically.
"Good luck, soldier!" Emmerich said with a smile. Then he left.
The smile made everyone sick. Glenn could not understand how a man can send another man to his potential death while throwing that fake smile in his face. He knew that sending each of the members out by themselves was next to murder. He also knew that they had no other choice.
Glenn approached Masahiro. "Ozaki," he said as he placed a hand on the soldier's shoulder, "You got this."
"Thanks, Glenn," Masahiro said.
Glenn was surprised Masahiro had said anything. He patted him on the back again and left with the others.
Masahiro began to suit up. While he was putting on his gravity armor, he wished he had said more to Glenn. He doubted himself. He had trained endlessly in highly advanced simulators, practicing how to fight Godzilla, but he had never actually fought a monster before. The big moment was before him, however Godzilla was not his opponent, but another massive creature.
What was scaring him at that moment was the fact that his first fight against a monster, one he was unfamiliar with, was one he had to fight by himself. He had the Korean army, but he knew how easily these monsters could wipe out land and air units.
He picked up his maser gun as the bay door opened in front of him. It was a beautiful morning, he thought, aside from the pillars of smoke and clouds of dust coming from the city below.
The hanger door was open. The wind was wild. Masahiro took a breath and started running. With a powerful kick, he launched himself out of the ship.
He plummeted towards the city. He put his arms close to his body to fall even faster.
His gravity pack engaged and he landed hard. The ground cracked and a cloud of dust was kicked up.
The street was void of people. Masahiro was, however, bewildered to see all sorts of shellfish covering the entire street. He landed on a few and had to wipe crustacean chunks off his boots and onto a nearby curb.
The pests were everywhere. Masahiro then noticed that they were all gravitating towards him. One pinched his leg and he kicked it away.
Then he felt his objective approaching. The gigantic pitter-patter of eight legs could be felt coming from around the block.
He saw a giant claw leading the way of the sea monster Ebirah. Masahiro hopped on top of a car to avoid the monster's tiny minions. He equipped the heavy maser gun from his back.
With a burst from the maser, the agent got the monster's attention. The maser burst did not hurt Ebirah in the least. His thick exoskeleton protected him. Ebirah turned to see what had attacked him.
Masahiro fired another burst at the lobster's face.
This angered the sea monster. Ebirah charged.
Masahiro leapt high into the air, crushing the car beneath him. He landed on a building top and shot another round at his opponent.
Ebirah swung his big claw into the building.
As the roof fell out from under the agent's feet, he jumped to the building top across the street. He fired a continuous bolt as he was in midair.
Ebirah blocked the bolt with his big claw.
Masahiro continued to fire on Ebirah hoping that he would break though his claw. It wasn't happening. The maser was overheating.
When Ebirah felt the maser stop firing, he lowered his claw. Then the mammoth lobsteroid leapt up and stood on his four hind legs. He was face to face with Masahiro.
Masahiro saw a fibrous area on the underside of Ebirah's head. They looked like his gills. Whatever the area was, Masahiro saw his weak point. He fired.
Ebirah shrieked and reeled back in pain. He lost balance and fell on his side, crushing all the buildings on the other side of the street.
Masahiro saw his chance to end the fight then and there. He wanted to get close in order to deal more damage. Landing on the street, he had the finishing shot lined up. He fired.
Ebirah shrieked in agony while he flailed around.
Masahiro had not counted on Ebirah's crazed flailing. The beast's big claw came from the side and hit Masahiro. The powerful blow sent him flying as well as making him drop his maser gun. He flew a few hundred feet and through the window of an office building. His body went through several cubicle walls before finally stopping. Masahiro blacked out.
He came back to his senses a moment later to see Ebirah's thinner claw coming towards him. It plunged into the building like a knife through butter. He quickly got to his feet and tried to back up, but hit a wall. The slender, partly opened claw wedged past desks and cubicle walls. The claw then plunged through the wall behind Masahiro. He looked down to see that his right leg was in between the pincers. He had no weapon. His eyes widened at the realization of how much trouble he was was.
The claw closed.
Masahiro let loose a bloodcurdling scream. He lost balance and fell over. While he screamed in pain and agony, Ebirah waved his claw left and right, destroying the floor of the building.
The monster retracted his claw when he was struck in the head with an explosive shell. The South Korean military was beginning their assault.
Masahiro was alive, barely. The blow from Ebirah's big claw caused internal bleeding and the other claw had completely severed his leg. He was losing a lot of blood fast. He knew he was going to die. He knew he had failed.
Then he blacked out.
The Gotengo hovered over Beijing.
Glenn was ready.
"Why do you get two wankas to yourself?!" Jason exclaimed.
"Because I've been known to handle two before," replied Glenn with a devilish grin. He checked his gun. "You did say you wanted a monster head over your mantle. Maybe I'll lend one to you."
"I can get my own, thank you very much!" Jason huffed.
The bay door opened. Glenn had wondered how Masahiro had felt just before jumping out by himself. He knew at the moment. He was scared, but his years of service had toughened him up enough to not let his fear show. He looked out over the city then looked back at Jason. "I'm sorry, Jason."
"Sorry for what?" Jason asked.
"I'm sorry you're such a bitch." Glenn joked. He leaped backward out of the ship while giving Jason two prominent middle fingers.
"Back at you, you bloody yank!" Jason yelled. He was not sure if Glenn had heard him. He had hoped he did. He really didn't want Glenn to get away with thinking he had gotten in the last word. He more so didn't want that to be their last word.
Glenn descended as masahiro had; plummeting, reaching terminal velocity. The wind chill whipped at his cheeks.
He landed on a tall rooftop with a crash.
People were still running through the streets. They seemed unsure what to do or where to go. An explosion was heard to the east. He kicked his gravity pack into high gear and raced towards it.
In a few miles, Glenn saw a bus run through an intersection going much faster than any city bus should. Then he saw what it was running from. The massive canine-lion King Caesar looked like it was playfully chasing the bus. He was hopping on all fours with his tail in the air like a dog.
Glenn jumped down to the intersection to see the monster's behind. He put two fingers in his mouth and demandingly whistled two times.
King Caesar's floppy ears pointed up in attention. He turned around. His glowing red eyes attempted to pierce Glenn.
Glenn stood strong. "Here boy!" he yelled as he aimed his maser gun at the beast.
Caesar roared as his mane swayed. He charged towards Glenn.
Glenn still did not move. "You're being a bad boy!" he said as he lined up his shot.
Caesar did not stop either. It was a battle for dominance; to see who would back down.
Just before Caesar was about to pounce, Glenn fired away. He hit the beast in the face. Caesar leapt over Glenn and tumbled behind him, taking out half of a city block. Glenn walked forward and continued firing off his maser into the downed beast as it moaned and yelped.
Then Glenn heard the sound of devastation coming from behind him. He turned around the see the other beast, Queen Caesar, charging for him. She was much faster than her mate. Glenn barely had enough time to leap away in time.
The queen's paw got a little too close for comfort. He landed a few hundred feet away.
The king had recuperated. The two beasts snarled at Glenn.
"I'll catch you two later," Glenn said as he winked at the Caesars. He then jetted off. He was not going to try and wrangle up both monsters at the same time. He had a backup plan. He was off to gather all the military personnel he could find.