Chapter Eleven: Colossus
/Los Angeles Outskirts, October 11th, 2029…
"Let me introduce you two idiots to a personal friend of mine." Jackie smirked to the Marsh twins as she hefted the huge sniper rifle again. "The Ironhorn Twenty-Millimetre AMR. I've never been too big a fan of guns, but once you've fired this thing, it gives you a different outlook on life." Maz raised his eyebrows. "Huh. Impressive."
At that moment, a group of military vehicles pulled up from around a nearby street corner. Four Humvees and a large truck. The door on the lead Humvee opened and Colonel Jefferson got out and approached the group. "Director Storm, good to see you." He greeted Dianna. "Colonel Jefferson, We have to get to San Francisco now. There isn't much time." She replied. Jefferson nodded. "Alright, Director Storm, you two," he looked to Max and Maz. "Get in the truck. We're leaving." Jefferson then turned to Zack, Angel and Jackie. "We need you in one of the Humvees at the front."
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Climbing into the truck, Dianna looked up and saw for other people already inside. They weren't military, definitely civilian. There was a man in his mid-forties sat next to a boy in his late teens and a young girl. The final person was lain out on a stretcher in the centre of the truck, she was clearly injured. As she sat down next to the group, Dianna jumped as she recognised the injured woman. It was Vice President Rachel Cage, and those around her were her family. "Dianna…" Cage smiled. "How's things?" She asked. "Mrs Vice President? What happened?" Dianna asked in response with concern.
"We were heading to NORAD," Rachel's husband Leon answered. "When our pilot took a detour to LA because we were low on fuel. We were just about to land when a MUTO clipped the wing and we went down." Rachel tried to sit up, winced in pain and lay back down. "I'm fine, really." She coughed before Leon could ask if she was.
The convoy began to move as Dianna watched the handful of Humvees follow behind them. The sudden movement made Rachel groan in pain. "Its' alright, honey." Leon said, comforting her. "We're moving. We're gonna get you to a doctor."
"How long is this drive gonna be!?" Max shouted, banging on the drivers' cab. "A couple of hours, sir." The driver responded calmly as they rounded a corner onto the main road. Max childishly slumped back into his seat, crossing his arms. "Great." He muttered. "What's eating you?" Maz asked. "You look grumpier than the time I uploaded that video of you trying to jump the ditch on your bike to Facebook."
"Can you two please just SHUT UP!" Leon barked, restraining himself from lunging at the two brothers, who quickly fell silent, eyes wide with fright as they tried to look innocent. "Leon, calm down." Rachel said quietly. "You're going to give me a headache. That's' the last thing I need right now." She looked to Max and Maz. "Sorry about that." The Vice President smiled. "Looks' like its' going to be a long ride. I'm going to need some rest, so can you just keep it down a tiny bit, please?"
….
The William Stenz had docked in a port a few miles south of San Francisco, reorganising its forces as it regrouped with other military forces. As the huge Aircraft Carrier refuelled, the dock was being guarded by a pair of Destroyer Warships; the Forest Sherman and the Bingo. Hunter and Rosa stood on the bridge of the craft as its' crew darted about as they worked. "How did you end up here on the Stenz?" Hunter asked. "I was leading an expedition on the Bonin Islands with a few fellow scientists at the time of the attack. Unaware of the danger, when we left the island by helicopter, we stumbled across the William Stenz which was miles off of its' patrol route and we instantly knew something was wrong. They signalled us down to land and we disembarked. I was already a good friend of Commander Ellsworth."
"Ah, so things were relatively simple?" Hunter asked. "Yeah, kind of." She replied, nodding. "Do you know where Captain Pravdin went?" She asked, looking around to find that the pilot was missing. Leaning closer to the window, Hunter looked down at the flight deck to see Levi helping deck hands work on the Varan. "He's down there." Hunter pointed. "Kinda funny how he was picked to fly the prototype aircraft that his girlfriend designed." The man smirked, scratching his beard. "Oh, I understand." Rosa replied. "Guess it's who you know, right?" the woman smiled.
Suddenly, the bridge was alive with commotion as crew began to become more worried and active. "What's happening?" Hunter asked the nearest man to walk past. "We've just picked up the signal of six or seven MUTOs heading right for us. Everyone's on alert." The man responded before darting off to his station. Commander Ellsworth was on the bridge in an instant. "Everyone at their stations!" He barked. "We have confirmed MUTOs are converging on the port as we speak. I want to knock the bastards on their arses when they get here. To do that, we'll need everyone and everything ready."
The first MUTO appeared on the horizon, landing no far from the docks as it cackled into the sky. As the local military forces engaged, a second appeared, knocking over a cargo crane as it launched up from underwater. Within minutes, the port was surrounded by MUTOs as fighter jets arced between them and gun barrels lit up.
Levi was already in the air in the Varan, flying along with a squadron of fighters. "Alright, Raven One. What's the order?" He asked into his mic. "We need to protect the Carrier until it can undock." Raven One responded. "Prioritise flying targets. Ignore the ground ones."
"Roger. Good luck." Levi replied, firing up the engines of the Varan. The squadron split up, their flight formation opening outwards as each plane headed on its' own path. Along with two F-55s, the Varan shot across the port as it unloaded on a nearby MUTO, the crafts' missiles detached from the underside of its' wings and rocketed off on target. The MUTO was blasted back over as the barrage of missiles struck the creature. As it fell, the MUTO roared in defeat as it hit the water, causing a huge wave as it sank. "Yeah! How'd ya like that?!" Levi whooped as the Varan flew over the scene.
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"This is Captain Barkley of the Forest Sherman!" A voice shouted over the comms. "There's something beneath us, Commander. Its' big!" Taking his eyes of the aerial battle overhead, Ellsworth walked across the bridge to another window where he could see the two destroyers at the mouth of the small port. A large dark shape began to move beneath the craft, rising out of the water. The massive shape's wake rolled the Forest Sherman over, sinking it as the Bingo was trapped on the top of the massive creature. Sliding off, the warship groaned and screeched as it impacted the nearby dock, crumpling and exploding as its' bow struck the hard concrete. The gigantic monster was now in full view now, standing in the harbour as the last of the water rained off of it.
The creature was truly massive, at least somewhere around five hundred feet tall. The creature resembled Godzilla, though with the trademark chitinous armor and blue pigments of a MUTO. Its' huge arms bared long clawed hands as a second, smaller pair of arms, unfolded from its' chest. Its' head resembled that of a Hammerhead Shark, though the elongations of its' skull were much thicker, curving forward like horns. The monsters' eyes were just above its' upper lip, four tiny blue dots that rolled in their sockets as it looked around as a huge, spiked tail whipped around behind the creature.
Colossus raised his massive head to the sky and roared. The long, bone chilling howl rippled the waters around the beast as everyone nearby threw their hands over their ears. At that moment, all of the MUTOs stopped what they were doing, turning to their master, bowing their insect-like heads. Colossus began to advance into the harbour, its' huge footfalls sending waves crashing against the dock, throwing the William Stenz side to side in the chaos.
"All hands! Brace!" Ellsworth roared, gripping a nearby rail as another wave struck the side of the carrier. Hunter was knocked off of his feet, landing hard. Groaning with pain, the man slowly picked himself up, rising to his knees as another wave struck. Grabbing onto a nearby console, Hunter yelped in shock as he was almost thrown across the bridge. Looking out of the window, he saw jets, helicopters and terrified deck hands slamming into each other as they slid off the deck of the Carrier into the water.
Colossus was no more than a few hundred yards from the Aircraft Carrier, grinning evilly as it looked down on the tiny, trapped ship. On the shore near the ship, a handful of tanks began to open fire on the creature, which growled in response, spinning as its' tail thrashed in the air. The massive tail struck the ground where the tanks were, flattening them as she shockwave flipped over several other vehicles nearby, the supports of a nearby building shattered and the structure crumbled.
Ellsworth could hear the bleeping of the ships' radar and looked across to the screen. Practically on top of them was Colossus' gigantic signal, along with the handful of MUTOs nearby, but there was another signal. A large one which rapidly approached them from out to sea. Looking out of the nearby window, Ellsworth could see the dark shape swimming through the water as huge, jagged spikes broke the surface, cutting through the water like the fins of a shark. At the mouth of the harbour the spikes stopped dead for a moment before the monster slowly rose from the water. "Thank God!" The man exclaimed as he saw the beast slowly emerge from the water. "He's here…"
SKREEONGK
So thats' my new villain, Colossus. (Sorry fans of Attack on Titan and Shadow of the Colossus, this guys' not related to either) For inspiration, I looked at Scunner from Pacific Rim and the Kraken from 2010s' Clash of the Titans.
Well, 11 chapters in and only just introducing the Big G. That has to be a new record for Godzilla stories on this site.
When writing, I really wanted to make him feel big, and so I listened to a bunch of epic villain themes whilst writing to help me out. Probably one of the more fitting ones was "The Darkest Day" from ID4 Ost
Check it out here to listen to what I'm on about:
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