Author's Notes: Howdy, folks! Here we are, episode 6 at last! Not much new stuff to report on my end, unless you want to hear about some of the new ideas I've had pop into my noggin for the past month or so. Just to warn you, they're not about Godzilla. For one thing, I actually got through the new TMNT series "Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" last month I believe, and when I got to the movie, MAN things went into overdrive! So, now I've got something planned for that. I also rediscovered "Jem and the Holograms" and came up with this brilliant idea of having Baltia, an OC character who is part of The Scoobidinis and their Extended Orchestra, be a part of Jerrica/Jem's family. However, this new story also features a chapter of some rather dark stuff concerning one of the female Scoobidini band members and its effects on her son and her brother. But she does have their support and the support of her friends, old and new, so she'll be OK. And because of listening to "Stayin' Together" by Shane Sutton while writing up a review for a chapter in DJ Rodriguez's 2nd Annual Disney/Toho kaiju Music Video Awards special while I was on a TMNT kick, I've got a 1987 TMNT/Jetsons crossover in the making! Of course, whether or not I'll finish it will depend on things.

Well, I think I've run my mouth off enough, so let's get down to business.

Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of the 1978-79 Hanna-Barbera series Godzilla: The Original Animated Series, Hanna-Barbera does, or should I say Warner Bros. does. This incarnation of Godzilla is owned by H-B and Toho. The only character I own is Vicky, my self-insert. I also do not own the story that is based on the sixth episode of this cartoon series. Also, anything in bold when a kaiju character is speaking/thinking means that they are speaking/thinking in their native language.

Oh, one more thing: I am using Spanish words and phrases in here, the translations for which I'll put up at the end. Now, I have taken Spanish classes up until high school, but I am by no means fluent, so if I goofed up somewhere, please let me know.

Recap: In his travels with the Calico crew, Godzilla has faced many opponents, including Biollante herself in Hong Kong, a firebird in the Aleutian islands, an Eartheater in San Francisco, a sand-sphinx and two stone lion guardians in Egypt (each on separate occasions), three Megavolt Monsters in the Bali Trench, and now a Seaweed Monster in the Sargasso Sea. Every one of these battles has either been a win or a draw. And in each place, people have voiced their divided opinions on this budding Guardian, saying either that he is a defender or that he is still like his predecessors, just under some sort of hold by the Calico crew.

Now something is about to happen that may very well tilt the balance of this ongoing argument…

CHAPTER 1

Sundance Mesa Dam Control, 20:05 hours

The sun was low in the sky at Sundance Mesa, its rays no longer strong enough to provide energy for the Solar Energy Collector to absorb. The two men in charge, Aaron Nellik and Arthur Martin, noticed this and decided that it was time for their special machine to call it a day.

"Well, I think the sun's given us all the energy we're going to get today, Martin," the ash-brown haired man in the orange jacket told his colleague, a medium-brown haired man wearing a light-blue lab coat and dark brown pants.

"The rest is up to Big Silty," Martin said, referring to the local river that ran through Sundance Mesa and helped the generators provide power to homes in Mesa City some miles away when the sun went down for the day. "Ready to open the flood gates?" he asked.

"Ready," Nelik confirmed, his hand on the lever that operated the floodgates.

Once another check was made and Martin gave his co-worker the OK, Nelik pulled the lever. Out at the Sundance Mesa Dam, the massive gates lifted and gallons upon gallons of water came rushing through and the mighty turbines situated in a building nearby at the top hummed to life.

"Dam's taking the full load now," Nelik noted as one of the many needles on the walls of computers and levers began moving towards the right at a steady pace.

Suddenly, the steady hum of the machinery was overtaken by a loud roar that sounded like a rocket was going to land in their laps. Thankfully, the object impacted a few miles away from the control building and luckily missed the Solar Energy Collector altogether. Needless to say, it took a while to get some of the workers calmed down.

"What was that?!" Martin exclaimed, seeing a bright, pulsating light from the window of the control room right at the area where the object crashed.

"Almost sounded like an aircraft," one young worker with short, golden hair and emerald eyes commented. "But I've never heard of one that glowed when it hit the ground."

"I noticed something that looked like a shooting star in the sky before the impact," said another co-worker.

"But if it hit the ground, it's not a shooting star," said a female worker who had the same golden-colored hair as the first worker who had spoken, but had it in a ponytail and had chocolate-brown eyes.

"You're right on that, Agnes," Nelik stated. "It's a meteorite; a big one. And not far away."

"All right, everybody stay put," Martin instructed to the other technicians. "Nelik and I will check this out."

However, as soon as the two men were out of the room, a curious, slim, golden-haired shadow followed them out. And she was followed by another golden-haired figure.

"Agnes, are you crazy?! You could get yourself fired!" the young man whispered after he caught up with the young girl.

"Aw, but hermano, I want to see the meteorite!" Agnes said.

"I think we can live without seeing it."

Agnes rolled her eyes at her brother. "Where's your sense of adventure, Alan?"

"If I had one, I wouldn't be out here in the desert working in an internship with my twin sister," Alan responded.

"Oh? Where would you be then? Working for some Titan-hunting organization like MONARCH or that other one in Japan? Pardon my English, but no way, Jose!" Agnes retorted, apparently having some things to say about MONARCH and the GDF, and not all of them good.

Now it was Alan's turn to roll his eyes. "Don't you think you're carrying on this childhood hero worship of the Titans for a bit too long?" he asked.

"Not all of them are bad, Alan," Agnes argued back. "Remember Mothra?"

Alan nodded, saying that he did remember.

"And remember Mama and Papa told us about King Caesar and that giant turtle…um, ¿cómo se llamaba? Oh! Gamera, yes!"

Alan kept nodding, a patient smile on his face as his younger twin sister listed the Titans that she liked, excitement on her face. It was times like these that Alan wondered if his sister was in the right line of work.

"And then there were those two dinosaurs; you know, the four-legged one with spikes and the flying one?"

"Anguirus and Rodan?"

"Si! Yes! And then there's Godzilla. Ah, now there's a fighter and protector! He saved San Francisco and that island that a creature made of seaweed was attacking! Oh, tan fuerte, tan real, como un rey!"

"Santa Maria, mi hermana, you talk about Godzilla like he's a superhero," Alan sighed, a patient smile on his face.

"Well, considering all the reports we've been hearing, he certainly sounds like one to many people."

The fraternal twins jumped as they realized that they had been caught.

"Buen trabajo, fangirl," Alan muttered to his sister, ignoring the glare he received. "Lo siento, señors; my sister, she…she was curious," he explained to his superiors.

"Well, it was only a matter of time before somebody tried to find out for themselves," Nelik pointed out to Martin, who just sighed.

"All right. If you two really want to help, grab a flashlight. Alan, grab a Geiger counter. And above all you two, be careful and keep any of our findings between the four of us for the time being. Understood?" Martin asked.

The golden-haired twins nodded. Once the necessary supplies had been gathered, the quartet was on their way.

To say that the two young interns and the two experienced workers were surprised at the site of the meteorite crash was an understatement. The area was still smoking, but as the group carefully scoped out the impact crater, which looked more like a sheer drop than a furrow, their flashlights could just barely make out a jagged line at the bottom, but no space rock.

"Dios Mio, look at the size of this hole!" Agnes exclaimed, glad that there had been no-one in the area at the time.

"I'll say," Martin agreed. "That must have been some meteor."

"You getting anything, Alan?" Nelik asked the young man.

"…No," came the puzzled answer. "There's been nothing on the counter for the past hour."

"Maybe the counter is broken?" Agnes brought up.

"No, it's working perfectly," Nelik answered, looking at the readings himself.

"Then…maybe this is a special meteorite that doesn't have any radiation?" the young lady asked.

"Uh, I'm no expert on space, but I would think that anything coming from there and crashing here would be putting out some level of radiation," Alan answered.

"Only if they possess enough radioactive material in them," Nelik added. "Sometimes most meteorites have only trace amounts that are lost quickly and aren't dangerous. Looks like this may be one of the latter."

"Well, I've never heard of a meteorite crash site that had something like this," Martin spoke up just then.

"¿Qué es, señor?" Alan asked, quickly getting his answer along with the others when they looked to see two rows of strange, oval imprints in the sand that went from the edge of the hole/crater to two trees.

"I'm not sure, but they look like…like huge tracks leading from the crater…to that tree," Martin said, pointing his light at the tree on the right, as the trail had stopped there.

"Tracks?" Nelik asked, not quite believing that those imprints were as his co-worker said. "Well, perhaps they just look like tracks."

"Hm, maybe…" Martin trailed off as the quartet approached the two trees, the man probing the tall plant with his flashlight beam.

"Nothing here but a couple of old pine trees. Well, it's late; we'll get a better look in the morning once we find a decent break time," Nelik suggested.

"Right. Besides, I think we still have some people to see off their shift and greet the night crew," Martin added, remembering that they still had duties to attend to back at the dam control.

"We'll drop off the equipment and clock out," Alan offered as the men began turning back.

"Thanks, Alan," Martin said. "You and your sister get some rest."

"We will, sir. Gracias." It was then that the emerald-eyed man realized that the group was one short. After having a brief panic, Alan rolled his eyes, excused himself, and jogged back to the two trees.

Agnes was looking between both trees intently, her woman's intuition telling her that something was off. For one thing, she might not have been at Sundance Mesa long, but she had an eye for detail, and she knew that before now, there had only been one tree out here, and that was the one standing to her left. For another, she could have imagined it, but it felt like the other tree was cold. Not like Arctic-cold, but clammy cold. She was about to reach out and touch it when—

"¡¿Qué estás haciendo?!" Agnes whirled around to see her twin brother. "We're leaving, Agnes. ¡Vamos!"

"OK, OK, I'm coming," Agnes sighed, disappointed that trying to figure out this strange thing would have to wait.

Once the twins had caught up to the older men, the four of them made their way back to the dam control, where they would soon get ready to go home.

They're gone. Finally.

The tree began to pulse with light, the leaves starting to vanish, some of the branches retracting, dried bark becoming scales, and roots pulling themselves up and extending back. This process continued until finally the creature returned to its true form: A centipede-like being with fifteen legs on either side of its scaled, armored body, three sharp prongs on the end of a club-like tail, two snapping pincers in front of some sharp teeth, two large, malevolent red eyes and two antennae on top of its head.

That puny creature was about to find me out, and that really would have put a crimp in the plan. Thank goodness that other one came back and got it and thank goodness my master instilled some patience in me, the creature thought as it began moving across the rocks. I can't reveal myself until the time is right; that's when HE will show up…and then that's when the fun will really begin! Prepare yourselves, humans! You're about to see your "hero's" true colors!

Uh-oh… There he is, this Godzilla's first extraterrestrial opponent: the Energy Beast! And it looks like he's not just here for the sightseeing; he's here to do business for somebody. Wonder who.

Apologies for all the names starting with "A", I'm still trying to get into the swing of things and I kinda ended up picking four first names right off the bat. I did do some looking up on what the last name for the twins should be though, which will be revealed in…yeah, chapter 3.

Speaking of the twins, I was actually inspired by the character of Alan from the Hanna-Barbera cartoon "Josie and the Pussycats". Remember them? Yeah, been a long time for me, too. But yeah, I just thought Alan up based on that character, changed his eye color and gave him a Spanish-speaking ability, and then his twin sister followed right after. Don't worry, you'll learn more about them when the time comes, but for now, it looks like Agnes is quite a kaiju/Titan fan, mostly of the good ones, of course and is not too fond of the two big kaiju-based organizations. Meanwhile, Alan seems to just want a quiet job. Too bad this meteor landing just turned everything upside down.

And while we're on the subject of the meteor, I actually had to look up if meteors were radioactive, as, like Alan, I thought that they would be. Turns out I was only partially correct; some meteors are only radioactive if they have enough radioactive stuff like uranium in them. If not, then any radioactivity will not be as strong and not last long.

And then of course we meet the alien centipede with a mission. If you're already familiar with the original material, you can probably guess what that might be.

Now, before I say anything that may spoil the story, here's some questions:

If you were working at the Sundance Mesa Dam Control when the meteorite hit, would you follow Nelik and Martin like Agnes did or stay put?

What would you say to Agnes regarding her admiration of the Titans and her distrust in MONARCH and the GDF?

If you went to the site with the group, what observations would you make?

And, before I forget, translations:

Hermano: brother

¿Cómo se llamaba?: What was he called?

Tan fuerte, tan real, como un rey: So strong, so royal, like a king

Santa Maria: Saint Mary

Mi hermana: my sister

Buen trabajo: Good job

Lo siento, señors: I am sorry, sirs

Dios Mio: My God

¿Qué es, señor?: What is it, sir?

Gracias: Thank you

¡¿Qué estás haciendo?!: What are you doing?!

¡Vamos!: Come on!

Next time, the Calico crew arrives at Sundance Mesa where they're about to see a sight that they will never forget, and I'm not just talking about the dam itself!

Until then, please read and review. Thank you!