Meet a real King of Monsters

by GojiraRWBYSW18

He was a monster. Even among monsters, he was the most dangerous creature on the planet. After sixty-eight years, he's finally gone. In battle, the King of Monsters is hit with a devastating new weapon. While the Nations of the world celebrate, what they don't know that they've sent the Atomic Kaiju to parallel dimension. Well, sort of. "Something is rising." "Someone powerful."

4. Chapter 3: Godzilla vs the Empire 1

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LORD DESTRYUK-You may be right about the fight against the Zillo Beast but don't forget about Shin Godzilla and Snow Godzilla. Plus, they won't be the final boss. As for the vision, it was a bit of a prophecy what will happen in the coming chapters. As for what's going to be happening back at Earth? That will be answered in the sequel or near the end.

Title says it all for the chapter.

Now, do any of you remember the T-Rex rampage in San Diego in The Lost World: Jurassic Park? 1997, I believe?

Do you recall a certain part of the scene where you see a couple of Japanese men running among the crowd?

The elder says in Japanese that he moved away from Tokyo to get away from this!

And Spielberg had said that he had some inspiration from Godzilla. . . so. . . you see where I'm going with this?

Chapter 3: Godzilla vs the Empire Round 1

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The Kingdom of Atlas, Atlas Academy

Roughly 6 hours later. . .

The news trickled in slowly due to one of the communication towers down and was difficult to process at first. But it wasn't long until it became clearer. That Animan Airfield 01 had been virtually annihilated. The cause was a new Kaiju that seemed to be related to the Queen of Monsters. It had destroyed the main bulk of their air power and took out a handful of elite Fire and Earth Benders along with one of the Communication Towers.

The loss of an estimated 75% of their air-based assets planet side was one thing but the destruction of the Communication Tower was the reason why the news took so long to come through. It had taken them forever to salvage appropriate holo-footage of the attack. What General Ironwood and the rest of the assembled Chief Staff saw of it was terrifying.

The Kaiju did bear some resemblance to the Kaiju Girl but more animalistic and less human. Perhaps a gender differentiation for the species. He certainly matched the female Godzilla's infamous ferocity, or even surpassed it. What was truly off putting was his weapons. There was the Atomic Breath. It seemed much more powerful than the female's and the pulse it had unleashed. Ironwood instantly knew that it was electromagnetic in some fashion when he brought the TIEs down. It had a limited range however, otherwise it would have taken out the base's power. The real concern was what else the Kaiju was capable of.

They had received these scattered reports from various Stormtroopers who had survived the attack and regrouped at the nearby outposts. It wasn't much to go on, the footage was in poor quality but it was enough to discern the events and it was admittedly disturbing. This new Kaiju had assaulted an Imperial base and been able to bulldoze through it without a scratch.

Then there was that roar. It wasn't easy to describe but unique. None of the Kaiju Girls sounded like so save for perhaps the Queen. It seemed to sound like a battle cry. A defiant angry call, daring its enemies to face it. And told them that they will die when you did.

Darth Vader was in the room with them, watching the footage as it came in. As was Megatron, Princess Azula and Shredder. Ironwood had done his best to not look at them, especially Darth Vader, but failed. The black mask may have not shown emotions, but the Atlassian General could tell that Vader was not pleased. The same with Shredder while Megatron and Azula were scowling. Specialist Schnee did her best to look attentive like Ironwood but Overseer Schnee didn't even seem to put any effort. The man was sweating profusely, holding his hand to his mouth in shock. And it became worse when he opened his fat stupid mouth.

"This is unprecedented!" he shouted in fright. "No Kaiju like this exists on Remnant! We have nothing of it on record! How did we miss this? How?!"

"It's possible this Kaiju was dormant for the seven years the Empire's been here," Doctor Serizawa spoke thoughtfully. "Perhaps a Dust mining operation or a deep sea Grimm hunt had awakened it from its hibernation."

"And now that it's done napping it has decided to hunt us down for its breakfast!" Jacques screeched frightfully. "We. . . we need to act! We need to stop it somehow! General, I order you to find a way to kill that thing!"

Ironwood rolled his eyes in response. As if he needs to be told how to do his job.

"We don't have to consider that," Dr. Serizawa said. "I can have Ms. Saegusa contact the Kaiju Girls. They can bring this Kaiju to Monster Island."

Little did he know, the Kaiju Girls already met the new Kaiju. First impressions were great. Just great.

That was me being a sarcastic narrator.

"Regardless, I've ordered all Field Commanders to be on guard." Ironwood explained. "You may contact Ms. Saegusa, Dr. Serizawa but my men will be ready for anything should this Kaiju be aggressive. Specialist Schnee will send this holo-footage to them."

"It's already done, sir." Winter assured. "Hopefully, the destruction of the Animan Imperial Communication Tower will not slow the transmission down. I'll contacted a Huntsman I know and trust that can track the Kaiju's movements as well as probe droids. We will not be caught off guard again. I have gone ahead and designated the male Kaiju as Alpha Predator One, per protocol. Threat level: Dragon."

While the threat level was concerning, at least they wouldn't have to refer to it as "the male Godzilla." This did nothing for Jacques' cowardice. He kept clutching his head and pacing in the room in a fright.

"Oh, this is terrible." he stated in dread. "Absolutely terrible! We need to send out everything we have! Throw them all at this Alpha Predator! Maybe even send the prototype to-!"

"No." Darth Vader finally spoke up, turning away from the footage. "I will not allow you to jeopardize the only Zillo-Beast you have managed to properly clone and outfit. You are in no position to make such decisions regarding the prototype's use."

"My Lord, I was only-" Jacques protested before being cut off by Princess Azula. "Displaying behavior unbecoming of a man of your station." she glared at the older man.

"If you wish to retain any authority and prestige you believe you've earned than you will keep your mouth shut." Shredder said coldly.

Jacques stopped talking, something that gave Ironwood and Winter great relief and a small sense of joy. None of them showed it though, not wanting to invoke Vader's or any of their anger onto themselves by accident. But, despite how stupid he sounded, there was some truth in his panicked words.

"Lord Vader, I think it would be wise if we considered our available forces," Ironwood spoke astutely. "With the loss of the majority of our planet-based air power, the ineffectiveness of our weapons, we should consider some form of reinforcement."

"That may indeed be necessary," Vader admitted. "My apprentice and I will see to the matter of reinforcement personally." He gestures to Princess Azula. "However, General, the task of eliminating this Alpha Predator is your responsibility. Keep that in mind."

"Well, how about we contact the Hero Association?" Winter suggested. "We wouldn't be wasting resources. Besides most of them have dealt with giant monsters that have always popped up like this. They could just send a S-Class Hero or two. Like King or one of the Seven like Queen Maeve or Homelander."

"Perhaps." Azula mused. Megatron turned to Dr. Serizawa. "You're the leading scientist who studies these Kaiju, what do you know of this new one?"

"Without sufficient data, I can only look back to my notes on the female Godzilla." Serizawa replied. "At the moment, I only have theories."

Megatron looked ready to say something, but Darth Vader held a hand up to him. "Very well, Doctor. While the other scientists complete the Zillo-Beasts for testing, you will study this new Kaiju for potential weaknesses to exploit should the Kaiju Girls fail to bring it to Monster Island and it continues to be hostile to us."

The Kaiju scientist seemed reluctant but nodded his head. "Yes, Lord Vader. As you wish."

"Shredder, see to that the Seven and the Hero Association are notified of this new potential threat." Vader said to Shredder. The Sith Lord turns to Ironwood. "Should Alpha Predator One continue to be hostile and Dr. Serizawa has found a weakness, see to either its capture to bring to Monster Island or its swift destruction. Nothing must be allowed to jeopardize this project now."

With that, Vader left the room followed by Princess Azula and Shredder while Megatron left out another route.

Winter and Dr. Serizawa excused themselves and then Jacques felt like talking again.

"Is there really a way to kill this thing?" he asked Ironwood who wished he just left. "It seems nearly indestructible."

"There are few beings that truly indestructible, Jacq." Ironwood assured, recalling how Ozpin had him and others believe that about Salem before the Empire came and defeated her. "Now I suggest you keep your concerns towards completing the prototype. I will handle this Kaiju personally, rest assured of that."

As the Overseer left, and Ironwood looked to the Kaiju's holo-footage though, he wondered if it was Jacques or himself he was reassuring. This Kaiju wasn't a Grimm or a group terrorist like the White Fang. This was something he and his men had never been up against. He just hoped whatever backup Vader and Azula acquired would arrive soon, before the fate of Animan Airfield became Atlas's.

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Monster Island

Five hours later. . .

When Godzilla woke up, her head was ringing as if she was having an hangover from Soma berry juice. "Fuck. . ." she muttered under her breath, holding her head.

"You alright, Mommy?" A ten-year-old Kaiju Girl asked concerned while an infant Kaiju Girl sat on the ground.

"I've been better, Junior." Godzilla said dismissively.

"You sure? Mothra said you, Gamera and King Kong had your asses handed to you on a platter," A seventeen-year-old Kaiju Girl said from the door of the room.

"Hey, watch the language around Minilla, Athena." Godzilla scolded lightly. Then she grimaced. "But Mothra isn't wrong." she slumped against the bed.

"And that it was a male Kaiju like us that did it?" Junior asked. Godzilla nodded. "Not exactly like us, but yes. He seemed more animalistic, even more compared to my mother."

"So, like me when you found me?" Athena asked. Godzilla shook her head. "Nah, you were a teenage girl waking up in the middle of a human city. Lost and scared. This guy, he wasn't, just angry and he knew what he was doing. Tough guy too."

"Yeah, Queen Kong said he tanked a hit to the head with the Axe." Junior nodded.

Godzilla nodded her head again with a huff. She vividly remembered the male Kaiju's pissed off look as he walked out of the smoke. The blow to his head did nothing. A part of her felt some respect for that level of power. She frowned as she recalled his words before getting beat into the ground and tossed around like a sack of potatoes.

"Peace has costed your strength. Victory has defeated you."

She looked at her hands. Was that what happened? Did she become complacent with the peace achieved after the victory over the invading Kaiju aliens?

Knock. Knock.

Mothra peeked in the doorway behind Athena. "Oh, good. You're awake." she said chirpily. "Miki is flying in." she informed. Godzilla nodded and sat up on the bed before she lifted the blanket off her body and stood up. Minilla smiled and crawled over to her. Godzilla smiled down at her and picked her up.

A helicopter landed on a platform that was close to Godzilla's level of height and out stepped Miki Saegusa. "Greetings, Mothra and Godzilla!" she waved to the mentioned Kaiju Girls and spoke telepathically to them. Speaking telepathically was easier than trying to raise her voice or use a microphone.

"Hello, Miki." both Godzilla and Mothra greeted. Minilla smiled and waved her hand at Miki. The psychic smiled and waved in return. "Hello, Minilla. Wow, you're bigger than the last time I saw you!" she turns to the infant's mother. "As she learned to speak?" she asked.

"No, but she has tapped into her Atomic Breath," Godzilla answered in a proud tone. As if on cue, Minilla belched out small sparks of Atomic Breath making the human and the Kaiju Girls to coo at her.

"So, what brings you here, Miki?" Mothra asked. Miki cleared her throat. "An Imperial base was attacked by a new Kaiju." she informed. "A male of your species, Godzilla."

"We've met," Godzilla growled. Miki rose an eyebrow and turned to Mothra. "We've arrived at the base shortly after he had destroyed the base. Queen Kong had already engaged him in a fight before we arrived." the Moth Kaiju Girl informed.

"He didn't want to come to Monster Island," Godzilla added. "Seemed really pissed at the mention that we live in peace with the humans. When it came down to a fight, nothing we did hurt him." Granted, they didn't have a chance to do anything. The male seemed to react and counter them before they could react

"Oh, I see." Miki said. "Is everyone alright?"

"Nothing too bad." Mothra replied. "Rodan and Anguirus just have a concussion as does Queen Cesar. Gamora has a crack in her shell. King and Queen Kong have a few cracked ribs." she listed. "Gamera was knocked unconscious and Godzilla here was thrown across a mountain range 6 miles away."

"Wow, that's impressive," Miki said while Godzilla grumbled. "Biollante and I were the only ones that weren't seriously harmed." Mothra added.

"Oh. Well then," Miki responded. "I guess this is where the Empire handles the situation."

"What do they plan to do?" Mothra asked.

"I don't really know," Miki shrugged. "I have heard from Dr. Serizawa though that they will contact either Vought International or the Hero Association. By then, General Ironwood would have a plan to counteract who they dubbed Alpha Predator One."

"Alpha Predator?" Godzilla repeated. "He's tough, but I wouldn't really call him Alpha."

"He did defeat you though," Mothra pointed out. Godzilla glared at her. "It's true and you know it."

"Maybe we could try to talk to him," Junior supplied gesturing to her older sister. "I mean, you guys didn't really try the kid-friendly approach."

Godzilla opened her mouth to protest but Mothra said, "She's got a point. We were more like, Come with us or be destroyed. And that's not really kid-friendly."

"Great, we'll bring Minilla." Athena stated.

"Wait, what?" both Godzilla, Mothra and Miki exclaimed. "Why would you want to bring your little sister?!"

"Because what's more friendlier than a cute baby Kaiju?" Athena said, holding up Minilla who giggled. Godzilla looked at her hands and back at Athena. How did she grab the infant without her noticing?

Mothra shrugged. "Can't really argue with that," she said.

Godzilla sighed, glancing up to the sky briefly. "Fine, but he so much as growls at you, I want you to get away as soon as possible."

"Girl scouts honor," Both Junior and Athena said, holding two fingers up. Minilla babbled and tried to copy their hand gesture but held up three fingers instead of two.

Miki chuckled before turning back to the adult Kaiju Girls. "Do you know where he came from?" she asked.

"We didn't really ask," Godzilla said a little sheepish. "He's not from around here though," Mothra replied. "Like an alien, but at the same time. . . not."

---

The Ghost crew arrived at a secret White Fang base and were greeted by Sienna's second in command. Adam Taurus. The two Faunus shook hands. "It's been a long time, High Leader." The Bull Faunus said. He nods to Hakoda. "Chief Hakoda. Welcome home."

"It's great to see you too, Adam." Sienna replied with a small smile. She turns to the four mutant turtles and five humans. "Ah, so these are the Ninja Turtles I've heard so much about."

The four turtles bowed in greeting. "High Leader Khan. I'm Leonardo. These are my brothers." The blue masked turtle said. "Raphael. Donatello and Michelangelo." He gestures to the red masked and the purple and orange ones.

"This is April O'Neil and Casey Jones." Leonardo gestures to the red haired woman and black haired man with a hockey stick. The other humans stepped forward.

"Jack Darby." The older teen introduced.

"Miko." The girl with a pink streak gave a two finger salute. "And I'm Raff." the young boy with spiky brown hair and glasses said.

"Hey, nice rides," Sabine said, looking to the vehicles parked nearby. Suddenly, Adam looked sheepish. "Oh, right. I forgot." He cleared his throat. "It's all clear, Prime." he called to the red semi truck.

Instead of people coming out of the vehicles, the vehicles themselves began to transform into tall robots.

"Okay, did not see that coming," Zeb said with wide eyes. Chopper let out some warbled beeps and wheeled to the robots. The yellow looked down at the small astromech and beeped in response. Chopper beeped and bleeped and the two began to converse in beeps and bleeps.

"I am Optimus Prime," the tallest of the robots introduced in a powerful baritone voice. "Leader of the Autobots. We are autonomous organisms from the planet Cybertron." he then gestures to the red and beige Autobot. "Our medical officer Ratchet." Then to the yellow one. "Our scout Bumblebee." The short blue one. "Arcee." And the big green one. "And this is Bulkhead."

"Well, it's certainly nice to meet you all." Hera stated. "I'm Hera Syndulla. This is Kannan Jarrus. His Padawan, Ezra Bridger. Sabine Wren. Zeb." she gestures to Chopper. "The old bucket with a foul mouth is Chopper."

"That's one way to put it," Raff said, giving the astromech a sideways glance. Miko rose an eyebrow. "What did he say?" she asked.

"Words that would get me in trouble with my mom, even if the lingo is alien," Raff replied.

"Anyway," Hera said. "We need to get in contact with Fulcrum. There's been a wrinkle in the plan."

---

"A Kaiju?" Ahsoka repeated in astonishment through their holo-transmission. "A Kaiju stomped out of the woods and helped you burn down the Imperial base?"

"That's the short of it." Hera replied with a shrug. "To be honest, it did most of the work."

Rex was heard groaning in frustration out of view. "Why does everything have to be more complicated than it should?"

Hera and Kannan knew that they needed to inform Ahsoka about the appearance of the new Kaiju as Sienna and Hakoda said. It wasn't all bad news. The objectives regarding the airbase were reached and the Rebels' air support would have more free reign when they arrive. The problem was now that they would have to deal with the Empire ad possibly the new Kaiju when the Rebels landed here.

"Maybe we should just let Mr. Grumpy Scaly continue his rampage and call off the mission," Zeb suggested. "Chances are he'll do all our work for us."

"And leave destroying the Zillo Beast cloning lab and its research up to a rogue overgrown lizard?" Kannan asked rhetorically before shaking his head. "No, too risky. The Empire could kill him before he even gets to Atlas. It'd be leaving the mission to chance."

"Kannan is right." Ahsoka spoke in agreement. "This mission is too important to leave in the hands of a rogue chaotic element like this."

"Perhaps we can use it to our advantage." Rex spoke up. "The Empire will be out for the Kaiju now and probably send the bulk of their forces after it. That should give you guys a better chance at taking over the Orbital Gun."

"Maybe, but the Empire will also beef up their defenses in preparation to either defend or attack the Kaiju." Hera warned. "This Kaiju may simultaneously eat up and increase the forces we have to face in the assault."

Ahsoka nodded her head in acknowledgement but offered a counter. "There's still a window of opportunity we can exploit before those reinforcements arrive." she explained. "This could make getting down to the planet easier for us, if nothing else. If you can get the Orbital Gun down in that time frame, it will give us a greater chance to blow past the blockade surrounding the planet."

"We won't have long," Sabine said. "Average time for Imperial Reinforcement is pretty quick when called in. If we want to exploit this window we should do it soon."

"We'll recon the Orbital Gun and see what we're up against." Kannan said. "Hopefully that thing is as far away as possible from it."

"Our own forces will be in position soon." Ahsoka informed. "You need to get that gun on our side or we're not landing on the planet period. Keep an eye out for this Kaiju regardless. If it continues attacking Imperial installations for our mission. Other than that, steer clear of it. You're too valuable to the operation to go off monster hunting. Good luck. Fulcrum out." With that, Ahsoka's image faded.

"I sense Ahsoka may be right." Kannan said as they looked at each other. "That Kaiju isn't going to stop at the airbase. It's probably preparing for its next assault already."

"But this time, the Empire will be ready for it." Hera replied, crossing her arms. "I don't really envy getting in the middle of that kind of fight."

Kannan agreed with that. He's fine with the Empire and this new Kaiju destroying each other. It would their mission easier. But there was something about the Kaiju that made Kannan pause. Something that Hera seemed to pick up on.

"Can you sense anything from this Kaiju?" Hera asked. "What does it want, if anything?"

"I'm not sure," Kannan admitted. "It reminds me of the Zillo-Beast footage we saw. Directed, focused, not random. I felt something from it when I first saw it. Very faint, anger. . . a lot of it."

Sabine turned to Ezra. "Did you sense the same?" she asked. "Yeah, I felt it too," the boy agreed, rubbing his head. "I think it wanted to fight actually. The fact it opened fire on the Imperials first suggests as much."

"A troubling aspect," Optimus mused. "Animals don't seek battles on their own accord often."

"The attack suggests that this Kaiju has some level of sentience despite its more animalistic appearance compared to the other Kaiju," Ratchet added.

"If this Kaiju is intelligent, we shouldn't underestimate it," Leonardo says to the gathered Rebels. "Based on what you've said, it's powerful. If it's smart, that just makes it more dangerous."

"Well, it's a good thing we don't have to deal with it then," Zeb reminded them. "It's after the Bucketheads, not us."

"For now," Adam stated. "What are the chances it gets bored and comes after us instead?"

"Like Ahsoka said, we should keep an eye on it." Hera proclaimed. "Try to find out more about, maybe. Where it came from, why it's attacking the Empire."

Kannan suddenly realized something. "The Empire just lost a Communications Tower," he said abruptly. "They would want to keep an eye out for the Kaiju, make sure it doesn't sneak up on them."

Ezra caught on with what his master was saying. "A probe droid could keep an eye on it." he said slowly.

"The giant lizard probably won't even notice something that small," Sabine stated.

"We'll find a probe droid, disable it and reprogram it to spy on the Empire for us." Zeb declared.

"Booyakasha," Mikey said happily. "We get to see some monster action."

"And a way for us to steal the Orbital Gun," Arcee added.

"Chopper can easily rewire the Imp droid." Hera stated.

"The tricky part is making sure we disable it before it spots us or transmits anything that could give us away," Hakoda said.

"Tricky, but not impossible," Kannan assured. "I got a plan. All it requires is waiting for the Empire, droids included to distracted by another Kaiju attack."

"And if what we saw earlier this morning is any indication," Sienna spoke up. "Our big grey friend is probably already itching for another scrap."

---

5 hours later, 125 miles somewhere off the coast of Menagerie.

Godzilla rose out of the waves and stepped towards the island. He closed his eyes, atomic energy seeping out of his spores like steam. Slowly but surely, his body began to shrink as he got closer and closer to the shore.

He didn't like shrinking but he knew it was useful to hide from technology for a short time.

He flexed his shoulders as he stepped on shore. He paused as he sniffed the air. He detected a few familiar scents nearby. He walked towards the tree line and into the jungle. Before long, he came across a sight he had not seen in a long time.

Dinosaurs. Not mutated like Gorosaurus, Titanosaurus or the Devil Dinosaur nor evolved like those from Skull Island. Dinosaurs as they were 65 million years ago.

Godzilla stared wide eyed until he noticed a dinosaur had walked to him. A female Tyrannosaurus Rex. Who didn't seem happy that he was here. But then again, what else is new.

Godzilla took time to observe her. She had small but noticeable scars on her neck from old battles. She growled. Demanding, inquiring, curious, questioning presence.

Why is a Kaiju here in Jurassic Park? she was asking. Godzilla rose an eyebrow. Jurassic Park. . . sounded like some name humans would make up. Why did it sound like a movie he had watched back on Earth when he had turned human? He shook himself out of his thoughts.

I'm just merely resting. He replied with a grumble and swung his tail to the side.

The T-Rex snorted. You could rest on Monster Island. Isla Nublar and La Cinco Muertos belongs to the Dinosaurs. Godzilla rose an eyebrow at that. Behind him, someone was flying towards Godzilla at high speeds.

(And here comes Genos, acting like Adam Warlock.)

Suddenly Godzilla was bombarded with numerous blasts of plasma. He cried out in surprise, the T-Rex jumped back and the dinosaurs nearby ran away at the disturbance. When he opened his eyes and the smoke clear, Godzilla saw a human cyborg aiming its open palm at his right eye with a blank emotion.

"Incinerate," Genos, aka Demon Cyborg declared before blasting Godzilla in the face at point blank range. Godzilla spun around and Tail Whipped the cyborg away to the nearby river. The cyborg bounced across the surface and slammed into the river bed on the other side.

Godzilla rubbed his eye. That felt close to Iron Man's repulsor blasts. He looked down to Genos who rose to his feet. Godzilla closed his eyes and slowly but surely his body began to change. Most of his scales were replaced by human skin and clothes expanded over his legs and torso. His reptilian snout shrunk down to a human face and black hair grew on his head.

Godzilla had shrunk again to a human size and he sees the human cyborg bearing an expression of surprise.

"What? Haven't seen a Kaiju-Human hybrid?" Godzilla asked, spreading his arms out.

"Apologies," the cyborg stated. "I have met the Kaiju Girls before. Your other appearance gave the impression that you could not transform."

"I thought so too, back home." Godzilla replied, looking at one of his hands before glancing to his tail.

"Back home? Are you implying that. . . you are not from Remnant?" Genos asked.

Godzilla rose an eyebrow. Remnant, really? Then again, there's a planet called Apokolips and another named Ego, so this sounds better. "Yes, I am not from this world. I doubt I'm from this universe." he replied.

"I see and you want to return?" Genos asked.

". . . No." Godzilla replied. "Earth is no longer my home. The people have made that very clear the moment they attacked me and hit me with a black hole."

"What? A black hole?" Genos repeated before Godzilla appeared in front of him and falcon punched him in the chest, sending the cyborg flying into the jungle.

Godzilla turned to the T-Rex. "You should probably leave." he stated before being pelted by laser fire. He watches the Rex leave before he turns where Genos was firing. "Let me show what real fire power is, Cyborg." Godzilla growled, his dorsal spines glowing and his eye glowing yellow before he fired his Atomic Breath towards Genos.

Cyborg Demon took off and began flying in a circle around Godzilla and shooting at him with laser blasts and missiles. The King of Monsters stopped firing and then abruptly Thunder Clapped. The shockwave put out potential fires and sent Genos flying to the cliffside of a canyon. Godzilla ran over to his place in the bedrock and began to deliver heavy blows to the cyborg, pushing the half machine deeper into the rock and cracking the canyon wall.

"You were almost formidable, Cyborg," Godzilla says as he rips off Genos' right arm. "Almost close to other machines I've met in life." Images of Jet Jaguar, Vision, Cyborg and even the variants of MechaGodzilla come to mind. "Should your creator rebuild you, I hope he adds some upgrades so you can put up a better fight than you did here." He pulls back his fist and unsheathes his claws. He pauses as he sees the reflection of a bald man dressed in yellow with red gloves and boots a white cape running towards him on the metal of the cyborg from behind.

Just as the Saurian Kaiju turned around, he was knocked off his feet by a punch that felt akin to that of a Kryptonian and was sent flying up the canyon wall.

"Genos, are you okay?" Saitama, publicly known as Caped Baldly asked his disciple with a blank expression.

"Nothing I can't repair, Master." Genos replied. "Be careful, this Kaiju seems strong."

"A Kaiju? Really?" Saitama asks as he turns around and Godzilla landed a few feet in front of him. "Huh. I was under the impression most Kaiju were female."

Before Godzilla could retort, the cyborg spoke sheepishly to his master. "Uh, no, Master. There are some male Kaiju."

"Oh really? Huh. Learn something new every day." Saitama said intrigued yet still with a bored look on his face.

Godzilla narrowed his eyes a little before shooting forward. He swung his claws at the human who ducked faster than Godzilla had participated and gave Godzilla an uppercut that sent him flying twenty feet in the air. Saitama jumps up and punches Godzilla in the chest and he flies to another canyon wall.

The Saurian Kaiju looks down at his chest and sees a dent that begins to heal. Huh. A human with the strength of a Kryptonian. . . Finally, a worthy opponent. Godzilla grins at Saitama who lands a few feet away from him.

"Wait!" a trio of young voices called out suddenly.

Question marks appear around the Kaiju and human's head as three young Kaiju Girls run towards them.

"You don't have to do this!" the oldest one exclaimed to Godzilla.

"Wait, I thought he was bigger?" the middle one said in confusion. The youngest one squealed and reached for the two.

Godzilla instinctively grew to his Kaiju size and form. He looks at the three with wide eyes. The children jumped back at the sight. Godzilla sent a wave of affection, compassion and familiarity like he did with Biollante.

". . . Athena? Junior? Minilla?" Godzilla crooned as he lifted a hand and reached towards Junior before stopping. These weren't really his children. And how long has it been since he last saw his children? A year? Two? Then another realization came to mind.

He will never see them again.

They were back on Earth and he was here, another universe. His golden eyes began to water a bit. Athena would have to look after her younger brothers alone.

The variant of Athena in front of him saw the tears forming in his eyes. She didn't understand why the male Kaiju before her was starting to cry but she wanted to help him feel happy.

And then along came Homelander and he shot his laser vision down at the Kaiju below him and hit Junior in the arm.

The young Kaiju Girl screamed in pain as she was knocked off his feet. "Junior!" Athena cried out in alarm, running her sister's side. Godzilla's eyes widen in shock.

"Do I have your attention?" Homelander called out from the sky. "Listen, Barney. I'm telling you this once! Go to Monster Island, stay there and stay the fuck away from my Kingdom."

"Homelander, you shot the wrong one, you idiot!" Saitama shouted from where he stood. "Not only that, you shot a kid!" He was ignored.

Godzilla leaned down to the crying Kaiju Girl and began to lick her bleeding arm. Once it was clean, he exhaled his radioactive breath on the wound and it empowered the Kaiju Girl's healing factor and it sealed up. Junior looks up in surprise he pats her on the head before he turns away towards the man hovering above him.

"Did you hear me, old fossil?!" Homelander asked before using his sonic scream. "STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM MY KINGDOM!"

Godzilla stared unblinkingly before taking a deep breath. He then spoke in a deep and powerful voice. "I'm going to feed you your own heart."

Homelander stared owlishly before he burst out laughing. "Hahahaha! Shit! That was a great line-!" He was cut off when Godzilla punched him, and he went flying into the ocean.

"Listen you cheap evil Superman knockoff," Godzilla growled. Oh great. Now I'm sounding like that insufferable Merc with a Mouth. "I couldn't care less about your kingdom. I don't care what lab you came from, but this is my domain now." He knew an alien when he smelled one. In front of him was no alien. Just a human with some super soldier serum in his veins. God, with the American Flag as a cape, it's like Steve Rogers with some cheap knock off Kryptonian serum. he thought. And given how this man-child is nothing like Rogers, Kent or Kara, this is an insult to both of them. "Plus, you messed with my-the kid." He punched his fist into his open palm and cracked his knuckles. "This is going to hurt you. . . a lot. And I'm going to enjoy it."

Homelander rose into the air and out of the water with a growl before he flew to Godzilla's chest and lifted him off the ground and flew him into the side of the volcano before flying him off the island and into the sea.

"Well, they completely forgot about us," Saitama stated bluntly, standing at the edge of the beach and watching Homelander carry the male Kaiju to the distance with maximum effort.

"Is he going to be okay?" Athena asked worriedly. Junior stood at her side, holding her arm.

"I think so, Homelander may be the one of the strongest S-Class heroes but the Kaiju can handle himself." Saitama dismissed.

"You're not worried about Homelander?" Junior asked. "No. Besides, Homelander's a bully." Saitama answered.

"But Master, we're supposed to fight the male Kaiju." Genos said from where he was imbedded in the cliffside.

"Oh yeah. I forgot. Well, I guess I should swim after them." With that Saitama jumped into the water and began to swim.

Athena looked over to Genos. "Are you okay?" she asked.

"I'm a little stuck, truth be told," Genos deadpanned.

Rexy watched Godzilla be carried off into the distance before shaking her head and walking into the jungle.

---

Homelander slammed Godzilla into the ocean floor. Godzilla swatted him away like a bug. Homelander recovered and moved behind the Saurian Kaiju and shoved him to the ground. He grabbed onto one of Godzilla's dorsal fins and began to drag him across the sea floor until Godzilla unleashed a Nuclear Pulse that knocked Homelander back.

Godzilla rose to his feet and shook his head off the rocks in his spines. He opened his mouth and picked his teeth for the rocks stuck between his teeth.

He could hear Homelander approach him from behind again. He lifted his tail and Tail Whipped the Vought Superhero to the sea floor. The Saurian Kaiju turned around and kicked Homelander away. Godzilla then swam after him before he started swimming around and around him, making a whirlpool in the process.

When Homelander landed on the ground, he tried to get back up only for Godzilla to stomp on him. He fired his heat vision at the giant foot. When it lifted off him, he was then blasted by a radioactive cerulean beam.

He was blasted for three minutes before Godzilla stopped, only to stomp him with his right foot. Homelander held his hands up and tried to lift the giant foot but he couldn't. He shot his heat vision but Godzilla didn't flinch. He simply lifted his foot and stomped on Homelander harder.

Godzilla then punched Homelander three times, shattering the sea floor around him with every hit. Homelander fired his heat vision at Godzilla's face but the Saurian Kaiju leaned back and the laser beams shot past him.

The King of Monsters glared down before he felt a ship slam down on the back of his head. Blinking, he looked behind him and saw two pieces of a sinking ship. Did this human's heat vision hit a boat? he thought. This distraction allowed Homelander to shoot up and pick up Godzilla with maximum effort. (1)

Godzilla was carried out of the sea and to Menagerie. Homelander dropped him on a restaurant before dragging him through numerous houses before crashing him into a fuel station. The station exploded, killing Faunus nearby.

Homelander crawled out of the crater, covered in blood. He looks around at the Faunus looking at him and he looks at his blood stained hands. His image was getting ruined! His partner Queen Maeve landed near him as Saitama ran up the hill.

"What's the matter, gonna cry?" Godzilla walked out of the fire in his human form, unharmed. Covering his form was black nanotech armor with the appearance of being made of teeth or spikes. (2) His spines glowed neon blue as he rolled his shoulders.

"Oh, hey. He's still alive." Saitama stated before Homelander let out his Sonic Scream. "BACK OFF!" Both Godzilla and Maeve winced slightly while Saitama rubbed his ear and the Faunus held their bleeding ears in pain.

Homelander appeared in front of Godzilla, grabbed him by the throat and shot lasers straight into his eyes. "AFTER I'M DONE WITH YOU, I'LL BURN THOSE THREE BITCHES OF YOURS, THIS WORTHLESS ZOO OF ANIMALS AND EVERY KAIJU YOU KNOW!"

Suddenly Godzilla's hand shot out and covered Homelander's eyes. Homelander squirmed in the Kaiju's grip as he growled with his eyes covered in soot, "No one threatens my kids." He moved his hand down to Homelander's jaw and ripped it off its hinges, leaving it to dangle on a few strands of skin.

Saitama stared blankly while Maeve stared in surprise and horror. He did that with no effort, Maeve thought stepping back.

Godzilla grabbed Homelander's arms and snapped them like twigs. Homelander stepped back in fear and tripped on his own cape. The Saurian Kaiju-Human raised his foot up and stomped on Homelander's legs, breaking them one by one.

"Remember what I promised?" Godzilla asked before he stabbed his claws into Homelander's chest and then ripped out his heart. "Bon appetite," he stated coldly as he shoved it down Homelander's throat. Godzilla opened his eyes and they glowed like flames. "Enjoy."

"No! Please!" Homelander begged before his skull was crushed.

Godzilla held Homelander's corpse as he turned to Queen Maeve. "I don't care if you and any other super beings come after me, but if I hear that any harm came to the Kaiju Children," he holds up the corpse. "I'll do this and worse to those responsible." And he tosses the body down at Maeve's feet.

Maeve swallowed and stepped back with a nod of her head.

"That was impressive," Saitama stated. "Homelander was dubbed as the strongest S-Class hero."

Godzilla rose an eyebrow. "Him? Please, Supergirl and the Juggernaut were heavier hitters than him. They knew how to throw a punch."

Saitama rose an eyebrow. Supergirl and the Juggernaut? he thought. Who are they? I never heard of them. "Really? That's interesting." he stated.

Godzilla pointed a blood covered finger at the bald man. "You on the other hand, are stronger." he declared. "I felt it when you punched me. You have strength that rivals a Kryptonian."

"Huh?" Saitama said in confusion before Godzilla spoke again. "Our battle is going to be legendary!" He then punched Saitama and sent him flying into the distance.

---

There wasn't much blue paint at the next outpost but Caine made due with what he had. It may not be regulation anymore, but the old Clone Trooper thought that armor didn't feel right if it wasn't personalized in some way. He made two blue crescents that went across his forehead and under his eyes. Then he drew a line down the nose bridge of the helmet and parted it to a upside down V when he came down to the mouth piece of the helmet.

It was the closest he had gotten to how he had painted his original helmet. If he had more time, Caine would have painted the chest and arm pieces, but he had a feeling he'd get guff from the Field Commanders if he went that far. He had heard that some Stormtroopers liked to stylize their helmets, depending if their commander let them or not. Usually it was not. He never understood why the Empire had made a big deal about that when the Stormtroopers took over from the Clone Troopers. He supposed it was to be more uniformed, more rigid and imposing. Caine just thought it was ironic that the new guys were now required to look exactly alike and the Clones were allowed to a greater expression of individuality. It's almost enough to make one laugh.

"Sweet war paint, sir," Jaune said, currently sitting across from him in the Transport with Marrow and Iroh and Zuko. Raven was riding her Skrill outside. "They only let us do that kind of stuff for camouflage."

"Thanks, Private." Caine replied as he looked over. "Just an old habit, I guess. Glad you like it."

"How's it feel to be back in armor then?" Marrow asked next, rather enthusiastically with his tail wagging before he noticed and grabbed it to make it stop.

Neither Jaune or Marrow could see it, but Caine was beaming.

"Honestly? Fantastic," he admitted, sounding more upbeat than Iroh could remember. Then his tone turned sour. "Wish it was under better circumstances."

"I think everyone feels that way," Jaune concurred cautiously. "This was not how I wanted my first real bit of combat to go."

"A full scale retreat from a giant rampaging monster is hardly the way anyone would want to be baptized on the battlefield." Iroh stated sagely. "At least we hadn't been massacred or separated." It was true. The survivors of Animan Airfield had made it to the next outpost in Wind Path. But they found themselves abandoning it as well when news came that the Kaiju was heading in their direction while battling a superhero. The two have begun their fight in Menagerie five hours ago. On one hand, Caine was glad there was a hero that could fight this Kaiju. But on the other hand, the fact they were fighting for that long was concerning. Was the superhero winning or the Kaiju?

As far as he could tell, they were being deployed to ahead of the Kaiju's path. They were going to counter the monster on the road to its next target as it battled the superhero. That's what he guessed. He didn't know the specifics, but Caine had a feeling that the Commanding Officer in charge of the operation would want to debrief him. He hoped it would be quick though, he didn't want to waste much time explaining and reliving the events from a few hours ago again. He wanted payback and he could tell Jaune and Marrow did as well as Prince Zuko. The two Scout Troopers and exiled Fire Nation Prince had been hunched over and uneasy since they had left the outpost.

That was going to be easier said than done though. Caine had faced a lot of scary things in his life, this Kaiju was a whole new level. Jaune had mentioned their outpost's turbolaser did nothing to stop it, but then again it was only one. Maybe more, bigger guns could make a dent in the creature. Something told him it wouldn't be that easy. There was something different about this Kaiju.

". . . So how does a Clone end up out here in Remnant?" Marrow asked suddenly, probably to get his mind off their current problem.

"I'm curious about this as well," Jaune admitted. His Terrible Terror was resting on his right shoulder.

"I guess I got lucky," Caine admitted with a shrug. "Most of us got discharged after the war. I was able to stay in though after making an appeal to my superior. He pulled some strings and I got transferred to another division before ending under General Ironwood's division when Remnant became Imperial to provide security. I've been doing communications work ever since. I'm probably the only Clone left in the Rep-I mean, Imperial Military."

"Well lucky us," Jaune said to him. "Almost everyone else here in the division are fresh out of the academy or used to be Huntsmen and Huntresses. It's nice to meet someone who has experience with combat right now."

Marrow turns to General Iroh. "It's also a honor to meet you too, sir. I know your campaign against Ba Sing Se, but the Dragon of the West is still a legend."

Both Iroh and Caine let out a short laugh. "Well, I don't have much experience against Kaiju," the old Clone stated.

"I have only encounter a Kaiju Girl like the one we've seen today," Iroh said. "Besides, in the Great War, while I fought for my nation as any General or Crown Prince should, the real enemy was Salem. For this situation, I suggest we take up bigger guns."

"I hear that, sir." Jaune wholeheartedly agreed. "Hopefully whatever the brass has in mind is enough to stop that thing. I personally think they need to bring down some Star Destroyers and a Hell lot of Walkers. Only chance we got."

Excessive? Yeah, but both Caine and Iroh understood where it was coming from. The former hoped the Field Officers were going to take this seriously himself. This Kaiju wasn't going to be an easy kill.

"Always wondered what it was like being bred and born for combat like that," Jaune admitted. (3) "I mean, I'm probably not even half the soldier you are. You were made to be one, I just picked up the job cause it sounded exciting."

"Don't sell yourself short yet, kid." Caine said. He turns to Marrow. "You two got a long career ahead of you. Chances are you'll turn out just as good as any Clone."

"Well assuming we take out the big grey fire breathing lizard, of course," Marrow added a bit nervous.

The transport suddenly came to a stop. They had arrived. Quickly they and the other troopers inside filed out and met with Raven Branwen. The landscape was different. It looked to be nighttime despite the time being 01239 hours, the terrain was crystalline in appearance with large and small craters.

Raven knew where this was. "The Land of Darkness," she said coldly. "The birthplace of the Creatures of Grimm."

Jaune and Marrow both felt spikes of ice stab through them as did Prince Zuko. This land was rumored to be the domain of the god of Darkness.

Both Iroh and Caine frowned as they focused on where they were. Based on their observations, they were on one side of a very large canyon. There were at least three or so armored companies, tanks and artillery pieces, lined up along both ends of the canyon. Caine could see the edge of the opposite cliff as well, where there were several turbolaser emplacements inside small caves within the cliff face. It stood to reason that there were more in the caves on their side as well.

"They're rolling out quite the welcome wagon," Zuko remarked.

"True, but is this an ambush or a defensive line?" Caine asked.

"Bit of both actually."

They all turned around and saw a Decepticon and a Fire Nation Commander the old Clone Trooper, the retired Fire Nation General and exiled Prince knew but wished they never did.

"Commander Zhao," Zuko greeted gruffly in barely hidden annoyance. "Prince Zuko, General Iroh, the Fire Nation is glad you survived the attack." Zhao said in false joy with a fake smile. He gestures to the Decepticon who is giving Caine a hard look. "This is Starscream." he introduced.

"We were told that you and Iroh are the most senior Officer to survive the destruction of Animan Airfield 01." the Cybertronian began before glancing downwards. "I was not told you also felt inclined to decorate your uniform in such a manner."

Caine took off his helmet, hoping that would explain enough. The Decepticon seeker just sighed when he saw the old soldier's face. "Ah, a Clone. I should've known." he responded in a tired and annoyed tone. "Well, suppose we'll allow it in this case, given the circumstances."

"Communications Officer Caine," the Clone saluted. "This is Scout Troopers Privates Arc and Amin. And this is Huntress Raven Branwen." He gestured to said Dragon Rider.

"Branwen?" Zhao repeated. "Why's the Bandit Queen working with the law?" Caine could tell that both Scout Troopers were surprised by that.

"The Kaiju massacred my Tribe." Raven said sternly. "I want it dead. You can arrest me after it's dead."

Starscream chuckled. "I like this one." he stated. "And the Scouts?"

"They were brought to the Airfield when a TIE patrol picked them up in a state of shock," Iroh informed. "They thought that they were attacked by dragons."

"I assume this TIE patrol was killed in the ensuing battle at the Airfield then?" Zhao questioned.

"We can only assume, sir." Caine admitted. Truth be told, he was confused a bit about the report a bit now that he said out loud himself. But both the Scouts and Bandit Huntress barely remembered anything after they blacked out during the attack. He couldn't really get the details he needed out of them to better explain matters, but he trusted that they were telling the truth as far as they remembered it. He didn't know the TIE pilot's side of things so most of the story was lost. But it didn't matter now, the Kaiju was the real concern.

"Well, I don't suppose the Privates and Bandit Queen have some insight they wish to share?" Starscream asked.

"Just one, Commander," Jaune said after sharing a look with his partner and Raven. "I hope you're bringing in Star Destroyer or two."

Zhao just huffed, as if to mock the very suggestion. "Such measures won't be necessary I'm sure." he informed them. "The Kaiju so far has only been engaged with small arms. Currently we have deployed a number of heavy weapons within and around the canyon. All of them high yield. General Ironwood's strategy has been laid out to the letter, we are following those directives as per his orders."

"If I may ask, sir, what exactly is the plan?" Caine asked.

Both Zhao and Starscream walked past them towards the edge of the canyon, standing straight as they did.

"The B-Class Superhero known as Mumen Rider and our probe droids are currently tracking the Kaiju on a direct course for the canyon as it battles the superhero known as Saitama or Caped Baldly," Zhao said as he looked up the large crack within the earth.

"We are unsure of the reason of its current course," Starscream stated. "But we know that a number of our key resource and power installations lay beyond this land as well as the Kingdom of Arendelle. When the beast arrives, two tank squads will engage upon his approach. They will lure him into the canyon and the rest of the companies shall then break cover while our artillery opens fire. The Kaiju, designated Alpha Predator One, will be trapped within the crossfire as turbolasers and tanks lay into him. The canyon's depth will bring him down to a considerable size from this position and the Earth Benders will trap him within the earth. We aim for the eyes and wherever its hide appears weakest. That should finish it."

It was a pretty textbook strategy. One they used on droids during the Clone Wars. You lured the enemy in, pulled back, allowed him to encircle himself and then surprise him with a lightning assault. It worked on battledroids, and regular armies, but Caine wasn't sure if it was the best for this situation. This Kaiju was far bigger and a group of droids were after all.

"Is this wise, sir?" he asked in a respectful tone. "We'd be engaging in close quarters, especially inside the canyon itself. Our long range capability seems to be our best option and a Star Destroyer could even the odds a bit."

"The Destroyers are needed to blockade this planet from potential intruders," Zhao stated. "Not to mention it would an excessive waste of air power."

"With communications hampered slightly, we wouldn't be able coordinate orbital bombardment effectively either." Starscream added. "It seems pointless to use such weapons on blowing up one angry reptile. Our forces will be sufficient."

Zhao pointed to one of the nearby tanks. It sported two large repulsor lift treads on both sides, the main body was stout with a swiveling turret on top of the vehicle and two missile launchers on the side. "That is a 2-M Repulsor Tank," he informed them. "Effective anti-armor weapon with a heavy laser cannon and missile launchers. We have three full companies mobilized in this canyon. They alone are the equivalent of one Star Destroyer's fire power."

He then gestured to another vehicle. It was large with eight legs and low to the ground with a heavy turbolaser on it. It reminded Caine about the Walkers from the Clone Wars. "And that is an SPMA," the Fire Nation Commander said proudly. "Self-Propelled Medium Artillery. The real thrust of this attack. Enough firepower to reduce a skyscraper in Coruscant to rubble in a single barrage. The heavy turbolaser is more accurate than the tanks. We have two full platoons worth of them on either side of the canyon. They will blind Alpha Predator One with relative ease, disabling his ability to fight back. Should it be needed, we have a few Huntsmen and Huntresses as well as professional superheroes. When he's wounded, they'll finish him off."

Starscream gave Caine a very pleased look. "So you see, Communications Officer Caine, the situation is well in hand." he said to the Clone Trooper. "We don't need a Star Destroyer to clean up this mess."

"I would advise that we exercise caution," Iroh spoke up. "I've met a similar Kaiju during the War and this one seems to be just as dangerous. We shouldn't assume that this will be enough."

Starscream just sighed in annoyance before he transformed into a jet and flew away. Zhao turns to him with an annoyed expression. "The decision as been made and we are not going to alter it, General Iroh."

"Sir, this Kaiju is extremely dangerous possesses abilities more akin to actual weapons than any animal I've ever seen," Caine spoke up. It destroyed much of Animan Airfield 01 with just one blast."

"You may appear seasoned, soldier but that is because you are a lab experiment with an overactive aging rate," Zhao shoved a finger into the older man's chest. "I have fought against Grimm, insurrectionists and terror groups in the past. That is why General Ironwood poached me from another division. Why his second in command, Specialist Schnee, placed me in charge of training the new recruits and the Fire Lord placed me in charge of this operation. The only reason we're speaking is because you are the only one of significant rank among your survivors."

This was the attitude that made the Fire Nation General, exiled Crown Prince and Clone trooper wish that they never met Zhao. Said exiled Fire Bender Prince moved to say something but Iroh held him back as Raven did the same for the Scout Troopers. Caine didn't care for Zhao's tone and let him continue his rant until he seemed to regain his professionalism again.

"To be frank, having a Clone placed in such capacity is. . . most distressing," He stated. "I hear your kind is. . . defective and hard to properly command. I hope that you follow my instructions and make sure your men do the same."

"Sir, I have no intention of disobeying orders," Caine said in a reassuring tone. "I only wish to advise caution on a course of action Iroh and I believe to be costly."

"I don't want your complaints, I want your compliance," Zhao reiterated. "So tell me if I have it or not."

Caine sighed mentally. It was like talking to a brick wall. It was pointless. "Yes sir." he relented at last. "You have it."

Zhao smiled smugly. "Very good," he declared as he began to walk away. "Full debriefing will be within the hour. A full report on Alpha Predator One's progress. I expect to see you there for your instructions on how your people are to function in this operation. Good day, gentlemen. And lady." With that, he left them, marching as all Fire Nation/Imperial Officers like him seem to do. Chest puffed out like a proud bird with a big head.

Caine glared at his back as he put his helmet back on. The Jedi at least, regardless of what they did in the end, respected the Clones they commanded for the most part.

"Guess he's not interested in listening to us," Jaune stated. "That's Zhao for you," Prince Zuko growled.

"He's got an ACME dynamite in front of him and it's going to blow up in his face." Raven declared with a glare to Zhao's back.

"Well, hopefully he's onto something." Caine said with a passive shrug. "Maybe all these tanks and guns will be enough to take the Kaiju down. If we just find a weakness, there's a chance we can pull it off."

"Well, any idea of where it might be?" Marrow asked.

"No, but maybe the probe droid report might give me some ideas," Caine replied a little thoughtfully. "Arc, Amin, Prince Zuko, go meet with the men. General Iroh and I will see about Zhao's debriefing and get back to you."

Both Jaune and Marrow saluted simply before departing with the younger Fire Bender to meet with the other men. Caine knew now it wasn't going to be easy. He was already thinking of a few holes in this plan as the Scouts left. By the time his mind settled, he realized that they may all be over their heads. If nothing else, maybe this fight will reveal some weakness in Alpha Predator One. He just hoped that not many soldiers will die to discover it.

---

After speaking to the survivors of the Kaiju attack, Marrow bumped into some old friends he knew from Atlas Academy while Zuko went to go meditate. This left Jaune alone.

Which wasn't the best idea. He grew tense every time he heard the sounds of the Walkers' footsteps. He tried taking deep breaths and mentally tell himself that it was just the Walkers not a Kaiju. He started tapping his finger a little to try and tune out the footsteps or else he'd go crazy and start shooting.

"Hey, are you okay?"

"Huh?" Blinking, Jaune turned to the right and saw a Huntress. She was dressed in black and red clothing with a bright red cloak. Her hair was dyed red at the tips and she had silver eyes.

"You're one of the few that encountered the new Kaiju right?" she asked. "Are you okay?"

"Oh, yeah. Definitely." Jaune replied dismissively. "You sure? Because you look like you could use the company and my team is over there." She gestured over to where a large group of Huntsmen and Huntresses.

Jaune sighed and got up and followed her. "The name's Jaune Arc," he said to both the Huntress and her friends. "Short, easy to remember."

"I'm Ruby, Ruby Rose." the young woman in a red hood said with a beaming smile. "I'm leader of Team RWBY. . . And yes, that does cause some confusion."

"I'm Yang Xiao Long, Ruby's older sister." the blonde woman with a yellow and black robotic right arm introduced. Jaune blinked. For a split second he thought he was looking at Raven with blonde hair. Eh. It's probably because her hair is a mane like Raven's.

"I'm Yang's partner, Blake Belladonna," the Cat Faunus said reading a book. Wait, what kind of book is that? Ninjas of Love?

"Weiss Schnee, Ruby's partner." the snow-white haired girl with blue eyes and a small scar over her left eye. Schnee? Jaune repeated mentally. Is she related to Specialist Schnee? "And yes, I'm related to the Atlassian-Imperial Specialist." she says as if reading Jaune's mind.

"Ah, that explains it." Jaune said as if that really does explain it. But it did make him wonder why Winter's sister is a Huntress and not in the military like her. He turns to the three remaining Huntsman and Huntresses.

"We're Team PRN. Pronounced as PRuNe." the man with black hair. Is that a magenta streak in his hair? Jaune briefly thought. You don't see that, especially with most men. "I'm Lie Ren."

"Names Nora, Nora Valkyrie," the ginger haired woman said as she held a war hammer.

"And I'm Pyrrha Nikos," the red-haired woman said politely.

"Nice to meet you," Jaune held an hand to shake.

"Excuse you, you're talking to Pyrrha Nikos!" Weiss exclaimed hotly. Jaune rose an eyebrow. "I know. She just said her name." he replied.

Weiss scoffed. "She graduated with the highest honors in Sanctum."

"And I'm a Scout Trooper," Jaune replied with a shrug. "I never heard of that."

"She won the Mistral Tournament four years in the row! A world record!" Weiss exclaimed. "The what?" Jaune asked. "I didn't watch much sports when I was younger."

He sees everyone else looking at him with surprised expressions while Weiss shook before she waved her arms angrily. "SHE'S ON THE FRONT OF EVERY PUMPKIN PETE'S MARSHMELLOW FLAKES BOX!"

Jaune let out a loud gasp. "That's you!" he exclaimed and imagined the mentioned cereal box behind the bashful Pyrrha. "But they only do that for star athletes and cartoon characters."

"Yes, it's nice," Pyrrha said. "Sadly, the cereal isn't very good for you."

"It can't be worse than what the Military makes you eat," Jaune replied before shuddering. Then he remembered the Terrible Terror on his back. "Oh, I forgot about this little bugger. This is Green Bean."

The Terror waved a front paw at the stunned group save for Nora and Ruby. Green Bean jumped onto Blake's head and sniffed at her black cat ears. He nipped on them before jumping onto Yang's head, dodging Blake slashing nails. He then seemed to dig into Yang's hair and poke his head out as if in a small haystack and climbed down her prosthetic arm. He bit on one of the fingers. He stuck his tongue in disgust and jumped on Ruby's lap. The young Huntress laughed and pulled a small bag from her belt. She held out a cookie and tossed at the Terror.

Green Bean smiled and gulped down the cookie. He stared up at Ruby before curling up on her lap. Ruby smiled and ran her hand down his back.

"Huh, surprisingly tame." Weiss commented.

"Yeah, I think he used to belong to the Branwen Tribe before the Kaiju found them." Jaune said thoughtfully.

"Wait, did you say the Branwen Tribe?" Yang asked, sitting up straighter. Jaune rose an eyebrow. "Yeah, based on what Commander Zhao said earlier, I think Green Bean belonged to someone in that tribe."

"You've met those bandits?" Weiss asked. Jaune shook his head. "No, my partner and commanding officer found what was left of their camp. Their leader is the only survivor."

"You mean Raven Branwen's here?" Yang stood up and demanded. "Uh, yeah. She's being debriefed or with her Skrill."

Yang stared with wide eyes before her lilac eyes became bloody red, much like Raven's, before she stormed off. He looked at them in confusion. "Did I say something?" he asked.

"Raven is her birth mother," Blake answered watching Yang leave with a concerned expression. "Oh, and she's the Bandit Queen," Jaune recalled what Zhao had said earlier.

"And she practically left Yang at her father's doorstep when she was born," Weiss added with crossed arms but a concerned look at Yang's retreating form.

"Oh." Jaune said in shock. Like, damn. Who knew Raven was such a deadbeat, he thought.

They all sat in uncomfortable silence before Nora spoke up. "You say that she has a Skrill?" she asked.

"Yeah, and she named her Summer." Jaune said. Finding it ironic that he was talking about that particular species of dragon before meeting Raven. This makes Ruby to look at him with wide eyes. Oh, now what? "Is something wrong, Ruby?"

"Yeah. . . that was the name of my mom," Ruby said slowly. This surprises everyone. "Wait, so you and Yang. . . " Jaune trailed.

"Stepsisters, different mothers, same father." she stated with a shrug. "Oh. One of my sisters has a family so I thought you and Yang had a similar family.

"Well, I wouldn't know about that," Ruby replied. "Dad didn't talk about how his relationships with our mothers were and Summer died when I was too young to remember."

"That's rough," Jaune winced. "But hey, Raven named her dragon after her. So, I guess they had to have been close."

"I guess," Ruby murmured. Jaune gave a sigh. And here he was hoping to make a good impression and new friends. Instead, he has sent one confronting their deadbeat birth mother and another thinking about their childhood without a mother. They sat in silence again before he heard Marrow calling his name.

Turning around he saw the Dog Faunus Scout Trooper with the Atlassian-Imperial Ace-Ops. "The debrief will start soon, Jaune." Marrow said, waving his hand. "Come on."

"Well, see you in the battlefield," Jaune said to the team.

"It was nice to meet you, Jaune." Pyrrha said with a genuine smile. "Always a pleasure to meet someone who doesn't know my fame."

"Likewise," Jaune replied. Just as he reached Marrow, he and everyone else heard something that Jaune knows will give him nightmares for the rest of his days.

SSSKKKRRRRRREEEEEEEEOOOOOOOO-OOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNKKK!

"He's coming," was all Jaune said grimly.

---

The Land of Darkness

30 minutes later. . .

A lone Beowulf slowly approached the entrance of its cave. It looked around cautiously. It could sense many humans nearby and it had to be cautious. The humans had better weapons now and more numbers than they did seven years ago and now its fellow Grimm were on the brink of being wiped off the face of Remnant.

The ground began shaking and it hid in the shadows of its cave, thinking a tank was approaching before its cave collapsed on top of it, killing it.

It was not a tank, but Godzilla and Saitama rolling on the ground, punching one another in the face while rolling. When Godzilla was on the bottom, he fired his Atomic Breath at the bald superhero, and he was sent into the air.

Saitama still had a blank expression while his yellow suit was ripped and torn as was his white cape. He flew high into the air before he began to fall back down. Just when he was under 100 feet off the ground, Godzilla had transformed back into his Kaiju form and Tail Whipped him into a large spike of rock. He punched where Saitama landed three times before Saitama jumped out of the rock and punched Godzilla in the chest. The Saurian Kaiju flew back and to the ground with a heavy THUD!

Saitama landed on the ground and wiped his bleeding nose with a small smirk. Out of everyone Saitama had ever faced, this male Kaiju is the only one that gave him a bloody nose. Godzilla rose back up and swung his fist down at Saitama. The bald superhero dodged and kicked the Kaiju's right foot out from under him. He then jumped onto Godzilla's knee to get up to the Kaiju's face and gave a Consecutive Series: Normal Punches.

Godzilla morphed back to his human-hybrid form as he fell to the ground and stood up. He banged his fists together and roared at the bald superhero. "Come on!" he said. "Give me a real fight!"

Saitama grinned and appeared in front of Godzilla in a blur. "Consecutive series: Normal punches." he said as his left hand became a blur and punched Godzilla all over his upper body.

Godzilla remained still as if being stunned by the series of punches before his hand shot out and he caught Saitama's fist. ". . . Please," he scoffed before he punched Saitama in the head, bringing him to his knees. Godzilla held onto his opponent's fist and began to punch him in the head.

The fifth punch Saitama brushed off. The tenth punch started to make him dizzy. The eighteenth punch started to hurt his head. Pain, a concept Saitama wasn't familiar with for a long time since he began to train to be the strongest hero on the planet. Then Godzilla held his fist high and stretched Saitama's left arm out before bringing his fist down on where Saitama's left forearm meets his elbow and there is a loud sickening CRUNCH!

Saitama screamed in pain as he gave Godzilla a Killer Move-Serious Series: Serious Punch with his right arm and sent Godzilla flying back into a cliffside.

Saitama held his left arm and smiled through the pain he felt. He broke my arm, he thought. He began to chuckle lowly before laughing in joy. "You are right in what you said, Kaiju-san. This fight will indeed be legendary!" he shouts to where Godzilla was.

The dust cloud disappears slowly and the air around the human Kaiju glows blue as his spines glow neon blue and atomic energy channels through his armor and the teeth of the armor stand up on end. He dusts his shoulder as he glares at Saitama and lets out an earth-shaking roar that blows the dust away.

SSSKKKRRRRREEEEEEEEEOOOOOOO-OOOOOOOOONNNNKK!

Saitama began to charge at Godzilla at high speeds. Godzilla growled, channeling energy to his hands that began to glow as he got ready to Thunderclap and release a Nuclear Pulse at once.

Saitama swung his fist just as Godzilla clapped his Atomic charged hands. BOOM! The following explosion flattened the cliffside Godzilla was in and both combatants were in a large crater.

Human and Kaiju stood on opposite sides before charging at one another again. They threw a fist and punched each other in the face simultaneously. Godzilla recovered from the blow and gave Saitama a headbutt followed by a Tail Whip. Saitama instantly grabbed onto the scaly appendage and Godzilla knew what was going to happen next.

"Ugh, I hate it when people grab my TAIL!" Godzilla shouted the end of the sentence as he was lifted off his feet and body slammed down. "And do that." he said into the ground in a muffled voice.

He spun around, pulling his tail free from Saitama's grip and kicking him in the chest with both feet and used his tail to rise to his feet. He grabbed onto Saitama's cape and wrapped it around the man's head. Using his tail to hold him upright, Godzilla began to rapidly punch Saitama's face with both hands. After the twentieth punch, the space where Saitama's face would be stained red. Saitama broke out of his tail's grip and punched Godzilla back, forcing the Kaiju to rip the cape from the superhero's shoulders.

Saitama grinned more as blood ran down his chin from his broken nose before he ran to Godzilla. The Saurian Human Kaiju grinned as both of their fists became a blur towards each other. Every fist and kick were either blocked or dodged. Every Tail Whip was ducked under.

After what felt like an eternity, Saitama managed to land another punch to Godzilla's chest, knocking the Human Saurian Kaiju back to the cliff. Godzilla shook himself before he raised both fists above his head and slammed them on the ground, shattering the surface and sending a wave of massive boulders to Saitama.

The bald superhero stared at the wave of boulders before he ran to the side of the wave in a blur. However, as soon as he stopped moving, Godzilla tackled him from the side and ran him into the side of the cliff.

The earth cracked, shifted and bulged as Godzilla ran under the surface, slamming Saitama's back against the rock like a battering ram.

Saitama gritted his teeth before screaming. Up on the surface, the ground suddenly exploded and Godzilla was seen flying out of the cloud of dust. Saitama jumped from the flying boulders and spun like a top as he flew towards Godzilla and delivered a Serious Punch and Godzilla was thrown back down to the crater.

Godzilla laid on the ground briefly and smiled. It had been a while since he had fought someone like this. Sure, there was Zone Fighter, Superman, Thor, Wonder Woman, Jet Jaguar, the Hulk but this was someone new. (4) A human that had the strength of a Kryptonian with no serum or mutation involved at all.

He rose back up and saw the human standing close by. Godzilla felt genuine respect. This human's upper part of his suit was now destroyed by his Atomic Breath and being used as a battering ram through the earth, his arm was broken along with his nose and yet, he showed no fear. Just pure excitement and joy. Perhaps he had never had an opponent like Godzilla.

Charging up his Atomic Breath, Godzilla fired his primary weapon at Saitama who lifted his arm to block it. Saitama gritted his teeth. He has felt beam attacks before, but this was actually hurting his skin. Like how you touch an active stove or oven. Not wanting to test the limit of his skin any further, Saitama ran to Godzilla and punched him in the face. The Atomic Breath beam hit the rock stalactite nearby.

---

"Wow, nearly six hours and now someone has a broken arm," Adam stated within the Ghost. The Rebel ship was out of visual range and its scrambler was at full capacity. To any Imp down there with a scanner, they were just space of air. As for their big grey friend, they could see him even when he was human sized just fine. He wasn't really that hard to spot. Sensors could read several probe droids circling the Kaiju regularly, probably trying to get a read on it for the Empire to better combat it.

"It's a surprise that it's Saitama," Leo said. "He's so strong that most of his opponents don't survive his punches and have never managed to hurt him like so."

"Well, I guess Saitama's getting that fight he's been dreaming about," Donnie said. Miko gave him a curious look. "He dreams about getting his arm broken?"

"Not exactly. More like a fight that pushes him to his limits," Donnie replied. "This Kaiju must be really tough enough to give Saitama exactly that."

They could see the ground shattering and shifting more and more as the superhero and Kaiju traded blow for blow. Then the Kaiju caught Saitama's fist again. His tail knocked the man to his knees and began to punch the human in the head again like before. Just as he raised his fist high, Saitama moved around and punched him with his left arm and sent Godzilla flying into the air.

Saitama grunted in pain from using his broken arm to punch before shrugging it off and running to where Godzilla was going fall. Before the Saurian Human Kaiju was below ten feet in the air, Saitama threw his fist to Godzilla's back and punched between his spines and sent him flying miles into the ever night sky.

"Wow, I bet he could see our houses from up there," Casey said to April as they watched the Kaiju disappear into the clouds.

20 miles high. . .

". . . It's a nice view," Godzilla muttered drily before morphing back to his Kaiju form and letting gravity grab a hold of him.

Saitama looked up in surprise as he and the Rebels in the Ghost saw Godzilla falling down like a meteor at high speeds.

"Hera, I think we should move farther back," Kannan said urgently. "Way ahead of you," the Rebel pilot replied, and the Ghost Crew moved further away from the fight.

Saitama took a deep breath and jumped up to intercept Godzilla. Despite the situation, Saitama couldn't help but smile. This is what he wanted. This is the kind fight he dreamed about. A fight that would get his blood pumping, his heart racing and his adrenaline high.

Godzilla reared his fist back with a roar. Saitama did same, rearing his fist back and letting out a battle cry before the two fighters threw their fists at one another.

BOOM!

Saitama was sent flying thirty miles out of the Land of Darkness from the explosion more powerful than any bomb in Remnant's history while Godzilla landed close to where Saitama previously was and rolled to a stop.

Saitama chuckled weakly with a wheeze. That Kaiju really is strong, he thought impressed. I hope. . . we fight again. With that, he lost consciousness.

Godzilla rose to his feet, shaking rocks off him. He looked around for his adversary. He sniffed the air. No, the human survived the explosion but succumbed to the pain. He then let out a roar of respect to his worthy opponent before stopping and then he began to stomp in the direction of where the Empire is.

---

"Is. . . Is that a man on a bike?" Hakoda asked, looking at the direction Godzilla and Saitama had come from. Sure enough, those that had watched the fight turned to where Hakoda was looking, and they could see a man riding a bike after the Kaiju.

"That's Mumen Rider of the Hero Association," Donnie said. "The Empire must have had him monitor the Kaiju.

"You'd think they'd have sent down a Star Destroyer to bombard it," Hera said curiously to Sienna and Kannan in the cockpit.

"They're probably worried about its Atomic Breath," Sienna suggested.

"Either that or they think it'll be overkill." Kannan added.

"You can always count on the Empire to be overconfident," Hera huffed in response.

Although, one could wonder if the same applied to the Kaiju. It just fought against a superhero and was on course to where the Empire was waiting for it. It didn't seem at all threatened by the show of force. The confrontation was inevitable now.

"How long do you think we'll have to get our probe?" she asked after a moment of silence.

"Not long," Kannan warned. "Either the probes will get shot down by friendly or that thing's massive tail when they get too close. We need to move quickly if we're going to get one intact. Otherwise we're going to lose time fixing one."

That was certainly something they couldn't. They needed to get it back up, running and spy on its former masters quickly. All they needed to do was knock one out before it could spot them and the key to that was speed.

"You think we can grab the probe fast enough?" she asked.

"It all depends on making sure they're all focused on the big scary titanic fire breathing lizard," Kannan reiterated.

"Which won't be too hard since he's kind of an eye catcher," Sienna remarked before she got up and left.

"I'm just hoping this all pays off in the end." Kannan said to the side. Hera looked at him curiously upon that remark. "What do you mean by that?"

"I mean I'm wondering if this is going to pay off the way you and Ahsoka want it to," Kannan argued. "No matter what happens, security at that cloning facility is going to be tightened. I'm thinking we need to consider changing the plan."

"You agreed to the plan," she reminded him.

"That was before the giant angry lizard showed up," he retorted. "I know you were hoping to show a united front, but maybe we should just consider just bombing that place with our air support and hope that's enough. Otherwise, I think we might be wasting the opportunity to kill that thing they're building."

Hera understood his concerns. Kannan had been hesitant about this operation. The reason he had gone along with it was to stop the Zillo-Beast they currently had close to finished. If it wasn't dead, it would probably be on Lothal within a month. Kannan didn't want that to happen. Partly because of the people the Ghost crew had left behind would suffer for it. Hera suspected though that it was mostly because it was Ezra's home planet.

"Believe me, I get where you're coming from," Hera assured him. "But you need to have faith in the overall picture. I'm positive Ahsoka will adjust the plan given these new circumstances. She wants that cloned Zillo-Beast dead as much as you do."

"I'm just worried we may have gotten in over our heads here, again." Kannan elaborated. "I want to do more, really. I just do want us getting forced into something we can't get out of. I want us to be ready, not jumping into things we're not prepared for. It's not fair expecting this much of us this soon. We've lost too much already, especially Ezra."

Hera shared his crestfallen look. They probably weren't ready for a lot things, honestly. But the Galaxy wouldn't wait for them to be and neither would the Empire. "We've all lost a lot, it's true," she agreed. "But we're part of something bigger now and we have to accept that. We need to believe we can do this or we're not going to get far in anything. It's like that old saying goes, I guess, trust in the Force."

"Yeah, that's always a bit of a wild card to be honest." Kannan responded with a bit of a jovial huff.

Before the conversation could go further, the sensors picked up something. The Imperials were opening fire on the Kaiju. The Empire was putting its plan into motion.

"Time to get to work then," Kannan declared, his face becoming more serious. "I'll make sure the others are ready."

Nabbing a probe droid from under the Empire's nose during a fight with a giant Kaiju," Hera stated as she took up the Ghost's stick. "If this wasn't on my bucket list before, it's about to be crossed off."

---

The attack was now underway. The tanks along the ridge had opened fire as soon as the Kaiju got into range. They shot volley after volley as fast as their turrets and gunners could manage. The creature didn't seem bothered at all by the constant barrage though, if anything to Caine, it looked like it was just making him angrier. He roared as the shots continued to batter his hard greenish gray scaly hid. Standing from a forward observation post among Raven and other Troops, watching the opening moves of the attack unfold, Caine radioed Zhao about the progress so far.

"Alpha Predator One is taking every shot the tanks are throwing at him," he reported. "He hasn't fired yet, but he definitely doesn't feel welcomed."

"It's nothing to be concerned about, Officer Caine," Zhao informed him in a rather plain tone. "We are merely luring into the trap. Advise the Tank Commanders to pull back once he's within half a kilometer of the canyon entrance. He won't be able to resist the chase."

"Yes sir," Caine replied back, biting back a few less than pleasant thoughts on the matter.

But he had to be right, the Kaiju wouldn't be able to resist the chase. The problem was, did they really want him to chase them? Especially when they all only seemed to annoy him.

But there wasn't much Caine could do about it though, he was lucky Zhao allowed him to man the observation post and not arrest Raven. The Fire Nation Commander was in charge of the operation, he had to carry out his orders.

Didn't mean he wouldn't act on his own initiative though, as he had a gut feeling he would soon have to.

It wasn't long before the Kaiju passed Zhao's line in the ground and the tanks pulled back from the edge. Was it his imagination or did the Kaiju pause briefly and look at the canyon before continuing? On another note of concern, the lumbering lizard still hadn't fired his Atomic Breath and Caine wondered why. Maybe it wasn't a big range as he thought or maybe he just didn't feel like using it.

Who could say as far as a mammoth reptile was concerned. Caine was trained to anticipate the tactics and moves of enemy soldiers not Kaiju.

As Zhao had predicted, the Kaiju soon entered the canyon. Caine, Raven and General Iroh along with the rest of the observation post pulled back to a safer position near the artillery positions hidden in the rocks nearby. These weren't mobile guns like the SPMAs or 2-M Repulsors. These were stationary and used when one wanted something with a longer range. They were slightly upgraded models from the ones Caine had seen used in the Clone Wars. It was among these guns that they were now waiting for the order to spring the trap. Caine and the others found Jaune manning one of the artillery cannons with an Atlassian-Imperial Ace-Op Elm Elderne.

"I'll give Zhao this much," Jaune began as he hefted a shell into the cannon. "These are some major guns. And compared to the ones on the Walkers, they're kids' toys. Maybe we can at least make the big gecko think twice."

"Let's not assume anything until we get some actual results," Caine warned. "I've been in enough scraps to know battles rarely go how you plan them to."

Starscream's voice suddenly came over the nearby command channel. "All guns, the Kaiju is entering the total saturation target mark!" he declared. "Fire at will! Earth Benders, get ready to stop him in his tracks! Reduce this monstrosity to ashes!"

On the Decepticon Commander's orders, Jaune quickly closed the shell hatch for the artillery cannon and gave a thumbs up to the gunner, Marrow. Within moments, that gun and several others opened up with a furious barrage of super-heated plasma. They all cascaded down upon the Kaiju's head. The beast roared back as the barrage continued, pouring shells down the length of his back.

"I think we're actually hurting it!" Jaune stated jubilantly as he loaded another shell. Caine looked through his macro binoculars, seeing for himself that the young Private wasn't wrong in his assumption. The Kaiju did look to be in pain. Looking like in pain wasn't the same as actually being wounded or bleeding though and when the smoke cleared all Caine could see were those same angry yellow eyes from mere moments before.

"Earth Benders, now!" Zhao shouted over the radio. Soon as he said that the bottom of the canyon shot forward like elevator doors and closed around the Kaiju's legs above the knees. As the Kaiju lurched forward with a roar that sounded surprised, the tanks and artillery Walkers lurched out of their cover and sped towards attack positions. Missiles and energy blasts hurtled into the monster's body from both sides of the canyon. They continued to pummel repeatedly, eliciting more angry roars and growls from him. He could see Starscream and his fellow Decepticon jets flying by and shooting at the Kaiju and dropping their own bombs.

Yet nothing seemed to be piercing the hide of the giant reptile. Caine couldn't make out any damage. No blood, no cuts, nothing. He knew the Kaiju Girl Godzilla was tough but this didn't make sense.

Zhao noticed it too, apparently as his next orders over the radio came down. "Focus fire on Alpha Predator One's head," he orders. "Blow it clean off if you have to!"

The Kaiju acted before the tanks could. Some spines on his tail grew larger than they were before, now appearing like sickle blades on his tail before smashing the tail into the side of the canyon walls, shaking the very ground beneath them with each swipe and then swinging it down on the patches of rocks that pinned his legs like an axe, breaking the rocks apart and freeing his legs. The miniature earthquakes threw the aim of the Imperials off just enough that the Kaiju was able to escape their barrage and duck down into the canyon for cover entirely.

"Tanks, move up and fire down at the dumb animal!" Zhao ordered. "Finish it off!"

Finish it off? Clearly the Fire Nation Commander didn't take the Kaiju's move for what it was, but Caine could, and he knew that Iroh could too. Alpha Predator One didn't fall down in pain, he just jumped down to get out of range of the tanks' fire. Those tail swipes probably destroyed the tanks he and his friends had seen earlier in those caves.

He could still feel the ground shaking and rumbling beneath his feet. The Kaiju was punching or slamming itself into the rock to get rid of the remaining tanks harassing him from below while at the same time avoiding the fire from the tanks and artillery above the canyon. Only the Decepticons could hit him directly but they weren't doing much damage.

The worse part was that Zhao was closing the gap between those tanks and the monster itself.

"Commander Zhao, I strongly advise against sending the tanks," Iroh warned in his own radio. "They'll be in danger at that close range to Alpha Predator One."

"Thank you for your advice, General Iroh," Zhao replied haughtily. "I shall take it under advisement. Tank commanders, proceed to the canyon edge and lay into the target!"

All the retired Fire Nation General and old Clone Trooper could do was watch as the tanks and artillery moved closer for what they thought was an easy kill. It would not be as Caine realized that the Kaiju stopped moving.

Just as the 2-Ms approached the edge, a greenish grey scaly head rose up from below. It roared briefly before slamming its massive skull into the side of the canyon, crushing five tanks as it did so. The Kaiju's tail slashed across the opposite side of the canyon, smashing the tanks beneath it. The monster's hand raised up from below and dug into the rock where another 2-M squad was positioned, crushing them all in his grip.

The Imperials had now been lured into Alpha Predator One's trap.

"We need to get him off them!" Caine shouted at Jaune and Marrow. "He's slaughtering the tank crews at that range!"

Arc was already loading another shell in before Caine had finished speaking. "This one's danger close, Marrow!" Jaune yelled at him. "Hit him on the nose! Square between the nostrils!"

"I'll do one better!" Marrow promised back. "I'll shoot right up his nose!"

"I got an idea," Iroh stated. "Stand back." he told Caine and Raven. When they complied, the old Fire Bender waved his hands in a circle, holding two fingers up as electricity danced around his finger tips.

Both Iroh and Marrow fired the shot and let the shell and bolt of lightning fly through the sky before the former began to plummet back down and the latter zapped across the distance. True to the Dog Faunus's promise, they landed as close as reasonably possible to where he had said he'd put it.

Alpha Predator One seemed to snort and sniff as the shell exploded before recoiling when his nose was hit by the bolt of lightning.

He wasn't sure it had gone up the nostril, but Caine admired the shot nonetheless.

"Good aim, right on target," he reported. "Do it again, force him off the canyon wall!"

"Yeah," Jaune agreed, grabbing another shell to load up. "He'll be picking plasma out of his nose for the next decade when we're through with him!"

Unaware to him, that did happen to the Saurian Kaiju years ago. (God damn Lobo, you crazy bastich.)

As Arc loaded the shell, Caine noticed something through his macro binoculars. One of the Artillery Walkers was closing into range with the Kaiju's head. It apparently had the same idea as they did and was trying to shoot Alpha Predator One on the nose to make him back off from what was left of the tanks near the edge. Moments later, the second artillery shot landed on his head. An energy blast from the Walker hit him in the aftermath. They were really laying into him.

The Kaiju scratched at his nasal passage before lowering his hand and Caine swore that at that moment, the Kaiju locked eyes with him right through the macro binoculars. A red-hot rage seemed to surge in the creature's yellow eyes. It was as if the beast's gaze was focused solely on Caine, seeing him and only him as it stared with utter contempt.

The battle itself suddenly vanished and all Caine could see were those eyes. Those angry, vicious, murderous eyes. The likes Caine had only seen on the head Clanker during the Clone Wars, General Grievous. He had only seen them twice in real life, but they felt so like this. The creature's gaze was permeated with violence and wrath. A desire to kill and destroy. Then another thing happened.

The Kaiju's lips curled upward in what looked like a sadistic smile.

It was as if the Kaiju was saying, 'I know that you just tried to hurt me. I know it was you. And now you'll die for it.'

Alpha Predator One broke the long murderous gaze and turned to the Walker that was still shooting at him. Again, Caine wondered why the Kaiju didn't fire his Atomic Breath at them, but he didn't wonder long. The Kaiju grabbed the Walker in its hand like a toy. He reeled his hand back, almost like a ball player before releasing the captured Walker. It tumbled through the air like a child's toy.

Caine didn't need to guess where it was headed, and he knew it would stop looking like a child's toy the closer it got. "Everyone! Evacuate!" he shouted for everyone nearby to hear. "Get the Hell out of here! RUN! Walker incoming!"

He pointed up to the tumbling little black dot that was approaching them, and everyone instantly followed his lead. The gunners jumped from their guns and made a mad dash for safety. Iroh ran so fast he left a trail of dust behind him. For an old man he sure could move. Caine grabbed Arc and pushed him in front of him as Marrow jumped from his gun.

"Oh no, no, no, no!" Jaune cried as he ran. The three of them ran as fast as they could manage before the Huntress Ruby Rose and Ace-Op Harriet Bree appeared in front of them.

"Hang on!" Ruby said as she grabbed Jaune and Caine while Harriet grabbed Marrow. "Hang on to what?" Jaune asked before the whole world suddenly became a blur of rose pedals one moment, the next they were with Prince Zuko, Team RWBY, PRN and the Ace-Ops behind some boulders. They all ducked down.

The Walker collapsed onto the guns soon after. The artillery pieces were crushed under the massive metal weight of the Walker and the shells faired no better. When detonated, the entire area was filled with exploding plasma and fire. Caine kept Jaune's head down as the blaze rocketed over them and Pyrrha Nikos held a shield over herself and her friends from the fire and several bits of debris.

When it was over, there wasn't a single gun left standing. Caine looked around and could see the bodies of troopers that didn't make it out of the blast radius in time nearby. Their armor was melted and scorched from the plasma blast; their corpses burned beyond recognition.

"Holy crap," Jaune said as he and the others poked their heads up. "He just destroyed our artillery position!"

"With one of our own walkers, even!" Marrow added.

It was worse than they knew. That Kaiju could've just fired his Atomic Breath anytime and got the same effect. Yet it hadn't. That smile told Caine plenty of answers. He was toying with them, maybe letting them forget he had the Atomic Breath before he fired the damn beam and incinerated them all.

And that murderous glare had given it away as well. He wanted to hurt them, show them that he could rain down death from the sky with just as deadly precision as any of them. Worse yet, his method was more effective.

This wasn't a dumb animal like Zhao had thought. It was, as Caine suspected, something far worse. The old Clone Trooper had only now just realized that they had made a big mistake. One that would probably cost every Stormtrooper here their lives.

Suddenly something else had flown from the canyon. Caine looked up and his eyes widened as Alpha Predator One soared through the air in his human form and landed smack dab in the center of the remaining Troopers. The teeth in his armor stood on end as he growled, looking at them all with his yellow eyes before flexing his fingers and his claws unsheathed.

"Commander, we need reinforcements!" Caine shouted to his commlink. "Alpha Predator One is in his human form! Send in the Captain! Send all the available forces you got! Do it! Do it now!"

SSSKKKRRRRRREEEEEEOOOOOO-OOOOOOONNNNKK!

The Kaiju roared as he jumped towards the closest Stormtrooper, claws outstretched and glistening in the moonlight. He slashed the man's throat while his tail swung and the sickle spines slashed across the chest of another. His left hand shot forward like a viper and grabbed the head of a third trooper and slammed him down against the rocky ground, shattering his skull.

He slowly lifted his gaze to all of them. They all stood frozen before Caine regained his emotions. A good death is its own reward. And good soldiers die defending what's behind them.

"Come on men! We might as well die fighting! For the Empire!" he shouted, raising his rifle and firing at the Kaiju human. Soon as he said that, this ignited the other's fighting spirit.

"For the Fire Nation!" Zuko and Iroh yelled as they blasted fire and lightning at Alpha Predator One. "For Remnant!" Jaune said as he joined in firing.

One trooper tried to step back while firing at Alpha Predator One, but the Kaiju grabbed his arm and flipped him onto his stomach. He raised his foot and stomped down hard. The Trooper's helmet and skull shattered like glass.

A Fire Bender tried attacking him with a fire dagger, but Godzilla caught his wrist. He spun the Fire Bender around before flipping him onto his back. He ducked under the fire of other Troopers and rolled onto the Fire Bender he had. Caine saw the Kaiju's spines stab and cut through the man's back like jagged blades while he pulled the man's arm back until it snapped.

Alpha Predator One rose back to his feet and blocked the attacks from the Huntsmen and Huntresses, moving at speeds faster than Caine had seen any human move with his arms and tail. He then leaned back to kick Ruby away before jumping in the air and doing a split kick to Yang and Blake. He then spun in the air, his tail slapped Weiss and Nora in the face. He then headbutted Clover Ebi and gave the other Ace-Ops punches to the chest. Their Aura shattered as they went stumbling and rolling back. He then gave an upper cut to Pyrrha.

The Kaiju tilted his head at seeing the Aura flicker and shatter before he grabbed an Earth Bender that tried to come at him with a rock lance by the arm. He punched the man three times in the face. The first punch broke the man's Aura, the second his helmet and the third most likely shattered his neck based on how he fell with a limp neck.

He looked at the down Hunters and dead Troopers before looking directly at Caine, Arc, Amin, Prince Zuko, Raven, and Iroh. The old Clone Trooper glanced at his friends silently asking if they were going to retreat.

Zuko responded by pulling out dual Dao swords. Raven pulled out her sword and Iroh followed by pulling out a dagger while holding up a ball of fire. Arc and Amin both held up a blaster pistol and rifle. Caine nodded silently and pulled out a combat knife from his belt.

---

This was the weirdest plan Kannan had ever come up with, but Ezra had to agree that not even the Imperials could see it coming. How could they? When they were too busy getting their white-armored butts handed to them by a colossal fire breathing dinosaur. Ezra almost felt sorry for them. Almost. They should have backed off instead of trying to engage the big greenish grey Kaiju again. The fact that it destroyed much of their planet side TIEs was enough evidence of that. He couldn't think of the bantha fodder the Bucketheads had just stepped in though, they had a job of their own to do.

"Alright, Chop, I think you're all set," he told the rusty droid as he pulled on the chord tightly to test it.

Chopper grumbled at the young boy angrily, expressing his distaste for this entire exercise even more. Zeb was quick to put him in his place. "Would you relax?" he scolded. "You're going to be fine. That cable is near as strong as my arm."

"Besides," Sabine spoke up. "You're the only one that can get close enough to shock one of those probes. The Phantom is too big, they'll pick it up on their sensors. But another droid like you flying around isn't going to get much attention until it's too late."

Chopper beeped and grumbled a series of sounds, filled with several expletives none of them would dare repeat. The gist of the response was essentially, "Why don't you go fishing for them with yourself as the hook then?" but in a far less polite way.

"They'll pick up our life signs and vitals as organics," Ezra said, repeating what Kannan had said. "You are more likely to be seen as another Imperial probe droid. Besides, if something goes wrong you can fly. You have your thrusters after all."

Chopper sprung his little arms as he spouted several angry beeps at Ezra and Sabine faster than they could process.

"You're not going to fall into a war zone if you're careful," Zeb said in exasperation.

"Now either you get ready to jump out or we'll throw you out, you little mouthy pile of bolts and nuts!" Sabine threatened.

Chopper grumbled something about the Droid Gottra and how maybe they had the right idea about organics and the like. Ezra sighed and patted the droid on the head. "Look, buddy, we're not going to let anything happen to you," he promised. "We'll be right up here, making sure nothing goes wrong."

"And we won't let you get too close to the shape shifting lizard monster man currently making life Hell for our Imperial friends," Sabine added. Chopper lets out a robotic 'grr,' of acceptance and rolled over to the edge of the Phantom's shuttle door, muttering another series of beeps as he did.

"Yeah, yeah, extra oil bath and everything when we're done," Zeb promised, waving his hand about. "Honestly, this isn't the craziest thing we've asked you to do."

Ezra looked up the cockpit. "Alright, we're good to go, Kannan." The Jedi Master took up the control stick in his hand and grinned back at them. "Let's go fishing then," he stated. "Scanners say we're right over a cluster of probes documenting the fight. We're out of range of their scanners, but we need to be quick. Good luck down there, Chop."

The droid gave another series of disgruntled beeps and rolled off the shuttle door with a guttural robotic scream.

The cord he was attached to spun out of its reel from the belly of the Phantom's exit at a frantic speed. Zeb had his hand over the locking mechanism, waiting for Kannan's signal. A mere minute later, it came. "Lock it!" he yelled back.

The Lasat pulled the lever and the reel stopped spinning. The chord went taught and began to swing back and forth in the sky. Ezra looked out the window, several hundred feet down to where he could just make out Chopper swaying in mid air.

"Is he okay?" Ezra called to Kannan. "His signal is coming through fine. I got it on the scope now," Kannan replied in a assuring tone.

The Padawan and Mandalorian walked back over with the Ninja Turtles to see how things were going from Chop's point of view. He saw the little droid was now staring at several Imperial probes, all recording the Kaiju still assaulting the Stormtroopers. Chopper now had front row seats to all the action. The Kaiju was still in his human form. Tanking blasts of fire from Fire Benders and shattering boulders from Earth Benders with his bare hands and tail. He blocked blows from an old Fire Nation soldier before headbutting the old man and sent him stumbling back. A Fire Bender around Ezra's age with a pony tail, bald head and a burnt eye jumped the Kaiju from his back, stabbing two swords into the Kaiju's back. The Kaiju reached back and grabbed him and threw to the older Fire Bender. His armor shifted the swords from his back to his front. He grabbed the swords by the hilt and held them in his hand before he charged at another group of Stormtroopers and began to slice through all of them like they were paper.

"They're really getting torn to shreds down there," Ezra spoke aloud, not really trying to hide his slight sense of sympathy for the Imps and their predicament.

"Which is why we should wrap this up quickly," Sabine said in agreement and not taking anymore pleasure in the sight than Ezra was. "That shape shifting and shrinking lizard man is going to mop them up eventually and he could take the probe droids with them."

"All Chop has to do is snag one," Kannan replied. "So let's hope he can be inconspicuous."

Chopper swayed for a few seconds, lining up his shot with one of the probe droids. When he thought he had him in his sights, the old astromech rocketed forward with his jump jet thrusters. Humming some kind of Flight of the Valkyries as he did. Kannan just sighed as he listened over the monitors.

"I'm just remembering he doesn't do inconspicuous well," he stated as he exhaled in exasperation. "Now I feel really stupid."

"Now?" Zeb chortled from where he stood in the back. "I thought this was pretty dumb from the start. I just didn't say anything because I thought it would be funny."

"Not helping," Leo said in annoyance.

Chopper did manage to close in on one of the probes, but for some reason it suddenly moved to the left. Both Jedi and Mandalorian got worried that it had spotted him. They gritted their teeth in fear that their plan was being blown and that the Imperials were going to learn that the Rebels were here any second.

Chopper sailed past the probes and was right above the Kaiju human, getting a good view as it held a Trooper by the throat and burned their head off. Chopper quickly swung around, turning around and fired his thrusters to come at one of the probes from the side. The chord twisted and turned as Chopper finally collided with his target. He shocked it shortly after impact his electroshock prod and then grabbed it with his little arms as it shorted out.

"He's got one!" Ezra shouted happily, shaking the back of Kannan's seat in delight.

"Zeb, pull him in, fast!" Kannan shouted. "We need to get it aboard and shut it down before it can turn back on and transmit!"

Zeb pulled the lever and Chopper began to ascend. To speed up his climb, Chopper blasted his jump jet thrusters and boosted back up to the Phantom with his prize. He dropped the probe on the floor and began to spin his head around while whooping excitedly. Zeb moved quickly and found the off switch for the probe droid.

"Well, you actually pulled it off," Zeb said to Chopper. "Color me surprised and impressed."

Chopper beeped a series of angry electronic sounds at Zeb and rolled up to the cockpit. "Yeah, next time I'm the bait," he huffed at the droid. "Like we're going to do something like this ever again."

Well, at least they now had their probe droid. All they needed to do now was hack it and make it spy for them. They didn't need to stick around here for that though, which was fine by everyone involved.

"I'll contact Hera and let her know we're coming back in." Kannan said. "With any luck, we'll be at the Orbital Gun by sundown and we can send in the droid to assess their defenses."

"Hopefully they haven sent too many Troopers there by now," Ezra replied. The young Jedi briefly looked out the cockpit window at the battle below. The Kaiju was still slaughtering the soldiers, using a tank as a bat to send soldiers and other tanks off the canyon ledge. Ezra could see smoke and fire rising all along the ridge.

"Those guys probably won't be a problem at least," he stated with a sullen look on his face. "Kannan, is it wrong I feel a little bad for them?"

"Jedi don't take pleasure in seeing things die," Kannan replied sagely. "There's nothing wrong in feeling bad for a life ending."

"Yeah, but they're still the enemy," Ezra reminded. "It feels weird. Aren't we supposed to not feel bad about this?"

"It's something every Jedi has to reconcile," Kannan admitted. "The fact that our enemies are people too and we will probably be forced to kill them. It's a sad fact of any conflict.

Ezra had never thought about it like that, but he supposed it made sense. He hated the Empire, for everything it did, but he did recall the time he infiltrated the Academy on Lothal. Those kids there were mostly just normal kids like he was. How many of the Stormtroopers they had fought and killed were once like that? He supposed he could take solace in the fact that it wasn't him doing any of the killing this time in this case. He still felt weird though.

His eyes were drawn to the Kaiju, as Kannan fired up the engines and got ready to leave. He wasn't sure, but as he looked at the creature he got a weird feeling. Kannan had described it before, anger, ferocious primal rage, seemed to emanate from the Kaiju. However, it didn't feel like hate, no not hate, but righteous fury. Like he had felt when he stood up to the Inquisitor on the Star Destroyer to help Kannan or before then when he had made that speech through the hacked Imperial Communications Tower. That kind of anger, that's what Ezra felt, but he didn't understand why. What was motivating this shape shifting and shrinking Kaiju?

As the Phantom turned to leave, Ezra finally got a hint to his answer. A tickle in the Force that resonated something beneath the fury and rage. Pain, deep, unrelenting pain. For something that happened, for something that someone did? He didn't know. Ezra was sure of one thing though. This wasn't a random attack. This thing had an endgame of some kind. He didn't know what it ultimately was, but Ezra knew what the Kaiju's current goal was; making the Troopers hurt. The Saurian Kaiju Human was definitely doing a good job of that so far.

---

Insects, the lot of them. Full of arrogance, pride and insolence.

So much like the humans from home. They still thought themselves stronger even after everything. Only difference was that almost everyone here had the control over the elements of Earth and Fire. Godzilla knew he could withstand their weapons but he didn't want to waste time. So much confidence in their toys, how sure they were of the power they could wield. Without their huge guns shooting plasma into his nose, he had regained the initiative. Godzilla would now teach them a lesson in true pain and crush them. Their pitiful tanks were nothing but bits of tin to him.

That didn't seem to deter them from fighting him hand to hand. Especially these young ones that were standing their ground and fighting him with super powers. Little Red Hood with a Scythe had superspeed. Snow White with a rapier had glyphs. Woman with Cat Ears left Shadow Clones that took hits. Goldilocks the Winter Soldier seemed to absorb kinetic energy from hits and hit back stronger. The Spartan Woman had powers that reminded Godzilla of Magneto. Ginger woman with a War Hammer could absorb electricity and hit stronger. The man with a magenta streak. . . well he didn't seem to have any powers along with the Trooper with camo armor.

He blocked the punches and kicks from Goldilocks the Winter Soldier with his tail and arms with a blank expression before rearing his fist back to throw a punch. The blonde woman did the same and her prosthetic arm collided with his. Her strength surprised him when they released a shockwave that cracked the earth beneath them but his strength won by shattering her prosthetic arm. 2 Left hooks. Right Hook. Cross. Jab. Jab. Haymaker. Uppercut. He spun around and Tail Whipped her feet out from under her and kicked her in the stomach, sending her flying.

Two bolts of lightning hit him in the torso. Looking up, he saw the magic user and her lightning dragon he had met before. "Remember me, Lizard Breath?"

"I do," Godzilla replied. "So you survived. Impressive. For a human with your level of magic."

"Yeah, we're all kinds of stubborn." she replied, saying the words Tony Stark had said to the Mad Titan years ago.

"So I've noticed," Godzilla said in a mixture of annoyance and respect. Suddenly a shield flew into view and smacked him in the face. It was dark blue and white with a symbol in the middle that looked like the British flag. It flew back to the owner. Godzilla blinked in mild confusion. "Margret Carter?" he whispered.

Indeed, standing before him was a variant of Margret Carter that became Captain America, or rather Captain Carter. Carter charged at Godzilla who punched the shield and the impact released a shockwave that pushed them both back. Godzilla shook his fist. So that was a genuine Vibranium shield. Either that meant Wakanda existed in this universe or didn't and a Vibranium meteor was somewhere here and the humans still harvested it.

"Marrow! Semblance!" One of the Troopers shouted. The Trooper with a Dog tail snapped his fingers, shouting, "Stay!"

Suddenly Godzilla froze where he was. His eyes looked back and forth. "What the actual fuck?" he asked out loud.

"Give him all you got!" Captain Carter shouted. Female Flash ripoff with a Mohawk sped by, delivering lightning charged punches and kicks before the muscular woman with a Missile Launching War Hammer shot missiles at him. Red Riding Hood with a Scythe shot from her scythe, apparently it was also a gun. Snow White blasted him with waves of fire and ice. Woman with Cat ears shot him with her sword-kusarigama-pistol. Man with magenta streak did the same with his pistols that had curved blades under the barrel and the remaining Troopers.

Then both Captain Carter and Magneto the Spartan Woman began to throw their shields at him from different directions three times before jumping towards him. Carter slammed her shield into his face while the younger woman with red hair slammed hers into Godzilla's knees, knocking him off his feet.

Godzilla rolled on the ground. He tried to move again but his body didn't respond. Other than his mouth and eyes. He didn't focus on that. ". . . Why couldn't Captain America and Wonder Woman do something like that back at Earth with their shields?" he asked out loud. Wait, my mouth can still move. . .

"I don't know how much longer I can hold this!" Marrow exclaimed in a warning tone. Not long it would be as Godzilla used his Atomic Breath to push himself up to his feet. He kept firing and blasted near the Man with a Dog Tail. The explosion knocked him back and Godzilla could move again.

The Kaiju human charged to him, not letting him recover and use his admittedly dangerous power, or Semblance as it was called. He then Drop Kicked the man when he tried to stand up. Godzilla narrowed his eyes as he saw a shield of light flicker around the human's body. That was admittedly interesting. These humans had some magic shields protecting their bodies? That would explain why they recovered from his blows. But based on the flickering it was limited. That was good to know. Let's see how it holds against his Atomic Breath.

Before he could fire, Godzilla was shot in the back. Turning around, he saw that it came from the jets. Charging his Atomic Breath, he fired at the flying machines. At times like this, Godzilla could never tell whether the humans behind these war machines were brave, stupid or just mindless. Tony Stark, James Rhodes, Akane Yashiro, Tommy Oliver and others have shown that most are brave. Justin Hammer showed him that they can be stupid. The Chitahuri showed him mindless.

He got his answers when he saw this group of flying machines turn into robots. Of course. Robots in disguise. Why not.

These were indeed like a hive of insects, buzzing and crawling about in their little formations and carrying out their little strategies. As if whatever plans their hive mind, or whatever it was that drove them, would be enough. He'd reveal how great an error in judgment this was now.

He was shot by fire from Scarface Ponytail before Ginger woman with the War Hammer was struck by lightning. As Godzilla turned to face her, he was struck in the face by the hammer. He responded with swinging his tail at her before shifting to his Kaiju form and size. As soon as he did, the ground gave out under him and he slid back down to the canyon. It didn't concern him though. It was more like sliding into a dried creek to him.

Godzilla's fins lit up bright blue and he fired a blast of his Atomic Breath. He held back his full power to retain energy, even then it was enough. The tanks went bright red and began to melt into molten slag, their crews included.

As he kept firing, a series of energy beams slammed into the right side of his face, hitting close to his eye. He turned, snarling as the beams kept hitting his face. It was another walking tank, like the one he had thrown earlier. The stupid humans inside thought that they would fare better than the others. So much confidence in their little toys, how sure they were of the power they could wield. They knew nothing of real power, just in how they could abuse what little they had obtained. For that mistake their toy would now become their tomb.

Ignoring the beams, Godzilla turned away and then swatted the tiny machine with the tip of his tail. Looking back over his shoulder, he watched the puny weapon of war roll sideways across the ground. Pieces of its gun and chassis snapped off, more of the little white-clad humans in its way were crushed beneath it. Eventually the vehicle came to a stop when it smashed into a pile of large rocks. Flames rose up from the machine's belly, its legs now useless, flopping to the side.

As Godzilla moved to the front, a series of laser blasts struck him in the chin. He peered down with a growl and saw a single tank surrounded by more soldiers. Okay, this was getting tiresome. Did they not see what their comrades had suffered? They should've just retreated by now as they did before. Did they just not care? Did they all have death wishes? If that was the case, Godzilla will GLADLY oblige them.

He raised a fist over the tank and soldiers standing beside it. Then he dropped it down on all their heads and crushed them all. Godzilla dug his claws into the rock and slashed it across the canyon edge, churning up rock and earth. The upturned bits and pieces of the canyon's cliff rained back down on the soldiers below, burying them alive.

Godzilla looked back ahead of the canyon trench, just in time to see a true surprise. A column of tanks and robots were moving up towards him along the canyon floor. They fired missiles and laser cannon blasts in repeated succession. The shots slammed into his neck and chest. When one missile hit him in the head, Godzilla let loose a furious roar. That was a mistake.

He stomped forward through the canyon, stamping his foot down on one of the nearest tanks. He then raised his head up, swiveled it around as blue lights emanated from his fins. As his Atomic Breath boiled in the back of his throat, Godzilla could see the tanks and robots starting to back away from him. Only now, too late, did they understand. They and their weapons were not the danger. He is the danger.

He let loose a full blast, stretching it from the front to the back of their column, and up to the flying robots, obliterating one after the other as the blue beam of death cut through them. The tanks' turrets exploded off of them in little towers of flame, others were simply incinerated.

When it was over, the canyon was a sea of fire. Those beneath it who were not dead yet soon would be. Now the white-clad humans would know there was no defense. Not against him. Not against what he is. Godzilla turned towards his left and prepared to fire again. Blue energy burned and broiled through his teeth and then he released it in a massive beam that set the canyon edge ablaze with a wall of fire. Several more tanks, walking guns, robots and white-clad soldiers just melted away.

Godzilla prepared to fire another blast along the opposite canyon. They would learn. He'd turn this whole arid rocky desert into glass if he had to. Force was the only thing the humans respected and understood. And these humans would respect him or die.

---

Everything had gone wrong faster than even Caine had predicted they would. This wasn't a battle; this was a slaughter. Even Felucia was never this bad. At least they could hide behind the giant trees and none of the Clankers were three hundred and fifty feet tall and breathing fire. They weren't going to win this fight; Caine knew that now for sure. He wasn't about to run away though, not with good men still dying on the field.

With no guns left to man, Caine and the others sprang into action with the surviving artillery men and the Huntsmen and Huntresses. They had managed to find a few Speeder bikes and raced them towards the front. Yang Xiao Long was with Zuko because couldn't drive her motorcycle with one arm. She had explicably told Raven, who was apparently her birth mother, not to scratch it. They weren't driving to fight Alpha Predator One though, they were looking for wounded.

"There's a 2-M in Section 2 near the rock formation," he shouted on the radio as Jaune drove them through the fiery debris. "Could be survivors, get someone over there if you can."

"We're close to it, sir." responded Prince Zuko with Yang. "We'll check on it and report back."

"Officer Caine," Captain Carter suddenly reported in. "We found some troopers alive! They got trapped under a 2-M strut that crashed down on their position when it exploded. We're getting them out now."

"Good," Caine replied. "Get them out of the field as fast as you can, Captain. Private Arc and I are going to see about an SPMA that got tossed into some rocks up ahead."

It wasn't long until Jaune stopped the speeder just a few feet away from the downed artillery Walker. With the Kaiju's rampage still ongoing behind them, they clambered onto the belly of the upside-down vehicle. This would've been easier if these things had proper cockpit windows but luckily Walkers, no matter how big or small, had an escape hatch below the chassis and Jaune had a keen eye.

"I found the hatch here, sir." Jaune had said, banging on the metal stomach of the Walker. Caine walked over and saw the outline of the hatch. The mechanism appeared to be jammed, but that wasn't going to keep him out. "Stand back, Arc.," he told the Private as he raised his rifle. He stomped down hard on the hatch, hoping that anyone nearby on the other side could hear and stand back. The metal was too thick for his voice to carry through. In a blaze of red blaster bolts, the lock was blown away and Jaune forced open the heavy steel door with his Aura enhanced strength. Inside they found two Troopers, still alive, staring up at them.

"Anyone else in there?" Jaune called down.

"Just our driver," one responded. "But he's stuck in the cockpit! We need a cutting torch to get him out."

Thankfully, Caine had packed a cutting torch from the emergency supplies they found near the speeder bikes. He passed it to Jaune and ushered him down into the Walker. "Cut the driver out, Jaune." he ordered. "I'll help them out."

Jaune jumped down into the Walker and Caine reached his arm down to help the trapped Troopers out. As he did, he got a report from one of the rescue teams. Amin and Ebi from the sound of it.

"Found a survivor, Sir. He's unconscious but alive."

"Good, get him back to Command," Caine ordered. "We're bringing in three survivors ourselves."

As the two trapped Troopers got out, Caine looked towards the enemy for a moment. The super-sized reptile was still trashing what little remained of their attack force on the opposite side of the canyon. He sighed bitterly. He couldn't do anything for the soldiers over there. He had to keep focused on what he could do here.

That quickly became a lot more difficult when a familiar voice entered the comm channel.

"Officer Caine, where are you?"

Great, what did Zhao want? Reluctantly, the old Clone answered in the most respectable manner he could muster. Although, he didn't really feel like being respectable right now.

"Commander Zhao, I'm currently in the thick of it right now," he explained. "I'm trying to find survivors in the wreckage with what's left of the artillery team."

"Well, at least I've finally managed to get through all this chaos on the airwaves," Zhao growled.

Starscream's voice came in. "I take it the stationary artillery cannons are all gone then?"

They haven't been firing for the past ten minutes so yes, they're all gone, he wanted to say. He also wanted to add to that, 'I'm alive and uninjured by the way, thank you for asking,' in the most brazenly sarcastic way imaginable for a soldier. Caine's filter was in full effect though, so he went what Zhao was expecting.

"Alpha Predator One completely destroyed the position, Sir." he explained. "We only have Captain Carter, the Beacon Hunters and Ace-Ops along with a squad and a half of men left. We're doing our best to find survivors."

"And who exactly authorized this rescue operation of yours?" Zhao questioned sternly.

Was he really upset about what Caine suspected he was about to get chewed out for? He didn't realize he needed to clear it with Command to help save his fellow soldiers. But Caine just sucked it up and responded how he was supposed to, how he had been trained to. It may have been Captain Carter and General Iroh's idea but he wasn't to say that.

"I took it upon myself to coordinate the effort," he informed the Fire Nation Commander and Decepticon. "We've found several men alive so far."

"I don't care," Zhao shouted back. "You are a Communications Officer, you relay orders, you do not issue them of your own accord!"

"Get those men you've commandeered back here now!" Starscream added. "We want all infantry off the field! We're going to send every vehicle we have left in a concentrated assault while the creature's back is turned! We're going to fire everything we have at him!"

Caine was almost out of respectability now, but he did his best to put up a decent front. "Sir, I don't believe that will work." he protested. "The Kaiju's hide is too thick and those fins of his provide extra protection. We need to fall back and conserve what forces we have left."

"We are not about to take a lesson in strategy from an aging lab experiment!" Zhao yelled back in a rage. "Return those men to my command and clear the field for the assault now! I have every tank and gun left on the other side of the canyon distracting Alpha Predator One! I need to attack now before they're exhausted! So clear the field at once!"

Caine shut the radio off. He wasn't going to abandon the rescue efforts just so Zhao and Starscream could send more good soldiers to die pointlessly. He had to stop the attack and there was only one way. Zhao wouldn't send the rest of the tanks and Walkers in if Alpha Predator One turned his attention back to this side of the canyon. He knew the Kaiju hated artillery tanks the most but there were practically none on the field he could use to get the lizard's attention. Even the one he was currently on was in no shape to start firing again.

Jaune came back up a few seconds later, hoisting up an injured SPMA driver out of the hatch. Caine helped get him out and passed him down to his two crewmates waiting below as Raven and the others showed up in their Speeder bikes and motorcycle. Jaune managed to climb out of the overturned Walker by himself.

"Where to next, Sir?" Jaune asked. "We bringing these three back to the medics?"

"Yeah, along with everyone else." Caine replied in a grave tone. "Zhao and Starscream wants the field cleared so he can launch a full-scale assault while Alpha Predator One is distracted."

"WHAT?!" was the major reaction from the group while a few had exclaimed, "WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY THINKING?!"

"That's crazy!" Harriet exclaimed in shock. "That's just gonna add to the body count at this point!"

"I tried to tell him that and he didn't listen," the Clone Trooper informed the Ace-Op, shaking his head. "We need to get that thing's attention. If it turns away from Zhao's distraction, he'll be forced to to call off the attack."

"Ok, how do we do that?" Pyrrha asked. "Raven and Iroh. Use your lightning." Caine replied.

Raven and Iroh nodded before the former cupped her hands over her mouth and let a draconic shriek. Before long, her Skrill companion flew towards them. "Valkyrie, Elderne, do your hammers still have ammo?"

"Yes/You bet." was the answers from the women carrying missile/grenade launching war hammers.

"Ok, but are you sure about this?" Jaune asked. "I mean, Zhao and Starscream ain't going to like you spoiling their plan."

"They don't like me already," Caine reminded him sternly. "All I care about is making sure we don't lose more people to this meat grinder. You know as well as I do that, we've already lost this fight. We need to save what we can, or we'll never take this thing down." He looked at Jaune and the others. "Are you all with me?" he asked.

There was barely a hint of hesitation in any of them. Especially the youngest, Ruby. They all stood up, balling their fists (Or fist in Yang's case) as they nodded.

"We're with you," Jaune swore. "And Arcs never break a promise. Just tell us what to do."

Caine nodded. "Amin, call in one of the bikes nearby." he said to the Dog Faunus. "We'll have them pick up these three." He pointed to the three recued crewmates on the ground. "Huntsmen and Huntresses, help Branwen and General Iroh get Alpha Predator One's attention to us with everything you got."

He turns to Nora and Elm. "This may not work but I want you two to fire down the Kaiju's throat just as he is about to fire."

They followed Caine's orders to the letter, calling in a nearby speeder group to help get their survivors out of here. Harriet and Vine Zeki joined them with Clover. They didn't have long range weapons to assist. Caine then called up the rest of the bikers and told them to clear the area. If only to make sure they wouldn't get caught when the Kaiju's rage turned back to their side of the canyon. Mostly though, it was to give the illusion he was following Zhao's orders. By the time the Fire Nation Commander figured out what was happening, it would be too late.

Alpha Predator One was still attacking the forces on the opposite side of the canyon. Given how quickly it had made scrap out of their side's forces, Caine knew they wouldn't last much longer. Zhao and Starscream would be launching their attack any moment. If they had any chance of stopping it, they'd have to begin their attack now.

"Hit it with everything you got!" Jaune declared.

Dark clouds formed over Raven and her Skrill and lightning struck the Strike Class Dragon who roared in response. Team RWBY and PRN fired at the back of the Kaiju's head. Alpha Predator One's rampage suddenly stopped when the lightning him in the back and he slowly turned around to stare down at the Huntsmen and Huntresses. His mouth opened slightly as blue energy started pooling in the back of his mouth. Caine's stomach tightened. There was no way they could run fast enough to get away from that. Unless they tried something desperate, wouldn't be the first time today though.

"Elderne, Valkyrie! Now!" he shouted.

The ginger haired woman's front of her grenade launcher opened up. "Booyah!" Nora shouted as she and Elm fired, using the big blue ball of energy welling in the back of the Kaiju's throat as a bullseye. Now Caine had seen things fired but he was surprised and confused when Nora's grenades left a pink heart shaped cloud of smoke trailing behind them.

Alpha Predator One seemed to be confused before the grenades and missiles shot down his throat. There was a terrible explosion as the Kaiju's blast backfired, part of it spewing out of the side of his mouth and the rest erupting within.

Alpha Predator One roared in actual pain and anguish as it stumbled backwards, slamming into the canyon wall behind him. Smoke billowed up from his jaws as his giant hands held his throat and scratched at his inflamed snout.

Jaune and Caine shared a look. They were honestly surprised the blast hadn't blown the Kaiju's head off. It looked like they had at least taken him down a peg, but the grim reality soon came back.

Raven and Summer landed next to Team RWBY and PRN. "Get on, get on!" she exclaimed urgently. Yang was the first to jump on behind her while Blake followed. Zuko got on Yang's motorcycle with his uncle while Jaune and Caine got to their speeder bikes. The Saurian Kaiju forced himself off the canyon he had crashed into and back onto his feet. With smoke still pouring from his mouth and nostrils, the Kaiju raised his hands in front him and slammed them into the canyon. The rock wall cracked before sliding down to where they were as they either flew or sped away.

Caine and Jaune raced up a path leading to the surface of the canyon behind Zuko and Iroh. Just as they reached the top, the Kaiju's fists slammed down behind them. They had barely managed to just escape the crushing weight of the monster's claws.

The shockwave they could not avoid, however and both were sent flying in the air as they were thrown forward. Caine managed to roll with the wave better and got to his feet quickly. He raced back towards the fist closest to him, firing his blaster as he did.

This is stupid, he thought. Really stupid. This thing had killed a lot of good soldiers though and one good friend back in Anima. He had hurt badly just now, his plan and the Huntresses. Caine didn't feel like letting up now, not while it was still hurting. He raced to the still enclosed reptilian fists and grabbed onto one of the scales. He began firing into the hand at point blank range while he held on. The laser bolts seem to scorch the skin a bit, but not by much. This was little more than a big bite to him, nothing. Caine now instantly regretted this pretty foolhardy little attack of his.

Suddenly, the fist started rising into the air. Caine wasn't sure if the Kaiju had noticed him or if he was just lifting his hand back up. Either way, Caine didn't feel like sticking around to find out. The Clone Trooper fired one last time as he prepared to jump back down off the hand. Then he heard something snap as he slipped off. He landed with a thud on the ground, his armor covered in dirt now. He looked at his right hand and saw a piece of the monster's scale. Perhaps all that shooting had done some damage after all.

The Kaiju now turned back towards where the majority of the fire was coming from as Summer landed with the Huntresses and Huntsmen. However the Saurian Kaiju didn't go back to fighting them tooth and claw. Instead, he used the gash in the rock his body had created as a step ladder to get out of the canyon. He started stomping though what was left of the tanks and mobile artillery, moving away from the canyon altogether.

Caine supposed he couldn't blame the Kaiju from leaving. The creature had known it had won. He had broken their defenses and there was nothing left to preoccupy him in the slightest. The Kaiju just walked away with no real injuries of notice. Not even the shots that hit him in the mouth and caused his Atomic Breath to backfire moments before seemed to register with him anymore. They had thrown whole columns of tanks and heavy guns at this thing, yet to him it was nothing. All they had to show for their efforts were a lot of dead men, broken equipment and a piece of giant scale.

"You ripped that off him?" Jaune asked as he helped him to his feet after they watched the Kaiju walk away.

"Yeah, guess I did," Caine nodded. "At least we managed to break something off."

"And we know a weakness," Zuko added. "We hit him in the mouth next time, not the eyes. Less armor."

That honestly sounded like a good idea to Caine and Iroh agreed, but it would have to get past two people in particular. Well, a man and a robot alien. Speaking of which Starscream just landed near them as Zhao was racing towards them on the strut of a 2-M tank. Caine gave him credit. He half expected the Fire Nation Commander to show up in a fancy landspeeder. Didn't meant the Clone like the prospect of getting chewed out by the arrogant womp rat though. Zhao jumped off the strut and approached Caine and Jaune now, his face boiling with anger.

"Are you suffering from cell degeneration, Clone?" he rhetorically demanded. "I gave you specific orders and you disobeyed them!"

"We had the tanks read to get underway and your little stunt ruined everything!" Starscream exclaimed. "Not only did we lose our chance to catch him with his back turned, but you gave Alpha Predator One a means of escape! You just cost us our one chance to end that monstrosity quickly and efficiently! What possessed you to disobey our direct orders?"

Team RWBY and the other Hunters moved to say something but Raven, Amin and Iroh held them back. "With respect sirs," Caine began astutely. "I followed your orders. You told me to send the men back to your command and clear the field. I did. I acted within my own judgment from there and I decided that we needed a better plan. I believed using the Kaiju's Atomic Breath against it could be more effective than a full on assault."

"So you decided to play hero then?" Zhao asked haughtily. "Well, look how that turned out, Clone. We lost the objective! He's now stomping off to who knows where! Probably to another Imperial installation to demolish or worse yet, one of the kingdoms!"

"To be direct, Sir," Caine continued. "We had already lost this fight once it destroyer most of the heavy vehicles and killed most of our men. I think it is clear we need far bigger weapons than just tanks."

Zhao moved up into Caine's face, his glower growing ever wider. The Fire Nation Commander's eyes glared angrily though the helmet's visor at the old Clone. "I will decide what our strategy is and what we need," he declared. "You do not make decisions, period." He prodded Caine's chest with his fingertip, but the Clone refused to back down.

"Okay, this childish bickering has gone long enough," Captain Carter said, breaking the tension between the two. "Commander, Officer Caine recovered a piece of the Kaiju's hide." she said and held up Caine's hand into Zhao's field of vision. "And I broke a piece of the Kaiju's armor." she added, holding up a small black tooth shaped blade of the Kaiju's armor.

"We can use this," Jaune insisted. "We just need to send it down to the higher ups and have scientists look at it in a lab."

Zhao eyed the scale for a moment longer and then took it from Caine's hands as well as the shard from Captain Carter. "Very well, I suppose we can snatch a victory from this defeat with any luck," he relented, still sounding threatening as he did. "But trust me, Clone, this insubordination will not stand. I will see to both matters personally. Do not attempt to undermine me again. Dismissed."

With that said, Zhao walked away. Starscream joined him after giving one last look at Caine. Jaune and Marrow breathed a sigh of relief as they left. Caine just kept staring. Once again, his thoughts turned back to the Jedi and how they commanded their soldiers. Regardless of their faults, at the moment, Caine felt he would give anything to have any Jedi here instead of Zhao. It was the first time in a long time that he had ever wished a Jedi was leading him. They weren't here though, this wasn't the Republic anymore. It was the Empire. And this was just how the Empire treated its soldiers. But he kept that thought buried inside, where no one could hear, see or even sense it.

However, when Zhao and Starscream left, the other soldiers that followed him gathered around the old Clone. They started patting him on the back.

"Good job, officer."

"You too, Private."

"Didn't think we'd make it out of there."

There was a lot of praise to go around and it didn't stop when Caine and the others started to heading back with everyone else.

"Hey, let's give it up for Officer Caine and his team!" Ruby suddenly declared and this caused a few to chant his, Jaune, Iroh, Raven and Marrow's name during the walk back, even Captain Carter and the Hunters joined in as did the Decepticons. Caine then thought that maybe, just maybe, a little of the Old Republic was still alive after all.

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They had hurt him, badly. He would recover, but it didn't matter. They had hurt him. The worthless little insects had hurt him. With his own Atomic Breath no less! (Damn it, he had hoped that Brainiac was the only one to think of that method.) How dare they. Their kind had no right, no right at all. They had already done more than enough to him. More than they could realize.

As Godzilla stomped away though, he did not feel hate for the white-clad humans. No, he felt pity for them as he knew how much they would suffer for this insult. He could already feel a great power residing in the mountains beyond the land of ice before him. He could feel its energy resonating in the very air. That is were he'd strike next.

They still believed they had power. That the small victory of sorts they had earned in the middle of a crushing defeat somehow vindicated them no doubt. He'd show them how wrong they were. How easy it was for that power to be stripped away. Then they'd know pain, greater than anything they had ever inflicted on him.

Break their toys, the monuments to their egos, the symbols of their dominion and they would crumble. They always did, save for some. These humans would be no different. Let them think they knew a weakness, a method to exploit. It would make no difference in the end; they would still be crushed. True power did not come from weapons, technology or even strength. It came from will and his will would prove to be stronger in the end. It always had.

For unlike the humans, he had nothing so material to lose in this world.

No allies, no friends, no Queen. . . No children. He was alone in this world.

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Whew! That was fun to write. I hope it was fun to read.

Godzilla fought Saitama here. I figured that with what he is in this fanfic and whatnot, he could go toe to claw with One Punch Man (who is more based on the anime show during Season One and Two). More characters from that show will show up later on in this series. Especially the Monster Association.

Then Jaune meets the people that could have been his friends if a) he didn't join the military b) the Grimm were still a threat and c) there was no Galactic Empire.

The Empire had attacked Godzilla and it didn't work as Zhao had planned. He proved that he wasn't a dumb animal. And he killed a lot of soldiers in his human form and fought Captain Carter.

Him fighting hand to hand was to show his mix of Showa Godzilla, who, like Bruce Lee, is a brawler and one of the founding fathers of martial arts. He picked up some moves from Kong Fu (Including making his opponents eat a tree.) and made an improved Gorosaurus Kangaroo Dropkick. That is the heart of the Go-Go-Jira style. Adapt what works, eliminate what doesn't. . . and make your opponent eat a tree.

(1) And yes, I had Godzilla "fight" Homelander and win. I realize now that I made Homelander stronger than he should be when I had him lift Godzilla off the ground and drag him across the sea floor and tank Godzilla's Atomic Breath. Homelander's strongest feat of durability was that he survived a nuclear explosion and feat of strength was that he held a fighter jet with one arm and tossed it as if it was made of paper. And Compound V seems to be weak to nuclear radiation. But is this the last we'll see of Homelander? Especially since he was cloned in the comics? We shall see.

(2) Godzilla's armor is similar to Steppenwolf's armor from the Snyder Cut of Justice League but black. And its made of Vibranium and Adamantium. Who designed it for him is up to you to decide.

(3) I find the exchange between Jaune and Caine ironic considering there is a few fanfics out there where Jaune is a Clone Trooper.

(4) 1) Yes, I was referencing to the crossover Godzilla had with Zone Fighter during the Showa Era.

Next chapter: Ahsoka meets with the rebel group that will help them on Remnant. Godzilla enters a land of ice. I wonder if he'll meet anyone there.