Gyozen sighed as he watched the sun rise, awaiting news on Yoshiro's shaky condition. Small contingents of GDF forces were scattered around the globe, briefly engaging with the Kaiju Girls they could, the alien insect and cyborg bird being the latest one. The Earth Kaiju had a knack for avoiding them, but that was to be expected given their unfortunate experience with them over the years.
He snarled, but mostly kept his temper in check. He had to remain professional for his sake and the sake of his troops. He sent his report in a few hours back and no doubt expected some outrage at the lack of favored results. Not that he blamed them. They should've been able to take in at least one or two Kaijus. But Gyozen overestimated the GDF's newfound strength and it costed them.
A mistake he wouldn't make twice. Some new strategies were in order, especially now.
"General Gyozen." The ships leading medical officer came it. As one would expect, a middle aged person with years of experience written all over their face.
"The status report. Make it quick." Gyozen ordered curtly.
The Medical officer nodded and she went on to explain, "She's stable. But still heavily injured. She suffered some burns on her right arm and the force of the Kaiju's finger no doubt caused the broken ribs. There was some internal hemorrhages as well. I doubt..."
Gyozen briefly tuned her out and thought back to that night. That vivid aura and look of gleeful malice on the Kaiju Boy's face as he took those human lives, the various images he got before he delivered demise to the humans aboard those ships, and the utter fear he put into the survivors. But that biased part of Gyozen could only think of the way Gojira nearly took Yashiro, the way he aimed straight for her.
"General?" The woman's voice brought him back and he realized his hands were slowly denting the railings. He was losing his temper again. "Are you alright?"
Gyozen waved it off, calming himself. "No. But I don't require medical aid. Return to your post."
"Yes sir." The officer replied, heading back to return to her duties of tending to the injured or worse.
Once again, Gyozen was left alone to stew over his thoughts. Thoughts of what tell the other members of the UN once the call came, Serizawa's potential actions, and, most importantly, how to deal with them. Deal with him, the devil among those filthy demons that plagued the world.
Down below, The GDF engineers and their drones creations were working overtime to repair and outfit Kiryu for her next performance. Gyozen would make sure Gojira's bloodlust would come to a solid freeze. Once he was out of the way of humanity, the rest would fall like a made line of dominoes, one horrendous abomination at a time.
ZZZZZ
Gojira could tell by the beams of light on his face that the morning sun was approaching. He dozed off during the night and cursed to himself as he awoke. At the very least, Queen Ghidorah didn't try to sneak off or pull some nefarious plot out of the air involving him. He didn't know he her long but he wouldn't put it past a Ghidorah.
Queen Ghidorah hmped and folded her arms, which put emphasis on her already sizable chest. "Oh, you're finally up? Enjoy your beauty rest?"
"Yes." Gojira drawled. He could feel the other Godzillas. They weren't together, not yet, but they were getting closer. He could start to make his way over to them with Queen Ghidorah in tow. "We're going to be here a little longer then were heading out to the ocean."
"Fine." Grumbled Ghidorah, clearly nettled at how the cave walls chafed at her wings. She was pretty much fidgeting most of her time there, not really requiring any sleep. Instead, her mind kept going back to Gojira and his odd ways, his effect on the others, and his mystery. She decided to ask something, "You know, Male Lizard... it's just us."
Gojira snorted, "Yes, it makes me sick too."
"See, that's what I'm not quite understanding, that malice." Queen Ghidorah's eyes narrowed and had a faint glow to them, a stare that would intimidate most other Kaiju were she alone with them. "All I want is a simply "why". Surely a Kaiju as powerful as you could share such a thing."
Gojira only snarled in a low tone and replied with, "Flattery won't loosen my lips, space gecko."
Queen Ghidorah growled, "Then what will? Surely there are reasons for your actions and feelings that I may get to know."
"You know enough. Now shut up." Gojira dismissively told her, already tired of hearing her voice again.
Queen Ghidorah huffed and thanks to her feelings of boredom, agitation, and slight pain felt the need to be persistent in order to distract herself. Bit rather than be blatant, she tried another angle, namely by switching the topic around. "Male lizard... what's driving you?"
Gojira narrowed his eyes and replied with a dry, "What?"
"Tell me, what's your driving force in life?" Queen Ghidorah repeated, her tone slightly softer and her position slightly more relaxed. "What has pushed you to do what you've done."
Gojira shook his head. "Why do you care so much?" He raised himself up, taking on a more intimidating posture. "What could a being like you hope to gain from understanding my motives?"
"An answer for an answer and a question for a question." Said Queen Ghidorah, folding her arms. "It's only fair right?"
"Then answer, space maggot." Gojira replied in a dull tone. They had a brief stare down and Ghidorah cracked first.
"Fine. I want to know what helped fuel you to... outclass me in power." She spoke like she had just finished swallowing down bitter medicine. "Motivation can be a key part in a Kaijus development... who better to ask than you?"
"Godzilla." Gojira answered. He wanted her to stop speaking. All this verbal communication, it wasn't something Gojira was used to and he did so much of it in this world.
Queen Ghidorah haughtily replied with, "She beat me after you and it was a closer match. And we both know you played a roll." She sighed and closed her eyes. "So tell me, who better to ask than you?"
Gojira grit his teeth. She had him there. So, he would be generous and humor her. With a neutral expression, he said, "Survival... survival and hatred. Those are my motivations."
"That's it?" Questioned Queen Ghidorah. The hatred part she could get behind, hate was very freeing in her opinion, but survival? That was so basic, so lackluster. Any Kaiju could merely survive, certainly Gojira. . "Surely there's more to it? Don't you want more than that?"
"No, I don't. I simply want to be left alone." Gojira answered, brushing a stray hair from his face. "Constant fighting is annoying."
Queen Ghidorah briefly gawked at him, "But you're a monster... fighting and conquering is our joy!"
"It's your joy. Not mines. Not others." Gojira growled. He pointed at her and hissed, "You're a worthless being Ghidorah, you know that? Pointlessly seeking conflict and conquest all for what? Amusement? Just because?"
"Because I am power incarnate." Queen Ghidorah hissed, getting more enraged as Gojira went on.
"No, you're just a false queen." Gojira replied with casual contempt. "At the end of the day, a being like me defeated because the truth is, I'm stronger. So is Godzilla. We haven't lived as long as you, but already we exceed you."
Her fist clenched and she hissed out, "Why? All I want is the "why", not this dribble."
"Oh, but this is the why, you galactic parasite." Gojira continued. "The truth is, she has potential and I have the raw power with experience that trumps yours. I've been through more than you in a shorter amount of time and survived. That is it. Nothing else."
Queen Ghidorah glared at him, steaming over his words. She wasn't satisfied with that and he continued to taunt her, belittle her for her failure over this planet. But there was still one thing left that remained even less satisfied.
She knew where his survival part came from, or at least thought she did, but not the hatred part. He clearly hated humans, but not like he did her at first. Or rather, her kind. Queen Ghidorah exhaled before asking, "What exactly do you hate... besides humanity."
Gojira sat in silence for what felt like hours before he answered with, "Beings like you."
"Like me?" Queen Ghidorah questioned. A rather interesting answer in her opinion.
"Monsters with your personality rub my scales the wrong way. It's hard not hate you." Gojira clarified to her. Obviously still keeping the truth to himself. He'd admit the truth to another Kaiju far before he'd ever admit it to her. He idly turned to the location of where he felt Godzilla and Junior were, ignoring the glow of the sun in his eyes. Now Godzilla was on the move while Mothra stayed behind. "We've stayed here enough. Let's go."
Queen Ghidorah reluctantly nodded. She found it amusing how lackluster of a liar Gojira could be, one of the few things she actually liked about him. But she supposed with him being a natural powerhouse, he seldom needed to lie his way out of anything rather than destroy it or intimidate it. Still, this talk was better than last night's, if it could be even called that.
'Just what could you have to hide from me, male lizard?' She asked herself as she was forced to take the lead once more.
As for Gojira, all his thoughts immediately went to the Godzillas.
ZZZZZ
Junior waited anxiously as her, Anguirus, and Queen Caesar stood in the edge of the Bermuda triangle, notably on the coast of a small island, a much smaller one compared to their home. This was one of the safest places Kaiju could go. They were lounging about while maintaining the lookout for any GDF forces. Junior kept a constant watchful eye out for her mother. They always had a knack for finding each other, even when they didn't mean to. It was comforting to think about around times like these.
It was also becoming comforting to think about Gojira too. It was becoming less weird and more... oddly familial to her. But what didn't comfort her was the he talked last time, the fury when he said kill them all. Junior didn't care for the GDF but... humanity was alright. Serizawa proved that and they helped during the invasion.
The scary thing was thinking about Gojira actually going off to genocide them. Her mom and Mothra would stop him of they had to but... no matter how much she pictured it, she couldn't see them beating him. And she found that to be so dumb. Godzilla and Mothra could totally beat him in a fight. They were strong, goddesses, queens, and total alphas.
But it wouldn't be pretty if they fought and that terrified her. She didn't want them to fight, not seriously. Sparring was fine, cool even, but the thought of them hurting each for real... she hated the mere inkling of it. She took her mind off of it and decided to listen to her friend's conversation.
Anguirus was looking around and muttered. "Blyat, I hate being out here."
"I keep telling you, there are no ghosts out here." Queen Caesar stated dryly, her eyes closed in meditation. She was sitting akin to a Shisa statue.
Anguirus clicked her tongue and pointed at her. "Yeah, you say that, but you ever come out here alone?"
"No." Queen Caesar stated. She opened one eye. "But not because of ghosts, Anguirus."
"Look, say what you will, but the stillness is unsettling, especially further in we go." Anguirus grumbled, idly whacking the water's surface with her tail. "I see anything weird and I'm bashing it."
"Do what you must." Said Queen Caesar.
Junior rolled her eyes and muttered. "Dummies." Then she went back to staring towards the ocean, looking out for her surrogate mother. just waiting and dwelling on her thoughts until dorsal plates were seen popping out of the ocean and lights were seen in the clouds. With a flourish, Godzilla rose from the ocean and Mothra flew from the clouds followed by Rodan, with some ice melting on her legs.
"Mom! Mothra! Buzzard beak!" Junior shouts, running up to hug her mother who immediately recuperated the affection, Mothra also coming in to hug Junior after her and Gidzilla
"Ay, that's the greeting I get?" Rodan complains as she lands in the small island alongside Queen Caesar. "Talk about insulting."
"Where'd you three meet up?" Anguirus asked, finally easing up from her tense posture.
Rodan shrugged before jabbing her wing at the other two arrivals, Mothra now hugging Junior. "Those two meet up first. I found them after taking down a group of gnats." She chuckled.
"Glad everyone's here." Godzilla said as she walked forward. "Well, the regular Earth crew at least."
"The others won't cause any trouble. Especially not with the GDF on our asses like this." Anguirus said, very relieved more Kaiju Girls were here.
Queen Caesar nodded and asked, "But that does leave the question, what do we do about the GDF?"
Godzilla snorted out some smoke, "Simple. They started a war, so they'll get one. We're going to drag them out and break their military's newest toys. Especially their abomination, but before I tell you the full thing, Sssskkkrrreeeooongk!"
ZZZZZ
Gigan was starting to get absolutely livid with the planet again. Those damn gnats of the GDF were keeping her busy. Because of them, she had to drop the crystals off with Megalon who hopefully wouldn't let anything bad happen to them, emphasis on hopefully.
Right now she was circling high above the planet, keeping her hawk eyes out for anything she could smash of the GDFs or possibly the earth Kaiju -
"Sssskkkrrreeeooongk!"
"Oh, great. The alpha call... fucking hell." Gigan hissed under her breath. She had half a mind to ignore her out of spite but decided against it. Knowing Megalon, she would be heading there out of fear too, but hopefully smart enough to put those crystals somewhere smart. This haphazard scheme was really going to take a miracle to pull off at this rate, but Gigan wasn't a quitter.
A liar, cheat, failed mercenary, and all around two faced bitch sure, but not a quitter. No ma'am.
With a hiss, she flew off if that direction, but made sure to shoot down a satellite on her way. If this humans were gonna impede her, she'd make sure to impede them. "Primitives putting me on the run, get the fuck outta here."
Shit show after shit show. Gigan was truly getting a absolutely sick of it. What she'd give for something in her cyborg life to go right.
She growled and decided to shoot down another satellite on her way there. She had no idea what they may have done for the humans, but fuck if she cared at all for their benefit. Hell, she hit another one because why not.
She lived for sadism after all. And sadistic she would be, even if it was small.
ZZZZZ
Megalon huffed in annoyance as she quickly finished up burying the box. Luckily she had a knack for remembering terrain, especially terrain she had the pleasure of carving. Now if she could carve open the GDF along with some human cities, she'd feel even more happy with herself. "Bring put on the run by a Kaiju Girl is one thing, but by insects... maybe Earth creatures are just tougher or some shit... or we lost our edge. Fuck!"
Megalon blasted a random rock formation in her anger, a quick burst to give her some satisfaction. Minor satisfaction.
"Sssskkkrrreeeooongk!"
The alpha call. Godzilla's alpha call. Megalon shook her head. "Why she'd call if... no, those radioactive dinosaurs always have something up their sleeves."
With that, she went underground as it was still the best way for her to get around. The humans put bombs in her tunnels, but she doubted she did that all over the place. At least she hopped so. The humans were to catch up with her and Gigan topside. Bottom side, not so much.
Knowing the way Gojira was clearly attached to Godzilla and Junior, he'd be there soon to since he didn't let out his call immediately after for emphasis. That line of thought got her thinking on something: even though Gojira was bossy and clearly the strongest... why does he act like a right hand rather than a leader?
Questions for later she supposed.
ZZZZZ
"Sssskkkrrreeeooongk!"
Orga gulped having heard the call as her and Mecha just made it to the coasts, having finally drove off a small battalion of human vessels. The alpha call and she growled. "She must be rather confident in her position to do that. Mecha?"
"Gigan's heading towards them." The robot stated, turning her head around towards her position.
Orga quirked a brow. "What?"
"You heard me. She's heading towards my organic self's call." Mecha clarified, angrily kicking a rock. "Great, now we gotta go back the way we came and then some."
"Why do you complain so much?" Orga questioned with clear frustration. She had to wonder what kind of mode the bending unit was to make her robot... like this. It was as fascinating as it was infuriating, just like Earth itself.
She let out a small roar and gestured for Mecha to follow, doing her best to ignore her complaints as she did so. But Mecha froze, noticing something else and stated, "Hey, three satellites are down and two happened to be related to our military insect friends."
ZZZZZ
Gojira and Queen Ghidorah were on their way to the Bermuda Triangle. "There had to have been a more secure way of doing this."
"Perhaps she believes you space maggots know better." Gojira replied, not looking at her. She was flying low and Gojira was swimming at the surface. "And I doubt the GDF would gather enough forces to face us all again. at least right now.
"Hmph. You earthlings have that much trust in us already?" Queen Ghidorah essentially teased.
Gojira immediately answered with. "No. But we know how much you value your worthless lives."
"Arrogant dinosaur." Queen Ghidorah growled. But unlike before, it lacked a certain heat to it. Her expression was even less irate as all the other times before. Something Gojira didn't care to notice due to his current focus. "Have you ever thought of lightening up?"
"Stop wasting your breath. We're not allies, so stop speaking with me so casually." Gojira grunted at Monster Zero. Unlike Gojira, she noticed his lack of anger in his words. There was still some of it there, but mostly disinterested annoyance. He didn't even name call her directly that time.
She hummed to herself as she mused over it. That was progress over their previous interactions. Which felt odd to her. A positive odd. The was some satisfaction there, though not quite the satisfaction she was craving from Gojira answering her motivation question. Still, it was almost akin to a small victory for her.
A small victory, no, a tiny one such as this was nice over her string of loses.
From the right corner of the duo, the sound of heavy jet engines grew closer. They turned and nearly paused at what they spotted heading the same way as them.
ZZZZZ
"Que flojera esperar." Rodan groaned, idly kicked down some knee high trees, prompting Mothra to nudge her to stop.
"My thoughts exactly, they should've been here before me." Growled Gigan, still feeling irate. She just wanted gouge and tear something apart.
"Surprised you came here so quick." Anguirus decided to reply. "I expected you to show up last all suspicious as usual."
"Stuff it, rolly polly, I am not in the mood for any "witty" banter." Gigan hissed, eye visor flashing red.
Anguirus was undaunted and continued with a mocking tone, "Aw, poor cyborg."
Gigan let out a metallic hiss, her chest blades slowly spinning. "Why you -"
"Both of you stop talking, we have arrivals." Queen Caesar stated, breaking from her meditation.
Gojira and Queen Ghidorah arrived alongside Mecha and Orga... specifically Mecha carrying Orga by the arms as she flew over before carelessly tossing her down. "Easy, Mecha unit!"
"You weigh tons, be grateful I even flew you this far without my arms breaking!" Mecha shouted back indignantly as she landed, shooting up sand and shards of glass thanks to her jet feet. Her comment earned some snickers at Orga's expense.
"Fat fuck." Muttered Megalon.
"Be silent, moronic insect!" Roared Orga as she dusted herself off.
"I'm amazed some of you didn't get captured." Gojira sarcastically told the group, earning some light glares. Still, it was a relief to see that neither Ghidorah or Gojira were caught since they were two of the top three of the Kaiju around.
Megalon gave him a deadpan. "Really? You think we're that weak?"
"Malezilla's being sarcastic." Gigan dryly told her.
"Oh." The insect Kaiju muttered, still giving him a peeved glance for that.
"Glad we could all make it without a hitch." Godzilla said with a light chuckle. "Didn't think Ghidorah would come back in one piece either."
Gigan folded her arms and huffed out, "The day is already infuriating and disappointing."
Queen Ghidorah didn't even turn to her, "What was that, Gigan?"
"I'm sad you're not a corpse." Gigan clearly stated with a metallic hiss.
"Oh my, someone's grumpy, aren't they?" Queen Ghidorah taunted with fake concern.
"Shut up." Gojira simply ordered them before turning to Godzilla. "I assume you and the moth have a plan for those insects. Without a jeopardized home, I have no reason to hold back." He finished that part with a faint unsettling smirk.
"Right." Godzilla said with a nod with a smirk of her own, almost feeling the exact same way. The Kaiju Girls, including Junior, loosely huddled around Godzilla and Mothra. "Follow us." She told them as they moved further in the island.
"The GDF is spread around the globe right?" Megalon asked as she came up to Godzilla's side. "Hence the Global in their name?"
"They are. Which is why we're gonna hit 'em back accordingly." Godzilla answered. "Mothra was able map out a few of the places a few days before you aliens arrived."
"Please tell me their in highly populated areas." Gigan said with a malicious chuckle, giddy at the thought of frying humans one by one.
"Gigan." Mothra said sternly, floating right in front of her with a frown and folded arms. "Let me state this here. You will not overdue it. You're striking against the GDF. That's it."
Gigan wasn't phased and hissed out another argument. "Tch. What's the point if we ain't going in full throttle?"
"Do as she says or I'll throttle you." Godzilla told the cyborg glaring at her with a side look for emphasis. Gigan cursed under her breath, but complied. "Anyway, We're gonna strike at select GDF headquarters to send a crystal clear message."
The entire group being led noticed how the land was starting to slope and Megalon noticed a crack in the earth. "A fault?" She muttered.
"Well that's a pretty basic strategy. We could've done that earlier rather than rally up again." Queen Ghidorah complained as they came upon an opening in the ground, one where the could barely fit. "Is that another cave? Really!?"
"I know, it's gonna have you inside of it. I feel bad for it." Junior said in a taunting tone. Queen Ghidorah briefly looked between her and Gojira.
"Yeah, we could strike from land or sea, but why do that?" Godzilla asked as she and Mothra stood by the entrance. Megalon looked positively giddy. "All of you get in."
"Seriously?" Queen Ghidorah groaned.
"Just for that, you get in first." Gojira told her, shoving the complaining queen forward. With a small flap of her wings, she was over top of it and barely managed to squeeze in with a small yelp as she lowered herself.
Mothra followed as did Queen Caesar. Then an enthusiastic Megalon followed by Gigan and Rodan, the latter muttering curses about tight spaces. Last were Mecha, Orga, and Anguirus, the latter two being the more thick of the monsters for similar and... different reasons.
"Go Mecha." Orga ordered.
Mecha clicked her metallic tongue and retorted with, "Why, cause you and Anguirus asses are -"
"Finish your insult and you will be dismantled." Orga threatened immediately.
"Psh, whatever." Mecha said, waving her off before heading down head first with a dive, "Geronimo!"
"Ah, you stupid metal puta!" Came the sound Rodan after a powerful thud.
"Imbeciles." Gojira grunted with a deadpan expression before turning to Orga. "Now go."
"I don't think I'll fit." Orga stated as she walked to the hole.
"I'll make you fit if necessary. Go." Gojira ordered.
The alien turned to him with a questioning glance. "What do you mean by-"
""Go!"" Both grown Godzillas ordered and Orga hurriedly did as she was told, or rather, tried to.
"Dammit!" Cursed the titan her top half got stuck due to her shoulder cannon and armor. Godzilla sighed and came over. "Why would you - wait, no!"
Orga's protest fell on deaf ears as Godzilla literally kicked her in, shoving her in by her head as the sides gave way to her weight, toughness, and Godzilla's strength. With a yelp of pain, Orga fell feet first into the cave.
Anguirus snickered and came forward, "Thanks, sis."
"Don't mention it, half shell." Godzilla told the ankylosaur with her chuckle as she slipped in a little easier, her spikes still breaking some of the terrain. Last, but not least were all three of the Godzillas.
"Freaks first." Godzilla said to Gojira, gesturing for him to come in.
"Very Funny, hatchling." Gojira drawled sarcastically before gruffly stating. "You and Junior go in, I'll catch up. I need to go eat. I was with her all night after all."
"Could've phrased that better." Godzilla mumbled as she took Junior's hand as they went in. Junior gave Gojira a split second glance, a worried one as her mother held her before going in. Junior couldn't quite peg it, but Gojira truly felt off. Almost... cold.
Godzilla and Junior were in, Gojira briefly alone. He was indeed hungry, but not for food. Without a second thought, Gojira was off towards his prime target. He remembered the funny thing about those GDF headquarters is that he noticed they didn't matter too much in holding the GDF down, at least not comparison to the one in located near Tokyo. Tokyo, it's always something about Tokyo to Gojira. But it was perfect. Because Gojira was going to have the pleasure of cutting an atomic trail of hell fire right through that massive hive of theirs before ripping out the heart of the GDF.
A faint voice was heard in the back of his head. "That's right... show them what they wrought... a God of Destruction with one thing to lose..."
"I won't lose." Gojira muttered as she he sank deep onto the ocean, his eyes almost glazed over as instincts were already going into full swing. "Never again."
ZZZZZ
Serizawa had managed to slip back without a hitch once more, but barely. The ports were under heavy monitoring and it took him some time to make it through the headquarters security To say he was absolutely livid and distraught by the GDF's actions was a very fair statement, but apparently, even at the headquarters was distraught too. People were scrambling left and right, many troopers scrambling to move out in droves, technicians highly on the move. Through the chaos they heard the scream, "Only two left and we lost contact!"
Then came the cry of another, a technician, "Get General Gyozen and the UN on the comms!"
Serizawa grit his teeth and moved through the crowd and managed to make it to his office. He immediately went for his computer to speak with an important hand in the GDF on what was happening.
A woman by the name of Kenji Miku. The GDF's lead on the defense grid of the world and also importantly, someone who could sympathize either the monsters just as much as Serizawa. A boon where Gyozen had become an obstacle. She played key roles in helping Serizawa know of the GDF's routes and defenses.
"Please, get me to her faster." The doctor muttered, urged on by the chaos in the world. Apparently the line was incredibly busy and so must Miku be if she couldn't answer him on the private line.
Just how much had Serizawa missed out on?
"Doctor!" Said Kenji as she answered the call. "I can't talk long, we having a massive emergency on our end!"
"The monsters, Miku. Where are they?" He asked quickly, forgoing the formalities for the sake of precious time.
"That's just it, we've lost them completely! Several satellites are down and we've lost them! All of them!" Miku cursed under her breath, no doubt another important call or emergency popping up. "I'm sorry doctor I have to go!"
Serizawa cursed as she ended the call. He quickly grabbed some papers and turned to the door.
"Hello/Hey." Only to be met by two very familiar faces in some rather nice suits.
ZZZZZ
AN: As always, thanks to DragonKingDragneel25!
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Well, a more peaceful chapter for now at least. Bit the storm is far from over.
Krillshadow: Forgot to say this earlier on chapter 17, but if you draw any of this out, please show me.
As always, have a good day wherever you are!
