Creation began on 03-23-20
Creation ended on 03-25-20
Godzilla: The Planet Eater
Both Must Fall: Going Under, The False Lord's Awareness
A/N: This pandemic is ruining my creativity! There, I said it.
They were fortunate that they got one of the landing ships to work again, and everyone could fit on it to travel to the location they were heading towards.
"But why Tokyo?" Adam questioned.
"We'll know when we get there," Haruo uttered, wanting to believe that Yuko wasn't crazy or suffering from delusions.
"Well, we'll be there in the next hour," said a man that was looking at the holographic map of their destination.
Yuko hoped that she was right about what the man in her dream told her. That there was something wrong with the way things had gone prior to their being forced to abandoning the Earth over twenty-thousand years ago. The image of the Godzilla she saw gave her a sense of…hope that she didn't get from the two they had all seen up to now. But she hadn't explained anything beyond her assumption that Godzilla wasn't what it seemed to be.
"Yuko," Haruo uttered again, getting her attention, "could you explain why you think that Godzilla…isn't what it appears to be?"
"In the dream I had," she gave in, "the Godzilla I saw, while not as massive as the second one we saw…didn't look the way the one we saw does. It looked…more alive."
"More alive?" Another girl questioned. "But…Godzilla, back then, never looked anything beyond a menacing beast that killed billions of us along with any other monster that it could find. And there's no way that it's anything but a soulless abomination."
-x-
Once more awakening from its slumber, Godzilla rose up from the ruins of where Mechagodzilla City once stood…and looked towards the vast beyond in front of it. Something in it stirred it into action, making it begin its trek towards the source of its newfound bane.
"Grr," it growled.
-x-
The once-great metropolis that was Tokyo looked more like ruins covered in moss and vines, no longer recognizable to anyone that stood in it.
"I can't believe that this was once Tokyo," Haruo expressed.
"Yeah," Yuko added, looking over at the water. "Where do you suppose this water leads?"
"My best guess is what remains of the Japan Trench," Adam suggested.
The water, however, appeared greenish and like mud on the surface than the blue it used to represent in their past. However, it had to be clear under the surface…which held a great secret they needed to find.
"We don't have any submarines," Metphies stated; it had been years since humanity had needed to travel underwater due to the rise of Godzilla and its repeated attacks on all other creatures on the planet, putting any future ventures underwater on indefinite standby. "And it is unlikely that we'll find any here."
"Gaaah! Aaah! Over here!" They heard someone gasp down the street by some building ruins.
They ran over and around the ruins of one of the buildings, seeing something that was quite a shock since the rediscovery of the Mechagodzilla production facility.
"What is that?" One of the women asked, seeing the sight in front of them. "Is that a…missile?"
"No," went Adam, recalling a picture he had seen in a book somewhere on the Aratrum. "I think it's a submarine."
Indeed, it was a submarine. A large one, either a nuclear-powered one or an air-independent power version. But surrounding it were large vines and rust that looked as though they were made out of…
"Is that Nanometal?" One of the people questioned.
"It looks like it," someone else expressed, "but it looks like…it's preserved the submarine."
"Wait, if the Nanometal's been acting as some sort of preservation system, then…could that mean that the sub still works?" A woman asked.
"Maybe, but we don't have anybody from the Bilusaludo to tell us," another woman expressed.
"This Nanometal's brittle," someone else realized, wiping away some bits of the metal from the side of the vessel. "This metal must've come from the production facility at Mt. Fuji."
"What do you think, Haruo?" Adam asked.
-x-
Godzilla felt it was nearing the location of where the newfound threat to its domain was, seeing the ruins of what remained of Tokyo from a distance. It only knew something was there, and it was a threat if left alone. Its eyes glared towards the ruins that was now forty kilometers away from it.
"Grr!" It growled as it roared to make its presence known.
-x-
With the sound of Godzilla's roar coming from miles away, the remaining forces on Earth knew that it was coming towards where they were.
"We gotta move," Yuko told them.
"Do we take off into the air…or go underwater and hope that there's nothing worse than that thing coming after us?" A man asked.
"I'll take my chances underwater, thank you very much," another woman said.
-x-
"…Still nothing," went Unberto Mori as neither he or anyone else aboard the Aratrum could get in contact with anyone that didn't return from the Earth. "Damn you, Haruo."
-x-
Godzilla had finally reached Tokyo, but as it saw the ship take off into the air to get away, it felt something else was wrong…and looked at the water in front of it. Something had happened during its trek to get here…and now it had to decide on which way to go: Go after the ship in the air…or go into the water to investigate what was either there or not.
"Grr," it growled in frustration.
-x-
"…It doesn't look like it's going to get into the water yet," a woman expressed as half the crew had gotten into the submarine after confirming that the Nanometal had preserved it for thousands of years, undoubtedly something that had stemmed from the Mechagodzilla production facility ruins over the thousands of years they were gone and the machine had been damaged when Godzilla attacked Mt. Fuji.
"But that's until it does figure out what's going on and decides to dive in after us," a man expressed, killing the sense of luck as they were feeling as he looked at a large touchscreen console, looking at some old images of Godzilla back when it was not as huge. "Hey, wait a minute… This doesn't look like Godzilla here."
Haruo and Yuko looked at the image on the screen…and Haruo noticed how this creature didn't look anything like the Godzilla they had faced when they had returned or the one they had to escape from that had gotten bigger and stronger during their absence. This one looked…livelier and devoid of signs of originating from plant life. What was more, it appeared over fifty meters, but not close to two-hundred meters.
"Hey, that's the Godzilla I saw in a dream I had," Yuko revealed.
"It says here that an organization called…Monarch…discovered it in Nineteen-Fifty-Four," said Adam, "and tried to kill it with a nuclear bomb."
"What did they call it?" Haruo asked him.
"Godzilla."
"You mean, the Godzilla they found back in Nineteen-Fifty-Four was the same one discovered in Twenty-Thirty and started attacking the world?"
"That…doesn't seem right," Yuko suspected, looking at the picture of the creature, unable to compare it with the one they've fought against.
Then, she swiped the image to the left and opened up a new image of a completely different creature, one that looked like a sea creature with a large fin on its back.
"Titanosaurus?" She questioned.
To be continued…
A/N: Even when I have time, it feels like I don't have time due to feeling shackled in my own home. I hope I'm not the only one feeling this way as we try to escape from an unpleasant reality that feels like a nightmare.