I dont own godzilla or warhammer
i found this prompt on reddit and figured it would be a good story for someone to write. if you're interested in writing a story, let me know so i can read it.
"I investigated the so-called daemon carefully, to decide on the most effective way of banishing it, and discovered something very curious in the Inquisitorial archives." Inquisitor Serizawa held up a long, elaborately decorated scroll, stamped with seals that indicated a scribe had copied it from a very ancient archive indeed, and began to read.
Of the great warp beast known variously as Gojira, Godzilla, the King of Monsters, the Atom Manifest, the Guardian of Holy Terra's Oceans, et cetera, the Emperor commandeth three things: Harm him not, cross not his path, and tempt not his wrath.
"In short, there is nothing we can do. Once Godzilla is on the rampage, stay out of his way."
"Surely, this is heresy! Did not the Master of Mankind command us to purge the daemon wherever he is found? Is your fleet not equipped with the power to melt the crust from a planet? Why do you cower in fear from a single daemon?" The Governor asked.
"This is not a daemon. It is a warp beast. An older and greater concept manifested from one of man's ancient fears." The Inquisitor said coldly. "Do you know what that fear is?"
The planetary governor shook his head.
"Godzilla is humanity's fear that we will destroy ourselves, with our own creations. He has rampaged across countless worlds - Forge worlds that turned innocents into servitors en masse, agri-worlds who starved their own people while shipping vast produce off-world, hive worlds choking on their own pollution. They say that he first manifested on Holy Terra, when primitive atomics poisoned the seas, and again when the first orbital bombardments were fired on the Great Crusade."
Serizawa's face was calm, but there was a burning anger in his voice. "Do you understand the magnitude of this threat? Ordering an Exterminatus would be worse than useless. It would be exactly what he wants - to cause greater destruction at our own hands."
"So what do we do?"
Serizawa held up his rosette, the feared Inquisitorial badge, which allowed him nearly unlimited power in the pursuit of his duties. "For once in my career, my duty is to save lives and not take them. I am ordering the PDF and Imperial Guard to withdraw from engaging the beast and to instead begin an immediate evacuation of Hive Alpha."
"Surely you're joking. You can't evacuate a hive city. There are billions of people there and even more in the underhive." The Governor protested.
The Inquisitor tapped at a cogitator, pulling up maps of Godzilla's path and the hive city that was directly in his way, sketching out an initial plan for the commanders to execute.
"We start at the top, work our way down, and pray that by the time Godzilla reaches the city that the remaining levels are too deep for him to bother with. We will not be able to evacuate more than a hundredth, but we can avoid the worst of the damage."
"We can not abandon Hive Alpha. It's the seat of government! I live there!"
The Inquisitor's face could have been carved from granite. "You are going to remain in custody aboard this ship. Because something you did on this planet attracted Godzilla to this place, and when this is over, I am going to find out what it was."
