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Prologue: Something Is Rising reaction
November 5th, 2022
0800 hours
It's fitting that it's hear, Captain Douglas Gordon thought to himself as he stood on top of the USS Gotengo. Where was here, you may ask? Bikini Atoll.
Douglas, Ozaki, Kazama and Akane Yashiro lowered their gazes to the floor as did Tommy Oliver.
The crisp blue waters, the sun-bleached sands and the elegant green palms swaying in the winds made it a perfect get-away vacation spot. It must have looked like this all those years ago. A small stretch of islands that no one had paid much attention to. Until one day. When man unleashed something extraordinary and terrifying all at once. That's why it was fitting in Captain Gordon's eyes. This is where it all began and now, it would be where it all ended.
"I suppose it would be fitting, in a way." Mothra mused.
Ghidorah hummed. He didn't know where Godzilla was created until now. So perhaps they will have their final battle in Bikini Atoll.
On each of the tiny islands stretched out before him were several artillery batteries, loaded wit high explosive ordinance. Between the islands, ships from every nation and corner of the globe were present. America, Russia, China, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada, Wakanda and Japan, a handful were from the organization S.H.I.E.L.D, Stark Industries, Wayne Enterprises and LexCorp.
"Yikes. That's a lot." Garfield winced.
Fury, Tony and Bruce grimaced as did Luthor, but the bald man was more for because he had to deal with all the damage and cleanup. Stark and Wayne were more ashamed at the loss of life on those ships and the fact that Godzilla would recognize those ships and see it as a betrayal.
"I knew it was a big, eh, operation, but this is ridiculous." Barry Allen said.
"If only we'd do something like for Thanos or Darkseid." Jason muttered.
"I think you mean Ghidorah." Carol retorted. Rodan nodded next to her. Why couldn't the armies of the world unite whenever the Golden Terror attacked the Earth?
"I agree." Surprisingly, that came fro the Golden Terror himself. "What? I love it when whole armies make their stand against me. Makes it much more. . . glorious."
The battleships and artillery were loaded with TOW missiles, cruise missiles, radar-guided, heat-seekers, Hell even old Stark Industries weapons like the Jericho warheads and freezing weapons made by the criminal Victor Fries/Mr. Freeze. Whatever they could carry. The carriers sported a similar armament with their bombers and jets. The S.H.I.E.L.D. Hellicarrier was had every air attack vehicle out, ready to use.
Ultimately though, none of them really mattered. It wasn't an insult to any of them, it was a fact. They were all here to keep the target off balance and lead him where they wanted him to go.
There was only one weapon that less conventional and could be seen on the island the Gotengo was on and Captain Gordon took another glance at it. Among the trees was a massive gun. It was bigger than anything on the nearby ships. It didn't fire any special rockets or bombs however. It fired dark energy. A power terrible enough to literally rip through time and space. At least that's what he was briefed. Dr. Victor Von Doom, Dr. Reed Richards, Princess Shuri, Dr. Hank Pym, Lucius Fox, Tony Stark, Lex Luthor and Dr. Bruce Banner had built it but it was never fired. Not even as a test fire. How ironic given their current surroundings and what happened here all those years ago.
Most of the mentioned people looked away from the screen. They felt multiple levels of shame and self hatred building that machine for months. The scientific wonder of it didn't lift their mood whatsoever. But they knew if they let Doom and Lex do it alone, it wouldn't end well for anyone, not just the King.
Luthor for his part felt pride because that means another machine could be made.
Dr. Doom for his part didn't feel totally indifferent. He felt though that he took the coward's way building a machine like that for his greatest rival.
They called it "Dimension Tide." Captain Gordon just called it what it was. A Black Hole Gun. Gordon was a simple man and he preferred simple titles over fanciful comic book names. The weapon would be considered excessive but not in this situation. It was pretty much their last shot at this point.
"Why even call it Dimension Tide?" Raleigh Beckett asked out loud. "Sounds like it's meant for something not related to black holes." His wife Mako nodded in slight aggreement. He had a point.
"Exactly," Douglas nodded his head while Princess Shuri muttered that she thought the name sounded easier to remember and cool.
Almost seventy years ago, in 1954 on this very spot, the Americans detonated the very first Hydrogen Bomb. Up to that date, it had been the most powerful weapon ever created in history. No one could have predicted the consequences when they dropped it. It wasn't until much later when the cold reality hit them. The American's desire to claim victory in the Cold War of the 50's had awakened. . . something. A creature of such immense raw natural power that man's greatest war machines were powerless against it.
Many felt chills, goosebumps and shivers as they heard that discription.
Magneto hummed and Xavier knew he was thinking of when the first hydrogen bomb was made. They both remembered how the creator recalled a line from a scripture.
"Now I have become Death, Destroyer of worlds."
The two mutants disagreed now with Albert Oppeheimer and now thought the same thing.
Those bombs were dangerous in their own way, but they created Death, the Destroyer of worlds.
There was no clear theory of what he was. A survivor of the Age of Dinosaurs altered by radiation? An ancient monster brought to life by the H-Bomb's detonation? All they knew was that the bomb had brought him into existence and the world was never the same since.
For that was the day, Godzilla, King of the Monsters, had begun his reign.
Over the decades since, Godzilla had rampaged across the Earth. His need for destruction seemed insatiable. Relentless and most peculiar of all was that it seemed directed. Godzilla attacked power plants, nation capitals and military bases. To any outsider observer, the attacks seemed strategic in nature. Not random. It was as if Godzilla was picking his targets, choosing which held priority over the other. The idea that this prehistoric monster was a thinking one was disturbing for many.
"And he was, in fact, picking targets," Rodan stated and Anguirus nodded his head along with Kong, Gamera, King Cesar and Mothra.
Humanity had only ever succeeded in driving him off. It was the best they could do. Nothing seemed capable of killing him. Not even the superheroes that had risen. The Avengers, the Justice League, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four and Justice Society with the Power Rangers. Even the young heroes couldn't match him.
"Nope." The Avengers and Fantastic Four shook their heads. Banner chose not to admit that the Hulk inside of him had enjoyed their fights.
"Nothing worked." The X-Men and Justice Society added.
"Nothing permenant, anyway," the Teen Titans and Power Rangers muttered.
"He just kept coming back for more," Clark stated.
"And stronger," Wayne added.
Fighting the King of Monsters for the first few times was certainly an experience you'd never forget. Depending on who you were, you'd either be surprised at how much damage and trauma the King would take or be horrified on how you would not be able to do anything to damage him at all.
Billy remembered how arrogant and cocky he was when he first met the King. He thought his power was enough to kill him combined with Superman's strength and then his recklessness and carelessness got Superman greatly, fatally injured.
The more human superheroes remembered their first encounters with the King. They more often than not froze and watched in growing horror and dread as the King battled the likes of Thor, Superman, Hulk, Wonder Woman and more as destruction fell around them. What can I do? they often thought. If god like beings could hardly do anything, what can I a mere mortal do against that monster?
Hell, the God of Thunder, Thor and the Amazon heroine Wonder Woman had said that it was rumored among the Asgardians and Amazons that Godzilla, or another like him had killed the Olympian gods in the ancient past. The anti-hero, Ghost Rider had once said that he and his other Riders went to Hell because Godzilla himself was killing every demon and devil there. Whether this was true or not is not confirmed nor denied.
"Christ, if that's all true, I'm surprised humanity is still alive," Stephanie Brown/Spoiler stated.
"None of that is true!" General Ross said.
"For the last time, that actually happened!" both Diana, Thor and the Ghost Riders exclaimed.
"The killing the Olympians or fighting his way through fucking Hell itself?" Logan asked.
"Yes." they all nodded, even Loki and Hela nodded their heads.
Nor even the other giant monsters that had risen after him could stop him. From time to time, these Kaiju focused Godzilla's rage away from humanity. Sometimes it even felt like he was protecting the Earth from them or establishing his dominance over the other Kaiju. The battles between Kaiju had repeatedly destroyed many great cities around the world, killing countless lives.
"Both," Biollante said and SpaceGodzilla nodded his head.
Earth now considered it to be a normal Tuesday to be rebuilding its cities from the ground up at this point.
"Ain't that a truth," most of the older watchers sighed to themselves. Most of the Kaiju, mainly those from Monster Island looked to the superheroes with sheepish/bashful expressions.
After so many decades of battles, speculation on his origins and objective, (if he had any) whether he was protecting the Earth or not, the governments of the world came to one conclusion. They have had enough. Godzilla was simply far too dangerous to remain here. Too much of a menace for all the times he 'saved' the Earth to pardon him any longer. He had escaped Monster Island too often. Other methods of containment had failed. They didn't want the King of Monsters captured anymore. They wanted him gone.
So began Operation: Dethrone the King. The final plan of a world that decided that they were done tolerating this "overgrown lizard." They needed to kill him. End this reign of terror he had gripped the planet for so long.
"Honestly, you lot should have come to me if you wanted that freak gone." King Ghidorah stated. This got a lot of hateful glares or skeptical expressions.
"You'd either turn on us as soon as the King was dead or you'd kill any messenger we'd send." Fury said in a deadpan tone.
"Not true. Send Santa Claus next time because I wouldn't be able to kill him," the Golden Terror retorted.
"You too?!" exclaimed both Darkseid and Thanos. Everyone else looked completely confused.
They would lure Godzilla to position and then fire Dimension Tide. If the weapon worked, it would create a singularity that would tear Godzilla from the very fabric of reality. Nothing could survive that.
There were some protests. A handful were from the superheroes themselves. That may not make sense but to Gordon it did. At one point or another, Godzilla had fought alongside the heroes against the Kaiju. Or against threats from the stars. Loki, Brainiac, Thanos, Darkseid, Kang the Conqueror, Galactus and Rita Repulsa had come to Earth time and time again and were almost always driven off by the combined alliance of heroes and the King of Monsters. It was even theorized that Godzilla even bested Trigon and Mephisto, two powerful demon lords of Hell, when he had entered Hell and exited.
Gordon could understand their reluctance to get rid of a creature that had allied with them in the past.
The experience of battling alongside Godzilla was so surreal, even more so compared to when you are fighting against him for the superheroes.
Rodan, Mothra and Anguirus remembered their first battle with Godzilla. Mothra had felt pride, knowing that he was taking the first step to a new journey. Anguirus and Rodan had fond smiles at the memory. That was when they saw another side to Godzilla those days.
Cesar and Gamera just remembered how their first battles alongside Godzilla went. The odds were not in their favor that day, at all, and while they wanted to retreat to get their bearings or at least get out of the line of fire. Yet Godzilla was determined (Very stubborn) to defeat the enemy (Or refused to admit defeat.)
The mentioned villains shook their heads as they remembered believing that they could best the King or think that he would turn on the heroes on a coin flip should he get caught in the line of fire but the Kaiju remained focused on them.
The other protests were the King's legion of fans. Some crazy religion that had grown among the population that believed that Godzilla and the other Kaiju were gods of old, or divine creatures of Mother Gaia. Gordon didn't give a damn. To these people, Godzilla was a force of nature. Any attempt to kill him would only make him more angry. Some even said that the use of Dimension Tide would end with the destruction of everyone nearby and culminate with the end of humanity.
"The old fossil had fans?" Arthur Curry asked. This was the first time he had heard about this.
"Yes," replied the Kaiju and heroes that hanged out with the King the most.
"Despite how long he had been viewed as a good guy, he has a bit of a bigger fan base compared to most of us," Tony muttered.
"I CANNOT tell you how it was," Mothra shook her head with an amused smile. "Goji didn't know what to do when people were crowding around him, asking for an autograph or giving him their prayers."
"Or how some women found his human form very attractive," Natasha stated before giving a few of the single women a teasing smirk before looking to the Queen. "Ain't that right, Mosu?"
Mothra just huffed at those particular memories, especially when the King would do things she learned were just to spite her.
"Oh boy," muttered Leo, Junior, Athena and Minilla while rubbing their temples in unison.
The last protest was more practical and less dramatic. No one really knew what the Black Hole Gun would really do. There's a difference between what you say a gun does and what it really does to a person. It could kill Godzilla or unleash something worse. That was the small fear that Gordon had.
"I wish it didn't work at all," most of the inventors (Save for Luthor) and the Kaiju muttered.
"But at least it didn't unleash something worse," Strange pointed.
"Small mercy," Diana replied sadly.
But there was no arguing now at this point. The decision had been made. His orders were given.
Those that were there all sighed in unison. They had orders, but they didn't enjoy it for a second. Sure they could think of the lives lost, the damage done, but they all interacted with the King and grew great respect for him.
In an effort to enrage Godzilla to follow it to the firing line, Kiryu's crew, among a few heroes, flown off earlier in the morning. They were to engage Godzilla and force him to follow them to Bikini Atoll. From the looks of his scorched, broken and battered chassis, busted eye, broken tail, missing arm and crushed jaw, Gordon knew that Kiryu had put up a magnificent fight. But it was clear now that Godzilla had grown tired of the robot doppelganger and had decided to end him for good.
May his soul find peace, the Captain thought giving a salute. Hopefully his pilot, Lieutenant Akane Yashiro, was alright.
Even if she knew that it was right for Kiryu to be laid to rest after all these years of being a cyborg slave for the humans, Akane longed to have her friend by her side.
"Look!" Ozaki exclaimed. The camera moved towards the ocean. There, out past the shallows were the remains of a Jaeger called Gypsy Danger and the Power Rangers' Megazord with dead giant sea monsters that only Atlantis would know about.
Arthur and some others felt sorry for the sea monsters. Raleigh, Mako and the Power Rangers sighed. While they had respect for the King, they also had a bit of a rivalry with him, especially during the Pacific Kaiju War. The Zords and the Jaegers were the best defense against the Breach Kaiju and then the King showed up, fought them and then made them look obselete as Kaiju killing robots.
Amanda Waller scrunched her eyebrows in thought. "Fury, Ross." she calls to the mentioned S.H.I.E.L.D Director and US Army General.
"Yes?/What?" the two men turned to her.
"Didn't we send Flint Marko/Sandman with that team to provoke the King?" Waller asked.
Fury thought it over before nodding his head to her. "Did he ever return to the surface?" Waller asked next.
". . . No." replied Ross with a shake of his head.
"So he's dead?"
"Either that or he's escaped and on the run from the law again, Godzilla burned the sand to glass again and Marko is a giant Glass Man again or Godzilla killed him."
Mere moments later, an explosion of water erupted closer to the coast of the Atoll. A pillar of blue foam shot up from the sea.
"He loves to make an entrance these days," Mothra rolled her eyes.
"He's been hanging out with the theatrical heroes too much," Biollante replied.
Almost every superhero turned to Batman, one of the most theatrical heroes. And the one the King had hung out with the most.
"He's here." Captain Gordon growled with a glare.
"Hey, wait. Didn't you guys have Hercules with-?" Blue Beetle asked before Cyborg pointed to the screen.
A big, grey, reptilian head jutted out of the deep. Piercing yellow eyes burning with rage stared down the assorted fleet of ships. A massive mouth full of teeth the size of city buses snarled at the crew. From here, Gordon saw the demigod Hercules in the jaws, bloody and unmoving.
"Oh. There he is."
"Man, that dude always seemed to get humbled," Deadpool shook his head, looking at Hercules. "First in World War Hulk and then in InJustice and now here against the G-Man."
Bristling fins, still shining neon blue from using his famous weapon, swayed back and forth as the monster shook the water off his body. His nostrils flared at the sight of the guns surrounding him. The gigantic claws of his left hand bawling themselves into a fist. Then a huge tail the size of a thousand California redwood trees tied together rose out of the water. The scaly and spiky appendage swished in the air as if Godzilla was thinking of where to send it crashing down first.
Gordon saw a long, metallic, silver tail held in Godzilla's other hand. No doubt the Dragon Zord. He glanced back to Godzilla's face. He had seen the Kaiju before but never looking this enraged before. There were still fresh cuts and blows visible along the Kaiju's massive body. Kiryu and the others had, at least, left a few marks but not enough to stem the beast's anger.
"Who fought him the most in that case?" Fury asked.
"Kiryu, Gypsy, the Zords and the Kraken," replied Akane and the others nodded. "Hercules kept getting whipped by the King's tail most of the time. Always sent flying away before he swam too close to the King's jaws."
Rearing his head up, breathing in the air all around him, Godzilla lurched forward, jaw opened wide and letting out a terrible, deafening roar. Hercules dropped from Godzilla's jaws and fell into the sea.
SKKRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOO-OOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNKK!
"And down goes Hercules," Dick shook his head before everyone leaned back upon hearing the roar.
It was terrible to some, deafening to others (Especially those with heightened senses), intimidating, frightening but instantly recognizable.
The Kaiju didn't react like that. His allies had the urge to bow their heads to him. All his enemies but one had to urge to flee.
"A great form of cinema, seventy year old sound that is instantly recognizable and still gets people hyped for what's to come." Deadpool stated.
It shook and then shattered the glass of the assembled fleet's windows. Forced every man and woman to clutch their ears and even experienced sailors and soldiers to fall down from the sheer force of the sound.
". . . Nope." Night Crawler stated before teleporting away from the screen and to the far back of the theater.
With that, the monster then tossed the battered and smoking Dragon Zord towards the Atoll and began walking forward, creating miniature tidal waves as he stomped through the surf, towards the islands. All at once, every gun and plane in the air opened up and unleashed Hell.
"That ain't going to do squat." Luke Fox stated.
"That ain't going to do shit." Rocket said.
Shells, missiles, bombs, you name it. They all crashed down onto Godzilla as he forced his way forward. He didn't even seem to be annoyed by the attacks. The battle with Kiryu, Gypsy Danger, the Mega Zord and the Dragon Zord may have injured him a little, but he wasn't even tired. He was acting on pure unbridled rage now. Nothing but the destruction of this fleet and the foolish humans that dared attack him.
"And here we go," SpaceGodzilla shook his head.
As a squad of jets flew over him, delivering their payload, Godzilla fired out a blast of Atomic Breath. A blue beam of radioactive fire shot of his mouth and cut a swath through the air. The squad of jets were obliterated in the blink of an eye.
A cruise missile crashed into Godzilla's face next. Followed by a Jericho warhead striking on his back. Instantly, Godzilla turned his head to where the missiles had come from. A battleship just a few feet away from him. He reached down and grabbed the vessel with his giant hand and picked it up as if it was a child's toy. Even from the monitor screen, Captain Gordon could see men fall from the deck and into the water below. Godzilla soon chucked the ship into the air, and it landed on another battleship, crushing it and twisting them both into a mangled mess of metal.
Even if they didn't want to be a part of this operation, most of the Avengers and the superheroes felt that they should have been there to reduce casualties of this whole thing.
Two maser beams hit Godzilla, followed by missiles. He turned his head up and saw the Geruda I, Super X, Super X II and Super X III. He narrowed his eyes as he saw the Gotengo fly behind the four ships.
"Wow, those are relics of some bygone era," Deadpool declared. "Someone did their research. Or got inspired by some fan film."
Yes.
"Fire missiles!" Gordon ordered. "Fire everything you got!" With that the five flying ships fired missiles and rockets towards the Kaiju King.
Godzilla roared as he tanked all the hits before he fired his Atomic Breath in response. Super X II opened its Fire Mirror while Gotengo activated a force shield barrier around it and the other two ships moved to evade the beam of certain death.
The Super X II's Fire Mirror absorbed the Atomic Breath and reflected the beam back while the Gotengo fired its Phaser cannon. Godzilla gritted his teeth as his own beam hit him square in the chest along with the Phaser while the other Super Xs fired at him from the sides along with the Wakandan airships.
"Well, can't let them have all the fun," Director Nick Fury remarked before ordering, "Deploy all jets, lock onto his signature and fire all cannons at Godzilla." Maria Hill nodded her head in response. Shortly after, the jets on the Hellicarrier flew off the deck and towards the battle as the Hellicarrier's cannons aimed down to the giant monster.
Godzilla reached to knock Super X II into the Gotengo with his hand before swinging his tail to knock the other Super X's aside and snap the Wakandan ships in half. He then lifted his massive right foot into the air and stomped it back down so hard that it created a tidal wave to a group of destroyers. The ships were engulfed by the wave. One of their captains had managed to turn the ship fast enough to break through the wave with their nose. The other two weren't so lucky and were capsized by the wall of water.
Godzilla glared at the destruction briefly before turning to the skies. The SHIELD jets were closing in with fighter bombers. Ready to hit him with their ordinance. Godzilla simply raised his tail and whipped it into the sky. This forced them to break their run. Two weren't fast enough and became two balls of fire. Godzilla spun around and slammed his tail down onto another battleship, snapping it in two.
The Kaiju then let loose another blast of Atomic Breath. The blue pillar of fiery death shot across the battlefield and sliced into a carrier at the center of one of the American groups. It exploded into a ball of flame, its flight deck being ripped clean off as the blast tore it from underneath. Godzilla didn't cease fire however. He dragged his breath across the length of the American fleet, cutting into the Chinese and Russian flotillas. A sea of fire lashed out across the Bikini Atoll coast, sending dozens of boats and countless sailors to their watery graves.
However, the plan was still working despite all this carnage. The attacks weren't killing him but driving him closer to the Atoll. The missiles and bombs from the planes and ships were forcing him to advance towards the trap. Gordon was impressed at how accurate the military strategists were about the monster's reaction.
Godzilla was a fighter first and foremost. In every conflict, be it with Kaiju, the armies or superheroes, he only fled when his energy was spent or he thought it wasn't worth it.
That was the theory anyway. You can't really tell what a Kaiju was thinking unless you read minds like Charles Xavier, Jean Grey, Raven, and Miki Saegusa.
"Which one is it most of the time?" Scot Lang asked the mentioned psychics in the Audience.
"Mostly?" Jean Grey repeated for clarification.
"Recently, it has been because he thought it wasn't worth his time," Xavier explained.
"It was a bit rare for him to leave when he spent all his energy." Miki added.
After Kiryu and the other mech's attack however, Godzilla was running on rage. This was the first time Kiryu had been used offensively against the monster. As predicted, Godzilla saw this as encroachment on his territory and decided to end the threat completely. That meant wiping out the source of the attack, like a bear going after an aggressive pack of wolves in their den.
And that was just what we are planning on, Gordon thought as the Gotengo flew towards the Black Hole gun.
Godzilla now stomped onto the beach of the first island in his path. The artillery guns started opening fire at this point, what little good it did. The missile barrages did nothing, the larger, concentrated energy cannons and beams from Japan and Wakanda worked better. In the end, Godzilla crushed the nearest artillery position with his foot and then fired his Atomic Breath at the nearest two islands to destroy the attackers there.
The Japanese fleet, closest to Dimension Tide with the Gotengo, now renewed their attack with vigor. The other ships lessened their assault in response. Firing enough to keep Godzilla forward but not enough to take his attention off the Japanese fleet.
Gordon activated the main intercom. "Concentrate all fire on the head!" he ordered his men and crew. "Make him come to us!"
The gunners did as instructed, hitting Godzilla in the head hard. The giant monster growled and roared in anger. Shaking his head to get the smoke from the explosions out of his eyes. With all the explosions and fire erupting all around his face, the Saurian Kaiju stomped back into the surf. He turned towards the offending Japanese fleet and bellowed before pushing towards the fleet that had always confronted him in the past.
Just as predicted.
When the titanic dinosaur closed the distance, the tree cover around Dimension Tide gave away. The weapon, which looked like a cross between a jet turbine and futuristic cannon, began to glow bright violet. As the inner mechanisms began to whirl, Godzilla's attention was turned to the weapon.
He cocked his head like a cat, confused as to what was he looking at. He then roared loudly and reared his head back, his spines glowing neon blue again. It was clear. Whatever this thing was, he was going to destroy it.
Captain Gordon raced to activate the Comm link again. "FIRE! Fire all guns! Fire at the head!" He ordered in a frantic pace.
"You heard the man, fire everything you got!" Fury barked in the Hellicarrier.
Gunners opened up. Cruise missiles crashed into Godzilla's head, just as he unleashed his Atomic Breath. The beam failed to hit dead on, grazing the base of Dimension Tide. Sparks and flames shot out of the weapon's side where the beam hit it, but the gun kept charging. Once the weapon had started cycling, nothing could stop it from discharging. Gordon wasn't really concerned about the damage. There wasn't anything they could do.
"Ten seconds to discharge!" Came a warning over the radio.
"All hands," Gordon called to his men, "Brace yourselves!"
A moment later, Dimension Tide fired a giant black and purple ball of energy from its barrel in a blinding flash of light. Trees, dirt, rocks and water were pulled into the singularity as it sped through the air. The discharge also sent out a booming shock wave that blew the leaves off nearby palm trees and created giant waves as it hit the water. The Gotengo and Hellicarrier rocked in the air. It was a miracle that none of them were blown out of the air.
The singularity sliced through the air, heading straight at Godzilla. The Kaiju had just recovered from the blow he had taken to his head and spotted the ball of energy heading for him. Godzilla just stared the incoming black hole down with a glare and snarl. True to his Wakandan name, Fearless Dragon, he didn't back down. He roared loudly at the object and shot his Atomic Breath at the incoming singularity.
The blue breath just seemed to be pulled inside but Godzilla refused to relent. Finally the black energy slammed into Godzilla, engulfing him entirely. The Kaiju let out one final roar before he was abruptly silenced by a massive explosion of energy.
Then, everything vanished in a flash of blinding violet light.
Gordon only raised his head when the light dissipated. He carefully looked up into the center of the Atoll on the monitor and saw. . . nothing. No black ball of energy, no Godzilla, just. . . water.
Everything was silent for a few moments more before a jubilant cry went out across the ship, the fleet and everyone on or around the Atoll itself. It took a moment for Gordon realized that he was cheering himself.
They had done it! Sixty eight years of terror and destruction, finally ended. Godzilla was gone. It took the combined efforts of nearly every developed Nation on Earth, but they had done what was considered to be the impossible. They had defeated the King of Monsters!
"No. No, you haven't." King Ghidorah shook his heads.
Director Fury looked towards Dimension Tide, the weapon that had given them this victory. And saw it smoking from every orifice and fires erupting from its mouth. Apparently Godzilla's last big shot had done enough damage. He couldn't be sure from looking from the Hellicarrier, but Fury suspected it wouldn't be firing again anytime soon.
Perhaps it was for the best. A weapon of that kind of power was too great for just one nation or organization to control. It had played its role. No sense in someone else besides Godzilla being on its business end.
It wasn't the time to feel down at that loss though. Though, maybe Stark and the ones who put so much effort to build it would be angry and a little sad about their machine being broken. This was a great victory for the world. Godzilla, King of the Monsters, was dead. There would be no more fear of the Kaiju's roar, his Atomic Breath, his massive footsteps. He would trouble them no more. He did feel annoyed at thinking of the World Security Council. General Ross was bound to be smug and declare that Thor and Wonder Woman were wrong: Godzilla was no god killer. Tell the Ghost Rider that Godzilla will go to Hell and stay there. His throng of worshipers who thought him to be a literal god had turned out to be wrong after all. He wasn't a force of nature at all. He was just an animal. One that needed that needed a really big gun to put down but nothing more.
Still in denial, Ross opened his mouth to say exactly that, but got blank stares and glares from practically everyone in the theater, even Groot, either telling him to shut up or daring him to say anything.
He chose the wise option and turned back to the screen.
However, in the back of his mind, Fury wondered a thought. A doubtful thought. A disturbing thought. A doubtful, disturbing thought. Godzilla had survived everything they threw at him, why not this? It wasn't like they could confirm the death. No body after all.
So what if Godzilla wasn't dead? What if something else happened? What if he had been transported to the future? Or the past or another dimension?
"He. Is. Not. Dead." King Ghidorah said and most of the Kaiju nodded in silent agreement.
Fury tried to put the inward debate out of his mind as he look towards the sky on the deck of the Hellicarrier. Surely such thoughts were just the creeping paranoia he was known for. Disbelief at the accomplishment he had witnessed. Now was the time to look to a great future. With one less monster in the world. They could all start living again.
"I feel like this is going to bite us in the ass," Star-Lord stated bluntly.
"Knowing our luck with things like this," Gamora replies monotonously. "Highly likely."
Bat-computer entry 4053-2234
November 5th, 2022
Subject: The King's Reign is Over
At 0900 hours, the United Nations had attacked Godzilla in a joint operation and used the weapon codenamed Dimension Tide to kill the Kaiju at Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific.
I feel. . . guilty as my fellow members of the JLA for allowing the operation to commence. Godzilla had battled by our side along with the Avengers and the other superhero teams when the situation called for it. From Jean Grey and Professor Xavier, we had learned his origins and his motives.
He had viewed our race to be arrogant and destructive. Greedy and selfish parasites and that we thought we owned our piece of land do everything we could and ignore the consequences. Captain Rogers, Diana, Peter Parker, Thor and Clark had set out to change his perspective. To show that not all humans were what he thought.
"And we failed," Diana muttered sadly.
I suppose that it is why I feel guilty. We failed to prove him wrong. We will hold a funeral service with the other Hero teams at Monster Island. He was the last of his kind, a relic of a time forgotten, he deserves to be honored like the King he was. I hope that he does not hate us. And I hope that where ever he is, he may finally find peace.
Batman signing off.
"I still remember writing that log," Wayne muttered to Alfred in a somber tone.
The blackness faded and light finally returned. He gazed about the broken, cracked ground and the trees that have been pushed by the explosion. The air felt familiar yet different. He glanced up and saw the moon. Nothing seemed different. He didn't know where the human weapon had sent him but it didn't matter.
"Wait. . . " whispered Clark.
Ross' eyes widened. "No. . . "
"Well, son of a bitch." declared Kate and Tim.
Mothra's lips curled upwards as did Rodan, Anguirus, Kong, Cesar and Gamera.
Biollante and SpaceGodzilla sighed. "Of course." Should have seen that coming.
"I knew it," King Ghidorah declared and the Golden Terror began to laugh, much like the Joker except the deranged clown was terrified that the King was still alive. "Hehehehe-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"He lives!" Ghidorah said, calming down slightly but smiling sinisterly. "He lives."
"Okay, Darth Maul, calm down," Deadpool said in amusement.
All that mattered was that Godzilla, King of the Monsters had survived yet another feeble attempt by man's machines against his life.
"No. . . No, no, no!" Ross yelled out loud in a frantic and desperate tone.
He roared defiantly into the air. To let all know that he was still alive. And those that had attacked him will pay. Any who defied his reign will burn beneath his shadow.
The three Gojiran Kaiju roared in unison with their father, the other Kaiju following suit.
"Humanity created him on accident by flipping a switch," Mothra declared. "That does not mean that he will be killed so easily with the flick of another."
"NNNOOOOO!" shouted Ross. "DAMN YOU, GODZILLAAAAAAAAAA!"
"Ooh! Reference!" Deadpool declared.
In Remnant 1995
Gojira paused in his evening walk, the Tyrannosaur Kaiju Rexy was nearby and noticed his abrupt stop. "Is something the matter?"
"I feel the sense that someone is cursing my name," Gojira muttered before shaking his head in a dismissive manner. "Eh. Nothing new."
Dark blue eyes shot open as a man collapsed in the middle of a large temple with a gasp. He had a large dark green turtle shell on his back and a carapace on his front underneath a dark green tunic, a pair of tusks on his lower jaw with spikes on his elbows, dark green hair.
"Hey, Gamera, look." Zilla Junior said to the Turtle Kaiju.
Gamera narrowed his eyes and tilted his head. He did not remember looking like this nor had he visited a temple like that in years.
Hearing his collapse, a younger woman ran into view. She too had a turtle shell on her back, smaller elbow spikes, matching hair and eyes but no tusks. "Father, what is it?" she asked worriedly. "Are you alright?"
"Whaa?" exclaimed the two Gargantuan Twins in shock.
"Who the Heck is she?" Gorosaurus asked.
Gamera blinked as if checking if his eyes were being deceived.
Before Gamera could answer, a woman landed on the ground with barely a sound. She had colorful butterfly wings and insect antenna on her forehead, bright blue eyes and wore a blue kamino. She walked to Gamera with a slightly worried expression. "Did you sense that too, Gamera?" Mothra asked.
Mothra tilted her head as well. She glanced to her wings and hummed. The human form was almost similar yet the Moth Kaiju on screen had different wings. Curious.
And why was she acting as if she couldn't recognize her King's presence?
"Sense what?" Gamora asked in confusion as she helped her father up. "A disturbance," Gamera replied. "Something is rising."
"What is it?" Gamora asked softly. "Not what," Mothra replied, "who. . . Someone powerful."
"Anyone else getting some Star Wars vibes?" asked Billy Batson.
"Feels like a scene from the Clone Wars," replied Starfire, rubbing her chin.
The three Kaiju exchanged a glance before the older turtle declared to the moth. "Inform the Queen."
"The Queen?" repeated the Kaiju. "But Mothra's right there."
". . . I have a feeling that Deadpool may have said something important," Mothra said in a thoughtful tone.
"I do that more often than you think," Deadpool said, suddenly dressed as a pirate. "You people are always surprised."
"Oh for fuck's sake," Logan sighed.
Far away from the Temple of the Guardians of Yamato on the planet Mars. An old Kaiju's blood red eyes shot open as he sat up. He had bone white armor and a forked black reptilian tail with scales on his face and half skulls on his shoulders, black hair with white streaks and small but noticeable horns on his head. He looked around wearily before calling out, "Queen Ghidorah!"
"Hey, look at that, X." Gigan pointed a scythe to the screen, looking to the black and white Draconian humaniod Kaiju. "It's you too."
"I can see that, Gigan," Monster X snapped. "I'm not blind. My eyes still work, unlike yours."
"DAMN! You got burned, Robot Chicken!" Megaguirus laughed at the cyborg alien Kaiju.
"Wait, what did he just say?" asked Ghidorah asked.
A woman with golden hair, dragon wings on her back and a forked reptilian tail with red eyes. She wore golden robes with matching armor and dragon skulls on her shoulders. She crossed her arms in a annoyed attitude at having her beauty sleep interrupted before she became concerned upon seeing Monster X's expression. "What is it, old man?" she asked.
"Oh great, there's another one," Athena muttered.
. . .
. . .
. . .
". . . Should I compliment her beauty or be silently confused as all Hell?"
"Seriously, Lobo? That's your response?"
"So, second option then?"
Ghidorah's heads had different facial expressions. Huh? Wwwwhhhhaaaaaaa? And Dafaq?!
Mothra suddenly had a strange feeling about this Kaiju, different than when she senses a threat to the Earth.
"When we approach Earth again, we must do with caution," Monster X said. "I've sensed a disturbance there."
Queen Ghidorah rose an eyebrow. "All the way out here?" she asked. "What do you know of it?"
"I don't know," Monster X replied with a shake of his head. ". . . Something-No, someone has. . . awakened. Someone. . . familiar yet different and. . . powerful."
"I got a bad feeling about this," Clark muttered.
"Same," Strange and Stark concurred.
"No shit, Sherlock," Deadpool said to the three of them. He knew for a fact that the Author was laughing given that Robert Downy Jr, Benedict Cumberitch and Henry Calvill had played Sherlock Holmes in the past.
"Well, I'm. . . intrigued," declared Zantanna who shrugged.
"We started this, mind as well finish it," Fury sighed as he and the others moved away from Ross who was throwing a tantrum.
"Is the lightning above due to Thor or Storm or is it because of Ross acting like a child?" Kara asked, pointing to thunderclouds above the audience of Watchers.
"Oh, no. That's me." Ghidorah replied. He lowered his wings and the thunderclouds dissipated.
"Oh." Supergirl lowered her hand. "Okay then."
"Moving on," Loki said.
So how was that? If you have more ideas, leave them in the reviews and I'll add them in the reaction fic.
Until then.
