Colossus By Design: Season 3 - Excerpt 124

[May 8, 2168]
[Outer Space, Past Earth's Orbit]

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From outside in the vacuum of Meta-filled space, Godzilla and her fellow titans watch from atop their Mechagodzilla carrier ship as an immense black mass easily dwarfing the entirety of the fleet bears down on them; said dwarfing black mass is barely more than a speck of black smoke wafting out from Safi'jiiva's closed mouth in comparison. As this dark shroud grows closer, the ruler of all monsters calls to her followers, prompting them to spread out among the fleet to take up defensive positions while she herself remains where she is.

While the other titans prepare to fight more directly, Mechagodzilla hovers in place within the heart of its fleet of carrier ships. The Bilusaludo's mech exerts its fine control over the Nanometal exteriors of all the ships, shaping non-essential portions into railguns, masers, particle cannons, and other exotic and varied defences within mere seconds; the mechanical doppelganger also sends out and constructs a swarm of Vultures to further bolster the defensive line. With the other monsters in their positions and Mechagodzilla finished with its offensive retrofitting, Godzilla roars loudly to her allies to hold positions and prepare for what's to come.

With the black aura of the red dragon now within range to visually discern through long range scanning, its composition can now be clearly made out. The dark shroud is very obviously an absolutely massive horde of ravenous beasts of varying sizes and appearances; their clustering makes them appear like an ocean of hell walkers. Interestingly, these creatures of Grimm share an aesthetic similarity to Grimm King Ghidorah, possessing the same style of black hide, white bone plates, and red and yellow glowing veins.

The ocean of Grimm is now almost directly upon the fleet. Godzilla holds her closed fist in the air before then opening it up and roaring loudly, signalling the call to battle to everyone.

The naturally flight-capable titans and Vultures head into the Grimm tide and begin blasting and clawing their way through the swarm, easily cleaving their way through the numerous but comparatively weak forms. Meanwhile, the fleet's defences activate and fire upon the Grimm with massed energy beams and accelerated kinetic rounds at ludicrous velocities and rate of fire, achieving similar results to a lesser degree. Godzilla and the other less flight-inclined monsters stay rooted to their spots on their respective carrier ships and fire off long ranged attacks to thin out the Grimm's numbers while also destroying any that manage to breach past the defensive line in melee combat.

The creatures of Grimm fade into black smoke that further dissipates into nothingness upon destruction, but even as they fall by the thousands by the second, the dark shroud seems endless. Additionally, the Grimm's massive numbers are starting to get past the defences through sheer attrition and getting to the refugees within the ships. It is at this point that Godzilla flashes back to when she fought Grimm King Ghidorah while dog-piled by dozens of Kaiju-sized Grimm; more specifically, she remembers how her Silver Instinct petrified the black dragon's body every time the distinctive light blazed from her eyes.

The young Godzillasaur emits a powerful Nuclear Pulse, vaporizing all of the Grimm around her and freeing her carrier ship from their grasp. She then calls to her allies, ordering them to fall back to defend the fleet.

As they retreat to better defend the fleet itself, Godzilla flies directly at the dark shroud of Grimm. She swims through the vacuum and Meta space through the horde, quite literally pushing through an ocean of darkness to reach her goal. However, instead of stopping at the centre, she breaches past the Grimm and is making her way to Safi'jiiva himself.

At this action, the Metarch Overseer can't help but find himself intrigued by this seeming sacrificial move.


"What do you hope to achieve, little one?"

"I sensed the light of the Silver Instinct die down when I engaged you in puppet form."

"Even if you call upon it, you cannot possibly hope to achieve anywhere near enough magnitude to wipe them all out, nor affect me. I am no mere creature of Grimm or lowly Demon that the Slayer pursues."


Despite these taunts, the young ruler of all monsters presses on. Once she has flown a sizable distance, she closes her eyes, brings her arms in close to her body, and spreads her legs out a bit to mirror the exact position she took to call upon the Silver Instinct against her father's arch-nemesis. In response to this meditation, Safi'jiiva focuses his eyes on Godzilla specifically, which seems to call forth the horde of Grimm to converge on her location. Even as they start to surround and swarm all over, she maintains her stance as best as she can to avoid any distractions or disturbances to her calling forth her inner potential.


"I can sense that your charges seek to escape my gaze, move out from this system."

"To that end, I will pursue them to the very ends of the universe itself should they succeed."

"Watch closely as I--"


All of a sudden, a bright silvery white light shines out from the heart of the ocean of Grimm surrounding Godzilla, growing larger exponentially and engulfing the much of the dark shroud. This light even reaches the Metarch Overseer's eyes, blinding him temporarily and causing him to cry out from the momentary loss of vision. As the light dies down, Godzilla is left floating in empty space; all the creatures of Grimm within a small ocean-sized area have been completely disintegrated, with millions more being left petrified as stone at the outer edges of the original group.

Godzilla herself has not ascended into the Silver Instinct state, however.

Despite this, she still charges forward at Safi'jiiva. The other titans and the Vultures follow her lead, blasting through the scattered remnants of the Grimm to join her at her side. They come together and start channelling their energies in unison along with energy from the rest of the fleet and the Vultures, culminating in them unleashing an even more powerful Unbreakable Bonds Breath directed straight at the red dragon's still partially blinded right eye.

Even the mighty planet-sized Metarch Overseer finds himself reeling back ever so slightly from the blow, though this is in part due to his guard being broken by Godzilla's brief Soul Gaze attack. Unfortunately, he recovers almost immediately after being hit by this combined attack and shakes his head of the brief daze. As he looks at the group with renewed interest, the turncoat members of Godzilla's pack find themselves panicking at their inability to damage, though Godzilla and her main allies remain stoic and determined even in the face of such impossible odds.


"You actually made me flinch, no small feat indeed. You truly are remarkable, little one."

"But I can also see that the Silver Instinct is unstable within you, barely able to be sustained even with immense meditative concentration."

"Still, I am impressed. Perhaps I will at least preserve you in hopes of eventually putting your soul back where it belongs, as the heart of a fellow Metarch."

"Allow me to show you what you shall become."


The red dragon gets up from his spot on Jupiter and begins to take flight, moving in closer to Godzilla and the rest of the fleet. He flies past the young ruler of all monsters and heads towards the Mechagodzilla carrier ships with jaws wide open, intent to simply swallow them all up in one small gulp. Godzilla and her fellow titans quickly fly after Safi'jiiva and latch onto his body, desperately trying to get any kind of meaningful reaction out of the massive space-faring dragon to prevent him from swallowing the fleet.

These efforts are fruitless however.


(Cmdr. Galu-gu): [COMMS] Don't worry, Godzilla. We've figured it out. Initiating emergency gateway jump!


Just before the Metarch Overseer can close his jaws down on the fleet, all of the ships open up tears in reality using the abundant and overflowing Meta fractures to jump through, allowing them to escape from the red dragon. At first, Safi'jiiva looks around in confusion; he eventually looks directly at the sun and deduces exactly what happened.


"So Humanity and their allies have managed to traverse the Meta to escape my jaws. But your grasp of the technique is imperfect."

"I can sense that your friends have merely managed to jump to the other side of this star, little one."

"There are other ways I can pick them off."