Colossus By Design: Season 3 - Excerpt 104

[May 7, 2168]
[Pacific Ocean]
[Open Territory - G.U.D.]

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Out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, there's quite the spectacle to behold.

Godzilla and Gamera, the most powerful forces for good, are swimming briskly through the waves at incredible speeds; the king of the monsters leads the charge in the water while the Atlantean guardian follows behind him closely. The pair is also flanked by a large compliment of some of the C.D.F.'s naval fleets; they're only barely managing to keep up even at nearly full speed. While this group makes its way by water, another group mirrors them overhead in the skies.

Mothra leads the charge for both her flock and the group down below; she's closely followed by a compliment of fighters, Mechagodzilla's Vultures, Mechagodzilla itself, Jet Jaguar, and a few transport VTOLs. One of the transports is carrying none other than the legendary trio and some of their friends and allies.


(Eobard Thawne): [COMMS] Any ideas where Mothra's taking us?

(Anna Maximoff): [COMMS] None whatsoever. Exciting stuff, isn't it? Riding off into unknown territory alongside some giant monsters?

(Daisy Zaibo): [COMMS] Personally, I'd say its more pants-shittingly terrifying, and that's coming from a C.D.F. Marine.


As the massive cluster of monsters and C.D.F. military continues to move at a steady pace, Mothra suddenly looks behind her and shrieks to everyone. The queen of the monsters then flies forth even faster than before, prompting everyone to swim and fly even faster to try and keep up. Soon after, the Mosura elder stops and hovers in place a few kilometres ahead; Mothra then starts to glow with blinding bio-luminescence once again, just like when she used her God-Rays to blow away Ghidorah's storm over Roth-Ma Island. This time, however, she does not create a forceful burst of beta-wave light and instead sprinkles down glowing powder; this powder looks identical to the kind that she used to free Gamera from his petrification.

Upon seeing this signal, Godzilla suddenly speeds ahead of everyone else, even the flyers, and dives down at the spot where Mothra's glowing powder floated down to.

For a while, all is quiet; no one besides Mothra seems sure of what exactly Godzilla is attempting. Before anyone can go down into the depths after him, an extremely large ping sounds off on the fleet's sonar, larger than the one Godzilla normally has. The king of the monsters bursts out of the water with great force, showering the area around him with ocean spray. Within his arms, he embraces his disfigured daughter Gojira; she's recovered from the damage she took back on Jiran Island and is resting. As she awakens, she looks around at everything around her; the C.D.F. fleet, Vulture flock, Mechagodzilla, Jet Jaguar, and Mothra all catch her eye. Once she looks up at her father, she growls with a bit of a whimper.

Godzilla nuzzles her gently, with the 2 closing their eyes as their family is reunited once again.

As everyone comes in to greet the young ward, the booming sound of thunder in the distance catches everyone's attention. Despite the efforts of Godzilla and Mothra having left clear skies behind them hours ago, Ghidorah's storm clouds have encroached on them once again, this time with even greater fury and power than before. The king of the monsters roars at Mechagodzilla to get its attention; he growls and grunts what seem to be commands, to which the Bilusaludo mech seems to understand enough to follow. The legendary trio watches the mechanical doppelganger ascend into the clouds and beyond from their VTOL's open door.


(Daisy Zaibo): From the looks of it, Godzilla's ordered Mechagodzilla to go into low orbit for some reason. I've notified the G.U.D., Bilusaludo, and Exif ships orbiting Earth on this.

(Jiro Ifukube): Good. It looks like King Ghidorah has started to ramp up his storm production, which means Mechagodzilla will need to increase its global evacuation efforts

(Wei Ho): Not just that. I'm getting even more worrying reports.

(Jiro Ifukube): Of what?


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[Almaty, Kazakhstan]
[Shared Colony State - Russian and Chinese Super-Nations]

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Within the evacuated city of Almaty, Kazakhstan, chaos brews.

A massive localized quake moves through the area in a straight line at incredible speed, destabilizing and outright collapsing many skyscrapers and smaller buildings. After this already massive disaster, a dark shape flies over the mostly abandoned city, siphoning all of the air and leaving a faint green haze. As if 2 disasters wasn't enough already, another dark mass follows the path of the first. This one creates powerful storms with lightning strikes powerful enough to disintegrate infrastructure outright and flood the streets/ What's even worse, however, is that it also inverts the gravity of everything below it, causing buildings, foundation, roads, and all other manner of loose infrastructure and vehicles to be lifted out of and off the ground entirely.

Soon enough, the entire city has been stripped of any structures on the surface; they've all been left to float in the air as if they were in the vacuum of space.

The wave of disasters quickly moves past this area and onto the neighbouring areas. As they move on, a curious thing happens. There is some activity in a particularly massive piece of the ground that has been lifted off the ground and left to float in place. The piece starts to change form, being converted into a mass of shifting fluid metal, Mechagodzilla's Nanometal. At first, the Nanometal remains in flux.

Eventually, the metal begins to contort into more recognizable features. From this mass that's several kilometres long, the Nanometal forms a large rectangular shape that serves as the overall core mass of the object with prong-like formations at what looks to be the front. Soon after, several large offshoots near what would presumably be the rear end. They appear to be shaped like satellite dishes, but their orientation would suggest a thruster system of some kind. As the features of this now very clear ship design become more defined and functional, the signature pink lighting of Mechagodzilla's signal activate all across the ship.

At first, the ship's impulse thrusters fail to break from the gravitational field. Eventually, the ship manages to orient itself so that its thrust engines are pointed down at the ground. With a single mighty thrust, the ship breaks out of the gravity well and into the upper atmosphere.

In the distance in neighbouring cities, several identical ships start to form and take off past the boundaries of the Earth.


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From the Meta, the Overseer watches as these ships escape from the Earth.


"You believe you will escape my release? So be it."

"None shall escape the gaze of a Metarch. Neither weapons nor distance shall keep you safe."

"My arrival is nigh."