Colossus By Design: Season 3 - Excerpt 91

[May 3, 2168]
[Jiran Island - Jiran Island Cluster]
[Pacific Ocean]
[Open Territory - G.U.D.]

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On the island of the Godzillasaurs, Gojira is slumped against a cliffside wall; she seems to have gone inactive given the lack of colour through her body, though she's still breathing just fine. She eventually awakens and walks over to the other side of the clearing her and her father are in to look out at the ocean. Despite everything seeming calm, she suddenly roars at the outpost below and begins backing up. As the disfigured young monster becomes flush with purple atomic energy, some of the outpost's personnel step out.


(Wei Ho): Jira, what's going on?!


Gojira looks down at her Human uncle figure and roars loudly. She then looks to the VTOL transports and back to him before then refocusing on the ocean in the distance.


(Wei Ho): Alright, we'll get out of your way then. Everyone! We're leaving! We all saw the livestreamed footage. Irys is coming.

(Site Researcher): But sir, they couldn't possibly get here THAT fast--

(Wei Ho): Don't underestimate them! We. Are. Leaving.


The Chinese biologist directs the site's security staff to engage emergency evacuation procedures. Soon after, the skeleton crew starts filing out from the outpost and climbing aboard the VTOL transports. Luckily, recent events have ensured that the site's evacuation can be started as fast as possible. Wei Ho is the last to board on the remaining VTOL; he looks back at Gojira before the transport vessel's bay door closes up.


(Wei Ho): Good luck, Jira.


All the VTOLs have now steered clear of Jiran Island, leaving the area completely free of any sapient beings aside from Gojira and Godzilla. The young heir to the monster throne continues to look out at the vast expanse of ocean, scanning for whatever it is she's sensing. She growls under her breath when she notices some shapes emerging out of the depths as they enter the shallows. The shapes reveal themselves to be the trio of Drone-Hybrids that attacked the scout fleet as Irys flew by; Obsidian Fury also emerges behind them.

The aforementioned Atlantean abomination is nowhere to be seen, however.

Just as Gojira prepares to fire off her atomic breath, a sudden blast of pink and yellow energy bursts out from the clouds above and strikes the princess of monsters in the chest, sending her tumbling onto the ground. The Micro-Oxygen beam continues, pushing the mutated Godzillasaur across the clearing; she's eventually forced up against the very cliffside wall she was originally sleeping against.

The source of the Micro-Oxygen emerges out from the clouds soon after: the Destroyer. Flanking the Imago form is Irys himself, who gently floats down like a fallen angel with tentacles spread wide in a wing-like formation.

As Irys touches down with grace and control that barely kicks up any dust on Godzilla's exposed dorsal plates, the Destroyer reforms into its giant Aggregate form and crashes next to the monster king's petrified feet. Soon after, the 3 Drone-Hybrids and Obsidian Fury walk out from the shallow waters and walk into the clearing. Gojira roars loudly at all of them as she staggers back up to her feet; she's clearly struggling to get up due to the Micro-Oxygen's potency despite her immense willpower. In spite of this, she sends a neutron flux up her tail and attempts to fire her atomic breath at the invaders once again.

Unfortunately, this easily telegraphed attack is countered by all 4 Warmonger-derived cyborgs firing their missiles at her unceasingly, obscuring her whole body in the sheer volume of explosions. After nearly a minute of sustained fire, the hybrid machines end their barrage. Despite possessing no visible injuries, Gojira falls to the ground; her purple glow fades away, leaving her body with a faint and barely visible red colouration.

With their only opposition down for the time being, all the titans turn their attention to Irys.

The demon of Atlantis raises his tentacles outwards before then stabbing into the few parts of Godzilla's back that were exposed alongside his dorsal plates. Irys begins to siphon blue energy out from the elder Godzillasaur's body through his tentacles. As he continues to drain energy, the stone petrification around the exposed dorsal plates begin to crack. Eventually, Godzilla's entire body collapses onto the ground; the rocky shell around him falls apart immediately after. However, he can barely utter a growl as his energy continues to be siphoned into Irys.

Once the flow of glowing blue ichor ceases, Irys removes his tentacles from Godzilla's body; the monster king loses consciousness entirely immediately after.

With Godzilla entirely drained, Irys lifts his tentacles into the air and bellows triumphantly. All of a sudden, he begins to convulse and shake; he lifts his blade arms to hold his head as he begins to have what seems like a mental breakdown. The other titans present look on with confusion and worry, unsure of how exactly they should approach the situation. Their confusion soon turns to awe as Irys's body starts to mutate and transform before their very eyes.

His tentacles spread out and start growing a thick golden membrane between them; his body's slick rubbery skin and metallic shell convert into golden scales; 2 of his tentacles thicken into tails tipped with spiked rattles on the end; his legs become more reptilian and theropod-like; his neck starts elongating; his arms lift up into the air and position themselves alongside his lengthened neck like the heads and necks of a hydra. Eventually, Irys's changing body is engulfed in huge amounts of golden electricity that create blinding light, forcing the other monsters to shield their eyes.

When the light dies down, they see that Irys is no more. The new titan unfurls and spreads his new wings as he raises his 3 heads into the sky to shriek loudly; all the other titans bow before his golden form.

King Ghidorah is reborn.