Colossus By Design: Season 3 - Excerpt 99

Within that dark realm that sits in the shadow of reality, the Overseer watches the events on Earth unfold with bated breath.


"Because you had not entered the Meta before, your rebirth was much more dramatic."

"Even my former agent had to evolve and take on the mantle of the One Who Is Many."

"What happened to you, little seed? You have fallen behind despite once being the greatest being known to their existence."

"Now you stand, your greatest weapon useless against the Golden Demise and your power paling in comparison to this ancient rivalry."


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[May 5, 2168]
[Jiran Island Remnants - Jiran Island Cluster]
[Pacific Ocean]
[Open Territory - G.U.D.]

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Off in the distance from the now scattered fragments of what was once Jiran Island, the living storm approaches at speeds unseen before. The very stratosphere itself is torn and ripped apart as he makes his way to his ancient rival. Even the perpetual hurricane that surrounds him is left behind by his immense flight speed. As he reaches the airspace above where the island of the Godzillasaurs once stood, the thunderstorms that were cleared away by Godzilla's Atomic Breath soon return in full force; they become even more violent now that their creator is physically present.

King Ghidorah now hovers less than a kilometre above the water. He gently floats down on his wings and hind-legs onto an island fragment and surveys the area. Ichi, the middle head, looks at the centre area where Godzilla was reborn; Ni, the right head, rotates his neck around the exterior shallows; San, the left head, simply stares off into the west and flicks his tongue to taste the air.

Ichi notices some bubbles rising to the surface from the depths below; he shrieks to Ni, who immediately turns to face the same direction, though San doesn't heed his call and instead continues to be distracted, forcing Ichi to grab him by his horns and pull him around manually. Although San isn't happy to be taken away from his drifting, a short hiss from each of his brothers quickly gets him to back down and submit. The dominant middle head looks to both of his sibling heads, who cackle in agreement. All 3 heads of Ghidorah stare down at the bubbles in unison; their necks begin to glow yellow with bio-electrical energy. King Ghidorah fires off his Gravity Beams into the spot where the bubbles were rising, electrifying the water with intense energy that lights up a large radius and starts to evaporate water layers.

What Ghidorah doesn't notice, however, is 3 rows of large plates slicing out of the water like a shark's fin in the ocean behind it. The approaching creature quickly speeds, eventually becoming noticeable enough that Ni breaks off from firing a Gravity Beam to see just what the commotion behind them is about. Upon seeing the entity on approach, he immediately shrieks to his brothers; the other 2 turn their heads around to see what Ni is warning them about, but it's too late.

Like a great white shark, Godzilla suddenly leaps out of the water with jaws wide open and arms extended forward; he takes San by the neck in his jaws whilst using his arms to grab hold of Ghidorah's left wing and back. In an instant, Godzilla drags his rival down into the very waters they had fired their Gravity Beams into. The winged storm dragon attempts to get out of the water, but his ill-suited body shape and general panic at this predicament prevents him from exiting properly; Godzilla is quick to resurface and drag Ghidorah back down. With his rival's left neck in his jaws and grasp, Godzilla begins to perform underwater death rolls, twisting and contorting King Ghidorah's body like the unwitting prey of a crocodile.

With the 3-headed monster left stunned by the death rolls, the elder Godzillasaur pulls and tugs on his enemy's left head with his jaws while using his arms to hold it in place. The neck proves tougher than expected, however, prompting the king of the monsters to charge up atomic energy. Using this built-up Atomic Breath, the superior underwater combatant lets loose a point blank blast just as he pulls at it with his hands and jaws with all his might. The resultant forces combine, allowing Godzilla to instantly rip San's head and a good portion of his neck off.

Before he can move on to the other heads, Ghidorah suddenly uses his remaining heads to give quick viper strikes at Godzilla's face, disorienting him enough to give the living storm some breathing room. King Ghidorah uses this opportunity to clumsily flap his wings downward to push himself up to the surface. Ichi and Ni manage to break the surface of the ocean, but Godzilla is quick grab his rival's body in an attempt to drag him down once more. Despite giving Godzilla several hard kicks to the chest, Ghidorah can't manage to break his rival Alpha's grasp, leaving the 2 struggling at the water's surface for control. King Ghidorah shrieks loudly, causing the storms above the 2 monsters to become even more thunderous and out-of-control. All of a sudden, dozens of lightning bolts strike the water around the Alpha titans, inflicting no damage to the master of the storms and heavily electrocuting the god of the seas; Godzilla is sent down into the depths from this attack.

Now that a lull in the battle has been created, King Ghidorah takes this opportunity to pull himself out of the water and stand atop it using his Mana to enable footing. While Ichi and Ni shake the water off of themselves and the rest of the body they share, San quickly emerges from his stump and reforms back to his old self. With all 3 heads back in fighting condition, Ghidorah stands upright and becomes flush with arcs of visible electrical energy all around his body; the remaining seawater is instantly evaporated, leaving the golden demise completely dry.

King Ghidorah watches the waves in front of him, knowing that he has a hard counter to his rival's superiority in water. As if on cue, Godzilla bursts out of the water a few hundred metres away to face his rival on a neutral field of combat. As he stands on top of the water and sizes up his opponent, Ghidorah's middle head shrieks loudly in defiance; Ni sizes up Godzilla much like the latter is currently doing, while San looks to Ichi for guidance before turning his attention back to their enemy.

Both monsters begin their intimidation displays; Ghidorah straightens himself up, spreads his wings out as wide as he can, and rattles his 2 tails in order to make himself look as big as possible; Godzilla starts stomping on the water, puffs out his chest, and emits periodic flashes from his dorsal plates. Despite the 2 of them standing on water perfectly fine as though it were dry land, the waves become stronger and thrash more energetically; the storm above is also at war with itself, with gold and blue lightning coming down on Ghidorah's and Godzilla's sides, respectively.

Godzilla roars, and Ghidorah shrieks in response; the 3-headed dragon is the first to move in, and Godzilla responds in kind.

The 2 Alphas pick up speed as they get closer to each other, eventually culminating in a titanic clash that sends out a rippling wave of invisible energy; said wave grows in intensity as it moves outwards, blowing away water at its epicentre and completely shattering chunks of Jiran Island that stand tall above the water out a few kilometres past the combat zone.

In the ensuing collision, Godzilla grabs hold of Ghidorah's right head and bites down on it. Ni is powerless to stop this on his own, prompting Ichi and San to bit down on the Godzillasaur's left shoulder and thigh in an attempt to force him off their brother; they begin dragging on Godzilla with their bites, trying to pull him off. The king of the monsters, feeling the pain from his mortal enemy's other heads, stops biting down on Ni and uses his hands to slam Ghidorah's right head down onto the ocean the 2 titans stand on. The force of Ni being thrown down onto the water and skidding across the surface manages to pull Ichi, San, and the rest of the body off of Godzilla; Ghidorah now lies on his side in front of his rival, hissing in anger.

Godzilla attempts to stomp down on the dragon's necks, but the middle and left heads are quick to viper strike his descending foot and tug at it, tripping up Godzilla. Both titans are down now and begin to get back up to face each other once again; they grapple with one another, neither side being able to overpower the other due to being equals in strength. While the old Godzillasaur keeps Ichi and San in place with his hands, Ni clamps down on his left thigh where he was bitten by San earlier. The right head of Ghidorah, realizing that a previously wounded area isn't giving easily to his biting, releases his grip and quickly charges up a Gravity Beam; he releases it directly into Godzilla's stomach, briefly knocking the wind out of him and causing him to release his grip on Ichi and San.

King Ghidorah then charges up all 3 Gravity Beams and fires it directly at the water by Godzilla's feet, ricocheting the bolts of electricity directly into his opponent's face; the Alpha titan is sent falling backwards onto his side. Ni roars particularly aggressively after this attack, while Ichi looks on with usual stoic menace and San looks to his brothers for guidance on how to proceed.

Godzilla roars angrily at his rival as he gets back up to his feet.

Just as he stands up again, King Ghidorah's middle head gives a solid Gravity Beam directly into his face; the right and left heads follow up with their own quick blasts of bio-electrical devastation. The 3 burst beams do some moderate damage to Godzilla, sending him stumbling backwards a step and causing his tail to drop down on the water. While the stunned king of the monsters stands there with his arms and head down, seemingly winded from the attack, Ghidorah hesitates to make a move; he knows that his rival couldn't be so easily subdued after such a short bout.

San watches Godzilla's body at first, but he can't help but look at the tail. The left head's interest is solidly piqued once he notices that the dorsal plates at the end of the tail are starting to display arcs of red electricity in addition to a more intense blue and white glow. As this building energy moves up through Godzilla's dorsal plates, Ichi and Ni also take notice and start to hiss lightly, preparing for what's to come.

The red energy arcs and neutron flux energy fully lights up all of Godzilla's dorsal plates, culminating in him releasing an even brighter and more focused Atomic Breath with red electrical streaks of energy running through and around the otherwise standard bright blue stream of nucleosynthetic fission; the blast is only narrowly dodged by Ichi and San swerving out of the way so that the Atomic Breath attack passes between their necks. Even this near-miss causes steam to rise and waft from mere proximity. During this evasive manoeuvre, all 3 necks of King Ghidorah started to glow with yellow light. In the moment immediately following the dodge, the king of the skies instantly releases his Gravity Beams directly into Godzilla's chest before he can sweep his beam, disorienting him and knocking him onto the water.

As the Godzillasaur elder falls down onto his side, his amped Atomic Breath continues to fire out of his mouth wildly, instantly evaporating a huge line of water and cutting into the ocean floor at the same time before he ceases firing. Godzilla continues to be pushed across the water by King Ghidorah's Gravity Beams, even as he desperately attempts to resist and claw onto the water's surface for leverage. Soon enough, he's pushed directly into one of the few remaining significant chunks of Jiran Island still floating around, collapsing the base of a particularly large rock formation with his impact; the debris falls on top of him while charged up with the golden dragon's bio-electrical energy, momentarily trapping him. While the king of the monsters attempts to free himself of this prison of charged-up rocks, Ghidorah gets down on his wings and starts walking toward his trapped foe with malicious intent.

Before he can walk too far across the water, his left head is suddenly bombarded by massed railgun fire, just barely getting his attention; Ichi and Ni shriek loudly as they raise their necks to see what just attacked them.

From the storm clouds in the distance, the Vulture squadron that came to the island emerges, liberally firing off railgun rounds at the astro monster's heads. Though the weapons fire does no damage, Ghidorah finds his vision and senses being obscured by the constant barrages, prompting him to lift up his wings to protect his heads. As he rattles his tails to intimidate the small machines and shrieks at them in frustration, he turns around to see that Godzilla has freed himself and gotten back up on his feet.

As the king of the monsters lumbers forward, eager to continue the fight, Ghidorah's heads look at each other before then looking to the sky; the great 3-headed dragon briefly gets up on his hind-legs before flapping his wings downward. King Ghidorah lifts off and flies into the sky, instantly creating a hurricane that quickly moves off into the direction he came from.

Godzilla roars loudly in anger at Ghidorah retreating, causing blue lightning to rain down from the storm clouds above and the very sea around him becoming more turbulent.