Colossus By Design: Season 3 - Excerpt 137

[May 8, 2168]
[Solar System]

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The 3 golden heads of the almighty Ghidorah continue to hold the monster planet Godzilla in his Super Gravity Constraint, preventing her from moving at all.

Meanwhile, every member of the Exif people spread across the various ships in Mechagodzilla's fleet make preparations in defiance of their former god. They all gather around terminals, but none of them execute any functions; they await the actions of their leading high priest, the young Metphies. As Metphies walks over to the terminal in the view-port room, Jiro Ifukube follows behind him; a holographic projection of Mechagodzilla's head appears next to the 2.


(Jiro Ifukube): What's the plan, then?

(Metphies): It's simple. The entirety of the Exif are an anchor point that allows Ghidorah to pinpoint and hone in on our location. Ordinarily, he physically rests at the centre of the universe and needs a Harmonic Signature to pull himself towards, our Harmonic Signature.

(Jiro Ifukube): If your people as a whole are a beacon, then how do we cut off that connection?

(Metphies): Specifically speaking, every member of our species has a Garbetrium Bead embedded behind one of our eyes. These beads connect to our brains and sync up our Ki, which grants us our powerful telepathy. It is a simple matter of destroying these beads.


Jiro Ifukube and Metphies stop at the terminal in the middle of all the others; they're surrounded by the other Exif present in the room.


(Jiro Ifukube): Then why don't you just have Mechagodzilla surgically destroy it right now? It can do so without harming your eyes.

(Metphies): The thing is, the Garbetrium Bead is as much a form of control as it is amplification. If we try to remove or damage it, our brains will force our bodies to automatically stop our attempts. And even if we are restrained or knocked unconscious, we will cause self-harm to ourselves. Mechagodzilla, you must temporarily override our minds through Nanometal conversion.

(Mechagodzilla): I CAN DO THAT. I WILL MAKE SURE TO ONLY USE THE BARE MINIMUM CONVERSION NECESSARY, AND RETRACT IT TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITIES.

(Metphies): Alright, then. Let's do this.


Every Exif member present in the room and across the fleet directly faces a terminal. From each of these terminals, thin tendrils of Nanometal snake their way out and attach themselves to the temples of each member of the blond priest race. Upon becoming attached, the parts of their heads where the Nanometal tendrils are latched on are slowly converted into more of the living metallic substance. Many Exif wince in pain at the process, coinciding with veins of the silvery substance snaking their way underneath the skin of their foreheads.


(Mechagodzilla): I AM CONNECTED. BEGINNING SURGICAL DESTRUCTION OF GARBETRIUM BEADS.


Jiro Ifukube watches with bated breath as a surgical laser is formed at each terminal and directed straight at the eyes of the Exif members. The frequency for each laser is tuned to allow the light to enter the eye freely while still being intense enough to cut through the god-given amplifying control chips.

While this is going on within the fleet, the middle head of Ghidorah looks away from Godzilla and towards the congregation of Mechagodzilla ships off in the distance.


("So you have chosen heresy rather than revolution. I will not allow you to forsake me for petty pride.")


Back on the fleet, the eyes of the all the Exif suddenly glow yellow; their bodies begin convulsing and shaking wildly soon after. All of them scream with pained sounds as Ghidorah presumably attempts to regain control of their minds; this golden glow snakes its way out from their eyes and almost seems to be fighting the veins of Nanometal within. With their constant movements, even as Mechagodzilla creates restraints around each one, the surgical lasers can't be properly targeted to only hit their embedded Garbetrium Beads.


(Metphies): JUST.... FIRE!

(Jiro Ifukube): Your movements are too erratic! Your brains and faces will be damaged for sure, possibly fatally, if you--

(Metphies): JUST.... DO IT!

(Mechagodzilla): VERY WELL, THEN. BUT ONLY SINCE YOU CONSENTED.


The surgical lasers begin to activate.

Meanwhile, back in the void of space, Godzilla's eye glances back at the fleet, then back to the middle head of Ghidorah. Despite being incapable of moving almost the entirety of her body, she can still somewhat unhinge her jaw. The ruler of all monsters does her best to try and channel energy through her dorsal plates, but the most she gets is a few sparks; this is enough, however. With as much willpower and strength she can muster, Godzilla lets loose the loudest single roar she can. The sound wave booms across the solar system despite the lack of atmosphere to carry it, crossing the vast distances faster than light and just barely reaching the fleet.

Just before the lasers can fire, an invisible pressure wave moves through the view-port room and the rest of the fleet, instantly turning the original golden glow overtaking the Exif a light blue; the alien priests immediately stop moving and calm down, almost as though they're in a trance. Now that they've stopped moving, Mechagodzilla re-configures the surgical lasers to target the embedded Garbetrium Beads with pinpoint accuracy. A thin pink beam is emitted from each projector and enters an eye of every Exif member. After a few seconds, the lasers cease firing and the restraints are released; the Nanometal tendrils disconnect, taking their conversion with them and leaving the Exif Nanometal-free.

Many of the humanoid aliens collapse to their knees, including Metphies himself.

Jiro Ifukube gets down and puts his hand around the young herald's shoulder.


(Jiro Ifukube): Mechagodzilla, did it work?

(Mechagodzilla): YES. I CAN CONFIRM THAT ALL THE GARBETRIUM BEADS HAVE BEEN DESTROYED WHILE THEIR EYES AND BRAINS HAVE BEEN LEFT INTACT, THOUGH THEIR TELEPATHIC ABILITIES HAVE BEEN CRIPPLED DUE TO THIS.

(Jiro Ifukube): Thank you. Metphies, are you alright?


Metphies looks at the elderly Japanese man. He seems utterly drained by the recent experience, but he also looks relieved beyond belief.


(Metphies): We're free.... we're finally free.

(Jiro Ifukube): That you are. Now come on, let's go see your new god.


Jiro Ifukube helps Metphies up to his feet and allows the Exif high priest to lean on him a bit for support as the 2 of them walk towards the view-port.

Back in the void of space, Ghidorah's golden electrical arcs emanating from his coil around Godzilla disappear; this is shortly followed by a slight fading of his golden glow. All 3 heads of the god of the void start to screech loudly, as though they've experienced great pain; they start loosening their gravitational coil around the young monster planet. As soon as she detects this period of weakness, Godzilla immediately starts charging up energy through her dorsal plates.

After allowing the charge to slowly build up, the true monster ruler unleashes the biggest Nuclear Pulse she's ever created outward in a spherical manner, blowing away all 3 of the golden deity's heads away from her in one swift motion. While the heads are reeling from this shock-wave, Godzilla narrows her eyes and winds her right arm back a bit before then jabbing forward with a claw strike directed at Ghidorah's left head. With the force of a true god,the god-slaying Godzillasaur knocks the left head of the devil away a fair distance; there is no phase-shifting to save Ghidorah now.

Now that she has confirmed Ghidorah's vulnerability, Godzilla immediately sets about attacking the 3-headed dragon god with the fury of the countless that had fallen before her. She viciously slashes up the left head almost a dozen times, leaving it ragged and scarred; she bites down hard on the left head and shakes it like a chew toy, dazing it greatly; and she gives a hard Plasma Cutter tail whip into all 3 heads that knocks them away. The monster planet proceeds to charge up more energy through her dorsal plates before then unleashing a full-force Atomic Dorsal Barrage directly at her opponent.

The unrelenting torrent of particle beams starts pushing back the 3 heads of Ghidorah further, knocking them around through sheer volume of firepower and forcing them further and further back. Soon enough, the void king's heads are extended only a few thousand kilometres away from their black hole source points.

Godzilla looks at Ghidorah with utter contempt, ready to continue her assault; Ghidorah looks ragged as his body's glow grows dimmer and almost seems to be fading in and out of existence.


("My connection is severed.... BUT MY WILLPOWER IS NOT! LET THE SEAL BE BROKEN FULLY AND MY ECHO BECOME WHOLE!")


The three black hole source points converge on each other and combine, forming one slightly larger sphere of darkness that connects the 3 heads together. The large black orb sprouts several long black tendrils that attached to the surface of the sun behind it. In mere moments, the red giant sun starts to shrink down into a white dwarf star before eventually becoming overtaken by the darkness entirely and creating a super black hole from which Ghidorah's 3 heads emerge from.

The 3 heads retract a little into the black hole before then pulling themselves out again, this time bringing with them a full body to match the thorny necks. Once the full body of Ghidorah emerges, his radiant golden glow from earlier returns in full force.

The god of the void screeches loudly as he spreads his wings wide, announcing his fully realized might.