Colossus By Design: Season 3 - Excerpt 122

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

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On the outside of the hull of the Mechagodzilla carrier ship carrying the flight-incapable monsters, Gamera and Mechagodzilla have landed at the top side of it and drop off Mothra and Godzilla. While the others attend to Mothra's and each other's wounds, the young Godzillasaur walks over to the edge and climbs down it like a lizard; she uses her fine Ki control to cling to the side of the carrier ship without issue and prevent herself from floating off into space.

The ruler of all monsters climbs down to the part of the hull where her Human family members were situated when Ghidorah brought the ship down. Godzilla peers into the view-port and looks through the crowd, searching for Anna Maximoff. The grey and red-haired metaphysicist rushes to the thick vacuum-protected glass to reunite with her reptilian niece; Jiro Ifukube trails behind her, looking dejected and in grief. As Anna Maximoff presses her hands and tearful face into the window, her former mentor walks up to her and puts his hand on her shoulder reassuringly; Godzilla herself is getting quite emotional from the outside, but she seems to be the least broken up over recent events despite suffering the greatest losses.


(Anna Maximoff): I'm so glad you're safe, Jira. I just.... He's gone. He's really gone.

(Jiro Ifukube): All 3 of them are gone. Jet Jaguar, Wei, and your father, little one. We've lost many more in this endeavour, and now we don't even have a world to get to.


As the elderly Japanese man wallows a bit, other members of this strange extended circle of family, friends, acquaintances, and allies come by to provide support and comfort. Among these individuals are the likes of Eobard Thawne, Daisy Zaibo, Set Roth, Wilma Blazkowics, Jacob Hargrove, Curie Polendina, President Tori Bott-80, a Mimetic Keeper, Metphies, Commander Mulu-elu Galu-gu, and General Rico Rasczak. The more sentimental members of this circle embrace one another with high emotions while the more stoic members give reassuring words and shoulder and back pats.

With this gathering of disparate individuals from all walks of life, Anna Maximoff opens up a holographic memorial set up by the wall next to the window. This memorial already contains the names of and mementos dedicated to those who have already been lost, including Thomas Scott, Arthur Roy, Laura Reed, Emmy Kano, and Nicholas Valentine-87. The Russian metaphysicist brings up mementos of Godzilla, Jet Jaguar, and Wei Ho and adds them to the memorial. While the memorial hologram is still active, the Nanometal wall and floor snakes up and out, creating an exact impression of the memorial.

This takes Anna Maximoff by surprise somewhat, though Commander Galu-gu and Metphies seem quite intrigued by this development.


(Cmdr. Galu-gu): Fascinating. We Bilusaludo tend to not possess strong emotional responses. But Mechagodzilla has developed a particularly strong sense of empathy for the legacy left behind by those you've lost.

(Metphies): It's ironic, isn't it? The intelligent machine praised by a species that prides itself on mechanical thinking is very in touch with its own emotions. But then, the universe is just full of surprises today.

(Cmdr. Galu-gu): Snark about it all you want, but if Mechagodzilla's evolution is taking this direction, we Bilusaludo will follow without hesitation. Right now, though, I believe we have more pressing concerns.


Godzilla climbs back up to the top of the carrier ship, leaving the gathering to look out the view-port back at the Earth. The entire surface of the planet has been covered by a shadow of the Meta, an inter-dimensional tear in reality so large that no trace of the surface can be made out. Some holographic screens showing scans of the Earth are pulled up in front of the viewing glass. The readings are completely off the charts, with the tears emitting Mana readings far outstripping any ever recorded before; looking over the data seems to have given Anna Maximoff and Jiro Ifukube some degree of respite from their high and low emotions earlier.


(President Bott-80): So, what's the analysis say, Dr. Maximoff? Is there anything we can do to return home?

(Anna Maximoff): Thus far, I'm not really seeing any way to cut through the shroud. Even if all of our big friends focused their energies into a single point, the inter-dimensional energies would converge on the opening as quickly as it opened up.

(Eobard Thawne): But on the upside, the energies emanating from the shroud can be harvested at a relatively safe distance to collect and power all manner of equipment and even the monsters themselves.

(Cmdr. Galu-gu): Mechagodzilla's just informed me that it's currently working on replicating the tear-based travel using such harvested energies that the Keizers engaged in to reenter our reality from that dimension, albeit with complete control over the process to allow calculated jumps to other parts of the universe.

(Metphies): And Garbetrium can guide the calculations, making accurate predictions that can account for both time dilation and spatial movements for whatever destination we choose to travel to.

(Anna Maximoff): Then it's settled. If it's alright with the Governance Council, I'd like to propose we undertake this endeavour to prepare for a journey for all of our races to a new home.

(President Bott-80): We don't have many options now, so we'll have to take it. Until this process is complete, we'll need to set up on Luna and Mars temporarily.


Everyone begins moving out to make preparations for this daunting task. After the civilians are moved to their quarters, the other members of the gathering begin moving to take up their tasks necessary to make this endeavour a reality. Before any of them can move out of the room, the in-progress scans showcase sudden shifts. The already immense energy readings start to rise and fall erratically, coinciding with the shroud itself twisting and contorting with arcs of electrical Mana and Ki.


(President Bott-80): What's going on?!

(Jiro Ifukube): The shroud's showing activity, similar to what happened when Irys, Godzilla, and Gamera first emerged from that dimension, only this time it's not just a few individual spikes but sporadically every nanosecond!

(Eobard Thawne): Wait, so you mean that--

(Daisy Zaibo): We're gonna be getting some company.


Back outside in the vacuum of space, all of the titans have congregated atop the Mechagodzilla carrier ship. They look on together at the activity of the shroud surrounding the Earth. From this dark mass of inter-dimensional energies, the same kind of black smoke that wafted out from the small tears a few hours earlier and turned Ghidorah into Grimm Ghidorah emanates out from the entire planet. Though comparatively little when seen against the Earth itself, this is an absolutely massive amount compared to the congregation of ships and the monsters that are dwarfed by them.

The titans all take up combat stances atop the Mechagodzilla carrier ship; the source of this black smoke makes itself known soon after.

The dark shroud surrounding the Earth twists and contorts near the centre most violently, as though some massive being were trying to force its way through it. Sure enough, the centre of the shroud splits open to reveal white light, allowing a truly gargantuan clawed hand to slowly emerge from the opening. This hand, almost as large as a continent by itself, is soon followed by the rest of the arm. As the entire length of the arm moves out of the opening, stretching across half of the diameter of the entire planet, another hand digs its way out of the small entrance and widens it further; the rest of this arm follows it.

Soon enough, the hole is ripped open even further by the massive continent-sized hands dragging against the Earth shroud's surface in order to force the rest of the body outwards. The head of this being is the first to emerge after this widening, a terrifying visage indeed. The head of this entity looks like a classical Western-style dragon, complete with curved horns and fiery orange eyes. The titanic being continues to pull itself out, revealing that the rest of its body follows in the aesthetic footsteps of its head. Upon pulling out its tail, the massive being reveals it full body to be a shoe-in for a classic fantasy dragon that dwarfs the entire planet it stands on; the Earth is barely more than a perch for the titanic red dragon.

Despite being in the vacuum of space, the red dragon lets loose a truly world-breaking roar from its planet perch, being clearly and loudly heard by the entire fleet of Mechagodzilla carrier ships and Godzilla's pack of monsters. As the red dragon continues to roar, the moon itself begins to shake violently before then exploding into several large pieces after barely more than a few seconds. Once the planet-sized creature ceases roaring, it turns its gaze directly at Godzilla despite her being so incomprehensibly small as to not be visible even from its massive perspective.


"I warned you, little one. Gaze upon the Overseer."

"For you especially, I will tell you my true name. Let the name Safi'jiiva strike absolute terror into you."

"What is a ruler to a true god?"