Colossus By Design: Season 3 - Excerpt 93

[May 4, 2168]
[Mechagodzilla Prime]
[Honshu Island, Japan]
[Japanese Mainland]

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At what was once Mt. Fuji before its conversion into Mechagodzilla's primary base of operations, Bilusaludo and G.U.D. personnel are preparing for evacuation. Overhead, a massive storm is brewing; a Category 10 hurricane can be barely seen approaching off in the distance. The titular figure of Mechagodzilla itself is standing outside of the mountain of Nanometal and being pelted with heavy rain. It seems to be directing its own operation separate from the evacuation, using the massive Nanometal mound next to it to form strange offshoots; some look like railguns and other advanced weapons, whilst others look like orbital probes.

The hurricane that's on approach starts to gain speed, prompting Mechagodzilla to speed up its construction rate and begin constructing escape VTOLs for the personnel still left on the ground. Eventually, no sapient is left at Mechagodzilla Prime, leaving the mechanical doppelganger the sole  entity present in the area; the nearby prefects and districts have also been evacuated preemptively.

The probe-like offshoots fire off of the converted Mt. Fuji consecutively in all directions, flying with great speed past the borders of Honshu Island. Once all of the probes have been launched, the weapon systems activate; every single weapons platform's aim syncs up with Mechagodzilla's own visual systems.

The giant metal titan looks directly at centre mass of the approaching hurricane. With a red flash from its eyes, every single weapon on the Nanometal mountain fires at where Mechagodzilla targeted. A massive hail of masers, ULT lasers, railgun rounds, anti-armour missiles, etc., speeds into the hurricane at its centre, creating bright flashes of explosions and energy strikes. While these subweapons continue to fire, Mechagodzilla's head deforms and reshapes into a particle accelerator barrel that extends past the back of its head significantly.

A bright pink light forms at the back of the cylinder, and the interior coils begin spinning up. Mechagodzilla starts charging up its convergent neutron cannon, resulting in pink streaks of electrical energy forming within the length of the barrel. Eventually, the charging sequence completes, and Mechagodzilla fires off a powerful pink beam of energy into the centre of the hurricane that creates immense recoil and shatters the ground around its feet; a large pink flash of light illuminates the inside of the hurricane, highlighting the silhouette of the 3-headed devil within.

As this light dies down, Mechagodzilla's head deforms and reshapes back into its regular form. As the prized Bilusaludo creation looks on, it detects a massive energy spike on its scan, prompting vents across its body to spray out specialized floating Nanometal particulates to fill the air in front of it.

All of a sudden, a large golden bolt of electrical energy rains down from the hurricane.

It strikes the centre of the Nanometal buffer layer, causing the electrical energy to arc out from the original point of contact; this happens multiple times before the diluted lightning bolts are redirected outwards into the ground around Mechagodzilla. Despite being diverted away and losing some energy in the process, the split arcs of this single bolt manage to cut straight into the ground where they strike and create powerful shockwaves from their impacts. This level of power is impressive enough for Mechagodzilla to look at the impact craters and analyze them for kinetic yield and extrapolate Mana suppression.

As soon as it gets its data and looks back, Mechagodzilla is suddenly sent flying back by a double-kick. As it starts getting back up, it looks up to see that it has come face to face with the devil himself, King Ghidorah.

The middle head snarls and hisses loudly whilst the other 2 heads chitter in an attempt at communicating their older sibling's intentions for the metal titan before them. While Mechagodzilla listens to their proposal, the Destroyer Imago gently descends from the storm above and lands on the Nanometal-converted Mt. Fuji. Once Ghidorah finishes up, all 3 heads stare at the mechanical doppelganger and eagerly await its response.

The Bilusaludo mech starts backing up before then quickly using its plasma booster to fly off into the distance. The Destroyer shrieks and prepares to pursue it, but a quick shake of Ghidorah's rattle tails gets the Imago to stop. The golden demise then turns around and walks up to the Nanometal mountain; he spreads out his wings and begins roaring loudly.

At first, nothing happens. Moments later, however, the entire mountain and the ground begin to shake as though an earthquake has hit the area. Eventually, the vibrations become violent enough that the Destroyer decides to move away from its perch and hover a short distance above former Mt. Fuji. The metallic mountain suddenly splits into multiple pieces that start falling apart. From where the base of the mountain was, a creature rises up. It's a female Hokmuto that's particularly large and developed seeing as how it has more spikes lining its back than younger specimens. She is the first Kaiju to be seen in 2 years since the incident that wiped out all of the other known Kaiju.

The female monster roars loudly when it sees King Ghidorah; a quick hiss from the middle head gets her to submit and bow to her new Alpha.

As Ghidorah looks down on his new subject, his eyes become aglow with faint golden light. Soon after, lightning strikes down from the storm above on the female Hokmuto. At first, she roars loudly and shrieks, seemingly in pain; coinciding with these screams are her bodily mutations. She begins to grow in size, and her 2 pairs of forelimbs fuse together into massive orange forearms; her spiked back plates also become larger and more numerous. Eventually, the lightning dies down, leaving a newly mutated Hokmuto that more greatly resembles the Japanese mythological creature she inspired:

Jinshin-Mushi.

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Jinshin-Mushi

[Height]: 160 metres
[Length]: 140 metres
[Weight]: 400,000 tons

[Appearance]:
> Stands in a quadrupedal fashion on its knuckles, with a small pair of arms sticking out between its forelimbs and hindlimbs
> Back is lined with a large amount of shingled spikey plates of a drab grey colouration
> Head has a prominent crest extending across the top of its head and outwards; Has insectoid mandibles on the sides of its face
> Has a slightly pointed facial structure; Has prominent red compound eyes with glowing lines extending out along the sides of its head
> Has digitigrade feet with extremely large toe claws; Middle pair of limbs end in 2 grasping clawed fingers
> Has massive forearms with 2 prominent fingers whose knuckles are walked on; Has a small thumb offshoot; Has a prominent offshoot that looks like a small 2-toed leg branching off of the forearm that acts as a support base
> Has drab grey segmented chitinous plates overlaying legs, centre mass, head, and parts of the forelimbs
> Has orange exposed musculature running along the majority of the arms

[Observed Characteristics]:
> Has immense physical strength that surpasses all non-Keizers; Has impressive durability, especially along its back
> Surprisingly fast for its size
> Can dig and tunnel with immense ease and speed for movement, offense, and retreats
> Can enhance physical blows with EMPs to increase overall potency and briefly disable electronics and certain exotic abilities
> Can emit a sonic roar charged with EMPs that can briefly disable electronics and certain exotic abilities, as well as carry immense overall force and sound irritation