Colossus By Design: Season 3 - Excerpt 116

[May 8, 2168]
[Tokyo, Japan]
[Japanese Mainland]

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The early morning sun rises upon a new day for Tokyo and the Earth itself.

All of the monsters are ragged and tired from all this fighting. Even those who were once part of King Ghidorah's pack have left behind their hostilities and accepted that they are now at the mercy of the defenders of the planet. The 4 of them gather together and look on at their former enemies, awaiting whatever decision they happen to make regarding their fate. On the outskirts of the group, some of the blue haze and embers left behind by the death of Godzilla starts to siphon into Gojira's body, healing her injuries and restoring her energy as a final parting gift.

With her strength returned to her, the young Godzillasaur is now the most capable titan at the moment. Gamera, Jet Jaguar, and Mechagodzilla move out of the way to allow Gojira to walk through, clearly deferring to her as their new Alpha to make the decision on what is to befall the Omega Hybrid, Drone Tempest, Jinshin-Mushi, and Obsidian Fury. She growls lowly at them, but soon relents and gives a more inviting roar of acceptance, prompting them to vocalize their support of her decision.

For now, these former enemies have been pardoned of their crimes under the new leadership of Gojira.

Before anyone can celebrate, loud rumbling and quakes shake the surrounding areas, putting the monsters off balance. Gojira and the others turn to look behind them at where Godzilla defeated his rival and notice the rubble and debris in the vicinity is shaking loose. A moment later, an eruption of dust bursts out from the mound before then settling down. From this eruption, the middle head of King Ghidorah emerges; he's completely charred all over but is otherwise still alive. Following the emergence of his head, the ground behind the emerging head and neck gives way, allowing the rest of the hydra dragon's body to rise up from the ground.

Unlike his damaged middle head and neck, the rest of Ghidorah's body isn't charred and burnt. It looks more like it's only just starting to regrow, having a shrunken and emaciated appearance that's quickly growing back more muscle tissue and skin with some golden electrical crackles throughout. As the rest of the body reforms and returns to its original undamaged state, Ghidorah continues to claw his way out of the ground. Once his body is fully above ground, his left and right heads start growing back; his middle head sheds his burnt scales soon after. Upon finishing their regeneration, all 3 heads shriek loudly as King Ghidorah stands upright with both wings spread as fully as possible.

King Ghidorah has returned, having survived as a single head underneath the ground despite the rest of his body being vaporized by Godzilla.

The other monsters are all visibly stunned and left in shock by the golden demise's return, especially the members of his pack; only Gojira remains steadfast and stoic facing her father's ancient enemy.

Ghidorah calls to his pack members, urging them with some manner of threat to return to his side to destroy the defenders of Earth once and for all. Rather than heed his call immediately, the golden dragon's minions look quite conflicted and anxious, unsure of how they should proceed. However, Gojira steps forward and roars loudly in defiance of Ghidorah, which seems to both calm them down and incite them to join her in vocalizing defiance against their former Alpha; they're joined by the rest of the monsters, creating a unified defiant battle cry against the false king.

This angers the one who is many greatly, prompting him to charge bio-electrical energy through his wings and rattle his 2 tails loudly. Gojira herself charges energy through her dorsal plates and body, positively glowing with violet atomic power. Unfortunately, King Ghidorah is much faster on the draw and flies forward in a spinning motion with wings curled in. He slams right into Gojira and easily knocks her over before then unfurling his wings while still spinning as he flies through the rest of the group, releasing his High Singularity Bolts out in all directions to strike his enemies while they're weak; they end up too damaged to even properly fight back, being cast down to the ground yet again by the overwhelming power of the one who is many.

Gojira, still empowered by the ashes of her father, quickly gets back up while still holding her charge and fires off her Atomic Breath directly at Ghidorah's back.

Although he could easily take such an attack head-on without issue if he knew it was coming, this breath attack catches him with his guard down and manages to briefly knock him down to the ground.

King Ghidorah quickly gets up to his feet and looks back at his rival's daughter with great anger. He then quickly shoots up into the air and starts to come down feet first with great force. Gojira once again fires off an Atomic Breath directly at the descending dragon's chest, but Ghidorah completely ignores the attack as he comes crashing down on top of her. While Ghidorah stands on top of her while she's on her side, Gojira struggles to escape. For her efforts, the golden hydra's left head gives her a quick Gravity Beam to her head that leaves her momentarily dazed; he then steps off of her and gives her a swift kick to her head that sends her rolling away a few hundred feet.

Before Gojira can get back up, she gets a full triple burst of Gravity Beams that pushes her into and across the ground. After a few seconds of fully sustained fire, Gojira is left quite damaged and only marginally less battle-damaged than the rest of her pack. King Ghidorah looks down at his quarry, quite dissatisfied that he's been left without no rival to kill in combat, no second-in-command or pack to control, and just a bunch of weakened monsters completely at his mercy.

The 3-headed monster decides to add just a touch more to the young monster's suffering.

He makes a flying leap backwards to put a large distance between him and Gojira, looks up to the sky with both wings raised, and closes his eyes; bio-electrical energy arcs around his entire body and especially his wings as he concentrates.

At first, nothing happens. However, as the seconds go by, the air between the 2 Alphas starts to distort and show tears of inter-dimensional energies. These distortions ascend upwards, filling the sky with tears in reality. King Ghidorah begins roaring loudly and opens his eyes, forcing these tears to grow in size and begin combining; these ripped holes in the dimensional fabric soon combine and form 1 absolutely massive tear in the sky. With one final motion, the golden god brings his wings down, forcing a Mechagodzilla carrier ship through the tear from its original place in orbit.

The carrier ship crashes down onto the ground between Gojira and Ghidorah, skidding across the desolated city landscape; its lights shut off upon slowing to a halt a few hundred metres away from the 2 Alphas. The golden dragon walks over to the downed ship, intent to make an example of it as a show of power and sadism. Despite her injuries, Gojira still manages to get up to her feet and tries to lumber over to stop him from killing innocents; King Ghidorah's right head fires a light Gravity Beam at the young Godzillasaur's chest to slow her down but keep her alive long enough to see his handiwork.

While Ni keeps Gojira busy, Ichi and San proceed to tear apart the carrier ship, being careful to rip off only the pieces of the Nanometal plating that will get him closer to his objective. Even as civilians are fleeing in terror and soldiers fire their weapons to distract him to no avail, the Alpha monster pays no mind to them; he doesn't intentionally harm a single one of them as he continues to root through the ship. Eventually, he manages to find the specific individuals he was looking for: Jiro Ifukube, Wei Ho, and Anna Maximoff.

Ni the right head ceases his Gravity Beam, and Gojira collapses onto one knee immediately after. All 3 heads of the devil now bare down on the legendary trio of scientists with malicious intent. In the face of imminent death, what last words do they have?


(Anna Maximoff): Go screw yourself 3 times over.


This retort gets all 3 heads of King Ghidorah to channel energy through their necks to smite these 3 insects before him from existence. Just before he can vaporize the trio, he's suddenly grabbed from behind and suplexed. As he gets back up from the suplex, he sees that Jet Jaguar stands between him and his prey in supersized form; it's abundantly clear that Jet Jaguar using this technique is dangerously stressing what little energy he has left. The giant humanoid, though only barely sustaining enhanced size, still strikes a combat pose in defiance of Ghidorah.

This stubbornness prompts the devil hydra to unleash the charged bio-electrical energy he's still holding within his necks directly at the super robot. Jet Jaguar puts up both arms to block the attack, and for a short while manages to hold off the attack. However, his quickly draining energy reserves and stamina eventually get the better of him, allowing Ghidorah's Gravity Beams to overpower the block entirely, blasting off both of the colourful humanoid's forearms before then impacting his chest directly. Even as he struggles under the force of this attack and his own depleting energy, Jet Jaguar manages to walk forward through the beams in an attempt to buy his allies and friends more time.

Unfortunately, he doesn't last long enough, as the Gravity Beams completely pierce through his chest and come out the other side; King Ghidorah ceases his attack shortly afterwards.

Gojira watches in shock as Jet Jaguar returns to normal size and stumbles backwards a bit before slumping down against the wreckage of the carrier ship. As the blue lights of the super robot's eyes fade to nothingness, Jiro Ifukube looks away with tears streaming down from his closed eyes. He turns back to see that King Ghidorah isn't finished and is now charging up energy once again while walking forward. He looks to Anna Maximoff, but she's crying profusely in a striking contrast to her usual gungho attitude in the face of danger. Jiro Ifukube then looks towards Wei Ho, but he notices that his former pupil is gone.

Everyone then sees that Wei Ho has hitched a ride on a drone that he managed to reactivate and is headed towards Ghidorah. The elderly former director of the defunct Project Warmonger attempts to make a move for one of the weapons nearby, but Anna stops him; they both look on with great fear and sadness as their friend makes a choice.

As Wei Ho's drone flies past King Ghidorah's feet, he begins broadcasting an immensely powerful sonic signal only titans like the 3-headed devil and the other monsters can hear. This sudden ear irritation immediately gets Ghidorah's attention, prompting him to turn his attention to the tiny insect racing behind him; Gojira can only watch in horror as another of her loved ones puts himself in the line of fire to protect her.


(Wei Ho): Gojira, I know you can hear me.


Ghidorah prepares to fire his Gravity Beams once more.


(Wei Ho): Don't worry. I'm doing this to save you and everyone else. You have immense potential, and I need you to save us once he finishes me off. Please... be good--


The astro monster fires all 3 Gravity Beams at the drone and Wei Ho, vaporizing him entirely; he cackles with delight upon having made his rival's daughter suffer through 2 major deaths. This act was the last straw.

Gojira immediately gets back up to her feet, shaking off whatever damage and weakness she displayed earlier. The ground shakes from the increasing energy of the young Godzillasaur's sadness and rage. She roars loudly into the sky as tears stream down from her eyes, sending out waves of invisible pressure waves that manage to get King Ghidorah to bring up his wings to protect himself from the force of this growing power. As roars of pained sadness and anger continue to sound off, Gojira's body begins to mutate. It takes on a more clean scaly look, and her previously emaciated-looking appearance is transformed into a more toned and healthy muscular body, especially notable with Gojira's arms. The exposed red muscle tissue is covered up, and while her basic shape and size remains the same, Gojira starts to look closer and closer to her previous form before her scarring and disfigurement.

Through the rage and grief, Gojira gives off one final roar that also sends out a final pressure wave, creating even more tears in reality.

Gojira's transformation into her perfect form is complete.