Colossus By Design: Season 3 - Excerpt 120

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

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Grimm Ghidorah stares in shock and bewilderment at seeing the silver eyes, dorsal plates, and Ki aura that Godzilla now embodies. After a brief moment of adjustment and struggle to shake his wings free of their stone petrification to no effect, he calms himself down somewhat; there is still the clear fire of hatred in his eyes and expression.


"The Silver Instinct. I had thought it nearly impossible to achieve for even a god, let alone a mortal."

"Speak, child! Tell me how this is possible!"


Silver Instinct Godzilla simply stares at her opponent, not even growling or baring her teeth. She moves her foot ever so slightly as if taking a combat stance, only to vanish from sight immediately after before the black dragon's very own eyes. He only barely notices a cut appear across his left head's bone plating as Godzilla appears behind him; the rush of air that should follow her movements lags behind, blowing past Grimm Ghidorah. Although the air current is strong enough to slightly budge him, the dark hydra is unphased due to being in complete shock at the sheer speed at which the young Godzillasaur moved to give him a glancing graze across one of his faces.

The 2 titans turn to face each other in the air. Silver Instinct Godzilla looks on with stoicism, while Grimm Ghidorah stares forward with a mix of loathing, rage, and fear all at once; the cut across his left head heals up instantly with a simple flicker of crimson and gold bio-electrical Ki energy.


"Don't think you've got me beaten just because you've powered up!"


The black dragon rushes in with all 3 heads snapping, desperately attempting to land even a single hit. However, Godzilla doesn't even move her hands as her body effortlessly dodges and weaves around his viper-strikes. When Grimm Ghidorah attempts to land a triple hammer-blow with his heads, the silver-clad Godzillasaur touches down on the ground with great speed and minimal impact force; the dark hydra quickly descends and continues his assault on the desolate battlefield.

Unfortunately for Grimm Ghidorah, the ground battle goes much the same way as it did in the air with all of his strength and ferocity being rendered meaningless by the effortless reflexive Silver Instinct of Godzilla. To his credit, the young Godzillasaur is constantly backpedalling as her body evades and blocks his viper-strikes with contemptuous ease. Just as his left head goes in for another attack, Silver Instinct Godzilla puts out her open palm against its neck and instantly stops it. This is immediately followed by the ruler of all monsters giving a counter-kick into Grimm Ghidorah's stomach, sending him sliding across the ground and reeling from the pain.

The black dragon quickly recovers and jumps into the air. He then forces energy into his wings, enough to shatter the stone petrification, though not without experiencing immense pain from this. Grimm Ghidorah fights through the pain to point his wings at Godzilla and fire off a full barrage of empowered crimson and gold High Singularity Bolts directly at her. The bolts of concentrated bio-electrical devastation combine to form a single powerful Full Singularity Bolt. In response to this, Silver Instinct Godzilla closes her eyes and, just before the energy bolt can strike, opens them up, completely blowing away the attack with the light that shines from her silver eyes, the Soul Gaze.

Grimm Ghidorah quickly flies off into the clouds to avoid having any part of his body petrified again.

He comes in hot again, to which Godzilla responds in kind by leaping upwards. The 2 monsters clash in midair and switch positions as they land on the ground. They charge one another and engage in an exchange of blows. This time, however, the silver-clad Godzillasaur goes on the offensive and easily outpaces the black dragon, countering every strike he throws at her and sending her own. She pushes him back steadily as he's forced to backpedal away and switch to being purely on the defensive to prevent himself from being entirely overwhelmed. Even then, he's still sustaining a sizable amount of damage from the rapid strikes that are either too fast for him to guard against or too strong for even his strongest blocks to fully stop.

The buildup of damage is becoming even more noticeable as the sheer amount that the dark hydra is sustaining makes the otherwise imperceptible context behind Silver Instinct Godzilla's devastating power a bit clearer. With every strike she successfully lands, the point of contact briefly petrifies in the same manner as how Grimm Ghidorah's wings did when she first unveiled her Soul Gaze, after which it shatters before the punch even disconnects.

This flurry of petrifying Soul Strikes becomes so furious and overpowering that Grimm Ghidorah can only hold out his wings cloaked in his Gravity Warping Field to shield himself as best as he can; even then, the Soul Strikes quickly rack up damage through this defence. Eventually, she breaks through this guard with one powerful Soul Strike knee to his solar plexus that causes him to double over; he then receives a swift Soul Strike uppercut to his middle head that knocks his upper body right back. Silver Instinct Godzilla then gives a swift tail whip that slaps the black dragon across his left head before then leading the spinning momentum into a claw strike into the same head.

The dark hydra's left head briefly goes numb before it then snaps its own neck and regenerates the damage, at which point all 3 heads start wildly firing their Gravity Beams in every direction in front of them. Godzilla starts back-flipping away a few times to gain distance and evade the beams. She then starts dancing forward through the beams, dodging and weaving as though she were in slow motion expertly crossing a laser trap hallway. Once she gets within a few hundred metres of Grimm Ghidorah, she rushes forward while still dodging bio-electrical blasts and goes in for a leaping Soul Strike. The black dragon is only barely able to put up his wing guard to reduce the blow's damage, though he's still sent skidding across the ground slightly from the knock-back.

Both titans clash as they leap at one another, right head to left fist.

Grimm Ghidorah is only just readying to send out his left head for a viper-strike, but Silver Instinct Godzilla is on his case long before it can meet its mark and starts wailing on him once again.

Just as before, all he can do is futilely block his opponent's relentless barrage of Soul Strikes. The damage buildup soon becomes too great and breaks his guard, knocking him back a bit. He leaps up into the air and comes down with all 3 heads, but this is blocked with a single forearm by the silver-clad Godzillasaur. She then flicks her arm and sends Grimm Ghidorah spinning through the air behind her. The dark hydra quickly recovers as he lands on the ground and attempts to pounce on her, but she vanishes from view. She then instantly follows up before he can react by body-checking him from behind to knock him forward and put him off balance; she then gives a swift low kick that sends him screeching across the battlefield.

Just as he turns around, she comes in with her right fist into his chest, completely breaking through his body entirely with her Soul Strike as she knocks him away into one of the few remaining buildings that was still somewhat intact.

She relaxes her posture and looks on at the smoke and dust obscuring Grimm Ghidorah's body after crashing into the building. For a few seconds, there's nothing. Soon enough, the black dragon blows away all of the smoke and dust with a powerful roar to the sky. After doing this, though, he slumps over a bit and starts panting from the exhaustion of having exerted himself so greatly and sustained immense damage in the process; even his impressive regenerative healing factor and seemingly limitless wells of power are looking positively drained from the sheer speed, strength, and skill of Silver Instinct Godzilla's instinctual martial arts.

The dark hydra then looks down and sees a gaping hole in his chest where Godzilla's fist went through. The edges of the hole are petrified in stone, unable to fully recover unlike the rest of his body. For this transgression, Grimm Ghidorah's anger completely shatters as he's left screaming and shrieking in rage on the spot. The inter-dimensional tears that are strewn throughout the air grow in intensity as the black dragon's rage continues. He then turns his gaze towards his opponent, who continues to stare back with determination and stoicism.


"No more! I will have none of this! I am a god, and I will not be bullied by the likes of a thief!"

"Even if you do kill this form.... the time has almost come."