Colossus By Design: Season 3 - Excerpt 132

[May 8, 2168]
[Solar System]

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Atop the red giant star that rests in the centre of the forever-changed solar system, Scarlet Godzilla and Super-Critical Safi'jiiva stand apart from one another. Despite the damage they've inflicted on each other and the immense devastation of the entirety of the local system, neither shows any signs of slowing down or letting up. As is befitting a battle between true gods to surpass the myths and legends of pantheons past, there is a poetry to this mass destruction. The duty-bound and cycle-obsessed Overseer, turning to the consumption of the seeds of new life in order to enact total death; the wild and untamed Godzillasaur, taking up the duty of protecting Humanity through holy ascendance.


"So what now then, oh great Godzilla? Are we destined to battle for eons to come, equally matched in might and will for all eternity?"


To this, the ruler of all monsters gives a loud snort and takes up a combat stance once again.


"Then it is written. Perhaps this is the judgment of the Original One himself.... our time to give penance."


Godzilla charges forward at full speed, and Safi'jiiva responds in kind on all fours. Before he can lunge at her, she jumps forward and dives down into the reddish plasma depths below like the oceans of Earth she once used to be master of. The Overseer attempts to dive down to follow her, but the monster planet suddenly bursts out of the ocean of depleted fission energy from behind him and clamps down around his neck with her jaws, pulling him down into the red sun like an aquatic predator.

She gives a twists and spins her prey around in classic crocodile death roll fashion, trying to daze and tear him apart with the violent shaking forces. However, he manages to grab hold of her upper and lower jaws with one hand each and places his hind-legs firmly against her torso to anchor himself against his assailant's thrashing. With one mighty push of his hind-legs, Super-Critical Safi'jiiva manages to stop Scarlet Godzilla's death roll, though only just. The Overseer then pulls at her jaws with all his might, snapping them open and freeing his neck from their vice-grip. Safi'jiiva then lifts his right hand up high, empowers it with Sapphire Palm Fire, and brings it down onto Godzilla's head.

The force of the resulting explosion sends the young Godzillasaur spiralling down deeper into the reddish plasma depths of the red giant star, but she quickly shakes off the brief daze and launches a Dragonfire Cutter from her tail whip. In response to this, the red dragon fires off a quick Piercing Sapphire Fire to destroy the wave of crimson line of kinetic destruction before it can reach him. The resulting explosion throws several planets worth of the star's plasma outwards, battering both Metarchs like the waves of an ocean against the shoreline.

The 2 true gods bring up their arms and guard up to prevent themselves from being thrown away by the plasma waves.

Once these waves subside, Godzilla and Safi'jiiva swim through the depleted fission layer towards one another. In this clash, the monster planet manages to plow straight into her opponent's torso and pushes him up through the red giant's plasma. Throughout this struggle, the Overseer continually bites down on her dorsal plates and digs his claws deep into her back; the ruler of all monsters persists through the pain and damage she sustains and continues to channel godly energy throughout her body. Just as the 2 Metarchs breach the solar surface, Scarlet Godzilla unleashes a full-frontal Dragonfire Pulse at a high level of charge, blowing Super-Critical Safi'jiiva far off into the technicolor void.

Before he can react, the monster planet fires off a Spiral Supernova Breath attack directly into the red dragon's chest, sending him off further into the the Meta-riddled vacuum of the solar system. As Safi'jiiva recovers from this assault, he stares angrily at Godzilla as she stands atop the red giant star.


"Even if this doesn't kill you, I will ensure that every last trace of your home is wiped out!"


Super-Critical Safi'jiiva unleashes the first portion of his Sapphire of the Emperor, pinning Scarlet Godzilla down to the solar surface with the sheer kinetic energy of the fiery blue vapour breath. He doesn't let up, preventing the young ruler of all monsters from put out any meaningful resistance or counterattack. As she struggles to fight against the flames, she suddenly recalls the mental and spiritual focus she once utilized to call upon her inner potential of the Silver Instinct.

The current situation prevents Godzilla from moving her body parts to perform the necessary physical meditation gestures, so she instead closes her eyes and focuses mentally; Safi'jiiva narrows his eyes and develops an angered scowl while still maintaining his kinetic buffer for the Sapphire of the Emperor.


"You may focus your energies and mind, but the Sapphire of the Emperor is coming. You have no ability to take up the stance needed to attain the Silver Instinct."

"Even given your amazing talent for pulling power out at inopportune times, you know as well as I that this attack will not trigger the desperation required to unleash further potential."


The young Godzillasaur tunes out her opponent's words. She then recalls the memory of when she fought against Evangelion Unit-01 and hones in on how the bio-mechanical titan had created a bladed whip from a simple set of train cars. With this singular moment clear in her mind, she begins focusing her godly energies in her right hand. Although her hand is mostly immobile, she manages to materialize something akin to the handle of a blade in it from a combination of her own metallic flesh and the reddish plasma of the red giant star she's being pinned to.

The extreme fiery vapour proceeding the main attack ceases, and with its passing the Overseer releases the condensed orb of hyper-dense energy that signifies the true destructive potential of the Sapphire of the Emperor. This time, however, it flies surprisingly fast; this is likely due to Safi'jiiva chucking it from his mouth like a baseball. The speed of the Sapphire of the Emperor takes Godzilla by surprise, giving her barely enough time to swing the blade-less sword hilt in her right hand so that the empty insignia emblazoned on its guard and grip is directly impacted by the tiny bluish-white energy orb; a flash of silver can be seen in her eyes just as the hilt meets the small sapphire star.

The Sapphire of the Emperor explodes into a bright flash of all-consuming flames as it did before, but the young ruler of all monsters manages to channel power through her arm in order to try and control the explosive force. In this moment, she manages to limit the Sapphire of the Emperor's blast radius to merely engulfing one side of the red sun. As the light of the intense heat wave dies down, Godzilla looks down at the sword hilt in her hand; the dark-grey hilt is undamaged, and its once empty insignia is now filled with an ancient Hotua rune that stands for 'Gojira' and is glowing a bright blue. Godzilla then looks at the rest of her arm and finds that it's heavily burnt and scarred all over; it takes several seconds for her natural healing factor to begin mending these wounds.

The red dragon is absolutely flabbergasted to see that his ultimate attack has been mitigated so greatly.


"What-- How-- Wait.... that sword hilt.... I see now."

"You managed to pull out a tiny bit of hidden potential as I pinned you to the red giant's surface to forge a blade's hilt to take and absorb the power of the Sapphire of the Emperor to craft some ultimate weapon."

"But I will not fall for it again! We are immortal! We will continue to battle it out for millennia to come, for such is the cost of our feud! No weapon shall change that!"


Scarlet Godzilla stares up at Safi'jiiva in the void of space beyond, then looks down at the hilt in her hand; the guard's prongs, which were originally retracted upwards, open up to the sides. The monster planet then sticks the handle into the red giant's surface, causing the reddish plasma to start converging on it rapidly; the flow of solar energy and mass towards the blade is so voluminous that the red sun begins to visibly shrink at a rapid rate.

In under a minute, the red giant star's mass has been shrunken down so much that it's actually slightly smaller than how it used to be as a main-sequence star before being expanded into a red giant by the first Sapphire of the Emperor. The ruler of all monsters seems satisfied by this and starts to get up to her feet, after which she then slowly pulls the hilt out of the solar surface as King Arthur did with the sword in the stone. A broad blade of pure partially transparent blue energy with 2 horizontal spikes coming off the tip is formed as the hilt is pulled out from the shrunken red sun; the length of the blade is covered in Hotua runes.

Godzilla lifts the sword up above her body, brandishing it for all to see. As she holds the blade above herself, her Scarlet state starts to fade away from her body; the super-heated orange veins of energy snake their way towards her sword arm. Once all of the enhanced power has fully collected in her arm, it bursts out as electrical arcs of crimson energy and is absorbed by the hilt and blade, turning the hilt's rune and the entire sword of light into a bright red.

The true ruler of all monsters roars triumphantly as she brandishes the godly-forged crimson-sparking Slayer Crucible above her body.