Colossus By Design: Season 3 - Excerpt 138

[May 8, 2168]
[Solar System]

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Godzilla and Ghidorah.

Rivals on Earth as skyscraper-sized Kaiju, and rivals once again as planet-sized Metarchs.

Though they may have shifted from arch-nemeses between individuals born around the same time to the predecessor to all incarnations of the 3-headed dragon and the successor to the King of the Monsters himself, the hatred and animosity is very much preserved. Both true gods have been brought down to a relatively equal playing field after much strife and struggle leading up to this moment; Godzilla has been left drained and without excess power for empowerment or her Slayer Crucible, leaving her as a powerful but otherwise unremarkable Metarch; Ghidorah's Harmonic Anchor to the Exif has been permanently severed, reducing his soul echo's connection to this sector of reality weakened and fading.

The 2 gods among gods stare one another down once more.


("Here we both stand, 2 gods having been reduced to the barest minimum of our abilities. You, without power for your sword or enhanced form. And I, with a fading link to this system and reduced control over Meta-reality.")

("Ghidorah and Godzilla, fighting for control once more. I may not personally be acquainted with your kind, but I felt the raw rivalry between your family and my incarnations.")

("I relish the opportunity to express our own godly take on this feud.")


The golden 3-headed dragon god flies towards the mountainous Godzillasaur, to which she responds in kind. Godzilla and Ghidorah lock hands and left and right heads respectively upon clashing with one another, sending out a powerful godlike pressure wave that emanates outwards from the collision; just as before, the 2 Metarchs are equally matched in raw power. This wavelength of god particles is different from the ones that the young monster planet created when she fought Safi'jiiva, however. It is not destructive, and it instead seems to create wakes in the very Meta itself that travel outwards further far past the boundaries of the condensed solar system.

There's no time to ponder on this difference, though.

Ghidorah immediately tries to snap at Godzilla with his free middle head, forcing her to move her head to the side to evade the bite. Before he can fully retract his head back, the monster ruler quickly bites down on his neck. She then gives a mighty swing while maintaining her grip on the void god's heads, releasing him at the last moment and sending him flying off into the distance; the golden devil quickly recovers and comes charging back in. In response to this charge, Godzilla fires her Atomic Breath at the oncoming Metarch Echo. However, Ghidorah opens up all 3 of his mouths and projects a Super Gravity Warping Field in front of himself that completely blocks the world-destroying particle beam, diffusing the energy beam outwards into multiple smaller beams away from the front of his body.

The godly Godzillasaur keeps up the flow of the atomic god energy, increasing the output further despite not achieving any headway against the gravitational shield. From Ghidorah's perspective, though, the greater volume of the Atomic Breath obscures his vision, hearing, and Ki sensing; this prevents him from properly sensing what Godzilla will do next. Just as he's about to reach her, Godzilla suddenly cuts off her particle stream and whips her charged tail at him, sending him flying back with a Plasma Cutter to his abdomen. Before the plasma wave dissipates, the monster planet fires an Atomic Breath attack at it, infusing it with further energy that destabilizes it, causing it to explode into a huge blue fireball that engulfs Ghidorah entirely.

Godzilla flies towards the explosion's cloud, but 3 golden Super Gravity Beams burst out and impact her chest, pushing her away and keeping her immobilized in a sheath of arcing electrical energy. The cloud dissipates soon after this, showing Ghidorah firing his electrical god energy out of his mouths without any sign of letting up.


("You must know that the first message has been sent out! The revolution has already begun, and you don't even realize it!")


The immeasurable amounts of voltage being pumped into the god-slaying Godzillasaur's body prevents her from making any significant movements, but she manages to resist enough to move her hand to the Slayer Crucible still attached to her thigh. After grabbing the hilt of her sword, she uses as much strength as she can muster to swing it into the direct path of the Super Gravity Beams. As it did before, the Slayer Crucible's hilt manages to absorb the intense energy of Ghidorah's attack; the 3-headed devil ceases firing upon noticing this.

Godzilla looks down at her sword hilt and sees that its glowing red rune briefly becomes gold before returning to its original coloration; she then looks back at Ghidorah with a sense of satisfaction.


("The Slayer Crucible again, I see. Already it is brimming with godly energy again. But I know of its full capabilities, and I can counter it.")

("I should thank you for bringing it out. I can now plan around it.")


Godzilla's enthusiasm disappears upon hearing Ghidorah speak on the matter. However, she stays resolute as she grips her god-killing sword hilt and takes up a combat stance once more; the void king similarly prepares for battle.

The young monster ruler charges forward with her Slayer Crucible's hilt raised, ready to use it to absorb energy. The true Ghidorah charges forth as well, not taking any chances with a long-ranged assault. Godzilla manages to grab the golden god's right head with her left hand, but both of his other heads bite down on her right arm, preventing her from using it to counter. The monster planet attempts to charge up energy through her dorsal plates to emit a Super Oscillatory Wave, but her opponent's right head fires off a pointblank Super Gravity Beam into her face that temporarily stuns her; this serves to both cut off her own attack and allow the head to slip out from her grasp.

The freed head joins the others in biting down on Godzilla's right arm; Ghidorah then proceeds to lift himself above his enemy's body and balance his feet on her head. The heir to Earth's monster throne attempts to reach up with her free hand to get rid of him, but Ghidorah wraps his 2 tails around it to keep it immobilized. Despite the wild bucking and flailing Godzilla is performing in an attempt to throw her enemy off of her, he remains balanced on top of her and unshaken. The former god of the Exif starts channelling immense energy into his bites, causing great pain to the young Metarch and scorching the metallic skin where his teeth are lodged in.

After several gruelling seconds of electrocution, Ghidorah's 3 heads give a mighty tug on Godzilla's forearm, ripping it off entirely; he then pushes off against her head with his feet as she howls in excruciating pain, sending himself and her away from each other.

The new god born of Earth grips her arm stump and stares in disbelief at Ghidorah holding her severed forearm in his 3 jaws; the still-attached hand is still tightly gripped around the Slayer Crucible's hilt. The 3-headed dragon proceeds to rip the arm in half with some measure of difficulty; the right and middle heads swallow the 2 halves of the arm while the left head consumes the god-killing sword hilt.


("It's just as I said. I could plan around your Slayer Crucible the moment you decided to brandish its hilt.")

("Shall we continue our battle as before?")


Godzilla growls in frustration as she focuses hard, forcing her right arm stump to sprout several long metallic roots that intertwine around each other to form a new forearm and hand; she gives her new right forearm and hand a quick shake to return full functionality to it. The young Godzillasaur narrows her eyes as she stares down the devil deity, but she remains cautious in her steps as she paces around; Ghidorah is similarly measured in the steps he takes in a mirror of Godzilla's own. The 2 Metarchs continue pacing around one another, sizing each other up and trying to identify an opening to take advantage of.

Ghidorah is the first to make a move by firing his Super Gravity Beams, prompting Godzilla to fire off her Atomic Breath to meet this attack; just as before, both true gods are matched in raw strength. As the point of collision between these beams grows more intense, it sends out more of the same strange god waves outward that their first power struggle created. Yet again, the monster planet cannot investigate the true nature of these invisible particle wavelengths due to needing to focus on keeping up her end of the beam struggle. With no clear end in sight, Godzilla decides to break off from the tug-of-war, forcing her to duck and weave beneath Ghidorah's electrical god energy.

She manages to tackle into the golden dragon's abdomen and push him back a few thousand kilometres before he manages to stop her in her tracks by clamping his 3 jaws down on her dorsal plates. Ghidorah then lifts Godzilla up by her back before then slamming her back down on solidified Meta-reality space; he then gives a swift kick that sends her flying away. The ruler of all monsters manages to quickly get back on her feet after rolling a short distance upon landing; she quickly fires off her Super Oscillatory Wave after doing so.

This forces Ghidorah to create a Super Gravity Warping Field in front of him, stopping the stream of super-charged sound-waves short before it can reach his heads.

Godzilla lumbers forward as she continues firing her Super Oscillatory Wave, not caring at all that her mega roar isn't reaching. Ghidorah, now becoming suspicious of this behaviour, disengages his shield to evade and fly around the sound beam. As he closes in on her, the Earth titan closes her mouth and ceases firing to bring up her arms and engage in close-quarters combat. This instills confidence in the golden dragon's attempt to go in for melee himself as he's about to reach for Godzilla with his heads. All of a sudden, the god-slaying Metarch opens up her mouth and unleashes a powerful pointblank burst of her Super Oscillatory Wave. The resultant Super Oscillatory Burst takes Ghidorah completely by surprise and knocks him away; he's left briefly concussed by the surprise attack.

Just as he comes to, Godzilla gives him a palm strike charged with a Nuclear Pulse that sends him flying even further away. He shakes his heads out of the daze and stares down the young Metarch before him.


("I see that your simpler utilitarian fighting style is doing wonders for you, young Godzilla.")

("Shall we take it to the next level, then?")


The god of the void brings his heads, tails, and limbs in close. While he remains curled up, arcs of golden electrical god energy flow around his body; they grow more intense as the seconds pass. Soon after, Ghudorah unfurls every part of his body; lines of electricity flow from the extremities of every part of his body.

The golden deity screeches loudly in defiance.