Colossus By Design: Season 3 - Excerpt 136

[May 8, 2168]
[Solar System]

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Godzilla and Ghidorah, facing off against one another in yet another battle for the ages between true rivals.

This time around, the stakes and monsters are bigger than ever before as quite literal planet-sized gods vie for control over the fate of Humanity. The god-slaying Godzillasaur stands ready to fight once again, as are the 3 heads of the god of the void. Before they begin, Godzilla attempts to snap her fingers and send the Mechagodzilla fleet ferrying the various races away; however, they don't disappear and remain in place. She tries this again a few more times, but it's still to no avail; she then notices that Ghidorah's body briefly flashes ever so slightly during each attempt.


("I wish to keep them here in order to view our spectacular battle. I give my word that no harm will come to them unless I come out victorious. Am I understood?")


The young Metarch growls underneath her breath, but she relents on this condition and focuses on the battle at hand.

Godzilla charges up energy through her leaf-shaped dorsal plates and unleashes her Super Oscillatory Wave directly at the middle head. Instead of causing immense irritation and putting out kinetic force, the electromagnetically-charged roar goes around the golden serpent's head and neck, enveloping his entire length in a covering of molecular destabilizing sound; Ghidorah's middle head proceeds to easily dispel the Super Oscillatory Wave with a simple whipping motion. The ease at which Ghidorah nullifies these attacks takes Godzilla by surprise, but she shakes it off and starts whipping her tail multiple times to send a barrage of Plasma Cutters directly at each head.

In response to these incoming kinetic waves, each head opens up its mouth and detonates each Plasma Cutter that comes towards it prematurely; these explosions are still close enough to obscure their view. With the 3 heads briefly blinded, Godzilla quickly fires off a sweeping Atomic Breath at the black holes from which they originated from. Unfortunately, her beam curves around the black spheres ever so slightly, preventing them from actually being hit by the high-intensity particle beam; this happens with all 4 sweeps of her Atomic Breath.

While she's preoccupied with trying to destroy the black holes, all 3 of Ghidorah's heads burst out from the fading explosion clouds and lunge at Godzilla, cutting off her attack by grabbing onto her neck and upper arms. The godly Godzillasaur struggles against their grip, but she can barely manage more than a brief bit of resistance before the void serpent starts shaking her like a dog with a chew toy. Ghidorah proceeds to slam Godzilla down onto a large plane of Meta-riddled space that has been solidified for the briefest moment upon impact, leaving her floating on her back.

She quickly recovers and fires off her Atomic Breath at point blank range, but it curves around the golden god's body once again. Luckily, her shaking manages to loosen the grip of the 3 heads from her body, prompting them to back up. The titan slayer then charges forward and goes for a claw swipe; her hand inexplicably goes right through Ghidorah's glowing semi-translucent body. Godzilla makes several more slashing motions, but all of them pass through the Original One's heads and necks harmlessly. After seeing these purely physical attacks fail, the young monster planet infuses both hands with high energy and attempts to perform a double directed Nuclear Pulse. Yet again, the king of the void nullifies this attempt, this time by causing the pulse that would've rippled out from his opponent's hands to backfire on her; her attempted Nuclear Pulse discharges back into her own body, sending her flying away.

While Godzilla shakes herself out of the brief daze, she finds herself staring down Ghidorah's middle head once more; he seems to be upside down from her perspective.


("You're wondering why you can't touch me, aren't you? The answer to that inquiry is really quite simple.")

("I am the Original One, Metarch Prime. It is through my design that Metarchs were first given form. The fine control over reality that Safi'jiiva and all other Metarchs display is much simpler in scale and scope compared to mine, as is befitting a derivative.")


Godzilla attempts to grab her Slayer Crucible, but all 3 heads of Ghidorah coil around her body; they don't physically wrap around her and instead coil around her immediate space like an invisible cylinder. This Super Gravity Constraint compacts the young Metarch's body, forcefully restraining her her arms to her body and preventing her from doing anything more than wiggle slightly. This restraint field allows the middle head, who is coiled around his opponent's, to freely look her in the eye to speak once more.


("Not so fast, young Godzilla. I know the source of power behind that blade, for it is one that I too am familiar with intimately.")

("As such, I am well aware of the fact that your sword can potentially cut through my fine control over reality and Meta. I will not allow this to happen.")

("Instead, I want you to stay put in this constraint field so that I may tell you a story that stretches to before the beginning of existence itself.")


As Ghidorah continues to enforce his Super Gravity Constraint, golden bolts of arcing electrical energy surge out from his 3 heads and necks and are conducted from every angle by Godzilla's body, electrocuting her the whole way through. The only reason she doesn't wince or scream is due to the huge amount of voltage causing her body to seize up almost entirely in addition to the crushing gravitational force that the void god's constraint field holds her in preventing major movement.

While this goes on, Metphies and the Exif are being confronted by the rest of the passengers, crew, and even Mechagodzilla itself. Although the humanoid alien priests are outnumbered and outgunned, their immensely sophisticated natural telepathy manage to force something of a stalemate by holding back the biological races' bodies back through neurological manipulation; only their vital automatic bodily processes, as well as their ability to speak and think consciously, are retained. It is for this reason alone that Mechagodzilla's systems, which have already formed weapons and trained them on the Exif, haven't neutralized most of them yet; a few individuals were non-lethally taken down, resulting in the individuals affected by their telepathy to go similarly unconscious.


(Jiro Ifukube): You're an accessory to this genocide!

(Metphies): This has to be a misunderstanding! In all our people's history, Ghidorah never destroyed any Human species before their own extinction was at hand!

(Gnl. Rasczak): Good people died to make sure Humanity lived on, and yet here you are offering us up to your god!

(Metphies): Please, let us speak to our god! We can sort out this ordeal!


The young high priest of the Exif turns to look out the view-port at Godzilla and Ghidorah still engaged in their struggle.


(Metphies): Oh mighty King of the Void, hear me now! You did not foretell of this shift in the cycle of harvest! There must be some misunderstanding!


The head of Ghidorah whose neck is coiled around the bottom portion of Godzilla's body takes notice of the young priest's plea and turns to look in his direction; like before, he uses his sight beyond sight to see and hear Metphies despite how physically impracticable it'd be normally due to the large size and distance difference.


("I hear your call, young herald. I am here now.")

(Metphies): Please, great Ghidorah, we need guidance in this pressing time! Surely there must be a misunderstanding regarding this harvest! We Exif have served you for milennia, and never before has there been a need to devour the souls of a healthy Human species!

("That is true. But my talks with Safi'jiiva have shown me that the time of Humanity is over. Not only does this system need to be uprooted, but all systems.")


All of the Exif present in the view-port room and across the fleet are overcome with confusion and are thrown into disarray, breaking their telepathic hold on the biological passengers and crew and freeing their bodies up; they all turn to face their god looking for clarity in their moment of disconnect. Despite being more than capable of doing so, no one moves to apprehend the tall pointy-eared humanoids; even Mechagodzilla stands down and deactivates its neutralizing countermeasures.


(Metphies): But.... why? You taught us to appreciate life while it lasts, and to gather the ashes to renew it elsewhere. This has been the cycle of the universe for untold eons.

("Indeed I did, young herald. And I still hold such philosophy close to me. But now is the time to finally change things up.")

("Safi'jiiva showed me how Humanity could change and grow, but also how they could subvert the very cycle itself. We conspired together and agreed that it was time to end this tradition that spans billions of years.")

("After my time in this sector is up, I will awaken all other Metarchs so that we may dismantle this whole system and create a new one. A single failed product necessitates scrapping the means of production to achieve perfection.")

("We will not speak of this again. You are my holy entourage to herald my arrival, nothing more.")


The continent-sized golden dragon head turns its attention away from the fleet and the Exif to focus on constraining and electrocuting Godzilla. After Ghidorah discontinues his communication with his holy entourage, the Exif population is collectively in shambles emotionally speaking; their god has just forsaken all of Humanity across the universe for the mere fact that this sector has subverted the cycle held so dear to all Metarchs. Although he was angry and accusatory initially, Jiro Ifukube walks up to Metphies and places a hand on his shoulder; he feels both sympathy and pity for what the once proud young priest has been reduced to by the utter shattering of his faith by the god of the void.


(Jiro Ifukube): I'm.... sorry, to hear that your god has essentially turned his back on the very core tenants your people have held as sacred and immutable.


Metphies looks down at the ground, dishevelled and saddened greatly by this recent turn of events. Suddenly, he brings his head back up and turns to face his fellow Exif priests with determination and focus; they all nod to each other. All across the Mechagodzilla fleet, Exif flock to terminals with their Gematron Crystals in hand; Metphies and his group does the same, prompting Jiro Ifukube to forcibly turn the young priest around.


(Jiro Ifukube): What are you doing, Metphies?

(Metphies): If Ghidorah has decided to forsake our original mission, then we Exif must find a god who will stay true to our values. That deity will be Godzilla.


The elderly Japanese man is taken back a bit by this clear declaration, but he smiles soon after.


(Jiro Ifukube): Just tell us what you need then.