Colossus By Design: Season 3 - Excerpt 111

Within the Meta, as the cracks continue to grow in size and count down the inevitability of the Overseer's return to reality, the Metarch of this part of the deep continues to watch with great interest.


"There is that light once again, different from the one I seek to reclaim."

"The only being I know of who may have this power is the Original One, and even then I am not entirely certain."

"But it simply cannot be. Even a core does not possess the fortitude and potential."

"Luckily, it seems to be inconsistent enough that it won't prove a challenge."


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[May 7, 2168]
[Tokyo, Japan]
[Japanese Mainland]

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After expelling a truly monstrous Spiral Supernova Breath through the Earth, Godzilla ceases his attack. While Destroyah's Aggregate forms scurry away for cover to reform back into her final state safely, the king of the monsters drops down on one knee and takes a minute to catch his breath. As he does, the pulsing blue glow running through his dorsal plates begins flickering erratically, seemingly out of control; his bodily wounds heal up quickly, but his condition does not improve.

During this brief interim, King Ghidorah manages to grab hold of the Omega Hybrid laying on top of him with his 3 necks, coiling around its head, midsection, and tails. It takes a few heaves, but eventually the hydra emperor gets enough leverage to dead-lift the chimera titan off of his body before then tossing the Omega Hybrid away via quickly uncoiling his necks backwards; this sends the monster flying off a few hundred metres, still greatly dazed from Godzilla's assault. The golden demise arises to his feet and sees his sworn enemy before him, still recovering and thus vulnerable.

Ghidorah attempts to fire off a burst of Gravity Beams at Godzilla, but he's forced to hold up his wings and generate a Gravity Warping Field around them to shield himself from a sudden onslaught of ranged attacks.

The benevolent Keizer Alpha looks behind him and sees the source of these attacks; Gamera, Jet Jaguar, Mechagodzilla, and his daughter Gojira have all gotten back to their feet and are piling on ranged firepower. With Ghidorah focusing on guarding attacks from the front to allow his pack members to recover, he fails to take notice of what comes in from behind.

Mothra flies in with her body fully aglow with blinding white bio-luminescence, ramming through Drone Tempest and Jinshin-Mushi directly into King Ghidorah's back with great force that knocks him off balance and prevents him from maintaining his shielded wings, opening up his centre of mass to the defender titans' attacks. The 3-headed monster is slowly being pushed back, albeit to not as great of a degree as when Godzilla used his Atomic Breath against him; he calls out to the rest of his pack. On their Alpha's command, Obsidian Fury, Drone Tempest, Jinshin-Mushi, the Omega Hybrid, and Destroyah charge forward towards their enemies.

Godzilla's titans respond in kind, as does the king himself.

While the rest of these monsters fight it out, Mothra continues to harass King Ghidorah, fluttering around his heads and giving quick slashes with her claws; she narrowly flies just out of range when Ghidorah's heads attempt to retaliate every time. This frustrates the 3 of them enough to prompt the golden dragon to take flight, to which Mothra responds by ascending high into the storm above. Although she's fast and manoeuvrable, King Ghidorah proves to be an equal master of this domain by easily keeping pace with her movements in this intense dogfight.

At first, the hydra emperor's Gravity Beams handily miss due to aiming straight at where Mothra's at. However, as the seconds pass by, they get more and more accurate. Soon enough, they're only narrowly missing her wings and body as she spins and swerves to avoid the beams aimed at where she's headed. The moth goddess goes in for a head-on charge, to which Ghidorah meets her similarly. The 2 collide, but Mothra finds herself being overpowered even as she's beating her wings as furiously as she can; she's nearly helpless in the grasp of King Ghidorah's clawed feet and heads. It takes a point blank detonation of her scale powder to allow her to break his grip, doing minimal damage to him but moderately hurting herself in the process.

This move only briefly throws off Ghidorah, as he's back to chasing her down in the storm clouds. She attempts to drop down on her opponent's chest to drive her claws into his heart, but he quickly grabs her wings with his left and right heads. Once he stretches them out wide and far enough that her claws can't reach him and she's effectively helpless, the middle head of King Ghidorah charges up and fires a Gravity Beam straight into Mothra's body; the force of the blast is enough to blow her out of his grasp. As she plummets down to Earth, the 3-headed dragon suddenly dives down and kicks her falling body before she hits the ground, sending her into a building.

The golden demise quickly flies in and slams his feet into the bottom tips of Mothra's wings to immobilize her; he uses his wings to keep his grip on the skyscraper's face.

Ichi attempts to snap at her head, but the moth goddess quickly brings down both of her claws down on his head, knocking it away and managing to cause Ghidorah to drop down to the ground on his back. While her enemy gets back up on his feet, the goddess of peace slowly and painfully inches her way up to the top of the skyscraper. Before she can fully make it there, the hydra god is on her case again, this time merely standing upright and extending his necks fully. San the left head snaps at her first, forcing her to sway her head to the right; Ichi the middle head is the next to bite at her, but she evades to the left. This puts her directly in San's path again, allow him to bite down on Mothra's left wing to hold her in place; Ichi aids his brother by biting down on her thorax.

Just as Ni the right head goes in for Mothra's head, he's suddenly left immobilized and unable to move; he gurgles and spasms. The moth goddess unveils her treachery by pulling her stinger out from Ni's neck, causing him to fall limp from the paralysis inflicted by her venom. Upon seeing this, King Ghidorah releases his hold on the moth goddess and shrieks angrily at her; he rears both active heads back to strike. Mothra tries to swipe down on both incoming vipers, but she's not fast enough and is promptly slammed straight through the building to the ground; the building crumples to pieces as she's pushed down to the ground.

This attack leaves the already injured Keizer Beta greatly stunned on the ground with tears in her wings, punctures across her exoskeleton, and scorch marks from Ghidorah's lightning.

With his enemy unable to fight back for the time being, King Ghidorah's middle head takes this opportunity to bite down on the left head. After a few heaves and increased bite force, Ichi rips Ni off almost entirely; the head is still limp and paralyzed as it falls to the ground. A few seconds later, the head burns up and leaves nothing but ashes; Ni starts regrowing from his stump soon after without the paralytic agent impeding his combat effectiveness.

The 3 heads of the devil bare down on Mothra, watching with great disdain. Now that she's powerless to stop them, the devil with 3 heads gets down to the ground and uses them to bite down on Mothra; they grab onto her wings and her thorax. Ghidorah then lifts the weakened moth goddess up before then bringing her back down on the ground with immense force, sending out fissures from the point of impact; he repeats this several more times. Eventually, the golden demise ceases slamming her down and decides to simply blast her away with his Gravity Beams.

As she's sent through the air, Godzilla catches a glimpse of this while holding back the Omega Hybrid. The larger titan takes advantage of this brief pause to push the king of the monsters back, forcing Godzilla to fire off an Atomic Breath directly into its chest. Although it's pushed back, the chimera giant sustains no damage and has begun channelling the absorbed kinetic energy into its arms; the elder Godzillasaur pays no mind to this as he rushes to catch Mothra. Omega Hybrid is about to land a super-charged punch from behind, but Gamera quickly flies in with his upper-shell to shield his ally; he's pushed down by the explosive kinetic dump of OMega Hybrid's attack but is otherwise fine.

The monster king manages to catch the queen of the monsters in his arms. He looks down at her, to which she looks up at him. After a quick exchange of grunts, Mothra weakly climbs over her Alpha's shoulder and situates herself a little above the middle of his back; she then stabs her stinger into his back, causing him to wince a bit. A few moments pass, but eventually something strange happens; energy starts flowing through the stinger and into Mothra's body before going back into Godzilla's body; at first, this energetic movement is slow. However, it picks up in speed shortly after, creating a veritable light show of atomic energy. While this energy cycles through, it starts to glow through Godzilla's skin, gills, and eyes, lighting up his entire body with blue and white light.

Godzilla roars loudly, sending out an invisible Ki wave that momentarily gets the attention of every monster on the battlefield, especially his rival.

King Ghidorah shrieks and screams loudly in response, calling forth his pack to disengage and converge on his arch-nemesis; he follows up on this command himself.

The king of the monsters merely stands his ground, ready for what's coming.