Colossus By Design: Season 3 - Excerpt 119

In the void of the Meta, Godzilla finds herself completely disoriented by the strange physics of this dimension and the giant eye staring her down.


"Welcome to my domain, little one. Enjoy the beauty before joining it."


Before she can properly process everything, Grimm Ghidorah comes charging at her, forcing the young Godzillasaur to quickly evade and dodge his increasingly frustrated flurry of viper-strikes amid the floating islets that Demons inhabit. After weaving around the black dragon's strikes, Godzilla gives a strong left hook directly into his right head; the force of the attack somewhat knocks Grimm Ghidorah back, but the strange physics of the Meta causes the ruler of all monsters to be sent flying back several kilometres despite receiving no recoil from using the attack. While Grimm Ghidorah reels from the punch, Godzilla quickly flies back in and delivers a barrage of rapid claw jabs into the dark hydra's body before then sending him flying off into the distance with a tail whip finisher.


"You will not get the best of me! I will reclaim that light which you have stolen!"


Grimm Ghidorah's entire body begins to crack, showing glowing red fault lines all across his black skin in a manner not unlike the powered-up state the Warmongers could enter while enraged so long ago. The black dragon shrieks loudly, becoming engulfed in crimson and gold electrical arcs of Ki energy to signify growing amounts of power being channelled. Godzilla rushes in and lands a clean straight punch on the dark hydra's left head, though she only manages to slightly budge it. Grimm Ghidorah responds by giving a swift jab with his middle head into the young Godzillasaur's stomach, knocking the wind out of her and leaving her vulnerable enough for the black dragon to kick her away several kilometres further into the Meta.

Godzilla crashes into one of the bizarre glass-like formations, shattering the parts of it most immediately around her; from the corner of her eye, she can see what looks to be a view of the Earth within the broken shards. This distraction is quickly cut off by Grimm Ghidorah flying in and smashing into the young Godzillasaur while she's immobilized with his left wing; she only just manages to reduce the damage of the blow with a last-minute block. Even then, more of the glass-like formation behind her has shattered from the force of the impact.

The black dragon sends his right head into his wing, sending out a shockwave that completely blows the young ruler of all monsters through away, shattering the glass-like formation entirely. She responds by charging up atomic energy through her backspines and channelling the Ki and radiation into both of her arms. With both her arms brimming with power, she flies at Grimm Ghidorah at full speed and starts throwing strong hooks into his heads before he can react; the added strength enhancement and Nuclear Pulse imbued into each strike keeps the dark hydra stunned enough to allow her to send him crashing into a moving spire of glass-like material below the 2 with a tail whip.


"Enough games!"


Grimm Ghidorah quickly gets back to his feet and fires off his enhanced Gravity Beams at Godzilla, forcing the young Godzillasaur to focus on evading around the bio-electrical devastation; she gets caught a few times, but the hits are only glancing at best. A passing glass-like pillar gives Godzilla an opening, allowing her to weave around it to give cover for a counterattack.

As soon as the Gravity Beams shatter the pillar, Godzilla immediately unleashes an Atomic Dorsal Barrage from her back down onto Grimm Ghidorah. Due to being in a free-flying environment, the black dragon easily weaves through the beams of nuclear fission and ascends to rush down his opponent once again. The young Godzillasaur ceases firing and charges forward to meet the dark hydra head-on. Just before her fist clashes against Grimm Ghidorah's bone-plated middle head, time suddenly slows down from her perspective, stretching out these final moments. Without any conscious effort on her part, the blue energy glowing through her forearm and fist changes to white.

From Grimm Ghidorah's perspective, he sees Godzilla's irises turn silver and her dorsal plates' blue glow changing to a white colour; his heads' eyes widen in fear just before impacting her empowered fist.


"No--"


The 2 monsters clash with one another, shattering the dimensional wall once again.


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

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Grimm Ghidorah is sent skidding across the ground after clashing with Godzilla from the Meta; he's clearly shaken both by being overpowered and by what he saw. As the black dragon roars and shrieks in frustration, the young Godzillasaur, who simply emerged standing in place, looks down at her hands before then looking back at her angered opponent. She then reminisces back to that fateful day in Antarctica several years ago when the Warmonger known as Serizawa's Light first taught her how to consciously draw upon her inner Ki potential; she then remembers Jet Jaguar, the being that Serizawa's Light eventually merged with the other Warmongers to become, and how he sacrificed himself to protect her loved ones.

Godzilla closes her eyes, spreads her feet out a bit, and draws her hands closer to her body. As she focuses her energy to draw out this potential she's glimpsed a few times, Grimm Ghidorah sees her meditating and runs forward; his rage has taken over almost entirely, leaving him to forgo simply flying at her. Despite him closing in, she doesn't budge at all from her meditation; she tunes out everything around her to focus on her inner silence. Upon reaching her, Grimm Ghidorah spins his body around to hit Godzilla with his 2 spiked tails.

Just as it seems as though he's about to hit, she's gone in an instant; no detectable movement, no signs of teleportation, just her vanishing from sight.

The black dragon is bewildered to see her disappear without warning; he's equally as bewildered when he turns around and sees her standing behind him with her back facing him.


"How-- No! You can't possibly!"


Grimm Ghidorah fires off all 3 Gravity Beams at close range; he couldn't possibly miss. But Godzilla, with her eyes still closed, moves with such grace that she could be misconstrued as performing an elaborate dance were it not for how extremely fast it was. From her perspective, in the darkness, she is moving at a normal pace while the rest of the world is close to standing still. Her hand instinctively moves to catch the bolts of crimson-gold lightning without any thought or input, redirecting the captured energy in a single circular motion right back into Grimm Ghidorah's face.

The blast of redirected energy creates a small explosion and briefly stuns the black dragon. Before the smoke can clear, he comes out snapping; he's met with a swift evading spin-flip that transitions into a tail whip that slams into all 3 heads. Godzilla's spin-flip places her squarely in front of Grimm Ghidorah a moderate distance away; the black dragon is still reeling from the perfect counterattack he just endured. With her eyes still closed, the young Godzillasaur runs forward fully under her own control while charging up neutron flux energy through her backspines.

The dark hydra shakes himself out of his daze and begins firing his Gravity Beams wildly in every direction in front of him in order to not give his opponent any quarter. Once again, the world comes to a near standstill from Godzilla's perspective as her body moves in ways she can't predict or control, merely feel out. From Grimm Ghidorah's perspective, Godzilla has almost disappeared from view; the only sign of her moving forward is a brief black blur easily weaving through and around his Gravity Beam barrage. Eventually, even this small sign disappears, leaving the dark hydra unable to truly tell where his opponent is at all.

He only just figures out in time long enough to turn his heads around to see Godzilla firing an Atomic Breath straight into his back, creating a massive explosion upon impact that sends him tumbling across the ground.

Godzilla herself stands in place, eyes still closed; her dorsal plates occasionally flash with a faint white glow.

Grimm Ghidorah slowly gets back up to his feet after his tumble and turns around. His rage at what's transpiring is quite visible from how much his Ki aura is flaring up and seeping out from the cracks across his black skin. The black dragon shrieks loudly, becoming engulfed in a ludicrous amount of crimson bio-electrical energy. He then flies high into the sky at breakneck speed, becoming barely visible from the ground.


"This is it! If I must destroy this entire landmass to be rid of you, so be it! Begone with the rest of your false gods!"


Grimm Ghidorah shrieks loudly and begins charging up energy. His entire body turns into a veritable light-show from the amount of crimson light shining through his cracked skin, wing membranes, mouths, and eyes. The sheer level of bio-electrical energy being built up around the dark hydra's body is nothing short of godlike, a true testament to the absolute power he commands. All the while he does this, Godzilla still stands in place with her eyes closed. She takes up her original meditative stance once again to help her channel her potential; this time, her dorsal plates become fully flush with white light as she meditates on her Ki.

Upon seeing this, Grimm Ghidorah well and truly loses it, screeching like a madman as he cackles and shrieks in angered frustration.

The black dragon, this puppet of the Overseer, brings his mouths and wings together in front of his chest. From this formation, a small ball of crimson, gold, and orange energy begins to form. The energy ball quickly grows in size, eventually becoming bigger than Grimm Ghidorah himself; all of his built-up energy funnels into this one attack, depriving his body of its glowing light. With a simple push, the dark hydra sends his Ecliptic Singularity straight towards Godzilla.

Although the attack is slow in its descent, its raw destructive power cannot be understated. Even at such a high height away from the desolate ruins of Tokyo, the Ecliptic Singularity draws in everything on the ground, pulling up rubble, debris, and the very exposed bedrock and dirt itself. The remaining monsters from the battlefield struggle to prevent themselves from being pulled upward into the sphere of energy, though Godzilla herself still remains rooted to the spot.

Just as the Ecliptic Singularity breaches the halfway point between Grimm Ghidorah's position and the ground, Godzilla suddenly opens her eyes. An amazingly bright white light emits out from them, completely engulfing the entire area and forcing everyone to cover their eyes. This light shines with a brightness never glimpsed before, completely vaporizing the Ecliptic Singularity and cutting off its gravitational distortion. As the light grows brighter and starts to reach Grimm Ghidorah, he shields his eyes with his wings. When the light dies down, the black dragon finds that his wings have turned to stone; he shrieks out in pain as he tries to move them, only to find that he can only move them away from his eyes. He then looks down at Godzilla on the ground, becoming filled with disgust and hate at what he sees.

Godzilla stands on the ground and looks up at Grimm Ghidorah. Her irises are fully silver, as are her dorsal plates.