Colossus By Choice: Book 1 Verse 14

3001 P.G.E. (Post-Godzilla Era)

[Universal Date: Day 118]
[Planet: Pyrestar]
[Capital: Silver Sun City]
[Location: City wall limits]

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At the very edge of Silver Sun City’s total territory limits right next to the section of wall that the Iwi-ki assault force stormed, Rodan and the Iwi-ki turned Oozaru continue to battle it out.

The Fire Demon has managed to dig his talons into the back of the Great Ape’s head and is doing his best to try and steer the giant monkey away from the direction of the inner territories. After several consecutive seconds of struggling and wild flailing from the transformed ape soldier, the winged magmatic Kaiju manages to gain enough forward momentum to slam the Oozaru’s head straight into the ground; for a moment, the mutated Iwi-ki doesn’t move at all.

This prompts Rodan to move his head down to check on his fallen opponent.

All of a sudden, one of the Great Ape’s hands clamps down around his beak; he desperately tries to pull his beak out, but the giant simian maintains his iron grip around it. The fire-born Kaiju is so preoccupied with freeing his head that he doesn’t even notice the Oozaru he’s been standing on top of is standing up once more. The giant simian then tugs hard down on Rodan’s beak, instantly pulling the giant bird off of his body; he then uses his free left hand to grab hold of one of his opponent’s horns. The Oozaru, while still gripping Rodan by the head with both hands, slams the rock-skinned flyer’s body into the ground and scrapes him across the ground with great force in a circular motion.

Once the Great Ape’s circular motion is about to put him facing the outer territory walls, he releases his grip upwards, allowing the momentum to carry his enemy soaring through the air. Rodan ends up crashing straight through the wall without any resistance due to the sheer force of the throw and his own enormous mass, leaving a gaping wide opening for the untamed wilds to creep in uncontested; the Oozaru roars and beats his chest in triumph at this achievement and lumbers forward.

The One Born of Fire is left somewhat dazed by this manoeuvre and has take a few seconds to collect himself while standing on all fours; he has his back turned on the opening he inadvertently created. In this moment of vulnerability, the Great Ape of the Moon charges forward with malicious intent and fists raised high into the air. Rodan can only manage to look up and bring up his right wing in the short time he has to react to the Oozaru preparing to bring both fists down on him. And then…..

A flash.

A startlingly bright flash of light that’s a bit much even for a god like Rodan. There’s nothing but white light shining out from the edges of his wing, and there wouldn’t have been anything at all if the Fire Demon had not shielded his face from his opponent’s attempted blow.

As the light dies down almost as quickly as it happened, Rodan brings his wing down and looks up. In front of him stands the mighty Oozaru, only this time the giant monkey is rubbing his eyes; he seems to have been temporarily blinded, though this subsides soon enough. The Great Ape raises his fists up and is about to bring them down once more, to which Rodan roars loudly and turns around to meet this attack; yet again, the transformed Iwi-ki soldier is distracted.

This time, a small blip can be briefly made out zipping past the Oozaru’s head and firing an incomprehensibly small object into his eyes that explodes into a large cloud of gas with some particulates within it. The giant monkey’s eyesight, though not fully impaired like earlier, is irritated enough that he starts to back up and has to rub his eyes a bit once again to clear his vision. Once his vision clarity is back to normal, he roars loudly and charges once more with his left fist raised; he aims his fist downwards at Rodan’s face.

Thanks to the unknown assailant distracting his enemy, the Fire Demon manages to cleanly block the Iwi-ki mutant’s blow with his right wing, though the sheer strength of the blow still manages to cause Rodan to skid across the ground ever so slightly. The Titan of Winged Fury slaps the Oozaru’s fist away and fires a stream of molten hot magma from his mouth that’s aimed directly at his face; this is swiftly met by the Great Ape’s own electrically charged mouth beam. The 2 breath attacks collide in a truly extraordinary beam struggle that shakes the very ground around the enormous Kaiju.

At first, they’re both relatively equal in strength, with neither Kaiju showing any signs of dominance over the other.

Eventually, though, golden streaks of bioelectricity start to build up all around the transformed Iwi-ki soldier’s body; they become larger and more numerous with every passing second. Correlating with this building Thunder Element energy is a slow but steady increase in the force of the Oozaru’s beam that allows him to gradually overpower Rodan’s magma spew. In order to mitigate this increasingly disadvantaged position, the One Born of Fire starts backing up in step with his progressively lost ground in the beam struggle.

Despite taking this measure, the Great Ape of the Moon continues to assert dominance in the beam struggle and is overtaking Rodan faster than he can back up. It soon comes to a point where the bio-volcanic bird is on all fours and is at imminent risk of losing and subsequently taking the full force of the Oozaru’s breath attack. But as all hope seems lost, the tiny unknown assailant from before flies past the Pyrestar Kaiju’s eye toward the giant monkey; this time, he can more clearly make out the form of some shiny-skinned Flying Wyvern with beings on its neck.

As the unknown assailants fly fast enough to still avoid full clarity even from the distracted eye of a god, they launch several blue fireballs at the Great Ape’s eyes, exploding in relatively large explosions that are small compared to the Kaiju. Thanks to his immense size and strength, these do little beyond get him to blink a bit, though they do at least manage to stop the Oozaru’s beam from overtaking Rodan’s entirely; however, the Fire Demon seems to have caught onto the unknown assailants’ intent and closes his eyes.

Right on cue.

A second blindingly bright flash of light explodes in front the Iwi-ki warrior’s transformed eyes, temporarily obscuring his eyesight enough to interrupt his maintenance of his charged beam; this gives the fire bird the perfect opening.

Rodan opens his eyes and puts his full might into his magma stream, quickly overpowering the Great Ape’s own breath attack while he’s blinded and distracted. Soon enough, the Fire Demon overcomes the electrical energy entirely and douses the Oozaru’s face in seething hot molten spew, sending him reeling back from the pain. While the Iwi-ki mutant covers his face due to it now being mildly burnt and even having a few patches of fur still on fire, the Titan of Winged Fury takes this opportunity to leap up and perform a flying double kick with his feet straight into his opponent’s chest; the Oozaru is knocked away a fair distance clean on his back.

Before his opponent has any time to recover, Rodan flies up and dives down onto the Oozaru stomach with talons forward, knocking the wind out of him and creating a huge crater from the massive impact of this blow. The fire-born Kaiju then heats the bottoms of his wings up and presses them against the giant monkey’s body, causing intense constant pain. While he does this, he attempts to snap at his enemy’s head with his beak; the simian Kaiju is only bare able to hold him back by the neck with both hands.

As this struggle continues in Rodan’s favour, the unknown assailants from before come around once again and survey the situation from above.


(Taum): Nice shooting, Skrill! We’ve turned things around for Pyrestar’s guardian!

(Skrill): Kinda have to be since you dragged me into this mess!

(Taum): Alright, let’s go in and see if we can identify any other weaknesses!

(Yun-Tao): Here comes the fun part!

(Skrill): I wouldn’t call this—


The Silver Rathalos that the trio is riding takes them in closer via an aerial dive in order to get to Rodan and the Oozaru as quickly as possible. Just before they make contact, the Silver Fire Wyvern pulls up and makes a sweeping strafe around the head of the One Born of Fire. All 4 of them look down at the 2 deities struggling on the ground.

Despite the early dominance that Rodan had shown just moments ago, the Oozaru is fighting back with all his might and steadily equalling the playing field once more. Although his chest and sides are still being burnt by the giant flyer’s volcanic wings, his eyesight has recovered and his grip on his opponent’s throat is quickly becoming tighter and more vicelike. Rodan’s snapping beak is no longer being barely held back, but instead his breathing is being suffocated by the powerful grip strength of the Oozaru’s hands; coinciding with this is the fiery heat of the bio-volcanic bird’s wings slowly becoming dimmer, signifying lowering temperatures.

This turn of events startles the trio riding on their Silver Rathalos mount.


(Taum): Dammit, Rodan’s losing ground again. That Oozaru’s eyesight will probably be adapted to any flash pods or smoke bombs now.

(Skrill): Then we’ll need to focus on his ears. Yun-Tao, got any screamer pods?

(Yun-Tao): Hold on….


The Oxbul blacksmith rummages through her pouches for a few seconds. After a bit of searching, she manages to find what she was looking for; she pulls out the screamer pods and holds them out for Skrill and Taum to see.


(Taum): Great! Can you modify them to be louder than normal?

(Yun-Tao): Damn, don’t have any scatternuts on me right now. If I had some of those, I could use them as amplifying shells.

(Skrill): Which means….

(Taum): We’ll need to fire these off directly in that big ape’s ear canal.


The Silver Rathalos the trio is riding on shows some signs of worry, as do Taum, Skrill, and Yun-Tao. Despite everyone’s apprehension at the prospect, Taum quickly shakes off his fears and refocuses on the mission at hand after looking down and seeing that Rodan’s wings have lost their heated glow; the fire bird is starting to fade into unconsciousness after such a lengthy period of being choked out by the Great Ape of the Moon.


(Taum): Drop me off by his ear. I’ll fire the screamer pods directly at the eardrum to hopefully give that big monkey a splitting earache.

(Yun-Tao): Are you sure you wanna do this?

(Taum): I have to. Rodan’s counting on us. And besides, I’m basically helping out the gods by doing this. What better loft in life is there than that?


Yun-Tao reluctantly hands Taum her screamer pods; he loads them into his Slinger. Their flying mount then descends and heads directly for the Oozaru’s head. Luckily, the big ape doesn’t seem to have noticed the comparatively tiny Flying Wyvern landing and perching on top of the helix of his right outer ear while choking out Rodan. While he’s distracted, Taum quickly hops off of the Silver Rathalos’s neck and slides down the rest of the outer ear to reach the entrance to the ear canal.


(Taum): Okay go, hurry!


The Silver Sun quickly takes off and flies away to safety while still carrying Yun-Tao and Skrill. This brief bit of commotion gets a small reaction from the massive ape, prompting him to throw Rodan away, stand up, and start picking at his ear with one of his fingers; Taum is forced to step further and further down the ear canal to avoid being squished by the massive finger. Eventually, the Oozaru ceases this unhygienic action and returns to his previous business of trying to take down the Pyrestar guardian.

Taum heads back to the entrance and looks out; he can see that the Great Ape is lumbering towards the downed Fire Demon, who is currently just starting to come back to his senses after briefly losing consciousness. The Draconi youngling suddenly gains a faint sensation through his body, prompting him to look at the fur surrounding the giant monkey’s ear; streaks of golden Thunder Element begin to build up through the hairs.


(Taum): Okay, it’s now or never.


Taum holds onto the edge of the ear canal entrance with his right hand and aims his left hand’s Slinger down the rest of the cavernous hearing tunnel. He then fires off a single screamer pod down the length of the ear canal that manages to hit the ear drum directly, resulting in a loud pinging screech that reverberates outwards.

The Oozaru, who was just moments from charging up another electrical mouth beam, suddenly puts both of his hands on his ears and rocks his head a bit. The force of the giant ape’s palms slapping into his ears sends and the subsequent rocking motions knocks Taum down into the ear canal; he ends up shaken in the now closed-off tunnel like beans in a child’s rattle toy. If it weren’t for the copious amounts of earwax dotting the insides of the ear canal, the Draconi youth would’ve been turned into mush from being thrown around as he was.

From the outside, Rodan shakes off his previous daze and looks up; he looks on in confusion at his enemy holding his ears to his head. The Fire Demon roars loudly and flies toward the Great Ape in order to perform a flurry of flying talon kicks directed at the massive monkey’s chest, forcing him backwards with repeated claw strikes. Rodan finishes this combo by flying back a bit before then coming in hard with both feet raised, just as before. This time, however, the Oozaru reacts in time to lock hands with the volcano bird’s talons; the 2 Kaiju are evenly matched as they engage in another power struggle.


(Taum): Not this time!


The former Draconi apprentice to the City Scouts fires off yet another screamer pod at the inner eardrum of the Kaiju he’s currently inside of. The sudden loud ping rings throughout the inner portions of the Oozaru’s ear and messes up his hearing, preventing him from focusing on engaging Rodan in their power struggle.

The Fire Demon takes advantage of this lapse in focus to break free of his opponent’s grip and grab the Great Ape by the shoulders with his talons; he then slams him straight down into the ground onto his back, then starts lifting him up into the air. Before the transformed Iwi-ki soldier can properly mount a counter, Rodan spews a stream of magma straight onto the Oozaru’s face; the volcanic flyer continues flapping his wings to lift his enemy into the air.

While all of this is going on, Taum desperately drives his carving knife into some of the crusted earwax and holds on for dear life.

After rising many hundreds of metres above the ground, Rodan releases his grip on the Oozaru and drops the giant ape down to the ground with a huge thud, creating a large impact crater. As the mutated giant looks around after shaking off the initial daze, he looks straight up and sees his opponent descending down at high speeds for a divebomb, prompting him to roll out of the way just in time to evade the talons of the fiery bird. While he gets up to his feet, he takes this opportunity to quickly give a strong uppercut right into the bottom of Rodan’s beak, knocking his opponent’s head straight upwards and causing him to stumble backwards a bit.

The Oozaru then gives a solid straight kick right into Rodan’s chest that sends him screeching across the ground and nearly knocking him off balance entirely.

The 2 Kaiju stare each other down. They’re both worn down from this fight, but neither is willing to back down; both of them roar at each other to show their defiance and willingness to continue.


(Taum): Try this on for size!


Taum fires off yet another screamer pod down the giant mutant’s ear canal and hits the eardrum one again. This time, however, the Great Ape is only momentarily stunned and quickly leans his head over to the right side a little, causing the Draconi youngling to be flung out from the ear; he’s left hanging by his carving knife. The Oozaru then gives a moderate slap to the left side of his head, imparting enough force to shake Taum loose once and for all.

He falls downward at a rapid pace. Anyone else would be screaming for dear life, but Taum merely closes his eyes and breathes in deeply.

Instead of hitting the ground as a big splatter, though, he’s caught midair by an arm. The youngling looks up and sees that Captain Gairi Fire-clan Pyrestar saved him before he hit the ground. The experienced Defence Watch veteran looks down at the young man and smirks before then hoisting him onto his back. The winged captain flies straight upwards, rising above the titans facing off on the ground below, in order to survey the situation; he’s soon joined by several ozen other winged Draconi members of the Defence Watch and even the City Scouts.

Upon seeing all of these reinforcements, Taum lets lout a sigh of relief.


(Taum): You made it, captain.

(Cpt. Gairi): Sure did, kid. Say, remember how I said I like your spirit?

(Taum): Yessir.

(Cpt. Gairi): Well, we could use a whole lot more of that all around right about now. What do you say we head on in and help our big bird friend out a bit?

(Taum): You got it, sir!

(Cpt. Gairi): Hang on tight, then! Men, move in!


All of the Defence Watch and City Scout knights give a loud simultaneous battle cry that echoes across the airspace.

They then fly down into the fray, charging into the battle of gods between Rodan and the Oozaru.