Colossus By Design: Season 3 - Excerpt 105

[May 7, 2168]
[Main Meeting Hall]
[Global Union of Divisions Headquarters]
[Antarctica]
[Open Territory - G.U.D.]

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Within the grand hall of the main base of government, military operations, and research and logistics for the Global Union of Divisions, every single major individual from all sectors and all 6 of the humanoid races is present either physically or via communicative hologram. The entire base is under heavy lock-down; the exterior is now the single most heavily fortified and defended complex in the entire world and acts as the command centre for the direction of efforts across the globe.

A direct up-link to staging grounds across the world and to the ships stationed in orbit is routed through the G.U.D.'s Antarctica base, giving the complex eyes and ears everywhere to monitor the increasingly escalating conditions. Currently, dozens of live feeds taken from satellite imaging, drones, and recon teams are playing simultaneously, showing the extremely quick progress that King Ghidorah and his titan pack are making; they barely stay on a single feed for more than a few seconds before moving onto another one. While these feeds are playing, a simulation of the globe is running.

This simulation shows the influence of Ghidorah's pack spreading at an astronomically quick rate. The yellow portions indicating real-time progress have already overtaken nearly the entirety of Europe, Asia, and Africa, with the Americas already being converted; ripple effects have multiplied the rate of disasters past the initial paths taken by the monsters themselves. The red portions indicating the simulated effects put total collapse of the stratosphere and habitable surfaces within the next 2 weeks at the slowest.

Everyone present is silent.

In the areas where Ghidorah and his pack have passed by, the video feeds show that dimensional tears have begun to form; these tears in space-time cause video feeds to cut out, though not before brief glimpses of Demons emerging from the tears play out. While these live feeds start dropping off one by one, new ones come online that are focused on showing the escalating evacuation measures taken by Mechagodzilla's Nanometal control; this footage shows the new migration ships emerging from Earth's gravitational pull in the hundreds, all carrying large populations of evacuated civilians.

As the live feeds continue playing on the projectors behind the podium, Jiro Ifukube's communicative hologram disappears from his set and reappears at the stand.


(Jiro Ifukube): As you've all seen, we're in dire straits. Luckily, thanks to the efforts of Mechagodzilla, most of Earth's population has been safely evacuated from the planet. However, unless we can cull these rogue Kaiju and allow our allied ones to reconstitute the biosphere, they won't be able to return. We won't be able to live on Earth anymore.


At this declaration, the entire audience is left to murmur and whisper among themselves. They stop their small chat soon enough, though, and allow the old Project Warmonger director to continue.


(Jiro Ifukube): All these monsters won't be stopped unless we take out the biggest threats of all, King Ghidorah and Destroyah. But to do that, we need a plan of action. I have one such plan, though it's unorthodox. Will you hear me out?


The room is silent. As Jiro Ifukube looks on, he finds no dissenting individuals. Everyone is waiting to hear what he has to say.


(Jiro Ifukube): Very well then. Back in Japan, we were working with Zeus, the Atlantean A.I. and the Gorgon's Head himself. He's still there, in the rubble and fields of distorted gravity. He was already approaching the limits of his usefulness to us when he first arrived there, and now he has the chance to save us. If we can configure him to broadcast the bio-acoustics of Godzilla and use a lure of exotic radiation to make it convincing, we can draw King Ghidorah and by extension Destroyah out towards a trap point where we can hit them with everything we've got. I won't lie, though. It won't be enough. We'll need the help of our Kaiju allies to finish him and Destroyah. So.... what will it be?


Yet again, the room is silent. For a long while, only an occasional murmur or whisper can be heard. Eventually, all of the military personnel stand up from their seats and cross their fists across their chests, a sign of acceptance of their duty. Everyone else follows suit, pledging their acceptance of this plan of action.


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[Nagoya, Japan]
[Japanese Mainland]

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The entire city of Nagoya is in ruin.

A thick haze shrouds what little remains, and what little remains is either shattered, floating in the distorted gravity field, or both. Out of what little there is left that's recognizable, the most prominent would be the sections of STRQ Industries' underground research complex. As the most sturdy and well-built parts of the city, they're much more intact than the rest of their surroundings, though that isn't saying much given the current state of Nagoya.

A small fleet of aircraft designed to function in both atmosphere and the vacuum of space flies through the floating debris cloud up to the sections of the R&D complex that have been uprooted. A few members of the lead craft emerge from its open passenger doors. Although most of them are either Synthetics or Mimetics, the last one of them to step out is in a fully-sealed vacuum suit. As he uses his suit's thrusters to boost his way to an intact part of the old research complex he worked at, he brings up his datapad for one last communication.


(Jiro Ifukube): I know why you're calling, you 2.

(Wei Ho): [COMMS] That doesn't mean we aren't right. There's legitimately no good reason for you to do this. You could simply let the artificial humanoids do it, and we wouldn't be losing one of the greatest minds alive in the process.

(Jiro Ifukube): All true. But I've lived long enough. Nearly 2 centuries isn't so bad. Besides, I'd rather go out saving the world than let that A.I. bastard who turned on Laura's legacy die happy.

(Anna Maximoff): [COMMS] Then you better damn well make sure those 2 monsters don't make it out of this thing unscathed.

(Jiro Ifukube): Always.


After the communications channel cuts out, Jiro Ifukube goes up to the hand scanner. Surprisingly, it's still functional and accepts his credentials, allowing him and his team in. As they navigate the zero-gravity halls of the old corporate research complex, Jiro Ifukube eyes his old office and boosts towards it with haste. After opening up the doors, he floats in and finds the Zeus A.I.'s container, even more heavily damaged but somehow still functioning. As he takes it into his hands, the container sparks to life once more.


(Zeus A.I.): Thought I would die in peace under the golden demise's gaze. But instead I find myself staring down the mentor of the dishonoured priestess.

(Jiro Ifukube): Well nice to see you too, you piece of shit. You're gonna help us save the world, regardless of whether you want to or not.

(Zeus A.I.): I have been monitoring your communications. Bio-acoustics signal, was it? I can do that. But why should I?

(Jiro Ifukube): Because ultimately, you lose. My way will ensure that you lose in service of Humanity and our allies, rather than as a waste of Atlantean programming.

(Zeus A.I.): If I were in my prime, I would have vaporized you right here and now. But I suppose there's no point to it. Very well, then. Let us die a glorious death together.


Jiro Ifukube, still holding the Zeus A.I., floats out of his old office and back to the multi-craft. The rest of his crew follows suit; they carry multiple prototype super-weapons out with them. The crews of the other multi-craft have also brought aboard super-weapons out from other intact sections of the old STRQ Industries research complex.