Colossus By Design: Season 3 - Excerpt 109

"I ponder on just what it is I will do once the cycle is thoroughly uprooted."

"Perhaps a new form to take over as the fuel to seeding the universe?"

"Such endeavours require great reflection and collaboration to not repeat the mistakes of Humanity."


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

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Tokyo continues to serve as an intense battleground between gods.

The Omega Hybrid and Drone Tempest stare down Mechagodzilla, waiting to see just what the strange looking mechanical being will attempt this time. The Bilusaludo mech leans forward ever so slightly, as if preparing to run; the 2 bio-mechanical monsters do the same. The 3 titans charge at each other, with Mechagodzilla sliding along the ground while boosted by plasma jets that have been formed along its back. As the mech picks up speed, its hands begin to deform from their mechanical claw-like form to something akin to lances. Just before the 3 reach each another, Mechagodzilla puts its Hyper Lances out to its sides and extends them several dozen metres longer than before.

The quick rush allows Mechagodzilla to zoom in between the Omega Hybrid and Drone Tempest while simultaneously slashing their chests with its Hyper Lances. The larger monster is downright undamaged from the attack, though Drone Tempest has a large gash across its chest. The monsters turn around to face each other once again, but a brief flash of Mechagodzilla's eyes piques the attention of Drone Tempest and the Omega Hybrid. A sudden unnerving feeling creeps across both enemy titans, prompting both of them to look down at their chests. Both of them have Nanometal slowly growing out of where the Hyper Lances struck.

Drone Tempest panics a little at this sight and attempts to brush off the semi-liquid substance, only to spread the Nanometal across its clawed fingers. The Omega Hybrid, meanwhile, is quite calm about the entire situation. It roars loudly at its companion, apparently getting the message across; both monsters turn their gaze back onto Mechagodzilla.

The Omega Hybrid's chest, undamaged from Mechagodzilla's strike, starts to pulse with blue veins of energy; one large pulse of energy completely blows off all of the Nanometal that was creeping over its body. Drone Tempest similarly channels energy through its body, though in its case its whole body lowers in temperature significantly, causing the Nanometal on its body to freeze up and fall apart harmlessly.

Both bio-mechanical titans roar loudly to intimidate Mechagodzilla; they begin taking steps towards their shared opponent. The Bilusaludo mech backs up a little as they step forward, but it's stopped by Jet Jaguar putting his hand on Mechagodzilla's left shoulder. After the doppelganger looks to its left, it looks to its right and notices that Gojira has come to its side as well. Together, the 3 titans sound off together, giving their own united intimidation display; Drone Tempest and Omega Hybrid aren't phased in the slightest. Soon enough, they're joined by Jinshin-Mushi who lumbers next to Drone Tempest and roars at her opponents.

As this standoff takes place, Godzilla and King Ghidorah remain locked in an even fight.

Godzilla turns away ever so slightly, exposing his right side to Ghidorah. The right head, Ni, attempts to viper strike, but he's slapped away; San, the left head, also tries to strike, but he comes up short and only glances against Godzilla's upper back. Shortly after this, the elder Godzillasaur grabs Ni with his right hand and spins his body around, slamming Ghidorah in the left side with his tail and releasing his grip. While his rival is briefly stunned by this attack, Godzilla pivots on the spot and grabs the golden demise's by his left and middle heads; he proceeds to throw them on the ground before then stomping down on Ichi, the middle head, with his right foot.

Ichi screeches and hisses while pinned, but Godzilla doesn't let up. However, Ni and San manage to bite on this leg, running massive amounts of electricity through their grip. This manages to get the king of the monsters to pull his foot away, allowing Ghidorah to get back up on his feet. King Ghidorah moves in for another strike, this time leading with San; the left head is quickly redirected away by Godzilla's right hand. Right after this deflection, Godzilla swiftly grabs hold of his arch-nemesis's left and right heads and gives a powerful shove that pushes Ghidorah away. Godzilla attempts to bring down a strong left claw strike, but Ichi counters by viper striking at his enemy's throat and prompts him to grab at the middle head; Ni joins in by biting down on a dorsal plate behind Godzilla's head while San clamps around his left upper arm.

King Ghidorah straightens himself up and walks forward a few steps, forcing Godzilla to step back as well, before then flapping his wings once to lift himself and his rival into the air ever so briefly and slightly. The 3-headed monster allows himself to fall down, using this opportunity to slam Godzilla across the ground. San continues to bite down on Godzilla's left upper arm, while Ni begins coiling around his neck; Ichi is barely being held back by Godzilla's free right hand.

Godzilla quickly charges up a neutron flux through his dorsal plates and unleashes a full-force standard Atomic Breath into Ghidorah's chest that instantly blows him away off his feet.

It takes King Ghidorah extending arcs of Gravity Tethers from his wings to keep himself from being completely blown through the air by Godzilla's Atomic Breath. Even after the astro titan manages to brign himself back down to the ground with his chains of electrical energy, he's still being steadily pushed back by the immense force of his rival's nuclear fission beam; only his impressive durability and regeneration factor keep the Atomic Breath from anything more than surface damage. Despite this inability to inflict lasting damage, Godzilla still maintains the stream of atomic energy, even as he pushes Ghidorah hundreds of metres away past a few buildings that have fallen back down to Earth.

The point of this upkeep becomes clear soon enough when Mothra flies down from the clouds above. Godzilla's brilliant blue Atomic Breath has managed to push Ghidorah far enough that his heads are close to a building, enabling Mothra to swoop in and web them up with an unexpected blast of silk.

Thanks to the nature of the silk webbing, only Ni is able to free himself. He attempts to free his brothers by biting down on the silk covering them, but he only manages to pull off a small portion of webbing material. The reflection of Godzilla in the building's windows promptly draws the right head's attention; he turns around and hisses at Godzilla, who growls back.  Godzilla grabs Ghidorah underneath his wings and turns his head away just as Ni bites down, minimizing the damage and allowing him to focus on pushing King Ghidorah straight through the building. With a mighty push, the king of the monsters cleanly puts his rival down on the ground and snorts as a show of his pride in this successful coordinated attack.

Mothra circles around and dives down with claws out, preparing for another strike; King Ghidorah shrieks loudly in response.

Before Mothra reaches her target, she's suddenly struck from near a standing skyscraper by an unseen foe and sent skidding across the rooftop of a shorter building close by. The assailant deactivates its active camouflage as Mothra recovers from this surprise attack and begins to fly off, revealing himself to be Obsidian Fury.

The goddess of light shrieks loudly at Obsidian Fury as he stands atop the building. He brandishes his plasma-infused chainsaws and runs them across each other to intimidate his opponent; Mothra is unimpressed as she hovers just in front of the enhanced Warmonger prototype. Despite possessing the capability of speaking, Obsidian Fury hasn't uttered a word at all, nor does he seem to be planning to. He fires off salvos of missiles from his shoulder launchers at Mothra, to which she responds by simply flapping up a small cloud of powder scales that disrupt the missiles' tracking capabilities, causing them to fly off in wild directions and detonating harmlessly away from her body.

After seeing his enemy easily diffuse this attack, Obsidian Fury makes a leap with chainsaws out, only to be weaved around by Mothra effortlessly; the Warmonger prototype falls down to the ground. Before he can turn back around, Mothra comes in hot with a powerful aerial slam down on Obsidian Fury's back that completely pushes him down to the ground; the black-clad cyborg is powerless to resist, unable to even get onto its hands at knees. As further testament to Mothra's strength, she uses her mantis-like front claws to stab straight into Obsidian Fury's shoulder-plates and lift off the ground without much resistance. She flies up past the skyline, still carrying the black-clad mech, and carries him across the battlefield; she tosses him down onto the chaotic field that the other combatants have covered.

Gamera and Destroyah don't even take notice of Obsidian Fury landing and rolling away from a spot near where they're fighting.

They're engaged in what almost seems like a duel between blade-masters given how they're caught in an intense standoff where neither takes their eyes off the other as they circle around to exploit an opening.

Gamera, still brandishing his Banishing Dragon Claws, makes the first move. He uses bursts of plasma from the spaces between his upper-shell plates to perform a leaping downward stab; Destroyah uses her wings to assist in a leap backwards to avoid the hit. The guardian of the universe doesn't stop there, however. He proceeds to then spin around on the spot clockwise with plasma blades extended, managing to slash across Destroyah's side with his left blades. Before she can fully regenerate the wounded area, Gamera's spinning momentum brings his right blades around, lodging them directly into the wound.

The oxygen destroyer evolution of Bagan screeches in pain as green blood oozes out from the wound that's still being burnt by the presence of Gamera's Banishing Dragon Claws. With a mighty heave, Atlantis's greatest creation slices through with great effort, messily cutting off most of Destroyah's upper body. The abomination of a P.E.M.F. screams and howls loudly as she flails on the ground while missing the lower half of her body. Before Gamera can begin cutting up the rest of her body, both halves inexplicably break down into millions of Aggregates. The swarm starts climbing all over Gamera's body and begin using their own miniature Micro-Oxygen Sprays to cause damage all across his skin. Although their individual damage is minor, there are so many that Gamera is quickly being overwhelmed even as his bucking and wild movements fling away dozens of Aggregates away at a time.

It takes a full body spontaneous combustion to blow off all the Aggregate forms, and even then most of them aren't dead.

As Gamera takes the time to absorb the heat energy from flames and molten slag scattered across the battlefield to heal his wounds, he watches as the Destroyer swarm comes together and starts to reform Destroyah once again, free of any injuries she sustained earlier. The second-in-command to King Ghidorah roars loudly in anger, spreading her wings wide and channelling energy into her horn to make it glow.

Destroyah isn't playing around.