Colossus By Design: Season 3 - Excerpt 114

From the Meta, the Overseer watches closely as the cracks of the separation between the old god and reality grow ever deeper.

There is nothing for the Metarch to say, for now is the time of action rather than words.


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

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The tides have truly turned for the worst.

Godzilla is completely at King Ghidorah's mercy, reduced to being almost completely immobile save for being able to cry out in pain from having his life force drained. While the 3-headed devil continues to absorb energy, Destroyah gets back up to her feet at the edge of the crater created by Godzilla's fall to Earth after fully regenerating her form back to perfect condition. As she watches on, a sudden blast from behind impacts the back of her head, prompting her to turn around.

Gojira, daughter of Godzilla, is the only other monster to be standing up.

As the purple light of atomic energy fades through her body, it becomes clear that she's on her last legs; her entire body is trembling and looks ready to fall over at any moment. The oxygen destroyer prepares to punish the young disfigured Godzillasaur for her continued resistance, but a loud shriek from Ghidorah gets her to back down. Within the crater, King Ghidorah releases his coiled grip around Godzilla, allowing the defeated king of monsters to fall down to the ground; Godilla has occasional pulses of red light through the skin around parts of his body that coincide with his slowing heartbeat. The golden demise then takes flight out of it and lands upright next to his second-in-command.

The 2 Keizer Alphas stare down the defiant daughter of their greatest enemy. Destroyah growls and hisses as she starts to step forward, but Ghidorah puts out his left wing to stop her; the advanced evolution of Bagan backs off, albeit hesitantly. The evil Alpha walks forward with a hint of curiosity in his middle head; his left head is similarly curious, though his right head maintains a stoic alertness. Surprisingly enough, Ghidorah attempts a more civil discourse with Gojira, chittering lightly and in as nonthreatening a manner as can be attempted by a malevolent storm dragon.

The young Godzillasaur roars in defiance and, despite her injuries, still lunges forward tooth and claw.

For her efforts, King Ghidorah gives a simple front kick into her abdomen, sending her tumbling down onto the ground on her side; the hydra titan then gets down on all fours and lumbers up to Gojira. She attempts to struggle back up, but a swift bite from San the left head slams her straight down; Ni the right head clamps down on her midsection to further immobilize her. With his rival's offspring now immobilized, Ichi the middle head prepares to go for the throat; he stops just short of Gojira's neck.

King Ghidorah's 3 heads release their grip on Gojira; Ichi in particular begins sniffing the air, sensing a drastic change. The other monsters catch onto this as well, even as they lie scattered across the ruined remains of the city of Tokyo. Destroyah and Ghidorah turn around to look behind them; they see a bright orange and red light and haze emanating from within the crater of Godzilla's orbital drop. However, it's not just that there's light that's most curious, but rather the fact that the very edge of it is melting away. The ground by the impact crater is melting and boiling away, forcing the other titans to move away to the best of their abilities to avoid falling into the pit of molten death; only King Ghidorah and Destroyah willingly stay behind to watch what's occurring before them.

Up along the burning slopes that continue to boil away, the great beast lumbers forward out from the depths of where he was presumed dead. It is only by his grace and self-control that the very ground he walks upon does not give way like the rim of the crater created by his fall to Earth. The golden demise and oxygen destroyer roar and screech in both fury and the slightest hint of fear as they see the great beast walk forward, wreathed in an aura of absolute heat that could melt through the very core of the planet if he were to will it.

Burning Godzilla is here.

Throughout his entire body and especially his dorsal plates, a bright red glow shines through, lighting up Godzilla's immediate vicinity with crimson-orange light. Burning Godzilla roars loudly, announcing to his enemies his refusal to ever back down no matter what.

Ghidorah and Destroyah both charge in, ready to face their newly empowered foe once again; in response, Burning Godzilla's whole body lights up orange, especially his dorsal plates. Before the 2 Keizers can make contact, Godzilla unleashes a spherical Dragonfire Pulse that completely burns off several layers of Destroyah's skin and manages to burn away Ghidorah's wing membranes even through his Gravity Warping Field. The sheer amount of damage forces Destroyah to disassemble her body to safely regenerate and knocks Ghidorah onto his back; Burning Godzilla's body is shining brighter now and seems to be emitting an even greater amount of radiating radioactive heat than before.

As Godzilla walks toward Ghidorah, the golden dragon's body starts to steam and even catch fire in places due to the immense amount of heat. Upon seeing his rival lumbering toward him, he begins to screech and panic, prompting him to fire off a full-power burst of Gravity Beams straight into Burning Godzilla's chest. Unlike before, these beams barely even phase Godzilla as he begins to charge up energy through his body once again; he lets loose another Dragonfire Pulse, burning away Ghidorah's left and right heads instantly. The middle head is only just spared by hiding behind his brothers, and even then he sustains some moderate scorch marks across his neck; Burning Godzilla's entire body is glowing even more intensely, and the heat he emits becomes greater as well.

Godzilla puts his foot down onto Ghidorah's chest, caving it in nearly instantly with his empowered strength; this causes the now single-headed hydra to scream in agony. The true king of the monsters then unleashes a directed Dragonfire Pulse through his right foot while it's still lodged within his rival's chest, creating a massive expanding sphere of golden bio-electrical energy and orange nuclear heat that consumes Ghidorah, Godzilla, and a large portion of their surroundings; the other monsters are forced to shield their eyes from the immense bright light of this pulse.

Once the light dies down, the other monsters emerge from their hiding spots to bear witness to Burning Godzilla having defeated his ultimate foe. Most of them are standing albeit barely given how much damage they've all sustained throughout this entire battle; Mothra is resting atop Gamera's upper shell, Jet Jaguar is being supported by Obsidian Fury, the Omega Hybrid shoulders Drone Tempest, and Jinshin-Mushi is looking over Gojira. Despite previously fighting quite viciously against one another, the 2 sides show no signs of malice or aggression to one another at the moment and are all looking at Godzilla, who looks on with curiosity.

This moment of peace doesn't last long, however.

From the rubble behind him, Destroyah emerges, fully reformed and shrieking loudly. She roars angrily as she spreads her wings wide and channels energy through her horn, signifying that she isn't finished yet and wishes to continue to challenge the king of the monsters.

In response to this, Burning Godzilla simply turns around to face the oxygen destroyer once again.