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Colossus By Design: Season 3 - Excerpt 73

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  1. [April 28, 2168]
  2. [Jiran Island - Jiran Island Cluster]
  3. [Pacific Ocean]
  4. [Open Territory - G.U.D.]
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  8. Some kind of metaphysically significant ritual is under way on the sister isles belonging to the gods of the sea and sky. On the isle of the sea, Jiran Island, Gojira and the larval Mothra watch together as their completed mandala's blue glow grows in intensity and brightness. As this emanating light continues to shine, nearly everyone stationed at the clearing comes out to either watch or attempt to gather data on the situation.
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  10. There is an immense surge of concentrated environmental Ki being read by nearby scanning equipment, the telltale movement of the Mana network of the Earth. What's most interesting, however, is that the mandala is acting as a kind of channel for the Earth's Mana; Gojira and Mothra seem to act as strong meridian points for this access of the network. Soon enough, the commotion is enough to bring out Dr. Wei Ho from the surface outpost's interior.
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  13. (Wei Ho): What's going on?
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  15. (Technician): Some kind of Mana movement, Dr. Ho! The mandala of Mothra's symbol is flowing with Mana, and Mothra and Gojira are anchor points for the network!
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  17. (Wei Ho): What could be going on? The network hasn't been this active since it was used to end the Legion Invasion.
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  19. (Technician): Our sister team on Roth-Ma Island is reporting the same thing with Battra and Jet Jaguar!
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  21. (Wei Ho): Keep monitoring, but get everyone ready for potential emergency.
  22.  
  23. (Technician): On it, sir!
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  26. As the technician rushes off to get the message out, Wei Ho walks forward, closer to the two monsters. Some of the other staff try to yell to him, but their voices are tuned out by the biologist's singularly focused mind. Some of them even try to physically stop him from getting any closer, but a pressure wave emanating out from Gojira's body blows back everyone but him; this selective aftershock coincides with Gojira apparently looking directly down at the approaching Dr. Ho.
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  28. While all of this is going on, Mothra's eyes glow a bright yellow; Gojira's dorsal plates are flushed with glowing purple atomic energy. Both of them remain a steady level of intensity and brightness, coinciding with the increasing activity of the Mana network flowing throughout the two monsters and the symbol on the ground composed of Hotua ritual stones. Soon after, the mandala of the moth erupts into something akin to a bright blue fire composed entirely of the Earth's Mana. As the flames of Mana burn brighter, Wei Ho continues walking forward, utterly mesmerized by the sight.
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  31. (Wei Ho): I see, now. You're all fighting against something in the void. I'll do what I can to help.
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  34. After cryptically responding to something not vocalized by either Mothra or Gojira, Wei Ho brings out his datapad and contacts Eobard Thawne. After a few seconds, his acquaintance and best friend's pupil answers the COMMS hail.
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  37. (Eobard Thawne): [COMMS] Dr. Ho, what's going on? I've been monitoring the situation going on here with Battra and Jet Jaguar!
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  39. (Wei Ho): Listen, Eobard, I know this makes no sense whatsoever, but I need you to trust me on this one.
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  41. (Eobard Thawne): [COMMS] Hey, I'm not about to tune out during the strangest thing I'm seeing yet from the guy who makes a living dealing with this shit.
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  43. (Wei Ho): Okay, then. You need to go up to Jet Jaguar and resonate your own Ki with his. It's important for what Mothra's twins are doing.
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  45. (Eobard Thawne): [COMMS] Alright, I can do that. Thawne out.
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  48. After Eobard Thawne logs off from the COMMS channel, Wei Ho puts away his datapad and continues to walk forward briskly towards Gojira and Mothra. Once he reaches his the foot of his 'niece', he places his hand firmly against it, closes his eyes, and concentrates hard. At first, nothing else beyond the current events happening changes. A few moments later, however, Wei Ho's body begins to produce a faint purple Ki outline, the same shade of purple as Gojira's glowing dorsal plates right this moment.
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  56. In the void that is the Meta, the two crystalline shells floating before the Overseer now have fractures across the entirety of their surface areas. The Metarch guardian struggles to maintain control of the fracturing process; two windows into reality, one focused on Wei Ho and the other on Eobard Thawne, flank the edges of his vision.
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  59. "YOU WILL NOT SET THEM FREE!"
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  62. The Overseer Metarch continues to struggle against the wills of the Earth's monsters and their Human allies. However, a roar from Gojira suddenly resonates outward during this ritual, causing an immense surge that completely shatters the shells and temporarily blinds the Metarch. Once it regains its vision, all that's left are broken green and blue crystal pieces, mirroring those of the orange shell.
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  65. "So that's how it is."
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  68. After the dispersal of the crystal prisons, three golden lights appear in front of the Overseer, indicating that the Original One has come to speak to the deity inhabitant once again.
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  71. ("Giving up so soon?")
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  73. "They have managed to break my hold. Though their strongest have returned to them, they are at least petrified."
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  75. ("Then it is perhaps time I intervened a bit. Send your agent in, and make sure it coordinates with the fallen heir. I will ensure your agent makes it to reality safely.")
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  83. [Jiran Island - Jiran Island Cluster]
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  87. Back on Jiran Island, the flames of Mana die down; Gojira, Mothra, and Wei Ho all slump down to the ground once it does. It's clear that this ritual was immensely straining on their strength and will. However, the job is done, and they can claim their prize. But what kind of prize could be worth so much effort on everyone's part, exactly?
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  89. A petrified stone monument rests where the mandala once was. The ritual stones have been scattered, thrown in all directions and mostly destroyed. This petrified statue is in the shape of Godzilla, who was pronounced dead after the events incited by the Axis Alliance a while back.
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  96. [South American Wasteland]
  97. [Former South American Continent]
  98. [Canadian Colony State]
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  102. Within wasteland that stretches across most of the middle of what once was the South American continent, the Imago form of the Destroyer rests on the ground within the ruins of a freshly destroyed G.U.D. base of operations. Most of the inhabitants are simply dust, whilst others range from being partially disintegrated to being destroyed down to their bones. It then looks up into the cloudy sky, watching with anticipation. Up above, a dark sphere forms that churns the clouds around it into a massive stormfront.
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  104. An immense gravitational front can be felt by the land directly below this singularity.
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  106. Soon after, a bright light forms within, coinciding with the sudden descent of an object from the sphere itself. The object crashes into the ground, prompting the Destroyer Imago to investigate. When the dust clears, the object can be made out more clearly. It looks like petrified stone; in particular are what look to be petrified tendrils originating from the centre mass of this object.
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