"Godzilla Vs Godzilla" - Part Six

 

Part Six

            Yet another Godzilla.

            The fourth one that Suri had seen within the last twenty-four hours.

            And this one just decimated the one dominant of the 1947 Tokyo dimension, before proceeding to tear through the city on its own.

            Suri heard A.J. crying behind her; she took him into her arms and gingerly said, “It’s O.K. It’s O.K. It’s O.K.” She wasn’t entirely sure herself that it would be. This Godzilla was different than the others she encountered. It was more vicious, more destructive, and capable of traveling through interdimensional rifts.

            “Quick! Follow me!” Satoshi instructed her, and Suri followed.

            She followed Satoshi to the Type-X TARDIS parked in the alley.

            That beautiful white orb of a spaceship was a sight for sore eyes – and the only way Suri and A.J. had out of 1947 Tokyo. They made it to the ship not a moment too soon, as the new Godzilla began to charge up its heat ray – the spikes on its back irradiating blue energy.

            Suri, Satoshi, and A.J. were just about to board the TARDIS until Suri looked to the other end of the alley and saw a couple – a man with a bandaged head and a drenched woman – staring in wide-eyed fear at the charging Godzilla. While most of all the other denizens had fled from the scene, they were the only two still standing in the danger zone.

            Not wishing to leave them to their imminent doom, Suri cried out, “Tada soko ni tatsu te iru dake de wa ike masen! Issho ni rai te kudasai!” (“Don’t just stand there! Come with us!”)

            There was a bit of hesitation for the couple to move on Suri’s invitation.

            Suri understood. She was asking them to follow her on faith…but to where? There was no hiding from the destruction of Godzilla – any Godzilla.

            Nonetheless, the female of the couple accepted whatever chance they might’ve had to live. “Kōichi,” she urged her partner, who remained frozen, staring on the glowing Godzilla. “KŌICHI!!!” Her shrilling tone snapped the man out of it. He looked at her and then towards Suri, Satoshi, A.J., and the unusual white orb standing behind them.

            Finally, his feet moved in correspondence with his partner’s, both of them running to join Suri, Satoshi, and A.J. as they all clambered inside the TARDIS – right at the moment Godzilla unleashed its devastating ray, rendering everything within radius – people and buildings alike – to ash.

            Kōichi was daunted by the sudden shift in dimensional space as he stumbled into the TARDIS with his partner. He screamed, “Kore wa nani desu ka?! Kore wa nani no kyouki desu ka ?” (“What is this?! What is this madness?!”)

            Satoshi, seeing how frightened both Kōichi and his partner were, immediately rushed to them and reassured, “Anata tachi wa ryouhou tomo anzen desu. Nani mo osoreru koto wa ari masen.” (“You’re both safe. There’s nothing to be afraid of.”)

            Kōichi’s partner trembled as she asked Satoshi, “Dare ga . . .anata wa dare desu ka?” (“Who…Who are you?”)

            Satoshi smiled and answered, “Tada tasuke tai dake no hito.” (“Someone who just wants to help.”)

            Stepping into the exchange, Suri bowed and introduced, “Watashi no namae wa Suri desu. Satoshi desu. A.J. desu.” (“My name is Suri. This is Satoshi. That is A.J.”)

            Kōichi’s partner offered a timid bow in return before she made introductions as well. “Watashi no namae wa Ōishi Noriko desu. Shikishima Kōichi desu.” (“My name is Noriko Ōishi. This is Kōichi Shikishima.”)

            Suri and Satoshi both bowed to the couple. “Yokoso.” (“Welcome.”)

            Once Kōichi and Noriko had calmed, Suri offered them to look after A.J. while she and Satoshi consulted near the TARDIS console, from which Satoshi learned some unsettling information: “The city’s been obliterated…and that Godzilla has disappeared from the dimension.”

            “It created its own portal in and out of the reality,” Suri recollected. “I’ve seen beings in the Infinite DC that can do that – they’re called ‘Vorbs’. They’re not unlike Warpers.”

            “Or Great Old Ones, like Cthulhu,” Satoshi added.

            “We have to tail it,” Suri suggested. “Find out its next destination.”

            “Way ahead of you,” Satoshi said, typing in on the console keyboard.

            As she did so, Shikishima approached Suri and said, “Watashi tachi ni wa chiisana onnanoko ga i masu.” (“We have a little girl.”)

            Suri responded, “Musume?” (“Your daughter?”)

            Shikishima shook his head. “Kanojo wa koji desu. Watashi tachi wa kanojo no sewa wa shi te i mashi ta. Kanojo wa machi no gai ni i ta. Kanojo wa mada iki te i masu. Kanojo wa mada iki te i masu!” (“She’s an orphan. We were looking after her. She was outside the city. She’s still alive. She’s still alive!”)

            Suri saw Shikishima becoming frantic again and quickly consoled him, “Sugu ni mata aeru yoi, yakusoku shi masu.” (“You’ll see her again soon, I promise.”)

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            Shadowed by Gipsy Avenger, the Shatterdome team arrived at the ruins of what used to be Madison Square Garden, now the nest that belonged to Nick’s Godzilla. The Garden’s auditorium housed the nest, lit by the moonlight that shined through the wide hole ripped across the ceiling, turning the arena into a stadium. It did indeed contain the Godzilla’s eggs, as well as dead fish littered all over the main auditorium floor. From the foul odor the fish carried, they had been there for quite some time, yet remained relatively untouched.

            “These eggs are so huge!” Goku bellowed, his voice echoing across the auditorium.

            “There has to be hundreds of them,” gathered Tatopoulos, who seemed a bit overjoyed to be right.

            “Your Godzilla’s gonna be one happy mama, Dr. Taterpoolo,” Goku smirked.

            “It’s Tatopoulous,” Nick corrected the Saiyan. “And, yes, she will be.”

            “I take it you’ve found the nest?” Jake’s voice came over the comms; Gipsy glimpsing down through the ceiling hole.

            “We did,” Willys notified him. “Now what?”

            “Now our boys start plantin’ those charges.”

            On Jake’s command, the soldiers that accompanied Goku, Alan, Willys, and Nick attached C4 bombs on each of the eggs within the nest. “Do we even have enough?” one of the soldiers questioned.

            “Don’t worry,” another soldier reassured. “Gipsy will handle whatever’s left.”

            “Hold up!” Goku protested, standing between the soldiers and the eggs. “We can’t just blow up this nest!”

            “Why not?!” Jake asked in disbelief.

            “‘Cause these are her babies!” Goku argued. “We can’t kill her babies!”

            “Oh, good grief…” muttered an annoyed Alan.

            Willys shrugged. “He’s got a point.”

            “No, he doesn’t!” Alan barked. “Look, it’s because of this Godzilla that I lost my mother and my son!” Furiously, he snatched one of the explosives from one of the Shatterdome soldiers, approaching one of the eggs with it. “No world is safe with an entire race of Godzillas!”

            “Alan, please! Just wait!” Goku pleaded, only to be pushed away by the man.

            Before Alan could plan the explosive to the egg he chose, he stopped when Jake’s voice frantically shouted over his earpiece, “WE GOT COMPANY!!!!”

            The ground beneath them quaked.

            Looking up through the ceiling hole, they noticed Gipsy turning away from the nest and facing something that the team couldn’t properly see from their ground positions. It was only after they heard a loud, familiar ear-splitting screech that they got an idea – Godzilla had arrived.

            “Jake, which one is it?” Nick asked. “Which Godzilla is it?”

            “It’s yours, mate…and another one!”

            Willys frowned. “Another? You mean mine, right?”

            “No, man! It’s one we ain’t seen yet! And it looks bloody angry!”

            Jake and his Jaeger copilot froze and shuddered in their Conn-Pod when they witnessed the new Godzilla emerge from a swirling blue portal, shrilling to the heavens as it challenged the two behemoths in front of it.