//------------------------------// // Prologue: A Wake-Up Call, The Origins of G-Force Commander Shimmer // Story: Godzilla: G-Force: Kaiju Global Defense and Protection Force // by Dalek-Galvo //------------------------------// (This is told from Sunset's perspective.). Despair was what I was feeling on that day, the day that hell incarnate came down on us all. The first things I remembered were running—running for my very life—as I could hear that earth-shattering roar echo through the town. I saw buildings being reduced to skeletons in areas of town, piled with dead bodies, and people screaming and burning. My vision faded to black when a large building fell on top of me. When I regained consciousness, it was all over. Godzilla had vanished without a trace. "Sunset, it's me, Celestia. Are you breathing?" Celestia said as she was pulling rubble off of my broken body. "Don't leave me; please don't leave me," I said as I started crying before falling unconscious. Doctors and paramedics could save my life; however, they weren't able to save my left leg, which had to be amputated and replaced with a prosthetic leg, and since I had a metal rod through my left eye, they couldn't save my eye either, so they put a patch on it. "Wait, where's Snips and Snails? Did they survive?" I asked, hoping that they were alive. However, my heart stopped beating when the doctor gave me this face of sadness and told me that Snips and Snails had died during Godzilla's attack. "No, no, you're lying," I said as I rushed to the morgue, and that's when I saw their lifeless bodies. When I saw the doctors put a tarp around their bodies, I freaked out. "NO, STOP IT; GET THAT OFF OF THEM; YOU'RE SUFFOCATING THEM!" I screamed as Luna was trying to hold me back. "Get off, get off, get off of them, please," I said as my angry roars turned into sorrowful tears. "Snips, please, please wake up, wake up, please; you're scaring me," I said; however, there was no response. That was when I finally accepted that Snips and Snails, the only people that I called my friends, were dead. "I'm sorry... I'm sorry... I'm sorry I was such a horrible friend to you. I'm sorry I mistreated you. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry," I pleaded, hoping for their forgiveness. Rainbow-Dash and Rarity were in the room next to mine, and when they heard my cries, Rainbow started crying and Rarity had to leave the room because, deep down, they knew the pain that I was in. I was there when the funeral took place. I watched as they buried Snips and Snails close to each other. They didn't deserve this. If anyone were to die in their place, it should have been me. One of my classmates, Adagio Dazzle, was there as well, as were her mother, father, and two sisters, who were also being buried. I saw her quietly crying. This is what despair feels like. This was the aftermath of the Rampage of Godzilla. That night still haunts me to this very day, as I would wake up screaming from many nightmares about Godzilla's attack. I could never forgive myself for what happened that day, how selfish I acted, and how I let Snips and Snails fend for themselves while I took off running. I bet it would disappoint Mom and Dad with a failure like mine. Let's just say that after that day, I wasn't the same kid that I used to be. Many people from around my neighborhood expected me to act like this mean little punk, but what they got instead was a mentally broken girl who, instead of cussing people out, just looked at them with a sad look on her face. Ever since that incident, I went into a deep depression because of the guilt of knowing that it was all my fault that Snips and Snails were dead. I would often lock myself in my apartment and spend the whole day crying at my bedside. Whenever I went to my favorite restaurants to go get something to eat, I would often hear people ranting about how, if Godzilla was still alive, they would want to get revenge on Godzilla because it was all their fault that their families and friends were suffering. Well, I didn't think the same way that they did, because it was our fault that Godzilla was even around in the first place because of our misuse of nuclear weaponry. I also believe that the Godzilla incident was a massive wake-up call for me because, before the incident, I thought I was untouchable and I thought I was better than everybody else. Now, because of what happened that day, I strive to be a better and nicer person. However, even though Godzilla was gone, it didn't mean there were no other giant monsters that were wreaking havoc throughout the world. After Godzilla's death at the hands of the oxygen destroyer, there had been multiple sightings of Kamacuras and Meganula in the Galapagos Islands as they were preying on the island's natives. There have also been sightings of the monsters known as Varan in New Zealand and Baragon in San Diego, as they were both causing havoc within their respective locations. There was also the subterranean monster Megalon, which had been sighted in Nepal and was seen preying on refugees and immigrants in the area. The Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans were controlled by Manda, Gezora, and Ganimes, respectively. The smaller Gulf Coasts were being terrorized by multiple targets of a monster known as Ebirah, known as Ebirah I, II, and III. There have also been reports of a strange ape-like creature that was reported to be on an island known as Skull Island. The skies weren't safe either, as monsters such as Rodan and Megaguirus had been sighted in San Francisco and Cape Town, South Africa, respectively. However, there have been reports of Kaiju fighting on our side. Such as Anguirus, who was sighted in Cairo, Egypt, when Megalon resurfaced there after 4 months of disappearance. An ancient lion deity that locals have dubbed King Ceasar, a giant insect that archaeologists have dubbed Mothra, and the mysterious insect deity named Battra. People were getting scared about the influx of Kaiju activity that was present all over the world. That was when I decided that what happened during the Godzilla incident would never happen again. That was when I joined a military group known as G-Force, an organization made to protect the earth from the Kaiju. (July 7th, 1971) "Alright, Miss Sunset Shimmer, correct?" the sergeant asked. "Yes, sir, that is correct," Sunset said. "Alright, good. I've been looking at your file, and it says that your family and closest friends were victims of Godzilla when he first attacked. Is that correct?" The sergeant asked. Sunset frowned a little, as she didn't want to remember those memories. "Yes, my grandmother was also killed during Godzilla's attack." "Now, I'm only asking you about this because we have had some hotheads from the past whose families were also killed by Godzilla, who kept on saying that they were going to exact revenge on Godzilla." The sergeant said:. "And in all of my experience in combat, revenge makes you reckless and makes you make stupid decisions. We do not want stupid people in G-Force; we want soldiers that can effectively get the job done." "Trust me, sir; you won't have to deal with any of that stupidity from me. I know what's at stake here, and I made it my vow to make sure that tragedies like what happened that day with Godzilla will never happen again," Sunset said. "Haha, that's the spirit I like to see." The sergeant said it with a satisfied look on his face. "Alright, Sunset, you convinced me; welcome to G-Force." And that was when I started working at G-Force, and I have to say, I was doing a great job working with them. I had also seen and used a lot of their technology, such as when I used a flying machine known as the Super-X3 to free the Atlantic Ocean from Gezora's control. I was also a key factor in the completion of the Moguera Project. With all my accomplishments as a member of G-Force, I could finally take part in the MechaGodzilla and Garuda projects, which they said would be the ultimate kaiju fighting machines. Even after all of this, I thought that taking the earth back from the kaiju would be nothing more than a cakewalk. I did not know how wrong I was. Not only would an old enemy resurface, but a threat far greater than anything we could have ever expected would come with one purpose: to destroy us all. (I will continue in Chapter 1: Might of MechaGodzilla.).