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Planet Xilian, 370 Years Before Present
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Grand King Ghidorah sneered as stray gravitons levitated up waves of dust and debris all around him, the golden dragon lifting himself off the ground and lunging at the mockery. Monster X put his arms up and crouched back on his toes, entering a guard stance to intercept the oncoming avalanche of kaiju; dodging the attempted stomp and counterattacking. While a sidestepping hook to Ghidorah’s sternum didn’t do much to faze the drake, the continuous momentum feeding into a leg sweep was enough to trip King Ghidorah up. The jumping uppercut to the chin caused Ghidorah to bite down on his own tongue.
Spitting out some of his own blood, King Ghidorah cackled and forced himself back onto the ground and into Monster X, stampeding forward and crashing into the smaller kaiju despite its attempt to block; using his left and right head to bite down and grab onto his foe. Trampling over and through several smaller buildings, the golden hydra bellowed before smashing Monster X into a large skyscraper. Black skin and white armor became eclipsed by a shower of falling glass, stone, and metal and was buried in the debris. King Ghidorah backed up and energy started to crackle inside his maw.
Before he could fire at the mountain of rubble, energy javelins and plasma mortars exploded against his golden hide. Turning around to catch a railgun shot to the throat, King Ghidorah quickly spied dozens of military landcruisers and aircrafts ducking in and out of cover to take a few more pot shots at him. The assault did next to nothing, the xilians may have been fighting for their lives and planet, but their efforts were more akin to biting gnats than an actual assault. Reigniting his maws, King Ghidorah took aim as a barrage of missiles to the foreheads blotted out his vision momentarily. There was a shifting in the rubble behind him.
Just before Ghidorah could alternately turn and fire through the smoke, he heard something not of the physical world. An urgent, feminine voice called out almost as if speaking into the mind.
-“094! Now!”-
Momentarily distracted, King Ghidorah misfired his graviton beams skyward when his attacker burst out of the rubble. Not one millisecond after springing to his feet Monster X dodged the stray beam and launched himself at King Ghidorah, ramming his knee into King Ghidorah’s right head. King Ghidorah felt a liquid warmth clog up his nostrils. His other two heads reacted quickly, grabbing Monster X’s arm as he was about to throw a right hook. Snagging him by the wrist and forearm, King Ghidorah yanked his enemy up and slammed him into the ground.
Grand King Ghidorah snorted to clear his nose of blood, a scowl etched across all three of his faces from the insult. Monster X, face down and dazed was still getting to his feet when Ghidorah’s foot hovered over him. Before several million kilograms worth of mass could stomp on Monster X’s helmet, the smaller kaiju rolled away and dodged the crushing blow and the graviton beams that followed; the dodged onslaught burrowing its way into the pavement. This caught King Ghidorah’s attention.
Monster X threw his hips, snapping around to get his feet beneath him. A flash of light across his eyes ushered a return fire of his own graviton streams, thinner and smoother than Ghidorah’s crackling wrath. His foe glided back on a curtain of manipulated graviton, shielding himself in a shell of his own wings. As Monster X’s barrages impacted the wing membrane, Ghidorah paid the energy based smacks little heed as he focused.
-That presence shielding his mind earlier, the voice, and him dodging an attack he couldn’t have seen coming… Someone’s helping him-
There was a brief lull in Monster X’s assault, indicating he was about to change strategy. King Ghidorah calmed his mind and centered his psyche.
-Perhaps, I just need to try a little harder…-
King Ghidorah unfolded his wings and sprung from his shield just as Monster X attempted to rush him from the side. Shrugging off a barrage of energy flares the Xilian aircraft was raining down on his back, King Ghidorah unleashed his focus in a mental and physical shriek. Air rattled and clouds split all around. Psychic energy flew forward in a tidal wave. Just like before, he could feel a presence working against it, but sure enough mass quantity overpowered quality and Ghidorah broke through. Monster X paused and flinched up as King Ghidorah ran headfirst into memory.
It was fuzzy, a clear indication of age. Dim lights both from the sky and fringes of the street indicated it was one of the race’s cities on a calm night. The point of view was relatively short and low to the ground. It looked to the left at what Ghidorah recognized as a Xilian male, approximately a meter and a half tall with jaw length white hair and gray skin that black veins showed through. It looked to the right at another Xilian, a female slightly taller than the male; very short black hair atop dark gray skin that hide all but the large veins on the throat and below the eyes. On the fringes of vision a smaller set of hands could be seen holding onto the adults'.
Before he could see more, a surge of psychic energy ripped into King Ghidorah’s attack and he was forced back into the real world amongst a flash of light. Monster X shook and staggered, holding his head and snapping it around to clear the spiraling vertigo in his vision. He didn't have time to dodge when King Ghidorah came flying at him, smacking the smaller kaiju off the ground. One hand grasped and tried to pry off the tails constricting around his midsection, while the other kept backhanding and trying to swat away King Ghidorah's snapping heads. Shrieking light built up and began to pour out of King Ghidorah's central maw. Reacting on reflex, Monster X grabbed the head by the throat and pointed it away, diverting the oncoming stream of gravitons towards the sky after it managed to nick and blow off part of his helmet. Swirls of gold sparked across the Xilian kaiju's eyes before several volleys of his own graviton torrents impacted and exploded against King Ghidorah's neck and shoulders, smoke and scales flying everywhere.
The crushing squeeze Ghidorah's tails gave Monster X's stomach and torso ushered the sound of fracturing armor and ribs, the pain canceling out the latter's eye beams. Cackling maniacally, King Ghidorah beat his wings and flew upwards and forwards in a large loop. Just before he could collide with the ground, the dragon pitched back up and unbound his tails, sending Monster X rocketing and smashing into the cityscape. The titanic impact flattened several blocks and sent out a wave that toppled even more buildings. Battered, bruised, bloodied and at the bottom of a crater; Monster X stubbornly clawed at the ground to try and struggle back to his feet. He just managed to get his head off the ground when Grand King Ghidorah came crashing down on top of him foot first. Foot holstered talons backed by dozens upon dozens of tons slashed into Monster X's head. X's bony helmet saved his skull from getting caved in, but at the cost of the front half being near entirely ripped off with three long gouges being cut along Monster X's face. Monster X crumbled over on his back as King Ghidorah kept crashing down, stomping on his chest.
The King of Terror rose back up and dropped himself on his foe again, laughing in gleeful mania.
"Pitiful! Miscreant! You dared to even try and challenge me?!"
Ghidorah's mass came crushing down again. Monster X started screaming when his armor started to snap and his ribs began to shatter.
Another stomp, another shriek, and that pesky psychic presence Ghidorah had been sensing started to weaken. He rose back up to crash down again, pinning Monster X's fractured body beneath his feet.
"Mortals are a waste. I am a god you insolent wretch! I have lived over a hundred thousand millennium. I decide when a world has ripened and as a god I shall not be opposed when I come to collect!"
King Ghidorah rose back up and focused his mental energy; mentally launching himself forword and breaking into X's psyche before he could his body.
The perspective of the memory was larger this time, roughly two meters considering scale to the walls and doorways the point of view was walking through. Everything in the rooms passed by were smooth and sterile, a laboratory or important facility by any estimate. Other presences were nearby, flanking the point of view on the corners of their vision. A series of lights on a panel lit up and a metal casing rolled itself back to reveal a small vial of familiar golden liquid. A hand reached out and took the vial to the protests of some behind it. Mentally, King Ghidorah sneered when he saw his blood being handled by a minuscule mortal; but kept watching with some curiosity.
The perspective turned to its right, revealing the room was half filled with Xilians. Judging from the mix of laboratory cloaks on some and body armor on others, he'd guess it was technicians and military present; all with varying shades of black, white, and mostly gray across their forms. All except for the one holding his blood. A fairly tall Xilian female in unique garb looked upon the canister of Ghidran blood, black hair and light gray skin contrasting with the curiously dark violet hues across both her irises and veins surrounding the eye. One of the technicians stepped forward and spoke, but the annoying presence from earlier was interfering with the viewing. Scowling, King Ghidorah did his best to force it away and listen. He was going to level and burn this planet one way or another, least he could do is have some entertainment as to what these fools tried.
The technician spoke in a solemn voice, rechecking some data on his device.
"No time f-- full cloning, gene grafting onto someo-- with M base -- -he only chance..."
The female he was addressing reached into a holster and loaded the vial's contents into the syringe, mixing it with the black fluid already inside. She paid her surroundings little attention, stoically filling up the syringe and clearing it of air.
"It's our species' only chance. I'll -- it. Prepare --- ray treatment sequence now."
King Ghidorah snorted, recognizing that voice. Back in the memory, if her audience was alarmed before, their eyes were visibly widening now. Even the point of view was beginning to shake some. Several of the military clad members, likely high ranks considering some of the ornamentation, shot up in protest.
"Cont--ller 011 no!"
"This is irresponsible!"
"We'll fi-- something else!"
Several of them stepped forward but quickly backpedalled when said 011's eyes started glowing through a rock splitting glare. Her tone was as punctuated as it was imposing.
"There. Is. No. Time for arg--ent! Prepare... the sequence. NOW!"
After a moment of hesitation, the group cast a salute. A reinforced doorway slid open with a mechanical hiss, leading to a dark hall. It was then the nagging presence Ghidorah had been feeling finally forced him back and out of Monster X's mind.
Back in the real world, the golden titan dropped down and trampled Monster X yet again; the splitting crack of a fracturing sternum and surge of blood the black and white hybrid coughed up silencing his screams. His hands, which had been desperately trying to push Ghidorah's foot away went slack and limply flopped onto the pavement. Dead silence fell across the city as the military forces stopped in their tracks.
Tracking the psychic signature to a nearby location, King Ghidorah swung his head around and looked in the direction of a wet cry. Standing atop one of the last remaining buildings in the sector was a single figure, that same violet eyed female xilian from the memory. Controller 011 didn't look up at the looming Ghidorah, not averting eyes that had laid upon the limp Monster X with frozen, terrified and crying expression tattooed to her face. The xilian wasn't in good shape, have covered in bruises with three long slices across her face clotted her tears with blood. In truth, the monarch of the Xilian empire looked as banged up as their kaiju did to a curious degree; their wounds were virtually identical. Ghidorah was intrigued. Grinning across his fangs, King Ghidorah redirected his mental assault towards her, meeting little resistance. Controller 011 grabbed at her head and crumbled to her knees as King Ghidorah tore through memory after memory.
They were back in the spot of the last recollection, abet now from 011's perspective as the scientists and officers filed out of the room, leaving her to look blankly at the dark void ahead. A form walked up into the corner of vision. 011 didn't avert her attention away from the blackness, gazing at the distant lights in the mammoth chamber before her. This time the conversation was crystal clear.
"Don't try and stop me...", the woman, Controller 011 muttered.
"You do know others could volunteer, they'd do it willingly for you.", the Xilian man grunted.
"Only at a 13% success rate. The augmentations of a Controller boost it to 22%."
"Not good numbers either way."
"Numbers are what we are made of 094."
The perspective glanced over and the other half of the conversation, 094 came into view as they put their hand on 011's shoulder. The Xilian male was slightly taller than 011, near pitch black skin contrasting with ivory pale hair and his uniform.
"Going to futilely attempt to talk me out of it?"
"We both are aware I know you better than that."
"The world's ending and you just now start acting smart enough for research caste."
"Says the controller who's more stubborn than a rowdy recruit to soldier caste."
011 shrugged with a slight chuckle, before reaching up and placing her hand atop 094's. She squeezed it, intertwining their fingers. They stayed like that for a bit before she lifted his hand away and started towards the doorway. Just before she could step through however, 094's controlled, quiet voice slipped past her ear.
"Forgive me. I'm not letting you kill yourself."
There was a blur on the corner of 011's vision before she was limply placed on the ground, something hitting her on the back of the neck. Between faltering vision, the last thing she saw was 094 taking the serum and running into the chamber, closing the door behind him.
A series of stings digging into his foot ushered King Ghidorah back into reality. His opponent didn't seem dead quite yet. He looked down to see a still mobile and stubbornly refusing to cease Monster X trying in vain to free himself from under Ghidorah's foot, grabbing back on and pushing up. On cue, the rest of the city began to act out. Aircraft and hover tanks converged on Ghidorah, peppering him with everything from warheads to railguns to plasma fire as a refocused Controller 011 desperately threw her mental blocks at the dragon. Planet Xilian wasn't going to give up.
Grand King Ghidorah looked at the struggling kaiju before guiding a few of his heads over to 011, ignoring the explosions and assault weapons pinging off his body. Memory superimposed 094 over Monster X, the near identical color scheme being uncanny. He paid attention to Monster X, 094, and 011's reactions to each other. Ghidorah had ravaged enough worlds to know what emotions to recognize. He saw the two attempting to fight him off splitting mystery's veil with memory of what might have been their last conversation. The truth dawned on him.
He'd figured it out, and couldn't stop himself from bursting out laughing. An entire empire and the strongest thing they could throw against him was a married couple of a psychic witch and a cheap knock off who probably didn't even know how his powers worked yet? Pathetic.
Before he could choose between which he'd do first, crush in Monster X's chest or evaporate Controller 011; a movement to his right caught his eye. Glancing over with his right head, King Ghidorah spied a particularly large hover tank moving across a desolated street. It's energy cannon revved up to life and took aim. To the sound of clapping thunder the tank loosed a bus sized mortar shell of plasma, the shell arcing upwards in the air before sailing back down and towards the dragon's central head. Ghidorah smirked, snapping his head out of the way and subtly sending a cushion of gravitons to divert the blast's direction. It sailed slightly to the right and straight into the midsection of building the Controller was standing on before detonating. The skyscraper and its sole occupant were eclipsed in smoke and exploding debris in seconds.
King Ghidorah snickered as he noticed Monster X's line of sight, ensuring he'd seen it. On cue, the other kaiju screamed and started convulsing as burns and more cuts appeared on his body despite lacking a cause. Not wanting to pay this particular curiosity any heed, having lost patience with this planet, King Ghidorah put his weight into his foot to smother the Xilian's last defense. Only when he stomped down against what had been Monster X's weakening defense, he was stopped. Grand King Ghidorah looked down.
Monster X, despite looking like he'd been dragged through a planet and a half with all his injuries, was glaring back at him while forcing away his foot. Light ignited across his eyes and smooth graviton streams fired out and impacted King Ghidorah's torso. Sneering as he withstood the blow, Ghidorah attempted to overpowered Monster X's defense, putting more force into his heel. They struggled for several moments, X's streams only growing in might. For a second, X cut off the blast. But before King Ghidorah could ponder if he'd finally expended himself, the lights from the former's eyes grew between the Xilian kaiju's fangs.
A screaming roar ushered out a blast wave of golden gravitons, this time from Monster X's mouth at least twice as strong as the eye beams. A miniature explosion engulfed King Ghidorah's shrieking form and he was sent flying back, tumbling into a small mountain of debris.
Ghidorah was quick to rip himself free of the debris, refocusing on his foe. The glare was not mutual, for the black and white kaiju was sitting on his knees facing away from the dragon. It seemed to be holding something in its hands, to what however the King of Terror could not see. Not like he particularly cared, quickly spamming waves of graviton beams at his enemy. X made no attempt to dodge, too focused on whatever he was holding up to notice by the time the beams struck and tore into his back. Armor was splintered and blasted apart on impact, hundreds of tons worth of bony mass and blood raining down on the desolate streets below. Planet Xilian's champion made no attempt to move, only wincing from pain deeper in his chest.
After several long moments of punishment, something started to change. A dim aura built up around Monster X, cloaking his entire body in due time. The layer of energy grew by the second and soon took effect, one by one Ghidorah's graviton beams started failing to make contact and were being absorbed by the shield. Monster X, choking on his own spit and blood, cleared his lungs in a sudden rush of utterance, a primal scream mixed with an earth shaking roar. On cue, the shield intensified, a shockwave of energy blowing back into King Ghidorah and sending air and debris flying in all directions.
Monster X put something down and slowly turned around. King Ghidorah paused when he saw, for lack of better terms, the creature. Blood and drool dribbled from recurved fangs and curled lips, tear and blood stained eyes that once gleamed with intelligence were replaced with the glowing fires of a rabid beast that took a step forward. In numerous places his armor had been entirely blown off, but instead of the jet black skin previously visible on his limbs, dull golden scales started erupting from the epidermis. In many spots it looked almost like the muscle and skeleton were convulsing beneath the skin, the extra mass cracking his armor. He continued to slowly walk towards King Ghidorah, unfazed by the extent of his injuries or the graviton streams the latter was firing at him.
He got within a few hundred meters away before he started sprinting. Eyes wide with bewilderment, King Ghidorah beat his wings and kicked off, ascending rapidly into the sky. Unfettered, Monster X continued his charge, dropping down on all fours at ever increasing speed before pouncing up. As soon as his feet kicked off the ground, bloody black and gold wings ripped their way out of his back. Ignoring pain that would cripple others, Monster X shrieked as he caught up to and grabbed the flabbergasted Ghidorah.
Momentarily screeching from a barrage of wing lightning to the face, the smaller kaiju refused to let go once he got a hold of his foe, constricting his fingers around King Ghidorah's left neck and repeatedly bashing his fist and elbow into its snout. The first few hits barely registered, but when the milliseconds passed by and Ghidorah saw X cock back his arm for another swing; he witnessed the flesh below the skin tear itself apart before rebuilding mid-swing with significantly more bulk. The resounding crack that followed that hit was King Ghidorah's head crest being shattered and several dozen teeth being knocked out from the skull fracture. For the first time in hundreds of thousands of years, Grand King Ghidorah shrieked in agony.
Repulsively unloading his energy payload point blank in a massive explosion, King Ghidorah managed to force Monster X to let go of the neck his fingers now had in a chokehold. Curling his tails around the stunned kaiju's throat, the hydra tore the transgressor off him and flicked him down into the ground below. Monster X hit the ground hard enough to create a mushroom cloud, creating more destruction around him. The barrage of lightning and gravitons chasing him further eclipsed X within destruction.
Panting to calm his pulse from the expenditure, King Ghidorah landed thousands of meters away and cut off his assault. Nearly a minute passed before any wishes for success or mass pondering as to what just happened could be killed by a single sound heard around the planet, rattling it to its core. Shrieking out from the veil of dust, smoke, and fires; a ghidorah's roar spat hatred at the King of Terror. Waves of energy blew back the debris, tidal waves of moving air forcing the flaming wreckage aside; revealing a badly wounded, winged Monster X staggering to his hands and feet. Burns, blood, and bruises coated his entire body, though he bid it no attention. All focus was shooting a single look shot right through King Ghidorah, all thought absent in his crazed eyes. X shook, a crown of additional horns erupting from his cracking helmet and skin, blood dripping down his snout. The glare in his eyes intensified to the point it glowed with hellfire and shown through the darkness. The already smoke and dust choked sky began to darken further as the twin suns began to set. As the last glimpses of light died on the horizon, so too died Monster X, Praetorian 094. Something else was in the driver's seat, and it was stepping out.
The convulsions of flesh hit their zenith, 42,000 tons worth of additional muscle, bone, and tissue rapidly forming. A humanoid build twisted and churned, becoming ursine-like.
Energy signatures skyrocketed, a glowing aura birthing blast waves that tore the air asunder and lit up the night.
Claws grew larger, digging into a cracking chestplate to tear it off as what was once greaves and a helmet simply broke apart from the growing mass beneath them.
Two additional heads mounted on serpentine necks erupted from his shoulders, as the core head formed from X's own.
Wings grew and flapped amongst churning lightning, a demon of black and gold calling out a war cry that sounded of screaming, roars, and bloodthirsty laughter all at once.
Grand King Ghidorah flared his wings to their fullest, but couldn't stop himself from taking a half step back as the energy waves hit him. His own glowing aura of energy built upon itself to rival this new ghidorah, this new enemy. Looks like this pathetic rock actually was keen on giving him a challenge...
Spitting out some blood and casting a glare, his telepathy reached out to the laughing juggernaut.
-"What the hell are you?..."-
The behemoth paused his laughing, looking upon King Ghidorah with a predatory gaze and demented smiles strewn across his fanged maws.
-"You call yourself 'King'? Then I am Kaizer... You are no god, but I am the Devil."-
King Ghidorah grimaced, the glow across his body maximizing as gravitons poured from his maw and wings, compacting into a miniature sun that lit up the darkened sky and sent hurricane force winds in all directions. In a crackling roar, he launched his assault amongst a hail of wing lightning. Kaizer Ghidorah as he'd named himself returned the roar, kicking his paws off the ground and charging his foe. Beating his wings on each earthquake of a step, the stampeding kaiju focused his own energy into himself as he was about to hit the energy ball almost as big as he was. Digging his forepaw in at the last moment, he focused all his energy into his left arm and smacked the projection. Crackling energy poured out everywhere, windows being blasted apart for several blocks from just the impact shocks. While just touching King Ghidorah's wrath blew off several scales and seared his skin, Kaizer Ghidorah was laughing too much to show the pain. Injured but unhurt, his own raw power and brute strength shoving into the assaulting energy. Slowly but surely, he started pushing the growing sphere backwards.
With one final rush and a dumbstruck expression from King Ghidorah, Kaizer returned it to its sender. Not in the sense he returned fire or heaved it back at him. More in the sense he regained his forward momentum, shoved himself upwards on a tsunami of gravitons, and punched the energy sphere into King Ghidorah with his swing. Unsated with the resulting explosion burning his arm and blasting off most of King Ghidorah's torso epidermis, Kaizer roared and rung his arm around to lariat King into the ground. The loud crunching sound following the impact was King Ghidorah's left wing being ripped out of its socket.
Drunk off the berserk, Kaizer Ghidorah reared up on his hindlegs and jumped up before King Ghidorah could unbury himself from the sea of rubble he was caked in; and came down paws first. 100,000 tons of enraged kaiju crashed into King Ghidorah's already bruised and charred chest and stomach in a grim parody of what the King of Terror had done to Monster X. The first time the King of Terror could feel his chest begin to pack in. The third time the rampant abomination smashed into him, the deafening crack and torrents of pain told him most of his ribcage had just been shattered.
He'd had worse. Didn't stop him from shrieking in pain all the same however.
Ichors and desperate energy flew free of King Ghidorah's maws, striking Kaizer in the face as he rose back up against him. The ensuing explosion and blast radius leveled the nearby buildings with the blast waves alone, the full attack itself forcing Kaizer back as gargantuan malice forced King Ghidorah up. His body was being broken and pushed to its limit, but overwhelming pride and ever growing loathing caused him to charge at the stunned Kaizer, commanding his three jaws to bite down on the offender's necks to try and tear his throats out. He was the King of Terror, the ravager of a hundred thousand worlds. He would not be beaten by an abomination born out of this gray rock.
Kaizer Ghidorah swung his arms inward and smashed them against either side of King Ghidorah's torso; grabbing hold of him and ripping himself free. Refined hatred and sheer malice burned in his eyes as golden energy churned in his grinning jaws. The kaiser roared in the king's face and fired. Unable to dodge or form a shield, all King Ghidorah could try to do was return fire. Dueling glows gave birth to dueling beams, the two having been too close together for a struggle. Instead a glowing sun formed at the apex, drawing in its fuel's power before detonating point blank.
The explosion forced them apart and King Ghidorah rocketed towards the ground with his entire front half smoking. Redirecting air and gravity's flow beneath him, he had just enough control to slow his fall and look up in time to see a laughing Kaizer Ghidorah plow into him.
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Five Minutes Later
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Grand King Ghidorah wasn't losing a fight. A fight implies both sides are fairly even. He was being beaten to a bloody pulp. Supporting himself on a stream of gravitons and broken wings, King Ghidorah pitched himself up as an oncoming Kaizer Ghidorah came barreling at him. Swinging out with as much force as he could, stubbornly biting back the agony in either leg as he slammed his full weight and force into a forward double kick. The blow and resulting cracked ribs hardly even slowed the quadropedal demon down. Kaizer Ghidorah cackled into the night as he bulldozed through the attack, grabbing a hold of King Ghidorah's central head in his paw. Pounding his wings to propel himself along as he acquainted his foe's face with the earth below, Kaizer Ghidorah flew across the ruined landscape whilst grinding King Ghidorah's face and body across the ground deep enough to dig a trench. Energy crackling along his fangs, Kaizer Ghidorah let go off Grand King Ghidorah and fired. Torrents of graviton beams coiled around the half buried ghidorah, shocking and constricting him all the while. Pitching his heads up, Kaizer redirected the streams up and over before cutting them off, dragging the screeching King Ghidorah through several ruins before tossing him into the air. A dazed and still sparking King Ghidorah crashed to the ground in a heap. Kaizer Ghidorah strode forward towards him.
The Berserk Abomination too was riddled with injuries, burns, cuts, broken bones; and was bleeding with every step. Only difference was the unyielding rage fueling him didn't allow any of it to register. He was being wounded, but he wasn't being hurt. He just clothslined and dragged King Ghidorah with an arm broken in several places, practically laughing all the way. Not that it mattered. As long as King Ghidorah felt even more agony than he did, the grin on the crazed behemoth's face that had been burned into his foe's consciousness at this point, never faded.
And there was another reason Kaizer was in better shape, as he halted his advance and grabbed the thoroughly pulverized King Ghidorah by the base of his neck. Kaizer held up his enemy and stopped laughing, a piercing glare ripping across his eyes as he lunged forward. With a firm bite to the golden dragon's throats and wings, Kaizer gained a firm hold. King Ghidorah shook off his daze, thrashing and shrieking, reflexively firing out triple graviton streams into the sky as his wing lightning tore into Kaizer Ghidorah's back. But the dragon of black and gold refused to let go, tiny tendrils of blue and green energy began to be siphoned off of the struggling King and into the feeding Kaizer. Several of Kaizer Ghidorah's wounds began to close up even under King's assault as the energy vampirism did its work. Second by second, he drained away not only the sources of the hydra's more fantastical powers; but even the fields of power that motorized his cells; literally devouring his life force. King Ghidorah's thrashing and beams weakened as more and more of his power was stolen. After almost half a minute, the draining ceased and King Ghidorah fell limp.
Kaizer Ghidorah tossed his practically comatose enemy to the ground, planting a paw on King's torso as he bent his necks down. He grasped the still King Ghidorah's left neck, one set of jaws on the base, the other two on the middle and upper end of the throat. He started pulling in toward different direction, only hoping the half dead king wasn't deceased enough yet to not feel the pain.
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Zenith
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Grand King Ghidorah sat upon his throne, having fallen silent and stoic. He closed his eyes for a time, motionless as a statue and lively as a corpse. Irys tilted her head slightly, before noticing something in the dim light. A master of manipulating all gravity, King Ghidorah started pulling up a ring of his scales going across his neck to reveal the skin underneath. It was only then the gyaos noticed a small, practically invisible detail. There was a line of imperfections on King Ghidorah's left neck, where the scale pattern was slightly irregular. When he pulled up his scales and scutes, she could see why.
Swimming beneath the gold was a jagged, hideous scar that stretched all around King Ghidorah's neck and throat like a collar. The golden dragon's voice returned to the world, noticeably quieter than it had been before.
"The humans got part of the hydra myth wrong, two don't grow back in one's place. Tis an odd experience to suddenly lose a third of one's senses and vision."
Megalon might have machinery attached to his stomach and Gigan didn't even have one anymore, but both of them started to feel a tad sick. Irys found herself sinking more towards the floor as the implications hit her one after another. Gigan had been right about what he'd told her, possibly more than even he knew at the time. That, thing, their friend had turned into, and was changing into again... It wasn't their friend. She was getting some ugly dejavu from her old flock.
Casting her breath, Irys looked up to the frozen Ghidorah, trying to keep her voice from shaking.
"H-ow did you escape?..."
King Ghidorah slowly opened his eyes in the frigid Zenith air. A tiny smile eased its way onto the corners of his mouth.
"There lies the interesting part..."
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Planet Xilian
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Kaizer spat his blood token aside, golden ichors pouring out into the streets and swelling around his feet. Grand King Ghidorah, after nearly passing out from the neural shock, shifted. Several breaths passed before he managed to slowly open his eyes in the dust choked xilian air, half wondering how he was still alive.
His vision came and went every few seconds, hearing phasing in and out every time the blackout came. Down the street, numerous xilian military vehicles moved forward. Through his fuzzy sight, King Ghidorah could just barely make out one soldier in a unique long coat crawling out of a hatch, the being soon standing atop a large, tank-like hovercraft. By some device, he managed to speak loud enough to be heard.
"Praetorian Guard 0-094, this is your commanding officer Field Marshal 973. Monster 0 a.k.a K-King Ghidorah neutralized. The mission... is ... com-plete-"
There was something hesitant in the xilian's voice, pinpricks of what sounded like remorse clogged by fear was causing the otherwise authoritative command to stammer. Shifting his gaze upwards and waiting for the blackness to pass, King Ghidorah got a good idea as to why. Kaizer Ghidorah, golden blood still dripping from his maws, had taken his full attention away from the other kaiju and was instead looking blankly at the marshal. Kaizer's eyes narrowed and his lips began to curl back as he became transfixed on the plasma mortar the marshal had been piloting.
"W-we're searching for Controller 011 as we speak. Return to base 13 and we'll-!!!"
A roaring leviathan cut him off, Kaizer silencing the whole of the city. Equal in strength to the physical bellow was the telepathic shout King Ghidorah didn't even need to focus to pick up.
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“Turns out, he and I were alike in more ways than just him being a knock off. With an unstable mind, power tends to make the uninitiated behave… erratically.”
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-"Killed... her.. you ALL killed her! IT'S YOUR FAULT"-
Golden lights erupted from Kaizer Ghidorah's maw and half a second later, Field Marshal 973, half of his column, and several hundred feet of street and earth below them ceased to exist past the following torrent of energy. Screaming through his attack as the military fruitlessly opened fire, Kaizer Ghidorah stomped off of King Ghidorah and down the street, chasing and smashing every hover-tank and shooting every aircraft out of the sky.
It was at that point King Ghidorah blacked out, both from blood loss and Kaizer kicking him in the face as he ran over him. It was likely half an hour later when he came to again. King Ghidorah resumed to a realm unlike the one he left. The capital, the crown jewel of the Xilian Empire had been virtually leveled. Burning husks of buildings lit across the cityscape, burning funeral pyres to the dead and dying. Hellish cackles rang out from across the desolated hollows, heralding Kaizer Ghidorah’s continuous rampage as he chased the remaining military across the capital like a cat upon mice. The once vast defense column had been reduced to a mere half dozen vehicles that weren’t fighting as much as they were fleeing for their lives from a monster willing to rip its way through several blocks worth of skyscrapers just to get at them. Kaizer Ghidorah laughed a maniac's laugh as he flew down main street after an aircraft, his wings gutting several buildings as he passed.
King Ghidorah staggered to his feet, every twitch caused an avalanche of pain to shoot through a body with more bones broken than intact. As much as he hated himself for the thought and emotion, the King of Terror was terrified and had to get away; his pride being about as intact as his left head. Spotting the demon moving away from him, King Ghidorah built up as much energy as he could across shattered wings to get himself off the ground. His ascent up was more of an upwards limp than a powered flight, but was thankfully silent.
Or at least it was silent until he was a few hundred meters up and a drop of blood hit the ground.
Canceling out the graviton torrent he’d been spewing out to eviscerate the aircraft, Kaizer Ghidorah’s nose flared and he whirled around on his footing. Upon seeing the golden form fleeing across the sky, Kaizer’s blood red eyes widened. Wayward energy built up around the hybrid, gravitons crushing the mountains of rubble to dust before blowing it back. He just realized he’d failed. A mistake that he wouldn’t permit to last.
Black wings shot out and flapped as Kaizer kicked off the ground. Flying up at full speed, the oncoming freight train of raw power and hatred tore free a primal scream as he rapidly gained on King Ghidorah. Unable to sacrifice any of his power for an attack, or risk losing all of his lift, King Ghidorah was unable to do anything else other than try to move faster than the monstrosity that was flying up at least three times quicker than he was. Kaizer Ghidorah, beating his wings and running on the air, let drool flow free from his gnashing fangs, fanaticizing about seeing just how many brains he’d need to disconnect to be finished.
Breaking through the fringes of the middle atmosphere, King Ghidorah did his best to brace himself as Kaizer flew up to him.
And then Kaizer Ghidorah stopped. Frozen at an altitude, he was an inch away from reaching his prey. The hybrid levitated on a curtain of gravitons before rapidly thrashing in a mix of pain and frustration. Roars turned to screams as the former overpowered the latter. Kaizer Ghidorah grabbing as his central head frantically. Dumbstruck, King Ghidorah slowly levitated up as Kaizer began to sink. Even from the distance he knew what was happening. He’d done it to mortals before to kill boredom. A psychic attack, someone was launching a massive mental shock to the abomination's psyche. Running drool turned to blood and a large cut opened up on Kaizer’s torso. The mental shock became too great even for the leviathan, causing Kaizer Ghidorah to lose his altitude and fall to the ground as King Ghidorah stole what may be his only chance and left the atmosphere. He would never again return to this solar system.
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"And that whelps, concludes our tale. Now, get out. I find your presence annoying."
Ghidorah spoke with a sneer. One by one, the trio looked to one another and limped back to their feet. Staying close together for safety, they silently started out of the chamber and back towards their hollow, regretfully wiser. The taunting voice of the dragon followed them out.
"Oh, and now that you are aware, I bid you this question."
Irys, Gigan, and Megalon froze up; tensing up outside the gateway to Grand King Ghidorah's realm to make ready. Even when away from him, the hydra's aura of atavistic fear was still strong and urging them to leave.
"Now that you know, what will you tell your ally once he returns?... Will you tell him what he had forgotten? What he did? Why the race he loyally served is terrified of him? Who he used to be and what he was tied too? Or will ignorance and his strive to find out be a more, merciful torment?"
King Ghidorah muttered in a low voice. Toothy smiles stretched across his triple maws as his tails lashed behind him. The trio cast glances to one another out of the corners of their eyes before they continued on, King Ghidorah's mocking cackle trailing their heels as they limped home. They walked in silence for nearly an hour before returning to their chamber, Irys weakly flapping her wings to roost on a low portion of the ceiling as Megalon dug himself a shallow burrow. Gigan stood motionless just barely in the doorway, his visor's glow dimming.
Irys sighed, wrapping her wings around herself to try and grant some measure of comfort.
"... Can we even tell X when he gets back? If he remembers, he just might turn into Kaizer again like he did before."
Megalon's usually perky voice was noticeably sullen when it echoed out of the hole in the floor.
"And his bargain with Boss Ball was to give him his memories back... So, it'll all happen eventually... We could, tell him to not too? Maybe?"
"But that would give away that we know something. If we don't tell him, how would he react to us withholding the one thing he wants?"
Sparking silenced both of them, Gigan still standing motionless in the dim illuminated doorway. He pitched his head up back to level before raising his arm up. With a twist of his wrist and snap of his nearly dislocated shoulder, the cyborg cleanly sliced through a broad portion of the wall in a spat of frustration. Ignoring his own outburst, Gigan moved inside and sat against the wall. The other two kaiju in attendance didn't react, not needing words for the explanation. Monster X was a ticking time bomb. One day, be it by some freak recollection or betrayal from a friend, he'd find out what happened. When that day came, their friend was going to die... and barring a miracle, there was nothing they could do to stop it.
Grand King Ghidorah might have called off a fight he'd have lost, but the harbinger of misery still won in the end.
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Forest, Equestrian Human Realm
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Adagio Dazzle slung her last bag off her shoulder and into the van. The eldest siren gave their luggage a once over, running through her mental checklist to ensure they had everything. When Aria barged back into the house with a banged up shoulder and a half hysterical mind, they had the accord to bring her to the hospital. The situation was disturbing enough before she was told of the 'monsters' in the woods, having believed up until now this world had none. None of it was an ideal situation. Some whacko in a mask knew what they were, was immune to their control, and was after them. Until now she wasn't fully convinced something was amiss, however elaborate her cousin and her sister's story was. She didn't need much convincing after a second incident and a typically calm Aria nearly having a breakdown from post traumatic fright once the dust cleared.
They weren't strong enough. There was magic in this town, that was for sure. But they didn't know for sure who or what was the source. Until they did and got their hands on it, they were vulnerable. And with an attack so close to home, no point in staying.
-Silver lining? We charmed the salesman for the insurance. Let's hope we can keep this one...-
Her phone started bleeping, the alarm clock she'd set going off. Drawing it out to peek at the time and turn the annoyance off, Adagio closed the side door and made for the driver's seat.
-Noon, time to pick Aria up.-
"Sonata, come on!"
The siren in question was leaning against their small porch, looking blankly out into the woods before hopping up and following Adagio over to the passenger door. Attentive, Adagio didn't need to ask to figure out what was on her sister's mind. A wayward glance at the dense wood would make one half expect something to walk out from behind a snowcapped tree. Sometimes the most peaceful settings could look the most threatening.
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White frosted glaze atop the frozen river shattered on a spiked fist's impact, its own breaking off more of the solid surface to open a hole to haul itself out of the river. Enjin stoically climbed out of the freezing water and trudged onto shore. Birds flew out of the trees in panicked chirps and beasts of the ground took off into their burrows or through the shrubs to break for cover, all fleeing based off overpowering instinct to keep away from this newcomer. Not noting any of it, the Aspect of Land started its controlled, brisk pace through the forest. Even from miles away and beneath the frozen river it was able to home in on its target, and now it was closer than ever. Helped that the nearest kaiser energy signature curiously wasn't moving. Moving through the old growth, it didn't take long for the dead forest to give way to snowcapped civilization when Enjin started reaching the urban realm. The signal he trailed was strong now, it was very close. Crossing into the fringes of town, Enjin trod towards a large complex of buildings with a red plus sign mounted upon its emblem. He homed in on one of the smaller buildings on the fringes of the compound.
Approaching the rear of the complex towards an access door, Enjin silently moved up towards the lone worker operating a maintenance panel. Poor fool didn't see what was coming until he was grabbed and tossed at parked ambulance with enough force to dent it. Ignoring the loud cracking sound, Enjin moved over towards the door and forced it open.
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A black gloved hand sluggishly braced itself against a tree trunk, pushing off to roll its owner onto his back. The damp snow helped Monster X to force himself back into full consciousness faster. He sat himself up before a stinging ache on his stomach and chest caused him to flinch. X looked down as his vision cleared, immediately noticing two things. Firstly the lack of claws, inability to feel his tails, and the fact he was wearing clothes again told him he was somehow back in this form. Secondly, his white shirt was dotted with blood stains and a few holes. Checking himself over, scabs and bruises beneath his shirt confirmed he'd been stabbed more than a couple times with the wounds only recently having closed up. Groaning, Monster X managed to stagger to his feet and start walking.
While he didn't have a regeneration ability, he'd figured out long ago he tended to heal a bit quicker than normal beings. Inspecting a former puncture wound on his stomach and assuming some portion of his normal traits carried over, he'd estimate it been about seven hours since the incident. Now was just the matter of how he got here again and how he'd been injured. Swallowing back the soreness, he looked around whilst wandering; hoping he'd find something to jog his memory.
The last clear memory he had was walking back to his team's chamber. Everything else was a swirling blur. From the little he could see, it was less memories and more a brief series of still images that came with each step. The all too familiar visage of King Ghidorah and being in the master's throne room were the only vivid images.
Mulling over those two, Monster X retraced the faded footprints he saw in the snow up to a hollowed tree. As if pulled by a tiny string, he reached out and touched the aged bark where it seemed to have been torn open. His reward was another flash of memory. It was dark and someone he recognized was inside the trunk. Through the haze he could make out a terrified.. what was that purple witch's name again? Aria? Yes, Aria backed up inside the hollow looking out at him, or at least his direction. As he stepped away from the tree, he got another image blotting out his memory. Some, thing, he'd never seen before. He could only recall one blurry shot of it, the subject in question resembling a man entirely clad in dark hues with a white and red mask of some sort; apparently while throwing a punch.
-It seemed to be attacking, was that what stabbed me?-
He looked around his surroundings and managed to start walking further through the still forest. Scattered about were recently snapped branches, trampled shrubs, and clear disturbances in the snow. There definitely had been a confrontation here. Leaning back on a tree trunk to calm his pulse, Monster X did his best to comb over the big blank space he had on his recent memory.
-Alright... I was in the master's chamber at some point, and I'm in the human realm again. Maybe I was deployed? Another expedition perhaps? Maybe he's aware of the sirens and sent me here to make due on my shortcoming?-
Monster X shrugged, concluding that was the most likely and moving on; now focusing on his opponent and the throbbing headache he felt coming on.
-What was that thing?-
From just the brief still he could remember, everything just seemed off about his attacker. The way it looked, its posture, its lack of skin. It didn't look human. Judging from how torn up parts of the forest seemed, it had to have been one potent brawl he'd gotten himself into. And it seemed to happen in the same area as and right after he'd apparently encountered Aria again. Speaking of the area, a dark vibe seemed to be trickling up his feet just from standing there. Crouching down, X put his hand to what appeared to be a large foot print and instantly felt the numbing bite of faint, residual energy. He grumbled, rising back up.
-I've only felt energy like that in two places on this world. The sirens, or another kaiju. If it was here and so was at least one siren, hmmmm...-
X looked out into the forest, both putting together the puzzle in his mind as well as making sure the nearby sea of tree trunks wasn't hiding an enemy. The xilian kaiju's eyes narrowed despite the later being untrue.
-I have a challenge, or at least an obstacle. Blow to the head during the fight might explain the memory issues.-
The headache started to act up again, but X stubbornly tried to keep his mind focused on his new foe.
-Perhaps it's why I was sent here? Maybe it is competition and the master wanted it dead? Maybe it's an ally of the sirens? It will have to wait until I find them again...-
The throbbing pain in his head spiked momentarily, forcing X to grunt and reach for his head to rub his temple. Only when he reached up, he could feel it; and mentally kicked himself for not noticing yet. His skin, he could feel his skin. No helmet, no mask, no scarf, just his skin. Monster X's pulse spiked slightly as he began looking around for his articles, his face. Ignoring the cold, he stayed as calm as he could and paced through the forest to try and find what was lost. The wind suddenly shifted, a gentle gale forcing Monster X to shield his naked eyes and turn his head to the right. By Tanaka's luck, the motion caused him to notice a length of black sticking out of the pale frost beside a snowbank. Stepping back through old footprints, Monster X trudged over and pulled his scarf and mask out of the snow. He sighed in mild relief and started to fit them back on.
He'd just gotten the scarf around his neck when a shimmering in his eye forced a squint. A half step away from and hidden behind the embankment was a small pond, the sun casting a gleam from its reflective top. Of all the things in the world that could give a kaiju pause, few would suspect this would be one. Bluntly put, as soon as his vision adjusted Monster X was frozen. He was so close to the pond, that if he looked down he'd probably see his own reflection. It would be a human's visage granted, but it would be without any of his covers. No gear he came through a portal with or a fused bone helmet the gear spurred from. It would be him with no face. The idea both wrenched at his craving curiosity and tugged at the fearful unknown. On some level he both wanted to know and was repulsed about knowing, pulse alternating between racing and chilled.
Monster X leaned over and looked down, before quickly reeling himself back and putting his stuff on just after the corner of his vision grazed the pond's surface. It took a lot of mental strife to force all the past thoughts out of his mind. Taking in a deep gale of winter air, Monster X chilled his mind and nerves; focusing his vision ahead enough that it could cut through steel.
-You have a job to do X, no detours. Time to get your bearings.-
Pacing off into the woods, Monster X tried to steer himself towards any sign of civilization. While his last apparent run in with either party was in this forest, likely not far from where he woke up, the sirens seemed the type to seek out population centers to use their magic. And, ally or enemy, this new player in town might follow them to such a place. He'd been walking for several minutes when the wind suddenly gusted in a random direction like before. Stumbling for a moment, Monster X opted to walk in the direction of the gales as oppose to perpendicular or against them. He seemed to be having good luck with the wind today, as it pushed him to a patch of woods with a road clearing dead ahead. Stepping up to the paved path, the faint yet exhilarating traces of magical aura lit up his energy tracking sense. Someone with a good amount of power had come this way, likely multiple times over the past few hours. Looking up and down the road and noting the lines lacking snow going up and down the lanes, Monster X looked either way down the path, only to see more forest around either bend.
Someone, likely one or more of the sirens, have driven through her recently going either way. Now it was just the matter of trying to pick which way was used last. The winds shifted, chilled blasts moving down the road towards the south. Monster X shielded his eyes from the winter blast, but soon as it came it left. At the end of the gale, a tiny whisper moved across the winds. There was a subtle chiming tune to the feminine voice, despite the urgent tone
-"They went that way, hurry!"-
-Who said that?!-
X snapped around and onto his toes to make ready, trying to spot who it was. But with the dying wind, there was nothing else there but the forest. After finding for sure he was alone, Monster X grumbled and started down the road. A memory he actually had intact recalled the voice from days earlier, when it stopped him from killing that guard. More questions pilled in that he didn't care to think about. He was really starting to get tired of folks talking to him in his head. Refocusing on the mission at hand, Monster X shrugged off the cold fatigue and jogged down the road, hoping he was going in the right direction.
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Aria Blaze sat up in her bed, feeling all weight begin to cease. Strands of her long hair, unrestrained due to lack of her ties, levitated up on their own as if afloat underwater. Feeling herself being pulled up slightly, Aria looked around and no longer saw her much maligned hospital room surrounding her. Sanitized white and blue was rapidly crumbling away to a dark void. As the urban faltered, stars began to ignite all around her. In a second's life, she was floating in a spacial realm. Floating out of her bed, a glow on the fringe of her vision caught her attention. Somehow her heart had dislodged itself from its necklace and levitated before her. Her eyes widened and she reached for it. But soon as her arm came into view, her hand did not. Instead, a magenta hued hoof with a fin-like fetlock tapped the edge of the gemstone.
Reeling her limb back, Aria felt her breath depart when she looked down, no more did she see anything resembling a human body on her form. A brief look in her reflection cast in the gem confirmed it when a hippocampus looked back at her on the shining stone's face. An uncharacteristic smile crossed her face as she held up her tail, fanning its flipper as a gleeful giggle slipped out. The usual sourpuss didn't mind it, she was back after all.
Before she could test to see if she could still do some controlled flight like this, a beam of light shot across the space below her. The panel of the illuminated solidified, forming a glassy walkway. The siren looked around in mild confusion, but her attention was stolen away by her heart. The gemstone grew in size and shape, becoming roughly the scale of a bathroom mirror. A breeze of warm wind blew across the starry veil, carrying an echo of a gentle voice.
"You, your family, and the world around you are in grave danger..."
Aria looked about to and fro, unable to pin down who was talking. The voice spoke again in a chime, this time from beside her as if it was circling the siren.
"You have taken in part of a great power."
The surface of the gem lit with a dim glow, displaying a familiar outline. One of a monster shaped like a man, red eyes glowing in unison to the stones embedded upon his bracers and choker. Red smoke swirled out of the figure as a tall shadow formed behind it. The shadow stretched across the gem, three serpents and a pair of broad wings fanning as the gem absorbed the smoke.
"In doing so, you've made yourself a target."
The image shifted, the monster turning into a demon with a red and white mask. Archaic armor stretched across a torso and arms that only vaguely resembled a human. Wisps of shadows seeped out from where skin was supposed to be. Even just looking at it seemed to make the temperature drop. Black cavities in place of eyes seemed to stare right through her. The monstrosity started to walk towards her, causing Aria to unconsciously back away.
"The world in which you dwell is unprepared. There is only one chance. You must work together with-"
The voice stopped. Stumbling over the chance to demand to know who was talking, Aria could only retort.
"With? With who?!"
She snapped, floating around to try and find who was addressing her. The calmness in the voice was gone when it spoke again.
"Oh no... it's already there!"
Aria's gemstone shrunk back to normal size and rapidly levitated back onto her chest. There was a bright glow on the walkway.
"You need to wake up right now! Help will come in 5 minutes, just persist!"
Aria looked over and caught a glimpse of a tall form with a pronged horn.
"Wh- wake up?! Who are y-"
In an instant the starry veil on her dream lifted and Aria snapped back into conscious, lurching up in her hospital bed. Heart pounding and breath racing, the siren's vision blurred from the sudden jolt; causing her to stop and rub her eyes. Her mind in a swirl, she could barely hear the sound of the orderly speaking.
"Ah good you're up. X-rays checked out and your shoulder is fine, just a bit of muscle bruising. Your family just checked in at the front to pick you u-!"
There was a gasping sound followed by a slick crack. Aria's pulse ceased and there was a heavy flop on the floor. Vision refocusing, she looked up and at her doorway. A pair of legs laying on the floor stuck out from behind a curtain, a large form standing over it. Not a human, but a walking shadow. An unmoving, white and black mask looked up from its latest kill and at its next one. The siren's gemstone pulsed and lit with a building, red glow. Enjin started to advance forward.
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Best chapter ever!
EPIC!
OK, when you promised that Kaizer Guidorah would be like Broly you weren't joking. The fight between Guidorah and X was a complete beat down for X, but e moment Kaizer came in GKG got completely owned. Still, I feel bad for X due to losing his wife, his home, and becoming so traumatized that he can't even look at his own reflection (Man, I hope he gets a break because his backstory is tragic). Also, congrats on the cliffhanger with Enjin and for making the dude act like Michael Myers/Jason Vorhees. Finally, the fact that next chapter will have the return of Xenilla and Blade Dancer made me smile almost as much as the fan arts in the chapter. Thank you and Faith for this a,aging chapter. Hope the next one and Sound of Thunder come soon.
Oh boy, Aria's in for it now. Hopefully she can use a siren screech or something to stall him...or use a fluffed pillow to take her place.
She'll just have to cover up and teleport...oh...well Aria, it looks like you're going to have to hope your boyfriend gets there. He's the protective type.
As for Irys and her gang, I'd tell him. Better to tell him in a calm environment where you can explain it then it popping up in a battle.
5 minutes, 300 seconds.
Such a seemingly short amount of time can be an eternity when such powers are in play.
Will the young siren be able to delay the inevitable for long enough for the cavalry to come storming over the hill, and will the horses be charging into mouths of cannon?
Find out next time, on The Bridge
This was an intense chapter
No wonder the xilians fear X very much.
And now Enjin is gonna attack Aria?!?!?! Ohhhhhhh boy, this is gonna get good.
Edit: I wonder how Aria and X are gonna fight Enjin. He seems way to powerful for X to beat and Aria isn't at full power.
You never disappoint Tarb
Oh man, poor Aria. I just hope her family and X arrive in time to save her. I do suggest if Aria grabs for something to throw... she manages to toss a full bedpan at her assailant. Irys and the rest of her family better tell him what they know, better he hears it from people who care about him than from someone who wants to manipulate him.
Holly shit, I didn't thought of Kaizer Ghidorah that powerful and badass! Must draw!
And that Enjin, what the fuck is he?
i believe that that would be "Faze"
transitive verb
:to disturb the composure of : disconcert, daunt <nothing fazed her>
Examples of FAZE
You'll never succeed as a writer if you let a little bit of criticism faze you.
<the collapse of part of the scenery didn't faze the actors one bit, and they just carried on>
Awesome chapter and visuals, also terrifying prophecy well done. Also who/what is Enjin if you don't mind me asking?
God damn, that was amazing. So smart of you to bring up how Aria now has Kaizer energy within her.
Wait, did King Ghidorah regrow his head or did he reattach it?
I'm dying for an image of Enjin now.
Wow. Just... Wow.
Ayy new chapter.
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That battle though, you know it's bad when GKD is saying that he was getting beaten to a blood pulp.
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An ancient demonic kaiju. Bagan is actually a fusion of three kaiju that come from the three basic elements, land (Enjin), sea (Mizu), and sky (Doragon). By recreating one of these 'Aspects' out of dark energy, Bagan can send them out and control them remotely without himself having to leave Zenith. Enjin resembling an ape-like oni.
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Alrighty, all fixed up. Thanks for the help!
An awesome new chapter well done, awesomely done you guys! :D
Hell what a fight that was, shit it was intense! :D
Good show!
finally this updated
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Regrown. He didn't dare go back to the planet to pick up what had been torn off.
As for Enjin, Kaiju reference is still pending but we got a 'human' reference. Basic put it looks like a Kingdom Heart's Heartless in some old armor and a kabuki monkey mask.
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Thanks. How did the Xilians get a sample of King Ghidorah's blood?
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Given how long the campaign against his incursion was, I'd but that maybe hitting him over and over again with what few superweapons they had might have given Ghidorah a small cut. Akin to how Godzilla Sr.'s fight with the Super-X blew off a few scales and some skin. Not nearly enough to count, but enough for a sample.
Interesting backstory on Kaizer. Maybe Aria will be able to allow him to take Kaizer form yet still be X.
And seriously what do you have against the Junior Dancer ship? I prefer that over the Luna Junior. Wow I actually said that. But hey it's true, I find it more entertaining then Luna's.
Kaizer Ghidorah, a devil birthed from 094's anguished psyche, or something more? How could the Xilians have created a being powerful enough to horribly outclass Grand King Ghidorah? What, in truth, is “kaiser energy"? Whatever Kaizer is, I think we all know what, or rather who, took him out at the end of King Ghidorah's flashback, and that makes Monster X's backstory all the more tragic....
Just when you think the awesomeness stops here, you're so wrong; wrong to the point of having to give yourself a slap in the face to make sure you're not dreaming. Nice chapter, cute artworks, too at the end.
0_0'……………That is…disturbing……………
Also, you double-spaced after a sentence, forgot where, but was before a word beginning with 'G'…
I await more of this…
Another enjoyable chapter . Great job.
Another chapter!
Love X's backstory, poor guy. Hope he recovers from that, and I agree with others that those three should tell him.
Also, Aria, you in trouble....
On an unrelated note, will there ever be a crossover with Sound of Thunder? Love to see Junior's face when he see's his cousin in Equestria
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If you found it entertaining I am glad as I do write to entertain. My reasoning for making sure it got 'stopped' was several.
1. It wasn't even supposed to be a ship. I just had BD act the way she did because I found it hilarious and her creator confirmed it be very in-character. It was all supposed to be a scene gag with BD taking Junior way out of his comfort and knowledge zone.
2. Slight parody or subversion of typical crossover ships. Often in crossover stories if romance is involved, the first character from series A to show interest in the heroine or hero from series B ends up with them. Thought it be a nice idea to intentionally avoid that. I used the same logic cranked up to 11/10 for the parody shipping with Mane-iac and Gigan.
3. While I am a believer in 'love and first sight' (worked for my parents. One great date, agreed to marry, still together after 40 years) in some cases, if I'm going to try and do any romance I'm going to give it time. Romantic or not, I did end up finding Luna and Junior's relationship which slowly shifts from great distrust, to animosity chilled respect, to a growing trust, to a friendship of sorts once they see the other's true colors; more interesting. Likewise, I do very much like the bizarre relationship Bladey had developed with Xenilla of all folks. Instead of a confident flirt like she was with Junior, now she's a bit more out of the loop and being cautious; trying to figure out and having to eventually having to take a leap of faith in trusting someone she hasn't fully figured out. Similarly, Xenilla is a bit thrown out of the loop as he's found someone he can't mentally outpace too much and even has the guts to talk back to him.
Ok, after a day at work, I think I've calmed down enough to make an observation or two.
If I'm reading this right, Kaiser G thought the Xillian military killed Controller 11 with a miss-aimed missile, when it was King G's fault that missile hit where it did. Ergo, the major reason King G's still alive is because he felt it amusing to kill the woman helping X with her own people's weapons.
...Any chance anyone could test if the other bit about hydras might be true? The bit about cauterized stumps blocking the re-growth of heads. I'm afraid a good description of what I want to happen to King G would require several tons of Cobalt 59, the Tsar Bomb, and an M rating.
12 hours ago: New Chapter "Ayy new chapter" Read little, go to sleep
1 hour ago: wake up, read the rest. AYYYYY SHIT WENT DOWN
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To point number 1. That's why I like that ship the most. having one be so umcomfortable is what makes it enjoyable. And to be honest I've seen the Luna style ship more often then the other and the Xen and BD ship. Not thrilled with it.
I noticed you've scaled all the kaiju so that the Showa kaiju aren't drastically smaller than the Heisei kaiju(and what not). If I may ask, how are the Pacific Rim kaiju scaled? Their height isn't the only problem, they're also very light. Same with the Daiei kaiju. Basically, I'm asking for how much the Daiei kaiju and Pacific Rim kaiju weigh in comparison to the 100 meters and 55,000 tons that Junior is at(I'm assuming you're using the Godzilla Unleashed system for scaling some of the kaiju)
"My Little Pony, My Little Pony, ah-ah-ah-ah..."
{Enjin walks in room, throws aside limp body.}
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"Oh god! Oh my god! there's soooo much blood! It's everywhere! It's in my raccoon wound, ow gawd!"
I was pretty surprised by how much of the chapter the fight on Xillian takes up, my thinking is that Tarb is simply expanding his range as a writer, now capable of expanding scenes better than he used to. I've encountered much the same thing with my Godzilla/Marvel stories, whereas I used to have to change scenes frequently, resulting in relatively short stories. Now I can open-up scenes to be far larger, resulting in more developed characters and dynamics, and longer more satisfying stories. You might say Tarb and I have taken Viagra for writing.
Now I actually have surprisingly little to say about this monstrous fight scene, which sounds disappointing even to me. But what can I really say without repeating myself ad nauseam? The battle was brutal, with bones being crushed, environments leveled, and blood splattering all over the place. Thinking about it now, it actually reminds me of Mortal Kombat X, with King Ghidorah doing his X-ray move on Monster-X. {boy that's a bunch of X's
Tarb's interpretation of the Xilians here is a bit different from either version we got in the movies. The Showa breed was very stoic, very methodical, but intriguingly developed for such a one-off villain. Small bits like the implied cloning, the farewell hand gesture, and the native language in the original Japanese version create the impression of a returnable antagonist, something we rarely got out of the non-Kaiju level threats in the franchise. The breed we got in Final Wars was a bit more cliche, which I attribute to the popularity of anime, and the clear effort to make them, for lack of a better term, more "radical".
I very much like that here, Tarb plays on what I thought was the outward pretense of the cold, automaton-like visage, hiding the more vulnerable side of themselves, where they display love, fear, and even determination. A few glimpses of which we got in Monster Zero, when Namikawa confesses her love to Glenn, and the agony they experience whenever the buzzing sound is present. Here they exhibit a bit more emotion openly, and perhaps this because they're earlier in the timeline than the Showa, and hadn't had the "purification-through-fire" that purged their society of such behavior.
Faith's fantabulous artwork gives us an immediately visually engaging concept of their version of the Xillian female Controller, one that I found to be quite simply, extremely cool. The most interesting part for me, is the face, with its dark veins set against the pale skin, and dominated by the enlarged, EQG-like purple eyes. The idea of Monster X being a "last gasp" type of weapon as opposed to a deliberate effort I found a bit surprising, given their methodical nature, which is where I thought the story was going way back when Tarb put-out the blog posts chronicling the millennia of imprisonment of Monster X inside his asteroid.
In any case, Ghidorah prevails against our uber-cool anti-hero, and capriciously delves into his memories, and slaughters his love, catalyzing the Kaizer within to manifest physically. And what we get in the ensuing battle, I'm still a bit unsure how to feel about. Previously, I've openly admitted to being a mark for King Ghidorah, he's one of my favorite villains period. So when I'm forced to consider the prowess of King vs. Kaizer, I can see it going either way. The first way is that King is the more powerful of the two, being the original, with all of Kaizer's ghidorah power deriving from just a tiny fraction of the real deal. Sorta like Galactus and Silver Surfer, (we won't talk about a certain film here). The Kaizer may be powerful, a physical brute on par with or surpassing Destroyah and Burning Godzilla, but still just a bastard spawn. {You know nuthin' Kaizer Ghidorah!
On the other hand, if we instead attribute the infusion of Ghidoran power to become pervasive, and magnified to scale, then the power balance shifts, as Kaizer is not only larger and sporting two more combat capable limbs, but should theoretically be able to do anything King can do. If that's the case, and it seems to be in this story, then Kaizer is the new top of the power pyramid, aside from the side-lined Bagan who Tarb has created to be just re-donkulously powerful.
The fight ends with Kaizer mutilating King, then turning his attention towards the pitiful remaining Xilian army. King makes his escape attempt, and with a bit of help from a psychic leash, is able to live to fight another day. or decade. Century? however long it takes for him to regrow a head.
Then we're back in the present, and King Ghidorah's fireside tale is finished. He takes the opportunity to be a dick and taunt Kaiju Force-X with the specter of their ally's inner demon manifesting again. I've probably mentioned this before, and storywise, I agree that it's unavoidable, but I'm still a bit caught off guard by the personification Tarb gives to the Kaiju. During the fight scene, it kept striking me that King Ghidorah was thinking his way through the battle. I guess I'm just to stubborn to fully accept the Kaiju as having as complex thought processes as humans. But I fully realize the nature of the story demands some inner dialog, plus the irritation that would undoubtedly arise from having long dialog-less spans of story.
As we are then taken to the human realm, where the Sirens are reacting to the fight between humo-Kaizer and humo-Enjin, a new thought occurred to me. We essentially now have three separate, but concurrent stories going on. the main story, with Godzilla's friends, Xen, and Des. The new side-story of (taps keyboard trying to remember her name) Raiga, now transmorphed into a levitating Siren. And the "villains" side-story has been following along it's own route this whole time, I mean I can't remember a single instance of their story crossing paths with the main, although I'm sure it's going to at some point. It's like the comics, where Batman or the X-Men have their own story going on, but you know they take place within a shared world with other characters, whom you can visit in their own comic.
At this point I really wonder just how big this story is going to get, it seems like it's just going to keep going, not a contained incident, but a whole alternate timeline. We haven't even gotten into the Nightmare forces yet, Hedorah, the Pacific Rim Kaiju, Legion, Gaira, probably someone else too. What is the story's resolution? what is the end state Tarb is aiming for? cause he just keeps moving the goal line back farther and farther. Though I am a bit envious of how frequently he's able to publish chapters, of such quality, and garner such a following, creating a fandom of his own fan-fic.
So we find the Sirens in a state of distress, hurriedly trying to skip town while the heat dies down. Monster X wakes-up in the woods, reminiscent of a Werewolf transformation, he's surrounded by clues of a violent night, and struggling to understand just what happened to him. And of course the Vorhees-esque Enjin, a juggernaut of murderous intent, tracking the
Super-SayanKaiser energy, given off by contact with Monster X.Harmony is reaching out to both Aria and X, trying to keep them a hair's breadth's ahead of danger, though it seems like the Siren may have to rely on her own wiles this time. I mean, It's not like Enjin is gonna throttle her, and fold her body over backwards like a lawn chair. Right?
Can Monster X get to Aria in time to save her? and if he does, how can he possibly save her from the malign aspect of Bagan? And how can he reunite with his teammates? the only ones who really have his back. Will Kaiju Force-X be all the more bonded a team at the end of this, if they make it out at all? There's no way Bagan is in the dark about the budding independence of the quartet, is this going to be an example to those who disobey him?
With so many moving parts, it can be hard to keep track of all the dynamics, especially considering the in-story time frame of what, less than a week? Plus the fact that we've been following this story for so long, it seems incomprehensible that so little time has passed for our favorite characters. And given the size of the cast, we only get a few moments with each of them before rotation.
Considering all that, it's impressive the amount of work, concentration, and imagination Tarb has dedicated to his baby. And I think it correct to say that in terms of fan reaction, he has achieved success. I would also submit that he owes no small part of his story's enjoyment to the illustrious illustrations of his inamorata Faith-Wolf, who has provided us with dozens of memorable depictions of our journey along The Bridge.
The flashback battle was bonecrushing, and longer than I expected it to be. I've only seen the first Brolly movie, a few months ago, so Kaizer's character template is still kinda new to me. Though I have to say his portrayal is intimidating, a big change from the impressive but short bit we get at the climax of Final Wars. In the Godzilla gallery, Kaizer Ghidorah is definitely a character that deserves more attention, as do most of the one-offs. Especially as it makes me think of the possible relations it could have to the bipedal and other quadrupedal examples of ghidorah.
The odyssey of Monster X is it's own story, and not dependent on the events of the main characters, which puts him in the unique position of being a co-protagonist of The Bridge story. Which offers a titillating tease of what might happen when he and his team finally encounter the characters of the A-plot. To me, that's going to be a story climax in itself, like the Avengers coming together for the first time, which leads on to the big spot in Infinity War.
My only drawback to this chapter, is the ghidoran dialog. This version of KG comes off to me as a bit petulant, kinda like Frieza. Now Frieza's attitude, while irritating and cliche at times, fit his character, there didn't appear to me to be any inconsistencies with how he was pulled off. King Ghidorah to me, feels like he would consider himself so far above the teeming masses, much more like Darkseid; intentionally evil, supremely confident but not arrogant. And Kaizer's one line? [sucks teeth] don't think I would have made that call. Not sure what I imagine Kaizer saying to King, but "You call yourself 'King'? Then I am Kaizer... You are no god, but I am the Devil." just... doesn't feel right to me.
Now please understand, this is a difference of interpretation. There is no "Right" version of either character. For the story to work, Tarb has to have his villains be talkative at times, and that requires a personality. Drawing from his own inspirations, Tarb put together unique, consistent, and useful personas for them. And just because I imagine them with different dispositions, or I'm not familiar with the influences, doesn't mean that I think they're badly done. I always try to see the redeemable traits in a character, which is why I actually like G'98 as its own unique Kaiju, I imagine him/she/it as part of the wider universe.
Most importantly, both King and Kaizer Ghidorah serve their purpose in the story, and so far they have done so superbly. Where they go from here, we'll just have to wait and see.
The Magnificent Machine is pleased with this chapter, and has decided that you will not be destroyed with finger missiles and belly lasers... today.
Me gustó este capítulo, demuestra la superioridad de Kaizer Ghidora sobre King Ghidora. Por otro lado, seré sincero la pareja de Juniorxluna no es de mi agrado, me quedo con JuniorxDancer sobre todo por que me gustó la imagen Happy Family ojala pudieras poner otras imágenes de esta pareja si es que no va a ser oficial la pareja(a mi gustaría que si fuera oficial esta pareja), el nuevo diseño de Supergodzilla esta excelente y el diseño de Godzilla de TAOM también está muy bueno espero que también salgan de los otros transmutantes, también quisiera saber que te parece el diseño que hicieron del nuevo Godzilla al que llaman Novagodzilla?.
Además, un dato interesante. Según el juego Super Godzillla, Bagan es un superkaiju creado con la sangre de King Ghidora, otros kaijus archienemigos de Godzilla y con la sangre del mismo Godzilla. Al menos eso dice, eso lo hace tan poderoso y el rival más fuerte del rey de los monstruos, lo malo es que no lo reconocen a el ni a la forma de Supergodzilla porque hasta ahora no han aparecido en película. De todos modos gracias por el nuevo capítulo estuvo muy interesante.
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Readers wait for new chapters. I wait for people reacting to said chapter here, on DA, and on TVTropes. And I couldn't be more pleased with the result. Good LORD this is gonna take awhile to sort through.
Dude, I have read this from start, to incomplete finish. Literally. I can only saw one word to mind: AWESOME!!!! The crossovers, the plot twists, the characters! AWESOME! And, though it's not tagged, but definitely hinted at as a triangular incident, the romance between Godzilla, BladeDancer, and Xenilla. Just epically done. I SERIOUSLY hope she ends up with Godzilla, but we all know sometimes the girls go for the bad boys, and Xenilla wins that title, so equal rooting here for the fair mare's heart!!!
In Regards to the King of Terror:
Now you know, oh prideful king, the fear you so relish in . . .
CHAPTER REVIEW TIME!!!
So . . . wow . . .
Normally I can at least come up with a few things to say but here I'm once at a complete loss for words. Kaiser Ghidorah never had a backstory, as far as I'm aware, and the one you have given is brilliant. The dark, twisted monstrosity that is a dark reflection of the normally calm, powerful, calculating Grand King Ghidorah is very well done and how this creature was "birthed" was amazing.
It shows how powerful Kaiser Ghidorah is, yet at the same time just how powerful both Junior and Grand King Ghidorah are that they could survive such a foe; in Junior's case much less win with assistance.
And now we have something I honestly didn't see coming- the Sirens becoming involved. I always figured they would eventually be written out of the story or just have their magic captured, whatever. But now it appears that Aria is going to become Monster X's new waifu in order to have him gain control over his Kaiser-self. So call me FedEx because I SHIP IT! I SHIP IS FREE OF CHARGE!!!
Speaking of ships, after reading your replies Tarb I have to agree with you. While BD and Junior is more "adorable", Luna and Junior just has more history to it; while BD and Xenilla are nearly on par with each other, though I honestly do not see Xenilla settling down as a technicolored pony anytime soon. Or anyone for that matter.
Man, such good characterization for those who have had no personality or history before. Irys, Kaiser Ghidorah/Monster X, Destroyah, etc.
Keep up the good work and I'm interested to see Monster X save the day! oh . . . and what Xenilla has been up too . . .
First off, the picture with the woman was unsettling. Not bashing it just caught me off guard. Secondly, damn. Thirdly, rather nice to see Ghidroah actually fearing for his life and being beaten... though very excessive.
Raises a question in regards to X. X is a unique case since he can change between his "original" form and his Kaizer form. If say he suffered the same wounds he had in the movie (head blown and pulled off) how would that effect him in his original form? One hell of a massive headache or pain or would chunks of his head or body be missing, or vision be effed up?
A being who has to constantly refer to oneself as "god", isn't a god. Proven when you and your brother lost, your loss here, losses on Earth and ect. No god, just one over power being... until Bagan and Kaizer came to the field. Heh, must be a kick to the ego. With that said, if he was in the position of any of the guys and gals on Equis, he'd probably be the one who'd have gone ballistic (or worse) after losing to Celestia, if not portrayed outside then definitely like a volcano inside. Though curious if he'd be a full size hydra, a smaller one, or a pony. If the latter, more ego shattering for all.
Seems that this all basically turned to a universal Hunger game. Make your alliances now or die to the scary monstrosity in front of you. Mostly say that due to the Equis/human universe isn't exactly able to defend themselves compared to the original one.
Is this what I think it is? If so, you've gotten my attention and am EXTREMELY curious how this will/would play out.
Also that pic with Sonata and Megalon... never thought of that... but slightly interested, all things considering.
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Whoa-ho-ho!!! AWESOME!
The fight between King Ghidorah and X before the latter transformed had me on the edge of my seat, especially once KG realized the connection between the controller and X. Once X turned into Kaiser Ghidorah, many parts of the fight reminded me of Broly. mainly the part where KG got face smashed face first into the ground. King Ghidorah's warning to Irys, X and Megalon concerning the information he revealed certainly has put them in a tough spot. Whether they tell him or if Bagan decides to restore X's memories (likely for his own purposes), it's not going to be pleasant. I very much look forward to the next chapter, especially focusing on Xen and his state of mind following the battle with Sombra.
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Would yah believe me if I told you I barely played any of the games? I do enjoy them, just don't own any. But I thought it fit thematically, loved the KH's soundtrack for the somber songs in it, and Faithy is a huge fan of the series so I figured "Oh hell, why not? "
What's the extent of King Ghidorah's healing? Would he be able to regenerate his body so long as a large enough fragment of it remained or is it limited to him being mostly in one piece?
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I'd say he could regenerate from a lost body part should the rest of his body be destroyed (he did so from a severed tail in Rebirth of Mothra 3 and this is that version), but it would need enough energy to do so. For instance when Kaizer Ghidorah tore GKG's left head and half the attached neck off, Grand King Ghidorah was so banged up he was more than half dead. But even if Kaizer killed King Ghidorah, being so banged up, that head wouldn't have had have nearly enough energy to regenerate a new body.
Now say instead he lost a body part at the start of a fight and the lost part was very large, had part of his spinal cord, and was still full of energy. That part could conceivably regenerate an entire new body if the main body is destroyed. It would just take awhile.
So in that regard his healing factor is probably even stronger than Godzilla's, but it's slower and requires much more energy for severe injuries.
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Consider dude's got mind control (least over someone who's vulnerable) in RoM3, wouldn't put it past him.
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My theory, is that King Ghidorah is actually a being of pure energy, who chooses to form a corporeal body for himself. As we saw in G:THM, when he emerged from the asteroid, he was in a state of pure energy, resembling a living flame. It was then that he coalesced into a physical body. I think, that his body could be obliterated, but his life-force would survive in the living flame, and reform at a later point. Even the Futurian knock-off was still alive after centuries on the ocean floor in a mangled mess. This leaves me to conclude that Ghidorah for all intents and purposes, is immortal. For all his boasting, he really is pretty much a god.
Now that's my overall theorem. I know that Tarb's world is based off the Heisei continuity. I don't remember exactly if he included the body-destroying victory Lea had over him ala ROM3, but I think GKG could have survived that.
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Since Lea never time traveled like Leo did (due to winning the first battle against GKG thanks to ganging up on him alongside Godzilla Junior), GKG's whole body-obliteration-then-reforming gig never happened. That isn't to say however that it couldn't occur. It just all falls onto how much energy whatever part of GKG got blasted off had, sorta like how the Toho Frankenstein's Monster's regeneration worked. If it has enough fuel, he could grow back from nearly anything; but if its low on power it can't do it.
While the 'pure energy' idea does sound quite interesting, the main counter would be we've seen every single incarnation of King Ghidorah visibly bleed on screen at some point or another. This along with factors like him having a skeleton with muscles, bones, and the like suggests he's more flesh and blood. Incredibly powerful and immortal-unless-killed flesh and blood, but still, flesh and blood. In some sense this does put him on a godly level as many polytheistic cultures such as the Greco-Roman pantheons did have a physical form that could bleed, they just had incredible powers and it took a lot to cause said bleeding. So if someone where to call King Ghidorah a god to some level, I'd agree, but more on the level of Zeus or Ba'al than the "God with a capital G" from the Abrahamic religions.