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Posted by Archosaur on June 27, 2009, 2:34 am, in reply to "Re: Godzilla, Fanfic"
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Scene: Tokyo Tower
The newscasters from atop Tokyo Tower have a breathtaking, if horrific, view of the destruction unfolding in Tokyo. Listeners around the world sit by their radios with baited breath, listening to the live broadcast covering the enraged leviathan assailing the metropolis.
The massive creature tramples the city, casually walking through entire buildings, as the night sky is tinged with the light of the fires. A series of flashing lights attracts Godzilla’s attention, as photographers atop Tokyo Tower seek to get pictures for the newspapers. The massive reptile turns towards the tower, and begins stomping down the broad boulevard. “The creature has turned towards us. We don’t know what will happen now.” The underside of the approaching saurian head is under lit by the fires blow.
Packed throngs in the streets scream and hold up their hands, as the massive taloned foot descends. A wet popping sound fills the air, as gore sprays from the spreading reptilian toes. Concrete gives away as the dinosaur places his full weight upon the foot. Crowds flee away from the carnage, only to be caught under the next massive footfall. “The creature’s strength is enormous” the reported says.
The awesome creature pauses, snorting, next to the tower, cold eyes staring directly ahead at the reporters on the tower. Then, slowly huge jaws gape open again. “This is the end” says the broadcaster. Vast jaws envelope the tower, and a wet tongue begins lapping up the figure desperately clinging to it. The entire world hears the screams, bending metal, wet slurping sounds; and then, a deep rumbling gulp cutting off all voices.
Scene: The Oxygen Destroyer
The professor floated in the sea’s depths, the Oxygen Destroyer clasped in his armored gauntlets. The ultimate weapon of mass destruction, the Oxygen Destroyer would destroy anything organic within miles. It would spare any industrial infrastructure, and leave no harmful radiation. This would make it more attractive, and thus likely to be used, than atomic weaponry. Thus, the Professor had destroyed all of his notes, and intended to die with his invention this day.
Ahead, he saw the shadow of the leviathan approaching. The great head, turned, attracted by his flashlight. The boat began pulling up his companion to the surface as the great leviathan walked across the seafloor towards the Professor. The Professor realized the weapon may not penetrate the inorganic scales, and so, as he was pulled up, cut his own line. Screams of dismay sounded from the boat as the armored form the Professor began to sink, falling towards the gaping jaws of the beast. Before he sank out sight, massive jaws were seen to encircle, than close about the sinking figure. The broad throat rippled, briefly swallowing the tiny figure.
Ejected into the gigantic belly, the Professor pondered the undulating flesh visible in the pulsing light. The durable, rubbery stomach muscle would likely repel any explosives, even from within, and an atomic detonation would simply be absorbed by the reptile, making the creature even stronger. Only from within and only the Oxygen Destroyer had a change of killing this great leviathan.
Listening to the great, booming, heartbeat, the Professor found that the prospect gave him no joy. He had abandoned his respect for all life in an all consuming passion for revenge, which had, he found, left him empty. This was perhaps the last of his kind, fierce and destructive, but surly no worse that the horrors mankind inflicted upon one another. If the Oxygen Destroyer killed the beast, than, eventually, such powerful weapon would be built again. Given time, and funding, what was known to work could be replicated. And then, the world may know of horrors worse than Godzilla, worse than the atomic bomb. No. The Oxygen Destroyer had to be a known failure. Decision made, he set the Destroyer to neutralize itself, its deadly reagents becoming harmless chemicals. Then, closing his eye, he opened his suit, to give himself to the great belly surging about him.
Announcer: “We may never know what happened that day. Perhaps the Professor was killed. Or, perhaps, the Professor realized that the Oxygen Destroyer, if proven to work, would be an even greater threat to mankind than Godzilla. For whatever reason, Japan sighed in relief as Godzilla left the islands, taking away two great perils.”
THE END?
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