JLA: War of the Kaiju

[Tim85]

Prologue
Enter The Kaiju

The town of Nauvoo, Illinois was in trouble. This new threat that faced the Midwestern town forced the summoning of the Justice League of America. The Justice League of America is a team of superheroes that many consider to be the world’s greatest. The JLA’s main existence is to handle anything that would be considered threats to the planet Earth. For this situation, the League was called to the small Illinois town to handle what appeared to be a giant robot that resembled the toy called Wolfentron, which had an armored humanoid body with the head of a wolf and shoulder wings that resemble those of a bat. The main body consisted of green armor with the joints of the creature giving off a purplish hue. The robot was not without weaponry; its right hand had a hole in the middle of it from which it fired a white energy blast that used to be a harmless beam of light and a metal rod coming out of the back of its left wrist. Standing in the courtyard of the reconstructed Mormon temple where it was fighting the heroes, the building was as tall as the robot and only the temple and a small portion of downtown was showing structural damage.

Batman, The Dark Knight, on the roof of the Nauvoo Hotel, was providing strategy to the other League members via the psi-net that J’onn J’onzz, The Martian Manhunter, usually sets up for telepathic communication. This allowed coordination between the League members and to deal with problems faster. Wally West, also known as The Flash, was clearing civilians who have been trapped by the machine’s destruction. Using the super speed he was given after lab accident, he was able to move people out of harm’s way in no time. Eel O’Brian, aka Plastic Man was aiding in the evacuation of the people as well. With the ability to stretch and change his shape with ease, he was able to reach people that the other heroes could not. Aquaman, King of Atlantis was digging in the rubble of the nearby bank for Wonder Woman, Princess Diana of the Amazons, who was sent flying into the complex. She tried to attack the robot when the Amazon was struck with the rod on the left hand.

After failing to telepathically connect to the Wolfentron, J’onn and Superman, the Man of Steel, rushed towards the machine. After dodging a blast of energy, the two aliens slammed into the thing with all four fists. The robotic creature stumbled back but stayed on its feet. It swung the rod at the two heroes; the appendage missed Superman but struck J’onn, knocking the Martian to the ground.

“J’onn!” screamed Superman. Before he could react, the robot hit the Man of Steel with its beam; the force of the blow knocking him into the local library, next to the hotel where Batman is stationed.

Clark, Batman said telepathically, (a good sign J’onn’s still consciences), calling Superman by his Earth given name, You hurt? While Batman knew that Superman was almost impervious to harm, it was more of knee jerk reaction in response to the attack.

Just my pride, replied Superman mentally as he began to dig his way out of the library. The hero, also known as Kal-El from Krypton, was given near invulnerability from Earth’s yellow sun; which was one of the reasons he was sent to this planet when his home planet Krypton was destroyed.

Okay Kyle, You’re up, ordered The Dark Knight. J’onn couldn’t detect a feasible mind in it, so take it out by any means necessary.

Gotcha, said Kyle Rayner, the last Green Lantern. After given the ring due to a chance encounter with an alien, Kyle can use his vivid imagination to conjure up object that the ring can bring to live via green hard light projection. Kyle flew in front of the robot and used his ring to create a giant green wrestler with the Lantern Corp. symbol for a mask, himself visible in the chest controlling its movements with his own body.

“Yo, Mr. Roboto, over here!” he hollered at the machine. The machine let a metallic roar as the green wrestler approached and grabbed hold of it in a bear hug. Batman was soon joined by the other heroes on the hotel rooftop.

“All the civilians have been evacuated,” reported Wally.

“Same here,” agreed Plas.

“Good,” replied The Man of Steel, “J’onn; Diana. Are you two alright?”

“I’m unharmed,” said J’onn.

“I’ll live through a few scratches” replied Diana, who then turned to Aquaman, “Thanks for the rescue.”

“Anytime,” answered Aquaman, “That thing buried you pretty deep.” They then looked over to the battle where Kyle’s wrestler has the machine in a head lock.

“Kyle seems to be doing okay,” said Flash.

“Yeah, the WWE could use someone like that,” said O’Brian.

“Yes,” said J’onn, ignoring Eel, “But the battle is beginning to strain his mind.”

“What caused that thing?” asked Wonder Woman.

“I don’t know,” answered Batman, “The only thing that we can gather is that something brought a Wolfentron toy to life and increased its size. We’ll learn more after we stop this thing.” Aquaman looked over at Superman, who’s staring intensely to the north at a strange object in the dusk sky.

“What is it, Superman?” asked Arthur.

“Something’s coming,” commented Superman, pointing north towards the object. His eyes tightened allowing him to get a good fix on the object and to get a better visual of the object.

“It looks like a golden three headed dragon with no arms,” described the Man of Steel. Batman pulled a pair of high powered binoculars out of his utility belt and looked at the object. His forehead furrowed under his mask as he figured out what it is.

“Do you know what it is?” asked Diana. Batman calmly replaced the binoculars to their pouch and said with almost no emotion in his voice:

“It’s a giant monster, known as King Ghidorah.” Every Leaguer turned towards The Dark Knight with a look of confusion.

“King Ghi-what?” asked Flash.

“Run that by us again, Bats?” piped up Plastic Man.

“King Ghidorah,” answered Batman, “is a Japanese movie monster known from the Toho Godzilla series. This one actually looks like the one seen in the Mothra series, another creature with ties to Godzilla. Normally, he’s a villain in the movies he’s in except for Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-out Attack.”

“Let’s just hope it’s from that one,” commented Aquaman.

“Yeah, and I didn’t know Batman was into Godzilla,” joked Plas. Batman just stared at him.

“It’s alright,” spoke up J’onn, again ignoring Plastic Man, “I scanned its mind. We’re not the target,” he then pointed to the robot, “That is.”

I can’t hold it much longer! Lantern’s voice rang in everybody’s head from the psi-net. The robot’s beam was blasting the green wrestler non stop; Kyle’s creation was blocking the ray with its right arm but it started to show cracks as his mind was straining from the force of the ray.

That’s enough, Lantern, said J’onn, Join us on the roof of the hotel where you can get a break.

Fine by me, said G.L. He then flew out of the construct from the back and using his ring, shot the wrestler into the machine, the force of the impact knocking it to the ground. Rayner then joined the others and was filled in on the discovery.

“Okay,” said Rayner, with a confused look on his face, “Let me get this straight: a giant movie monster is heading our way to fight the robot.” The others nodded.

“Okay, cool, I’ve heard stranger things,” said Kyle, raising his hands, palms up, “I’m going to check this thing out for myself.” He then formed binoculars with his ring and pointed them at the creature.

“It’s on the outskirts,” reported Green Lantern. “Weird looking thing though.”

“Here we go,” groaned Aquaman.

The creature identified as King Ghidorah let out a cackle that echoed throughout the small town. The creature is distinguished by possession of three dragon-like heads with no arms. Instead, the creature had a pair of wings that it used for flight. Suddenly lightning bolts of energy were released from the mouths of all three heads and struck the robot as it was getting up.

“Whoa!” shouted Wally, shielding his eyes.

“Gravity beams,” informed Batman, “King Ghidorah’s main energy weapon.” The Wolfentron stumbled forward and as it turned around, King Ghidorah flew smack dab into the machine, knocking it down, and the dragon kept flying forward.

“Now there’s something you don’t see everyday,” said Plas, commenting on the appearance of the monster.

Turning around, the dragon saw the machine getting up. Rushing the robot again, Ghidorah released energy bolts from his wing tips. The Wolfentron screeched as the bolts struck. The wolf man-like robot looked up to see the monster ascending high into the sky. The machine’s wings spread and jets from its back and feet activated and took off after King Ghidorah.

“The robot’s going to engage King Ghidorah in the air,” observed J’onn.

“At least it’ll prevent more property damage,” added Superman.

The mechanical creature cried at the dragon. The monster turned around, hovering, and returned the cry at the approaching foe. When the robot neared the monster, it swung its left arm, trying to hit the creature’s three heads with the metal bar. All three ducked as it went over their heads. The robot then used an energy blast, striking the left head. K.G. cried out in pain from the blow. The dragon then head butted with its right head, like a right hook, in the robot’s face.

King Ghidorah then kicked with his left foot into the machine’s abdomen. The Wolfentron hunched over from the blow. He then kneed the robot in the head with the other leg. Ghidorah then twisted in the air, getting behind the robot monster. As he twisted, the dragon slammed his twin tails into the back side of the machine, causing it to loss some altitude. King Ghidorah began to glow, charging energy for its energy beams.

“Uh oh,” commented Flash.

The robot turned around to see the glowing dragon, just as it released fully charged beams from the left and right heads. The rays struck and blew the wings off the robot, causing the pieces to rain on the little town below. The center head then launched a beam at the machine’s head. The wolf man like robot threw up its left hand for protection. The beam struck the hand, severing it and the metal bar from the arm. The Wolfentron stared at the damaged limb, stunned by the events that had just happened.

The robot looked up as King Ghidorah swooped up, tucked its wings close to his body and dove feet first into the cyborg’s chest. The two began to plummet toward the ground at an astonishing speed. The Justice League braced themselves for the impact of the falling grapplers. King Ghidorah and the robot slammed into the temple, the structure crumbling under the weight and onto the two grappling creatures. The shock wave from the impact was felt miles away.

Backwards out of the dust sprang King Ghidorah and landed, skidding on the ground. It came to a stop a short distance away and roared into the sky. The creature began to glow white.

“What’s it doing?” asked Diana. As she asked, the creature began to change. The left and right head lowered and became hands, the center neck shortened and the head became more bulky. The tails fused into one and the wings became jagged back spines. The glow disappeared and revealed a familiar charcoal colored reptilian figure that roared his presence to the world; and to a stunned JLA.

“Oh my god, it’s Godzilla!” cried Green Lantern, pointing at the large figure in front of the group.

“The Final Wars version,” commented Batman. Everyone looked at him strange. “The movie it’s from. There were many different designs throughout the series.” The Final Wars Godzilla was not as bulky as other forms and the snout of the creature had an almost a rat-like look to it.

“But how?” asked Flash, commenting on the metamorphosis. Before anyone answered, the robot sprang up from the rubble and screeching at the monster. Stunned for a moment by the change, the robot raised his right hand and fired an energy beam at the creature. The now-Godzilla’s spines lit up, which is a signal that he is about to unleash his trademark energy beam from his mouth, and fired a blue atomic ray, colliding with the blast. The atomic ray pushed the Wolfentron’s back and engulfed the hand, destroying it. The robot stared at its now hand-less arms. As it looked up, Godzilla slammed into the robot with his shoulder, knocking it back into some houses behind the now ruined temple. Godzilla then pinned the robot to the ground and began to whale on it with his fists. With every punch, the machine was pushed into ground, causing dust and rubble to fly into the air.

The giant reptile then stopped the assault and dug its claws into the chest plate of the Wolfentron. Godzilla then tore open the chest cavity, revealing circuitry and joints that connected the limbs of the robot. The monster stared intently at the inside of the mechanical creature and then reached for the head. The King of the Monsters removed the head from of the body and ripped the front open. He gave the robotic head the same look as the open chest cavity.

“What’s going on?” asked a puzzled Aquaman.

“He seems to be checking to see if there is anyone piloting the robot,” explained Batman, “which seems to be no one.”

After it seemed to be finished with his inspection; Godzilla dropped the head into to the chest cavity of the robot and stepped back, looking at the damaged robot. The back scales began to glow.

“Look out!” hollered Batman as everyone shielded their eyes. Godzilla released the charged up ray upon the robot. The ray incinerated the Wolfentron and it exploded in an enormous explosion. Godzilla threw his head back and roared in triumph. The Justice League uncovered their eyes and the heroes breathed a sigh of relief.

“Well, that threat’s over,” said Green Lantern.

“But he killed it,” commented Superman.

“Technically it wasn’t alive to begin with,” said J’onn, the only thing he could pick up from the creature was static, which signaled that there was no intelligence present. Suddenly Godzilla began to move towards them after looking in the League’s direction.

“Great, from the frying pan into the fire,” commented Flash. The heroes stood ready for battle until Manhunter raised his right hand.

“Wait,” he said, “He means no harm.” As much as he hated to read the minds of others without their permission, he felt he needed to monitor this creature, in case it meant any harm to the heroes. Godzilla approached the hotel where the League was stationed. It was observed that the monster was trying to avoid doing anymore damage to the buildings in its path. The monster stopped in front of the hotel and looked down at the heroes. Godzilla opened his mouth and instead of an ear-piercing cry, a deep booming voice came out:

“This is probably a bit overwhelming. Give me a moment.” Godzilla began to glow and shrink down. A minute or two later Godzilla was on the roof, down to the size of an average man. After the glowing stopped the shrunken Godzilla walked up to the heroes and offered a greeting.

“Greetings Justice League,” said Godzilla in a normal “human” tone.

“Dispense with the introduction,” said Aquaman, waving his natural hand in front of him before the reptile could continue or any League member could say anything, “Could you tell us who or what you are and why you are here?”

“I can do that,” answered Godzilla. He looked around to see if they were alone and began to glow again.

“This guy lights up more than a Christmas tree,” Plastic Man muttered under his breath. The glowing stopped to reveal a man. Instead of a costume, he wore sneakers, blue jeans, and a black shirt with various Japanese monsters on the front. His looks were average. He would look like your everyday nobody except for the multicolored bracelet that ran from his right wrist to almost his elbow; similar to Wonder Woman’s, who made a mental note to herself of the familiarity of the bracelet.

“Forgive the modest getup,” the man spoke, “I’m usually not seen human. It adds mystery to my persona.” Something Batman understood well.

“My name is Tim Locke. But my hero name is The Kaiju.”

“The Ky-jew?” asked Superman.

“Kaiju is Japanese for monster,” informed Batman. The others nodded.

“Correct. I took up that name because I use this bracelet to turn into any Japanese monster I wish,” Tim informed while tapping the bracelet. Wonder Woman finally figured out what it was.

“So, those monster rumors from around here were true?” asked The Dark Knight, “And you were all the monsters that were sighted.” There had been reports of criminals being attacked by movie monsters in the Midwest. These reports were not taken seriously at first because of the non-lethality of the attacks and the fact that the criminals were being handed over to the police, but soon were when the number of reports began to become more numerous.

“You’re looking at him. I’m sorry if I caused more damage,” he continued, “But I heard you were having trouble with that robot. I live in the area so I thought you might need a hand.”

Manhunter and Superman looked at each other and nodded.

“Could you excuse us for a minute?” asked J’onn.

“Take all the time you need,” Tim said. The two ushered the others to the other side of the roof, out of earshot of the Kaiju, with everyone exchanging confused looks.

“Well?” asked Flash before anyone else.

“Kal and I were wondering if we should nominate The Kaiju for membership to the Justice League of America,” said J’onn.

“I say yes,” said Kyle, “He saved our skins back there! I don’t want to comprehend how much damage was prevented.”

“We don’t even know how much longer the battle would have gone on if he didn’t show up,” added Wally.

“We could use someone like that in our corner,” said Plas.

“Yes,” said Batman. “He needs to be on this team.” Everyone stared at the Dark Knight with looks of confusion and puzzlement on their faces, “He needs to be on the team in order for us to keep an eye on him,” he explained, “Can we trust someone with this much power without supervision?”

“We can,” answered Diana curtly, slightly angered by Batman’s suspicious nature, “Only someone who’s good of heart can use the Shape shifting Gauntlet.”

“Are you sure Princess?” asked Aquaman, with an eyebrow raised, “You sure that trinket on his arm is what you say it is?”

“I’m sure of it,” fired back Wonder Woman. “If you wish, I could use my Lasso of Truth on him.” She then pulled the Lasso off her belt. Whoever was bound by Wonder Woman’s lariat would be forced to tell the truth unconditionally.

“Not necessary. I haven’t picked up anything mentally that he wishes to hurt us,” added Martian Manhunter.

“Enough debate,” spoke up Superman, “While I think we’re all in agreement, we should still take a vote.”

Kaiju was standing there staring at the damage he caused. He felt horrible for doing it, but it scared him more that what would have happened if he didn’t come when he did. Tim had a hard time containing his excitement. He got to help the JLA and to actually meet them, the heroes that he looked up to for most of his life. Locke breathed a sigh of relief that he didn’t stumble over his words when he spoke to them. Seeing them all in person was something that no TV or picture could replicate. He was snapped back into reality when Martian Manhunter called his name.

“Kaiju,” said the Martian.

“Yes?” he replied, turning to face the heroes.

“We have come to a decision,” J’onn continued, “We want to know if you’d like to join the JLA?”

“The Justice League?” asked Tim stunned, “Me? I would be honored! Yes I will!”

“Then it’s settled,” said Superman, “You’ve already proven yourself today, so your final initiation would be to help with the cleanup. We’ll have a swearing in ceremony afterwords,” The Man of Steel extended his hand, which Kaiju accepted.

“Welcome to the Justice League of America, Kaiju.”

[Tim85]

Chapter 1
The Arrival

At his personal lab on his private estate on the outskirts of Tokyo, Japan, Dr. Daisuke Serizawa was nearing completion on his new invention: a machine that could generate realistic hard light holograms of living organisms, from plants to animals to even people, which was the main focus of his studies. While creating hard light constructs of inanimate objects such as mountainous terrain and an entire city can be done without any trouble if the right equipment is available, creating constructs of living beings is something that is considered a pipe dream by many. Dr. Serizawa was one of the scientists determined to prove that living hard light constructs was reality, not the work of fiction. On a computer system, Serizawa could input any data into the machine and using the hard light projector, he hoped that it could render anything into reality. Because of this, movie studios from Hollywood and Japan, most notably Toho, was funding his research in order to improve special effects in films in addition to computer and video game companies. Being a movie fan, especially monster movies, he couldn’t help but really love the movie idea.

After connecting some circuit boards, it was ready for a test run. Dr. Serizawa sat down in front of the desk where it was stationed. The machine consisted of what seemed to be a normal computer monitor, keyboard, and tower but was hooked up to a projector that would allow the holograms to appear in reality. He activated the machine with no problem. Serizawa wiped sweat off his brow and breathed a sigh of relief. A tall, thin man, Daisuke had looks similar to the character from the first Godzilla movie of the same name, only without the scar and the eye patch, something he was grateful for. He looked more like the actor who played Dr. Serizawa, Akihiko Hirata. The doctor then placed a copy of a disc with information concerning various monsters into the machine.

“Okay,” he said to himself as popped his knuckles, “Let’s see how it goes.” His fingers flew across the keyboard; downloading various pieces of data from the disc into the memory of the machine. He brought up Godzilla, and chose the form from the movie Godzilla X Mechagodzilla . It then asked for what additional powers to give the creature beside its own. He said none and for height; made the creature six foot tall. The screen then asked if this was the subject. He clicked ‘yes” and the projector hummed to life. A few minutes later a six foot tall version of the Kiryu-Goji (the name given to the suit from that particular movie) appeared in the room. It had the look of the recent sharp edged Godzilla suits but was gray instead of green and had a small head. The doctor began to cheer and jumped out of his chair; a successful test run. The creature began to roar, move around the room, and fire an atomic ray at the floor. Of course, nothing happened; the ray being simply a projection. He then canceled the hologram and the monster disappeared. He then pulled out a disc with human characters.

“I wonder how this will do?” he asked himself. If this works, actors from yesteryear will be able to appear in today’s films. Imagine John Wayne on screen with Pierce Brosnan in an action film together. Dr. Serizawa smiled to himself at the thought.

He inserted the disc after removing the monster disc and a selection menu appeared. He scanned through the list and found the Xilians.

“Hmm,” he said, “The Xilians from Godzilla: Final Wars , I think I’ll try them.” He then brought up the Controller and brought up eight high ranking guards. He then clicked the activation icon and it began to hum again. Silhouettes began to form of the Xilians. He was watching the features form when alarm noises began to emit from the computer. He turned to the screen to see a red box flashing with system error.

He frantically tried to stop the program but nothing happened. The projector’s hum became louder until a bright flash lit up the room. The doctor covered his eyes to block the bright light. After the light disappeared, he uncovered his eyes to reveal that the Xilian Controller and eight guards (seven men and one woman) were standing there. The nine of them looked human and were covered in what resembled a full body leather suit and a leather jacket and on their chest had something that looked like a control panel from Darth Vader of Star Wars without the buttons.

“Where are we?” asked the Controller, confused by the events. He looked over at the stunned professor and pointed at him.

“You, explain yourself! Can you tell us why we are here?” The alien had a smooth but creepy voice that in the right tone could send chills down someone’s spine.

“Y-Yes,” said Serizawa stumbling over his words. “I can. I brought you out of the movies into the real world.”

“We are in another reality?” the leader of the aliens questioned the scientist. Serizawa nodded his head in response,

“Your reality was portrayed as a fictional world in a movie, which are stories that told by actors pretending to be the person from the story,” Daisuke explained.

“Who are you?’ asked the Controller, still with a puzzled look.

“I’m Dr. Daisuke Serizawa,” the doctor continued, “I invented the machine that brought you here.” He walked over to the Controller and felt his coat and his arm. “You‘re,” he said wide eyed in shock, “You’re flesh and blood?” This was something he did not expect. Instead of hard light constructs, the projector actually seemed to have brought the aliens from the movie reality into this reality.

“Yes,” answered the Xilian, staring at scientist with a raised eyebrow. After seeing the Controller’s stern glare, Serizawa took his hands off him and back away slowly with his hands in the air.

“But we all died in our reality?” asked one of the guards.

“We did die,” replied the leader, finally realizing what was going on as all his memories from the film came back to him, “And this man,” holding out his hand, palm up, “is the one responsible for our resurrection. In a world with no Godzilla or mutants,” he said with a sneer. As he walked up to the Japanese scientist and put his left arm on his shoulder, the Controller asked, “How did you do it?”

“This machine,” said the doctor, pointing at the computer and projector, his finger shaking from nervousness, “And using data from this disc,” He showed the one with human characters, “I’m sure it can bring anything to life using this projector.”

“What other discs do you have, doctor?” asked the Controller.

“Well, this one,” The doctor held up a disc titled “Japanese monsters”. The Controller’s eyes lit up and an evil smile formed on his face.

“Thank you for the tutorial, doctor,” said the leader, taking his arm off Serizawa and backed away from him. He turned around and raised his right arm straight at the professor, who stared at the alien with some concern.

“Your services will no longer be required,” he said as a white blast of energy came out of his hand and engulfed Dr. Serizawa. The doctor felt a strong electrical sensation in his body before he fell unconscious to the floor.

[Tim85]

Chapter 2
Iowa Tangle

10 months later: Davenport Iowa

Of the four cities known as the Quad Cities in Iowa, Davenport is one of the most well-known. In one of the local restaurants, Tim Locke was eating a large lunch. Unknown to everyone in the place, he is the hero known as The Kaiju. If anyone there knew of Tim, they did not recognize him. Whenever he’s in public, he changes his looks slightly so no one will know who he is and can blend in with the crowd. He tries to eat big meals to secure the fact that he has enough energy for battle. Sitting there, he stared at his right wrist, where the changing bracelet was hidden and began to reminisce.

He still can’t believe he’s part of the Justice League. 10 months ago he came to the League’s aid when he defeated a giant robot that was causing some problems for the JLA. Soon after, Batman revealed that his sources found that a meteorite from the meteor shower that occurred a few days before had landed near the outskirts of Nauvoo. He managed to find some pieces of the robot for analysis and found some kind of organism from the space rock that mixed with the metal of a remote-controlled toy robot and caused it to come to life and grow.

“I’d like to get a hold of some sources like that,” he thought to himself. As he finished his meal, he began to recall the feeling of being at the Watchtower on the moon and using the teleporters for the first time. The Watchtower was a giant fortress built on the moon to serve as headquarters for the JLA and was normally only accessible by teleporters. To him, it was a weird feeling having your body’s molecules broken down and being moved to another place and reassembled back to normal.

The past 10 months have been a blast, but hard. In order to earn their trust, after being let into the League so easily, he worked extra hard on his missions. To help foster bonds with his teammates, he worked with as many of them as he could individually and received some sort of training from them on how to handle his strength and power. From going up against Intergang in Metropolis with Superman to taking on Giganta in Gateway City with Wonder Woman, he tried to work hard to show that he was trustworthy. When he took on Giganta as Godzilla, he had to increase his size in order to go one-on-one with the villain. This was one of the few times he was able to become a literal giant monster, which, deep down, he loved being that big. However, he does not talk, but only roars when he is gigantic. This maintains the thought of being somewhat lacking in intelligence to foes, thus making him more dangerous. The only time he has ever talked as a large monster was when he first met the Justice League in Nauvoo.

Out of the main eight, Aquaman and Batman had doubts but Batman was the hardest to convince out of the two, despite the fact that Kaiju passed the Lasso of Truth test. He earned Arthur’s trust when during a water combat training session; he helped save a pregnant sperm whale from a fleet of whaling ships.

Kaiju chuckled to himself when he recalled the faces of the crew members when he popped out of water as Godzilla in front of them. After that, Aquaman knew they had made a good choice.

Batman took a lot of convincing. Kaiju spent a lot of time in Gotham City, when the League didn’t need him and wasn’t with the others, helping Batman. After he put a major dent in the crime rate along with receiving some training from Batman, such as using his frightening appearance as an offensive weapon; only then was The Dark Knight finally convinced that he wasn’t just a ‘well-meaning amateur’ but a serious hero. What he saw working with Batman, between The Joker and many other of his rogue’s gallery; still gives him nightmares. The hardest part about joining the Justice League was convincing the world that they could trust someone who has the power to become some of the most powerful creatures in the movies and fight for truth and justice. This was where hiding the fact that he is actually human in order to keep his potency as a superhero was the hardest. Tim claimed he can’t remember his true form because he spent so much time as so many different creatures. So far, the world has been accepting towards him, but he has grown tired of being referred to by some people as the League’s pet monster.

After he paid his bill and left, he mentally backtracked about his mission. He heard about a series of assaults on women in Davenport and he asked Batman for some info. Batman received some information regarding a gang leader called Mark Furrow a.k.a. “The Wolf Spider”, whose name came from his knack for pouncing on young women out of nowhere and assaulting them. He has eluded capture and needs to be brought in before his crimes begin to escalate. Kaiju claims this area of Iowa as his home turf. Batman gave him the information in order to check it out more thoroughly. The main reason he assisted Tim was because he was asked for it. There is an unspoken agreement among the members; don’t barge in on another hero's home turf unless help is asked for. Since Furrow is more likely to strike at night, Tim decided to kill some time touring the town until nightfall.

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Night had fallen on Davenport. The attacks usually happened around the shoreline of the Mississippi River. High above the area was The Kaiju, flying around as the Final Wars Rodan, surveying the area. He chose this form of Rodan because of the slenderness of the creature which allowed for better maneuverability. Learning a few tips from Batman, he stayed in the shadows when he landed to avoid suspicion and to prevent alarm from regular citizens. Soon, the winged reptile spotted a young brunette woman, probably in her late 20’s and dressed for a night out on the town, a prime candidate for “The Wolf Spider”. Kaiju followed her in the unfortunately desired hope that Furrow would make an appearance.

The young girl began to walk by an alley between two warehouses when two hands came out of the darkness, one hand covering her mouth, preventing any screams for help and the other grabbed her arm and pulled her in the space.

“Gotcha,” said Kaiju quietly to himself. He landed on the roof of one of the warehouses where she was taken and saw a gang of several leather jacketed punks, more than the winged hero could count. Several of them looked like teenagers, to which Kaiju was disappointed in learning. A thug dressed in leather from head to toe was carrying the squirming girl to a large man with a spider on his shirt and on the back of coat made of leather.

“The Wolf Spider,” Kaiju muttered. The girl’s eyes were wide with fear and tears poured from her eyes at the sight of the man.

“Well, well look what we have here,” said The Wolf Spider with a sickening grin, “A new toy.” He then began to run his hand through her hair. Tim clenched his teeth in anger.

“The hell you will,” whispered Kaiju, “Here we go.” Kaiju leapt into the darkness and landed on the ground in the shadows.

“Let her go!” he said in a booming voice. The gang looked around to find the noise.

“Who’s going to make us?” said Furrow snidely. A bright flash illuminated the alley and out of the darkness stepped a bluish-purple creature with sickle blades for hands and a buzz saw in his chest: the Final Wars Gigan. He decided to go with this monster due to the frightening appearance of the creature.

“I will,” said Kaiju and he let out a metallic screech, sending shivers down some of the thugs’ backs.

“Holy crap, it’s The Kaiju!” exclaimed one of the heavy set goons. After he spoke, several took off down the alley and out of sight, leaving eight of the gang members remaining. This was a common occurrence when Kaiju revealed himself to low level criminals.

“I’ll repeat,” said the creature, this time the voice was the same tone as the screech, “Let her go!”

“I don’t think we’ll do that,” said The Wolf Spider, and he snapped his fingers. Five of the goons pulled out hand guns and fired upon the monster. Kaiju just stood there as the bullets bounced off him. The gun fire stopped and the gang stared in awe.

“Finished?” asked Kaiju, and then he said with a grin, “My turn.” His single red eye glowed and a large bright red ray was released. It then splintered and several smaller crimson beams struck the five gunmen, knocking them down and out cold.

Furrow gritted his teeth, reached out and grabbed the girl by the arm and yanked her from the burly thug.

“Get him!” he ordered. Three muscle bound goons advanced toward The Kaiju; who had taken up a defensive stance in preparation for battle. One charged him with a reared back fist. Kaiju slashed at him with his right sickle claw, slicing his clothing and leaving a red streak from his right shoulder to his left chest. The man fell down from the strike.

Another one came at him from his left with a switch blade. The Gigan-formed hero swung his left sickle, broad-siding the thug across the face. The man stumbled back and cracked his head on the wall of the warehouse. A third goon snuck up from behind and threw his arms around Kaiju, under the monster’s back sails and held him in a bear hug. The Kaiju struggled but the man refused to let go. The Kaiju looked down to see where the arms were placed and grinned. He activated the buzz saw on his chest. The man howled in pain as the metal teeth dug into his arms. Pieces of clothing, skin, and blood flew into the air. The girl in Furrow’s arms turned away from the carnage. The man released Kaiju, backing away with his bleeding arms tucked next to his body. The Kaiju then smacked the injured hoodlum with the claw like appendage on the end of his tail, knocking him into the wall as well.

“Is that all?” asked Gigan, turning towards The Wolf Spider.

“Not quite,” said Furrow with a sneer as he let out a whistle. A thin bald man, wearing the same garb as the others, stepped out of the darkness next to the leader, pulling a sword out its sheath. The Kaiju reacted by throwing his sickle clawed arms into the air and in a flash, formed twin chainsaws on each hand. The Kaiju’s head flashed as well and revealed metal plating on his neck plus jagged teeth on each of the mandibles, becoming the modified form of Gigan. This monster was upgraded for a rematch when he lost his head to Godzilla in the movie.

“Impressive,” said the sword-brandishing man. The man yelled out a battle cry and charged Tim. The two then engaged in a sword battle. Every swipe of the sword was blocked by the chainsaw appendages. Kaiju swung his left appendage as the sword collided with it, the force causing the swordsman to stumble back. Angered, the man raised his sword above his head and charged again. As he brought the blade down on his adversary, Kaiju caught the sword between the twin chainsaws on each arm. The swordsman continued pushing the blade down; Kaiju resisting as much as he can. Tim then activated the chainsaw limbs and swung his arms to his side, shattering the sword into several pieces. The thin man looked at his broken weapon in shock. Kaiju, with all his strength, slapped the assailant with the broad side of his right saw. The blow knocked the thug into Mark Furrow, knocking them both to the ground and the grip he had on the young girl was broken.

“Over here!” cried Kaiju as he waved his left chainsaw towards him. The girl dashed way from the Spider and got behind the hero.

“You okay?” asked The Kaiju, looking over his shoulder. The girl nodded. Tim noticed the streaks of tears that came from her eyes and the sight of this filled him with rage. The one thing he hates the most is seeing a woman crying, especially if someone caused the tears to flow. Mark Furrow got to his feet and took off down the alley.

“He’s getting away!” the woman cried.

“I don’t think so,” snarled The Kaiju as he raised his right arm straight out. The chainsaw disappeared and the sickle appendage reappeared. Two cables fired from the base and wrapped around the ankles of the fleeing gang leader, causing him to fall to the ground. The Kaiju began to reel him in like a fish, the cables retracted back into his wrist. The thug turned his head, his eyes wide with fear as he was drawn closer to the monster.

“Please!” the man cried out, balling like a baby, “Don’t kill me!” The Kaiju’s face remained stone cold. The same man who was over confident a few minutes ago is now crying and begging for his life. It was hard for Tim not to smile. When the man was at his feet, The Kaiju placed his left chainsaw appendage around Furrow’s neck, with the man’s head between the two chainsaws. The man was still crying and pleading for his life.

After the cables were fully retracted, The Kaiju hooked the sickle hand under the shirt collar of the hoodlum and lifted him off the ground. Placing him against the wall, the hero plunged the chainsaws through the brick wall around Furrow’s neck. The gang leader was hanging in the air, pinned to the wall by the appendage, his head and neck being held in place by the chainsaws and could not be moved without getting cut by the teeth of the saw while his body hung in the air.

“Please, I beg you!” the man pleaded,” Don’t kill me!” Kaiju then took the sickle claw tip and placed it under his chin, puncturing slightly. A drop of blood trickled down the metallic blade, leaving a crimson streak on the sickle.

“Give me one good reason why I shouldn’t jam this claw through your skull!” demanded Kaiju in a metallic screeching voice. The man began to quiver.

“Or better yet, cleave you in half!” said the monster, placing his face into Mark’s. Tears of fear poured down his face.

“Actually, I have an even better idea,” said Locke with a sneer. He stepped back and two small holes appeared respectively on his shoulders. Several razor blades came out of the openings of his shoulders and fired at the gang leader. When the blades first stuck out The Kaiju’s shoulders, Furrow closed his eyes, waiting for them to strike. The blades pinned articles of Furrow’s clothing to the wall. The Wolf Spider opened his eyes as Kaiju pulled his chainsaw hand out of the wall, leaving him hanging there by the razor blades.

“I’m going to give you to the police,” said the monster. He then turned to the young woman behind him.

“Name?” he asked.

“Nichole,” she replied in a shaking voice.

“Call the police Nichole. Tell them who we have.” She pulled out her cell phone and dialed 911.

“I’m letting the police have you this time,” said The Kaiju turning towards the criminal. He then placed the sickle tip on Furrow’s temple and got in his face.

“If you ever, EVER, do something like this when you get out, I’ll hunt you down like a dog and gut you like a fish. Believe me, it won’t be pretty. Understand?” The man nodded barely.

“I SAID,” Kaiju said at the top of his lungs, “DO YOU UNDERSTAND!?”

“Yes!” Mark cried out, “Yes, I understand!”

“Good,” replied Tim.

“The cops are on their way,” said Nichole as she closed her cell phone. Kaiju turned his head and nodded in response. He lowered the sickle and began to walk away with the young woman. Kaiju then stopped and turned his head towards the gang leader.

“Just in case it hasn’t sunk in yet,” the hero said as he swung his tail and smacked The Wolf Spider across the face, knocking the leader out cold. The sound of sirens began to the filter into the alley.

“I’d better get out of here,” said Kaiju as he began to take off.

“Wait,” Nichole said grabbing hold of his arm, “I need to say thank you.” She then kissed him on the cheek. Kaiju smiled and told her to stay put. He took to the air just as the police pulled up. In the shadows on one of the roofs he watched the police question the girl and arrest the gang. As they drove away from the scene, Tim assumed his human form, safe from prying eyes. As he stared off at the river lost in thought, a familiar feminine voice was heard overhead:

“Nice job there, Kaiju.”

He looked up to see Wonder Woman soaring down to the rooftop. Seeing her figure against the moonlit sky with the celestial body’s light reflecting off her bracelets and her red costume brought a smile to his face. Whenever he was with her, Tim always had to be careful with his romantic thoughts in case the psi-net was up and to remind himself to look her in the eye when talking to her and not the more obvious location on her body because of her costume’s lack of coverage, as he would put it. What began as pure lust soon became a caring feeling for a friend. Still, he admitted he had a slight crush on her, probably due to the fact she has a connection to his past. But with what has happened to him before he became The Kaiju, he was afraid to pursue it any further. He did not want to go through what he did again.

“Checking up on the new guy, Wonder Woman?” asked Tim with a grin on his face.

“You?” asked Diana with a smile as she landed next to Tim, “You don’t need checking up on. Did they give you any trouble?”

“Nah,” said Tim with wave, “And I put the fear of Gigan in him so I don’t think we’ll have any more problems with him. So what brings you to this part of the world Diana?”

“I was at the western border of Iowa and Missouri,” replied Diana, “helping with clean up after an F-5 tornado.”

“You were alone?”

“No, Flash was there too. After we were done he had some business in Keystone City. Thank Hera there were no fatalities.”

“That’s good,” said Tim, “Most people in tornado alley take precautions.”

Diana raised her eyebrow in puzzlement: “Tornado alley?”

“Tornado alley,” Tim explained to the princess, “if I remember correctly is one of the places on this planet that is extremely favorable for tornadoes to develop. One of them just happens to be in the Midwest, around where you and Wally were. People who live there deal with tornadoes almost every year when the season’s right and know to be prepared.”

Diana nodded in response. The two of them stared at the river for awhile, taking in the view of the waterway until Tim broke the silence.

“Would you like to get something to eat?”

“Pardon?” she asked, not hearing the question due to her mind being somewhere else.

“It’s still fairly early,” he said, showing her his watch, which was on his left arm because of the bracelet being on the right, “Wanna go grab a bite?”

“What?” said Diana with a grin, “Like a date?”

Tim began to stumble over his words. She stifled a chuckle. She just loved doing this to him. She knew he had a crush on her; it wasn’t hard to figure out. She was actually flattered by it. He wasn’t like other guys whom were only interested in her because of her revealing costume. She could tell he had an interest in her that was not purely physical. She also couldn’t help but notice how much he looked like his grandfather, which may explain why she has such a fondness for the young hero. Diana didn’t want to bring the subject of his grandfather up in case there were some hard feelings and wanted Tim to bring it up first.

“I was going to suggest,” Tim said, finally catching his words, “grabbing a pizza and taking it back to the Watchtower. I can show you better eateries later.”

“Sounds good,” Diana agreed. Tim turned back into the Final Wars Rodan and along with Wonder Woman, took to the sky.

“I know a great place for pizza,” Tim said, “Follow me.”

Diana stayed next to Tim as they were flying above the city. On the way, Tim asked Diana a question:

“Who’s on monitor duty?”

“J’onn,” replied Diana.

“Do you think he’ll let us bring a pizza to the Watchtower?”

“Don’t know,” she added with a shrug of her shoulders.

“I’ll tell him we’ll grab a bag of Oreos for him. Maybe that’ll sweeten the deal.” If there is one thing that J'onn J'onzz loves, it's Oreo cookies.

“Probably,” nodded Diana in agreement, “And Tim, one thing about the pizza.”

“What?” He then turned his head towards the Amazon, who had a smile on her face.

“No anchovies,” she joked. It brought a smile to his face too.

[Tim85]

Chapter 3
The Test

High in the sky above Japan, a giant gold-colored ball with what looked to be three silver spikes jutting out at the bottom hovered over the city of Tokyo. The ball was in reality, the Mothership of the Xilians and the spikes were ships used for transportation and teleportation of monsters that they controlled. The complex would normally stick out like a sore thumb visually as well as show up on radar. But the Controller upgraded the barrier shield to not only protect the ship, but to make it seem invisible and not be picked up on radar. In the cavernous rooms of the ship housed several hundred Xilian individuals that were brought in from the movie.

In the center of the ship was the main hall. The giant pillar in this large room resembled the fusion of a stalagmite and a stalactite. Situated on one of the end walls of the room sat a giant monitor from which the Controller can view anyplace in the world just by his command. Under the screen, on the floor, sat a large control board, which was in fact a replication of Dr. Serizawa’s own machine with modifications done by the Xilian Controller.

In the main room, the Controller was viewing different places of the Earth on the screen. Standing behind him was eight of his top soldiers that were his guards.

“Soon the Earth will be ours,” said the Controller gloating to his guards without turning around, “Not only will we turn this place into a farm planet but it will become our new home world with me in charge!”

“Shall we release the monsters and the warships?” said the guard on the right end.

“No,” said the leader, raising his right hand and pointing his index finger into the air, “I’m not going to take that route this time. I’ve learned from our previous mistakes. We’re going to take care of their defenses first. We’re not going to have another Godzilla fiasco.” He was making reference to the movie where they had attacked the Earth but didn’t know about Godzilla, which proved to be the Xilian’s undoing. The lone female guard of the group then approached the Controller.

“I have the information you wanted,” she said, holding a small control panel that resembled a clip board, with all the data she was ordered to get.

“Good,” he said, turning around to face the guard. “First of all, no Godzilla correct?”

“Correct,” she nodded in response.

The Controller grinned, “Excellent. Any mutants?” Mutants were humans that had ancestors whom had crossbred with Xilians and have superhuman strengths.

“No, not exactly,” she said cautiously.

The grin left the Controller’s face. “What do you mean?”

“There is a group of humans who are called superheroes. Some are regular humans, some are metahumans.”

“Metahumans?” asked the leader.

“They are humans with special powers,” she explained. “Nine of some of the most powerful superheroes, metahuman or not, have formed a group, a team of sorts, that protects the Earth. They are called the Justice League of America.” She then handed him the small panel with the information and brought the nine heroes up on the screen showing them each performing heroic deeds. He looked at the nine names and as he read them off, they each took center stage on the screen.

“Superman?” asked the Controller. The image of a figure clad in blue with a red cape and a red and yellow shield on his chest with a single “S” appeared.

“Superman,” explained the female guard, “while looks human, is actually an alien himself; from the extinct planet of Krypton. The yellow sun of Earth gives him the power of flight, invulnerability, super strength, and heat vision.” Her leader nodded, obviously impressed by the Kryptonian. He then read the next name on the list:

“The Batman?” The screen then switched to images of a dark caped figure with the image of a black bat on the chest of the human.

“The Batman is unlike the others, he is a normal human; meaning he is without super powers. However, he makes up for it with an extraordinary detective ability and gadgetry.” The Controller grinned, thinking that this hero would be useful later.

“Wonder Woman,” he spoke, bringing the image of a raven haired woman in a red and gold outfit with blue and white starred shorts and crimson boots front and center on the screen.

“She is from an island of warrior woman known as the Amazons. She has super strength, flight and a long, golden rope that forces the truth out of anyone bound to it.” The Xilian leader smiled at the image of the Amazonian princess. Even being an alien, he too was smitten by Wonder Woman.

“Not bad looking, for a cow,” he remarked, “Now,” he continued, clearing his throat, getting his mind back to business, “The Flash.” What came up on the screen was for the most part, crimson blurs; only did the shape of a human come into view for brief instances. What the Controller could make out was a crimson clad figure with yellow boots and a lightning bolt symbol on his chest.

“The Flash,” the female guard continued her explanations, “has the power of super speed and is considered by many Earthlings to be the “fastest man alive”. The alien leader then moved to the next name:

“Green Lantern.” Now a white, black, and green costumed human with an emerald ring on his right hand appeared on screen.

“The Green Lantern uses a special ring that can create hard light constructs that he conjures up with his mind.”

“Now, what’s this Martian Manhunter?” he said as the green skinned individual with red shorts and a blue cape took center screen.

“The Martian Manhunter is actually a being from the planet Mars. He, like many other heroes, have super strength and flight but also has the ability to shape shift, can project powerful beams from his eyes, and telepathy.”

“There are certainly a lot of aliens running around this Earth,” he observed as went to the next name, “Aquaman?” The green skinned Martian on the screen disappeared and was replaced by a blond haired man in tight green and black pants with a yellow prosthetic left hand.

“He is actually king of the underwater kingdom known as Atlantis. He too has super human strength and invulnerability but also can breathe underwater, communicate with undersea life, and can change his fake hand into a tethered harpoon.”

The Controller then snorted as he read the next name, “Plastic Man?” A man wearing a red outfit and what looked like goggles covering his eyes appeared on screen taking on different forms.

“He has the power to change and contort his body into anything he wishes.”

After the female guard finished, he stopped and stared at the final name.

“The Kaiju?” he asked. The Kaiju took center stage and the Controller’s eyes widened as the various monster forms appeared, especially Godzilla.

“I thought there was no Godzilla!” cried the leader, turning towards the female guard with fire in his eyes. The guard hunkered down in fear.

“Technically no,” she said trembling, “Since The Kaiju can become so many different monsters, we didn’t classify him as Godzilla.”

The Controller straightened up, tugged on his collar and turned his attention to the screen once again.

“No matter,” he said. “He, and the rest of the Justice League, will soon be taken care of.”

“What are you going to do, sir?” asked one of the guards.

“I want to see just how strong the League really is,” he replied. He then approached the panel and his fingers began to fly across the many buttons.

“We’re going to send three of the weaker monsters to one of their home bases to test them.” He entered the location: Gotham City.

“Gotham City, sir?” asked another guard, reading the name of the city off the screen.

“Yes,” the Controller sneered, “Gotham City is home to the League’s weakest member: the Batman. He’s only a regular human; he’ll have to call for help.” He then pressed the send key to teleport the monsters to Gotham City.

“Let’s see what this Justice League can do.” He stepped back as Gotham City filled the screen.

Gotham City

A city plagued with crime, Gotham City is one of the most infamous cities in the country. While many costumed heroes have stepped in to help clean up the city; the most well-known and still number one defender is the Batman.

After billionaire Bruce Wayne lost his parents to a lone gunman, he vowed to prevent that from happening to anyone else again. Using the image of a bat and his mysterious nature, the Batman’s most powerful tool is his legend. His knowledge and know-how has made him an important member of the Justice League, despite his lack of special powers.

For his rounds that evening, he had taken to the sky via the Batwing, a military-prototype Batman uses to help in his fight against crime. It has been quiet for quite some time. While he does credit the decline in crime to The Kaiju helping him out to prove himself to Batman; it still worried him. While some people enjoy the quietness of late, Batman knows something big was about to happen. While it may seem cliché, but the “calm before the storm” is something Batman takes very seriously.

“Oracle,” he said to the on board link, “Anything big so far?”

“Not yet,” she replied. Oracle is in fact, Barbara Gordon, relation to Commissioner James Gordon, one of The Dark Knight’s closest allies and even rarer, a good friend. She fought alongside Batman as the first Batgirl until she was paralyzed from the waist down thanks to The Joker’s bullet. Now she serves alongside Batman and the JLA, providing information via computer hacking as Oracle.

“Keep your eyes and ears open,” said Batman. “Something’s bound to happen.” As if on cue, a blip appeared on radar behind the Batwing.

“An object’s appeared on radar at nine o’clock.” Batman reported to Oracle. “And it’s going the same direction I am; rapidly approaching.” The object then buzzed above the Batwing, the winds buffered the aircraft. Batman managed to maintain control. He did manage to catch a glimpse of what flew over.

“A giant praying mantis?” asked a confused Batman. “Kaiju?”

“What would he be doing in Gotham?” asked Oracle, who was equally puzzled, “I don’t recall you asking for his help.”

“I didn’t,” said Batman through his teeth, “I’m going to find out.” He then activated the JLA com link in his ear.

Watchtower

Tim and Diana entered the Monitor Womb after their meeting in Davenport. He carried in the pizza; a large triple meat: Canadian bacon, sausage, and pepperoni while she brought in the sodas and plates. The Monitor Womb is a special area of the Watchtower that has access to every news station in the world in order to discover any situation that may need the League’s attention. The circular room has a pillar in the middle of the room with two chairs attached that allow the heroes on monitor duty to be able to keep any eye on as many screens as possible. As they walked in, J'onn was sitting in the chair in the middle of the room, waiting for them.

“Do you have them?” he asked the two heroes as he extended his right hand, awaiting his part of the deal.

“Right here,” said Kaiju, holding up a package of Oreo cookies. He tossed the package to the Martian, who caught them without crushing any cookies.

“I even got the good ones,” he added. J'onn examined the package to see that they had extra cream.

He grinned: “A table and 2 chairs have been set up for you.” Tim suggested that they eat in the Womb so they catch up with the news. The chair that held the superhero rotated to face the screens and lowered to the center of the pole as he dug into his package of cookies. Kaiju looked over to the left side of the ledge to see Diana set out the plates and the sodas on a plastic card table and two metal folding chairs.

“At least they're padded one,” he said, referring to the chairs as he walked over to the table, “Looks out of place doesn't it?” he asked Wonder Woman as he placed the pizza down. She looked at him with a puzzled look, “The tables and chairs, I mean.” He was making reference to the fact that they're on a highly advanced technological moon base and they were using old fashioned tables and chairs.

“If it ain't broke...,” she replied.

“True,” he said as he opened the box. He inhaled deeply, enjoying the smell of a freshly cooked pizza.

“Hey J'onn,” he hollered to the Martian,”Want a piece of pizza with your cookies?” Tim turned around to see a green hand with its palm up and the arm coming from the chair in the middle of the room. Tim jumped at the sight, forgetting that J'onn could stretch just like Plastic Man.

“Sure,” he replied, “I'll take some.” Kaiju placed a plate with two pieces in the palm and J'onn quickly retracted it.

“Thank you,” he said as took a bite of pie. Tim and Diana both took a piece and sat down to enjoy the pizza. They both ate in silence due to the both of them scanning the various screens of the Monitor Womb. Tim was able to focus his hearing on one screen, get the gist of the story and move to another one. He then came upon on that featured one of those political commentators.

“My loyal viewers,” said the older, gray haired man, “We have a problem in this world that is bigger then any super villain. And its name is The Kaiju.” Tim stopped in mid-bite at the mention of his heroic identity and gave the screen his undivided attention.

“This so-called hero is a threat to worldwide security. A shape shifter who can't remember his true form and can become creatures that are near invincible? Give me a break. What is he hiding? The Justice League continue to defend this monster. They say he is a force of good. Please. What's keeping The Kaiju from going against its so-called keepers? It won't be the first time a hero has gone bad.”

“This is good pizza, Tim,” said Wonder Woman, “Thanks for suggesting it.” She looked over at Tim when he didn't give an answer.

“Tim, did you hear me?” she asked. He didn't even look her way. She tried rubbing her foot up and down Tim's left leg. He remained entranced by something on the screens. Diana realized that she could stand topless in front of him and he wouldn't know it. She then found what he was watching and she became interest in the program.

“I just hope the JLA keep their pet monster on a tight leash. We certainly don't want this to happen...” The screen then cut to black and white clips from “Gojira” showing different scenes of Godzilla destroying Tokyo. Seeing this, Tim began to clinch his hand that held the slice of pizza into a fist. The screen then cut to Raymond Burr's character Steve Martin from the Americanized version talking into his recorder:

“I'm saying a prayer George. A prayer for the entire world.”

“Yes, Perry Mason,” the guy continued. The commentator's ignorance caused Tim's blood to boil. He clinched his fist tighter.“We should all be hoping and praying. We'll be right back.” The screen then faded to commercial.

“Why that arrogant, brainless, blowhard!!!” he yelled.

“Uh, Tim,” Diana spoke up cautiously, “Your pizza.” He looked at his hand and saw that he crushed the slice into a clump with all the toppings oozing all over his hand. He put the piece of pizza on his plate and grabbed a napkin off the table to wipe his hand clean.

“Where does he get off saying that?” he asked.

“The man does have the right to his opinion,” said the Amazon. Tim gave her an angry look.

“Don't tell me you agree with him?”

“I didn't say that,” she barked back at him, returning the dirty look, “I'm saying he's the kind that will keep us honest.” Her firing back at him stunned Tim but gave him a chance to calm down.

“I know,” he replied in a more calmer demeanor, “I know we can't please everyone but I would never go against the League.”

“We all have our critics Tim. Take me for instance. Some say I'm a bad role model.” Tim looked at her with a stunned look.

“I thought you were praised for being such a influence as a powerful woman. They look up to you as a means of empowerment.”

“Yes,” she replied, “But I also have some people who can't get past this.” Wonder Woman then pointed at her costume, “Many people have problem with it because they say it's too revealing.”

“No complaints here,” said Kaiju with a grin.

“Of course you wouldn't,”said Diana in a not amused tone, “But some people do have a problem with my outfit.” Kaiju then shook his head:

“I still don't understand the problem people have with me.”

“It's because you're different,” said J'onn. The two turned to see the Martian hover from the Womb chair and land in front of them.”Humans do tend to fear what they don't understand.” He then grabbed another slice from the pizza box.

“I don't mean this the way it'll sound but you'd know more about that then the two of us,” Tim said to the Martian.

“No offense taken,” said J'onn as he took a bite of pizza, “But I'm still somewhat humanoid in this form. The creatures you become are far from it. Most of them are reptilian; which will make people leery. But you can't let it get to you.”

“We all have to deal with it in our position,” Woman Woman said, agreeing with J'onn, “But you'll eventually start to ignore most of it.”

“I usually do,” Tim replied, “But it does get old after awhile; especially the ignorance of some people.”

“Yes,” replied J'onn, nodding his head.

“No kidding,” said Wonder Woman. Just then, Kaiju's com link beeped and Batman's voice was on the other end.

“Kaiju! Come in!” he ordered.

“Yes?” Kaiju said into his earpiece, “What’s up Batman?”

“You know damn well what I’m talking about!” Batman yelled. “What the hell are you doing in Gotham?”

A brief silence came after Batman’s question as Kaiju looked at Woman Woman and Martian Manhunter with a confused look, whom returned it to the young hero, and then answered: “Huh?”

“You know this is my city,” scolded Batman.

“Uh, Batman?” interrupted Oracle.

“Not now!” said Batman to Oracle before returning his attention back to Kaiju, “If I needed help I would have asked for it.”

“Batman!” screamed Oracle, “It’s not Kaiju!” Batman stopped yelling. “A giant spider has just been reported downtown!”

Batman was silent for a minute, “Kaiju,” he then said calmly. “Where are you?”

“I’m at the Watchtower, eating pizza with Diana and J’onn.”

Oracle jumped in again, “A mammoth lobster has been sighted at the harbor, damaging some warehouses.”

“Did you get all that?” asked Batman.

“Yes, Oracle just sent word up to me” said J’onn, jumping in on the conversation. The three at the Watchtower looked on at several screens to see several news flashes featuring the creatures that just appeared in Gotham City. What Tim saw on the screens; he could not believe his eyes.

“I don’t believe it,” said Tim with shock in his voice.

“What?” asked Bruce.

“They look like the monsters from the movie Godzilla: Final Wars,” observed Kaiju. “The mantis is called Kamacuras, the spider is Kumonga, and Ebirah is the name of the lobster. How could this be? Where did they come from?”

“Never mind that right now. Call the others and get down here as soon as possible,” said Batman, “I’m going to need all the help I can get. I’ll keep the mantis busy until you get here.”

[Tim85]

Chapter 4
The Rumble in Gotham

Kaiju, Wonder Woman, and Martian Manhunter contacted the other five members and apprised them of the situation. Three giant monsters apparently from the Godzilla movies had been reported in Gotham City: Kamacuras, Kumonga, and Ebirah. Batman, unable to handle this threat alone, requested that the League come to Gotham. The Justice League teleported in as a group onto a vacant street and was briefed. Kaiju turned into the Final Wars Rodan before teleporting, feeling that flight would be helpful here. J’onn tried to communicate telepathically with the creatures but to no avail. Aquaman also attempted to make contact with the monster Ebirah due to his ability to communicate with sea life, but he too had no luck. The only thing they could read was static.

“Okay, looks like we’re going to have to divide and conquer,” said Superman.

“What do you recommend, Kaiju?” asked J’onn, turning to the hero.

“Me?” asked Tim pointing towards himself, “Why me?”

“Because you’re the Godzilla nerd here,” said Plastic Man.

“Thanks,” said Kaiju sarcastically.

“Seriously, dude,” said Kyle. “You know what’s going on here. What do you recommend?”

“Okay,” said Kaiju with a sigh. After thinking about it for awhile, he came up with a plan. “Superman, Flash, and Green Lantern: take care of Ebirah. Wonder Woman, Plastic Man, J’onn, and Arthur can handle Kumonga. I’ll help Batman with Kamacuras. Remember: these things merely see you as little annoyances. They will do anything to kill you. Unfortunately, the only way to stop these things is to kill them first.”

“Kill?” asked Diana with disappointment in her voice. One of the reasons for her coming to Man’s World was to advocate against man’s urge to kill anything they don’t understand.

“Sorry Princess,” said Kaiju apologetically, “That’s the only way to stop the monsters.”

“All right, let’s get to it,” said Flash as he took off towards the harbor. The group then dispersed to their respected areas.

Batman fired his laser weapons at the creature known as Kamacuras as it sat on top of an office building. The blasts merely smoldered on the exoskeleton of the emerald insect but it did attract its attention. As the plane flew over the mantis, it took to the air after its attacker. Realizing that the insect was behind him, The Dark Knight performed a loop de loop in order to get behind Kamacuras. Now trailing the flying creature he fired two missiles from missile bays that were under the plane. They both made a direct hit on the target. The creature screeched in shock as the projectiles exploded upon the exoskeleton of the giant insect and began to lose altitude.

As Batman flew over the descending insect, suddenly Kamacuras began to gain altitude rapidly and swiped at the plane with its claws, just missing the Batwing. The Caped Crusader gritted his teeth as he fought to maintain control of the aircraft from the rush of air from the swipe. However, during the brief time it took for Batman to regain stability, Kamacuras managed to catch up to the Batwing. Batman kicked in the jet propulsion as the mantis raised its claws for another strike. While the thrust forward managed to pull the aircraft from the brunt of the strike and the flames shooting out of the back of the aircraft disoriented the invertebrate, the claws did hit the back of the plane’s wings.

The plane began to lose altitude due to the force of the strike. Batman frantically tried to pull up to avoid striking an approaching office building when he saw the mantis, with smoke coming off its head due to the jet flames, make a second run for the flying vehicle. Just as Kamacuras was upon the Batwing, a purple beam came from out of nowhere and struck the side of the mantis with enough force that it knocked the insect sideways. Then the source of the beam, Kaiju; which was now about the size of the green insect, flew in and slammed into the insect’s side, causing it to retreat and abandon its query. Even though the FW (Final Wars) Rodan did not have the Uranium Heat Beam like Fire Rodan from the 1993 movie Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II, Tim tended to mix and match abilities of the same monsters that he thought would be helpful, such as having the beam from Fire Rodan on the Final Wars version of the creature.

Just as Batman was about to hit the ejector seat button, he saw Kaiju’s shadow fell upon the Batwing and he felt a jerk from the sudden stop of the aircraft when Kaiju’s feet grabbed the plane. The monster hero was careful not crush the wings of the aircraft as he held it in his talons.

You okay Batman? Kaiju’s voice rang in Bruce’s head, who realized that J’onn put up the psi-net.

Yes, replied Batman, Set me down on top of that office building in front of us. I need to inspect the damage.

Roger, Kaiju said as he flew up to the roof of the structure that Batman was about to collide with and gently set the Batwing down. Kaiju then released the aircraft and hovered above the roof, watching Batman get out and inspect the damage.

Anything major? asked Kaiju.

Some minor dents and scratches, nothing that will affect the flight of the airplane, answered Batman. Just as he looked up, he saw Kamacuras approaching rapidly behind Kaiju with the winged reptile seeming to be the target of the insect’s wrath.

Kaiju! Batman yelled in the flying creature’s head, Look out behind you! Kaiju turned his head just as the insect collided with the Rodan’s back. Kamacuras wrapped its claws around the neck and head and its legs around the stunned hero’s body and took off over the city. Despite the damage done to the aircraft, Batman rushed to the cockpit of the Batwing, dove in, and took off after the two monsters.

Downtown Gotham City was in chaos. People were running from their apartments and into the streets trying to avoid the spider monster known as Kumonga. When one of the eight legs rubbed against a building; pieces of the structures fell to the sidewalk and on top of civilians, who were trying to dodge the rubble. Occasionally, one of the limbs would go through the brick and mortar buildings as if they were paper, causing the structures to collapse inward. Soon the spider froze in its tracks. The yellow and brown arachnid spotted a man trying to pull his wife’s leg from under a piece of concrete. The man and woman saw the spider and screamed. Kumonga then raised one of its front legs into the air, intent on skewering the two humans on its claw tipped leg.

Kumonga began to lower its limb when it came to a stop half way. The spider tried to pull forward but the leg was being pulled back instead. The man and woman look up to see their savior: Wonder Woman had lassoed the leg and using all her strength, pulled on the lariat to keep the leg in the air. Her muscles were visibly straining due to trying to keep the arachnid’s limb in the air. Aquaman jumped in and pulled the piece of concrete off the woman’s leg with ease. The immense pressure from living deep in the ocean had given Arthur his extraordinary strength.

“Thanks Aquaman,” said the man.

Arthur, Diana’s voice echoed in his mind, Get those two out of here! Help clear anyone trapped in the rubble!

I’m already on it, said Aquaman as he grabbed the man and woman and got them out of harm’s way. During the mental conversation, one of Kumonga’s many sky-blue eyes had spotted Wonder Woman, who then turned her attention to the arachnid.

“Stop what you are doing!” she yelled, “You’re hurting people and causing destruction!” One of the abilities granted to Diana by the gods was her ability to communicate with animals. She hoped that this ability would also pertain to gigantic spiders.

The spider, not even phased by the words of the Amazon, pulled with extra force on the resisting Amazon. Diana and the Lasso were thrust forward in the air, flying across the city. Plastic Man spotted her in the air a few blocks away from the action and formed his hand into a giant baseball glove and stretched his arm into the air. Diana was caught in the palm of the glove.

“Safe!” yelled Plastic Man.

Is Diana hurt? asked J’onn.

She’s fine, O’Brian answered as he lowered her down to the street and helped to get her on her feet.

“You okay?” he asked her.

“I’ll be fine,” she said, rubbing her arms that were tired out from holding Kumonga’s leg up.

I’m going after Kumonga, said J’onn.

Good luck Orkin Man, responded Plas.

J’onn flew in front of the advancing arachnid. He then released his Martian Vision upon the monster. Two powerful beams erupted from his eyes and struck the back side of the spider’s head. Kumonga hissed in pain. The creature caught Manhunter in its sights. Two mandibles below the mouth pulled apart and fired a string of yellow webbing at J’onn. The alien then phased out, becoming ghost-like, and the webbing passed through J’onn and formed a web on the building behind him. Another one of J’onn’s natural Martian abilities is the power to control the density of his molecules, allowing shape-shifting and the ability to phase out to pass through objects. The spider hissed in frustration and then fired a retractable stinger from between its fangs. The stinger passed through the ghost-like Martian as well. Kumonga retracted it and backed up in surprise.

J’onn then rushed towards the monster, phased back into a solid form, and slugged the spider in the head. He focused power into his fists, increasing their mass in order to deliver hard punches. The blows sounded like thunder claps when they collided. The spider stumbled backwards but remained on its feet. Kumonga then took its second right leg and jammed it into a building beside it in order to catch its balance, causing rubble to fall from the top. J’onn looked up at the rubble in surprise. The distraction bought Kumonga enough time to swipe at the Martian with its front right leg as he rushed to catch the debris in order to prevent it from hitting the remaining bystanders fleeing the scene. The blow knocked the surprised Martian Manhunter into an adjacent building.

As the creature regained its balance from the previous attack, a giant peach colored flyswatter slammed the head of the arachnid into the asphalt below. Standing in front of Kumonga was a stretched out Plastic Man with his hands in the form of flyswatters.

“Hey Charlotte,” Plastic Man yelled at the monster, “I’m right here!” Plas began to slap at the giant invertebrate with his hands. Every time the spider tried to react, Eel came down with another blow.

“Patty cake, patty cake,” taunted Plastic Man. Eventually enough time lapses between slaps that Kumonga fired its stinger at the stretched out hero, striking him on the right shoulder.

Ouch! yelped O’Brian in the psi-net, I’m hit Sarge! As the stunned Plas grabbed his right shoulder, Kumonga then fired a string of webbing that formed a web when it collided with Plastic Man. The weight of the web knocked Eel on his back and the web stuck to the street, holding the elastic superhero in place.

“Help me! Help me!” cried out Plastic Man in a high pitched voice.

“I’m coming!” yelled Wonder Woman as she flew toward the spider. She gritted her teeth in anger as she approached. Kumonga then fired another webbing string and it struck Diana, forming a web around her as well. She landed next to Plastic Man and was held to the road by the web. As the two Leaguers tried to free themselves, Kumonga approached them with its fangs chattering.

Flash, the Fastest Man Alive, had beaten Superman and Green Lantern to the harbor. He raced from warehouse to warehouse searching for people who were still in the buildings. Fortunately most had already been evacuated or where abandoned. He slowed to a stop when the monster Ebirah came into sight, swiping at the buildings that were in its way, causing large chunks of rubble to fly into the air. The giant lobster had a reddish hue to it; as if it had already been boiled.

Everyone’s out of the harbor from what I can see, reported Flash, Looks like they’ve all been evacuated.

Good, answered Superman, Keep the lobster busy until we get there.

On it, Wally replied and sped towards the crustacean. He stopped in front of it and using his momentum, picked from a pile of bricks and threw each of them at Ebirah like a machine gun. The bricks hit the sea-going monster with enough force to cause the creature to take notice. Ebirah screeched out in anger. It spotted Wally and advanced towards the speedster and raised its larger right claw. Before the claw was brought down, Flash took off and sped around the mammoth lobster in a circle. As he circled Ebirah, his speed increased, which resulted in a giant cyclone being formed that kept the monster in place. Ebirah moved its head from side to side, trying to get a bead on the rapid moving hero. Clark and Kyle arrived at the scene; watching the confused lobster trying to catch a glimpse of Flash.

“Kyle,” said The Man of Steel, “You go first and see what you can do.”

“Gotcha,” replied Kyle. He flew towards the lobster and fired a beam of green energy tipped with a boxing glove at it. The gloved ray clocked the lobster upside the face. Ebirah then turned its attention to Lantern after it regained its senses.

Kyle distracted Ebirah, Wally, said Superman, Clear out now. We’ll take it from here.

Okay, replied Flash, I’m outta here. He then sped off out of the way, leaving a crimson streak behind him to inspect the warehouses that Ebirah smashed up earlier.

“Okay Lobster Newburg,” Green Lantern said to the creature, “Just you and me.” He then formed a giant sword in each hand and rushed the crustacean. As the monster swung each of its claws at Kyle, they were swatted away with the large blades. Ebirah then swiped at the young hero with its smaller, more pointed left claw. Kyle deflected the blow with a swing of the swords. Before he could react, Ebirah then clamped onto the hero with its giant right claw. The force would have sliced Kyle in two if it weren’t for the energy field that covered Green Lantern when he’s in flight. Even with the field, he can still feel the pressure from the claw. His ring formed a car jack and tried to pull the pincers apart.

A little help here! Kyle yelled in his mind.

Coming, replied Clark. Superman flew up to the giant lobster and then tightened his eyes and twin beams of intense heat sprang from them, striking one of the eye stalks. Ebirah screeched in pain and released Kyle, who got out of the way of the two fighters. It then turned its focus on Superman as the last Kryptonian sped towards the lobster. Superman then socked the giant crustacean across the head. The force of the blow knocked the monster back a few steps into the rubble of a recently destroyed LexCorp warehouse. Ebirah then got back on its feet and raised its left claw into the air and brought it down upon the Man of Steel. Superman caught it with ease. Suddenly the creature pushed down with extra force and pushed the hero to the ground. The force was so strong it buried Superman and the tip of the claw deep into the ground. Kyle saw this from a distance and gasped in shock.

Ebirah screeched as if in celebration. Just then it felt its claw shake and began to come out of the ground. The lobster then applied more pressure to keep the hero buried. Suddenly a loud crack was heard. Superman burst free of the hole with enough force that it broke the claw off the limb of the lobster. A loud, blood-curdling screech was heard from the mammoth lobster as it tucked its limb next to its body. The creature was too occupied with its severed claw that it didn’t see Green Lantern approach. Kyle used the ring to form a giant crustacean cracker and used it to snap the larger claw off its other appendage. Ebirah began to flail widely from the pain of losing both its claws, causing a storm of building rubble to fly into the air. Superman then appeared next to Kyle, still holding the pointed claw.

“Kyle, can you crack the exoskeleton on Ebirah’s head?” asked Superman.

“Does a bear do it in the woods?” said Kyle, “Sure thing.”

“Good. After you do that, I’ll finish it off with the claw.”

“Okay let’s do it,” said Kyle.

Green Lantern cautiously approached the flailing monster. The ring then formed a giant sledge hammer and he brought it down on the lobster’s head. The blow slammed the crustacean into the ground, causing to stop flailing. Kyle continued slamming the hammer on the creature’s head until he could see cracks forming at the impact site.

Okay, Superman, let him have it!

Superman ascended into the air with the claw. Once he was high enough, Kal-El then pointed the claw towards the ground. After he got his aim where he wanted it, Superman then descended rapidly. Almost to the ground, Superman then tossed the claw with all his strength at Ebirah. The claw struck the cracked site and the point of the claw exited out the underside of the head. Ebirah tried to raise itself up but then collapsed and died. Superman and Green Lantern landed in front of the dead Ebirah and Flash joined them.

“Bull’s eye!” yelled Wally.

“All we need now is a few thousand gallons of drawn butter,” said Kyle.

Kumonga approached the two downed heroes, its fangs chattering in anticipation. Just as the arachnid was upon Wonder Woman and Plastic Man, J’onn flew in and slugged the giant spider repeatedly, pushing Kumonga back and knocking it off its feet. Aquaman then landed in between the two webbed League members with a lighted hand held butane torch.

Sorry, I don’t have anything that needs welding, said Plas jokingly.

The webbing’s weak to fire, said Arthur, ignoring his comment.

Kaiju informed Diana and I about this before we arrived in Gotham, said J’onn. Since I can’t get near the flame, I’ll handle the spider. Martian Manhunter dared not to help with the cutting due to his weakness to fire. J’onn then advanced towards Kumonga while Arthur began to cut the webbing with the flame.

J’onn came upon the arachnid and blasted the monster at the joint between the head and abdomen with his Martian Vision just as it stood up. Kumonga hissed in pain and shock. Irritated, the spider monster fired its stinger again. This time Martian Manhunter hardened to that of a diamond. The barb struck the hardened hero, stunning the spider as the stinger began to vibrate from the blow. J’onn then grabbed the stinger in both hands and pulled back with all his strength. The stinger snapped and was pulled from the spider. Venom spewed from the site of the stinger and splattered everywhere in the streets. Kumonga then hissed loudly and flailed in pain.

J’onn then dropped the barb and blasted the spinnerets with his Martian Vision. The blast caused blood to fly everywhere. J’onn then dove to just above the ground and rushed the flailing arachnid. The Martian then clapped his hands together, increased their mass, and with all the strength he could muster, swung at Kumonga’s head. The blow hit just as the monster reared up and knocked the front of the spider into the air. The only legs that were touching the ground were the very back pair. J’onn caught the spider just as it began to fall forward. J’onn pushed as hard as he could, trying to push the spider on its back, rendering it helpless. Just as Martian Manhunter began to loose his grip, Diana and Plastic Man, now resembling a muscle man, appeared and started pushing as well.

“Hera, give me strength!” cried Wonder Woman, calling upon her faith in the goddess to help her in her endeavor.

“Could she share some of that with the rest of us?” asked O’Brian, huffing and puffing.

“Just keep pushing!” yelled J’onn. The combined strength of the three heroes managed to get the spider almost vertical.

“Just a little more!” cried J’onn.

You’ve got it, said Aquaman from on top of an adjacent building. Arthur leaped from the building towards Kumonga. The King of Atlantis hit the spider monster hard with both feet. The blow was just the amount of force needed to push Kumonga on its back. As he pushed off of the spider, Aquaman then fired his cybernetic hand at a nearby streetlamp as he fell. He acquired the artificial limb after it was devoured by piranhas under orders from a foe he was facing. It used to be simply a harpoon but now he can alternate between the pointed appendage and a functional hand. After he grabbed on to the lamp, he swung down to the sidewalk below. J’onn, Diana, and Eel joined Arthur and watched the flailing arachnid.

“So how do we kill it?” asked Aquaman.

“Does anybody have a giant can of bug spray on them, would they?” said Plastic Man. J’onn looked over at the stinger lying in the street.

“Diana,” asked J’onn, turning his attention toward the princess, “You’re a good javelin thrower, aren’t you?”

“One of the best,” she boasted.

“I’ll weaken the exoskeleton on the underside of the head between it and the abdomen of the spider and you’ll toss that stinger through it.” Diana had a nauseous look on her face. She didn’t like the idea of killing the creature. Killing in general is not her favorite thing to do. J’onn placed his hand on her left shoulder:

“It’s the only way, Diana. I’m sorry.”

“Okay,” she said reluctantly, “Let’s get this over with.”

Wonder Woman hoisted the stinger high into the air. J’onn again blasted Kumonga with his Martian Vision, cracking the underside of the head. J’onn got out of the way and gave a thumbs-up. Diana nodded and with all her might, chucked the giant barb at the head of the monster. The stinger hit its mark, making a loud crack as it entered the head. Kumonga let out a slow hiss, like that of a punctured tire, and as it expired, its legs curled up on itself. Plastic Man stared at the carnage and quipped:

“Anyone have a mop?”

Kaiju frantically flapped his wings, trying to release himself from the grip of Kamacuras. While the left claw was wrapped around his neck, the right claw kept bashing Tim’s head. The blows to the head were causing Kaiju to get disoriented. Then the mantis sunk its jaws into the back of Kaiju’s neck. Tim cackled in pain. Just when he thought his strength was giving out, two missiles came from behind Kamacuras and exploded on its backside. Kamacuras screeched in pain and surprise and released Kaiju from his grip. The hero shook his head, trying to regain his senses.

Kaiju caught a glimpse of the Batwing as it flew past the duo. Tim barely saw Batman give him a thumbs-up when he flew by. Furious over the sneak attack, Kaiju clutched the fingers on his right wing into a fist, spun around, and socked the giant mantis in the head. The strike pushed the mantis away from Kaiju. Tim’s crest of horns on his head lit up a purplish hue. Kamacuras began to rush the reptile as he fired a Uranium Heat Beam at the monster. Kamacuras dodged the beam and continued his rush towards the flying hero. Before Kaiju could react, the mantis’ mandibles struck the hero with such momentum that it sent the flying reptile plummeting to the ground. Kaiju crashed to the street below, the force and momentum of something that large hitting the ground blew windows out and sent portions of the buildings around him falling to the sidewalk. Kaiju got to his feet and shook off the debris. Kaiju gritted his teeth in rage, curled his wings next to his body, and stood straight up, spreading his wingspan, and released a cackle of rage. Tim spotted the mantis in the air and leapt into the air after it with fire in his eyes.

Batman tried to deter the insect with his pulse lasers but to no avail. The Dark Knight just barely pulled the aircraft out of the mantis’ flight path. He only had one set of missiles left aboard and didn’t want to waste them. Batman turned the plane towards Kamacuras and fired another sequence of single pulse lasers at the monster. The lasers barely scratched it, with smoke coming off the impact sites. The mantis rushed the Batwing again, this time with enough speed The Dark Knight could not get out of harm’s way.

As soon as the image of the giant head of the insect filled the glass of the cockpit, Kaiju came up from underneath and slammed into the mantis. Batman watched as the two combatants ascend high into the air. Kaiju mercilessly attacked the mantis with his claws and teeth. The hero managed to get behind the monster and sunk his teeth into the neck of the insect. Kamacuras fought to release itself from the jaws of the winged reptile, but the struggling was futile.

Batman was getting underneath Kaiju to attack Kumacuras in case the mantis got free when he heard a loud crack. He looked up to see a giant mantis head falling to the ground. He turned his focus towards Tim and saw the giant reptile holding the body of Kamacuras in his talons and blood dripped from his jaws. The Dark Knight then pushed the aircraft after the head. Locking on, Batman fired his last pair of missiles. The head exploded into millions of pieces when the missiles made a direct hit. After watching this, Kaiju then swung his feet forward, throwing the body up into the air. As the carcass began to fall, Kaiju released the full force of Rodan’s Uranium Heat Beam upon the body. Kamacuras’ body exploded and was mostly incinerated, with small pieces of the insect raining down on the city.

Kaiju shrunk down to human size and flew alongside Batman to where J’onn, Diana, Eel, and Arthur had slayed the monster Kumonga. Just as Bruce leaped out of the Batwing, Wally, and shortly after, Kyle and Clark appeared.

“So, the monsters have been killed?” asked Batman.

“As dead as a doornail,” said Plastic Man.

“Ditto,” answered Green Lantern.

“We’ll help with the clean-up,” offered Superman.

“I would hope so,” said Batman at Clark, who just glared at Bruce. The two have a mutual respect for each other but also don’t agree with each others method of crime fighting. Still they’d each give their lives for the other.

“But now the biggest question is,” J’onn said “where did these things come from?”

“We’ll find out soon enough,” said Kaiju.

[Tim85]

Chapter 5
Challenge of the Xilians

Tokyo

“NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!” screamed the Controller as he watched the last monster fall to the Justice League of America. He began to throw a tantrum like a little kid. His guards just stood there, silent, out of fear of the rage being taken out on them. The Xilian Controller then took a deep breath and settled his rage.

“No matter,” he said calmly, brushing at the air with his right hand. “Those three barely lasted a minute with Godzilla. They were lucky they lasted as long as they did against those heroes.” He then turned around to the guards.

“They served their purpose: to get a good gauge on the strength of the Justice League.” He then turned to one of his guards: “Are the cameras all hooked up?”

“In the process sir,” he replied. “They are being connected to every video screen in the world and are being hacked into the different human satellites awaiting your orders.”

“Perfect,” the Controller said with a grin. He then approached the control panel and his fingers began to fly over the buttons.

“We’ve toyed with them; now let’s get serious. It’s time to take care of the Justice League once and for all,” he said as he chose locations and monsters. “Once all the connections have been made, we’ll start with a manageable five monsters to get their attention and give them a false sense of security. Then, after my little speech, we’ll see if they can handle 14 monsters!”

The Watchtower, Moon

Since the battle with the monsters ended, the JLA had been spending time in Gotham City, helping any civilians and cleaning up any damage done by the monster attacks. Unfortunately there were a few casualties, mostly from the actions of the monster Kumonga. The property damage done by all three monsters will take months to repair, unfortunately for Batman and his allies; this means a possible increase in criminal activity in the damaged areas.

Batman spent most of the day examining samples collected from the bodies of the creatures (what’s left of them) to try and find an answer to where they came from. Later that day, the League met in the Watchtower to share their findings. The Watchtower is the Justice League’s headquarters, a giant building on the lunar surface that features the technologies of different worlds that aid in their ability to watch over the world and go where they are needed. Everyone was seated at the Round Table, located in the Hall of Justice, the boardroom of the complex that held a holographic projector in the middle of the table and a screen on one side of the wall that cycled through different news organizations. On the other side of the room was a large window that shown the entire Earth, a view that was breathtaking to anyone who saw it, but right now, there were more important things to worry about than the view.

Every member was seated in their respected seats except for Aquaman but Dr. Ray Palmer, a.k.a. The Atom was there instead. He came to the lunar fortress to discuss his findings with the samples that Batman passed on to him when he ran into a series of dead ends. The Atom was one of the earliest heroes to join the Justice League. While his scientific mind is of great use to the League, his name is taken from the fact that he can shrink down and back to his normal height.

“Where’s Arthur?” asked Tim, now in his human form. Whenever he was in the Watchtower, Tim felt safe enough to return to his true self; without any changes to his appearance for blending in.

“He had some business to take care of in Atlantis,” answered J’onn.

“Who’s on monitor duty?” asked Kyle.

“Oracle’s keeping an eye on things,” Batman replied.

“Shall we begin?” asked Dr. Palmer.

“Let’s,” said Superman, leaning on the table. “Batman, Atom, what are your findings?”

“Batman sent me the samples of the three creatures to look at and we both found that the monsters that attacked Gotham are all organic organisms. There were no signs of bionic components.”

“Well that’s comforting,” said Plastic Man with a groan.

“So, where did they come from?” asked Diana.

“We have not found an answer,” admitted Batman. The discovery of what these creatures were made of giving no answers frustrated the detective in Bruce to no end.

“So, all we know right now is somehow someone has engineered these creatures to resemble the monsters from the movies,” explained Ray, “However I was able to find in the structure of the DNA of all three of the monsters, in addition to the four bases that make up a DNA strand, I found an entirely new base of which I cannot explain.” As he said that Tim suddenly sat straight up in his seat due to Dr. Palmer’s information sounding strangely familiar.

“So now the task at hand is finding out who’s behind this and why,” said Superman.

“Like, why Gotham City, why those monsters, and why us?” said Wally as he raised three fingers. Kaiju cautiously raised his hand to speak.

“No need to ask permission to speak, Kaiju,” Kal-El acknowledging the young hero. “We’re not having an official meeting right now, so feel free to speak up.”

“Yeah, Plas does it all the time,” said Kyle, pointing his left thumb at the elastic superhero.

“Hey!” replied Plastic Man, sitting up in his chair in response to Lantern’s comment. J’onn shot both of them a look that told them to stop before it got out of hand. Kyle lowered his head and stared at the floor to show embarrassment and Eel made a zipping motion on his mouth, which actually formed a zipper on his lips, signaling he’ll shut up.

“Go ahead Tim,” J’onn said, turning his head towards the hero.

“I have a theory why they attacked Gotham,” said Kaiju. “I think we’re being tested.” The room was silent.

“Interesting,” said Batman, stroking his chin, “What makes you think this?”

“Okay,” Kaiju explained, as he pointed at the middle of the table, “Look at the monsters that were used.” As he said that, holographic images of Kamacuras, Kumonga, and Ebirah appeared in the middle of the table. Kaiju had earlier downloaded data of the three monsters into the Watchtower database.

“These three monsters: Kamacuras, Kumonga, and Ebirah are considered the weakest monsters in the Godzilla universe. If they really wanted to take us out then, they would have sent stronger monsters.”

“Second,” he continued, flashing his first two fingers, “The location: Gotham City. Whoever we’re dealing with mistakenly thinks that Batman is our weakest member because he has no super powers.”

“Your point?” asked Batman, not sure whether to take it as an insult.

“My point is that, if they chose a city like Metropolis, Superman would have handled it himself. He would be less likely to call for help. I know having the League in Gotham is something that you’re not fond of, so I think I speak for us all that we knew it was a serious problem for you to ask for help.” Everyone in the room nodded.

“Can you answer the “who” question?” asked Kyle.

“I wish,” answered Kaiju. Before he could continue, alarm bells began to sound in the Watchtower

“What the hell?” asked Kaiju. Amongst the noise, Oracle’s voice was heard in the room.

“Oracle to Watchtower! Emergency!”

“Go ahead Oracle,” said Superman.

“Five monsters have been reported in Metropolis, Keystone City, Chicago, London, and Mexico City respectively. I’m sending visual.” The monitor screen on the wall began to show the five cities as the monsters began their rampage.

Metropolis

The city that the Man of Steel calls home has faced many disasters before. This one, however, may very well be its biggest. In the dusk sky above the city was a winged creature. The reptile suddenly dove out of the sky and streaked across the skyline of Metropolis. The sonic booms left in the creature’s wake sent cars and people flying and destroyed upper floors of several buildings. The pteranodon like monster ascended into the air to survey the landscape. Something caught its eye, a large golden orb with the words “Daily Planet” on its side. The reptile dove down and landed feet first on the globe. The creature’s weight crushed the globe into pieces and pushed it into the top floors of the Daily Planet building.

The monster caught the eyes of people that were evacuating nearby buildings and the creature seemed to entrance the onlookers. The crimson animal brought its wings next to its body and scanned the damage it caused. The reptile then stared at the largest building in the city: LexCorp Tower. Unsatisfied with the destruction it had brought, the crest of horns began to glow upon its head. The winged monster opened its beak and released a purple ray upon the structure. The beam caused the top floor of the tower to explode, raining debris on the ground below. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on the opinion), Lex Luthor wasn’t in the building at the time. The creature then spread its wingspan, threw back its head and released a cackle that echoed through the concrete canyons of Metropolis. It then leapt into the air and made another destructive run above the city.

Keystone City

Known as the speedster capital of the world and hometown of The Flash, Keystone City is the sister city to Central City, another well known home base for speedsters. The rush hour was waning down when loud rumbles were heard and brief periods of the ground quaking. Suddenly a circular gray object began to fall from the sky. Observers noted the spikes covering the orb.

The round object slammed into the outskirts of the city, crushing cars, civilians, and buildings. The force sent the ball into the air again. Suddenly, the orb uncurled into a quadruped reptile in midair and it landed in the heart of the city. The people that weren’t crushed or injured ran in terror of the ankylosaur like creature. The giant dinosaur like reptile let out a honk like roar into the sky and began its march of destruction through the city of Keystone.

Chicago

The windy city, Chicago sits on the banks of Lake Michigan, one of the five bodies of water known as the Great Lakes. The beach crowd had died down as the sun began to set. Still, there were a few remaining beach goers. People began to notice a froth of bubbles form offshore. As people began to approach the water’s edge to get a better look, out of the water sprang a gigantic green humanoid figure bellowing into the sky. People began to scream and made tracks to their vehicles. The commotion on the beach caught the attention of the monster. The creature moved with great speed through the water. Soon the towering creature came ashore and scanned the large buildings that stood before it. Water cascaded off the monster’s lumpy skin. The moss-like hair that grew on its head and chest was matted to the creature from being in the lake. The humanoid monster let out a roar into the sky and began to enter the city.

London

The capital city of England, the night life of London was bustling. As people go about their business next to the River Thymes few took notice to a large figure drifting below the surface. Suddenly a large lizard-like animal burst out of the water. It was grayish in color, had two rows of spikes going along its back, and a long snout. People began to run screaming away from the river. The large reptile scanned the shores in it’s hunched over position. Its eyes soon locked on a structure known as the Tower Bridge. The back spikes began to flash green along with its eyes. The reptile opened its maw and a stream of green fire erupted from it. The ray set the structure on fire. As the creature roared triumphantly into the sky, the flaming Tower Bridge began to fall into the river.

Mexico City

Also know as Mexico’s capital city, the urban sprawl is nestled next to a dormant volcano known as the Izataccihuatl volcano. The mountain attracted teams of geologists, who came to it for research and to attempt to predict future eruptions. Suddenly some of the scientists began to feel large vibrations beneath their feet. Before a call of evacuation was made, the side of the mountain exploded, burying the researchers in a rain of dirt and boulders. Out of the side of the volcano, a large black lizard with a row of spikes going from its head to its tail crawled to the outside of the landmass. The lizard was still steaming from the heat it had endured when it was briefly in the volcano. The reptile glared at the metropolitan area below. The creature rose up on its hind legs, revealing a thin membrane of skin between its front and back legs. The lizard screeched as it leaped into the air and glided down into the heart of the city.

Watchtower

“Can you identify the creatures Tim?” asked Diana, pointing at the monitor with a nod of her head.

“Sure can,” he replied. He pointed to each city and identified the respected monster. “In Metropolis is the Final Wars Rodan, Keystone City has the Final Wars Anguirus, at Chicago is Gaira, the green Gargantuan, London is being attacked by the Final Wars Zilla, a.k.a. the American Godzilla, and Varan is in Mexico City. Judging by the beam-equipped Rodan and Zilla, whoever’s doing this has the capability to ‘cut and paste’ abilities, like I do, of the same monster from different movies.”

“So what has happened is what we were afraid of,” said Wally with a groan.

“Yes,” replied Batman with little emotion in his voice, “Escalation.”

“We just battled weak monsters, now we have to deal with slightly stronger monsters,” said Kyle.

“Weak to medium strength monsters,” added Plastic Man.

“Regardless of what you call it,” spoke up J’onn before Plas added anymore, “We have a situation that requires our attention.”

“So we have plenty of reserve members, correct?” asked Kaiju to no one in particular.

“Yes, we certainly do,” answered Superman. He then turned his attention to Oracle, who’s still on the com link.

“Oracle,” No response, “Oracle, we need to call up some reservists to aid in the monster crisis.” There was still no response to Superman’s voice.

“Did somebody forget to pay the phone bill?” asked Plas.

“This is odd,” said a concerned Batman, “This isn’t like Oracle not to answer.” Just then all the screens in the Watchtower turned to static and were replaced by an orange room that held nine figures that caused Tim to almost pass out on the spot.

[Tim85]

Chapter 6
The Revelation

The beings that appeared on the Watchtower screens also appeared on every television, jumbo-tron, and computer screen in the world. When they appeared, the five monsters stopped their attack and froze in their tracks; as if they were ordered to halt. The world was at a standstill, waiting on what the meaning was for this incident to occur.

At the Watchtower, the Justice League was equally stunned, with Kaiju the most out of the group.

“Somebody has a leather fetish,” observed Plastic Man of the attire that the beings were wearing. Green Lantern looked at Kaiju and noticed that the color has drained from his face.

“Hey Tim, you alright man?” asked Kyle, wondering what was going on with his comrade. Everyone turned their attention to Kaiju. He tried to answer but all he could do was point at the beings and fumble his words.

“I think he knows who they are,” observed Flash.

“Brilliant observation Wally,” said Kyle, with a tone that signaled the Fastest Man Alive that he was stating the obvious. Before Wally could fire back, the being that was closest to the screen spoke:

“Greetings people of Earth. Don’t bother turning off the screens or adjusting your sets; we’re on every screen in the world and can’t be turned off.” The being’s words were rendering into every language across the globe, depending upon the location of the transmission.

“This is not good,” commented Batman. The being continued:

“For those who haven’t seen the movie, I am the Controller of the Xilians from the movie you call Godzilla: Final Wars. We were brought into your world thanks to your scientist known as Dr. Daisuke Serizawa. He created the machine that brought us into your reality, my own version seen here.” The image moved to a control panel and then back to the Controller.

“Once again,” he went on, “For those of you who saw the movie know why we are here. For the rest of you: we intend to take over this world and turn it into a farm planet.”

“You don’t mean…” said Superman with a sick look on his face.

“Yes,” Kaiju said, finally getting control of his mouth, “We’re cattle to them.”

“Humans: it’s what’s for dinner,” said O’Brian.

“This just seems to get better and better,” commented Wonder Woman sarcastically.

“Of course, we expect resistance from you,” the Controller said, “This is where the monsters come in.” Everyone’s full attention was given to the big screen.

“I have a message for the group you call the Justice League of America; those three monsters in Gotham; that was a test.”

“God, I hate it when I’m right,” groaned Tim. “I had a funny feeling when Atom mentioned that he discovered M-Base in the three monsters from Gotham.” All the superheroes turned to the young hero with inquisitive expressions.

“What do you mean by M-Base?” asked Ray, the first one who found the new DNA base.

“In the movie,” Kaiju bringing in his knowledge from the movies, “The Xilians were able to control the monsters because of the M-Base found in their DNA. When The Atom found that particular base, it further cemented that they were indeed the creatures that I thought they were. I don’t know if the two monsters from the more recent attack that weren’t in Godzilla: Final Wars have the M-Base or not, but I’m guessing that the machine they just showed us all enables them to control the monsters as well.”

“It’s obvious you can handle three monsters,” continued the alien, which drew everyone’s attention back to the big screen, “I’m sure you can even handle five monsters. But can you handle nine more?”

“That’s 14 monsters,” said The Atom, bringing the mood down in the room even more.

“You should know surrendering is useless, Justice League. We’ll still take over this planet regardless. I have done my research and am aware of the fact you have extraterrestrial allies. No matter. Once this planet is taken care of, they’ll be next, regardless of participation to prevent any other resistance and quite possibly more farm planets for us to harvest. We await your defeat by the monsters. Just make it entertaining,” he said with a sneer. The Xilians faded from the screens around the world and, in the Watchtower as well, returned to whatever was on the screen. Silence fell upon the group. Everyone sat there trying to process the severity of the situation. It was broken by Oracle’s voice.

“Oracle to Watchtower, are you there?”

“We’re here Oracle,” answered Batman, “Did you get all that?”

“Affirmative,” she replied, “The five monsters have resumed their attacks while three new monsters have appeared since they went off the air. In Shanghai is a giant bipedal stag beetle, the one in Seattle resembles a small reddish dinosaur with large triangular ears and a horn on its nose, and a giant robot is in Sydney. I’m sending visual for identification.”

Kaiju stood up to get a better look at the screen. None of the other heroes needed to ask him to ID the creatures, as they knew he would be the only one there that could. He then identified the monsters in the order that Oracle gave.

“In the city of Shanghai is Megalon, Seattle has The GMK Baragon, and finally the Showa Mechagodzilla is in Sydney.”

“What’s GMK mean?” asked Flash.

“GMK is short for Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-out Attack,” replied Kaiju.

“Also,” asked Kyle, “What does Showa mean?”

“Showa,” explained Tim, “means that the monster occurred in the series that were made during the reign of the Showa emperor, the time line would be from the first Godzilla movie in 1954 all the way to the last Godzilla movie in 1975. This Mechagodzilla is different in that it is more bulky than its other incarnations.”

“How are we going to be able to handle 14 monsters?” asked Ray, bringing the subject back to the situation at hand.

“Even I can’t handle that many and live to tell about it,” said Tim, turning to the group.

“Two more just appeared,” Oracle interrupted, “San Francisco and Paris.”

“The Final Wars Gigan is in San Francisco,” said Kaiju, turning back to the screen, “And in Paris…” he stopped and stared at the screen.

“What’s wrong?” asked Diana. Kaiju then pointed at the portion of the screen that showed Paris and a large winged creature with a triangular-like head, and turned to the League.

“That’s Gyaos!” said Tim.

“Why’s that special Kaiju?” asked J’onn.

“Gyaos is from the Gamera series. This one is from the Heisei series of Gamera films. The Xilians have more than just the Godzilla universe to draw monsters from.” The Heisei Gamera series was a trilogy of movies that took the giant turtle Gamera from cheap Godzilla knock-off to respectable monster. Gyaos was the featured villain monster in the first film and also had a part in the third movie.

“Heisei?” questioned Plas, yet another word that was new to the superheroes.

“It means the same thing as Showa,” Tim explained, “It tells when the movies were made, which were mainly in the ‘90’s.”

“I don’t think we have the resources to handle fourteen monsters, even with all our reservists and allies,” said Superman reluctantly. The mood of the room was dropping even more when Oracle announced two more monsters.

“New York City and Moscow are now under attack, people. NYC has a large mound of sludge with two red eyes and Moscow’s creature is resembles a flying beetle with a demonic look to it.”

“The Big Apple has the Final Wars Hedorah, the smog monster and Moscow has Battra,” Kaiju identifying the monsters, “They keep getting stronger as we go on.”

“Too bad it’s not like the movies,” said Plastic Man, “We could call Godzilla or Mothra for help.” He was making reference to a few of the Toho films that when threatened by a monster; another monster was brought in somehow to fight it. Tim’s face lit up and turned towards O’Brian.

“Plastic Man!” exclaimed Kaiju, “You’re a genius!”

“There’s something you don’t hear everyday,” said Kyle under his breath.

“I know I am,” replied Plas smugly, “But what did I say?”

“The solution to our problem,” answered Kaiju, “Our own army of monsters.” Everyone in the room just stared at Kaiju; in shock at the suggestion.

“That’s crazy,” commented Flash.

“Maybe,” replied Tim, “But it’s our only chance. If we can get our hands on a machine similar to the one that brought the Xilians into our world, we can have our own monster army to counter the Xilian’s monsters.”

“I don’t know if it would look good us having the capability of having our own monster army,” said Superman, concerned about the public image of the League.

“You raise a good point, Kal,” mused Tim calling Superman by his birth name, “People are still having trouble trusting me because of my powers and refer to me as your pet monster. But, it’s our only option at the moment. We are, quite frankly, out-gunned here.” Everyone had a skeptical look on their face and mumbled until Batman spoke up.

“It’s worth a try,” he said, “We don’t have many options here,” The group nodded in reluctant agreement. For Batman to go along with this fantastic plan, it must be the only option available at the moment.

“So, it’s a go?” asked Kaiju.

“Yes,” replied Superman with a nod of his head.

“All right,” said Kaiju, “Oracle, can you get any info on Dr. Serizawa?”

“One step ahead of you guy,” answered Oracle, who had done some quick research since the Xilians broadcast ceased. “Dr. Serizawa is a scientist that studies hard light projections and is currently working on constructs involving living creatures. He hasn’t been heard from for quite some time.”

“Have an address?” asked Tim. She gave it to him.

“Looks like we’re good to go Mr. Chairman,” Kaiju said to Superman, “What now?”

“How about you answer that?” replied Kal-El, pointing at the young man.

“Come again?” asked Kaiju.

“Personally, I think you’d be perfect to lead this mission,” said Superman.

“I second that,” said Wonder Woman, raising her hand. Everyone else did in agreement.

“I don’t know if I can do it,” admitted Kaiju, “I don’t know if I’m leadership material.”

“Sure you are,” said Superman, in a supportive voice. “You know more about the Xilians and the monsters than the rest of us. I’d say that would make you more than qualified to lead this mission.”

“Really?” he replied nervously.

“Really,” said J’onn with nod of his head. Tim looked around the room at the encouraging looks on everyone’s face. A smile slowly crept onto his face.

“All right,” said Tim, taking charge, “Let’s get this started.” He was interrupted by an incoming transmission.

“Aquaman to Watchtower. Come in Justice League,” said Aquaman.

“What is it Arthur?” asked J’onn.

“Atlantis is under attack by a large serpent,” he answered, “Could it have something to do with the recent transmission?”

“Most likely,” said Tim, somewhat stunned that Atlantis was able to receive the Xilian’s message but decided to inquire about that later, “Does it look like a Chinese dragon?”

“Yes,” he answered, “Why?”

“It’s called the Final Wars Manda,” explained Kaiju. He told Arthur all about the plan.

“Whatever your plan is,” Aquaman replied with sounds of skepticism in his voice, “Make it quick. I don’t know how long my forces will be able to handle this creature. Aquaman out!”

Soon after Aquaman’s transmission, Oracle’s voice came over the com link.

“The last monster has been spotted in the Bermuda Triangle. It’s been identified as King Ghidorah. The form of the monster is the one that is typically used by Kaiju.” This indicated it was Grand King Ghidorah from Rebirth of Mothra III.

“Bermuda Triangle?” asked Kaiju, “Why there?” It suddenly came to him when Wonder Woman then leapt from her seat, as she came to the same conclusion.

“Great Hera!” she exclaimed as she sprung from her seat, “Themyscira! They know where Themyscira is! I must go!” She began to dash towards the teleporters.

“Diana wait!” hollered Tim, “The plan first.”

“Make it quick,” she snapped, wishing to help her sisters.

“All the monsters have been accounted for,” he started, saying everything quickly; “Here’s the plan. Batman; you take monitor duty up here and call in all reservists and allies, past and present, and any superhero who’s sneezed within a mile of a League member. Even call New Genesis; tell them that the Xilians will come after them next if we don’t stop them here on Earth. Ray: you and I will go speak with Dr. Serizawa and see if we can get a hold of his machine. Everyone else; disperse to fight the monsters. Hold them down for as long as you can until we can get the monsters out there, and remember the Xilians have the skills to give the monsters abilities of their different forms, so expect the unexpected.”

“What if you can’t get the monsters?” asked Kyle.

“Cross our fingers that we do,” said Kaiju. “If we can’t; that is a situation that I don’t want to think about. Let’s move people.” While Batman dashed to the monitor womb, everyone else headed to the teleporters. As the heroes were teleporting out, Batman was already calling in reservists.

[Tim85]

Chapter 7
The Great Monster War

Metropolis

Superman arrived in Metropolis, surveying the damage that the winged creature Rodan had done. He felt relief that his wife, Lois Lane, was not in the city but was elsewhere on assignment for “The Daily Planet”. As he was flying, a multitude of voices came into his head, which meant that J’onn had put up the psi-net. As he flew across the sky he was not alone. Before he arrived, he teleported to his private sanctuary; The Fortress of Solitude. He brought along Krypto, his faithful dog from Krypton.

“Krypto, search the rubble for any survivors,” ordered the Man of Steel, pointing towards the ruins of an apartment building. Krypto barked in response and dove to the city below. Once grounded, he frantically dug in the building rubble for anyone who could be buried.

Superman spotted the culprit; Rodan was sitting in the rubble of an office building. Filled with anger over the destruction, he rushed the monster. Rodan turned his head towards the small red streak. It cocked its head in wonder. Using the momentum he built up, he swung his right fist with all his strength into the beak of the creature. The force was strong enough to cause the monster to stumble back. As Rodan shook his head to gain its senses, Superman’s eyes began to glow red intensely and he unleashed his heat vision. The massive twin beams streaked up Rodan’s cheek until they struck its left eye. The creature cackled in pain and wiped his face with his wing claws.

The winged reptile looked at the small hovering creature with anger in its eyes. The crown of thorns on Rodan’s head flashed with a purplish lighting and then he discharged his Uranium Heat Beam. Superman shot straight up to avoid the blast and took off across the sky. Rodan took to the air to give chase. The winged creature then began rapidly firing beams at the Man of Steel. Superman was lucky in dodging the blasts but feared he wouldn’t be able to for long. He then heard a familiar feminine voice.

Need some help, Superman? Superman turned in time to see a streak slam into the side of Rodan’s head, causing the monster to lose altitude. The object then landed on top of a building that was still standing. He recognized her with her white t-shirt that shown his insignia: Supergirl.

What are you doing here? he asked over the psi-net.

Batman called for extra help, she replied. He thought I’d be of use to you here. Rodan then turned its attention towards Supergirl and rushed towards her with its jaws agape. Supergirl narrowly dodged the monster by leaping into the air and its jaws slammed shut on her location picking up pieces of the building in Rodan’s jaws instead. The reptile’s head thorns began to glow as it spit out the rubble and just as it’s about to release another beam at Supergirl, a blue blast of energy came out of nowhere and struck the monster’s head on the right side, causing the winged monster to release the ray to its left. The beam instead went into a nearby building, causing the first couple of floors at the top to erupt into a fireball. Superman turned to see a silver glint from the flames.

“Captain Atom,” said Superman, identifying the newcomer.

Sorry about that, said Captain Atom, referring the fire caused by Rodan’s beam.

Don’t be, said Supergirl, as she hovered near Superman.

Look out! a different but familiar voice rang in their heads. The three glimpsed down to see Rodan unleash his heat beam at the group. The heroes scattered as the beam just missed them.

“I know that voice,” said Superman to himself. He looked down around to see the fallen angel Zauriel rushing the monster with his flaming sword aglow.

“Horrid demon!” Zauriel yelled as he swung his sword at the creature, striking the back of its left wing. Rodan roared in pain as the fiery blade cut into his wing. The angel then turned back at the monster and unleashed his sonic scream. The reptile winced at the cry and began to shake his head, trying to stop the noise in his head. The angel cut off the cry and motioned to the others to approach.

Time to get up close and personal, said Supergirl, cracking her knuckles. The three joined Zauriel and landed on the stunned creature’s back and began to beat on the monster. As the creature flailed in the air trying to dump the four heroes, unknown to them; in the rubble was Deadman, looking for survivors; helping the rescue effort.

Keystone City

Flash was inside a building that was damaged by the rampage of Anguirus. He picked up a young couple while the heroine Gypsy picked up their children and both of them got out of the building before the floor collapsed. After placing the couple down, he took off to check on any development with the conflict with Anguirus. He stopped to see Anguirus trapped in a large vat of tar formed by the hero Firestorm. After he formed the tar with his element changing abilities, he unleashed upon the creature an energy beam that shot from his hands, which seemed to do little damage to the monster. Wally also saw Adam Strange, an ally of the Justice League; use his jet pack to fly around and blast the trapped monster with his laser gun, which appeared to have done little damage to wherever it struck Anguirus as well. The size of the creature made the heroes look like insects in comparison. The reptile was too occupied with Big Barda, one of the New Gods, and John Henry Irons, known as the hero Steel, pounding on the creature’s head with their Mega Rod and hammer respectively. The monster roared in pain with every blow delivered. Big Barda is a being that comes from the planet New Genesis and like many of the inhabitants of the planet, is revered as a god. Flash made a mental note to ask Batman why he choose to send Steel here instead of Metropolis; not that the help wasn’t appreciated.

Flash! Gypsy’s voice came into Wally’s head, I have some more people trapped down here! Just as Wally took off to aid her, he made a silent prayer to himself that Kaiju and Atom were successful in getting that machine from the scientist.

Paris

J’onn J’onzz, the Martian Manhunter, has seen many strange creatures, but none as vicious as the monster known as Gyaos that he was facing now. The flying creature began to dive upon a group of fleeing people. The winged creature’s jaws were agape, ready to snatch human meat that would fill its mouth. A few tripped over the rubble and couldn’t get away. J’onn dived in front of the Gyaos and unleashed the full force of his Martian Vision upon the monster. The energy rays blasted the inside of the creature’s mouth. Blood erupted from the wounds. Cackling in pain, the crimson creature began to retreat into the air.

Behind J’onn, one of the New Gods called Lightray began to help the people who were being pursued by the creature.

“People have been cleared, J’onn,” Lightray told the Martian.

“Good,” he replied, Dr. Light, Ray: hit the creature while it’s distracted.

Right, replied Dr. Light.

Gotcha, said Ray. The two heroes took to the air towards Gyaos, who was still shaking its head from the blast.

I hated this monster as a child, said Dr. Light.

Well then, I guess you’ll probably enjoy this, said Ray.

Yeah, she replied with a smile. The two then unleashed energy blasts aiming at the creature. The combined force stunned the creature and it cackled in pain and anger.

We got it now! yelled Ray.

Now, Icemadian! J’onn said over the psi-net. From the wreckage of the Eiffel Tower blasts of cold, ice, and snow erupted from Icemadian’s arms and struck the creature in the back. Lightray, after clearing civilians joined in the assault with his own energy rays. Gyaos began to flail in pain from the combination of the energy beams and the cold blasts.

Keep it up everyone, said J’onn. Hopefully, this will keep it busy until help arrives.

Mexico City

In the heart of the city, the lizard Varan had Plastic Man pinned to the ground. In the form of a giant iguana, O’Brian tried to wrestle with the reptile, but was caught off guard by the reptile’s strength. The monster had already taken Booster Gold out of commission. He was taken aboard Blue Beetle’s Bug, a large beetle shaped flying vehicle, where Ted Kord, the true identity of the azure avenger, was tending to his injuries. Beetle found his ship’s weaponry to have the same effect on the flying lizard as Booster’s arsenal, none, and was forced to do repairs to Gold’s costume instead of continuing the pointless assault. The heroes were best friends when they were regulars in the early days of the League and only Ted had the know-how to make the necessary repairs. Scott Free, Mr. Miracle, helped clear citizens from the battlefield. He used his Aero-Discs on his feet that gave him the gift of flight to move quickly around the battlefield. Varan had pinned Eel to the ground, forcing the elastic superhero to return to his human shape. Plas tried to push the creature’s snapping jaws away from his head with his hands but the lizard was not easily discouraged.

A little help here! yelled Plastic Man in his mind, His breath stinks! Mary Marvel of the Marvel family flew in and slugged the creature on the snout. Varan backed off of O’Brian, rubbing its snout in pain. Plastic Man then wrapped his arms around the lizard’s neck and flipped the monster over his shoulder, slamming Varan into the wreckage of a hotel.

Perfect timing, O’Brian said to Mary.

Let’s hope that assistance is just as timely, she replied


Themyscira

Themyscira, living up to its nickname, was an island paradise that the Amazons called home for several thousand years. However, while the home of the Amazons have had its fair share of disasters in the past from Man’s World, the attack by the giant monster King Ghidorah was turning into its worst. Wonder Woman was helping carry her injured Amazonian sisters to the Purple Healing Ray, a magical device that could heal any injuries. When she arrived, her mother, Queen Hippolyta, had led the Amazons against the monster, but the primitive weaponry of the Amazons was no match for the creature. Fortunately, King Ghidorah hasn’t yet reached the main city of the island.

“How many more?” Diana asked her mother.

“Only a few,” answered Hippolyta, “Artemis has the last of them. That hydra is stronger than we imagined.” She equated the three headed dragon to the hydra from Greek mythology. The hydra was a multi-headed serpent whose heads would regenerate whenever they were cut off.

“Good,” said Wonder Woman, “I’m going after King Ghidorah.”

“Diana, wait!” replied Hippolyta, but it was too late, Diana had already taken to the air. “Hera, help her,” prayed the Amazonian queen.

Wonder Woman approached the interior of the island. As King Ghidorah towering over the forest came into view, Diana stared in wonder despite the fact that Kaiju had taken the form of this monster before.

“Stop!” she yelled as she approached the advancing creature. The monster stopped in its tracks and all three heads turned towards the small being that hovered in front of it.

“Stop what you are doing!” Diana yelled, trying to reason with King Ghidorah, “You’re destroying the island!”

Not phased by the words of the Amazon princess, the center head opened its mouth and a large jagged bolt of energy was released. Like Kumonga before it, the monster was not affected by Wonder Woman’s ability to sympathize with animals. Diana dove out of the way as the other two heads released their gravity beams. As Diana dodged wave after wave of gravity beams, she noticed that the center head blasted first then the other two heads followed suit.

“The center head must be the main brain of the three heads,” Diana said to herself out loud. After flying rapidly around the heads enough times to confuse them, Wonder Woman pulled her Lasso off her belt, got behind the creature’s center head and threw the Lasso over the middle head and clinched its jaws in the Lasso. Diana held on tightly to the lariat as it shook its head trying to get the rope off.

“I said stop!” yelled Diana. The head suddenly stopped and just stared ahead.

“That’s better,” she said moving in front of the head. Before she could issue any orders, the right head rushed towards her. Diana narrowly dodged the snapping jaws. Then the left head came at her, forcing her to drop the magic Lasso in order to avoid the creature’s teeth. The center head regained control of itself and the right head pulled that rope off of the jaws of the center head. The right head tossed it aside and the creature bellowed into the air. Diana stared at the monster.

“Hera, help us,” she said, “And help Kaiju with his mission.”


Moscow

Green Lantern flew above the city in a green fighter jet outfitted with a multitude of weaponry. He, along with the heroes Geo-Force, Captain Marvel Jr. (also known as CM3), and Orion of the New Gods, pursued the monster Battra in the sky above Moscow. Lantern glanced down at the Kremlin, which glowed from the flames that Battra’s eye beams inflicted upon the structure. Sickened by the sight, he turned back to the monster. The creature had looks of an insect and the wings were red with yellow and black streaks. Only word could describe the creature in Kyle’s mind: ugly. Below him in the damaged city, Animal Man and Black Condor were busily helping survivors of the attack.

Fire! yelled Kyle over the psi-net. Three of the heroes unleashed their energy weapons upon the monster. The multiple blasts struck the flying creature in the back. Battra screeched in pain and anger. The monster turned around and released laser beams from its eyes. The heroes dodged the blasts. Before the creature could discharge another round, CM3 came up from below and slugged the creature in the chin, causing the creature to become disorientated. As Marvel Jr. flashed a thumbs-up to Kyle, Lantern led the other two heroes in another fire attack upon the monster.

Atlantis

Aquaman, ruler of the underwater country of Atlantis, floated out in the water, staring at the serpent Manda as it constricted on one of the slender submarine warships. The force of the creature began to cause great stress on the large vehicle. The weaponry of the warships was proven to be somewhat ineffective, when they actually hit the swift swimming monster. He raised Neptune’s trident and unleashed an energy blast from the three points at the water snake. The blast caused some damage to the creature and got its attention. Manda released the ship from his coils and began to swim towards the source of the blast. The serpent opened its jaws, attempting to snatch up the aquatic hero. Before the greenish-gray dragon could reach Arthur, a sperm whale came out of nowhere and head butted the monster, knocking the serpent back a ways. He had earlier put out a distress call to any sea creature that could help in the battle.

Thanks, said Arthur.

You’re welcome, answered the whale, You and your giant reptile friend helped me once. I wish to return the favor. Aquaman suddenly recognized the markings of the mammal and realized that it was the sperm whale that Kaiju saved from a bunch of whalers. The whale then lunged at the monster and sunk its teeth into the body of the serpent. Manda roared in pain and began to wrap around the whale. The animal began to suffocate from the crushing coils of the monster.

“NOOOO!” screamed Arthur as he released a powerful blast of energy from the trident, striking the monster in the head. The distraction allowed the sperm whale to escape from the coils of the sea serpent and ascend to the surface for air. Arthur clinched his teeth and said:

“Help or no help, I’ll see to it you are destroyed, creature!”



Tokyo

Outside of the city, The Kaiju was human size, flying in the sky as the Final Wars Rodan with The Atom riding in his ear. Tim flew above a fairly moderate sized house that was a mile or two away from the closest neighbors.

“Is this house it?” Kaiju asked.

“Looks like the address,” answered Palmer. Ray had only known The Kaiju for a short while. He had confidence in the young hero, hoping this mission, being his first major take-charge-or-the-world’s-history case, won’t be his last. The Kaiju landed in front of the porch of the country house. Despite its location in the world, the house had a more western look to it.

“Dr. Palmer,” Kaiju said, “May I suggest you talk to him too? I think it would be a lot to process if it was just me he had to talk to.”

“Already thought of that,” he replied, leaping out of his ear and growing to his original height. “And please, call me Ray. I won’t be insulted.” Kaiju nodded and the two heroes approached the door.

“Nice place,” said Tim.

“It is,” replied Ray in agreement, “I don’t see a doorbell.” He then knocked twice on the door. A few seconds later a voice was heard in the house.

“You wouldn’t know Japanese, would you?” asked Atom.

“Even with all the movies I’ve seen, sadly no,” answered Kaiju. The door then opened slowly with a man’s face looking out upon the heroes, as if unsure of the reason for them standing there.

“My god, he looks the actor who played Dr. Serizawa in the movie,” Tim said to himself.

“Dr. Serizawa?” asked Dr. Palmer. The man nodded ‘yes’ in response. “I’m Dr. Ray Palmer, a.k.a. The Atom, and this is The Kaiju,” Ray went on with his hand out to shake.

“Dr. Palmer?” asked Serizawa, recognizing the name. He used very good English with just a tinge of a Japanese accent. “It is an honor to meet you.” He reached out and shook Atom’s extended hand.

“You speak English?” asked a stunned Kaiju.

“Yes,” he replied, “It is my second language. Now what can I do for the two of you?”

“We’re here on official Justice League business concerning the current monster crisis,” continued Kaiju.

Serizawa looked at them in fear, “You’ve come to arrest me for what I have done? I didn’t mean for this to happen! I’m sorry!” The man almost broke down in tears with his hands buried in his face. The two heroes exchanged looks of confusion, and then turned back to the scientist.

“No, Dr. Serizawa,” spoke up Ray in a calming voice, “We’re not here to arrest you.” The man looked up with some relief, “We’re here to see the machine.”

“The machine?” he asked with a puzzled look on his face.

“Yes,” answered The Kaiju, “The machine that brought the Xilians to life.”

“Oh! That machine!” he exclaimed, snapping his fingers as he remembered, “Right this way please! Anything to help the great Justice League,” he said as he waved them to come in. Atom and Kaiju followed the scientist through his house and down a flight of stairs to his basement lab.

“Boy this looks familiar,” Kaiju said to himself, making note to the familiarity of the basement stairs to the same movie he mentioned to himself earlier. Serizawa unlocked the door and motioned them in. The three of them walked into the lab with Serizawa leading them to where the machine was located. The lab also struck a familiar chord with Kaiju.

“If I see a tank full of fish skeletons, I’m outta here,” Kaiju said to himself, making reference to the famous scene from Gojira; where Serizawa revealed the weapon Oxygen Destroyer to his fiancé Emiko, the weapon that would kill Godzilla in the end.

“This is it,” Serizawa said pointing towards a small computer with a projector on the side of the wall.

“Interesting,” said Ray, “Tell me all about it.” As Dr. Serizawa explained the machine to The Atom and answered any questions he had as the two scientists approached the wall, Kaiju explored the lab, looking at all the “stuff”, as he called it, which looked similar to the movie. He wasn’t sure whether he was fascinated or creeped out by the fact that everything about this place resembled the lab from the movie. After a few minutes passed, he approached the two scientists, still in discussion of things that Kaiju could not make out.

“Can it be hooked up to a teleporter?” asked Tim when there was a break in the discussion of the two science guys.

“I just asked that,” Atom answered, “We sure can. Teleporters can act like a replacement for the projector. ”

“Why do you require that knowledge, Dr. Palmer?” asked the Japanese scientist.

“You didn’t tell him?” asked Kaiju, not realizing he may have said something he shouldn’t have.

Ray sighed, not knowing how to explain this, “Dr. Serizawa,” he said, finally, “the JLA asks that we borrow the machine so we can create our own army of monsters to counter the Xilian threat.” The scientist stared at the heroes as if he was in shock over the suggestion.

“I don’t think I could let you do that,” he said somberly.

“Why not?” asked Kaiju, not hiding his disappointment in his voice.

“I’ve already caused enough problems with this machine. I don’t want to add anymore to the problem.”

“Dr. Serizawa,” said Kaiju trying to keep his voice calm and not desperate for help, “You told us that you would do anything help the Justice League. You feel responsible for what’s happening in the world. It’s not your fault. You had no idea what would happen with this machine. If you want to make amends with what you’ve done and help stop what you’ve released, then I ask again, will you give us the machine to help us stop the monsters?” The scientist lowered his head and turned toward to the machine. After several minutes of silence, he finally spoke up:

“Take it. Take the machine and use it to save the world.”

“Thank you, my friend,” said Atom. The two heroes gathered up all the parts of the machine between the two of them. Kaiju then activated the com link:

“Batman, its Kaiju. Atom and I have the machine on our persons, teleport us up.”

As the two faded from the laboratory, Kaiju said to the scientist:

“Thank you Dr. Serizawa. You have just helped us save the world.”


Xilian Mothership

The Controller and his guards were in the main hall, watching all the cities that are being under attack by their monsters and the resistance that they were encountering from the super human community.

“Astonishing,” the Controller observed, finding himself actually impressed by the amount of superheroes that were in existence, “I had no idea there were so many superheroes that were allies of the Justice League.”

“Is this a problem, sir?” asked one of the guards, concerned over his leader’s attitude.

“No problem whatsoever,” he answered, brushing at the air with his hand, “It doesn’t matter how many there are on this planet. We’ll still crush them.” He then turned his attention back to the screen to watch more of the action.

New York City

Mr. Terrific stood on the roof of an adjacent building to the arena known as Madison Square Gardens, where the Justice Society of America managed to hold the monster knows as Hedorah in the rubble. The JSA was the world’s first super hero team, formed during the Second World War. His T-Spheres, round floating objects that are capable of both info gathering and offensive capabilities, tried to shock the smog monster with electricity, its main weakness shared to the Society by Batman, but did little damage to the Smog Monster.

Several heroes were busy trying to clear the area of civilians. Jay Garrick, whom was the original Flash, the Star-Spangled Kid, Sand, Dr. Mid-Nite, Hourman, and Wildcat all tried to rescue anyone still in the rubble due to their powers being made useless against the large mound of living sludge. Atom Smasher grew to match the size of the monster and tried to wrestle with the creature but was forced to retreat due to the burns from the sludge and the eye beams that the monster emitted. Hawkman and Hawkgirl both almost lost their weapons to the corrosive nature of Hedorah’s sludge when they made contact with the monster. The other two main power hitters, Power Girl and Captain Marvel, found their attacks to have little effect on the monster. The only heroes that were able to successfully attack Hedorah was Dr. Fate with his magic, Sentinel, the first Green Lantern, using his Starheart energies, and Thunderbolt, under the control of Jakeem Thunder. The triple assault from the three heroes was the cause of the halt in the monster’s destruction through the city.

Hawkman landed near where Terrific was stationed, his mace showing corrosion from the sludge of the creature.

“Michael,” said Hawkman, “How much longer till we have help?”

“When The Kaiju is able to procure the means to get it,” Mr. Terrific replied, not taking his eyes off the creature.

Carter grunted at the comment, “Why would the League trust this big of a crisis to an amateur?”

“If he’s good enough for the League to trust him,” answered Terrific, taking his eyes off the action and looking at his teammate, “it should be good enough for us.”


San Francisco

Nightwing, Dick Greyson, leader of The Titans, was giving orders to the team in the harbor, away from where the monster Gigan was unleashing its wrath. The Titans consisted of a team of former protégés of several members of the JLA, now their own people. Jesse Quick and Arsenal were regulated to crowd control, since their abilities were not of use against the monster. Troia’s physical attacks along with Beast Boy, in the form of a T-Rex failed to do anything to the monster. But they didn’t need to, they were merely bait. The two of them lured the cyborg out of the city and into San Francisco Bay near the Golden Gate Bridge where Starfire, Tempest, Cyborg, Damage, and Argent were located.

“Team A, clear out!” ordered Dick, “Team B, let him have it!” Donna and Gar cleared the area, allowing the others to open fire upon Gigan with their energy blasts. The monster screeched in shock and pain as the respective energy attacks pummeled the creature. When the creature backed up, it caused waves to crash into the nearby shipyard, demolishing many of the shipping containers.

“I hope this will hold the monster until help arrives,” Nightwing said to himself.

Seattle

The team known as Young Justice was busy handling the monster known as Baragon. Young Justice was a team that consisted of teenage heroes, a few of them being young sidekicks; just as The Titans were before. Red Tornado, member of the JLA and mentor to the young heroes, and Robin, the Boy Wonder, were stationed on the Space Needle, now toppled to the ground by the giant dinosaur, delivering orders to the other members while Impulse, Empress, and Secret moved civilians to safety. This left Superboy, Wonder Girl, and Lobo, know de-aged to that of a teenager, to confront the alien controlled beast. The three got into the creature’s face and pummeled it with their fists. Annoyed by the repeated attacks, Baragon reared its head back with flames licking at the lips of the monster.

“Scatter!” yelled Robin over the headsets. The three took off in different directions away as Baragon unleashed a stream of fire from its mouth at the three heroes. Red Tornado landed in front of the dinosaur and unleashed a cyclone at Baragon that caught the fire that the creature exhaled and threw it back at it. The purple-red monster recoiled in pain and brushed at its face, trying to stop the burning sensations. The three young heroes then resumed their assault on the monster.

“Whatever crazy idea Kaiju has to handling these things,” Red Tornado said to Batman over the JLA com link, “Hope he gets it here fast.”

Shanghai

Out of Shanghai, against the monster beetle Megalon, the International Ultramarine Corp has had the same success rate of the other ally teams in consistently keeping pressure on a monster. A team originally formed by a rogue general hoping to have a way to stop individuals like the members of the JLA, they know fight alongside them for truth and justice. Knight, Squire, and Jack O’ Lantern were busy helping any people who’ve been caught in the path of the monster. Megalon was able to beat back Pulse 8 and Goraiko when Flow, 4-D, and their leader Warmaker One attacked the monster. Their abilities had little effect on the monster and Megalon released a lightning bolt from its horn on its head at the heroes, causing them to scatter in all direction. When Warmaker One landed, he contacted Batman to send him a report on what was happening.

“We’re getting creamed down here!” said the hero.

“Just keep that thing busy until help arrives,” answered Batman.

“Easier said then done!” fired back Warmaker One as he released another barrage of missiles from his wrists on Megalon, who was know starting to become annoyed by the relentless attacks of the heroes.

London

In city of London, the monster Zilla was able to hold its own against the heroes. Pat Dugen, the robot suited hero STRIPE, was forced to retreat after taking the full brunt of the reptile’s flame breath. Black Canary, one of the founding members of the Justice League, came up with a plan that would hopefully incapacitate the monster with a full frontal assault. Green Arrow and Blue Devil attracted the monsters attention with explosive arrows and energy blasts respectively. The large reptile began to advance towards the two heroes.

“Are you in place Ralph?” asked Canary. Ralph Dibny, The Elongated Man, stretched himself between two buildings behind Zilla.

“Ready,” he answered. Dinah approached the monster as it came upon Green Arrow and Blue Devil. She opened her mouth and unleashed her Canary Cry, a barrage of high intensity sound waves, upon the monster. The sound waves bombarded the creature, which roared and shook its head in pain. Zilla began to back up and turn around in order to retreat from the sound when one of the lizard’s feet got caught on Elongated Man’s stretched-out form. The monster fell forward and slammed its head against the large clock tower known as Big Ben. The creature was lying on the ground disorientated from both the Canary Cry and the blow to the head.

“That was almost too easy!” yelled Green Arrow. The creature then began to right itself, roaring in anger.

“Like I said,” he continued in a frustrated tone, “It was too easy!”

Sydney

The hero Fire was lying in the rubble of the Sydney Opera House. Against the robot monster Mechagodzilla, she found her powers to have no effect on the machine’s space titanium body. She was blasted out of the sky when one of the monster’s finger missiles exploded in mid-air close to her. As she got up, Fire saw her fellow heroes, Warrior and Etrigan the Demon, blasted out of the way of Mechagodzilla when its eye beams took out the hotel that the two were standing on.

“Batman,” she reported to The Dark Knight, “Our abilities have no effect on the robot.”

“Do what you can,” he replied. Fire, realizing that she could not fight the mechanical monster, she instead joined the heroes Tasmanian Devil and Cliff Steele, Robotman of the Doom Patrol, helping any injured people in the city.

Chicago

Vixon charged at Gaira, the green Gargantuan; drawing upon the mass of an elephant into her rush. She collided with the side of the foot, causing the creature to roar in pain. When the creature turned its attention towards the heroine, Black Lightning and Jade bombarded the monster with their lightning bolts and Starheart energy respectively. While this was going on; Connor Hawke and The Creeper were helping any civilians caught in the monster’s path. When Zatanna found out that they were doing alright, she took advantage of the distraction by her teammates to find a way to confront the creature head on.

“Retsnom fo ezis ot worg!” said the magician, chanting the spell backwards. She increased her height to match that of the monster. Gaira saw the large heroine in front of it and stared in disbelief. She used the moment to rush the monster and slugged it in the face, knocking it down into the shopping complex known as Water Tower Place.

“How about picking on someone your own size!” she yelled at the creature as she shot a blast of magic out of her hand at the monster.

Watchtower

In the Monitor Womb, Batman was keeping tabs on all the cities that were being affected by the monster crisis. As Batman finished the latest report, The Atom and The Kaiju returned to the Watchtower with Dr. Serizawa’s machine.

“We have the machine Batman,” said Kaiju, him and Atom sticking their heads into the room to get a glimpse at the action all over the world.

“How’s everyone holding up?” asked Ray.

“Some are doing well, some not so good,” answered Batman, with his eyes still fixed on all the screens in the monitor womb, “How soon can you hook up the machine to the teleporters?”

“15 minutes ago,” said Atom, implying that they could do it fast. He and Tim placed the machine’s parts where they could hook them up to the teleporters and the two of them got to work. Several minutes passed, Kaiju was passing a wrench to Atom when he let out a sigh.

“What’s on your mind, Kaiju?” asked Ray, noting the loud exhale.

“It’s nothing,” said Tim defensively, “You’re busy enough; you don’t need to hear my troubles.”

“I can work and listen. Tell me what’s troubling you.”

“Well,” he began, “When I first started becoming The Kaiju, I was worried that portraying Godzilla and his monster brethren as heroes would continue to keep the stereotype of them as merely kiddie heroes alive in people’s minds. But now with this crisis, between the monster attacks and having monsters on our side, I fear that this will damage their reputation even more to the point it couldn’t be repaired.”

“Okay,” said Ray, still working, “Wasn’t Godzilla’s purpose to show the dangers of nuclear technology?”

“Yes,” said Tim, shocked that Atom knew this.

“Well, you could say that, in a ways, even though Godzilla destroying Tokyo was a bit extreme to show it, he was in fact always a “good guy” in that filmmakers were showing the folly of humans and only wanted what was best for the world in general. So do you, and that’s what the monsters would be fighting for.”

“Thanks,” said Kaiju, grateful for the answer that Ray gave him.

“Are you gentlemen quite finished?” asked Batman impatiently from the chair in the monitor womb.

“Almost,” said Atom, as he connected one last wire. The machine’s screen lit up to show the configurations for the teleporters.

“Okay! We’re online!” said Atom as he pulled up a chair to the machine’s keyboard.

“Just tell me who, where, and any additional powers Kaiju and I’ll type them in as you speak.”

“Can we do that on this machine?” asked Tim, referring to the additional powers comment.

“You bet,” he replied, “Dr. Serizawa had put that option in here. Abilities that none of them had, to powers from different movies, like what you do. He told me that while he was trying figure out the cause of the Xilians coming into our reality; he made an apple that tasted like tuna fish.”

“Yummy,” said Kaiju with a disgusted look on his face.

“He said the same thing,” answered Ray with the same look of disgust.

“Alright,” started Kaiju, getting down to business, “First, all the monsters will be under our control, but give them free will and improved intelligence, in that they see us and the rest of our monsters as allies and to keep the trust angle going, give them all the ability to communicate telepathically, so we can give orders and any help should they seek it and vise versa, and all monsters have regenerative properties that allow quick healing or repair should the monster be mechanical.”

“Gotcha,” said Dr. Palmer, typing it in, “Now for the monsters.”

Kaiju started listing as Atom put in the data.

“To start, the Final Wars Godzilla, send him to Paris. Fire Rodan will be sent to Metropolis. The Tokyo SOS Mothra will have the antennae rays from the Heisei series and the reflective powder will be continuous. She will be sent to Mexico City. Mothra Leo will take on Megalon in Shanghai. Rainbow Mothra, with the ability to turn into Aqua Mothra, will be sent to Atlantis. Armor Mothra, send him to San Francisco. The Mothras will have all their powers from the movies. Gamera 3 will be sent to Themyscira. Showa Anguirus will face his FW form in Keystone City. He will have the ability to curl into a ball as well. Send Godzilla Jr. to Moscow. The brown Gargantuan Sanda will go to London. Mecha-King Ghidorah will be sent to New York City. Seattle will have MOGUERA. Send Jet Jaguar to Chicago. Finally, Kiryu, from Godzilla: Tokyo SOS, will be sent to Sydney. Kiryu will be able ditch its weaponry when it needs to and be able to call it back. Like should an arm attachment get destroyed, it could call on another one.”

“It’s all been put in,” said Atom as his fingers flew across the keyboard. “All we have left to do is press the send button. Would you like to do the honors?”

“Of course,” said Kaiju. He approached the keyboard and then struck a corny heroic pose, which caused Ray to snicker a bit.

“I’ve always wanted to do that,” said Kaiju with a smile. “Batman, let everyone know that help’s on the way. Time to save the world.” he said as he pushed the send button. As the monsters were being sent to their respective cities, Kaiju took off toward the teleporters, changing into the form of Godzilla 2000; a more edged take on the creature with an almost alligator snout to it.

“I’m going to Mexico City. Mothra may need some help with Varan.”

“Good luck son,” said Atom as Kaiju disappeared. “I hope you’re right about this.”

[Tim85]

Chapter 8
War of the Kaiju

The cities that were under attack by the Xilian’s beasts seemed to flash at once when the League’s monsters came into existence. Everyone in the world held their breath as they witnessed the appearance of the new beasts while the heroes hoped and prayed that this crazy plan would work.

Godzilla knocked Gyaos out of the air, preventing the creature from firing its laser-like beam from its mouth upon the heroes after it broke free of their assault and into the Arc de Triumph with his atomic ray when he arrived in the city of Paris. The heroes all saw the King of the Monsters standing in the middle of the Louve, what’s left of it anyway. Fire Rodan appeared just as the Final Wars Rodan turned its attention away from the superheroes and was about to snap its jaws on its target, Krypto the Super dog, and slammed into the alien controlled reptile and followed it as began to ascend into the sky. The two then began to tussle in the air; both sides seemed to be evenly matched with both winged creatures possessing the same powers. The only difference in the two was that Fire Rodan was shorter in stature and his wings were shorter and more rounded than the Final Wars version.

In New York City, two yellow gravity beams and a purple beam streaked out of the sky and struck Hedorah, which screeched in pain and backed out of the ruins of the large arena. The JSA saw Mecha-King Ghidorah descend out of the sky and land in front of the ruins of Madison Square Gardens. The cyborg resembled King Ghidorah but the main body, wings, tail tips, ankles, and the center head was robotic while the rest was biological. The Smog Monster fired a small beam from the corner of its left eye but didn’t even damage the metal of the cyborg. MKG retaliated with its gravity beams which blew chunks of sludge off Hedorah. Rainbow Mothra, in the form of the wasp-like Aqua Mothra, appeared in Atlantis and was able to lure Manda away from the city by hitting it with beams emitted from the insect’s forehead, which infuriated the serpent enough to turn on the underwater moth. Mothra Leo entered Shanghai and bombarded Megalon with its energy beams. The surprised and enraged creature tried to retaliate with its own beam of lightning but was dodged by the fast moving insect and Leo continued the assault. This form of the giant moth was distinguished by the earthen colors on the wings; such as green and orange.

On Themyscira, Wonder Woman had been injured by King Ghidorah. Hippolyta and the other Amazons had brought her to where the Purple Healing Ray was located. However in doing this, they lured King Ghidorah to the location. Having had all their weaponry made useless against the creature, they could only stare and wait as the creature’s three heads began to glow. Just as everyone braced for the end, three orange fireballs shot across the sky and hit each head respectively. The creature stumbled backwards stunned. All the Amazons looked in the direction of the origin of the fireballs. They all saw a giant turtle flying towards the island. The creature resembled a sea turtle, in that its arms were in the shape of flippers, with a tusk coming out from the bottom jaw on each side. Smoke was coming from jets where the legs are supposed to be, giving the creature flight.

“It’s Gamera,” commented Diana to the other Amazons, having been informed over the psi-net by Batman, “He’s our monster.”

Once the creature was over land, its jets cut off, causing his legs to appear and his flippers became hands and arms, and the giant turtle hit the ground sliding sideways and stopped between King Ghidorah and the Amazons. This version of the creature was taken from the movie Gamera 3 because of the viciousness in the looks of the monster. The dragon came to its senses and cackled at the new monster. Gamera rushed King Ghidorah and engaged in combat with the beast.

In Keystone City, the FW Anguirus finally broke free of the tar and repelled the heroes attacking it. The time free of assault on the creature was short, as the Showa Anguirus, having just arrived in town, rolled up in as a ball, slammed into its Millennium counterpart, knocking it into an apartment complex. What set the Showa creature apart from the Millennium monster was that the League’s Anguirus was brown in color and had a longer snout. The gray skinned reptile shook off the rubble and glared at its brown hued doppelganger and roared a challenge, to which the Showa creature replied. Soon the two monsters lunged at each other and became locked in combat, the creatures rolling on each other trying to pin the other. MOGUERA rolled into the city of Seattle on the tank treads on its feet to confront the monster Baragon. The Xilian’s creature stared at giant robot. What made the robot stood out, was a drill like nose between two eyes and instead of hands, the arms were tipped with a large cone. Baragon released its flame breath at the robot but did nothing to the mechanical monster but blackened some the edges of the machine. MOGUERA’s cones opened up and fired two spiral grenades at the dinosaur. Baragon leapt out of the way of the projectiles but was knocked back to the ground by lasers that the robot emitted from its eyes.

In the city of Moscow, Godzilla Jr. knocked Battra out of the air with its atomic ray. Resembling the famous monster with a more dinosaurian form, the young creature approached the downed insect. Battra released its eye beams upon the reptile, causing Junior to recoil in pain. The flying monster began to lunge at Godzilla Junior when the reptile knocked it aside with a swipe of his tail. Armor Mothra approached the cyborg Gigan with his lasers blazing in San Francisco. The cyborg, showing signs of recognition of the new challenger from its encounter from a Mothra in Godzilla: Final Wars tried to return fire but the beam bounced off the armored insect and did not halt Armor Mothra’s advance. As the insect streaked past Gigan, one of Mothra’s razor-like wings sliced into the cyborg’s right arm, causing metallic-silver blood to shoot out of the wound and rain down on the Golden Gate Bridge. Gigan screeched in pain and took to the air to give chase to the insect.

In London, the brown gargantuan Sanda rushed the monster Zilla. The humanoid creature threw its weight into its shoulder and slammed into the lizard. The monster was knocked into Buckingham Palace. Sanda then pounced on the monster lying on the ground and put the reptile into a choke hold to prevent Zilla from using his ray. In the Windy City, Jet Jaguar flew out of the sky at the green gargantuan Gaira with his fists out in front. The robot slammed into the monster’s gut and knocked him into an adjacent building. Gaira got up from the rubble that had fallen on the creature and saw J.J. standing in an attack ready posture. The humanoid creature rushed the robot, who sidestepped the monster and karate chopped Gaira in the back, causing him to fall to the ground face first. Mechagodzilla’s attention was drawn to a newcomer that descended into Sydney, the Tokyo SOS Kiryu. The newer Mechagodzilla had its arsenal taken from the movie Godzilla: Tokyo SOS; the mechanical monster possesses shoulder rocket launchers, laser blasters on its wrists, and maser cannons in its mouth and chest cavity. The robots stared at each other from across the ruined city, like two gunslingers in a Western movie. The Showa Mechagodzilla screeched at its foe and fired its weaponry at Kiryu, which did little damage to the robot. Kiryu, showing no reaction the fire attack, returned fire with its pay loud of weaponry, which caused major damage to the Xilian’s Mechagodzilla’s space titanium body as pieces of metal flew off high into the sky.

Mexico City

The Kaiju teleported into the Mexican capital city and was greeted to the sight of destruction and the sounds of titans clashing all around him. He ignored the scenery, no matter how much it disturbed him, and found the other heroes, now becoming onlookers to the battle of the monsters, almost as soon as he teleported in and joined with the group.

“Hey pal,” said Plastic Man to Kaiju as he approached the group. “About time you showed up somewhere down here.”

“How’s Mothra doing against Varan?” asked Tim. Before anyone could answer, a loud screech of pain rang out and the heroes saw the winged insect flying backwards toward the ground.

“Does that answer your question?” asked Plas.

“Almost as well as I did,” said Booster Gold, who was leaning on Blue Beetle due to a sprained ankle.

“I’m going to help,” he said as he took off toward the direction of Mothra.

“Good luck,” said Mr. Miracle.

Mothra was lying on the ground trying to get off her back and into the air. Varan was gliding in with its claws and teeth ready for tearing at its target. The reptile was within reach of the insect when a giant tail then appeared in front of the flying lizard and slammed into its head. The lizard was knocked backwards, out of the air. The lizard was stunned when it hit the ground. In front of Mothra stood The Kaiju, now as a giant monster, to protect her from anymore attacks. While Kaiju roared at Varan, his mind was yelling out at the lizard:

Stay away from her!

Thank you Kaiju, a feminine voice said in Kaiju’s head. He turned to see Mothra flying in the air in front of him. He was stunned at the sight of the giant insect. He could not believe what he was seeing. The white fur on the body, multicolored wings, and blue eyes seemed to entrance the hero. Not a puppet, no strings, but a giant living breathing Mothra.

How did you know it was me? he asked.

I picked up on it when you were having a conversation with your colleagues.

Just as that thought finished in Kaiju’s mind, Varan glided in and head butting Kaiju in the side, knocking him to the ground. The hero roared in pain and surprise as the claws pierced his skin. He tried to get up but Varan landed on top of the reptilian hero and began to dig his claws into Tim. Kaiju tried to push back the snapping jaws of the lizard that was on top of him but the claws digging in taxed his mind and occasionally a slight nip would get through his resistance. The lizard then lunged at the Kaiju’s throat. Before the needle like teeth sunk into Kaiju’s throat, two yellow rays from Mothra’s antennas struck the back of Varan, causing the lizard to rear back in pain. This allowed Kaiju to collect his thoughts and unleashed his orange atomic ray at point blank range. The force of the ray pushed the creature off of him and allowed him to get back on his feet.

Thanks, Kaiju said to Mothra.

You did the same for me, she replied.

They turned to the lizard as Varan got back on his feet and hissed at the two monsters.

Shall we finish this? he asked.

Let’s do that, she replied.

Xilian Mothership, Tokyo

“WHAAAAAAATTTTTT!!!!?????” screamed the Xilian Controller when the League’s monsters appeared on the monitors. The guards all stood back away from the Controller as he began to throw a tantrum.

“How did they get their own MONSTERS!!!!???” he screamed during the tantrum. He then turned to his guards.

“Well?” he asked, with his arm straight out from his body.

“We’re not sure,” the female guard answered in a cowering position.

The Controller turned back to the monitor and brought up Mexico City, where both Kaiju and Mothra were beating on Varan. The screen with this location enlarged as Kaiju blasted the lizard with his atomic ray.

“Him,” the Controller said through his gritted teeth and pointed at the hero. “He has something to do with this, I just know it.” Soon the Controller’s temper got even worse as he watched as each of his monsters began to fall to the League’s monster team.

Paris

The winged creature, Gyaos, released a thin beam of energy upon Godzilla, who roared in pain and anger. The winged creature then rushed the King of the Monsters. Godzilla grabbed the monster by the throat when Gyaos approached him. Godzilla began to strangle the winged creature. The monster was only half the size of Godzilla, so Gyaos’ body dangled in front of the King of the Monsters.

“This looks like this is going to be over soon,” said Dr. Light.

Foam began to form around the mouth of the winged creature. Gyaos managed a cackle and began to form a beam of energy in his mouth. Godzilla responded by unleashing his atomic ray, engulfing the creature’s head. Gyaos’ head exploded in a rain of flesh and blood.

“Cool!” yelled The Ray. J’onn just turned his head away from the sight. Despite what the creature had done, watching Gyaos’ head getting blown off was something he didn’t take delight in seeing. Godzilla then dropped the headless body of Gyaos and roared in victory. Godzilla’s voice then echoed in the heroes’ heads:

That’s one pest down.

Metropolis

The two Rodans were at a stalemate. The creatures were so evenly matched that the every blow dealt by one was returned by the other. Superman could not stand by any longer. This battle has gone on too long. He wanted this to end now. He then called to Fire Rodan:

Distract the monster. Let me have a shot at him.

No problem, the creature replied, See what you could do with him. Fire Rodan then released its Uranium Heat Beam at the FW Rodan. The beam hit the creature on the chest, stunning it. Superman then bolted towards the stunned pteranadon. No longer holding anything back, he punched the FW Rodan in the chest with his right fist. The force was so strong; a loud thunder-like boom came from the blow. The force shattered the reptile’s ribs, its heart and lungs exploded, and a large hole popped open on its back from the force. The monster’s face suddenly went lifeless and it began to fall to the ground. Fire Rodan fired his Uranium Heat Beam on the FW Rodan, engulfing the winged creature, causing it to explode. Fire Rodan’s voice then entered Superman’s head:

I’m glad we’re on the same side.

Themyscira

Gamera was lying on his back in the rubble, exhausted and bleeding from battling King Ghidorah, who cackled in delight. The Amazons feared the worst. Diana was preparing the Purple Healing Ray in hopes that it would heal Gamera in addition to human beings. However, they, not even Diana, knew of Gamera’s recovery power. All the flames that were on the island caused by the battles that Wonder Woman and Gamera had engaged in with King Ghidorah were suddenly drawn towards the giant turtle. The Amazons and King Ghidorah watched in puzzlement at the collection of flames congregating on Gamera. The giant terrapin then began to glow from the power of the flames. The fires were then extinguished and Gamera stopped glowing and was now standing on his feet roaring at the giant golden hydra.

“The fire has healed Gamera,” said Diana, surprised at the development, “We don’t need the healing ray.”

Gamera then released a fireball at the center head. The fireball exploded upon contact, causing the head to black out. Gamera then rushed King Ghidorah and sunk its teeth into the dragon’s right neck. The tusks of the giant turtle pierced through the neck, causing golden blood to pour from the wounds. The left head began to bite at Gamera’s right shoulder. Gamera extended the large claw in its right elbow and sharply elbowed it in the neck. The claw left a large gash in the neck, almost all the way through, close to the cut off point. The head began to act dizzy from the loss of blood from the large wound. Gamera than pulled back, ripping the right head off the body. Gamera stared at creature, now one less head, holding the right head by the neck in his mouth. The giant turtle then took the neck out of his mouth, holding the severed head by the point where it was ripped off and the head dangling in air.

Gamera than swung it at the left head like a club. The force was strong enough from the two heads colliding that the left head was severed from the body at the point where his elbow claw dug in. The extreme pain finally brought the center head to its senses. The head cackled in pain as blood poured from the two wounds and could not get concentrated on the situation. Gamera tossed the severed head aside and then began to channel the fire power in his body into his right fist. The fist began to glow red and became engulfed in flame. Gamera then slugged the head with the fire fist. The head vaporized on contact. The giant turtle then punched through the body underneath the center head. The energy emitting from the fist spread into the body and it incinerated the lifeless creature. Gamera’s hand returned to normal and he let out a roar of victory. Diana, Hippolyta, and the Amazons all cheered for the giant turtle. Gamera then looked upon the Amazons and a calming voice spoke in their heads:

Is everyone alright? he asked.

Everyone is doing fine, Diana answered.

That’s good, Gamera said, with the sound of relief from the projected voice. There are already enough lives lost in this crisis.

Sydney

The Showa Mechagodzilla was nearing the scrap pile with every second the battle went on. Most of the robot’s weapon systems have been damaged severely and the left arm had been blown off by one of Kiryu’s rocket launchers. The damaged robot raises its right arm to fire its finger missiles just as Kiryu launched its left shoulder rocket launcher at the machine. Like the rocket launcher before it blew off the other robotic arm. Mechagodzilla then fired a jagged bolt of energy from its chest. The bolt struck Kiryu, but did little damage. It then jetsamed its right hand blasters and the hand formed a drill. The robot fired up its jets and rushed Mechagodzila. With the hand spinning, it dug the drill into where the energy bolt was released. The evil robot roared in response to the attack. After it pulled the drill hand out Kiryu backed up, opened its robotic maw and its chest cavity opened and revealed its Triple Hyper Maser weapon. Taking aim at the hole in the Showa Mechagodzilla’s chest, Kiryu released its hyper maser from its mouth and the THM into the hole on the alien controlled robot. The rays caused the Showa Mechagodzilla to overload and blow up.

Who’s the real Mechagodzilla now? Kiryu taunted, which was heard by the heroes in Sydney.

Mexico City

The lizard Varan had to deal with not only Mothra, but Kaiju as Godzilla 2000. The monster was taken a serious beating. The reptile was lying on the ground with blood pouring from its wounds and spikes broken off its body. Varan leapt into the air at Mothra, who slapped the flying lizard with her wings toward Kaiju. The heroic monster then slammed its tail into Varan’s head, causing the lizard to eat dirt. While he was stunned, Mothra flew over Varan releasing her powder all over the lizard, who took on a golden glow. Kaiju’s back scales lit up an orange color while Mothra’s antennae glowed yellow. The lizard looked up to see the two monsters release their beams upon him. The combination of the beams and the powder caused the lizard to become engulfed in flames. Varan screamed in pain as the fire burned him. The scream ceased as the flames dissipated, which reveal a charcoaled dead Varan.

Lizard flambé, anyone? asked Plastic Man.

Let me guess, Plastic Man? asked Mothra.

She’s got you pegged, O’Brian, said Kaiju, with a laugh.

Great, answered Plas, A monster that’s also a comedian.

The World

All over the world, the Xilian’s monsters began to fall to the League’s monsters. In Atlantis, Manda’s head was blown to pieces when Aqua Mothra’s beams and blasts from Aquaman’s trident collided at the same time. Hedorah was turned to dust by the gravity beams and electrical discharges from electrical cables that were buried into the sludge monster’s body from Mecha-King Ghidorah, as reported from the JSA in New York City. The Titans reported that after both of Gigan’s sickle claws were cut off by Armor Mothra’s wings, the insect glowed and rammed into the cyborg’s chest. The alien controlled monster then exploded from the impact site out as the armored insect flew through Gigan.

During the battle in Seattle, Baragon leapt upon the robot MOGUERA and grappled with the machine. The robot opened its cone-shaped arms and clamped down on the dinosaur’s shoulders. At close range, its plasma grenade launcher was revealed in its chest and it fired a strong blast of plasma grenade into the dinosaur. The blast shot a hole through the monster. Baragon’s roar of pain was brief as MOGUERA ended its reign of terror. The robot then dropped the lifeless body of the beast. Some of the heroes in Young Justice were amazed by this sight while others were disturbed. As reported by the Ultramarine Corp., Mothra Leo flew above Megalon, forming a circle in the air. The circle began to glow, freezing the humanoid insect in the center as M.L. released a massive beam of energy. Megalon was engulfed by the beam and was vaporized. Mimicking what Godzilla did to him in Godzilla Raids Again, the Showa Anguirus latched onto the throat of the Xilian’s Anguirus when he was able to pin the gray skinned creature to the ground on its back and ripped the throat out of his Final Wars counterpart. Flash reported that the blood pouring from the wound was a sight to see.

In London, Black Canary reported that after the two monsters wrestled for awhile, Sanda got Zilla back into a headlock and snapped the lizard’s neck. Another reference to the movies had occurred in Moscow, where Green Lantern reported that after grounding the flying creature, Godzilla Jr. tore open Battra’s neck pretty bad and fired his atomic ray into the wound, killing Battra, just like his father did to the creature in Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle for Earth. The final report came in from Zatanna in Chicago, where Jet Jaguar had just been knocked down by Gaira. The robot found the pointed rod from the top of the Sear’s Tower, knocked down accidentally when he was flying in the air. As Gaira rushed J.J., the humanoid robot picked up the rod, lunged at the approaching monster, and jammed it into the Gargantuan’s skull when it closed in on the robot. Gaira roared in pain and tried to pull it out. Before he could, Jag slugged him in the head full force, knocking him out. Zatanna then used her magic to make the monster disappear.

Mothership

“THIS CAN’T BE!!!!” screamed the Controller, “HOW COULD HAVE OUR MONSTERS LOST???” His tantrum was worse than when he found out the Justice League have acquired monsters themselves. “No matter how many we throw at them now, the Justice League will be able to counter it,” he then said in a calmer voice.

“What’s the plan now?” asked one of the guards, cautiously.

“Now we do quality,” the Xilian leader said calmly and turning towards his guards, “And we stop hiding. Drop the barrier shields and bring us down just over the city.” The guards stared at him with their eyes wide, shocked at the plan of their leader.

“The heroes have been worn down. It’s time to force a final confrontation.”

Mexico City

The world was celebrating its victory over the Xilian’s monsters. As the word spread to the heroes and monsters via the psi-net, they began to celebrate too. Kaiju and Mothra were roaring in victory when Batman’s voice entered Tim’s head:

I wouldn’t be popping the champagne just yet.

What’s wrong now? asked Kaiju, with some frustration in the question.

We have a new situation concerning the Xilians, he answered.

Where?

What obvious location was not involved with any of the recent attacks? Batman said. Kaiju thought for a second then it hit him:

Japan, said Kaiju, angry with himself for not seeing it, Attention all heroes and monsters! Stay where you are and help with clean-up anyway you can. As for the core members of the Justice League, report to the Watchtower! We have a situation!

[Tim85]

Chapter 9
The Final Confrontation

After the defeat of the Xilian controlled monsters, a new situation occurred in Japan. Batman sent word to Kaiju, who then called the core members to the Watchtower. They all huddled in the Monitor Womb, where The Dark Knight addressed everyone on what they were seeing on the screens. Kaiju, as always when he’s at the Watchtower, was in his original human form.

“Not long after the defeat of the last monster, a large golden ball appeared to be floating above the city of Tokyo with several small ships hovering around the orb.”

“The Xilian Mothership,” Kaiju identifying the vessel. “And the smaller ones are the warships.” Tim also made a mental note to himself that the vessel was missing the three silver “claw ships” that were present in the movie.

“Right,” said Batman, “In addition to Tokyo, in Kyoto, Fukuoka, and Osaka, four monsters materialized in the cities.”

Batman then brought up the four monsters on the screens. In Osaka, a three headed, four legged dragon was causing destruction. A red orange creature with tentacles was in Kyoto. A crystalline monster was causing havoc in Fukuoka with giant pointed crystals jutting from the ground, and a familiar reptilian figure was seen in Tokyo.

“Well,” said Superman, pointing at two screens, “King Ghidorah is in Osaka and Godzilla is in Tokyo, but I don’t know the other two.”

“To start,” replied Kaiju, “While it is Ghidorah, it is not King Ghidorah. It is Keizer Ghidorah from Godzilla: Final Wars.”

“Oh?” Plastic Man said, taking on the appearance of Hitler, “Why isn’t it in Germany trying to invade Poland?”

“Wrong Kaiser,” said Tim, not amused by the attempt of humor. “And the Godzilla in Tokyo, it’s the GMK Godzilla.”

“Why’s that significant?” asked Arthur.

“The GMK Godzilla is considered one of the most powerful and most evil Godzillas portrayed in the movies.”

“So that’s bad, right Tim?” asked Kyle.

“You bet your ring,” he answered.

“Say the secret word, win some money,” added Plas, in the form of Groucho Marx, tapping on a cigar.

“Back to the situation at hand,” said J’onn, bringing the conversation back, “What are the other two monsters?”

“The one in Fukuoka is Spacegodzilla,” said Kaiju, “He’s doing just like he did in his movie, turning the city into a fortress of crystals.”

“And the final one is..?” asked Flash.

“Iris,” answered Kaiju, “It’s the most powerful monster from the Gamera series. The Xilians have now gone from quantity to quality. These four monsters are some of the most powerful creatures from the kaiju universe. My guess is that, the Controller is trying to force a final confrontation.”

“Oh, is that all?” asked Wonder Woman, with what sounded like sarcasm.

“It gets better,” answered Atom, with sarcasm in his voice, too.

“Why’s that, Ray?” asked Superman.

“The Watchtower’s sensors have picked up microwaves being emitted from the Mothership, as well as Kyoto Station, Fukuoka Tower, and Osaka Tower.”

“How is that important?” asked Batman.

“They’re being directed at the monsters and they disappear when they come in contact with them, as if they are being absorbed,” answered Ray.

“Still,” asked Kyle wanting an answer, “Why is that important?”

“The microwaves are powering the monsters,” said Kaiju, “So the monsters can just keep going as long as whatever is transmitting them are still there. That means our monsters will have a harder time defeating them. So those buildings are now Priority One, find out what causing the microwaves, destroy them, and then take out the monsters.”

“So what’s the plan?” asked J’onn, directing his question at Kaiju.

“First, have all the reservists, allies, and monsters report to the Justice League North American Embassy building for briefing. Ray, can you monitor the situation?”

“Sure thing,” he said, switching places with Batman.

“It’s time we finish this,” said Kaiju.

Justice League North American Embassy

Every hero involved with the monster crisis congregated in the halls of the Embassy. The building was leftover from the earlier days of the League being run by the United Nations, it mainly remained standing for when meetings like this was needed. The rumblings from the people was curiosity over why they’re here to wondering if the plan of using monsters to combat the Xilian’s own beasts was a good idea. Even Hippolyta joined her Justice Society teammates to take on the Xilians. The monsters were all outside the building, patiently waiting for the League to arrive with battle orders. While the halls of the embassy was filled with chatter from all the heroes; outside was just as loud from the monsters. Soon the League teleported to the top floor, overlooking the other heroes, so everyone there could hear what Kaiju had to say. The hero had turned into the Heisei version of Godzilla before he left the Watchtower. This version of Godzilla is usually the form that is associated with the creature.

“Nervous?” asked Diana to Kaiju.

“A little,” he admitted.

“Don’t worry,” said Superman, putting his hand on Kaiju’s shoulder, “You’ll do fine.” The League approached the edge overlooking majority of the heroes. After the League became visible, the chatter soon died down.

“All right everyone, listen up!” yelled Kaiju so he could be heard by everyone.

“Hey!” yelled Guy Gardner, “Who put him in charge? He’s just a rookie!” Just as Kaiju opened his mouth to speak, Batman was the first to speak up.

“We did!” The Dark Knight yelled. “And if anyone has a problem with that, there’s the door!” Everyone looked around and shook their heads. Kaiju just stood there with his mouth still open.

“Okay Kaiju, take over,” said Batman.

“Thank you Batman,” answered Kaiju. Kaiju then informed everyone of the situation. Everything Kaiju was saying was projected to the monster’s minds outside the building thanks to the telepathic connection.

“So here’s the plan,” said Kaiju. “Four teams of monsters will be sent to a city and while the monsters battle the Xilian’s beast, they will also try to get take out the transmitting stations. Once they are able to do that, our monsters will be able to take care of theirs.

The teams are as follows. In Kyoto, the monster team of Gamera, Rainbow Mothra, Jet Jaguar, and Sanda will battle Iris. Godzilla Jr., MOGUERA, Armor Mothra, and Fire Rodan will be sent to Fukuoka. In Osaka, the monsters that will be going are Godzilla, Mothra, and Mecha-King Ghidorah and if he can, Justice Society, could you spare Atom Smasher to help the monsters?”

“No problem!” Atom Smasher yelled, giving him a thumbs-up.

“Good,” he said, returning the thumbs-up, “And finally Tokyo. Any reserve members and allies with flight and energy rays keep the smaller ships busy while the core members infiltrate the Mothership in hopes of taking out their main machine in order to end the threat of the monsters and the Xilian threat in the process.

As for the GMK Godzilla; Mothra Leo, Kiryu, Anguirus, and I, leading them, will go into battle against him. Everyone else can help deal with the evacuations in the Japanese cities under attack. It’s time that we finish these Xilians once and for all!” When he finished, the room erupted in applause and cheers. Outside, roars can be heard and cheers entered Kaiju's head.

“Well done, Kaiju,” said J’onn.

“Thanks,” replied Tim. He then returned his attention back to the other heroes and yelled out something that energized them even more. “If the Xilians want a Final War, then we’ll give them a Final War!”

[Tim85]

Chapter 10
Kyoto Conflict

The four monsters: Gamera, Rainbow Mothra, Jet Jaguar, and Sanda teleported into the city of Kyoto. The city was ablaze with several buildings in ruins. The monster, Iris, was in the distance. Gamera turned to his teammates to tell them about Iris through the psi-net.

Iris is a powerful creature, Gamera informed his fellow monsters, I fought him to a standstill in my movie and lost my right arm in the process.

So what do we do? asked Jet Jaguar.

Wait for my signal, replied Gamera. The other monsters waited as Gamera approached the squid-like creature cautiously. The monster had an almost metallic bird like head with spear like arms and legs. The giant turtle roared at Iris. The monster turned toward Gamera and let a call that sounded like a whale’s song. Gamera was then shocked when a squirmy voice came into his head.

Gamera, said Iris, We meet again.

How did you do that? asked Gamera.

One of the upgrades we four monsters received when our masters brought us into this world.

It doesn’t matter what upgrades you have, I beat you once, and I’ll do it again. Iris then let out a call that almost sounded like a laugh.

You? asked Iris. You barely stood up to me last time. What makes you think this time will be different?

Because this time, said Gamera, I brought help. As he finished that statement, he raised his hands into the air. Jet Jaguar, carrying Sanda, and Rainbow Mothra flew up and over from behind Gamera. After letting him go, J.J. and Sanda both sailed towards Iris and the two of them slugged the monster backwards. As Iris stumbled back from the blows, R.M. fired his Triple Laser Beams, lightning bolts from his wings, and chest buster beam at the creature. The beams came at the creature so fast that Iris didn’t have time to block them with its tentacles. While the creature called out in pain, Gamera then came up to Iris and punched the creature in the head. He then followed up with a fireball at close range. The blast knocked the creature off its feet. The four monsters stared at the downed Iris as it quickly recovered itself from the attack and lashed out at them with its tentacles.

Gamera and R. Mothra were able to take to the air and dodge them but Sanda and Jet Jaguar weren’t as fortunate. One of the appendages wrapped around Jag like a boa constrictor and began to squeeze. Another tentacle knocked Sanda to the ground and attempted to spear the creature with the pointed tip. The brown gargantuan was able to catch it before it pierced his flesh and used all his strength he could muster to try and hold back the sharp appendage. Gamera, while the air, was unable to dodge Iris’ strike a second time and was forced to the ground. Rainbow Mothra attempted to fire his energy weapons at the enemy monster but was too busy doing aerial maneuvers to avoid the energy beams being emitted from the tip of some of the tentacles.

Gamera was getting up after getting knocked down out of the sky when he saw Kyoto Station not too far from him. After looking over to see that Iris was too busy with the mammoth turtle’s comrades to notice him, Gamera returned to his feet and charged the train depot. The structure of Kyoto Station exploded into millions of splinters as Gamera tore into the station with his bare hands. As he plunged his right arm into the heart of the complex, his fingers felt something smooth and out of place. He wrapped his hands around the object and pulled it free from the rubble. The thing that Gamera pulled out was a silver dagger like vessel that was in actuality one of the ships that were missing from the bottom of the Mothership.

This object must be what is transmitting the microwaves, Gamera observed. The giant monster then tightened his grip on the ship and with all of his strength, crushed the ship like soda can. Several explosions occurred inside the vessel as it was being crushed. Gamera looked back over to the battle and witnessed Iris let a distress call, which clued Gamera to the fact that the object he destroyed was the transmitter.

Gamera approached the fight and spewed a fireball at the tentacle holding Jet Jaguar. The fireball tore into the appendage, tearing it off from the monster. Iris screamed in pain. Jet Jaguar flexed his arms, releasing him from the grip of the tentacle. The robot then karate chopped the limb that Sanda was engaged with and severed it from the creature too. Rainbow Mothra was now able fire back with his beams which severed two more tentacles from the monster. Iris then fell to the ground flailing from pain. Sanda dropped the appendage and was helped back on its feet by Jet Jaguar.

Thanks Jag, said Sanda, I didn’t know how much longer I could last.

Don’t mention it, replied the humanoid robot.

Sanda! Jet Jaguar! yelled Gamera over the psi-net, Both of you; punch Iris in the stomach! It’s a weak point!

Iris got up and cried out in pain and anger.

Where’s my energy? I need my energy!

Sorry pal, you don’t have it anymore, said Jet Jaguar. Iris turned around to see Jet Jaguar and Sanda pull back and with all their strength, pushed their fists into the stomach of the monster, burying them deep into the creature’s gut. Iris cried out in pain as the monsters pulled their fists out of the creature. Iris stumbled back as blood poured from the wound. Gamera approached the two monsters and nodded in approval. Jaguar and Sanda both shook their hands, trying to shake off the gore from their hands. Gamera then looked into the sky at his flying comrade.

Rainbow Mothra! said the turtle, Fire everything you have into Iris’ wound!

Gotcha!” he answered. The giant insect then unloaded every beam he had into the wound of the creature. Iris’s cry of pain was deafening as flesh and blood erupted from the hole in his stomach. As R.M. fired his beams, Gamera’s mouth opened and the back of his mouth began to glow red. Gamera then fired a massive fireball into the wound along with the insect’s rays. The combination of the two caused Iris to explode in a shower of flesh and blood. The monsters roared in victory over Iris. The monsters also heard the cheers of the heroes that were helping with the evacuation in their heads.

That’s one down, said Jet Jaguar, Three more to go.

[Tim85]

Chapter 11
Fukuoka Throwdown

In the city of Fukuoka, it had become a city of crystals. The monster, Spacegodzilla, had erected dozens of structures throughout the metropolitan area. What made this creature different in looks to the Earth bound Godzilla was the two large crystals that jutted out of the shoulders and that made up the creature’s back spines and on the tip of its tail. The Justice League sent Godzilla Jr., MOGUERA, Armor Mothra, and Fire Rodan to battle the creature in addition to taking out Spacegodzilla’s power supply in Fukuoka Tower.

Concerning the monster angle, Spacegodzilla has been able to hold his own against the four monsters. He had beaten back every attack they hit him with. He was now holding Junior’s body in the air using a gravity force from his shoulder crystals.

You’re still a weak creature, Spacegodzilla told his “nephew”, You couldn’t handle me without your daddy and he barely stood up to me.

That’s not how I remember it, said MOGUERA. The robot, along with Armor Mothra, unloaded their beam weapons upon Spacegodzilla, who could not raise his crystal shield due to his mind being occupied with the young monster. The force of the beams knocked the monster off his feet, but also released Godzilla Jr. from his gravity tornado. Before Junior hit the ground, Rodan swooped in and caught him in his talons. MOGUERA then approached the intergalactic monster and began beating on the stunned monster with its cone tips.

You okay? asked Rodan.

Yeah, good timing, answered Godzilla Junior. As Fire Rodan brought the young Godzilla to the ground, the two turned to see Spacegodzilla get up and fire his Corona Beam at MOGUERA at close range, causing the robot to let out a mechanical groan and was knocked down. Spacegodzilla then let out a roar as a crystal he pulled out of the ground telepathically slammed into Armor Mothra, knocking him out of the sky.

We had better take out that tower soon, said Fire Rodan.

Until then, we have to try and keep him busy, replied Junior as he charged forward roaring at the top of his lungs. Fire Rodan followed suit at Spacegodzilla. The two tackled the crystal creature as it turned its attention towards the commotion that the two reptiles were causing. The alien controlled monster stumbled but didn’t fall. Spacegodzilla then spread out his arms and the crystals that resided in his shoulders formed a gravitational cyclone in front of him. The gravity vortex was directed in the direction of the League’s monsters and sucked up Godzilla Jr., MOGUERA, and Rodan. Before it could trap Armor Mothra, the insect was able to take back to the air and avoided the tornado. Enraged, Spacegodzilla telepathically pulled two large pointed crystals from the ground and turned them into homing missiles with the target being the armored insect.

Armor Mothra began to do various aerial maneuvers in hopes that it would lose the crystals, but they continued to close in on him. A.M. was able to catch Fukuoka Tower in its sights. He noticed that Spacegodzilla was occupied with blasting his teammates with his Corona beam and decided to use the crystal missiles to his advantage.

The giant insect dove in the direction of the tower, making a direct path towards the middle of the building. Just as Mothra was about to crash into the complex, he veered slightly to his left, causing his right wing to slice into the Fukuoka Tower like a hot knife through butter. While one of the missiles was able to stay on target and continued to follow the moth, the other slammed into the tower, causing an explosion that decimated the stories that it made contact with and caused the tower to fall from the point that Armor Mothra sliced into with his wing. The top of the building crashed to the ground and shattered.

Yes!! said the insect in excitement. Armor Mothra turned his head to see a large vessel, another one of the claw ships that was attached to the Xilian Mothership, begin to rise from what was left of Fukuoka Tower, and slowly began to ascend into the air.

Oh no, the insect directed towards the ship, You’re not getting away from this. Armor Mothra made a wide U-turn to ensure the crystal projectile would continue to follow him. As the insect approached the ship, the missile began to close in. Using all his strength, Mothra picked up speed and like the tower came almost in contact with it when he flew up and over the flying ship. The crystal missile slammed into the ship, causing it to explode.

Spacegodzilla was roaring in delight from the cries of pain that the monsters let out after every blast of his energy weapon. When the sound of the Xilian vessel exploding was heard, the monster froze. The monsters were released from the gravity vortex and fell to the ground. The three creatures started pulling themselves up when the crystals around them began to vanish.

The crystals are vanishing! said A.M., as he approached his teammates and filled them in on what had happened.

They started to when the ship exploded, observed Rodan.

They were one of Spacegodzilla’s power sources in the movie, said MOGUERA.

Spacegodzilla roar was weak, as if his energy was being drained from him.

My energy supply is gone, moaned the alien controlled monster. It can’t be.

Why do they always say that? asked Rodan.

Because they know, answered Junior, They can’t win.

If we take out his shoulder crystals, said MOGUERA, He’ll weaken even more.

Alright then, said G. Junior, Take them out! MOGUERA then opened his cone tips and fired a spiral grenade from each at the shoulder crystals. While the right one exploded on the head of the creature, the left one took out his right shoulder crystal. Spacegodzilla roared in pain from the double blow.

Godzilla Jr. and Fire Rodan fired their rays at the base of Spacegodzilla’s left shoulder crystal. The rays weaken the crystal while Armor Mothra took to the air and sliced into the crystal’s weak spot with his left wing. The crystal flew off his shoulder and shattered when it hit the ground. Spacegodzilla’s roar became even more pathetic and weak as he fell to the ground from the impact. The crystalline monster barely moved as his power was dropping rapidly.

Finish him! cried out Godzilla Jr. The cry was not only heard telepathically but the world heard it in the form of his roar. The four monsters bombarded Spacegodzilla with their rays. The crystalline beast roared as the collection of energy weapons struck the weaken monster. Soon the beams took their toll and the monster exploded in shower of sparks. The four monsters roared in celebration.

Let’s hope the other teams are doing just as well, said Fire Rodan.

Hopefully better, said Armor Mothra, commenting on how they did against Spacegodzilla.

[Tim85]

Chapter 12
Osaka Smackdown

Like the previous battles, the Xilian monster, in this case Keizer Ghidorah, was able to hold its own against the League’s monster allies. The Final Wars Godzilla approached the familiar foe and fired his atomic ray at the dragon. The ray did little damage to KG and he retaliated with his gravity beams. The bolts of energy latched onto the King of the Monsters and tossed him aside. Mothra then rushed the three headed beast and began beating the two side heads with her wings while scratching at the center head with her feet. The right head bit into her wing and tossed the insect aside. Just then Atom Smasher approached Keizer Ghidorah, who looked down at the hero as the monster towered over the giant hero with wonder in each of the heads.

What monster are you supposed to be? asked Keizer Ghidorah snidely.

The name’s Atom Smasher, replied the hero, I’m here to help the monsters take you down.

Right, scuffed KG.

Oh yeah! he replied and leapt at the dragon. Atom Smasher then backhanded the three heads with his left hand. While the monster was stunned, Albert then began punching Keizer Ghidorah in the chest. The dragon came to his senses and kneed the enlarged hero in the stomach with its left front knee. Atom Smasher grabbed his stomach and stumbled back, grunting in pain. The three-headed demon then reared back on its back feet and pushed forward with its front feet at Atom Smasher, knocking the hero backwards.

As the monster got back on all fours, three gravity beams struck the creature. Keizer Ghidorah’s reaction to the beams revealed that they caused some pain. The three heads look up to see Mecha-King Ghidorah hovering in the air.

Ha! laughed Keizer Ghidorah, An obviously inferior mechanical version of a prime specimen such as myself. He then fired gravity beams at the mechanical monster. MKG dodged the beams and flew behind and above Keizer Ghidorah. A giant mechanical claw came out of Mecha-King Ghidorah’s chest and clamped onto Keizer G’s back. Then three cables came out of his sides and they clamped on each of the three necks.

How’s this for inferior? asked Mecha-King Ghidorah as he discharged millions of volts of electricity through the claw and cables and unleashed his triple gravity beams upon Keizer Ghidorah. The monster cackled in pain as the power flowed through him. MKG then cut off the electricity but still maintained his grip on the three-headed quadruped, who remained stunned even after the shocks were done.

He’s wide open! yelled the mechanical monster. He’s not going anywhere!

Godzilla rushed the monster, grabbing hold of the right head and sinking his teeth into the neck, causing blood to pour from the wound. Mothra descended from the air and latched onto the center head, scratching and biting. To round out, Atom Smasher grabbed the left head in a headlock and began punching the head. The whole time this was going on Mecha-King Ghidorah was holding Keizer Ghidorah in place with his large robot claw.

The triple headed creature soon came to its senses and shook off his attackers and began to thrash his body from side to side violently. MKG could not keep his grip and released Keizer Ghidorah. The alien controlled monster unleashed his gravity beams upon his opponents. The beams were able to latch onto Godzilla and Mecha-King Ghidorah but Mothra and Atom Smasher were able to avoid getting snatched up. Keizer Ghidorah, using his beams, raised both monsters high into the air, both of them roaring in pain and surprise. Mothra flew in from behind K.G. and slammed into the back of the three heads, which caused the beams to be cut off and the two monsters to fall back to Earth. As Keizer Ghidorah began to turn his rage towards the insect, Atom Smasher leapt into the air behind the monster and the hero landed on Ghidorah’s back and wrapped his arms around the base of the three heads. Keizer Ghidorah began to buck like a bull at the rodeo trying to dislodge the hero. Godzilla and Mecha-King Ghidorah both got to their feet and became puzzled by the actions of the human that was fighting beside them.

Mothra and I will keep him busy! Albert called out to his allies, You two destroy the castle! The two monsters nodded and began to rush towards Osaka Castle. Keizer stopped bucking and all three heads were focused on the two fleeing monsters. Before Ghidorah could do anything, Mothra dropped out of the sky and landed hard on top of the heads. The blow stunned the monster while the insect began to frantically batter the creature’s three craniums with her wings, claws, and filling the air with her powder, which further disorientated the creature.

Godzilla soon came upon the castle that was fueling his enemy. As he came right up to it, Mecha-King Ghidorah landed next the building, facing it.

Is this it? asked MKG

Yes, answered Godzilla, Bring it down. The two monsters began to tear into the structure. Godzilla pulled large chunks of building off with his bare hands and his bionic ally scratched at it with his feet and battered the complex with his tail. Soon the ancient structure that stood for many generations collapsed to the ground from the monsters going berserk on it. When the structure fell, it revealed a silver ship that was hidden in the complex. It was the third and final ship of the Xilian’s claw like ships.

It appears to be the source of the energy to the monster, stated Mecha-Ghidorah, observing how out of place the ship was. The vessel began to rapidly rise into the air and away from the monsters.

You’re not getting away that easy, said Godzilla as his back spines lit up. Godzilla and Mecha-King Ghidorah unleashed their energy beams upon the ship and incinerated the ship on contact.

Keizer Ghidorah finally came to his senses and began to fire his gravity beams wildly, which forced Mothra to retreat so she would not get hit. Trying to stop the flailing beams, Albert then grabbed hold of the center neck by itself and began to pull it back, in an effort to try and snap it. Just as he pulled it back, Ghidorah’s center neck, using all the strength it had, swung forward, flinging the hero off the creature’s back.

While Atom Smasher was in the air, Mothra caught the hero before he could hit the ground.

Thanks, said Albert.

You’re welcome Atom Smasher, Mothra answered as she set him back down to earth. Just as he touched the ground a large explosion rocked the city.

What the hell was that? Atom Smasher asked. Mothra scanned the city and saw a fireball where Osaka Castle was formally located.

Whatever was powering Keizer Ghidorah, she identified as Godzilla and Mecha-King Ghidorah approached the two.

We took out a ship that was hidden inside the structure. Godzilla explained, We’re pretty sure that was providing the energy to our enemy.

All right! No more power for the three headed freak, yelled Atom Smasher, as the two monsters approached when he remembered one of his colleagues, No offense Mecha-King Ghidorah.

None taken, he replied, not offended by the comment.

Keizer Ghidorah’s weakening! exclaimed Mothra. They turned towards the monster. Keizer Ghidorah began cackling in pain, as the energy began to drain from the creature. The monster then fell to its knees, gasping for air.

Time to finish him, said Godzilla. The four then rushed the weakened monster. They converged on the dragon and began beating on him. Godzilla and Atom Smasher used him as a punching bag, MKG bit, kicked, and heat butted, and Mothra slapped the creature with her wings. Keizer Ghidorah roared in pain from the multiple blows.

Suddenly, the creature found itself being lifted off the ground. The four of them used their combined strength to pick the monster up and tossed him in the air. Keizer Ghidorah fell back to the ground, with a loud thunder like boom.

You three got the beams, said Atom Smasher, Go ahead and fry him! The three monsters charged their beams up to full power and unleashed them upon the creature. Keizer Ghidorah roared as his body became engulfed in flames. The monster finally exploded into a massive fireball. The monsters roared in celebration of their victory as Atom Smasher cheered along with them.

I wonder how the League’s doing in Tokyo. said Godzilla.

[Tim85]

Chapter 13
JLA: Final War

The monsters Mothra Leo, Kiryu, and Anguirus teleported into Tokyo along with their leader, the hero known as The Kaiju to do battle with the GMK Godzilla. Kaiju, still in his Heisei Godzilla form, stared at the destruction around him. Even after his months with the League, it was still shocking to him. He was told by several other members that they still don’t get used to it. His shock at the destruction was eclipsed by his continued amazement that he was standing there with creatures he had loved since childhood as fictional movie monsters, now living breathing creatures. He was brought back into reality when Anguirus asked him a question.

So what can you tell us about this Godzilla? Anguirus asked.

Kaiju turned to his monster comrades: The GMK Godzilla is considered one of the most powerful and evil Godzilla.

Oh goody , Mothra Leo groaned.

Kiryu showed off his weaponry and let out a roar to go with his comment.

With these guns, I think I could handle him , he said confidently.

Let’s hope so , Kaiju told him. Just then a loud roar echoed across the city. A tinge of fear crept into Tim as he turned towards the sound. The monsters approached the source of the roar: Godzilla. This was the monster that he had nightmares about facing. The creature had the look that was usually associated with him except for the pupil-less eyes; which gave the creature an almost demonic quality to it. The sight of this creature caused more fear in Kaiju, but was soon replaced with anger over all the destruction that he has caused.

Get him , he said. The three monsters rushed Godzilla with Kaiju in the lead. Godzilla, seeing the four creatures approaching, then released his atomic ray in the direction of the group. The four scattered, dodging the beam. Kiryu leapt into the air using his booster jets and as he fell back to earth, he began firing his laser arm cannons and missiles from his shoulder launchers. They struck the monster but did little damage. Kiryu then released a bolt of energy from his hyper maser cannon in his mouth. Godzilla roared in frustration as the bolt streaked across his body. He then swung his tail around, slamming it into Kiryu’s side, knocking the robot to the ground.

So much for handling , said Anguirus sarcastically.

Just get him , shot back Kiryu in frustration. Mothra Leo swooped in and fired his chest buster, lighting from his wings, and triple laser beams from his forehead. Godzilla roared in anger and turned his attention to Leo. This proved to be a mistake. He did not notice Anguirus roll up into a ball and roll towards him. The armored creature slammed into Godzilla, knocking him face forward into the ground.

After he got back to his feet, Kaiju rushed him and grabbed him in a bear hug. The two Godzilla creatures grappled with each other until Godzilla then sunk his teeth into Kaiju’s left shoulder. Kaiju roared in pain and responded with a blast of atomic fire. The beam, lacing into the back of Godzilla, caused the monster to release his shoulder. The two stumbled back, with Kaiju holding his shoulder. Suddenly a voice came into his head.

You’ll never be a real Godzilla, Kaiju. Tim looked at Godzilla, who seemed to have an evil grin on his face. He was stunned by the creature speaking to him. He figured that the Xilians would give their monsters an upgrade to compete with the League’s monsters, but he wasn’t expecting this.

You’re too weak , he continued, You don’t stand a chance against the real thing.

I may not be the real Godzilla , Kaiju replied, But I’m still going to kick your ass.

How are you going to do that? Godzilla replied snidely. Just then one of Kiryu’s shoulder launchers stuck itself to the side of Godzilla. Godzilla looked at Kiryu as the robot’s eyes blink yellow, causing the launcher to explode. The force knocked him to the ground. The monster got up growling in anger.

With a little help from my friends , answered Kaiju, as Mothra Leo and Anguirus descended on Godzilla. Anguirus bit into Godzilla’s left calf while the evil King of the Monsters was also being bombarded by Mothra Leo’s beams.

Let the ass-kicking commence! said Kaiju.

The Mothership

The Controller was watching the monster action happening in the four cities: Kyoto, Fukuoka, Osaka, and Tokyo, when he brought up another screen which showed the outside of the Mothership. It showed several members of the Justice League approaching the Mothership and the warships that surrounded it.

“They’re here,” commented the Xilian Controller with a smile, “Let the fun begin.”

Outside the Mothership

Several members of the JLA approached the Mothership. Superman was in front, leading the team. Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, Firestorm, Booster Gold, Blue Beetle in his Bug , Warrior, Doctor Light, Red Tornado, Captain Atom, Fire, Orion, The Ray, Zauriel, Lightray, and Jade followed the Man of Steel.

In addition to the League members, several of their allies had joined in the assault: Power Girl, Captain Marvel, Hawkman, Hawkgirl, Sentinal, and Dr. Fate from the Justice Society, Troia, Starfire, and Argent from the Titans, and Superboy and Wonder Girl of Young Justice.

“Look at all the warships,” commented Diana.

“Too bad they don’t stand a chance,” said Clark, with no humor in his voice. He was fed up with the Xilians and wanted to end this conflict once and for all. The warships than began to approach the team with their lasers firing.

“Attack!!” yelled Superman as the team dove at the flying machines. The aerial battle filled the sky. Even the monsters could see the conflict if they weren’t occupied with the own tussle. The Man from Krypton flew through several ships and took out more with his heat vision. Wonder Woman reflected the laser blasts back at the ships with her bracelets and used her Lasso to catch one ship and slam it into another ship, taking out both. J’onn did the same as Superman but instead used his Martian Vision. Firestorm used his elemental shifting powers to turn the ships into explosive compounds as well as using energy blasts on the aircrafts. Red Tornado used cyclonic winds to batter and to destroy the vessels. The Bug’s blaster on the bottom took out warships left and right, as Blue Beetle spun the blaster around in circles. Orion’s Astro-Force proved to be quite effective against the ships. Zauriel’s flame sword slashed every ship it made contact with in half and caused several to explode with his sonic scream. The remaining members blasted the fighters with their respective energy blasts and the ones who didn’t have energy weapons smashed through the fighters using their physical weapons or simply their fists.

During this commotion, Green Lantern came from below the Mothership, holding Batman, Aquaman, Flash, and Plastic Man in a green bubble for protection. He placed the bubble next to the ship with the side of it being exposed inside the orb.

“Okay Wally, do your thing,” commented Kyle. Flash then placed his hands against the Mothership’s wall and began to vibrate his molecules so fast that he phased through the wall. Unlike his uncle, the second Flash, he cannot just phase through the wall. When Wally did, his vibrations caused unstable resonance in the molecules of the structure which caused the wall to explode. G.L. placed a wall between Flash and the other heroes for protection.

We’re in , Batman said through the psi-net. Superman then gave an order to the reservists:

After you take out the last of the warships, continue helping with evacuations! Some members replied in agreement while some grumbled at the suggestion. Superman, Wonder Woman, and J’onn Jonzz then broke from the action and joined the other main members and entered the Mothership through the hole.

The Controller observed the League boarding the ship on his monitor.

“Sir,” asked one of the guards. “Shall we send troops?”

“Only a few,” answered the leader, “Let them come here.” The guards raised their eyebrows in response wondering what he was up to.

The JLA ran through the numerous halls of the Mothership, looking for the control room when they soon were greeted by a small group of around 20 Xilian grunts.

“We’ve got company!” yelled Flash, who was slightly ahead of the group. The rest caught up and joined The Flash in the melee that was about to occur. The team walked through the grunts like they were nothing. The laser blasters proved to be useless against the League. Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Plas (mimicking the appearance of the aliens) and J’onn used fisticuffs against the Xilians. Batman took out several with his Baterangs, Green Lantern created his own laser guns to counter the Xilian laser weapons, and Arthur’s harpoon hand skewered a grunt in the shoulder and he fired it, throwing the Xilian back into other grunts. The hall where the battle was taking place was illuminated by energy weapons and the sounds of the blows echoed throughout the structure. After the group was taken out, Wonder Woman used her Lasso of Truth on a still conscience grunt.

“Where is the location of the control room?” Diana ordered. Normally she’s not fond of being forced to use the Lasso for information, but this time, this was her only option. The Xilian pointed the way and told them. After his usefulness was done, she withdrew the Lasso and J’onn used his telepathy to knock out the grunt. They followed the grunt’s directions to a large cavernous room with a large control panel with an enormous monitor screen above it; the same room as the one shown on the Xilian’s telecast.

“This is the place,” said Kyle recognizing the place from the Watchtower.

“Looks like a real fixer-upper,” added Plastic Man.

“Where’s the Xilian Controller?” asked Aquaman as they approached the panel. They all look at the screen, showing the locations that are currently under attack.

“I don’t know,” answered Batman, “Something’s wrong.” The whole thing wasn’t sitting right with Bruce. The fact that the main control panel was left unguarded with the Controller nowhere in sight seemed a bit off.

“Still,” said Superman, “We have the control panel right here. Let’s finish this monster threat first. Then we can take care of the Xilians.” The Man of Steel then raised both his fists into the air above the panel. As he did, alarm bells started to ring in Batman’s head.

“Clark, wait!” said Bruce, spinning around to face Superman, hoping to stop his teammate from doing something foolish. Before he could stop him, Superman brought down both his fists with all his might. When his fists came in contact with the panel, large surges of white energy surged into the Kryptonian, shocking him. Superman cried out in pain and tried to pull away but the energy was intense enough that it was able to hold the near invulnerable superhero in place.

“It’s a trap!” yelled The Dark Knight, “Get out!” Before anyone could respond, the same energy that was surging through Superman shot out of the ceiling and walls, engulfing the Justice League. The team cried out in shock and after a minute, the entire League blacked out.

“Superman,” J’onn’s voice echoed in Clark’s head. “Are you awake?” Superman groaned as he came to.

“Yes,” he answered with a groan, “I am.” He opened his eyes and found himself enclosed in a pulsing bubble. He turned to see his teammates sitting in similar bubbles: J’onn, Bruce, Arthur, and Eel on his right and Diana, Wally, and Kyle on his left. Clark stood up and began punching on the sides.

“That won’t work,” commented Batman. “J’onn hasn’t been able to phase out either.”

“I can’t get a bead on the structure of the bubble to vibrate through it,” said Flash.

“And my ring won’t touch it either,” added Green Lantern.

“Bats was right,” said Plastic Man, with his arms folded across his chest, “It was a trap. Why couldn’t have he been wrong just once?”

“Because then he wouldn’t be the Batman,” said the Controller. The team looked up to see the Controller and his guards enter the room.

“The great and mighty Justice League of America,” he said with a snicker, “So much for that description.”

“What are you going to do with us?” asked Superman.

“I could start the butchering with you, but you would serve us better alive. Seeing you captured would be a real morale killer for your supposed superhero friends.” He then walked closer towards the JLA.

“Besides,” he continued, “Only four of you are edible to us anyway.” He then stood between Kal-El and J’onn J’onzz. “The Martian is no good for eating to us and I doubt the Kryptonian physiology would even be good.” The Controller approached Wonder Woman’s bubble.

“The Amazon is clay-based, so I doubt we’ll get anything good from her.” The alien was making reference to how she was molded from clay and brought to life. He then walked to where Plastic Man’s bubble was located.

“And you, freak, would probably be a little chewy,” he said directly at O’Brian.

“Who you calling freak, leather boy?” asked Plas. The Controller sneered, not impressed by the comment, and walked back to where he could address the entire Justice League.

“I must commend you on your golden boy The Kaiju,” he said, pointing his thumb at the screen. “The idea of your own monsters could have only come from him. It doesn’t matter; with the energy being provided to our creatures, even your ‘League of Monsters’ doesn’t stand a chance against our forces. Once the world sees your monsters taken down, along with the almighty JLA taken prisoner, this planet should be easy pickings after that.”

“Sir,” one of the guards spoke up from the control panel, “We’re getting a message from Kyoto.”

“Ah!” the Xilian leader said, smiling at the Justice League, “Good news I assume. Do tell with the news of our victory, guard!”

“The power ship has been eliminated,” he said reluctantly.

“What?” the Controller yelled, turning to the screen. The members of the JLA soon had their own sneers.

“We’re also getting the same message from Fukuoka and Osaka. They each were taken out by one of the monsters.” The Xilian Controller looked up to see Iris, Spacegodzilla, and Keizer Ghidorah all get fried by the League’s monsters.

“We’ve lost the monsters too, sir,” the guard continued.

“I can see that, you idiot!” the Controller screamed. He stood there clenching his teeth and breathing heavily.

“Hey Controller!” yelled Plastic Man, with his hands cupped around his mouth, “Us Earthlings have a phrase about the word “assume”. It makes an “ass” out of you and me!”

“Yeah, it was a victory,” commented Kyle, pointing his left thumb at himself, “In our favor!” The leader turned and growled under his breath. He then stood up straight with an evil smile.

“This round goes to you Justice League,” he said with his right palm pointing up at the JLA, “But the war is still far from over! Your victory will come at a price!” He then approached the control panel and pushed a button on the control and spoke into what looked like a mesh speaker:

“Godzilla, incapacitate the monsters. Then, kill The Kaiju!!” He released the button. He turned back in the direction of the League, whose members all had horrid looks on their faces.

“No,” said Wonder Woman softly.

“Oh yes,” he replied with a smile, “And you’ll have front row seats to witness your colleague’s death as it happens!” The guard then pulled the Tokyo portion of the screen to fill the entire monitor.

“Let us watch this, shall we?” he said, waving towards the screen.

Tokyo

Kiryu, now without his extra weaponry, grappled with Godzilla after Anguirus, Mothra Leo, and Kaiju were beaten back by the monster. The robot then turned his right hand into a drill and plunged it into Godzilla’s side. The monster roared in pain as flesh and blood flew off the wound.

Why won’t you just go down, you mother... , Kiryu’s last word was cut off when Godzilla grabbed a hold of the mechanical monster’s neck and pulled out several cords running to its head. Kiryu’s eyes suddenly went out, the drill hand fell out of the wound, and the robot hunched over onto Godzilla. Kaiju was getting up when he saw the GMK Godzilla shove the inoperable machine aside, knocking the robot down on its back.

Kiryu!! cried out Tim as he let out a roar in shock.

You son of a bitch!! yelled Anguirus at the creature that took out Kiryu as he rushed Godzilla. He then leapt at the alien controlled monster and dug his teeth into Godzilla’s left arm. Godzilla began pounding the smaller creature in the head but Anguirus refused to release his grip. The evil King of the Monsters then punched Anguirus in the side of the neck, hitting certain nerves that caused the armored monster to black out.

NO!! Kaiju yelled at the sight of losing another teammate.

I got him Kaiju! yelled Mothra Leo. The giant moth screeched at Godzilla as he dive-bombed towards him, firing his multiple energy weapons at the reptile. Godzilla then grabbed the upper jaw of Anguirus, still hanging on to his arm, spun around, and tossed the armored dinosaur at Leo. Before he could stop in time, Anguirus collided with the flying insect, knocking M.L. to the ground and out of the battle.

Kaiju roared into the sky in anger over Godzilla taking out his monster allies. He looked down and found a large steel beam from what use to be Tokyo Tower lying on the ground. He picked up the metal rod and charged the monster with it high in the air. As Kaiju got in range, he swung the beam with all his might. The object made a loud metallic clang when it connected with Godzilla’s head. Kaiju took another swing when the alien controlled monster caught his wrist before it made contact. Godzilla then punched Kaiju in the stomach, causing Tim to release his grip on the weapon. The hero grunted in pain and was hunched over holding his stomach. Godzilla released the hero’s wrist and then kicked Kaiju in the chin, knocking the Godzilla formed hero’s head back. The reptile spun around and slammed the side of Kaiju’s skull with his tail. Kaiju was knocked sideways from the blow. Before he could get composed, Godzilla was already upon him, continuing the vicious beating.

Mothership

The members of the Justice League were horrified in the images of Kaiju being beaten to death by the GMK Godzilla. Some cried out for the Xilian Controller to stop, while others couldn’t even look at the brutality being done to their teammate. The Controller just stood there, staring at the screen with his grin getting bigger with every blow that Kaiju took.

Tokyo

Kaiju had received a severe beating in just a few minutes, which felt like an eternity to him. Tim was trying to stay on his feet when Godzilla hit the hero with an uppercut, knocking the hero back. Kaiju fell backwards into a large structure that was still standing despite the battle going on and got his back spines caught in the building. Kaiju was trying to pull himself back up when Godzilla unleashed his atomic ray upon Locke. Kaiju roared in pain as the beam laced into him. After the beam finished, Kaiju just sat there, feeling his strength draining from him. His eyes grew wide when he saw Godzilla’s back spines begin to glow steadily brighter. Kaiju knew he was charging his ray to finish him. As he stared at the monster, Kaiju thought he saw movement out of the corner of his eye but didn’t take too much notice to it with what was happening in front of him. Kaiju braced himself as Godzilla threw back his head and he said a silent prayer to himself. He kept staring as Godzilla released his atomic ray and he closed his eyes just as a bright white light enveloped him and the entire city.

[Tim85]

Chapter 14
The Deal

The Justice League was speechless. They just saw a white flash appear on the monitor screen after the Xilian’s Godzilla fired its atomic ray at their teammate The Kaiju in an attempt to kill him. A few even shed a tear for their comrade.

“Well,” said the Controller, turning towards the captured JLA with a huge smile on his face, “That’s one pain out of the way.”

Superman gritted his teeth and pounded his fist against the side of the bubble in anger, causing a loud rumble to echo throughout the chamber, which drew everyone’s attention to him.

“You’ll pay for that, Xilian!” he yelled.

“Really?” he replied. He then approached the bubble that Superman was being held in, got right in his face, and put his hands on his hips. “And what are you going to do about it in there?” he replied with a sly smile. Superman just clenched his teeth in frustration.

“Sir, the white light is dissipating,” said the female guard.

“Now to get a good look at what’s left of the body,” said the leader of the Xilians rubbing his hands in anticipation as he went back in front of the screen.

“Sick freak,” said Flash, holding back tears. On the screen, the light was dissipating enough to reveal the GMK Godzilla standing there and something that surprised the Controller.

“He’s alive?!” screamed the Controller in surprise.

“He’s alive!!” yelled Diana, with tears in her eyes. The League cheered at the good news.

Tokyo

Kaiju opened his eyes to the white light, thinking it was death, but was proven wrong when he felt first himself and then saw the city of Tokyo devastated around him. Soon the light went away to reveal a glowing form between him and Godzilla. Tim instantly recognized the form in front of him.

Armor Mothra, Kaiju said to himself. After a few seconds, the insect stopped glowing and revealed itself to Godzilla and the rest of the world. The giant reptile stared in shock and roared in surprise.

Thank you, Armor Mothra, Kaiju told the insect, Your timing is impeccable.

Well, replied the armored insect, I’m not alone. Just then, several familiar roars echoed across the city that drew everyone’s attention.

Mothership

“Blasted insect!!” yelled the Controller, who began stomping the ground in anger and cursing Armor Mothra.

“Sir, our visuals are showing more objects approaching the monster,” said one of the guards. The Controller clenched his fists even tighter and his face began to turn red at what he saw, which caused smiles to spread to everyone in the League; even Batman.

“I think the cavalry’s here!” yelled Plas in a cavalryman’s outfit.

Tokyo

A wave of relief and excitement came over Kaiju at what he saw. In the air above the city of Tokyo, were all the other monsters: Gamera, Rainbow Mothra, Jet Jaguar carrying Sanda, MOGUERA, Fire Rodan, with Godzilla Jr. in his claws, and Godzilla being carried in by Mothra and Mecha-King Ghidorah.

All right! yelled Kaiju over the psi-net as well as letting out a roar in response. Seeing the monsters here meant that they were successful in eliminating the Xilian’s monsters. The GMK Godzilla let out a roar of challenge to the approaching monsters. The League’s monsters answered the roar with a barrage of beams and energy attacks from any monster that had the ability. The beams struck the evil beast with enough force that he was knocked backwards and to the ground. The light was intense enough that Kaiju had to shield his eyes. After Kaiju was able to see again, he tried to push himself up but his still stuck back spines kept him from getting up. After falling back against the structure after several failed attempts to free his back spines, a voice came into his head.

Need some help? it asked. Kaiju opened his eyes to see two hands in front of him. He looked up to see Godzilla on his left and Gamera on his right. For a brief moment, he couldn’t do anything but stare at them. The two monsters that few people thought would ever come together are standing side by side right in front of him. He soon got his composure and asked about the other three monsters that the GMK Godzilla took out.

They’re being taken care of, said the FW Godzilla. Kaiju looked over and saw the Mothras helping Leo back into the air. Sanda, Junior, and Rodan got Anguirus back to his feet and the mechas got Kiryu back working again. Tim turned his attention back to the two monsters in front of him and grabbed a hold of their hands and pulled himself up with the help of the muscle power from Godzilla and Gamera. After getting back on his feet, he shook off all the rubble.

What made you decide to come here? asked Kaiju.

We figured you could use some help here, said Gamera, And the heroes that were helping with the evacuations suggested it.

No sense us hanging around our respective cities with the Mothership still around, added Godzilla.

Did you find out what was powering the monsters?

There were three claw shaped ships buried in the structures in total, said Gamera. Kaiju nodded, now he knew where those three points were instead of being on the Mothership. Just then the other monsters came up behind Kaiju, who turned around to see them all coming towards him.

Is everyone else doing okay? he asked. Several roars and voices came into his head expressing how they are doing.

Good, Kaiju replied and couldn’t help but just smile at the sight of all the monsters. The moment was cut short when another roar was heard. They all turned towards the source of the roar. The GMK Godzilla got up and roared in frustration. He looked on at the group: Kaiju stood in the middle, flanked immediately by Godzilla, Gamera, and the other 12 monsters. The sight of them would cause awe in anyone seeing this but caused the GMK Godzilla to show a particular emotion that has never been seen on the creature: fear.

Take him out, ordered Kaiju, By whatever means necessary!! Kaiju, Godzilla, and Gamera charged with the other monsters close behind at the Xilian’s monster. The ground shook and thundered for miles from the monsters’ footsteps. The alien controlled creature fired his atomic ray at the group but did little in halting their descent upon the evil Godzilla.

Mothership

The Controller was all over the room, throwing one of the biggest tantrums he had ever thrown; stomping, waving his fists in the air, and screaming obscenities.

“I think somebody needs a pacifier,” said Kyle as he formed a baby’s pacifier with his ring.

“Right now,” commented Batman, ignoring the Emerald Warrior’s comment, “We need Kaiju.” He then turned to Martian Manhunter.

“You can use your telepathy outside of your bubble, right?” he asked.

“Yes,” J’onn answered.

“Try to contact Kaiju. With the other monsters now here, they can handle the Xilian’s Godzilla. Kaiju’s our only hope to get us out of here and to take out that machine.”

“I’ll see what I can do,” he said, and he began searching for Kaiju’s mind to send him a distress message.

Tokyo

The monsters were delivering a severe beating to the GMK Godzilla. Kaiju approached the monster, which was on his hands and knees. Seeing the monster this way almost made the hero feel sorry for him, almost. The other monsters gave him room to deliver his blows onto the creature. Locke grabbed Godzilla by the back of the head, pulled him up, and then pounded his fist into Godzilla’s skull. The force knocked the monster out of Kaiju’s grip and into the ground. He then began kicking the monster in the side, every kick getting stronger as Kaiju’s anger rose.

You think you can kill me? he asked the GMK Godzilla, Just ask some super villains how hard it is to kill me! Several super criminals tried their best to do away with the monster hero, but found that their efforts to be fruitless. Kaiju then grabbed Godzilla by the arm and with all his strength, pulled him off the ground and tossed him over his head, roaring in anger. The alien controlled monster flew a ways before slamming back to the earth. Kaiju and the monsters were advancing towards the fallen monster when the hero halted in his tracks after being contacted by the Martian Manhunter. Tim closed his eyes, concentrating on the message he was receiving. Godzilla and Gamera stopped when Kaiju halted in his tracks. They let the other monsters descend on the evil beast and approached the hero in puzzlement.

What’s wrong? asked Godzilla, with his head tilted in wonderment.

It’s J’onn, Kaiju answered, He said the League has been captured by the Xilians. They need my help. Can you handle the situation here? Gamera glanced at the monsters pounding on the Xilian’s Godzilla and turned back to Kaiju.

I think we can handle it, he said, nodding his head.

Great, Tim said, pointing two fingers at the monster duo, I’m putting you two in charge. Now here’s a plan I’ve been thinking of for a while. Kaiju then gave them the information. Think you got it?

No problem, said Godzilla, nodding, Save the Justice League, we’ll take it from here.

Thanks, said Kaiju. While the hero took off towards the Mothership, Godzilla and Gamera went back to the battle to inform the monsters of the new battle plan.

Mothership

“Sir, The Kaiju is approaching the Mothership,” said one of the guards. The Controller stopped his tantrum and saw for himself what was on the screen.

“Why is he leaving the battle to come here?” he asked with a confused look. Right after he said that he stood up straight when he came to the revelation that he answered his own question. He slowly turned his head in the direction of J’onn J’onzz.

“Of course,” he said, “The Martian’s a telepath.” He then approached the bubble holding him, pointing at the Leaguer. “You called for help, didn’t you? You thought that The Kaiju would be expendable now that the other monsters are here didn’t you?” J’onn just stared at the Controller stone faced and did not answer.

“Shall we ready the defenses?” asked a guard.

“No,” the Controller said with a wave of his hand, “Let him come. I have something special in mind for him.” This time, the guards showed no surprise, after the many strange ideas that the Controller has come up with so far, this was not shocking.

Outside the Mothership

Kaiju came to a stop just under the Mothership. The ground was littered from the debris of all the destroyed warships. There were no signs of the other superheroes in the area, signaling that they had followed their orders of evacuation. He scanned the bottom for any signs of entry until he found the hole that the League used to enter the ship. Kaiju stretched out his arms to his side and began to glow. After a few seconds, the glow began to shrink and after the glow stopped, it revealed a human sized Kaiju, now in the form of Gamera, hovering in the air with his arms as flippers and jets firing where his back legs are supposed to be. He then shot up towards the hole and entered the Mothership. Kaiju shot through the halls towards the control room using the directions that J’onn downloaded into his brain.

After rounding what had seemed like a million corners, he saw the control room straight ahead. Just as he neared the entrance, a flash illuminated the doorway and Kaiju came skidding into the hall, now resuming his Heisei Godzilla form. After he stopped, he turned around to see the Justice League in their bubble prisons.

“Justice League!” he yelled as he approached them with his arms wide open. The Leaguers all got to their feet to greet their fellow member.

“Kaiju!” yelled Wonder Woman, pressing her hands against the side of the bubble.

“I’ve never been happier to see you than now,” said Aquaman with a big smile. The other expressed their agreement when the Controller interrupted the reunion.

“At long last,” the Controller sneered, “The great Kaiju, face-to-face.”

Kaiju whirled on his feet and just glared at the Xilian Controller. Any wonderment he had is now replaced with anger over what the Xilians have done.

“Hello Xilian,” fired back Kaiju with no emotion in his voice.

“Funny, I thought you were taller,” the leader said with a chuckle.

“It’s all over Xilian!” Kaiju said, pointing at the screen, “Not even the most powerful Godzilla can handle that many monsters!”

“I agree with you, my heroic friend,” the alien leader said smoothly. He then returned to the control panel and began to punch some keys and then pushed a large red button. He then waved towards the screen.

“Observe,” he said as everyone in the room watched the screen for what the Xilian had in mind.

Tokyo

The GMK Godzilla roared in defiance after seeing that he was surrounded by three mechas in a triangle formation: MOGUERA with his arm cones and plasma grenade launcher open, Kiryu with his missile bays, Triple Hyper Maser, and maw open with his laser arm cannons aimed at Godzilla, and Mecha-King Ghidorah with its three mouths open.

Mecha team: fire! Godzilla, who was standing a far distance away, roared both literally and telepathically. The three mecha monsters fired every beam weapon at their disposal at the GMK Godzilla. The monster roared in pain as the multiple beams pounded him.

Aerial assault team, your turn! hollered Gamera, who was standing next to Godzilla. In the air, flying in a v-formation was Fire Rodan at the lead, with Mothra and Armor Mothra on his right and Mothra Leo and Rainbow Mothra on his left.

Okay crew! bellowed Rodan, Don’t hold back! The five monsters dove toward Godzilla, roaring at the monster. The three mechas cut off their weapons and gave the flying monsters a wide berth. Rodan and the Mothras fired their beams towards the alien controlled beast. Godzilla roared as another round of beams pummeled him.

Ground team: attack! yelled Godzilla. The aerial monsters cut off their beams and ascended back into the air. The Xilian’s Godzilla, still in shock over the two beam attacks, did not see Anguirus roll into a ball and barreled towards him. The rolling monster slammed into the evil King of the Monsters, knocking him to the ground. When he got back to his feet, Jet Jaguar and Sanda began to use Godzilla as a punching bag, hitting him so fast that he couldn’t fight back. The monster’s back spines began to glow blue. The two monsters backed off from the giant reptile. Before the monster could fire his ray; another smaller blue ray struck Godzilla on the side of the head, causing the monster to fire the ray into the air. As he tried to shake off the strike, the source of the beam, Godzilla Junior, rushed the monster and body slammed him in the back, knocking him face first into the ground.

So, you’re ready? Gamera asked to Godzilla.

I’m so ready, Godzilla replied. The two monsters approached the alien controlled creature as it was getting up. Gamera socked the GMK Godzilla with a right hook, which caused the monster to stumble to the side. The FW Godzilla then punched the Xilian’s Godzilla with a left hook. As the blow knocked Godzilla back towards Gamera; the giant turtle raised his right elbow into the air, which extended the claw out of the elbow, and sliced the reptile in the left shoulder. The claw was sharp enough that it left a large bloody gash. The GMK Godzilla roared in pain and clutched his shoulder. The FW Godzilla then swung his tail, striking his doppelganger in the back of the head and knocking him to the ground again. As the two League monsters came closer to the GMK Godzilla, a voice came into their heads but was directed at the FW Godzilla.

How could you? the monster asked, raising his face at the League’s Godzilla as he was getting up, You’re a Godzilla! How could you fight for humans? One thing that was common in all Godzilla forms, along with many other monsters in the movies: they all had distaste for humanity. It was humans that brought them into existence because they were tampering in God’s domain. Even in films where Godzilla was the hero, he was doing it because the monster challenged him or threatened the Earth itself. Saving humans was just an unfortunate part of the package deal.

The humans in this world are different, replied the FW Godzilla, lowering his head closer to his enemy to put his point across, These humans treat us as equals, as heroes! Even though he was under the control of the Justice League; his improved intelligence allowed him to see that some humans, particularly The Kaiju, are not all bad and actually see them as living creatures as well as allies. This caused him and several of the other monsters to reevaluate their feelings on humanity.

These humans put themselves on the frontlines alongside us, added Gamera, Unlike your Xilian masters who hide behind you and treat you like a slave. Gamera on the other hand, was created to protect both the Earth and humanity. He did not share the same distrust for humans as Godzilla and several of the other monsters have, but also like Godzilla, his new intelligence allowed him to understand how they felt.

The GMK Godzilla, angered over Gamera’s comment, roared and lunged up at the two monsters. Godzilla and Gamera responded by blasting him with their atomic ray and fireballs, respectively. The force knocked the monster backwards. Soon they were flanked by the other monsters, ready to finish the GMK Godzilla.

It’s all over, said Godzilla.

Suddenly the monster, after getting back to his feet, began to glow. The League’s monsters all stared as the creature began to get bigger. The glow stopped with the GMK Godzilla now towering over the monsters, otherwise showing nothing new. Suddenly the creature roared as two serpentine heads of Keizer Ghidorah burst out of the front of Godzilla’s shoulders.

That, said Gamera with a visible look of disgust, is disgusting.

After that occurred, two giant crystals that were similar to Spacegodzilla’s shoulder crystals, sprouted out of the creature’s shoulders. Two wings, resembling Keizer Ghidorah’s, came out of the back of the shoulders. Then, four giant spear-tipped tentacles from the monster Iris came out of the sides of GMK Godzilla, and finally, at the tip of the Godzilla’s tail, a small cluster of crystals popped out. The creature roared a mix of all four monsters. Several monsters groaned and some said words that would be considered offensive.

Fry him! roared Godzilla. All the monsters released their energy rays upon the super sized monster. The beams all met resistance as a large crystal shield materialized in front of the mutated reptile. The monsters cut off their beams and all stared at the creature as the shield was brought down. The maws of the reptile and the dragon heads opened wide and while the two Ghidorah heads released two gravity beams, the creature released a large multicolored beam from its mouth along with thin beams from the tentacles, all of them targeted at the crowd of monsters. The beams blew through the monsters, scattering the giant creatures as if they were paper figures.

Mothership

“I’ll call it Ultra-Godzilla,” said the Xilian Controller turning to the heroes, “I know it’s not a fancy name, but it fits.”

Kaiju clenched his fists and teeth in anger and let out a roar of fury. The hero spun around on his feet in the direction of the JLA.

“Stand back!” he yelled as his spines flashed. Everyone of the Justice League of America pressed themselves against the back of their bubble prison. He then unleashed his atomic ray upon the bubbles that were holding the team members. As he went down the row, he realized that the beam was doing nothing and cut it off.

“Nice try,” taunted the Xilian leader. The Kaiju turned back to the Xilians with anger on his face and took notice of the control panel. His back spines lit up again and pointed himself in the direction of the machine.

“I wouldn’t do that if I were you,” said the Controller waving a finger as a gesture of caution. The last word of the sentence was not heard due to Kaiju firing his ray at the control panel. The beam struck the panel and was turned into sparks upon contact, which caused Tim to stop using the ray and stare at the machine in shock and anger.

“What I was going to say,” The leader went on, emphasizing the word ‘say’, “Only myself, or the guards can pass through the barrier shield safely.”

“Turn that damn thing off!” ordered Tim with fury in his voice.

“I will,” he replied. The Kaiju had a look of shock that was shared with the League, who looked at each other confusingly.

“Well that was easy,” said Plas.

“Too easy,” added Batman, not convinced.

“What’s the catch Xilian?” asked Kaiju with a skeptical look.

“Simple: you join me,” he answered with his left hand on his chest, “You join our side, and I’ll call off the monster.” The League all shared the same look of shock and horror.

“Don’t do it, Kaiju!” yelled Superman. Kaiju raised his hand for silence. The Xilian approached Kaiju and began to explain himself.

“You can help us enslave the humans by leading the monsters against the other costumed heroes. You will be my partner, no, my equal. Just think of it Kaiju, by my side, you can have anything you want.” Kaiju turned and just stared at the Justice League.

“Kaiju, you can’t be seriously thinking about it!” yelled Flash.

“J’onn is he really thinking about it?” asked Arthur. J’onn made no response. The Controller then threw his left arm on Kaiju’s shoulder.

“Be reasonable, Kaiju,” the Controller continued, pointing at the superhero team, “Do you really think they have you on their team because they trust you?”

“That’s not true!” yelled Diana in anger. The Controller turned the hero away from the League.

“They keep you on their team because they fear you,” he went on, now pointing his finger at the hero, “If you’re fighting for them, you won’t fight against them. And I read all about you; since you joined, crime goes down whenever you’re sighted fighting alongside any of them. The Justice League needs you Kaiju.” He then stopped and rephrased his previous statement. “No, the Justice League IS you. You are the Justice League.” Kaiju lowered his head and closed his eyes. The Controller took his arm off him and stepped aside.

“Don’t deny it, Kaiju. It is your destiny to join with us; not to fight with some so called ‘Justice League’.” Several moments passed by with silence. The League held their breaths in anticipation. Finally, Kaiju spoke:

“I am not the Justice League,” said Kaiju, raising his head towards the Xilian Controller, “The Justice League doesn’t need me. It doesn’t even need any of the people behind me.” He then pointed behind him. “The League merely benefits from us belonging. I did not work my ass off earning the trust of these people and the whole world just to piss it all away! My destiny is right here, standing alongside my fellow heroes between your kind and the entire Earth. If you still can’t figure out my answer, let me put to you this way. Does the phrase: go suck on a tailpipe, have any meaning for ya?”

The League members were able to breathe a sigh of relief, learning that Kaiju had no thoughts of betraying them.

“You knew all along, didn’t you J’onn?” asked Kyle. The Martian just simply nodded. Kaiju told him his plan telepathically and asked J’onn not to give anything away. The Controller did not show any anger. In fact, he showed no emotion as he paced the floor.

“Your decision is admirable,” he said finally. He then stopped and turned towards Kaiju. “But unacceptable.” He then raised his right hand straight out and pointed at the hero.

“If you won’t join us willingly, I’ll have to be a little more persuasive.” A large bolt of white energy flew out of his hand and engulfed Kaiju. The hero roared in pain and fell to his knees as he felt the energy trying to take over his mind.

“NO!!” screamed Diana as she and the rest of the heroes leapt to the front of their bubbles. The other members showed their disbelief by yelling or pounding on the sides of their prisons.

“J’onn!” yelled Superman, “Can’t you help him?” J’onn tried to use his telepathy to help Kaiju fight the Xilian’s influence but could not get a hold of Kaiju’s mind, as the energy was blocking any outside forces. Even with J’onn recruiting the other members to help, the energy force was just too strong.

Kaiju’s head felt like it was on fire but he still had strength to fight the energy consuming his mind.

“Your will is strong,” the Controller complemented, “But not strong enough.” He then pushed more energy into the beam that was consuming The Kaiju. Tim roared as he felt the increased energy flow into him. After a gallant fight, his strength eventually gave out and the energy consumed his mind. When the energy took control of The Kaiju’s mind, the hero jerked and froze in his position. The League could do nothing but look on as their comrade was being taking control of by the Xilian Controller. After the Xilian leader cut off the energy blast, he then raised his hand into the air and gave Kaiju an order.

“Rise, my warrior,” he said. The Kaiju rose to his feet and stood straight up staring at the Controller. Using the raised hand, he snapped his fingers and pointed at the Justice League. One of the guards pulled out a little remote and pushed a large white button towards the top. The bubbles that were holding the Justice League prisoner started to lower to the ground. When the bubbles touched the floor, they disappeared, freeing the JLA. The members were too stunned to move.

After the bubbles disappeared, the Xilian Controller made a swirling motion with his finger at Kaiju, telling him to turn around. The Kaiju turned around, revealing to the JLA, glowing white eyes.

“Now Kaiju,” said the Xilian Controller, crossing his arms over his chest, “Kill the Justice League!!”

[Tim85]

Chapter 15
JLA vs. The Kaiju

The situation in Tokyo was starting to go south fast. It began with the JLA becoming prisoners for the Xilians. It started to look up when the other monsters from Kyoto, Osaka, and Fukuoka descended upon the city to battle the GMK Godzilla. But when Kaiju boarded the Mothership, it really started to go bad. The Kaiju had his mind taken control of by the Controller and turned against the League. Before this occurred, the other three monsters that were destroyed by the monster teams were combined with the GMK Godzilla to form the monster Ultra-Godzilla, as dubbed by the Xilian leader, and was walking all over the monsters that were on the side of the Justice League.

Gamera stood staring at the injured monsters in front of him. He was saddened and slightly terrified by the fact that most of their forces have been taken out by the Xilian’s monster. Jet Jaguar and Sanda were both tending to the injured creatures and the damaged mechas because they wouldn’t be able to last a minute against the mutated monster and somebody needed to tend to the injured due to the slow tissue and metal regeneration because of the weakened state of all the monsters. Just then, a cry was heard and landing close to the giant turtle was Godzilla Junior, who was bleeding profusely and was too weak to get up. Sanda and Jag both began to tend to the injuries that the young creature sustained. Gamera got down to Junior’s level to look him over. The young Godzilla looked up at Gamera, let out a moan and asked him a question:

Would someone please tell me when exactly did we lose control of the situation here?

When that thing mutated, the mammoth terrapin replied, directing his eyes in the direction of Ultra-Godzilla, Now, rest young one. The monster nodded and closed his eyes. Gamera stood up and approached Godzilla, who was watching the Xilian’s creature as it was delivering a brutal beating to Mecha-King Ghidorah with a grim look on his face.

So what now, fearless leader? asked Gamera.

We have one more shot, the King of the Monsters replied, Armor Mothra will take his turn after Mecha-King Ghidorah has taken his. If that doesn’t do it, The monster turned to his fellow monster with a serious look, You and I will make our last stand here.

What if that doesn’t work? Gamera asked.

I believe the human phrase is; we’re screwed, Godzilla answered with no humor in the communication.

Mothership

The Xilian Controller had given The Kaiju, now his slave, the order to kill the Justice League of America. Kaiju’s eyes stopped glowing, revealing his normal eyes. The former hero bared his teeth at his former teammates and then let out a roar of challenge. The Godzilla side of Kaiju had taken over his human mind; the only thing his subconscious could see was white and could feel was the energy controlling his every motion. The League members all started yelling at their friend to fight the Xilian’s control. The cries fell on deaf ears as Kaiju scanned the group in an attempt to distinguish his first victim. He then stopped at the Martian Manhunter. Prying the knowledge of J’onn’s weakness to fire out of the hero’s subconscious, Kaiju released his atomic ray at the Martian.

“No!” yelled Superman as he dove in front of J’onn to take the blast. The force of the beam slamming into Superman sent him and Manhunter flying through the wall behind them. Batman pulled out explosive batarangs out of his utility belt and tossed them at Tim. Kaiju used the back of his hand to swat at the batarangs but only hit one. The rest hit the former hero, causing him to stumble backwards. Batman leapt at his teammate in an attempt to tackle him. The Kaiju used The Dark Knight’s inertia to grab him by the arm and tossed him into the wall.

The Flash began to run in circles around Kaiju to form a whirlwind. He used the maelstrom to lift The Kaiju off the ground. The monster became airborne briefly when he used his ray at the floor towards the edge of the whirlwind. The blast tripped Wally up and caused him to tumble and roll. Tim then fell back to ground on his feet. Plastic Man then began to wrap his body around Kaiju, trying to restrain him.

“Come on buddy, snap out of it!” said Plas. As he began to wrap tighter like a boa constrictor, The Kaiju pulled his right arm free and latched onto the stretchable hero’s neck. As Eel was making gagging noises from being choked, he began to loosen his grip and gradually returned to his human shape. Before Kaiju strangled Plastic Man to death, a green bolt of energy struck him in the back. The mind controlled hero fell forward, released O’Brian, and roared in pain and surprise. He turned to see a smaller, greener version of a tank that had what looked like a giant satellite dish on a boom lift that is shown in many kaiju movies with Kyle Rayner in the driver’s seat. Kaiju’s mind gave up another snippet of information to the force controlling him: the Emerald Warrior was piloting a maser tank.

“I’ve seen a few Godzilla movies myself, pal!” said Green Lantern. He fired another bolt from the dish, this time Kaiju rolled out of the way and the beam hit the floor, sending chunks of the surface into the air. The creature then leapt at the tank, landed on the top of the cockpit and began to pound on it with his fists and tail. Beads of sweat began to form on Lantern’s forehead trying to keep the construct of his mind in reality despite the pummeling his former comrade was giving him. Finally, The Kaiju fired his atomic ray upon the maser tank; the force of the energy beam caused it to shatter. The force of losing his concentration threw G.L. back. Kaiju returned to the floor on his feet and began to scan around him when he saw Aquaman fire his harpoon hand at him. Tim ducked the pointed weapon as it whizzed by him. He reached up and grabbed the tether that attached the harpoon to Arthur’s arm. He then yanked on the line with all his strength and tossed the King of the Seas over his shoulder. After he threw Aquaman to the side, he looked up to see Wonder Woman in the air above him. Normally the sight of her would stop him in his tracks, but not this time. He roared at the heroine as she yelled:

“Stop this Kaiju! This is not you!” The former hero responded with a blast of atomic fire. She threw up her wrist gauntlets, which reflected the blast back at Kaiju. The beam struck him in the side. He roared in anger and pain towards Diana. She yanked her Lasso off her belt, in hopes of stopping him with it, and tossed the lariat at her teammate. Kaiju swung to the side and threw his tail through the loop as she tightened it around the appendage. Before she could tell Tim to stop, he swung the tail back behind him, pulling the Lasso and Diana towards him. As she was yanked forward, she lost her grip on the Lasso, preventing any orders from her but the momentum from the pull continued to bring her closer to the monster that once was her friend and ally. As she closed in Kaiju slugged her in the jaw, knocking her into the wall. He then flicked his tail, losing the Lasso off his appendage.

He heard a noise behind him. As he spun around, Superman, the source of the noise, rushed Kaiju and walloped him square in his face. Tim was knocked backwards and took a tumble. He got up and roared at the Man of Steel. Superman’s eyes began to glow red, signaling he was readying his heat vision. Kaiju’s back spines lit up in response. The two released their rays at the same time, colliding at a point between them. The two began to volley their rays back and forth until J’onn clocked Kaiju on the back of the head. The creature fell forward and his beam cut off, causing the Kryptonian’s heat vision to hit him in left arm. As Kaiju was getting up, holding his burned arm, the Martian Manhunter grabbed hold of his head with both his hands and J’onn began to use his telepathy to try and break the Xilian’s hold of his fellow hero. The white energy that held the Kaiju’s mind hostage was too strong for J’onn to break through but that didn’t stop him from trying. As if the energy was responding to the telepathic attack, Kaiju swung his head back and hit J’onn in the face. The Martian released Tim’s head and clutched his face in pain. Kaiju swung around and knocked J’onn to the ground with his fist.

Before Kaiju could attempt to fire his atomic ray upon the alien, a green clasp wrapped around his snout and held his mouth shut. The monster tried to shake it loose when emerald shackles appeared on his wrist and on his feet, essentially holding him in place.

“I got him!” hollered Kyle, pointing his ring at Kaiju,

“Grab him!” said Batman, “Hold him down!” Soon all eight heroes of the Justice League grabbed hold of their teammate in order to keep him in his spot; where they continued to try talking sense into their comrade. Even if they couldn’t bring him back to his senses, at least they could stop him from attacking them. No matter how hard he struggled, Kaiju could not move. Another power that the Heisei Godzilla had whenever he was in a tight pinch was plucked from the hero’s locked mind. His body emitted a white light briefly before he unleashed his nuclear pulse. The shockwave of energy that was emitted from his body caused the shackles to disappear and the League members to lose their grip and sent them all flying into the walls, knocking out the members.

The Xilian leader began to applaud the actions of The Kaiju.

“Wonderful job, my friend,” he said. The creature turned around and bowed to his master.

“Now, finish them once and for all,” he said. The Controller then pointed at Diana. “Kill the woman first.”

“Yes, master,” Kaiju spoke for the first time since becoming the Xilian’s slave. He approached the Amazon, picked her up by the throat, slammed her against the wall, got in her face, and began to choke the life out of Wonder Woman.

Tokyo

Godzilla and Gamera watched in horror as Armor Mothra was tossed aside by a gravity beam from one of Keizer Ghidorah’s heads on Ultra-Godzilla. Fear crept into both monsters at the sight of one of the more invulnerable monsters being knocked aside like a rag doll.

Ready? asked Godzilla, trying to hide the fear that filled him.

It’s do or die time, responded Gamera, doing the same thing. The giant mutated creature roared in his latest win against the League’s monsters. He was surprised when Godzilla’s atomic ray and Gamera’s fireballs began to strike him. U.G. turned to see the two rushing him, Godzilla on the ground and Gamera above him flying, firing their energy weapons as their approached the giant creature. The creature’s crystal shield rose once again and blocked the rays. After they cut off their beams, Godzilla threw all his weight into his shoulder and Gamera turned into a spinning disc. The two creatures tackled the Xilian monster, causing it to stumble. As Gamera landed, Godzilla began to whale on the creature. Gamera soon joined him at tearing tooth and nail at the mutated monster. The two of them, with their strength combined, gave Ultra-Godzilla a hard time to respond, the first time any of the League’s monsters have been able to do this since its transformation. Eventually the giant creature was able to get its wits about itself and sliced into Godzilla and Gamera with its tentacles. Blood flew from the wounds dealt by the creature. While the two of them were nursing their cuts, Ultra-Godzilla slammed his mammoth tail into Gamera, knocking him into Godzilla and causing them both to hit the ground, Gamera dog-piling on top of Godzilla. As the monsters tried to get up, they looked up to see the nightmarish creature descend upon them.

Mothership

Diana held on to the arm that Kaiju was using to strangle her. She tried to force it off her but her strength was waning.

“Kaiju, please stop,” Wonder Woman begged, her voice cracking from trying to breathe. The pleas were not being listened to. Finally she looked Kaiju in the eye.

“Tim, if you’re going to go through with this,” she said softly, “Let me give you one last thing.” She grabbed Kaiju’s head in her hands and with all her strength, lurched her head forward and gave him a long kiss. The look of anger on his face changed to shock. Suddenly, a flood of memories came into Kaiju’s mind, shattering the Xilian’s hold on him. All the feelings he use to have for Diana; as a friend, as a teammate of the Justice League of America, and even racy thoughts that he had for her when he first started, came back to him. He closed his eyes, taking in the kiss. She pulled her head back and their eyes met when they both opened them. She smiled at him while Kaiju’s shocked face almost melted right there.

“Diana,” he said soft enough that the Xilian Controller could not hear him. The sight of her with a bruised cheek and a bloody nose caused by his fists disturbed him deeply.

“What are you waiting for?” yelled the Controller. “Finish her!” His eyes shifted in the direction of the Controller and then back to Wonder Woman. He winked at her with his left eye so the Controller could not see it. The look of anger returned to his face and the back spines began to slowly glow, signaling he was charging the ray. He opened his mouth, revealing a glow at the back of his throat. Diana, playing along, showed fear at the sight. The other members began to come to and saw this occurring. Before anyone could say anything, Diana’s voice rang in their heads:

Stay where you are! It’s a trick! Kaiju threw back his head as a sign that he was going to fire the ray. The Controller’s face had the look of glee at what was going to happen. Just then Kaiju released his grip on Diana, whirled around quickly, and fired his ray at the Controller. It happened so fast the Xilian could not react and the beam struck him in the chest and pushed him through the control panel, splitting it in two.

The Xilian got up and stared at his destroyed control panel.

“MY MACHINE!!!!” he screamed and turned to the monitor, showing the monsters outside. Everyone else in the room looked on as well.

Tokyo

All the monsters stared in disbelief at what they saw. There stood Ultra-Godzilla, with the twin heads of Keizer Ghidorah holding in front of the monster with their gravity beams, limp bodies of Godzilla and Gamera. Two of the most powerful monsters beaten down like weaklings. Even more swear words flew from the monsters at the sight. Ultra-Godzilla’s twin Ghidorah heads used the beams to toss the monsters towards the group. Godzilla landed on his back and Gamera tumbled and was lying on his stomach. The other monsters rushed to their sides. Godzilla sat up and Gamera push himself up and was held up with his arms.

There’s no way we can beat this thing, Godzilla said regretfully.

It looks like we’re done for everyone, groaned Gamera.

Ultra-Godzilla roared in victory. The creature’s roar then suddenly went up several octaves. This caught the attention of the League’s monsters. The creature started to have spasms. The Ghidorah heads went limp and disappeared. After that all the extras to the exterior disappeared and the monster shrank down back to his original form: the GMK Godzilla.

The League destroyed the machine at last! roared Anguirus. The evil Godzilla roared a pitiful roar.

He’s been weakened! yelled Mothra.

Quick, finish him! ordered Godzilla.

Light him up! bellowed Gamera. All the monsters, using every last bit of strength they had, fired their rays upon the GMK Godzilla. The creature glowed from all the beams hitting it. The monster roared in pain as it exploded in a flash of light. The monsters all roared in celebration as some collapsed to the ground due to exhaustion.

So now what? asked Kiryu.

Now we rest, said Godzilla, now lying on the ground, And wait until Kaiju and the Justice League get out of that ship.

Mothership

“NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!” screamed the Xilian leader, still sitting between the two pieces of machinery that was once the control panel. “THIS CAN’T BE HAPPENING!!!!” The Kaiju and Wonder Woman leapt into each other's arms and cheered after the monsters destroyed the GMK Godzilla. The Controller turned towards the cheering heroes and pointed at them.

“KILL THEM!!” he ordered the guards. The two heroes stopped cheering and stared at the guards. All the guards pulled out their laser blasters and fired upon the two. Kaiju threw up his hands in front of his face and Wonder Woman her gauntlets. Before they hit them, a green wall appeared in front of Tim and Diana that blocked the lasers. They looked up to see Green Lantern and the other JLA members standing. After the lasers stopped, the entire Justice League came together to face the Xilians.

“You’re finished, Xilian,” said Kaiju. The leader of the aliens growled, got up, and threw off his jacket.

“I’m going to tear your head off personally!” he yelled at Kaiju. The other Leaguers got ready for battle when Kaiju spoke up.

“No, let me handle this. He wants me, not you. I won’t have any of you killed because he will do anything to get to me.”

“But Kaiju,” said J’onn, “We are a team. We stand together. I hope you have learned that since you joined.” Manhunter always tried to push the idea of teamwork on his comrades.

“I have,” he replied. He then switched to the psi-net. I’ve already thought about that. I want you to leave and lure the guards out and any other Xilians that are still around to insure a fair fight between the two of us. And when you get out, tell the monsters to destroy this ship once I get out of here. I want to handle this myself, please.

I understand, said Batman. The others nodded in agreement.

I’ll contact you J’onn if I need help, but until then, don’t come back for me. Remember. Don’t. Come. Back. For. Me.

We will, replied the Martian Manhunter reluctantly.

“Now, go!” yelled Kaiju. The League took off out of the room from which they came. Kaiju turned to see them leave. Diana turned back to catch a glimpse of Kaiju, probably for the last time. He glanced down to see the outline of his hand around her neck from him trying to choke her. Seeing this sight bothered him even more.

Good luck, she told him over the psi-net.

Tim smiled and nodded to her as they all turned a corner. The Kaiju turned to face the Xilians, now a sporting a serious look. The Controller grinned and pointed in the direction of the League. All the guards disappeared as they swung their coats.

“Just you and me,” said the Controller.

“And I’ll be the one still standing,” said The Kaiju.

“We’ll see,” he sneered. They stared at each other for what felt like hours. Finally Kaiju roared and the Controller yelled as they both charged each other.

[Tim85]

Chapter 16
The Final Round

Hallway

The League members were backtracking from the main hall to where the hole was that they entered from. As they approached the exit, the eight Xilian guards and a small group of remaining grunts appeared, blocking the exit.

“This is as far as you go, Justice League,” said the female guard, standing in front of the group of aliens. The entire League all shown grins and some even snickered to themselves.

“Oh goody,” said Green Lantern, with a smile and sparks flying out of his ring.

“Leftovers!” said Plastic Man with a pink knife and fork in his hands. The League and the last of the Xilians charged one another and engaged in combat.

Main Hall

Kaiju rushed the Controller and swung his fists at him. The alien ducked and dodged every swing and then punched the hero in the stomach. As the hero hunched over he punched The Kaiju in the head with an uppercut, sending his head back up. Then with almost Flash like speed, did a one-two punch on Kaiju that popped him into the air. As Tim fell back to the floor, he landed on his hands and did a back flip where he landed on his feet. The Controller leapt into the air with his fist reared back. When the Xilian was in range, Kaiju spun around and slammed his tail into the Controller’s side, knocking him to the side. Before he hit the floor, Kaiju blasted him with his atomic ray, pushing him into the back wall. Lying on the floor, the Xilian wiped the blood from his mouth and got back to his feet.

“So, you do have some fight in you,” he said to Kaiju and he fired a small blast of white energy from his right hand. The blast hit Tim in the face, causing him to roar and clutch his face in pain. As he took his hands off his face, the Xilian sailed through the air and did a roundhouse kick upside Kaiju’s head. As the hero fell to the side, the alien grabbed Kaiju by the arm, spun him around, and slammed him into the pillar in the center of the room. The sound of the hero’s body slamming into the pillar echoed for several seconds in the room. Kaiju roared in pain as he felt bones crack, even though they would be healed back to normal in a moment thanks to Godzilla’s rapid regeneration ability. The Controller then swung him around again and heaved him into the wall.

Hallway

The Xilian grunts were being taken out as quickly as the ones the Justice League encountered when they first infiltrated the Mothership, many of them using the same tricks on the aliens that they used before. Even the guards, who put up more of a fight, fell quickly. Plastic Man was now dressed like a karate fighter and used the same moves as whom he was dressed as. Batman’s martial art skills surpassed those of the guard that fought him. Flash, Green Lantern, and Aquaman used the same moves on the guards as they did on the grunts while J’onn took out a guard using his psychic powers.

Superman took out a few grunts with a single punch when a laser blast hit him in the right shoulder. While it didn’t hurt Clark too much, the laser blast was still able to cause him pain and caused him to lurch forward. Stunned, he turned around, rubbing his shoulder, to see the female guard pointing a laser gun at the Man of Steel. He reared his fist back to strike her when she pulled a trick that she used in the movie.

“You wouldn’t hit a woman, would you?’ asked the guard. When Captain Gordon tried to punch her in the film, she asked him the same thing. However, the gesture was pointless, he still popped her. Superman froze, stunned by the comment. She used the pause to crank the laser gun up to max and fired it at Superman, hoping it would do more harm to the Kryptonian. Before it hit, the laser was reflected back at the guard by Wonder Woman’s bracelet, which hit the Xilian’s hand and caused her to drop the blaster. The alien stared at her hand in pain and back at the Amazon.

“No, but I would!” she cracked and she punched out the female guard. She turned to Superman, cracking her knuckles.

“Whoa,” said Superman, still stunned by the incident.

“Let’s finish this, Kal,” she said.

“Let’s,” he replied as they both returned to the melee. Soon, all the Xilians, both guards and grunts, were on the floor.

“That’s it!” said Flash.

“No more?” groaned Kyle, “I was just getting warmed up!”

“I’m sick of this place,” said Aquaman, “Let’s get out of here!”

“What about Kaiju?” asked Wonder Woman.

“I haven’t gotten any word from him,” J’onn answered, “I’m sure that he’s doing fine.” Diana didn’t like that answer but nodded anyway. Kyle formed a green cart with his ring and the four non-fliers climbed aboard. When they did, the Justice League exited out of the Mothership and approached the monsters to tell them of Kaiju’s plan.

Main Hall

Kaiju was lying on the floor, on his stomach. He’s never had a beating like this. Every blow he dealt to the Controller was returned 20 fold. He could taste the blood in his mouth from all the broken teeth. His regenerative abilities were having a hard time catching up because of his weakened state. He looked up at the Xilian Controller pacing, staring at him, close by. It was as if the Controller was waiting for him to finally expire from all the injuries he sustained. Just then the alien bent down and picked up Kaiju by the throat and dangled the hero in front of him.

“I never had my chance to make Godzilla pay for what he did to our plans,” The Controller growled towards Kaiju, “But you were a great substitute.” He then tossed The Kaiju back to the ground, once again landing on his stomach with a grunt. He tried to push himself up but fell back to the ground due to exhaustion. He fought back the thought of calling for help on the psi-net, wanting to finish this himself.

Come on Tim, think! Kaiju told himself, You’re almost dead! He’s going to kill you unless you come up with something! Suddenly it hit him. He remembered that in one movie that Godzilla had the ability to absorb his foe’s energy attacks to recharge his own energies. He could use the Xilian’s energy blasts to heal him. Kaiju thought about it briefly and he acquired the ability when his back spines flickered and his arm flashed.

Using all the energy he had, he pushed himself back up on his feet. He stared at the Xilian; his breathing labored from the energy used to get up and had blood dripping from his mouth.

“You Earthlings are persistent,” commented the Controller, “I’m not sure whether to admire it or pity it.”

“Hit me with your best shot!” groaned Kaiju, causing blood to sputter out as he spoke.

“I will,” the Controller said as he raised his right hand.

“Time to die, Kaiju,” he said as he focused his powers into his hand and fired his most powerful beam he had ever fired. The beam washed over Kaiju, who roared at the power that struck him. The energy was being siphoned into his body via his back spines. All the pain he was feeling was disappearing as his regenerative powers kicked back in. He then began to feel a surge in power as he kept absorbing the energy. His spines changed from blue to white and he felt all his inhibitions disappear when he reached his maximum potential. Kaiju threw his arms into the air, breaking off the Controller’s beam, which looked on as the glow that was emitting from the hero dissipated.

“Not today!!” yelled Kaiju in a deep, almost demonic voice. The Xilian Controller, with shock on his face, fired his energy blast again at Kaiju. The hero fired a white atomic ray, hitting the Xilian’s blast, and pushed it back. The powerful atomic ray soon engulfed the beam and struck the Xilian’s hand. The Controller yelled in pain and clutched his injured hand, showing blood and the silver color of his true form underneath his human disguise. He looked up to see Kaiju running towards him. The hero roared as he swung his fist into the Controller’s head, sending him flying into the back wall. After he hit, Kaiju rammed him with his shoulder, cracking the wall behind the alien. The Kaiju began to whale hard on the Controller with his fists, causing more cracks to form in the wall.

“This is for all the lives you ruined!” yelled the hero. He then grabbed the Xilian by the collar of his outfit, yanked him out of the wall and spun him around.

“And this is for what you made me do to Wonder Woman!” he said as he punched the Xilian in the stomach, something that has been done to Kaiju a number of times during the conflict, but this time he dealt it with more force then he usually dared to use. He then grabbed the Xilian, as he began to curl up in pain, by the head and tossed him into the air. The Controller slammed into the ceiling, hung there briefly, and fell back to the floor. Kaiju then leapt into the air, twirled in mid-air, and slammed his tail into his falling foe, knocking him into the pillar. The alien yelled in pain as his back almost twisted around the structure. The Xilian fell to the floor and rolled on to his back. Kaiju kneeled down onto the Controller, using his knees to pin his arms down. As the hero bent down to get into his face, alien leader sneered and chuckled at Kaiju.

“If I had known that you cared so much for that cow,” he mocked, “I would have had you do so many different things to her.” Kaiju gritted his teeth in anger so hard, his head began to shake. The reptile then grabbed the Xilian’s throat with his left hand and punched him in the face with all his might with his right. The blow cracked his jaw and made a large dent in the floor. The monster hero then grabbed the Xilian’s head and held his bloodied face forward. Kaiju got in the Controller’s face:

“Your kind never learns!” he yelled, “Don’t screw with the Justice League!!!” He reared back his head and fired his atomic ray into the face of the Xilian, who screamed in pain. After an excruciating minute, Kaiju cut it off, staring at the face of the Xilian, which was now mostly burned off, revealing a silver fish-like head. Tim got up and stared at him, seeing no movement. He roared in victory and walked over to where the Controller threw his jacket. He wrapped the jacket around his arm and it disappeared as it became part of him. While he was doing this, he didn’t notice the Controller’s viable hand pulled back a cover on his chest and began to punch in a code. The beeps from the buttons caught Tim’s attention and turned to see the Xilian push one final button. Just then a giant explosion destroyed one of the walls. Kaiju cursed to himself, forgetting about this part of the movie. In the film, when the Controller was defeated, the ship began to self-destruct but all the heroes got out before the Mothership blew up.

“You forgot about this part, freak,” said the Controller, whose voice also sounded somewhat metallic without a portion of his human face mask. “This time, it will take out all of Japan and everyone else here! You have two and a half minutes, I’d run if I were you.” After he finished the last sentence, he finally passed away when an explosion engulfed the alien. As the Mothership began to rock from the multiple explosions, Kaiju took off down the hallway from which he entered.

Tokyo

The Justice League had told the plan to the monsters and all the beasts with energy beams were in position, ready to destroy the Mothership when Kaiju got out. Suddenly large explosions occurred on the outside of the vessel.

“What the hell?” yelled Flash.

“It looks like the Mothership’s self destructing!” said Batman.

Kaiju! J’onn said over the psi-net. Where are you? What’s going on?

I’m here J’onn! Kaiju yelled as he was running down the hallways, ducking explosions that were happening around him. The other League members and the monsters were relieved at the sound of Kaiju’s thoughts.

What’s going on Kaiju? J’onn said.

The whole ship’s self-destructing!

We can see that, Kaiju, said Batman, The monsters are ready to destroy…

NO! Kaiju yelled over the psi-net, This vessel has enough explosive power to destroy all of Japan and us with it! I don’t want to risk the monsters causing the explosion prematurely. Instead, tell the mechas to push the ship into the atmosphere while the others blast it into space so it won’t hurt anything should it go off! I’m almost out. I can see the exit... Arrgh! Kaiju was cut off after the cry. Everyone looked at each other in shock.

Kaiju, come in! said Manhunter, worried at what happened. Panic, shock, and concern crept into everyone’s faces.

I’m here J’onn, Kaiju answered with the sounds of struggle in his thoughts.

What happened?

I was almost to the exit when an explosion occurred in front of it and another beside me, throwing me away from the exit and burying me under rubble. I don’t think I can get out. I only have two minutes left; tell the monsters to get rid of this ball even with me in here. I just want you all to know that it was an honor and a dream to fight alongside all of you in the JLA. I guess this is goodbye.

Like hell it is! yelled Green Lantern. He, along with Superman, Wonder Woman, and Martian Manhunter, took off towards the Mothership. They were not about to leave a man behind. Kyle encased them all in a green battering ram and struck near the hole they created. After entering the ship, Lantern covered them all in a green bubble for protection from the explosions occurring around them. While Kyle and Diana scanned the area, Superman used his X-Ray vision and J’onn used his telepathy to try and find him in the rubble.

“Anything J’onn?” asked Diana.

“It’s weak but he’s near,” he replied.

“There!” yelled Superman pointing at a pile of rubble, having spotted Kaiju’s skeletal structure. Kyle extended the barrier to encase the rubble and the three heroes frantically dug out their teammate while Green Lantern concentrated on keeping the dome up while the explosions began to intensify. They finally unburied Kaiju, who began to groan. Wonder Woman took both his hands as Clark and J’onn unburied his tail. Kaiju looked up to see Diana’s face and he smiled.

“Help us out Tim, pull yourself up,” said Superman as he and J’onn picked up a piece of rubble off his tail. Kaiju pulled himself forward with the help of Wonder Woman and just as he pulled his tail free, his energy gave out and he collapsed into Diana’s chest, now out cold.

We have him! Wonder Woman told the others via the psi-net.

Then get out of there fast! You only have a minute left! replied Batman.

Outside the Mothership

The monsters circled the Mothership, hoping that by dispersing their beams, they could help push it into space instead of destroying it after the mechas get out of Earth’s atmosphere. Directly underneath it was Jet Jaguar, MOGUERA, Kiryu, and Mecha-King Ghidorah, ready to help give it the push it needed to get into space. Batman and the others watched the Mothership as more explosions began to occur. Suddenly, a green rocket, containing the rescue team and their teammate, shot out of the same hole that they entered.

“Ready?” asked Batman, both to the heroes and the monsters. All the monsters answered yes, and Flash, with Plastic Man wrapped around him, put his arms on Aquaman and Batman and shared his speed powers with them, which would enable all of them to get out of Dodge.

“NOW!” yelled Batman as they took off toward the other heroes. The four robotic monsters fired up their jets, grabbed hold of the vessel, and pushed the round ship high into the air. Once it was in the upper part of the atmosphere, the mechanical creatures, using all the power they could muster, heaved the vessel into space. The remaining monsters that had energy rays released them upon the ship, pushing it further into darkness of space. The Mothership exited the Earth’s atmosphere and entered outer space. Soon after; it exploded in a fireworks-like display that could be seen across the globe. The monsters roared in celebration of the destruction of the Mothership after the four robotic beasts returned to Earth while the Justice League watched the explosion.

“Atom, do you read?” asked Superman over the com link.

“Affirmative,” replied Dr. Palmer. “The Watchtower sensors indicated a large explosion. Was that the Mothership?”

“You bet,” said Clark. “Spread the word, the Xilian threat is no more. We won.”

“But at a cost,” said J’onn as he and the other League members looked at the unconscious Kaiju in Wonder Woman’s arms. They all bowed their heads in sorrow, thinking the worst has finally occurred. While he was able to cheat death earlier, it looked like he wasn’t as lucky the second time around. Soon the monsters approached and saw this as well. They too lowered their heads in sadness and some let out mournful roars. Diana held his head close to her and began to cry. She had grown to care for the young hero so much that the thought of actually losing him so soon broke her heart. None of them saw a brief flicker from his back spines. Then Diana heard a familiar voice:

“Some view to wake up to.” She looked down and saw Kaiju looking back at her.

“Tim!” she yelled with more tears flowing as she held him even closer, “You’re alive!!” The other members and the monsters looked up to see this. The heroes smiled and sighed in relief while the monsters roared in happiness and the joy of their ally being alive was heard in everyone’s heads.

“Diana!” Tim said with his voice muffled from Wonder Woman hugging him tightly against her. “Can’t breathe!”

“Sorry,” she said as let him go. Kaiju then got up to his teammates patting him on the back, shaking his hand, or hugging him.

“Glad to have you back bud,” said Kyle with a big smile on his face.

“Thanks,” Kaiju replied, “Thank God for energy reserves. Oh! I have something too.” He then stuck out his arm and the Controller’s jacket appeared. “I grabbed it after I defeated the Xilian Controller. He was killed in an explosion. I figured it would go good in the trophy room.” The trophy room in the Watchtower held mementos from previous battles and missions.

“I think it will,” said J’onn as Kaiju handed him the article of clothing. They all looked up to see the monsters roaring their victory with the sun rising behind them. They all stopped and turned to the Justice League.

Well, Kaiju, do you want to join us? asked Godzilla. The other monsters also expressed interest in Kaiju celebrating the victory with them.

Kaiju looked at his teammates, hoping that they would approve of him joining the monsters.

“How often do you get the chance?” Superman asked, “Go ahead.”

“Thank you,” Kaiju said with a smile. He then ran towards the monsters, increasing his size until he was equal with them. Tim then turned to the Justice League and let out one of his loudest roars he had ever let out. Soon the monsters joined him in celebration. The Justice League just stared at the monsters and their teammate with pride in what they had accomplished.

The war was over.

[Tim85]

Chapter 17
The Aftermath

Six Weeks Later: The World

Six weeks had passed since the Justice League, their allies, and the monsters defeated the Xilian invasion. Most of the activity done by the League and other costumed heroes since then was helping with any remaining evacuation and rebuilding. The monsters proved to be a major asset again when they helped with the reconstruction process by transporting large amounts of goods and people that no human made vessel could do and helped rebuild fallen structures until a way was found to return them to the movie realm of reality.

Crime was almost non-existent in the cities where reconstruction was occurring and also had monsters helping with the process after an incident in Metropolis with a simple hold-up and Godzilla Jr. The young monster was not helping with anything at the time when he saw an older woman get mugged at knife point. Junior went after the criminal as he ran off with her purse and was able to snag his teeth into the man’s jacket and lift him high into the air. He was about to drop him from many stories in the air when Wonder Woman and Superman intervened and brought the perpetrator to the cops and the purse back to the woman. News of this incident spread throughout the globe that even a small crime would draw the monsters’ attention, which forced even many super villains into hiding.

The Atom, The Kaiju, and several magicians were able to find a way to use the machine that brought the creatures into this world to also take them back into their reality without killing them. During this situation, the magicians found the reason that the machine was able to bring the Xilians and the monsters into their reality; it was able to tap into a realm of magic that could bring fictional beings from another reality into theirs. The discovery of the involvement of magic helped explain why Superman was affected by the different weaponry of the Xilians, due to magic being the only thing other than Kryptonite that can harm him.

The entire League and most of the world’s news media was there to send the monsters off; thanking them for their help against the Xilians and everything else that they did. Kaiju shook the hands of every monster he could or at least offer a pat on the back, which he realized was corny looking but at this point in time he didn’t give a damn how it looked. The monsters, while not wanting to leave a world that loved and appreciated them, were ready to go back to the reality where they belonged: the films. Since Diana was concerned over the deaths of the monsters that the Xilian’s used in the war, Kaiju comforted her in the thought that as long as people are watching the movies, they are never truly dead. The idea was accepted by Wonder Woman and hoped Tim was right.

After the monsters were safely returned to their reality, the machine was placed in the trophy room with the Controller’s jacket as another memento to the Xilian’s defeat, with the component that can bring the monsters to and from their reality taken out and buried deep in the Batcave, The Dark Knight’s base of operations, by Batman. This was to prevent anyone with bad intentions from using the machine for their own purposes and the temptation of the League using the machine to bring the monsters back unless it was absolutely necessary. The JLA was also relieved to hear that after the destruction of the Xilian Mothership and the monsters returning to the movie realm, all traces of the monsters had disappeared as if they had never existed. This would prevent any nation of the world using the monsters’ tissues to possibly create their own monsters for destructive purposes. Along with the machine and jacket, figures of all the monsters that took part in the invasion, both on the League’s side and on the Xilian’s side were placed in the room as well.

Fortunately, one of Tim’s biggest fears of the aftermath of the monster attacks, which that it would negatively affect Godzilla’s and other monster’s reputations were for not. In fact it had the opposite effect, for the most part. Some people were not too thrilled with the idea of the Justice League having access to monsters but overall the good that they had done for the world caused most to over look the idea. Movies featuring the monsters that appeared in the attacks saw a humongous jump in sales worldwide, due to people wishing to root for the monsters that saved them and to learn more about the beasts that the Xilians used. Soon, everyone started to understand the messages behind the monsters. In addition to the movies, merchandise that featured the monsters also disappeared off of store shelves across the globe. While some were trying to make a quick buck off the monster fever, most were using it as a way to honor the monsters.

The Watchtower

The Justice League of America was holding a meeting in the main conference room, with the nine members and the Atom present for the meeting, to get an update on what has happened since the Xilian invasion. Superman gave control of the meeting to The Kaiju, who is now in his human form, for catch-up.

“Catch us up on what’s going on Tim,” said the Man of Steel as he sat back in his seat.

“Thank you,” said Kaiju, as he stood to address the group. “As you all know, reconstruction around the world is going great and the monsters have been returned to their respective movies.”

“What else, Kaiju?” asked Aquaman, holding his chin in his natural hand.

“I think,” answered Tim, “the monsters should be made honorary members of the Justice League for their help against the Xilian forces.”

“I’ll second that!” said Flash with his hand in the air.

“Third!” said Green Lantern, showing three fingers in the air to show agreement.

“We will make note of that,” said J’onn, nodding in agreement.

“Now about Dr. Serizawa,” said Batman leaning on the table, “What have we done to thank him?” Kaiju lowered his gaze to the table while Atom rubbed the back of his neck.

“What’s wrong?” asked Wonder Woman with concern.

“There’s a problem with that,” said Tim grimly.

“Kaiju and I went to his house to give him a plaque thanking him for his help almost a week ago,” explained the Atom. “When we got there, the police told us that he committed suicide and all of his work notes were found to have been burned up.” The room fell into a stunned silence.

“The note that they did find said,” continued Kaiju, his voice stuttering from him trying to hold back tears, “that he was sorry for what he did to the world and there was also a message to us, the JLA, thanking us for giving him a chance for redemption.” A tear finally fell from Kaiju’s eye.

“Tim and I will be speaking at his funeral in a few days,” said Ray, managing to stay composed. But even he would admit; it was hard. The room held a moment of silence for the departed scientist.

“Okay, anything else?” Kal-El finally asked cautiously, not wanting to offend anyone.

“I have something I would like to add,” said Locke. Everyone gave Tim their undivided attention.

“It has to do with what the Xilian Controller made me do to the rest of you on the Mothership.”

“Kaiju,” interrupted Manhunter, holding out his left hand, with his palm up, towards the hero, “You were under mind control. None of us blame you for what you did.” The League also agreed to never mention to the world what happened aboard the Mothership. If the world were to know about Kaiju alone defeating the entire Justice League, he would never be trusted as a hero ever again.

“And I can’t thank you enough for that,” said Kaiju with a lump in his throat. He still has nightmares about what he did to them; even to the point of wanting to throw up when he saw Diana and the thought of almost killing her or what the Controller of the Xilians told him came into his head. “After that incident, I feel a fail-safe is needed for me. I know it is a sore subject.” Kaiju making reference to the fiasco of Ra’s al Gaul getting Batman’s fail-safe files and using them against the JLA.

“As you know, Diana was the one that broke the Xilian’s hold on me,” he continued.

“Yeah,” Plastic Man said under his breath, with his arms crossed, “If I played tonsil hockey with Wonder Woman, it would bring my mind back to reality.” Tim heard his comment and ignored it.

“I did some research and I found that since this bracelet I’m wearing was given to the Amazons,” Kaiju explained, twisting the gauntlet on his wrist as he spoke, “any Amazon can put a stop to the person who is unwittingly using the gauntlet for evil.”

“Since I’m an Amazon, I am one of his fail safes,” Wonder Woman simplifying what Kaiju said.

“I just wanted you all to know in case it would happen again,” said Tim. “Diana could use her Lasso to either break the control, strip me of my powers, or to flat out knock me unconscious.”

“While I don’t think it will ever be needed again,” said J’onn, “The knowledge is good to have.”

“Is that all, Kaiju?” asked Superman.

“Yes, Mister Chairman,” answered Tim.

“Okay! We all have our monitor duty schedules, so meeting adjourned!” said Superman. While J’onn made his way to the monitor womb for his scheduled monitor watch, everyone went to the teleporters and their separate ways. As Wonder Woman was starting to leave the hall, Kaiju caught her before she left.

“Diana, you got a second?” asked Tim, running up to her.

“Plenty,” she replied, turning around, “I have nothing pressing to do, what’s up?”

“I never got around to asking about the kiss,” said Kaiju, “How did you know it would work?”

“I didn’t,” she said honestly.

“Come again?” he asked with a confused look.

“I thought that if you were going to kill me, I thought I’d at least give you something to remember me by.” She leaned in close and was inches from Tim’s face. She was close enough to him that he could feel her hot breath on his face.

“I know you used to have a crush on me,” she said softly. Kaiju’s face turned bright red. “I don’t need J’onn’s telepathic powers to figure that out. And I think it has to do with this.” She then pointed at the bracelet on Kaiju.

“A little,” he admitted.

“Say, don’t we have a dinner date?” she asked.

“What?” he questioned, having the same look of confusion as he did a few minutes ago.

“Back when we were in Davenport, you told me you’d show me some better restaurants later.”

“I did say that,” he said as if he finally remembered. Tim then looked at his watch, set to central time. “We have a few hours; I could get a spot reserved at a nice steakhouse I know of for around seven. Will that work?”

“Sounds good,” she replied, “I’ll see you there around seven.” He told her the location and the two of them went their separate ways.

Davenport, Iowa

It was about quarter till seven, Tim had been checking his watch since he got to the steakhouse and was standing outside the doors, waiting for Diana. He wasn’t dressed real fancy: dress shoes, dress pants, and a nice white button down shirt. Butterflies seemed to be fluttering in his stomach. He’s never been out with anyone since before he became The Kaiju and was nervous about screwing up or worse. He began to pace up and down the sidewalk when he saw her.

Diana just turned the corner as he turned around. He almost didn’t recognize her with her hair put up. She was a wearing a red dress that accented her figure but didn’t come off too racy. He was speechless when she walked up.

“Hi!” she said.

“Hi,” he stumbled out.

“I hope you won’t mind, I brought a surprise,” Diana said. Tim gulped, not knowing what she had in mind. Just then another woman walked around the corner that looked similar to Diana but was wearing a purple dress. He recognized her immediately.

“Oh my god, Hippolyta.” He then bowed his head to her.

“Please,” she told the young man, almost embarrassed by his action, “No need for that here. Besides, it’s I who should be bowing to you for what you’ve done.” Locke raised his head back up.

“I hope you don’t mind that I asked Mother to join us,” Wonder Woman said. “Will it be a problem?”

“No,” he said, shaking his head, “I reserved a whole room just for us so we could talk privately and I didn’t specify the number of people.”

“Great,” said Hippolyta. “Shall we get seated?”

“We shall,” answered Tim, and he opened the door for the two ladies. After they entered the restaurant, Tim walked up to the receptionist and told her his reservations. She found the name and escorted them into the room that held a single small rectangular table with four chairs. They sat down, Tim and Diana on one side with Hippolyta across from Tim. She then gave the three their menus and took drink orders. They were looking at the list of specials when Hippolyta spoke up:

“So, you’re Charles’ grandson?” Tim looked at her stunned for a second.

“Yes, I am,” he said, finally remembering who he was talking to.

“I take it he told you how he found Themyscira,” Diana added.

“Yeah, he told me about it when your mother took over as Wonder Woman after your death,” he said. When Diana was killed by the demon Neron, Hippolyta took up the mantle of Wonder Woman until Diana returned from the dead. The waiter then appeared, gave them their drinks, took their orders, and left them to continue their story.

“He told me that while he served in the army after World War II, he was serving in the Caribbean when he got shipwrecked somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle. After days of floating on a piece of wreckage, he found an island. As he got closer he saw a young girl frantically trying to stay afloat.”

“That would have been Diana,” said the queen of the Amazons. “A riptide pulled her away from the island and trapped her in a deep area. Her swimming wasn’t the best at that time.”

“Mother!” Diana said, embarrassed.

“Grandpa said that despite his condition, he dove off his piece of wreckage and helped her back to the beach,” said Tim.

“He did,” continued Hippolyta, “He collapsed of exhaustion after he got her back on land. We nursed him back to health and gave him a boat with plenty of food and water for his journey back. In exchange for not telling the world at that time where Themyscira was located, we gave him the Shape shifting Gauntlet as a gift.” When she mentioned the gauntlet, she pointed to Tim’s wrist.

“The night before Charles left the island,” she continued, “I had a vision that he would pass on the Gauntlet to the person who would use it to save the world. That was the reason why we gave him the bracelet.”

“You mean,” he said tapping his wrist with the gauntlet on it, “It was fate that caused me to receive this thing, to become The Kaiju, and stop the Xilians?” Hippolyta nodded in response. “Wow,” he said in amazement, “That’s the definition of awesome.”

“I also wanted to add before I forgot,” the queen of the Amazons continued, “Because of what you’ve done to save Themyscira and your relation to Charles; I wanted to let you know that you are always welcome on Themyscira.” Tim was stunned at first but soon a smile grew on his face.

“I can’t tell you how much that means to me.”

“So what’s happened since then?” asked Diana, going back to the story.

“He told me he returned to the U.S. and married Grandma, but never told her about the origin of this shiny trinket. Life went on, they moved around until they settled in Nauvoo, they had one daughter, my mom,” he said with a lump in his throat.

“What’s wrong?” asked Hippolyta.

“I never knew her,” he explained, “She died after I was born and my dad disappeared soon after, leaving Grandpa and Grandma to raise me. A few years passed, Grandma passed on, leaving it just me and Grandpa.”

“Like I said,” he went on, “When you took over as Wonder Woman, Hippolyta, he gave me this thing and told me all about your island. He told me that while he was sworn to secrecy, he didn’t want the story to die with him and asked me to swear to him that I would not tell anyone else. I swore I wouldn’t and I wore the Gauntlet proudly. When I put it on, it seemed to fit perfectly. He told me about its supposed shape shifting powers and that he never tried it, but I didn’t think about it either so nothing happened. He also was the one who instilled the love of Godzilla and other Japanese monsters in me.” Just then the food arrived.

“So Tim,” asked Hippolyta before she began to eat, “How Charles doing?”

“Well,” he said, as begin to cut his steak, “He’s the reason why I’m doing what I’m doing now.”

“What do you mean?” asked Diana.

“He was killed when someone held up the tavern he frequented, and shot him when he tried to stop him.” He then began to get choked up.

“I’m sorry,” Hippolyta apologized, not wanting to bring up bad memories.

“It’s alright,” said Tim, patting at the air in front of him. “I was coming back to pick him up when the police arrived and told me. I was devastated. I was so angry that I vowed I was going to find the person who did this.”

“So, what happened after that?” asked Diana.

“After the funeral and burial, I became so angry that I started to think that if I was Godzilla, I could do something about it. Just then my wrist started to glow and the light spread to all over my body; and I became Godzilla,” he explained.

“It didn’t hurt at all and I discovered I had all the powers of Godzilla, the rapid healing ability and the atomic ray. After I discovered this I began to hunt for his killer.”

“Did you ever find him?” asked Hippolyta.

“After I did some snooping around the police station, I found that it was done by a repeat robber by the name of Frank Walker, his prints were found at the scene and he had a track record for robbery. So I begin to hunt him down since the police was having no luck. After a few weeks of looking after I discovered his identity, I was in the sky above the town as Rodan searching for him. I got lucky when I saw him take a woman’s purse and duck down an alley. I landed and turned into Godzilla and saw him riffling through her purse.

I stayed in the shadows and yelled his name; he looked up in surprise and pointed his gun at me. I asked him if he knew about the tavern incident. He told me that he did it and it would have been easy if the old geezer hadn’t tried and stop him. By then I was furious. He asked why it mattered to me. I told him it did and I stepped out of the shadows, revealing my form. He yelled a curse and began to fire his gun. The bullets didn’t pierce my skin and I approached Walker. He then ditched the gun and the purse and took off running. I blasted him with Godzilla’s atomic ray. The ray slammed him against the side of a building. I can still remember the cries of pain from the burns that the ray caused. I then grabbed him and tossed him against the wall again. I then began to whale on him and did things to him I’m not proud of.”

“You didn’t kill him did you?” asked Diana, giving him a more serious look, concerned over where this story was going.

“I thought I was going to,” he said softly. “I was so enraged; that’s all I could think about. I can still taste the metal in his blood from biting him in the arm. I can still hear his cries for mercy. I knocked him to the ground, bloodied and bruised, and I was about to blow his head off with the atomic ray when I suddenly stopped. A voice came into my head that said that I would be no better than him. Worse still, I would be hunted down as a killer by any of the costumed heroes in the world. I didn’t want that to happen.”

“What did you do?” asked Diana.

“I turned into Rodan and flew him to the police station a beaten and bloodied man. On the way, I dropped the woman’s purse somewhere where she found it.”

“What happened to him?” questioned Hippolyta.

“He went to prison, but didn’t last long due to radiation poisoning. This was before I could control my radiation output when I was Godzilla and actually be around people and not give off lethal doses of radiation. I feel that justice was served. I got my licks in but he was also officially convicted. Overall, I guess that’s why I had such feelings for you Diana; you were one of the last people in the world that I knew that had known my grandfather and if it wasn’t for you, I probably wouldn’t have become The Kaiju, or even had been born.”

“That explains everything. So what happened after that?” asked Wonder Woman.

“I sold everything, took all the money from that and what Grandpa left me and disappeared. Tim Locke no longer exists, just The Kaiju. He died when I turned into Godzilla for the first time. After what I did, I decided I would be better off helping people with these powers. I went around to secluded locations to train and to use my powers more effectively with only myself, my clothes, the money in my pocket, and my monster movie collection for references. After a few months, I started to roam from place to place along the Mississippi River, specifically in Iowa and Illinois, creating a myth of monsters attacking criminals and then leaving to another town until I helped you and the rest of the League, Diana.”

“Well,” she replied, “I’m glad you did.” Tim picked up his glass.

“I would like to make a toast,” he said, “To the monsters that helped us win against the Xilians.”

“I would also like to toast Charles,” said Hippolyta, picking up her glass, “For him finding the island and passing on the Shape-shifting Gauntlet on to you, Tim.”

Diana picked up her glass and said: “And I would like to toast my teammate, Tim Locke, a.k.a. The Kaiju for his leadership in a time of crisis and his absolute friendship.” Tim smiled with a tear in his eye.

“To everyone!” said Tim.

“To everyone!” Diana and Hippolyta repeated and the three of them clinked their glasses together and finally began to eat their food. The three of them were silent as they ate their meals. Finally Hippolyta broke the silence.

“So, Diana, have you told him yet?”

“No, Mother,” Diana answered, giving Hippolyta a dirty look, “I haven’t.”

“Tell me what?” questioned Tim, taking a bite of steak.

“Would you like to make Diana the only Amazon that is capable of stopping you should you go rogue?” asked the Amazon queen.

“I think that would be helpful,” answered Tim.

“Okay then, in order for Diana to become your fail-safe permanently,” Hippolyta explained, “It is stated that in order for it to take effect, the wearer of the gauntlet and the chosen Amazon fail-safe, the two of them must become one.”

Tim stared at Hippolyta, confused.

“Two become one? What does that mean?” Diana turned to Tim and asked:

“What activity that men and women do where they become one?”

He sat there, thinking about what she said. Tim took a bite of his steak fries when it hit him what she was talking about. He stopped chewing and his eyes grew wide. He slowly turned his head towards Wonder Woman and stared at her.

“You don’t mean?” he said after he swallowed the fry. She nodded slowly with a smile on her face.

“You mean, in order for you to become my only fail-safe, you and I have to,” he then fell silent, due to him trying to word what he wanted to say, “Sleep together?”

“That’s what they call it,” Diana said, “But I don’t think there will be any sleeping.” Tim turned back to his meal and finished it slowly, the whole time not blinking, trying to wrap his head around what he was just told. He suddenly had a realization:

“You had this planned all along, didn’t you?” he said turning back his teammate, “You were just waiting for the opportunity.” She nodded with a sly look on her face.

“I can be sneaky if I want to be,” she said. The check came and after they paid for the meal, the three of them were leaving the restaurant when Diana held out a piece of paper to Tim; who took it.

“What is it?” he asked, looking at it.

“The hotel we’re staying at and the room I’m staying in,” she answered, leaning in close; speaking softly, “Don’t worry, Mother’s in another room. She won’t hear a thing.”

“But I’m not prepared.”

“What do you mean?” she asked cautiously.

“What about,” he said pausing, “precautions?”

“Well, I don’t think we will have a problem,” she went on, “With that bracelet of yours, you can make modifications that would prevent anything from happening.” He looked as his right arm and was embarrassed that he didn’t think about it himself.

“I know you and I have some things to do yet, so I’ll see you around nine,” she then whispered in his ear, “Don’t be late.” Diana and Hippolyta took off in one direction, while Tim went in another, needing to prepare for what was going to happen. That night would be an eventful night, indeed.

One Hour Later

It was ten ‘till nine when he walked down the hall towards Diana’s room. Tim had changed into casual clothes: a plain grey shirt and blue jeans and stopped at a florist to pick up a dozen red roses. He didn’t want this to look tacky. He looked at the note she gave him to reaffirm this was the room. He stood there a moment, staring at the door, feeling the butterflies return to his stomach. He swallowed, hid the flowers behind his back, and took a deep breath before he knocked on her door.

“Who is it?” Diana’s voice came from behind the door.

“It’s me,” he answered. All he could hear after that was footsteps to the door. The door then slowly opened to reveal Diana in a very revealing red teddy. Tim just stood there, staring with his eyes wide open and his mouth hanging open.

“Hey there,” she said softly.

“Hey,” he squeaked out. He then presented her the roses. “For you.”

“Why thank you!” she said, taking the flowers. “Come in,” she said, motioning him in with her finger. He walked in to the room behind her and saw that the room’s light was dim. As Tim closed the door behind him; not even his wildest dreams could prepare him for what he was about to experience that evening.

[Tim85]

Epilogue
A Night to Remember

Thirty Minutes Later

After they were finished, Tim rolled to the left side of the bed next to Diana; the two of them gasping for air, exhausted. Their gauntlets glowed, signaling that they had done what was required of them and that Diana would be from then on until the end of time; Tim’s only fail-safe.

“That was great,” he said with a big smile on his face.

“It was,” Diana said with a happy sigh, satisfied with what she had accomplished. The two of them curled up underneath the covers after turning off the lights and they cuddled up together in each other’s arms. Diana was the first to fall asleep. Tim looked at her sleeping face, realizing that he fulfilled many a man’s fantasy that night. He then began to hum and then sang out loud to himself softly: “And I think to myself; what a wonderful world.” After he sang the last line, he drifted off to sleep.

No sooner did Tim fall asleep, he opened his eyes. He was still holding Diana in his arms. He looked up at the table in the corner of the room and saw a figure sitting in the chair by the table.

“Diana!” he whispered, shaking her in an attempt to wake her, “Diana! There’s someone in the room! Diana!”

“She can’t hear you, kiddo,” said the figure. Tim looked at the figure more intently, recognizing the voice. The person turned to face the hero, who recognized the man immediately. The stranger resembled Tim but with some age to his looks.

“Grandpa?” he asked.

“You betcha,” answered the man. Excited, Tim leapt out of the bed, threw on his shorts, and began to approach the man when he stopped in his tracks.

“No,” said Tim.

“What is it?” asked Charles, standing up.

“Not this dream again,” Tim said, choking up and tears forming in his eyes, “I find out you’re actually alive and then I wake up to find out you’re not.”

“Not this time, kiddo,” said the grandfather, shaking his head, “I’m still taking a dirt nap.” Tim chuckled at the comment:

“Very subtle as usual, Grandpa.”

“It wouldn’t be me,” said Charles with a smile. He looked over at Diana’s sleeping form in the bed.

“She’s very beautiful,” he observed.

“She is,” Tim replied, “Both in the costume and out of it.”

“You love her, don’t you?” said Charles. Tim looked at him, stunned by the comment.

“Sure I do,” said Tim, “I always have.”

“But this is different,” he went on, “You care for her deeply, but not romantically, despite what you two just did.”

“I had to do it,” Tim explained himself, “to prevent me from doing again what I did to them in Tokyo.”

“I know you had to,” Charles said, looking at his grandson, “What I mean is that you love her like family. You look up to her like a big sister. I don't think you're ready yet for you two being romantically involved with each other. Believe me I’ve seen you when you loved someone romantically; remember?”

“Nikki,” whispered Tim. She was his girlfriend before he lost his grandfather and disappeared to become The Kaiju.

“Have you checked up on her?”

“I haven’t had the time,” he explained; trying to hide his disgust for that person, “What with joining the Justice League and that whole thing with the monsters; she’s been the last thing on my mind. But I get what you’re saying about Diana. I’ve always felt some kind of kin ship with her. I know I lusted after her in the beginning, what man hasn’t wanted Wonder Woman in that way? But lately those feelings have died down and yet I still care about her a lot.” He then let out a small chuckle to himself, “I guess I am not ready yet and have been looking up at her like a big sister. That may partially explain my reaction when she said we had to do what we just did. But you’re not here just to talk about my feelings for Diana.”

“No,” he said, “I also wanted to tell you how proud I am of you; for all that you’ve done.” Tim began to get choked up again.

“My grandson’s in the Justice League,” he went on, “I still can’t believe it. I’m so glad that you decided to fight evil with your powers.”

“I guess some things did manage to soak in to my thick head,” Tim choked out.

“It did. I don’t know what I did to deserve a kid like you.” Tim finally broke down and hugged his grandfather, bawling like a baby.

“I love you, Grandpa,” he said through tears.

“I love you too, Tim,” Charles said, with a tear in his eye as well. After what seemed like several minutes, Charles finally spoke:

“It’s time for me to go.”

“Please no,” Tim stumbled out.

“I have to, kiddo,” Charles said regrettably.

Just then Tim woke up back in bed, in the same position he fell asleep in, with Diana still in his arms. He glanced over at the clock to see that he had only been asleep for a little under an hour. Tim looked at Diana’s sleeping face, and then looked up at the ceiling.

“Thanks,” he whispered. He closed his eyes and fell back asleep.

The Morning After

It was beautiful morning, in Tim’s eyes. Last night was the best night’s sleep he’s had in a good long time. While he had lost sleep due to losing his grandfather; he soon began to have nightmares about his actions as The Kaiju when he did get some sleep. While he began to dream less and less about going out of control, he still wakes up in a cold sweat when he has dreams about actually killing the League aboard the Xilian Mothership, especially Diana.

He and Diana were on the patio, taking in the crisp morning air. The two of them were in white bathrobes, sitting at the patio table with breakfast that was delivered to them by room service. Two large platters of pancakes sat in front of them, Tim had chocolate chip while Wonder Woman’s were blueberry. A pitcher filled with milk and two full glasses of the dairy drink sat between them. The breakfast wasn’t too big since the two of them were scheduled to meet with Hippolyta for lunch around noon. While he dug into the flapjacks, he looked over at Diana.

She daintily ate her pancakes, savoring every bite. Her left shoulder was exposed due to the looseness in how she wore her bathrobe. He couldn’t help but smile at the sight of her. He still had to remind himself that what happened last night did indeed happen, not a dream. The sliding glass door was left open, allowing quick access to the room in case of emergency and the sounds of the radio to drift out to them.

It was set to a local radio show where the two disc jockeys were interviewing someone from Metropolis who had supposedly found a piece of Rodan’s skin from the monster invasion. Tim found himself amused by the answers to the DJ’s questions about how the person got a hold of that little souvenir and that the man could not identify which Rodan the skin came from or where he got it. After washing another mouthful of chocolaty pancakes down with a swig of milk, he finally broke the silence that was there since the meal arrived.

“How’s your pancakes?”

Diana looked up from her breakfast and met Tim’s face: “They’re good. I take it you like yours too,” she replied pointing at his half-eaten plate with her fork.

“They’re wonderful,” he then said with a smile, “just like last night.” She smiled at the comment.

“It was a great night,” she admitted.

“Can I tell you something?” he continued.

“What?” she answered.

“I hope last night doesn’t affect our friendship.”

“Believe me, it won’t,” she assured him, shaking her head.

“Good,” replied Tim, “because for the past few weeks I’ve grown to care for you a lot. I almost feel like,” he said with a pause, “I'm not sure how to put this.”

“Go ahead,” she said.

“The League has become almost my replacement family. I look up to Superman, Batman, Aquaman, and J'onn as father figures, and I think of Kyle,Wally, and Plas as brothers. I'm just not sure what to think of you as, considering what just happened last night.”

“How about close friend and confidant?” she suggested, “How about that?”

“Works for me,” he said with a smile, “Also I don't want to jump into a relationship just because of last night. I don't want you to feel obligated to be in one.”

“I understand,” answered Diana.

“I’m happy to hear that,” he said, taking a small bite and lying back in his seat, “I also wanted to tell you that; after what we did last night, I felt something that I haven’t felt in long time.”

“What?” she asked, taking a sip of milk.

“I know this is probably going to sound corny like, ‘you made me a man last night’, but I wanted to tell you that for the first time in over a year; I actually felt; human. I didn’t tell you and Hippolyta but before Grandpa died, I had a girlfriend. Her name was Nikki. We dated the old fashioned way. She was my first girlfriend and I thought for the longest time: she would be my only. I actually considered asking her to marry me. That was until the night my grandfather died.”

“What happened?” asked Diana, with concern in her voice.

“After I dropped off Grandpa at the tavern, I went to pick her up for our date. I was all ready to ask her hand in marriage that night. When I got there we had a falling out. Despite us being together all through high school, she wanted to see other people. She didn’t think I would amount to much and that we wouldn’t have a future together. I was heart broken and wanted to tell Grandpa all about it when I found out that he had been killed. Between losing her and my grandfather, I was totally devastated. She tried to get back together with me after the funeral, but the damage had been done. I shot her request down, saying that I never wanted to see her face ever again for what she did to me. I wanted to be left alone. So much, in fact, I didn’t want to get attached to anyone ever again to spare me feeling this pain in the future.”

Tim bit into his lower lip, trying to hold back tears: “I wish she could see me now.” Wonder Woman, almost in tears herself; felt sorry for the young man, she did not have any idea how much pain Tim had suffered through his life. He then let out a sigh.

“After meeting you,” he continued, “I started to have feelings for another person again. But I was afraid to act on my crush because of what had happened earlier. On top of that, I’ve spent so much time as monsters and people looking at me as a monster instead of a human being, I just kept the feeling suppressed even more. I didn’t think I even had the capacity to feel that way again. When last night came up, I actually found myself doing it, not because I had to, but because; I actually wanted to. I think I was ready to feel again. Of course, I don’t know about your feelings about last night.” As he said the last sentence, he shrugged his shoulders while he looked down at the table.

“I did it,” said Diana, “because I wanted to as well. If I did it just because we had to, I wouldn’t have done the date or anything of what I did last night. I don’t do this with just anyone, I’m not like that.” She then put her hand on his left hand, “You want to have those feelings for another person again but you are afraid. You haven't gotten over getting hurt yet. I have given you those feelings back and to show you that you don’t have to be afraid and the ability to care again.”

Tim then looked up at Wonder Woman with a smile on his face and a tear streaking down his right cheek.

“Thank you,” he whispered.

“You’re welcome,” she replied with a smile. The two then leaned forward and their lips met. While they were kissing, Tim had one thought go through his mind. For all that he has gone through the past year, right now; he felt that it all seemed worth it.

Not long into the kiss, Kaiju’s and Wonder Woman’s JLA signaling device started to go off in the room.

“Wonderful,” growled Kaiju, as they pulled away from each other, “Talk about a buzz killer.” The two of them bolted into the hotel room and Diana grabbed hers off the nightstand next to the bed after she turned off the radio and Tim began dig his out of his pant’s pocket.

“What’s happening?” Diana asked first.

“Gorilla Grodd and his soldiers are causing havoc in Africa,” said J’onn. “This requires the entire team, but I haven’t been able to reach Kaiju.”

“He’s with me,” she answered.

“He is?” asked the Martian; with a puzzled tone to his voice. Tim finally got his device out.

“It’s me, J’onn,” he said, “I heard everything.”

“Good,” said the Martian Manhunter, “Everyone’s called in.”

“Give us ten minutes,” said Diana, “We’ll call you when we’re ready.”

“Roger. Make haste please. J’onn out,” replied the Martian. Diana ran over to her suitcase and dug her costume from out of it. She looked over to see Tim putting his pants on.

“May I ask why you get dressed even though you’ll be technically nude when you’re in monster form?”

“I’ve never been able to make my own clothing using the gauntlet,” he answered. “Unless the League wants to see me naked at the Watchtower when I’m in my human form, I’ll put on clothes thank you.”

“Oh? So I’m the only one to have the privilege to see you naked?” she said with smile. He turned to her with a smirk on his face.

“You’re welcome. I hope J’onn doesn’t find out what happened.”

“He won’t,” she assured him, “Even if he does pick up something from one of us, he won’t say anything.”

“Good. I don’t think that the League needs to know about this; especially Plastic Man.”

“Yes, especially him,” she said in agreement, “Oh! I’ve got to let Mother know that we have to go!” she said suddenly. As if on cue, the phone rang. Diana picked up the phone first.

“Hello?”

“It’s me,” Hippolyta answered.

“Mother, we have to cancel lunch. The League has an emergency.”

“Its okay, Diana,” she replied, “I just got a call from the JSA, they need some assistance.”

“We’ll get together later, okay?” Diana asked.

“We’ll do,” her mother answered, “Got to go.”

“Bye, Mother,” Diana then hung up the phone and told Tim what her mother said.

“Well that worked out,” he said. Diana then got her costume on.

“I’m ready,” she said. Tim put his shirt on and then turned into the Final Wars Godzilla.

“Me too,” he replied. Diana then activated the com link.

“J’onn, we’re ready.”

“Copy that,” he replied. “Teleporting the two of you within a minute.”

“Roger,” she replied. Kaiju looked at Wonder Woman and observed:

“So much for a nice quiet breakfast.”

“Duty calls,” she answered; shrugging her shoulders.

“Hey, Diana,” She looked at him when he struck a Godzilla-like pose.

“It’s Godzilla time,” he said to her. She chuckled at the comment as the two of them shimmered and teleported to Africa to help with the situation.