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A/N: I am sorry this has taken me so long to update for months, but I was really going through a severe case of writer's block from having to juggle many responsibilities while I am still working on my stories and jotting down random ideas of my customized fanmade MonsterVerse. Nonetheless, there's an upside in that listening to the Godzilla KOTM soundtrack because there was one track that caught my attention, which inspired me to write this chapter. The track, fittingly titled "King of the Monsters", and rewatching many scenes, particularly one of them where Godzilla went all nuclear on King Ghidorah in Boston as well as rereading the last chapter gave me the inspiration! Also watched Genndy Tartokovsky's Primal, Godzilla 1998, Godzilla Final Wars, and Destroy All Monsters for even more inspirations while putting in some major additions to make Godzilla's re-ascension and reclaiming of his title as King of the Monsters all the more epic! This epic one-shot would follow mostly the plot of Godzilla King of the Monsters (2019) with some retcons and additions to fit into this customized MonsterVerse of mine.

You can consider this as kind of a follow-up to the last chapter in a sense. And this has to be the longest and most content-packed chapter I ever wrote. That's pretty much what I have to say! Now on to the show!

Titanomachy! Beginning of the End

To say the entirety of Earth was transformed into a battlefield would be the most massive understatement of the century yet. It was the center of the apocalypse.

More accurately, it was re-living the biggest of them all, which nearly destroyed the world in the past. Now it threatens to do so again, but the stakes have never been higher this time.

This Earth...the whole universe... where it was once multitude of separate multiverses, comprised of other worlds and universes where characters of popular fiction and culture reside in, which were completely unaware of each other until now. The Great Merge began when Godzilla fought the ancient super dragon, Bagan, to the death on that fateful day in Tokyo, Japan; when Godzilla transformed into his most powerful form, Super Godzilla, to combat his overwhelmingly powerful foe. The universe-shattering collision of energies by these god beasts was enough to shatter time and space dimensional boundaries. The result was sudden as the MonsterVerse merged with many fictional universes into one amalgamated universe where now Titans, old and new, reemerge into a world of fantastical heroes, villains, new gods, and other creatures of fantasy.

That world was on the verge of turmoil with the One Who Is Many slowly waking from icy prison. Godzilla's eternal archnemesis, whose mere presence alone elicited terrifyingly fitting nicknames birthed from man's creations of deities to describe him such as The False King, the Mandandare Aquenomba, the Devil With Three Heads, Death Song of Three Storms, etc. His most infamous and recent nickname being Monster Zero, dubbed by Dr. Emma Russell due to Monarch having only discovered him recently buried deep beneath Antarctica and when they just started to scratch the surface of his alien biology. That all changed when Red Bamboo, the number one Eco-Terrorist Organization, executed the unprecedented disabling of Monarch's global security system, shutting down five out of 45 Outposts across the globe. The goal was to distract Monarch and everyone else with the Titans/Daikaiju and the subsequent Kaiju species going destructively rogue upon their release into the outside world.

Jasper, Nevada...

The alpha member of the gigantic scorpion species related to Pulmunoscorpius of Carboniferous, Sasori mortificus, easily sliced and shredded apart several gigantic web strands that were ten times thicker than steel with its claw pincers. Titanus Ts-Eh-Go, AKA, Sasori, whose carapace has a sapphire coloration, lighter blue underside with a singular row of chili-red blotches running from the base of the mesosoma or abdomen up to the tail stinger, was engaged in mortal combat with its natural enemy; a prehistoric spider of terrifyingly gigantic proportions named Kumonga or Gogyeng Sowhuti by the Pueblo Indians and classified as Speiga claytonii by Monarch.

The spider-like Titan, herself, had a white cephalothorax, golden yellow legs with black stripes, a brown crown-shaped abdomen with a black stripe running down the middle, which was broken up by three pairs of yellow 'eyespots' with the other five having each 'eye' on opposite sides of the abdomen. The underside of her abdomen bears an hourglass red-orange mark like that of a brown widow spider. Kumonga was recuperating in her web-made dome she surrounded herself in within the heart of Jasper after having lost half of her forelimb to her hated rival, who cut it in the midst of throwing her off of him as she attempted to ambush him after he was distracted from having to fight off a large group of her offspring. The spider matriarch viewed the foreleg that had been cut in half with the stump no longer bloodied as it was minutes ago. Kumonga hissed in frustration as it would take some time for her limb to regenerate, leaving her more vulnerable to the stronger and more aggressive Ts-Eh-Go.

Her reprieve was short-lived when she felt extreme heat affecting her web-dome through the sensations that function like electrical signals that prick through her legs. With her own many violet eyes, she saw the ceiling of her dome melting, being eaten by acid excreted strongly from the tip of Ts-Eh-Go's tail stinger. The scorpion-like Titan was tearing the web wall down fast with his pincers making short work of the structure that was otherwise nigh-impervious to conventional weaponry save for some metahumans and certain group of robot-like aliens. Fury-filled growls from Ts-Eh-Go outside could be clearly heard, prompting the Kumonga to screech defiantly with whatever's left of the dome to reverberate intensely. Most of her brood, her soldiers, were occupied in combat with Ts-Eh-Go's smaller and younger brethren with the entirety of the small city of Jasper turned into a gory battlefield where the two fought on literally every street corner and building. Bodily juices and lost appendages galore for every city block as a smaller Spiega bit off the Sasori by the tail and its mouthparts chewed the stinger off. The Sasori writhed belly-up chaotically and its stinger-less tail twitched about, wrecking two shops in the process. The creature's last moments of its life was abruptly ended by the Spiega stabbing its forelimb to the body. For every Ts-Eh-Go killed, two or more Spiega were horrifically mauled with another of the Sasori envenomating a bigger Spiega when it impaled its tail stinger into the young spider's abdomen. The Spiega scrambled away in pain. The Sasori saw two of the Spiega siblings rushing at it. One of the two spiders rushed in too fast to its doom as the Sasori slammed its pincers down onto it; the claws puncturing through the exoskeleton as the spider immediately died with its head torn off by the black scorpion's asymmetrical saber-like mouthparts. The other Spiega spat out huge streams of webbing from behind that bound the Sasori's tail close to its body, which would prevent the juvenile scorpion from utilizing its deadliest weapon. The spider leaped onto scorpion and tried to overcome the bigger beast, but the Spiega's fangs failed to pierce through the Sasori's tougher black exoskeleton. The Sasori ended the futile struggle when it finally freed its tail and the momentum threw the Spiega off before it was batted away by the said tail. The spider slammed into several citizens still trapped within the city, pulverizing them instantly into bloody smears and then crashing right into retail store a street away.

Kumonga was trapped in her own dome and she had to act fast when the dome wall was finally torn down, revealing Ts-Eh-Go readying its stinger to bring the death blow onto her. Kumonga raised herself as high as she could with her exoskeletal legs. Her two forelimbs stretched outwards in spite of one of them having a nub in place of the spike-like tip. Both stared at each other briefly with vicious intent in their many beady eyes until Ts-Eh-Go was the first to break the showdown by thrusting his tail stinger into the dome with sudden speed. Kumonga quickly swerved to the right with the barbed tip of the tail hitting where she was seconds ago. She then swerved to the left and lifted one of her legs up to avoid being nicked by her rival's tail strike. The arachnid knew she couldn't go on avoiding her fellow arachnid's tail stinger forever because sooner or later, he will envenomate her unless she makes a risky unsuspecting move.

Just when Ts-Eh-Go was sure to strike her, several of her children jumped onto the scorpion, landing on his eyes. The young spiders spat webbing and some even bit into his eyes. Their fangs blinded him and made him miss the aim of his stinger. The stinger struck deep into the pavement left of Kumonga. The spider matriarch saw the opportunity and quickly took advantage of the momentary distraction her remaining children caused for the giant scorpion. She pinned the stinger with her right forelimb and applied sticky webbing onto it, further trapping it into place. Ts-Eh-Go was so angrily bothered by his rival's brood getting the jump on him as he waved his heavily muscled arms around with his pincer claws snapping about that he didn't realize that his tail was glued to the road until it was too late.

Ts-Eh-Go only heard something snapped off, which was followed by immense pain emanating from his tail. He squealed reactively as Kumonga severed away his deadliest weapon. The stinger was planted firmly into the ground with the yellow webbing ensuring its loss. Ts-Eh-Go chaotically thrashed about, destroying nearby small apartments, and his severed tail flung about droplets of blood all over the small city. Kumonga wasted no time in literally leaping onto the window of opportunity by pouncing on her scorpion rival, joining her brood in taking him down. The two arachnid behemoths wrestled and tussled about with the angry, panicked Ts-Eh-Go trying to throw her off while Kumonga hung on as her legs clung into him like a rodeo rider hanging on for dear life on top of a bucking bull.

Jack Darby and Miko Nakadai were having no luck cutting through bed-sized, web cocoons containing an unconscious Raf Esquivel and his family with the surgical mini-blade Jack borrowed from the Autobot Medic, Ratchet, barely making a cut and Miko's switchblade not faring much better. Even Jack's mom, June, wielding a machete her grandfather used as a soldier in the Pacific Theatre of World War II couldn't make much of a difference in cutting through many layers of webbing that is equivalent to chipping away the trunk of a redwood tree. Only Arcee made any significant progress with her Cybertronian blades, but because she had to constantly watch her back from being pounced upon by Kumonga's giant offspring, look out for her human partner and his friends, and also take care that she didn't go too aggressive with her slicing that could endanger Raf and his family trapped inside the massive cocoons.

Arcee felt her right metallic arm stopped and pulled by something, which were the stick rope-like strands of webbing that resisted her action fiercely.

"By Primus! The spider's web is stronger than even Airachnid's!" The blue and pink Autobot femme fatale had her azure optics widened in shock in not only how strong the Spider Titan's webbing was, but even as she immediately tried to cut the strands restricting her arm and blade with her other free wrist blade, the webbing would refuse to wield to being hacked apart easily.

Jack tried to cut too deep into the dense webbing layers to the point where the Energon blade was firmly embedded, refusing to move any further much to his chagrin.

"It's like trying to cutting through a wall!" Jack commented when the underground cave that was Kumonga's cavernous lair situated underneath Jasper shook tremendously from the ferocious clash of the arachnid Titans above, "Damnit! At this rate, those overgrown bugs will be upon us!"

"But we can't simply leave them here! We have to keep cutting through these overgrown sacs of crap!" Miko defiantly yelled even with her knife's blade bending dangerously to the point of breaking it.

They heard Energon blaster fire loudly behind them along with some screams, both bestial and Cybertronian. Next thing they knew Bumblebee was slammed adjacent of Jack by one of the Spiega much bigger than him.

"Jack, look out!" June hollered with fear and shock of the twist in the situation.

Miko screeched in horror for the Yellow Camaro-themed Autobot scout being pinned down by the tank-sized spider.

"Shit!" Jack swore, falling onto his butt.

Bumblebee whined and beeped angrily with the Spiega screeching to him as it began hammering him with the sharp tips of its forelimbs. The little Autobot was pummeled in the faceplate as it became dented with the paint being scratched.

"Bee!" Arcee widened her optics, but she snapped back to anger in seconds with the spider unfurling its fanged mouthparts. The young Spiega was about to bite down when it had been shot in the body and legs.

"Keep your mouth to yourself, you bitch!" Arcee rushed towards the now enraged spider. The Spiega screamed in fury, but this moment of distraction did give Bumblebee the opening he needed. Transforming his arm into a Path Blaster, the little Autobot Scout pointed the gun to the spider's head as close as he could. Bumblebee beeped along the lines of, "Say hello to my little friend!" before he fired the rounds right into the arachnid's cephalothorax before it even had the chance to react. The young Spiega squealed with its blood spurting out and insides exploding before Bumblebee fired several rounds into its mouth, resulting in its head blowing up. The young Autobot scout grunted as he exerted his gears in getting the limp dead body of the giant spider off of him.

Then whatever moment to regain their bearings the group thought they deserved had been dashed as a loud explosion erupted from outside the lair, shaking up the tunnel complex.

"MOVE OUTTA THE WAY!" Bulkhead's holler was heard with the next immediate that followed was Wheeljack flying across the corridor until his chassis skidded to a stop across the web-strewn ground. The custom racer-themed Wrecker groaned in front of the shocked group when they heard painful screams of terror from the green Wrecker.

"You scrapheaded idiot! I ain't letting you die on us!" Wheeljack roared as he pushed himself up.

"Bulkhead?! What are you doing?!" Miko screamed out of concern for her Autobot partner she had been good friends with for a while as the two had been through a lot together. Her said Transformer friend stumbled out from the corner with acid holes riddling his green SUV chassis and some webbing stuck onto his arms. He bent down onto his knees with a pained look on his face as he panted heavily when he strained his voice box saying his last words,

"Miko...run..."

That was when the most traumatizing horror happened as Bulkhead lurched with oil and Energon blood vomit spit forth from his mouth. He looked down to see a tail stinger protruding outward from his chest with the culprit none other than a sub-adult Sasori scorpion about the size of a small house.

"NOOO!" Jack screamed with the wind nearly taken out of him from the sheer shock of it all with his aghast mother covering her mouth beside him.

Bumblebee sounded like Luke Skywalker screaming "NOOO!" from the iconic Darth Vader's 'I'm Your Father' reveal scene of Star Wars Empire Strikes Back.

"BULKHEAD!" Wheeljack and Arcee were so flabbergasted that they nearly failed to dodge the earthen wall exploding outwards behind them with a bigger sub-adult Spiega bursting through.

For Miko, the world around her became a blur with only Bulkhead seen clearly in more definition as everything moved in slow motion. She silently stared with eyes wider than golf balls; her mind churned in a tumultuous tornado of terrible emotions, leaving her emotionally shellshocked as she didn't register Bulkhead's terrified expression and his mouth movements sounding out words to her that echoed. She didn't even acknowledge the Sasori scorpion pulling dragging Bulkhead away from her, using its tail to do so, nor did she realize the Spiega charging at them both with her person in the way of its warpath. Other voices shouting her name became too inaudible to her amongst the many echoes ringing at her.

Her world abruptly turned dark as she felt someone tackling her, which is immediately followed by crunching sounds of something breaking and something wet splattered onto her face. When she opened her eyes, her vision was blurry with everything around her inaudible. Ringing was all she could hear as even the fight between the sub-adult Spiega and Sasori was happening on top of her.

"Oh my God! JAAAAAACCCCKKKK! JAAAACCCCKK!" June's horrified, shrilling voice snapped her out of her daze. It was only then her vision cleared to see Jack lying on the ground dead with his body bent in an unnatural angle from the force of one of the spider's legs impaling him with his spine snapped in half as a result. Miko stared in stunned horror at the blood leaking from the crevice between his lips and the lifeless eyes staring back at her own. The sound of pincers snapping and spider legs punching the ground drew her attention to Bulkhead crying with his chassis and hydraulics warping and tearing from being the object of a tug of war between the sub-adult prehistoric arachnids.

"MIKOOO! GET AWAY FROM HEE- GYAARRRGGHH!" Bulkhead warned with the last of his Energon tears elicited from the sharp pain of being torn apart before the Sasori won the tug of war when it forcedly snatched him away from the mouthparts of the Spiega and ripped him in half in the process. The Sasori wasted no time in snuffing out Bulkhead's spark when its saber-like mouthparts bit down onto his head and chest.

The Japanese punk girl, upon seeing her Autobot close friend, brutally ripped apart, screamed back in severe grief and fury, "BULKHEAAAAAAAADDDDDDD!" And she continued to scream hysterically with teary, rage-filled eyes getting the attention of the dueling sub-adult monsters as she threw a rock at the Sasori. Only for the rock to bounce off the scorpion's thick armor in an exercise of futility with the beast feeling nothing from the strike. The Spiega saw that since the little girl was in closer proximity to it than its natural enemy, it looked to make a quick snack out of her.

Miko whipped her head around when she heard the Spiega screeched above her with the spider bringing upon its spear-like forelimb to skewer her. She clenched her eyes shut and threw her hands above her head to shield herself from being inevitably impaled. However, the Sasori was far from over as it was more focused on killing its fellow arachnid than on Miko. It immediately slammed into the young Spiega with both of its claw pincers and the brutal fight resumed. As soon as Miko uncovered her head and saw the two attacking each other once more, she attempted to grab another rock only for an equally furious Arcee to forcibly scoop her up.

"Miko, no!" Arcee scolded.

"Let me go! The scorpion killed Bulkhead! Let me go so I can punch that bastard's eyes out!" She tried to wrestle out of Arcee's ironclad grip and failing as her mind became clouded by grief, "ARCEE!"

"Forget it, Miko! Bulkhead's dead! HE'S GONE!" Arcee explained with her spark being wounded by her own grief as horrific memories of her previous partners and friends she had lost to the Decepticons, especially Airachnid, back on Cybertron during the Great Cybertronian Civil War resurfaced a vengeance. She could barely keep her lid on her own rage towards the monsters with one of them being the more prehistoric and bigger version of Airachnid's default form. There were more screams as she saw a group of Decepticon Vehicons being run over by overwhelming sheer numbers of Kumonga's smaller brood with each individual being the size of a man. The Vehicons writhed about in agony as the baby Titan spiders viciously tore apart their exoskeletons and already proceeded to rip apart their hydraulics and the like from inside and out.

"Help!" One of them tried to reach outward his metallic hand to the shellshocked Autobots and humans before he fell limp immediately when the spiders ate into his processors.

"PRIMUS SAVE US!" Another hollered out of despair, knowing his end was nigh.

"JACK! NO! NO! GOOODDD! JAAACCCKKK! Jack... Jack...," June fell halfway to her knees weakened by the trauma of watching her son be killed in front of her eyes. She crawled up to Jack's dead body and cradled him so close like a baby, not caring his blood staining her, as she wept bitterly, muttering his name like a broken record. Her own flesh and blood taken away in order that he saved his own friends.

Knock Out sped away from his dying henchmen and from the stunned Autobots in his alternative form as a red and white racecar, albeit with the baby Spiega latching onto him and already scratching his paint with their jaws and legs.

"I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMOOOOORRRREEEE!" The horrified Decepticon Medic screamed like a little girl that had her makeup ruined; his voice echoing off into the tunnel. Meanwhile, he unintentionally abandoned an infuriated and frustrated brute of his partner, Breakdown, to fend off for himself against both the hordes of Spiega and the opposing Sasori as he thrashed madly about with his hammer like a crazed berserker.

Outside the tunnel entrance outside of the ruins of Memorial High School, Kumonga and Ts-Eh-Go were wrestling about, rolling on top of each other, crushing any unfortunate civilian stranded within the carnage, and busting through destroyed debris of what were once neighborhoods. Kumonga had the upper hand for a while when she also blinded the Scorpion Titan by spitting large amounts of web into his many eyes. She chirped frenziedly; her forelimbs and biting fanged, mouthparts starting to inflict small fractures on his exoskeletal armor with no tail stinger to potentially stab her in the back. However, so focused was she in inflicting as much grievous harm as possible, she failed to see Ts-Eh-Go tripping on the steep slope leading into the tunnel towards her lair. The road also crumpled underneath their combined weight as both tumbled into the corridor.

Appalachian Mountains, United States of America...

The deciduous forests have been relatively peaceful in spite of the growing chaos happening across the world.

Until now...

Some of the maple and evergreen trees shake vigorously along with shrieking birds flying away from the tree tops, the panicking animals fleeing, and a certain group of mercenaries screaming their heads off.

One deafening roar and a cracking sound of a punch later, RED Engineer was sent flying into the air above the forest until he smacked into the screen, causing cracks to form.

Earlier...

It all started when the RED Team of the Mann Co. Mercenaries was sent to the isolated valley within the Appalachian Mountains by the company's musclebound CEO, Saxton Hale, after he received no word back from the BLU Team or their secret weapons facility for a long while since last week. He debriefed them on the situation including the last log entry he read about the BLU Mercenaries having brought the remains of an unknown animal resembling a large gorilla before communications was abruptly cut out.

The RED Mercenaries found that the Mann Co. Mountain Lab was eerily empty; abandoned with no other signs of their opposing team anywhere, other than the dead bodies of BLU Pyro, Medic, Engineer, Soldier, and Spy, and some of the smaller structures demolished. They first investigated the complex buildings only finding more and more empty quarters and expensive tech equipment still running like nothing ever happened while some looked like they had been destroyed by a tornado coming through the area. It was when they ventured into the underground laboratories that they had any inkling that something more horrific went wrong as they found most of the personnel; scientists, technicians, communications staff, etc. mauled and bloodily torn apart. They found other damning evidence such as tufts of red-brownish fur stuck on doorways and windows, claw marks scarred onto the walls, and streaks of blood caked, sometimes accompanied by torn limbs and other remains. The more the red-coded men ventured in and found more of the disturbing clues, including giant man-like footprints, the clearer it became that whatever trashed the facility was not only brutishly violent, but also enormous and strong enough to punch a giant hole through the gated entrance and uproot it at the same time when the prints showed the culprit escaping into the montane woods.

The mercenaries were immediately contacted to come to the security room. The Red Spy urged his teammates to watch his findings; whatever security footage he could recover from the data banks. The footage was grainy and the quality was even more questionable, considering it was nighttime this incident took place. It started recording at 8:00 PM. At first, none of the footage showed anything out of the ordinary other than the authorized Mann Co. personnel going about their daily job routine and their BLU counterparts doing their own thing. Nothing out of the ordinary other than the footage of one of the larger labs the Red Medic encountered but couldn't enter due to the door lock having a sensitive card reader machine, which for some reason only suspiciously showed the entrance at an angle that left out whatever's going on inside. An hour later at 9 PM, that was where things took a strange turn when from one of the security footage taken by a floodlight cam posted at the back entrance, they heard strange rustling from the forest of the mountainous face cliff overlooking the facility. The footage had not enough quality to show whatever it was in the bushes when something shadowy shot out from the foliage and grabbed onto a nearby large tree.

The RED Mercenaries tensed up when they saw the shadowy form of something enormous and vaguely humanoid appear partially behind the canopy. Their jaws dropped when the lifeform not only uprooted the trunk from the ground, but also lifted a tree that was tall as it was with such ease that made both Heavy and Scout gulp hard. The roar of the creature and tyee the tree chucked towards the camera were all the footage recorded before the floodlight cam was destroyed with the screen showing static. The next footage from the back door entrance was even blurrier, making it more difficult for the guys watching it at first to make out the details, but they could see BLU Demoman and BLU Pyro approaching the tree trunk that was distorted by its impact into the infrastructure, destroying the backdoor with it being crushed and warped. At this point, the entire corridor was flashing with alarm lights. Apparently, the BLU Pyro was ordered to stay behind by the now sober BLU Demoman, who crawled through the wrecked gap of the back exit and went out into the forest to take a look. It had been already been fifteen minutes, but the BLU Demoman hadn't come back with BLU Pyro playing Angry Birds on his iPhone to fight back the boredom.

That was until he heard the bloodcurdling screams of BLU Demoman, but they were not his usual battle cries. No, they were screams of horrific agony that sounded like he was being manhandled horribly. Then there were the angry roars of the very same creature that had chucked the tree earlier. They, alone, were enough for Pyro to get an inkling of what had just happened to Demoman, which terrified him, including the RED Mercenaries watching footage. Despite his nerves being ruffled up and his basal instincts screaming at him to run, Pyro gathered enough courage...or idiocy, depending on how his situation could be looked at, to reeve up his flamethrower as he carefully walked towards the forested edge. The creature's echoing snarl stopped him from going any further and his body began to shake up like a tremulous leaf in the wind. Other than aiming upwards his flamethrower, he couldn't move. He would not dare to with fear planting him firmly to the spot and making his hands sweat in his gloves. A snap of the branches with the lifeform seemingly charging from behind the foliage in front of the Pyro, triggered the pyromaniac's trigger finger as flames shot out from the nozzle of his weapon. The fire burned the trees. Before Pyro could even comprehend what he had just done, he heard the rustling of the trees to his left. Turning his head sharply around was the last thing he could ever do as a giant hairy figure that was obscured by the shadows barreled at him. Pyro was subsequently knocked flying into the fallen tree by a vicious swiping uppercut from the creature that also tore up the earth along with him. He lost grip of his trusty weapon in the process, and slid onto the floor before he halted to a stop just twenty feet away from the security camera that recorded the footage the RED Mercenaries were watching in stunned horror.

Coming out from the edge of the tree line was a gigantic ape-like creature covered in a dense coat of black coarse hair for most of his body with his chest and limbs being sparsely covered. Only his face, hands, feet were naked, revealing dark bluish skin with faded tones of brown. The face vaguely resembled that of chimpanzee with the rounded head, prominent snout, pronounced low eyebrows and ridges, flattened nostrils, and a small, sparse gray beard underneath his chin and jaw. However, the resemblance ended with the mouth having sharp teeth more akin to that of a wolf than a chimpanzee. There were no cheeks with the teeth jutting from and through both upper and lower jaws as some of them interlock like his canines, making his jaws crooked and snaggle-toothed. The beast's eyes were hauntingly glowing white in the dark, but when they no longer glowed when exposed under the flashing floodlights, their sclera were dark brown, bloody red irises, and small pupils. The creased eyebrows, unsettling eyes, and the mouth slightly ajar barring more of his sharp teeth as the ape-like beast snarled was a scary sight to behold.

The large, stocky hands were coarse and rough with the thickened, tough skin bearing some minor abrasions from handling tough surfaces. The four fingers and thumb looked bony yet meaty, but instead of nails, they were armed with long hooked claws made to slice into flesh. The hand-like feet were not much different other than the claws being shorter. The simian-like monster briefly stood up and walked on his hindlimbs at a jaw-dropping height of 59 feet tall out into view that showcased his bodily proportions to be reminiscent of that of chimpanzees; long limbs with the forelimbs being longer and stronger than its hindlimbs, broad shoulders and chest, a muscular abdomen supported by a narrow but powerful torso. He was swinging his arms maniacally about while opening his toothy jaws, his howls echoing throughout the mountain valley. All of his hair erect and bristling with bestial rage. The beast was intimidating the BLU Pyro in his threatening display as he towered over the masked mercenary, who was totally paralyzed in absolute terror of the ape. It quickly became hunched all over, going back on all fours like a gorilla with his fists pounding the ground. He slammed the earth repeatedly with his palms before swiping at a nearby jeep, destroying it with just sheer brute force that wrecked the entire side of the jeep.

The deafening sounds of the fists slamming into the ground and the jeep totalled was enough for Pyro to bring out his shotgun. He yelled as he shot all of his seven rounds desperately at the ape. The Sasquatch swerved a little late as one of the bullets managed to graze his left shoulder. The ape kaiju noticed his own blood staining his fur, which only enraged him when he glared hatefully at the shaking Pyro. Sasquatch roared out loud furiously and he charged. Pyro couldn't even reload as the ape's long reach enabled the monster to grab him in no time at all. The Red Mercenaries were horrified and couldn't comprehend with everything happening so fast. BLU Pyro was clutched in the Sasquatch's ironclad grip. The next thing they saw was him being simultaneously pounded and crushed with the spine chilling sound of bones being grounded into dust.

"Holy Mary mother of Joseph!" Red Soldier swore, almost falling off a chair out of how sudden it was. The Sasquatch reared his right arm with his clawed hand balled into a fist.

"This is going to be apples for him," Red Sniper lowered his hat to shield himself from the inevitable bloody outcome.

Then it was over for the BLU masked pyromaniac in one ground-shattering, hammering punch with ground debris exploding all over.

When the dust cleared, the BLU Pyro was no more than a distorted, gory corpse with his upper body caved in and his lower limbs popped out. The Sasquatch bludgeoned down into the hand print so powerfully that Pyro was beyond recognition. The hand impression turned into a small crater from the force of the blow. The ape kaiju inspected his blood-covered hand and he then licked his fingers and claws.

If BLU Pyro's brutal manner of death wasn't unnerving to the Red Mercenaries already, then seeing the monster lick off the blood and bits of flesh made them sick to their stomach as they cringed with disgust.

"Ugh...how utterly repugnant," Red Spy groaned, palming his face.

"Dude, are you kidding? This is so wrong on so many levels!" Red Scout stated, barely holding back the urge to vomit.

However, the Red Heavy couldn't hold it any longer as he murmured with his skin losing color, "Oh...Heavy doesn't feel good..."

He covered his mouth with his face turning sickly green. He frantically looked around for the nearest trash can and rushed for the one underneath the desk adjacent to his group. There he went to throw up his sandvich he had for lunch. "Hrk!"

Red Demoman went for his bottle of whiskey and chugged down the contents to drink out the horrific scene from his head; consequences be damned as always for him.

Then there was video footage playing from security cameras stationed in other areas with anyone, who is not a BLU Mercenary or security guard, running frantically to evacuate. Some of the footage showed the Sasquatch rampaging through the underground tunnels after the ape somehow managed to figure out that they were connected to a massive mountain cave underneath the facility. They could barely accommodate for his large frame, which only made him more aggressive and frenzied in his path of destruction. A good number of scientists and miscellaneous personnel were trampled underfoot when the beast ran them over. One footage showed the five security guards shooting at the ape kaiju, but they had no chance of stopping him as the bullets had not much effect in slowing him down due to the hominoid having a thicker hide that was tough as Kevlar, which prevented the bullets from piercing beyond the external layer. It still irritated the beast as it did certainly sting when Sasquatch quickly sped up in his charge towards them and wasted no time striking back. Panicked screams coming from the security guards when the Sasquatch was right upon them and swiped his right claw, slicing and knocking about two of their comrades into bloody heaps. The other three tried to retreat, but one of them was nabbed by the leg. The security guard yelped in horror as the Sasquatch bit him through his helmet like a monkey would to a nut with his fangs.

"My God…" Spy was aghast at the fatality of the man's death as the helmet was supposed to stop a bullet or even mitigate a concussive strike from a football, but yet was overcome by the Sasquatch's teeth.

After biting his head off and spitting it out, the Sasquatch threw the headless corpse quite far enough to crash into the other two to put a halt to their escape. The Sasquatch dashed over and slammed both of his fists onto them with the second guard squashed into oblivion and the last one having his legs and hip destroyed. The remaining guard tried to wiggle away with tears of pain in his eyes, but the ape cut his life short when the ape stabbed him in the back with his claws. The Sasquatch disappeared from the footage as more gunfire could be heard offscreen and the ape presumably confronting the defenders head-on. Another footage was shown with several security guards retreating from the BLU Spawning Facility and four of the BLU Mercenaries: Soldier, Scout, Heavy, and Medic frantically scrambling outside into the yard. The facility exploded as the Sasquatch jumped from the explosion and landed in front of them, smashing the ground and creating a crater that scattered the remaining mercenaries. He went for the nearest victim, who was the BLU Medic.

"Get outta there, BLU Medic!" Red Soldier hollered out to the BLU Medic, even though it was just a video recording and the latter couldn't hear the former.

It was too late, even for the BLU team to do anything as the Sasquatch moved with such speed that belied his size.

"WAH! HELP MEEEEEEEEE!" BLU Medic screamed with the ape cryptid kaiju dragging him away in spite of him digging his gloved fingers into the earth, which left scarring streaks across the ground. The Sasquatch then threw him very strongly that resulted in the horrified Medic flung high across the mountainous valley with the German doctor's last screams echoing throughout.

"OH NOOOOOOO!" BLU Heavy shouted in enraged horror with his expression turning menacing on the dime, aiming his gigantic minigun at the cryptid primate. "How. Dare. You. Kill. MY. DOCTOR! YEEEYAAAAAAAHHHHH!" He fired his "Sasha" at the giant ape, who was quick to sense the incoming threat headed his way as he leaped away from the hail of bullets, but the Heavy was persistent as he redirected his fire at the ape. The Sasquatch jumped onto a nearby tower and then used it as a launch board to torpedo himself towards the stocky mercenary. The tower toppled from the forceful push of the ape's feet.

"Uh oh...," Heavy had the "Oh crap" expression before the ape tackled him, grabbed him into a rolling somersault, and crashed him into a nearby utility pole. Heavy got wrung and flung about like rag doll before he was pounded into the dirt road. The Sasquatch kept hammering him into the ground without giving Heavy any chance to recover. The ape grunted when he felt several rounds hitting his back coming from the BLU Scout firing his pistol. He turned his head around to also see BLU Soldier from behind the Scout firing a rocket round from his rocket launcher. The Sasquatch galloped out of the way, making the dazed BLU Heavy take the devastating hit with his body parts exploding all over and scorched.

BLU Soldier's jaw dropped with shock that he had hastened the demise of his fellow coworker by his own hands unintentionally. It didn't last long before BLU Scout snapped some sense back into him by throwing a pebble at his helmet,

"Damnit! What's the matter with you?! We have to stop that thing!"

"Grrr...damnit! We can't let that thing make a monkey out of us! Not as long as this ol' Eagle can kick his hairy ass!" Soldier growled.

"Incoming!" BLU Sniper from above the platform of one of the silos hollered. Both Soldier and Scout's eyes widened to see large volumes of dirt thrown right into their faces by the Sasquatch. Only Scout speedily avoided being blinded while the Soldier was less than fortunate.

"*cough!*aaagh!*cough!*" Soldier wheezed from having dirt down his throat in addition to being blinded. He wiped the dust off his eyes, but was greeted with the stampeding Sasquatch attacking him with a backhanding swipe that made impact in a bone-cracking sound.

"ACK!" Soldier yelped in pain from crashing through the wooden wall of a shack with his back and shoulder. Splinters puncturing through his blue uniform and pricking into his skin. He let out unintelligible gurgles with his jaw dislocated thanks to the ape's monstrous strength that nearly broke his entire face.

Scout ran around the Sasquatch in circles while pelting him with more bullets fired from his pistol. The Sasquatch tried to grab the speedy mercenary, but BLU Scout kept swerving away from the ape's large clawed hands. Sasquatch slashed down, his claws striking the ground instead of the Scout.

"Missed me, moron!" Scout taunted and jumped over a sweeping swipe as he continued his insults, "Whoops! Sorry, denied!" He shot some more in mid-air at his face, causing the Sasquatch to cover it with his arms, with the giant ape becoming more and more frustrated. The ape turned his already ugly cheek-less mouth into a grossly, demonic snarl as his attempts to grab the nimble Scout kept coming up short.

"I'm not even winded yet! WHOOHOOHOOOO!" Scout grew more cocky with every missed swipe and every potshot he could get at the ape kaiju, "I am soooo going to own your fat monkey ass!"

The Sasquatch angrily roared and launched several fists and lunging claw swipes, including a somersault roll, at the BLU Scout, who dodged them all with expert ease, before he jumped up and slammed down with both of his palms.

"Hey, ya hairy knucklehead!" Scout threw and hit a couple of baseballs with his baseball bat that went for the ape's head and snout. One of them even hit close to the beast's eye that the primate winced from the impact. Scout jumped up the Sasquatch's ear, landed on top of the creature's forehead, and started batting him right on the noggin. "Ya didn't even feel me hitting ya! Now ya going to feel a minor headache sandwich courtesy of yours truly!"

Sasquatch growled in surprise of being knocked in the noggin. He roared as he reached for Scout to grab him off. The young man screamed, ducking under the hand swipe. The Sasquatch and BLU Scout got into a buckaroo match with the former trying to buck the latter off.

"Whoa! Whoa! Need a little help here?!" Scout shouted as almost fell off and only stopped when he gripped onto the hairs of the ape's shoulders as he hang on for dear life.

BLU Sniper snarled. He already started shooting his Hitman's Heatmaker rifle with his intended target being the Sasquatch's head, but it was easier said than done. The bullet only hit the beast right in his side, which again only served to rile him up to buck about even more.

Scout yelped as he was shaken about vigorously with him desperately gripping harder onto the hairs as to not fly off. Even more terrifying for him was that the Sasquatch's arms reaching for him and the ape kaiju jumping about from getting shot by BLU Sniper didn't help matters either. The Boston boy's eyes widened when he saw he was heading towards the cliff wall.

"Ah crap!" Scout screamed.

The Sasquatch slammed his back into the wall, which nearly crushed him, creating a Scout-shaped impression with the said unconscious mercenary smacked right in the middle of it.

"Scout!" Sniper was horrified, but he couldn't allow himself to be stunned for even a moment as his shot could now mean life or death for the young mercenary. He quickly aimed for the head and fired, but it was off of its mark slightly, hitting the giant primate in the shoulder again. It did, however, get the Sasquatch to glare at the BLU Sniper aiming from the window above. Looking down at the fallen Scout, he grabbed him and immediately chucked him towards the Sniper.

"Crikey!" Sniper barely dove out of harm's way when Scout crashed into the window of the guard post and tearing out part of the wall.

"That's some chonkey business right there," Sniper shook the wood fragments off of his shirt and vest before retrieving his fedora. He next surveyed, quickly finding the Scout bruised on the floor with his right arm broken from the crash.

"Oh no, kid!" Sniper rushed over to the unconscious merc. He didn't need to be a Medic to see that his condition wasn't looking too good with a severe gash across his cheek and head. Unless Scout received immediate medical attention, the young man wouldn't have long to live. "And we just lost our Medic." He slammed his fist down, "Goddamnit!"

Then he felt a shadow engulf him. He turned around and saw the Sasquatch jumping up high in the air, holding a dump truck in his hand. He lowered his hat and muttered,

"Aww... piss."

His last words before the ape descended upon the level, throwing the truck onto both him and Scout. Sasquatch jumped back off before the roof caved in and then one of the cables sparked fire onto the ruptured tank and oil. The chemical chain reaction ignited into an explosive fire that shook the entire premise of the Mountain Lab.

The Sasquatch's toothy mouth twitched before he roared out triumphantly. That was interrupted, however, when he felt several missiles explode against his chest, which actually blew him off of his feet before he fell, tumbling onto another shack and destroyed it till he stopped headfirst into the earth. The beast screeched in a pained, almost human-like groan as it frantically rolled about to rid itself of the flames burning his chest.

"That's enough monkeying around, ya overgrown chimp!" Engineer growled from his position on the facility built into the cliff, "Time to put you outta your misery!"

His sentry turret fired more bullets and a hail of missiles at the fallen Sasquatch still trying to put out the fires for himself. Explosions and smoke engulfed the beast and the surrounding area.

"HAH! You just got dominated, Bigfoot! Hahahaha!" Engineer chuckled, chugging down on a bottle of soda. His relief was short-lived, however, when he saw the Sasquatch not only still alive and pissed off, but also nabbing another dump truck and chucking it right at Engi.

His eyes bugged out as his Sentry fired off more rounds that destroyed the dump truck, which resulted in a massive explosion of fragmented metal and parts. Once again, smoke obscured his view and made him unprepared when he felt something wet and musky punch him hard to the point he slammed his helmeted head onto the concrete wall. Whatever murky substance obscured his goggles he wiped it off with his gloved hand to clear his vision, but when he did it smelled awfully disgusting. And the disgusting earth brown, green, and yellowish colors of the muck all over him only made the feeling much worse and icky of what the ape just threw at him.

"Did that baboon just cover me in monkey shit?!" Engi roared out in utter disgust and his face grew redder at the sight of his precious machinery also covered in the same poop he was engulfed in. "Oh, you've gotta be shitting me!"

It was like getting doused in Sniper's Jarate, but ten times worse and very much ickier with the notorious scent of an animal's rear end making him want to vomit.

The Sentry kept firing until it was destroyed by the entirety of an utility pole thrown at it by the ape kaiju.

"WAAAAHHHH! Sentry down!" Engineer yelped as he tried to crawl back up to his feet. "I need some doggone help!" However, his plea for help would be unanswered when he underestimated how quick the ape was in climbing up to him and smacking his palm on top of him completely in his grasp.

"DAGNABIT!" He swore his last curse before the Sasquatch threw him out while the helmeted mercenary screamed to his doom. A wet, sickening thud was heard with the Engineer lying dead and broken with his spine destroyed and his neck twisted from hitting the cliff wall right by the BLU Spawn area.

Sasquatch hooted victoriously, this time uninterrupted as he stood up on his hind legs with his arms splayed outwards and his clawed hands opened wide. The footage was abruptly cut off when the Sasquatch saw the camera and wasted no time destroying it.

"What the bloody hell just happened?" RED Sniper blurted out.

"I don't know, but we can be certain zhat Bigfoot is no ape," RED Medic said in response with Sniper, Heavy, Scout, and Engineer giving him deadpanned looks back at him. He cleared his throat before he corrected himself, "Well, at least, not any ape we know of."

"And Bigfoot just threw the biggest shitfest right at our competition. I will give credit where it is due, but I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't be grossed out if we happen to be on the receiving end." Engineer said.

"Thankfully, I won't remember this," Demoman drunkenly slurred in his speech.

"Quiet!" Red Spy hissed at them to shut up.

The other camera footage only showed what was at the entrance to the laboratory within the facility, but it was apparent to the RED Team that the Sasquatch had broken in judging by the panicked shouts and hollers of the scientists and the roaring of the ape. Seconds later, it showed a security guard skidding towards the door and immediately afterwards, a work desk and couple of boxes being thrown right into the scurrying security guard, which killed him with the only sign that he was ever there was his arm sticking out from the debris.

Red Spy narrowed his eyes at the footage as he quickly put two and two together from the footage he had seen.

The debris and the door for the bio-lab it blockaded was blasted apart by RED Heavy's minigun.

When the RED Mercenaries cautiously walked out away from the cloud of dust, the sight that greeted them horrified them beyond their wildest imaginations.

The laboratory, or rather what was left of it, was wrecked apart beyond recognition with the place scorched and discolored in some areas. All of the trapped scientists and technicians were brutally massacred with some of them nothing more than bloody entrails. As for the specimen detailed in the briefing by Saxton Hale, their boss, it was apparently stolen by the Sasquatch.

"Holy dooley…" Sniper almost lost grip of his Sniper Rifle out of aghast astonishment at what had occurred the security camera wasn't able to show.

"Damn...it seems this place had been thrown into the chop shop of hell and back again! This ape is no animal!" Soldier gritted his teeth, glaring at the corpses strewn about with the blood staining the ripped up wires and equipment and mixing grossly into the spilled chemicals. "A Communist King Kong created by Stalin, that's what it is!"

"Ugh! Stupid, stupid, stupid Soldier!" Heavy yelled back, "Keep your trap shut!"

"I'm telling you this must be the Russian Superhuman Experiment that the Commies must have been working in secret!" Soldier insisted on his conspiracy theory.

"You want me to kill you, and kill you to shut your own trap, Soldier?!" Heavy got right into Soldier's face.

Medic quickly got in between the two and pushed them away, "Dummkopfs! Zhis is not zhe time, nor zhe place to be at each other's throats!"

"Shut up, you imbeciles!" Spy hollered before he put his hand to his ear, "I just heard someone in here!"

That got them to zip up their mouths shut as the sound started out faint, but they could hear someone groaning.

It was weak but the tone of agony in the groan was unmistakably familiar.

"Ah! Over there! It's BLU Spy!" Heavy found the source of the sound when visually scanned and traced it to the BLU Spy crouched in an unnatural sitting position right next to a fallen steel cabinet that had fallen on top of the dead corpse of another Medic.

"Aaaahhhh...oohh…," BLU Spy groaned once more with his head not moving from being slouched.

RED Mercenaries rushed to his position and it was clear to them that the Sasquatch had done him in just like the rest of the BLU Mercenaries.

"Jeez, dude! The ape freaking snapped your neck in half!" an aghast Scout shouted.

"Aaaahhh…*cough*... just my luck that you... all...*cough* *wheeze*" BLU Spy hacked up a lot of blood with his chest seeming like a wrecking ball hit him there in the spot, "...had to see me like this...so p-pitiful."

"Crikey, mate! You're beyond awful! How did the ape get the drop on you like this?!" Sniper asked exasperatedly.

"Yeah, how on God's green earth did it come to this? You're usually sneakier than a snake in the grass to avoid becoming basically roadkill!" Engineer inquired.

"Oh...*cough*...hehehehe…," BLU Sniper lifted his head up with his mouth stained with blood spilling out, "I...I...did something...reckless...in other words...something...a little...*cough*...foolhardy..."

"What exactly?" Red Spy said.

"I...I was transmitting the emergency message...when...that ape...busted into the lab...," BLU Spy spoke when a large bubble of blood popped from his mouth. He wheezed violently again, which almost prompted Red Medic to utilize the UberCharge Gun until Red Spy put his arm up in front of him to stop him.

"Spy?" Medic said, sounding greatly confused and worried.

"*cough*...it's too late, doc." BLU Spy answered for his RED counterpart.

Everyone, even the masked Pyro, felt crestfallen that there was no saving him.

"*cough*...anyways... I saw...a young woman... beautiful like my wife...*cough* The ape was about to butcher her...I tried to sneak away, but...*cough* *cough*...in that moment...I saw my wife and unborn child... I couldn't abandon her again. So I... knifed the beast in the back."

"Where is she?" Red Spy asked carefully.

"She escaped last time I saw...I may have saved her...*cough*...but I... put myself...in danger. I hoped to...keep Bigfoot distracted...long enough for my team to come...and...*cough*...and... blast that baboon...to kingdom come."

"Spy..." Engineer was floored at how heroic he turned out in saving an innocent researcher and trying to buy time for the BLU Mercenaries to regroup.

"Guhhhrgk...but...it appears...I made a grave miscalculation...," BLU Spy muttered before he wheezed more violently this time with blood and saliva spat all over, forcing the RED Mercenaries to pedal back.

"Dude, you're coughing up your own life away! Medic, help him!" Red Scout freaked out at how much blood fluids were being lost.

"Hang on, French boy! Speak no more, you gotta conserve some of your strength so you can help us kick monkey butt!" Soldier pleaded as he could see the light within BLU Spy's eyes fading.

"BLU...Team...respawned...went...after...ape..," BLU Spy shakily pointed his finger towards the enormous hole in the wall leading to the outside world made by the Sasquatch with all of his last remaining strength in his good arm. "They...will...perish..."

BLU Spy's arm fell limp to the floor with his breath leaving him in a weary, fading gasp. The light of life in his eyes dimmed darker and darker until...

They were no more; his body slouched until his baclava-covered head touched the floor. The knife clanging on the cold floor brought to point the cold reality that had befallen upon the Mercenaries ever since they set foot on the mountain. BLU Spy died ingloriously with a broken neck and caved-in chest.

An uncomfortable silence had taken a hold of them.

They nervously looked to the mountains and the forests that now looked all the more foreboding as they morphed into sinister shapes under the shadow of the moonlight; as if the Mercenaries were staring into the jaws of death.

The jaws of the Sasquatch.

Back to the present...

The unconscious Red Engineer with a bloody scar to his nose bridge woke up from the spine-chilling roar of the Sasquatch. He rubbed his head of where his hard hat should be only to find it gone and only feeling his bald head. His vision was blurry when he opened his eyes behind his goggles. Thankfully, he could make out the blurry outline of his hard hat where it landed upside down on its top just a few feet ahead of him close to a wooden bridge leading to the Mountain Lab. He tried to get up, but felt a sharp pain coming from the shin of his leg.

"Shit!" Engineer hissed at the horrific sensation. He figured that it was probably broken during his fall after the Sasquatch backhanded him brutally. Now, he could only crawl towards his hard hat, which was fortunately not damaged compared to his leg. Once the hat was in sufficient range for his arms, he grabbed it and nestled it in its right place on top of his bald head.

Then came the more welcoming sensation of the RED Medic's Ubercharge healing him. The broken shin bone healed back to its original state and the gash on his nose bridge disappeared as well, even though some of the aches on his chest, shoulders, and his abdomen to certain extent were still evident, albeit less acute than they were before.

He smiled as he carefully got up and turned to the RED Medic, who had his own share of scrapes and bruises, including a purple spot to the right eye with one of the lenses of his rounded glasses shattered.

"Thanks, Doc, but...," Engi's smile turned to a frown as he addressed the Medic of his own injuries, "...you're not exactly well, yourself."

"You guys' wellbeing zhis my top priority! I will worry about myself later," Medic explained when they heard the Sasquatch snarl once more and the war cry of Saxton Hale.

They turned around to see that their CEO and boss was already in the midst of an intense brawl with the ape cryptid kaiju. The fight was already clearly turning out to be one-sided in the Sasquatch's favor partly due to his sheer size and height alone as he was nearly ten times taller than the bare-chested Australian boxer. It was also because Saxton's stubborn insistence of protecting his employees and friends that he forced them to stay away after witnessing they had suffered grievous injuries at the Sasquatch's claws.

However, such a decision proved to be costly, as Saxton quickly found out. The ape's large size, coupled with his keen intelligence, agility, and tenacious ruthlessness, pit the Australian in a serious disadvantage, even when armed with his trusty shotgun because not only the Sasquatch could dodge the rounds, but could also strike back with the long reach of his arms and claws. Plus, the Sasquatch was not as quick to grant him the straightforward fistfight that Saxton Hale was used to as he used underhanded tricks to trip Saxton up. Many times, Saxton had been fooled and blindsided by the ape's maneuverability and extraordinary cunning, resulting in him getting punched and thrown about all over the warehouse entrance like a ragdoll.

That didn't mean, however, that Saxton had no tricks up his own sleeve as he glared up at the towering Sasquatch, who hardly looked like he had been affected at all.

"If it's fighting dirty you want, then I am more than happy to up the ante!" Hale roared back after having poop thrown into him and being blindsided by the Sasquatch throwing a sucker-punch. He pulled out a flashbang grenade from his belt and readied it for his purpose.

The Sasquatch galloped fast with the intent to end the fight by crushing him under his massive fist.

As soon as the kaiju was in range, Saxton Hale ignited the flashbang grenade and threw it up into the air, which exploded in a flashing bright light in front of the animal's face.

The Sasquatch screeched, recoiling from the blinding light with his vision all blurry and seeing stars. Saxton wasted no time seeing the opportunity as he lassoed the rope around the primate's left arm. When the Sasquatch chaotically swung his arm around, he used it as leverage to swing himself up onto the ape's back. He next lassoed the ape around the Sasquatch's neck, which was thick as his own torso. He anchored himself up onto the shoulders and used his pistol to shoot the beast at the base of his skull.

That happened and the Sasquatch went bonkers, which was the beginning of an unusual and dangerous rodeo for Saxton. The Sasquatch hooted and growled about like a mad, crazy boar as he galloped and jumped about, bucking his head and back like there's no tomorrow.

"Whoops! Apparently, you're much more thickheaded than the last Yeti I've put away. Let's see if I can tire you into submission!" Saxton positioned himself with his legs spread wide, and planted onto the Sasquatch's massive, furry shoulders while holding onto his rope for dear life, "YEEEHAAAWW!"

It was absolute chaos with the Mountain Lab shaking from the Sasquatch throwing a temper tantrum, trying to get Saxton Hale off of his back literally.

"YEEEHHHAAAWWW! WAAAHOOOOO!" Saxton was having too much fun as he clearly got into the spirit of the hunt, "YIPPEE-KAY-YAY, you damned dirty ape!"

The surviving RED and BLU Mercenaries clapped and cheered for their boss. RED Soldier upped the silly ante by whooping and beating his chest like a gorilla.

All, except, for the Red Spy, who was fuming at the absurdity of Saxton Hale's indulgence into rodeoing a highly dangerous monster.

'You Aussie bumbling idiot!' Spy screamed internally at the missed chance to kill the Sasquatch in the head.

After a minute or so, the monster seemed to slow down, tiring out from trying to buck off Saxton. The Sasquatch panted heavily with his nostrils flaring out hot air. He crouched onto the ground with his hands and his head hung low while his jaws hung agape. The RED and BLU mercenaries cheered at this.

RED Spy, however, wasn't easily reassured as he felt something about it was off.

"I have a bad feeling about this," he said with a grimace as he saw that this was too easy for even a giant creature to give up this fast.

Saxton Hale only saw victory and another trophy to add to his famed accomplishments as he hopped off the black-furred ape. The Australian President of Mann Co. chuckled darkly as he whipped out his shotgun once he was close enough to the ape's disfigured jaws.

"That was a fun rodeo, but like all good things, it has to come to a stop." He reloaded ammo into his shotgun.

The guys cheered for Saxton to finish the ape for all the trouble and carnage it had wrought upon them.

"Let's do it!"

"Yeah, give that bloody baboon a good drubbing!"

"Time for little-bitty, wussy Bigfoot to go bye-bye!"

"Lights out for this chump chimp!"

"That Commie Gorilla will taste American lead right to his grave!"

Red Spy remained cautious.

Saxton aimed his shotgun close to the Sasquatch where intends to shoot him through the eye.

"But at least, you will not be forgotten as my trophy that I will hang over my office," Saxton proclaimed as his finger neared to press the trigger. Unbeknownst to him, the Sasquatch's left arm reared with his clawed hand outstretched ready to grab the unsuspecting Australian.

It was only when he heard the shouts of his Mercenaries...

"Monsieur Hale, watch out!" Red Spy was the first to holler out.

"Huh?" Saxton turned around to see that indeed the Sasquatch was about to nab him. But in his moment of distraction, the Sasquatch opened wider his fanged jaws and snapped them shut onto the shotgun and Hale's right arm.

Saxton's eyes widened and he hollered out in grievous pain from his flesh being torn and bones being crushed, "GYAAAARRRRGGGHHH!"

"Mr. Hale!" Engi was rendered aghast at what just happened. The others were pretty much the same as they could only watch haplessly while the ape chomped the second time; this time tearing off his shoulder along with his mangled arm and gun.

Saxton stumbled back with all of his macho bravado and half of his upper body gone. The ape gave up his pretense as he stood up to his proper quadrupedal posture while spitting out the bloodied limb and shotgun onto the ground in a disgusting pool of saliva and human blood. The Sasquatch nabbed Saxton, who was now reduced to a bloodied, sobbing wreck. The ape kaiju propped him up close to his disfigured wolf-like maw.

"P-p-p-please...please...let me go...," Saxton whimpered in the face of the Sasquatch, who stared with angry red eyes that peered into his soul. "I promise...I will not hunt anymore Yetis...please..."

The Sasquatch's response was another angry howling scream, this time, at point blank onto Saxton. The Australian saw his entire life flash in front of his eyes.

"MR. PRESIDENT!"

A surviving group of Hale's personal bodyguards witness the whole thing. They could stand by no longer to watch their boss about to become ape snack; thus, they fired from behind the ape. It proved to be unwise as the Sasquatch let out a huge farting attack from his behind that resulted in a grossly yellowish, brown cloud of gas, which engulfed all of them.

"Argh!" One of them choked with all of nasal and taste senses overwhelmed by the disgusting odor.

"GAH! What's the matter with all of you?!" the infuriated Red Heavy's angry exclamation brought the others out of their stupefied trance. He lashed out with his minigun against the Sasquatch. "Kill the freak!"

The Sasquatch growled with his jaws curled hatefully even as he was pelted by the furious barrage coming from the mercenaries. The ape was still enraged out of grief over the death of his young son, whom these humans had killed and somehow desecrated his corpse. Now that his chance to avenge his son was at hand, he was going to finish it here and now.

The Sasquatch threw the crippled Saxton at the firing mercenaries.

"STOP! STOP!" BLU Scout had nearly lost his mind when he and his buddies almost shredded their CEO to pieces with friendly fire. Saxton crashed onto several of both the RED and BLU Mercenaries, which they tumbled into a messy heap of human bodies.

"You big damned monkey!" Red Engineer deployed his sentry and whipped out his shotgun. Both of them fired everything they had at the giant carnivorous ape.

"Die you ugly wanker!" BLU Sniper angrily shot his Sniper Rifle.

Sasquatch dashed to a warehouse for cover where he spotted another utility pole. Gaining an idea, he stood up and puffed up his chest with his stomach rumbling from something within before he exhaled out strongly, launching a stream of explosive pellets from his fanged mouth towards the men.

"AAAHHH! I knew this would happen!" Red Scout screamed before he retreated, zooming off.

"Incoming!" Sniper tried to warn, but it was far too late as the unexpectedness of the oral attack made them ill-prepared to counter the barrage of explosive pellets. The first to be hit was both RED and BLU Engineers as they all exploded into bloody chunks along with their respective sentries being violently dismantled when the pellets struck them. Then RED Soldier was next to be bludgeoned by the hail of pellets with RED Pyro shortly joining them as the portable fuel tank for his flamethrower was struck, which combusted, extinguishing him into crispy ashes. RED Soldier jump rocketed from the ground and next from on the ledge of a roof to leap at the ape to bludgeon him with his trusty shovel. However, the Sasquatch already saw him coming as he grabbed the utility pole and swung it onto him like a baseball bat to the baseball as soon as the mercenary was in range.

"GAAAHHHH!" Red Soldier flew so fast and high into the air that only a twinkling star shined in the sky where he was.

Lake Biwa, Japan...

Ichika Orimura was enjoying the view of Lake Biwa with his childhood friends, Dan and Ran Gotanda, and many of his beautiful female classmates of Infinite Stratos Academy, mainly Houki Shinonono, Cecilia Alcott, Charlotte Dunois, Lingyin Huang AKA "Rin", and Laura Bodewig, during their summer vacation. They were all relaxing on the pleasure boat out near to center of Lake Biwa when the area began to shake with the water becoming choppy all of the sudden.

"What the hell is happening?!" Ichika was rudely snapped out of his pleasant daydream from the boat rocking violently from the choppy waves.

"Earthquake?!" Dan was just as shocked as Ichika as when he had his lemonade spill onto his summer shirt, "Aw, jeez! I just got this washed!"

"But there wasn't supposed to be one! Sacre bleu!" Charlotte shouted as she struggled to her feet while doing her best not to feel seasick from the out of control motions of the rocking pleasure boat.

"AAHH! OUCH!" Ran, Dan's younger sister, fell onto her head from her chair.

"Ran!" Dan ran to her, helping her to get up from the floor despite having his own trouble of stabilizing his footing. Around them, everyone were either grabbing onto anything firmly attached to the deck for dear life, or planted on the floor. Unfortunately, some of the startled visitors fell over the railing despite their best efforts as the waves got rockier, especially for a certain British blonde student.

"Whoa whoa whoa! What in the Queen's name is happening to the lake?!" Cecilia shouted to no one in particular as she, Houki, Laura, and Lingyin were doing their best to not get shaken off.

"I don't know, Cecilia, but I'm already feeling dizzy from all this rocking and bumping!" Linyin complained as evident by the swirlies in her eyes with her world erratically going up and down.

"Girls, don't let go of the railing! Hang on!" Houki screamed.

"Hang on to something!" Ichika shouted shortly after with Dan, Ran, and Charlotte already lunging as best as they could for any railing.

Then came another forceful seismic jolt from beneath the center of the lake, which was stronger than the last one. It rocked the boat so much that its hull almost flew out of the water's surface. Such a motion caused Cecilia to lose her grip as she was sent flying over the railing.

"ICHIKAAAAAAA!" Cecilia screeched in panicked terror as she fell off.

"CECILIA!" Every one of her friends shouted out of horror.

Fortunately, thanks to her quick thinking, Houki grabbed Cecilia by her hand and prevented her love rival and friend from falling into the rocky freshwater. However, there was now a problem. With the ship tilting unsteadily back and forth, it made it difficult for Houki to get a stable footing to pull Cecilia away from totally falling off the ship's ledge as others, who were in the same position as her, either having some success, or falling to their doom along with their loved ones they tried to rescue.

"Cecilia, hang on! Don't slip from us!" Lingyin hollered, desperately clutching Cecilia by her other hand while doing her best to hang on to the railing.

"I'm trying!" Cecilia felt her hand slowly slipping through theirs.

"Damn it...," Ichika saw that unless he do something, Cecilia would fall into the water and probably be banged up against the ship's hull or drown in the water. He then turned around and said urgently to Dan,

"Dan, I need you to look after both Ran and Charlotte for me!"

"The boat's too rocky! You'd likely fall off the boat!" Dan protested.

"It's too dangerous, Ichika!" Ran joined with her older brother's protest.

"You have to, Dan! I have to help them save Cecilia!" Ichika hopped to his feet and ran towards Houki, Lingyin, and Laura, who were holding Cecilia, as best as he could.

"Ichika, I'm coming with you!" Charlotte pushed herself to her feet.

"Charlotte, wait! Ichika told you to stay! The last thing we need for you is to fall off the boat! I don't know what Ichika would do if something awful ever happens to one of you!" Dan grabbed her by the arm.

"And if he falls off?!" Charlotte turned around exasperatedly until the boat rocked again. Ichika yelped when the boat slanted in such an angle that he quickly lost his footing and slipped.

"No no no no no!" Ichika muttered horrifically when he saw that he was about to crash towards the girls. At the last minute, he swerved his body to his right, which he almost struck Houki as he hit the railing with his butt and backflipped because of his momentum where he was now also hanging onto the edging for dear life.

"ICHIKA/BRO!"

Just when things couldn't get anymore worse for them, the water in the center of Lake Biwa churned up violently.

"Ichika! Cecilia! Behind you!" Laura yelled as she saw something emerge from beneath the surface.

"Now what?!" Ichika hollered.

Seconds later, the water exploded outward and sprayed all over the pleasure boat. Charlotte wiped away the water from her lavender eyes and she was greeted with an unforgettable sight beyond her wildest imagination as her pupils shrunk in horror.

What emerged from the center of the lake was a giant reptilian monstrosity; the likes of which Japan had seen 61 years ago. The Titan had a bird-like lizard head that was about the size of a truck trailer with jaws having this curved, notched beak armed with sharp serrated teeth. The head is adorned with an enormous horned, orangish-violet neck frill behind the ear holes. The head is supported by a short, curved neck and only part of its back, shoulder girdles, and tail were partially submerged from the surface of the lake. The beast had two fan-like crests of modified lengthy scales resembling feathers with one on its neck and the larger other sprouting from its back. Both of them have the bright golden coloration with vibrant purple striations. The bony tubercular scales on the face and limbs were mute orange with brownish tint while the modified placoid-like scales that grew into feather-like protrusions on the neck and back closer to the dorsal crests, and the tail tended to be reddish-orange to yellow.

The reptilian Titan let out a guttural roar that sounded like a horrid audio combination of a croaking frog, a hissing crocodile, a roaring tiger, trombone, and the raspy honking of a goose with its neck pouch inflated and its neck frill flared outwards for added effect. The roar sent cold chills down the spines of all the people on the boat scared shitless of the monster's sudden intrusion. As soon the roar trailed off into its rumbling echo, chaos erupted on the boat much worse than before. The frightened people were now pushing each other over to get inside with a good number of them unfortunate enough to get trampled by the crowd in the process.

"WHAT THE HELL?!" Ichika hollered with frightened eyes.

"It can't be...!" Houki almost lost grip on both the railing and Cecilia out of shock and familiarity with the creature's past history.

"Sacre bleu, it's Varan!" Charlotte shouted.

"Varan?! As in Varan the Unbelievable Flying Dragon?!" Dan questioned as he never heard of such a creature, let alone knew a monster like him actually still existed in real life apart from the history books.

"Yes, but that thing was supposed to be blasted into oblivion by your country's Self Defense Force six decades ago!" She gasped as the triphibian Titan took immediate notice of the pleasure boat with the cold, predatory gaze of its beady small eyes that were akin to that of a basilisk lizard. The creature croaked out a gurgling hiss as it narrowed its eyes with the jaws opened enough to show its row of "small" recurved teeth and two pairs of fangs while its neck frill was opened.

Ichika sweated profusely and his female classmates around him whimpered, intimidated by the monster's frightening face. Then the thing swam towards the boat.

He gulped hard as he now had to muster more of his bravery to at least, rescue Cecilia and get the girls out of harm's way. The teenage male threw a determined, serious look towards Cecilia as he pulled himself up for his one foot to be on the railing.

"Cecilia! Quickly grab my hand!" Ichika reached out with his hand towards her. She nodded and quickly grabbed his hand while both of them could practically feel Varan breathing down upon them as he was closing the distance on the boat. Ichika, with a heave of his shoulder muscles and some help from Houki and Laura, pulled Cecilia to the point she was able to climb over the railing.

And just barely on time as Varan lunged forward with his jaws wide open.

"WATCH OUT!" Ichika yelled to everyone onboard as the Titan's maw slammed onto the deck. Dan, Ran, Charlotte, Laura, Houki, Cecilia, and Lingyin dove out of the way from being crushed by the reptile's fangs with all of them tumbling down the stairs. However, Ichika wasn't so fortunate as he shaken off the deck's edge by the forceful impact, which caused him to fall off.

"GAAHHH!" Ichika screamed as he plummeted into the water.

"NOOO! BRO/ICHIKA!" Dan and Ran hollered out in horror of what just happened to Ichika.

Houki, Charlotte, Lingyin, Cecilia, and Laura gasped with their minds running a thousand miles per minute from seeing their shared crush fall to his doomed fate. They didn't even have time to react anyhow else as Varan slammed his scaly clawed forearm onto the command cabin, tearing down everything in the process including the smokestack chimneys. Pushing through the crowd, the Infinite Stratos students found themselves at the lower deck of the boat with no easy way out. Their world rocked more once again as they now felt the boat slowly lifted off from floating on the water by Varan, who was using his jaws and forelimbs to do so.

"What do we do?!" Lingyin said worriedly as she could hear the ear-aggravating sound of metal beginning to tear at the structural seams.

Houki looked for any alternative, but found none with many of the terrified people already falling off the boat, regardless if it was of their own desperate volition or otherwise, as the pleasure boat wasn't designed to carry lifeboats for such a harrowing situation like this. Going into the ship was a no-go either; not when Varan was about to tear the ship apart in half. Her already frowning mouth turned grimmer and her expression darkened as she saw that the only way out was to dive out into Lake Biwa and hope for the best.

"We have to get off the boat!" Houki concluded, but due to loud volume of the screaming visitors, that made it hard for her to be heard even by her friends close to her. It was evident when Cecilia shot a bewildered look and screamed,

"What did you just say?!"

"We have to jump off!" Houki hollered louder.

"Are you crazy?! You all just saved me from falling into water only now to be told that we have to?!" Cecilia looked like she had seen her friendly rival grow another head or so.

"But without the lifejackets, we-AAH!" Ran was stopped when the boat jerked violently as Varan slammed his left forearm down, this time ripping apart the rear end of the boat thanks to his claws and sheer force of the slam that also sent half of the people, crew and visitors alike, plummeting into the water.

"Shit!" Dan swore as that pretty much solidified Houki's decision as the only viable way of escape from this crisis.

"There's no time!" Houki exclaimed as she climbed onto the railing and dove into the water.

"Wait!" Cecilia tried to protest, but others ignored her as they were now following the Japanese swordswoman's example as it was now a matter of life or death.

"She's right! We have to abandon ship! Don't be a dummkopf trying to fight that thing now!" Laura Bodewig argued before she was next along with Lingyin to dive into the water.

"That's not wha-," Cecilia was interrupted when Charlotte, Ran, and Dan lifted her off of her feet. "WAHH! Unhand me, I can do this on my own!"

"Like hell you do!" Charlotte snarled irritably at Cecilia's indecisiveness. She and the Gotanda siblings, without hesitation, threw the British Infinite Stratos pilot overboard, much to the said pilot's dismay.

Then when Varan latched his jaws onto the other half of the boat, the jolt from being locked by the Titan's beaked mouth and teeth threw all three off their feet.

"Sacre Bleu! Abandon ship!" Charlotte exclaimed, screeching at the top of her lungs.

"It's now or never!" Dan muttered as he quickly pushed Ran, helping her get off the railing as she fell into the water. Charlotte was next to jump off followed by Dan as they narrowly escaped their brush with death when Varan began shaking the half of the pleasure boat before slamming it deeper into the water and crushing it and several stragglers underneath its claws.

Gorilla City, Africa...

The super-intelligent gorillas that were the citizens of this super technological civilization were scrambling and galloping about in chaotic disarray on both the streets and the ropeways connecting between the tree-like skyscrapers. Smoke engulfed the once-peaceful streets as they came from skyrise tree house with half of the tree snapped apart and the house having been demolished with a gorilla family underneath crushed to death by the debris while their corpses burned along with their home. The trunk and the lower half of the tree that also supported several houses were all partially sunken beneath within a large gaping hole.

There were no earthquakes known to be recorded in this jungle, but this was no earthquake that caused it. The horrific hissing retching sounds echoing from the deep darkness of the hole and the horrified screams of death from the gorilla soldiers sent to deal with the disturbance down there said otherwise.

A gorilla general, whose dark brown fur and ornamental armor was messed up by the blood spilling from the scars inflicted upon him by the source of the disturbance, crawled out of the hole with a significant limp thanks to the grievous injury of his leg with the flesh being shredded exposing raw, bloody muscle tissue with a sharp tooth embedded into it. He turned around and with his one good eye, aimed his laser rifle along with his trusted subordinates that were now doing the same to provide cover fire for his remaining troopers struggling to retreat from the enormous subterranean hole.

"Keep moving, apes! Don't stop, we're providing you cover fire! Now gallop on the double!" The eyepatch-wearing simian general roared out to the surviving soldiers of his troop that were galloping as fast as they could or carrying the wounded they were able to rescue from the hellhole happening underneath Gorilla City.

"Come on, Nunto! We now have a better chance to escape to the surface with General Hatanka covering our furry asses!" said one of two the gorilla soldiers carrying a critically wounded friend of theirs, whose face was bleeding severely from being concussed to the skull.

"No, Arkati! Leave me here! I'll only slow both of you down!" The wounded Nunto protested to his comrades, but as soon as he said that, something triple-forked, long, and sinuous shot out from the darkness and rapidly snaked around the wounded gorilla's thick stomach.

"YAARRGGHH!" Nunto screamed fearfully and the momentum of the organic structure knocked away both Arkati and Hanba. Within snap seconds later, Nunto was pulled into the darkness with the sounds of panicked grunts and hottings sounding from the hole, which were silenced by a sickening bone-chilling crunch while Arkati and Hanba stared in shocked horror.

"NUNTO!" Arkati shouted.

Still trying to comprehend what had just occurred, the two shellshocked gorilla soldiers barely registered a white, vaguely triangular skull, its long tapering reptilian snout, and most of its body superbly camouflaged by the darkness barreling towards them with its gangly, yet muscular forelimbs clawing into the earth as it propelled forward.

"Damn it, it's upon us!" Hanba hollered, trying to whip out his missile launcher, but neither he nor Arkati managed to get the chance to fire back as the skull opened and slammed its jaws upon them quickly like a steel trap. It quickly swallowed them whole where they would join the Nunto's ill fate of being digested within the predator's belly. The beast then rushed up the whole crushing any gorilla unfortunately too slow to get out of the way.

"General, you have to run!" Hatanka heard his subordinate yell beside him.

"We can't afford to fall back any longer! Keep unloading-Huh?!" He stopped when he saw the monster leap when it used its forelimbs to launch itself at a terrifyingly fast speed. Next thing he knew, he was shoved aside by his subordinates only for them to have their upper halves of their bodies, armor included, bitten off within seconds. Blood spewed out all over Hatanka, which caused all the gorilla soldiers and citizens to freak out as all hell broke loose. Terrified screaming and hollering erupted soon afterwards. Hatanka wiped off the blood from his face and his jaw fell at the sight of his trusted lieutenants bisected in half as their lower halves plopped into pools of blood and guts spilling all over. Thankfully, his sharp hearing saved him from being slammed or pinned down by a huge dark grey arm with white scaly hands possessing four-clawed digits.

Hatanka aimed his laser rifle up at the culprit looming above him, who was revealed to be a Skullcrawler; a large reptilian creature standing at about 12 meters on just its strong, muscular pair of forelimbs with most of its sturdy, yet skeletal-looking torso supported by its prehensile, serpentine tail while lacking any hindlimbs. What appeared to be "eye sockets" of its skull-like head were merely empty fenestrae with its real green slit eyes set much further back on the skull. Its tail wagged about excitedly with the beast having the predatory intent to kill and eat up this gorilla general to try satiate its ever constant hunger. Drool dripped from the reptile's jaws before the Skullcrawler opened wide, revealing the thorny, toothlike structure of its inner mouth and lettting out a warbling, raspy scream almost right into his face with its awful scent of blood and decaying flesh permeating from its rancid breath.

"Ugh...you are even more disgusting up close!" Hatanka growled in disgust from the putrid stench invading his nostrils. "And you really need to work on your dental cavities cuz' they stink worse than a warthog!" He fired a few rounds at the monster's face before it got too close to him for comfort. The monster recoiled when the shots stung it right in the mouth. It didn't last long though as the Skullcrawler quickly retaliated with a couple of angry bites, which Hatanka dived out of the harmful snapping of its jaws twice. The gorilla general quickly reloaded his rifle with fresh packs of laser ammunition before he got smacked away in the chest by the whiplashing motion of the creature's tail.

Hatanka stopped himself after digging his feet and one of his hands into the pavement while still managing to hold onto his rifle. He glared at the Skullcrawler as he taunted the monster responsible for the many deaths of his troop.

"Bring it on, you gluttonous son of a bitch!" Hatanka roared as he returned fire on the skull-faced reptile.

Florida, United States...

The city of Vale suffered massive flooding from the recent Hurricane Dorian episode that struck the entire state of Florida.

When the disaster had finally passed, everything was a mess. The surrounding canals that supplied water from the surrounding river tributaries, which have their point of origins mainly from the wetlands of the Everglades National Park and lakes such as Lake Okeechobee, to the city's irrigation systems have been overwhelmingly swelled up with excessive volumes of water. Like many neighboring cities such as Fort Lauderdale, the city was still recovering from the Category 5 disaster with the citizens and the authorities doing their best to help each other repair the massive damage done to the city's infrastructure and draining much of the floodwater from parks, canals, golf courses, and such. Another problem to complicate matters were the Creatures of Grimm; an age-old enemy to mankind and undead beasts drawn to negative emotions such as fear, anger, etc. Apparently, the number of intrusive incursions by the Grimm into Vale and the surrounding cities, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, and West Palm Beach, increased by a significant percentage thanks to the exponential amount of people being emotionally stressed out by the disaster. Many small towns and off-the-beaten-path villages outside the city limits have been raided and conquered by these supernatural, soulless monsters despite the heavy resistance of some of the local militias. That, and both the native and invasive non-Grimm wildlife becoming more aggressive and antagonistic towards humans and Faunas alike while also mutating into giant aberrant animals has everyone on the edge.

Beacon Academy, the most famous academy for training future Huntsmen and Huntresses, was quick to send teams comprised of both Huntsmen-in-Training and veterans to help mitigate the growing pains plaguing the southeastern region of Florida. Sadly, however, even Beacon Academy was starting to stretch its resources and manpower to the edge of its maximum limits. This was also in spite of having added assistance from Florida's National Guard, Atlas Academy from New York, and even Monarch as the severity of both Grimm and nuisance wildlife cases grew at an alarming rate along with worrying observations that the environment of Everglades National Park was transforming into a more hostile, primordial wilderness inhabited by monstrous giants. Something unnaturally big was clearly at work in the Everglades' transformation.

The timing couldn't have been any more worse when an ancient threat much bigger and more destructive than Hurricane Dorian and the Grimm combined awakened from deep underneath the murky swamps of the Everglades.

It was early in the afternoon in the tropical wetlands when most of its resident animals are not too active underneath the shade to avoid the cooking heat of the sun. The Everglades National Park was well known for its two of the crocodilian species endemic to the southern region; the American alligators and American crocodiles. Being cold-blooded or exothermic meant that they have to rely on external environmental factors to control their body temperature. As of right now, many of the crocodilians tend to either hide in the shade underneath the trees, bushes and holes, or submerging underwater to cool off. Some of these individual reptilian hunters also bask in the sun, especially after having eaten a pretty decently-sized meal. A 30-foot long, aberrant male alligator was resting close to the mud hole entrance leading to his underwater lair after having eaten one of the invasive Burmese python that tried to constrict him only for the snake to meet its end when the gator finally crunched his head off. The alligator would rest and bask in the sun on the riverbank nearby for most of the day to aid his body in digesting the large snake in peace and quiet.

Or at least, that's what he had hoped because as soon as the gator opened his mouth to control his body temperature, the loud rotor noise of an airboat approaching interrupted his reverie. Thankfully, the captain piloting the airboat slowed it down to a halt a hundred feet away from him and allowed the four human and Faunus park rangers and two Huntsmen onboard to mainly assess on how well the impressive specimen, dubbed, Big Mack, was doing. Fortunately for them, the bull alligator already had a decent meal, which calmed his otherwise aggressive, domineering demeanor considerably. Plus, he had known them long enough to recognize that they don't necessarily pose a threat to him and/or to his territory, though he would still bite anyone that would carelessly get too close to his personal space. And the Everglade Park Rangers were keenly aware of that fact as they kept their respectable distance from Big Mack. After all, not even the strongest Huntsmen could hope to win in a head-on fight against this giant aberrant gator, which possessed a massive bite force strong enough to bypass their Aura and inflict considerable crushing damage to them.

Besides, the group's mission and objective was to investigate potential Boarbatusk intrusions into the National Park's boundaries. Therefore, they finished whatever measurements and stats on their assessment report of Big Mack as quickly they could. None of them couldn't afford to stick around with him too much longer as to not test his patience even when he has relatively calmed down because of his very short temper, or rather, his tendency to fly off the handle into fits of rage faster than any crocodilian of his size.

What happened next threw everything to hell in a handbasket.

The water trembled tremulously with ripples appearing with the region of the Everglades shaking in seismic fits. Everyone on the airboat was struggling to keep their footing and Big Mack went from relatively lethargic to frightfully alarmed faster than anyone could blink as he quickly slipped from the riverbank into the river to swim for his life.

"What in the blazes is going on?!" the captain of the airboat yelled exasperatedly while trying to not fall off of his own airboat. The seismic quaking rapidly escalated by several degrees to the point that the sawgrass on the other side of the wetland were becoming disturbed by the bubbling water. Waves pushed upward from something drastically huge happening underneath the earth. Birds shrieked in terror as they frantically flew away from their nests within the canopy for immediate safety of the air.

"I don't know, but this isn't natural for Everglades to ever have an earthquake!" One of the park rangers stated as she hung onto the cushion buttress of the airboat for dear life.

"Guys, to our left! Look!" The Deer Faunus Hunstman, who was characterized by the antlers sticking through his hunting hat, accompanying them pointed his finger to the large patches of the wetland prairies comprised of sawgrass and underwater reeds that not only bubbled violently, but were slowly rising up. Something was trying to get out from underneath as evident by the frightened fish, waterfowl, turtles, and even some alligators swimming away and ahead of the airboat like there's no tomorrow.

Another of the park rangers gulped hard when the water and the islands of sawgrass rose about two stories in the air before the water turned into tsunamis due to gravity taking over.

"Oh crap...everyone, brace yourselves!" the human Huntress warned when the waves came crashing down, slamming them in the airboat and flooding the nearby cypress forest. The boat crashed onto the buttress roots of a cypress tree, which prevented from being carried over by the murky waves, but it didn't make the ordeal any easier for them as they all struggle to hang on while being pelted with mud and aquatic vegetation along with fish and whatnot piled onto them. The swampland exploded all over in that there was a temporary rain of water, sawgrass, snakes, and more fish falling across the area. The airboat captain, park rangers, and the Huntsmen pair covered their heads with their soaking wet arms from the debris with some of the sawgrass making minor cuts on their sleeves and pants. When there was no more debris raining on them, all of them uncovered their heads and searched through the wrecked tree line messed up by the smashing waves for whatever caused the unusual phenomenon with their eyes.

"My God…," the airboat captain had his jaw drop open when he caught sight of a wall of pebbly scales taking up the entire tree line. Everyone else had to crane their heads and necks upward while their mouth hung agape in shock just like the captain as the "wall" turned out to be part of a foot belonging to the gargantuan living mountain of pebbly scales, flesh, and muscle. The "mountain" in question stood up bipedally at a height of 350 feet tall, as tall as a 32-story skyscraper in a semi-horizontal posture. The monster had almost the entirety of its head, neck, body, and tail resembling that of a giant crocodile with exceptions of having the bodily proportions akin to the Suchomimus as it walked on two dinosaur-like legs and five-clawed, webbed feet that are longer and more powerful than its relatively smaller, yet still strong forelimbs that bore powerful talons on its four scaly digits and a small pseudo-thumb possessing a bony spur.

It bore scales nearly identical in structure and arrangement to that of the Nile crocodile with the coloration pattern being reddish brown with dark green spots and black bands across its back and tail. The belly was creamy brownish-yellow with some black mottling. The head, while bearing many similarities to a crocodile in general, also sported features that differentiate it from a mere crocodile. The beast had double rows of teeth. Its dentition was a mix of conical and serrated with one outer row being the former and the second inner row being the latter. The upper and lower fangs that protruded through both mandibles were longer and sharper than any known crocodilian like that of a boar's tusks. Small bony tubercles covered the back hinges of its lower mandible. A pair of prominent spike-like horns were positioned above the scaly eyebrows and following them was a peculiar nasal crest that ran over just above its ear holes, where it rose up perpendicular to the head and fanned out into a widened highly elaborate frilled crest with a red-orange eye spot at its base and stripes radiating from it.

Then starting at the back of its head, covering its neck, and stopping at its powerful shoulders was a hood-like mane comprised of hair-like protofeathers resembling dreadlocks, which were covered in several types of freshwater algae growths with even hydrilla growing from each filament. Bony spines growing from between its shoulders grew more elongated and longer until they peaked at their longest spines in the middle of its back with the spines since receding in length until becoming nothing more than spiky plates at the base of its tail. Thin translucent skin cover the spines, which was actually a fish-like dorsal fin turned into a large ornamental sail with predominantly aqua bluish-green coloration with v-shaped dull violet striped pattern. The sail structure was surrounded by double rows of spiky osteoderms, which have large patches of sawgrass growing on their wood-like texture. The monster's tail was long and broadly muscular, covered in flexible scaly plates, and ending into a vertical, slender paddle-like fin with spines.

The newly awakened reptilian beast reared its head high up into the sky and opened wide its humongous mouth. It screamed out an ear-shattering throaty roar that sounded like the booming roar of a normal crocodile mixed together with the trumpeting growls of elephants, the angry grunts and squeal of a boar, and the pained screeching of a seagull; only a hundred times louder, more terrifying and greater in both range and intensity. Its dreadlock mane bristled and swayed liked branches in a powerful, windy gale. The creature's dorsal armor shook, rattling the spiny dorsal sail and its colors lit up with such frenzied vibrancy eclipsing that of neon signs while the frill-like nasal crest blushed its red-orange pattern into richer, stronger shades of its pigmentation. The entire Everglades trembled into fearful silence from the roar that was powerful and ancient as the beast itself. The Park Rangers and the Huntsmen were fearfully frightened even when the giant monster hadn't noticed them yet. The intellectual, rational part of them wanted to run and not look back, but their bodies refused to move as they instinctually stayed dead still with paralyzing terror driven by unadulterated fear.

After the roar echoed for miles until it was heard no more, the crocodile-like monster slammed its tail, splashing hard into the water with such power that one would be forgiven for mistaking it to several underwater mines exploding off. simultaneously. The mammoth reptilian sniffed the air, making wet growling grunts that resonated deep from its throat. It surveyed the area and didn't even notice the people trapped on the airboat since they were too small to catch its attention. It knew something had disturbed its millennia long slumber, but the source was too faint and alien for it to register. That didn't mean it would just go back to its slumber, however.

No.

It decided to focus on its other senses through its feet as it clearly detected seismic vibrations from far away that were as loud as a set of klaxon horns blaring in a stadium. Something else was clearly happening within its territory as he sensed a lot of things had completely changed and that there were disturbances both great and small; both major and minor all happening at once east of its core territory that comprise all of the Everglades National Park. The monster snarled. The last thing it needed was to have potentially antagonistic Titans mucking up its territory and completely altering the land's composition to suit their needs in its absence. The crocodile-like giant roared again before it lifted up its foot as it began trekking out of the Everglades. Its footsteps booming through the water and the surrounding trees and sawgrass rumbled from the impact of its large, webbed feet. Its tail swished about knocking away whatever trees were in the way and kicking up substantial amount of water and mud.

For the rangers and the Huntsmen that have silently witnessed it quietly as to not give themselves for fear of being destroyed, it felt like forever when the monster finally turned its sail and armored back towards them. They all let out sighs of relief from all of the breathe they have been holding for a while.

"Now I've seen everything. Damn, that has to be biggest gator I've ever seen," the boat captain put a hand to his chest where his heart had been beating like crazy from holding his breath for so long.

"That's no alligator," a park ranger blurted as she too was trying to catch her breath while readjusting her soaked red hair, "But it is certainly not a crocodile either. Heck, I am not sure if that thing could be classified as an aberrant since that thing's way too big and evolved to be just that."

"Forget about the Grimm or any pest, man. I think we just seen enough for today cuz' I've lost control of my bladder," Another blurted out as he grabbed his canteen and gulped down large drops of water.

"Where is it headed?" The Deer Faunus Huntsman asked grimly.

"Huh?"

"Where is the creature headed? It looked like someone had just committed a sacrilegious act in its territory and was pissed off."

"I'm not sure what you're getting at, lad," the red-haired park ranger said with her eyebrows raised.

"I think it's trying to leave the Everglades," the Huntsman answered.

"Wait a minute! Don't tell me you're thinking what I'm thinking," the red-haired, Caucasian park ranger said with dread, knowing how much territory Titans tend to possess, which was extreme abundance of land, which meant an entire state or a large region of a continent spanning across several states.

"That thing's a Titan and probably half of Florida is its entire territory for all we know," the Deer Faunus Huntsman stated with equal amount of dread that was now evident on everyone's faces as the bloodcurdling implication soon dawned on them. Every major city in Florida was now at greater risk with the newly awakened Titan, especially on the Atlantic side judging the direction they just saw the beast trek off to.

"Oh no..." the Huntress muttered with her pupils shrunk and her heart sinking into her gut as her mind wandered to the potential conclusion of Vale or Fort Lauderdale being in the Titan's cross sights as both cities were still undergoing extensive repairs while having to deal with breached incursions by the Grimm. Thus, her peers and the rest of the defenders may not be able to react on time if that crocodilian Titan decided to make landfall to any or both of them while they're vulnerable!

She immediately hopped off the airboat and into the water.

"What are you doing, missy?!" the airboat captain said in alarm as she went behind the boat to push it out from the buttress roots.

"We have to go, NOW!" the Huntress shouted back with urgency as she began pushing the boat, "That Titan could be lumbering towards Vale since it is in the direction of where it is headed!"

"Now hang on just a darn minute, Krista! You ain't gonna push this boat on your own! You're gonna tire yourself out and cause all kinds'a ruckus that will bring the gators and Grimm here! I damn guarantee!" the red-haired park ranger yelled as she turned to her fellow rangers, Keegan, Jim, and Crickney, "Keegs, Jim, you fellas come with me and help this gal wedge this boat out the tree's roots! On the double!"

"If you all doing that, I might as well come down because this boat is my baby! And old age ain't going to stop Tough Ol' Gumbo Gunn from doing what Gunn does best!" the old airboat captain jumped into the water.

"Thanks, I am going to need all the help I can get! Dennis!" the Huntress acknowledged the Deer Faunus, who already had his transformable sword-shotgun out and ready to aim. "Watch our backs!"

"Gotcha!" Dennis acknowledged back at her.

"I will do lookout as well! We will keep the gators off of your back!" Crickney whipped out his own hunting rifle with both himself and Dennis now having the responsibility to watch out for any potential predators that might get the jump on them while the others try to force the water craft to be unstuck from the cypress tree.

Later in Vale...

Ruby Rose, the cute young Huntress of Red, characterized by her red hood and her black and red gothic battle cape, corset, and skirt that match the color of her short brunette hair, was usually in a cheery, optimistic mood for most of the time. Especially when it comes to weapons, her precious high-caliber Sniper-Scyther, Crescent Rose, killing Grimm, saving innocents and being the hero, and cookies and milk. A mission that involved saving innocents normally wouldn't get her so riled up. But add that this was in a flooded park and golf course where there was a nature preserve nearby at the southwestern edge of Vale with the ground being disgusting slippery mud, and the water was lurking with semiaquatic Grimm species. That was not mentioning that the objective of the mission was to find and either destroy or capture a rogue giant alligator and an aberrant massive Burmese Python that decided to make the newly flooded Dahakonaw Park their new residence, which only increased the danger level of this mission.

And this was on top of the fact that Ruby slipped several times on the mud, getting all of her recently washed outfit muddied up and soggy wet. Her hair was also ruined in the process as it only made her time in the park miserable.

She hated it. She really hated this mission as she now despised the fact that she has to wade through water that was up to her waist and murky as hell. It was clouded with so much silt that she can't even see her own knees. The place stunk with this distinctively hideous odor that one would expect coming from a swampy marsh. There were insects buzzing around with mosquitoes being notoriously persistent in flying right in her face, hoping to suck some blood out of her in spite of having her red hood on and Aura activated.

"I am starting to question the veracity of this assignment," Weiss Schnee, the snow-themed, white heiress of the Schnee Company, whose beautiful snow white hair was tied into a bun with a small crown adorned and followed by a slender ponytail at the back. She had a small scar running down her left pale blue eye that went well with the grouchy attitude she was in just like Ruby. Her own outfit, which was more befitting of that of a princess as it has a red bolero inside her collar and a white-blue dress, flowing sleeves, complete with an elegant skirt, was also wet and sullied in spite of her having her own white poncho on as Weiss had her own fair share of being dragged through the mud so far. "I mean by now those disgusting reptiles might have moved deeper into the park forests or may have escaped into the nature preserve a while ago with our Bullhead making so much noise!" She pushed away a branch into the water away from her face.

"I know, but if we don't do something about those gators and that huge snake soon, more people will get hurt, making it harder for the workers to repair the park when more Grimm show up," Ruby retorted.

"That, I'm well aware of and I don't necessarily disagree with you on that, but what I'm saying is that so far our search is fruitless. And any lead we possibly had is making us go into dead ends or encountering more of the Grimm," Weiss sighed, "We've only been here for a short amount of time, but the heat, the humidity, and all of these disgusting insects are already making me feel we've been here forever."

"I can't argue with that. I am already getting bruises from slipping on the mud and water in my boots. I think I got some cuts and maybe even some bites from whatever's swimming in here!" Ruby grunted out of annoyance, "I can't believe I let Uncle Qrow talk me into accepting this assignment."

"I heard that!" said uncle of Ruby and her older half-sister, Yang Xiao Long, shouted from up ahead as he waded from the other side of the flooded park forest. "And it's good experience for you. To let you get another taste of real life of being a Huntsmen."

"If us having to wade through muddy water hiding Brothers know what and having to work around with terrain that favors more of the Grimm and the animals we're hunting than us counts as experience. Then I'd be excited to choose another mission that involves being in a scummy black market," the heiress remarked sarcastically.

"Ice Princess, more often than not, you won't get the jobs you like or deserving of your skill and preference. Sometimes, you have to take whatever's available and run with it. That's how it is sometimes." Qrow advised. "And believe me, I had to sneak through the seedy black markets and the like more than I'd like to."

"Because the job required it?"

"The point is that you will have to get your hands dirty. When you have been working as long as I have, that will happen to you kids quite a lot and you will have to get used to it."

"You don't have to tell me what I already know," Weiss averted her sight away as she kept on wading through, "I just want to get this job over and done with."

"Can't argue with that," Ruby and Qrow said at the same time, which made both of them look at each other with surprise briefly before they chuckled humorously.

"You two are so alike, and the same goes for Yang," Weiss rolled up her eyes with a small smirk, "Quite amazing we have such bonds that tie us together, even if a tad bit dysfunctional."

"Ahhh, does that I am more than just your best friend?!" Ruby's eyes lit up childishly with a humorous smirk of her own.

Weiss widened her eyes in surprise with her cheeks turning pink in embarrassment with her mind flustered at the apparent implications which were far from PG-13 to say the least.

"You dolt! Don't get the wrong idea! All I mean is that our families having an interesting, but complicated dynamic!" Weiss stammered with her expression being that of a deer in the headlights. Thankfully, or not, depending on how you look at it, the tension quickly broke down when Ruby burst out laughing, splashing the water with her left hand while her right was gripping Crescent Rose.

"You should have seen the look on your face! That was so priceless LOL! Ha ha ha ha ha!" Ruby spoke in between her guffaws as the all laughter came from all the frustrations she had to endure in the swampy park. Weiss went from embarrassed to having an unamused deadpan expression on her face as she looked to Ruby and then turned to Qrow who had been standing there, watching the whole joke go down. He just shrugged his shoulders.

"I had nothing to do with this," He simply said.

Weiss pinched her temple while she was internally fuming when she knew that Yang probably had something to do with it. Though, looking at Qrow and remembering hearing from Winter about the veteran Huntsmen's less than impressive humor, she could see where both Yang and now, Ruby got their jokester idiosyncrasies from.

"Incorrigible...," Weiss muttered before a loud hissing could be heard echoing around, which put the three on high alert with their hairs sticking on all and Ruby unfurled their transformable weapons into their scythe modes. The former with his Harbinger, the latter with her Crescent Rose.

"We're still not out of the woods yet and they're already sending out the big guns," Qrow said seriously with sweat intensifying from the tropical heat. There was screeching and guttural hissing along with otherworldly shrieks that were like a loud, unholy chorus from the underworld. Weiss unsheathed her Multi-Action Dust Rapier, Myrtenaster and pointed her slender blade forward warily.

The group stood still and only moved their head and neck as to scan around for potential signs of their hidden enemy. The shrieking screeches and hisses continued to be heard while the murkiness of the water and the dense tree cover of the park's tropical forests concealed whatever's making them. Ruby, Weiss, and Qrow unconsciously grouped up back to back. Adrenaline pumped through their veins, which caused them to ignore their drenched lower outfits. Each of the Hunters' upper bodies was drenched in their own sweat as the tension in the air grew with each intensity of the screeches.

Qrow's eyes darkened with the growing intensity as well did his grip. Weiss was similar with her glare being that of heavy concentration of focus as she kept her senses on full alert. His niece was, however, the opposite even though she was outwardly doing her best not show her nervousness with only the subtle shaking of her hands betraying it.

All three dared not to move. Then there was the shaking of branches in the trees above them that had them jump up a bit. They backed away and aimed their weapons up towards the canopy where the sounds of the rustling were heard. When the leaves were parted away to reveal a face familiar to Ruby and Weiss, the former's eyes widened in shock to see her alone without her partner, who was her own older half-sister.

"Blake?!" Ruby shouted.

"Ruby! Weiss! Qrow! By the Brothers, I have tried calling you on your iPhones, but none of you responded! I thought the Grimm got to you too," Blake explained with a worried, sweaty look and the black cat ears on top of her black long hair pointing on both ends.

"What?" Ruby pulled hers out of her breast pocket and turned on her black and red iPhone, revealing 30 missing calls from the said Cat Faunus with the text, "Blake Belladonna", which caused her to sweat drop.

"Ah...damnit," Ruby's head slumped in embarrassment from allowing her frustrations to distract her from answering her iPhone. Weiss facepalmed as she saw the equal number of missed calls from Blake after she pulled her own white and blue iPhone out.

Qrow ignored his own iPhone as he went straight for the most imperative question on his mind,

"Where's Firecracker? I thought she was with you."

"She-!" Blake was interrupted when multiple gunshots of Ember Celica, including others, rang out concurrently with the pained and angry screeches of the Grimm throughout the jungle. Then there was the familiar screaming of a certain Arc.

"Jaune?!" Weiss recognized the who the scream belonged to.

"Something must have gone wrong. Blake, where is the fighting going on?!" Ruby asked.

"Just half a mile northwest from where we are, on a small hill in a golf course beyond the woods," the Black Cat Faunus answered.

"And just between the park and the golf course is that damned river, which is probably crawling with Sirens, Taijtus, and Largatos," Qrow snarled at the thought of the water being infested with the aforementioned Grimm species.

"And overgrown alligators and giant pythons slithering about. Definitely not my kind of park," Ruby said with disgust.

"The worst part is that the only easily accessible road from here to the golf course has been blocked last time we checked," Weiss remembered upon seeing that the paved path leading to the golf course was not only flooded, but had fallen logs that crisscrossed each other and formed a impenetrable barrier.

"It's gonna take us an hour and a half plus to get through this drenched forsaken brush. We will not make it to the other side on time unless we had a boat or a canoe that was dragged out here by the flood." Qrow commented, "By the way, you do have a canoe with you. Do you not?"

"How did you know that?" Blake raised her eyebrow at how the drunk Huntsman was able to figure out she had one roped just a little beyond the flooded undergrowth.

"I have my ways," Qrow said cryptically, not wanting to reveal his ability to transform into a crow.

"Great, so where is it?" Weiss piped up at that, only to be interrupted by more sounds of someone else gruffier yelling bloody murder at this point on the other side of the park.

"Oh no! That sounds like Mr. Redfield!" Ruby's eyes widened at the sound as she urgently questioned her Faunus teammate, "Blake, you have to lead us to the canoe! We have no more time to waste if Yang and the others are in trouble!"

"Follow me then! I have the canoe roped up next to a turkey oak tree just 50 feet beyond these palm shrubs. I even marked the trees I traversed with red yarn so you wouldn't get lost easily!" Blake said.

"Okay! Thanks, Blake!" Ruby gave a thumbs up, "We will meet you at the canoe at once!"

Blake nodded as she hopped across the canopy.

Ruby then looked to her best friend and uncle as she commanded,

"We have to get to the canoe now! Let's hurry!"

"Right behind you, Ruby! And, please, do not get ahead of yourself. The ground is treacherously slippery and we still don't know what may be lurking in these waters," Weiss warned her.

"I got that covered, Ice Princess. I will be in the front while you girls stay behind me," Qrow walked ahead of Ruby and Weiss as they all did their best to hurry, but also still watch their step through the palm fronds and what not.

Valley of Peace, China...

An isolated valley deep within China and inhabited by anthropomorphic animals was cut off from the chaos of the Titans breaking out elsewhere. Supposedly, such natural defenses like the valley's high mountains and the deep canyons surrounding the core town and the surrounding villages had long protected them from many threats, even from invasive armies in the past, as there were only a few viable roads leading to the Valley of Peace. Even those roads were not so easily visible to outsiders as they were situated in dense bamboo forests and one of them was weaved through an abandoned graveyard, which made that road allegedly haunted with ghosts. They also snaked through treacherous mountainous paths and caverns that were also vast in volume, and the entrances on the other side leading into the valley were situated near specialized outposts, whose dedicated warriors knew best the layout of the entire Valley of Peace.

Because of this, even when the people had heard of the breaking news happening elsewhere, they paid little attention to them as they minded about their own business. They were already well-off on their own to contend with their own issues within the Valley as the mountains offered the anthropomorphic animals safety and a sense of independence. Sadly, the peaceful illusion was about to be literally shattered when a small ancient shrine from one of the mountains shook with the cliff face that it was built upon started to crumble. A clawed hand, the size of a pickup truck, with yellow scaly palms and bony ridges on its three digits, rose up and dug away more of the mountain and caused more of the rocks to fall. Then came another, which was the owner's right hand, as it tore away its side of the mountain when the falling rocks and boulders gathered and collected into one massive landslide that was now careening dangerously towards a small village and its vast rice fields situated underneath the crumbling mountain.

The villagers, alarmed and caught off guard by the mountain above them suddenly being torn apart by something trying to burst its way out from within, threw themselves into mass hysteria with the landslide now imminently coming to swallow them up. Every goose, duck, rabbit, chicken, dog, horse, pig villager, and the rare lizard and owl people had no choice but to run with most having to stop whatever business they were doing and leave behind all of their possessions in their homes. Mothers from every resident anthropomorphic species scrambled to rush their crying, scared children and babies to safety. Shops and restaurants, which had been part of the villagers for generations, had to be abruptly closed and often with the stuff they intended to sell abandoned at the mercy of the falling rocks. The local shrine was crushed under a falling boulder and the houses were muddied and chipped away by smaller rocks. The village head, an elderly goat, had to be escorted into the courtyard and the gateway by his goose and lizard attendants and also guarded by rhinoceros soldiers and local dog, crocodile, and owl warriors. He was in a fit of panic and utterly lost in the confusion when two large boulders hailed onto the administrative building he was evacuated from, which tore off the roof and balcony.

An owl warrior's eyes widened in shock when he saw one of the boulders along with smaller basketball-sized rocks heading towards them.

"Watch out! Rocks!" the warrior hooted out loud, which got everyone scrambling or flying away for their lives.

"AAAHHH!" the elderly village head bleated out in terror while he was swiftly nabbed into the protective armored arms of a water buffalo captain of the guard as the rest of his attendants fled as fast as they could.

"Go! Go! Go!" the water buffalo captain roared out.

Unfortunately, two of the attendants were struck dead in the head by the rocks. Several of the attendants and warriors sustained bruises and some serious injuries during the hail. The rhinoceros captain carrying the village head was also struck, gaining significant bruises on his unprotected tough hide, in his service of making sure the old goat was unharmed. They barely made it out of the courtyard when the boulder smashed against the gate and split into many pieces upon impact.

Out from the destroyed cliff face emerged a small saurian head with a notched beak-like tip of its short snake-like snout with a mouth bearing carnivorous fangs. It had whisker-like feelers like that of a catfish or a lobster just behind its nostrils as well growing from the tip of its lower jaw. The beast's golden eyes were slit like a crocodile, but sharp as a hawk. At the back of its skull were three pairs of horns with the third pair just behind the creature's ears and being the largest and resembling deer antlers more so than the smaller two pairs of horns near the hinges of the upper mandible. There were spiky protuberances covering the back of its lower mandible. The reptilian creature stepped out into the open upon the makeshift stairway formed by the landslide that now destroyed the steep rocky stairwell leading to what used to be a small shrine where this monster broke out from. Emerging from the dust cloud, the monster had a long serpentine neck and body with a gill-like crest running down both sides, with which it looked like a monstrous cobra with dinosaur-like arms and long powerful, yet squat legs, which their second digit was armed with a Velociraptor-like sickle claw, that stood at 121 meters or 396 feet tall. The tail was finally free to whip about and it was twice the length of the creature's body, making the length of the monster at 459 meters, or 1,505 feet long. The crest also continued to line from both of its bodily sides, down its lengthy tail until near the tip. It ended in a leaf-shaped fan-like fin. The creature had amethyst scales, a dirty golden underside, and the gill-like crest was yellow with violet spots.

The dragon-like reptile stomped out and emerged from the dust cloud. To the villagers, they were horrified in silence that the monster, which had the appearance like that of a serpentine Asian dragon, had its presence more akin to that of a demon. Then the monster screamed out a trumpeting, warbling roar that tore through the terrified silence.

All hell broke loose with the villagers fleeing and screaming their heads off. Unfortunately, such hurried evacuations resulted in suffocating stampedes that crushed those unable to keep up. A homeless rabbit was accidentally killed underneath the trampling feet. Two goslings watched in horror from their horrified father's wings, crying their lungs out upon witnessing their mother and their friends get destroyed by the stampede and the falling mountain debris.

"Tian Lung has awakened! We've shamed our ancestors with the sickness of our country!" The elderly goat statesman became stricken with unadulterated, naked fear that made him look more frail and weaker than he had been in his long life. The fear of the monster born from the ancient horror stories and clandestine whispers surrounding this beast since when he was a young boy. He broke down in tears with despair of malevolence personified now threatening to swallow him, his people, and eventually, the entire Valley whole. He was in a sorrowful, scared daze when the newly awoken Titan finished roaring and looked down on the ruined village with cold sinister eyes.

The goat pulled out his ceremonial knife from its sheathe in a daze with his mind almost going into autopilot mode, much to the further shock of those left alive around him.

"Village Elder?! What are you doing?!" The captain guard shouted, clearly flabbergasted that his master was about to do something reckless that would worsen their precarious fate.

"I am going to slay the beast! To put Tian Lung down just like my great-great grandfather once did and sealed it away, saving the Valley and China from the fallen dragon's reign of darkness!" Village Elder yelled out his feeble attempt of a war cry as he ran towards the serpentine dragon slowly descending down the mountain. He flailed the knife about in the air in a drunken-like state before a sizable boulder that was kicked about by Tian Lung struck him right on in the noggin between his horns, giving him a nasty concussion as blood spewed out from where the rock wounded him.

"Aaaaahhhh~...ugh...ack…," the Elder groaned before his breath left him and he plopped to the ground lifeless with his knife scattered from him.

"Master Guai!" the Captain of the Guard hollered with his eyes popping out of his sockets as he, his men, and the warriors quickly cradled the sprawled out Village Elder, shielding him from the debris whilst the Titan roared.

"Deng! Is he?!" the Captain asked a crocodile warrior who was trying to feel the goat's wrist for any sign of a beating pulse. The water buffalo felt his heart drop much further when he saw Deng give a saddened loo, slowly shaking his head, which confirmed what he had already dreaded.

The Village Elder was gone. With him, the heart and brain of the entire community, vital in keeping the terrified villagers unified was lost thanks to Tian Lung indirectly killing him with a rock to his head.

The buffalo's shocked face turned into that of a snarling grimace, which was colored with both desperation and erupting anger. The thundering foot stomps and the warbling screeches of Tian Lung brought his furious glare at the towering dragon, which wasn't even aware of the first few casualties she had caused in a long time upon her awakening. Her legs crashed through the bamboo forest that served as a natural boundary between the mountain and the village, approaching onto the wrecked Administrative building at a lumbering but sure pace as bamboo trees splintered under its mass.

Deciding against giving into his revenge for now, the Captain yelled,

"Men, retreat! Carry Master Guai with us! We will give him a proper burial once this is over! Now move your asses!"

"Sir, yes, sir!" The rhino soldiers acknowledged the order with one carefully setting the dead goat on his broad shoulder. They all retreated with the bovine Captain being the last one to retreat. He ran, but glanced from the corner of his eye, Tian Lung now directly onto the Administrative building as it only took a single stomp of her foot to flatten the entire structure.

Tian Lung devastated the courtyard with the gate walls being squashed asunder. The bipedal dragon Titan felt several things bouncing off of its plated undersides, causing the monster to swerve her neck and head slightly to see the village guards and local warriors putting up armed resistance using antiquated crossbow turrets and AK-47's. Any villager brave enough to pick up a pebble or stone to throw at the dragon also joined with the guards during the fray even knowing it would ultimately be futile, but they'd rather go down fighting than running in absolute terror like their peers. It was certainly for naught as the crossbow arrows and rifle rounds only went far as to strike the reptile's huge feet and nowhere else, while the rocks barely managed to hit the beast's clawed toes. All of the projectiles bounced off the monster's scales. Tian-Lung quickly lost interest in their futile resistance as it had failed against her before and would continue to amount up to nothing against her. She let out the equivalent of disinterested yawn with her low-pitched guttural roar coming out of her mouth before she brought her swirling tail to bear. She dismissively swung it in a downward sweep that instantly destroyed many houses and shops as it headed towards the defenders. Such downward whipping of her tail also killed many of the hundred villagers still trying to rescue their loved ones, which their screams snapped the Water Buffalo Captain to the incoming appendage.

"You gotta be kidding-," the anthropomorphic bovine said his last words before he, his entire regiment, and the local Kung-Fu warriors could even comprehend when the tail struck them hard and sent them flying into the air as they screamed with the terrible knowledge that this was the end of the line for them. Not even the anthro owls, for all of their mastery at flight, were able to escape unscathed. The tail was so gigantic and moving at such frightful speed unexpected for a monster of such magnitude that the sharp gale produced by the momentum tore their lithe bodies to gory shreds. One female owl screeched in pain from having her left wing utterly decimated, feathers and all, as she was sent tumbling into a now abandoned teahouse and was knocked unconscious when a tea cabinet fell on top of her.

Tian Lung's tail didn't stop with the village guards as the appendage tore through ninety percent of the village, including the stony walls on the west side. Everything was sent flying all over and landed onto the rice fields, terrifying nearby farmers and destroying all the years of harvest and hard work needed to earn their living to feed their families. Some of the villagers were so distressed by the total destruction of the village that had been their home for many generations and its defenders that they scattered about, not caring where they might run into as so long as just to get away from the awakened terror that was Tian Lung. Tian Lung looked about, her expression was that of shock, seeing that her home territory had completely changed from the large stretches of verdant jungles she knew back in her prehistoric days to an alien landscape dotted with rice fields and nearby villages as far as her reptilian eyes could see. She was so lost with her thought process that her couple of stomps caused her to trip on a steep, gradual slope leading down onto the village's rice fields. She let out a yelping grunt as she fell, but she managed to stop her titanic body from falling flat onto the wettened earth with her hands catching her fall. She caused huge depressions into the earth, destroying many rice crops in the process and causing mini tsunamis to flood other rice fields. Her tail slammed in front of the fleeing caravan consisted of a peasant chicken family and crushed many anthro dog, geese, and pig underneath.

The baby chicks wailed, horrifically traumatized in spite of the mother hen doing her best to comfort them.

"Mommy! I'm scared!"

"I wanna go home!"

"This is sqwary!"

"Sshh! ssh! ssh! I am scared too, but we will get through this. Papa will get us through!" Mama Hen bundled her crying chicks close to her within her wings on the wagon.

Tian Lung, infuriated of the many unpleasant changes done in her absence to the point she was a stranger in her own native homeland, stood up and screeched out at the top of her lungs, an angry roar that shook the very heavens that betrayed her newfound fury towards a world that had long forgotten her. Further in her anger, she reared up her neck, expanded her crest, and her chest puffed up before exhaling greatly a voluminous stream of fiery smoke and pressurized steam from her maw. She engulfed entire rice fields and the extreme heat burned and drenched the rice grains, killing them instantly, as she spread her scalding death to her surroundings.

The father rooster saw that the stream was heading towards his family as it rapidly engulfed the rest of the fleeing villagers and guards. He quickly ran towards his terrified wife and children.

They didn't even have time for any last words when they embraced each other in their final act of their lives as the smoke and steam soon swallowed them whole. Tian-Lung finished her sweeping arc that scorched and drenched the valley's lowlands. The force of her projectile also tore up sections of the earth where there used to be rice fields. Countless bodies of villagers that had their bodies scalded severely while they suffered from their lungs burning and choking up from the deadly amounts of smoke they inhaled. Nearly all of them had their furs, feathers, and skin eviscerated and their muscles, red and bloodied. The children had it the worst as they all died immediately from their skin being torn off into burnt, steamed pieces.

Paying heedless to the carnage she had wrought, Tian-Lung let out a still angry, yet mournful wailing cry, seamlessly transforming her tune into that of an infuriated trumpeting warble of a roar. A declaration of revenge against the very beings that scurried beneath her feet and had ruined the world she long dominated when they sealed her away. With the help of her muscular tail and powerful legs, she leaped onto the face cliff of a mountainous spire next to the mountain she broke out of. Her body and tail coiled around the spire. Next, the dragon propelled itself upward high into the air, using the spire as a launching platform. Her thin gill-like crest, ribs, and the small wing-like flaps of skin on her forearms flared outward, turning her entire serpentine body basically into a pseudo concave wing. She still made her continuous serpentine motion of her neck and tail as Tian Lung glided into the air, leaving behind a steaming wasteland with the columns of steam and smoke causing panic to nearby villages.

Yakutsk, Russia...

Yakutsk was under imminent danger on all fronts. Both dangers were coming from a recently awoken Titan from the Monarch Outpost in Tunguska Crater, and a large herd of colossal herbivorous Titans that had been accidentally freed from their icy prisons within a giant glacier floating in the Laptev Sea several hundred miles up north. The allegedly accidental leak of an oil freighter and later, ignition of the spill that caused the large ship to go up in flames within a massive explosion also caused the waters to warm up considerably above their average cold temperature. The nearby glacier holding the these Titans melted at an accelerated rate and the force of the explosion of the oil freighter that blew off chunks of the ice away. When the glacier deteriorated enough, the Titans had awoken from their thousand-year period of suspended animation, which was started long ago during the ending years of the Ice Age.

These Titans were gigantic woolly mammoth-like pachyderms called Tantotherium mammuthus, or Titanus Tantor, named after Tantor, the elephant character from Tarzan. Their massive elephantine bodies, tree trunk-like limbs, and their nasal trunks covered in many layers of fur and having a dense layer of fat underneath their furry coat. The coloration of their fur were jet black with purple highlights on the fringes, particularly on their limbs, bellies, their bushy tail, and the frontal extremity of their long, flexible nasal trunks. Their massive broad shoulders have a white-silver, three-ringed circular pattern to them and their backs have a large dome-shaped hump on top between the shoulder blades that supported a dorsal hairy crest. Their feet though bare, especially around the ankles, were covered in bony, pale brownish armor, which make it difficult for an attempted offense against them to cripple these behemoths. However, it was their heads that were terrifying impressive. Most of their heads had a bone white skull plating to them that stopped at the base of their nasal trunks. The top of their plating formed a bony frill of sorts resembling that of some short-frilled ceratopsian dinosaurs like Protoceratops complete with bony knobs and small horns lining the edges, which made their small ears hidden from view. These pachyderm Titans also have additional bony plating formed around their dorsal crests all the way to their rears stopping at the base of their tail. They sported two pairs of enormous antler-like tusks and enlarged canines jutting out from their mouths. Such weaponry turned these giant mammoths into monstrous juggernauts of their own merit when factoring that any individual of this pachyderm species averaged around 125 meters or 410 feet tall, average length of 69 meters or 226 feet long, and their weight being 88,402 tons.

Like their non-Titan cousins, these pachyderms lived and moved in a large herd comprised of females and their young, which were slightly bigger than a small house. This herd has twenty adults and five youngsters. All of them were led by a huge matriarch that clocked in at 130 meters or 426 feet tall. She was the one leading the herd from the Laptev Sea onto land. When they did, their effect was destructive and immediate as their immense hunger dictated them to eat huge swaths of tundra forests and tear up the land with their trunks and tusks in their search of rich minerals underneath the soil; desperate to regain the energy they had lost in their suspended animation. Such ravenous hunger quickly wiped out the ecosystem, effectively turning it into a grassy wasteland and displacing many of the non-Titan animal species dependent on the trees. The fresh lakes around the area could hardly satiate their immense thirst, despite having adaptations to store water in their bodies for a long period of time. However, because being suspended animation had sapped them half of the water just to keep their bodies from being dehydrated, they couldn't help but thirst for water after hibernating for so long. The young mammoth-like animals need it more so than their mothers. The herd ate wherever they could find any greenery and they even gulped down large amounts of snow to help compensate for the lack of water sources large enough to keep their thirst at bay. In their quest for greener pastures and more abundant radioactive bed deposits, however, they destroyed several off-the-beaten path villages and isolated small towns that happened to be in their way. The Tantotherium paid heedlessly to the buildings and the unfortunate humans, Faunus, and Mobians they have trampled over as the people not only offered little to no resistance, but they were just too small for the skyscraper-sized woolly pachyderms to take notice.

Thankfully, it didn't take long for word from the surviving villagers and the park field rangers that spotted the mammoth monsters during their routine patrols to reach public media, which also reached the ears of the Sarashiki family. The family's first daughter, Tatenashi, AKA Katana Sarashiki, was the Student Council President of the Infinite Stratos in Japan, but she was also the IS Representative Cadet of Russia and head of the Sarashiki family. Thus, she didn't have as much freedom to hang around with her classmates/rivals and love crush, Ichika Orimura. She obviously had to take care of family matters because of her being beholden to such responsibilities and having to keep an eye on things happening in Russia. So when she caught wind of eyewitnesses claiming to have seen not one, but a herd of several mammoths the size of mountains roaming the wilderness of Siberia, she almost dismissed it as a hoax as she had heard the rumors before. Only the fact that Godzilla had appeared recently and proved to the world that such a thing was a possibility stopped her from doing so. However, she rationalized at the time that even if there were such titanic creatures roaming around, they would have avoided contact with humans unless provoked.

Sadly, reality decided to prove her assumptions dead wrong with a cold slight of her hand, figuratively and literally.

As she was in a conference call with Yakutsk banking system about the financial aspects of her status as IS Representative Cadet of Russia, a snowy blizzard of the strongest and coldest degree ever possible engulfed the city. Thrown off guard by the unusual phenomenon that seemed to have appeared out of left field, Tatenashi had to cut the conference short. Her younger and more reserved sister, Kanzashi Sarashiki, was just about to get to the favorite part of an anime series she was watching on her laptop when she heard her older sister arguing with all of their four teenage female cousins on their father's side of the family; Fumiko, Hideko, Hikari, and Katsura, and their five older male cousins from their mother's side; Kiyomasa, Yoshi, Gengo, Daichi, and Hideta, downstairs. Agitated with even her male cousins, who usually were more amicable to see eye to eye with her and Tatenashi on many things compared to their female cousins, Kanzashi was quick to rush to defend her elder sister, but also didn't take a "no" for an answer in wanting to join her investigation.

Tatenashi didn't have the time to protest or argue with her as she had spent her energy arguing with her extended family while already half of Yakutsk was covered under snow. So she reluctantly allowed Kanzashi to accompany her as long as she stuck closely to her harder than glue. Soon both wasted no time boarding on their private family jet and flew off from their family mansion. When they arrived close to their destination above the Stanovor Mountains, they dropped down from their private jet and immediately deployed their own personal IS Units. For Tatenashi, hers was the Mysterious Lady. For Kanzashi, hers was the Uchigane Nishiki. That was when they quickly discovered that upon their arrival, Yakutsk was already in the vortex of the blizzard with the temperatures dropped drastically from 68 degrees Fahrenheit to now minus 15 Fahrenheit and still dropping.

"GAAAHH!" Tatenashi was shocked to feel the sharply frigid coldness of the Arctic hitting her right through her suit and into her bones. "Jeez, talk about a dramatic weather swing!"

Kanzashi was right beside her and no different than her with her breath coming out in visible mists. The younger Sarashiki sister was shaking vigorously, her arms clutching to her sides hard.

"Not only that, but I don't see any of the Eurasian Federation mobile suits trying to help!" Kanzashi commented that only the first responder vehicles: the police cars, ambulances, and the very few trucks with giant snow plowers were driven through the snow-covered streets.

"The mayor's probably shocked and caught off guard like we are. He's already called in the first responders, but I doubt it'd be enough," Tatenashi responded grimly as she could see from above in the sky, the citizens struggling to get into their apartment homes and brush off the ice and snow from their vehicles. "And even if the other bigwigs also called Moscow to request for military help, it wouldn't make much of a difference."

"Then what do we do?" Kanzashi asked nervously in light of the daunting obstacles already stacked against everyone.

"We gotta find the source of the disturbance. Put a stop to it, or at the very least, weaken it and warm it up long enough for when the Eurasian Federation finally arrive with their Windams," the older sister explained.

"Sis, we could be walking into a trap. Are you sure that's even feasible?"

"What other choice do we have? We won't know what the threat or the trap is unless we trigger it. Granted, we don't get caught in it."

"I still don't like it. There has to be another way other than just rushing headlong into it because my sensors just detected a spike of radioactivity right ahead of us for three miles."

"Radioactivity? Impossible! The nearest nuclear power plant is 159 miles south from the edge of Yakutsk! How can th-!" Tatenashi had her sentence cut off by the sound of something major exploding and immediately afterwards, the city shaking.

"Kyaah!" Kanzashi hollered out loud with the cold, snowy air making her lungs hurt slightly. The source of the huge column of smoke and dust happened to be where the government building was.

"Kanzashi! Where the hell did that come from?!" Tatenashi screamed.

"It came from the Government Administrative building!" Kanzashi answered. As soon as she said that, Mysterious Lady zoomed by her with a sonic boom.

"Katana, wait! Come back!" Soon Kanzashi pushed her Uchigane Nishiki into max speed to chase after her older sister.

Covering three miles in less than a second, Tatenashi pulled her IS unit to an almost complete stop while still hovering in the air. Her worst fears were realized when she came across below her the sunken remains of the Government Administrative Office. She didn't even spot anyone alive outside the sunken area, which caused her to clutch her head with her hands. The city didn't just lose Mayor Polezsky and several others related to the infrastructure and the banking industry. Kanzashi stopped her own personal IS right alongside her. Whatever words she was about to formulate died in her throat when she saw the sunken state of the Administrative district.

"Sis...?" Kanzashi asked fearfully.

"Yes?" Tatenashi responded emotionlessly with a stare of her eyes that just lost some of her bright liveliness to them.

"Didn't you say earlier our father had a meeting at this very building to attend to?"

Tatenashi lowered her head with her hair shadowing her eyes. She dared not to look at her younger sister.

"Oh god, Katana! No...father...," Kanzashi sniffed with her voice becoming more and more tremulous whilst choking up with tears springing forth from her eyes as the silence spoke volumes of the tragedy that was their father's untimely death.

While Tatenashi apparently did not react externally, she was screaming on the inside. Shaken by the tumultuous hurricane of emotions while simultaneously trying to come to comprehend with the tragic reality that their father, Takeshi Sarashiki, was dead. Nevermind the ramifications for what could portend uncertain days ahead for the Sarashiki clan regarding their future now that the only Sarashiki other than Tatenashi to keep the subordinate families in line had his own life snuffed out unexpectedly. The former Sarashiki matriarch, Ayanami, was also no longer among the living a long time ago after tragic circumstances forced Takeshi to take her life before she could inflict the greatest amount of damage to the clan.

As the Sarashiki sisters hovered in the sky with their moods overall being of sorrow and shock, the earth trembled once more with the blizzard increasing in its intensity as everything around in a 2 mile radius started to freeze with the ice creeping over anything in its path. Only Kanzashi noticed the drastic drop in temperature and the dramatic spike in radioactivity levels on her screens from her Uchigane Nishiki. All of them were flashing in red emergency light and crimson warning signs, telling her to evacuate the area!

Then immediately making matters worsen by the minute, klaxon alarms blared throughout Yakutsk. The trumpeting roars and growling grunts of the Tantotherium herd clamoring through the blizzard signaled that the mammalian Titans had already breached into the city without much resistance with everyone so focused on surviving through the unnatural snowstorm.

"KATANA!" Kanzashi hollered out urgently.

"I know! We have to leave!" Tatenashi had to push down her tears. Now was not the time to mourn but to survive. Unfortunately, fate didn't even give the Sarashiki sisters a fighting chance to escape when the entire Administrative block exploded from underneath, spewing and throwing up snow, debris, and the like directly right into the girls as they hurriedly tried to fly upwards and about.

"Incoming debris!" Kanzashi fired both of Uchigane Nishiki's Shunrai Particle Cannons and missile system, Mountain Storm, at the boulder sized pieces headed their way. Multiple explosions occurred as both energy beams and missiles made violent contact with the debris and chunks of snow.

Tatenashi switched between her whip sword, Rusty Nail, and Heavy Rain, a lance with an internal 4-barrel gatling gun. The former for slicing apart any piece that got too close to either herself or her younger sister and the latter for continuous long range bombardment.

"There's our opening! Move!" She yelled, activating her Ignition Boost to push herself and Mysterious Lady out of harm's way when she saw the opening they've created.

"Hai!" Kanzashi quickly followed suite before the window closed very quickly. As soon as the sisters found a safe spot to land on the rooftop of an apartment building, they were confronted by the Tantotherium matriarch followed by her family members as their attention was onto the nearby commotion. The trumpeting roar of the matriarch mammoth, followed by the corresponding screams of others almost made the IS pilots deaf.

"Shit!" Tatenashi swore as this was the worst position to be in as their energy levels of their personal IS units were halfway low from all the traveling and having to exhaust their ammo to save themselves from the calamitous destruction of the Administrative complex.

"WAAAHH! They're huge!" Kanzashi was floored at how humongous the woolly mammoth-like Titans were as they both towered nearly every building of Yakutsk by two hundred feet and more. She instantly felt like an ant up close with these massive Ice Age beasts, let alone the matriarch, whose mean-looking glare and head weaponry made her quite the intimidating monster. Just even looking at the tusks, which were big and long as some of the longest train convoys known to man, spoke volumes as to how well-armed and dangerous these herbivorous monsters were. Their trunks have a great wide range that could nab anything in their wake. The grumbling rumble growl was not only heard clearly, but also felt through the Sarashiki duo's feet and up to their spines. The aura these Titans exuded in their agitated state was dangerously threatening, especially for the Sarashiki sisters as they could simply be crushed by these giants at any moment.

"And we're surrounded," Tatenashi snarled. There was no way they could fight these titanic pachyderms off without significant military support. Then with the abnormal snowy weather and frostbitten winds hindering the law enforcement's effectiveness in helping evacuate Yakutsk's terrified citizens, the situation was almost outright impossible to salvage. Escape was also out of the question as the matriarch could easily block Tatenashi and Kanzashi from escaping with her trunk alone. And if the matriarch didn't get them, then there's a good chance that other Tantotherium would sooner or later.

Another explosive rumbling from the demolished Administrative block accompanied by a low-pitched wailing roar caught the Tantotherium's attention once more. The mammoths turned their heads in the direction of the smoke cloud with the adults protectively lumbering in front of their young as they responded back with trumpeting nasal sounds of their own. The matriarch Tantotherium's eyes darkened when whatever it was making the wailing roar responded back to their threats more aggressively with an even louder roar than the last time. She stomped down sending more subtle signals through the earth, hoping that it would do the trick. However, what she got back was something much harder and solid striking the ground, which sent a much different ominous message than what she was hoping for. Sensing that the aggressor to her herd would not be deterred, she stood ahead of the herd, towering above the Sarashiki sisters underneath her shoulders with her muscles taut with tension, her trunk curled, and her hairs bristled. She expected a straightforward charge or another roaring match.

What she wasn't expecting for her unknown aggressor to burrow deep into earth beneath the city as she heard clawing and dirt being thrown up with building debris thrown all over the place. When the snowstorm cleared, her attacker was nowhere to be seen. The matriarch ordered one of her sisters to take care of the younglings, including her daughter while she and her family searched their would-be attacker with their trunks, but couldn't pick up its scent. Tatenashi and Kanzashi took advantage of the Tantotherium's distraction to fly and escape away from here as fast as their energy levels could allow them to. Just when the mammoth Titans thought that the intruder was really gone for good, that's when the shocking twist began.

The matriarch Tantotherium stepped onto part of the city block that somehow had its subterranean infrastructure weakened to the point that it crumbled under her weight. She screeched in panic from having lost her footing as she tumbled into a giant hole that quickly transformed into a large crater on her side. That also caused panicked confusion among the herd as some of them also tripped, falling into the deep chasm while a good chunk of them trotted fast enough to avoid their fall. Parts of Yakutsk caved into the seismic instability as buildings toppled onto one another as large fissures began to widen into rifts. Those not shaken by the earthquake were run over by fleeing Tantotheirum with the police and civilians having the worst of the catastrophe as they either fall into the chasm to their doom or were stomped to death by the Tantotherium in their panicked trot.

Then slowly emerging from the crater what looked like a mountainous hill with sharp spires of ice crystals growing on top of it. However, as it did, the "hill" turned out to be a segmented part of an entire armored carapace belonging to a creature of enormous magnitude like the Tantotherium. Then ground gave way to the Titan's head, which was a chimeric fusion of an Ankylosaurus, a crocodile, an Entelodont, and Styracosaurus, with a long snout ending with a sharp parrot-like beak at the tip with most of its jaws lined with different sets of teeth with crocodile-like teeth, large dog-like, protruding canine fangs, and grinding molars and tusks of a boar. It had a large, prominent bony horn on top of its snout, set above its nostrils and just before its beak not unlike that of a rhinoceros. Its face was covered in horny protuberances and horn-like scales; the beast had a small pair of brow horns over its eyes, which gave it a very rugose appearance. The rear sides of its head were adorned with two pairs of curved, stout horns and it had cheek horns that bore vague resemblance to that of Ankylosaurus. Then formed at the back of its head was a larger bony frill in contrast to that of the Tantotherium's and the edges had sharp, horn-like osteoderms and a pair of straight pointed horns to complete its likeness to that a ceratopsian dinosaur.

The armored Titan propelled itself in a surprising burst of speed with the use of its strong, stocky rhinoceros-like limbs and its armored, thorny tail tipped with a bulbous, spiked mace-like club with a pair of curved, blade-like horns. Its body height on all of its fours was 368 feet tall. Its first target was the downed Tantotherium matriarch, who was slowly getting up to her feet, when the dinosaurian Titan swung its long sinuous tail in a powerful, arching swing. The clubbed end hit her right in the face, breaking one of her right tusks and inflicting some fractures to her skull mask. The Tantotherium matriarch was knocked about and she howled with her vision seeing stars. Despite her mask being designed to tank such a strike, the armored saurian's tail club was a counter to that as it was designed to shatter hardy minerals like titanium and more. Her right eye was bruised and it would have been gouged out by one of the spikes had it not been for her protective head gear. However, it was the least of her problems as she was rendered dizzy, which left her more vulnerable. The armored Titan took advantage of her dazed state by clamping its jaws onto her thick neck.

The female mammalian Alpha's eyes widened from the horrific sensation of her aggressor's fangs and sharp beak piercing through her thick hide and rupturing her blood vessels. She squealed painfully, trumpeting at her loudest and angriest as she could possibly be. She stood up quickly, shaking her head and neck wildly to make her attacker lose grip of her neck, but it stood up on its hind limbs and tail at 410 feet tall, which was almost tall as her, and used its clawed forefeet to anchor itself as deep as it could into her own thick hide. That prevented the matriarch Titan from shaking off her fellow Titan with both getting into a violent tussling match as the latter just bit deeper into her neck past the dense layers of fat. The armored behemoth next ripped and tore off the fur, skin, and fat in one go with the twisting and pulling motion of his head and neck. Blood spurted out profusely as red raw muscle was exposed with grisly and macabre results. The Tantotheirum screamed with hot tears squirting out from the corners of her eyes as she frantically whirled her trunk about to lash out at her aggressive assailant to no avail while the said assailant persistently sunk his sharp teeth into the raw flesh, continually ripping and tearing off to worsen her predicament while either biting her throat or clawing her sides, drawing more blood either way.

"What's happening?!" Tatenashi yelled.

Snow and dust were kicked up with demolished buildings completely leveled by the trampling feet and swaying clubbed tail. Blood spatters of the Tantotheirum painted ground zero in macabre crimson. The spectacular struggle could have gone on for God knew how long until the Tantotherium would have eventually tire out from overexertion and blood loss. Fortunately, one of her sisters quickly came to her rescue as she rammed her armored head hard into the spiky behemoth's side. Not enough to wound it, but enough for the Tantotherium to force the dinosaurian Titan relinquish its hold on her embattled sister, who now had fallen over into a tired slump onto the remains of a nearby cathedral. In the process, she wounded herself in the softer parts of her face from the spikes on the creature's carapace, but it was worth the risk as the armored gladiator of a Titan yelped in being rammed off away from his potential kill. It stopped itself from falling onto his spiked shell when it dug its claws into the earth. It snarled madly with the visceral fury and image of a rabid dog with blood-caked, drooling jaws that had been denied of its victory.

The matriarch's high ranking sister went to check up on her exhausted and wounded older sister only to be horrified to discover she had been dealt with serious injuries to her face and neck. A bloodied bruise just above her right eye with a fractured mask to boot. The scariest were the deep gashes and bite scars into the alpha Tantotherium. The flesh around her dorsal neck had been torn off so savagely that a some of the neural spine was exposed protruding through the bitten muscle and covered in blood, making it a ghastly nightmare to witness. The edges of where the armored Titan tore chomped onto were really messy with torn skin, blood, and pus leaking all over the place. The claw gashes across her shoulders were nothing to laugh at either as the attacker clawed deep enough to tear off large amounts of skin and rip into the shoulder tendons. Her throat wounds were not as severe, but the damage was significant enough in addition to the aforementioned injuries to weaken the matriarch to the point of falling into a coma should she overexert herself again.

The matriarch's sister's brief moment of sadness quickly transformed into that of thirst for vengeance when she heard the quick heavy snorting of her aggressor behind her. Her aggressor, himself, had dark bluish-grey crocodile-like scales for most of its body like that of a knight's armor. The segmented armor covering his neck, back, shoulders, hips, and all of his tail were all earth brown in color as they all have obsidian and diamond integral to their skeletal structure, which complimented the rocky, calcium, and mineral composition of the large spear-like spikes grown on these flexible osteoderm plates that enable more movement for this Titan than its ancient ancestors. The largest and sharpest of the spikes were right around the shoulders and midsection. At the base of his armored tail, the lateral bony, yet crystallized spikes start at their largest size until the size of each lateral spike dwindled to being bony knobs getting closer to the tail club. The undersides of the armored behemoth were copper red while having grown some flexible, yet sturdy plates to protect its chest and belly. Even the monster's eyelids were covered in small bony plates. While the limb structure of his legs were certainly bearing resemblance to that of a rhino, the shape of its forefeet and digits were more crocodilian. Plus, the long mole-like claws made him dangerously formidable in close quarters.

The sister now took up the mantle as the acting matriarch of the herd. Enraged, she trumpeted harshly and swiftly pointed her trunk at the Titan. Three Tantotherium rushed ahead of her to deliver the armored dinosaur a world of hurt for debilitating their leader and family member. Unfortunately for them, Titanus Anguirus was anything, but intimidated. Instead, he was a tenacious street fighter; not one to back down and run with his tail tucked between his legs when the odds were stacked against him. Thus, he charged seemingly into a disadvantageous fight as the Tantotherium have numbers, higher intelligence, and the appropriate weaponry to overcome his tank-like offenses and work around his bullish aggression. However, his intelligence, while lower than that of the pachyderm Titans, was underestimated as he was smart in his own right as he quickly pivoted his body around and sidestepped a Tantotherium's charge at the last minute. The woolly pachyderm couldn't stop her own momentum completely as Anguirus whipped around and attacked her in the rear leg. The spikes on his tail and the bony spiked club smashed through the scale-like plates on her ankle joint with an audible bone-cracking sound that was equivalent to hearing a building struck by a wrecking ball. The Tantotherium wailed about in pain as she became crippled with her left hindleg busted open and fell down with a ground-shaking thud and crashing onto the debris-littered ground. Anguirus was struck in the head by another Tantotherium's furious swing of her trunk. The pachyderm growled angrily, swinging her trunk and tusks with all of her might. Anguirus backed away some considerable distance before he saw an opening when he rushed at her when she was about to swing her head to knock him out and/or gore him with her tusks. At the last minute, he ducked his head, allowing her trunk and tusks to hit the crystallized, stone-like spikes of his armored, segmented shell, which they were both cut and chipped off as a result while the spikes remained unscratched. She yelped in pain before realizing too late that Anguirus was right under her blind spot when the ankylosaur Titan shoved his head into her hairy underside and thrusted his prominently long nasal horn right through the base of her throat above her chest.

She howled and immediately coughed out copious amounts of blood and saliva as the horn ruptured a vital artery. The Tantotherium tried to dislodge herself from his horn, but life quickly faded from her body with so much blood spilling and coating Anguirus right in the snout. Anguirus then threw her off and dislodged his horn from her in an amazing feat of strength as soon afterwards, she perished with her eyes rolled up into her skull. He then proceeded to bite the third one by one of her feet of her forelimbs after she reared her body up and tried to body slam him with them. She recoiled from the counterattack with a bloody foot to show. She roared and charged at him with her head lowered to ram him down. Anguirus rolled himself into a spiky, segmented ball as the two began to collide one another. The result proved to be a draw as the force of their momentum knocked both of them away. Anguirus unrolled himself in the nick of time to see the Tantotherium grab one of the skyscrapers still standing with her trunk and ripped it off of its foundation without much effort. She next then curled her trunk around it and put it against her tusks. The pachyderm charged, but Anguirus readied his tail club into the air, ready to strike when she came at him stomping. She readied her trunk and then swung both her appendage and the uprooted skyscraper while at the same time, Anguirus whipped his armored tail and club. Both struck and it evidently went in Anguirus' favor as the club shattered the skyscraper into chunks of destroyed concrete, wiring, and windows. The force of the club's impact blew the debris right into the mammoth's face with her skull mask providing protection against most of them, but it accomplished Anguirus' purpose of blinding her to his next tail whipping. He struck, this time chipping off her left tusks and the blade-like bony protrusions slashed across her lower part of her trunk, leaving a deep gash. She grunted helplessly as the next thing she knew, Anguirus clamped his jaws tight shut onto the wounded trunk. His sharp beak, serrated teeth, and formidable canines slicing into the wounded flesh as he began to twist and pivot his head about. The Tantotherium let out a panicked, weak trumpeting squeal as she struggled to yank off while she could feel the acrid, painful sensation of her nose being decimated in Anguirus' jaws. It wasn't before long before Anguirus finally tore off the lower half of her trunk in a savage manner. The bloodied and chewed up half of her trunk was now in Anguirus' toothy maw.

The Tantotherium gushed out copious amounts of blood as they splattered and painted the ground of the crater and the surrounding city blocks in crimson. Unfortunately, some of the truck-sized droplets splashed into the horrified Sarashiki sisters. Kanzashi turned sick with her skin turning green as she gave into the urge to vomit. She went to the ledge of the rooftop and carelessly threw up while Tatenashi could only stare at her blood-covered hands, her IS unit, and then the battle five miles head of her in stunned speechlessness. Her own beautiful blue hair was now messed up being covered in the mammoth's blood. The head of the Sarashiki family felt tears well up from her eyes once again when she saw the third mammoth Titan succumbed to her fatal disarmament and died right there on the spot with another ground-shaking crash.

Anguirus gulped down the severed trunk. the Tantotherium acting matriarch snarled menacingly with tears leaking from the corners of her eyes as two of her longtime close friends were now dead and younger sister screeching out with her trunk, calling for help as she tried to push herself up but couldn't with her leg injured as such. When Anguirus noticed this and finally smashed through her crippled sister's skull mask, causing her face to finally cave in with her eye pulverized and her brain concussed, that was the straw that broke the camel's back for her. Seeing red, the acting matriarch let out the angriest and loudest trumpeting roar she had ever let out in her lifetime; a declaration of war as the battle was now very personal to her and behind her, her elder sister was gravely injured, possibly dying. Anguirus flushed his frill with two red sunspots appearing, and his skin bulged with his muscles expanding until he was bulkier with his scales and spikes jutting out more prominently. An aura of voluminous snow clouds and ice blizzards were generated from his body. He placed his front paws on top of the very Tantotherium, whose face he had just pummeled into a bloody pulp, as he stood on top of the corpse.

He then let out his own loudest wailing howl to the very heavens and his aura exploded around him with blizzards and the air freezing in absolute zero, forming ice-crystalline stalagmites from underneath the earth. After crystalline and rock formed and molded to him to create a nigh impenetrable armor, he accepted her challenge to fight to the death.

Manhattan, New York, USA...

It was on a stormy day with rain pouring down onto Big Apple when most of it had been turned into a war zone by the American-Atlantic Republic military and the viral outbreak of the urban wildlife, which were the likes of rats, lizards, snakes, frogs, dogs, cats, raccoons, falcons, crows, pigeons, fish, and insects that had grown and transformed into mutated, highly destructive monsters terrorizing Manhattan. However, it had gotten so bad with the cases of animals mutating into small kaiju growing so rapidly out of control that eventually everyone got involved.

Justice League, Avengers, Avalanche, New York's Mann Co. branch with their own mercenaries, Overwatch, the Earth Protection Force led by Agent Bishop, the Mobile Suit Warehouse and Development (MSWAD), the Anti-Megalosaurus Force (AMF), and Ironwood's forces from Atlas Academy led by the said headmaster himself.

Even the villains and anti-hero groups were eventually roped into what was turning into an all-out war with the kaiju.

An army green armored car with orange side highlights was mad speeding down the now deserted city streets, which were usually busy and jam packed with throngs of crowds walking about and automobiles being driven. Inside the armored vehicle dubbed the Battle Shell, were four man-sized, muscular anthropomorphic turtles of the red-eared species wearing distinguishably colored ninja masks, brown paddings, and each carrying weapons unique to the individual mutant chelonians. The turtle with the blue ninja mask and carrying a pair of katanas was Leonardo. Next to him was Raphael, his more aggressive, hot-headed brother, whose body was covered in serious scars including his plastron, donning a red mask with a pair of sais as his traditional choice of weapons. The third turtle manning the driver's seat with his three-fingered hands on the steering wheels and wearing an orange ninja mask was Michellangelo. His choice of weapons are a pair of nunchucks, which complimented his carefree, improvisational style of fighting that went along with his fun-loving personality. If he wasn't fighting, he'd be playing video games right now. Then the fourth turtle donning a purple mask and wielding his bo staff while typing on the keyboard for the built-in monitor was the scientific genius of his chelonian brothers, Donatello.

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles weren't the only ones in the Battle Shell as sitting in the co-driver seat was the hockey-masked, self-titled vigilante turned husband to April O'Neil, Casey Jones, a well-built Caucasian man with long black hair dressed in a deep red T-shirt, long dark blue sweatpants with a white trim, and brown gloves. And the slim orange-haired woman, who used to be Dr. Baxter Stockman's assistant now second-hand shop owner and wife to Casey, was dressed in a yellow jumpsuit and having her hair styled in a bun. She was sitting on plastic cushioned seats, which were customized for the vehicle's rather high-tech interior with Donatello having done most of the renovating, next to the co-driver seat where Casey was sitting with his mask pulled up to his hair as he was checking up on the small navigational screen.

"I dunno if it's just me, or has the Big Apple suddenly gone mundo crazy ever since the G-Man showed up in Tokyo battling that giant bug-crab-mantis thingamajig?" Michelangelo asked as he pulled the Battle Shell up by the Madison Square Garden and stopped the car there. The sounds of gunshots, cannons, and missiles sounded very distant in the background along with the sound of thunder with the battle happening in Central Park by East Harlem.

"More like the entire world has gone nuts ever since now everyone knows that monsters, and I am talking about the super giant ones that secret X-file organization, Monarch, calls them Titans or something of that sort!" Raphael growled, "And apparently, Tokyo wasn't the only big city that had a long history of having these giant creatures trash her waterfront property."

"Not to mention that since worlds from different dimensions have somehow breached their barriers and merged to form this one world and universe we're living in, which should have been a scientific impossibility, everyone is on edge right now," Donatello said.

"The giant monsters appearing out of the woodwork ain't helping matters, especially the one that trashed our lair," Raphael clenched his scaly hands into fists.

"Yeah, and how did that thing burrow through our part of the sewers all of the sudden? I thought the Titans are supposed to be still hibernating underneath the earth with plenty of radiation juice to keep themselves chill," Mikey pointed out.

"Maybe not anymore," Leonardo spoke up to his brothers and everyone else who was listening while still keeping their senses on alert in war-torn New York. Among them were their ninjutsu master and adoptive father, Master Splinter, who was an anthropomorphic gray rat dressed in brown monk robes and supported himself with a wooden walking stick. Leatherhead, a hulking mutant alligator with humanoid proportions and powerfully built, yet possessing the keen scientific intelligence, which made him well versed in various technical and scientific fields. Thus, he was a strong friend and ally to the Turtles and those associated with them. Next there was Mondo Gecko, or AKA, Jason. A human turned mutant anthropomorphic Tokay gecko thanks to an accidental encounter with leaked mutagen when he and his pet gecko fell into the sewers while skateboarding. He still has his zeal for skateboarding, which he now mainly use to help others in need while still keeping a low profile as he possibly could until troublesome circumstances forced him to hunker down with his fellow mutant reptiles in the sewers. Alopex, a mutant ninja fox, whose species was that of the Arctic Fox, who had come to New York to settle her vendetta against Tiger Claw, who was her brother turned mutant Bengal Tiger and a devoted Foot Ninja serving as the Shredder's lieutenant, hitman, and personal bodyguard.

"What do you mean? Like all of them getting cranky when their fuel tanks run out? I don't follow you, bro," Mondo Gecko said being unsure.

"Maybe, or maybe not. What I am trying to say, Mondo, is that something else might be triggering them to awaken in such an...anxious state from the looks of it. Something...much bigger and more dangerous than just being deprived of their radiation or accidental encroachment into their lair," Leo explained.

"Okay, but there's no one on the planet more dangerous and bigger than the G-Man! So what Titan could possibly be irking the shit out of them?" Mondo said.

"Hmm...speaking of anxious, have you all seen news clips recently of Godzilla whenever he surfaces?" Casey, the masked vigilante asked, pointing out the news reports that often sensationalized the sightings of Godzilla emerging from the seas around the world.

"Yeah, Casey, we know. The news anchors love to yak about the G-Man, which city could he potentially drag his tail to and wreck, or what kind of monster or eco-terrorism scheme concocted by Red Bamboo that would piss him off to the point I get sick and tired of just hearing his name," Raph grumbled.

"Raph, Godzilla's usually mellow if he doesn't have rogue monsters to deal with for the day. And if and when a Titan starts causing a ruckus, Godzilla would swim right to the source of the trouble and deal with the problem immediately. Lately, though, with all these monster breakouts going on, you would think Godzilla would be very busy right now kicking ass and we would be hearing more about his exploits until the end of time," April clarified. "But he's not. And I have a feeling that it's not because he needed a vacation."

"Maybe he is. I mean, I'd probably be tired from having to look after the entire planet myself and look for a place to stay low to have some peace and quiet," Mikey shrugged his shoulders.

"Michelangelo," Leatherhead shook his head as the crocodile genius reprimanded, "when you're at the top of the food chain and a keystone species, whose actions determine the functionality of an entire ecosystem, you'd seldom have any time to kick back and rest."

"Not even an occasional trip to Hawaii?" Mikey asked, subtly referencing to Godzilla's landfall onto Hawaii in trying to kill the male MUTO.

"Will you take this seriously, Mikey?!" Leo shouted, startling everyone in the Battle Shell.

"Leo, I was just trying to lighten up the stress. Chill, man," Mikey tried to pacify him.

"Yeah, you've been very stressed out lately and you gotten more riled up than usual," April stated with a sympathetic expression.

"What's getting you in your shell lately?" Donnie asked the agitated Leo. The turtle took several deep breathes before he finally calmed down.

"Sorry...I've been troubled these past couple of weeks thanks to the recurring nightmares I had. About the state of this mixed-up world and the direction that it was going with all the events that have gone down globally. I've been meditating, but I am no closer to figuring out why the entire world is going so out of whack." Leonardo stated what had been bothering him, "Or why it has affected me in ways I've not felt since the advent of the Demon Shredder."

Leo lowered his head in shame for how he reacted just now before Master Splinter gently placed his hand onto his shoulder, comforting him.

"While I am disappointed in how you reacted to your brother, Leonardo, but I do not condemn your seriousness in light of what's happening around us. I ask only that you'd be more careful with your temper in maintaining order in such trying times like this." Splinter said.

Leo nodded and said while bowing his head respectfully to Splinter,

"Yes, Sensei."

"Which is within my department to be the hothead here," Raph commented in a half-joking manner.

"I know this might be insensitive to ask you of this right now. But what's this troubling picture you saw in your meditation, Leonardo-san?" Alopex, the mutant fox that had only been listening the entire time, asked him carefully.

"I-I don't know...there was too much going on. Everything looked...wrong." Leo said hesitantly, still unsure of how to interpret the visions that had been plaguing him for months.

"Like how much wrong are we talking about?" April chimed in worriedly.

"The world was covered in dark thunderclouds with no sign of sunlight. Everything we know off is either sunken into the waves, or burnt into ashes," Leonardo gravely answered, "And there were these...giant beings...probably the Titans that lord over dead cities with millions upon millions of lives lost. Continents fractured, skies burning with the very stars weeping, the moon tainted red with the blood of innocents, rivers swollen, every tree and animal drowned, and the mountains broken down to their foundations as more giants awaken almost simultaneously. All of them heeding a cry coming from a golden lightning, which descended from the heavens and became imprisoned in a frozen lake by the Great King of the Sea only to be freed by red serpents."

Everyone's jaws dropped to the car's floor at the biblical description of what was rather an apocalyptic vision.

"Whoa, boss man! Hold up, hold up...," Mondo Gecko interjected as he licked his lidless eyes nervously, "Dead cities? Skies burning up? Lands split apart? Basically every living thing dead? Mountains blown off? Look, no offense, but are you sure you're not high on crazy pills?"

The sounds of palms slapping against faces followed coming from Mikey and Raph. Groans coming from the rest, except Alopex and Splinter.

"Uh...was it something I said?" Mondo scratched his head in confusion.

"Guys...he's okay. In fact, I am not sure what to make of the nightmares. Heck, they seemed so vivid, so real that I couldn't call them dreams at all," Leo said, rubbing his eyes and mask.

"Was there anything more to the visions you've been having?" April asked.

"The latest I had...I was standing on a road in the midst of a ruined city. It was raining and yet, there was so much fire, smoke, and storm clouds that I couldn't tell if it was day or night. I walked through crumbling ruins, skeletons of giants. There standing in the midst of the destruction was a golden star surrounded by countless bolts of lightning. It may have been obscured by the surrounding storms, but the glow was there, but it was far from divine than I initially thought. That was when I heard that very same cry, and this it wasn't just one, but multiples, if not, two more that sounded like laughter, but it was meither happy, sad, hilarious, nor was there even any traces of joy in them. No, they were more like the insane, maniacal screams of madmen, death cries of billions whose lives they died only to be tortured for eternity, and the shrieking hisses of snakes. All of them scream of pure anger, hatred, spite, and thirst for utter destruction of life itself. I couldn't make out the star from the swirling dark clouds, but all I could make out were giant bat-like wings that obscured the sky as far as the eye could see, and sticking out from the star were three long necks with dragon heads with each bearing a crown of horns with the middle head wearing the most ornamental one comprised of antlers and goat horns. All three heads spoke in that same despicable laughter of tyranny, destruction, and malice. And spitting out from their maws were the very lightning bolts that it surrounded itself in. And lying before its feet and in front of me was the Great King of the Sea, battered and bruised nearly to the point of death. The King cried and for whatever reason, I cried with him as well while the star mocked him with its cackle of evil just when the star was about to bring down its thunder. Then before the lightning surged for the King and could kill him, a white bright light and heavenly wings descended upon his fallen form. Then came an angelic song from the being of light. It was all I heard before the world turned white and I was back in my bed."

"Dude, that has to be freakiest and craziest dream anyone ever experienced in their sleep," Mondo commented.

"No kidding...it sounded very... what's the word for it, um...oh yeah, apocryphal," Casey said, "Like something out from the last book of the Bible, Revelations; about the end times."

"Which seems we're on the verge of what is amounting to the apocalypse, regarding the world events around us and all the crazy radioactive energy levels going off in fluctuations at a rate unheard of since the Permian Extinction and the Late Jurassic," Donatello blurted out.

That was when the alarm lights blinked red with the screens flashing and beeping with a radioactive signal of a Titan being detected within the vicinity of the Madison Square Garden and closing in onto their position.

Casey looked at the screen when he saw the gigantic heat and radioactivity signature with darkened eyes.

"Heads up, fellas! Our tuna-eating homewrecker is not done with us yet," he stated and pulled down his hockey mask, which now covered his face. Afterwards, he busted out his customized Springfield Armory SAINT AR-15 Semi Automatic Rifle that had a roaring T. rex painted onto it, which he had it nicknamed, 'Susan', from a hidden cabinet just besides the seats as he quickly loaded about twenty rounds into two magazines at lightning speed.

"Looks like our demolition operation to scorch their nest was much more bombed than we thought! Damn he's slippery! And I thought the Shredder was king in terms of slipping past whatever we could throw at him," Raph punned, much to everyone's groaning dismay.

"He also must have burrowed deeper underground with his mate to escape from the explosion, which also means that fire-breathing Komodo Dragon could still be somewhere in Manhattan," Alopex gritted her canine teeth with her claws clenched, "If only I hadn't let their accursed offspring catch me by surprise."

"We have no time to wallow about the what-if's, Alopex. We cannot allow ourselves to be trapped here," Leo spoke. "But there is still one thing we can do."

"Leo, please tell me you're not thinking what I think you are!" Donatello didn't like the obvious direction of Leo's thought process.

"It is, Donnie! Change of plans, everyone! Instead of escaping from Manhattan, we're going to lure Tunahead right into Central Park!" The eldest Ninja Turtle brother declared what was possibly his craziest and boldest plan he had ever concocted.

"WHAAAAAATTTTT?!"

To say it elicited such an astonished reaction from all of his family and friends was an understatement as even Master Splinter was worried that this could end badly for them.

"HUH?! What the shell, bro?! Back out there?! We'd be throwing ourselves into the crossfire and having our asses roasted faster than Shredder kicking us to the curb!" Raph complained angrily.

"I have to agree with Raphael, Leonardo! What you're proposing is very suicidal even for many of us that had gone through extraordinary situations; hell and back!" Leatherhead roared, "We have only one chance to-!"

"To save New York because there is nowhere left for us to run!" Leo argued back, "This city is our home and it is the only home we have!"

"My son! I understand these are unprecedented times we're living in and everything we know of has been thrown out of whack. However, it is because of that, we have to leave, otherwise, the sacrifices the Mutanimals has made in giving us time to escape will be for nothing!" Splinter ranted.

"Guys, Tunahead is right underneath us!" Donatello yelled with panic in his voice.

It was too late.

As soon as he said these words, a bright stream of green radioactive energy erupted from beneath Madison Square Garden and blasted through the entire multi-purpose indoor arena. A massive explosion destroying the arena quickly ensued. While the Battle Shell was redesigned to withstand such a beating, the force of the explosion still rocked those inside.

"Get down!" Alopex hid underneath the seats as did Master Splinter, April, and Casey. Mondo Gecko had the fortunate advantage of being a mutant walking gecko as the specialized structures of his palms and soles enabled him to stick to the floor much more firmly than any of his peers even as the armored car rocked about. Those whose shells and larger size like the Turtles and Leatherhead had to lie on the floor and tough it out.

When the explosion subsided, Madison Square Garden was reduced to a burning ruin of its former glory. Then busting out from the ground directly underneath the devastated arena was a blocky, rectangular theropod-like head with a rough, square-shaped underbite and a spiky "chin", which were specialized scales that jut out forward from the frontal end of its lower jaw. The powerful jaws have bony scaled lips and interlocking dinosaurian teeth. The head had a generally rough, crocodile-like scale texture of gray-greenish coloration with two bony cobalt crests running along its snout, spiny lacrimal horns, and small forward-facing scales on top of its nose like that of its "chin". The prominent bumpy protuberances that lined the rear ends of its lower mandibles were dark gray. The giant reptile had a long and a thick neck with a row of bluish spines and a large, bulging spiky dewlap. The monster let out a screaming roar very similar to that of Titanus Gojira, but it had higher pitch screeches mixed with some foghorn sounds, and elephant-like trumpeting roars compared to its much larger and more infamous counterpart.

"Leonardo, what are you doing?!" Leatherhead yelled when he saw the blue-masked turtle grabbing the red motorcycle helmet.

"Another change in plans. I am going to lure that Godzilla wannabe to Central Park while you guys get out of Manhattan as soon as possible!" Leo explained as he donned the helmet and grabbed a mechanical bow and an arrow made of synthetic metal.

"Wha?! No way, I am going to let you do this on your own! Besides, I am better at driving motorcycles than you are," Casey intervened much to Leo and April's shock that he's in on this as well.

"No, Casey! You don't have to do this!" Leo protested.

"Forget it, buddy! Once I put my mind into something, I ain't going to stop until it is done!" Casey said, slinging his loaded Springfield semi auto rifle onto his left shoulder, getting his bag of hockey sticks and slinging it onto his right shoulder, as well as quickly reloading his Springfield pistol with a magazine filled with 15 fresh .9mm rounds. "Besides, this is still my home!"

"Casey, be careful and look after Leo! And don't die on me, or I'll come kick your butt if you do!" April warned.

"Don't you worry about me and Leo, hon! I will give you a call if we're in deep soup, but with my insane motorcycle skills, I doubt that overgrown iguana will get a bite on us," Casey reassured her and pulled up his hockey mask to give April a kiss on the cheek. She kissed him back.

"It better not," April gave a small smile.

Casey nodded, donning his mask back on and putting on his black raincoat as he pulled the hood over his masked head. He placed his handgun into the holster on his right hip.

"Alright, Casey, you and Leo better scramble now! Tuna Breath's right on top of us!" Mikey shouted in a mock commander's voice.

"Roger that!" Casey sat in the driver's seat of the motorcycle and ignited the engine, revving it up. Leo sat in the backseat behind him after he opened the back doors of the armored car.

"No way I am sitting this one out," Mondo Gecko quickly donned on his blue rain jacket and brought out his cybetnetic skatehover. As soon as the two got out, he skid out faster than anyone could stop him.

"Mondo, wait!" Mikey called out too late with the anthro Tokay Gecko already skatehovering far out to assist Leo and Casey.

"You three better be back," Raph whispered.

The Godzilla-like Titan climbed itself out with his heavily muscular grasping raptorial arms with four fingers sporting eagle-like recurved talons that could penetrate rock and metal with ease. With the help of of its longer, more powerful bird-like legs, three-toed feet, and its elongated, sinuous tail, the beast's entire body emerged, busting up the entire arena grounds. Its build was revealed to be tall and slender, less bulky than Titanus Gojira, but still possessing lean musculature to be a powerful monster in its own right; more like a T. rex/Velociraptor in appearance. The only one feature that this Titan and Gojira share any commonality with were the three row of large azure dorsal plates. However, there were even differences. This Titan's dorsal plates were not maple-shaped, but were more like inverted shark fins. Then whereas Gojira had the dorsal plates grow progressively bigger until above his midsection and hips where they were at the largest and then slowly taper off until halfway down his tail, Titanus Jira, or Zilla had the largest positioned above his shoulder blades right from the get-go where they progressively tapered into smaller spines to the tip of his tail. The tail was slightly longer than the length of his body with green scales and a orangish tint to them and had a dark blue striped pattern. When Titanus Jira stood upright to its feet standing at 94.5 meters, or 310 feet tall, with its entire body length being 213.5 meters, or 700 feet long, it held its body and tail off the ground in theropod fashion thanks to the powerful muscles and tendons, though the tail has enough flexibility to use it as an offensive weapon against combatants as it swayed side to side in a whip-like manner.

Zilla reared his head and neck and opened his jaws wide, roaring angrily in a pose reminiscent of the actual King of the Monsters. The heavens seemed to respond with clamorous thunderous roars of their own.

"Oh shit… he's mad as hell. But we've got to take the shot!" Casey aimed his Springfield semi automatic rifle upwards at the reptilian monstrosity, pushing behind the absurdity of provoking the wrath of a Titan to the back of his mind for a moment to save his wife and friends that were in the Battle Shell that just got its engines revving up. The rain droplets bouncing and wetting against the monster's scales, giving them and the muscular outline a bright sheen against the glows of the flames, which only emphasized how inherently ridiculous this suicide mission was.

"Just aim for the back of the head or the snout, but not the eyes! We only want it to focus its attention onto us, not trigger it into a murderous, all-out rampage!" Leo cautioned as he aimed his arrow, which was armed with an grenade-like pointed tip, while pulling the string back with better ease in maintaining tension with the help of its simple yet sophisticated pulleys of the bow.

Using his scope, he aimed for the back of Zilla's lower mandible on purpose. He squeezed, and next, clicked on the trigger. He fired five rounds.

Leo released his explosive arrow immediately afterwards. It was aimed for Zilla's snout.

All of their projectiles struck their mark, though they only tickled against the beast's highly durable scales. However, they did get Zilla's attention onto them, diverting it away from the Battle Shell as it now turned its fury onto the three instead.

"Dudes, I think you just made him angrier!" Mondo gulped nervously when he heard what sounded like power generator humming up in increasing intensity coming from Zilla's body. Zilla stood at 345 feet tall when he became fully upright and supported by his tail. He saw a greenish light start at the tip of the tail, which then gradually travelled up from and through the singular row of spines on Zilla's tail all the way to his largest dorsal plates at his shoulders where it then gained a bluish tint to them. The spines on his neck lit up and blinked in a rapid pattern when Zilla's eyes and neck dewlap also began to illuminate in a furious green light.

"Leo, I think this is our cue to skedaddle! Like right now!" Casey said urgently when he saw the inside of Zilla's maw glow green, becoming brighter and more intense with the slow to faster buildup of atomic energy for a deadly fire-like breath until excessive atomic energy leaked through his teeth.

"Now's the time! RUN!" Leo hollered. At that which, Casey wasted no time in revving up the red motorcycle and sped off with Mondo Gecko also pushing his skatehover board into max speed.

Just in the nick of time when Zilla roared, unleashing his own version of Gojira's Atomic Breath onto them, almost catching and frying them on the spot.

"WHOAAA! Too hot!" Mondo Gecko was forced to swerve away from the road and hover-fly to the side above the sidewalk.

"Atomic breath incoming!" Leo shouted as Casey had to swerve dramatically to his right and dangerously close to abandoned cars parked to the side of the road. The atomic energy projectile destroyed the cement and any unfortunate automobile caught in the blast.

Frustrated that his intended victims still escaped away unscathed, Zilla went back to his normal theropod-like posture and immediately stomped into a fast walk to begin pursuing Leo, Casey, and Mondo.

"That's our cue, Michelangelo!" Splinter said, seeing now that the time to escape had now opened as Zilla was completely focused elsewhere.

"On it, Master! Ladies and gents, buckle your seat belts tight because this Battle Shell is leaving Manhattan!" Mikey announced as he now drove the Battle Shell away from the devastated Madison Square Garden.

Casey, Leo, and Mondo rode through East 30th Street when Zilla bulldozed through a shop apartment to the right of them. He stomped right 30 feet in front of the three.

"Oh shit!" Casey swore when he saw he was about to crash the motorcycle right into Zilla's toe claw. By a stroke of luck, he reactively reared the motorcycle when it drove off Zilla's foot like a ramp of sorts. He and Leo thankfully had the motorcycle gracefully on its wheels and kept on driving out of sheer adrenaline. Mondo had an easier time avoiding being stomped, but it was no less harrowing for the gecko as his heart had been racing a hundred miles per second since the start of the chase.

"Skating through New York Jurassic style!" Mondo exclaimed.

Zilla grunted in a growling ire as he went into pursuit of them again.

"Uh oh...we better step on it, Jones man!" the gecko yelped.

Casey and Mondo turned the street junction corner around the Empire State Building. Zilla poked his head and neck outwards to see where they had gone. When he saw them to his left, he roared and pushed his legs to running speed as he thundered around the corner, his hindlimbs wrecking smaller apartments. His tail whipped about into the corners of the Empire State Building and nearby taller skyscraper, destroying chunks of them and leaving debris in his wake.

"We have to go down straight 5th Avenue, then take a right into 40th Street and cut off into 10th Avenue to shake him off!" Leo explained.

"Yo, boss man! Bad idea!" Mondo shook his hands, gesturing in emphasis, "Not good mondo when there's mutated bird shit at construction! Take 45th Street!"

"Have you forgotten that's right into Times Square where we just blew up their nest below?!" Leo shouted exasperatedly.

"Leo! Pull up the GPS on my phone!" Casey shouted, thinking it was better than just driving blind through Manhattan, which was like a massive concrete labyrinth.

The three all heard Zilla screaming behind them along with his running foot stomps becoming louder and louder as he was quickly catching up to them.

"Guys, he's getting larger!" Mondo warned frantically.

Casey pushed his motorcycle into overdrive as he sped at his maximum and a little beyond, but it proved futile as Zilla easily kept pace with them and slowed just enough to lunge at them with his jaws.

"LOOK OUT!" Leo hollered.

"GAH!" Casey dodged, barely preventing both himself and Leo to be crushed along with their motorcycle by the dinosaur-like reptile's heavyset jaws.

"Oi, you bastard!" he snarled at Zilla, "You ruined the paint!"

Then Zilla did a hard nudge of his head to knock Mondo Gecko off of his skate-hover.

Thankfully, his gecko feet enabled him to stay on the board tightly. With skillful maneuvering and quick reflexes, he was able to veer his beloved skate-hover and himself from crashing into an abandoned truck and next a wall, or a lamppost.

"Grrr! Totally not cool, dude!" the pissed off Tokay Gecko wielded out a grenade from his belt and ripped off the firing pin with his teeth. He zoomed up the wall of the apartment ahead of him and then blasted off from there using the hoverboard's engines.

"Eat lead, ya Jurassic Park ripoff!" Mondo threw the grenade as Zilla opened up his mouth to swallow him whole. At the last minute, he flew the hoverboard away from Zilla's mouth just when the grenade that was swallowed inside the beast's mouth exploded. Zilla screeched out in surprise, coughing out smoke, in which he was so caught off guard that he tripped and slammed his body onto the street, leaving a massive gash in the pavement. Mondo and Casey turned to the next road just before the speedy reptilian Titan could crush them.

"That was awesome, Mondo!" Casey said and high fived the skatehovering mutant Gecko.

"Hell yeah! Nobody disses me on the streets and gets off scot free!" Mondo returned the gesture with a fist bump.

Leo managed to pull out Casey's iPhone from his right pocket as he turned it on.

"What's your get-in code, Casey?!" Leo asked.

"2884," the masked vigilante quickly answered.

Leo punched in the code, which enabled him to scroll through the menu to look for Google Maps while now it was Casey arguing with Mondo which street to go next to shake Zilla off.

"No no no! We'd be running into a den of those hulkin' giant bulldogs if we cut into Fifth Avenue!"

"Damn it, Casey! Signal's no good and the map is blinking all over the place!" Leo complained as the graphics were fuzzy with text message of Error appearing on the phone's screen.

"Shit! The servers must'a been busted!" Casey said. Both he and Mondo realized with horror dawning on him as the arduous military battle to exterminate the growing mutant Kaiju populations probably caused a great disruption in the city's cellular network.

They were so absorbed in their horrified realization that they missed the second that Zilla leaped over and above them several hundred feet into the air. Zilla then landed 200 feet ahead of them with his feet making fissures erupt throughout the streets. The trio noticed him almost too late as Zilla leaned down and went for a side bite.

"Oh crud," Casey gulped.

"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" Then all three, even Leo, screamed; absolutely terrified as they closed their eyes, expecting to meet their end at the closing jaws of the Godzilla-like reptile. Miraculously, they unconsciously pushed on the accelerators of their respective vehicles to the point they zoomed just by a hair's breadth from being snapped up into the Titan's cavernous mouth. Zilla quickly turned around to snap them up in his jaws again; this time, his teeth hit the mark in biting off the tip of Mondo Gecko's tail, which resulted in blood squirting out from the severed part of his tail.

"Yeeouch!" Mondo yelped, "Okay, okay, bro! Do Broadway!"

"Yeah, that's it! We're going down Broadway Street as long as we can get that thing off of our backs!" Casey yelled with some fright still left in his voice after seeing his life flash before his eyes.

"Oh brother...we're just good as dead," Leonardo grunted. He could only face palm at what could possibly end up being the last and worst decision they would ever make.

Times Square...

A mobile suit crashed through into 1540 Broadway AKA Bertelsmann Building was in its colors of silver chrome, blue, and orange with a head crest with one pair of horns being golden in color while the other pair was white. The Gundam had a built-in pack that came with small blue wings similar in design to that of the Aile Strike Gundam and Freedom Gundam. It then gradually fell off from the Gundam-shaped impression of the wrecked skyscraper and landed onto the deserted streets of Time Square with a heavy, clunking thud and shards of glass and pieces of metal falling on top of it. Inside the mobile suit, a male pilot with messy blond hair and brown eyes in his purple battle suit groaned as he shook off the brief headache of getting his ass kicked, his hands reclaiming the controls of the machine as he then made it right itself onto its feet.

"Damn, that fish rat knocked me about with its tail like I'm some damned cue ball!" he drawled angrily.

The head of the mobile suit then turned around to see a small squadron of mobile suits coming towards his way. The squad was comprised of a second, albeit armored Gundam with its design being that of the Assault Shroud Duel Gundam, which has the 115 mm railgun on its right shoulder, and a 5-missile pod on its left shoulder, but with colors of white, red, and blue, and customized with a shield attached to its left arm; a third Gundam with red-orange coloration and green highlights and a damaged Jet Striker-like wing binders, which is another customized model of the Rosso Aegis Gundam, a dark purple variation of the Blitz Gundam and the drill-like, grappling claw having a red coloration to it; a camo green tank-like mobile suit, the Guntank II, with the torso and arms of a typical mobile suit armed with rockets and missile launchers yet possessing the caterpillar treads for legs while having 120mm cannons mounted on its head turret; the black-themed Strike Noir Gundam; and finally, a customized unit of the Jet Windam with white, red, and silver colors and possessing a customized Striker Pack that has beam cannon turrets and machine gun turrets mounted on its wings along with it being detachable and can be operated remotely.

"Hey, La Flaga!" The man piloting the red, white, and blue Patriot Duel Gundam coming to the left of his mobile suit shouted over the radio, "Are you and Garuda Gundam alright?!"

"Heh! It will take more than a tail slap from a rat trying to be a fish to knock this bird down, Sam!" The blond Caucasian pilot responded cockily, "If I just went lights out like this, then I am not fit to be my old man's son, the one who can make the impossible possible!"

"Damn straight! If these mutant Kaiju wanna play hardball, then we will play harder right back at them!" a tomboyish female piloting the Strike Noir Gundam agreed, "I don't know what's gotten them to breed like freaking rabbits and go apeshit all over, but that just means we can't afford to hold back any punches!"

"I hope we all have not forgotten, especially you, Judy, that we've been given the order to retreat just a minute ago or two!" another male piloting the red-orange and green Rosso Aegis Gundam reminded, "The situation is no longer containable when those giant firebirds suddenly swooped upon Ironwood's fleet out of nowhere!"

"Thanks for the reminder, Mr. Obvious," the aforementioned female pilot of the Strike Noir Gundam said sarcastically. "We're surrounded for Pete's sake, Clyde! We have to fight our way out!"

"Alright, enough! Guys, how much ammo and juice do we have left?" John la Flaga asked his squad mates about the energy levels of their Mobile Suits and how much ammo could they still fire from their respective weapons.

"I have about half of my ammo left, and my Phase Shift level readings are in the yellow," Samuel Washington, a decent-looking Caucasian man with a shaven chin and short brown hair and wearing a red battle suit, replied from his cockpit in his Patriot Duel Gundam.

"I'm still grumpy as hell, mate! Grounded like this with my wings clipped by that damned Allosaurus and my energy for the Phase Shift is halfway close to red," Clyde Griffin, a black spiky hair, Caucasian Australian youth with a fierce look in his blue eyes and wearing a green battle suit, answered with a noticeable ire in his voice from his cockpit of the Rosso Aegis Gundam.

"At least, you still got your arms and legs intact," said Cecil Owens, an African American man with a shaven head and a mustache and was wearing glasses and a blue battle suit. He was piloting the Guntank II, with the left arm missing and a sparking nub of what it used to be, and then having a limping right arm with the rocket launcher non-functional, "I lost both, and these 120mm cannons can't do jack shit when the enemy is too close."

"Ah, shut up!" Clyde blurted out.

"I am still green for most things on my account," Elias Wells, an American young man of Irish descent with faint freckles across his cheeks and nose bridge, red-orange and grey eyes, and wearing a brown pilot suit, responded with professional restraint and seemingly stoic in his voice, from his violet Blitz Gundam.

"Man, you gotta get me a shamrock luck charm sometime, E, even though you are still insufferably crazy when it comes to being a Trekkie nerd," Clyde brusquely commented.

"You know full well, mate, that I don't believe in relying on luck," Elias casually said without being bothered by the backhanded insult, "And I am an intellectual, not a nerd, mind you."

"I'm just joking with you!" Clyde almost wanted to laugh, but knowing how emotionally dense Elias was, he could only groan, "Crikey, you're more clumsy than a joey when it comes to getting the joke."

"More like your jokes are horrible," John whispered to himself as saying it out loud would only make Clyde to attempt a joke only for it to come out worse than before. He then turned his attention to the female Gundam pilots in the Strike Noir Gundam and the customized Mk. Windam III.

"Judy, Jane...you girls still good?" he asked.

"I may be low on ammo, my Phase Shift power levels are closer to red than what I would I have liked. However, I can still fight. That's good enough for me, Johnny!" said Judy West, a red, short haired girl with yellow eyes, a tomboyish attitude, a punch first, ask questions mentality towards obstacles, and wearing a black pilot suit. She brushed off the fact that she might be close to exhausting her long-range combat options as she has a strong preference to get up close and personal fighting with her beam blade and metal fists.

"I'm fine, but what about you?" Jane Hawkins; a British woman with luscious strawberry blonde hair, smooth beautiful white skin, mesmerizing green eyes, and wearing a dark pink pilot suit, spoke out in a cool, yet gentle voice with a subtle hint of concern for her fellow mobile suit pilot and boyfriend.

"That tail swipe took out a huge chunk of energy, bringing my Phase Shift power level down close to yellow. I should be okay for now, but I lost my beam rifle," John replied, not too thrilled about losing his main long-ranged combat weapon.

As soon as he finished his sentence, the top levels of Morgan Stanley Building were obliterated and destroyed by an outward force bursting through. Thunder sounded and the flash of lightning revealed it was the very same fish-like rat that threw the Eagle Gundam across Times Square with its moss greenish spindly, segmented lizard-like tail, which ended with a sangria fish-like fin at the tip. The mutant rat kaiju's body had aqua bluish fish-like scales in place of a hairy coat one would usually find on a typical rat. The creature had an indigo dorsal fin lined with spines at the edges. All of its toes and digits were partially webbed and had reptilian scales, indicating their semi-aquatic and more primitive nature. Its forelimbs had sharp poisonous green spines and spurs that it could use to not only inflict wounds, but also inject venom into the victim's bloodstream. Its facial features were a large bony frill-like structure that grew from the back of its head, scaly spines on top of its scaly eyebrows, extended ears with purple external gills, large sabertooth-like tusks, a horn protruding from the top of its head, cheekless, saurian snout and jaws with interlocking teeth, and long catfish-like whiskers. Its red eyes were small and beady with vertical eye slits like that of a salamander. The small rat Kaiju had an overall atavistic, reptilian appearance resembling that of a lizard or a salamander.

The monster was pouncing high in the air from the hotel with its jaws widely agape revealing its deadly saber-like incisors that shined ominously in the lightning.

Clyde noticed it happening with his eyes widened in shock when the monster's radioactive signature gave it away on his mobile suit's radar system. He saw the mutant kaiju, Deutalios, heading towards Eagle Gundam to finish the mauling it had started in Central Park.

"John, heads up!" Clyde hollered.

"Huh?" the junior La Flaga turned his Gundam's head upwards and did indeed see the salamander-like rat-fish hybrid coming towards him from above in the air with its forelimbs and claws outstretched and its hideous toothy jaws wide open with the incisors gleaming. He gasped when he realized too late that he won't be able to dodge the pouncing sneak attack on time as the kaiju began to rapidly close the distance between them.

"Damn it!" Judy screamed furiously as she moved her Strike Noir Gundam in between her crush and the monstrous fish-rat. The result was less than pleasant because the kaiju not only pushed her mobile suit down, but also managed to pin her down, being significantly larger and heavier at 25.7 meters tall than any Gundam averaging around 17.5 meters tall.

"Gah! Someone get this son of a rat's ass off of me!" she screamed bloody murder as Deutalios immediately bit her Gundam in the head with her visuals going static in the cockpit as the sharp fangs damaged her cameras.

"Judy!" John hollered as he fired the CIWS machine guns from the sides of Garuda Gundam's head at Deutalios, "You heard the lady! Get the f* off of her, you ugly freak!"

Deutalios let off a screeching hiss in response to being pelted in the face. He delivered his retaliation by swiftly swiping his left webbed paw, his claws about to strike the Garuda Gundam.

"Oh no you don't!" He pulled up his beam shield, which deflected the strike at the last minute. But the fish-rat kaiju aggressively didn't let up as he struck again with more claw swipes while standing on top of Judy and her mobile suit.

"Damnit!" John swore as he had to use his beam shield with his Gundam in a defensive boxer position to not allow Deutalios to rip him open. "Jane, Sam! Help me out by attacking this monster right behind him so we can get him off of Judy!"

"Roger!" Both Jane and Sam acknowledged and quickly mobilized their mobile suits.

"Hey, you fish-stinkin' piece of work!" Sam fired his 115mm railgun mounted on the Patriot Duel Gundam's right shoulder. The round struck the beast right in its right shoulder. Deutalios faltered and hissed angrily at the Patriot Duel Gundam.

"It ain't polite to have your tailed ass right in front of a girl's face!" Samuel Washington taunted.

"Hey! I heard that, Sam!" Judy roared as she fired her own CIWS. The unpleasant feeling of the bullets being shot into his rear forced Deutalios to hop off of her. This distraction enabled John to flash out the beam railguns from his Gundam's abdomen and fire the rounds right into the kaiju's chest.

Jane fired off her Beam Rifle and deployed "Drache" air-to-surface missiles from her Jet Windam's jet striker's wings. All of which struck their mark as Deutalios tumbled to the ground on his side.

"I can roast his fishy tail, thank you very much!" She snarled as she mobilized her Strike Noir Gundam to its feet. She then yelled out her war cry as she deployed her "Fragarach 3" Beam Blade, which was an actual physical sword with a laser edge to it.

"Now here I come!" She and her Strike Noir Gundam charged forth towards the downed Deutalios. However, Deutalios would not allow himself to fall here as he screeched in utter contempt. Using his tail, he grabbed a nearby double decker bus and flung it right into her.

"That shit ain't going to work on me!" Judy shouted smugly as she cut the thrown vehicle diagonally. The pieces fell away beside her Gundam, but it was what the rat needed for his next move. She propelled her Gundam up into the air using her thrusters and readied her sword for the impaling killing blow from above as she allowed gravity to take her mobile suit to strengthen her sword's momentum.

However, that was when Deutalios opened his maw, vomitting harshly a strong stream of pale bluish-green liquid that erupted forth from his throat.

"Judy, watch out!" Jane zoomed her Jet Windam and kicked the fish-rat kaiju right in the neck to try save her friend and love rival from whatever Deutalios was trying to do. While it may have thrown the monster's aim off, some of the liquid unfortunately splattered onto the Strike Noir's face and chest.

"What the shit?! AAAAAHHH!" Judy could be heard screaming bloody murder as the liquid was doing something destructive to the mobile suit's exterior exoskeleton.

Inside the cockpit, systems were short-circuiting from the phase shift power levels being drained by the corrosive nature of the spewed out liquid melting through the external coating and starting to destroy the inner circuitry. All alarms were going off in the cockpit as her Strike Noir Gundam was being figuratively eaten alive, which made the mobile suit crash ungracefully and bounce off the pavement before skidding to a stop in front of the Renaissance New York Times Square Hotel.

"You disgusting bastard! I will kill you!" John La Flaga activated his mobile suit's own beam saber and tried to rush at Deutalios, but the charge attack was so telegraphed that the fish-rat could basically smell it coming a mile away. Deutalios immediately swiped into the Garuda Gundam's chest, ripping three claw gashes right through the Phase Shift and almost sliced John apart.

The junior La Flaga then tried to go for a stab to the kaiju's abdomen only for that to fail as the mutated fish-rat hybrid spat the very same acidic plasma from his mouth and melt the entire robotic limb off, beam sword included.

"You gotta be kidding me!" John sweatdropped before Deutalios nabbed him in his Garuda Gundam by the torso with his jaws.

"Bloody freak!" The customized Rosso Aegis Gundam whipped out its beam rifle and furiously unloaded whatever ammo he had left in the weapon.

"What an utter load of a crap basket this is!" Cecil swore while mobilizing his Guntank II far as the space in Times Square would allow him as he kept pressing on the trigger to fire his mobile suit's 120mm cannons to bombard the salamander-like rat in letting go of the Garuda Gundam.

Jane moved her Jet Windam's thrusters to the max towards the battle to force or kill Deutalios from mauling her boyfriend while Sam ran to check on the fallen Strike Noir and Judy.

"Hang on, John, I am gonna cut that son of a bitch down to proper size!" She unsheathed her beam sabers as she aimed for the arms.

Deutalios, however, spun himself around with the Garuda Gundam still in his jaws as he pivoted about, using the Gundam as a battering ram, which forced her to halt her aerial mobile suit to a halt.

"Why you!" Jane gritted her teeth at the sight of her boyfriend and fellow ace being humiliated both as a chew toy and a battering club.

The Blitz Gundam that tried to sneak up on the creature undetected utilizing his Mirage Colloid system to stay invisible until he got clobbered by the rat's finned tail.

"Hrk! I've been careless!" Elias growled as he in his mobile suit was sent flying across West 46th Street, crashing into several empty cars and trucks abandoned on the street.

A pair of artillery rounds struck the Marriot Marquis, not the monster's head as Cecil had hoped. Deutalios glared at the Guntank II and next, in one swift motion, he threw the Garuda Gundam to him.

"Out of the way, Cecil!" John shouted frantically from the Garuda Gundam that right now lost all of power for the Phase Shift with the mobile suit losing its vibrant colors and turning stale gray.

"Oh dear Lord...," Cecil gulped before the Garuda rammed into his Guntank II, which sent them all tumbling into each other, knocking both of them out of commission.

"John! Cecil!" Jane hollered out in shock of what just happened. She didn't realize how close to the street she was hovering above until fish-rat mutant monster leaped into the air towards her using the strength of his limbs when it jumped off the Bartelsmann Building. The beast screeched as it torpedoed towards her.

"What the?!" She fired her beam rifle, but the beam bounced off the bony frill-like structure of Deutalio's head as the beast continued uninterrupted and next did a stunning aerobatic backflip.

She screamed as she was directly kicked and smacked by the creature's hindlegs and tail all at once as they actually destroyed her mobile suit's head and caused clawed dents into its upper body, which also clipped her Jet Striker wings. The red, white, and silver Jet Windam fell down ungracefully just ahead of where Sam was just finished helping Judy escape from the completely ruined Strike Noir as the Windam crashed into the Morgan Stanley Building, which resulted in the northeast section of the complex to collapse.

"JANE!" Now it was Judy's turn to scream in horrified worry for her love rival and best friend when Sam covered her his arms from the dust cloud headed their way.

Deutalios landed in the middle of the intersection in the heart of Times Square as lightning flashed the sky. He let out a victorious screech before he noticed the battle-scarred Rosso Aegis Gundam a few hundred feet away from him to his right with Clyde glaring hateful daggers at him. On the fish-rat kaiju's left, a slightly dented, but otherwise, intact Blitz Gundam with Elias staring emotionlessly from the cockpit at him with a cold anger of his own. All thoughts of retreat had been long thrown out of the window at this point.

The three gladiator-like fighters; two of them being pilots of humanoid mechs with visages reminiscent of ancient warriors of long ago. The other being a true freak of nature, an nuclear abomination. None of them moved a muscle. Only their eyes did.

Tensions ran extremely high. The background sounds of mutant beasts screeching, roaring, and growling in the distance, and the sounds of guns firing off and explosions happening around the Big Apple echoed in the distance beyond Time Square. The rain and the thunder didn't help either.

And just when the two young men in their respective mobile suits thought they could somewhat take a breather and silently figure out their next step to exterminate Deutalios for good, everything went downhill again.

First, a loud feminine, pained screaming of greater magnitude was heard, which was followed by a huge chunk of J.P. Stevens Company Tower suddenly becoming undone. The foundations torn apart at the seams accidentally by a gigantic 220-foot tall woman in a skintight super suit of light blue and orange shoulder pads, and a golden V-shape cut starting from her broad muscular shoulders, covering her humongous bust of her chest, down her muscular abdomen, all the way to her hips and rear behind. She had a sexy cute face with beautiful, yet steely determined blue eyes, and a long, luscious mane of crimson red hair that went down past her shoulders, halfway down her powerfully sculpted back. Sprouting behind her shoulders were a large five pairs of titanic butterfly-like wings that were twice her size with the coloration pattern resembling a blue swallowtail butterfly with different shades of blues and yellow eyespots.

The giantess hero didn't destroy the building complex on purpose, but rather she was forcibly tossed to crash into the company building by a monster much bigger and stronger than her even with all of her enhanced superhuman strength and abilities. The freshly-inflicted, bloody welts and deep shredding wounds across her suit and abdomen, especially bite wounds on her legs and arms, which revealed the extent of her mutation. Hard exoskeletal armor with the scale-like epidermal structures being crimson in color covered her limbs, including her extremities like her fingers and toes, which turned into exoskeletal claws of sort that could be fully retracted into her digits, making her half human, half insect. However, the scale-like plates were no longer shiny and instead, had cracks and small gashes inflicted by a monster, whose weaponry was strong enough to deal such incredible damage. That, and the bloody scars showed that this giantess was far from invincible, though amazingly powerful comparable to higher-tier superheroes like her boyfriend after she had mutated due to complicated circumstances.

She plummeted with her wings and rear end demolishing much of the U.S. Trust Building.

"Ugh...ooohhh…," she groaned, placing her armored, exoskeletal hand up to her hair to nurse her head from being bashed on the head by a nasty headbutt followed by several claw swipes to her stomach, hips, and arms, which were starting to bleed a weird red-violet-color. And that was just before she was tail-whipped to the point that stars were all she could see in her vision. In her dazed state, she could barely comprehend that she was next bitten in her left leg and all of the sudden she was sent hurtling into the very J.P. Steven Company Tower that she just destroyed along with the U.S. Trust.

"Did anyone...jot down...the license of the dinosaur... that just chucked me?... ugh...," she groggily said. That was when the searing pain coming from her stomach and hips flared up as she moved slowly only to stop because of the grievous claw wounds.

"Shit...she did quite the number on me...," she hissed in pain. She saw some blood pool from her wounds, which were starting to heal but would take some time. Tears leaked from her eyes when she also remembered why else she was hurting.

"Peter...Spider Man...," She had seen her beloved lover, in the act of trying to save her, got impaled by a Titan bone spear to his stomach in his already weakened state by the very owner of that primitive, yet effectively destructive weapon. The unknown culprit responsible she couldn't see, or even care as she was so horrifically distressed by Spiderman's death that she couldn't think straight through all the tumultous storm of emotions.

Time she would not have as she could hear her attacker advance onto her with its stomps. Mary Jane Watson, AKA Butterfly mainly due to the butterfly wings which sprouted from her back, tried to crawl back to her feet. However, before she could even get to one of her knees, a grey and brown scaly, bird-like foot with midnight blue scales on its digits slammed onto her wounded, muscled packs of abs. Its three toes that were armed with sharp talons pressed into the bloody gashes, triggering an sharper sensation of acute pain surged through her own titanic body.

"GYAAAAAHHH!" Mary Jane screamed in response while trying to fight back against the tears. Her enemy was an Allosauroid species of Titan that had survived long after the Jurassic Period and its smaller, well known relatives had gone extinct.

The monster had a body plan much more in common with Godzilla than a normal theropod as it stood upright in a semi-vertical posture with its slightly sloped, large armored tail closer to the ground but held aloft enough that it wouldn't actually drag into the earth when roaming. It had silver gray scales with a bluish undertone to them when shone by either sunlight or moonlight, a black striped pattern on its arms, and large splotched bands of dark azure on its neck, hips, and tip of its tail while sporting a yellowish-white underside. Its head, while smaller in contrast to the rest of its limbs and body in terms of proportions much unlike its smaller relatives, was still big enough to sport heavyset snout and jaws, which made it resemble Godzilla but with a few differences. First, it had a small, thin dewlap under its throat. Second, it had a pair of lacrimal horns more prominent and longer than Godzilla's and they were berry red in color. Third, it had three rows of large red to dark indigo dorsal spines starting from the base of its head, down its curvy, powerful eagle-like neck until to between its shoulder girdles where the spines were the largest. From there, it was just the middle row of spines as the other two rows stopped rather abruptly at the shoulders. The spines gradually became smaller to the point of being bumpy, bony ridges halfway down its tail. Also unlike Godzilla's dorsal plates that were broad and had sharp protrusions on both margins that gave them their distinctive likeness to a maple leaf, this Titan's dorsal plates more resembled sawtoothed scimitar blades with only the anterior margin having the jagged edge to them while the posterior margin remained smooth.

Finally, the dinosaurian monster's arms were just as long, but leaner in musculature than Godzilla's brawnier arms. The beast's hands only possessed three fingers tipped with deadly hooked, scythe-like talons vaguely resembling Freddy Krueger's vicious claws. The monster's legs were stockier than tree trunks with large meaty muscles in those hindlimbs, yet its ankles and feet were still emu-like with sharp talons, which would give the impression that these limbs belonged to that of an extremely large, ground-dwelling bird of elephantine proportions.

The allosauroid Titan, Titanus Gwangi, or simply known as Gwangi, stood over at 118 meters, or 390 feet tall and 453 meters or 1,488 feet long. It was accidentally discovered by a group of American, British, and Danish scientists conducting their joint geological survey of Greenland. It had been dubbed the "Arctic Giant" by the geologists when it had been found behind a wall of ice and crystals within an enormous cave underneath Greenland on Summer of 1996. Later, Monarch took over and their studies concluded that the giant theropod wasn't dead, but in suspended animation for reasons unknown. All of this was enough for Monarch to have justification to build Outpost 69 where Monarch's scientists have monitored its faint, but definite signs of life in the frozen Titan for many years until now.

Sadly, the Titan was no longer frozen, but awakened and furious when it savagely tore its way out of its imprisonment. The very Monarch outpost was sabotaged by one of the sleeper agents placed in by Red Bamboo as part of a mysterious, yet dangerous plan to disable several Monarch bases to free the Titans.

The Titan emerged out from the cave system and onto the surface world starting in Greenland. It trekked unimpeded across the giant island until reaching the city of Nuuk on the southwestern side of Greenland where it made a short destructive mess of it. From there, it swam south through Labrador Sea, bypassed the Island of Newfoundland, cruised through the North Atlantic Ocean until it made landfall on Rhode Island. The giant dinosaur rampaged and crossed through state lines of Connecticut and New York as it had been attracted by the spiked surge of radioactivity happening in Manhattan. It was here where it came into disastrous conflict with the heroes and even their villainous enemies doing their damnedest to prevent Big Apple from turning into a kaiju hotspot.

The military, Manhattan's other dedicated defenders, and their enemies were already stressed and worn out by the staggering number of intense battles. Clearly at their wits' end from having to deal with endless spawns of kaiju. Having a Titan jump into the fray, however, was the worst case scenario they could ever have, turning their desperate battle into an unwinnable war.

To Gwangi, they were competitors trying to take away her source of food, which were the mutant kaiju. Such nuisance must be eliminated to ensure her own survival. After making that calculus, Gwangi declared her presence to the defenders, who were rendered aghast at her. Stomping into the fray while taking advantage of the element of surprise, Gwangi plunged the whole battlefield into chaos with the intent to destroy her competition, which she did as she tore off the Rosso Aegis Gundam's wings, leaving Clyde grounded. Then the dinosaur sliced through Ant-Man's suit and skin, tearing off his right hand with her butcher knife-like teeth and persistent twisting and flexing of her neck. She rendered him incapacitated shortly afterwards with a lethal bite to his head, which exacerbated to the huge strain of maintaining his Pym Particles at 200 feet tall. With the Flash, she simply timed her tail at the right moment and she struck him in the head with just a flick of her tail, knocking him out cold completely with serious head trauma to boot. Gwangi created seismic shockwaves with one powered slamming stomp of her right foot that tore through the street pavement, killing many ground-bound soldiers, destroying much of the artillery units, while killing huge numbers of mutant predators. Unfortunately, Atlesian Huntresses, Neon Katt and Elm Ederne had been damaged by those same shockwaves with half of their Aura lost as a result. Now, Gwangi just heavily injured Butterfly, dominating her with longer years of combat experience, bigger size, sheer ferocity, and superior weaponry compared to Butterfly.

Mary Jane, on the other hand, had only started getting acquainted with her powers just five months ago since she was kidnapped into an illegal experiment of transmuting a human into a Titan or daikaiju. Barely enough that she could put up a decent fight thanks to help from her boyfriend, Peter Parker AKA Spider Man, the Fantastic Four, and the Avengers, which included the ones that managed to save her life and stabilize her mutation somewhat by having her exposed to the Pym Particles for a long period of time, Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne. Even their competitors and allies such as the Justice League, Overwatch, and even Monarch were sometimes called in for additional help of containment when she would experience random hormonal imbalances that would translate into violent outbursts, which were side effects of her evolving body still coming to terms with her superhuman, half-Titan biology. She had other more unresolved issues that were holding her back from fully embracing her new self. This rendered her being unable to tap into her full strongest potential, which not even Dr. Curt Connors, Batman, Dr. Ishiro Serizawa, nor Winston could understand what that was exactly as her body was still mutating at an unpredictable rate.

So when the crisis came about, Peter Parker was very reluctant to have her involved after all the trauma of the unethical experimentation done on her by a crackpot mad scientist affiliated with Red Bamboo. Also, despite Mary Jane's desire to fight alongside him that grew stronger over time after she had better control of her powers, she still had no experience fighting monsters, let alone a Titan, which was at the top of the hierarchical food chain of the monster world. However after some convincing from Tony Stark, the Fantastic Four, as well as reassurances from his aunt, May Parker, he reconciled with Mary Jane and both gave each other reassurances that strengthened their strong romantic bond.

Now Mary Jane felt that bond starting to fracture with her sharp insectoid Titan-like senses screaming that her mate was in dire straits.

Unfortunately, everyone else was preoccupied either fighting the ever swelling numbers of the mutated wildlife, or the newly arrived aerial Titans, who were Titanus Rodan, the fiery volcanic pterosaurian Titan from the volcanic island of Fiji, and Titanus Fenghuang, AKA Pyrornis the Firebird that had awakened from the Hekla Volcano in Iceland; both of which were turning the skies above Manhattan into a living inferno. Fighter jets, drone-like mobile armors, mobile suits, and several battleships from the Atlas Academy, and the American-Atlantic Republic airborne fleet were torn apart by beak and claw, and/or burnt by these prehistoric bird-like monsters as their bodies constantly generated volcanic embers, exuding them from their wings.

The front bow of an Atlesian battleship plummeted into the Cassa Hotel. A limbless Windam mobile suit with half of its faceplate and its Jet Striker engines absolutely bursting into explosive flames crashed into the Havana Central Times Square before it imploded. Times Square around Mary Jane was going up in flames despite the rain coming down from the heavens.

That was when Gwangi lunged downwards with her jaws about to snap shut onto Mary Jane's head.

"GAH! You bitch!" The half-human, half-insect giantess swore as she instinctively dodged her head and neck to the left, making the Allosaurid Titan bite nothing but rubble. Butterfly unsheathed her sharp claws from her exoskeletal digits of her hands. She swerved right her head away from another bite before she swiftly lashed out with a couple of claw swipes that struck the giant dinosaur in the neck and her fenstrae of her snout, which made Gwangi screech in shock.

Butterfly snarled as she did another swipe at the face, slicing Gwangi closer to her nostrils. Gwangi was so stunned and shocked by the slash directly to her nostrils that she completely loosened her foot's grip on her stomach, which enabled Butterfly to kick the theropod Titan directly with both of her feet to push her off further away from her. With that, Mary Jane rolled back to her feet as she stood and thankfully, her butterfly wings were still intact, albeit a little tattered around their fringes.

"There's more of where that's coming from!" Mary Jane taunted. Her wounds were already starting to heal into blood-clotted scars, but it would take more time for them to completely fade as she had not yet completely grown in her mutant powers. So she had to be more careful not to take very serious hits that could overtax her regenerative ability.

Gwangi stumbled a little bit before she stopped herself. When she opened her eyes, instead of greenish with orange halo around her pupil, they were now completely red-orange. Her pupils were no longer like that of a hawk, but slit like that of a pissed off cat.

She's truly angry and a scary sight to behold with her own blood matting her face. She was seeing red almost literally. She growled with her scaly lips curling into a wrathful snarl baring her fangs with a hiss coming through her teeth. Her hooked fingers flexing, making her longer, blade-like claws seem to shimmer from the lightning and flames all around Times Square. Her tail swished quickly about in a very menacing manner. Her nostrils blowing out hot gusts of steam despite bleeding red with her blood.

"Yeah, you feeling angry? Good. Then we're both even," Butterfly said darkly as she cracked her own knuckles before Mary Jane positioned herself into an offensive stance with her body leaning forward and her legs bent towards. Her feet's sharp claws planted firmly through the wrecked remains. She outstetched her left arm while her left hand flexed, brandishing its claws. Her right arm reared greatly until her hand, which was clenched into a fist with its claws sheathed for now to prevent them from cutting deep into her palm, was parallel to her head. Her five pairs of butterfly wings spread out erected with the 'eyespots' having this illusion of glaring just like Mary Jane's actual eyes towards Gwangi.

Hollowing howls of wind and rain caused some of Mary Jane's red hair to billow right in front of her darkened eyes. They partially covered her upper part of her face in shadows. Her blue eyes illuminated an ominous blue in the darkness just like Gwangi's own red eyes, turning her into a vengeful goddess that would have been out of place for her if she had been just her former self. Mary Jane's own mouth curled into a snarling visage, revealing sharpened canine fangs with the rest of her teeth gritting against each other, expressing her seething rage that she was about to unleash turn into an explosive firestorm. The unforgettable, traumatic sight of Peter, her dearest boyfriend, bleeding from where the spear protruded into, which compounded onto everything that had changed for the worse, caused her to finally snap.

Lightning flashed with thunder clamoring loudly in the darkened skies with both combatants silently glaring daggers at each other to see who would make the move first.

In a next moment's flash of the lightning bolt, Gwangi was the first to make her next move as she headbutted right into Mary Jane with a straightforward ramming of her skull. Mary Jane or Butterfly did a recovering backflip while destroying News Corp and McGraw-Hill Buildings and hovered high into the air with her wings flapping.

"HRRRAAAAAAAAGGGHHH!" She screamed like a banshee as she swooped down with an aerial kick.

Gwangi simply sidestepped and Butterfly smashed the 1166 Avenue of the Americas, which was where the Capital One Bank was stationed, instead. The Allosaurid Titan raised her right foot high and slammed it down, but Mary Jane's relatively leaner and athletic frame enabled her to move faster on a dime to prevent herself from being crushed underfoot. She struck back with three claw swipes and a several punches to Gwangi's stomach and chest, inflicting little damage as the underside scales were still tough like chainmail armor. The dinosaur swung her arms with terrifying quick speeds plus tremendous power, bringing her dangerous claws to bear as she went to slice and dice her up.

Mary Jane had to duck her head and even lean backwards to avoid getting slashed in the chest. She then twirled her muscular body around and then jumped for a roundhouse high kick to Gwangi's head and neck. Her long leg connecting with the monster's powerful chest, but again, it only made Gwangi slightly flinch before she slapped Butterfly away with her tail. The red-haired giantess-kaiju hybrid grunted from being clubbed by Gwangi's lizard-like tail before she had to swerve greatly to her left to avoid another jaw lunge from the reptilian Titan. The ground shook from Mary Jane backing off a little bit of distance from Gwangi as she went for a mall complex and tore off a neon advertisement screen, which she then threw it at her bigger opponent. Gwangi simply caught it with her jaws and bit it in half in no time, while she stomped in fast charging walk tearing up the streets with her feet.

"I will have to take it up a notch!" Butterfly snarled as she shot up flying into the sky. She channeled her energies and rage into driving her body mutate further as she concentrated with her eyes squeezed shut. Her arms bulged with her muscles expanding beneath her armored exoskeleton, the exoskeleton itself reforming becoming spikier by the minute, and several somethings protruding through her skin and suit, which were bony spurs having tiny sharp ridges to them. Her feet morphed into that of grasping eagle-like talons with her bitten ankle healed and reformed the moment it mutated. Long antennae grew from her forehead and from them, sprouted fur-like strands, which resulted in the antennae being furry and matching the color of her hair. An extra pair of eyelids formed above her first pair of eyes and then they bulged into being as actual another pair of eyes, albeit. However, when she opened both pairs, there was a stark difference between the two pairs of blue eyes. Whilst her first one are her actual eyes like what you would expect from a human being, her second pair above them were far more alien. Instead of the sclera, the iris, and the pupil typical of a human eye, these eyes were spherically compound and each of them contain up to thousands upon thousands of "ommatidia", or individual light receptors working in unison to produce a mosaic pattern and view of Gwangi and Manhattan around her.

That was as far as she could mutate when she heard another loud roar that was not coming from Gwangi this time. It was immediately accompanied by an emerald energy stream of pure radioactivity that blasted into the surrounding area followed by Gwangi, who shrieked out of pained shock being blasted in the sides.

"What the hell just happened?!" That was all she could say before she heard another of the same irate roar and she was next to be blasted by the same stream of radioactive energy into her upper body. "AAAAHHH!"

She plummeted to the ground, crashing onto the Winter Garden Theatre in a smoking heap.

Bursting out from the Times Square Building was Titanus Jira, who had now truly lost his temper after chasing Leo, Casey, and Mondo now into the heart of Times Square. To add insult to injury, not only was his and Komodithrax's subterranean nest destroyed along with the eggs, which his mate worked so hard to lay and hatch the next generation, the City of Manhattan that was his refuge-turned-home was burning and there were many other intruders making a catastrophic mess of it when he was so distracted.

And Komodithrax had gone chasing the others responsible for killing off their hatchlings to God only knew where.

SSKKKRREEEEEEEOOOOOONNNNNGGGGKKKK!

Zilla angrily roared. He was gonna have heads roll for this travesty. No superhuman, mecha, or even a Titan was going to stop him from completing his renewed mission to punish the homewreckers for turning his entire territory into a shithole.

Manhattan was already screwed, and it was only going to worsen in the days ahead.

TBC