The New Vicar

Vatican City.

The Pope had tried to cast him away with useless Latin invocations. All it got His Holiness was to be roasted alive.

Where once the throne of St. Peter sat, now loomed the demonic leviathan known in two universes as SpaceGodzilla. The once iconic structures of Vatican City were replaced by glowing crystal towers, serving as a conduit, channeling the energies of the planet for it's own use.

His masterstroke invasion was going rather smoothly, if not boring. Earth's mighty heroes were offering little resistance, with the exception of Thor fighting King Ghidorah across Africa and India.

Dozens of heroes were dispatched against Gigan, Orga, and Himself, none of whom lasted long. Spacegodzilla was beginning to doubt if it was worth coming here at all.

Dropping back into meditation, SpaceGodzilla could now feel the powers of this world being exercised. Then he felt one is particular, one that was trying to reach him. Interested, he focused in.

"This is an attempt to communicate with the being known as Spacegodzilla, if you can understand me, please acknowledge."

"I hear you, human. What, do you want?"

"My name is Charles Xaiver, I have many questions for you. But first, how can you understand me?"

"we are communicating thoughts human, not words. Has your pitiful human minds not realized that concept yet?"

Using Cerebro, Professor X sits in concentration, this is possibly the most important conversation any human has ever had.

"Why have you four come to our universe?"

"We have come for many reasons, Gigan follows his programming, To exterminate humanity. And his primary objective, destroy Godzilla.

Orga is obsessed with absorbing more genetic material, his structure is unstable, and he needs new material in order not to break down completely.

King Ghidorah, seeks the destruction of all life on the planets he visits. King Ghidorah, is comparable to a god from our universe, tell me, why have more heroes not been dispatched to fight him?"

"we judged the situation between Ghidorah and Thor to be too dangerous to send others into the fray."

"A wise choice" muses SpaceGodzilla "King Ghidorah, the real King Ghidorah, has never been defeated by any one foe." "There have been others?" Xaiver asks.

"Oh yes, The real Ghidorah attacked Earth 3 times before Godzilla and others defeated him, trapping him within the Earth's crust. Since Ghidorah cannot be killed, he resided there until his powers were revived. He escaped unnoticed amongst the chaos of Godzilla's fight with Mothra and Battra.

But the others, there was an attempt by visitors from Earth's future to create a Ghidorah of their own, this one being a reduced version, was demolished by Godzilla. The body of this imposter was made into the much more formidable Mecha-King Ghidorah.

Another Ghidorah came to Earth, but was felled by a Mothra. And yet another species of Ghidorah, a hulking four-legged breed, came to invade, and was within moments of killing Godzilla, but human interference cost him his victory.

This time however, the Golden God has the numbers on his side, Godzilla and anyone who allies with him will die."

"What are your goals SpaceGodzilla?"

"I will rule this world, and everything on it. It will be a stepping-stone in my apotheoses, I will become God."

"what will you do with humans?" Xaiver was becoming even more shaken.

"at first your kind will serve me, but at the moment I set out for the rest of the universe, I will mercifully wipe you out."

"why?" Xaiver asked with a gulp.

"because you are vermin, you are not worthy of existence."

"We will try to stop you."

"yes you will try." with that, SpaceGodzilla shut off the link with the human.

His power of awareness picked-up a new mind heading toward his kingdom.

Miles away, the Sentry zoomed to the position of SpaceGodzilla.

Saudi Arabia had a massive scar across itself. Thor and King Ghidorah had laid a trail of destruction from Africa to India.

The Hindu's had actually began to worship King Ghidorah, believing it to be the God Shiva, The God of Destruction.

As mighty as Thor was, he was as a gnat before King Ghidorah's confounding 150 meter tall body. This served in the Thunder god's favor, Ghidorah was simply to massive to catch Thor, and he was able to strike, move, and strike again with near impunity.

However, Thor never got the chance to get a hit powerful enough to do much damage against the titan's golden scales. Every time he tried to get his hands on the beast, a creeping darkness would invade Thor, as if direct contact with the beast would pervert his soul. Thor had been hit with Ghidorah's gravity bolts a few times now, and each time felt like, well, being struck by lightning. Thor knew he could not keep this up forever, he needed help, soon.

As the Sentry, Robert Reynolds gazed at the horrifying form of SpaceGodzilla, growling, and seeming to peering into his spirit. Sentry decided to cut to the chase. Blasting yellow energy from his hands, in an attempt to get a quick advantage. A mysterious translucent crystal shield blocked the shots, and provided safety for SpaceGodzilla.

"so, that didn't work."

Sentry flew forward, to try a direct physical attack, but was stopped in his tracks by a dose of SpaceGodzilla's crippling Corona Beam. Released from his maw, snaking in mid-air, and striking in the most vulnerable spot.

"Oh God! What was that!" Sentry exclaimed in pain. Stung, he continued on, more driven now than before.

"very intriguing this one, he survived my corona beam", thought SpaceGodzilla. "let's see what this creature has floating in his pathetic little head!"

As Sentry began to press his assault, his vision began to blur, and his head began to spin. He could not discern up from down, it felt like someone was tearing through his brain like cop with a search warrant.

SpaceGodzilla, probed, and dug, and scoured every inch of Robert Reynolds mind, "Xaiver didn't send him, he came on his own?, interesting" he found mostly useless memories, and was about to terminate his connection when he felt the presence of something very sinister in the humans head. "a dark secret?"

Sentry fell to the ground, in near paralysis, his conscious was being raped, and he just closed his eyes and cried.

When SpaceGodzilla finally broke into the dark region of Robert Reynolds mind, he was surprised, if not delighted, to find the Void.

"aren't you a devilish little creature? I bet Reynolds keeps you locked away for a good reason."

Spacegodzilla repairs the broken walls in Sentry's mind as he extracts himself.

Sentry slowly climbs to his feet, he strained his neck to gaze up at the gargantuan frame of 110 meter tall SpaceGodzilla. He felt a heavy dread in the pit of his gut.

"it is me again Robert."

"who?" asked Sentry, fearful of the answer he knew was coming.

"The Void, Robert, it's been a while, hasn't it?"

"you're not the Void!"

"yes I am"

"YOU'RE NOT THE VOID!" screamed Sentry. Could it be true? Could Void really have taken another form?

Sentry fell to a knee, breathing erratically, he couldn't concentrate anymore.

It was this moment of weakness SpaceGodzilla needed, seizing the moment, he delved back into Sentry's mind, and created a hallucination, that Sentry was trapped, wrapped in a straight-jacket that he could not escape.

Sentry wriggled on the ground, struggling against nothing. SpaceGodzilla let loose what translated to a snicker, but what sounded like grumbling, he raised a small circle of crystal spikes from the ground, then levitated sentry into the center, once inside, SpaceGodzilla bonded the crystals, creating a pointed dome.

Sentry now lay helpless, trapped in a prison cell, which now descended back into the earth, out of sight.

SpaceGodzilla closed his eyes and concentrated on the other monsters, in his mind's eye, he saw Gigan destroy another two satellites, he saw King Ghidorah rip Bombay apart, he saw Orga in a wild-west stare-down with a miniscule green being. And he saw Godzilla, which made him snarl in contempt. The Earth champion was swimming in the Atlantic Ocean, "coming here!?" SpaceGodzilla wondered. As he continued to spy on Godzilla, suddenly, Godzilla looked back at him.

His eyes opened, SpaceGodzilla's roar erupted in sheer rage.

Orga Smash

West Babylon, Long Island, New York

When the Hulk first saw the monster Orga, he expressed a grunt of amazement. But only for a moment, then he got mad.

"monster steal Hulk's fun! Hulk stronger than Monster! HULK RIP MONSTER APART!"

Orga heard some yelling coming from behind him, and turned to investigate, and let out his own thunderous roar.

Hulk jumped at Orga, and was met by a gigantic hand coming down to swat him like a fly.

Orga growled in pleasure as he expected the tiny green speck to be nothing short of a smear on the ground. But when he felt resistance against his hand, he grunted on irritation.

The Hulk lifted Orga's hand off of the ground and screamed his ire.

"Ugly Monster hit Hulk, Hulk break Monsters hand!"

With that, Hulk grabbed two of Orga's fingers, and ripped them away from the hand.

Orga bellowed in pain, and staggered backwards as black blood slowly leaked from where the digits were torn.

The spots where the fingers used to be, began to surge and pulse, and the sprouts of new fingers grew outwards, until they reached their full length and girth.

Orga realized that the green being that had managed to tear off his fingers must posses incredible power, power that he MUST have. First, subdue him, then extract his DNA.

Hulk had finished trying a taste of Orga meat, and he spit it out, "monster taste like rotten metal" he grumbled.

Hulk looked back to Orga, who seemed to have a yellow glowing pit on it's shoulder.

Orga's shoulder-mounted canon erupted and scored a full-frontal hit on Hulk, who bared his shoulder against the blast.

Seeing that this was not working, Orga slammed his huge right fist into the ground, causing the Hulk to stumble, and be overcome by the concussive force. Hulk went flying back a few hundred yards, and regained his footing.

Hulk screamed "HULK SMASH!" and slammed his fists into the ground, sending a shockwave that brought Orga down to one knee.

Hulk raged, and made a leap for Orga.

And Orga reacted in kind, leaping into the air, in a collision course with the Incredible Hulk.

Just as they were about to crash, Orga opened his maw and swallowed the Hulk. He landed and burped.

Inside, Hulk punched, ripped, tore, and bite his way through Orga's organs. Then Orga's insides started to bite back, lashing onto Hulk's limbs, and enveloping him, they began to glow as they sucked away the precious genetic material that made the Hulk the Hulk.

Hulk roared as he felt the sensation. First the monster had stolen his fun, now he was stealing his DNA. Orga could feel the raw, pure, power now merging with his body. Inside, Hulk was becoming weak, his groans and yells became shallow. Then is bonds released him from their grip, and he slowly was pushed back out of the body.

Orga spit the Hulk out like one would hock a loogi. Hulk rolled to his side, covered in slime, and strained to get to his feet.

He was weary, but still enraged. The Hulk rose to his feet, clenched his fists, and made one more roaring leap for the mountain that had just pirated his blood.

Orga saw his chance to try his new found power. When the Hulk was within range, Orga reared his hands back, and with one thunderclap, brought them together on the Hulk. He felt the being crumple in his grasp. When Orga pulled his hands apart, the Hulk, broken in so many places, fell to the ground and did not move.

Orga let out a roar of triumph. He felt that his vocal chords had been altered as well, human DNA had certain perks.

"ORGA SMASH!"

Orga mangled in his part human abomination of a voice, a new found sense of thrill welled up inside him.

He put his hands together in a hammer, and brought them down on the limp body of the Hulk. The crater, and fissures around it was comparable to meteor strikes. Not satisfied, Orga leaped in the air, and brought his feet down upon the center of the cavity. The body of the Hulk was nowhere to be seen. A grotesque smile spread across Orga's face, as he now believed that he could crush Godzilla in his hands.

ARMA-GIGAN-GEDDON

The cyborg had just blasted away the last satellite he could locate, and was now enroute to Russia.

Flying at mach 3, Gigan streaked across the skies of Russia, his computer system locating and activating the many nuclear ICBM's that lay hidden in the country.

Workers and military personnel scrambled to regain control over the hardware, but to no avail. Silos opened, and warheads pointed into the sky.

Next was Israel, and the hundreds of nuclear missiles sheltered from prying eyes, even the armament employed in the "Sampson Option", was not safe from Gigan's viral hacking.

Hundreds of weapons of mass destruction, in the land and sea, were now at Gigan's command.

In the south Atlantic ocean, an American nuclear submarine, lost and blind without it's satellite guidance system, slammed into an object that wasn't supposed to be there. Within a minute, it's crew were floating in the abyss, the wreckage of the USS Wilkshire littered the ocean floor.

Gigan realizing that it was his time, sent the signal, to every nuclear arm under his control, roughly 700, to launch.

The human crews watched helplessly as megatons of atomic weaponry got up, and walked-out.

The missiles began to reach the upper levels of the atmosphere, with Gigan waiting to greet them. As they reached him and changed their course according to the sinister cyborg's whim, he danced among them. Twirling his body, and emitting the shrill, profane shriek, Gigan loved his work.

Casting a baleful glare towards the Earth, Gigan selected his first targets, Los Angeles, and New York City. Two ICBM's parted and descended, minutes later, Gigan saw two beautiful flashes where the modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah once existed.

While remembering the locations of his allies, he spread his scythed arms, and sent dozens of warheads down to Earth at a time. Not even Antarctica was spared his wrath, as every continent was pounded by mankind's own greatest weapons.

Roused from his wandering by the vibrations of hundreds of impacts and explosion around the Earth, Godzilla decided to surface and investigate.

Over Bombay….

Thor and King Ghidorah were still locked in mortal combat. Thor striking where he could, then avoiding Ghidorah's gnashing teeth and gravity bolts.

Thor: (panting) "this beast doth seem invulnerable! Nor can I grab it without being tainted by it's evil. I cannot build the power necessary in Mjollnir to strike him with much force."

Streaking through the sky, one of the ICBMs launched by Gigan rockets towards the Earth. Thor sees it coming, and formulates a new plan.

Thor: "if I can't hit the dragon hard enough, verily that missile shall!"

Thor flies towards the oncoming warhead, with King Ghidorah close behind. Just before the missile strikes Thor, he swerves, and it continues towards Ghidorah. The king of terror is not afraid of any of man's weapons, and unleashes a gravity bolt to destroy the missile. When the bolt causes the warhead to explode, the concussive wave knocks both Thor and King Ghidorah out of the sky. Thor is sent careening into the ground, while King Ghidorah's back landed over a jagged cliff.

Thor is the first to recover: "by the All Father, verily that was enough to down the dragon."

Laying in a heap, King Ghidorah showed signs of stirring.

Thor: "the dragon yet lives, I must deliver his doom myself. FOR ODIN! FOR ASGUARD!"

The thunder god spun Mjolnir gathering power, and with a resolute hurl, the mighty hammer and an incredible display of lightning fury punished the King of Terror, and shrouded him in a cloud of dust and smoke. Mjolnir returned to Thor as he awaited confirmation of Ghidorah's demise.

King Ghidorah's center head comes through, flanked by the other two and at once unleash three gravity bolts that surrounded the thunder god, and held Thor in a grip of torment.

Thor struggled against the hold for a few moments, until finally he threw the energy off of him.

King Ghidorah cackled and shrieked as his hold was broken, and was repelled backwards.

Thor: "For Odin! For Asgard!"

Thor drew power into his hammer and the God of Thunder struck the titan center chest, and sent it plummeting to the ground.

Elsewhere….

Gigan was thoroughly enjoying himself, he was running down to his last few nuclear-powered javelins, when his computers picked-up a roar, a roar that Gigan had programmed himself to hear from half-way across the solar-system.

Gigan had two ICBMs left, wanting a steel-on-target hit, he lowered the intensity of his laser beam, and used it as a guiding system.

Godzilla looked down at the tiny red dot that had appeared on his chest, and grunted in curiosity.

With the targeting systems locked, Gigan sent the twin WMDs to their destination.

Godzilla looked to the sky and saw the two objects coming down at him. "this is an attack" he decided, and with astronomical precision that is belied by his seemingly simplemindedness, Godzilla fixed in on the objects, which were lining up, one behind the other.

But more than that, he was aiming past them, at the tiny twinkle in the sky beyond them.

Gigan seethed with anticipation.

Godzilla's dorsal plates danced with the blue energy, and particles of light were drawn into his mouth, as if a black-hole was created in the atomic titan's throat. And perhaps, one was.

Like the eruption of a volcano, the glowing bluish-white stream surged out of Godzilla's core, and within seconds, struck the first nuclear missile, and it exploded. It pushed on, and hit the second, shattering it as well.

Through the smoke and fire, Gigan could not see what was coming towards him.

Gigan shrieked in frustration, the warheads not impacting the target

The torrent of atomic wrath exited the cloud of the explosions and headed for it's third target.

Gigan saw the beam coming with the fraction of a second necessary to swerve his head.

Godzilla finally ended his burst, grunting in his dissatisfaction, "missed". He lowered his profile and sunk into the ocean.

Gigan's system was in a state of near overload, a mix of exasperation, rage, and fear. For a few minutes, he was frozen, drifting in space.

After a blast like that, Godzilla needed a meal of nuclear energy to revitalize himself. He sensed food was abundant.

MIND OVER METAL

Hundreds of nuclear weapons had been stopped by the combined efforts of Earth's heroes. But not all.

SpaceGodzilla had enjoyed the show Gigan had provided, humans wiped out by the millions, the invasion was going better than anticipated.

Like a freight train, the presence of a powerful mutant struck, his gaze turned in it's direction.

Jean Grey, sent by Professor Xaiver was going to try to beat SpaceGodzilla at his own game. Deciding that brute force would not crack his defense, Jean's awesome psychic abilities might be the way.

Jean: "I'm just reaching SpaceGodzilla now professor. He knows I'm coming."

Prof. X: "be careful Jean, we don't know just how powerful he truly is."

Jean: "If I feel like he's too much for me, I'll pull back."

Gliding into the vicinity of SpaceGodzilla, Jean can feel the titan trying to read her mind.

Trying to probe into the mind of the human, SpaceGodzilla can sense that this one is not one to be considered lightly.

Jean finally comes face to face with SpaceGodzilla.

SpaceGodzilla shrieks at his diminutive foe. Jean opens the psychic link, and makes the challenge.

"Jean: "My name is Jean Grey, of the X-Men. I'm here to persuade you to reconsider your plans for our planet. And if you don't, I will try to kill you."

SpaceGodzilla: "Kill me? Puny human! (shrieking roar) To enlighten you, the conquest of your planet is but a stepping stone in my grand scheme. Listen closely Jean Grey of the X-Men: it makes no difference to me whether or not you are wiped out, Orga, Gigan, and King Ghidorah are the ones concerned with your extinction. I am the lesser of two evils"

Jean: "then your still evil."

With that, Jean began her attempt to shut down SpaceGodzilla's mind. SpaceGodzilla felt the pressure, and pushed back himself. The ground begins to shake as the tension of the two opposing forces builds.

Jean Grey: "He's so powerful!"

SpaceGodzilla: "I will not be defeated by a human!" (Shrieks)

A sphere of purple fire had begun to form between the two of them, growing in mass as the struggle continued.

SpaceGodzilla: "This needs to end now"

Jean Grey: "I've pushed to far! I can't stop now!"

SpaceGodzilla commanded a crystal tower to fire a bolt of energy at Jean Grey, and once it struck her, her focus was broken.

The sphere of purple fire was pulled towards, and engulfed Jean.

She screamed as she was drowned in the ethereal flame, and fell in a heap to the earth where she lay unconscious.

SpaceGodzilla summoned another crystal prison forth, and quickly placed Jean Grey inside.

Shrieking his victory, SpaceGodzilla did not notice the new tiny figure entering the vicinity.

He had been watching for quite a while now, and after seeing SpaceGodzilla dispatch one of the most powerful psychics in the world, Magneto decided it was time to introduce himself.

Taking off his helmet, Magneto awaited SpaceGodzilla to discover him.

SpaceGodzilla: "I was wondering when you would quit hiding."

Magneto: "You saw me then?"

SpaceGodzilla: " I could not read your mind, but myself and Godzilla possess an astronomical eyesight."

Magneto: "I have thoroughly enjoyed watching you and the others trample the homo sapiens underfoot. We have a common goal, I can facilitate your destruction of the humans if you leave this planet to my race, homo sapien-superior."

Spacegodzilla: "homo sapien-superior? Ah, the heroes. Perhaps we can. What are your capabilities?"

Magneto waves his hand at a mountain of metal rubble, holds it in the air, and transforms it into different contortions.

SpaceGodzilla: "intriguing human. Come forth, place your hands on a crystal, and have your powers amplified."

Magneto cautiously places his hands on a crystal, and begins to feel the rush of power.

Magneto: "yes! I feel it! The command is like nothing I've ever felt before!

While he is rapt by the influx of energy, the crystal begins to slowly cover his hand.

Magneto: 'what are you doing?! We had a deal!"

SpaceGodzilla: 'I make no deals with humans! You are all vermin compared to me! The best of you deserve no reprieve, no truce, no mercy!"

The crystal crawls up Magneto's arms, and begins to cover the rest of his body, until he is trapped, like a fly in ice. The crystal serving as a conductor to channel Magneto's power into something SpaceGodzilla can use.

SpaceGodzilla: "what a pitiful bunch."

The Cavalry

After Tony Stark left the Triskelion, he went to his plan B.

With the generous help of G-FORCE, Ironman was able to acquire some reinforcements to fight the monster invasion.

Leading the charge, returning to the Marvel universe, Ironman guided his new friend Kiryu, and Tony himself piloted Mecha-Ghidorah.

ELSEWHERE….

In the solitary confinement block of a SHEILD underground facility, a woman lays in a bed in an induced coma. Scarlet Witch had been declared a menace to humanity, and thusly was secured here, under highly controlled conditions. Though the nuclear explosions had rocked the planet, this particular facility was designed for such a thing, and was efficient as ever.

Nick Fury looked down at his plan to get the monsters under control. He knew Godzilla was to volatile to try to control, but he hoped to just push him in the right direction.

He used a knife to cut the cords and other instruments used to monitor Wanda, and waited for her wake up.

Later

A few dozen miles off the coast of the Florida peninsula, Godzilla moves through the ocean waters inspecting more and more of this new world, it's strange smells and beings. Earlier he had traveled past a huge domed construction on the sea floor.

The ocean currents had picked-up a minute amount he noticed, odd. Then a new smell caught his nose, stopping Godzilla in his stride. Godzilla decided it was time.

Clash in Space

Tony Stark liked his new friends.

Kiryu had been sent to fight Orga, and Mecha-Ghidorah was headed into the outer atmosphere to find the one responsible for sending an estimated 3 billion people into nuclear annihilation. Using Mecha-Ghidorah's advanced future technology, Tony could go farther into space than he ever could in his IronMan suit.

Gigan was documented as an ambush attacker, so Tony had one of the heads facing back at all times.

Tony Stark: "where are you, you damned cyborg."

Suddenly, his scanners picked-up a large object traveling at him at incredible speeds. The first beep was at 400 miles away.

Tony: "there he is!"

the second beep, 200.

Tony: "What?"

By the third beep, Mecha-Ghidorah was spinning head over heals from the impact of Gigan's collision. And before Tony could right himself, red explosions burst all around him, temporarily blinding his systems.

Gigan screeched in his half-animal/half-machine voice, and went back in for another attack.

The video screen cleared just in time for Tony to catch Gigan bull-rushing him.

Gigan had tackled Mecha-Ghidorah, and was now using his arms to pin back his wings, and Gigan's chest saw was whirring away, closer and closer to the body encasing Tony.

Tony: "I may be new in this suit, but I'm a very fast learner."

Tony ordered the two side heads to bite Gigan on either side of it's neck, and send a jolt of power through.

Gigan cried in pain as he was forced to release his bear-hug, and stagger back. Once some distance was created the center head let fly with it's triple maser cannon, striking Gigan in the forehead, blinding the cycloptic titan.

Tony: "now it's you stumbling in the dark Gigan."

Gigan lashed out randomly, for a few moments until his radar sensors gained full control. Just in time to catch the first claw of the Godzilla grip latch onto his arm, then the second on his other arm.

Gigan tried to wriggle free as the second two grasped his legs.

Tony: "it time to shut you down: Computer, send the body grip."

The center covers opened and the big, main clamp came forth, grabbing Gigan.

Tony: "computer, send the shocks."

Wave after wave of energy pulses raced down the clamps and shocked Gigan repeatedly, the monster's anguished wails broadcasting out into the nether reaches of space. The pain of the shocks preventing him from teleporting.

Tony: "all out of tricks are you?"

As if he could hear him, Gigan ended his cries, raised his arms, and slashed through the cables holding his arms.

Tony: [worried and surprised] "I guess not"

Gigan leveled his arms at Mecha-Ghidorah and fired his own grappling-hooks, that wrapped around the two side heads and strangled them. Then the chest saw started again, it began to chew through the main clamp, and pulling himself forward with his own cables, Gigan cut closer and closer to Mecha-Ghidorah's body.

Tony: "very clever Gigan."

Gigan fired a direct beam of red energy at Mecha-Ghidorah and which sent sparks flying, inside and out.

Tony: "so it's one of those fights huh?"

Tony unleashed the full power of the center head, and blasted Gigan in the neck. This caused the tension on the cables holding the side heads to slacken. Once free, they also opened-up on Gigan.

Paralyzed by the combination of the triple-maser and twin gravity bolts, Gigan's circuitry began to overload and fail. The spiders falling back on their programming to deny repair service during an overload.

Finally, the light in Gigan's eye went out, and his arms went limp, and the chest saw slowed to a stop.

Tony Stark: "This calls for a drink."

Tony grabbed the bottle of Saki, opened it, and took a good swig. Then he almost choked on a scroll of paper contained inside.

Tony unfurled it.

Tony: "I'll have to look this over later, I have a date with a space monster. And I never miss a date."

The Hulking Mountain

Orga had gone mad with power.

The new strength and rage flowing within him had taken over, and Orga now rampaged down the eastern seaboard.

The shoulder-mounted beam had been the cause of billions of dollars of damage, now in a super powered state, it carved the Earth.

He now sought to further flatten an area, deserted due to the radioactive smog.

Four sidewinder missiles impacted into Orga's back. In the middle of his enraged roar, Kiryu slammed into Orga with a titanic shoulder block, sending Orga flying back.

Kiryu landed and roared back in defiance. By the time the roar finishes, Orga leaps towards Kiryu, and upon landing punches Kiryu in the chest, sending him flying back.

Robot Dragon attack Orga Orga smash Robot Dragon!

With Kiryu stunned on the ground, Orga leveled it's shoulder for a blast when a funnel of fire scorched Orga's back.

Johnny Storm: "It's nice to be back in the fight!"

Johnny Storm, and Sue and Richard Reed in the Fantasti-car, flew in offering Kiryu the distraction he needs to thrust out of the way of Orga's slamming fist.

Sue: "setting up the bubble now Johnny!"

Human Torch blasted Orga with enough fire to engulf the beast, while the Invisible Woman once again trapped a monster in a shell.

Orga was roasted in the egg of fire, and the heroes thought they had the creature beat.

Orga used his massive claws to smash out of his confinement and growled his displeasure. He punched the ground and sent a fissure of earth in the direction of the Marvel heroes and sent them scattering.

Orga turned his attention to Kiryu in time to catch a rake of metal claws dig into it's face, and tear away the unstable flesh, and then an uppercut, which dislocated Orga's jaw.

Kiryu took a step back and watched Orga slowly turn his head, the claw tears already healing, and the lower jaw making sickening sounds as it lodged itself back into place. The hole in Orga's shoulder glowed with the yellow energy that erupted out and swept across the battlefield. Kiryu ducked, and the Marvel heroes dispersed.

Kiryu wrapped his tail around Orga's leg, fired-up his thrusters, and yanked the alien leviathan a few hundred yards, before Orga got a hold of the ground.

Orga somersaulted and grabbed Kiryu, slamming him into the ground, sparks flying upon impact.

Kiryu understood that this fight could not continue much longer, Orga had grown far to powerful.

With the Marvel Heroes not attacking, and Kiryu prostrate before him, Orga bellowed in triumph. All that was left was to shatter his enemies.

Orga lifted Kiryu above his head and prepared to rip the haunted machine in two when Human Torch again let loose a torrent of fire. Orga looked at the humans with a smirk, believing that they could do nothing to him. With the opening there, the three panels on Kiryu's chest opened, and the yellow and blue energy began to form.

Richard Reed: "I've seen this in the videos! Susan! Stand by for another bubble!"

Orga looked up to Kiryu and only saw the blue orb of energy, and was the first monster directly hit by the Absolute Zero cannon.

The energy shot into Orga and spread throughout it's body, leaving Kiryu held in the air by an ice sculpture.

Invisible Woman created an air bubble in the center of Orga's body and expanded it outward until it caused the frozen monster to shatter.

Kiryu had just enough power left to land on his fee could do little else.

He tried to move but the Absolute Zero cannon had drained almost every ounce of energy left.

Richard Reed: "it look's like he's drained of power, there must be something I can do!" Reed thought hard. "Susan! Power cables under the street! Lift one out and put it to Kiryu's dorsal spines!"

Invisible Woman lifted a large vine of power cables out from the ground, and touched the ends to the metallic spines on Kiryu's back.

The sparks and flashes were a sign that power was flowing and soon Kiryu stood erect and strong.

Kiryu looked down to the three humans and gave a slight nod.

Johnny Storm, Richard & Susan Reed smiled in return.

Kiryu roared triumph and with rocket boosters blasting, sent off to his next mission.

Alliance of Gods

The battle had intensified between Thor and King Ghidorah. The King of Terror fought back with a vengeance after being knocked out of the sky, and a reinvigorated sense of confidence filled Thor, now knowing that he could hurt the mighty dragon.

King Ghidorah in his fury, had lashed out at everything around him, using his gravity bolts and hurricane winds to ravage the land around him, fire, smoke and destruction replaced the once beautiful jungle.

Now back in Wakanda, both understood that something was going to give.

Thor: "King Ghidorah, you will fall before the champion of Asguard!'

Thor summoned power into his hammer and readied for a grand strike. King Ghidorah could sense the gathering force and drew on his own reserves for a counter.

When Thor finally sent his bolt, Ghidorah reacted in kind, releasing it's own bolts of energy.

When the two forces met the fusion of the blue and golden lightning shamed the northern lights.

The power struggle continued until as Thor noticed a strange blue light coming from behind King Ghidorah.

Godzilla's nuclear beam collided into Ghidorah's back completely surprising the Planet Killer, who ended it's stream and was now caught and suffering the combined powers of Thor and Godzilla.

When the twin punishment ended, King Ghidorah collapsed to the ground and cried in pain.

Thor looked across the battlefield and gazed at Godzilla for the first time.

Thor: "Verily I can feel the awesome power of the beast. This is no ordinary monster before me."

Godzilla let his iconic legendary echoing roar, the King of the monsters had arrived, spurned on by an usually fast ocean current, and it was time to put the challenger in his place. He looked across at Thor, and recognized him. Godzilla never forgets.

Thor smiled "this will be interesting."

Thor and Godzilla lock eyes, knowing that King Ghidorah is the enemy here, at once they move toward the downed Golden Dragon.

Suddenly, Ghidorah leaps from the ground, the combined might of this puny human and his nemesis might be too much. He tries to fly away.

Thor: "Nay Dragon! You will suffer the consequences of your deeds!'

Thor chases after Ghidorah and grabbing his tail, swings the titan back to the Earth. Ghidorah cackles in shock as he is thrown down.

Godzilla is waiting and when Ghidorah nears, Godzilla swings his tail like a baseball bat and levels Ghidorah across it's chest, crashing the monster into the ground.

Thor and Godzilla both lean over to inspect the fallen behemoth, and after a moment are met by lightning bolts to the face, as Ghidorah lashes out in desperation.

Jumping up, Ghidorah dropkicks Godzilla in the chest, then spinning in mid-air, his tails come around and bash Thor out of the sky.

Hovering in the sky, King Ghidorah summons his great power and begins to cast gravity bolts from his wings, which strike Godzilla and Thor, subjecting them to incredible pain.

The sky around King Ghidorah darkens and lightning bolts erupt from the clouds, these are not his.

Storm: "You will not get away with what you've done to Wakanda!"

Instead of wasting her bolts on Ghidorah, she commands her lightning to hit Thor's Hammer and Godzilla's spines.

Thor's Hammer energized, it returns to his hand, and clenching the weapon, Thor rises with hatred in his eyes.

Godzilla's Spines absorb the bolts and the crackling energy stirs the king, and he stands to his feet.

Thor, Storm and Godzilla let loose with torrents of their respective powers. Ghidorah matches all three of them.

This time, Monster Zero is out-matched and the energy conflicts fall back on Ghidorah, ending in an explosion that blows it from it's perch in the sky.

King Ghidorah hit's the ground with an earth quaking rumble, and Thor and Godzilla waste no time.

Thor powers his Hammer and brings it down on the right head, splitting the skull, which remains lifeless.

Godzilla grabs the left head and using his awesome strength, crushes the skull, he can feel the bones break and crumple in his claws.

Not content to let the pain end, Godzilla and Thor grab the necks of their respective heads, and haul the body up and over themselves, and slam the body of King Ghidorah into the ground.

Determined that this would not be the end, Ghidorah moved with every ounce of strength left and tried to fly away once more, but Storm sent bolts of lightning into the wounded heads, sending searing pain into the main body of King Ghidorah.

Once more, Thor drew power into mighty Mjolnir, and Godzilla's spines glowed with energy, and at once both erupted with beams of force, which combined and struck the struggling King Ghidorah.

The king of Terror only lasted a few moments before exploding into a ball of fire, which flowed away in the wind, out into space.

Godzilla roared in triumph.

Thor looked to Storm, and exchanged smiles.

Thor: "good has beaten evil once more Storm, this strange alliance has taken the day."

Storm grinned and nodded in response, but her face soon turned to horror.

Storm: "Thor! Behind you!"

Thor turned in place and looked into Godzilla's bluish/white light of annihilation.

Thor was engulfed in the thermo-nuclear fire point-blank, and when it was over, Thor had simply vanished. Godzilla never forgets.

In her own shock and rage, Storm sent lightning bolts to strike Godzilla, which only served to empower the King even more. Deciding to employ this extra energy, Godzilla fired his beam once more, and obliterated the remaining ruins of Wakanda.

Now seeing her homeland and surrounding landscape destroyed, Storm sagged in the air, too sad and horror-stricken to more than watch Godzilla walk away.

And the Lame Shall Walk

SpaceGodzilla knew that Kiryu and Mecha-Ghidorah were on their way. He could never have expected how this battle would end.

It wasn't too long before Kiryu and Tony Stark arrived, a fierce stare down lasted for a minute.

Iron Man: "well SpaceGodzilla, let's dance."

Mecha-Ghidorah fired it's energy bolts, but they were deflected by SpacrGodzilla's translucent crystal shield. Kiryu next tried it's oral maser.

SpaceGodzilla countered with the corona beam, and aptly overpowered the opposition.

Mecha-Godzilla took to flight and went straight for the space demon. SpaceGodzilla calmly grabbed the cyborg dragon with a psychic vice and threw Tony Stark into a building.

Tony: "so he can grab stuff with his mind. OK, I can deal with that."

Kiryu tried a more direct approach, charging SpaceGodzilla. Two crystal towers at either side of SpaceGodzilla cast bolts of energy that shocked and stunned Kiryu.

Mecha-Ghidorah attacked from behind, using the triple maser beams, and the gravity bolts. The beams raked SpaceGodzilla's back. The Corona beam again struck, and blasted a hole in the left solar panel wing of Mecha-Ghidorah.

Tony's vessel fell to the ground.

Tony: "There's something on the wing! Alright, focus Tony."

Kiryu launched a barrage of missiles from his back panels, which rained down towards SpaceGodzilla.

SpaceGodzilla extended his claw and stopped the missiles in mid-air, letting out a low growl, turned them around and pounded them into Kiryu's body.

When the smoke cleared, Kiryu fell, unconscious to the ground.

SpaceGodzilla turned back to Mecha-Ghidorah just as it was rising, and grabbed the two organic necks with a chokehold, sending currents of pain through his grip. The center head attempted to wrap around, and vice grip around SpaceGodzilla's throat, but red bolts attacked, and kept the control head suppressed.

Behind the evil titan, Kiryu slowly rose to his feet, and opened the panels for the Absolute Zero cannon. SpaceGodzilla sensed the motion behind him and thrust-out his crystal tipped tail and impaled Kiryu in the center of the cannon. As an added act of contempt, SpaceGodzilla twisted his tail, churning Kiryu's insides.

Tony: "Kiryu is impaled, my Godzilla grip is dismantled, and SpaceGodzilla has us pinned down.'

Professor X: "Don't worry Tony, you're not alone."

Tony: "Xaiver?! What's going on?"

Behind SpaceGodzilla , Kiryu's eyes came back to life, with a new purpose. Kiryu grabbed SpaceGodzilla's tail with both hands and lifting him up, turned on his heels and threw him to the ground.

SpaceGodzilla had not released his grip on Mecha-Ghidorah's necks until halfway through the throw, so when SpaceGodzilla came down, Mecha-Ghidorah landed feet first on SpaceGodzilla's chest.

SpaceGodzilla shrieked in shock, and Mecha-Ghidorah answered with it's own cackles. With a short jump, Mecha-Ghidorah came back down on the right shoulder crystal of SpaceGodzilla, crushing it.

Mecha-Ghidorah's organic heads bite down on the shoulders of SpaceGodzilla, lifted it to it's feet, and the control head wrapped around SpaceGodzilla's neck, while the organic heads bit down on the forearms.

With SpaceGodzilla now prostrate, Kiryu blasted the left shoulder crystal with his oral maser cannon, shattering it.

The crystal towers surrounding them began to crack and crumble, SpaceGodzilla's hold on them now broken.

SpaceGodzilla's cries rang shrill he it struggled. When Kiryu saw the horn on it's head light-up, he knew the Corona beam was coming, and he quickly grabbed SpaceGodzilla's mouth and held it shut.

Kiryu leaned in and looked deeply into SpaceGodzilla's eyes.

Professor X: "this is not your world."

Kiryu punched SpaceGodzilla in the chest, and employed the Apollo dagger, piercing SpaceGodzilla's heart, then twisted it.

SpaceGodzilla let out a gargling stunted sound.

The crystals around them burst into explosions and fire as SpaceGodzilla went flaccid in Kiryu's/Professor X's arms.

A huge flaming Phoenix bird erupted form the ruins of the crystals and hung in the sky for a moment, long enough for SpaceGodzilla to look lazily in it's direction.

Kiryu and Mecha-Ghidorah stepped away, and as SpaceGodzilla fell, the Phoenix caught him, and engulfed him. The sorrowful cries could be heard as it's flesh was burned and flaked away.

For a moment, SpaceGodzilla's horn illuminated, and shown through the fire. Then SpaceGodzilla turned to tiny particles of lights, and dissipated.

The Phoenix bird shrunk down to a much smaller point, and dashed away, to some distant place.

Tony Stark was still astonished by what he had just witnessed, and was only brought back by the voice of Charles Xaiver in his head.

Xaiver: "It felt good to fight again Tony, you may want to return that machine to the Kaiju universe before you damage it any further.

Tony: "sounds good Professor."

Tony took off, leaving Kiryu/X alone to survey the scene. Professor X was about to relinquish control of Kiryu when pulses of genetic memory began to flash into his head. Scenes of destruction, planes, armies, cities in ruin, people screaming, pain, and fire. So much fire. Then a bright light, so intense it would blind were it really in front of you.

Professor X in his underground bunker, tore off the headset to Cerebro, and panted with a horrified grimace. The mentor of the X-Men had been exposed to a tiny fraction of what the first Godzilla had experienced.

Xaiver cradled his head in his hands and cried.

Finale

Godzilla had just come ashore on some deserted island, and was exploring around when he felt a great, hot presence approach him.

Godzilla turned to the aura and was confused to find a small human woman, covered in fire, floating in front of him. He knew what it was like to be covered in fire, his heart felt sympathy for this tiny being.

She reached out and softly laid her hands on Godzilla's snout.

Phoenix: "why are you so angry Godzilla?"

Of course Godzilla could not speak, nor had he the ability to convey coherent thoughts like SpaceGodzilla, but Phoenix could feel the intent of his thoughts, measured by the passion of his heart.

Phoenix began to receive images of military forces attacking him, with bombs, tanks, planes, nets, fire, poison. She also felt images of other monsters trying to kill him, robots stabbing him. Even images of his son being attacked and threatened.

As she saw these things, they went further and further back into time, earlier memories of pain, struggle, and rage, consuming rage.

The last image she saw was a huge cloud of fire rushing over her, then everything went white then black.

Phoenix now understood how Godzilla was created, how he survived, what he was, and what his purpose was to be.

Phoenix: "so much pain Godzilla." she said tenderly as she caressed his "skin".

Godzilla grunted depressingly, and a tear escaped as he understood that she could feel his pain.

Phoenix: "come Godzilla, let me guide you home."

Godzilla emitted a low growl of agreement, and followed.

At the portal area, in the decimated New York City, Kiryu and Mecha-Ghidorah had long since gone back. Back-up controls for their side of the Dimension tide had been secured in one of the many S.H.I.E.L.D. underground bunkers.

The physical bodies of King Ghidorah and Spacegodzilla had disappeared. The shattered remains of Orga had been recovered and was being stored in a temporary facility, until the Triskelion is rebuilt. The body of Gigan had fallen into the Atlantic Ocean, but the remains have yet to be found.

For weeks, Phoenix had led Godzilla around the planet, absorbing the radioactivity from the impact zones.

Cyclops had recovered fully from Gigan's laser blasts.

Janet Pym had recovered fully from the temporary neurotoxin.

The unique suits of the Fantastic Four had protected them from the Kaiju's radioactivity, however, extra precautions were taken.

Being out in the open for so ling and not being assaulted had been quite an enjoyable experience for Godzilla.

The scientists of the marvel universe, (Richard Reed, Hank Pym, Beast, Charles Xaiver) had opened a far more expansive program of correspondence with those of the Kaiju universe.

IronMan Tony Stark, had submitted himself for psychiatric observation due to his traumatic encounter with Godzilla.

Storm remained in Wakanda, helping her husband Black Panther rebuild what was left of their kingdom.

Nick Fury, carefully returned Scarlet Witch to her condition of a comatose weapon.

Sentry and Magneto were found under the crystal wreckage, and were treated for injuries. Both are recovering.

The body of Bruce Banner was recovered. At first in critical condition, he now showed remarkable signs of progress.

Godzilla had never been so tame towards a human, but this one, who could empathize with him, was different.

Thor had not been killed, much to the joy of the Avengers, he had transported to Asguard just before being annihilated.

Phoenix led Godzilla back to the spot where the portal had been rebuilt, the Avengers, X-Men, and Fantastic Four stood by to watch. Finally Phoenix Appeared on the near horizon, and soon after she came ashore, Godzilla rose form the ocean, still escorting the Firebird Goddess.

Once the portal was opened, Phoenix turned to Godzilla, placed her hands on his head and delved inside.

Though the extent of her effectiveness on him was questionable, she knew that Godzilla was unique in all of creation, she put a shield on Godzilla's painful memories, leaving only the ones of times with his son, and leisure time on Monster Island.

Finished, she looked into Godzilla's eyes, softly kissed his nose, and smiled.

Phoenix: " go home Godzilla."

Godzilla stared back at her, and grunted, then walked past her.

Just before entering the portal, Godzilla turned to the Marvel heroes, then to Phoenix, puffed his chest, and let fly with a thundering roar that resounded within each and everyone present. Then he calmly walked through the portal and disappeared into his own universe.

Later..

Jean Grey, now back in control of her body, sat at a conference table before the hero alliance.

Jean Grey: "when the Phoenix left me in control, I retained what it had learned about Godzilla.

Mumblings and side conversations erupted, then Professor Xaiver quieted them.

Jean: "Godzilla cannot be destroyed. He is an expression of the powers of the universe, it would like trying to destroy gravity and time. He is the living embodiment of the will to survive, and eternal vengeance.

When he was killed in 1954, by the Oxygen destroyer compound, he was simply made anew. When he suffered his meltdown, his life-force was absorbed by his son, and thusly he lived on.

All his life he has been inflicted with pain and rage."

Jean began to tear "all he wants to do is survive!, but everywhere he goes, he is attacked, by men and monsters, all he wants is peace. But so long as mankind wages war on each other, he will wage war on mankind. He is our punishment for disregarding the laws of nature."

Phoenix attempted to heal his painful memories, and quell his rage, but even the Phoenix cannot control the Sacred Beast of the Apocalypse."

Captain America: "Sacred Beast of the Apocalypse?" what is that supposed to mean?"

Jean: "It means simply, Godzilla will be lynchpin of Armageddon ."

Kaiju universe, Monster Island 17:00 HRS.

Godzilla watched his young son splash in the water, on the beach of the island. He himself stared into the sunset, picturing the small fire human that had spoken to him.

He knew that his adventure into the other universe was just the beginning.