Gamera 2: Attack of the Past

19,000 years ago,

Light. As this new beast came into existence, it looked around. It had no idea where it was or even what it was. As it stood up, it sensed a great disturbance. It looked around to the closest of these disturbances and saw a massive flying beast firing a thin yellow beam at other creatures, slicing them in half. The flying beast was a Super Gyaos, terrorising the planet and killing anything it could. As the Super Gyaos was on a destructive path, it looked towards the beast. It flew into the air and charged towards the new beast. As the Gyaos tried to attack, the new beast shot a ball of fire from its mouth, burning Super Gyaos out of the sky. The beast then approached the Super Gyaos, finally defeating and killing the disturbance. This new creature roared into the sky, known by its new name, Gamera. After a couple of days, Gamera trained himself in learning some of his abilities, including beams of plasma, flight and his heightened senses. The way Gamera could use these abilities was an energy source called Mana, which Gamera’s body supplied automatically. Once Gamera had his abilities heightened to the max, he took off, trying to find the source of the disturbance on the other side of the planet.

Meanwhile, the Hyper Gyaos, like the others, was on a killing spree. As she was, she heard Gamera descending upon the same land that she had claimed. Hyper Gyaos was confused, but hey, another creature to kill. Once Gamera had landed, the two simply stared each other down before roaring to each other. The two then charged towards each other, locking in combat. The two would continue battle for years and years, with both winning several fights against each other. Their final fight in prehistoric times would leave both trapped in ice, although Gamera was the one to escape first. The two’s final fight overall would be in 1964, with Gamera finally winning and having the Gyaos’ main power source, the Orb, being split in half.

2005,

Forty years after the death of Hyper Gyaos, hundreds of Super Gyaos were still alive and doing well, although their numbers had decreased exponentially. One of these Super Gyaos were flying around the Hollow Earth, right in front of a pack of Skullcrawlers. The Super Gyaos looked towards the Skullcrawlers and lifted their arms, screeching as loud as possible towards the Crawlers. The Skullcrawlers assumed that the Super Gyaos would beam at least one of them, but the Super Gyaos walked to a wall of the Hollow Earth and began rapidly digging. This was extremely odd behaviour, even for the somewhat unhinged Super Gyaos. One of the Skullcrawlers walked up to the Super Gyaos, but the Gyaos sensed the Crawler walking closer, roaring towards the Skullcrawler, however, once the Crawler walked back, the Gyaos continued digging. After a while, the Super Gyaos stopped digging, grabbing a massive stone tablet, looking at it intrigued.

As the Super Gyaos looked at this tablet, it sensed something; a fireball. Just before the Super Gyaos could react, the fireball smashed into its body, knocking the Super Gyaos over. The pack of Skullcrawlers looked over and saw the guardian of the universe standing from where the fireball was shot. The Super Gyaos stood back up and screeched at Gamera. It knew how much stronger Gamera was, so if it was going to make it out alive, it would need to dodge it quickly. Gamera slowly walked towards Super Gyaos, firing another fireball. The Super Gyaos quickly dodged before firing a sonic beam of his own. Gamera was hit by the beam, stumbling back as the Super Gyaos quickly flew off. As Gamera watched, he walked over and picked up the stone tablet, being extremely confused. The tablet had an image drawn on it, a reptilian beast with odd structures and a blade on the end of its tail. This creature was also battling what looked like Hyper Gyaos. Gamera decided to walk back to his territory, carrying the tablet in his hands.

In 1965, while Gamera was the one to defeat the Hyper Gyaos, the one to destroy the Orb was an eleven year old child named Kenny, who got caught up in the whole mess. Forty years later, Kenny was now 51 and working for a construction site, although the day was Sunday, meaning he had a day off, and was currently in a Cafe with his friend, Jerald. While Kenny waited, he held a pen and a sketchpad. Kenny would find himself drawing about Gamera and the Gyaos, remembering the time where he would assist Gamera in destroying the Orb. Sometimes he would draw Gamera and the Gyaos without even thinking about it, just going off pure instinct. After a bit of sketching, Kenny saw Jerald enter the Cafe. He put away his sketchpad as Jerald sat down at his table and the two began to speak.

“Ah, hey Kenny!” exclaimed Jerald. “Good to see you again!”

“Aye, you too, mate,” replied Kenny as Jerald sat down. As Jerald did, Kenny noticed a small action figure of Gamera in his shirt pocket.

While Kenny didn’t pursue kaiju with his career, Jerald did. After hearing Kenny’s story about his encounter with Gamera, Jerald decided to study kaiju, mostly creatures that live in the Hollow Earth, trying to help figure out the taxonomy of the creatures that lived below the surface. Jerald was probably the only one that Kenny had told his Gamera story about, and was definitely the only one who would actually believe him, considering Kenny told him this when both were eleven.

“So, how’s your…kaiju studying thing?” asked Kenny.

Uh, it’s been fine,” Jerald responded. “We really haven’t been finding many new creatures, although we have FINALLY classified Titanosaurus and his species!” he exclaimed, extremely excited at this prospect.

“Really, eh? Took who this long?!” Kenny laughed. Jerald rolled his eyes in response.

“Yeah, yeah,” he said, letting out a small smirk.

“Okay but seriously, what took so long to classify them?” Kenny asked.

“Well, we did know they were archosaurians, but we didn’t know what specifically because they shared traits from both crocodiles and dinosaurs,” Jerald went on. Kenny was listening intently. He only knew what Jerald was saying half of the time, but he really didn’t care, he just liked seeing his friend be passionate about something.

“So we really had no clue what they were,” Jerald continued. “Until we finally decided to classify them as dinosaurs. We’ve given the species a new name, Aquatiliosaurus Gigantus.”

“Interesting,” Kenny noted. “What does that mean?” he asked. Jerald sat in silence, trying to remember what it did mean.

“Can we talk about something else?” Jerald finally said. The two kept talking and after a bit, began discussing monsters both were well experienced with; Gyaos.

“So how big are the Gyaos?” asked Kenny. “I mean, they’re big but like, how much specifically?” Kenny asked.

“If I recall correctly, the regular Gyaos are, like…32 feet, or something and the Super Gyaos are…330 feet…or were they 320 feet, I’m not good with kaiju height,” Jerald responded. “Hey, out of curiosity, how big was the Hyper Gyaos?”

Kenny pondered to himself. “I’m pretty sure they weren’t that much bigger than the Super Gyaos, in terms of height anyways.”

Kenny and Jerald discussed the Gyaos for several minutes, however, as they discussed the Gyaos, a memory struck Kenny.

“Hey, I kinda just remembered something!” exclaimed Kenny.

“Really, eh? What would that be?”

“Come on, let me show you.”

The two left the cafe and began walking throughout the mountains. As they did, all of Kenny’s memories of his adventure with Gamera and his father came back to him. After a bit, the two finally arrived at where Kenny wanted to go.

“What the hell?” Kenny said to himself.

The two were at the place where Gamera and Hyper Gyaos had their final battle, the mountain with a stone-like structure where the Orb that powered the Gyaos species. While the actual stone-like structure and the hill which it was on was exactly the same, however, there were several terrifying plant-like structures surrounding the hill. The plants had spread out several hundred metres in diameter, and were completely layered with spikes. The colour of the plants were a sickly combination of a saturated purple and disgusting looking green. The most disturbing part of the plants were the fact that they each seemingly resembled Hyper Gyaos. Some plants looked like the talons, some looked like the tails, a couple resembled the wings and very few of them looked like the head of the Hyper Gyaos. These heads were all looking to the sky, mouth wide open as if they were screeching to the heavens.

“What are these things?” asked Jerald.

“This is where Gamera and Hyper Gyaos fought,” Kenny said. “But these…things weren’t here before…”

Kenny and Jerald had no clue what to do. They were curious, but were too scared to approach them. Jerald looked down and picked up a large stick. He then threw it towards the largest structure of the plant, resembling the head. As the stick flew into the head-looking structure, the jaws clamped down. The duo stood back, shocked. As they did, all parts of the plants began moving in an extremely erratic way, ready to eat their new prey items. Kenny and Jerald quickly ran away before the plants could do anything.

One week later,

One week after the incident, Kenny and Jerald set up another meeting at the same Cafe, this time to discuss whatever the hell the plants were about. Since Jerald had connections to G-Force, he got to set up studies on the plants to see why they resembled Hyper Gyaos. The study was extremely hard to conduct, due to the plants' known aggression, however, with the proper equipment, the plants would be pacified, allowing for studies to be conducted.

Kenny waited for Jerald to arrive. He wasn’t really doing anything other than holding his head in his hands. After a bit, Jerald arrived, clearly ready to tell Kenny everything he had learned. Kenny looked up and immediately prepared to listen.

“Alright, what are the plants about?” asked Kenny.

“Alright,” Jerald started. “So the reason those Gyaos plants look like that…well, they are Gyaos!” Kenny sat in silence. He had no idea how to respond and was waiting for Jerald to continue. Jerald saw this particular look on his face and quickly continued his little rant.

“What I mean by that is the genetic makeup of the plants are nearly identical to what we know about the Gyaos. I’m pretty sure that the DNA of the Hyper Gyaos possibly spread to the plants in the nearby area, or something like that,” Jerald shrugged. As he did, Jerald just remembered something. “OH, AND ALSO, as we were looking around, we found something kinda odd!” he said in an extremely excited voice.

“Alrighty, go on…” Kenny said, curious.

“Okay, so as we were looking, we found a weird statue. It looked like a, uh…” Jerald realised he had no real idea how to describe what the statue looked like. “Uh hey, do you have your pen and notepad thingie?” Jerald asked.

“Uh, yeah,” Kenny responded, giving the notepad and pen to Jerald. As he did, Jerald quickly sketched down what he remembered. Compared to Kenny, Jerald wasn’t that experienced when it came to drawing, however, he was still somewhat decent. After Jerald was done, he gave the notepad back to Kenny. Kenny grabbed the notepad and looked at it, intrigued. There was a slight resemblance to theropod dinosaurs in the legs and head, but that was about it. The drawing of the creature had weird structures sprouting from it and an extremely long tail with a spike on the end. The creature seemed to have frills on the side of its heads and dead, soulless eyes that stared through Kenny, with Kenny staring back, trying to think of something to say in response to this…thing.

“Well…that exists, I guess,” Kenny said. “What do I say to this?”

Jerald shrugged. “No clue, it does look cool though!” he smiled. “Wonder what it is?”

As Jerald talked about what he thought the statue was, Kenny stared at the drawing. He really didn’t know what it was, but whatever it was, it just felt…uncomfortable.

*20,000 years ago,*

*Atop a mountain, the Hyper Gyaos watched as her legions of Gyaos and Super Gyaos roamed around, terrorising the planet and killing everything insite. As Hyper Gyaos watched, she sensed something…odd, a disturbance. She couldn’t tell what it was, but she knew it was something that opposed her and all other Gyaos. As she looked behind, she saw something, a new creature. She had no idea what it was, nor what the creature actually looked like, as the creature was completely obscured in darkness. The only part that Hyper Gyaos could fully make out were two small, bright yellow eyes. This was odd, Hyper Gyaos’ eyes were specifically adapted to see in the dark. It’s almost as if this new creature was…camouflaging, or something. As Hyper Gyaos tried to make out the creature, the silhouette of the beast seemed to open its mouth just before firing its tongue. In a shock, Hyper Gyaos quickly moved out of the way, extremely confused and concerned. The tongue then retracted back into the creature’s mouth. Hyper Gyaos looked at the creature. From what she could see, a smile began forming on its face.*

Present day,

Gamera wandered through the Hollow Earth, carrying the stone tablet in hand. He was still stumped by the stone tablet, the weird creature battling against Hyper Gyaos. Gamera had the ability to sense basically every kaiju on the planet, he had never identified something like this. As he arrived back to his territory, several of the smaller Gyaos saw Gamera arrive and each watched as Gamera walked in. While Gamera would attack a Super Gyaos or another Hyper Gyaos as soon as possible, he was fine with the smaller, 10 metre tall Gyaos. As Gamera walked around with the stone tablet in his hand, one of the smaller Gyaos landed on the tablet, observing what Gamera was holding. This Gyaos then noticed not only the Hyper Gyaos, but the odd mystery creature. As soon as it saw the mystery creature, the Gyaos flew off in a panic. Gamera saw this as odds, and decided to ask another Gyaos what it was. The Gyaos simply stared at the stone tablet. It hadn’t seen this creature in thousands of years. Gamera asked again, with the Gyaos telling him. As he did, Gamera’s eyes widened. He immediately dropped the stone tablet and flew off.

In his shell, Gamera flew into a tunnel that allowed him to travel to the surface of the planet, flying towards the place where he battled the Hyper Gyaos. Not only did he notice the structure that the Orb was placed in but also the new Gyaos plants surrounding it. Gamera began walking on all fours, looking at the stone-like structure. While he did understand that the Orb powered him, he began looking at it in an all new light after what the Gyaos told him about. As Gamera looked, the Gyaos plants began attacking Gamera, who didn’t even notice due to his sheer durability. Gamera stood back up on his hind legs once again before walking off. As Gamera walked off, two people saw the guardian beast of vengeance, Kenny and Jerald. The two stared at Gamera walking off, then looked at each other.

“...what…?” Kenny questioned.

After Gamera’s little visit to the mountains, the amount of kaiju activity in the place skyrocketed. Many different Gyaos would visit the mountain after Gamera, seeing both the stone-mountain structure as well as the Gyaos plants surrounding the area. Because of this, people began hiding in their houses in fear of the Gyaos coming over and eating them. Although Gyaos were more passive than their larger forms, they would still eat anything smaller than themselves if they were hungry enough and had the opportunity to do this. Because of this, several G-Force weapons were brought in to drive off the Gyaos once entire swarms arrived at the mountains. Eventually, it was decided to destroy the source of the problem, as a construction company was given the job to tear down the structure that was attracting the Gyaos, the construction company Kenny worked for.

Before the day of the destruction of this stone pillar, Kenny decided to call Jerald to tell him what was going to happen.

“So…the stone pillar’s gonna get destroyed, aye?” Jerald responded after hearing this noise. “How do you feel about this?” Kenny thought for a moment. On the one hand, he thought he really shouldn’t care about the destruction of a simple stone pillar, but at the same time, something about it felt…off, as if this wasn’t something they shouldn’t be doing. He had no idea why, but it felt like there was some greater purpose to the pillar. Why would the Orb affect the pillar if it was just some random stone pillar. Kenny had a bad feeling but knew he must act out this task. After talking some more, Kenny and Jerald hung up and went to bed. However, as hard as he tried, he couldn’t get to sleep, he just felt like something bad was going to happen once this task would be accomplished.

*20,000 years ago,*

*The massive beast stood above a downed Super Gyaos. This beast was made for killing, made to eradicate the entire Gyaos species, however, the beast had seemingly become even worse than the Gyaos, becoming extremely destructive to any wildlife. The massive creature looked down upon everything that it encountered, everything that it witnessed, everything that it had killed. As the massive beast walked across the land, it saw a Super Gyaos. Without even hesitating, it ran towards the Gyaos, biting down onto its left wing and tearing it off, stomping the Super Gyaos into the ground, adding to the massive kill count the destructive demon had obtained. The creature continued walking around, eventually reaching a mountainside. As the creature walked around, it sensed something more…divine than the Gyaos. As it walked around, the creature realised that there was something magical in its presence. Eventually, it looked and saw a charging Divine Moth.*

The next day and the construction company that Kenny worked for had arrived at the site of the stone pillar the Orb once held. Though the nearby Gyaos and Gyaos Plants normally would have caused a problem, the G-Force weapons that had been brought in to deal with the Gyaos not only scared the Gyaos away but also were extremely effective against the Gyaos plants. Now the plan was simple: destroy the pillar. As someone else piloted a wrecking ball crane to destroy the pillar, Kenny’s tiredness and concern spiked. He didn’t want to tell anyone in the chance he would look like an idiot, but still, he felt terrible, waiting for something terrible to happen, like maybe a Super Gyaos diving and destroying everything, or why not, a new Hyper Gyaos arises once the pillar was destroyed. Kenny watched as the crane got closer, and closer, eventually using the wrecking ball to finally destroy the stone pillar. Kenny felt his breath being taken away, waiting for something. It felt as if time had stopped, as if it was completely silent. Kenny’s concern eventually died down, until…

*“HEEEEEEYEOOOOOWWOOAAAARRRRR!!!!!!!!!”*

Kenny’s heart starts beating impossibly fast. The roar was quiet, but not only did Kenny hear it, everyone else did. All G-Force military weapons in the area got ready for an attack, waiting for some new giant monster to appear. This roar was nothing like anything that had been discovered so far. Everyone working at the construction site tried to run or drive away, eventually retreating from the entire area. Even the Gyaos surrounding the land heard the roar, remembering their past memories from 20,000 years ago. Everyone was panicking, but most of all was Kenny. He began having flashbacks to when he was eleven, remembering moments where he was nearly killed by Super Gyaos. Kenny had travelled tens of kilometres away from the site, eventually hiding in his home away from all of the damage.

The land that the pillar once sat on began crumbling, causing a massive sinkhole in the ground. The roars of the massive behemoth echoed as it broke away from the place it was once trapped in. Eventually, one of the mountains began crumbling to the ground, as the sheer power of the behemoth completely destroyed the landscape around it. Eventually, from the crumbling pieces of the mountains and the dirt popped the head of the beast. It was reptilian, almost dinosaurian. It had several structures adorning its neck, body, arms, etc. While most of it seemed fleshy, others were more hardened, specifically the one on its neck. The beast had blackened eyes and small, diamond shaped yellow pupils. On its neck were a retractable frill and hardened structures. The body was scaly, with powerful arms and legs. The tail of the creature was extremely long, with one massive spike and two smaller projectile spikes on the side of the larger spike that seemed to be directly inside the creature's skin. The massive beast stood at 94 metres tall, with a length of 314 metres and a weight of 56,406 metric tons. The creature roared to the sky. It’s name was Zedus.

Zedus looked around its new landscape. He was finally freed from the void he was trapped in for all these years. As he emerged, he looked around, sensing all of the Gyaos and Super Gyaos, but that’s odd, where was the Hyper Gyaos? She was still around the last time Zedus appeared on this mortal plane. Zedus looked around. What the hell were these small flying things? They certainly weren’t natural. As Zedus inspected them, they began firing blue lightning, properly known as Maser beams. Zedus was surprised, how dare these pathetic things fire upon him. Zedus ran towards the tanks before raising his foot and stomping on the tanks. Zedus then looked up at the jets. He squinted his eyes in complete rage. Zedus ran towards the jets before slamming his tail on the ground, chomping down on a couple of the jets. Zedus fell back to the ground, rolling across before getting back up and opening his jaws at a horrifying 90 degree angle. Zedus then pumped blood into his tongue before firing it towards the jets, hitting even more of them.

A group of five Gyaos watched the fight, all of them petrified, remembering Zedus. While four of them considered flying away, the largest of them had taken off towards Zedus in a rage. As Zedus prepared to destroy the rest of the jets, the largest Gyaos began attacking Zedus, trying to gouge his eyes out. Zedus tried to bite the Gyaos before realising the four others had joined in. Then, the jets began helping out the Gyaos. Zedus began getting extremely angry. He eventually curled his tail and spun around, knocking away every single Gyaos. Zedus then looked up at the remaining jets and let out a sonic roar, causing all of the jets to explode. Zedus snickered, then ran towards one of the mountains that didn’t crumble to bits. He slammed his tail into the ground once again, jumping the entire height of the mountain in a single leap. Zedus then landed on top of the great peak. He then looked towards the city, and roared to the sky. As he did, a fireball was shot into the mountain Zedus was standing on. Zedus was taken aback as the mountain he was on began to crumble, causing the rock of the mountain and Zedus himself to fall to the ground. Zedus looked up and saw his new advocacy, Gamera himself.

Gamera looked at this new downed advisory, meanwhile Zedus simply roared towards the turtle, slamming his hand on the ground before standing back up. As Zedus looked up, he roared again, this time showing off his frill. Gamera and Zedus prepared to fight, but instead of battling, they walked around, sensing each other. As they continued sensing each other, they realised something, they both felt…familiar, despite the fact that they’ve never even met each other. The only difference was that Gamera sensed energy from Zedus that was extremely similar to that of the Gyaos. It was…odd, to say the least. The two continued walking around each other, snarling and roaring at each other, getting progressively louder and louder. The two kept on circling around, getting closer and closer. Eventually the two got so close, they were practically touching him, roaring in each other’s face. The two then headbutted each other, taking both by surprise and knocking both back. Gamera quickly shot it off and ran towards Zedus at top speed. Zedus looked up and saw Gamera running towards him. The beast of the past ran chose to run towards Gamera in response. Once they got close enough, Gamera threw out a punch, with Zedus quickly jumping over the guardian of the universe, landing right behind Gamera.

Once Zedus landed, he quickly leaped towards Gamera, rapidly clawing at Gamera’s shell. The massive shell made it so that none of Zedus’ attacks actually damaged Gamera. Zedus was confused, weren’t his claws made to pierce through anything? Once Gamera realised Zedus’ attacks were fruitless, he jumped back, smashing his shell into Zedus’ head, knocking the beast of eternal darkness down to the ground. Gamera then turned around, looking at the downed Zedus. Despite the fact he was shorter and lighter, Zedus’ durability, endurance and even physical strength were equal to Gamera. As Zedus stood back up, he saw Gamera charging towards him. In response, Zedus held up his tail, revealing the large spike at the end of it, along with the two tiny spikes on the side of the larger spikes. Zedus then fired the two smaller spikes, which turned out to be projectiles. As Gamera ran towards Zedus, the two projectiles stabbed into Gamera’s arm. Immediately, the guardian turtle’s arm went limp. The projectiles that Zedus had fired were coated with a poison that caused anything that it hit to go limp.

Gamera slowly plucked out both of the poison darts Zedus fired. Once he got both of them out, his arm reverted back to normal, however, as Gamera was distracted, Zedus jumped into the air, kicking Gamera in the chest, or what he had. Gamera stumbled back, trying not to fall over. Once he gained his footing back, he saw Zedus charging towards him. Gamera snarled, and as Zedus leaped to bite down onto Gamera’s head, he quickly retracted it into his shell. As he snapped his jaws, Zedus felt nothing. Confused, Zedus looked down in the body that this odd and frankly annoying turtle had hidden its head from. As Zedus looked down, he saw a quick burst of flames appear. The fire quickly hit Zedus, knocking the ancient evil back and burning his face. As Zedus screamed in pain, Gamera’s head emerged again, firing his plasma breath towards Zedus. Engulfed in flame, Zedus ducked below the flames, trying to avoid them. Gamera stopped firing, looking down, however, he was extremely confused; Zedus had completely disappeared.

Gamera looked around, sniffing the air for Zedus’ scent. He then looked down to the ground, trying to notice any footprints Zedus may have left behind. As he did, he saw a group of footsteps that moved towards a tunnel.. Must have been Zedus. Gamera was surprised, his senses were off the charts, he could see anything. If Zedus could move that fast, how the hell could anything be that fast? As Gamera looked at the tunnel, he heard something. Gamera looked around and saw another hole in the ground. Gamera ran towards where the footsteps were, but as he followed them, they just…stopped, at the base of a mountain. As Gamera looked around, something appeared on the mountain out of seeming nowhere; Zedus. This beast had the ability to completely camouflage, practically becoming invisible. He had crawled into a tunnel, then dug out before scaling the mountain, setting up a trap. Zedus leaped off the mountain, pouncing on Gamera’s shell. He began slashing at random parts of Gamera’s body. While most hit the shell, some hit places that caused Gamera to start bleeding. Gamera began trying to shack Zedus off, eventually walking backwards towards the mountain, crushing Zedus, who instantly let go.

Gamera walked a bit away before looking back at Zedus, he just got back up. In anger, Gamera charged up another plasma beam. Zedus’ life flashed before his eyes as Gamera fired at him. Zedus quickly dodged the attack as Gamera completely burned down the mountain behind Zedus. As he dodged this attack, Zedus thought to himself after seeing the power Gamera’s plasma beam possessed. Zedus continued running until he stood in front of another mountain, this one was closer to Gamera than the first mountain. Zedus began taunting Gamera, showing off his frill before firing his tongue. Gamera easily moved out of the way before running closer to Zedus, shooting another concentrated beam of plasma. With Gamera falling into his trap, Zedus once again camouflaged and ran off as Gamera’s plasma began destroying the mountain. As he did, Gamera stopped firing, noticing that the mountain was crumbling down. Eventually the entire mountain fell upon Gamera, all as Zedus watched. Zedus licked his lips before walking off, however, as he did, he heard something behind him. Zedus looked back and saw Gamera’s shell with all of his limbs retracted into said shell, with flames firing from the sockets. Zedus was extremely confused, but this confusion grew more when the shell began spinning towards him.

As the shell approached, Zedus tried to jump out of the way, however, Gamera’s precision was impeccable and he was able to get a good shot on Zedus, knocking him to the ground. Zedus slammed his arm on the ground before instantly getting up just as Gamera circled around and smashed back into Zedus, knocking him back into the ground. Zedus quickly jumped up once again, watching as Gamera circled back once. This time, Gamera revealed his head and arms, roaring at Zedus before lifting him off the ground, flying high into the air before throwing Zedus back to the ground. Gamera would then dive down, slamming his shell into Zedus’ body and finally causing the ancient deity to slam to the ground. Gamera stood back up, seeing the crater that his collision had caused. Zedus seemed beaten. It was a tough fight, but it really didn’t seem like Zedus had any major abilities. Gamera walked off, but as he did, Zedus got up just as Gamera did. Gamera seemed annoyed, but decided to just end the fight here.

Gamera quickly ran towards Zedus, however, the beast of the past held his tail in his hand as Gamera charged, with the spike on the end of his tail beginning to glow a bright orange, revealing some interesting patterns embedded in the spike. When Gamera raised his hand, Zedus stabbed the tail spike into Gamera’s arm. The guardian of the universe roared in pain and Zedus seemingly began to drain energy from the turtle. After a bit, Gamera grabbed Zedus’ tail and ripped it out of his arm before punching Zedus in the face. Zedus stumbled back as Gamera charged another plasma beam. Instead of running, Zedus simply watched, waiting for Gamera to fire. Once Gamera had finished charging, he fired...or at least he tried to. While he tried to fire, nothing came out of his mouth. Gamera then realised that Zedus had completely drained the energy he used to shoot this plasma, his Mana. As Gamera came to this realisation, he saw Zedus, who began smiling, even his roars sounded like quiet laughing.

As Gamera stood in shock, Zedus quickly kicked Gamera in the stomach. Since Gamera had nothing but his physical attacks, Zedus was allowed to go all out. He began violently slashing at Gamera, trying to see if he would even hit something. Half the time Zedus’ attacks would hit the shell of Gamera, but it really didn’t matter to him, so long as Gamera was so overwhelmed that he couldn’t even attack back. Zedus quickly knocked over Gamera before running over to a hillside, climbing it and quickly leaping off, pouncing on Gamera. The turtle snarled, kicking Zedus back and getting back up. With Zedus draining his energy, Gamera couldn’t shoot any fire, fly or even use his heightened regeneration. He was basically just using his physical attributes, but he really couldn’t attack back considering Zedus’ rapid assault. Realising trying to fight back was fruitless, Gamera hid in his shell. Zedus snarled, extremely annoyed. *Why can’t this thing just die already?* Zedus whipped out his tail and showed off the blade on the end of his tail. The blade entered the socket Gamera had retreated into, trying to slash the hidden body of Gamera. As the blade drew nearer, Gamera tried to retract even further. Zedus’ blade continued to dig further into Gamera’s shell. After a struggle, Zedus felt the blade slash…something. Zedus smiled once again, kicking Gamera’s shell away before walking off. Once Zedus had left, Gamera revealed himself from the shell. He felt his face that Zedus’ blade had slashed. He then saw something that shocked him;

Blood.

As Zedus walked away, all the people in the nearby town stepped out of their houses. They had all heard the sounds of Gamera and Zedus’ battle and were hiding inside, but since the noise had stopped, they assumed all was well. While most were hesitant to walk out, Kenny quickly walked out to see where Gamera was. As he did, he met back up with Jerald.

“Do you know what happened?” asked Kenny. Jerald shrugged.

“No clue, wasn’t there. I heard everything though. Jets, some Gyaos, Gamera and…something else. I recognised all the other roars but the other thing…do you know what it was?” asked Jerald.

“I’m as stumped as you are,” Kenny shrugged. “It did seem to walk off though…why did it do that?”

“Perhaps we could explain…”

Kenny and Jerald quickly froze in shock. The duo both heard two voices but none of them had spoken. No one was even near them other than the other.

“Uh…who said that?!” Kenny exclaimed.

“Behind you,” the voices spoke again. Kenny and Jerald looked behind and saw Mothra’s two fairy priestesses, the Shobijin. “It seems that Zedus has risen…” they said in a regretful and terrified tone. While Jerald stood there in stunned silence, Kenny decided to question the fairies.

“Zedus? Was Zedus the thing that fought Gamera?” he asked.

“Unfortunately yes,” the Shobijin sighed. “Well, he wasn’t always called Zedus…”

“What do you mean by that?” Kenny asked once again. The Shobijin took in a deep breath before explaining the origins of this new deity.

“Millions of years ago during the late Jurassic period, we began sensing the arrival of a new species that would bring utter destruction to all life everywhere. Millions of years later during 20,000 B.C, this species, using a powerful object simply known as “the Orb”. Kenny, you should be familiar with this object, correct?” the Shobijin asked.

“Y-yes, that was the thing that powered the Gyaos, correct?”

“Yes, correct. The Gyaos were created when the dark influence of the Orb latched onto DNA of Rodan, and thus the Gyaos, Super Gyaos and Hyper Gyaos were created. These creatures threatened everything, and we were trying to think of ways to destroy all of them. We had the Orb during this time, and as we thought of something, one of our magical guardians, Skeleturtle, fused its magic with the Orb, creating a powerful beast that we named Gamera after an ancient guardian of the same name. This creature was very effective against the Gyaos, killing and eating the Super Gyaos. However, the more Gyaos it ate, the more protrusions that grew from its back. The combination of this being eating the Gyaos plus having DNA from the Orb caused it to become corrupted. Eventually, ‘Gamera’ became an even worse threat than Hyper Gyaos herself. We renamed this beast from Gamera to Zedus, an ancient deity that was known in our culture for corrupting everything in site. Eventually Zedus became too much of a threat, and roughly 19,000 ago, our guardian Mothra faced off against Zedus."

*19,000 years ago,*

*The Divine Moth looked down at what used to be the guardian of the universe. Mothra vs. Zedus, a battle between two divine kaiju. Zedus roared as loud as possible, showing off his massive frill. In response, Mothra quietly growled before flying towards Zedus. The original guardian smiled before charging, running as fast as possible. The two kaiju collided, with Mothra using her large blade-like claws to grab inside Zedus’ jaw as the beast was roaring, trying to drag the larger creature around. As Mothra’s claws lay in Zedus’ mouth, the demonic deity using his prehensile tongue, latching onto Mothra’s claw before throwing her away. As Mothra fell to the ground, Zedus shot his tranquillising spikes from his tail. Mothra dodged the attack, flying into the air as the spikes were knocked to the ground. Mothra then shot out her yellow scales. The scales exploded on contact with Zedus, irritating him to no extent. As Mothra continued firing more yellow scales, Zedus shot out his tongue, knocking Mothra out of the sky once again. Zedus licked his lips in victory, walking towards the downed Divine Moth, shooting out another pair of tranquillising spikes, making sure that Mothra wouldn’t be able to fly away. Mothra tried to claw the darts out of her body, but Zedus stomped on her wing. He smiled once again before preparing to bite down on the moth. Luckily for Mothra, just before Zedus was able to bite down on the Divine Moth, he stopped. Mothra was confused. It looked like he was trying to tear Mothra up, but something was stopping him. Mothra then looked up and saw Rodan had grabbed onto the spikes on Zedus’ head.*

*As Zedus continued trying to bite down on Mothra, Rodan lifted Zedus into the air before throwing him away. The original guardian quickly got up, shaking off the dust that he had obtained after hitting the ground. As he did, Mothra clawed out Zedus’ tranquillising darts, flying back into the air before firing a powerful beam from her chest. Zedus screamed before looking back at Mothra. The two divine creatures had their rematch after a brief Zedus victory. Rodan was about to join in, but before he did the Shobijin spoke to him.*

*“Rodan, we are extremely glad you have come to our aid,” the fairies said. “We are trying to use our magic on Zedus, but he seems to have some resistance to our magic. We need to have Zedus be weakened before we can banish him with our powers.”*

*Rodan nodded before glaring towards Zedus. He then let out a powerful roar before flying towards Zedus. Mothra was currently clawing at Zedus’ leg before receiving a kick to the face by the rampaging deity. As Zedus was about to continue his assault, Rodan dug his talons into Zedus’ leg, causing Zedus’ frill to expand out in pain. Rodan continued digging in, using his magma body to heat up his talons. Zedus snarled, using the massive spike on his tail before stabbing Rodan in the back, throwing him to the ground in front of a mountain. Zedus then shot out of his tongue towards Rodan and the base of a mountain. Rodan saw the attack coming and flew into the sky, causing the sharpened edge of Zedus’ tongue to be lodged in a mountain. With Zedus temporarily stuck, Rodan and Mothra began discussing a way to weaken Zedus enough for the Shobijin to banish Zedus. As the two kaiju began speaking, Zedus continued trying to pull his tongue out of the mountain. As he did, he began uprooting the entire mountain itself. Zedus then stopped, smiling, before using his tongue to throw the entire mountain at Mothra and Rodan. The two flying kaiju charged towards the mountain, smashing through it. Rodan then dived down, headbutted Zedus who retracted his tongue in pain. Rodan then grabbed Zedus’ tail. Zedus tried to shake Rodan off but the fire demon held his ground. As Zedus was distracted, Mothra charged towards him, stabbing Zedus with her stinger.*

*“Perfect!” the Shobijin smiled.*

*As Mothra and Rodan flew away, they noticed Zedus seemed to be resisting the effects of Mothra’s stinger. Mothra’s stinger had some of the most potent venom of any kaiju, capable of killing smaller monsters in mere seconds, yet the only effects Zedus seemed to have been experiencing was some lightheadedness and dizziness. However, he was still weakened enough for the Shobijin to use their magic on him. As Zedus roared towards Mothra and Rodan, the Shobijin performed their magic, trapping Zedus in some sort of makeshift cage. The cage was created of four bright white walls of infinite height in each corner with translucent walls connecting all of them. Zedus stood in shock for a bit, but revealed his frill before charging into one of the walls, headbutting one of the walls. Zedus stepped back, seeing he dealt no damage. Zedus looked down and saw the Mothra symbol on the ground of the trap. Eventually the trap began lifting Zedus. Zedus snarled before giving out one last roar, with the Shobijin, Mothra and Rodan banishing Zedus off the face of the Earth.*

“...wow, okay,” Kenny stuttered, completely stunned. “Where did you banish Zedus?”

“We banished him to a pocket dimension,” the Shobijin responded. “Normally if we would be able to banish a creature to that pocket dimension the creature would be completely disintegrated in seconds, but it seems Zedus’ sheer power has allowed him to survive. In fact, he seems to have used some of the power of the dimension to become even stronger.”

“M…more power?” Kenny said, stumbling over his words. Both Rodan and Mothra were two powerhouses so the fact that Zedus was able to contend with both and he got stronger was frightening.

“Unfortunately, yes,” the Shobijin sighed once again. “His time in the pocket dimension seems to have given him the power to absorb another kaiju energy, which is what happened to Gamera.”

As the fairies and Kenny continued to speak, Jerald stood silent. He hadn’t spoken since the Shobijin appeared as he was still in shock after witnessing literal fairies. He still was listening to the conversation but was amazed at the site of divine beings. That was until he heard footsteps. Loud footsteps. Jerald snapped out of his amazement.

“Hey, uh, you guys here that, right?” he asked. Kenny and the Shobijin looked and faced Jerald before hearing the footsteps.

“Y…yeah…” Kenny muttered. As the footsteps got louder, Kenny and Jerald noticed the sounds were coming from the mountain, seeing the cause of the footsteps; Gamera himself.

Gamera had just gotten up from the battle. Since Zedus had drained all his energy, his heightened regeneration was gone, thus a much slower healing process than usual. Most of the injuries were gone, but one was notable, and that was the scar that Zedus had given him on his left eye. Luckily for Gamera, his eye was closed and Zedus barely hit, really only hitting Gamera’s eyelid rather than the actual eye. Still, the scar was most likely never going to disappear, being something that would most likely remain on him forever. As Gamera looked around, he saw the tiny town below him. He realised that he wouldn’t be able to walk through the town without causing a large amount of destruction. As Gamera went to walk the other way, he sensed something, someone. It was…familiar in a way. The guardian of the universe looked around, eventually seeing the familiar life form; Kenny. Gamera recognised Kenny from the time they interacted forty years ago, seeing Kenny was now fully grown up. Gamera crawled down on all fours, getting more on-level with Kenny, who was only one or two metres away from Gamera, was completely speechless.

“Well…uh, hello,” Kenny said in a breathless speech. “Hello again.”

Kenny decided to hold out his hand to touch Gamera’s face. He had no idea why he did it, but something about it just felt right. As this brief reunion occurred, Gamera noticed all the military weapons that were in the area to monitor Gamera. Gamera crawled backwards before eventually standing back up at his hind legs before biting in the general vicinity of the military weapons. Gamera eventually decided to walk off to find and defeat Zedus. As Kenny watched Gamera walk off, he looked back and saw both Jerald and the Shobijin in shock.

“Hu…” the Shobijin said, trying to comprehend what they saw. “Guess Gamera’s more social than we thought.”

Deep in the Hollow Earth, as Gamera’s territory was unguarded, the Super Gyaos Gamera fought 2 weeks ago decided to fly into Gamera’s territory, trying to claim the stone tablet it had dug up and Gamera stole from it. As the Super Gyaos entered the territory, the smaller Gyaos that were guarding the territory as Gamera was gone immediately started screeching as loud as possible, flying into the air as the Super Gyaos wandered to get the stone tablet. As the Super Gyaos picked up the stone tablet, it felt the smaller Gyaos firing their sonic beams towards the Super Gyaos, who was completely unaffected by the attacks, snarling in annoyance. The Super Gyaos grabbed the tablet with its talons before taking off flying to the surface. The Super Gyaos flew around until it saw a beach, landing before checking the stone tablet, seeing the depiction of Zedus battling against the Hyper Gyaos. The Super Gyaos snarled, screeching towards the depiction of the ancient enemy before preparing a sonic beam to destroy the tablet. Before the Gyaos had the opportunity to destroy the tablet…

*“HEEEEEEYEOOOOOWWOOAAAARRRRR!!!!!!!!!”*

The Super Gyaos’ heart started beating as rapidly as possible. The Gyaos began panting more and more rapidly before it looked behind, seeing the ancient deity, Zedus, right behind the Gyaos, who was frozen in fear from the mere presence of Zedus. The Super Gyaos began shaking its head in disbelief, how was he back, he hadn’t been around for thousands of years. The Super Gyaos’ fight or flight instincts kicked in, firing its sonic beam in response. Zedus easily dodged the attack, looking at the Super Gyaos, extremely unimpressed. Zedus then walked closer to the Super Gyaos, slowly, methodically. As Zedus approached, the Super Gyaos threw the stone tablet away before taking off to dive bomb Zedus. After flying above the clouds, the Super Gyaos dived down, Zedus roared as loud as possible, showing off his frill before slapping the approaching Gyaos with his hand, knocking the Super Gyaos into the water. The Super Gyaos rolled over to its back as Zedus ran towards the Gyaos. The shadow of despair fired its sonic beam point blank in Zedus’ face, completely unaffecting the original guardian.

Zedus bit down on Super Gyaos’ neck before throwing the creature into the sky. As the Super Gyaos tried to fly, Zedus shot out his tongue near the flying shadow’s wing, completely breaking Super Gyaos’ arm, causing Super Gyaos to fall from the sky back onto the beach. Zedus licked his lips before slowly walking towards Super Gyaos, firing his tongue again at the Gyaos’ other wing just to rub salt into the wound, to be as cruel as possible. Zedus was annoyed, enraged. He had been trapped in a pocket dimension for thousands of years and he ***FINALLY*** got out, he was going to give the enemies a sliver of the suffering he went through. As he got closer, the Super Gyaos had just struggled back to its feat. It’s arms were dangling around, but the Gyaos decided to continue fighting, even though it never had a chance against the killer of all. Zedus revealed his frill, causing the Gyaos to charge towards him. As the Super Gyaos ran at full speed, Zedus’ tail faced the Gyaos, the massive spike on the end of his tail easily stabbing through the Super Gyaos’ flesh, impaling it. As the Gyaos’ life began draining from its eyes, Zedus grabbed the flying terror and pulled it in, making it so the spike dug even deeper.

Super Gyaos began slashing at Zedus’ tail, trying to get Zedus to back down. Completely unaffected, Zedus decided to lift the Gyaos off the ground before slamming it back down, breaking the Super Gyaos’ legs before throwing it off the spike. With the Gyaos no longer a threat, Zedus looked over at the stone tablet that the Super Gyaos dropped earlier. Zedus walked over before picking up the tablet, seeing what the Gyaos had brought. As Zedus picked up the stone tablet, he began remembering. He remembered what this was. He had created this thing, he was the one who drew this. He began remembering; his first memory. When Zedus had just come into existence. After becoming sentient but before becoming corrupted, he began drawing down what he had experienced, with the tablet that this Super Gyaos found being the last one he had drawn being one of his battle with the Hyper Gyaos. Zedus dropped the tablet, snarling as he began remembering. Zedus held his head in his hands. His find felt like it was shattering. He then fell to the ground. He figured out what was happening. His original mind was fighting back against the corrupting, his old memories of his old life as a guardian of the universe began fighting back against the corruption. Zedus let out the loudest roar possible before falling to the ground. After standing back up, the corrupted Zedus got back up after this little mind boggle. Zedus then shook off the sand he had accumulated after falling to the ground. He then looked over and saw that the Super Gyaos had flown out from a secret entrance to the Hollow Earth. Zedus smiled, his old domain. Zedus then walked over to the Hollow Earth.

“So what’s gonna happen if say…Zedus killed Gamera?” Jerald asked the Shobijin.

“Well, if Zedus killed Gamera, Zedus would kill everything in sight. He would kill as many Gyaos as possible before he would dig deeper into the Earth, eventually absorbing the core of the Earth, killing the planet and as much life in it as possible.”

“...I’m sorry, what?!” HOW?! How could he possibly absorb the core of the Earth?!” Jerald questioned.

“He absorbed energy from the pocket dimension we banished him in, there’s no saying what he can’t absorb.”

Jerald stood there in shock. He had no idea how he could even respond to this.

“What about Rodan and Mothra?!” he finally said. “If they can beat him once, they could do it again, right?!” he asked.

“Unfortunately we can’t,” the Shobijin responded. “Mothra is extremely old. She’s going to reincarnate soon, and we were lucky Rodan even decided to help us those years ago. He normally acts on his own accords. In fact, I doubt we could get any other powerful monster to beat Zedus. Gamera may be our only hope.” the Shobijin said, looking down in disappointment. They were sad that Zedus had been corrupted this way and that they put this burden upon every lifeform. As Jerald and the Shobijin discussed, Kenny listened in, still thinking about his short interaction with Gamera. As he did, he began thinking about ways that Gamera could be assisted. He then remembered something.

“Hey Jerald!” Kenny exclaimed.

“Uh, yeah?” responded Jerald.

“You work at G-Force, right?” Kenny asked. “Do you know of any weapons that they may have that could possibly fight against Zedus?”

Jearald thought for a second. He wasn’t a higher up in G-Force, nor did he even work in the G-Force military, rather in the field of studying kaiju. However, Jearald did know people who were part of the G-Force military and he did have quite a lot of discussions with them.

“Uh, I believe that G-Force are making some really big mechs and stuff. Uh, one of the projects is called, like Project G.M.K. or something. Uh, it stands for…giant machine…kaiju, I think,” Jerald mumbled. His memory wasn’t the greatest but he was trying as hard as he could. “There was like a mechanical Godzilla thing and…some cyborg thing, I forgot.” As Jerald said this, the Shobijin scoffed, knowing of the cyborg in the making.

“Will those be of any help?” Kenny asked.

“No, I don’t believe so, I think those guys will be finished by 2020…4…?” Jerald responded. “OH WAIT!!! I think there’s a mech that was made right after Mechagodzilla was destroyed back in 1984. Uh, it was built as some sort of test to see if we could have giant mechs without the need for pilots, basically permanent autopilot you could say.”

Kenny was stunned while the Shobijin were intrigued.

“Alright, seems like we may have some hope,” Kenny smiled. “What’s the mech called?”

Meanwhile, at a G-Force facility,

At this facility, the front gate of the massive building began to open. The interior of the building was extremely dark, barely anything could have been made out with how dark everything was. That was until something lit up the room, the mech’s face, specifically the eyes and mouth. Both the eyes and the mouth were bright blue, with the mouth having a permanent smile. The mech then moved out. The robot was built to be extremely humanoid, specifically the head, arms and body. The only non-human part of the mech were the three wheeled tripod legs. The body had a red, yellow and white colour scheme, with an arrow on the top of his body with a ventilation shaft below the arrow. It was clear that this was a prototype, but still an extremely impressive mechanical beast. On the mech’s back was a cubical backpack which both had the energy that powered the machine but also carried a couple melee weapons. The machine was ready. It had sensed Zedus’ energy and was currently tracking the demonic deity down. It was time; the prototype Jet Jaguar!

As Kenny, Jerald and the Shobijin continued conversing, they all saw and heard Jet Jaguar travelling into the mountainside. Jerald immediately recognised the mech from the descriptions that the higher ups told him.

“Oh yeah, that’s the mech!” he said.

As the group continued watching, the Shobijin remembered something.

“Kenny, do you remember the Orb that powered the Gyaos?” the Shobijin asked.

“Yeah, of course,” he responded. “I split it in half and it allowed Gamera to beat the Hyper Gyaos. What about it?”

“Well, we collected the remains of it after the battle, and the two largest halves seemingly grew back into two more Orbs.”

Kenny was stunned. He had no idea what to say but boy did he have a multitude of questions.

“S…so should Gamera still be weakened?!?!?” was his first question.

“Well no,” the Shobijin responded. “These Orbs seem to generate a different energy than the original, so neither Gamera or Zedus’ powers should be weakened. However, perhaps if we were to directly attack Zedus with the energy from the Orb, it would significantly weaken or hurt him!” the fairies said excitedly.

“What are you getting at?” Jerald chimed in.

“Well, perhaps we could power that mech’s weapon with it!” they said.

Kenny and Jerald thought for a second, but as they did, the duo noticed the fairies flying towards the mech now with one of the Orbs in their hands.

“Well then…”

As Jet Jaguar travelled across the mountain ranges trying to find an entrance to the Hollow Earth, it scanned the presence of the fairies near it. Looking at the tiny priestesses, the Shobijin began speaking.

“Hello there, we don’t know if you know us, but we are the Shobijin. We have this powerful item known as the Orb. If we can power you with this, you will have a much better chance against Zedus.”

After the Shobijin spoke, Jet Jaguar’s programming decided to allow the Shobijin to power him with the Orb as the fairies flew to the cubical backpack Jet had. Using their magic, the Shobijin inserted the Orb into Jet’s systems, powering Jet and giving him infinite energy. Jet Jaguar let out a mechanical screech before driving off to battle Zedus.

As G-Force had sent out their mech to defeat Zedus, Gamera continued his journey to battle against the original guardian. Even without his additional powers, Gamera was still a physical powerhouse, able to dominate basically every monster that would realistically threaten him. All except for Zedus, the first creature to defeat him. Not even the Hyper Gyaos was able to defeat him in a 1v1, the two either had Gamera causing the Hyper Gyaos to flee or both would retreat, but Zedus was able to defeat him in a physical fight. In fact, once his additional powers were drained, Zedus was able to defeat him extremely quickly. The only thing Gamera was stumped on was why Zedus had spared him. He knew that Zedus could sense his lifeforce, he would have known that Gamera was still alive. Did it really matter? No, not really but still, it was something to think about. As Gamera continued walking, he eventually found a secret entrance to the Hollow Earth. He could have ran much faster, but he decided to reserve his energy. He knew his battle with Zedus would be one that would require him to put his all into it. As Gamera was about to enter this secret energy to the Hollow Earth, he heard something behind him.

The guardian of the universe looked behind and saw the prototype Jet Jaguar behind him. Gamera began sensing the robot, detecting the energy source of…the Orb?! Wasn’t that destroyed?! How did this robot have this power?! WHY WAS THE ROBOT BEHIND HIM?!?! Gamera held out his hands, running towards the robot roaring as loud as possible. Before the guardian could touch the robot however…

“Stop!”

Gamera halted. So this thing could speak, eh? Wonder what it could say?

“My name…is Jet…Jaguar.” the robot spoke. It’s speech was slow and the

voice itself was loud and distorted. Still, Gamera was impressed. He knew that the tech these small critters made were quite advanced for what Gamera saw as being somewhat primitive compared to the beings of Infant Island but this was the most advanced thing he had seen from them.

“I…am trying to…assist you…Ga…mera,” Jet continued. “To def…defeat…Ze…Zedus. Per…haps we could…make an…alliance. Y…you can lead me to…to the Holl…ow Earth and I…have weapons that…could weaken…Ze…dus.”

Gamera thought about it for a bit. He quickly agreed upon the alliance. I mean, why wouldn’t he accept help from someone who had weapons that could specifically hurt Zedus. Gamera nodded his head, knowing it was the only way to communicate with this mechanical beast.

“Thank you, Ga…mera,” Jet said, nodding in response. The two creatures then set off, jumping into the entrance of the Hollow Earth.

Meanwhile, Kenny and Jerald were discussing what to do. The Shobijin had left so they really had nothing to do.

“Hey, what happened to those Gyaos plants?” Jerald asked.

“You should know by now, I literally wasn’t even there. I’ve said this multiple times.” signed Kenny.

“Oh, right, hehe,” giggled Jerald. “Faulty memory, sorry. But still, do you want to see what happened?”

Kenny thought for roughly 2 seconds before immediately answering.

“Yeah sure, why not?”

The duo set off, walking over to where the Gyaos Plants were. Now that they knew that the plants were presumably there and that they were dangerous. As the two arrived at the mountain range, they noticed a lot had changed. Three of the mountains were completely missing, two of them destroyed by Gamera to defeat Zedus and one crumbled after Zedus emerged from the ground. All of the rubble of the mountains were all around what was used as the arena by the two guardians. However, the area in which the Gyaos plants were was mostly unharmed. Kenny and Jerald decided to walk over towards where the plants were. As they continued walking, Kenny’s brain began functioning again.

“Hey, aren’t these plants…dangerous?!” Kenny asked.

“I mean, yeah,” Jerald smiled. “But remember, they do have limited range, remember?”

“Right…but like, the rain’s gotten even worse, it might as well be a storm!”

“Fair, but let's just quickly get in, then out!”

“Alright, fine.”

The pair continued walking towards where the plants were out of curiosity, however, as they continued walking further, they heard…something. The noise was quiet at first but as the two approached, they heard it more and more. As the sound got louder, they realised it was some sort of creature. The two decided to hide behind the rubble of the destroyed mountains, looking over the rubble to see what it was. The duo noticed the Gyaos plants being eaten by…something. The silhouette was the only thing the two could see. While Jerald somewhat struggled to see what it was, Kenny immediately recognised it.

“*Zedus!*” Kenny whispered as loud as possible.

During the battle between Gamera and Zedus, Gamera had clawed out part of Zedus’ flesh. Due to the energy that the Gyaos plants let off, this piece of flesh mutated into an even more corrupted but much smaller version of Zedus. This mini-Zedus stood at 6 metres tall, 23 metres long and 18 metric tons. As the mini-Zedus feasted upon the Gyaos plants, it smelt something different; flesh. The flesh of the two humans who were trying to see what had happened to the Gyaos plants. Kenny and Jerald quickly realised the beast had picked up their scent. The two hid behind the rubble of the destroyed mountains. They noticed a couple pieces of the rubble had sort of made a structure that the two could use to crawl underneath. The two continued trying to hide, but then realised that the smaller Zedus still had their scent. Kenny then realised something; the rain. This entire time he had been complaining about the rain, but then he had realised that the rain had caused the dirt to become mud. Kenny began smearing the mud all over his body.

“*What the hell are you doing?*” whispered Jerald.

“*Hiding my scent!*” Kenny whispered back.

Jerald realised that Kenny had a good idea and began doing what his friend was. Once the two had covered a significant amount of their bodies in mud, the smaller Zedus hopped on a rock near the duo. It tried to sniff the two out but it seemed their scent had disappeared. Zedus decided to look around the area. He tried to sense the two prey items out, but he could only sense the Gyaos, as well as his larger form and his larger form’s successor. The smaller Zedus then screamed out as loud as possible into the air, Kenny and Jerald not knowing if it was out of anger or if it was out of dominance.

In the Hollow Earth, Gamera and Jet Jaguar continued walking through. No creature dared challenge Gamera, and nothing wanted to touch Jet Jaguar, considering his bright colours tricked creatures into believing he could possibly be poisonous. The two were mostly silent, with Jet following Gamera who was much more experienced with the tunnels of the Hollow Earth, that was until Jet spoke up.

“Strange…as we travel…I feel more…aware of things.” the mech spoke. Gamera looked over. He had noticed Jet’s speech was much more put together.

“As we travel, I feel more…awareness of my surroundings-”

Jet’s speech was cut off by a snarling Gamera. The guardian of the universe looked up at the ceiling of the Hollow Earth and began roaring at…something.

“Ga…mera, what are you…doing?” Jet asked. The machine then heard the roars of the smaller Zedus.

“What, he’s here?” Jet questioned. He then began scanning the area. “Strange. There appears to be two humans in the area.”

Jet moved up his right arm. As he did, a missile launcher emerged from a hatch on his wrist. He tried to aim the launcher in a place that would both hit the smaller Zedus but would not harm the humans. Eventually, he moved his arm extremely far away from both Zedus and the duo before firing a missile. The massive explosion caused a shockwave, knocking the rubble of mountains, the smaller Zedus, Kenny and Jerald into the air. A massive hole was created, causing Zedus and the two humans to fall into the Hollow Earth. Gamera noticed the two humans falling down. Seeing Kenny, his old friend, he leaped into the air and grabbed the two as lightly as possible before landing back onto the ground. Meanwhile the smaller Zedus continued falling down. After hitting the ground, the mini Zedus looked back at Jet Jaguar, who was preparing another missile. The smaller Zedus snarled at the mech before standing back up, activating his camouflage and running off as Jet fired another missile.

“Hmm…his single has disappeared but I don’t believe he’s dead.” Jet noted. After speaking, he looked at the two humans that Gamera was holding.

“Uh…hi?” Kenny said somewhat confused.

“Greetings,” the mech spoke. “Call me Jet Jaguar.”

“Hey Jet!” Jerald spoke. “Seems that the sentient mech thing that G-Force is making is going along smoothly, eh?”

“Yeah, you’re much more advanced than I expected!” Kenny exclaimed.

“I guess you could say that, but I was originally nowhere this advanced before,” Jet spoke. “After the Shobijin gave me that magical artefact, my programming has become much more advanced!”

“The orb?” Kenny asked.

“Correct!”

Gamera continued looking at the two humans. Not only did he like meeting up with what he had considered a friend, but he was also confused about what to do with the humans.

“Hmm, seems we’re in a bit of a dilemma,” Jet Jaguar said, looking at the two humans. “What to do with you two.”

“Couldn’t Gamera just jump to the surface?” Jerald asked.

“We can’t!” Kenny exclaimed. Jerald was extremely confused.

“But why though? We can’t be in a place this dangerous?!” screamed Jerald in response.

“We have no time! Remember what Zedus will do if he wins?!” Kenny exclaimed once again.

“No, I’m not aware,” Jet Jaguar butted in. “What will he do?”

“The Shobijin told us he would absorb the core of the Earth!” Kenny exclaimed.

“Hmm, what a dilemma we’re in…” Jet said. “Well, I do have a container system for people who need saving.” Once Jet Jaguar said this, a hatch in his chest opened up. “Perhaps you could be stored there until we can get you out.”

Kenny and Jerald shrugged. They weren’t exactly fond of the idea but it could work. Gamera moved his arm to the hatch, placing the people in the hatch. The two walked in as the hatch closed. Inside Jet was a well-lit room with multiple chairs - roughly 20 - each with several protective precautions that would make sure that everyone inside would be secure and safe. Gamera and Jet Jaguar then set off.

“So,” Kenny said, trying to engage Jerald in conversation. “There are two Zedus’ now.”

“I know, right!” Jerald exclaimed in confusion. “What should we call them?”

“Zedus Magnum and Zedus Parvus,” Jet Jaguar said, once again butting into the conversation. “Magnum is the larger one, Parvus is the smaller one!”

“Oh great, he can hear us.” Jerald said sarcastically.

“I mean, you are in my chest cavity.”

In an extremely deep part of the Hollow Earth, creatures that would normally tear each other apart such as Skullcrawlers, Giants Lizards and Giant Boas, were simply trying to hide, as two Super Gyaos’ had invaded the area. One of them began crawling on all-fours, firing its sonic beam as another reared on its hind legs, roaring as loud as possible as it kicked several mountains and rocks. While the two Gyaos continued destroying the landscape, one of them stopped. The other looked over, confused, questioning why the other Super Gyaos was acting like this. It then realised why when it heard a familiar roar. The two Gyaos’ knew they couldn’t outrun Zedus so they decided to hide. One of the Super Gyaos fired a sonic beam in a mountain, creating a cavern and hiding in it. The other one looked up, flying to the ceiling of the Hollow Earth, hiding behind some of the formations on it. Just after the two Gyaos had hid and went completely silent, *he* arrived.

Zedus walked into the area, Every other creature that weren’t Super Gyaos didn’t recognise what Zedus was, but they immediately felt a disturbance with his presence. Zedus continued walking, almost as if it was completely mindless. After a bit, Zedus just…stopped. He was completely motionless, his tail was still, he wasn’t blinking at all. Some of the creatures observing Zedus didn’t even know if he was breathing. After nearly fifteen seconds of being completely still, Zedus’ tail quickly jolted up, firing the tranquillising spikes directly at the Super Gyaos on the ceiling. The spikes directly hit the Gyaos’ body, causing the creature to fall to the ground, unable to move. The Super Gyaos had fallen right in front of Zedus, who stepped on the Super Gyaos’ chest, crushing some of the creature’s ribs. The last thing the Super Gyaos saw was Zedus opening his jaws and clamping down on the Gyaos’ head. The other Hollow Earth creatures watched as Zedus slashed up the Gyaos. After killing the Super Gyaos, Zedus threw the flyer’s body. The creatures were terrified, Zedus had mutilated the Super Gyaos’ body to the point where it was completely unrecognisable.

Zedus licked his lips and looked over at the creatures. He could see them, he could sense them and their fear, however he decided to keep them alive, for now anyways. He liked having the creatures in fear of him. Still, there was one more Super Gyaos in the area, one more victim. Zedus decided it could wait, walking over to a large pond and taking a sip from water. Suddenly, the Super Gyaos jumped out of nowhere, slashing Zedus’ face and diving into the water. Zedus tried to grab the Gyaos but missed as the bat-like creature swam to the bottom of the pond. Zedus snarled. He could hold his breath but he wasn’t a great swimmer. The ancient terror looked into the water, trying to see the Gyaos without diving in himself. As he did, he noticed his reflection. Interesting, he had never paid attention to it. Zedus got distracted, looking deeper and deeper in his reflection. The more he looked into it, the more it began to…change? After a while, Zedus noticed his reflection no longer looked like his own but more like…his old, non-corrupted self?!

After noticing his old form, Zedus reeled back in anger. He snarled, the corruption had changed his form, changed his being but he couldn’t get rid of his old self. Why? Why couldn’t he?! In a blind rage, Zedus dived into the water to kill the Super Gyaos. He didn’t care that he could barely swim, his anger was something that had completely controlled him at this point. As the Super Gyaos hid under some rocks, it noticed Zedus diving down. The Super Gyaos was confused. In this underwater terrain, it was a better swimmer than Zedus. The Gyaos swam up, but Zedus immediately bit down. Super Gyaos screamed, reeling in pain. Zedus then swam back to the surface, throwing the Gyaos out of the water. Once Zedus got out of the water, he noticed the Super Gyaos flying away. Zedus fired his tongue, wrapping it around Gyaos’ leg. The Super Gyaos continued trying to fly away but Zedus’ mere tongue was overpowering the Gyaos. Zedus then threw the Gyaos in a nearby mountainside. The Super Gyaos tried to get up but Zedus kicked the Gyaos in the face, breaking its jaw. Zedus then moved its tail, using the large spike on the end of it to slice off the Super Gyaos’ head. Every creature in hiding watched this massacre, this rage that Zedus had unleashed.

After killing this Gyaos, Zedus looked away. He knew that Gamera was approaching. Zedus quickly took off, running as fast as possible to the centre of the Hollow Earth. He has spared Gamera in their first fight mostly out of curiosity, it was interesting having another creature like him. He really didn’t want to actually kill Gamera, he continued running to the centre of the Hollow Earth. Eventually, he arrived at a large hillside. The large spike on his tail then began glowing bright orange, the energy he stole from Gamera flowing through it. He then stabbed the spike into the ground, creating a massive orange barrier shield, blocking any creature from getting in or out, save for Zedus himself. All the creatures in the area tried desperately to get out, with the Super Gyaos in the area firing their sonic beams at the barrier. As they were distracted, Zedus pounced on one before leaping at another, killing the Gyaos in the area in little time. Once all the Super Gyaos were dead, Zedus looked over at all of the creatures that were trapped in the barrier, Skullcrawlers, Giant Boas, Warbats, etc. Zedus smiled before leaping towards all of them, roaring as loud as possible.

Meanwhile Gamera and Jet Jaguar continued walking to track down Zedus. Gamera was mostly silent, but Jet wasn’t, speaking to Kenny and Jerald in his stomach hatch.

“So when were you built?” asked Kenny.

“Well, my blueprints were created in 1995 but those were for my complete form. I’m still currently a prototype, which is why I have these wheels instead of legs. My prototype blueprints were made in 1999 and I was completed only a couple weeks ago.”

“Ah, right.”

As the three continued speaking, Gamera just stopped. Jet noticed and stopped alongside him.

“Gamera…?” Jet asked.

Gamera continued standing there, frozen. He then immediately took off, running as fast as possible.

“Oh my!” Jet exclaimed. His wheels began moving much faster than normal. The two continued travelling at their top speed.

“Gamera, why are we moving this quickly?” asked the mech. Gamera roared back. Through the energy of the Orb, Jet Jaguar was able to understand Gamera.

“Zedus is on the move?!”

After a minute, Gamera and Jet Jaguar arrived at the Zedus’ barrier.

"Fascinating..."

Gamera and Jet Jaguar looked up at the energy barrier that Zedus had created. Gamera walked up to the barrier and punched it, not denting the barrier shield in the slightest. In shock, Gamera looked over at Jet Jaguar.

“It appears this barrier is created of energy, your energy,” Jet said, scanning the shield. “I don’t believe brute force would be able to bust it open no matter how powerful one would be.”

Jet began testing his theory. He began shoving the shield. Nothing. He then thought of something. The Shobijin had given him the energy of the Orb, something that weakened Gamera. It should also be able to weaken Zedus. Jet Jaguar allowed the energy of the Orb to flow through his mechanical parts, eventually glowing blue. Jet then rammed into the shield, the energy of the Orb allowing him to phase through. He was now on the other side of the barrier.

“Fascinating,” Jet muttered to himself. “Gamera, can you enter through?” he asked.

Gamera tried to walk into the barrier but it was still up.

“Fine, it seems that I must fight Zedus alone.” Jet said. Before he did, however, he remembered something.

“Hold on, humans!” the mechanical being said. His chest hatch then opened. “Jerald, Kenny, get out.”

“Wait, why?” asked Kenny.

“If I were to battle Zedus with you two inside me, you would end up being a puddle of blood in my chest cavity,” he said as the two humans walked into his right hand. He then moved his arm up to a small cliffside that was extremely far away from where Zedus was. “You’d be more safe here!”

“Right then,” Kenny sighed. “I guess that makes sense.”

“Thank you for your cooperation.” Jet nodded, giving a thumbs up. He then drove off on his way to battle Zedus. Meanwhile Gamera watched, trying to find a way to destroy the energy shield. Kenny and Jerald watched Gamera’s struggles.

“Hey, Gamera!” Kenny called out. Gamera looked over. “Maybe you could absorb the energy!”

Gamera thought for a minute. It could work, but he didn’t know how. Normally he could just passively absorb the energy, but Zedus seemingly disabled this ability after Zedus absorbed his energy. Gamera snarled, before looking over at Jet Jaguar and Zedus.

Zedus had been killing everything on site. He had just snapped the neck of a Skullcrawler on top of the hillside when he heard something.

“ZEDUS!!!” screamed Jet Jaguar. The ancient terror looked over. He had never seen such a…thing. It definitely wasn’t a creature, it wasn’t alive, yet it could still move, or even look like it was thinking, even speaking. Zedus growled at the mecha, firing his tranquillising spikes. The spikes simply bounced off the mech, however. Zedus was confused, but decided to attack, lunging towards Jet. As Zedus continued running, Jet fired a missile with energy from the Orb. The missiles hit Zedus. While it normally would even scratch Zedus, the energy from the Orb specifically exploited his weakness. Zedus screamed in pain, shaking off all the debris of the explosion. He then looked over at Jet Jaguar.

“Someone shocked?”

Meanwhile, the smaller Zedus, Zedus Parvus, had turned off its invincibility. It had been stalking Kenny and Jerald for the longest time. Normally it wouldn’t do this, but it was frankly annoying, how dare these pathetic primates show him up with their massive guardians! It noticed Gamera distracted on destroying the energy field. Zedus Parvus ran towards the shield, easily phasing through the barrier due to him being technically Zedus, thus able to freely walk through the energy shields alongside Zedus Magnus, the larger Zedus. Kenny and Jerald were having a nice conversation with each other, with Kenny looking down at where Gamera was. As he did, he noticed the smaller Zedus running towards them.

“ZEDUS PARVUS!!!” Kenny screamed as loud as possible.

In response, Zedus Parvus fired its tongue out. The two people ducked, avoiding the tongue. Parvus retracted the tongue back, snarling. Fine, he would just have to tear them apart personally. Parvus began climbing the cliff that Kenny and Jerald were on. It wasn’t an excellent climber, but it could climb. Gamera noticed, banging on the shield at a much more rapid pace. This smaller Zedus couldn’t kill the humans that he actually liked.

Meanwhile Jet’s battle with Zedus wasn’t going as well as the mech had originally anticipated. Though he was holding his own, despite specifically exploiting his weakness, Zedus seemed practically undamaged. Zedus headbutted Jet in the chest before spinning in a circle, slashing Jet Jaguar’s face with the large spike on the end of his tail. Jet shook his head before driving quickly, grabbing and even lifting him up into the air. Zedus was impressed but still continued the battle, slashing the mechanical protector’s sides with his foot claws before kicking Jet away. While Zedus fell to the ground, Jet was propelled extremely far away, slamming into the side of a hill. Zedus then let out a series of quiet roars that sounded like a laugh as he stood back up, shaking off the dirt he had accumulated. Zedus then began walking towards the downed mechanical saviour.

“Ugh, you’re kidding me!” Jet mumbled. He knew he couldn’t win at this point, and there was only one way at this point he could get out without being destroyed. Zedus stepped on Jet Jaguar’s chest, making quiet clicking noises. Zedus then looked to the sky and roared before preparing to bite down on Jet Jaguar’s neck. However, Jet shut himself off briefly, appearing dead. Zedus was confused. Perhaps it died of shock? Eh, it didn’t really matter. He saw the other creatures that he hadn’t killed yet, mostly some of the Warbats. Time for more killing.

Gamera was still at it, pounding on the barrier shield. He was still trying to figure out how to absorb the energy. He wanted to fight Zedus but he needed to stop the smaller Zedus Parvus from killing Kenny and Jerald. Eventually, he looked down at his elbow spikes. He never understood why he had them, what was he gonna use them for? Then, he had a realisation. Gamera stabbed his elbow spike into the shield and tried to drain the shield’s energy, the orange light coursing through his body. Eventually the shield was gone. Gamera then walked over to where the Zedus Parvus was. The smaller Zedus had finally climbed up the hill, and was preparing to pounce. As Zedus Parvus leaped into the air, Gamera grabbed him before he could do anything. Zedus Parvus began squirming, but Gamera threw him away. Though he was just thrown, Parvus got up, shook off the damage and roared towards Gamera. Intrigued, Gamera crawled on all fours, staring down Parvus. The smaller Zedus continued roaring at Gamera, who retracted his head into his shell. Zedus Parvus was confused until Gamera launched his head out, knocking Zedus Parvus hundreds of kilometres away.

Gamera stood back up on his hind legs and looked at Kenny and Jerald, the former was currently nodding.

“Hu, nice.” Kenny said, giving a thumbs up. As Gamera nodded, he heard Zedus’ roar. The two creatures stared each other down. A final showdown.

Gamera and Zedus looked at each other, staring at each other. This time, only one of them would make it out alive. Before they could initiate battle however, Gamera noticed the two humans. Even if Zedus was extremely far away from Kenny and Jerald, he knew that him and Zedus’ sheer power could cause death. Zedus noticed Gamera being distracted, distracted by these odd, tiny beings. Zedus smiled, perhaps Gamera had become attached to these things. Zedus’ frill came out as he roared towards Gamera, trying to run. Trying. Why wasn’t he moving? Zedus looked behind to see why he couldn’t move.

“Ugh…Zedus…” Jet Jaguar mumbled. His system was barely online, the right side of his head was crushed and only one of his eyes was only barely on, but he was still trying. Zedus looked back at Jet. He was confused about what Jet Jaguar was trying to do, but he really didn’t care. Zedus took advantage of this, using Jet Jaguar as a projectile, throwing the mech with his tail towards Gamera. Gamera caught the mech and placed Jet down. The guardian of the universe looked up and saw Zedus charging towards him. Using the energy he got from absorbing the energy shield, Gamera was able to shoot a fireball, this was in particular being 120% more powerful than a regular fireball. This fireball hit Zedus, sending the ancient entity to be flung back into the hillside. Zedus shook off the dirt and debris off his body before jumping on top of the hillside and roaring. Gamera roared back before charging. As he did, Jet Jaguar struggled back up, opening his chest hatch and letting both Kenny and Jerald get inside.

“W-were getting out of here, buckle up!” Jet said as the two humans got inside the chest cavity. Once they did, Jet closed the chest hatch and looked back at the charging Gamera.

“Godspeed, Gamera. Godspeed!” Jet then drove off, trying to get as far away from the battling titans as possible.

Gamera continued charging. He tried shooting another fireball but the energy shield had only given him so much power. It seems that most of Gamera’s energy was still in Zedus himself. While Gamera was running, Zedus looked down from the hill. Wanting to keep a distance, Zedus fired his tranquillising spikes. With his skilled precision, however, Gamera was able to catch the tiny spikes and throw it back at Zedus. The spikes stabbed into Zedus’ leg. Shocked and confused, Zedus fell to the ground. He could only feel one of his legs and the sheer confusion Zedus was feeling caused him to fall to the ground. Gamera used this to his advantage, circling around the hillside to climb from the left of Zedus. Zedus sat up, clawing the tranquillising spikes out of his leg with a single slash. The original guardian then stood back up to see where Gamera was. Gone? Where was he? He then heard the turtle’s iconic roar. Gamera had finally climbed the mountain and had begun charging.

Zedus rolled his eyes before quickly running towards Gamera. The two monsters clashed into each other, throwing their weight around. Due to his superior weight and bulk, Gamera knocked back Zedus.Zedus shook off the damage and tried to leap at Gamera, but received a punch to the face from the turtle kaiju. Gamera then punched Zedus in the face two more times before grabbing Zedus’ head and slamming his rival into the turtle’s knee. Gamera then lifted Zedus by his head and threw him away. Slamming into the ground, Zedus realised that Gamera was a physically more powerful foe. Zedus decided to turn invisible to ambush Gamera. The guardian of the universe noticed this and began putting all of his preserved energy into his senses. Zedus’ invisibility completely hid his scent, so Gamera had to be paying attention. After a couple seconds, Gamera felt a disturbance right next to him. He immediately punched the being he sensed, hearing Zedus roar in pain. Gamera snarled, knowing he had successfully sensed his advisory. In response, Zedus, still invisible, shot out his tongue, which Gamera easily caught. Gamera then wiped out his elbow spike and stabbed it into the tongue. Zedus reeled in pain from this, turning off his invisibility. With his elbow spike stabbed into Zedus’ tongue, Gamera began draining back his energy. After draining enough energy, Gamera threw Zedus extremely far away using his tongue.

Retracting his tongue back into his mouth, Zedus squinted at Gamera. It seems that Gamera was overcoming his abilities. It didn’t matter. Zedus beat him in a physical fight once, he can do it again. Gamera continued charging towards Zedus, who quickly leaped to his feet, headbutting Gamera in the stomach, knocking the turtle back briefly. Zedus then kicked Gamera in the stomach like he did in the first fight. Zedus then charged, leaping into the air and jumping on the top of Gamera’s shell. Still standing, Gamera tried to shake Zedus off. Smiling at the turtle’s fruitless attempts, Zedus stabbed the spike on his tail into Gamera’s arm. Taking advantage of this, Gamera grabbed the tail, lifted Zedus into the air and slammed him into the ground before kicking him away. Gamera roared before preparing a fireball, however, he stopped. He knew he could use this fireball in a much more devastating way. As Zedus looked up, he saw Gamera breathing fire on the turtle’s own arm. Confused, Zedus got back up and leaped into the air, ready to pounce. Knowing that Zedus would do this, Gamera punched Zedus in the face with the fire-covered arm, creating a massive explosion that destroyed everything within a 8 kilometre radius.

Removing all of the rubble that had covered him after the explosion, Zedus got up only to get immediately tackled back down by Gamera, who stabbed his elbow spike into the downed Zedus once again. Using his brute force and bulk, Gamera was able to absorb all of his energy back. Walking away from the downed Zedus, Gamera sniffed the air, finally having all of his powers back. While the guardian of the universe took all of this in, Zedus got back up and roared in anger. Gamera growled, he assumed now that he had his powers Zedus would be a much easier foe; he wasn’t. In a blind rage, Zedus slashed Gamera’s face. He then bit down on the turtle’s left arm, trying to tear it off. Gamera quickly shot a fireball at Zedus, knocking him back. His arm was still on his body but it was most definitely broken. Zedus screamed. The fireball hurt him, but Zedus was not focussing on that. He was ready to kill Gamera as much as possible, and was ready to ignore all signs of pain. Zedus charged, slamming his body into Gamera before biting the turtle’s head, or at least trying to. Gamera retracted his head in his shell once again. Zedus looked down and roared just as Gamera’s head quickly reappeared, slamming into Zedus’ head, knocking the ancient guardian back.

The two guardians were now fighting at full capacity. Neither were holding back anymore. Gamera was using his superior ranged attacks and physical strength while Zedus used his superior melee weapons like his larger claws and the spike on his tail. The two continued grappling each other, slashing each other. After a while, Zedus was wondering why Gamera wasn’t shooting anymore fireballs or even flying. It didn’t really matter, and Zedus continued battling against Gamera. Eventually, using his superior power, threw Zedus off of the hillside. Gamera then jumped down the hillside as Zedus continued flopping around on the ground. As Zedus tried to stand up, Gamera finally unleashed the weapon he had been charging up for, the reason he hadn’t used any of his other abilities; the Ultimate Plasma! As Gamera began charging, his chest began glowing bright green as blue electricity appeared on the front of his shell. The pieces that made up the front of his shell then opened up, revealing a powerful energy core of Gamera. Zedus looked up. He realised he had no real way of winning, no way of coming out of this fight alive. Still, he wasn’t going to die running, nor die without trying. Zedus began running as fast as possible. Gamera scoffed and unleashed the Ultimate Plasma. Just then, a massive beam came from his chest. The beam was so powerful that Gamera was propelled backwards as it fired. The beam hit Zedus, causing the beast to seemingly disappear as Gamera assumed he was incinerated. The beam was so powerful that the entire area around Gamera caused a massive explosion ten times wider than the banishing fist that Gamera used earlier.

Meanwhile, on the surface world, Jet Jaguar had stopped moving after arriving at the mountain range that Zedus had originally appeared in.

“So, do you think Gamera will win?” Kenny asked, still inside Jet Jaguar’s chest cavity.

“Well-” Jet began speaking before he saw the massive explosion that Gamera caused. “I think he’s going to be fine…”

Gamera stood in the Hollow Earth. The explosion he had made had caused the ceiling of the Hollow Earth he was in to completely collapse, revealing the Hollow Earth to the surface world. Once the dust cleared, Gamera began walking around. He was trying to regain his energy, but he also wanted to see what he had destroyed. As he walked around, he saw some of the rubble of the Hollow Earth moving.

“HEEEEEEYEOOOOOWWOOAAAARRRRR!!!!!!!!!”

Zedus, who had somehow survived the attack, leaped from the rubble and bit down on Gamera’s neck as hard as possible. In a lot of pain, Gamera clawed onto Zedus’ face. The ancient guardian let go of Gamera’s neck. Gamera looked at Zedus, seeing the damage that he had done. Zedus was completely charred, his golden-brown skin now being charcoal black, some of his skin was completely burnt off, his frills had been completely torn up, only with only some of the frill still being on Zedus’ head. His left arm was broken and his right was limp. Both of Zedus’ legs were barely letting Zedus stand up. Zedus was currently twitching, and part of his stomach was ripped open. Gamera was genuinely surprised that Zedus was still standing up. Zedus limped towards Gamera, still trying to defeat Gamera. The turtle grabbed Zedus by the neck, threw him in the air and punched him away. Zedus slid on the ground, crawling on the ground and trying to stand back up, failing. Zedus was breathing loudly at this point. Both Gamera and Zedus knew that the ancient guardian was struggling to live. Still, Zedus continued fighting on, pushing himself to the limits to battle Gamera. There was no way in hell that he was winning, and Zedus knew this. Even still, he was going to fight on. He was impressed by Gamera, a fellow guardian. The one creature that Zedus encountered that actually beat him. It was…fascinating.

Zedus let out the loudest roar he possibly could before limping towards Gamera as fast as possible, receiving a back hand from the turtle. Zedus swung his tail, trying to slash Gamera with his spike, but the guardian of the universe easily dodged, grabbing Zedus by the tail and throwing him into the nearby hill. Gamera then ran towards Zedus, grabbing the original guardian by the neck, throwing him into the air and shooting a fireball. Zedus fell down once again, shooting out his tranquillising spikes. The spikes shot into Gamera’s leg, causing him to fall over. This gave Zedus enough time to stumble back on his feet and show off his frill, which was torn apart and barely still on. Gamera plucked the spikes out and got back to his feet, jumping back and smashing his shell into Zedus’ face. Gamera then picked up Zedus, grabbed his head and tore it off. Zedus’ body fell to the ground as Gamera looked down, dropping Zedus’ head. It somewhat saddened him to do this to Zedus, the only other creature like Gamera. Shame he had to be corrupted. Gamera then walked off, triumphant, victorious as the sun set.

The End.