Shinomura

Shinomura (シノムラ?) is a radioactive parasitic colonial Titan and an ancient enemy of Legendary Godzilla. They are an enormous colony of parasitic starfish that feed on radioactive titans such as Legendary Godzilla and his relatives.

## Appearance

Shinomura is massive dark blue winged creature with dragon-like wings, a scorpion-like tail, an insectoid head, and a beaked mouth. It has multiple whitish blue glowing eyes on both sides of its head to give it a large field of view.

## Origins

Shinomuras are starfish that evolved eusocial colonial behavior and gained the ability to form a super organism using symbiosis. They evolved and lived alongside Godzilla and numerous other Titan species at least 250 million years ago, right before the Permian-Triassic extinction event happened. During the event, an individual Shinomura fell underground, where it laid dormant for millions of years until the bombing of Hiroshima awoke it.

## History

Shinomura was awoken its slumber by the impact of the bombing of Hiroshima, and was attracted to the radiation. Starving for food after sleeping for millions of years and wanting to feed, Shinomura attacked military ships to find nuclear energy to consume, but to no avail. As it was progressing with its rampage, it dropped a single starfish cell in the Philippines, which was weak and small due to a lack of nourishment and separation from the whole. Monarch found this cell and took it to their base for research and experimentation. Monarch's Science Team exposed the cell to radiation, allowing it to grow and regenerate quickly to become large via self replication. The new Shinomura escaped immediately and left to look for its other half.

Sometime later, Legendary Godzilla came ashore to Moansta Island to confront Shinomura. The two Shinomura encountered one another, to which they merged together into a much larger form and proceeded to attack Legendary Godzilla. Despite the long struggle between the two creatures, Legendary Godzilla was able to incinerate half of the beast with his atomic breath. Pained, the remaining half attempted to escape to safety, with Legendary Godzilla following. In the midst of their battle, a trap was set to lure both of them into the Bikini Atoll by Monarch with the aid of the United States military using a nuclear detonation device to destroy both titans. The trap test, labelled "Castle Bravo", was initiated and the hydrogen bomb dropped onto both creatures. Shinomura was destroyed in the explosion, but Legendary Godzilla survived and was strengthened by absorbing the radiation. Leaving have become victorious and much stronger, Legendary Godzilla swam off into the sea of the Bikini Atoll.

## Abilities

### Division and recombination

Shinomura is a superorganism composed of a mass of smaller organisms which can join together into a single unified body. As a result of this structure, Shinomura is able split apart into multiple forms and can recombine later at any time. It is also able to change its shape to form spiked tentacles which it can use to capture prey as well as attack Godzilla.

### Regeneration

In addition to its aforementioned composition, Shinomura possesses an incredible capacity for regeneration. A single cell from Shinomura can regrow an entire new body as long as there radiation is in the area for which it can feed on.

### Growth

Like Godzilla and other creatures from the time period in which it lived, Shinomura feeds on radiation as a source of nourishment. So long as it continues to feed on radiation, Shinomura will continue to grow until it reaches sufficient size.

### Physical strength

Shinomura is strong enough to engage combat against Legendary Godzilla and is also able drag him with full strength.

### Flight

Shinomura is capable of powered flight using its large wings.

### Weaknesses

Shinomura is vulnerable to extreme atomic energy, like Godzilla's atomic breath, and is ultimately destroyed after being directly exposed to the massive explosion of the Castle Bravo dry-fuel hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll.

## Trivia

* Like Hedorah and Destoroyah, Shinomura is a prehistoric colonial superorganism that can divide and recombine at will, and are deadly to other species due to their toxic emission of radiation from their bodies and ravenous hunger and prey drive towards other organisms.