GTAG Chapter 23: Humanity's Shock
The three remaining kaiju swam beneath the surface, too frightened to rise.
It wasn't just the kaiju that were shaken. Even the Precursors were stunned by Godzilla's existence.
The kaiju and the Precursors were linked through a hive-mind connection, allowing the Precursors to control them completely and see through their eyes.
Through this link, the Precursors became aware of Godzilla. But they had no idea what this sudden new being was.
Could the spatial disturbance they detected earlier have been caused by him?
The Precursors sank into thought.
In that brief moment of hesitation, Godzilla had already annihilated the last three kaiju.
They were unable to break free from underwater combat. Godzilla, however, moved through the depths with terrifying speed and agility.
With only two strokes of his massive tail, he closed in on a kaiju circling nearby and bit its head clean off.
The last two kaiju realized they had no chance. They didn't even have the strength to force Godzilla into a real battle. Panicked, they split apart and tried to flee.
Godzilla gave chase, first catching the closest one. He sank his teeth into its spine, shook violently, and tore it in half.
Then he turned toward the final kaiju.
Despite its desperate swim, Godzilla overtook it in less than a minute and crushed its neck in his jaws.
The four kaiju were wiped out.
Godzilla resumed his course toward the wormhole, though this time he swam more slowly, no longer in a rush.
An unsettling thought crossed his mind.
Had those kaiju been sent specifically for him?
He hadn't considered that before, but then realized—his arrival could not have gone unnoticed.
If he could sense the wormhole, then surely the Precursors could sense him.
Their ability to engineer a stable wormhole between dimensions alone proved they possessed not only advanced biotechnology but significant technological power in other fields as well.
It didn't surprise him that they could detect his presence.
So he slowed, waiting to see how the Precursors would respond.
Meanwhile, inside the Dome's control room, silence reigned.
Everyone stared at the monitors where four kaiju had disappeared—killed in moments by an unknown monster now identified as Godzilla.
They had just witnessed the impossible: four kaiju, long symbols of slaughter and catastrophe, torn apart like toys.
"What's the analysis?"
The General's voice snapped them back to reality.
"This is unbelievable… completely unbelievable!"
"I've never seen anything like it! This creature makes kaiju look like balloons filled with water. He's more terrifying than anything we've faced."
The staff muttered in awe, but the General grew impatient. "The results!"
"Yes, sir…"
"From the limited data available, the creature's body length measures at least three hundred meters, with a minimum mass of three hundred thousand tons…"
"Wait!" The General cut him off. "Three hundred thousand tons!?"
"At least, sir," the technician corrected. Then, with an incredulous look, added, "But that's not the most shocking part."
"General, you won't believe this, but inside that monster… we've detected nuclear fusion. Do you understand what that means?"
The technician's trembling voice carried a note of obsession.
If kaiju were monstrous abominations, then this creature was something more—destructive, yes, but radiating a kind of divinity.
Something that begged to be studied.
"This is far more fascinating than the kaiju," whispered Dr. Newton, the scientist obsessed with them.
He had once believed kaiju were the most extraordinary lifeforms in existence. Now, he had to admit—something even more miraculous stood before them. And compared to it, kaiju looked like children.
"This isn't scientific!" Dr. Hermann shouted.
He had managed to stay calm until those two words—"nuclear fusion." Then his composure shattered.
Nuclear fusion? Inside a living organism?
You must be joking.
Yet the readings were clear. The instruments had been checked repeatedly. The results were undeniable.
"Where has it been hiding?"
The General asked the question everyone was thinking.
How could a creature like this exist without being detected?
With their level of technology, they should have noticed long ago.
Unless… it too came from beyond.
And if that was the case, then it clearly wasn't allied with the kaiju. Its slaughter of them proved that much.
If so…
The General slipped a pill from a case into his mouth, lost in thought.
A reckless idea formed. What if they could lure this creature into fighting the kaiju for them?
But he quickly dismissed it.
Too unpredictable.
The monster could destroy Jaegers just as easily as kaiju. It was too dangerous to gamble on.
"General, there's something you should know."
"Speak."
"That creature… it's heading straight for the wormhole."
"…What did you say?"
"It hasn't changed course once. Its trajectory is locked on the wormhole."
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