Chapter Three: Freedom's Grasp

"Uh does anyone see Godzilla on the move like I am?" Sam asked aloud to the others. "Or am I just going crazy?" He added to it. "Nope I am seeing it too." Rick said as Mark immediately was standing behind him.

"Was another Titan near him?" He asked the two, "No he was actually asleep-" "Aaaaaaand I lost him, he went through a wormhole." Sam cut off Rick making him and Mark look at him in surprise.

"He might've heard something the sensors picked up despite how late the reaction is." Rick said as he went to another monitor as Mark followed his footsteps.

Rick typed away as he brought up the sensor file, "Sensors picked this up a couple of hours ago, though it's a weak signal it's definitely Titan." He explained as he pressed play allowing it to faintly play from his headphones which Mark listened to the other side not pressed against Rick's left ear (holding the left side to his right ear like a DJ would in movies).

The sound was faint but Mark was able to hear it. "It sounds like a roar, mixing up Ghidorah's with Godzilla's roar and a bit of Mothra's thrill." He said, trying to strain his hearing to hear it better.

In an instant Madison (who had been in the main command center room talking with Dr Chen) took the headphones from Rick and her father and placed them in her head to listen to it. "Madison-" The said brunette held a finger up in a one minute jester silencing her dad.

"What do you hear girl?" Rick asked her quietly after a minute. "... It sounds in pain, angry and scared but in pain." Madison said after a minute of listening. "Rick where did the source of this come from?" She asked the man as she took the headphones off and placed them on the desk.

"Hold on a minute and I shall answer that." Rick said as he went into the file details to find that.

Mark placed a hand on his daughter's shoulder making her look at him. "I thought I told you not to be a part of this stuff." He reprimanded his daughter making her huff. "Dad I'm already more aware of this stuff than you when mom always brought me along for Titan stuff, besides you know I want to help in Monarch." She explained though sounding evaporated of the time old argument she and her father would have.

"I would rather prefer you don't risk yourself with Monarch and Titans in general and have a normal life that doesn't get you killed like a normal teenage girl." Mark told her sounding stressed. Thankfully for the two the argument was cut short when Rick spoke.

"Alrighty, though it was faint the signal of that roar came from-" Rick cut himself off at registering what it said. "The antarctic?" Colonel Diane read aloud in almost a shocked tone.

"In specific, five miles from Ghidorah's old Monarch Outpost ruins." Rick confirmed making everyone look in shock.

"Think it's alive?" Dr Chen asked a bit worried. "No, I've done a satellite scan Monster Zero doesn't show up whatsoever on there but I do get a different ping of something not in our Titan database." Sam answered as he looked through satellite scans over the region.

"A new titan?" Madison asked as she held her arms. "Could be, but why inside a lab that has no space at all for a Titan containment?" Rick asked.

"Something tells me we need to find out before Godzilla does." Mark said as he sat up. "I'll prepare a team and meet you at the Argo for take off." Colonel Diane said as she quickly rushed out of the room.

"You think Godzilla is heading there?" Sam asked as he got up from his seat. "Possibly if he really heard that roar." Mark said as Rick got out of his seat and he and Sam followed him.

"Madison I want you to stay here." "No I'm going with you!" "Not a chance young lady!" Despite being told no Madison immediately ran after them with Dr Chen and Dr Ling following close after them.

"What do you mean Monarch is mobilizing?"

Rue quietly woke up as she opened her eyes halfway while the three fairy sisters perked up and immediately went to hiding between Rue's person and her tail.

Rue pretended to sleep as she heard footsteps coming down the hallway. Belivera held the handle of her sword in her right hand.

"They must've heard her roar." Rue felt her heart leap at that. While she thought a Titan would hear her roar she definitely didn't expect Monarch to but she was fine with that, until she registered Johan had figured it meaning he had someone on the inside.

'Jesus fucking Christ is anywhere safe from this guy?' Rue thought to herself in panic making Lora (who the youngest Elias sister had heard her thoughts) place a hand on her to send comforting waves to the preteen making Rue feel a bit better.

"Prepare to move locations, bring all data and experiments including Zero G." Moll pursued her lips at that as Belivera tightened her grip on her sword handle.

"Save her for last, it would be more important to get the equipment moved first." Moll let out a breath in relief as Belivera kept her grip on her sword handle while Lora mouthed up to the ceiling "thank you Goddess Queen".

"We still have Project M.G in case we manage to lose her." Was all the four could still hear as Johan walked off still on the phone.

Once the four knew he was out of ear shot Lora quickly was the first to leave the hiding spot. "And here I thought the God King would get here first." She said as Moll went to her side as well with Belivera following suit.

"They probably noticed him moving when Belivera summoned him." Moll figured as she brushed her hair from her face.

Rue slightly lifted her head from her arms. "Okay but that doesn't help of the possibility Johan has people inside of Monarch, and what if Godzilla doesn't get here in time before they ship me out." She whispered to the three, keeping her voice down in case someone could be nearby listening to her.

"Well he didn't mention the God King so the possible chance that it's just what they could," Lora pursued her lips for the correct words. "Hack?" Rue suggested making Lora snap her fingers, "Yes hack, into Monarch to find those logs or whatever." Lora continued, "So there's a good chance he doesn't have anyone actually inside."

Moll kept an eye out on the area outside of the cell as Belivera had a mental conversation with Godzilla through the Priest bond off to the side.

"Now why am I not surprised it was Lora who convinced you to summon me for something in need?" He asked Belivera through the bond of their conversation. "Oh hush it, you know she learned it from Jr." She responded back earning an amused chuckle through the bond.

Rue sighed as she rested her chin on her arms, "Still it doesn't make me feel less anxious." She told Lora as she hugged herself with her tail while resting her chin on her arms. Lora gave her a sympathetic smile as she rested her hand on the blonde's tail to comfort her.

After finishing the mental bond conversation Belivera sighed. "He has no clue how long until he gets here but he's trying to as fast as he can." She told the three. "Let's hope they're slow with moving." Moll said with a sigh as she rested a hand on Rue's tail to try to help her sister ease the girl's nerves.

Belivera sighed as she approached them and took a seat on the ground while leaning her back against Rue's tail while crossing her arms over her chest.

Rue buried her face back in her arms feeling three simultaneous mental waves of comfort pass through her from the three fairy Priestess' sisters by her.

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A long thick and powerful tail prepailed him forward through the chilling waters around him.

He was far from surprised that Lora convinced Belivera to do the summoning, but he was when she kept it brief as to why he needed to be summoned.

He knew she was on the edge of something with it from the bond but didn't look further with it. He could find out himself when he got there. For now all he could do was swim as fast as possible to the location of his priestess and her sisters.

The keys jingled in the cell door making Rue shoot her head up to look as the three sisters quickly hid behind a bench beam in the cell. The guard opened the cell door allowing three of them to enter as a forth one had the leash in hand.

"Up and at em brat." Rue sighed as she pushed herself up then stood up. 'Well guess I'm never lucky.' Rue thought to herself as the leash clipped onto the collar.

A sharp tug of the leash made Rue wince with a pained face as she followed the five guards to walk down the hallway. The three fairies left their hiding spot and stared ahead. "We have to go after them!" Lora said making Moll nod in agreement.

The twins held their hands above the other (Moll's left hand hovering above Lora's right with both of their palms open) as golden sparkles left their hands. "Fairy." Belivera grabbed the pendant on her choker, "Garugaru!" She called for her mount.

In an instant a much smaller (still larger than the three however) version of Mothra flew to the twins, following closely behind it was an almost dragon-like creature slightly larger than Fairy, while its snout was chubby similar to a Pug with mechanical parts as well and large dragon-like wings.

Fairy landed in front of Moll and Lora allowing the twins to quickly climb on (Lora sitting behind her sister) while Garugaru landed in front of Belivera allowing her to climb on its back.

"Come on!" In an instant Fairy and Garugaru took off after the five guards and Rue.

Rue stared blankly at her clawed feet as she walked with the five guards, her claws slightly clicking against the cold ground with her tail swaying slightly behind her. Fairy and Garugaru quickly caught up to them.

"Ready Lora? Belivera?" Moll asked her sister's making the said two nod in confirmation (Lora nodded, Belivera yelled a ready) as Lora held an arm out with her palm flat and Belivera took her sword out from its sheath with its blade extending making twice as long.

"Now!" In an instant Lora began to fire balls of concentrated psychic energy at the guards while Belivera got in closer to swing her sword at their arms.

The guard holding the leash quickly shoved Rue to the floor (who landed on her front) while taking out a shock stick and swinging it around trying to hit the fairies and their mounts with the other guards.

Belivera saw Rue still just laying there with a blank look. The eldest Elias sister gritted her teeth as she steered Garugaru higher in the air to avoid the guards as she projected a telepathic voice to Rue.

"You want to be free from this? From being caged by these bastards and constantly experimented on? Then you got to fight back! Fight back for your freedom!" Belivera told her telepathically making Rue freeze at that.

The blonde's face then darkened with a snarl painting her lips as she pressed the palms of her claws against the concrete ground and pushed herself to her knees then stood up tall.

The guard that had held her leash backed up unaware of Rue glaring him down from behind. "THEIR THE SIZE OF BATS! THEY SHOULDN'T BE THAT HARD TO HIT-" The guard was cut off as he began to yell in panic gaining the attentions of the other four guards watching in shock and horror as Rue picked him up from behind with two of her claws (her index and middle finger) dug into his skull a good few inches between the base of the skull and the spine (shallow enough to not cause death especially instant but deep enough to hold a grip on him) and held him high a few feet above the ground with her towering heights.

Rue quickly threw him into the other guards making them fly back into the ground in a pile up. A deep rumbling growl left her throat before she roared loudly at them enough to shake the room with the volume while purple electricity crackled off her fangs, though compared to the previous roar this one held pure rage with one sentence clear as day in it.

"You will not keep me here no more!"

"SHIT!" Rue began to throw the guards around like ragdolls with ease, her rage and adrenaline giving her more than enough strength than what she had from her alterations.

"MAYDAY MAYDAY! CODE RED! CODE RED! EXPERIMENT ZERO G IS FIGHTING BACK! I REPEAT; EXPERIMENT ZERO G IS FIGHTING BACK!"

One of the guards activated the shock collar making Rue nearly fall to her knees with a scream in pain. As more guards rushed in Rue growled as she slipped her claws between the collar and her neck and began pulling on the collar without stopping while electricity from the collar started to dance across her fangs slowly turning purple as they did.

At last, the collar snapped from the strain and broke into two pieces effectively powering off causing Rue to throw them at two guards and roared again.

The violet bioluminescence along Rue's dorsal spikes slowly brightened up as a humming noise and charging was heard in the air while two slits in the palms of her hands opened up as smoke left them.

Rue picked up a guard in her claws (the claws digging into his abdomen) just as the blast left her palms, a stream of dark violet fire left her palms (one going through the guard she had on her claws the other she aimed around at the other guards like a flame thrower) causing the guards to jump back or try to scatter to avoid.

Rue threw the corpse at the guards allowing herself to quickly run to the exit with the three fairy sisters after her.

"EXPERIMENT ZERO G IS TRYING TO ESCAPE! I REPEAT; EXPERIMENT ZERO G IS TRYING TO ESCAPE!"

Six more guards blocked Rue's exit making her growl as she opened her mouth and fired a few bolts of purple lightning at them effectively knocking them back against the walls. Rue grabbed one of them by their ankles and threw them at other guards that got off sending them to the ground in a pile up allowing Rue to jump over them with ease.

Rue quickly found herself outside where the howling winds of a blizzard and sideways snowfall paired with the below frigid temperatures and practically weak ground below the deep snow confirmed Rue she was in the Antarctic.

While Rue didn't exactly feel the harsh negative effects humans would feel even with layers of winter clothing made specifically for the Antarctic (especially considering her clothes were small teal hospital patients gown), she still felt bothered by them in an annoyance sense and the harsh winds blowing in her face and whipping her matted blonde hair around.

Lora held onto Moll as Fairy struggled against the winds, even Garugaru was struggling against the winds with Belivera holding onto their reigns like a lifeline.

Rue's ears twitched at a sudden noise making Rue look behind her as guards that were still alive rushed out of the building to get to her. "Shit." She hissed out then looked at the three fairies, "Get behind me!" Moll nodded as she guided Fairy to get behind Rue while Belivera did the same with Garugaru trying to stay close to her younger sisters.

Rue gave a loud roar at them as ice cracked in large and rapid cracks behind her. Rue's roar was overshadowed by the deafening baritone roar behind her that had a slight trumpet shriek almost similar to an elephant's call causing Rue, the fairies and the guards to look in shock (mostly for Rue) and fear (mostly the guards) at the sight of the king.

Countless ebony scales covered their form from snout tip to the base of their claws and long powerful tail which the tip of the tail all the way up to the base of their neck along their back were various sharp dorsal spikes, equally sharp claws as well with sharp fangs in their mouth and sharp piercing golden yellow eyes while being almost four hundred feet tall.

The true King of the Monsters-

"FALL BACK FALL BACK! I REPEAT FALL BACK! GODZILLA IS HERE!"

"My God...." Rue breathed out in disbelief. "Zillaaa." Lora half whispered to add. 'He actually came. He's actually here.' Rue thought in disbelief as Belivera gave a pull of the Priestess bond allowing Godzilla to look at them while Rue fought the more stubborn guards who were trying to approach them.

Belivera steered Garugaru higher to reach Godzilla's head, the sentient mecha mount having some struggle against the harsh winds. Belivera let Garugaru hover in front of the king's snout. "My king." Belivera greeted bringing her left fist to her chest as Godzilla nodded.

"Belivera, what is that Lora had you summon me for-" Godzilla was cut off as Rue roared at the guards and looking in time to see the blonde preteen throw a guard at the others with ease then roared at them again while firing purple fire from her palms once more at them.

The more stubborn ones finally got the hint and quickly got on the helicopters which began to take off.

"I told them this beast should be dead-" "She's only TWELVE YEARS OLD BELIVERA! TWELVE!" Lora snapped at her eldest sister as Moll steered Fairy to Garugaru's side. Belivera almost jumped at Lora's rare bursts of rage.

Godzilla just stared at Rue as the helicopters lifted up to the sky. "Not on my watch fuckers." She growled out as she quickly ran to one of the power generators.

Rue grimmanced, "Oh this is going to fucking suck." She muttered before sucking in a sharp breath (despite no longer requiring to breath) and bit down on the metal beams holding power lines.

After a minute the sounds of power draining was heard in the wind as electricity moved to Rue. Godzilla's eyes widened in disbelief and shock at the familiar ability only the Golden One had.

Rue only managed to drain half of the power grid of the lab before she forced herself to pull away with a yell in pain, electricity crackling across her fangs rapidly along with her dorsal spikes.

Rue took a big breath as the charging and humming noises returned while from the tip of her tail to the base of her neck her dorsal spikes began to light up one at a time as the electricity crackling across them began to turn purple. With a scream, a genuine human scream, Rue fired the bolts of lightning from her mouth.

The electricity didn't stay accurate to targets fully but most of it hit some of the helicopters allowing them to malfunction.

"Impossible... How-" "Humans that's how." Belivera told Godzilla making him give her a side glance. 'A pup... With their abilities?'

Rue finally stopped firing bolts of lightning as she was gasping for air, despite not requiring the breath it pained her body all over from the inside out. "Fuck... Yeah that definitely sucked." Rue groaned out as she held her abdomen area, arms wrapped around.

"Fuck it, IF I'M GOING DOWN I'M TAKING THIS BRAT BITCH WITH ME!" Rue snapped her head up with a gasp as one of the guards pulled an RPG from the helicopter.

Rue quickly covered her head in her arms while tucking her head down as she braced for impact already knowing with syphoning electricity like that her legs would be practically jello.

In an instant a large form shielded her from both harm, winds and sight as a bright blue light and flames shooting was heard. Rue shot her eyes open and looked seeing Godzilla firing his Atomic Breath at the helicopter's head on.

Rue watched in shock and awe as Godzilla stopped his Atomic Breath and let out a mighty roar that shook the air around them.

"Holy shit." Belivera said in shock. "Agreed.." Moll agreed with her older sister. Lora looked as Rue fell to her hands and knees gasping and coughing for breath, she could sense the preteen's mind was foggy and her ears were ringing. "RUE!" Moll noticed at her sister's cry and had Fairy go to Rue's shaking form.

Lora pressed a hand on Rue's head from her spot behind her twin on Fairy trying to help soothe her. Her brows furrowed after a second, Moll noticed her sister's expression change. "Is it that bad?" She asked, Lora nodded, "Doing that attack strained her body badly. She's not used to holding electricity like The King of Terror apparently." She explained to her sister's and the king.

Rue couldn't focus on anything around her as she heard her heart pounding in her ears through the loud ringing that dulled the howling winds around her, she could feel her blood pumping their veins with each individual drop and her head and chest felt heavy.

Rue felt a snout nudge her form as a loud yet gentle whine let the owner. "Easy young pup," Rue heard a gruff male voice say next to her.

Rue just whimpered in pain as she laid her upper body and arms on the owner of the voice's snout (too tired and in pain to register it was Godzilla) and shut her eyes tight. "I wanna go home..." Rue cried out, tears leaving her purple eyes. "I wanna go home.... I want my mom and dad..." She buried her face in Godzilla's snout. "I just want my family...."

Godzilla whined again as he gently nudged her while his tail shielded Rue and the fairies from the harsh winds around them.

The sounds of another helicopter approaching made Godzilla growl. Lora strained her eyes to try to sense the energies of it. "Monarch?" Lora asked her twin making Moll nod as a yes. "Took their sweet time with it." Belivera grumbled.

When the helicopter landed and the back doors opened they were almost hesitant to exit from the king's presence and his low warning growls paired with a glare to the humans.

Lora looked between the group of humans and the God King. "My king, they can help her." She told him making Godzilla turn his eyes to her. "Humans did this to this pup though." He told her, "Those were the same humans that freed the Golden One though, these humans helped give you time to recover to defeat them. They believe in titans to stay among them in the old co'exist, they can help her." Lora explained to him, brushing her hair from her face as she stood up so he could see her better from behind her sister on Fairy's back.

"They can get her back to her family." Godzilla softened a bit at that statement. Moll was busy mentally talking to the humans to help them understand a bit.

The brave one to get close first was Dr Chen making Godzilla stare at her. Dr Chen stood there while the king stared her down before whining a bit as he moved his tail enough to reveal Rue (who had fallen to unconsciousness from the pain) yet continue to shield her and the fairies from the howling winds.

Moll steered Fairy to her to act almost as an escort (and also to keep any radiation from Godzilla reflected off of her) as Dr Chen slowly got closer to him and Rue.

Once she was in close enough proximity Dr Cheng carefully lifted Rue's right arm and rested it across her shoulders and tried to pick her up. That in itself had a big struggle with both Rue's height and the added weight of her Titan attributes.

Mark quickly got to her side first in a rush and supported Rue's left. "I gotcha, wrap an arm around her back with me." Dr Chen followed Mark's plan and it made carrying Rue a bit easier as they slowly made their way back to the helicopter trying to be careful as they carried Rue.

"Jesus Christ..." Colonel Diane muttered under her breath at the sight of Rue. "You can say that again." Rick agreed as he and some of the soldiers and Dr Ling helped Mark and Chen get Rue to the helicopter.

The humans flinched as Godzilla sat upright and stepped backwards from them. Belivera sighed as she rubbed her temples, "By the fates my king." She sighed out as she then grabbed ahold of the reigns of Garugaru and steered him to her sister's side as they joined the humans while Godzilla went back under the ice into the chilling waters.

"Rick go ahead and take some guys with you to get whatever you can find on here in that lab." Mark told him. "Got it!" Rick yelled as he grabbed Colonel Diane and Griffin.

"Argo prepare a medical bay alongside for Castle Bravo, we're coming back with someone in need of medical assistance." "A human?" "Maddie I don't even know what she is at this point."

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Chapter Three: Freedom's Grasp
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[Author's Note: Ayyyyyyeeeee you have no idea how many times I've had to look up to remind myself of character names with KOTM's besides Madison, Mark, Sam, Rick, Chen and Ling (I do remember Serizawa and Vivian but unfortunately their not alive since this takes place two years and two months after the events of KOTM's and a year and a half before GVK (I am still upset Vivian's death in KOTM's as if she barely had screen time as is in the film (like half of what she had on 2014 Godzilla) because how sudden and all that it was, like fuck you Legendary for that) so yeah)

I am on a roll apparently with updates 😂 I ain't complaining even tho I wanted to work on either The Ninth Grade Samurai, An Ice Toa But Human rewrite, Turned Real Rewrite or even Children of The Great Spirit but hey I'm getting shit done especially since this is twice the length of the previous chapters (my chapters are usually 6-7k words long not counting their author's notes (Tho The Ninth Grade Samurai of chapter five or four rn draft is over 7k words currently as of this author's note and isn't even halfway done)) but hey I ain't complaining!

Now we're getting to my favorite fun parts of manipulative day dreaming of this arc;
Rue around Monarch and the other Titans!]

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