Kaiju - End of Days

The Kaiju let out a surprised roar, once again digging it's claws into the lead dome to keep itself from falling over. Unfortunately it lost it's grip and crashed to the ground.

The angel dusted off his hands. "There," he said. "Now behave yourself."

He raised his hand to the dome behind him, and all of its scratches and damaged parts instantly repaired themselves. With a twitch of his fingers, he caused the dome to rise into the air, revealing it to be more than a dome anymore. Now it was a perfect sphere enclosed around the whole of the meteorite. Once it rose to about his level, Eliya reached into the lead shell, it bending at his touch like water. He used his fingers to break off a baseball-sized fragment of the meteorite, and when he pulled it out, he placed another feather from his wing to encase it in another air-tight lead bubble.

The crab let out a deep rumbling groan as it got back up to its feet. It didn't move, save for its eyes which seemed to be spinning and changing their angles. It eyes soon stopped moving, before it let out a gurgle. Suddenly, the Crab swung its arm, slamming into Eliya, swatting him like a fly.

The angel flew through the air, but managed to stop himself just befor hitting the ground. The giant lead bubble didn't move, though, still hovering right where Eliya left it.

"Okay," he said. "Now I'm mad." He teleported himself over the crab and disappeared once more. An instant later, a colossal fist barreled down from the heavens and crashed down onto the crab's back, the span of its four knuckles just as wide as the creature itself.

"We've left the island's shore." Came one of the scientist's voices. The Crab hissed and roared, trying to pull itself free but was unable to.

The fist faded to nothing, leaving behind only Eliya in his human size. "I copy. I'll be back with your sample right about--" The angel was suddenly in the laboratory on the ship, the island now behind him. "Now!" He reached his hand through the feathers on his wings and pulled out the lead ball containing the meteorite fragment.

"Be very, very careful with this," he warned them. "If you do something irresponsible with this or with anything else on that island, I can't guarantee that I'll have clearance to help you out of it, understood?"

"Thank you for your help." One of the Scientists said, taking the sample of the meteror. It was put into a containment unit where a robot broke the meteor fragment out of the lead ball. It took a while but they eventually made it back to the main land at Amber City.

"You didn't give me an answer," said the angel. "If you do anything foolish with that stone, you'll have to suffer the consequences on your own. I cannot guarantee that I'll be able to help you at any point."

In his heart, Eliya knew they would do something foolish. Whether it was some political pressure or just unchecked curiosity, someone would order that a horrible mistake be made. Humans never learned. They never, ever learn.

Several days had gone by since the scientists had returned to the mainland. They'd been studying the sample of the meteor and discovered the specific isotope that caused the mutations in the life on the island. They'd also snuck several large eggs they'd found buried not far off the beach of the island. By now the eggs had hatched into larval crab creatures.

The scientists were all at work looking over the crab larvae. Everything seemed to be going according to plan, when a certain unhappy angel quietly blinked into existence behind one of them.

"So you kept some," said Eliya. "You kept a bunch of creatures that you know perfectly well grow up to the size of shopping malls."

"We needed to." Said the scientist. Considering there were eggs, there's more than one of the these creatures, and judging by your warnings on the island, they are highly aggressive. If one or more found their way here we'd be defenseless. We took these to study so we could develop countermeasures to them." The Scientist explained.

"Do you know how backward that is!?" said Eliya. "By bringing the eggs here, you help bring them closer to civilization in the first place. You're giving the eggs everything they need to do exactly what you intend to prevent."

He turned away from the scientist. "You're going to doom a lot of people, and it'll be all your fault. You won't get any help from us until after you've suffered a bit for it. I warned you about this! I was very clear! Now the rest is on you."

"From what observations we've make, these creatures are mutated Crabs. Japanese Spider Crabs to be specific. Spider Crabs dont' care for their young once hatched, and since we foudn these eggs without a mother we assumed their mother was dead." The Scientist explained. "If we had any thing to suggest one of these creatures would arrive on the mainland we wouldn't have taken them." The Scientist said.

Eliya shook his head. "You have yourselves to blame for what happens next," said Eliya. "There is still time to destroy them. I suggest you do if you care about the mainland." With that final warning said, the angel blinked away into nothingness.

A few minutes later, a man looked over a printer. It had turned on by itself, and something that looked like the transcript of a conversation printed out. It was word for word the conversation between the scientist and the angel just now.

The scientist thought on what he was told by Eliyah before the angel vanished. Considering these eggs were found laid away from their mothers, the scientist began to consider what other possible changes these giant Crabs could have from their Japanese relatives. He went to his boss bringing up these concerns, but his boss didn't seem so worried and simply told him to get back to work.

A few weeks had passed. At the city's beach, plenty of fish had began to suddenly wash up on shore. Not long after that dolphins began beaching themselves as well. A coast guard helicopter flew out over the ocean to see what the cause of this was. They were shocked to see a number of the monster crabs from the island walking towards the shore, led by a very heavily scarred alpha female.

The coast guard alerted the military, whih didn't waste any time to send a devision of mechs and heavy artillery tanks and jets to the city to help deal with the Giant crabs.

Eliya beheld the battle, undetectable to any mortal senses. Things were coming to pass exactly as he said it would. He ached to aid the soldiers. These men were innocent in this, and were all the same the logical result of the foolish actions of the scientists. These men had no chance, and yet there was nothing he could do but look on.

There was, however, one thing he could do. In what was left of the holding facility, as well as many facilities connected to it, printers were going crazy with the printed transcripts of his and the scientist's conversation. All data-holding devices filled with video and audio clips of the meeting having taken place. Everyone would know who was to blame.

That wasn't all, though. The conversation between the scientists and his boss went through the same treatment, overflowing from everywhere, followed by the message:

The world will know.

Whilst the mechs sent into the city were holding their own relatively well, the tanks were tossed around and destroyed with little effort from the crabs. The lead crab charged forward, ramming into a mech. This crab had an extra set of limbs on its back that reached into the air and ended in sharp blades.

The crab brought the blades down, stabbing through the mech. The Crab dragged the blades through the Mech, eventually bringing them into the chamber the pilot was in, killing the pilot.

As the leader crab continued attacking th Mechs, the other crabs stormed through the city, looking for the eggs.

It was Eliya's function to deliver answers to prayers, but right now he had a prayer of his own.

"Oh please! Please please!" he begged. "Inspire someone to ask You for help! Please! The prayers of man have lead you to change your course before! Please inspire someone with the humility to ask you for mercy! Please! Please!"

There were many horrible situations that he and his brethren were barred from interfering with corporeally, but this involved the greater beasts! This was almost a situation where he could involve himself directly.

An answer came. He was given leave to whisper to people to ask for divine protection. Very often, when people had grand epiphanies or even just mildly good ideas, they would attribute them to their own mind. This was often the case, but then there were those times when those ideas were whispers from higher powers (or lower powers depending on the idea).

The angel zipped around, using all of his divine speed to hurry in whatever direction he could. He went to every human ear he could reach and planted the seed of a desperate prayer into each and every one of them.

All he needed was for one human to send a prayer worth listening to. Oh, how he angel hoped someone would!

The crabs continue tearing through the city destroying whatever was in their way. The lead Crab, now dubbed Karkiinos by the Mech Pilots, was tearing through the Mechs, literally, as she ripped limbs off the Mechs and impaled them with her bladed arms. She was about to crush the 'head' of one of the Mechs before stopping as a loud shriek echoed through the city. Karkiinos looked in the direction of the shriek before dropping the Mech and heading toward the source of the shriek, another Crab monster.

The other crabs had singled out the location of the baby crabs and were digging away the building that was holding them. Unfortunately for the crabs, the kill switch had been flipped on the babies several minutes ago, having been put to sleep by a neurotoxin released in their enclosures.

Thankfully, Eliyah's prayers had been answered, ironically enough, by the scientist Eliyah had spoken to earlier.

(CRAP!! Didn't see that you had posted! I'm sorry!)

Long, white chains lassoed the crab that was digging away at the building. "You stay away from that!" he shouted, giving the chains a really solid tug, yanking it several thousand yards away from the building.

"The angel wished they hadn't pulled the kill-switch on those eggs before the prayer had been let out. They would have made averting disaster so much easier. Well, there was no sense in dwelling on that now. He had an emergency to deal with.

He zipped between the crab and the building, the chains reverting back to wings on his back. "You're not getting past me," he declared. He pulled his wings off a second time and formed them into a large, frightening mini-gun. "Back to the sea with you!"

He pressed the button in his weapon, revving up the spinning barrel before letting loose a flood of angelic bolts all over the crab.