Standing over Alcatraz Island was SpaceGodzilla himself! He was similar to Godzilla himself in terms of physical appearance, but he had a red chest and stomach area, crystals in the shape of oak-leaf spines running down his back, a massive crystal on each shoulder, shorter arms than Godzilla, two fangs on each side of his mouth, and eyes that burned with a beastly intelligence. “Lovely!” grumbled the Doctor. “And Godzilla’s only two minutes out!”
“It looks like I have a bit of a pest problem to deal with!” cackled Dr. Animo.
“Call off SpaceGodzilla now!” demanded the Doctor.
“You know what ‘fat chance’ means, I presume?” asked Dr. Animo.
“Dr. Animo, if you don’t call him off, he’ll break free from your control!”
“Impossible! My Transmodulator is currently set to mental control! SpaceGodzilla is nothing more than an oversized animal!”
“Kaiju are more than just oversized animals! They’re creatures with an intelligence we don’t give enough credit for! …Come to think of it, that’s all animals in general.”
“Pah!” scoffed Dr. Animo. “I’ve heard that kind of talk before and if that were true, animals would resist my mental control!” That was when something very large breached the water. That large something…was Godzilla himself. He was standing in a fashion that the hurriedly evacuated Golden Gate Bridge was all that was separating Godzilla and SpaceGodzilla. “Perfect! Now, SpaceGodzilla, fire your corona beam! DESTROY GODZILLA!” SpaceGodzilla…didn’t fire a corona beam! He raised his hand and the Golden Gate Bridge wrapped around Godzilla! “What?! That’s not what I said at all! Your CORONA BEAM! You know, your horn laser attack?!” SpaceGodzilla then made crystals grow until they were almost to his height. “This is intolerable! I ORDER YOU TO DESTROY GODZILLA AT ONCE, YOU STUPID SPACE LI-!” Dr. Animo doubled over, clutching his head in pain! The Doctor’s natural telepathic abilities picked up on SpaceGodzilla’s thoughts.
“I take no orders from you!” he was saying in Dr. Animo’s head. “You ants should be bowing to me, your TRUE God!”
“SpaceGodzilla, you need to stop!” urged the Doctor through her own mind. That attracted SpaceGodzilla’s attention. He looked around. “Down here! The woman in the skirt waving!” SpaceGodzilla looked down to see the Doctor. “Hello! I’m the Doctor, a frequent visitor to this planet!”
“I can see that,” replied SpaceGodzilla. “Your mind is not a human one. This does not concern you, Doctor. Be gone!”
“I can’t do that!” replied the Doctor. “You’re in the wrong time! You need to-!”
“I will not be going back to my death! I read what Dr. Animo remembers of this time’s history! This Godzilla is nothing more than the child I imprisoned all those years ago!”
“SpaceGodzilla, as a champion of life, I understand the desire to stay alive, but I’m also a champion of time and-!”
“I care not about time! I am space! I am gravity! I shall devour everything!”
“Devour-?” The Doctor’s eyes went wide. “…The Apocalypse Element!”
“You’ve encountered me before?” asked SpaceGodzilla.
“If you detonate those crystals, the whole universe will be set alight!” the Doctor insisted.
“As it should!”
“Great, the Daleks’ most destructive and unstable weapon, and it’s a Kaiju!”
“I’ve molded it to my own ends!” The Doctor was about to interject when she heard the sound of metal being bent. “If you’ll excuse me, I’ve got history to rewrite!” said SpaceGodzilla. He ended the mental call and stomped towards Godzilla as the King of the Monsters unwrapped the Golden Gate Bridge from his body. His spines then lit up and he fired, but SpaceGodzilla created a crystalline shield in front of him and deflected the attack. He then swung his tail into Godzilla’s face, clubbing him and making him stumble. Godzilla snarled and leapt at SpaceGodzilla, but SpaceGodzilla held the King of the Monsters with his telekinesis.
Everything was happening at once. UNIT soldiers and Plumbers were scrambling to form SOME kind of defense. The Doctor grabbed a Plumber. “Where’s Ben?!” she demanded.
“Over there, fiddling with his watch!” replied the Plumber. The Doctor followed the Plumber’s finger and found Ben surrounded by Julie, Amy, and Lurra Rus.
“Mr. Tennyson, now is NOT the time to be updating your…your Apple Book or whatever the hell you people use for social media on this planet in this time!” protested Lurra Rus.
“I’m not!” argued Ben. “My stupid watch isn’t working! Really gotta grill Azmuth for this!”
“What’s going on?” asked the Doctor.
“I’m trying to select Way Big,” replied Ben, “but the Omnitrix isn’t even activating the selection dial!”
“Now, of all times?!” The Doctor pulled Ben’s wrist to her so she could examine the Omnitrix.
“HEY!” protested Ben. The Doctor checked out the Omnitrix, then she blinked.
“…Ben, I don’t think you’ve updated your watch recently,” she said.
“What do you mean?” asked Ben.
“There’re frequent messages from the new Galvan Homeworld and the planet of Primus about new updates to the Omnitrix. I think you’d better install them.”
“Is now really a good time?!” argued Ben. “I gotta turn into Way Big right now!”
“If I’m reading this right, I think you’ll be turning into Way Big whenever you want.”
“Huh?”
“Just start installing the updates.” Ben grumbled, but complied.
“Updates accepted and installing,” reported the Omnitrix. “Omnitrix will shut down and restart.”
“Please make it quick,” grumbled Ben.
“Okay, so how do we deal with SpaceGodzilla while Ben’s out of action?” asked Amy.
“The only one who can tell us is Dr. Sato,” replied the Doctor. “What was her condition when you last saw her?”
“Catatonic,” said Lurra Rus. “The local doctors are trying to snap her out of it.”
“Blast, and I really need her.” The Doctor thought a bit. “…It’s a bit risky, but it might snap her out of it. Where is she?”
Dr. Sato was sitting in a bed, just staring blankly at the wall ahead of her. The Doctor entered the room with guards outside. “…Dr. Sato?” asked the Doctor. Dr. Sato didn’t respond. “…Right then. Really would prefer asking permission for this.” The Doctor then took off her gloves and placed her fingertips on Dr. Sato’s temples. She probed the poor woman’s mind…and saw a little girl running scared from SpaceGodzilla. The year was 1995. Crystals were everywhere. The noise of the fight was deafening. “…That doesn’t make sense. Where’s MOEGURA?” muttered the Doctor.
“…M…Mogura?” mumbled Dr. Sato. An image of a mole appeared in her mind.
“…No, not the animal,” replied the Doctor. “The mech.” That was when an image of a giant robot being piloted by humans appeared. The robot had a drill nose and drill hands and could split into a flying vehicle and a land vehicle. “Yes, that’s it! One of humanity’s achievements!”
“…W…We…helped…him,” said Dr. Sato. “…We were…ants in that fight…but we helped Godzilla…defeat his clone!” Dr. Sato became more aware. “That mech was my favorite as a child! It…It drove away the monsters in my closet!” She then looked up. “…Doctor, what ARE you doing-?” The shaking coming from the giant monster slug-fest snapped her back to reality. “Oh no, they’re fighting!” she realized.
“And Dr. Animo lost control of SpaceGodzilla,” explained the Doctor. “This is the same SpaceGodzilla that you saw fall in 1995, so if Godzilla kills him-!”
“There’s a way to weaken SpaceGodzilla, it’s just convincing someone Like Godzilla not to kill SpaceGodzilla that’s the issue,” interrupted Dr. Sato. “For now, I can easily tell you that the crystals on SpaceGodzilla’s shoulders are the key. Destroy them and he’s weakened. Now, if we can get any mech to be deployed before SpaceGodzilla decides that San Franscisco is a perfect coastal buffet-!”
“Ben has an alien that’s as big as a Kaiju,” replied the Doctor, “but the Omnitrix is updating.”
“Are you serious?!”
“Hey, even something as advanced as the Omnitrix or my TARDIS needs software and firmware updates! …Speaking of which, come on! …Unless-.”
“I’m all right now, Doctor,” assured Dr. Sato. “Come on!”
The Doctor and Dr. Sato rushed up to Ben and his group as they took cover. “Come on!” complained Ben as the Omnitrix’s holographic interface displayed that dreaded loading circle.
“Is it still updating?” asked the Doctor.
“I can’t even engage voice commands!” replied Ben.
“Voice commands reestablished,” droned the Omnitrix.
“Perfect!” cheered Julie.
“Omnitrix, what are you installing?!” demanded Ben.
“Current updates include vocal commands for transformations, elimination of recharge cycle, unlocking of all aliens in Primus’ codon stream, improved conversational language database-.”
“Hold on, hold on. Omnitrix, did the recent update unlock Master Control? Like what happened to the prototype against the Highbreed?”
“Confirmed. Updates now fully completed.”
“Hang on, how did I prove-?!” At that moment, a tiny, gray, frog-like creature with tendrils on his chin appeared.
“Took you long enough to install the Master Control updates!” he grumbled.
“Azmuth!” gasped the Doctor. Azmuth looked at the Doctor.
“You must be the Time Lord that Ben scanned,” remarked Azmuth.
“I am,” replied the Doctor. “I’m called the Doctor and it’s a pleasure to meet the smartest being in five galaxies!” The Doctor was about to fangirl even more, but the Kaiju fight interrupted her squeeing.
“We’ve got bigger problems on our hands!” replied Ben. “Time to test this out! Omnitrix, Way Big!”