LIGHTNOVELONLINE 22. It’s alive!
Location- Earth
[Third Person POV]
It has been one week since the world came to learn of the existence of the super organisms otherwise known as titans. Let's say that the human reaction and feelings about this surprise were mixed.
Some were 'Cool.', 'Exterminate them all!' or 'Oh my God! We're all going to die! The day of repentance has begun!' and all in between.
Humans are in general prideful beings that don't like to not feel superior, special, and better than other species, especially ones they consider as mere animals, very big animals but animals nonetheless, while totally forgetting that they are mere animals themselves.
Also, those animals are a threat to their current status as the 'Apex' species of Earth. Not that they were especially wrong to think that at first, if extremely arrogant.
Humans by nature have numerous advantages compared to other animals, including intelligence, hands with opposable thumbs, complex speeches, complex social structure, and many other characteristics also found in other animals but humans clearly stand out.
And luck, a lot of luck, humanity on multiple occasions would have died out.
On another note, the casualties were immense. San Francisco and Las Vegas were basically razed off the map, they also weren't the only populated area damaged either, this was the real casualties in the eyes of some.
The human death count is just a number for them. More than 99% of the deaths were ironically directly or indirectly caused by the humans themselves.
If the public knew of the existence of the titans and their location. Plans could have been made to avoid those casualties. That if they were in a perfect world where everyone was a perfect little law-abiding citizen.
Now, who was to blame for this? The United States government and several other governments are also partially in control of Monarch, obviously.
Though, the U.S government is the one with the most powers in the secret organization, so much so that they basically own it. It's mainly their problem.
And it mostly happened in their country anyways, luckily. For Japan it was an empty and long evacuated city, Janjira, that was barely touched and the abandoned nuclear plant site was destroyed by the Male when he emerged from it.
This mostly scientific organization was founded in secret in 1946 by Harry S. Truman in coalition with several other governments.
With the purpose of hunting and studying massive unidentified terrestrial organisms, M.U.T.Os for short, otherwise known as titan/kaiju.
Not to be confused with the Titanus Jinshin Mushi couple, the two that were recently killed by Godzilla. That sported the same name mentioned earlier.
In the States, Godzilla, while Caelicetus and the two Titanus Jinshin Mushi were the prime targets, the States government decided to try and shift most of the blame onto them, which worked for the majority of people.
Throwing Monarch under the bus or absorbing it in the army were proposed by some members of the Cabinet, now not members of the Cabinet anymore.
Deadly stair accidents were really frequent at this time of the year.
For very simple reasons, the different Monarch bases are all around the world. Some countries didn't know that military-no scientific bases were built on their ground without their authorization or knowledge.
Very much illegal. And have the potential of starting in the worst case, World War III.
However, they still revealed Monarch's existence to the world with the agreement of the other governments in it such as Germany, the UK, Russia, France, and Japan. Politics.
They revealed that it was an international organization that researched titans. And what were Godzilla and the two other titans. With plans of evacuation and rules to follow in case of the appearance of other titans. Nothing more.
The monarch was forced to disclose to the ONU that they had a way to control the titans, to protect said titans and the world from a nuclear winter. True fear is something foreign to most humans and humans destroy what they fear.
Anyways it was still a delicate and touchy subject.
Caelicetus. It was the name of the extraterrestrial creature that played with the Moon.
Many of the world leaders preferred to believe 'it' was being controlled and was just a pet or a robot, honestly it was more frightening, depending on the person, but for them easier to accept in their minds than a literal god with control over gravity.
Also, that was responsible for the Tower of Pisa being straight and modified with whales as the main theme.
The Christ Redeemer had now become the exact copy of the statue on Mars but with a unique mirror that made the shape of a strange whale appear in the night sky when there is a full Moon, as far as they saw.
Then at Las Vegas, the soldiers that attacked the space whale survived but are in a coma with more or less permanent sequelae, surprisingly human physiology isn't okay about trying to imitate a Beyblade.
And are in mortal danger of getting killed and kidnapped by fanatic believers, at any moment.
The Three Eyes of Caelicetus appeared all around the world as if a God looked down on them from his realm. Were quite impactful.
The glowing golden color and slow musical hum of the portal helped a lot, if it was a dark purple that wouldn't have the same effect.
Though the one that directly stared into the eyes most of the time didn't fare well, because of how beyond them was the being on the other side. Some did go completely bonked and fanatically obsessed with Caelicetus.
The most important part is the fact that nearly all the ones in possession of a Cross of Cael didn't die or were only lightly injured. In total, more than 7 609 people without discrimination the people next to those not having a cross also survived increasing the count even further.
The cross is a miniaturized version of the one on Mars and the main religious symbol of the belief around Caelicetus.
Adding to that report of supernatural events at the time around them such as floating cars that were going to crush them, buildings falling backward, etc.
It exponentially augmented the number of believers and will continue to do so, the blame of killing humans and not saving them by the USA on Caelicetus was interpreted as the humans being heretics and as such receiving divine punishment.
And it had quite the big backlash if the millions of death threats and multiple attempts to enter the White House were an indication.
The whole belief around The Divine Flying Space Whale passed from Flying Spaghetti Monster level, to 'Oh Fuck! It freaking exists! AAAHHHH! And it can communicate!'.
It also made every religion and belief of Humanity that existed for thousands of years pass as an immense joke, a very bad joke but a joke nonetheless.
It displeased the believers of the other religions, greatly. Who tried to explain and twist things to try to illustrate what the whale was for their religion, with varying degrees of success.
Three days later, in the Monarch's base located below Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
The last two weeks were unpleasant. One of their best assets, Dr. Mark Russell left after the death of his son, Andrew Russell the bloody stain on Godzilla's feet. It shook some of the members especially Serizawa who was like an uncle to Andrew.
Yet, he didn't blame Godzilla and the titans in general for the boy's death like his friend.
One good thing is that they are now getting more funds and help, in Guillerman's opinion, he is the director of Monarch. Something good came out of this fiasco.
Teams of scientists were running around all looking at the different readings of Titanus Cetus and Titanus Behemoth that reacted to the other titan, nearly waking the other up. Even if they were hundreds of meters below the surface.
The responsible for the site, was a middle-aged man with a balding head, looking with his fatigued eyes at the screen in front of him. It was a call with Serizawa.
"Yes. The readings are accurate.", said Dr. Santos, stopping the incoming yawn.
"This is-is unprecedented. So he does control gravity… partially. But how?", muttered the Head Biologist from behind the screen, with fascination. All of his fatigue disappeared to be replaced with childlike curiosity.
"This. I do not know Serizawa. But its brief appearance above the city greatly affected Titanus Behemoth and even slightly Titanus Quetzalcoatl 4181 kilometers (2 597,9 mi) away. Without counting the other dozen of Titans still unknown to us…", he took a sip of his coffee from the cup his daughter gave him when she was 13, written on it was 'Te amo Papai!'.
"The two titans showed a great increase in their heartbeats as if they were scared or excited… Also, their blood test showed an increase in dopamine. Titanus Behe-*rumble* wow going to call back later.", said Dr. Santo hastily, ending the call.
Serizawa, confused on the other side, only saw furniture move, as if a weak earthquake was going on. He deduced that Behemoth was trying to wake up, good thing that they have multiple ways to keep him asleep.
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Location- Mars
[Caelicetus POV]
It has been two weeks since I came back to Mars, now renamed Caelum, very self-centered, I know. I did because I can. The name of this planet given by the Architects, Al-An's species, was the word 'Home' in their only language.
I have pondered on what happened in space, especially this 'Great Void' my Mom warned me about and came to one conclusion. Well, fuck. I suppose it is the third cause of my species' extinction.
Making me hate it already and it's probably tied to the Ghidorahs too. Multiplying the hate. Anyway, it is way stronger than me and I will see and search for mention of this 'Great Void'.
Al-An didn't have anything about it, or if he did they were destroyed. Though he remembers Desghidorah talking about a 'Void' before the whole Architects species killed themselves to power up the minds seal on Desghidorah, Al-An being one of the failsafe if they escaped the facility.
I was currently working on creating life. Olaf looked at what I was doing with curiosity and Peach was stargazing, up in the sky. As usual.
I have tried these two weeks to shape the life force I make, with moderate success. It was harder than I would like, I could do it but it was different than gravitokinesis even if I used it to move the life force, LF for short.
Perfect control isn't needed to make a new lifeform, life always finds a way. But a certain level of experience and knowledge is needed to have what you exactly want and I didn't have that level yet.
I knew a lot of knowledge was lost, there is a lot of all and missing part. Unfortunate. But it was enough. I got most of the basics of this with the astrodelphis and how to make other astrodelphis, it was in a blueprint.
I'm a 3D printer but for living beings, yay!
The first organism I made was a microscopic blob of pink flesh that died immediately. I don't know if it is how I'm supposed to do it but I need to start somewhere. One nonexistent step at a time.
But I improved rapidly, each day the pink blob could live longer, was bigger, was stronger, and was better. Though it was just a giant unicellular organism in the end. The astrodelphii was infinitely more complex.
Now, I am trying something different. With me were some of the remaining crystals that came from SpaceGodzilla, its body already completely eaten by me.
Those same crystals started also to grow from my body too, they were where barnacles are usually found on whales and of the same size compared to my body.
The difference is, that they were part of me. I suppose they originally were a type of symbiotic organism, it's not like SpaceGodzilla where I could tell the difference between the crystals and it. There wasn't any here, and I'm confident in myself and my abilities to know when I'm right.
I could detach them too, and they effectively served as batteries for many things, such as LF. And they made me look even better than I already was.
Back to the creation of life. It was like cooking.
First I need raw materials, the different matter found in living organisms to be precise, though it depends on what you want.
Here it's a pile of dead amphibians-like creatures that vaguely looked like a mix between an axolotl, a rain frog, and goldfish. The base of what I want.
All were recently killed by the early winter caused by Olaf's tantrum, who was slapped to the ground by me just after. Most of the cells are still alive.
I made the pile levitate, then started to crush it until it became an unrecognizable mass of purple gore, I then added the crystal, then I infused it with the blue LF with the general body shape and organs I want, but in a bigger version of what they were before. Simple.
I also added the part of obedience from the astrodelphis just to see the results. It should work. Don't reinvent the wheel.
'It seems to work.', I thought with satisfaction. It started to take on the shape of a round egg, three times the height of a human.
The egg was transparent and a body was already visible. It was like an axolotl, a goldfish, and a turtle, different from what I wanted but not welcomed either way. I was expecting an eldritch abomination to be fair.
"Is that a soul? Fascinating.", I muttered as I analyzed what felt like a small sphere. I couldn't see it, but the gravity around shifted with the coded LF getting sucked into it and with the little heart that started to beat at the same time.
It was a deduction. Soul exists or something similar because I reincarnated and this soul started to form with the first beat. And that means I directly created a soul. Cool.
"Dad, food?", the ice titan cutely demanded, pointing his right talon, with visible hunger in his blue eyes as he stared at the egg.
"No.", I blankly state, directly crushing all of his hopes. He looked down, his tail swinging back and forth on the grass, doodling with his left talon on the red sand of the beach. He tried to play the pity card.
"I said, no. If you are hungry, hunt.", I repeated, this time with more firmness, increasing gravity enough for him to know who is in control, making him bow his head after I released him.
Playing cute and the pity card won't work with me. At least if you try to manipulate me. Something that greatly displeases me.
I let him go because he is young and mentally a child and it wasn't his intention in the first place. He just wants to eat, then he hunts himself.
"This is also the case for everything living on this planet, born from this planet and me. I'm the Alpha, you shall obey me.", I stated, then made a low repeated click with the Alpha frequency.
I felt it again, the satisfaction of sensing every living being no matter the species, doing the equivalent of bowing down to me. Even the unborn titan in the egg was unconsciously doing it.