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| By: Forrest Freund |
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Downtown Tokyo is inundated with water, its streets
filled to accommodate a violent and ravenous swarm. All over the
city, meganura swarm back from their hunting expeditions to finish
charging their queen, Megaguirus, with stolen life force energy.
As each of the meganura return and dive into the water, they drive
their energy filled stingers into a giant chrysalis, giving up
their lives to revive their queen and make the city hers. Slowly,
the queen Megaguirus emerges from her chrysalis in the murky depths
and climbs out of the womb of her birth and spreads her wings,
taking to the sky to survey her new domain.
Meanwhile, on the outskirts
of the city, something approaches from below the ground, tunneling
towards its new nest. Drawn by the enraging hum of neon lights
and radio-towers, the creature draws ever closer. As it does,
it senses another presence in though the din of EM radiation.
The thing is not making noise like the rest of the nest site,
but instead makes a different sound, one that signals a threat.
Realizing that there will be a fight, Legion chirps to itself
with bloodlust.
Megaguirus' senses twitch as she feels the presence
of an intruder in her domain. Flying above the line of the building,
the queen of killers flies around her territory, searching for the
intruder.
Legion senses that the other presence is on the move,
probably trying to find her. Not wishing to give up her advantage
at the moment, Legion continues to move underground, further into
the territory of the other. Once she feels the other about to pass
overhead, she thrusts her forelimbs thought the ground in the other's
direct path.
Megaguirus banks hard as she is suddenly confronted
with a massive pair of bladed arms rising from the ground directly
in her path. The queen's agility and aerial mobility win out, and
she avoids the bladed trap in her path. She flies straight upward,
out of the reach of the silvery limbs, and out of danger.
Below the ground, Legion senses the other dodge her
arms. In a fit of pique, she emerges from the ground, shrieking
in rage. As she pulls her body from her earthen tomb, she looks
up sees her prey.
Both creatures stare at each other for a moment.
Megaguirus, now able to see her opponent, shrieks
out a challenge and charges her wings with sonic energy. Then screeching
out again, flies strait at the intruder.
Legion is shaken by the speed of her opponent. Still,
she does not back down as her nasal horn opens and energy begins
to arc between the tips. Taking aim, Legion releases a charged particle
beam at the other.
Megaguirus, seeing the beam, banks hard as the deadly
blue stream of light blasts by. Still rushing forward, Megaguirus
flies the intruder and buffets it with ultrasonic energy.
Legion screams out in pain as the other flies overhead,
and rains down a wave of screams. Turning, Legion tries to strike
the other with her claws, but the prey is to fast and dodges the
deadly tip of her arm.
Megaguirus, having dodged the intruder's limbs, wingovers
and comes back for another pass. Flying past her opponent again,
Megaguirus sends out wave after wave of piercing sonic energy. Her
opponent releases a satisfying screech of pain as she passes over.
As the intruder tries to turn around to face her, Megaguirus flies
over its back and lashes out with her fore-claws. Yet, when she
strikes the creature's body, her claws rebound off of the intruder's
exoskeleton.
Legion, having recovered from the attack, whips backwards
with her front legs, trying to strike at the other as it tries to
break through her shell. Legion senses the creature fly backwards,
out of her reach. As Legion turns around, she opens her horn, and
begins charging up another particle beam. As she finishes turning
and sights her prey, she unleashes the charged particle blast. The
other, still recovering from the retreat, manages to dodge the beam,
but only by a hair's breadth.
Megaguirus, furious that she can't rend the intruder,
decides to try a different tactic. Bringing her stinger to bare,
the queen of killers charges up a plasma-bolt, and, taking aim at
the intruder, launches the deadly blast of energy.
Legion, seeing the other charging up an energy attack,
extends the limbs on her crown and closes her horn. The other launches
the sphere of energy, but instead of trying to dodge it, Legion
instead stays completely still. As the energy sphere is about to
strike her, Legion sends out a shell of energy from her crown and
catches the blast on the tip of her horn. The other recoils in shock
as the blast is dissipated harmlessly on her shield. Screeching,
legion opens her horn and fires another charged particle beam. The
other reacts too slowly, and loses its two rear left legs.
Megaguirus, blinded by rage and pain, charges her
wings and flies directly at the intruder. The invader is taken aback
as the queen of killers flies overhead and drives the point of her
stinger into the side of its crown. Sill releasing sonic energy
from her wings, Megaguirus, having hooked part of the intruder's
crown, flies forward with such force that the part of the extremity
is torn from the intruder's head. The queen is given the satisfaction
of hearing the intruder scream out in pain as part of its body is
violently wrenched free. The intruder falls to the ground, its eyes
gone black.
Legion, rage consuming her, rises, her eyes glowing
red. She looks up at the other, who has turned around in midair,
and now is hovering out of reach. Legion focuses her energy onto
the ovaries on her midsection for a moment. Suddenly, her ovaries
begin to flash as internal larvae begin to hatch and mature. Then,
leaning backwards, she releases a black cloud of her brood into
the air. Gently humming to them, she tells her spawn where the other
is, and that they are to tear it limb from limb.
Megaguirus, mesmerized by the flashing on the intruder's
body, suddenly come to her senses as a massive cloud of smaller
creatures emerge from the intruder's body. Realizing that the intruder
has just introduced a new element into the conflict, she begins
to grow nervous. Still, she will not abandon her territory. Charging
her wings with sonic energy, and powering up an energy ball in her
stinger, the queen of killers charges at the swarm. Just as they
are about to make contact, she banks hard, and whips her tail down,
launching the energy ball. The blast connects with the swarm, burning
several hundred to ash. The remaining creatures continue to follow
her. Megaguirus turns suddenly, and flies over the swarm, obliterating
some of them with her sonics.
Legion, furious that her children are being decimated
so easily, sends out another call to her spawn. As she does, she
opens her horn and fires a charged particle beam into the direct
path of the other. The other banks sharply, avoiding the blast,
but instead, flies directly into the path of the swarm of her children.
Megaguirus is blinded as the intruder's swarming
spawn attach to her in the dozens. Her flight is slowed as the swarm
claws and bites her repeatedly. Then worse pain flairs through her
body as she realizes that the intruder has shot another one of its
beams at her, this time clipping off her right wings. No longer
able to fly, the queen of killers begins to plummet from the sky.
Legion, seeing her chance, opens up her horn, and
charges up a beam. As the other falls, she carefully takes aim.
Then, she unleashes the charged particle blast, striking her prey
square in the chest, throwing it backwards. The other screams out
in pain as it catches on fire and slams into one of the buildings,
embedding itself in the surface. Legion, sensing that victory is
near, charges up another blast. Then, with great satisfaction, fires
the final blast, blowing off the head of her prey and bringing the
building down on top of it. Her prey screams out once more before
dieing, as the husk of the building and the other collapses into
a pile of rubble.
Legion then walks into the newly won territory to
begin her new nest.
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