Tourist

[Rift]

New York City, 6:30 pm

Rain poured from the sky as a vicious, violent storm raged over New York. Out on the balcony of an apartment building a man read the newspaper and sighed. It seemed like nothing, but bad news these days.

A research facility in the Arctic had exploded violently killing all inside. Rumors had it that illegal weapons and mining research was involved and the U.N had agreed to open an investigation into to incident. Elsewhere off the main island of Japan, a small island inhabited by villages that traded fish and pearls from the abundant oyster population with the mainland, had been wiped off the map. Over a hundred people were left dead as the result of a category 4 hurricane. A side note mentioned the drastic drop in the fish and whale populations in the area even before the hurricane. Another tragedy occurred just yesterday as a ferry full of tourists going from Manhattan to Liberty Island capsized. The only survivor, suffering from shock claimed a monster with blue spikes and huge teeth attacked the boat.

“Yeah, and there are really alligators in the sewers too,” the man said.

Reaching for his Coke he paused for a moment as the soda rippled, the entire glass seemingly jumping just as thunder crashed overhead. Shrugging he reached again only for the entire glass to fall, spilling the contents. Another crash of thunder and car alarms went off for what seemed like several blocks. A moment later deafening sound brought him to his feet and the ledge as he stared out at the docks. A large shadowy figure seemed to blot out the Statue of Liberty. From the docks the silhouette moved and thunder sounded again. Blinking in confusion he was brought back to his senses as screams filled the streets below. The thing was really there and it was moving towards his direction…

A few minutes later a large saurian creature stomped through Manhattan. A leap carried the creature to the top of the Empire State Building. As it grasped the spire, sitting on the building like a throne over looking its kingdom, lightning illuminated the dark form momentarily, and the crack of thunder coincided with the loud bellowing roar that announced the arrival of Zilla...

[tbird89]

Los Angeles, 5:00 PM Pacific time, 7:00 EST

The call had come down 10 minutes ago. Another monster had been spotted, this time in New York. Mathew Krugal frowned as he climbed the ladder torwards his cockpit in Abbadon's chest. There were conflicting reports about the creature, but most of them had agreed that it was some kind of lizard.....some even claimed it was Godzilla itself, something he sincerely prayed to be false. a few combat simulations did not prepare you for the real thing, and he held no illusions that he wasn't skilled enough to take on such a powerful kaiju. Securing himself in his seat, Mathew began the start-up sequence for Abbadon.
a cool metallic female voice whispered into his ear. "XV-32 Gaurdian Mech Abbadon-01, ready to stand gaurd" it said.

Mathew spoke into the voice in his thick mic built into his helmet with a thick German accent"allright control, i'm starting za zrusters now" As he spoke, he flipped a switch on the dash board in front of him, cuasing great gouts of flame to spew forth from the rocket packs on Abbadon's back and legs. after a few moments, Abbadon rose into the air slowly, picking up speed, untill it gained it's top speed of Mach 4. hopefully that would have Mathew in New York in about 15-20 minutes....fast enough to make a difference to the people of New York he hoped.

[Rift]

Zilla stomped through downtown Manhattan, passing the Flat Iron building and ignoring the panicked screams below. The roar of Jet engines could be heard as a group of F-16’s broke formation and opened fire, their ammunition sparking against his scales. A swipe of his claw brought two of the fighters down. The third barrel rolled and came back firing a missile at him. In answer his tail batted the jet out the sky like a gnat. The final jet attempted to pin point his face, succeeding only in becoming a fireball in the night sky as his teeth chomped down. The jet crashed to the streets below in a fiery explosion as Zilla growled. As soon as the minor irritation of the military aircraft had passed, he continued his trek, walking unopposed into the heart of New York.

[tbird89]

Finding a relatively clear place to land in Central park, Abbadon touched down on the grass, starting several small fires that were quickly extinguished with the venting of air from the jets. Detaching the flight packs from his Mecha, Mathew cracked his knuckles and grimaced "allright zehn....lets find zis scaly sod und send him home"
Stalking forth torwards the sounds of screams, Abbadon seemed to be an angel from heaven to the people of New York, despite the baclk paint and devil horns.

[Rift]

Zilla paused, sniffing the air briefly, the smell of burning fuel filling his nostrils. Turning, his tail clipped the edge of a building sending glass and stone debris to the ground. Something was out there looking for him. Raising his head to the sky he released a threatening roar that shook buildings and shattered the glass of a nearby skyscraper. He was issuing a challenge to whoever dared intrude in his territory.

[tbird89]

"Schließen Sie Sie häßliche Entschuldigung für eine Eidechse." Mathew grumbled. Spotting the large lizard in an intersection up ahead, Abbadon increased it's pace, unwilling to allow a shoot out to occur within the confines of the city. Charging ahead at full speed, Abbadon lowered it's right shoulders and extended it's arms, preparing to simoultaneosly tackle the lizard and put it into a bear hug at the same time.

[Rift]

It took only a split second to realize the thing’s intentions. Picking up speed quickly Zilla ran directly for the oncoming mech. Seconds before he would have been caught in the robotic construction’s arms he leapt, carrying him behind the mech. Swinging his tail he attempted to bash the mech before it could turn or touch down.

[tbird89]

Stumbling forward, Abbadon turned around. The blow to his back had been a glancing one, more embarrasing then damaging in Mathew's opinion, and his thick armor had easily dealt with it. "Fine.....you vant to do zis za hard vay zehn? very vell zen, Eidechseatem!" This time Abbadon came forward more slowly, purposefully, and brought a sweeping upper cut around aimed directly for zilla's chin.

[Rift]

Swiftly dodging to the left, his leg crashing through the face of an apartment, Zilla managed to avoid the full impact of the blow though it still clipped the right side of his jaw sending a small wave of pain through his head. Rearing back he snapped at the mecha, his powerful jaws snapping towards a shoulder.

[tbird89]

Reacting slowly, Mathew tried to spin Abbadon out of the way, but zilla's teeth clamped onto his lower arm, leaving a row of puncture marks. Swearing loudly in his native German, Mathew threw Abbadon's body at zilla, trying to overbalance the lizard currently chewing on his arm, and crush it beneath him.

[Rift]

Zilla fell backwards, his spines shredding through a building as he hit the ground with a thunderous smack. Planting one massive foot in the mech’s chest he pushed to avoid having the mechanical monstrosity fall on top of him.

[LaCroix]

Washington DC, 6:35 PM

"Lt. Rummy, sir! A kaiju has been spotted in New York!"

Screamed a corporal who busted into Rummy's office. Rummy spit his coffee out of his mouth and onto his face. He then ran off screaming.

"Mother**BEEP**!"

He shouted. He grabbed all of his gear and ran out of the office, and up to his soldiers.

"Get your Mother**BEEP**in' gear on! Kaiju....Mother**BEEP**in' NYC!"

He shouted once more. It took only five minutes for everyone to get suited up, and five more before they were on a helicopter heading toward New York...

[tbird89]

Wincing as Zilla tore through a building, Mathew prayed that the people had allready evacuated the building. Struggling Abbadon up right, he flicked a switch opening a chest compartment on Abbadon, revealing the barrel of his frost cannon "i hope you don't mind za cold you scaly Arschloch" With that a wave of intense cold erupted from the barrel, freezing the moisture in the air in a cone around zilla.

[Rift]

Zilla grunted in anger as the ice hardened around him. Before it could completely freeze however his spines began to glow, an electric-like spark of green energy sparking inside the jagged blue blades. His eyes became brighter, almost radiant for a moment as a stream of green-white spouted from his mouth, the ice turning to water in less than a second against the intense heat of his atomic flame.

[tbird89]

Rushing forward in the hopes of cathing the creature while it was distracted, Abbadon swung it's right arm in for a blow to the creatures gut.