Chapter 8: God of Destruction

"God of Destruction" is the eighth chapter of The King of the Monsters' fanfiction GODZILLA: Monster Universe.

Story

 * Journal of Captain Frank Glenn, United Earth ambassador; year 3 month 1 day 17

The meteors started coming about a week ago. At first we thought nothing of it, meteor showers were a common sight on Kepler and nothing unusual ever came of them. But we started realizing that these meteors were arriving almost every day and all of them were producing large impacts that shook the ground beneath us. Then about four days ago we noticed it. The crystal encroachment. Small patches of sickly gray crystal started forming on the exterior wall of the New Earth settlement. Our scientists took samples and found that this crystal was alive and reproducing itself. Soon the entire outer wall was crystallized. An expedition led by Dr. Aoki outside the wall showed that the once-beautiful oasis outside the settlement was now a cystalline wasteland. Even the animals living outside the wall had been rendered as statues, suspended in the crystal material which was spreading like mold around the planet.

And just yesterday people have begun being crystallized. The first to suffer this fate were scientists examining the crystal growth outside the settlement. Without warning, the crystal on the ground snaked up their legs and encased them in a crystalline shell. There's no hope that they survived this process: like the animals they are nothing more than statues. As so much as touching the crystal can be lethal at this point, we have retreated to a small walled-off part of the settlement, the area the Bilusaludo had originally sectioned off for themselves. But the crystal has begun growing on the walls, and we know our time here is numbered.