Awesome / The Atomic Time of Monsters

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When you have yourself a world where homages to classic giant monsters live and fight with each other, of course there would be awesome moments.

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Volume 1

• Lerna and Collins stumbling upon the ecosystem within Hollow Mountain, just a taste of the Hollow World that's been unearthed by the Superquake. It's got running clear water and cycads as big as buildings. And that's not even getting to how it contains bonafide kaiju. Lerna outright compares it to something Jules Verne would conceive.
• Lerna managing to kill a Man-Eating Plant with nothing but a large hunk of sharpened wood and a sharp rock.
  • Likewise, Collins cutting out of one that already got him.
• Lerna and Collins driving a car's worth in dynamite at Ahuul's face, getting out just in time before it collides. It's enough to enrage the kaiju, and when he goes after Lerna, Collins gets his attention, and shoots his eye in a last act of defiance. He winds up eaten, but that's one Hell of a way to go out.
  • Lerna, meanwhile, is perfectly calm even as Ahuul gets ready to chomp her next. But then...
• Tyrantis vs. Ahuul! It starts with the jade giant blasting a fireball at the flying kaiju's neck. The fight proper has Ahuul in the lead for the most part, slashing at Tyrantis' face and then disappearing into the night sky to divebomb him again and again. When he tries to grab onto Tyrantis' back and ram him into the town, however, the Paleo Tyrant blasts his face with fire.
  • When Ahuul gets too high in the air, Tyrantis hatches an idea. He crouches, lowers his head, and propels himself into the sky with a fireball to the ground! He tackles his flying rival, brings him down to the ground, pins him, and proceeds to breathe tons of fire upon him. Ahuul can only shriek and flail in the air as he crashes into the Hollow Mountain cave entrance, causing an avalanche that seals him and the underground ecosystem away.
• General Sherman taking the Myrmidant colony head-on with an army of tanks.
  Sherman: WE'RE PLAYING EXTERMINATOR TODAY, BOYS! MOVE OUT!
• Tyrantis soundly thrashing the Myrmidant colony, doing to them what a whole army of tanks couldn't. Needless to say, General Sherman is completely awestruck at the sight, and it's where his absolute devotion to the big boy in green begins.
• The Ajaxant rushing to defend the Myrmidant queen from Girtabane, even if it gets it killed. When the scorpion turns its attention to the Achillant, Tyrantis comes in just in time to save it.
• After managing to pull through Girtabane's venom, Tyrantis ends the fight by grabbing her tail in his jaws, and crunching the stinger into nothing. He then tosses the scorpion away before jumping onto her back and stomping her head into the dirt.
• Lerna managing to stand up to Clark, convincing him that they're better off sparing Tyrantis from death if they're going to handle the kaiju crisis. At one point, she's actually able to send an uncharacteristic jolt of fear through the usually unflappable man with just a Death Glare.
• At first, everyone gathered at the chasm in Griffith Park laughs when Lerna tells them that Tyrantis is going to show up. Then of course, he does, and as he descends into the chasm, everyone is left in shock.
  • Earlier, Lerna nabbing the mic from Dr. Rockwell.
  Rockwell: This is highly irregular-
  Lerna: What isn't these days?
• Tyrantis managing to scare the Terror off with a louder roar.
• When Henry questions Sherman on his lionization of Tyrantis, the general has this to say:
  Sherman: Listen, needleneck, you don't worry about what 'makes sense' when you're in the muck. Hell, nothing in this blasted world's made a lick of sense since we dropped that bomb on Hiroshima. When you and your men are on the line, there's just two things: the things that will kill you, and the things that will save you. And that thing - that giant lizard? Well, his name's Tyrantis, and if it weren't for him, all my boys and the entire damn state of Nevada would have been kibble for a legion of giant, commie red ants! We were facing the doom of mankind, you hear me? And in comes Tyrantis, a bigass lizard whose scales bear the color of our own goddamn uniform, to stop every one of of those insect bastards without shedding a single drop of human blood in the process! I don't know the 'why' of it - whether he's some genius freak of nature or an honest to God miracle or what - but I know what I've seen, and I know what I see now. That reptile is on our side, even now, and as long as he is, and as long as I've got a say, he's got the backing of the U.S. Military. Now write all that down in whatever rag you write for, son - let the people know that our big boy in green has their back.
• Gwen volunteering enthusiastically to come with Lerna and Henry, seeing it as a means to get away from her unfulfilling acting career and actually do something good with her life.
• Everything about the Reptodites. They may be a somewhat primitive race, but they've somehow managed to invent a communication device that functions like a computer, lived alongside the kaiju as equals, and abandoned the need for war. They've even communicated with beings from "the pink sky", AKA Mars. They are okay with humans, but they warn our heroes that should we keep going about our violent ways, it'll either be the kaiju or ourselves that ends civilization.
• During their fight, Gorgolisk puts Tyrantis in a trance with her hypnotic color-changing frill. To her, only the most steel-resolved of creatures could break out of the trance, but that's precisely what Tyrantis does.
• Tyrantis knocking Mothmanud out of the sky with a fireball.
• Eric showing his Badass Driver credentials by managing to evade almost every single movement of the fighting kaiju. It's only when everyone thinks they're safe that they all get flinged.
  • Tyrantis managing to catch the flying jeep and bring it to safety.
• Tyrantis flinging Gorgolisk at Mothmanud so that she can coil around it, bite it, and bring it down to the ground for Tyrantis to drag away from the humans.
  • After the plan is ruined by humans firing at Tyrantis, General Sherman explodes in fury at the perpetrators, telling them that Lerna, not Rockwell, is the one they should be listening to.
  • After recovering, Tyrantis blasts Mothmanud with another fireball. Gorgolisk, having been playing dead up to that point, takes the opportunity to pump the alien with as much venom as she has while her partner pins it down. Mothmanud is rendered so weak that it can't fly for very long without plummeting into the ocean below.
• It doesn't take long for Lerna to realize that Clark hired Dr. Rockwell because he could sway the public into believing in lies. She declares if that's the case, Clark made a bad decision to hire her.
• Captain Old Man MacCready managing to sail the Ahab through a fight between Tyrantis, Gorgolisk, and the crustacean Sea Monster Crustakra without suffering hardly a scratch on his boat.
  • When Lerna gets tossed overboard, Tyrantis abandons the fight just to get her to nearby dry land. He loses the fight as a result, but he's content that he was able to save his friend.
• Gwen declaring to Henry that Lerna is alive, and they're going to find her on the nearby island. After all, the scientist rescued her, it was only a matter of time before she returned the favor.
• Captain MacCready luring Crustakra away from the island to give Gwen and Henry the window they need. Better yet, he comes back no worse for wear.
• Gorgolisk managing to subdue both Chlorespa and Mantiresia, the former by pumping her full of venom and the latter by slamming her rattle into her head again and again. The fight only ends when the signal controlling the insects brings them back to Murnau's base.
• Gwen deserves serious chops for putting her trust in a massive kaiju. It's a good thing that kaiju is Bobo, whom she names.
• Lerna making Chlorespa and Mantiresia come and destroy Dr. Murnau's base via the very machine he used to control them.
• Just when it seems that the two hostile insect kaiju have the upper hand with Tyrantis and Gorgolisk, Bobo shows up to even the playing field, putting Mantiresia in a straitjacket of silk and lassoing Chlorespa before slamming the wasp into the ground and webbing her up too.
• Lerna defying Clark's orders by cutting him off on the radio. It causes the usually stoic man to just sit there for a minute before Dr. Murnau calls him.
• The reveal of Typhon Island, a whole new ecosytem where kaiju-sized Retrosaurs can live in peace. It's nothing less than a marvel to both Tyrantis and his friends.
• While the other Retrosaurs are drinking from a stream, the biggest kaiju of all shows up. It's Bronton, a massive sauropod kaiju that dwarfs all the others. Imagine if there was a visual of that in the book.
• Tyrantis rushing in to save Tyrantor from Ahuul. When the flying fiend tricks Crocogon into attacking him, he just bites the water Retrosaur's tail and thrashes him against the ground multiple times. Then, when it seems that Tyrantor is going to die, Tricerak, having realized how similar the young Paleo Tyrant is to his own diseased child, swats Ahuul away with his spiky clubbed tail. He buys Tyrantis enough time to scare Ahuul off.
  • Tyrantor has a more understated one, getting in-between his father and Tricerak to show them that they both saved him, ending the rivalry between species.
• Tyranta beating the tar out of MechaTyrantis forcing Ludlow to fire upon her with everything he's got at the cost of his energy reserves. But the time the laser barrage is done, Tyranta may go down, but she's far from dead, and the mech needs to recharge.
• Tyrantis, Tricerak, and Gorgolisk all ganging up on MechaTyrantis. No matter what Ludlow does, the cyborg keeps getting slammed into the ground. Just when it seems like he might gain the upper hand, Bronton shows up and knocks the mech into the ground with his tail, forcing a stasis lock.
• A villainous example, but the Terror is finally able to regain control of his heavily altered body after witnessing Tyrantis having a family. The Power of Hate rips him out of his forced brain merging with Ludlow, and before he blows up the cockpit, he makes sure to let Ludlow know how unwelcome he is in a way he can understand:
  GET. OUT.
• When he's being taken across the sky by MechaTyrantis, Tyrantis manages to sever the fuel cable from the cyborg's cannons, causing them both to plummet into the ocean.
• After the above battle, Clark confronts Lerna, but she then throws back his Van Gough speech at him, asking him if it was all a lie before declaring her accomplishment to him, shattering his stoic demeanor.
  Clark: I believed those words when I said them. I'm not sure now.
  Lerna: Why? You told me you wanted me to make discoveries, and I've made them. This research of mine, this island, and most of all, Tyrantis — these are my works of art. This - (gestures to everything on Typhon Island) is my "Starry Night". Where's the appreciation you promised? What about your worldview keeps you from listening to me?
  • Henry, Gwen and, MacCready then step in, declaring that she has their support (and in Henry's case, the U.N.N.O. is there for her too).
  • Finally, Gorgolisk, who's been following them when Clark came, shows up to the Man in Black, stares at his terrified face, and flicks her tongue at her, knocking him on his ass and making him flee back to his plane.
  Lerna: You taught me one thing, Clark. It's good to have friends in high places.
• Lerna declaring that she and her team are going to find Tyrantis, prevent people from wanting to kill the kaiju, and take down Clark and his entire organization. And so, the adventure continues!
• Tyrantis revealing himself to still be alive, and not giving up on finding his family and friends in the endless ocean.

Volume 2

• The very beginning reveals that Mothmanud is far from the only alien kaiju. There are many, many more, and some belong to the Martians. The opening chapter has Kemlasulla beat Karamtor, followed by the latter getting stuffed into a giant cannon and shot into space. A pity it headed right for Earth.
• MacCready upon seeing Old Meg come for his boat, reveals to the others that he crossed paths with the monster fish during the first Great War, and barely escaped with his life. This causes everyone to realize that every time he talked about sea monsters was the truth.
  • Tyrantis showing up to fight Old Meg, even using a death roll technique to send the sea monster hurdling downwards into the abyss. Even if he ends up getting dragged away by her, he shows up again with hardly a scratch.
• Tyrantis jumping Kutulusca with a fireball to the back. During the ensuing fight, when the squid has him ensnared below the waves, he just spins around and round until it loses its grip on him. He ends the fight by showering his foe with fire and boiling the water in the process.
• The Thunder Lizards singing a whole theme song for Tyrantis at their performance. It's even got a full set of lyrics in the text. Whatever it really sounds like, it must be quite deserving for good old "Hero monster Tyrantis".
• Tyrantis keeping pace with Nastadyne, even managing to catch his fist in his mouth and crush it.
• Tyrantis, Nastadyne, Kurokame, and Burodon vs. Karamtor!
  • When the others are knocked down, Kurokame tanks Karamtor's chainsaw arms with his impervious shell. Unfortunately, the alien just flips him over.
  • Burodon tossing lots of boulders he made at Karamtor when everyone else is incapacitated. Tyrantis picks up one of the boulders and smashes the alien's leg with it, followed by Nastadyne doing something similar.
  Perry: Who would have guessed that, where guns and missiles failed, a simple rock could do in the alien menace?
  • When Karamtor tries to make Tyrantis produce more fire by jamming her arm down his throat, he bites down and blows it up with his flames.
  • After Kurokame is incapacitated, Tyrantis and Nastadyne stand against Karamtor, the beetle kaiju glowing bright-red and burning the ground around him. Dr. Tsuburaya identifies this as his Burning Justice Mode, which makes his punches amazingly hot, as well as increases his speed. He impales Karamtor's hide with his great horn, and flings her over near the summit of Mt. Fuji. Both he and Tyrantis then slam the alien over the edge and into the volcano's interior, where it remains.
  • All in all, Tyrantis considers it to be the best fight he's ever had.
• Perry making a rather compelling argument for portraying Tyrantis as a hero kaiju, stating that because people are so panicky and prone to violent solutions these days, they need a counter-narrative.
• The Soviet delegate letting the rest of the United Nations know exactly what his country thinks of Dr. Rockwell. Mainly, he's an incompetent git whose reputation baffles them. It's the real expert, Dr. Lerna, that they want.
• Herakoschei. Unlike MechaTyrantis, this is a fully robotic Humongous Mecha made of the fictional metal Xeno-Titanium and built for Russia. And it's a sight to behold. Not only does it look like a retro version of Cherno Alpha, but it's piloted by Ludmilla Portnova, an amazingly tall and heroic Ruskie whom our protagonists team up with during their visit to Siberia.
  • Keep in mind, previous test pilots of the Herakoschei were either overwhelmed or killed trying to do it. Ludmilla is no worse for wear every time she gets into the cockpit. Mother Russia Makes You Strong, indeed.
• In order to carry Tyrantis to Siberia, the U.S. has The USS Defiant, a positively COLOSSAL battleship capable of housing many people, a kaiju, and even a robot like MechaTyrantis all at once.
• Tyrantis fighting Mastemuth in order to save Glypton from him. The fight is only cut short by MechaTyrantis triggering an avalanche to bury the beligerent mammal.
• Despite the overwhelming odds going against him, Tyrantis refuses to retreat from the fight against Pathogen.
• Ludmilla is knocked out after Herakoschei is taken out of the fight by Pathogen. Lerna, against all better judgement, decides to take control for herself, despite the fact that everyone before Ludmilla either couldn't handle it or even died. It doesn't stop her, and she's able to get the robot back on track and speed into Pathogen with such force that she destroys its lower jaw and proceeds to keep pummeling the abomination before it gains the advantage and she passes out.
• Tyrantis and MechaTyrantis teaming up to try and take down Pathogen.
  • Near the end of the fight, Glypton shows up to pay Tyrantis back in kind by joining in the all-out assault from every single giant against the abomination. No matter what it does, its enemies are able to counter its every move as its healing starts to fail it. Then, to top things off, when Pathogen devolves into a writhing mass of limbs and mouths, the Writhing Flesh stops hiding from the fight, and proceeds to bathe the horrible thing in acid. As it burns, everyone else piles on with fire and energy, reducing the awful mutant to nothing more than a stain on the ground.
• After MechaTyrantis ensures that Tyrantis gets buried in the earthquake that Dr. Murnau starts, Ludmilla has Herakoschei fire missiles at him that knock him out cold.
  Ludmilla: You are a problem.
• Dr. Murnau gloats at Lerna after she's left in total shambles upon seeing Tyrantis seemingly killed in front of her. Then she says with absolutely cold fury that she will ruin him. When the mad scientist tells her that she'll have to take down the entire Spooks Organization to do so, she agrees. One way or another, Clark's organization ends soon.
• Tyrantis being revealed to have survived the earthquake.
• Lerna, Gwen, Henry, and none other than General Sherman all getting ready to raid Area 51 and put an end to the Spooks Organization once and for all. Sherman in particular is the whistleblower because, as far as he's concerned, all Clark and his cronies want to do is profit off all of the death and destruction they allow. So long as he still has a soul, he's going to help Lerna take them down.
• A villainous example here is how the Spooks Organization was able to find and capture all of the arthropod kaiju that have appeared up to this point (and Kraydi), and house them in Area 51.
• Tyrantis manages to smash through a metal wall in Area 51, only to encounter both Girtabane, Chlorespa, and Mantiresia. He prevails by keeping pace with them until they all end up fighting amongst each other.
• After seeing that Clark had commissioned an 100 ft clone of her in the form of Minerva, Lerna, already outraged by her nemesis' actions, encourages her huge doppelganger to think for herself. Then Tyrantis shows up, already sending Clark into a panic. When he orders Minerva to kill the retrosaur, she doesn't. Instead, she does what Lerna would, and befriends him. When Clark demands she stop, the giant tells him squarely to his face that he has no power over her, and pointedly calls him a tiny man too. It leaves Clark boiling with defeated rage and Lerna cackling at his expense.
  Lerna (to Clark): It seems you're lacking in imagination.
• Clark ends up going on a Motive Rant about an upcoming war, and how humanity has to steel itself for it by standing against the kaiju instead of just making nice with them. When Lerna asks what exactly that war is, the man tells her it's classified. Lerna's response lets him know exactly why he's doomed to fail.
  Lerna: Have you considered that maybe that's the real problem? You've compartmentalized all this information, kept it from others, and made yourself the sole person to decide how to act on it. You take no feedback, no peer review! You're incapable of listening to voices other than your own! How can you be certain you've got the right answer when you won't even analyze a single dissenting thought?
• Lerna figuring out that Promythigor has a mind-control device on his head connected to Clark's remote. She's able to tell Minerva about it before Clark swats her away. Sure, Tyrantis tearing it off with his teeth results in Promythigor reverting to his usual completely unhinged self, but it helped.
• Dr. Praetorius aiming a gun at Clark, his superior, letting him know precisely where he stands with this madness. Unfortunately, it results in him getting fatally shot.
• Tyrantis and Minverva vs. Promythigor! When things get a bit dicey at first and the ape tries to pry open Tyrantis' jaws to break them, the Retrosaur manages to chomp down with the strongest bite force on record, slicing off all of Promythigor's fingers for a while while Minerva ambushes him.
  • Later, Minerva whipping out the stick, a custom double-bladed staff made from the stinger of Girtabane and the severed claw of Mantiresia. She uses it to stab Promythigor over and over again before making him temporarily yield.
  • Promythigor eventually starts to cut loose, summoning balls of fire to rain down upon the battlefield, covering it in flame while summoning fire whips to attack Tyrantis with. Soon, all of Area 51 is on fire.
  • The ape then accidentally swats Clark's escape saucer, destroying it and officially ending the reign of the Spooks Organization as a result. How ironic.
  • As the fires spread throughout Area 51, the arthropod kaiju take notice, and follow it to its source, putting all of their differences aside to find a way to stop it. Bobo in particular follows because she doesn't want Tyrantis to face it alone.
  • Upon seeing the arthropod kaiju gathered, Promythigor cruelly smiles, and with a clap of his hands, causes the entirety of the battlefield to erupt in a cataclysmic series of fiery explosions that end up igniting a gas line. Cue an explosion that would rival a nuclear blast going off and absolutely DESTROYING what remains of Area 51.
  • Kraydi manages to escape thanks to Promythigor's actions. As he probes the minds of the other kaiju while looking for a solution to all of the chaos, he focuses on Tyrantis, and finds a vision of Typhon Island. Using all of his mental strength, he achieves Mass Teleportation, taking every single kaiju there to Typhon Island.
  • Actually, he ends up taking them to the sky above the island. While he flies away to explore, the others fall down. But that's not the end! Bobo constructs a webby parachute, something she learned to do as a spiderling, to help herself, Minerva, and the Myrmidants. Chlorespa and Mantiresia are able to catch Girtabane. As for Tyrantis and Promythigor, they just fall to the ground. But unlike the ape, Tyrantis sticks the landing, sliding down the mountainside and raising his legs so that he slams into a recovering Promythigor.
    • That last moment deserves extra mention for being two homages in one and then some. In keeping with the fight between Tyrantis and Promythigor having several nods to King Kong's various films, it's basically the moment where Kong slides down a mountain to slam into Godzilla in King Kong vs. Godzilla, except inverting the two sides in the Primate Versus Reptile rivalry. But what's more, Tyrantis sliding on his tail to kick the big monkey with both feet is also a reference to the infamous tail-slide Godzilla himself used twice in Godzilla vs. Megalon, which was (by his own admission) the very first Godzilla film the novels' author watched and the one that cemented his love of reptiles, kaiju, and monster movies in general. And the best part? Whereas Godzilla's tail slide in the film has been ridiculed for coming out of nowhere and having little buildup or justification, Tyrantis' use of this move fits right in with the current context and makes perfect sense with his character trait of taking advantage of circumstance to gain the edge in battle. In short, that whole moment is Narm Charm at its absolute best, and a perfect testament to William Cope's skills as a writer, both of Behemoth Battle scenes and in general.
  • When Tyrantis and Promythigor resume their fight, who should show up than the jade giant's mate herself, Tyranta! She savagely beats the mad ape up, and forces him into a cave. Promythigor realizes too late that the cave is unstable, and he's buried under piles of rock and rubble. Tyrantis has won, and more importantly, he's home!
• The Martians rallying to help save Earth from the fate that befell their own planet by sending forth four of their Beast Gods (their kaiju) to assist Earth's monsters.
• The fact that, even after the Time Skip, the Spooks Organization is a shell of its former self. With Clark gone, all they can do is mildly inconvenience whatever threats to them they see.
• Crocogon and Tricerak facing off against Ullawdra, a massive Martian plant monster, to save Metringar from her ensnaring vines. They're able to tear through most of the vines before the alien gains the upper hand. That's when Tyranta shows up and nearly burns Ullawdra to a crisp with one fireball. She manages to get the alien weed to submit, just when the others show up.
• Tyrantis taking Gorgolisk, Crocogon, and even Ahuul with him to wherever the three shooting green stars (actually Martian kaiju pods) land. They end up in San Francisco.
• Atomoton is a Humongous Mecha just like Herakoschei. And like that one, it's piloted by an equally battle-ready pilot, Isaac Rossum. The machine even has an A.I. with its own benevolent personality!
• Kemlasulla for the most part dominating the fight against Atomoton, dodging most of its attacks while running around the city. And when Atomoton does gain the advantage after throwing him to the city limits, fellow Martians Podritak and Sombarvot show up to help, the former blasting the robot with heat rays and the latter stomping it down. Kemlasulla comes in to show off his Mind over Matter powers, firing a tractor beam from his eye to toss Atomoton away and take it out of commission. Of course, that's right before Tyrantis' entourage shows up...
• It's Earth kaiju vs. Martian kaiju!
  • Ahuul and Podritak, the respective flying kaiju, go at it, and for a moment, it appears that the alien is winning, especially since her heat rays trigger the trauma of being blasted out of the sky by MechaTyrantis. But then Ahuul decides that he's done with running away from every uncertain fight. He fights through the pain of one of the rays, and tackles Podritak, ripping into her with his teeth and talons. After they both collide into the ground, Ahuul roars in triumph before going lights out like his opponent. For the first time in what must have been millenia, Ahuul won a fight.
  • Gorgolisk and Crocogon are up against Sombarvot. The croc gets first blood by biting down on the giant alien's leg. When he gets pulled off, Gorgolisk gets Sombarvot with her venom and hypnotic frill. This gives Crogogon enough time to unleash a secret weapon, and blast the alien several times with spheres of energy from his fins, them having harnessed radioactive energy from the sun. Of course, the two end up running away from the stampeding Sombarvot, but they manage to get him to ram into a skyscraper, causing it to nearly crush him and put him in a state of emotional distress. They're nice enough to comfort him afterwards.
  • Tyrantis and Kemlasulla's fight is a straightforward sparring match that they both enjoy immensely. After the alien is given some time to recover from the previous fight, as is fair for Tyrantis, the two go at each other and are able to dodge just about everything they throw. When they collectively realize that they're both holding back, Kemlasulla delivers a series of quick successive kicks before grabbing Tyrantis and slamming him into the ground while spinning like a top. The Retrosaur is able to get free and attack the alien, and when Kemlasulla tries his eye beam levitation attack again, he blasts his eye with a fireball, winning the fight.
  • After everything, the Earth and Martian kaiju decide to be friends, essentially making sure that the benevolent wish of the Martians, that their Beast Gods stand alongside Earth against the Beyonders, comes to pass.
• The fact that Lerna and Gwen, with the help of Tyrantis and their kaiju communication device known as the Orpheus Lyre, were able to turn Typhon Island into a full-on kaiju sanctuary. Now, the only thing left is to make sure the press gives it a positive review.
• Pretty much everyone refusing to give Arnie Carter any credit every time he opens his mouth to complain or insult everything.
• Dr. Tsuberaya, in the last four years, has discovered some pretty amazing things about Yamaneon. For one thing, it's radioactive but not enough to be lethal, and its Healing Factor properties can be applied to smaller creatures too, and its energy could be used to propel humanity into a new age of progress. That being said, that last bit runs the risk of turning kaiju into natural resources.
• Everyone practically ganging up on Arnie in refuting each and every one of his claims to kill the kaiju. Dr. Tsuberaya in particular rages at the idea of using nuclear weapons, and for good reason.
• Tyranta making short work of the robot Frightron after it makes the mistake of hurting her son. She effortlessly tears through the seemingly indestructable Xeno-Titanium, and just to top things off, Tricerak joins in to trample it. It's the biggest Curb-Stomp Battle seen thus far, and it's in our heroes' favor...though winning fights was not exactly the robot's purpose...
• The Final Battle. ALL OF IT. It's all of the Earth's guardian kaiju, the mechas, and the Martian Beast Gods against the Beyonder Alliance and their kaiju. The best part? When we say all of them, we mean it. EVERYONE IS HERE.
  • The Myrmidants and Girtabane taking care of most of the Mothmanud worms that show up.
  • Karamtor gets involved, but when she goes in to attack Nastadyne, Bronton shows up to electrocute her. Burodon and Kurokame help by smacking the Mothmanud worms around, the latter even sliding down the mountainside to slam a couple. Later, when Karamtor seriously injures the giant sauropod, Mastemuth shows up and attacks her.
  • Herakoschei, Atomoton, and Minerva teaming up to take on the Mothmanuds.
  • Tyrantis facing Torkenrak while Tyranta fights Ugugular. When Torkenrak looks like he's gaining the advantage, Tyrantor flings Ugugular into the other alien, knocking them out and allowing the jade giant and his queen to fight alongside each other.
  • After Gorgolisk is able to subdue Crimorax with her venom, she's attacked by none other than the very same Mothmanud she and Tyrantis faced so long ago. When it carries her into the air, she bites and paralyzes it, and uses her coils to force her alien foe to glide them into a relatively safe landing.
  • Tricerak fights against Googora, and at first the crafty alien is able to sidestep every one of his charges and blind him repeatedly with her red mist attack. However, her boredom with the fight proves to be her undoing, as the angry herbivore is able to slightly impale her on his nasal horn and drag her across the volcano. When she releases her mist again, they both end up tumbling down the mountain, but Tricerak's luck wins out when he crushes Googora against some trees.
  • Nastadyne is having problems even being able to hit the flying alien Pleprah. Then Ahuul shows up to knock the annoying beast out of the sky. But Nastadyne's fight isn't over yet. Five fully-grown Mothmanuds come out of their cocoons. Luckily, Chlorespa, Mantiresia, and the Myrmidants arrive to even the odds.
  • When the Mothmanuds attack Gorale and the Writhing Flesh, the former reveals that he's in fact a major Lethal Joke Character. He lets out a thundering roar, shoots into the sky like a rocket, and unleashes his full power by flying around and attacking the aliens with FRICKIN LASER BEAMS! It leaves the mech pilots and Minerva quite baffled, to say the least.
  • Bobo and Tyrantor end up finding that some Beyonder soldiers have imprisoned not only Kraydi, but Karamtor's newborn child. Seeing the latter being captured sends the spider into an unprecedented rage, and while Tyrantor works to destroy the generators creating the prison (despite the pain it causes for him), she makes sure to cover the robotic guards with so much web that they can't move anymore. A flying saucer shows up to ambush them, but Bobo then uses her web to lasso it and send it crashing into the ground and exploding upon impact. Tyrantor shows a surprising ingenuity by taking one of the metal shards from the crash and using it to destroy the prison generators without any trouble.
  • Tyrantis and Tyrantor curb-stomping the next couple of Beyonder kaiju Zillser and Venora, with ease. Just before Dorazor, the most powerful of the Beyonder kaiju, can attack them, Kemlasulla and his fellow Martian kaiju dogpile him.
  • Running out of options, Commander Gat has his forces unleash the Great Beyonder, a large kaiju version of himself that manages to get the Martian kaiju off Dorazor. But when the space dragon advances on Tyrantis and Tyranta, the Writhing Flesh comes to the rescue once more to challenge the giant alien.
  • As the battlefield gets crazier and crazier with all kaiju fighting against the Mothmanud swarm, Kraydi comes in and pelts the nearby flying saucers with boulders he shoots with his psychic powers. Even as he's shot out of the sky, the lizard manages to send out a final rock barrage that destroys the entire fleet. Oh, and then MechaTyrantis arrives on the scene, piloted by a man named Denis Dodgeson, to help beat back the Mothmanuds.
• As his armies are brought down, Commander Gat is forced to unleash the secret weapon: Pathogen. The abomination then shows why it's such a Godzilla Threshold for the aliens by turning on its masters, killing and absorbing the Great Beyonder, and destroying the Beyonder mothership by sending out bony spikes at it and then grabbing it so it can bite down on it! The rest of the saucers retreat as Pathogen establishes itself as the TRUE Big Bad of the story.
• Despite the overwhelming odds against him, Tyrantis remains Defiant to the End, charging at Pathogen even as he's overwhelmed by its assualt.
• Upon seeing Tyrantis seemingly killed by Pathogen, Tyranta and the rest of the kaiju, Beyonder kaiju included, don't give in to despair. Instead, they all roar in defiance at the horrible abomination before them, and charge to avenge their fallen friend.
• The fleeing saucers being destroyed by Crustakra, Tyloton, Kutulusca, and Old Meg as they try to escape. The sight alone causes Arnie to start throwing his antagonistic views on kaiju out the window.
• Promythigor finally breaking out of his rocky prison just in time to face Pathogen. He notices how exhausted every other kaiju is from the fight, and rushes in to score some of his own hits. He even manages to blow up Pathogen's head with a fire explosion, forcing it to heal. He then ends up saving MechaTyrantis from being crushed by the abomination. This is followed almost immediately by the rest of the kaiju assaulting it from almost every direction.
• After getting his pilot killed (again) and nearly getting killed by Pathogen, MechaTyrantis, AKA the Terror, reflects on how he's been nothing but a Dirty Coward his entire life, robotization or no robotization, and decides to finally stand his ground as the end seems to draw near. He looks at Pathogen, and proceeds to unleash everything in his arsenal, not caring what happens next.
• The whole battle has hit its Darkest Hour. The kaiju are slowly tiring themselves out trying to fight Pathogen, the Mothmanud swarm is destroying humanity, and Tyrantis lies dying in front of his friends. Then, deep within the giant's fading mind, he hears a voice. It belongs to the Yamaneon itself, beckoning him to accept his fate and rest after fighting for so long. But then he thinks about Lerna and the humans, his son Tyrantor, his friend Bobo, his mate Tyranta, and all of his friends. It's at that point he realizes that he cannot die, not while they still need his help. The Yamaneon agrees to this, and suddenly, our boy in green is not only given a Heroic Second Wind, but a brand new Super Mode! His injuries are healed, his entire body radiates Yamaneon energy, his eyes are blood-red, his spikes are pure Yamaneon crystal, and his fire is now white-hot. And more importantly, he can now send out waves of energy that heal all of his kaiju friends.
• Before Tyrantis returns, it's Tyranta, Gorgolisk, and Promythigor are the last ones standing as the rest of the kaiju are brought down. Then our hero arrives, sending wave after wave of healing Yamaneon energy, bringing every kaiju back to their prime and even giving MechaTyrantis his full original organic body back, making him the Terror once more. He doesn't even roar at Pathogen, he just marches towards it with determination in his eyes.
• Noticing how powerful Tyrantis has become, Pathogen starts to legitimately panic. His limbs are reduced to ash by the Retrosaurs white flames, and its forced to run towards the summit of the island's volcano. As the abomination is cornered at the top, it tries to take Tyrantis with it as it falls into the boiling lava below. As they both fall, Tyrantis blasts Pathogen with tons of flame, blasting the horrible monster into the fiery lava first, destroying it for good. And right before Tyrantis can suffer the same fate, Kemlasulla rescues him with his eye levitation beam, followed by Ahuul and Nastadyne lifting him up and Gorgolisk bringing him to safety. THE DAY IS SAVED!
• Arnie Carter doing a complete 180 on his view of the kaiju, begging her to unleash all of them to finish off the Mothmanud swarm. She decides to slyly bribe him into giving the Kaiju Sanctuary Initiative a glowing review first before making her decision. Looking to Grossk and knowing in her heart that the kaiju won't instantly go berserk, she flips the switch in the Orpheus Lyre. What follows is an Offscreen Moment of Awesome, as the kaiju take out what remains of the Beyonder invasion. Sure, humanity has taken a huge beating on this day, but in the end, by putting their trust in forces they may never be able to truly comprehend, extinction did not happen.
• The ending. After all that's happened, Lerna and Gwen got their kaiju sanctuary, and all of hte kaiju, whether they're from Earth or space, are living their best life on Typhon Island, and the whole story closes out on Tyrantis's theme song playing on the radio. It truly is the Atomic Time of Monsters.