Godzilla|Marvel Saga Book 1: WORLDS COLLIDE

Part 7: Godzilla Takes Manhattan!

THE PEAK
S.W.O.R.D. HEADQUARTERS

S.W.O.R.D. (Sentient World Observation and Response Department) Commander Abigail Brand was very displeased. She gazed out of the huge window, down at the curvature of the Earth. A sneer slid just underneath her pursed lips, her eyes hidden behind ever-present green sunglasses. The command center around her bustled with activity, agents rushing between stations, not just as part of their normal monitoring duties, but also due to the strange phenomena that had popped-up in the last 24 hours.

"Today is not going as I planned."

First the asteroid that appeared out of the damn blue, on a collision course with Earth. And then the sudden temporal anomaly over China, gone as soon as it started without leaving a trace.
"Cecilia, what's going on at the China site?"

The young dark-skinned woman looked up from her monitoring station, taken by surprise.
"Ah... yes Ma'am! Satellite confirms..."

Cecilia entered a few commands into her consol, and a holographic projection emerged from the transmitter on top of her computer. The image showed a large gash in the ground between forest covered mountains.

"Something came out of that temporal cloud" she explained, "and crash landed in the nearby mountains. Unfortunately, whatever it was, was gone within moments."

Cecilia looked up to her boss, awaiting some kind of approval. Abigail remained impassive behind the shades.

"How long have you been stationed here, two months?" The commander asked.

Cecilia thought nervously for a moment, "Yes Ma'am, just about."

Director Brand strode away, back to the window.
"I'll tell ya, an agent really makes her bones on a day like this. Think you can keep it together if the S#!* hit's the fan?"
The Director's bluntness caught the young agent off guard, and her eyes widened in awkward discomfort.
"Y-Yes Ma'am."
"Good."

The door to the command deck opened, and in rushed a young male crewman, who hurriedly saluted Abigail.
"Commander Brand, something's happened to Sydren!"
"Show me!"

The pair rushed down a hallway, on course to Sydren's living quarters.
"Tell me what happened Agent Connors!" She yelled as they rounded a corner.
"I'm assigned to his detail, and he was just enjoying his lunch when he started to say something about a psychic presence coming from the asteroid that's heading for Wakanda. He tried to reach out to it, but then he started to convulse and fell to the ground, he's catatonic!"

Reaching the doorway to Sydren's room, she looked down to see the pink biped on his back, his arms sticking up, his entire body twitching subtly. Foam trickled out from the corner of his mouth, his eyes wide open in stark shock. The two other agents in the room looked to her with worry and fear.
"Is medical on their way?" Abigail demanded.
"They should be, we called." replied an alarmed agent.

Commander Brand knelt down by Sydren's side, and took his hand in her own. "What's going on with you, buddy? What happened?"

In a flash, Sydren was sitting up, his breathing turned rapid and short. Staring straight forward as if he were fixated on an object before him, his pupils were dilated.
"Fire! Destruction and lightning!" he growled in his raspy voice "It's horrible cackle... the screams of the dead and dying..."

Abigail gripped him by the shoulders, trying to get him to look at her.
"what are you talking about Sydren! What's it got to do with the asteroid?"
Sydren fixed her with a vacant stare; seeing her, but looking far past.
"I reached out to the entity inside, and that was what I saw. That is what awaits us all, the world on fire, the planet covered in ash."