Rita Repulsa vs Commander X

• MegaSonicZX

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Description

Power Rangers vs Godzilla. Hailing from the cosmos with an army of giant monsters at their beck and call, these two galactic tyrants are ready to go head to head with the fate of the Earth on the line. No matter who wins, we lose, but there can be only one true ruler of the stars.

Interlude

The scene opens up with a shot of several giant monsters lining up to do battle with each other, which then greys out at the announcer shouts out-

“FIGHT!”

MegaSonic: Rita Repulsa, the Cosmic Empress of Evil.

Sharaku: Commander X, the Controller of Planet X.

Megasonic: Kaiju, the Japanese term for giant monsters that destroy everything. But what’s cooler than a single kaiju? How about a whole army of kaiju? That’s something these two space dictators have in spades.

Sharaku: He's MegaSonicZX and I’m Sharaku Jr.

MegaSonic: And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to find out who would win a DEATH BATTLE!

RITA REPULSA MAKES HER MONSTERS GROW IN DEATH BATTLE!

MegaSonic: Ten thousand years ago, the forces of good and evil waged war throughout the universe. The Great Sage of Eltar Zordon left his Power Rangers against terrifying monsters being unleashed throughout the Universe in countless battles. All of which were under the command of one woman; Rita Repulsa. Known as an Empress of Evil, Rita besieged countless planets with her Monsters, defeating Zordon’s forces of good, and eventually trapping the great age in a Time Warp. But not before he sealed her and her minions away in a Space Dumpster. Yes, I’m not kidding. A Dumpster.

Sharaku: But, after some astronauts on Earth’s moon unfortunately happened upon it and opened the seal, those millenia of peace and prosperity were over. After 10,000 years, she was free. And immediately after getting out, Rita got right back on her villainy. Seriously, not five seconds after she was out of there, she declared war on the planet Earth, and got to conquering it. Honestly? I respect it. She knows what she wants.

MegaSonic: Or she would have, if not for the Intervention of Zordon, who had selected five teenagers with attitude to become the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers; Rita’s soon to be nemeses. However, since direct combat is quite frankly below her, Rita often chooses to fight though her minions. More notably, her foot soldiers, the Putty Patrollers. These stone masked men might look cheap, but they’re physically stronger and just as skilled as the average human, and even the unmorphed Rangers had trouble fighting them for a while. Heck, she even selected a few individual Putty’s to become doppelganger Rangers a few times. But let’s be real, you’re all here for the real meat of Rita’s army, her assortment of Giant Monsters.

Sharaku: First and foremost, Goldar! This golden gargoyle-looking motherfucker is one of, if not the strongest general that serves directly under Rita herself. He’s a seriously dangerous guy who’s been able to take on the entire team of Rangers at once on numerous occasions. Even if he’s a bit of a goofball, he’s not to be underestimated. He’s capable of shooting fireballs from his eyes, teleporting, grow in size, and cut you to ribbons with his sword, which he can also shoot fire from, or just channel directly into the blade for some fiery slashes. Not to mention, he’s just crazy strong and tough in general.

MegaSonic: In fact, Goldar is one of the only monsters in Rita’s servitude who is capable of self-growth, the other one being Scorpina. Like Goldar, Scorpina can teleport, grow in size herself, fire beams of energy from her eyes, shoot lightning, and turn into an actual scorpion monster. Also, fun fact, in  Zyuranger, the Super Sentai season MMPR is adapted from, Goldar and Scorpina have a kid together. Don’t… don’t ask how that works. I don’t.

Sharaku: The Mighty Minotaur, notable for being the very first monster that the Power Rangers ever fought with their powered weapons, is also crazy tough. He might be really dumb and is a total brute, but he’s able to breath fire, his helmet can shoot out lightning bolts, and he’s able to deflect energy projectiles with his shield. And, of course, if that’s all too much, he can just bash you over the head with his giant spiked club.

MegaSonic: Uniquely, Madam Woe isn’t one of Rita’s typical Monsters, but actually a clone friend of hers who simply agrees to fight on her behalf. A master of illusion and trickery, she can use her blue hair braids as ropes and even channel electricity through them, channels gusts of wind through her mouth, fly, control the weather, and even banish people to Rita’s dark dimension, a separate plane of reality that can block out the Ranger’s communications and hold entire cities prisoner.

Sharaku: Rita’s next monster makes like a Master Builder from the Lego Movie, because Eye Guy can see EVERYTHING. With literally hundreds of eyes all over his body, he can fight and detect oncoming attacks from pretty much every single angle possible. He can fire lasers from his pupils, shoot out some of his eyes to act as explosives, launch out eye-shaped fireballs, and regenerate pretty much any wound, so long as his main eye remains intact.

MegaSonic: The aptly named Dark Warrior is a master of covert operations thanks to being able to turn invisible, in addition to being skilled with a katana, a chain and sickle, and a wrist mounted laser cannon strong enough to take out all five Rangers in one shot. That said, he’s nothing compared to the Knasty Knight, one of Rita’s strongest monsters who single handedly crushed the warriors of Tarmac III and stole the Sword of Darkness for Rita. In addition, the Knasty Knight also has the unique ability to reverse the oncoming kinetic energy of incoming attacks, allowing him to burn out the weapons of his enemies. Plus, he can shoot lasers. They- they can all shoot lasers. It’s Power Rangers.

Sharaku: Next up is one of Rita’s more unconventional monsters, the Gnarly Gnome. This viking gremlin’s got one of the weirdest weapons, an Energy Rake. Like, what you use to get leaves out of your yard when fall rolls around. Well, if it works, I guess? I mean, hell, if I had a rake that could fire lasers out of it, that’d be my weapon, too. He’s also got an accordion, which can induce hypnosis and create illusions. Hey, points for creativity.

MegaSonic: Taking inspiration from the old Egyption Sphinx, King Sphinx could fire a cobra beam from the statue mounted on his head, fly, shoot gusts of wind powerful enough to send Zack and Kimbery flying all the way from the battlefield, back to the Angel grove Youth Center, and then force them to de-morph. I mean SHIT, that’s a good ability to have! If only he could’ve followed up on that and attacked while they were vulnerable, but alas, he did not. Oh yeah, and his staff can shoot fireballs, which is exactly what you’d expect at this point, but these ones are shaped like question marks…so they aren’t balls-

Sharaku: And of course, we have the legendary Cyclopsus, the very first Evil Zord. Easily one of the strongest opponents that the Power Rangers faced in their early career. It’s got telekinesis, can shoot missiles out of its shoulders, fire lightning bolts, and can shoot its arms off with cables that electrocute anything it touches. Perhaps the deadliest aspect of it, though, is its adaptation. It can adapt to suit its foes and counter their abilities. The downside to this? Said adaptation takes a while to actually start working, and needs time to adjust.

MegaSonic: Still, Cyclopsus is one of the few things that was able to take on the Megazord and Dragonzord at the same time and win, so that clearly counts for something. Plus, most of the Monster’s we’ve talked about can keep up with all of the individual rangers at once, and those teenagers are fast as fuck. Like consider the time the Rangers flew to a planet in the farthest galaxy away from Earth in the span of an afternoon. That’s a feat that would have required them to be moving over 21 Trillion times the Speed of Light.

Sharaku: Or how about the Octoplant? This thing’s got the potential to grow so large, its tentacles would’ve ensnared the whole planet! And not just that. With enough time, the earth itself literally would have been crushed underneath its power and exploded. While this never actually happened in the series, we did see what would’ve happened had it not been stopped. The kinetic energy of said explosion would’ve been worth nearly 120 ronnatons of TNT!

MegaSonic: That’s almost as impressive as Rita herself! That’s right, her use of magic goes beyond just making her monsters grow. Her magic is powerful enough to move the moon out of orbit and force a solar eclipse, and she’s even been directly stated to have destroyed several planets and even stars in her conquest of the cosmos.

Sharaku: And later in the series, after she married fellow cosmo tyrant Lord Zedd, the two of them were able to make Monster's strong enough destroy the Thunderzords, destroy the Ranger’s Ninja coins, and even create the Impursonator, a Monster so strong is no-sold the attacks of the Zeo Rangers and their Zords, who were dozens of times stronger than the Mighty Morphin crew. Yeah, this one might look stupid, but it’s genuinely Rita’s strongest Monster ever.

MegaSonic: Though ultimately, Rita never did manage to defeat those Power Rangers. In the end though, when Zordon sacrificed himself to purify all the evil in the Universe, Rita was purified of her evil essence and turned into a normal human woman. Later regaining her magical powers, Rita became known as the Mystic Mother, the source of all good magic and ironically, even established her own team of Power Rangers! If that’s a bit wacky for you though, don’t worry, her evil essence later possessed a robot and returned to terrorize the Rangers again as Robo-Rita… and she even managed to kill Trini in the process. Damn…

Sharaku: That just goes to show you that even if she may seem goofy at a first glance, Rita Repulsa was sealed away for a reason. If it comes down to it, she will not hesitate to genocide billions of people in the sake of her evil plots. Because if you were to stand in her way, you’d have no other options but to pray.

COMMANDER X BRINGS THE FINAL WAR TO DEATH BATTLE!

Sharaku: In the far-off year of 20XX, Japan had progressed like no other. Discovering special mutations in the rare few individuals, these… Well, mutants were recruited by the Japanese government to serve as their special operative teams to fight against larger-than-life threats that the standard army could never handle. And oho, boy, were there a lot of threats. This world is overrun by monsters of many different shapes and sizes. The most infamous of which is the legendary Godzilla.

MegaSonic: After the King of the Monsters was sealed away in ice by the Battleship Gotengo, things seemed to be looking up for humanity and the EDF. That was, until one day when several Kaiju began attacking multiple cities all at once! Things began to look real bad until a bunch of Space Aliens called Xiliens showed up and teleported them all away, then came down and opened up to peace talks between planets! Wow! I can detect no ulterior motives here whatsoever!

Sharaku: I’m just gonna cut the bullshit right here and now. Surprise! The Xiliens were behind the Kaiju invasion to begin with, and after the EDF figured out that they had begun to infiltrate the Japanese government and exposed them on live television, the Xilien’s grand commander… was killed! By his second-in-command, no less! This was Commander X, and he was ready to take the reins of the invasion and absolutely raze Earth to the ground.

MegaSonic: And so, Commander X unleashed all of the monsters the Xiliens had controlled all over the globe. All of them, all at once. Honestly? Much better plan than the whole fake peace talks, but that’s just me. Still, Commander X is a surprisingly capable fighter himself, thanks to being a Keizer, the result of what happens when Xiliens and Humans get freaky together. As a result, he has superhuman strength from his Xilien side in addition to being able to control the EDF’s Mutants as his personal foot soldiers. But let’s be real, you're here to hear us talk about the Kaiju, aren’t you? Ah, don’t lie. We know you are.

Sharaku: First up is the space chicken Gigan! He might look a little silly, what with his giant meat-hooks-for-hands. But don’t be fooled. This ancient monster from another world has a buzz saw in his chest, can shoot a scattering laser blast from his eye, a series of massive grappling hooks, and he can even fly! After his first death against the hands of Godzilla, who was freed from his icy prison in order to fight the monsters, he was upgraded by the Xiliens and his hooks were replaced with fuckin’ chainsaws! Now that’s badass. He can even keep fighting without his head attached, but any more heavy damage will destroy him.

MegaSonic: The only thing that could take him down though? A flaming kamikaze from Mothra. After Godzilla’s first victory over Gigan though, he made his way over to Sydney where he found himself faced with the deformed parody of himself, Zilla. This Mutated iguana is strong enough to crush the Sydney Opera house and… yeah that’s about it. I mean, this is the bastardized American Godzilla. He was in Final Wars to die to the King and that’s it. I mean, even Commander X realized relying on this tuna eating lizard was a mistake, especially compared to the giant spider Kumonga, who traps its prey like a spider in a web and can paralyze them with its poisonous stingers, though it is vulnerable to intense heat.

Sharaku: There’s also the giant praying mantis, Kamacuras. It can cut you apart with its sharp pincers, disorient its foes with its rapid flight, and it can camouflage itself into the environment for a sneaky takedown kill. Of course, we can’t forget about the legendary Anguirus. This guy was Godzilla’s first ever rival all the way back in the Showa era, and he’s no joke. He’s got a spiked shell and tail, perfect for impalement, can charge headfirst through city blocks like they’re nothing, and he can even roll up into a ball and basically Spin Dash all over his enemies with the Anguirus Ball.

MegaSonic: Then of course, there’s the famous Rodan, the flying Pteranodon Kaiju who was reawakened by environmental destruction, and is also one of Godzilla’s other earliest Showa era rivals. He can fly at supersonic speeds, and use the spikes on his chest to deal some serious damage to both nearby buildings, and Godzilla. Rodan and Anguirus confronted the Big G alongside King Caesar, a giant monkey kaiju who can shoot freaking lightning bolts from his mouth and lasers from his eyes, and is generally one of the smarter Kaiju in the series. Plus, he’s got a scissor kick known as the Flying Caesar Attack. Humorously, since all three of these guys were once allies of Godzilla, he actually spared them after defeating them.

Sharaku: We’ve also got Hedorah, also known as the Smog Monster. This literal pile of mutated sewage waste is capable of taking on several different “Stages” to suit its environment, like a land stage, aquatic stage, flying stage, and finally its perfect stage, where it has all of the same abilities it had in its previous forms. It’s got a suffocating acid mist, the Hederium Ray Beam it fires from its eye, and an acid sludge bomb. Ebirah, the horror of the deep, is a gigantic fuckin’ lobster-shrimp-thingy. Naturally, it’s got giant claws that can pierce and stab. And due to being a giant crustacean, it can maneuver its way through and survive underwater without issue. It can also regenerate its claws after being blown off, though it’s implied it takes time to do this.

MegaSonic: But by far the strongest of the Xiliens Monsters is none other than the legendary Monster X. This guy tanked a hit from Godzilla’s Atomic Breath, the same kind that destroyed a city busting meteor, and then proceeded to take him head on in an even fight. Hell, just one attack managed to bring the King to his knees! Monster X is crazy strong, especially when he enters his true form; KEIZER GHIDORAH! That’s right, it’s fuckin Ghidorah! Complete with his three heads and trademark Gravity Beams, the supercharged Antigravity Beams, flight, and the ability to siphon energy from others. Keizer Ghidorah was so strong… he managed to actually BEAT Godzilla!

Sharaku: Well, momentarily, anyways. I bet you’re wondering how strong this incarnation of Godzilla is. After all, it’s not as if they’re all the same character. In fact, Final Wars takes place in its own entirely separate continuity, away from even the original 1954 Gojira. Well, Godzilla himself is fucking nuts in this film. When the Xiliens summoned the mini-asteroid Gorath, which contained Monster X, Godzilla blew it apart as it traveled through the Earth’s atmosphere at 26% the speed of light! Blowing that thing apart would yield the kinetic energy of about 17 petatons of TNT! That’s enough to absolutely wipe away the Earth’s surface, and Godzilla and Monster X tanked it without a scratch!

MegaSonic: I mean hell, Monster X was literally inside the Gorath when it exploded! That said, he was ultimately overpowered and defeated when Godzilla got a supercharged-boost from Shinichi Ozaki, a fellow Keizer and the only mutant of the EDF who resisted Commander X’s pull. Considering Ozaki’s energy was enough to let Godzilla overpower Keizer Ghidorah, and he and Commander X had a fairly even fight, it wouldn’t be out of the question to say Commander X at least somewhat scales to this. That said, it’s pretty clear none of his other Kaiju would, considering Godzilla absolutely crushed all of them in the greatest boss rush ever performed.

Sharaku: Ultimately, though, Commander X would be done in by the power of Ozaki and Godzilla. As his ship crumbled around him and as his greatest monster was slain, he’s ultimately the perfect example of why one should never underestimate the power of the Earth. That being said, it’s not hard to tell how he arrived at this conclusion, false as it may be. When you’ve got a massive army of kaiju, a squad of elite soldiers, tons of battleships, and amazing mutant powers… yeah, anyone would think they’re on top of the world.

MegaSonic: He might be one of the cheesiest antagonist’s ever seen in a Godzilla film, but there’s no denying that he did succeed in destroying a majority of the world. With his army of Kaiju at his beck and call, the Controller of Planet X will certainly go down in history as one of the strongest villains to ever be faced by the King of the Monsters.

Pre-Fight

MegaSonic: Alright the combatants are set and we’ve run the data through all possibilities.

Sharaku: IT’S TIME FOR A DEATH BATTLE!

DEATH BATTLE!

[ANGEL GROVE]

High above the city of Angel Grove, the giant spherical mothership of the Xiliens floated above the city as lasers bombarded the city below, and several of the mind controlled kaiju rampaged through the city knocking over buildings. People were running for their lives, smoke clouds engulfed the sky, and destruction reigned supreme. Explosions dotted the area as each monster continued to pile on the devastation.

From his room in the command center of the mothership, the Controller of Planet X laughed as he watched the chaos unfold below. He spread his arms out, absolutely reveling in the destruction on display.

Commander X: Struggle all you want humans… but your days end here. Soon, you will all be cattle for my people.

Just then, there was a flash of light behind the Commander, who turned around with a look of surprise at the defenses of his ship being breached by the strange teleportation. When the light died down, the wicked Empress of Evil, Rita Repulsa, stood across from him, with the flying golden gargoyle Goldar standing back her side.

Rita: Hahaha! A pleasure to meet you, Xilien!

Commander X: Rita Repulsa… I was under the impression you were sealed away in a space dumpster.

Rita: You should update your information then, because I’m free as a bird! And flash fact, the Earth is MY territory to conquer!

Commander X: Hm. I’m afraid that simply won’t come to pass. The Earth is mine to do with, you see. And I won’t let even the likes of you intrude upon our plan.

Rita: If you think that you’re even the slightest bit of a match for me, then your power has gone to your head! Putties, teach this overambitious brat who he’s dealing with!

Raising her staff and protruding bolts of lighting from it, Rita summoned a platoon of a dozen Putty Patrollers, which began garbling and wobbling back and forth as they moved to begin surrounding Commander X. The Xilien Commander just stared back though, the gaze of his eyes hidden by his glasses as he snapped his fingers, and summoned a whole group of EDF Mutants combined with his own Xilien agents to his side to fight against the Putties.

Commander X: Eliminate them.

Swishing his trench coat back, X stepped away to watch the carnage unfolding outside the ship as the two groups charged at each other with a combined roar. Despite their appearance, the Putties proved to be a match for the mutants. Their hard, rock-like fists dealt considerable damage to the Mutants, who found themselves relying on very complex martial-arts moves not unlike the ones the Power Rangers employed to keep up, creating a surprisingly even back and forth. One Mutant performed a flying roundhouse kick to shatter the head of a Putty, only for another putty to reveal a blade attached to its left hand that they plunged through the Mutant’s chest. Another Mutant bounced between two Putties, dealing simultaneous punches and kicks to the two stone soldiers. But, eventually one of the Putties managed to catch his hand and the other one wound up its fist to deliver a solid punch to the Mutant warrior’s gut.

As the carnage continued on, one Putty had the bright idea to go for an attack on Commander X, but the Xilien responded by grabbing the fist before it could even come close to his face, and then shattered the Putty with a single punch of his own. Looking back up, he saw that the fight had mostly subsided, as all of the Putty’s had been destroyed and left only a single Mutant still standing…

Until their body spontaneously combusted. In a bright shower of flames, the last Mutant was killed by none other than Goldar, who’s hand was still smoking after their attack. Grinning evilly, Rita’s right-hand man stepped forward, laughing all the while.

Goldar: If that’s the best you can do, you might as well give up now! I’ve crushed teenagers more deadly than you!

Dramatically sweeping his cloak as he turned forward, Commander X allowed himself the thinnest of smiles and chuckled to himself, slightly shaking his head. As their conflict began to bubble, the catastrophe outside continued on.

Commander X: A decent effort. However, ultimately a fruitless one. You have nothing to combat my forces. Surrender now, and I’ll spare you. Lest I go after your people next.

Rita: Oh, is that what you think?

And with that, Rita raised her hand, and suddenly chucked her Magic Wand right out of the mothership.

Rita: MAGIC WAND, MAKE MY MONSTERS GROW!

Flying through the air and landing down in Angel Grove, Rita’s Magic Wand released several bolts of red magical lightning into the ground, and all of a sudden several monsters of her own began to grow to giant size in a matter of seconds. Rita herself laughed back at Commander X at her through proving him wrong, and Goldar even got in on the chuckles as well.

Rita: I’m an Empress of Evil, boy! You think I haven’t accounted for this? My Monsters will make yours look like mincemeat!

Goldar: We’d offer you a chance to surrender, but you’re too dumb to accept it!

Commander X: Hahaha…! No. Evidently, you were too much of a fool to accept mine.

Their footsteps thundering the Earth itself, the two armies of giant monsters charged towards each other. The Mighty Minotaur barreled towards the guardian of Okinawa, King Caesar. Their palms soon locked with each other as their simple struggle caused the streets beneath them to crack like glass. Breaking the struggle, the Minotaur swung its massive spiked club at Caesar, who rolled out of the way. The impact of the weapon hitting the ground was strong, but ultimately detrimental to its wielder, as the club was stuck in the ground. Taking advantage of his opponent’s brief vulnerability, King Caesar charged in and tackled the Minotaur to the ground. Raising one of its fists to punch his enemy right in the skull, the Minotaur deflected the attack with his shield. Retaliating, the Minotaur let out a breath of flames right in Caesar’s face, who ducked back reflexively.

Flying past the two fighters, Gigan crashed down on the city streets and raised his two chainsaw arms, letting the blades spin and buzz as a show of intimidation as the Knasty Knight walked up to face him down. Gigan, of course, made the first move and charged at the Knight, swinging his arms to cut through several buildings in the course of his attack, but the Knasty Knight deflected the attack with his shield and made a counterattack with his sword, sparks flying as the two bladed weapons clashed. Gigan made another attack, staying purely on the offensive as it slashed at the Knasty Knight, who continued to block and parry his attacks. Finally, the Knasty Knight made an offensive attack of his own, blocking and striking back against Gigan’s right arm to reflect his energy and cause severe damage to Gigan’s right arm. At the same time though, Gigan swung his left arm around, dealing a serious hit to the Knasty Knight and causing him to go crashing into the side of a skyscraper.

Walking up to the crushed building and preparing to deal a finishing blow, Gigan raised his left arm to strike when the Knasty Knight suddenly fired a beam from his sword, blasting Gigan away and buying him some time to get back on his feet.

Knasty Knight: Tch… this one is quite strong.

Elsewhere, King Sphinx clashed with Anguirus, who had taken his giant staff away in his mouth. Diving after the shelled monster in an attempt to reclaim his weapon, Anguirus simply batted him away with one powerful bash, swinging his head. Quickly getting back to his feet, King Sphinx unfurled the wings on his back and flapped them rapidly, causing a huge windstorm to kick up and blow Anguirus face-first into a skyscraper behind them. The impact caused Anguirus to drop the staff, which the giant soon reclaimed. Pointing his weapon at the downed monster, King Sphinx unleashed a barrage of fireballs, oddly enough in the shape of question marks. But Anguirus was prepared. Rolling into a ball and leaping forward, the armored shell on his back allowed the monster to barrel through all of the flames effortlessly. Crashing into King Sphinx, both of them plowed right through an entire city block, leaving a trail of smoke and flames in their wake.

As that brawl was going on, Eye Guy was standing in the middle of the ruins of Angel grove park, grunting in annoyance as he fired several eye beams through the air at the flying target that was Hedorah, who was zooming around him in its Flight Form. Dodging another one of its lasers, Hedorah began to release its trademark sulfuric acid from its body upon Eye Guy, who began to scream in agony the moment that the Acid got on his body and into his many, many eyes. Seeing the advantage that it had created, Hedorah transformed into her final Perfect Form, to better match up against the monster by blasting it with its Hedrium Ray to send Eye Guy flying through the air and crashing into a lake.

Scorpina: Ridiculous! Must I do everything myself!?

Hedorah suddenly turned around as Scorpina appeared before it, growing enlarged into her giant monster form. Drawing her massive Scorpion Fin blade, Scorpina made her advance and slashed Hedorah a few times, causing it to stagger back for it made another advance and threw a ball of sludge at Scorpina, who used a short range teleport to dodge the attack before slashing Hedorah again, Scorpina stabbed her blade forwards to impale Hedorah… only to gasp when the amorphous monster didn’t die from the wound, and instead grabbed onto her and held her down so that Kumonga could crawl over and start firing webs to string up and restrain Scorpina.

Until, at least, Eye Guy got back up and fired several lasers out of his various eyes, one of them severing the web and two others managing to hit Hedorah and Kumonga. Scorpina broke out of her web prison and stood back to back with Eye Guy.

Eye Guy: Stand behind me! You’ll want to SEE this!

Spinning around, Eye Guy shot a consistent stream of straight lasers from the front part of his body, tearing apart the environment. Scorpina stayed behind him, moving along with him as he rotated. Their two opponents did the best they could to maneuver through the deadly barrage. Hedorah melted itself back down and crawled along the ground, minimizing the damage done to it. The less maneuverable Kumonga did its best to leap away and through the beams, but it wasn’t enough, as one of the lasers slashed away two of its legs, green blood pouring out of the stumps. Crashing to the ground, Kumonga quickly spewed out a miniature protective shield of webs to defend against the beams of light. Once the barrage died down, Kumonga raised its head to spew out another shot of webs, encircling half of Eye Guy’s body in the sticky material.

Eye Guy: I spy with my thousand eyes… a complete fool!

Kumonga, however, neglected to cover up one of the monster’s arms. Unleashing a combined red energy beam, the laser pierced through the spider’s exoskeleton with little effort. Blasting its head apart, Kumonga’s smoking body collapsed. The first of many casualties in the battle. Non-human ones, that is.

Elsewhere in Angel Grove, the Kaiju known as Zilla was running at high speeds through several buildings while trying to find a target to fight. As it looked to the side, it noticed the Dark Warrior uncloaking and ran forwards, aiming to attack the Monster from behind and secure the kill! However, the Dark Warrior noticed it coming and turned around, swinging its sword to send Zilla flying through the air with a shriek and letting it crash into the side of a local freeway. Then, while it was still struggling to get up, the Dark Warrior raised its arm and fired a blast from its wrist mounted laser cannon, which exploded and vaporized Zilla instantly.

Back on the Mothership…

Rita: Wow… even I’m underwhelmed…

Commander X: I knew I shouldn’t have relied on that overgrown lizard… next.

X snapped his fingers as Kamacuras unveiled itself, as it was biding its time waiting for the perfect opponent. Zipping around, the monstrous praying mantis snapped with its pincers at the off-guard Dark Warrior, who swung his blade reflexively. Weaving through the strikes, Kamacuras dove in for a two-clawed attack, which the Dark Warrior blocked with the sheath of his blade. Snapping through the sword’s sheath by closing his pincers, Kamacuras was batted away with the flat end of the Dark Warrior’s enormous blade.

Dark Warrior: I’ll crush you like the bug you LITERALLY are!

Pulling out their chain and sickle, the Dark Warrior spun it around over his head and tossed the bladed weapon at Kamacuras. The speedy insect reacted quickly to this, however, as it caught the chain in its pincers. Before he could pull it back, Kamacuras quickly encircled the Dark Warrior, wrapping it in its own chains. Breaking through it with its raw strength, the Dark Warrior grew annoyed at Kamacuras’ antics. The giant monster soon slipped into invisibility. Visibly taken aback by this, Kamacuras decided to do so as well. On the battlefield, the only thing that could be heard from the clash were the sounds of the Warrior’s sword crashing against Kamacuras’ pincers. After a brief moment of silence, one ear-piercing ring was let out across the landscape, causing the ground to shatter into pieces beneath them.

Both Kamacuras and the Dark Warrior reappeared. The Dark Warrior had just finished swinging his sword, and by the looks of it, Kamacuras had done the same with his sharp pincers as well. Akin to a traditional samurai duel, they had decided to end their scuffle in one stroke. Blood spilled out on the ground as the victor was revealed. The Dark Warrior’s giant head fell off its body, smashing several trucks beneath it. But soon enough, its entire body collapsed, as in the time it took for the Dark Warrior to swing his sword once, Kamacuras had diced them up completely into numerous chunks.

A moment later, a red blur flew past and crashed through several buildings, not out to start a fight, but just to cause chaos. Rodan was scouting around the battlefield, watching the different monsters go at each other when a lighting bolt just barely missed him, almost taking him out of the sky. Looking down he saw that it was an attack from the Gnarly Gnome. Swooping downwards, Rodan slashed at the Gnome and clashed his claws against the Gnome’s rake before grabbing onto it with his talons, and the Gnome began to tug back to try and recover his weapon.

Gnarly Gnome: Hey- you, stupid bird! Let go! That’s mine!

Rodan gave little care for Gnarly Gnome’s pleading, but quickly let out a squawk of fear when the Gnome unleashed a blast of lighting from the horn on his helmet to make him let go of the rake and sent him crashing downwards. Spinning his rake around, Gnarly Gnome fired out his Sparking Energy Stream from the rake, but Rodan was fast enough to dodge the beam and fly downwards again, using the armored spikes on his chest to fly back and slash Gnarly Gnome across the face to blind him. Then, while the Gnome was flailing around aimlessly, Rodan grabbed onto him by the shoulders with both talons, lifted him into the air, and then threw Gnarly Gnome upwards so that he could snap his large jaws downwards and bit the Gnome’s head off in one clean chomp.

As Rodan mercilessly chewed on the remains of his opponent, the waterfront of Angel Grove erupted as Ebirah rose up from the depths. Soon enough, it was met by Impursunator. The giant crustacean immediately tried stabbing the grotesque pink monster, but instead of being punctured, the attack simply bounced off. Tilting its head, surprised at the ineffectiveness of his claws, Ebirah simply tried the same attack once more. Impursunator inhaled air and swelled up to an enormous degree.

The kinetic energy from the crustacean’s attacks was redirected right back at it, causing its pincered arm to explode off of it. Weakly, it tried to get back up, but by simply moving its body, the Impursunator smacked Ebirah right into the coastline, causing the sand from the beach to be dispersed everywhere. Holding up their enemy’s own severed arm, the Impursunator shoved the cut-off appendage right into Ebirah’s back, impaling it. The pink purse monster sauntered onto the shore, stepping on Ebirah’s head in the process.

The fighting continued to rage on, more buildings being reduced to rubble and dust with each passing moment. Among the chaos, Madame Woe walked through the streets of Angel Grove, watching the fighting unfold without much purpose. These monsters weren’t smart enough for her typical illusions to work on, so she had little to do but watch the fighting and wait for an opening.

On her right, she looked over and noticed the fighting between the Knasty Knight and Gigan, the two warriors locked in an intense struggle and duel of blades. Throwing her rope braids out, Madam Woe grabbed Gigan from behind and ensnared him, leaving the monster shocked and confused as he was suddenly unable to attack, or even move.

Madam Woe: Oh, woe is you… your time just ran out.

Gigan looked up in shock as the Knasty Knight swung his sword around and sliced Gigan’s head clean off, causing him to let out one last shriek of pain before he promptly collapsed over, limp and seemingly lifeless. With the monster slain, the Knasty Knight looked back up towards Madam Woe, and gave a nod of solidarity.

Elsewhere, the duel between King Caesar and the Mighty Minotaur was reaching its conclusion. The two titans went blow for blow, but the protector of Okinawa was being careful to avoid all of the swings from the spiked club. The Minotaur kept back in order to gain a bit of distance, and King Caesar was ready to dodge another blast of his fire breath. But the two horns on the Minotaur’s head began to crackle with an otherworldly energy. A huge blast of electricity began to form in the center of the spikes. Condensed down into a thin beam of lightning, the power beam ripped through the air straight towards King Caesar, who didn’t have any time to dodge…

But he did have time to move his head. Shifting his weight just a tiny bit, the beam flew straight into King Caesar’s eye… and out the other. The bolt of lightning redirected itself back towards its origin, blasting the Mighty Minotaur off his feet,also causing him to drop his weapon. But before he could get back to his feet, King Caesar leapt onto him and grabbed his weapon. Snarling violently, the King began to violently bash the Minotaur’s skull in with its own club, making sure to drive the spikes in as far as it could. Eventually, he tossed the now-bloodied weapon aside altogether and continued to smash the Minotaur’s face with his bare hands. With one final double-handed ax punch, the Mighty Minotaur’s head popped like a balloon, flooding the streets with red and pink. King Caesar roared with victory as it sauntered off, eager to get his hands on his next opponent.

Anguirus meanwhile, was still rolling around and fighting King Sphinx, continuously slamming into him and occasionally being hit back by the sphinx’s staff. Uncurling from his ball form, Anguirus made a lunging grab for King Sphinx and forcefully locked his jaw around King Sphinx’s right arm, coins the giant monster to let out a loud hiss of pain and began to shake his arm to get Anguirus off of him. While Anguirus did let go, the Kaiju didn’t relent in his bite attacks, and instead chomped down on King Sphinx’s left leg, sinking his teeth deep in, deep enough to draw blood. King Sphinx yelled in pain again, and used his staff to jab it directly into Anguirus’s face to make him let go once again. This time however, King Sphinx wasn’t going to let him make a meal out of himself.

And so, when Anguirus made his next attempt again, King Sphinx dropped his staff and stuck his hands out, grabbing Anguirus’s jaw and proceeding to hold the two halves of his mouth wide open. Anguirus began to wail and scream in fear as a bad memory began to resurface, and soon King Sphinx began to pull harder on the two halves of his jaw, pulling harder and harder as blood began to seep out of Anguirus’s mouth before the cracking of bone could be heard as Anguirus’s jaw was completely broken. Anguirus finally fell over, completely taken out of the fight, and desperately tried to begin crawling away. Unfortunately for him, King Sphinx didn’t see fit to let him run, and began flapping his wings to blow Anguirus upwards into the air before using his staff to fire another Question Mark Shaped Fire Ball that impacted with Anguirus and caused him to completely explode in mid-air.

Back over at the lake, Eye Guy and Scorpina continued their relentless assault on Hedorah, who’d returned to his Flying form. Both of them fired synchronized laser beams, but the speedy Smog Monster maneuvered through them with ease. Slowly and slowly, Hedorah inched its way closer, planning out its next steps. Scorpina fired off a Claw Barrage, shooting off several yellow crescent-shaped projectiles out from her hand. The mass of projectiles easily cleaved through Hedorah’s body, causing it to collapse into a smoking heap of sludge on the ground.

Scorpina: Pathetic weakling! You are no match for the two of us!

But Scorpina’s feeling of victory was fleeting. The sludge slowly recombined itself underneath Eye Guy’s feet. Seeing her comrade in trouble, Scorpina rushed after him, but a sludge bomb exploded in her path. Realizing she would be dead if she even made the slightest contact with the nasty acid, she was forced to simply watch in total horror as Hedorah absorbed Eye Guy into its body. Immediately, the thousand-eyed monster wailed in pain as all of the eyes on its body burst open, the liquid inside popping and boiling. The crackling of its rib cage rang through the air as the rest of Eye Guy’s internal organs spilled out onto the ground.

Eye Guy: L-Lady Scorpinaaaaa-! Heeeelp… meeeeeee…!

His voice began to deepen as his vocal chords melted into a puddle, along with the rest of his flesh. The smell of his skin cooking was horrendous. Eventually, Eye Guy’s absolute misery slowly ended as his body completely disintegrated inside the biomass of Hedorah, who simply stared blankly at Scorpina, his next target.

Scorphina: …I think I’m gonna be sick…

Back on the mothership…

Commander X: Your monsters, pathetic as they may be, are quite interesting. Perhaps once I’m done with Earth, I’ll move on to their planets. Their species could prove useful, if only by a little bit.

Rita: Ha, good luck with that! My monsters are all custom made by Finster, they don’t have home planets for you to conquer! And if they did, I would have already taken them over, fool! Besides, I’m up two over you, that means I’m winning!

Commander X: Ha! You’re all bark and no bite! Like a rabid dog, I’ll have to put you down along with the rest of your pathetic forces.

Rita: Is that what you think is going to happen now? Goldar!

Goldar: Yes, my queen?

Rita: Teach this sick son of a Xilien what happens when he sticks his trenchcoat and shades where they don't belong!

Goldar: Of course, your evilness!

Rita’s number one general immediately barreled forward with a powerful swing of his fist, but Commander X, yawning, leaned all the way back underneath the punch, keeping his balance. Standing back up while Goldar was still drawing his fist back, X kneed the side of Goldar’s elbow, causing him to shout in pain. Leaping back, Goldar’s eyes began to glow as he growled in anger.

Goldar: You’re cooked!

With a mighty shout, Goldar unleashed a huge stream of fireballs from his eyes. One after the other, Goldar ran around Commander X, shooting off blast after blast of flames. Making a full circle around him, X was totally smothered in the flames as Goldar returned to where he was before. But soon enough, the formless fire took the shape of several smaller spheres of burning energy. Commander X stepped out of the smoke as his hand, held up in front of him, had telekinetically stopped every single fireball that was shot at him. With his other hand, he took off the thin black sunglasses, blowing the smoke off of them.

Rita: Seriously though, that trenchcoat went out of style 20 years ago.

With a flick of his wrist, X sent the fireballs right back at Goldar in one huge blast. Goldar, holding up his hands in a cross shape, took the gigantic burst of flames head-on. His wrists were burning, but soon enough the fire had subsided. But immediately taking advantage of the scenario, Commander X rushed in, his speed catching Goldar totally off-guard. He kicked Goldar in the chest before he leaped up into the air. Wildly spinning around in a circle mid-air, X struck Goldar with a series of five consecutive backhanded smacks before landing back on the ground, sweeping Rita’s general off his feet with an upwards leg kick. The Xilien commander finished off the combo string by kicking the mid-air Goldar right in the face, sending him crashing into one of the motherships’ walls.

Commander X: Is that truly the best your cattle has? How pathetic!

Goldar, however, began to get back up onto his feet, brushing some dust off of his armor as he did before summoning his faithful sword to his hand.

Goldar: You’ve done well, for a mere mortal man. But now you’ll see why they call me Goldar the Almighty!

Rushing forwards at high speeds, Goldar swung his sword with enough force that, even after blocking it, Commander X was still launched flying across the room, a bit of blood dropping onto the floor from the cut left in his arm. Scowling, Commander X went back on the offensive with a series of precise but powerful punches and kicks aimed towards Goldar’s vital areas, but Goldar was fast enough to deflect each attack with his sword before spinning around and leaping into the air, then swooping forwards to knock Commander X downwards before stomping on him as he landed. Knocking Commander X backwards, the Xilien Commander pushed his arms into the ground and backflipped through the air to get back up, throwing a triple roundhouse kick to deflect the strikes of Goldar’s swords before the two threw their final attacks, clashing with enough force that Commander X was knocked into a wall while Goldar slid backwards and stopped moving beside Rita.

Rita: Oh, is that all? After all your boasting, I was hoping that you would have a bit more bite of your own.

Commander X: Oh, hardly. I simply fell asleep for a moment there. You’ll have to forgive me, that obnoxiously shiny general of yours was boring me half to death.

Goldar: I’m right here, you know! If you wish to incite my wrath, at least have the courage to say it to my face!

Commander X: On the contrary!

To emphasize his words, X swung his trenchcoat once more. Even that was too much for Rita, who rolled her eyes.

Commander X: I’m just about ready to end this farce.

Outside the Mothership, a flash of light tore through the sky as the giant Meteor Gorath began flying towards Angel Grove, crashing down in the city with enough force that it created a mushroom cloud explosion. Several monsters on both sides were blown away, including King Sphinx, Kamacuras, Madam Woe, and King Caesar, their bodies all turning black before crumbling into bits of charcoal immediately. The wind roared like a howling wolf. A single, smoking crater was left in the middle of the city, and out of it rose a terrifying sight.

Monster X.

Knasty Knight: Another one? Hmmph, this one looks like a worthy challenge.

Impursonator: I’ll take it out myself, no problem!

Just as the Impursonator was about to go fight Monster X however, the headless body of Gigan suddenly lunged out of the rubble and lunged torso first at the Impursonator, latching around it and causing it to shriek in fear before Gigan self-destructed with enough force to obliterate the Impursonator’s body, ripping it to shreds and subsequently reducing it to a pile of smoking ashes. The Knasty Knight looked at the sight beside him, and then just shook his head.

Knasty Knight: Poor fool.

But he also heard a small cawing noise. Turning his head, the Knasty Knight saw none other than Rodan, who had survived the fiery onslaught. Though by the looks of it, it wasn’t by much. The charred pterodactyl crawled its way towards the Knasty Knight and Scorpina. The latter of whom raised her fist, but was halted by the Knight, letting Rodan make its way towards the duo. The Knight raised his sword, ready to put their valiant foe out of his misery.

Knasty Knight: A warrior until the end. But I’m afraid this is where you bow out.

With a simple, clean slash, Rodan’s head was sliced off its blackened body, which went limp. Returning their attention towards Monster X, both the Knasty Knight and Scorpina readied themselves against the new threat. Just his presence alone was enough to tell that this being was far stronger than the rest of them. But to the two soldiers of Rita, that didn’t matter.

Scorpina: I don’t care how many Monsters they throw at us! For Empress Rita!

Knasty Knight: You will fall here, Monster X!

The two lone warriors charged into battle, each striking with their signature weapons to clash against Monster X’s hands, the latter of whom just caught their weapons before throwing the two backwards. Scorpina got up first and threw her Scorpion Tail like a boomerang, which barely managed to deal a dent to Monster X, but it gave the Knasty Knight enough time to get back up and leap forwards to slash him with his sword, reflecting the energy of Monster X’s counterattack back at it to deal extra damage.

If only Monster X seemed to actually care, as its eyes began to glow before it unleashed the Gravity Beam "Destroyed Thunder" to blast the Knasty Knight backwards into the side of a half-deformed building. Turning around, Monster X then raised one hand and caught Scorpina’s Scorpion Tail, and promptly threw it back at her with enough force that just catching it still knocked her over. Deciding that she made a better target, Monster X then approached Scorpina and raised one leg to stomp on her before raising its arms to begin wailing on her with its fists.

The Knasty Knight got back onto its feet and, upon looking up to see Monster X pummeling Scorpina, it promptly ran forwards and tried to slash it from before. But Monster X instead reached its hand around and grabbed the Knasty Knight’s sword, turning around to glare at the monster before snapping its sword in half like a toothpick and promptly backhanding him away.

Commander X: You see? Monster X is invincible.

Rita: Fine then. Two can play at this game! Magic Wand, make my Goldar grow!

Goldar let out a roar as he leaped out of the mothership, being enlarged by Rita’s magic to grow to giant size so that he could match Monster X in battle.

Goldar: Finally, a worthy opponent! You would do well to not underestimate me, Monster X!

The Knasty Knight began to step forward, ready to assist his general in the battle. But he felt something grab his foot, tugging it into the ground. Turning back, he saw none other than Hedorah, who had managed to hold on and survive the nuclear-level explosion that Monster X had caused. Scorpina, upon seeing the re-emergence of the Smog Monster, stepped back in horror. Remembering what happened to Eye Guy, she didn’t want to bear witness to another terrifying death.

Scorpina: I’m not sticking around to let that thing get me, too. So long, and good luck, Goldar.

And with that, Scorpina teleported away in a flash of light, to which the Knasty Knight looked up in shock and offense at the abandonment of his general.

Knasty Knight: Are you serious?! Leave me to deal with this pile of trash, why don’t you?!

Still, he also had to focus on the monster tugging on his leg. No, not just tugging, but also melting it! Hedorah was melting his leg! The Knasty Knight screamed in pain as he fell to the ground, his right leg fully disintegrated and Hedorah began working up his left leg as well. Without his sword to redirect kinetic energy, he had to way to actually defend himself against this kind of attack. Well, the Knasty Knight wasn’t going to die so easily, not to something like this!

Suddenly, the Knasty Knight managed to turn around and push himself forwards, latching onto Hedorah and managing to use the last of his strength to hold it still, even as its acid began to corrode away at his armor and body.

Knasty Knight: Lord Goldar!

Goldar turned around to see the Knasty Knight and Hedorah, and instantly he knew what needed to be done. Flying across the field, Goldar swung his sword hard enough to blast Hedorah out of the Knight’s hold, sending the monster flying up into the stratosphere. As Hedorah began to exit Earth’s orbit, the speed of breaking orbit caused the monster to begin burning it, and it began shrieking before its body was finally burnt away and disintegrated to ashes.

The Knasty Knight groaned as it collapsed over onto the ground, looking up at the toxic, cloudy, smoke filled sky. He knew his fight ended here, but at least he had died fighting. It was a death he could be proud of…

…Or it would’ve been, if Monster X didn’t suddenly blast him with its Gravity Beam "Destroyed Thunder" once again, causing the Knasty Knight to explode in an instant. Goldar shouted in anger at seeing his comrade be killed so mercilessly, charging straight towards the giant white creature. They both threw a simultaneous punch at each other, causing a shockwave which blew away all of the smoke and dust in the area. One of Monster X’s twin tails wrapped itself around Goldar’s arm before swinging him by the leg into a nearby city block, dragging his face through a huge pile of glass and concrete. Getting to his feet, Goldar launched out a fireball from his eye, which Monster X took without even flinching.

Summoning his sword to his side, Goldar swung his mighty blade at his enemy, who caught it between their hands. Sweeping his leg underneath Monster X’s feet, Goldar knocked the alien to the ground before stabbing downward, ready to impale his enemy. But Monster X acted quickly, doing a breakdance kick to not only get himself up, but to knock Goldar down. Grabbing the shiny monster by the leg, Monster X lifted Goldar over his head and slammed them right down into the ground, causing the earth beneath them to split apart into a bunch of jagged chunks. Teleporting himself out of Monster X’s grasp, Goldar warped directly above Monster X and performed a huge downward slash, catching his enemy off-guard and sending sparks flying off Monster X’s chest. He then followed up with a quick left and right hook, before finishing off his series of attacks with a roundhouse kick, knocking Monster X away.

Staggering to his feet, Monster X was grabbed by Goldar, who lifted him up right to his face.

Goldar: Is this the best you can do!? I’m disappointed! Now to finish you off in the name of Empress-

But Goldar’s gloating was cut off as Monster X fired the gravity beams straight into his face, causing Goldar to drop him while staggering backwards.

Goldar: AH, SHIT-!

Just then, Monster X’s body began to pulse on contort. It began to change. The strange skull-shaped objects on its shoulders were revealed to be heads. Long necks suddenly sprouted from each opening. Wings slowly punctured their way out of the alien’s body. Their formerly white-and-gray body slowly shifted, growing two extra legs as the monster went from biped to quadruped. Golden, armor-like scales coated their skin. Finally, their heads had finished expanding. Their eyes glowed red as all three of the draconic heads let out a mighty roar.

Keizer Ghidorah was reborn.

Rita: That can’t be…Keizer Ghidorah!? I thought that he was simply a myth spread across the cosmos!

Commander X: How unfortunate, for you. For my Keizer Ghidorah is no myth. Unlike your victory. THAT is a falsehood through and through.

Rita: Well, two can play at that game! RISE, CYCLOPSUS, MY WAR ZORD!

Channeling all of her magical energy together and sending a massive surge of lighting into the ground, the Earth began to shake and tremble as a giant white metallic hand suddenly stuck out of it before a giant Zord began to emerge from the Earth, ready to feast in the blood of its enemy. Goldar turned around and began to shrink back down to humanoid size and teleported into the cockpit of Cyclopsus, taking control of the War Zord and prepared to face down against Keizer Ghidorah.

Goldar: I don’t care if you're a King or a Keizer! Even the might of Ghidorah is second to Cyclopsus!

Cyclopsus banged its hands together as a show of aggression before it began to charge forwards, firing missiles out of its shoulders that flew around and impacted against Keizer Ghidorah with little fanfare, but allowed Cyclopsus the chance to get into melee range and deal a few solid punches against the giant three headed space dragon. The three heads of Ghidorah retaliated however, as two of them headbutted against Cyclopsus and the third one actively blasted the word backwards with its Antigravity beams. Cyclopsus was not to be deterred however, and fired its horn laser back at Ghidorah to deal an extra bit of damage of its own.

Leaping back, Ghidorah flapped its wings, soon causing a huge tempest. The sky crackled with lightning almost instantly. Combining with the residuals of Hedorah’s ashes that remained in the atmosphere, an incredibly acidic rain began to fall. The already obliterated city began to melt apart. Annoyed by this, Cyclopsus raised its hand to the sky, activating its telekinetic powers. Soon enough, the storm dispersed. But Ghidorah took this opportunity to ram itself into the Zord, knocking it back.

Meanwhile, on the ground, a pair of humans, one skinny and the other one wide, watched the battle far away in complete shock.

Skull: Hey uh, Bulky… is that Ghidorah…?

Bulk: …yeah, I think it is.

Skull: You think we got enough Monster pictures?

Bulk: …yeah, we do! Let’s get the heck outta here!

And with that, the two bumbling buffoons turned around and began running away before they could be victims of Keizer Ghidorah's wrath. Even though they dropped a couple of the pictures of the fight they had taken, they weren’t going to risk going back towards Ghidorah for them. It was better to just get out of there and make due with what they still had.

Back in the battle, Cyclopsus began pushing back against Keizer Gidorah’s brute strength, the the two got into the test of might as they bucked and pushed against each other. Ultimately, Cyclopsus came out on top, and managed to lift Keizer Ghidorah by one of its heads and twirled the three headed dragon around before tossing it across the ruins of Angel Grove. Then, Cyclopsus powered up and began to fire lighting from both its shoulders and its forehead, three beams of lighting flying straight for Ghidorah. But Keizer Ghidorah scoffed at the challenge and fired three Antigravity Beams of its own, one out of each of its heads, and the two got into a triple beam lock. Both of them pushed their beams against each other, but ultimately the two of them canceled each other out and simply exploded with a force that managed to briefly stagger both fighters.

Suddenly, Cyclopsus fired both of its arms outwards, still attached by chains to the rest of the Zord, and grabbed onto Keizer Ghidorah to begin electrocuting the beast. Keizer Ghidorah screamed in pain, but then laughed as it began flying into the air, pulling Cyclopsus along with it. Cyclopsus struggled in surprise, but Keizer Ghidorah’s heads each began to laugh in different tones as they began spinning around, spinning Cyclopsus faster and faster before sling-shotting the War Zord straight back into the ground below. Then, while it was still getting back up, Keizer Ghidorah landed on the Zord and began to crush it while the middle head leaned in and tried to bite into the neck of the Zord.

A loud crunch could be heard, as Ghidorah let out a howl of annoyance as it found the metal armor of the War Zord to be too unpleasant to bite through. Cyclopsus then extended a blade out of one of its arms and swiped backwards, slashing at Keizer Ghidorah and forcing the three headed dragon to get off of it. Leaping up in the air, the giant three-headed dragon was somehow maneuverable enough to do a spinning backflip, smacking the back of Cyclopsus’ head with its twin tails. As it landed back on the ground, one of Ghidorah’s heads shot out an Anti-Gravity Beam from its mouth, lifting the giant Zord up into the air. Letting out a cackle which could be interpreted as a laugh, the two remaining heads of Ghidorah fired off continuous quick shots of Gravity Beams while the third head kept Cyclopsus vulnerable in the air. Its laughs were in perfect harmony with Commander X’s laughs back at the mothership.

The barrage of energy beams continued on and on. Goldar growled with rage as he sat in Cyclopsus’ cockpit, struggling against the controls. Though, try as he might, he was unable to break free from the Anti-Gravity Beam…

…Until the crystal eye in the middle of Cyclopsus’ eye began to glow with a red light. The mechanisms inside the body of the Zord began to creak, slowly adapting to the beams. Its body began to lower back towards the ground, much to the angered surprise of Keizer Ghidorah. All pairs of eyes on all three of its heads glowed with rage as it zapped the Zord over and over with energy beams. But even after Cyclopsus had stood up, the beams became less and less effective… until they were being flat-out tanked. Goldar’s eyes widened as he realized what just happened, before letting out a triumphant laugh.

Goldar: Haha! Try to keep up with me now that Cyclopsus has adapted to all your abilities, Ghidorah!

Cyclopsus leaped forwards into battle once again, using its arms blades to deal a few quick slashes to Keizer Ghidorah before dodging an attack from two of the heads, and then it fired a quick bolt of lighting outwards to stagger the dragon backwards. Cyclopsus wasn’t just going on the offensive, it was going to completely overwhelm Keizer Ghidorah and secure the kill, and it wasn’t looking to waste any more time.

Keizer Ghidorah’s three heads retaliated with a different method of attack, draining the Zord dry of its energy. Each of its three heads bit into Cyclopsus, two the shoulders and the middle on the neck, and began siphoning out the magical energy that Cyclopsus was powered by. Cyclopsus raised its left arm and managed to slice off Keizer Ghidorah’s left head, but still found itself struggling to keep moving as Keizer Ghidorah took more and more power.

Goldar: My queen! Give me more power to keep fighting!

Rita: GO, GOLDAR! DON’T YOU DARE LOSE!

Suddenly, Cyclopsus’ systems surged with extra magical energy as Rita hit her War Zord with a magical beam of energy to supercharge its systems. Not only did this mean Cyclopsus was beginning to overpower Ghidorah once again, but the new two headed dragon was absorbing way more energy than it could handle. The right head shrieked before it suddenly popped and exploded, leaving just the middle head to fight as Cyclopsus managed to smack Ghidorah away.

Blood poured out of Ghidorah’s neck stumps where their heads once were. Not used to only thinking with only one brain, the monster attacked wildly. Leaping onto Cyclopsus, it managed to knock the Zord to the ground. It clawed and scratched at the cockpit of the Zord, before its remaining head fired a gravity beam straight at it. This was the last of Ghidorah’s energy. It was either this, or nothing. And it knew that perfectly. With that, Keizer Ghidorah unleashed a massive torrent of electricity from its mouth. Even just the residual energy was enough to create a grounded electrical storm. The air was charged with static electricity, violently bursting into sparks at a moment’s notice. Cyclopsus’ armor shuddered and cracked. Goldar was struggling to see anything through the blinding light of the Gravity Beam.

But he knew he couldn’t give up.

Goldar: N-ngh… let’s see how you like… a taste of your own attack!

Shooting its hand out, Cyclopsus gathered its telekinesis together and began to block the force of the Anti-Gravity Beam, stopping the attack dead in its tracks before taking complete control of the beam and pushing it backwards, sending Ghidorah’s attack literally flying back down its throat. Keizer Ghidorah shrieked in pain as it was forced to unwillingly swallow its own Anti-Gravity Beam, only for its eyes to widen at the unwitting reaction that had just begun within its body.

Cracks began to form in the last head’s irises as the flesh of Ghidorah’s eyes literally began to boil. Streaks of light peeked through its orifices. Its body swelled as the blood inside it began to expand rapidly with the intense heat of its own beam. Ghidorah could not even scream to let out the smallest fraction of the pain it felt, only giving off the thinnest and most imperceptible of shrieks. The organs inside its body began to liquify until the only thing left inside its body was a stew made of guts and bones. With one final shine of light, Ghidorah finally let out an ungodly roar of pain and suffering.

Before it finally exploded.

Keizer Ghidorah’s body swelled, before it compressed in on itself and burst open in a shower of light. Its skin was blown clean off its body, causing a shower of red to coat the entire area in a thick layer of blood and body parts. Cyclopsus had won. As the victor of the battle stood to its feet, Commander X’s guttural roars of anger could be heard from far away. He stomped his feet in anger, cracking the floor of the control room. Rita, all the while, was cackling at the victory, trying her best not to hide how close of a call that was.

Rita: HAHAHAHA! Well well well, for all your boasting about how your victory was “completely assured”, it seems like even the mighty Keizer Ghidorah was no match for my Cyclopsus! Face it, you never had a chance to begin with! Now finish up your tantrums and get off my planet. I have bigger matters to attend to.

Commander X: …No. You WILL die today. YOU WILL DIE TODAY! GRRRAAAAAAHHHHHH!

Commander X charged right at Rita in a blind rage, raising his hand to try and punch Rita’s face into a bloody pulp. But he didn’t even make it halfway across the room before Rita pointed her staff at him and let it glow with magical energy before she fired a beam of lighting out, blasting him hard enough to send him flying through the walls of his mothership, out into the atmosphere, and falling so far that he crashed onto the ground in a pile of ashes, smoke, blood, and a few broken bones.

A normal human would have died to a fall like that. But Commander X was no mere human. He was a Keizer! He was going to rule the universe! He was going to-

CRUNCH!

He barely even had time to begin formulating an insult to spew towards Rita before Cyclopsus suddenly stepped downwards and crushed Commander X underfoot, even being sure to rub the spot slightly before lifting its foot back up to reveal nothing more than a smear of red liquid.

Goldar: Oops! I stepped in loser!

An awkward silence filled the area as Goldar’s terrible final pun set in. Rita shook her head in disgust.

Rita: …Really, Goldar? That was low, even for you.

Goldar: What?! I literally crushed him! Wasn’t that a fitting line?

Rita: It’s a childish note to end on! You could have said “Seems I crushed your ambitions… underfoot!”

Just then, before the two could even further continue this conversation, six flashes of light flew past Cyclopsus, who looked to the side to see the Dino Megazord and the Dragonzord approaching ready to fight.

Jason: RITA! YOU’RE GONNA PAY FOR THIS!

Rita: …Oh, NOW YOU POWER RANGER FREAKS DECIDE TO SHOW UP! GOLDAR, DESTROY THEM ALL!

Goldar: Yes, my queen!

Just as Cyclopsus prepared to continue fighting however, a blue hue began to light up the surrounding area before a massive blue laser completely ripped through Cyclopsus, sending the War Zord flying and tearing it apart in seconds. Even Rita looked surprised, but then saw that the attack didn’t come from the Rangers, but from none other than the King of the Monsters himself, Godzilla. Walking past the Megazord with complete nonchalance, Godzilla fired another blast of his Atomic Breath to finish off Cyclopsus and make sure it exploded. Letting out a mighty roar, Godzilla shook the earth itself as he kicked what little remained of the War Zord.

Tommy: Hey, is it just me, or does he look different from the last time we met?

Kimberly: Probably doing something different with his dorsal fins.

Rita: …that’s it, I’m going home. I have a headache.

KO!

Conclusion

Sharaku: OH MY GOD!

MegaSonic: That was the COOLEST THING I’ve ever seen!

Sharaku: Okay, so, where to start? While we may have limited Rita’s monsters overall to fit this battle, if we had given her everything, she’d easily be able to overwhelm the Xilien Forces in spades. There’s just so many monsters for every day she wanted to fuck with the Power Rangers.

MegaSonic: Especially when we consider just how much stronger the average Rita Monster is. I mean, just one of those random monsters we excluded was strong enough to literally destroy the planet. Monsters like Goldar, Scorpina, the Knasty Knight, and especially the fuckin’ Impursonator were way stronger than the Octoplant. Even if we assume ALL of the Final Wars monsters can scale to the Comet Gorath, which is a pretty big if, Rita’s Monsters are leagues tougher! That’s right, this fuckin Purse thing could kick Keizer Ghidorah’s ass without breaking a sweat.

Sharaku: Man, that’s fuckin’ disappointing. But strength wasn’t all to this battle. Many monsters, while they may not necessarily have been able to scale to Godzilla in pure power, many of them were able to outpace him… well, for a time, anyway. If we scaled them to the 26% lightspeed calculation from Gorath, they… well, unfortunately would still be wildly outdone.

MegaSonic: Rita’s staff can fire beams moving over twice the speed of light, and even the Rangers themselves that the Monsters always fight can move across whole galaxies in a matter of hours. Even if we scale the Final Wars monsters to feats from the Showa Era since they’re all Showa Era Monsters, well I hate to be that guy, but I already went through and calced all those feats and they still come up short… go read Megazord vs MechaGodzilla-

Sharaku: BUT ANYWAYS, what about the two at the helm? How well did Commander X fare against Rita herself? Surely if he just attacked the ones responsible for summoning the monsters and won, he’d be able to just cut off every other monster’s source of power, right? Well… Commander X may be a powerful fighter, but Rita is absurdly strong in her own right. While she never had many traditional fights in the show proper, extra material shows she’s got the chops to do so. Plus, Rita’s magic was on a level that X had just never seen before, and as such, had zero counters to combat any of it.

MegaSonic: Yeah, while we can maybe scale Commander X to Ozaki giving Godzilla the strength to overpower Keizer Ghidorah, but that’s pretty shaky since Ozaki beat Commander X before that. And even if we did, not only should Rita be stronger than the Octoplant, she can MOVE THE FUCKING MOON! That takes way more power than anything in Final Wars. Plus, she’s destroyed whole stars according to old guidebooks, and has apparently fought and won against beings more powerful than Alpha-1, who tanked a Supernova. You- you guys see where this is going, right? Fuck, that’s all assuming Commander X even gets past Goldar.

Sharaku: Not to mention how Commander X… is just… absolutely full of rage. He’s a loose cannon when it comes to his mentality, even in fights he’s not even participating in. While he’s probably way older than any other human, Rita’s been around for… well, over 10,000 years. She’s probably already seen every trick in X’s book.

MegaSonic: Plus, Commander X had Zilla on his team. That’s just an automatic net-negative. You’re really trusting a fight to the death with that tuna-breathed loser?

Sharaku: Hey, at least the animated series redeemed him.

MegaSonic: Well, try as he might, Commander X just wasn’t Mighty enough to win this Final War. His chances of winning were… Repulsive.

Sharaku: Ugh. The Winner is Rita Repulsa.