The appearance of the Kaiju triggered global panic almost instantly.
Especially in Japan.
But the mont giant chs appeared alongside the monsters, an entirely different section of the population practically lost their minds with excitent.
For lifelong tokusatsu fans, this was reality colliding headfirst with childhood fantasy.
Sure, everyone understood that unknown monsters ant catastrophe.
That didn't stop them from screaming like they were watching the greatest live-action crossover event in human history.
Humanity had officially entered the age of giant monsters and giant robots.
Coulson's hands were moving fast enough to blur as he coordinated with Japanese authorities.
Civilian evacuation was the top priority.
According to Drex Valen's assessnt, the Kaiju needed to be killed on land to avoid contaminating the ocean. Even under the most optimistic projections, the coastline would still beco a biological hazard zone afterward.
If civilians ca into contact with Kaiju blood or any of the toxic compounds leaking from their bodies, the death toll would skyrocket.
Out at sea, massive waves surged upward as the Axehead Kaiju slowly rose from beneath the surface.
Even the visible portion of its body rivaled an aircraft carrier in size.
Then it moved.
The monster exploded from the water in a storm of foam and shattered waves, launching itself toward Tony Stark.
Its colossal body blocked out the sky.
"You've gotta be kidding !"
Compared to the monster, Tony's five-ter symbiote armor looked hilariously outmatched.
Back in the United States, there were still Atlantean forces, Wakandan support, and plenty of superheroes available to assist.
That was the only reason Tony had rushed to Japan in the first place.
Now?
He was starting to suspect he'd dramatically overestimated his odds.
A creature weighing several thousand tons should not have been capable of moving with this level of speed and agility.
Even Drex found it strange.
These Kaiju were clearly operating on an entirely different level from their movie counterparts.
Tony fired first.
Particle cannons roared.
Explosions ripped across the Axehead's armored hide, blasting chunks of hardened flesh apart and carving horrific wounds into its body.
Blue blood erupted into the air like toxic rain.
But the creature never changed direction.
The Kaiju kept falling straight toward him.
A monster weighing thousands of tons crashing down from above would flatten almost anything.
Even Tony wasn't sure the symbiote armor could survive the impact.
JARVIS imdiately activated the combat prediction system.
The armor shifted sideways.
Tony twisted his torso, narrowly avoiding the direct collision while the suit's clawed hand latched onto the Kaiju's massive arm.
Every thruster ignited simultaneously.
Using rotational force and leverage instead of raw strength, Tony redirected the creature's montum.
Human martial techniques weren't designed for monsters.
But physics still worked.
The enormous Kaiju lost balance mid-impact and slamd into the city instead.
Buildings collapsed like sandcastles beneath its body.
Concrete shattered.
Steel scread.
The Kaiju's blue blood flooded the streets, rapidly contaminating the entire area into a lethal biohazard zone no human should ever enter again.
Fortunately, the evacuation had already begun.
Most civilians were either gone or in the process of escaping.
No one was caught beneath the falling monster.
A three-ter blade extended from the symbiote armor's wrist.
No hesitation.
Tony slamd his right hand down onto the Kaiju's skull, pinning it in place while the high-frequency particle sword carved downward in a blur.
JARVIS highlighted skeletal weak points across the monster's anatomy.
The silver-white armor moved with terrifying precision, almost assassin-like.
Stab.
Slice.
Dissect.
The vibrating blade tore through muscle and bone before shoulder-mounted cannons unfolded from the armor plating.
The new-elent reactor surged with power.
A brilliant white beam erupted forward.
The blast punched straight through the Axehead's torso, leaving behind a crater nearly a ter wide.
Blue blood sprayed everywhere, splattering across the armor and staining the silver plating with eerie streaks of glowing cobalt.
But even pinned down, the Kaiju was still monstrously strong.
Tony could suppress its head.
He could not suppress the rest of it.
The creature thrashed violently, smashing the ground apart beneath them.
Then one of its legs connected with the armor.
The impact launched Tony backward.
Raw strength still favored the Kaiju by an absurd margin.
The symbiote armor possessed greater mobility, versatility, and weapon systems.
In direct physical confrontation?
It was losing.
The fact that a five-ter-tall suit could even wrestle a monster weighing thousands of tons was already absurd enough.
That achievent ca from two things:
Tony Stark's genius.
And the advanced materials Drex Valen had provided.
Without the liquid secondary Kryptonite alloy, the old gold-titanium armor would have been crushed instantly.
Without the new-elent reactor, the suit wouldn't have possessed enough output to even contest the monster physically.
Unfortunately, none of that changed the current reality.
Tony Stark was still getting dragged across the battlefield like a chew toy.
Then a voice suddenly echoed through the armor systems.
"Stark. You still alive in there?"
Tony froze.
He recognized the voice instantly.
"You seriously watched this entire thing like it was a movie?"
Drex Valen.
Tony ntally added upgrade firewall security to tomorrow's to-do list.
The fact that Drex could infiltrate his systems silently was deeply irritating.
The technological gap between them was becoming harder to ignore.
"Not exactly," Drex replied casually. "I was preparing a weapon."
There was amusent in his voice.
"Next part's important though."
A pause.
"You might want to move."
Tony blinked.
"What weapon?"
Then realization hit him.
"No way."
The Spear of Longinus?
"YOU ASSHOLE!"
Tony disengaged from the Kaiju instantly, half-running and half-rolling away from the creature.
Then the sky lit up.
A blinding crimson aurora split the heavens apart.
The beam descended from orbit like divine judgnt itself.
It struck the Axehead directly.
Tony watched in stunned silence as the monster evaporated.
Not exploded.
Not burned.
Erased.
The red death-light vaporized thousands of tons of biological mass in seconds.
Nothing remained.
Drex's voice returned calmly through the comms.
"My latest project."
A brief pause.
"Orbital satellite cannon."
"The Sword of Damocles."
For Tony Stark, it was probably fair to call the mont psychologically traumatic.
At his core, Tony had always been proud.
Arrogant, even.
But not delusional.
He understood his own capabilities better than anyone.
And after repeated encounters with beings far beyond normal human limits, cracks had already begun forming in that confidence.
Seeing Drex's orbital cannon only made it worse.
Tony suddenly felt like he'd spent years building expensive toys while soone else had quietly started constructing the future.
Could Tony eventually develop orbital weapons himself?
Absolutely.
That wasn't the problem.
The problem was vision.
Drex Valen always seed to be looking further ahead than everyone else.
War Machine.
The Spear of Longinus.
Now orbital satellite weaponry.
Every invention felt like sothing pulled from the next era of human civilization.
And for the first ti in a very long while...
Tony Stark felt frustrated.
Drex's voice echoed one last ti through the comm channel.
"The next shot requires a barrel replacent."
A faint chuckle followed.
"Buy so ti."
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