All-Monster Action! by Cody Goodfellow

Author:Cody Goodfellow [Goodfellow, Cody]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 1933929073
Publisher: Swallowdown Press
Published: 2013-01-11T08:00:00+00:00

Of the seven million Tokyo residents who watched the newborn, nameless monster materialize in their midst, no fewer than fourteen died of heart attacks or strokes, while another hundred and twelve leapt or fell to their deaths as it passed harmlessly through their apartment blocks. A perfect self-projecting hologram, a thirteen-story ghost; when it thrust its metamorphic forelimbs through towering skyscrapers and maser-tank battalions, its tiny human victims lay quivering yet unharmed in their own urine, quite convinced they’d been crushed.

And there was no shortage of real destruction. The two Self Defense Force artillery units flanking Otaku’s monster in the business district of Akasaka Chuo never particularly cared for each other. Infiltrated and thoroughly compromised by rival mystic prosperity cults, and with no enemy to fight but endless kaiju invaders, the rival tankers could be accused of little more than excessive zeal and poor hearing when reports came in that their barrages were passing through the target and hitting each other, the US Embassy and the nearby Imperial Palace, with devastating accuracy.

“Shit,” Otaku hissed, cutting a botched line of code and pasting a revised binary phrase into the command line. “Forgot to carry the one …”

And the monster instantly became utterly, inescapably solid.

The most coherent accounts of the monster’s appearance described it as some sort of chimerical centipede, with hundreds of armored, highly articulated limbs that wrought street-level holocausts wherever the creature went, like a Rose Parade of whirling combine threshers.

Skyscrapers toppled against each other in its wake like felled stands of bamboo, their foundations whittled away as if by colossal Weed Eaters. The business end of the creature was a burly, almost humanoid thorax with a deadly array of wildly scything meat cleavers for arms. For a head, it had only a blunt, lobsterish battering ram festooned with hosts of compound camera eyes, and a freaky crown of trembling downlink dishes, radomes and antennae, like the collected receiving arrays of the NSA and KGB, stuffed into its face.

The indestructible apparition seemed to frolic through Tokyo with the blind fury of a tsunami on two hundred dancing feet, but the civil defense authorities watching the city’s transit grid saw an insidious plan taking shape behind the chaos.

As the monster rampaged through the city, it surgically cut off all bridges, subway routes and highways along the Sumida River, severing central Tokyo from the eastern suburbs, and moving north, chopping down monorails along the narrow trash-chute of the Kanda River.

Even as Otaku’s giant centipede raged through the city, it shrank, but not from the puny onslaught of the Self Defense and NATO forces. The behemoth was an Internet Worm made flesh, an apparition of pure data cast in a candy coating of wantonly destructive matter. And it was dismantling itself, shedding boxcar-sized segments of its serpentine body that in turn disintegrated into streams of data radiation that made gross matter thrum like overclocked chipsets, and hordes of giant spiders that spread throughout the island it had created out of central Tokyo, repairing

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