My Super-powered Diary Chapter 20 GODZILLA!!! By Amethyst When Maddock Ainsley gets involved in a rescue operation with his unit things go horribly wrong and his life is forever changed. Can the newly minted Merida cope with being a girl and a teenage super hero?

The creature seemed to get bigger and bigger as it approached the shore, its form not a shadow like I first thought but rather black-skinned and blending into the darkness of the ocean at night. “Everyone inside, now!” Mom called out.

“Bu’ we cannae le’ tha’ thing attack the city,” I argued, “people could ge’ hurt or killed.”

“We’re goin’ to stop it, but I’m no’ goin’ to let you girls fight in yuir nightclothes in front o’ the whole city,” Mom pointed out. “Andy, phone Mystech, let her know what’s happening. Girls, let’s go get dressed fer the occasion.”

Okay, so she might have had a point. I blushed slightly as I realized that I was just wearing a pair of panties and one of my old camouflage military t-shirts as a nightshirt. Mom had promised to make me and Fawn both some nightclothes from Mithrilex, since our force fields ran along the surface of our bodies and didn’t protect our clothes from explosive damage, or whenever we went too hot. She hadn’t had time to make them yet though so we could both be in danger of flashing the whole city if I had to use too much power.

The other girls were no better off really. Vanessa was only in half a bikini with a towel wrapped around her currently human hips for modesty, the twins were in frilly nightgowns, and Tasha wasn’t dressed too differently from me. Even the Fairies were only in tiny little nightgowns. We were all considering our current state of dress when Mom snapped, “Move it girls! To the lab!”

We followed Mom into her lab while Andy ran to get his cellphone. As soon as we were inside Mom directed us toward some storage containers and started fishing out various colorful outfits. “These are all made from Mithrilex to keep ya as safe as possible an’ to keep Merida covered. I based them on designs tha’ Tasha came up with. Put ‘em on an’ hurry about it. Fairies too! There’s Mithrilex versions of your usual outfits there.” While we were trying to get into our costumes Mom got into her dark green Gadget-Girl power armor, which I noticed now had a gold oval on the chest with a pair of dark green letter Gs in it, with the second one reversed so that it mirrored the first.

My costume was a skintight black bodysuit with red and gold flame patterns up the legs and arms. It also included ankle-length combat boots, gloves, a domino mask, and a black, knee-length hooded cloak with the same flame patterns along the hem. The hooded cloak was apparently to hide my hair whenever I use my force field and it starts to float all around me. This way, my long hair would kind of lift the cloak, making it float, and I thought that that might look pretty badass.

Vanessa’s was a simple dark blue bikini top with gold trim and the Aquarius symbol over her heart. She also had a matching skirt-like wrap about her waist that would preserve her modesty should she need to change her tail to legs for any reason, and a blue mask that looked like it was covered in drops of water. Mom was talking to Mystech about getting some spells put on some panties for her though, to place them in a pocket dimension whenever she shifted back to her natural mermaid form and to have them reappear when she switched back to human, but she wouldn’t have those for a while. Still, they would make preserving the mermaid’s modesty a lot easier, even if it might be a bit expensive to get done.

Tasha’s costume was all in white and silver. She wore a white sleeveless dress with a hem that fell to her calves, ankle boots and opera gloves, all with silver accents. She too had a hooded cloak, but instead of a mask she had an opaque white veil covering her entire face with her personal emblem on it. The emblem was a lavender eye with wavy lines surrounding it. I was a bit worried about her being able to see through that veil, but I was assured that it was only opaque from the outside and that she should see through it perfectly fine. Even if she couldn’t though, she had her sixth sense.

Shu’s ‘Packrat’ costume was reminiscent of Amelia Earhart. Although it was made of Mithrilex like the rest of our costumes, most of it had a definite dark brown leather look to it. The only color other than brown she wore was a white t-shirt. Over that she wore an aviator’s jacket with sheepskin trim and a plethora of pockets available, tight dark brown pants with pockets all down the sides, combat boots similar to my own, gloves that matched the jacket, an aviator hat, and large aviator goggles covering the upper portion of her face. She also had a pair of energy pistols holstered on her belt.

Mei wore a black mithrilex bodysuit beneath the majority of her costume. The costume itself consisted of the upper portion of the black bodysuit beneath a blue denim-look vest, tight jeans, a pair of high-top sneakers and pale blue fingerless gloves. She also wore a red bandana covering the lower half of her face and a black ball-cap with red front that had a stylized black letter G on it. From the belt on her jeans hung six red, white, and black spheres. “Eeeeee!” Mei squealed in delight. “I look like a Pokémon trainer!”

“Yeah, I thought that we should try to make people think you’re summoning those creatures instead of actually creating living things, and the theme works for that,” Tasha admitted. I thought that she might have been grinning, but it was hard to tell under that veil.

“Careful of those pokéballs though,” Mom cautioned as she finished getting into her armor’s new weapons pack. “The ones on yuir right side are flashbangs and the ones on the left are smoke bombs, just push the button and toss them. I’ll be workin’ on more gadgets for all of ya, but I haven’t had much time with findin’ a house and the move.”

“I guess we’ll jus’ ‘ave tae rely on our powers then,” I replied with a shrug, “An’ teamwork o’ course.” The others nodded in agreement and we all left the lab to see about fighting a monster.

The massive creature had reached land, and the edge of the city by the time we got there. It was close to seventy feet tall, covered in pitch-black scales and while it had a long tail and powerful-looking hind legs it seemed to have trouble supporting its weight and it was hunched over a bit. It had a wedge-shaped reptilian head with five large horns atop it and a mouth filled with rows of razor sharp teeth that showed when it emitted that other-worldly shriek again. Massive spikes jutted from its back and tail and its forelegs (or maybe arms?) were shorter than its hind legs and bore four digits tipped with claws bigger than I was.

We hadn’t been the only ones to show up. Four other costumed kids around mine and Vanessa’s age-range had showed up as well. A black-furred wolf-man in torn jeans and a t-shirt and a guy with short-cropped black hair in a dark blue and silver costume with a mask, cape, and a giant letter M on his chest were both pounding on the creature to no avail. Nearby, a blonde girl in a black and pink witch outfit complete with a mask and witch hat seemed to be watching the creature intently. A girl with long raven black hair and scaly brown skin in a purple and black costume took a hit from one of the creature’s massive forepaws and was knocked into a nearby storefront, but emerged only a moment later with sparkling diamond-like skin and hair and looking very pissed off. There was also a crowd of people who had been woken by the noise and were gathering to watch the fight.

The one in the witch outfit called out to the others, “It’s a summoned creature! I don’t think we have the combined strength to take it down that way.”

“Then we take down the mage that summoned it Jinx!” the guy in blue and silver snapped back.

“It would take a category five mystic to summon something like that and they could be anywhere right now. We can’t be running off to do that, even if we were a match for someone that powerful, it could destroy half the city before we find the person. We need to take this thing down ourselves Megaman. Maybe Shell has the strength to take it on in her new form, you and Lupin try to keep it distracted. Let’s do it 4-Ward!”

We had been watching from the air so we could assess the situation. Gadget-Girl was in her armor’s flight mode, while I was using my force field and the others had been dusted by their respective Fairies. “Let’s give ‘em some ‘elp. Gadget-Girl, get in it’s face an’ try tae draw it back tae the water tae limit the damage. Genesis an’ Psyche, I wan’ ya tae evacuate civilians an’ keep us covered as best ya kin. Aquarius, ya go’ a whole ocean o’ water out there, use it. Packrat, duck and weave an’ keep blastin’ it from a distance. Fairies, keep with yer partners an’ try tae ‘elp out as best ya kin.”

“Packrat, the pistols are on their lowest settin’ right now, just meant to stun people. For this thing ya might need to turn the dials on the sides to the maximum level though, just please be careful no’ to hit people with them, or anything too important,” Gadget-Girl instructed before flying off toward the creature and unloading a payload of mini-missiles in its face. She definitely had its attention now as it shrieked in rage and swatted at her. She only narrowly avoided the hit and started leading it back to the water where Aquarius was now waiting to pepper it with high pressure water blasts and Packrat started blasting it with both of her pistols.

Psyche was quick to start teleporting bystanders to a safer location and Genesis grinned as she called out. “Guardian Angels, I choose you!” After the blinding golden flash of her power a pair of life sized naked women with wings appeared and began picking up people and flying them to a safe distance.

“She’s really go’ tae learn tae summon people wi’ some bloody clothes on,” I muttered before I turned to my Fairy companion. “Let’s ge’ him Fawn,” I said as I started pumping more and more energy into my force field.

“You got it!” The Fairy agreed as both of our fields were flaring wildly and bubbling with explosive energy. Then we flew as fast as we could for creature’s chest, where the energy exploded on contact. It howled and shrieked and swatted us away, and it was a good thing we had our force fields on because if we hadn’t we probably wouldn’t have gotten up from that. There was a fair sized scorch mark on its chest, but whatever that thing’s scales were made from, we weren’t able to do much damage.

We had it heading back to the shore now and the bystanders had been evacuated, but everything was chaos for a while. Gadget-Girl and Packrat were hitting it with everything they had, and even the Fairies were getting involved. Silvermist was helping Aquarius to pound it with as much water as they could, Iridessa redirected the light from one of Genesis’ flashbangs right into the creature’s eyes, succeeding in blinding it for the moment and Periwinkle was doing her best to freeze it while Tink was pixie dusting Jinx, Shell, and Lupin and getting them flight ready to help with hit and run tactics. Meanwhile Pysche was keeping our team connected by mindspeech and Megaman, Fawn and I were trying to deal out what damage we could close range since Megaman seemed to have some level of invulnerability, flight, and strength and speed equal to mine while I had my force field engaged.

“Wot the ‘ell it this guy made o’?” I grumbled as I delivered another explosive punch to its scaly hide and barely singed it.

“The scales are nearly a foot thick and seem to be made o’ some form o’ organic steel,” Gadget-Girl opined, “I don’t think we’re goin’ to be able to take it down this way. This is not a normal magic summon. Not even a cat five Mystic could keep a summoned creature that large here for this long.”

“But I can still feel the magic of a spell on it. It feels like a summoning spell,” Jinx countered.

“It’s probably its passage through the dimensional gate that you’re sensing child,” a new voice contributed. It was Mystech, our school headmistress and she was in costume. “This is a class seven extra-dimensional entity, I’m surprised that you were able to damage it at all. It was summoned, but not by normal means. It was brought through a dimensional gate. It was also a distraction.”

"Wot dae ya mean?” I asked as Megaman, Shell, and I kept pounding on the creature. Shell was getting some solid hits in with her diamond-like form and I figured that she was probably close to cat five strength right now, but neither of us could do much damage, even with me adding explosive energy to my hits.

“Whoever opened the dimensional gate and drew this thing out also summoned a magic tracker by the usual means,” Mystech quickly explained. “This creature was meant to keep any mages in the area occupied, and their attention away from the tracker summon while it searched for the Chaos Gate. I destroyed that summon before it could complete its task, but now we will need to get this back to the dimension it came from. I don’t think that we have the combined power to defeat an entity this powerful.”

“How are we going to manage that?” Megaman asked uncertainly. “We’re barely scratching this thing’s scales.”

“I don’t feel any gate out here,” Jinx added with a frown.

Mystech nodded, a frown on the unmasked portion of her face. “The gate is gone. I don’t know if I have the power to cast a new one big enough to lead that thing through, and I’m pretty sure that Packrat can’t either. Whoever opened that first one was powerful.”

Lupin and Shell were both pounding on the creature’s toes, causing it to shriek in pain. It raised its foot to stomp on them, but Psych managed to teleport Lupin away and Shell actually managed to hold its foot up for a moment before rolling aside. Megaman flew down as fast as he could landing hard on the tip of its tail eliciting another otherworldly shriek. All the while Jinx wasn’t taking her eyes off of our gigantic opponent and Mystech cast some sort of massive golden chains made out of light. The spell seemed to successfully bind one of its arm-like forelegs to the ground, but I could already see cracks forming on the chains.

Fawn was trying to talk to the massive behemoth, wanting to resolve this without a living creature getting hurt, but either it couldn’t hear her, couldn’t understand her, or just didn’t care. The rest of us just tried to keep it distracted and keep drawing it away from the town and toward the water. “Screw this, its scales are too bloody thick,” I muttered in anger as the beast swatted with its free arm at Gadget-girl and Packrat, who had just reloaded and were pouring on the heat. The blow had narrowly missed me and sent Fawn flying, but I figured that she was okay since I could still see the red glow of her force field. Periwinkle was able to dodge but its massive hand was right on target, flying at Gadget-Girl and Packrat.

Psyche appeared to teleport Gadget-Girl away, but the creature’s massive paw flew straight at, and then through, Packrat. “Wot the bloody ‘ell?!” I gasped half in wonder and half relief.

“Don’t worry,” Packrat said with a grin, “I think I just figured out how to control my dimension shifting.”

“That must be why my sixth sense had me save Mo… err Gadget-Girl,” Pysche said, sounding extremely relieved.

That had been a close call and as relieved as I was, I was also starting to get pissed so I gave up on hitting it’s scales and put as much energy and force as I could into an explosive punch to the juggernaut’s eye. “Dinnae ‘urt ma fookin’ family!” I screamed. The creature howled in pain and rage as my punch landed, triggering a huge explosion which staggered it and left the right side of its face an eyeless ruin. There was also dark blood all over my costume, so I really hoped that these costumes were machine washable.

“Way to go Flare!” Aquarius shouted as she and Silvermist teamed up to fire a powerful blast of saltwater at its injured face causing the behemoth to scream anew.

“Black dragon, I choose you!” Genesis shouted, creating a twenty foot black dragon in a flash of golden light. “Flamethrower attack!” The dragon flew for the giant’s face and let loose torrent of fire at its good eye, causing it to shriek in pain again. Meanwhile Gadget Girl and Packrat had regrouped and were firing inside the creature’s open mouth. While the others kept hitting it with everything they could I formed a spear construct in my hand and charged it almost to the point where the explosive energy would super heat to plasma. Then I threw it at the behemoth’s ruined eye as hard as I could.

As the explosion subsided the extra-dimensional creature screamed one last time twitched and then started to teeter toward a nearby building. Megaman, Shell, and I all seemed to notice at the same time and flew into position to prevent its fall and redirect it toward the vacant shoreline. “Ugh, this thing is heavy,” Megaman groaned with a strained look on his face as he pushed against it. I wasn’t really feeling much better that he looked. I was already exhausted and now starving as well from using my powers so much and he was right, it was heavy.

“C’mon, one good push!” Shell encouraged.

Gadget-Girl joined us, pushing her armor’s thrusters and the strength enhancing hydraulics to the limit. I don’t know if it was that extra bit of help, or if it was the big push we all gave as one, but we managed to tip it back toward the beach where it landed with a thunderous crash. With the danger apparently over I started to nervously count heads. Mystech was there, as were all four members of 4-Ward. Aquarius and Silvermist were approaching now, having had the forethought to clear the beach as fast as they could as soon as they saw the giant monster wobbling. Gadget-Girl was of course right with me, and the twins, Tinker Bell, and Periwinkle were all resting on the ground with Psyche and Iridessa, so they were all accounted for as well.

I was a bit worried about Fawn, but if my force field was still up shouldn’t hers be as well? To my great relief she flew back toward me, still glowing a bright red. “That giant thing knocked me out into the ocean,” she said as she looked at the creature and sighed at the loss of life. “It wouldn’t listen to me,” she said sadly after staring at it for a moment.

I wrapped the Fairy up in my arms and held her tight. “Sometimes things jus’ cannae be solved through talkin’ Fawn. I really wish they could, then there wouldnae be a need fer people like me. We’ll dae our best no’ tae ‘ave tae take a life agin, bu’ there will be times when we’ll need tae fight. We’ll try tae make up fer those times by helpin’ people an’ animals whene’er we kin.”

“I know Merida,” the Fairy replied softly, snuggling against my chest. “The mainland is so much different than Neverland, but I think I’ll be okay here as long as I have you.”

“I feel the same Fawn,” I told her, just holding her in my arms for a moment before letting her go.

It was about then that Mystech gathered us all together. “I’ll handle the media,” she told us with a slight groan that bespoke volumes about how much she was looking forward to that task. “Go home and get some sleep, or food if you need it. Come to the school and be at the Conservatory by noon, all of you, without the costumes, we have much to discuss. Do you have any specific team names I should know about?”

“We’re 4-Ward,” Jinx provided, gesturing at herself and her teammates.

“We need a name!” Genesis suddenly spurted out anxiously, “Why didn’t we think of that before?! Ummm maybe Girl-Force? Because we’re all girls?”

I snorted at that, I may have been adjusting to my new gender, but that was still a little too girly for me. Still I didn’t want it to sound like I was dismissing Mei’s idea out of hand. “Mebbe G-Force fer short,” I suggested, “Aye, I think ya kin call us G-Force.”

“That sounds good,” our headmistress agreed. “Now go home, eat, and sleep a bit if you can… oh and try to avoid the police seeing you for now, at least until we can get you licenses for hero work.”

“We need licenses?” Aquarius asked, her eyes wide beneath her mask.

“You do in Costa Verde,” she replied, “but the police aren’t stupid enough to get too close to a fight like this one until it’s over though, so you should have some time to disappear.” We could hear the distant sound of sirens approaching though and she quickly shooed us away before flashing lights could join them.