Chapter 87 – Out of the Frying Pan…

Over the following few days, Sam and his familiars cleaned out the xenomorphs all across Europe, killing the xenomorphs that had hatched out of the middle earth dragons, namely Smaug the Golden, the Fire Drake of Gondolin and the Great Cold Drake.

Then they took another week, hunting down Scantha the Worm, The Dragon of the War of Wrath and Glaurung the Father of Dragons, which were too large for the xenomorphs to capture.

Finally, they took on Ancalagon the Black, a dragon so large that even a dragon like Smaug was only as large as one of its claws and the largest Dragon ever created by Morgoth in Middle Earth.

The dragon hunt used most of his Super Team consisting of Kara, Samantha, Rhea and Linda, the Power Team consisting of Hancock, Mary Marvel, Hannah Lewis and Jenny Johnson, the Goddess Team consisting of Diana, Sif, Annabeth and Donna, the Avengers consisting of Carol, Wanda and Sue Storm and the Elementals consisting of Ororo and Mera and was led by Sam himself and was accompanied by Jean Grey and Serleena

As for the other less powerful and street level familiars, they were sent to Paris and battled the mimics from the Edge of Tomorrow, led by Rita who was familiar with them.

Everything was coordinated in the Nexus by Quorra who controlled the ins and outs of the Nexus and Emma Frost who kept the information flowing in the mind link.

The battled in Paris was brutal, with familiars dying and reincarnating in the Nexus and immediately rejoining the battle. As the girls kept regenerating, and they were all highly trained super soldiers, eventually they managed to take out the mimic Omega in the Louvre after several days of intense fighting.

Simultaneously, the dragon hunt was equally brutal, but as they hunted one dragon at a time, they killed all 3 xenomorph dragons in the same day, while the larger ones like Scantha and Glaurung took at least a half a day each to kill.

As for Ancalagon the Black, the battle was brutal and the victorious familiars joined in with Gantz Sky Cycles to join the other super powered familiars fight the humongous dragon. It took a whole day to finally bring him down especially with Serleena's help to hold the dragon down with her tentacles before Kara sliced off the dragon's head with a fully extended Gantz Sword.

These initial battles went according to plan, and they emerged victorious against these foes.

However, the earth started shaking after that, with tens of volcanoes exploding all over the world.

The teams had to split up to investigate the causes of the earthquakes and volcanoes. But it became obvious pretty quickly over the next few weeks that things were getting worse not better.

There were tens of kaijus all over the world, destroying what was left of civilization. Most of the kaijus were nearly as large as Ancalagon the Black, and they actually teamed up in twos and threes and kept emerging in faster intervals from some portal in the Pacific Ocean.

But the Kaijus were not the only monsters around. They were extra-dimensional enemies, but the planet seemed to spout monsters of their own that actually battled each other and the foreign kaijus, causing the volcanoes and earthquakes.

Sam referred to them as Titans as he recognized several of them including King Ghidorah, Rhodan, Mothtra, Destroyah and the most famous one of all, Godzilla.

This Godzilla was different from the dead carcass in Manhattan. This one looked like the one in the Japanese movies, and breathed atomic fire and was nigh indestructible.

There were also mutos appearing all over the world and wierd two legged or armed monsters that Sam recognized as skullcrawlers from the King Kong of Skull Island movie. .

Then, there was the Cloverfield monster who is by now rampaging across the middle of the United States. That creature was indestructible and every team that battled it ended up in defeat.

The teams won a few battles but they were losing more than winning as their forces were spread too thinly. They didn't even have the manpower to battle the many zombie infestations all across the United States.

Sam sat in the Nexus with most of his familiars, all looking depressed and disheartened. While the familiars could reincarnate again with a brand new body in the Nexus nearly instantaneously, they remember all the pain they experienced when dying and even the memories of the moment of their deaths, it was starting to have an effect on them.

Some of them who were not accustomed to the life of a superhero like Mathilda, Hannah Lewis, Melinda Gordon and Mary Marvel were particularly affected by all the death and destruction fighting the kaijus.

Each of them were literally like a weapon of mass destruction, or a natural disaster. The kaijus that attacked the United States were even worse as they got infected with one of perhaps dozens of different zombie viruses, making them even more fearsome.

Only the Cloverfield monster seemed to slow them down with it's senseless destruction. And the worst part of it was, the Cloverfield monster was still growing and was apparently still a growing child!

Sam sighed as he helped the naked Diana who was just reincarnated after being stomped to mush by the Cloverfield monster. Not long later, a naked Hancock also gasped as her new body reawakened in the Nexus.

Many of the other street level supersoldiers watched from within the Nexus, rearming themselves with Gantz suits and weapons as well as Gantz Skycycles and were ready to start another attack.

Sam watched them, certain they were just being sent to their deaths, but what else was he going to do? Give up?

He massaged his temples when he suddenly felt his shoulders being rubbed by someone's hands.

"Ahhh, thank you" he said, looking back and seeing Mindy massage him.

She was still naked and didn't look like she was getting dressed any time soon.

Before he asked, she simply shook her head

"I've been killed by this albino monster 7 times already. I think I'll sit this one out unless we have something that can actually hurt this bastard" she said.

Sam nodded an understood. She wasn't the only one. He could see others like Tauriel and Hermione who were just staring at the screen naked, unmoving. It was as if they were undecided what to do, and were not enthusiastically gearing up for battle as before.

Another round of battle started taking place as a group of 20 Gantz Sky cycles charged out of the Nexus and attacked the Cloverfield monster who screamed and attacked with it's huge arms.

Suddenly, a bright light came from the sky

Three large humanoids flew down from the sky. They looked strange as they had a humanoid body shape with two arms and two legs, but their heads were indistinct, and their whole body looked like it was made from star and space. There were no features on their faces to be seen, no eyes, ears or mouths, only stars with their skin a dark background like outer space.

They moved their heads around and looked like they were searching for something, ignoring all the familiars in their Gantz Skycycles and even the gigantic Cloverfield monster

Suddenly, all 3 heads looked at Sam, even though he was inside the Nexus. Sam and the familiars were stunned and suddenly Sam's body started teleporting and he disappeared from the Nexus, right in front of all his familiar's eyes!