Chapter Summaries

Tony’s MK Space Weapon replaced its damaged Secondary Kryptonite Launch Device and used several advanced systems to manage the heat and stress of firing Plasma Jets. The chapter ended with the weapon’s cooling design described, including deployable heat-dissipation fins.

• Tony ordered J.A.R.V.I.S. to replace the damaged Launch Device, and mechanical arms installed a reserve unit.
• The MK Space Weapon’s active liquid-cooling system circulated nanofluid, converted some heat into electricity, and dispersed the rest through external fins.
• Tony embedded Phase Change Material in the Launch Device to absorb heat during firing and release it as the device cooled.
• Tony designed the Launch Device’s shell and radiative plates to radiate heat into space and connected heat-dissipation passages to the cold environment.
• Tony installed deployable Heat Dissipation Fins around the Launch Device that stayed folded under normal conditions.

Connors cooled down after firing an energy-consuming shot at a target in Earth's outer space orbit, leaving him nearly out of power. Norman attacked with a ghostly green Atomic Breath, and Connors blocked it with his Asymmetric Penetration Shield, but his epidermis still turned to plasma.

• Connors cooled down after his shot nearly depleted the energy in his Atomic Furnace.
• Norman attacked Connors with a ghostly green Atomic Breath.
• Connors deployed his Asymmetric Penetration Shield to defend against the blast.
• Norman's powerful Atomic Breath damaged Connors's epidermis and turned its surface into plasma, but Connors did not retreat.

Connors's Asymmetric Penetration Shield protected him from Norman's Atomic Breath and tail strike, allowing him to wound Norman before Iron Man's Plasma Jet forced him to retreat. Connors escaped New York City, leaving Tony to face Norman while the MK Space Weapon cooled down.

• Connors's shield neutralized Norman's Atomic Breath, and Connors slashed Norman with his High-Frequency Vibration Claws.
• Norman regenerated from his wound and struck Connors with his tail, but the shield absorbed much of the impact.
• Iron Man's Plasma Jet hit Connors, scorching his scales and exoskeleton without breaking through the shield.
• Connors, low on energy, glared at Norman and fled New York City.
• Tony warned Norman not to move while the MK Space Weapon remained on cooldown.

Connors escaped America and traveled to Fukushima, where it attacked Reactor Number One to consume its highly radioactive water and evolve. It began gulping down the contaminated water as it pursued its goal of becoming a true Godzilla.

• Tony tracked Connors and Norman with J.A.R.V.I.S. and his secret satellites, but Norman escaped after Tony chased him.
• Connors regretted trusting Norman, decided to seek more radioactive material, and left America for Fukushima.
• Connors swam underwater to Fukushima, drawn by the radiation from the damaged nuclear power plant.
• Connors charged into Reactor Number One, tore open its steel shell, and overturned the reactor's top.
• Connors drank the highly radioactive water that had flooded the damaged reactor.

Connors swallowed radioactive water in the Reactor Room to absorb its energy, while the rising heat weakened the reactor’s steel structure. After struggling against the cramped framework, he tore through a weakened section, leaving a path to break free.

• The workers saw Connors reaching into the Reactor Room and fled after arguing over whether the Self-Defense Forces would come.
• Connors swallowed the accumulated water, causing the cooling-water level to fall and the reactor’s temperature to rise.
• The core’s heat weakened the Fuel Pool Steel Structure as Connors twisted, struck, and pried at the framework trapping him.
• Connors found a weakened point and tore the surrounding steel structure apart.

Connors tore apart the Nuclear Reactor and swam through its Cooling Pool toward the reactor core, which it viewed as a source of immense energy. The chapter left Connors approaching the core, drawn by its radiation and heat.

• Connors forced its way into the Reactor Room and ripped valves, pipes, and other components from the Nuclear Reactor.
• Connors entered the Reactor Body, where it endured the extreme heat and radiation without apparent harm.
• Connors saw the glowing reactor core and recognized that consuming it could greatly increase its power.
• Connors swam through the coolant toward the reactor core, drawn in by its intense heat and radiation.

Connors tore open a nuclear reactor and consumed its fuel, absorbing the radiation and energy while its body underwent a radical transformation. As its genome reorganized, it developed biological systems capable of controlling nuclear reactions, and its evolution continued at the chapter’s end.

• Connors shattered the reactor’s protective shield and tore open the pressure vessel, exposing the nuclear fuel rods.
• Connors bit into the fuel assembly, and its Bio-Gel neutralized radiation while converting the neutron stream into Bio-Energy.
• A miniature chain reaction erupted in Connors’s mouth, but a special organ in its throat absorbed and regulated the radiation.
• Connors’s bones, muscles, spines, blood, digestive organs, and scales transformed into systems for storing, controlling, and processing nuclear energy.
• Connors’s genome began reorganizing as dormant ancient viral genes activated and its mitochondria underwent quantum-level changes.

Connors transformed into a nearly hundred-meter-tall living nuclear reactor after absorbing radiation and consuming reactor fuel. It emerged from the power plant as a super lifeform, radiating nuclear energy.

• A reactor explosion triggered Connors' transformation, and its body absorbed fast neutrons while containing its extreme heat.
• Connors developed a plasma beam and radiation-powered biological systems that converted nuclear fuel into energy.
• Connors advanced toward another reactor, grew rapidly, and used gamma-ray lasers to destroy shielding and security doors.
• Connors tore through the containment shell and inserted its claws into the nuclear fuel to regulate the reactor's output.
• Connors emerged nearly a hundred meters tall, with nuclear fission occurring throughout its body.

Connors finished transforming into a giant Godzilla-like creature and began consuming the remaining nuclear fuel at Fukushima Daiichi, prompting the US military to launch an attack. The chapter ended as Kenji Kobayashi urgently warned General Angelerra that heavy weapons could damage the buried reactor cores.

• US intelligence and Tony Stark detected Connors's attack on Fukushima Daiichi and observed his enormous growth and strength.
• Connors destroyed Unit 3, consumed its reactor core, and moved on to Unit 2 to feed on more nuclear fuel.
• General Michael Angelerra ordered the Reagan carrier strike group and fighter squadrons to Fukushima with authorization to use heavy air-to-ground weapons.
• Kenji Kobayashi rushed into the US Forces Japan command center and demanded that Angelerra halt the attack, warning that the buried reactor cores could be damaged.

General Angelerra overruled Kenji Kobayashi’s warnings that bunker-buster bombs could contaminate groundwater across Japan, ordering an airstrike on the monster feeding at Fukushima. As the bombers approached, Angelerra secretly prepared a second attack in case the first failed.

• Kenji Kobayashi warned General Angelerra that the bombs could breach unstable barriers and spread radioactive contamination through groundwater across Honshu.
• Angelerra blamed Japan’s delays in Fukushima cleanup and argued that risking Fukushima was necessary to stop the monster from growing stronger.
• Kenji pleaded for a safer option, but Angelerra cut him off and learned that Operation Deep Hammer was underway with a B-1B carrying two GBU-57A/B bombs.
• Angelerra authorized the pilots to use any means necessary to hit and destroy the monster, including flying lower.
• Angelerra secretly activated a contingency plan, sending Ghost from Guam with the Special Delivery to await the results and carry out the Meltdown plan if the MOP failed.

The United States launched a coordinated airstrike against Godzilla near Fukushima, but the attacks only scarred the beast. Godzilla struck the ground beside the sealed reactor cores, sending cracks racing toward them as the command center realized the danger.

• A B-2 carrying a B61-12 nuclear bomb flew toward Fukushima as a contingency, while General Angelerra told Kenji Kobayashi that the United States would support Japan's reconstruction after Godzilla was killed.
• The Reagan carrier strike group and fighter formations reached Fukushima, and the commander ordered F-15s and F-22s to attack Godzilla's head, joints, and dorsal fins.
• The fighters hit Godzilla with Maverick missiles and laser-guided bombs, briefly staggering it and scorching its scales.
• Godzilla roared, shook the fighters, and revealed that it had suffered only minor injuries.
• Godzilla slammed its claw into the ground near the sealed reactor cores, creating a crater and cracks that spread toward them.
• A geological expert warned Kenji Kobayashi and the command center that the strike had hit near a geological fault zone and that the crack readings were rising.

Connors absorbed the energy of the air strikes and unleashed its Atomic Breath, destroying or crippling several aircraft and driving the survivors into retreat. It ignored the fleeing fighters and resumed excavating and devouring the molten reactor core at Unit-02.

• Connors's Bio-Energy readings surged as its Nuclear Reactor converted the attacks' energy into strength.
• Connors fired its Atomic Breath, vaporizing three F-15s and badly damaging an F-22, which crashed near the power plant.
• The surviving pilots abandoned their formations and fled the combat airspace at maximum speed.
• Connors roared to assert its supremacy, then returned to the Unit-02 reactor ruins.
• Connors dug into the Containment Shell and resumed devouring the molten reactor core.

After the attack on Connors failed and seemed to strengthen the monster, General Angelerra sent two B-1B bombers to strike it with GBU-57 bunker-busters. The bombers were warned that conventional weapons had barely any chance of working, while an unidentified aircraft circled far from the battlefield.

• Connors fed on radioactive debris in the reactor ruins as the command center watched the failed air attack and the destruction of five friendly aircraft.
• General Angelerra concluded that conventional weapons had reached their limit after Connors survived the missile assault and unleashed its Particle Beam.
• An officer reported that the Deep Hammer B-1B formation was nearing its attack route with two GBU-57 MOPs ready to deploy.
• General Angelerra warned the bomber crews about Connors's armor and Particle Beam, ordered extreme evasive maneuvers, and told them to hit the monster's core area.
• General Angelerra glanced at an encrypted display showing a low-detectability aircraft circling far from the battlefield.

Deep Hammer II attacked Giant Lizard with a GBU-57A/B MOP while Deep Hammer I drew its Particle Beam fire. The bomb was released successfully, but Unit-02 remained in extreme danger as Giant Lizard charged its weapon.

• The Command Center monitored the B-2A Spirit carrying a B83-1 thermonuclear bomb as the Final Option while Deep Hammer crews prepared to strike Giant Lizard's Core Area.
• Giant Lizard charged and swept its Particle Beam across the ruins, forcing Unit-01 into a steep evasive dive.
• Unit-02 used the terrain and Giant Lizard's body for cover as it raced toward the target on its attack route.
• With Giant Lizard turning toward its exposed approach and the countdown reaching single digits, the Unit-02 pilot released one GBU-57A/B MOP.
• Unit-02 accelerated into afterburner and turned sharply to evade after confirming the bomb had separated.

Deep Hammer II was destroyed by the particle beam’s energy storm, but the MOP struck the reactor ruins and collapsed them, causing Giant Lizard’s readings to plunge. The creature’s energy then surged to an unprecedented level as a catastrophic eruption began.

• Deep Hammer II banked to evade the particle beam, but the beam’s energy storm damaged its tail and the bomber crashed.
• The MOP maintained guidance through the interference and struck the exposed reactor ruins beneath Giant Lizard.
• The blast collapsed the reactor ruins, and sensors reported that Giant Lizard’s life and core energy signals had vanished.
• Giant Lizard’s energy readings rebounded and soared beyond their previous peak as ghostly blue light erupted from the crater.
• The electronic warfare officer detected an exponentially intensifying reaction from the same source as the particle beam and warned that an eruption was imminent.

After the Seal Bottle shattered and unleashed a greater threat, General Angelerra ordered the B-2A Ghost to carry out the Meltdown protocol at Hell’s Gate. The nuclear bomb detonated above the Core, leaving the Command Center’s screens blinded by the blast.

• General Angelerra authorized the Meltdown protocol and ordered Shadow Watcher to strike Hell’s Gate Core.
• Raven piloted the B-2A Ghost, codenamed Night Owl, toward the target and released the B83-1 nuclear bomb, Doomsday Pendulum.
• Raven pulled the bomber into a steep climb as the bomb descended toward the Hell Core.
• The bomb reached detonation altitude and erupted in a blinding flash that burned out the Command Center’s outward-facing optical sensors.
• A fireball more than one and a half kilometers wide expanded six hundred meters above the Hell’s Gate Core.

Connors survived a point-blank nuclear explosion by using the black crystal clusters on its dorsal fins to capture and devour the blast’s energy. As its body expanded and its azure veins blazed, the Command Center’s observers watched in terror.

• The nuclear fireball and shockwave devastated the area around Connors, but the destructive wave abruptly stopped at its body and contracted inward.
• The blast’s light, heat, shockwave, and radiation were drawn into a gravitational vortex formed by Connors’s crystal dorsal fins.
• The explosion stripped away large sections of Connors’s carapace, exposing its glowing azure energy veins beneath.
• Connors raised its head and opened its jaws as it devoured the bound nuclear energy.
• Connors visibly expanded while its energy veins blazed, bathing the Command Center in azure light.

Connors absorbed the B83-1 nuclear blast, rapidly growing new armor and concentrating energy in his dorsal fins while a dark-red core began to form. Unnoticed by him, high-energy neutrons triggered an escalating fission chain reaction among the nuclear fuel rods inside his Uranium Sack.

• Dr. Angela saw that Connors was absorbing the nuclear blast and evolving, with a pulsating dark-red core forming inside his dorsal fins.
• Connors reveled in the megaton-class energy and focused on the power gathering within his dorsal fins.
• The nuclear blast’s shockwave cracked the bio-field membrane around Connors’s Uranium Sack, which held fuel rods he had swallowed at Fukushima.
• Connors’s dorsal fins absorbed high-energy neutrons, some of which slipped through the cracks and struck the fissile material inside the Uranium Sack.
• The neutrons ignited a fission chain reaction in Connors’s body, which began to accelerate while he remained unaware.

Connors’s radioactive evolution spiraled into a catastrophic meltdown, as its overloaded body became a reactor and exploded from within. Its remaining consciousness felt its body disintegrating, and the chapter left Connors in the midst of its irreversible destruction.

• Fission reactions spread from Connors’s cracked Uranium Sack into its radioactive tissues, turning its body into fuel.
• Connors convulsed in unbearable pain as its dorsal-fin core erupted into uncontrolled dark-red energy.
• Dr. Angela recognized that Connors was undergoing a meltdown, while a technician reported its energy readings surpassing the instruments’ limits.
• A light ignited in Connors’s chest, and destructive energy erupted from its cells, veins, and bones.
• The blast tore Connors apart from the inside, and its remaining consciousness felt its body melting down.

Connors’s body overheated as his energy intake overwhelmed its ability to regenerate and dissipate heat. Driven by survival instinct, he unleashed an uncontrolled torrent toward the nearest island to vent the destructive energy building inside him.

• Connors’s temperature climbed beyond 4,200°C as his tissues and bone armor began melting under the energy overload.
• Connors’s regeneration failed to keep pace with the destruction, while melting Energy Veins worsened the heat buildup.
• Chang Wei questioned whether Connors was about to kill himself as the runaway energy threatened to destroy his body.
• Connors’s survival instinct forced his damaged head upward and his mouth open toward the nearest land.
• Connors released an enormous, uncontrolled Scorching Torrent of plasma, radioactive material, and molten tissue toward the island.