Battle of Nouméa, Overseas France
When you arrive at Nouméa, the place is.. empty. Very much abandoned. Almost fully evacuated. As there is only one sizeable city on the island, it was assumed the Kaiju would attack there. And, as such, most of the population has been evacuated. What this means is that, win or lose, there will be some extra property damage due to the lack of firefighters, water pressure, etcetera. But perhaps more importantly, very few people will die in the case of a defeat.
For the first time in the last few battles, the forces arrive before the Kaiju has emerged from the sea. This allows them to get set up at varying locations around the city, all ready for the first strike, and far away from each other to reduce the odds of getting hit by a large area attack. It also guarantees the transports will be able to safely leave.
When the Kaiju does finally emerge, it is an enormous snake-like creature, surrounded by a sort of second skin of blue glass, which shatters continually as the creature moves around. It also has two disk-shaped objects at the side of its head, shaped like two bun hairdos.
For about the middle third of its length, there are spiny protusions facing hindward along the creature's back. These don't have any immediate and obvious function, but they're visibly oozing a substance that is thicker and darker than the usual kaiju blood.
Overall, the creature looks tough, with a thick, strong layer of scales below the eternally regenerating glass-like material.
Most, but not all units are able to begin firing immediately. The Happytime Modern Tank and the plymouth barracuda assault car were both close. The Coke Knights tank and the swarm of bizarre, gatling insects were far away and will take some time to enter the fight.
Still, opening up are the four jets, the CK AC-130, the old beam rifleman, Happytime Atrocities tank. Ares is also lucky enough to have their infantry on the near side, so they can engage immediately. Ares's one artillery unit is also located centrally, and will always be in range to shoot.
Many shots sort of bouce off the metallic glass, sometimes exploding closely, but not doing much damage. This includes a couple solid hits by Emerald Robin's jet, and one of the ones from the USSCCI. The first unit to make a hit stick is the Barracuda Assault car, which zips in close and takes out a huge chunk of the regenerating metal, exposing the kaiju's skin.
Unfortunately, two more jets, the artillery and the infantry cannot capitalize on the creature's vulnerability and fail to do more than cosmetic damage.
The Kaiju, noticing it's under attack, counterattacks the assault fish. It begins by launching a gout of powerful acid, hitting and dissolving a large portion of the target vehicle. It's followed up by a spread of missiles from the rear launcher.. but these aren't ordinary missiles, they are odd, tiny spheres of blue electricity, which move about in a mostly reactionless manner, like UFOs. These swarm down at the wreckage of the car, and explode in an almost absurdly huge blast of lightning bolts.
Fortunately, nobody else is hit by the blast, with most units well spread out.
This is followed up by another explosion, from the Thumper device, which resembles a bun hairdo. This erupts with a massive wave of raw force, vaguely directed in a large cone covering most of the area immediately adjacent to the Kaiju. The target this time, however, isn't the attacking forces, but is the city. Several blocks are outright flattened, and many buildings are wrecked, with their outer skins destroyed, leaving only hardened steel skeletons and brick shells.
The metallic glass doesn't stay limited for long, with it regenerating after no more than a minute or so. the Emerald Robin jet, moving quickly, is determined that it won't stay regenerated, landing a couple heavy missiles immediately and once more knocking it away from the skin.
Everyone piles in, now joined by the Harpoon AFV, that black market vehicle with the big harpoon cannon. It fires.. and is disappointing, looking like not much more than the ER jet just did. The others shoot but are mostly ineffective, some hitting well and failing to penetrate like the Happytime Modern tank, and others simply not doing enough damage to begin with.
There are two exceptions. The beam rifleman, who manages a puncture, and the lead USSCCI jet which manages much more. It smashes a missile right through the jaw from below, pounding missiles right through the skin and tearing up the blue muscle, causing a great flood of that thick, dark blue substance to gush out.
Eventually the kaiju recovers from that blow, but that one looked serious.
This time the Kaiju isn't allowing that jet to make another attempt. The blue lightning balls streak out, and cause a huge airborne explosion near the jet. A few bolts streak out and scorch the plane, but it's surprisingly intact. On the ground, however, a few bolts also string out and hit the Coke Knights tank, with its thick force-field. The tank survives those well, as it continues driving closer to the battle.
The jet is less lucky to face a follow-up spray of acid. It's not known if the kaiju was trying to herd it into the acid burst, but the acid hits it cleanly and half of the jet is simply removed from existance.
The Kaiju, now knowing it is in a serious fight, turns the thumper device from wrecking the city to wrecking the infantry, which has entered range and been mostly ineffective. Both platoons are simply destroyed through the very powerful blast of force, tearing soldiers limb from limb.
the Emerald Robin jet, tries to recreate the last attack, but this time cannot land a solid blow with its rockets, trying to hit the twisting and moving kaiju directly. Nobody else is, either. The new arrivals this turn being the Coke Knights tank, and the swarm of mad-scientist Gatling Insects.
They.. are something. They line up and fire an absolutely withering burst of seemingly endless machine gun projectiles at the body of the kaiju, which twists, turns, and uses the cover of buildings and careful management of its scales and armour to tank them all. The shots not having too much penetrative power, it manages to barely protect itself from what looked like a tremendous amount of firepower.
In the end, no damage is dealt.
With its nemesis, the USSCCI jet destroyed, it lashes out at the next target. Beardman, the beam rifleman. He might be brave, but there's only so much a single human can do against the lightning balls and blasts of acid. Grizzly Adams is no more.
The thumper, with the infantry dead and no close targets to aim at, is turned against the city for a second time.
Next round, the ER jet manages another shattering blow on the metallic glass armour. Several followup hits are scored by different units.. the Happytime Atrocities tank manages a solid blow to the spine. Notably, the thick goop isn't oozing any more, being mostly just normal blue kaiju blood. Other hits are scored by the ADD Artillery, and the AC-130. Perhaps most importantly, the gun bug swarm gets a second shot.
This time, the hail of projectiles is much less accurate, with only a "few" rounds hitting the target. But this time the ones that do do more damage. They hit the cluster of spines, near the previous hit from the HA tank, and are rewarded with a small explosion of electricity. That must have been the lightning ball launcher.
Being short-ranged, the gun bugs had to enter the reach of that Thumper to do their thing. Last round the kaiju hadn't attacked them.. but this round it does, with the bugs being Thumped out of existance by another very strong blast of force. Notably, this blast does seem slightly less powerful than the previous three were. The acid spit is directed against a more distant target, the artillery piece. It's demolished in under a minute, dissolved to bits by the chemicals.
Things get more ominous at this point. The two surviving USSCCI jets are now both out of ammo, having taken three and four shots respectively. The Emerald Robin jet is still around, but it fires off a final salvo before leaving. It isn't able to do anything.. and neither are the two remaining tanks and the AC-130. Just three attackers remain.
Over the next few minutes, the kaiju continues thumping the city while firing acid at the attackers. It atacks the Challenger II first, doing some damage, but the tough vehicle takes several rounds of attacks before it eventually gets melted by the various ongoing damages caused by the accumulation of acid. Before it goes down, it and the AC-130 manage to shatter through the glass once more and knock out the city-wrecking Thumper with a shot to the head.
With the thumper knocked out, the Kaiju begins trying to smash into the vehicles physically, targetting the AC-130 for the next few blows.
The aircraft dodges the physical attacks, but isn't able to dodge a burst of acid, and is melted away.
All that remains of the k-com forces is the lone CK force-fielded tank. It is actually ignored by the kaiju, having been unlucky to not yet score a hit. It furiously tries to engage while the kaiju continues smashing the city.
After a few minutes, the CK tank ends up shattering the layer of glass with a much-awaited solid hit. This draws the attention of the snake-creature away from stompytime.
The ensuing duel lasts quite some time. The kaiju misses with an acid burst, being unable to track the exact location of the tank under its shroud of smoke, and moves in repeatedly to stomp the shielded tank, which holds up pretty well; it takes multiple hits from physical blows and acid before taking serious damage. Unfortunately, the creature, although sigificantly wounded, is not quite wounded enough to allow the tank to reliably outspeed it. Also unfortunately, one tank does not have a strong enough cannon to reliably damage this kaiju. There is still more than enough armored skin to protect the kaiju from a single tank barring extreme luck.
In the end, the CK tank is destroyed, by a burst of acid, eventually managing to eating through the tank below the force field. It then moves on to destoying what is left of the empty city.
The artillery wolf in Chiclayo was as strong as this kaiju, and was only lightly wounded when it returned to the sea. In Nouméa, the city was evacuated, the kaiju was seriously wounded (if not quite crippled), and many of the military units survived. This may be a defeat, but this wasn't a bad one.
There has also never been a sighting of a kaiju stronger than those two. If you can defeat them.. maybe you can defeat anything you will face.
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