Berlin Stomp

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Karl Reicher stood smoking a cigarette on the top of bunker 7 one of Berlins perimeter defences, the fresh air of the motherland smelled good after being stationed in France for so long.he looked across at the city of Berlin, nearly every building displayed his nations flag, the symbol of the mighty Fuhrer, Brilliant red with lashings of black and white, The swastika. Reicher snorted, a cloud of smoke billowing out into the night air. The third Reich was on its last legs, everybody knew that, everybody that is, apart from Adolf Hitler and his SS. Sure, there had been rumours of a craft of some kind crashing in some undisclosed place, and rumours of a secret weapon, something or some-things created by the nuts in the Paranormal division, rumours of walking dead, rumors of many kinds. In war, rumours spread like wildfire, especially when your side was losing.

Reicher looked up as the air raid sirens started to wail and sighed, Had not the Furher said, No bombs shall drop on Berlin, yet here it was, the third night of bombing. A squadron of messerschmitts roared overhead, rallying to the call of arms. The radio on the table next to him crackled
"This is SS Commander Von Steikker, All available units are ordered to enter the city and defend it at all costs! I repeat, This is SS Commander Von Steikker, All available units are ordered to enter the city and defend it at all costs!"
Reicher frowned as he heard his sergeant barking orders to the squad. Why on earth would they be sending soldiers into the city to defend against an air raid, It couldn't be an invasion, the front line was far from here currently. He sighed and crammed his helmet down over his blonde hair shrugging inwardly, When the Gestapo gave you an order, you obeyed, without question.

Reicher sat on the seat of the covered half track, watching civilians being evacuated, looking fearfully over their shoulders, back towards the city. The bombing had begun, from inside the half track the explosions had odd after sounds, roars and a faint buzzing could be heard. Another squadron of fighters flew over, towards the city.

As the half track made its way into the city the roaring and buzzing grew louder. Questions were passing back and forth amongst the other soldiers in the squad when suddenly there was an almighty impact against the front of the half track and Reicher was flung out the back of the half track and sent sprawling across the road. It saved his life. There was a massive explosion as the half track exploded in a fiery blast.

He looked up, his nose bleeding. There was a shudder as the flaming wreckage that used to be the half track had something hit it. Reicher looked on in fear as from the flames, a large, man sized creature stalked through the flames. It looked like a dragon, or a large heavily armoured bird of prey, and on its shoulders were two large bladed arms. Its two pairs of glowing eyes fixed themselves on him. He could have sworn it was glaring at him. His hands wrapped around his Mp40, The creature inhaled a large mouthful of air and suddenly spat a fireball directly at him. He rolled to one side, firing wildly as the fireball smashed into the ground here he had been not seconds ago. The bullets bounced off its heavy bone plating and it snarled, and stalked off the flaming wreckage towards him. Reicher fired again, a lucky bullet ripped its way through the creatures eyeball. It hissed in pain. The two large scythe blades on its back suddenly twisted. Then the blade itself split open, with almost mechanical smoothness the blades transformed into a large pair of bat like wings. The beast sprung into the air, flapping its wings. It roared and Reicher ran.

He could feel the air from the wings behind him. He quickly sprinted down an alley way and right out the other side. There he stopped, and wet himself.

What he saw was terrifying. In the centre of Berlin, stood an enormous animal, it was a, reptilian monstrosity, there was no other way to describe it. It stood well over thirty stories tall, its immense reptilian body was covered with glowing gold patterns, they hurt Reichers eyes to look at them. It walked on its knuckles like a giant gorilla, but its large crocodile like head was anything but mammalian. with a massive swipe of its clubbed tail, which was made more dangerous by two glowing spikes of fire on each side, it smashed apart a building. The debris fell to earth in a cloud of smoke and fire. From the beasts shoulders grew two huge arms, similar to the smaller ones arms, but its scythe blades were made of fire. They sliced apart buildings with furious speed and power. As Reicher watched, a squadron of messerschmitts dived towards it. Their guns blazing. The rounds seemed to do nothing but annoy the creature. With one almost effortless sweep it smashed them out of the sky as a man would an annoying moth.

Feeling sick to his stomach in fear Reicher turned to run. But saw yet another creature from the depths of madness. A enormous black beetle like insect, covered in glowing red swirling patterns striding forth on two legs. On its shoulders were two massive glowing green honeycomb like growths, from them issued black clouds, that looked like a swarm of insects! Its arms were tipped in massive pincers.it was snipping the tops off buildings like a man pruning bushes its tentacled maw spread open and it spat forth a stream of liquid across a column of tanks that were attacking it. The tanks simply melted into a goo.an acrid smoke filled the air, making Reichers eyes sting. He looked away, rubbing his eyes furiously. He heard a buzzing above him. Looking up he screamed. On the street lamp, the surrounding walls and hovering in the air was a swarm of massive man sized insects. The one on the street light was examining him, It was coloured like a wasp, its head cocked, mandibles clicking away, like it was waiting for him to make a move. His eyes wide with fear, A moth flew past his ear and he panicked. Screaming he raised his Mp40 and opened fire. It was the last move he ever made. The swarm descended on him like locusts to a cornfield.

A report sat on Winston Churchill's desk from the British Paranormal division. He flicked it open and spread the files across his desk, photos from the last nights assault on Berlin littered his desk. He nodded grimly, the boys in the BPD had done a good job. There was a report detailing the bringing of these two creatures and their kind into this universe, the Nazis had taken UFO technology and created their own monsters using that and they had attacked many small towns in Britain and France . The BPD team had discovered a book in a monastery detailing how to bring forth the "Gods of Protection" and something about them being protectors of the planet. But most of it was all above his head. He just hoped to himself that this was kept secret, and that the monsters would stay under the BPD's control, at least until the war was over and they could send them back to where they came from.

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This picture is many things. I had missed my good mate 's birthday, Normally I do a sketch, and this was going to be one. However, it seemed like a awesome excuse to brush off my cobwebs and give it everything I had, and finally a tribute to Kaiju movies..