Monster Verse: Indominus Rex

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Janjira Nuclear Power Plant, Japan

The morning sky over Japan was awash with steel-gray clouds, thick and brooding, casting shadows over the dormant Janjira Nuclear Power Plant.

Though long-abandoned after the accident, the surrounding perimeter was anything but silent.

Beneath its surface, a nightmare was waking up.

Inside the fortified underground monitoring room of Monarch's secret outpost, Dr. Ichiro Serizawa stared intently at the seismic readings flashing red on the monitor.

Vivienne Graham, his assistant and fellow researcher, leaned closer.

"Another surge."

"Resonance readings are off the charts. The frequency's rising."

Serizawa didn't respond at first.

His jaw tightened, eyes scanning the lines of data dancing across the screens.

"It's calling out," he finally said.

"To something... or someone."

Suddenly, an earsplitting buzz shook the station, an electromagnetic pulse powerful enough to fry any unshielded device.

The lights flickered, backup batteries stuttered, and monitors exploded into static.

"EMP wave confirmed! That was a Class Four burst!" Vivienne shouted.

"Initiate the emergency plan immediately!" Serizawa barked, slamming the red switch beneath the console.

Alarms screamed through the outpost.

Defense protocols kicked in.

High-voltage arcs surged through the containment grid encasing the large egg nestled deep beneath the facility, coiled like a dormant bomb.

The plan was simple: kill it before it hatched.

But the result was catastrophic.

Instead of neutralizing the embryo, the electricity acted as a catalyst.

Energy flowed into the egg like blood into a heart, feeding it, fueling it.

"Dr. Serizawa... the voltage... It's accelerating the process!"

"What," Serizawa whispered.

"It's too late."

The egg split open with a thunderous CRACK, sending fragments of thick, carbon-black shell flying like shrapnel.

From the steaming core of the egg, a monstrous form uncoiled itself, legs twitching, limbs unfurling.

The beast rose, screeching into the air.

The Male MUTO was awake.

Standing over 60 meters tall, its angular head snapped toward the nearest light source as if in contempt.

Its chitinous exoskeleton gleamed black and red, jagged and sharp like obsidian glass.

Twin forelimbs like spears scraped across the floor, and a smaller pair twitched near its torso.

Its wings, still damp from the cocoon, unfurled in a violent rustle, stretching to a wingspan over 100 meters.

It pulsed again.

BZZZZZT

Another EMP wave burst from its body, killing the remaining power in the base.

Darkness descended.

Panic broke out in the control room. Scientists screamed.

Security scrambled to recover manual protocols.

Nothing worked. Radios went dead. Drones fell silent.

Doors refused to open. The outpost had become a tomb.

Serizawa stood frozen, sweat trailing down his temples.

"It's heading... for Isla Nublar."

"Why Nublar? What's there?"

"Nuclear energy," he said.

"It sensed the detonation."

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Nevada, USA – Monarch Nuclear Waste Storage Site

In a quiet sector of the Nevada desert, surrounded by rusted fences and forgotten paperwork, the Earth began to tremble.

Inside the reinforced containment vault, something stirred.

Cracks began to spiderweb across the surface of an enormous darkened egg, thought dead for decades.

Dust danced in the air, falling like ash.

The alarms didn't blare. No one was monitoring it anymore.

After all, the creature was presumed inert, an oversized corpse, a relic of a long-extinct nightmare.

But now it pulsed with life.

The Female MUTO had awakened.

With a guttural CRUNCH, the egg exploded, sending concrete debris flying.

Towering over 90 meters and weighing over 7,000 tons, she was an apex predator in every sense.

Her multiple limbs clacked against the metallic walls, crumpling steel and rebar like tinfoil.

Her eyes glowed blood-red with ancient instinct.

And just like the male, her head turned to the Pacific.

Isla Nublar was calling.

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Back in Japan – Monarch Outpost Ruins

Serizawa and Vivienne stumbled through the wreckage, the walls shaking with aftershocks from the Male MUTO's departure.

Emergency crews began descending from helicopters above, bringing flickering lights and medical aid.

Serizawa looked up toward the sky.

"He's flying west. Across the ocean."

Vivienne gritted her teeth.

"We failed."

"No," Serizawa said, darkly.

"Humanity failed. In trying to kill one demon, we woke them all."