Kong and the warbat

Story by Strega on SoFurry

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In the wake of the battle against Mechagodzilla, Big G sets out to find his rival. But someone else has already laid predatory eyes on Kong.

(If the humans hadn't peppered the Warbat with missiles, this would have happened to Kong even earlier in the story. The warbat in Hollow Earth was one long gulp away from turning him into a bulge.)


Bruised and bloodied, the King of the Monsters still stood triumphant. The fight with the mechanical version of himself had exhausted him, but he turned to finish the battle with his other rival. Kong had helped him beat Mechagodzilla, but there could be only one alpha kaiju.

Somewhere in the maze of tumbled skyscrapers was the great ape and Godzilla followed a trail of destruction toward his goal. Here was the bone-handled axe with its Godzilla-spine blades. His rival must be close by. Kong had risen from seeming defeat once, but still he must be as exhausted as Godzilla. It was time to end their rivalry.

A slither of scales led him to his quarry. He found the ape wrapped in the coils of an enormous frilled serpent. The tail of the thing led into the great bore-hole his atomic breath had burned. It had followed Kong up the hole from Hollow Earth and now the ape was squeezed tight in its coils.

Kong was tough and Kong was mighty. Normally he'd have a good chance of fighting his way free of the snake and killing it. The fight with Godzilla and then Mechagodzilla had injured and exhausted the ape and he could only struggle feebly as the coils clamped down.

The serpent looked past its own frills at Godzilla, tensing to flee or fight. Godzilla just grinned a toothy grin and sat down on a shattered skyscraper to watch. The frilled snake waited a moment longer, assuring itself he was no threat. Then the head turned and long jaws full of inward-hooking teeth parted over Kong's face.

The ape was still struggling as foot by foot the snake's unhinged jaws took him in. One side of the jaws pushed forward, dug in its fangs, and held on while the other side pushed forward in turn. There was never a moment when Kong was free of the constricting coils, which moved downward only when the snake's advancing jaws reached them and no more could be swallowed. At least half of the inward-hooking teeth were always sunk into his hide, digging in deeper when he tried to pull back out. They held Kong tight as foot by foot, and despite his desperate efforts to squirm free, the snaky jaws ratcheted their way over him.

Moment by moment there was less of Kong outside and more reduced to a great bulge making its way down the snake's neck. Scales stretched apart to reveal pale neckskin as the loose jaws worked their way over broad muscular shoulders. The great snake struggled there for long minutes, but hungry and determined it found a way. Its long muzzle went up over Kong's right shoulder, its chin over the left, and with the broadest part of its meal engulfed its jaws worked remorselessly onward. Kong's mighty arms and chest, pinned by muscular coils, followed his shoulders into the snake's gullet.

When the ape's rump was overtaken by the long jaws the serpent found its feeding easier. Enough of Kong was down its throat for swallowing muscles to get a good grip and now the undulations of the serpentine gullet aided its busily working jaws. It took almost two hours for it to swallow Kong to the thighs, only a quarter of that for the legs to be sucked in after.

There came a time when the great ape's hairy feet slipped into those long jaws. The warbat formed an ess in its neck and slowly pushed the kink, and the great long bulge of Kong, down its neck. The bulge was still twitching as it arrived at the monster snake's thickest coil. Kong slipped into the snake's lengthy stomach, as helpless to save himself as when the coils first wrapped around him. He lay there as a vast bulge, squirming weakly as the warbat yawned to rehinge its jaws.

The whole process took more than two hours and Godzilla never looked away. The monstrous snake, now swollen in the middle with a ponderous bulge, shot him a worried look. Far too heavy with prey to glide away on its frill-wings, it could only hope he would not attack as it dragged itself back into the bore-hole.

Normally the serpent would be a potential rival. Normally Godzilla would have chased it off or even killed it. Maybe he would, one day. But the snake had earned its meal. It was hungry enough to swallow Kong whole with him watching. It slithered toward the hole, stretched tight around its meal, and he let it go.

Maybe he'd track it down. But not until it'd had time to digest its meal. The monstrous serpent's tail slithered into the hole and Godzilla stepped forward. He watched it drag the great bulge of Kong along until it disappeared back into Hollow Earth. Once it looked back over its shoulder, still worried that he might attack. Gorged, the snake did not want to fight. It wanted only to find a quiet place to digest its meal.

With a grin Godzilla turned back to the sea. Kong had been a tough opponent and has bounced back from many a hard blow, but the great bulge of swallowed ape was still now. Were it him inside the snake he would have blasted his way free with his atomic breath. Kong, constricted into helplessness even before he was swallowed and lacking any such weapon, would escape from the snake's guts only when it was finished digesting him. Any chance of escape ended when he slid weakened and helpless down the warbat's throat.

Maybe his fur would survive the trip in a recognizable state. The rest of him, flesh and bone, would dissolve under the assault of the snake's gastric juices. It might take a week or more, but it would happen. All that lay in the great ape's future were a last few twitches and then then long slow gurgle of digestion.

On his way to the sea Godzilla found the ape's axe and picked it up. It would be a fine souvenir of his adventures this day. His own bruises would soon heal and with Kong now snake food, it would be his only memento to remember the great ape.

In a few weeks, perhaps, he would go down the borehole and explore Hollow Earth. There were probably many creatures like the frilled serpent there. He was confident he'd recognize the one that swallowed Kong. It would be the fattest, sleekest snake.