The music began, blocking out everything except for my own body and Electrozilla’s gargantuan form in the harbor. I began tapping my foot as the horns began to play and the power coursing through my body increased. Sparrow shouted something at me in a frantic voice, but I couldn’t hear her in my trance. The music rose for several seconds, and then the lyrics started.

  “Waiting for the break of day!”

  “Searching for something to say!”

  I lifted two handfuls of silty loam out of the harbor. Millions of gallons of lake water fell from two gargantuan hands, momentarily giving them shape. Each hand was nearly half the size of the kaiju, and even I was surprised by them. I figured my telekinetic hands were typically the size of trucks, but those disembodied hands floating in the river were easily the size of buildings.

  “Dancing lights against the sky!”

  “Giving up, I close my eyes!”

  One hand smashed into Electrozilla with the momentum of a meteor-strike. The speed of the attack seemed slow at a distance, but the feedback in my arm informed me that the island of dirt flying into the kaiju’s face was traveling at several hundred miles per hour when it struck. My projected hand disappeared when it struck the creature’s skin, but the dirt kept going and smashed into its skull.

  “Sitting cross-legged on the floor!”

  “Twenty-five or six to four!”

  The creature faltered backward and recoiled when it was struck. More dark red blood fell from its body, dyeing the harbor even further. I struck the creature once more with my other hand, and the combo of blows was enough to knock it onto its back. A massive wave of water flew into the air, and I could hear Sparrow cheer in excitement.

  “Staring blindly into space!”

  “Getting up to splash my face!”

  The kaiju began to stand up, and I watched as the creature’s mangled upper-body healed itself. Within seconds, it was already completely healed. If I wanted to put the beast down, I would need to deal damage faster than it could heal.

  “Wanting just to stay away!”

  “Wondering how much I can take!”

  “Ooh!”

  Looking about as angry as a city-block-sized dinosaur could look, Electrozilla glared in my direction as it began to glow a bright yellow. Surely, it didn’t know where I was. I must have been a speck to it.

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  “Should I try to do some more!?”

  “Twenty-five or six to four!”

  “Yeah!”

  A powerful beam of energy erupted in my direction. It was perfectly aimed, and it reached the roof I was standing on in less than two seconds. I threw up a warding hand, and the beam crashed against my conjured barrier. There was so much force behind the attack that I was pushed back a few steps.

  The barrier held, though I could tell the beam carried an immense force behind it. After a second, I realized that the beam was scattering against my barrier and striking the street beneath my vantage point. I angled the barrier upward, causing the beam to arc at a forty-five degree angle past my position. Considering the force behind the attack, I knew the beam would continue flying for several miles before striking the ground once more. I sincerely hoped that no one lived three miles behind me.

  Eventually, the beam fizzled, and I could hear the music once more. The guitar solo was still going, and the music was enough to stop me from focusing on the fact that the ground beneath me was starting to shake. Apparently, the beam from earlier had destabilized the building I was standing on.

  I took a breath and reentered that trance-like state where only my body and my target existed, I reached out and lifted a cargo ship out of the harbor. I had no idea exactly how big that cargo ship was, but I knew it was about the same size as Electrozilla.

  The cargo ship split in half as I twisted it in between two building-sized hands. Those two giant pieces of metal were crushed by an invisible force as I coated my hands with their hulls.

  “Feeling like I ought to sleep!”

  “Spinning room is sinking deep!”

  I latched onto Electrozilla with one giant metal shackle. It screeched loud enough for me to hear it over the music as it was pushed to the side. After a moment of surprise, it was able to dig its feet into the ground and stop the movement.

  “Searching for something to say!”

  “Waiting for the break of day!”

  The other shackle made of the cargo ship’s corpse slammed into the other side of Electrozilla, and I began to squeeze. The beast roared even louder this time, and he began to glow once more. Now that I finally had a good grip on the creature, I began to lift him into the air. He began to glow with dangerous intent, and I rotated him as a beam of energy once more flew from his mouth.

  The beam was clearly meant for me, but it flew harmlessly over my head since the rotation threw off Electrozilla’s aim.

  “Twenty-five or six to four!”

  “Twenty-five or six to four!”

  I squeezed, applying as much force as I could to the creature. Just as I reached my breaking point and I could squeeze no harder, a cloud of dark blood ejected outward with great force.

  The horns began to play, and I realized that the song was coming to an end as the resistance to my attack lessened. I applied just a little more pressure, and the two shackles pressed inward and met in the middle. Like a giant building-sized bear trap, the shackles clamped together, cutting Electrozilla completely in half.

  The kaiju fell into the bay, cut into two pieces. A steadily-growing circle of blood radiated outward, and I knew the bay of New Kinsington would be dyed red for weeks.

  I removed my headphones from my ears. With a nostalgic sigh, I turned to Sparrow and said, “They really don’t make songs like they used to.”