Inheritance of Giants

Space Oddity

"Hey mom, is your phone going off?" Izuku asked, looking to the coffee table in front of him for his mom's phone, who only laughed softly and lifted her phone in her hand.

"No, sweetie, I just got my ringtone from this show," Inko answered simply, smiling widely at the nostalgia she felt by hearing the music and seeing the silver giant's small clips of fighting with a tall, weird dinosaur, a green horned lizard that shot lightning, and more, before she grabbed the remote, going back to Izuku and pressing play.

Instantly, the screen went dark again before it faded to a weird psychedelic paint mix that slowly unmixed to spell, "Ultra Q," odd drums and sounds similar to swords scraping steel, a vibraslap, and a door squeak followed by a disjointed piano key. All to end with red filling the screen in tandem with the trumpets, trombones, tubas, a single violin, and drums as the exclamation and climax of the small piece, releasing the small build of tension it made.

Instantly, the drums of his mother's ringtone came through, the trombones, tubas, and trumpets following and coming together for a powerful start to the song, before falling into a big band rhythm, a children's choir beginning to sing.

Looking slightly to the left, Izuku saw his mother swing her head from side to side, mouthing the words with a smile on her face. It made him smile as well, turning back to the screen to watch.

In the beginning seconds alone, Izuku began to see the reason as to why his mother loved the show. The story and effects were incredible, as well as the easily digestible and followable dialogue. This Shin Hayata did make him a little curious though. He looked so similar to his dad, he could just-

"Oh, your father acted in this, by the way," Inko added as an afterthought. "We were in High School together when this show started to come on air, and I recognized your father as well. What a time to live, huh?" she finished, laying her chin in her hand with a soft smile, looking at her husband from an older time.

Izuku blinked at his mom and opened his mouth to speak, but was thrown for a loop as the sub VTOL, and vertical takeoff and landing plane his dad was driving, smashed into a red, floating orb of light, both crashing down into the forest.

"Huh, so dad's the main character," Izuku muttered, now watching Shin Hayata more closely.

Watching the VTOL crash with an eye roll, Inko felt herself relaxing. She had always found solace with this show. It comforted her in hard times, it talked to her with difficult issues, it taught her to remain calm. Sure, just about everything about it was fake in one way or another, whether that be by fake Kaiju or inaccurate Kaiju information, but it just felt good.

Though, the thing that annoyed her about the show was the inaccuracies with the technology. Well, you had to develop a plot somehow, but come on — a "supergun" that could combine like puzzle pieces and blow up a Kaiju in one shot?

Complete malarkey.

Inko scoffed softly under her breath, watching one of the SSSP members casually shoulder the massive, gleaming weapon.

"The real superguns use cryogenics and nanotech bullets to disrupt Kaiju cell cohesion at a molecular level," she murmured. "And even then, they've got a two-minute cooldown between shots. That thing on screen? That's just three carbon-fiber prop pistols glued together."

She leaned forward a little, narrowing her eyes at the scene as the weapon fired a bright blue beam with a dramatic sound effect. "Also, who the hell signed off on giving every field agent a miniaturized comms set with instant transmission and a molecule-destabilizer pistol? That's, what, a million yen per trigger pull for those pistols? They'd go bankrupt in an afternoon. I know for a fact most agents carry a C4L sidearm and a kinetic baton. Half of them don't even qualify for heavy arms."