"Can you mentally contact him?" Cait asked. She didn't know all what the Atlanteans of this dimension could do.

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"Doesn't work that way," Nim said. She watched for a minute more, seeing what defenses the military was mounting.

It wouldn't be enough. Not against something like that.

"Into the fray, I guess," she said. Maybe sea-born muscles like theirs would be enough.

She dove at the creature like a missile.

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Cait used her powers and turned the water around the creature into a gel-like substance.

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If the creature even felt the blow, it didn't show it. Nor did it seem to be slowed down in the slightest by Cait's efforts. Even the attacks of the military weren't having much effect.

"Dammit..." Nim said. "We need something bigger..."

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Cait let the water return to normal and started the water swirling around the beast. Faster and faster until it was a malestrom of water swirling around the creature.

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Nim took a moment to reach out with her own marine telepathy, searching for an old, slow mind. But one that, if she could rouse it, could turn the tide. She had to hope her new ally could hold things back.

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Cait kept the waters moving and increased the speed. A very large whirlpool formed around the beast.

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The whirlpool slowed the creature, but did not stop it.

A heavy thud shook the ocean floor. Nim had done it. She had woken Giganto.

Now she just had to control it.

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Cait kept the whirlpool going, but she also reached out to the water inside the creature. She tried to slow it down and slow the creature down.

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It was slowing it enough. Giganto plodded toward the creature, hammering it with its fists.

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Cait slowed the whirlpool down, but kept up trying to slow the creature's blood down.

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Nim struggled to maintain control of Giganto, as it battered down the creature. The beast's mind was old and strange, but controllable. For now.

The monstrous creature let out a shriek that cut through the ocean and through minds.

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Cait clutched her head with her hands when the psychic backlash hit.

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Nim held her own head, reeling from the backlash. She lost her control of Giganto, the giant whale suddenly stopping its fight.

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Cait shook off what pain she could and reached for the water in the beast. This time she went for stopping his blood flow instead of slowing it down.

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She was a daughter of Namor, heir to the Throne of Atlantis.

And she. Would not. Be cowed. By this. THING!

Nim forced herself to think past the pain, imposing her will again on Giganto, pulling the beast back. She forced her thoughts toward the creature. The broadcast was strong, and hopefully her new fighting companion would gather her intentions and support it.

GO BACK! FROM WHENCE YOU CAME!

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Cait continued to manipulate the water inside the creature and also pushed her will on it.

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Under such assault, from inside and out, the creature let out one final scream... then vanished.

Nim let out a breath she hadn't even been aware she was holding. "What the hell was that?!"

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"I don't know," Cait said. "I'm not from this dimension. Remember."

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"Right, sorry," Nim said. She sighed. "Sorry, I need to take charge of this. Getting you back is going to have to wait."

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Cait nodded. "Your duty to your kingdom and people come first. I understand."

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