One day later.

Shiryu in his hangar was standing straight up, and his head bowed in off mode. However his legs had locked up to prevent him from falling over as he slept. The back of his neck had been plugged into a white and blocky arm like device in the hangar that hung from the ceiling. Black wires hung from the bottom of the device, but it plugged into the back of Rex's neck through a port he had allowed to be open. It led to his spinal chord, and back of his brain to connect his consciousness to the GDI mainframe as well as charge the electrical properties in Shiryu's frame.

Rex though breath light gentle breaths as he slept rather peacefully. Both of his arms were point down and at his sides. His tail didn't move, and was also as well completely relaxed. As he slept his optics had turned off to a black color.

Girain was standing next to him, she spent the night sleeping as standard procedure dictates, with a wire connected to her neural access port, linking her consciousness into the digital world with Rex. Around her were catwalks and technicians working around the clock to keep her systems on top form.

However, GDI technicians were working on him. Some balcony on cranes, gun metal in color with guard rails, had been moved to Shiryu's neck. The technicians wore yellow hard hats, blue work coats under an orange vest, with silver reflectors with tool including screwdrivers in hand they worked around Shiryu's neck to install the vocal decoder allowing him to talk to his human officers. As well though Shiryu's neck armor was opened like a window shutter. Under the armor though unlike a true robot, or MFS unit there was charcoal black flesh with rounded skin patterns on Shiryu's fleshy neck.

Observing and supervising the operation was General O'Grady, he sat in his seat watching carefully as the technicians work around the clock with Rex. He can see the flesh underneath the armor and how the technicians were putting on the decoder into place like an integrated piece of Rex's hardware. "Alright looks like he can smack talk me now. This job just keeps getting better than ever." He mumbled sarcastically. Once the process was done, with the collar in place and activated, the tech specialists began to work on Rex's programming to synch the device with his operating system.

The programming allowed Shiryu's native Godzilian tongue of odd barks, baritone growls, groans, various pitches of noise, and allowed him to stream his thoughts into the decoder. Once the process was done the techs closed his neck flaps concealing his neck again. The techs waved their arms in the air to signal the balconies to be moved away.'

Eli standing next to O'Grady was smiling seeing this all go down. He had his hand placed on guard rails. "I was always curious of what he had to really say. All I've ever gotten from him was text he typed to me on a screen. Should we wake him up, and get him to the surface?"

O'Grady nodded. "Affirmative on that one. Wake him up and take him upstairs, also, we could use Girain to help him speak up his mind about everything. I need feedbacks from the mechs to know how are they performing and their knowledge for the best possible executions." He said.

Eli nodded and went to a podium on the balcony he was standing on filled with keys for typing, levers, and switches. A screen showed a bit of Rex's vitals. A heartbeat monitor show a green line arching up and down showing his heartrate was at nominal levels. Eli typed in a code that said "Good morning". It was obvious, but also a little caring for Eli.

Shiryu, after Eli entered the code, raised his head while his optics flickered on. He raised his right hand to his neck, and looked at his hud seeing a notification of a new item installed to his frame. He tilted his head. Eli stepped back a bit and sighed. "Hey Shiryu. Did you sleep well?" Shiryu at the question didn't make a vocal verbal response, but surprisingly knew how to give a thumbs up using his right hand showing he did know human gestures. "Okay Rex let take a walk outside. Get to the elevator please, and i'll meet you up there. I got a surprise for you."

Shiryu at the word "surprise" tilted his head. He unplugged the device from the back of his neck. The plug resembled a giant square USB cable on top while below the USB like port was another circular plug. A flap on the neck closed concealing the outlets. His legs made loud clicking or snapping noises as they loosened up, and allowed him to move freely. He didn't stretch however. Maybe because he didn't know how.

He however walked to the elevator waiting to be lifted up with Girain.

Meanwhile on another part of the island on the eastern beach a charcoal black kaiju was sitting head bowed, and legs crossed sitting meditatively on a tan sandy beach. He had rough skin, and neck frill though he was Godzillian as the signature dorsal plates protruded from his back bone white and jagged in shape. This was Godzilla Jr, or as the kaiju know him by his real name: "Heisei Gojira Jr".

He breathed slowly and steadily sitting in front of a cave with on the outside had a grey-brown entrance made from rock. The cave itself was surrounded by green foliage and vines on both side while the entrance for the most part was clear and maintained from any plant life.

Though on the inside of the cave another kaiju was sleeping on its right side on some green plant matter made up of trees, bushes, seaweed, and vines. The kaiju was sleeping on the foliage as a bedding. The kaiju itself was a grey-green color with skin much smoother than Jr's as well as a lot thinner. The kaiju's chest was a much light shade of the grey-green color, but the back of the kaiju was covered in a much darker, and much rougher armor it seems. The kaiju had small finned ears, slightly webbed fingers, and toes as well as a tail with a fin on the top. Oddly enough the kaiju was very similar to a Godzillian body wise, and possibly DNA wise as well.

However, this was a female kaiju. Her name was Ogra "Queen of Inishtrahull" originally from the British isles in Europe.

Though now she was on Monster Island in the Pacific, and a much warmer climate. Though as well she was Jr's almost life long friend and ally, but even more his mate and girlfriend. She slept peacefully as she layed on the foliage in the cave, but she slept alone without her partner's comfort.

Jr in the meantime as he meditated shook his head out, and grumbled. His ear on his left twitched several times. He shook his head out again and made a quiet reptilian hiss out of the nostrils on his snout letting out a hot breath. He looked to his left eyes open with brown irises. He thought he sensed a presence he had experienced a week ago. A presence he thought in a bloody battle. On his body were still healed scars from the battle looking like scapes. They were healed thanks to his hyper regenerative powers, but they remained temporarily until he shed his rough skin again. Though the only scar that would remain was the one on his chest which looked like a deformed flower. He made a lowe growl feeling the presence in his head almost like a psychic bond.

Ogra however heard Jr's noises, and raised her head up. She looked on the outside of the cave where he was exposing his teeth while looking at nothing in particular to his left. Her finned ears lowered a bit seeing him do this. He was at times odd, and she even knew he can be aggressive, but she accepted these quirks of his still loving him just the same.

She yawned out, and lifted herself up getting out of the cave to walk to his side. She greeted him by scratching the top of hish head gently using her claws. Jr at this looked up, and stopped his aggression stopping the noises he was making,and closing his eyes comfortably. Ogra though had a slightly concerned look on her face. "Hun you're growling at the air again… There's no danger around here right now. What's got you angry?..." She spoke in a British accent. One that Jr admired, and loved.

Jr sighed while sitting. Ogra sat to his right side. She looked at his healed wounds concerned how he got them. He came home a week ago bleeding, covered in massive gashes showing his red flesh underneath his rough black hide. Despite the fact she thought they made him look handsome she had some concerns for his safety. Jr however hadn't told her about Shiryu yet. He didn't know if he would knowing what he could say to her could cause her to worry.

Jr sighed right there however. "I don't know Ogra. I just got this bad feeling…." He grumbled out while frowning to his left. Ogra though nuzzled the back of his neck using her snout while purring to get him to calm down. "I'm sure you're just being overly defencive again hun. Try to relax for me. Please?"

Jr looked back into her red eyes where she was purring quietly to him while looking back at him blinking her eyes at him occasionally. Jr himself shook his head out and sighed. He smiled back at Ogra trying to not and get him to worry about him. "Okay for you i'll try to stop. M'kay?"

Ogra then hugged him gently purring still. "Thanks hun~" Jr himself made a slight purr, but the thought remained in his head still. He knew he was feeling Shiryu. The only problem was he didn't know if he was alive, or it was his mind playing tricks on him. And if Shiryu was alive then where was he?

Little did Jr know Shiryu was on the same island as him currently. He amy have been able to sense his presence he didn't know whether to trust the feelings, or push them off as him being crazy. Jr however wrapped an arm around Ogra and rested the right side of his head on her left. He was too comfortable to let her know of Shiryu, and the possible danger he poses to kaiju. Jr only comforted Ogra as well rubbing the side of his face against her's.

Back at the GDI hangar, with Rex's activation, his fellow mecha unit, Girain was activated for the day as well. Her optics flashed to life as the cranes and catwalks move away from her, giving her the space she need to move about. Girain noticed that Rex was standing on the elevator platform and move towards it, positioning herself in place and let the platform takes them up. "So what did they do to you while I was out?" She asked casually.

Shiryu looked at Girain with a calm silence still with his arms lowered hit his side. "Unknow. I assume I am about to find out right now though." Eli walked through some of the hallways at the base moving up to the observatory part of the base. Shiryu in the meantime waited to be lifted up to the surface.

As the elevator began to lift them up, Rex can see the various levels of the underground facility of Mother Base, soon they came to the surface, where Girain looks around and on her augmented reality HUD, it shows her a waypoint that designates "Foxtrot" and she walks towards it. But upon arrival, she found that they were being directed to the assembly ground for Mecha units with O'Grady watching them on the OP tower.

Eli came up to the guard rail at the base's observatory roof. He sat down in a blue outdoor chair, and turned on an advanced tablet. On the tablet were the controls for Shiryu's vocal decoder. All the adjustments were labeled as horizontal blue bars, and at the top a sound bar reading was shown to get the volume levels.

Eli put on a headset and tapped the device on the headphone piece to get Shiryu's attention. "Rex, come to me please. We're going to test out a new device we placed onto you." Shiryu looked at the roof observatory turning his head to see the miniscule in comparison Eli sitting down. Shiryu slowly walked over to eli making loud thumping sounds on the ground.

"Mr. Baline, what's the agenda for today?" Girain asked him, her voice went through the comms of the observation post's communication equipment. "Rex seems to have been updated with something but I can't tell what it is?" She said.

Eli nodded to Girain, and tapped into her comms as well. "Well while you two were asleep last night the technicians and me in the base installed a vocal decoder onto rex here so he can respond to us verbally. Here Rex come closer." Shiryu nodded and got closer to Eli. Eli nodded and looked back down at the tablet. "Okay now try speaking to me. Say uhhh…. Apple?... is apple good?" Shiryu shrugged.

Rex though began to speak to Eli, or at least tried to. What came out first was his Godzillian voice sounding bassy and baritone as ever. It was more of a grunt then a roar or growl.

Eli then tapped the screen of the tablet where a red button to activate the vocal decoder was. What came out of the decoder though was a loud ear piercing whining sound. Eli winced hearing the unpleasant noise.

"Mr. Baline, I believe you should date a sound designer to fix your handicap with audio technology." O'Grady said.

Eli barely heard what O'Grady said, but tapped at the screen of the pad in a quick manner to fix the issue. He stroked the audio balancers. At first it sounded like static coming out of the decoder, then a high pitched non human voice, before a monstrous low booming voice. Eli groaned trying to figure this out while Shiryu kept using his voice. Finally though Eli heard what sounded to be a natural human like voice. He looked up surprised. "Wait Rex say that again." Shiryu stopped using his voice for the moment before speaking again. "Apple?"

Girain cocked her head to the side, finding the testing rather strange, the albino cyborg looked back up at Eli and ponders. "Eli, are you sure that you guys didn't make Rex too shy to speak for himself?" She asked before looking back at Rex.

Eli shook his head, and looked back at Girain. "Well we don't know why he's so shy, but he responds to orders quite well. At least action wise." Eli turned his head, and looked back up at Rex. "Okay Shiryu. Um. Well say your own name first of all please." Shiryu nodded once. "Anti-K Unit Shiryu "Corsair" Rex serial number: 510-2578-890." Eli then nodded, and smiled back at O'Grady. "Well so much for smack talk."

"Just you wait and see." O'Grady glared back at Eli. "Rex I want you to file a full report on your first day on the island. I don't need preachy sentiment just make it honest." The general spoke up, sounding like he was both commanding Rex and at the same time, he was reasoning with him.

Shiryu nodded once again. "First day on the island. Recalling memories." Eli sighed seeing even with the decoder on Shiryu was still a robotic soul. Shiryu sounded on the decoder again. "My unit was placed into the GDI hanger after practicing on the GDI firing range made for the mecha units. I then was scheduled for a shower with the other two units of which my frame was cleaned. I was then allowed to stay in the hangar, and…. Relax?" Eli nodded slowly. "That's right relax." Shiryu tilted his head. "Does not comply with mission statement. Current mission statements: Defend from kaiju threats, protect the populace, act against terror threats as a counter terror unit. Relax does not comply with these."

Girain irked her head back slightly, finding just how bland and condescending Rex is with his expressions and report. She knew that they molded him into a machine but a machine without thoughts. She sighed, finding it rather distressful that her fellow Mecha unit on the island isn't as dynamic as the technology and research being put into him. "So then, your billion dollar research into intelligent can only produce simple responses to a normal question?" She asked sarcastically to Eli.

Eli sighed a bit disappointed himself. "Well unfortunately yes it seems. We wanted him to act as sharp and professional on the field as possible for his own image. He's still a controversy. Putting a live Godzillasaurus into armor. Though thankfully it's a professional language, and not a foul mouthed, pr slang ridden one." Eli looked back up at rex smiling. "Okay what else did you do yesterday?" Shiryu looked back at Girain, and then back down at Eli. "During this relaxing I was allowed by Unit Girain to lay down on the ground while she seemed to inspect my frame using physical contact while laying down herself." Eli gulped seeing just how bad this was with Shiryu's blankness. "Um Rex. That was a hug."

Girain nodded at Rex, confirming Eli's information. "It was a simple gesture that everyone uses to express affection towards each other. It can be used with many meaning in mind. But you need to be emotionally matured in order to fully comprehend it." She said, then look up at Eli himself. "You did well with creating a machine, but you fail at making a professional."

Eli sighed again thinking he should be wearing a dunce cap at this point by the critical judgment around him. "Well. I suppose that is our own fault. Anyways continue. What happened next Rex?" Shiryu tilted his head in thought recalling the events. "Well after this Girain allowed me to go on patrol with her around part of the island. We came across a beach where we monitored the ocean before... An odd thing happened to me. An odd emotion came over me. Unknown how the emotion was triggered, but it caused me to show feelings." Eli looked back over at Girain as Shiryu continued. "It seems during that patrol i under went a sobbing behavior as Girain led me into the ocean water to be taken by a current to a hot spring." Eli widened his eyes seemingly shocked, but not in an angered, or in a negative sense. More of just genuine surprise. He kept staring at Girain jaw agape.

Girain wasn't quite surprise herself, she simply walk over to Rex and planted her hand on his right shoulder. "There is a difference between a professional and a machine. A professional knows and control emotions and rational thoughts with harmony. A machine lacks the ability to make such decision when it interacts with a living creature."

Eli tilted his head seeing Girain's odd affection towards Rex. He tilted his own head, and looked down seemingly disappointed in his own self. He then rubbed his forehead while he thought whether to continue, or not seeing a massive pile of evidence go against him on his breaking of morals and ethics alike. Nonetheless, he continued. "What else happened Rex?" Shiryu himself continued. "At the springs me and Girain seemed to have relaxed in the hot spring together while talking to two other kaiju. Kaiju IDs: Rodan and Anguirus. They seemed to have heard of me before we even met getting there information from….. Godzilla…." Eli nodded "Well i remember some how Anguirus pulled a maneuver on you to knock you out for a while. Girain why did Anguirus do that anyways?"

Girain clears her throat and began to submit her answer to him. "Well he found Rex stressed out for some reasons. Perhaps he was outside of his safe zone for the first time. Then Anguirus apply a sort of massage method on him to calm him down and it does actually make him sleep for 20 minutes. Thus proving he is indeed made from Jr's DNA."

Eli nodded to this. "Well his stress levels have read to be high at points." He scratched his beard looking at Girain curiously. Eli then crossed one leg over the other looking much like a therapist would. "Well yes. He is in fact a genetic clone of Jr. I don't understand how Anguirus found this out. Maybe Rex's personality, and voice perhaps. Though surprisingly after this gesture Shiryu's stress levels lowered." He then tapped on the screen of the pad switching it off of the screen of the vocal decoder to a different screen. It had a password, employee name, a captcha, and a lock symbol in red. "Well what next Rex?" Shiryu continued remaining motionless like a statue. "After I got up me and Girain moved back to the base where we had a conversation on emotions. I ended up feeling an odd impulse in me, and a gave Girain what others would call a hug" Eli's eyes widened again, but Shiryu continued. "Though in my apologies I'm not sure if it was consensual. Apologies Unit Girain."

Girain sighed and simple stroke his head and hug him by his neck into her thigh. "It's the most sincere within you Rex. Thanks." She gently patted him on his shoulder.

Eli almost felt a tear slip from his own eye watching her. He shook his head out, and looked around nervously before going back down to the pad. "Rex. How does this make you feel though being given this affection?" Shiryu placed his head into Girain while she comforts him. "It's an odd feeling. It seems she has accepted me almost as a brother into this interaction. Honestly, it feels genuinely good." Eli nodded, and looked back at Girain. "Is this true?"

She nodded again, "Yes, I took it upon myself to adopt Rex as my younger brother. He deserve to learn something more valuable than another set of tactics and strategies. Not all conflicts have to be resolved with force. He needs to know this if he is to defend humanity from Kaiju." She concluded and got up to her feet.

Eli nodded to these sentiments before tilting his head again. "But why so suddenly? Its incredible what I'm seeing, but I just need a bit more explaining. I haven't seen this side of the kaiju, and let alone Shiryu before."

Girain sighed, she clears her throat again before speaking up to Eli. "Because Eli, just because we huge, doesn't mean we don't have emotions and feelings. Remember that Eli. We're not mindless animals. One look at Rex here and I saw my younger self in him so it's reasonable for me to take him in." She finished and have her left hand holding his right hand tightly.

Eli smiled up at Girain nodding slowly before looking around nervously in his chair again. He looked to his right, and left looking at the concrete top of the GDI bases roof/observatory. He even looked behind himself almost sweating. He rubbed the side of his face before mumbling to himself looking at the pad tapping its screen typing something. "Oh boy… I think Sullivan is going to kill me for this, but Rex. Um. I believe what Girain is doing here is helping you. So i'm going to make you a deal." Shiryu raised his head, and stood up looking down at Eli. "What is the objective?"

General O'Grady was now looking rather concerned and curious at the decision Eli was about to make and tilted his head in to ask him. "So what are you planning to do? Make an adoption agency?" The general asked while rubbing his moustache.

Eli shook his head. "No. I'm going to remove Shiryu's range inhibitor allowing him to move freely on the island, but only on the condition Girain continues to do what she is doing, and for Shiryu to stay out of trouble." Eli pressed the red lock icon, and it instantly turned into an unlocked symbol blue in color. However, Shiryu felt the inhibitor removed, and froze up a little. A loud beeping sound from his armor was heard. "Eli…" Eli sighed. "I thought maybe after seeing this you could use some liberties of your own."

"So does this mean Rex can explore the island on his own initiative?" She asked Eli. Girain would then kneel down next to Rex and check on his armor's system, she gave it a scan and found the range inhibitor of him removed.

Eli placed the pad down, and nodded to Girain again. "That's right. It'll help him move throughout the island though for a while I think he'll need your guidance on how to move freely. Possibly even monitor him so he doesn't get into trouble, or even cause trouble. Look, I see what you're doing and it looks like it's working for him." Shiryu got out of his stiff position after the inhibitor was removed, but rubbed the back of his head casing using his left hand.

Girain bent herself over to Shiryu, she knew he needs to know the general layout of the island and know the general knowledge she has gathered on the residents of the island. A black cable came out of the palm of her right hand, dangling on the ground. "Rex can I access your port to upload the basic data on the residents of the Island? I think you should know some of the members of the family here." She said.

Shiryu looked at the cable, and back at Girain's face. He then looked down at Eli again. Eli shrugged. "Well she's the expert around here. I'm not afraid to admit it. I'll allow this." Shiryu nodded, and opened the back of his neck to show Girain the device on the back of his neck while he bent his back, and bowed his head down so she could reach better.

"Thanks Rex." She would then direct her cable to snake over to Rex's access port and it latches into place, an electric jolt surge through them as a series of announcements pops up on his HUD, there were boxes that said "Detected external hardware. Will you authorize access?". Once Rex granted Girain access, she would then upload into him terabytes of files of her interactions with Angy, Rodan, Jr and Heisei as well as Ogra.

Shiryu growled a bit feel the surge of data go into his mind. It felt like a headache to him, but as he felt this so to did someone else on the island. Jr as he sat next to Ogra shook his head out feeling some kind of connection going on as Shiryu was hacked into. He growled as well as shaking his head out, but Ogra rubbed his right shoulder. She sighed seeing him again do this thinking it was him being over protective, but she didn't realize what was really going on in his head. "Alrighty Goji. I think you need to come back into the cave for a bit… you seem to be stressed about something…"

She help him up lifting Jr by his upper arms leading him back into the cave. Jr groaned waking with her as she helped him walk into the cave. Ogra laid him down on his chest on the foliage before laying down by his right. Ogra sighed looking at Jr's scars though. He refused to talk about them for Ogra's own sake. Ogra leaned in and kissed the top of his head causing Jr's groaning and growling go away. "Try to get some rest dear. You're worrying me…" Jr in response closed his eyes, and rubbed his chin into the foliage to get his head comfortable. "I'll try hun…" Ogra smiled at him, and rubbed his back next to his dorsal plates making sure not to get too close to the dorsal plates, or else she might cut herself on the sharp back of Jr. she laid her own head down onto the green foliage closing her own eyes purring to Jr.

However, Shiryu saw all the data go into his mind processor, and stored like data. Everything he needed to know about the kaiju on this island was now more known to him.

Once the process was done and Girain saw the upload bar has reached its completion mark, she retracts the cable from his port and back into her palm and gave his forehead a peck. "There you go little brother." She rubbed his head affectionately, trying to help him calm himself down and control himself better.

Eli became a little nervous hearing Shiryu's growling. Though Shiryu sighed out a hot breath after the head rush had ended. He shook his head out before walking over to where Eli was sitting. Shiryu lifted his right hand over the guardrail. "Thank you Eli…" Eli saw this gesture and gave Shiryu's index finger a pat nodding. He looked back up over to Girain. "Good luck you two. Oh and bring him back at nightfall. That'll be his little curfew."

"Don't worry Eli, I remember that." She assured him confidently as General O'Grady pressed a button that stops the recording device. Girain would then look back at Rex with a friendly expression on her face, but the expression was rather stiff and non existent due to her metal plates.

Shiryu saw the expression regardless though, and felt a little more confident knowing Girain would be around to guide him. He removed his hand from the guard rail, and moved a bit closer to her. Eli then stood up raising his voice before the two left. "Oh and make sure he stays out of trouble. Please. I know I can trust you with his safety, and I want to see his emotions improve, but I want to see him safe most of all."

Girain nodded and place her right hand on her left chest plate. "You have my word for it. Let's go outside Rex." She said, excitedly nuzzle Rex's forehead.

Eli sighed thankful for Girain. He wiped his forehead out waving to them good luck as he went back inside the GDI base to monitor the two. However, Sullivan Palmer in the base was reading over the recent events regarding the former GDF looking over Girain's escape incident, he was reading the documentation at a desk in a meeting room while comparing them to the Rex incident a week ago. It seems the events could have happened around a similar time frame. Though this left Sullivan with a lot of issues at hand. "The damn UN has been with our hands full because of all this. This Gregory Connor. He sounded like he really wanted a berserk incident…"

At that moment, Girain and Rex has departed the base to test out Rex's behaviors with his range inhibitor removed, Girain at the moment, thought it would be a good moment to have Rex making a pseudo amphibious patrol of the island's maritime environment. She led him to the same beach once again, the Albino mecha this time decided to encourage him to swim with her. "Come on Rex let's go for a swim. The weather looks lovely today." She said as she wades into the water.

Shiryu himself looked into his HUD pulling up information labeling the weather blocking his view of the blue ocean partially. "Current weather outlook: partially cloudy. Percentage of rain: 20 percent. Humidity: 45 percent. Current temperature: 98 degrees fahrenheit." He pulled away the weather info storing them way in a different part of his hud to scan the ocean. His hud mad a horizontal downwards moving line scanning the water, and they highlighting it in a cyan color.

Elseware jr grumbled in his cave lifting his head up above the foliage slightly. "Ogra I can't sleep…" Ogra sighed out looking up at him while her head lay down on the foliage. "Well you aren't going to if you keep talking to me." Jr mumbled, and felt his stomach gurgle a little. "Ogra you getting hungry?" Ogra squinted thinking not wanting him to go out again on his own, or else he may come back more injured. Though the exercise might help him sleep as well. "Yeah sure. Go out and get us something to snack on." She sighed, but smiled kissing Jr on the lips.

Jr got up smiling himself, and walked out of the cave to head into the ocean. He really only walked into the water eventually disappearing under the waves concealed by the blue water. Ogra though sighed out again now alone, and bored without Jr. She wasn't really hungry either. Her concern for Jr caused her stress to remove any hunger from her.

Shiryu finished the scanning on the ocean, and walked over to the water line. He looked at the water hesitantly. He lifted his right leg dipping his foot talons into the water before taking it back out. He did this 3 times repeatedly.

Girain wasn't quite impressed with his hesitant to go and swim with her, she sighed and thought about how to encourage him to enter the water with her. "What's the matter Rex? Are you afraid? I thought you were an amphibious unit." She said mockingly.

The mocking tone showed a bit of Rex's personality as he whimpered to himself a little. He gulped out and sighed to himself. Despite having the range inhibitor removed he was still nervous looking at the ocean. "Are you sure this is allowed by both of our superiors?..."

Girain nodded, her conviction remains unphased. "Of course it is. Beside, you could use these trips to patrol the island's maritime perimeter. Now come on Rex, it's for your own good." She came to him and tugged his arm, gently pulling him into the water with her, but her action was much more gentle, she didn't show him the forcefulness of a dominant female but a sister to him.

Shiryu allowed himself to be pulled into the water. His legs wadded into the water pushing the blue liquid away from his legs, but not causing massive splashes. Finally in the water his shoulders lowered as a body language sign he was relaxed a little for once. He sighed out and glanced around waist deep in the water. "I suppose we can begin a patrol of the island now." he said though not much emotion in his voice.

Girain nodded and began to swim out away from the beach head of the island. "Follow me, let's head out to about 1 miles out from the coast line and swim around the place." She said on his comms, Rex could see the motion of her swimming style strongly resembling Jr's method of swimming and crocodile like as she rise and dive in a wave like motion. "Come on Rex, let's go." She said, encouraging him to come at her.

Shiryu nodded, but once he began swimming Girain became shocked by just his swimming method alone. He dived under the water making a massive white splash of water being thrown up into the air. Once under the water he used his tail, and back and forth movement of his hips to propel himself through the the water. Though he was really throttling himself at a staggering velocity cutting through the water almost like it wasn't there with little resistance to his metal frame. He quickly joined up with Girain though the speed at which he was going caused a massive current to hit her though not on purpose.

Girain flail underwater and made a barrel roll to recover herself from the movement of Rex as she speeds up her swimming to catch up with him. "I know you're fast on your feet in CQC, but you didn't tell me about you being that fast underwater." She swam up to him, finally catching up to her adopted brother and gave him an affectionate hug and noogie.

Shiryu after being caught yelped in surprise as well as squirmed around sinking a bit being unable to swim with Girain giving him the affection. Though it certainly wasn't unwanted. It only confused him. "You appear to be hindering my mobility to swim properly." he said confused. Although he stopped squirming, and held onto Girain's arms.

Girain chuckled as she held onto his hand with her own, she would then swim around the island with Rex in tow, underneath the waves, they can see the various oceanic lifeform and maritime life form such as whales, sea serpents and other mutated lifeforms due to the radiation of the island. "Look at this Rex, these are food source of Jr, he usually hunts these things for his daily meals. Recently he has increased his hunting for Ogra as well." Girain gently direct Rex to animals of interest in the ocean floor.

Shiryu himself looked at a picture of Ogra in his hud reminding himself who the kaiju were. He removed the photo to scan over the mutated wild life. The serpents in question were extremely long white snake like creatures that hung out either at the surface to get air, or lower themselves at the sand in the ocean hiding in between coral and rocks to stalk their own prey making a food chain. That or hiding from predators like Jr.

Other signs of life included enlarged species of fish. Some massive swordfish the size of at least six semi trailers put into columns of two and rows of 3. Other fish were schools of giant fish that the kaiju consumed as a food source. Since the nuclear age and nuclear testing on the planet it seems a resurgence of kaiju has come up, and the world was now fit for the kaiju to live on again. Food was available for their massive size though it was unclear whether humans could eat the fish like accidental GMOs.

But while the two were enjoying their swimming, they heard something on their Sonar. Girain took a quick glance at her sonar display and found large green contact moving towards their position, she knew the signature and was frightened by it. "Rex hide! It's Jr going on a hunt!" She ushered him to safety behind a large mutated coral reef and look up at the silhouette of Jr.

Shiryu yelped out again actually breaking free of Girain's hold on him. "SHIT!" Apparently despite being so robotic he knew how to swear as well as have a sense of urgency to him. He bolted through the water going deeper until going behind a coral reef that was a light pink in color. He dived behind it looking at his own sonar on the bottom left of his hud seeing the blipping green signature as well. He lowered himself to his chest, but he didn't cower. Instead his tonfas folded open like switchblade knives in an instant.

Jr through bolted himself to the far left of Girain digging behind a rock sending sand up into the water while his tail thrashed upwards in the water in random directions. He legs and feet moved up and down rapidly as he roared out in his hunt.

He came up out of the rock though as he raised a cloudy trail of red blood and a limp white snake trailed behind his mouth. His teeth sunk into the flesh of the snake embedded and stuck into the snake. He turned his head to the right seeing Girain, and his expression went into a surprised almost embarrassed look as the blood clouded up around his face concealing his face only.

Girain swam over to Jr before keeping herself leveled with him, she pointed her index finger upward to tell to surface with her and talk. She would then swam up to the surface with Jr following her, upon surfacing, he can hear her hissing out, as her body pumps water out of their ballasts. "Hey Jr, are you going on hunting?" She asked politely.

Jr on the surface nodded still with the snake in his mouth, but Girain saw healed black wounds scattered randomly on his body. They were scrapped lines almost like he had been cut into, or stabbed. They were fairly recent as well. Jr though spoke, but was muffled with the snake in his mouth still. He shook his head and grabbed the tail end of the snake pulling it out of his teeth. As soon as he did the limp snake gushed out blood from its dead body as well as showed that Jr's teeth and part of his mouth was coated with the snake's blood. He looked back over to Girain and nodded. "Yeah. Well i was." He held up the snake high in the air as it dripped blood into the ocean clouding part of the blue water red. "I couldn't sleep for some reason so I just went out to hunt. What are you doing out here?" He asked showing his respect to her. She was almost a grandmother to him as well as the only mother figure he knew in his life.

"Well I was on patrol again to keep the island safe from human smugglers when I ran into you." She coyly said, sounding innocent and convincing to him. Her honesty shines through her words and soft tone as she looked over his trophy of the day. "Something's troubling you lately?" She asked, sounding rather concerned towards Jr's well being when he spoke of his sleeping difficulty.

Jr sighed, and nodded slowly. He looked back down at his wounds that had healed. "You could say that…" He was a bit hesitant to say what had happened. Shiryu in the meantime stood as still as the coral he was hiding behind. He knew full well though what had happened that day, and what was causing Jr's stress. Jr looked back up at Girain. "Something, or i mean someone has been on my mind, but you wouldn't believe me. I don't even believe it myself…" He said this a bit cryptically.

She mused on his words carefully and stroke her chin, she knew that she can't be too honest and reveal Rex's position to him right now considering their history. "Really now? What if I do believe you?" Girain asked sounding as if she was testing him, "Since I'm interested in mysteries, you can trust me to help you with that." She said.

Jr squinted his head. He bowed his head and closed his eyes tightly in thought. A deep though that was though. He then raised his head back up looking Girain back in her optics. "Okay, but this is weird even by my standards…" He cleared his throat raising his charcole black brows quickly huffing out. "About two weeks ago I met, or actually more like FOUGHT a mecha unit. But it wasn't like you, Giryia, or even grandad. He was slim. Very friggin slim. He was very angular. Not like you. He had foot talons, green highlights, these weird blades under his arms… they could actually pierce my flesh, and that's not easy to fucking do mind you…" He closed his eyes, and sighed. "His name was Shiryu Rex…"

Girain made a gasped, a simulated gasp sound but still enough to show her genuine surprise and shock to hear of Jr's information. She pondered the thought of this carefully before saying a word to him. "Jr, according to you this mecha unit is much slimmer and faster. I wouldn't be too surprised to know that the humans pour their efforts into something that can hurt you and pierce your flesh. But tell me Jr, why does this Mecha unit concerns you now?" She asked, sounding rather intrigued.

Jr grumbled and made a fierce frown glaring at Girain. He spoke with a low voice. "Because, and here's where you won't believe me, the humans somehow made a clone of me… I don't know how, or why me and not dad. I just know he sound like me, he fights like me, and he looks like me. Last time i saw him I left him in Tokyo after a massive fight with another kaiju named Ray, and another mecha named Valkry. My main worry is if Shiryu is alive. I swear I can feel him… I just can't find him. I just can't explain it. We fought until we were both bleeding, and tired…" He said this in an eerie manner. Girain would have felt chills by his words.

And indeed she does feel the chills crawling up her spines like an ice serpent of death, she gulped upon hearing this and pretend to look like she was interested in the story. "Now this is worrying me. Dare I say it, but I think the humans cloned you and create this cyborg to kill you. I'll keep an eye out and make sure that this cyborg won't hurt you ever again. Now you go back to your Ogra and you two find something productive to do." She instructed him carefully and calmly, giving off an aura of familial connection to assure him of her words.

Jr squinted at the word "productive", but shrugged. He sensed the familial connection nodding and trusting Girain's words. "Thank you for believing me. I told Rodan and Anguirus, and at first they thought I was CRAZY! DO I LOOK CRAZY?" He shook his head out, and tapped the right side of his head. "Sorry. The sleep thing hasn't been going good for me. I don't like when people won't listen to me, and it gets me going. Haven't told dad or Ogra this for this reason…"

Girain nodded and gave him a tender hug, patting him on his back and rubbing his dorsal plates. "Glad to be of assistance Jr. Have a nice day then." She broke off from the hug and found some smudges of blood on her albino plates and wash them away with seawater.

Jr nodded, and waved to her a "goodbye for now" as he dived into the ocean. He let his jagged pale dorsal plates stick out of the water's surface as he swam exactly like Shiryu away using the swaying of his hips, and tail to move himself back to the cave. With him gone Girain radioed in to Shiryu for a "coast is clear".

"All clear here now Rex. He's gone back to his home." She said as she dived back down to regroup with Rex. But while the two were patrolling the maritime area of the island, their activities were being monitored by O'Grady in his War Room as he keeps tab on their daily patrols.

Sullivan in the room was watching the monitors, but as well had mountains full of paperwork to stamp relating to the former GDF's "Project Ghost" incident. He was also working on paperwork on the "Nuclear walker hijacking" incident. He grumbled to himself looking at the screen. "Eli what the hell are you doing? This is not quarantine protocols… If someone fucking sees him swimming in the ocean it's going to lead him to be deconstructed, my ass on the line, the UNKCC's ass, and judging by this GDF stuff it would be Greggory Connor's if he was still alive… My damn hands are full because of him. Couldn't keep security up to the highest level. Couldn't learn from the past with Kiryu…" He continued stamping sheets of paper continuously grumbling to himself.

"Mr. Palmer, I couldn't careless about your quarantine protocols. Here, Rex will have to learn how to be a Green Beret of Godzillian if he is to keep himself sharp, or he can just coup up in the hangar and rust his legs away. Period." O'Grady grumbled, he continues to monitor Girain and Rex's swimming around the island and their landfall on the western beach of the island.

Sullivan Palmer didn't speak much after that though he crossed his arms, and huffed looking at the screen seeing the two make landfall. On the screen though the way Shiryu made his exit was like a massive demonstration of force as he leaped out of the water, then hitting his metal chest on the sand of the western beach. He slid on the sand before using the tips of his thighs to kick him back up into the air, bringing his two feet together, and then separating them parting ways to land on the ground with a massive bang while his back hunched over. Sullivan smirked seeing this. "Still the coolest wow moment to come from him. You know besides his atomic breath. He can make one hell of an entrance, and not even try."

Of course, Girain's landfall wasn't as impressive as Rex's own, as she made landfall, she rose up from the ocean at the shallow water section with water splashing backwards and droplets on her body. She wades ashore in a more sluggish manner compared to Rex but was still able to keep up with her adopted brother. "Well that was pleasant, save for having a close call with Jr there. Don't you think Rex?" She asked and walked up to him and sit down on the white sand.

Shiryu grumbled hearing that name. "Too close in my opinion… He fights way too close to my style leading to a violent stalemate occasionally despite my arsenal of weapons…" Despite what Jr had said even Shiryu had tensions directed at Jr. He scanned around the environment seeing tropical trees, palms, and bushed. It was quite scenic, but for whatever reason Rex did the odd action of raking at the sand on the ground using his foot talons. He tilted his head doing this curious about the material of the sand. It appears he didn't get out much.

Girain looked down at his talons, noticing how curious he was at the sensation of having sands on his foot, and him raking at them like leaves gives her greater curiosity fuel as he explores the sensation of sands and the natural world on his feet. "You know Rex, sometimes I wish I could get you up to speed on what I know in an instant." She said awkwardly. Her right hand stroke his mechanical left leg, feeling the strong metal limb and its firm grip on the ground. "Did they have to?" She mumbled, feeling that both him and her species were violated by his artificial limbs for the sake of "Mobility."

Unlike Jr's legs Shiryu had his shins pointed backwards on prosthetic limbs with knees that was well went backwards slightly. He looked down at his fake legs. "For the sake of fighting against fighting human terror forces it is a necessary change. My body has multiple augmentations. Though… I am not ready to show any body yet…" His foot talons on his left leg punctured the sand in a tapping motion as Girain rubbed his leg. It seemed he had at least been given an advanced artificial sense of touch in his legs and feet. It's a necessary sense for living things to have to process pain, and dangers for survival. For him, it was to see if he was damaged too much.

Girain's touching his legs went from his feet up to his thighs where she stops in a sudden. The albino mech retracted her hand from him and sat down looking out into the ocean. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to…" She sheepishly said, sounding like she was ashamed for something.

Shiryu himself tilted his head seemingly confused at the ashamed tone she just gave off. He turned around dragging his metal tail in the sand looking out at the ocean himself. "Sorry for what? I do not understand. You have done no mistakes yet in my calculations. I have been returned in close proximity to mother base, and safely so without any damages to my frame. What could be the issue?" he said this robotically, but confused as well. His stare into the ocean though was blank as his face never changed from the deadly stare that was his helmet. No facial expressions. Just an unchanging glare.

Girain sighed rubbing the hand she used to stroke his body before speaking the reason behind her shame. "Do you know what the motion of rubbing one's thigh is Rex? It's an act of carnal desire for reproduction. I don't even want to go into the meanings behind it either Rex." She said shiveringly, trying to restrain herself from diving deep into the shameful implications as her head remains looking at the ocean.

Shiryu at this felt the fingers of his hand scrunch up. He quickly went into the list of his protocols glazing to number 4 on the list. He read this allowed to Girain sounding nervous. "Protocol 4: If a Rex Unit feels the sudden to mate with a female kaiju then the unit in question will go into an automatic shutdown to prevent damage to the frame as well as to prevent the risk of berserker mode." he looked down at Girain with a blank unchanging face. "I strongly advise you do not do this for my own sake…" He said this deadly cold.

Girain nodded, "Yes I agree. Come on let's go home, we're done with our patrol for today." she got back up on her feet and help Rex by offering him a hand to stand up. As this happens, O'Grady twirled his pen and observe her gestures and every bits of body language she gives off to Rex. It all matches a familial pattern of a protective older sister, psychology wise, to her younger timid brother.

Eli sat next to O'Grady watching as well, but he had hand over his heart and a polite smile watching this as Rex was taken back home for a night of rest. Eli sighed watching it. There was no use of hiding his smile as it shown like a light in a dark room. "I could not have asked a better mecha to do the job she's doing. You're right. She does have that charm to her." He had a laptop with him making a personal diary entry, and catalogue for the daily events. "If this goes on we might actually get him to express himself better to us!" He sounded genuinely excited.

"Really now? How come you couldn't try to think about that right from the get go?" O'Grady sarcastically asked as he watch the footage of Girain leading Rex back to base. The two mechas were walking side by side with Girain holding his hand. "You know Mr. Baline, if you had just thought about programming Rex with basic social skills side by side with military skills, you wouldn't have much problems like now." The general said, jotting down notes of his observation on the GDI official report case file.

Eli sighed again seeing Shiryu lowered with Girain into the hangar of the GDI base. He rubbed his own short brown bread in thought. "Well I'll admit it was our own mistake making him a blank soul. We made sure to learn from the Anti Megalosaurus Force past with Kiryu, but at the same time it looks like we made more mistakes after fixing the old ones. You have access to Rex's files now so you can read up just what could have gone wrong. It was really to make him trust humans, and to make sure that a berserker freakout wouldn't happen." he spun his own red pen around his fingers thinking. "One of our exercises for this was once he woke up the first thing we had him see was a human's face to imprint on us. I volunteered myself as i helped in his creation the most. I guess you can say i'm… His surrogate father?"

The General nodded as he filed in his report to the GDI's archive and went to the observatory of the hangar area. "That's right. His surrogate father and still you make your 'Son' a blank soul and now he needs someone to remind him that he has a brain." O'Grady soon returned to the hangar area where he found Girain and Rex returned from their patrol of the island's maritime unit, they were soon joined by Giryia, the purple Mecha unit and twin sister to Girain.

"Hey sis, how is your new adopted brother so far?" Giryia asked teasingly.

"He's learning, so far so good he's still very much a shy individual but he'll learn how to adapt soon. Girain explained as she gave Rex an affectionate pet on his forehead. This was followed by Giryia giving his cheek a caress as her weapons were dismounted and placed in storage.

Shiryu feeling his sisters affection again sighed out, and lowered himself. He seemed to be getting used to it though he was still rough along the edges not knowing what to give back to them. He however moved his head to rub against Giryia's hand. He then looked around the hangar for his charging port to get rested for the night being back in base.

Giryia purred back as she felt him moving his head against her hand, she too soon gave him a quick hug and patted him on his back before a charging port was shown to him. The cable connects with his access port and allows his body to charge up while he sleeps and two more similar in shape and size were presented to Girain and Giryia. The twins were connected into the digital realm via the cables and their consciousnesses soon leave their physical bodies. The rested well for the entire evening, with Girain and Giryia seems to have grown closer to Rex the more they interact with him.