Heavy Metal v3.5

His father gave up, but he was not about to. Godzilla laid Kiryuu's head back down onto the seabed and he pushed off the ground. He hated being used, hated being an escape goat for everyone in this world. He was no one's puppet. Titanosaurus reared back, letting loose a horrid sound. It was a similar sound weapon that the strange serpent monster also let loose. Godzilla crashed back onto the ground, feeling his body sinking in with the blast of the sound.

Manda growled, slamming his finned tail at Kraken, knocking him away. Kraken swam towards the Dragon, as Leviathan opened his great jaws. The jaws came down upon him and the Kraken grabbed them. With one smooth flip of his tail, he swung Manda around, tossing the great Dragon away from the battle.

T'is not thy fight, East Guardian! Kraken growled.

Kraken felt something grab him by the tail. He glanced down, seeing Godzilla yank his tail down. Titanosaurus growled, flipping his tail about, batting the great dinosaur away from him. Godzilla's back flickered and his jaws parted. He blasted his white-hot heat towards Kraken. Kraken quickly swam away from it, rolling over to the side. It was his turn. Kraken reared back, ready blast his shockwave, when something dark shot up and grabbed him by the snout. He felt something else pierce his stomach, digging deep into his bowels. He was suddenly pulled forward, towards the seabed. His eyes met two fierce, golden eyes.

Your eyes are so beautiful, hissed a female voice into his mind.

They are beautiful…hissed a deep male's voice into his mind as well.

Godzilla lifted up, seeing the metallic form before him. It was his father! Kiryuu was awake. He was not going to give up. Then, Godzilla sensed something else as well. Something chilled him when gazed up upon Kiryuu. Something else was in there, controlling him. He could feel it and he thought he saw the image of Biollante standing with him, her tentacles wrapped around him. Kraken saw the same thing, deep within the mecha's eyes. Biollante, still bound in her cage, held out a tentacle to Kiryuu. Kiryuu held it tightly as it wrapped around his arm. Kiryuu raised his claws up, digging them Kraken's neck.

You're using her! Kraken cried. You're using her!

He felt his throat gurgle up with his own blood.

We're using each other…Came both Biollante's voice and Kiryuu's voice together into Kraken's mind.

Kiryuu began to ascend through the water, rising up towards the surface. Godzilla followed him. Kiryuu could feel Biollante backing away from his mind, knowing that he could now handle it. She had her thrill for now. She knew that the greatest thrill was about to come and she just wanted sit back and watch the show.

If only I had popcorn, she chuckled.

Kiryuu burst from the water, firing his boosters. He landed Titanosaurus onto the beach. The red monster was covered in his own blood. Godzilla panted a bit as he rose out of the water, exhausted from the fight he had.

Kraken grunted, tearing away from Kiryuu's blades with a blast of lightning. The mecha fell away, but he was not down for the count again. Something else was keeping him charged up. Kiryuu got up off the sand. Kraken, raised a claw up to the sky, calling forth his lightning once more. Godzilla just stood and watch as Kiryuu's form seemed to fade away, and fade back, sending a swift uppercut to Kraken's chin. As the monster was flung back from the punch, Kiryuu struck again, sending him flying across the beach and passed Godzilla. And all Godzilla could do was watch. He sensed another thing happening as he watched his father. He just wanted to stay out of it. Some things just had to play through. He was too weary to fight right now. He had done most of the fighting while his father was knocked out. It was Kiryuu's turn to fight now. He was fighting Titanosaurus without any beams, or explosives. Kraken rose up again, staggering back slightly. He was weakening.

What, what is this? He asked. What's wrong with you?

"Nothing," Kiryuu said.

My lightning should have shut you down as it did before, Kraken shook his head.

"It didn't," Kiryuu growled. "I'm pushing myself."

Kraken raised his claws again, allowing the lightning to strike from the sky. Kiryuu just stood there, allowing the lightning to strike him. He heard thumping sounds coming from Ft. Lauderdale. His eyes turn slightly as he saw several military helicopters and a few brave news choppers hover some distance away from him. Lightning struck all about him, and it caressed his form. Godzilla's eyes widened, blinking as he saw Kiryuu's spines begin to glow as the lightning struck him. Kiryuu powered up his boosters again, sending Kraken flying one more time through the air with a powerful kick. The monster tumbled away shaking his head as he got up. Kiryuu tore away his right arm plating, revealing the syntech muscle system underneath. Kraken opened his mouth wide. If lightning won't harm him, then rattling him to pieces with a sonic shockwave would. When his mouth parted, he felt something huge, long, and sharp being forced down his throat. He blinked, noticing that there was a trunk of bladed syntech in his mouth. Godzilla just stood there, wide eyed. He knew this attack. Kiryuu used it on him once. And he knew what Kiryuu was about to do. Kraken sputtered and gurgled as the syntech blades moved down his throat and into his stomach. He heard a cracking, puncturing sound coming from the back of his neck. Two enormous blades pierced their way through the back of his neck and head. Kiryuu grunted, commanding the blades to slice outward in a circular motion. Kraken's head fell from his body, tumbling onto the sand. Godzilla's eyes froze in mid bulge, grabbing his own neck and swallowing. That could have been him! That head could have been his own head rolling around on the ground. Kiryuu was capable of killing him. He could have killed him any time he wanted. Kiryuu's syntech withdrew from the body. Just as the body was about to fall, he fired the AZC. Kiryuu's expression was cool as the blast impacted on the headless form—freezing it completely. Godzilla came out, his back spines glowing. He wanted to blast the frozen statue before him, like he blast Biollante. Kiryuu grabbed his throat, feeling a heat build up. He coughed, gagging as the heat forced its way up his neck. He turned around, aiming the heat at the frozen statue. A slightly blue, mostly white blast irrupted from his mouth. Godzilla felt the heat off that blast, it was hotter than his. He could see the glowing spines on Kiryuu's back as he blasted the superheated plasma forth. Heat and energy irrupted from his mouth as he spouted sending a tremor through the ground. The plasma impacted onto the frozen form and it disappeared. Kiryuu stopped, acting like he was gasping for air. He gripped his throat and let loose another powerful roar. Godzilla stood back, not exactly knowing what was going on. Then, he shrugged, joining in with his own voice.

Kiryuu felt another heat wave fluctuate into his throat. Dying to release it, he reared his head back. Another blast came forth from his mouth, shooting up into the clearing sky. Godzilla could see ringlets forming around the plasma blast as air itself became heated through the blast. Then, the blast ceased and Kiryuu fell to his hands and knees. He coughed, his throat was raw and it ached. Godzilla knelt down to his father, holding him up. Kiryuu shook from head to toe; none of his rotors were working properly. He glanced up at Godzilla, his claw coming up to the mutant's face.

"I'm so sorry, my—son…" Kiryuu coughed. "I'm so sorry."

That was all Godzilla needed now. His father had truly returned to him. Kiryuu had to know if he could do that again. He tried charging it up, but no heat came. Instead, he coughed, mech-fluid and seawater burbling up from his mouth. Godzilla patted the bio-mecha's back, his eyes shown both his love and happiness, and his concern for his father. Kiryuu glanced up again, seeing the growing mass of helicopters and jets in the area.

"Leave," he said. "Leave now. You have to leave."

"But…father…" Godzilla protested. "You'll come back with me."

"I can't," grunted Kiryuu, straining to stay on his hands and knees. "If I do, I'll die. I can't. The humans must repair me. But you, you can leave. Please, don't question me. What I say is for your own good. Listen to me for once."

Godzilla saw the tanks drive up to the beach, aiming at him.

"But they might kill you," he said.

"They won't," Kiryuu sighed. "I'm too valuable to them. I'm too valuable alive. But you are expendable, I'm not. That's what separates us now. Now, leave."

"That's why the humans bring you back all the time," Godzilla began. "That's why you go with them. Because you are of value to them?"

"And they are of value to me," Kiryuu said. "You are too, son. That's why I'm telling to go. I don't want them to harm you. They don't understand the value you are to me. That's why you must leave."

"All right," Godzilla finally grunted. "I'll leave. I hope they know what to do to make you better. I can't stand to see you die again."

Godzilla let his father go, turning around at the tanks. He gave them a growl of disdain and then turn back towards the ocean. Kiryuu looked back, watching his son dive back into the ocean, disappearing back into the waves. Kiryuu glanced up, hearing the familiar sounds of the Shirisagi flying overhead. He sighed, hoping this day would be over.