Kiko's Death

Kiko eyed the guards as they winded their way through the dimly lit, garage parking lot. Her senses picked up the sounds of guard dogs, hunting her as if she were their prey. She was not. She leaned on her all fours, barring her predatory teeth. Feeling the muscles in her legs coil up, she made a leap for the concrete ceiling. She had to get away; she could not let them catch her. Kiko grunted; breathing heavily, as she smelled the guards crept ever so closer. She wondered why the Commander has not signaled her yet. She could only suspect that he was busy trying to deal with Kiryuu. Her mind went to Kiryuu. He would have made a wonderful alley, but he was on the wrong side. She saw one of the guards underneath her and she leapt on him. Kiko bit into his neck, rich blood dribbled from the wound. She did not want to bite him, but she could not control her bestial instincts. Kiko ran from the guard, grunting and snorting.

"They must not catch me!" she cried.

"There she is!" one of the guards cried. "Shoot!"

Kiko heard the guns fire on her. She felt a pelt grazed her leg, a sharp pain pierced her thigh. Kiko fell over, grunting in pain. She tried desperately to get to her feet, to run once more. The pain went to her head. She grabbed the wound with her green paw, trying to stop the bleeding. She dragged herself up, hobbling away. Another gun fired and another pain shot through her back. The lights grew dimmer. Her sun, her life shattered. Kiko fell to the ground, taking out a pill in her pocket.

"They will not catch me," she whispered. "No matter what."

Kiko popped the pill into her mouth, allowing the darkness to wash over her form. She could no longer feel the pain in her leg or the pain in her back. She felt peace as she slowly closed her eyes.

"Godzilla?" Will asked. "What is he doing here?"

"Kiryuu, what's going on?" Katsura asked.

"He is here—to provide back up, I think," Kiryuu grunted.

"He thinks," Gordon shook his head.

"Kiryuu doesn't know," Will began. "He doesn't know everything, Gordon. He knows that he doesn't know everything."

"Alright," Gordon roared. "I heard you the first time!"

"Kiryuu, Mechagodzilla is coming," Katsura began.

"Let him come," Kiryuu's deep, rumbling voice grinned. "I have a surprise for him."

Mechagodzilla stood at the foot of the fallen bio-syntech beast. Godzilla and Mothra watched helplessly as the mechanical monster knelt down over the body of Kiryuu. Kiryuu's eyes were open, glancing up at his assailant with a grin. Mechagodzilla's metallic lips parted, and the energy build up inside its mouth, ready to fire on Kiryuu's motionless form. Then, he paused, staring at nothing. Mechagodzilla stood there, unable to move or even calculate. Kiryuu was now on his feet, smiling back at Mechagodzilla. Several thick trunks of bio-syntech were impaled into his exposed body. The branches and tentacles of the silvery, fleshy substance coiled around Mechagodzilla's arms and its legs, blades parted the plating around its metallic form. Kiryuu glanced up at the sky.

"Alien ship!" he cried, now speaking through Mechagodzilla. "I know you can hear me. You may be technological advanced, but you did not think of messing with and AI such as mine."

"Kiryuu," the operator began. "He's communicating with us! How?"

"The bio-syntech," the Commander began. "He's hacking into our system through our Mechagodzilla!"

"You are bouncing information off of satellites used by our government agencies," Kiryuu began. "Satellites that I have access to. Perhaps on your home world, I would not stand a chance, but you are going against the home team here."

The screen began to light up all around the bridge of the ship. Kiryuu's avatar image appeared on each of their screens just as multitude of windows began to open and close inside their application system.

"Block him out!" the Commander cried. "Our computers are far more advanced than Kiryuu's AI."

"We are doing as best as we can, but we were not expecting him to hack through Mechagodzilla's up-link," the operator cried. "I can't work fast enough."

"Kiryuu is hacking the ship," Will laughed. "He's hacking their ship, Gordon."

"Well, looks like we're putting his nosy, back-stabbing, hacker abilities to good use then," Gordon chuckled.

"Will," began Kiryuu. "I need your assistance. Can you reroute some of the power inside the base to the Site B?"

"Site B?" asked Will. "The EMP emitter? Yes, but…why would you want to fire the EMP pulse?"

"I'm am trying to lure the aliens down to the atmosphere by attacking their ship," he replied. "They now see me as an official thread and would want to destroy me immediately since I'm downloading files from their computer to the various servers around the world that I possess. I need you to tell Tochi at Site B to aim the EMP at the ship."

"How do we know they don't have something that could block an EMP pulse?" Will asked. He glanced back at the fairies. They shook their heads. "Guess you guys just knew that they were coming."

"We know nothing about their technology," the replied.

"They do have something," Kiryuu replied. "But I am making an attempt to disable it now. I can, but their computer will compensate and I will loose the connection. I am trying to overload their shields that guard them from electromagnetic energies. From what I can calculate, we will have a 5 second window before my connection is severed to when they will try to destroy me. Will, get Tochi to fire the EMP pulse before they fire on me!"

"What if they fire on you?" Gordon asked. "You'll—die. I—Kiryuu, I can't let…"

"I must not," Kiryuu grunted. "If I do, so will Katsura. I can't risk that. I can't even risk completely downloading myself into her mind, it will drive her mad."

"Kiryuu," Katsura began. "Just when I admitted everything to you."

"As you humans say," Kiryuu sighed. "Ain't life a bitch? Will, contact Tochi right now! I don't have much time!"

Will grabbed the phone, dialing up the Site B location.

"Tochi!" he cried. "This is Will. Rev up the EMP emitter! And prepare to fire at the coordinates that Kiryuu will provide you."