Chapter 25: The Egg

Legion of Doom headquarters, 4 hours after the heist.

It was nighttime when Rodan and Gigan finally returned from their mission. Both of them were battered and broken. Gigan had a large majority of his frontal armor torn apart and he was missing one of his scythes. His crimson visor was cracked and his sail was torn apart. Because of this he lagged behind Rodan in flight. Rodan on the other hand had less physical injuries but on the inside he was broken. Killing your friend isn't something you take lightly.

Rodan landed inside of the Mayan temple with a loud thud. Moments later, Gigan's mechanical thud follows. The inside of the temple was dark, except for Kiryu's glowing red eyes on the far side of the landing bay. Gigan drops his severed blade from his beak and turns his head to look at Kiryu. Kiryu begins to walk towards them.

"Where is it."

Rodan drops the egg at Kiryu's feet. He bends his mechanical head down to look at it. His dorsal plates begin to ripple.

"Goooooood. Now my work can begin. You two have done fantastic jobs. Rodan, you are free to go."

Rodan glares at Kiryu and turns to leave. Gigan follows but is stopped by Kiryu.

"Gigan, you need repairs. Stay here."

Kiryu bends down and picks up the glowing blue egg and starts to walk back into his lab. Gigan follows him inside. Rodan turns back to Kiryu.

"Do you know what that cost?"

Kiryu stops and turns his head to look at Rodan.

"That egg...that egg cost me the life of my friend. My closest friend I had."

"This egg is worth twelve times the value of your "friend."

"He was a good kaiju Kiryu. An honest kaiju. I hope it was worth the pain I am going through."

Kiryu gives him a dirty look and then continues to walk into his lab. Moments later, the massive metal doors behind him close. Rodan, still with tears in his eyes, flies off to his roost.

Inside of Kiryu's lab lies many things. The disassembled parts of jaegers, the dissected corpses of mutos, chunks of raw unobtainium, random pieces of humanities technology, and the severed arm of Godzilla. Huge pipes and thick wires line the floor. In the center of the room lies a massive table where much of Kiryu's work is done. Kiryu places the massive egg on the table. Gigan places his severed blade on the table next to it. Kiryu glances at the blade and then at Gigan. He notices how he limped into the building and how smoke came out of one of his thrusters. He also notices the vast amounts of combat damage.

"Don't worry about my wounds master, I feel fine."

"You don't look fine. Also I just gave you those new legs and you already broke one of them? Really?"

Gigan glances down at his right leg. The knee joint is out of place, most of the metal skeleton is bent and three of his four talons are broken.

"He wasn't that easy to kill master, Anguirus put up a fight. I almost died twice."

Kiryu walks over and places a hand on Gigan's shoulder.

"Now that wouldn't help anyone would it?"

Gigan nods his head in response. Kiryu turns around and grabs a small canister and opens one of the armor panels on his tail. He injects the canister and closes the panel. Seconds later the canister pushes out of the end of his tail along with a long and sharp needle fixed to the end of it.

Kiryu walks over to the egg and stabs into the surface of the egg with his tail. Gigan watches as the canister begins to fill with a light blue liquid. Twenty seconds later he yanks his tail out of the egg and retracts his tail spike. He opens his panel and pulls out the blue canister. He places it inside a horizontal metal tube and twists a knob. The canister opens and its contents are emptied inside of it. He pulls out the canister and places it back on the table. Minutes later a screen next to the tube begins to fill with text detailing the contents. Gigan walks over and the two begin to pour over the text.

"What does it say?"

"Exactly what I was hoping it would. The egg we have is one directly from Mothra. It's one of her children."

"Which one?"

Kiryu turns his head to look at Gigan.

"The female."

Kiryu walks back over to the egg and grabs a variety of cables, pipes, and wires from the floor and starts to jam them into the egg. Gigan just sits back and watches as Kiryu inserts all kinds of cables and pipes while typing on holo-screens next to him.

"Master, what are you doing?"

"Setting up my experiments. After I take a sample of both the larva's DNA and the outer silk layers I can begin my work on transforming her."

"Into what?"

"You'll see."

Kiryu reaches up and grabs two massive curved pipes and slams them down onto the egg's surface. They both penetrate the outer shell and sink into the egg. Kiryu then pushes a button on his screen and two green lights activate on the curved pipes.

"Now...after I take my samples, I am going to put the egg in cryostasis until I can retrieve the DNA samples I need to begin transforming her. It shouldn't take me more than a couple days to do so. But until then we have some more work to do."

"Work? How can I work when I look like this?"

"That is the point Gigan. We need to work so you can stop looking like that. You see, when I first dove into Apex's internal files I came across something that Alexander Wells had started working on. Unobtainium Nano Armor."

Kiryu grabs a dark gray cube next to him. He holds out his arm and, like magic, it starts to vibrate. The cube then starts to ripple like the ocean in his hand. Gigan stares transfixed at this alien object.

"He could never figure out how to fluctuate magnetic fields, but I did. I perfected it. And now, I want to create a suit of armor that will be indestructible. But I need a test subject. I only have enough to cover your arm but I am going to harvest more pretty soon. Until I do I need you to stay here and guard my lab. If Battra finds out what I am doing it will be the end for both of us."

Kiryu puts the cube back down on the table. He walks over to the other end of his lab and grabs various tools. He starts to work on fixing Gigan. After welding back on his scythe, reattaching armor panels and replacing his damaged parts Gigan is back to normal. Kiryu puts back his tools and walks to the exit to his lab. Before he leaves he turns to speak to Gigan.

"Remember my cybernetic friend, do not let Battra know what happens here. If he finds out about the egg we are doomed."

"But Battra is our leader."

"There is more to this world than Battra. Once my experiment is complete and our armor is done we won't need Battra anymore. We will be free."

Kiryu pushes a button and the doors open. The two of them walk out of the lab. Kiryu walks over to the landing bay and extends his thrusters. Just before he leaves Gigan asks him a question.

"You said you were getting samples. Samples of what?"

"That is private information my friend. But I will say one thing."

Kiryu's engines fire up.

"Dragonfly."