Chapter 32: Set in Motion

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The sky was a murky gray. Particles of ash and dust drifted down over the scorched landscape.

Gigan had arrived too late. He saw the mushroom cloud from over 200 miles away. By the time he landed onto the burned earth below he found nothing standing. The entire base had collapsed into a chasm below. Even though the mushroom cloud had faded smoke still rose from the crater. Gigan dropped to his knees. He lowered his head. Dust began to settle on his navy blue armor. Kiryu would not be happy. All his work on the jaegers, and on the Experiment, had been destroyed. Nothing remained except melted steel and despair. Gigan lifted himself off his knees and took off into the sky. One thing plagued his mind the entire time he flew.

He had failed.

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Yucca Mountain: Two days after the fight.

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Battra's healing process was very similar to Godzilla's. Mothra had sprayed a thick layer of silk over the stumps of his wings and severed legs. The back of his head and horn stump were also covered in silk. Because of him having to concentrate all his energy on healing he spends the majority of his days laying around. At night he goes into the egg nest to feed on the radiation and look after the eggs. Right now he was laying on the desert ground to soak up the sun's radiation. Just as he was about to go to sleep he hears Mothra flutter down next to him. He simply rolls back over and weakly stands up. Mothra tucks her wings behind her.

"What do you possibly want, Mothra."

"I want to talk about something you said."

"I say a lot of things."

"It was something you said back when we rescued you. Something about Leo."

Battra's heart jumps. It was only a matter of time.

"You said that if you couldn't defeat him that he could. What do you mean by that?"

Battra turns his head and swallows. His eyes narrow.

"When I was hooked up to Kiryu's base, my mind was opened up and was constantly being peered into. Every time he would access my mind I would get these flashes of images. Almost like when you blink really fast but one time the images slowed down. The flashing stopped. Then I had a vision. It felt like a dream sequence and it was about this divine moth that flew down from the heavens and the earth below was cast in his light. A green light. Creatures were blown apart by the radiance of it's shine. And when it emerged from the crater it caused it was a moth that looked nothing like either of us. It was...Leo. I can't remember the details exactly but all I can remember is that it had a green glow. And who has a green glow? His egg."

Mothra began to listen intently to everything he was saying. She soaked in all the details and tried to picture this creature in her mind. Just as she began to wander into her thoughts Battra grabs her head and moves it in front of his. His red eyes bored into her very soul.

"Listen to me Mothra, Leo isn't an ordinary kaiju. He is a god. He has the power to do things no one has ever done before. You need to protect him at all costs. His life is worth more than anyone else's from this point forward. If we fail in the next coming days during our attack, Leo will be the only one left to defeat Kiryu. He is destined for greatness, Mothra. He will accomplish wonders that only we can dream of."

Mothra shakes off Battra's arms. She steps back. Battra steps towards her.

"I always knew he would be powerful but I didn't know it was anything like that. Don't worry Battra, nothing will happen to them. Him and Junior are safe.

Battra lays back down on the ground. Mothra notices the noticeable bulges in the silk castes on his wings.

"They better be."

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Mayan Command Center: Later that day.

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Gigan landed and began his stroll into the base. Many jaegers surround the base as they continue to rebuild it. Gigan trudges through the many halls until finally entering the throne room. Kiryu sits upon a newly built unobtainium throne. He stands up to face him. Gigan bows at his feet.

"Mission report, Gigan."

"...the base is gone…"

"SPEAK UP!"

"The base is gone maste-"

Kiryu punches him as hard as he can. Gigan flies backwards and slams into the wall beside him. His vision goes blurry as a crack forms on his visor. Kiryu steps towards him and grabs him by the neck. He easily lifts him up. Kiryu's grip tightens.

"YOU FAILED! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT WAS IN THAT BASE!"

Gigan weakly responds. "...yes…"

"THAT BASE IS MY DOORWAY INTO NORTH AMERICA AND YOU TELL ME IT'S GONE?! YOU WORTHLESS WASTE OF PARTS!"

Kiryu slams Gigan into the wall. He drags him across the surface and then throws him across the room. Kiryu fires a plasma cannon shot into his chest. Gigan coughs and slowly turns his head towards Kiryu.

"What is the status of the jaeger army I had there?"

"Destroyed. Godzilla and his allies detonated a nuke inside of it. I searched the wreckage and nothing was found."

Kiryu extends one of his chain swords and brings it above Gigan's head. Just before he brings the blade down he hesitates. A scary thought swirls in his mind. Where is Rodan?

"Where...is Rodan?" Kiryu frantically looks around the room. "WHERE IS HE!?"

"Defected...he must have told them where the base was-"

Kiryu kicks him as hard as he can. Gigan moans in pain. Kiryu fires his plasma cannon at random places inside the room. Boulders the size of parking garages collapse onto the stone floor.

"THAT TRAITOR! WHEN I SEE HIM I'M GOING TO PULL HIS LITTLE WEAK SPINE RIGHT OUT OF HIM WITH MY BARE CLAWS!"

Kiryu looks at Gigan on the floor and he retracts his blade. He moves towards the center of the room where the holo-projector is located. Gigan weakly stands up.

"I couldn't find Battra at all inside the wreckage."

Kiryu activates the holo-projector. The schematics of the oxygen destroyer slowly spin around.

"We don't need him anyways. We have everything we need."

"But what about the bomb? Isn't it still incomplete?"

Kiryu pushes a different button on the table. The schematics vanish.

"Nonsense. It's finished."

The table splits into four different parts and sinks into the floor. A smaller metal podium rises to fill the gap. Mounted to the podium, with dozens of cables and pipes running in and out of it, lies the oxygen destroyer. The purple glow of the micro oxygen fills the room with an eerie light. Kiryu steps back to marvel at his magnum opus.

"Just before I sent you to defend the base, I personally delved into Battra's mind for anything. I discovered the last pieces of information I needed to build it and now it is complete. In a week's time it will be ready for detonation. There is nothing they can do to stop me now!"

Kiryu lets out a mechanical laugh. It was such a loud and sinister laugh that he almost didn't hear the male muto take flight right outside the base.

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Author's note: This took way too long to write but nonetheless it's here! I don't have much to say but an epic finale is on it's way. Stay tuned.

Random: Tame Impala is an artist I just recently started listening to and holy cow was I missing out on some insane tracks. Definetly check out his music if you get a chance. Specifically the album Currents.