A Kaiju Story: The Age of Man

by SnowyyOwl1

After the defeat of King Ghidorah, and the death of Mothra, Godzilla must find a new purpose. But when humanity decides to challenge his rule, Godzilla and the rest of the Kaiju must band together to survive in this cold new world. This story is a sequel to my first fanfiction, "A Kaiju Story." This story contains violence, Mothzilla shipping and some gore.

38. Chapter 38-Final Form

Chapter 38: Final Form

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Kiryu's body rippled like the ocean. The nano metal quickly assimilates itself into Kiryu's body. The crusaders watched as Kiryu began to transform right in front of their eyes, becoming even more powerful.

Within a few seconds, the entire cube of nano metal had dissolved on Kiryu's chest. He showed no pain but wore an expression of joy. He extended both of his arms out to his sides and marvelled at how fast the metal spread across his body. Godzilla watched as Kiryu's once bulky and plated look thinned out and smoothed over. His dorsal plates extend and become more flat shaped. Once his transformation was complete he began to cackle. One thing that stood out to the crusaders that Kiryu didn't notice was how he was now able to show emotion. His face was now able to smile, frown, contort in pain or in anguish. This was something that made Wayfield and Godzilla very uncomfortable because previously they were the only ones who could do this kind of thing. Battra and Mothra can make faces but they are hard to distinguish but this was something different. Something very human in nature.

Kiryu stopped his maniacal laughter and lowered his arms. His red eyes shifted their gaze to Godzilla.

"I have evolved beyond your understanding, Godzilla. You must face the reality that you are powerless before me. With this new power I now have access to, I will kill you and your friends one by one. After I have crushed you, your puny humans and their mediocre invasion force will be encircled and destroyed. By the time your army is destroyed the oxygen destroyer will dispose of the rest. Face it Godzilla, you have zero chances of stopping me."

Godzilla clenched his jaw.

"You are doomed."

"I wouldn't be so cocky, Kiryu. After all, there are five of us and only one of you." Rodan hollered from behind Godzilla. Kiryu smirks.

"Ah, you're still alive. And I see that you are powered up. It won't matter, you'll still be slain regardless."

Rodan took a sharp intake of air. How did he know I was powered up?

"Oh, I just remembered. You betrayed me, Rodan. Maybe I should kill you first."

The crusaders stood still. None of them wanted to make the first move. Annoyed, Kiryu extends one of his claws and points at the group.

"Fine then. If none of you want to make the first move then I will! Prepare to die fleshlings!"

Just before Kiryu could leap off of his platform, Godzilla raises one of his fingers.

"We weren't stalling. We were waiting for Wayfield to get behind you."

"Wayfield...who's tha-"

Wayfield punched Kiryu in the back of his head. The fist hit his head and caused the nanobots to ripple like a stone dropped in a lake. Kiryu was rocked by the hit but showed no emotion. He turned around just as Wayfield threw another punch. Instead of dodging the blow he did something incredible. He made a punch with his right arm but just before it hit Wayfield's arm he transformed the arm into a sword and stabbed it clean through Wayfield's metal arm. Wayfield gasped as Kiryu's entire arm shape shifted into a sword. Kiryu then turned the sword into a clamp and dug into his arm. Wayfield struggled to free himself from Kiryu's icy grip. Kiryu, loving his body's new abilities, grinned and kicked Wayfield square in the chest. Instead of his arm coming with him, it was ripped right off as his jaeger went flying backwards. He slammed into the trees. Kiryu turned around and was met with Rodan's fire breath. Before the flames could lick him he transformed his arm into a shield. The flames simply scorched the shield and left Kiryu alone.

Perplexed, Rodan took a step back and tried to take off but felt Kiryu's grasp on one of his legs. Rodan screeched and tried to wrestle himself free but Kiryu swung him around and threw him towards Wayfield. Just when he was released he quickly orientated himself and turned around in the air to face Kiryu. He watched as Kiryu's shield arm returned to its normal shape. His clamp transformed back into a normal arm and dropped Wayfield's severed arm. Rodan roared and his wings became alight with flames. He flew towards Kiryu with his talons ready to strike.

"Your reign ends now Kiryu! No-one can stop Fire Rodan!"

Kiryu smirked, "Hmm."

Rodan raked his talons across Kiryu's face and chest. Kiryu fell backwards onto the ground and laid motionless. Rodan looked over his shoulder and banked around. He landed. Wayfield slowly stood up and began to trudge over to the rest of the crusaders. But just as he got halfway to them he heard a sound. Almost like a water faucet but in reverse. Kiryu began to shift. His arms and legs twitched. He slowly began to stand up. He turned to face the crusaders and they all looked on with wide eyes as Kiryu's wounds began to morph back.

The four claw marks on his chest began to fill in and reform along with the four across his face. The metal, instead of being detached, simply distorted and moved around. His face slowly began to rebuild itself. Rodan gawking at this sorcery. How could his talons, which are thousands of degrees in temperature, just do nothing. Not to mention how Kiryu was not even slightly affected by the attack besides being knocked down. Kiryu brought out one of his hands and began to rapidly shift it into various objects. Shapes, clamps, swords, and even just nothing except making the nanobots on it vibrate.

"Fascinating these little things are, and to think that I almost didn't want to end up like this. Now you must realize your destiny. Every wound you inflict will simply heal instantly. I will never be harmed. There is nothing you can do now except accept your fate."

Godzilla fired his atomic breath at Kiryu. The blue beam hit his chest straight on. Kiryu stepped back a bit. Godzilla leaned forward and began to push more and more energy out of him. After 10 seconds of continuous fire he clamped his jaw shut and stepped forward. Blue smoke swirled around his mouth. But to his surprise it did nothing on Kiryu. The place where his beam hit had already begun to fix itself.

"Hahahahahaha! Not even the great King of the Monsters can harm me!"

"Impossible...It's simply impossible…"

Wayfield turned to Kiryu and then to Godzilla. He extended the chainsword on his remaining arm. Slowly but surely, he inched his way behind Kiryu.

"Godzilla, what do we do?" Battra asked. Godzilla turned his head to him but kept his gaze on Kiryu. He was still standing on the platform manipulating his arms.

"We all need to attack him at the same time. Maybe if he has to heal from multiple wounds he won't be able to recover. As for the oxygen destroyer, I don't have a single clue as to how to stop it."

"I tried Godzilla, I really did. I can't crack it. He put some sort of firewall and I can't bypass it without having several hours of undivided attention."

"It's fine Battra, you did what you could. Now get ready. All of you get ready. On Wayfield's signal is when we attack."

Mothra turns to her mate.

"...and what is that?"

Wayfield got right up behind Kiryu and plunged his blade right into Kiryu's chest. It sank right through and stuck through the other side. Kiryu roared. Wayfield twisted his arm around. He detached the blade just as a blast of atomic breath slammed into Kiryu's head. Wayfield ditched his blade and lept back as the crusaders all attacked at once. They encircled the metal kaiju and began their assault. Godzilla continued to fire blasts of his atomic breath in between punches to Kiryu's body. Mothra flew back and forth slicing deep gashes into him. Rodan was next to Godzilla and was breathing fire on him. Battra was firing his lightning and his prism beams from a static location in the air. All the while Kiryu was roaring. His body contorting and shifting trying to absorb every attack. Unable to block everything, he calmed the screaming in his mind and tried to concentrate on one kaiju to strike first. After receiving a heavy punch from Godzilla, he made up his mind.

Kiryu let out a metallic screech and extended one of his arms into a sword. Instead of turning around and striking Godzilla he simply made the blade extend out of his elbow and he jabbed it at Godzilla. He felt it make contact on his desired target. The atomic breath stopped as Godzilla felt Kiryu's sword enter his left shoulder. Godzilla stepped back and brought his other hand to the wound. Kiryu stood up and punched Godzilla as hard as he could in the face. His jaw cracked from the blow. Blood shot out of his mouth as he spun around and collapsed onto the ground. As he laid there on the ground he watched through blurry vision as Kiryu unleashed his wrath upon the other kaiju. He extended his tail blade and stabbed it right through Rodan's chest. When Mothra came in for another pass he smacked her as hard as he could with an arm that he transformed into a shield. Watching his friends getting beaten, Battra took the opportunity to get his revenge on the kaiju who betrayed him.

"Kiryu."

"Oh, you're approaching me? Instead of flying off like you normally do or giving up you are coming right at me?"

"I can't kill you without getting closer."

"Ha! Then get as close as you'd like."

Kiryu pulled the severed sword out of his chest and threw it on the ground. His chest wound healed up instantly. Battra concentrated and felt his power flow through him. Kiryu turned one of his arms into a sword. Battra, now ready for his attack, swooped in with lightning trailing behind him. He threw his wings forward and blasts of yellow, purple, and red lightning collided onto Kiryu. The sky began to darken as Battra unleashed everything he had. Kiryu began to lose his footing as Battra slowly flew forward as his lightning left many deep wounds on Kiryu's chest and head. Kiryu transformed the shape of his legs into large, tree trunk-like structures that he dug into the ground. He threw both of his arms forward and transformed it into a large rectangular shield to cover his body. Godzilla still struggled to stay conscious as the battle raged around him.

Fed up with the games, Kiryu began to slowly move forward. Battra's lightning was now starting to deflect off of the shield and onto the ground. Battra now concentrated every ounce of energy he had into his lightning. Every drop of everything he had was now into his attacks. Desperate to stop Kiryu, he began to fire his prism beams. He let out a deep and warbling screech that came from deep within him. His very soul was fighting to keep Kiryu at bay.

But it was futile.

Kiryu got close enough to Battra where he could now retaliate. For just a second, he spun around and thrust his tail into Battra's thorax. Battra's attacks stopped instantly as the blade went right through him. It shot out of the back of his thorax and was very quickly ripped out. Blood shot out of the gaping hole in his body. Kiryu then punched him as hard as he could towards the side of the fortress. He flew through the air and slammed into the side of the pyramid and fell to the ground below. Boulders and rocks fell on top of him as he lay still on the ground. His red eyes slowly fading. Lightning slowly fizzling out across his body.

"BATTRA!" Rodan and Mothra cried out.

Kiryu slung his tail around and sent Battra's blood flying. The sharp end shining in the sunlight. The small burns on his body quickly repaired themselves.

"So useless."

Mothra got up and began to fly over to her fallen brother but before she could get there she felt Kiryu's icy grip on her.

"I didn't say you could run!"

Kiryu pulled Mothra close to him and held her in his grasp. His right arm firmly wrapped around her neck and thorax. He pulled her close and inhaled deep.

"Your pheromones...intoxicating. Mothers are always the most defensive when protecting their young. Such a shame you weren't there to protect your daughter. What was her name...oh yeah I remember now. Her name was Lea! But I called her a different name. One that was truly meant for something of absolute power and brutality. I called her Megaguirus. Such a fine name for someone so young and destructive. Such a shame I will never see the fruits of our labor."

Mothra squirmed under his grip. Kiryu began to squeeze her. Godzilla, watching the carnage, felt helpless as he could only get up as fast as his body would let him, and now, his body wasn't letting him move anything close to fast.

"You know, what if I make you my mate. You and I could rule this world together. Or I could just crush you in my claws right now. Right in front of your beloved king. I wonder how he would react if the one person he has risked his life countless times to protect was suddenly taken from him."

Kiryu said all of this while staring at Godzilla as he struggled to stand. The pure hatred in his gold eyes was almost tangible. Kiryu formed a massive smile on his metal face.

"Watch. Once he stands up he will try to take you from my grasp but that won't happen. His time is up. Nothing he can do now can stop me. I will admit that Battra gave me a run for my money but in the end he was weak."

Mothra, with her face and wings draining of color, forced out her words.

"He's not the one attacking you, Rodan is."

Rodan let out a screech as he dug his claws into the arm that held Mothra. Kiryu let out a roar and released his grip on her. Mothra dropped like a stone to the ground below. She slowly began to crawl towards her brother. Battra was still lying in that pile of rubble. His red eyes still dull in color.

Kiryu turned his left arm into a blade and tried to stab Rodan but he dodged the attack. Rodan began to breathe fire right in his face. The flames started to melt his face. Kiryu, running out of options, released his hold on the nanobots on his arm and allowed Rodan to drop through the slow falling cloud of metal. Just as his head was within the cloud he reconnected his nanobots together to reform his arm. When they all reconnected he was holding Rodan by his neck. His flaming wings flailing about.

"You never learn."

"Neither do you." Rodan replied with a grin on his face.

Kiryu only had a second to prepare as he felt Wayfield punch the back of his head. Wayfield quickly swapped from his fist to his plasma cannon while attacking Kiryu. Punch, blast, punch, blast. Kiryu was rocked back and forth as he continued to take this relentless assualt. Wayfield shouted from inside the cockpit of the jaeger.

"GO TO HELL YOU MONSTER!"

Kiryu swung out his leg and it slammed into Wayfield's. His jaeger lost it's balance but Kiryu caught it with his arm. Kiryu manipulated the nanobots on his arm to go up Wayfield's remaining arm and rotate around like a saw. In only 3 seconds his entire arm was stripped of its metal down to the frame. Kiryu then pulled back his nanobots and he simply snapped off the skeletal remains of his arm. Wayfield started to fall backwards but Kiryu reached out and grabbed him by the shoulder. Kiryu balled up one of his hands into a fist and plowed it right through Wayfield's chest. He grabbed the fusion core and pulled it right out of the chest cavity. Lights flickered all over the jaeger until it went black and shut off. Wayfield detached himself from the jaeger's control arms and stumbled to the back of conn-pod to activate the emergency power.

After activating the power his conn-pod roared to life but the rest of the jaeger didn't. It was designed to only power the life support systems and the escape pods. However, because of Kiryu's fist going clean through the jaeger's chest most of the systems were either destroyed or damaged. Wayfield reattached himself to the control arms and turned on the speaker.

"You know Kiryu, I underestimated you. But you did something you never should have done and that is piss off the human race. We may be a race of hairless monkeys but when we come together we can build machines powerful enough to rival that of God."

Wayfield pushed a button on the holo display and the faceplate of the jaeger opened up. Like an origami piece, the faceplate opened up. Wayfield detached himself from the control arms and stepped out onto the edge of the conn-pod. Kiryu shifted his gaze to the small human in dark green armor walking towards him. Wayfield stood on the edge of the faceplate and put one hand on his hip.

"And on behalf of the human race, this is for you."

He sticks up his middle finger at Kiryu. Kiryu, whose face is right up in front of Wayfield, contorts into a frown. Wayfield keeps his finger up as Kiryu backs up from the jaeger. He closes his eyes.

He would never reopen them.

Kiryu punched the conn-pod as hard as he could. It crushed like a can under someone's boot. Wayfields jaeger flew backwards and crumpled to the ground. Rodan, who was watching all of this, balled his hand into a fist and punched the ground with it.

"...Wayfield...no…"

Kiryu pulled back his fist and turned his attention to the kaiju who were scattered around him. Godzilla was still barely able to move.

"Would anyone else like to try to stop me?"

"Yeah. Us."

Godzilla recognized that voice. That vibrating, warbling voice. He looked down at his side to see the Earth beneath him moving. Like waves before they crest, he watched several mounds of land starting to move towards Kiryu. Kiryu transformed both of his hands into swords and looked around in a panicked state. Then, with a blast of electromagnetic energy, Rax burst out of one of the mounds and landed a blow on Kiryu's face with his front leg. Kiryu fell backwards and landed on the ground. Rax took off as several other mounds of dirt began to rupture to reveal mutos hiding in them. Many of them male ones. Two female ones sprout from the ground behind Kiryu's fallen form and begin to slam their front limbs down on him like a club. Each blow sent pulses of electromagnetic energy into Kiryu's body.

"Rax? You're still alive?" Godzilla asked as he struggled to stand up. Rax landed next to him.

"Yeah. After you kicked me out I went to rejoin my species only to discover their own plot to kill Kiryu. While you and your fellow crusaders were slicing up the jaegers, we were digging tunnels and pinpointing Kiryu's location. We just waited for the opportune time to strike."

"Good work. How many of you are there?"

What you see is what you get. There's me and seven other males and two females. I wanted one of each to stay behind in case things went south but everyone wanted a piece of Kiryu."

"Do you know how to stop him?" Godzilla asked. Rax clenched his jaw.

"No. We heard your conversations with Battra and we also heard Kiryu's own words. He may seem immortal but I don't think he is. Nothing is truly immortal. He has a weakness but we just have to-"

His conversation is cut short when a muto that was over Kiryu let out a cry of agony. Rax jerks his head towards the sound and he sees Kiryu's tail slide right out of the muto's chest. The other ones continue to pound him into the ground until Kiryu's tail touches the ground and starts to bulken. It splits in two and starts to get larger and larger until the base of Kiryu's feet form on the split ends. The mutos back off as Kiryu seemingly rebuilds himself from the ground up. Kiryu's still form on the ground dissolves and reforms standing up. Terrified, the mutos start to back away from the now fully rebuilt Kiryu. He forms an angry frown and turns his hands into swords.

Kiryu leaps forward and starts to cut down the mutos as if they were blades of grass. His sword edge cleanly and elegantly slicing through his opponents with no effort. Limbs and the severed heads of mutos fly into the air. Rax, terrified of what to do, pushes Godzilla aside. Godzilla falls over but he avoids a swipe of Kiryu's blade.

"Godzilla, run! I'll lure him away from you and Battra! Go now!"

Godzilla slowly stands up and runs off towards Battra. When he got half way he grabbed Mothra who was still crawling there and the duo ran towards Battra. Godzilla looked over his shoulder only to see Rax trying to dodge Kiryu's swings. His vibrating roar rippled across the battlefield.

"Goji...I don't know if he's still alive."

"We have to try."

The two kaiju went as fast as they could towards Battra. When they arrived he was lying completely still. The color almost faded from his eyes and wings. Mothra climbed down and placed her wings on his body. Godzilla hurriedly shifted the boulders above him. Mothra wrapped her wings around his body to feel his life force.

"He is still alive."

"That's great. That's a good thing to hear."

Mothra began to heal him. Slowly his color came back and his wound closed shut. He eventually began to look at the two kaiju.

"You came back for me…"

"We couldn't leave you behind." said Godzilla. Battra chuckled painfully.

"You should have. Even if you somehow kill him, the bomb will still go off. I almost died just now. If you showed up 10 minutes later I would be long gone. Godzilla, why are you willing to help me?"

"Because you are the one who got the closest to Kiryu. He was right up in your face and you survived. You may hold the key to defeating him."

"Well keep looking. All I remember is I was giving him everything I could possibly offer, and he just kept going. He got right in front of me and that's when I knew I lost. He stabbed me with his tail and threw me."

Battra stood up but very quickly fell back down. He curses to himself as he attempts to stand up again.

"Battra don't rush it. You're still healing. Besides, I don't think it's best if you fight anymore. Just sit here and recover. I think you should be able to use your own healing powers now anyway." Mothra says as she unwraps her wings. Battra wraps his own wings around him. He turns to Godzilla.

"You are the only one strong enough to fight him now. Even if this bomb goes off, at least make sure Kiryu isn't around anymore to witness it."

Godzilla takes a deep breath. Mothra jumps up onto his back and nuzzles his face.

"Goji it's your time now. Go save the world."

"Before I go, make sure everyone is healed up. Mothra, once Battra is fully healed, seek out Rodan and Rax. Make sure they are alright. If I lose, I don't want them to die in pain."

Godzilla puts Mothra back down on the ground. He gives the two a nod and then turns around and heads back out towards the battlefield. However, something he just now noticed caught his attention.

Where is the shouting?

A sudden lurch of fear sprang into Godzilla's heart. What happened to the roars of Rax? Godzilla cries out in search of his missing friend.

"Rax! Rax! Where are you? Are you alright?"

Godzilla stops dead in his tracks when he hears the sound of a sword being pulled out of something. He turns around to see Kiryu pull the rest of one of his swords out of the back of Rax. His limp figure drops to the ground. Blood spilling from the hole in his chest and back. His orange eyes fading away.

"Your friend was a parasite. Nothing more dignified than the common roach. And yet, you seem attached to this creature. I will never understand you Godzilla. Your species lived their entire lives fighting these things. Thousands of years were spent trying to rid them from the world but you are saddened by the death of this one. Why is that?"

"He was my friend." Godzilla says as he struggles to keep himself together.

"It doesn't matter. All that matters is that you are the only one left standing. Wayfield was killed, Rodan is nursing his wounds, Battra is most certainly dead, Mothra is somewhere, and now Rax is slain. Not to mention that Gigan is dead as well. Everyone I had in my way except you are gone. Now then, come forward and fulfill your destiny."

"Gigan was your ally, your friend. And yet you show no sympathy. You truly are the lowest scum in history."

"Gigan was a mere tool in the toolbox Godzilla. He wouldn't have survived the bomb anyway. Even if he did I would have destroyed him shortly after. I have no allies. I have no friends. I don't need anything to weigh me down. You are the only thing keeping me anchored to the world. After you fall...i'm free."

"Godzilla...won't...fail…"

Kiryu and Godzilla both look down to see Rax crawling towards Godzilla.

"Godzilla...don't...give...up. This...is...the...time...for...heroes...to...act. The...world...depends...on...you."

Rax crawls right up to Godzilla and places one of his front legs on Godzilla. He holds it. He can feel his life draining from him. His eyes are flickering like lightbulbs about to burn out.

"See...Godzilla...I'm...not...a...coward…"

Rax's eyes pulse orange and then darken. He slumps over. His life is no more. Godzilla places a hand on top of his head and keeps it there. Tears slowly slide down his face.

"And so the king weeps. I never liked the mutos. I only did what I had to to ensure that I would win. It doesn't matter that they went underground, once the bomb goes off nothing will survive." Kiryu boasts. He turns his swords back into hands. Godzilla stands up, his dorsal plates are pulsing blue.

"I am Godzilla. King of the monsters and ruler of Earth. You may take my land, my kingdom, and my powers away but one thing you do not do is take away my friends. And for that, you pay! Prepare to die Kiryu!"

"Try me."

Godzilla roars and charges forward. Kiryu lets out his own roar and charges towards him. Kiryu sees the placement of Godzilla's arms and expects a right hook. When he gets close enough he automatically dodges but instead of seeing Godzilla's fist fly by he instead is greeted with an uppercut with his left arm. Kiryu's head is rocked by this sudden blow. Godzilla roars and pushes Kiryu away. He then steps closer and punches him once, twice, and then another uppercut. Kiryu stumbles back. He gets his hands up to defend himself but is instead forced to kneel when Godzilla kicks his knee in. Kiryu roars in pain as Godzilla knees him in the face and then grabs him by the neck. Godzilla slams Kiryu onto the ground and drags him across it while still gripping his neck. Kiryu whips his tail around to strike Godzilla but he simply grabs it and wraps it around his arm. He pulls it as hard as he can but this is when Godzilla realized his mistake.

Kiryu begins to reform off of his tail. In just three seconds Kiryu went from being dragged across the ground to standing up. He pulls back his arm and punches Godzilla in the face. As Godzilla recoils from the blow, Kiryu punches him twice more in the face. He then bends down and kicks him in the stomach. Godzilla falls to the ground. Kiryu roars and turns his fist into a sword. He brings it down on Godzilla. Godzilla just barely managed to see the sword and roll over to avoid it. He then tries to kick Kiryu in the legs to knock him over but his foot bounces off. Godzilla gives a cry of pain. Kiyu then reaches around with his tail and jabs it into Godzilla's right thigh.

"Good luck trying to run from me now Godzilla! You're mine now!"

As Godzilla gets back up onto his feet, Kiryu spins around and gives him a powerful roundhouse kick to his face. Godzilla gets knocked back down again. Kiryu then turns his fist into a sword and strikes, and this time he makes contact. His sword pierces right through Godzilla's chest and out the back. Godzilla lets out a roar of pain. Kiryu pulls out his sword and picks up the king of the monsters by his neck. He holds him high in the air as he brings his red eyes close to Godzilla.

"You are nothing but a relic from a forgotten time period."

Kiryu begins to tighten his grip on Godzilla's neck. He brings his hands up to Kiryu's arms and tries to pull them off but it's useless. Kiryu forms a menacing smile as he chokes the life out of Godzilla. Images flash before his eyes as he starts to black out. Mothra, his unborn children, his friends, his home in Nevada, Battra, an image of the late King Ghidorah, and finally one of that of Kiryu. His horrible red eyes and sinister look etching his face forever into Godzilla's nightmares. Just before Godzilla passes out he notices through his blurry vision someone attack Kiryu from behind. A red flash. Kiryu drops Godzilla and the second he does he takes several massive gulps of air. He feels six pairs of legs grab him and fly him over to another location. Just after being dropped back onto the ground he turns his head and spots what happened.

Rodan had jumped onto Kiryu from behind and landed several blows with his talons. His fire breath left several scorch marks on Kiryu's metal face. Rodan jumps off Kiryu and flies back over to Godzilla and his two saviors. Godzilla groggily looks up and sees Mothra and Battra hovering above him. Godzilla feels Mothra land on his chest and begin to heal his wounds. Godzilla stands up and faces Kiryu along with his friends. Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, and Battra all facing Kiryu together. Kiryu retracts his sword and speaks to the group.

"It doesn't matter that all of you are back together now. It will only forestall the inevitable. Your cause is lost, Godzilla. Nothing can stop me now."

"We know, and we don't care. This is the Kaiju Court's last stand against the forces of evil."

"Well bring it on then! Let's finish this fight!" Kiryu exclaims as he gets into his fighting stance. Godzilla turns to his allies.

"Everybody! Now!"

The first to fire was Battra. His purple prism beams collide into Kiryu's chest. Kiryu gets pushed back but he transforms one of his arms into a shield and regains his stance. Next one to fire is Mothra.

Concentrating as hard as she could, she fired her own version of prism beams. Instead of being purple, these beams were light blue in color. The same color as her mate's atomic breath. The blue beams slam into Kiryu and cause him to once again be pushed back but he fabricates another shield in response.

Rodan then fires his fire breath but something happens to it. Instead of coming out as a stream of flames, they concentrate into a single, red and orange inferno beam. This beam of red hot energy makes contact with Kiryu just shortly before Godzilla unleashes his own atomic breath onto the metal kaiju. All four beams combine into one energy beam that starts to give Kiryu his first taste of damage.

The nanobots on his shields begin to disintegrate. Kiryu watches through horror filled eyes as his shield starts to fall apart. The four kaiju continue to push forward through the blinding light of their attacks towards Kiryu. As the group gets closer and closer, Battra notices how Kiryu is struggling to keep himself standing. Battra shouts to the other kaiju as he now starts to fire his lightning at Kiryu. Mothra follows suit with her own weaker version of lightning. It fires off of her wings in a white color.

"KEEP PRESSING FORWARD!"

As Godzilla is slowly advancing forward, he spots a small object glowing on his right. But only for a second. He turns his eyes towards the glow and sees the small, purple canister that is the oxygen destroyer. The time on it is 45 seconds. He has 45 seconds to somehow stop it and kill Kiryu. He thinks back to the fight he had earlier. The muto's attacks did nothing but he remembered how Kiryu's lights momentarily pulsed a dimmer shade of red every time the electromagnetic pulse hit him. He remembered how Wayfield's blade managed to go through his armor and how, for just a split second, it looked like his tail and dorsal plates got shorter. He remembered during the fight with Battra that when he deployed his shields, his dorsal plates disappeared and his tail got short. He remembered how whenever Kiryu used his tail that his dorsal plates and chest got slightly smaller. He remembered how Kiryu would boast about his armor.

"This armor is impenetrable. Nothing can harm me."

All of this, all of this observation used to not make any sense before but now it does. A switch clicked in Godzilla's mind as he stared at the pulsing core of the doomsday weapon. A plan quickly spilled out of his mind. Something so crazy and absurd that it would take someone being extremely desperate and insane enough to even attempt.

And Godzilla was that person.

Godzilla quickly stopped firing his atomic breath and he ran over and grabbed the bomb. He felt it's life sucking energy pulse in his hand. Even though the canister weighed only one ton, it felt like hundreds in his hand. But in that short moment he went to grab the canister, Kiryu made his move. The other beam attacks became instantly ineffective against his armor. Kiryu dropped his shields and started to charge towards Godzilla.

This is it. He thought. If I fail now, we can't fix it. This is it. My last plan. Our last shot. Ancestors above, give me strength.

Kiryu became within striking distance of Godzilla. The clock ticked down to 20 seconds. Godzilla balled up his fist and prepared his attack.

He closed his eyes and concentrated every ounce of strength he had left in his body. Every single ounce of everything he had. Everything his body could produce. From the tips of his claws to the end of his tail, to the depths of his mind and soul, and every thought that crossed through his mind all went into this one, final, punch. Godzilla opened his eyes and swung his fist as hard as he possibly could. It flew through the air as if it was in slow motion. Blue fire trailed behind his fist. The other kaiju stopped and watched as Godzilla threw his final punch at the mechanical monster towering over him.

It made contact.

Godzilla's fist slammed into Kiryu's chest and went clean through his armor. Godzilla, through the now shattered bones and shredded skin, could feel Kiryu's nanobots chewing away at his armor. Godzilla let go of the oxygen destroyer just as the nanobots chewed his hand right off. As he fell back onto the ground he saw his hand, and the purple glow of the oxygen destroyer, vanish into the howling dark of Kiryu's chest. Kiryu retracts his sword and looks down at Godzilla as he lays there holding the stub of his hand.

"You sad little creature. All that work, all that effort for one punch? It doesn't matter. You've lost."

"No...you...have lost."

Just as Godzilla finished his thought, the oxygen destroyer started it's detonation sequence. The canister of micro oxygen burst open and began to react with the air around it. The purple glow became more and more radiant. Kiryu felt a strange coldness in his chest. A deep, howling cold that began to spread faster and faster. Kiryu fell to the ground and clutched his chest.

"What...did...you...do...to...me?" Kiryu asks weakly. Godzilla stands up and turns away from Kiryu.

"You'll see."

Godzilla begins to run towards his friends. All of them looked on in both shock and confusion.

"RUN! PUT AS MUCH DISTANCE AS YOU CAN BETWEEN KIRYU AND YOURSELVES! GET OUT OF HERE!"

Godzilla sprinted right past them and into the jungle. Rodan, Battra, and Mothra both took flight as fast as they could.

Kiryu watched them run as he began to francically dig into his chest. But it was no use. His impenetrable armor was, in simple terms, impenetrable. Kiryu's chest began to cave in. Unable to suck in oxygen, the bomb sucks in anything it can. Kiryu begins to implode. His eyes change to the glowing purple of the oxygen destroyer.

"NOOOO! IT'S IMPOSSIBLE! I AM KIRYU! I AM KIRYU! I...AM...KIRYUUUUUUUU!"

Just as he finished his thoughts a blinding purple light exploded out of Kiryu's body. Godzilla, only a few dozen miles from Kiryu, gets knocked to the ground by the shockwave. He turns around and gazes into the blinding purple void consuming everything behind him. He closes his eyes.

I am calm, I am tranquil. I have defeated Kiryu. If I die, I will die knowing I have done everything I could have wanted to. I mated, forged an empire, regained my family's honor, and bore children. I have no regrets. Goodbye, Earth.

The purple sphere of light swallowed him whole. Everything went black. He felt no pain, no sorrow, nothing. The sweet relief of death was, in fact, a relief.

But it's because he didn't die.

Godzila awoke several hours later lying facedown on the same spot where he fell. Everything around him was scorched. The trees, bushes, and grass from each horizon to the next was pitch black. He slowly stood up and felt sharp pains ripple through him. He reached a hand out and saw a black mark where he clutched the oxygen destroyer.

"Is this the afterlife? Am I...dead?"

Godzilla looked around and saw nothing except an infinite sea of black. A flat, black plane of existence with him the sole resident of. He turned around and slowly marched back towards the battlefield. After all, if this was the afterlife, wouldn't the bodies of his friends and Kiryu be there?

Godzilla walked for what felt like days. Time flowed differently for him. With head trauma, hundreds of cuts and scrapes, shattered bones, and many, many pains, his body was barely holding itself together. His mouth tasted of dry air and nuclear fuel. His heart painfully beat inside his aching chest. Eventually, he saw a small, black and grey pile of stones in the distance.

"The rubble of the pyramid. Thank goodness this was the right way."

Godzilla got closer and closer to the ruins. The plain, cloudless white sky above bore down onto the scorched Earth. He then began to hear a faint, but constant movement of air off in the distance. He turned around and saw three black shapes flying towards him. As they got closer, he saw that one was red, one was black, and the other was blue.

"I wondered when they would arrive here. Thank god the afterlife isn't this isolating." Godzilla said flatly. He turned and continued his trudge towards the ruins.

Mothra and Battra were the first to land. Rodan shortly after. Mothra climbed onto Godzilla's shoulders and laid there resting. Battra contemplated doing the same thing but chose not to in fear of being squashed. Rodan, jumped in front of Godzilla.

"Godzilla...did we do it?"

"Kill Kiryu and die, yes. I see all three of you didn't survive. Glad to know I won't spend eternity alone."

Mothra, Battra, and Rodan both stopped and stared at each other.

"What? You didn't know we were dead? You all felt the purple void consume you. You all felt yourselves get instantly atomized…"

Mothra got off of Godzilla and stood next to Rodan.

"Goji...we aren't dead. We are still here."

"Yeah. None of us are dead dude. Judging by the gaping wound on your chest, you should be dead." Rodan pointed at Godzilla's stab wound. Mothra quickly got back on Godzilla and began to heal him.

"Wait...then...wh-"

"That's right. We did it. We won. We stopped him...you...stopped him, Godzilla. Whatever you did killed him and destroyed the bomb in the process. You saved the world." Battra said. He placed a wing on Godzilla's shoulder.

"Like you always do." Mothra said as she nuzzled Godzilla's face.

The four kaiju continued to walk forward until they arrived at the ruins of the pyramid. Nothing was there. Not even a single corpse or crumpled pieces of machinery. All that remained was the black, scorched Earth, the crumbling ruins of the pyramid, and what was left of Kiryu. When the kaiju found his body, there wasn't much left.

His head has survived the blast. Most of his lower jaw was gone but everything else was intact. Chunks of his shoulders, arms, and legs were recovered. After excavation was done, most of his tail was also found. However, nothing from his chest, back, or waist was recovered. Analysis revealed that he simultaneously imploded and exploded. Even though his death was confirmed, it is not known if he died instantly when the blast occured or afterwards when he slowly powered down. His nanobots hardened into an indestructible super element now known as Kiryuite. It would never decay or erode away.

It would take 10 days before the first human clean up crews arrived at the scene. By then however, nothing remained of the battlefield. Godzilla and the other kaiju leveled the remnants of the pyramid and made a monument for their fallen friends. The smooth, dark grey rectangular slab of stone had these names etched into them.

Wayfield

Rax

Anguirus

Lea

And last but not least,

Gigan.

Yes. Even though he committed millions of war crimes, killed literally millions of human beings, slaughtered countless kaiju in the early days of the war, and almost killed everyone on the kaiju court, his name was etched into the stone. His life was tragic, and his legacy will forever be tarnished, but deep down he was a scared, broken, sad soul.

None of their bodies were ever recovered. Not even a fragment of them left. Although they have passed on, their memories would live on forever. Kiryu's body was disposed of as far away from everything as they could. The Mariana Trench. At the lowest point in the Challenger Deep, Godzilla laid his shattered body on the ocean floor. As he swam back up he gave it one last look. The hollow eyes of his skull shone back at him in the dark as said farewell to Kiryu one final time.