Chapter 39: Canon Update 5

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Here we are folks, the last canon update for this part of the story. It's been a wild ride but I'm proud of the way this story unfolded. Many things have happened to our protagonists and our antagonists so let's see just what changes have occurred.

Kiryu: Kiryu's nanobot armor is the most radical change to any of the characters in this story. Gigan's change being a close second. When Kiryu bonded with the nanobot cube his body changed on a molecular level. Every piece of his mechanical body transformed into one of these nanomachines. He also had full control over every one of them. This means that he can transform any part of his body into anything. The most common change was turning his arm into a sword or a shield. However this came at a cost. Because of Kiryu's size, and the fact that he desperately wanted this armor as fast as possible, he only made enough nanobots to transform 95% of his body. The other 5% was pulled from other places when he did anything. For example, when he turned his arms into shields he pulled additional nanobots from his dorsal plates or from his tail. This is the reason why Godzilla noticed his dorsal plates and tail shrinking during the fight.

More importantly however was the fact that when the crusaders began to invade South America, he didn't even have a quarter of the resources needed to make his new armor. To compensate, he stripped his jaegers of their armor and most of their weaponry. This is why the crusaders encountered jaegers missing armor and weapons and it's also why they were cut down so easily. When Gigan was eventually killed Kiryu quickly ran outside, in the middle of an active warzone, to strip his body of every piece of unobtainium he could. That is why Gigan's body was never recovered from the ruins. If he still had his unobtainium it would have been recovered.

Kiryu's nanobots are, without a doubt, the strongest and most durable pieces of technology on Earth. They are indestructible to any form of conventional weaponry and were only destroyed when the extreme heat and pressure of the crusaders' ranged attacks hit them all at once. When Godzilla stopped firing his atomic breath, the conditions created to destroy them were gone. Kiryu's armor was only pierced by Godzilla's fist because of that area still recovering from the crusader's firing of their ranged attacks.

His armor also was constantly moving. When he stepped, his armor rippled. When he was standing still it moved like the ocean. The best way to describe how it moved is to look at the T-3000 from Terminator Genisys. Whenever it walks it's body ripples and pulses. Kiryu's armor does the same thing but on a larger scale. His body's nanobots were held together with a magnetic field. This field could be disrupted but only if the internal components were damaged. Whenever a muto hit Kiryu's armor with their electromagnetic field, his armor would for a split second lock up. However he designed his armor to withstand this attack. When Kiryu was eventually killed, his nanobots stopped moving and hardened into an impenetrable metal now known as Kiryuite. Gigan's armor was a proto version of this but it still had standard unobtainium inside of it. That is why he was still able to be harmed by Battra and Mothra's legs.

Instead of being damaged, his nanobots would simply move around the object. For example, when Rodan would slash Kiryu with his talons, instead of his armor being ripped apart or having pieces of it fly off, they simply moved around. Like when you draw a line through mud on the ground. The mark was left but it would quickly reform back to its original shape.

Mothra: Mothra gained two new abilities during this final battle that she previously never had before. The first being her own version of prism beams and the second being her own lightning. Both of them pale in comparison to her brother's but they can still pack a punch to anyone who dares to fight her.

Fire Rodan: After Rodan absorbed the radiation from a nuclear explosion, his outer skin shed off and revealed Fire Rodan. The abilities he gained before this transformation still exist but they are amplified significantly. His fire breath can now condense into a thin, yet extremely hot and deadly inferno beam that functions identically to Gigan's heat vision. His ability to heat up parts of his body also retain but it is more amplified in his talons and beak. Fire constantly burns on his wings and head and when he flies he leaves behind him a trail of smoke and burning embers.

Rax and the Mutos: After Godzilla told him to buzz off, Rax went in search of the rest of his mutos so they could join the fight. After reentering the secret tunnel that was dug he found that they were already planning on going up to fight whether Godzilla liked it or not. Rax took the mantle of leading them in the battle against Kiryu and ensured that if one were to die that he would comfort them and look after them when they die. After Rax passed, the remaining mutos fled back underground for two reasons. The first being how their numbers had gone from a little over a dozen down to only four members and the second reason being that the survivors were too tired and too wounded to fight effectively. In order to preserve their species they retreated. After Kiryu exploded, the mutos remained underground and still are to this day.

The Jaegers: Not every jaeger was destroyed when Kiryu fell. In fact, a few dozen survived the battle and either got deactivated by humanity's army or fled underground. However in the years following the conflict they would eventually deactivate and slowly erode away underground.

South America: After the Kaiju Court left the continent, humanity still had much to do. 500 million people had been destroyed when the Legion of Doom took power and now that they are gone there is this massive continent that is devoid of any human life. The few refugees that were recovered would return but they all chose to stay together. Like how the middle east was carved up after World War 1, South America became a sandbox for both the United States and China. Many puppet countries were established to gain more influence in the region. This however led to tensions beginning to form between the two superpowers as they struggled to return this continent back to its former glory. Even after both countries sent colonizers to live in this land the population would only rise to a little under 4 million people.

Environmental Impacts: The Amazon Rainforest barely exists anymore. The fires caused by the fusion reactors exploding burned away almost 80% of the rainforest. Countless species of animals went extinct and entire populations of people no longer existed. Even after the Kaiju Court left there were still active missile turrets in the jungles that had to be disposed of. Ash and smoke from this disaster would rise into the atmosphere and lower global temperatures for years to come. Not to mention the gaping hole in the ozone layer.

The Oxygen Destroyer: The oxygen destroyer detonated, but not to the scale needed to end the world. In order for it to reach critical mass, it needs to draw in large amounts of oxygen so it can create the bubble of micro oxygen. The inside of Kiryu's chest doesn't have much oxygen so it was never able to achieve critical mass. It still exploded but it only created a small bubble of micro oxygen and it was only potent enough to kill plant life. However, one thing it did do that would take the Earth decades to recover from was tear a hole the size of the state of New York in the ozone layer. For those of you who don't know, the ozone layer is what prevents the harmful rays of radiation from the sun from hitting us. Ozone is an oxygen molecule and what does the oxygen destroyer do? Destroy oxygen. It also created a massive vacuum in the atmosphere that allowed, for a brief moment in time, the sky to appear white in color. The sun's natural color in space is white. The atmosphere is what makes the sky blue and the sun yellow. When Godzilla awoke from his sleep, the sky was white in color along with the sun. It didn't last long however because shortly after the kaiju reunited at the ruins of the pyramid it began to turn blue again.

The purple ball that expanded and consumed everything was a bubble of micro oxygen. In its raw form it glows bright purple. It wasn't strong enough to encircle the Earth but it did consume a large portion of Brazil. Godzilla and the other kaiju only survived it because by the time it reached them it wasn't strong enough to break through their body's radiation to kill them. But what it did do was infuse everything it touched with the toxic substance. Kiryu's remains in particular. Similar to how nuclear fuel fragments are still being found in Chernobyl, Kiryuite fragments are still being recovered in Brazil that are still highly poisoned with micro oxygen. His corpse. Especially the inside of his chest, has enough micro oxygen inside it to kill any living thing near it. This is why he was laid to rest at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

Many fragments of his body however were never found. Many of them were either launched so high into the air that they would land in the ocean and some of them were blasted into the ground. Even after the battlefield was excavated and tested for micro oxygen there are still fragments that will never be found.

Random Information:

Kiryu died the second the bomb went off. He died while shouting his name into the sky but no-one would ever hear it. Just like when he was born, he had died alone.

Every kaiju that fought Kiryu that day would get their own PTSD. Godzilla in particular. Now he has to deal with both King Ghidorah's, Mothra's, and now Kiryu's.

Most of the jaegers that Godzilla and Wayfield killed would either disintegrate in the nuclear blast or in the micro oxygen bubble.

Battra, Mothra, and Rodan were not fast enough to escape the bubble. Shortly after it washed over Godzilla it would swallow them up. Luckily they did not lose consciousness but they were thrown out of the sky.

Most of the final fight was documented by Monarch for research purposes. And yes, Monarch survived both the dissolvement of Apex and throughout this entire conflict.

Many people are still angry that the kaiju were allowed to live following the events.

Any and all progression on artificial intelligence was permanently cancelled. Never again would AI be allowed to gain sentience.

Kiryu had Megaguirus's name figured out for a long time but never told anyone in case they betrayed him. He was absolutely fuming when he was told of her destruction.

Wayfield's jaeger is identical to that of Alexander Wells' jaeger but instead of having four arms he has two and his jaeger is army green.

For the final battle many things influence me. The final battle between Jotaro and Dio in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders was the one that I drew most of my inspiration from. I also took some inspiration from the final battle in Terminator Genisys and Godzilla: King of the Monsters.

And there you have it folks, the last canon update for this story. The next chapter will be the last one.