Haruo woke up the next morning rather early. He got dressed and then headed down to the command center, once there he looked around at everything. Kairi was sitting in the cockpit as usual. "Kairi. You're up."
"Yeah...I'm up." She said, she spun around and looked at him, "I've just been doing some thinking."
"I see." He said, "Can you plot a course for the next monster location?"
"Sure. Where is that?"
"Osaka." Hikaru's voice came. Kairi nodded and started to plot a course.
"Kairi, how are you feeling?" Haruo asked,
"I'm tired." Kairi responded, "I came down here in the middle of the night, I couldn't stop thinking about things that happened in my past."
"I see."
"Haruo..."
"Yes?"
"Have you ever just wanted to get on a ship and fly away from all your problems and never return?"
"Humanity did that for twenty years. Now look where we are."
"I see." Kairi then gently pushed forward on the control sticks and they headed off. Kairi then stood up, "You and Yuko have something special. Never let go of that." She put the Gotengo on autopilot and then walked off. Haruo sighed as he looked around at everything.
"What's wrong son?"
"It's almost over." He said,
"Yes, isn't that a good thing? Then you and Yuko can finally have the life you've always wanted."
"I know..."
"But you don't want it to end...do you?"
"No, I've become accustomed to this. Spending every day as if it's my last. Without Godzilla...there won't be me."
"Then find a new personality. Something you can be proud of." Hikaru said, "I'm quite porous if the new man Yuko is shaping you into."
"What do you mean?"
"Ever since you brought her on this ship your whole personality has changed. You used to be dark and brooding and kind of a loner. But with Yuko, bringing her here, all of that has changed you have you not seen that?" Haruo started to think back for a minute, "Maybe that's who you are Haruo, maybe it's who you're meant to be."
"I don't know what I'm meant to be." He then turned and walked back to his shared room with Yuko. Haruo winced when he felt a sharp ringing in the back of his mind, he placed his hand on the side of his head and the ringing stopped. He walked inside, he grabbed the visor off of the desk and put it on and his mind felt calm. He then headed down to the cafeteria, as he reached the cafeteria he went and sat down at a table.
"Wow look at this." Haruo was then transported into his mind. He saw X standing across from him, "Here we are again baby brother." Haruo glared at him.
"What do you want?"
"Nothing from you. Not yet anyways." He placed his hands behind his back, "Have you felt it yet? That buzz in the back of your skull? The itch on your nose?"
"I'm not following."
"Mm, so you haven't felt it."
"Felt what?"
"Your wonderful powers of course. Xiliens are bred destroyers and have an immense amount of power."
"What makes you think I'd want anything to do with that?"
"We're Gods Haruo, we can do whatever the hell we want. You just need to reach out and take control."
Haruo suddenly blinked and he was back in the real world. Everyone had come in and started to eat breakfast. He heard each individual noise, the sound of machines going off, peoples breathing, the engine room of the ship, he then heard someone sit down in front of him. He turned and looked ifront of him it was Yuko, "Hey." She said, suddenly everything settled down and now all the sounds became selective, everything besides Yuko was white noise in the background, "Sleep well?" Haruo nodded, "Back to wearing your sunglasses I see." He nodded again. "That's fine, I think they look cool." She smiled and then started to eat some of her food, "You know, I really liked that movie last night. What was it called again?"
"Love Peace." He said softly,
"Yeah, the little turtle in it was so cute."
"Mm."
"Oh! I found something out from your dad the other day!"
"What?"
"Instead of two girls we're having a boy and a girl!"
"That's wonderful." He said rubbing his forehead, "Sorry, I'm really tired and didn't sleep well last night."
"You're fine, if you want you can lay down."
"No, I need to be awake. I've laid down long enough."
"If you insist." She smiled, "So, I really like Haruka, so we can keep that name. What should we name our son?"
"I don't know..."
"Hey," Yuko reaches across the table and grabbed his hand, "If you seriously need to lay down then go do it. I don't want you passing out."
"But I'm fine."
"Haruo, now I am TELLING you to go lay down. You look pale."
"Alright." He then stood up and left the cafeteria. As he walked down the hallway he heard the echoes of his footsteps. Soon Kazuya came to him in the hallway.
"Well look at that, the begotten son is actually alive." He folded his arms, "You feeling ok?" Haruo slowly flexed his fingers and then twisted his wrist, "Haruo are you-" Kazuya suddenly froze, he winced, he then grit his teeth. Kazuya groaned in pain and he placed his hand on the side of his head, soon his face started to turn red. Kazuya gasped and then fell to his knees. Haruo relaxes his hand and then walked past Kazuya, Kazuya suddenly gasped as he was released from whatever power consumed him. Kazuya looked behind him, did Haruo cause that or was he just imagining things? He stood up, he was suddenly tackled from the front, he looked down, "Umika."
"Hey Kazuberry!" She said with a smile looking up at him. "You feeling ok?"
"I'm fine, just a little concerned."
"Concerned? About what?"
"Haruo, he didn't look like himself today."
"When are you ever concerned about Haruo?"
"I am when he looks like the walking dead."
"I'm sure he's fine." She said grabbing his hands,
"If you say so."
"Are you free tonight?"
"Yeah."
"Well, why don't you come to my room and I'll make you forget all about Haruo."
"If you say so." He then let go of her hand and walked passed her. He then went to the cafeteria, he looked around and saw Yuko, he then went and sat across from her. "Yuko, have you seen Haruo lately?"
"Depends on what you mean by lately?"
"Like, physically seen him. He looks almost sickly when I saw him in the hall."
"He said he was tired, so he went to go lay down."
"Was that all?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Well, he did something to me."
"You probably deserved it."
"No, like this was different."
"What do you mean different?"
"I mean that he just stood there, and suddenly there was this high pitched noise that was like inside my brain." Yuko looked up at him.
"Are you serious?"
"Of course I am. He didn't look right in the head when I saw him."
Yuko frowned, "Well perhaps something's up. Until then let's not try to get on his bad side."
Haruo laid on the bed in his room. He just laid there, didn't move, didn't even talk, just laid there. He shut his eyes and fell into his mind again. He suddenly heard a whisper, "Haruo." He opened his eyes and the whisper came again, "Haruo." He sat up and then got out of bed, "Haruo." He walked out the door of his room and followed the whisper down a hall. He walked through the body of the Gotengo until he came to a dark room where the whisper became clear, "Haruo. Help me." Haruo removed the visor from his face, he saw some sort of pod in the center of the room. He walked over to it and placed his hand on the glass, inside was a green liquid. "Haruo. Help me." He looked around the pod until he found a screen, on the screen were several buttons. Soon Naomi's face appeared on the screen.
"Good, you found the reanimation pod." Haruo blinked a few times, noises started to flood his head again. He placed his hand on the side of his head, he grit his teeth until the noises stopped. He suddenly gasped, he looked around the room.
"How did I...get here...?"
"You don't remember?"
"No."
She looked at him a bit concerned, "Do you really not remember how you got down here?" He shook his head, "This is bad..." she sighed, "Well, now that you're here you might as well use the reanimation pod."
"Alright."
"There should be some buttons on the screen, each one fills out a blank space. You just need to fill them out accordingly to my profile."
"Alright." Haruo then filled everything out to the best of his ability. "What should I put for your age...?"
"43."
"Alright." He finished entering everything in with Naomi's assistance. "Now what?"
"I can handle the rest." She said, her face suddenly disappeared. Haruo stood back a bit and suddenly noises started to go off in the pod. The screen went dark and suddenly a bar appeared showing progress. Haruo sighed as he knew it would be a while. Several hours passed, eventually the reanimation chamber had finished its work. Naomi stood in the pod with a cord on the back of her neck, the liquid started to drain and the cord retracted from her neck. She suddenly gasped as she opened her eyes. She coughed up some of the green liquid.
Haruo woke up from his sleeping state leaned against the pod. He turned and looked through the glass, he licked eyes with Naomi. Naomi suddenly smiled at him, "Haruo..." she said softly, "It worked." She placed her hand on the glass, Haruo placed his hand on the other side of hers. Soon the pod released some pressure and the glass swung up, Naomi fell forwards onto Haruo. Haruo quickly caught her, she looked up at him and smiled, "I guess I gotta get used to legs after 20,000 years..." Haruo nodded, he smiled at her.
"Come on, let's get you dressed." Haruo took his mother to the women's shower room. Naomi showered off and then proceeded to get dressed. She then came out of the shower room and back to Haruo. Haruo physically couldn't express the emotions he was feeling, so he just wrapped his arms around Naomi and started to cry softly. She hugged him back.
"I know, I missed you too." She smiled and pulled away from him, "Look at you, you're twice as tall and twice as handsome as your father ever was." He just smiled, "Come on, I'd like to finally meet Yuko in person." He nodded and wiped his face, he then took them to their room. Haruo walked in the door.
"Yuko?" She wasn't in the bedroom, which was odd. Haruo then took Naomi to the cafeteria and then to the med bay, and Yuko was in none of them. "Strange...she's normally in one of those three places."
"Have you tried command deck?"
"No, let's head there." The two went to the command deck, everyone was gathered in there. Haruo then looked around at everyone, they all felt something. Haruo and Naomi felt it when they stepped inside the room as wel. "What's going on?" Haruo asked, Kazuya turned to Haruo.
"Haruo, you wouldn't be happening to do something with your hair right now would you?"
"Not at the moment..." Haruo looked to Akira, "What's the screen showing?"
"We haven't turned it on yet." Akira said, Kairi then flicked a switch and the screen in front turned on. Everyone jumped when they saw Godzilla standing outside.
"That energy is immense..." Haruo said, Godzilla looked down at the Gotengo, it let out a massive roar.
"Everyone battle stations!!!" Akira said, everyone started to run around to several different stations. Kairi looked at Glenn, Glenn looked back to her and nodded. Glenn then turned and ran outside.
"Hey!" Haruofollowed Glenn outside. He caught Glenn by the arm, "Glenn, where are you going?"
"Me! Oh! I'm just...going to the bathroom..."
"You're a terrible liar Glenn."
Glenn froze, "Ok! Fine you caught me!"
"What's going on?"
"You know how I went out with Yuko to Okinawa a few weeks ago?"
"Yes."
"Well...we brought back these statues you see, and so there was this wolf one, and I grabbed it for Kairi because Kairi really likes wolves and-"
"Glenn! Get to the point!"
"The point is!" Glenn sighed, "That Wolf statue made me someone else, it made...something else..." he sighed, he pulled a device out of his pocket. He then loaded an image of the Wolfman that Glenn had become. "Kairi took this photo of me one night that I...wolfed out." Haruo looked down at it, "I'm the only one who can fight Godzilla." Haruo reaches in the back pouch on his belt and pulled out the buckle.
"You aren't the only one."
Glenn looked down at it, "Are you the giant...?"
"Yes."
"AHA!!! I KNEW IT I KNEW IT!!!"
"Shut up!" Haruo slapped his hand over Glenn's mouth, "Do not tell anyone about this, not even Yuko understand?" Glenn nodded, "Good, now let's go kick some ass." Glenn and Haruo found an escape door, they opened it and looked down at the surface below. Haruo put the buckle on his waist.
"Zone! Standing by! Say to change!"
Glenn gasped, "Say it!"
"Say what?"
"You know," Glenn struck a fighting pose, "Henshin!" Haruo raised an eyebrow at Glenn, Glenn smiled, "Come on Haruo."
"No."
"I'll say it if you say it."
"No."
"Yes."
"No."
"Yes."
"Fine if it'll get you to shut up!"
"Yes!!" The two of them looked out the door. The both ran and jumped out the door.
"Henshin!" They both said in unison.
"Ike! Zone Smasher!"
Glenn then growled, his body increased in size and he transformed into his massive Wolfman form. The two of them landed on the ground in front of Godzilla. They both were roughly around the same size as Godzilla, Glenn snarled and his claws lengthened. Godzilla roared at the both of them, Haruo and Glenn then charged and attacked. Godzilla growled and fired its oscillatory wave, Haruo quickly lunged in the air out of the way while Glenn swiftly moved to the side. Glenn roared and then jumped trough the air and landed on Godzilla's back. Godzilla roared and tried to buck Glenn off of him, Glenn growled and then sunk his claws into the back of Godzilla's neck. Glenn then pulled to the side causing Godzilla to fall over. Before Godzilla hit the ground Glenn lunged off of him.
Godzilla looked up at Haruo, he then shot his atomic blast. Haruo held out his hands making a reflective shield, the blast then bounced off the shield and shot into the air. Haruo then flew down to the ground, he looked down at Godzilla and clenched his fists. "You've been my nightmares fuel for too long...now it all comes to an end!!!" Godzilla got back onto its feet, it turned to Haruo and roared. Godzilla went to fire another blast when suddenly a loud crunch was heard, Godzilla roared loudly and lifted its tail in the air.
"Whoah woah woah!!!" On the end of Godzilla's tail was Mothra biting down on it. Godzilla whipped its tail sending Mothra flying into the air, "Ah! What an unforeseen turn of events!!!" She screamed, Haruo sighed, he completely forgot that Mothra could talk telepathically let alone was an actual thing. Haruo quickly jumped in the air and caught Mothra, "Oh thank heavens you've come to my rescue." Haruo then flew to the ground and let Mothra down on the ground, Haruo knelt down.
"What are you doing here?" Haruo asked,
"The girls called me." Mothra said turning to the Gotengo, very softly Haruo could hear Miana and Maina's song calling for Mothra. "I also brought back up." A loud ear splitting roare filles the air, Rodan then descended upon Godzilla and sunk its claws into Godzilla's neck, Godzilla roared as Rodan then started to hoist Godzilla into the air. Rodan flew over to a mountain and dropped Godzilla on top of it. Rodan then flew through the air and landed next to Haruo. "We're going to get your home back, we will do whatever it takes!" Haruo nodded, Glenn then joined up with them. Godzilla stood up and turned around facing them, it's skin started to turn red and it's spikes blue. It let out a massive roar of rage.
"GIVE IT EVERYHING YOU'VE GOT!!!" Haruo said.
A/N
Well G-Fans we are here! The climactic battle against Godzilla! Now, I wasn't going to, but because of the positive feedback I basically have too! I am now announcing a sequel to this story, originally it was just going to be one story but I've had so much positive feedback and it's all thanks to you guys!!!
Also, this is not near the end of the story. This is in fact a little over the halfway point. There is still more that I am going to explore, especially the birth of Haruo and Yuko's children. Another thing! As of today this story is now known as GODZILLA: Live or Die. Mostly due to the fact that the name Before Ghidorah symbolizes everything that happens Before Ghidorah arrives, but there is plenty stuff that happens even after Ghidorah arrives. So yeah! Stay posted!!!!
