Chapter 12: Old sun

After the struggle on Shadow Moses Island, the dream team's morale is lower than ever but everybody still hold onto their self for one final struggle to save the king of monster, Godzilla. On board the Gotengo battleship, col. Gordon briefs the team and anybody else, who could still fight, "All right listen up, the Red October is approaching Godzilla's underwater den with a speed 250 nautical miles/hour; they need to lure Godzilla out of his den so that they could attack him with the rail gun when they surface with Godzilla.

Now while they surface and open up their armor plating and reveal the rail gun, the Gotengo will have enough time to enter the ship and attack the ship's entirior. One strike team will attack the ship's GD core room to destroy the AI that MechaGodzilla 2 uses to control weapons, without GD then we could attack the rail gun with our entire arsenal which is currently under lock down, MechaGodzilla 2 might also use the AI to retreat to another hideout or download himself into another body. Once GD is been destroy, the rail gun will also be disable for it require an AI to operate.

Outside the ship will have the FROGS bitches to protect it, inside will be loaded with unmanned weapons like Gekko and IRVING, the corridor that leads into the AI's core room is a microwave oven that will evaporates anybody at the right frequency." Colonel Gordon briefs the teams, but everybody is shock to find out that the the Red October is now MechaGodzilla 2's very own Death Star.

"The enemy will be relies on electronic means to detect us, while then this ship is been stripped of most of its equipment according to world peace accord with monsters, she has no electronic warfare of anymeans, we'll have to rely on our own eyes to see them." colonel Gordon ends his briefing, everybody are in no states for jokes or a final cigar. One moment later, while the Gotengo is pursuiting the Red October; Kiryu walks into the briefing room where Snake is preparing to smoke his last, "Hey, you care for one last story telling?" Kiryu asked. "Sure, I'm old, near death, why not one last time." Snake smirk.

"Your dad said that human and monsters are not so distance from each other; and for that they all have their own backstory to tell, so don't just stare but listen." Kiryu said, his eyes have scars running his cheeks. Snake could tell that Kiryu is in contact with his Godzilla's spiritual side; "Back when I was born, I first came out of an egg; my parents were strong proud hunters. Especially my father, he was a proud hunter, fear by all opposition and respect by all under him. Life was so meaning full for me back then; I always wanted to be like my father, a strong, proud Dino like all others, but that all changed when one day; a rainy day came. The rain was very dense back then, the earth was soften up by the water, then a thunder crack the mountains above and send the rocks streaming down on top of my family.

The rocks crush my parents underneath. I couldn't do anything but cried out to them, hoping that they are still alive but it was all in vain hope, nothing could withstand that massive earth burial. I ran back to my den, with tears running down my face; ever since then, no one ever recognize me anymore, they all started to distance from me, treating me like I'm just a nobody. I grew up all alone, no one was there for me when I need them; I could have just die to end my miseries. But one day when I was nearing adult age, I met my first mate; she was a beautiful female in my kind. She shared my grieves, for she too losses her parents in that rainy day; we grew up together, then mating season came; she chooses me as her mate after a duel with other males.

Some years later, she laid her first and only egg, Godzilla. But then a meteor crashed on the earth, it destroy all lifeforms on earth, I lost her to the blast. I could only hold onto Godzilla when he was just an egg and ran for the den; we were frozen in there for all times. I thought that I will never get to see my son's birth, or to see my mate and my parents in the afterlife; until that nuclear blast that mutated me. To that point you probably got it right?" Kiryu tell his back story to Snake, but at that moment, Akane happens to walk by and heard the story and in her heart, she felt like Kiryu deserves a happy life like anyone else.

"You and i are not so different from each other. We maybe look like grow ups but in our heart, we're just child soldiers without a home or family to love and care for us. We're just a pawn and a boy soldier in a proxy war wages by two old men for 40 years." Snake comments.

A few minutes later the Gotengo spotted the Red October have just surface on the eastern part of the Pacific; the strike force was getting ready for boarding the giant sea titan when Drebin shows up to tell them one last thing. "Ah business has been slow ever since MechaGodzilla 2 got its hands on the SOP system, so I decided to give you all a 20 percent discount on the matter of the war slums price." Drebin tells the team that his price is now cheaper than ever which make the crew and the team buying his naked guns and getting ready on a catapult to board the Red October.

When the Gotengo started its attack, the strike team consists of Akane; Kiryu and Snake Eater launches into the interior of the Red October as the enemy ship unveil its armor plating to prepare the rail gun. When Snake got on board and starts to getting down to the ship's command and briefing room to rally with the other, he started to remember the thing that Igarashi reminds him :"Snake, we have gave up monster fighting years ago to pursuit your father's ideology of monsters and humans to live with each other in peace. If MechaGodzilla 2 manages to kill Godzilla then the world will have no choice but to become slaves to its fanaticism and hatred towards monsters.

Failure will spell disaster for all mankind and monsters alike." then when he got to the rally point at the command room, he saw Akane lying on the ground and Kiryu just walks in and the duo have been ambush by a platoon of highly train FROGS female operatives. "Back to back, quick!" Snake shouted and Kiryu turns his back against Snake's back and they started to unleashing bullets everywhere around the room. The FROGS were all been kill one by one, then something just happens, the dead bodies suddenly rises up from the floor like puppets. Kiryu saw the last Beauty and the Beast member, Screaming Mantis.

She uses her ability to control people's behavior to control the dead bodies like puppets; she raises them up and started to attack Kiryu and Snake. "Kiryu keep her distracted, I'm going for her doll." Snake said. Then Snake ran around her flank while Kiryu shoots down anybody that come close to Akane; he attacks the bodies like he never fight before, it was a strange feelings for him, like he was in love with her.

Then Snake grab a doll of Screaming Mantis, he launches the doll's beam at Screaming Mantist and he uses it to control her entire body and throw her around like a human yoyo. Then her suits fallen apart and she reveals her true face, a beautiful South American woman with long black silk hair running down her back. "Stop it, stop it please! Let me out of here.

I don't need the screams anymore! I'm sorry, I'm so sorry!" She screams at something like a hallucination created by her unstable mind. Snake then ran to her and calm her down, she then calming down and rested her face on Snake's strong chest; then Kiryu saw a ghostly image of Psycho Gigan. "Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Hello Snake Eyes! It's been a long time! We have so much to catch up!" Psycho Gigan then trying to read Snake's mind but he has no idea that he is on the wrong channel when he started to be attacks by an unknown force.

"What is this? You're not Snake Eyes! You're his son, and Mothra's son! NO! You're not a regular person…" Then Psycho Gigan image distentigrated for good. Drebin then calls to compliment Snake on defeat the last of the BnB, "Congratulation, looks like you've just best the last beast. Screaming Mantist came from a place where it's been rocked by never ending civil war in South America. Her family was hunted by enemy's death squad, so she was been separated from her family. She ended up in a basement of this one house; it was feeling with dead bodies, then she heard footsteps above follow by a scream.

The kind that will make your hair stands up straight, she ended up in a makeshift torture chamber; the scream went all days and all nights, she manage to survive by drinking water from the leaked pipes but she was getting hungry. And in that hunger, she saw a hallucination of a black mantist, teaching to block out her ears to stop hearing the screams by devouring the corpses of the males.

And in doing so, she earned her name Screaming Mantis; that's one heck of a waking nightmare." Drebin ended the call leaving Snake and Kiryu to continue the mission.

That's the first part of the ending; the second part is the finale for the story. Hope you guys like Kiryu's back story.