Kantri: I've made a deal with Saabys to use her computer.

Saabys: And you'd better live up to it.

Kantri: Have I not always been a dragon of my word?

Saabys: Point to you.

It was a week after Godzilla and Siseir's eight children hatched, and already the hatchlings had grown from human-sized to nearly double that. Still, they would have a long way to go before reaching half the size of their parents. As it was now, Siseir and her family were sleeping lightly as it was just before dawn.

When Siseir awoke she noticed that the wall of the rock "couch" was well above her head. Godzilla?

Mrr. Huh? Yes Siseir?

We're small…

What! Godzilla looked up and gave a roar, startling the young ones awake and causing them to scatter.

Gojira surfaced from the water and chuckled at all the commotion. "So what do you guys think? Nice place you have here."

Gojira walks over and plops down on the couch smiling. "Uh Godzilla, you may want to keep an eye on your kids there." Gojira gets up and picks up one of the infants and hands it to its mother. "Here, wouldn't want this one getting into trouble would we?"

"Hey guys, I just remembered here's another trick I wish to share with you." Gojira's body began to glow in a bluish white light. It was as bright as the sun, but after a minute it stopped and Gojira's form looked different, his body was still bulky, but the dorsal fins looked different and so did his face. When he opened his eyes everyone gasped... pupils. He had pupils.

Gojira? Godzilla was shocked.

Gojira grinned with his sharp teeth and pointy fangs gleaming.

Siseir gathered her kits close to her and stares, wing feathers fluffed and crest standing straight up in shock.

How..?

Gojira smiles. "I decided to show you all what I really looked like back in 1954. This is the real me." He walks over to them and pats Siseir on the back. "So how do I look?"

Godzilla glared and growled at Gojira.

"Sorry, it's just it's been so long since I've been around a female." He frowned.

Siseir sat back, looking over her little ones and gauging their sizes. Then her sea eyes widened as an idea hit her.

Godzilla…

Yes?

Why do we not go visit the small ones?

At this Gojira could not help but chuckle. He could fully imagine the Human's reactions.

A couple hours combined with sleepy children and a short-swim-turned-long later Godzilla and Siseir walked out of the surf and onto the sand, with a now-smaller Gojira following them moments later. The eight hatchlings were arrayed over their mother or father, with three ridding on their backs and one held in the forelegs/arms.

Godzilla and Siseir vaguely remembered being this small once: back when they were newly hatched. They had not, however, seen anything as small as their shrunken children. Each youngling was roughly the same size of a Human infant at two weeks old, but thankfully still possessed all of their agility and cleverness.

Together they walked to the porch and Siseir tried to use her tail on the door-handle.

No Siseir, I saw male dark one press this button, and they all came running. Godzilla nosed the doorbell twice.

"Excitable aren't they?" Gojira remarked with a hissing laugh as the usual scramble up the stairs reached their ears from behind the door.

Randy was the first to reach the door, and his shock was apparent from his face and instant rude remark, "Whoa, someone leave you guys out in the sun too long?"

Thankfully for his hide, Nick and Elsie were next to arrive.

"Godzilla? Siseir?" They said in unison, making shocked faces until Siseir nodded.

It's us.

Elsie was overjoyed, she knocked the upper hinge of the door loose in her haste to get outside and see her sister, hugging the mutant lizard tight around her feathered and scaled neck and startling two off the young one's off their mother's back. The only one that remained was the first-hatched female, who displayed the pinfeathers of her crest and gave Elsie a "and who are you to get anywhere near me?" look.

"Wow Monique, she has your personality." Randy joked, earning a half-glare from Godzilla.

Monique walked out from behind the door and looked over the little one, "She is firstborn?"

Siseir smiled and nodded. You are to name her.

"May I hold her?"

If she lets you.

Monique reached and gently picked up the little one, cradling her just like she would a newborn human, though she was very, very careful about the wings. The little one was primarily dark black and green, with two blue pinfeathers at the lead of what would be her crest in a few more weeks. The most startling feature of the kit was her bright gold eyes that shone in the morning light like tiny lamps of radiance.

"Nouveau Lumiere." Monique whispered.

"Yeah, ah, err, how's about Nou for short?" Randy was making faces at the thought of trying to pronounce the French name.

Godzilla and Siseir voiced their approval of the name with croons and whuffles.

((A/N Brownie points for any reviewers that know what that name means.))

Nick was laughing and scratching Godzilla's scales. "You know, I'd ask how this happened, but I think I all ready know." He said, glancing down at the beach and Gojira.

Gojira was staring straight back.

"Hey y'all, how bout we bring the kids down and show them the lab? And they can have some of my fresh-made chili." Randy grinned and cracked his knuckles.

"Randy, we're supposed to help them, not poison them." Mendel, of course.

The two instantly engaged in a fight of words, during which Godzilla gave Nick a slightly accusing glance.

Nick shrugged, "Not my fault."

Your humans.

"Hey, since when were we his humans?" Elsie looked up from rubbing Siseir's jaw.

Since you followed him into My territory.

Godzilla had a point there, they had followed Nick home.

"Come, we shall show you our lair." Monique led their little group of misfits into the building and down the long flight of stairs, with the shrunken and infinitely more friendly-looking Gojira trailing along behind out of curiosity.

Once down in the lab, Nick and the team began explaining different things. Each explanation was met with a cold hard wall of puzzlement until they re-explained it in terms the adult lizards could understand.

Meanwhile the hatchlings had jumped down from the backs of their parents, with the exception of Nouveau, whom was quite happily snuggled against Monique as the French woman gave gentle scratches and teased the bases of pinfeathers.

The little ones were off and exploring, nosing into places where they smelled new and different things, mainstay, the whole of the lab. Siseir or Godzilla, and on three cases Gojira, stopped the little ones from knocking anything over or chewing on anything. Siseir began gathering her children after one of the little boys tried chewing on a battery.

While Siseir was rounding them up, one of her sons had found Nigel, attracted by the bright yellow paint, as it was a color he had never seen before. The robot towered over the little hatchling, as he stood transfixed by it.

"Danger Will Robinson! Danger! Danger!" Nigel suddenly came to life and began moving, scaring the little hatchling half to death. He leapt back and called for his mother, running to the first scaled thing he saw, which for his luck just happened to be Gojira.

"Easy there little one. Get scared by the big bad chew toy?"

Mendel got all huffed up, but didn't say anything for fear of angering the Titan. He instead turned on Randy, "Lost in space?"

"What Doc? It's a classic." There was that adolescent grin again.

"You will pay." Mendel took out his mini-computer and looked at the reason for Nigel's activity, "We have an urgent mail from Japan."

At this Gojira gave the youngling back to Siseir and growled, "And what is wrong in My territory?"

Mendel tapped a few keys, "It says here that they are having a mutation problem."

Gojira was all ready heading to the door.

We should go.

What about the kits? I won't bring them to danger.

Last time I left you here alone you were hurt.

Mendel was looking at the younglings and suddenly got a 'ding!' type of look, quickly followed by an evil smirk as he glanced at Randy, "How about a babysitter?"

That didn't go over well with Siseir. I don't want anyone sitting on my kits!

"Nah nah," Elsie soothed, "A babysitter is just a person who watches your children while you are away."

Godzilla got almost the same 'ding!' look as Mendel (or at least as close as a lizard could get) and looked at Randy, baring his fangs and rumbling in a low laugh.

Monique caught on immediately, followed by Elsie and Nick. Siseir was the last one to catch on, and the six pairs of staring eyes and grinning faces clues Randy in.

"Oh no. Ooooh no. I don't think so."

One long fight and one singed Randy later the teenage punk was waving goodbye to the HEAT Seeker, shrunken adult lizards loaded on board. "Okay kids, it's just you and Uncle Randy now. I'm not going to hurt you, let's make that both ways eh?" dreadlocked head turned to the little ones and gauged them. Seven of the eight were huddled together and the whole group of them seemed to be trying to hide behind Nouveau. Speaking of the little Monique-made-lizard, she was sizing him up like 190 pounds of prime hamburger meat.

"No way Chica, I will Not be intimidated by a little pin feathered lizard less than one-eighth my size."

Nou really must not have liked him, cause she bared her tiny nubs of fangs and growled, displaying her pinfeather crest and wings.

Randy moved a bit closer and Nou gave a baby-roar. Another step closer had Nou leaping at his face while the other seven scattered.

"Ahh!" Randy fell backwards and threw Nou into the air, causing the young one to give a shriek as she hit the ground. A dry crack was heard and Nou screamed.

"Oh man… Godzilla and Siseir are going to kill me… After Monique's done with me."

Randy shuddered and surveyed the damage done to Nou. Broken leg just above the knee.

"Gnarly."

Nouveau snarled and snapped at Randy when he got too close, whimpering only when she tried to stand. It was if no use.

"There's a girl, just stay put while Uncle Randy goes in to get a sedative so he can set your leg without you killing him."

The dark youngling waited until Randy was inside before giving a high-pitched call.

One of her brothers came out of the brush and picked her up to carry her into hiding.

Randy came back outside with a syringe in hand, "Okay Nou, time to go… Oh son of a-"

Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiisssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!

Randy blanched and turned around to see three of the little males sizing him up and threatening him.

"This is going to be a LONG babysitting stunt."