-Mount Fuji, Neighpon

A wide grin spread across the hiker's face as he and a friend made their way up the steep mountainside. Sweat dripped off of their foreheads and they were nearly out of water, but he didn't care. This was a momentous time for the stallion and he wasn't going to let the near lack of water stop him. Heaving himself up onto a boulder, the stallion glanced down at his comrade with a chuckle. His friend's tongue lolled out of his mouth and he was sweating bullets.

"What're we doing with our lives?" the stallion below complained, practically dragging himself to rest beside his more athletic friend.

The stallion snorted with a grin as he tossed aside his saddlebag and rummaged through its contents, gently pulling a Canon camera from a pocket and lifting it to his eye. His smile only grew wider as he snapped several photos of the gorgeous view. Following this, the stallion leaned back as his friend drank what remained of his canteen after wiping down his forehead with a small towel.

"My friend..." the stallion started. "We are living life to its fullest." With that, the hiker patted his friend's shoulder with a smile.

Almost as soon as his hoof made contact, the earth below shuddered slightly, causing the duo to look to his hoof with confused expressions. Before either was able to ask anything, the earth shook again, this time in a much more violent manner.

As a result of this, the stallion's camera was sent tumbling down the mountainside, where it stopped upon bumping into a row of jagged, rocky protrusions.

"Kuso!" the stallion exclaimed after his shock had faded, slipping off of his current perch and scrambling down the side of the mountain to retrieve his camera. Ducking beside the sheets of rock, the hiker lifted his utensil and inspected its surface for any damages. The casing was chipped and covered in a bit of dust, but nothing that would hinder its functionality.

As his friend made his way down to follow, the hiker looked up at the tall protrusions with a mixture of fascination and slight fear. He could easily tell that they had not been here before, as there was no growth of lichens or moss on their surface. The area surrounding them was also heavily disturbed, likely a result of the earthquake. Looking over his shoulder and at his equally confused friend, the stallion cocked a brow. "What do you make of this?" he asked.

"I... don't know. But it doesn't look like it should be here." the stallion acknowledged, a hoof to his chin in thought.

Before either could say anything more, though, the ground began to shake again, this time violently enough that neither hiker could stay on their hooves. As the earthquake grew in intensity, an otherworldy bellow rang out from below them before the rocky protrusions began to elongate, dust and debris filling the air and reducing visibility to the point that the friends were nearly blind. But as one began to tumble down the mountainside with the emergence of a heavily armored hide, his friend scrambled away, lifted the camera, and took several photos of the situation.

Through the dust, the head of a massive creature whose spinal column was lined with batteries of jagged dorsal plates became visible. But as he prepared to snap the photograph, the titan's jaws widened and a tremendous bellow echoed across the Neighponese mountain ranges.

-Ponyville-

The large mare stabbed at her lettuce with the provided fork, having grown accustomed to an Equestrian diet, in spite of her previously carnivorous nature. Lifting the forkful of salad to her gaping jaws, the broken horned mare chewed quietly, though with slight difficulty at the prospect of lacking herbivorous molars. Rexy did manage to do so, however, and upon finishing her mouthful, she turned to Obsidian with a slight smile. "So. How was work?" she asked in a way that would look surreal to any dinosaur expert.

"Meh," he replied with a shrug. "Uneventful... Save for Fluttershy's cockatoo. You remember Harley, right?" the pegasus stallion asked.

Rexy rolled her eyes and nodded. "I do."

"Friggin bugger got me again," Obsidian said, sweeping back his mane slightly to reveal a band-aid.

The unicorn snorted in slight amusement before noticing that her alicorn daughter, Midnight Ruby, had nearly finished eating her own dinner. Rexy's expression flatlined before she spoke. "Have you ever considered chewing your food, before?" she grunted sarcastically. "Or are you just some kind of living vacuum?"

The red-striped teenager in question became dead still just as a forkful of food was almost at her lips, mouth open as she stared up at her mother and her unimpressed expression.

Rexy lifted her brows. "That a no?"

Obsidian let a chuckle escape his mouth and shook his head before Midnight finished off her meal. "I'm the daughter of a dinosaur, Mom. Dinosaurs didn't chew their food..." she retorted. "Oh, and have you two ever considered being just a tad more quiet at night?" the teenager added quietly with a smirk.

Sensitive hearing picked up on the last part. The heavily built mare's muzzle turned bright red whilst Obsidian began to choke on a swallow of coffee, steam slithering from his nostrils as the alicorn rose from her seat and rinsed her dish. After his choking had died down, the pegasus spoke. "Midnight Alexa Ruby! That is none of your damn business!" he barked, pointing a hoof at his daughter before redirecting it towards her room.

"Okay! Sorry!" Midnight winced, quickly moving to retreat to her room before her father started chewing up the scenery.

As Midnight did so, the red of Rexy's cheeks gradually died down, her shock gradually waning before she found some logic to this situation. Her surprise transitioned into a glare that she directed at her husband. "I blame you for everything about that," she grumbled.

"What, Why?" Obsidian replied. "What'd I do?"

"You're the reason that we even have a kid," the unicorn grumbled before rising from her seat and nonchalantly placing her plate in the sink.

The pegasus stallion rose to his seat with a slightly prideful expression. "Oh, sure. Blame me for the fact that you, being a genetic mutation, aren't sterile like I initially thought," Obsidian retorted. Before Rexy could move to her lounge chair, the pegasus gently forced her against the counter. "Besides... Do you regret having Midnight," he grinned before casually touching his lips to the mare's.

Rexy rolled her eyes, unable to say anything as a result of the lip-lock. Though she was slightly sensitive of the topic surrounding her creation, the former star of Jurassic Park, and then Jurassic World, was never able to stay angry at the dolt that was her current husband. A sigh slithered from her nose as she returned the kiss, a smile gradually forming upon her lips. Pulling away slightly, she spoke. "No, I guess not... Forced Onyx to accept me, so why should I stay angry?"

Midnight Ruby, in the meantime, was busy talking with a friend of hers via the telepathy she'd been taught by fellow alicorn, Twilight Sparkle. Hey, Sapphire. You there? the mare asked via her mind whilst she focused on her homework.

Course, I'm here, Rubes! a familiar voice chimed, eliciting a smile from the mare as she worked. Why wouldn't I be?

I don't know... Hey, I meant to ask, how's Manehattan? Midnight asked with a soft smile.

Busy as all Tartarus! I mean, c'mon! It's harder to get around than Ponyville during the Summer Sun Celebration! Sapphire exclaimed. If Midnight had been with her, she'd have seen that her best friend wore a wide eyed, and yet excited expression upon her face.

The winged unicorn knew her friend well enough to imagine the look on Sapphire's face and chuckled. That bad, huh? she asked, tapping her chin with a pencil as she pondered the math problem she was currently stuck on. She inherited the tyrannosaur IQ from her mother.

Oh my CELESTIA, it's awful... Also, your Uncle Ratchet sends his best. He's currently allowing me to stay with him and his wife at the moment and wanted me to say hi to his favorite grand-niece, Sapphire continued.

Cool. Thanks, Sapph, Midnight thought before the remembrance of a situation in Neighpon came to the forefront of her mind.

Sapphire didn't need to ask to see the photo that a Neighponese hiker had snapped of a massive creature bellowing into the air. Thinking about that incident, eh? Y'know, the photo that hiker took looks an awful lot like a kaiju, if you ask me, she chimed.

That's what I was thinking, Midnight acknowledged. It almost reminds me of Godzilla... Except he vanished, what, three, four decades ago? the mare thought with a shrug. I'm studying this in my history class. It's weird, because the photo LOOKS like Godzilla, but the skull looks to squared off and his spines are more like spikes than they were before.

Maybe it's just the effect of the dust playing tricks on you?" Sapphire suggested, more as a question than such.

I dunno... But I feel like this might involve me somehow. I don't even know why... I mean, my grandparents fought in Final Wars, but that doesn't mean anything, right? the teenager said as an uneasy feeling that all of the history surrounding Final Wars was circling to her.

A moment passed before her friend replied. Hm... Dunno... If anything turns up, feel free to contact me, though. I'd love to see how this panes out.

Okay, Sapph. Think to ya later.

Tokyo Bay Airport, Neighpon

Tons upon tones of rubble shifted as black smoke billowed into Princess Luna's night sky. Tokyo's residents, no doubt many, screamed in panic as a series of explosions rang out, jet fuel exploding into toxic vapors and flames as a hellish scream echoed out of a collapsible, duel set of jaws. The massive, crocodile-esque titan dubbed Raiju aggressively flexed her claws as her tripartite jaws folded out to reveal her small, thinly armored head.

The airports workers and travelers, once screaming and fearing for their lives, fell into an eerie silence as a massive kaiju took a step forward, the ground beneath shuddering as he moved. Pavement was crushed my the multi-thousand ton weight as the leviathan, unaffected by Raiju's threat display, took a deep breath and loosed his own call. The roar carried for miles and could have effortlessly drowned out the sound of any thunder. The long call droned on, the kaiju's epiglottis rumbling and thumping.

The fight between Godzilla, the King of the Monsters, and Raiju almost ended before it had begun in that very moment.

-Ponyville-

Rexy, after having finished her conversation with Obsidian, sat down to relax on the couch, glancing over at her loudly snoring husband with a slight grumble. She was a light sleeper, as a result of her predatory instincts, and dealing with Obsidian's snoring was frequent.

Taking her best attempt at ignoring the noise, Rexy shifted her gaze up to the television screen as a weather stallion went on about the possibility of a thunderstorm on Saturday. The unicorn mare sighed at the knowledge of this. She was now almost forty, nearly fifteen years older than any Tyrannosaurus is supposed to be, as a result of her equestrian body not having all of the same health problems as her true form. Rain was certainly not something that would help her predicament.

Just as she was about to wake Obsidian and inform him of the predicted weather, an emergency broadcast came up on the tv, forcing her to hold her tongue.

"Godzilla Versus Raiju! Living Hurricanes Collide in Neighpon!" the headline read, eliciting a raised brow from the former dinosaur. Rexy paused in her actions and watched as a news reporter became visible upon the screen, worry visible upon her expression and in her tone.

"Just last night, two kaiju came together in the Tokyo Bay Airport, where they came under conflict and cancelled hundreds of flights from Tokyo, Osaka, and other large cities in Neighpon. Neighponese residents are calling the two kaiju Godzilla and Raiju. Though the airport was evacuated, dozens were lost to the wreckage."

The unicorn mare cocked a brow as she propped herself up.

"Earlier in the day, a hiker on Mount Fuji managed to catch several photos of the one dubbed Godzilla before he allegedly fled the mountain. After running to the nearest home in a state of delirium, the hiker was brought to a hospital, where nurses claim to have heard him muttering the phrase "King of the Monsters" in his sleep." The mare paused in her speech to catch her breath before continuing. "Princess Celestia will be hosting a board meeting to find the proper means to solve the problem, and has called upon the Anti-Megalosaurus Force to try and stop Godzilla before he causes anymore damage. Raiju has not been seen since retreating into the sea... Solar Beam reporting for Equestria Daily. Spirit Wing, back to you."

Rexy swiveled her head at noticing the lack of snoring that had previously filled the room, seeing that Obsidian's face was a ghostly pale. "What?"

Obsidian gulped and sat up before hesitantly replying. "My parents were the last ones to fight Godzilla... This relates to me somehow. I just don't know how yet. You remember Captain Gordon?" the dusty brown pegasus asked, straining to remain calm in the situation.

"Yeeeah... He let us stay with him while I was pregnant with Midnight." Rexy furrowed a concerned brow. "What does this have to do with him?" the broken horned mare questioned.

Her husband paused in his speech, almost as if trying to wordlessly backpedal his way out of the situation. The words came shortly after. "Y-you know what. It... doesn't really matter," Obsidian stammered slightly, waving a hoof at the mare and rolling his eyes.

"Tell me," Rexy said flatly, deadpanning as she stared into his eyes.

The pegasus felt his will to resist the heavily built mare crumble before he sighed in exasperation. "W-well, chances stand that he's going to show up and request our aid. You, being a dinosaur, are probably going to be of use in the conflict that is probably to come," Obsidian said, grimacing as he prepared to feel Rexy's wrath unleash itself upon him.

He was shocked by a simple, calm answer. "No... I left Celestia's guard because I wanted to change. I have the family I wanted for the last two decades and I'm not going to say goodbye to it because of some Equestrian war," the striped mare said with a shake of the head. "I'm done with the violence that I'm capable of causing."

"Okay," Obsidian replied, looking into her eyes before leaning forward and kissing her snout.

Author's Note

Kuso: Japanese for damn