Godzilla: Resurrection
Chapter Five: Neural Issues
Previous Chapter-Neighvada Desert-
The mutant cyborg chicken screamed across the sky above the desolate desert, cyclopian eye roving over the landscape as he moved. Looking down Gigan noticed thick webs lining the canyon walls, eliciting some curiosity from the kaiju as he scanned the area. Deactivating his thrusters, Gigan fell towards the ground, feet aimed towards the earth below. With a deep tremor in the earth, the Nebulan creation swiveled his head, leaning over a cliffside to see the spider-webs that looked large enough to catch a kaiju...
Made by a kaiju.
As Gigan turned to move away and avoid becoming spider lunch, a thick rope of webbing shot towards him and attached to his hind leg. Shooting his view down, the kaiju was unable to react as he was pulled down and into the canyon, where he fell and collapsed against the powerful material. It bounced slightly, but Gigan didn't. He was stuck to the web.
As he attempted to free himself of his bonds, Gigan could clearly see a massive, yellow striped spider with crimson eyes skittering across the webs towards him.
Doubling his efforts, the cyborg was powerless to do anything as Kumonga unhinged its disturbing mandibles and spat a net of webs above Gigan. The webbing, upon falling, bonded to the webs surrounding Gigan and the cyborg himself, covering all but his head.
Panic swept over the cyclopian creature as Kumonga stood directly above him, mandibles clicking in anticipation as the arachnid stared down at its prey. Green venom dripped from the spike tipped appendages and melted away at tiny fragments of webbing like acid. Powerful pseudo-claws glided across Kumonga's webs as it moved, eight red eyes string hungrily into Gigan's one eye.
Looming over the kaiju, Kumonga hissed as it lowered its head.
Just as the acidic jaws were about to make contact with Gigan's face, the Nebulan cyborg revved up his internally wired chest blade, cutting through the webs like butter. Kumonga hissed in agitation as Gigan roared out, jerking a scythe tipped arm from its binds and swinging at the spider with all the force that he could muster. Green blood spilled out as two of Kumonga's legs collapsed against the webbing.
With a pain filled shriek, the arachnid reared back and slowly backed away whilst Gigan jettisoned his way out of the sticky prison. Just as Kumonga had turned to move away, however, a massive mech dropped from a set of spacecraft mounted cables before it... right on top of the hole that the spider kaiju was going to escape into. The cave collapsed under the pressure of the mech's tremendous weight, drawing out a panicked shriek from said spider.
Turning slightly, Kumonga was stricken with fear at the realization that he was sandwiched between two robots.
The MechaGodzilla, however, wasn't moving, its pilots still in shock at the sudden drop.
"How bout some warning next time, eh?" One Eye barked as she and Rexy shook off their daze.
"Sorry about that," Gordon's voice acknowledged with a chuckle. as he swiveled the Gotengo around and hovered over the three giants.
"Rexy, how are you holding up?" One Eye asked her younger sister, turning her head to look over at the broken horned mare.
Rexy didn't respond.
Through the lens of her helmet One Eye could see that the mare wore a grimace upon her face, lips curled back to expose her sharp teeth and tears slithering down her cheeks.
Rexy watched with a horrified expression as a Tyrannosaurus pulled down the cables of an electric fence. Loud snaps and screeching metal audible as the mare watched a small man emerge from a green and yellow vehicle before running to a jungle-styled bathroom nearby. Approaching a vehicle, Rexy ducked her head slightly to see a child, a young girl by the looks of it, wearing a terrified expression upon her face as she cried.
"He left us. He left us!"
The unicorn was jostled by a sudden tremor in the earth. Looking up, she noticed the dinosaur looking back and forth between the two land cruisers, lion-like growls rumbling from her throat.
Slowly moving back slightly, Rexy watched as her past haunted her, a car roof being shattered and the vehicle itself being flipped. She was unaware of the faint voice that called to her.
"Rexy! Rexy, stay with me! Rexy, it's just a memory! None of this is real!" One Eye shouted to her sister as Gigan and Kumonga stared at the unmoving Jaeger before them. She didn't see the kaiju or MechaGodzilla cockpit, though. She saw a thunderstorm and her shell-shocked sibling watching on in horror as a seven ton predator flipped a vehicle over the side of a concrete moat.
The unicorn was pulled back to the present by a powerful slam against her frame. Looking up, she saw that Kumonga had just jumped at the machined and slammed into it as if seeking revenge for the loss of its cave.
"Wha? What happened?" One Eye heard, much to her relief.
"Oh, thank God!" the former dinosaur exclaimed with a heavy sigh.
"One Eye, what in the name of Tartarus happened?! You're damn lucky Rexy restablized! Now get in there and make that bug bleed!" Gordon 's voice shouted.
One Eye's response was... less than friendly. "Oh, fuck you!" she hollered as Rexy shook off her daze, lifting her hooves. One cue, the MechaGodzilla took a stance on the left. Rexy, noticing this, followed, forming a near symmetrical pose that pushed the Jaeger into a boxing pose. "You ready?!"
Rexy nodded, brow set in determination.
"Than let's make this fucker bleed!" she shouted as Kumonga leapt forward again.
Swinging their right arms in perfect sync, the sisters caught Kumonga with a right hook, throwing the arachnid into Gigan and blowing off parts of its facial armor. The kaiju shrieked in pain as the soft flesh underneath the exoskeleton became visible.
With an irritated, mechanical snarl, Gigan forced the dead weight off of his chest, where he leapt up and plunged his scythe into the open wound on Kumonga's head. The spider ushered agonized clicks and shrieks whilst struggling before its legs finally forced into a curl and the light in its eyes left it.
With a sound like a sword being unsheathed, Gigan pulled his weapon from Kumonga's head and turned to face the new threat that faced him in the form of a titanium plated Godzilla. In a form of intimidation, Gigan clapped the flats of his blades together with a menacing shriek, where his adversary lifted its fists, tail swinging.
"MechaG to Shatterdome, we found Gigan," One Eye said whilst the duo kept their gaze trained on the cyborg. "You also might want to keep any arachnophobes away from this place."
"Understood, Major. Proceed with caution," Stacker Pentecost's voice acknowledged.
"Yes, Sir... Rexy... How about some Kentucky Fried Space Chicken?" One Eye grinned, looking to her sister.
The unicorn merely smirked, lifting her hooves in unison with the muscularly built mare. Momentarily unhooking a hoof from her connection plate, One Eye flipped up a cover and flicked the red switch underneath it, causing a jolt of energy to pass through the two briefly before the MechaGodzilla's dorsal plates began to emit a loud humming sound, a white glow passing over them as the eyes flashed bright orange.
Both siblings took a heavy step forward, the MechaGodzilla shifting heavily as the glow from its metal plated fins increased in power.
Gigan, realizing the oncoming threat, took to the sky before circling back towards the mechanical Godzilla, scythes splayed out and cyclopian eye glowing slightly. As the Nebulan cyborg dove down towards his target, a series of red plasma blasts bursted out from his eye, spreading like a shotgun blast before causing miniature explosions on contact with the titanium alloy that plated the Jaeger.
In spite of the fact that the blasts were ineffective against his adversary, Gigan continued forward. Upon reaching the MechaGodzilla, the kaiju swung his long, scythe-like arms at the mech's torso, the shrieks of metal against metal audible and sparks flying off of the edges.
Just as Gigan swiveled to get away, the mech lurched forward and grabbed hold of the sails that lined his back. Gigan shrieked in surprise as he was yanked from the air with a heavy tremor in the earth.
As the glow emitted from the core on the MechaGodzilla's chest and spines reached its zenith, Gigan thrashed slightly, looping a scythe around and deflecting the Jaeger's clawed hand with it. With an otherworldly hiss, Gigan lunged towards his foe, the buzzsaw in his chest spinning rapidly as he swung an appendage at his rival's head.
His aim proved to be effective, for the mech was thrown aside slightly.
With a demonic, mechanical laugh, Gigan swung his scythe down, only for a metal hand caped with serrated claws to grab his weapon as it came down. Using the Jaeger's strength to their advantage, the two saurians worked to slowly force the single, elongated claw away and glare at the green and gold kaiju.
One could almost see the surprise cross Gigan's face as a long saber shot from his foe's free wrist, crackling with electricity before being plunged into his robotic heart.
Gigan's limbs fell slack as the light diminished from his eye, black oil dripping from the stab wound.
"Think it's dead?" One Eye asked from inside the cockpit of the massive mechanical leviathan, staring into the lifeless eye of the duo's foe.
"Only one way to find out," Rexy smirked from behind her helmet. With a swift, smooth motion, an explosion rang out from the electrified sword, the shockwave blowing the lifeless Gigan across the canyon. Slamming into a mountainside, boulders began to roll down from the base of the mountain, completely burying Gigan's head and torso. "Now it's dead." Rexy shifted a smirk over to One Eye as an assuring voice came over the intercom.
"Nice work, you two. However, no time to celebrate. Rexy is needed for questioning," Stacker Pentecost's voice said in his characteristic deep tone.
The two siblings shot each other a questioning glance, sharing a shrug that the MechaGodzilla comedically joined in on as a result of the synchronization between the two.
One Eye sucked in a breath. "Think it's about the zone out?"
"The what?" Rexy queried, cocking a brow at the unicorn dinosaur.
"Earlier... You were zoned out. You don't remember? It was after we landed, you were having flashbacks to the first visitors of your old enclosure... During the storm?" One Eye stated, confusion taking hold of her mind as she gazed to her sister.
Rexy, in turn, wore a look of surprise upon her face. "That wasn't real?"
-The Badlands Shatterdome-
"What in the name of Tartarus happened back there?!" Captain Douglas Gordon shouted as Rexy and One Eye approached him, both carrying their helms by their side. "Rexy, you were doing fine up until the landing! Why?" the stallion chastised, throwing his hooves up to the sky above.
Before Rexy could speak, One Eye did. "First Drift's are rough, Captain... She was just having a hard time dealing with it in the moment," she explained, holding up a hoof to quiet the military captain.
"What?! Major, she was doing plenty fine before, no side effects of the Drift, nothing but focus! Why when she landed?!" Gordon barked back.
"Ever try putting somebody with a mental disorder into a 90,000 ton robot?" Rexy interrupted.
Gordon wore an entirely confused expression. "What are you talking about?"
One Eye groaned and rolled her good eye. "Rexy is one, untrained. And two, she has PTSD because of her life on Terra." With that, she looked down at Captain Gordon. "That's what she was experiencing. She was having a flashback to one of her first times with humans," the large unicorn explained.
The earth stallion sighed and dipped his head. "I apologize. I hadn't realized the possibility that that might effect her performance."
"No," Marshal Stacker Pentecost's voice interjected. "I'm sorry. I was completely unaware of Rexy's condition. She is clearly unfit to pilot a Jaeger, let alone the MechaGodzilla," he said as he moved towards the trio.
"Marshal?" One Eye queried, cocking a brow as she turned to face the stallion.
"Major, Rexy is no longer a pilot of the MechaGodzilla," Pentecost stated, eliciting a disbelieving expression from both Gordon and One Eye.
One Eye coughed slightly. "That's a joke right?"
"Do I look to be in a joking mood, Major?!" Pentecost roared in her face suddenly, actually causing his subordinate to flinch slightly as he stood on the tips of his hooves to match her height. "Rexy! You will return your Jaeger suit to my office immediately!" the marshal growled as he backed away, glaring at the trainee before turning to walk away.
"I don't know where your office is!" Rexy called after him.
Pentecost didn't acknowledge the heavily built unicorn.
Rexy ushered a quiet sigh and wore a slightly sullen expression before an off thought crossed her mind. "One Eye?"
"Hm?" her sister replied as she turned to walk off.
"Why didn't you tell me you had a son?"
The words froze One Eye's muscles like ice mid-step, her eyes wide in a state of visible surprise at the question. Lowering a hoof that hovered half-suspended in the air, the mare turned to face the former Tyrannosaurus. "It wasn't something that needed telling... He's a memory that I'd rather not spend my time dwelling on."
"Is he the reason that you tried repeatedly to kill me?" Rexy barked, leaning back on her haunches and crossing her arms. "Tell the truth, One Eye."
The mare in question sighed. "He is... You had what I lost and it hurt me to see that. Your Spinosaurus friend was the reason that I ever had to deal with that loss, Rexy. I found my son dead in a forest with the featherless chickens picking at his carcass," the saurian replied defensively.
"You could've been a part of what I had, One Eye! You never had to seek revenge against me for the loss of a son at the claws of Cleopatra!" Rexy snapped, rising to her hooves and pointing accusingly at her sister.
One Eye lowered her skull and closed her eyes, a droplet of water falling from the corner of her eye. "Are you happy now?" she questioned sullenly, looking back up with a flat expression upon her face. "You happy that I had to relive my biggest fear all over again?"
"You didn't need to if you'd just told the truth from the start," Rexy acknowledged, devoid of emotion. "Now then, I need to find the Marshal's office.
One Eye simply pointed.
-Five Minutes Later-
"Rexy, do you realize what you experienced back when you were fighting Kumonga?" Marshal Stacker Pentecost asked the unicorn mare in question, placing his elbows against the metal of his desk as he put his hooves together.
Rexy shrugged. "It was just a flashback, Marshal. Nothing more, nothing less."
"Tell me about this... 'flashback'," the dark brown earth stallion replied.
The dinosaur-turned-unicorn grumbled under her breath. "It was from when I lived on Isla Nublar years, maybe decades ago. I don't know, time is a blur. It was from a time when I was in my true form... The first time I'd killed a sentient being..."
"Go on."
"There was a thunderstorm and the normal energy I felt going through my fence was gone. So I broke it down and saw two vehicles. There was a light going through one of the vehicles and I reacted," Rexy paused. "The strange part was that the flashback was not through the eyes of my past self... I was there... as I am now. I could see the fear that was on the humans' faces as my past self attacked them... It was a memory I'd hoped to leave behind after I changed, and I was forced to see it happen from the victim's perspective," she spoke, beginning to grow hateful towards herself.
Stacker merely nodded. "It's common for first-time pilots to experience this. Unwanted memories coming back to haunt them in The Drift. One of the pilots for Gypsy Danger had one such flashback and nearly destroyed this place," the Marshal told her. "With time, though, she became one of my best. I want you to use this as a lesson. You may keep your suit, as you showed exceptional battle skills during your fight."
Rexy cocked a brow. This was almost a different stallion than she'd seen about fifteen minutes ago, but she wasn't going to question it.
"Dismissed," Pentecost said when all he received from the mare was a confused look upon her muzzle.
"Dinosaur, remember. I don't know what that means," Rexy deadpanned as she tapped her temple with a hoof.
Stacker nodded in understanding. "It means you can leave now."
-Neighvada Desert-
A large spacecraft hovered over the mechanical carcass of Gigan, looking like something straight out of a science-fiction film. It looked like nothing more than a slightly rounded off triangular platform that curved slightly, a humming port on the left side of the craft glowing slightly. With a beam of light that was emitted from the bottom of the spacecraft, Gigan's lifeless body was hovered up, the boulders burying his head rolling away to reveal that it was near completely crushed.
Slowly, particles came off of the Nebulan cyborg's body and hovered into the spaceship until Gigan was missing from below.
With a mechanical whir, the craft tilted up slightly before rocketing from the area, leaving a trail of smoke as it exited Equus's atmosphere.
Author's Note
Yes, One Eye is the female T. rex from The Lost World, and yes, her son was killed by the Jurassic Park III Spino.
