Arrival; Ver. 2

-San Francisco, Terra-

The small man looked up at the massive female MUTO with a growing sense of fear as flickering, fiery eyes glared down at him, pulsing with hatred. Her jaws slowly unhinged as the man lifted his gun up to the kaiju, feeling the hot stink of her breath on his face and maintaining a firm, fearless expression.

Just as the MUTO's maw unhinged and split to their full capacity, she froze, jaws beginning to shudder slightly as a pained gurgle leaked from her throat.

The man lowered his gun slightly and glanced at it. He didn't pull the trigger, so what happened?

His question was answered as a massive grey leviathan wounded with many wounds crunched down on the MUTO's shoulder and jerked her back. The electromagnetic monster lifted her claws in meek defense as her opponent shoved her head down and began to pry her jaws apart. She uttered a scream of panic as Godzilla pulled her back up, spines beginning to burn with a fierce light and loud hum.

The green-grey kaiju pulled his head back to avoid his adversary's flailing talons before throwing his jaws open and forcing her down. A stream of nuclear fire erupted from his maw and poured down the feMUTO's gullet, wisps of radioactive smoke leaking from a growing crease across the base of her head.

Weak claws slipped off of Godzilla's shoulders before his foe's head was torn from her neck in a shower of deep crimson ichor.

The glow of the kaiju's dorsal plates died off as he swung to face the burning city of San Francisco, the smoldering head of the female MUTO still in his grasp. A deep, victorious bellow echoed forth from a scarred maw as Lucky Dragon released the remnants of his opponent's skull with a plume of water.

Exhaustion was quick to catch the grey monster, and he let out a heavy breath before trudging ashore, vision becoming blurred as he laid down to rest. The blackness of unconsciousness was all he needed right now, and he was oblivious to the flash of black and white that enveloped his form...

-Ponyville, Equestria-

The Element of Kindness, a pink maned, light yellow pegasus, hummed quietly to herself with a content smile as she made her way towards her home in Ponyville. The fresh, warm breeze wafted the scents of apples and marigolds, one of Fluttershy's favorite flowers, into her nose. Indeed, it was a day to enjoy, and one that would put her element up to the test and not be forgotten.

Fluttershy smiled warmly as the sight of her house became visible over the hill, watching the birds that rested upon the canopy of her back-yard oak tree mingle with each other and hearing them sing in a symphony of chirps. Her expression deadpanned at the sight of a brown bear cub as it attempted to reach a large bee's nest hanging on a low branch of the tree in question. She lost count of how many times she had told him to stay away from the nest or risk being stung by an angry swarm of bees.

Just as the pegasus was about to call out to the bear and fix the problem, a large, green-grey shape plummeted towards the ground amongst a shower of concrete, metal, and sheet-rock. The figure, she could tell, even from a distance, was a stallion who appeared unresponsive to his current situation.

Before she could take to the air and try to rescue the falling pony, he slammed into the dirt road before her, sending a spray of dust and gravel into the air around him.

"OHMYGOSH!!" Fluttershy gasped in shock, jumping up slightly before galloping up to the crater that the stallion had created upon impact, gentle wing beats helping to swiftly propel her forward. Despite a typically shy demeanor, the Element of Kindness was a capable and adept flier when need be... And at that time...

She needed to be...

Skidding to a halt before the impact crater, horror stretched across Fluttershy's face at the sight of a massive, heavily wounded Kirin stallion whose hide was covered from head to tail in numerous cuts, bites, and scars.

Fluttershy, with a slight hesitation, slipped down towards the stallion, pushing a lock of her mane away from her ear and placing her head against his chest, a hoof to his neck to check for a pulse.

Though slow, she could feel the steady thump of his heart and leaned back, ushering a relieved sigh.

Standing back to her hooves and looking the stallion over for any further damage, while fighting deja vu from her time with the unicorn Xenilla, Fluttershy realized just how large the Kirin actually was. He was at least a half head taller than the tallest of the kaiju that had arrived, with the exception of the big red mare with anger issues. The unconscious pony was also the longest, possessing a dragonetic tail that easily made up half the length of his body. Like a Kirin, he possessed chest scales, of which were a dirty brown-grey in color, and claws on his forelimbs. His mane, which seemed to stick together in a fashion not far from Xenilla's, was a dark grey, with lighter grey streaks that appeared occasionally and ran down the length of his spine, where it ended in a tuft at the tip of his tail.

It was primarily his small canines and cutie mark that clued her into a foreign heritage. His cutie mark was the most baffling she'd seen, a blue flame that encompassed a strange, yellow symbol. It was a circle surrounded by three rounded off trapezoids whose inner face pointed away from the center circle.

Fluttershy lifted a brow before leaning down and taking a meek tug at the stallion's arm. When this lacked desired results, she elected to jump up and beat her wings in an attempt to pull him from the hole. It was no sell... She might as well have been trying to move a boulder.

With a pant, Fluttershy released her hold and lifted a brow, a small smile slipping across her face.

-An Hour Later-

A deep groan slipped out of a scarred maw, its owner lifting his eyelids with a grunt. An unusually soft feeling beneath him supported his weight as he dragged himself to a semi-sitting position, grimacing in slight pain at the aches that shot through his body.

Rubbing the tired out of his eyes, Lucky Dragon took in his surroundings, nostrils flaring as he took in the scents of the atmosphere. A sweet, if slightly nauseating scent permeated through the air around him, strongest to his left. Looking down, the kaiju spotted the source of the smell resting upon a wooden platform supported by four legs. Steam slithered from a small glass cup.

Upon realizing that there was no sunlight on his back, Lucky, as he had been nicknamed by fellow kaiju, Terran Defender or otherwise, looked up to see planks of wood over his head... He was in, it would seem, a house.

The kaiju's thoughts were interrupted by a soft voice that rang like a chime in his head. "Hello."

Swiveling his head, the Alpha Predator spotted the source of the noise. It was a horse, apparent in hooves and a mane, but the resemblance stopped there. The horse was a dainty shade of yellow with a pale pink mane and tail and a pair of wings that attached to her shoulder blades. Three pink butterflies were etched across her hip and teal eyes looked at him with an honest smile. "Mm, greetings," Lucky grunted with a yawn, eyelids drooping slightly. He didn't have to try hard to contain a mild surprise that this being, whatever it was, wasn't holding a gun.

"Quite the fall you took there, Big Guy... Left a nasty bump on your head," the mare said with a soft smile, pushing long bangs out of her face.

"I'll live," Lucky muttered, rising to his hooves to leave. At the feeling of walking on four limbs, the kaiju convert looked down with a visible frown spreading across his muzzle. "The Hell?" he queried, lifting a brow more in mild confusion than fear. He never had hooves before now. With a sigh, the Kirin ran a clawed hand through a newly formed, disheveled mane. The realization struck him like a freight train on nitrous oxide. The faint remembrance that he couldn't get to a Terran-Defender meeting called by Gamera, on account of his MUTO hunt, jogged his memory. While he couldn't make the meeting, Zilla Junior had been sent as a messenger to tell Lucky that his distant Godzillasaurus cousin, Godzilla Junior, and five others had been trapped in a land of mystical equines. Even then, he knew his cousin was more than capable of defending himself and therefore, didn't worry.

At the time, Lucky had shrugged it off as a load of horse crap, but here he was, trapped in the body of a horse.

"Why don't you sit down," the mare said, breaking off his musing before he could do anything more. "You need rest, whoever you are," she said, hoping by saying this that she might receive his name.

The Kirin stallion sighed and looked over at her. "Lucky," he said in a gruff, tired voice.

"I'm Fluttershy," the pegasus acknowledged with a slight smile and blush. There was a quality about the stallion's face that she could easily find attractive, with a very eagle-like profile that made for an almost noble look compared to the more reptilian stature of the kaiju that had arrived recently. A vague, disheveled, grey and black beard and tired look in his eye detained from the attraction slightly. At the thought of Xenilla, her first kaiju encounter, she noted the fact that Lucky could easily be mistaken for one of them. "Are you... a kaiju?" she asked with a nervous expression crossing her face.

The God of Destruction lifted a brow. He could smell the fear coming off of her and snickered at her demeanor. "Indeed," he obliged with a nod before returning to his seat upon the pink, cushioned couch, which he still had some difficulty getting used to.

At the words, Fluttershy perked up a bit. "There are six others here!" she blurted before quickly backtracking into a metaphorical shell, cheeks turning bright red.

Despite the outburst, this mare had Lucky's attention. "Who?" he asked, tone flat and devoid of emotion as he leaned forward slightly and took the cup of hot drink off of the table. The Kirin tilted his head up and downed the drink in one gulp before setting the tea cup back onto its matching glass plate.

The Element of Kindness didn't answer, but reattained the shy personality that she was known for.

Lucky looked down at her with a grumble. "Which... kaiju... are here? Or are you not going to answer me now that you know what I am?" he snorted.

"I'm sorry," the pegasus said in a near silent voice.

"What?" he said in an almost foreboding voice, beginning to grow annoyed. "I'm not going to skin you... Now, speak up," Lucky Dragon spoke.

"I'm sorry," Fluttershy said only slightly louder.

"Better... Now. Can you tell me which kaiju are here, or not?" the stallion said in a whisper, leaning forward and looking the mare in the eye.

Fluttershy shuddered at the flaming amber iris and yellow sclera before finally acknowledging. "Godzilla... Uh, Mothra, Ro...dan, I think it was, Destoroyah, Xenilla, and one other. I forgot his name," she stammered nervously, slinking back slightly. She looked on the verge of tears.

Electing to ignore the mispronunciation of one kaiju in particular, Lucky stood up from his seat and headed for the door, unaccustomedness to a quadruped form tripping him slightly as he did so. "Where are they?" he asked, stopping and turning his head to face her.

"I don't know," she replied.

Lucky sighed, but before he could do anything more, the lights in Fluttershy's home flickered before going out with a pop. The Kirin stallion's pupils constricted as Fluttershy ducked underneath the coffee table with a frightful gasp. A deep growl slithered out of Lucky's maw as he peeled his lips back to reveal rows of ivory fangs lining his jaws.

"What is it?" the Element of Kindness spluttered in fear.

The stallion didn't reply, but only whirled around and threw his hooves at the front door, which promptly ripped off the hinges, flew across the road, and turned into a pile of splinters as Lucky stormed from the house.

Fluttershy crawled from her hiding spot and gazed sadly at the remnants of her lovely red door, memories of her floorboards having been torn up by a different kaiju not eluding her. "It was unlocked," she whined before trailing the Kirin stallion outside.

Author's Note

Shout out to Vman-0 for the critique and help fleshing out Lucky's personality! I really appreciate it!