Reunions and Nightmares; Ver 2.

-Ponyville-

Fluttershy trotted up to Lucky Dragon's, stopping dead in her tracks as she bumped into his broad hind leg in the process. The heavily built Kirin was unresponsive, glaring eyes trained on a strangely built pegasus before him.

The opposing creature was a thin and lanky pegasus who looked ludicrously small in comparison to the kaiju that he leered at with wrathful, flickering eyes. Fluttershy shuddered at the fiery red eyes devoid of a pupil, their pulsing not doing any good in keeping her emotions in a calm state. Its wings were unlike any pegasus she had ever seen, being a glossy black like his space fur. While unfolded, they formed a triangular shape, which looked comparable to those of a fighter jet of some sort. A short, crimson mane and tail flickered with static in tune with his eyes, and long, thin forelimbs tapered down to two, backward facing claws that he thrashed and swung wildly. The pegasus stallion's jaws were reminiscent of a beak, though the bottom jaw seemed to have a clean split down the middle that was held together by only a fold of skin. The pony shrieked and hissed in displeasure at the sight of its opponent as Fluttershy ducked behind Lucky's broad leg with a fearful mewing sound.

"Wh-what is th-at?" she stammered, pointing a shaky hoof at the disheveled pegasus and looking up at the seemingly unresponsive kaiju with pleading eyes.

But respond, Lucky eventually did. "A monster who would kill me just to lay its filthy eggs inside my radioactive carcass," the kaiju convert growled, eyes not straying away from the spluttering male MUTO.

"E-eggs?" the pegasus mare said with a sense of horrified shock, eyes wide as Lucky Dragon sucked in a deep breath of the early morning air.

Before the Element of Kindness could respond, a tremendous bellow ripped forth from the stallion's jaws, dark mane flickering slightly as the sound traveled for miles, any birds within the immediate area rocketing from said area with frightened shrills that were drowned by the thunderous scream.

-Ki Seong's Restaurant, Ponyville-

Anguirus and Ki Seong looked up from their respective cups of tea as a booming call drowned out all other noise in Ponyville like the crack of thunder... only five times louder than any thunder.

Ki Seong's ears instinctively flopped back as the call droned on before finally ceasing. The cervid-like mare glanced over at 'Quill Coat' with a questioning expression. "What was that?" she asked in her clipped, foreign accent. "It sounded close," she exclaimed.

Anguirus's expression was not that of confusion, but one of joy as he rose from his seat. "Was wondering when he would show up," he smiled to himself.

"Who?"

A swift wave of panic washed over the earth pony stallion at the remembrance that he was still trying to go incognito. "Uh... A friend of mine... said he was coming with me from the Frontier buuuut... got held up," he stammered slightly.

Ki lifted a brow with a sigh. "Sooo, why the roar?"

"Probably something... BAD!" the kaiju exclaimed at the sight of black wings and flickering eyes rising from a plume of smoke on the other side of town. Before anything more could be said, the stallion bolted towards the source of the smoke, kicking up a cloud of dust as he went. "I'll be back!" Anguirus called over his shoulder.

-Near Fluttershy's House, Ponyville-

The massive, green-grey Kirin lunged forward from the flaming building that he'd been thrown into, shoulders smoking as he emerged from the billowing smog. With a growl, Lucky Dragon lunged forward, jaws slamming shut on the smooth black wing of his kaiju foe with a spurt of blood.

The male MUTO shrieked in pain, thrashing to escape his heavy set foe using any means necessary, whether it was his claws or jaws. In spite of the numerous gashes that Lucky was receiving, his hold refused to falter before he twirled around and finally released his grip.

The pegasus spread his long wings to re-stabilize his position in the air before coming to a hover and facing Lucky a few yards away with a hiss. With a malefic cackle, the MUTO dove towards the God of Destruction, claws splayed and aimed for his adversary's throat.

Lucky readied himself to counter the attack with the same tail slam that he used to kill the kaiju the first time, only for a spiny brown mass to come running around a corner and curl into a ball of quills before rocketing up and colliding with the MUTO mid-air. Spiny protrusions shredded across glossy black fur with sparks and light thunderclaps, throwing the pegasus into the ground with a pained shriek.

Anguirus uncoiled from the thunder-ball in the air, landing back onto his hooves with a plume of dust, stern expression, and a growl.

Seriousness morphed into joy at the sight of whom he recognized as Godzilla Junior's cousin with a green-grey color, brown chest scales, and a long tail. It was primarily the cutie mark, though, that clued Anguirus in as to whom he'd just saved.

"Anguirus!" Lucky called to the earth stallion at the recognition of ivory quills, violet eyes, and dirty grey fur, lifting a clawed limb in the form of a wave. His expression, in spite of a familiar face, remained firm, though he let a slight smirk form across his lips as the stallion approached.

The Guardian Beast of Fire'e expression melted from joy to concern at the numerous scars that pitted his friend and ally's hide. "Jeez... How long has it been that you have THIS many scars?" Anguirus asked, nodding at the aged wounds. Lucky was a kaiju who, unlike Junior, lacked the ability to heal at a hyper-accelerated rate, even if he did heal faster than most, and in turn, accumulated a fair amount of scars as time passed and mutations or Anteverse aliens fought against him.

"Some fifty years or so," the Force of Nature acknowledged with a frown materializing upon his face.

"That aside, where were you when we needed your help on Solgell?" Anguirus said.

"Chasing these things," he said, turning to face the male MUTO... Only to find that the pegasus had vanished. Lucky lifted a brow and turned a 360º, the tip of his tail beginning to glow, where the blue light spread to his back and neck, readying himself for a defensive tactic.

Anguirus joined him, bracing like a sprinter to leap up into a Thunder-ball as a counterattack.

Before either could respond, the black shape of the male MUTO dove down, slamming his claws into Lucky's side with all the force that the parasite could muster. The Kirin was knocked off of his clawed hooves, where he was thrown into a pile of smoldering rubble caused by a misfired beam of nuclear energy from earlier.

"It looks like his luck has run out," the MUTO hissed in a ghostly voice, haphazardly dropping to all fours with a sneer and facing Anguirus. His eyes flickered with hatred for every damn kaiju who got in his way from doing what was in his nature... reproducing. He especially hated the monster known primarily as Lucky Dragon.

Brief shock morphed across Anguirus's face at the force of the smaller kaiju's blow before a glare flashed across his muzzle and a growl leaked from his throat. Fluttershy, who still, by no small miracle, was around, dove towards the pile with a gasp before Anguirus lurched forward and snagged her by the waist. "Oh, no you don't."

The Element of Kindness squeaked in surprise at the contact before the Tarchia based kaiju uttered a brief, telepathic shout to Mothra for aid. "Lucky's here! But he needs help!" Anguirus said in his head, hoping to the Realms of Tanaka that the Moth Goddess would respond.

"On my way!" he heard Mothra chime in his head, allowing for some sense of relief before the MUTO charged forward with an unholy scream.

"Crap!!" Anguirus yelped, swiftly tossing Fluttershy into the air before whirling around and bucking the charging kaiju square in the face.

The Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organism snarled in pain as he was thrown back. Anguirus caught a falling Fluttershy with a confident smirk before he released her from his hold. Before the kaiju he had struck even got close to hitting the ground, a spiraling beam of atomic fire struck and threw him to the right, frying his entire right side.

The burnt, bleeding form of Lucky Dragon emerged from the flaming pile of rubble, tendrils of atomic smoke slithering from the corners of his maw as he canceled off his signature attack. The stallion peeled his lips back with a snarl to reveal ranks of serrated fangs imbedded in his maw as he trudged toward the MUTO with a cold-hearted hatred. The stallion placed a clawed hoof on his foe's flank, lifting the other over the kaiju convert's head with a growl.

The lightly built pegasus went without struggle, but only looked up at Lucky with pleading eyes.

Before Lucky could deal a finishing blow, the calm, chiming voice of Mothra interjected. "Lucky," she said to the God of Destruction in a soothing tone. The stallion felt a hoof on his shoulder and the warmth of a familiar ally. "It's over," the former moth said calmly.

The Kirin looked over his shoulder and into the eyes of a mint tree, almost white, mare with rainbow, butterfly wings, a jagged horn, and blue, twin layered eyes. Lucky lowered his hoof with an exhalation of blue, nuclear smoke. "Mosura," he muttered solemnly, moving away from the beaten and bruised form of the male MUTO. "Been a long time," he said. "You are taller than I remember seeing you last," the stallion noted.

"In the sense that I'm taller than you?" Mothra smiled softly, nudging his shoulder.

"Mm," he responded, looking over his shoulder and down at his adversary with a growing glare.

Mothra put a hoof to his cheek and gently turned his head to face her. "It's... over. He's in no condition to fight," she chided before noting his singed mane and fur, wounded hide, and disheveled beard. "I understand that you were wounded fighting him... But many more of these are older... Lucky, what happened to you? You look..." she cut herself short at his forced, tired smile.

"I'll be alright... Been worse. You remember SpaceGodzilla, right? He hurt me a lot worse than that bug could've," the stallion shrugged, turning away from her and limping away.

"Where are you going?" she asked in a motherly voice, electing not to tell Lucky anything about 'SpaceGodzilla' at the moment.

"Away... Trust me... It's probably better that you don't worry about me. I'll be fine once I heal up a bit," he acknowledged.

"Excuse me, Mister! You are not going anywhere in the condition that you're in now... Especially not without saying hello to the cousin that you haven't seen in years!" the changeling queen scolded, chasing him down and placing a firm hoof on his shoulder.

"Junior?" Lucky asked with a grimace, pushing her hoof off of his still smoking shoulder.

Anguirus walked up to the duo before Mothra could answer his question. "Indeed... Chief's at the capitol... Roman's here too, but he's out on an aid mission. Des-MPH!!"

Mothra had slapped a hoof over Anguirus's mouth with a cheeky grin. "We should go see Goji. He'll be wanting to see his cousin after all these years... RIGHT, Anguirus?" she said, speaking through clenched teeth as she spoke the last two words.

Lucky lifted a brow as the Guardian Beast pulled away from the moth kaiju. "Uh... Right," he said, mimicking her smile nervously.

"Mm. Okay," the Kirin stallion said as the trio turned to walk away, lead by Mothra. Exhaustion was rapidly catching up with the tens of thousand years old kaiju, his eyelids fluttering slightly as he took a shaky, straining step forward. With a pained groan, his eyes rolled into the back of his head and Lucky collapsed upon the dirt road.

He wasn't awake to hear the panicked voice of Mothra begging for him to wake up or feel the cart that carried him rolling down the road.

-Canterlot Medical Wing-

Lucky Dragon, the God of Destruction and Force of Nature, woke slowly and with a sore pain that jolted through his body and forced a grimace to his face. The Kirin stallion felt like he'd been hit by a train, a sentiment he assumed some understood, given a collection of three mares that wore thin white coats with red crosses on the shoulder patch and whom he recognized as Mothra, Anguirus, and two others who he was unable to recognize.

The stallion lifted a brow at the silence that had permeated through the room before he felt a stiffness around his waist. Looking down, Lucky noticed his chest and stomach cloaked in a solid white wrapping of some kind.

"It's a cast... It will help you to heal faster... You suffered a few broken ribs and a fractured shoulder blade," Mothra finally spoke, noticing the emotion of befuddlement crossing Lucky's scarred face. "You've been out like a light for about a week," she said.

He felt the pain from his battle like it had happened yesterday, in spite of his ally's words. "Mm," he murmured, sinking his head into the cushion beneath his skull before he glanced over at the forms of a large, charcoal grey unicorn stallion with a white mane, and a winged unicorn mare of a deep, navy blue with a regally flowing mane and tail. The stallion looked vaguely familiar, with a nasal ridge and short fangs poking out of his top jaw. "Who are they?" he asked, nodding at the two and lacking any amount of respect that one might expect towards a stranger.

The unicorn asymmetrically cocked an eyebrow, leaning down slightly to look the resting kaiju in the eye. "You know who I am, Lucky Dragon," he said softly.

"Junior," the Kirin exclaimed at the voice, a grimace visible twisting across his muzzle as he propped himself up onto his elbows. "Long time no see," he grunted.

"Final Wars, right?" the massive unicorn said with a soft smile.

"Yeah," Lucky muttered, his memory of the event playing through his head like a recording. Though not the event in which he earned his name, Final Wars was one that really showed people and kaiju alike that the Alpha Predator and Force of Nature was indeed a lucky dragon. "I heard about Solgell," the stallion said with a pained chuckle leaking from his throat. "Takes Dimension Tide to stop you and SpaceGodzilla from trying to kill each other, eh?"

Junior and Mothra shared a slightly saddened expression before Lucky lifted a brow.

"What?"

"SpaceGodzilla goes by the name of Xenilla now... Guess there was too much of Senior in the name that the humans gave him," Mothra said in a voice barely above a whisper.

"Typical," the bed-striken kaiju growled under his breath. "What he needs is a good dose of discipline... Maybe then SpaceGodzilla'll stop being an asshole and take others into consideration," he grumbled before thoughts trailed to the reason that he was in a hospital. "Where's the MUTO?"

"As is Equestrian customs, we had him healed and jailed," the blue mare that had previously hung back said, stepping forward. "You would've been too, without your relation to Goji," she explained as Mothra bit back the urge to correct the Kirin's use of Xen's old name.

Lucky lifted a brow and turned his head to face Junior. "Goji..?" A frown crossed his muzzle.

Princess Luna's muzzle felt hot as her face flushed red.

"Getting a bit comfortable in Ponyland, if you're telling the locals your nickname, eh, Chief? And, Mothra... I don't care WHAT they call that mutated alien lizard. As far as I'm concerned, his name is SpaceGodzilla and it's staying that way," the former kaiju grumbled.

"Aaaaawkward," Anguirus muttered with an eye-roll. If there was but one thing that one could say about Lucky Dragon, it was that he was a very by-the-book kaiju and in some way, shared a similar outlook on life as his bastardized cousin, SpaceGo-...er... Xenilla. Like Xen, he carried himself high to look down on others, and avoided as much nonsense as possible. It was advised that one didn't point these similarities out, though... if they valued their life. Unlike Xenilla, however, Lucky relaxed his stance around those he trusted and cared for, which were few considering his antisocial habits.

Nonetheless, it wasn't hard to tell that Lucky didn't like both SpaceGodzilla's new name, or Junior's relationship with the locals, being a very strict and even narrow-minded, kaiju.

At Anguirus's words, every pony in the room, with the exception of the hospitalized Lucky, shuffled a bit awkwardly in their positions, the nurses seeing themselves to the door as said kaiju's head sank back into the pillow and his muscles unwound. A wave of exhaustion slowly washed over the Kirin stallion as Luna trailed the medicinal mares until only kaiju remained in the room.

"Regardless of names, it is good to see you, Lucky," Junior finally assured him, a hoof on his cousin's shoulder with a smile.

Anguirus nodded and Mothra crouched beside the bed to give Lucky a slight wing hug before Godzilla rose to his hooves and held the door open for the other two kaiju. "Rest easy, old friend," the Guardian Beast of Fire said, putting a hoof to his chest in a kind of salute.

"Mm, thanks," Lucky murmured before his eyelids closed and he nodded off.

-Hours Later-

Fluttershy slowly nudged the Medical Wing door open, peering inside in hopes of finding the pony, namely kaiju, that she was looking for. Some may have called her crazy, others brave. She just wanted to lay to rest any suspicions she might have had for the Kirin and his kind...

That was why she brought the rest of the Mane Six to tag along with her... in case things went awry.

"Sooo... Why is this guy so important to you?" she heard Rainbow Dash ask in a voice barely above a whisper as she hovered above her friends.

"I... don't know... There's just something about him that you can put your faith into," the Element of Kindness acknowledged with a slight shrug.

"Well, just know, Darling. We're right behind you the whole way," Rarity assured the pegasus with an honest smile.

"Ah wouldn'ta come here if it weren't a friend or princess Ah was helping'," AppleJack agreed with a nod and grin.

"Thank you, girls... I really appreciate it," Fluttershy said in a whisper before she nudged her way inside the room and peered over at its tenant. Her friends followed her in as she came to the side of the bed with a stifled gasp and instantaneous worry.

"Good heavens!" Rarity exclaimed, jerking back slightly at the sight of a massive, heavily scarred Kirin stallion whose snores resonated within the room. It wasn't the scars that made her jump as much as it was his disheveled, grey streaked mane and rough, unkept beard. "Does he never shave?"

"Rarity..." Fluttershy whined slightly.

"My apologies, Dear... But why him? That big red kaiju's mane is more orderly than his!"

"Then do something with it," Pinkie Pie quipped with a giggle, bouncing over to the sleeping titan's side. "Style it! Make him look nice and neat!"

"I would... But I don't do that sort of thing without the clients consent," she acknowledged.

"Girls! Girls... We're not doing anything with this guy's mane!" Twilight Sparkle interjected. "I would worry more about his wounds first, don't you think?"

"He looks badass," Rainbow Dash interrupted, words coming out before she thought to stop them.

All others in attendance looked up at the Element of Loyalty with deadpan expressions.

"What? He does!"

Twilight was the first to speak. "He looks like he just came out of the crystal war after fighting in it for decades. He looks old, tired, and heavily wounded. I don't think 'badass' is the right word at the moment," she explained, her flat expression never faltering.

"Okay! Okay... Sheesh," Rainbow said with a shrug and wide eyes before acquainting her hooves with the tiled floor.

It was only then that they noticed the stallion in question had just begun to rouse from his rest, a groan echoing out from his muzzle as Lucky turned his head and leaned up slightly. When his blurred vision had cleared, he noticed himself surrounded on all sides by six mares. His expression was that of nanosecond shock before he lifted a scarred brow and trailed his eyes over horns, wings, and two earth ponies. One of the mares, in particular, he recognized.

Fluttershy ushered a nervous smile before a tiny wave followed. "Hi," she murmured.

The Kirin stallion grumbled something incoherent under his breath before responding. "What are you doing here?" he said flatly, sitting up with a wince and putting a clawed hoof to his waist.

"We came to cheer you up, silly!" the pink earth mare chirped, materializing from one side of the medical cot to the other.

Lucky's head jerked back as he withheld the urge to instinctively pull the benign aggressor's head off. "I don't need you to cheer me up," he grumbled. "I'm a kaiju. I've fought year long wars and survived parasitic monsters. I don't cheer up," the God of Destruction said in a gruff, foreboding voice.

"Of course you do! Everypony is entitled to some cheering up and joy in their life!" Pinkie Pie giggled.

For all his thousands of years of existence, Lucky Dragon was a kaiju classed under a group of monsters labeled as "Chaotic Neutral", not a hero, nor a villain, but a fierce and brutal foe. Joy was something that Lucky seldom felt, or had time to feel. He was a loner who heavily respected and followed the wisdom of his father, a noble kaiju who didn't feel joy... period. "Get out," Lucky finally grumbled, true to his antisocial habits.

Pinkie Pie stopped bouncing and Fluttershy's ears flopped against his head. "Oh... Okay," she whispered, turning to leave.

"What?! NO!" Twilight hollered, grabbing Fluttershy by the hoof and yanking her back into the room. "We came here to help you to feel better and that is exactly what's going to happen, Mister! Like it or not, Fluttershy mustered up the courage to help you and we are not being pushed away just because you're a grouch!" the alicorn snapped, her muzzle inches from the stallion's face.

Bold mare, this one, Lucky thought to himself with a slight smirk, the thought of showing her how he would have reacted, had she been a kaiju, not eluding him. Amber eyes rolled slightly before he nodded at Fluttershy and waved her over slightly.

The pegasus mare inched forward before Rarity whispered something in her ear. "Good luck." With that, she pushed the Element of Kindness forward, where she stumbled over her own hoof and fell into Lucky's arms.

The stallion uttered a sudden, painful growl and squeezed his eyes shut as the yellow pegasus leapt back, cheeks cherry red as she nervously backtracked. The growl, meant to be a threat or not, was not doing her racing pulse any favors.

"I'm sorry," she gasped at the look of pain twisting across his grizzled face, concern overriding fear and driving her towards the stallion.

Lucky lifted a clawed limb. "Don't worry about it," he said through clenched teeth.

Fluttershy moved forward, the rest of the Mane Six practically chomping at the bit with both worry and curiosity as the pegasus leaned forward and gently moved one of Lucky's clawed forelimbs away from his chest. "I just want to look at your chest," she whispered in a soothing manner, in spite of the pounding of her heart echoing in her ears.

With that, she diligently worked the clasp that kept the cast around his waist open, allowing for the thick white plaster to be carefully removed, though this ushered a grimace from the kaiju.

Lucky's tired eyes never strayed from the mare as she gazed at the wound and half expected his chest to be soaked with blood, as the inside of the cast had been. Instead, while his chest was indeed splotched with dried ichor, she saw that his wounds had nearly completely mended, wide scabs visible criss-crossing his midsection.

Surprise morphed across her face at the sight before she looked into Lucky's amber and yellow eyes. "You... seem fine," she said as he lifted her chin.

"Why do you insist on helping me?" the stallion asked, lifting a curious brow. "You treat a monster as if he's one of your own."

"Monster or not, I can tell that you're not a vile pony-"

"Even if excessively grumpy," Pinkie Pie laughed.

"I'm no pony," Lucky retorted as Fluttershy returned the cast to his waist after swabbing some of the dried blood clean from his chest and healing aid.

"Pony or not... You're not a vile being." With that, the Element of Kindness smiled warmly and stood back up. "Good luck," Fluttershy said before turning to leave the room, where her friends followed en suite. Twilight gently closed the door with a curtain of magic as she left, leaving the former kaiju to mull over his thoughts.

"That's why I'm called Lucky," he muttered to himself, closing his eyes.