The Bridge: Ancient
In the Court of a God
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-Zap Apple Orchards-
Doctor Ishiro Serizawa was confused and afraid, to put things mildly. He wasn't in San Fransisco, easy to tell by the lack of crushed buildings which were replaced by rows upon rows of apple trees as far as his eyes could see. He was also not human. The sensation of hooves instead of hands and feet, a mane and tail, and long muzzle made it easy to see that he was far from human, and this puzzled the scientist mightily... He was an equine.
Looking himself over, Ishiro noticed the color of his new fur to be a very light shade of yellow, almost white. His mane and tail were still dark brown, fortunately, and his green-grey jacket, he still possessed. Running a hoof through his short mane, the stallion felt a spiral column upon his head that tapered to a point... He was a unicorn equine.
Noticing his glasses to be missing, Serizawa checked his coat pocket, and to his relief, they were there. But they were cracked.
With a sigh, the scientist tossed his glasses aside and stumbled down a steep hill. Perhaps somebody could help him find a way out of this strange land? He didn't know, but there was only one way to find out.
-Elsewhere in Zap Apple Orchards-
Destroyah could've been having a better day than she was. Harvesting apples was not her specialty... Killing things with a flaming horn or her Micro-Oxygen Beam was. Several times the massive mare had been scolded for lopping branches off of trees with her horn in a fit of anger, and several times she didn't listen.
Thumping he hip against a thick tree trunk, Destroyah grumbled something about the ignorance of humanity under her breath before a loud rustle, thud, and pained yell rang in her ears.
Swiveling her head, the kaiju-convert cocked a brow and approached a series of rustling from a nearby bush. Probably those Cute-Mark watcha-ma-call-its, she thought to herself as she approached. It was then that she realized that the voice had a particularly masculine tone to it.
Slowly, she walked towards the hedge, he horn crackly lightly with building caution and suspense. She didn't know who the voice belonged to and didn't want to take any chances of it belonging to somebody like that stupid rocket turtle with the tusks on the Solgell Island chain.
To her surprise, though, out walked a medium sized unicorn with a grey-green jacket covered from head to hoof in short cuts and scrapes.
At the realization that there was no threat, Destroyah disappointedly let the crackle of her horn burn down to a barely noticeable hum, her dragonoid wings falling slightly.
"P-please h-help me," the pony stammered, not in fear, but lack of energy to do anything more.
Destroyah rolled her eyes and shifted her gaze back down.
"Please!" the stallion pleaded as she returned to her work. "I need to know where the nearest settlement is!" His voice had a peculiar accent, that of an Asian who spoke fluent english.
"That way, about half a mile," the red mare grumbled, shooting a hoof to her right.
"Thank you!" the pony smiled weakly, hobbling off towards the direction that she held her hoof.
What a wierdo.
-The Outskirts of Ponyville-
Doctor Ishiro Serizawa tripped over a hoof, nearly face-planting into the grass underneath him. Stumbling for a pace or two, he regained stability, seeing many different colored equines roaming the streets of a large town. The unicorn smiled weakly, hobbling as fast as he could to the nearest ponies, a large brown stallion with a messy mane and tail and thin green and tan mare with backwards sweeping antlers.
"Please help me. I am lost and need help to get home!" he begged the two.
"Sure, where do you live?" the thin mare asked with a slightly foreign accent.
"Japan," he replied, unaware that he was not even on Earth.
The stallion jerked up, nearly choking on a mouthful of tea. The earth-pony beat his chest with a hoof before finally speaking. "JAPAN?!" Anguirus bursted.
Serizawa nodded.
"You, my friend, are a long way from Japan. You're not even on Earth any more," the former kaiju replied, shaking his head with a chuckle.
Ishiro's eyes grew wide, his jaw slipping open as he processed the words. "Wh-where can I find h-help?" he spluttered in shock, a hoof to his forehead, his vision swimming.
Nopony was given the time to answer before the unicorn stallion fainted.
"Welp! That happened!" 'Quill Coat' exclaimed.
"Oh, hush," Ki Seong chided, her antlers humming with a golden aura before snaking towards the unconscious stallion. Suddenly, he sat straight up, nearly whacking his head off of the rim of the table. She proceeded to the strange pony, her voice soft and relaxed. "What is your name?"
"My name? OH! My name! I am Doctor Ishiro Serizawa," he replied, almost forgetting what a name was.
Anguirus jerked again. The name rang in his ears over and over again, and for some inexplicable reason, Lucky floated into his mind. The stallion shrugged it off as sheer coincidence and took another sip of chai tea.
Moments later, as Ki Seong helped Serizawa find his bearings, the stallion realized who they had been helping. "YOU'RE DOCTOR SERIZAWA!!" he blurted suddenly, leaping to his hooves. His chair fell with a loud clang.
"Yes, that has been established," the scientist agreed, lifting a confused brow.
"C'mon, Lucky will want to see you," the ankylosaur kaiju told him, grabbing his hoof and dragging Ishiro down the road. Ki Seong followed close behind, confusion visible across the kirin's muzzle.
"Who's Lucky?!" Serizawa asked as he was dragged, slightly irritated at the stallion's lack of manners.
-Canterlot Hospital-
The royal treatment... That's what the Force of Nature was experiencing. He held a warm, frothy drink in one claw and the comfort of friends in the other. With a sigh, the kaiju let his head sink into his pillows, ignoring the aches and pains in his body. Fluttershy had visited him earlier in the day to check over his wounds (with the permission of the nurse who had been nearly bitten by Lucky after she tried to check the wound beneath his cast).
A puff of blue smoke leaked from the kaiju's nostrils with each as he adjusted his position upon the bed. What have you gotten yourself into, Lucky? he thought to himself, grimacing as he gazed down at the bandages around his waist. The male MUTO had done quite a number on the kirin during their brawl. He was lucky it wasn't the female, or things could've gone so much worse.
Just as Lucky began to get comfortable, his door flew open and struck the wall with a loud slam. The kaiju jerked up, his lips curled back in a threatening growl as Anguirus entered the room, a bruised unicorn behind him.
"Anguirus?! What're you doing?!" Lucky barked, throwing off the medical blanket and reluctantly rising to his hooves with a painful wince.
"You know that guy that protected you from the military?" the earth stallion replied, stepping aside for the kirin to get a better look at the unicorn.
"Yeah, what of him?" he asked, gazing at the pony. The first thing he noticed was that the pony, a stallion, wore a stained green coat. His face was that of a somebody wise and old, with a sparse beard and mustache. His eyes were thin and gave the appearance of an Asian. His cutie mark was a small pocket watch with a triangular infinite sign backdrop... The Monarch logo. Lucky's eyes grew wide, shock etched across his muzzle.
The opposing unicorn circled the kirin, Lucky's eyes glued onto him. He stopped at the stallion's hip, lifting a hoof to his chin in thought as he gazed at the marking upon the kaiju's flank. Anguirus quietly watched in fascination as the pony walked to Lucky's front and stared into his his amber eyes.
"Gojira... Is it truly you?" he asked in a whisper, sitting on his haunches.
"My name is Lucky, and I know damn well who you are. You are the one they call Doctor Ishiro Serizawa," the Force of Nature said, his voice stern.
"Yes, of course. Lucky, I shall call you then," Serizawa said softly, a smile spreading across his face. "What great news it is to know that my livelihood has emerged victorious from battle," the scientist continued, a faint hint of Japanese audible in his tone.
"Not without a fair amount of wounds and a bit of a... transformation." Lucky's voice was, to Ishiro's surprise, not terribly deep or gruff. If anything, yes, it was deep, but also nice to hear and one that made him think of a protective being... one capable of restoring balance to nature.
"Indeed... You are still just as menacing as when I saw you last, though. Truly, the one dubbed 'King of the Monsters' must be proud of what he has accomplished?"
Lucky stifled back a chuckle. "Firstly, my cousin is the King of the Monsters. And secondly, I hardly see a reason to be proud after murdering and attempting to murder another being, regardless of the reason I chose to do so," the former kaiju replied.
"Cousin? There are more of you?" Doctor Serizawa asked, growing excited.
"Yeah. You can meet him if you decide to come to my court hearing, or whatever the heck these horses call it when some fancy person wielding a wood hammer blabs on about seemingly nothing."
"Why have you been put to trial, Goj-Lucky?" the scientist asked.
"For endangering innocents. The male MUTO never died, as I thought, and followed me hear to this new land. He arrived and we got into a fight... Also for domestic violence."
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