My Little Destroyah

Chapter 14 - Solar Fission

Enormous draconian wings erupted from the singed rubble, thrusting skywards and nearly blotting out the sun. Destroyah screamed in rage and defiance to whoever was left alive on the barren battleground. The only creature that remained was an incarnation of hell itself. The monstrous inferno was seething with rage, its eyes burning as if the flames of hades. Godzilla had now assumed his burning faze, a trait that greatly increased the kaiju's power and made him extremely unstable.

His spines blazed and were now a crimson red that burned with the intensity of a sun. Angry rashes that glowed a vibrant red signified his new found strength and engulfed his now incinerating hide. A huge splotch of red danced across his chest and ran up his neck. A couple of patches adorned his shoulders and also marked his thighs. Steam smoked off of his body now that he was drastically hotter than the air around him. Burning Godzilla leaned back and roared at Destroyah more violently than ever before. The demon responded with a flair of its demonic wings as it sounded its own hellish call. Burning Godzilla opened his deadly jaws and unleashed a blast of his atomic breath which now burned a crimson red and spiraled to a sizzling point. It slammed into Destroyah with tremendous force, sending it careening back. Destroyah now remembered the excruciating pain brought forth by its most revered of foes. The demonic kaiju snarled and unleashed a stream of micro-oxygen. The blast struct Burning Godzilla, sending sparks dancing as it impacted with his steaming hide. Burning Godzilla was unfazed by the blast, only enraged. Burning Godzilla's body flashed with nuclear light as another massive burst of the kaiju's solar ray shot from his gaping jaws, tearing through Destroyah's crustaceous hide. Destroyah screamed out in pain as it was pelted by the nuclear blows. When the kaiju king relented, Destroyah was forced to the ground, its chest sizzling from the burning beams. Godzilla seized the opportunity and rushed upon his foe, slamming into Destroyah and racking the demon with his burning claws. Destroyah refused to go down and retaliated against the kaiju king. They lashed out at each other in a close-ranged battle to the death. Destroyah tried to use its larger size to overwhelm its foe but the sheer heat radiating off the kaiju's body was soon to much for the demon to handle. Destroyah returned to the skies, raining its deadly bio-weapon back down onto the raging grounded kaiju king. Burning Godzilla fumed and thrashed about as the irritating beams struck repetitively. The kaiju king loosed his own breath weapon but the heat signature gave Destroyah a chance to evade. Burning Godzilla was now severely irritated by the pestering demon looming overhead. Then, Burning Godzilla lowered his head and closed his eyes, calming himself as his spines radiated with his harbored rage. His body light up in a massive nuclear display of power as his blazing eye cracked open and the kaiju king retaliated, loosing a massive blast of crimson energy. The spiraled ray was perfectly aimed and tore clean through Destroyah's right wing, ripping the limb from the demon's body and sending it crashing to the ground. Destroyah spiraled down to the floor in a comet of smoke, quickly slamming into the soil head first with a massive explosion of dust. Destroyah rose and shrieked out in rage but Burning Godzilla could see the weakness in the demon's actions; it was losing strength. Burning Godzilla smiled and snorted, knowing that victory was soon at hand. With Destroyah's wing severed, there was no chance it was retreating from this battle but it had no intention of doing so anyway, the demon was going to win or die trying. Destroyah charged Burning Godzilla but before the demon could reach the seething kaiju king, the monstrosity turned around and crashed his massive tail into the charging demon, sending it stumbling to the floor. Burning Godzilla roared out in victory then proceeded to mercilessly bombard the now grounded demon with burst-after-burst of his crimson spiral ray.

Destroyah screamed out in pain but the call was not heard. Destroyah quickly lashed upwards with laser horn, slightly tearing through Burning Godzilla's chest with the blade. The kaiju king relented his blast as the blade hit and stepped back, giving the demon room to raise itself and continue. Destroyah rushed back to Burning Godzilla and lashed out several times with laser horn, ripping deep into the kaiju's skin with ever slash. Destroyah enjoyed the feeling of once again being on top but that feeling was short lived. Burning Godzilla's wounds quickly headed due to his quick-acting regeneration process as he lashed his arm foreword, latching it onto the demon's strong neck hide. Drawing Destroyah in with this leverage, Burning Godzilla placed his other hand on the demon's burnt gut, raising it over his head in a rogue display of sheer power. The kaiju king snorted in rage and tossed the demonic kaiju away. Destroyah came crashing down into the chard rubble with a massive smoke cloud. It slowly raised itself but, now nearly fully drained of power, Destroyah had little fight left. Burning Godzilla continued his assault with a retaliation of a massive burst of his crimson spiral atomic ray. The devastating strike landed a direct hit on Destroyah's chest, splitting its battered and burn floral pattern clean open, calling forth massive amounts of green blood. Destroyah screamed out in utter pain but the call was replaced by a gurgle as more of the demon's malachite life force came spewing up from its maw. Burning Godzilla took the opportunity to blast it again, mercilessly battering the demon who continued to scream out as more green blood flowed.

After a few more blasts Godzilla paused, relenting to see his handiwork on his most hated of foes. Destroyah was now forced to the floor, deprived of power and left to bleed out. Still, Destroyah would not die like this; it would not give up! Using the last remains of its energy, Destroyah slowly charged the king and brought its horn down. Burning Godzilla caught the blade in his jaws and bit down hard. The crystalline blade soon began to fracture and, within moments, the horn snapped under the bite force. Destroyah wheeled away in more pain than it had been in since the first time it met the kaiju king.

Back at ground level, Discord smirked.

"Fire at will!"

The elements once again took up their position and trained their sights on the massive yet beaten demon. A surge of energy flowed from the six ponies and Discord charged the beam with his own chaotic energies. It created a true harmony: chaos and order working together. The beam surged foreword and struck Destroyah in its bloodied chest. The dancing beam turned the demon's chest to stone immediate when it struck. The stone curse quickly began to grow across Destroyah's body, entombing the massive demon in stone. Destroyah shrieked in pain but there was nothing it could do. It could feel itself being separated on the inside, torn apart and reorganized against its will. Burning Godzilla only stared puzzled at the fallen demonic kaiju. He was transfixed by the event. Destroyah's movements slowed eventually grinding to a halt. Burning Godzilla roared out to the sky in victory as his body glowed with surging nuclear energy. As his head lowered, the kaiju king unleashed a super spiral beam on the statued demon, causing the stone structure to exploded. Destroyah was torn asunder by the blast, is from crumbling to the floor. The ponies and Discord where pushed back by the shock waves of the blast and had to cover their eyes to block the dust storm. As the dust cleared, Burning Godzilla was the only standing kaiju, the clear victor. He stood tall and proud over the ruinous remains of his fallen adversary. The victorious kaiju king bellowed bis bloodcurdling call as he unleashed a massive nuclear pulse of which the world had never before seen the likes of before The immense blast blanketed the most of Equestria, destroying nearly every city known to pony and poisoning many with the infectious disease of nuclear fallout. Only the most heavily and magically fortified areas where spared. Discord raised a barrier over the elements to protect them from the radiation blast before it struct at over the speed of sound. When radiation cloud cleared, Godzilla was revealed, his scorching hide now back to its usual charcoal black. Discord ceased his barrier and left the elements, flying up to Godzilla and landing on the kaiju's scaly muzzle. He patted the beast on the nose.

"You have done well your highness. You have earned the right to return home, wherever you came from."

Godzilla simply stared at the strange creature that was now on his nose speaking some strange tongue. Discord snapped his fingers and Godzilla's form flashed with light and vanished back to his time, restoring balanced to the now ruined Equestria. The draconequus descended to investigate the rubble of the statue. He saw something lying on the ground. It was red and oozing green blood, possibly a surviving aggregate. Discord moved in but was forced back by something heavy and pissed off landed on his back. The god of chaos was forced to the ground as an aggregate Destroyah crablette screamed and raged above him. Discord easily teleported out from under the creature and stood behind it. Destroyah whipped around and reared, preparing for another strike. Discord quickly blasted the crablette and it became frozen in stone, stuck in its snarling and reared position. Discord walked past it and investigated the other bleeding one. He looked closer and saw it was the pony form the kaiju had taken, the part of the demon that actually showed compassion and mercy, the part that Luna loved so deeply. Discord scooped up the bleeding demon pony and began medical procedures, hoping it was not too late.

Three years had passed since that dreaded day and much of Equestria was still leveled by the kaiju's raging battle. Luna sat in her throne looking at nothing in particular absentmindedly, tracing the scar running down her side. She ruffled her wings, still irked that she could not yet achieve flight but that too would come in time, just like her scar would eventually disappear in a century or so. She looked down, going over the blueprints for the Manhattan rebuilding projects. A good portion of the city had been restored but she felt it could be improved before they moved onto the next city rebuild. Luna sighed sadly remembering the event vaguely. The Solar Empire had died with her sister but, in turn, it gave birth to the new Lunar Empire under her rule. She was only brought out of her trance by a familiar clicking on her tiled floors.

"Lost in thought again eh?"

Luna looked up to see her Guard Captain in his obsidian version of Nightmare Moon's armor.

"The war with the Griffons still rages on?"

"Of course!"

"I suppose that's good for you then Destroyah."

The demonic pony grinned under his helmet.

"Enough sustenance for years I'd say! Yes indeed, this war brings out the best in me!"

Luna smirked but as she looked at her mate she remembered his other half still in the dungeons, cursed to bear nightmares and pain for eternity. Luna honestly thought it had gotten off lightly. She was still making arrangements to banish it to the moon but their conflict with the griffons was strenuous and postponed the event. The cruel creatures attacked when they realized that Equestria had been attacked and nearly completely destroyed. Celestia's death made them even more eager to strike. Luna put Destroyah on the front line constantly due to his raw power. Even when not combined with his demonic and gender-less counterpart, the demonic mare still had the strength to destroy armies of griffons with ease. But even this was pathetic compared to the power of the true Destroyah. Destroyah walked over to his loving mate, leaned against her and put his wing over her cold form.

"Things will only get better. At least Discord is aiding us."

"The old man does have a heart at times."

With that, the couple sat staring at the night sky like they would do for the rest of eternity.

Epilogue

Deep within the bowls of Manhattan's rubber lay the essence of death itself, weakened and drained of energy. The crimson organism was alone but still alive, keeping all its emotions of hate and rage kept locked up inside. All it needed was to be freed from this ruinous prison and it could return to its former glory.

(Back cover by my crazy ass editor)