It was strange how life changes in the blink of an eye.
For Rainbow Dash it all started when sunset Shimmer came through the portal near her High School and started taking it over. Since then she learned to use magic powers, defeated Sunset Shimmer in a demon form, helped defeat three sirens in a musical magic showdown, and fell in love with one of the said sirens, and met her father and became one herself. Now, here she was again facing another change. A giant robot.
Life was never dull in Canterlot.
Rainbow Dash and Adagio stood by staring at the two kaiju clashing near by. Twilight and Applejack remained near the tank and watched as their friends dared to approach.
Godzilla was in the offensive. His natural body allowed a great deal of freedom in movement. His mechanized counterpart was very agile as well, but it was clear that Godzilla had the advantage in speed and maneuverability.
He easily circled his opponent and smashed his body into the back of his foe. Both flesh and machine toppled over and rolled over the ground as the remaining tanks retreated. Far off the G-Force was being collected and taken back to the city leaving their ruined super X craft behind.
The mechagodzilla turned his head around while Godzilla was atop him, and clawed at his metal face. Sparks flew from the metal as Godzilla’s claws scratched the surface of the machine. Now physical damage was made to the silver metal. Mechagodzilla counterattacked with a point blank blast from its mouth beam. The force of the attack forced Godzilla off him with a pained screech as a chunk of his flesh blew apart and cloud of red blood sprayed everywhere.
With a whimper of pain Godzilla turned his back to is foe. That was a mistake. Free from Godzilla the mechagodzilla turned around and blasted Godzilla in the back with his breath beam and stiked Godzilla’s back with enough force to send him to the ground. Several of his back schutes broke apart from the blast, and sent the pieces all over the place with a cloud of red blood splattering about.
Adagio and Rainbow cringed seeing him get hit so hard and the massive injury only seemed to make it worse for them.
Suddenly from all around them massive green vines ripped through the ground and loomed over both the fallen Godzilla and his mechanized counterpart. Seconds passed and nothing happened. Godzilla was still hunched over recovering from his injury. The mechagodzilla didn’t wait. Without any sort of provocation it extended its right arm out and from a small port along its forearm a high speed missile fired out. The exhaust of the missile extended form the arm all the way to its target, one of the vines.
The Missile hit the vine with enough force it tore through and continued on until it collided with the forest line. Unfortunately it was very close to Adagio and Rainbow. Adagio shifted into her siren forms while Adagio put up a magical barrier to protect Rainbow. From the tank Sonata kept any debris from falling on Applejack, who decided she was out of her league and took refuge inside the BPM.
Godzilla by now had recovered from his stunned state and was back on his hind legs ready to fight again. His attention however wasn’t on his clear mechanized foe, but the plant like tendrils that swayed in the wind from the ground.
He could sense something primal. Something familiar coming from them. A magical presence he hadn’t felt in ages. A powerful magic that was chaotic and obsessed with nature. With a mighty roar Godzilla’s vice echoed over the entire land far past the Everfree forest and beyond Canterlot City shaking it slightly.
Far in the center of Camp Everfree, Biollante squirmed feeling the mighty voice regurgitate in her roots. Inside Gloriosa cringed at the powerful voice. Her ears rang in pain even with the protective sac of fluid around her. She could sense Gaia’s unease from the voice as well. Their linked minds sent images between them and Gloriosa was bombarded with images of long past when Gaia once battled a fearsome beast, the one she knew as Godzilla.
*Were they really from another world?* She thought in her mind.
*Yes, we were.* Gaia responded mentally.
Gloriosa flinched at Gaia’s thoughts. She hadn’t heard from the nature spirit for sometime now since they merged, and was caught by surprise.
*Sorry Gaia, I’m still not use to this… connection we have.*
Gaia gave the young woman a calm soothing sensation in her thought. These thoughts helped ease Gloriosa's tension until Gaia focused on Godzilla again. From where they were they could see him in their minds. A crystal clear image sent to them by magic through the very plants that grew from them and connected to the earth. Gloriosa extended her view to the city where she could see from the tallest tree to the most isolated weed in the cracks on the ground.
*I never thought I could see the world like this.* Gloriosa thought looking at the camp as Trixie, Maud, and Limestone were trying to leave with Rarity, Twilight, Pinkie and Fluttershy. *Gaia, we aren’t going to hurt anyone, right?* Gloriosa asked the spirit.
*No, we won’t hurt your friends.* The answer came swift from Gaia. It was complimented by a deep feeling of compassion that made the young woman’s heart flutter. It was a loving compassion for all living things of Earth, and it made her feel better. Following this was a sharp pain as her attention went back to Godzilla and mechagodzilla as they resumed a three way fight between themselves and Gaia.
*Sigh, this is gonna be a long day, but I will save my camp.*
Gloriosa thought loudly and then her thoughts went back to the Chief. As the battle raged on Gloriosa thought about him and Gaia took note of this. For a brief moment she had a feeling of pity for the human and her naivete, but that would be a conversation for another time.
*Unknown location*
Aria’s head was ringing. She was on the border of consciousness as she tried to stay awake long enough to make sense of the world around her. For a moment she could see the man who was beside her in the tank standing over her. Her eyes closed and for a while the world was black as voices echoed around her.
She cold feel her body moving, but not from her own command. Moments later a roaring engine came to be and she felt like her head was going to split. She kept opening her eyes and saw the man over her. She was in the back of a truck with many others like him. She barely had time to notice the man had his hand on the ridge of her scaley nose and was gently rubbing it. HIs gloved hands caught against her thin and tiny scales but ran comfortingly nonetheless upon her muzzle as she completely blacked out.
Some time later the noises stop. She was then awoke from a cold sensation on her belly. It took some time, but she managed to fully awake from her blacken world into a sterile white one surrounded by machines. She found herself strapped to a large table in her siren form. There were massive straps and metal braces holding her down snugly against the cold steel table. Several suction wires were attached to her entire body and several IV’s inserted into her body. Nearby a machine monitored her heart beat, another for her brainwave activity, and many others she couldn’t imagine what they were for.
She heard the sound of a door opening and approaching footsteps from behind her. Two figures came to her sight in white biohazard suits and stood in front of her. She growled at them making one flick but the other stood their ground, kicking her muzzle with their boot.
Aria grunted in pain as the boot pressed against her nose as a trail of blood ran from her nostrils. The doors opened again and the human took their boot off Aria’s nose and wipe a long red stain on the ground.
“What do we know about it?” A familiar deep feminine voice asked from behind her view.
“We don’t know ma’am,” A male voice Aria recognized replied. “All we know is the creature is durable, possess some kind of power, and can hit a tank hard enough to dent it and live.”
“Humph, what about its intelligence?” The woman asked walking around Aria.
Once the woman came into view Aria recognized her immediately. It was Major Spitfire. She was in her Officer blue uniform. Aria was warned about this woman from her sister Adagio and backed up by Rainbow Dash. They warned her that Spitfire had a certain, ruthlessness to her when dealing with kaiju. Especially if it pertained to their father, Godzilla.
Spitfire knelt down coming eye to eye level with Aria. Her eyes were fierce for a human. It was almost as piercing as Adagios back when she wanted to rule the world. It made Aria’s blood chill, nothing made her blood chill unless it was Adagio. Aria looked away and focused on the blood stain on the ground, and Spitfire scoffed grabbing her ear violently and yanked it to the side making Aria’s head turn with it and rub against the binding.
“Doesn’t look so tough. Doctors, what have you learned from this, thing?” Spitfire spat.
The timid scientist stepped aside and allowed his colleague to speak.
“We learned a lot about its anatomy Major,” She said, looking down at her clipboard. “They have incredible muscle mass, bone density is far greater than reinforced steel, and these spines on its back seem to emit some kind of radiation we haven’t been able to identify.”
Spitfire was still holding Aria by the ear. Aria struggled against the hold bat a firm grip kept her sensitive ear and head to the side.
“Is it dangerous radiation?” The male voice asked from the side, joust out of Aria’s view.
The scientist shook her head.
“No, sir. It’s not lethal at all. In fact it seems to be the source of another great feature of the creature. It’s highly regenerative abilities,” She said walking away from view.
Spitfire released Aria’s ear and turned to walk away. Aria snapped her maw at the human but Spitfire ignored her. From her left Aria saw the tank commander come into view. He had a sad look on his face as he looked down at the siren. A pitiful look that took mercy on her situation.
Aria hated having someone pity her, but she wasn’t in any position to be complaining. Considering she was captured it was almost ironic that she was held captive after she saved the humans lives. Then again, Spitfire was involved and her capture was almost 100% her doing.
Aria’s gaze went from the tank commander to the scientist who had one of the chutes on a silver metal tray. The large bony spine was only a chunk of the whole thing. It was sharp and jagged in the shape of a duck foot with one long middle toe. The scientist held it up and pointed to Aria’s back. Spitfire and the commander looked to see a rounded portion of one schute that looked newer and less jagged than the rest of it.
“This, we took off two hours ago,” The scientist said walking quickly to Aria’s side and touched the chute. “See? In just a few hours it has already begun to regrow and an exceptional rate.”
Spitfire and the tank commander ‘oohed’ at the incredible regrowth of the scales. It was then the commander noticed something else on a nearby notepad. A diagram of Aria that showed a general outline of her body at length with a red section in her head that extended all the way through her body to the end of her tail, but with no text.
Pointing to the clipboard he asks, “What’s this diagram for, Doctor?”
The woman looked over where he was pointing, picking up the clipboard she looked it over the diagram for a minute before answering.
“This is Professor Scratches. It's a brain scan we did of the creature,” She said giving it to Spitfire to see as well. “As you can see we did extensive brain scans and found, this.”
Spitfire regarded the diagram but wasn’t sure what it was. Whatever it was it wasn’t a brain scan. She eventually gave the board back to the scientist and placed her hands on her hips and leaned her weight on one leg.
“Okay, I give up. What is it?” She asked.
The scientist adjusted her coat taking the diagram and showing it to th em both.
“Here,” She pointed to the head. “It the where the head is, Major. The brain is usually housed completely there. This creature-”
“Siren,” Spitfire added.
“Excuse me, a what ma’am?” The woman asked.
“That thing is called a siren. I’ve run into them before,” Spitfire said, gesturing to Aria behind her with her thumb making her snap angrily at her.
“I, see,” The scientist said continuing. “Anyways, this siren, seems to have a brain that extends beyond her cranial cavity. It follows along the base of the spine and down to the tail. What’s more interesting is it had multiple functions. There are sections of its brain that do different things!”
Spitfire and the tank commander noticed the woman's eager happy expression as she gushed on about the sirens abilities. This however really intrigued them, but for different reasons. The tank commander was interested in knowing what his violent violet savior could do, Spitfire just wanted to know how to kill it; and this might be a way to find out how to.
“So what can it do?”
“Well, essentially we determined three basic functions. Energy distribution and regulation, normal brain functions, and something else we can’t determine.”
That last one caught everyone's attention.
“What do you think it is, doctor?” The commander asked, looking concerned.
“We won’t know until we run more tests I’m afraid.”
Spitfire nodded and turned to face Aria face to face. She got within inches of Aria’s nose. With a low growl Aria barred her teeth at Spitfire as the woman grinned cockily at her.
“Very well, continue your test doctor. Let us know if you find anything else out. This has been most enlightening.”
With that Spitfire left leaving the scientists and the tank commander behind. The two scientists continued to do scans and tests while the man stood by Aria the entire time. He kept a close eye on her as if expecting something to happen to her. Aria took noticed of the concerned look he had and how he would always ask what the test would do to her, or if they’d harm her. Aria remained wary of the humans around her, even the commander. She had been around a long time and she knew the human heart was a fickle thing.
She would not be hurt again...