//------------------------------// // Guardain // Story: Godzilla and Gamera: The Return of Iris // by Godzilla2020 //------------------------------// ........... Beach Front .......... Godzilla dodged an incoming sonic ray attack and countered by slamming his tail into Iris's skull. The demonic kaiju roared in annoyance as he staggered back. Godzilla took advantage of Iris's confusion by running charging into Iris in an attempt to knock him back. But Iris was able to keep his footing this time the king tried to push harder but Iris wasn't moving. His tentacles swayed behind him before two of them rose behind Godzilla. The arrow shaped tips opened wide fireballs forming inside of them before firing off behind him nailing him square in the back. Godzilla roared in pain losing his grip on Iris he fell to his knees smoke coming off from his back. Iris let out a demonic roar like chuckle before bringing down one of his spear shaped arms. Smashing Godzilla in the face with a brutal right hook the sharp edge slashing against his face. He snarled at Iris blood dripping down his cheek. Iris was easily shaping up to be one of his most powerful opponents. The fact creature didn't have a face was also bothering him, he was unable to tell what this creature was thinking only sensing the bloodlust coming off it. Iris's right hand began to glow blue causing Godzilla to snap his head back in surprise. Iris could fell Godzilla's power flowing through him it felt incredible but this was just a fraction and he wanted more. Iris stared at Godzilla like a predator staring down it's prey. All four of his tentacles rose up behind him two of them opened charging two mana infused fire balls the others hummed charging the particles in the air. Godzilla watched on as the combination attack began to charge. He to time this just right or else he was dead. Time slowed for Godzilla as his back spines glowed to life his hole body began to glow bright blue. Iris fired his sonic beams and the mana blast. Godzilla roared as a nuclear pulse went straight through his body. The attacks collided Godzilla's nuclear pulse formed a minor shield against the attacks but it also put a large drain on his energy. Godzilla stood up on his shaking legs huffing for breath. There was a massive cloud of dust combing with his blurry vision Godzilla could barley see. But he could hear. A whale like moan cried out behind him Godzilla turned to see his enemy still standing with barely any visible wounds other than small black marks on his body. Godzilla snarled cracking his knuckles the fight was far from over. ............. National Park ........... Applejack's van came to a stop just at the edge of the forest Sunset was the first to get out looking over her map. She breathed a sigh of relief to be out of the car. The ride up was so awkward with her not saying a word for the entire ride up. She was still getting used to the whole having friends thing. The others exited the van stretching their muscles out. AJ paid close attention to Sunset not helping but feeling bad for her. Through the entire ride she watched Sunset stare out of the window with a nervous sweat coming down her face. "Man was she always this quiet? Fluttershy put up more of a conversation." Rainbow Dash whispered to Rarity. "She's just nervous Rainbow. You know how hard it is to make new friends." Rarity said. Applejack could over hear their conversation she sighed knowing exactly how Sunset felt. That feeling of not knowing who to talk or what to say. In this case however Sunset wasn't just trying to make new friends but she was also trying to apologize for almost everything that she's done for the past fours years. -Well if she's nervous being with all of at once then maybe someone on one time might do the trick.- Applejack thought to herself. She walked over to Sunset, who studying her map, "Hey Sunset any idea where we're goin." "No idea those two meteors I saw last night could have landed anywhere." Sunset said. Applejack looked at the map studying the forest in her head. She took out her cell phone checking if the signals would stay this far out in the wilderness . Once she saw that the signal was strong she smiled. "Well then in that case let's spilt up we can cover more ground that way." Applejack suggested. "That doesn't really sound like a good idea." Sunset said. "I agree maybe we should just stay here in the nice safe car. Where there aren't any monsters." Fluttershy said shaking like a leaf. "Come on y'all if we go in a group it take all day to find whatever's out there. But if we split up into groups there's a better chance of us finding something." Applejack explained but Sunset still seemed nervous about the idea, "And if we do find anything out there we just call up the others." "I think it sounds like a good plan AJ. You and I can probably move faster than everyone here." Rainbow Dash said with a sly smile while getting annoyed full looks from everyone else. "Actually Rainbow I was thinking it be better if you went with Fluttershy to the beach. I'll head out with Sunset by the lake." Applejack was about to go on but was soon interrupted by a gasping Rarity. "Wait just one minute! If your going with Sunset and Rainbow Dash is going with Fluttershy then means I'm going with." there was a loud burst of confetti next to her confirmed Rarity's fears as Pinkie Pie jumped out in front of her. "We're going to be the best team ever!" Pinkie shouted putting Rarity into a hard choke hold. ............ Lake ........... Sunset Shimmer and Applejack made their way through the forest searching through the canopy searching for any signs of either a monster or the burn marks of a meteor. With each step they took both girls finally made it to the beautiful lake front. Sunset couldn't help but take in the beauty she had one of the biggest smiles on her face. "I see you like the lake. Figured you would I take my sister up her all the time." Applejack said with a smile. "It really is beautiful." Sunset said looking around. Something kept coming up in the back of mind. Why would Applejack want to bring her all the way out here by herself? "You think something is out here?" "Yeah it would make sense last night people said they one of these things out in the ocean. So maybe their some kind of sea creatures." "So going to the lake was good choice?" "Yep good call Applejack." Sunset said, "But why did you come want to come out here with me?" Applejack just shrugged not thinking to hard about the answer, "Well you were pretty nervous around all of us at once. So I figured it better if you get to know our little group one at a time." Sunset smiled from the warmth of the answer, "Thanks Applejack." "No problem and you can call me AJ most my friends do." Applejack said as she began to examine the area around her. -Do you really believe that?- A sinister voice played into Sunset's head. She looked around but saw nothing. -In the water.- The voice called again. Sunset moved away from Applejack, who was busy looking around to notice, heading straight for the lake. She looked at her reflection to see both her and not herself at the same time. A red skinned demon was staring back at her with annoyed frown. -Do really think that after everything we've done they would forgive us just like that? They hate you Sunset, they hate us, and we should hate them.- "But Applejack was-" -Was tricking you! She hates you!- "No." -Yes!- "SHUT UP!" Sunset's rage was boiling at hearing the demons venom. She smashed her fist into the water huffing. Applejack heard Sunset shouting and hitting the water. "Sunset! What wrong?!" Applejack raced over to Sunset's side. SKREEEEEEONK! Sunset and Applejack's heads shot up when they heard the monstrous roar echo through the sky. The skies began to open up as a massive black form fell from it straight into the side of the mountain. The reverberating boom could be heard across the forest along with the sound of a whale like shriek. A massive body began to descend from the sky four massive blue wings held it's body in the air. Sunset and Applejack's jaws dropped when they saw Iris hovering in the sky. Iris looked at the unconscious form of Godzilla. The king of the monsters looked like a former version of himself his body was thinned and there was blood leaking out of his mouth, his stomach was smoking from a mana blast. But the worst was his right shoulder embed inside of it was one of Iris's talons. Iris was cackling he could feel Godzilla's power coursing through him. His wounds were mending themselves and the spear tip on his arm was growing due to Godzilla's healing factor. Godzilla had been defeated. Iris prepared to finish the monster king once and for all as one his tentacles closed. The sound was condensing as a sonic ray began to form. That's when he felt it the energy he'd been tracking it was so close. He looked down searching the canopy there were humans below him but one of them stood out. He could feel her energy it was small but also strong, latent power, his favorite kind. Even better was the amount of hatred he could feel from her. Applejack and Sunset hadn't moved since seeing Iris. They were both sweating bullets neither could move just shake out of pure fear. The pressure Iris gave off was intense. It was like staring at death itself. "S-S-S-Sunset is that what we've been looking for." Applejack finally managed to spit out. "That thing isn't from Equestria I've never heard of something like that." Sunset said shaking in fear she tried to look away but couldn't bring herself to. That's when the shock went through both of them Iris's head turned right at them. His tentacles began to fold as he made his descent down. Before either of them could think of running Iris was already on the ground. His touch down was like a mini earthquake knocking both girls off their feet. Sunset felt the sweat run down faster along her face when Iris turned his faceless head toward her. "Applejack we have to run fast!" Sunset shouted pulling Applejack on her feet. They both tried to but Iris was already preparing for the fusion. He kneelt down and the front orb of his stomach began to open. Blue human sized tentacles began to snake there way out. Applejack and Sunset ran as fast as their legs would let them all they could do was hope to get away. Sunset felt a tug around her ankle and her view of the world go from the forest in front of her to the hard ground. She looked back to see a blue tentacle wrapped around her ankle and was pulling her toward Iris. She screamed trying in vain to kick it off but the grip was like iron. "Sunset!" Applejack stopped running and turned herself around at lightning speed she dove down grabbing Sunset's hand, "Don't let go!" Applejack began to pull trying to keep Sunset from moving. But it was in vain as her boots began to dig trenches into the ground. Iris watched the two humans feeling almost amused by it. Their struggles were so small to him. He was still feeling hungry maybe he could have just one more snack. Applejack suddenly felt a tight sensation on her waist. Sunset gasped when she saw the tentacle around Applejack's stomach. The breath went out of Applejack when Iris squeezed her. Both of them began to get pulled into Iris. To caught up in the moment Iris failed to notice the that the lake was glowing. .............. Lake Bottom ........... A massive form sat at the bottom of the water. The world around him was so dark and muffled, there was a sharp pain going through his shoulder. Gamera could feel his head. Where was he? What happened to him? "Please you must hurry." A soft voice went through his head, "Your friend is endanger please you must hurry." His friend was in danger? What friend? Gamera's head shot up his memories began to return to him. The battle! Godzilla! "You have time to save. The demon is close by there is an innocence that he wants. Please save her." Gamera roared bubbles floating out of his mouth. He could feel Iris's aura along with Godzilla's weakened aura just above him he snarled. Godzilla faced the demon alone and paid a price for it. The demon was going to pay for this. Gamera was not one to tolerate evil but Iris was something even worse. He balled his fist and beat his tail on the lake bottom pushing himself off the ground Gamera made for the surface. ............. Back on the Surface ............ Sunset tried to free herself but soon found it to be nearly impossible. She looked over to Applejack the girl had passed out from the tight grip Iris had on her lungs. Sunset looked around trying to find some way of to free them but nothing was there. She closed her eyes ready accept her fate. But as soon she felt herself being pulled she suddenly felt herself stop. MRRRRRAH! There was a loud snarl above her. Sunset opened her eyes to see a giant snarling and enraged turtle with tusk staring down at the monster trying to take her. It was keeping her and Applejack from getting devoured. She still felt fear but the sight of this new creature some how made her feel safe. "Please help us." Sunset cried out tears running down her face. Gamera could hear her well he snarled looking Iris down. A fire ball began to build in the back of his throat. Iris didn't take much from Gamera's threatening glare. In fact he had a new attack he wanted to test. Iris's body flashed blue before one of his longer tentacles rose up the arrow tip opening shooting out a familiar attack. Iris used the atomic breath. Gamera's eyes widen with surprise as Godzilla's attack hit him square in the chest. The giant turtle was knocked back letting go of Sunset and Applejack. Sunset could only watch as her last hope of getting away was blasted back. That's when she felt a tug on her leg in a flash Iris pulled both her and Applejack inside of him. The last sound she heard was the roar of Gamera as he tried to grab her again. Gamera looked down at his hand realizing he was to slow. He looked at Iris as the demonic kaiju rose back up letting out a hate filled shriek. ............... Unknown ............ "Sunset wake up. Sunset." A voice was calling out to her Sunset held onto her head to try and stop her raging headache. When she opened her eyes all there was darkness. It was pitch black and soul crushing the pressure was so immense. Her chest felt like it was going to cave in. She could also feel something wrapped around her body. She looked down to see two red arms wrapped around her body. When she turned her head to see piercing black and green eyes staring back a her. A fanged face smiled back at her. She was ready to scream but her mouth was covered. "Hush we have a lot to talk about Sunset." the demon said.