My Little Pony: A King Arises

by Aaron1248

Chapter 12: Battle for Manehattan Part 1: The Bridge

The lights of Manehattan could be seen from the Saddletoga, which continued to trail Godzilla at a safe distance. The monster’s immense dorsal fins sliced through the churning waves toward the coast, where a row of Equestrian Navy LCS vessels had formed blockade miles offshore. The Littoral Combat Ships, which were expressly designed for operations close to shore, were somewhat smaller, swifter and shallower than conventional frigates or destroyers, but still packed plenty of punch. Each vessel was armed with both heavy duty war cannons and a full complement of highly explosive surface-to-air magic missiles.

But would that be enough to deter Godzilla?

The warships held their fire as the fins approached. Searchlights lit up the night. In the Saddletoga’s war room, Serizawa and the others watched tensely in anticipation, waiting for Godzilla to rise up and reveal himself. Nopony expected the giant reptile to simply turn around in the face of the blockade, not with the Hitomuto reportedly flying toward the city. The minutes ticked down toward a likely confrontation that Serizawa still had serious reservations about. He understood that Admiral Stall and the Equestrian military could hardly be expected to let such a formidable threat come ashore unopposed, but Serizawa remained unconvinced that challenging Godzilla was a good idea, and not just because of the many valiant lives that might be thrown away in a futile attempt to turn back an unstoppable force of nature. With the MUTOs still abroad, it might be that obstructing Godzilla, if that was even possible, was not in the world’s best interest.

‘We may be making a dreadful mistake,’ he thought.

But then, just when the conflict appeared inevitable, the great fins suddenly descended, sinking beneath the frothing waves until they vanished from view. The Saddletoga pitched as turbulence upset the waters ahead. Serizawa held on to the corner of a workstation to keep his balance. Graphic gasped in relief. Stall frowned, but also looked relieved to a degree. Serizawa guessed that the admiral also had profound mixed feelings about throwing the combat ships up against Godzilla.

Glowing green sonar screens tracked the leviathan until his mammoth form dissolved into a thousand tiny pixels, broken up by static, and eventually disappeared from the screens altogether. Serizawa assumed that Godzilla had simply chosen to dive under the blockade, as he’d done with the fleet two days ago. That he was still heading for Manehattan Bay went without saying.

‘Perhaps it is just as well,’ he thought, although his heart went out to the innocent stallions, mares and children in the city. They had not asked for their home to become a meeting-place for monsters, and Serizawa had no illusions that Godzilla cared anything for the insignificant pony lives between him and his prey. ‘We are all just collateral damage now.’

Captian Hoofton rushed up to Stall, clutching a printout in his teeth. “This report just came in from Ponyville,” he reported urgently. Hoofton then gave the printout to the Admiral who read it with a stern face. Serizawa looked at the Admiral with question before Stall looked to the others in the room.

“Send a Pegasi escort team to Ponyville.” He said. “We’ll need the help of the Bearers now more than ever.”

Celestia’s sun rose gradually over the town of Ponyville. However, with last night’s visit from the Femuto it looked worse for wear. Buildings were in ruins, debris was everywhere and many ponies spread out helping each other. Many were homeless because of the attack but luckily the citizens of Ponyville were a helping community, helping those in need when they needed it.

Twilight right now was overlooking the damage. She looked to at the other ponies with eyes of sadness. Out of all of the times a monster attacked this wonderful town, nopony couldn’t handle an attack of this scale. Even Tirek’s attack seemed less harmful than what the Femuto accomplished. Luckily though, barely anypony got hurt.

One thing was on Twilight’s mind at the moment. The story that Nyx and her friends told her. She was both amazed and shock of the story they told. An ancient unicorn that not only became the Tree of Harmony, but the creator of the Elements of Harmony themselves. If only she had been there to see it.

She looked over to her left when the voice of a filly was heard. She saw Nyx’s friend, Dinky Doo, running up to her mother Derpy. Both ponies embraced one another as the filly cried with happiness seeing that her mother was safe. Two stallions joined the mother and daughter, who the latter went and hugged the green tie-wearing earth pony. She couldn’t help but smile at that. She was glad no ponies were hurt or killed in this. She could only imaging how many colts or fillies would be orphaned if the situation gotten worse. She could only imagine how Nyx would feel if she had perished by the might of the Femuto.

“Boy howdy look at this mess,” a familiar voice said to her right. Twilight looked and saw it was Applejack. Along beside her were Rarity, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie. “Ah know this town had its shares of monster hoedowns but this here takes the apple pie.”

“I know,” Twilight answered before looking forward again. “I’m just glad it didn’t turn out worse than it did.”

“At least no ponies or animals were hurt,” Fluttershy said. “I’m thankful my cottage wasn’t damaged or worse.”

“I know the feelin’ sugarcube,” Applejack replied. “Sweet Apple Acres was practically untouched in this entire ruckus.”

“While my boutique wasn’t destroyed,” Rarity joined in. “It did, however, suffer severe damage from flung debris. While I am sad at that fact, however, this gives me a chance to refurbish and remodel my entire shop.” The others smiled at the unicorn’s happy mood.

Suddenly the group then saw Rainbow Dash fly in fast and landed in front of them, panting with exhaustion. The girls galloped up to the pegasus with concern and gathered around her.

“Rainbow, what’s wrong?” Twilight asked. Rainbow took in a few breaths before answering.

“The princesses,” she said with a gasp of air. “They’re heading towards Ponyville right now! Whatever it is, it’s probably not good.”

At that moment, the pegasi-drawn chariot carrying the princesses landed in the street. Twilight saw this and galloped over to Celestia, who nuzzled her with affection.

“Twilight,” she said. “Thank the Maker that you and your friends are okay.” She looked around the desolated town. Her heart ached with sadness which nearly brought her to tears. “So much destruction…”

She felt a hoof on her shoulder and looked to see Twilight giving her an assured look. “It’ll be okay, princess. Ponyville will recover from this. It’s not like this is the first time there’s been a monster attack.”

Celestia smiled a bit. “Yes, of course. However the problem is still at hoof.” She then turned to her student and friends with a firm expression. “We’ve received reports that the male MUTO is starting to near Manehattan with the female closing in.”

“But what about Godzilla?” Rainbow Dash brought up. This caused the white alicorn to look away with nervousness.

“We’ve lost track of him,” she said causing the girls to tense.

“How!?” Twilight said. “How could anypony lose track of something that big?”

“Be at ease, Twilight Sparkle,” Luna spoke up calmly. “From the recent report, Godzilla dove deeper into the depths to where our ships sonar could not detect him. We know the estimated time he’ll make landfall but not the location.”

“So what are we supposed to do?” Fluttershy timidly asked.

“We all must head for Manehattan,” Celestia said. “Once there we can help continue the evacuation of the city.”

“Princess,” Twilight said. “With all due respect we won’t be able to make it time. The chariots and trains would take hours to get to Manehattan.”

Celestia smiled before nodding. “I realized that, which is why I and my sister will combine our magic to mass teleport us to Manehattan.”
Twilight nodded as she and her friends gathered around the Sun and Moon princesses. Once all gathered, Celestia and Luna nodded to one another and placed their horns together. Both horns glowed their respective colors as the magical energy glowed brighter and brighter. Then with a flash of light, the group of ponies disappeared from sight in Ponyville.

The sound of thunder echoed as rain fell onto the concrete city of Manehattan. Many ponies within the city would have been going about their normal lives. Unfortunately for the city that wasn’t today. Various ponies could be seen being guided through the streets to evacuation points leading out of the city.

Everypony knew of the news about the monsters heading for Manehattan. Some wanted to flee and not see any sight of the beasts while others were actually crazy enough to want to stay and watch the battle. That wish never came true for them.

Various armored guards ranging from earth, pegasi and unicorn ponies could be seen. There were even griffins, dragons and changelings helping the citizens to the trains to exit the city. Everyone was making an effort to hopefully keep innocents from dying from the impending battle.

Manehattan’s train station was practically packed at the moment. Ponies were being placed onto a train that would pull in to receive them and then pull out to take them out of the city. One pony out of the bunch, a filly in particular, was having thoughts dancing in her head.

Babs Seed was with her older sister, Sunflower, next in the line to board the next train. The thoughts in Babs’ mind raced around the subject of the monsters. What would happen to Manehattan when the monsters fight? Probably be wrecked like she heard about when one of them attacked Applewood. At least this train was heading for Ponyville, which would give her a chance to see Apple Bloom and the others again.

“You have your ticket, Babs?” Sunflower spoke up catching the filly’s attention.

Babs nodded as she pulled out her ticket to show her older sister. “Right ‘ere, sis!” she replied to her sibling. “Yous think cousin Applejack and them will be expectin’ us?”

Sunflower giggled. “Probably not but it’ll be a nice surprise for them.”

Without a word Sunflower and Babs were next in line. Babs gave her ticket to the guard next to the door and he nodded allowing the filly to enter. She entered the train car and looked around a bit and waited for her older sister to enter as well. It was a nice car where various ponies were conversing with one another or doing their own thing. Babs smiled knowing this was going to be a nice trip.

“What do you mean I can’t board!?” the voice of Sunflower caught her ears as she looks outside, seeing her sister being held back by the guard.

“I’m sorry, ma’am,” he said. “The train can no longer take any more passengers. You’ll have to wait for the next one.”

“You don’t understand,” Sunflower argued. “My little sister is on this train. I need to be with her!”

“I’m sorry ma’am,” the guard replied. “There’s nothing I can do.” Sunflower was about to give a retort until a voice spoke up.

“I can look after her if needed,” the voice said.

The three turned to see the owner of the voice to be an off-white furred earth pony mare with a two-toned blue mane and tail. She wore a white-bordered lavender sailor collar with a scarlet tie and tri-shade mane clip in the back of her mane. Her eyes were light cyan and on her flank was a cutie mark of a lavender floppy hat with a scarlet feather. It was one of Sunflowers friends, Coco Pommel.

This made Sunflower smile with relief. “Oh, I’m so happy to see you, Coco! You wouldn’t mind looking after my little sister, would you?” Coco gave a smile.

“Not a problem,” she replied. “I’ll keep my eyes on her like a hawk.”

“Thank you, Coco!” Sunflower said with a smile before the sound of the locomotive began starting up.

The whistle of the train blew as the doors began to close. Babs quickly made it to one of the windows and quickly opened it to look out. There she saw her sister wave at her, knowing they’d see each other again. Babs couldn’t help but wave back with a ping of sadness in her heart. The filly then felt a hoof on her shoulder as she looked up and saw Coco given her an assured smile. The filly timidly smiled back before both the mare and filly took their seats as the train made its way out of Manehattan.

Located a few miles away from the city laid a small community known as Oatland. It was country-styled community that was near but away from the city life. Ponies could enjoy the sight of nature while the lights of Manehattan shone in the distance.

Right now, however, because of the monster threat, the small town was made a temporary home base. Royal guards of various species were busy doing their assignments getting ready for the impending fight for Equestria. They knew that if their side lost then Equestria, even the entire world, was lost.

Suddenly, a flash of light occurred and left behind were the princesses and the Mane Six. The ponies, except for Twilight and the Celestial Princesses, were a bit disoriented from the teleportation. They were not used to the fact of traveling from one place to the other in an instantaneous flash. After finally getting their senses back, the ponies then made their way to a building which provided communications on the status of the evacuation as well as the locations of the three targets.

Twilight’s eyes caught the sight of Cadence, but unfortunately no Shining Armor, Admiral Stall, Dr. Serizawa and Dr. Graphic. The Admiral saw the princesses before bowing a bit before turning back to the ponies on the communications. It was then Celestia spoke up with a firm voice.

“Sitrep, please.” She said. “Location of targets?”

A male earth pony then responded. “Male MUTO was spotted 30 miles off the Marellon Islands.”

“We’re showing signs of seismic activity to the southwest near Fillydelphia,” a pegasus mare spoke up. “Should be the female closing in.”

“Where’s Godzilla?” the Admiral asked. Private Martini was there to give the report.

“Last contact was five hours ago. Maintaining a bearing of 053 degrees, descending below a depth of 10,000 feet. He’ll be here within the hour.”

It was there something on the screen caught Twilight’s eye. On it was a visual of the Manehattan Bridge, which appeared to have a train on standstill. This caused the purple alicorn to think a bit. If Godzilla were to appear in Manehattan Bay, this made her eyes widen with fear which Celestia, Luna and Cadence caught.

“There’s still a train on that bridge.”

“Are yous serious?” Babs said to the Earth pony mare. “Yous sayin’ that Applejack an’ her friend Rarity helped you set up that street theater?”

Coco couldn’t but giggle before nodding. “Yes they did. If it wasn’t for them I wouldn’t have brought back the wonders of the street theater that I saw when I was around your age.”

“I always loved that show,” Babs said. “I didn’t even know yous was tha director of it.”

“Well thank you, Babs,” Coco replied with a smile.

At the moment, Coco and Babs were enjoying each other’s company, conversing about their lives and experiences in the past years. They would have been out of the city by now, but unfortunately the train was stalled a bit. The reason was that a few ponies were traveling by hoof across the bridge, causing the train to be held up. They didn’t mind though considering they were enjoying each other’s stories.

“I noticed your Cutie Mark,” Coco stated. “Judging by the scissors I’d say your special talent is mane styling, correct?”

Babs shrugged before answering. “Actually, it mostly represents my interests in making cool haircuts. I even worked at a local stylin’ shop and they loved teh designs I came up with.”

Coco smiled before replying. “If your sister allows it, maybe you could help me with mane styles for future shows.” Babs couldn’t help but smile brightly at that idea.

“Wow! Dat’d be—Whoa! Look at that!”

As she said that, Babs rushed to the window of the train car and looked outside. There, groups of Royal Guards gathered near the side of the Manehattan Bridge. Several Earth ponies of the guard were pulling large catapults up and facing them to the bay. Instead of boulders, they were loaded with large-sized barrels. Their purpose, nopony in the train cars knew. That however wasn’t the only thing catching the train occupant’s eyes.

Below the bridge several military ships began taking up positions across the bay. Their horns blared signaling their arrival and intent to move to their designated location, and the constant chatter of the train’s occupants increased in volume. Babs and Coco tried their best to tune out the noise, but it was no use. The constant noise from both adults and children were too loud. The adults knew of the danger while the fillies, colts and foals were ignorant to it. It was inwardly painful to say the least.

However…

The occupants of the train went immediately silent. They had no choice when the sound of this remarkable phenomenon was the sound of Godzilla’s roar echoing across the bay. That low rumbling and guttural call rising in pitch at the end cut through the misty morning air like a knife and caused everypony, including Babs and Coco, to go silent almost immediately. The Earth pony engineer, Steamer, looked out of the train at the bay with a look of nervousness. Whatever made that sound wasn’t good.

There was a long and uncomfortable silence after the roar faded. The ponies all looked about, but none of them dared say a word. Coco and most of the adult ponies on the train were frozen in place, as were the Royal Guards outside. The ponies that were crossing the bridge on hoof with their umbrellas to protect them from the rain also had stopped cold wondering where the sound had come from. Babs continued looking out the window. She saw the ships, one or two of them blaring their horns in the distance, before suddenly a sea gull smashed into the window and cracked the glass. The impact startled everypony, but that was nothing compared to the fact that there were now hundreds of gulls filling the skies and taking off in the opposite direction from the bay.

On one of the destroyers nearest to the ocean at the edge of the bay, Shining Armor stared out at the sea with a hardened look. The sound of the echoing roar from before signified Godzilla was about to arrive. The question is will they be able to repel such a mighty beast? He read from the reports about him and his first appearance from 954. Even the ponies back then had a hard time to push back the behemoth, not even a Mega Spell Bomb back then could stop him. He was Captain of the Royal Guard for a reason, he knew this would be a one-sided conflict.

The guards onboard watched the birds overhead, certain that this was a warning as to what was to come.

“Portside, two hundred meters!” One of the crew yelled.

Shining then walked to the edge and looked out into the fog, and what he witnessed sent a chill down his spine.

Out in the water of the Neighsianic was a mound of water that was fast approaching them. The surface of the water broke revealing a set of long jagged spines, and it was racing towards the boat at great speed.

“Brace for impact!” He yelled.

Everypony on the boat immediately grabbed the edge or whatever else was next to them that was secure to steady themselves against the coming impact, but it didn’t come. The massive form of Godzilla stopped cold in the water about a dozen meters away, but the waves produced by his approach caused the ships to list dangerously to the sides. One destroyer vessel almost capsized due to how large the waves were, and the ships were forced to ride them out until they settled down and regained their positions. All the while, Godzilla had remained still.

“Hold your fire! Hold your fire!” Called Shining Armor using a voice amplifying spell, which he canceled immediately after.

Shining and the other guards gathered at the edge of the boat to look at the massive form of Godzilla. His back was fairly round, and had around three or four rows of large spines running down the length of him. They were fairly large towards the middle, but got smaller towards the end. The skin was sort of grayish hue with mild shades of green underneath, and was very rugged and rough.

‘I don’t like this,’ Shining thought to himself as he looked at the still form of the saurian monster.

“He looks a bit smaller than what was mentioned in the reports,” one of the guards said aloud.

“Yeah, I thought he was supposed to be a lot bigger,” another one said.

This made Shining Armor nod. From what his sister said this giant was around 108.2 meters in height. Even in the water something that big couldn’t look like this. A thought immediately hit him like an incoming Magic Missile. What if what they were looking at wasn’t Godzilla’s back? His thoughts were interrupted and his heart sank as a rumbling sound began to fill the air.

Godzilla’s back dipped slightly, and then it began to rise out of the water. What was once a “back” turned out to be nothing but Godzilla’s tail. It crashed out of the water and rose up higher and higher into the air. This section of his tail by itself had to have been at least the length of a hoofball field, if not longer. It rose up until it was nearly vertical before slamming back down into the water. Giant walls of water which rose into the air nearly reached as high as his tail had, and the guards all watched in pure shock and amazement as they felt the ship beneath their hooves begin to rear up. They spun around and saw the Godzilla’s true back and his primary set of dorsal spines were rising up between another set of ships behind theirs.

One ship was caught in-between his spines, and got stuck in them as his back rose out of the water. A few guards on the bridge almost fell to the ground as they felt their legs buckle in shock and horror, and the other guards all pulled out their weapons or aimed their horns and prepared to do what they knew was pointless. Godzilla’s back rose out of the water yet further, and one of the ships began to fall back and away from him into the water. Its stern fell beneath the waves, and the alarms began sounding frantically before the ship managed to level out and float backwards in the wake created by Godzilla’s surfacing.

As the ship fell away, the guards on the deck who braced themselves watched the spines rising up and took note of just how big they were. The largest one had to be at least fifty to sixty feet long, if not a little bit longer. Godzilla’s impossibly large form effortlessly pushed the ships away with the force of his surfacing alone, and despite the ship caught in his spines he managed to push his way forward. On board the ship which had fallen back, the orders from above came through.

“Fire, fire, fire!” They yelled. Shining heard this and looked in the direction of the monster with fear as the other vessels aimed their weapons.

“No wait!” he cried but it was too late.

The first shot was unleashed, and the explosion of the Magic Missile against Godzilla’s spines lit the sky around his body but ultimately failed to do anything at all. Godzilla didn’t even flinch. He continued on his present course forward, dragging the ship caught in his spines with him which was now sending an S.O.S. signal. The guards on the bridge looked out across the water and were horrified at the scale of Godzilla. They’ve seen how big he was in the newspapers and through their briefings, but seeing him up close was a whole different beast on its own. Looking out into the bay, he was easily three times larger than any of the ships sent out against him in terms of girth, and several times longer. His tail whipped out behind him and slammed down in front of the other ships behind him, frightening everypony on board halfway to wetting themselves.

The ships began bombarding the beast with their explosive barrels and a volley of Magic Missiles, and those which failed to make contact flew on a course for the Manehattan Bridge. Racing over the bridge and through the gaps between the cables, the missiles flew overhead and the engineer of the train knew well enough that it was time to move. He pushed the lever forward and the train then began trekking its wheels forward across the bridge in attempts to flee him and his passengers to safety. Before he could, however, he was stopped in his tracks when one of the Magic Missiles struck the cabling and sent a section of it down in a few feet in front of the train. As the breaks were applied this caused the train to lurch, causing the passengers to feel the force of the stop.

The guards began running to the edge of the bridge and attempted desperately to reach the ships.

“Striker, there are civilians on the bridge! Hold your fire! Hold yo—“

They had to duck as more Magic Missiles flew towards them, but they were intercepted by the rising form of Godzilla. The missiles struck his spines and side as he stood up alongside the bridge, the ship which had been caught in his spines having since fallen into the water onto its side spilling the crew and supplies on deck into the water around his legs.

“Open fire!” The guards yelled.

Godzilla’s body finally rose up for all to see as the order was given. His tremendous figure loomed tall over the bridge as he straightened out his head and neck and let out an earth shattering roar. The train passengers covered their ears, as did everypony within range.

The sound of catapults being launched and Magic Missiles flying through the air was heard as Godzilla’s right claw found its way to the cabling of the bridge as a couple more missiles struck his sides. The engineer and passengers watched with fear and awe as Godzilla was bombarded my explosives and magic.

Godzilla at the moment was confused at what was happening right now. He felt small pings of pain in his side and back but that didn’t bother him. However, when a stray Magic Missile or explosive hits one of his gills he gives out a cry in pain.

As he was being continually being pelted by the Royal Guard and Navy, his attention was drawn to the bridge. There he saw ponies fleeing across the bridge along with the standstill train that occupied it. He saw the passengers inside shaking with fear. What shocked him though was the sight of Babs Seed looking out the window along with Coco, shaking with the same fear. Seeing that little filly reminded him of the alicorn filly he saw on the island. That fresh memory seemed to warm his ancient heart.

His thoughts were interrupted as a barrel explodes on the side of his head, causing him to roar in pain. He looks back and sees the ships firing the barrels and launching their spells at him. They were like annoying insects, never stopped pestering you till they got what they wanted. He looked back at the train that Babs occupied and grew a bit fearful for the filly. Without thinking, he trudges in front of the side of the train blocking it from being bombarded by the ships in the bay.

He knew he couldn’t do this forever as the Royal Guards tried to harm him. He looked at the bridge and in front of the train saw the cable blocking its path. Without hesitation, the colossal saurian reached out for the cable. The Royal Guards on the bridge saw this and increased their bombardment thinking the monster was after the train. Godzilla ignored the minor pain has his left claw gripped the cable firmly before lifting it out of the way of the train.

Steamer saw this action with shock but instantly shook it off, disengaged the brake and pressed the lever forward causing the train to accelerate forward. It gain speed before the train finally crossed the bridge while the various ponies galloping behind it crossed over as well. Godzilla gave a snort in satisfaction as he watched the train cross over to safety.

Seeing this action the monster displayed, Shining Armor didn’t hesitate accessing his headset.

“All ships disengage!” He yelled. “Target is showing no hostility. Disengage!”

After a minute, the ships stopped their bombardment and the sound in the air was quiet. Godzilla looked around him at the ships in confusion. He wondered why the ships stopped their attacks. He wasn’t complaining considering he loved the sound of peace at moment. It was quiet infectious.

Suddenly, an explosion erupted on the side of Godzilla’s neck causing him to roar in pain. The onlookers watched in shock as the monster was then pelted more by explosions. Godzilla roared in pain even more as he started to lose his balance. He started falling to his left side towards the bridge. The ponies still on it screamed in fear and panic and tried to gallop out of the way. It wasn’t before long before Godzilla’s body landed on the bridge, smashing through it sending dozens of ponies both Royal Guards and civilians alike into the frigid waters below as he too fell into the water.

This sight shocked Shining Armor and he seethed with anger. He gave a specific order to stop the bombardment. When he finds the one who disobeyed—

“Captain, look to the sky!” One of the guards to his right said point a hoof upward.

Shining looked up and his eyes widened in shock. In the sky was a minor fleet of air ships, several were small but a single one was larger than the others. Each of the ships had a red flag with a gold hammer crossed with a gold sickle placed beneath a gold-bordered star, which was located in the upper left canton of the flag. All their cannons were pointing in the direction of Godzilla, who was rising from the water after the minor assault.

“Just what do they think they’re doing!?” Shining nearly shouted before turning to another guard. “Somepony radio those idiots to hold their fire!”

The guard focused on his head radio trying to contact the main ship. As he did all he heard was silence or static. This meant that their radio was down or turned off.

“It’s no good, Captain,” the guard replied. “They aren’t responding to their radio.”

“Buck!” Shining said seething in anger while gritting his teeth.

On the larger flying vessel, the commander of the ship grinned with pride as his fleet focused on Godzilla. He received his orders by his Grand Duke to make sure to blast the despicable monsters to oblivion. Even the dragons feared the air fleet of the Hooviet Union. The commander pointed a hoof forward, which his subordinates focused on him.

“Keep firing on the beast, comrades!” He ordered with a strong voice. “We will show all the strength that is our motherland!”

The ships began their assault on the saurian monster again. Explosive cannonballs struck the mighty beast’s hide with precision as a volley of explosions erupted on his skin. Godzilla roared in pain as a few of them hit his neck where his sensitive gills were. He opens one of his eyes enough to look in shock what the ships above caused him to do. The bridge was in ruins as ponies that didn’t fall watch in fear as he was bombarded by the Hooviet Fleet. He saw the destruction before him, which awakened something. His brows furrowed and his mouth sneered baring his fangs as he looked at the fleet above with anger.

The ships then momentarily stopped their assault as smoke from the explosions settled around the area where Godzilla was. The Commander, and his fleet, squinted their eyes trying to pierce the smoke to see if they did any remote damage to the monster. The smoke began to clear as the fleet and the onlooker’s eyes widened with shock.

There, Godzilla stood his body unscathed from the assault. His eyes were closed before suddenly opening them as his pupils slit instantly and looked up at the fleet. He glared with anger, snarling a growl before giving a mighty roar as the Commander and his fleet watched in horror what came next.

A low hum was heard as the tip of Godzilla’s tail began to glow blue as it started trailing up his spines on his back to his head. The hum grew more and more as blue light began to shine from within his maw. Before they could react, Godzilla took a deep breath before firing his Aether Breath at the smaller ships of the fleet on the left. The moment the beam of energy hit, they instantly caught fire and exploded, taking the lives of the crew the ship held. He wasn’t done as his spines glowed again and aimed to the right. His attack fired again as it hit the fleet on the right, giving the same results as the left fleet.

The Commander looked left and then right before looking at the monster. He looked into the beasts eyes and saw anger and foretold death. He couldn’t move or speak his voice to order his ship to retreat. Before he could even speak again, it was too late.

Godzilla’s back glowed once more as the energy within gathered before expelling it at the main ship. The beam hit it’s mark, causing the vessel to first catch fire before exploding, taking the lives of the ponies onboard. It then began to descend making contact with the water below before sinking into the murky depths, never to be seen again. The saurian snorted a bit giving a minor roar of victory as the onlookers watched in shock and awe.

After the annoyances were dealt with, he turned his body towards the city. The threat of the MUTO was still at hand. He knew the lives of the ponies were at stake but the MUTO’s threat was greater. He marched onwards, determined to find and destroy the MUTOs once and for all.

As Godzilla marched unopposed through the waters of Manehattan Bay, troops of the Hooviet Union occupied a smaller vessel nearby, who all started gathering on its deck.

Gold Sickle looked as Godzilla made his way to Manehattan with a look of fear. The very beast was able to take on the Hooviet Fleet with no problem and wiped them out entirely. He looked to his leader as he too watched the saurian continue to trudge forward. His expression was hardened instead of laced with fear. It was before long the Grand Duke’s attention was drawn to the large magical device onboard.
“Comrades, prepare to arm the device!” he called out.

The troops all gathered around the warhead, removing the metallic shielding from the device’s inner workings. Gold Sickle watched as they worked. He felt horrible at the sight of this. What Red Star was planning was completely unthinkable. This will place a bad mark on his home’s name. His thoughts were interrupted as he saw two unicorns stand side by side in front of the warhead’s inner workings.

“Arming horns!”

The two unicorns then each placed their horns in specific designed slots for the manual analog start up.

“Three, two, one!”

The magic in their horns flared to life precisely at the same time, and the device then came to life. The gears started turning, and the countdown began. One hour and thirty minutes was all they had now until detonation. The sun was fading fast on the horizon, but it wouldn’t last long now.

However, at that moment, a strange sound echoed through the skies above them and a large pulse wave of some kind tore through the air. The lights in the city nearby all shut off, and the engines of the vessels in the water all shut down as well leaving them all dead in the water.

“What in Tartarus was that?” Red Star said turning to one of his troops.

“EMP,” One of them answered.

“Engine’s stopped, we lost power!”

Back in the city streets, everything from street lamps to lights in the building started shutting down. The building where Sunflower was occupying went immediately dark, and she looked outside to observe what was going on. It was all quiet in the city, but it didn’t stay that way for long. A guard in a parachute could be seen cutting through the haze, and it wasn’t long after that a flying ship crashed into one of the neighboring buildings exploding on contact as it caught fire.

Back on the waters of the Bay, Red Star and his troops on board the warhead vessel watched as the ships which had been summoned to help against Godzilla all started falling from the sky. Most of them were seen without their crew as they saw various parachutes descend to the waters below. A ship splashed down directly in front of the vessel, making everypony duck for cover against the resulting wall of water.

Then, a horrible scream came from above. Red Star, Gold Sickle and the troops looked up at the sky with widened eyes, seeing the Hitomuto descending fast on their position in a straight dive bomb. Red Star felt fear immediately as his troops fired upon the beast, unfortunately not pushing it back. He could help but scream in terror as the winged monster made contact with the vessel. Its jaws opened wide, its wings folded back as it slammed down on top of the vessel and dragged everypony aboard to a watery death. The waters were silent for but a moment before the Hitomuto reappeared closer to shore. It scrambled out of the water, warhead in its mouth as it clung to the ship. The winged monster pushed it to the ground and used its forearms to wretch the warhead free, tucking it into one of its smaller underarms as it then took wing and flew off into the city.

Landing on a building in the Little Trotkyo district, it peered out across the city. There was a massive wall of dust approaching, but the male knew exactly what it was that was coming. He released three calls in total. Two short barks and one longer groan. The calls were echoed by something much larger, ensuring the warhead was safe in hand and glided down off his building rooftop landing in front of the mass of dust. From out of the cloud appeared the face of the Femuto, standing over twice as the male. Had she wanted to, she could easily have killed him, but she did nothing of the sort.

Instead, the two shared an intimate moment. The Hitomuto presented the warhead to her in his mouth, and she leaned forward to nuzzle against him. The two locked snouts for an instant, their red flashing eyes synchronizing as she took the warhead and used her smaller underarms to hold it close to her egg sac. The eggs began glowing in response to the warhead, and the female knew that this was a good place as any to begin building her nest. The Hitomuto climbed to the top of a nearby building and flew away as the Femuto began to carve away the ground beneath her feet, intent on building a nest for her beloved young safe from the dangers of the world above.