Rainbow Dash's breaths were deep and heavy, as were the breaths of the rest of the pegasi who were flying around her. It wasn't just the high altitude and the jet-like speed that made them breath like this. It wasn't just the added weight of carrying storm clouds and explosives hanging on cables tied around their wastes either. No, a big part of what had this squadron of pegasus soldiers breathing so heavily was a mixture of anxiety and even fear. What could install so much fear in soldiers conditioned for battle? What made them arm themselves so heavily for this mission?

The same thing they had just spotted off in the distance, looking almost like a speck on Equestria's countryside. It was several hundred feet away from the object. So, to be able to see it from so far away most likely meant it was huge. Which unfortunately for these pegasi, it was. More unfortunate, that this giant was their target. Yes, all their bombs, all their clouds full of electricity, it was all meant for that speck. But as the squad of fliers had learned earlier that day in a debriefing, all of that most likely wouldn't be enough to stop it.

The reasons for this became more visually evident to the pegasi as they got closer. For as they did so, they were able to make out more and more details, none of which painted a good picture for the pegasi's chances against this titan of terror. Now, one of them, the captain of the squad, Rainbow Dash, had witnessed this beast's destructive tendencies less than twenty four hours before. While Rainbow Dash did not see it in combat with any opposing force, what she did see was how ecstatic and enthusiastic the creature was in wrecking and tearing apart anything smaller than it when it destroyed a public transportation train.

Needless to say, these were not the best of circumstances to get know anyone or anything and make good first impressions. But Rainbow Dash knew this monster cared nothing about that. All it cared about was spreading as much death and destruction as was possible. Rainbow Dash knew this because she had seen it firsthoof. This titan was none other than the insect-like, drill handed, Megalon, who was one of many giant monsters known as kaiju. The other soldiers had no experiences dealing with kaiju. They had heard all the stories about them, but had never seen any before.

Whether having no experience with kaiju before made them less anxious, just as anxious, or even more anxious than their more experienced captain going into this mission is debatable. What wasn't debatable was that they were all extremely nervous and possibly even terrified in going up against this monster. But they had all made the decision an hour or two ago to fulfill their commitment in protecting the citizens of Equestria. Though it would be a lie if it were said a lot of them weren't regretting that decision. Just the sight of Megalon getting bigger as they got closer alone struck fear in their hearts.

However, they all knew there was too much at stake to get cold hooves and turn back now; too many lives on the line to chicken out now. So, they all sucked it up, forced their fear aside as best as they could and flew on towards Megalon. They flew over the wide open fields covered in grass, which homed scattered trees, lakes, ponds, and small hills. Some of these fields would be separated by bigger hills that could be mistaken for small mountains. The pegasi flew over all this countryside that stretched on further than the eye could see to meet an unbeatable foe in combat. On paper, that plan sounded pretty much insane.

As she led her team of flying soldiers to their target, Rainbow Dash recalled the feeling and the atmosphere in the east flight bay before her team took off for their current mission. She had walked around the area, looking around as her team prepared themselves for battle. The short amount of time spent in the bay was spent mostly in silence. The only exceptions to this were the echoing of the ponies' hoof steps and the ponies getting instructions on how to handle their new, experimental weapons as they received them. Then all the pegasus soldiers reported in to Rainbow Dash that they were ready for duty.

Once everypony reported in and the bombers had the cables tied around their wastes and the bombs attached to those cables on their backs it was time to take off. The bay doors, which made up the whole north wall, opened up for the pegasus ponies to fly out into open air. Rainbow Dash, as captain in charge led the soldiers out of the flight bay. Once they were all flying, the pegasi who did not receive bombs pushed along lightning clouds that had been placed in the sky for them. They pushed along their own clouds and those for the other pegasi after they dropped their bombs. And now here they were.

It wasn't long before the fast fliers had closed the gap in distance between them and their target. As the pegasus ponies flew closer, Megalon looked bigger than ever. While they were several hundred feet up above the monster's head, it was still easy to tell this kaiju was a colossus in every sense of the word. They were also beginning to see the skyline of the huge city that was Manehattan, possibly Equestria's biggest city of them all. But it was still a vulnerable target to a giant monster like Megalon. The pegasi knew that being able to see the skyline of Manehattan was an extremely bad sign, especially now that they were close enough to see the full size of Megalon.

Rainbow Dash and her flight squad knew they had to act fast and strike against the beetle looking kaiju. But they would not have to do it alone, for further up the way, standing between Megalon and Manehattan, were the ground forces the pegasi were meant to back up. Marching forward were several unicorns and Earth ponies, fifty of them to be exact. The unicorns used their magic to pull along catapults and the new, bigger canons. Meanwhile, the Earth ponies assisted using their natural, physical strength to push and pull the huge weapons along. These ground forces had all gathered right outside of Manehattan before beginning the charge to the outer lands to take the fight straight to Megalon.

Now, they were just several yards ahead of the kaiju, who was coming right at them. One of the unicorns that was in charge of the ground forces, a light tan stallion with the rank of captain, stopped and singled for his lieutenants to do the same, who sent out the signal to everypony else. The call to halt rang out until every soldier had stopped dead in their tracks.

"We're gonna make our stand here and now, boys!" the captain called out to his troops. "If this overgrown bug wants to have a day on the town, he's gonna have to go through us to get there!"

None of them would ever admit it, but that was what frightened the ground soldiers the most, just as it did the pegasi in the sky. However, they all signed up to be on the front lines to protect the citizens and that's just what they intended to do. One of these brave ponies, a black stallion lieutenant Earth pony, walked up to the side of the unicorn captain.

"What do you want to do, captain?" the Earth pony lieutenant asked.

The unicorn captain didn't answer at first, instead staring through his binoculars in the direction of Megalon. He was trying to figure out the best strategy to take in this assault, not wanting to leave anything to chance. It was then that he spotted his team's aerial backup circling high above the kaiju's head. That's when he figured out what he thought would be the best plan.

"We'll launch our attack after the pegasi have started theirs. Signal them and let them know of the plan," said the unicorn captain.

"Yes, sir!" the stallion said with a salute before running off to carry out his orders.

Meanwhile, Rainbow Dash led her flying squad in a circle around Megalon as she tried to figure out what to do next. Do we attack him first? Do we wait for them to attack first? Am I suppose to make the first move or wait for them to tell us what to do or what?! Rainbow Dash thought to herself. She got her answer when she noticed bright flashes of light going on and off from the ground force below. She knew instantly what they were trying to do, having gotten aviation light signal training in the Wonderbolts training academy. From the looks of it, they were giving Rainbow Dash the signal to attack.

Okay, soldier boys, I'll do this your way, Rainbow Dash thought in her head. Then she turned her head towards the other pegasi and yelled out, "Alright, we're up first! Let's go in!"

Following their captain's lead, the pegasi dived down at amazingly fast speeds towards Megalon as he let out a monstrous cry. Flying down so fast towards the monster and seeing the top of its head getting so much bigger as she got closer somehow almost put Rainbow Dash in some kind of a hypnotic state. But she eventually snapped herself out of it, her determination at full force. Rainbow Dash reached a hoof down and pressed it against a snap that was keeping the cable wrapped around her waste. The pressure forced the snap open, thus allowing the cable to unwrap from around her and letting the bomb drop down.

"Drop!" Rainbow Dash screamed out to her troops.

Those who heard her and those who saw her release her bomb did the same thing, unsnapping the cables from around them and allowing their bombs to drop downward. It didn't take long for the bombs to drop down on top of Megalon's head, shoulders, arms, and upper back, exploding on impact. The force of these objects falling down on him and then exploding made Megalon jerk back in surprise as he let out a startled screech and looked up at the sky. If his eyes could, they'd probably widened in shock at seeing such little creatures flying around him and dropping explosives on him.

As Megalon cried out in protest, the unicorn captain who led the ground forces observed the whole scene, knowing the pegasi's assault was a signal to start their own. He turned his head towards his forces and yelled out, "Prepare to arm the catapults!"

The unicorns used their magic, while the Earth ponies used their strength to pull down the catapult buckets. Then bombs were taking from ammunition wagons and placed in the buckets of the catapults.

"Arm the canons!" the unicorn captain called out.

Earth ponies grabbed the trigger lines of the canons in their mouths, while unicorns put in the ammunition.

"Fire at will!" the unicorn captain commanded.

And then, all at once, unicorns released the pull of the catapults and the Earth ponies pulled on the lines in the back of the canons, sending all their bombardment at Megalon at the same time. It all came crashing into the kaiju almost at once. While some of the projectiles of the ground ponies missed their target, the majority of it connected against Megalon's hide, exploding on impact. Megalon looked ahead of him and spotted the ground forces of the Equestrian Army a few yards away. He had seen them before and was intent on destroying them when he was attacked from above and got distracted.

Speaking of the attack from above, the leader of that attack force, the blue pegasus, Rainbow Dash, watched, as did all the other pegasi, as the ground attack on Megalon was carried out. This was Rainbow Dash's signal to begin the second phase of the air assault while the ground forces reloaded.

"We're gonna begin the lightning strike!" Rainbow Dash instructed her squad. "Grab a lightning cloud if you haven't already!"

Everypony without such a cloud rushed to get one from a pegasus who had one to spare. Once Rainbow Dash herself had a cloud, she decided it was time to attack. She gave the instruction to do so when she yelled out, "Fire!"

Every pegasus pony in the sky unleashed the highly electric bolts from their black storm clouds, the lightning crackling down onto the diakaiju below. Megalon roared out as the lightning struck against his body from above. Megalon looked up, seeing the pegasi circling around as they shot the lightning down at him from their clouds. Megalon roared and waved his drill hands up at the pegasi in protest. These gestures of nay went unanswered, as the ponies in the sky continued to rain down electricity upon the monstrous creature. Megalon roared out as he swung his drills upward to no avail, for he was unable to reach the attacking ponies.

Meanwhile, the ground forces had finished reloading their catapults and canons and were ready to continue their attack. It was the intent of the captain in charge to see that happen.

"Fire!" the unicorn captain called out.

And just like before, every piece of the land troops' artillery was launched at Megalon at the same time. The giant bug monster instantly took notice when the second round of projectiles exploded against his body and instantly reacted in the most extreme of ways. After the bombardment exploded against his hide, leaving smoke flowing from the hit spots on his body, Megalon looked down from the pegasi above and to the ponies on the ground. Then the silver horn on Megalon's head lit up in a bright gold glow, followed by a beam of energy flying out of the top of the horn and at the ground forces.

The beam, ironically, looked like a golden bolt of lightning as it struck at a part of the defense forces on the ground, causing an explosion on impact. Everypony in the sky and that was left on the ground were completely awe struck with shock and terror. All the ponies on the ground practically jumped out of their skin from being so close when the energy beam exploded. Time seemed to stop for a minute or two as everypony stared in wide eyed, open mouth horror, all feeling and sound being frozen in this dark moment. But everything was jumped started back into action when Megalon let out what sounded like a cackling roar.

Before anypony had a chance to say or do anything, Megalon fired another energy bolt from his horn, aiming the beam across the front of the ground forces. Like before, the beam caused an explosion of flames, the force of which ripped up the ground and instantly vaporized the ground ponies' opposing forces that were in the beam's line of fire. Then Megalon unleashed another unexpected and horrible attack at the ground forces. The monster opened its mandibles and unleashed a red orb from its mouth that flew towards the crippled ground forces. It struck right in the middle of what was left of the ground force, causing an explosion ten times the size of the explosions made by the ponies' own bombs.

"Fire! Fire!" Rainbow Dash screamed urgently.

The pegasi all did as their commanding officer ordered, sending down lightning bolts at their kaiju foe. Megalon felt the bolts strike him and looked up at the attacking pegasus ponies. The kaiju let out one of his cackling roars, as if to mock the pegasi's efforts. But it soon stopped cackling and charged up its horn, releasing its highly destructive energy beam. The golden glow illuminated in Rainbow Dash's eyes as she saw it snaking up towards her and her squad. Rainbow Dash abandoned her cloud and flew away as fast as she could.

The other pegasus ponies tried to do the same, though a lot of them weren't very lucky. The clouds evaporated from the intense heat and force of the beam, while the pegasi who were unfortunate enough to find themselves in its path suffered horrible fates similar to their brothers in arms on the ground. Once it was over, only Rainbow Dash and three other pegasi were left. They looked at the sky that had just a moment ago contained their fellow soldiers. The sky itself somehow looked as though it had been burned by Megalon's beam; a black hue hanging in the air. Knowing what fate had befallen all the other ponies involved in the assault brought a deep, unforgiving feeling of dread to Rainbow Dash's heart.

It wasn't made any better for her or her fellow remaining pegasi when, just for kicks, Megalon aimed down at whatever remnants there were of the ground forces and fired three more red, explosive orbs and its horn beam. Even after the beam and the bombs hit and created multiple waves of explosions, Megalon kept its golden beam going and ran it up, down, and all around the area where the ground forces used to be; replaced now with fire. It was as if Megalon were celebrating how easily he crushed the opposing forces of Equestria. Megalon continued to do so letting out roars of joy. He even giddily clapped his drills together.

Megalon's celebration and the pegasi's stares of disbelief and horror were suddenly interrupted when a wave of incoming projectiles came exploding into the kaiju. A surprised Rainbow Dash looked towards the direction the attack had come from, that being the north west. What she and her remaining soldiers saw was a second, much bigger wave or ground troops, with a bigger supply of catapults and canons. They were using these same weapons to attack Megalon. The giant bug kaiju looked towards these attacking forces and roared out in anger and frustration before stomping towards his new foes.

Rainbow Dash and the other pegasi took notice of the fact that by Megalon going off to fight the newly arrived second wave of ground forces, it took him further away from Manehattan.

"Where did they come from?" asked a white stallion pegasus pony.

"I don't know, they might've been there waiting the whole time or something," a red pegasus stallion replied.

"Maybe," the white stallion agreed.

"How many do you think there are?" asked the red stallion.

"I don't know how many ponies, but I counted sixty or seventy catapults," said the white pegasus pony.

"Well if they were hiding there the whole time, why didn't they help us out earlier?! Several ponies just died trying to stop this thing! Why didn't they do anything then?!" the pegasus stallion known as Swift Bolt asked in frustration.

"Maybe that's what they were ordered to do," Rainbow Dash suggested. "Maybe they were hidden off to the side intentionally and were ordered only to attack in case the first wave failed."

"And boy did we ever fail," said the red stallion.

"Hey, we tried our best," said Swift Bolt.

"Yeah, it just wasn't good enough," said the red pegasus pony.

"That's enough, you two! Right now we need to figure out what our next actions should be," said the white pegasus.

"Agreed," said Swift Bolt.

"Well...okay. But what do we do now?" said the red pegasus.

"I think that's up to Captain Rainbow Dash. She's still the commanding officer in charge of our squad. ...Or at least what's left of it," said the white pegasus.

"How about it, captain? How do we proceed?" asked Swift Bolt.

All this time, Rainbow Dash had been looking on as Megalon stomped towards the ground forces, that kept their assault on the monster going. Now being faced with the question on what to do next, Rainbow Dash turned to the pegasi who asked her. But judging by the look on her face, it didn't seem like she could really answer that question. What the pegasi saw in the expression on Rainbow Dash's usually determined and confident face was uncertainty, confusion, loss, and fear. It was all reinforced by the mare's trembling eyes.

"I... I... I don't-"

"Oh, great, she doesn't know! Just freaking beautiful! This is what we get from having a civilian as our commanding officer! I'll bet if we had an actual, experienced pony leading us, we wouldn't have gotten creamed so badly!" the red stallion screamed.

"Hey, cool it, dude! This ain't no civilian pony, this is Rainbow Dash, one of the wielders of the Elements of Harmony! You best show some respect and talk right!" said Swift Bolt. Then he turned his attention back to his distraught captain. "Don't worry non about what this fool said, Captain Dash. Just take your time and think what the next move we make should be."

Rainbow Dash nodded her head and gave Swift Bolt a thankful expression. Then she turned back towards the scene of Megalon being bombarded by the ground ponies. She tried hard to think of what she should have herself and her remaining troops do. Should they retreat and return to Canterlot or what?

"I- I'm not sure what we should do next," said Rainbow Dash. Then she turned to her troops and asked, "What do you all think we should do?"

While the other two stared off thoughtfully, Swift Bolt was ready with an answer.

"I say we go down there and offer our services in helping those ground ponies against the monster."

Rainbow Dash stared at Swift Bolt in surprise, while the other two ponies stared at him in disbelief.

"Are you mad?" asked the red stallion. "We can't go down there! Those weapons they're using are completely useless! You saw what happened when all that and more was used against the monster! He nearly destroyed us all!"

"I don't care! We took an oath to serve in the line of duty for our country! Even if that means we have to lay down our lives in the process!" Swift Bolt retorted.

"I don't care! I'm not gonna die for something that's completely hope-"

"Shut up! Both of you!" Rainbow Dash shouted. All three soldiers looked at their captain in surprise. "I'm in charge here! I'll decide what's worth doing and what's not worth doing! ...And I'm with Swift Bolt here. As the Element of Loyalty and a captain in the Royal Army, it's my duty not to abandon ponies who need me, no matter what. It's also your duty as soldiers in the army to do that too. Even if it means you may not get back home! So quit bickering like a bunch of young school fillies! We're going-"

Rainbow Dash was caught off by a noise coming from far off in the distance. Everyone of the pegasi heard the sound and focused their ears to figure out exactly where it was coming from. The exact direction ended up being in the direction of Manehattan.

"What's that noise?" asked the white stallion.

"I don't know. What is that sound?" asked Swift Bolt.

Rainbow Dash knew instantly what it was. She had heard it herself recently.

"Those are civil defense sirens," said the blue pegasus mare.

The other three pegasi looked at their captain in confusion.

"Are you sure, captain?" asked the white stallion.

Rainbow Dash nodded her head as she said, "Yes, I am sure. Manehattan's under attack."

"What? But how? The monster was turned away from the city! We just saw it happen! We can still see it! How could Manehattan be suffering a giant monster attack?" said the red pegasus.

"Maybe the monster attacking came from the ocean," suggested Swift Bolt.

"It doesn't matter. We've gotta get over there and help those ponies!" said Rainbow Dash.

The three soldiers looked at their captain in confusion.

"But, captain, didn't you say we were gonna go help those other soldiers?" asked the white pegasus.

"That was before I knew defenseless ponies were in trouble! Those are innocent civilians facing a kaiju attack in that city! We gotta go now!" said Rainbow Dash before she started flying towards Manehattan.

"Captain Rainbow Dash, what about the ground soldiers?" asked Swift Bolt.

Rainbow Dash stopped flying forward and looked pack at the gray pony.

"They're doing what they're doing to keep innocent ponies as safe as possible. We need to do the same and go lead those civilians to safety. Who's with me?"

The three pegasi stared at each other for a moment as if to ask each other what to do through their facial expressions. It wasn't long before they looked back to Rainbow Dash and nodded their heads in agreement.

"Ma'am, yes ma'am," they all said at the same time with a salute.

Rainbow Dash smiled with gratitude and determination.

"Well alright then! Follow me and move out, boys!"

And with that, the remaining pegasi flew at top speed towards the city of Manehattan to help in any way they could. Although what way that would be against a giant monster is hard to say, especially after what happened the last time they went up against a kaiju.

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In the smoldering pits of smoke and fire laid the wreckage of the once impressive instruments of war that had been used to try and stop a giant monster. That same monster was the one responsible for sending these weapons and the ponies who used them to the fire pits. But it seemed as though just because one brushes close with death, doesn't mean they go on to the other side...at least not right away. At some point in time after the monster called Megalon left, an Earth pony, just barely clinging onto life on this side, crawled up out of the dirt and debris left behind after the fight.

The light orange stallion coughed, wheezed and gagged as he pulled himself up from under the destruction. He only managed to crawl a few feet before the pain he was in forced him to stop. His coughing and wheezing got even worse as time past by. The Earth pony didn't even try to stand up. He knew his body was too broken for that. He also accepted that his remaining time in this world was short. He was lucky to have even gotten this far after what just happened to him and his whole garrison. And so the pony just dropped his head to the ground and waited for his final reward. In that time, he discovered that one's life really does flash before his or her eyes.

But then he saw something that wasn't a part of his life from before. That something was big enough to cast a shadow over him. The fallen soldier looked up to see what could be so big, though he dreaded what the answer would be. His fears were realized when he that the giant shadow in fact belonged to another kaiju. This one was much different from the other one, looking more like a dragon than a bug. Seeing the arrival of this new monster made the Earth pony feel even more broken and defeated than he already was. He and his fellow ponies in arms had worked so hard to turn away a kaiju from the city of Manehattan once before. Now, it looked like it was all in vain, just to have a second kaiju come up to take his place.

But then he saw something that mixed in confusion with his already high emotions. He spotted what looked to be a yellow pegasus mare flying alongside the giant kaiju. She seemed so casual about it, almost like either she didn't know there was a kaiju right there or she didn't mind that it was there. He couldn't understand how a pony could possibly control themselves near a kaiju and not scream out in fear. The Earth pony couldn't make out the pegasus's body movements, for she was too high up. But then he saw something that he really didn't expect. The kaiju lifted its hand up and gently brought it underneath the pegasus so that she was standing on his palm.

Even more unexpected and shocking was how the kaiju seemed to be staring down at the pony in his hand. It didn't look like the menace of a monster. It looked like the kaiju was staring in concern and compassion. Were the kaiju and pony...friends? That question was soon answered when the pegasus flew up and pointed a hoof towards Manehattan, at least that looked like what the pegasus was doing. The kaiju followed her point with his gaze and let out a low growl before continuing to walk on towards the city, with the pegasus mare flying by his side. All the Earth pony could do after seeing this was smile, for he somehow knew deep down inside, that pony and that kaiju she was with were on the right side. Knowing that the fate of Equestria was suddenly a little brighter, the smiling Earth pony stallion felt that he could finally ascend to Valhalla in peace..which he soon did after.

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Manehattan, one of the biggest cities in all of Equestria, sat in an unusual atmosphere. Unusual in that the city was usually bright and wide awake with motion and all kinds of sound, yet all that was not present here. Instead, the atmosphere was dark and gloomy, made no better by a gray fog that had befallen the city, which gave everything it shrouded that same gray tint. The sounds of the city had been all, but silenced, replaced only by the sounds of the civil defense sirens and the far off sounds of buildings crumbling and giant footsteps thundering in the distance. The heavy amount of movement and motion had all been forced to a halt by the invasion that had befallen Manehattan.

The only bits of movement left in this fallen paradise came from a few scattered groups of ponies, the most ponies one group contained being eleven. This group consisted of ponies from all three of the pony types, Earth pony, unicorn, and pegasus. The ponies also ranged in age from a few elderly ponies, one or two foals, and of course, the young adults, and so on. The group also consisted of both genders, mare and stallion. And all these ponies were currently wandering around aimlessly lost in the streets of what now looked to be a ghost town. All of them moved very timidly, those who were not busy watching their foals looking around for any signs of danger from the invading forces.

They got it too, when their ears picked up the sounds of thundering footsteps getting louder and louder as they got closer and closer. It wasn't long after that something big crashed into one of the large buildings that Manehattan was home to. The group of ponies looked back and saw that the building that was getting crushed was only a few yards behind them. They watched in horror as the huge, pony made structure crumbled in a cloud of rubble and dust. But what came out of that cloud and caused the building's destruction horrified them even more.

What stepped out from the rubble and dust was one of the gigantic monsters that has been terrorizing Equestria the last few days. This one, however, was probably among the most terrifying of the kaiju. As the giant monster stepped out of the dust cloud, it glowered down at the crowd of ponies. His face conveyed several emotions, the first being curiosity, then anger and contempt, then delight when he saw that how much the small, helpless ponies feared the very sight of him. Then just to get more of a fearful reaction from them, the kaiju let out a roar that almost sounded like a mocking cackle.

It fit this giant who somehow seemed to have a face that conveyed the very spirit and embodiment of a bully. This kaiju stood up on two feet and had green, warty skin, except for the front of his body, a section of yellow going from the top of his throat to the bottom of his abdomen. It also had glowing orange eyes, and a slightly long neck. It had a single row of tiny spikes that went up his back and ended with a unicorn-like horn pointing out from the top of his head, which was covered in orange hair. In many ways, this giant monster conveyed the look of an ogre. But its pointed ears and its facial features gave off a more feline appearance.

The terrified ponies did not know this, but this bully of a kaiju was none other than the beast named Gabara. The big, warty monster took a stomp forward as he let out a cackle and raised his hands up at his side to add effect to his scare factor. The ponies all screamed as they ran to escape the monster. But Gabara was only amused at what he considered feeble attempts to run. To prove it didn't matter how far they ran, Gabara took two large stomps forward. With just those two stomps, the giant feline ogre had already caught up to the fleeing ponies. To further throw it in their faces, Gabara looked down at them and raised his hands as he cackled with a look of demented joy on his face.

But then, the sounds of air whooshing by at jet-speed broke through as a pegasus, too fast to be seen right, flew through the foggy air and straight at Gabara's face. Rainbow Dash had arrived and was ready to do anything. To prove this, she flew right up to Gabara's face, turned her back to him, and kicked out her hind legs into the monster's nose. But this turned out to be a mistake, as Rainbow Dash felt an intense amount of pain tremor through her back legs, making her scream in pain.

"Ow! Gosh! I knew that wouldn't work at all! ...Then why did I do it?!" Rainbow Dash berated herself as she rubbed her back legs.

Gabara stared down at this strangely, yet possibly stupidly brave pony that was so willing to attack him. This was a signal to the titan that the little pegasus was not afraid of him. This was a possibility that Gabara could not tolerate. He was such a bullying beast that loved to be fear, he practically fed off of others being afraid of him. The ogre-like kaiju glared at the pegasus that dared to strike him. He wanted to make it clear that he had dark intentions towards this pony. Rainbow Dash got the message right away, but glared back in defiance.

"Let's dance, wart face!" Rainbow Dash challenged.

Gabara raised a hand to grab the blue pegasus, but before anyone could even blink, Rainbow Dash started flying around again at near top speed. She flew around Gabara's head in a continuous loop. The giant monster tried to swing and grab at the pegasus pony, but she was too small and too fast for him to catch. Trying to keep up with Rainbow Dash's speed with his eyes was making Gabara dizzy. After spinning around Gabara's head for a half a minute or so, Rainbow Dash took off past Gabara and kept on flying. The monster spun around and watched in disbelief as Rainbow Dash flew several yards down the street before turning off to the left down another street.

Gabara roared out in irritation. To him, this little pony was just begging to have him chase her and rip her open when he caught her. Gabara snarled and roared out as he stomped off to do just that. Once he reached the corner Rainbow Dash flew down, he turned and stomped forth a step or two. He looked around for a moment to see if it was possible the pegasus had stopped and was hiding around somewhere close by. But he couldn't see her anywhere. Gabara roared as he swung his hand into the top of a building on his right in a fit of rage. Then Gabara stomped down the street to go after his prey.

Meanwhile, Rainbow Dash poked her head up from the top of a building and let out a big sigh of relief, thanking Celestia Gabara didn't decide to whack the building on his left. Then Rainbow Dash flew down from the top of the building and looked on in the direction Gabara had run off to. He was too far away and the fog was to gray for her to see him anymore. Rainbow Dash allowed a small, but proud smile to come across her face before turning back to go help that group of ponies she had seen almost get squashed by Gabara earlier.

When Rainbow Dash and her soldiers entered the city, she came up with a plan and told the pegasi troops what it was. Basically they were to split up and find whatever stray ponies were out on the streets, gather them up, and lead them to safety. That's what Rainbow Dash was doing when she saw that group of ponies being attacked by Gabara. Now that she had led him away, she was going back to help those civilian as best as she could. It didn't take long to find them either. They were basically in the same spot they were before when Rainbow Dash showed up.

Rainbow Dash smiled as she flew down to them.

"Attention, everypony! I'm Captain Rainbow Dash of the Equestria Royal Army! I'm here to lead you to safety, whether it be a shelter or out of the city! Please follow me...eeh in an orderly fashion."

Everypony stared at Rainbow Dash confusingly, which she just responded to with a shrug.

"Look, do you wanna be saved or not? ...Then just follow me, would ya? Sheesh!" said Rainbow Dash.

The crowd chose not to argue, just feeling lucky enough that somepony had come to their aid. So, they fell in line behind Rainbow Dash, who flew a few feet out in front as she led them towards the edge of the city, while also looking for anything resembling a shelter. Oh, who are you kidding, Rainbow Dash? You've never been here before. So, you wouldn't know where a shelter is, Rainbow Dash thought to herself. But she still looked around anyways, more so for the end of the city than anything else. But she was even finding that hard to do.

Despite having just come from the outskirts of the city, Rainbow Dash found that she was having trouble finding her way back out again. The tint of the gray, misty fog seemed to make everything look exactly the same. It wasn't an easy trek; once in a while a structure would be blocking the ponies' way and they'd have to turn down another street. Sometimes they would turn anyways because Rainbow Dash would tell them to do so after losing faith in the direction they had been going. This happened several times as they walked on.

They wouldn't admit it, but several ponies in the group were beginning to lose faith in their escort, which was doubly bad since she was even starting to lose faith in herself. As Rainbow Dash flew on, it seemed like the fog was getting thicker and thus, it was getting harder to even see her own nose in front of her face. Suddenly, Rainbow Dash felt herself collide with something. Something she wasn't able to see before she ran into it due to the fog. Rainbow Dash tried to pull back off of it, but she was finding that to be a more difficult task than one would expect. She pulled and pulled, but Rainbow Dash couldn't get free.

Whatever she ran into, she was stuck to now. Rainbow Dash felt the stickiness of the material she was caught in as she tried harder to pull herself free of it.

"Hey, a little help here?" Rainbow Dash finally requested.

Two pegasi flew up to her, grabbed a hold, and started pulling her back. It wasn't easy, but with the combined might of the three pegasi, including Rainbow Dash herself, they were able to pull her free.

"Whew. Thanks. What was that stuff anyways?" asked Rainbow Dash.

She and the other ponies stared forward and squinted to try and tell what it was Rainbow Dash had ran into. As if to aid them, the fog seemed to thin a little and even looked like it was pulling back some. This made it easier for the group of ponies to see what the strange material was. But they soon wished they hadn't, for what they saw was something they had seen in much, much smaller and severely thinner strands. The strand they were looking at now was a lot longer, a lot thicker, and overall a lot bigger. What this group of ponies was staring at that chilled them to the bone with fright...was a gigantic strand of webbing.

As the fact of what they were looking at sunk in, the fog seemed to pull back even more. It revealed more webbing scattered all up and down the street and the sides of the buildings ahead of the ponies. Then their fears reached maximum capacity when the terrifying creature they knew this was leading to was slowly being revealed. As the fog cleared up more and more, it was revealed that at the end of a street, a huge web had been constructed in between two buildings, blocking the road. But what was even worse was what hung in the middle of that web.

First the outline of its body became visible, then the tips of its eight legs became clearer to see. The rest of its legs soon followed, along with its body. The giant spider let out some sort of unearthly squawking sound as it spotted the group of ponies a few yards ahead of it. The ponies themselves were frozen in terror at the sight of the enormous arachnid. A fear of spiders is common place in ponies all across the globe, but seeing one the size of a small building would instantly scare even those who didn't have arachnophobia. That was just what happened at that moment. Everypony in that group was instantly afraid at the sight of the giant spider kaiju called Kumonga, who was currently hanging off his web.

Kumonga squawked again as he began to do something that would instantly scare any arachnophobia, even if it was only a normal sized spider did it. He crawled down from his web and onto the street before making his way towards the group. When Rainbow Dash saw this, she turned to the crowd of civilians and screamed at the top of her lungs, "RUN!"

Nopony needed to be told twice, as they instantly turned in the opposite direction and ran as fast as their hooves would let them. Rainbow Dash waited until everypony was a couple of feet in front of her before she flew after them. To try and stop them, Kumonga spread its fangs apart and sprayed several strands of webbing from his mouth. Rainbow Dash heard the sounds of the webbing being sprayed and looked up in the sky. Then she looked down and saw a young filly was about to have one of those web strands fall right on top of her. But a split second later, Rainbow Dash swooped in, grabbed the girl, and flew her out of the range of that piece of webbing.

Rainbow Dash easily caught up with her group, handed the foal to her father, and resumed her role in leading them through the streets of Manehattan.

"Follow me!" Rainbow Dash screamed to her group.

Even if it did land you in the face of a giant spider because I couldn't remember the way out of town, Rainbow Dash added in her head to berate herself. The group zigged and zagged through the streets of Manehattan to try and lose Kumonga. But no matter where they went, that spider's squawks could still be heard echoing through the air. Luckily it did seem to be growing fainter, the spider probably having lost the group's trail and was going in a completely different direction. But that didn't mean they were out of the woods just yet.

As the group turned down another street, the sound of a collision between building and monster was heard. The frightened ponies all saw the result as well when Gabara stepped out onto the street several feet further down the way. He came out in a cloud of dust and rubble from his shoulder colliding with the building on his left. Gabara turned his head towards the group of ponies, his face instantly lighting up when he spotted them. Gabara began to stomp towards them at a slightly accelerated speed.

"Run, run, run! Move, move, move!" Rainbow Dash screamed as she and the other ponies turned back the way they came.

Rainbow Dash looked around desperately for a safe haven to lead her charges to. But she saw nothing of the sort. It was like there was no such safe place, at least not one that could be easily spotted. But that soon changed when Rainbow Dash saw a subway entrance out of the corner of her eye. The blue pegasus's face couldn't help but light up with a smile when she saw this.

"Everypony, follow me! This way, into the subway!" Rainbow Dash shouted out as she led the other ponies.

They all ran down the stairway and into the subway station. Everypony spread out across the train stop and looked around for a place to go. But Rainbow Dash wouldn't allow this.

"Whoa! Hold on, ponies! Everyone, stay here and stay together! We can't afford to go running off on our own in twelve different directions and get ourselves picked off! Everyone, stay within the safety of the group!"

"Safety? What safety?! Ever since we started following you, we've nearly gotten killed three times!" shouted an Earth pony stallion in the crowd, who was holding his daughter close to him.

"Three times?! That first time, you weren't following me! I showed up and saved your flanks! And despite leading you into two monsters, I led you away from them just as fast. So unless anypony else wants to blab without thinking over what they're gonna say, shut up!" Rainbow Dash shouted.

Everypony in the crowd began to murmur and whisper amongst themselves over their escort's outburst. Rainbow Dash heard this, though couldn't make it all out. But she did know what it was they were saying. Now that she thought about it, Rainbow Dash couldn't help but let a disappointed look cross her face. It stemmed from disappointment in herself for losing her cool with the ponies she was trying to protect.

Rainbow Dash didn't have time to let her guilt sink in though, for at that moment, the thunderous footsteps of Gabara were heard and felt from above. Rainbow Dash's eyes widened as she looked up at the stone above her and her group that separated them from the dangerous monster. Then she turned to the ponies of her group and put a hoof to her mouth as she whispered, "Ssssshhhh. He's up there, above us. Everypony keep quiet."

The desperate group of ponies soon silenced themselves and waited in terrified suspense, wondering what Gabara would do. They all trembled as they looked upward, wondering and waiting on what action the monster would take next. Some even let out small shakes in their voices, but quickly caught themselves, those with kids having to silence their children. The footsteps had stopped right above them, but the low growls of the kaiju could still be heard. They knew he was looking around for them, examining any spot he thought they might be hiding. This was the worst part, the waiting; not knowing whether they were safe or not. Would the monster just walk away or would his giant claws or foot come crashing through the top of the station?

It was a long wait, but it came with an ending of relieved sighs and thanks to Celestia when the group of grateful ponies heard and felt Gabara's footsteps walking away into the distance. But while everypony else was allowed to go on with their relief, Rainbow Dash had to cut hers short. Now she had to figure out what action to take next. Did she try to resume leading the ponies out of the city or did she let them stay at the subway station? It certainly looked safe enough, but looks can be deceiving. If there's one thing Rainbow Dash has learned in the last few days, nothing is ever truly safe against a kaiju.

Before she could make a decision, she heard voices coming from the stairway.

"Are there any civilians down there?! This is Swift Bolt of the Equestria Royal Army. I'm here to help escort you to safety! Hello?!"

"Swift Bolt? Down here!" Rainbow Dash replied.

Seconds later, Swift Bolt came down with several uniformed ponies. Rainbow Dash quickly flew over to her fellow pegasus.

"Captain! It's good to see you're alright."

"Thanks, Swift Bolt, I'm glad you're okay, too. So, who are your new friends?"

"These are relief ponies that were sent in to aid any civilians who strayed behind," said Swift Bolt as he pointed to his hoof towards some of the uniformed ponies. "I met up with them a little bit after we split up."

"What have you heard from the other two guys we came into the city with?" asked Rainbow Dash.

A somber look came over Swift Bolt's face as he lightly shook his head and said, "They didn't make it."

A look of sadness came over Rainbow Dash's face when she heard this news. But she quickly pushed it aside. She knew she had a job to do and couldn't let her emotions get the best of her at the moment.

"Well then...what are you gonna do?" asked Rainbow Dash.

Swift Bolt pointed a hoof as he said, "I wanna stay with them and help escort the civilians they find to safety. What about you?"

"I gotta get back out there and try to find more ponies who need help," said Rainbow Dash.

Swift Bolt nodded his head understandingly.

"Then I'll wish you good luck, Captain Rainbow Dash," Swift Bolt said as he held out his hoof.

Rainbow Dash graciously excepted his hoofshake.

"Thanks, Swift Bolt, good luck to you, too," said Rainbow Dash.

Then the two pegasi saluted each other before Swift Bolt returned to the group of relief and refuge ponies, while Rainbow Dash flew back topside. Unfortunately, she didn't really know where to start her search for more ponies in distress. Rainbow Dash ultimately decided just to go with her gut and flew off in the direction it told her to. So, she was off, flying all throughout the streets. Yet, she couldn't find any other ponies, no matter how far she went. Every corner of every alley and every sidewalk of every street seemed to be completely empty. But Rainbow Dash wouldn't allow herself to give up until she was absolutely sure there weren't anymore ponies that needed her help.

She would soon wish she didn't have that kind of mindset, for when she turned the next corner, much to her horror, Rainbow Dash was facing down Kumonga, the spider kaiju. It was a few yards away, but any closeness was too close when it pertained to a giant arachnid. Kumonga let out its unnatural squawk as Rainbow Dash let out a scream. She started to fly away, but at the same time, Kumonga began to spray his webbing from out of his mouth in huge strands of webbing.

Rainbow Dash saw the webbing come falling down from above and reacted by trying to fly around the strands and dodge them as best as she could. This seemed to be very effective, as she easily flew by many of the web strands. Rainbow Dash couldn't help but let her confidence and even a slight bit of her arrogance shine into her spirit. She always knew she was a great flier, but in the last few days, she's gone up against several giant monsters and came out of those confrontations without a scratch. It looked like this was going be another one of those times that she would come out on the better side of a pony to kaiju conflict.

But this over confidence may have ended up playing a part in her downfall. Rainbow Dash dodged to the side and let a strand of webbing pass by her and she couldn't help but turn her head to watch it fall the rest of the way. When Rainbow Dash turned back, however, another piece of webbing was right there in her face, ready to cover her. Rainbow Dash tried to keep flying, but despite how weightless the webbing seemed before, when it fell on her, it was extremely sticky and instantly made Rainbow Dash feel heavier. It made every part of her body feel twenty pounds heavier, including her wings, which she found herself having trouble flapping.

That was hard enough, but soon more webbing fell down upon Rainbow Dash, which made her feel heavier and made it harder for her to fly. The webbing got stickier and stickier as well, sticking to Rainbow Dash's fur and skin. She tried to break free, but each swing of a leg or thrash of her body made the the webbing wrap tighter and stick to her more. Rainbow Dash still kept trying to fight out of it, though. Her strong and stubborn spirit wouldn't let her stop fighting. But it wasn't enough to keep her from falling out of the sky after a losing battle. Rainbow Dash screamed as she fell, grunting in pain when her body smacked into the solid concrete below.

Rainbow Dash moaned in pain as her body ached. The feeling of webbing sticking to her was stronger than ever. But those were the least of her worries at this moment. She found that out when she heard the squawks of Kumonga coming from not too far away. The light blue pegasus mare looked around, though it was a little difficult to see through the webbing. But there was no mistaking the terrifying, black soulless eyes, side mandibles, and fangs that make up the face of a spider, as well as the body being carried by eight hairy legs all blown up to gigantic proportions. To see something like that coming at you was sure to instill fear in anypony and everypony.

That was certainly what happened to Rainbow Dash when she saw Kumonga coming for her. She admitted to herself something she usually didn't admit to anyone, let alone herself. She admitted that she was very afraid right now. Not just afraid, she was completely terrified of the monster coming for her at that moment. Both because of the kaiju's outer appearance and the fact that once it reached her, it would mean death for her. Rainbow Dash refused to accept this and kept trying to break herself free of the webbing that bound her. She fought with all her might to get out of the material that kept her stuck to the street. But it seemed to all be for not.

Kumonga saw the pony's desperate struggle and to add insult to injury, sprayed more of its webbing onto Rainbow Dash. She fought and fought, but feeling the added weight and stickiness crushed her spirit a little inside. It seemed no matter how hard she fought, this kaiju would not let her win; it would not let her be free. With a heavy heart, Rainbow Dash, feeling broken down in body and spirit, let her head hang as she closed her eyes and accepted defeat and what her final fate would be. What made it worse was when she heard the heavy footsteps stomping towards her. This crushed her spirit even more. Now, not only did she have to face the spider, Kumonga, now she had to deal with Gabara, too.

Rainbow Dash opened her eyes, not wanting her death to come as a surprise. If she were to go out, she wanted to see it coming. It was now harder to see, but she could just barely make out the sight of Kumonga still spraying his webbing. Even if she weren't able to see it, she could still hear the sound of the webbing being spread as well. But then, as the footsteps sounded closer than ever, she saw something that, while she was expecting it, still shocked her to the core, in more ways than one. The foot of a giant monster stomped forward, cutting off the web Kumonga sprayed from Rainbow Dash. It was obvious from the start that the foot came from a kaiju much bigger than Kumonga, like Gabara was.

But this sure as Tartarus wasn't Gabara's foot. From what Rainbow Dash could see, the foot itself going up the leg, this kaiju looked completely different. To verify this, Rainbow Dash looked up further and what she saw was a much more amazing sight than any other kaiju she had seen thus far. While similar to Geon in its dragon-like appearance, it was clear this was a different kaiju altogether. She didn't know what this beast was, but she was instantly afraid of it. It was not made any better when the new kaiju reared its head back and then swung it forward as it let out the loudest roar Rainbow Dash had ever heard in her life.

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You know, for the longest time, I wondered how far I could take this story in terms of graphic content. While the Godzilla franchise had its bloody moments and especially big death scenes, My Little Pony, did not so much have these elements. Oh sure, there are some action sequences, even a spectacular fight between Twilight Sparkle and the villain Tirek in the finale of Season 4. Heck, King Sombra actually died in the third Season opener. But like I said, it was never as graphic as it got in Godzilla.

So it was a challenge trying to decide the balance of where My Little Pony's safe content ended and Godzilla's more graphic content began. Then I remembered a little fanfiction story that got very popular a while back called "Fallout Equestria". While I haven't read it myself and probably wont, I did see a video on the You Tube channel of MLP: FIM analysis AnY Pony and several other well known online MLP analysis talk about the story. From what I gathered, it had so much graphic content, it makes Godzilla's more mature moments look like Barney the Dinosaur in comparison.

So, no, while I wont have any of the characters in this story swear or include any sexual content, I will go on with the graphic details that comes with the giant monster scenes. ...But still within reason.

Oh, I would also like to say how happy I am to post this chapter on September 16, 2014, the date where the Legendary Pictures Godzilla movie was released to home entertainment. As I write this author's note, my own personal copy of the movie I bought this day is in the DVD player ready for me to watch after I post this chapter.

You all know the drill, leave me a review after reading, whether it's good or bad and if you see a mistake, tell me so I can fix it. I'm The Guy Who Likes To Write Stuff, signing off.