My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic-Our Friend, Godzilla
Chapter 37: Chapter 37: Twists and Surprises
Previous Chapter Next ChapterThe group of ponies led by Twilight Sparkle appeared in a puff of smoke atop the roof of a two hundred foot tall building. The Mane Six had used the Elements of Harmony to teleport everypony up there. It was from here that they would be able to view the rest of the fight between Godzilla and Geon, and to an extent possibly discover Equestria's fate from a safe distance away. Needless to say, everypony watching was incredibly nervous about how the fight would turn out since so much was on the line. So many lives were at stake, not just in Equestria, but maybe even in the whole world, which included Godzilla's.
Keeping all that in mind, everypony watched the rumble of the giants with high hopes that things would turnout for the better. At the moment, though, it didn't seem like they had anything to worry about. Godzilla was in full control pushing Geon back against his will with his hands wrapped so tight around his shoulders that his talons were sinking into the evil kaiju's skin. Geon tried to keep himself from being pushed back and pull himself free, but despite his best efforts, Godzilla was still forcing him backwards. His feet slid across the ground, leaving large, deep marks in the concrete.
Geon reached out to the buildings around him and Godzilla to try and grab a hold of them in hopes it would stop him from being pushed back. His hands just ended up smashing through the sides of the buildings because Godzilla was still able to force him back against his will. The King of Monsters was just too strong, too determined, too great of will to be stopped in what he was doing. Godzilla let out a roar just as he put some extra force into his next shove. This ended with Geon losing his balance and falling down onto his back through a small building that came up to his calves.
As the rumble echoed throughout the area, it sounded like music to the spectators watching the conflict that caused it.
"Whoo-hoo!" Rainbow Dash cheered as she flew above everypony else. "Alright, you go, G-Dude! You got this!"
"You can do it, Godzilla!" Rarity cheered.
"Take it to him!" Cadance let out.
"We believe in you!" Twilight Sparkle called out.
"Come on, Godzilla, kick his flank!" Shining Armor and Pinkie Pie shouted at the same time.
"Jinx," Pinkie quickly added.
"Put him down like a rabid goat, Ziller!" Applejack shouted out.
"You can do it, Godzilla!" Fluttershy called out to her friend.
Geon moaned as he tried to sit up, only to have Godzilla stomp forward and kick his right foot into his foe's chest knocking him back down. This got even more cheers from the ponies watching from a far. While Godzilla would've appreciated them, he was too far away and too focused on the fight to hear the cheers. The Alpha Predator stomped his left foot on Geon's chest and pressed it down as hard as he could. Geon tried to sit up again, but was instantly pressed back down into the ground by Godzilla's mighty foot.
"Wow, he's actually doing pretty good right now," said Applejack.
"What a relief considering how the fight started out," said Rarity.
"Now if he can just keep it up until the end, Equestria's set to have her peace again," said Shining Armor.
It was at that moment when Cadance let out a gasp before saying, "Oh, my goodness! We forgot!"
Suddenly everypony's eyes widened as memory of what Cadance was referring to flowed through their brains.
"MEGAGUIRUS!" everypony said together.
"I remember King Sombra was summoning it just before we got the drop on him," said Rarity.
Everypony turned their eyes back to the battlefield as alarmed horror ran through them.
"We've got to warn him!" Fluttershy exclaimed.
"It's too late!" Twilight Sparkle shouted as she pointed a hoof.
The horrifying form of Megaguirus came flying in from Godzilla's right without being detected. As the mutant dragonfly flew over Godzilla, she reached her claws down for the Kaiju King. She pinched and stabbed her enormous pincers into the flesh of Godzilla's head, neck, and shoulder area. At the same time she stabbed her stinger into Godzilla's side and began dragging him away from the fallen form of Geon. The entire time Megaguirus' stinger was sunk into Godzilla's flesh, it appeared as though flows of glowing orange energy were seeping out of Godzilla's body and into Megaguirus' through her tail.
Godzilla had been caught completely off guard by Megaguirus' sneak attack and reacted as such with him shrieking in surprise and flailing his arms around wildly. Once he was able to get a hold of himself, Godzilla tried furiously to get Megaguirus off of him. He shook his body and head all around while also snapping at Megaguirus and reaching for her with his hands. He wasn't able to catch her at first, for Megaguirus was moving around just as wildly, even removing her stinger from Godzilla's body so she could move better.
Eventually Godzilla caught one of Megaguirus' pincers in his mouth, but he didn't keep it for long. Megaguirus brought around her other pincer and pried Godzilla's mouth opened and then pulled both pincers away before the Alpha Predator could close his jaws. Megaguirus kept flapping her wings despite mostly laying her body across Godzilla's upper back while she and the King of Monsters continued to struggle with each other. As the two kaiju continued to fight, Megaguirus stabbed her stinger into Godzilla's left side and began sucking energy from him again. She also bit down across the back of Godzilla's neck and started pulling and tearing at it.
While all this was going on, Geon had managed to actually push himself back on his feet, despite the beating he took. After taking a moment to get himself together, Geon looked around for the foe he wanted so desperately to destroy. The evil saurian spotted Godzilla a little ways away wrestling with Megaguirus. Geon saw Megaguirus biting into Godzilla while snapping and stabbing her pincers into the reptilian's flesh and also randomly sticking her stinger into his body, sucking energy from him all the while. At the same time, Godzilla was desperately trying to shake Megaguirus off of him without much success, which Geon decided was his window of opportunity.
Geon charged forth, roaring all the way. Megaguirus spotted Geon coming and flew up high to avoid when his body came crashing into Godzilla's, sending him plowing through a building. Despite that, Godzilla managed to stay on his feet, much to Geon and Megaguirus' irritation. Godzilla glared over at Geon and roared right in his face, which unfortunately left him open to attack. Megaguirus flew down at Godzilla's left side and snapped her pincers across his left bicep and neck while also biting into his shoulder.
Godzilla shrieked out, but cut it short and turned to Megaguirus in an unsuccessful attempt to wrap his jaws around her. Geon came up on Godzilla's right and then swung his open hand over the back of his head. Godzilla roared out into the air in pain which gave Geon the opportunity to swing his tail across his foe's midsection. As Godzilla grabbed at his abdomen, Geon fired his inferno wave down the right side of the good kaiju's body. At the same time Megaguirus lifted herself into the air and then slammed her body down on the back of Godzilla's neck.
The ponies still watching from afar looked on in horror as they watched their guardian begin to fall forward. Godzilla roared out in protest as he reached his hands forth for something to stop his fall. There was nothing, however, which meant Godzilla was unable to stop his body from crashing into the ground, which left him vulnerable to attack. Both Geon and Megaguirus sprung forth at Godzilla like a pack of rabid wolves.
Geon would switch to different tactics from stomping on Godzilla, to kicking him, to punching or clawing at him, to swinging his tail down on him, and of course, using his inferno wave. Megaguirus would swing her closed pincers down on Godzilla and sometimes stab the ends into his flesh before then snapping them across any of his limbs. She would also bite into him and randomly stab her stinger into his flesh and suck energy out of him. Godzilla tried to break free of this mugging and push himself to his feet, but everything he tried to do was muted under the weight of the two kaiju assaulting him.
While Godzilla was feeling the bad end of this situation the most, he wasn't the only one who couldn't stand it. His roars of pain and protest reached the ears of his pony friends nearby, as did the sick calls of pleasure and satisfaction from the two evil kaiju hurting him. They watched the scene play out in front of them and they couldn't be more horrified by it. Seeing their champion and, more importantly, their friend take such a terrible beating from two monsters who threatened the world was more than unbearable.
"No," was all Rarity managed to say as she began to lightly sob.
"This... This just can't be," Cadance said as she began to weep.
"We can't let this happen," said a very upset Applejack.
"We've got to help somehow!" said Pinkie Pie.
"How?" Shinning Armor asked. "What are we going to do against those things?! If Godzilla can't stop them, how are we going to?!"
"Aw, man, there's gotta be something we can do!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed.
Twilight Sparkle lowered her head in despair as as she shut her eyes before saying, "There's nothing we can do."
Everypony turned back to the horrible scene and watched the mugging on Godzilla continue. One pony who had not said anything at all since Godzilla was knocked down was Fluttershy. The poor, emotional yellow pegasus couldn't believe what she was seeing and she didn't want to either. This being she had met and befriended what seems like so long ago was taking the beating of his life and it looked like he couldn't do anything about it. He had taken so many beatings since coming to Equestria and what made it worse for Fluttershy was that he had taken most of them trying to protect her and everypony else.
Now it seemed like it had all caught up to Godzilla and there was nothing Fluttershy could do to stop it. All she could do was stand and watch it happen and she didn't know if she could. Fluttershy felt like she was on the verge of an emotional breakdown. It seemed like all of the emotion of what she saw and felt, and what she had seen and felt the past few days was finally gonna break her.
"Oh, Godzilla... I'm sorry," Fluttershy managed to let out just before she began to weep.
But at that moment, it seemed like Godzilla might finally be getting something of a break. In a last ditch effort of preservation, Godzilla forced himself up onto his hands and knees and pushed Geon and Megaguirus back as he fired his atomic breath around. While the beam was unable to hit either evil kaiju, it still surprised them enough to make them jump back, giving Godzilla enough time to get back to his feet. Geon was able to quickly recover from his surprise and charged forth to continue assaulting Godzilla.
Geon shot his inferno wave up and down Godzilla's body a multitude of times, igniting several explosions. The impact of it all made Godzilla scream out as he stumbled to stay on his feet. Geon reached out and grabbed Godzilla's arms from behind and held him in place while he roared out instructions to Megaguirus. Upon hearing the call of the dragonfly kaiju Godzilla stopped struggling for a second and looked to see Megaguirus hovering a short distance in front of him.
Godzilla noticed that Megaguirus' slowly flapping wings and her tail stinger were beginning to glow orange. This set off the alarms in the highly intelligent kaiju's head as he resumed struggling to get free of Geon's grip once again. From behind Godzilla, who's arms he was still holding, Geon flashed a sinister grin to Megaguirus, who responded in kind. It was only seconds later when the glowing energy of Megaguirus' wings and stinger combined into one giant orb that was launched directly at Godzilla. Despite Godzilla's roars of protest, Geon held his arms the whole time the orb was approaching.
The energy orb crashed into Godzilla's chest less than a second later, igniting a large explosion across his front. After taking such a blast, Godzilla's entire body went stiff; his arms dropped to his sides, his tail didn't move, he was completely frozen. He almost started to fall forward, but Geon came around and rammed his left shoulder into Godzilla's chest, keeping him on his feet. The evil saurian wrapped his arms around Godzilla's body and then bit into his left shoulder as he started to push the good hearted kaiju back.
Megaguirus watched all this happen as the speed of her wings flapping increased to the point where they were barely visible. The sound her fast flapping wings made was an ear piercing squeal that busted the glass of any window nearby that wasn't already broken. It also had a profound effect on the ears of every living creature nearby, from the ponies watching nearby to Godzilla and even Geon. However, the sinister kaiju didn't let that stop him from his goal of shoving Godzilla back against his will. He didn't even stop when Megaguirus came flying right up next to him, ramming into Godzilla and biting his other shoulder.
The two evil kaiju kept pushing Godzilla back until finally he lost his balance and went stumbling back first through a building behind him. Once the Alpha Predator was down, Geon and Megaguirus began to maul him just like they had before. Again Geon switched between stomping on Godzilla's chest and face, swinging his tail down, or just firing his inferno wave. Also like before, Megaguirus would use her pincers to varying capacities while also using her stinger and would occasionally fly up to slam back down into Godzilla.
Still watching from far away was the group of ponies comprised of both the Mane Six and the royal couple and they couldn't be anymore upset. They had hoped Godzilla being able to get back to his feet before was a sign of good things to come. Seeing Geon and Megaguirus force Godzilla back down again made it appear as though that was not the case. Now seeing Godzilla once again on the ground and getting mugged like a homeless pony only drove everyone's depressing thoughts and feelings deeper into their psyche.
"They're going to kill him!" Rarity shrieked in between tear soaked sobs.
Though everypony protested loudly, they knew that wouldn't change anything. It looked like life was just about to end for Godzilla and he would leave this plain of existence. All the effort put in and all the fighting Godzilla had done to protect the world was about to be proven futile. That's how it seemed in that darkest of moments when Godzilla was on his back practically being torn apart by Geon and Megaguirus.
Then suddenly there was a bright ray of light. Literally, a light appeared in the sky that was accompanied by the crash of thunder. However, this bright light was not a flash of lightning. The ponies and even the evil kaiju all stopped dead in their tracks and looked up at the strange phenomenon taking place in the sky. They watched this ever brighter glowing light begin to swirl around like some a vortex.
As everyone looked on with awe and bewilderment, suddenly Twilight Sparkle's eyes lit up with realization.
"It's a portal!" Twilight Sparkle proclaimed.
The rest of the ponies looked to the violet alicorn in confusion.
"A portal?" Applejack asked.
"Yeah, an interdimensional portal," Twilight Sparkle explained.
"You mean like the one that brought Godzilla here?!" Fluttershy asked.
"Exactly," Twilight answered.
"So, something else is about to come into our dimension from another?!" Cadance asked in disbelief.
"Don't we have enough to deal with right now?!" Rainbow Dash shouted.
Suddenly a wind began howling that got louder with each passing moment. The ponies all looked to see the glowing gold vortex was beginning to open up. Everyone looked very closely as they waited to see what this new portal would reveal. It didn't take long at all before an object, which was also glowing gold, came flying out of the portal with a flow of golden, particle infested light trailing behind it.
The biggest spectacle was the thing that came out of the portal itself. All eyes were fixated on what looked to be a giant moth. Underneath the gold aura of the newly arrived bug kaiju everyone was able to see its mostly white fur. They also saw its bright blue eyes, its long claw ended insect legs, and its antennas. Perhaps the most striking feature of all on this giant moth monster was its multicolored wings which featured many designs and had a combined wingspan of up to four hundred feet.
Geon and Megaguirus were completely flabbergasted at seeing another kaiju arrive on the battlefield, while the ponies were looking on with just as much disbelief.
"It's so beautiful," Fluttershy said in awe.
"Its wings most certainly are!" Rarity shouted out in astonishment.
"It's Mothra!" Twilight Sparkle shouted in amazement.
Everypony looked to their leader in disbelief.
"MOTHRA?!" most of the ponies asked.
"You mean the good monster that originally helped the Alicorn Council imprison the kaiju all those centuries ago?!" Cadance asked.
"The very same!" Twilight answered.
"How can you tell?!" Applejack asked.
"I recognize it from pictures I've seen in ancient scrolls about the first kaiju conflict!" Twilight replied.
"You know come to think of it, I recognize it from those pictures, too!" Prince Shinning Armor reaffirmed.
"What is it doing here?!" Cadance asked.
"It must've come here to help!" Twilight Sparkle speculated. "That's the only thing it could be!"
"But how did it know we needed it now?!" Fluttershy asked.
"Who cares?! It's here now, which means G's got a chance!"
"Rainbow Dash is right!" Rarity said in realization. "With Mothra here, the playing field's been evened out a little more."
"Now with Godzilla and Mothra working together, they'll totally be able to defeat those big baddies and send them where they belong!" said Pinkie Pie. "Right in the baddie bin!"
"I certainly hope so," said Fluttershy.
Mothra let out several loud chirps and squawks as she had been since entering the portal. She was flying through the air at an amazing speed, one that even Rainbow Dash had to be slightly impressed with. The giant moth took one look around at the devastation and needed only that to know something was wrong. She was already planning on doing something about it when she spotted Geon and Megaguirus hovering over the fallen form of Godzilla. Mothra called out loudly several more times as she swooped down from the sky towards the other kaiju.
Geon and Megaguirus were even more bewildered than they were before. They couldn't believe that this new kaiju that came out of nowhere was just gonna fly in on their territory and attack them. That confusion was slowly turning into anger as both evil giants of terror were starting to recognize this kaiju from times past. They didn't know if it was the same one or just a look-a-like, but they didn't care. They still had a lot of pint up anger from when that kaiju stopped them thousands of years ago and they intended to take it out on this newly arrived foe.
Both snarling kaiju began growling and shrieking at Mothra, who replied with her own unique squawks and chirps while also firing her golden antenna rays. The twin beams of light fired up, down, and across both evil kaiju's bodies many a time. The rays stung as badly as Megaguirus and Geon both remembered, which wasn't helped by the small explosions of sparks and flames they caused. Mothra's bombardment of antenna blasts continued on as she flew at the kaiju who detested her so.
Geon looked to Megaguirus and let out several roars ordering her to go deal with Mothra personally. At first Megaguirus was hesitant, but she quickly remembered how great Geon's own strength and power were, so she complied. Megaguirus let out a battle shriek as she flew at Mothra to take her head on. Mothra replied as she increased her speed to meet this challenge from a fellow insect kaiju.
As the golden aura around Mothra faded, she continued firing her antenna beams at Megaguirus, who desperately tried to dodge them. Sometimes she would be able to avoid the beams and other times the giant dragonfly would feel their sting. Megaguirus decided she would return the favor as she shot two tail stingers at Mothra. The Guardian of the Earth flew to the right and left to successfully avoid the incoming projectiles. Mothra retaliated by firing her own stingers at Megaguirus, who flew up and down, dodging them both as easily as the white moth had avoided hers.
The queen of dragonflies glared hard at Mothra as she brought her stinger up in preparation to stab it deep into her incoming enemy. The giant moth of light saw this and knew what was coming, but kept flying at Megaguirus anyways. She already had a plan of how she would counter this oncoming attack. Both flying insects of enormous size stared intensely at one another as they closed in for what was sure to be an amazing collision.
When they were only a few feet away from each other, Megaguirus shrieked out as she pulled her stinger back then thrust it forth at Mothra. Already seeing this coming, the Guardian of the Earth ducked down and easily avoided the incoming stinger strike. After that Mothra turned on her side until she did a full spin, swinging her wing up into Megaguirus in the process. When it was all over, Mothra was now hovering over the evil insect, which gave her an opportunity to unveil another secret weapon.
The claw tips of Mothra's legs began glowing a bright gold and a few seconds later, the auras combined into one giant blast aimed down at Megaguirus. The queen of the dragonflies cried out as she felt the blast plowing down upon her body with explosive results. After that Mothra flapped her wings to get higher before she let her body drop down on Megaguirus, sending her crashing into a building below. Once she was finished with the evil mutant dragonfly, Mothra began flying towards Geon.
The evil saurian took a step back as he looked on in disbelief. He was surprised at how easily it appeared Mothra handled Megaguirus and that she was now coming at him. That surprise was soon drowned out by Geon's anger, which was shown by the snarl on his face. Geon let out one loud roar before he fired his inferno wave that hit Mothra head on despite her trying to avoid it. While the giant moth let out a chirp of pain, she still flew at Geon with her antenna rays endlessly firing all the while.
Geon was so focused on Mothra that he didn't see it coming when Godzilla's atomic breath came shooting up into his back. The King of Monsters pushed himself back up to his feet while Geon was trying to recover from the sneak attack. Godzilla gave a hate filled glare before letting out a quick roar and then shooting another blast of his atomic ray into Geon's back. After that Godzilla slammed his body into Geon's. The evil kaiju stumbled forward right into Mothra's wing, which smacked him in the face, knocking him down in the process.
Godzilla let out a roar of approval both for Geon's fall and that he had found his friend, Mothra once again. After Godzilla calmed down, he watched Mothra as she let out a chirp calling to him and circled around so that they were face to face. The two began trading back their own respective calls in a conversation that was, to say the least, very unique. These interactions between the two good kaiju peeked the interest of the onlookers watching from a building top far away.
"Amazing," said Rarity. "It seems as though they're communicating."
"Yes, there does seem to be some sort of communication going on," Twilight Sparkle agreed.
"But what about?" Shinning Armor wondered.
"Wait a minute!" Rainbow Dash let out. "Fluttershy, you can understand animal talk. Try to listen in and see if you can pick up what they're saying and then tell us."
Everyone looked to the adorable pegasus mare as she nodded her head. She focused her hearing as best as she could to pick up what the two kaiju were saying to each other. It wasn't long before she did, in fact, pick up on some of the dialogue exchanged between Godzilla and Mothra. What Fluttershy heard sent her spirits high as could be as she gasped and smiled in surprised joy.
"They know each other!" Fluttershy let out ecstatically.
Everypony shared a collective gasp as smiles crossed their faces.
"WOW!" several of the other ponies let out.
"Really?!" Pinkie Pie asked.
"Yes. Really."
Everypony looked on in confusion, for the previous spoken words seemed to have come out of nowhere.
"Did any of you just say that?" Pinkie Pie asked.
Everypony answered no as they also shook their heads. They all began looking around for the source of those words from before.
"Well, whoever it was, it sounded like there was more than one of them," said Applejack.
"There is," the voices called out again, catching the ponies by surprise.
"Who are you?!" Twilight Sparkle called out.
"Where are you?!" Rainbow Dash added.
"We're here," the voices called back.
Everyone looked off in the direction they thought they heard the voices calling them from. Seconds later a small, hard to describe sound reached the ponies' ears as they spotted a small golden light in the sky. The light flew down closer to them, which allowed the group to see the it was emitting from what looked to be a much smaller Mothra. They were even more amazed to see it had two passengers riding on its back, which looked like nothing most other ponies ever saw before. Most ponies that is, except for Twilight Sparkle, who had seen a species that was very similar, but at the same time different.
The beings Twilight had seen before were from a different dimension and were called humans. One of the biggest differences was while their height ranged anywhere from five to six feet tall, these two girls were only six inches high. Despite how small they were and how different they looked, everypony could still tell that these little girls were incredibly beautiful. Rarity was especially taken by their peach colored dresses which came with a single arm warmer designed to look like moth wings. She also liked their necklaces which came with pendants that had specially designed crosses painted on them, which was actually the symbol of Mothra.
The glowing moth carrying the two little girls landed on the top of a barrier that surrounded the roof of the building. The glow faded away allowing the ponies to see the moth and the two girls clearly. Even then the ponies were still in amazement, while the small beings greeted their shocked expressions with warm, pleasant smiles.
"Greetings, citizens of Equestria," the tiny girls said in unison.
"Uh..." was all Rainbow Dash could get out.
"Howdy," Applejack managed to say.
"What she said," said Rainbow Dash.
"Can you tell us who you are?" Cadance asked.
"They're the Cosmos of Mothra," Twilight Sparkle explained.
Everyone turned to her in confusion, not quite understanding what she meant when she said that.
"The what now of Mothra?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"They're like her priestesses," Twilight Sparkle explained. "They live alongside Mothra, can communicate with her, among many other things. They're pretty much very powerful fairies. Mothra and them live in an almost symbiotic relationship with one another."
"So basically they're the equivalent to demigod servants to Mothra's full god?" Princess Cadance inquired.
"Precisely," Twilight answered.
"What your friends say is true," the little girls revealed as the Cosmos said together. "Mothra and ourselves have been together since the very beginning and it shall always be as such."
"They were there when the kaiju originally appeared," said Twilight Sparkle. "They helped make the kaiju's prison and even supplied some of the magic that sealed them there."
"These very same girls here?" Rarity asked as she pointed to the Cosmos.
Twilight nodded her head, after which everypony turned back to the Cosmos who were still smiling.
"So... you're over a thousand years old?" Applejack asked.
"We are," the Cosmos replied.
"And you were there when Equestria was facing its first kaiju crisis?" Shinning Armor inquired further.
"Yes, that is true," the Cosmos replied.
"The whole them talking together at the same time thing could get annoying really fast," Rainbow Dash mumbled to Pinkie Pie with a hoof to the side of her mouth. After that she added in her mind, then again, look who I just said that to.
"I must ask you how you age so gracefully," said Rarity. "Is it a certain cream of drink or-?"
"Rarity, hush up about that silly nonsense for right now," Applejack barked.
"Humph," Rarity pouted as she crossed her front legs and looked away.
The Cosmos looked out at the cityscape and took in all the destruction that laid across what was left of San Flankciscolt. Their eyes briefly fell on Godzilla and Mothra, who were still talking, before looking on. Their eyes then fell upon the still fallen forms of Geon and Megaguirus. By this point, their smiles had been replaced by looks of sorrow.
"It appears as though the kaiju of the Devonian Empire have returned," the Cosmos said.
"Yes, I'm afraid they have," said Twilight.
"But the Devonians themselves haven't returned," Princess Cadance quickly added.
"Even so, those monsters' stomping around has caused us all... a lot of problems to say the least," said Rarity.
"But now that's gonna change since you girls and Mothra came to help us stop them!" Pinkie Pie shouted happily.
"We're really glad to see you," Twilight Sparkle said to the miniature girls.
"Yeah, it's cool you showed up here, but how did you know to show up right now when we needed you to?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"You did come to help us, didn't you?" Fluttershy asked.
"We're afraid not," the Cosmos said.
"HUH?!" everypony shouted together.
"Don't get us wrong, had we known of your situation, we would've gladly come to your aid and helped," the Cosmos said. "However, we were unaware of what was occurring here in Equestria."
"Then why are y'all here?" Applejack asked.
The Cosmos looked to each other before turning back to the ponies around them.
"We came here for him," the Cosmos said as they pointed out to the city.
The ponies all looked to what they were pointing at and were surprised to see it was Godzilla, who was still talking with Mothra.
"Godzilla?" Twilight and Fluttershy asked together.
"You came here to find G?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"Let's hear the truth now," said Applejack.
"Godzilla had just made friends with Mothra and even saved her from another kaiju when the portal appeared and took him," the Cosmos explained. "It tried to take Mothra, but Godzilla put himself between them so it would take him instead. Mothra couldn't believe she had found a kaiju like her who was so selfless and pure of heart. Since it took Godzilla, Mothra had been retracing the path of the portal so she could come find Godzilla and bring him home."
"AWW," several of the ponies all said together.
Everypony looked out and watched as Godzilla and Mothra continued their interactions. Both kaiju seemed ecstatic to have finally found each other again. The Mane Six had seen Godzilla like this many a time before. While they loved usually being apart of it, they still enjoyed seeing Godzilla had a kaiju friend that could do that with him as well. At that point there wasn't a being watching Mothra and Godzilla that wasn't smiling brightly.
"That's so nice that Godzilla was able to make a friend like that," said Fluttershy. "It's also very brave of him to put himself in danger to protect Mothra despite only just meeting her."
"Oh, most definitely," Rarity agreed.
"But we should be used to that from Godzilla by now."
"Yeah, Pinkie, we should," Applejack agreed.
"To learn of such a kaiju as Godzilla ourselves was incredible," the Cosmos said. "That's why when we found out about it, we just had to come along and see it with our own eyes."
"Uh... Cosmos," Twilight Sparkle spoke out. The twin fairies turned around to see the violet alicorn, her sister-in-law, and her brother standing close by them. "We owe you an explanation... for the portal, that is."
"You see, we, along with my two aunts who rule over Equestria... well, we were the ones that opened up that portal," said Cadance.
"We... thought we were bringing Mothra here," said Shining Armor.
"We used the portal spell you gave the remaining members of the Alicorn Council of Equestria after the first kaiju incident," said Twilight Sparkle. "Do you remember that?"
The Cosmos nodded their heads in reply.
"Yeah, it said it was suppose to pull in the most pure of heart kaiju from your world to help us," said Cadance.
"Only instead of Mothra, we got Godzilla," said Rainbow Dash.
"And I must say, I wouldn't be surprised if he was the kaiju that was meant to come through that portal," said Fluttershy.
The Cosmos eyes widened as they looked to each other and then back to the ponies.
"Really?" the Cosmos asked. "Are you sure?"
"Oh, yes indeed, most assuredly," said Fluttershy. "Ever since he got here, Godzilla's treated us with nothing, but love, compassion, caring, and has shown his deep concern and fondness for us by protecting us from the kaiju."
"He's beaten nearly every single one of them," said Applejack.
"It was good enough we got such a great protector," said Rarity. "But it was made even better when we got such a good friend as well."
"Even when he wasn't whipping kaiju tail, he would want to be around us and hangout," said Rainbow Dash.
"He insisted upon it," said Pinkie Pie.
"If I may, oh mighty Cosmos, I don't think we could've asked for any kaiju better to come to befriend us than Godzilla," said Twilight Sparkle.
The Cosmos looked to each other before looking out at the kaiju. They were mostly focusing on Godzilla, for they could not believe that a creature with such a heritage could be what him going through the portal implied. At first the Cosmos did not see the good hearted kaiju Godzilla was made out to be when they looked at him. Instead they saw the type of cold blooded monster they knew members of this Godzilla's family as from time's past. Try as they might, the Cosmos could not see anything that could indicate this Godzilla was anything else but the mad, vengeful beast his kin had been.
Fortunately, it was only moments later when they began to see beyond Godzilla's tough exterior. The Cosmos looked with their hearts, as well as their eyes and saw something they hadn't before. Perhaps they saw a certain gleam in his eyes or maybe it was his mannerisms when interacting with Mothra or maybe they got a glimpse of his heart. Whatever it was, the Cosmos could now clearly see the kaiju the ponies were saying he was, which brought a warm feeling to the fairies' hearts.
"With all due respect, Cosmos, I know exactly who the portal meant to send here," said Fluttershy.
"We're certainly beginning to see that this is a strong possibility," the Cosmos replied.
"Well, I'll tell you one thing," said Rainbow Dash. "It was definitely super awesome we got Godzilla. But now it's even better because we also got Mothra!"
Everypony was getting ready to cheer, but stop themselves and instead looked to the Cosmos for reassurance.
"We do have Mothra, right?" Twilight Sparkle asked.
"But of course," the Cosmos said. "We originally followed the Devonians here all those centuries ago because they were planning total domination of other planets and other dimensions. We knew this was wrong and wanted to do everything we could to stop them. Even now when they're gone, the Devonians leave their shadow over this world because the kaiju they made are still wreaking their havoc. We cannot and will not allow this. Therefore, we will stay by your side until it's all done and the shadow on your world is lifted."
Everypony began cheering loudly, for now they had no doubt the battle would be won, good would prevail, and their world would be saved.
"Nothing can stop us now!" Rainbow Dash proclaimed.
All of a sudden, a barrage of multicolored bolts of lightning came raining from the sky down upon the ponies, shocking them to their very cores. The force of the electric shocks dropped every pastel colored equine to the ground, which horrified the Cosmos. For a brief moment, nopony could move at all, they could only lay on their backs and sides while they moaned out in pain and smoke steamed off their bodies. A scream from the sky, however, practically forced everypony to look up. It came from a familiar, yet unwanted voice, one that should be impossible for them to hear.
The ponies were shocked to see the voice had, indeed, come from the pony they were expecting it to be. The angry, black furred, alicorn stallion flew down in a dark shadowy cloud as he flapped his giant wings furiously. The enraged King Sombra flew in closer until he was right above the fallen ponies when he shot three bolts of attack magic down at Twilight Sparkle. Everyone of those bolts collided with Twilight's right wing, igniting explosions of sparks and flames that made the poor princess scream out in agony. Despite aiming his magic at Twilight, King Sombra flew in close at a different mare altogether, one that could be considered much more vulnerable.
Fluttershy only had time to look up in horror at the evil alicorn before he reached out his front legs and wrapped them around her. The helpless pegasus mare let out a scream as she felt herself being lifted off the ground and into the air as Sombra flew into the sky.
"Gotcha!" the dark lord yelled as he flew higher and further away from the other ponies.
The screams of Fluttershy easily reached the ears of her friends, which acted like a beckon for them all to immediately get back up on their hooves. Cadance and Shinning Armor wasted no time in running up to the barrier on the edge of the building's roof before they started firing off bolts of attack magic. The first several bolts hit King Sombra head on, making him scream out in pain as he started dropping from the sky, which made Fluttershy scream as well. When Rainbow Dash saw what was going on, her jaw dropped in horror before she zipped over to the royal couple as fast as she could.
"Stop, stop, stop!" Rainbow Dash shouted loudly. At the same time, she put her fore hooves over Cadance and Shinning's horns. "Are you two crazy?! You could hit Fluttershy! And now she's falling just like Sombra is! What's wrong with you, two?!"
"We- Uh..." Cadance stuttered.
"We're sorry," Shinning Armor managed to say. "It was a gut reaction! We weren't thinking!"
"Well, start doing it!" Rainbow Dash shouted in anger.
"Look," the Cosmos said as they pointed.
Everypony looked to see Sombra teleport Fluttershy and himself out of the sky.
"Where'd they go?!" Rainbow Dash asked in alarm.
Cadance used the magic of her horn for a locator spell meant to track dark magic.
"He teleported Fluttershy and himself down into the streets," said Princess Cadance.
"Then we've got no time to lose!" Rainbow Dash shouted. "Let's go!"
"Who was that pony?" the Cosmos asked.
"He's the one that released the kaiju," said Applejack.
"And the one currently controlling them... I think," said Pinkie Pie.
"How could it be?" Rarity asked in disbelief. "I thought we destroyed him."
"What matters right now is that we didn't and that he's got Fluttershy!" Rainbow Dash shouted. "Why the heck are we still standing here?!"
"Probably because Twilight ain't even got all the way up yet!" Applejack replied as she pointed a hoof.
Rainbow Dash and the others looked to see Twilight Sparkle groaning as she tried to push herself all the way up to her hooves. The sight of their friend in such peril, especially with how messed up her wing was, made everyone gasp in horror.
"TWILIGHT!" Rainbow Dash, Cadance, and Pinkie Pie shouted together.
It almost looked like the injured alicorn was gonna fall to the ground again. Luckily she was caught by both Applejack and Shinning Armor.
"Whoa there, little filly," said Applejack. "Instead of fallin' down again, let's try doing the other thing."
"Twily, are you alright?" Shinning Armor asked his younger sister.
"I... I'm not sure," Twilight Sparkle admitted. She let out another groan as she reached a hoof to the wing King Sombra had shot. "My wing got fried pretty good... But that's okay since I didn't use my wings all that much anyways."
"Maybe you should sit back and rest," said Shinning Armor.
"Not an option," Twilight Sparkle said sternly. "Fluttershy needs us all and we're all gonna be there to help her. That's that."
With that, Twilight Sparkle used her magic to teleport everyone, including herself, to street level. From there, they followed the path Princess Cadance's locator spell was saying would take them to King Sombra and Fluttershy. They hoped they could get to where they were before it was too late.
Although Sombra had teleported himself and Fluttershy several hundred feet out of the sky, they had ended up reappearing twenty one feet above the ground. Unfortunately, they were both still falling when they reappeared and neither one was able to stop themselves. Fluttershy slipped out of King Sombra's grip, thus both ponies went falling in different directions. Before they could get too far from each other, both ponies' bodies slammed against the hard, concrete, debris covered ground below with a hard, loud, thud. Neither one of the injured ponies moved for several minutes after taking such a terrible fall.
For nearly all the time Fluttershy was laying on the hard, cold ground, she was crying from all the pain she felt. Even when she could move again, she didn't want to because it hurt so much every time she tried. Eventually, though, Fluttershy realized she had to start moving because she was laying just a few feet away from a half crazed evil alicorn. With that in mind, the pink haired pegasus rolled onto her front and began pushing himself up off the concrete, despite it hurting her every second she tried to.
Fluttershy's heart pretty much sank when, at the same time she was trying to get up, she heard the moans and groans of the dark stallion next to her. It wasn't made any better when she actually looked to see King Sombra trying to stand up like she was. He was struggling just like Fluttershy was with the only difference being that he seemed to be having an easier getting up, which was not a good sign for her. This put Fluttershy on high alert and made her want to get up even faster, which she was actually able to do thanks to an adrenaline rush.
Unfortunately it wasn't nearly fast enough and probably never would've been, for King Sombra was already fully standing tall on all fours. He was stumbling, and groaning from the intense pain he was still feeling after the fall. To a degree, Sombra got over his pain when he noticed Fluttershy had ducked down and tried to scurry away from him undetected. The sight of each other gave both ponies very different reactions.
For Fluttershy, it was near heart stopping, mind numbing fear. This was all increased upon seeing Sombra's reaction to her, that being pure hatred and anger. The alicorn stallion scowled while the pegasus mare trembled in terror.
"You," Sombra growled.
Fluttershy gasped and tried to run away, but she was stopped by Sombra's levitation magic catching her and slamming her against a piece of a destroyed building. The poor mare whimpered as she pushed herself up to a sitting position, only for her to gasp fearfully upon seeing King Sombra walking up to her.
"Oh, no," Fluttershy sobbed.
Before she could say anything else, a wave of electric bolts flew out of the dark lord's horn and crashed into Fluttershy's body, making her scream out as loud as ever. King Sombra only kept his lightning blasts going for a few seconds before he ceased fire. He stared coldly at the whimpering Fluttershy as streams of smoke flowed off her body where she had been electrocuted. The helpless pegasus stared up in despair at King Sombra to see his hate filled glare grow more intense by the moment.
"You... and your friends!" King Sombra spat out. "Do you have any idea what you've done?!"
Fluttershy's body trembled as King Sombra stepped closer to her fallen form.
"I-"
"It took nearly all the extra power I got from the seal to shield myself and survive that blast from your Elements of Harmony," King Sombra shouted, cutting off Fluttershy. "Because of that... I can't control them anymore! I don't have enough power for my control spells to be effective on those giants!... But it doesn't matter! Geon and Megaguirus are still more than powerful enough to succeed against your friend, Godzilla on their own!
"Even though you brought in that relic of a moth from before, it still won't be enough! Geon and Megaguirus will still destroy them... followed soon by this whole planet! They have the power!... Where as I still have power enough to take all of you pesky ingrates out myself... one by one. So I figured, 'why not start with the weakest of all?'"
Fluttershy eyes widened with fear.
"You don't mean-"
"Oh, yes I do, dear Fluttershy... It is my full intention to see your miserable little life end on this day... Now prepare yourself to feel the full power of a dark lord's lightning! So long, my little pony!"
"No, please-!"
Fluttershy's words soon turned into screams as she felt the electricity of Sombra's magic bolts of lightning fly from his horn and into her body. He only fired for a few seconds, however, before stopping to gloat.
"Foolish girl. Only now at the end do you understand. Your feeble skills are no match for the power of my dark magic."
King Sombra let out another quick burst of his lightning, which shot into Fluttershy's body, making her scream out again.
"You'll pay the price for your interference with my plans!" Sombra exclaimed as her shot out more of his lightning.
This time, the blasts were continuous going on for several minutes with Fluttershy screaming all the while as King Sombra grinned wickedly.
A sudden feeling of cold flew through Godzilla's body, instantly taking his attention. He was no longer talking to Mothra or listening to what she was saying. Right now all his was focused on was that cold that ran through him and what could've caused it. His instincts were trying to tell him that maybe it was a sense of impending danger, but whether it was aimed at him or not he couldn't decide. He didn't think it was because of the kaiju he and Mothra were fighting, which meant the danger was probably not aimed at him.
This left Godzilla to wonder who was in danger if it wasn't him. It didn't feel to Godzilla like Mothra was the one in danger either, which could only leave... his pony friends! Godzilla felt another cold shiver run through his body, which made him zip his head to the left. As he sniffed the air, Mothra tried to inquire what was wrong, only to get no response from Godzilla at all. Rude as it might've been, Godzilla was extremely focused on that cold feeling of danger he believed was aimed at his friends or at least one of them.
All of a sudden a single name came to Godzilla's mind, one that made his eyes widen in alarm: Fluttershy. Whatever this sixth sense of Godzilla's was, it was telling him that Fluttershy, his closest of dearest of friends was in trouble. That was all he needed to decide to go and try to do something about it. In this case, he would destroy this force that threatened his best friend.
Godzilla turned to Mothra and explained what he just felt and that he absolutely had to do something about it. Much to the Kaiju King's surprise, the giant moth was completely understanding of his situation and instructed him to go handle it. She also said she'd hold off Geon and Megaguirus while Godzilla was handling his business, keeping them at bay until he was finished. Godzilla asked Mothra if she was sure, after which they heard the distinctive calls of both the queen of dragonflies and the evil saurian.
They turned to see both giants of destruction heading right for them. Though both had gotten back up a while ago, they decided to pull back and collect themselves until they were both sure they were ready to continue the fight. It looked like that time had come based on Geon's violent stomping and both kaiju's body language overall, plus their vicious calls as they approached Godzilla and Mothra. The Guardian of the Earth assured her reptilian friend that she could handle both kaiju for a little bit at least and encouraged him to get going and hurry up with his business. Godzilla nodded his head before roaring a quick thank you and with that he was off.
As Godzilla stomped off to find Fluttershy, Mothra was left to deal with the two beasts of terror known as Geon and Megaguirus. While Geon was still in an incredible amount of pain, he wanted desperately with every inch of his being to end both Godzilla and Mothra. Megaguirus also wished to destroy the two good kaiju and, like Geon, would stop at nothing to see that it was done. Both evil kaiju stomped and flew at Mothra, who was flying at them without any sign of fear or hesitation. Geon and Megaguirus roared and shrieked at their colorfully winged adversary, who chirped back at them with a defiant challenge.
This was met with Geon firing his inferno wave right into Mothra's face, causing an explosion to go off, which made her squawk in anguish. Geon fired a second blast that also hit Mothra in the face before he aimed it across her body and wings. The combined burn and force generated by the beam nearly knocked Mothra out of the sky and to the ground. Luckily she was able to get her wings working right and got back on her flight path, which was heading right at Geon and Megaguirus. The Guardian of the Earth responded to Geon's blasts with multiple shots of her antenna rays that flew all over the place, blasting across several parts of both evil kaiju's bodies.
Both kaiju screamed out, for the beams felt like the equivalent of the hottest plasma torches, only a thousand times hotter, being ran across flesh. Megaguirus tried to turn the tide when she gathered up energy for an orb like the one she used on Godzilla earlier. Once she felt she had enough power, Megaguirus launched the orb at Mothra. Upon impact, Mothra squawked out a pain filled call and it almost looked like the great moth was gonna fall out of the sky. But like before, she caught herself and got back on her flight path.
Mothra flew full speed at both kaiju, keeping her antenna beams firing the entire time she flew. Her wings ended up crashing against Geon and Megaguirus' bodies before she stretched out her legs and started scratching both evil beasts as best as she could. Mothra also flapped her wings at accelerated speeds, smacking them both into Geon and Megaguirus the entire time. They also caused large, powerful, hurricane-like gusts of wind that blew against both evil kaiju. Mothra also tried snapping her mandibles at the two sinister kaiju trying to take a bite out of them while still firing her antenna rays all the while.
Megaguirus and Geon didn't just stand there and let all this happen to them without a fight, though. No, they were swinging their claws and pincers at Mothra the entire time. Occasionally they would both try to bite into Mothra's wings and body, sometimes making contact, though she would quickly slip out of their bites despite it hurting every time. That didn't hurt nearly as much as the grip of Megaguirus' pincers whenever she managed to snap them across a part of Mothra's body. Whether it was a wing, a leg, or otherwise, each snap felt like it could rip right through Mothra, though she always managed to get herself free.
Megaguirus would also try swinging her stinger up into Mothra's body to suck energy from her. The giant moth would pull back, however, to avoid the stinger and then charge forward, slamming into both kaiju each time. At one point Megaguirus did manage to get Mothra with her stinger for a few seconds and sucked as much energy as she possibly could. While it hurt like hell, Mothra managed to get herself free of the stinger and continued her assault on the evil kaiju, who continued their own assault on her.
The back and forth exchange of ruthless aggression went on for a long while. Though it had a profound impact on both sides, it was clear, which one had the edge. Mothra was a very powerful creature with a lot of heart and tenacity. It just wasn't enough in this case, for she was up against not one, but two superior opponents. Geon and Megaguirus' combined assault on her had left Mothra with many scratches and bruises and even a few tiny tears in her wings.
The evil monsters could tell they were getting the better of Mothra, which inspired them to press even harder with their attack. Mothra could tell she was losing, too, so she intended to do something about it with one last ditch effort. She would unleash her most powerful weapons upon her two furious foes in hopes it would lead to even the tiniest bit of relief for her. A huge cloud of what looked like yellow smoke came streaming out of Mothra's injured wings. It wasn't long before several glowing particles of energy were visible floating around in that cloud that flowed from the great moth's beautiful wings.
Megaguirus and Geon were confused, at first, by this new ability displayed by Mothra. Soon, however, both kaiju were crying out as they felt a pain that could be best described as feeling like a hundred thousand needles being shoved into their muscles and nerves. At the same time, both kaiju were beginning to feel hazy. Geon's eyes were feeling like they were being forced shut, though he managed to keep them half open at least.
The evil kaiju also felt like a big pressure was running through their heads. It was like they were being pushed on by an invisible force that was trying to either crush their skulls or make them pass out. That same pressure was beginning to push down on their bodies as well, muting the force and speed of any movements they tried to make. Megaguirus and Geon were feeling the full effect of Mothra's poisonous powder and wing scales.
Mothra had used these, her most powerful attacks, on many an occasion. She even managed to claim some victories against several kaiju because of these attacks. The monsters she had used these powers on in the past included the ones before her who had clearly forgotten how much they hurt. They got the harshest of reminders at that moment in that desolated city and it was only going to get worse.
Mothra decided to show off another attack she could do with her wings. Several bolts of golden lightning started flying out of the guardian monster's wings and all of them struck her two dark hearted opponents. These were not any regular bolts of lightning, for they carried a thousand times more electricity than any bolt generated from a cloud in the sky. The added pain of Mothra's lightning blasts was almost more than either kaiju could take. The combined might of these attacks the white moth threw at them was mightier than most would expect from a moth, even one like Mothra.
Geon tried firing his inferno wave and after many failed attempts managed to shoot a beam. Instead of hitting Mothra, however, it turned into several bolts of energy and ended up blasting into Geon and Megaguirus, who screamed out in agony. Mothra decided to give them one more attack, which started when the claws at the end of her legs began glowing. The glows combined into one and launched as a giant beam that blasted across Megaguirus and Geon's body, knocking them both back a few yards. If Mothra was to lose this fight like it had seemed she would earlier, she wasn't about to go down easy and she was letting both her sinister foes know it.
The entire time King Sombra was shooting the lightning from his horn at Fluttershy, his face kept twisting into a sadistic grin to a hateful snarl and even into something in between. Fluttershy was screaming, crying, and squirming for her life throughout every electrical charge sent into her body. Having been electrocuting the helpless mare for several minutes, King Sombra finally ceased fire. He took in several large, deep breaths of exhaustion as he looked down and watched the smoke steam off of Fluttershy. If the poor mare wasn't burnt to a crisp, it was hard to tell while she was laying down on the ground.
"Now my little pony... you will die," King Sombra said in a voice barely above a whisper.
A small, yet sick smile crossed the dark lord's face as he looked down and waited patiently for his helpless victim to expire. Surprisingly, though, this did not happen and instead Fluttershy went on living. She was in more pain than she'd ever been in before, but she was still breathing, heavy and strained as those breaths might've been. Not only that, she was also moving her legs trying as best as she could to keep circulation in them and get up again. She was struggling to keep her eyes open among everything else, but despite all that and the fact that she probably shouldn't have survived, Fluttershy was still alive!
Seeing this wiped the smile off of Sombra's psychotic face and replaced it with an angry frown. King Sombra snarled as he resumed shooting his lightning at the fallen pegasus, forcing her to scream out yet again.
"You will die, you little brat!" King Sombra spat out. "Do you hear me?! You're gonna die! I will be the pony that takes your life and throws it into Tartarus!"
"Don't count on it, chump!" Rainbow Dash screamed.
Before Sombra could turn around, he was hit from behind by four beams of attack magic. Those beams came from none other than Twilight Sparkle, Rarity, Cadance, and Shinning Armor, who were accompanied by everyone else. This included the Cosmos, who hung back on their Fairy Mothra and watched the situation before them play out. Every single one of pony there that called Fluttershy friend were so mad that they planned to rip King Sombra into tiny pieces.
Twilight Sparkle ran up to Sombra and swung her magic covered horn up into his chest and face, knocking him back in a flash of sparks. Shinning Armor and Cadance appeared at the sides of Sombra and spun around, slashing their horns across his body, causing more sparks to explode. Rarity ran up and spun around, swinging her right back hoof across Sombra's face. Then Applejack and Pinkie Pie ran up to Sombra's sides and turned to buck their back hooves into his rib cages.
Sombra ended up tripping over Fluttershy's still fallen body, making him fall back on his flank. Before he even had a chance to try and get up, the evil pony saw Rainbow Dash flying at him full speed ahead. He was helpless when the angry blue pony grabbed him around the waist and then flew straight upwards. At forty feet, Rainbow Dash spun around in the air and released King Sombra, sending him back down to Earth. After she watched the hated enemy crash into the ground, Rainbow Dash flew to the spot where her friends were all gathered around Fluttershy.
As soon as she landed, Rainbow Dash tried to run up to Fluttershy's side, but she was held back by Applejack and Shinning Armor. Everypony watched as Twilight Sparkle checked over Fluttershy.
"Fluttershy!" Rainbow Dash choked out, for she started to weep. "Fluttershy, are you alright?! Come on, Flutters, you have to be alright!"
Twilight Sparkle's glowing horn was moving slowly over Fluttershy's body as the violet alicorn examined her. Based on what Twilight could see, it didn't look good for her sweet hearted friend and she didn't know if she could deal with it. That's about how everypony else was feeling looking down at the injured Fluttershy, too. There wasn't a pony who's eyes weren't filled up with tears for poor, dear Fluttershy, the most sweetest of ponies. It was hard to tell which of them was going to have the first emotional breakdown, but what wasn't hard to see was that eventually all of them were going to have one.
But then when it looked like all that emotional turmoil was gonna come to a head, everypony caught sight of something out of the corner of their eyes. They looked to see the Cosmos flying down on their Fairy Mothra transportation. They flew in front of Twilight Sparkle and lowered down closer to Fluttershy's fallen form. Everypony watched closely at the two miniature girls and prayed that their presence meant they could do something.
The Cosmos looked to each other as the fairy on the right placed her hand in the hand of the fairy on the left. Suddenly the two little girls began glowing as they raised their hands towards Fluttershy and began chanting in a language the ponies couldn't understand. The equines watched in amazement as a wave of energy particles flowed out of the Cosmos raised hands and covered itself over Fluttershy. A glow appeared over the fallen body of the pegasus mare and lasted for several minutes before fading away. The Cosmos stopped glowing and lowered their hands as their chanting ceased.
Everyone waited impatiently to see the results of what the Cosmos did, if there were any at all. It turned out that the twin fairies' magic did have an effect on Fluttershy. A few seconds later, her ear twitched, followed by other parts of her body. Everypony gasped before huge smiles crossed their faces, followed shortly by Fluttershy's eyes opening up. She looked up at her friends and it was easy to tell that while she no longer felt any pain, the poor filly was extremely tired.
"Hello, everypony."
"FLUTTERSHY!" everyone shouted happily.
Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash both suddenly leaped forward and hugged Fluttershy tightly. They were both babbling at the same time about how happy they were she was alright and demanding she not scare them like that again. Rainbow and Pinkie both ended up kissing Fluttershy on the head before everypony else gathered around and started showering her with love.
"Wow, thanks everypony," said Fluttershy with a slightly embarrassed smile on her face.
"Of course," said Twilight Sparkle. "We love you, Fluttershy. If we had lost you, we would've lost our heart."
Fluttershy's eyes widened in surprise as she asked, "Really?"
"Absolutely," said Twilight Sparkle. "Everypony plays a central part here and you, Fluttershy, are the heart of the team."
Fluttershy looked around and saw everypony smiling, some of them nodding to reinforce that what Twilight had said before was the truth.
"Oh... thank you so much, everypony," said an emotional Fluttershy. "I love you all from the bottom of my heart!"
The joyful equines embraced each other in a tight group hug. They all felt so much happiness deep down in their hearts that they just couldn't handle it. While still keeping their group hug in tact, everypony looked up to see the Cosmos smiling down at them from the seat of their Fairy Mothra.
"Thank you, girls, for the return of our friend," said Twilight Sparkle.
"We thought we'd lost one of our greatest friends ever," said Pinkie Pie.
The Cosmos both bowed respectfully to the happy ponies.
"We are glad to have been of service," the Cosmos said together. "One thing we've always loved about Equestria is that the whole country seems to be filled with love and happy feelings wherever you go, just like what we're seeing from you all now."
"I gotta admit, I'm kind of surprised your spell worked," said Twilight Sparkle.
The Cosmos gave a confused look to the violet pony.
"What do you mean?" the Cosmos asked.
"Well, I figured your magic wouldn't effect Fluttershy since she's so much... bigger than you," said Twilight Sparkle.
The Cosmos responded with amused smiles before they said, "You never know unless you try."
"That's... true, I guess," said Twilight Sparkle.
"Well, I can say I'm most certainly glad you gave it the old country try," said Applejack.
"Indeed," Rarity agreed. "Had you not, we might've lost something very precious to us. We might've lost the most wonderful pony in Equestria!"
"Aww, you say such nice things," said Fluttershy. "I must be the luckiest pony in the world."
Rarity hugged Fluttershy closer to her followed by everypony else tightening the group embrace. Suddenly that hug was interrupted by an angry growl ringing through the air as several bolts of lightning flew at the group. King Sombra flew down in the middle of the group and instantly went on the attack. He kept swinging his magic covered horn across the bodies of everypony he could. After every strike, he would instantly turn to strike another pony before they could jump in to stop him.
Sombra was also throwing all shorts of punches and kicks at anypony he could. He even managed to shoot bolts of attack magic at some ponies a greater distance away. The evil lord was running on pure adrenaline in this rage filled, psychotic rampage. It seemed to be going very well for King Sombra since so far nopony was able to touch him and he was unleashing a whole lot of painful assaults on everypony around him. Despite the group's best efforts to try and stop the enraged stallion, he was just too fast and even too powerful at that point.
King Sombra's psychotic rampage came to a premature end when the Cosmos decided to get involved. They flew in on Fairy Mothra right in front of Sombra's face and lifted their clasped together hands in the air.
"Mosura," the Cosmos sang out as they and their moth lit up in a bright glow.
It was so bright in fact that it actually burned King Sombra's eyes forcing him to cover them up as he turned away and screamed. After the Cosmos stopped glowing, Twilight Sparkle jumped in and took the opportunity to attack the dark lord. The alicorn mare slashed her horn twice across Sombra's body before spinning around and slashing her horn across a third time. Twilight Sparkle then fired a large beam of magic at King Sombra sending him flying back in a cloud of explosions. The stallion crashed against a piece of a destroyed building before dropping to the ground itself.
After that, Prince Shinning Armor and Princess Cadance teleported to Twilight's sides and placed their horns against hers. A second later, a giant beam of attack magic generated by all three horns flew at King Sombra. The evil pony only had time to look before the beam collided with him causing a huge explosion that would've probably ended a lesser pony. Everypony ran up to Twilight, Shinning, and Cadance and took battle stances in preparation to meet King Sombra in combat should it be called for. They watched as the evil stallion slowly stepped out of the flames left by the beam that struck him.
After he put the flames behind him, Sombra only got in five more steps before he dropped forward to the ground. He was breathing heavy from pain and exhaustion, both of which seemed to have caught up to him at last. All the punishment he had taken left several different injuries all over him from burns to scars, and bruises among other battle wounds. Sombra looked up to see several faces glaring at him hatefully, those faces belonging to the Mane Six and the royal couple. The feeling was mutual as was expressed by a scowl on Sombra's face followed by a scream of fury.
"What is it with you, ponies?!" the angry Sombra asked. "Why can't you just quit? Why can't you all just run and hide when you see danger coming?! Why can't you let me do what I've got to do as an agent of evil?!... Why can't you just die?!...
"Why must you try to be such heroes?!"
"We're not trying to be heroes, Sombra," said Twilight Sparkle. "We're trying to do what's right."
"Why?!"
"Just for that reason," said Fluttershy. "Because it's the right thing to do."
"If you could understand what that is or why you had to do it, Sombra, then you would be that much closer to actually earning your title of king," said Twilight Sparkle.
This infuriated King Sombra something fierce, as could be seen by the fire in his eyes.
"I am the king!" Sombra spat in defiance. "I am the king of evil!"
At that moment, all anypony could do was smile, which angered Sombra even further. He then noticed that they were looking up passed him before they turned their smiles back in his direction. He also noticed the giant foot stomps that had been so far away were starting to get closer, or at least one set was. Finally a shadow fell over everypony, one Sombra knew the origins of despite not looking behind him.
The alicorn stallion hesitated for several seconds before he slowly began to turn to see what was behind him. His ears caught the low growls of a giant creature before he fully turned and looked up to see the beast itself in all its glory.
"Oh, no," Sombra whispered just before Godzilla let out a roar.
"Sombra... meet the only true king in this land," said Fluttershy.
"GODZILLA!" everypony shouted together.
The King of Monsters let out a huge roar, which shook King Sombra to his very core. Suddenly the evil pony was hit from both sides by the magic beams of Cadance and Shinning Armor. They held him in place while he watched the Mane Six charge up the Elements of Harmony just as he had seen them do before.
"No!" the highly distressed Sombra cried out in protest. "I won't see it end this way!"
"Then close your eyes," Twilight Sparkle said as she opened hers.
The two spiraling, rainbow colored, beams of magic generated by the Elements of Harmony flew from the Mane Six and crashed into Sombra. The dark alicorn screamed, shouted, and cried as he felt the beams burning through him. Cadance and Shinning Armor ceased fire of their own beams and teleported behind the Mane Six. There they watched as the incredible burst of power from the Elements spiraled into Sombra, causing him a great amount of agony.
"No! No, please! Have mercy! I beg you! Have pity!... I'm sorry! I didn't mean to do it!... I'm sorry!"
Sombra's pleas fell on deaf ears, for the Mane Six's blast of power continued on and even began to lift Sombra into the air. He screamed out as the searing pain continued to flow through his body. He didn't notice he was being turned around until he saw who he was facing. Sombra was now face to face with Godzilla! The once mighty alicorn had never been more afraid than he was in that moment looking into the furious eyes of the mightiest of kaiju. Godzilla was emitting several low growls before he raised his head and let out a roar before he fired his atomic breath forth.
The sounds of the beam crackling drowned out the screams of Sombra who was engulfed in the bright blue giant beam that was Godzilla's ultimate attack. After only two seconds, the Alpha Predator ceased fire of his beam. Where Sombra once was, there was now nothing but empty space. Despite that it was all over, the ponies still stared up in disbelief at what happened and how bad Sombra got it when he met his end. Plus, even though they saw it for their own eyes, the ponies all had a hard time understanding that, as far as Sombra was concerned, it was finally over.
They thought they had gotten rid of him before, only to discover he managed to survive. This time, though, Godzilla was involved, so that had to account for something. That's what the group of ponies were beginning to realize. Then it dawned on them; it was finally beginning to sink in that, after all that's happened, after all they went through, Sombra was finally gone.
"So... do you really think he's done for?" Pinkie Pie asked.
"I... I sure hope so," said Twilight Sparkle.
"Of course he is!" Rainbow Dash shouted. "G did him in this time! And once G puts someone down, they stay down!"
"I'll tell you one thing," Fluttershy said. Everypony looked to their friend to listen closely to what she had to say. "That must've really burned him up."
Everypony busted out laughing at the top of their lungs before coming together and embracing once again.
"Oh, Fluttershy, I love ya!" Rainbow Dash shouted as she patted her friend on the back.
"Yee-Haw!" Applejack whooped. "Finally, he's gone! King Sombra's gone!"
After everypony cheered over their definite victory against the dark lord, they looked to see the Cosmos flying by.
"Thanks again for your help, girls," said Twilight Sparkle. "We couldn't have done it without you."
The Cosmos bowed in gratitude just before Godzilla's growls rang through the air. This grabbed everypony's attention as they looked to see Godzilla staring down at them tentatively.
"And of course thank you for your help, too, big guy," said Twilight Sparkle.
"Yeah, thanks a million, G," said Rainbow Dash.
Everypony else said their thank yous to Godzilla, which he roared in reply to saying they were welcome.
"But don't forget, Godzilla, your part in this isn't over yet," said Fluttershy as she flew up to her kaiju friend. "You still have to go help Mothra finish fighting Geon and Megaguirus and finally put an end to the evil that's plagued us for so long."
Godzilla looked back the way he came then looked down on the rest of his friends then back to Fluttershy. He roared out asking how she was doing and if she was gonna be alright.
"Oh, I'm fine thank you," said Fluttershy. "Thanks to everypony's efforts helping me, including yours, I'll be just fine now. Plus, I'll have everyone looking after me, so nothing should go wrong."
Godzilla then asked how everypony else was doing and if they were gonna be alright.
"Oh, they'll be fine, I'm sure," said Fluttershy.
"We will help them with their injuries the way we helped you with yours, Fluttershy," the Cosmos reassured.
"So, you see, Godzilla?" Fluttershy asked. "We'll be fine, but only for certain if you and Mothra win, which I'm sure you will. Now go on... kick some tail."
"Ooh, Fluttershy," said Pinkie Pie. "Nice tough talk."
Godzilla took one last look at everypony before smiling to Fluttershy and then walking away. Fluttershy flew back down with everyone else and watched as Godzilla stomped off to finish the fight once and for all.
"Well... now, it's really all up to them now," said Twilight Sparkle.
"Then we've got nothing to worry about," said Fluttershy.
"I couldn't agree more," said Rarity.
"Okay, everypony, we better get somewhere safe, somewhere far, and somewhere high... again," said Cadance.
"RIGHT!" everypony said at the same time as they gave a single nod of their heads.
With that, everypony turned away and ran off to find a location where they could see the rest of the fight play out. They hoped and prayed this would be the end of it at long last.
Well, some of you guys predicted how at least parts of the ending would go. I'm sure more of you did, but only a few said what they thought was gonna happen. Like I've said before, this story was planned out long in advance before I ever actually started writing it, so things like bringing back Mothra was always planned (as was incorporating her powers from several different eras of her time as a movie monster). Now, when I saw people predicting what was gonna happen, I asked myself, "Do I just keep the predictable ending or do I rewrite it?" After many a moment thinking it over, I decided, "Hey, it may be predictable, but I still love this ending, so I'm gonna keep it". Also, you may notice that some moments here between Fluttershy and King Sombra are incredibly similar to a movie in a very famous franchise. Well, the fact is that originally that was just placeholder stuff that I was gonna rewrite later. But given that I love that movie, the whole franchise, and how it played out in the story, I decided to just leave it in. Also, the new movie comes out on the 18th and I'm more excited than an 8 year old at the candy store! WWWWWWHHHHHOOOOOO!
Anyways, you all know the routine, please let me know about any mistakes I missed, even things you're not entirely sure are mistakes, but thin might be. That way I can correct them to the best of my ability. I'm The Guy Who Likes To Write Stuff, wishing you all a Happy Kwanzaa, Happy Hanukah, and a very Merry Christmas this holiday season. Also, MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU BOYS AND GIRLS COME THE 18TH! AH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!