Junior was admittedly a bit surprised at Xenilla’s response. He was used to the smug boasting or callousness he’d seen for years, both in their personal battles or when Xenilla was commanding some Mutations Junior was fighting. Instead though, Xenilla actually seemed saddened when he responded. He picked himself up as best he could, not puffing his chest out or holding his head high but instead maintaining a passive posture.
He’s on a warpath. If I fight back, it’ll only make it worse. He sighed, coughing a bit due to exhaling, while looking at Junior in what could best be described as a mix of tiredness and sincerity. Don’t say I didn’t try, Blades… “Not you, I never wanted to hurt you… What happened was-”
Godzilla Junior cut him off with a roar one couldn’t expect an equine to be able to make, for it was one Xenilla had heard dozens of times before from a beast as big as a walking mountain. Junior cut the roar off, huffing and snorting through his flared nose before speaking with a hateful growl. “You invaded my home, you hurt my friends, you threatened my world. You caused a war!”
“I know I did! But I had a reason! I had to do it and I hated every second of it!” Xenilla called out in his plea. The response he got was an enraged stream of nuclear energy aimed at his face. Xenilla threw his hooves up and the patches of slick fur on his shoulders lit up as he summoned forth a shield. The beam and barrier clashed for a time, Xenilla’s effort successfully deflecting portions of Godzilla’s beam off to the sides. But Junior was far from done. He yelled in berserk fury while emitting his ray, amplifying the glow and intensity while taking a shaking step forward. Xenilla grunted and strained, his hindlegs beginning to slide backwards across the rocky mountainside. The malice and hatred within Junior intensified by the second as Xenilla still withstood his assault. His reactor of a heart began to work overtime, siphoning power away from all sources and intensifying itself to match its owner’s wrath, going to dangerous levels. Numerous scars, some decades old, returned to Junior’s outward appearance.
Xenilla squinted through the assault, holding off his brother’s attack for a time. But even he couldn’t withstand the out of control power spike Godzilla was going through and soon the beam ate through his shield. Xenilla was forced to dodge out of the way, the beam burning him across his right arm and shoulder before it raked itself across the mountainside and carved a six meter-deep gouge into it.
Seeing Xenilla alive, even if he was smoking and sent sliding a good three feet backwards, only caused Junior’s rage, hatred, and fury to become totally unbridled. His mane and eyes were glowing so bright now they were practically white. As his body drew in all the power it could from his tissue, it caused some of his other powers to turn off and on at random. Each step was a small nuclear pulse that shattered the rock underneath it, and Junior’s regeneration all but turned off entirely as the intense glow from his mane and eyes spread to flesh under the scar tissue and lit them up.
Seeing the old wounds on his sibling caused Xenilla to start getting flashbacks to the dozens of wounds he’d see Godzilla incur from just fighting the Mutations alone. Duels with the new Megaguirus leaving him slashed and stabbed, several rounds with a gorged Pulgasari that left him battered; or the numerous times Xenilla was sure Godzilla would kill one of his pawns outright if it was one on one so he’d send multiple Mutations out to places he knew Godzilla would be close to and respond. All the Mutations Xenilla had all but forced him to fight time and time again, winning the battles but not going unscathed. This state Junior was in, one riddled with signs of injury and trauma, was Junior’s true appearance; not the one typically seen where said marks were largely masked by his regeneration. This was the first time Xenilla saw him like this, filling his mind with horror soon replaced by deep guilt as the memories flashed before him.
What have I done to you…
Junior meanwhile grunted and hissed, obviously in a world of pain from his ferocious powers tearing at his own body. “You hurt the humans, you threatened my mother!”
“I know! I’m sorry! But you-”
Godzilla roared as sparks of red replaced the sparks of blue jumping across his body and mane. The same wrath that his father felt after Junior’s apparent death, one that caused his already strained powers to run wild; the same fury that ultimately killed him and the same power Junior absorbed from his predecessor. It was happening again. Xenilla felt a stone of dread and horror fall into his stomach as he saw the patches of red flicker across his sibling’s body, his temperature spiking so badly that steam was coming off him. Junior had completely lost control by the time he stomped on the ground in a massive nuclear pulse. The resulting shockwave ripped into the mountainside and leveled several trees that lay within the ten meter radius.
Xenilla groaned as he struggled back to his feet, the world having gone black after the shockwave threw him so hard against a boulder that his vision had been knocked out temporarily. He felt the ground shake as footsteps approached him.
“You’re a threat to this world and my own, Xenilla. You took away any chance at peace I’d have…”
A searing hot hoof knocked into Xenilla’s jaw and pinned him against the rocks behind him. His vision was restored in the eye of his that hadn’t swelled shut, greeting him to the sight of a brother teetering on the edge of a metaphorical and literal meltdown. Godzilla’s burning eyes and flaming breath burned at his muzzle and mind. Xenilla felt a tear sting his good eye, vision locked on the growing, death bringing red spreading through Junior’s body. “Br-Brother! Your power! Your heart, it’ll kill you!” He choked. The enraged kaiju ignored his warning and instead spoke in a shockingly and terrifying quiet voice, throwing one final guilty charge against Xenilla as the burning judgement grew in his throat.
“You tried to kill my father…”
Just before Xenilla could see the final light that meant a permanent lights out, a golden ray of magic slammed into Godzilla’s broadside and knocked him away from Xenilla and into the mountainside.
Story created by tarbano Godzilla Jr. and Xenilla (Spacegodzilla) are owned by Toho