Kaiju - End of Days

The Centaur shoved the Bat off with a hiss, before heading to the hatch. "Follow me." She said as she opened the hatch. Water flooded in and she swam out. She waited for the Bat to get out of the ship. Once out she led him to the city. "This is the nearest land mass I know of." She said once they hit the shore line.

The Centaur chuckled. "All the weapons these things used on me didn't do anything!" She chuckled. "They aren't killing us with those." She said. "And in my defense, I think a good half of all the destroyed stuff was partly because I was walking."She added.

The Centaur huffed, with steam shooting from her dorsal vents. "Mistake my but for a mountain... Rotten smelly...." The Centaur grumbled to herself. She looked around for a good spot to hide before taking note of the huge mountain. They towered over even her. On top of that, plenty of mountains were volcanos on her planet. She made her way to the mountain range.

Hiro has spent a stressful day trying to deal with not being getting caught naked after his fight with the monster, and naturally landed in a sour mood once he returned home that night, home being the Dojo where he trained with his master, Sasuke Fogi. It was difficult blowing off steam given how strong he was, but his master showed him a different approach.

"Hiro! Come here!" barked the strict master.

Hiro practically slid on his knees to position himself in front of his master. "Hai, sensei!" he answered, obediently.

"Do you know why we focus in every day before we begin training?" asked Fogi.

Hiro lowered his shoulders. Fogi wouldn't be asking such a basic question unless Hiro had done something stupid. "To remove all distractions from our minds so that they don't bother us during training."

"That's right," said Fogi. "This is a technique not simply for training, but for any time when dark thoughts need to be banished from the mind. Your heart is heavy with darkness, so meditate until you can behave properly."

"Hai sensei," said Hiro. He sat up and closed his eyes. His favorite method for meditation was to picture a lit candle and focusing on the flame. Any thoughts that were not the image were chased away, and whenever the flame flickered for any reason, he would calm it down until it was still. This resulted in a calm, serene state for the boy.

Outside, though, the old man spotted something. It resembled a large shadow lumbering across the scenery toward the mountains. He said nothing, though. Hiro's meditation took priority. The threat would still be there when the boy was finished.

The centaur soon arrived at the mountain. She climbed up to the top of it and groaned. She could tell the mountain was a volcano, thanks to the heat she could feel. However, it was dormant and the top was sealed. She'd only be able to enter the mountain by breaking a hole, which would start an eruption.

Hiro's eyes opened, and he took in a long breath before letting it back out calmly. "Okay, I'm fine now," he said. "Forgive me, sensei."

"There is no need for forgiveness, but now a more pressing matter has arisen," said the old man. "You fought the monster that attacked earlier today. It has returned and made its way to the mountains. It passed while you were meditating."

"What!" cried Hiro. "Why didn't you tell me!?"

"Calm yourself!" ordered Fogi. "That monster is no longer close to people. Now is a better time to strike. Go now and find out exactly what this creature wants and deal with it."

"Hai, sensei!" said Hiro, about to bolt out the door.

"Remember, Hiro! Do not be the first to reach for violence, but, if you must fight, win."

Hiro gave the old man a nod. "I always fight to win."

Within a second, he was already out of the house and charging toward the mountains. At this time of night he figured he's be able to track it down from its glowing body. At least he hoped he would.

Elsewhere, far out from the Earth's atmosphere moved a massive ship. "Plasma trail ends on the third planet from the sun." Spoke one of the pilots, a slim insectoid creature. "Excellent." spoke the captain of the ship, a hulking beast seemingly made of rocks, with moss growing all over his hide. "Have Gyras head down to the planet and retrieve the fugitives, with as little damage to the local life forms as possible." Spoke the captain. "Sir, yes sir." Spoke a robot who was half the captains height, before it headed off.

Back on Earth the centaur grumbled to herself. Not only would she be unable to hide in the volcano with out setting it off, the mountain was freezing at the top. Smoke began to escape from her back as she shot a stream of fire at the surrounding area, igniting what ever plantlife was at the top of the mountain. She stopped when she saw a cloud of dust heading her way, it took her a moment to realize it was being kicked up by Hiro as he charged towards the mountain. She snarled. "Great." She groaned.

The cloud stopped about a hundred yards away from the great beast. "What do you want!?" he shouted at her. "Why are you smashing up everything and attacking towns, huh!?"

Before there was any kind of answer, the giant bat fell down from the sky, landing talons first onto the boy. The bat proceeded to tear and claw at the boy underfoot, sending up bits of stone flying into the air as slashed his claws at the boy.

"One bug taken care of," said the bat. "Now then, let's--"

Hiro suddenly shot up like a rocket, planting a punch so fast and hard against the bat's lower head that it lifted the colossal flyer over the centaur before he landed back on earth.

The young fighter landed back on the ground, his clothing torn to shreds and his breath heavy. There appeared to be no deep gashes in his body, though, and his mood suddenly turned fiery. "You want some!? Come on! I dare you!"

The Centaur scratched her head when she heard Hiro. She assumed he was trying to speak, but she didn't understand what he was saying. She was about to respond when the bat suddenly attacked. The Centaur didn't have a chance to react before the bat was suddenly launched into the air. She could help but burst out into laughter. Getting beat up by Hiro herself wasn't particularly amusing, but watching someone else get beat up was hilarious. "Hey! Move out of the way!" The centaur shouted at the bat as columns of light escaped the vents in her back.

In the ship, a dinosaur-liek creature was in the armory, working on some kind of chest plate. The robot walked into the room. "Gyras, the Captain as ordered that you gear up and head down to the planet. We believe the fugitives are on it." The robot said. "Understood." The dinosaur said as he finished up his armor. The dinosaur got his armor on and headed into the hangar bay. It wasn't long before he headed out, floating through some kind of levitation. Thanks to his armor, flying out in the vacuum of space, and breaking through Earth's Atmosphere wouldn't be problems at all.

Hiro began waving his arms in a long, wide loop in front of his body, bringing them together in front of himself. "I don't know where you come from!" he shouted. "But you're not welcome here!"

They were away from the town. Hiro could go all out now. It was time to show these giant pains in the neck just what they were dealing with.

Hiro dashed from his position at blinding speeds, stopping just under the centaur's elevated belly. he proceeded to thrust his arms upward, letting loose a pair of large, blue fists up at her underside with enough force to drive himself into a twenty foot deep crater in the solid stone ground.

The Centaur went flying into the air before crashing back down. Smoke began coming from her back as she got to her feet. A beam burst from her mouth at Hiro.

That trick would not work twice. Hiro thrust an open palm forward, letting loose an energy palm large enough to fully shield him from the blast and enough force to shove the blast right back to its source.

Hiro was about to follow that up with another ultra-powered attack wen the Bat dove in and grabbed the boy with his teeth. Rather than let him punch the bat's teeth out, the colossal chiroptera catapulted the kid high into the air, sending him arching over to the mouth of the volcano.

"Light up the volcano!" shouted the bat. "We're not killing that bug any other way!"

The Centaur nodded. She charged up a beam, but held it in, allowing it's power to build up. A series of smaller beams soon shot from her vents. The Centaur opened her mouth as a powerful beam shot out, hitting the top of the volcano. The mountain immediately exploding, erupting with an immense amount of force, launching lava and debris everywhere. The Centaur moved in front of the bat, blocking any lava that might have hit him.

The volcano's eruption could be seen from all the neighboring towns as molten rock lurched high into the sky. The initial burst having passed, however, the mountain simply proceeded to spill lava over its edges, lighting up the dark of the night with its orange glow.

"We can't stay," said the bat, cringing and cowering behind the centaur. "We are sure to be found! We must disappear, quickly!" The bat's ears suddenly turned their open sides upward, and his eyes opened still wider with horror. "No. No, he still lives!"

High in the air overhead, a young human male plummeted down with his fist chambered to one side. There were no nearby towns, no innocent people to put at risk. It was time to go all out.

It was time for the Colossus' Fist.

Hiro threw down his fist, loosing a powerful cry as he did so, and down came a fist of energy spiking down like a hundred thunderbolts. The fist was wider across than both the bat and the centaur combined and crashed down on top of them with enough force to shake the grown, triggering another surge of molten rock to shoot into the air and rain down in all directions.

Both were crushed under the fist, leaving a very sizeable crater in the ground. The Centaur snarled once the energy fist dissipated. "Scream at him." The Centaur said to the bat with a hiss.

The bat squirmed under the centaur, barely aware of anything that was going on until its ears twitched upward, hearing the roaring volcano in front of them. Molten rock showered down from the sky and raced down the sides of the mountain, engulfing everything its path. A plume of it splashed down next to the bat, startling the more delicate of the giants. The only thing keeping it from flying away that instant was the incredible pain he had endured from the last attack.

He looked around, trying to pick out where Hiro had landed. Sure enough, he spotted the boy standing heroically on the centaur's horizontal back.

"The bug is on your back!" the Bat wheezed. "Don't let it--"

Hiro lifted his foot and stomped down onto the centaur's back, creating a visible shock wave from the force delivered, with enough volume to shake the bat's ears.

The Centaur hit the ground, shaking it. She let out a loud growl and charged up a beam. However, she didn't fire it from her mouth. She held it, with the beam escaping through the vents on her back. Several large wide columns of plasma burst from her back, launching Hiro into the air.

Hiro flipped through the air, blown away by the attack when the bat took the opportunity to sit up and scream in his direction, warping the air around them with the vibrations.

The echoes from the scream bounce off the mountain, filling the entire area with intense sound. Once the bat lost his breath and the air quieted, Hiro once more found himself inside a crater. His clothing once more burned away to vapors, the boy peeled himself out of the mountainside once more, blood running down his forehead. "So that's how you wanna play it, huh?" he growled. "Fine. No more sandbagging."

He stood up all the way and took in a deep breath. After that, he let out a bursting yell of his own so powerful as to also warp the air around him, easily driving the bat into agony. From there, the boy thrust a hand forward, another battle cry leaving his throat. Another colossal hand emitted from Hiro's body, one large enough to wrap its fingers around the flying beast and crush him in its grip. When the fingers let go, the once mighty bat fell limp to the ground, his breathing short and raspy, and its eyes wide with horror.

"What about you!?" called Hiro to the centaur, his voice easily echoing through the landscape.