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Raiga gets one good look at the new Siren body she's been put in and starts cursing up a storm. Amused, Starlight Glimmer patiently sits and listens, but after about seven minutes, has enough and picks her up with her telekinesis, then rocks her back and forth while humming like to a baby. Starlight asks if she has calmed down, and Raiga says she has and apologizes for that embarrassing display. Starlight assumes Raiga hit her head and has amnesia. She explains Raiga is a Siren and asks if she remembers how she got here. She says no and asks where they are. Starlight replies, "We're west of Manehattan and Fillydelphia, near Hollow Shades in northern Equestria."

Upon hearing the word "Equestria", Raiga flashes back. Five days ago, Gamera and Zilla called a meeting of the good Kaiju and explained how Godzilla and the others are trapped in a strange world called Equestria and transformed into native species. She starts to get annoyed that she's here too. Starlight explains Manehattan is next to the ocean and asks if she wants to come with her. Raiga agrees, believing that she will be able to find her lost friends and then figure out a way to get home.

Starlight says they should get moving because the sun will set soon. Raiga, due to being adapted to the deep ocean, can see in the dark and says it won't be a problem. Scared, Starlight explains that the forest is dangerous at night and there have been many disappearances lately. Raiga tries to assure her that she'll protect them if anything attacks them, but falls over and Starlight has to catch her with telekinesis. Extremely annoyed, Raiga asks how she is supposed to travel without any hind legs. Thinking Raiga's "amnesia" must be worse than she thought, Starlight racks her brain and then remembers a lesson her teacher, Duchess Chrysalis, taught her. One thousand years ago, a trio of Sirens named Adagio, Aria, and Sonata formed a musical group called the Muses and toured Equestria, spreading songs encouraging peace and love. They could levitate to travel over land. Curious, Raiga remembers how Manda and Grand King Ghidorah can also levitate and decides to give it a try. She concentrates her internal mana through her body and then downward. After a bit of trial and error, she manages to levitate and then move around.

As the pair set off, Raiga quickly grows bored, but then sees a blurred figure in the distance who disappears when she takes a second look. She asks Starlight what makes the forest so dangerous at night. Very nervous that she brought it up, Starlight says that so far, all the Kaiju attacks have been at night. Thinking that the evil Kaiju who got hit by Dimension Tide's second wave are here, Raiga asks who has been attacking, but is shocked when Starlight says it was Godzilla and his comrades. Starlight explains that shortly after their arrival, Godzilla and his comrades freed the evil Empress Cadenza from imprisonment and then together, attempted an invasion of Canterlot. Thanks to the efforts of Chrysalis and the good Kaiju, they were repelled, and the villains went into hiding for now.

Outraged, Raiga says that has to be the most ridiculous thing she has ever heard. Godzilla is one of the greatest heroes she has ever known. Starlight protests that Xenilla helped them and gave them everything they needed to know, and now they are meeting in Manehattan to form plans to defeat them once and for all. Raiga angrily pins her against a tree, but Starlight casts a spell that lets her see auras and is terrified to see Raiga's true form.

Not the Lea you remember.

Starlight teleports out of Raiga's grasp and tries to run away. Crackling with electricity, Raiga gives chase, but a beam suddenly fires out of nowhere and knocks Starlight unconscious. A voice says, "Well well, seems fortune favors the progressive. I come to pick you up, and I end up finding two things we've been looking for." Shocked, Raiga turns around. The voice is very familiar, but it is frigid instead of kind and warm. Raiga screams in horror and confusion, "L-Lea!?" Lea replies, "Hello there Raiga, just when we were beginning to think Gamera didn't spread the memo."

One hour ago, in what was once the Thicket Deer Kingdom, Battra Lea enters the palace, scrunching her nose at the scent of burnt deer. She steps over the charred skeleton of the former deer king to find Godzilla Junior sloppily eating a deer, spilling blood everywhere. Disgusted, she asks why he bothers eating instead of absorbing energy. He says it is much more enjoyable and it reminds him he's on top of the food chain. Lea lounges on the throne and seductively asks him why he summoned her. Godzilla, with a massive scar across his chest and blood on his face, looks out the window and says he can sense the presence of another of his kind. Worried, Lea asks if Xenilla found them, but he assures her that Cadenza's enchantments are still working to prevent them from being detected, plus the newcomer is female. Lea mutters that she can't believe they got a peace lover like Raiga as backup but beggars can't be choosers. She nuzzles him and he orders her to retrieve Raiga. She tells her King it will be done and teases him by slinking away, but tells him to take a bath. Before she goes, he asks how the project is coming along. She says it will require a powerful Unicorn, but fortunately, Cadenza told her about a certain student of Duchess Chrysalis who will fit the bill nicely.

I sense a disturbance in The Force.

In present Manehattan, Duchess Chrysalis looks over the new outfits Suri Polomare made in honor of the good Kaiju. Chrysalis shudders and has the feeling something terrible has happened. Not wanting to worry Suri, she says the new outfits are great, especially Destroyah's dress, and Suri says it is the least she could do after Xenilla and his friends helped save Canterlot. Chrysalis comments to herself that something still feels wrong and that she hadn't felt this stressed since the time Queen Trixie was almost abducted during her own coronation. She asks Suri the news since she had contacted Xenilla the most recently. Suri says he and his friends are on their way to Manehattan by train. Although he was originally supposed to come tomorrow, he sensed something funny and wanted to come here as fast as he could and should arrive at about midnight. Chrysalis says that is fortunate.

Note: To those readers who are still confused, Raiga landed in the Mirror Universe.

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