I Shall Not Mate

Brown Scale is an infant kaiju pterosaur born with armor. The matriarchs of his Flock see his armor as a deformity. They want to kill him before he can reach breeding age and pass his deformity onto the next generation. The matriarchs do not understand how adaptive evolution works. They can't see the advantage of future offspring inheriting his thick hide. But the humans do. They want to kill him before he can reach breeding age, too. The Flock pterosaurs are the only kaiju mankind can destroy. If Brown Scale passes his traits onto the next generation, the flock pterosaurs could become as indestructible as all the other kaiju. Brown Scale's only hope is to reach adulthood. It takes five months for a Flock hatchling to mature. Five months. It's a race against time to see who can kill him first. If he can stay alive for just those five months he will win the race.