Major earth History.

[Shaoraia]

Earth has always had major issues this one included but the general public has had their memory wiped and the clock has been rewound so that they wouldn't have to worry about the earth exploding at anymoment.(The memory erasing goes away after seeing something impossible the magical veiw usually covers this.)

And now some of the biggest events in Origin Earth's Histroy Starting with the Kaiju era.

Gojira, as he is known, is no mere mortal dinosaur. There's something in those eyes of his...a fire that burns like a volcano, tempered by the cold malice of a tsunami, that speaks of something overworldly.
He may have taken my parents from me, but I feel no hatred towards the monster. People are simply ants to him, something either beneath his notice or the subject of his contempt. And strangely...I find myself thinking that perhaps we are not so underserving...has man not overstepped his boundaries, time and time again, simply for the sake of money, power and the blood of our enemies?
Godzilla may be here to punish us...I'm not a very religious man, but in an age where gods walk the earth, I can't help but feel like we are close to our own deliverance..."

GODZILLA is considered the most powerful animal on the planet, due to the incredible amount of raw energy contained in his body, not to mention his ferocious nature. "The King of the Monsters," as he is nicknamed, has time and again eluded the efforts of the JSDF, G-Force and the EDF (Earth Defense Force), proving to be nearly indestructible against almost any and all weaponry created by man.
There have been a total of 4 "Gojirans" known to science: the First, which appeared on Oto Island in 1954 and subsequently attacked Tokyo (later reduced to a skeleton by the Oxygen Destroyer compound created by the late Dr. Serizawa). The Second appeared less than a year after, and battled Anguirus in Osaka. This Godzilla has come to be the most well-known of the Gojirasaurus maximus family (this creature perished in Tokyo in 1995). The third Godzilla, and some say the final, was born on Solgell Island in 1975, and "inherited" the role of "Monster King" from his surrogate father. The Fourth monster was "born from the anger of the First, the power of the Second, the flesh of the Third, and made whole again by the Sin of Man," (quote - The Shobijin).
The EDF have declared Godzilla to be a "walking disaster," and also issued an official statement from the United Nations that Godzilla is only to be dealt with by the EDF, and only when absolutely necessary, due to the colossal loss of life that entails an enraged Gojiran.
ANGUIRUS is the rottweiler of daikaiju. He is tenacious, powerful, fast and fearless. And yet, he is at his most content when simply grazing on trees in the forests of Hokkaido.
Nevertheless, Anguirus is a species of a hitherto unknown type of ankylosauridae dubbed "Angilasaurus," and the animals were supposedly fiercely territorial with Gojirasaurs in the late Cretaceous, maintaining a healthy rivarly with the predators not unlike that between Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops.
Despite the intense animosity between the two beasts when first meeting, Angurius's defeat at Godzilla's claws seems to have forged something that could only be understood by the mind of a monster: a kind of kaiju-loyalty. Anguirus is quick to jump to Godzilla's aid, even when he doesn't really need it.
Godzilla, in turn, has never turned his aggression on his shorter ally since their epic battle in Osaka.
Anguirus is vastly larger than any other specimen of his species, yet he does not seem to be a mutation (strangely, not unlike Rodan), as little to no radiation has been detected on him. However this came to be is an absolute mystery.
Anguirus's scar on his left eye is a testemant to Godzilla's might, which he will never forget. But if what the Shobijin say is true, it is not fear that rules the ankylosaur's spirit....it is respect. RODAN is the last remaining pterosaur on the planet. The flying monster's species has been theorized as one which inhabited the collosal island chain in the south pacific 65 million years ago, along with Gojirasaurs and Angilasaurs. Yet, like Anguirus, Rodan is so much more massive than any other member of his species, yet there is no indication as to how he became so enormous.
Rodan is a largely solitary kaiju, as he doesn't seem to share any sort of bond with Godzilla or Anguirus. True, the three have been seen fighting alongside each other, but Rodan is usually the first to leave. This could very well be because the current Rodan is the survivor of three Rodans who appeared in the late 50's, he being their son. As a result, this behavior indicates that Rodans are solitary animals until they find mates, but Rodan has detached himself from the rest of the kaiju to the opposite extreme of Godzilla's and Angurius's relationship.
Rodan is no friend of humankind, though he is not particularly aggressive. That is to say, he's happy just staying away from people and eating fish and whales in the open ocean. Granted, the original pair that appeared in 1956 immediatelly began killing people and ravaged Fukuoka, but this was largely territorial, and the two assumed their home to have been invaded. When the younger Rodan discovered how wide-spread humans were, he simply decided to leave.
Rodan values his freedom above all else. Any attempts to capture the monster have been met with extreme aggression. As such, the EDF has issued a "no-fly-zone" around any area that Rodan currently roosts.

NOTE: It is important to consider that Rodan has an INTENSE aggression towards Meganula-spawn. He does not simply eat them...he ensures that an entire radius of them is wiped clean. It should be noted that Megaguirus provides the most even match of air-born prowess to Rodan's own. MOTHRA is considered by many to be just another kaiju, marked for either destruction or capture, but an equal amount see the giant insect as something much, MUCH more...
She is renowned as being something of a benevolent creature, as 1961 could be considered the first and only time Mothra made an all-out, aggressive march across Japan, cocooning herself on Tokyo Tower and transforming from Larval stage to Imago stage, where those on the ground described her rebirth as "like some otherworldly angel rising above we shameful creatures". Other times, Mothra has appeared to fend off more violent kaiju, not the least of which being Godzilla himself.
Interestingly, Mothra seems to have taken a particular interest in the mutant dinosaur, and one would even go so far as to say she sees a sense of responsibility for the monster, as the Shobijin once implied.
Mothra is obviously more intelligent than most kaiju, to which no human can comprehend. The Shobijin, who have become something between celebrities and diplomats, state that "Mothra is as old as rock and as young as flowers, and her wisdom knows no bounds." What this means exactly is debatable.
Mothra has been revered as nothing less than "The Goddess of Peace," and after her appearence, a group of both Rolisicans and Japanese gathered and established the "Children of Mothra" in 1966. Since then, it has been declared an official religion in Japan, England, Australia, France, California and New York, and severely illegal in most of the United States and the Middle East.

Mothra is the Yin to the Yang of the dreaded Battra. At the tail end of World War 2, a mysterious cargo was shipped from Germany to its allies in Japan, labled with all sorts of bad mojo, including a few Christian crosses etched on to the steel container. When the scientists at a laboratory in Hiroshima opened the box, their eyes were alight with both awe and a small measure of fear.
There, floating in a tub of nutrient-enriched water, was the immortal heart of the re-animated creature created by Victor FRANKENSTEIN during the Industrial Revolution. The laboratory had intended to run tests on the immortal heart to discover its unholy secrets, yet, that fateful day, the atom bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, and the laboratory demolished.
Many years later, a strange creature is spotted roaming the countryside near the reconstructed Hiroshima, and the public takes to calling it the "Japanese Bigfoot." A team of researchers venture into the forests and capture the creature, discovering it to resemble a badly deformed boy, covered in hair and odd growths, who cowers in fear of them. Befriended by the gentle Sueko Togami, the boy is taken to a clinic, and after many days of research and information gathering, it was theorized that the boy was a Hiroshima survivor, and during his search for any kind of sustinance he could find, must have discovered the heart of Frankenstein's creation. Devouring it, the tissue, mutated by radiation, made him into a mutant as well.
The world went to hell one day during an accident involving the press, and "Frankenstein" broke out of the clinic, and ran into the woods. Angry, hurt from his severed hand during the escape, and in pain from his mutation, the boy began to devour more and more food - plants, animals, everything except people, and growing stronger with each meal.

Unfortunately, Dr. Yuzo Kawaji, a somewhat untrustworthy scientist who worked with Dr. Togami and Dr. Bowen, was obsessed to see what could be done with Frankenstein's regenerative tissue. Since he was partly responsible for the monster's escape, Kawaji, in a fit of emotion, fed the severed hand to some lab rats who were being tested with radiation. Unfortunately, and stupidly for him, he didn't anticipate the rodents becoming DEUTALIOS! Kawaji escaped, desperate to find Sueko and Bowen and tell them of what happened.

Soon enough, Frankenstein's former caretakers found him to try and convince him to leave Japan, but the giant rats had followed Kawaji, and attacked!

Frankenstein bravely fought off the enormous rodents, and suffered savage wounds for it. The military attempted to settle the matter, but in the process, the forest caught ablaze. Frankenstein defeated the rats one-by-one, and even saved his foster-parents by carrying them to safety.

The Man-Monster then turned towards the sea, his flesh burned, his body bleeding, and walked out into the cold embrace of the water. A noble creature...a noble man...he sank beneath the waves...

...of course, Frankenstein's monster can never truly die...

(Excerpt from "Legend of the Yamato Guardians")

-"One of the first Spawn of Orochi, the Earth Beast Baragon set about to devour the people of Yamato. Blinded by rage and bloodlust, the creature seemed unstoppable, yet the Priests of Yamato intervened before many lives were lost. At first, the valiant holy ones tried to set the beast into slumber using all the sake they could conjure, but this merely made the beast more reckless and destructive. So, the priests had a new idea: seeing Baragon's mighty appetite, they intended to make him so full that he would drift to sleep from both food and drink. Ordering a thousand bowls of rice be made, they presented the feast to Baragon, who gourged himself until he seemed like he would pop. The craftiest of the priests, however, had tricked Baragon. She had mixed dust from the wings of Mothra into the rice, and the monster fell fast asleep. The priests then purified his spirit, squelching his rage, and cast him into a deep slumber..."

Baragon wouldn't appear again until 2004, when he arose to battle a new foe...

(from Legend of the Yamato Guardians) -
"The Sea God MANDA ruled the ocean with the rage that made her a Spawn of Orochi, and created chaos that impressed even Susano'o. In particular danger was the nation of Mu, though the Empress refused to send her armies to fight Manda, for fear that she was indeed the Dragon God incarnate, and that the people had done some evil to anger the serpent.
Nevertheless, the Priests of Yamato appeared to stop Manda. The kindests of the priests had stuck upon an idea, and went to a beach shore to call on an old friend of his. A small turtle came ashore and conversed with the kindly priest, and he asked of his friend to find something within the sea to quell Manda's rage.
Three days passed, and the turtle returned to the beach, dragging with him a colossal pearl of such beauty that the priest was rendered speechless. He presented the pearl to the Queen of Mu, and, taken aback by the gentle priest, offerred the pearl to Manda. As soon as the dragon's eyes fell upon the pearl, her rage was squelched, and she became the guardian of Mu, as long as the pearl was in the nation's protection."

Manda would be reawoken many years later to fight against an incredibly vicious foe...

The final scroll of the "Legend of the Yamato Guardians" has never been properly translated, due to damage to the original text, but it can be said that the writings identify the "Sky Demon VARAN" as "the most fearful of the Guardians," and "one of Orochi's most vicious children." It was also written that the Yamato Priests never seemed to succesfully contain Varan's raging spirit, and it took an alliance of the priests and "the mountain people" to trap and subdue the monster (likely ancestors of the Ainu).

Of course, Varan arose once more in 2004, along with Baragon and Manda, to battle a mighty foe indeed.

On the tiny Letchi Island, one of the many in the South Pacific, the most dangerous terrorist organization in the world, the Red Bamboo, had spent years steadily building an army, complete with nuclear-grade weaponry, no less. However, one of their most dangerous weapons was a horrific daikaiju they had named EBIRAH. Though no records exist of Ebirah's true origin, it was suggested that he was dragged from the deep trenches of the sea by the Red Bamboo's subs, or perhaps it was a subject of mutation-oriented experiments. Regardless, the monster was apparently "owned" by the Red Bamboo, as indicated by the huge emblems painted onto its exoskeleton, and thus the terrorists had somehow managed to keep Ebirah from leaving the island.
However, little did the Red Bamboo realise that their nuclear plant had attracted none other than GODZILLA, where he made a temporary home in an underwater cavern beneath the island. It was the Monster King, as well as the efforts of a small group of shipwrecked Japanese, that proved to be the potential threat's undoing.
Ebirah proved to be a solid challenge for Godzilla, as the dinosaur's blows landed on an amazingly tough carapace. Of course, a mighty blast of atomic heat sent the crustacean into quick retreat, and Godzilla eventually defeated Ebirah by dismemberment.
However, after the destruction of the island and the Bamboo base, Ebirah disappeared until well into the late 90's, when another creature (though possible the same) appeared near Tahiti. It was subsequently captured and coralled onto the Monster Island facility at Ogasawara.

NOTE: It has been theorized that Ebirah was a giant species of lobster native to the deep oceanic ecosystem discovered in 1973, referred to as the Sub-Pacific Biosphere. The biosphere consists of several interconnected air pockets, rich in oxygen, hydrogen, and other gases that make up a life-supporting atmosphere. Ebirah's species, along with Titanosaurs and other giant species, evolved to gigantic proportions while protected from the drastic climactic changes that ravaged the above-sea planet. When Faroe Island was being studied in the 1960’s, Dr. Makino and his team discovered a strange stone slab, almost 10 feet high, deep in the island’s jungle. Surrounded by what may have once been a temple, the Slab was covered in ancient runes and hieroglyphics of an unknown dialect (though similar ruins were later found in the deeper jungles of Ogasawara). On the Slab, there was a clear story being told: 4 gods once ruled this island, they being a giant beast-man, a reptile with long legs, a spiked four-legged monster, and a huge spider. They were depicted being “born” from the Slab when it fell from the stars, and the four monsters fought for dominance over the island. It wasn’t until the beast-man was appealed to by the people that he began to dominate the other 3, dispelling them to the far corners of the world - the spiked one to the north and the spider to the south. Only the leaping monster remained nearby, cast into the sea, and once the ancients built a special resonating chamber around the Slab, the reptile slept beneath the island, while the beast-man slept in the mountain within the island.
Mr. Tako, Dr. Makino’s investor, knew that the Slab would be a great scientific find and gain excellent publicity for Public Pharmaceuticals, even moreso than the soma berries, so he ordered the thing moved; something Makino advised heavily against.
Still, the damn rock was moved, and even the inch or two that it was shifted, and the mountain quaked, and KING KONG was released! After accidentally smashing the Slab, he began moving towards the village in search of soma, when a giant reptile burst from the surf…it was a massive dinosaur, easily as big as Godzilla, but with a freakish pair of powerful-looking legs...it was later named GOROSAURUS WATSONI, after Susan Watson, a member of the research team and the first person to encounter the monster. When Susan’s screams brought the rest of the team to the beach, it also brought the attention of Kong, who saved Susan from the jaws of Gorosaurus. The two titans rammed one-another, and battled ferociously until Kong nearly broke Gorosaurus’s jaw. Then, grasping the monster by the tail, he swung it far out beyond the beach, where, it was assumed, that the dinosaur decided against pursuing Kong.
After Anguirus freed Godzilla from his icy prison, Kong and the mutant saurian battled one-another in their historic bout at Mt. Fuji. Meanwhile, Gorosaurus, with no reason to return to Faroe Island, disappeared until the late 90’s, where he was discovered on Mondo Island, only a few hundred miles from Faroe. The dinosaur was considerably mellowed, but still aggressive towards humans. Still, he was rallied to Monster Island, where he was comfortable for a good while…until the Kilaak Invasion, of course. Moving silently through the void, there are untold horrors that hail from time and space not our own. The small space-capsule, the Helios 7, was forced down into the atmosphere of the Pacific ocean, where its unwelcomed cargo set about a dark work...
When a small crew of journalists and scientists returned from the nearby Selga Island, they recounted a horrific story, which told of nightmarish monsters destroying the small island. Indeed, the island was destroyed by volcanic activity, but the survivors were nearly driven to madness, some chattering nonsensical jibberish, while others simply seemed as though nothing affected them emotionally or physically anymore.
All of the accounts varied, but this mysterious being, calling itself "Yog," remained one that several witnesses recounted:
"...only a congeries of iridescent globes, yet stupendous in its malign suggestiveness."
Another creature, this one consisten with ALL of the stories, was dubbed "Gezora," from a local legend, was described as some sort of colossal squid or cuttlefish that nearly tore the island apart.
Even in a time when giant cephalopods are not so uncommon, there's little hard evidence to support Gezora's existence. Nevertheless, during several of G-Force's patrols and Godzilla-study expeditions, gigantic tentacles have indeed been found floating not far from small islands in the pacific, larger than any Oodako's.

Indeed, whatever happened on that island must have been simply too much for the human mind to bear in its tiny realm of reality, and if Gezora does indeed exist, then pray that it never seeks to attack Japan... Of all the atrocities that humankind as a whole is responsible for, there is little more horrific than the careless discarding of waste materials that no animal, plant, or any other lifeform on our little blue planet can re-utilize, and as a result, pollution is slowly but ever-so-surely strangling Earth to death.
It goes without saying that, under the right circumstances, an amalgamation of the pure destructive wickedness that is pollution would rise from its own muck, and utilize Man's true sin against it. HEDORAH was such a creature.
The first appearence of the monster was chalked up to many sightings of boat-sized, tadpole-shaped beasts, which eventually made their way to the garbage-choked waters surrounding Japan, amalgamated into one giant, formless blob of a monster and slithered its way onto land, hunting for the awful pollutants spilling out of factories and the waste pouring out of cities to feed itself. In its most "natural" form, Hedorah hardly attempts to maintain a solid shape, but its unique physical structure allows its to re-configure itself, using whatever intelligence works in that disgusting body, into a new form in order to combat whatever obstacle lies in its path.
The only creature to ever fight Hedorah and emerge victorious was none other than Godzilla, King of the Monsters, and even such a mighty beast was nearly felled by the Smog Monster, after being smothered, choked, burned, beaten and maimed. Indeed, Godzilla hates Hedorah above all other monsters, and even after the creature's apparent death, there's no ruling out the possibility of another's existence.
Hedorah's origin is a complete and total mystery, as it seems impossible that such an animal could even exist, even if it was extraterrestrial. However, it makes a strange sort of sense to think that, should the planet become totally polluted and devoid of natural life, then creatures like Hedorah would actually flourish, which leads one to believe....could Hedorah be the next logical step in evolution?

NOTE: It seems as though hopes were dashed all too soon, as unconfirmed reports indicate that somewhere near Argentina, a new, similar kaiju has been sighted, with the name "Deathla" being thrown around G-FORCE HQ... GIGAN is renowned throughout the galaxy as the pinnacle of monster elimination technology. If his younger brother MEGALON is the demolisher, GIGAN is the assassin, and he wears the title with pride.
There's no record of exactly when Gigan was built, other than that of the insectoid aliens of Nebula Space Hunter M, and even their own records are spotty at best. While the Nebulans do indeed control Gigan and send him on whatever mission of bloodshed they so deem, there is no evidence to support that they themselves created the cyborg. Gigan's inner workings and horrifically beautiful mesh of synthetic allows, circuitry and organic flesh may be just too far beyond the grasp of the somewhat technologically challenged sentient cockroaches. It has been theorized even that Gigan was a creation of a race that preceded the Nebulans, and they simply "inherited" it (if their story of their home planet is to be believed).
While the gigantic cyborg does indeed answer to the Nebulans, he does seem to have a conciousness and sentience of his own...it would almost seem as though he tolerates the Nebulans rather than being subservient to them. This is indicated by the cockroaches' tendency to act as though they control him, yet almost bend their plans around Gigan's actions.
Godzilla and Gigan share a relationship based on rivalry rather than aggression, and while the two are perfectly willing to beat each other to death, there's an air of respect that each has for the other.
Megalon isn't as smart or as efficient as his older sibling, yet Gigan seems to maintain a cool set of circuits when dealing with the simple yet effective hailstorm of destruction that Megalon rains down on whatever pitiable civilization incurs the beasts' wrath.

Though chased from Earth by Godzilla and Anguirus, Gigan returned in during Operation: Final War, upgraded and ready to carry out a new set of wicked plans... MEGALON is a perfect example of the sort of "Kaiju For Hire" system created by the Nebulans (or their predeccesors), in that, some unseen time in the past, they had sent the cyborg kaiju to the as yet legendary kingdom of Seatopia in order to aid in their invasion of the surface.
Megalon is not a terribly bright kaiju, and that's being generous. The giant beetle-like creature is a later creation than Gigan, yet he is by no means an improvement, rather a step in a different direction. Megalon mostly follows whatever orders are given to him, and carries out mass destruction where needed. He doesn't seem capable of planned combat or the sort of "honor" that Gigan practices, yet point him in the right direction, and everything in a 50 to 70 mile radius will be flattened, burned, pulverized, or any combination thereof.
Megalon seems lost without something guiding his actions, and will either wander about aimlessly or flail about insanely until he tires his circuits out. Nevertheless, Megalon is never to be underestimated, as his capability grows exponentially when Gigan appears on the scene, as he is given new direction and focus by his older brother.
The giant beetle-god engaged in battle with Godzilla and Anguirus alongside his brother in the newly constructed Children's Land theme-park outside of Tokyo. While the two beasts put up a fearsome offensive, the Earth kaiju managed to gain an upper claw through the help of a handful of humans and the robot Jet Jaguar. Megalon had since disappeared beneath the Earth, trying to find his way back to Seatopia.

NOTE: It is interesting to consider that Megalon resembles a god in Seatopian religion, and High Priest Antonio used both the monster and his alliance with the Nebulans to coerce the populace of Seatopia to gain a quick rise to power and launch an attack on humanity's civilization. Goro Ibuki, a brilliant technician, computer scientist and part-time inventor, had made some enemies in his lifetime. Enemies that he cared not to speak about to his nephew, Rokuro, or his best friend, Hiroshi. Nevertheless, he knew it would bode disaster to simply ignore the impending threats that would occassionally reach his ears. So, he dove headfirst into a project that had been swirling about in his head for the last several years, being a little project called "JET JAGUAR."
Goro had always been a mysterious one, largely keeping to himself, his only visitors being his best friend and little nephew. He knew, however, that because he had such social contacts, such people that were dear to him, they would be targets for whatever threat breathed down his neck. Thus, Jet Jaguar was his crowning achievement as a scientist; a human-sized machine, though easily 6 feet tall, was powerful and constructed to be nearly unbeatable by average human means. When asked how he could create something so advanced, Goro would avoid the subject or use some colorful euphamism to gloss over the fact that Jet Jaguar's design was only about half his own, while the other half was something more advanced....more alien...
Rokuro loved the TV series "Zone Fighter," to the point of idol worship. As a result, Goro designed Jet Jaguar in such a way that it would mimic the colorful heroes on television, and hopefully embody the courage and ideology they represented. Rokuro immediately treated Jet Jaguar like a metallic foster father, and "JJ," in kind, treated Rokuro with special consideration, if only because Goro had programmed the robot for such. JJ was Goro's bodyguard, rather than simply a playmate, and it was the advent of the Nebulan invasion that the robot's true purpose would come to bear. Jet Jaguar was, at first, sought out as a weapon to be stolen by mysterious men claiming to be "Seatopians," but Goro regained control, and the machine was able to plow through an entire attack squadron of Nebulan soldiers, becoming instrumental in allowing Godzilla, Anguirus and the JSDF to defeat Gigan, Megalon and the Nebulans. Appearing from an erupting Mt. Fuji, roaring in an inexplicable rage, Godzilla rampaged down the countryside and began to assault any settlement or town in his path. Finally, the rampaging titan attacked an oil refinery, razing the entire facility into a blaze of ruin. Illuminated by the hellish blaze, Godzilla was stopped in his tracks by noneother than....Godzilla?!
The two saurians, almost totally identical, began a savage battle. Something bizarre began to happen, though; each time the second Godzilla landed a sharp blow on his adversary, the first Godzilla would warp and shift momentarily. Finally, the second monster proved who was real and who was the fraud with a solid blast of atomic fire, dispelling the hologram, and rendering the imposter for his true nature: a magnificent machine of death, destruction and beautiful, brutal force, MECHA-GODZILLA had made itself known to the world.
With cunning efficiency, Mecha-Godzilla unleashed a hailstorm of lasers and missles that rendered Godzilla nearly powerless in its onslaught. Soundly defeating the monster king came with a price, however, as the mechanized beast's creators, the Simeons (a warrior-race from a system being quickly enveloped by a black hole), had miscalculated the strength of Godzilla's heat ray, and Mecha-Godzilla's head controls were damaged.
The real battle would come at a later date, of course, when Mecha-Godzilla would engage not only Godzilla, but the ancient monster King Caesar, in battle.
Though maintaining an incredible offensive and a marked defensive, MG was eventually defeated, and its head ripped from its body, thanks to Godzilla's newly-acquired magnetic powers.
However, MG was far from beaten. While the Simeon forces on Earth were beaten, a greater force amassed itself from the still-dieing homeworld, and MechaGodzilla was eventually repaired, and this time, to counter the strength of both Godzilla and King Caesar, a new contender was added to the fray..... Since time before time, KING CAESAR (a crude romanization of his true name, "King Shisa") has sat ever-watchful, ever vigilant to protect the tiny island of Okinawa from impending threats. Of course, an ancient ritual must be enacted, and he must only be awoken "when the red moon sets, and the sun rises in the west."
The Simeons were wise to an apparent attempt to ressurect the ancient guardian, but they scarcely believed in such primitive beliefs. Nevertheless, another monster would be a decided thorn in their side, so they attached a small group with limited resources to prevent the statue's arrival in Okinawa from mainland Japan. Of course, the statue made it (through INTERPOL's interference) and the mighty Shisa was brought back to life to battle alongside Godzilla against MechaGodzilla, and again later against Titanosaurus.
Little is known of King Caesar's biology, except that the creature is supposedly made largely of mineral constructs. In short, it is a living statue. Caesar himself seems a very wise and noble kaiju, and, interestingly, he is the only monster that Godzilla will seemingly look up to and even respect. There had even been scattered eye-witness accounts of Caesar "training" Godzilla, teaching the giant saurian in such a way that an elderly martial artist would teach a younger pupil, before the final battle against the Simeon forces.

NOTE - The recently uncovered scrolls deep within Seatopian vaults (after Antonio's overthrow) has revealed some startling facts: it may very well be a human spirit that inhabits the body of the mighty Shisa! Details are still sketchy, but it very well may have something to do with the battle between the stone god and his allies MANDA and MOTHRA against the legendary AXOR and his mind-controlled forces.

For all intents and purposes, Mecha-Godzilla was the perfect fighting machine....but only against one monster. The combined efforts of Godzilla and King Caesar had defeated the magnificent mechanical construct, so it made logical sense to even the playing field, as the Simeon reinforcements saw fit. Of course, the space apes were not terribly adept at mind-control technology, and their warlike nature prevented any alliances with other races in the solar system. So, they sought out a disgruntled scientist, Dr. Mafune, and after saving his daughter Katsura's life through advanced robotics (as was the race's forte', he swore loyalty to them.
Dr. Mafune was the best ally availible for the Simeons because he had achieved that which, to that day, no human had achieved yet: control over a daikaiju. Thus, Dr. Mafune brought to the world TITANOSAURUS, a collosal spinosaurid from the Sub Oceanic Biosphere, and the only supposed surviving member of its species.
Titanosaurus is controlled largely through hyper-sonic sound waves, of which are only perceptible to certain species of animals. It was the right combination of these soundwaves that allowed Mafune's computer to override Titanosaurus's higher brain functions and turn him into a ferociously aggressive fighter.
The rebuilt MechaGodzilla and Titanosaurus launched an all-out attack on the Japanese mainland, and leveled city after city. Godzilla quickly intervened, but was beaten within an inch of his life but the tag-team titans.
Only with the intervention of INTERPOL and the re-awakening of King Caesar was Titanosaurus freed of his mind control and Godzilla able to soundly defeat MechaGodzilla once and for all, and the Simeons were harshly driven from Earth. Titanosaurus, however, was greatly wounded in the battle, as at its end, INTERPOL was able to free the dinosaur from his servitude, and King Caesar convinced him to fight alongside himself and Godzilla. When MechaGodzilla unleashed its final, deadliest laser-cannon, Titanosaurus took the full force of the blast that was intended for Godzilla, and the noble creature fell off of a high cliff and into the ocean, where he would disappear until the late 1990's.

Titanosaurus, or another like him, was eventually found and coralled at the Monster Island facility at Ogasawara. Gabara is every jerk you ever knew...if he were a big, fat, wart-covered cross between a cat and a frog (which isn't much of a stretch).
He's every muscle-headed jerkwad who ever called you a dork for liking Godzilla, and as such, he has a special penchant for picking on "Minilla" if he can ever find the little monster alone on Kaiju Island.
Minilla has an unfortunate habit of wandering off by himself, being naturally curious, and Gabara takes full advantage of this by electricuting (his special power), berating and beating the younger monster (never to death, because then he'd have nobody to bully).
The only reason Godzilla himself hasn't vaporized Gabara is because he feels that his surrogate son needs to be able to defend himself, and one day, Minilla did just that.
Finding the courage to both stand up to Gabara, as well as outsmart him, the young monster flipped Gabara off of the end of a giant log, clear into the air and over the jungle.
Godzilla congratulated his young protoge'....until Gabara pulled the ultimate desperation move and chomped Godzilla's leg!
That did it. Godzilla and Gabara began to fight viciously, and even when Minilla tried to intervene, Godzilla pushed him back from the fray. He was going to teach this punk a lesson himself!
After beating and blasting Gabara into submission, Godzilla grabbed the monster as he attempted to flee, and hurled him several hundred yards, crashing into the jungle! Gabara arose, bruised and battered, and scrambled into the interior of the island.
He made sure not to toy with either saurians again.

(DISCLAIMER: The EDF and G Force have never confirmed nor endorsed the fictional work of manga writer Ichiro Miki, and have repeatedly had to delete the "Gabara" entry from their Monster Database. There are also no other known young Gojirans with the exception of Godzilla Junior known to history). We as a race are a remarkable evolutionary milestone, in that we humans are capable of molding our environment to suit our needs, and also constantly be creating new and improved methods to conquer and control the world around us.
This progress comes at a price, however, as with new technology comes the danger of the unpredictable and the unknown. BIOLLANTE is such an unknown, and of such an unpredictability that she is beyond our present understanding of just what man has wrought.

Created from an amalgamation of Godzilla's Organizer G1, a rose's DNA, the blood of a kind-hearted girl, and the desperation of her mourning father, the myriad of influences lead to such a beast as Biollante. Initially, Dr. Shiragami was brought before G-Force with the hope of using Godzilla's DNA to create the Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria with hopes of defeating him once and for all...but Shiragami's disheveled mind had other plans. Seeking to keep some part of his late daughter alive, he had already mixed her DNA with that of her favorite flower; yet when a simple accident threatened to take her away from him yet again, he took the job only so that he could keep her cells alive forever...
The ambition of a madman, tempered only by his undieing love.
Biollante's psyche is apparently a coin-toss: one side is the gentle spirit of Erika Shiragami, who seeks to protect her father and bring serenity to the world, the other is an instinctual beast, who lashes out at a cruel and unsympathetic reality.
First appearing as a colossal rose, she called out to sympathetic spirits, be they anywhere in the world, Erika herself desperate and confused in her newly reincarnated form.
Of course...the only creature to respond was Godzilla himself.
Seeking out this new creature, so like himself, Godzilla was agog at this giant mutation. Erika's mind went into overdrive, and the instinct to attack kicked in. Godzilla defeated her in this form, however...but she returned later, in a new and further evolved form, now more Godzilla than Erika.
Biollante and Godzilla fought to a standstill, and the giant saurian retreated due to being weakened by the ANEB, whereas the plant monster, burned and wounded by Godzilla's raw power, dissolved into the most amazing cloud of ethereal flowers and glowing life-force, Erika's smiling face the last thing seen by Shiragami....before.... To every Yin there is a Yang. To ever Light there is a Shadow. To every gentle beast, there is a savage one, and that is BATTRA to his sister, MOTHRA.
Battra the Black-Hearted was born the same day as the benevolent goddess, thus he is a guardian of the planet as well. Strong, fast, and all but merciless, to invoke Battra's wrath is to invite swift and utter destruction. The dark moth's blazing red eyes fix upon anything that may threaten the Earth's serenity, even moreso than Mothra, who herself is much more merciful and understanding. Of course, in Battra's compound eyes, this is weakness. Still, the line is constantly blurred between the natures of the two kaiju, as while Mothra is a peaceful goddess, she will barely hesitate to jump to the defense of her twin attendants, the Shobijin, and has nearly leveled both Tokyo and New Kirk City in search of them. Battra, while fierce and destructive towards sentient life, has shown to become surprisingly caring and gentle at the most rare of events.
Battra's egg was discovered on Adnoa Island in the Bering Sea in 1992, when an expedition was launched to discern the effects of a meteorite that had crashed near the island. Seeing the egg as an potential business venture to save their face in the wake of environmentalism, the Marutomo Company began to transport it back to Japan. Halfway there, however, GODZILLA appeared! Whether or not he intended to destroy or simply investigate the black and red egg, Mothra would have none of it. Her larvae arrived and tried to hold Godzilla off, but the egg hatched anyway, and Battra was reborn! The year is 1993, and the place is Solgell Island. A small team of scientists and laborers had set up a base on the sweltering jungle of an island, and were proceeding with the hopefully fruitful task of created a weather-control device. It was the hope against hope that the experiments would yield a way to eventually turn the great wastelands of the world into vast graineries in order to combat the ever-shrinking food supply and ever-growing human population.
Unfortunately, something went terribly wrong.
The weather balloon's remote control was jammed by a bizarre, high-frequency signal from somewhere in the island interior, and the balloon detonated too early, and while it spread the nutrient-enriching compound over the island, it also spread the radioactive catalyst which created an "atomic storm" that ravaged the island and nearly wiped out the base.
After the storm, the team decided to survey the island and note the vast increase in size of the local flora and fauna (including a species of giant mantis). Eventually, it was discovered that the high-frequency noice emitted from a large egg in the center of the island, and the egg was under attack by the "Gimantis," and their matriarch, KAMACURAS. Thankfully for the quickly hatching newborn, GODZILLA appeared from the sea, responding to the infant's call for aid.
GODZILLA JR. has had a complex and dramatic life. Growing quickly thanks to its mutating DNA, Junior re-appeared in 1994, and by that time he was almost 1/3 of Godzilla's size. The young monster was once very timid, even friendly towards humans, going so far as to eat out of one's hands (and he ate a LOT). But by the time of his surrogate father's death in 1995, he was every bit as aggressive and introvertive as Godzilla, earning his own right to the title as "King of the Monsters."
Junior was cared for by Godzilla II, though it is a well-known fact that both creatures were male. In nature, a mature male will chase off, even kill a younger member of its species and sex to prevent future competition for mating rights, but Godzilla II's fatherly role in Junior's development has been a remarkable one to science, though it is unclear as to whether this behavior is natural of the Gojirasaurus maximus species, or a result of the monster's own genetic mutation.
That said, Godzilla Jr., or "Godzilla III," later became aggressive to his foster parent, and vice-versa, in the mid-1990's, due to his own maturation and desire for his own territory. Nevertheless, Godzilla II came to his son's aid in 1994, during the incident that would be instrumental in changing Godzilla Jr. for the rest of his life...(and no, not Destoroyah's attack..)

G Force is in a bit of a pickle when it comes to Jr. For years, debate raged as to whether the creature should be captured and studied, or outright destroyed while he was still young and vulnerable (to prevent having to deal with another Godzilla...but envoking the father's wrath...) With the Weather Control Device's malfunction, an energizing catalyst washed over the island, which supercharged the nutients in the soil and biomass. The result was the already bizarre native flora and fauna of Solgell Island grew to immense proportions, not the least of which being a man-sized species of insect, dubbed "Gimantis." Already inexplicably large, the mantis-like creatures balooned to 30 meters in height each. Even more terrifying was their matriach, a huge beast later to be dubbed KAMACURAS.
Fast, fearsome and aggressive, Kamacuras puts her smaller brethren to shame. Not at all squeamish about devouring other Gimantids (even when it's not mating season) other giant insects will do well to stay out of her way. The only creature on Solgell that Kamacuras fears is a certain colossal spider...not to mention a mutant dinosaur.
Kamacuras is far from foolhardy, however, as seeing three other Gimantids obliterated by GODZILLA, she beat a hasty retreat. True, Kamacuras could have held her own against the Monster King, but that atomic breath begs to be the deciding factor.
Kamacuras was later captured and coralled on Monster Island. The TRUE queen of Solgell Island was no reptile or insect, but a shadow that dwelled in a deep chasm in the center of the island...a great arachnid of incredible size and aggressive power...KUMONGA.
Theorized to be a mutation of an ancient, prehistoric species of spider, Kumonga is likely the last of her kind, and is theorized to be female as well, which would account for both her territorial nature and the likelyhood that she killed and devoured all other members of her species on the island (there's evidence to reinforce the presence of more giant arachnids that once inhabited the island).
Kumonga's error, of course, was seeking to make a meal of the young GODZILLA JUNIOR, and incited the wrath of GODZILLA himself. Through a combination of the rapidly dropping temperature and the firepower of both Godzilla and Junior, Kumonga was forced into retreat, and burrowed into the snow in order to sooth her burned exoskeleton.

Kumonga would not reappear until towards the end of the century when she was discovered in the jungles of New Guinea, and promptly coralled by G Force to Monster Island. In 1994, Project M finally reached completion after decades of study and construction. MOGUERA was hoped against hope itself that the colossal machine would put an end to the threat of Godzilla, as well as be the steel knight to guard the nation (and later perhaps the world) against the onslaught of all kaiju.
Built from reverse-engineered alien technology, MOGUERA is, at its most basic, a giant tank with incredible maneuverability. Acting on giant treads and a swivilling torso, the mecha can charge in any direction, while still able to attack in any other. Heavy armor makes it somewhat cumbersome, yet a series of oversized jet-engines allow for limited flight capability.
Project M recieved its first marching orders when yet another meteorite was making its way towards Earth at an uncomfortable speed. Reports of a NASA space station being ripped apart forced the project into high speed.
Meanwhile, attempts at Birth Island were being made to push "Project T" foreward, which would target and control the mighty GODZILLA. After Solgell Island froze over, the kaiju king and his ward, GODZILLA JR. made their home on the small island. Of course, MOGUERA would soon have its mechanical hands full when a powerful enemy would arrive from deep space... Poor, pitiable Earth. Always is this small blue planet under the assault of war, pollution, mutations, and, more often than not, extraterrestrial invasion. In the blistering summer of 1994, a huge meteoric object, made completely of a crystalized energy of an unknown source blasted through a NASA space shuttle, and alarmingly diverted its course towards Earth. The EDF activated its newly created planetary-defense systems (missle-mounted satellites), but alas, no avail. The object emitted waves of psionic energy which destroyed the missles and disabled the satellites.
Birth Island, the Pacific. Akira Yuki, a former Major and considered somewhat "disheveled," ran a small encampment which was intended to study the mighty GODZILLA for "Project T." Using psychic energy and a carefully-aimed amplifier, it was hoped that the Psychic Research Institute's top student, Miki Saegusa, would be able to direct the kaiju's actions away from human contact. Naturally, Miki was reluctant on the idea. She had always argued that Godzilla should simply be left alone, but her desire to see both man and monster co-exist peacefully won out. Yuki, however, wanted the King dead. He agreed to help command the project, but if something went awry, he was intent on calling in G Force's mighty new weapon, the Mobile Operation Godzilla Universal Expert Robot Aero-type (MOGUERA) to destroy the monster.
Godzilla wasn't going anywhere anytime soon. GODZILLA JUNIOR was happily living on the island, and was frequently visited by his foster-father, who often came bearing a giant squid or dead whale for the young monster to eat.
However, these peaceful days were short-lived. Striking the center of the island, Junior approached the mysterious object. Reacting to his presence, it bloomed into a flower-like protrusion of a crystal entity, and ensnared the young creature in waves of energy. Screeching for his father, Junior was encased in the crystal.
Godzilla came roaring out of the water, and charged inland, but not before Yuki put the psychic transmitter squarely in the back of the monster's neck. Godzilla arrived, but only too late, as the crystal entity levitated and sped off through the sky, deflecting Godzilla's atomic breath blasts. Howling with rage, the beast stormed back towards the water, and followed.
MOGUERA was made ready, and Yuki and Miki were, reluctantly, put together in the cockpit, in hopes to both defeat the space creature and control Godzilla. The entity landed in Fukuoka and claimed the city's prized tower as its base. Causing dozens of crystals to erupt all around the city, the city center was converted into a fortress for the being, with Junior trapped at the center....and it waited...
Godzilla came ashore in Kagoshima Bay and made his way directly inland, intent on defeating the space being, while MOGUERA arrived in Fukuoka first. Assaulting the crystal towers, MOGUERA intended to blast its way straight through to the center, but was repeatedly repelled by the energy waves. It was only when Godzilla arrived that the crystals receded....there, between the two titans of Earth and the imprisoned Junior, was SPACE GODZILLA. The crystal entity had taken Junior's DNA and crafted itself a new body, and the beast howled like a god of war, intent on demolishing its foes.
After a long, hard battle, the three titans were all the worse for wear. It was discovered, luckily, that Space Godzilla was utilizing Fukuoka Tower as a conduit for his cosmic energies, and Miki used her telepathy to convey a plan to Godzilla through the trasmitter in his neck: MOGUERA will distract Space Godzilla, and Godzilla will destroy the tower.
After blasting through the defensive shields of crystals, Godzilla decimated the tower, and near it, rediscovered his stolen child. Unfortunately, Space Godzilla, in a maddened rage, fired hundreds of giant crystal shards which stabbed and penetrated Godzilla's hide, severely weakening the monster king. Focusing its fury on the weakened Godzilla, Space G intended to destroy the beast...until Junior stepped in to defend his father, blasting Space G directly in the face. MOGUERA, in using the opportunity, used its Spiral Grenade Missiles to destroy Space G's huge shoulder-crystals. After ramming its tail through MOGUERA, Space G successfully rendered the robot incapacitated. His energy core going haywire, Space Godzilla intended to take his enemies, and all of Fukuoka, out with him.
A black hole, a rip in the space/time continuum, opened over the city, and with Space Godzilla's energy was making it wider. Soon enough, all of Fukuoka, and perhaps the world, would have been sucked through.
Fortunately, at the last minute, Godzilla grabbed his energy core and absorbed the energy into his own body, and then blasted Space Godzilla into the black hole himself. "If hell got up and walked around..."
- A concerned citizen
The alien power which flowed through SPACE GODZILLA's body had all but been absorbed into GODZILLA's form. Alarmingly, his G-Cells were not healing his wounds as quickly as they should have. It was as though a dark virus had infected the beast's body.
A year later, the Pearl of the Orient, Hong Kong, was struck by a living mass of hellfire and rage...BURNING GODZILLA.
G-Force was blindsided by this development, as Godzilla had never attacked so viciously and indiscriminately. His power has grown exponentially, his aggression has tripled amazingly, and his vengeance will be had upon the world, even if it meant his Nuclear Heart would implode upon itself, creating a tiny sun that would engulf the planet's core itself, BURNING THE WORLD.

However, there's another creature who had been waiting for a moment such as this for more than 40 years... DESTOROYAH's origin is tied to Godzilla in an uncomfortable way: in 1954, when Dr. Serizawa made his noble sacrifice to eliminate the threat of at least ONE Godzilla, he activated for the first and only time (outside his laboratory) the Oxygen Destroyer. Serizawa destroyed his notes and all known compounds of the OD...nevertheless, it seems as though the very thing Serizawa feared has come to bear...in the form of a monster that may very well be even WORSE than Godzilla.
In 1995, Professor Fukazawa had been making leaps and bounds into the study of what he called "Micro Oxygen," a new way to compound and condense oxygen molecules for a variety of purposes. Too few, however, saw the taboo that he was a hair's bredth from committing, for the JSDF took the official stance that they had killed Godzilla outside of Tokyo Bay all those years ago, and few knew of Serizawa's sacrifice to this day (the Japanese government took the credit for two reasons: 1 - to keep other countries from seeking out Dr. Serizawa's secrets, and 2 - to make Godzilla's defeat their first real victory since after WWII).
When conducting some small-level experiments in Tokyo Bay, however, Fukazawa had no idea that he was providing the final catalyst in the birth of something horrific; laying dormant beneath the bay, tiny crustaceans with the ability to cheat death many times over since the Precambrian age, absorbed the oxygen-destroying properties of Serizawa's original compound, awoke and began multiplying. The Micro-Oxygen, however, gave them the ability to move on LAND, and aggregate and compound their own bodies with each other to form larger, more powerful forms!
When the Destoroyah crustaceans (Aercaedo horridus, or "Horrible Air-killer") first appeared, they took over a water treatment facility next to the bay, and dozens of man-sized beasts attacked civilians and JSDF strike teams. Eventually, with Dr. Fukuzawa's help, a freezing compound resembling the Gotengo's own freeze-cannon (shown to render micro-oxygen inert) was utilized to turn the tide against the beasts...however, the kaiju proved far more difficult to kill than anticipated...they continued to assemble and aggregate into two new, huge monsters: Flying Destoroyah and Aggregate Destoroyah. Laying waste to the small number of JSDF troops, the creatures rampaged until intercepted by GODZILLA JUNIOR, now much more mature, and while he was badly injured, he managed to throw both monsters into an exploding petrochemical plant, and left to re-join his father.
Of course, the unthinkable happened: Destoroyah's lesser parts became a greater whole, as the adult, Final Form Destoroyah. The hellish beast proves more than a match for Junior, and BURNING GODZILLA, a blazing mountain of fire and rage, would make the creature PAY. In the bleary summer of 1998, thunderous footsteps shook the streets of New York City, and a shrieking roar shattered windows. Buildings were smashed, landmarks pulverized, fish trucks....eaten?
Headlines blared "GODZILLA TAKES A BITE OUT OF THE BIG APPLE!," "KING OF THE MONSTERS IN NYC!," and vendors lined the streets selling shirts declaring "Godzilla Was Here!" and photographs were taken in the massive footprints left in the monster's wake.
Of course, within days, it was all too obvious that Godzilla had NOT attacked New York, had NOT dug tunnels throughout the city, laid 100 eggs in Madison Square Garden, or died from 6 Tomahawk missles on the Brooklyn Bridge. It was instead a beast later known as "Zilla," or "Godzilla In Name Only" by the Kaiju Zoological and Enthusiast community, had chosen the metropolis as a place to lay its eggs and find food (WHY is subject to question). Despite the fact that the King of the Monsters had NOT died at the hands of the US Airforce, they sure liked to believe he did, and the announcements to the contrary were severely downplayed in the media.
Regardless, Biologist Nick Tatopolous knew that there was a very, VERY good chance that not all of the creature's eggs were destroyed in the blast that obliterated the nest. Leading a small search party, Nick discovered a lone egg. Hatching and imprinting on the scientist, "Zilla Jr," as it came to be nicknamed, began to follow Nick with incredible loyalty and intelligence, proving itself to be not only an efficient and agile fighter, but a benevolent kaiju at that.
The real question remained, however, as to where the original came from. That answer came in the form of Phillip Roche, and his protege', Monique Dupre. Part of a French Special Forces sector, the two were charged by their superiors to "clean up a mess" left from a series of experiments conducted in French Polynesia, were 5 "G-Cell Mutations" had escaped after a catastrophic accident (it is believed that S.C.A.L.E., a pro-kaiju rights organization/eco terrorist cell, was involved in these events). Nick Tatopolous, forming the H.E.A.T. team, hunted down all the remaining mutations, with Zilla's help, of course.
After a particularly traumatic event in Alaska, Zilla was later taken to Monster Island, where he would spend the remainder of his life...MOST of it, anyway... A mass of shambling genetic frik-afrak, ORGA is, quite literally, the first and last of his kind. Millions of years ago, after Ghidorah's cataclysmic visit to Earth, the Millenians, a race of "DNA Architects" were searching for a new world full of genetic wonderlands to frolic through. After some....rather unsavory events, the aliens were forced to congregate their collective "Genetic Memory" into their massive starship, which lay resting at the bottom of the sea for eons...
Until winter of 1999. CCI, a splinter faction of the EDF, found and raised the encrusted ship to the surface. Upon absorbing massive amounts of solar radiation, the UFO re-activated, and began immediately scanning every life form it could find...until it found Godzilla. The monster's G-Cells were surely like a beacon to the Millenian conciousness, and they attempted to subdue the daikaiju. Of course, Godzilla responded to their Concission Wave with his Atomic Breath, and the two found a stalemate. Drained of power, the ship eventually made its way to Shinjuku, where it began to research the human race. Of course, its progress was cut short by CCI, and subsequently, Godzilla himself. After burying the Kaiju Emperor, the ship began to extract the monster's genetic material, and, in a glorious folly, combined it with their own. The result was Orga.
Vicious but posessing a remarkable intelligence, its desire to completely absorb Godzilla's DNA was a necessity to stabalize its mutation. Naturally, it tried to overwhelm the King, jumping out of a pile of rubble and capturing Godzilla. Growing larger and more Gojiran, it wasn't until CCI's intervention (thanks to Yuji Shinoda), that Godzilla was able to get the upper-claw over Orga, and destroy him from within.
Shinoda's Godzilla Prediction Network now has official G-Force support, but remains an independent organization.
Needless to say, CCI has been disbanded.

[Shaoraia]

Millions of years ago, when the Millenians discovered Earth, they found a planet in the thralls of a collosal extinction, but with plenty of raw genetic material just lying around. PERFECT.
The aliens set about toying and splicing with DNA, eventually founding on a new species of insect: the MEGANULA. Born as MEGANURON, the larvae would consume and alter their environment to suit their own semi-aquatic lifestyle. Then, pupating as the flying Meganula, they would seek out large sources of energy and, again, consume. Finally, the flying creatures would return to their aquatic home, where, lying in wait, was a massive, pupating Meganuron, which would be fed the collected energy, birthing into the Queen of the Meganula...of course, the very interpidity of the Millenians that caused the downfall of their race served to be their downfall on Earth. Only two Meganuron eggs were left after the colossal battle, one which was found and accidentally hatched in 1956. The other completely dissapeared.
2001, and Project Dimension Tide is nearly finished. GODZILLA III is at large once again, and the idea of an ultimate kaiju-destroying weapon proves popular with the United Nations, despite the potentially disastrous results of a "compact Black-Hole cannon." Still, the project was given the go-ahead, and of the 3 proposed anti-Godzilla projects from 1996, this one had the highest probability of success.
However, after firing the cannon once in rural Japan...a small dimensional rift was opened. A portal, all the way back to the great Rodan/Meganura war, and it was just small enough so that one Meganura could fly through. Dropping one of the eggs, the Meganura flew back through the portal, but was destroyed with the portal's collapse. A young Japanese boy found the egg, and wasn't sure what to make of it. Trying to keep it, he eventually panicked at the strange properties, and dumped it into the sewer...the LAST place anyone should have put it.
Inevitably, the cycle began. People being eaten by the Meganurons, and the local area (Shibuya) flooded. Only this time, Rodan wasn't immediately around to devour the larvae, and thus, the Meganura were born. Seeking out Godzilla and stealing his energy, they returned to Shibuya. Godzilla's energy, combined with his DNA and the Queen's own bizarre genetics, gave birth to the hideously glorious MEGAGUIRUS.
Rodan, finally breaking free of Monster Island, made a bee-line for Tokyo, as was Godzilla. The two monsters were nearly outmached by Megaguirus's incredible speed and raw radioactive power, but the vicious beast was finally overwhelmed when the two kaiju managed to coordinate their attacks.
It is hoped that such a sadistic, crazed monster will never be given the opportunity to kill and destroy again...as long as she didn't lay any eggs... After decades of attacks and battles, suffering immensely at the claws of a monster of unthinkable power, unstoppable fury, and unbreakable will, that the notion to resign to a fate of forever being menaced by Godzilla's wrath seemed to be the only path...if not for Project MG. The third and final of the proposed Anti-Godzilla projects in 1996, it was also the biggest gamble.
Having salvaged the skeleton of the original Godzilla from 1954 (after it was killed by the Oxygen Destroyer), G-Force sought to use the inter-spinal cells, as well as the bones themselves (extremely dense and nearly indestructible) to built a fighting machine. Basing the design off of the salvaged remains of the Simeon's own MECHAGODZILLA, G-Force took it one step further. Integrating the bones, synthetic-diamond coating over the armor, and culturing muscles and sinew to create a more flexible fighting style, and the final steps, a semi-organic "heart" made to regulate the energies within the cyborg's body, and at last a DNA-based computer, built from Godzilla I's own genes. Thus, KIRYU was birthed into a brave, new world...what hath man wrought?
Kiryu was set to fight Godzilla, with Yashiro Akane as his lead pilot. Bearing her own grudge against the mighty kaiju from her team being killed in 1999, Yashiro proved her piloting skills during the battle against Megaguirus. Now, a true chance to redeem herself came in the form of piloting the Shirasagi I, one of Kiryu's control ships.
Kiryu and Godzilla squared off soon enough, but before the fight could even BEGIN, Godzilla let loose a roar of challenge. All of Kiryu's systems came to a grinding halt, and he remained still in the face of his greatest adversary. Godzilla, sensing no immediate threat, returned to the sea...and quickly after, Kiryu sprang back to life...AS A BESERKER. Godzilla's roar had awoken Kiryu's dormant DNA, bringing back the memories of the original Godzilla. Lashing out against mankind, it destroyed half a city before its power reserves ran dry.
A horrible dilemma...what to do? Risk another crazed attack, or disband the best hope Japan has against Godzilla...of course, the monster himself answered that question. Attacking with reckless abandon, Godzilla came searching for Kiryu, and the machine answered. Adjusting the computer allowed for a no-holds barred battle between Kiryu and Godzilla raged, until, finally, it ended at a standstill. Godzilla, wounded from the Absolute Zero Cannon, retreated, and Kiryu, drained of power, stood with Yashiro at his shoulder, watching the Kaiju King vanish beneath the waves.
A year later, the Shobijin appeared, pleading with their old friend, Professor Chujo, to return the original Godzilla's bones to the sea. Such a grevious blow against the spirit of the Earth was not to be tolerated. They feared that both Mothra AND Battra would return and destroy Kiryu themselves, and they obviously were loath to see that happen.

Inevitably, Godzilla returned to find Kiryu, and answer his "brother's" call. Mothra intervened, but in her age, was slowly being overwhelmed. Kiryu arrived and aided the moth against the Monster King. Eventually, Godzilla himself was overpowered, and beaten into submission. Finally, shrieking in defiance, unwilling to go down at the hands of lesser beings, his call ripped through Kiryu's near human/kaiju-hybrid processors, and the programming block was deleted. Kiryu re-awoke as Godzilla, and was quick to defend his brother. Rescuing him and flying to the sea, Kiryu and Godzilla escaped...and both would have their VENGEANCE... A living, walking volcano is perhaps the most concise way to describe the gigantic OBSIDIUS. The term "living natural disaster" never before so eloquently described a daikaiju, as the life force of the creature is extremely debateable outside of the Power Surges. Obsidius's emotional range is an oddity as well; angry, confused and in pain. A somewhat sympathetic creature, when the crystals were pushed deep within the continental shelf, somehow a bit of the Earth's own energy merged with the alien energies, and Obsidius was born. Obsidius is an emotional wreck, and while he may have the potential to be an Earth Defender, he's too much of a bully to ally himself with any other kaiju.
2007, the Crystal Incursion. Showers of meteorites peppered the planet, landing in Japan, Monster Island, America and England. Seattle was one of the cities hit hardest, and of the bizarre ecological effects wrought on the planet by the crystals, the west-coast city was besieged by a volcanic eruption, lava flowing through the streets and fires raging out of control.
However, when Obsidius rises, would he be a new force of destruction, or does he see the abomination he had become, and work against the dark designs of Space Godzilla? In the year 2007, 3 years after "Ghost Godzilla's" fight against BARAGON, MANDA and VARAN, a hauntingly familiar phenomenon appeared from the ever-sinister void of space, making a direct beeline for Earth.
The EDF sent a majority of their forces to New York to investigate the Crystal Incursion. There, in the center of a massive crater, steadily grew a mass of crystals with oddly organic properties...almost like a "cocoon."
Meanwhile, GODZILLA III had come ashore, awoken by the crystals, and defeated OBSIDIUS in Seattle. Heading for New York, Admiral Gyozen knew that the crystals must be destroyed before having to deal with Godzilla. Unfortunately, the crystal cocoon was all but impenetrable, and it wasn't until Godzilla arrived and attempted to destroy it himself that the cocoon finally shattered...revealing a brand new threat in the form of KRYSTALAK.

Unbelievably agile and a fierce fighter, the crystal-spawned mutation Krystalak is a sinister foe with plenty of cunning and dirty tricks to spare. So sinister is Krystalak that he would twirl his mustache in deviousness (if he had facial hair). A strange merging of organic muscle and the living crystals, Krystalak was eventually overpowered by Godzilla, who learned how to use the crystal energy, or "Power Surges," himself to defeat the maniacal creature. Then, Krystalak's energy core was ruptured, and when it exploded, created a bizarre rift in reality that sucked in both Godzilla and the Gotengo. There, within a bizarre alternate dimension (or planet), the two titans were forced to face the return of SPACE GODZILLA! And with the portal closing behind them, they had to beat him fast! As Earth descended into chaos during the Kilaak Invasion, Operation: Final War was nearing its climax. Captain Gordon, Dr. Otonashi and the young, inexperienced soldier Ozaki piloted the Gotengo III on the Kilaak Mothership with what little force they had left, Godzilla himself not far behind. There, within the mothership, the Regulator waited, bouncing his knee in excitement...

MONSTER X is perhaps one of the most dangerous daikaiju to ever appear on Earth, largely because it is not merely a kaiju. The Regulator, the Earthling-Xillian hybrid son of Astronaut Glenn and Miss Namikawa, had been waiting for decades of his abnormally long life to carry out his grand drama on Earth. Now, moving towards the last act of his play, he activated a massive genetic-mutating agent in his body, flooding his system with the catalystic energy necessary to mutate himself into a brand new hybrid: Humanoid and GHIDORAN. His skeleton erupted from his body, becoming a bizzare armor, his skin and muscles turned black as death, and his already warped mind pushed beyond the limits of the mortal capacity.
Monster X and Godzilla squared off at Mt. Fuji, while the rest of the monster army watched in awe. The radioactive dinosaur and mutated alien proved to be an even match for one-another, but X hadn't counted on a major factor: that his power was exactly what Ghidorah itself needed to be reborn: after being all but beaten by Godzilla, the space monster's consciousness, which had been fermenting in the Regulator's mind his whole life, finally had enough power to take his revenge. X's body erupted in an almost ceremonious fashion, and Ghidorah was reborn, his body aglow with the power of KAISER GHIDORAH! Now it is up to Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra, Battra, King Caesar, Angurius, Titanosaurus, Zilla, Kumonga, Kamacuras, Gorosaurus and the Gotengo to defeat the King of Terror and the Kilaak Forces once and for all! There is a name whispered in the darkest corners of the universe...a name which, when uttered, makes many a lifeform quake with fear or quickly turn away, covering what passes for ears. This name belongs to a creature so powerful, so frightening, so infamous for its sheer destructive nature that those who know of it either cower from its visage or worship it as the great God of Destruction, the King of Terror, the Planet Killer...KING GHIDORAH.
No one knows just where the monstrosity originated. Some speak of its home being an ancient and terrible place which many cultures describe as an equivalent to Hell or Hades, while others say that it was forged by beings far beyond anything we humans could comprehend. Some say it has simply always been....always moving from planet to planet, destroying it utterly, wiping the slate clean to the point that no new life will ever arise. The Omega to the Alpha of a planet's birth. Whatever the reason or cause, King Ghidorah one day decided to set its six eyes on a tiny blue and white sphere at the edge of a small galaxy in a dark pocket of the cosmos, 65 million years ago in our insignificant terran time.
Landing on our world, Ghidorah sought to ravage it, tearing apart the land and killing all of the animals who called Earth their home. Unfortunately for the beast, Ghidorah encountered something that it never thought would amount to anything: resistance. The mighty deity of the planet, GIGAMOTH, attempted to drive away the monster, something Ghidorah was all too familiar with. Through some bizzarre twist of fate, it managed to actually drive away Ghidorah, but not before thousands of dinosaurs were killed, and the sky, land and sea rendered all but inhospitable, and the god itself ripped asunder into two beings, MOTHRA and BATTRA. Despite their newfound animosity for one-another, new life would arise, and that at least a few of the valiant dinosaurs would live on to carry their heritage into the future, watching over the new, furry creatures that would one day take dominion of the world.
Of course....Ghidorah would not be so easily defeated. Oh no, not by a long shot. It would return to this little world, one that it had gained something that it had never experienced before: CONTEMPT. This world would not just die. It would be erased as though it were a speck of dirt on the tiniest scale, and woe be to whatever foolish creature that stood in its way.

....One giant saurian would take that personally.

Towards the end of the Cretaceous Period, the mightiest of theropod dinosaurs were officially outclassed by one massive species of predator: the GODZILLASAURUS ORIENTALIS.
The species wasn't officially named until the discovery of the first fossils in 1961, located in Southern China (not far from the Sea of Japan). It has long been theorized that GODZILLA's species called Japan (or a prehistoric equivalent) their home territory, and likely lived in a large island chain that has since shifted and sank into the Pacific.
The Godzillasaurus body structure is very similar to other carnosaurids, with the exception of being elegantly adapted to a semi-aquatic lifestyle. Fish and other seagoing animals were likely big on Godzillasaurus's list of prey, but they spent a large amount of time on land, where they hunted Angilasaurs and other herbivores as prey.
The last known specimen of G. orientalis were witnessed on the island of Lagos, where, upon retroactive study, there were at least 2 (perhaps more) of these dinosaurs, who had remarkably been by-passed by evolution and the climactic shifts of the planet. Thanks to the Bravo blast, both animals were mutated and became GODZILLA I and GODZILLA II. The creatures were both male (yes, Godzilla I's skeletal structure was typical of male theropod dinosaurs), so it has even been suggested that they were siblings of the same nest. It has also been noted that, due to reports near the Bering Sea around WWI, "monsters" were identified thawing from the ice and making their way south. Coincidence?

NOTE: We should count ourselves lucky that none of the Godzillas to date have been female, considering the growth patterns of carnosaurid genders, and just how much bigger and more ferocious the females were...

The skies darkened as the mighty KING GHIDORAH slowly, painfully tore apart the once-beautiful planet Earth. Mountains were ripped asunder, forests blazed to ruin, and the most powerful organisms on the planet were drained of their lifeforce. As the life of the planet began to ebb away, the Earth's very spirit refused to be destroyed. With her last measure of strength, the Mother of All created, in her image, a being of incredible force and sublime grace; GIGAMOTH. Of course, as all creatures, Gigamoth had to earn its way in the world...feed, grow, learn. Born a huge larvae, her armor protected her against most external threats, but just barely against Ghidorah's might. Armed with only a handful of powers, Gigamoth first tried to fight the beast head-on...to little avail. Utilizing its natural abilities, it developed a hit-and-run stratedgy against the King of Terror, and eventually, Gigamoth launched one massive assault; an army of dinosaurs against the King of Terror, lead by the huge larvae. Ghidorah, initially pushed back, quickly overwhelmed the lower lifeforms and nearly killed Gigamoth.
The young deity sought refuge deep within the forests of the prehistoric jungle, where it travelled to a massive tree, bigger than any other on the planet...the Tree of Life, which had existed since the birth of plant life itself. Gigamoth formed its cocoon at the base of the tree, drawing from the last life the planet had to give, and, under the gaze of the last of the dinosaurs, whom had gathered to bear witness to the birth of their new god, Gigamoth was reborn! A winged giant of light, it sped across the planet to challenge Ghidorah to battle!
As the fight raged, it appeared that Gigamoth was close to finally driving the space dragon offworld, but then the King of Terror tried something new, something that nearly cost Ghidorah's own life force: channeling his gravitational power through his mighty wings, Ghidorah trapped Gigamoth in a vortex of energy, and then charged what remained of his solar power into a single blast, intent on cutting straight through the benevolent kaiju. However, even as the blast began to strip away Gigamoth's own mortality, something beyond comprehension occurred - Gigamoth gave birth to MOTHRA and BATTRA! The two larvae fell from Gigamoth's vaporizing husk, and the one-time-only power that Ghidorah used had weakened him, thus forcing him into retreat. He left the planet, seeking easier prey elsewhere.
Mothra and Battra regarded each other for a time...but then Battra roared, challenging Mothra for the territory that was the battleground. Mothra, seeing the destruction that had been wrought and what was left of the Earth, decided that enough fighting had be done this day. She went into hibernation, and Battra, himself confused and angry, eventually succumbed to slumber himself. One day, perhaps, these two giants would be needed again, and perhaps, one day, the two would find their unity again. YAMATO NO OROCHI is perhaps the first daikaiju in recorded history to menace humanity. The legend of the beast spread throughout the world (one version being the Hydra of Greek mythos) and his size and raw elemental power a force to be reckoned with. Orochi eventually met his end at the hands of Susano-O, as the legend of the "Kojiki" goes, when the beast drank of eight vats of sake, purified eight times over. The Kojiki states that Orochi then fell asleep, and Susano cut him apart, but the Legend of the Yamato Guardians proclaims that Orochi was merely weakened by the sake, and Susano-O used the power of his sister, Amaterasu, to become UTSUNO IKUSAGAMI (though others state that Yamato Takeru did this...it varies) and destroyed the serpent.
Regardless, nobody knows where Orochi came from, though it was not necessarily an evil creature, rather a pure force of nature, which lashed out at mankind (not unlike Godzilla). Some have speculated that Orochi was born from some leftover part of Ghidorah 65 million years ago, but it's a stretch...

Regardless of Orochi's origin, the creature's most important contribution to the history of kaiju is what happened AFTER its demise: when Ikusagami/Yamato/Susano-O defeated the monster, each of its eight heads were severed. Each head, however, carried a certain power or element, they being Fire, Earth, Water, Wind, Thunder, Venom, Light and Shadow. Each head, which each power, slithered off into the far reaches of the world, and, as the Guardian legend goes, each returned as its own daikaiju.
Destiny foretold that the 8 beasts would fight one-another, and the loser would willingly give his chi to the victor, who would augment his or her power with the strength of the other. Eventually, one beast would stand above the others, and that last monster would become Orochi reborn. Of course, Varan, Manda and Baragon each had two of the powers of Orochi within them, so it goes without saying that only two others exist.
If Orochi should indeed ever return, the world would quake, and even Godzilla would find himself hard pressed to defeat such a foe. There is little hard evidence to support the legend of the battle between Susano-Wo and OROCHI, and even less concerning the legend of UTSUNO IKUSAGAMI. A relatively recent discovery of kaiju lore, its become a point of contestation over what events transpired during Orochi's destructive rampage across Japan. Grasping at the frayed edges of science dangling over this fairy tale, one theory has been postulated that the gigantic warrior Ikusagami was some sort of alien visitor that found its way to Earth and, finding one reason or another to defend humanity's primitive beginnings, defeated the monstrous serpent. However, a recent archaological discovery near the caves where King Caesar was last seen buried postulated a new theory, depicting Ikusagami as "the armor of the sun" with the phrase "Man must prove himself worthy" scrawled on a tablet depicting the giant warrior.
The most generally accepted story of Ikusagami tells of how Orochi was a sort of "test," born from the Earth as well as outer elemental forces in order to serve as a trial for mankind to be the dominant race on Earth. It wouldn't be much of a stretch to state that Ikusagami was the eventual proof that we passed the test. It has been theorized that Yamato Takeru, a young prince of the kingdom of Yamato, was the one who was granted the power of Ikusagami in order to defeat the might of Orochi. But where does the story of Susano-Wo's sake fit in? It's possible that this was a ploy that Takeru used to weaken Orochi before fighting him, or it could support a hypothesis that Orochi was defeated once before, and the Spawn of Orochi had re-united into the monster for a second rampage!
Be that as it may, if Ikusagami were to exist, it would be a force to be reckoned with. A gigantic warrior of the sun, powerful enough to stand toe-to-toe with the legendary Yamato-No-Orochi, he would certainly give any modern kaiju a run for their money. The annals of kaiju lore are constantly being uncovered and sifted through for new and exciting stories, and one that many a kaijuologist has used as a thesis or dissertation is the Spawn of OROCHI, and its addendum, the Guardians of Yamato. For many years archaeologists have been scouring for information on the
"lost children" of the giant serpent, as all that were known of were Baragon, Manda and Varan. However, in August of 2008, a magnificent discovery was made;
a massive underground shrine dedicated to Orochi and the legend of its children. On the left wall, when facing the chamber, elaborate paintings and carvings depict what appears to be the history of Orochi's existance and his eventual defeat at the hands of IKUSAGAMI. The opposing wall depicts all 8 of the other children and descriptions of the beasts themselves. Finally, the crown jewel of it all was a stone sphere on a pedestal in the center of the hall (beneath a menacing statue of a colossal stone god which may or may not represent Susano-Wo) that may as well have had a sign posted to it stating "this is really, REALLY important and will play a major role in events to come. Initial analysis of the perfect stone sphere reveals that, under a solid foot of stone, there is a strange object that resonates with a particular energy frequency.
While G-Force scientists feverishly attempt to unravel the mystery of the stone sphere, archaeologists have managed to translate the hieroglyphics on the stone walls:
BARUGARON was a fearsome monster and wielded the element of fire. Burning everything in his path, he was as vicious as any of his brethren; however, one day he and his brother BARAGON met and, supposedly in a case of "my name is too similar to yours," commenced fisticuffs. Barugaron may have had literal firepower on his side, but he wasn't as clever as Baragon. After tunneling under him, the Earth Guardian buried the fire monster in a shower of rock and stone, and, even after suffering terrible burns, manages to defeat his brother. Barugaron relinquished his life force to Baragon, granting the burrowing kaiju the power of firey breath. Of course, had the monsters fought in broad daylight, the outcome may have been much different (Baragon fights exceedingly well in the dark). Another of the Children of the Thousand-Year Dragon, SHIIGAN's power was derived from electricity, and brutality to match. The insect/reptile hybrid, according to the Orochi ruins site, met in vicious mortal combat against MANDA, the Water Dragon. The coils of the serpentine monster were an obviously easy target for the blades of her sibling, but Shiigan's lightening power was both compounded and complicated by the waters of Manda's environment.
The power of Manda's water manipulation eventually overpowered even Shiigan's nasty disposition, who was forced to give up his life energy to her sister, granting her the power of the Thunder Spark.
Interestingly, Shiigan bears a odd resemblance to another legendary kaiju, the cyborg GIGAN. Whether or not this has deeper implications or simply a result of convergent evolution (see: big fat coincidence) remains to be seen. A decidedly hideous child of the mighty Orochi, VAGNOSAURUS is a living mass of poison and venom; a walking biological weapon. This snarling she-beast met her demise at the hands of her ferocious brother VARAN. It was a very even match, as the legends etched on the cave wall tells us, with both creatures badly bloodied and exhausted. It wasn't until Varan finally managed to cast her into the sky with his wind power, then smash her into a mountainside that he gained her extremely useful acid-like bodily fluids to bout against future enemies.
Vagnosaurus was the last of the Orochi spawn, until 2004, to have its spirit condensed into the Orochi Amulet, which served well to supercharge Varan in his battle against GHOST GODZILLA. The last two monsters, BALKZARDAN and JYARUMU, are still having their tales of drama and destruction translated. Being a creature of shadow doesn't necessarily mean that one is evil. JYARUMU, like his brothers and sisters, is a force of nature. Few of the other Orochi Spawn define the term quite like Jyarumu, since, by his very nature, he merely seeks power and battle in order to bring about the rebirth of his parental beast.
Jyarumu shares both a bond and a rivarly with his sister, BALKZARDAN. The speedy monster's power of light is directly opposed to Jyarumu's power over darkness, but the two had apparently shared a less-than aggressive relationship, even apparently battling other kaiju side-by-side. The day came, however, that the two met on a field of battle that, surprisingly, was far from the shores of Japan. WHERE exactly is unknown, but China or Mongolia is not out of the question. Their battle would have been one to rock the world, most assuredly...though the text is still being translated... Good and evil are illusions created by humans. Illusions which, of course, control nearly every facet of our existance. Morality is literally beneath the mighty daikaiju, however. Even the destructive power of KING GHIDORAH or DESTOROYAH is merely instinctual need to battle and seek power. Even as a being of light, and compared to her shadowy brother, BALKZARDAN was still no saint of holiness. She was every bit as power-hungry as JYARUMU, the mark of her chaotic heritage.
Balkzardan was fast. Faster than fast. In fact, she was easily the fastest kaiju known to man, though it's unknown EXACTLY how fast the giant was. She could have easily outrun ZILLA, though may not have been as fast as RODAN at his top speed. Balkzardan's speed was clearly her forte, and that made her a decided contrast to Jyraumu. Curiously, when Light and Shadow met in a fateful battle, it was far and away from the Land of the Rising Sun and the birthplace of the Orochi Spawn, but since no one truly knows WHERE Orochi originated, whatever circumstances led to Balkzardan and Jyarumu to take their fight far from Japan are completely up to the hypothetical.
Their battle was surely an arduous and cataclysmic one, taking place not long after the siblings were freed of AXOR's mind control by KING CAESAR during the Battle of Mu.

Now the real question arises: what happened to these two kaiju? Even the Cave of Legends is sketchy in this respect, but it is implied that Shadow and Light cannot defeat one or the other, and by some twist of fate, both Balkzardan and Jyarumu met in their purest forms, and the clashing of their opposing energy wore each other down until the two seemingly cancelled each other out...but of course, that's no answer. What happened when they negated each other? Did the two attempt some sort of Hail Mary attack to try and destroy the other, and the two were simply obliterated? Did something else happen, and are the two kaiju still within the warm embrace of the Earth, waiting to rise and fight anew? Or could it be something else? Something we haven't yet anticipated or imagined? In the twilight days of the mighty Mu Empire, there were two men who were almost always on everyone's lips: High Inquisitor AXOR and Master Shisa. Both men were major players in the political and societal game in Mu, both very active as advisors to their beautiful Empress. Whereas Master Shisa, a godly man who lived a simple life, preferring to teach younglings the ways of martial arts and philosophy instead of bickering with the higher-ups of society, the High Inquisitor was something of a more material man who sought higher and higher influences in the courts and important circles. Though the Empress preferred the company and advice of Shisa, she had to give Axor the benefit of the doubt as well, he being such an influential man.
What none of them could never have guessed was how far Axor's treachery reached. He had, for a long, long while, been studying the arcane powers of telepathy and telekenisis, using slaves and servants as test subjects quite often (he was known to take many a young woman as a "wife," moreso that even the Empress's many consorts). One day, his plans came to an eventual head: word from a far-off land had reached him that the monsters BALKZARDAN and JYARUMU were fighting a pitched battle. This was his chance...

Arriving on the shores of this distant country, he wasted no time in located the fighting monsters, who were at a standstill. He observed as they wore each other down, until barely one or the other could stand. Then, Axor struck! Using a large crystal that he himself had created, he channeled his arcane energies into the very storm surrounding the monsters, and with some effort, took control of their beastial minds!

A few days later, Axor arrived on Mu's shores, declaring that he was now the Emperor of Mu, and that those who opposed him would feel the thunderous wrath of his new kaiju slaves. It didn't take long, however, for the Empress herself to declare that Mu would never be his, and summoned the aid of their own protector, MANDA. The dragon kaiju squared off against her enslaved brother and sister, but in a startling turn, Axor called out to the men and women that he had long held a subconcious control over, and the enemy struck from within the walls of Mu itself. Manda was hard-pressed to fight off the attacks of two kaiju as well as an entire army, so the Empress ordered her loyal Shisa to leave with Manda and find MOTHRA. Though it hurt him to leave his empress, Shisa obeyed, and escaped with Manda and as many civilians as he could.
Though the battle raged for several days, eventually Axor took the palace. Instead of simply forcing the Empress to call the dragon goddess to return, he intended to torture her, to break her completely, to extinguish her firery will and truly make her his slave. A difficult job, but well worth the work, he mused.

However, his plans would have to wait, because, on the horizon, Mothra and Manda charged towards the city, and began a mighty battle against Balkzardan and Jyarumu, not to mention a newly equipped army of fighters, resupplied and rallied from Infant Island. Though Axor attempted to have the palace completely sealed from attack, Master Shisa managed to enter secretly, and challenged Axor to a duel. Axor hardly fought fair, but his mind control was well matched by Shisa's will. It was only when Axor called upon his telekinesis to control the very lightening from the sky that he nearly killed Shisa, though, to his surprise, when he turned to the Empress to gloat over his victory, he felt a very long sword in his gut. The Empress was not one to take defeat lightly.

Axor managed to crawl away while the Empress helped Shisa escape when Jyarumu collapsed onto the palace itself. Beneath his own mansion, Axor had a contingency plan; a giant statue made of black crystal, modeled after a dark god in Mu mythos...a giant serpentoid monster. Using his own amplification crystal, he transferred his power into the new body, and through this ancient technology, BECAME the giant monster!


Rising from under the streets, Axor quickly overpowered Manda and turned her to his will. Now Mothra, who was immune to psychic control, had four monsters to fight on her own, and the Mu Liberation Forces were fighting a losing battle. But thanks to the Empress, Shisa was taken to another statue, one that inspired Axor to create the monstrous body he now used. Another ancient godlike figure, the Empress saved Shisa's life, and granted his dieing wish to still be able to fight and protect, by transferring his soul into the lionlike body...KING CAESAR was born!

Attacking with great speed, Caesar rushed to Mothra's aid, and quickly helped turn the tide of battle. Able to communicate with the giant moth, they formed a plan: take down Axor. Though the battle was long and fierce, and Mothra and Caesar on their last legs, the lion god managed to nearly kill the cobra monster. At the last moment, Axor tried his slave ray on Caesar, but thanks to his own crystal eyes, the beam bounced back from Caesar, striking Axor and turning his body into listless crystal. Caesar shattered the form of his enemy, and the slaves, monster and human alike, were freed!

But Axor had one last card to play: in the event of his death, explosives had been placed in the geothermal generators deep beneath Mu, and the entire continent was shattering apart. King Caesar, Mothra and the Empress saved as many people as they could, Balkzardan and Jyarumu escaped back to their battleground to continue their fight, and Manda sank with the giant pearl that she was so infatuated with. King Caesar wandered the Earth after that, doing who knows what (until his eventual settling in Okinawa), Mothra helped the people of Mu spread across the globe, and the Empress formed a new colony on the tiny Infant Island, hoping to always safeguard peace and hope for her people.

Ozaki sat on the strange-looking bed, shifting his feet, a bored yet oddly nervous look on his face. He glanced about, wondering what exactly he had gotten himself
into. The doors at the far end of the nearly empty room opened, and in walked Dr. Otonashi, he hair down and her white lab coat unusually flattering.

"Good morning, Ozaki-san," she said, not really looking at him. Her attention was on a clipboard she carried with her, giving Ozaki a clear mental reminder
of hospital nurses who aren't terribly concerned with their patients.

"Good morning Otonashi-sensei," he replied, a bit perturbed. This being only their second meeting, she was still cold to him for assuming her to be old and fussy
like some scientists he knew (although she was about 2 or 3 years older than him).

"A brave fellow, you are," she said, still not meeting his gaze. "Fighting monsters on the outside wasn't enough? Will fighting a monster from within be more
exciting?"

Ozaki furrowed his brow. "It's a rare opportunity. I don't deny that it's...pretty cool...like Captain America," he said.

Miyuki looked at him with a quizzical face, then lowered her clipboard. "I'm thinking more Kamen Rider," she replied, snarkily.

Ozaki cocked his eyebrow. "Kamen Rider was a cyborg. This is genetic manipulation, so Captain America-"

"Let's get started, shall we?" she cut him off, a smiling but annoyed look on her face. Ozaki shrugged and layed back.

"I'm going to start with some deep muscle injections. It'll introduce the G-Cells into your body, in low doses, and hopefully not take over or destroy your system."

"Comforting," Ozaki replied, his eyes wandering more purposefully than he cared to admit.

"The injection will have to be slow, and it'll hurt," Miyuki told him in a surprisingly soothing voice. "So let's talk...about something besides comic heroes.
Is there anything about the process you don't understand?"

"Well...I'm still not clear on how I won't die of radiation poisoning," he said calmly. "Most people who come into contact with Gojiran cells without protection die-
AYAEI!" he yelped when she started to insert the needle.

"Keep still or I'll have to strap you down," she said matter-of-factly.

"Not an unpleasant notion," he said, smirking but looking away. She opened her mouth to retort, but shook it off. Ozaki had a reputation for being a little too
outspoken.

"If you want to know the history of it, it's very interesting," she offered, a little excited at the opportunity to discuss this breakthrough in science. He nodded.
"Do the names SANDA and GAIRA mean anything to you?

"A pair of Class 1 kaiju that appeared in the 60's, but with traits of Class 2's," he stated, now intrigued. "Nobody knew much beyond that, but there had been speculation
that they had something to do with the supposed FRANKENSTEIN kaiju...it's a bit of a cover-up if you ask me."

"You wouldn't be far off. Between you and me, the Frankenstein incident was a huge embarassment for international relations, so the EDF downplayed it severely."

"World War II?"

"You got it."

"What about Sanda and Gaira?"

"...Miracles, those two. You see, Frankenstein wasn't totally destroyed," Miyuki said, now pumping the G-Cell extract into Ozaki's system. "When he fought Baragon,
something happened, and somehow parts of him were seperated. A hand perhaps, or an ear, there's no telling, but it was believed that his healing factor rivaled
that of even Godzilla's."

"No way," Ozaki said, looking right at her.

"Some part of Frankenstein must have wound up in the ocean, and from there, a completely new life form was born. All of the nutrients in the water fed into it, and
it evolved, developing with its environment, into Gaira." Now Miyuki was well into the drama of the tale.
"The creature was brutal and instinctual. He sought out boats and destroyed them to feed on the passengers..."

Ozaki's eyes were wide, ignoring the pain now. The kaiju otaku in him was rising to the surface.

"Gaira eventually found his way inland, and the JSDF started hunting him when he attacked villages and towns...he was strong, but not anywhere near a usual Class 1's
power, which leads some to classify him as a Class 0.5..."

Ozaki nodded, enraptured.

"Anyway, the military was close to killing him...until Sanda arrived..."
"SANDA arrived and fought to protect GAIRA," Miyuki said, finishing up the G-Cell transfer. "He helped the other monster deep into the mountains. They were so well hidden that the military simply couldn't find them, mostly thanks to their near-human intelligence."
"So Sanda was the other Frankenstein mutation?" Ozaki said, wincing slightly as Miyuki withdrew the injector out of his arm. "And I'm guessing that he was trying to protect his...brother."
"Near as we can figure...Sanda was actually raised in a small mountainous community. A doctor in that village discovered him and cared for him when he was smaller than a human, so he learned to associate with humans early on," Miyuki said while cleaning the equipment. Ozaki began to sit up, rubbing his now-sore arm.
"Dr. Bowen and Dr. Togami, the caretakers of the Frankenstein monster, tried to track the beasts down, and they succeeded, partially. Sanda eventually saved them both from the wrath of his brother, who had healed, but the two apparently began fighting between themselves over the two doctors...their battle eventually took them through Tokyo and out into the sea. All archival footage shows their brutality, though Sanda clearly tried, several times, to calm Gaira down..." Miyuki's voice trailed off, somewhat saddened by the idea that two brothers would fight to the death.

Ozaki, sitting up, probed once more: "So what happened to them?"

Miyuki breathed deep. "They both died. There were reports that an undersea eruption killed them both. Some say that Godzilla got ahold of them, and they tried to fight him, but both monsters were killed. The intel is sketchy."

A brief silence.

"Wow...that's some wild stuff," Ozaki said. "So I guess now's the part where you tell me what that has to do with me."

"Shrewd assumption," Miyuki retorted. "You'll recall that both Godzilla and Frankenstein were radioactive mutations with incredible regenerative abilities?"

"The only ones of their kind. No other monsters outside of other G-Mutants have their healing factors."

"Correct...but the Gargantuas had little to no radiation in the DNA that was discovered in their wake."

"....Eh?"

"It's remarkable, but somehow the regenerative abilities were retained without the radiation necessary to maintain it. It was using that DNA as a blueprint that allowed us to retrofit the energy-charged Godzilla cells into a non-lethal form to the human body. With a few more sessions, you'll have the energy conductive abilities, the increased strength and the regenerative healing abilites that will make you a force to be reckoned with."

"Yeah, I read the pamplet. But...wow...so I'm part Frankenstein?"

"In a nutshell."

"...Sugoi."

"Well, I'm off to a lecture. Get lots of rest and I'll see you tomorrow." Miyuki turned away.

"Wait!" Ozaki said. "...First date and no kiss?"

Miyuki snorted (still very ladylike) and flipped her hair.
"Fighters aren't my type. Ja-ne, Ozaki-kun."

The world of kaiju is a strange, strange one indeed. Many mysteries exist and haunt the corners of the realm of such a small, wondrous world of ours.
No GODZILLA, as far as science is concerned, ever conceived children or gave birth. Where exactly other Godzillas, such as GODZILLA JUNIOR, came from is still open to debate. What's even MORE of a head-scratcher, however, is the story of GODZUKI, otherwise known as "Godzilla's Nephew," an appropriate nickname, at least.
The small monster has been something of a Sasquatch or Watchuka of the psuedo-field of Monster Hunting, and one of Dr. Quinn Darian's many subjects. Chasing after various monster hints and tips abord The Calico, Dr. Darian, Captain Carl Majors, her nephew Pete and her assistant Brock had one day come across the small kaiju, stuck in a dead, collapsed reef while researching under water. Freeing it with their mini-sub, Pete dubbed the creature "Godzuki," but it didn't stick around for pleasentries. Fleeing the scene, Godzuki did nothing less than take to the air! Flying east, the team followed the smallish kaiju among the islands to the Southern Pacific..and nearly gave up when they became sidetracked by an SOS from the small island called Selga... When the Calico arrived on the shores of Selga Island, they expected to find a small village of natives as well as a research outpost stationed for an eventual resort property. What they found was desolation...the village and jungles now overrun with strange growths, and the outpost destroyed. No bodies.

Dr. Darian and Brock went out into the jungle to attempt and locate anyone alive, despite Captain Majors' disapproval. Pete remained with the captain, only to start noticing that something wasn't...quite right. Mushrooms started growing at an alarming rate, their spores floating about just about everywhere they turned.

Even stranger, the spores were whispering, giggling even...

After several hours, Carl grew impatient. He told Pete to stay put and marched out into the jungle, grabbing his shotgun first.

Pete sat on the bow of the boat, rocking back and forth, bored (and creeped) out of his mind. Staring into the hazy sky, he failed to notice the sinister giant tentacle rise from the water and start wrapping itself around the boat. It was when the thing grabbed Pete that he let out a scream, the appendage lifting him into the air, nearly crushing him!

Pete continued screaming, hoping desperately that someone, ANYONE, would hear him.

Then a roar came from the sky; GODZUKI! The monster attacked the tentacle viciously, snapping it and freeing the boy. Waddling over to him, Pete found no fear in his heart, only admiration for this incredible animal. However, it was short-lived; a massive shape emerged from the water, throwing more tentacles at them. Godzuki quickly carried Pete into the sky and over the jungle.

Pete rode the young monster's back for a time, relieved to be out of harm's way. Then, he heard the cracks of gunshots from the forest below. He patted Godzuki's back, imploring him to land, and surprisingly, the monster obeyed. The two landed in a clearing and spotted Captain Majors, running out of the forest towards them, a cold sweat about his face. Pete tried to calm him down, but the Captain was scared out of his wits, and turned his attention towards Godzuki. He aimed his gun at the monster, but Pete implored him to stop. Thankfully, the captain regained himself, noting that they should get off the island.

Pete knew otherwise, of course. The boat was destroyed, and even if Godzuki could lift them to safety, they couldn't leave Aunt Quinn and Brock out in the forest, alone. Carl stated, however, that they may not WANT to find them...

Suddenly, the forest came alive; trees, or what they thought were trees, began shuffling and moving towards them, giggling and cackling. Carl turned and started firing at them wildly, though the bullets had little effect. Instead of attacking, however, they seemed to be offering something...tiny mushrooms, glowing with a blue mist...

Carl grabbed Pete and ran, Godzuki close behind.

"Captain Majors, they don't seem to want to hurt us!"
"That's where your wrong, Pete...if you'd seen what they had done...!"

The three came to a small cave, and considered hiding inside. But then, a shape emerged...

"Don't move!" Carl shouted.

But it was just Brock, scared out of his wits. Brock explained what had happened, that Quinn was still somewhere in the woods, captured by the Mushroom People. He tried to fight them off, but was whisked away by the old man, sitting in the cave. He didn't speak much english, but kept saying "MATANGO," and something else, which he was especially fearful of, "GEZORA."

Pete was done with it. He wanted to find his Aunt, and he ran off, Godzuki close behind. Brock and Carl tried to follow them, but the old man stopped them. He kept saying "Fly! Black! Sound!" flapping his arms and making weird noises.
Brock guessed that he meant the bats in the caves, and the old man confirmed it. He wanted to show them that they needed to set the bats free (since their caves were covered up with overgrown mushrooms). While Brock wanted to give it a shot, Carl would have none of it. He went off after Pete and Godzuki.

The two "kids" had made their way far inland, where the forest was growing increasingly bizarre...almost alien. They reached a strange grotto, with more Matango than they had seen yet. These creatures reacted casually to their presence, not attacking, but following their movements. Suddenly, a voice called to Pete, slowing repeating him name.

Atop a large mushroom, sat Quinn...or at least it was once Quinn. The spores had become one with her body, and she looked like some beautiful, terrible amalgamation of life forms. All about the forest, a strange, glowing presence permeated their thoughts and mind. Pete was falling for the mental assault, walking closer when his logic would have deemed otherwise. Godzuki, a simpler creature with a simpler mind, reacted in blind fear, cowering and whimpering to his friend.

Quinn descended the mushroom, and embraced her nephew. She cooed to him, stroking his hair...telling him not to be afraid...that "Yog will take care of us...because we are all part of Yog..."

A gunshot broke the horrible serenity. Carl stood amongst them, his gun in the air. He demanded that she, once a woman of science...once a woman he loved, release the boy.

She simply stared at him.

BANG.

The bullet went right through her head.
Pete was snapped out of the trance, and pushed away from her seemingly dead-but standing-body. He rushed to Godzuki, who guarded him and snarled at what was coming.
Quinn's body shuddered forward, and stared at Carl. Her eyes flashed blue, and the Matango attacked!

They swarmed over Carl, faster than he could shoot. They began descending on Godzuki and Pete, despite the monster's flailing and defending the boy. But then, squeaking and chirping filled the air, and the Matango started convulsing and writhing. Even Quinn's body started shuddering. Bats were all about the canopy above, assaulting the invaders of their island home with a sonic attack.

Pete jumped on 'Zuki's back and the two were off, smashing and tearing their way through the jungle and Matango. Reaching the beach, they saw Brock and the old man, both with a small motorboat salvaged from the Calico. But to all their horror, Gezora rose from the water! The giant cephalopod cackled at the tiny figures before him.
But Godzuki roared back! He lept from the ground and assaulted the kaiju, biting and clawing, while bats from the inner island also swarmed the behemoth. Brock, Pete and the old man got on the boat and started speeding away.

Pete watched as Godzuki spewed fire on his giant nemesis, and Gezora thrashed about, still under the assault of the bats' echolocation. Then, the island itself started shuddering; an eruption!
The volcanic power that had granted the island life was about to swallow up that which had desecrated it. Gezora still flailed as the island shattered, the earth consuming it, and one of the tentacles snatched Godzuki, dragging the young monster in with it.

Pete simply stared as the storm of the earth itself disappeared into the distance... Perhaps the first example of "intentional kaiju," the OOKONDORU flock was created on Letchi Island by the Red Bamboo. While EBIRAH guarded the base from the sea, the Ookondoru guarded it from the sky. The Red Bamboo, besides the usual terrorist shenanigans of nuclear weaponry and general crimes against humanity, had also been experimenting with various toxins and poisons for chemical warfare. Testing on cattle and livestock, the RB then had the problem of what to do with the infected meat. Of course, they did what any human would do: throw it out and hope it just goes away.

What they hadn't counted on was that flocks of scavenging birds on the islands would feed on the infected meat, and, believe it or not, it mutated them into a flock of giant condors! By keeping the beasts feeding grounds closer to their base, the condors formed nests and would become a not-so-natural defense against outside threats...of course, Godzilla rose from INSIDE the island, so the point was moot.

A flock of the things descending upon Godzilla while he was taking a nap, and though they provided ample challenge to the monster king, a few blasts of atomic radiation got rid of them.

The remaining Ookondoru were destroyed when Letchi went nuclear, but there are rumblings that some may have nested in various other South Seas islands. When FRANKENSTEIN escaped, Doctors Bowen and Togami chastised Dr. Kawaji for having an instrumental hand (no pun intended) in the man-monster's breakout.
While the two other scientists searched the countryside for what had become their foster-child, Kawaji became reclusive, furious at himself for losing a marvelous wonder of science...but he still had the hand, though.
The hand of Frankenstein, still growing, still moving, severed during the monster's violent escape. After being "fed" nutrients, the hand was actually quite sprightly, just short of being able to move at a brisk pace. Kawaji was obsessive over the hand, and tried something drastic, but nonetheless foolish. He severed one of the fingers and fed it to a group of lab rats...and what do you know? THEY GREW IN TO MONSTERS. Big surprise.
Kawaji escaped by the skin of his teeth and headed for the mountains, desperate to seek out Sueko and James, but unaware that the rats were in hot pursuit.

When the rats nearly destroyed Kawaji's jeep, Frankenstein appeared and saved him. Bringing him to Bowen and Togami, the two carried Kawaji to safety while Frankenstein squared off against the monsters. At least 5 in number, Frankenstein was outmatched, but nonetheless held a brave battle against the beasts, protecting his family.

The JSDF arrived and started blasting the creatures to kingdom come. Frankenstein himself, badly wounded, drug himself out to the water, and sank beneath the waves...

Later, the giant rats were named DEUTALIOS in the G-Force registry.

[Shaoraia]

“Come in, Coastguard. Come in, Coastguard!” The captain sighed distantly to himself and set down the radio’s speaker. Still nothing. The first mate set down his binoculars and shook his head. They’d been lost for a little over an hour, ever since the gales had blown them off-course. Now, Fujisawa found himself faced with every captain’s worst nightmare short of the ship sinking.

The business had been struggling for months, anyway. He couldn’t afford radar, repairs for the barometer or even a decent radio. He’d be forced to file for a bankruptcy if they didn’t get a decent catch soon. The last part, though, was the bitterest by far.

“These waters are supposed to be solid with fish,” he muttered, “and we’re getting nothing.”

“They’re saying there’s a storm coming in,” the first mate pointed out. “Maybe we should turn back.”

“We could,” The captain replied grimly, “if we knew where ‘back’ was.” He turned back to the radio. “Coastguard? S.O.S. This is the…”

The boat shook. Not just shook, but lurched so violently that its occupants were thrown to the floor. “What was that?” The first mate shouted, pushing himself up against the wall.

Shaking his head in bemusement, the captain made his way outside. There was one thing he could tell, and he only realised it when he got outside: they weren’t moving. The rhythmic sway of the waves was gone. “What…?”

Something was clustered around the base of the fishing boat; thick, smooth spikes rising out of the water. “Looks like we hit coral,” he called inside. “Call the coastguard again; if you get through, tell them that.”

The boat shook again. The captain had only time to cry out in surprise as the entire boat was carried up as something impossible huge rose from the water beneath it. It was only when he turned and the boat fell, revealing what passed behind it, that he realised what they’d been resting on.

A head. A head bigger than the trawler itself.

The two massive jaws clamped around the ship in a cloud of splintering wood and spraying surf.

~~~

Tokyo

Hikaru silenced the alarm clock by angrily swatting it, rolling over in bed. Why he’d ever set the thing had been beyond him; it was Saturday, he was tired, there was no work to… work!

He sprang out of bed, dressed as quickly as he could and tore his way downstairs. Now he’d done it; he was supposed to be at the garage by now to help tune up that old racer. It was the biggest client for months, and if they didn’t have a test driver, then…

Upon reaching the kitchen, he vaulted over the table and grabbed two slices of toast that had just popped out of the toaster. “Hey!” Akira shouted from the table, “That was mine!” Indeed, the youngest of the three Sakimori siblings already had a pot of strawberry jam ready.

“Sorry, squirt,” Hikaru said hurriedly, “Gotta go. Work.”

“No you don’t,” said the stern, harsh voice from behind the newspaper. Hikaru froze immediately, sighed and handed the toast to Akira. You didn’t argue with Raita Sakimori. Still, Hikaru was nothing if not persistent.

“But I-”

“It’s taken care of,” Tsukiko said as she put some more bread in the toaster. “You’ve got the day off sick. No son of mine neglects his duty.”

Oh. That duty.

“We’re going to the sea,” Hotaru said with tangible sarcasm as she finished half a bowl of cereal. “Grandpa’s been watching the news.”

“Reading, actually,” Raita said, putting the newspaper down on the table. “Look at this.”

Hikaru leaned over and inspected the headline: Pleas from fishermen’s families; sixth disappearance. “Four fishing trawlers have gone missing in as many days,” Raita said gravely. “The boats looking for them haven’t fared much better.”

“A monster?” Hikaru asked. In any other family, the question would probably be laughed at, even considering how many there were running around.

“The last disappearance,” Raita pointed to another part of the article, “is about five miles away from the location.”

“What island?” Hotaru asked. Raita looked grimly up at her. “The location,” he said. Hikaru felt a cold chill run down his spine.

“No,” he said, shaking his head from side to side, “no way. It crashed.”

“I know,” Raita said.

“I saw it.”

“I know.”

“Demonicus is dead.” Hikaru still hated saying the name out loud. It was hardly surprising; the man had nearly killed him. Few human beings could ever aim to be as dangerous as he was, but even so, there was no way he could have survived that crash. In the ship. The massive, heavily-armoured, well-equipped…

”We never even thought about it,” Raita said darkly, “we never even considered that he might have survived the crash. And if there’s another monster in the area…”

“What if it’s not him?” Hotaru suggested. “There are lots of monsters he didn’t make; Rodan, Godzilla, Mothra…”

“You have a point,” Raita said as he rose, “we need to be sure. Everybody into the lab.”

As Raita and the other two Sakimori siblings hurried out of the room, Hikaru sighed to himself and took a bite of toast, glancing back at the paper.

“Maybe I should put a personal ad in there,” he grumbled to himself as he followed. “Single Japanese male looking for one damn day where nothing tries to tear his head off…”

~~~

Any visitor would have to be impressed by Raita’s lab. The man had actually maid a satellite, disguised as a cloud, which shot lightning at targets. Any military scientist would trample an old lady to get hold of something like that.

Hikaru, Hotaru and Akira huddled round as Raita turned the computer on. “Give me some space, would you?” the old man grumbled as his fingers danced over the keyboard. “Here we are… if this is the site of the attacks,” he said, pointing to part of the screen, “then… hmm. There’s an island,” he muttered, “a quarter-mile north from the last incident. Maybe…”

Then came the explosion. The world seemed to shake for a second as the massive, low thunder of the explosion tore through the sleepy morning air.

“What was that?” Hotaru shouted. By the time Hikaru scrambled to the window, he could see the thick plume of smoke rising from Tokyo Bay. “That’s the oil refinery,” he realised.

Yoichiro poked his head in through the doorway, still fiddling with a new invention. So that was where the father of the family had been. “Everyone,” he said urgently, “look at the news!”

~~~

“For those of you just tuning in,” the reporter on TV announced, “there has just been a major incident in the industry district of Tokyo Bay. The cause has not yet been identified,” he continued as a camera started to pan over the scene of the fire and smoke billowing from the separation tower, “but we are receiving word that the armed forces have been mobilised. All citizens in or near the Tokyo Bay area are advised to evacuate in an orderly and efficient manner.”

Then the camera moved over the scene, turning to a view of… of…

“Oh…” Hikaru said dumbly, eyes wide, “that… that’s not good.”

The thing that stepped through the smoke was a grey-green mountain of bone and muscle. The simplest way Hikaru could think of to describe it was a massive, muscled dinosaur, its back covered in huge, bristling and jagged dorsal fins, the back of its neck and head like spiky hair. Its arms were held close to its chest like a boxer, and its legs were like thick pillars of muscle. But there was only one word that would do it justice.

“Godzilla…”

“Hikaru,” Raita said quietly, “suit up.”

Hikaru hesitated. He looked to his grandfather, then to the screen, then back again. “What?”

“Go,” Raita insisted.

“That’s Godzilla!” Hikaru shouted, “Godzilla! The actual Godzilla! What am I supposed to do against that?”

“Get him out of the bay,” Raita snapped. “You’ve fought tougher!”

“When?” Hikaru yelled. “I’ve seen footage of that thing being nuked and getting back up!”

“Use your head,” Raita barked. “I’ll have Great Raideki online to assist you. There are still people round there.”

Hikaru looked back at the screen. Raita was right; he’d never forgive himself if he let someone get hurt. He’d just have to, as Raita had said, use his head. “Alright.”

~~~

The Skyline GT swerved round the street corner as Hikaru struggled to bring it back under control. He was, he had to admit, driving like a lunatic. The smoke from the latest in the series of explosions filled the horizon now. Still, he wasn’t going to change until the last minute. The transformation only lasted for a limited time, and from what he knew of Godzilla, he was going to need every last bit. He’d once seen footage of G-Force’s most elite unit going up against Godzilla, armed with the most sophisticated weapons known to man. They’d lasted exactly 79 seconds. Therefore, he’d need the element of surprise. In all fairness, he’d take anything right now.

“I’m close enough,” he said to the radio.

“You’ve got a good chance,” Raita’s voice crackled through the static. “Remember: hit him hard, hit him fast, and avoid the fire breath.”

“Thanks,” Hikaru said with an edge of sarcasm. “Needed that last part.”

He stopped the car, climbed out and moved his arms into the correct stance. And…

“Zon Faita!”

There was a blinding light, and Hikaru’s body began to shift, covering itself with streams of metal as his form was replaced by a blue-and-silver figure. As soon as that light faded, Hikaru moved his arms into another position and shouted: “Zone! Double! Fight!” Then, quickly, impossibly, he began to grow, to grow, grow and grow, until finally he towered over the street.

And there, in front of him, facing away, was Godzilla.

This was it, then. No holding back. Just hit him.

Zone Fighter ran forward, launched himself into the air and, pointing his forehead and hands forward, willed the Proton Beam into activation. Godzilla’s thunderous, earth-shaking roar rang out as the strafing blasts of orange energy collided with his mighty form, rocking the unprepared creature forward.

“Alright, big guy!” Hikaru shouted. Yes, he was grandstanding, but it was either that or scream. “How about picking on someone…” the hunched-over Godzilla stood, turning with a low rumble that sounded like an avalanche- and revealing just how massive this creature was. “…your… own… size?” Hikaru slowed as he realised he was looking up to meet Godzilla’s gaze. He was just about above the beast’s shoulders. “Okay… so stay right there, and I’ll go and find someone.”

The really striking thing about Godzilla, he noticed, was the eyes, blazing red, yellow and orange. It was odd, but looking at them, it was like knowing the creature instinctively. There was intelligence in those eyes that predated any human thought, steeped in guile and cunning. Not “intellect” as humans might know it, more of an arrangement of instincts and-

He was still staring.

Even if he’d been prepared to block the blow that followed, Hikaru was quite sure that all he would have done was break his arm. He staggered to the side as Godzilla’s clawed fist completed its arc, and barely had time to steady himself when the thick whip of a tail caught his midsection, carrying him back through the air.

He hit the ground with a hard grunt, pushing himself up on his elbows. Damn… he couldn’t remember the last time he’d been hit that hard. Then Godzilla roared again, lumbering towards him.

“Fine, then,” Hikaru said, “eat this… Uzi Punch!”

When Godzilla reached him, he was greeted by a blur of fists, striking him from every direction as his massive, lumbering form struggled to move in time to block anything. The sheer force of the unexpected strike sent him lumbering back, and Zone Fighter quickly followed through by spinning round, kicking Godzilla square in the chest.

Yes! He couldn’t believe this- was he actually matching Godzilla? Focus, he told himself. Keep it up.

Using the momentum he’d already built, he launched himself over Godzilla’s shoulder, spun round to face him again and fired off another volley of proton beams. Godzilla howled in fury, turning and swatting at the blasts.

Then the plates on his back started to glow. Zone Fighter dodged to the side, but the blast of blue, white-hot flame that followed still had enough force to knock him on his side. When he looked up, Godzilla was upon him, one foot in the air.

“Uh-oh.”

~~~

Even Raita winced. It was unavoidable. Getting one’s chest stomped on by a giant mutant dinosaur was one of those things that just had to hurt.

“He’s… not doing so good, is he?” Hotaru volunteered, staring at the screen.

“Wait,” Yoichiro spoke up. “Look.” He pointed to Godzilla as Zone Fighter caught his foot, preventing a second stomp by flipping Godzilla groundwards.

“Nice one,” Akira observed.

“No, look at Godzilla,” Yoichiro indicated as the monster got to his feet.

”Yes,” Raita realised, his eyes lighting up, “yes, I see it!”

“See what?” Hotaru asked.

“Watch his movements,” Raita pointed, narrating as Godzilla moved; up, forward, down. That’s how he walks.

“And that’s important because…?”

“Any living thing moves far more fluidly,” Raita explained, “this is almost robotic. Like a…”

“A remote-controlled toy,” Yoichiro realised.

Raita immediately turned back to the keyboard, another screen lighting up.

“There,” he pointed at the waves moving across the screen, “a signal. Now, if I can trace it… aha!”

There it was, blinking on the map. The source of the signal.

“Wait a second,” Yoichiro spoke up, “you’ve lost me here.”

“Godzilla has never attacked unprovoked,” Raita said, “it’s just possible that something’s affecting him, and whatever it is, it’s on that island.”

“On it,” Hotaru announced, shifting her arms. “Zon Enjeru!”

~~~

Before Zone Fighter could stop Godzilla, the saurian’s hands were wrapped around his head, twisting it as the human giant resisted with all his strength. “Let me go, damn it…” he wheezed. “Fine, if that’s how you want it…” anything to avoid admitting to himself that his vision was starting to fade. Breathing got difficult with monster-hands on your windpipe. Reaching out desperately, he grabbed Godzilla’s thrashing tail and started to pull.

“Hikaru!” Raita’s voice buzzed in the side of his helmet.

“Can’t… talk… now!” Zone Fighter wheezed. “lasma Capsule!” the blast lanced outwards, burning Godzilla. Zone Fighter gasped for breath as he finally broke free of Godzilla’s death-grip.

“Something’s controlling Godzilla,” Raita explained, “it may be that he doesn’t want to harm you.”

”Really?” Hikaru yelled in the middle of summoning a Zone-Barrier that barely held back another blast of atomic fire, “because this is one hell of an impression!”

“Zone Angel and Zone Junior are going to find the source of the problem,” Raita lectured. “Can you get Godzilla out of the bay without causing any damage?”

The bay. They were in Tokyo Bay. Of course!

“On it.”

Zone Fighter leapt up into the air, taking flight, and spun round as Godzilla followed, bellowing furiously. Then he flew in front behind, grabbing the monster by his underarms, and, pushing all the power he had into the flight, tearing across the harbour before releasing the grip.

Howling furiously, Godzilla hit the sea in a massive wall of water as Zone Fighter half-landed, half-crashed, on the shore.

“Whew…” he pushed himself back up, looking back down at the belt. The light changed from a consistent green to a fading and re-brightening orange. No wonder; damn, but that lizard could take a punch.

Then the water exploded, and Godzilla tore out, bellowing and brandishing his claws.

“Okay, that’s just not funny… Proton Beam!” The beam shot forth, striking Godzilla in the chest. He staggered, but kept his footing…

Leaping up, Zone Fighter brought both his fists slamming down on Godzilla’s head, pushing himself back away- not quickly enough to avoid Godzilla grabbing his wrist, swinging him round and slamming him into the ground. The monster leered up above him, his back flashing brilliant blue…

“Hyper-Shield!” The shield burned into existence just before the blast impacted, sending it rocketing back up and striking Godzilla in the face with his own attack. The monster howled, falling back as his tail thrashed madly. Pressing the advantage, Zone Fighter grabbed the tail, heaved and, with all his strength, carried Godzilla round in an arc, sending him flying into the side of a separation tower that exploded in a pillar of flame.

Godzilla rose, the smoke parting as he lumbered forward, swinging his claws at the air.

Then, before he could reach Zone Fighter, a volley of missiles struck the side of his head in streams of black smoke, consuming his face in rolling fire as rockets and tank shells blasted against his scaly hide. The thick, blue strikes of Maser cannons lanced across Godzilla’s body.

“Hikaru,” Yoichiro’s voice buzzed in his ear, “how are you doing?”

“Alright,” Zone Fighter breathed, taking the chance to catch his breath, “the army’s turned up…”

Godzilla pulled his head back, his mouth filling with blue smoke.

“…For me to save. Gotta go!”

Zone Fighter struck Godzilla from the side, knocking him away from the troops. Then, just as the monster turned to attack again, a thick, snaking blast of lightning struck at his chest. Zone Fighter looked up at the thick, black cloud. “Nice one, gramps…”

Godzilla turned back to Zone Fighter, snarling deeply.

Zone Fighter took a fighting stance again, looking down at his energy belt. “Oh, this doesn’t look pretty…”

~~~

“There it is!”

Indeed, the island was just coming into view. Hotaru flipped a few switches and brought Smokey, the Zone Family’s trusty aircraft, in for a landing.

“Grandpa,” Hotaru asked into her communicator, “How’s Hikaru doing?”

“…Fine,” Raita said hurriedly. “Do, um, do be quick, won’t you?” the radio clicked off.

“Stay with the plane,” Hotaru instructed, “I’ll take a look.”

“No way. We both got sent here.”

“Stay. Here.”

“No!”

Hotaru sighed, waving her hands in the air. “Fine,” she muttered, “let’s go.”

The plane descended, moving around a massive volcano at the centre of the island. It was then that Hotaru happened to glance out of her window. “Oh…”

Within the crater, beneath a crisscross pattern of glowing red energy, sat the massive, glowing meteorite. Above it, built into the side of the volcano, was the smooth, pale orb of a massive window.

“That’s skull-face’s rock…” Hotaru realised. The Life-Stone.

Now that was a bad sign…

~~~

Zone Fighter raised his arms just in time, locking them with Godzilla’s as they both pushed against each other, digging in their heels. Now, he told himself, get this just right…

He leaned back, positioning his legs and, using Godzilla’s own weight, flipped the monster over his turning shoulder, bringing the monster crashing into the ground.

“Now…” he breathed, looking down at his still-decreasing power indicator, “just stay down for…”

By the time he saw the blow coming, it was too late to stop it.

~~~

“You think it’s Demonicus?” Zone Junior asked quietly as he followed Zone Angel down the rock face to the top of the energy grid. The steel doors built into the mountainside below were the only visible entrance.

“That’s the Life Stone,” Hotaru confirmed. “Hell, doesn’t he ever know when to stay down?”

They approached the door, and both reached out to pull it open…

Then cried out, their bodies glowing with yellow light, and fell to the floor. The electric shock had been both powerful and unexpected.

The steel doors slid open, and the five men that emerged, clad in red-and-white jumpsuits complete with cowls and skull-masks, dragged them inside…

~~~

Zone Fighter groaned, rubbing the side of his head. Damn, where had that come from? It hadn’t been so much the force of the blow as its unexpectedness that blindsided him.

Of course, after a blow like that, there tended to be a thought process starting with realising how much it hurt, followed by recognising that Godzilla was considerably too far away to have landed that hit himself. The thing responsible was in fact looming over the youth right now…

“What… the hell is that?”

The creature was at least the same size as Godzilla, and at first glance they even looked similar, but the main difference between them was the wide, yellow-streaked frill that surrounded its neck. All over its body were tiny spikes and thorns, the horns on its head were a dirty yellow and thick clustered pads of spikes sat on its knees and elbows.

“Who’s this, big guy?” Zone Fighter shrugged to the still-snarling Godzilla, “you got an ugly cousin, or-”

Jirass’ tail struck him in the stomach, hurling him back down the street and sending him rolling across the ground. “Ok, should’ve ducked that,” Zone Fighter grumbled as he stood back up, pointing both hands toward Jirass. “hoton Beam!” The blast shot forth and struck the beast in the chest, forcing it back… then stopped, as the monster screeched in rage.

On the other side of Zone Fighter, Godzilla rose to his feet with a rumbling snarl.

“Oh, hell…”

~~~

“Ow…” Hotaru said groggily, “what happened…?”

“I see you found me, then,” the voice said in front of her. She looked up, wincing in what felt like painfully bright light, and saw…

“It can’t be…”

There he was, standing right in front of her. The cowl that surrounded him concealed most of the bulky, dark-red body armour emblazoned with the image of a monstrous skull, and a crown of small horns topped the red-and-white face mask. Each of the figure’s gauntlets ended in a small, curved claw.

“Demonicus.”

“Glad you remember me,” the madman chuckled quietly beneath his mask, “even if I didn’t think it’d be the Japanese that found me here. Of course…” he knelt down in front of her, “I keep forgetting: you’re not actually Japs, are you? Peaceland, isn’t it?”

Zone Angel looked up in surprise. That was… it was impossible. “How do you know about that?”

“In time.”

“And what do you have to do with Godzilla?”

Demonicus looked down at her. “Clever girl.” She was sure he was smirking underneath that mask. “Maybe my country’s just better these things, but we have a liking of building our airships with escape pods.”

“And the first thing you thought to do was start this nonsense again?”

“Actually, if you must know,” Demonicus said, turning round to face the computer screen that could now be seen covering the opposite wall, “you and Zone Fighter have left me with no choice but to raise the game. Controlling Godzilla was just the first step…” he pressed something, and a different image entirely appeared on-screen.

“Meet Jirass.”

~~~

“Uzi Punch!”

Zone Fighter knocked Godzilla away, just in time to duck under another lunge by Jirass. By the time he’d parried that, Godzilla’s claws caught his chest and knocked him away again.

This was too much for him, plain and simple. He could take on Jirass, maybe hold his own against Godzilla, but both of them at once…

And just to make things worse, that power belt of his was in the red.

Godzilla pulled back his head, a stream of blue flame shooting forth. “Hyper Shield!” The shield managed to deflect most of the attack, but splintered in the final seconds, knocking Zone Fighter to the ground again. As Jirass turned, the rest of the deflected blast caught it in the face, bowling it over.

Then the belt started to beep.

“Oh…” Hikaru winced, “that is not fair…”

There was a flash of red light, and where Zone Fighter was standing, there was empty air, and beneath it, the battered figure of Hikaru Sakimori. “Not good,” he gulped, looking up, “so not good…”

Godzilla and Jirass turned, looking around the air, Jirass rumbling irritably to itself. “They don’t recognise me,” Hikaru thought out loud, “that means…”

Then Jirass sniffed at the air, looked down, and narrowed its eyes. It had the scent.

“Uh-oh.”

~~~

“I dare say Jirass might put my older creations to shame,” Demonicus noted, “I’d been working on him for some time before the ship went down with most of my samples, but this truly is my masterwork. After all, who else could have gathered DNA from Godzilla himself? Once I had that, isolating its mutagenic properties was child’s play.”

“Akira,” Zone Angel whispered, gently nudging her tied-up younger brother.

“Nnnh…” Zone Junior groaned as he stirred into wakefulness, “I dun wanna go to school…”

“Wake up!”

“Huh?” Akira blinked, “Where are we?”

“No time,” Hotaru whispered, “now, before he shuts up and notices anything: see if you can reach my side pocket.”

“Once that was done, I injected the G-Cells into a thorny devil, and added that combination to a frilled lizard. The result was a reptilian mutation as spectacular as Godzilla himself… his distant cousin, one could say. And with the two of them side-by-side… Zone Fighter stands no chance.”

~~~

Hikaru paused for breath, still navigating the maze of the oil refinery in Tokyo Bay. His first thought had been that he needed to run for cover; find some way of keeping away from those two until his energy could recharge.

The communicator in his watch bleeped on. “Hello?”

“It’s me,” Raita said over the airwaves, “I think you should hear this.”

~~~

“Now,” Demonicus concluded his rant, “let me introduce you to my… accomplices. I think you’ll be surprised.”

On one side of the room, something activated. It was a round, circular cut-out in the wall, filled with crisscrossed red and purple lines of light.

Hundreds of miles away, in Tokyo, Raika watched intently through the camera Hotaru always carried with her. As he saw the machine, he froze. “Impossible…”

The machine filled with light, which itself began to condense in its centre- and when it faded, there they stood. In the middle was a pale, lanky woman garbed in a silver robe/bodysuit, like a flowing, otherworldly dressed that turned into body armour from the waist up. Fixed onto her head was a thin, tall silver helmet. On each side of her stood two purple-suited guards, their heads covered in vaguely-humanlike masks.

“Queen Vorticia,” Demonicus nodded his head, “so glad you could join us.”

~~~

Raita froze at his desk, his hands slack over the controls. “It can’t be…” he whispered fearfully, “no, that- that’s not possible…”

“It’s them…” Yoichiro whispered, “it’s the Vortaak!”

~~~

“So there’s more of you now?” Hotaru asked as she looked up at the new arrivals.

”Well, well,” Vorticia, as Demonicus had called her, said as she stepped forward. “So these are the Zone children I’ve heard so much about.”

“Two of them,” Demonicus answered.

“Of course, you two were born after your parents arrived here on Earth, isn’t that right?” Vorticia smiled dryly. “Allow me to introduce myself… I am Vorticia, Empress of the Second Great and Bountiful Vortaak Empire.”

Hotaru froze. “Vortaak?”

~~~

Raika shuddered. “The ones who destroyed our home world…” he whispered, “they’re here!”

~~~

“No way…” Hikaru breathed, “Ok, that’s just…”

He looked up at the sound of a low rumbling. Jirass was hunched on top of one of the oil supports, its dripping fangs barred as the frill opened around its neck: a predator ready for the kill. It had spent more than long enough chasing this little creature around, and now…

Now, the tiny light on Hikaru’s watch turned green.

Hikaru grinned and adopted his fighting pose. “Zon Faita!” In a flash of light, his form was gone, replaced with Zone Fighter, and with a cry of “Zone! Double! Fight!” he felt like he was shooting up through the air, until he was at last face-to-face with Jirass.

“Bring it on!”

Jirass leapt forward, and Zone Fighter swung to the side, dodging the blow and striking his knee into Jirass’ chest. As the creature reeled, he struck at its face- only for the monster’s jaws to clamp shut around its hand and a powerful tail to sweep his legs out from under him.

“Back off, big guy! Plasma Capsule!” The blast shot from his hand inside Jirass’ mouth, the saurian falling back and screeching, smoke billowing from its jaws. This thing was tough, but if Zone Fighter could just kept this up…

And then Godzilla charged at him.

~~~

“Got it,” Zone Junior whispered. Even throughout the shock of the introductions, he’d managed to use Raita’s hidden gadget to cut through the chance.

“Alright… now!”

Zone Angel and Zone Junior both leapt up, each striking one of the nearby soldiers of Demonicus. Even as Vorticia shouted something, Zone Angel sent a blast into one of the Vortaak guards.

“Stop her!” Demonicus howled, sending two of his men forward. Zone Angel ducked under their blows, kicking each of them in the chest. Finally, Vorticia pulled back one hand and sent a swirling, purple bolt into Zone Angel’s midsection.

“Honestly,” she scowled, “did you really think a child could stop us?”

“Wasn’t trying,” Hotaru smiled, “just distracting you.”

On the other side of the room, Zone Junior fired his own weapon into the machine that, if Hotaru’s whispered instructions had been right…

“Am I right in thinking that’s the control device?” Hotaru grinned.

~~~

An inch away from smashing into Zone Fighter, Godzilla stopped. Immediately, his muscles seemed to almost relax, loosening, as his eyes widened and looked around.

“Hey,” Zone Fighter noted, not moving his limbs but regarding Godzilla curiously, “what’s with you?”

Not far away, Jirass stalked around behind Zone Fighter. Now was the time to strike…”

~~~

“Godzilla’s free!” Demonicus howled, “you little Jap brat!” he swung his fist round, knocking Zone Junior away, for which he received a sharp kick to the lower back from Zone Angel, knocking him across the room.

Vorticia, on the other hand, simply smiled to herself.

“Not to worry,” she smiled, “we can even the odds quite easily. Soldiers… direct Ganimes to Tokyo.”

Zone Fighter managed to dodge just as Jirass leaped, striking his knee into the monster’s chest. As he moved back, Jirass’ claws swiped across his chest, the superhero shouting in pain as they almost tore through his skin. Jirass turned, its fanged jaws parted…

Right before Godzilla’s tail struck it round the face, knocking the creature away and sending it flailing onto the ground.

Zone Fighter looked up, pushing himself to his feet as Godzilla gave a low rumble. He remembered once hearing something from a teacher about Godzilla’s ability to recognize an enemy by natural instinct. And in all rationality, the alien hero wasn’t about to turn down help of this caliber.

“Um… thanks?” he said awkwardly. Few people probably knew of any correct way to address a giant, mutant saurian.

Jirass leaped forward again, only to be struck first by a roundhouse kick from Zone Fighter, then a head butt from Godzilla that, by the sound of the impact, could have easily leveled Mt. Rushmore. The lizard fell back, snarling and snapping its jaws.

Then, behind them, the water bulged and a dark, red carapace emerged from the waves. A pair of massive claws snapped at the air as the massive lobster’s tail slammed down into the water.

~~~

“This is your creation?” Demonicus scoffed, “an overgrown shellfish?”

“Wait,” Zone Angel spoke up, “I’ve seen pictures of that thing… isn’t that Ebirah?”

“There are similarities,” Vorticia replied without looking away from the few still-functioning screens, “indeed; we used Ebirah’s DNA as a basis for Ganimes here… with a few improvements, of course. Now…” she handed what looked like a small communicator to Demonicus. “Doctor, would you care to do the honours?”

“Gladly,” Demonicus said, bristling beneath his armour as he raised it to his mouth. “Jirass, Ganimes… RIP THEM TO PIECES!”

~~~

Ganimes charged first, Zone Fighter jumping to the side and slamming his fist down, only for the blow to bounce harmlessly off the thick carapace. “Ow!” he yelled, cradling his hand, “what’s that thing made of?” Ganimes leapt up, ploughing Zone Fighter down to the ground as, nearby, Jirass rushed Godzilla. Even as the Monster King lashed out, Jirass climbed onto his chest, raking at his front with his razor-sharp claws.

Godzilla turned, hurling Jirass away, and swiped at the air as they faced off.

Zone Fighter, meanwhile, was preoccupied with keeping Ganimes’ snapping claws away from his neck, which suddenly felt rather fragile. Managing to position one foot against the crustacean’s underside, he kicked up with all his strength, throwing the creature off of himself. With a yell of "Plasma Capsule!” he sent the glowing projectile flying into Ganimes, only for it to explode uselessly against the carapace.

Dodging another blow from the massive claws, Zone Fighter managed to land a square punch to Ganimes’ face, knocking the lobster back. The lobster snapped its claws, reared back to jump…

And then collapsed as a green-grey blur slammed onto its back. Jirass thrashed furiously as it righted itself, with Godzilla giving a satisfied rumble at his own aim.

Zone Fighter nodded to Godzilla and, doubting whether the animal could understand him, asked “so: which one do you want?”

~~~

Zone Angel checked once again, seeing that everyone else in the room was indeed still distracted watching the screen.

“Alright, kiddo,” she whispered, “NOW!!!”

Each of them sent an individual blast flying towards the assembled soldiers, then turned as one towards the window behind them that held a view of the inside of the volcanic crater and the laser-net below. With another blast, Zone Angel shattered the window, and they both leapt out in a blur.

The air whipped around them, everything becoming a whirl of motion, before their hands were against the rock, using it to launch themselves upward even as the sounds of gunfire started below.

Inside, Demonicus raised one hand as the gunshots died down.

“Let them go,” he instructed. “This isn’t the last we’ll encounter them, Vorticia… I promise you.”

Vorticia nodded slowly, watching the two human forms jumping over the edge of the volcano.

“They’ll bear watching,” she said quietly.

~~~

Ganimes leapt at Godzilla, receiving a sharp blow that rained down upon its carapace, the monumental force barely registering to the creature inside. Godzilla staggered back, fighting to maintain his footing and bellowing in anger as the massive claws clamped around his arms. He threw the crustacean to the ground, pulled back his head and a stream of blue-white flame erupted, washing over Ganimes’ shell. The creature screeched, wavering before the force and stepping back, but its shell still withstanding the blow.

Ganimes lashed out, Godzilla clamping his jaws shut around the claw and swinging the lobster beast round.

Zone Fighter, at the same time, parried another blow from Jirass, jumping back and allowing his foot to strike the underside of the lizard’s head.

“Alright,” the alien fighter grumbled beneath his mask, “this has gone on long enough…” he moved both hands to his head, charged the attack and, as Jirass charged…

“Meteor! Missile!”

The blast struck Jirass in the stomach, the explosion lighting up the city skyline as the reptile screamed in pain at the burning force that consumed it. When the smoke finally cleared, the lizard mutant’s body fell to the ground.

Zone Fighter leaned down, resting his hands against his knees.

Godzilla, meanwhile, still struggling against Ganimes, pushed one foot back, levered himself and flipped Ganimes over onto its back. The lobster snapped its claws and rocked on the back of its shell, its jointed legs thrashing with its soft underbelly exposed.

Godzilla pulled back his head and, as Ganimes looked up, its vision was filled with burning, brilliant blue-white light. It screamed, its flesh burning as it thrashed and snapped its claws.

Ganimes’ shell may have been its most potent defence, but now, helpless on its back and awash with atomic flame, it would be its tomb. So thick was the bony shield that the heat of the blast could not enter… or leave. Unable to expel the heat, Ganimes could only scream as the fury of the King of the Monsters roasted it alive in its own shell.

“Damn…” Zone Fighter noted as Godzilla reared up next to Ganimes’ charred remains, “break out the garlic butter, huh?”

Even Zone Fighter swallowed a lump in his throat when Godzilla turned to face him. On some instinctive level, he prayed that Godzilla wasn’t going to hold that earlier fight against him.

Godzilla nodded, a quiet rumble escaping his throat. Overtaken with realisation, Zone Fighter nodded back, and Godzilla silently turned and marched toward the sea, leaving the battleground and the exhausted hero behind as if…

~~~

…As is nothing even happened,” Hikaru finished. “I mean, we must’ve trashed the whole refinery while we were at it. Ow!” he flinched as the cotton bud dabbed against the cut on his arm.

“Don’t be such a baby,” Tsukioko lectured as she finished attending to the last of her son’s wound.

“You all did well today,” Yoichiro said. “But if that really is Vorticia…”

Raita nodded slowly. “And Demonicus is still alive as well.”

The room fell silent. There was none of the family’s usual joviality after winning a fight like that.

“Is it gonna be bad?” young Akira asked apprehensively.

“Yes,” Raita said levelly.

“We’ll stop them,” Hikaru said. “We’ve beaten Demonicus before, and we can do it again.”

Raita stood up and walked over to him. Then, a rare treatment, he patted his grandson on the shoulder.

“You’ve all done better than I could ever have asked of you today,” he said, “now I suggest all of you get some sleep. We’ve got a lot to deal with in the morning.”

One by one, the youngest three members of the Zone family nodded and left the room. When they were gone, Raita strolled over to the window, looking out to the city with a cold, worried look in his eyes that his family had never seen before.

“Are they ready?” Yoichiro asked in a hushed voice.

“I hope so,” Raita said quietly, “I truly, truly do.”

An absolute monarch among machines; more powerful than anything man had ever constructed on a physical level; so completely unstoppable that it was terrifying in its raw beauty; its codename: SMG, short for SUPER MECHA GODZILLA.
But it was not to be.

After GODZILLA II's return in 1984 and rampage that devastated Tokyo (again), the newly formed G-FORCE was forming think-tanks left and right, trying to accumulate as many good, crazy ideas as they could to combat the King of the Monsters, when he would inevitably rise from Mt. Mihara. Among the ideas, one very crazy idea very nearly came to fruition. One team of engineers, a mix of experienced roboticists and a team of up-and-coming youngsters, proposed the ultimate Anti-Kaiju Plan: a gigantic robot, built specifically to be more powerful than just about anything that could crawl out of the radioactive woodwork. Absolutely armed to the teeth and then some, SMG could completely annihilate anything in front, behind, above, below and to either side of it.

It is obvious at first glance that SMG was inspired by the Simeon weapon MECHA-GODZILLA, which nearly killed Godzilla in its own right. Indeed, much of Mecha-Godzilla was salvaged after the cataclysimic fight with Godzilla, KING CAESAR and TITANOSAURUS, and what little tech had survived was thoroughly studied with much to be learned.

Needless to say, the project never came to completion. Even with the already ridiculous weaponry budget put forth by the United Nations, the funding just wasn't there to complete the sort of towering god of a machine that SMG would have been. Besides, it was also feared that a weapon of such size would cause just as much if not more damage that whatever threat it was trying to combat. As well, the EDF higher-ups decided that it would be in poor taste to associate with the alien super weapon that nearly destroyed the planet.

There was some fruition to Project SMG; the basic framework was built, and after the project was put on ice in favor of the ANEB, the skeleton was brought back out of storage and used to create MOGUERA, a more mobile and cost-effective mecha. Later, most of the design specs would also be used for the construction of Project KIRYU.

There is one thing for certain: Super Mecha Godzilla would have completely and utterly laid waste to any kaiju that stood in its sights...perhaps even Godzilla himself!

While Dr. Shiragami worked on the ANEB in an effort to finally destroy GODZILLA, he used his newfound access to the G-cells, not to mention their regenerative abilities, to breath new life into a pet project; keeping his daughter alive, at least in some form. The rose cells that he had mixed with her blood had formed into a twisted, beautiful new kind of plant, one with some oddly human traits (subtle ones, of course; the necessity for proteins and calcium, mammalian cellular traits, etc.). However, during one of the many earthquakes issued from Mt. Mihara (currently occupied by a quickly awakening Godzilla), the plant was nearly destroyed, leaving Shiragami at the end of his rope...that is, until the Godzilla cells fell into his lap.

Unfortunately, fate has a way of making sure our playing God comes back to bite us in the ass; a duo of American mercenaries, looking to take the G-cells and the ANEB for themselves, broke into the good doctor's lab, but found themselves in a gun fight with a Saradian merc with similar plans. However, all of this violence awoke something...the plant uprooted itself, killed one of the Americans, and escaped.

Erica's spirit was, through some twist of fate and science, reawoken in the body of a gigantic, mutated monstrosity called BIOLLANTE. A colossal rose grew out of the middle of Lake Ashino...she felt strange, lost, confused, and reached out for another...but she was met with none other than Godzilla.

The battle ensued, and Erica was overcome with a new desire, born from the violent aggression of the other spirit at work; to create something new, to propagate herself. It was a violent emotion, primal and without reason, but as her vine tendrils stabbed at the King of the Monsters, she drew blood from him, absorbing it into her form...and into the giant womb pulsating in her body.

As Godzilla unleashed his mightiest weapon, Biollante's body began to fall apart, and then erupt into flames...screaming at the sky, the body dissolved, its flower wilting...and the womb burst.

The flames grew higher, and the body burned, but shimmering lights danced amongst the pyres of her former body...she had given birth to a new self, a new Erica, a new Biollante, which would grow in size and power and descend from the heavens to fight Godzilla once more. After the tradgedy of the Elias people, MOTHRA and the Shobijin became the guardians of the planet, while BATTRA slept beneath the ice of the north. And all the while, Gigamass was though destroyed...
In 1996, pretty little Shiori Kaneshiro was spending the summer with her father in Hokkaido, away from the blazing summers of the otherwise beautiful Okinawa. She wasn't too thrilled either way...still, the forests of the north appealed to her, and she was still at home in the deep woods, picking flowers. It was small consolation from her fathers' construction company, which was keen on leveling the entire region, an unfortunate result of simply too many people and not enough space.
In the forest, one day, she came across something strange and bizarre...a small, furry creature who she plucked out of the bushes, mistaking him for a flower: the mysterious GHOGO! The small creature fled from her at first, but she coaxed to it and offered it solace.
Taking the creature to her father's house, she offered it food, and it grew accustomed to her. She admired the little gold jewelery on the creature's tail, including one with a strange cross-shaped design on it.
Suddenly, a strong wind blew her doors open, and when she rushed to close it, she turned around to find that a pair of tiny women were standing on the table: the Shobijin!
They had come to take Ghogo away and hide him on Infant Island, because of the powers he carried...but alas, someone else had found him already! Smashing through a window, another equally small woman appeared, clothed in black and flying atop a tiny winged lion. It was Belvera! Darkest of the faeries, she sought to restore the power of Gigamass with Ghogo as the final piece! After a pitched battle between the women and their steeds, FAIRY MOTHRA and BLACK KROIGA, Belvera managed to steal the seal from Ghogo's tail! She intended to revive the monster in the mountain at the construction site, GARUGARU!

Garugaru was the "Volcanic Gigamass," created by Gigamass's conciousness to burn the land clean. When Belvera used Shiori's father (via mind control) to detonate the cave beneath the mountain, she discovered an egg...and from it the tiny Garugaru?! Surely his power could be increased somehow...but burning trees and feeding off their life energy.

Even with Shiori's and the Shobijin's efforts, Garugaru absorbed enough power to become DEATH GARUGARU! Now Mothra had to be called in to battle...but how will she prevail?! The savage DEATH GARUGARU had proven too much for both the aging MOTHRA and the single Mothra larvae, the mother kaiju drowning while her infant watched helplessly...
Now that there was but one Mothra, she was compelled to complete the cycle and continue the fight; she went to the Tree of Life, a massive entity perhaps older that GIGAMOTH, and she cocooned herself about the tree, drawing strength from the Earth itself...

When Mothra was reborn, she looked more or less as she always did, but her eyes had a mystical green glow in place of the usual blue...

Meanwhile, Death Garugaru rampaged about the countryside, absorbing more and more energy from the forests, and soon he would be powerful enough to set all of Japan ablaze. Suddenly, Mothra appeared in the skies, shrieking her battle cry. Garugaru, his eyes hot with the single-minded malice of Gigamass, took to the air as though he were swimming, his bizarre wings creating a wave which propelled him at his foe.

The new, supercharged Mothra used every trick she had, and a few more; utilizing a new power that the Earth had given her, she commanded the elements to assault Garugaru! A great storm appeared and blasted him to the Earth, where huge roots lashed out and bound him to the planet's embrace, where his own magma-powers turned against him, and the ground erupted and exploded!

Mothra then performed a final sealing spell, successfully destroying this piece of Gigamass. The year is 1962.
The place is Faroe, a small island way west of the Solomons.
It is here that Dr. Akiro Makino, a renowned scientist, has been funded by Public Pharmaceuticals (and its president, Mr. Tako) to study the applications of a new type of berry that grows singularly on this remote, primitive island. Called "Soma" by the natives, the fruit has a non-habit forming narcotic effect, and the implications for medicine (and other, more popular purposes) were astronomical.
However, much to Mr. Tako's dismay, and Dr. Makino's interest, the Faroe Islanders were reluctant to give up any more than a few handfuls. The natives used the berries as offerings what they deem their god of the island, a giant beast, taller than many of their mountains, and only the most beautiful girls in the village would perform the ceremony.

When Makino and a team was led into the island interior to try and find evidence of this god, and in doing so discovered a massive ruin of some gigantic shrine. Within the shrine was a colossal stone, black in color and etched with ancient markings. Hieroglyphics marked the object, clearly telling a strange story. Human figures worshiped the stone, and the stone gave birth to monstrous creatures, two of which being a reptilian creature, covered in spines, and a massive ape-like beast. The ape drove the spiked monster away, and the islanders worshiped the ape god as it slept deep within the mountains.

Dr. Makino touched the obelisk, much to their guides' protestations. Then the mountain began to quake, the ruins began to shatter.

"Tore Kong! Tore KONG!" their guides shouted, and then fled as fast as they could. Dr. Makino was nearly killed, but managed to get away to the village, but not before witnessing the mountain shatter, and the mighty KING KONG burst from the cliffs! Kong ran amok briefly, confused and disoriented, until the natives presented him with a massive offering of Soma juice. The ape god drank deep of the Soma, while the natives danced and sang and chanted. This put the unconquerable Kong out, the Soma in such mass quantities setting him into a stupor.

When Mr. Tako heard of the giant ape's existence, he had to have the monster. It would be an amazing publicity stunt to be endorsed by their own kaiju! And one so easy to control!

Of course, things went awry, as they do. The monster king, GODZILLA, had been freed from his icy prison after his battle with the JSDF several years prior. Moving south, he heads for Japan, seething with rage, and assaulted Hokkaido.

Meanwhile, Kong was transported north atop a gigantic raft, made specifically for him. Unfortunately, he broke free, and headed for the nearest land, which was, of course, Japan.

While Godzilla continued rampaging and fighting the JSDF in Northern Japan, Kong hid in the forests of southern Honshu until his curiosity got the better of him and he moved into Tokyo. He was chased to the top of the Diet Building (while holding Makino's sister in his hand), but Dr. Makino suggested knocking the ape out with as much Soma as they could get their hands on. The plan was successful, and a new plan was formulated: get Kong and Godzilla to fight each other on the slopes of Mt. Fuji!

Transporting the giant ape once more, Kong was literally dropped on top of the mutant dinosaur, and an amazing battle erupted!

Things became a little hairy, however, when Dr. Makino's chopper was shot down by a stray blast of Godzilla's breath. He, Mr. Tako and the crew may well have been trampled by Godzilla if Kong hadn't rescued them at the last moment! The ape-god took them to relative safety, even while Godzilla advanced, and then turned to fight!

But things looked bad for Kong as the battle wore on. Kong was smart and strong, but nowhere near a match in raw power and durability as Godzilla. However, the battle was televised, thanks to some clever PR and Mr. Tako's plan to save some face. When Kong was knocked into a ravine and the forest around him set ablaze, one group of the millions of viewers around the world didn't simply switch their bets or "ooh" and "ahh." Public Pharmaceuticals had aided in the evacuation of Faroe Island and the refugees all remained together in a small coastal town. When they saw their god on the ropes, they grabbed their drums, their instruments and donned their traditional garb as they marched outside. Then, they began to dance.

Unlike the dance on Faroe, which was slow, methodical and put Kong to sleep, this was a vibrant dance, loud and strong, passionate and energetic. They shouted to the heavens, evoking something not seen in a millennia...

Black clouds rolled over the battlefield south of Fuji. Godzilla even quelled his own roaring and grandstanding to snort and look skyward with a suspicious look...then KRA-KOOM! A shot of lightening blasted Kong point-blank. Ancient markings about his body illuminated and brought the mighty beast back to life! Kong rushed Godzilla and battered the giant saurian with fists charged electrically, and Godzilla was quickly on the defensive. The power of the two titans colliding and the elemental forces at work caused the very ground beneath them to give way, and the tortured earth began to shatter and quake. Even as all hell broke loose, Godzilla and Kong continued to bash one-another, until both fell into a mighty chasm.

Silence.

Godzilla's threat was removed by Kong, for the time being, and the people of Faroe would return home, and the people of Japan would honor the ape god for his sacrifice...if he was truly destroyed.

"On that fateful day in 1962, Kong's body was never recovered after his grand battle against Godzilla...OR WAS IT?"

"Fast-foreward 45 years, believe it or not. In that time, a very wealthy man, a Dr. Hu, had procured Kong's body for himself. Having seen the creature in New York on that fateful night when he was much younger, he became obsessed with the mighty beast. When the Age of Monsters began in 1954, he watched with envious eyes while the world began to wage war against these new gods who threatened to take man's dominion from him. By 2008, through a mix of forbidden alchemy, scientific breakthroughs and a special serum derived from the Soma berry, the body of Kong was restored, as well as shifted and mutated. Hu even took the Soma Compound to lengthen his own life so that me may see his greatest work completed. He knew that the governments of the world would pay handsomely to anyone who could destroy the mighty Godzilla, so Project MECHANIKONG was brought to fore. But even after being made into a horrific fighting machine, would Kong's soul also be restored?"

Article writer Maru Kenoshita cocked his eyebrow. The man sitting across from him, rocking back and forth, his straight jacket firm, a wide grin across his face, simply stared in anticipation.

"Junji-san, did Godzilla defeat Mechanikong?" Maru asked.
"For the last time, there is no Junji here. Only an international Judas named Dr. Hu, at your service!" the man replied. "And secondly, we'll just have to wait, won't we?"

Maru sat back for a moment, flipped the small switch on his recorder to "off," and stood up.

"Thank you for your time...er...Dr. Hu. I'll be sure to send you a transcript."

"Oh no, thank YOU. I only hope that the coming battle won't result in your death, Kenoshita-san. Our talks have been most enjoyable!"

"Ah...hah. Thank you, again."

Maru walked out, and the attendant locked the padded room's door behind him.

Don't let her paralyzingly fuzzy cuteness fool you, FAIRY MOTHRA is a little flying firecracker.
Created from Mothra herself, a minuscule piece of her own gargantuan spirit, Fairy's purpose is to protect the Shobijin as they spread their message of peace. When the Shobijin were kidnapped in 1961, Mothra went on a rampage of biblical proportions. As part of an overall plan to prevent, y'know, mass devastation and all that, Fairy was created as something of a chaperon, mount and bodyguard to the twins.
Fairy is absolutely infinitesimal by kaiju standards, but she has enough power to actually knock a full-grown human male across a room, and that's just casually. If she were actively pissed there's no telling the damage she could cause.
Fairy shares a healthy rivalry with BLACK KROIGA, the two being equal in firepower and maneuverability, though Fairy has a leg up in the brains department. The two did, however, find cuddle time while our heroes discussed what to do in the face of Razin's power. The Shobijin had their trusty steed, FAIRY, the feisty-but-sweet lepidoptera, Belvera had her own mount, the vicious but none-too-bright BLACK KROIGA.
When Belvera awoke out of suspended hibernation around 1992, she utilized the small collection of old Elias technology to create a companion; the bird/lion hybrid she called Kroiga.
Kroiga's personality, while limited since he was created specifically to be a servant, is riddled with mischievousness bordering on sadism. In other words, he's very aggressive, though not particularly protective of his charge. He's just a gun that she points at something. Still, he seems to represent a side of Belvera, a dark and wild side, that she attempts to keep in-check in her desperation to appease the mighty BATTRA.
Kroiga and Fairy share a healthy rivalry, but in the wake of RAZIN's dominion, the two stayed in the background, finding comfort in one-another while the heroes discussed what to do. To say that DAGARLA (sometimes called "Dagarha") is a living weapon would be like calling Godzilla "a big lizard." Single-minded and ferocious by nature, Dagarla attacks and destroys without mercy, and all that intimidating jargon than follows the wake of the deadly sea monster. Yet where did such a monstrousity come from? It can't be natural, and it's too perfect a destroyer to be a simple mutation...

[Shaoraia]

It’s no secret now that Gigamass is returning…though its two guardians, GARUGARU and DAGARLA have both fallen. Will the sentient technology make a desperate gamble, or has it all been according to plan?

Now that Ghogo has been destroyed, all that remains of him was the the Seal of Faith, which Shiori placed in her hair to always keep it close, not to mention the Orb of love, found deep within the Elias control tower, stuck at the bottom of her hope chest. Moving to live with relatives outside of Tokyo while her hometown was being rebuilt, she more than pulled her weight around the house, helping her young cousins get ready for school while cleaning and cooking.

Still, fate called once more: Belvera had found Gigamass while it slumbered hundreds of miles below the surface near Mt. Fuji. Utilizing a Barem and a piece of GARUGARU’S shell, she brought the pulsing mass to form in the deep forests…

Suddenly, children all over the areas between Tokyo and Fuji began disappearing. Parents are distraught. Teachers are holding emergency meetings to try and rally the grown-ups. Police are assaulted with anxious phone calls. Then, the worst happened: Shiori’s little cousins are spirited away.
What ensues is a race against time, for as Shiori and the Shobijin discover, Gigamass is building strength so it can resume it programming and remake Earth itself...but to do that, it requires life forms with HUGE amounts of spiritual and biological energy, and the most ready supply happens to be CHILDREN, not unlike the day that the city of Aelina was razed to the ground.

MOTHRA intervenes once again, but Gigamass’s core activates and becomes RAZIN, which has just enough fight in it to repel Mothra’s assault, while the Shobijin again confronted Belvera. During the fight, Lora and Belvera were lost to the core, whereas Moll and Shiori escaped. Moll, using all of the spiritual power she can muster, decides to send Mothra back in time to retrieve the Sword of Hope, the final piece of the locking mechanisms against Gigamass that was said to have been destroyed by BATTRA after the deed was done. Now Mothra must travel back in time to face the truth of the Gigamass War, and Shiori must take leave of the petrified Moll, drained of power, while seeking to free Lora and Belvera from the dome, all while Battra charges towards Mt. Fuji!

With Moll crystalized and Mothra in a time warp, Shiori took it upon herself to try and break Gigamass's core from within. Razin was only able to fend off Mothra from a borderline distance; it wasn't at full strength yet and couldn't even leave the ground. She approached the core as it rested in the forest, and, beneath the notice of the vile tentacles that had trapped so many children, ENTERED the thing.

In the past, Mothra discovered that, when the war happened, the Mothra of the time was still in her larval form, while Battra fiercely fought the forces of Gigamass. The Future Mothra joined the fray, and thanks to her power, Battra was able to metamorph into his imago form. When Gigamass was finally sealed, Battra intended to destroy the Elias and, in the process, accidentally destroyed the Sword...but then Mothra intervened. She and her past self teamed together and sealed Battra in a cocoon and buried him in the far north, and Mothra took the Sword, and with the help of the matured imago past-Mothra, she was sent back to the future, though it cost the past Mothra her energy, and she would sleep once more until she gained enough power from the Earth to return...

In the present, Shiori had managed to find Belvera and Lora, and presented them with the Seal and Orb. The two Elias put aside their differences and focused their power to break a hole in the core, protecting the children and allowing their escape.

Battra took advantage of Gigamass's newfound weakness and pressed his assault, even though it put the children in mortal danger...until Mothra reappeared. She wisked the children to safety and was able to tell Moll and Lora a truth about the war: that Belvera was their third sister...

She couldn't believe it...she had dedicated her life to nearly destroying everything, including the only family she had. It all just snapped into place for her right then and there...and when Mothra took to the sky to joined Battra in battle, Belvera and KROIGA took to the sky as well, with all three items in hand. Channeling the power through her own body, it wasn't enough and she was continually batted aside by Razin, until Battra blocked a particularly large energy burst.

For two heartbeats, Battra regarded Belvera, and displayed admiration for her bravery. This was all she ever wanted, and it gave her newfound courage, which was shared by Kroiga, eager to please his mistress. The two misfits put every drop of energy into the spell to not only lock Gigamass, but to destroy it utterly!

In the wake of the battle, Kroiga was destroyed and Belvera lay dieing...grasped the hands of both her sisters, and her tears brought Moll back to life...Mothra and Battra blessed her passing, and praised Shiori for her valor and bravery.

Battra returned to the North, Mothra to the South, and Shiori would return home with the children in tow. In 1996, GODZILLA JUNIOR effectively returned from the dead, now grown into the new GODZILLA III. After assaulting Osaka, seeking more nuclear energy, the second Anti-Godzilla plan was put into effect; Project Yoshiwara.
Within days of injection, Godzilla rose in the waves off the coast of Alaska, howling with pain, confusion and rage. Professor Yoshiwara’s serum, derived from Godzilla’s own blood, was shattering the monster’s cellular structure faster than his regenerative power could repair it. G-Force tracked the monster through the Canadian wilderness, now fearful of the monster’s toxic blood contaminating the environment and water supply…something Yoshiwara hadn’t counted on.
As Godzilla moved towards Vancouver, the United States Military finally stepped in, itching for years to get a crack at the monster; thus the LIZARD SLAYERS were brought to fore.
Developed by technology mogul Cameron Winters, the LS were an elite team of monster-fighting robotic tanks built for maneuverability and firepower, each equipped with the latest tech both the EDF and G-FORCE had to offer, but with the Army’s stamp of approval.
Godzilla would have normally trashed the trio of tin cans, but in his weakened state he was more than outmatched. Finally, when LS1 blasted Godzilla full-force with a cadmium-laced missile barrage, the monster HOWLED in pain and defiance, a noise that had never befallen human ears…where, even in the vacuum of space, the reverberations echoed through nothingness, defying science itself…and being detected by the most sensitive of ears…triggering the most voracious of appetites!
BAGORAH was the top predator in his home solar system, the most powerful monster among several worlds, hunting and destroying with little competition and devouring the spoils for days after each conquest. Unfortunately for him, the bat-like kaiju was driven from his home by an elite group of hunter-warriors made up of the Dianii, a race of giant green-skinned seijin. This particular team had proven a difficult battle for Bagorah, who fled to easier hunting grounds.
In the depths of space, the carnivore found itself slowly starving to death, unable to feed on inorganic materials or cosmic energy…until it picked up the sound of a dying animal, so powerful and so savory that he couldn’t resist it!
Little did Earth know it was about to play host to not only a new predator, but the predator’s predators! Soon enough, it’ll be GODZILLA VERSUS EVERYBODY!

This is NUTS!

With the toxin still pumping itself out of Godzilla's body, the reason behind why Yoshiwara's plan was never given an OFFICIAL go-ahead was revealed: the toxins, while fairly harmless to humans in its purest form, is horrifically, HORRIFICALLY poisonous to, well, ANYTHING when combined with Godzilla's blood. Wildlife was dying, forests decaying, and people were getting sick from drinking water exposed to the nigh-indestructible toxin. Yoshiwara had the antidote...she always did, but it wouldn't be enough. Godzilla's body was still pumping out toxic blood. A more long-term solution was in order, the only way to set things right...

Meanwhile, Bagorah entered the atmosphere and headed straight for Godzilla. The Lizard Slayers intercepted the monster, but they were all destroyed save one. Bagorah then moved to devour the prostrate Godzilla, until Prof. Yoshiwara fired her anti-toxin into the monster's body. The result was almost immediate, and Godzilla was revived! Immediately engaging Bagorah, the Monster King's strength returned with alarming rapidness. Still, he was too weak to fire his atomic breath, though he proved a match for Bagorah by jamming a train down his throat. The alien monster decided that a tactical retreat was in order, and fled directly for downtown Vancouver. Godzilla pursued.

Meanwhile, the Dianii ship entered Earth's atmosphere, in awe of Godzilla and his ability to fight Bagorah. They continued to observe... When ZILLA Jr. was presumed dead, Nick Tatopoulos lead the HEAT team with a heavy heart to Jamaica, where reports of another mutation were flooding across the internet. It was here that a new species of giant squid from the deep ocean had been driven into relatively safer feeding grounds by…something.
As it turned out, Zilla had survived the attack and followed HEAT to the South Seas, where he saved the crew from a massive squid attack. As it turned out, the thing that had chased the squids from their habitat made itself known: a giant crustacean which Randy Hernandez later dubbed CRUSTACEOUS REX, although Victor “Animal” Palotti suggested the name “Giant Walking Crab Cake.” The former stuck.
Crustaceous Rex is a relentless foe, although it is not specifically aggressive towards humans. In fact, the only time it actively chased people was when Nick and French operative Monique DuPre lead the monster into the nearby jungle with a truckload of highway tar. The kaiju was feeding on tar-and-tar-like-substances like that produced by the giant squids, and after Zilla burned up its food supply, it was left with little recourse. When it specifically threatened Nick, Zilla leapt into the fray, and used a combination of wits and a set of GODZILLA-like powers not present in his biological father to defeat the monster, crushing it under tons of rock.
After analyzing C-Rex’s DNA, Nick and Elsie Chapman discovered that it shared a remarkably similar genetic structure to Zilla, and, by extension, Godzilla. What was going on?! Monique slapped a new set of photos on Nick's desk, stating (not asking, mind you) that something else was happening in Mexico. The satellite photos depicted strange patterns across the farmlands of the countryside, and the words "EL GUSANO HIGANTE" being tossed around the Mexican military. With HEAT off and away once more, ZILLA was in hot pursuit.

Gusano was a massive and dangerous monster, considerably more aggressive than C-REX, and had a penchant for devouring long stretches of countryside, which included soil, produce, livestock, people, and anything else too slow or too unlucky to get out of the way. What was left behind was a series of ravines lined with some of the freshest soil Nick had ever seen. In the long run, Gusano could re-make the planet's surface, paving the way for new forests across the world...unfortunately, something like that wasn't in the cards for the human race, so Gusano had to be destroyed.

When Zilla and Gusano began to fight, the Mexican military arrived and blasted the monsters with a bio-chem-weapon of a new design, and while it sent Zilla staggering for the water, Gusano was actually supercharged and his mutation advanced!

Thankfully, Zilla was saved by a reluctant Dr. Craven and a counter-poison he concocted out of the same flowers used to make the BCW. Gusano had taken a liking to the flowers, which was why he made his home in that particular part of the country. Zilla came ashore and quickly dispatched the creature with a flurry of atomic fire.

This time, the dehydrated Gusano was captured by HEAT and studied...and once again, traces of G-Cells were detected!

It was time for answers. HEAT once again was on the tail of another supposed mutation, but this time Audrey Timmonds (Nick’s on-again-off-again girlfriend) and her cameraman, “Animal” followed the team once more, this time out to Alaska. Their chopper landed on the deck of the Heat Seeker, much to the team’s dismay. Audrey declared that she intended to cover HEAT’s exploits and to tell the story of their small team, not to mention find more time for Nick.
Still, a special report would have to wait…because a GIANT TURTLE OF DOOM happened. At least that’s what Randy named it.
The turtle attacked the ship and knocked Nick and Audrey overboard. In the ensuing chaos and turbulent ocean, they were swept away while the Heat Seeker desperately tried to outmaneuver the titanic terrapin.
Little did they know that the monster already had quite a history, and that it had already been given a name: KAMOEBAS. Not to mention that HEAT and ZILLA were headed for a grand drama that would shake them to the core. Nick and Audrey washed ashore on one of the Aleutians…only to be confronted by the giant turtle once more! Remarkably, they were saved by another giant creature; a mutant monitor lizard later dubbed KOMODITHRAX. The creature chased off the turtle with great ferocity, even spitting radioactive fireballs! When the menace was gone, Komodithrax, or “Komi,” briefly investigated Nick and Audrey, found them to not be a threat, and went about her way. Following the reptile, the two discovered a huge pocket of greenery and forestland hidden within the volcanically-enriched crater of the island. After regaining their strength by eating the rich fruit from the trees in the area, they were discovered by HEAT…who actually found them because they had followed ZILLA inland…who immediately rushed to Komi’s side, and moved himself between the humans and the female monster. He roared and snapped at them, chasing them from the area though not deliberately attacking.
At the Heat Seeker, the team ascertained that Zilla was displaying a strong protective instinct over Komi and the rest of the island. They also discovered that Zilla had been visiting this area several times over the last few months, which explained why he disappeared for days, even weeks on end. Komi was his mate!
Unfortunately the situation quickly shifted for the worse; Monique called in an air strike. Even though the HEAT team felt betrayed, she stated that it was a necessity, since Zilla and Komi were also protecting a single, large egg! It was unacceptable that the creatures be allowed to breed. Nick and Randy immediately jumped aboard Audrey and Animal’s helicopter to try and stall the air force, while the rest of the team sought to lead Zilla away from the nest using a homing beacon they had devised.
Unfortunately, Zilla caught on and went back to his family. Meanwhile, Komi fought the USAF as best she could, but an upset appeared in the form of the giant turtle! It attacked Komi and grabbed the egg, making a hasty retreat with its prize. Komi charged after it, along with Zilla, who tried to retrieve the egg as well.
Komi saved Zilla from a nasty mauling by the turtle, but tragedy struck when the ice beneath the monsters gave way, and Komi, the egg and the turtle fell into the icy depths of a bottomless chasm. Zilla howled in pain and anger, and turned his fury on the military. Never before had he fought so viciously against a foe…until G-Force arrived.
A squadron of maser-jets and a carrier off the coast radioed both HEAT and the USAF that they were hot on the trail of a giant turtle called “KAMOEBAS,” a G-Cell mutation that had fought GODZILLA, and the Monster King himself had the same idea! Having followed Kamoebas, Godzilla rose from the ocean and bellowed at Zilla.
The younger, faster monster leapt at Godzilla, but the titan slapped him aside with his mighty tail, sending him ass-over-teakettle. Zilla quickly righted himself and attacked again, leaping and clawing at the Monster King. Godzilla was strong, but not as fast as Zilla, and the smaller monster was able to dodge just about everything that was thrown at him, atomic breath and all. Nick made a daredevil move and flew in Godzilla’s face, raising the King’s ire and was clipped by a swiping claw. The helicopter landed hard, and Nick pulled Randy to safety. Godzilla turned back on Zilla, who was still fighting hard, but landed a lucky blast of atomic breath that blew the creature several hundred yards back, nearly killing him. Nick ran to the aid of his surrogate son, and could have been killed along with him…yet Monique, from the Heat Seeker’s hovercraft, fired a bazooka shell at the dinosaur’s head, drawing his attention to her. She continued to fire round-after-round, and Godzilla began to move out to sea, towards her. A casual thrash of his tail, and Monique’s hovercraft was capsized, herself sent flying through the air and into the icy water.
Luckily, Nick convinced Zilla to retreat, the young monster burrowing into the ice and away from Godzilla, who fancied himself the victor this day, roaring in triumph.
A few days later, G-FORCE commander Kuroki met with Nick and HEAT, debriefing them on what had been discovered. Monique was indeed working for the French Secret Service, mostly trying to clean up the mess left by their government. A station in French Polynesia had been conducting experiments with Godzilla Cells acquired during an under-the-table business dealing with BIO MAJOR, and several of their experiments escaped, they being C-REX, EL GUSANO, Zilla, Komodithrax and Kamoebas. Monique was in recovery back in France, and sent her regards, though an investigation by the UN was being launched. Additionally, they had found Zilla, hiding in the crater where he and Komi were raising their egg. No trace of the other reptiles were found, but Zilla was drugged and carried via “kaiju transport” to Monster Island, where, Kuroki assured Nick, he would be well cared for and have all the fish he could eat. HEAT was even asked to become a part of G-FORCE’s American branch.
Nick knew one day, however, that he would need to go to Monster Island and visit his surrogate son…but that was a story for another day.

[Shaoraia]

In 2003, KIRYU had its massive, final battle with GODZILLA III in the streets of Tokyo. When the battle drew to its end, Kiryu’s DNA computer reawoke its instincts as the former King of the Monsters, GODZILLA I. The giant cyborg carried Godzilla out into the ocean, and the two plummeted into the Japan Trench, where the younger monster was laid at the bottom of the sea, and allowed to heal from his battle. Kiryu, having absorbed much of Godzilla’s atomic heat ray, shut down its circuitry…and began to change. The techno-organic heart in its chassis was beginning to mutate and fuse with the skeleton in its frame…expelling inorganic material…growing new nervous systems, new muscles, new organs and a new brain.

GHOST GODZILLA was born this day.

Thankfully for Japan, it had other protectors.
Tachibana Yuri had just completed a study on the legends of OROCHI, and was covering the discovery of the Shrine of Orochi, which presented a wealth of information on the kaiju that may or may not have been born from the legendary monster. Her co-writer, Takeda, dug up an old book, “The Legend of the Yamato Guardians,” written by a Professor Isayama back before Godzilla even appeared. His findings were immediately dismissed and he lost all credibility…and after the Kaiju Boom began in the 50’s and 60’s, his works were forgotten in the wealth of new information being discovered every year.
The professor met Yuri in the forests of Gotenba, and after being arrested for one reason or another, was able to talk to her in the police station. He expressed to her that Godzilla was returning…the TRUE Godzilla, and the original that laid waste to Japan. Now that the Shrine of Orochi was opened, the timing was perfect to defend Japan from Godzilla’s wrath, to try and at least quell some of the tragedy that would befall them. He gave her a small amulet, and told her he must go where “the Great Varan sleeps…he will call the others to him.”
Leaving the son of his brother to the ocean’s depth, Ghost Godzilla began rampaging on the outlying islands until making his presence known on mainland Japan. Storming across the land, howling with fury, the monster had a purpose: annihilate mankind who had so grievously betrayed him.
While the nation panicked (again) at this new Godzilla, Yuri’s father, Admiral Tachibana, was put in charge of the Anti-Godzilla plan: G-Force’s funds were all but drained after the Kiryu fiasco, and virtually no super-weapons were available….except for a new type of drill missile.
First, Ghost Godzilla met against BARAGON, the Guardian of Earth and one of Orochi’s first children. During the battle at Gotenba, Professor Isayama disappeared, and Godzilla defeated Baragon…though the smaller kaiju vanished as well. Later, Godzilla moved through one of the lakes on the outskirts of Tokyo, where he fought MANDA, Guardian of Water. The mighty dragon proved a sufficient match for Godzilla, but she too was defeated…and vanished.
Professor Isayama walked into the deep cavern in the far, far north of Japan. He was surrounded by ice, and deep below, there slept the mighty VARAN, Guardian of the Sky. Using an old summoning rite, Varan was awoken, and the monster took off for Tokyo, Isayama reveling in his work before being crushed by stone.
Finally, Godzilla appeared in Shinjuku, smashing and leveling the city block-by-block. However, a strange object appeared in the night sky: the reptilian Varan had come to defend its birthright from this mutant aberration.
The battle was long and fierce; claws raked scales, winds blew buildings apart, and atomic fire engulfed the streets. Then, Baragon and Manda appeared, and a colossal four-way-brawl erupted in the city. At the interim, Godzilla seemed victorious. He killed Baragon and Manda…their life force peppering the night sky like a thousand glittering diamonds…but Yuri suddenly became overwhelmed with a new purpose. Having braved the battlefield to report the battle to her viewers, she climbed the rubble where Varan lay prostrate, defeated by Godzilla’s atomic fire. Taking out the amulet, she dropped it into the fearsome maw of the reptile, and his eyes snapped open once again!
The power of his fellow Orochi spawn flowed into him, and Varan was reborn! Now he had enough strength to match Godzilla’s fury, and the two monsters took their battle out to sea, where the Monster King’s power and cunning were pit against Varan’s raw elemental energies. While the two fought, Admiral Tachibana and his right-hand lieutenant took a pair of mini-subs to try and aid Varan.
Godzilla rose once more and engaged Varan in combat – the giant reptile blasted Godzilla with lightening and fire, but the Monster King displayed a shocking new power and absorbed his enemy’s power, combined it with his own and re-directed it! Varan was vaporized…but suddenly, the spirits of the Orochi Spawn entered Godzilla’s body, paralyzing him and allowing Admiral Tachibana to ram his sub down Godzilla’s throat, much to everyone’s horror.
When Godzilla rose once more, the missile was fired into his gullet, where it exploded against his radioactive heart, causing Godzilla’s body to go nuclear!
The sub escaped only barely, with Tachibana suffering only minor radiation poisoning. He reunited with his daughter, and Japan was safe for another day…
…Of course, Godzilla couldn’t be killed that easily. The monster’s massive, mutant heart lay at the bottom of Tokyo Bay – STILL BEATING – it wasn’t until a few days later that a clean-up crew found it, and G-Force quickly shipped it to a study center. To their surprise and terror, the heart was growing a little bit every day. The higher-ups of the UNGCC and the EDF ordered the heart sent to Antarctica, where it would be frozen and encased in Area G…
They say that one’s destiny if often found on the path taken to avoid it…

After the Monster Zero War, KING GHIDORAH once more limped off into the cold depths of space, defeated by Earth’s monsters. But this time he had another trick up his giant, golden sleeves. One that would require time and patience…but if there was one thing the golden dragon knew how to do, it was wait…
Astronaut Glenn was the first official ambassador to Planet X in the years following the war. Planet X was now leaderless and its military utterly spent, so the United Nations stepped in to form a small colony of Earthlings on X that would oversee its reconstruction (not unlike the aftermath of WWII) and its economic and political re-shaping. In exchange, goods and resources from Earth were provided.
Glenn was known as a lot of things: a tactical wunderkind, a diplomat and one hell of a nice guy, but he was also notorious for being a lady’s man. Though he was heartbroken over the loss of Miss Namikawa, he had no shortage of comfort found on Planet X. After a year or so he took a wife, X-175B19, and became something of a celebrity on Earth…it was then all the more tragic when he was murdered in his home in California by anti-Xillian radicals. The killers were arrested, and X-175B19 returned to Planet X with nary an expression on her face.
Perhaps the most tragic turn in this farcical tale is that X-175B19 bore a son not long after Glenn’s death. The newly appointed X Council wanted the Earthling-Xillian hybrid disposed of immediately, but the UN occupational higher-ups, aghast at the coldness of the council, demanded that the child be left the live a normal life. The council then asked the UN to take the boy, but the UN pointed out that his closest family was on X…not at all understanding that Xillians don’t really have families. Still, the council capitulated, and the boy was placed in the usual Xillian processing for younglings: education, conditioning and finally assignment to a task that he’ll perform until his body gives out and he’s incinerated.
Of course, anyone reading this knows that this is not what happened.

X-175B20(H) was an outcast, which, in Xillian society, is really, really saying something. The usual coldness that surrounded him was compounded since he wasn’t so much regarded with contempt as he was sort of like an object, such as a block of run-of-the-mill-gold, not really even worth acknowledging…and his human DNA screamed bloody murder at it all. He craved companionship and emotion, which got him into trouble, and it was only by the grace of the UN Occupation that he wasn’t eliminated in the first offense of emotional outburst (a bizarre incident involving a female Xillian). Eventually, the young man turned to the only friend he had: a little voice in his head. It whispered to him and coaxed him one way or another, to do strange and unexpected things. He began developing powers even, latent psychic abilities that allowed him to cause even more trouble. Finally he was placed on the outskirts of the city, a hydrogen-oxide retriever, his psychic abilities little more than a plaything and an extra pair of hands during work.
Finally, one day, he just…
Freaking.
Snapped.

He assaulted the co-workers he rarely saw and began a small rampage, destroying and pillaging work stations. The council had been waiting for this opportunity, and sent a platoon of soldiers to deal with him. In the ensuing firefight, X-175B20(H) escaped in a commandeered spacecraft. The UN Occupation wanted him brought in for trial and questioning, possibly some counseling and rehabilitation, but the council was glad to be rid of him and focused on other matters.
The young man sped far past Jupiter and right into the asteroid belt, where he landed on a particularly large asteroid…that he found to be inhabited. A race of sentient invertebrates made of living metal existed deep in within the asteroid where there was some semblance of a planetary core, the last fragment of the planet that became the belt. They had limited technology left over from their once-great race, but the little voice told X-175B20(H) to stick around, maybe even help these "people"...they could be useful. Calling himself “The Regulator,” he helped them make great advances in technology thanks to his ship and to his own brilliant mind and abilities. The Kilaaks, as they called themselves, praised him as a hero and did almost anything he commanded. He convinced them to fashion their crude exoskeletons into sultry and appealing (and fully-functional) tech-bodies based on Xillian females.
Years passed…decades even. The Regulator barely aged, and his army was growing. It was when his fleet of Kilaak ships was completed that he set his plan in motion: a great play, a grand drama with no point or purpose but to make himself known throughout the universe. All the while, that little voice plucked away at him…
After attacking Planet X, crippling its infrastructure and cutting off its communications, he stole a massive amount of mind-control tech from the MZ War days, and headed straight for Earth. What followed was the greatest war in the history of the galaxy; monsters fought monsters, human fought kilaak, and all the while the Regulator laughed and clapped at what he had wrought.
Finally, the little voice became a great voice, and after battling Ozaki, he declared that it was time that the battle of the Kaisers would be taken to a new level; the voice was KING GHIDORAH’s, who had, over decades, prolonged his life and increased his power, and now that power erupted and turned him into MONSTER X!
X fought Godzilla to a standstill, and then tried to compound his power into one final attack, but then found himself frozen in mid-air…a fireball filled the sky, and his body was engulfed in it…King Ghidorah’s plan had come to fruition, and Ghidorah augmented his own power with X’s to become KAISER GHIDORAH!

After ZILLA sacrified himself to spare GODZILLA a painful blast of gravity-bolt-energy, Godzilla used the time bought for him to give KAISER GHIDORAH a full-force Nuclear Pulse, sending the space monster reeling. Then, when it tried to fly skyward, Godzilla latched on to the beast's twin-tail and was carried up, up and up!

Godzilla fell through the stratosphere after being forced to let go of the King of Terror, the three-headed monster charging every ounce of power into one final blast that would obliterate the planet from orbit. Ozaki, the G-Cells screaming at him from his very core, manned a small gunship to intercept Godzilla during planetfall. Leaping from the jet, he plummeted at Godzilla, glowing with G-Cell Power, and flew directly into the monster’s maw. Godzilla had the extra power he needed, and began drawing ambient energy from the Earth’s very biosphere…charging it into a colossal Red Spiral Atomic Blast that met Ghidorah’s Triple Gravity Concussion Burst. The two powers fought fiercely until, finally, MOTHRA collected enough energy from KING CAESAR, RODAN, ANGUIRUS, BATTRA, TITANOSAURUS, KAMACURAS, KUMONGA and GOROSAURUS, and fired it at the Monster King, which he used as just one last push to blow Ghidorah’s energy burst into nothing and dispatch the space dragon from outside the atmosphere!
Godzilla, his energy spent, plummeted to Earth, none of the other monsters strong enough to catch him. He collided with Mt. Fuji, causing a massive eruption and implosion that even he could not escape…and in the last moments before the Earth claimed him again, he spit Ozaki out, now drained of G-Cells, the young soldier only having enough energy to escape the eruption before passing out in mid-air over the forest…thankfully, Mothra managed to save him with just a dash of her own power…

Godzilla had saved the world, and the world was…well, not so grateful. While the nations of Earth reconstructed and rebuilt, people eventually forgot the brotherhood forged in crisis and turned their emotions to vengeance and anger, as is the nature of humankind. People were officially sick of monsters, and wanted something to be done that would assure such a calamity would never befall them again. As fate would have it, a discovery was made in Mongolia…Ghidorah, now bereft of his Kaiser power, had fallen to Earth and was missing its central head. Chuck Wilson, representative of the Earth Union (a conglomeration of private businesses, organizations and contractors not affiliated with any specific governments) spearheaded a project that would end the Age of Monsters…

Project MECHA KING GHIDORAH would take the greatest threat the planet had ever known and turn it into a champion of the people. Glen Chiko, Wilson’s right-hand-man, also found the perfect pilot for the next-generation mind-link technology that would not only command the robot, but connect to the central nervous core and command the organic parts as well. Such a pilot would not only need to be expertly trained but also have profound mental abilities, and Chiko found the perfect candidate at the Saegusa ESP Research Institute.
When MKG was revealed to the world, it was met with skepticism, but clever planning on Wilson and Chiko’s part had curbed most protestation, and when young Emi Kano was revealed as the pilot, the world fell in love with her. She was the beautiful warrior-princess astride a dragon of flesh and steel. Thus began OPERATION: DESTROY ALL MONSTERS.

Effective immediately, the Earth Union placed every resource they had available, while the EDF was busy licking its wounds after Operation: Final War, to find and destroy every monster known to man. With Monster Island destroyed, the monsters had spread far and wide…but this wasn’t a problem for the massively powerful MKG, which quickly began picking off monsters: ANGUIRUS was found in south of Australia, and didn’t last long against the bio-mechanical titan. TITANOSAURUS was found swimming for the Laurencin Abyss and was brutally killed with hyper-sonic-depth-charges. KUMONGA was found in Africa, chased into a forest fire and then crushed by golden feet. KAMACURAS turned up in the deep Amazon, and was torn asunder. GOROSAURUS was discovered back on Mondo Island, the whole place leveled within hours and the dinosaur dead. BATTRA could not be located and MOTHRA was granted amnesty, but the world cheered along with each conquest.

Finally, RODAN was found in the far north near the Arctic Circle, and a pitched battle raged in the mountains…until KING CAESAR intervened. The Lion God apparently never went back to Okinawa and he sought to defend his pterosaurian ally from the return of a hated enemy. Unfortunately, Rodan was blasted apart and King Caesar’s body shattered, the light in his eyes dying with the sunset.
It was at this point that the populace wasn’t so hot on MKG anymore. King Caesar was a folk hero and his intervention made people question the Earth Union’s actions. The Earth Union quickly countered that King Caesar was nothing but another vicious and brutal monster and that there was no evidence to support he was trying to help Rodan. Still, MKG hovered in mid-orbit, far from human contact…Emi Kano was starting to hear a little voice as well…

While the Earth Union wielded their new toy MECHA KING GHIDORAH and the Earth’s monsters fell like dominos, a new, secret shadow began appearing on Earth…
Ozaki had become a senior officer and commander of the EDF forces, and he greatly opposed Operation: DAM. But he found that he had little sway with the Earth Union. Nevertheless there was something new that was brought to his attention: Professor Otonashi had made a startling discovery in China: the mummified bodies of two giant monsters, which, when Ozaki saw the pictures, he identified as looking uncannily similar to JYARUMU and BALKZARDAN, the Orochi Spawns of Shadow and Light. This was an incredible discovery, but Ozaki and Otonashi kept it on the down-low…they, along with the rest of the G-Force and EDF teams, were concerned about what might happened if the UN and the Earth Union found out about these two “dead” monsters (kaiju have a habit of not staying dead, after all) before proper research could be conducted…of course, they weren’t the only parties interested in these two.

Secretly several individuals from different places both inside and outside of G-Force were meeting secretly, exchanging information, and clearly planning something…
It wasn’t until one day, out of left field, the holding cell where King Ghidorah’s central head was being held (one of the few pieces granted to G-Force for study by the Earth Union) was wide open and the damn head was missing! Security breaches were also reported when dozens of G-Cell samples were gone as well! DAMMIT! Ozaki was furious, but he smelled something rotten.

In the deep mountains of China, at Otonashi’s research camp, something was amiss as well. Otonashi discovered, late in the night, that someone…NOT from her team was within the chamber. Strange lights danced about the cavern walls, and she noticed that, right nearby the mummified kaiju, a circle of figures were doing…something. A drone of noises issued from these intruders as they resembled some sort of pagan worship circle, and at the center, a twisted looking piece of alien technology, like a miniature spire. Then, out-of-nowhere, the strange visitors materialized the missing head of Ghidorah (kind of hard to miss) floating above them in the massive chamber! Otonashi wisely sent a distress call to Ozaki, who was already tearing the base apart in an attempt to find the missing kaiju bits. He grabbed a strike force, hopped into a Super X and sped straight for China.

Meanwhile, Otonashi not-so-wisely attempted to confront the newcomers, even with her own team of EDF guards…though as it turned out, these "people” weren’t people at all…they were a new alien race that humans had never seen before…these were the Garoga. Firepower had no effect on them, as they had a strange control over the space around them. Even as the firefight ensued, the core group continued to chant and concoct the strange ritual to its climax. Another Garoga motioned to the mummified bodies of the Orochi monsters, and drew from them a pair of floating objects – still well preserved and (mostly) organic – and these balls of organic tissue began to orbit the floating head. Lastly, another Garoga stood up, and, from a container, produced several dozen Godzilla skin fragments! It tossed the fragments into the air, the lot of the G-Cells being caught in the swirling vortex emanating from the strange alien device. Suddenly, all of the elements began to compound upon one-another, forming a giant sphere of organic tissue. Miyuki could only stare at it in horror…it was the birth of something new, something terrifying…

The Garoga are essentially on a holy crusade – they seek to cleanse the universe of all but the strongest of life forms, so that they may accelerate the inevitable end of everything : the final step in the evolutionary process. They had created King Ghidorah as their ultimate tool of evolution, made and pointed in a certain direction with one directive: kill the strongest life forms on every planet, and whatever survives, THAT will be the strongest…whatever develops with be that much closer to the final step.
Now that their "perfect creation” was usurped by a lowly race on a backwater planet, they needed a new, MORE perfect kaiju to do their dirty work. When combining the DNA of four different monsters, they had created a chimera-like amalgamation that, while it may not have suited their long-term plans, it would suffice to wipe this little planet out of existence. The pulsing mass of organic tissue, colored as dried blood would appear, began to grow exponentially! It began to reach out and grab the Garoga, who willingly gave themselves to it. Only one escaped, which was easy as the mass turned its attention of the EDF soldiers! A handful escaped along with Miyuki, and when Ozaki and his reinforcements arrived, they were rescued just in time as the mountains around the tomb began to shatter and fall apart.

The twisting, pulsing mass held an orbit over the mountains in northern China, though it steadily began to move south. The Chinese government was quick to throw everything they had at it short of nuclear weapons (outlawed after Godzilla’s resurrection in 2054) and had even began to call it “BAGAN,” after a mythical dragon-god who defended a forest from man’s encroachment (despite the fact that THIS dragon was no protector!). The People’s Republic of China was very keen to try and destroy a monster without any outside help, but obviously to no avail. Even more horrifically, the Bagan orb began to eat tanks and jets, absorbing the pilots, along with forests and animals in the near area! It was a terrifying sight, and Ozaki knew that only the worst of the worst could be born from such an abomination…what could they do?!?!

Ozaki knew that something like this might happen; when he was connected for however briefly with GODZILLA, he knew that, while the monster had plenty of vengeful hatred in his heart, he still had a yearning for peace and serenity, and truly wished to protect his home planet. BAGAN was continuing to mutate and grow, hovering over China, making its way towards Japan, and with the rest of the Earth’s defender-monsters dead, the world was robbed of its best natural defense. They couldn’t even count on MECHA KING GHIDORAH, who was still in orbit around the planet, with Emi Kano stuck in the cockpit.
Ozaki and Otonashi had a contingency plan, however: revive Godzilla, what else?
The Monster King was very quite possibly still alive under the Earth’s crust, near where he crashed into Mt. Fuji, now known as the Fuji Crater. Ozaki pulled up a file he had been keeping on ice for a number of months – an application for admittance to G-FORCE sent by one Kazuma Aoki. A member of the ESP Research Institute when he was younger, he was a man clinging to the Godzilla Prediction Network originally founded back in 1999 by Shinoda Yuji. He was continually trying to gain funding for his own kaiju-related projects, and was one of the firm protestors of Operation: Destroy All Monsters. But after the death of his personal favorite monster, RODAN, he had receded into seclusion. Ozaki had read his profile, detailing that the young man had exceptionally powerful dreams when younger, effectively being able to locate kaiju in a manner that rivaled Miki Saegusa’s. However, he became unwilling to share his gift when he was convinced that the military would use him for nothing more than to kill these monsters (he was a bit of a conspiracy nut) and re-formed GPN to try and warn people of monster attacks instead of outright attacking the monsters directly.

Ozaki and Otonashi tracked him down, and with little convincing, garnered the eccentric man’s help. Taking a VTOL, they flew over the still-smoldering Fuji Crater to try and locate Godzilla…and indeed, Kazuma detected him, much like Miki had once done. He was weak and trapped, though, and needed something new, something more powerful. It was then that the Shobijin appeared! They told the trio that the best way to destroy this new threat was the Amulet of Orochi, once used to revive VARAN and defeat Godzilla himself! Ozaki immediately ordered the Amulet released from the vault in EDF HQ.

Meanwhile, something terrible was happening in China.
Bagan had appeared over Guangzhou, and the protective shell began to pulse and shift...suddenly, a massive explosion ripped through it, sending a fire-ridden maelstrom through the city, setting everything aflame. There, in the center of it all, stood Bagan, in his final form. A terrible chimera monster, cold and fierce in his burning gaze. Immediatelly, he was set upon by a vast contingency of EDF forces...and within seconds, they exploded in a sea of fire, steel and blood. Bagan was fast, he was brutal, and was very intentional in his manner of brutally smashing and obliterating any humans he saw, even as they scurried and pleaded with a god that did not rule this day. Within minutes, Guangzhou was almost entirely in ruins, Bagan able to sense and destroy incoming threats within two miles.

Thankfully for the world, MOTHRA and BATTRA intervened! The twin monsters fought Bagan in Guangzhou, but…well, they didn’t do so well.

What followed was possibly the most stunning victory in kaiju lore…Bagan quickly and utterly defeated them. The fight was literally only minutes in its brutal duration, and both flying insects were killed, their wings severed or blasted near to pieces. Bagan took to the sky and began flying south at a remarkable speed, the mere power of his levitation demolishing half of Guangzhou!
In orbit, MKG’s systems suddenly activated. Emi, under a power clearly not her own, took control of the central unit and piloted the monstrous machine back planetside…

Using a touch of his own psychic power he had learned as a child, Kazuma levitated the Amulet and let it hover over the crater. The Shobijin then channeled their own power towards the mystical object, and then, to everyone’s surprise…roars began to fill the air…though they were quiet in a solemn way. Then, the spirits of VARAN, BARAGON, MANDA, SHIIGAN, BARUGARON and VAGNOSAURUS flew from within the Earth itself, and flowed into the Amulet, and it shattered! All that was left was a swirling miasma, which flowed like crystal water across the sky and into the crater.
Suddenly, the instruments went wild! “TAKE COVER!” Ozaki shouted, and it was lucky they did, because the crater erupted once more! Fire and raw elemental power fluxed the very air about them, and Godzilla was reborn! But…this wasn’t the Godzilla they had known from before…this was something new, something awesome, something terrifying and beautiful all at once…

THIS.
IS.
SUPER GODZILLA.

The New King of the Monsters howled with newfound life, and began to make his way down the hillside, the air warping and burning as he walked. Without warning, the ground around him was blasted, causing not roars of anger and surprise, but merely eliciting a determined and expectant glance skyward. MKG had returned! Super Godzilla and the cyborg dragon had their customary square-off…then the fireworks started. Gravity bolts, Laser Triple beams and Red Spiral Atomic Breath blasts showered the area, forcing all EDF forces to retreat. The battle shook the very Earth, and though Super Godzilla was a clear match, MKG grabbed the monster, attempting to choke him to death. Of course, Godzilla responded with a Nuclear Pulse, and struck once more with an Energy Sphere flung from his tail, sending MKG reeling.
The mechanized terror decided it was time to flee, and took off skyward. Ozaki attempted to contact Emi in the cockpit to make sure she was alright, but only received a curt message in response…

Super Godzilla began to trail MKG, which was leading south…in the meantime, Ozaki was called back to an EDF base near Tokyo – they were being held directly responsible for reviving Godzilla. As it turned out, a confrontation between Chuck Wilson and Ozaki took place. Wilson was gaining a lot of influence over the EDF, and was keen on having Ozaki put on trial for conspiracy after reviving the greatest threat the world had even known. Ozaki, however, entered into evidence the message he had received from Emi, stating, simply, “DON’T BOTHER ME, HUMAN.”
There was something really, REALLY bad going on, and Emi was not responding to any messages from either the EDF or the Earth Union. Otonashi also added the theory that Ghidorah’s very DNA carried a great deal of psychic power, and Emi’s own abilities could have easily been influenced by the King of Terror’s most basic power. Effectively, she is now Ghidorah! Ozaki countered Chuck’s accusations that he had unleashed a force just as destructive as Super Godzilla, and that the best they could hope for was that Godzilla would follow his natural instincts and fight Bagan!

Wilson wouldn’t hear any of this, of course, and demanded that Ozaki, Miyuki and Kazuma, who was quick to call him a “crazy egotistic supervillain” (that’s the cleaned-up version), be placed under arrest.
Of course, most of EDF was very, very loyal to Ozaki, he being their commanding officer and all, and the EDF superiors couldn’t well command troops who wouldn’t listen to them. Wilson and his cronie Glen Chiko were escorted out of the building, and Ozaki was asked to direct a full evacuation of Tokyo.

Super Godzilla arrived in the city, and looked skyward. Falling like a meteorite, Bagan landed and shattered most of the buildings in a mile radius, and knocking G back a few meters.
What followed was literally an Earth-breaking battle. Sections of the strata beneath Tokyo itself were smashed and uprooted until the city was starting to resemble a new mountain range! Super Godzilla and Bagan flung energy back-and-forth, clashed, clawed, bit and roared…and it seemed as though Bagan was winning. Godzilla was frequently on the defensive, but holding his own.

Meanwhile, Ozaki and the EDF were clearing people out of the city as fast as they could. The battle was still raging and the earth beneath them literally cracking to pieces. The Shobijin appeared to Kazuma once more, asking him to aid them in something. They climbed to the tallest building nearby, already starting to shift thanks to the battle. The asked him to close his eyes...and he could see something…far away, where the bodies of Battra and Mothra lay…from their husks emerged two new larvae, and these new guardians crawled towards one-another…Battra commanded the Earth around them to soften and engulf them, while Mothra spun her beautiful silk…the two combined into a new cocoon, a strange, rocky, peanut-shaped thing. They asked him to believe in the guardians of Earth, and he did with every ounce of his heart. His hope began to spread to the rest of the people in the city, and a warmth filled the world for but a few heartbeats. Everyone was just hoping….no, believing that they would live to see another day.
The cocoon cracked, and a massive pair of beautiful and deadly wings filled the air…GIGAMOTH was reborn!
Within minutes, the super-insect arrived in Tokyo and began to assault Bagan as well. Godzilla, now with some help, was keen on keeping Bagan on the back-foot. Still, whatever they threw at him, he threw back, and no end was in sight…
Just then, Mecha King Ghidorah appeared! The cyborg landed behind Bagan and latched onto the monster using its Machine Hand and constricting cables. A message appeared on the EDF monitors:

“You insignificant things have caused us much trouble,” Emi Kano said. “Now we have an opportunity to see every one of you crushed into less than nothing…”

A pause.

“But it wouldn’t be by our power…and it never will be. Such a pity.”

MKG began to fire millions of volts into Bagan’s body, stunning the creature just long enough. Godzilla then extended his claws, and, with his newfound Power of Orochi, began to weaken Bagan. The spirits of JYARUMU and BALKZARDAN were fighting too!
Then, Gigamoth made its way skyward…and began to spin, swirl and circle the battlefield – the energy created began to call nothing less than the spirits of their fallen allies into the battle! ANGUIRUS, RODAN, ZILLA, GOROSAURUS, KUMONGA, KAMACURAS, KING CAESAR and TITANOSAURUS! Their spirits were being channeled through Gigamoth and into Super Godzilla! The orb on his chest began to glow with a power the galaxy had never seen!

Another heartbeat of silence.

The powers of all of these monsters exploded forth from Godzilla, snaking and swirling like a multi-headed dragon, their roaring visages valiantly flying forward. When it struck Bagan and Mecha King Ghidorah, the burst of light was so incredible that the massive expanse of energy shot skyward, a light which was so beautiful that it brought tears to mortal eyes…
And in all of it, at the last second, MKG’s emergency pod ejected, and Emi awoke within it a few hours later, with no memory of whether or not it was herself who escaped, or if Ghidorah did it for her.

In the serene silence of the desolated Tokyo, Super Godzilla and the rest of the populace looked skyward…Gigamoth was slowly dissolving into a thousand beautiful little moths, each one dying as though it were a candle burning out.

As the ground was sprinkled with this essence, a single egg materialized. It was a strange shape and texture, and Godzilla approached it gingerly. Perhaps in the most gentle manner he ever had, he picked it up in his claws and made his way towards the coast…giving one last call to any who could hear him.

Shrotly afterwards the entire planet submitted to a mind wipe everyone was just tired of it all the monsters the kaiju everything was too much or them. So they forgot and now it's the job of the government to make sure they stay content and don't remember the destruction that took place on their homeworld.