It was almost dark and the Iron Vulture sat on the calm sea and everything was going good for Don Karnage and his crew. Karnage sat in his room reading a book on how to be a better pirate, while on the bridge Mad Dog and Dumptruck saw some big black storm clouds approaching them from the east. "Looks like we're in for a pretty bad night," said Mad Dog with a shiver while Dumptruck simply nodded as he looked at the maps.

The storm came up suddenly, violently stirring the sea. Waves fifty feet high crashed onto the Iron Vulture, but that did not bother the pirates because they had been in storms like this many times before. But for some strange reason, a few members of the crew felt uneasy in this storm, it had moved in too quick, and the unnatural noises that they heard only seem to make the crew even more restless.

As Dumptruck put up one of the many maps, Mad Dog stared out the command deck's window. He felt in his bones that something was coming; coming for them.

"Hey, Dumptruck?" he asked, turning to his friend. "Do you believe that the captain will give us a raise?" The great dane looked at him.

Dumptruck shook his head. "No."

Just then the sonar beeped as it picked up something and Mad Dog took a look at the sonar. His eyes flew open with fear because on the sonar screen, he saw something enormous heading directly for them. Mad Dog turned to Dumptruck. "Sound the alarms! And go full ahead!" he shouted.

"Captain," called Mad Dog, hitting the intercom button. "This is the bridge. We have an emergency."

Alarms blared throughout the Iron Vulture. The crew rushed from their quarters, from the mess hall, and from the brig. One pirate, Hacksaw, came rushing out of his room.

"What's going on?" he called to his fellow crew members that rushed by him. He was very nervous. There was panic among the crew and Hacksaw had no idea why. The alarm horn sounded deafeningly.

Karnage came running into the bridge. "Dumptruck! Mad Dog! This has better be not another mistake!" he growled looking at the sonar. He saw it now, a big blip on the screen that was right on top of the Iron Vulture.

Before the air pirates knew what happened, the Iron Vulture was rocked by an enormous thud. The massive air ship had been rammed by something.

The crew in the hallways were tossed against the cold steel walls and slick rusted decks. Hacksaw tried to grab onto a door for his life, but the ship was then hit from another side and he was knocked into a wall. Karnage was slowly getting to his feet as Mad Dog looked out the window to see what hit them, but all he saw was rough seas and bad weather.

"Dumptruck, I want a damage report," he ordered as Mad Dog kept looking out the window. Dumptruck was about to get a damage report, when a strange sound was heard. All the pirates also heard it. Hacksaw put on a life vest on as he listened to the strange sound in horror. Just then giant claws cut right through the hull and almost hit him, but the dingo climbed up a ladder to the next deck.

Water began to flood into the ship. The pirates tried desperately to get away from the rising water. Hacksaw nearly lost his grip on the latter when the Iron Vulture was rocked again by another powerful thud. Crew members were knocked off their feet, some even fell into the flooding hallways.

"Get us airborne!" Karnage shouted trying to keep his balance. There was no way to get airborne because they were being held down and were being pulled under the sea.

Mad Dog had a better idea. "I think we should abandon ship!" he shouted. The Iron Vulture then began to turn on heavily it's side.

Out on the the main flight deck, Hacksaw had finally made his way out of the flooding passageways and stood wide eyes out in the storm. He could clearly see the thing that was sinking the ship. It was some kind of monster. The creature turned and swung it's mighty tail in the air, as if it was trying to attack something Hacksaw couldn't see.

Up on the bridge, Mad Dog, Karnage and Dumptruck saw the giant tail or whatever it was coming straight at them. The bridge was struck with such force that the three pirates got knocked back against the wall.

"The ship is lost," Karnage groaned in pain as he fought to get to his feet. Mad Dog and Dumptruck found the will to stand and then headed for the lifeboat station. Hacksaw joined them at the lifeboat station. There was little chance that they would live to tell their tale to the world to what had been seen tonight, but Karnage urged them not to give up.

Karnage, Mad Dog, Dumptruck and Hacksaw saw that the Iron Vulture's remaining crew was doomed, so they had no choice but to leave their men to die. It was so hard to row in the storm, for the waves were pushing the life boat around, the rain made it hard to see and the wind was even worse. But when they managed to row away to a safe distance, Karnage and the others saw the creature once more; it was a evil looking thing.

"Hell has come to reclaim us, Captain Karnage," Dumptruck said, his voice was almost bone dry. Just then a blinding flash of lighting struck the creature, but this lighting was red. Then the creature raised it's head, opened it's mouth and blue fire shot from it and into the clouds.

The next morning a fishing boat spotted the life boat. Karnage and his boys were able to save only two more of their crew from water during the storm. Ratchet and Gibber. But some for reason, Karnage, Dumptruck, Mad Dog and Hacksaw seemed to be in shock, so the fishing boat captain decided to take them back to Cape Suzette for treatment.

Later that day, in Cape Suzette, a limo sped through the streets. The other motorists knew better then to get in the one's way, for the one inside didn't like hold ups.

Ten minutes later, the limo came to a stop outside the front entrance of the local hospital. Doors slammed on the limo as Shere Khan headed inside. With him was two other well dressed gentlemen; a sea fairing lion and a black panther pilot.

Once inside they headed for a room that held the six pirates, who all were in a state of shock. From what Khan had been told was that the six were also showing signs of radiation poisoning.

Mr. Khan wanted to know what happened that made these men go into shock. "Are these the only ones who were in the area of the sinking?" he asked coldly. His men nodded yes. Hard to believe that the Iron Vulture was gone now, but any chance, Khan would be able to find out something about what had sank the air ship.

Mr. Khan wanted to know what they saw, but no matter what his men tried to do, they could not get the pirates to talk because they were in a very bad state of shock.

Khan was growing tired of waiting, so he reached into his pocket and pulled out a lighter. He walked in front of Karnage, light it and held it in front of the captain. Karnage turned his head at the little flame and watched it as Shere Khan waved it back and forth. "What did you see, Mr. Karnage?" he asked quietly.

Karnage answered him. "Gojira." he whispered, repeating the same words over and over again.

Shere Khan frowned. Gojira? Why does that name ring a bell? He thought, but then a another doctor came running in. Mr. Khan looked at the doctor. "What is it?" he asked.

"Two sailors have been brought in. They both have the same radiation poisoning as the pirates."

"And why should that be brought to my attention?"

The doctor held out a logo patch for Khan to see. "Because they came from one of your ships."

Now Shere Khan was really upset. He was going to find out what was sinking the ships and destroy it.