Welcome to Monster Island
Monster Island, 11 am;
A plane landed on the island's runway. Once the off ramp was put in place, a large group of tourist surged out, among them was a tall American named Tucker Richards. He followed the tourist to a building about the size of a large mall. It was the only building most people that came to the island were allowed to be in but that didn't mean the trip to the island was dull. The large structure housed a wall of video monitors that each showed a different of the island's kaiju. Out from that was the gift shop, a kaiju based amusement park and video arcade, the food court, and rooms each dedicated to a different kaiju. Tucker wasn't here for this stuff. He was a reporter and the first one to ever be allowed to enter the research area, he was waiting for his guide. "Hey!" yelled a voice, Tucker turns to find Logan running up to him. "Tucker right?"
"Yeah that's me, glad to meet you." said Tucker, shaking Logan's hand.
"Come on, we'd better go before people start wanting my autograph."
"I know the feeling." the two laugh.
Logan leads him through a door marked 'off limits'. Beyond it was another door, through that was what appeared to be a small glass room. Before Tucker could ask anything, the room starts moving. It then occurred to Tucker that it was some kind of monorail. The monorail moved swiftly through the trees before heading out of the forest. Monster Island was very large, about the size of Panama and located in the Ogasawara Islands as to give the residents plenty of room and keep them away from the worlds major cities. The island's research lab was located on a mountain peak by the south shore that was tall enough to see the entire island from the top of it and was equipped with various non-lethal weapons designed to stop kaiju from escaping, the most powerful being a freeze ray capable of instantly putting most kaiju into hibernation at full power. Tucker was amazed by everything but nearly fell over when Baragon jumped out of the ground beside the monorail. "Relax, its just his feeding time." said Logan.
"I hope you don't mean us." said Tucker.
"Don't worry, this monorail is protected by an invisible force field. It would take something a lot stronger than Baragon to pierce it. The only one on the island strong enough are Anguirus, Rodan, and their offspring and they're friendly to humans, me and my family at least."
The monorail kept going as Baragon threw the meat set out for him into his mouth. The environment takes major change, the lush forest and grasslands they'd been going through was replaced by a rocky coast line. The monorail starts up the incline up to the top of the mountain to the research facility. The facility was a group of white building placed at deferent heights and every direction. The monorail heads into the structure overlooking the bay. As the monorail slows to a stop and the doors open. The two walk out and are greeted by Miki who was holding the hand of a four year old, blond haired, blue-eyed girl. This girl was Logan and Miki's daughter, Kim. "Hello, Mr. Richards." said Miki.
"Please call me Tucker." said Tucker with a smile.
"Hello sir, I'm Kim. Have you come to see the kaiju?" asks Kim.
Tucker was surprised for a second that the girl knew how to pronounce the world kaiju but then remembered where he was. "Why yes."
"Then you are very lucky, we're getting a new one right now."
"If that right?"
"Yes it is follow us." said Miki, she leads them to the window overlooking the bay. A massive orange ship with a large metal container on the back chugged into the bay. It one of two such craft, the other was an air ship that transported the kaiju that had to be dropped off further inland.
On the rocks nearby, Varan set sunning himself and having a conversation with Reptilicus and kaiju that looked like a Chinese dragon who Tucker couldn't recognize. "Who's the dragon over there with Varan and Reptilicus?" he asks.
"That ones Manda, she was found destroying research ships near some underwater ruins so they had her transported here." said Kim.
"Smart girl you've got here."
"Well that's what happens when your mother's a psychic and your father's a scientist." said Miki.
"What are those three talking about?"
"My guess is they are placing bets." said Logan.
"Bets? For what?"
"You see there is something we normally don't show the public, the monster's here have a pecking order. When a new monster is brought here, the lowest ranked monster attacks it. If the new one wins, it can fight the next rank until it loses and then that's its rank, otherwise it becomes the lowest rank. I don't really like it myself but it does prevent unneeded fights later because everyone knows their place. Some of the monsters always gather around to watch the fight and some of our workers bet with each other as to whether the new kaiju wins or not." said Miki.
"Don't they get hurt?"
"Yeah but takes a lot to kill a kaiju and anything else heals with in a few weeks, a month tops and if the fight gets out of control, we use the low setting on our freeze cannon to break it up, it doesn't knock ether one out but they really hate it."
A large man walks up to the control panel beside them, Tucker recognized him as a Russian. "Logan, Miki, the freeze cannon is ready, just in case, you know how she gets." said the man.
"Tucker, this is Ivan, he's in charge of our weapons systems and Russia's scientist here." said Logan.
"Hello Tucker."
Tucker takes a hand shake from Ivan. "Glad to meet you." said Tucker.
"Ok, the transport is ready to release the kaiju and his opponent is coming. Watch."
The metal container heaves open. After a few minutes, a gigantic shrimp-like kaiju scuttled out. "What is he?" asks Tucker.
"His name is Ebirah, he was destroying cruise ships in the south seas until we caught him." said Kim.
Ebirah looked over his surroundings, he doesn't look long before a roar very much like Godzilla's echoes through the cove. Out from behind the cliffs on one side of the bay comes a monster that looked like a much smaller, sleeker, and more agile version of the King of the Monsters. Tucker recognized this creature, she was Zilla, a mutated iguana who attacked New York awhile ago. Zilla stomped towards Ebirah, roaring in challenge. Ebirah replies with a screech. Zilla leaps at her opponent, Ebirah dives beneath the water as Zilla landed. Zilla looks for her enemy before screaming in pain as Ebirah clamps down on her tail with his claw. She spins around and bites down on Ebirah's claw. Ebirah throws his other claw at Zilla's head. She grabs the it with her hand and uppercuts him with her free one. As Ebirah is knocked backwards, Zilla inhales a massive amount of air before breathing out a blast of fire. It connects with Ebirah's chest, driving him backwards and lighting him on fire. Ebirah falls into the ocean, unconscious. Zilla roars in victory and stomps back to her own lair.
Well hope you liked our opening. Next up, we meet the Defense Forces.