Kaiju Uprising
By Yaburu
Prologue
The Year: 2017. Our story takes place in a world very different from the one you know and live in. It's a world where giant monsters have left a permanent blemish on the face of civilization. Since 1954, when a monster named "Godzilla" wreaked havoc on the Japanese city of Tokyo, massive beasts have cropped up all over the world. Sometimes, the beasts were fought off. Sometimes…not. Countless thousands perished by their actions.
It wasn't until 1993 that a plan was undertaken to get the problem under control. In a joint effort by the countries of Japan and the United States, the two countries most frequently targeted by Kaiju, the bones of Godzilla were salvaged out of the bottom of the Japanese sea and shipped to a secret facility in the United States. Using modern cloning techniques, cells of the first, and still most powerful, monster ever seen were produced under strict control. Metal and flesh were combined, and a weapon of supreme power was born. Named Mechagodzilla, this new machine/animal hybrid sported state-of-the-art weapons and technology.
It's first victory, over a monster known as Baragon in 1995, was a resounding success. Between 1995 and 1999, it scored over 24 confirmed Kaiju kills across the globe. It seemed that at last, the Kaiju scourge was coming under control. But then, ominously, on January 1st of 2000, what appeared to be a ghost of Japan's past came back to haunt it.
A second Godzilla, seemingly even more powerful then the first, rose from the ocean depths and attacked and razed the same city his predecessor had almost 50 years prior. Mechagodzilla was dispatched and sped to the island nation as fast as it could. When it arrived, it quickly squared off with the new nuclear terror. But before it even got a shot off, something odd happened. The machine itself took control away from the pilots inside, and killed them by lowering the radiation shielding from their cockpit. It then joined Godzilla in an orgy of destruction, leveling Tokyo completely and killing thousands.
Eventually, the power cells within Mechagodzilla ran out, and it shut down. Godzilla returned to the ocean, and Mechagodzilla was taken in for repairs. Engineers eventually came to the conclusion that Godzilla's roar somehow triggered dormant cells within Mechagodzilla's body and caused it to revert to what it was: The original Godzilla. This theory was close to what actually happened, but not quite accurate…
Mechagodzilla's systems were overhauled to prevent the catastrophe in Tokyo from happening again, and it was once again sent after Godzilla. This time, the long-awaited confrontation happened. The battle was epic, and both combatants suffered greatly seeking victory. But in the end, Mechagodzilla stood over Godzilla, ready to land the deathblow. But before it could, the same strange takeover happened within it. Mechagodzilla grabbed the critically injured Godzilla, and flew with him far out to sea, before plummeting into the ocean.
No one quite understood why Mechagodzilla did what he did. Many eccentrics claiming to have ESP and powers of the like claimed that Mechagodzilla had the soul of the original Godzilla in it, and it no longer wished to fight, or harm another of it's kind, so it flew out to sea with him, to prevent him from harming others. Again, they were close, but not quite right…
After that, Kaiju attacks ceased. Except for one horrific assault in 2001 from a three-headed dragon that came to be called Grand Ghidorah, Kaiju became a thing of the past. Ghidorah was driven off by the combined efforts of the guardian deities Mothra and Battra and what was believed to be possibly the last surviving Kaiju on Earth, Anguirus. Though he was driven off, Grand Ghidorah killed Mothra and Battra, and it was believed Anguirus later died of his wounds, as he took several point blank blasts from Gravity Beams while viciously ripping out the throat of the middle head.
This brings us to today, where a generation is growing up not knowing the horror capable of being wrought by Kaiju. But they're about to be re-introduced to that horror…
Chapter 1:
BIGOR
Millions of years ago, Dinosaurs ruled the Earth. But an asteroid from the heavens ended their rule swiftly and viciously. Scores of the beasts were killed instantly. Hundreds more fell to the harsh conditions of the changed Earth in the days and weeks that followed.
We focus on one piece of land in what will millions of years from now be known as Los Angeles. Starving beasts roam this land, the last remnants of a once mighty species. Many have already succumbed to their hunger, and died. One such Dinosaur lies directly in the path of a fault line deep under the Earth. So it comes as no shock that when a huge Earthquake rocks this piece of land, the ground opens and swallows the beast into the abyss below.
It falls for miles and miles, finally landing on a large piece of rock surrounded by molten lava. The fall is enough to shatter most every bone in the Dinosaur's body. Had it not already been dead, the fall would have killed it.
At first glance, this cavern is a sight of beauty. The bright colors of the lava light the walls and bounce of the strange crystal-like stones that adorn it. These crystals are, in fact, a type of highly radioactive ore. The entire cavern is filled with radiation in fact. And over the course of the next several million years, the radiation will inexplicably preserve the corpse of the Dinosaur perfectly. And if it weren't for one man, this would be the Dinosaur's permanent resting place…