The Modern Kaiju Era

Part II: The Mysterian War 1/3

Part II:

"The Mysterian War 1/2"

By: 2nd LT. Anthony Hicks,

United States Army

"Can the human race continue to deliver these staggering blows without arousing, somewhere in the depths of Earth, a reaction, a counterattack, a horror still undreamed of?"

"After the deaths of the Rodans, 1956 finished-up without major Kaiju incidents. The Goliath ants had been penned off into the same restricted access zone of New Mexico where they live to this day. A second Oodaku was found living in peace in the south Pacific, this one much smaller than the one that had hit San Francisco. Godzilla remained entombed in his arctic prison, though the fear of his escape would propel the Soviet Union and the United States into a nuclear arms race, both sides paranoid that if he did escape, he might turn his attention east or west.

However, since Godzilla survived not one but two weapons of mass destruction, I fail to see what good it would have done. Having the advantage of hindsight now, we can see where mistakes were made in the allocation of resources, threat level analyses, and how we could have avoided so much pain and suffering. One mistake we would make over and over however, was underestimating Godzilla, and how important he would be to the earth in the next few decades.

As a boy, my friends and I would play monsters instead of the typical pretend games. Sometimes it would be monsters vs. military, or even monster vs. monsters in city smashing combat. Ok, not cities, trashcans and wooden pallets at best but you get the picture. Little did we know just how frequent a thing like that would become. 1956 was a much needed breather for the world, in the span of three years mankind's entire understand of our place in creation had been swept aside as titans from mythology emerged to walk the earth once more. Mankind would make it out of 1957 transformed, and not without a generous measure of luck.

If we thought that '55 was a busy year, '57 would be a gauntlet.

In March of that year, another offspring of Operation Experiment would bear down on us from the north. The Mid-Canada Radar Fence, conducting regular tests, picked-up on a strange object, massive and heading southward. Fighter jets scrambled to identify and intercept would wind-up torn from the sky by an aggressive airborne Kaiju. With only seconds to report what he saw, the lead pilot managed to describe "A Giant Claw".

Immediately, Canadian, American, and even Soviet air defenses went into full swing, having learned their lesson from the Rodan attacks the previous year. When the creature reached the Pine-Tree Radar Fence however, it was shown to be something much more bizarre. Resembling a titanic condor, but with a grotesquely disfigured face and mangy feathers, it lashed out indiscriminately. Zoologists theorized that exposure to radioactivity had warped it's features, and judging by it's behavior, made the creature deranged and hostile, like a rabid dog.

Seeing either prey or enemy in anything that moved, it continuously attacked military and civilian aircraft, and carried off several trains. In its disturbed state, it was able to withstand the pain of plane-mounted machine guns and anti-aircraft batteries. Though nowhere near as fast as the Rodans, it still proved nearly impossible to fend off once it fixated on a target. It cried in shrill, wild shrieks as foam dripped from it's beak as it tore into freight trains searching for food.

Pushed onward by either instinctual migratory patterns or the search for something to eat, the first major city it hit was Ottawa, Ontario. It swooped down on the city, erratic and starving, making dives for groups of people who leapt into subway tunnels and anywhere else out of the creature's sight. Crying out in confusion and hunger, throwing itself bodily against several buildings in its rage. A constant barrage of firepower from the Canadian Air Force finally managed to drive it away, but not before dozens of deaths, hundreds of injuries, and millions in damage had been done to the city.