The Modern Kaiju Era

Part II: The Mysterian War 2/3

Part II:
"The Mysterian War 2/3"
By: 2nd LT. Anthony Hicks,
United States Army

"I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery."

-Aeschylus

"As a third generation member of the United States Military, and a proud patriot, there are few things I revile more than a traitor. Though the war had long been over by the time I came around, whenever I read or heard about those who collaborated with the Mysterians, it would always fill me with such ire. I could never fathom what they though they could gain from betraying their planet. Perhaps at best they would have been rewarded for their betrayal with wealth and power, like client kings under Roman rule.

Whatever the potential incentive for their sedition, God in all his wisdom saw fit to see their dreams routed. I for one, am glad for that.

In Mid-November, the war against the Mysterian colonizers had become something of a stalemate. Large parts of Africa and southern Asia were conquered without much fight, mostly because there was little to no organized resistance capable of fighting them. North America, Europe, China, the Soviet Union, and Japan however, were able to sustain a strong defensive effort, all having the technological ability and manpower to effect resistance. Australia and South America would be in a limbo for the duration, with neither side gaining an upper hand until we pushed them out at the end.

But there remained places where the Mysterians would dare not go, the North and South Poles, and the Nullius Ager archipelago. The examples of what the Kaiju were capable of, and their apparent instinctual aggression towards the Moguera must have given them the distinct impression to stay away from where monsters were. Where there be dragons, the Mysterians were not.

With the Kaiju on our side, or at least more interested in the alien machines, and the superpowers of the world preventing a total rout, we were confident of victory in the end. We knew the Mysterians were desperate, their supply lines from Mars and Venus starting to run dry, surely we thought, triumph was near at hand. What we didn't know, was that the Moguera were only the first wave.

The Japanese Self-Defense Force had maintained a siege around the Mysterian dome in the shadow of Mt. Fuji, which had remained pretty much static up to that point. While conventional weapons made no dent, scientists figured out that atomically-powered heat rays could weaken the dome's material enough for bombs to be effective. Soon after work began on the weapons however, the Mysterians set off the next offensive.

On the night of November 17th, from a protected subterranean dock, dozens of their agile deadly aircraft poured out of the base, and immediately used their plasma rays to devastating results. Tanks, jet fighters, battleships, submarines, all were obliterated by the fast-moving craft, whole battalions reduced to slag within days. Even the Kaiju were pushed back by the firepower. The tunnels of the Goliath ants caved in, Ookondoru shot out of the sky, Rodan and Anguirus sent for cover.

Unbeknownst to Mankind, during the time we had been focused on the fight on Earth, we were blinded to a new trick the Mysterians were about to play. Using the dark side of the Moon as cover, they had constructed a new base, from which dozens more of the assault ships were manufactured. When the next wave of the aerial legions made their presence known over the skies of China and the United States, it became apparent that Humanity was on track to be displaced at the top of the chain.

Things were bleak as December loomed, The Soviets were throwing thousands of troops and war machines at the invaders, China was reduced to a guerrilla war, and the airspace of the United States was filled with dogfights. The Mysterians had even taken to venturing out in the open, sending a delegation to the General Assembly of the UN, with all the air of an uncrowned emperor. They had every right to feel assured in their superior position, but it was in their arrogance that they exposed a crucial flaw.