Shortly after Hedorah's sulfuric acid mist cost the lives of 1,600 people, the self-defense force had to concoct a method by which to stop the smog monster before it wrecked further chaos. Luckily, Hedorah had a weakness! Dr. Toru Yano discovered that the monster was vulnerable to dehydration when exposed to an electrical current. While Godzilla and Hedorah clashed at Mt. Fuji, two giant electrodes were created in hopes of evaporating the moisture from the sentient sludge. Headlights were used to attract the monster; however, in the midst of the monsters' war, Godzilla and Hedorah toppled into some nearby power lines. The electrodes were rendered useless. Hedorah entered the field where it would be dehydrated, with the military completely helpless. Luckily, Godzilla fired his thermonuclear breath at the electrode. His flowing plasma energized the device, and an electrical current crackled its way through Hedorah's unctuous body. When Godzilla tossed a rock at the remains, Hedorah launched into the sky. Surprisingly, Godzilla followed, not by foot, but through flight! He used his own thermonuclear breath to create lift, and he took to the sky. Hedorah was captured, and the creature was returned to the electrodes. Godzilla utilized his breath once more, and the revolting sludge he held in his reptilian hands dried to a crisp. That putrid, polluted organism was no more. Humankind had dodged a bullet, with the help of their dinosaurian ally...