With The Stranger leaving a predatory void
in the cosmos, it was inevitable that a new stalker
of life would emerge from the depths of space.
This new monster was Bagorah, a giant bat-like
animal that learned to deal with the emptiness
of space after undoubtedly consuming all the
food it could find on its home world. The creature
had an unfathomable hunger, and would do anything
to find a meal. Sustenance was fleeting in the
galaxy, however, so it should have come as no
surprise that, when picking up the faintest vibrations
of some injured gigantic creature, Bagorah was
sure to follow them as if they were the sound
of a dinner bell.
Meanwhile on Earth, Godzilla
seemed to fall to the might of the G-Force's
war machine Cybersaur. As the once great behemoth
lie inert, a new threat posed itself to man.
The first to learn of the creature's quick descent
to our world were several scientists in a nearby
observatory. Horrified at what they saw, they
immediately notified the air force. A strike team
was prepared to defend our planet from the bestial
invader, but as the creature fell into our atmosphere
and began to follow a hungry course toward his
prey, the jets unleashed against the incoming monster
were obliterated with ease. Bagorah quickly approached
Vancouver and the still smoldering site of the
great battle between monster and machine. Seeing
one potential prey lying on the ground, and one
still active, Bagorah chose the fresher meat. He
taunted Cybersaur, preparing to strike, when the
machine suddenly attacked! Bagorah, surprised by
the pain that the creature had so easily inflicted
on him, flew off to reconsider his actions while
shrieking in a high tone that shattered glass and
nearly deafened all who had the misfortune of hearing
it. Bagorah dove into the sea to cool his smoking
wounds.
Not to be denied a
sure feast, it wasn't long before Bagorah returned
to the scene of his encounter with the meal that
had dared to oppose him. Flying into battle, he
let out a high-pitched shriek to disorient his
foe, and was met in kind with a horrible sonic
attack from the creature. Bagorah wasn't prepared
for this, and flew erratically, crashing into the
nearby town. Now angrier and hungrier than ever,
Bagorah quickly gained his composure and charged
his enemy, ignoring an onslaught of painful missiles.
He rammed the robot, knocking it to the ground
and seemingly winning the conflict. Bagorah prepared
for the feast of his life, but was instead met
with cold, inedible metal. Disgusted by the tasteless
wreck, he turned toward the other corpse that lie
sprawling on the battlefield. He landed on the
monster's body, and could sense its warm flesh.
He prepared to bite into the monster and savor
every morsel, but the King of the Monsters does
not tolerate such insolence! He did not attain
his famous title for nothing. Godzilla, waking
from his coma, grabbed the space creature's scaly
beard and rose to his feet. Bagorah shrieked in
hatred—his belly was again
denied its primal demands! As the two mighty beasts struggled, a squadron of
jets flew overhead to distract Bagorah from his duel with the radioactive behemoth.
Bagorah, sensing an easier, if much lighter, meal, squirmed away from Godzilla
and pursued the jets. He quickly and easily caught up with one of them, and clamped
his mouth shut on the plane. Instead of the warm blood and flesh of a living
creature, he once more tasted the cold unforgiving flavor of metal. Bagorah,
frustrated and angered by his aching belly, landed in downtown Vancouver. He
roosted atop a building, and looked down amongst the people running and screaming
in terror. He could sense their body-heat, but with three previous failures to
satisfy his insatiable hunger fresh in his memory, it was apparent that he would
have to be careful and feed selectively.
Godzilla, however, was not a forgiving
monster, nor one who would ever let a challenge
go unfulfilled. The monster followed the scent
of his enemy to Vancouver, converging on the hapless
city. Bagorah noticed Godzilla's approach, and
the hope to fill his belly once more flooded his
mind. Bagorah quickly flew down from his perch
and knocked Godzilla over, biting into the flesh
of the leviathan's neck, drawing warm radioactive
blood with the promise of the greatest feast of
the alien creature's life... but Godzilla would
have none of it. He charged his ultimate weapon:
his radioactive beam, in order to decimate his
foolish foe. He found, however, that the drugs
used to sedate him earlier had not entirely lifted,
and his beam was still out of commission. Frustrated,
but not deterred, he instead took hold of a nearby
bus, and shoved it into Bagorah's open mouth. Bagorah
spat out the disgusting metal and rose into the
air to soften his prey from a safer distance. His
sonic attacks, much to his dismay, seemed to have
little effect on his saurian opponent. Bagorah
moved in to tear his foe apart with physical force
instead, ignoring the creature's glowing plates,
failing to realize that Godzilla's remarkable rejuvenation
had finally eradicated most of the drugs. Godzilla's
beam, his ultimate weapon, was a gift that was
finally returned to him. Bagorah, dumbfounded and
starving, was blasted into the bay. He smashed
into a bridge before Godzilla struck him with yet
another deadly heat ray, which sent the space demon
careening through the air. Bagorah attempted to
gain a sense of balance and fly away, but he instead
dropped like a rock, crashing into the cold waters
of the Northern Pacific. Bagorah's reign of terror
over the galaxy had come to a brutal, and abrupt,
end...
However,
even as Godzilla bellowed his victory, an event
no one could have expected suddenly took place.
A group of alien hunters, known as the Dianni,
had been tracking Bagorah for quite some time,
considering the monster the ultimate prey. When
they arrived at his last known location, Earth,
they discovered that Bagorah was injured by what
appeared to be an even greater quarry. The Dianni
turned their attention away from Bagorah and greatly
anticipated their hunt for this new beast, the
true ultimate prey and predator: Godzilla.