Floating along the outer reaches of Earth's
atmosphere, a celestial space cell bathed in the
nourishing energy of several small pockets of
radiation. Its existence had gone unnoticed for
some time; that is until the gaseous nebula creature
destroyed a television satellite. The explosive
force mutated the alien and forced it down to
Earth. While on the planet, the newly created
monster Dogora found a new source of food. Over
the next few days, mysterious heists of diamonds
and jewels were turned up by the Tokyo police
department. Each instance proved to be more perplexing
than the last. One of the events had a two foot
thick, stainless steel safe door melted through
like wax. In another incident, a witness reported
an armored car floating in the air, before it
was dropped and smashed. It wasn't until detective
Komai meet with Professor Munakata did the young
man, and the world, find out what they were up
against. Smashing through one of the scientists'
home windows, a Dogora space cell attached itself
to a safe door. The metal was burned through with
little effort, and the creatures fed on the synthetic
diamonds that the professor had created.
After another incident, involving the destruction
and theft of a few hundred tons of coal at a factory,
Munakata makes a startling conclusion about all
the past events. All the robberies involved diamonds
and coal, both of which have a very strong carbon
based structure. Together the professor and the
detective inform the military, who then stage
defense grids around the nearby coal plants. Two
days pass before the air sirens blare through
the cavern of the sky. Unfortunately, as the AA
guns geared up for war, it was discovered through
directional microphones that the intruder was
a huge swarm of bees. As the horde of insects
dove into the surrounding clouds, dozens of car
sized boulders plummeted earthward. The hail of
brightly colored rocks fell from the clouds and
smashed nearby homes and businesses.
Night arrived soon, as Professor Munakata continued
to study the peculiar crystallized rocks that
fell from the sky earlier. Yet, his research was
cut short; for once again the air sirens screamed
their warning. Humanity ran for cover while the
jellyfish like horror drifted down from the heavens.
The surrounding AA guns and defense line opened
fire upon the intruder, but the weapons had little
effect. Dogora continued unopposed against the
city, as it sucked up the mounds of coal. It wasn't
until after the space squid leveled a fairly large
bridge did the military finally stop the demon.
Launching a few waves of Surface-to-Air Missiles
against Dogora, the monster was blown to bits.
Unfortunately for mankind, the pieces each were
able to live as individual cells. Each sparkling
orb contained the potential to mature to another
immense tentacle beast.
More days passed before the glowing nimbus of
shimmering children attacked once more to feed.
Consuming the piles of carbon rich coal, the floating
creatures had no idea of what was about to befall
them. The Japanese military had already staged
one final standoff with the alien life forms.
Learning from the professor, through his studies
of the crystallized rocks that had demolished
parts of the city before, bee and wasp venom was
utterly deadly to the Dogora entity. The rocks
were merely deceased space cells. Taking this
information, the armed forces dropped aerial canisters
of liquid venom from helicopters. Also, they equipped
mobile towers with exhaust containers of the same
yellow gas. Together the combined tactics overpowered
the Dogora cells, turning them all into crystallized
rocks and ending their reign of destruction.