Thirty-seven percent of Kiryu, Godzilla's mechanized
mirror image, was wrecked in a battle with its
fleshy counterpart in May of 2003. With its arm
lost and its ultimate weapon, the absolute zero
cannon, out of commission, Kiryu's repairs lasted
the better part of a year. With the bane of continuing
budget constraints, the absolute zero cannon was
ultimately abandoned. In its place, a triple hyper
maser cannon was loaded, for something was at
least preferable to nothing, and time was of the
essence! This "Mechagodzilla" had to
be completed quickly, for the rumors of Godzilla's
return were increasing by the second...
Unfortunately, the final checks weren't completed
when the hour of Godzilla's arrival had come.
The monster was being drawn to the bones of the
original Godzilla, which were used as both the
skeletal and organic guide for the creation of
the massive machine. Despite the grave danger,
Prime Minister Hayato Igarashi didn't release
Kiryu just yet, for Mothra had arrived to battle
the gray gargantuan first. As the war progressed,
however, she began to lose her dominance in battle,
and the Prime Minister realized that Mothra required
urgent assistance. Kiryu was airlifted to the
battlefield, where the heroic automaton saved
Mothra from certain death just in time. Kiryu
launched a barrage of missiles and emitted its
hyper maser at its reptilian rival, when Godzilla
prepared to produce his thermonuclear ray. As
Kiryu dodged the onslaught by taking cover behind
a building, it again launched its missiles. They
converged on Godzilla, and the combined explosion
forced him to lose his balance and fall backward
into a building. In retaliation, the saurian savage's
thermonuclear ray burst through the building that
Kiryu was using as shelter. Eying the immobile
mech, Godzilla prepared to fire his breath once
more, but Mothra intervened and took the brunt
of the assault. Kiryu regained its balance and
fired its shoulder-mounted rocket launchers at
its feral foe. Though the mighty monster laid
waste to the first incoming rocket, the second
torpedo lodged into his chest and burst into flames.
Godzilla's pectoral wound, forged one year earlier,
was now rendered even more vulnerable. Kiryu proceeded
to trip Godzilla with its tail and toss him over
its head, but the angered animal managed to return
the favor by knocking his bionic brother off of
his feet and scorching the robot with his atomic
breath. Kiryu was down for the count, and it was
in desperate need of repair!
While Kiryu was out of commission, Mothra's offspring
appeared in the combat zone, prepared to take
the slack off of their ailing mother. Unfortunately,
Godzilla soon annihilated Mothra, and the twin
caterpillars were left alone to fight the vicious
behemoth. As the two tiny monsters continued to
wage war against their oppressor, the mechanic
Yoshito Chujo managed to repair Kiryu, at the
dire cost of his ability to escape. Kiryu reentered
the melee and began to grapple with Godzilla.
As the intensity of their brawl continued to escalate,
the mechanical giant and its organic counterpart
plummeted into the Diet Building. When they rose
once more, Kiryu's hand transformed into a drill,
and it sliced into Godzilla's chest wound. Kiryu
proceeded to corrode the wound further through
the use of its maser cannons, and Godzilla began
to look very ill; he had lost the will to fight!
The Mothra larvae wrapped Godzilla in a soft and
silky cocoon, and the once invulnerable tyrant
finally fell to the city streets, roaring in agony.
Godzilla's pitiful roars disturbed Kiryu's bones,
which harbored a strong spiritual connection with
the original Godzilla's soul. The saurian cyborg
went berserk and began to restrain its former
foe. It rocketed into the sky and over the sea,
for all control over the bionic beast was lost.
As Kiryu continued its journey, it oddly seemed
to assist Yoshito Chujo in his attempt to escape.
The living machine even bid his mechanic one final
farewell by displaying the following message on
one of its display terminals: "Sayonara Yoshito".
Yoshito escaped, and Kiryu sank deep into the
endless expanse of the ocean depths. It tightly
grasped Godzilla as it disappeared into the indigo
abyss of the Japan Trench. The souls of the dead
were finally put to rest.