The tranquility of the bubbling clouds was
suddenly shaken when an unseen force began to
tunnel through the endless mass of vapor. Two
F-15s were dispatched to intercept the unidentified
flying object, but despite how hard the pilots
tried, they could not identify exactly what
was barreling through the sky. The two aircraft
began to fire on the object when it wouldn't
respond to their signals, but something strange
occurred. The pilots suddenly heard singing,
and in the chaos that followed, contact was
lost with both of the jets.
Thirteen days later, the unidentified object
landed near a cottage in Karuizawa. It brought
with it two tiny fairies called the Shobijin.
They were there to submit an ultimatum, and
they chose Shin'ichi Chujo to deliver the following
message to the rest of humankind: if the original
Godzilla's bones, which were built inside the
cyborg Kiryu, were not returned to the sea,
the monster Mothra would declare war on civilization.
If, however, the bones were returned to the
sea and Godzilla still attacked, Mothra would
protect the people. Outside the cottage, Shin'ichi
witnessed the flight of the once unidentifiable
object that had carried the fairies. The UFO
was Mothra, the same creature that had attacked
Tokyo 43 years earlier.
Shin'ichi Chujo traveled to Tokyo, where he
warned Prime Minister Hayato Igarashi that the
Kiryu project had to be abandoned. The Prime
Minister, skeptical of Chujo's story and fearful
of Godzilla's ever-present threat to the nation,
believed that such a move would be suicide.
Unfortunately, Godzilla was already beginning
to make his presence known again. He killed
a monstrous sea turtle named Kamoebas and destroyed
a US nuclear submarine off the coast of Guam.
The burly behemoth suddenly emerged at sea,
and battle cruisers began to fire on the monstrosity
as he continued along his predetermined path
to Tokyo! The bustling metropolis was evacuated,
and Godzilla began to push his way into the
heart of the city. He was heading straight for
the bones of his predecessor, locked within
the mechanical dragon Kiryu!
Meanwhile, Shin'ichi's grandson, Shun Chujo,
had rushed to his now abandoned school. Using
an amulet that the Shobijin had left behind
as a guide, he arranged a group of desks in
the courtyard in a way that resembled a symbol
significant to Mothra. When Shin'ichi finally
found his grandson at the school, the young
boy was just finishing his rendition of the
symbol. A shadow darkened the courtyard momentarily,
and in the sky, Mothra swam through the air
like a majestic bird. She flew around Tokyo
and her silhouette cast against the beautiful
sunset. The guardian moth scraped Godzilla with
her wing, and she began to create hurricane
winds. Amidst the confusion of the swirling
dust, Mothra grabbed Godzilla and built momentum
as she dragged the nuclear menace through the
city. She released her grip, and Godzilla was
sent crashing into the ground. When Godzilla
arose, Mothra again latched onto his head, but
her ferocious foe chewed off one her legs with
his razor-sharp teeth. The desperate moth began
to release the scales from her wings, and she
reflected Godzilla's thermonuclear ray back
to its source. Unfortunately, Mothra's loss
of scales would eventually cause the deterioration
of her wings, and ultimately she would not be
able to sustain lift. Godzilla again fired his
breath as Mothra dodged, and the highly destructive
beam left Tokyo Tower in ruins. Another thermonuclear
ray suddenly damaged Mothra's right wing, and
she fell to the ground, struggling to regain
lift. As Godzilla approached the helpless creature
to finish her off, Kiryu suddenly arrived. The
massive monster and his cybernetic clone fought
savagely, but after a long exchange of attacks,
Kiryu found itself lying relatively helpless
on the ground. When the machine was about to
endure the force of Godzilla's ray, Mothra used
some of her last ounces of strength to intercept
the beam. With her left wing now injured, it
appeared as though she could no longer regain
lift. As she fell to the streets yet again,
Kiryu managed to regain its composure and reenter
the fray.
Finally, cavalry arrived in the form of Mothra's
offspring. The larvae had very recently hatched
from a mammoth egg, which Mothra had laid in
the Bonin Islands weeks earlier. While one larva
distracted Godzilla with its silk spray, the
other began to communicate with Mothra. The
larva that had faced Godzilla was grazed by
the monster's breath, and its sibling rushed
to assist. Both creatures returned to further
communicate with their mother. Godzilla, however,
was charging a nuclear ray in order to destroy
Mothra and her offspring. The selfless, heroic
guardian rose into the air and endured the full
fury of the beam. Mothra erupted in flames and
burst into a massive explosion. The now crimson
eyes of the Mothra larvae were glowing with
hatred for their enemy, for they craved retribution
for this injustice...
