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June 16th, 1994, an expedition was held to the remote Adonoa Island. Located in the Bering Sea in Russian territory, the island was near an underwater oil field. There researchers came across fossilized pteranodon bones along with a nest. Astonishingly, while one egg was broken open the other was still intact. As night fell, they brought the remaining egg back to their camp. The plan was to study it before taking it to Japan with them. They noticed the egg, which had laid dormant since the Mesozoic era, was covered in some sort of a vegetation.
Meanwhile, a giant predator flew through the night's sky. The inhabitant of the first egg was a young pteranodon, which had mutated. Due to exposure from nearby radioactive waste, it unnaturally grew into the enormous creature called Rodan. As the gigantic pterosaur landed nearby, the remaining egg began to glow. Unknown to those nearby, the egg was emitting a cry for help, a cry that Rodan had received.
With a mighty shriek, Rodan took to the air, battering the landscape with powerful winds. The explorers began to flee, trying to escape with their lives, but the colossal reptile loomed overhead. Rodan became distracted, though, as suddenly flashing lights manifested from under the waters. The winged beast rested on a nearby mountain, watching the phenomenon off the coast.
 The cold waters of the Bering Sea flashed and boiled, as from the depths came a stream of nuclear energy. Rodan took to the air as the rocky perch he stood upon was blasted apart. Godzilla emerged from the waters, roaring to announce his presence. The gigantic pteranodon flew past his foe, disrupting the waves with the shockwaves of his flight. Godzilla fired upon the flying beast, but most of his shots missed. The few blasts that connected failed to do much against the resilient bone structure that made up the top of Rodan's wings.
The mutated pterosaur flew back toward land, Godzilla in pursuit and making landfall. The nuclear beast roamed away from the shore, soon coming to a clearing as he searched for his foe. Rodan surprised him, crashing into the leviathan from behind and madly pecking at Godzilla's face. He thrashed and tried to claw at the flying reptile, but the mammoth pteranodon was already flying away, resisting the atomic ray that exploded against him. Another flyby, this time slashing Godzilla's body with his wing, sent the leviathan crashing to the rocky ground beneath. As the nuclear saurian struggled to get back up, Rodan bashed into his chest, trying to peck out an eye on his downed foe. Godzilla avoided the strikes and wrapped his mighty hands around the pteranodon's throat. As he began to strangle the mutated pterosaur, blood soon began to pour from Rodan's mouth.
Managing to wrench free, the pteranodon quickly took flight. Godzilla reared up in response and sent the pteranodon crashing to the stone ground with an atomic blast. The King of the Monsters finally got back to his feet, trying to resume his search for the egg he had sensed here. Rodan took advantage of the situation and bashed his spiked chest into Godzilla's skull, sending the colossus falling into a nearby hill. An avalanche buried the saurian, leaving only his tail exposed.
The flying reptile drew near to check and see if he had won, only for the tail to rise up and bash him to the earth. The nuclear leviathan then emerged from his rocky prison and advanced on the fallen Rodan. Raising his foot, Godzilla began to stomp on the mutated pteranodon's wing. The assault stopped, though, as Godzilla's attention shifted to a nearby helicopter, which was escaping with the egg. As the winged monster roared, Godzilla refocused. Using his atomic ray to blast Rodan's weary body away, the pteranodon was sent crashing into a nearby rock mass. Beaten and having received heavy damage, Rodan's heart beat began to slow as the winged creature went into a state of suspended animation. Leaving the pteranodon, Godzilla returned to the waves, seeking the egg that had been taken away from the island during the conflict.
Sometime later, Rodan would be awakened from his suspended animation by a distant harmony. The vegetation found on Adonoa Island had turned out to be the ancient lotus japonicas plant. Studying it, the psychic children from the ESP Research Institute had created a melody. Singing in chorus, the wavelengths reached Rodan thousands of miles away. While gestating in its egg, the creature seemed to have developed a special bond with the plant. The children, unknowingly, had amplified the effect, stimulating the ancient pterosaur. Taking to the sky, brown scales became bright red as Rodan metamorphosed into Fire Rodan.
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