Rodan X Gappa
By: Henry Vanetta

Large bursts of water engulfed the underwater atmosphere of the Pacific Ocean. An awakened soul rose from the depths angrily and let off a wail of pain as molten bubbles scalped the tissue of Godzilla. Promptly swimming to the seashore of Monster Island, Godzilla awoke all the other creatures by letting off a series of cries almost in the form of a human language. First arriving to the beach was the winged and speedy entity Rodan, followed by Varan, Manda, Angilas, Baragon, Gorosaurus, and the two insects Kamakiras and Kumonga. Not only magnetic radiation rose into the sky from the fiery-glowing waters but also a long forgotten and thought to be peaceful monster: Gappa! Immediately after its appearance, the triphibian monster spat blue rays of radioactive energy directly into the mighty Godzilla’s face and blasted him down causing a shockwave of sand into the other monster’s eyes, the being promptly disappeared. However, Rodan regained vision from the sand blaze and noticed a trial of steam from the heat Gappa produced, (it led to Tokyo) which led the intelligent Rodan to follow, leaving the other baffled monsters into the chaos.

Meanwhile in Tokyo, early awakeners of the now calm city of Japan were admiring a beautiful sunrise. This peaceful admiration did not last; a shadowy figure covered the quiet city streets. The watchers first thought it was some kind of a military weapon attacking, until it landing on a large building and two organic eyes glowed. The building collapsed by the beast’s monstrous weight and terrified screams resonated the entire city. The screams were overcome when a blaze of radiation was launched into a tower, demolishing it and the remaining pieces flew into a bridge, crumbling it down. Rodan finally arrived and he promptly dive bombed under Gappa’s legs, causing it to flip on impact and landed onto a skyscraper. Still furious, Rodan began flapping its wing causing hurricane winds. The powerful winds swept cars, buses, trains, and even a small store into Gappa’s fainted body. Landing onto the ash covered land, Rodan slowly walked toward the motionless body of Gappa to test if it had been finished off. Inexplicably, Gappa lifted its massive body up and impaled Rodan with its beak into Rodan’s thorny chest. Crying in pain, Rodan crashed to the ground. Gappa’s mouth came heated and it released a beam of atomic energy not at Rodan, but at a gigantic skyscraper behind the struggling monster. The intelligent Rodan knew the building would crash on him so it rolled to the side onto a drug store that came to ruins. Rodan gained strength and hovered to the sky, and gave a taste of Gappa’s own medicine; blasting a set of fireballs into a huge building behind Gappa. Rodan figured Gappa would dodge the crumbling building unless he could not move. Rodan trapped Gappa between the building and the force of Rodan’s hurricane winds. Doing this, the trap successfully worked and the 800,000-ton building came down onto the frantic Gappa. The triphibian monster’s eyes became blank and lifeless before the rubble of the building covered the dead body. Rodan gracefully traveled back home to Monster Island where his eager friends waited for its arrival alive.

Scientists later learned that the Gappa was the baby from the 1967 attack. The baby was vengeful and returned to Tokyo to have its revenge for being kidnapped by humans when it was little.