Mechagodzilla

    "On August 4, 1974, shortly after several sightings of flying saucers around Mt. Fuji, Godzilla arose from beneath the volcano in a shower of flames and began to thunder towards Tokyo, tearing apart everything in his path.

    Godzilla’s rampage was a confusing phenomenon; the rampage itself was par for the course with the monster king, but there seemed to be no reason why he would be buried beneath Mt. Fuji – the last sighting of him had been in the Pacific Ocean as he left his battle with Gigan and Megalon the year before. More strangely still, he was emitting a strange, high-pitched hissing shriek instead of his signature roar, and his atomic ray had been replaced with what appeared to be a massive flamethrower. When he came across Anguirus, a massive brawl broke out, ending with Anguirus retreating underground with a broken jaw. However, Anguirus had inflicted a wound on Godzilla’s shoulder – a wound that did not bleed, but revealed something lustrous underneath.

    I had been summoned to Japan by the Diet to act as an advisor, but received a phone call one afternoon by a Dr. Miyajima. His nephew Keisuke had apparently been held up on the road by the battle, and had found a scrap of a silvery metal unlike anything he’d seen before. However, Miyajima had identified the metal as a form of experimental vacuum-hardened titanium, dubbed by several experts as “Space Titanium”.

    When Godzilla attacked an oil refinery late one night outside Tokyo, he was confronted with a second Godzilla – but this Godzilla had his old atomic ray and signature roar. After a brief conflict, the first Godzilla suddenly went up in a pillar of fire – which died away to reveal a massive mechanical doppelganger of Godzilla lurking within the rubber disguise.

    The newly-revealed “Mechagodzilla” battled Godzilla within the refinery, the military helpless before them. Mechagodzilla revealed itself to have rocket missiles in its fingers, knees, and toes, an electrothermal ray in its torso, and optical lasers that incinerated anything in their path. With its armored hide shrugging off anything Godzilla threw at it, Mechagodzilla seemed poised for victory, until its optic lasers met Godzilla’s atomic ray. The resulting heat spike caused a chain reaction in the oil refinery, and the resulting explosion sent the bleeding and injured Godzilla back into the sea, where, to everyone’s astonishment, he beat the first retreat in his life away from the mechanical monstrosity.

    To everyone’s surprise, Mechagodzilla also fled the battlefield, taking to the air with a pair of rocket thrusters in his feet. Neither monster was seen for almost a week, leaving all of Japan puzzled as to exactly who had created Mechagodzilla – and when it would come back.

    It wasn’t until August 15^th that the answer came. I arrived late in a UN helicopter to the scene of the battle outside an Okinawan shrine, where Mechagodzilla was fighting Godzilla and a third, lion-like monster. The third monster turned out to be the leonine King Caesar, a guardian beast of Okinawa who had allied himself with Godzilla to drive Mechagodzilla away. Yet, it was Godzilla himself who finally killed Mechagodzilla. It remains unknown as to exactly how Godzilla managed to magnetize his body, but it won the battle. Not only did the intense magnetism wreak havoc with Mechagodzilla’s internal controls, but it forced Mechagodzilla’s form onto Godzilla’s, and the monster king was too heavy for the robot’s thrusters to fly away with. The monster king, demonstrating his uncanny intelligence once again, twisted the mechanical brute’s head off his body with his bare hands, destroying the machine. Mechagodzilla exploded, and his remains fell into the ocean.

    Thanks to Dr. Miyajima, the world finally found out the origins of Mechagodzilla: he was the ultimate weapon of a dying alien race known as the Simeons, whose planet was being drawn into a black hole. They had abducted Miyajima to aid in Mechagodzilla’s repair after the battle in the oil refinery, since most of their best engineers were delayed in coming to Earth. They also held an Interpol agent named Nanbara hostage after he probed too deeply into their affairs, and attempted to kidnap Miyajima’s family to ensure his cooperation. By the time of the final battle, Nanbara had managed to get Miyajima’s family away from the aliens, but he and Miyajima himself were held hostage in the alien base. Shortly after Mechagodzilla’s defeat, Miyajima and Nanbara slew the alien general Kuronuma with a lucky shot and a unique pipe designed by the professor, and fled the collapsing base.

    Mechagodzilla reappeared the following year, this time under the control of a young woman named Katsura. Katsura, as per the wishes of her father Dr. Mafune, controlled both Mechagodzilla and the giant “Titanosaurus Mafunensis” in a campaign of terror on Tokyo. Katsura, as it turned out, was a cyborg whose life had been saved by the Simeons, and to pay them back, she was transformed into their control mechanism for both monsters. Mafune, maddened by the mainstream scientific community’s rejection of his theory on Titanosaurus’s existence and on mind-control waves, gave all his secrets to the Simeons in revenge. Fortunately, a UN investigative team concluded that the ancient reptile’s control mechanism was vulnerable to certain ultrasonic frequencies, allowing it to be jammed. In the final battle, Godzilla stood alone against Mechagodzilla and Titanosaurus, and though he was nearly beaten to death by both monsters. Katsura’s redemption and consecutive suicide turned the tide, destroying Mechagodzilla completely as she activated a self-destruct mechanism within her body, and set Titanosaurus free. Godzilla promptly blasted the dinosaur to death, killing the poor animal before it could flee the area.

    Mechagodzilla was never seen again, and the Simeon commander Mugal was incinerated in his ship by Godzilla’s atomic ray as he attempted to flee Earth.

    Yet, Mechagodzilla’s design would inspire a number of the UN’s anti-Godzilla countermeasures in the future…"

Reality check: this is the first Mechagodzilla, from the 1974 Toho film "Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla". I do not own the rights, Toho does, etc etc...