GODZILLA VS. THE THING

 
The hurricane traveled north, its winds whipping the ocean into a blinding salt spray. As it approached Japan, its winds increased in speed until one could barely see. Awnings were flying through the air as though they were sparrows; other structures hurtled past as though they were toys tossed around by an angry three year old. 
The next day, the sky had changed dramatically. No sign of malevolent turbulence now; only a peaceful, calm sky and a bright shining sun shining its light on the flooded wreckage....

Japan had experienced the writhing fury of Hurricane A. The flooding required pumps to evacuate the water back into the sea. The hurricane also washed a giant egg into the sea. When the Japanese fishermen saw it, there it was, floating on the water. The men towed the egg back to shore and sold it to an enterpreneur by the name of Kumayama.

Kumayama was a greedy sort who was backed by an even more avaricious fellow named Jiro Torahata. The two were planning to exhibit the egg and make a spectacle of it when they have two unexpected guests. The two six-inch guardians of the egg came to reason with the men, but instead ended up running for their lives when the men attempted to capture them. So the twin girls next befriend a reporter named Sakai, a photographer named Yunka, and professor Miura.
After being rebuffed by the men, the three reveal the twin girls, only to have Kumayama offer to buy the girls. Disgusted, they leave. The twin girls, discouraged by their thwarted efforts to get their egg back, return to Infant Island. Unfortunately, about three days or so later, Yunka is attempting to take a picture of the landscape when she notices it moving. Then Godzilla pops up out of the ground and begins his onslaught of Tokyo. All efforts to destroy Godzilla fail as usual.

In a last ditch effort Sakai, Yunka, and the prof fly to Infant Island to ask Mothra (a.k.a. the Thing) for her help. They land on Infant Island and find it a bare, dead, sterile land as a result of nuclear tests. The natives, angry about the destruction of their gorgeous island home and even angrier at the refusal to return their egg, refuse to consider Sakai and Yunka's plea for the Thing's assistance against Godzilla. 
The twin girls reluctantly agreed to help, stating that Mothra was dying and that if she fought Godzilla she would not have the strength to return to the island. However with the hatching of the egg, Mothra would again be born. 

Back in Japan, Godzilla is having a good old time smashing everything up. Mothra arrives to protect her egg, now encased in a giant incubator, from Godzilla's Mothra omelette appetite. Godzilla is knocked for a loop, for in spite of her weakened condition Mothra is still a formidable foe; however, before too long Mothra sinks to the ground and dies. 
Godzilla shakes himself off and goes to destroy another city. The military attempts to electrocute him, but to no avail. The twin girls begin to worship the egg, imploring it to hatch in order to contain Godzilla. Eventually the egg hatches revealing two Mothra caterpillars inside! Godzilla goes to an island to eat some schoolchildren, and the larvae waste no time in following after him. Eventually, the larvae are able to spin a cocoon around Godzilla rendering him helpless and the dinosaur is dumped into the sea. The twin larvae (one caterpillar for each tiny twin girl! Who is the pet here?) and their guardians return to Infant Island.

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