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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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