Godzilla Versus - Episode #1: The History of Monster Island

 

Monster Island, home of the earth's monster population, or "Megafauna" as they have been known to be called. Massive animals of varying shapes, sizes, intelligence, and abilities. All gathered together on a land mass that was at one time in the distant past submerged miles beneath the ocean — When it was known as the Mariana Trench.

Upon discovery of the Hollow Earth in 1973, expeditions were sent to the Mariana Trench to discern whether the nearly fifteen-hundred-mile-long expanse was connected to the discovery made by Monarch biologists Randa and Brooks following the Skull Island expedition or not. A small unmanned nuclear-powered submarine—the first of its kind—equipped with state-of-the-art sonar technology, was sent to the trench to try and uncover a link between the two. 

But instead, something found them.

The sub was attacked by an unknown entity, large enough to grab and hold the sub. The last readouts from the sub showed the interior temperature heating up rapidly, prompting those familiar with the case to theorize that whatever had hold of the sub actually bled its own body heat into its nuclear reactor, causing a catastrophic meltdown that resulted in a massive underwater explosion that caused a ripple effect across the sea floor, severing what was once assumed to be a deep gash into the planet itself to separate from the earth and, miraculously float upwards where it remains today as an island twice as long as the state of Texas.

Within the year following the island's emergence, monsters from all over the planet began to converge there almost as if beckoned by some unknown voice. This great migration came with much rejoicing from those that had no choice but to co-exist with a monster that had taken up residence nearby, as there would always be the risk of a territorial dispute and as anyone that has lived through a monster attack can tell you, entire cities can be flattened in minutes.

Text Transcript from MNN Breaking News Report; 9.8.1987:
News Reporter Austin Scott (AS):...zilla had arrived about four hours ago according to officials overseeing the ongoing studies on the surfaced Mariana Trench. We are here with you live from aboard the Japanese military's battleship, the S.S. Destroyah. We have our eyes and I am sure the eyes of those all around the world right now glued to their TV sets as we broadcast these amazing images of the world's youngest landmass seemingly being besieged by Megafauna!

*The camera zooms in over AS' shoulder to a Godzilla, standing almost silently despite his mass, on the beach in the distance. His normally bone-white dorsal fins glow a soft blue. He appears to pulse his light like a beacon.

AS: As you can see over my shoulder, Godzilla is here. He is on the still unnamed island that now floats above where the Mariana Trench used to sit miles below the surface. My sources tell me that Godzilla arrived here shortly after 4am local time after being tracked off the coast of San Francisco the day before. No one has been able to give me a clear indication as to what the lights on Godzilla's back mean. As I am sure you at home are well aware, his dorsal fins only ever glow when he was about to unleash his destructive atomic breath, but that has so far not been—

The screen shakes as the massive ship rocks back and forth. The cameraman falls over, sending the camera sliding across the ship's deck and almost going over the railing. There we see a swell of water, followed by hundreds of pale-yellow spikes breaking the surface

AS: It's Anguirus! Anguirus is here, I can't believe what I am seeing. I don't know if you can hear it at home people, but the two monsters are calling out to one another! Godzilla seems to be waving to Anguirus! His dorsal fins glowing brighter than before, even though the increasing morning daylight!

[Strange monster vocalizations between Godzilla and Anguirus can be heard, with a third unidentified squawk from the distance cutting in] 

AS: Another! Another monster has arri—No, three! Rodan is here from Montana, and he's carrying the two Mothra larvae on his back! This is incredible, people, I can't believe what I'm seeing! Never have so many monsters congregated like this in one place. 

The cameraman retrieves his equipment in time to record Rodan landing atop a platform further inland. The two larvae are seen gently skittering away, chattering with one another. 

Over the course of that week in September, most if not all of the monsters that had taken up residence in various locations around the world converged on the island, which the media and mankind alike, had taken to calling 'Monster Island' due to the communion. 
Baragon and Varan appeared a day later, leaving their North and South Carolina dwellings far behind. Gorosaurus was next, followed by Titanosaurus and a second Godzilla species that had for the longest time plagued the subways of New York and was the bane of the local fish market. 
Ebirah and Manda both arrived almost simultaneously, with Manda quickly holding up in one of the island's many deep caverns. Ebirah kept to the oceans surrounding the island, as did an unnamed sea serpent.

As time went on and more and more monsters showed, the island's surface began to change. Plants began to grow; exotic flowers and trees of all sorts. Strange animals began to appear as well, but from where no one was sure. Gigantic praying mantis and spiders, along with oversized condors and octopi. All observations had to be made from a distance as the monster's body language warned off any potential expeditions, much to the chagrin of scientists around the world.

Thirty years after the emergence of the aptly named 'Monster Island', the island has grown over and now from a distance, looks like any other island in the Pacific, with one minor difference: Its inhabitants are giants. Earth's population of monsters has since joined together to live in harmony, though why scientists still do not know