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Janjira, Japan, Earth-17, 2014...
Doctor Joseph Ryan Moriarty sighed as he entered the nuclear power plant. He'd been doing this same routine for nearly a month. He entered an elevator and headed down to the lower levels. After putting on the protection suits, he and five others began the long walk down the halls of the plant.
"Takeo, begin the testing," Ryan said.
Just then, there was a rumble, followed by an explosion. A pipe hit Ryan on the back of the head and past out. The last thing he remembered was his skin burned from the radiation and hearing a strange animal roar.
Las Vages, Nevada, Earth-17, 2014...
Walter Scott David was playing golf with his friends Dan Mason and Frank Lowe. He loved it when he had day-offs.
"So, your promotion coming up," said Lowe. "You excited?"
"You know it," David replied.
Suddenly, there was thunder and rain began to fall.
"Oh crap," Mason exclaimed.
"Damn it," David shouted. He raised his golf club to the air in anger and was hit by a bolt of lightning.
Seattle, Washington, Earth-54, 2029...
Ryan felt a hand pull his head out of the red liquid. Confused and afraid, he wasn't in the nuclear facility in Janjira, but strange laboratory in a warehouse. He was then strapped to a stretcher and his mouth gagged with a piece of cloth.
"Mr. Moriarty, please," said a man in a white medical coat. "It would be less painful if you cooperate with us."
Ryan said in a muffled voice something.
"What?" the man asked, pull the piece of cloth out of Ryan's mouth.
"Thank you," Ryan said frantically. "Who are you?"
"You don't remember? Hmm, shame, I felt we connected there for a minute," the man said.
"Oh, we'll see about that, short-stacks," Ryan said.
"We will indeed."
"Hey, come on, you're going to leave me alone with Black Widow over here," Ryan said.
Then, the woman in black hit him in the head and left him unconscious.
***
David woke up and found it hard to breath. He check his surroundings and found himself in a glass container. He was strapped in place and unable to move. He tried to break free, but was unable to.
He then smelled the air and thought it smelled different. An explosion erupted from within the container and tossed David across the room. He got up and charged a nearby man with a rifle. He felt a strange sting in his back and noticed rows of spikes on his back like an armadillo dinosaur.
"What is this?"
"Your curse," said a man in a white medical coat.
"Dan Mason?" David acclaimed.
"Have you two meet before?" the guard asked.
"Frank Lowe?"
"I guess he knows you both," said a shirtless man in dark grey pants.
"Who are you?"
"Dr. Ryan Moriarty. You?"
"Scott David. Why?"
"Get down!" Ryan ordered.
David ducked and watched as the two men who were his friends disintegrate in front of him by a blue-white beam that shot from Ryan's mouth. The beam hit a power box and made another explosion.
***
David popped out of the ruins of the warehouse and was surprised that he was still alive. He then saw a beating heart on the ground and noticed it was not attached to anybody nearby.
"Okay, this is weird," David said to himself.
He saw flames in the distance and something that appeared to be a hundred meters tall. It looked like a dinosaur. He heard it roar and somehow he understood what it... said?
"I am fire. I am vengeance. I am death. I am destruction."
"Godzilla," David said. "The King of the Monsters is back." How do I know it's name?