"We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another..."

-Robert Oppenheimer on the Trinity Nuclear Test

The day we split the atom was a day that was supposed to be looked upon as a day to remember in celebration. A day we stepped forward in progression as the human race. A whole new world of possibility was before us. It helped put an end to the bloodiest war we've ever seen, or likely ever will see. Instead, what began to appear on our doorstep, was the beginning of the end it seemed. Growing up, you're taught there's no such thing as monsters. There is no boogie-man, no monster under the bed, and perhaps they're right. There are no monsters in this world...none like that anyway. The monsters the world now knows, are called Kaiju, from the Japanese word meaning giant monster. Simple enough. In the army, there's a bit more of a technical term for them, but we don't toss it around too much. MUTO. Or Massive Unknown Terrestrial Organism. Whatever you call them, they are a problem.

My name is Price. Major John Price, leader of division 447 in our war with the Kaiju. I don't do much of the fancy piloting the Jaeger pilots do. I mostly coordinate city defenses, getting ready for the next big thing. Though I'm part of the Kiryu division. The Jaeger fighters may be a marvel on their own, but Kiryu will always be a deity of respect to them. If you're reading this, you likely know everything that has happened. This is for the record. This will be a log of our time of need, when we face the destroyer, the guardian, or the threat from beyond.

It started in 1954, near Alamogordo, New Mexico. The grounds of the first atomic bomb test. We got the first sign of things to come. Radioactive fallout resulted in a monstrous mutation in local wildlife. Particularly amongst ground insects. Ants. It sounds crazy, but you don't laugh when you're surrounded by hundreds of insects the size of cars, acting on animal instinct to defend their territory. When we found out that a total of three of these colonies were established, colonies of vehicle sized ants, it was a race against time to kill off every last mutation. It wasn't easy. The first colony was gassed. The job was relatively simple. However when scientists were sent into the colony itself to ensure every mutation was destroyed, they only discovered that a pair of "princess ants", soon to be "queen ants" had escaped and formed new colonies. One stowed away on a cargo ship, and laid a small amount of eggs which hatched, and overwhelmed the crew. The ship was sunk by the Navy, to destroy the colony. The second queen made its nest in the sewers of Los Angeles. The city was forced under a period of martial law as the army exterminated the last colony, engaging it in open combat, and destroying new queen ants before they could spread any further. The mission was a success, but we'd only scraped the iceberg.

We put ourselves on a watchful eye, but nothing could have predicted the monster that came out of the Pacific. Whether it was related to the creatures fought earlier that year or not was not thought about. Our nuclear testing in the Pacific Ocean awakened a creature of untold strength. A creature impenetrable to the machines of war, that bathed in fire, and laid waste to everything in its path. It has a name, and quite a reputation to us, but back then, the Japanese deemed it the name, "Gojira" or, Gorilla-whale. I don't see a resemblance. It wouldn't be long before we would start calling this MUTO Kaiju "Godzilla". This monster would forever change the way we fought others like him in open combat. We threw everything we had against this monster. Bullets, missiles, electricity, bombs, tanks, artillery, we damn near almost had to consult Japan for the use of atomic weapons again. If not for a scientist, Dr. Daisuke Serizawa, this monster would have likely destroyed more than it did, and it wasn't easy convincing him to let us use a weapon this scientist had built against this Kaiju.

By the time he had agreed for a one-time use of his weapon against Godzilla, Tokyo had been reduced to rubble. Tens of thousands were dead or dying. I can only imagine the suffering so many went through when I looked through those pictures. You grow up thanking the Lord you weren't part of the big wars, or the early MUTO Kaiju attacks for a while. Godzilla was killed off during the use of Serizawa's weapon against the monster, known only as the oxygen-destroyer. I can barely imagine how the thing worked. Regardless, Godzilla was destroyed. Not without a cost. Serizawa took his own life after detonating the device, his research and notes on his ultimate weapon, lost, his work, destroyed. After the destruction of Tokyo and killing of Godzilla, we all thought we could sleep well. In the years that followed, there was silence. Little to no activity at all. After the Godzilla incident, scientist Kyohei Yamane began a campaign against the continued testing of nuclear weapons. Perhaps we should have listened. But with the Cold War brewing, and getting tense, the only thing on the minds of nations like the United States or the Soviet Union, was how strong they could get, how big they could build their bombs, how much land they could blow off the face of the planet.

The MUTO Kajiu felt these tests. We would soon discover MUTO Kaiju much like Godzilla who had dwelled amongst us for some time. And though incidents involving these MUTO Kaiju were reported, the rest of the world would be kept from the truth of their existence. They barely made a blip on the radar. Mothra, Rodan, Anguirus, they remained for the most part, away from most human settlements. In fact, it wasn't until 1965 when we were introduced to another MUTO Kaiju that presented a rather significant threat. A giant prehistoric turtle, known as Gamera. Ironically, it woke up after a rogue atomic bomb detonated in Alaska, after hostile Soviet bombers were shot down in an incident now known as the Norton Detonation. Gamera, like Godzilla attacked Tokyo, however unlike Godzilla, Gamera gave a certain characteristic Godzilla didn't have. Godzilla upon attacking Tokyo, razed it and left nothing alive in his path. Gamera caused great damage, but there are mixed reports of him saving human lives. I cannot say these reports are confirmed, but from what I've seen, I'm open to the idea. We couldn't kill Gamera, but we did drive it off, into the Pacific Ocean where he'd enter hibernation. We kept an eye on him. Made sure he'd not look to attack any mainland.

For twenty years, the Cold War continued, and there was no more signs of Kaiju activity. That's when the unthinkable happened...

Thirty-one years after his initial rampage across Tokyo, Godzilla resurrected. I was just settling in the army at the time too. How he did resurrect, or why, we don't know. It took everyone by surprise. The echoes of the first attack were heard, and we had no weapon to fight him. In the years we had spent fighting Kaiju, developing better weapons for combat against them, nothing worked against Godzilla, just as nothing worked thirty years prior. With Serizawa dead, there was no hope of a super weapon to come and kill this Godzilla off. Another attack on Tokyo, and though casualties were limited, the damage was done. It was at this time that people began to look to Godzilla as more than a Kaiju. Whether he is more, I cannot say. But I cannot deny that when you look into his eyes, you cannot say you don't feel fear. There is a presence among Godzilla that will send shivers down your spine. A presence of domination. Helplessness. While we couldn't kill him, we did manage to trap him, using old methods we attempted on Gamera. Trapped him in an iceberg, which wasn't easy to do. It took a lot to lure him out of Tokyo, to the north. Out on a field of ice, we got him. We attacked a field of ice, using a unique combination of missiles, and explosives carrying liquid nitrogen. We managed to trap him in the sea, and quick freeze him. We've monitored his hibernation before the start of the war. Though after his revival, we'd see another familiar face arrive.

Gamera.

The 1990s began a strange wave in MUTO Kaiju activity. As if something was stirring them up. Up until then, we'd only documented the existence of five living Kaiju specimens. In 1995, several hundred MUTO Kaiju named Gyaos Birds attacked humanity. It was soon afterward that Gamera awakened and...fought them off. I was part of the detachments sent from America to aid in the fight against the smaller Gyaos creatures. Watching Gamera in action was a sight to behold. It was also the first time I felt safe when looking at one of those beasts. I can't say I ever felt that amongst any MUTO. Unlike Godzilla, Gamera had a presence of protection, and that wasn't because he was a giant turtle. He has a presence amongst him that would be seen in the years to come. The next year, the Legion Invasion happened. Again, Gamera came to fight. Only this time, he brought a friend. The Kaiju we had code-named Mothra. It was the first time we had seen Kaiju forming an alliance amongst a common foe. Gamera again would fight Gyaos birds and another MUTO Kaiju code-named Iris, before he once again retreated to the ocean, where we'd continue to monitor him as he slept. In the decade he fought for us, he was nicknamed by Japanese forces as the Guardian of the Rising Sun, as each battle was fought on Japanese soil.

Makes me wish he was awake for when New York found itself under attack. At first, we all thought it was Godzilla. So much for that. The creature was actually rather easy to take down. DNA samples proved the creature to be of different origin, though the creature did hold radioactive mutation evidence. These origins would be traced back to Nuclear Testing in French Polynesia. Scientist, and founder of the organization known as the Humanitarian Environmental Analysis Team, or H.E.A.T., Dr. Niko Tatopoulos would help put a stop to a near outbreak of infant MUTO Kaiju of this creature. He and his team, after the creatures were killed would end up tracking down other radioactive mutants or possible MUTO Kaiju. They have detailed reports on Gamera and Mothra. We would give the creature that attacked New York the code-name, Gigantis. He was responsible for the first MUTO Kaiju attack on American soil. He would also help birth the project I am currently with.

The Kiryu Project. In the 1990s when the incidents with Gamera were documented, the plans for our own defense against MUTO Kaiju. Infantry wasn't ever good enough, and with Godzilla's rebirth, it was only a matter of time before we would need a better means of defense. We couldn't gamble on Gamera or Mothra coming to our aid again. So, the United Nations began the Kiryu Project, which saw the construction of what some call the first Jaeger, in Kyoto during the year 2005. The thing is a beauty, shining like a silver dollar, packed with the finest weapons for her time, and is still an effective means of defense against a MUTO attack. Armored with the strongest of earth metals, and reinforced believe it or not, by the bones of the first Godzilla, she stood tall, took down several Gyaos Kaiju, she even stood her ground against Mothra at one point, though no battle, ensued. She was our ultimate weapon of defense against a steadily increasing army of Kaiju.

Though this was still before the war.

The first signs of war despite what you may think, came in 2009. We lost communication with an orbiting satellite in late April. We lost contact with it when it fell into the Atlantic Ocean just outside New York. We never found the satellite, but we did manage to capture a brief sound wave of something...foreign from the satellite just before losing communication with it. A month later, the Cloverfield incident occurred. That could be the first indicator of war. May 22, 2009, New York City, a MUTO Kaiju emerged from the Atlantic Ocean, and ran amok. The Kiryu Project was not yet complete, and all we could do was throw everything we had at it. It was different than other MUTO Kaiju we had faced before. One of the most chilling features were the parasites. Smaller dog-like creatures fell from the creature and attacked our military forces. One bite from them had lethal effects. We finally brought the creature down the next morning, but at a tremendous cost. The Hammerdown Protocol. On a controversial call, the size of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki themselves, the government issued an order as a last resort attack against the MUTO Kaiju to level the entire borough of Manhattan. Everything. Throughout the night, evacuations took place to prepare the city for the action. I wish we could say we got everyone out. To date, 800,000 remain missing, and are presumed dead. No one can say we didn't try to save more, but in a city of almost two million people, a complete evacuation overnight is near impossible. The Hammerdown Protocol was successful in killing the creature, now code-named "Clover", but the outcry behind Manhattan's destruction would cause civil unrest and panic for months to come.

"Clover" was different to the point that we recovered the carcass for study. To date, we still are unsure of where it came from, or it's origin. The flesh was old by our standard, but close inspection gave us the idea that this was a newborn. Everything about it, it's careless rampage, it's apparent spook or fear as we fought, even the parasites it dropped pointed in the direction of it being relatively young. We would mount search efforts in the Atlantic for a possible parent. Like the downed satellite, we never found it.

After the Cloverfield Incident, there was a period of silence. Little to no MUTO activity. We finished the construction of Kiryu, and tested her weaponry in 2011. She was a sight to watch. She fought off a few minor Gyaos Bird attacks, and though we were ready for a possible Godzilla attack, or even Gamera, attacks like that never came...

Until 2013.

That was when the Breach opened. The Breach. An indestructible passage which pops up anywhere, anytime, any place. We got the signs something was wrong when we discovered strange signals, emanating from the Pacific Ocean. Hours afterward, a MUTO Kaiju unlike anything we've ever seen attacked San Fransisco. Kiryu was immediately called upon, but around the same time we received the signals, her power station found itself malfunctioning. For unknown reasons, Kiryu, our main weapon, was useless in a dire time of need. It was useless for about a week. When it finally started up and we went to fight the Kaiju, tens of thousands of lives were lost and three cities were destroyed. Kiryu however, was a huge success. In her first real fight against a MUTO Kaiju, she easily defeated the monster in a matter of minutes.

But what we didn't realize, was that this was only a test.

Six months later, not even a year after it's attack, another similar MUTO Kaiju attacked. The damage Kiryu had suffered at the hands of her first opponent had kept her in Japan. She wasn't ready at the time of the attack. The decision to send her into the fight, was hard, but we were left with little choice. She was lucky to remain standing after her second fight. And then a few months later, a third attack.

This was when we realized that this wasn't going to stop. The repairs to Kiryu kept her from seeing consistent combat. And the MUTO attacks were only getting faster. We had not seen such activity amongst MUTO Kaiju before. Not like this. Gyaos bird on rare occasions are one thing. Giant walking beasts, as strong as tanks that are hard to take down by gunfire every couple of months are an entirely different matter.

It was a complete state of anarchy in the world. Everywhere, people rioted, turned to whatever god they worshiped for deliverance. I don't blame them. I could feel the apocalypse breathing down our back. Down mine. It isn't easy to watch the town you grew up in trampled and destroyed in just a matter of minutes. All you can do as a soldier is watch. Watch as every missile and artillery she'll is shot at whatever devil spawn is doing the trashing, and just continue walking. It was a hard time.

That was when the world put aside everything. Differences, old rivalries, and pooled their resources for the greater good of man. This was the birthing of the Jaeger Program. Similar to the Kiryu Project, to combat any Kaiju threat, the world began the construction of giant robot monsters called Jaegers. They deemed Kiryu too much of a hinder, and outnumbered for the job. I spit on such opinions. Jaegers are far from perfect. While Kiryu is more complex in operation, Jaegers rely on mental control from a pilot. Or at least that's what we wanted. But the controlling of a Jaeger put too much mental stress on one single human mind, and so they came up with something called the Mental Drift. They basically combine the minds of two humans in synchronization, to control their Jaeger. It's hard for a simple soldier like me to understand. All I know is that it works. And it's effective. I will say, a team of six for Kiryu pushing button after button to operate her is likely more problematic rather than simply taking a stroll.

We also came up with a system to categorize every MUTO Kaiju we would come in contact with. Categorize them by size, power, strength, abilities, anything. In the first years, we fought the weaker Kaiju. Nothing stronger than a category two. But as the years went by, that two would become a three...in recent times, that three has grown to a four. It's only a matter of time before that number goes higher.

The Kiryu Project even got an upgrade. It would be the first step in forming what is commonly known as the Earth Defense Force. Jaegers may do a lot of fighting, but when it comes to mobile infantry, The EDF is the best. They have the best troops, best equipment, best weapons, everything about them is the best. There isn't a day they rest. They're always looking for new ways to combat MUTO Kaiju, finding new strategy, new techniques, they've even gone to the more supernatural realm, and began the studies of the human mind, and what it can be capable of. I guess the reports of psychic bonds in the past were true. Some children, particularly during the nineties claimed to have had a psychic bond with certain Kaiju. Mainly Gamera. The reports seemed flawed, but as the years went by, the reports kept coming in with more results.

The Jaegers on the other hand focused primarily on fighting the MUTO Kaiju threats themselves, and proved to be an effective means of defense, and the people celebrated their victories like the end of the world was never coming. And that was the Jaeger's biggest flaw. I never liked the pilots. They got sucked into their fame and glory. Became cocky, insubordinate, made decisions not theirs to make. And it cost lives. There have been so many occasions I've wanted to teach those bastards a lesson in discipline they would never forget. But the times are hard enough as it is. We can't afford to be at each other's throats right now.

As the war kept raging, the world leaders saw that the fights were getting worse. The MUTO Kaiju that came through the breach were adapting. Adapting to our defenses, learning to combat us. They trample any wall before them, destroy everything in their path, and wouldn't stop until there was either nothing to destroy, or until we finally killed them off. But what we didn't know at the time, was that these MUTO Kaiju threats were just the beginning of an even bigger plot against us. A bigger plan. And it wouldn't be long before we would start to realize that this was a war we could not fight on our own, no matter how many Jaegers we could build. And the thing was, we kept losing Jaegers faster than we could build them. With MUTO Kaiju popping up anywhere in the world, Jaegers were spread out. If one could assist another it would, but most of the time, you were on your own. And if you fell in combat, the area you defended was likely lost. It has been like that for over ten years. And it wouldn't be long before the Great Destroyer and the Guardian of the Rising Sun would get involved.

It's enough to make me think that what Dr. Harold Medford said in 1954 is true. Perhaps we humans are indeed witnessing a biblical prophecy come true...

"And there shall be destruction and darkness come upon creation and the beast shall reign over the earth..."

Hello and welcome to my latest attempt at storytelling. I'm unsure how this will be taken or how it will go. As you can tell from this intro alone, I'm. Huge monster nut, and this intro was quite a thing to write and come up with. This story is meant to ride the setting of Pacific Rim, while having a plot rather similar to Destroy All Monsters. And of course...Gamera and Godzilla are gonna get involved. I've been thinking of ways to get these two to clash or meet...and I feel this way has the best result.

This intro may have been confusing at times. I have changed a lot of things from the canon of a lot here. Particularly on the Breach of Pacific Rim, which stayed on the bottom of the Ocean. Here, it serves it's purpose by forming, bringing in a monster at any point in the world, and then phasing out. I feel that if it did remain in one place, it would be a relatively simple problem to fix. Here I felt it would be more unpredictable and more sense making if it were more spread.

Another big change I made was to Gamera, who in his franchise has never teamed up to beat any monster. I felt this not only kinda made him an overpowered monster, but not that interesting in a lot of ways. So I had to bring that down a bit, and Mothra was the go to choice for teaming up. I believe that will be looked upon as a good change.

You may also recognize that I've referenced in this intro alone, countless monster movies and monster events. I recommend each of these movies, and more. Message me if you want a list.

You may recognize I changed a lot from the films as well. I didn't have Gamera rocketed off to Mars, as I always thought that was pretty stupid. I didn't have Godzilla trapped in a volcano at the end of his 1985 rampage, and had him trapped more similar to what happened in the beginning of Final Wars. In fact, the Earth Defense Force comes from Final Wars, and the Kiryu Project comes from the two movies prior. While I'm talking about Kiryu, make note of this, at no point in this fiction will I call Kiryu "Mechagodzilla". I feel Kiryu is a more formal name, and fitting name.

You may also wonder why I referred to "Zilla" as Gigantis. I never liked the name "Zilla" so much as I don't think the monster was worthy of any part of the name, Godzilla. The monster was great, but not Godzilla. Not God. Not Zilla. I thought it would be pretty cool to give him the name Gigantis, after we tried to call Godzilla that in Godzilla Raids Again. I also felt that in a movie where the tag line was "Size Matters", Gigantis was a much more fitting name.

I hope you all enjoy this huge tribute to our Kaiju friends, and all the characters I bring into this. One of those characters, you were just introduced to, you may have picked up by now as a tribute to a soldier character. Major Price is actually an homage to Captain John Price of the Modern Warfare series. I won't be bringing any other characters from that series in, but when I started writing this intro out, I couldn't get his voice out of my head, and brought him into the story. I believe he'd have some fun in a world of radioactive dinosaurs and giant flying turtles. I think that is everything. If you got any questions, hope you will ask.

I hope you enjoy The MUTO War, and I hope I can maintain interest and update frequently.

-Thrash