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Primordial Amphibian Ragon Synopsis
An undersea volcano forms near the fishing waters off Iwane Island. The island is the home of Professor Ishii, a somewhat discredited undersea geologist who has predicted that Japan will sink under the ocean. Yuriko sees the lemonade side of the boring assignment because she happens to know Professor Ishii’s younger sister, Fumiko.
Jun and Ippei chopper her out first to photograph the volcano, and then to visit Iwane Island. Jun stays with Yuriko on the island while Ippei leaves with the chopper. The encounter Professor Ishii trying to convince the village head to send a vessel out to the volcano to gather data. Ishii is worried that Iwane Island is going to sink soon. Since he’s largely discredited and sending a boat is dangerous and expensive, the request is denied.
One fishing captain went out anyway and he’s returned with a strange, capsule-like object that got caught in his nets. Ishii borrows it for analysis. He checks it against a book, which I can only guess is entitled Tobin’s Ancient Life Guide, and finds a match. The object is the egg of an anthropomorphic amphibious lifeform called Ragon that lived 200 million years ago in the oceans at 5,000 meters of depth. Bonus fact: Ragons have the intelligence of gorillas or higher.
The discovery of the egg is of little interest to Ishii, he’s more interested in what it “proves.” The volcano is rising from a depth of 1,000 meters. Ragons lived much deeper, at 5,000 meters. This leads to two inevitable conclusions (1) Iwane is going to sink and (2) Ishii doesn’t understand what an amphibian is. We’re just going to ignore that second one because this story does.
An adult Ragon comes ashore and starts terrorizing the villagers, and eventually traps our main characters in Ishii’s remote home. They discover that music soothes the savage beast (and, like the rest of us, radio announcers do the opposite.). Using a transistor radio, Jun leads the creature out to a cliff, where he is trapped and would no doubt have been killed if it weren’t for the timely intervention of Ippei and the helicopter… no, wait, sorry. If it weren’t for the timely intervention of an earthquake, plunging Ragon off the cliff.
The island is going to sink real soon now and everyone is rushing to the harbor to escape via boat. Jun and Yuriko are still quite a ways away from the harbor though.
In the harbor, Ragon appears and menaces everyone, preventing them from getting to the boats. The egg hatches and Fumiko that the Ragon is just there to retrieve its baby. She hands it over and the Ragon leaves. The islanders hop in the boats and escape without Jun and Yuriko, who are still quite a ways away from the harbor.
As the island plunges into its final death throws jun and Yuriko would no doubt be killed if it weren’t for one of the boats returning for them… no, wait, sorry. If it weren’t for the timely intervention of Ippei and the helicopter.
Space DIrective M774 Synopsis
Yuriko, Jun, and Ippei are returning to Tokyo on a cruise ship. Yuriko, unlucky at cards, goes out on deck to get some fresh air. She finds a child’s doll, sees a shooting star, and the doll talks to her.
“I am Zemi from the planet Rupen. Warning: The Monster Bostang has come to Earth.”
Terrified, Yuriko tosses the doll overboard. Jun and Ippei don’t believe her.
The next day, back in Tokyo, Jun and Ippei are flying the plane, when the plane is taken over. The plane flies back to the airfield by itself. When it arrives, no one is aboard.
Jun and Ippei are lost somewhere when they see a lone building in the middle of nowhere. The building is actually a quite stylish cafe with questionable foot traffic placement. There are also no customers or staff, only a jukebox that plays an interactive two-way message for Jun and Ippei:
“I am Zemi from the planet Rupen. Warning: The Monster Bostang has come to Earth.”
Jun is, for once, skeptical. Their plane was taken over remotely, they were deposited without their awareness in the middle of nowhere, a stylish cafe equally in the middle of nowhere, and a jukebox that can talk with them, claiming to be an alien and warning them of a monster. None of that’s good enough. We need to meet in person.
OK, Zemi says, meet me at the library tomorrow.
While this is happening, the undersea egg that arrived from space hatches, and out pops Bostang, a manta ray-like creature, which destroys an oil tanker.
They meet and she now goes by the name, Kiyomi. “Well, good enough for me,” says Jun, “what can we do about this monster?”
They tell the Navy, who don’t believe it, but they let the gang, along with Kiyomi go out on one of their naval ships, where they find the creature. They’re just about to attack when Kiyomi lets them know their weaponry isn’t good enough and their only hope is to run silent and hope it goes away.
Later a cruise ship comes near and it, too, is ordered to stop and wait.
Hours pass and finally Bostang surfaces again and heads to the cruise ship. Rather than see the 500 passengers killed, the Naval vessel powers up to distract Bostang and then attacks it.
In the nick of time, jet fighters arrive and make short work of Bostang.
Later, Kiyomi explains that her mission is done and now she will remain on Earth and live as an Earth person. She reveals that there are many such aliens living undetected on Earth, perhaps even the person sitting next to you.
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