Gamera 2: Attack of Legion (ガメラ2 レギオン襲来)

NEAR SAPPORO, HOKKAIDO

NASA, the US Space agency,

says most of the meteoroids will burn up in a meteor shower,

but some will be large enough to reach the Earth's surface.

Their trajectory is northwest over the Pacific.

It is thought that some could fall on northern Japan...

Everyone! The field trip is canceled!

Back on the bus!

- Honami speaking. - It's me. Listen carefully.

One just came down off the Sanriku Coast.

At this rate, the next point is Hokkaido, very likely just outside Sapporo.

None of them have hit Iand yet, so we don't know how big...

Hello?

What's that?

It's huge!

Get down!

ATTACK OF LEGION

Meteor strike southwest of Lake Shikotsu!

Disaster Squad requested!

Mount up!

Sir!

I'm Watarase, from the Chemistry Institute.

I'm Hanatani. What's the status report?

No radiation or chemical pollution detected.

- See? You didn't need to come. - Orders are orders.

There hasn't been time for any organic tests yet.

- Have you recovered the meteor? - No, sir.

- Can't you find it? - No, sir.

The marks it Ieft almost Iook Iike it was slowing down when it hit.

Slowing down? I don't like the sound of this.

One of the meteorites has landed in Northern Japan,

in a mountainous region 50kms south of Sapporo, Hokkaido.

Many trees in the area have caught fire, but no human fatalities are reported.

SAPPORO SCIENCE CENTER

- What's that? - Well...

You can still input, can't you?

So there must be something wrong with the outside lines.

Yeah, right...

But I don't understand it.

There's been problems all over the south side since morning.

The south side?

I went over there today, but we couldn't find the trouble.

- Maybe it was the meteor shower? - No, too far away.

Hello, Science Center.

Can you tell me what that green glow is in the sky off to the south?

Sorry, I can't hear you very well.

Hello?

Hey! Come outside and Iook!

It's toward Lake Shikotsu.

The ancient chronicles say that the sky once went red.

In 1990, the upper red part of the northern lights

was visible as far as Central Japan.

But green?

All I can guess is some kind of localized magnetospheric fluctuation.

Even if the meteors are affecting the ionosphere,

they wouldn't cause anything Iike this.

Eh?

A strong magnetic field around here might knock out all electronic devices.

- I'll have a Iook around. - No, wait.

This is a restricted area!

Eh?

Great!

They never found anything from the Tunguska meteorite in Siberia.

One theory is that it was nothing but ice.

Looking at the data, it's hard to think that about this one.

Maybe it moved somewhere else.

"Moved"?

Do meteorites move?

No, of course they don't.

- But... - But what?

Would a whole cloud of meteoroids just happen to come straight at Earth?

That bothers me.

And the traces Iook like skid marks from braking.

DAY 3

Here...

HUGE METEORITE STRIKE? NO TRACES FOUND

Is it true you used to be a detective in Nagasaki?

Who told you that?

Why did you quit?

Something happened that scared me half to death.

I decided I wasn't cut out for it.

Where did that alarm come from?

Come on, Osako! You used to be a cop!

I wasn't cut out for it, I told you!

But you were a pro, weren't you?

So? You're a professional guard!

I'm only part-time!

Don't push!

What is it?

Damned if I know!

NTT HOKKAIDO NETWORK OPERATION CENTER

Someone's taking our fiber-optic cables.

DAY 4

They're not damaged, they're gone.

We don't know what's going on.

The reports start at Eniwa and move gradually north.

Eh?

Takino, Tokiwa, Ishiyama...

That's exactly what's happening.

Is this something to do with those meteors?

Wait! No portable phones near the computers.

This way.

Honami speaking.

Hello, Watarase here. Sorry to bother you, but...

10,000 cases of beer?

What a waste!

Thanks for coming.

Is this connected to that thing at Lake Shikotsu?

You talked about it moving, so perhaps you can tell me.

Got any ideas?

- Well, the direction fits. - The direction?

Something seems to be moving this way from Lake Shikotsu.

Look, how many times do l have to tell you?

Like a crab, like an insect...

That's what l saw! A huge thing, big as a man.

- You said it was just a shadow. - Yes, l did, but...

You don't believe me, Officer. l saw it, l tell you!

Why does this always have to happen to me?

The police got to him before we had a chance.

So, the police didn't believe him?

Well, he used to be a police officer down in Nagasaki.

His was the first report on Gyaos.

Gyaos?

You can see that they might be a bit wary.

A lot of bottles smashed, and silicon powder left scattered around.

The glass was chemically dissolved, and the beer was just left there.

It's Iike the world is coming apart at the seams.

First Gamera and Gyaos.

And now creatures from outer space.

Creatures from outer space, you reckon?

Sixty percent of Tahiti's plant species were carried there by birds.

The same thing could happen with planets.

Not that I'm sure about all this.

Well, if the seams are Ietting go, it's our job to sew them back up.

DAY 5

ODORI SUBWAY STATION, SAPPORO

What happened?

Excuse me.

Ishida?

The north-south subway line is shut down at this moment.

Hazardous material has been found.

That's all we know right now.

Halt! We see the train. Proceeding.

What's that?

It's coming this way!

Fall back!

All we know now is that police are working to rescue the passengers.

Hazardous materials are causing fears for their safety.

The atmosphere is tense around Odori Station.

Something seems to be happening. The rescue crews are moving...

What's wrong with the TV?

They're here.

What the hell?

Operations! Operations!

- ISDN circuits down! - Mobile communications off-Iine!

What the hell's going on?

- Well done, Officer. - Who are you?

You haven't been told?

No, has the Self-Defense Force been called out?

Communications are all messed up.

We're here to examine the tunnel.

For what?

It's in connection with our visitor from outer space.

I should be doing this alone, not getting you guys into trouble.

I don't consider this trouble.

I'll have to report this, you know.

Hang on.

Look at this.

Pressure four atmospheres? Oxygen seventy-eight percent?

That's four times normal.

- What's it Iike down there? - Take a guess.

What are they?

What we were Iooking for was some kind of germ.

What we found is what you see.

So they're an alien Iifeform?

Colonel! There are survivors!

- Get them! - Squad forward!

You're going to be fine. Come on, hurry!

Why would they just kill some? Why not all of them?

There's got to be a common thread.

Appearance, medical history, what they had on.

The Governor has called us out.

They want you at Headquarters.

Oxygen is so vital a factor in our survival

that it's easy to forget

that in too high a concentration it's a poison.

NORTHERN SUPERINTENDENT GENERAL'S OFFICE

Prolonged exposure to such an environment

brings a toxic reaction, coughing, sore throat and respiratory difficulties.

In the high-pressure and oxygen conditions in that tunnel,

most terrestrial Iifeforms would not survive for Iong.

- Anything to add, Colonel Watarase? - Yes.

Our enemy is a completely different lifeform.

There is no possibility of co-existence.

If we allow it to survive, we will die.

For our own survival, we must ready ourselves to fight it to extinction.

Have you ever heard of Ieaf-cutter ants?

The ones that grow mushrooms around their nests?

Yeah, the mushrooms won't grow there unless the ants feed them.

Without the mushrooms, the ants can't maintain their nest.