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I've been brainstorming an outline for a sequel to Godzilla 2014. It's a very quick and dirty treatment. The human elements are purposefully left vague because they can easily be worked out in later drafts; for now I just wanted to get down some sequence of events linking the various kaiju encounters throughout the film. Would this be a worthy sequel?
The movie begins a few months after the Battle of San Francisco. The US Navy sends a submarine to bury Godzilla inside his natural habitat deep in the confines of the Tonga Trench (by detonating high-explosive charges at the cave entrance). A scientist who published a discredited paper about tunnels linking ocean trenches gets involved in the search to find out where Godzilla will resurface. Publicly the military is skeptical of the scientist's prediction, but in secret he is brought into the fold of the military-academic project known as MONARCH.
Digging his way north, Godzilla unleashes Anguirus from a volcano in Papua New Guinea. Anguirus’ rampage around the tropical island prompts the unveiling of a private military corporation’s secret project: the Mechanized Godzilla Counter-Measure, or Mecha-Godzilla. The mechanical monster is a construct built on the bones of the elder Godzilla in the MUTO burrow found by Graham and Serizawa in the previous film. Mecha-Godzilla is deployed and successfully kills Anguirus with the use of his shoulder-mounted railgun.
Some plot developments occur which reveal that the PMC has access to the MONARCH data files detailing the locations of all kaiju across the Earth, and that Mecha-Godzilla is their way of making gobs of money off of that, effectively holding the entire world hostage. Serizawa and Graham, the two ex-MONARCH scientists, try to expose the plans of the CEO of the PMC in his headquarters in Tokyo, but his security forces track them down and imprison them in his corporate HQ. It is revealed that Mecha-Godzilla is remotely operated via a control room in the heart of the complex.
Arising from the Kuril Trench, Godzilla surfaces off the coast of Japan and makes his way to Tokyo to take revenge on the species that thought they could control him. Along the way to Tokyo, Godzilla encounters Mecha-Godzilla and the two engage in mortal combat. A pagoda gets demolished amidst the melee. Godzilla swipes his tail at Mecha-Godzilla and delivers a shock that cracks open the mechanical monster’s chest-mounted nuclear reactor. Then Godzilla lumbers forth towards Tokyo. Mecha-Godzilla activates its auxiliary power source and gets back up again just after the big lizard has departed.
Godzilla arrives in Tokyo and shrugs off a last-ditch attempt by the JSDF to stop his wrath. He ploughs through the city.
Before Godzilla reaches the PMC bunker complex deep in the heart of metropolitan Tokyo, Mecha-Godzilla arrives. While gloating over the arrival of his finest creation, the CEO perishes in a gas line explosion (Godzilla’s rampage ruptured a gas line).
Godzilla ceases his rampage to confront the robot. The reptile lets loose a torrent of atomic breath while Mecha-Godzilla counters with a railgun round through Godzilla’s chest.
Godzilla staggers and collapses on top of the control center, utterly disabling Mecha-Godzilla.
The locations of all the other kaiju are publicly released by the dissident geologist who assisted in the submarine mission.
Residual radiation from Mecha-Godzilla's exposed nuclear reactor leaks out. The comatose Godzilla reawakens. This time no-one knows where he will go next, as kaiju all around the world begin to resurface.