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October 13, 1979
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"The City in the Clouds" is the 18th episode of Godzilla and the fifth episode of Season 2.
Plot
A cargo ship in the mid-Atlantic Ocean is besieged by a storm, and as the crew hunkers down, a giant dragon flies out of the storm and shorts circuits their boat with a beam of lightning. As the crew abandons ship, the monster fires another blast and melts the ship before flying back into the storm.
Sometime later, the Calico enters the same waters and comes up on the storm. Rather than navigate around it, Quinn Darian insists that they go through it so that she can test out the ship's new meteorological equipment. The crew quickly comes across a giant waterspout in the middle of the storm. With the Calico in danger of being drawn into the waterspout, Captain Majors manages to steer the ship away from the waterspout. Despite his success, though, the ship's power suddenly goes out due to St. Elmo's fire, which also renders the Godzilla Signal useless. Godzooky calls Godzilla, who carries the Calico to safety before the current sucks him towards the waterspout too. Helpless, Godzilla and the Calico are both drawn into the waterspout.
A short while later, the crew find themselves in an unknown land filled with nothing but clouds surrounding them. With no power on the Calico and Godzilla nowhere to be found, the crew begins their search to find him. To their shock, the crew discovers that waterspout carried them up into the clouds. Additionally, they discover a nearby city in the clouds. While Majors and Quinn look for some answers, Godzooky is left to look for Brock and Pete, who got lost in the clouds.
As they explore the city, Majors and Quinn encounter a man named Ze-us and his daughter, Anthea. Declaring himself the ruler of the Cloud-Dwellers, Ze-us tells Majors and Quinn that his people come from an alternate world where they live among the clouds, where they are constantly raided by the Power Dragon due to its affinity for their energy sources, forcing the Cloud-Dwellers to attempt to emigrate to Earth. Majors and Quinn inform them of Pete and Brock's disappearance and Ze-us sends Anthea to go find them. Meanwhile, Pete and Brock discover a generator in the city and Pete is nearly sucked into one of the pipes leading into it. Godzooky finds them and tried to save Pete, only to be sucked towards the pipe as well. Anthea arrives and turns the pipe off.
As Ze-us prepares for his people's arrival, Majors comments the obvious refugees look like an "army", though Ze-us doesn't acknowledge him. Enabling the portal, the Cloud-Dwellers filter into the city. A black blotch appears in the skies above, and from it bursts the Power Dragon, who immediately begins destroying everything in sight with its lightning beam. Ze-us fires an energy bolt at the Power Dragon with his Thought-Amplifier, but the monster deflects it with an electric blast. Majors attempts to call Godzilla, who is still trapped in the storm. Anthea frees Godzilla by using the city's technology and he arrived just as the Power Dragon corners and prepares to attack Ze-us, Anthea, and the Calico crew. Despite the Power Dragon's ferocity, Godzilla quickly overpowers it, and the dragon is forced to flee.
Rather than showing gratitude in saving their city, however, Ze-us becomes envious of the Godzilla Signal and demands Majors hand it over. Majors rejected him and called Godzilla again, only for Anthea to activate the portal and banish him to the Cloud-Dwellers' homeworld. With Godzilla trapped, the Ze-us demands the signal again, only for him and his guards to be smoked out by Godzooky. They pursued Majors, Quinn, and Brock, while Pete and Godzooky flew away. Ze-us used the Thought-Amplifier again, crumbling the ground around the trio until Majors surrendered the signal, after which he sealed the crew in a room. Announcing his new plan to using Godzilla to kill the Power Dragon and conquer Earth, Ze-us leaves in search of Pete and Godzooky. Unknown to Ze-us, the two arrive immediately after he leaves and manage to rescue Majors, Quinn, and Brock, and the crew begins planning on how to defeat Ze-us and save Godzilla. As Ze-us searches for Pete, Brock distracts him and Majors snags the Godzilla Signal. Ze-us summons a wall in front of them, but Godzooky trips him, allowing Brock to seize the Thought-Amplifier.
Returning to the computer, the Power Dragon returns and destroys the portal before they can bring Godzilla back. With the Power Dragon focusing on Brock due to him having the Thought-Amplifier, he throws it to Quinn, and she uses the Thought-Amplifier to imagine the portal opening. The plan works and Godzilla is freed. Godzilla and the Power Dragon resume their battle, which Godzilla steadily brings to the eye of the storm. Ze-us catches up to them with his guards, forcing the crew to flee. Godzilla and the Power Dragon fall into the waterspout and grapple as they fall, the Power Dragon managing to break free just before the two monsters hit the ocean. Striking a pose, the Power Dragon absorbs all the electricity in the storm, as well as in the city's generators, disbanding the storm and sending it, the city, and the Cloud-Dwellers back to their home dimension. The crew returns back to the Calico just as the entire storm fades out of existence, and the ship is carried back down into the ocean by the waterspout. Quinn deduces that the Power Dragon was responsible for the storm's disintegration. As the Calico crew remarks that they'll keep the Thought-Amplifier, Godzooky sits on it and leaves it completely flattened and useless.
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Locations
- Atlantic Ocean
- Cloud-Dwellers' city
- Cloud-Dwellers' homeworld (mentioned)
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In other languages
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Meaning
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空中都市 Kūchū Toshi[1]
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Midair City
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Videos
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| Part 1 of "The City in the Clouds"
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| Part 2 of "The City in the Clouds"
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| Part 3 of "The City in the Clouds"
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References
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