So! I'm on break, so that means I get to do some extra writing. I know a lot of you who've read New Chance have been waiting for this, so I won't keep you. This is basically a retelling of the 2014 Godzilla movie with Gipsy and Striker's son, Romani, being the lead role and everyone else kinda falling into place.

I don't own anything in here...except for Romani, his siblings and any unrecognizable name from Pacific Rim and Godzilla (2014).

Chapter 1

Octavia Yvern was not a happy lawyer. She had been taken away from her daughter's karate tournament after her client at Monarch begged her to come to come out to the Philippines on a crazy mission of sorts.

"Mr. Serizawa," Octavia sighed, "I do not see the point in bringing me out here. You need a scientist such as yourself and Ms. Graham…not a lawyer like me,"

"Trust me, Mrs. Yvern," Ishiro Serizawa promised, "Besides, it was not just me who asked you to come…an old friend of yours contacted me and asked,"

"Who?" Octavia blinked.

"You'll see," Ishiro said with a faint smile as he turned to look at the pocket watch in his hand.

The chopper landed and Octavia gripped the seatbelt as the machine shuddered. She hated getting on these things…but she did like to fly. She even had her own pilot's license and a plane. It was when someone else was flying the contraption that she wasn't amused.

Ishiro jumped out of the chopper, Ms. Graham, Vivienne, right behind him and then Octavia followed them both right as a man ran up to Ishiro.

"Dr. Serizawa?" the man called, making Ishiro nod, "Jerry Boyd. I'm warning you, it's a mess,"

"A total mess!" a young man with ash-blond hair beamed, walking up, "Hey, 'Tavia!"

Octavia's eyes widened slightly before she shook her grey-streaked hair.

"Ryan Drake," Octavia chuckled, "I should have known you'd be here. Who else would have coerced Dr. Serizawa to drag me out into the middle of nowhere,"

"You needed to get out more," Ryan shrugged, turning to follow Mr. Boyd, "C'mon, you'll want to see this,"

"Really?" Octavia deadpanned.

"Just come on," Ryan sighed.

"Monarch sent me in this morning," Jerry explained, "Took a look around, but I told them we needed you. Ryan said that we needed Ms. Yvern…"

"Mrs.," Octavia corrected, "I've been happily married for eleven years,"

"Because she had some experience with these sorts of things," Jerry continued.

"Do you?" Vivienne asked.

"Ryan and I both worked for the PPDC during the Second Kaiju war," Octavia admitted, "We were more of scientists than anything…"

"Exactly," Ryan nodded, "Anyway, we picked up a radiation pocket out here last month…we were digging for some old artifacts when we hit it,"

"The others got excited, thinking they had a uranium deposit…They started stacking up the heavy machinery and then…" Jerry shrugged.

"The valley floor kinda collapsed into a cavern below," Ryan finished, "Just dropped away, just gone,"

The group got to a railing…and looked out over a massive sinkhole. Octavia's hands shot to her mouth, her wedding band flashing in the light as her cool blue gaze raked over the hole.

"How many…?" she asked.

"Best guess right now is about 40 miners went down with it," Ryan told her.

Octavia closed an eye as she glared at him.

"Is that why you called me here? To help with a lawsuit from those miners' families?!"

"What? No!" Ryan sputtered, "I really thought you needed to see what's down there. Jerry, c'mon, back me up,"

"He did say you would want to see this," Jerry agreed.

"Then why don't we just go down and see!" Octavia snapped, crossing her arms.

"I see the years have made you no less calm," Ryan deadpanned, "C'mon, we need to get you all suited up if you want to come see what we found…the radiation is kinda on the high level,"

"This way," Ryan called, motioning with a heavily gloved hand, "Be careful,"

"I never liked these god-awful suits," Octavia grumbled, "They're clunky and stuffy,"

"It's only for a short while, 'Tavia," Ryan reassured her as he clambered over a rock, hauling Octavia's lean, slender form up next to him, "How's Kat by the way? Haven't seen her or Levi in a while,"

"Levi's well," Octavia stated, "His clinic's just starting to take off. And Kat's doing fine…she was getting ready to get her black belt before you so rudely called me over here,"

"Still have a sharp tongue," Ryan sighed, looking ahead, "When we first discovered this pocket, the radiation levels were only half as strong. It's almost as if contact with the outside air started catalyzing something,"

"I think being a businessman with Scott wasn't your calling, Ryan," Octavia teased, "You know what you're talking about here,"

"Funny," Ryan deadpanned, shining his flashlight up what looked to be a fossil.

"Some kinda of fossils, right?" Jerry asked.

"I've been digging holes for ten years and I've never seen anything like it," Ryan admitted, "Well...except at the PPDC,"

Octavia froze and looked at her friend.

"You don't mean…" she started softly.

Ryan gave a slight nod as everyone started lighting lamps.

"Oh my God," Vivienne breathed as more and more of the skeleton come to light, she looked towards Ishiro, "Is it possible? Is it him?"

"No," Ishiro shook his head, "This is much older,"

Octavia sidled closer to Ryan.

"What have you been playing with?" she hissed, "is this…"

"Kaiju skeleton," Ryan nodded, "But here way before the first War,"

He tilted his head farther down the tunnel.

"There's something else too…"

He grabbed her arm and led her farther down the fossilized Kaiju's spine, stopping in front of a massive stalactite pockmarked with baseball sized holes.

"What is it?" Octavia asked, cocking her head, "Some kinda egg?"

Ryan shrugged and Vivien voiced her opinion.

"A giant spore?" she asked, raking her flashlight's beam across the ceiling, "The bones are fossilized but this formation seems to be perfectly preserved,"

"This one looks broken!" Jerry called from the other side of the cavern, "Like something came out of it!"

"That's not good," Ryan murmured as the sound of a helicopter's blades filled the cavern.

The young man walked farther along just to see a massive tunnel leading to the outside. The group climbed up out of the tunnel and stood in the middle of a large crater with a large trench leading out the side of the crater all the way to the Pacific Ocean.

Octavia looked at her friend with slight fear.

"Where did it go, Raiju," she growled.

"I don't know, Otachi," Ryan, Raiju, blinked, "I really don't know,"

Seven year old Romani quietly crept out of his bed and walked out of his room into his sisters' shared one.

He shook his elder sister's shoulder, waking her up.

"'Mani…" Nine year old Angel murmured, "It's too early…"

"Dad's going to go to work soon if we don't do anything!" Romani hissed, walking over to his younger sister and shaking her shoulder.

Five year old Sylph blinked back the wisps of sleep that still veiled her eyes.

"It time for Daddy's surprise?" Sylph yawned.

Romani nodded and padded over to the closet, carefully pulling out a banner, colorfully decorated and emblazoned with the words 'Happy Birthday Dad' on it.

"Let's go!" Romani whispered as his sisters got out of bed and followed him right as the phone rang.

"I'll get it," came their father's deep voice, "It's probably for me,"

They heard their father speaking rapid-fire Japanese to the person on the other side of the phone. Something he'd had to learn upon arriving in Japan for a temporary job…much to his wife's amusement.

"No Takashi! No!" their father growled, "Takashi, just listen t' me for a second!"

"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Angel whispered to her brother, blowing her copper-locks out of her eyes.

"It's his birthday," Romani stated, "I wasn't expecting him to be up really…"

"I'm askin' for the meetin' because if I have to shut the reactor down y're not gonna want to read about it in a memo!" their father continued, "Because I've been followin' these tremors since they started in the Philippines and now they're in our own backyard!"

The three children peeked around the door just to see their father run a hand through his copper colored hair.

"No, no, no! Hayato says I need to go through you about this!" the father sighed, exasperated, "Look! I'm just I'm just trying t' follow the protocols set forth by the company. That's all. It's my job!

The three swung back around the door right as their tall, dark-haired mother came around the corner. Her blue eyes looking over her three children in slight amusement.

"He's awake!" Romani hissed.

Their mother gave a sad smile and a shrug.

"Oh I know," she shook her head, "He got up early,"

"What we gonna do?" Angel asked.

Their mother closed her eyes, biting her lip before reopening her eyes and looking at her children again.

"Get dressed, all of you…I'll figure it out," she reassured them, "Okay?"

"Okay," the three chorused, walking towards their rooms.

Minutes later, Angel and Romani sprinted out the door with their coats and backpacks, racing towards the bus stop.

"Later Dad!" Angel called, waving.

"See ya later!" Romani echoed.

Steven didn't even look up from his call, but he waved as Gipsy came out with little Sylph. Gipsy walked towards the sidewalk, towards a young woman standing in front of a car.

"Bye Mommy!" Sylph chirped as Gipsy handed her off to the young woman who would take Sylph to day-care, "Bye Daddy!"

Once again, Steven didn't even look up. Gipsy rolled her eyes and hugged her daughter, kissing her on the head.

"I'll see you later little Huntress," Gipsy grinned, ruffling Sylph's black curls.

"Mommy!" Sylph whined, flattening her hair down before getting in the car.

Gipsy laughed as she walked to the car with her husband. Steven still intently speaking with Takashi on the other side.

"…I'm an engineer an' I don't like unexplained frequency patternin', near a plant where I'm responsible!" Steven growled, "I need a meetin'. Make it happen!"

Steven lapsed back into Japanese as he and Gipsy got in the car. Gipsy looked up just in time to see both Angel and Romani waving at her. She waved energetically back right as Steven hung up.

"Your Japanese is improving," Gipsy noted.

"Thanks," Steven replied numbly as he struggled to get the seatbelt fastened.

"They made you a sign," Gipsy added.

"What?" Steven blinked.

"Your birthday sign," Gipsy hinted, "They worked so hard!"

Steven gave a tired, sad sigh as he pinched the bridge of his nose.

"Oh God…" he muttered, "I didn't…"

"I'm going to come home early," Gipsy consoled him, "I'll take the car and pick them up and we can get a proper cake…Okay?"

Steven gave a soft smile as he rubbed his wife's back.

"Listen, I need to know that it's not the sensors, okay?" he asked, making Gipsy nod, "I can't be callin' this meeting an' look like the Aussie maniac,"

"What would that make me? The Aussie maniac's American wife who believed him?" she teased, making Steven sigh and shake his head.

"So when we get there, don't even bother coming up," Steven told her, "Just grab a team and go down to Level 5,"

"You're not a maniac," Gipsy told him, "I mean, you are…"

Steven glared at her.

"Just not about this," Gipsy finished, ignoring him.

"Must be something we're not thinking of," he muttered.

"Happy birthday!" Gipsy cried, throwing her hands up in the air.

Steven blinked rapidly, honestly surprised.

"Wha…is it!?" he sputtered.

"Yes it is!" Gipsy laughed, hugging him around the neck.

"Oh…I forgot all about it…" Steven stammered.

"No kidding," Gipsy deadpanned, giving him a kiss…and then another, and another.

"I should have birthdays more often then," Steven chuckled.

"You wish," Gipsy growled playfully.

"What is this?" Steven asked, looking at the readouts as they walked to the control room.

"Seismic anomaly," one of the other scientists stated, "This graph is minutes. X is minutes not days! This is now!"

"Wait, hold on…" the supervisor stammered, "Seismic activity!? You're talking about earthquakes?!"

"No earthquakes are random, jagged," Steven stated, "This is consistent, increasing…this is a pattern,"

Steven opened the door, looking at the group in front of him until he found the one face he was wanting to find.

"Takashi," Steven started, showing him the papers, "What the 'ell is going on? Have ya seen this?"

"Yeah…maybe not such good time for a meeting," he shrugged.

Steven closed his eyes and breathed before reopening them and looking at the computerized version of the readouts.

"What's the source?" he asked, "Where's the epicenter?"

"We don't know," Takashi admitted, "But it keeps getting stronger,"

"It's gotta be centered somewhere," Steven murmured, standing upright, his tall 6'6" form towering over everyone else, "Hayato!"

"No one else is reporting it," Hayato stated, "We are contacting every other plant in the Kantō region. Tōkai, Fujiyama…they're unaffected. But my guess is these readings are just aftershocks from the Philippine earthquake."

"Are we at full function?" Steven asked slowly.

"Yes, we are," Takashi announced.

Steven turned around right as Takashi spoke again.

"But perhaps we should be drawing down…" he amended, "to be safe,"

The building shook violently, Steven throwing out his hand to keep his balance. The computers and lights all flickered and Steven's wild blue gaze flicked to Takashi.

"Take us offline," he ordered.

"Now Steven…" the supervisor started.

"DO IT!" Steven roared, "Now! Wind it down!"

He started towards the radios, grabbing one of them.

"Gips," he called, "Gipsy are you there?"

The room shook violently again, this time tiles from the roof fell from their places, crashing down on some of the computers and sending up splashes of sparks. Every light in the room flickered off and Steven called once more into the radio.

"Gipsy!" he called.

"Steven are you there?!" came Gipsy's frantic voice, "Steven there's been a breach! We're heading back to the containment seal!"

"Gipsy, listen t' me," Steven ordered, "Ya need t' get outta there! Run! If there's been a reactor breach, ya won't last five minutes with or without the suits! Do ya hear me!?"

"I hear you! We're coming!"

The room shook again, throwing Steven off his feet and into a filing cabinet. The young man groaned, rubbing his head as the lights flared red and alarms began to wail. Steven turned to Takashi.

"I'll meet them there myself," he stated, "Put the safety doors on manual override,"

"Steven! I cannot do that!" Takashi protested.

"Keep the doors open!" Steven snarled, racing out the door, "My wife is still in there!"

Steven practically flew down the halls, racing faster and faster towards the containment seal. Now more than ever he wished that his old speed was still with him…but he had given that up a long time ago.

He skidded to a stop in front of the doors and punched the communications button on the consol next to the door.

"Takashi, tell me this door's on manual," he growled.

"Yeah, but we're starting to breach!" Takashi warned.

"I'm right here," Steven snapped, "As soon as they're through, I'll seal it!"

He turned to his handheld radio and spoke into it.

"Gips, can ya hear me?" he asked, "I'm at the door…"

Static.

"Gipsy!" Steven pleaded.

Still nothing.

"Gipsy I'm waiting for you!" he yelled, "I'm at the checkpoint! But ya have to run Gips as fast as you can!"

"I AM!" Gipsy shrieked.

"STEVEN!" came Takashi's voice, "Are you there!?"

"I'm here," Steven started.

"Close the door!" Takashi pleaded, "Seal the corridor or the whole city will be exposed!"

Steven's heart nearly stopped as he shook his head. He couldn't leave Gipsy…not when she was so close…

"Gips?" he asked again.

"Steven?" came Gipsy's frantic voice, "Steven can you hear me?"

"Yeah," Steven breathed.

"Are you there?!"

"Gips, I'm here," Steven started, "Can ya hear me?"

"Yeah!" came Gipsy's breathless reply, "Steven…it's too late. We're…we're not coming…"

"No no don't say that!" Steven snapped, "DON'T YOU SAY THAT! RUN AS HARD AS YOU CAN GIPS!"

"Steven…you have to close the door," Gipsy panted, "You have to live for our kids,"

The building rumbled again and Steven's eyes flicked up to see a wall of thick, pearly grey steam rushing towards him. The blood ran out of his face as he stared at it.

"STEVEN! SEAL THE DOOR!" Takashi screeched, "NOW!"

"Oh my God…" Steven breathed, blue eyes wide as the steam roiled closer and closer.

"Five seconds!" Takashi yelled, "Four seconds!"

Steven gave an ear-piercing scream and slammed the door shut right as the steam slammed against the metal, twisting and writhing almost angrily at being thwarted at its escape.

The man fell against the doorframe, tears streaming as heart-wrenching sobs tore from his mouth. He could hear the faint pounding of frantic fists as they banged against the metal and thick glass of the door. Steven lifted his head, watching the terrified faces of the workers pressing against the glass, begging and pleading for him to let them out.

"I'm sorry…" he whispered, "I'm so sorry…"

A familiar face peered through the glass and Steven's hands shot to his mouth, the blue and silver wedding band on his hand flashing as his eyes met his wife's.

Gipsy's blue eyes flickered in understanding as she ripped off the hazmat helmet, revealing her sweat-slicked hair. She put her hand on the window and Steven did the same.

"Take care of Angel, Romani and Sylph," Gipsy ordered, tears streaming, "Be a good father,"

"I will," Steven promised, leaning his head on the glass.

"We didn't make it," Gipsy sobbed as the doors forced Steven away, "I…I love you, Striker Eureka,"

"I love you too…Gipsy Danger," he returned...

And the doors shut.

Don't kill me, okay? No, Gips isn't dead. I'll explain later, it's just this was getting a little long for my taste. I will be referring to the Kaiju and Jaegers by their human names until a certain point in the future. Then it'll be back to the normal group. But let me know what you think...and I'll put up a new chapter!

Anyway, hope you liked it. If you did, please let me know!

Qui vállë tóquetë, ván tecë (If no review comes from y'all; no story comes from me)

Máriessë ar mára tecië

Farewell and fair writing

Elhini Prime signing off.