Hello and Goodbye

by broken mind

When you have to choose one over the other, people get hurt - every single time. Kylie McLeod and Hercules Hansen learn the hard way - and it will take so much more to be forgiven. CHAPTERS 10 IS UP. Please read and review. A little TLC never goes unappreciated. *muak*

1. Chapter 1

September 4, 2014. Sidney, Australia.

It was the fourth Kaiju to emerge from the breach. Scissure, they had named it. And it was huge.

All military branches of the Australian Defense Force joined together in the effort. The RAAF, the aerial warfare branch of the Australian Defense Force, was quick to establish an Intelligence outpost in Towra Point in Botany Bay, using the naturally hilly coastline as cover. They had learned the hard way from the previous 3 attacks and were prepared, or so they thought.

The first Kaiju, Trespasser, had laid waste to San Francisco on August 10th the year before. The beginning of the incident was believed to be a 7.1 earthquake that was felt anywhere along the Pacific coast. However, it was a massive, three-hundred-foot creature that eventually emerged from San Francisco Bay. After destroying the Golden Gate Bridge, the creature went on a 35-mile rampage across the West Coast for six days, destroying most of San Francisco, Sacramento and Oakland. The United States and British militaries responded and battled the creature, but despite the use of troops, tanks, artillery and jets, the combined forces of the two armies failed to bring the massive beast down. Out of options, the military decided on using tactical nuclear missiles in the hopes of bringing down the creature but the loss on the human side was high. Three cities were left devastated and tens of thousands of people had died. "K-DAY", they had called it.

The event was broadcasted all over the news, but everybody had believed that it had been an isolated incident. Everything had returned to normality, everybody had moved on.

Only 6 months later, another monster named Hundun appeared and assaulted the Filipino capital of Manila. Four more months after that, a third Kaiju, Kaiceph, caused substantial destruction in Cabo San Lucas. The only weapon proving to be effective in killing the Kaiju were nuclear. All countries with coastal lines to the Pacific were joining in the nuclear armament build-up in order to be prepared if there were any more attacks.

And now there was a Kaiju attack on Sidney. Her home. Sure, bad things happened all the time all over the world but when it finally happened on your doorstep, it became a totally new reality.