Ring of Fire Chapter One
Disclaimer: I do not own Canon Pacific Rim. The rest, however, I do claim. (And my copy of the DVD when it comes out)
Now, this may feel like a filler chapter, and it pretty much is. I just needed to set down the immediate aftermath of the Breach getting closed.
Ring of Fire Chapter One
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Hercules Hanson breathed a huge sigh of relief. "Stop the clock!" he shouted into the mic, leading to the cheers of everyone in the Hong Kong Shatterdome.
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Three Months Later
"It has only been three goddamn months since we sealed the breach, and you think the Kaiju are still out there?" Herc asked, raising an eyebrow at the man sitting on the other side of his desk. He had to admit, there were bonuses to being Marshal. Despite being paranoid of the Kaiju returning himself, he had been forced to act as though they were well and truly gone. For the "General Public" and such.
"Yes, we do." said the slightly Asian man. He was wearing a sharp deep blue suit, and refused to take off his sunglasses. Herc still hadn't gotten a name out of him, despite the claim that the man had come from a corporation that "Didn't even answer to God". Herc took it that this guy was either a nutcase, or wherever he had come from had access to some serious shit.
Herc leaned back in his seat, stroking his chin thoughtfully. "You still haven't even told me why you're actually here. You haven't even given me your name."
The man nodded. "Call me Mr. Church. I am here to enlist what remains of the Jaeger Academy and the Shatterdome. We need to be prepared should the Kaiju ever return, and we both know that the governments of the world are happy to avoid funding a project that has no visible use." Mr. Church explained, opening his briefcase. "I have already talked with Newton Geiszler, one of your K-Scientists, and he told me that the Kaiju are a hiveminded species, if you could call it that. If there are any Kaiju left, they know where to find us, and it's a good bet that they aren't going to be holding anything back next time."
Herc thought about it. It was a grim and horrible prospect, one that he didn't even want to consider, but he knew discarding the possibility and not preparing would end in immense disaster. The worst part was that it was extremely likely to happen, and very, very soon.
"You guys don't answer to anyone, correct?" he asked, leaning forward.
"That is correct," Mr. Church confirmed, placing his briefcase on Herc's desk and turning it around. "We answer to no one but the Director and we have access to anything and everything that one could ever hope for. We only hire the best."
The briefcase contained a large amount of paper documents, filled with all the information Herc would need to make his decision.
"You do realise that should the Kaiju never return, and the greatest political powers find out about all this, we've got the blood of World War III on our hands," Herc growled, putting the documents back and slamming the briefcase shut.
"We do realise, and we have made preparations for every available outcome."
Herc knew he was being forced into a corner, or more like a place between a nuclear bomb and a Kaiju, but he was determined to forge his own path for what remained of the Hong Kong Shatterdome. "So you are pretty much offering us a new employer, right? New source of funding is all?"
Mr. Church nodded, "Exactly. But we may occasionally require something to be done, sometimes experiments that the PPDC would have never considered possible." This sounded like something illegal to Herc. "But yes, this is just a new source of funding, and currently, a new Shatterdome to operate from."
Herc could see that this "Mr. Church" wasn't going to relent any time soon. "Fine, I can't guarantee anything though," he warned.
"You don't need to."
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OK, so since I've always been a fan of "If you can make it bigger, THEN BLOODY WELL MAKE IT BIGGER!" I'm planning on having LOTS of Kaiju and Jaegers featured in this. Due to some complications, half of the newer Jaegers will be designed in a "mix-and-match" form of some of the older Jaegers, so if you have one made using the designer, feel free to PM me a link to the picture and the basic info I'll need to write it up in-character :) for other Jaegers and Kaiju, send me the info via PM or review and I'll see what I can do to get them into the story.
Thanks for reading, it will get better soon :D
~Pyro
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~Pyro