Date: October 28th, 2019.
Location: Ireland, between Co. Dublin and Co. Kildare.
Time: 06:53.
Clouds were slowly brightening in the pale grey sky, as the blazing golden light of the sun cut through them and exposed its gleaming radiance to the Earth below. At least it would have, were the clouds not pouring rain down onto the motorway heading back from Dublin City to County Kildare. The driver of the car, a maroon Toyota Corolla, was a man who went by the name of Fergus McCarthy. He was driving back from his job as a night porter for the Crumlin Children's Hospital in Dublin back to his home in Kildare.
To the common person, this type of setup for a career would be a nightmare, as the hours were long and it took forever to get from home to work and back again. But to Fergus, it was a good life. The pay was substantial and staying in Kildare meant that he'd get to remain close to his family and friends. To him, he was perfectly content with life. At least he would be, if there wasn't mundane pop music blaring from his car's radio, threatening to make his eardrums burst in an attempt to probe brief relief from the horrifying agony.
Fergus briefly shifted one hand from the wheel to his radio and switched from Nicki Bieber or whatever the hell kind of garbage it was that they played on the major music stations nowadays, and tuned it in to the station of Newstalk to listen to the morning newscast. Fortunately enough, he was tuning in just as the newsreader began to speak.
"Good morning ladies and gentlemen. It's early this morning, so I'll just head straight into the news. Overseas reports have shown that the Kaiju, the alien menace that emerged from the inter-dimensional breach within the Pacific, have begun to yield more and more attacks against any and all signs of civilisation that they have managed to find. However, the combined military forces of America, Australia, China, Japan and Russia have been showing success against the alien creatures, thanks to their plan of using their massive, humanoid war machines known as the Jaegers. They have managed to maintain a successful perimeter around the underwater breach within the Pacific Ocean and are managing to kill any and all Kaiju that have emerged. Unfortunately however, reports show that they have lost a noticeable amount of the Jaegers in battle against the creatures, but they're managing to hold them off. The United Nations have said that they have stopped funding the program. Officials have stated during interview that any country disagreeing with this choice is fully welcome to, and I quote: "Piss away their economy building something that'll be destroyed a few years later." No countries have shown any signs of doing so yet however.
European military forces have offered support, but the Pan Pacific Defence Corps, the leaders of the operation, have said that they will do well enough on their own.
In other news, reports this morning have been made about multiple forms of strange geological activity within the ocean floor of the Atlantic, ranging between seismic, thermonuclear and various other forms of-"
The newsreader was suddenly interrupted and covered the microphone, as the sounds of muffled chat and ruffled paper was all that could be heard, everyone across the country listening to the news suddenly stopped whatever they were doing and turned up their radio, becoming highly attentive to the oddly tense atmosphere that suddenly arose.
After enraged but incomprehensible yells going between the two of them, the newsreader sat back down into his chair and began to read the new written report for the newscast. However, it was abundantly clear that he had a very noticeable hint of fear in his voice.
"Well, ladies and gentlemen, I have just received more information regarding the activity within the Atlantic Ocean…"
What was almost the entirety of the country slowly inched closer and closer to their radios, slowly realising just what was about to be said, but still dreading every single millisecond of it.
"…it has been confirmed, that this is in fact what seems to be a second inter-dimensional breach, nearly identical to the one within the Pacific. Reports also show that it's close to spawning another Kaiju. However, it is unknown where it shall choose to attack, though I must warn you that the breach has been identified to be only approximately two hundred miles from the western coast of Ireland…"
Fergus' mouth was hanging in absolute fear. Honestly, the pop music didn't seem so bad right about now.