A Different Tomorrow
Shinji let a sigh escape. It was a little over twelve years now. Twelve years of fighting in wars he never wanted. At least now he had some perspective on why he should fight, unlike before. The major got off the bench in the pilot changing room. It was almost time for the drop. One final run Stacker had called it.
Stepping onto the catwalk overlooking the launch bay of the shatterdome Shinji could see the grim looks on everyone's faces. The win in Hong Kong was a little too close for comfort. The only mechs to make it out of that debacle were Unit 01, Striker Eureka, and a very dinged up Gypsy Danger.
He was going to miss the Wei Tangs but even more so the Kaidonovskies. In all the years he had been here they were one of the few constants like the Marshal. They were part of the foundation that kept what was left of the Jaeger program together. Now, only Shinji, Herc, and the Marshal were left.
Continuing toward Unit 01's entry plug he took a moment to look over the multiple modifications she had gotten over the years. Outwardly, Shogoki was completely different from the original EVA. The purple armor of the giant had been replaced over time and was now predominately grey in color with purple and green highlights. The battery had been replaced as well now using a prototype supercell salvaged from Mammoth Apostle, before that it had been diesel engines. The shoulder pylons were replaced a few years back with a pair of large cannons taken from the wreck of Coyote Tango. Its progressive knives now took residence in sheaths on its leg and on its chest. The only exterior thing that even indicated that Unit 01 was still in there was the all too recognizable head.
Under the hood though was a different story. The entry plug system had been tweaked to be easier to maintain but was by and large the same. The biological monstrosity born of Lilith was still in there. And although he would never admit it to anyone, over the years he felt that maybe there was someone else in the EVA aside from just him. Either way, he had refused to part with the one reminder of his old life and even though it cost an arm and a leg to maintain, the PPDF let him keep it.
He got into the entry plug. One final run…Time to finish what I started, he thought. With that the twenty-six year old major and longest serving pilot in the PPDF activated his EVA.
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Shinji sank into the darkness that was the 12th angel. He could hear the shouts of Asuka demanding he had to grab onto something, anything and that she'd get him out. He could hear the desperate calls of Misato telling him to get out there. But he couldn't move. So this was it, not a bang, not a defiant roar, but a whimper.
He caught his last glimpse of sunlight as Unit 01's head sank into the Dirac Sea. His world went black and he began to wait. Several hours later he activated his EVA. In a last ditch attempt to escape he killed it and he did escape. Just not to where he expected.
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"Sir, we have the object on sonar. It's confirmed sir, it's another one them."
"All hands to battle stations. Lieutenant, what is its projected destination?"
"Sir, if it maintain its current course it will make landfall in Australia within 5 hours."
"Thank you lieutenant. Comms? Get on the horn; let the Anzacs know what's coming their way."
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"Okay, boys and girl! Orders just came down from on high that the squids found another one of these Kaiju. It will make landfall in the Sydney area within five hours. We have to make sure that doesn't happen. All right, enough chit-chat! Get to your jets, and includes you Kowalski, you old wrinkly bastard."
The engines of the various F-18s, F-22s, and F-35s filled the air as the Royal Australian Air Force took to the skies to defend their homeland; they knew most of them would not be returning.
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WARNING: POLARIS REPORT
ENERGY FIELD SPIKE DETECTED
EMISSION PATTERN: BLUE
ALERT: BREACH DETECTED
LOCATION: 34S-152E
KAIJU ALERT STATUS RED
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"Sir, POLARIS is going nuts. It's picking up a massive energy spike near Sydney consistent with the Breach."
"Do we have any assets available in the area?"
"Negative, sir, all available units are either engaging the first Kaiju or are assisting in the evacuation."
"Damn it, there must be something we can do!"
"General! The Kaiju has reached the second Breach. It got past the blockade!"
"God, help us."
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Shinji stabbed what had to be the Angel's core with all his might. In that split second the world began to spin and he felt himself being launched away. Abruptly, the darkness of the Dirac Sea was replaced with light. He was in a bay of some kind. There were military vessels with markings he didn't recognize and a giant monster that kicked him into high gear. In that instant Shinji took in his surroundings and reacted on pure instinct.
The monster in front of him was big enough to be an Angel, bizarre enough for it too, but he wasn't going to escape death once and give up. Prog knife in hand Shinji charged. The timer was ticking its way past the one minute mark for combat mode, better make this quick. The Angel slashed at him with its claws but Shinji rolled under it. With both feet planted firmly he lunged upward putting all his weight behind the blade. To his surprise his AT field was still holding strong, almost as if the Angel didn't have an AT field of its own. The clock ticked past thirty second. The prog knife easily sank into the skin of the Angel and with the force of Unit 01 behind it tore the angel in half. In his frantic stabbing to find the core and finish the Angel off Shinji almost missed it. The Angel wasn't bleeding orange, it was bleeding blue.
"Since when did they do that?" he asked himself as the lights in the entry plug switched off.
Oo.
It had been a little over an hour since the purple behemoth had appeared from a hole in the sky and completely annihilated the Kaiju in under a minute. Said Kaiju had taken a direct nuclear strike and was only slightly inconvenienced. But this thing appears and suddenly it goes belly up.
"What do you think doctor?" asked a man in a military uniform.
On the video monitor the navy was just now beginning their approach of the now limp giants.
"I think we have our solution," was the reply of Dr. Jasper Schoenfeld.
Today was certainly interesting.
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A/N: This was written in two hours at 10pm. No, I was not as picky as usual about grammar, spelling, and the stuff that makes good reading possible. If it rambles on let me know. I'm sorry it's sloppy but I'm fairly certain my computer is about to die on me and my desktop is a fossil from a bygone era when we still used floppy disks. I will clean this up, just not right now. This will be sporadically updated maybe every month or so. Mostly planning to use this to get around writers block and because it was really bugging me that I couldn't find any EVA/Pacific Rim crossovers I really enjoyed. They weren't bad, but I just wanted more so here it is. This should be interesting. Okay, time to get some sleep, bye.
Edit:
06/24/2014 Okay, fixed what I spotted and even added a line. The computer is feeling better but I'm currently working on the next chapter of Shattered Skies and that one has priority currently.
