Nuclear Thunder

Prologue

The Breach was first opened up in August of twenty thirteen on the floor of Challenger Deep, in the Mariana Trench between two tectonic plates by a race called the Precursors. On opening, the Precursors released a biologically engineered race, the Kaiju. This race was made specifically as weapons of warfare against Earth's human population. They are extremely hostile and toxic creatures designed with a massive array of biological weaponry.

When the portal was opened, the Precursors sent a three hundred foot beast, codenamed 'Trespasser' through. It emerged from the San Francisco Bay and destroyed the Golden Gate Bridge. From there, the creature cut a three-mile wide path through the city and went onto a six-day assault that spanned thirty-five miles. It continued the destruction on to Sacramento and Oakland.

When a combined fleet of British and American military forces failed to bring the creature down, the decision to use tactical nuclear missiles was made. However, it took the use of three tactical nuclear missiles to take the monster out. As the destruction came to an end, three cities were left in a state of devastation. The dead were mourned, the event was memorialized and mankind moved on. The incident was later known as 'K-DAY'.

SHIELD, well aware of the situation and on standby the entire time, had the rest of the world to take care of. They couldn't focus on the Kaiju and so, they left that up to the defences already in place. But, just because they couldn't focus, didn't mean they hadn't thought up a contingency plan if all else failed. Had Striker Eureka and Gipsy Danger and their pilots failed, SHIELD would have acted. From experience, they've known that otherworldly beings don't visit once. They tend to re-visit until they get what they want, and SHIELD couldn't take the chance that the apocalypse would come about, again.

Since the Breech closed in twenty twenty-five, SHIELD had a side project, as a precautionary measure. Project J.O.K.E. Otherwise known as, Project Jaeger on Kaiju Extinction.

The project consisted of eight newly designed, SHIELD improved and equipped Jaegers. The tech team were the best in their respective professions, Agents Leopold Ward and Jemma Coulson, Mr. Tony Stark, and Doctors Bruce Banner, Hermann Gottlieb and Newton Geiszler. Having experienced the neural link with their natural counterparts of family, with the exception of Stark and Banner, the others had a better understanding of how the computers needed to interact with the living beings controlling the defenders. It made for a smoother ride, with less RABIT-hole risk.

As above mentioned, humankind moved on. They celebrated their victory, grieved their losses and rebuilt their homes.

On March seventeenth, in the year twenty twenty-eight, researchers and scientists of SHIELD, from all over the world began conferring over readings that were thought gone. These readings came from a place in the Pacific Ocean. Although these readings were similar to ones already experienced, they were on a larger scale! The tectonic plates had been forced further apart since the Breech and the readings could only mean a larger portal, for larger or more monsters. This portal would open within the month so...

Now, they had to act.

Now, they had to do as they'd always prepared.

Now, they had to go to war.

For freedom...

For life...

To live...