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A computer display types a set of two lines across the screen reading the following:

Kaijū (怪獣, kaijū) Japanese: Monster

Jaeger (yā guhr) German: Hunter

The screen fades and we hear a young woman speak off screen.

Young Woman: A long time ago, there was life on the Earth's moon. For many years, we have wondered if there was life beyond the moon, amongst the stars. But it turns out we were looking in the wrong direction.

We then see what appears to be a scene from deep beneath the ocean, near what appears to be a ridge in the ocean floor where some aquatic life can be seen swimming over it. Suddenly, a glowing energy appears just above the ridge, forming a portal that links this world with another, unknown world.

Young Woman: When alien life entered our world, it was from deep beneath the Pacific Ocean. A fissure between two tectonic plates, a portal between dimensions, the 'Breach'. I was twenty-eight when the first Kaiju made land in San Francisco.

The view then changes and we see a giant monster, a Kaiju, roars loudly as it tears through a large, dull red bridge known as the 'Golden Gate Bridge'. As the Kaiju tears through the bridge, we see at least several cars fall into the water below the bridge. The Kaiju is described as standing about 20 stories tall with 2 large arms, two smaller arms, and two human like legs, with a large jaw filled with razor sharp teeth, and has a large vertical fin on top of its head and a second, even larger vertical fin on its back. Shortly after the Kaiju tears all the way through the Golden Gate Bridge, a squadron of A-10s, fighter jets with long, cigar shaped fuselages, rectangular wings with a distinct airfoil profile, engine pods mounted on top of the fuselage towards the aft section, and a bracket shaped tail, fly overhead and make several strafing runs on the Kaiju with their powerful guns that buzz loudly as each plane fires at the Kaiju from all sides. KKKKKT! BRRRRT! Some of the planes also fire missiles at the Kaiju, which explode as they land on the Kaiju's leathery hide, though the Kaiju seems to be unfazed by them. The screen then goes black.

Young Woman: By the times tanks, jets, and missiles took it down, 6 days and 35 miles later, 3 cities were devastated, tens of thousands of lives were lost. We mourned our dead, memorialized the attack and moved on.

As the young woman speaks, we see numerous news reels on television regarding the devastation that laid in the Kaiju's wake, the aftermath of the attack, where the Kaiju's remains now lye, the response from numerous media about the attack, and finally a memorial of the attack featuring the Kaiju's skull on display inside a glass case. Suddenly we see footage of yet another Kaiju attack, this one looking completely different from the last one.

Young Woman: And then, only 6 months later, a second attack hit Manila.

We see news footage of the aftermath of that attack as well.

Female News Reporter: The toxic factor of the Kaiju blood creates a toxic phenomenon named "Kaiju Blue."

Young Woman: Then a third one hit Cabo, and then the fourth. That's when we realized, this wasn't going to stop. This was just the beginning. We needed a new weapon. A group of 10 young women stepped up, together with two mysterious cats, named Luna and Artemis, and persuaded the world to come together, pooling in its resources and setting aside old rivalries for the sake of the greater good. To fight giants, these young women, including myself, became giants themselves. That's how the Jaeger program got started.

We see some promotional videos about these new machines being built and propaganda that backed them up. We see another young woman, with long blonde hair decorated with a large red bow and sapphire blue eyes trying out a new gadget that covered her outreached left arm which enables a giant, human like robotic arm to close a hand into a fist a smoothly as she does. We then see a group of scientists with the young woman we saw before with several other women appearing confused and disoriented as their looking through some rather complicated mechanical layouts and blueprints.

Young Woman: There were setbacks at first. Exactly how to develop a system that can easily be operated by one user proved mind boggling. Eventually a solution was found. The operator essentially 'wears' the Jaeger like an enormous mechanized suit of armor, with the operators connected both physically and neurologically, by synchronizing their minds with a super powerful computer inside these Jaeger 'suits.' They would later become known as "Jaeger Suited Giantesses". Then we started winning. Jaeger Suited Giantesses were stopping Kaijus everywhere.

We see news footage about a newly launched Jaeger Suited Giantess named 'Romeo V', a mostly navy blue Jaeger with human like anatomy and posture, and what appears to be a long blade extending above the chest plate in front of the face. This Jaeger Suit is worn and operated by the young blonde-haired woman we saw earlier. Her name is revealed to be Mina Aino. Next we see night vision footage showing Romeo V fighting against a completely new Kaiju, throwing several punches and an uppercut at the Kaiju, and then taking what appears to be part of a destroyed bridge in one hand, and swinging it like a club at the Kaiju, landing another hit. Due to their immense size, the movements of the Jaeger Suited Giantesses, while very human like, appear to be much slower than those of average sized humans. The same goes for the animal like movements of the Kaiju.

Young Woman: No one had ever expected that group of young women would be the ones saving the world all over again. So these young women once again turned into idols and role models for many women across the globe, danger turned into propaganda, and Kaiju into toys. We got really got at it, winning.

We then see news reels showing Mina and a white cat named Artemis appearing on 'Cullen Tonight Live', along with the upbeat morale and support of people worldwide. We then see a effigy of a Kaiju made from sticks and tree brush being set ablaze, then a young child placing a toy replica of 'Horizon Neptune', a Chinese based Jaeger operated by a woman named Michelle Kaioh, who has greenish blue hair and navy blue eyes, onto a shelf, together with a collection of Kaiju and Jaeger Suited Giantess replica figures. We see another Kaiju fight being televised like a UFC (Ultimate Fighter's Championship) fight, pitting Romeo V against a Kaiju which had been codenamed 'Hardship'. We then see the aftermath of another battle which sees Tacit Uranus, a Japanese based Jaeger Suit operated by Amara Tenoh, a fairly tall, somewhat built young woman with short, dirty blonde hair and navy blue eyes. According to Michelle, the two of them are best friends and are usually fighting alongside each other. Next we are introduced to a newly established industry, Kaiju Black Market, a black market industry specializing in the exploitation and preservation of Kaiju remains, sometimes sold for profit or sent to laboratories for research. Finally we see a Japanese based live television program which has a 'guy-in-a-suit' setup playing the role of a Kaiju. The television show host and a guess are seen comically screaming in terror as the Kaiju appears to "roar" at them.

Young Woman: And then, then that all changed...

As she says these words, the young woman's tone changes from upbeat to depressed.

End of Chapter