CHAPTER 4: SHIT GETS REAL
(Two armored personnel carriers come to halt at Alta Maria Cathedral. SARAH, HUI, and over a dozen soldiers get out, though SARAH leaves her shotgun inside. They enter the church, finding it empty.)
SARAH: Hey, is anyone here?
HUI: (in Spanish) Hey, is anyone here?
(A priest enters)
PRIEST: (in Spanish) Yeah. (notices how everyone is armed) What's going on?
HUI: (in Spanish) We're looking for leftover kaiju parts. Anything no one wanted to buy.
PRIEST: (in Spanish) No. Some Chinese came and paid a fortune for everything we had left. Said it was for a research project. They just left a little while ago.
HUI: The Chinese already have the parts.
SARAH: Those bastards.
HUI: (in Spanish) Do you know where they went?
PRIEST: (in Spanish) They mentioned the North Port, and they left in a black Mazda Whirlwind.
HUI: (in Spanish) Thanks a ton for your help.
(The PRIEST grins. CUT to everyone back in the vehicles, SARAH clutching her shotgun. HUI is on the phone with NEWTON in one of the backseats, while a Filipino soldier is driving.)
NEWTON: Alright, I'm going to need you to chase after them and confiscate the parts.
HUI: I mean, they haven't actually broken the law.
NEWTON: They have put the Philippines and quite possibly humanity in mortal danger. We've got to do this.
HUI: Okay, we're going after them. Let's finish this mission!
(The Filipino soldier presses the gas, and the APCs speed off towards the North Port.
CUT to BUTTERFACE, which gradually rises out of the water as it approaches the shores of the Philippines. Camera pans sideways, revealing STERLING PHOENIX jogging through the sea. CUT to BUTTERFACE rising from the deep. CUT to STERLING running, and then jumping into the air, fist held high. Small rockets activate beneath STERLING's feet, assisting its jump.
CUT to RALEIGH)
RALEIGH: This is OUR planet, you son of a bitch!
(RALEIGH slams a button, and rockets fire up across STERLING's back. MAKO twists a dial. The massive metal Jaeger falls through the air, and the sheer, insane inertia of the colossal machine is palpable. Spikes sprout from STERLING's knuckles, before BUTTERFACE deftly moves out of the way of the Jaeger entirely.)
BUTTERFACE: (with its four mouths) Blettthhh!
(STERLING slams into the sea, but breaks its fall with its hands. CUT to inside the Jaeger, where MAKO and RALEIGH look surprised, and have mirrored its movements. CUT to STERLING, looking up at the monster. The Kaiju is about the same height, but much bigger. If a robot with no facial muscles could look super pissed, that would be STERLING's face. But that doesn't matter, because BUTTERFACE'S mouths quickly seize STERLING and brutally impale the machine on its horn. CUT inside the Jaeger, MAKO and RALEIGH both scream in pain.)
RALEIGH: Newton! We're incapacitated, get us out of here!
NEWTON: Oh, God. God. Alright, I'll get a copter and we'll come get you guys right now!
MAKO: Not yet. (She presses the sword button. CUT to STERLING's hand producing a floppy thing, which quickly straightens into a badass longsword. CUT to STERLING brandishing the sword, looking tough and defiant, if trapped and impaled, as BUTTERFACE withdraws its horn from STERLING PHOENIX's torso. CUT to MAKO.)
MAKO: For my family.
(BUTTERFACE's horn stabs STERLING's shoulder, making a variety of sickening crunchy noises that are probably very bad. STERLING's sword goes limp and useless, almost as if it was some kind of phallic symbolism that has been trumped by even stronger phallic symbolism. CUT to inside the Jaeger, where MAKO's arm and shoulder have been ripped off her body down to the ribs. She appears to be in shock. RALIEGH is rushing over to her)
RALEIGH: Did you send the copter?!
(CUT to the command center)
NEWTON: Yup! Everything's going to be fine, just get you and Mako out of the Jaeger!
RICKY: I don't think everything's going to be fine.
NEWTON: Shut up and go get one of the helicopters.
RICKY: We could hire someone to do that if we had more funding.
NEWTON: It's gonna work, alright? I have a plan. (His phone rings, RICKY exits as NEWTON answers the phone) Hello?
HUI: Hey, it's Hui, we're at the port, and the Chinese are on this boat. The boat hasn't left yet because they're taking on some people who want to get away from Manila, but it's a Chinese ship, so-
NEWTON: Hijack it.
HUI: What?
NEWTON: You're going to have to hijack it. Interrogate people, all that stuff. Kaiju parts have gone up in priority…we need whatever we can get.
HUI: I thought we already needed whatever we can get.
NEWTON: Well, now it's by any means necessary or whatever, okay? Just do it, and don't hurt anyone.
HUI: If this wasn't super important…fine. We'll call you back when we're done.
(CUT to STERLING PHOENIX, which is now being actively gutted and shredded by the kaiju. Like a doll, it lies limply in the monster's coils, its left arm dangling by a thread. "Radioactive" starts to play in the background. CUT inside the Jaeger, where a "Blethhhh!" can be heard, as RALEIGH carries a limp and bleeding MAKO up out of the cockpit, into the Jaeger's head.)
RALEIGH: You're gonna be okay, Mako. We're all gonna be okay!
(CUT outside to the Jaeger's arm falling into the sea. CUT to soldiers, HUI, and SARAH silently detaining the students who had the parts, taking the parts, loading the stuff into the personnel carriers, and leaving. CUT to RALEIGH and MAKO jumping onto a net dropped by an approaching helicopter. CUT to the perspective of the city, as the kaiju drops the jaeger and moves toward the camera, and the helicopter quietly moves away. CUT to MAKO and RALEIGH being pulled into the helicopter. Mako leans against the back, as medics redress her shoulder. She looks away from the camera, towards the city, as the kaiju destroys it in the background. Fade to black.)