Chapter XXI

Explosions shook the Shatterdome as the helicopters exploded. Alarms blared and guards rushed passed towards the landing pads.

"Mako, how are the agents looking?" Raleigh asked ducking into a siding in the hall as a squad of Anon's men ran past.

"Coming in hot, there's still a lot of traffic over there."

"Tell them to get as low as they can."

"I'll put you on the radio with them"

Karol could feel the atmosphere literally tense while the conversation between Mako and Raleigh continued to paint the bleak picture of their plan in action. The distraction hadn't drawn enough of the men away from the landing point, they would be seen unless by some miracle they were able to find a really low cloud or a fog blew in from nowhere.

"Gypsy we are four hundred meters from the landing site, we're popping smoke."

"Don't, wait a bit wait until you're sure they could see you." Raleigh said panicking.

"They're going to see us" the agent muttered.

"Mako do you have a visual on the chutes?"

"No"

"Pop smoke when Mako can see you"

"Copy that Gypsy."

Raleigh turned around "We need to get to the manual override of the steam vents where they're landing, quickly."

"I'll do it" Karol offered.

"Hurry, we have less than five minutes"

Herman heard the commotion as the men rushed outside to deal with the explosions. Anon stayed with him in the command room talking to himself about how foolish the rest of the world was and that they would destroy themselves by trying to save themselves. Herman didn't pay much attention in fact he'd gotten used to Anon complaining about everything by prancing around the room talking in a low voice so the only thing he could hear was the sudden curse that raised the volume a loud enough for Herman to want to break the man's neck.

The new Kaiju tracker was almost online and if it worked they could spot any Kaiju that could pose a threat at the moment then once they had the supplies the Shatterdome would get moved back several miles and Anon's vision of the new Jaeger program would turn into its full nightmarish existence. Unless of course the military succeeded in taking the Shatterdome back before Anon could blow it sky high.

"Karol." Raleigh's voice was getting more and more static filled every time he talked. "There should be a maintenance hatch on your right. You're going to want to pull the red lever and get behind something as fast as you can."

"Got it" Karol muttered swallowing his fear of being flash boiled alive he opened the panel and pulled the lever down. There was a hiss then the air started getting considerably more humid and hotter. He ducked behind the only thing there was to duck behind, a metal support that sort of protected the maintenance panel, then before he could even tell what happened a cloud of steam rushed past him like a freight train filling the entire tunnel with the musty smell of dry cleaning. The roar was so deafening Karol could have sworn it just went away for a second then when those seconds turned into minutes without hearing the sound he realized it was over and ran down the tunnel ears still ringing and back into the Shatterdome.

The two agents were from MI6 and the CIA their names were Booker and Tom, Tom was trained as a sniper in the British military for several years he was short and had a lanky build but was unmistakably a fighter. Booker on the other hand looked like he was born for killing. The man was at least six, six had a rigid jawline carved out by the muscles on his face. His height was complimented by his build which made him look like a bull without horns. Both were carrying silenced M16 assault rifles and silenced .50 caliber sniper rifles.

Karol and the agents met with the rest of the group by Gypsy Danger II hiding behind the massive body of the machine.

"Anon is in the command room right now if we could get a clear shot right now it'll be over and done with we can call the cavalry and get this sorted out by the end of the day." Raleigh said "in the mean time we can stay in the Jaegers and wait for it to be over."

"No" Tom said shaking his head "if we kill Anon we only risk that there is another detonator either attached to his heartbeat in which case the moment we shoot we set off the explosives or he gave the detonator to someone else. We have to wait until we are absolutely sure that killing him will stabilize the situation not throw it out of order even more."

"The other problem is that he may have hidden the detonator and told his men where to find it so that in the case of his death they could still do the job for him." Booker put in.

"True, but if we managed to get the Jaegers out we could save them and fight the Kaiju until we were able to rebuild the Shatterdome."

"That would work fine if the pilots of Phantom Elba hadn't posted all over the internet that they were fully behind Anon and that he had the only reasonable solution to the war." Booker pointed out

"When did that happen?" Jenna asked she didn't sound convinced.

"Last week, I would have thought you'd know"

"No," Jenna said "I don't think any of us did I'm not exactly going to check my facebook when I'm inside a building that's being held hostage by some money grubbing psychopath!"

No one spoke for a bit then Karol had an idea "We could catch him alone kidnap him barricade ourselves in the command room and hold him there until we knew where the detonator is then find it destroy and kill him."

"It's actually a fairly solid plan," Tom seemed intrigued by the idea "it has a few flaws of course like, whether or not Anon will cooperate"

"Don't worry about that" Booker pulled out a box from his gear and opened it to show an array of sharp tools "if he doesn't I'll make him"

Karol opened his mouth to speak when he was cut off by alarms.

Herman plugged the console in and almost immediately red dots started popping up all over the screen flickering and disappearing. Then hundreds of dead Kaiju showed up all over the ocean floor.

"Incredible" Anon said "how did you do it?"

"Newton gave me some of his skin tissue and I was able to scan it into the programming so now it know what to look for."

Just at that moment the breach started dilating and Kaiju came pouring through.

"Moment of truth" Anon said smiling and pointing his gun at Herman's head "Don't worry I'll only kill you if it works"

Herman felt himself brace for the impact of the bullet when the alarms started blaring he dared to look up at the console and saw the Kaiju swimming out in hundreds of different directions then there was a bright flash and everything was gone.

Anon walked over to the intercom "Somewhere in the Shatterdome are two agents. If they do not turn themselves in I will personally blow this base sky high you may thank the esteemed Dr. Herman Gottileb for not closing his radio conversations with the UN."

He walked back over to the console and saw four Kaiju signatures swimming for Hong Kong. "All Jaeger Pilots might want to know that there are four growing monsters heading for our shores. As for the rest of the world. They can wait until we've taken our time killing the ones that pose a threat."

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