After bringing the Jaeger back to the Shatterdome, Hermann sets a chainsaw down after having a look of the organ controlling Obsidian Fury.
"It's definitely Kaiju." He said and removes his mask. "A secondary brain used to control the hind quarters."
"How do they get into our world?" Jake questioned.
"There's hasn't been a breach in 10 years." Quan said. "The sensors would have pick that up."
"I don't think there was a breach." Hermann said. "Kaiju flesh has a distant radioactive signature particularly to the anti-verse. This specimen does not." He then sets part of the brain down on a cart.
"So... you're saying that it's from our universe." Nate said.
"The genetic fingerprints indicate terrestrial modification techniques probably engineered from Kaiju flesh left over from the war." Hermann said.
"Okay, so, it was only a brain specimen that was somehow added in Obsidian Fury." Rainbow said.
"Precursors didn't do this..." Quan said.
They turned to him.
"Humans did." Quan finished.
"But, who would pull a stunt like that?" Twilight questioned. "And why?"
Outside, Jules and some other workers were examining Obsidian Fury.
Nearby, Amara, Jinhai, Suresh and Meilin watched.
"My God. That punk of slimy crap was piloting Obsidian Fury?" Suresh said in disbelief.
"We gotta get a look inside." Amara said.
Suresh turns to her. "Inside?"
Amara turns to him. "That things' part Kaiju. Come on guys. When are we ever gonna get a chance to see something like this again?"
"Never, never would be good." Suresh said.
"You guys can stay here, I'm going." Amara heads over to the Jaeger.
"No, Amar- Amara!" Suresh trying to stop her.
Soon, they were inside the Jaeger and had flashlight as it was a little dark.
"Guys. Guys, we should not be in here." Suresh said with a fear they might get kicked out.
Soon, they enter a region of the Jaeger, and saw a system of wiring.
"Whoa. It's fused all the way through the system." Amara looked around. "Like muscle tissue."
Soon, they realized they were in the chest region as the missing gap over them is here Gipsy ripped the power core off.
"That's how it was able to move like it did." Jinhai said. "Cool."
"Yeah, cool." Suresh said. "Working with boobs is sounding better and better."
And then Amara noticed something about one section of wire.
"Shine the light over here." Amara said as Jinhai turns his light over on the wire.
And then Amara brought out her knife and slices a piece off.
"Oh, yeah, just go pull on the guts of that weird-ass Kaiju that killed Mako." Suresh said sarcastically.
Unknowingly, a fluid flows down a tube and leaks from a hole.
"What is it?" Jinhai asked.
"I think it's some kind of..."
And then the fluid drops on Jinhai's right arm, and it had some kind of acidic reaction when it hits his skin and burns. And reveals to be Kaiju blood. He screams in pain and drops to the floor.
"Jinhai!" Amara cried.
Meilin and Suresh turns and saw them.
"I told you not to yank on that!" Suresh exclaimed.
"Go get help!" Amara exclaimed. "Go!"
"Oh man, we are so screwed!" Suresh knowing they're in trouble.
Later, Amara waits in a room as Jake, Twilight and Rainbow were seen outside discussing with Quan. And he soon leaves, and the 3 entered the room.
"Is Jinhai okay?" Amara asked.
"He's got some scar, but yeah, he'll live." Jake assured. "The Marshal plan him on probation, Meilin and Suresh too. They bleak wrong, all of them are out."
"Amara, what were you thinking back there?" Rainbow asked. "You or the others seriously could've been hurt or gotten yourselves killed."
"Amara, we're not mad, but we are disappointed in you." Twilight said. "You have to take things seriously around here. This isn't a playground for kids to do whatever they want. This is real dangerous stuff. What do you have to say for yourself?"
"No, it's not their fault." Amara said. "I talked them into it."
"Sorry, I talked to the marshal, but you're dismissed from the program." Jake said.
"We're sorry, Amara." Twilight apologetically. "We did everything we can."
Amara was upset, but tries to hide it. "Never belonged here anyway."
"Really?" Jake questioned. "You know, I used to say the same thing a long time ago." and he sat down. "But, I actually didn't want to be here. Still don't."
"Why did you sign out?" Amara asked.
"What happened?" Rainbow asked.
"We were at war." Jake began telling his story. "My dad was leading the charge and I thought maybe I could see more of him. Maybe even drift with him. Then one night me and Nate got into it. It was over something stupid. I can't remember what. So, I climbed in an old Mark 4 just to show him, I didn't him to be a great pilot.
"That's pretty dumb." Amara said.
"Even for you." Twilight pointed.
"Yeah." Jake nodded in agreement. "
"How far you'd get?" Amara asked.
"About 7 steps, take or leave." Jake said.
"How far did you get?" Amara asked unconvinced.
"About 2 steps. And I blacked out from the strain." Jake admitted. "And the first thing I saw when I woke up, was my dad. He's standing right in front of me looking stunned."
"W-What'd he say?" Amara asked.
"He said that I was out of the program, he said I didn't deserve to be in a Jaeger." Jake said. "Look he said a lot of things. A year later, my dad was gone. And I didn't get a chance to prove him wrong. And more importantly, I could not get a chance to prove it to myself." And he turns to Amara. "You listen to me. Don't let other people think of you define who you are. You like where that takes you. You understand?"
Amara nodded.
"And keep your head up, then you might just be as good looking as me in this type of situation." Jake said.
Amara laughed a bit.
"Serious. This face is set up well." Jake said. "Beauty is a burden. You will be alright."
And then he got up, and he, Twilight and Rainbow started to head out.
"SHAO Industries." Amara suddenly said.
They stopped, and turned to her.
"What?" Jake questioned.
"Obsidian Fury has tech in it made by SHAO Industries." Amara explained.
"That's impossible." Jake said.
"But how?" Rainbow asked.
"Jules and her team scanned every centimeter of that Jaeger." Jake said.
"Insulating meta-materials wound counterclockwise in the shunt cabling." Amara said. "SHAO is the only company that winds that way."
"Amara, are you sure about what you're telling us right now?" Jake asked.
"Yes." Amara answered. "Yeah. I stole a ton to make Scrapper. I thought it might be important."
"Yeah. Thank you." Jake said as they headed out.
Later, they explained that to Nate and Hermann.
"SHAO Industries." Hermann wondered. "They don't have a bio division."
"Not that we know of." Jake said.
"The cabling could have been stolen, just like Amara's Jaeger." Nate said. "We're gonna need more than that to connect Fury to SHAO."
"What about Newt?" Hermann questioned. "He'd have access to internal records and shipping manifests."
"It might be possible." Twilight said.
"Alright. Go see him, keep a low profile." Jake said.
"I have a mission?" Hermann asked. "Finally."
"We take what we know to the Marshal." Jake said.
And they soon parted ways.
SHAO Industries.
Everyone was getting ready for the Drone's deployment. Liwen soon enters the building.
"The building's secured, ma'am." Said a member with her.
"No visitors without the proper credentials." Liwen said. "I don't want anyone interfering with deployment."
And Liwen's tablet went off, and she checks on it.
"What is it?" The member asked.
"I'll be in my office." Liwen said after a moment.
"Okay." He replied.
And he walks away, and Liwen seems concern about something.
Back in the Shatterdome, 2 officers were packing up Amara's things.
"This isn't fair." Suresh said.
Jinhai now with a bandage on his arm, went up to Amara and place a hand on her shoulder.
"I'm sorry." Jinhai apologized. "You don't deserve this."
Amara turns to him. And even Viktoriya felt uneasy of her leaving.
"It was my fault." Amara said. "This is on me."
An officer then hand Amara her bag, and they begin to head out. And the other cadets watched sadly as they go.
"Amara." Viktoriya called out and she turns to her. "The next Jaeger you build, make it a big one."
And then they headed out of the room.
Outside, a team of aircrafts approaching the base with 2 Drone Jaegers.
And strangely, one of them twitches a hand.
Meanwhile, in SHAO Industries, Newton was going over the status of the Drone deployment and everything's going smoothly.
"And we have delivery at 100%, people." Newton announced. "A 100%. That's the way that it's done! Okay? I told you we could do it and we did it."
But then there's trouble with one of the Drones being sent to Moyulan.
"I'm losing link to drone 375." Said the pilot controlling it.
"Why?" Newton questioned as other Drones started to error. "Why? Figure out why!"
A member begins to work out what's wrong.
Back at the base, and unaware of the problem. Jake, Nate, Twilight and Rainbow were with Quan going over the news.
"We'll take what we know to the council in person." Quan explained. "Prepare transport."
Then Jake noticed Amara being brought to her ride home.
"Give me a second." Jake said.
And then Quan's mic was heard.
"The Drones in the field are malfunctioning!"
And the HQ, a member picks up the errors in the 2 Drones.
"Stop the ones coming in from deploying!"
They turned and saw the Drones starting to act up.
And inside one of the heads, the device controlling it cracks as something burst out and flashing. And then it reaches and takes over the head like it was some kind of internal parasite.
On the base, people started running to take cover.
"Get to Gipsy. Go!" Quan said.
And Jake, Nate, Twilgith and Rainbow started running out.
In the air, the Drones started growing spines on it's back. And then 3 claws on each hand, and the Drone roared. And 2 parts of the head parted into a jaw.
Quan reaches his mic. "All pilots, man your Jaegers and engage the hostiles."
And then, the Drones swung the aircrafts into each other and they fell and landed on the base. And Amara runs as one lands. And Valor Omega fires a blast at one of the Drones. And then, the 2nd one grabs the cables of 2 aircrafts and used them as a weapon and swung them like a chain club and hits Valor Omega as it was knocked back a bit.
Meanwhile, in SHAO Industries everyone rushes around trying to disable the Drones. And Newton heads down the stairs to head out.
"Okay, you can do this." Newton remaining calm. "You cool? Yeah, super cool. Just stay calm."
And then a lab member appeared. "Dr. Geiszler! Shao's looking for you."
And he rushed away.
"I know. I'm heading out." Newton said. "I'm heading right-"
Then suddenly, Newton was pull back into a corner. And found it was Hermann.
"Hermann, what are you doing here?" Newton asked. "How did you get in here?"
"I do have PPDC credentials, and besides everyone seems to be a little bit preoccupied with the killer drones your boss just set off!" Hermann explained.
Back at the Shatterdome, a Drone lunges onto Valor Omega's back and grips around the head as the 2nd Drone holds him.
And then, the 1st Drone rips Omega's head off and it lands in front of Amara as she fell back.
2 helicopters take off, but then one was struck by a missile.
And as Amara got up and starts regaining her senses. She looks around as everyone ran and the Jaegers fought the Drones.
Back in SHAO Industries, Hermann explains to Newton of what's going on.
"She used you." Hermann said.
"No." Newton in disbelief.
"She lured you with money and a fancy title." Hermann continued.
"No, no way." Newton said.
"And while you were basking in the glow, she took your research and she twisted it." Hermann finished. "Help me stop her, Newton. Help me save the world, like old times."
"Sorry, technically, uh, you helped me last time." Newton corrected. "Let's get that straight."
"Fine. Help me help you save the world. What do you say?"
"Well I um... I say. Don't shoot!" Newton suddenly raised his hands.
That's because a group of security appeared with guns.
Newton tries to speak Chinese, but fails. "Damn it, why can't I get this language?"
Back at Shatterdome, everyone was still running for cover.
And Amara runs as another Jaeger fights the Drones.
And soon, the cadets appeared and joined Amara. Along with Starlight and the rest of the Mane 7.
"What's happening?!" Jinhai exclaimed.
"What's going on?!" Starlight exclaimed.
"Are those Jaegers?" Ryoichi asked.
"No they're Drones from SHAO Industries." Amara said.
"What are they doing?" Tahima asked.
"I don't know. They just started acting crazy." Amara said.
Hey!" Nate called as they turned to them. "To the deck now!"
"Get back to your quarters RIGHT NOW!" Jake yelled.
As one Drones fight the Jaeger, another Drone fires missiles at the right leg of Titan Redeemer.
"Yes, sir!" Ryoichi yelled. "Go, go, go!"
And they quickly started running.
And soon, Redeemer's right leg cripples and then the 2,000 ton Jaeger started to fall back. And everyone to get out of the way, and Nate quickly helps a woman help and ran. And then the Jaeger started falling towards him.
But then suddenly, Jules came from nowhere and pushes him out of the way. And hits the ground as the Jaeger hits the ground.
And when the dust cleared, they stared at each other.
But then their moment was cut short when Jake appeared.
"Really?" Jake said in disbelief. "Now?"
Meanwhile, Hermann and Newton were in the elevator with the security team.
And then Newton made a gesture with his face. And Hermann got the idea, and then started coughing as they glanced at him.
And then Hermann whacks his cane at a member, and Newton grabs hold of the one next to him as he pulled out a gun. And Hermann starts whacking the others with his cane.
"Hermann!" Newton called as the guns fires. "Little help?"
When the elevator opened, Hermann continues whacking the members as Newton knocks the last with a punch.
And then they exit the elevator.
"Thank you, Newton." Hermann said. "I'd hug you if it's alright."
"Actually it's fine." Newton said.
And then Hermann hugs him.
"You're don grabbing me, let's take care of the drones right?" Newton said.
And they head to the lab.
Meanwhile, in the lab they have lost complete control of the Drones.
"Shut down all systems! Now!" A member called out.
And then Newton and Hermann enters the lab as Newton points the gun.
"Everyone get out of the lab, or I'll shoot you." Newton threatened. "I'll shoot you twice."
"Always knew you'd go nuts!" A member said as she leaves.
"You are offcially fired." Newton said to her.
And soon, they approached a desk.
"What do we do? How do we stop this?" Hermann asked.
"There's a backdoor Hermann." Newton got to work.
"To what?" Hermann asked.
"To the Drone's subroutine." Newton said and walks over to the screen on the wall. "I added a subroutine just in case I wanna to get in here and poke around down the road."
"Sneaky bastard." Hermann smirked.
Newton chuckled. "I know, right."
And soon he was done, but then the screen showed something else saying "INITIATING BREACH PROTOCOL".
And that brought Hermann into very concerned.
"What did you just do?" Hermann asked concernedly.
"What I been planning for the last 10 years." Newton said and turns to him as the screen into some kind of DNA strand. "I'm ending the world."
Hermann was completely shocked.
Halfway around the world, in Hawaii, a group of 5 Drones gathered around.
HONOLULU
UNTIED STATES
And then a power beam fires from their chests and aimed at the water.
And soon, a breach was detected.
The same is happening in Hong Kong, China. Anchorage, Alaska, and a breach begins to form.
Soon, it was detected in the Shatterdome.
And soon, Quan enters the room.
"Where the hell are my pilots?!" Quan demanded. "Sitrep!"
"Breaches detected, multiple locations!" She announced. "It's the Drones, sir!"
Quan reaches his mic. "All pilots, breaches detected. Drones in the field are opening multiple breaches across the Pacific Rim."
Outside, the shield doors begin to close.
But then, one of the Drones fired multiple missile that soon spun in a spiral. And soon hit the HQ killing Quan and anyone else in there. And then it broke lose from the ceiling and falls and hits the ground.
Back in SHAO Industries, Hermann turns to Newton completely shocked of what he was doing.
"Why? Why would you do this." Hermann asked.
"Why would I do this?" Newton questioned himself as he removes his coat. "Well, I guess I wouldn't. Normally, not really my style. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe I hated you for treating me like an insignificant little joke of a man. Maybe that's why he did it, Hermann. I did it. He said strangely at that last part.
And he laughed a bit. "There you go. There's the problem." He then turns to him. "I'm not just feeling totally myself these days."
Hermann's eyes widen. "You."
And then a flashback shows when Newton first drifted with the Kaiju brain. And then a Precursor was seen.
"Precursors." Hermann gasped.
It appears that Newton has taken 1 too many drifts of a Kaiju brain.
Newton soon then turns away. "Very good, Hermann. You figured it out." He said. "And as usual, a step behind."
"Newton, you are a good man." Hermann trying to reason him.
"No, Hermann." Newton said.
"Please, you must fight back, Newton." Hermann said.
And Newton grasped Hermann by the throat. "He is not strong enough!" He said mostly the Precursor did. "None of you, are strong enough!"
And then, Newton's senses came back.
"I'm sorry, Hermann." Newton regretfully said. "They're in my head."
Then Liwen grabs the gun and aims at Newton.
"Let him go!" She demanded.
Newton turns to her.
"You're not going to ruin my life's work." Liwen said as Newton drops Hermann.
"Oh, hey boss." Newton smiled.
Back at the Shatterdome, just as the shield doors were about to close, one of the Drones quickly rushed and holds them from closing. And begins to pry them open as the 2nd helps out.
And soon, they pried the doors open to get in. And they started attacking as Amara and the cadets and the Mane 7 quickly and joins Jake, Nate and Jules hiding under Redeemer.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Jake said. "I told you to get to quarters."
"All the doors are blocked!" Amara said as they joined them.
"We couldn't find another way in!" Rainbow said.
"We do we do?!" Renata exclaimed.
Back in SHAO, Liwen confronts Newton with the gun.
"How did you do it without me knowing?" Liwen questioned.
"I mean 38% of your company is fully automated." Newton said and raised his hands. "It really wasn't very hard re allocate a little over here, and a little over there. And slipped in a little Kaiju surprise without you noticing. Especially since you always thought... you were the smartest person in the room."
"In about a second, I'm going to be." Liwen said.
"Stop!" Hermann suddenly whacks Liwen's gun.
It threw Liwen's aim away from Newton. And Newton quickly made a run for it, as Liwen tries to shoot him.
"Wait, wait, wait! Newt has no control of himself." Hermann exclained. "It's the Precursors. They must've infected his mind when we drifted with the Kaiju."
"Shut up!" Liwen points the gun at him.
And then Liwen contacts security. "Security, find and detain Dr. Geiszler. If he tries to resist, put a bullet in his head."
In the Shatterdome, the group were still under Redeemer.
"Running out of time, guys!" Rainbow exclaiemd.
"Stay here. We're gonna try and get to Gipsy." Jake said.
Gipsy then took a missile strike at the shoulder.
"You better hurry before it gets wrecked." Twilight said. "Go now!"
"You ready for this?" Jake asked Nate.
"No, you?" Nate replied.
"No." Jake said. "On 3."
"Great."
"1, 2..."
They were about to make a dash to Gipsy.
"Hello, anyone there?" A comm voice suddenly stopping them.
Jake reaches his mic. "Gottlieb?"
"Jake! Thank God." Hermann relieved.
"We're under attack." Jake said. "You need to force Liwen-"
"-and shut down the Drones!"
Hermann made his way to Liwen as she begin diagnostic on the Drones.
"It isn't her, it isn't Liwen." Hermann explained. "It was Newt. The Precursors. They've infected him."
"They're controlling his mind."
"It was Newt?!" Twilight exclaimed in shocked.
"Gottlieb, can you get him to disable the Drones?" Nate asked.
"Hermann, where is he now?" Twilight asked.
"No, he got away." Hermann answered.
A truck hurries across the base as one of the Drones went after it.
And then once close enough, it then swatted it's right claw at the vehicle. And the truck was sent flying through the air and hits Bracer Phoenix on the right arm.
"Gottlieb, shut them down." Jake said.
Liwen begins to work on shutting down the Drones.
"I've penetrated the subroutine." She said.
But just before it was finished, the virus begins to stop it.
"It's trying to lock you out." Hermann said.
"Feedback loop." Liwen said and walks off.
In Anchorage, the Drones continued to open the Breach.
And under the water, a clawed hand emerges from the Breach and grips the seabed. And the head of Category 4 Kaiju emerges.
At the Shatterdome, one of the Drones looks around dangerously close to the group's hiding place.
"We got company!" Spike seeing the Drone.
"What the hell is going on, Gottlieb?" Jake called him.
As the Drones nears them, suddenly one of Redeemer's pilots who was still alive. Raised his right arm, and Redeemer's arm lifts up, and then a gun emerges and fires at the Drone and the head was shot clean off.
Hearing this, the remaining Drone turns to Redeemer and roars. And then leaps into the air as the group backs away.
"Get back, look out!" Rainbow yelled.
And then the Drone lands and stomps on Redeemer's head, making sure it stays dead. And the Jaeger's body limps.
"Gottlieb, shut them down, or we're gonna die." Jake said.
And then the Drone spots them.
"Shut them down!" Jake yelled.
Liwen quickly works her tablet and types a code.
And then quickly brought it up on the screen. And it starts to clear the virus.
And then the Drone started acting up.
And inside it's head, the device suddenly blows.
Hermann saw this.
"Yes!" He cheers.
And then, the Drone started coming down.
And then it falls over, and it's head hits the spikes on Redeemer's mace as Kaiju blood spills out as the group backed away.
In Anchorage, the Category 4 Kaiju was half out of the Breach.
But then, the Drones started acting up. And the devices blow up, and the the power beams hit the Kaiju. And then the Breache closed, and the Kaiju was killed.
Soon, the screen showed all the Breaches across the Pacific coast closed.
"Liwen has disabled the Drones." Hermann announced in relief. "The Breaches are closed. I repeat the Breaches, are closed."
But then, there was an alarming beep and they looked at the screen in horror.
"Oh, no." Hermann said in fear.
"Oh no, what?" Jake asked.
"What's wrong?" Twilight asked.
"3-"
"-Kaiju have gotten through." Hermann announced.
The screen showed 3 Kaiju's locations off Russia and South Korea's coast, both Category 4. And a Category 5 several miles off the coast of Japan, in the East China Sea. The 2nd ever after Slattern.
"South Korea, Russian coast, and the East China Sea." Hermann announced. "2 Cat 4's and a Cat 5."
"Copy that."
"Get back to the dome." Jake said.
"We're gonna need all the help we can get."
Hermann and Liwen exchanged looks.
Author's Note:
When I first heard of Newton being the villain, I was completely shocked.
Guess he took one too many drifts with the Kaiju brain.
Oh, I actually have in mind of a little Jaeger surprise for the Mane 7 in the next chapter.
Just me, when I say it. It is mind blowing.