Hercules Hanson, along with his son Chuck, were inside the Com-pod of Striker Eureka. The Veteran Rangers were standing in the bay of London, along with many other Jaegers as they awaited for the event to begin. Herc had been waiting carefully as things had unfolded, the current Marshal having brought him in on details that were much too dangerous to be released to the public for now. He hadn't expected for several different classes of Jaeger to be stuffed inside the Wall, including the bodies of the Delta Maverick pilots.

Even now, the world was still healing after the war, even though it had been over for nearly a year. Cities were being rebuilt, the walls were coming down. People were becoming more educated about the world around them and Humanity as a whole was growing stronger. However, with all the new positives came massive negatives. People were afraid of another major Kaiju incursion happening, as the minor ones were put down quickly and no one was in the crossfire.

Government administrations were under investigation due to the events of the Kaiju War, the peoples of the World were not pleased with their leaders at all. Several regimes actually fell; Russia and China being at the forefront of the collapse. Monarch, PLF and the PPDC were quick to send aid and resources to help the newly established governments. China had become a Capitalist nation while Russia became more of a Democratic states nation, both were having multiple Jaegers guard them as they worked out their new centers of power.

Several other countries fell but they were quickly brought back, however, the PPDC were forced to wage a war in Iraq due to the sudden influx of mutated monsters being used to attack everything. Jaegers from several closer Shatterdomes had been sent to Iraq, along with several militaries from several other Governments to deal with the mutant infestation. Earth's Nations were not happy and even France put forth a proposal to use a Hollow Earth Energy based Nuclear bomb to end it entirely.

That had been vetoed quite quickly, by everyone. No one wanted to see what a Hollow Earth Nuclear device would do, when the problem didn't require nukes in the first place. Herc knew that if Hollow Earth nukes were created, something devastating would happen.

"Dad," Chuck said, motioning with his head towards the front, "Diablo Lightning is landing."

Chuck wasn't wrong either, Diablo Lightning had just been detached from its cables and had touched down on the heavily reinforced pad below it. Standing between Crimson Dragon and Echoing Tower, the Jaeger was quite the sight to behold. It was clearly built with the female body in mind, the hourglass figure gave that away easily. But the head was that of Crimson Typhoon, something that looked out of place.

Herc studied the new Jaeger design and found it to actually fit the pilots inside of it. Rias and Akeno had been two of the survivors that had seen Crimson Typhoon after it had defended Osaka from a Kaiju attack. He then noticed the arms were oddly shaped, the shoulders having spheres in them instead of the regular joint system. He pulled up the schematics of the Mark six before him and blinked in surprise.

"Two Magic Generators," He said, feeling impressed, "One in each shoulder. Allows both girls to use their own magics without hampering the other in combat."

"Or combining them together." Chuck mused.

Herc looked over the design again, noticing the hands particularly. All the fingers were tipped with diamond shaped claws, and the thumb was made up of two thumbs.

"Seems that Rias got her wish," Chuck said with a grin, "Double thumbs, connected together for the cannons."

Rias had studied it out and stated that the five fingers used in the plasma cannons lost more energy per shot then any normal plasma weapon used by the PPDC. Her Jaeger's design sought to rectify that very power loss by adding another thumb to the first one, thus giving a perfect symmetrical weapon. Herc shook his head before looking down the Jaeger, noticing it was covered in a smooth armor of Crimson's color scheme.

Chuck spoke up, "She's clearly very feminine, but even with all that smooth, crimson armor, its still a war machine built to fight Kaiju."

Herc nodded before alarms started to go off inside of Striker's com-pod, Chuck quickly pulling up the results, "Massive magic circle...forming under...Diablo!"

Herc was already reaching for the radio when the Jaeger stumbled back, then vanished in a flash of fiery orange. All the Jaegers backed up as Diablo Lightning was gone, then when panic would have entered, Herc was at the radio.

"All personnel," He said, calmly as though ordering dinner, "Diablo Lightning has been taken, I repeat, we have had a Jaeger kidnapping. All stations are to go to code red, begin scanning for Diablo Lightning's signature and begin plans of recovery."


Riser Phenex smirked as the Teleportation circle began to power up and summon his soon to be bride. He wasn't going to let some lousy contract stop him, Riser Phenex, the third of Lord Phenex from getting what he was due. He flew into the air to get some space away from the circle as it grew...and continued to grow. He frowned as his Peerage flew away from the edges of the expanding circle, causing his frown to deepen further as the power started to fill the air around the ground he had used.

This wasn't supposed to be happening, it was simply summoning one person. He could easily deal with the rest of her measly peerage later after they were married. He was about to say this aloud when the circle stopped expanding and then the ground exploded, causing a crater to appear underneath the circle before the circle vanished.

"What is going on?" He said to himself as the smoke started to clear.


Rias Gremory and Akeno Himejima groaned as one as they woke up from the very disorienting teleportation, the crimson haired Devil waking up first. Diablo Lightning had just become theirs when they had been teleported...somewhere. She pulled up her instruments, shaking the haziness out of her skull as Akeno awoke and the Drift stabilized.

"Beginning scan," Rias said, needing to speak aloud, "beginning raising procedures."

"Acknowledged," Akeno said, as both young ladies started to rise up as one, "beginning raising procedures."


Riser Phenex looked in shock as the massive titan of metal rose out of the massive crater, hundreds of feet high. He had been hoping for Rias Gremory to be there but inside he caught himself a Jaeger, one that was red as crimson in color. The head wasn't human but its single 'eye' shook itself in such a human manner that got Riser thinking, could his Rias be inside that head?

"Riser!" His younger sister, Ravel said loudly, "We have to go, that thing isn't worth Rias!"

Riser shook his head then a massive ball of flame expanded in the air above him, might as well handle this now. If Rias had become a pilot, he was going to have to end her little rebellion here and now. Taking the legs off the Jaeger would do the trick.

"Destroy the Jaeger but leave the head intact, that's where the pilots are."

The Jaeger suddenly acted, its hand spinning around before it became a cannon of sorts. That wasn't what got Riser to stop dead. It was the energy that was building up inside of it, a pure destructive power that only one family had now. The Power of Destruction.


Rias fired off her Destruction cannon, obliterating the fireball that Riser Phenex held in his hand. She smugly smiled as the fireball vanished and so did most of Riser's upper body, her right arm pumping in victory as Akeno activated her weapon. The hand twisted and became the cannon, lightning building within itself. Not just any lightning, Holy Lightning.

"Holy Cannon," Akeno grinned, "fully charged."