Chapter Four
At the beginning of 2033, the Jaeger program was on the verge of being shut down. Only seven Jaegers are still active and are being reassigned to the Hong Kong ShatterDome. As Amrit was getting ready to head to Hong Kong, there was activity in the breach. A heavyweight class three named ClobberFoot was emerging, heading towards Seattle. The massive Kaiju had skin that looked like stone scales, spikes along its spine with gigantic feet. This Kaiju reminded Tendo of 'The Thing' from the Fantastic Four.
Marcel was currently on his way from their home in Shoreline to the Seattle airport. He decided it was time to undagger the Mikaelsons, but to only undagger Rebekah for now. The rest of the coffins were put in the back of a moving van. Rebekah woke up in the passenger seat as Marcel got inside the cab. He reassured her that he was not going to hurt her or her family, "Relax Bekah. You and your siblings are safe with me." Rebekah nodded her head, but kept silent and turned her gaze out the passenger side window.
They didn't get that far into Seattle before seeing the Kaiju. Rebekah moved away from the window as the massive creature came into her line of sight. "Marcel! What is that?!" Rebekah panicked. Marcel felt the vibrations from the Kaiju's clobbering feet, and he could see it coming in their direction so pressed the accelerator to the floor, "That is a Kaiju. When we get to the Shatterdome and wake the rest, I'll explain."
Rebekah kept her eyes on the Kaiju, "Marcel, it's getting closer." Marcel looked over to her side of the van, the Kaiju was destructively stomping through the city heading further inland. It was about a quarter-mile away from them when it roared in pain. Several flashes were seen from behind the Kaiju, its back was smoking after missiles had made contact. It was then Marcel saw a familiar sight and couldn't help but smile.
"Why are you smiling? That thing is going to attack us," Rebekah angrily yelled at Marcel. She was panicking and becoming even angrier at the man beside her. He reached over to the glove box and pulled out a small communicator. Turned it on and situated it on the dashboard, "Amrit, do you copy?"
Amrit(A) Faith(AF) Hope(AH)
Marcel(M)
Rebekah(R)
AH: We copy. Marcel, where are you?
M: Heading to the jet. I picked up the Mikaelsons.
AF: Are any of them awake?
Marcel motioned for Rebekah to say something, "Hullo." She jumped from the sudden rise in the volume of two female voices.
AF/H: Aunt Bekah!
R: Faith? Hope? Where are you?
Rebekah's eyebrows scrunched in confusion at the sound of her nieces' voices, wondering how old they were and how long she had been daggered.
AF: Dealing with this Kaiju.
"Wait? What?!" Rebekah looks out the passenger side window. She sees a giant robot fighting the monster. Her eyes never left the fight as she listened to Marcel, "That is Amrit. Klaus' daughters are Jaeger pilots. They fight the Kaiju and they are good at it." She continued to watch the fight in awe. Soon, the van drove out of sight of the fight and pulled into the airport. The jet was loaded and taken off to Hong Kong.
Inside the small apartment, Marcel pulled the dagger from Klaus' heart. He was the last one to wake up. Marcel woke Finn, and Elijah at the same time knowing they would keep calm the longest. Kol was next and lastly, Klaus. Rebekah was talking to Freya, who was awoken upon landing by Davina.
Klaus opened his eyes and slowly sat up. He looked around, spotting his siblings draining blood bags, Davina and Marcel. Several blood bags were set near Klaus for easy access, and he wasted not a single drop from every blood bag he was given. Everyone had taken seats around the room and stopped whatever they were doing, anxiously waiting for an explanation. Marcel cleared his throat, "Please don't interrupt until I finish explaining." He wanted to get through everything before Klaus could strangle him or rip his heart out for being daggered so long.
He received hesitant nods from them all and their full attention, "The year is 2033. We are currently in Hong Kong ShatterDome. In 2022, New Orléans had almost achieved peace so I was planning to undagger all of you. However, a dimensional rift opened in the Pacific giving a vicious alien species access to Earth. They're called Kaiju. The first one made landfall in San Francisco in 2021. It took six days to kill the thing but not before it destroyed three cities and killed over 80,000 people. The second emerged six months later in Manila. The third attack is what made the world realize that the Kaiju weren't going to stop.
"The third attack was different though, a Kaiju emerged and headed for Tokyo. An hour later another Kaiju swam into the Gulf of Mexico, coming ashore in Louisiana." Marcel paused for a moment, his glossy eyes focused on Klaus, "NOLA is gone. That thing trampled our city beyond repair. But it didn't stop there.
"After assembling whoever wasn't too badly hurt, we were orchestrating a search party for the rest of the city when the twins ran up to me, by themselves. The first thing Faith said was, "Mommy's gone." Hayley had gotten the twins out of the house before being crushed by the Kaiju. It took a crew of thirty vampires to dig through the rubble and debris that was once the farmhouse. Hayley's body was recovered and laid to rest.
"We tried our best to reconstruct the city and put ourselves back together. But nothing seemed to go right, especially after a category 5 hurricane caused even more damage and flooding. So we moved to Shoreline Washington. It was a very difficult decision to make."
Marcel stopped and smiled to himself thinking about the girls he practically raised, "The twins are so incredibly smart you would think they belong to Elijah. Davina helped them begin to learn and control their magic at the age of five. She also homeschooled the twins until they had to attend public school. They graduated high school at fifteen, it would have been sooner but the school board was against it."
Everyone could see Marcel was getting nervous, "They um…They triggered their wolf that same year. Because of their age and intelligence, they were bullied. I didn't know about any of it until the last time. The twins never said anything and any injuries were healed by the time they got home. The last time, the bullies took it too far and the twins fought back. They each accidentally killed one of their bullies.
"Afterwards, the twins tested out and graduated. They continued to study various topics, including engineering, physics, metalworking, and of course magic. I felt they were up to something but I shrugged it off. Davina brought it back to my attention when she followed the twins one day."
Marcel was cut off from saying anything else as Tendo's voice came over the apartment's intercom, "Amrit incoming. Bay 5." Marcel leaned over to look past the Mikaelson siblings to Davina and nodded. She nodded her head and got out of her seat, walking over to a switch on the wall. The wall behind Marcel opened to reveal several windows that observed the inner workings of the ShatterDome.
"In a moment you'll see what Faith and Hope built," Marcel stood proudly in front of the windows. The siblings came closer to the windows and watched a massive robot pass by.
Seeing the Jaeger up close brought tears to Rebekah's eyes, "You should have seen it Nik. They were magnificent. I got to see them fight and I don't know how to describe it. That monster, the Kaiju, looked like something from Science Fiction. It was so close to us. We were driving to the airport to come here and the Kaiju attacked Seattle. Then the twins showed up and fought it."
Amrit had passed the windows, Marcel moved towards the door, "Would you like to go meet your daughters?" He directed that question to Klaus. Of course, the entire family followed Marcel.