Fueled on by the deaths of their comrades, Chuck and Herc proceeded to give Otachi a thorough beat down, and would probably have killed it if Leatherback didn't reach into its bag of tricks and show off an ability none of us had ever seen in a Kaiju.
The best way to describe it was an organic EMP was released into the bay and anything within the radius of the hit had all its circuitry fried. Leatherback had welled up this massive glowing orb from its insides and released it into its surroundings. Poor Striker Eureka was hit directly and had no time to move out of the way. We were lucky that our chopper was a safe ways away or we might have been hit badly. Even with that said, the machine shuddered for a bit as residues of the electric pulse drifted to our location, messing with the engine but not strong enough to shut it down. Sometime in the 2010s, after EMPs were developed by warring countries, most nations began to think of ways to bypass whatever damage they could cause. Choppers like the one we were in were created so that they could easily switch to back up power in the off chance that their circuits were fried. This was probably what saved us from crashing into the bay that night.
Striker on the other hand was frozen to the spot; its anti Kaiju arsenal on the verge of being released was now dysfunctional. To think that a Kaiju could neutralize one of our best weapons and so easily was a downright scary thought. Most of the newer model machines were all digital models; their fates would have been the same as Striker's. It wouldn't have made much of a difference anyways, all of our front line options had been sent to confront Otachi and Leatherback. I had no idea what shape Gipsy Danger was in. Last I heard, Raleigh had tried to drift with Mako Mori and it had ended disastrously.
This new Kaiju development though was quite scary. In this digital world of ours, pretty much everything we used was run by some gizmo or the other. Technology was just as integral to our lives as the air we breathe. If our enemies had a way to shut down our defenses, we were done for. Not like that would have mattered, with much of our Jaeger force falling to the depths of the sea due to this confrontation, our chances of survival might have drowned with them.
As Otachi left the scene, headed towards Hong Kong, Leatherback menacingly circled the stationary Jaeger, looking for an opportunity to strike. I felt it sensed the machine would jump start again, but from what I and the crew could see, the Australian war machine was done for.
That was when things really got weird. First it started with Herc and Chuck stepping onto the shoulders of their machine and literally taunting Otachi to fight them. It's one of the most bizarre things I have ever seen in my life. Scale wise, it's basically two ants, trying to pick a fight with an Elephant. Not only did they taunt the creature but they wounded it too when they fired a flare into its eyes. Bellowing in rage, Leatherback moved in for the kill, and I honestly thought that was it for the Jaeger. No one in their right mind would expect an ant to defeat an Elephant, and I am sure even the Hansens knew their ploy would be costly. Their end was all but certain, until, a ghost from the past showed up to even things out.
Gipsy Danger had arrived!