Gipsy Moon

A 'Pacific Rim' and 'Sailor Moon' crossover

Pacific Rim is copyright to Warner Bros. and Legandary

Sailor Moon is Copyright to Naoko Takeuchi and Toei Animation, licensed by Dic Entertainment, Cloverway, and Viz Media

Chapter 5

We see a CH-53 Super Stallion, a very large military helicopter flying over Hong Kong through rainy weather in towards a large facility built into the side of a large cliff similar to that seen at the Anchorage Shatterdome in Alaska. There is a helipad near the front entrance which allows helicopters to pick up and drop off people at this facility. From the front entrance we see two young women walking towards the helipad, each carrying their own umbrella to shelter themselves from the rain. One of these young women has shoulder length raven colored hair with ivory skin and purple eyes and can be described as having a small slender body, about 5 foot 3. The other woman is noticeably shorter at 4 foot 2, with hot pink hair like cotton candy styled into 2 hair buns similar to Serena's except they were much more pointed up top like a rabbit's ears, with candy apple red eyes. The two women stop a short but safe distance as they watch the CH-53 land on the helipad. Upon landing we see a door panel open on the helicopter's right hand side and we see Darien, Serena, Mina, Luna and Artemis step out of the helicopter using the footsteps built into the lowered door panel. Darien is seen with two umbrellas in hand, one he opens for himself while he gives the other to Serena which she opens. Mina then opens up the umbrella she was carrying as well while Luna and Artemis ride on Serena and Mina's shoulders respectively.

Darien: Ms. Tsukino, these are Hotaru Tomoe and Rini Tsukino, two of our brightest. Hotaru is in charge of the Mark III Restoration Program, and Rini traveled here from the future so that she could train to be a Jaeger suited fighter.

Serena gives a light wave of her right hand to Rini and Hotaru as a way to say 'hello'. She notices that while Rini is quick to lightly wave back, Hotaru seemed to avoid eye contact with her. Serena is briefly puzzled by this, but then recalls that Mina told her that Hotaru would have a tendency to do so since she's a High Functioning Autistic. Indeed Hotaru is one of the brightest, like Darien told Serena, as she knows every detail about the Jaeger Suits like a book. However, she is rather socially awkward, as interacting with others socially is a bit of a struggle for her. Thankfully, she has Rini and/or Mina to help her out if needed. Rini almost doesn't recognize Serena since she looked rather different from when they saw each other in the years of "Sailor Moon', since Serena had a few subtle hints of aging, namely a dozen or so white hairs mixed in with her blonde hair and a few small wrinkles on her face.

Rini: (to Darien) Is that really Serena?

Serena: (to Rini, jokingly) Yeah, it's me. You'd look a bit different too, after your family and friends haven't seen you for about 25 years or so, and they might be able to recognize you either.

After a brief pause, Rini does get Serena's joke and she chuckles a bit while grinning lightly.

Rini: (to Serena, politely) I apologize Ms. Tsukino, Hotaru and I have heard a lot about you.

Darien, the girls and two cats then head towards the front entrance, where two armed guards awaiting by the doorway allowed them to enter.

Darien: (to the guards) At ease. (To Serena) We'll tour the facility first, and Ms. Tomoe will show you to your Jaeger Suit Ms. Tsukino.

As they step inside the front entrance and into an elevator just inside, two other men are seen rushing towards the main entrance behind Darien and the girls. One these men was a British man with dark brown hair and matching eye color and was wearing a semi winter type jacket and had a walking cane in hand. The other man rushing in was an American wearing a leather biker jacket and black wide rimmed glasses and had short raven colored hair similar to Darien's.

First Man: Wait for us!

Second Man: Hold the door please!

Serena and Hotaru hold each side of the elevator doors for the two men coming in.

First Man: (short of breath) Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

After the two men are in the elevator, Serena and Hotaru allow the doors to close and the elevator goes down.

Second Man: Stay back, kaiju specimens are extremely rare, so look but don't touch please.

Darien: Ms. Tsukino, this is our research team, Dr. Gottlieb, and Dr. Geiszler.

Geiszler: Ah, call me Newt. Only my mother calls me 'Doctor'. (to Gottlieb) Hermann, these are human beings why don't you say 'hello'?

Hermann: Newton, I have asked you not to refer to me by my first name in the presence of others. I have 10 years-

Newton: Yeah I know Hermann, I was just trying to be nice, that's all.

Hermann: Of course…

Newton pulls out his Ipad, a handheld tablet from Apple Inc. from his coat pocket, turns the screen on and keys in a numerical code. The Ipad then shows the main screen where Serena couldn't help but notice the image used for the wallpaper or the background of the main screen as the image was that of a Kaiju that was familiar to her.

Serena: (pointing to the Ipad screen) Who is that, Yamarashi?

Newton: Oh this little Kaiju?

He turns the Ipad's screen towards Serena so she could see it more clearly.

Newton: Yeah you've got a good eye.

Serena: (confidently) I took him down in 2017.

Newton: You know he was one of the biggest Category 3s ever? He was 2500 tons of awesome.

Rini and Hotaru couldn't help but feel somewhat embarrassed by this while Serena gives Newton a cold look.

Newton: Or awful, you know, however you want to put it.

Serena: Yeah well, that last Kaiju I fought, I narrowly escaped with my life.

She grimaced at the memory of her fight with Knifehead. The others couldn't help but feel sorry for Serena, especially Rini, since Serena does become her mother in the future.

Hermann: Please excuse him, he's a Kaiju fanatic. He loves them.

Newton: Shut it, Hermann! I don't love them, okay? I study them, and unlike most people, I'd like to see one alive and up close one day.

Serena: Trust me, you wouldn't want to.

She and the others walk out of the elevator once it reached the destined floor. Hermann shakes his head in disapproval at Newton.

Serena: (to Darien) So that's your research team?

Luna: Things have changed. We're not an army anymore, Serena. We're the resistance.

Hotaru keys in a code on a control panel and it opens a pair of large steel doors.

Darien: Welcome to the Shatterdome.

The large steel doors reveal a large command complex where a few giant Jaeger suits were being serviced and overhauled. Serena is visibly impressed by the size of the facility.

Serena: Wow, nice setup you've got here.

She turns and sees a large clock above the large doorway.

Darien: The war clock. We reset it after every Kaiju attack, keeps everyone focused. The frequency of the attacks is accelerating.

Serena: How long before the next reset?

Artemis: A week, if we're lucky.

As Serena is looking around, she carelessly walks into the path of a worker driving a tractor like vehicle. The driver stops the vehicle just before Serena gets close to the front of the vehicle. The brief squeaking of the tires is enough to get Serena's attention and she sees the vehicle at the very last second and quickly sidesteps around. The worker gives Serena a disgruntled look as if he were saying "Really?" while Serena tries to give an apologetic gesture in return.

Artemis: Our experts believe there will be a kaiju attack even before that.

Darien: This complex used to launch 30 Jaeger Suits in bays just like this one. Now there are only 4 Jaeger Suits left, all of them being the Sailor Jaegers.

Serena: I didn't know it was this bad.

Mina: It is that bad.

Hotaru points to a crimson red Jaeger Suit that they were walking past, which was unique in that it had 3 arms instead of two, with the third arm extending from behind the right shoulder. The helmet that went with it had a gold colored lens that extended over the wearers right eye and can not only project data in a holographic display, it can also shine a light in the direction of where the operator was looking.

Hotaru: Crimson Mars, stationed in China. One of the greatest. Assembled in Changzou. Full titanium core plus military grade alloys, 240 Megawatts per muscle strand. A deadly precise fighter. The suit is worn and operated by Raye Hino, with her husband Chad as her crew chief.

Serena: Sailor Mars.

Hotaru: She has successfully defended Hong Kong Port 7 times. She uses the Thundercloud Formation.

Serena: Oh yeah, triple arm attack.

Hotaru: Very effective.

Raye is described as having long, raven colored hair reaching down to her hips, with purple eyes and ivory skin. She has a slim, beautiful figure and stood about 5 foot 3, same height as Hotaru. Hotaru then points to another Jaeger suit. This one is mostly olive green in color with rather large hands and a helmet with an inverted funnel shape similar to a cooling tower seen at a nuclear power station.

Hotaru: That tank, last of the T-90s, Cherno Jupiter. Last generation Mark 1. The heaviest, oldest Jaeger suit in operation, but make no mistake Ms. Tsukino, it's a brutal war machine.

She then points a rather tall, somewhat muscular woman with long dark brown hair styled into a large, voluminous ponytail and green eyes, standing about 5 foot 6. She is accompanied by her boyfriend Thomas.

Hotaru: The operator of that suit, Lita Kino.

Serena: Sailor Jupiter. I've also heard about her assignment for the Perimeter Patrol she did around the Siberian Wall.

Mina: Under her watch it remained unbreached for 6 years. Six years.

The group then walks towards a service bay where Striker Mercury was being serviced. Amy, Amara and Michelle can be seen standing near the Jaeger suit's left foot. They see Darien and the others approaching them.

Darien: Amy, Amara, Michelle. Ladies, welcome to Hong Kong!

Michelle: (to Amara) Wait here.

Michelle told Amara to wait by Striker Mercury because she didn't want Amara getting too close to Hotaru since Amara tends to act rather hostile towards Hotaru due to her Autistic tendencies and 'character tics'. Their accompanying bulldog, Max was with them as well. Hotaru kneels down and calls Max to her.

Hotaru: (in a playful tone) Come here, Max! You remember me?

Michelle: (to Max) Don't drool all over Ms. Tomoe now. He sees a pretty girl, he gets all wound up.

Darien: Serena these are Amy Mizuno and Michelle Kaioh, some old friends from the Mark I glory days.

Amy: (with a British-Canadian accent) I know you Serena, we've worked together before.

Serena: Yeah, back when you two were Sailor Mercury and Sailor Neptune. And then about 6 years ago, it was you, Michelle and I, a three Jaeger team drop.

Amy: Yeah, that's right, Manila. Sorry about what happened in Alaska.

Serena: Thanks.

Darien: Amy is the wearer and operator of Striker Mercury, fastest Jaeger suit in the world. The first and only Mark V ever built. Australia released Amy from her assignment less than a day before the Sydney attack.

Michelle: Yeah, they were lucky we were still around.

Darien: Now, she'll be the running point for us.

Serena: Wait, running point on what? You haven't really told me what we're doing here yet.

Luna: We're going for the Breach, Serena. We're going to strap a 2400 pound thermonuclear warhead to Striker's back.

Artemis: Detonation equivalent 1.2 million tons of TNT. Meanwhile you, and two other Jaeger suits will be providing defense for Striker.

Serena: I thought we were the resistance. Where'd you guys get something that big?

Darien: See the Russians back there? They can get us anything. (to the others) Ladies, shall we.

Darien, Amy, Mina, Michelle and the two cats start to walk off.

Amy: Good to have you back Serena.

Hotaru: I will show you to your Jaeger Suit, Ms. Tsukino.

Serena: Ms. Tomoe, would you give me a moment.

Serena then catches up with Darien.

Serena: Marshall! Sir, we've hit the Breach before. It doesn't work, nothing goes through. What's changed?

Luna: We've got a plan, we just need you ready. That's all.

Darien: Let's go ladies.

Amara, who was standing by Striker Mercury's left foot the whole time, calls Max back over to her.

Amara: Max, come here!

Max walks back to Amara, who then kneels down and pets him. Amara and Serena briefly look at each other before Serena walks away with Rini and Hotaru. Amara seems to be rather dismissive of Serena, feeling that it was women like her that lead to the Jaeger Program being discontinued.

End of Chapter