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While Hotaru and Rini were showing Serena to her Jaeger suit, Darien and the others went to the Research Lab where Hermann gives Darien an educated guess regarding the pattern of the Kaiju attacks and the Breach itself. He shows a blackboard showing a rather complex formula that he composed as a way of graphing the pattern of the Kaiju attacks, while Newton was dissecting some Kaiju organs so that he and the rest of the Research team can better understand the nature of the Kaiju themselves.
Herman: (to himself out loud) Zero minus two. XY minus two, R-E-Q. (to Darien) In the beginning, the Kaiju attacks were spaced by 24 weeks. Then 12, then 6, then every 2 weeks. The most recent one, in Sydney was a week. In 4 weeks we could be seeing a Kaiju every 8 hours before they're coming every 4 minutes. Marshall, we should witness a double event within 7 days.
Darien: Dr. Gottlieb, if I am to strap a 2400 pound thermonuclear warhead, I'm going to need more than a prediction.
Newton: Well uh, that's a problem then. You see, he actually CAN'T give you anything more than a prediction. His predictions are right on the mark though.
Hermann: Thank you for that insight, Newton.
As he says this, Newton discards some Kaiju innards aside and they end up on the floor. There seems to be a fainted yellow line dividing the room in half, which meant Hermann had his half of the laboratory to work with while Newton conducted his work in the other half. The kaiju innards that Newton discarded appeared to land mostly on Hermann's half of the laboratory.
Hermann: Ah! No Kaiju entrails on my side of the room! You know the rules Newton.
Newton: Sorry Herman, surgery's a pretty messy job.
Hermann: I realize that, but I think the janitors here are already overworked as it is.
Amy: Gentlemen! Can we get back on point please?
Hermann: (to Darien) Numbers do not lie. Politics, poetry, promises, these are lies. Numbers are as close as we can get to the handwriting of Arceus.
Newton: (dumbfounded) What?
Hermann: Would you give me a moment?
Newton puts his hands up as if he were surrendering.
Hermann: (back to Darien) There will be a double event, and then shortly after 3, and then 4…
Darien: And then we're dead. I got you.
Newton was making a "blah, blah, blah" gesture with one hand while Hermann was explaining this part to Darien.
Hermann: Yes. This is where the good news comes.
Hermann then pulls up a holographic display showing the Breach and the passageway it established between the world we live in and the world from which the Kaiju were invading.
Hermann: Here is our universe, and here is theirs. And this is what we call "The Throat", the passage between us and the Breach. We know that it's atomic in nature. I predict that the increased traffic will force the Breach to stabilize and remain open long enough to get the device through,…
He pinches a small radiation symbol, which consists of a yellow circle with a black symbol that resembles a three bladed propeller, which depicted the nuclear warhead from off to the side of the holographic display and carries it over to the top of the display of the Breach and releases it. The small symbol falls about halfway down the display and then disintegrates in bright red, depicting a very large explosion, which then causes the holographic depiction of the Breach to disintegrate as well.
Herman: ….and collapse its structure.
Newton: Yeah well, that's where I've got to chime in. I mean really I wouldn't want to go down in there with that limited amount of information. No offense, Hermann.
Hermann: None taken Newton, but don't embarrass yourself.
Newton: Just hear me out for a minute. Why do we judge the Kaiju and give them all the different codenames? I mean it's because each one is completely different from the next, right? I mean one looks like a shark, the other looks like a dolpin-
Darien: Dr. Geiszler, just get to the point.
Newton: The point is I don't think they're completely different after all. Let me show you some samples that I collected.
He pulls two kaiju samples, putting one to each side of him.
Newton: Now here we have a couple of brain stem bases. Now this one here [on his left] was harvested in Sydney. And this one [on his right] was harvested in Manila, 6 years ago. They have the same exact DNA. They're copies.
Hermann: And this is the point where he goes completely crazy.
Newton then shows a Kaiju organ that was inside a large jar filled with formaldehyde.
Newton: There is so much more to the Kaiju that we don't yet understand, and we've really only scratched the surface. This is a piece of a Kaiju's brain. Now unfortunately it was damaged, it's a little bit weak, but it's still alive. Now I think I can tap into it using the same technology that allows the girls to synchronize their minds with their Jaeger suits. I could tell you exactly how to get into the Breach yourselves.
Michelle: You're suggesting that we Sync with a Kaiju?
Newton: No, no, not like a whole Kaiju, I mean just a tiny section of its brain.
Amy: The neural surge may be too much for the human brain.
Mina: Yeah, you're probably right.
Darien: I agree.
Newton: Now when I mentioned using the same technology that allows the girls to synchronize their minds with their suits, I was emphasizing on the pilot to interface control. I realize that a neural surge may be a possibility. That's why I'm going to conduct the experiment on a small scale first. If I have any success with the small scale experiment, then I'll proceed to the full scale experiment. I even have blueprints with details regarding my plan.
Darien: Alright, sounds like you know what you plan on doing. Conduct your experiment and relay whatever data you gather to me afterwards. Gottlieb, I'd also like your data on my table ASAP.
Hermann: Sir.
Newton: Uh, yes sir.
Darien: As you were gentlemen.
Darien and the others leave the laboratory.
Hermann: Newton, I know that you're desperate to be right, so you've not wasted your life being a kaiju fanatic, but I fear that your plan's not going to work. Please don't try to carry out this potentially suicidal experiment.
Newton: It is going to work Hermann, and I'll tell you something else. Fortune favors the brave, dude.
Hermann: They likely won't give you the equipment, and even if they did, you might kill yourself.
Hermann walks out of the room the two of them were in.
Newton: Or I'd be a rock star.
The whole time Newton was explaining his plans to Darien, one of the long suction like tubes extending from the base of the kaiju brain seemed to reach out and briefly stick itself to the side of the jar like a suction cup. Every time it did, it was doing so while pointing towards Newton, like it was trying to reach out to him.
Meanwhile, Hotaru has brought Serena to the launch bay where the Mark III Restoration Program was being carried out.
Hotaru: Here it is.
Serena is clearly in awe of what stood before her. A familiar sight she had not seen for almost 5 and a-half years now. The familiar sight in question was none other than her Jaeger suit, Gipsy Moon.
Serena: Oh my gosh. I remember this one. Gipsy Moon, so glorious. It looks like new.
Hotaru: Better than new, it has a dual core nuclear reactor, plus the latest user interface hardware and operating system software. It's a one of a kind now.
Serena: Isn't everybody?
Trista: How do you like the wardrobe Ms. Tsukino? High Strength Steel hull plus Kevlar underlining, 210 Megawatts per muscle strand, hyper-torque driver for every limb plus a new fluid synapse system.
Trista and Serena embrace each other, having not seen each other for a long time.
Serena: Trista! It's great to see you again.
Trista: Same to you Serena. It's just like the good ole days.
Rini and Hotaru couldn't help but smile at this heartwarming moment of reunion between longtime friends. Later on, Serena, Rini and Hotaru meet in the bedroom where Serena was going to be staying in.
Serena: So Rini, I understand that you traveled here from the future so that you could train to fight in a Jaeger suit. Am I right?
Rini: That's right.
Serena: What's your simulator score?
Rini: (confidently) Fifty-one drops, 51 kills.
Serena: Wow, that's amazing. So has Darien already picked out a Jaeger suit for you?
Rini: Actually, Hotaru and I built one ourselves. We called it Gipsy Mini Moon. It was built using the blueprints for the original Gipsy Moon. It's really a smaller version of the original, at 2/3s scale and mostly pink instead of navy blue.
Serena: I guess that would make sense since you were Sailor Mini Moon, essentially a "mini" version of Sailor Moon about 30 years ago.
Rini: Yeah, pretty much.
Serena: So when will Gipsy Mini Moon be ready?
Hotaru: It's already finished actually. We started construction on it around the same I started the Mark III Restoration Program. But we're still working out the bugs in it though.
Rini: In the meantime, I've taken some time to study your fighting techniques and strategies, including Alaska.
Serena: And what did you think?
Rini: I think you're unpredictable. You have a tendency to deviate from standard combat techniques. You take risks that endanger yourself and your comrades. I don't think you're really cut out for this mission.
Serena: (thinking) Ouch.
However, rather than get upset with Rini like she used to back in her 'Sailor Moon' days, Serena just quietly took a deep breath.
Serena: (speaking) Well, at least you're being honest, and you might be right. But one day when you're fighting in a Jaeger suit, you'll find that it's really no different from being a Sailor Scout. In other words you'll realize that when you're combat, you make decisions,..
She rolls up the left sleeve of her shirt above her shoulder to show Rini and Hotaru the scar she gained from her fight against Knifehead.
Serena: ..you have to live with the consequences.
After showing them her scar, she rolls the sleeve back down.
Serena: That's what I'm trying to do.
As Rini and Hotaru leave Serena's room, Rini stops just outside the doorway for a moment to look back at Serena. Rini didn't know why, but she felt that even though she didn't always see eye to eye with her, she really looked up to Serena a great deal, like any daughter would look up to their mother. When Serena makes eye contact with Rini, instead of angrily telling her to leave, she just gives her a warm smile that would seem to melt one's heart. Rini couldn't help but smile back at her before walking off.
End of Chapter
