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Chapter 14
Back at the Shatterdome, Serena and Rini are greeted by a crowd of crew members who surround and applaud them as though the two of them were celebrities as they walked towards the service bay area while Hotaru was following close behind. Amongst the crowd that followed Serena and Rini, we see Amy catch up with them from behind.
Amy: Serena!
Serena and Rini pause to look back as Amy approaches them while holding her helmet under her right arm. Amy struggled to catch up to them due to her back injury, but was able to face Serena and Rini with an expression of sincere gratitude on her face.
Amy: I never thought I would be saying this, but I'm grateful. Thank you.
Serena and Amy then embrace each other, Serena taking care not to agitate Amy's injuries. As they were embracing, Serena notices Amara standing right behind Amy, who gives Serena a nod of gratitude, much to Serena's surprise. Amy then squats down to Rini's height to the best of her ability and embraces her as well. Rini also takes care not to agitate Amy's injury as well. After they finished embracing, Darien, Mina and the cats meet up with Serena and Rini from within the service bay area.
Darien: Ms. Tsukino, Ms. Rini!
Luna: In all our years of fighting, we've never seen anything like that.
Artemis: Well done.
Mina then embraces Rini and Hotaru at the same time.
Mina: I'm so proud of you two.
Darien: I'm proud of us all. But, as harsh as it sounds, there is no time to celebrate. We lost two fighters, no time to grieve.
He then turns and looks up at the war clock above the doorway leading to the service bay area.
Darien: Reset that clock!
Hotaru: Um, Mina.
Mina: Hm?
Mina then looks towards Hotaru, who then gestures running her right index finger under her nose. Mina does so and sees blood on her fingers, and realizes that her nose was bleeding again.
Mina: Oh!
She grabs a handkerchief from her pocket and holds it under her nose as she hurriedly walks out of the service bay area.
Darien: Reset the clock.
Serena and Rini then look towards Hotaru with expressions of concern for Mina's condition. Meanwhile, Newton was walking with Hannibal towards the remains of Otachi amongst the rubble left from her fight against Gipsy Moon and Gipsy Mini Moon. Crew members from the Black Market laboratory were already hard at work, extracting Kaiju organs and even collecting some Kaiju skin parasites.
Newton: I still can't believe what you did to me. I mean, I could have been eaten.
Hannibal: That was definitely the plan. Lucky for you, that didn't become necessary, huh?
Newton: Thank you so much, you're so kind. I really appreciate all of this. Now, do you mind telling me what exactly is taking so long for your workers to get that brain?
Hannibal: Well they uh, pump the cavity full of CO2, just like any in other laparoscopic surgery.
Newton: The CO2 is going to delay the acidic reaction, yes.
Hannibal: And it allows us to harvest. But our boys need oxygen pumped into their suits, so they move slow.
He then pulls out a walkie talkie and talks into it.
Hannibal: What's going on in there boys?
Suited Worker: We've reached the upper pelvic area. Unh, moving through the 25th vertebra. Yech. Even in this suit boss, it smells of dead Whiscash in here.
A group of workers in bulky life support suits is seen making their way into the body cavity of the Kaiju with powerful searchlights in hand. As the Suited Worker and his colleagues make their way through the body cavity, they find what they were sent for, the Kaiju's secondary brain. However, something seems wrong with it, like it was carelessly cut down the middle of the bottom side of it.
Suited Worker: Boss, the secondary brain, is damaged. Ruined.
Newton: Aw. Bitch! How could they have screwed it up?!
Suited Worker: Wait, wait.
This gets Newton's attention and he rushes back to Hannibal.
Newton: What? Did he say "wait"? Why wait?
He tries to take the walkie talkie, but Hannibal takes it back from him shortly after.
Suited Worker: Do you hear that?
THUMP! THUMP-THUMP!
Suited Worker: It's like a heartbeat.
THUMP! THUMP-THUMP!
Intrigued, Newton grabs the walkie talkie out of Hannibal's hand, but this time he walks away from where Hannibal was standing. Hannibal however does try to chase him down a bit.
Newton: No way. No way, this can't be. Hold on a minute.
Hannibal: Hey! Let me have that!
Newton: Shh, shh! Listen, listen. Listen to this.
The thumping can be heard over the walkie talkie's speaker. Inside the body cavity, the group of workers search throughout the body cavity with their searchlights to try to figure out where the sound was coming from. THUMP! THUMP-THUMP! THUMP! THUMP-THUMP! Outside, Hannibal snatches the walkie talkie back from Newton. Newton then looks towards the Kaiju carcass and comes to a realization.
Newton: It's pregnant.
That gets Hannibal's attention as he looks up at the Kaiju carcass as well. Inside the body cavity, the suited workers continue to search their surroundings. Then a sound coming from the left side of the body cavity catches their attention. They shine their searchlights in the direction of the sound and through a transparent layer of flesh, they see a large eye open up and look in their direction.
Suited Worker: AH! AAAAHH-AA-AAH-PSSSsssssssh!
The communication link was apparently cut off while the worker was screaming in shock and terror. Hannibal seems to act out of instinct and starts running away from the carcass. It turns out his instinct was right as a baby Kaiju bursts out from within the carcass and goes on a rampage, knocking away some of the harvesting equipment and a flipping over a few cars. It seems to give chase to Newton in particular as he sees the baby Kaiju quickly crawling towards him. He immediately runs away from it, until he trips on some debris and falls to the ground after running a short distance. Afterwards, he continues to retreat from the baby Kaiju by crawling on all fours before he could get back on his feet. Then as the baby Kaiju continued to chase Newton, the umbilical cord (a flexible tube which serves as a lifeline between the mother and the offspring growing inside her) seems to get wrapped around its neck, cutting off its wind pipe and preventing it from breathing. Shortly after the baby Kaiju collapses to the ground a short distance in front of Newton, who was cowering from and repeatedly pleading for mercy under his breath until he looks up and realizes that the baby Kaiju was no longer chasing him. He then cautiously walks towards the baby Kaiju to see whether it was actually dead or not.
Hannibal: I knew it.
This startles Newton as Hannibal now has a closer look at the baby Kaiju as well. He stands in front of where the presumably dead baby Kaiju was laying and turns towards Newton.
Hannibal: Gone. His lungs weren't fully formed. Umbilical cord tied around his neck, no way he could survive outside the womb for more than a minute.
He snaps his fingers once and points two finger towards his eyes.
Hannibal: One look! That's all I needed, I knew he wouldn't make it.
He pulls out his butterfly knife and skillfully flips it open and throws it towards the baby Kaiju. The blade of the knife embeds itself in the flesh between what appeared to be the baby Kaiju's nose. This startles Newton in the process, but the baby Kaiju did not respond. Hannibal then walks up to the baby Kaiju and yanks the knife off the baby Kaiju's nose. As he does, the baby Kaiju again does not respond, much to Newton's relief.
Hannibal: Ugly little bastard. Any I would of- YAAH!
The baby Kaiju, once thought to be dead, suddenly wakes up and chomps Hannibal and tosses him into the air before swallowing him whole the same way an alligator would sometimes swallow its prey. One of Hannibal's shoes falls off and lands on the ground near where Newton was standing. Afterwards, the baby Kaiju attempts to chase Newton once again. However, the chase does not last very long as the umbilical cord, which was still wrapped around its neck, chokes it once again, suffocating the baby Kaiju yet again. After crawling a fairly short distance, the baby Kaiju collapses a short distance in front of Newton, who was cowering in fear once again, before looking up at the baby Kaiju again, and sees it lying on the ground again. At this point, the baby Kaiju is actually dead for real this time. Newton then picks up the shoe that fell onto the ground near him before looking up at the baby Kaiju carcass. He actually feels a sense of guilt for a change, since Hannibal was the one who got eaten instead of him. He then drops the shoe back onto the ground.
Meanwhile, Mina was back in her room along with Artemis and Darien. Mina was washing her face before changing her shirt as the one she was wearing had some blood stains on it from when her nose was bleeding earlier. She coughs lightly a couple times as she finishes washing her face when Serena and Rini stand outside the doorway to her room. Serena and Rini are clearly concerned about Mina's health.
Serena: How sick are you Mina, and why didn't you tell us?
Mina: Uh. What's to tell? You know the Mark I suits? The engineers scraped those things together in fourteen months. Last thing they were thinking about was radiation shielding. I ran nearly a dozen missions, first as Romeo V before being reassigned as Coyote Venus. I stayed under the medical radar for a while but, the last time I suited up was Tokyo. That was where I rescued Hotaru and Rini, but after a fight that lasted three hours, I burned. The doctors warned me if I put on a Jaeger suit again, the toll would be too much.
Artemis: Just like Luna said before, you and Mina, along with the other girls are always willing to fight to the bitter end, even when the outcome seemed hopeless. That's why she and Darien brought you here.
Darien hears a beeping from a computer near his desk. He walks over to it and activates the computer. It shows a holographic image of Trista at the Mission Control room along with the holographic image of two new Kaiju signatures that have appeared above the Breach.
Darien: Shields here.
Trista: Sir, it's happening. I just got two signatures with unprecedented dilation, forty meter spikes.
Darien: What category?
Trista: Checking the ratios, Category IV.
Darien: Where are they heading?
Trista: That's the thing, they're not heading anywhere. They're circling just above the Breach. It-, it's like they're guarding it or something.
Darien: Alright, Gipsy, Mini Moon, Striker on deck.
Trista: Sir, Amy cannot suit up. Her back.
Darien: You heard me.
He then turns to Mina, who then gives her a nod of acknowledgement before switching off the holographic display and leaving the room.
Back at the site of the two Kaiju carcasses, Hermann has met up with Newton, as we see him talking to someone on a two-way radio. He does not seem to like what he has heard.
Hermann: Two signatures. Two? There are- there are two Kaiju signatures in the Breach, not three like I predicted!
Newton: Hermann! I haven't exactly had a very good day, okay?! I've got about five minutes-
He pauses as he forces a large probing needle into the skull of the baby Kaiju's carcass.
Hermann: There should be three Kaiju…
Newton: -before brain death occurs here! I don't want to spend it talking about your theories!
Hermann: This is all wrong! There should be three Kaiju coming through, not two!
Newton: There should be three and there are two? I'm sorry, it hurts to be wrong, does it?
Hermann: I am not wrong, but there still something here that we don't quite understand.
Newton: Okay, Hermann. Hopefully we can talk about any mistakes you made in your predictive model in the future! But in the meantime, the neural interface is way off the charts! If you want to help, help with that!
Newton now gets everything ready with his improvised neural bridge device, including the helmets that are connected to it.
Hermann: Newton, I am not wrong. There is only one way to make sure, and that is to do this,-
He keys in a passcode on the keyboard for the neural bridge device, which the machine accepts, allowing him to use the device as well.
Hermann: -together. I'll go with you.
Newton looks towards Hermann looking rather surprised by this.
Hermann: That's what the computers in the Jaeger suits do with the operators, share the workload.
Newton: You're serious?
Hermann nods.
Newton: Y-You'd do that for me? Or, you would do that with me?
Hermann: Well, with worldwide destruction a certain alternative, which one would you prefer?
Newton: Then say it with me my friend: "We're going to own this bad boy!"
He presents his right hand to Hermann, as if to do a secret handshake.
Hermann: By Jove, we're going to own this thing for sure!
He seems to struggle with figuring out Newton's secret handshake at first, but it does not take long for him to do so. The two of them clasps hands as if they were arm wrestling. Newton gives a triumphant laugh as the two of them shake hands.
Now all that was left was to get the three Jaeger suits ready for would very likely be their final mission.
End of Chapter
