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Chapter 15
In the Shatterdome once again, everyone is hard at work getting the three remaining Jaeger suits ready for the attack on the Breach. We see Amara walking through the service bay portion of the facility, apparently trying to look for Trista. She was carrying a shoulder bag with her two-way radio and other "Crew Chief" equipment.
Amara: Hey Trista. Trista!
She finds Trista, who notices that Amara was not where she was instructed to be.
Trista: You're not at your position.
Amara: Yeah I'm aware of that, Pocahontas. I need to know what's going on.
Trista: I said get to your position, so get to it.
Amara: Now I can't crew chief for Striker if nobody's wearing the suit, can I? Amy's hurt, so who do expect to take her place?
A large door opens, and we see Mina, Artemis and Darien emerge from the other side of it. Mina was wearing the under suit that she last wore when she was deployed to Tokyo as Coyote Venus. Serena, Rini and the others seem visibly surprised by this.
Serena: Mina?
Mina lightly tugs on her under suit from the right side of her waist.
Mina: I don't remember it being so tight.
As she walks towards Striker Mercury, Hotaru approaches her, with a concerned expression on her face, knowing very well what will happen to Mina. Hotaru remembers very clearly about the doctors warning Mina that if she were to put on a Jaeger Suit again, the additional radiation exposure would be fatal to her.
Hotaru: Putting on that Jaeger Suit again will kill you.
Mina: Not putting one on will kill us all. Listen, you are a brave girl. I was so lucky to have seen you grow.
Her voice becomes broken as she tries her best to hold back tears.
Mina: But if I'm going to do this, I need you and Rini to protect me. Can you do that?
Hotaru tearfully nods at this as Mina brushes her left cheek with her right hand.
Mina: (softly) Hey.
Darien: Everyone. Listen up.
He stands atop an elevated platform in front of the Striker Mercury suit. The crowd gathers around him to listen to what he has to say.
Darien: Today, today, at the edge of our hope, at the end of our time, we have chosen not only to believe in ourselves, but in each other. Today there is not a man or woman that shall stand alone. Not today. Today we face the monsters that are at our door, and bring the fight to them! Today we are canceling the apocalypse!
The crowd applauds him. Later on, the crew is once again hard at work getting the three Jaeger Suits ready. We see Mina and Darien walking towards the elevator that will take them up to the loading docks where Mina will be outfitted with the Striker Mercury suit.
Mina: Say Darien. You know that was a pretty good speech, but how exactly am I supposed to fit inside a suit that made for Amy rather than myself?
Darien: Because you both carry nothing into the Sync. No memories, no fear, no rank. And as you personally, well you were easy. You're an adoptive mother raising a gifted child who would later have a lot to give to the world. A simple puzzle I solved on Day 1. Plus you and Amy are about the same body shape, so you'll fit just fine.
Mina: Works for me.
Amy, Michelle, Amara and Artemis catch up with the two of them. Mina walks over to them.
Amy: Hey, now. When you fight many battles alongside with someone, you feel like there's nothing to talk about.
Her voice becomes broken as she tries to hold back tears as well.
Amy: I just don't want to regret any of the things I never said you or the others out loud.
Mina: There's no need. You don't have to. I know them all. I always have.
Mina then kneels down to see Artemis.
Artemis: Are you sure you're going to be alright?
Mina: Yeah, I'll be alright.
She lets Artemis jump into her arms, and she embraces him one last time.
Mina: Oh, I'm going to miss you.
She kisses Artemis on top of his head before handing him back to Amy. A couple tears escape Mina's eyes afterwards.
Mina: (to Amy, tearfully) You look after him for me.
She then meets back up with Darien and they board the elevator together.
Michelle: Darien. That's a good friend of ours you have there. A good friend.
We now see Serena and Rini stepping inside their respective Jaeger Suits and are conducting last minute checks before their suits are started up.
Serena: You know Rini, all those years I spent living in the past, I never really thought about the future. Until now. I never did have very good timing.
The APUs are fired up and the reactor cores are energized. The girls now proceed with their Sync procedures.
Serena and Rini: (in flashback) Moon! Cosmic! Dream! Action!
Mina: (in flashback) Venus! Power!
[cue Sailor Moon and Scouts Transformation theme from the Dic dub]
After their Sync procedures are complete, we cut to seeing Gipsy Moon, Gipsy Mini Moon, and Striker Mercury, now redesignated as Striker Venus, since the Jaeger Suit is being worn by Mina instead of Amy, being airlifted to their destination. The three of them will be dropped off in shallow water near an underwater cliff which will lead them down to the Breach.
Meanwhile, back on the streets of Hong Kong, Newton and Hermann have everything set up to conduct a 3-way Sync procedure, Synchronizing not only their own minds, but the baby Kaiju's as well.
Newton: (to Hermann) You ready for this?
Hermann: Oh yes.
Hermann is understandably nervous as he and Newton turn to face the baby Kaiju while Newton holds the remote for the Neural Cyber Bridge device in his hand.
Newton: Initiating Neural Synchronization, in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
He presses the button and activates the device. The baby kaiju's twitches once briefly while Newton and Hermann strain under the neural surge that now runs between the three of them.
We see the highlights of Newton's memories that were seen earlier during his experiment with the Kaiju brain segment at the Shatterdome. After that, we see some highlights from Hermann's memories as well. Hermann is revealed to be a College professor in his younger years as well as a successful doctor. We also see a highlight of when Hermann and Newton first met at their new jobs at the Shatterdome's Research Laboratory. They did not exactly get along very well at first, but they eventually warmed up to each other. Finally we see highlights from the baby Kaiju's memories. The highlights show how the full sized Kaiju were created through genetic constructing, just like we saw before. In addition, we see highlights involving the Breach itself and how the Kaiju are able to pass in and out through this portal linking their world with ours. This was the vital information that Newton and Hermann needed. The procedure finishes, but both Newton and Hermann are both shaken up a bit by the Sync procedure, although not nearly as badly shaken up as Newton was when he conducted his experiment at the Shatterdome earlier.
Newton: Are you okay?
Hermann: Yes, of course.
They take off their helmets.
Hermann: I'm completely fine.
Although the Sync procedure did seem to make him nauseous as he now gags a couple of times. He quickly finds a toilet bowl lying on the ground that had been broken from its wall mount in a public restroom and throws up into it. Newton walks over to Hermann as he reaches for a handkerchief, which Newton does not hesitate to provide him with. Hermann wipes off the little bit of vomit that was on his mouth as he stands upright and turns towards Newton.
Hermann: The Sync. You saw it?
Newton: Yeah.
Hermann: Did you?
Newton: Listen, we have to tell them about this. The Sailor Jaegers—The Breach—The Plan—
Hermann: It's not going to work!
Back with the three Jaeger Suited Giantesses, we see that they have reached their destination.
Trista: Disengaging transport.
The three are released from their transport harnesses and are dropped into the water below. CLINK! CLINK! CLINK! SPLOOSH! SPLOOSH! SPLOOSH! They now get ready for their descent below the water's surface.
Striker Venus: Loccent, all ports sealed, ready to submerge.
Gipsy Moon: All ports sealed, ready to submerge.
Gipsy Mini Moon: All ports sealed, ready to submerge.
All of their ports close up and they slowly descend into the depths of the ocean, walking on the ocean floor as they do so. Back at the Shatterdome, we see the mission control overlooking the operation.
Technician: All 3 operating systems at 100 percent.
Darien walks up to where Trista was seated while Amy, Hotaru, Michelle and Amara look on alongside him.
Trista: All systems are go, sir.
Darien: (to the JSGs via a microphone) Two actives still in circle formation within the Guam quadrant. Codenames: Scunner and Raiju. Both Category IV.
Striker Venus: Roger that.
Amy: (to Striker Venus using Amara's 2-way radio) It's a half mile to the ocean cliff. You'll jump down that, and then it's about 3500 yards to the Breach.
Striker Venus: Half a mile? I can hardly see an inch ahead of me! How am I supposed to deliver the bomb?
From Striker Venus's front, it is understandable why she said this, since there seems to be a lot of silt or loose sediment being kicked up from the ocean floor by their giant footsteps. We see several schools, or large groups of Luvdisk, heart-shaped fish, as well a school of Finneon, small fish with gray and white bodies with magenta accents and butterfly shaped tail fins, being led by a Lumineon, a larger light blue and dark blue fish with large butterfly shaped side fins swim past Striker Venus.
Gipsy Moon: Visibility reduced, switching to instruments now.
Gipsy Mini Moon: Switching to instruments as well.
They continue to make their way towards the ocean cliff. The sounds of their heavy metal machinery and giant footsteps are somewhat muffled by the water. As they are walking however, something very large suddenly swims rather quickly by our view of the 3 Jaeger Suited Giantesses. The swishing sound that it makes seemed to raise Gipsy Moon's suspicion as she looks in the direction of that sound.
Gipsy Moon: Hm?
At the Shatterdome, this suspicion is confirmed when the holographic map projecting on Trista's desk shows something large moving past the right hand side of Gipsy Moon's position. Trista immediately points this out to Darien.
Techician: Sir!
Darien sees this and relays this information to Gipsy Moon.
Darien: Gipsy, you have movement on your right. Three o'clock! Three o'clock!
Gipsy Moon: I thought I heard something.
She looks off to her right. The holographic display inside her helmet flashes a message reading "ALARM" in red lettering. However, it also shows that there was nothing in that direction. Gipsy Moon is not convinced by this though.
Gipsy Moon AI: One hundred feet radius clear.
Gipsy Moon: Hmm. Right flank's clear, I'm not showing anything.
Trista: Left now, and moving fast. That's the fastest Kaiju on record.
Trista is amazingly calm about this. We now see the large object swim very quickly off to the left side of the Jaeger Suited Giantesses. This gets Gipsy Mini Moon's attention as well as she looks to her left, but like Gipsy Moon does not see anything.
Gipsy Mini Moon: I don't see anything either, it's moving too fast.
Striker Venus: Eyes on the prize ladies, 600 yards from the drop.
Meanwhile, Newton and Hermann arrive back at the Shatterdome by helicopter and they hurriedly get off and rush towards the mission control room. Back with the JSGs, we see them approach the edge of the cliff and they jump off the cliff one by one, starting with Striker Venus, followed by Gipsy Moon and Gipsy Mini Moon. THUD! THUD! THUD! After they land at the foot, or the bottom of the cliff, they continue to walk towards the ridge where the Breach laid within.
Striker Venus: Four hundred yards and closing.
As they get close the edge of the ridge however, the two Kaiju appear to hover above it and looking on at them, as if they were waiting for something.
Trista: The Kaiju are stopping.
Darien relays this to Striker Venus.
Darien: Venus, the Kaiju have stopped one o'clock.
Striker Venus immediately stops and recoils lightly from her own momentum as this action on the Kaiju's part clearly seemed suspicious to her.
Amara: Mina, what are you doing?!
Striker Venus: They stopped. Why did they just stop?
Amara: Who cares?! You're 300 yards from the jump!
Striker Venus: Something's not right!
Darien: Venus, the Kaiju aren't following. Take the leap, now.
At that moment, Newton and Hermann rush into the mission control room.
Newton: Don't do it! Don't do it! It's not going to work! Let me have that mic!
He takes the microphone from Darien.
Newton: B-Blowing up the Breach, it's not going to work!
Striker Venus: What do you mean? What's not going to work?
Newton: Ma'am just because the Breach is open does not mean you're able to get a bomb through.
Hermann: The Breach genetically reads the Kaiju like a barcode at the supermarket and then lets them pass.
Newton: Okay, so you're going to have to fool the Breach into thinking that you have the same code.
Gipsy Moon: And how are we supposed to do that?
Newton: By making it think that you are a Kaiju.
Hermann: You have to grab onto the Kaiju, ride into the Breach, the Throat will then read the Kaiju's code and let you pass.
Newton: If you don't do it, the bomb will deflect off the Breach like it always has and the mission will fail.
He gives the microphone back to Darien.
Darien: Alright, now that you've heard all that, Venus, take the leap.
Trista: Sir. I have a third signature emerging from the Breach.
Darien: Third signature emerging from the Breach.
Newton: It's a triple event.
Hermann: (under his breath) Oh Arceus, I was right.
Although it seems he now wishes he actually was wrong. Trista immediately goes to work analyzing the new Kaiju signature.
Striker Venus: How big is it? What category?
Trista finishes her analysis, and it does not look good. She then turns to Darien with a look of dread across her face.
Trista: Category V.
Darien is also filled with dread.
Darien: Venus, it's a Category V. The first ever.
Striker Venus's eyes grow wide upon hearing and looks in the direction of the Breach.
End of Chapter
