Hello all!
Yeah, this chapter is coming out really quickly after I put up the first chapter, but I was bored and deiced to just type and so, here we are, two uploads in a single day.
Here is the second chapter and the first universe we are going to witness.
I hope I meet your expectations and without further adieu, let the madness commence!
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Chapter Two: First Universe.
The eight Beacon students looked at the screen with undisguised intrigue, wondering just it is that they are about to bear witness to.
The first images were finally being shown.
The screen was dark, completely void of anything, when two lines of words began to appear, short little beeps one would here from a computer emitting as the words took form. The text said,
"KAIJU (怪獣, kaijū, Japanese) Giant Beast."
"JAEGER (yagar, German) Hunter."
As the word slowly faded out, a slightly familiar voice was heard.
"When I was a kid, whenever I would feel small or lonely, I'd look up, at the stars. Wondered if there was life up there. Turns out I was looking in the wrong direction."
"Hey Yang, doesn't that guy sound a bit like dad?" Ruby asked, unsure if it was just her hearing things.
"Yeah, he sounds almost exactly like dad, just a little lighter and bit more...world weary, I guess you could say." Yang replies, slightly surprised that the first viewing is showing their dad.
"Hey, why did the showing stop? Weiss asked Strike.
"Whenever you guys feel the need to open your mouths to talk, the showing will automatically stop instantly. I can restart the showing at anytime, but I will allow you guys to have small conversations throughout the course of the shows. If that is all?" Strike asks, getting nods of agreement from the eight teenagers and so he restarts the show.
"When alien life entered our world, it was from deep beneath the Pacific Ocean. A fissure between two tectonic plates. A portal between dimensions. The Breech. I was fifteen when the first Kaiju made landfall in San Francisco." The Taiyang said, showing a part of the deep ocean floor suddenly being ignited a jagged crack of what appeared to be fire appeared, giant bolts of energy crackling off of the portal. Energy seemed to build within the Breech as something came out of it, but a blinding flash of light prevented those watching to see what came out.
"What do you think a Kaiju is?" Ruby asked. "Sounds really bad from how other Dad talks about it."
"Can't be any worse then a Grimm." Yang says, getting a scoff from Strike. "What was that for?"
"Please Yang. There are beings and creatures that make the Grimm look damn cuddly and wonderful in comparison. The Multiverse is home to wonders beyond imagination and horrors worse then the worst of nightmares. Be thankful you have the Grimm, there a monstrosities far worse than them and the Kaiju of this world are among that number." Strike said, his fists clenching as he remembered the beasts he has had to face and fight over his very long life. Compared to them, the Grimm are nothing but ants.
"Right. I'll believe it when I see it." Yang replies.
"Don't say I didn't warn you." Strike said as he starts the showing again.
"The moment the screen unfroze, it showed the massive form of what can only be described as a monster. From what is shown on screen, the creature must be several hundred feet tall. It's roar is deep and has a slight warble, but no less terror inducing. The massive creatures claws sink into asphalt and steel beams on the large bridge in front of it. People run out of their cars in fear, trying to get away from the monster of death, but their efforts are in vein as the creatures unbelievable strength allows it to tear a massive hole in the bridge. Smoke fills the air as the creatures four small eyes glow in a sinister orange fury while an orange glow burns at the back of the creatures throat. Cars begin falling into the water below, their unfortunate passengers failing to get free before the cars became their unexpected coffins as giant metal pieces from the bridge itself falls around them.
After that image of carnage, three sleek aerial vehicles, obviously fighter aircraft appear and begin to attack the monster. Their twin machine guns unfortunately do nothing to the monsters thick hide, their bullets merely impacting and bouncing off without puncturing even an inch into the creature's flesh. As the fighters move around the monster, their radios became filled with chatter as the three pilots try to coordinate their efforts, but it is all for naught as the monster moves slightly and a fighter jet slams into the creature, the jet compacting and igniting it's fuel in a second, causing the aircraft to explodes in a fireball that lasts for a few seconds. The smoke from the fighter pilots death surrounds the monster, giving it an even more sinister and monstrous appearance, right before the screen fades to black."
All of the viewers are filled with horror and fear. The monster they have just witnessed is a creature that looks many times stronger then even a Leviathan, one of the strongest Grimm ever recorded.
"What the ever loving hell is that?" Yang asks, her voice quiet and filled with fear.
"That is Trespasser, a Category One Kaiju, a incredibly vast and powerful monster." Strike responds.
"This Taiyang said that the first Kaiju hit this San Francisco. Does that mean that there are more?" Weiss asks, slightly terrified of the possibility that there are more monsters of this caliber.
Strike looks at Weiss and says, "Let's find out."
Before anyone could complain, the screen began talk once again.
"By the time tanks, jets and missiles took it down six days and thirty-five miles later, three cities were destroyed and tens of thousands of lives were lost." The view sifted, showing a group of civilians running for their lives as a group of strange vehicles flew overhead just as the view shifted against showing a squadron of different aircraft flying over a different bridge. After that, the view changed again to show a TV report showing the original bridge, most of it's massive superstructure gone as a cloud of smoke rose into the air. The view changed again, showing another group of civilians screaming in a darkened hospital. The screen changed again to show a image of Trespasser's face as it roars, right before a giant green light came over the image of a city.
We mourned our dead, memorialized the attack and moved on." The images changed to show a number of rescue workers shifting through the rubble, hoping to find any survivors. After that, the screen changed again to show the carcass of Trespasser, the massive monster having a giant hole in it's chest as smoke billowed out of the dead creates blown open chest. A series of images flashed by in seconds, what appeared to be leaders of the world all talking as they spoke about the attack. A new article appeared with the title "It's All Gone" then appeared, right before the screen changed again, this time showing the massive head of Trespasser, the thick flesh having mostly gone away and only leaving the bones of it's skull and a few muscle strands to remember of infamous beast."
All eight Beacon students were silent, they just couldn't comprehend facing such a monster.
"Strike, what was that light just before Trespasser died? It looked like a bomb." Blake asked.
Strike was silent before he said, "In this world, humanity found a way to split atoms themselves. The splitting of an atom causes a massive release of energy. They weaponized this and created their strongest weapon. The nuclear bomb."
Strike then had a smaller screen appear in front of the original screen. It showed a black and white video of a bomb falling from the sky and then detonating, the massive explosion reaching hundreds of feet into the sky as the giant shock wave was formed.
The Beacon students were horrified that such a weapon exists. In their world, the strongest weapons are the ship mount laser cannons on Atlas battleships, but they are nothing like this.
"How strong was that blast?" Nora quietly asked.
"The Little Boy bomb released between 12 and 18 kilotons of TNT or 12,000 to 18,000 pounds of high grade explosives. The Fat Man bomb released 18 to 23 kilotons of TNT, 18,000 to 23,000 pounds of high grade explosives. They there manged to upgrade their nuclear bombs to be even more powerful decades later. These are the only weapons humanity has that can do anything to the Kaiju at this point. However, the use of such weapons has harmful effects. A nuclear bomb rends the area it destroys uninhabitable by humans for long periods of time. So, anytime they use a nuclear bomb, large swaths of land are not capable of holding life anymore." Strike explained to the students.
They were silent as they absorbed that information and Strike had the screen begin playing again.
"And then, only six months later, the second attack hit Manila." As Tai talked, the screen showed another Kaiju attacking a city as a group of people in a building began running for their lives as the screen changed again to show an overhead shot of a massive five clawed footprint. The next image shown was a group of machinery clearing up a large pile of colored material as the screen showed a headline titled, "Kaiju Excrement Contaminates City."
The screen changed to show a smoke covered image of the Kaiju, it's roar echoing out into the night. The next image shown was a overhead shot of the dead Kaiju, it's body still smoking from the weapons used to kill it. A news report was head narrating, saying "The acid factor of the Kaiju blood creates a toxic phenomenon known as Kaiju Blue." A group of hazmat covered people are seen cleaning up the area with one lifting up his hands to show the dark blue covered appendage."
"So these things are insanely powerful nigh-impossible to kill and also have acid blood that acts as a toxin? They sound less like animals and more like biologically engineered weapons." Blake commented.
"The origins of the Kaiju shall be revealed later on. Keep watching." Strike says, simply choosing to keep on watching.
Blake narrows her eyes a little. He never directly said one way or the other if the Kaiju are naturally occurring or weapons, making her suspicious.
"Then the third one hit Cabo. And then the fourth. And then we learned. This was not going to stop. This was just the beginning. We needed a new weapon." Tai continued saying, the screen showing the dead remains of another Kaiju onto of a large water vessel. The crew were looking over at the destroyed city, their hands linked together as they stared at the devastation. Images of destruction and death were shown as people ran for their lives while another Kaiju roared menacingly. A graph showing a decline in the economy of the world as a group of rioters attacked police.
The world came together, pooling it's resources and putting aside old rivalries for the sack of the greater good. To fighter monsters, we created monsters of our own." A shot of the leaders of the world gathered together in a a single room was shown, the leaders talking and working together to find a solution to the Kaiju. The next shot showed a massive assembly hail with groups of robotic arms moving and welding metal armor plating together while humans worked above them. The next shot showed a partially assembled humanoid looking leg with various mechanical arms working to complete it. The shot after that showed massive billboards with the image of a silver bird with it's wing stretched out in front of it with the words, "Together, we can end this war." The next image showed a women in safety gear working hard as the next image showed two massive torso units nearly assembled.
The Jaeger Program was born." As these words were spoken, a bald older male in a complex suit tightened his fist as a giant robotic arm behind him copied the movements almost instantly.
"Intriguing. Since none of their other weapons could work, they copied their enemies and made their own giant warriors, kind of like Colossus." Weiss analyzed.
"A future Jaegers are better armed and are much faster with better reflexes then a Colossus, however a Colossus has stronger defenses due to it's Hard-Light shields." Strike told them.
"Cool. Giant mechs verses giant monsters. Just what everyone 10 year old child wants to see." Yang said with a smile.
"Huh, I wonder what it would be like to pilot one of those things." Jaune wondered.
"It would be quiet the experience." Ren agreed.
"Ren! We need to get one of those! Think of how much destruction I could reek with one of those!" Nora said as she started laughing maniacally at the thought. Laser firing, missile launching, all while people and Grimm alike screamed in fear beneath here as the fire rage around her.
Pyrrha, Jaune and Ren all silently agree with each other to never let Nora near a Jaeger or any type of giant mech, ever.
The screen started playing before the conversations could continue any longer.
There were setbacks at first. The neural load to interface with a Jaeger proved too much for a single pilot. A two pilot system was implemented. Left hemisphere, right hemisphere pilot control." A black and white film showed the same man from before, except that doctors were taking him to a table to be examined as a heart monitor beeped in the background. But before the doctors could really start helping the man, the heart monitor beeped faster and faster as one of the doctors opened the mans eye to check him out as the eye rolled backwards with blood started to form inside the eye as a trail of blood leaked out of the man's nostril with the heart monitor beeped on long continuous beep, telling everyone the man is dead. The next image showed a scan of the Jaeger control pod at first having a single pilot, but then changing to have two pilots. Pilot one being green and controlling the left side of the robot and pilot two being blue and controlling the right side."
Ruby winced at the sight of the dead man and said, "That must have been a horrible way to die."
"I can only imagine." Strike agreed.
Interesting way to get around the problem. A single human can't handle the load, but in a two pilot system. But why did they not simply have AI's pilot the Jaegers or take the load?" Weiss asked.
"Humanity can only create every simply AI at this point in time, even later down the line it will be a number of years before a AI can pilot a Jaeger to any degree of mastery and even then, Jaegers piloted by humans are more combat efficient." Strike explained.
"Ah." Weiss said, finally getting it.
"We started winning. Jaegers stopping Kaiju's everywhere. But the Jaegers were only as good as their pilots, so Jaeger pilots turned into rock stars. Danger turned into propaganda. Kaiju into toys." Images of a finished Jaeger standing tall as a young child looked up in awe, next image showing a military parade with that same Jaeger in the background. The next series of images showed that Jaeger fighting a Kaiju by smashing it's right fist into the Kaiju's face and with the Kaiju stunned, the Jaeger deployed it's massive sword and sliced the Kaiju's throat open. After the fight, thew two Jaeger pilots were talking to a TV host. Next was shown a scarecrow version of a Kaiju being set aflame as those around it laughed and cheered in joy. After that, a young boy was playing with a large assortment of Kaiju and Jaeger toys, having them fight against one another. After that, a TV commercial showed two sneakers, one called, "Romeo Blue" and the other "Hardship." Finally, a Asia woman was wearing a dark green suit in the shape of a Kaiju.
"Wait, these things are attacking their cities and threatening all they hold dear and they are turning them into toys and sneaker brands?" Yang asked, unable to believe these people.
"Indeed. After the initial danger passed and they finally had a means to kill Kaiju effectively, humanity lost sight of the true danger behind the Kaiju." Strike said.
"That's going to come back to effect them later, isn't it?" Blake asked.
"Wait and see, it shall be revealed later." Strike said as the show began again.
"We got really good at it. Winning. Then. Then it all changed." Tai said as the image of a Jaeger standing above crews of repairmen searching through a damaged city appeared. Next was shown a busy street in a city that has built around the carcass of a dead Kaiju. Next was shown was a area that was blocked from the public with men holding guns protecting large black claws sitting on the ground. The final thing shown was a large Kaiju suit looming over a TV host and his co-host, both of whom where pretending to be afraid, the last noises being his pretend screams."
"And if that ain't ominous I don;t know what is." Yang commented, slightly nervous as to what changed.
"The Jaegers seem too powerful for the Kaiju to destroy, what changed?" Jaune asked.
"That's a story for another time. Now we should move off to another reality." Strike said as the screen faded with the book closing and flying back into Strike grasp.
"What? Why?" Ruby whined. She really wanted to see more Jaeger designs and their weapons.
"Sorry Ruby, but this is a long story and if we watch it for too long, the protectors of that universe might get angry at me. Each universe has their own set of protectors who guard it from external threats. Some are more willing to let Observers like myself see and watch their universe, but then there are those who take their job very seriously and will attack anyone who so much as gazes at their reality for a second. The guardians of this particular reality are not as bad as some others, but due to a disagreement between myself and them, I am not on the best terms with those protectors, so it is best to only view that universe in small doses to avoid a fight." Strike explained.
Strike then sent the book away to it's rightful place and mentally commanded another book to come forth into his hands.
"So Strike, what were we meant to learn from that universe?" Yang asked.
Strike looked at her and said, "That there are much darker things in the multiverse then Grimm and you must mentally prepare yourselves for the possibility of seeing something you find repulsive of disturbing. However, the main lesson that universe is meant to teach shall be found when we have completed looking at it. So, you must be patient."
After speaking to Yang, Strike spoke the code to the book in his arms , the book glowing and flying out of his hands much quicker then the book before it.
The book opened directly to the middle and created it's own screen quickly, the countdown starting almost instantly.
The group of eight students all turned and prepared themselves for whatever would come next.
And that is the end of part one of the Pacific Rim saga.
I love Pacific Rim, one of my favorite movies of all time. I loved the characters, the setting, the Jaegers, the Kaiju, it was all so well done and so immersive. I felt for these characters, I hoped they would win and I grew to care for them.
Pacific Rim shall be broken up into six-parts: Opening monologue, Introduction to Gypsy Danger, Hong Kong fight, the "Monsters at our Door speech" and the two-part last battle for the Breech.
We shall return to Pacific Rim in three chapters, so send in some suggestions for chapters in between now and then.
And as always, if you have any comments, criticisms or concerns, leave a review or send me a PM, always appreciated.
And until next time, this is StrikeFreedom10, signing off.
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