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[May 28] [Pacific Rim] Off the Map
Title: Off the Map
Day/Theme: 28. dépaysement (the feeling from not being in one's home country)
Series: Pacific Rim
Character/Pairing: Hansen, Mako, Hermann/Newt
Rating: part 28 of 31
There was no common ground anymore. No one knew what the best course of action was. Hansen's Drift was utterly different from Newt and Hermann's. The Kaiju had refused to follow him back to base, but hadn't left the area. It had been Raleigh's reluctant, uncertain idea to feed it. Large quantities of meat were hard to come by in the Dome, so there wasn't nearly enough to feed something the size of the Yaujta class. The problem temporarily solved itself when they found it eating one of the remaining two. Newt threw up all over himself at the sight, which was so unlike him that Hermann wouldn't leave him alone until he went to medical.
It left Hansen to consider the things Newt had spouted as he was lead away. What had they done to the Kaiju that made it turn on its own packmates even when not influenced from the outside? Had it been cut off from the hivemind when the AI Drifted with it? Was that why it turned so easily on the others as soon as Hansen's hate had hit its head?
"Am I really the monster now?" he asked out loud. None of the techs felt up to answering. Mako was there, going over the readings.
"No more than any of us," she said. "We didn't make long-range weapons to fight them, after all. No giant guns. We went in tooth and nail to fight them. Hand to hand. Because that's the nature of the human beast as well. And it was the only thing that worked, anyway."
"So by sending the Kaiju, they were fighting fire with fire, you think?" Hansen asked. "Monsters to kill smaller monsters?"
"Oh, no," Mako smiled, all steel. "I think they expected this to be a simple sweeping clear."
"And got a faceful of robot fist as a surprise?" He grinned as he said it.
"Or a spinal column full of teeth just like theirs." She nodded at the feeding Kaiju. "We're still surprising them, Marshall, and as long as we continue to do so, we can still beat them."
"Again." Hansen said, more drily this time. "Don't think I don't know how far off the map this is."
"Maybe for keeps this time," she said. On the screen, the third Kaiju slunk into sight and timidly tried to join the first in eating their comrade. The killer snarled and postured until it groveled and then ignored it while they both ate. Somewhere down the hall, they could hear Newt still arguing that he was fine.
"There's a call from the PPDC," a messenger said, leaning in.
"Let's see what they think of this," Hansen sighed, and got up to answer it.
Day/Theme: 28. dépaysement (the feeling from not being in one's home country)
Series: Pacific Rim
Character/Pairing: Hansen, Mako, Hermann/Newt
Rating: part 28 of 31
There was no common ground anymore. No one knew what the best course of action was. Hansen's Drift was utterly different from Newt and Hermann's. The Kaiju had refused to follow him back to base, but hadn't left the area. It had been Raleigh's reluctant, uncertain idea to feed it. Large quantities of meat were hard to come by in the Dome, so there wasn't nearly enough to feed something the size of the Yaujta class. The problem temporarily solved itself when they found it eating one of the remaining two. Newt threw up all over himself at the sight, which was so unlike him that Hermann wouldn't leave him alone until he went to medical.
It left Hansen to consider the things Newt had spouted as he was lead away. What had they done to the Kaiju that made it turn on its own packmates even when not influenced from the outside? Had it been cut off from the hivemind when the AI Drifted with it? Was that why it turned so easily on the others as soon as Hansen's hate had hit its head?
"Am I really the monster now?" he asked out loud. None of the techs felt up to answering. Mako was there, going over the readings.
"No more than any of us," she said. "We didn't make long-range weapons to fight them, after all. No giant guns. We went in tooth and nail to fight them. Hand to hand. Because that's the nature of the human beast as well. And it was the only thing that worked, anyway."
"So by sending the Kaiju, they were fighting fire with fire, you think?" Hansen asked. "Monsters to kill smaller monsters?"
"Oh, no," Mako smiled, all steel. "I think they expected this to be a simple sweeping clear."
"And got a faceful of robot fist as a surprise?" He grinned as he said it.
"Or a spinal column full of teeth just like theirs." She nodded at the feeding Kaiju. "We're still surprising them, Marshall, and as long as we continue to do so, we can still beat them."
"Again." Hansen said, more drily this time. "Don't think I don't know how far off the map this is."
"Maybe for keeps this time," she said. On the screen, the third Kaiju slunk into sight and timidly tried to join the first in eating their comrade. The killer snarled and postured until it groveled and then ignored it while they both ate. Somewhere down the hall, they could hear Newt still arguing that he was fine.
"There's a call from the PPDC," a messenger said, leaning in.
"Let's see what they think of this," Hansen sighed, and got up to answer it.