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[May 30] [Pacific Rim] Brawl
Title: Brawl
Day/Theme: 30. sisu (determination, tenacity, resilience, perseverance, stoic toughness)
Series: Pacific Rim
Character/Pairing: Hermann/Newt
Rating: part 30 of 31, violence, carnage
Tianying had spewed out a whole flock of new Kaiju. They were winged, and feathered and had the soft concave faces of a barn owl, studded with several extra eyes. They also had haunches like a kangaroo and a long, feathered tail. They were spreading some kind of poisonous spore. As they flapped or hopped around Tianying, they shed fine particles that started growing wherever they settled. It grew into an algae-like organism that began producing toxins. It made eyes, throats, and noses burn. The humans that died were found to have blisters through their sinuses and lungs and across the surface of their eyeballs. The owlaroos were comparatively easy to kill but if they weren't burned within minutes, their bodies became whole clusters of the spores. Every time one died, it contaminated a square block. There were so many that it had only been two days and the city was already overrun.
Newt was calling them Xiao class. He said it was a flesh-eating owl monster in mythology, but even that didn't change the fact that they were cuter than they had any reason to be.
"You want one don't you?" Raleigh teased Mako.
"Maybe a plush one," she admitted. "That squeaks."
"All right," Hansen said. "Sorry, doctors, but you can't capture any of those. If they're as toxic as that, we can't have them in the dome."
"All I need is a sample from a live one," Newt began, but was interrupted by the yowls as soon as Hansen's Yaujta was refitted with a squid cap. The Yaujta didn't want anything to do with the Xiao, but once the AI kicked in and Hansen's influence Drifted into its mind, it started to get battle ready. Mako and Raleigh were there with the 2 and 3 jaegers. More of the mobile units were with them as well to try to turn whatever Xiao they caught.
The Xiao weren't as aggressive as the previous kaiju had been. They avoided the jaegers, and flapped away from the skittering mobile units, but the Yaujta could leap and slap them out of the air. The spores made it sneeze but didn't seem to bother it otherwise. Hansen didn't feel any irritation in his own membranes, so they went on. Mako and Raleigh tried to pick them off and then contain the bodies in the capture sphere before they could spread. It was tedious work and grim to blow apart small, fluffier creatures that were actively trying to get away. Since there were so many, it was taking hours.
There was a rumble from the Breach. Energy discharge crackled around it.
"What was that?" Hansen asked.
"Marshall, there is activity in the Breach!" Hermann announced over the com, even though they could all hear him in the same room. "It's… It's like before!"
"More Xiaos?" Raleigh asked.
"No," Hermann said, his voice rose in disbelief. "Like a Category IV! Marshall, I think-" Then the Kaiju burst out of the Breach. It was huge. It looked like a komodo dragon with ripples of patagium down it's sides. It was lower to the ground than Leatherback had been, but it was long and never seemed to end as it poured out of the Breach. Raleigh and Mako opened fire on it. As soon as it saw them, its neck inflated and it spewed a torrent of something bright blue over them. It was caustic. They could smell the metal skin of the jaegers scorching under it.
"They tricked us!" Raleigh shouted. "Sent in enough little ones to makes us scale down and then sent the big guns back."
"Bail! Both of you," Hansen said. "Get back here in the Danger."
"Going," Raleigh said.
"Be careful," said Mako. They both disengaged, letting the AIs take over the smaller jaegers. The jaegers stopped moving and begin firing from their present positions. The sentries and mobile units were still latching on to whatever Kaiju they could find. The Xiao Class were flapping everywhere. The Yaujta screamed its battle cry and launched itself for the Category IV's throat.
Back on the carrier, Newt was almost hysterical. He was trying to get the controls from Hermann and screaming over his shoulder at Hansen.
"PONS it! If we can PONS it, we can send it back through the Breach! Right back into their faces! PONS THAT THING!"
"The mobile units aren't strong enough to get through its skull!" Hermann said, pushing him toward the commlink. "Contact the pilots and tell them to bring the one from the labs. Hurry!"
It was all battle and mayhem in the city below. The IV was so long it didn't have to move much. It just spit out torrents of the acid at whatever came near it. Its skin was tough enough that the Yaujta didn't trouble it much. The second Yaujta had joined the fight at some point. It seemed anxious to rejoin its packmate and they whipped around each other, dodging the acid and biting everything in range.
It took two hours for the Mokushi Danger to rejoin the fight. The Kaiju spewed the fiery acid all over her, but she waded into it and put the creature in a headlock. She clamped the larger PONS onto its head and Hermann directed every mobile unit on the scene to connect with it. Every AI not currently in the Drift with one of the other Kaiju flocked over to force their hold on it. The hivemind screamed. Hansen shrieked along with it. Hermann felt the backlash and staggered. Newt was knocked off his feet. For a moment, it was all noise and pain and rage beyond human comprehension.
Then, the AIs sank in, drowning it all out into white noise. The Category IV roared and struggled, but as the minutes ticked by, it settled. It stood still, head hanging like a horse in blinders. It was surreal to see the gigantic jaeger holding the immense monster, neither of them moving. Then, slowly as a sleepwalker, the IV turned and started back toward the Breach.
"Oh my God," Newt gasped from the floor. "Please work. Please let it work. Please. Please work."
In the Anteverse, a flock of the AI controlled Xiao class burst back through the Breach. They attacked everything in sight. The two Yaujta followed them in and went for the nearest throats. Then, the Category IV returned and the hivemind fell into chaos. None of the other Kaiju knew who to fight or where the danger was actually coming from and it didn't take them long to act on the loudest command in their heads. They turned on each other and soon the whole Anteverse was a mad brawl.
Back on Earth, Hermann and Newt were doing their best to keep their own minds together. Their recent Drift helped override the hive. But then, the Mokushi Danger shrugged out from under the Category IV where it had ridden in with it, and opened fire.
Hansen was synched with the Yaujta and so lost in his own bloodlust that he hadn't even noticed, but the jaeger wading through the Breach made him remember his nightmares and he screamed. The Yaujta panicked with him, bolting for the Breach. The Danger was in their way, shooting and stabbing, just wading through the walls and seas of Kaiju. The anguish in the hivemind intensified.
It left Newt curled even tighter, clawing at his own temples and biting his lip bloody not to scream. Hermann was being hammered by it too. He left the controls and dragged one of the AIs over to try and fit it on Newt's head.
"No!" Newt screamed. "NOnoNONO! You! It has to be YOU!"
"I'll be there!" Hermann said. "I'm coming with you. Just, just put this on." He fitted the squid cap over Newt's head and struggled into his own. He still had to monitor all the readings. They had to get the Danger and both pilots back out of the Breach before it collapsed. With the AI as a shield and each other's minds for comfort, he and Newt were able to pull themselves together and function.
They could feel the lights going out. Kaiju were killing and dying and taking the Anteverse down with them. The Breach was trying to crumble, but the Category IV's tail was still inside it.
"Get out of there!" Hermann cried into the comm. Hansen roared something that could've been "GO!" All three of them spasmed as a massive surge hit. Newt wasn't sure if the power had gone out or if it was his vision fizzling as his brain shut down. He grappled with Hermann to clutch him close and make sure they couldn't be separated, and then it all went dark.
Day/Theme: 30. sisu (determination, tenacity, resilience, perseverance, stoic toughness)
Series: Pacific Rim
Character/Pairing: Hermann/Newt
Rating: part 30 of 31, violence, carnage
Tianying had spewed out a whole flock of new Kaiju. They were winged, and feathered and had the soft concave faces of a barn owl, studded with several extra eyes. They also had haunches like a kangaroo and a long, feathered tail. They were spreading some kind of poisonous spore. As they flapped or hopped around Tianying, they shed fine particles that started growing wherever they settled. It grew into an algae-like organism that began producing toxins. It made eyes, throats, and noses burn. The humans that died were found to have blisters through their sinuses and lungs and across the surface of their eyeballs. The owlaroos were comparatively easy to kill but if they weren't burned within minutes, their bodies became whole clusters of the spores. Every time one died, it contaminated a square block. There were so many that it had only been two days and the city was already overrun.
Newt was calling them Xiao class. He said it was a flesh-eating owl monster in mythology, but even that didn't change the fact that they were cuter than they had any reason to be.
"You want one don't you?" Raleigh teased Mako.
"Maybe a plush one," she admitted. "That squeaks."
"All right," Hansen said. "Sorry, doctors, but you can't capture any of those. If they're as toxic as that, we can't have them in the dome."
"All I need is a sample from a live one," Newt began, but was interrupted by the yowls as soon as Hansen's Yaujta was refitted with a squid cap. The Yaujta didn't want anything to do with the Xiao, but once the AI kicked in and Hansen's influence Drifted into its mind, it started to get battle ready. Mako and Raleigh were there with the 2 and 3 jaegers. More of the mobile units were with them as well to try to turn whatever Xiao they caught.
The Xiao weren't as aggressive as the previous kaiju had been. They avoided the jaegers, and flapped away from the skittering mobile units, but the Yaujta could leap and slap them out of the air. The spores made it sneeze but didn't seem to bother it otherwise. Hansen didn't feel any irritation in his own membranes, so they went on. Mako and Raleigh tried to pick them off and then contain the bodies in the capture sphere before they could spread. It was tedious work and grim to blow apart small, fluffier creatures that were actively trying to get away. Since there were so many, it was taking hours.
There was a rumble from the Breach. Energy discharge crackled around it.
"What was that?" Hansen asked.
"Marshall, there is activity in the Breach!" Hermann announced over the com, even though they could all hear him in the same room. "It's… It's like before!"
"More Xiaos?" Raleigh asked.
"No," Hermann said, his voice rose in disbelief. "Like a Category IV! Marshall, I think-" Then the Kaiju burst out of the Breach. It was huge. It looked like a komodo dragon with ripples of patagium down it's sides. It was lower to the ground than Leatherback had been, but it was long and never seemed to end as it poured out of the Breach. Raleigh and Mako opened fire on it. As soon as it saw them, its neck inflated and it spewed a torrent of something bright blue over them. It was caustic. They could smell the metal skin of the jaegers scorching under it.
"They tricked us!" Raleigh shouted. "Sent in enough little ones to makes us scale down and then sent the big guns back."
"Bail! Both of you," Hansen said. "Get back here in the Danger."
"Going," Raleigh said.
"Be careful," said Mako. They both disengaged, letting the AIs take over the smaller jaegers. The jaegers stopped moving and begin firing from their present positions. The sentries and mobile units were still latching on to whatever Kaiju they could find. The Xiao Class were flapping everywhere. The Yaujta screamed its battle cry and launched itself for the Category IV's throat.
Back on the carrier, Newt was almost hysterical. He was trying to get the controls from Hermann and screaming over his shoulder at Hansen.
"PONS it! If we can PONS it, we can send it back through the Breach! Right back into their faces! PONS THAT THING!"
"The mobile units aren't strong enough to get through its skull!" Hermann said, pushing him toward the commlink. "Contact the pilots and tell them to bring the one from the labs. Hurry!"
It was all battle and mayhem in the city below. The IV was so long it didn't have to move much. It just spit out torrents of the acid at whatever came near it. Its skin was tough enough that the Yaujta didn't trouble it much. The second Yaujta had joined the fight at some point. It seemed anxious to rejoin its packmate and they whipped around each other, dodging the acid and biting everything in range.
It took two hours for the Mokushi Danger to rejoin the fight. The Kaiju spewed the fiery acid all over her, but she waded into it and put the creature in a headlock. She clamped the larger PONS onto its head and Hermann directed every mobile unit on the scene to connect with it. Every AI not currently in the Drift with one of the other Kaiju flocked over to force their hold on it. The hivemind screamed. Hansen shrieked along with it. Hermann felt the backlash and staggered. Newt was knocked off his feet. For a moment, it was all noise and pain and rage beyond human comprehension.
Then, the AIs sank in, drowning it all out into white noise. The Category IV roared and struggled, but as the minutes ticked by, it settled. It stood still, head hanging like a horse in blinders. It was surreal to see the gigantic jaeger holding the immense monster, neither of them moving. Then, slowly as a sleepwalker, the IV turned and started back toward the Breach.
"Oh my God," Newt gasped from the floor. "Please work. Please let it work. Please. Please work."
In the Anteverse, a flock of the AI controlled Xiao class burst back through the Breach. They attacked everything in sight. The two Yaujta followed them in and went for the nearest throats. Then, the Category IV returned and the hivemind fell into chaos. None of the other Kaiju knew who to fight or where the danger was actually coming from and it didn't take them long to act on the loudest command in their heads. They turned on each other and soon the whole Anteverse was a mad brawl.
Back on Earth, Hermann and Newt were doing their best to keep their own minds together. Their recent Drift helped override the hive. But then, the Mokushi Danger shrugged out from under the Category IV where it had ridden in with it, and opened fire.
Hansen was synched with the Yaujta and so lost in his own bloodlust that he hadn't even noticed, but the jaeger wading through the Breach made him remember his nightmares and he screamed. The Yaujta panicked with him, bolting for the Breach. The Danger was in their way, shooting and stabbing, just wading through the walls and seas of Kaiju. The anguish in the hivemind intensified.
It left Newt curled even tighter, clawing at his own temples and biting his lip bloody not to scream. Hermann was being hammered by it too. He left the controls and dragged one of the AIs over to try and fit it on Newt's head.
"No!" Newt screamed. "NOnoNONO! You! It has to be YOU!"
"I'll be there!" Hermann said. "I'm coming with you. Just, just put this on." He fitted the squid cap over Newt's head and struggled into his own. He still had to monitor all the readings. They had to get the Danger and both pilots back out of the Breach before it collapsed. With the AI as a shield and each other's minds for comfort, he and Newt were able to pull themselves together and function.
They could feel the lights going out. Kaiju were killing and dying and taking the Anteverse down with them. The Breach was trying to crumble, but the Category IV's tail was still inside it.
"Get out of there!" Hermann cried into the comm. Hansen roared something that could've been "GO!" All three of them spasmed as a massive surge hit. Newt wasn't sure if the power had gone out or if it was his vision fizzling as his brain shut down. He grappled with Hermann to clutch him close and make sure they couldn't be separated, and then it all went dark.