"Breach on the Pacific Rim" - Part Six

Part Six

            Newt was frozen in terror.

            Chau was about to dissect the woman he loved the first moment he laid eyes on her. Sure, she was part of an alien species he had yet to discern the entire background of, despite everything she elucidated in front of Chau and all his associates; but he could not just watch the black marketer kill her.

            “NO!” He cried, making his move.

            His attempt, however, was sidelined by a massive tremor that overwhelmed the foundation of Chau’s shop. Several different Kaiju organs rattled in their glass containers.

            “What the…?!” Chau grumbled.

            Neas used this distraction to escape with Lauren and Geiszler.

            The cause of the seismic activity was explained by a Kaiju in process of tearing through Hong Kong skyscrapers.

            “That’s an Otachi,” Newt classified, thrilled and terrified all at once.

            Neas noticed many fleeing citizens all heading in a single direction.

            “C’mon, this way,” he instructed to Lauren and Newt, joining in the path of the bolting crowd, which was straight for a public Kaiju bunker.

            Packed tighter than a can of sardines with dozens of people, they all stood still and quiet, hearing the Otachi’s rampage above ground. Lauren felt Newt clutching her arm tremendously tight, cutting off circulation.

            “Newton, it’s alright,” she assured him. “We’re safe.”

            “N-No, you d-don’t understand,” he spluttered. “Chau, he told me how drifting with a Kaiju is a two-way street. They share a hive mind, and I became part of that hive when I drifted with it! The Otachi’s after me!”

            Neas’s body hardened. “You mean…you’re bait?!”

            KURCRACK!!

            One of the gargantuan claws of the Otachi busted through the bunker’s ceiling, toppling mass chunks over a few citizens. The creature did everything in its power to reach Newt, going as far as slinking its bulbous, flowering bioluminescent tongue down the hole it created to grasp and sense its prey.

            Suddenly, it retreated, lifting its head back above ground to see another Kaiju beast it had never seen before emitting a high-pitched screech its way.

            In the opposite direction stomped a faded blue Jaeger lugging a cargo freighter.

            Peeping through the crater, Neas and Lauren could see that the Otachi was cornered by the Gipsy Danger and the new rogue Kaiju. Both proceeded to attack the beast in a two-on-one battle, with Gipsy making the first attack in bashing the head of the Otachi multiple times.

            The Otachi whipped its tail, wrapping the appendage around Gipsy’s left arm.

            Had it not been for the coolant it vented out of its torso to freeze and shatter the Otachi’s tail, the monster would have torn the arm right off. Both its arms free, Gipsy reached into the Otachi’s mouth and ripped out its tongue.

            The rogue Kaiju followed suit, positioning its head above the Otachi’s pried mouth and spitting atomic breath down its throat.

            In seconds, the Otachi was decapitated.

            Victorious, the rogue Kaiju roared into the heavens as it retreated into the night.

            “Whoa,” Neas uttered in his amazement.

            “Safe to say that fella’s definitely on our side,” Lauren approved.

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            After the epic defeat of the Otachi, Geiszler and the two Time Lords returned to Chau’s shop, where the black marketer was already making plans in harvesting the dead Kaiju’s body.

            His activities were halted as soon as Lauren delivered a right hook effective enough to lay Chau on his backside.

            “That’s for trying to harvest my organs,” she scolded him. “I AM NOT ON THE MARKET, AND NEITHER IS MY SON! GOT IT?!”

            Beneath his bruised jaw (and ego), Chau grinned. “Yeah, kid. I got ya.”

            “And you owe my friend here a fresh Kaiju brain,” she added, indicating Newt.

            Geiszler was enthralled more than ever by her; no woman had ever fought for him before, at least not one who had ever given him the time of day like Lauren.

            Chau kept his end of the bargain, escorting Neas, Lauren, and Newt to the site where his men excavated the deceased Otachi carcass. The harvest for the brain had taken longer than anticipated.

            “What’s going on in there, boys?” Chau contacted the team inside the dead Kaiju via walkie-talkie.

            “The secondary brain is damaged, boss.”

            It was the worst news they could receive under those circumstances.

            “Wait. There’s some activity here. A pulsation of some kind.”

            A thumping noise reverberated through Chau’s walkie-talkie.

            Neas grimaced in familiarity. “It’s…pregnant?”

            “Awe,” Lauren gushed, drawing odd stares from the three men beside her.

            “Problem solved,” Chau said. “We kill the kid and take its brain instead.”

            “No!” Lauren strictly forbade. “We are not going to harm a single organ from its body! It’s just a child!”

            “Pop, are you serious?!” Neas rebuked. “That thing isn’t—”

            Before his point could have been made, screams erupted from Chau’s walkie-talkie right before the baby Otachi ripped itself out of its mother’s womb.

            Everyone, including Chau, ran for cover.

            Unfortunately for the black marketer, the infant managed to gobble him up prior to asphyxiating on its umbilical cord.

            Though the Otachi infant’s life was short-lived, Lauren took a lot of pleasure watching it consume Chau. “Karma is a beautiful thing, isn’t it?” she unconcernedly jeered at the expense.

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            Just as Lauren predicted, their procurement of the fresh Kaiju brain was met with admiration from Stacker Pentecost. Of course, the marshal was overjoyed as it was over the successful vanquishing of the Otachi by the Gipsy Danger, piloted by Raleigh and Mako.

            “Excellent work out there,” Neas congratulated.

            Raleigh timidly shrugged. “Most of the thanks should be given to Godzilla.”

            “Godzilla?!” Neas and Lauren balked.

            “Herc told us that Chuck came up with it,” Raleigh related.

            Neas sneered. “No surprise there.”

            “Godzilla’s assistance in the fight has renewed faith in our chances against the triple attack you predicted,” Pentecost said. “If there are more like that one, on our side, we could be unstoppable.”

            “Nevertheless, Marshal,” Neas opposed, “we must shut down that rift. Not only is it a danger to your world, but it’s what has been keeping my father and me from leaving.”

            “I agree,” Pentecost acknowledged. “That’s why I have a high-yield nuclear bomb en route this moment. This long battle between worlds will soon see its end.”

            “Marshal…” He heard Mako softly say, gesturing to her upper lip.

            Between her gesture and their worried stares, he realized that blood had trickled from his nose. Somewhat embarrassed, he retrieved a handkerchief and hurried out of sight to the confusion of Neas, Lauren, and Raleigh.

            They looked to Mako, whose expression hung in despair.

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            Later, in Newt and Hermann’s laboratory, with the assistance of the two scientists, Neas and Lauren conducted a fruitful Time Lord-Kaiju drift, the first and only of its kind. They emerged physically and mentally unscathed, but there was still registered torment in their countenances.

            “What did you see?” Hermann asked them.

            “Pentecost’s plan,” Neas said. “It’s not gonna work.”

            “The portal will only respond to the genetic code of a Kaiju,” Lauren added, “meaning we’ll have to use a Kaiju or a part of one to get through the breach to destroy it, or else the bomb’s only going to destroy this world.”

            Neas snapped his fingers with resolve. “Unless something else…something that’s not of Earth origin…something like the T.A.R.D.I.S. were to get through the portal. It’s capable of interdimensional travel as is.”

            Lauren glowered. “Are you saying we dematerialize through the portal with the bomb on board the T.A.R.D.I.S.?”

            “That’s exactly what I’m saying, Pop.”