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They awake to alarms blaring, the lights in the barracks flash a disorienting red. The sounds of heavy booted footsteps echo down the hall.
‘C-tier Kaiju sighted off the California coast. Predicted additional hostiles all on-call units report.’ BEEP BEEP ‘C-tier Kaiju sighted off the California coast. Predicted additional hostiles all on-call units report.’
Alex reaches from the bottom bunk to shake his twin awake. A groan echoes the deafening alarms. Her body shifts to show that He’s achieved his goal.
“Come on dude, they called for all on-call.” He says as he throws her boots on the bed.
“Can we not and say we did? We’re off in like 30 minutes.” Messy blonde hair hangs over the side of the bunk as she shifts to sit.
“We’re in the military Ally, we don’t get time off,” Alex rolls his eyes grabbing his and Ally’s necessary equipment, “Let’s go old timer, maybe we can settle this in time for breakfast.”
“I’M LITERALLY THREE MINUTES OLDER.” Ally jumps from the bunk sprinting after her little brother.
Alex snorts from down the hall.
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The large bay doors open and the two siblings step inside. Techs and mechanics are scattered running to make their final checks.
“THE TWINS ARE HERE!” The lead tech, Sam, yelled as they saw the two approach. “You guys ready? It’s pretty crazy out there, at least two C-tiers spotted and a nasty storm brewing on top of it”
Alex grimaces at the thought of fighting in a storm, that means more clean up after. Through all of their years as a team Alex and Ally had fought plenty of kaiju in all weather. They were the best team this branch had, the pilots of Superior, they had yet to lose and Alex knew Ally wasn’t willing to start now.
“We were born for this. Right, Bro?” Ally smirks, nudging Alex.
After a few more eye rolls, and snarky exchanges the twins found themselves strapped in and running final checks.
“Alright let’s do this Team Superior.”
Ally holds out her gloved fist, ignoring his nerves Alex completes the fist bump.
“Secure to drop Sam?” Alex calls,
“Ready, dropping in 3, 2, 1”
Alex’s stomach jolts as he feels gravity take Superior down, they wait patiently for the Jaeger to be taxied out.
“Starting neural handshake in 10, 9, 8, 7…”
“Don't go digging too far, yeah? I had a very successful date last week.” Ally teases, preparing for the connection.
Alex fakes a gag as he feels his consciousness pull him through countless childhood memories. Laughter and voices fill his ears, it feels like coming home. It's times like these he realizes just how much he owes to Ally and how lucky he is to have her. Alex was always the weird kid focusing on things others deemed unimportant, but Ally always listened and was there to stand up for him when his own resolve faltered. She has also pulled him out of numerous ill advised scraps over the years as well. That’s what made them such a good team; he was the muscle and the determination, she was the reason and the one to pull them out when they were in too deep.
“Alright, let’s do this and get back so I can take a nap.” Ally jokes pulling Alex from his musings.
“You always want a nap” He retorts, laughter fills the cabin as they walk steadily through the roaring ocean.
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A faint blue light could be seen in the distance, that's their target the two C-tier kaiju are already engaged with one of the newer teams Fission . The duo are young and cocky, Rex Roofer had been seen in the mess hall trying to brag about their most recent escapades. Alex remembers their first successful missions, but Ally made sure that they never said anything they couldn’t back up.
The first kaiju rips at the slightly more lean jaeger wires and shreds of metal start to fall, soon they’ll be incapacitated if the kaiju keep at the same pace. Superior quickly steps in to grab the beast, Ally’s fist connects with the side as Alex readjusts his grip. Alex relishes at the simulated feeling of crushing the monster’s skull with the jaeger's grip.
Ally connects to Fission’s comms, “We got this guys, you head back for maintenance.”
“Yes ma’am,” Rex’s partner, Clark replies. “We will send back up”
“Appreciated, but we should be fine.” Superior turns their attention to the slightly larger kaiju that has been stalking their port side. The monster has long jagged claws that could easily tear through the metal if given the chance.
“Empty your hands baby brother, we’ve got work to do.” Alex drops the crushed kaiju.
“Why did they call that one a ‘C-tier’, it went down like a ‘D’ of ‘E’?” Alex mused as Ally prepared the pulse weapon. Moving into position Alex pointed his open palm to the beast.
A blinding pulse blast knocked the Kaiju backwards into the water, a second blast was then fired to ensure the job was done.
“BOOM, annnd we’re done! These things never go this smooth” Ally laughs seeing her brother’s unease at the statement.
“Now you’ve gone and JINXED US!” Couldn't you have saved that til we got back!?” They turn around to head back to the base when an alert shows on their screen.
BEEP BEEP BEEP
“What the fuck is that?” Ally leans forward to see the screen.
“Guy’s incoming, it looks massive maybe an A-tier but honestly it looks bigger than that. You’re going to need backup, retreat until we can get more units.” Sam’s voice crackles through the comms.
Superior’s core whirs to life, boosting the speed of their retreat. Alex can feel Ally’s nerves over the link, and his panic is not far behind. Alex feel’s something brush his leg, the sensors of the jaeger translating to the suit.
“Um, Ally, something huge just brush-” Alex’s panicked update is cut off by a massive eel-like kaiju rising from the water. The toxic kaiju blue water dripping from the creature’s body proof of their earlier triumph now feeling miniscule in the face of the new opponent.
“Fuck” The team’s voices fill the echoing hull.
The monster attacks striking like a snake, the alarms on Superior come to life as they realize the damage it can do with just one hit. Again it strikes, this time dislocating the jaeger's right arm from the shoulder joint. Alex screams as his suir jolts and shocks his now dangling appendage.
“ALEX!'' Ally screams, preparing the pulse cannon, finding that the system is offline.
She then moves to punch the beast, maybe she can stun it with sheer brute force. The beast dodges, its eyes far too intelligent for any of these attacks to be random. The kaijus slinks down back into the water circling them like prey. Alex finally regains his vision after the blinding shocks to his arm. It all went wrong so quickly.
Ally locks eyes with her baby brother seeing his unguarded fear, for the first time in her life she hopes he dies first.
The entire jaeger is harshly jolted forward, the monster is attacking the hull from behind. The team's feet are ripped from the platforms dangling by the wiring from their suits, like unmanned puppets they scream and grab for purchase. Superior flails unsuccessfully in the rain trying to grab at the monster that has, according to the pain in their backs and the wailing sensors on the wall breached the hull.
“SAM, SAM, ARE YOU READING?! SAM WE’RE STUCK IS THERE ANY BACKUP? SAM” Alex is screaming with all his might, hoping to any god available that the connection is still live.
‘zzzt “Superior do-” zzzt “Superior-- read-- out” zzt “Sup--- you---get---out”zzt’
“Get out? Get out? HOW WE’RE BEING TOYED WITH LIKE PREY?!” Ally furiously argues. Her voice cracking as she attempts to get a solid breath. She knows her brother is no better off, his harsh jagged gasps punctuate every beep of the wailing vitals alarms.
With all the chaos of the inside they miss when the kaiju circles back to the front to tower over them. The monster lunges forward it’s sharp beaked mouth grips onto the metal ripping it apart.
Alex, seeing the rain hit his visor, looks to his sister, the last person he has, the last of his family. He feels his entire world stop in the next moment as the kaiju rears back to once more peck at the jaeger. He sees her face, tears streaming down her face, his strong resilient sister the one who always cared for and protected him. He could feel her resignation through the link.
“NO NO NO NO NO, ALLY,” The kaiju rips her from the platform, “ALLY!” Alex screams as the pain of the link tries to disconnect, but not before he is hit full force with his sister’s fear and pain, and then he can't feel her any more. Alex can't tell if it's from the sudden disconnect or if he had just felt his sister’s last moments.
‘zzt “Ally, Alex? Do you copy?” zzt “Reinforcements are 30 seconds out” zzt’
Sam’s words echo in Alex’s head as he tries to keep the jaeger standing until backup arrives. At this point they just need extraction seeing as the kaiju retreated having had its fill of chaos and bloodshed.
Alex holds on until he sees the other jaeger reach for the mangled carcass of the Superior, his knees buckle as the jaeger is picked up. The pain he has been ignoring hits him full force. His arm and side burns and jolts due to electrical and sensor malfunctions in his gear, and his head is pounding from the links' violent disconnect.
Alex realizes as he starts to lose all control that the sun was up, his shift was over, it was time for breakfast.