Pacific Rim: Man VS Monster

Chapter One: Prologue

Kaiju (kaijū, Japanese) Giant Beast.
Jaeger (yāgar, German) Hunter.

'When I was only a kid, whenever I would feel small, alone, or even on my own, I would look up to the stars above at night, and wondered if there was life out there amongst the galaxy. It turned out that I was looking over in completely the entirety wrong direction.'

'When alien life entered our world, it wasn't from the stars. It came from deep beneath the Pacific Ocean. From a fissure between two tectonic plates. A portal between dimensions.'

'They called it... The Breach.'

'I was 14 years old when the first Kaiju made land in San Francisco in August 10th, 2013. K-Day.'

An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter Scale was recorded, and The epicenter of the quake was in the middle of San Francisco Bay. Then, a monstrous creature emerged out of the waters of San Francisco Bay.

The creature was measured to be 302f tall (92 meters), and weighs 2780 tonnes. The creature's hide looked to be very thick and protective. It emits an orange bioluminous glow from inside its mouth. The main arms are actually two fused arms, each ending with three clawed digits, with a large axe-shaped head.

The creature destroyed the Golden Gate Bridge, killing hundreds of motorists, as their vehicles plunged into the bay amid falling steel and concrete from the destroyed bridge.

News reports of the quake were quickly followed by "strange reports of something moving under the Golden Gate Bridge". Video footage of the Kaiju attacking the bridge was broadcast by news organisations all over the world. Successive news reports showed the devastation it inflicted on San Francisco and the surrounding cities, and the futile attempts of the combined forces of the U.S and United Kingdom military's ground forces and airstrikes to kill it.

The creature then went on a 35 mile rampage along the American Pacific coast, devastating the cities of Sacramento and Oakland over the next six days. The United States and British militaries responded to the giant creature, fighting it over the course of the six days. With troops, tanks, heavy artillery and jets attempting to kill the creature, but they were unable to succeed in stopping it.

On August 15th, the military finally resorted to using tactical nuclear missiles to kill the creature, in which they succeeded. It took three such missiles to bring the beast down, and the nuclear fallout and Kaiju blood left large swaths of the Bay area uninhabitable for centuries. The San Francisco Bay Area area was later named the San Francisco Exclusion Zone, or the SFEZ.

'By the time tanks, jets, and missiles took the beast down, six days and 35 miles later, three cities were destroyed in the attack. Tens of thousands of lives were lost. I lost both of my grandparents when the Kaiju tore apart and devastated San Francisco.'