Pacific Rim: Man VS Monster

Chapter Sixteen: The Breach/Afterparty

In the Breach, Gipsy floated across the watery landscape, still holding onto the corpse of Slattern by her Chain Sword. The weapon retracted back into the arm, and the Jaeger seemed to float on through space.

"Oxygen main: left hemisphere, critical levels." Gipsy's A.I spoke out. James noticed his wife's oxygen system was damaged, and it's not operating like normal. "Operating at fifteen percent capacity." He detached his oxygen supply, as he pulled off Naomi's broken air supply. "Ten percent capacity. Five percent." He then plugged his air supply into Naomi's suit, and she breathed in.

"It's okay, Naomi. We did it." James breathed, taking off Naomi's helmet, and patting her head. "I can finish this part of the mission alone. All I have to do is fall. Anyone can fall."

"James, your oxygen levels are critical now. You don't have much time." Tendo spoke out on the Comms. "Start the core meltdown and get out of there."

"Dad. Can you hear me?" Braedey called out too, just as Naomi's lifepod ejected with her onboard, and headed off to the surface. "Get out of there now!"

"LOCCENT, if you can still hear me, I'm initiating reactor override now." James called in, then pushed the button, only to see an alarm flash on the screen.

"Manual activation required." The A.I spoke out, and James yelled it in frustration.

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"What's going on?" Herc demanded. Why hasn't he activated the self-destruction sequence for the Jaeger?

"Trigger's offline!" Tendo replied from another station to try and reroute anything. "He has to do it by hand."

"He's out of time." Newt spoke up. "He has to self-destruct now."

"At this rate, he might not make it back out of the Breach." Lucy said unsure.

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"Manual activation required." Gipsy's A.I spoke out, as James got out of his harness, then prepared to make his way to the manual switches.

As he does so, Gipsy continued to sink down deeper and deeper into the Breach, soon reaching the point of the Breach, known as the Anteverse.