Maybe it was seeing Striker Eureka suddenly stop moving, or maybe it was seeing how Leatherback circled his son and his old Jaeger, but Hercules is pretty sure he's never been so in the moment when he's been battling kaijus before.
Mako's exhilarated nerves only fuel his determination to pound that sucker into the ground. Chuck is all the family he's got left, and while he would rather not have his son resent him the way he does, he'd take sullen anger over death any day.
He'd also rather not fight two giant category four kaijus in the middle of a city of ten million or so people, but he's not going to stand back and wait for the rampaging monster to come back to him. No, Herc follows the kaijus onto land — and if anyone dares say that his "checking for a pulse" was overkill, he's going to deck them; that monster nearly killed his son goddammit — and unleashes all his paternal fury on them. How dare they try to take away what's left of his family. How dare they come and attack his planet. As long as he's standing, he will not stand for this bullshit.
...But then he's not standing, he's flying, and he spares a moment to wonder how the hell Otachi is able to carry Gipsy like this when it has no tail to stabilize its flight, but then most of his worry is diverted to his Jaeger and his copilot.
It's only sheer dumb luck that they land in the middle of a sports arena. Even a few feet to the left would have meant near-guaranteed injury. Instead, he's left laughing with a sudden release of endorphins, sagging in his conn-pod.
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Date: 2013-07-19 04:16 pm (UTC)Mako's exhilarated nerves only fuel his determination to pound that sucker into the ground. Chuck is all the family he's got left, and while he would rather not have his son resent him the way he does, he'd take sullen anger over death any day.
He'd also rather not fight two giant category four kaijus in the middle of a city of ten million or so people, but he's not going to stand back and wait for the rampaging monster to come back to him. No, Herc follows the kaijus onto land — and if anyone dares say that his "checking for a pulse" was overkill, he's going to deck them; that monster nearly killed his son goddammit — and unleashes all his paternal fury on them. How dare they try to take away what's left of his family. How dare they come and attack his planet. As long as he's standing, he will not stand for this bullshit.
...But then he's not standing, he's flying, and he spares a moment to wonder how the hell Otachi is able to carry Gipsy like this when it has no tail to stabilize its flight, but then most of his worry is diverted to his Jaeger and his copilot.
It's only sheer dumb luck that they land in the middle of a sports arena. Even a few feet to the left would have meant near-guaranteed injury. Instead, he's left laughing with a sudden release of endorphins, sagging in his conn-pod.
I think we did it, ladies.