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Godzilla: Crossroads AU

it’s bright sunny day in the Alaskan wilderness, it’s warm, the ice is melting and the ground is cracking. It wouldn’t seem like it, but today is the day that fates are sealed and lives are changed.

Simon “Jet” Jaeger had been in the Army for about 6 years, and for 4 of those he wasn’t on active duty. He never liked the military, but he was a military brat, it was practically inevitable. Simon tolerated it because it allowed him to fly, he was one of the best, he was even allowed to fly solo when numbers were important. His callsign, “Jet Jaguar” was given to him at boot camp, when he mispronounced his own last name in front of everyone. At first he disliked it, a reminder of his lack of fine motor control, but then he began to like it. He liked it so much, he made a logo for his helmet, of a Jaguar with jet’s on it’s hips. this was his fifth mission where a Titan or Kaiju was involved. but on his way to the deck, he was stopped by an African American man, somewhere in his twenties, wearing a blue jacket, and talking in what Simon believed to be a Hispanic accent.

“Hey Man, why you doin this?” The man asked

“Because it’s my job?” Simon didn’t know how to answer the question, now that he thought about it, he really didn’t know what was going on.

“So it’s your job to hunt innocent giant lizards?!” The Man kept asking

“Innocent? I heard it attacked a cruise ship. also, who are you?”

“Randy, And the Lizard didn’t attack the ship, a turtle did!” Randy proclaimed, Simon was only told of a Lizard, a giant Komodo-Dragon-looking kaiju.

“Alright, I’ll keep an eye out for your turtle, but the Lizard is my mission.” Simon said plopping on his helmet and getting in his helicopter.

Sure enough, when Simon reached the hot zone, there was a Giant turtle(Later named Snapshell) fighting the Infamous Zilla Jr. and the Giant Lizard(dubbed by HEAT as Komodithrax). Randy was right, which meant something was up, Simon switched his comm to his commanders frequency to ask what the hell, but what he heard enraged him.

“-thrax is innocent, it’s the turtle you’re after!” A man that Simon hadn’t heard before said

“The Turtle? We don’t care about the cruise ship, we here for a weapon” His Lieutenant said, Simon became more confused, he didn’t see a weapon, and he wouldn’t be told to open fire if nukes were here, something smells, and it ain’t his boots.

“What weapon? there are no weapons!” The other man said

“That’s where you’re wrong Dr. Tatopoulos! That egg is the greatest potential weapon, once we modify it’s contents.” The Lieutenant said, locking onto the HEAT Copter, which Dr. Tatopoulos and his team was in. The Lieutenant fired, but Simon fired too, on a direct course with the Lt’s missiles. The Missiles collided, saving the HEAT team, but damaging the rotor’s of the heat copter. HEAT retreated, as the Lt spotted Komodithrax.

“I won’t let you do that Lieutenant!” Simon said flying in front of the other copter.

“If you don’t move I will shot you and then the mother, either way, I reestablish American superiority” The Lt shouted “Now move Sergeant!”

“You want me to Move? Fine! I’ll move!” Simon spun his copter around, hitting the Lt’s copter with his rotor, knock the Lt off course and grounding Simon.

The Kaiju’s battle had caused a crack in the ground to grow to the size of a canyon. Simon was able to land on side not full of gnashing maws and slashing claws. But he was still trapped in his cockpit, and a fire had started behind him. Simon had to think fast, he looked around frantically, eject was locked, and emergency hatch was crushed. Suddenly he noticed one of the brace pipes was broken on one side and torn on the other, with some prying he tore it off and smashed the windows and climbed out. Only to see Komodithrax and Snapshell take a dive off the cliff, with the egg on a minute behind, Simon ran to the midsection of the copter and unlocked the winch holding the ropes soldiers use to get to ground and ran. while running he hooked the clip at the end of the rope into his harness. The egg tumbled of the cliff and Simon jumped after it, he could hear the rope run against the sand and rock. He grabbed onto the egg and held it close, bracing it and himself for the sudden jerk to come.

Simon hung there for twenty minutes, and under him in the darkness, he could barley make out something moving. Simon tried wrap his legs around the egg so he could grab his flashlight. He accidently grabbed a flare and then dropped it. The glowing red light illuminated the bottom, he could see Komodithrax writhing in pain on top of a (Hopefully) dead Snapshell. She stopped writhing and looked at him, before growling and falling asleep. Simon would like to think that was a Thank You, but he wasn’t sure. Then he felt his rope tug and then rise, Someone was pulling him out! When he reached the top, he was met by Randy, a rotund man with a beard and ponytail, as well as a yellow robot that was actually pulling him up. Randy extended his hand, until he saw the egg in which, he and a woman in a jacket, picked it up instead. Simon was helped up by a man in a red jacket.

“That was some fancy flying” The man said

“Thanks. Dr. Tatopoulos, I presume?” Simon said extending his hand “Simon Jaeger, but you can call me Jet”

“Alright Jet. You’ve met Randy” Dr. Tatopoulos said, as Randy waved. “This is Mendel Craven” The rotund man nodded “Elsie Chapman” a redheaded woman with a green long sleeve shirt smiled “and Monique Dupre”

“Bonjour.” Monique said, “Nice to meet another honorable member of the armed forces” Monique extended her hand.

“Likewise” Simon said clasping it and nodding, this was nothing romantic just a sign of respect between warriors.

Another army helicopter landed nearby and The Lt and a older man wearing a flight suit exited.

Simon immediately stood at attention and saluted “Major Hicks.”

“At ease soldier.” Major Hicks said and then frowned “Technical Sergeant Simon Jaeger.”

“Yes Sir?” Simon was worried. During the last hour, he had just fired on military aircraft, disobey direct orders, and fired on a superior officer.

“Son, do you know what you have done today” Major Hicks asked, and Simon braced for a chewing out. “You have trusted your gut and shut down an unsanctioned mission, that would have cost hundreds of lives down the line.” Simon Beamed “However, you also destroyed hundreds of dollars worth of military aircraft”

“Not to mention fired on superior officer and disobeyed my orders!” the Lt chimed in.

“Shut it!” Major whirled towards the Lt “You are in deeper s#!+ than he is.” Major Hicks realigned himself “Ahem, as I was saying. you are to be honorably discharged at 800 hours, you will be allowed to keep your rank and your collage bills paid off. However you may never serve in the armed forces again, is this understood, Tech Sargent Jaeger?”

“Yes sir” Simon Saluted. “Then this is goodbye?”

Nick Tatopoulos walked forward. “I wouldn’t be so sure about that, you flying and gut feeling could be of use to us, what to you say?”

“I have a feeling I’ll be more useful than you think.” Simon took Nick’s hand. “When can I start?”

“As soon as your out. Welcome to the Humanitarian Environmental Analysis Team, kid”

Simon Jaeger:

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