On the vast ocean,

Crimson Typhoon and Cherno Alpha stood diagonally, Cherno Alpha on the front left, Crimson Typhoon on the rear right.

"Three o'clock!"

On the sonar, a bright red dot appeared.

Wei Jinlong, one of the Wei triplets, roared and, together with his two brothers, turned Crimson Typhoon to face the front right.

The night was dim,

Under the spotlights of the helicopters overhead, the seawater was a mix of deep blue and brownish-yellow.

Splash—

The seawater churned, and a huge shadow emerged from beneath the surface, rapidly approaching.

Three hundred meters, two hundred meters, one hundred meters...

The red dot on the sonar grew closer and closer. Now!

Crimson Typhoon took a sudden step forward, its two right arms plunging into the water, but they grasped only air.

"Hmm?"

The Wei brothers, thinking as one, instantly realized something was wrong. At the same time, the sonar displayed not one or two, but hundreds of flashing red dots!

Bang bang bang bang bang!

Like dolphins leaping from the sea in unison, hundreds of deep-sea creatures burst from the waves, their claws and teeth clinging tightly to Crimson Typhoon's right arm.

The sudden increase in weight caused Crimson Typhoon to lose balance and tilt forward, its right knee crashing into the seabed.

The deep-sea creatures had gathered together, linking head to tail, using the A.T. field's ability to weaken the accuracy of sonar at close range to deceive the sonar and launch a surprise attack on Crimson Typhoon.

A rapid alarm sounded in the cockpit.

Crimson Typhoon's arm casing was being frantically gnawed on by hundreds of Category 1 and 2 deep-sea creatures.

The bone-chilling pain was transmitted through the neural connections of the drift system to the Wei brothers' minds, turning their eyes red and their muscles tense.

"Get off!"

Wei Jinlong roared, and Crimson Typhoon suddenly erupted with immense mental energy, forming a golden shield that instantly enveloped the Jaeger.

The hundreds of deep-sea creatures were sent flying like they had been hit by an invisible shockwave, spinning wildly in the water.

But this brief delay had already achieved the deep-sea creatures' goal.

Splash—

A long, white wave rapidly approached.

The Kaiju known as Otachi was rushing in.

It was over sixty meters tall, with features of a lizard and a flying squirrel. It moved on all fours, with a long, narrow tail.

It had horns on its head, and below its wide-open mouth was a sac-like organ emitting a faint blue light.

Bang!

Otachi's head slammed into Crimson Typhoon's chest, sending the Jaeger, which had just stood up, crashing backward, its back slamming hard onto the surface of the sea.

"Crimson Typhoon!"

The pilot couple of Cherno Alpha, who were further away, cried out and turned to rush forward.

In the past six years, Cherno Alpha had an undefeated record on the Far East battlefield, defeating more than ten Kaiju and Category 3 creatures. The two pilots, the Kaidanovsky couple, were also world-renowned legendary pilots.

But this could not hide the Jaeger's age—as a first-generation Jaeger, Cherno Alpha sacrificed a large part of its mobility in pursuit of power and armor.

Its movements shook the earth, and its running speed was relatively slow.

"Otachi has appeared!"

Hansen and his son, who were staying behind in Striker Eureka, saw this and pressed the communication button, saying, "Command Center, we need to go up and support."

"No! Another Category 4 Kaiju, Leatherback, hasn't shown itself yet. You need to stay in place and guard the port. That's an order!"

General Stacker Pentecost's steady voice came from the communicator. Hansen and his son exchanged glances, their faces tense, and chose to obey the order.

On the battlefield ahead, Crimson Typhoon, which had suddenly fallen, did not simply crash to the seabed.

Its three arms bent backward 180°, like punting poles, and stuck into the seabed, using the buoyancy of the water to support the Jaeger's weight.

At the same time, the three vector nozzles on the Jaeger's back sprayed blue flames underwater, providing thrust, causing the Jaeger to suddenly retreat backward.

It avoided Otachi's pursuing claws by a hair's breadth.

The battle between the two behemoths churned the ocean as if it were boiling.

The deep-sea creatures that had been blasted away by the A.T. field were swept away by the turbulence and struggled to regain their balance.

They either floated to the surface or swam to the seabed.

Without hesitation, they continued to attack Crimson Typhoon, bypassing the Jaeger and swimming in all directions towards the port—the A.T. field of a heavy Jaeger was indestructible, and only Category 3 and 4 Kaiju could cause effective damage.

The battlefield for these Category 1 and 2 deep-sea creatures was inside New Shanghai City.

The only problem was... why was New Shanghai City turning white?

Crimson Typhoon slammed its three arms hard into the seabed, allowing itself to stand up again. Ignoring the shrimp-like deep-sea creatures swimming away, it stared intently at Otachi in front.

"Roar!"

Otachi roared, its mouth emitting continuous blasts of air that shattered the light rain that had begun to fall in the sky into countless tiny droplets.

"Thundercloud Array!"

The Wei brothers were unmoved, manipulating Crimson Typhoon to take half a step back, raising its three arms high, and spinning its hands rapidly.

"Drink!"

The Wei brothers roared, controlling Crimson Typhoon to charge forward.

Otachi instinctively raised its forelimbs to block, but Crimson Typhoon's high-speed rotating hands, like a cutting machine, slashed at the tips of Otachi's forelimbs.

A bright, blinding light erupted between the two.

A.T. fields squeezed and collided with each other, eventually canceling each other out.

Crimson Typhoon's hand tore through Otachi's forelimb, cutting open the skin on Otachi's throat, causing a large amount of corrosive, light-blue blood to flow into the sea, stirring up billowing smoke.

"Roar!!!"

Otachi roared sharply, enduring the severing and tearing of its forelimbs, stubbornly gripping Crimson Typhoon's chainsaw hands, using both hands and mouth to forcibly stop the three rotating blades.

"Ram it!"

With its arms bound, the Wei brothers roared and controlled the Jaeger to ram forward.

Although Crimson Typhoon was the lightest in the Shatterdome, Otachi was also an agile Kaiju.

Under the sudden impact, Otachi was sent staggering backward.

"We're here!"

The voice of the Kaidanovsky couple echoed in the communication channel.

The heavy Cherno Alpha Jaeger strode through the sea, swinging its unusually large iron fist toward Otachi's neck.

Bang!!!

With one punch, Otachi's neck almost bent at a 90° angle. The neck wound that had just been cut open by Crimson Typhoon spewed out even more corrosive blood.

Such an injury would be impossible for any creature on Earth to survive.

However, the vitality of a Kaiju far exceeded that of ordinary people. Otachi twisted its head, not only not releasing its grip on Crimson Typhoon's arms,

but also aimed its mouth at Crimson Typhoon's chest and the tip of its long tail at Cherno Alpha.

Czz—

Massive amounts of acid were sprayed from Otachi's mouth and tail tip, directly drenching the chests of the two Jaegers.

The A.T. fields flickered, and the acid that penetrated the fields poured onto the metal armor,

causing the metal armor to emit scalding smoke, dissolving deep gaps at a visible rate.

The two Jaegers suddenly stalled, their cockpits emitting a large number of sparks, and the A.I. system frantically reported damage.

Of course, the worst part was the intense pain transmitted through the drift system to the pilots' minds.

"No!"

The two friendly Jaegers suddenly stalled, and Hansen and his son finally decided to disobey orders and drive Striker Eureka wildly across the sea, but they were still a long distance from the battlefield.

The situation took a sharp turn for the worse.

More than twenty armed helicopters in the sky opened fire, causing the bullet chains to strike Otachi's back,

Even though the helicopter pilots knew that this attack could not penetrate the Kaiju's A.T. field at all.

Otachi finished its venomous spray, its long tail slowly but surely raised high, like a long whip, and swung down on Cherno Alpha's cockpit.

Boom boom boom boom!

A sudden burst of explosive fire struck Otachi's long tail,

causing the narrow tail to suddenly skew, failing to split Cherno Alpha Jaeger in two,

Instead, it slammed into the sea, stirring up a monstrous wave.

"This is..."

The helicopter crew in the sky stared blankly at the bottom.

A white Kapool Jaeger, only 7 meters tall, with a design style completely different from the PPDC, flew in from a distance at low altitude.

The Jaeger's feet skimmed the sea, drawing an incredibly beautiful flight arc on the sea with unbelievable mobility.

The twelve conical funnels behind it fired in unison, pouring firepower toward Otachi.