It's a shock finding out that all those eons your species spent clawing their way to the top of the food chain with their blunt little nails and teeth, all that time congratulating themselves on how well they'd done to conquer lions, tigers, and bears, that in the grand scheme of things, none of that meant shit.
Not when a creature bigger than a blue whale swam up through a rent in the universe and attempted to snack on your coastal cities. Not when the mightiest weapons in the best arsenals in the planet take days to put it down.
No, you suddenly feel as small as a mouse facing a very cranky mountain lion.
Humans don't do well when backed into corners. Like the predators we thought we had conquered, when cornered, we fight with unexpected fury. And ingenuity. Our ancestors fought with strategy, with rocks, sticks, string, anything that came to hand.
When the kaiju came, humans took that cornered-animal mentality and all those years of figuring out how to gain every advantage out of what was at hand, and went at the enemy with everything they had.
Stacker Pentecost, standing high in Coyote Tango alongside Tamsin, felt himself smiling, teeth showing in a predator's snarl as the kaiju they were calling Onibaba stalked out of the surf. After years of cringing under predators' claws, it felt good to be able to stand toe-to-pincer with them. Coyote Tango's fist slammed down against Onibaba's carapace, and Stacker could hear people cheering as humanity saw their apex predator in action.
FILL - Apex Predator - Pacific Rim, Stacker Pentecost, PG-13
Not when a creature bigger than a blue whale swam up through a rent in the universe and attempted to snack on your coastal cities. Not when the mightiest weapons in the best arsenals in the planet take days to put it down.
No, you suddenly feel as small as a mouse facing a very cranky mountain lion.
Humans don't do well when backed into corners. Like the predators we thought we had conquered, when cornered, we fight with unexpected fury. And ingenuity. Our ancestors fought with strategy, with rocks, sticks, string, anything that came to hand.
When the kaiju came, humans took that cornered-animal mentality and all those years of figuring out how to gain every advantage out of what was at hand, and went at the enemy with everything they had.
Stacker Pentecost, standing high in Coyote Tango alongside Tamsin, felt himself smiling, teeth showing in a predator's snarl as the kaiju they were calling Onibaba stalked out of the surf. After years of cringing under predators' claws, it felt good to be able to stand toe-to-pincer with them. Coyote Tango's fist slammed down against Onibaba's carapace, and Stacker could hear people cheering as humanity saw their apex predator in action.