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Dogkillers popped to their feet as the Trident began to enter a steep, fast dive. The loader grabbed onto an overhead bar and waited until he felt the ship leveling out.
     
    “Splashdown!” came the call as the two ships hit the water at just over ninety kilometers per hour. The Trident quickly began to sink as the two ships became submersible. The ships shuddered as the engines switched over to pass water through them, momentum slowing briefly. The engines completed their turnover and the two Tridents began to make their way towards the island, less than ten meters beneath the sea’s surface. Cavitation from the bubbles shooting out from the wash of the engines began causing the Trident to shake, softly, at first, then harder as they increased speed.
     
    “Breaching!”
     
    The Tridents quickly rose and beached themselves on the rocky shore of the beach. Engines whining as both ships began to turn, the loader dropped the rear bay door open. He held up a hand as he waited, his eyes locked onto the indicator above the open bay. Moments passed before the red light switched to green.
     
    “Go! Go!” the loader shouted. “Get your ass off my ship! Move!”
     
    The Dogkillers quickly disembarked and spread out on the shore, securing the beachhead as Gamma and Zeta squads disembarked from the second Trident. The engines on both Tridents began to howl as the last Dogkiller left the cargo bay. Up in the front of Trident One, Calloway nodded as his loader checked in.
     
    “Dogkillers away! Closing the bay door!”
     
    “They're away,” Calloway confirmed, glancing at the sensor data on his screen. The display confirmed that both squads were off the ship and on land. He blinked. “Holy shit. I’ve got five massive signatures on sonar! Marking them now... Mothers! Repeat, we have Mother Kaiju!”
     
    “Warn Lemura Tower, and let the Dogkillers know as well,” Thornton said. He looked at the nervous scientist. “Relax, Doc, we can outrun any Mother.”
     
    “Lemura Tower confirms five Mother Kaiju,” Calloway said moments later. “Alpha Six acknowledged receiving information as well and is advised. She’s passing the information to the other squads. Trident Two confirms our readings and is ready to bug out.”
     
    “Good,” Thornton said in a hurried voice.  “Let's get the hell out of here before the Kaiju realize that we’re here as well.”
     
    “No arguments from me,” Calloway grunted as the ship rocketed out of the water and clawed for air.
     
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    Alpha Squad took point as the squad hit the beach.  Gamma and Zeta squads followed in their wake with Beta bringing up the rear.  Dr. Bach informed them of what to expect in a rushed briefing over the comms as the ships orbited the islands before they began the final stage of the insertion.  Even so, seeing it was far different from hearing about it.  Smith watched the dozens of smaller Kaiju patrolling the shoreline looking through them and passing them by as if the four squads didn't exist.  The Kaiju signal the Doc was broadcasting sure had the buggers messed up.  She saw one pair of Kaiju turn on themselves.  One clawed at the other, trying to gouge out its eyes, as if it were an armored human. They screeched at one another, their confusion evident. She smiled.
     
    Smith called up the location of the squads' target on her view screen.  The source of the heightened Kaiju psychic energy that the Doc believed was the location of the Overmind was buried deeply within the island.  That made sense on plenty of levels.  By being placed in such a fashion, it was protected from airstrikes and the paths to reaching it were greatly limited.  They were going to be heading underground through some nasty and narrow passageways to get to their destination. Lastly, humanity had not managed to strike at a core cluster of Kaiju like this since the fall of New Orleans.
     
    Of course, they had to survive the beach and reach those passages first.