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The amount of time Dr. Bach's transmission could effectively confuse the Kaiju was a complete unknown. They hadn’t even been fully convinced it would work.  Nevertheless, even if it held, their time was limited.  The Tridents picked up the signatures of not one but five Mother Kaiju clustered about the island beneath the waves.  If any one of them awoke, the Tridents would be toast, and the Dogkillers wouldn’t last much longer. The range of Dr. Bach’s device wasn’t known either, so Smith had two choices: slow and cautious, or barrel ahead.
     
    Nobody had ever called Volksrächer timid.  
     
    “Squad Leaders, Alpha Six. Let's pick up the pace!” Smith ordered over her suit's comm.  “The range of that device is unknown.”
     
    The heavy feet of the Mark II suits threw sand and rocks into the air as they hightailed it for the closest entrance to the system of tunnels that ran below the island's surface.  Smith didn't like the tactical situation at all.  Though the tunnels were far wider than her suit's sensors made her think they would be, they were still so tightly enclosed that, no more than three troopers could stand side by side within them.  Given the Kaiju's numbers, it gave the beasts a huge advantage.  All the things had to do was a pick a place to make their stand and they could easily stop the squads from advancing.  Smith knew she couldn't allow the Kaiju the time to get organized in such a fashion. 
     
    There were two Dog Kaiju blocking the mouth of the internal passage leading farther downward inside the cave.  Their yellow eyes looked over her and the other members of Alpha Squad.  One snorted and the other shook its head in wild fury.  The two Kaiju appeared to be trying to wake up from whatever it was that the Doc had hit them with.  She didn't give them chance.  Smith jerked up her Mag Cannon, using single shot rounds, and reduced the two creatures to pulp where they stood.  Their entrails splashed over the cave wall, slicking it with a bright orange wetness. 
     
    “Alpha Four, point. Three and Five, cover,” Smith ordered. “Beta squad, secure this location. Gamma and Zeta, with me.” Smith received confirmation of her orders and turned to lead the charge as the squads raced downward towards the Kaiju Overmind. She was almost certain that Hell awaited them somewhere below.
     
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    Alarm klaxons rang out all over the island of Lemura.  Citizens raced for their homes and designated shelters as panic filled the streets of the domed city.  Minister Yeltsin was cursing up a storm in central command.  The group of Kaiju off the coast that had been detected turned out not to be the only one.  The Kaiju had Lemura surrounded and swarms of the creatures, each numbering in the thousands strong, were converging upon it.  Worse, three Mother Kaiju had shown themselves as the attack began.  They rose from the waters, juggernauts of sheer, primal power, and followed the lesser Kaiju towards Lemura's defended shores.
     
    Yeltsin had already dispatched every available Dogkiller to meet the lesser Kaiju.  Either they would hold the monsters on the beach or fall back to help defend the city if they failed.  The Mother Kaiju was what concerned him now.  There were four Tridents remaining on Lemura and Yeltsin scrambled them.  The great ships lifted through the top of Lemura's dome.  Even in the best of circumstances, four Tridents would have a hard time dealing with one Mother Kaiju. With three, it would be nothing more than a minor delaying action. Lemura's main defense batteries slid from their resting places to target the closest of the three Mother Kaiju.  The formation of Tridents broke apart as two ships headed in the direction of each of the other monsters. 
     
    “All batteries, this is Minister Yeltsin, fire at will!” Lemura's main cannons thundered, shaking the ground beneath the city, as they spat beams of pure blue energy particles.  The lead Mother