The sea was quiet.

Of course. How could Gipsy have forgotten?

The sound of death was silence.

She knew that she needed a Kaiju to get through the breach, but she wasn't quite sure how she knew. She didn't really care, either. In fact, she had a hard time caring about anything right now.

Still, what else could she do?

The last Jaeger grabbed one of the halves of Raiju's corpse and hobbled towards the breach. Soon, this would all be over, and she would never have to feel this way agai-

That was when the seafloor shook, as the Devil himself landed in front of her.

"And so it ends," Slattern remarked, as arrogant as ever.

Gipsy's grip around the Kaiju corpse tightened. Slattern may have been worse for wear (both of his arms were hanging on by a thread), but with her missing arm and crippled leg, Gipsy wasn't exactly presentable either. Still, this could not stand! Not after all that Striker had sacrificed!

"YOU ARROGANT SON OF A SHIT-STAIN, I'LL-!"

"-Do what, exactly?" Slattern prodded. "Take nothing seriously until it's too late, and then get angry? Yes, because that approach has worked out so well for you up until now. Tell me, how many limbs have you lost so far? Two? Or should we count the leg?"

Her grip loosened. As much as she hated to admit it, the monster had a point. Her rage could not defeat this beast.

But that was when Gipsy realized that in her most desperate moments, it was not her anger that had seen her through, but her determination. Her will. Her heart.

Maybe that could defeat the abomination before her.

"It is over," Slattern continued. "You cannot defeat me, and even if you could, my masters would simply send more. The time has come for you and your creators to accept defeat, so that you may at least die with dignity."

That would not happen. Gipsy Danger had formed her resolve. The war would end on her terms.

As the Kaiju corpse fell from her hand, the thrusters on her back roared to life, propelling her through the murky water and tackling the final Kaiju.

"What do you think you're doing?!" Slattern bellowed.

"I'm taking you back to Hell," Gipsy responded, and plunged her chainsword deep into the Kaiju's body.

The momentum of Gipsy's charge thrust the two of them towards the breach.

"Fool!" Slattern yelled as he pierced her back using his tails with reckless abandon. "You will burn for this!"

"You first," she replied, and unleashed the nuclear fires of her heart.

Slattern kicked and screamed as the plume of flame bored its way through his flesh, but there was no escape.

"Burn away, monster," Gipsy said. "Burn away and perish."

The final Kaiju did as it was told.

With the last obstacle defeated, Gipsy's momentum carried her through the breach, into a place like no other. She then retracted her blade and pushed the corpse aside, knowing that she wouldn't be needing it any more.

One of her pilots seemed to be running out of oxygen, so Gipsy ejected her back through the entrance. She didn't need two pilots to fall.

As she descended through the throat, Gipsy marveled at what surrounded her. There was lightning and...clouds? Bones? Tentacles? She saw things she couldn't accurately describe or comprehend.

It really made her think. In hindsight, it was all quite obvious. There was a time for jokes and shoes, and there was a time to put those things aside. But tempting as it was, anger wasn't the right way to solve her problems, either. Her might was in her heart and soul. That was what she needed to follow.

How ironic that she would learn now, moments from the end.

Well, better late than never, she supposed.

As the throat deposited her out into the world of the Kaiju and their masters, Gipsy was not sad. She had regrets, certainly. There were definitely a few things she would have done differently if she had known better. But there was no point in worrying over them. She had made peace with herself, and was okay with the way things were, and how they would be once she was gone.

After all, she had accomplished her life's goal of protecting humanity from the Kaiju. What more could she possibly ask for?

Around her were more clouds, organic cages, and platforms. On one such platform was a group of what she assumed were the Precursors; the creators of the Kaiju.

She activated the countdown to self-destruct, and used her heart to right herself. She wanted to see the look on their faces as they realized that she was about to destroy their entire operation.

With her remaining pilot's job done, she ejected him as well, in the direction of the breach. Though she would die, part of her would also live on in him and the other one.

As the timer reached zero, Gipsy Danger looked the Precursors in the eye and gave her final words:

"The Earth says hi."