Reckoner is a Kaiju that attacked Hong Kong on 2016.[1]
Biology
Reckoner resembles a bat on all fours, with long, webbed forelimbs that rise and bend above its bunched shoulders. Its hind legs are reptile-esque, short and thick. Its head is bore the characteristics of crawfish, gar, and a crocodile, with eyes scattered across its front and back. Two grasping claws grew from its mandibles.[2]
History
The Blackout Knockout
Reckoner emerges from the Breach sometime in 2016 and heads towards Hong Kong, where it is intercepted by the Russian Mark-1 Cherno Alpha in the southeast of Hong Kong Island near Cape D'Aguilar.[2]
The Kaiju battles the Jaeger for six hours, exchanging blows for the first five until the opponent's systems begin to fail, forcing its pilots to use the spikes on their feet to anchor themselves to the ocean floor and endure constant punishment for another hour, which ends with Reckoner cracking the opponent's energy refinery and incapacitating one of its arms.[2][3]
Cherno Alpha attempts to immobilize Reckoner with its remaining arm, but the Kaiju easily breaks free and the Chinese Mark-1 Horizon Brave arrives at the same time to help Cherno, but is ignored by the creature, which begins to advance at high speed towards Shek O Beach, making landfall long before Horizon reaches it and proceeds to destroy several hotels and coastal condominiums as it heads north.[2]
The Kaiju arrives at Kowloon Bay and enters the Kowloon District, where it finally battles Horizon Brave for about three hours and is unaffected by most of the Jaeger's attacks, who after repeated failures to take down the monster decides to throw it into the Fong Power Plant, electrocuting Reckoner to death.[2]
Aftermath
The Kaiju's death at the plant caused a blackout dubbed "The Blackout Knockout", and the bloodshed caused the area to lose commercial value, giving rise to a slum around Reckoner's remains that attracted crime and Kaiju Cultists.[1] The incident initially left an estimated seven thousand dead and twenty-eight thousand injured, many of whom died in the following weeks due to lack of power in hospitals.[3]
Trivia
- While the exact date of Reckoner's attack is unknown, the large gaps between attacks at the beginning of the Kaiju War and a PPDC document indicate that Reckoner was possibly the last attack of 2016, thus being the eighth Kaiju to emerge from the Breach.
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