Ben had been assigned to Sydney for only a little while but it already felt more like home than any place he'd lived for a long while. He'd grown up splitting time between India and England, the latter a much safer option when kaiju started rising up from the oceans. As soon as he was old enough to sign up, he'd joined the Rangers and done a damned fine job of stopping kaiju before they stopped him.

And now they were closing up the only real chance to stop them. Ben didn't have a lot of faith in the Wall. What was to say a kaiju wouldn't just plow right through it? Or, hell, they had new shapes every day. The next one could have wings.

"Still here, Chase? I thought I was the only one left."