"I'd feel guilty, I think," Ben said. He had thought about it before, taking what money he had and putting into some grand escape to some place far from the Pacific Rim but in the end, he was a fighter and not a runner. He wanted to make a difference for everyone and not just himself.

"I'll probably end up in Hong Kong trying to fight them off after we're decommissioned. I just...I feel awful about just throwing it in."