Scissure

Para-canon Kaiju
== Quick Facts ==
* Breach emergence date: 2014 August 30
* Target: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
* Attack date: 2014 September 2
* Killed by: Nuclear strike
* Artist's impression
== Behavior ==
Scissure's approach to Sydney was delayed by a nuclear strike north of Sydney harbor. The kaiju shrugged off the attack and proceeded from the downtown district of North Sydney directly toward the city's north suburbs. Unlike previous kaiju, Scissure moved as though it had a distinct target, wasting no time or energy on random destruction as it moved north.
As earlier kaiju focused their attacks on the most populated, built-up areas of cities, officials were caught unprepared for this northward path. While the southern part of the city had been almost completely evacuated in advance of landfall, the northern sections were in the early stages of evacuation as Scissure approached. A rushed evacuation was implemented while the military attempted to delay the kaiju and redirect it toward the relatively unoccupied area of Garigal National Park.
Upon reaching the area of St Ives and completely devastating the town, Scissure adopted an eastward course toward Garigal National Park. It is unclear whether this change was the result of military efforts.
A second nuclear strike after Scissure entered the national park killed the kaiju.
A wide area, including all of North Sydney proper and many of the northern suburbs were declared a Nuclear Exclusion Zone, cordoned off, and abandoned as a result of the two nuclear explosions and residual toxicity from the kaiju.
==Novelization==
Chapter 17; 256.3 - 258
Herc remembered the mushroom cloud rising over Sydney. The second one. The first had been out at the islands, an hour before, and had slowed the kaiju down. The authorities had given the entire population of downtown Sydney one hour to clear out.
One hour for five million people to get to safety.
Then the second nuke came down. The kaiju died. So had Angela. He had not known whether it was the kaiju or the bomb that had killed her. Pentecost had taken him aside and told him it was the kaiju, that she had been killed in the collapse of the building where she worked. Herc had never made up his mind if he could believe that or not. All he knew was that he’d only had an hour. He’d gotten from the base, where he was an active-duty pilot with the Air Force, across the bay into Sydney while everyone else was getting the hell out. Cell networks were down. There was no way to find anyone. He had to guess, and he could only get one of them. He chose Chuck, and Chuck had never forgiven him for it.
Chuck’s school had survived the kaiju but been reduced to ashes and slag by the second nuke. Herc could see the mushroom cloud in his mind, rising over downtown Sydney as he got the hell out of there in an old Bell Kiowa that had probably seen its first service in Vietnam. Was Angela already dead by then? He would never know.
But Herc Hansen had sacrificed everything for this boy, and Chuck would always hate him for it. Sometimes Herc wanted to sit him down and say, Hey, listen, would you really rather I had let you die so I could save your mother? Is that what you want?
Because I pray to any and all gods that have ever existed that you never have to make that choice.
Not that Chuck would listen. Because Chuck didn’t listen to anyone.
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