Achilles Fist

LM B Quad Missile Launchers (Modular Payload)

QE7 Miniaturized Wrist Cannon (Refit)

GX-12 Chain Swords (Refit)

PR20 Salvo Launchers (Refit)

LL K Quintuple Missile Launchers (Refit)

IA-14 Compact Plasma Cannon (Refit)

Primary Core Gyroscope

Miniaturized Auxiliary Gyroscopes (Refit)

Achilles Fist is a mark VI American jaeger that saw action during the early and mid-stages of the Second Kaiju War. It was originally conceived as a prototype for the Mark VI Jaeger program and was outfitted with experimental technology. Some of this tech would be scrapped and abandoned, but some of it would become common-place among the proper Mark VI jaeger line-up. Its career lasted eleven years, from 2027 to 2038, and in that time is racked up 13 kaiju kills. It was originally assigned to the Boston Shatterdome yet it has transferred to countless others for special operations. Boston was, however, its home.

## History

### Planning and Construction

Achilles Fist first had her plans drawn up as early as December of 2025. It was one of the "Pass-Time" jaegers, meaning that it was not designed and constructed as a response to the re-emergence of the kaiju threat. It was meant to be the "Next Generation" of the Jaeger program, yet there were struggles from the very beginning. The PPDC, while having regained authority after the destruction of the breach, had not yet recovered fully from the first Kaiju War, and was hesitant after seeing the ideas that the designers of Achilles had in store for her. Yet they tentatively green-lit the project, and she officially began construction as the first Mark VI Jaeger in June of 2026. Seeing just how expensive her construction was, however, caused the PPDC to put the Mark VI program on hold. Achilles was to be the only Mark VI constructed until she could prove that a jaeger so expensive could be worth the cost.

The opening of the Atlantic Breach in November significantly sped up her construction, as the world had only a few active jaegers at the time. Despite this, the Mark VI project was not yet fully green-lit, instead, the mass-production of new Mark V jaegers commenced.

### Launch

She finally finished construction in July of 2027 and was official launched on August 14. Brothers Cody and Allan Nicoles were assigned as her pilots. The two were relatively young as far as rangers go, both no older than 20 years old, yet had strong drift compatibility and the charm and charisma to make the public fall in love with them overnight.

### First Engagement

The jaeger finally saw action in September of 2027 against the Category V kaiju [[1]], the first one of its class to emerge from the breach since Slattern. Achilles Fist was quickly flown to its destination of Miami, Florida, where it waited for the slightly slow kaiju to arrive. The kaiju burst out of the water and wasted no time in attacking the jaeger. Achilles used all of its armament against the kaiju, including its devastating superheated chain-swords, yet the beast's incredible mass and extreme resilience to pain made it difficult to deliver a killing blow. A moment that her pilots would never forget is when they lunged forward, sword drawn, aiming to stab Grayken in its throat, only for the monster to raise its arm, which was impaled instead. It had no problem; showed no pain over its arm being stabbed through completely. The blade was stuck in the arm for nearly a minute, allowing the massive creature to drag around and relentlessly attack the jaeger until the blade was removed, now bent and damaged. The fight reached its climax when Grayken lifted the jaeger by its arms and legs, which were being held together by the creature's massive hands. It then began to pull with both of its arms, intending to rip all of the jaeger's limbs off. It seemed to be over for the jaeger until Cody noticed that one of the kaiju's fingers was right over the chain-sword ejection point. They deployed the sword, which cut off one of the beast's fingers. Due to how massive the hands were, each finger was placing a lot of pressure on the arms of the jaeger, meaning the loss of one of them loosened the grip significantly. This allowed Achilles to free her sword-bearing arm, and immediately chop off one of Grayken's hands. With the grip on the mech's upper body released, she swung until she was upside down, and in a prime position to strike. She stabbed the sword into the kaiju's belly, prompting the beast to release the grip on her legs. She hit the ground with the sword still in, and in a final move, Achilles Fist leaped upwards, the force of her jump allowing the blade to cut upwards from the stomach to the chest, and finally the neck. The jaeger thrust its sword upwards as she peaked in height before landed feet-first on the ground as the kaiju landed on its back, slit from neck to stomach.

The extremely close battle became immortalized over-night; Achilles Fist and her pilots becoming the poster-boys of the PADC. The battle became comparable to Romeo Blue vs Hardship and received similar treatment in the form of merchandise lines, marketing campaigns, and a cultural impact on the PADC.

### Second Engagement

Only a month later the mech would see action again. In October of 2027, Achilles Fist was deployed in Cuba to fight against the Category IV Kaiju Scarab. The battle, while not as intense as the battle against Grayken, took much longer to win. After a brief tussle on the Miracle Mile, Scarab slipped past Achilles Fist and made landfall on the island of Cuba. The kaiju's speed made it difficult to locate, and a game of cat-and-mouse spanning the entire island occurred. The insectoid kaiju was finally caught up with right outside of Havana, and a more traditional battle began. The kaiju's ability to fire clumps of its acidic droppings from its mouth caused some trouble, nearly melting off one of the mech's knee joints, yet it struggled to hold its own in the fight. A well-placed shot from the salvo guns on Achilles Fist cracked the exoskeleton, and after being pinned to the ground with a chain-sword, the beetle-like Kaiju had its head crushed.

### Third Engagement

On May 16th, 2028, the hexapedal kaiju Bloodhound emerged from the Atlantic Breach and began swimming directly towards Boston. It was a massive Category IV, comparable to Raiju or Scunner in size. Achilles Fist was deployed to defend its home base. The battle began when the kaiju revealed itself, rearing up on its back four legs and roaring. This, however, gave Achilles Fist the chance to lung forward and stab it in the chest, which it did. Thanks to its massive size and the strike being slightly misplaced, the kaiju survived the attack, although it immediately had a disadvantage that lasted for the rest of the fight. Bloodhound was decapitated after only 10 minutes of combat. This battle proved to be a huge win for the Mark VI program, as the jaeger performed extremely well.

### Disaster

Unfortunately, the same day as the jaeger's battle against Blood Hound, disaster struck. An attack made by an extremist sub-faction of the kaiju cultists resulted in the detonation of dozens of hidden explosives throughout the Boston Shatterdome, destroying at least one jaeger stationed there and heavily damaging several others. Pilots Cody and Allan were not in the building when the event occurred and was spared. In the clean-up operation, Achilles Fist was deemed repairable, and she was brought to an inland repair facility in Washington D.C., the same place where Gipsy Danger 2.0 was created. Her pilots, on the other hand, were re-located to the Rio De Janeiro Shatterdome, where they spent their time for the next several months.

In September of 2028, the Mark VI program was finally green-lit, and Achilles Fist was set to be repaired as a proper part of the Mark VI jaeger line-up.

### Rebirth

Originally, Achilles Fist was meant to be restored without any changes to her design. However, as kaiju began to slowly push the limits of the Serizawa Scale it became apparent that she would need upgrades to be effective against what was yet to come. A wrist cannon of medium power was implemented into her design to allow for a secondary ranged weapon. This was meant to be all, yet it was noted that asymmetrical weapon load-outs were starting to become more common. Subsequently, a plasma cannon was included in her right arm for additional firepower, while only the left arm retained the wrist cannon. Other upgrades were mostly minor, such as enhanced gyro stabilizers and additional armor plating around vulnerable areas.

She was finally re-launched into service on January 10th, 2030, with the Nicoles brothers remaining her pilots.