The Joke That No One Got

`I once worked as an office worker. The work was related to games and there are a lot of different files. When you work in this field for years, you accumulate a lot of files, and you always run out of free space on your computer.`

In the complete darkness, a growl could be heard. Deep under the water in a makeshift prison were two gigantic monsters. One was covered in rocks and was greedily tearing apart and eating a giant squid. Another giant was also eating a giant squid, but he was sitting next to it and waving his arms and making strange noises as if he were telling something.

Unfortunately, no one understood him. The sounds he made were those of a beast with something stuck in its throat. But that didn't stop him from telling his story while eating.

'In those days, external hard drives were too expensive. My friend, a talented 3D animator, was working with me in the room at the time! He also have difficulties in this matter.

"This problem arises when you think that you will need this file someday and therefore you do not delete it, but save it!" - I said to my friend.

"When I'm running out of space on my computer, I always find old files on my computer that I never use and just delete them!" - My friend told me. It was a good decision, but I had some experience in this matter, so I said: "I have been struggling with this problem for a long time! So when I create some files and think I'll need them, I catch myself thinking that. This is actually a lie! I'll never actually need these files, so I'm deleting them right away! That's why I don't have any files on my computer that I'll ever need!"'

AAAAHA-HA-HA!

Do you understand?! If I think I'm going to need a file, I know in advance that it isn't and delete it! Now I don't have anything on my computer that I need!'

HA-HA-HA-HA

Loud laughter echoed in the stone prison under the water. Torterra tapped his knee with his palm and laughed at a joke no one heard.

The kaiju was munching on a squid and looking at the monster next to him strangely. At first this monster somehow growled at him and then started laughing.

'This creature must have gone mad!' thought the aliens, watching this scene.

Torterra continued to say something and eat his squid. He caught these squid very deep in the ocean. It took him several hours to catch only 4 pieces. He gave two of the squid to the Kaiju caterpillar and decided to eat the rest himself.

The flesh was tough and rubbery, but nothing his teeth couldn't handle.

'OK. It was nice to chat with you. You should work as a psychologist, you know how to listen to the patient very well.' Torterra thought and left the room. Throwing the last piece of squid into his mouth, he bricked up the passage to the prison again.

Kaiju was already used to such a life and completely resigned to his fate. The aliens still do not understand why the Titan captured this Kaiju, but they were in no hurry to release him. Even being a prisoner, he transmitted valuable information. When Torterra left, the Kaiju continued to sleep to conserve energy.

Torterra swam to his island. As Yun said, he had a lot of work to do. He expanded the island and made another batch of blanks for new bricks. He didn't want to stop construction and when the bricks hardened in a month, he would expand the island again. The bigger the island, the better.

His island was for him a free land where he was the master. This territory was no man's land. No country could say that this land belonged to them. The island was built in the middle of the ocean in neutral waters and the laws of men do not apply to it.

Yun explained to Torterra that this was what allowed Marshall to bypass the ban on the commercial use of blue fuel. Laws didn't work on the island, and it was Torterra's property. The only problem was that even building a space jetpack and launching it into space also had to be done from an island. It wasn't a big problem, we just needed to improve the logistics.

Torterra has been creating its metal for sale for several months. Almost every day a ship with metal arrives on the island. After expanding his island, he constantly swung his hammer and released fire melting steel. That's why he decided to rest and visit the Kaiju prisoner.

His agreement with the Marshal is still valid. If the Marshal needed help, he would call on Torterra, but he hadn't needed help in months. Surprisingly, the aliens stopped doing something extraordinary. They were sending their standard Kaijus.

Some Kaiju had some special abilities, but the Jaegers were able to handle them. Torterra was surprised that the Jaegers were doing quite well. In films, this period was the most difficult. When Category 4 Kaiju began to appear, the Jaegers lost one by one and in the end there were only a few of them left. Marshal even had to resuscitate many old Jaegers, because new ones were no longer being released.

But now the Jaegers have become so strong with their cunning weapons that Kaiju 4 categories were no problem for them. Of course, we are talking about the new Jaegers which weapons and  technologies based on blue fuels.

Watching this, Torterra only had a smile on her face. He felt that he was not living in vain. The money he earned allowed Marshall to bring new technologies to life. He still worked with Hannibal (the king of the black market, the only sponsor of the Jaeger program in the movie), but it was a limited collaboration, Hannibal was not happy about it, but there was nothing he could do about it.

The fact that everything was going well stressed Torterra a little. He no longer went to the portal to kill the Kaiju because the aliens had beaten that desire out of him. It is better not to disturb the balance in relations between humans and aliens. They don't know what people know and vice versa. Let everything go as it goes until the end.

But this lull was bad. I still couldn't get that dream out of my head. The aliens had already proven that they could create more than just giant creatures, so the existence of many small, white Kaiju was likely.

What a headache, Torterra thought. It's a good thing they didn't send more octopuses, but if they invented such a beast, then they can come up with something new. Now they just send the same creatures.

What really surprised Torterra was that he saw the same Kaiju he had killed earlier on TV. In the beginning, they were unique, but now copies come out of the portal. They do clone them. Apparently, they made them in advance and want to use them despite their ineffectiveness. They may think that Kaiju blood is polluting the ocean, but here again they have been defeated. People use Torterra`s plants to clean up the most polluted areas of the ocean.

Reaching the island, Torterra got out of the water and sat on the edge of the island. Time passed quickly. He didn't really know when the day would come when the portal would fully open, but he felt that he only had a few years left. He has been in this world for 9 years and has done a lot. Together with Marshall, he built a fairly strong defense for the planet.

I wonder if people will be able to fully master the technology of the portal? It would be nice to travel to other worlds!' During his break between work, he dreamed of visiting other worlds as a Titan. It is the people who need to wear a spacesuit against bacteria and harmful atmosphere, but he doesn't need it. Torterra will be able to feel everything on his own skin. Whether it's a toxic atmosphere or just a rock in space, it can withstand anything.

'This is going to be a lot of fun!' He smiled at his dreams.

"Are you idle again? I found out where they keep the corpse of your clone, as you asked!" Before leaving to feed the Kaiju, Torterra asked Yun a favor.

"Thank you, Yun! So where is it?"

"They dragged him into the jungles of China. They have a research base there. The marshal asks that you not destroy anything there if you go there." Yun emphasized the last sentence. She also didn't want problems, she learned about everything that happened then from Raleigh, but unfortunately she couldn't tell people anything about it.

"What made you decide that I will destroy another base? If they're not doing anything wrong there, then there's nothing to worry about." Torterra was speaking in sign language and smiling at Yun. He was amused that both she and Marshall were afraid of the trouble he might cause.

"So I believed you!" Yun turned around and left.

"Wait! Show me on the map where this base is!"

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