Taking Back The World! (A Pacific Rim and Raleigh Becket Fanfic)

The Fall of a Titan

Ok, my lovely readers, here it is, the next chapter! I've been going through quite a bit and something called 'life' has been kicking my ass XD But I've bounced back and am ready to keep this train going. I've got a wonderful editor, Mistybella15, who is probably one of the coolest people I know! Even when she has so much going on in her life, I'm glad I can distract her with my horridly put together words I call chapters XD And Marimar2028, please don't cry too much, ok? I know I did! Anywho, ENJOYY!!! :D

DISCLAIMER: I only own Lieutenant Lila Yale and my own twist on Del Toro's amazing story.

There wasn’t much exchanged between us. What was there to say, really, when you were about to drop thousands of feet into the trench that lead to the Breach, where not only were there two Kaiju waiting for us but, Striker had a huge nuke strapped to it’s back that we were going to try to throw into the hopefully open portal? With as little casualties as possible. Just another day in paradise, I suppose.

“All ports sealed. Ready to submerge.” I jumped slightly, feeling Raleigh nudge my mind in the Drift. It sent a chill up my spine.

Having someone in the hook up next to mine was odd enough for me, but actually sharing minds with someone was something I hadn’t done in a very long time. Not since my own Jaeger pilot training. When Raleigh and I drifted for the first time not twenty minutes before, it was the best feeling I’d ever had.

It was like our minds were absorbing each other and were watching all of the memories our brains have to offer. I knew a good bit about Raleigh’s life, and vise versa but, this was the extended, raw, and personal version. I realized, in the fleeting memories, that he had more than crushed on me when he first saw me on day one of PPDC Training. He had thought I was the most beautiful woman he’d ever seen, with a spunky fire that augmented my beauty.

From that moment on, he fell in love with me so fast, he wasn’t sure what to do. When I had shown interest in any other guys, I saw his memories flash to him facing the man of my affection toe-to-toe, threatening him until he was near to tears. After I had gotten fed up with his interference and he had kissed me, he was shocked beyond belief that I hadn’t stopped him. He knew, from that moment on that I had to have felt the same that he did.

We both lingered as long as we could on the memories that we both had of Yancy. His laugh, his smile, his bear-hugs that made everything seem alright. To my surprise, neither of us got dragged into the Rabbit like I feared we would. With everything that our minds had to share with each other, it seemed like the initial drift stage would never end. When it finally did, it ended with a long scene of the first kiss we shared when we finally admitted our feeling to each other. In my bunk bed, wrapped so tightly around each other, you couldn’t tell where either of us started or ended.

“Visibility is zero. Switching to instruments.” Raleigh yet again pulled me from my thoughts with not only his voice, but a slight grab onto my gloved hand that was sitting on the control panel between us.

I gave him the best smile I could muster, which he returned and continued trudging through the water. It felt like walking through mud and it made my legs ache from the extra strain, but I pushed on.

“Gipsy, you‘ve got movement on your right.” Both of us jumped our vision to that direction, trying to see anything with the enhanced instruments. All I saw was fish, rocks and murky patches of water.

“I don‘t see anything, Tendo!” I shouted, looking back to the front of the Con-Podd where, sure enough, it was reading a Kaiju signature somewhere within a 100 foot radius. Maybe the water had somehow gotten through an electrical panel and shorted out our radar.

“Now on your left! Fastest Kaiju on record!” Tendo called out.

I looked to the left just in time to see the flash of a tail; it sent a chill down my spine. How were we supposed to take on an aquatic alien in it’s own habitat? At least on the surface, we had a chance, but this Kaiju was made to be lethal underwater; made specifically to make sure we didn’t finish our jobs.