A/N: Okay, so, I pretty much think that almost everything that's already awesome can be made twice as awesome when put in a Pacific Rim AU, so in my mind that's pretty much the same for Game of Thrones. I kind of went with the characters' personalities in the Pacific Rim movie to try to see who from the Game of Thrones universe would best fit into their role. I ended up with Arya as Raleigh and Jon as Yancy, Jeor Mormont as Marshal Pentecost and Gendry as Tendo Choi. I'm not going to reveal right now who the other pilots will be, though, neither the scientists (Newt and Hermann) or Arya's copilot, so that's going to remain in the dark at least until the next chapter.

WARNINGS: May containt slight reference to some pairings (both het and slash/femslash) in future chapters (don't worry though, it can be easily overlooked since the fanfiction mostly follows Pacific Rim's basic plot with some changes to fit the characters better, so it's pretty much more action than anything) and also containts a ton of blood and gore (at least from Kaijus) and some major GoT character deaths (and I mean MAJOR.) If you don't like it, don't read it. Also, some swearing.

DISCLAIMER: NEITHER GAME OF THRONES NOR PACIFIC RIM ARE MINE; I'M JUST BORROWING THEM BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FUN TO PUT GAME OF THRONES CHARACTERS IN THE PACIFIC RIM UNIVERSE.

That having been said, I do hope you enjoy reading it just as much as I'm enjoying writing it.

Chapter 1

-Come on, get up Jon, we're on alert!

Arya impatiently shook her brother awake as she put on her jacket. The alarm was sounding, which meant the sensors had picked up a Kaiju reading near the coastline. Jon groggily sat up, rubbing his eyes with his knuckles.

-What time is it? – He asked, half-awake, to which Arya replied:

-Two.

-In the morning?

-Yep.

He sighed.

-So, what, they found a Kaiju? – He said, yawning and getting up, stretching his limbs.

-Yep, and it's near here – Arya replied, throwing his own jacket at him. – Category 3, codename "Knifehead" – She approached him with her fist up. – So, let's go kill our fifth Kaiju?

-You bet – Jon said, touching her fist with his, more awake now. – I won't stop until all these things are dead.

-Let's go, then – Arya rushed out of the room, adjusting her jacket; Jon immediately followed. They walked to the stageroom, where Marshal Jeor Mormont and Gendry Waters, Jaeger engineer and a good friend of Arya's, were standing, looking at the computer screen fairly alarmed.

-So, what you got for us, Marshal? – Arya said, approaching Mormont and Gendry and joining them to look at the screen; Jon did the same.

-Category 3 – Gendry replied. – Apparently the biggest one yet. Seems to be targeting London.

-Heh, we got this – Arya grinned. – We'll have another one for the record once we're done with it.

-Negative – Mormont said. – I just want you to be on the lookout and protect the coastline, nothing more. Only engage it if necessary.

-Okay, okay, geez – Arya replied, disappointed. As she saw the look on the Marshal's face, she added, more seriously: - Yes, sir.

-Then hurry out – He said. – Grey Wind is ready for you.

Arya and Jon rushed out of the stageroom and into the Drivesuit Room, where they got equipped with their drivesuits. They then walked into Grey Wind's conn-pod, and locked their feet on the control locks under them, Jon on the right side of the conn-pod and Arya on the left. As the crew connected the command cables into the Neural taps at the base of the Rangers' backs, they all cleared away from the Jaeger and Grey Wind's AI's male, synthesized voice echoed inside their helmets:

"Initiating Grey Wind. Conn-pod ready for drop sequence."

Next it was the Marshal's voice that sounded next to their ears:

-"Shatterdome to Grey Wind, do you copy?"

Jon spoke up:

-Grey Wind to Shatterdome, we can hear you loud and clear, sir.

-"Okay, then we're going to drop you" – Mormont replied. – "Remember, do not engage it unless absolutely necessary, do you understand?"

Arya couldn't help but feel that last part was directed solely at her.

-Yes sir – She replied, somewhat against her will - she wanted to fight that Kaiju; she wanted to fight every Kaiju that came their way. And she wanted to kill them, just like they had killed her family – her father and her older brother Robb when they had been fighting a category 3 Kaiju that destroyed their Jaeger, Dire Wolf, and killed them both in the process; and her mother and two younger brothers, Bran and Rickon, when a Category 2 Kaiju, White Walker, attacked England. Only her older sister Sansa survived that attack - no one knew how. Arya and Jon were alive because both had already enrolled the Jaeger Program and were undergoing training at the time of the White Walker attack. At first, Arya and Jon enlisted because they wanted to be like their dad and to protect the world against the Kaiju threat; but after the monsters killed off almost their entire family, in addition to protecting people, it became darkly personal – they wanted to kill as many of the creatures as they could land their hands on.

The AI voice echoed inside their heads again:

"Initiating drop sequence."

Arya and Jon held on as Grey Wind's head plummeted down, falling at an incredibly high speed before hitting the Jaeger's neck and attaching to it. Grey Wind was then lifted onto the platform and carried outside the Shatterdome before being dropped into the sea, the water reaching its metallic shins.

-"Shatterdome to Grey Wind, you ready?" – Came Gendry's voice through the earpiece inside Arya and Jon's helmets.

-We're ready – Arya replied, already knowing he was talking about throwing them into the Drift.

-"Okay then." – Gendry confirmed. – "Initiating Neural Handshake in three… two… one…"

Arya closed her eyes as she drifted into her brother's mind, her own memories flashing before her eyes right before his started to do the same; she was already used to the procedure right now, but it still managed to slightly knock both her and Jon back.

Once it was over, she and Jon moved their arms as one and clasped Grey Wind's closed fists together, Arya controlling its left arm and Jon its right. The AI's voice sounded yet again:

"Neural Bridge established. Both pilots engaged."

-"Okay, Neural Handshake steady and holding" – This time it was Gendry who spoke.

-Grey Wind online – Jon spoke into the mic. – Anything else we should know?

-"No, nothing you already don't know yet" – Gendry replied. – "Category 3, codename Knifehead. It's heading towards the coast and apparently wants to reach London."

-"Do not engage it"- Marshal Mormont said once again, and Arya couldn't avoid rolling her eyes. – "Just stay near the coast and make sure the Kaiju doesn't reach it."

-Yes sir – Said Arya yet again before noticing Jon was eyeing Grey Wind's radar.

-Sir, there's a fishing vessel in the Kaiju's way – He said, worried. Arya looked at the radar herself and saw it: a tiny ship-shaped pattern, right in the path of a much bigger pattern that seemed to be moving towards it.

-"Leave it" – Came Mormont's voice through the earpiece. – "There are much more people in the city than in that boat. You're gonna stay by the coastline and defend it. Are we clear?"

Jon looked at Arya and she obviously knew what he was thinking, for she was inside his head, and he was inside hers: there was no way they were gonna let that boat's crew die. She nodded and he nodded back at her before turning back to the mic:

-Understood, sir. We won't engage it unless necessary. Grey Wind out.

Jon turned off the radio.

-You thinking what I'm thinking? – He asked, looking at Arya again; she in turn grinned at him.

-I'm in your head, remember? – She said, tapping the helmet's visor over her own forehead.

-Let's go get the son of a bitch – He replied, and he and Arya started moving their legs in perfect synchronization, propelling the Jaeger forward through the water, that was getting deeper and deeper with each step they took.

They were fully underwater by the time they reached the fishing vessel. The Kaiju was nearly reaching it when they emerged, carefully grabbing the boat with the enormous mech's hand and putting it away from danger. After moving the ship to safety, they turned around.

-Here it comes – Said Jon with a hint of playful expectation in his voice, eyeing the radar.

-That's what I'm hoping for – Arya replied, with a faint hint of a grin on her face.

It took less than a second after that before the Kaiju emerged from underwater, charging at Grey Wind with its blade-shaped head. Arya and Jon moved at the same time to make the Jaeger throw Knifehead's enormous head to the side with a powerful right hook. Grey Wind then proceeded to deliver a left uppercut to the monster's face.

Knifehead obviously did not take kindly to the aggression and bit Grey Wind's right arm; the Jaeger punched the creature's face twice with its free left arm, throwing the Kaiju off-balance.

-Arya, the plasmacaster! – Jon yelled, readying his arm at the same time Arya readied hers.

-I got it! – Arya yelled back. They took aim. – Now!

They fired one, two, three shots at the Kaiju's chest; blue blood sprouted out of the monster's wound, and Knifehead slowly fell back into the water, dead.

The radio came back online.

-"We picked up plasma cannon shots on the sensors!" – Gendry spoke through the earpiece. – "What the hell is going on?!"

-"Wind, I told you not to intercept it!" – This time it was the Marshal's angry voice.

-With all due respect, sir – Jon replied, grinning and panting. – We killed the Kaiju and saved the vessel. I think it's a win-win.

-"I don't give a damn what you think!" – Marshal Mormont sounded really pissed off this time. – "You disobeyed a direct order and put the city in danger by stepping away from the coastline! Get the hell back to your post, now!"

-Yes, sir – Jon replied, though he was still grinning arrogant and proudly.

He and Arya started to move Grey Wind back to its post before Gendry's alert voice echoed inside their helmets:

-"Hold on, I'm still getting readings! That Kaiju is still alive, Wind!"

Arya and Jon barely had time to turn Grey Wind around before Knifehead reemerged from the water and jumped on the Jaeger, making it stumble. Jon quickly tried to hold the Kaiju back with Grey Wind's right arm, trying to push it off the mech by the neck.

-Arya, load it up, now! – He yelled, baring his teeth from the effort of fighting the monster.

Arya immediately started prepping up the left plasmacaster and aimed at Knifehead, but the Kaiju grabbed Grey Wind's left arm and pushed it aside, pushing its own head forward and using it to rip through the Jaeger's left shoulder, tearing its left arm off. Arya cried out in pain as she felt the attack as if it had been delivered on her own body; the controller on her left hand went red and an alarm echoed inside the conn-pod.

-Damn it! – Arya spat out, grabbing her hurt left arm with her right one. Jon looked at her in panic, his eyes full of fear.

The Jaeger then violently shook, tossing them around as much as it was possible with them still engaged in the Jaeger controls. Jon looked up, frightful, and Arya did the same.

-It's ripping through Wind's head – Jon choked out, before the Jaeger shook again.

Jon turned to face Arya.

-Arya, listen to me! – Jon yelled to make himself heard over the noises of the Jaeger being viciously attacked and the alarm sounding inside the conn-pod. – You've got to-! – But whatever he was trying to say got cut off by the Kaiju's massive clawed hand tearing through the right side of Grey Wind's head and grabbing Jon, ripping him off of his controls, snapping the cables and ruining the machinery entirely.

-NO! – Arya screamed as she saw the monster lifted her brother out of the ruined conn-pod and away from her view; she kept screaming as she felt his pain and desperation, his hopelessness and ultimately, his life extinguishing inside her head.

She was still screaming as she took the control device from her left hand, Grey Wind's arm rendered completely useless by Knifehead's attack, and put it on her right hand, loading the plasmacaster as she bared her teeth in pain, anger and desperation – she wasn't even sure why she was still trying to bring the Kaiju down, even more so by fighting it solo, but she had to try. For her brother's sake.

She roared out in anger as she tried her last resort (her body hurt as if she had been stepped on by her own Jaeger; she could feel the damage the Kaiju was causing on Grey Wind in her own body, connected to the huge mech, feeling the wounds as if they were being caused on her and not the Jaeger) and waited for Knifehead to try to bite her charged plasmacaster – and when its mouth was open and perfectly aligned with her arm, she fired.

One single shot to the inside of its mouth, and the monster's head blew up like a melon shot by a shotgun, blue blood and Kaiju brains smearing the ruined Jaeger. Arya kept looking at the creature's body as it floated on the sea, bright blue liquid spreading on the water around it, and was slightly aware of the moisture under her nose – she must be bleeding from the neural overload; her head was throbbing as she put her hand under her nose and looked at it, her slightly blurred vision confirming that she was bleeding, as seen by the blood on her gloves; she needed to make it back to shore, fast.

She wasn't sure of how much time passed since she started to drag Grey Wind back to the English coast – for her it seemed like hours, red tinting her vision as her eyes started to suffer the effects of the neural overload from piloting a Jaeger on her own – but when she finally gave in and Grey Wind fell on its knees then on its face, making the earth beneath it violently shake, her entire body hurt and she felt like she was hit on the head with a sledgehammer.

She dragged herself out of the remains of the conn-pod, vaguely aware of the old man rushing to her side, saying something that Arya couldn't figure out because her mind was still clinging to her brother; she knew he was gone, but she couldn't keep herself from muttering his name, even as she fell to her knees and then on her back, and as her consciousness faded…

A/N: Well, there's the first chapter :) Hope you're liking it so far, and please leave me some feedback, either positive or negative (as long as it's constructive criticism; no flaming, please.) I'm not one to ask for feedback but not getting any really discourages you from writing, so if you have a minute, please leave a comment, okie-dokie? :)