Widow Maker

by ISoSilly

5 years after the Kaiju War, everything was starting to return back to normal. Cities around the Pan Pacific were rebuilding. the PPDC was rebuilding itself. With sensors picking up portal activity again, the PPDC turns to Raleigh Becket to build a team from the Jaeger Academy. When a father-daughter team makes promising progress, the only thing in the way now, is time.

1. Intro

We closed the portal. We were done. The world was safe. The clock would never be reset again. After the Jaeger-Kaiju war had finally come to an end, the world had begun to rebuild itself to the power it once was. It was a long process, at 5 years we had barely topped at 30% recovery. For five years, it was fast, but not fast enough. The inner cities were the quickest to rebuild and return to normal function, it was the cities in along the Pan-Pacific ring that took the longest, too much damage, but everyone banded together to help. As for the Jaegers, we recovers as much as we could. It was hard to tell which pieces belonged to which Jaeger, Gypsy was gone. The Jaeger program was put on hold, there wasn't much of a need for us anymore, but we were ordered to keep the schematics for the five remaining jaegers before the end of the war. Just in case.

Mako and I tried to make it work. We dated for two years, both parties remaining faithful, but the only thing we really had in common was the fact that we survived a war together, battle buddies. We were too different, slowly drifting apart. It was a mutual breakup, better off as friends. Mako was appointed Marshal in the Pan Pacific Defense Corps, in place of Stacker. As for me? I'm still a ranger. I have no place in the politics. I'm supposed to be training new recruits, for the jaeger academy. Not much potential in the group I have right now. But I get it.. just in case.

I wish the "just in case" had never happened. We knew what to look for in case another portal opened. This time, our sensors picked up activity near Baja California and again near The Island of Java. We're sure its not the Kaiju, its something else. No attacks have been made yet, no portals have opened, but the activity is starting to build. Our only answer was to begin the construction of the Jaegers, and now to find pilots again. *sigh* good thing we saved everything, Just In Case.