It's been a few month since the breach has been closed. Kaiju hasn't been sighted since then, the world is in peace, and so does the Shatterdome. Now, activities are focused to remaking Jaegers, since there has been no Jaegers left since the closing of the Breach.
Life is now so much better for Raleigh, than it is when he was in construction of the wall. Raleigh picked up a new hobby, solving Rubik's Cube. Yancy's Rubik Cube to be exact. Raleigh was tidying up Yancy's old stuff when he came up with an old Rubik Cube. What sparked Raleigh's curiosity was there was some strange pen signs on the cube's surface. Was there a message in that Rubik's Cube?
Raleigh has been trying to solve that Rubik's Cube for a while now and he feels like he's going to finish it soon.
"Raleigh?" ….. "Raleigh!"
A voice snapped Raleigh out of his focus. He was so busy trying to solve the Rubik's Cube, that he didn't realize Mako was standing right in from of him.
"Oh Mako… Sorry I didn't hear you..",said Raleigh.
"You didn't answer the door. So I came in to give a check. So, still trying to solve that cube?"
"Yeah. I got this feeling that I'm going to finish this soon."
"Give it to me. Let me try."
Raleigh looked at Mako for a second, before handing her the 5*5 Rubik Cube in his hand. Mako turned the sides around, flipped the cube.
"Careful, don't mess it again.". Raleigh give a slight reminder.
Mako kept silent for a while.
"You're right. You are going to finish this soon. Here, you do the last turn."
Mako handed the cube back to Raleigh. Raleigh checked it, he realizes that most of the sides are already the same color. Only the top left and just one spin to finish it.
Red with red, Yellow with Yellow, Black with black, Blue with blue, all colors aligned.
There was a writing on the yellow side.
'Elsa Trancy'
"Is that a name?",Mako asked.
"I don't know for sure..."
"Tendo!"
Raleigh walked into the Control Room, looking for the busy Choi Tendo. Followed by Mako in his back.
"Raleigh! What's the matter?"
"Can you help me look for someone?"
"What? Why?",Tendo asked, confused.
"I found a Rubik Cube in Yancy's old stuff. I know Yancy is not a Rubik kind of guy, so there must be something behind this Rubik Cube being in Yancy's old stuff. I solved it, and there is a name on it. Elsa Trancy. I need to look for this person. She probably had a connection with Yancy or anything."
Tendo was taken aback by Raleigh's determined explanation. He sighed.
"Fine. I'll look her up. I'll tell you when I found her."
It has been 1 week since Raleigh asked for Tendo's help to look for the mysterious Elsa Trancy. And he hasn't heard a bit about her from Tendo.
Raleigh was practicing in the Training Room, when Mako stepped in. With a serious look in her face.
"Your Trancy girl, Tendo found her."
Raleigh quickly exits the training room with Mako trying to keep up with his pace.
"I don't know if this is a good news or bad news…..But…."
Raleigh stopped and looked at Mako.
"But what?"
Mako hesitated before finally answering Raleigh.
"Tendo brought her here."
Raleigh stormed into Loccent, to again find Tendo.
Tendo was talking to a tall brunette woman. Tendo sighted the coming of Raleigh.
"Oh Miss Trancy, this is Raleigh Becket, the one I was going to introduce to you."
"So what kind of girls do you like?"
"Umm… Of course not the likes of Naomi Sokolov…"
"Yeah, you got a point there."
"Probably a tall brunette…."
"Brunette?"
The woman turned her body to Raleigh. Raleigh was silenced by her pale skin.
"Tall brunette with a white pale skin."
"Mister Becket, I'm Elsa Trancy."
Elsa stretched her hand, engaging a handshake with Raleigh. Raleigh was still frozen and lost in his thoughts.
"Mister Becket?"
"Oh… I'm sorry… Raleigh Becket…Brother of Yancy Becket."
Elsa smiled a small elegant smile.
"I know.",she replied.
"You knew?"
"Yeah. I work with PPDC, Panama City. You and Yancy Becket were both Jaeger pilots. Of course I knew."
"So do you know my brother? … I mean, personally?",Raleigh asked.
"Personally? No."
Raleigh looked at Elsa with a confused face.
"I found your name written on my brother's Rubik Cube…."
"I'm sorry I cannot explain that Mister Becket…."
The situation was awkward as seen by the silent Tendo and Mako. But then, Newton Geizler appeared in the room as well.
"Miss Trancy! You are finally here ! Come,come I wish to show you about my research."
Newton come and pushed Elsa away without giving attention to neither Raleigh nor the others.
Elsa looked back, Raleigh was still looking at her with his face that feels like he is demanding a thousand answers from her.
To be continued...