"Hey, hey! Is that Baby Becket? Where the hell have you been Raleigh?"
Raleigh Beckett glanced up as a familiar face sauntered down the hallway. "Bea! I was building that dumb wall back in Anchorage. What the hell are you doing here?" He said with a grin, embracing her.
"After they decommissioned Brutus and Em got preggers, this guy dug me out of my Dad's old machine shop in Duluth to start fixing up a Jaeger for you!" She gestured to Marshall Pentecost with a grease-smudged hand.
The Marshall smiled, "Ms. Reynolds I'm sure you're needed in bay four. I need to conclude Mr. Beckett's tour."
"Yessir, you are probably right. Good to see ya, Raleigh!"
She turned around and walked headlong into someone, knocking them down.
"Ah, crap, sorry!" She said, grimacing and offering the guy a hand up.
The man stared up at her speechless a moment before grabbing her hand and popping up, "No, its, uh, no problem, my fault really!"
Bea smiled and offered her hand to shake, "Beatrice Reynolds. Nice tats by the way! Is that Knifehead? Man was I lucky not to be on call that night."
"Newt. Er, Newton. Geiszler, Doctor Newton Geiszler. Call me Newt!" He said, stumbling on his words, "You're a Ranger?"
"Used to be. Me and my sister Emily had Chrome Brutus, the prize of Canada!" Bea gestured with a flourish and a smile, "Mark 3, decommissioned when the Alaska Shatterdome was shut down. Then my sister went and got pregnant so we couldn't pilot anymore, though the Marshall asked us anyway. But our Mum was a Jaeger mechanic so he wanted my technical help."
"Oh so you worked with the Beckets in Alaska?"
"I practically grew up in the shadow of the icebox! Mum was always up there tweaking Brawler to perfection. She took care of that thing like it was her third child! Darn thing never saw action after Karloff though," She said nostalgically.
Newt grinned, "Oh no way your mom worked on Brawler Yukon? That fight with Karloff is what got me interested in the Pan-Pacific Defense Corps!"
"Heh, you and me both, hon!" She laughed, "Was there somewhere you needed to be? You bumped into me in quite a hurry."
"OH!" he checked his watch, "Crap, I needed to start on that dissection 12 minutes ago!"
He started walking past her but turned to walk backwards, "It was great talking to you!"
She smiled, "You too! See ya around!" Bea turned to hurry back to bay four.
Newt stopped dead in his tracks when he saw her back. Peeking out over the top of her tank top was none other than the Jaeger Brawler Yukon fighting the Kaiju Karloff.
A woman after my own heart… he thought with a smile before running back to the lab.
Wow I haven't written a fic in what feels like forever! Tough to get back in the swing. Pacific Rim inspired me though and I knew we needed more badass girl Rangers, even if they'd been decommissioned. I have no clue if this plot will go beyond these barely 500 words.