My Dad always said Fortune favours the brave, dude. But I never really knew what he meant until I joined the Ranger program.
The Breach had been sealed for 19 years, 1 year more than I've been alive, and the world has been at peace since then. Well sort of at peace, even though the Kaiju flu spread through out the ocean and soon became weak enough for people to drink, we never thought about the animals. The Kaiju flu sunk to the depths of the ocean and now our own Kaijus, our own monsters have mutated and started to come after us.
"Martin, wake up kiddo."
"Fuck off."
"Martin it's almost time for you to see who you are drift compatible with." a voice said, it was my dad, Newton Gieszler-Gottlieb.
"That's now, today?" I asked, lifting my head up from my pillow slightly.
"Yes it is, now get up and put some clothes on before Hermann comes in here to get you up." Dad walked out of my room and shut the door lightly. I groaned and rolled on my back. I was finally going to see if I was drift compatible with anyone and who they were.
When I got out of bed I grabbed some fresh black boxers, grey sweat pants and a white tee shirt with a deep V. I combed my hair a bit, and by combed I mean made it look nice enough for a family breakfast. I put my deodorant on, socks, grabbed my phone and went out to meet Dad and Vader for breakfast.
" Good morning Martin, did you sleep well son?" Vader asked. He was sitting at the table with his cane on the back of his chair with a cup of coffee in his hand and a copy of a science journal draft in the other.
"Yeah, how long were you going to wait until I was-?"
" 30 seconds. And Newton this is completely inaccurate, we drifted with a Kaiju not a mutated Shark or Whale. You can't write these things without knowing what could happen."
"It's the same thing and shark DNA is closer to ours than a Kaiju from another world."
"What if Kaijus have closer DNA though?" I asked. When you grow up with two science geniuses for dads you develop a habit of asking tons of hypothetical questions.
"We may never know since the breach is closed for what seems like good and Raleigh never brought any Kaiju remains with him." Dad said, sighing and taking a bite of his bacon strip.
" What about that Hannibal Chau guy that lived through the Kaiju eating him?" I asked, there had to be a way to figure this out.
" He's been off the grid for 10 years Martin, if I knew where he was I'd definitely get some Kaiju remains or what he has left of them. Now eat your breakfast, you have to be down to the training bay in 30 minutes." Dad put some bacon and eggs on my plate with some orange juice mixed with coffee to the top right of my plate.
"Also go take a shower and actually comb your hair, you were gifted with good cheekbones you should show them off more." Vader said.
I guess I should go into some background on my parents. You've probably heard of them in some way or another, Dr. Newton Gieszler-Gottlieb and Dr. Hermann Gottlieb-Gieszler. They were two of the three people to ever drift with a Kaiju, Hannibal Chau being the first. They were also the first gay couple to biologically have a kid together, I really don't want to go into details at breakfast though.
We usually finished breakfast within 5 minutes of each other, Dad being the last since neither he nor I are morning people, but especially him. I went into the bathroom, shaved, took a shower and put on some after shave. Then I was off to the training bay.
"Good luck Martin, remember that we love you and can perform experiments on anyone who hurts you too badly." Dad waved.
"Not legally Newton."
