"That won't help you know" The smart and slick voice spoke up from the corner of the room; sighing from the male figure that had hidden himself from the thick monitoring system that dominated the entire room with its own lighting.

"Did I ask your opinion?" Sophie almost yelled at her partner, both arms tightly woven into her thick black hair as she looked upon the thick monitoring system that was reliving the simulation battle she had suffered through barely a few hours ago.
Joseph groaned at his uptight partner, flexing his arms as he noticed his own reflection. Finally he looked back and noticed how his companion was starting to shake when she looked upon her own simulated destruction, "I'm just saying, going over your own simulations wont prepare you for the future"

"I can't fail again, I need to learn from my mistakes" The female spurted quickly, smashing her fist onto the table in frustration as she watched the bulbous tale of the Kaiju known as 'Whitetip' slowly cut into her own metallic hull. She should have anticipated that move, she shouldn't have acted so stubborn; she should have been better.

"Look, maybe you failed once ok…" Joseph spoke up reassuringly, his own eyes watching the holographic version of her simulated launch turn to hell; everything it seemed had started working together against her just when it had started to end, a notion that would have terrified him if he had been stuck in that situation.
"Once?" Sophie roared in defiance, switching the video of whilst turning around in her seat in order to stare at her partner straight in the eyes as she screamed out in absolute frustration, "This is the third time that I couldn't do my duty, this one Kaiju keeps fucking me over"
"Well I'm not good at this, but it's pretty obvious you shouldn't have let that guy lunge at you initially; these Kaiju are heavier than us, and their getting bigger every time" Joseph sighed slowly, attempting to make his kind hearted assistance not appear as violent as he had originally thought them out as.

"It worked with the other Kaiju; it fell backwards as soon as I held my ground!" Sophie drew her head back in defiance, remembering the one simulation she had actually won against these feral and horrific creatures.
"That's because you were up against a category I in that simulation, of course it wouldn't last long against you" The male companion sighed at his partner, attempting to allow her understanding to follow through without violence spilling out between them two; as it had before, "You need to stop reading everything like it's a textbook, you need to analyse the situation that you exist in so you can act accordingly; not every battle is going to be the same and thus your tactics can't reflect each other!"
As Joseph drew his breath in, he could tell his comrade was becoming more and more stressed even as the conversation continued so he decided to lighten up.

"I think you're working too hard, you need to relax and take it easy" He finally spoke, stepping up to her level and placing one arm onto her shoulder in hopes to calm the agitated and stressed pilot down.
"Like you?" Sophie growled ferociously, yanking the arm of herself in fury and twisting her body around so she could yell at her partner in rage, "relaxed and calm even when it comes to a fight, how do you do it?" She finally moaned, the anger overspilling into her system to slowly transfer into simple regret.

"That's just me" Joseph spoke up in defence of himself, his arms placed upwards as he backed away slowly, "its how I operate best; and if we're going to be a team then you need to learn how you operate." Finally the male pilot turned around, choosing to leave his team-mate to her own solitude in hopes for it to do her peace and calm tranquillity as well as the fundamental statement he had left behind.

Sophie sighed in a gust of air as she realised her companion had left, although he was irritatingly good at his job and thus irritating at times; she still appreciated his company and knew that without him she would be worse than useless. Despite usual Jaeger pairings, Sophie and Joseph operated not on mutual alliance of complete cohabitation of the thought process but rather on complete oppositional knowledge basis and ideals. Joseph had always been the calmer, smarter and more collected individual with more time for humour or even fun; in contrast to this. Sophie was always more of a wild card with a simple but partially aggressive mind; she focused on her task and hated almost everyone around herself if it was not completed perfectly or at least with an acceptable hand of approval.

Suddenly the sound of dull boots on metal cut her thoughts straight of, causing her to spin her body around herself as she noticed her CO standing straight in the door that led into her own private quarters with a grim look etched upon his face.
"Commander sir" She stood up swiftly, constructing a tired but still flawless salute in her arms as she acknowledged her superior officer wearily.
"Cadet" The man responded swiftly, his face hidden by the thick black cap that was stuck firmly upon his forehead. Despite this lack of identity, it was clear that the commander was in your presence as soon as you heard the sound of his powerful steel capped boots against the softer metallic floor. As he looked around at the holographic simulation of the battle he had witnessed barely a few hours ago he took a deep breath he started to speak, "You know why I'm here; do you have anything to say?"

"I guess I'll try again sir" Sophie replied deadpan, her voice faltering slightly as she looked down at her shoelaces almost like a schoolgirl taught of for acting unladylike in the presence of their headmaster.
"You can't keep running the simulations, you know that eventually we are going to have to put you in the field with a live Kaiju" The CO sighed softly, wiping at his brow at a flicker of sweat as he looked upon one of the many cadets he had seen and could never see again if he didn't do his job right.

"I understand that sir, I guess I'm going to have to go through the field testing again" Sophie spoke up, biting her lip in anticipation over the notion of actually assaulting a real life, breathing Kaiju; out there in the real world, there was no place for screw-ups.
"You've been running through the simulations for far too long, I'm going to need you to try something different" The commander spat out quickly, stooping low and pressing on numerous functions on board her own holographic computer before a video image and icon appeared out of the screen, "Watch this, it might unleash something you would understand by now"
"What's it about?" Sophie spoke up, intrigued over the video; perhaps it held new tactics to fight the enemies that she had been fantasising over killing for quite a while now.

"It's a video, camera held media revealing what actually happened when the category II Kaiju known as Whitetip assaulted the city of San Diego; you should watch it" The Commander spoke strictly, tapping onto the screen once before stepping away and walking back to the door in order to exit the private quarters.
"Is that an order sir?"
Finally he paused, stepping one last foot down before turning around with one look on his eye ashe spoke softly, "No, it's a survival tip."