With only two working Jaegers left and the frequency of Kaiju attacks rising, humanity received a grim reminder. They were the prey and the Kaiju were the hunters. But when a mining team finds a tomb containing a preserved body of eons past, humanity will have to turn to their last hope-the original Jaeger 'pilot'.
NOTES: Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry this took so long, lots of things happening not to mention I got a bit of writer's block too...but don't worry, it's mostly gone now! and to all my readers, thank you for not abandoning me yet!
Also, I apologise for not making this clear in previous chapters;
"speech" -emphasised normal speech
"speech" -speech in a different language
'speech' -thoughts
Anything in bold is super-emphasised if you couldn't tell, but nevertheless, I hope you enjoy this chapter!
I DO NOT OWN SHINGEKI NO KYOJIN/ATTACK ON TITAN OR PACIFIC RIM
"Woah...wh-what sorcery is this?!"
"You think that's sorcery? Watch this!"
Click!
"What the-that's me! And you, too!"
"Pretty neat, huh? You wanna know how it works?"
"Absolutely!"
"Well, you know how I told you how the light works, right? Well the screen, you see this part here? This is-"
Before he could continue the flat rectangular thing in Geiszler's hand began to vibrate and emit a shrill high-pitched noise that caused Eren to almost leap out of his skin and fall off the edge of his bed, much to the older man's amusement. Eren glared up at him and watched the noise-making box carefully.
"Why is it screaming? What is it doing?!"
"Hey, this is not 'screaming', this is an 8-bit rendition of a masterpiece, I'll have you-oh, it's Hermann. I better answer it or he'll 'have a go' at me...again."
Eren's eyes watched tentatively as Geiszler tapped the 'sk'reen' and held the contraption to his ear.
"Yes Hermann. Yes, I am. No, I-"
He paused, rolling his eyes. Eren sat himself back on the bed, trying to figure out what the 'doctor' was doing, and what he was saying. "Yes, I was literally just going to tell him what it was when you so rudely interrupted." He stopped again. Another eye-roll. "No, I...what? Food?" his face paled slightly. "Uhh, y-yeah, sure...right." He tapped the sk'reen again and looked down at Eren. "I'm so sorry, you must be starving."
Now that he thought about it, Eren was pretty hungry.
Well, as hungry as someone trapped in a crystal for almost 1500 years could be, which, strangely, wasn't as much as he thought he'd be.
One of the perks of being a Titan-Shifter, maybe?
Momentarily disregarding the thing in Geiszler's hand he nodded and wondered if they had invented new methods of preparing food, or if they had discovered new food altogether.
Even more questions were being added to his countless list, but he knew he had to be patient and learn about everything from scratch again.
He also knew that he was not a very patient person, so as Geiszler hurriedly left, a plan formulated in his head.
~.~
As a Jaeger pilot, Chuck Hansen was very proud of his and his father's feats and general profession.
(Mostly his own)
So when a certain young man barged (read: accidentally bumped) into him in the middle of a corridor he instinctively felt the need to defend his honour (read: start a fight to impress any females around (namely Mako, who unfortunately wasn't in the vicinity at that moment.))
"Oi, watch where you're going, midget!"
The kid inclined his head slightly to look up at him with a look of confusion that suddenly changed to a scowl.
"Verdammt, ein anderes Pferd Gesicht"
Chuck blinked. Whatever he had just said, Chuck did not like the tone, oh no. So he did what any gentleman thinking rationally would do and grabbed him by the collar, pulling him close to his face to teach him a lesson.
"What the hell did you just say to me?"
The runt raised a brow at his question.
"Seid ihr Versuchen Sie zu Beginn ein Kampf? Gut dann..."
It all happened in a flash.
Before he could react the boy had grasped his arm with one hand and reached out with the other, grabbing his neck. He felt something hook around his ankle and lift his feet up as the top half of his body was forcibly pushed backwards.
The next thing Chuck knew, he was on his back on the ground in pain.
He could hear snickering and giggling from onlookers at either end of the corridor.
Snapping out of his befuddled state, Chuck rolled over on his front to see to see a pair of bare feet slowly pad away from him and disappear around the corner.
"H-hey! HEY!"
With a flushed face he pushed himself back onto his feet and dashed around the corner, moving to charge into the little brat when he skidded to a halt.
He was nowhere to be seen.
'I swear, if I ever see that little bastard again...'
~.~
"With all due respect sir, I think we'd like some answers."
"Not now, Mr. Beckett, I'm a little busy at the moment..."
"But sir, we need to know more than just what the doctor has told us. Why bring him here?"
The Marshall sighed and placed his pen beside the report he was writing on his steel desk.
"Surely you'd understand how the press would react if they had heard that a human that had somehow survived frozen underground for over a thousand years had been discovered and awakened? Not only that but I'm sure that countless scientists would want to prod at him and interrogate him. Would you want to be subjected to that if you were in his position?"
"O-of course not sir. But I can't help thinking you have some ulterior motive to bringing him here."
Pentecost eyed Rayleigh, who shuffled awkwardly under his heavy stare, whilst Mako stood silent and stoic.
He was about to dismiss himself when the Marshall spoke up again.
"He might increase our chances of ending this war, that's why I had him brought here."
Sensing the barrage of questions and exclamations that were mere seconds from tumbling from the two Jaeger pilot's mouths, he raised his hand to stop them. "Don't even think about asking me. I'm not the one who knows anyway." He reached for his mug and took a sip of well-deserved coffee before placing it back onto his desk and clasping his hands under his chin and resting his elbows on the desk. "It's Doctor Geiszler you want, but he's currently pre-occupied with getting as much information out of the Jaeger boy as he can-"
"That's his name?"
It was Mako who interrupted him, but instead of replying the Marshall muttered 'speak of the devil' and stood up, arms behind his back.
"I'm glad you could join us, Mr Jaeger."
Mako and Rayleigh span around to see someone's shoulder peeking out from the doorframe. Upon having being caught, the person it belonged to turned and stepped into the doorway, eyes wide and lips pursed. Pentecost gestured for him to enter and he did so, taking tentative steps towards the center of the room, obviously refraining from looking around in awe.
His eyes widened slightly at Mako's presence, who graced him with a small but friendly smile. Eren nodded with a smaller smile of his own before returning his focus to the important-looking man before him, ignoring Rayleigh's stare. "As I am aware, you have already met Miss Mako Mori."
Eren blinked at the sudden use of his native tongue by the other man but nodded. "This," he gestured to the other man in the room, "Is Mr Rayleigh Beckett."
The man stepped forward and held out his hand which Eren took. Before they could exchange any words the Marshall spoke up again. "And I'm Marshall Stacker Pentecost of the Pan Pacific Defence Corps."
Eren's eyes widened and he tore his hand from Rayleigh's.
"Y-you mean...you're part of the military?!"
The Marshall cocked his brow at Eren's question.
"Has Doctor Geiszler not informed you of our situation?"
"S-situation, sir?"
Pentecost paused and turned, pinching the bridge of his nose. Of course, the kid had just woken up, but they were short on time and needed results. Urgently. "With all due respect, he has been informing me of technological advances humanity has made, sir." Eren added, not wanting to cause any trouble for him after all he'd done for him.
He felt bad sneaking out in the first place.
"Do you mind if I ask how you managed to sneak out? Not that we were planning on locking you up, but we can't exactly have you wandering around if you don't know anything about our time now, can we?"
Almost as if he'd read his mind.
"The door was left unlocked sir. I just wanted to have a little look around, then I would have returned." Eren answered.
Pentecost turned back with a nod of approval, then walked around his desk to stand infront of Eren.
"A healthy curiosity never hurt anyone, but I think it'd best if you returned for now, lest the doctor have a panic attack."
Eren nodded, "I'm afraid we'll have to ask you some questions but if you choose to co-operate and after we've filled you in on what you've missed, you'll be shown around properly, sound fair?"
Eren nodded again and stepped back, clentching his fists and bringing his right over his heart while the left curled around his back.
Rayleigh and Mako didn't fully understand what he was doing but something in his action rang a clear note in the two Jaeger pilot's heads.
"Though I don't know exactly what's going on, I will be honoured to offer my heart for the glory of humanity, sir!"
Pentecost allowed a smile on his face and put a hand on Eren's shoulder.
"In all honesty I think we're going to need it."
He patted him and noted the determination in the boy's eyes before dissmissing him.
Eren turned and walked at a slightly quicker pace out of the door and made to turn the corner when-
"THERE YOU ARE YOU SON OF A BITCH!"
Eren barely had time to turn to the source of the sound when a dark grey blur charged at him and knocked him flying off his feet and reeling down the corridor.
"What the-"
Rayleigh and Mako moved to the doorway and winced at the sounds of hard punches and kicks connecting with eachother followed by grunts of pain and various curses in both English and German that would make a sailor's ears bleed.
To anyone else it would have looked like they were simply tangling with eachother but the Jaeger pilots watched carefully as Eren sent a fast yet powerful uppercut straight at Chuck's jaw, then kicked him back and pushed himself up, already in a defensive position as the Australian tried to get him with an uppercut of his own that Eren blocked, but the force pushed him back into the pipes aligning the wall, causing him to swear as Chuck got up and charged for him again.
Rayleigh knew that someone should have stepped in to stop them, but from what he had seen, the Jaeger kid seemed to know his stuff.
Eren ducked and slipped to the ground at the last moment as he went for a headbutt and sent his head careening into the wall with a sickening crack.
From the ground, he drop-kicked Chuck and pounced on him. More swearing was exchanged as the two rolled and scuffled about, exchanging blows, trying to get the other in a hold.
At some point during the fray Chuck headbutted Eren, who returned the favour with twice the force. Using Chuck's lack of focus to his advantage, Eren managed to get him in an inescapable neck crank, that Rayleigh recognised as a crossface.
Impressed, he couldn't stop himself from letting out a low whistle at the kid's strength.
No matter how much Chuck struggled under him, Eren held him still in place.
"Was ist deine Probleme?!"
"Get the hell off me!"
Eren glared at the back of Chuck's head but before he could continue he felt a horribly familiar burning sensation in his hand and had to bite his lip to stop himself from letting out a yelp as Chuck sunk his teeth into Eren's hand.
This was bad. This was very very very very very bad.
Eren tore his hand from Chuck's mouth, a small chunk being ripped off in the process, raised his arm swiftly and sent his elbow crashing into the other's head, causing him to swear even louder and slump down. Eren shoved Chuck away from him and staggered to his feet, breathing heavily and staring at his bleeding hand.
"Tch. Mistvieh."
Hushed whispers and murmurs could be heard all around them.
Apparently their scuffle had attracted a crowd.
"Ranger Hansen, I want you in my office. Now."
Eren span around to see the Marshall watching him, and as soon as they made eye contact, he made a 'get out of here before you get into any more trouble' motion, to which he hurriedly nodded and scampered down the corridor and back to his room.
Chuck growled to himself, clutching his ringing head. He spat out what he assumed to be a mixture of his and Eren's blood and shakily stood, then began his walk of shame into the Marshall's office, anger rising as he picked out hushed giggling from the crowd. as he stepped past Rayleigh he shoved past him to get into the office, but before the Marshall disappeared inside there himself he leaned over to Rayleigh and Mako. "While Gipsy Danger is under repairs I want you two to assist Doctor Geiszler in getting info out of that kid. You got that?"
After witnessing that fight, a large portion of Rayleigh's doubts had been removed. He and Mako gave a 'yes sir' in unison, still slightly surprised at the teen's skill, though they knew now that they would have to be careful not to get onto his bad side.
Pentecost looked at the bloodstains on the floor and sighed. "Someone had to do it. Herc's probably going to try and kill him when he finds out though." he muttered before returning to his office, shutting the door behind him.
AUTHOR'S NOTE! I'm so sorry I've kept you all waiting, it's been a hectic month, but don't worry! Chapter 9 is on the way!
