Flashback
"KINDERMANN!" The instructor shouted. "Control your drift! Stay steady!"
The girl groaned, and her co-pilot pressed eject.
"This isn't working, Marshall. We are not compatible." The other girl snapped, taking off her helmet.
Andi took off her own helmet, watching the girl storm out of the room.
"I'm going to go check on Cadet Hernandez. Beckett, Yancy. You're in charge."
The Cadet nodded. "Everyone step out, get a break while we set up for the next pair."
Raleigh stepped onto the drift platform.
"This is crap!" Andi hissed at him, "I can launch the drift without a partner."
Raleigh crossed his arms. "Nobody likes a show off."
She tossed the helmet in her hands. "Everyone's gone."
Yancy nodded.
"Launch the drift." She went to put on the helmet again.
"Wait," Raleigh stopped her. "You can't do this. You can't control a Jaeger all on your own, MARK I's practically killed their pilots."
"If my heart rate falls, get into my head." She mumbled, meeting Raleigh's eyes. "Yancy, Launch the drift."
The older cadet sighed, going through the motions as he initiated the drift sequence.
"You sure, Andi?"
"Positive." Her voice carried through the helmet.
Yancy initiated her into the drift.
Battle simulations happened around her, attempting to force any kind of reaction out of her.
The drift suit forced pain and various stimuli into her body while she was forced to react to combat with a Kaiju.
"She's steady." Yancy informed in amazement. "Going into the next level of combat."
"She shouldn't do this." Raleigh argued, watching her in the combat simulation.
"She shouldn't even be able too, but she is. And she's winning." His brother chuckled.
Andi completed moves that they had learned in Combat Course. She had nearly won the battle when the Kaiju reared up and sank it's fangs into the leg of the Jaeger.
She screamed in the simulation.
The Kaiju managed to swoop the Jaeger off of its feet onto the bottom of the Ocean. Stepping onto the robot, the simulation Kaiju began to rip into the metal rip cage.
"Heart rate is rising."
Raleigh tilted forward, then hesitated.
"Oxygen levels fluctuating." Yancy looked up. "She's panicking in the simulator. The drift is faltering, she's losing it. Ray!"
Raleigh stepped forward, sliding his fingers underneath the neck of the suit, pressing his fingers into her skin. 'Andi?'
Inside of the drift now, he rotated controls from her mind to his own. Rotating an arm up, digging a robotic foot into the ground so that he rolled the robot and the Kaiju lost balance in the water.
"Andi?"
"Here."
"Left or Right?"
"Left." She pulled into the left hemisphere of the drift.
The two of them got up. They squared off with the alien monster when suddenly they were pulled from the Drift.
Raleigh let go of Andi and Andi rushed to remove her helmet.
Yancy was standing at the control panel with an Operations Tech.
'What the hell was that?'
'Nothing.'
'Nothing?' The tech barked. 'You just shared a Drift with only one suit. The Marshalls-'
'Don't hear about this." Andi snapped.
"The hell -"
"You tell anyone what just happened, I'm telling the Marshall about you and Katerina."
"How did you know about that?"
"You've got a very open mind, Mr. Choi."
"If I'm going to keep the secret anyway, you might as well tell me exactly what this is." He gestured to the three of them.
Andi nodded. "Fine. Jaeger bay, after classes."
"We can't just hang out in a Jaeger Bay."
"Why, cause Katerina is already expecting you there?"
The Beckett boys laughed at the look on his face.