An aircraft flies over a bay, and towards a large HQ.

PPDC PILOT ACADEMY

MOYULAN SHATTERDOME

CHINA

The aircraft's thrusters on the wings flip sideways and the aircraft came down a landing. And soon, the back hanger lowers down.

"Yeah. Look, I didn't have a choice." Jake said.

"I know I get it, but why me?" Amara asked. "Why do they want me for the program?"

"You built and piloted your own Jaeger." Jake said. "These people like that kind of stuff."

"So then why am I just a cadet and you all get to be a ranger?" Amara asked.

"Hey, don't look at us." Rainbow said. "We don't even know."

And then there were loud footsteps, and then a red and bronze color Jaeger pass by.

"Valor Omega." Amara watched the Jaeger. "Oh, my God, that-that is Valor Omega."

And then, 2 aircrafts lowered down airlifting Scrapper.

"Scrapper." Said Amara.

Then the cables holding Scrapper released the pint sized Jaeger to the ground. But then it started tilted forward, and then fell to the ground face first.

"Ooh!" Rainbow winced.

"Hey!" Amara called in a half annoyed tone.

Then a young man named Nate Lambert approached then.

"You gotta be kidding me." Said Nate. "I didn't believe it when they told me you were inbound."

"How you doing, Nate?" Jake asked.

"It's Ranger Lambert." Nate corrected.

"Yeah, with love." Jake said.

"Well, this is a military base. You remember how that works." Nate said. "Ranger Pentecost."

Amara and the Mane 7 turned to Jake.

Nate then turned to Amara and the Mane 7. "And you must be Amara Namani."

"Yes sir. Ranger, sir." Amara said.

"I take it that your Twilight Sparkle." Nate turns to her.

"Yes, Ranger." Twilight said. "And this is-"

"Don't worry, I know who your friends are." Nate said. "Let's get you squared away." And then turns and walks off. "Oh, and, uh, try not to steal anything while you're here."

And they begin to follow him.

"Did that haircut just call you Pentecost?" Amara asked. "As in "Bad ass Stacker Pentecost"? Pilot of Coyote Tango, hero of basically the whole world?"

"It's just a name." Jake said.

"Yeah, really cool name." Amara pointed.

"It also didn't took me long to realized who you and your friends were." Jake said to Twilight.

And they headed across the hanger.

"Simtraining starts at 0600." Said Nate. "If you are late, you miss the day. You fall behind, you'll be on the next transport back to wherever they found you."

Then Amara noticed a Jaeger. "That's Titan Redeemer."

Titan Redeemer is a dark green Jaeger, and instead of a left hand. Redeemer is armed with a spiked mace.

"Whoa." Rainbow in awe.

"And Bracer Phoenix." Amara noticed another Jaeger.

Bracer Phoenix is in a lighter shade of green from Redeemer, and has shoulder pads. And a cockpit with 2 guns that can rotate to the front and back.

"She's a 3 man rig." Amara said.

"Wow, that is cool." Spike said.

"Saber Athena. I love Saber Athena." Amara turns to another.

Saber Athena is orange, and in more of a slick design than other Jaegers.

"Now that's a fashionable design." Rarity looks at it.

"She's the fastest Jaeger in the fleet." Amara said. "Did you know that?"

"Warning: stay clear of lift."

"Kay, which one is yours?" Amara asked.

They then stopped.

"Gipsy." Nate said.

And standing before them, is a blue color Jaeger with 2 turbines on the chest. One is bigger then the lower one. It happens to be the descendant of Gipsy Danger herself.

Gipsy Avenger.

"Gipsy?" Rainbow wondered. "As in, Gipsy Danger?"

"Whoa!" Twilight beamed.

"You pilot Gipsy Avenger?" Amara asked.

"He used to." Said a voice.

They turned and a young woman approached them.

"Until his co-pilot got a better offer in the private sector." She said. "Jules Reyes, J-Tech."

"Amara, cadet." Amara shook her hand.

Jules moves over to Jake.

"Jake." He said shaking her hand. "Ranger, apparently."

"Heard a lot about you, Pentecost." Said Jules.

"Yeah." Jake said.

"You know you still hold the record." Jules said.

Amara leaned in. "What record?"

"Shut up." Jake glanced at her.

I assume that your Ms. Sparkle." Jules turns to Twilight.

"Uh, yes, but Twilight is fine." Said Twilight.

"I've heard about you and your friends." Jules said. "Welcome back."

"Thanks." Twilight said

She then turns back to Jake."So how did they lure you back? I mean it couldn't have been the pay.

"Oh yes, it's a long story, but if you want to talk about it, then we can meet up..."

"She's busy." Nate cut in.

And then Jules walks away.

"Eyes front, Pentecost." Nate said.

And they headed out.

Meanwhile, inside a quarter. Were a group of cadets, and at the moment 2 of them were Renata and Suresh in a combat fit.

Suresh blocks a fist, but Renata soon got him in the face.

"Come on, Renata, not the face." Suresh complained.

"Sorry man." Renata said apologetic and then slaps him in the face.

That really got Suresh mad. And Renata laughed as they fought.

Meanwhile, Llya and another cadet were playing a card game.

"I raise you, 2 shower chips." the cadet made a bet.

"Fold, Llya." Said a cadet named Ou-Yang Jinhai doing pull up on the bed. "You need all the showers you can getting there."

"I have a musk." Llya turned to him. "What you smell is musk."

A cadet name Ryoichi on a top bunk was reading, and then he saw the door opening as Nate walks in.

"Ranger on deck." He called.

The other cadets quickly stood by.

"Cadets, this is Amara Namani." Nate said. "She will be joining you in sim training right and early." He then gestures Jake and Twilight and Rainbow. "And this is ranger Pentecost. And ranger Sparkle and Dash. They'll be helping me instruct you until I can find a new co-pilot to replace Ranger Burke. Anything you like to add?"

They remained silent.

"Nothing you want to hear." Jake said.

Nate turns back to the cadets. "Malikova, get Namani squared in and prepped for training."

"Yes, sir." Said Viktoriya.

"As you were." Nate and then heads out with Jake, Twilight and Rainbow.

"Pentecost." Said Ryoichi in amazement. "We're gonna be trained by a Pentecost."

"So? Not like he was the one who died helping close the breach." Viktoriya said. "He's never been in an combat."

Viktoriya then heads over to a Jaeger simulator, and then Amara approaches her.

"Uh, hey." Amara said. "So, where should I..."

"Heard you built your own real Jaeger." Viktoriya said.

"Yeah, actually Scrapper." Amara said. "I operated her too, with this solo unit..."

"If you want to put junk together, be a mechanic. Moyulan is for pilots."

"Hey, come on." Jinhai approached her. "I got you." He helped her with her bag.

"Thanks." Amara said.

"Jinhai. Ou-Yang Jinhai." He introduced. "So you and Vik, already buddies huh?"

"Vik?" Amara questioned.

"It's short for Viktoriya." Suresh said. "But you don't wanna call her that."

"Yo, what's her problem?" Amara turns back to Jinhai.

"Took her 3 shots to pass the entrance test." Renata said.

"Yeah, don't think she likes how you landed here." Jinhai said.

"Hey, it's not my fault." Amara said. "Recruiters never come around back home."

"Hey. Do you know any Russian?" Jinhai asked.

"No." Amara shook her head.

"I'll teach you some." Jinhai said. "Calms her down. Come on, let's get you squared away."

Meanwhile, Jake enters a hanger.

And then noticed a ranger jacket.

A Category 4 Crab like Kaiju attacks a city, and then Titan Redeemer appears and then launches it's heavy mace but it deflects of the Kaiju's armor.

Redeemer attempts to punch, but the Kaiju caught the wrist. And then hits the left shoulder.

Inside the cockpit, Amara and Suresh were fighting it.

"We need to reconnect." Suresh said as the Neural Handshake was weaken.

"I know! I'm trying!" Amara said.

And then the Kaiju attacks the head of the Jaeger, and then everything went dark.

And then the light turn back on.

"MAGLEV deactivated."

"I just can't get this." Amara said.

"That sucked." Suresh said.

"Drift simulation terminated."

As it turns out, the entire event was a simulator. And then the gate doors opened as everyone was there. And a screen showed that they both failed.

"You know, when I heard you gave November Ajax a run for his money." Nate said. "I thought we might have something here. Now I'm not so sure."

Amara removes her helmet. "How am I supposed to drift in this thing? It smells like feet."

"Says the girl who piloted a pint sized Jaeger." Rainbow leaned and whispered to Twilight.

"I didn't ask for excuses, cadet." Nate said.

"You put her up against Kaiju that almost killed veteran pilots." Jake said. "Doesn't make any sense."

"Well maybe, she is not the only one who doesn't belong here." Nate turned to Jake.

"Feisty alert." Pinkie whispered to Applejack and Rainbow.

Jake turns to Nate. "Wow. See Nate, I know you have a problem with me, but come on, she's just a kid."

"So were we. That's the point." Nate said. "You make stronger connections when you're young. And that kind of bond makes a better drift pilot."

"Yeah, I remember the pitch." Jake said and patted Nate on his shoulder. "Thanks." And he walks away.

"Ryoichi, Renata, you're up." Nate called to them. "Show our new recruit how it's done."

Later that day, at sunset, Jake was in the kitchen and opens a fridge.

He digs in the fridge and grabs a bottle of whip cream. And then a jar of sauce.

"What the hell are you wearing?" Jake turns and saw Nate and Twilight.

Jake glanced at the rode he was wearing. "Jules loves it. Yeah she told me it's nice to finally have someone with style around here. Can't blame a girl. I'm sassy." He then holds out a beer bottle. "Want a drink?"

"Sure." Nate said and went up the table and Jake hands him a bottle. "Thanks. Ice cream's on top."

"Yes." Jake said and went to the freezer and brought out a tube of vanilla ice cream.

"So one more time around, huh?" Said Nate. "Prove your old man wrong?"

"No, I just came back to see if your chin implant ever settled in." Jake said.

"Well, I think it settled in quite nicely." Nate said.

"Yeah, it's very commanding. Kids must love it."

"That I won't ask about it." Twilight said.

"Jake. These kids, they look up to us." Nate said.

Jake took a bite of ice cream. "Mm-hmm." He nodded.

"We gotta show them that we can work together." Nate said.

"Well... the war ended 10 years ago." Jake said. "You might just need to let that go. Just whoosha..."

"After you understand, you gotta make your..."

Jake cuts him off by adding whip cream to his ice cream.

"You ha-"

Jake cuts him off again.

Nate raised a brow, and Jake finishes adding whip cream.

"Really?" Twilight said raising a brow.

"Sorry, me." Jake said.

"You have to understand your enemy's objective to know you how defeated them." Nate said. "We still don't."

"No, I can help you out with that." Jake said. "See I'm thinking it has something to do with them sending giant monsters to kick the crap out of us."

"No, no, the Precursors won't send Kaiju to flatten a few cities if they were trying to wipe us all out." Nate said.

"Wait, are you saying there's more to them then sending Kaiju?" Twilight asked.

"Possibly." Nate answered.

"Look, Nate, I don't have a problem with you man, but I had to make a choice." Jake said grabbing a container of sprinkles. "It was between your pretty face and prison, I choose your pretty face." He patted the container at Nate's chest and moves back over to his bowl.

"Oh, Well, I'm touched." Nate said sarcastically. "And how many dam toppings do you need?"

"Leave my toppings be man." Jake warned. "Don't mess with my dam toppings."

"You should see Pinkie." Twilight said. "She can be crazy with ice cream toppings."

"I heard that!" Pinkie's voice yelled.

Jake adds sprinkles on his ice cream. "So the cadets got like what? Couple of months before they graduate?"

"6." Nate corrected.

"Okay. I tell you what." Jake said. "Every time you want to say something soldiery to them, I'll just nod or like "Yep, what he said". Then before you know it, they get to be pilots. And I get back to my life."

"Great!" Nate said.

"Boom." Jake and eats a handful of sprinkles.

"It may happen sooner then you think." Nate said.

"How so?" Jake asked.

"Big dog and pony show tomorrow." Nate explained. "SHAO and her team are presenting this new drone program they have. Could make us all obsolete."

"Sounds like my get out of jail free card." Jake said and took a sip of his drink and walks off.

"You know, you confront all you want... but you and I both know you could have been great." Nate said and walks off.

Twilight soon leaves, and Jake stood there for a moment. And then he took a bite of his ice cream.

Author's Note:

When I first saw Pacific Rim: Uprising.

I was not expecting Karan Brar to be in it, I didn't see that coming.