Hi everyone, yesterday this story got over 1000 views for the first time and it is still going up rapidly! In this chapter, it is the first appearance of Cherno in this chapter! Luca is 16 now and has just taken the drift compatibility test. Thanks for reading/reviewing and I hope you enjoy this chapter!

I walk out of the test room, feeling relieved because I have been dreading this test for weeks on end and I am so thankful that it is finally over! Mako and Raleigh are waiting for me along with James and Jack Hansen. Jack didn't pass the test so he works on helping fix damaged jaegers and rebuild new ones. James did pass but he still hasn't found a co-pilot with the same physical compatibility as him.

"How did it go?" Mako asks me softly.

"Good, I think. They didn't tell me the results but they want me in the briefing room tomorrow at 8am." She nods and we all stand around awkwardly for a few minutes before Raleigh says,

"They brought Cherno back today. They finished repairing him."

"It's been awhile since they started." It's been 8 years, but I guess Cherno is difficult to find parts for, they had to fuse two jaegers together and money was probably a big part of it. "Can I go and see him?" Raleigh nods. "I think I will go see him then."

"Do you want me to come with you?" James asks.

"Not really, I think this is something I need to do alone."

"Ok." He says and off I go. I don't know whereabouts Cherno is but there is only 1 hangar and he shouldn't look too different from the pictures and I have basically every detail of him memorised.

In the hangar, I spot him immediately. You can see where he has been fused with Gipsy's remains but they have kept his iconic fists and done a pretty good job on the con pod that was basically obliterated. I notice that the fists are shaped in such a way as to form a cannon if need be and there are some twin swords on his back. The legs and torso are slightly slimmer, probably because they used Gipsy's parts for that, but all in all he look exactly like I would imagine him to be.

There is a big crowd around him because he is now the only Jaeger left from the first kaiju war and he was probably, in my opinion, the most successful Jaeger. I want to go closer and as I begin to move towards him, everyone else moves out of the way. Good, because he is technically my inheritance even though I like to think of jaegers as alive and not as objects.

I'm so close to him that if I just reach out, I will be able to touch him, but I'm afraid that if I do, he will vanish and it will all be just a dream. Eventually I reach out and place one hand on his giant metal foot. He doesn't vanish into thin air and I know now that this is real, that this is really happening.

"Hi Cherno." I whisper. I don't really know what to say. I want to say something but what do you say to a huge metal robot? "I'm Luca, you probably don't know me, but I'm your pilot's daughter." Now I feel stupid. Really stupid, because who on planet earth talks to their dead parents Jaeger? I don't really know what else to say until I remember what Mako said to me when I was really small.

"Sasha and Aleksis treated cherno like he was their son, in a way."

So if I am their daughter and was like their child then I guess we are family, in an odd way.

"I guess you're my brother then." I say and pat the metal foot. It might sound crazy but at that point I felt accepted by Cherno, like he understood who I was, and that I wasn't going to hurt him. I smiled.

"I promise, I will keep you safe." Weird thing to promise, but I felt like I needed to say it.

"Your parents would be proud." I turn and see Herc Hansen standing opposite me. He nods as I look at him and then turns and leave without another word, leaving me with Cherno and my thoughts.