#ghost rider pacific rim AU

[wazzappp]

@moosemonstrous HAPPY COMMENT DAYYYYYYYY!!!

I'm so sorry its so late. I swear this comic was fighting me every step of the way I don't think it likes being written by people that aren't you jkdslafjd

I really wanted to make something special for you because not only are you an incredible author, you are an amazing friend. Thank you for sharing your WIP's with me. Thank you for listening to my latest insane AU ideas. Thank you for sharing little parts of your life with me!!!

Your Amareyes fics are what really got me onboard that ship. I kinda knew about it and thought they were cute but your fics really made me realize the delightful POTENTIAL they have!!! You opened up a whole other avenue for something to enjoy!!

The way you encourage other people in this fandom just by interacting and sharing enthusiasm is inspiring. As someone who wasnt very involved in interacting with fandom as a whole, your behavior really helped to encourage me to reach outside my bubble and meet some of the incredible people that I know today.

So thank you thank you THANK YOU!!! For being such an amazing person, author and friend. I hope you like this little Pacific Rim AU comic!!

[cicada-candy]

Late-Night PacRim AU doodles of. Questionable Anatomy. And a random Punisher for. Idk seemed fun.

Will my PacRim!Blaze design ever be consistent?!! Tune in next time to see that the answer is probably No!!

[moosemonstrous]

Ghost Rider Pacific Rim AU - the inherent injustice of being the youngest person in any group

The Wall is nearly ready.

Amadeus likes a good wall, especially if he gets his hands on a printer and some red string. It’s good to be able to put all information in view at once – helps him organise his thoughts, or at least present them in a way that appears organised to a random observer.

“Oh, so we’re in crazy town already?” Tony sighs. “Cho, it’s not been a week.”

The Wall is nearly ready, save for a giant empty space he’d mentally labelled as OTHER PILOT. Now, Amadeus would be the first to admit he can get excited a smidge too quickly, so when he talks Tony through his and Montesi’s findings, he needs to make sure to include absolutely everything. He starts with two near-identical sets-of-four scans of the Maximoffs’ brains.

“No, no, let him talk,” Montesi pushes him into a chair. She’s got her hair up in the messiest bun Amadeus has ever seen on her, and he’s fairly sure she hasn’t meditated once since the first MEG scan came back making zero sense. He’s a great influence on everyone around him. “I triple-checked every conclusion. If this is real…”

“These were taken still in drivesuits, straight out of the Conn-Pod,” he says, tapping the highlighted area in the centre of the sagittal view. “Increased blood flow and activity in hippocampus for up to forty-five minutes after disconnecting from the hardware.”

Next: the original MRI Carter’s team took after the techs fished Reyes out of The Charger. Then, the results of the whole set of tests they took on his first day as their, ah, research participant. Montesi had the misfortune of taking the Hippocratic oath and doesn’t like the kind of language Amadeus got used to in private labs. “Six hours,” he says, pointing at the MRI, “three days,” pointing at the day-one MEG, then: “and yesterday.” He got a little carried away time-wise and didn’t image the scan onto a more user-friendly brain model, so it’s just rows and rows of electromagnetic waves in a table, with the relevant anomalies highlighted in neon green. Tony is a smart cookie; he’ll figure it out.

Smart as he is, he doesn’t really deal in meat brains. “Kid, help me out. What am I looking at? These are all pretty much the same.”

Amadeus just about manages not to clap like a proud parent. “They pretty much are!” He stretches himself across The Wall to point out the similarities in the detected anomalies: “See that? Minimal, but present activity in the frontal cortex, and constant stimulation to the hippocampus.” (Please please please don’t find something obvious I missed this is too interesting to be just. Nothing.) “Six! Days! No aneurysm! No seizures! Not even beginning stages of neuron malfunction!”

Tony pinches the bridge of his nose. “Is this another Spector?”

Amadeus is ready for that. “Nope. His history is muddled at best – we really need to get into that, by the way – but there is no prefrontal cortex dysfunction, and no damage to the anterior cingulate gyrus.” Tony sends him a truly murderous glare over his fingers. “If it was DID, or schizophrenia, or anything, we would’ve seen signs of it by now. We mapped out his brain millimetre by millimetre, alright? There isn’t another explanation, it must be–”

“Don’t say it,“ Tony warns, but Amadeus can’t help himself:

“–ghost drifting! Come on, Doc, back me up.”

Montesi clears her throat. “He’s right.” Before Amadeus can whoop in victory, she adds: “Don’t put that in writing, I have a reputation to uphold.” She straightens the lapels of her lab coat. “Reyes needs thorough monitoring. There might well be nothing on the other end of that drift.”

“Well—”

“No,” she says, already aggravated by their many, many previous discussions on the topic.

“But—”

“No,” she repeats. “Yes, something weird is going on with his brain. Yes, I think we should investigate. But we have no evidence it’s connected to that dreadful jaeger.”

“Yet!” Amadeus is distantly aware that the noise he makes resembles a dying goose. “Tony, just hear me out.”

“Give me a damn minute.”

Both Amadeus and Montesi back away from the Wall to let him inspect the scans at his leisure. Amadeus hates being evaluated in real time; what he wants is to provide supplementary information to every piece of paper Tony looks at, what he has to do is wait for him to draw his own conclusions. Even though his understanding of neurophysiology is at best intermediate, and even though it’s Amadeus who’s supposed to be the biology side of their partnership—

“Take it down a notch,” Tony tells him seriously. “You’re about to vibrate through the floor. Go grab a drink or something, I need a word with Vicky first.”

“It’s my office,” Amadeus grumbles, shoving his hands in his coat pockets.

“It’s my base,” Tony raises an eyebrow, but Amadeus knows better than to challenge him on that. “Run along, come back in fifteen. I’ll need you to walk me through the spongy bits again.”

*

Robbie thinks his spine might have turned to jelly. The wooden bench in the locker room didn’t look comfortable at first, but now he reckons he could stay on it for the rest of the shift. Or maybe the rest of his life.

It’s not the most tired he’s ever been. But it’s somewhere in the top five, for sure.

“Hey, man, that wasn’t too bad,” someone punches his shoulder. Robbie is too numb to figure out whether it was hard enough to hurt or not hard enough to register. “Have some water before you pass out.”

He accepts the plastic bottle. Briefly wishes death and suffering upon everyone who laughs when he can’t operate the screw top with his shaking hands. Finally, shoulder-puncher takes mercy on him and takes it away, then hands it back, open.

“Thanks,” he manages to mumble between sips. His bad eye is all screwy and he can still feel adrenaline pulsing in his temples like a hammer. Is he really supposed to do this every day? He doesn't know if he can find his legs before it's time to pick up Gabe.

“First day always sucks,” says the shoulder-puncher. “Brooks doesn’t normally stay on one person the whole time.”

Oh. Good. Someone else says: “I thought newbies were all air support.”

“No way, he’s too short for air support.”

“I could do air support,” Robbie frowns. He’s... not entirely sure what air support is in this context. He’s only partially convinced he’s actually forming words. Shoulder-puncher grabs the water bottle back before it slips from his fingers. “’m not. But I could.”

“Sure you could, pip-squeak,” Shoulder-puncher laughs. His accent is... familiar. Robbie tries to focus enough faculties to actually look at the guy. On his way to buff, blond, freckled like someone who hasn’t given up on a tan despite all signs indicating it isn’t meant to be. Maybe a couple of years older than Robbie. “You sound Californian.”

“East L.A.,” Robbie confirms. Shoulder-puncher points at one of his mates with a satisfied smirk and collects a bundle of Hong Kong dollars among a mix of cheering and booing.

“Grew up there before my old man got drafted,” he tells Robbie, tapping the side of his nose. “Name’s Guerro.”

The three other guys in the locker room also have names, and Robbie will be very embarrassed he can't remember them in the near future. They're training to be on the ground cover, but just as anyone else in the academy, plan to become rangers as soon as the new jaeger finally gets built.

"Brooks said--" Was that meeting classified? Robbie is too wiped out to care. "Vibranium problems. There's a delay."

"Aw, fuck that noise," probably-Kim drops down on the bench to his right. He makes an exaggerated double-take when he notices Robbie’s bad eye. "Dang, did Brooks get you in the face?"

"Accident," he shrugs.

"Make sure you see Nurse Carter, get some drops for that shit," Guerro cranes his neck to take a better look. "It's too fucking damp here, everything takes forever to heal up."

It's... nice. It's nice to have people talk to him rather than at and over him, and use a language he can mostly understand - there's some Cantonese inserts he's still getting his head around. Guerro and his friends tease him for being too-brain dead to remember the way to the barracks and express jealousy that he gets to bunk with the civilians. There's the tiny, irritating sliver wedged between his ribs that bristles at being the new kid again - always - but Robbie is truly too exhausted to pay it any mind.

Besides, comes a thought, if anyone around here is going to make ranger, it's you.

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(Thanking @cicada-candy and @rokhal for the Spector idea. Also @wazzappp for help with the science magic bc let's be real in my hands that's the best we can hope for 😌😅)

[moosemonstrous]

@cicada-candy

HIT ME

pacific rim is a climate change movie where the day is saved by the power of love, autism, and big fucking robots

[existingtm]

idk shit about pacific rim but i been eating up these au fics/art for ghost rider

[inevitably-johnlocked]

hey steph! do u have any fics where john can read minds etc ?

Hey Nonny!!

Ahhhhhh I don't know any SPECIFICALLY about telepathic John, but I do have Empath John, where he can feel emotions:

An Experiment in Empathy Series by belovedmuerto (T, 62,397 w. across 13 stories || Empath AU || Psychic John, Psychic-by-Proxy Sherlock, Empathy, Psychic Bond, Romance / Bromance) – In which John is an empath, Sherlock is Sherlock, and an epic bromance happens. In the aftermath of The Great Game, John creates an unexpected bond between himself and Sherlock. Now they have to learn how to deal with it. John is better at this than Sherlock is.

An Experiment in Apathy Series by belovedmuerto (G to E, 28,701 w. across 13 stories || Empath John, Empath-by-Proxy Sherlock, Epic Bromance Becomes Romance, Angst, Nightmares, Experiments, Trauma, Dreams) – "No man is an island, John. You less so than most." A sequel to the EiE Series, wherein John and Sherlock explore their relationship.

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And there MAY be some that got recced in the notes of my Magical Realism Where John is the Powerful One list.

I haven't read it yet nor seen the movie the universe is based upon, but I'm pretty sure Pacific Rim has some form of telepathy too:

Drift Compatible by J_Baillier (E, 130,380 w., 26 Ch. || Pacific Rim Fusion || PODFIC AVAILABLE || Alternate First Meeting, Angst, Family Drama, Accidental Telepathic Voyeurism, Martial Arts, Sci-Fi, Internalised Homophobia, Rubbish Siblings, Army Doctor John, Medical H/C, Bullying, Neurodiversity, PTSD, Drug Use, Depression, Mourning, Adventure, Hurt/Comfort, UST/URT) – A washed out war hero struggling with his past. A prodigy who wants nothing to do with his family legacy. Both are looking for something—and someone—worth fighting for in a world where human civilisation is constantly under threat.

And I found these additional ones tagged in on my MFL list:

Wanted: Empath by nutmeag83 (T, 4,886 w., 1 Ch. || Supernatural Elements AU || Empath John, Ghost Hunter Sherlock, Halloween, Haunted Houses, Pining John, Resolved Romantic Tension, Friends to Lovers) – Sherlock is a ghost hunter and John his empath assistant. Near Halloween, they investigate a ghostly sighting at a mansion in the English countryside. The events of their investigation bring their feelings for each other to the fore.

So True a Fool by ladyxdarcy (M, 4,963 w., 1 Ch. || Soulmates AU || Post-ASiB/Pre-THoB, Suicidal Thoughts, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Bisexual John, Internalized Homophobia, Implied/Referenced Homophobia, Sick Sherlock, Fluff and Angst, Angst with Happy Ending, Mild Telepathy, Friends to Lovers, Mutual Pining, Idiots in Love) – Every pair of soulmates has one listener and one speaker. It is the listener's job to find the speaker and embrace their bond. John knew the instant he heard the strange man's voice that he was his soulmate, but never reveals the truth, resulting in severe consequences. (Based on this prompt)

Deleted Files by oh_my_stars_and_sky (T, 16,436 w., 13 Ch. || Romance, Telepathy, Friends to Lovers, Bisexual John) – Whenever Sherlock deletes something from his mind, it appears in John's. Part 1 of Deleted Files

Those Who Dream Of The Sky by Berty (T, 17,978 w., 1 Ch. || Fantasy / Dragon AU || Dragon Sherlock, Soul Bond, Telepathic Bond, Friendship / Love, Dragon Riders) – The stories say that dragons were once the defenders of good and peacekeepers of the skies. They say that the people of Beron and the people of Pharo had a bond, a link that allowed these incredible creatures to move among humans, and that for generations, children were fostered between families where they might find these partners. But times had changed. For centuries now there had been no dragons and they had become the stuff of myth. Dragons were stories for winter nights; wild and wise, fierce and free, something from another age. So when a young Pharon asks to be hosted by a Berond family, some are wary. These are strange days and rumours abound. But John Watson's family have a long tradition of respect and old-fashioned pride in the tales that say that their family once produced some of the strongest partnerships from the legends. Sherlock Holmes has heard these tales and his research has brought him here to see if there is any truth in them. Because the east wind is coming. And it has wings.

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Anyone have any other Telepathy fics?

[moosemonstrous]

@rokhal

It's your fault I have Guero feels btw 😂 I imagine he's not super great at drifting - enough to pilot, but it takes a lot out of him - because he's just not that close to anyone. So connecting to Eli was like being swept up by a goddamn tsunami. He had no control, no way out, none of the powerful feeling being in the jaeger usually gives him. And then Robbie stepped in and just. Took over, like it was nothing, and how is that fair? How is he able to pilot solo? And what the fuck was all that gore in his head. Seriously, you see some shit growing up in a world regularly attacked by giant monsters, but whatever Reyes was up to before joining the program was just. On a completely other level. (That's Eli's memories, ofc, but not like Guero can tell the difference.) He's invested way too much social capital into hating the new kid though, and can't show that he's plain old scared shitless of him now, especially when he's stuck in a wheelchair until Cho gets around to his spinal surgery.

So when Cho stops crying about his nosebleed for long enough to ask: "What did you see?" Guero figures he might as well tell him. Because Ivanov might be a slimy bastard, but what if he knows something they don't? Maybe it would be better to get rid of Reyes before he goes off the deep end.

Reyes, who grudgingly helps him sort out the wheelchair for his height, and Guero doesn't accept pity, but his back sure feels better. And everyone knows Ivanov is a pig, none of the old guys trust him worth a damn, and. Well. What's Guero Valdez supposed to do about any of this?

I'm imagining, in @moosemonstrous Pacific Rim/ANGR fusion, a scenario where the Drift goes wrong (this sounds like the kind of story where the Drift is ALWAYS going wrong for Robbie but I mean wronger than usual) and they like. Can't unplug him.

Robbie is too mentally tangled up in the Jaeger and can't find his way back because Eli is trying to hijack his meat body but it's not working, they're both stuck, and Amadeus Cho and the other eggheads are trying to figure out how to get Robbie extracted when THERE'S NOBODY ELSE IN THE MACHINE, HOW IS THIS HAPPENING and Ivanov is trying to get the higher-ups to tell them to just let Robbie die and Guero is like oh this makes sense actually.

[flyguy]

The Six Inch Show - Star Wars Black Series, Marvel Legends & More. Episode 02 #t6is

A busy week for Myself and Matt with SDCC 2017 going down. That means new toys from Star Wars Black Series, Marvel Legends, Bandai, Pacific Rim and more. We show on screen all the latest news and developments for six inch out of the biggest geek event on the planet.

A big thanks to all those who watched and supported our first show, very grateful to kick things off to such a great start. *Please note the audio in this episode has  echo for the last 10-15 mns, apologies, nothing we could do : (

NEWS -Star Wars

Gree 20% off in AU http://www.flyguy.net/post/163271696967/star-wars-black-series-commander-gree-6-inch-in Also hit canada, YUS sold out in less than an hour. No sign of UK yet? Likely far more in stores soon in US.

Hasbro Preview Night http://www.flyguy.net/post/163197131287/new-sculpts-amazing-dioramas-hasbro-black-series

New images and Details on Landspeeder (deco and flaps are SDCC exclusive otherwise the same) http://www.flyguy.net/post/163172466957/new-images-details-for-star-wars-the-black

Details on Thrawn http://www.flyguy.net/post/163172237152/new-hi-res-pic-of-star-wars-the-black-series

Details on Luke & Rey  http://www.flyguy.net/post/163171679047/hi-res-images-of-star-wars-the-black-series-6-two

Image By Image Of Hasbro SW Panel https://photos.app.goo.gl/9xBRVmZbCmEOHTnO2

Hasbro panel video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQzM5J480Y0&t=1s  Covers Rebel Soldier, Captain Rex, General Leia, Maz Kanata, Jaina Solo

Dewback and Sandtrooper https://www.instagram.com/p/BW07T4El8Au/?taken-by=starwarstheblackseries

SDCC tamashii nations boba fett prototype http://news.toyark.com/2017/07/13/early-look-sdcc-movie-realization-prototype-boba-fett-hand-gallery-259269

Lost Among SDCC Noise, Star Wars Bandai Tamashii Nations Movie Realization Shadow Trooper Was Previewed…  http://www.flyguy.net/post/163322874237/lost-among-sdcc-noise-star-wars-bandai-tamashii

NEWS-Marvel Legends & Other 6 Inch

Marvel image by image panel https://photos.app.goo.gl/1shpChvRzp0ydGOG2

Marvel Legends re-releasing classic figures in the ‘vintage’ Toy Biz packages https://www.instagram.com/p/BWy2iG2Bgs9/?taken-by=toytribe & http://news.toyark.com/2017/07/22/sdcc-2017-gallery-hasbro-marvel-saturday-update-264107

Full Marvel Panel video image by image https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M06D-38BNQ&t=152s

Close ups http://www.flyguy.net/post/163273952392/gwen-pool-spider-punk-ghost-rider-with-bike

Marvel Close ups http://news.toyark.com/2017/07/20/sdcc-2017-gallery-hasbro-marvel-update-261427

More Marvel close ups Defenders and more http://news.toyark.com/2017/07/22/sdcc-2017-gallery-hasbro-post-panel-marvel-display-update-264227

Mini Arcade cabinets on ebay and they look awesome, all work with the scale of your six inch figures https://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?ff3=4&toolid=11800&pub=5575308745&campid=5338104795&mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fsch%2Fbonsai_master05%2Fm.html%3FisRefine%3Dtrue%26_nkw%3D%26_armrs%3D1%26_ipg%3D%26_from%3D%26_mwBanner%3D1

Pacific Rim uprising figures by Bandai http://amzn.to/2uomVd4

Medicom mafex Justice League http://news.toyark.com/2017/07/20/sdcc-2017-gallery-medicom-mafex-justice-league-261926

Follow Matt on https://www.instagram.com/starwarstheblackseries & on Twitter: http://twitter.com/swblackseries and follow FLYGUY here on http://www.flyguy.net/social-media

[mysteryideasgroup]

Msa x FNF SB AU of FNAF SB Security Breach part 1

Msa x Scooby Doo and Scooby Doo Animated Movies part 2

I love Scooby Doo Animated Movies

Scooby Doo on Zombie Island and Scooby Doo Return of Zombie Island, Scooby Doo and the Witch's Ghost, Scooby Doo and the Cyber Chase, Scooby Doo Camp Scare, Scooby Doo and the Samurai Sword, Scooby Doo Shaggy's Showdown, Big Top Scooby Doo, Aloha Scooby Doo, Scooby Doo and the Monster in Mexico, and the other moves, Scooby Doo and the KISS, Scooby Doo and the WWE and WWE race, Moon Mystery Madness, Scooby Doo and the Legend of the Vampire

Msa x Steven Universe, The Movie and The Future part 3

Msa x Epic Mickey part 4

Msa x Tmnt 2012 part 5

Msa x Coraline part 6

Msa x Disney Incredibles part 7

Msa x Disney Coco part 8

Msa x Legend Quest/La Leyenda/Las Leyendas part 9

Msa x The Owl House part 10

Msa x Amphibia part 11

Msa x Sonic the Hedgehog movie and 2 part 12

Msa x Batim and Batdr part 13

Msa x The Book of Life part 14

Msa x Maya and The Three part 15

Msa x TLT The Living Tombstone part 16

Msa x Kingdom Hearts part 17

Msa x Demon Slayer DS Kimetsu no Yaiba KNY part 18

Msa x My Hero Academia MHA Boku no Hero Academia BNHA part 19

Msa x Disney and Pixar movies others movies

Msa x Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Teletoon, Anime movies and TV shows series

Msa x Turning Red

Msa x Danny Phantom

Msa x Around the Clock at Mystery Skulls - AtCaMS

Msa x TR Tomb Raider series games

Msa x Salma's Big Wish

Msa x Catalina la Catrina

Msa x Ghost Rider

Msa x Ben 10

Msa x Generator Rex

Msa x Samurai Jack

Msa x Motorcity

Msa x Luigi's Mansion Games series (1, 2: Dark Moon, 3)

Msa x Gravity Falls

Msa x Mega XLR

Msa x Mech-X4

Msa x Pacific Rim AU

Msa x Atlantic Rim AU

Msa x Ghostbusters

Msa x Voltron

Msa x Power Rangers

Msa x Real Steel

Msa x Kim Possible

Msa x American Dragon: Jake Long

Msa x MCU Marvel Universe

Msa x Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse

Msa into the Skulls Verse

Msa x Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'hoole

Msa x Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja

Msa x Ninjago

Msa x Big Fish games and Mad Heads games Hidden Objects games of horror games

Msa x Sonic the Hedgehog

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For @laurasanchez36

My ideas AUs Alternate Universes Crossovers

All belongs to my msa ocs sonas Teams Groups Gangs Squads Crews and my new msa ocs sonas Teams Groups Gangs Squads Crews

All belongs to her msa ocs sonas Teams Groups Gangs Squads Crews and her new msa ocs sonas Teams Groups Gangs Squads Crews

My Idea crossover au stories

Mystery Skulls Animated x FNAF: Security Breach AU

The Love Story of Stuart and June

The Adventures of Muffet Pepper

Mystery Skulls Animated x Paranorman AU

Mystery Skulls Animated x Coraline AU

Mystery Skulls Animated x Spongebob the Movie AU

Stuart the Adventure Boy's Origin

Mystery Skulls Animated x Sackboy: A Big Adventure AU

Mystery Skulls Animated x Descendants AU

Brian Graves' Day Off

Magnus Neutron's Wild Adventures

Mystery Skulls Animated x TMNT 2012 AU

The Adoptive Daughter of Sundrop

Mystery Skulls Animated x Scooby Doo AU

Mystery Skulls Animated x Epic Mickey AU

Mystery Skulls Animated x Steven Universe AU

Frieda Lee's Survival Adventures

Mystery Skulls Animated x Frozen AU

Mystery Skulls Animated x Happily Never After AU

Mystery Skulls Animated x Disney's Incredibles AU

[cicada-candy]

Jaegers, and their Rangers

Coyote Tango; Capt. Carol Danvers and Capt. Maria Rambeau

first of the rangers done woo

i was going to do the Jaegers for all of them but that is So Much Work. So im just gonna do the AU specific jaegers instead

(i.e. Zarathos, Hell Charger, Iron Spider, Moon Knight, Widow Maker and Maybe the Winona Ryder. i am swinging wildly on whether or not i like that one adsdsdffdsfd)

[moosemonstrous]

Ghost Rider Pacific Rim AU - bottle it up

“Oh Lord, he’s twelve,” Maria mutters under her breath. Carol elbows her in the side. “I didn’t know he was an actual child!”

“He’s nearly nineteen,” she says and immediately winces. Maria’s eyebrows travel all the way to her hairline. “Shut up.”

“Nearly nineteen? And you signed off on this?”

“We were both his age when we joined up.”

“Yeah, to a boot camp! Not to punch demons in the face!”

Carol refuses to sound like a middle-aged man defending his choice of a date. “Don’t make it weird.”

“It’s already weird!” Maria lowers her voice when Ivanov gives them an unimpressed look from across the control room. “It is! And even if he wasn’t barely legal, remember what happened with Spector?”

Carol smiles at Scott, who hates when people are whispering around him because God forbid anyone has a conversation that doesn’t directly involve him. Which is kind of a mean thing to think about a co-worker, but someone cleared out the fridge in the rangers’ quarters and Carol isn’t getting her yoghurts back until the next shipment comes in. Shatterdome catering isn’t big on dairy.

“Victoria said there are no indications in his scans,” she says as quietly as she can without actually whispering.

“Well, there are no indications Maximoff is a dick, and we all know the truth about that.”

“Maria!”

“Captains,” Ivanov clears his throat. “I see you are ready to join the discussion.”

“Aren’t you going to introduce the new guy?” Carol can hear Maria bite her tongue on ‘kid’. This is why she never comes along to the strategy meetings.

And this one is a lot more crowded than usual. Tony thinks they’re on the brink of seeing a Cat-5, so ever since the destruction of Horizon Bravo it’s all hands on deck, every time. They have a full complement of comm and monitoring officers at every available station, instead of the usual skeleton crew. With their newest addition comes Amadeus, even though he has a history of being kicked out for being disruptive. All the excitement of the last few days must have gotten to him, though, because he’s merely scrolling through the news feeds rather than actively winding up the Romeos.

Who are standing on opposite sides of the room and very obviously not on speaking terms. Great. Hopefully the prospect of hazing the new guy will unite them before go time.

“This is Robbie Reyes, joining us with Hell Charger,” Ivanov says. Reyes stands next to him like it’s taking his entire spine not to hide under the table. “Which is why we need to talk tactics, if you’re quite ready.”

The thing is, the Hong Kong jaegers got pretty good at figuring things out as they’ve gone along. They might not all have liked each other, but they were a good team. Only Qi and Qiao are no more, and the whole debacle with core replacements grounded the triplets for the second demon in a row. They can’t have a rotation, they don’t have enough firepower, and now they are getting a solo pilot who should, as the kids say, be at the club instead. Everyone around Carol is getting younger and more fragile by the second, and it’s starting to feel like she has an expiration date.

Or maybe she’s just grumpy because Clint hasn’t even tried to pretend he isn’t hiding something when they spoke. Or because she doesn’t like Tony messing with a tried and tested formula again, like every previous attempt didn’t end in tears. Or because Ivanov has always been so damn careful, it puts her on edge when he starts to take stupid risks like this. Or because she didn’t tell Maria exactly how young Reyes was, because she knows it’s too young and has no idea what to do about it-- Take a pick, apparently.

Maria silently squeezes her elbow.

“We are at T plus five hours, and the lookout confirmed the demon is heading west of the Breach.” Ivanov points to the screen showing air footage of a trail of bubbles on the surface of the ocean. The screen below is a heat signature – a big one. “Our readings show a category four, two and a half thousand feet. Special properties as of yet unknown, but Miss Grey is monitoring for any tells.”

Jean waves a hand from over her station. “The press already have a name, Razorback,” she says, never taking her eyes off the reports coming in. “A private underwater drone recorded an extended lumbar vertebrae.”

Pietro chuckles. “The devil works fast, but the press works faster.”

“That’s no way to refer to Miss Walters, Corporal.”

“Could really use Typhoon with this one,” Alex huffs in the general direction of the Weis. The triplets all shrug simultaneously – what can you do? Crimson Typhoon is one of the oldest jaegers still going, so it was naturally the first candidate for extensive repairs. “And now we have an experimental rookie to watch out for.”

“He has you beat at sim scores, Summers B,” Amadeus points out. “Although I guess that’s not hard.”

To his credit, Alex doesn’t lose his temper immediately. “Who invited the nerd again?”

“He’s here to monitor Hell Charger’s output,” Ivanov says.

“And Major Brooks’s recommendation is that Mr Reyes stands back to guard the Miracle Mile while Coyote Tango, Romeo Blue and Eden Assassin take on the demon.” Uh oh, Amadeus is using proper titles. “So this last-minute switch-up nonsense puzzles me a little, Colonel.”

“Merely a proposal. Put forward by Corporal Maximoff, to give proper credit.”

“As a joke,” Wanda cuts in. Pietro doesn’t deny it, which means it probably wasn't and he’s using his sister to get out of having to admit it's a terrible idea. “Assassin doesn’t do well with small targets.”

Ivanov wasn’t really going to put them on beastie defence, was he? Stuck between the Colonel and Cho, Reyes seems to alternate between wanting to shrink and puff up. With that eye still bruised – it’s really taking an awful long to heal – he looks like someone beat him up behind the bleachers. When Carol glances at Maria, she can already tell what’s on her mind. “No,” she hisses.

“What? I didn’t say anything.”

Ivanov is clearly sick of the chatting. “Do you have a suggestion, Captain Danvers?”

Carol shoots Maria one last look before turning to the Colonel. “Just that we should stick with Eric’s plan. Hell Charger is still largely untested.” And you can’t hit the kill switch outside of a five hundred mile radius, but she’s not going to be the one to mention it out loud. “I’ve seen Reyes wipe the floor with the recruits, I’m sure he can handle the vermin.”

Oh god, is he blushing? Carol just knows the next family dinner will have a new guest. And when Maria hears about the baby brother, too...

Jean raises her hand to get everyone’s attention. “It’s emerging,” she says. “Changed course towards Taipei. Fourteen hours until contact, Khatyrka confirms they are standing back.”

“We better get ahead of it, then.” Fourteen hours always sounds longer than it really is when you account for final checks and transport times. “Eden Assassin on point, us and Romeo Blue on flanks?”

Maybe because they have a rookie on board, or maybe to get it all over with, for once nobody tries to argue just for the sake of it. Ivanov brings up the map of the Philippine Sea onto the table screen to pin locations down and each team’s respective air support officer descends around it to sort out the logistics.

As the rangers start filing out to get their kit going, Carol can’t help but notice that Reyes seems to be meeting his ASO for the first time. She stays back to watch him for a moment – she can’t imagine getting into a jaeger on her own. It’s better that he’s nervous rather than cocky–

Then, Ivanov puts a hand on the kid’s shoulder, and just for a moment his expression changes from mildly confused to positively murderous.

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this started as a completely different thing but yk what. Not Complaining.

I ended up slapping a bunch of orange-y overlays on right at the end bcs the original ^^^ looked kinda cold n weird but in the end i think the difference is so minimal that I dont even know if it was necessary ajksdlajsdlsk

and heres the sketch and flats bcs im posting them on instagram so i might asw put them here too ashdklasdsl

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If you're still doing art asks. A smidgen of your pacific rim Johnny? O-O

Prepare thyself for battle... ✨️In style✨️

This has given me a Mighty Need to draw more pacrim stuff,,,, hmm

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*Glass breaking, Car alarms going off, General chaos*

I Am So Normal And Chill About This AU guys seriously ":D

banged the first one out in like an hour immediately after reading it and then right as i was gonna post-and-go-to-bed decided to make the other version ashajkgsdhfa

textless versions under the cut:

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@moosemonstrous LMAO OOPS

I know i said an hour but it seems my Internet is consipring against me with this Light Breeze and decided to crap itself to death right as a tried to post fheuasjfhlkas

will rb with textual thoughts soon if my wifi BEHAVES

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Studying is going!! So well!!

Oh, wait.

No.

No its not.