"Hell yeah," he said with a wicked grin through the clear pane of his helmet. "Let's send this squid-monster packing. In a bento box."

Their jaeger was called the Shell Raiser, a turtle-like Jaeger with heavy armor that his younger brother had insisted on naming. Due to the fact Raph Becket and his other brother, his copilot Leo, were so damn good they'd let them actually use the name. It had made operations easier, anyway, since the two of them refused to use any other name on the comms.

They'd seen it as good luck to have Mikey christen the thing.

That luck, however, hadn't lasted. Raph had seen Leo die, felt it, and because of it, he thought he'd never find someone else to pilot with again. He'd walked away from the program altogether.

Until Stacker Pentecost had dragged him back in and he'd met Nico Mori. Then everything had changed.

This was their first time going up against a kaiju together, and the first time he'd be facing one after losing Leo, but he couldn't have been more confident about it with Nico at his side.

She was the one. After thinking he'd never find someone else again she was the one and now the Shell Raiser was back in action.