"All these years, I've been living in the past, never really thought about the future until now. I never did have good timing."
—Raleigh Becket[2]
"Ready to step into my head, kid?"
—Yancy to Raleigh[6]
"We're not going anywhere! Now, you and I are the only thing standing between that ugly bastard and a city of ten million people. Now we have a choice here: we either sit and wait, or we take these flare guns and do something really stupid!"
—Herc Hansen[1]
As for you, well you're easy: you’re an egotistical jerk with daddy issues, a simple puzzle I solved on day one. But you are your father’s son. So we'll Drift just fine."
—Stacker Pentecost to Chuck
"Today, today… at the edge of our hope, at the end of our time, we've chosen not only to believe in ourselves but in each other. Today, there’s not a man nor woman in here that shall stand alone. Not today. Today we face the monsters that are at our door and bring the fight to them! Today, we are cancelling the apocalypse!"
—Pentecost
"There are things you can't fight - acts of God. You see a hurricane coming, you get out of the way. But when you're in a Jaeger, suddenly, you can fight the hurricane. You can win!"
—Raleigh Becket[1]
"I'd like to tell you I took a moment to notice how beautiful the city was that morning... but I didn't... I had no idea it would be my last chance."
—Tendo Choi
"Numbers do not lie. Politics and poetry and promises, these are lies. Numbers are as close as we get to the handwriting of God."
—Hermann to Pentecost[5]
"For my family!"
—Mako before she and Raleigh kill Otachi[6][note 1]
"Now tell me what you want...before I gut you like a pig and feed you to the skin louse."
—Hannibal Chau to Newton Geiszler [1]
"Thundercloud Formation!"
-Wei Triplets
"Fortune favors the brave, dude."
—Newton to Hermann[7]
"Let's get this bastard!"
-Sasha Kaidonovsky
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Twilight Sparkle, the newest alicorn princess, is now moving in the shelves of the Golden Oaks Library, the official library of Ponyville and her home. With her was her assistant, the dragon Spike. They were looking for a book for her to read.
"Hey Spike! Do you find anything?" Twilight asked her assistant.
"Not yet Twilight. Heck, I think we should somepony to help us." Spike suggested. He was still searching the shelves, when he found something.
"Hey Twilight! Look at this!" Spike exclaimed, getting the attention of Twilight.
"What you got there?" Twilight asked. When she trotted towards him, she could see he was holding a very metallic box.
"Do you know this Twilight?" Spike asked Twilight, and she just shook her head, meaning it's a 'no'. However, when they look at it a little bit closer, they could a symbol of something and a red button.
"What does it mean?" Spike asked. Reluctantly, Twilight got her hoof to the button, and in seconds, a screen appeared. The screen showed a very peculiar map of Ponyville, including those four green dots, dubbed as Gipsy Danger, Striker Eureka, Cherno Alpha and Crimson Typhoon. They are 40 miles away from Ponyville, but she still wondered, what are those names? Did somepony know them? She must tell this to her mentor, Princess Celestia, Princess of Day and the Sun.
"Hey Spike, give me my quill and paper, I will need to write this." Twilight said to her number one assistant.
"Okay." Spike replied as he hurried to get what Twilight requested. What they don't know, is that they will have a very big surprise. A very, very, very, very big surprise.
-Location: 40 miles from Ponyville-
Inside the mountain 40 miles from Ponyville lies four Jaegers, Gipsy Danger, an American Mark III Jaeger, Striker Eureka, an Australian Mark V Jaeger(and the only in existance), Cherno Alpha, a Russian Mark I Jaeger(for some a Mark IV), and Crimson Typhoon, a Chinese Mark IV Jaeger. But outside of the hulking metal beasts, lies the 7 Rangers, Stacker Pentecost, Chuck Hansen, the Kaidonovsky couples and the Wei Triplets. They are still wearing their Jaeger control suits, which of course is not practical. Stacker Pentecost, the previous Marshal of the remaining PPDC, stands up, looking at his surroundings saying in his thoughts:
'What the hell is going on here? I thought we lost this beasts.' The other Rangers also stands up, and groan in pain.
"Hey Marshal! What's going on here?" Chuck asked the Marshal.
"Yeah Marshal! What he said." Aleksis said. The Wei Triplets, on their part, was mostly silent, unless in combat.
"I don't know, but I don't know why we are here. We're supposed to be dead, with the exception of Gipsy whose pilots are not here." The Marshal replied.
"So what are we gonna do?" Sasha asked the Marshal. Stacker pondered for a moment, before answering:
"We could just take the Jaegers, but someone must keep Gipsy out of danger. But, it's also foolish. So I suggest to go out of that exit and go recon, while we need to communicate with each other." With some agreement, they headed out, towards the unknown.
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Twilight was still waiting for her mentors reply about the letter she sent. It was unexpected that the letter would be late, unless for particular reasons, like too much addressing or such that a very large cake addiction. Her thoughts was interrupted by a very mare-like voice, but was not she was expecting:
"Four signatures confirmed for recognition. Dilation, Mark III, Mark IV, Mark I and Mark V Jaegers. Identities: Gipsy Danger, Striker Eureka, Cherno Alpha and Crimson Typhoon. All in standby mode. Waiting for rescue." There it was again. Those four names is still stuck in her head, wondering what the names are. When she looked at the screen, the green dots are still there, still have the marks and the names of those weird ponies.
'I must know who they are. Even if it takes me weeks, months or years of research.' She thought in determination as Spike got her the reply letter.