DRIFT COMPATIBLE ~rebelcaptain
I know I’m a little late, but I have been super busy and this is the first I’ve been able to get on the computer. This was done a while ago, again, when I was sketching nothing but Rogue One and Rebelcaptain stuff. I saw @therebelcaptainnetwork was doing a AU theme day and I was like yes! I need to remember to post my Pacific Rim AU nobody asked for that I totally obsessed over for like a whole week back in January! I think I saw like 1 or 2 other PacificRim/RogueOne AU’s out on AO3… so I know I’m not alone!!! XD Anyway, I also wrote a small bit:
“Jyn! Listen to me! Trust in the drift, you have to-”
The sentence died in a howl of torn metal and the shriek of the monster that just robbed her of her bond, her co-pilot, her mother. She doesn’t remember her own pain in that moment, only her mother’s desperate, screaming agony. There was a tear, the neural load being all at once ripped away and then doubly forced upon her already crumbling fortitude.
The burden echoed along every synapse and cell of her own body. It was a phantom misery, haunting every move she now made as she struggled to block the attack of the Kaiju. She was barely able to heave her Jaeger’s arm up enough to deflect a swipe from the roaring monster. The impact pushed her back and she snapped against a glacial piece of rock jutting out from the water.
“Trust in the drift!” Her mother’s voice echoed against the inside of her head, deafening and punishing and by God she screamed until her throat felt like glass. Tears of loss and pain fell from her eyes and she gasped to breathe as the beast rammed it’s head straight through the side of her Jaeger. Her ribs set ablaze with what she knew was the finishing blow for the machine she piloted.
But she always fought against the odds. She was always a little bit rebellious. Her mother had taught her that. Right now, it wasn’t the drift she could trust; it was that deep, stubborn instinct punching it’s way across every last fiber of her strength.
The rest please read on AO3
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