Derrick was one of those guys that liked to reminisce about his fights. But it was more than that, he was learning from them. He knew that experiencing it first hand was one thing but to look at it from a camera view was something different entirely. At the moment, he was watching his last fight with a Kaiju. Of course it was not just his fight but rather their fight. Still he knew that he was sure to find something in the footage that they could improve upon. Grave Digger sustained a couple of good hits in the last fight, nothing that knocked them out of the running but something that threw him off his feet for a moment. This was definitely a moment that he did not want a repeat of.<br/><br/>When one of the men turned back to him and yelled something at him. Derrick had that awful feeling of falling in the pit of his stomach. It was that feeling that he got just before he stepped into the Octagon, and the same feeling he got when he got into Grave Digger. A Kaiju had likely appeared somewhere on their route to the Tokyo Shatterdome. It was going to be time to suit up and kick gigantic ass. But there were other reasons why the pilot could be passing him a headset. Lots of other reasons that did not have to be related to saving millions of lives. It did not matter which it was to Derrick. All he knew was that this was important.<br/><br/>He slid the headset on, "This is Derrick Cines how may I be of service?" Even though he had come from less than dignifed places, through his training as a fighter and then as a Ranger, he knew how to respect his superior officer.<br/><br/>Alicia, Derrick's girlfriend looked at him from across the copter worried that this like all of the many other times that he had gotten a call, could very well be the last time she saw him again. No matter what, she knew to be strong. He was a Ranger, it was his job to save lives even if it came at high personal cost. The one thing that she was sure of though, as Chief Engineer of Grave Digger, her boys were going to be piloting a machine that would be running at optimal levels. Due to her personal stake in the maintenance of the machine, everything had been checked, rechecked and triple checked before they decided to carry the Jaegar across the ocean. She figured this might happen, but she did not want it to.<br/><br/>While he talked, she just watched waiting for the news that her boyfriend and good friend of hers were going to be getting into her machine to go kill yet another monstrosity. Like Derrick, she hoped for something trivial and held a smile on her face. But still she was expecting the worse.