Kevin Blake had been asleep when Derrick called for him to suit up, usually it took a sharp kick to wake him up but as soon as the K word left Derrick's lips, Kevin's eyes shot open and he was up and suiting up.  Their last Kaiju encounter (and their first one) had had some...problems.  The Kaiju, which had been called Silvertooth, had delivered a harsh blow to Grave Digger's head and Kevin had fallen out of sync with Derrick.   He had found himself back in Los Angeles, during the second Kaiju attack on the US.  With one swipe of its massive head, the Kaiju had collapsed a bridge, sending cars and people falling down down down into the streets below.  Kevin's wife and daughter had been on the bridge when it was destroyed, and their bodies had never been recovered.  Despite Chasing the Rabit, Kevin and Derrick managed to take down Silvertooth, but Grave Digger had taken a beating that was deemed "unacceptable" by the top brass and Kevin in particular had gotten a thorough down dressing when the two got back to the Shatterdome.  It didn't really surprise him when he heard they had been 'volunteered' to help supplement Japan's quick exhaustion of Jaeger's.  What better way to be rid of a problem then toss it onto somebody else?<br/><br/>"You ready man? We are about to fight some huge monster."  Derrick had said when Kevin came up to him after fully suiting up.<br/><br/>"I'm always ready to kill Kaiju!"  Kevin said as he shoved Derrick a harness.  The harness contained a steel cable and a hook.  Kevin pushed open the door to the helicopter and he was immediately slapped by the fast moving air over the Pacific Ocean.  'Always ready' was a bit of an understatement with Kevin.  'Obsessed' would have been the better word selection.  The words on his psych profile read 'Becomes fixated on destroying his target, disregarding his safety and the safety of those around him.'<br/><br/>He pulled out the cable on his own harness and pointed to the steel cable running from the helicopter to the Jaeger.  "Hook onto the cable!  We'll zip down to Grave, and get in through the emergency exit!"  He had to yell over his radio so Derrick could hear him over the lashing wind.