The Resistance goes to Geneva

In 2025, between February 8th and 12th, Marshal Hercules Hansen, Commander Tendo Choi, Doctors Hermann Gottlieb and Newton Geiszler, and Rangers Mako Mori and Raleigh Becket fly from Hong Kong to Geneva to attend the the formal inquiry (February 9th to 11th) into Operation Pitfall as witnesses ("Athene Noctua" chapter 17).
==Insist==
The kid insists on staying.
Guess he’s not really a kid; he’s older than Chu— 
... I tell him Stacker’s PA kin handle everything and he should go home to his parents’ or to visit his brothers.
He sets his teeth—looks exactly like Logan when he does—and holds his ground. Says he needs to stay busy.
You can’t blame him.
He listened to his brothers dying—one of them actually /did for a few minutes—a couple months back.
Waited for one of them to come out of a coma for a few days. 
Watched the other fight to learn to stand with only one leg.
All while the world was endin’ around him.
And now, the … kid he babysat for six years is dead, too.
.
He goes ahead to Geneva to smooth things out. Everything he touches goes like clockwork.
The kid’s good.
Wherever he lands is gonna be lucky.
He’s green as grass afterward, seeing how we were treated.
His phone buzzes while we’re waiting for the car—his color’s coming back—and he goes another funny shade.
“Marshal? May—Can—Umm—”
“You can go, Derek. I’ll be fine.”
He nods, dashes off.
.
“Jack? What’re you doing here?”
“Rangers stick together.”
“Wh—Why didn’t ye tell anyone?”
Shrugs. “What’s the point? They’re the heroes.”
“Maybe they wanna see you.”
Laughs, sadly. “None of them wants to see us. We made sure of that.” Scratches at … something stuck to the table. “Even if we /weren’t assholes to them, we’re alive and they all lost family.”
===Paparazzo=== 
February 2025
The adorable snaps of #CutePilots Raleigh Becket and Mako Mori have made the rounds for months and fueled many a watercooler chat session, but has another power couple formed among the leaders of the victorious and vindicated Jaeger Program?
A little bird tells ZOMG! the daring doctors, Newton Geiszler and Hermann Gottlieb, have not only taken jobs together at the New Zealand Ministry for the Environment, but will be sharing a house. A house on a private island. A very private island.
Now, we at ZOMG! don't like to jump to conclusions, but this behavior from a pair of thirty-something confirmed bachelors is very suggestive. Especially on the heels of their recent trip to Geneva where they were seen enjoying a quiet moment together at the Winter Garden, walking arm-in-arm through the streets, holding hands under the table in front of the UN Security Council, and sharing a single room—and bed?—at the Hotel InterContinental.
Are they or aren't they an item? Further information may be hard to come by now that the pair have fled civilization, but ZOMG! readers will be the first to learn of any wedding plans!
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