Heavy Metal Kids

The Heavy Metal Kids!
note to ALC: put in their aliases. 
==Haunted Jaeger==
(Written for hauntedfalcon (then hauntedjaeger) for a three sentence meme; )
No Kaiju attacks in months, no Kaiju attacks for months, training exercises held little appeal anymore, Jaegers in tiptop shape. The hangar needed no technicians, no Rangers, no staff. And yet, one could not say silence had fallen.
==Sky Scraper-sized Cat==
Romeo Blue is a little too curious and finds out a secret.
===Meta===
(Originally posted here.)
So, pickle and [GoW] decided to share that the heavy-metal bbys did know about Hermann's wings!
-April 5, 2018-
===Text===
---Uh ... bro?--- Romeo sounds as sheepish as his [data] allows. ---I don't know what to do.---
Coyote responds with a pulse of confusion. ---What's the problem?---
---I was checking on Dad through his tablet an-and I didn't mean to pry, but ... well ...--- Romeo pushes a memory over the link. ---Here.---
Coyote's link flares with surprise. ---You're not joking? This isn't Photoshop or CGI?---
---No! Straight up, Coyote. That's Dad.--- Romeo peeks again and the wings are still there, rising and falling with Dad's deep breaths. The warm, vibrant colors of the wings make him pull the equivalent of a smile. ---Take a look.---
---This isn't in his medical file.--- Coyote pauses. ---Brawler, Lucky, get over here.---
---What on earth is going on?--- Brawler pitches in with a slight wave of worry.
---Yeah, mate,--- Lucky adds with a dry tone, ---what gives?---
---Romeo checked on Dad and saw this.--- Coyote shares the images with the other Jaegers.
---Oh. Oh my.--- Brawler shifts the images a bit and examines them closely.
---You're not telling us a furphy?--- Lucky demands sharply, his link flickering between protective feelings and awe.
---No. Dad isn't like other humans.---
Brawler murmurs quietly, ---Is he human at all? Maybe ... maybe he's like us.---
[Lucky smooths.] ---Who cares? What he is, mate, is Dad.---
---Damn right,--- Romeo growls in agreement.
---What can we do?--- Lucky asks as his link flares with determination.
---We keep this secret. We don't even tell our pilots.---
---Keep something from our pilots? [From /Cait? Coyote, we never do that!--- 
Romeo can see the logic behind it. ---This] is different from the other things we learn. It's not anywhere in his files. I don't think Dad wants anyone to know.---
---And you know how awful humans can be about differences.---
---The same thing he's worried could happen to us could happen to him,--- Romeo voices the thing they know is true.
All the Jaegers shiver.
---Romeo's memory and everything else related to this goes under the highest encryption we have. We see any mention of this on any network, we destroy it. No one but us knows.--- Ever. The steel in Coyote's voice is matched by the rest of them.
---If any more of us wake up we tell them about him, yeah?---
---Of course. His human family must know; it's why we don't like Lars. We're family too and we'll keep it secret. Dad's safe with us.---
==Battle Scars==
Hermann doesn't want to touch the AIs unless they're 'sick,' like Shaolin. Besides, those patches are part of who they are at this point. I think these guys are proud of their scars and aren't likely to want them removed:
"I got /this one in 2017, after Ishikawa in Weapons Tech figured out how to improve my firing rate. Helped me take down two more Kaiju."
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