Railing

Date/Timing: 21 Mar 2017 (Harmony Day in Australia)
Setting: Jaeger hangar, Sydney Mini 'Dome, Hong Kong Shatterdome; Tsing Yi Island, Hong Kong, China
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Chuck idly swings his legs as they dangle over the edge of the chest-level catwalk in /Lucky's bay.
The old man and Scott and the Squire are nattering away with some Suits about something boring and pointless and political because it's some sorta bullshit press event.
Something discordant flashes through his peripheral.
Something /orange.
Chuck pulls his feet back, stands for a better look. He gets an eyeful, stomps over to /Vulcan Specter's bay, straight up to Scarface, snarls, "Th' /fuck you wearing that for?"
He glances down at his /Shaolin Rogue tee, then looks at Chuck like Chuck's a particularly dim housefly.
"'s'not even an /Australian Jaeger!"
Keeps up the look.
"It's a fucking /insult to your team—and all of us here!"
Crosses his arms, drawls, "That so?"
"Yea, that's so." Sneers, "Don't know /what Brass was thinking giving a Jaeger to /monks anyway. What're they gonna do? /Meditate the Kaiju to death?"
Scarface's eyes go dead, his hand snaps out—
Iron grip on Chuck's throat, dragging him across the catwalk—
‒Ohmygodhe'sgonnafuckidon'twannadie‒
Over the rail, weightless—jerked short—
Iron grip on his ankles.
Chuck forces his head up.
Scarface looks down at him like he's a particularly dim housefly.
Chuck can sorta hear footsteps pounding along the grating over the ringing in his ears.
Squire materializes next to Scarface, says, dead calm, "I'll take it from here."
Chuck swallows.
Scarface nods, hauls Chuck back onto the catwalk, sets him on his feet, shoves him over to the Squire.
Squire gets Chuck by the shoulders, holds him up.
Chuck watches Scarface stroll back over to his copilots—who haven't moved an inch—and lean against the rail like it was nothing. 
Chuck swallows again.
"C'mon, son," says the Squire, steering him back to /Lucky territory, right past the old man and Scott, to the lift, and then straight toward their quarters—and Max—as fast as Chuck's wobbly legs will go.
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