The King, the Huntsman and the Princess

Earth...a peaceful, serene world. Humankind had thrived for centuries. Now their home is a battleground, where entire cities crumble to dust, titans battle for dominance and humans and ponies alike are squashed like ants.

Since the first attack on San Francisco, man has done everything they could to protect their planet, but to no avail. In Equestria, the first attack was devastating, leaving half of Las Pegasus flattened. On Earth, it was war and the humans were losing, until now....

Pan-Pacific Defense Corps. Training Facility, waiting room

Astoria, Oregon

Time: 0430

Date: 14 August, 2025

Time since last Kaiju incursion: 4w:5d:17h:48min:28sec

Shaun Harper was waiting for his turn in the Jaeger combat simulator , wasting time by watching episodes of SpongeBob Squarepants on his Iphone 7s. He'd been waiting for this opportunity for two years now, and waiting wasn't helping.

"Ugh, when are we gonna get in there, next century!?! " Shaun cursed under his breath in impatience.

"You have to wait just like everyone else. We only barely made it past our entrance exams, you know that, right?" Shaun's Drift partner, Nathaniel Lackey snapped at him. Shaun acted as if he never heard him, but just to make sure, Nate elbowed his arm in which Shaun gave his partner a cross look for a few seconds. He then returned his eyes to his Iphone.

Nathaniel Mattias Lackey was born February 14, 1995 in Coldwood, Michigan from his father Bill Matthew Thomas and mother Wendy Haley Carlson. Bill was a mechanic in Coldwood, a small town near the U.P. The town's population, 1,120 people. Bill was born in San Antonio and moved to Coldwood because he was "sick of the damned traffic" on the way to his former job as a mechanic for MIDAS. Wendy was a former drill sergeant in the Army. The two of them met when Wendy was off-duty and wanted to have her 1970 Ford pickup tuned up. She went to the MIDAS where Bill worked and immediately felt something whenever she was around him. Bill felt the same way.

After about seven months of seeing each other, Bill proposed they be engaged inside Wendy's pickup and after one year together, Bill proposed marriage. They married on September 22, 1989. When Nathaniel was 7 years old, he wanted to be a U.S. Army Ranger, fight for his country. His bulky, yet agile physique helped him going through basic training. He was one of the last groups of U.S. personnel to see the mangled body of the first Kaiju, Trespasser after the President authorized the use of three nuclear missiles to kill it. He and his platoon were assigned to help with the cleanup effort, as well as look for survivors in the cities that Trespasser left destroyed, which there were very few. After the Cabo attack, he was honorably discharged and was drafted into a special program, the Jaeger program.

Up until now, he lived alone in a two-floor brown house with a black roof in Port Washington, WI, having a job as a mechanic like his father in an old garage.

Shaun's story is a tragic one. Shaun Liam Harper was born April 25, 1998 in Fredonia, Wisconsin from Lincoln John Hamilton and Summer Ileana Tyson. Both Lincoln and Summer were Jaeger pilots, that's how they met. Lincoln was the pilot of the Mk II Jaeger Lucky Seven alongside his co-pilot Dominic Cruz. Lucky Seven was like built like Brawler Yukon, but instead of being painted blue, it was a seafoam green, with the symbol of the Boston Celtics on the left arm and the number seven on the right arm. Summer was the pilot of a Mk I Jaeger named Kaiju Ass-munch alongside co-pilot Horatio De Santa.

Kaiju Ass-munch was built like Coyote Tango, but instead of brown, she decided to make the Jaeger pink. She thought that brown made the Jaeger look like a "walking, talking, ass-kicking piece of shit." Horatio came up with the nickname, Azzy, so that other pilots didn't take offense. The two giant, howitzer-sized cannons on "Azzy's" back had their nicknames as well, Lucy and Geraldo. They first met in the L.A. Shatterdome when it was still under construction. They were just mingling when a call came out that a Category II was approaching the city. They got into their respective Jaegers and met the Kaiju and killed it. After the battle, the two realized that something had blossomed when the two pilots were in battle, love.

After a year being engaged since that fateful day, Lincoln asked for Summer's hand in marriage. After Shaun was born, A call came out for a Category IV was on approach to Shanghai. The two pilots went to stop the Kaiju before it laid waste to the city, but they never came back. Shaun got the news and cried for days on end. He was only 6 years old. He dealt with the pain by being like his mother, childish and not taking anything seriously. Pilots are always reminded of them because of the two sets of footprints leading to the Pacific and stopping at the very edge.

Since their entrance on the Kaiju-killing stage, everyone called them "The Dynamic Duo" because they were just that, dynamic.

The two of them met at a bar in Milwaukee just after the Mutavore attack on Sydney and almost beat the shit out of each other because Shaun that Nate had called him "Shaun White". Which he was none too happy about. Nate was just like Shaun, except he had WAY more sense than his partner, but sometimes joined in on his games. Nate actually had some combat experience. They learned to deal with each other, put aside their differences and work together.

"Harper and Lackey!" The desklady said with a demanding voice that would make Annie Potts jolt.

The two pilots-in-training walked up to the desk, signed some papers and walked down a white hallway with a door at the end.

"Ooh, scary hallway!" Shaun exclaimed sarcastically, wiggling his fingers in front of him and chuckling afterwards.

"It's go time!" Nate said with excitement

The two walked down the hall to the Combat Simulator Room and entered. The room was modeled after the Conn-Pod of a Mk III Jaeger; complete with suits and a Virtual Reality Training system.

"Man, I don't quite understand why these training suits are WHITE, when they could be the awesome BLACK it is today." Shaun quipped as he suited up.

"I think it's just for nostalgia. Remember the old days, when the suits looked clunky and shit?" Nate put on his helmet.

"Dude, that's why we lost people, because the suits were too clunky and the pilots couldn't fight. Thank God for these babies." Shaun said with a sigh of relief, gesturing to his suit as he put on his helmet and signaled the instructor they were ready for fighting. Not knowing that Shaun had a secret that he had been hiding for years.

Ponyville, Equestria

Golden Oaks Library,

Time since last Kaiju incursion, 2w:5d:17h:32min:43sec

Time: 0935

Princess Twilight Sparkle was reading the book Species and Civilizations known to Equestria by Starswirl the Bearded in her bedroom when Rainbow Dash banged on the door.

"TWILIGHT! HURRY, IT'S ME! RAINBOW!" Rainbow screamed as if her world was crumbling around her.

Twilight teleported downstairs and ran to the door. She opened it, only to see the biggest thing she ever saw...

To be continued...