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		EVA: FALLEN ANGEL


version 1.01
by Mekat 

Eva Caelum
www.geocities.com/evacael/

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Chapter 3: Wisdom / Hatred
(PART 2)

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A day after Kaji’s departure

Seated in a small garden inside the Geo-front were the four children. 
They had just finished school and Shinji had suggested that they took a 
break to relax from the stress of life. 

Shinji was siting under a tree, enjoying himself in the peaceful 
environment. He was especially happy because of several things. He 
wasn’t having painful headaches. He hasn’t had anymore episodes lately. 
And his other co-pilots had managed to not start up any conflict for 
quite a while now. He closed his eyes, barely conscious that Asuka was 
droning on about something. He didn’t care… He was at peace. A small 
smile sneaked its way onto his face before he slowly drifted off to 
sleep.

Asuka was siting on the edge of a small fountain not too far from where 
Shinji was. She still couldn’t believe what Misato had told her 
yesterday after she got back from NERV. Kaji had left!! She said he had 
some urgent business out of the country and that he would be away 
indefinitely. How dare him! Leave with out saying goodbye! How could he 
leave her here with Shinji and wonder girl? In reality it wasn’t 
actually the fact that he didn’t say goodbye that got to her. It was 
the fact that he left. Just like everyone else in her life. But he 
would be back for her, she was sure of it. He would, right? And why did 
she agree to come here with those two? She must be getting soft. But, 
in a way, she felt that it was the right thing, it felt good to be out 
and about. It felt good to be amongst friends. Friends? Since when did 
she start calling Rei a friend? Or even Touji for that matter. She 
couldn’t remember. It didn’t matter any ways. Even if they were 
insignificant bugs in contrast her mighty presence. It was nice to know 
whom you could trust.

She felt a hint of jealousy towards Shinji and Rei. Which wasn’t 
something out of the ordinary, in fact she felt that she should be even 
more aggressive towards them. But with that has been going on recently, 
she was starting to think that they had their fair share of problems 
too. However, she still hated they way Shinji made it look so easy to 
beat the Angels. She hate the way Rei was such a doll when it came to 
people ordering her around. She knew that her sync-ratio was not what 
it used to be, and that Shinji’s was constantly on the rise. But she’d 
had a dreaded feeling lately. That something was going to take them 
away from her. What happened to Shinji in the cafeteria did not help 
calm her nerves.

Rei on the other hand found herself intrigued with the prospect of 
‘hanging out’ with her fellow pilots. She was seated on a bench facing 
the small fountain Asuka was sitting at. Carefully, she brushed a small 
strand of hair, which was getting in her sight. Ever since she had been 
overwhelmed by the presence, several days ago, she had been able to 
sense emotions radiating from various sources. The emotions weren’t 
hers. Instead, they were of others, but she found herself able to 
explore them, the fluidity of human feelings. The waves of ever 
changing perceptions. 

Sadness. Joy. Anger. Despair. Hatred. Love. She sensed them all, she 
was currently still learning to identify them all. That didn’t change 
how she acted or lived her everyday life though, by much. She did 
however actually started to realize that she never knew what she wanted 
on her own whim because she had never been able to interpret her own 
feelings as clearly as she did now. She found herself able to cope more 
with the ‘high and mighty’ attitude of second child. She didn’t know 
why. The words ‘empathic’ obviously have yet to find it’s way into her 
thoughts. Being able to sense someone else’s emotions would do that to 
you. To the others though, she was the same old Rei.

At the same time, she had begun to question the reason of this sudden 
ability. And being that she had already so much time to think, Rei 
realized that there were some obvious connections with the arrival of 
the fellow student known as Conrad Lervino. Still, she could not know 
what to make of the evidence, which pointed his way. Certainly, there 
was nothing to accuse him of, for he had done nothing. So she resorted 
to what she does best; observe. She would keep an eye on him, as she 
did with many things nowadays.

Touji on the other hand was laying flat on the grass with his eyes 
closed. Of the four he was the only pilot without an Eva. He sort of 
felt left out under the circumstances. He joined because he wanted to 
guarantee the best medical treatment for his sister, but then he 
realized that he was also doing it because he wanted to help Shinji, 
Rei and even Asuka. He knew what kind of pain Eva had brought to 
Shinji, but he also knew it’s value in the war against the Angels. 
Plus, with the Angels getting stronger and smarted, they would need all 
the help they could get, even though both Rei and Asuka would probably 
not admit it. Now he could only sit around as a reserve pilot. Although 
there were still parts of Unit-03 left after Unit-01 had gone through 
with it, they did not wish to risk regenerating it with the treat of 
contamination. The expense of screening out all traces of the Angel was 
just too much, the Henflick limit had been reached and thus all 
remaining parts were to be destroyed. At this point Touji didn’t know 
whether to dread or wish for the completion of another Eva unit for him 
to pilot.

Exhaling softly he finally opened his eyes, and turned his head to face 
the other three. He was puzzled at how they could spend time like this 
without tearing each other apart. Whilst at other times their argument 
could be heard on the other side of the city. He was also beginning to 
realize what kind of relationship Shinji had with his father. Shinji 
was not the type to easily hate other people, but his father certainly 
inspired it. It however, wasn’t simply in Shinji’s nature. Even now, 
although he had expressed how he despised the Commander, Touji knew 
that deep down Shinji still longed for acceptance. He wondered if one 
of these days, the Commander would go too far, and bring upon himself 
the wrath and Shinji and Unit-01. If he did so, Touji was sure no one 
would be able to save him.


Currently in Shinji’s dream

Shinji was standing in a circle of light. He could see nothing around 
him but for pitch darkness. Suddenly, a screen appeared in front of 
him, much like a holo-display seen in the entry plugs. He felt 
apprehensive at what was happening, for he was conscious that he was 
dreaming and he feared that it would result in the same effect as the 
previous one. The screen showed an image of Unit-02, it stood 
stationary, head and arms were missing. Shinji’s heart leaped, he was 
in shock. Then something else came into view. He realized then that it 
was an Angel.

Voice: That is what will happen.

Shinji gasped in surprise at the sound of the voice. It was a familiar 
voice, but he was still unable to recognize it. Then he realized that 
it was the same one from the balcony.

Shinji: Who are you?

But the voice ignored him.

Voice: When the time comes, you will know what to do.

Shinji: But this is a dream! How can I be seeing the future?

Voice: This is past.

Shinji: What?!?

Before he could do anything else, Shinji disappeared from the dream 
world. The screen vanished back into the darkness and silence engulfed 
the room. Then, from the shadows, the figure of Conrad Lervino stepped 
out into the circle of light.

Conrad: Good luck, Shinji.

Back in the real world, Shinji woke with a gasp. He was disoriented and 
woozy. He grasped his head as he tried to understand what he had just 
dreamt. Then he became aware of something else, a ringing in his ear. 
It was the sirens. 

An Angel.



In came from nowhere, there was little time to prepare for it. Zeruel, 
the latest Angel smashed through Tokyo-3’s defenses like they weren’t 
even there. Nothing could even slow it down. And anything that got in 
it’s way was destroyed. With another shot from it’s eyes, Zeruel 
finally ripped it’s way into the Geo-front, the multiple layers of 
armor but a mere nescience to it. As it descended into the underground 
facility, it was to be met by three fully prepared Eva units. But was 
that enough?

Misato’s voice could be heard shouting, as always through the Comm-
lines.
 
Misato: There it is! Get ready!

Asuka: Yeah! Yeah! We’re not blind Misato!

Misato: Just watch it Ok? This one’s not going to be easy.

Shinji: Understood Misato.

Touji: Right on Shinji! Sock ‘m once for me Ok?

Touji, who was standing behind the Major in the Command center, receive 
a nasty glare from the aforementioned. The Major was making a silent 
statement towards him, that he was only here to observe as a reserve 
pilot and not as a cheering squad.

Touji ( sweating under her glaring ): Ok…. I’ll shut up now…

Asuka: Hrmp! I’ll take care of the Angel myself. Shinji won’t even get 
a chance at it.

Shinji: Please, Asuka, just this once, be careful…

Asuka: And what’s that suppose to mean?! I’m always careful! It’s you 
who should be watching your steps 3rd Child!

Rei: It’s here.

The explosion rocked the ground as several building collapsed from the 
force. The Angel calmly hovered down it was met by the combined volley 
of several Palette rifles and Rocket launchers. But even the combined 
assault was not enough to penetrate it’s AT-field.

Asuka flinched as she realized that this was not looking good already. 
No, this time she couldn’t loose. She couldn’t be beaten like she was 
last time. Shinji would not outclass her again. Asuka continued to fire 
a rain of rockets on the Angel, anger blinding her to the fact that she 
wasn’t even slowing it down.

Shinji, could not believe his eyes, it was the Angel. The one saw in 
his dream. He could tell. But there was something missing… He couldn’t 
quite put a finger on it… But he didn’t have time for that right now. 
It was impossible, but yet it was there. He could not help but to 
assume that the dream had revealed him what was going to happen, would 
he be about to change it? Could he change it at all? It didn’t matter. 
He had to at lest try to protect his friends.

The Angel landed on the grounds of the Geo-front with a heavy thud. The 
earth shock as the massive beast crushed trees and pavements underneath 
its body. Zeruel seemed to stare at the Evas with nothing but mild 
annoyance. It soon turned its attention firstly to Asuka, it kept 
facing her until it’s eyes flared.

Asuka: Shiest!

Asuka lost no time in discarding her Rocket launchers and diving out of 
the way just before the massive beam of energy scorched hundreds of 
meters of land where she was previously standing on. Trees and plants 
were incinerated and watered was instantly evaporated. As she turned 
around, Asuka also noted it had turned her weapons into nothing but 
molten slag.

Shinji: Asuka! Are you alright?!

Asuka ( responding angrily ): Of course! It would take more than that 
to take me out!

Shinji: Asuka! Watch out for the…!

Asuka turned to face the Angel just in time to see it had unfolded its 
arms into what seemed like thin sheets. In fact, they were mono-
molecular, thus able to cut through the thickest and toughest of 
materials with incredible ease. Before she could do anything she found 
that the Angel had lashed out the arms straight towards her.



Kensuke: How do you think they’re doing?

At that very moment, Kensuke, Conrad and Hikari were seated within the 
relative safety of the shelters. They were playing a game of cards 
seeing that there wasn’t much you could do at times like that.

Conrad: Who knows? With all the information withholding they have 
around here, I’m be surprised they would even inform us if we were 
dead…

Hikari: Oh don’t be such a pessimist! I’m sure they’re beating the crap 
out of that Angel right now.

Kensuke: Class rep! Such language!

She frowned in embarrassment as she realized what had just come out of 
her mouth.

Hikari: Sorry… I must have been hanging around too much with Asuka 
lately.

Kensuke: Ah… That explains it.

At that moment a massive explosion shock the whole shelter, causing 
people to fall over and their playing cards to fly all over the place.

Kensuke: I don’t like how things are going! It sounded very close!

Hikari: I’m sure we’ll be alright. These shelters were made to protect 
us… and I’m sure our friends would protect us…

However, Kensuke could tell by the sound of her voice that she was 
trying to convince them with her words, just as she was to trying to 
reassure herself. He then noticed that Conrad was strangely looking 
very distracted, he was looking up to a corner of the room, staring at 
something unseen by Kensuke.

Kensuke: Conrad, what’s wrong?

Still, Conrad seemed to not hear a word. Hikari noticed it too.

Hikari: Conrad? Are you ok?

Conrad: No.

Kensuke: ???

Hikari: No?

Conrad: We have to get out of here…

Hikari: This is no time to panic… just stay calm and everything will be 
fine.

Conrad: No.

Before she could protest, Conrad grab both Hikari’s and Kensuke’s arm. 
He begun dragging them both to the door. Hikari was surprised, as hard 
as she tried, she could not pry Conrad’s grip off her arm. She could 
see that Kensuke was similarly attempting to dislodge his hold as she 
was but also failing miserably. He must have been much stronger than 
she had originally thought to be able to hold on to both of them or 
very stubborn. More likely the second one.

Conrad: Hikari, tell everyone to get out of here…

Hikari: But why? They’re safe here…

Conrad ( digging his fingers in her forearm ): Damn it! Tell them!

Hikari: Ouch! Stop that Conrad! You’re hurting me!

Conrad: I’m sorry, but we don’t have time for this. Please you just 
have to trust me…

Kensuke: Class rep, I think you better do what he said, he was right 
about the Unit-03 incident.

Hikari: Alright… I’ll trust your word… is it alright we move to D-2?

He gave her a quick nod.

She turn around to face the rest of the people inside the shelter, 
Conrad still kept a firm grip on her.

Hikari: Ermm… Everyone excuse me… I’ve just been informed that it might 
not be safe to stay in this shelter anymore. I would like everyone from 
our school to move to D-2 and recommend that everyone else do the same.

Their classmates quickly followed Hikari’s instructions and began to 
gather their stuff and leave. Most of the other adults also followed, 
but some decided to remain there.

Woman: It’s too dangerous to go out there! It’s safer to stay put.

Conrad: Please, you have to come with us.

Woman: No, you can go, we’re staying here.

Conrad: Very well, goodbye…

He exited the shelter and met up with Hikari and Kensuke who were 
waiting for him.

Hikari: What of the others?

Conrad: Leave them, they will not follow us. It’s too late for them.

The trio had stayed until everyone who was going had gotten out and 
then begun to leave. They didn’t even manage hundred meters when they 
were thrown forth by the force of an explosion. Hikari and Kensuke both 
picked themselves up and stared wide-eyed at the devastation they had 
left behind them. Shelter D-3, which they had been in, had been hit by 
a stray shot from the 14th Angel. Raging flames flickered in anger as 
the rubble and dust settled. It was obvious that no one inside could 
have survived.



That was it! He realized what was missing from the Angel when he saw 
it. The arms. It’s arms were missing from when he had seen it in the 
dream. He hastened towards Asuka’s side as the Angel advanced 
menacingly towards her. Then he remembered Unit-02 in the dream, 
armless and headless. He then put two and two together and understood 
what was going to happen.

Shinji: Asuka! Watch out for the…!

Too late, the Angel’s mono-molecular arms sliced cleanly through Unit-
02’s shoulders, taking of its arms cleanly. Shinji’s ears rung as he 
heard Asuka’s screams of pain and agony from the emphatic wounds.

Touji: Holy shi…!!

Misato: Cut the connections now!

Maya: We can’t Major! There’s a fault in the system!

Aoba: Attempting a bypass, but it will take some time!

Ritsuko: Not now! Shinji! If she gets hit again like that again with 
the connections still on, she could suffer from serious nerve damage or 
even die!

Shinji ( angrily ): Understood Misato!

Rei: Major! Unit-02 is charging!

Misato: What?!? Asuka! What are you doing!?

Asuka: I won’t be defeated again! I won’t!!!

Shinji: Asuka!!!

He saw it then; the Angel prepared itself to lash out at Unit-02 again. 
This time he was sure it would be going for her neck. He didn’t know 
where the idea came from, but he didn’t care. Suddenly, he knew what 
had to be done. He couldn’t harm the Angel with is Palette rifles and 
was too far way to attack it in close combat. On the other hand he was 
also too far away from Asuka to restrain her and couldn’t risk ( though 
he was tempted ) to knock her out of the way with the rifles. So he did 
neither.

Maya: Ma’am! Shinji’s sync ration just jumped twenty points and 
raising!!

Ritsuko: What!!

Shinji: Rei! Get to Asuka and hold her! I’ll deal with the Angel!

Rei: Affirmative.

Misato: What are you doing Shinji? You can’t take that thing on alone!

Shinji: I know what I’m doing Misato. Now please, we don’t have much 
time, release the locks on the city block Thirteen-B.

Misato: What!?

Shinji: I believe it’s vacant?

Misato: Yes… everyone’s been evacuated from the city blocks to the 
Shelters already… but I don’t know what you hope to accomplish…

Shinji: Trust me Misato and do it…

Gendo ( out of nowhere ): Why?

Shinji ( thinking ): Damn it! We’re wasting time!

Shinji: Because… I need it done… Commander…

The older Ikari paused for a moment, apparently considering his son’s 
strange request.

Gendo: Request granted.

Maya: Locks to city block Thirteen-B has been removed Sir!

Shinji: Good!

Misato: ?

At this point everyone watched in horror as the Angel was about to 
lashed out its arms towards Unit-02 again.

Suddenly, Unit-01 turned to face where block Thirteen-B was and aimed 
both its Palette rifles at it. He fired. The explosive rounds tore 
through the concrete and metal structure. 

Misato: Shinji! What the hell are you doing!?!

Eventually, the rounds found their mark, the machinery that elevated 
the block to the surface were quickly blown apart. It’s destruction 
meant that the whole block was now without anything to support it’s 
massive weight, so it begun to slide down and fell towards the Geo-
front’s floor. 

Just in time to intercept Zeruel’s arms as they sailed across to 
decapitate the frenzied Unit-02. Block Thirteen-B was directly in the 
path between the Angel and Unit-02. The arms stopped short of Unit-02’s 
neck by but mere meters. That was enough to cause Asuka to stop dead on 
her tracks. Thus allowing Rei to reach her and pin her down before she 
did anything else liable to get her seriously injured or even killed. 
In the Command center, everyone was silent. Even Gendo was surprised by 
the bold tactical ploy conceived by his son. It was something which 
even he would never had thought up. The result was a two-fold effect, 
firstly it enabled Shinji to save pilot Sohryu from getting herself 
foolishly decapitated for nothing, and at the same time, the Angel had 
been pinned. Even Zeruel was having problems removing its arms from 
underneath the demolished ruins of block Thirteen-B.

Misato: How the hell did you manage to think that up?!

Shinji: No time for that now. Terminate Asuka’s connection as soon as 
possible and tell Rei to come and help me when she’s free.

Asuka: NOOOO!! Don’t you dare!!!!! I will kill you after this Shinji! 
You hear me?!!!

Shinji: Please Asuka, forgive me…

Misato: You heard the man Ritsuko.

Ritsuko: I’m on to it.

Unit-01 dropped the now empty Palette rifles and drew its Progressive 
knife. There was only one option at this point, which was to engage the 
Angel at close quarters. Shinji pushed the Eva to it limits as he 
charged the Angel who was attempting to free itself. It turned to face 
him when he got fairly close and fired it’s cross flare at him. Shinji 
managed to dodge just in time and headed towards the Angel’s side. 
Behind him a stray shot struck Shelter D-3 and erupted into a massive 
fiery blast.

Wasting no more time, Shinji spun up and drove his knife into the 
Angel’s flank. The blade was however stopped by it’s AT-field, which 
Shinji was having trouble neutralizing.

Shinji: Damn you!!

Unit-01 rolled towards it’s right as the Angel fired again, reducing 
the grounds where Shinji was previously on to a smoking crater.

Rei: Ikari! I’m here, what should I do?

Shinji looked up to find Unit-00 standing several hundred meters behind 
the Angel.

Shinji: Come on! We have to neutralize it’s AT-field! I can’t do it on 
my own!

Rei: Understood.

Unit-01 made an act of attacking the Angel to distracted, whilst 
allowing Rei to get into place. Rei quickly positioned herself nearby 
and concentrated. Her own AT-field flared suddenly and overwhelmed 
Zeruel’s already weakened field. The Angel clearly didn’t appreciate 
this and turned to face her. It fired again. Rei tried to dodge the 
incoming beam but was struck on the leg. The whole section below her 
knee was blown to shreds completely. Unit-00 fell backward onto the 
ground, having had its foot literally blown up from underneath it. 
Shinji’s anger rose to dangerous levels as he heard Rei’s cries through 
the Comm.

Shinji: Rei!!

He turned to face the Angel now. With its field down, he had a standing 
chance of beating it on one to one.

Shinji: It’s you and me now you bastard!

He leaped onto the Angel and struck the Prog knife deeply into its 
flank. The Angel roared in anger and pain as it trashed about in an 
attempt to dislodge Unit-01 off its back.

Misato: Shinji! Watch out it’s getting free!

Zeruel had managed to pull one of its arms out from underneath the 
rubble and had managed to reach out to grab a hold on Unit-01. The 
beast lifted Unit-01 up and threw it with incredible force towards the 
pyramid structure that was NERV headquarters. Misato was thrown off her 
feet as the ground shook from the force of the Eva slamming into the 
side of the building. Ritsuko fell on her knees and toppled over 
dangerously close to the level’s side. Incredibly, Shinji wasted no 
time and raised itself again to attack the Angel. Shinji was channeling 
his hatred towards all that would harm his friends in an outburst of 
pure bloodlust.

The Angel launched its free arm towards Unit-01, snaking its way in the 
air towards the Eva’s neck. However, Shinji acted faster, he 
sidestepped the arm and grabbed a hold of it. Though the edges were 
possibly the sharpest things in the world, the thin arms easily 
crumpled under the Eva’s grip. Shinji jerked on the arm, pulling the 
massive creature straight into a full on punch. By doing this, Shinji 
had unwittingly freed Zeruel’s other arm as well, but by now, he was 
beyond the point of caring. Inside the Entry plug, he was like a 
possessed man. 

Touji: Alright! Give him a right and a left and there! Kick ‘m where it 
hurts! Yeah! I taught him that you know…? Huh…?

The same glaring as before, but this time from quite a few more people 
and twice the intensity.

Touji: Erm… Errrr….

Lieutenant Maya Ibuki shivered as she saw the sinister grin that was 
worn on Shinji’s face on the side screen. She never would have thought 
that the boy could have looked so evil until this moment. What have 
they done to him? She was sure that he would never have become like 
this if he’d ever come to Tokyo-3. Then again, they might have been all 
dead already if he hadn’t. She felt a slight chill, which caused her to 
turn around. Never had she felt such fear as she did there and then 
when she saw the Commander, wearing the same grin as Shinji was.

Rei watch in silence inside her plug as Shinji pounded the Angel into 
the ground. She felt uneasy from the way that Shinji was fighting, it 
was more like an attack of some savage primitive predator than anything 
else. And the Angel was its prey. She watched helplessly as the Angel 
fired another flare at Unit-01 at point-blank range. The blast tore the 
Eva’s entire right shoulder off to shreds. Bits and pieces of debris 
showered the area. The flare went on to strike HQ, this time throwing 
of their feet everyone who hadn’t already fallen on the ground and 
threatening to cutting out the power. The entire flank of the building 
was showered with blood and gore, painting it red from top to bottom. 
Rei stare in mute silence as Unit-01 shrugged off the loss of a limb as 
simply as a mere annoyance.

Unit-01 went on to strike the Angel with a heavy left hook, followed by 
a low kick, which sent the Angel sprawling onto the ground. Shinji 
leaped onto the fallen beast and begun to beat it with his Eva’s fists. 
But Zeruel responded by cunningly warping its arm around Unit-01 and 
pulling its feet from under it. Seeing it’s chance, Zeruel didn’t 
hesitate in firing a flare directly into Unit-01’s umbilical plug. The 
explosion ripped into Unit-01’s spine and triggered a secondary 
explosion as most of the internal batteries too detonated, threatening 
to tear the Eva in two.

Aoba: We’ve lost 70% of the sensor nodes! Internal batteries have 
sustained severe damage!

Maya: Pulse reversing! Pilot life-signs are unstable!

Hyuga: All primary lower torso circuit clusters are out! Backup 
clusters are failing to come on-line!

Aoba: Entry plug armour and midway clusters are holding but heat levels 
are dangerously high!

Maya: Sync frequencies are hyper-fluctuating at critical levels!

Ritsuko: Reroute circuits B64 to D41! Engage internal coolant! Lower 
the neural feedback regulator!

Hyuga: Attempting to reroute connections, B64 to D33 have succeeded but 
D34 to D41 circuits have completely crashed!

Maya: Feedback regular is not responding! We can’t reduce the feedback!

Aoba: Coolant released, temperature returning to acceptable levels… 
what the..!!!?

The already damaged power supply finally failed, shutting everything in 
the whole command center down. Save from the emergency lights.

Ritsuko: Dear god no!

Inside the Entry plug Shinji screamed as mind-numbing pain tore into 
his back as the immense feedback overwhelmed his senses. He felt as if 
he was being ripped apart from inside out. Physically he was also being 
knocked around as the blast had dangerously reached close to the plug. 
No matter how much he tried he knew was falling on the verge of 
unconsciousness. But he couldn’t let it win. He couldn’t fail. Too much 
was at stake here. He wasn’t fighting anymore because he felt the shame 
from running away. He was fighting because he wanted to protect his 
friends.

Zeruel looked down triumphantly at Unit-01, who was still attempting to 
get up. A massive chunk of the Eva’s back was missing and gore covered 
components were exposed. There wasn’t much active time left neither as 
the blast had also critically damaged the remaining batteries, leaving 
the Unit-01 with less than thirty seconds. By now, Misato and the rest 
of the bridge crew came rushing out of Command HQ. Her heart fell when 
she saw what had befallen Shinji. Commander Ikari was there too; he 
frowned, mildly displeased with the turn of events.

Maya ( who had brought out her laptop ): Ma’am! Unit-01’s got 5 seconds 
of active time left… 3… 2… 1… batteries have been purged…. It’s over…

Misato: Damn it! He was so close!

Ritsuko: Well…  guess it’s over then…



Back inside the Entry plug of Unit-01, Shinji had passed out cold. 
However… in is mind… something was stirring…

Shinji was floating in a faint haze of blue light. He glanced around, 
finding nothing but emptiness for as far as he could see. When he 
turned back in front of him was a flicking image of a white flame. His 
first instinct was to jerk away from it, but he soon realized it wasn’t 
making any hostile movements towards him. It was simply floating there. 
He felt a strange tingling sensation radiating from the flame. The same 
warmth of which he had felt was missing until recently. The warm 
feeling of being loved… but this was more specific… it had a feeling of 
family…

Shinji: W…who… W… what are you?

An image flashed by of Unit-01 rampaging across the city to get to 
Sachiel, the third Angel.

Another of Unit-01 tearing it’s way out of the black globe that was 
Leliel, the twelfth.

Shinji: That was you…?

The flame seemed to nod… though Shinji didn’t really know how a flame 
could nod. It seemed to him fairly obvious what the flame was 
expressing now, even though there was no way he could do that in 
reality.

Another image appeared… showing Unit-01 tearing apart Zeruel.

Shinji: No…

The flame looked questioningly towards him.

Shinji: I can do it… I just need to be able to move for a few seconds 
more…

The flame seemed a little hesitant to agree with him, but then seemed 
to concede.

Shinji smiled as he slowly faded from the scene, he was returning to 
finish off his job.

When he vanished completely, the white flame disappeared, replaced by 
the form of a young woman.

Yui: Good… he’s learning…




Back in the real world, Misato could not help but look away as Zeruel 
lined itself up for a perfect clean shot to finish off Unit-01 one. 
Everyone wore a disappointed look on his or her faces, believing that 
this was the end. 

By now, Asuka had climb out of her plug as furious as hell for that 
stunt that bitch Rei and that fucking prick Shinji did to her. She 
froze when she saw the limp bloodied form of Unit-01 along with the 
fourteenth Angel hovering above it. She looked around and saw Unit-00, 
attempting in vain, to crawl it’s way to aid it’s purple counter-part. 
She turned back to Unit-01, where she saw the Angel charging up for 
it’s finishing shot.

Asuka: No… 

She watched as the Angel preparing to deliver its final blow. 
Regretting everything she’d previously thought about Rei and Shinji.

Maya: Ma’am! Unit-01 is reactivating! Shinji’s sync is over three 
hundred!!!

Ritsuko: That impossible! Is it going over four hundred!?

Maya: Negative! It’s stable at three hundred and twenty nine!

Misato: Wait! What’s he doing!?!

Asuka gasped as Unit-01 suddenly rose from the ground and rammed the 
fingers of its remaining arm into Zeruel’s eyes. The flare went off 
immediately after with Zeruel’s face being ground zero. The blast 
vaporized Unit-01’s remaining arm and proceeded to be deflected into 
the Angel, the massive creature erupted in a giant blast. Asuka was 
forced to cover her face with her arm, the brightness of the explosion 
blinding her temporally. Chunks of the creature were blown apart in 
every direction, as the whole upper body was ripped apart by the 
immense force. Shrapnel comprising of bone and armour shards were 
thrown across the Geo-front creating a barrage of deadly projectiles. 
Whilst everyone else tried to take cover, Asuka ignored it all. A 
massive piece larger than her passed by over her head, it embedded 
itself a few hundred meters behind her in the ground. She didn’t even 
finch. After she had recovered from the blinding light, he could see 
the heavily damaged Unit-01 slumping onto the ground, the Angel’s 
lifeless lower body simultaneously falling away from it. Shocked beyond 
belief, she could not believe in her own mind that Shinji would have 
dared to do such a thing. It reminded her of the way he defeated the 
fourth Angel. He had gambled everything on a single act and had turned 
out victorious. And now, he did it again. Her eyes lingered on the 
inert unit. She remained that way till the recovery team came to 
finally pick her up.



Misato: So… how is he?

Ritsuko: He sustained serious nerve damage through the neural feedback. 
He’s in a coma right now but he’ll be fine if we can regenerate the 
damaged brain cells. I’m surprised that he even survived the feedback 
since his sync ratio was over three hundred percent.

Misato: WHEN we regenerate the damaged cells… when…

Ritsuko: Right… when…

Misato: How long?

Ritsuko: I’m not too sure, depending on how the cells react, I’d give 
it a week or so…

Misato: He’ll be in a coma for a… week…?

Ritsuko: Yes. That means that you and Asuka will have to all your own 
house chores for once.

Misato: Hey! How could you kid around at a time like this?! That’s not 
funny!

Ritsuko: Remember… think positive.

Misato: Right… positive…

Ritsuko: I must tell you however that, although I must agree with you 
that he will be able to recover from the coma, I must also mention the 
very real danger that he might have problems with his senses.

Misato: You mean…

Ritsuko: The feedback he receive from the Eva was beyond anything the 
human body was designed to cope with, it is very likely he will retain 
permanent damage in his nervous system or even his brain.

Misato: …

Ritsuko: We can now only fix what can be fixed and hope for the best…

Misato: Ritsuko…

Ritsuko: Yes…?

Misato: … thanks…

Ritsuko: …



Asuka walked slowly across the devastated landscape of the Geo-front in 
silence. She was now in her school uniform, having changed and rinsed 
off that stench of LCL. She didn’t know what she was doing, she didn’t 
know why she was out there. It felt as though she was seeking 
something.

They hadn’t bothered to tell her of Shinji’s conditions, but then 
again, she didn’t ask. Asuka found herself wondering what must have 
driven him to pilot Eva this time. Sure, he had mentioned that he did 
it for his father’s praise, but she wasn’t so sure of that being the 
case any more. Asuka didn’t like contemplating her own reasons very 
often, this is because most of the times she realizes that they aren’t 
very good ones. But what could she do? She wanted to stop lying to 
herself, but at the same time she couldn’t. The truth was still too 
hard to grasp, maybe some other time… All she could do at this point 
was to continue… living…

She turned around a burnt out tree and was about to make her way back 
when she came across the ruins of shelter D-3, the shelter where her 
class mates where assigned to.

Asuka: …

Hikari, even those idiots Kensuke and Conrad… they would have been here 
during the battle… that means… no… but it can’t be… no… 

She fell to her knees on the singed grass, attempting in vain to block 
out the tears… She should have been about to protect them, she should 
have be there to stop the Angel’s flare… Instead, her pride, stupid 
aggressiveness and shear stubbornness clouded her judgment. And now 
Shinji’s in probably god knows what kind of situation and even Rei had 
tried to help him when she had her leg blown off. She, however, had to 
be restrained because she was a danger to others and herself… How 
pathetic, how low a level had she reached. How could she go on, knowing 
this…? If only they’d have a second chance at it.

Hikari: Asuka?

Asuka looked up from the floor, her face covered with tears. In front 
of her stood Hikari, in the flesh, as alive as anyone could be…

Asuka: H…Hi.. Hikari! You’re alive!!

Hikari: Asuka! What’s wrong! Why are you crying?

Asuka ( indicating the shelter ): H…how?! You would have been in there 
when it when up! No one could have survived!!

Hikari: Well… we would have been if in the middle of the battle Conrad 
hadn’t suddenly had an anxiety attack! He suddenly didn’t feel safe 
about staying in there… he was so serious about it he was dragging me 
out by force until I agreed to evacuate everyone out to D-2. Look… you 
can still see the bruise on my arm…

Asuka ( instantly forgetting her tears and her anger flaring ): That 
lowly maggot! How dare he hurt you! I beat him senseless for that!!

Hikari: No… don’t worry about it… If he hadn’t done it I probably 
wouldn’t have listened to him and we’d all have been still in there…

Asuka: …

Hikari ( looking back towards shelter D-3 ): Anyway, I convinced 
everyone in our whole class to move to D-2, and almost everyone else 
too. But some… refused to come… so… they’re… still… in there…

Asuka: So... where’s Kensuke and Conrad now?

Hikari: Oh, they’re still visiting Shinji in the hospital, I just came 
from there… You didn’t visit him did you?

Asuka ( feeling terribly guilty ): …no… not yet…

Hikari: Oh! Come on Asuka! You can’t do this. He ‘s in a coma! Touji 
told me what happened, what Shinji had to do to save us. Simply 
visiting him is the lest you could do…

Asuka: I… I can’t… that idiot humiliated me…

Hikari: Damn it Asuka! Would you rather be dead? And don’t even try to 
answer that! He wouldn’t have had to do that if you hadn’t gone and 
charged the Angel without any arms!! Anyway, do you have any idea how 
much he must have suffered. 

Asuka: What do you mean…?

Hikari: I am not totally ignorant Asuka. I may not know how the 
Evangelions fully work, but from what I do know from what you had once 
told me, is that you can feel the pain from any injuries inflicted to 
your Evas. How much of it you feel of it, is proportional to well you 
can control your Eva. Touji told me Shinji’s Sync was over three 
hundred at the end of the battle. I’m sure you can imagine what that 
means?

Asuka: T… that I’ll never beat him now?

Hikari took a moment to glare at Asuka, as if she’d committed some 
unspeakable sin. Which in Hikari’s mind, she wasn’t for from it.

Hikari: Asuka. For such a smart girl, you must be really thick… is 
being the best all you ever think about?! I don’t even want to know how 
having your arms shredded amplified three times over feels like. That’s 
what it means Asuka, he felt everything amplified three times over, all 
the pain. And you know what? For some reason, I don’t think he fought 
this battle for his own satisfaction, I think that he did it to save 
us… When he first came here he would have cared less… He didn’t have to 
stay. He didn’t have to suffer; you just don’t realize how much he 
actually gives… rather than take. He cooks, he cleans, he even washes 
your clothes… what the hell makes him do it? He’s certainly not getting 
paid to be your servant! I have to do that too, but I do it for my 
sisters! My family! And don’t try to deny it Asuka, I’ve been around 
you enough to know that you’ve let him do all the work, and it’s not 
that you can’t do it, it’s just that you’ve convinced yourself that you 
can’t or that you don’t have to!

For the first time since she known her, Hikari was scolding Asuka. To 
make matters worse, everything Hikari was bringing up was hitting home. 
Stunned beyond any comprehensible response, Asuka could do nothing but 
stand there and take the brunt.

Hikari: You know what? I might be actually wrong there, I think that 
maybe to Shinji, you and the Major are family, who knows, maybe you are 
even more than that to him. But you just can’t see that, can you? You 
don’t want to see it… I can tell that you’ve been hurt before, but it 
doesn’t mean that you have to go and hurt others who try to be there 
for you. I’ve always found your ways were a little bit too selfish but 
I was willing to withstand it because deep down… I know you are a good 
person. But this time you’ve gone to far Asuka, you must realize that 
he could never wake up again! That you may never get a chance to repay 
him for all the things he’s done for you… please listen to what someone 
else tells you to do for once in you life. Please… listen to yourself…


Asuka sniffed hard as she contemplated what Hikari had brought to her 
attention. She knew that it was the truth and that she was wrong. In 
truth, from the very end of the battle, she wanted to running to Shinji 
and tell him how much she really cared for him and how much of a bitch 
she’d been. But she didn’t allow herself to do that, she had remain 
frozen on the spot because she was unable to do anything else but to 
keep herself from running to him. She was wrong to do that. She should 
have gone. She should listen to herself and do what she knows is right. 
However, old habits die hard.

Asuka: Al… alright… I will go and visit him…

Hikari ( exhaling in defeat ): Oh well, it’s a start…

Asuka: …

Hikari: …

Asuka ( managing a small smile ): Thanks Hikari… since when did you 
become so wise?

Hikari: Me? Wise? Naaa… I’m just telling you what you already know…

The two girls stayed exactly as they were for a while. Then, both stood 
up from their kneeing position, both, now knowing what was the right 
thing to do.

Conrad: Never thought I’d see you cry over us…

The girls spun around to see Conrad standing on a nearby path with his 
arms crossed. He wore a smug face, having see the all-powerful Asuka in 
a vulnerable position for once. Unfortunately for him, that turned out 
to not be very wise action, as Asuka wasted no time in flipping him for 
all this troubles.

Asuka carefully cleared her eyes and begun to walk away with Hikari 
whilst waving a finger at Conrad.

Asuka: Just because you effectively saved Hikari’s and other people’s 
lives because of your cowardice I’ll go easy on you for now. But if you 
dare tell anyone about this, next time you’ll find yourself needing 
some new body parts.

Conrad ( still on his back and smiling softly as they walked away ): 
Hmmm…. So… now you’ve finally realized you’ve got a better for piloting 
reason too… but will it help?

Finally he got up and begun to dust his pants off. All of a sudden he 
turned to face a group of trees not too far away, the dimming light of 
the fading day had cast thick shadows underneath the foliage. From 
someone in his point of view, Conrad could have not seen anything 
within those shadows, but it still, it seemed that he could detect a 
presence. A smile had crept onto his face. Then, he silently turned and 
walked off into the distance.

From the hidden shadows beneath the trees, a certain red-eyed, blue-
haired girl had studied the scene with meticulous detail. From her 
point of view, things were starting to get interesting indeed.

Rei: Who are you? What… are you?



Somewhere in Europe

Two figures were in a car, inside a large elevator much like the one 
used by NERV to transport vehicles into the Geo-front. They stayed 
motionless as they descended into the depth of the ground. After he’d 
been sent to Canada, the woman he was now seated next to met him there. 
She called herself Danielle and was with OMBRA. A petit brunette, he 
guessed of around twenty-five. She’d been with him ever since, 
directing him to another flight and guiding him through the streets of 
Bern, Switzerland after they’d landed. He’d been blindfolded then, and 
after a strenuous two hours drive he found himself in this elevator.

Danielle: Mr. Rouji Kaji. Welcome to Antrum-4 or what those who live 
here call ‘The hole’.

Kaji: Wow… that’s… one big hole…

The elevator exited the tunnel and brought them into the OMBRA 
installation. Kaji surveyed the massive underground cavern. It was not 
as large as the Tokyo-3 Geo-front, but it was still of considerable 
size. Within it was what seemed like a large military complex. But in 
fact, surrounding it was magnificent parkland, as in the Geo-front.

Danielle: This is one of several bases that OMBRA possesses across the 
globe. We modeled them in a similar fashion to the NERV’s Geo-front, 
but instead of being primed against Angel attacks, they are designed 
primarily to keep any hostile human incursions at bay indefinitely. We 
are so deep underground, that even if they dropped an N2 directly on 
top of us, we would barely feel it.

Kaji: But why? Why do these bases exist and what are OMBRA’s aims?

Danielle smiled at Kaji’s questions, he was like a child staring out of 
the car at the wonders that they had achieved hidden away from the eyes 
of even SEELE and NERV, two of the most secret and powerful 
organizations in the world. Organizations which effectively wanted him 
to feed the worms.

Danielle: OMBRA originated as a strictly research and development arm 
of the organization you know as SEELE. These bases were actually built 
originally as secondary alternatives as locations for us, since our 
first base was actually in Greece, that, for obvious reasons was called 
Antrum-1. This was all but solid rock eleven years ago…

Kaji: You mean this whole place and all the others were dug by hand 
from solid rock only 11 years ago!!

Danielle: Well… not by hand I can assure you, but I know what you mean, 
our bases did not utilize an existing cavern like the Geo-front did, we 
had to make use of the latest mining equipment developed in the last 
decade. Most of it was dug up using a device which amplified sonic 
waves, in fact, I believe that’s what eventually led to the development 
of the Progressive knives the Evangelions use. 

Kaji: Why do they want me anyway? Surely you must have betters sources 
of information on SEELE or NERV than me…

Danielle: You assume correctly Mr. Rouji, you know much more than you 
even realize. No, we want you for your skills Mr. Rouji, we have many 
agents, all trained in the arts of warfare and intelligence, but we 
recognize a potential recruit when we see one.

Kaji: You want me to join you and take an active role?! But I’m a Intel 
agent, what good is an Intel agent when everyone knows who he is.

Danielle: Oh… well, that’s true but we intend to retrain you in other 
‘fields’, plus there’s also the small detail that there’s someone who’d 
like to see you.

Kaji: …?

Danielle: You’ll see…

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END CHAPTER 3

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*Author's corner*

Ahhh... finally finished another chapter of Eva: Fallen Angel, bugger, 
and I'm already halfway in writing the next bloody chapter. 

Must... refrain... from ripping off... scenes from... Peter F. Hamilton 
books... arggggg.... 

Well, I might as well take this time to acknowledge the authors who 
inspire me:

Peter F. Hamilton (author of the Night's dawn trilogy)
Terry Pratchett (we ALL know who he is...)
Traci Harding (author of the Ancient future trilogy)
Rand & Robyn Miller + David Wingrove (authors of the Myst series)
Clive Cussler (author of the Dirk pitt series)
& last but not lest: 
Patrica Cornwell (author of the Kay Scarpetta series)

As you can see, I read a lot of various genre so I have a large area of 
inspiration to draw from... though the stuff I use to write this fanfic 
come primarily from the sci-fic authors...

Coming up next: Chapter 4: Little white lies / Echo of memory. Will 
Shinji fully recover form the injuries he substained from the battle? 
What fate awaits former double Agent Kaji Rouji? But what about Gendo's 
knowledge of Angela? How does he know her, it is a secret which he 
fears should never reach Angela... Why? Bugger off! I'm not telling you 
yet! Wait for the next chapter of course!!!!

Many thanks to my pre-readers (yes I now have more than one!!!!):

Axel Terizaki
Zoe Symons
Juan Luis Carrasco
Brad S. Battles


Anyway, enough talk... must go back to playing FF8 now... 
cya...

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