The morning sun slowly made its way over the hills to illuminate the city
of Tokyo-03. Children from all
over the town began the morning grind of getting up,
getting dressed, and going to school. The day of one Shinji
Ikari was no different.
" Hey! Asuka! Wake Up!" Shinji shouted
from the kitchen as he prepared himself and his roommates
breakfast. He heard a groan from the next room. Shinji
sighed. Asuka was always like this at the best of times. He
sighed again and sat down to eat his breakfast. Asuka
walked in a moment later wearing a yellow dress.
" Asuka, it's a school day." Shinji
pointed out as Asuka yawned loudly. She cursed, in German, under her
breath and walked back into the room she came from. Shinji
laughed to himself quietly. He stood up and picked
up his school bag. He looked at the clock above him.
' Oh good. I still have a while yet before school.' He
thought to himself, sitting back down. Misato walked
in tiredly from another room. Yawning loudly, she
proceeded to the fridge and grabbed the first can of
beer in reach. Opening it, she downed half the can quickly,
and whooped with delight. Shinji laughed inwardly again.
' The pick me up' He thought. Misato walked over to
the table and sat down behind one of the plates. She
quickly began to shovel it down her mouth.
" Morning Misato." Shinji said.
" Morning Shinji." Misato replied
between mouthfuls. Asuka walked in wearing her school uniform and sat
down. She quietly began to eat her breakfast. Shinji
picked up his empty plate and took it over to the sink when
the doorbell rang.
" I'll get it." He said, walking out
of the kitchen. He opened the door. Toji stood outside.
" Toji?" Shinji asked. Toji nodded.
" In the flesh." Toji replied. He
waved his left arm in front of Shinji. " All of it." He added.
" What are you doing here?" Shinji
asked.
" Meeting you before school. I wanted
to come a few minutes early, though, and show you the new limbs."
Toji replied. He indicated behind Shinji. " Can I come
in?" He asked. Shinji nodded.
" How'd you get them back?" Shinji
asked as he shut the door behind Toji.
" Their cloned. Don't ask me how,
I couldn't understand or remember the medical mumbo jumbo the doctors
told me." Toji explained. Shinji and Toji walked into
the kitchen.
" Who was......" Misato began, as
she turned to face Shinji. " Oh." She ended, seeing Toji. Asuka glanced
up
for a moment. She swallowed the food that was in her
mouth, and looked down again, desperately trying to
ignore the suprise guest.
" Hi Misato." Toji said.
" I was going to tell them you had
been placed back into active duty after breakfast, Toji, but I see that's
not
necessary any more." Misato said. Toji nodded.
" I couldn't let you tell everybody
now could I?" Toji asked cockily. He smiled.
" Now that you mention it, I've got
something to tell you all." Misato continued. Shinji and Toji sat down
at
the table. Asuka finished her food and looked at Misato.
" The real fifth child has been found as is being sent
here for active duty." She explained. Asuka's jaw almost
dropped.
" Another Pilot? Where from?" She
rushed. Misato was about to reply.
" Which Eva is he piloting?" Shinji
interrupted. Misato sighed inwardly.
" He's from America, and he pilots
Eva Unit-04. He's going to be here in about two days."
" I thought that Unit-04 was destroyed."
Shinji said.
" It wasn't. We actually found it
under a pile of rubble. It's A.T. field activated itself just before the
explosion,
and it was buried. Or so I heard." Toji looked surprised.
" Not even a day out of hospital and
already there's a new pilot." He complained. Misato smiled.
" Look on the bright side. At least
you're not getting replaced." She said.
" I suppose." Toji replied, unenthusiastically.
Shinji looked at his watch.
" We'd better be going, or we're going
to be late." He said. Misato nodded.
" Hurry up then." She said. Standing
up, she left the kitchen. Shinji, Asuka and Toji picked up their bags and
left for school. Asuka slowed down and took a detour
just to be away from the other two.
Toji and Shinji arrived early for school and took their seats. Everybody
in the class was talking. Hikari,
who had been keeping the noise down , walked over to
Toji and Shinji.
" Suzuhara? You're back?" She asked.
Toji smiled.
" Yeah." He said. " Isn't it cute?"
He asked playfully. Hikari tried not to blush as Toji walked past and sat
down
on his seat. The class piped down a bit as they heard
footsteps, but they weren't the teachers. A 15 year old boy
walked into the room, wearing earphones and humming loudly.
Shinji looked at him as the kid opened his eyes.
He was tall and thin, and had orange hair, styled in
the same way Kaworu Nagisa's hair had been. He had bright
red eyes, wore a white shirt with the sleeves rolled
up to the elbows, with a black T-shirt underneath it. He also
wore black trousers and black cycling gloves, and had
a black and red backpack slung over one shoulder. Several
members of the room fell silent. 'The only people who
every join this class are fourth level Eva pilot candidates,
or Eva pilots. I wonder if he's that new pilot for Unit-04.'
Shinji thought.
" Guess what? Aren't you all unlucky?
I'm BACK!" The kid shouted, sitting down on Asuka's seat. Taking out
the earphones and stopping the CD-Player they were connected
to, he planted his feat on her desk, and leant
backwards, hands behind his head, and looked at the roof.
Hikari walked beside him.
" That stains gone. And that light
fixtures been fixed. And they repainted the ceiling. How dare they?! That's
years of hard vandalism wasted?" The kid said, pointing
upward with his right hand.
" You were only here for a couple
of months Matt." Hikari said to the kid. The kid, obviously called Matt,
wrapped his arm around her waist.
" You think I care?" He said, turning
his head to look at her head. She maneuvered her head to look him in the
eyes.
" You remember what happened the last time
you did that to me?" She said to him. Matt hand moved away
slowly, and he put it back behind his head.
" You're dangerous." He said. Asuka
walked into the classroom and stopped by Matt, on the other side of him
to Hikari.
" HEY! That's my seat!" She shouted.
Matt turned slowly began turning to face her.
" I'm sorry, did I make a-" He finished
turning his head, and looked at her breasts. " Boooob......Boob!"
He
finished. Pointing with his left hand, he shouted " Look
at the size of those!" Asuka slapped him.
" Perverser mench!" She shouted at
him, which everybody recognized as German.
" Zwei Bierre Bitte!" Matt shouted
back, which people recognized was also German. Asuka slapped him. As
Matt rubbed his sore cheek, Asuka pushed him off of her
seat. He stood up next to it as Asuka sank into her
seat. Matt was about to push her off the seat in return,
but the teacher walking in stopped him. The other kids ran
to their seats and quietened down to a level of noise
not audible to the teacher, which wasn't much quieter than
the level of noise that they had been at.
" Class, we have two students rejoining
our class after a long time away in their own country. However, for the
benefit of those who have not met them, they will reintroduce
themselves. Matt stepped forward.
" I'm Matt Blake, as far too many
of you know." He grinned an evil, playful smile at Asuka, who growled
menacingly. The rest of the class laughed. The other
kid stepped forward.
" I'm Mel Smee." She said quietly.
The laughter subsided and everyone acknowledged her. The teacher
pointed to two available desks, one next to Toji, and
the other next to Asuka. Mel began walking towards the one
next to Asuka Matt walked up beside her and held her
back.
" Oh no you don't. I've got dibs on
that desk. I must annoy that cute girl next to it." He said. Mel sighed.
" You'll only last a day there before
they swap us over, if that." Mel replied. Matt smiled.
" And You're point is.....?" The question
was left hanging in the air as Matt walked over to the desk, planted
his feet on it, and leant backwards. He looked left to
see Asuka desperately trying to ignore him, and typed a
quick message on the laptop that he had placed on his
lap.. A message flashed up on the screen of her laptop.
Absent-mindedly, she pushed the call receive button.
The message read ' I can see you're underwear.' Asuka
stared at the message for a moment, and it appeared again
in German. She sent the message 'Pervert' back to the
owner of the last message, and looked to her right to
see Matt type something else, before smiling and waving at
her. Another message appeared, reading ' I know.' Asuka
growled quietly in anger, and sent another message. It
read, 'Send another message, and I'll kill you' Another
message appeared on Asuka screen. 'Make me' it read.
Asuka reached into her bag, picked out a book, and threw
it at Matt. It hit his head with a loud 'thump' noise.
The teacher, who had be talking the whole time looked
up to see the two troublemakers. After several more
minutes of hassle, he swapped Matt and Mel over.
A few hours later, the bell rang and announced in its own way that it was
lunchtime. Matt and Toji both
shouted simultaneously.
" All right! Lunchtime!" The two looked
at each other, before Matt got up and joined Toji, Kensuke and Shinji.
" So, exactly what was the teacher
talking about?" Matt asked, stopping and leaning on Toji's desk.
" Weren't you listening?" Kensuke
asked. He then shook his head and added: " Stupid Question really."
" Second Impact." Shinji said. Matt
took out his earphones.
" What was that? I was listening to
Rammstein again," Matt said.
" Second Impact." Shinji repeated.
Matt nodded an 'Oh' He picked up his school bag and opened it.
" So, what've you got for lunch?"
Toji asked Matt. Matt fished out a plastic container.
" Guess?!" Matt said. Toji shook,
his head, and Matt opened the pot. The smell of fried bacon filled the
room.
" What a surprise." Toji said, grinning
about the private joke. Shinji looked blankly from one to the other.
" Huh?"
" Newbie." Matt said. Shinji, now
utterly confused, asked what was going on.
" Don't worry, when you get to know
Matt, which you no doubt will, you'll understand." Toji replied. Matt
nodded again, and the two walked off to the roof, leaving
the bewildered Kensuke and Shinji behind.
" They're old friends." Kensuke said
in explanation.
" When'd they meet?" Shinji asked.
" 'Bout three year's ago. Matt was
only around for a couple of months, before he went back to England."
Kensuke explained, before he and Shinji began making
their way to the roof.
" So,
who's the red head I pissed off?" Matt asked, chomping on a bacon sandwich.
Toji looked across
the hills.
" Red head? Oh, you mean Asuka."
" That's her name? She's cute."
" No, she's not. She's a complete
bitch."
" What gives her the right to be a
bitch? I wanna be a bitch too."
" She's a pilot, and as far as she's
concerned it makes her all powerful."
" Pilot?"
" Eva Pilot."
" Oh. The Eva's. I heard about them
in England. They said the fighting got pretty rough at times."
" Then why'd you come back?" Matt
shrugged., and finished his sandwich.
" My dad wanted me back here. He said
something about the military." Toji made a pfft sound.
" Military stuff. That's all your
dad's about."
" Yep." The two stared silently at
the horizon, and a moment later the school bell rang.
" Bloody school." Matt said, before
mumbling something strange about cabbages and dynamite. Toji ignored
him as he went back to the classroom.
As the school bell that signaled the end of the day rang, Toji walked out
to the bike locks with Matt.
" So, have you still got the same
apartment?" Toji asked as Matt fiddled with the lock on his bike.
" Nope. They rented it out to someone
else long ago. Some girl called Rei I think."
" Rei Ayanami?" Toji asked.
" Yeah, that's the one. You know her?"
" She's in the class. Surely you should
have noticed her."
" Which one?" Matt looked genuinely
confused.
" She's that blue haired girl that
sits by the window."
" Her?" Mat asked. Toji nodded in
response. "She reminds me of an albino." Matt added
" I know what you mean." Toji replied.
Matt mumbled something about his lock in response, before snapping
it. Toji looked slightly amazed.
" I needed a new one anyway." Matt
said as he pulled his bike out.
" So where are you gonna live?" Toji
asked. Matt shrugged.
" I figure I'd get one of the ones
in that block on the edge of the city."
" Shinji lives round there."
" I'll have to gate crash his house
sometime."
" Try it, and Asuka would kill you."
" Asuka? They live together? I don't
get that. Asuka seems to hate Shinji. And everybody else, for that
matter."
" There both pilots. Misato, their
commander, took them both in so she could make sure they work together."
" Military, Military, Military." Matt sighed.
" See ya 'round."
" Yeah, see ya." Toji said. Matt climbed
onto his bike and rode off. Shinji, who had been standing near them,
not near enough to hear the conversation though, walked
over to Toji, and began leading him to NERV HQ.
" What do you mean there's no spare
apartments!" Matt shouted at the confused attendant. He had been
waiting for at least an hour for the attendant, only
to find that there were no rooms available. Matt sighed as the
attendant dropped a load of papers, and leant down to
pick them up. This was the last apartment block at the
edge of the city, and if they didn't have an apartment,
then he'd either have to back to his old place or find a
friend to stay with. 'I wonder if Mel is having better
luck?' Matt thought, but his mind was interrupted as the
attendant spoke.
" Oh, I'm mistaken. There is a room
available." He said, giving Matt the paper. He looked it over. It was a
small
apartment, with a kitchen and three other rooms. Matt
figured that there wasn't anything better around, so he
agreed, signed up, and set up all the other crap that
was necessary to gain the apartment.
" The apartment is room 14B, on the
12th floor." The attendant informed Matt, although it was unnecessary,
seeing as the address was on the paper. The attendant
picked up the keys to give them to Matt, and dropped
them.
" First Day?" Matt asked sarcastically,
and picked up the keys. He walked over to the lift. However, just before
he stepped through the door's though, a familiar voice
called out to him and stopped him.
" Hey!" The familiar voice called.
Matt turned around to see Mel running towards him. He held the elevator
door open as she ran up to him, and stopped inside, breathless.
He stepped in after her and the doors closed.
" Hey to you too." Matt said.
Mel smiled at him, and placed a hand over her heart. A moment later, she
had
enough breath to speak.
" I noticed you were at the desk.
You got an apartment here?" Mel asked.
" Yeah...........Why.........?" Matt
asked slowly.
" I haven't found one yet. I wondered....if...I...could,...um,...like.......move
in....... with ........you....." Mel asked
very slowly, as if regretting every word. Matt digested
the speech for a moment, and burst out laughing. Mel
stared at him angrily for a moment, and decided that
the best way to silence him was to poke him sharply in the
ribs with her elbow. The theory worked, and Matt's laughter
subsided to a gentle giggle. He wiped the tears of
laughter from his eyes.
" Okay, okay, I see no reason to refuse
you. It's probably safer anyway. After all, you know how to cook. All I
know is how to damage." Matt replied. Mel laughed softly
for a moment.
" That's the first thing you've gotten
right all day." She said.
" And It'll probably be the last as
well." Matt added. Mel smiled. The lift stopped and the doors opened. Matt
sarcastically bowed and gestured towards the door.
" Ladies first." He said. As Mel walked
out, Matt finished being stupid and followed her to their new apartment.
Meanwhile, Ritsuko stood in the control room watching over the rebuilt
Unit-03. Shinji and Misato
stood next to her, watching the activation test below.
" Begin activation test." Ritsuko
said.
" Beginning test. Inserting the Entry
plug." Maya said. The robotic loader inserted the entry plug into the
Eva's neck. The opening shut behind it.
" Filling Entry Plug." Maya said.
The entry plug began to fill. Toji mumbled 'I hate this part.' A moment
before
the LCL filled the plug.
" How do you feel Toji?" Ritsuko asked
over the radio.
" Weird." He replied
" What do you mean by weird?"
" Like there's a load of stuff holding
me in place." Toji replied. Reflexively pulling on the control stick, he
turned his head to the left, to face the control box.
The Evangelion copied his movement exactly. Toji let go of the
control stick instantaneously. " This is weirder than
weird." He mumbled. In the control box, Ritsuko turned to
face Maya as Shinji let out a sigh of relief, the words
'Thank God' going with it.
" What's his synchronization?"
" 55%" Maya said. Ritsuko looked puzzled.
" That's higher than Shinji's first
synchronization."
" This is Toji's second sync, Ma'am."
Maya said in a way of reply. Ritsuko turned to Misato, who simply shrugged.
Ritsuko turned back to the radio.
" Toji, were going to start a basic
movement test in the Geofront." Ritsuko said as Maya tapped in the restraint
release commands. After the restraints had been released,
Unit-03's platform moved to one of the catapults.
" Yes Ma'am." Ritsuko turned to face
Shinji.
"We're going to send you up there
to help him, and remove the entry plug if something goes wrong." She
ordered. Shinji nodded, and turned to change into his
entry plug suit. Toji grimaced as the catapult flung him and
his Evangelion up to the Geofront.
" Look, It's really not that hard."
Shinji said as Toji fell over for the umpteenth time.
" Yeah it is." Toji replied as he
stood up. Throughout the fifteen minutes he had been in the test, that
was the
only thing he had managed to master. Shinji sighed to
himself.
" Look, just pull on the control stick
and concentrate on walking." Shinji said. Toji did what was asked.
Unit-03' took a step forward, and another, before tripping
over its own feet and crashing to the ground.
" Treat the Eva as an extension of
you're own body." Ritsuko commanded as Toji once again stood up.
" I told you, it's difficult. Get
of my case!" Toji replied irritably. He pulled on the control stick again
and,
wobbling, managed to take about five steps before tripping
over. Ritsuko sighed.
" Forget the movement for a moment.
We'll send you a rifle. We'll test you're stationary firing ability." Ritsuko
said. Toji got up and Shinji held out the rifle that
had been sent up. Toji carefully took it.
" Now, to fire, line up the-" Ritsuko's
explanation was cut short as the first automated target popped up, and
promptly fell down again as a hail of bullets blasted
into it. Toji looked down at the smoking barrel of his Eva rifle.
" Cool." He said. As the second target
popped up Unit-03' twisted to it's right and ripped a hole in the centre
of it with the rifle. This accuracy continued for the
next few targets, as heads, individual limbs and vital areas
were targeted and attacked with suprising accuracy.
" Very good." Ritsuko said. " We'll
try you out with moving targets."
" Okay." Toji said. The first moving
target popped up and began sliding to it's left. Unit-03' followed it with
its
rifle and blasted it two seconds later.
" Okay, now that we know you can shoot,
lets start you on movement training again." Shinji took the rifle from
Toji and placed it back in it's holder. Toji groaned
as Ritsuko began explaining to him about how to make the Eva
walk again.
Three hours later, a tired and thoroughly bored Toji climbed out of Unit-03's
entry plug. Shinji waited
for him at the entrance to the changing rooms.
" Is all piloting that boring and
difficult?" Toji asked, yawning.
" No. It gets much easier." Shinji
replied. Toji shook his head as the two went into the changing rooms.
Ritsuko sat at her desk, writing up a report of the training session that
day. It read:
Date: 13-8-2015
Time: 23:19 Subject: Toji
Suzuhara (Fourth C.)
The Fourth Child has spent three and a half hours in training, supervised
by Unit-01. The pilot has a
high degree of firearms accuracy, and is a good shot
at short and medium range. He has yet to master the basics
of movement, such as walking, running, and crawling.
Neither he, nor Unit-01's pilot, have mastered the usage of
their Evangelions S2 organs, although the ability to
activate them is still not known to anyone. Unit-03' has, so
far, proven to be controllable, but it has not been deemed
whether supervision is still required, it will still be
monitored by another Evangelion. The pilot still cannot
activate the Unit's arm extension capability.
The Fourth Child's current synchronization ratio with Unit-03' is 55%,
which is higher than any other
child's initial synchronization. It is suspected that
it has something to do with the fact that he was present in the
entry plug of Unit-03 when it was possessed by the thirteenth
angel. Presence of the thirteenth angel in the
genetic structure of Evangelion Unit-03' is still unconfirmed,
but there has been no evidence that it still exists.
The S2 organ that was cloned into the Unit may have been
accidental, but it may also show that the angel is still
present. Until confirmed otherwise, we assume that the
angel that populated Unit-03's body is dead.
Report Ends.
Ritsuko sighed, picked up and sipped a cup of now cold coffee. Making two
copies of the report, she
placed one in a folder on her desk and took the second
with her. She entered a code into her security door, and
left, unaware of what was about to happen.
The security door clicked, and opened. A shadow slid across Ritsukos
office, in search of something.
The figure it belonged to slowly and stealthily walked
up to the desk and opened the file that contained the
Fourth Child's report. Picking out the report , the shadows
owner read through it slowly and carefully, absorbing
every detail and sentence. Roughly half an hour later,
the report was carefully placed back in its file and returned
to its position on the desk. The person spoke quietly
to themselves, as if thinking out loud.
" So, they did rebuild Unit-03. They
didn't mention any new weapons, aside from the S2. I wonder....." The
sentence trailed off into nothing as the spy entered
a password. The door to Ritsuko's office opened and they
left as they had come in, sliding among the shadows and
under the security camera's.
Only fifteen minutes later, in the central region of Terminal Dogma, Ritsuko
and Gendo looked up at an
Evangelion. It's crimson armour plating shone grimly
in the minimal lighting. A lone figure walked onto the
gangplank from the left.
" Are you just gonna stand there and admire it,
or are you gonna get it out of cryo-fucking-status?" The
figure asked. Gendo turned to look at him.
" The thawing process is beginning.
You will have to wait."
" Yeah, I know I gotta screwin' wait,
I wish you'd just hurry up about gettin' it out and not stand here looking
at it!" The person shouted. Gendo began looking annoyed,
but somehow remained calm.
" It is thawing itself out. We cannot
speed up the process, nor can we let information about the existence of
either this unit or Unit-05C."
" And you plan to leave me too wait
until you're bothered to tell them, right?"
" As long as they have not guessed
either of you're secrets, then we are O.K."
" Well, I think there close to getting
the first." The person said. Gendo shook his head.
" Geez, shut up!" Another person said,
walking up behind the first that had come in.
" Oh, and you're happy to wait are
you, wingding?" The first voice argued.
" You know as well as I do that there's
no way to speed this up." The second voice argued back, unbashed.
The first person made a pfft sound, and, giving up, walked
off.
" Is he always like that?" Ritsuko
asked.
" No. He's probably just pissed off
'cause despite the fact you said it would take about a year, it took three
years to complete this." The other voice answered.
" We did not realize that it would
take that long. It was no fault of ours." Gendo explained.
" Tell him that." The other person
replied, before walking off. Gendo shook his head in dissatisfaction, and
began to walk off. Ritsuko, obligated by command, followed
him.
The next morning was gray and bleak, and showed all the signs of a nearby
storm. Shinji looked out of
the window as Asuka made breakfast, seeing as it was
her turn. Misato's whoop of joy as she finished her beer
broke through Shinji's concentration, and before it could
return to the window, the telephone rang. He walked
over to pick it up.
" Ahh, The invincible Shinji returns
to answering telephones once again!" Asuka said, desperately
trying to annoy Shinji, who ignored her as usual.
" Hello?" Shinji asked. He listened
for a moment, and handed the phone to Misato.
" It's Ritsuko." Misato took the phone.
" Yes?" Misato asked. She listened
to the call for a moment, and put the phone down.
" We're wanted at Headquarters. Ritsuko
wants to take a quick sync test, and you're wanted on standby." She
said, and picked up her car keys. Asuka, who had just
finished with breakfast, cursed quietly in German under her
breath, picked up the food and put it into a bag to take
with her. She would let nothing stop her from having
breakfast.
Twenty minutes later, at NERV HQ, Misato, Asuka and Shinji walked into
the synchronization test box,
to see Ritsuko and the other technicians waiting, and
Rei and Toji already suited up.
" All right Children, get suited up."
Shinji and Asuka nodded, and walked towards the changing rooms.
Ritsuko turned to Misato.
" How can you manage to be late, all
the time?" Ritsuko asked. Misato gave an embarrassed smile, shrugged,
and looked away. Ritsuko sighed. Shinji and Asuka walked
out of the changing rooms, and stood with Toji and
Rei. Ritsuko turned to face them.
" Get into you're test plugs children.
We'll begin the test as soon as possible." The children nodded, and
began walking towards their test plugs, when the alarm
sounded. Ritsuko looked to the technicians in a moment
of confused panic, and calmed herself.
" What is it?!" Ritsuko half cried,
half asked.
" A target has been located not to
far from here. It's pattern is green."
" Green? What the hell does that mean..?"
Misato asked. Ritsuko turned in a with an expression made of
calmness and fear.
" It means it's probably not an angel."
Misato was paralyzed with fear for a moment, and was silent.
" If it's not an angel, then what
is it?!" Asuka shouted, bringing Misato out of her trance. She turned to
Maya.
" I can't get a visual from here,
We've got to go to the command deck." Maya replied. Misato nodded, and
everyone left the test control centre, and headed towards
the command deck.
Five minutes later, Misato half ran, half stumbled onto the command deck,
followed four confused
pilots, Ritsuko, Maya, and a host of other technicians.
The technicians all sat in their appropriate seats, while
Ritsuko and Misato stood in the centre. Maya began punching
up a visual of the enemy. All eyes turned towards
the screen to see what they were fighting. It was almost
identical to Sachiel, the third angel, except that it's skin
was pure black, and it only had one head. The S2 orb
on its chest was a deep blue, and the elbow tendrils glowed
a dull red, identical in colour to the two glowing lights
emanating from the beasts two eye sockets. It lumbered
through the outskirts of Tokyo-3.
" It looks identical to an angel...."
Misato began.
" It's genetic structure is 30% more
refined than any previous angels, and it's producing a 50% greater power
outage." Maya said. Misato didn't even finish what she
was going to say.
" Course of action?" Ritsuko asked.
" Dispatch all four Evangelions. Arm
Unit's 00', 01 and 02 with close combat weaponry and arm Unit-03 with an
Eva assault rifle. Deploy at the edge of the city. Send
all civilians into the shelters and put the city into defense
mode." Misato ordered. The pilots nodded, and headed
off to the cage elevator, while the technician staff
prepared the launch catapults and send up the weapons.
About five minutes later, the four catapults launched, sending the four
Evangelions up to the surface.
As the safety locks on the shoulders of the four Evangelions
released, Unit-03' fell over and smacked into the
ground.
" Ow! Crap!" Toji shouted. A Holo-Screen
communication window opened, and Asuka's sniggering face
appeared.
" What's the matter? Can't you make
it walk yet? Awww!" Asuka said in a very childish voice, obviously
mocking Toji. He, however, braced Unit-03's foot against
the catapult and leapt forward, grabbing the machine
gun from it's building storage container. He landed in
a standing position several hundred metres from the
catapult. He swiveled round and raised the machine gun
in Asuka's direction.
" No, but I could blast a tin can from off
your head." Toji replied smugly, smirking slightly. " And I've mastered
getting up!" He added, even more smugly. Asuka growled,
and shut off the communication. Toji then lowered
the machine gun, and smirked even more. Asuka, grabbed
a progressive axe out of one of the storage buildings,
and Unit's 00' and 01 grabbed spears. All four Evangelions
turned to face the city limits, and Unit-03' fell over
once again.
" How can you get these things to
walk!?!" Toji asked, his Eva standing up once again. He took a slow careful
step forward. Misato, on the command deck, shook her
head.
" Toji, forget it. Stay there. Shinji,
support him. I don't want the... Urm... Angel..type...thingy to knock him
flat
before he has a chance to fight." She said. Toji nodded,
his Eva copied the movement, and in the confusion Toji
fell over again. Misato, Ritsuko, and Shinji sighed simultaneously.
As Unit-03' stood up, Unit-01 moved back
towards it and Units 00' and 02 moved out into the outskirts.
A moment later, a blue flash came from the creature,
and it disappeared momentarily. Misato redirected Unit's
00' and 02 to look for it.
Down in the fourteenth shelter, Matt Blake beckoned
to Mel, who crawled over to the corner of the
room, out of average earshot.
" Did you get the signal?" He asked.
Mel nodded, and handed Matt a camera, with the TV Aerial extended.
" Be careful. It's picky at the moment."
She warned, just before Matt could fiddle with the aerial.
" The picture's fuzzy." He mumbled.
Mel made a quiet 'hmmpf' noise.
" I'm not a wizard." She retorted.
" No, but you're not normal either."
Matt replied. He looked down at the screen. As he watched, Unit-03' span
on the spot from his viewer. "Heh, heh, heh..." He said
quietly, as he watched the exact same video feed as NERV
HQ through one of their own security cameras.
What seemed to Toji like hours, but was in fact only twenty minutes, went
by. The target was still not
on radar, and Unit's 00' and 02 desperate running back
and fourth around the city limits trying to find it had
proved useless. Toji yawned noisily, and shook his head
in an effort to keep awake.
" Ma'am. Toji's sync ratio is dropping."
Maya said. Misato open the Holo-Screen line.
" Don't fall asleep." She ordered.
" But all this silence and inactivity
is boring." Toji replied, stifling another yawn.
" Stay alert. It won't last forever."
Misato ordered, and sure enough, she was right. A deep red tendril sliced
across Unit-03's back, and Toji screamed in pain as the
Eva toppled forward. The machine gun want off, and
blasted a hole in the tarmac road, before being dropped
by Unit-03'. Unit-01 span around to see the target retract
it's tendril and reach down for Unit-03'.
" No!" He cried, throwing the spear
like a javelin towards the target. The creature looked up, and it's tendril
shot out and sliced the end off, before retracting again.
The two sections of the spear fell with a clank beside
Unit-03', which was struggling to get up. The creature
walked forward and grabbed Unit-01 by the head. Unit-01
reached up and grabbed the arm, only to be lifted off
of the floor.
" Help!" Shinji shouted. The creature
moved Shinji over to one side, and looked at the approaching Unit-00',
which had responded to Shinji's cries. A bright red flash
from the creatures eyes ensured, and Unit-00' was
blasted off of its feet by a huge blast of energy. The
creature began attempting to crush Unit-01's head. Unit-03',
however, managed to get back on it's feet.
" No....." Toji began, picking up
the metal pole end of the broken spear. With a huge show of strength, he
thrust the pole violently forward. It smacked into the
flesh at the side of the creature, and ripped through it. The
creatures right leg buckled slightly as It began straining
under the weight on it's injured hip. Toji then picked up
the blade of the spear, and tried to reach round to get
at the S2 core. The Eva's arm extended outward as Toji
reached round, and the blade smashed with a crunch into
the blue S2 core. It began flashing and pulsating wildly.
" Get out of there! It's gonna explode!"
Misato shouted. A red haze appeared in front of Unit-01, before the
entire screen, and in fact, city, was engulfed in a huge
ball of glowing blue light. There was a loud crash a few
second later. Misato stared up at the screen, and the
bright light slowly faded away.
The bright light made Matt wince, and he only just covered the screen to
stop other people noticing the
feed.
" If that's not an angel, then what
was..." He asked Mel, who shrugged.
As the light faded, the screen in the command deck showed the cityscape.
The metal and tarmac floor
was scarred and pitted slightly. On this ground lay Unit-01,
and slightly further away, Unit-00'. Even further
away, Eva Unit-03' was embedded in its Eva catapult,
the metal spear pole jutting out of it's hip..
" The Eva's...." Misato began, never
intending to finish the sentence. That was, of course, just as well, as
Unit-01 and Unit-00' began stirring and scraping across
the ground, painfully standing up. They both looked
over at Unit-03', which lay silent.
" Toji...." Shinji said. A second
later, the communication screen opened, and Toji's face, cut slightly,
showed
itself.
" Please tell me piloting's not as
painful as that all the time...." He said, a lopsided smile dominating
his face.
Misato smiled in relief.
Meanwhile, behind her, Commander Ikari smiled in satisfaction, though it
was hidden by his carefully
placed hands. 'The Unit-03' reproduction plan was a success.
Even with minimal training, the pilot mastered
destruction of an advanced angel based enemy. SEELE will
not stand a chance against this many combat
effective Eva's.' He thought. ' And with the Cyclone
Model Evangelions, they don't even stand a prayer.'
Three hours later, the Eva recover crew eventually dug Unit-03' out of
the catapult, much to Toji's
distaste. The crew finally opened the entry plug hatch,
and the plug twisted out of position. The levered open
the top plate and the LCL drained around them. Toji climbed
out slowly and painfully.
" I did good, didn't I?" HE asked,
and almost collapsed. The medical support team led him to an ambulance,
where they saw to the large, feedback caused, gash in
his side.
" I Don't believe it! Even the Toji
can do better than me!!!" Asuka screamed, and continued to complain and
rant as Maya hit the switch that muted her sound system.
Misato shook her head in distaste at Asuka's actions.
However, the first battle with Unit-03' had been a success,
and anyone who was possibly connected could be grateful.
At that very same moment, Millions of Miles away, several advanced creatures
'sat' around a 'table',
and began speaking. Their high pitched, squeals would
have been painful to any human close enough to hear
them. The first one spoke.
" Glac'trta screveti mikreen, timosisa
cotolo'asoto floosenta. Lacheera monoskaya fant'siria." Is roughly the
sound you would have heard, had you been there. That,
however, translated to:
" The first of our warriors has failed."
The closest one to him responded, also in the same language.
" That's what happens when you deploy
a weapon that has already failed once." Another commented.
" There will be no more mistakes.
There will be no more copies of failures. We deploy our own weapons now."
The first ordered. The others agreed, and a 3D projection
of the next appeared in front of them, as the warmasters
of the Skynyn race developed their next weapon.
The Final Genesis of Mankind had begun.
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