Prologue.
" Pilots Child Zero and One please report to cages for activation. Child Zero and One report to cages for activation." The two young men looked at each other and nodded.
" It is time." said the one called child Zero
" Indeed it is Ryobi" Said Child One
The stood up and put on the heavy parkas the were required to traverse the short distance between their barracks and the cages. Antarctica was cold all the time, but brutally cold in the winter. The two made there way out into the cold and came to external command base.
" Do you think everything will go well today?" Ryobi asked of his friend.
" I am uncertain, something about today feels off, I'm sure you've felt it."
" Yes, in fact since last night, my thought were heavy and made sleeping difficult. That and the strange dreams I've been having since my last synch test when I passed the 110% mark have made me uneasy." Ryobi told his friend.
" You never do mention what's in those dreams of yours. Some nights you wake up screaming, are they nightmares?" One asked
" To be honest… I don't know, they're so vivid, to real, to be mere dreams. They seem more like visions." Ryobi said.
One was silent at this he too had some strange dreams that had seemed real, but he passed them off as just his mind making up things. The two arrived at the cage and were greeted by Dr. Katsuragi.
" Are you two ready to activate the Evangelions?" he asked. The Dr. seemed excited. 'He should be' thought Ryobi, this has been his life's work. Both boys nodded and climbed aboard their EVA's.
" Are you ready?" came Katsuragi voice through the comm. They both knew they could see them and nodded. " Begin activation"
Everything started off fine both Eva's made it the third and final connection and passed the ego boarder line.
" Every thing looks good sir, Eva's are operational." A cheer went up in the observation room, they had finally done it! After years of research they had done it. A young raven haired girl stood next to her father smiling.
" Sir getting some strange reading beneath the ice. I'm not sure what it is but, wave spectrum analysis comes up with blue shift sir." one the of the bridge techs said. Dr Katsuragi leaned over his shoulder and looked at the readings. " Strange, I've never seen that before. Keep monitoring it if it changes…."
" AAAAAAARRRGHGHG! GET OUT OF MY HEAD! STOP!" Every one looked to the video feed from One's Eva. He sat in the cockpit clutching his head crying out in agony. " JUST MAKE IT STOP!" A black cloud swirled around the Eva blocking it from view. " A.T Field detected!" Shouted the tech. Dr. Katsuragi turned in shock. " Eject the entry plugs, get the pilots out of there!"
The black cloud suddenly began to flow into One's open mouth while he screamed, then the cloud disappeared and he fell limp. Suddenly his eyes opened, revealing them to be blood red, with no irises.
" That's better." he said and spun around grabbing Ryobi's Eva by the throat and throwing it into the nearby wall. Ryobi grunted in pain. He stood his Eva up and looked at his long time friend.
" What was that fo… what the hell?" he said noticing his friends appearance for the first time. He just grinned and a sphere of golden light appeared in his hands and then morphed into the shape of two pronged fork. He grinned and threw the pronged spear at Ryobi.
Ryobi didn't even have time to raise his A.T field. The spear hit his Eva and pierced the entry plug, impaling Ryobi and pinning his Eva helplessly to the wall.
Ryobi was dying, he knew it. No survived getting impaled like that. As he faded he began to wonder what death felt like.
Escape Pod Bay:
" But daddy, I don't wanna leave you!" the young girl wailed as her father forced her into the escape pod.
" Please, it's for the best" he said as the building shook again. He took off the cross necklace his late wife had given him and put it on her neck saying, " ill see you again I promise." Dr. Katsuragi said. The crying girl finally relented and got in the pod. He sealed it shut and jettisoned it into the ocean. " I love you, Misato my daughter." he whispered with tears in his eyes as he watched her leave.
Cages:
Ryobi felt warm, he opened his eyes to see a figure of a man standing in front of him. I am Michael the soul of your Eva. Ryobi laughed, I must be hallucinating he thought. you are not hallucinating young one, I am Michael. I am an angel. YOU are my vessel, should you accept. Ryobi stared dumbfounded
And if I don't? He asked. All the world will perish at his hands.
Then I accept. The strange light floated to him and began to merge with him.
In the observation room the tech said "Ryobi he's… Wait! AT field detected stronger then One's!" A bright light emanated from Ryobi's Eva. " His synch Ratio is… My God! Its off the damn Chart! We cant even begin to measure it!"
Ryobi never felt so good. He looked down at the spear and pulled it out of his body and threw it at the opposing Eva. Bounced harmlessly off its AT field. Ryobi's Eva had sprouted twenty Gold an silver wings and had a halo of light above its head.
" I should've known you'd come today brother." Ryobi said to the One.
" You, I will destroy you and wreak my vengeance upon this world for imprisoning me!"
" You will try." Ryobi said calmly " And you will fail"
Enraged, One charged Ryobi. To Ryobi it seemed as if very thing was in slow motion. It was in fact in slow motion, as his AT field was so strong that it was capable of bending time and space itself. He side stepped while bringing his fist into the Eva's face, sending it flying. The other Eva hit the wall and broke though it making a cloud of dust and debris he could not see though. One found his weapon and threw it at Ryobi. He saw this move before it happened and, using his AT field created a shield and sword with Angelic Script lettering the sword. He caught the spear on his shield and then rammed his sword threw One's Eva. He grunted in pain and swore at him. Ryobi looked at him dispassionately. Raising his hand he ripped open a Dirac Sea and threw the other Eva into it.
" Good bye, my brother. Till we meet again." then everything went white as Ryobi's entry plug was blasted out of his Eva and crashed into the ocean some twenty miles away. The Dirac sea Imploded and destroyed most of the Ant Artic with it. Title waves of massive power were formed and earth quakes and volcanoes erupted all around the world, the blast also knock earth off it orbit, the effects of which would be felt for years to come. As the title waves impacted shores and the earth quakes and eruption continue, two pods continued on in the ocean toward Japan. By night fall, over one half of earth's population was dead. Forever after this day was known in infamy to all survivors as Second Impact.