Rei Ayanami sat in the entry plug for prototype EVA Unit-00. She had a blank stare, as she usually did, as she attempted to synch with her EVA during the 7th month of attempts, and if she was worried at all, it didn't show.
"Synch ratio at .009. She still isn't above the minimum." Ritsuko said. "Shall we abort the attempt, Commander?"
Gendo Ikari tapped his foot impatiently. Rei, after 7 months of synch. attempts, still hadn't managed to hit even .50 on the synch. charts. Gendo was becoming worried that another 'Rei' be needed if this one couldn't synch. with EVA fast enough. Time was running out.
"No, continue for 20 minuets longer, than remove the plug and allow Rei to rest." Gendo replied.
"Yes, sir." Ritsuko said. She turned to the mic. "Rei, a little bit longer, than you're free to go."
Rei replied, "Yes sir." and continued to try to synchronize with EVA. A few minuets later, a thought hit her. What if...what if Gendo had no need for her if she couldn't synchronize with EVA? What if he 'disposed' of her? A slight worried look grew on her face.
"Ma'am, synchronization ratio is almost at the passing point!" One NERVE operator said. "It's rising at a steady rate of .001 per second."
Ritsuko smiled, leaned into the mic and said to Rei, "Good job Rei, the synch. levels are rising."
Rei didn't respond. She sat thinking about Gendo and what would happen if she couldn't synch. with EVA.
In the control room, the same operator said, "Synchronization is achieved ma'am."
Ritsuko said to Rei via the mic, "Excellent work, Rei. You can come out now."
"Yes ma'am." Was Rei's simple response.
The operator attempter to remove Rei's entry plug. The command didn't respond. "Ma'am, the entry plug removal command isn't responding. Rei's stuck inside the EVA."
Ritsuko's eyes widened. "Commander?"
Gendo sat there watching the EVA through the window. "Try the command at intervals of 5 minuets. If that doesn't work than after 6 trys, eject it manually."
"Yes sir" Ritsuko said. "What about Unit-"
She was cut off as Unit-00 moved its head and looked at Gendo through its electronic eyes.
"MA'AM! EVA is moving!"
"I saw..." She said into the mic, "Rei don't try moving yet, you've achieved synchronization, and that's good for today."
"Ma'am, I didn't have a movement thought." Rei quietly replied.
Ritsuko's eyes widened. "Commander! The EVA is gaining control! Rei's not moving it."
Gendo sat calmly. "Manually eject the entry plug!" He quickly responded.
The back of the EVA opened and the entry plug ejected and flew around the room until landing in a corner. The EVA its self seemed to be attempting to break loose from its restraints.
"MA'AM! THE EVA IS CRUSHING THE LOCKS! IT'S GOING TO BREAK FREE!"
"LOCK SECONDARY RESTRAINTS!" Ritsuko responded. The EVA broke free of its arm restraints too late for the secondary restraints to affect it. It began to storm around the room, and begin punching the walls.
"GET REI OUT OF THERE!" Ritsuko ordered.
"WE CAN'T! THE EVAS TARGETED REI'S ENTRY PLUG IS GOING AFTER IT!"
"WHAT!" Ritsuko screamed in horror as the operator finished the sentence. Sure enough, the EVA had stampeded over to Rei's entry plug and was crushing it slowly in its hands.
"COMMANDER! WHAT DO WE DO?" Ritsuko yelled.
Gendo sat there, sweating from his forehead at the sight taking place. "There's nothing we can do..."
Suddenly, the EVA dropped Rei's plug, and stared at Gendo through the window. It then ran over to it, and began smashing it in.
"Evacuate the area!" Gendo said. "Send in a team to recover Rei, and freeze the EVA with Bakelite!"
The crew abandoned their stations as the EVA broke through, and grabbed and crushed an operator. The Bakelite team moved in and froze the EVA none too soon, as it blew its hand through a metal wall. Rei was rushed to the emergency room, where they tried to heal her mortal wounds...
THE THIRD ANGEL:SACHIEL
The waters rippled slightly as the creature moved through the remains of Tokyo-1. Various fish gathered around it and moved as it did. It pushed its self forward, breathing in the oxygen from the water as most amphibious (or in the creatures case, amphibious like) as its self did. It could sustain its self above ground if need be, but it was most at home here, amongst its brethren.
The tank battalion stationed along the coast waited and watched. A pelican had landed on one of the tanks cannons. The tank commander, a colonel named Yoshiyuki Sadamato, awaited the surface of the creature his superiors called an 'Angel.' He didn't understand what it was...some sort of enemy U-Boat? None-the-less, his orders were to fire on 'it'...what 'it' was.
Suddenly, a huge splash erupted in the outer waters about 3 miles out. Yoshiyuki screamed over the radio "All units! Fire! Fire!"
A maelstrom of smoke and shells went off on the coastline. Hundreds of rounds were spent off. Yoshiyuko watched with his binoculars at the smoky heap in the distance.
"All units hold fire!" The cannon fire stopped after 8 more seconds of Hell. Yoshiyuki watched carefully as the smoke cleared. Suddenly, a purple beam of light blazed across skies, and five of the tanks were instantly destroyed as it hit its mark.
Yoshiyuki screamed "ALL UNITS! OPEN FI-" but was cut off as a second beam hit the tank he was in. The tank was eradicated shortly there after.
Gendo Ikari watched carefully as the Angel decimated the tanks.
"UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT IN OCEAN SECTOR!"
"SONAR TRACK! NOW CONFIRMED ON VISUAL!"
"Routing Images to main sensors!"
Fuyutsuki, Gendo's second in command, said to him "It's been fifteen years hasn't it..."
"Yes...there's no mistake- It's an Angel!" Gendo replied solemnly. "The day has finally arrived...the time of trials of which mankind cannot avoid..."
Shinji Ikari sat down on the steps of a large staircase. "Well, this sucks." He said to himself. "I was supposed to meet someone here...but whatever..." He heard a loudspeaker say 'shelter' and he said to himself again, "Shelter, huh? What has a war been declared or something?"
Shinji sat there thinking, 'Father, it's been more than 3 years, what could you want with me now?' He reached into an envelope and pulled out a picture of Misato Katsaragi, the person he was supposed to meet. She was bent over in front of a car with the words 'Shinji! I'm going to pick you up, so please wait for me!' and it was kisses with red lipstick.
'Weird-o' Shinji thought as he sighed. "And she's my fathers What?
He signed again, than said "Nothing I can do, I guess I'll just walk the last two stat-"
He was cut off as a fighter jet soared over him.
"Flying low...I wonder what-" He was cut off again as a cruise missile flew over his head.
"Cr-Cruise Missiles? What is goin-" He cut himself off as a giant lumbering behemoth stepped over a hill. It had a green body, gills on one side, a purple orb on its chest, and the most disturbing feature was its face; circular, white and it had an arrow like object pointing down toward its torso. VTOLs and planes cruised by it and shot missiles after missile at it, to no avail. The creature raised its arm, and a beam of light erupted out its palm, destroying a VTOL. The beam than returned into its hand, and made a large bone like line in its elbow area. The VTOL's remains began to fall and Shinji ran and fell to his knees while running from the wreckage. Suddenly, a car pulled up and a door opened. Shinji looked up and saw a woman in a short dress, wearing Dior sunglasses.
"Mi- Miss Katsaragi?" Shinji stuttered, still on his knees. "Is that you?"
"Sorry I'm so late, Shinji!" Misato said. "C'mon get in! Hurry!"
Shinji got up, entered the vehicle, and buckled his seatbelt.
"Hold on! This is gonna be a pretty rough ride!"
The creature destroyed many of the flying pieces of metal that attempted to destroy it, and it continued its advance toward its target. But what was its target? The creature did not have that information. It only knew that it needed to be moving in that direction, toward what his memory had dubbed 'The Mother of all Life.' The creature still did not understand, but it continued moving, decimating anything that stood in its path.
"N2 mine deployment in 30 seconds!" A console operator said. Gendo Ikari watched from a chair in the center operating table, while 3 UN Generals sat above him, watching the battle. Ritsuko stood next to Gendo, awaiting the inevitable.
"Affirmative! All UN Units pull out!" One of the United Nations generals said. The screen showed the VTOLs, Helicopters, and planes all pulling away from the angel.
Misato Katsaragi watched the angel with a pair of binoculars she kept in her glove compartment. "That's odd...their pulling away from the angel?" She said. "Why would the-" Her eyes widened as she realized what was happening. "THIER GONNA USE AN N? MINE! GET YOUR HEAD DOWN!" She yelled at Shinji, and they both ducked into the car. A huge nuclear explosion set off by the N? mine followed shortly there after, and the car was blown off the bridge it was parked on, into a nearby hill.
"Electronics are still phased, were waiting for a damage assessment." An operator said.
A second UN General laughed and said, "You see? That's the power of our N2 mines! You know what this means? The EVAs are no longer required!"
"We're getting power back, energy spike in the center crater!" An operator said.
"What!" A UN General said in shock.
"Visuals are on-line! Target is still there!" The operator said. The UN Generals turned their heads to the monitor and saw, that in the middle of a crater left by the mine, the angel stood there, arms folded across, and it had a second face.
"Target shows signs of regeneration..." An operator said.
"An entire city sacrificed for nothing...our trump card for nothing..." A UN general said. At that moment, the phone next to the general rang. He picked it up and said "Hello...yes sir...yes sir...right away sir..." He slammed it back on the hanger, and said to Gendo, "As of now, control of this operation has been transferred to NERV. Don't disappoint us Gendo.
"Don't worry." Gendo said as he got up from his chair. "After all this is the purpose of NERV." The Three generals and the platform they watched from slid down.
"Sir, estimated target for the angel is here! It's Tokyo-3!" An operator said.
"So, the angel knows were here..." Gendo said.
"What shall we do, commander?" Ritsuko asked.
"Whets the status of Unit-01? Gendo asked.
"Its in cryo-hibernation right now sir...what are you proposing?"
"Reactivate it."
"But sir, there are no more pilots! Rei can't possibly pilot in her condition!"
"Rei is no longer needed to pilot the EVA. Our back up has just arrived." Gendo said, watching the monitors
10 Minuets before, after the activation of the N2 mine...
Misato got up after being flung from her car from the explosion. She looked at her wreck of a car, and began panicking. "NO! MY NEW CAR! I STILL HAD THIRTY-TWO PAYMENTS LEFT ON THAT THING! AND THIS DRESS! THIS STAIN WILL NEVER COME OUT! AND THOSE BASTARDS CRUSHED MY SHADES! AHHHHH!"
Shinji got up in time to hear Misato whining, and muttered, "Weird-O"
Misato apparently heard him, because she turned and said "Oh shut up you. Help me flip the car back over." Shinji ran over and began to push the car over. After a few minuets of struggling, they managed to push the car completely back over.
"Quick get in! We don't have much time!" Misato urged Shinji. He got in quickly, and buckled his seatbelt. (Misato had proved to be troublesome, with her poor driving and that nuclear explosion)
As they entered a tunnel, a thought hit him. "Miss Katsaragi...what was that thing?"
"That 'thing' as you call it, is an angel."
"An...angel?"
"Now's not the best time to explain." She entered a metal door with the letters NERV painted on it, the car turned via a ramp, and they began descending.
"Miss Katsaragi..."
"Hmm? Oh, call me Misato."
"Ok...Misato, why did my father call me here?"
"You really have issues with your dad don't you...?"
"It's none of your business..." Shinji replied solemnly.
Misato frowned and than reached into the glove compartment. "Here," she said, handing a book labeled 'NERV.' "Read through that, while we descend...we should almost be there..." A few minuets later, they entered a gigantic cave. Shinji looked up from the book in astonishment.
"I don't believe it! It's one big underground chamber! Is this what they call a GeoFront?" Shinji asked in astonishment.
Misato smiled. "It sure is. Below you, the HQ of NERV, the stronghold of humanity, and above you...the city of Tokyo-3...