Mark Hiyami. The sixth child.
Nerv Australia, mainly utilised as testing facilities making use of the large, flat areas of space. Heck most of the employees including the commander and almost the whole scientist team were a mix of Americans, Japanese and British, Though funny enough the designated pilot for unit 06 was Australian. His mother was Japanese was one of those odd cases were his father took on the wife's last name instead of the typical other way round. Mark was the fifth child; he never had any friends and due to his mother's death and his father's recent death he didn't have anyone to communicate with, This lead to him spending most of his time in the evangelion simulation unit. Mark had never piloted the real unit 06, not until the day the mass production Eva prototypes went berserk.
Mark lay on his couch, laptop on his belly, cat on his feet. Doing as he always did when he was home, playing video games and researching the other children. He was fascinated by them and always wanted to meet them. Because he knew that they were the only other people he could relate to, the ones that were like him. He was especially interested in one child in particular, Rei Ayanami, the first child. He knew nothing about her but found her appearance quite interesting and also quite beautiful.
As he was browsing through the nerv data base he came across one file that cought his eye, he had heard of this before since he witnessed half of its construction at nerv base Australia before it was shipped to nerv Mombasa for completion. This was the most expensive project in the history of mankind and was funded by every government. Nerv HQ mobile unit 00. A spaceship, and also a nerv head quarters. He was very interested in that. As he was about to lift his finger on to the mouse scroll to see what other juicy information there was on this project when he was startled by a buzz coming from under his back, he jumped up causing his laptop to fall and crack its casing and his cat to scratch his legs, when mark came to terms with what had just happened he answered his phone.
"Hello Mark speaking, who is this?" he said in a zombified state, having stayed up this late which made him wonder why he would receive a call at this hour anyway.
"Yeah Mark its Jane here, we need you to come back for another synchronisation test, we just modified some of the armour on unit 06."
"Right, I'll go there now." Mark sighed has he hung up the phone, he hated sync tests, all he wanted to do was pilot the damn thing.
Mark arrived at nerv an hour later and made his way to the sync test area and as he did he got in his black plug suit and sat in the plug, harmonising in the LCL. This is where he found himself most comfortable, it reminded him of his mother he had never seen, and this reminded him of his father, and his father reminded him of why he chose to pilot unit 06.
"Alright we're done here mark you can go now, sync rate is normal" said a voice on the intercom.
The lights in the plug powered down and mark sat back and relaxed, not having realised he had just fallen asleep.
Mark woke up in his apartment. Jane must have taken him home. She was the closest thing he had to family, she always took him home when he fell asleep at nerv and was also the only person he ever really talked to.
Mark flopped off his couch and stretched his back, slugging over to the calender to see what was on his schedule and that's when he noticed it, it was only one day until the activation test of unit 06. Finally, he would be able to pilot a real Eva, the simulations were getting old, this was exciting. He strutted back to his lounge proudly thinking of what it would be like to pilot the Eva, and if he would ever get to go to Japan and see this strange Rei Ayanami.
Later that night Jane was doing her final check up when Dr Ibuki came over to her.
"Jane, I've been looking at you're work with unit 06 and I've been thinking…"
"Yes Mrs Ibuki?" she said, showing the excitement in her eyes.
"I think it's time that you're promoted, so I'd like you to follow me" she said, turning around and walking off towards the elevator. Jane hurried behind, tripping over her own feet in excitement of what other off limits levels of nerv she would get to see.
As the elevator went down, the silence became more akward. They had been going deeper and deeper underground for a while now, just as Jane had thought of a question to ask, maybe to break the silence the elevator came to a sudden stop and Jane fell to the ground.
"Come come Jane we don't have all day." Said Dr Ibuki as she strutted down the seemingly endless corridor.
Jane tried to pick herself up and follow on but she couldn't help but stop to look through all the windows along this long corridor, this seemed to be the section where they grew parts for the eva like the brain and limbs. She finally got the end and walked through quite a narrow doorway and into a massive room that was pitch black.
"This, is what I wanted to show you Jane…" said Dr Ibuki as she flicked several switches.
Suddleny lights came on one after another and right before Jane 5 massive white beings appeared. These looked very similar to evas but their heads appeared to be longer and they had massive mouths.
"These are the Mass production eva prototypes seele ordered us to build." Stated Dr Ibuki seemingly proud of herself.
Jane stepped back in awe. These were the most terrifying looking creatures she had ever seen.
"Wh-who pilots them?" she said, still startled by these creatures appearance and number.
"no one, we're using a dummy system that's being developed by nerv Japan, where my daughter works, you remember Mara right?"
"yes… shes very nice we've met on a couple of occasions. But, how does this all work?"
"Well, that's still confidential, but we are testing them tomorrow and I need you to help out."
"oh…" sighed Jane. "that's the day of the activation test of unit 06…"
"You don't have to worry about that. We have replacements for your old position" Dr Ibuki reassured.
"Yes but…" Jane murmured. This was Marks activation test. She was the only friend he had, she promised she'd be there for him.
"Well, let's get to work calibrating the sync ratio to fit the dummy plugs" exclaimed Dr Ibuki as she cracked her fingers. "Ooh, I've got so much to show you"
"Yes" sighed Jane.
Mark woke up early in the morning to get ready for his activation test, this was the most exciting thing that had ever happened to him. Finally, after all his training he would get to sit in the actual cockpit of an evangelion. And as he walked out the door and to the bus station, he thought where piloting an eva would take him, possibly to the fancy space ship or maybe to help out in Japan. Though he could speak Japanese he couldn't really read it this didn't deter from his goals. He had to go to Japan, to finish what his late father started.
When mark arrived at the bridge he was shocked to see everyone in a state of panic, warning messages were displayed on every screen and holographic projector in the room and the commander was shuffling between different phones trying to calm every citizen in the within 500 kilometres.
"what is going on?" said mark with a puzzled look on his face.
"Ah! Mark! You're here! Finally, listen…" said commander miller, "there's been a slight change of plan, we're skipping your activation test and moving on to your first mission!"
"My first WHA?"
"Mark! Thank god you're here, and in one peace" said Dr Ibuki as she hurried toward him, "We need you to get into unit 06 immediately, were under attack,"
"Attack? By who?" asked Mark.
"we'll explain later now hurry! Get changed!"
Mark was ready in the plug and was being lowered into unit 06 for the first time. When he was secure he was locked in and the cockpit was lit up and filled with LCL.
"Now mark, we've been working on mass production evas that are being piloted by dummy systems. Unfortunately they've gone berserk and right now are making their way to the power generators. If they go we've lost our entire defence system. We need you to take every single one out. However you can. You got it?" briefed Dr Ibuki.
"How the heck am I supposed to do that? I've never done anything like this before!" shouted Mark in frustration.
"it's no different from the simulations, we'll be sending you up with sufficient weaponry to take them out. It shouldn't be a problem."
Mark sat back in the eva, over and over again reassuring himself 'it's just like the simulations'. After all the checks were completed the commander turned his attention to mark
"Mark," he said. "are you ready?"
"yes" said mark, removing all emotion from his sentences.
"then begin! Launch unit 06!"
And with that unit 06 was sent flying up on its rails towards the surface, next to him he cold see the containers of his rifles also making their way up. When he reached the top he received a large shock of coming to a sudden hault. The final safety grips were released and unit 06 stepped off the platform. After a minute of getting used to movement mark deployed the remote barricades and opened up his weapon crates. Taking out a pellet rifle he set a position, looking out for any white evas.
An eva came into his sight, this was a very unusual eva too, it had a large mouth and its head appeared to look more like that of a turtles. Regardless of what it looked like he had to kill it. So he aimed down the sights of his pellet rifle and fired a volley of bullets into the eva, disintegrating its flesh and ripping it to the bare bones and a bloody mess.
He ducked back down to reload.
"this is easy," he said to himself.
Suddenly two white arms tore through the barricade and grasped on to unit 06, flinging it into the air and crashing it to the ground. Mark picked his eva off the ground and saw that he was surrounded by four ugly looking evas, each equipped with a huge blade type weapon.
"Mark! Release you're progressive knife!" shouted commander Miller.
And at that moment all four evas came charging in on him. Mark jumped into the air instinctively and released his progressive knife and as he touched the ground he stuck the knife through the neck of one of the evas and used it as a shield as the others viciously lashed out at it.
He threw the mangled eva at the rest and made his way back to all the crates. He quickly stepped on a pressure plate on one weapon crate and the weapon sprung up into the air. Mark cought it and aimed for one of the evas. This was his favourite weapon, the Personal Wave Neutraliser Gun. Or as he liked to call it, the PWN gun.
Mark pulled the trigger and a high intensity positron beam burst out the weapon and took one of the evas head clean off. Unfortunately Mark didn't have enough time to react to the eva that was coming right to him from the side and it knocked him down.
The eva thrust its blade towards unit 06's head so using all its strength Mark caught the spear dead in its tracks, but it was still slowly moving towards his neck. At that time Mark saw the other eva charging towards him with its blade ready so mark thrust the eva on him to his side and the other eva sliced right through it. Now all that remained was one eva.
Quickly mark grabbed the blade from the ground and shielded a shocking blow from the last evas blade. Again and again the eva struck at mark and he shielded, finally, the eva missed and mark swiftly struck at the unprepared eva and with one clean blow he sliced it in two.
Mark dropped his blade to the ground and sat back in his eva, regaining his breath.
"phew… that was quite intense, did Jane see me? I totally owned those mass production prototypes!" he bragged.
"Mark," sighed Dr Ibuki, "Jane is… Jane was killed by the mass production evas when they escaped."
Mark sat back and took a deep breath.
"I see…" he said, with a tear, dripping from his eye and floating away in the LCL.
When Mark got out of the plug and walked onto the bridge Dr Ibuki was on her way towards him but was interrupted by someone calling to her.
"what is it now?" she snapped.
"Mam! The Nerv HQ mobile unit 00 has been, attacked on the return journey! Everyones been killed!"
"What did you say?!" shouted Dr Ibuki.
"Japan is about to laucnch a retrieve team to get the cargo back and dispose of the angels, but they're short one eva and are requesting help!"
"I see…" said Dr Ibuki, then she swiftly shifted her attention to Mark. "Mark, you've proven yourself quite capable of taking down numerous enemies. Pack your bags, you're going to Japan."
And it was then that mark realised he would do the two things he desired most in the whole world, To complete what his father started, and to meet Rei Ayanami.
A/N: ok that was my first fan fic, well sort of, you see I wanted to post a comic on but then I found out I couldn't so I posted it on but you seenot many people have seen it because it's a little to specific for that kind of website, so this story takes place before the comic I've posted on called evangelion fanfic: shipwreck so please check that out, it means a lot and if I get enough responses on this and on my comic on maybe I'll write down the story on smack jeeves and even continue the story from their in both comic and written form so please check it out. Thanks for reading hope you enjoyed