Hello all you Eva fans out there. This is now my fifth attempt at writing this same fan fic. Each time I try something happens to it and I have to start back at square 1. Also as my series progresses (if you like it) I can make pics of some of the battles. I am an Eva nut. Leaning more towards the robots and in terms of what each can do. So I have all the new action figures 00 - 04 and will be trying to make my own units 5 and 6. You'll see them later in the series.
The story line so far is the norm. The 13th angel has been defeated and things are going back to the stark terror that is the habitual working mood at Nerv. Approximately 2 weeks after the attack, they get a panic call in from Nerv division 2 in America, one that is immediately intercepted by Gendo. All activity at the Eva production site is hastily stopped and they move the projects to a different site somewhere farther out into the desert. Another week passes when Nerv receives a report that says that the S2 engine research has been discontinued due to unexpected complications, which are not specified on the report. The report is deemed classified and it has been buried henceforth. Completion of Eva unit 04 is due to happen in the next week. Eva unit 03 is now ready for shipping.
Our story opens out onto a dark and cloudy night. Below this troubled sky lies a nondescript American air force base. All its runways lie empty except for one. The mammoth type-f transport plane stands ready for take off, it cargo suspended below it.
Control, control this is transport 1 we are go for delivery, what the status on owe flight path radios the pilot, a touch of anxiety detectable in his voice. He doesn't want to see this thing on American soil an more and wishes very much to be rid of the beast.
Transport 1 this is control. Your flight path is clear all the way to Tokyo 3. Just be careful not to drop it. We don't want 3 quarters of a billion dollars wasted.
Don't worry. I'd have to drive this thing into the ground and then land a mountain on it to hurt it. I just want it out of my country.
Can't see why, it is after all, Americas legacy to the human race. Our part in saving the world.
What ever. We'll check in half way there. Transport 1 taking off.
And with that the engines flare to life with a deafening roar that signal the start of one of mankind's few hopes for the future. Evangelion unit 03 is coming.
ON ROUTE
The sky ahead of Evangelion transport 1 is thick with large yet unassuming clouds.
"Transport 1 please come in, we are reading heavy turbulence in that storm ahead. It just jumped up out of nowhere and it looks like all hells breaking loose. Suggest that you steer clear of it."
"Control we read you. But I don't think that anything could harm this behemoth. Especially not a little wind."
" We have evidence of thunder heads forming farther in. Lightning strikes could be possible."
"We read. Alright we'll play it your way. We are coming around to 75 degrees west of our original flight plan. We'll try to swing around it and get back to our designated flight path. If this thing is to big however we may have to go through it anyway. We don't have enough fuel to play around."
"Copy. You should only have to deviate for approximately 25 minutes and then you can duck through the side of it."
"Copy. Will do."
The massive transport plane angles up on a wing and surges off west ward.
TOKYO 3 JSSDF BASE
It is a bright shining day out and the sky is perfectly clear. Ahead just over the runway, the enormous silhouette of Evangelion transport 1 and its precious cargo are visible. There are only people out to greet the beast though.
"These Americans. They make a big stink about getting unit three out here as fast as possible and they turn out to be an hour late." Fumes Misato Katsuragi. "First that panic call from Nerv second branch, now the rush to get these things out of the country and to us. What's it all about. And then we hear that the S2 engine project has been canceled." She stalks around the front of the huge flat bed truck that they have parked at the end of the runway.
" I don't know any more about it that you do. But as to the delay, they fit a huge storm on the way over and they had to take a detour. They were only aiming for a 40 minute delay, but the storm got a lot worse as they went in and they had to make another correction." Ritsuko Akagi doesn't look up from her key pad as she speaks but continue to stare at the screen.
Misato thinks to herself "Yeah right. You know all about those incidents and what's behind them. I think the first time you actually volunteer information, half the command staff would faint" She smirks. "So when are the activation tests scheduled for?" Misato asks leaning against the side of the truck.
"They'll be taking place tomorrow." She says looking at misato finally. "The pilot has been notified."
"Does shinji know yet."
"I don't think so. If the pilot himself hasn't told him then he might not know until the first engagement."
" I'll make sure that doesn't happen."
A few minutes later the transport has touched down and is taxiing toward their position. The transport stops over the flat bed and the cargo is lowered onto the back of the truck, which sinks a few centimeters under the weight of this thing. With the loading complete, the truck immediately roars off to Nerv headquarters pausing only briefly to pick up its military escort. Evangelion unit 03 has reached the end of its first journey. It remains to be seen if it can stand the trails yet to come.
THE NEXT DAY
As the bell rings for the lunch period to start Shinji and Kensuke can be found out on the balcony. Kensuke is leaning over head on his hands with Shinji standing next to him.
"I heard that unit 03 arrived yesterday and that the activation trials are scheduled for this afternoon."
Not for the first time shinji wonders how and from whom kensuke hears these things. "If misato ever found out who she would probably have that persons legs broken."
He looks at kensuke and nods. "I didn't know that. I wonder who the pilot is."
"Jeeze don't they tell you pilots anything." He sighs heavily " I wish I could be the pilot. I'm really enthusiastic about it. Why won't she let me be the pilot?"
"Probably to keep you alive." Mutters shinji to himself.
Kensuke doesn't notice.
NERV HEADQUARTERS
Deep below the city, in the reason for its creation, unit 03 sits motionless as it is strapped to the wall of the isolated testing facility. The room is huge, white paneling stretching all around it. Only two sets of windows connect it with the outside.
"Restraints A - F are in place lower arms being locked down now."
The Eva's arms stiffen as they are locked in place.
"Lower arms secure, final safety checks complete. All we now is the pilot and then we can proceed." A young technician says from his post."
"Very well." Ristuko says to the technician. She bends down to the microphone. "Mister suzahara, you may now board your entry plug and stand by."
High above the eva on a catwalk sits a figure in a black plug suit. He does not move as the order comes over the intercom. He stares for a few minutes more at the behemoth below him that would soon become an inseparable part of his life from here on in. " Mister Suzahara."
"Yeah yeah I'm going."
Toji eyes the huge form below him one last time, then steps into the entry plug, sits down and watches the hatch close on him. Cutting him off from the outside world.
"Commencing LCL injection, filling entry plug", comes a voice over the com. Liquid begins to fill the container and Toji soon finds himself immersed in liquid. "Just relax and breath deeply, you'll get used to it." Says the voice of the technician.
"Toji holds his breath for a few more minutes but then gives in to the instinct to breath. "I think I'm going to be sick.
"Don't worry, just try to consentrate", This comes not from the technician, however, but from a woman. "My name is doctor Akagi. I will be monitoring your test."
In the control room there is an air of barely contained excitement and fear. Evas were dangerous toys. Toys that broke when everyone said there was no danger. Each time they had attempted a start up procedure, some thing always went wrong. The worst of which Unit 00 broke free and tried to smash it's way through to the observation and control room. What would go wrong this time. Ritsuko's mind flashes back to a phrase her mother used to describe the Eva project. " Any thing that can go wrong will go wrong with these things".
The technician turned around to face her, " we are ready to begin the activation test doctor."
"Proceed."
With that activity in the room increases by a factor of four.
"Connecting secondary nerve links"
" all indicators are normal"
"Psycho graph showing signs of stress, still within limits"
" Power increasing" "Connecting first stage circuits"
" All nerve pulls are flowing forward. Synch ratio building"
" final nerve connections complete."
"Releasing final safety locks"
" approaching absolute borderline"
Inside the entry plug Toji Suzahara is given a sight unlike anything he has ever seen. The wall in front of him begins to change rapidly from a wall to a rainbow of color, then to a mass of living tissue, then remarkable to a view of outside the Eva. Like looking threw the eyes of child hood, staring out of a new set of eyes.
"Absolute borderline approaching"
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8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
"Absolute borderline reached"
Misato Katsuragi, who until now has remained silent watch the proceedings with bated breath, now watches the graph as the line flickers holds for a moment on the borderline indicator, and with a loud tone, the graph begins to climb above slowly.
"Absolute borderline cleared.
The Eva outside the windows straightens visible as energy courses through its body.
For a few moments, no one moves. They all appear to be waiting for some sort of catastrophe to befall them. Yet none comes.
"What!!" says major Katsuragi, startling everyone except for the doctor. " No explosion, no screaming Eva, no AT field detected. You mean to tell me that one of these things actually started up normally." She reminds her self that switching on a 1000-foot tall behemoth by inserting a living person as the key is hardly normal. "Or as normal as can be expected."
" Yes major. Apparently the Americans actually did a good job."
"I'll believe it when it says made in America on the back."
The story line so far is the norm. The 13th angel has been defeated and things are going back to the stark terror that is the habitual working mood at Nerv. Approximately 2 weeks after the attack, they get a panic call in from Nerv division 2 in America, one that is immediately intercepted by Gendo. All activity at the Eva production site is hastily stopped and they move the projects to a different site somewhere farther out into the desert. Another week passes when Nerv receives a report that says that the S2 engine research has been discontinued due to unexpected complications, which are not specified on the report. The report is deemed classified and it has been buried henceforth. Completion of Eva unit 04 is due to happen in the next week. Eva unit 03 is now ready for shipping.
Our story opens out onto a dark and cloudy night. Below this troubled sky lies a nondescript American air force base. All its runways lie empty except for one. The mammoth type-f transport plane stands ready for take off, it cargo suspended below it.
Control, control this is transport 1 we are go for delivery, what the status on owe flight path radios the pilot, a touch of anxiety detectable in his voice. He doesn't want to see this thing on American soil an more and wishes very much to be rid of the beast.
Transport 1 this is control. Your flight path is clear all the way to Tokyo 3. Just be careful not to drop it. We don't want 3 quarters of a billion dollars wasted.
Don't worry. I'd have to drive this thing into the ground and then land a mountain on it to hurt it. I just want it out of my country.
Can't see why, it is after all, Americas legacy to the human race. Our part in saving the world.
What ever. We'll check in half way there. Transport 1 taking off.
And with that the engines flare to life with a deafening roar that signal the start of one of mankind's few hopes for the future. Evangelion unit 03 is coming.
ON ROUTE
The sky ahead of Evangelion transport 1 is thick with large yet unassuming clouds.
"Transport 1 please come in, we are reading heavy turbulence in that storm ahead. It just jumped up out of nowhere and it looks like all hells breaking loose. Suggest that you steer clear of it."
"Control we read you. But I don't think that anything could harm this behemoth. Especially not a little wind."
" We have evidence of thunder heads forming farther in. Lightning strikes could be possible."
"We read. Alright we'll play it your way. We are coming around to 75 degrees west of our original flight plan. We'll try to swing around it and get back to our designated flight path. If this thing is to big however we may have to go through it anyway. We don't have enough fuel to play around."
"Copy. You should only have to deviate for approximately 25 minutes and then you can duck through the side of it."
"Copy. Will do."
The massive transport plane angles up on a wing and surges off west ward.
TOKYO 3 JSSDF BASE
It is a bright shining day out and the sky is perfectly clear. Ahead just over the runway, the enormous silhouette of Evangelion transport 1 and its precious cargo are visible. There are only people out to greet the beast though.
"These Americans. They make a big stink about getting unit three out here as fast as possible and they turn out to be an hour late." Fumes Misato Katsuragi. "First that panic call from Nerv second branch, now the rush to get these things out of the country and to us. What's it all about. And then we hear that the S2 engine project has been canceled." She stalks around the front of the huge flat bed truck that they have parked at the end of the runway.
" I don't know any more about it that you do. But as to the delay, they fit a huge storm on the way over and they had to take a detour. They were only aiming for a 40 minute delay, but the storm got a lot worse as they went in and they had to make another correction." Ritsuko Akagi doesn't look up from her key pad as she speaks but continue to stare at the screen.
Misato thinks to herself "Yeah right. You know all about those incidents and what's behind them. I think the first time you actually volunteer information, half the command staff would faint" She smirks. "So when are the activation tests scheduled for?" Misato asks leaning against the side of the truck.
"They'll be taking place tomorrow." She says looking at misato finally. "The pilot has been notified."
"Does shinji know yet."
"I don't think so. If the pilot himself hasn't told him then he might not know until the first engagement."
" I'll make sure that doesn't happen."
A few minutes later the transport has touched down and is taxiing toward their position. The transport stops over the flat bed and the cargo is lowered onto the back of the truck, which sinks a few centimeters under the weight of this thing. With the loading complete, the truck immediately roars off to Nerv headquarters pausing only briefly to pick up its military escort. Evangelion unit 03 has reached the end of its first journey. It remains to be seen if it can stand the trails yet to come.
THE NEXT DAY
As the bell rings for the lunch period to start Shinji and Kensuke can be found out on the balcony. Kensuke is leaning over head on his hands with Shinji standing next to him.
"I heard that unit 03 arrived yesterday and that the activation trials are scheduled for this afternoon."
Not for the first time shinji wonders how and from whom kensuke hears these things. "If misato ever found out who she would probably have that persons legs broken."
He looks at kensuke and nods. "I didn't know that. I wonder who the pilot is."
"Jeeze don't they tell you pilots anything." He sighs heavily " I wish I could be the pilot. I'm really enthusiastic about it. Why won't she let me be the pilot?"
"Probably to keep you alive." Mutters shinji to himself.
Kensuke doesn't notice.
NERV HEADQUARTERS
Deep below the city, in the reason for its creation, unit 03 sits motionless as it is strapped to the wall of the isolated testing facility. The room is huge, white paneling stretching all around it. Only two sets of windows connect it with the outside.
"Restraints A - F are in place lower arms being locked down now."
The Eva's arms stiffen as they are locked in place.
"Lower arms secure, final safety checks complete. All we now is the pilot and then we can proceed." A young technician says from his post."
"Very well." Ristuko says to the technician. She bends down to the microphone. "Mister suzahara, you may now board your entry plug and stand by."
High above the eva on a catwalk sits a figure in a black plug suit. He does not move as the order comes over the intercom. He stares for a few minutes more at the behemoth below him that would soon become an inseparable part of his life from here on in. " Mister Suzahara."
"Yeah yeah I'm going."
Toji eyes the huge form below him one last time, then steps into the entry plug, sits down and watches the hatch close on him. Cutting him off from the outside world.
"Commencing LCL injection, filling entry plug", comes a voice over the com. Liquid begins to fill the container and Toji soon finds himself immersed in liquid. "Just relax and breath deeply, you'll get used to it." Says the voice of the technician.
"Toji holds his breath for a few more minutes but then gives in to the instinct to breath. "I think I'm going to be sick.
"Don't worry, just try to consentrate", This comes not from the technician, however, but from a woman. "My name is doctor Akagi. I will be monitoring your test."
In the control room there is an air of barely contained excitement and fear. Evas were dangerous toys. Toys that broke when everyone said there was no danger. Each time they had attempted a start up procedure, some thing always went wrong. The worst of which Unit 00 broke free and tried to smash it's way through to the observation and control room. What would go wrong this time. Ritsuko's mind flashes back to a phrase her mother used to describe the Eva project. " Any thing that can go wrong will go wrong with these things".
The technician turned around to face her, " we are ready to begin the activation test doctor."
"Proceed."
With that activity in the room increases by a factor of four.
"Connecting secondary nerve links"
" all indicators are normal"
"Psycho graph showing signs of stress, still within limits"
" Power increasing" "Connecting first stage circuits"
" All nerve pulls are flowing forward. Synch ratio building"
" final nerve connections complete."
"Releasing final safety locks"
" approaching absolute borderline"
Inside the entry plug Toji Suzahara is given a sight unlike anything he has ever seen. The wall in front of him begins to change rapidly from a wall to a rainbow of color, then to a mass of living tissue, then remarkable to a view of outside the Eva. Like looking threw the eyes of child hood, staring out of a new set of eyes.
"Absolute borderline approaching"
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
"Absolute borderline reached"
Misato Katsuragi, who until now has remained silent watch the proceedings with bated breath, now watches the graph as the line flickers holds for a moment on the borderline indicator, and with a loud tone, the graph begins to climb above slowly.
"Absolute borderline cleared.
The Eva outside the windows straightens visible as energy courses through its body.
For a few moments, no one moves. They all appear to be waiting for some sort of catastrophe to befall them. Yet none comes.
"What!!" says major Katsuragi, startling everyone except for the doctor. " No explosion, no screaming Eva, no AT field detected. You mean to tell me that one of these things actually started up normally." She reminds her self that switching on a 1000-foot tall behemoth by inserting a living person as the key is hardly normal. "Or as normal as can be expected."
" Yes major. Apparently the Americans actually did a good job."
"I'll believe it when it says made in America on the back."