A lone man observed the destruction around him. The smell of death
hung thick in the air; twisted bodies littered the ground as far as he
could see. 'What have I done?' Everywhere he looked, he saw the faces of
those he loved, their unseeing eyes all seeming to look directly at min.
He had killed them. He had killed all of them. 'All? No, not all!
Please, not Her! Anything but Her, IT'S NOT POSSIBLE!' He frantically
began searching corpse after corpse, desperately seeking his beloved. He
rolled one mangled body over to stare into the glazed eyes of his teenaged
son, but he did not care. Finding Her was all that mattered. Finally, he
saw a tattered entry plug in the distance, half buried from the impact.
'There! She must be alive: her entry plug is still intact!' He raced to the battered plug and grabbed the searing handles to open the hatch, ignoring the pain from the searing handles. He screamed in frustration when the hatch failed to open. "Open, damn you! OPEN!" With one final jerk, the pod violently opened, throwing him back with the force. As he approached the plug, he was overcome with the smell of fresh blood, mixed with the distinct but indescribable smell of LCL. The mixture dripped out of the open hatch and formed a small puddle of orange fluid, with the red of her blood forming intricate designs. He studied the designs for several minutes, seeing memories of times past, when life was happy, back when they were together.
He suddenly snapped out of his daze, realizing that he had only been trying to distract himself from the issue at hand. As he came back into reality, all he could think was 'Please let her be alive, please let her be alive' over and over again. He finally mustered up enough courage to look inside, and he stared into the dull, lifeless eyes of Rei Ayanami. Blood soaked her pale blue hair and was slowly dripping down her sallow face. "NOOO!" He screamed in frustration, guilt, and anger, but most of all, pain. He was blinded by the onslaught of emotions, but pain – the pain at having killed the one he loved more than anything; that was what finally pushed him over the edge.
He opened himself up to the One Power, channeling though his EVA Unit- 01. The psychic link between himself and the giant biomechanical creature flooded him with the sweet filth, the taint on the male half of the source that made his stomach churn. He kept filling himself, drawing more and more, until the horrid sweetness turned to overwhelming pain. And yet, he didn't stop. 'What have I done? WHAT HAVE I DONE?' He drew in still more power, hoping to keep the void. But even in the cold emotionless state that was the void, there was a constant stream of 'I killed her I killed her' streaking across its surface. But he did not, could not stop drawing from his Eva; he continued until he could no longer contain it within himself. He had to have an outlet for all of that power, and he directed it at the one thing that he hated more than anything: himself. As he released all of the pent up power, a giant bolt of lightning came down from a cloudless sky, striking the young man. There was so much power behind the bolt that the ensuing shock wave triggered a chain reaction that killed close to three-quarters of the population of the planet.
Thus, Shinji Ikari had caused the second impact.
'There! She must be alive: her entry plug is still intact!' He raced to the battered plug and grabbed the searing handles to open the hatch, ignoring the pain from the searing handles. He screamed in frustration when the hatch failed to open. "Open, damn you! OPEN!" With one final jerk, the pod violently opened, throwing him back with the force. As he approached the plug, he was overcome with the smell of fresh blood, mixed with the distinct but indescribable smell of LCL. The mixture dripped out of the open hatch and formed a small puddle of orange fluid, with the red of her blood forming intricate designs. He studied the designs for several minutes, seeing memories of times past, when life was happy, back when they were together.
He suddenly snapped out of his daze, realizing that he had only been trying to distract himself from the issue at hand. As he came back into reality, all he could think was 'Please let her be alive, please let her be alive' over and over again. He finally mustered up enough courage to look inside, and he stared into the dull, lifeless eyes of Rei Ayanami. Blood soaked her pale blue hair and was slowly dripping down her sallow face. "NOOO!" He screamed in frustration, guilt, and anger, but most of all, pain. He was blinded by the onslaught of emotions, but pain – the pain at having killed the one he loved more than anything; that was what finally pushed him over the edge.
He opened himself up to the One Power, channeling though his EVA Unit- 01. The psychic link between himself and the giant biomechanical creature flooded him with the sweet filth, the taint on the male half of the source that made his stomach churn. He kept filling himself, drawing more and more, until the horrid sweetness turned to overwhelming pain. And yet, he didn't stop. 'What have I done? WHAT HAVE I DONE?' He drew in still more power, hoping to keep the void. But even in the cold emotionless state that was the void, there was a constant stream of 'I killed her I killed her' streaking across its surface. But he did not, could not stop drawing from his Eva; he continued until he could no longer contain it within himself. He had to have an outlet for all of that power, and he directed it at the one thing that he hated more than anything: himself. As he released all of the pent up power, a giant bolt of lightning came down from a cloudless sky, striking the young man. There was so much power behind the bolt that the ensuing shock wave triggered a chain reaction that killed close to three-quarters of the population of the planet.
Thus, Shinji Ikari had caused the second impact.
