Rebuild Of Evangelion 3.5: You (Must) Protect
Chapter 1: Fallen Angel
-EVANGELION-
Shinji was lost.
He was wondering the endless desert. He had no idea how long he had been walking, just that he gotten tired of it.
'Rei...' He thought as he continued his trudge. The blue-haired red-eyed Evangelion Pilot came to his mind, and he felt satisfaction. He was glad; he had saved Rei from that Angel, that monster that had absorbed her.
He remembered the conversation he had with her, when Unit-01 had become something more than what he was aware of, of what he had expected of it. As if...it had become a God.
-FLASHBACK-
"Where are you Rei?! I'm here!" Shinji cried as the multitude of colours nearly overwhelmed him, and he pushed forever more towards Rei's presence.
"It's no use..." Shinji's eyes widened at Rei's voice. "No...I can only survive in here now..." she sounded almost lonely, but Shinji wouldn't have that. He wouldn't let her suffer!
"That's not true!" Shinji roared back, and he sensed Rei being surprised at his resolution.
"It's alright; even if I disappear, there are replacements." Shinji wondered what that meant, but he disregarded it. He just wanted Rei back!
"You're wrong!" He shouted, as he felt himself merge further with Unit One. "You're the only Rei there is! And I'm saving you! Right NOW!"
He became aware of himself diving further into the Core of his Eva, merging with it so completely. But he didn't care about that; he would rescue Rei consequences be damned!
He gave a roar as he tore the throne away, leaving him free to go even further. He became aware of a brief feeling from the Eva, but was not distracted.
Shinji...you've grown so much... I'm sorry...
He found it incredibly difficult to continue, but he didn't give up; no, he crawled, grasping as he went down, down towards Rei. Towards his friend!
Then he saw her at the bottom, naked and in a fetal position. "I'M HERE REI!" He shouted, but she didn't seem to comprehend his presence.
"Rei come on! COME BACK!" He said, forcing himself nearer, aware of Zeruel's core beginning to destroy him. He forced his head and hand through the liquid, and called out to the albino.
"Take my hand!" And his arm was torn from all flesh, the same as his face, and it was excruciating, but he continued to dive further for her.
"REI!" She looked up at him now, aware of his suffering for her, and she timidly reached for his hand.
He grabbed it and wrenched her up with all of his strength. Everything was white now, as he pulled her in a hug conveying all of his feelings for her.
"Thank you Rei..." Shinji said, calmer. "For trying to bring me and my dad together." He was grateful at the chance she had took, and he made sure she knew it.
"I'm sorry I couldn't. I wanted you to be happy." Rei confessed with tears in her eyes, but Shinji silenced her before continuing.
"It doesn't matter; this is all I need." And then everything collapsed into bliss.
-FLASHBACK-
And he had found himself here, afterwards. He had walked to find her, find Rei in this vast desert he knew to be the Eva's Core. Their minds melded together completely, like light and darkness.
He was unaware of the small, lizardlike entity that followed his steps, red eyes surrounded in black narrowing at the other occupant of the monstrous machine. If it could be called that.
"Soon..." It said quietly as it scuttled beneath the sand after the pilot of Unit One. "Very soon...this world will come to an end. With a melody." With that, it thought of the others.
-SCENEBREAK-
"Pursuit squad, report the current positions of the two Eva Units, Two and Eight." A gruff female voice cut through the darkness.
"Unit Two-Dash has reached operation altitude, it is now in the targeted orbit. Unit Eight experienced problems getting into orbit due to lack of altitude."
"Very well; Unit Two-Dash will be soloing this operation."
"Roger. Unit Eight will act as support. Transition shaft to Seven."
"Unit Two-Dash has passed the point of no return. It is now entering Area 88."
"Roger. Commence Operation UA."
"Roger. Unit Two-Dash will begin entering the final operation orbit."
-SCENEBREAK-
A pod was visible in space. Even as it soared towards a cross-like prison, it detached four probe-like devices. As it passed in the light of the sun, the pod was revealed to be three ships, not unlike Star Destroyers.
In the Entry Plug of the Evangelion Unit Two-Dash, Asuka was wearing a blood-red space helmet, that concealed her hair and eyepatch, curtesy of the monster they were retrieving. She blocked out the various technobabbble; she just wanted to get this done with.
She tested the controls of the Entry Plug; perfect as usual. She smirked; her Eva was perfection compared to the pink Power Ranger-esque Unit Eight.
Suddenly, they crashed into a giant AT Field, and they were held there. On the screen Asuka could clearly see several readings.
All SEELE-made Eva Mark-4As.
They crashed into the AT Field too, and Asuka got a look at them. They most definitely were an insult to the word Evangelion. It was not like a human; it had a disc body with two spike arms attached to the bottom.
"Anti AT Field!" She shouted, as the insult to Eva's broke through the barrier. "This sucks! It's just getting in my way!" And with a tremendous screech, Unit Two broke free of its confines, four eyes blazing as it drew a Pallet Rifle. "Glasses, support me!"
"Support fire was two-seconds late!" she snapped at her teammate, looking in irritation at one of the other 'ships'.
"And you're three seconds ahead of position," Mari said playfully, a cat smile on her face. "Oh alright, Princess." Mari smirked.
And Unit Eight burst from its containment as well. Unlike Unit Two, it had eight green eyes and was overall pink, with a sniper rifle modelled after a Barrett M82, returning fire on the SEELE Eva's.
"The target is moving!" Asuka shouted, and she gritted her teeth; she had to get there, regardless of her willingness. For WILLE! "I'm just gonna have to brute this!" Her pallet rifle-arm shot several wires at the Tesserect, connecting to it.
"Secured target; jettisoned boosters. Entering atmosphere." Asuka said tiredly, seeing the Mark-04As destroyed by her trigger-happy 'teammate'. An alarm caught her eye, and she looked in shock at it.
"Blood type blue?! Where?!" then she spotted it. At first, it resembled ribbons, before twisting together into a reptilian like creature, jaws open. A bright light emissioned from its eyes, and Asuka felt pain all over.
"Why? Why isn't the AT Field stopping it!" She cried out in pain. "Do something, SHINJI!" She cried out again.
-SCENEBREAK-
"DO SOMETHING, SHINJI!" Asuka's voice cut through the desert, and Shinji looked around frantically for her.
"Asuka! Where are you!" He shouted, before he felt a pain and fell to his feet, gripping his head. "What...what's happening!"
All of a sudden, it was like he was seeing through Unit One's eyes, and he saw a horrific scene. A reptillian Angel was blasting on Unit Two with some sort of eye laser, and he knew that Asuka wouldn't be able to hold out.
"No! No!" Shinji shouted to the winds. "I won't let her die! I can't let HER DIE!" He roared as his eyes turned blood red again, and the Eva obeyed his wish. The skull-faced lizard watched curiously.
-SCENEBREAK-
A crack appeared in the prison, and Unit One gave an audible roar as it thrashed about, breaking the confines and staring out at the Angel, the destroyer!
A bright flash from its eyes, and the Angel was no more, as lasers cut through the core, spearing it, and it exploded in a cross-like fashion. Unit One began to break through the Tesserect, before a halo grew above its head, and the descent became easier.
Asuka's eyes widened as she saw the path of destruction issue from Unit One, and she thought she heard her name on the space wind, and they drifted towards Earth.
'Shinji...?'
-SCENEBREAK-
"Unit One is active, ma'am! I repeat; it is active!" Sakura Suzuhara cried out, and Misato hardened her eyes as the Wunder's cameras caught the whole incident. She also did not miss the black halo in the confine.
"We should've destroyed it when we had the chance," she said bitterly. Ritsuko shook her head in disagreement.
"No; fourteen years ago Unit One proved it would protect its pilot at all costs. And we know whose soul is inside it." Misato gritted her teeth.
"It doesn't mean we have to be happy about it."
"No, it doesn't."
-SCENEBREAK-
Gendo Ikari watched from his and Fuyutsuki's hideout in Iraq as he saw the Tesserect containing Unit One drifted towards the world once again, a God returning from Purgatory.
"Unit One has awakened again, Gendo." Fuyutsuki said, his face even more lined than before the fourteen years. "After all this time." He ignored Fuyutsuki as they watched the whole incident with the Angel again, and how Unit One had saved the traitor.
He looked across the barren wasteland, and thought deeply.
'Soon, Yui. We will be together again. All of us.'
"Send Rei out to retrieve it; it would be advisable to launch her immeadiately." Gendo said in montone, and Fuyutsuki sighed as he relayed that order to Rei-Q, the third incarnation.
It was like watching a falling angel.
-SCENEBREAK-
As Rei-Q was submerged in LCL, as she was prepping her Evangelion, Mark-09, she thought she heard a voice.
"I want Rei...GIVE HER BACK!" For some reason, that voice gave Rei comfort as she relaxed, but it did not stop her thinking as a flying platform was attached to Mark-09s back.
'But...why is that voice so familiar...?' Nonetheless, once she was given the green light, she launched Mark-09, and together they soared towards Unit-01, towards her target.
Well, there you have it folks; the first chapter of Rebuild of Evangelion 3.5: You (Must) Protect. Now, I realize this first chapter is like the first six minutes of 3.0 and 3.33, but I felt it necessary as I think it was one of the GOOD points of the film. *cough*Shinji's back to original*cough*.
Anyway, I will give a free internet cookie to anyone who finds anything out about this chapter and the implied character throughout the chapter.
See ya!
Unit One: I WANT ANGEL MEAT!
Me: I told you; we don't have Angel Meat, dammit!
Unit One fires Eye Laser of Doom at me.
Me: GAAHHH!