The hybrid spun in near surprise as a knock on his door echoed through his silent apartment. I had not expected visitors, the hybrid lifted a 9mm pistol from the table, but its always smart to be prepared. He moved to the door and looked through the peephole in the door, a young woman of maybe 23 stood nervously outside his apartment.
She seeks shelter from Ramiel, he cracks the door open and asks "What do you need?" The young woman jumped as if she didn't expect him to answer the door, "Please I can't get to the shelter with that thing out there, if I could just stay here until it leaves-"
"Come in" and the half-breed opens the door and steps to the side.
"Thank you" she stutters in reply noticing the gun in his hand.
"I wasn't expecting guests during an event…. Such as this", the hybrid sets the gun on the table and gestures for the woman to have a seat. "So who are you?" he questioned once she sat down.
"Kozue Amane" he shifts his eyes from her to the window again, Ramiel was floating closer now. "Who exactly are you though?" Kozue asks.
"Absalom, everyone just calls me Salem for short, I think we need to leave the building soon. I doubt-" Kozue screams and jumps from her seat away from the window.
Salem turns to the window just in time to see a star of light expanding across the tip of one of Ramiel's corners. This would not have been so terrifying had it not been directly outside the window. I'm going to die, the hybrids eyes flick sideways as Kozue shrieks again, we're going to die. Some thing about that thought was not satisfactory to Salem. Quickly, he jumped through the air tackling Kozue and expanded his AT field.
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Misato Katsuragi paced across the cold tile floor of the upper command deck as Evangelion Unit 01 Ascended to the surface. "What's the Angel's status" she asks one of the bridge techs.
"Still silent ma'am"
What is it planning? All its done so far is drift through the city and float. What is it waiting for- her thoughts were immediately interrupted as Unit01 neared the surface and Ritsuko started shouting about an energy reading from the angel. Right as Unit01 hit the surface it shot a lance of light directly at Shinji. The light started to burn through a building but halfway through hit a small oval shaped obstacle.
"Second AT field detected directly between Unit01 and the target, it is not Unit01's AT field" one of the techs shouted.
Is that another angel? No there was no angel genetic pattern detected, whatever it was though it can't be good.
Misato started barking orders" Bring Unit01 back down, I want all info on this angel so far compiled and analyzed, also send a salvage team to that building try to find the source of the second AT field."
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A sound similar to nails on a chalkboard fills the air, a blinding flash, and an impact. He feels the building disintegrate around him, and heat; burning, searing heat engulfs his body. It seemed as if all this would last eternity, but finally all this faded and he began to fall with Kozue still wrapped in his arms. Barely awake he used his AT field to halt their descent inches above the ground. As they settled to the ground he drifted to sleep, Kozue remained in his embrace as she had passed out during the fall.
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Salem awakened to find his right leg pinned to the ground by an iron bar, Kozue however was only restricted by the fact she was directly underneath him. The sound of tire on gravel and rock entered the air, it was coming closer to the pair. He looks up to see several armored vans labeled section 7 approaching them. One van stops about 30 feet from them, realizing that he is too weak to lift the iron bar, he resides to let them find him.
He hears the one van stop, and the sound of feet on dirt and gravel. "I think I found someone!" He tries to turn to look at the man running toward him, but a lance of pain shot up his leg and he drops his head back to the ground. Blackness threatened to overwhelm his vision but he remained awake as he realized how close he was to being discovered as Seele's third eye. This won't be acceptable to the old men, I have to try to stay on top of the situation.
"Hear put your hands under him, quick he's bleeding" Hands grip his body and attempt to lift him away from Kozue and the iron bar pinning him to the ground. Pain hits him again as the bar tears open his calf. Kozue stirred slightly when the man started lifting him.
Two more men started to help lift him and he shouted in pain as his leg was further mutilated. "Ok pull on three! Three! Two! One pull!" Twelve. Twelve second of agony until with a final yank he is freed from the bar with Kozue still in his grip. This is too much, so much pain. Just a few seconds, that's how long I'll close my eyes. Finally as they were being lifted into the van the pain beat his consciousness back and he blacked out.
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The major stood, arms crossed and feet planted, waiting on a report from the surveillance and recovery teams.
"Ma'am we've found two civilians at the site of the apartment, one teenager and a young woman" crackled through her headset. "One is injured the other is unharmed, we are en route to HQ"
"Get the injured to the ER, send the other to interrogation room 4 ASAP" she replies quickly. There was no way anyone could survive that kind of destruction, especially being so close to the epicenter. The only thing that could stop that kind of force is….. An AT field. What's going on here?