Angel's Retribution, Fanfiction by Chris Savage,
shinsachiel@hotmail.com
Disclaimer : Evangelion and it's characters do not belong to me and I take
no credit whatsoever.
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NEON GENESIS EVANGELION:
ANGEL'S RETRIBUTION
Part III: Into Alpha
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Nerv headquarters
"The Mitosis process in Unit-Alpha has been finished, Necrosis has been stopped in the Eva's arms and head." Said a voice operator of the Eva cage.
"So, the Eva is ready for combat now?" Misato asked from the operations room.
"Almost, there are just a few final things to finish off with." Ritsuko replied.
"Destroyed by one of our own, ironic." Misato said
Work continued as normal in Nerv headquarters, so that accounted for the half-full, or half-empty as Ritsuko would say, cups of coffee. As usual, all work under the supervision of Dr. Ritsuko Akagi was finished well ahead of schedule, faster than normal since she has less work than before, but this gave her more time to work on one other project.
"Well I'm finished, so I'll be on my way." Ritsuko said.
"Okay," replied Misato before she took a sip of cold coffee.
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"You took care of those robots pretty well, Asuka." Shinji said, he was sat in Misato's apartment, his home, with Asuka, Toji, Kensuke and Hikari with him. Pen Pen wasn't far off as usual.
"Of course I did, this is me you're talking about." Asuka replied.
"Here we go again." Toji muttered to Kensuke.
Asuka ignored Toji and continued to profess her greatness.
"Where would you be if I hadn't saved you Shinji?" she continued.
Shinji stared blankly at Asuka, Toji was surprised at what she said.
"You saved Shinji!" Toji exclaimed.
"Yeah, so what?" Asuka replied.
"Now I can see why Shinji's so depressed." Kensuke said to Toji.
"Yeah, rescued by the devil." Toji replied.
"WHAT WAS THAT MONKEY BOY?" Asuka screamed.
"What'd I do?" Shinji said, surprised.
"No, not you Shinji, him." Asuka said while pointing to Toji.
"I thought that was my name." Shinji replied.
"I thought you didn't like it." Asuka said, wryly.
Shinji sighed, Asuka turned her attention to Toji. The rest watched as Asuka started harassing Toji and then watching Toji insult her as well. Shinji decided he'd leave the others and got up to walk out onto the balcony. There he could see the vastness of the second Tokyo-3, Tokyo-4 he thought to himself but the city was still named Tokyo-3 even though it had practically bee rebuilt from scratch. Interrupting his train of thought, Shinji could hear footsteps behind him.
"Qwaaaaaa?"
It was Pen Pen. As Shinji looked back at the small penguin he could see and hear Toji and Asuka arguing, again.
"What are we going to do with them Pen Pen?" he asked.
"Qwaaaa." Replied Pen Pen.
"Why do they always have to fight with each other?"
"Qwaaaaa?"
"Why do we have to fightthem?"
"Qwaaaaaaa."
Shinji looked at the penguin again.
"Why am I talking to a penguin?" he said, "this is so dumb."
"OW!" Shinji cried, he looked down and saw Pen Pen by his leg. "Why'd you bite me?"
"Qwa!" Pen Pen squawked back.
"I'm sorry." Shinji said to the warm water penguin.
"Qwaa Qwaa!" Pen Pen replied, as if he was saying 'I should think so to.'
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Central Dogma, Dummy Plug test facility.
Rei Ayanami is inside the giant tube in the centre of the room, several more tubes are coming out of the centre one and feeding out to all around the room. Rei is not alone, Dr. Ritsuko Akagi stands at a console not too far from the centre tube. Ritsuko is running tests but one result on the console before her catches her eye and bewilders the scientist.
"What! Two?" she said in amazement.
"Well, we've seen it happen before, so I guess I can use this to accomplish my task." She continued.
Rei opened her eyes and looked at Ritsuko as she keyed several commands into the console.
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"Ikari is better prepared than we had thought." Said Lorenz Kiel.
"Yes, it seems that we will have to use more force when the day comes." Said one of the Seele monoliths.
"We will have to initiate projects 0 and 4." Said another of Seele's inner circle.
"What is the preliminary status of these projects?" Kiel asked.
"Project 0's data has already been retrieved, project 4 is just awaiting the order." Answered a voice from a Seele monolith.
"Then the preparations will be ready on time." Kiel said again.
The Seele monoliths apart from Kiel's all disappeared, another voice could be heard though.
"Indeed, everything is going to your plan."
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"You mean that Unit-Alpha is ready for testing?" Misato asked down her cellular phone.
"Yes," replied Ritsuko "I'm trusting you will be there, the test is tomorrow."
Misato stood by Hyuga in Nerv's central control room inside the geo-front HQ, her phone had rung just a minute ago, interrupting her work only to find she was going to have even more work.
"Isn't this all a bit sudden?" Misato asked.
"We need to save as much time as possible, the synchronisation tests need to be as soon as possible." Ritsuko replied.
Misato snorted.
"There's one more thing as well." Ritsuko said.
"What is that then?"
"Make sure Shinji and Asuka are there too, on stand-by."
"But why?" Misato asked in surprise.
"Just in case." Ritsuko replied coldly.
"Fine." Misato replied before closing the line, her friendship with Ritsuko wasn't at an all time high due to recent events and the scientist's pushy demeanour didn't impress Misato one bit.
"Is unit-Alpha really ready for testing?" Hyuga asked.
"Yeah," Misato replied "and what's more, Ritsuko wants Shinji and Asuka to be on stand-by for the duration of the test."
"It seems nothing ever goes to plan here." Hyuga said.
Misato nodded.
"They're probably already expecting the test to be a total disaster."
"You can't really blame them," Hyuga paused "after what happened the last time."
"I suppose," Misato replied "but what are they hiding this time?"
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"What?" Shinji cried "you can't be serious Misato."
"I'm being as serious as I can." She replied "you're only being asked to watch over Rei's synchronisation test."
"I don't understand. Why do they need us to look after her?" Asuka asked Misato.
"Just In case." Misato replied solemnly.
"In case it goes out of control?" Shinji asked.
"With what's happened with the last two children, we have to make sure nothing like that happens again." Misato replied.
"But still"
"No buts, Shinji. This is an order, you can't avoid it."
Shinji drooped back in the chair he was sitting on and then looking at the other two.
"So I have no choice, as usual."
"That's right!" Asuka joked.
A part of Shinji didn't want to watch over this test because he might have to fight with Rei's Eva, another part of him didn't want to do the task either but for a different reason, he wanted to make his own choice in the matter.
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"Are you ready for tomorrow's test, Rei?" Gendo Ikari asked as he walked down one of the many corridors in Nerv HQ with the first child, Rei Ayanami.
"Yes sir." She replied, the girl looked at commander Ikari, the amnesty that had been in her eyes much recently was gone. The commander smiled back.
"I'm sure everything will go accordingly this time." Gendo said as he unfixed himself from Rei's gaze.
"Yes sir, there will be no problems."
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"So the first child's synchronisation test is scheduled for tomorrow?" Kiel asked.
"Yes sir, I will inform you of the results as soon as I can." Replied a voice, which didn't belong to one of Seele's inner circle. Indeed the room was empty save for Lorenz Kiel at his desk and a figure, cloaked in shadows.
"Is the prospected result high?"
"Yes, tests have already been run on the subject in accordance with the unit's prototype data."
"So there are no problems expected?"
"We, excuse me, Nerv has insured that all problems have been bypassed."
"And that means that it is just a regular Eva?"
"Yes, I have not noticed anything which would prove otherwise, just a regular Evangelion."
"Thank you." Kiel replied, "you are now dismissed."
With that, the figure before Kiel vanished from the room.
"So Ikari, the first of your new series is completed, I didn't think you would be so bold as to attempt to stand against us." Kiel said to himself. "However, a mere two Evas added to your current two is nothing compared to our forces, not even with Eva-01 in your possession. And yet, we have more than you think Ikari."
The Seele monoliths suddenly appeared in the room.
"In regards to projects 0 and 4?" one of Seele asked.
"Indeed." Kiel replied, "How are the projects?"
"The order has been sent for project 4, our men will be retrieving the data in a matter of days."
"Excellent." Kiel replied.
"And project 0 is running to schedule, completion will be in a matter of weeks."
"What of the Eva series?" Kiel asked.
"They have been completed, and the dummy plug data has been uploaded. They are ready for combat at any time."
"The time is near, nothing will be able to stop us." Kiel said.
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The next day.
A coastal base on the north island of Japan, Hokkaido.
"Sir, we're getting readings of a huge submerged mass heading this way!" said a technician in the base's main control room.
"What?" panicked the commander of the base, "how large is it?"
"I can't say exactly but" the man was cut off as something on his screen horrified him. "Oh my God, it's here!"
Outside, a huge being rose from the waters close to the base. The huge white beast stood, it looked like a preying mantis with it's arms rose above it's head and hanging down. The part of the creature that stood out was an incomplete black ring around it's chest, interrupted only by something spherical that hid behind the beak of the creature's skull like face. As it started to wade it's way through the water and past the coast base, the sphere glowed red.
Red light bathed the inside of the base, panic stricken people running everywhere. A completely chaotic scene.
"What is it doing?" the commander asked his subordinates.
"It looks likeit's going to attack us!" replied a technician.
As the creature noticed the panic and chaos coming from the close by base, it moved towards it. The creature now stood over the base but it cast no shadow onto it. An orange substance came out from the being's hands and dropped onto the buildings below. The substance burned straight through the base, dissolving what came into contact with it. The beast moved away from the base, continuing on it's way but after it had gone about two kilometres from the base it turned around. The creature's eyes lit up and an the base exploded, the cross shaped explosion engulfed the base and after a few seconds, it disappeared and with it, the base itself. Completely eradicated from the earth.
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Nerv headquarters.
"Okay you two, it's time you boarded your Evas." Ritsuko said to Shinji and Asuka.
"Yes ma'am." Asuka said, enthusiastically.
"Yes ma'am." Shinji said, hesitantly.
As Shinji and Asuka headed off to the Eva cages to climb aboard units-01 and 02, the figures left in the Eva activation control room were Gendo Ikari, Kouzou Fuyutsuki, Saki Murasawa, Misato Katsuragi, Ritsuko Akagi, Maya Ibuki plus a handful of technicians to run the synch test.
"Are the pilots ready?" Misato asked.
"The second and third children have entered their entry plugs and are being inserted. Rei is awaiting activation." Saki replied.
Misato stared at the green armoured Eva through the window that separated them from the giant Eva's room.
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Inside unit-01's entry plug, Shinji Ikari lay, his eyes closed, awaiting the inevitable, waiting for unit-01 to be activated and for his duty to begin.
"First level contact is clear, unit-01 has activated, on stand-by." It was Maya's voice.
Shinji opened his eyes and looked around in the Eva's cage, he was constrained by the umbilical bridge and the restraints that held back the Eva, that kept it under man's control. Yet these restraints did little except give humans a false sense of arrogance in that they have tamed the Eva beast because these restraints can't hold back the Eva. Shinji remembered as unit-01 had smashed out of it's cage when the angel that had possessed Asuka attacked Nerv and he also thought of when he first came to Tokyo-3 and the geofront, unit-01 had saved him.
"Hey Shinji, wake up!" called Asuka through the Eva's intercom.
"Huh! What?" Shinji replied.
"Looks like you're daydreaming again." Asuka said.
"Hmm."
"You're so boring you know?" Asuka told him.
"Yes, yes, I know." Shinji replied.
"Hey, don't mock me!"
"Sorry."
"Stop that." Asuka snapped.
"Stop what?" Shinji asked.
"Stop saying sorry every time something happens." Asuka said, "you're supposed to fight with me."
"I don't want to fight, and not with you anyway."
"Why not?" Asuka asked , "Don't you know you have to stick up for yourself?"
"I've hurt too many, of my friends already. I don't want to go on hurting my friends."
"I'm your friend?" Asuka asked, "even though I'm always giving you hell."
"Yes, I like you that way. Because that's you."
Asuka sighed.
"You always keep me guessing." Asuka said before disengaging their conversation.
Shinji looked at his feet.
"I just don't want to fight anymore."
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"Initiating primary contact."
Inside unit-Alpha, Rei looked around the entry plug of her new Eva, once again in an Evangelion Rei felt something, something that she had never felt before, self-worth.
"Connect main power." Saki ordered.
"Roger." Maya replied.
"Main power has been connected." Ritsuko grumbled.
"Perfect, shift format to phase two. Link the pilot to unit-Alpha."
"Connect nerve links." Saki said.
After a moment, Maya replied.
"Nerve links have been successfully connected. Nothing abnormal has been detected in the central nervous system."
A phone beside sub-commander Fuyutsuki suddenly started to flash. Fuyutsuki picked it up to find out what the call was about.
"What?" he asked. "It'll have to wait, we're in the middle of a test." Fuyutsuki put the phone down.
"What was that Fuyutsuki?" Commander Ikari asked.
"A radio signal has been picked up from a base up north, but it's not important enough to pull us out of this test." Fuyutsuki replied.
"Very well, that will be examined later" Ikari said "continue the synchronisation test."
Saki nodded.
"Begin borderline countdown." She said, to Ritsuko. Dr. Akagi, not happy with being made to announce the countdown to the borderline, mumbled something to herself before getting to the aforementioned task.
"Absolute borderline will be reached in 0.9"
"0.7"
"0.5"
"0.4"
"0.3"
"0.2"
The tension in the Eva control room was growing unbearable for most, the question on everyone's mind was whether the Eva would work or not.
"0.1"
Shinji was on the edge of his seat in the Eva's cockpit, this was the moment he had been dreading, when the Eva would undoubtedly go berserk and he would have to stop it.
"Borderline has been cleared! Unit-Alpha, activated." Ritsuko stammered with relief.
The tension in the room dropped as everyone fell back in relief, except of course for Gendo who retained the normal, cold look on his face.
"Commence the linkage test." Saki said.
"Roger." Maya replied.
"How does it feel, Rei?" Misato asked.
"Fuzzy." Rei replied.
"How so?" Misato asked.
"As if I don't have complete control, that something is blocking me."
"Linkage test complete." Maya announced.
"What's the ratio?" Fuyutsuki asked.
"52.4%." Maya replied.
"That's great for her first test." Misato said.
Gendo and Saki knew that it wasn't technically her first test.
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In the skies, near the city of Fukuoka on the southernmost island of Japan, Kyushu, a being circles the skies. It's body almost completely black save for an incomplete white ring, stopped only by a sphere below the creature's beak-like skull face. It's two arms protruding from the beast's torso, from on top of it's body come a pair of what can only be described as shrivelled wings.
Below, in an observation tower in Fukuoka.
"What is that?"
"I don't know," came a reply "but we shouldn't stick around to find out."
The creature, now having been spotted and reported to the city council watches as chaos and panic is being caused below. Sirens engulf the area with their deafening blare, people scurry around trying to evacuate the city. With traffic jams everywhere, people are now deferring to their feet to get them out of the city. However, the being just watches as the chaos ensues and it flies over the city and continues northward bound.
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"What was the signal that we picked up earlier then?" Fuyutsuki asked from his position at the control tower.
"I've got it here," Shigeru replied "I'll play it back."
Shigeru entered the necessary commands into his terminal and the recording started playing.
Something appeared on the screen instead.
It was Shinji, Asuka and Misato.
"Shinji, is Asuka okay?" she asked.
The Shinji on the main screen didn't pay attention to Misato's question but kept talking to Asuka.
"Asuka, I love you, please don't die." He said.
"WHAT IS THIS?"
Shocked, Shigeru turned round immediately.
"I'm sorry commander, I"
Shigeru found that it wasn't the commander shouting at him, but Asuka.
"What is this?" she asked again.
"I, uh must have got the wrong recording, heh." Shigeru said.
"Enough of this lieutenant, play the correct transmission this time." Gendo said.
"Yes sir, sorry about that."
Gendo didn't look impressed, but then again he never does. Asuka was fuming, Misato wasn't too happy either.
Again, Shigeru keyed a command into the console and this time the correct recording came up. The main screen said, 'sound only'.
"This is the coastal base at Sapporo, we've come under attack from a huge entity of about skyscraper size. It appeared from out of the waterwhat is this, Acid? EVERYONE EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY!"
"The rest is just screams sir." Shigeru said as he stopped the recording.
"What do you think it was?" Misato asked.
"Could it bean angel?" Fuyutsuki asked in disbelief.
Gendo just smirked behind his hands at his desk.
"What's it's ETA?" Misato asked.
"The target's estimated time of arrival is 16:47." Hyuga replied.
"That means we've got just over an hour." Ritsuko said.
"Then we'll have to move out to intercept the enemy when it reaches Tokyo-3." Misato said as she looked up at commander Ikari.
Gendo nodded.
"Shinji, Asuka, you'll have to get geared up." Misato said as she faced the two children who were now longer dressed in their plug suits.
"Roger." Asuka said. Shinji looked at the floor and fumbled his feet.
"Shinji!" Misato said.
"R-roger." He replied.
Shinji and Asuka left the control room for their locker rooms.
"What about Rei?" Misato asked.
"We don't want to push her right away and there's still an error remaining with the interface." Saki replied.
"We'll have her put on standby." Misato said.
"Why?" Ritsuko asked.
"As you would say, "Misato answered "just in case."
Before Rei left however, one of the phones flashed on. Shigeru immediately turned it on general broadcast.
"This is Fukuoka city, we've detected a huge being passing through our airspace and heading in your direction, towards Tokyo-3."
"Another?" Misato said, puzzled.
"We'll tell the other two when they board their Evas," Ritsuko said "Rei should get in unit-Alpha all the more if there is a second threat."
"Right." Misato said, "Rei, get ready."
Rei immediately complied and headed for the exit.
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"Here we go again." Asuka said to herself as she changed into her plug-suit.
The girl shut the locker in front of her.
"A chance to prove yourself to them." She said as she pressed the button on her left wrist, tightening the entry plug suit.
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Shinji Ikari was sitting, slumped on a bench in the men's lockers, his plug suit in his hands.
"I don't want to fightI can't fight, not an angel. Not after Kaoru." He said.
"That's right, I can choose what I want." He continued, "and I don't want this responsibility, they don't need me any longer because they have Asuka now, she completely destroyed those Jet Alone. They can let her fight, she wants to fight, I don't."
Shinji stood up and dropped his plug suit to the ground. The boy made his way to the door and left, leaving everything behind him.
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Making her way to the locker rooms, Rei Ayanami spotted a familiar boy coming out of the other locker room.
"Ikari?" she said.
The boy started to run away.
"Shinji?"
Rei followed Shinji, running after him down the many corridors in the geofront headquarters, abandoning her own duty as she tried to catch up with the boy.
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"Dammit, where's Shinji, and Rei?" Misato asked.
"Do you think he's run away again, Misato?" Ritsuko asked.
"I don't know," she replied "maybe he's just running a little late."
"I doubt it." Ritsuko said.
"Is Asuka ready?" Misato asked.
"Yes, she's ready to board the Eva at any time." Saki replied.
"Make it so." Misato said.
"Don't do this to us Shinji." Misato thought to herself.
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On the edges of Tokyo-3, the preying mantis type creature had arrived. It looked over the city, noticing most of the buildings retracted into the ground, civilians evacuated, a tranquil site. The creature didn't move forward and attack the city, instead it just stood on the outskirts.
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"Target 1 has passed the first line of defence and has stopped." Hyuga said.
"Are we getting a blood pattern reading on the creature?" Fuyutsuki asked.
"Affirmative, the target's blood pattern isorange!" Hyuga said with surprise.
"Send unit-02 out, intercept the target if it makes a move but otherwise, I want you to stay where you are Asuka." Misato said.
"Roger, Misato." Asuka replied.
"Eva launch!" Misato shouted.
The red Evangelion let loose from it's catapult and shot up the launch tunnel towards Tokyo-3 above. Asuka felt the familiar rush that filled her when unit-02 was launched. Asuka smiled inwardly as she was about to face her second battle since that incident.
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Shinji, still running from his duty, finally got a chance to rest, he'd reached an elevator and ran inside, pressing the button to take him to the top. Inside, he caught his breath and thought to himself.
"Why am I running away again?"
"I said I wouldn't run away again but here I am."
The lift reached the top and Shinji stepped out, he'd have to walk from here on.
Rei had just reached the bottom of the lift where Shinji had run into but before she got into it she heard something.
"Pilots Ikari and Ayanami to report immediately to Eva cages, repeat. Pilots Ikari and Ayanami to report immediately to Eva cages. This is a red alert situation, attack imminent."
Rei decided to let Shinji go and instead she turned back to get ready for the battle.
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"Remember to keep a lookout for the other target, Asuka." Misato said from the control room.
"Roger." Asuka replied.
Misato turned to face the commanders.
"Sir, what should we classify the target as?" she asked.
"Well, we don't have suffi" Fuyutsuki replied before being cut off by Gendo.
"Classify the target as an angel, proceed with the operation."
"Yes sir." Misato replied.
"Why an angel, Ikari?" Fuyutsuki asked.
"If the committee thinks that angels still exist, then they won't be so quick as to launch an attack on us." Gendo replied.
"But what is it then?" Fuyutsuki asked.
Gendo didn't reply, Fuyutsuki decided not to continue questioning the commander but he heard something come from Gendo.
"All in due time professor."
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Outside, in Tokyo-3 it had begun raining slightly. Asuka looked around at the area, trying to figure out what was going to happen if anything. She noticed something different when she looked up at the clouds, something moving around in the sky.
"Misato, I think there's something up there." Asuka said.
"Be careful Asuka, it could be the other one." Misato replied
The shadow in the sky circled through the clouds but without any warning it suddenly dived down.
"It's attacking!" Misato shouted.
"Time to take you down." Asuka said.
Asuka moved unit-02 to face the incoming angel, the Eva pointed it's positron rifle at the angel and fired off two rounds before the two beings met. The angel crashed into unit-02, pushing it back into one of the armament buildings and causing the Evangelion to fire a few shots off randomly making explosions everywhere. Asuka regained her senses and returned to fighting the angel, she looked at the angel corrected it's stance too, standing up on it's two giant legs. The angel looked at unit-02 through it's two eyes and Asuka looked straight back at it, the angel blinked it's eyes.
Asuka clutched her head.
"Ngghhh!"
The angel broke the stand-off and charged at the reeling Eva, smashing into it head on.
"Asuka, are you okay?" Misato asked.
"I'm fine, I can continue." Asuka replied.
Asuka locked arms with the angel but before she started fighting it she noticed another figure fast approaching.
"It's the other angel, watch out Asuka!" Misato shouted.
Unit-02 raised it's leg and kicked the first angel away from itself, the angel that had been approaching now leapt on unit-02, grabbing it's arms with it's own. This angel too blinked it's hollow eyes, causing Asuka to shudder in pain but she regained her senses. Asuka noticed something coming out from the angel's hands and falling onto unit-02's arms.
"Arghhhhh!" Asuka screamed.
"What is it?" Misato asked.
"It must be the acid that killed the personnel at that base." Saki replied.
"Asuka, spread your AT field!" Misato exclaimed.
Immediately, Asuka expanded her AT field, knocking the angel away from her, trying to knock off the pain which was numbing her arms, Asuka stood up properly again. The angel that had dived from the sky now seemed to be generating it's own AT field, dispersing unit-02's. The angel pounced on unit-02 but Asuka gave it a kick before it could reach her. Incredibly, instead of being knocked back by the blow, unit-02's leg was knocked off the angel and it continued it's assault on the red Evangelion.
"I don't understand, I can't hurt it." Asuka said.
"Hang in there Asuka, Rei's coming to help you soon." Misato replied.
"Not wondergirl." Asuka said to herself as she desperately tried to deflect the blows coming from the angel.
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Shinji Ikari had now escaped the geo-front through one of the emergency tunnels and had now reached the surface of Tokyo-3. The boy looked out to see that there were two angels andunit-02. One of the angels had unit-02 pinned and was attacking it, Shinji watched as the second moved in as well.
"Asuka." He said.
The second angel now jumped on unit-02, the red Evangelion was being overwhelmed and couldn't seem to return any damage in their direction. Shinji couldn't watch it any more and ran away, heading for the outskirts of the city.
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"This is too much for her to take," Misato said "we've got to get her out of there, eject the entry plug!"
Emergency lit upon on Maya's terminal.
"Negative, the signal's not being accepted." She said.
"How's Rei?" Misato asked.
"A10 Neural synapses are operating within normal limits, she's ready to launch." Ritsuko replied.
"Then launch her." Misato said.
In the Eva hanger bay, the green Evangelion was released from the catapult and send flying above. The Eva rushed up the launch tunnel and within seconds it would be ready to fight.
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"Get off me!" Asuka screamed at the two angels
The angels were both on top of unit-02, swinging blow after blow at it, acid all over the Evangelion, Asuka couldn't take the pain for much longer. From the corner of her eye though, she noticed something come from out of the ground. The green unit-Alpha rose from out of the ground, standing over the two angels, scavenging like jackals at Eva-02. With this new presence, the angels turned from Eva-02 and focused themselves on the green Evangelion. Unit-02 was now free but Asuka couldn't move herself just yet.
"Asuka, retreat to retrieval route 27, get out of there." Misato said.
"No, I can go on." Asuka replied stubbornly.
"You'll die if you stay there any longer, this is an order, don't disobey it!"
Asuka grumbled.
"Okay."
Asuka tried to move her Evangelion but found that something was blocking her.
"I can't move it, Misato." She said.
"What?" Misato wasn't referring to Asuka though.
Asuka's mind was side-tracked from her own problem as well.
Everyone watched as the two angels drew closer to each other and then appeared to merge. The angels started to form one being. With a flash, the two angels were gone and now a single being stood before unit-Alpha. It's body the shape as the two angels, it had two arms over it's head and two coming from it's side, a pair of shrivelled wings below it's lower arms, it's body separated into the two colours of the previous angels separated by the angel's core, just above the core was it's head, no longer a beaked skull shape but now it took the form of a Yin Yang.
"It merged it's body." Misato said.
"Like the 7th angel." Ritsuko continued.
The angel, now merged into one, suddenly pounced on the green Evangelion forcing it back until it's back collided with one of the massive Eva armament buildings. Recovering from the shock of the attack, Rei brought her senses back round and made an attack on the angel herself. Bringing her Evangelions legs up from the ground she kicked the angel away, freeing unit-Alpha from the angel's grasp. The angel was knocked back but smashed straight into the paralysed unit-02, with her nerve links still active Asuka felt the pain through her body as the angel landed on her Eva.
"Move dammit!" Asuka cursed at her Eva.
With one final attempt at getting unit-02 to respond, Asuka set aside everything that was bothering her and just concentrated on getting the Eva to move. With neither the angel nor the green Evangelion doing anything she had no distractions. The Evangelion however, would not move. Asuka gave up trying and just sank back into the cockpit's seat.
The angel now started to move, shoving itself off unit-02 it brought itself to stand. Now facing Rei's Evangelion the angel returned to it's chosen target. Rei stood before the angel, waiting for it to move. She didn't have to wait long though and the angel began slowly moving towards her. Rei moved forward as well. Suddenly the angel threw itself off the ground and soared over unit-Alpha's head, landing behind it, the perfect chance to strike was not delayed and the angel attacked before Rei could respond to it's actions. Grabbing the Eva with it's lower arms, the angel had it in it's grasp again. The angel latched onto the Eva's arms with it's upper arms and the acid started to be produced. Rei felt the burning pain in her own arms, she wouldn't let the angel have the upper hand though and tried her best to release the Eva from it's grasp. After a lot of struggling, Rei released her Eva from the angel's lower arms, before she could do any more the fuzzy sense that had been blocking her from the Eva in her synchronisation test earlier came back to her and caused her own senses to fade away.
With a mighty roar coming from behind the Eva's armoured head, Evangelion unit-Alpha, using the angel's upper arms as a pivot, swung over the angel and landed behind it taking the angel's upper two arms with it. An orange yellow substance cam pouring out from where the angel's arms had been attached to it's body, pouring on the ground and started burning through the ground even taking some cars that had been left out in the city with it. Behind the angel, the green Evangelion drew back it's right arm and then thrust it forward straight into the angel's back, the force of the blow was so great that the Eva's arm went straight through the angel smashing through it's core as it came out of the angel's chest. The red sphere erupted in a mixture of orange and red which splattered everywhere within a close proximity. Only a few seconds later did the angel explode in a huge column of fire, forcing Rei and her Evangelion back into the armament building that she had been sent into by the angel just a few moments before. Asuka could do nothing except watch helplessly during the whole battle.
"Why couldn't I hurt it and she could?" she asked herself.
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Shinji Ikari's absence had alerted Nerv and before he could have left Tokyo-3, he was recovered by Nerv special intelligence. Brought back to stand before Major Katsuragi the next day after having been detained in one of Nerv's geofront cells, the boy felt himself grow tense.
"Why did you do this Shinji?" Misato asked, "why did you run away again?"
"Idon't know." Shinji stammered a reply.
"That's crap, you and I both know that!" Misato snapped back.
Shinji could feel the emotions and with them, the tears in his eyes as he brought he real reply.
"I couldn't fightnot an angel."
He paused.
"Not after Kaoru."
Misato looked at the child in front of her, although she sympathised with his feelings she felt that it didn't make up for his lack of respect for his orders and the betrayal to his friends, Asuka had been hurt quite bad and could have been in more trouble had Rei not arrived when she did.
But Shinji didn't have just confronting Misato to worry with, soon he would have to explain himself to his father.
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