Meant for One Another
A/N: Chapter 3 is here, knock yourself out. And if the format is bad, then I'm sorry. The uploading processes takes out all my paragraphs for some reason (sigh) well, if you don't understand anything you could always ask me via the review system.
(A/N: The pictures for this story can be found at my hompage, which you can acess from my author profile page.)
Disclaimer: I own nothing, if I do I'll let you know.
As the school day ended, the three Eva pilots walked to Nerv together. Asuka and Rei were bickering again. Or rather Asuka was, Rei just ignored her. And Asuka soon hit Shinji for not taking her side in some argument the girls had. (A/N: For a picture go ) As they walked down the street leading to one of Nerv's many entrances. They went inside a building and went past the false wall. They came before a large room with nine gates. Asuka swiped her card through the reader next to gate five but nothing happened.
"Huh?"
Rei tried, nothing. Shinji took his try but the door wouldn't budge.
"Mein Gott! What the hell is happening here!?" Asuka screamed stamping her feet.
Misato had gone into Nerv right after Shinji left for school and was just taking some documents to Ritsuko. As the elevator she was trying to catch started to close she sprinted.
"WAIT!" she yelled.
She made it in just before it closes fully. As she catches her breath she spots her fellow rider. It was none other than Nerv's own unshaven lady-killer, Agent Ryoji Kaji. The major scowled. Kaji however smiled his famous smile.
"Hey Katsurigi! You'll look like you're in a bad mood, things not going your way?"
"They were until you showed up…" she said through gritted teeth.
Before anyone could say anything else the elevator rumbled and stopped. The lights dimmed, leaving only the eerie red glow of the emergency lights.
"A power failure?" Kaji said.
"If it is the back up generators should come online any second." Misato said confidently.
They didn't.
"Maybe Akagi screwed up an experiment." Kaji said, still very calm.
In the lab, they were preparing another activation test for Eva-01 when everything shut down. The whole room looked at Dr. Akagi.
"What? I didn't do anything!" she said indignantly.
In the control room
Shigeru "No. The Standby circuit isn't operating."
Kozo "That can't be. How are the operating circuits?"
Female staff: "1.2 percent in all. Only 9 circuits from No. 2567."
Kozo "Use all operational power supplies to maintain Magi and Central Dogma."
Shigeru "But that will interfere with life-support in the entire building."
Kozo "That's fine. This is a top priority issue."
Crewmembers force open a door for the Doctor and her assistant.
"We have to hurry to the control center. I can't believe that the power supply has not yet been restored." She said to Maya.
Gendo is in his usual place in the command center, he and Fuyuzuki are discussing the power outage..
"We have to believe that the breakers were activated by someone rather than them working correctly." Gendo said.
"No matter what caused it, we'll be in serious trouble if an Angel appears at a time like this." The older man responded.
(A/N: For a picture of this go to- Pic 2)
Meanwhile, the U.N.'s office has detected an object approaching Tokyo-Three. Their people are trying to raise Nerv on the phone repeatedly but to no avail.
Back at Nerv the three pilots tried every door leading to Nerv that they could find. None of them worked.
"Hmm... This doesn't work, either." Asuka said, trying another button.
"No facilities work. Strange." Rei said.
"Has something happened in the Geo-front?" Asuka continued.
"It's logical to think so." Rei.
"Anyway, let's try to contact Nerv Headquarters." Shinji suggests.
The three whip out their phones and can't connect through. They try the emergency phones on the wall but they don't work either.
"Damn it, what is going on here?" Asuka yelled pounding the phone.
"That's not going to help..." Rei said, noticing that the phone was beginning to crack.
"What do you suggest I do then?" Asuka shot back.
Rei sat down in one of the chairs that ran through the hallway and opened her school bag. She pulled out a square shaped card, then breaking it in half she took out the piece of paper that was inside. Asuka snapped her fingers and opened her bag also.
"What are you guys doing?" Shinji asked peeking into Asuka's bag.
She got in his face, "What are you, stupid? I'm looking for the emergency manual!"
Rei scanned her piece of paper and nodded to herself. She stood up, "Let us proceed to Headquarters via Route-07."
Asuka nodded and led the way, the others followed. They came before a door.
"It doesn't work…" Shinji said.
"That's why we have you Third!" Asuka said.
Moments later Shinji was trying to manually open the door using a lever inside the keypad.
"Why…am…I…stuck…with…this…job!?" he groaned, putting everything in his timid frame to work.
"You don't expect us woman to do the dirty work now do you?" Asuka said with a smirk as she stood around watching with Rei.
Asuka's mind suddenly noticed how attractive Shinji looked as he twisted the lever around. Asuka slapped herself mentally.
'WHAT AM I THINKING!? I'M GETTING HENTAI THOUGHTS ABOUT THE THIRD CHILD!' her mind screamed.
Shinji swung the reinforced steel door open and collapsed on the floor, panting.
"….after you ladies…."
Rei stepped through the doorway. Shinji got up and went after her, 'Wait a second…Asuka?' he thought looking back. She was still near the door, her eyes glazed over. Shinji went up to her and waved his hands in front of her.
"Anyone there?"
She snapped out of it and went after Ayanami. Shrugging, Shinji followed.
In central command, Akagi, Fuyuzuki and Ikari were discussing how it was possible for all the power systems to go.
"This Geo-front was designed to be a self-sufficient colony if it's ever isolated from the outside. Theoretically this cannot happen to all the power supplies." Kozo said.
"That means that someone did it intentionally." Akagi agreed.
"I would guess that their purpose is to research this place." Gendo added.
"You mean that they want to guess the structures of Headquarters from the recovery procedures correct?" Akagi asked.
"That's damn annoying." Kozo cursed.
"I'll run dummy programs on Magi to make it difficult for them to understand the whole." Agaki suggested.
Gendo nodded, "I'll leave it up to you."
Ritsuko turned and left. "Yes."
Kozo remained next to the Commander. "That the first damage to Headquarters should be caused by people no less human than we are. I cannot bear the thought."
Gendo didn't move. "In the end, humanity is its own enemy."
The pilots wander around dark deserted hallways, trying to figure out the route that led to HQ. As they passed the sixth crossing they heard a vehicle approach from above. They looked up at the grate and saw a car speed pass. Makoto's voice could be heard.
"An Angel is coming, repeat, an Angel is coming now!"
"An Angel is coming!" Shinji & Asuka said together.
Rei looked around the hallway, "We can't waste time. We should take a shortcut."
The car Makoto had 'borrowed' crashed into central command. He gave his message again, causing chaos to erupt in the room. Gendo stood up.
"Take care of things here for me." He said to Fuyuzuki.
"Where are you going Ikari?" He asked.
"We need to prep the Evangelions." Gendo said aand left.
"Manually?" Kozo said in confusion.
The pilots have now taken to crawling around the air conditioning ducts.
"Some shortcut…" Asuka muttered.
Rei told her to be quiet and hurry up. Asuka saw an opening off to the side, crawling away from the others she came up to it and kicked the grate out of its place. She poked her head outside, she found herself looking at the Angel from a small opening in the side of the curb.
"Shit!" Asuka pulled her head back in and crawled back to the others. They stared at her.
"Uh…we've seen the Angel, lets hurry!" she blurted out.
They continued their way through the ducts, crawling single file with Rei in the front, Asuka in the middle and Shinji coming up last.
"You'd better not look in front of you Third!" Asuka yelled.
Shinji couldn't resist and looked, "Why?"
He was met with several kicks to the face from Asuka's foot.
"Baka! Jerk! Pervert! Idiot!" she screamed.
As this happened the duct they were in gave way and they crashed down ten feet, landing in a tangled mess and in embarrassing positions. Rei landed on her feet gracefully next to them. The two looked up and saw that they were in the Eva cages and that everyone in the room were looking at them. Doctor Akagi, who was nearest to them looked down.
"Asuka, I think Shinji would appreciate it if you moved your hand from there." She said trying not to laugh.
Asuka blushed and guessed where her hand was, looking down, her suspicions were confirmed. Her hand was caught between Shinji's legs.
"Err…" Shinji said looking down.
Asuka quickly removed her hand and stood up, no one could say whether her hair or her face was redder. Gendo didn't care too much about any of this and returned to getting the plugs inserted into the Evangelions by rope.
"Pilots, suit up." He ordered.
The three looked up at their Evas,
"How'd they set them up!? Nothing here works!" Shinji exclaimed.
"It was done by hand, this was the commander's idea, he knew you guys were coming and made sure that they would be ready for you." Ritsuko said.
(A/N: To see Gendo getting dirty, go to- pic 3)
The plugs containing the three children were feed into the Evas' backs. The crew cut through the pressure pipes and unlocked the restrains.
"All right everyone, remove the bindings by force." Gendo commanded.
The Evas pushed against their locks and pulled free (A/N: For a picture of this go to- pic 4), they quickly proceeded through a side duct, much like the ones their pilots had been crawling around in not too long ago. Asuka reached the end of the duck and kicked open the grate. The three Evas jumped out and clung to the walls. They looked up at the opening, they could see blue sky out side and began to make their way up. Suddenly an eye appeared over the top and a rain of acid poured down from it. Eva-02 was on top and some of its armor and padding melted.
"Ahhhh!!" Auska yelled, her Eva slipped.
The red unit crashed down into Unit-00, and together they crashed into Unit-01. Between all this their only rifle was dropped to the bottom of the service tube. They quickly retreated into a side tunnel.
"Damn! We need to think of something fast!" Shinji cursed.
"Our power reserves are only good for three more minutes." Rei observed.
"Then here's what we do," Asuka said. "Defense stays here, neutralizes the AT-field and also protects Offense from Angel's solvent liquid. Backup goes down, picks up the dropped rifle and gives it to Offense. Offense then destroys the target with a burst from the rifle."
"A good plan, I'll be playing defense?" Rei asked.
"No, I will. You're back up." Asuka said.
"Asuka!" Shinji objected. "It's too dangerous!"
"That's the reason. I'll feel funny unless I get even with you for the last battle. Shinji is Offense. Wondergirl is Backup. All right?" Asuka said and before they could answer she jumped out and stretched her Eva across the tunnel, shielding the other two from all the acid.
"Hurry!" she said as the pain from acid eating at her Eva was sent through her nerves.
Rei jumped down, Shinji got in position under Asuka, Rei threw up the rifle to Shinji.
"Asuka! Now!" Shinji yelled, taking aim.
Asuka ducked out of the way and Shinji fired into the eye on the bottom of the Angel, it collapsed in a heap.
Asuka's Eva fell down on top of Shinji's.
"Now we'll even." She said with a proud smile.
Shinji smiled back. "Whatever you say Asuka."
In the elevator Misato is on Kaji's shoulder.
"Damn it! Why doesn't it open?! It's an emergency! I've gotta go to the toilet before I have an accident! Uh! Hey! I told you not to look up!" she screamed.
Kaji sighed. "Okay, okay!"
Then suddenly the power is recovered and the elevator rumbles and descends to the next floor, causing the two passengers to lose their balance and fall on top of each other. The doors open to reveal Ritsuko and Maya, they looked down and sweat-dropped.
"First the Second and Third Child, now you. Well now I know where they get it from." Ritsuko said shaking her head.
"It's no wonder how those two behave." Maya said looking at where Misato's head was, which was very near Kaji's pants.
The pilots sit on a hilltop overlooking the city and watch as Tokyo-Three's power was restored little by little (A/N: For a picture of this go to- pic 5). Rei fell asleep after a while, leaving Shinji and Asuka with each other for company. Asuka looked at Shinji, who had his eyes towards the heavens, star gazing. She hesitated, but she did owe it to him she thought.
"Shinji," she began, he looked back at her. "I'm sorry about this morning, I've been a little edgy lately…"
He smiled, and Auska began to really enjoy seeing that smile, not that she would admit it.
"It's ok Auska, anything I can do to help?" he asked.
She shook her head, "Well, then again…maybe you could..." She said.
"What?" Shinji asked.
"It'd be nice if you could make me some German waffles."
Shinji laughed, "That's easy. I promise you that you'll have it for breakfast tomorrow."
"Thanks Shinji."
A/N: As always, authors love reviews. Also available is my other story "Evangelion, Children of Humanity: Guardian Angel". Just check out my profile to find it. Later. -
A/N: Chapter 3 is here, knock yourself out. And if the format is bad, then I'm sorry. The uploading processes takes out all my paragraphs for some reason (sigh) well, if you don't understand anything you could always ask me via the review system.
(A/N: The pictures for this story can be found at my hompage, which you can acess from my author profile page.)
Disclaimer: I own nothing, if I do I'll let you know.
As the school day ended, the three Eva pilots walked to Nerv together. Asuka and Rei were bickering again. Or rather Asuka was, Rei just ignored her. And Asuka soon hit Shinji for not taking her side in some argument the girls had. (A/N: For a picture go ) As they walked down the street leading to one of Nerv's many entrances. They went inside a building and went past the false wall. They came before a large room with nine gates. Asuka swiped her card through the reader next to gate five but nothing happened.
"Huh?"
Rei tried, nothing. Shinji took his try but the door wouldn't budge.
"Mein Gott! What the hell is happening here!?" Asuka screamed stamping her feet.
Misato had gone into Nerv right after Shinji left for school and was just taking some documents to Ritsuko. As the elevator she was trying to catch started to close she sprinted.
"WAIT!" she yelled.
She made it in just before it closes fully. As she catches her breath she spots her fellow rider. It was none other than Nerv's own unshaven lady-killer, Agent Ryoji Kaji. The major scowled. Kaji however smiled his famous smile.
"Hey Katsurigi! You'll look like you're in a bad mood, things not going your way?"
"They were until you showed up…" she said through gritted teeth.
Before anyone could say anything else the elevator rumbled and stopped. The lights dimmed, leaving only the eerie red glow of the emergency lights.
"A power failure?" Kaji said.
"If it is the back up generators should come online any second." Misato said confidently.
They didn't.
"Maybe Akagi screwed up an experiment." Kaji said, still very calm.
In the lab, they were preparing another activation test for Eva-01 when everything shut down. The whole room looked at Dr. Akagi.
"What? I didn't do anything!" she said indignantly.
In the control room
Shigeru "No. The Standby circuit isn't operating."
Kozo "That can't be. How are the operating circuits?"
Female staff: "1.2 percent in all. Only 9 circuits from No. 2567."
Kozo "Use all operational power supplies to maintain Magi and Central Dogma."
Shigeru "But that will interfere with life-support in the entire building."
Kozo "That's fine. This is a top priority issue."
Crewmembers force open a door for the Doctor and her assistant.
"We have to hurry to the control center. I can't believe that the power supply has not yet been restored." She said to Maya.
Gendo is in his usual place in the command center, he and Fuyuzuki are discussing the power outage..
"We have to believe that the breakers were activated by someone rather than them working correctly." Gendo said.
"No matter what caused it, we'll be in serious trouble if an Angel appears at a time like this." The older man responded.
(A/N: For a picture of this go to- Pic 2)
Meanwhile, the U.N.'s office has detected an object approaching Tokyo-Three. Their people are trying to raise Nerv on the phone repeatedly but to no avail.
Back at Nerv the three pilots tried every door leading to Nerv that they could find. None of them worked.
"Hmm... This doesn't work, either." Asuka said, trying another button.
"No facilities work. Strange." Rei said.
"Has something happened in the Geo-front?" Asuka continued.
"It's logical to think so." Rei.
"Anyway, let's try to contact Nerv Headquarters." Shinji suggests.
The three whip out their phones and can't connect through. They try the emergency phones on the wall but they don't work either.
"Damn it, what is going on here?" Asuka yelled pounding the phone.
"That's not going to help..." Rei said, noticing that the phone was beginning to crack.
"What do you suggest I do then?" Asuka shot back.
Rei sat down in one of the chairs that ran through the hallway and opened her school bag. She pulled out a square shaped card, then breaking it in half she took out the piece of paper that was inside. Asuka snapped her fingers and opened her bag also.
"What are you guys doing?" Shinji asked peeking into Asuka's bag.
She got in his face, "What are you, stupid? I'm looking for the emergency manual!"
Rei scanned her piece of paper and nodded to herself. She stood up, "Let us proceed to Headquarters via Route-07."
Asuka nodded and led the way, the others followed. They came before a door.
"It doesn't work…" Shinji said.
"That's why we have you Third!" Asuka said.
Moments later Shinji was trying to manually open the door using a lever inside the keypad.
"Why…am…I…stuck…with…this…job!?" he groaned, putting everything in his timid frame to work.
"You don't expect us woman to do the dirty work now do you?" Asuka said with a smirk as she stood around watching with Rei.
Asuka's mind suddenly noticed how attractive Shinji looked as he twisted the lever around. Asuka slapped herself mentally.
'WHAT AM I THINKING!? I'M GETTING HENTAI THOUGHTS ABOUT THE THIRD CHILD!' her mind screamed.
Shinji swung the reinforced steel door open and collapsed on the floor, panting.
"….after you ladies…."
Rei stepped through the doorway. Shinji got up and went after her, 'Wait a second…Asuka?' he thought looking back. She was still near the door, her eyes glazed over. Shinji went up to her and waved his hands in front of her.
"Anyone there?"
She snapped out of it and went after Ayanami. Shrugging, Shinji followed.
In central command, Akagi, Fuyuzuki and Ikari were discussing how it was possible for all the power systems to go.
"This Geo-front was designed to be a self-sufficient colony if it's ever isolated from the outside. Theoretically this cannot happen to all the power supplies." Kozo said.
"That means that someone did it intentionally." Akagi agreed.
"I would guess that their purpose is to research this place." Gendo added.
"You mean that they want to guess the structures of Headquarters from the recovery procedures correct?" Akagi asked.
"That's damn annoying." Kozo cursed.
"I'll run dummy programs on Magi to make it difficult for them to understand the whole." Agaki suggested.
Gendo nodded, "I'll leave it up to you."
Ritsuko turned and left. "Yes."
Kozo remained next to the Commander. "That the first damage to Headquarters should be caused by people no less human than we are. I cannot bear the thought."
Gendo didn't move. "In the end, humanity is its own enemy."
The pilots wander around dark deserted hallways, trying to figure out the route that led to HQ. As they passed the sixth crossing they heard a vehicle approach from above. They looked up at the grate and saw a car speed pass. Makoto's voice could be heard.
"An Angel is coming, repeat, an Angel is coming now!"
"An Angel is coming!" Shinji & Asuka said together.
Rei looked around the hallway, "We can't waste time. We should take a shortcut."
The car Makoto had 'borrowed' crashed into central command. He gave his message again, causing chaos to erupt in the room. Gendo stood up.
"Take care of things here for me." He said to Fuyuzuki.
"Where are you going Ikari?" He asked.
"We need to prep the Evangelions." Gendo said aand left.
"Manually?" Kozo said in confusion.
The pilots have now taken to crawling around the air conditioning ducts.
"Some shortcut…" Asuka muttered.
Rei told her to be quiet and hurry up. Asuka saw an opening off to the side, crawling away from the others she came up to it and kicked the grate out of its place. She poked her head outside, she found herself looking at the Angel from a small opening in the side of the curb.
"Shit!" Asuka pulled her head back in and crawled back to the others. They stared at her.
"Uh…we've seen the Angel, lets hurry!" she blurted out.
They continued their way through the ducts, crawling single file with Rei in the front, Asuka in the middle and Shinji coming up last.
"You'd better not look in front of you Third!" Asuka yelled.
Shinji couldn't resist and looked, "Why?"
He was met with several kicks to the face from Asuka's foot.
"Baka! Jerk! Pervert! Idiot!" she screamed.
As this happened the duct they were in gave way and they crashed down ten feet, landing in a tangled mess and in embarrassing positions. Rei landed on her feet gracefully next to them. The two looked up and saw that they were in the Eva cages and that everyone in the room were looking at them. Doctor Akagi, who was nearest to them looked down.
"Asuka, I think Shinji would appreciate it if you moved your hand from there." She said trying not to laugh.
Asuka blushed and guessed where her hand was, looking down, her suspicions were confirmed. Her hand was caught between Shinji's legs.
"Err…" Shinji said looking down.
Asuka quickly removed her hand and stood up, no one could say whether her hair or her face was redder. Gendo didn't care too much about any of this and returned to getting the plugs inserted into the Evangelions by rope.
"Pilots, suit up." He ordered.
The three looked up at their Evas,
"How'd they set them up!? Nothing here works!" Shinji exclaimed.
"It was done by hand, this was the commander's idea, he knew you guys were coming and made sure that they would be ready for you." Ritsuko said.
(A/N: To see Gendo getting dirty, go to- pic 3)
The plugs containing the three children were feed into the Evas' backs. The crew cut through the pressure pipes and unlocked the restrains.
"All right everyone, remove the bindings by force." Gendo commanded.
The Evas pushed against their locks and pulled free (A/N: For a picture of this go to- pic 4), they quickly proceeded through a side duct, much like the ones their pilots had been crawling around in not too long ago. Asuka reached the end of the duck and kicked open the grate. The three Evas jumped out and clung to the walls. They looked up at the opening, they could see blue sky out side and began to make their way up. Suddenly an eye appeared over the top and a rain of acid poured down from it. Eva-02 was on top and some of its armor and padding melted.
"Ahhhh!!" Auska yelled, her Eva slipped.
The red unit crashed down into Unit-00, and together they crashed into Unit-01. Between all this their only rifle was dropped to the bottom of the service tube. They quickly retreated into a side tunnel.
"Damn! We need to think of something fast!" Shinji cursed.
"Our power reserves are only good for three more minutes." Rei observed.
"Then here's what we do," Asuka said. "Defense stays here, neutralizes the AT-field and also protects Offense from Angel's solvent liquid. Backup goes down, picks up the dropped rifle and gives it to Offense. Offense then destroys the target with a burst from the rifle."
"A good plan, I'll be playing defense?" Rei asked.
"No, I will. You're back up." Asuka said.
"Asuka!" Shinji objected. "It's too dangerous!"
"That's the reason. I'll feel funny unless I get even with you for the last battle. Shinji is Offense. Wondergirl is Backup. All right?" Asuka said and before they could answer she jumped out and stretched her Eva across the tunnel, shielding the other two from all the acid.
"Hurry!" she said as the pain from acid eating at her Eva was sent through her nerves.
Rei jumped down, Shinji got in position under Asuka, Rei threw up the rifle to Shinji.
"Asuka! Now!" Shinji yelled, taking aim.
Asuka ducked out of the way and Shinji fired into the eye on the bottom of the Angel, it collapsed in a heap.
Asuka's Eva fell down on top of Shinji's.
"Now we'll even." She said with a proud smile.
Shinji smiled back. "Whatever you say Asuka."
In the elevator Misato is on Kaji's shoulder.
"Damn it! Why doesn't it open?! It's an emergency! I've gotta go to the toilet before I have an accident! Uh! Hey! I told you not to look up!" she screamed.
Kaji sighed. "Okay, okay!"
Then suddenly the power is recovered and the elevator rumbles and descends to the next floor, causing the two passengers to lose their balance and fall on top of each other. The doors open to reveal Ritsuko and Maya, they looked down and sweat-dropped.
"First the Second and Third Child, now you. Well now I know where they get it from." Ritsuko said shaking her head.
"It's no wonder how those two behave." Maya said looking at where Misato's head was, which was very near Kaji's pants.
The pilots sit on a hilltop overlooking the city and watch as Tokyo-Three's power was restored little by little (A/N: For a picture of this go to- pic 5). Rei fell asleep after a while, leaving Shinji and Asuka with each other for company. Asuka looked at Shinji, who had his eyes towards the heavens, star gazing. She hesitated, but she did owe it to him she thought.
"Shinji," she began, he looked back at her. "I'm sorry about this morning, I've been a little edgy lately…"
He smiled, and Auska began to really enjoy seeing that smile, not that she would admit it.
"It's ok Auska, anything I can do to help?" he asked.
She shook her head, "Well, then again…maybe you could..." She said.
"What?" Shinji asked.
"It'd be nice if you could make me some German waffles."
Shinji laughed, "That's easy. I promise you that you'll have it for breakfast tomorrow."
"Thanks Shinji."
A/N: As always, authors love reviews. Also available is my other story "Evangelion, Children of Humanity: Guardian Angel". Just check out my profile to find it. Later. -
