NERV Headquarters - Test Facility 2. 22 Days Ago
"Commence the activation." said Gendo with a stern glare while pushing the bridge of his glasses up into a firmer position on his face.
It was in this room that we find Gendo, Ritsuko, Maya and eight others, going over the systems and watching the activation of Unit 00.
"Connecting the main power to all circuits." said Ritsuko.
"Main power supply connected. Commencing activation system." replied Maya.
After the main power was connected Unit 00 came online. How they were able to tell this is because the eyes of the Eva's lit up, signifying that it has activated. "Activation voltage is approaching critical level. 0.5, 0.2 and rising." said Maya, who was reading the feedback from the Eva.
"Begin the second phase of the activation system." said Ritsuko.
But it was at that moment that everything started to go wrong. All of the pulses that were building up during the activation started to go backwards.
"Something is going wrong in the second stage!" yelled one of the men that was in charge of recording the readings of the test.
"Rejection occurring in the nerve center elements. The Eva is rejecting the pilot!" another man yelled out.
Back down in the holding area where Unit 00 was being held for the test, the Unit started to strain against the braces that was holding it against the wall. Seemingly it was trying to break free. On the walls, that was around the area where the braces were held, started to crack. Everyone in the control room saw this and tried to stop the Eva before it could go into berserk mode.
"Cease contact! Break all of the circuits through number six!" ordered Ritsuko. They all knew that something like this could happen but there was always a way to prevent it.
"I can't! The signal's not being received!" yelled Maya, who has been trying to send the signal multiple times. However each time that she did, the signal would not go through.
With that said, Ritsuko became extremely nervous. The signal was supposed to work, she had designed it herself.
In the cage, the Eva has almost gotten free from its restraints. And with one last strong pull, the Eva broke the braces that was holding it, and destroying the wall that they had been attached to. But for some reason the Eva started to grab at its head, almost as if it was in terrible pain. Even the sounds that were coming from it seemed like it was.
But the people in the control room were oblivious to this. All they saw was an out of control Eva. "Unit 00 is out of control!" yelled Maya.
"Abort the experiment now. Shut off the power supply." commanded Gendo.
With the order received, Ritsuko broke the glass that had been covering the emergency fuel cut line switch. She reached for the switch and pulled it with force. Instantly the plug that was feeding the Eva the electricity that it needed to keep running, launched itself out and onto the floor. With the plug now out of the Eva, it had to switch to its back up power, witch it only had thirty-five more seconds before it would shut down.
The Eva who still looked like it was in massive pain knew that it did not have to much longer before it would be forced to sleep again. It was then that the Eva noticed Gendo, who was standing right next to the window. When the Eva saw him it suddenly became enraged. The Eva brought its fist back and with extreme speed, slammed its fist into the window. But the window seemed to be made of a very strong style of glass. So in order to try and break it, the Eva punches the bottom of the glass window twice, and the top once.
It would seem that it had done the trick since the next punch broke the glass that was separating the entire crew from the Eva. But before the Eva could do what it had tried so hard to do, the pain that it had doubled with extreme force. The pain became so much that the Eva decided that it would eject the pilot that had been inserted inside of it. Guessing that the invading presence is what causing all of the pain.
The plug that was inside of the Eva was forced ejected, the rockets that were on the plug automatically switched on. By design they were supposed to, so that the entry plug could come to a safe landing out in battle, but here, they were in a large room, but not large enough. So when the rockets came on, the entry plug was then sent into the ceiling and skidded across it until it reached the corner of the room, and stayed there from the force of the rockets. The rockets however only lasted for a few more seconds until they shut off. Once they did, the plug started to plummet to the ground and landed with a solid bang.
"Use the special Bakelite to stop the Eva from moving around!" ordered Ritsuko. The Bakelite was a red liquid substance that when cooled, it would become a solid.
In the test room below, all around the wall small doors opened up and the Bakelite was flooded into the room. In a matter of seconds the Bakelite had already reached to the Eva's knees, affectedly stopping it. Just a few seconds later the battery ran out and the Eva shut down.
Once the Eva had shut down, Gendo ran across the room to the entry plug. When he reached for the handles to open it up, he had to let go because of the metal that had been heated up while being inside of the Eva. But that did not stop him. With a determined expression on his face, he reaches for the handles again. He cried out in pain as the heat from the handles burned his skin while he turned them. With one last tug the door finally opened, and all of the LCL came spilling out.
"Rei, are you all right?!" yelled Gendo as he went into the entry plug.
Inside of the plug he found Rei leaning over in pain. It was clear to see that she had been severely injured after what had just happened. There was no doubt that she had a broken arm, since it was bent in the wrong direction.
Even though with all of the pain she still was able to nod in conformation that she was at least still alive.
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We now find Ritsuko and Misato inside of the same room that Rei had been injured in, while watching all of the workers around them cutting away at the Bakelite so that the Eva could be used again.
"Rei Ayanami, age fourteen. She is the first test subject to be chosen in accordance with the Marduk Report. She is the first Child. She is also the designated pilot for Evangelion prototype Unit 00. Her past has been eradicated, and all of her personal records were erases." explained Ritsuko.
"So, what could have caused the accident during the last experiment?" asked Misato, while she and Ritsuko looked down at the Unit from the control room that had the window busted out.
"We still do not know. However, we believe that the mental instability on the part of the pilot was the primary cause." said Ritsuko. After all, she was the one who looked at the mental readings when everything was over with, it was the only conclusion that she could come up with.
"Are you really sure that Rei had a mental instability during the test?" Misato questioned her friend. Not really able to believe in what her friend had just put out there. Ever since Misato had started working at NERV, she has never once seen any signs of Rei having any type of mental instability.
"Yes, her mind became much more disturbed than we had originally anticipated during the test. It is the only thing that could possibly be the reasoning for the accident." replied Ritsuko.
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The next day both Shinji and Misato was at the sight were the Angel had been defeated. At the location, it would seem that NERV did not want the general public to get a look at the fallen Angel. Because all around it was massive tents that could hide it and give the scientists who were working at NERV the privacy they needed to study the alien creature.
"So this is what the bastard looks like up close." said Shinji. Who was still not over the fact that this thing had almost made him land on his friends, Kensuke and Toji.
Up on the walkways you could see a lot of scientists going about and cutting pieces off of the Angel so that it could be studied. "I see, Most of everything except the core is still intact. This is almost the perfect sample." said Ritsuko while looking over the remains of the dead creature and writing on a clipboard that she had with her. When she looked up from the clipboard she could see Shinji and Misato standing there. "Hey thanks for leaving such a perfect specimen!" she yelled down to Shinji.
Shinji could not really see why Ritsuko was having a field day with this thing. It had almost killed his friends, even though it was through him, but he did not see it that way. These things were an abomination to all of mankind, and he will do what ever the hell it takes to stop them.
Misato on the other hand, had a bored look on her face. She already had listened to her friend go on and on about the dead Angel a few days ago. Now it was starting to get on her nerves. "Yea we get it, your like a kid in a candy shop. So, did you find anything new about this thing?" she asked.
After a few minutes all three of them were in Ritsuko's office in one of the tents. About a minute later, after she had put some data into the computer, it came back with the numbers 601. "So what is that supposed to mean?" asked Misato.
"That is the code number for "cannot be analyzed." explained Ritsuko.
"Wait, does this mean that you don't know what the hell it is?" Misato asked, who still did not really understand.
"That's about sums it up. But we do know that the Angel is composed of a type of matter characterized by both particulate and wave properties, like light." Ritsuko explained in the most basic way she knew how. Even if it meant that Misato still would not be able to understand it.
"But you've at least found where its power source is, haven't you?" asked Misato. Hoping that her friend at least was able to find out. Because if she does know, then that means that fighting the rest of the Angels could be somewhat a little bit easier.
"Something like that anyway. But we have not been able to really figure out any of its operating principles." Even with all of the technology that they had at their disposal, it would seem that not even it could be used in this type of situation.
"Well, I guess there is still a lot about the Angel's we don't know about yet." said Misato. Not really like the fact that they still do not know much about the enemy, even with a dead one right next to them.
"This world is filled with all sorts of mysteries. For example, look at this. This is the Angel's inherent wave pattern." Ritsuko then showed Misato and Shinji what was on the computer screen, it would seem to Shinji that it was some type of pattern. However even though it was on the screen, did not mean that Shinji would be able to understand it, after all he is only fourteen.
But Ritsuko still has not finished. "Although they are composed of a different type of matter, their actual composition, in terms of the arrangement and spacing of the pattern, falls within a 99.89% match of human genes." said Ritsuko.
"Are you sure about that? How can they almost have the same type of genes we humans do?" Misato asked her friend. She was a little stumped about the revelation about the Angels.
"Yes. It really shows us just how limited our level of understanding is." said Ritsuko while taking a drink of the coffee that she had placed on her desk.
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Later on that night Misato had invited Ritsuko over for dinner, which for a lack of a better term, was awful. It had been Misato's turn to cook tonight and she had decided to make curry. To be respectful both of them ate it, however later on tonight there were going to have to deal with the consequences.
After everyone had finished eating and the dishes were cleaned, which Shinji wound up doing, Ritsuko was about to leave but stopped when she remembered something. "Hey Shinji could you come over here." While she was waiting for Shinji, who was in his room, she pulled out an ID card from her purse. Once she got it out she noticed him standing in front of her. "Shinji, would you do me a favor? Would you give this to Rei, its her renewal ID card. I keep forgetting to give it to her. Would it be alright if you could deliver it to her before you go to headquarters tomorrow?"
"Sure, Id be happy to." he replied. But he could not help but look at the picture and think that this could be a good time to talk to her. However, Misato took him looking at the picture another way.
"What's the matter there Shinji? You're staring at Rei's picture pretty intently. Do you have the hots for her or something." Misato said hoping to at least make him a little bit embarrassed.
"Well, she is cute, there's no denying that. You not jealous are you Misato" Misato almost faltered when he said that. "I mean not that I can blame you, since you do get to have such a handsome roommate all the time. But then I guess I can see that me going after someone else could make you feel a little jealous." Shinji said with a smile on his face. Misato's face on the other hand, was completely red.
Ritsuko could only laugh uncontrollably at how Shinji had turned the tables on her friend. It was funny to see Misato get the short end of the stick, especially since she was the one giving it before.
After a short while everyone was able to calm down, even though Misato was still a little red, and Shinji looked at Ritsuko. "What I was going to say before is that I just find it strange that I know so little about Rei, even though we are both Eva pilots."
"She's a very nice girl, but she is like your father. She is not very adept-" but Ritsuko stopped herself from saying any more.
But Shinji noticed this. "She is not very adept at what?"
"Living, I guess." Ritsuko said with a somewhat sad look on her face.
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The next day Shinji is standing outside of Rei's apartment door. It would also seem that she is the only one living on this side of town, since most of the building were destroyed, except a few of them. And the floor itself was littered with empty bottles and rotten food.
Shinji pushed the button that would ring the door bell, but nothing happened. Every time he would push it, no ringing noise could be heard on the inside. Shinji knocks on the door a few times and waits for an answer, but after a few minutes no one came to answer the door. He then reaches for the handle to see if it was even locked, which it was not considering that it opened up without any resistance.
"Excuse me, is any one home!?" he yelled out, hoping to see if anyone was home. "Rei, if you are here, I just want you to know that its me Shinji." But there was still no reply. But he noticed that there seemed to be running water nearby. So just incase she was taking a shower, Shinji waited by the front door.
Only a few minutes later, his assumption about her taking a shower was correct, since she had walked out of the bathroom and was still wet. But what he was not expecting was the fact that she was completely naked. Even when she turned to look at him, she did nothing to cover herself up.
It took all of Shinji's will power not to stare at any place below Rei's neck. Epically the way her creamy white skin shined with all of the water that was still dripping down it. The perfectly roundness of her, not too big nor too little, boobs. Her long legs and her calves. So it took all of Shinji's will power to not stare at any place below Rei's neck, more than once.
Rei did not know why Shinji was here in the first place. "Why are you here?"
This jolted Shinji out of his little trance and he focused back up to Rei's eyes. "Oh yea, I almost forgot." He then got the cart out of his pocket and handed it to Rei." Ritsuko asked me to give this to you. Its your renewal, she said that she keeps forgetting to give it to you."
Rei then reaches for the card with a blank look on her face. "Thank you." With that said, she then turns around and heads to her room to get dressed.
Shinji could only look on in confusion at how she could stand in front of him naked like the day she was born and not have it affect her. Before he could think any more on it Rei came back out and they both left for NERV.
After about an hour of walking and riding the train, both Shinji and Rei made it to NERV. At the moment we find both of them on the escalator heading deeper into the depths of the facility.
Even after the hour that it took them to get here, Shinji was still trying to figure out Rei. He still could not understand about how she did not seem to have any emotion when she talked or looked. It was like there was nothing going on in her head at any time. But for some reason, he could not help but feel a familiarity about her.
But for now, he put that thought to the back of his mind. Because today was Rei's test. "Hey Rei, you have a re-activation experiment today, don't you?" asked Shinji.
But all he got was the silent treatment. But that did not stop him from trying to get her to talk to him. "Well I know that everything will go fine this time around. So don't worry about anything that wont happen." Shinji trying and failing to make a conversation with Rei.
It was then that he thought that she might be a little bit afraid to pilot the EVA. "I know that its not right to ask you this but, are you afraid to pilot the Eva."
"Why do you ask?" But it would seem that for some reason, Rei answered his question. Which he was glad she did, its not healthy to keep bottling things up.
"Well I heard from Ritsuko that you were hurt pretty badly in the earlier experiment, so I was wondering if you were okay about it." said Shinji. Trying to be understanding about why she may not want to get in the Eva.
"Aren't you Commander Ikari's son?" Rei asked.
Well that was a strange question to through out there, but he still answered her. "Yea, of course I'm his son."
"Don't you have any faith in your own father's work?" she asked.
What is with all of these strange questions. How does having faith in his father have anything to do weather or not she wants to pilot the Eva. But like before, he answers her question. "Honestly. I do not have faith in my father." It was then that Rei turned around and looked straight at him. "But I do have faith in his work."
When he said that, Rei froze. It was as if she was trying to figure out something. "How can you not have faith in your father, but have faith in his work?"
Shinji, who was not prepared for the question, took on a contemplative look, trying to think of the best answer he could giver her. "The reason I can have faith in his work is because he is trying to save the human race from the Angel's. But on the other hand, the reason I don't believe in my father is because he abandoned me." Shinji may have come to terms as to why his father left him, but he still did not like it.
Rei looked at Shinji with what could be described as a thoughtful expression, she then turned around and walked down the escalator, leaving Shinji by himself. "Well, I would call that one of the weirdest conversations that I have had."
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A couple of miles off the coast of Tokyo-3, a object could be seen floating towards the city.
Back inside of NERV, they were right about to start the activation experiment of Unti 00, that is until Fuyutsuki answered a phone and listened to what the person on the other line was saying. Once finished he hung up the phone and turns towards the commander "Ikari, an unidentified flying object is approaching from the ocean. It is more than likely the fifth Angel."
"Stop the test. All personnel alert status Level One.
Outside you can see the object flying closer to the city. All of the sirens were going off and letting the people know that they need to be heading for the nearest shelter.
The Object that is approaching the city, basically looks like two pyramids stacked on top of each other. One facing upwards and the other facing down. The color of the Angle is a solid blue.
Back inside of the command center, all of the workers were moving in overtime because of how fast the Angel was coming towards the city. "The target is passing over Tonosawa". Said one of the men.
"Unit 01 is beginning the launch preparations." another one said.
Inside of the Eva, Shinji was waiting for them to give the go ahead and he could be launched to meet the Angel. Not a minute later he heard the signal and he began to launch to the surface.
Up on the surface the Angel started to charge up its weapon from the middle of the two pyramids.
The workers back inside of the command room saw this. "Were detecting a high energy reaction from inside the target." said Aoba.
"What did you say?!" asked Misato. Not liking a single thing that he had said.
"The circumference area is accelerating! Its converging!" Aoba replied.
Unit 01 has finally made to the surface of Tokyo-3, but before it could even detach itself from the lift, the Angel's ray beam struck right in middle of the Eva's chest. The chest armor began to melt only after a few seconds of contact. Even the AT field the Eva had did not help all that much in protecting itself from the beam.
Inside of the entry plug, Shinji was screaming in pain. The beam that is hitting him is so hot that it is literally cooking LCL and him to death. No matter what he did at the moment, noting would work. The joy stick that were used to help pilot the Eva, did noting as he pulled on them, trying to make the Eva get away from the beam. But sadly, all of the metal that was hooked to the Eva has melted from the heat and is now welded to the Eva, and keeping it firmly in place.
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