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Chapter 8

Ambush

Ritsuko was sweating bullets, she just explained the conditions that Lee proposed in order to allow Rei to pilot the EVA, and now, she was waiting for a response from the Commander, who, despite being covered in bandages and tied to the hospital bed, inspired fear thru his eyes,

"So, The Third will train Ayanami to make her as skilled as he is, if I accept to give her only a supportive role in battle?", Gendo suddenly asked, trying to digest the information.

"Yes, that's the main idea", Ritsuko replied, and watched as an evil grin crawled on Gendo's face,

"Excellent!, tell him that I agree, but, I want you to make the memory updates every week, and make sure that only the combat abilities are passed, and none of the memories of their relationship, understood?", Gendo stated, and Ritsuko didn't liked it a bit.

5 days later...

By now, Rei not only got used to the starter training weights, she was wearing now the 100kg weights, at all times, she also learned quite well the basics of the Jyuken, also, she gave up on her school uniform, and now, just like Lee, she is wearing her spandex suit as a daily outfit, and as they were holding hands and walking in the school, half of the students were talking about the end of the world, while the other half were just unable to take their eyes from them.

Touji and Kensuke were another weird case, they decided to wear spandex too, Touji a black suit, with green warmers, gloves and vest, and Kensuke a yellow one, with red warmers, gloves and vest, however, they haven't been able to adapt to the starter weights, cursing their luck for the insane training, but even then, they didn't gave up.

Today in the training room, Rei will test her new skill in the Jyuken, few days ago, Maya designed a special training dummy with buttons placed were the nervous terminals were located, as well as remarking the vitals, this helped a lot to improve her precision, but Lee needed something else,

"Today you'll spar with me", Lee stated,

"WHAT?!", and of course Rei didn't took it kindly, true she love him, but, he was God in her eyes,

"Don't worry, Rei-chan, I will not attack, you need to practice against a mobile target", Lee explained

"Oh, ok", Rei replied, while mentally adding,

'Still, is unfair, I will never be able to hit you!',

as soon as Lee gave the signal to start, Rei took her stance, just as Hinata did in the chunin exam, Lee took note on fix that, but prized how well she was running against him, keeping her balance to change course at any given moment, with surgical precision, she tried to hit every vital and every nerve, in a fluid combo

'Almost as Hinata-san, AND ONLY IN ONE WEEK!', Lee prized her on his mind, nodding and closing his eyes, and still, evading every single hit, this infuriated Rei, who began to accelerate her moves, without losing her focus, she wasn't able to land any hit, but the surprised face of Lee was really refreshing, as if she just surpassed any expectation.

During this spar, they've been watched by Misato and Maya, Misato was there because Ritsuko asked her to pick up Lee, while Maya was just a fangirl,

"Oh shit!, Lee turned her into the most freaking killing machine of the world!, THAT STYLE IS SO AWESOME!", Maya stated, she couldn't help but to feel mesmerized by the Jyuken, however, Misato was not that impressed, true, the Jyuken looked deadly and fast, but she saw something much more impressive.

"How much you bet on it?", Misato asked to Maya, who gave her a sly look,

"The EVA fights don't count, and the Omote Renge is out of question, that it's the most freaking technique, and this is a style", Maya replied,

"So, how much you bet?", Misato asked again, with a sweet smile that could only meant trouble,

"Ok, 1000 yen!, now show me something!", Maya couldn't resist, she was sure that the Jyuken was the best.

A soon as Maya accepted, Misato showed her a portable video camera, that she confiscated from Kensuke a few days ago, and showed her the video that contained the 'One Inch Punch' that Lee used in the park, including all the destruction,

"Goken, at it's half potential, while Rei will be able to disable or kill anyone in one or two hits, Lee can take down an entire fortress", Misato explained, but Maya didn't replied, she just kept a hold on the video, and started to drool, with a zombified motion, she gave the money to Misato, but didn't returned the camera, which she took with her to replay it over and over.

Soon after Maya left, the spar ended, and Misato found herself watching how Lee carried Rei bridal style, Lee was blushing while Rei cuddled on his chest, and Misato giggled at the sight, Lee's power was always subdued against Rei's cuteness, she wondered if Gai would be the same,

"Lee, Ritsuko is requesting your presence at the recovery site, she want your opinion on the enemy", Misato explained, and Lee nodded.

Recovery site, one hour later...

"Hey Rits!, we are here!", Misato happily called, she should have arrived 10 minutes ago, but Rei forced her to drive at less dangerous speeds,

"It's about time Mis..., WHAT THE FUCK!?", at Ritsuko reaction, everyone turned to face her, her eyes bulged out, and madly pointed at Misato lower half,

"Something wrong, Ritsuko-san?", Lee asked with true concern

"It's because my vestment", Misato replied for Ritsuko, who only nodded,

"What's wrong with you wearing pants?", Rei innocently asked,

"I'll explain you later, right now I believe that Ritsuko wanted to show us something, isn't it, Rits?", Misato explained, while calling her friend,

"R-Right!, we tried to analyze the body of the Angel, now follow me", Ritsuko finally said.

As they traveled thru the site, their noses twitched by the smell,

"EEWWWW!, THE SMELL IS AWFUL!", Misato complained, and Rei nodded in agreement, Lee didn't say anything, it smelled like a dead creature, something too common in the shinobi world, Ritsuko took notice of Lee's immunity to the smell, but said nothing, she already pictured him as an assassin, and she didn't liked the idea of blowing up his cover, and getting killed in the process.

Soon, they arrived to the control room, where Ritsuko motioned them to get closer to a computer,

"After all the analysis, The MAGI will show the results here", Ritsuko stated, and soon, the monitor flashed the number 601,

"Ritsuko-san, what does that mean?", Rei asked, expecting to hear some complex explanation, Ritsuko eyed her for a moment, still unused to the new look that she was using.

"Is the code for 'We can't analyze it', maybe if certain pilot wouldn't had turned it into a poodle of smashed meat...", Ritsuko replied,

Lee flinched a little, it was as if he was told that he didn't completed a mission as he should have done, and that was bad, Rei and Misato took notice of this, and while Rei only hugged him, Misato decided to make her mind verbal.

"Rits!, you can't blame him for mauling your guinea pig while saving mankind!, THAT'S VERY UNYOUTHFUL!", at Misato's comment, everyone froze, even herself,

'From where did that came from?!, oh well, it didn't sound bad at all!', Misato thought,

"I think you have passed too much time along the spandex squad, anyway, I have discovered some interesting facts, it seems that it's composition has both wave and particle characteristics", Ritsuko explained her findings, she was ready to see the usual questioning faces, when...

"I see, so, is like condensed light, solidified into a primitive mass around some sentient core, that explains why is so meaningless to hurt the flesh, but it proves to be lethal to shatter the core", Lee exposed, he compared it with Naruto's Kage Bushins, who where made of darkness around a small chakra core, the room went silent again, this time they stared at Lee.

"H-How did you managed to get to that conclusion?, I haven't figured that much in all these days!", Ritsuko asked, and Lee flinched, he forgot that he wasn't in a mission review at the Hokage tower,

"My boyfriend is a genius!", Rei squeaked in delight,

"Well, now we know that below that powerful body, a smart boy hides", Misato said, delighted in teasing Ritsuko for not being the smartest one this time.

NERV HQ, Next day...

Lee and Rei were descending to the EVA cages, it was the day of the test, to see if Rei was able to pilot, and to see if the training was worth it,

"Nervous?", Lee asked,

"Yup", Rei replied while nodding,

"Don't worry, everything will be alright", Lee stated,

"I know, but, will you stay there for me, at the control room?", Rei asked,

"Of course I'll be there, I could be with you inside the entry plug if Ritsuko-san weren't against it!", Lee stated, with his heroic voice, and Rei giggled at the idea, overcoming her nervousness.

An hour later, Rei was inside the entry plug, at the control room, everyone was busy with the EVA systems, only Lee remained cool, for her part, Rei found relaxing that her EVA was now blue color, her favourite, the EVA was about to go online, when a screen flashed, and showed Lee's face,

"Rei-chan, remember, it's only a weapon, do you remember what I told you about weapons?", Lee asked,

"Yes, I do remember, Lee-kun, to master a weapon, I have to use it as an extension of my body", Rei replied, and Lee nodded, soon, Rei started to focus in feeling the EVA, and this reflected in her performance.

"EVA-00 went online, all systems clean, synch is a success at… 59.8%?!", Maya reported, Ritsuko was awestruck,

"Indeed, your training must be really special, we were expecting to have a very low synch rate, instead of that, it seems that it raised", Ritsuko praised,

'Maybe the second child should train under his wing too', Ritsuko thought, then a screen flashed, showing Rei's face,

"I really was expecting to hear a similar performance as Lee-kun", Rei stated in a sad voice, making everyone to sweat drop.

Suddenly, sirens start to rang,

"Blue pattern detected!", Maya shouted, making everyone to go into full alert mode,

"NO!, NOT NOW!, SHE IS NOT READY!", Lee shouted in anger, while darting to the lockers,

"GET UNIT 01 READY!", Misato shouted, it was a matter of seconds before Lee jumped into the entry plug, so, the EVA was expected to be ready by then, once in the lockers, Lee found something really cool,

"WOW!, my plug suit is green, and is very resistant!", Lee conceded, while testing the resistance of the material, he didn't noticed the weight of the suit, which was heavier than any reinforced normal suit.

As Lee waited for the EVA to be ready, he was making the decision to train everyone in NERV, their reaction and response time was just too slow, he was getting impatient, now that EVA-00 was active, the possibility of seeing Rei in the battlefield was not welcome in Lee's mind, she wasn't ready, not yet, so, he needed to finish this threat as soon as possible, there was little intel about this one, just that it has the shape of two pyramids glued by the base, and that it was positioned just above the geofront,

'Not only physical training, but an introduction on basic info gathering too!', Lee thought, just before a screen flashed in front of him, showing Misato's face.

"EVA-01 is ready to go, Lee, good luck out there", Misato stated, and Lee nodded, the sooner he get out to finish this, the better,

"LAUNCH!!!", Misato shouted, at her command, the platform darted to the surface, Misato could swear that the purple behemoth looked even more menacing than before, but as soon as the platform was gaining speed, Lee's mind became clear,

'This looks like a Shikamaru's strategy, put yourself in the line of danger, lure the enemy out, and then… OH CRAP!', Lee thought while opening the commlink,

"ABORT!, ABORT!, IT'S A TRAP!", Lee shouted thru the commlink, just then, Maya confirmed Lee's theory,

"THE ANGEL IS BUILDING A MASSIVE AMOUNT OF ENERGY!".

With that warning, Misato started to shout commands to abort and return the EVA and the pilot to the base, but it was too late, the EVA-01 reached the surface, Lee tried to dodge the attack he knew that was incoming, but the restrains in the shoulders were holding him in place, turning him into a target practice dummy, he watched in horror how a beam of light was in his way, and he was unable to do anything to prevent the attack from hit him.

The particle beam impacted him, and the communications were cut due to the energy burst, the people in the bridge worked as fast as they could to bring the EVA back underground, but to Rei, it seemed as if everything was in slow motion, every second watching Lee being fried by the beam, were like days of agonizing torture, the slowness that the platform showed while retreating was like a joke, making the wait more harmful for the hearts of the women that lived with that boy.

As soon as the EVA went underground, the attack stopped, the Angel then changed a bit, from the lower pyramid, a giant drill formed, and as a soulless machine, it started to dig it's way towards the geofront, in the bridge, Misato and Rei were ready to have a mental breakdown, but Misato decided to go on full military mode, with a tint of motherly rage,

"I WANT A GROUP OF MEDICS IN THE BAY, NOW!, RITSUKO, GET AN EMERGENCY ROOM AT THE MEDICAL WING, WE WON'T LOSE LEE, I WON'T LOSE HIM!!!", Misato barked with rage, even Ritsuko decided to not to argue, Rei was already running at unholy speed towards the EVA-01,

"He is ok, he will be ok, he must be ok!", Rei repeated this mantra all the way, it only took her about 10 seconds to get there, but she felt as if she ran thru all japan to receive her boyfriend.

When Rei got there, she was greeted by an horrible sight, the chest of the EVA was charred out, the recovery teams were extracting the entry plug, that looked battered, Rei raced to the entry plug, ready to burn her hands to free her boyfriend from that boiling prison, but that was not needed, before she were in reach of the plug, the door blew open, as if a missile exploded from inside, thru the opening, Lee's fist was visible, he was fighting his way out, Rei quickly reached for him, and helped him to get out.

Lee's face was contorted, showing pain beyond words, he was having trouble to breathe, and was clutching his chest for dear life, Rei knew better, for him to show that, it only means that the attack was far beyond the human capability of survival, she helped him to take the LCL out of his lounges, and then shouted with all her strength,

"MEDIC!!!!!".


Omake, by Kage Bijuu (second part)

Lee was getting bored in the hospital bed, despite his protests he was ordered to remain there to recover for the final assault on Ramiel, so, he ended wondering how could be faring the Uchiha traitor...

Meanwhile, in Orochimaru's lair...

Sasuke has been wandering around ever since his unfortunate marriage with Orochimaru. He wandered around most of the lab in Oto village already, looking for a cure to change himself back to a boy.

"Where in the world could that antidote be?" mutter the now female Sasuke as she pass by Karin who was pissed off because she couldn't marry Sasuke. The other reason is because Sasuke is now female she lost interest in him.

"Oh hello Sasuke-chan!" Karin said angrily

"Oh Hello Karin have you seen a antidote to this problem of mine?" asked Sasuke.

"Oh I know where the antidote is, just break open the big glass tank over there." Karin said with a wicked smirk, as she know what was behind the glass.

As Sasuke went up to it and grab a chair. She then smash the glass causing a tentacle to come out of the tank lunging at her.

"KYYYYYYAAAAHHHHHH" screamed Sasuke in pure terror as the tentacle grab her and drag her in the tank and proceed to do horrible things to her that would not be speak of.


Magnus: Well, did you liked it, how about the omake?

Rei: Magnus-sama, is Lee ok?, he got hit pretty bad!

Ritsuko: I'm more worried about how Lee is rubbing his personality on us

Misato: Is not that bad, it could be worst with an emo boy... or that Sasuke...

Magnus: lol!, see ya in next chapter!