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Chapter 9

From eva nº1 Shinji looked down to the magma surface. Nº 02 was immersed in it.

"You ok?"

"Of course, Baka! Well, if you could quit all the heat, it'd be better."

He made a face "It was you who wanted to do it, so you can't complain."

"I want to take a shower!"

He changed the subject "Do you see it?"

"No, the visibility is a crap. Wait! There is something…"


At the base of the volcano Misato and others assistants where coordinating with the red eva. They could hear the sound from the helicopters charged with N2 bombs in case something went wrong. Misato was not surprised by the Commander's "trust" in them. Ritsuko sensed something at the screen and Misato informed.

"Asuka, Misato here. You should see it now!"

"I do! …I've got it!"

Ritsuko sighted from accumulated tension.

"Well done! Now take it up here."

Ibuki frowned from the amount of data she was receiving just in that moment.

"Misato!"

"What's up Maya?"

"It's sensed great energy from the objective!"

Ritsuko understood quickly the situation

"Shit! The contact has ended its embryo stage! It's hatching!"

Asuka wasn't frightened "What do I do?"

"Asuka, we can't take it alive, destroy it!"

Shinji's voice echoed into Asuka's place "But it hasn't done anything to us!"

"Baka, you're beginning to talk like your pale little friend."

Misato got that "What?"

"Forget it Misato, I'll finish it."

The speed of the Angel was astonishing and the progressive knife wasn't working too well. Then a little voice sounded in Asuka's head "If the Angel sleeps in a volcano, the cold will finish him". So Asuka took one of the coolant tubes and attack the Angel with it. Certainly, the used to magma Angel couldn't take the liquid nitrogen and collapsed. Unfortunately the fastening was damaged and Asuka fell to the deeps of the magma…. Until unit 01 took her.


At Nerv's HQ Misato was congratulating the Red hair

"You thought fast, Congratulations!"

"In fact, it was Kaworu's idea."

Misato frowned "What? Umh… Shinji, the idea of the coordination against the last Angel was from him too?"

He grinned "Yes. He's smart, isn't him, Misato?"

Misato didn't smile as Shinji was doing. In fact, she wasn't looking at him at all.

Or maybe he is… nooo, it can't be. An Angel wouldn't help us…But then, how does he knew…?


At the spa they were relaxing as some kind of reward. Shinji had to take a package from the main door and got a surprise when he saw the messenger.

"Kaworu? What are you doing in this spa?"

"You don't want me to be here?"

"No! But I thought that…"

"Misato asked me to bring something." He pointed to a big box on the ground, where a penguin was.

"Pen Pen!"

"Wark, Wark!"


The three males were in the left part and Misato and Asuka in the other with a big wall separating them. Shinji couldn't help but give furtive glances to the nude form next to him, his face all red. Kaworu looked at him (all him) without any shyness and smiled.

"The cold contracts heated things but it seems than the heat really expand…stuff, Shinji. Nice wiew!"

He looked down there and got the greatest blush

"Argh!" He hided quickly in the water "… Sorry…"

"Wark! Wark!"


A week later the heat was hitting hard at Misato's flat.

"Oh! I can't stand this heat! Why can't we have air- conditioning?"

"You know Misato can't afford it Asuka. Kaworu is coming now. We're going to the pool. You want to join us? Maybe Rei will do it too."

She smiled evily at him "You can't stay away from him, do you? Now you can't deny there's something between you two, Pervert!"

The bell saved Shinji.