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A/N Sorry this had taken so long, I've been nursing a messed up hand as well as suffering from writers bane, "writers block" EWW I hate that. I'm back to normal now though and have restarted work on both Shinji ZERO Second and NGE Doppelganger as well as this story. So expect them to update as well with in the next week or so

'Thought'

"Words"

"EVA communication"

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Why Me

Chapter 11

New Allie, Ultimate Betrayal

I was nervous as hell as I sat in Eva Unit 03's entry plug, the US Nerv base had disappeared on time and two nights ago Misato and I had taken Asuka for a drive and told her everything. The mark on my face is still pretty bad where she punched me after I told her about her mom being in Unit 02. After a few minuets of yelling she broke down and cried for a while.

I spent the whole night on the couch holding her; I didn't sleep much so Misato let me take the day off school. Asuka seemed a bit better the next day when she got home. We went for a walk and talked about it, she seemed more open than before. When we stopped at the park she seemed to with drawl a bit when she asked if we could get her out

"I'm not sure; it's never been done before"

"So…mama can't come back"

"I never said that, but, I don't know"

She paused for a moment

"So that angel in the base told you all of this"

I nodded

"Pretty much, yeah"

"Explain to me again why it's helping us"

"Well, SHE sees us as her children; she did spawn the human race after all. Anyway she wants to help, and she doesn't want instrumentality anymore than we do"

I reached over and took her hands into mine

"Asuka, you know I would do almost anything for you, if I could take her place in there I would"

She wrapped her arms around me and pulled me into a rather firm hug

"Don't you even dare, fourth child"

I smiled a bit and put my arms around her, I them gently kissed her on the top of the head

"Don't worry I won't. I promised I wouldn't leave you, and I won't"

"Good"

She nestled her head into my shoulder, she wasn't exactly acting like she would normally but I figured it was just from finding out about her mom, who knew maybe she would open up a bit now.

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I knew that if I survived the day I would have to tell Asuka I knew about the 13th being in unit 3 and would likely get my head handed to me, the next voice I heard was Ritsuko's

"Sato were about to start, are you ready"

I steeled my self as best I could

'Lilith, are you there?'

'Yes'

With her help I may just survive to pilot again

"I'm ready doc, let's do this"

I felt my head tingle a bit as the A10 connecters activated, I wasn't sure but I could have sworn I felt something familiar. The Eva just felt, I don't know, I had always felt comfortable in unit 04 but unit 03 just felt…frankly…too right. Like I was supposed to be in here to begin with, I decided to try to communicate with it. Even if it was the 13th angel

'Listen I know there is someone there, talk to me at least'

It was then that I felt the same feelings I had felt when I had first synced with unit 04, the rollie pollie rolling lint ball feeling of another mind brushing against mine. It intensified for just a moment before disappearing completely. Usually in the Evas you feel something, you may not know what but something. What worried me was that, I didn't feel anything at all. But it did feel as though the sync was really high. Instead of felling like I was wearing heavy clothes, it felt as though the Eva's body was my own, was this Bardiel. Misato interrupted my thought train

"Hay Sato"

"Yeah"

"What ever you did do it again, you hit about 72 their for a bit"

"What am I at now?"

"52 and holding strong, keep it up"

"Roger"

Now I was worried, why hadn't the angel taken over yet? I felt another mind, one I was familiar with, Lilith

'Hello Lilith'

'Hello Sato Koruna'

I never expected someone else to cut me off

'Hay that's me'

'What the hell'

I heard Lilith's infamous giggle

'He is you Richard and you are him'

Though she was being cryptic, I got the message; the person in Unit 03 was the original Sato Koruna

'Well I'll be damned'

'Looking at the life you've had in my OLD body, I would say that was my line'

'So you're happy with what I've done then'

'hell yeah, you kick major ass, your plotting the downfall of an utter bastard, you have a hot guardian and your girlfriend is hot, you've got some great friends and one that's almost brother…and…you got to stare at a tank of naked girls'

'Why are all guys this age perverts, Lilith?'

'It is merely their hormones'

'Great'

About that time all of sirens in Matsushiro began to go off

"Misato what's going on?"

"Unit 04 just went nuts inside the cages; Shinji and Asuka have managed to get it outside on one of the catapults but are getting beaten back and Unit 00 is down. It's emitting a blue waveform pattern Sato"

It was Bardiel

"Misato how long until you could get me on the surface in unit 03"

"Unit 03 hasn't been cleared for combat yet"

"I don't care Asuka and Shinji are gona get creamed if you don't…are you there Dr Akagi"

"Yes"

"Put on a head set and go to a secure line"

"Done"

"You know I was briefed on everything right"

Her image on the view screen paled

"No, I hadn't been informed"

"Well I was and it knows what I know. It'll brush them off and go for the commander, send me up"

I heard Misato and Ritsuko yelling at each other for a bit before she came back on the line

"Ok were sending you up, grab a weapon from the container on the surface and move to Tokyo 3 to support the others"

"Roger, are those Progressive Swords ready"

"Yeah"

"Good I'm gona take one"

In the series the progressive sword never got used, now I knew why, they had been at Matsushiro when the base blew and had been destroyed.

In all the time I had known her I had never seen Ritsuko's fingers move that fast, maybe it was because once unit 04 was done with 01 and 02 it would be going for the commander, her love interest. Before I even knew what was happening I was on the surface, Misato contacted me over the com, she seemed a bit miffed, probably because her friend over ruled her with rank.

"Ok Sato here's the plan, grab a sniper rifle and…"

I cut her off

"I'm going in at close range, Dr Akagi already sent the Prog Sword"

I stepped up to the weapon container building ad retrieved the Sword. Over the line I could hear Misato bitching Ritsuko out for over ruling her again. I didn't really pay much attention, I watched as the workers on the surface scattered. Once my path was clear I took off in a flat run for Tokyo 3 thanking god that unit 03 had a stable S2 organ in its stomach. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

My run for the fight with unit 04 was flat out, no slowing for anything. I had to get there in time, I didn't have a choice, and Asuka was already there. I was going to pay this bastard back for its betrayal.

I jumped up onto one of the mountains surrounding the city and stopped, they were right below me. Unit 02 had just taken a pretty hard hit and was down; though from the look of unit 04 they had put up one hell of a fight.

I watched as it launched out its arms and wrapped its hands around unit 01's throat. That was my cue; I took aim and jumped toward the fray. As I hit the apex of my jump I kicked in the drop thrusters in the B-type plates on Unit 03's shoulders and extended my jump for a few meters, which would put me on target, I negated unit 04's AT Field as I dropped in. Right at the last second Unit 04 noticed me, too later though; I dropped in between it and unit 01 and sliced its arms off at the elbows. I didn't even hesitate; I pivoted on my waist and slashed across its eyes, blinding it.

Not only had I removed its only offensive weapon, its arms, but I had basically crippled it. Just as I was about to run my sword through unit 04's core, unit 01 let out a blood curtailing roar and tackled it. I just stood back as the berserk Eva ripped unit 04 to pieces just as it was suppose to. But instead of tearing the body apart to get to an empty plug, it thrust its hand into the Eva's stomach and ripped out an odd looking organ, it had to be the 13th's S2 organ. The Eva then ate the offending organ and began to stumble around holding its head

'This is too soon; this shouldn't happen until the 14th angel'

'Yeah no kidding'

The next voice I heard was Lilith's

'Sato…'

'I'm here'

'It is done…you may proceed with your original plan for my body which resides in dogma…I now reside in this form'

'Wait…you mean unit 01'

'Yes, with out the energy source I could not transfer myself, now I am able. I have given a gift to the third, watch over my children, we will not be able to communicate as before, but I shall watch and help as I can'

I started to tear up a bit; Lilith was like a mother to me

'Wait Lilith, what gift did you give Shinji?'

I got no answer, she was gone. I swallowed the lump forming in my throat and contacted unit 01

"Shinji, Shinji are you ok"

"Sato is that you, oh thank god, is everyone ok"

He was crying his eyes out for some reason

"Are you"

"Yeah…I'm better than ok…she came back…oh god she actually came back"

I couldn't understand what he meant so I opened a video feed to his plug. There he sat at the bottom of the plug, holding the semiconscious form of his mother, Yui Ikari.

'So that's the gift to Shinji, Lilith took his mothers place'

'Yeah guess so'

I reached up and wiped my eyes, my tears were flowing pretty freely now. This would change everything. Yui wasn't supposed to be here at all, so I would finally get to meet her as well. I could probably stop plotting against commander Ikari as well now that his only objective had been met. But I would keep my plan on the back burner for now. After all, who knew what Yui would do to him?

I opened the com line to unit 02 and 00 to make sure they were ok. The girls were fine, when I showed Rei the feed from unit 01 she broke down and cried in her plug just as Shinji was.

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The girls and I gathered at unit 01's entry plug as Shinji was helping his now fully aware mother, who was wrapped in one of the emergency thermal blankets from the plugs first aid kit, out of the Entry Plug. Rei ran up to Shinji, she immediately hugged him and gave him the deepest kiss I thing he has ever experienced. I would almost swear, as would Asuka, that Rei tried to put her tongue down his throat. His mother just watched on smiling. After she and Rei had been introduced she walked over to where Asuka and I were standing about 10 meters away. She walked strait up to me

"Your Sato Koruna right"

I nodded

"Yes ma'am"

Then she slapped me…hard

"That's for telling Shinji things he should never have had to know"

Then she pulled a 180, she smiled, knelt down, and hugged me

"And that's for being a brother to him"

Then she looked behind us, her expression shifting to complete anger

"Unlike some people"

Behind us stood the Bastard himself

"Yui"

She stood up and ushered the 4 of us off to the recovery truck where Misato and Ritsuko were waiting

"I have nothing to say to you Gendo"

I have no clue how long he stood there, looking like the proverbial deer in the head lights

A/N hope the wait for this chapter was worth it, I've already started on 12 so I should be out by next week