A Nautilus Production
By Capt. Nemo
Okay folks, time for chapter 11. I hope that you all enjoyed the last chapter with its cliffhanger ending. I think that I found out why my chapters are so long, I can't find the end. Finding the end of a chapter is turning into a pain.
Any way,
One with the story.
I don't own any of this.
Yui's revelation. Chapter 11.
The Chase.
"This is Major Katsuragi. Red-Storm, I repeat, Red-Storm. The second child has been kidnaped, the second child has been kidnaped. I am in pursuit."
Hearing those words sent section 2 into action. Apparently, section 2 had lost site of Asuka while she and Hikari where in the mall. It wasn't long before heavily armed helicopters where taking to the air and SUVs were taking to the street. If there was one way to bring down the wrath of NERV down upon you, it was kidnaping one other the eva pilots. There was also a call for an ambulance at the mall as the girl who had been standing next to Asuka had been shot several times. Meanwhile, Ami had stepped on the gas pedal and was following the car that Asuka was in.
"Hey, I think some one is following us," The man in the passenger seat of the get away car told the driver.
Looking in the mirror, the driver saw that they where being followed, by a purple car no less. Seeing the car get closer, he got a good look at the driver, and her purple hair. "It's that bitch, Katsuragi."
"What do you mean by that," the man next to him asked.
"She's the one that put me in the wall in Moscow," the driver stated. "Looks like we get to have a rematch." Laughing at the prospect, he dropped a gear and floored it.
Ami saw the car that they where following suddenly pick up speed and start to weave in and out of traffic. From what she could tell, the car was being handled well, too well for some ordinary driver. There was a professional behind the wheel of that car. "Misato, can you get an ID on the driver? That car is being driven by a professional, and I want to know what I'm up against."
"On it," Misato said as once again spoke into the phone. "I need the ID of the driver as fast as you can."
Working on it, ma'am, the tech on the other end of the line replied. We're pulling the images from the security cameras as we speak. We should have it soon.
"Get it to me as fast as you can," Misato replied. "There working on it. Can you keep up with this guy?"
"I might, he might know this city better them me," Ami replied. "His best chance would be to stay down on the streets, but he could easily cause a wreak to slow us down." All of a sudden the car made a hard right turn. Ami followed the car through the turn, missing a car in the process.
"What about the other children, have they been picked up yet?" Misato asked over the phone.
Agents are on their way to the third child right now, they should have him momentarily.
In the other car the passenger was yelling at the driver. "What do you think your doing, we needed to follow that street."
"If we go that way, they'll throw up road block after road block, we need to get out of the city first," the driver replied. "If we can do that, we can get out of here and deliver the girl to you boss."
"Okay, just don't screw anything up. We have to be at there at a certain time."
Misato's apartment.
Shinji, Kensuke, and Toji where studying. Well ,Shinji was trying to study while Toji and Kensuke bugged him about Asuka and piloting eva. "Come on man, what's it like?"
"I already told you what its like to fight an angel, it hurts," Shinji relied to Kensuke's question. It was then that the door to the apartment was kicked open and a dozen men in black suits came rushing in with guns drawn. The three stooges didn't know what was going on. Kensuke was about to ask what was going on when he thrown to the floor with a gun to his head, Toji ended up in the same position. Shinji had about eight man around him, all looking ready to kill. One of them pulled out a radio and spoke into it. "Third child is secure, I repeat, third child is secure. Requesting transportation to NERV, my location."
"What's going on," Shinji asked.
"The second child has been kidnapped," the man with the radio replied. "We're here to take you to a secure location."
"WHAT," Shinji shouted. "Asuka's been kidnaped?"
"Correct," the section 2 agent answered. "Major Katsuragi is currently in pursuit."
"Do you know if she's okay," Shinji asked. "Was anybody hurt?"
"The second child has been knocked out," the agent replied. "A girl she was with has been shot."
"Do you know who it was, is she going to be okay?"
"Command, do we have an ID on the shooting victim?" A few second the reply came over the radio.
'The victim has been identified as Hikari Hokari, the man on the other end of the radio responded.'
"Hikari?" Toji shouted from where he lay pinned. "Is she going to be alright?" He was quieted when the section 2 agent pinning him pressed his gun harder against his head and told him to be quite. It was little known that Toji actually found the class rep as cute and interesting, he didn't want it spoiling his image.
The agent holding the radio thought the information couldn't hurt and asked for Hikari's condition. It was soon delivered. Agents on the scene report that she has been shot three times in the chest and is currently in critical condition. Paramedics have just arrived and are preparing to transport her to the nearest hospital.
Toji had a frantic look in his eye's when he heard the news, but couldn't do anything with a gun to his head. He wanted to be there, but he was held down. He then felt some one searching him, when they found his wallet they removed it. Hearing a noise from Shinji, he looked up to see his friend almost doubled over in pain.
Ami's car
Ami had been following the kidnappers through the streets of Tokyo 3. She had stayed with them though every turn, and wasn't giving up. The driver in front of her was good, very good. "Misato, any word on the driver?"
"Not yet," Misato responded as her mother took another turn. Reaching behind her, she pulled out service pistol, ejected the magazine to check it before sliding it back in and working the slide. Ami had never liked guns, but knew that her daughter was a very good shot, and with the way thing where going, she was going to have to use it.
'Ma'am, we have ID'ed the driver of the car,' the tech said over Misato's cell phone. Misato picked up her phone as the tech continued. 'His name is Kirk Spring. A former race car driver known for rough driving.' Misato relayed the information to her mother.
"Kirk," Ami said in a low tone. "That's the bastard that almost put me in the wall in London." The 1999 London rally was Ami Katsuragi's worst crash. Her car had been forced up on the wall and flipped over. After sliding for most of the straight away, the car started to roll. She almost didn't walk away from it. He had tried it again in Moscow in 2001, only this time Ami managed to avoid him, causing him to go into the wall, only this time he didn't walk away.
"Anything we should know about him?"
"Yeah, he's a dirty, no good, stinking cheater that will use any trick in the book," Ami responded. "The only thing is, I already know all the tricks, and how to avoid them. See if you can get us on the highway."
Picking up her phone once again, Misato Issued orders to fill her mothers request.
Gendo's office.
He was mad. Somebody had dared to mess with one of his pilots. Sure he might be willing to use them as pawns in his own games, but that didn't mean that he would let anybody else mess with them. He had issued a order, bring them in alive if possible. He wanted to know why somebody wanted the second child.
Misato's apartment.
It felt like something was stabbing him in the side. It was even worse then any pain he felt while he was in the eva. He didn't know what was causing it, all he wanted was for it to stop. What he didn't know was that someone else had picked it up as well.
Arael had been sitting in her apartment watching a movie when she had felt it. It was happening right now, Shinjis core was going through it's finale stages and would soon be active. She had to get there fast before anything happened. Luckily she lived only a few floors down from him so it would take too long. Or so she thought as she raced out her door.
Back in Misato's apartment, the agents were getting worried. They had let go of the other two boys after confirming that they weren't a threat, but the one that they had been sent to secure was currently on the ground in pain. They had called for an ambulance, but it would their helicopter would be there first, so the decision was made to take Shinji to NERV medical in the helicopter.
Arael had just come out of the stair well and on to the floor that Shinji lived on, only to be met by two men with guns pointed at her head. Quickly delving into the minds of the agents, she saw exactly what was going on. With Asuka kidnapped and a ring of heavily armed men around Shinji, she would have to work her way through them. "Excuse me, But I heard that someone needed a doctor, is there anything that I could do to help?" Arael watched as one of the agents talked into a radio that he had pulled out of his jacket.
"You heard right, come with us."
Arael followed the agent as one stayed behind to guard the door. Before she entered the apartment, one of the agents frisked her in a professional manner. When she finally got into the apartment, she saw two of Shinjis friends where seated against the wall with two agents standing over them while Shinji had been moved on to the couch. Rushing over to him, she saw that she wasn't too late. "Shinji, Shinji," Arael called out to him. When she saw him open his eye's, she continued. "Listen to me, soon your AT field will start to work. Once it does, you need to take control. It is part of you, make it that way." Arael felt the agents coming up behind her. What she had said must have set them off. She quickly threw up her AT field to keep them back. Toji and Kensuke just sat there and watched. they had never seen an AT Field before, and here was one of their teachers throwing one up like it was nothing.
"I'll try," Shinji gasped out. The pain was still unbearable, but he could start to feel something take shape inside.
Ami's car.
Misato had ordered several barricades raised to block the other car. She had been tempted to have them open one of the eva gate and raise one of the catapults, but that would have lead to a crash, and that was the last thing that they needed right now. Soon, if things went the way that they wanted, they would be on the high way where they could easily catch up with the car that Asuka was in.
Ami glanced down at her fuel gauge and saw that she had about three quarters of a tank, enough to go for awhile.
In the other car, Kirk was trying to reach the highway, if he could just get on Military Circle Route One, he would be home free. He could out maneuver Ami once they got on the highway, maybe even cause a wreak or two to slow her down. The only unknown was her car, how good it was and how it handled. His was a modified Lambugini, one of the fastest cars around. Seeing the entrance ramp ahead, he pulled on to it. He then dropped a gear and floored it.
Ami just followed him up, flooring her car and sending the car flying forward. It was only a matter of seconds before they where going over a hundred miles an hour.
Both drivers where in their element. They had trained most of their lives to handle cars at high speeds, and now they were calling on all their skills, no matter how old. The helicopter pilots watched the two former race car drivers race down the highway. Those that where old enough to remember saw the drivers slip back into their old styles of driving. Ami's car moved through traffic gracefully, while Kirk's car bullied it was though. The pilots saw that Ami was gaining on him, she was working her way forward slowly, just like she used to. One of the pilots pulled up along side the cars to pace them and to hopefully scare the other driver into surrendering. He was astonished at how fast they where going. They where breaking 160mph and still accelerating. News helicopters had shown up only to be left behind by the speeding cars, then they where also quickly grounded by NERV.
Kirk was weaving through traffic like a mad man. His passenger glanced into the back seat to check on Asuka, she was still asleep. "I can't believe that your boss wants this girl," Kirk told his passenger as he passed another car. "I mean can't he go to Germany and get a red-head?"
"What can I say," the passenger replied. "The boss wants this girl, so he gets this girl."
"Got another question, why did you shoot the other girl?"
"I wanted too."
NERV.
Dr. Akagi was working on how to get Asuka back when Maya got her attention. Moving over, she saw that several of the sensors near Misatos apartment had gone off. One of the patterns was Arael, the other had to be Shinji. It was happening right now and there was nothing that she could do. It was then that she felt someone looking over her shoulder, the person couldn't miss the information on the screen. She knew who it was with out even looking.
Apartment.
It felt like something was trying to escape from inside of him. The stabbing pain had stopped, only to be replaced by something else. Remembering what Arael told him, he concentrated on controlling it even though he didn't know what to do, this was all new to him.
Arael was standing over Shinji as he laid on the couch. The section 2 agents had stopped trying to get by the AT Field, and tried to radio for help, only to have their radios crushed by Arael. 'It won't be long now, hang on Shinji.'
All of a sudden Shinjis eyes shot open, and a orange hexagonal field appeared in front of him, fluttering like it was in a breeze.
Tokyo 3 General Hospital.
An ambulance had just arrived with a gun shot victim. The paramedics where soon wheeling the patient, a young girl with pig tails in. Doctors where soon around her. After a quick look at her, they took her to the operating room. A report was sent to NERV as they had been asked to be informed of her situation as her dad worked there. He was currently in route.
Ami's car, the highway.
It was almost like a race to Ami, only with slower cars all around her. She slipped threw traffic with a practiced eased, the vibrations of the car telling her that everything was working as it should. She still took her cars out to a track every week, but nothing could match up to the feel of working your way through traffic. It was a feeling that she missed. Another difference was that her daughter was sitting next to her with a loaded fire arm.
"Can you get me close?" Misato asked.
"You stick your hand out that window, and you'll lose your gun."
"Damn it," Misato swore. "I need to do something."
"Do you trust me?"
"What do you mean 'do I trust you'?"
"I think I know away to stop him, The only thing that I'm worried about is if his role cage can handle it."
"You can't be serious?"
"You got another plan," Ani asked her daughter. She knew that Kirk could drive dirty, and that he knew almost every dirty move in the book, but that was the thing, almost every dirty move. He had only been racing for a few years when second impact had brought all racing to a stop, while she had been racing most of her life.
"What if we could get him to slow down first?"
"If you can do that, do it."
Misato picked up her phone.
NERV, Section 2.
"You want what," The agent asked the person over on the other end of the line. "Let me get this correct, you want our craziest pilot to do something that has never been attempted in real life, only in bad movies?" Getting his answer, the tech relayed the orders.
Apartment.
Control, he had to get it under control. If he didn't he could easily kill someone. Reaching out, he tried to tell it what to do, it reacted, but only for a second. This time reaching out with his hand, he held it open palmed. Slowly closing his hand into a fist, it slowly came under control, it still fought him though. Along with is hand he tried to will it under control, ordering it to obey him.
Arael watched as he struggled. She had thrown up another AT Field to try and keep the others safe from the AT Field the Shinji was trying to get under control. For her it was the first time that she had seen an AT Field first form. When she was created, she already had full control.
Closing his fist once more, Shinji attempted to bring his AT Field under control. As his fist closed, the AT Field once again responded, only this time it didn't fight as hard. Once his fist was closed, the AT Field hovered right above him, not moving. He then willed it away, and watched as it disappeared. He could still feel it inside him, waiting to be used. Looking over at Arael, he saw that she was smiling.
Gun ship 608
Gun ship 608 had been following the chase for a while now. The pilot had always been a big racing fan, and for him, this was almost heaven. It was spoiled when his orders came. They wanted him to do something that had only been done in bad movies, and frankly he didn't think that his helicopter could do it, but he wasn't known as the craziest pilot in NERV for nothing and this was right up his ally. Nosing his Gun ship over, he went down to see what he could make his baby do.
Kirk's car
Kirk had felt the helicopter pass him. The pilot had to be mad to fly that low at that speed with all the traffic. He watched him fly under a road sign and then pull even with him on his right. The next thing that happened shocked him. The helicopter started to move towards him. With the rotor blades blocking the front, he tapped on the breaks to move behind him to pass, only to have the pilot anticipate him and start to cut him off again, forcing him to slow down even more. His passenger started to yell at him to go faster and get by the helicopter.
Ami's car.
Both Katsuragi's watched as the car in front of them and the Gun ship danced. It was working, they where slowing down. Ami kept on eye on the speed and hung back, ready to lunge forward at a moments notice, she got her chance when the other car slowed down to 90. Quickly catching up, she maneuvered to catch the car as it was going left. When the two cars made contact, she turned to the right, this caused the car to start to spin. When the cars where ninety degrees to each other, Ami dropped a gear and slammed on the accelerator, adding more spin to the car. It was a spin that even a professional couldn't get out of.
Kirk quickly tried to get out of the spin, but soon realized that he would have to bring the car to a complete stop to get out of it. And with that helicopter, he wasn't going to get far.
NERV.
The bridge crew had the chase brought up on the main screen. They watched as the Gun ship settled over the highway. It slowly moved out in front of Kirks car, the car didn't slow down at all. They watched in horror as a sign came up thinking that the pilot was going to crash. At the last second, he flew under it. Right after that they watched as the pilot maneuvered over to the right of the car and got down as far as it could. It then started to move to its left, trying to force the car to shoulder and into the median. The car slowed down enough to let the helicopter fly by and go around behind it only to have it start to move to the right. The helicopter pilot kept this up as he slowly slowed down. Once he had the car slowed down the technicians watched as the purple car being driven by Misatos mother came up on the left of the car. She slowly pushed the left rear bumper causing the car to slide. The driver soon lost control and started to spin. Luckily the car didn't start to roll or flip, it soon came to a stop with the Ami's car stopping right in front of it. Misato jumped out and ran at the car, gun at the ready. The passenger tried to run after he got out, but the Gun ship had stuck around and had a very nasty machine gun pointed at him, he wisely fell to the ground and got on his knee's.
Misato ran up to the car and pointed her gun right at the driver. Following her orders to get out and on the ground, he laid down on the ground. He was also covered by Gun ship that had just arrived. Misato opened the back of the car, finding Asuka still out, but alive. Pulling her out, she laid her on the ground as VTOL arrived. The airmen came out and took the red-head into the cabin. They where soon air born.
Apartment.
Shinji had fallen asleep after his ordeal. He was still on the couch, only this time he was covered with a blanket. The VTOL to move him to safety had just arrived. Arael was kneeling next to him, while Toji and Kensuke where still under guard against the wall. "Ma'am, we have to move the third child to a secure location," the lead agent told the angel. She looked at him and nodded that he could move Shinji. "You need to come with us also ma'am, orders." Arael nodded at this also. She got up and moved towards the door with the agents that where caring Shinji.
"Hey, before you go, can you tell me where Hikari is," Toji asked.
"She's at Tokyo 3 General. Last report had her in surgery," The lead agent said as he stepped out the door. Normally they wouldn't give out such information, but the kid did seem to care about her, always asking if she was okay or if they had any new information. The man had a son himself, and knew that the kid liked, if not loved the girl.
When the Agents had left with Shinji and Arael, the two stooges set off in a run for the hospital.
NERV Detention. Later that night.
Arael sat in a cell. There really wasn't much hear, only the bare essentials. Laying down on the cot provided, she decided to take a nap. It wasn't like there was anything that they could do to her that she had already gone through. Her only worry was Shinji, she didn't know how he would react to being locked up.
Shinji was slowly waking up. He found himself in a dark room with only a single source of light above. He was in a detention cell again, though he didn't know what for. He might have been detected when AT Field formed. It had been very painful, but he was glad that it was over. Sitting up, he felt better then he ever felt before, like he had more energy. Realizing that there was nothing to do, he decided to get some sleep.
In the control room, Gendo Ikari watched the two on the closed circuit television. They had managed to capture an angel in human form, but it seems that his son was now one as well. That in it self through all his careful planning out the window. The woman seemed to be a sleep, while his son was just waking up. He was tempted to throw Dr. Akagi and Lt. Ibuki in the brig as well, but they had a job to do so he had placed them under heavy guard. While he was watching the feed, a technician told him that there was a phone call for him, and that they wouldn't take no for an answer.
"This is Ikari," Gendo said into the phone. "What do want?" The technician watched as the commanders eyes got big and his mouth dropped open as he struggled to find words.
TBC
Okay folks, here's chapter 11. I hope that you enjoy it. I should have 12 out in a bit, hopefully next month. I should have several more chapters ready to go also.
Until next time,
Keep your stick on the ice.
