This is a repeat of what I sat at the end of the last section, but I want to get it across to the readers before hand so that

This is a repeat of what I sat at the end of the last section, but I want to get it across to the readers before hand so that you can enjoy the story.

I am asking the readers of this story to submit ideas to me for future sections of the story.

I am going to get these two groups together, but it will take a road trip of twelve days for Shinji, Asuka, Rei, Kaworu, Toji, Navi, and Yui to get to Germany. I am using the Trans-Siberian Railroad as the main route as railroads would pretty much be a straight line from getting from Eastern Asia to Eastern Europe from where Group A (Shinji and Asuka's farming crew) is to where Group B is (Hikari and Maya's bunch).

So any adventures they are going to have on that journey will be what I am asking for help from you all from. Romantic relationships, personal discoveries, back stories, superpowers, loss of virginity, and lost item ideas will be counted as being usable.

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Part 14: Discovery of Survivors

Navi had spent the last few days with Lilith and Daniel looking for survivors. During the entire search, they had found a warm water Penguin named Pen 2. Navi knew that searching for these AT Fields was going to take time, but given that the Angels said that there would be a mix of Human and Angel survivors out there, then finding them would be a priority. That was when Navi came to a stop and stretched her arms from hiking over hillside she had spent the last half hour getting up on. She was getting tired as Pen waddled over to her as he moved his small legs over the grassy terrain.

"Wark..." Pen said as he rotated his head around and looked over the landscape.

"Yeah..." Navi said as she sat down. "I agree with you there. Warzone." Pen looked back at her. "You know I get the feeling that you understand me." Pen held up a clawed flipper and patted Navi's leg.

"So... where would you go if you were a survivor?" Navi said as Pen angled his head sideways at her as he, she hoped that Pen was a he, pondered for a time. "Probably for you someplace cool with plenty of fish." That was Pen nodded at her. Navi moved back. "Okay... this is getting weird." Suddenly Lilith hovered into view.

"Navi..." Lilith said as she glided using her AT Field to where Navi was at. "... We found survivors." With that Navi shot up.

"Survivors??" Navi was for a loss for words. "How many?" Navi was able to stammer out.

"I don't know. I think maybe three, but there are an additional three Fields being generated a little father off, but I left Daniel with the group we found first. Mostly they are males."

"Three guys..." Navi got her voice back. "What do they look like?" Navi wondered on their appearance.

"Human... Um, on is very muscular, but the other two I would call about Shinji and Kaworu's body build." Lilith said as she landed on the ground and started to move over to Navi.

"Okay, so these other AT Fields that you are picking up, where are they?" Navi said as Pen wadded away from her so that he could get a good look at Lilith's face.

"They are around the shore. I think they are new arrivals whose AT Fields have come into full fruition." Lilith said looking down at Pen. "There might be another bird like Pen here." Lilith said bending over Pen and stroking her hand over Pen's head. Pen closed his eyes under her caress in approval of this idea.

"Well at least we are finding other people here." Navi said as she moved over and picked up Pen and moved her AT Field underneath her and floated up and watched Lilith levitate up and fly off in the direction where she had sensed the AT fields at.

Maya had spent that last hour or so after grabbing a jacket to temporarily use as a full body dress explaining what she had gone through to the children around her. Two of the children she recognized as friends of Shinji and Asuka's, Hikari Horaki and Kensuke Aida, which made Maya's urge to get the Magi computer system up and running so that she could find the other children. Given that Amanda was still shaken by seeing the young woman killed in front of her made her think of what she herself had gone through. Maya knew that whatever this threat was, it was not human and it needed to be stopped for the sake of the children she was with. As the official adult among this group of survivors she swore that she would get them out alive.

"Maya..." Kensuke said coming up next to her. "Listen I..." Maya raised a hand.

"Kensuke... I am trying to sort out what happened to me..." Maya said on the verge of tears but she fought through it.

"No... Just that I am surprised that given everything that has happened that I expected there to be more damage to the planet after a massive Angel attack." Kensuke said as he sat down in one of the terminal chairs next to her.

"Oh..." Maya said as she typed through code. "Well, I don't remember much other than waking up in a slaughterhouse full of torn apart humans." Maya watched as the system was going through an intelligent restart routine and the system restart booted up. "I mean, from what I have heard from you and the other children that we all were in the LCL pool." Maya tried to breath through the fear she had, but had to swallow nearly throwing up at that moment.

"Yeah, that means that you got fished out a little before or after Spike, Amanda, and Tiffany came out of that LCL soup we were in." Kensuke said pulling on the edges of the yellow plugsuit he was wearing trying to make it fit right. "Man, how did Shinji and Toji ever get used to wearing these things? I know that this thing is meant to be form fitting, but does it have a sudden need to work it's way up your ass?" Maya grinned at the change of the subject.

"I think that Asuka relished in wearing it." Maya said more code came up.

"Yeah... I think Asuka liked the fact that the suit showed off her figure." Kensuke said as Maya blushed at saying this.

"But I wished they didn't have to wear them at all." Maya said with tears coming to her eyes.

"Why?" Kensuke said looking at her. Given how she looked, other than her height, she looked probably like a one of the older high school kids that Kensuke would have probably looked at through the window of one of his classes.

"Children should have lives... be able to play, go on dates, see the people they are in love with. Make out in the backseat of cars," Maya's head sank down. "Have their fist kiss." Maya started to cry. Kensuke put his hand on Maya's shoulder and started to rub her arm.

"Wow, you did care about Shinji, Asuka and Rei." Maya looked up into Kensuke's eyes with a bit lip.

"I did..." Maya turned away from Kensuke in shame. "But the commander and the others just used them as disposable tools to get the job done. Children should never be used as soldiers, ever." Maya slammed her fist down onto the console.

"Oh..." Kensuke moved back away from her. "I didn't know." Then Amanda came in along with Tiffany.

"Hey Maya, we found some clothes and a shower for you to use." Tiffany said carrying a pile of clothes and a towel. Maya pulled the edges of lab coat she was wearing tight around her and got up.

"Thanks..." Maya said moving out of her chair so she wouldn't flash Kenuske by accident. "... Tiffany watch the start up while I get a shower. I need you to see if you can find anything under the command line EVA 2 plug power." Maya paused. "Also I need a count of the active transmitters and Satellites in orbit." Maya turned to Amanda. "Amanda, I need you to seal of the EVA bay from up here and see if there are any recordings of anyone going into the bay..." Maya turned to Kensuke. "Have Kensuke work with you out."

"Thanks." Amanda paused for a moment, "Maya, the showers that we found are about a floor up from here."

"Head up one floor, turn right head down the offices and turn left to the locker room." Maya grinned. "I did look at the map of this place that was hanging on the wall."

"Yeah. Listen Tru, and Hikari and the little ones are in the offices. So pay them a visit before you get your shower." Amanda said as she moved past Maya.

"I will." Maya said as she moved out of the control room and out the door as she watched these teens start away at the computers as she hefted the machine gun under her arm that she picked up by the door. So much needed to be done to stop those things that attacked that woman. The thing that nagged at the back of her mind is that the teeth marks looked like they came off of an EVA unit. But EVAs were several dozen stories tall, these were human sized.

Ohrhime smelled blood and sea water in her nose. Then she opened her eyes to find herself underwater. Nearly choking as she opened her mouth to scream, the taste of the liquid flooding into lungs. She was going to drown as kicked like mad in the liquid to get to the surface rippling above her. Her body ached as she swam. The she felt like she was able to breath as adrenaline kicked in. She fought against it, then after a long moment as she kicked her way closer she realized that given the depth that she should be exhaling instead of holding her breath. Ohrhime forced herself to breathe out. Then she saw another girl trying to pull up a smaller girl but she was struggling. Forcing all of her pain and fear out of her body, Ohrhime swam full tilt to the two girls.

Ohrhime who had always been athletic even given her exordinarly large bust line of her chest, earned had earned herself the nickname cheesecake. But at this time she likened herself to just being a Baywatch lifeguard as she swam into range of the girls. All Ohrhime saw though this bloody water was that the younger of the two girls had passed out and the older one was having her hands full just trying to pull her up. The older girl who hand long hair was barely kicking as Ohrhime reached around the younger girl who she had noticed was naked and grabbed her firmly by the chest and motioned for the other girl to do the same thing under her arm. With the two girls kicking upwards to the surface was determined to get out of this mess.

As the three girls broke the surface Ohrhime looked for shore, seeing a beach stick out of this... They were in an ocean of this blood water. Ohrhime coughed a few times to clear her lungs of the stuff she had breathed in as she got her bearings.

"There is land there." Ohrhime called out in her fluent Japanese as she pointed with her free hand. The older long haired girl simply nodded in agreement. On the surface the swim didn't take too long as they moved the young girl between them. Once they hit shore Ohrhime felt the feel of the sand underneath her feet as she laid the girl down and started CPR. The long haired girl looked at Ohrhime concerned as she watched her compress the girl's chest to get the fluid out of the girl's lungs. Then with a cough that looked more like a geyser of water from a fountain, the girl started to breath on her own. Ohrhime patted the girl on the side of the face as she rolled the girl over to help her purge more of the water from her lungs. After several moments Ohrhime felt the adrenaline start to wear off as she fell backwards on the sand to rest. The long haired girl reached over and started to caress the younger girl's face and at this time Ohrhime realized that the girl's hear was green. Kinda of a Sea Foam green. Then the smaller girl eyes slowly blinked open and she looked around. One of first things she did was blink and open and close her eyes like she was trying them out for the first time.

"You okay?" Ohrhime said as she got up as the feeling started to work through her body.

"Yes..." the girl said as she started to touch the fingers of her hands in front of her face as if she was trying to orient her eyes to what she was seeing and feeling. "... and no. I was blind and now I can see." the girl held up her hand. "Is this my hand and do you have long red hair?" The girl was trying to digest what her mind was now processing.

"Uh, yes I have long red hair and that is your hand in front of my face, why..." Ohrhime was bracing her self for the worse news. "Well why are the three of us naked?" Ohrhime looked down to see that she was totally naked. All three of them were naked on a beach.

"Did you wake up underwater?" Ohrhime said trying to put facts together. The girl nodded, the Ohrhime looked at the green haired girl. "You?" The girl gave her a blank stare before a look of concern moved over her face. "Do you understand what I am saying?" Sea Foam hair started to say something but stopped as something got her attention on the hillside and Ohrhime wondered what she was looking at, then a moment later she got her answer.

"Hello is anyone down there?" Was yelled out in broken Japanese from the cliffs above.

"Yes... there is." Ohrhime called out as she realized that this might get a little embarrassing. "Do you have any clothes?" She added as she reached down and covered her exposed breasts with her arms.

Maya felt the water cascade across her naked body. Maya had never had the figure or body that made her attractive to boys. It took to her later years that she realized why she didn't like boys or that they had an interest in her. Then she saw girls. There were things that she could talk with them about. Things she felt comfortable opening up with. Then she saw Ritsuko Akagi, though she dyed her hair blond. She had a figure that she was envious of, but to be considered an understudy of such a woman she had started to consider her an idol she could look up to. Then over time she thought of Ritsuko as something more. Then the dream... Did she love Ritsuko... This was something that she hadn't considered. But the feeling of love. Being naked underneath the sheets with Sempai... Kissed, touched.

That was when Maya felt the water temperature change as she heard someone knock on the door of the shower stall.

"Maya..." It was Hikari slowly coming in.

"Yes..." Maya paused as she felt around for her towel.

"Listen, I know that you are NERV staff and that..."

"I know what you are going to say. You feel that I am responsible for Toji being injured." Maya turned around as she placed her hand on the opaque glass of the stall and felt Hikari's apprehension bleed through the matter between them.

"Actually, can you tell me what went wrong with Toji's EVA. I know that he said the system was taken over by an Angel, but I felt that he was holding something back. Something pertaining to Shinji." Maya knew what Hikari was going to say next. 'Why did Shinji attack Toji the way he did?'

"Hikari..." Maya decided to reveal the truth about what happened, the stuff she was sworn to secrecy about. Things that would get her shot if they had gotten out. Right now this girl deserved the truth. Let the Commander rot in Hell for all she knew. "Shinji had no control of his EVA. The commander ordered the use of a new technology to fight the Angel." Maya said as she waited for Hikari voice. Then Maya made up her mind, she would speak with this girl face to face. Rubbing the remnants of the soap off of her body, Maya reached over and wrapped the towel around her body and walked out to meet Hikari eye to eye. "I typed in the command order that forced control of Shinji';s EVA over to the Dummy Plug system." Maya started to cry. "I was responsible for taking Toji's leg and arm from him." Hikari just stood there and blinked a few times at Maya.

"You..."

"Hikari... I pushed the buttons that hurt the boy you were in love with..." Maya was breaking down. "Everything I stood against, for using children as weapons, tools for an end..." The older woman was on the verge of throwing up. "I protested against the use of this technology in the battle, but I was over-ruled and was told to activate the system or someone else would." Hikari realized that Maya was spilling the beans on the entire incident and moved over and hugged Maya. Maya felt Hikari's hand on her form holding her up as the weight of her knees started to give out from underneath her.

"It's going to be okay..." Hikari said slowly in Maya's ear. "You don't have to bear the guilt of the pain alone." Maya could feel that the room seem less cold while she was in Hikari's arms.

"I should have done more..." Maya said out as she bit her lip.

"Yes, but you have done more than enough." Hikari said looking into Maya's eyes. Maya pulled away for a moment feeling a great weight lifted from her that was about the time her towel started to free itself from her body.

"Thank you..." Maya said hugging Hikari again as the towel wrapped around her body finally fell open and exposed her back. "Thank you for forgiving me for what I have done, and did not do more to prevent."

"It's okay..." Hikari said as she reached around Maya's back and felt two small protrusions out of Maya's back that felt like wings that seemed to fade in and out as she breathed. "Maya..." there was a long pause.

"Yes..." Maya felt free for the first time in a long time. Hikari moved back away from her and took a few steps back.

"Um, your towel." Hikari blushed. Maya looked down at her body.

"Oh Crap..."

Natalie Ruce, could feel her Vietnamese origins on her face. These attributes came from her being born to a mother who had migrated to France after the Fall of Saigon in Vietnam back in 1975. Their mother had grown up there despite feeling like an exile in her new home country. Years later her mother had gotten married to a member of the old French Nobility, but as things turned out, she was as what the Mexican colonials called a La Otra Mujer, The Other Woman. She and her brother Lu, had not known about this until that one faithful day where, the four of them were in a car and they had lost their mother that they had a half sister. Natalie had seen her mother get decapitated as her head went through the windshield. The horrific image and the light head trauma which Natalie received in the crash, left her blind combined with a permanent spinal injury where the seatbelt had slid into her stomach that had left her unable to walk.

Now she was looking at her hands... Between the feeling of lying naked and noticing that she now could see and wiggle her toes she was happy and terrified at the same time. But it was the smell the blood that was getting to her. That was when she looked up into the face of a girl or woman with green hair. "Bonjour, où en sommes-nous?" (Hello? Do you know where we are at?) Natalie said as she pushed herself up. The woman looked at her with concern as she looked around the beach they were on. That was when a girl wearing a large towel wrapped around her very ample chest came near them carrying several towels next to a dark skinned girl who was fully clothed. The two started to speak in a language she didn't know about. But it sounded loosely to what the maid had spoken in back in her house in France. Natalie decided to say the two words that she knew: "Domo Arigato." Then Natalie realized when the busty girl started to speak in flat out Japanese so fast that she was screwed in ways that she had never had thought about, quickly she spoke in French the most common words that anyone would say when confronted with a language they are not fully fluent in, "Je ne parle pas japonais!" (I don't speak Japanese!) There was a long pause from both girls as they realized that they like her didn't know how to speak the other's language. The look on green haired girls face spoke the same thing as the other girls. She probably spoke a different language than either she or the red head did. That was when the dark skinned girl started to speak in something that sounded familiar... really familiar... English... Taking a deep breath she slowly started to speak four words that make all the difference in the world. "Do you Speak English?"

"Yes..." The dark skinned girl said with a clear American accent.

An hour later the girls that Navi and Lilith had found on the beach were meeting up by a old tour bus that had been slammed into the side of a hill. The inside smelled like the Blood water of LCL Ocean as the rest of it looked like it had been abandoned and things dropped where they were at when the occupants got liquefied. Between the five of them finding this bus had been a godsend especially since Daniel had shown up with several guys who had been in a similar state as the girls, naked, but given everything that had gone down, there had been some good things to come out of it. First off, Navi now had someone to talk in English to with Natalie. Though that was the bad part. Natalie had been sent back from the LCL Sea with the same muscles she had when she got turned to soup, which meant she had little lower body control. So between having to carry Natalie on her back while flying with her AT Field had not been a good thing, but she had learned a lot about Natalie's family. This had given her some idea that the girl had been confined to a wheelchair, on the plus side, Ohrhime turned out to be a med student so the older girl had offered to work with Natalie to build up her leg strength. The only person that Navi couldn't put a finger on was Soi Fon...

Soi Fon, or Sea Foam as she had been nicknamed by Natalie seemed to by very private, and a little shy about opening up. though Nudity wasn't a big issue for this girl. Lilith helped her to come up to speed, though it seemed like she was paying attention to what was being said. It was like she was learning Japanese and English at the same time. So Navi had suggested that they all would use English for the time being so that Soi Fon could learn a language. Given that Ohrhime was creating a pair of splinted braces for Natalie to use so that she could atleast move around on the cruches they had found, the girl had a long few months ahead of her to get her legs strong enough so that she could run. Lilith had taken an affection to the green haired beauty, but when Daniel showed up with the guys Natalie decided to play matchmaker with Soi Fon and her older brother who was amazed that she was alive and could feel her feet and see him. But it was Chad and Sokka that took the cake for Navi. Well Chad at least... The guy was built like a European football (soccer) player mixed with a movie action star thrown-in. Navi had a little weakness in her knees when she saw him in just a pair of jeans, but given that she was looking at over one hundred and sixty plus pounds of sculpted muscle, well Navi was trying her best not to think about having her naked ass squeezed by Chad's very muscular hands as he lifted her body up to kiss her flat on the lips. That was when she heard Lilith reach into her mind with her AT Field.

"Navi" Lilith's thoughts showed concern.

"Yeah, what is it Lilith…" Navi said as she watched Soi Fon pull on a skirt and a brown top.

"I just got a message from Rei a little while ago just before the guys showed up." Lilith's tone of voice showed that she was feeling apprehensive about where this was going. "I think she had a run in with a few survivors herself." There was a pause. "I think they attacked Yui." That was when Navi changed her mood from thinking about male beefcake and rushed over to where Lilith was at.

"What…"

"Given how scared Rei was, I think she went after whomever was near Yui.." Lilith showed her concern. "I think that she attacked some survivors with a full AT Field."

"Shit why didn't you tell me about this…" Navi said with concern as she digested what was going down in all of their lives. "Nevermind…" This presented an urgency of where they needed to go. "Listen the moment we get the survivors we found dressed , we head back to the farm house as soon as possible." With that Navi projected her AT filed down her body and flew up to the top of the tour bus.

"Okay folks." Navi called out "We have to head back to where we are based out of of. Now we are all going to give you all a crash course in how to use your AT Fields, we need to get back the farmhouse. Now… I think a few other survivors jumped a friend ours named Rei back there and we have to get back there quickly." With that Soi Fon looked up at her with concern growing on her face as Navi figured out that Soi Fon was an Angel.

Maya walked back onto the command deck. The feeling that something was going to happen was majory sticking in her mind. The fear sucked into the pit of her stomach as she walked over to the German equivalent of her station. Hopefully the computer startup would have brought up all relevant information of the events of Third Impact. As the computer started to crunch through the recognition of all surviving satellites that were in orbit ranging from Weather, Communication, and Weapons based platforms, including a science platform of the old orbiting Hubble satellite. As the computer went through the catalog of what was available for communication, it also ran a check on the infrastructure of the base and the surrounding area.

So far the computer was getting information that screamed that every civilian nuclear reactor had been shutdown in accordance to S2 Emergency protocol that was put in place after Second Impact . This protocol was to ensure that if another Impact event occurred and that if it had then the rods were to be pulled out so that the reactor would not explode. Now Maya had to start to restart the reactors to the complex given that the entire place had been running on back up batteries for, the computer stated... Three weeks... Where the hell did those three weeks go? Maya blinked as she digested the data more. She listened to the others and they had woken up in the LCL tanks...

Maya started to type wildly at the computer to sort through the logs of the LCL Tanks... Then Maya stopped as the live feed came up and what Maya saw made her forget about rewinding the data of who had come out of the tank, it was who had come out of the tank now was her main concern. Looking on the screen Maya saw an naked girl running with a child in her arms... Something pursuing her... Then she saw the creature... It was something that Maya hadn't thought she see without armor. But there it was... Chasing the girl... It was an EVA... A Human sized EVA... The image of the bite wounds came back into focus of the boy and girl she had seen killed... They were like... Unit One eating the S2 Core out of Angel... This meant that...

"Kensuke... Grab your gun..." Maya said picking up the machine gun she had found and brought with her after she hand run into Amanda. "We have another survivor to save." With that Maya swallowing hard. She would never let another person die the way that boy had. Those Eyes... She was going to save another person, and given Hell or High Water, she was going to do it.

TBC

Next time, Maya is going to make more contact and learn about what happened.

Part 15: Every Rose has its thorns.