Evangelion: Past-Present-Future, Finding the Instantaneous Line.
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Is this the Third Impact or not?
Disclaimer: Neon Genesis Evangelion, The End of Evangelion and "Rebuild" are property of GAINAX and Studio Khara.
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...can you see it?
"Yes, the target is two miles in southwest direction and the missiles are loaded".
"Fine, just destroy the ship".
"I got it".
A F16 plane was following a designed flight path over the Yellow Sea during the afternoon when the attacks decreased a bit, but three enemies were joining forces into their armies for a very long time of battles and death. The Chinese Navy was sailing from Shanghai with the target placed on Okinawa Prefecture, but the JSSDF disposed a complete defense of the islands with carriers and planes. South Korea had the most hard part because their forces faced the most of the Japanese Powerful in the middle of the Yellow Sea. The plane flied at constant speed but the pilot mode was manual because the pilot felt the vibration on the plane, and the traction control was disabled for giving more energy to the missiles. Finally, the pilot watched the target composed by two South Korean ships that sailed for certain coordinates.
"Targets at squares five and six". The pilot gave a coded description for the enemies and he changed the course that was reflected on the radar in the same plane and in the Command Center in Japan, and the software detected the deadline for firing the missiles. "Five, four, three, two, one...Fire!"
The missiles left the plane and crossed two complete squares on the radar against two points that represented the both ships. The ships attacked with shots from disposed rifles on the cover, but the missiles were stronger and the targets disappeared on the radar.
"I think that it would be easy for us to fight with the Evangelions and not using old-fashioned armies like this plane". The pilot commented to the base, but a serious voice warned about personal opinions during service and more specific during a battle. "I am sorry sir, but I only wanted to say something that could help us for winning". The same voice seemed to understand the real intentions for supporting the operation and not like an opinion nearly to an insubordination.
"The Evangelions are not weapons, pilot. We cannot use them...it is forbidden". The voice identified himself as a general because the HUD into the plane appeared the names of the soldiers that surrounded the pilot in their planes and the command line in the base.
"I am coming back to Okinawa, sir". The pilot changed the course according to fixed coordinates by the military software that showed the JSSDF logo. More points appeared on the radar, but the blue color was a signal for FRIEND and the red for ENEMY.
"Pilot, other comrades will take your place during the night because we need you in Japan because the Jet Alone Incident is freaking the population and the homeland security is in danger with two human enemies, a crazy robot, and something that attacks Tokyo-3, but the situation in Tokyo-3 are not our business, do you understand?" The pilot confirmed the orders and the selected course was chosen in the Base of Okinawa where Japan was the owner when the United States left the Islands the past decade. More F16 flied to the hot zone in the Yellow Sea when the pilot watched the shape of the coast in the radar and through his eyes when the sunlight was passing the torch to the night with the darkness.
"I can see the Base, sir". The pilot reported the near view of the facilities in the Okinawa Prefecture and the lights from the close cities, and the track was marked with a line of red lit points and personnel were indicating the correct path for leaving the track to the next pilots can to attend the battle in the Yellow Sea. "Landing". The F16 landed on the track and stopped in front of many hangars and buildings. At the same time, one mate saluted to the pilot with the hands from his plane before going to the fight.
"Pilot, the JSSDF planned to add aerial support to the following of the robot and we need your abilities for examining more closer the evacuation in the Hyoga Prefecture because the Government Agencies reported only a partial evacuation due to asymmetric vacancies on Shelters compared to the total population". The long message was clearly understood by the pilot that left the plane when the Maintenance Unit was in charge of the F16 doing checks and tests. The pilot saluted more colleagues on the track that commented the last news from the diplomacy that go one step forward them.
"It is good news, right". The pilot tried to keep optimistic but if the war against China and South Korea ended, there were two remaining situations for Japan, and more deeply to the World if the events in Tokyo-3 changed to bad. Before opening the door of the meeting room into the Base, the pilot watched the stars reflected on the glass of the door. The detail of the reflection caught his attention and brought back one remember that seemed a medicine for reminding the reasons for fighting.
"Hey, it is cold please comeback to the house".
"I am fine mom, I just am watching the Sea".
"Okay, but don't late".
"My mom is not here anymore".
"Fine, we can finish it".
"Yeah, but what is that?"
"Shit, a tsunami".
Many people gave their opinion about the current status of the war on the Yellow Sea during the meeting that began almost to ten o'clock and spent the most of time from that hour to the midnight because the pilot was devoted to chat through a computer with relatives that lived somewhere in Japan. The sergeants discussed the composition of the forces, but they disagreed in the criteria for estimating the number of men because many of them wanted to fight in three fields, others give the most of the resources to the war, and the solution based on the same fraction of men in each field.
"The highest commands declared the JSSDF as incompetent for fighting in Tokyo-3 and if only NERV needs some help we can do something. From my perspective, we have to devote our forces in the Jet Alone Incident and the war". A marine gave his opinion to the authorities that agreed and commented how the media changed the point of view from the first reasons of the war to the current status that was more related with territory gaining than the tsunami.
"It was an orphan tsunami. No earthquake and our enemies apparently forgot the tsunami like a reason for firing the Yellow Sea. It is like India and Pakistan fought immediately after the Second Impact and an atomic bomb destroyed the Kanto Prefecture. Really orphans were the consequences of the bomb, and now we can stop something very bad". The pilot talked after check his value because the audience was calm but required quick solutions, and encouraged words increased the moral.
Heizo slept on the floor but the temperature was nice for thousands of people inside the Geo-Shelter in Downtown Kobe when hours ago the JSSDF evacuated the whole city because the Japanese Government declared alerts in more Prefectures due to the risk from the Jet Alone Robot that lost the control, or really its owners lost the control during a test in Tokyo-3. An Angel was attacking the Hakone Prefecture and NERV recovered the command for destroying the thing. The kid opened the eyes during few seconds and his father talked with him telling that they were in the Shelter yet.
"Are not you sleepy Shinji?" Eisaku asked the teenager that read his Almanac and heard music with the head supported on the backpack. The teenager mentioned his experience when was awoke during many hours in the night when the firsts emergencies occurred. "The emergencies were due to the monsters, right". Shinji nodded feeling a piece of doubt inside Eisaku`s words, but it could be only an impression.
"Maybe the Government declared a tsunami alert". Shinji tried to convince Eisaku for reasons not close to Angels, but the young man disagreed because the JSSDF had said it, and the sirens had sounded. "Yeah, you are right". Eisaku wanted to ask to some soldiers that watched the Geo-Shelter but they are holding weapons and Eisaku felt some fear. However, Shinji had seen many soldiers when he lived in Tokyo-3 and they frequently assumed tasks with NERV when an Angel came to the city. Unexpectedly, Shinji felt the need for speaking with the soldiers because he knew very clearly what to ask them, but Misato warned him about the secrets inside NERV, but the feeling was in there like a noisy fly.
"What are you reading?" Eisaku watched the cover of The Almanac and Shinji gave the book to Eisaku that read the title and the index. "It is about history. My parents had a book like this before the Second Impact, but it was lost when the catastrophe occurred. Shinji saw the same sadness in Eisaku`s eyes that Misato felt few times when she talked about the Impact. "What is this?"
Eisaku opened the page number fifty and he picked up a picture of a woman, and Shinji felt embarrassed because Misato appeared on the photograph partially showing her breasts and dressing her comfortable clothes. "Come on, is she your girlfriend?".
"No! Absolutely not! She is very old for me!" Shinji looked around if his neighbors were watching his reaction to the question, but the rest of the people were more focused on to be with their relatives or friends and sleep than to watch a boy.
"So, did you live with her in Tokyo-3?" Eisaku realized Shnji a bit relaxed and assumed that reaction like an affirmative answer. "Look, your privacy is sacred but maybe you are mixed your truly private life with problems that any other could help you. But, only a friend could help you".
"Friends are people that worry for that person without matter the background". Shinji`s words sounded like a question, but an important question because Eisaku told the story when his son wounded himself in the kindergarten with scissors, and days later one friend called Heizo by phone asking for him. "I see, but she wasn't my friend". Eisaku wanted to know but choosing the correct words and said:
"She is helping you...Where are you born?" Eisaku watched the picture more in detail and Shinji answered "Kyoto". "Kyoto is nice. So, you was born in Kyoto, then you lived in Tokyo-3 and now you are in Kobe. Three places in fourteen years, very cool, isn't it? Shinji only smiled and Eisaku told when he knew other cities only few years ago. "Were your parents people that traveled along Japan with you?" Shinji felt angry and Eisaku tried to relax Shinji, but the teenager smiled and said:
"No, they left me behind". Eisaku supposed something in his mind, but never revealed his instantaneous thought to Shinji because when Shinji said that, the background changed for him.
"Dad, what time is it?" Heizo was waking up and Shinji smiled when the kid looked around and found more sleepy kids in the Shelter. "What are you reading dad?" Eisaku explained that the book belonged to Shinji, and Eisaku repeated the same question to Shinji that reminded when his former tutor told him stories with The Almanac.
"It is a book of history". Shinji showed the cover to Heizo that read the title very slowly but correct.
"It is a good picture". Heizo commented something about the book and Shinji was to explain the page and found the same provocative photograph. He begin to laugh and Eisaku said:
"It is a woman like your mother, but it is a Shinji`s friend or something". Eisaku smiled to Shinji that moved the shoulders like saying "do not know".
"I miss my mother, dad".
Sashiko watched the courage of Rei when Misato told her the orders for watching the Angel because the Prototype was launched to outside and the moonlight was the only light over Tokyo-3, and the Angel was flying among the buildings like tracking a target. Rei made careful movements with the Evangelion and Ritsuko was updating the online analysis for the Angel thanks to the cameras and disposed equipment around the streets and structures that the Angel explored from hours ago. At the same time, Misato was in charge of the operation for disabling the Jet Alone Robot, and NERV pilots reported the status of the Test Type during the transport of the Unit from Tokyo-3 to the Robot with the plane. Gendo Ikari received reports from the JSSDF about the places that were under alerts and fighting exclusions.
"Captain Katsuragi, order to Rei for protecting Tokyo-2 if the Angel decided to leave Tokyo-2?"
"Yes sir. You heard our commander, Rei. Try to follow the Angel and...
The Angel performed an attack over three fake buildings around the blocks four and five, and the structures were destroyed with the red thin arms. The structures were pulled for the air thanks to the speed of the arms, and the remains fell over a populated zone.
"Please, just tell me that it wasnt Tokyo-2". Misato looked Makoto and Shigueru very tense, and they pointed the virtual geography where a red point lit a very defined place inside Tokyo-2. "Shit, Rei cover Tokyo-2 from the Block One and if the Angel wants to attack you...the building 121 holds a rifle...Took it!. Rei moved the Unit to the mentioned building, and the Tactical Operations Unit confirmed the destruction of a residential place. Seconds later, the phone called.
"...houses, streets destroyed...soldiers dead"
A complete written report told about the total evacuation of the zone before the attack, but many soldiers were watching the zone and they cannot react to the attack. Misato gave orders to Rei than involved a direct firing with the Angel because its place over Tokyo-3 was unstable, and Ritsuko tried to understand a pattern for the behavior of the Angel.
"It only flies". Maya seemed out of ideas, but Ritsuko examined the blue pattern and found a primary weak point into the Angel.
"Captain Katsuragi, this Angel has its core very expose. You can look it below the head, but the red thin arms are the defense". Ritsuko clarified the background, and Misato looked Gendo Ikari that kept calmed with Fuyutsuki.
"Doctor Akagi, what is the power from the arms?" Misato asked Ritsuko feeling a very deep impression that didnt want to reveal in front of Gendo Ikari. Ritsuko read the data from MAGI and finally she said:
"The arms are vibrating very close to our Progressive Knives. They are like another Progressive Knife but double". Ritsuko and Maya displayed a detailed image of the arms showing the vibration level with a metric scale immediately compared with the Progressive Knife.
"I see. Okay, Rei...can you hear me?" Misato checked the communication with the pilot that tried to find the damaged zone in Tokyo-2, but Gendo Ikari talked with the pilot just reminded the first orders from Captain Katsuragi.
Tokyo-2 is not part of this
"I get it, commander Ikari". Rei moved the Evangelion walking for the empty streets because the JSSDF wasn't involved in the battle, but they reported every ten minutes about the situation in Tokyo-2. Misato resumed her speech:
"Pilot, our Angel has two arms that act like two Progressive Knives. So, you could to find two Knives and attack". Misato wanted to hear how Rei reacted to the proposed strategy, but there wasn't time for testing anything, because the pilot immediately said "It is fine". Ritsuko looked the live footage very serious and Maya commented about Rei`s courage.
"Yes, she is very brave". Ritsuko wasn't much convinced. Misato told the whole equipped places in Tokyo-3 with Progressive Knives.
"Rei, the rifles are useless and the dust from the attacks just could complicate the operation. So, you have to leave the rifle on the street and find two Knives". The remaining Jet Alone personnel that helped in The Bridge tried to support data quality and report any minimal abnormality. One of them, the girl Sashiko felt confused because Misato was giving almost suicide orders to the young pilot, but the coldness showed by Rei seemed to be a hope for developing the mission.
"Captain Katsuragi, I am watching the building 3626 with the first Progressive Knife, and the Angel is moving around the Block Three". Rei watched both sides before taking the Knife that was held over a roof. Then, she ran at 10% of vibration according with Ritsuko`s instructions. Previously, MAGI estimated a probable exclusion area for vibrating the Knife because the Angel could detect the effects, but Misato mentioned a face to face like only solution. Gendo Ikari agreed.
"Leave the rifle now". Rei heard the instruction and the rifle was left on the street and the Evangelions moved forward and keeping a safe distance with the Angel. Rei increased the vibration at 25% and Ritsuko reported the extension of the magnetic field from the Knife, and the first tracks of energy from the Angel. MAGI developed a map with the area where the Angel could have any control over the city using its whole energy contained inside. Ritsuko tried to find the source of energy, but MAGI couldn't track in deeper levels because the red thin arms vibrated and the generated field disturbed the measuring.
"Captain Katsuragi, the JSSDF authorities want to talk with you about something". Makoto received a call on the cell phone and Misato picked up it using the open channel. Gendo Ikari heard the voice of a colonel that reported the extensive damage over a residential place, and Maya marked the anything died, but the colonel gave the final balance.
"At least 10,000 are homeless. The Government will apply an emergency program of relocation for the people. We will update the information. Good Night". Misato watched the damaged area on the virtual geography and the map marked the main avenues that surrounded the place.
The Base of Southern Okinawa were active during the one of the most complicated nights in the history of Japan from the Second World War, the Second Impact and the triple situation with a war, an Governmental robot out of control, and an "Angel" attacking Tokyo. The planes were divided into two places: the Yellow Sea and the warned Prefectures except Hakone. However, the JSSDF maintained a team in Tokyo that evacuated the population and told the last news. Precisely, the news about the destruction of a residential place in Tokyo-3 was the detonator for asking more active presence in the city, but the highest commands kept the same strategy.
"Fine...you can see the selected teams for attending the specific mission into both operations, and the deadlines for each mission. It is very important to finish them because our country must ensure total safety to the population because more than one day inside the Geo-Shelters could be too much, and that is our reason for not helping NERV in Tokyo-3. They promised me that the Thing will be far from Tokyo-2 using the Evangelions. But, NERV sent another Unit to disable the robot, but our mission is support the Evangelion and watch the Prefectures. Now, this graph shows the teams belonged to the Jet Alone Incident...and the assigned cities".
The pilot of the F16 was hearing the instructions because his name appeared on the list of the team that attended the city of Kobe into the Hyoga Prefecture. The, he left the main hangar with more colleagues that commented the mission in the Prefecture and the estimated risk for the robot that could arrive to Kobe at 11.00 pm.
"The Chinese army is moving from Shanghai to the Sea and the Korean soldiers are losing nautical miles since three years ago". A pilot commented the situation with the group and more planes were ready for flying to the assigned places.
"Okay, I was assigned to Kobe and my team will fly in almost thirty minutes". The pilot of the F16 walked to his group that heard the specific orders.
"...the Government is counting how people are in the Geo-Shelters and according to the numbers, we have to ensure that the streets are empty and the houses too. Then, some of yours will have to watch the Geo-Shelters and please...do not comment anything with the people. If they know about a crazy robot, they will want to leave the Shelters for exiting Kobe". A general ended the speech and the men made a long reverence when the stars were changed of place in the sky. The pilot didn't showed his quietness for not attending another day to the Yellow Sea War.
The pilots were inside the planes and many technicians showed the limits of the track for a safe launching, more soldiers watched the joined flight over the Base of Okinawa like a farewell. The planes left the Okinawa Prefecture and the radars showed the map of Japan like a virtual geography that was supervised from the Headquarters in Tokyo-2.
"The Government increased the alert in Hyoga Prefecture because the robot is running faster than minutes ago
"What is really happening?" The pilot didn't understand why the thing was faster. The general asked by radio about the thermonuclear core is sending wrong orders to the Operative System. "Okay, but if the temperature increased at abnormal level, maybe the system was corrupted before". The pilot wanted to discuss but his mates tried to kept down the talking about the incident because the radars showed more island than the loaded geography into the systems.
"Maybe, we are flying over a magnetic area, but our maps..."
The radars show normal conditions.
Please, concentrate.
The F16 flied over the first islands that marked the beginning of the Island of Kyushu and the Base located in Kagoshima talked with the pilots about the weather conditions and the feeling of the population outside of warned Prefectures that kept calm, but many of them were finding supplies in markets and hospitals. The JSSDF controlled the cities and towns with the Police.
"The situation in Tokyo-3 is critical because the monster destroyed a residential place in Tokyo-3, and a team died during the attack. NERV is fighting with the monster right now". The pilots tried to avoid thinking in their dead colleagues and the Base of Kagoshima was looked from the heights because the powerful lights of the city were the mark.
"Fine, pilots we need to reach Kobe before the 6 am.". The pilot increased the speed breaking the barrier of sound and the rest of the planes followed him.
Kozo Fuyutsuki was receiving the updated count for the number of homeless after the attack from the Prime Minister that wanted to find a quick solution for them, but the vice-commanded couldn't help more than supplying data about the Angel and the extension of the damage into Tokyo-2. Then, the Prime Minister proposed a joined campaign among NERV, the JSSDF and the Government for the homeless people. Gendo Ikari didn't say anything and only heard the call with mixed feelings, because more problems seemed to complicate the background, and not the known background.
"Fuyutsuki, our Prime Minister is desperate". Gendo Ikari used a calm moment during the attacks for talking with his right-hand about the last calling. Fuyutsuki agreed but tried to find the reason for designing a plan if the Angel didnt have destroyed. "Maybe, he is very confident about our performance tonight". Ikari presumed about both campaigns – Shamshel and Jet Alone -
"The Angel wants to find the enter to the GeoFront using a strategy very boring like destroying buildings. But, according to doctor Akagi its arms were the main defense". Fuyutsuki recognized a dead point for improving the strategy because the Angel managed two arms that vibrated like a Progressive Knife, and Rei held only one Knife. Misato disposed a new Knife and Rei began to walk for catching it.
"Rei, it is simple. To run the AT Field and vibrate both Knives against the Angel". Misato tried to explain the strategy in simple words, and Rei didn't have problems for receiving any kind of orders and the captain was satisfied, but Ritsuko commented about the "kamikaze" attitude that Rei showed to the rest. Misato reminded Ritsuko that the pilots are pilots.
"She is devoted to her Evangelion, just look how she moves it". Maya talked about the calm that Rei had and the control over the Evangelion when the Angel began to destroy another building, and Misato ordered to block the remaining tubes from the surface to the GeoFront. Makoto closed the tubes, and Shigueru checked the status of the layers between Tokyo-3 and the Pyramid.
"Captain Katsuragi, please pulled off the whole buildings". Gendo Ikari left his high sat and the people watched him with uncertainty. Misato didn't show a doubtful stance and only said "yes" but she felt that the operation should turn to a new direction, because the watching strategy was consuming resources. Sashiko watched how the technicians pulled the buildings from the surface and the structures entered the GeoFront completely inverted.
"No buildings on the surface, sir". Misato confirmed that Tokyo-3 had its buildings in the GeoFront and only the streets and open spaces remained outside. Gendo Ikari talked with Rei:
"Rei, you are alone with the Angel and just do what captain Katsuragi told you before". Ikari and Rei looked each other for the camera and the pilot increased the speed and the Angel began to emit energy from its core and the arms vibrated at higher levels.
"Sir, the Knives are below the arms according to the vibration graphs. That disadvantage is a signal for a defeat". Ritsuko warned Ikari about the new situation.
Stupid Shinji, why did you leave us when we need you?
Misato Katsuragi smiled to Rei when the pilot stopped few seconds before attack the Angel.
Shinji watched the LCD monitors during a short walk for the Geo-Shelter when the most of the people tried to sleep, but only the young kids could dream in their sleep, and the adults watched them and wanted to find answers for the alert. Few soldiers entered to the Shelter and talked with the Government workers that supervised the place. Then, the soldiers left the place and Shinji returned where Eisaku and Heizo.
"Could you see something outside?" Eisaku asked Shinji that didn't understand the question, and sat on the floor a bit confused. "It was a joke Shinji...It is my idea or you don't know when someone is telling you a joke?" Shinji felt stupid and nodded very softly. "I knew it, but you don't have to feel embarrassed okay. You are young and many things are waiting for you. Just try to live without following a calendar".
"Okay".
Eisaku looked Shinji to the eyes and the teenager tried to avoid the look.
"You didn't know what to say, right". Eisaku realized when Shinji admitted it.
"I am sorry".
"And you didn't have to give me apologies". Heizo was sleeping and Shinji looked him.
"I have to apologize with you because I have been trying to connect with you, because a 14-years old man must be alone like you are. If you don't have anyone that know here...maybe you need to come back to Tokyo-3. That woman knows you, right". Shinji nodded.
"Yes, she knows me".
"Okay, if we are alive when this ends...you will come back. Do you promise that?"
Nobody cannot tell me what I can do.
"Pilot, you are assigned to the Shelter-96, correct".
"Yes, sir. I am here for obeying you".
The pilot of the F16 walked for the empty streets in Downtown Kobe with more soldiers that commented the problems for stopping the robot because NERV couldn't use the remaining Unit, but the news were confused.
"What is happening there?" The pilot asked to a soldier that watched pictures from the place where the robot was running and destroying.
"Look at that, it is the plane with the Evangelion but the technicians cannot launch the Unit because they are having troubles. I don't have more information". The pictures showed the robot and a NERV plane for Evangelions that held the Unit-01 over the surface.
"We cannot help because that thing is almost a nuclear bomb. Please dont tell it to another, but why did the government design a robot with a thermonuclear core?" The pilot was angry, and more colleagues supported him. They arrived to the Shelter-96 located in Downtown Kobe and the street had open the surface.
"Welcome guys, the situation is calm here, but the people will be crazy if the time inside here exceed more than one day". A government worker received the soldiers that supervised the basic equipment and the supplies. Then, the people watched them but the sleep was stronger than the wishes for knowing news.
"Well done sir. The Official assigned us for many hours". The pilot looked the roof and the floor like avoiding to watch the people because they were sleeping or talking with each other, and the presence of soldiers could be invasive.
"Many hours...So, the Jet Alone Robot is at certain distance". The man tried to find out an estimated time for watching the robot arriving to Kobe itself.
"NERV is having troubles".
Gendo Ikari watched the main screen in The Bridge that showed big letters with the legends:
EVANGELION UNIT-01 REJECTS DUMMY PLUG SYSTEM.
"Sir, there is no turning back". Maya warned that the rejection was definitive because the Unit expelled the capsule to outside and the pilots over the plane had to leave it. Misato was sat for first time during the night and watching the Rei`s stats.
"The pilot is fine but the mental dirtiness reached 5%". Ritsuko was trying to talk with Rei but the girl was moving the head.
"Rei, please tell us what are you feeling now?" Misato wanted to know and the images showed the Unit-00 fell over the surface very near to the mountains and the Umbilical Cable seemed to be damaged but the internal battery was intact.
"Headache". Rei only said that, and Misato asked to Makoto about an analysis for the events.
"Captain, when Rei Ayanami ran her AT Field and the Knives vibrated at 100%...the Angel guessed the attack and pulled Rei for the air with the red arms". Makoto displayed a graphic with the trajectory of the fall. Rei achieved to stand up the Evangelion.
"She is fine captain Katsuragi". Maya read the stats and Misato looked to Gendo Ikari.
"We need more buildings on the surface because Rei must have a defense. It is impossible to attract the Angel to the mountains". At the same time, the pilots of the NERV plane wanted to know next with a disabled Evangelion because the robot was running and the plan was failing. Gendo Ikari watched Misato and said:
"The Angel must penetrate the GeoFront". Ikari saw how Misato walked to his chair and Fuyutsuki didn't know about Misato`s reaction.
"What is the mission sir, kill it or simply fighting with it waiting what?" Misato showed herself very worried and Ikari that looked the Dummy System message again.
"Okay, you can dispose what you want now, but the Angel must not invade us and Tokyo-2 is out of range, right". Misato felt more better and returned to her position in The Bridge. Ritsuko tried to find more data about the Angel, but MAGI only could process the known information.
"The thermonuclear core is increasing the energy and MAGI is estimating the affected surface during a hypothetical nuclear fusion". Makoto displayed the core telemetry and the estimated scenarios by MAGI. Misato watched how the NERV place began to flu following the robot with the Evangelion.
"Rei, we will pull some buildings for you. Try to attack at distance". Misato looked Rei accepting the orders and moving the Evangelion when the buildings were being pulled from underground to the surface. The Angel reacted to this strategy and flied over the buildings. Ritsuko examined the red arms with new information.
"Captain Katsuragi, the pilot must cut the arms before destroy the core. It is the only way". Ritsuko designed a new strategy and Misato agreed.
"You heard her, pilot Ayanami. Go ahead".
A list with the evacuated people was being processed by computers in the JSSDF Headquarters in Kobe, and the system sent the data to the soldiers that watched the Geo-Shelters around the city, and the pilot of the F16 got his respective list with names. Then, he entered to the Shelter and began to watch the people that was being arranged in rows because the Government decided to give food because the time was passing the the morning was closer. The pilot watched one of the many rows into the Shelter and looked the list.
Shinji Ikari
Shinji was behind Eisaku and Heizo in the row and the people taking a piece of bread with milk and the rows were long. Heizo looked the soldiers and commented about the weapons that they carried.
"It is for defending us". Eisaku explained to his son the reason for the presence of the soldiers, and Shinji looked them too. The JSSDF logo caught his attention and reminded the red leaf and the motto.
"God's in his Heaven. It's all right with the world". Shinji repeated the motto and Eisaku heard him.
"Is that a song?" Eisaku asked Shinji and the teenager laughed. "Come on, share something".
"It is not a song. I read it when I lived in Tokyo-3". Shinji seemed be more relaxed, and Eisaku reminded when Shinji tried to hid his life before Kobe.
"You see. One reason for coming back to Tokyo-3". Eisaku didn't want to be inpatient with Shinji, but he clearly felt the need for telling what he thought.
"Are you Shinji Ikari?"
Heizo pointed a soldier that asked Shinji and the teenager said yes very nervous. Eisaku wanted to know the reason for the checking.
"Do not worry sir, the Government wants to know everything about the people". The pilot of the F16 tried to talk with diplomacy because he didnt like to give explanations if the reason was a established procedure.
"Yes, I am Shinji Ikari". The teenager confirmed his identity again.
"Fine, I have to talk with you". The pilot was being watched for the rest of the people and two colleagues walked from the enter and asked him for the checking.
"I have two identities for Shinji Ikari". The pilot showed to the soldiers the manifest with an associated anomaly to Shinji Ikari.
"Fine, but the second identity is out of our responsibility". The soldiers didn't want to involve in the classified note that added to the manifest.
"Were you living in Tokyo-3?" The pilot asked Shinji that confirmed the data. Eisaku identified himself as the tutor of Shinji, but the soldiers asked for the name of Misato Katsuragi.
"She was my tutor". Shinji tried to clarify the confusion. Eisaku looked Shinji very impressed and Heizo asked for the meaning of "tutor". The pilot separated Shinji of the row, and Eisaku was stopped when he tried to follow Shinji.
"Sir, this is routine". The pilot wanted to keep calm Eisaku. Shinji showed himself very obedient to the orders. The row of the people continued and Eisaku had to follow it with his son, and Shinji was with the soldiers.
"Are you Shinji Ikari?" The pilot of the F16 checked the identity. Shinji nodded with the head.
"Your age of fourteen years old". Shinji nodded again.
"Was born you in Kyoto at 2001?" Shinji said "yes" and the pilot mentioned the names of his parents. "Yui Ikari and Gendo Ikari are your parents, right".
"Yes, sir". Shinji felt strange when he heard the name of his mother.
"Where are they?" The pilot continued the questionnaire.
"My father...is in Tokyo-3 and my mother...I don't know". Shinji faced two choices in his mind, and the struggle wasn't revealed to outside for anyone.
"If you were a tutor, because you lost both or they got divorced, right". The pilot guessed the choices that Shinji didn't knew to say before, and the teenager moved the shoulders very doubtful.
"Excuse me...
Another soldier asked to the pilot for the inquiry and he only said like a reason the random selection of people for knowing their needs into the Shelter, but Shinji could see how the pilot invented the story because the colleague didn't seem to be much convinced, and asked again for the questions.
"Okay, sir I am completely devoted to my country and if I find someone or something that can help us, my efforts are not enough". The pilot justified the inquiry to Shinji mentioning a code of honor, and the colleague wanted more explanations. "Just read this". The man received a carpet with personal data from the evacuated people and he read the written sentences for Shinji Ikari. Then, they looked to each other and Shinji knew that they thought about him.
"Shinji...the most of the people only manage one identity card but you have two cards...Do you understand me?" The colleague asked Shinji and the boy reminded when Misato wrote an order to the Strategic Human Resources Unit in NERV for deleting his NERV file and his ID Card.
"I understand you". Shinji answered the question and Eisaku walked from the end of the row where Shinji was discussing with the soldiers. Heizo followed him.
"We need your help right now". The pilot revealed to Shinji his true intentions for asking about his life and Eisaku heard that very disturbed. Shinji watched him and the tense and anxiety invaded him like the first time that Misato picked up in Tokyo-3.
"Is there an Angel in Tokyo-3?" Shinji looked the affirmative words from the soldiers and told about the failed test of a robot in the same city and the Angel arrived it during the test.
"You have to follow us". The pilot felt the looks from the rest of the soldiers and Eisaku asked Shinji.
"Is NERV calling me?" Eisaku heard the word "NERV" and immediately he thought in his ex-girlfriend and Heizo reminded when his mother told him about NERV like a place for working for many months.
"No, but if an Angel is here...you could know what to do, right". The pilot put both hands on Shinji`s shoulders. "I don't know what happened but I saw you when the other Angels invaded us and you fought against them. Now, you are completely out of that. I don't want to ask the reasons, but I have to do what I can for helping our country. We are in hard times...maybe we are living the Third Impact". Shinji felt the same emotion when the pilot mentioned the Third Impact and compared it when Misato talked about it.
"They hired me because the Evangelions were done for avoiding the Third Impact". Shinji thought that but the soldiers heard him.
"Yes, and now NERV is fighting with a single Unit and the another one failed for disabling the robot that runs directly to Kobe and destroying roads, mountains and towns". The pilot tried to convince Shinji but the he felt very bad.
"Are you right?" Eisaku was worried because Shinji began to cry.
"Please, don't tell to her that I cried".
"Who?"
N/A: Thanks for reading the chapter. Okay, I dont know when the next chapter will be published because I try to upload chapters every week, but the next one will be longer than this episode and will tell the events around the pilot and the unrevealed woman. Best wishes for everyone.