The bare bodies of red-eyed and soulless girls floated feebly within the orange-red liquid. Their eyes opened in shock and excitement as they saw memories flash within their souls' eyes. A high, emotionless laughter filled and echoed the round room.
Sennyo opened her eyes to find herself in a crowded room filled with machines and wires hooked about to things of all sorts. Damn it all, if a Nerv worker finds me here or in the building period I'll literally be killed, I could always suppress them but I can't take those chances with fragile humans like them, it's not like I'm in Naruto's world anymore or anything she thought as she untangled her pale yellow skin from the wires that coiled around her socked calves like snakes. She picked herself up from the ground and looked around. Small and broken pieces of a mirror lay in a pile on a table cluttered with notebooks and other stuff. In her ragged reflection she saw that her eyes were now a mix between dark blue and brown, a bit like Ikari Shinji's in a way and she had on the school uniform from Neon Genesis Evangelion. She felt wrapped around the middle of her right thigh the holster from Naruto with her small book protected within it. She summoned out Sloth's liquidating ability from Fullmetal Alchemist found her way through the mess of the room and under the crevice of the door to the other side.
She slid her clear body form along the corner where the wall meets the floor as she quickly slid down the hallways. A map guide hazed over her right eye as she saw where she was with a little Keyblade pointing in the direction she was in. Enabling her Byakugan as well she furthered the sight of the map until she saw a dead-end passage with an elevator at its end. She summoned Gaara's ability to apparate through sand and the water that she was began to sweep away like dust. Moments later she arrived before the elevator. The black-haired fourteen-year old had the appearance of Dr. Ritsuko Akagi, she created the Nerv staff card and slid it through the slot in the white box next to the elevator. The door opened for her and she walked in. As the door began to slid back into place the form of Dr. Akagi dispersed back to the form of Sennyo.
About a minute passed by as she descended through the floors. On an outside perspective, it would look like two golden thread spiraling and intertwining with one another, set straight and vertically with a pill-shaped light slowly sliding downward wrapped within it. The doors opened to reveal a brightly lit room that looked like a poorly funded yet large office. A rumpled bed stood off to the side next to a cluttered table with red and white pills scattered on it. About the room were boxes and dull-brown coloured boxes, test-tubes, and a curtain hanging by a frame. The room wasn't messy: all of that stuff was crowded into only a third of the cement room. She silently walked to the door on the other side and came to several skeletons of failed Evangelions. She passed along that path and came to another room. It was a large and perfectly circular room. A creamy white also circular device clung to the ceiling like a chandelier without the hanging part where wires would stretch from there to another wall. An electric-green light fenced around the room in the middle of the bottom of the wall and another at the middle of the top of the wall. Sennyo picked up a fairly flat rectangular remote control and pressed a button: the blackness between the lines of green lit to reveal an orange-red liquid. Dozens of bare Reis floated about within it, all smiling blankly at her.
"Rei…" she whispered, her voice croaked with sadness and awe, seeing for the first time but hopefully not the last, Tokyo-3 of Japan of the distant future.
"The fourth one told us about you." said one or two of the soulless vessels in a voice that sounded as if it had gone mad. Bubbles arose in the LCL from where it had spoken like talking/drowning underwater. Her brown-blue eyes constricted. They can speak?! Wait what a stupid question for me to think…
"But, how—how could she have told you when she's…" Sennyo gasped.
"Regardless of what the Lilin of this world say, we do have souls." said one.
"Our memories, most always connected from the next pilot to the next, including yours." said another. It was like talking to Wendy in the old-days, not really sure where exactly the voice of the speaker was coming from. Hope rose in her empty heart.
"Then… do you know how to bring her back?" Sennyo asked the dolls.
"The Philosopher's Stone!" laughed one.
"No," she dourly stated, not wishing to know the consequences of making a Philosopher's Stone through The Touch, "there must be another way."
"One of us?" they asked. A few twisted around in the blood-like liquid so as to see their guest more clearly.
"Sorry, but no. My…," she said with question lingering in her last word, "My Rei Ayanami was different then the rest of you. My apologies. You all may share her body but she had a soul of her own in the world that I had brought her into. I promised a… significant other of her's that I would bring her back. Not a replica!" Anger and bitterness sunk into her heart and eyes, surprising her with this so-human emotion.
"Thank you." said a quiet feminine voice behind her. Sennyo's blue-brown eyes grew bigger and constricted once more and also yet almost full of hope. Rei!? Her mind screamed as she whipped around, a vacant smile lit on her face. A four-cornered pole stood tall and inanimate behind her with a bunch of electrical panels all over it.
"You stood up for me, made me, created me differently then the rest of them, by a bit…but I am grateful for that." It was definitely the Rei Ayanami she had known from Naruto's world during the Chuunin exams.
"Where are you." asked Sennyo to the voice in her and the other Reis' heads.
"I cannot use or contain a physical body… only a mind, conscience." Rei's voice was beginning to break up like a bad radio reception.
How do I bring you back?!" the black-haired girl yelled out.
"You have to…touch and reach more hearts in the worlds: they'll feed me, like souls to a Philosopher's Stone." she whispered. Sennyo nodded, although one could hardly tell.
"And…Hoshi?" she requested, her voice sounding as if her throat were parched.
"A world and a castle… where everything is just a shade of white, and black. Nighttime, a…moon? In the shape of a heart…" her voice died away within the silence of the Artificial Evolution Laboratory—Annex No. 3.
"By that do you mean The World That Never Was?!" Sennyo asked aloud. The only sound in the room was the humming of the device that kept active the giant tank containing the soulless dummy plugs. "Damn it… Xemnas is probably trying to use him to try to kill Sora or something like it…or to lure me there, to Wendy." she said to herself, "Those bastards. I'll find you Hoshi, I promise that. I know I just sound like that half-wit Sora when I say that but I promise to get both you and Rei back."
The Reis looked at her with great vacant amusement, having never seen someone talk to themselves, for they themselves had no souls: therefore no worries or fears. "Farewell, I thank you for allowing me to meeting all of you. Hope do I that we will not have to meet again under circumstances like this one." she said to the vessels. They giggled without heart, just as they always had.
"Bye!"
"Yeah." Touching the pocket of her right thigh-holster where her book was protected and she disappeared in flakes of colour like as Namine had when her conversation with Roxas had been interrupted in the White Room. Laughter filled the room once more.