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Round 53
Chevalier
The man couldn`t believe what he was seeing right in front of him. There is no way that this is possible and yet, the sight in front of him didn`t alter. He couldn`t believe what he was seeing.
"H…How…?"
Floating in a circular tube filled with amber liquid, her long red hair floating around her body was Kyoko Soryu. The woman was seemingly asleep as she floated completely in the nude, as Fuyutsuki stared at it, unable to believe what he was seeing.
"Welcome to CHEVALIER," Gendo told him as he approached the tube.
"How can Kyoko be here?" he asked.
Gendo smirked slightly and he turned toward the still stunned teacher.
"We never buried her in the first place," he said.
Fuyutsuki blinked, his eyes widening.
"What are you talking about?" he said, "I was at Kyoko`s funeral, I saw her body in that coffin…now you tell me…"
Gendo pushed his glasses up with his hand.
"Just a simple trickery," he said, "We couldn`t bury Kyoko and let all those possibilities goes to waste."
"Possibilities?" Fuyutsuki repeated in a low voice.
"This research goes back many years," Gendo said, "Before Kyoko went and made a mess of our top base, we had few months to observe and test the capacities of what Genesis truly can do. The Eve Project, the one before Asuka had given us many possibilities and a way to control it`s power."
"Gendo this is madness," Fuyutsuki told him, "You`ve defiled a human being...someone you and I knew…That`s an insult to her memory."
Gendo turned toward him.
"All of this happened because Kyoko destroyed the base," he said, "If she had simply stayed away then nothing would have befallen her…but since she Genesis merged with her and gave birth to the First Eve, we simply couldn`t let that pass."
Fuyutsuki stared at him.
"But Kyoko was more than a human being Professor," Gendo continued looking at the young woman floating in the tube.
"W…What do you mean?"
"Because of Genesis, Kyoko had become something more powerful than any Human being on Earth," Gendo said, "If she had full control of her power…she could have single handedly destroy the planet."
Fuyutsuki stared at the woman`s face, feeling a new kind of horror. He didn`t know what to feel now since he was seeing that.
"Is she alive?"
"No," Gendo said, "The LCL is the only thing that`s keeping the body from rotting. Since she had died a long time ago, we created the LCL so that we could keep it here. From there, the Second Project Eve was created meaning the young Asuka. Thanks to the studies done both on Kyoko`s body and the First Project Eve, you can say she is the perfect tool."
"She is just a girl Gendo," Fuyutsuki said.
Gendo pushed his glasses up again.
"So she is," he said.
He approached the screen that was on the side of the room and started to type upon it. As soon as he had done it, three more tubes grew from the ground drawing Fuyutsuki`s attention. Inside them were people, all of them having the unmistakable red hair of Kyoko Soryu. The trio were also dressed in skin tight outfit all of them different color.
"More clones," he said.
"Not exactly," Gendo said, "They are half of the Genesis life form from the cells we`ve taken from Kyoko`s herself, but we manufactured something more with it. Keel decided to call it CHEVALIER in reminiscent of the Knights of the Round Table."
"How poetic," Fuyutsuki murmured.
Gendo shook his head as he pressed a few buttons.
"Dummy Plug Activated," an automated voice said.
"Dummy Plug?" Fuyutsuki asked.
"The system that was created to control them," Gendo explained simply.
The tanks that was holding the trio was drained of its LCL and then the three teenagers stepped out of their confinements. They were all standing, their hairs falling into their eyes and face but were doing nothing to remove it. They were like…robots.
"They are manufactured by GEHIRN," Gendo said, probably noticing the look on Fuyutsuki`s face, "and in a way, we own them. Meet, Unit 01 to 03."
The three didn`t say anything.
"Do they speak?" he asked.
"They are anti-social," Gendo said, "They never leave this room since this project is classified…we have measured what they are truly capable yet but I can say that fighting all of them together, and you are doomed to fail."
He turned toward the trio standing in front of him.
"Mission status had been updated," he said.
The trio looked up toward him.
"Find Asuka L. Soryu, and the defected," Gendo continued, "Orders are to kill them and bring their bodies back here, understood."
"Hai," the trio said in the same dead tone.
"Go," he said as he typed some buttons on the clavier in front of him.
Then a side of the wall opened up, showing another exit of the room they were in. Then the trio all flew toward the opening, leaving the two men to stare after them.
"They also know the Flight ability," Fuyutsuki said.
"Yes," Gendo told him, "They have."
"But how will they find Asuka?"
"You worry too much Professor," Gendo smirked, "Chevalier is the best of the best."
Fuyutsuki glanced toward the floating form of Kyoko. He approached the tube his eyes upon the woman`s deathly pale face.
"All this time I thought she was at peace," he murmured, "when she was being subjected as an experiment…"
"Kyoko was a woman of science Professor," Gendo told him, "I`m sure she would have agreed to what I am doing right now."
Fuyutsuki gave him an icy glare one that caused Gendo to blink slightly. Never before he had seen such a look on the elderly man`s face before.
"She is still a Human being," he said, "I don`t care what you say Gendo, performing experiments on human being is illegal. It`s doesn't matter how powerful of a company GEHIRN is, acts like this could crumble the entire company."
Gendo looked at him.
"Human?" he repeated, "I`ve told you before. When Kyoko merged with Genesis, she was no longer a Human being."
Fuyutsuki frowned.
"What do you mean?"
Gendo glanced at him before turning toward the screen in front of him.
"Human don`t apply to Kyoko any longer since she is dead and we have no live humans here," he said, "Where is the evidence of such crimes Professor?"
Fuyutsuki looked down at the ground turning away from the floating Kyoko in the tube.
"This is no longer right Gendo," he said, "Too much power can do us no good."
The man sighed.
"The only reason that this project was born was because we believe that it can help advance our Evangelions, and even help the people that have Ki damage to be using Ki again. It was supposed to be a medicine project, nothing more. Now GEHIRN is using Genesis to create weapons. Have we truly lost sight of what we were doing?"
"We haven`t lost sight Professor," Gendo said, as he walked past the elderly man, "Our plans only changed."
The elderly man sighed before following after him leaving the floating Kyoko inside the tube down in the bowels of GEHIRN.
Asuka blinked slightly as she glanced around herself. She started to wonder how she had gotten here in the first place, and then it all came back to her. All the things that Shikinami had told her about Kyoko and about what she truly is.
The young girl stared down at her hands unable to believe what the woman had told her. Is this the reason she was created for? Why she was born?
You are a clone of Kyoko Soryu, the woman you call mother was never you real mother…
The redhead put both of her hands in her head.
"Just…who am I?" she whispered.
Flashback
"Why is it that you want to know Asuka?" Kaji asked her, curious as to why the young girl wanted to talk to him.
She was about six years old, her long red hair falling down her back as her blue eyes stared at the man.
"Did you know my mother?" she asked.
Kaji blinked.
"Your mother…what brought this on?"
Asuka looked down at the small teddy bear that was in her hand.
"I was just curious about her," she mumbled, "about who she is."
Kaji stayed silent staring at her and the young Asuka glanced back up at him, her eyes wide.
"I can tell you about her," he said after a while.
Asuka`s entire face was suddenly filled with happiness.
"Really?"
"Sure," Kaji told her, "Well, her name was Kyoko Soryu, she used to be one of my friends back when I was at NGA."
Asuka blinked.
"NGA?"
"Oh," Kaji said, "It`s an acronym for Neon Genesis Academy. It`s one of the most famous school for people who want to apply to become Evangelions and I`m sure you know what Evangelions are don`t you."
Asuka nodded.
"She was one herself you know," Kaji said, "Evangelions…thought she didn`t stay one for long when GEHIRN chose her to become one of their scientists, the top one."
"Was she strong?" Asuka asked.
Kaji nodded.
"Sure, she might have been stronger than me if she ever got serious," he said.
Asuka had wonder in her eyes.
"But you`re so strong," she said, shocked.
A soft chuckle grew from Kaji`s lips.
"I know, those are Evangelions you know…they are the best of the best," he said, "All of them are stronger than me by mile."
Asuka smirked.
"If I become an Evangelion, I might become stronger than you right Kaji?" she said.
The man stared at her.
"You probably can," he said smiling.
Asuka gives him a wide grin.
"Then it`s settled," she said, "I`m going to become an Evangelions and become stronger than you and even stronger than Mom was…I will become the best…a legend in my own right."
"Well aren`t you all fire up now," Kaji said, "Well, let`s continue your Ki training…if you want to become stronger than Kyoko you have to get a lot of hard work in."
"Yes sir,"
End of Flashback
Asuka tightened her grip on her head.
This was my dream…Mom, you were my goal…my only reason to become a legend, she thought, Can I even do that anymore. You were nothing but a lie…my entire life was built on a lie…
Her Ki was starting to leak from her body as she started to tremble.
A lie…
Her body shaking with anger…
A lie…
She screamed out, lashing out toward the wall in front of her, slamming her fist unto it causing a large crater upon it. Blood started to leak from her fist as she raised her hand again and slamming it down on the wall again causing the entire room to tremble.
A fucking lie…
She continued to punch the wall until she didn't have any more strength left in the arm and sliding down upon the ground, putting her forehead against the battered wall. Her tirade had drawn some attentions for she heard the door open behind her.
"You`re awake," Shikinami`s voice said to her.
"What do you want?" Asuka growled at her, "Come to open my eyes to more truths that I couldn`t see."
The other redhead stared straight at her slumping form, her face blank.
"There is someone that would like to see you," she said.
Asuka frowned in confusion.
"Who?"
Shikinami gave a mysterious smile.
"You`ll see soon enough," she said, "Follow me."
Asuka stood up from where she was looking down at her bloodied knuckles. She frowned noticing that they were slowly healing. She blinked slightly at the phenomenon.
"Your wound is healing," Shikinami said.
"Yes,"
"You`ll get used to it," the older woman said, "Come on."
Asuka wiped the blood from her hand and followed her out of the room and into the hallway. She followed the woman down the place, and it was completely engulfed in darkness save for a few lights that lit up the way.
"Are we underground?" she asked.
"Yes," Shikinami said, "It`s the only things that could probably shield our Kis from sensors. The magnetic field in the area could scramble their machines so it`s the perfect area to hide."
"Oh," Asuka said softly.
"But don`t worry," Shikinami said, "We`re perfectly secure here."
The redhead nods her head.
"Here we are," Shikinami said after a few minutes of silence.
It was a metallic door and she turned the handle unlocking it.
"I`m sure you two have a lot to talk about," she said giving her a look.
Asuka peered inside. It only had one light and a man who was lying on the bed quickly seats up and Asuka feel her eyes widen slightly recognizing him instantly, noticing the man`s eyes widening when they fell upon her.
"K…Kaji," she whispered.
Kaji seated up hearing the door of his prison opening. He was wondering what they wanted from him now. He didn`t have any more visitors ever since doctor Takatsuki had patched him up from his wounds. But he never expected to see the girl that was standing at the entrance.
"K…Kaji," Asuka whispered.
The man watched her standing at the entrance. He noticed it instantly, that Asuka`s face had changed somehow. He didn`t know how but something about Asuka had changed…considerably…
What could she have told her, he thought.
Asuka stepped inside the room, her blue eyes never leaving his. It was like the girl was in a trance as she approached him and he stood up on his two feet. Asuka stood a little way from him as the door behind her closed.
Silence settled in as he started at the girl`s face. She looked as if she had been crying.
"Asuka…," he said.
"Did you know that I was a clone?" Asuka asked him.
"A…A clone?" Kaji repeated, totally taken aback by it, "What are you talking about?"
"Kyoko Soryu, was never my mother," Asuka yelled suddenly angry, "She is the person I was cloned from…I am nothing but a copy of her…"
"A clone," Kaji whispered, "GEHIRN cloned Kyoko…"
That was the reason why Asuka never had a father. It had started to make sense as to why Asuka was given to him when she was a child, the entire reason GEHIRN wanted to have him raised her.
"How could I have been so blind of it?" he murmured, "All this time…I never even realized."
"The reason I trained was to surpass her," Asuka continued, "She was my goal, I wanted to become a legend and not be recognized as her daughter. What is my reason to continue now when I find out that I was a clone of her…"
The redhead launched a punch forward one which Kaji caught quite easily as the tears started to fall from her eyes. She leaned against his chest as she continued to cry and Kaji put a hand upon her back.
"What should I do Kaji?" she said, "I just don`t know who I am anymore."
The older male just hold her form against him, the young girl he sees as his daughter cried.
Maya blinked a little as she abruptly come to a stop drawing the attention of the two beside her.
"What is it Maya?"
But the girl couldn`t hear them as she felt the three powerful beings that she was sensing.
Impossible…how could all of them be so powerful…It`s not humanly possible, she thought to herself, Just what could it be?
"Maya," Hikari said, putting a hand on the girl`s shoulder snapping her out of her musings.
"Sorry…I just felt three immensely powerful Ki moving a little way away from here," she said.
Rei was instantly interested.
"Evangelions?" she asked.
"No," Maya said, "Their powers are unlike anything I`ve felt before…"
Rei frowned to herself thinking.
Mother said that GEHIRN would be taking care of Asuka`s situation from now on…could they have send people already?
"Where are those three powers heading?" she asked.
"In the same direction we`re heading," Maya told her, "But they`re moving faster than we are…probably flying."
"We`ll follow them," Rei told her, "It might be the team GEHIRN send after Asuka and those terrorists."
"GEHIRN…but if those people aren`t Evangelions…then what the hell are they?"
Rei`s red eyes narrowed a little as she stared forward.
"I don't know, but I have a bad feeling about this," she murmured.
Then the trio started to move again.
High in the sky, Unit 01, 02 and 03 grew closer to their destination…
The CHEVALIERs are on the move...?
So this is it for now...hope you have enjoyed reading it and leave me a few reviews.
Jacques0 out.
R&R.
