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Round 54
The Three Units
Asuka`s sobs were the only sound in the dark empty cell. Kaji stood with his head bowed as he holds her in his arms, giving her some comfort. He was at lost at what he should do now. Not once he could have guessed that the young girl he was holding was the clone of his best friend.
But they were sign of the cloning. Asuka had a mannerism of Kyoko sometimes, when she shine with her confidence, it was like seeing Kyoko alive through her. Also, the redhead was quite a genius herself, probably something she picked up from Kyoko herself…
She is so like her it`s quite odd that I never saw it, he thought.
"Asuka," he said.
The girl pulled from him, her eyes red from crying. Kaji had to smile a little seeing her face. It was quite a feeling to see her go from that small five year old that GEHIRN dumped on his lap all those years ago to that young woman that was in front of him now.
"What exactly did she told you?" he asked her.
The redhead lowered her gaze.
"Everything," she said.
"You think she is telling the truth?" Kaji asked her.
Asuka glanced up toward him.
"I believed her," she said, "The way she told me…I don`t think anyone could have lied like that. Even the doctor Takatsuki was there when Kyoko died. I am sure he can vouch for her."
Kaji sighed.
"Guess everything is the truth," he said, "But will you tell it to me?"
Asuka did tell him of everything Shikinami had told her. As she talked, Kaji started to furrow a little as he heard everything that had happened to his best friend. The question as to what GEHIRN did and what Kyoko had done to them also spoke as to why Asuka had such massive Ki.
When she was done Asuka was seating down on the bed and Kaji was leaning against the wall. He had his arms crossed.
"Now that she had told me everything," the redhead said, "I don`t know what to do. The entire reason I drove myself forward was to become a legend to surpass my mother`s. But it was all a lie…a lie on which you were part of weren`t you Kaji?"
The man sighed. He glanced up toward the girl seating on his bed seeing the blue eyes staring straight at him. He didn`t bother to lie to her anymore and simply nodded.
Asuka let out a dry chuckle.
"I can`t believes you of all people would have lied to me?" she said, "All this time you knew I was a clone…"
"That I didn`t know," Kaji interrupted.
Asuka stared at him.
"I didn`t know you were a clone," he repeated straightening up, "I truly believed that you were my best friend`s daughter. It is partially why I took you in."
Asuka blinked.
"Partially?"
Kaji sighed and walked to the girl`s side and seated down. He joined his hands together.
"The other reason was because I was dead broke," he said, "I didn`t qualified in the Evangelion program which I trained for and keeping a steady job was hell to tell you the truth. Then, GEHIRN showed up in front of my door paying me high cash to take care of you. It was like a blessing in disguise for me."
He chuckled.
"At first, I did what I was told," he said, "Took care of you all the while I got paid…but, in all of that, I found myself enjoying your company and even having fun doing it. Even thought we had our bad times, I started to see you as my daughter…just as you looked up to me as your dad."
Asuka looked down from staring at him and Kaji put a hand on the girl`s shoulder.
"I still see you as my child Asuka," he said, "Even if you…don`t see me as your father figure anymore…"
Asuka turned toward him.
"Don`t be ridiculous," she said.
Kaji blinked in surprise at her, taken aback.
"I will always see you as my father figure Kaji," she said giving him a sad smile.
Kaji could feel bile in his throat, making it hard to swallow.
"You took me in, raised me and taught me everything I know," Asuka continued, "You were the one I trusted the most, the one that comforted me when I was young."
The girl put a hand on her chest, where her heart was.
"And you always will have a special place in my heart Kaji," she said.
The man stared at the girl, and he can feel as if he was going to cry.
Asuka…you…
Kaji put his head in his hands as his shoulders shook with how much emotions he was feeling at the moment. His actions drew Asuka`s attention toward him.
"Kaji, are you okay?" she asked.
"I…I thought you would have hated me," he said.
Asuka put his arm around the man`s shaking shoulders and put her head upon him.
"I can never hate you," she said, "I can`t afford to hate someone I love as my father."
Those words must have been the turning key for Kaji as he rubbed his hands into this face, whipping the tears that were threatening to fall. He couldn`t believe that Asuka didn`t hate him.
"You truly are Kyoko`s child," he said.
Asuka removed her hands from him as she stood up abruptly. This drew Kaji`s attention.
"But I am not," she said, "I`m a clone…a copy of the woman you once knew."
The man stared at her back.
"Do you believe that?" he asked.
Asuka turned toward him, a confused look on her face.
"What?"
"A clone is basically the original`s child," Kaji told her, "You may be similar in many ways, and share the same blood, but you are your own person Asuka. Being a clone isn`t going to change anything about what you believe in."
"What I believe in?"
Kaji nodded.
"Because of what you believe in, you thrived forward so that you can become a legend," he told her, "To live beyond Kyoko`s shadow, to surpass her. You once told me not to underestimate you Asuka, back at the Tournament at NGA."
Asuka blinked remembering the event.
"I didn`t believe that you could have gone as far as you did back then," Kaji said, "but you went ahead and prove me wrong by becoming a potential Evangelion. Asuka, I may not be a legend myself but, I truly start to believe that you will strive towards."
The redhead looked down.
"You are already carrying Kyoko`s will within you ever since you were a child," Kaji told her, "That will had gotten you as far as you have gotten today. Promise me that you will not weaver from it."
Asuka tightened her fists, unable to say anything.
Outside of the Hide out.
Snow was, once again, standing guard in front of the entrance. He was seated down upon a rock, looking at the lush landscape that was in front of him. The young man had let his hair fall down his shoulders as he watched the surrounding, a faraway look in his eyes.
Going to be anytime now, he thought.
They already have Asuka in their hands, and Shiki surely would have told the girl everything that had happened in the past. Snow himself didn`t truly know since Shiki hardly spoke it with him but Snow knew that there were some bad blood between Shiki and GEHIRN and Asuka is going to play a big part of their plan.
He chuckled.
We`re going to move out soon anyway, he thought, Once everything is prepared, which should be any day now…
Then something drew his attention.
Snow glanced around himself wondering what was causing the hair on the back of his neck to stand. He couldn`t see anything around him…
Just what could it be…
Then he felt it.
He felt the three immensely powerful Kis that were quickly approaching to his location. He glanced around himself wondering where it was coming from until he glanced straight up toward the sky.
From above, he thought.
He couldn`t see anything for a few seconds but then, three dots appeared in his line of vision, growing closer and closer to him. He could feel the sheer power of the new comers that were quickly approaching.
No way, did GEHIRN track us down that easily, he thought, Could it be the Evangelions?
Then the trio came to a stop, hovering above him and Snow can feel his eyes widen slightly. Those three were merely kids probably around Asuka`s age even a little older. There was two girls and one boy all of them sharing the same flaming red hair and blue eyes. The boy was dressed in a blue skin tight outfit with a 01 upon the top of his chest. The girl on the left which had long hair had a 03 on her chest, in a black skin tight outfit and the one of the right had a white version of the outfit with a 02 upon it.
Just who are these guys? Snow thought.
The trio lowered completely in sync in their movements until they were all on the ground a little way away from where Snow was standing.
"This is where I have tracked the Abandoned Ones, Unit 01," the girl with the 03 said.
"We will carry out our orders," 01 said, "Exterminate."
He raised his hand forward and Snow can feel the boy`s Ki skyrocket.
No way, that much power is impossible…,he thought.
"Die," 01 said.
"They`ve stopped moving," Maya said, blinking as she could feel the three powerful beings.
"How far?" Rei asked.
"Not a lot," Maya told her, "and it seems that a fight had started…"
"That mean they had found where Asuka`s kidnappers are hidden," Hikari said.
"Probably," Maya answered her giving the girl a glance.
Hikari could feel her excitement growing.
We`re close to you Asuka, she thought, Don`t worry, we are coming.
Shikinami suddenly feel the entire place tremble they were in shook violently, catching her off guard, causing her to lean into the wall to keep her balance. She glanced up forward feeling dust falling down upon the ground.
What the heck was that? She thought to herself before launching forward.
Kaji and Asuka glanced up toward the ceiling at the sudden earthquake cause everything around them to shake violently.
"What the…?" she said, "What`s happening?"
"It`s a Ki attack," Kaji said instantly recognizing the pattern.
Asuka glanced at him and was instantly brought back to Sakamoto Island when the Island had been attacked causing it to shake.
"We`re been attacked," she said, "Could it be GEHIRN?"
"I don't know," Kaji said.
That much power…just how many Evangelions are out there at the moment? The man thought.
Shinji Ikari looked up at the explosion and the sudden shaking. His face looked remarkably calm as he seated up from where he was in the room he was hold up in.
"Look like GEHIRN finally made a move," he said softly, "I was getting bored of waiting."
He summoned his Ki in his hand and the purple aura settled around it.
"Guess I don't have to play possum any longer," he smirked.
Shikinami reached to place where she had felt the shaking coming from, and can see sunlight up ahead of her. This caused her to frown. They were in an underground base. There was no way for sunlight to reach where she was arriving right now…
When she reached it however, she can feel her own blue eyes widening in shock. It was like something had carved all the way down her from the surface at a thirty degree angle. She can see where the entrance was as rubbles were falling down on the ground across her. She glanced around herself searching for something and her eyes caught a familiar form on the ground.
"SNOW," she yelled.
She ran toward him and noticed that his body was covered in bruises and even his clothes were ripped somehow. The man groaned as he tried to get up from where he was lying down.
"Snow, are you alright?" she asked him.
"It`s nothing…just a scratch," the man told her as he got back on his knees, "Damn…that blast came so fast…I hardly had anytime to even think about moving…"
"Who did this to you?" Shikinami asked him.
Snow glanced up toward the entrance and Shikinami did the same. Standing there with the sun behind them was the three Units. The three were approaching from where they were and Shikinami feel her eyes widen in shock, noticing them.
What the…their Ki, she thought, They feel…like Mother.
"Target Acquired," Unit 02 said, her eyes finding Shikinami.
"The Eve 01," Unit 03 said, "Target to be eliminated."
"Notified," Unit 01 said.
The trio unleashed their power as red Ki started to glow around their bodies. Shikinami had her mouth hanging open at this. This was impossible…this was just impossible. How could those three have the same power as her, her mother and Asuka?
Could GEHIRN have created more clones rather than just Asuka, she thought, but something…feel different.
Then Unit 01 simply moved.
Shikinami hardly had time to blink before a punch aimed straight toward her face moving at speed that even she was amazed at, but she had managed to block it by simply moving on reflexes, parrying the attack with both of her hands. Then the next second, the two other Units appeared, each on one of her side in a crouched positions before they both attacked.
Shikinami had to jump and spin her body in the air to avoid those attacks for when they collided caused a large shockwave as the area around them to shook. She floated in the air above them as the trio on the ground looked up at her.
They are fast, she thought, even faster than I am…but I can tell they aren`t Evangelion. Just what on Earth are these guys and even their Ki`s are similar to Mother. Just what is GEHIRN had been doing with Genesis all these years?
"Shiki, let me help," Snow said from where he was still on the ground.
"You aren`t fully healed yet," Shikinami answered him, "and these guys are way out of your league Snow, they aren`t any normal Evangelions."
"We aren`t Evangelion," Unit 02 said as she started to float in the air.
They can fly too, Shikinami thought, noticing this.
"We are the Genesis Rebirth Program," Unit 01 said, "Also known as CHEVALIER."
Genesis Rebirth, Shikinami thought, that would mean they were created using Genesis? But it had merged with Mother when she died, just how GEHIRN had…
Then a possibility settled upon Shikinami, one that made her feel disgusted and also caused a white hot anger to burn in her breast.
N…No way, don`t tell me they…, she thought.
"Now it`s time to be terminated, Eve 01" Unit 03 said.
Then the trio all flew up toward Shikinami.
GEHIRN
"While I am disgusted at how CHEVALIER was created," Fuyutsuki said, "The first project Eve is not one to take lightly. She had managed to fend off a group of Evangelion at Sakamoto when we tried to capture her…why do you believe that this won`t be the same?"
Keel who was seating behind his desk chuckled.
"You have doubts?" he said, "Maybe this will help to ease your old mind."
He had pulled out a folder from his desk with the English word CHEVALIER written upon it. Fuyutsuki took the folder and glanced through it.
"This is an Evangelion evaluation sheet," he said, looking up at him.
"Yes, I know," Keel told him, "Continue to look through it."
Fuyutsuki did so his eyes zooming through the papers. As he read more, his face slowly started to turn into shock.
"T…Those are all perfect…," he mumbled.
"Yes," Keel said.
"But that`s impossible," Fuyutsuki said, "There is no way that can be done to have all perfect score in everything."
Keel stood up and approached the window to look toward the distance.
"CHEVALIER is more than Evangelion could ever hope to be," he said, "The First Eve might have done quite a job to fend off the Evangelions we had sent off after her but against the three Units, they can be nothing but defeat that awaits the end of that battle. They are the perfect team."
The CHEVALIER trio had found them...what await next?
Jacques0 out.
R&R.
