Chapter 105: Berserk
Without warning, all three Evas bellowed out a roar as if they were shaking with pent up rage.
"…!?" the bridge crew stared in shock from how violently the Evas screamed at the Angel. Only the Third Child remained calm as he stared at the main screen with crimson vision.
'…!' Zeurel thought flinching. The sudden booming hostility from the three war machines came off viciously.
Feeling the need to take evasive actions, it vanished and reappeared above them. Flashing it's eyes, it sent another tremendous blast down toward the Evas. Another monstrous explosion occurred near the center of where the three Units stood. The road and hillside underneath the war machines feet became pulverized while sending earth and debris far and wide. From the immense ash cloud, three objects shot out backwards in different directions. Sliding on the ground and slowing down, the bridge crew saw that all three Evas were unscaved by the attack.
Recovering the fastest, Eva-02 grunted loudly and power jumped forward. Almost as if it doubled its abilities, it leaped into the air coming in on the Angel fast. Its teeth were clenched together as it cocked back its right hand. Instead of a tight fist, it was in a clawing position. The stubbed arms of the Angel suddenly unfolded into long and sharp metal drapes that barely touched the ground. Its left arm whipped up like paper in a breeze then shot forward aiming at Eva-02's head.
Thrusting out the clawed hand forward, the Angel's arm made contact with the Eva's fingers before the NERV crew could react. Believing the hand's digits would have been sliced off, pain shot through the Angel's limb. Stunned from the sensation, it looked closely at what happened.
'…!?' Zeurel thought seeing the war machine's fingers cut its metal strip arm like paper.
Quickly retracting its injured limb, the red Unit had murderously gripped it and was rocketed toward it. Becoming surprised again, it tried putting up its AT-Field. Seeing it deploy, the four-eyed Eva passed through as it curled both of its legs. The Angel flashed its eyes when it was murderously dropped kicked in its face. Letting go of its damaged metal strip segment at the same time, the Angel slammed into the ground hard. Its invisible blast shot upward suddenly dispersing many clouds in the sky to form a large open circle. Skidding many times on the ground, Eva-02 landed on the ground with both feet. The Unit slowly looked up with its red eyes. Visibly shaking, it was breathing hard and grunting through its clenched teeth.
"…how…how did she get through the Angel's AT-Field?" Misato asked still staring in shock and wonder. "Not even two N-2 mines made a dent upon impact."
"The higher the synchronization, the greater the Eva's abilities become," Ritsuko replied seeing the red Unit curl its fingers into murderous claws. "Bring up the AT-Field monitoring graph."
One of the windows on the main screen changed to a green tint polygraph. On it showed four beacons where three of them represented the Evas. The remaining one showed the Angel's. A half shaped bubble appeared around where the target stood as three more were covering the Units. A small window within the graph showed several numbers with unit labels next to them.
"Does it say why?" the Major asked seeing her friend's eyes widen.
"Equal amount of AT-Fields are being projected."
"…!?" Misato said turning back to the live feed seeing the Angel hovering back to stand straight. "That means they are canceling the Angel's!"
'…how…' Zeurel thought perplexed and agitated from feeling the impact of the blow.
Scanning around, it could only see the dark blue war machine. Its stance was in a stalker position with its head in a downward slant looking at it. A low growl emitted from it as it reached into one of its shoulder compartments. The space opened up and the Unit pulled out a handle. Pointing it to the ground, a bright colored plasma blade shot out. The shine from it reflected off the Eva's crimson eyes giving an impression of murderous intent. Attacking again, the Angel flashed its eyes at it. An explosion greater than an N2 mine erupted and engulfed the Unit.
"TOJI!" Misato shouted in worry.
Bright lights and massive ash clouds surrounded the area of where the war machine stood. Hearing something from the speakers, it sounded like heavily placed footsteps. Slowly emerging from enormous smoke, Unit-03 walked forward still in a stalking stance. It was undamaged including the plasma knife it gripped tighter. Hearing the friction from its grip, it barred its teeth at the Angel then mad dashed at it.
'…why are they not being harmed…' Zeurel asked with ambivenlance. It was curious on why the Units were lasting when it deemed them to be inferior. At the same time, the Angel felt great frustration from it.
'No matter,' it said aiming its eyes at the incoming war machine. 'It will meet its end soon...'
About to fire again, a loud rush of air friction sounded. Not quick enough to glance, something at subsonic speeds flew into the right shoulder area of the Angel. Without being deflected or stopping, it ripped through its body. Almost like a cannon being fired at point blank range, a large gapping hole erupted from shoulder to shoulder. When the weapon hit the ground several thousands of feet away, it pierced the ground till only half of it was sticking up. Slowly glancing at where the weapon was thrown from, Unit-00 was a kilometer or two away still in a thrown position. Looking at the ground, it had sprinted fast seeing how far the war machine slid. Taking a glance at the cyclops Unit, it was glaring at it giving off a malicious aura.
'…AHH!…AHHH!…AAARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!' Zeurel mentally screamed in agony from gapping wound. Blood gushed out from the shoulder regions as more flowed out of its mouth to the ground.
"What…what did Rei use?" Misato asked suddenly feeling her insides tightened greatly.
"She used a spear Miss Misato," Shinji spoke softly walking behind her.
"…!?" the Major and Ritsuko said flinching. Slowly turning their head to the left, the Third Child was slowly walking toward Shigeru. He had turned back to his terminal and focused on his station and monitor. At the same time, he was growing more fidgety. A loud moaning came over the loudspeakers distracting the bridge toward the main screen.
Hovering backwards in agony, the dark blue war machine was getting dangerously close as it lifted the bright sharp weapon. Losing both strip metal arms, it separated the limb segments that formed its outer body shell. Like the hair of Medusa, each attachment moved on its own giving a mild hypnotic effect. The inner body showed more of a female humanoid; however, its blood from the gapping shoulders wounds stained its off white skin heavily.
Elongating a couple of segments, the Angel launched them quickly at Unit-03. Without straying from its mad dash posture or direction, the Eva slashed and cut off parts of two segments. At the same time, it grabbed the remaining one viciously piercing the skin with the fingertips. Feeling the Angel's arms retracting, the dark blue war machine yanked hard to throw it off balance. Achieving it and getting inside its personal space, it thrust the blade into its chest numerous times. Skin, inners, bone, and blood sizzled as Zeurel cried out in suffering. After the last stab, it lifted its right leg and forward kicked the Angel chest. Knocking it back hundreds of feet, it fell and skidded on the gravel as white smoke trailed it. The scent of sizzling Angel flesh and blood filled the surrounding area.
Struggling to stand up, the Angel used the remaining segments to push itself up. Without warning, two different colored fists downward punched its face. The impact slammed it into the ground while causing the earth below to crater. Blood shot out of Zeurel's mouth and eyes seeing three black silhouette's with red eyes staring down at it. Feeling apprehension rip through its mind, the figures were grinning at it as they commenced with their brutality.
"…" the NERV crew said watching as the three Evas start to hit, kick, rip, and tear the Angel's body apart. The three's movements and actions became more and more animalistic when they started to consume the Angel. Everyone could hear the wet scrunches, the bones snapped, the snarling chomps on the lifeless enemy, and how its blood spewed everywhere and on the war machines.
"They are…eating the Angel?" Ritsuko said in shock and cringed at the cannibalistic sight. All three ripped the Angel's chest releasing the core.
"…" Gendo said standing up when the core got smashed to pieces. He was about to order the retrieval of the core when he watched the three units savagely devoured it.
"They are eating the core too?" Misato said frightened. Makoto cringed while Maya held her mouth and turned away from the scene. Rana held her mouth and stomach, but continued to watch.
'I…' Rayne thought feeling a little spooked. 'I am going to pilot one of these monsters?'
"…" Kozo said looking disgusted and disturbed from the grizzly display. Yui looked equally contemplative and disturbed. The aspect that there was a berserk mode for the Evas seemed vaguely familiar. However, she could not explain why it was.
"Mr. Aoba?"
"…!?" Shigeru jumped a little and moved back a little in his chair. The Third Child was standing next to him and was staring at him. Feeling his nerves near their limits, the bridge monitor removed the headphones that were giving him the creeps.
"Y-Y-Yes Pilot Ikari?"
"…" Shinji said tilting his neck a little causing a scrunching pop in his neck. It made the lieutenant flinch and feel goosebumps all over his body.
"May I…listen?"
"…" Shigeru said immediately offering the headset to the male pilot. "S-S-Sure…i-it i-isn't…normal communication."
"Thank you," Shinji said bowing to him and gently grabbing the headphones. Moving his head back straight and putting the earmuffs on, he blinked then turned to the main screen. He ignored the aspect that the bridge monitor tech stood up and walked over to where Makoto was stationed.
"…" Gendo said feeling ambivalent from what he was seeing.
Part of him was satisfied that he had this much power to control. However, the other part that wasn't in his control was Unit-01. Based on its recent behavior and what technical staff reports about it, there was too much unpredictability. Also when the dummy system was engaged, it displayed a more individual behavior than the primal behavior it was suppose to.
That uncertainty made him anxious and frustrated. Looking down at the Third Child also added to that unknown factor of controlling. Blinking in surprise, he was not with the other two back-up pilots. Glancing to the other side, he saw the pilot at a bridge monitor station with the headset on. He flinched seeing that the boy was staring at him with bleeding black-red eyes.
"…" the Commander said turning back to the main screen and watching the rest of the cannibalism.
"…" Shinji said slowly turning around and looking back at the large monitor. The scene of carnage gave him no emotion or sensation. It brought up a vague memory of having done something similar to what the Evas were doing with the Angel. Not sure where or when the memory took place, he did not press upon it. Focusing on the what was going through the headset, he tried to understand it:
'NO...STOP...WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS!?' '…o…l…d…h…a…g…' 'Still have enough air to breath you little brat! You are nothing but a concoction! I will be the one that he adores, not you!' '…h…e…e…h…e…e…' 'WIPE THAT SMIRK OFF YOUR FACE YOU LITTLE SHIT!' '…j…U…s…T…b…A…g…G…a…G…e' 'WHY WON'T YOU JUST DIE! YOU DID SO THE FIRST TIME QUIETLY!' '…h…e…e…e…e…e…e…' 'I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU!IHATEYOU!IHATEYOU!IHATEYOU!'#$%#$%^4 '…mmmmmm…heeeeee-haaaaaaaa…SO ENRICHING! JUST MALICE!'%^$%^$' 'WHY...ARE YOU SHOWING ME...THIS TORMENT OF LILIMS!? LET ME DIE!' 'Mrs. Souryu please calm-AH!' 'SHUT UP YOU SLUT! AND YOU! Where the hell are you going DEAR?' 'You need to calm down.' 'Calm down? CALM DOWN!? YOU WOMANIZING BASTARD!' 'Put down the IV.' 'Oh…I'll put it down alright. Just as you put miss slut down on the bed you piece of shit!' 'GAAAHHHHHHH! MY EYE!' 'ENJOY THE EYE CANDY YOU FUCKER!' 'Get security here quick-!?' 'NO YOU DON'T MISS NURSE WHORE!' 'Please stop-ah!' 'WHAT'S WRONG!? DON'T LIKE IT ROUGH!?' 'You…are…killing…me…' 'Oh, look at that…you can still speak. SORRY, LET ME TIGHTEN UP MY GRIP!' 'Let go of her you insane woman!' 'I'LL KILL YOU AND YOUR LITTLE SLUT! I'LL KILL YOU! I'LL KILL YOU!I'LLKILLYOU!I'LLKILLYOU!I'LLFUCKINGKILLYOU! # $% #$%'AAAHHH…AAAHHH…SOOOOOOMMMMUUUCCCHHHHHCCCAAAMMMMEEEOOOUUUTTTT…CAN YOU FEEL IT MYSEED! #$%^ #$' 'I'MSORRY...I'MSORRY...PLEASE...LETMEDIE...IDON'TWANTTOFEELTHISANYMORE!?' 'Argh! What the hell was that for you crazy whore!?' 'I don't care what you did to me…' 'GAH! My arm! You freaking cut my arm!' '…or the fact that you abused me rentlessly…' 'You fucking insane you…AAAAAHHHHHHH!' '…what I won't allow…' 'GOD DAMN IT…WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU RUNTS STANDING AROUND FOR!? PROTECT ME! CALL THE POLI-' '…is you to abandon our children…' '…stop…' '…I won't let you harm them…' '…I…m…a…s…o…r…r…y…' '…just die…just die…JUST DIE! JUST DIE! JUSTDIE!JUSTDIE!JUSTDIE!JUSTDIE!' #$#$%'SOMUCHHATRED!SOMUCHDESPAIR!SOMUCHSUFFERING!SOMUCHRELEASE!…THE TRUE ESSENCE OF LIVING!# $% #'
"…" the Third Child said continuing to listen to the onslaught of conversations playing together as one.
He only felt a phantom feeling of what the dark clone felt. It caused his heart to beat a little faster before going back to normal. Feeling it and recognizing it, various flashbacks occurred in his mind. A couple were familiar giving him goosebumps; however, the others were in places he did not recognize. There was another aspect that the male pilot realized from feeling the sensations. He did not particularly find satisfaction from the carnage and dark emotions amplified through the Evas. Blinking, he recognized that he did not see what the evil voice's views of pleasure favorably.
'…how strange…' he thought looking at his hands feeling no tension or emotion from them. 'If I am from the sir's same fiber of being…why do I not exhibit the same traits?'
' #$% #$?ReAlIzInGaDiFfErEnCeMySeEd? %$^ #$%' it spoke with many hisses and cackling in the background. The conversations morphed into primal shouts as the sound of multiple brutalities felt close by through the headset.
'…yes sir…' the Third Child thought tilting his head a little to the side. 'Is this due from wholeness?'
'…a…r…e…y…o…u…c…e…r…t…a…i…n…i…t…i…s…?'
'…'
'IkNoWyOuArEcUrIoUs #$% #SoMaNyQuEsTiOnS…ccccccoooooommmmmmeeeee…LETMESHOWYOU!' it shouted with ecstasy as carnage and gore blasted through the ear speakers.
Taking the headphones off, he silently went to the left hallway that was not occupied with staffers. Despite seeing everything in a red tint still, he could see the dark clone's figure in the hallway slithering ahead. Entering the hallway and walking down a bit, he stopped in front of the evil voice's figure. It's hideous form mutated slowly till it mimicked the same physical structure as him. When it opened its eye lids, there were no eyes inside as it grinned evilly at him.
'Very well sir,' the Third Child thought blinking. 'Please guide me.'
On the main screen, the NERV bridge crew saw the three Evas stopped eating. Slowly standing up and looking up at the sky, the Angel was mostly devoured. Only bits and pieces of its lifeless corpse remained as blood splattered everywhere around it. A shudder came to them when all three Units gave a monstrous roar again. It seemed to echo throughout the landscape around them as their mouthes and hands were dripping with the Angel blood.
"Major," the Commander spoke standing up.
"Y-Yes Commander?" Misato said blinking and getting out of her stupor. She turned around and looked up.
"Have the pilots return to base. If they are unable to, retrieve them."
"Yes sir. Shall Eva-01 be used to retrieve them?"
"No," he said firmly and pushed his shades up. "That will not be necessary. Is that clear?"
"Yes Commander."
"Doctor, gather the pilots and run screenings on them after recovery."
"Very well sir," Ritsuko said without turning around.
"Maintain alert status until the Units are recovered," he ordered then turned away from his terminal. He saw both Sub-Commanders take their gaze off the main screen and turned to him. Kozo looked relatively fine while Yui still seemed to be a little disturbed.
"SELEE will not be happy about this," Fuyutsuki stated with hands behind his back.
"Indeed. The Units consuming the Angel was not part of their plans."
"Was it part of yours?" Dr. Ikari asked and saw him shake his head.
"Curious Dr. Ikari," Kozo asked turning to her. "Since you were in Eva-01 at the time, what was it like when the Unit went berserk?"
"…" she said blinking then thinking about. Both men saw her visibly shook then looked up.
"…I don't remember a time it did."
"What about the first time your son piloted?"
"…no…he was still conscious and in control."
"Yui," Gendo asked moving closer and keeping his voice low. "Do you know what is in that Unit now?"
"…" she replied thinking and trying to remember. "I am not sure. An Eva can only operate when a soul has merged with it. When I was taken out and given my body back, I thought it wouldn't operate anymore…but…it still can."
"Was there another soul inside of it already?"
"…not really…there were the remnants of the Eva's old soul. However, it cannot operate the Unit under its own will. It is more of a shadow form of itself. When it combines with a living soul, limited functions are enabled."
"In other words, the berserk mode is a soul's doing. Not the pilots," the Commander stated crossing his arms over his chest.
"Possibly though not positive enough to confirm."
"I see."
"What is to happen to Eva-01 Commander?" Kozo asked turning his head a little.
"…I do not know what has or what will become of it," Gendo answerd. "It is a wild trump card for now."
"Should we conduct testing with the Third Child piloting it?"
"No," the Commander stated pushing up his shades. "Unit-01 is on restriction until we find a way to control it. As for the Third Child…he is to be monitored for instability."
"But…dear…"
"Unless that pilot can be confirmed stable and controlled, he is to be engaged with caution. Have security increase their patrols with emphasis on reporting the Third Child's movements and actions on base."
'…we are going backwards again…' Yui thought with irritation.
Both men walked toward the elevator platform at the end of the top bridge level. Taking a deep breath in and out, she looked down the level below. Blinking in surprise, she didn't see the male pilot. Looking on the other side, he wasn't there either. About to ask the crew below of where he went, she paused and watched the female twin.
'I can never get use to that,' Rana thought to herself slowly turning around. Not looking at the main screen, she looked around herself.
'…where…where did he go?' she asked in her mind. Walking to the other side, he was not there either. About to open her mouth, there was a faded presence of the dark clone's. Looking down the left hallway, the light seemed to be dimmed a little for some reason.
"…" she said thinking of where he would have gone to. Turning around, she moved and stopped near the Major.
"Misato…may I go to the Eva cage to wait for the others?"
"Hmm?" the lavender haired woman said turning to her for a second then nodded her head. "Yeah. That's fine…wait…where did Shinji go?"
"He is probably going to the Eva cage to wait for the others," she answered. The rest of the bridge crew looked back and forth not noticing he was gone.
"..." Yui said leaving the top bridge level and using the lift to leave.
"You think so?"
"Yes."
"…" Misato said nodding her head. "Call me on a wall phone if he is there or not."
"Okay," Rana said departing. Walking by, only Rayne watched her leave as everyone else were engaged in the retrieval of the three Evas on the surface. When Rana was about to pass her by, she followed in step and walked in the same direction.
"Mind if I join you?"
"…no…I don't mind."
"I take it you don't like me."
"How did you guess," Rana stated in a normal tone.
"I don't mind if you don't. I would rather hear what people honestly think than keeping up a face."
"I tend to have a hard time keeping face…so the feeling is mutual."
"Is it from what I put him through?"
"Other than pointing a gun at him…no."
"…?" Rayne said blinking in surprise and glanced at her. The female twin's face was neutral though she could feel there was tension in her aura. Looking back forward, they turned down another hallway.
"You are rather possessive of him, aren't you?"
"Can you blame me? I'm his other half."
"Based on his behavior toward you…well…"
"If you had a twin, you'd understand. So don't try that," Rana replied with irritation.
"Don't you think it is a bit of overkill given that he is your brother?"
"It is not harming anyone."
"…!?" the Fifth Child reacted slightly cringing walking next to her. "You know that is wrong on many levels, right? Especially for twins."
"Is it now? Are you speaking as a morals and ethics peacekeeper of people's wills and wishes? Oh…sorry…that's ex-peacekeeper," Rana corrected keeping a stoic expression.
"…" Rayne said frowning and feeling disgusted. "I can't believe that you are admitting this."
"I thought you stated you prefer honest people over charade ones," the female twin stated. Stopping at an elevator, she pressing the call button. Slowly moving her eyes toward the ex-officer, her red-blue eyes gave a haunting glow.
"I do," the Fifth Child replied. Not being fazed by the murky aura, she stared back with a neutral face. The elevator dinged and opened its doors. Rana walked inside and turned around.
"I do appreciate your honesty as well. It lets me know that my thoughts, behaviors, and feelings causes public disgust. And like Shinji, I can't trust others with those thoughts, behaviors, and feelings."
"Why?" Rayne asked seeing the elevator doors closing.
"You figure it out…mole."
"…!?" the ex-officer said immediately shoving her arm through the doors before they closed. Halting them, they slowly opened. The expression on the female twin's face was still the same. The Fifth Child entered the elevator and stood next to her.
"Something wrong?" Rana asked not looking at her.
"No. Just heading to the same place as you are," Rayne responded watching the doors starting to close.
"What a coincidence," the female twin said as the elevator doors closed with a thud before descending.
"Units-00, 02, and 03 have accepted power down command," Makoto stated from his terminal.
"Finally. I guess being in berserk makes them stubborn," Misato said with a sigh of relief. "All we got to do now is get the airlifts ready."
"What is the status of the pilots?" Ritsuko asked looking at Ikubi.
"All three are unconscious, but their readings are stable."
"Blackout?"
"Most likely," Dr. Akagi mentioned jointing it down and heading towards an intercom. Picking up the phone, she called the medical facility to get a team ready to extract and transport the pilots.
"No matter how many times I have seen this, I still can't get use to it," the Major said rubbing her face.
"That's normal behavior. To get use to this level of combat would most likely lead to problems."
"You mean like Shinji?"
"PTSD, paranoia, nightmares, insomnia, possible schizophrenic, etc." Ritsuko stated in an off hand matter as she moved to another terminal to look at readings. "Which reminds me…Lt. Aoba?"
"Yes Dr. Akagi?" Shigeru said turning in his chair toward the two women walking toward him.
"How are you? Did Ikari do anything to you?"
"…" he said sighing out loud and leaning back in his chair. "Pilot Ikari did not do anything to me…just…his aura was…vicious…murderous...disturbing."
"He's been known to have the side effect," Misato said with a nod. "Did he remove you from your post?"
"I left on my own accord. I'm sorry."
"What did you find out from using the frequency module?" Dr. Akagi asked watching him type away on his terminal. When he finished, he held the headset to them.
"During the battle, it picked up and recorded five conversations going on at the same time," he said with a neutral face.
"Really?!" Misato said intrigued reaching and putting it on. "Let me listen!"
"…" Shigeru said with his mouth open when Ritsuko just held up her hand.
"Go ahead. She hasn't heard the first series of recordings," the scientist said crossing her arms over her chest. Nodding, he hit the play button. After the recording was done, the Major took off the headset slowly and gave it back.
"…what…the…hell…was that?" she asked softly with a very disturbed face.
"Recordings of brainwave frequencies of the Evas. Basically, a live audio recording of what is going on in the Units' head."
"This…this is when all three were in berserk then."
"Yes."
"…how grizzly…" Misato said with a visible shudder.
The elevator doors opened and both back-up Eva pilots stepped out. Both had neutral expressions as they walked in the same direction. Neither looked at each other or talked to each other. Reaching the doors to enter the Eva cage, they saw the Third Child when they opened. He was down at the other end of the long mobile walkway looking at the purple Eva.
Rayne started to feel herself get paranoid from looking at the two despite Rana walking forward without an expression. Strangely as she walked forward, there was no eerie or vile presence. Blinking and looking closer at the male pilot, his face was clean and his eyes were back to being the dark magenta color. The other oddity was Unit-01 did not give off any vibe. It just seemed to be the small skyscraper of an organic robot with armor. Turning back to him, he had turned toward them and bowed a little.
"Greetings madams. Is there something I can help you with?" Shinji asked after his bow.
"Are you waiting for the others?" Rana asked standing near him.
"If told otherwise, that was my intention."
"What caused all three to behave like that?" Rayne asked.
"…" he said with a slow blink. Knowing who was standing in the observation deck, he continued and did not glance at the person.
[My best guess is that both pilot and Eva are on an elevated wavelength. Since we have to synchronize our thoughts and mind with the unit, partial completion of being on the elevated wavelength is present. If both experience an emotion…so to speak…together, that elevated wavelength is reached. From there, many possibilities open up for the Evas capabilities.]
[You know from personal experience?] the Fifth Child asked.
"…" both he and Rana blinked at the same time.
[Yes/Yes/YeS]
Shinji didn't turn around hearing the voice and remained looking at the Fifth Child. Rana glanced to her right quickly then looked back at the ex-officer without changing her expression. She felt the dark clone near, but was not as intense as it was in the past. Shaking her head a little, she excused herself to a phone terminal. Calling the Major and relaying a message, Misato informed that the retrieval of the three pilots on the surface will take time. Giving them the order to go change, she hanged up the phone.
[Misato said to go get change and wait for her. It will take time before the pilots get recovered]
[I see] he said turning toward Unit-01. Feeling it stare back at him, he blinked and internally bowed.
'Very well sir...I will greet you properly the next time we meet. Good day,' he thought. Walking out of the Eva cage with both back-up pilots beside him, the purple war machine only grinned watching the three walk away. When the teens were out of the Eva cage, the Unit's eyes slowly turned toward the person in the observation deck.
'Its...its in there...you are in there,' Yui said feeling tense. A part of her felt that the war machine was staring back at her.
'Aren't you?!' she thought louder. 'Answer me!'
Despite wanting to get any type of feedback, nothing was exchanged through the comm-links or her thoughts. Narrowing her eyes at Unit-01, an uncanny sensation of being cackled at rang in her head.