Chapter 124: The Triplet
"What happened!?" Misato asked seeing the video-link go static. The surface camera feed showed Eva-01 looking up into the sky where it was being showered with white light. It gave the vision of heaven shining down from the clouds.
"The Angel sent an energy surge. Only certain frequencies are being emitted from the beam," Shigeru stated typing at his monitor.
"What kind of frequencies?" Ritsuko asked.
"Brain-wave frequencies."
"A telepathic attack?!" Misato responsed in surprise and looked back at the screen. "How are her vitals?"
"Elevated levels to erratic," Maya reported from her monitor. "She is in a state of shock and not responding!"
"Damn," Misato replied then shook her head. Turning around, she looked up at the Commander.
"Commander. Request permission to send the stand-by pilots in."
"Until we know what occurred Major, we will refrain from sending more pilots and resources topside," he answered coldly from his seat.
"But sir, Asuka is in—"
"Major, I am well aware of where the Second Child is. Can you explain why the pilot went into Unit-01 when I ordered a ban of usage on it?" he asked not looking down from his command space.
"…" Misato replied not being able to answer that question. However, her hands closed into fists.
"Well Major?"
"…I don't know why sir."
"I see. We will deal with her insubordination afterwards."
'…this…feels familiar…' Kozo thought as a foreboding feeling came to him. It came seeing the purple Eva standing their seemingly basking in the Angel's beam of light.
"…yes sir," Misato complied turning around. Despite stressed and worried, she looked at the camera feed perplexed.
'What happened?…Asuka did go into Eva-02!' she thought blinking. '…the crew would have seen and told her if she went into the wrong one.'
'But how can everyone in the cage miss her doing that? Not only that…why did she go into Unit-01?' the Major thought nibbling on her thumbnail.
While she tried to figure out how the switched occurred, Ritsuko was equally perplexed about the same thing. While contemplating, both felt an off putting vibe nearby. Slowly turning to their right, they flinched. The Third Child, Fifth Child, and Rana were standing next to each other and staring at the screen.
Rayne looked alarmed and tense not moving from her spot. Rana had her head downcast and held a hand over her mouth. The Third Child stood still and stoically stared at the large monitor. Trepidation crept into them staring at the male pilot. Misato was about to walk over to him when only his eyes slowly turned toward her and Dr. Akagi. Feeling more suspicious, the Major approached the back-up pilots. Stopping to be somewhat in front of them, the off putting vibe was stronger.
"Shinji…what is in it?" she asked with a frightened expression.
"…" he answered and turned toward her. "What is in what Miss Misato?"
"Eva-01," she continued causing people nearby to blink and glance over. Even Gendo, Kozo, and Yui were looking down at them.
"In terms of components?" he said with a blink.
"That!" she stated out loud and pointed at the large monitor. The cockpit camera feed was still static.
"What the hell was that thing?"
"…" he replied blinking then looked at the screen. Seeing the cockpit and that Asuka was shaking uncontrollably with horror on her face, there was no one near her. The inside was coated with a bright white light though colors could still be seen. Knowing who else was in there, he blinked and looked back at the Major.
"Other than the Eva-01's original soul, I do not know Miss Misato."
"Bullshit! What monster is in it?"
"…" Shinji said tilting his head. A phantom feeling of a cruel grin was felt on the back of his head. it slowly began to get wider and wider.
"What monster is inside a monster…is that your question?" he asked as Rayne looked at him.
"…" Rana commented looking up and watching the Major.
"Stop it. Tell me what's in that purple demon of a machine right now!" Misato demanded gripping his shoulders and shaking him. "You got swallowed up by it before getting spitted out! So you know what's in it!"
"Hey! Let him go!" the female twin stated instantly irritated.
"Could you…stop shaking me…Miss Misato?" Shinji asked stoically as he was being shook by the Major.
"…" she responded by halting her shaking. Staring hard at him, she didn't take her hands off of him. Noticing that Rana was staring her down next to him, his impassive expression to everything made her trepidation fester more. She didn't hear Ritsuko walk behind her.
"Major Katsuragi, please stop this and return to your station," the scientist stated with a neutral face.
"…!?" the lavender haired woman reacted looking behind her with a surprised, worried, and irritated face.
"He knows. If we know what it is, then we can find a way to save Asuka."
"As much as I would like to agree with you, we are in a middle of Angel attack. We can figure that out later. Please return to your post."
"But-"
"Miss Misato?" Shinji called calmly causing her to freeze. Recognizing the voice, she slowly moved her head back to view him. His eyes were already bleeding tears and his eyes were black-red. Anyone near him recoiled back a little and stared at him with fright. His aura was radiating a strong amount of corruption, vileness, and malice at them.
"Do you wish for me to intervene?" he asked impassively staring at the Major without blinking.
"…!?" Misato reacted letting go of his shoulders and backing away from him slowly. Rayne had moved away slowly keeping her alert eyes on him. Stopping when next to Dr. Akagi, there was only one person that stayed by his side.
"…" Rana spoke not moving from her spot, but felt very tempted to.
Glancing at the Third Child's face and seeing blood dripping down, she knew who was influencing him. No one said anything despite him standing there and blinking. Slowly moving his eyes to look upward, he saw the Commanders from above. The three were looking at him tensely with different degrees of shock and fear.
"…" Gendo said increasing the tension of his hands from not seemingly to have control over the Third Child again.
"Do you wish for me to intervene…father…mother?" the Third Child asked watching them as he bent his neck to the right. A sickening pop emitted from it.
"…" Gendo, Kozo, and Yui didn't say anything. Feeling the fear and malice he was emitting from where he was, something else brought the staff's attention back to the main screen.
[…#$$BYALLMEANS%#$CCCCOOOMMMMEEEE#$%#$!] a familiar voice hissed through the static video-link with much white noise. Other sounds were coming as well. One was of stabbing something fleshy as many groans of agony bellowed and cried. None of them sounded like the Second Child.
"…no…" Yui whispered backing away from hearing the voice. "It…couldn't be."
"…!?" the staff responded in shock from hearing the voice. Looking slowly back and forth from the screen and the Third Child, suspicion and paranoia were sinking in. The question on their minds was who responded through the comm-link with the same voice as the Third Child's altered tone.
"Do you wish for me to intervene sir?" Shinji said turning toward the large screen.
[…hehehe…hahahaha…HEHEHEHEHE…HAHAHAHAHA…WAHAHAHAHAHAHA…] the voice laughed hysterically. Everyone saw him give a small bow. Turning around, he began walking toward the hallway entrance.
"Third Child! You will remain here! That is an order!" Gendo shouted at him. The male pilot stopped then slowly turned toward the Commander. Blinking, he gave a small bow again.
"Very well…father."
[…heeeeeeeee…tell me #$ $% #$tellmmmmmeeeeeeee…faattthhheeerrr…mooootttthhhheeerrrr…w-w-w-w-h-h-h-h-y-y-y-y are you ppppprrreeevvveenntttttiiiinnnggg#$#THEEXPERIENCEOFENLIGHTMENT$!]
"…what?…" Yui whispered with a horrified face.
"…!?" Gendo replied with his mouth parted and staring scared at the large screen.
The video-link's static went away to showed the cockpit. Misato's and Ritsuko's eyes widen with shock as her clipboard dropped to the floor. Inside, Asuka was petrified with horror with eyes wide open. She looked non-responsive staring lost in a direction. Standing next to her was a naked Third Child with all the scars, drill holes, and depressions in its skin. The grizzly tattered and torn doppelganger was grinning painfully wide and showed its teeth. Its eyes were the same black-red that the male pilot in the command center had.
[…tell me WHY…] it spoke staring at them dementedly. The clone's tone became more savage and monstrous as if it was morphing into something hideous. Its left hand slowly started to pet Asuka's head while it began yelling.
[tell me why father!…tell me why MOTHER!… TELLMEWHYFATHER!…TELLMEWHYMOTHER!… #$ #$% WHYAREN'TYOUANSWERING!?]
"…!?" everyone recoiled as the video-link went back to static.
Misato, Ritsuko, and Rayne cringed and pulled back from seeing the tattered and torn body of the evil clone. Slowly turning their heads to the right, the Third Child was looking forward then slowly turned his head toward them. His eyes changed back to his dark magenta and his aura was only murky. Blood tears were still on his face as a couple of droplets fell off his chin.
"…" Rana said cringing from remembering the sight of that scarred, tattered, and torn body. Goosebumps flared all over her body as she stepped closer to the male pilot.
"S-Shinji?" Misato breathed seeing him blink and look at her. "W-who…who i-is that?"
"That is the soul that replaced mother's soul in Eva-01," Shinji answered stoically wiping the blood on his cheeks with his forearms. It removed some while smearing the rest.
"That's your soul?!" the Major asked shivering with shock and fear.
"That's not possible," Ritsuko stated equally scared, shocked, and intrigued. "You would have not been able return in physical form without a soul!"
"…" Shinji responded blinking slowly and looking puzzled. "Dr. Akagi…I am confused. I thought you explained to me what the Dummy System was and capable of doing."
"…?!" Ritsuko reacted blinking and looking at him wide eye. Despite her mind grinding to understand, what he said made her mouth open in shock.
'That is not possible,' she thought turning away and going to a terminal. 'That simply cannot be possible…it just can't be possible…the dummy system was not activated the time I was here.'
Misato was about to ask him further, when the sound of a chair falling down on the above level was heard. The staff looked up to see the Commander standing up with a wide eye look of frustration.
"You are forbidden from dwelling in that matter any further pilot!" Gendo barked and looked down at him.
The comm-link enabled from Eva-01 had the evil Third Child laughing like a fast-forward recording. His pitch was higher and shrilled. The visual came back where the inside showing something disturbing. The cockpit was in a crimson fog as the capsule walls became flesh and pulsated with red and blue veins. Looking at the Second Child, she was restrained by many tentacles still in her plug suit. The dark clone had morphed to a morbid and distorted form of bleeding sacs of flesh and skin.
[HAHAHA!-WHYNOTFATHER!?-EXPLAINITTOME!-EXPLAINITTOEVERYONE!-EXPLAINITMOTHER!-DON'TYOUKNOW!?-WHYDON'TYOUKNOW?!-TELLMEWHY #$#$AHYBRIDOFCREATION#$% #$ISALLOWEDTOWALKTHELANDSOFTHEEARTH!#$% #$WHENTHEUTLIMATESACRAFICE$(*%ISWHATOLDMENSEEK!]
Just as the twisted voice finished speaking, the comm-link shorted with a quick glitch. It caused the audio to screech into a high-pitch blare. Everyone plugged their ears as Shigeru worked quickly to deactivate the comm-link. However, it didn't get cut off and steadily increase in volume. The sound slowly became ear-piercing if no one was plugging their ears. Maya peered with her eyes open seeing someone standing in front of her.
"…!?" she said recoiling hard.
With her eyes wide open in fright, she saw Shinji blink slowly at her then looked toward the monitor. He walked a little closer to the keyboard panel without plugging his ears. He looked unfazed by the blaring screech of the audio. Lifting his hands, he slowly input a couple of commands. Instead of the high pitch audio feed, it changed to different sounds and noises. It was not ear piercing loud, but at a normal volume. However, what the sounds and noises were made everyone recoil as the Third Child turned around at them.
"Is this more acceptable?" he asked not influenced by the disturbing audio.
"…what is that…from?" Misato asked looking at him and starting to shake.
"It is still from Eva-01," he said.
"…what…settings did you input?" Ritsuko asked shaking to see only his eyes moved towards her slowly.
"Input is on brain wave frequencies Dr. Akagi."
'…' Asuka thought shielding her eyes from the extreme brightness of white all around her. She was only able to peer her eyes open feeling the blinding light start to die down. Removing her hands from her face, she blinked a couple of times and watched as her vision slowly became clearer.
'…where…!?' she thought feeling that her mouth was unable to move. Touching it, it was fine with nothing stitched or glued on it. Looking around herself, she saw that she was standing under a single lamp post. Beyond the shower of light from the fixture, there was nothing but darkness.
'Is this a dream…or am I dead?' the Second Child thought going to the lamp post. Knocking on it, hollow metal sounds echoed through it. Going back to the center of the light, she noticed that she wasn't in her plug suit. She was in a dress that looked very familiar.
'…wait…this is something I wore when I was younger and back in Germany,' she thought looking at the front and back of herself. Something vague clicked in her head that made her turn around. Next to the lamp pole was a wooden door. Blinking in surprise from not seeing it before, she made her way slowly to it.
'…it should be taller…' she thought automatically then stopped. '…wait…why did I think that?'
Shaking her head, she walked in front of it and tried the handle. Turning it to open, the door opened up with the hinges creaking loudly. Seeing lights flicker inside the room, she cautiously entered the vaguely familiar environment. Passing the door, it silently closed behind her and locked itself.
'I know this place,' Asuka thought looking around in the room to find no one in it. Seeing the furniture and fixtures, all looked dusty with cobwebs.
'God…it is on the tip of my tongue…why would I come here to this dingy looking place?'
Suddenly, a portion of the ceiling from the other side of the dark room opened. A mannequin puppet fell down and was halted by strings it was attached to. It had cosmetic touches to look like a ghostly figure as it made a recorded spooky moan sounds.
'…pfft…that's suppose to be scary?' she thought to herself with a smirk. 'Only kids would be scared of…that…stuff…wait a minute!?'
Asuka realized what this place signified and immediately went to the table on the opposite side of the room. The mannequin slowly went up back into the ceiling. Reaching the fixture, the redhead saw the etching on it.
'This is a haunted house in a theme park,' she pondered recognizing the writing and what it said in German. 'I went to this loads of time to not get scared of things and stop crying…but why am I dreaming of this now? Aren't I dying?'
[…pzzzzzt… #$ %*…WeLcOmE] a voice came over the loudspeaker. Asuka flinched from recognizing the voice and looking all around to find the source. Hearing the electronic buzz sound again from behind, the redhead jumped forward then turned around. The loudspeaker was in the top corner of the room
[Leeeetttsssss…p…L…a…Y…a…G…a…M…e… #$% #$-c-c-c-aatttttt aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanndMOUSE!] it stated in glitches and tempo changes.
[yOuArEtHeMoUsE…theeeeeeeeOtHeR…i…s…t…h…e…c…a…t…andIIIIIIIIII #$!#tHeDoG$]
[IFCATCAPTURESYOU, MINDWILLBERAPED]
[IFDOGCAPTURESYOU…heeeeeeeeeeeee…IDISECTYOU]
'W-What if I win you sick freak!?' Asuka shouted in her head feeling her legs shake a little.
[If you reach the eeeeeennnnnddddd and pUlLtHeLeVeR!# $!THECATWILLBE…mindRaPeD]
[Wwwhhhat d-d-d-dooooo think…A…S…U#$ $% K…A? sOuNdS…lIkE…f…u…n?/FuN/FUN!?/FUuuunnnnnNNN!] it asked while shouting and grinding its teeth.
'W-Who are you?! Why are you doing this?!'
[…I…trickedddddddd…you# $ * #$%GIVEYOUAFAIR-fair…c…H…a…N…c…E]
'Oh yeah? You f-feeling sorry-!?' Asuka thought putting her hands on her hips and looking at the loudspeaker. In mid-thought, her vision started glitching erratically and froze with red all over. Feeling hers eyes being forced to blink, she saw a vile black and red figure in front of her face. It wasn't the slashed up and bleeding version of the Third Child. It was a deformed and ripped open flesh pile with too many black-red eyes and too many mouths.
'DON'TMISTAKE #$ #%$IENJOYRECEVINGANDGIVING #%$$%#SUFFERING!' the monster stated with all the other mouths making biting noises. Terror ripped through her senses as she froze. Shaking all over, the blood in her face started draining away as the morbid and vile being extended a mouth out toward her right ear.
'CUTTINGYOUOPENWHILEPOPPINGYOURCHERRYIS#$% #$%#THEFIRSTCOURSEOFOURMEAL!'
'…!?' the Second Child reacted immediately feeling her legs go weak. Falling on the floor, she backed up to a wall frantically.
'…L…E…T…U…S…E…N…J…O…Y…O…U…R…G…A…M…E…' the monster memtioned fading away in a shadow with a demented chuckle.
'…god damn it…' she thought as quietly as possible still shaking with terror. Eventually getting a grip of herself and slowly standing up, she reasoned with herself to find the end of the maze. Pushing the overwhelming fear to the back of her mind, she moved forward while recalling where everything was.
[! #$%…o…h…aasssssuuuuukkkkaaaaa…]
'…y-yeah?!' the redhead thought freezing in place and looking around.
[UnLiKeThEpAsT…tHeOnEsHeReArEaLiVe]
'…?' Asuka pondered and recalled where the first jump scare was. Running and jumping over a portion of the floor in front of her, a trap door opened. Behind the trap door was a walking corpse with half of its body being gnawed and eaten. It moaned at her and started crawling toward her. Not staying to see it crawl out of the trap door, she continued down the hallway on high alert.
In a different location of the haunted house maze, Arael appeared and looked around itself. Perplexed at why its attack did not give mental access and bend the will of the fake brethren, it tried to figure it out. Feeling a vague familiar presence again, it was about to proceed forward when it saw an individual that was hovering in a dark corner.
'Who are you? What have you done with me?' the Angel protested going toward the dark figure.
'WhOyOuAsK…a…t…r…a…p…p…e…d…soul. WHATHAVE! #$% #$WHATHAVEI #$%# $%…done?…NOTHINGYET!' the twisted voiced stated in a distorted child's voice.
'Release me and give me control.'
'…C…o…N…t…R…o…L…heeeeeeeee!# $%#$!'
'Release me lilim this instance or I will take it from you.'
'…PlAyAgAmEwItHmE'
'Nay, I will not,' the Angel responded. 'If you will not move, I will force you to move.'
'#$ #$%# $heh-heh-heh,' the dark figure stated before fading away into the wall. Arael unleashed a telepathic attack at the dark figure. In response, the Angel received a barrage of insanity and chaos that made it shake its head hard and step back.
'…what…what was that…' the Angel stated feeling odd. It was an overwhelming sense of tension that rose from inside. Hearing something unlock and open, there were three pathways to take from its location. Shaking the sensation off, it mentally spoke again.
'Let me out of here lilim…show yourself,' the Angel demanded again. After a minute or two of waiting with no response, the Angel released another telepathic attack to control the environment. Again, a barrage of insanity and chaos came back making it take another step back. However, the intensity of it was stronger than the previous one.
[BeTtErFiNdThEmOuSeBeFoReItReAcHeSiTsSaLvAtIoN] the black silhouette stated lastly on the loudspeaker.
'I demand to be released. I-!?' it said feeling a painful sensation on the side of its head. Looking up, the environment began to swirl for a little bit till it stabilized. A monstrosity stood in front of Arael as it flinched from surprise and recoiled from its image.
' #$ #$IFYOUDON'TPLAY #$% #$ #$% #IDIGINYOURMIND'
'Weak lilim…you do not have any power other than being able to sustain your life. I am one of many guardians that will take back what is rightfully mine, my brethrens, mother's, and father's. Once we obtain-grrrrrr!?' Arael began mentally stating in its mind. Interrupted and gritted its teeth in pain, it saw a sharp object stabbing through its skin. Looking down, the dark figure pulled out one of its black and red appendages that pierced it.
' #$%#$FIND#$% #$THE MOUSE#$%# $!#ORIWILL$%! #$PENETRATEYOUWITHMORE' it stated before fading away again.
'…it…harmed me?' the Angel stated in its mind shocked and confused.
Asuka rushed down a hallway mentally preparing herself for the next scare point. While going down hallways, she would have flashbacks of when she ran down the same hallways as a child. However, the monster costumes that staffers wore were not there. Instead, there were live creatures. Violent and brutally savage monsters in fall traps and jump scare places. It gave her the same adrenaline-scared rush that she had the first time going through it.
Reaching a room with the only open door, she poked her head in. Hearing a crowd of groans and heavy footsteps coming from the way she came, she got into the room and shut the door. Turning the lock, another door slammed far behind her. Flinching and spinning around, it was the exit door. It was what lead toward the other hallway she needed to get to. Looking through the room, there was a floor puzzle. Looking down at it and trying to figure it out, a cold chill went down here spine.
'…please let him not be there…please let him not be there,' the Second Child thought slowly looking up.
Her eyes widen to see the dark figure hovering at the ceiling. Quickly going back to the puzzle, she would take quick glances to see if the evil presence moved. Each time she glanced, another black-red eye and mouth would appear making her work faster. Solving the floor puzzle, only the exit door unlocked. Feeling relieved and looking up, all the mouths were grinning and the numerous eyes looking down at her. Without warning, the mouths started unleashing Banshee screams.
'Does it really need to…' Asuka thought then covered her ears. suddenly, she saw the dark figure descend toward her.
'Shit!' the redhead shouted in her head seeing how fast the thing was falling.
Sprinting to the exit door, she busted it open then slammed it closed. Locking it and pushing on the door, the loud screaming became muffled. A loud bang and rumble from the door handle made her jump back. Landing on her feet, a loud popping splat exploded in the room she was just in. The windows on either side of the door instantly were covered with thick crimson.
Continuing on, she avoided several bloodbaths of monsters fighting each other. Reaching a dead end, there was a large lever on the wall. Sprinting as fast as possible, the doors she passed exploded open. Large and deformed creatures roared out loud before giving chase to her. As the environment rumbled like a mini-earthquake, she reached the lever. Slamming it down, she heard and felt the monstrous roar closer and closer to her. She closed her eyes tight from seeing several vicious mouths open to chomp at her.
"…" she reacted feeling nothing had happened. Strangely, everything felt calming all the sudden.
'Is it over? Did I make it?' the Second Child thought peering her eyes open. Blinking, she saw that she was in the entry plug cockpit. The muffled sound of everything was slowly becoming clearer. Perking her ears a little, there was a constant sound in the background. Listening to it, it was white noise over the comm-link to NERV command center.
"…" she said looking at her arms, hands, legs, and feet. "Looks like I am okay…but…what is this light for?"
Looking around, she was still in a white light. Remembering how she was affected by it, now it didn't seem to affect her at all. Remembering what was behind her and feeling goosebumps flare on her skin, she darted a glance behind her again.
'…?' the redhead thought from what she saw. It was the back of the entry-plug. There were no horrific beings, mouths, or bleeding eyes everywhere.
'Where…did it go?' Asuka thought blinking and seeing as if nothing had happened. Turning back forward, she looked at what was in the Unit's hands. Gripping the controls with her hands, she pointed the modified positron rifle up into the sky.
"Come on, come on. Load stupid!" she whispered impatient and anxious. Hearing the AI computer guidance turn on, it placed an enclosed screen in front of her eyes. The AI began to auto-correct towards where the location of Angel. When the crosshairs came into alignment, a red computer window popped up stating the target was out of range.
"Oh come on! You got to be freaking kidding me!?" Asuka stated annoyed until something vile and hellish crept slowly onto her back.
'ThAnKyOuFoRpLaYiNgMyLiTtLe…game…here…is…your…p…r…i…z…e,' it whispered in her head. The Second Child felt her skin crawled and become clammy instantly. Her heart rate and pulse boomed in her head feeling three things slither on her plug suit. Feeling the skin of the appendages through the plug suit gave her the creeps twofold over. The AI immediately changed to target in range.
"JUST DIE ALREADY!" Asuka shouted as she pulled the triggers on the hand controls. Instead of an immediate fire, the whole rifle rumbled violently for a couple of seconds. Suddenly, a bright beam shot out like a heavy cannon explosion. The amount of recoil behind it made Unit-01 slide back more than a street block before slowing down to a halt.
"Unit-01 fired its first shot," Makoto stated as the NERV crew watched the beam accelerate quickly towards the direction of the Angel.
"That looked like a lot of firepower…do you think the shot will make it?" Misato asked.
"Shigeru, was the rifle at full power?" Ritsuko asked.
"Yes…however, there was an energy convergence from the Eva with the usage of its AT-Field."
"…it's AT-Field…but the Second Child was unresponsive. Synch ratio was at 30% and deemed incapacitated," Ritsuko said to herself then looked at the image of the Unit-01.
Another window appeared which showed a satellite image of the Angel and a rapidly rising energy shot. Going through the atmosphere looking like a large meteor, it burst through the AT-Field of the Angel. Instead of exploding upon impact, the energy shot went through it. Continuing on, the central mass of the Angel had a massively melted hole in its body.
"Shot made contact with Angel…MAGI indicates that the core was in the vicinity of the fire zone. Signal of the Angel is getting weaker…signal has gone stagnant. Angel has gone silent," Makoto stated with some relief in his voice.
"Miss Misato?"
"…!?" the Major said flinching a little and looking over at the Third Child. Seeing that his face was blood stained, she figured what he would ask.
"Shall the back-up pilots head to the Eva cages to group up with the others?"
"…" Misato answered blinking. "…uh…yeah. S-sure…t-that sounds good."
"Very well. Excuse me," he said with a small bow. Turning toward the hallway, the command center staff silently watched him walk over there before entering.
"…" Rana said with her head downcast. She opened her mouth to say something as he passed by, but held her tongue. Turning toward the hallway, she jogged a little bit to catch up with him. When both had left the bridge, all the sudden someone started to yell in agony.
[NO! STOP IT! I DON'T WANT TO REMEMBER! DON'T BRING IT UP! NO! MISATO! PLEASE! HELP ME! GOD PLEASE HELP ME!] Asuka screamed holding her head and curling into a ball.
"W-What's going on!?" Misato stated turning back to see the Second Child thrashing her head. Instead of waiting for a reply, she continued.
"Nevermind! Shut down Unit-01 and eject the entry-plug! Do it now!" Misato ordered.
[ #$%#$ #$%# $#$%# $d…e…l…i…c…h…o…u…s] the evil voice spoke softly in a sadistic tone.
"What's taking the ejection so long?"
[l…E…t…M…e…dig…deeeeeeppppeeeerrr]
"The Unit has accepted the command but is resisting," Maya stated when Ritsuko stepped up to a terminal and began inputting commands quickly.
[NO! STOP IT! PLEASE!] Asuka cried out. [IT HURTS! IT HURTS! IT…]
[% #$ #$% #$YYYEEEEESSSSSS! YEs! YeS!YES!YES!YES!YES!YES!YES! #*(%$$ ] the evil voice stated before the comm-link cut out. Camera footage showed Unit-01 slumping to its knees on the ground before sitting on them. Its head hung forward as the entry plug shot out of the back of its neck. The last aspect before the Eva went silent was letting a deep slow monstrous cackle in slow motion. A stretched out gasp of air was heard before the comm-link went dead.