THE ENTRY PLUG TRILOGY
By:CHENALOS
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NOTE: I know this is a trilogy, which is the hardest part to believe, I think I
could have carried it over into four volumes. Oh, well I live up to my limits.
I finally found out when this occurs in the NGE universe. The trilogy occurs
between episode 15: Lies and Silence and episode 16: Sickness Unto Death and...
This means that I want you to print off a copy of this story, watch one half of
GENESIS 0:8 then take two hours reading my fic, then you can watch the rest of
the tape. Since it occurs in that time frame you may ask; "but hey, Where's
Kaji?" I have one simple answer: Skrew that Yuppie, every time he talks he
gives me a splitting headache. By the way, my school is closing email for a
month starting this Friday, December 18, so if you energymail (E-mail) me, wait
until late January for a responce. By demmand, I had to do somthing for another
Asuka-Shinji moment. For all you Rei fans who don't need another one, or if you
think it sucks, just skip from "Oh, be quiet" to 9:00 AM, that is where I
inserted it.
UPDATE: I am receiving E-mail just fine now, since this message was
written n 1998. Feel free to send me your thoughts.
CHAPTER 3
THE L5 UNIT
Holding hands, thinking as one, working as a true team for the first time. It
was an experience to remember. With the introduction of an overpowering force,
it vanished suddenly, but the memory remained. The valuable memory. Shinji
opened his eyes and the orange of a rising sun greeted them. Familiar ceiling;
hospital.
"Someone should write on that ceiling: 'If you're reading this right now, then
you just screwed up with your EVA'."
"Far too true, loser."
Without turning his head; "Hi, Asuka"
"Oh, shut up. What did you do anyway? Do you have any Idea what this will do to
my reputation?"
"I didn't do anything."
"Well then, I guess Wonder Girl is to blame."
Shinji rolled his head to the right; Ayanami lay beside him in the next cot.
The rising sun gleamed off of her hair, now a sharp gold in color. She
remained breathing, but not awake yet. Knocked out at worst, maybe she was just
asleep.
"Blame for what? What happened?"
"Simple, during the test, one of us tried to kill us all."
At first this surprised Shinji immensely. He couldn't imagine any of three of
them trying to do such a thing. He really didn't believe it, so he shrugged it
off.
"Oh, you're just exaggerating."
"I am not. Neither is NERV, until they find out what the cause was, they said
we couldn't leave the hospital."
"How do you know that?"
"Here's how I know."
The folder flew from Asukas' hand, and found its mark. It hit Shinji right on
the back of the head. It didn't hurt. No harm done, in Shinjis' mind. Asuka
lay back in her bed. Shinji opened up the folder, and the whole story was right
there on the front page.
Pilots Ayanami, Soryou, and Ikari are hereby ordered to remain in the
custody of NERV officials, until the details surrounding the event that
disrupted the L5 test experiments have been explored. Only until the details of
these events have been explained to the satisfaction of NERV director, Commander
Ikari, will the status of suspension be lifted. The Aforementioned parties
shall be forbidden to make phone calls, send postal messages, or contact any
party other than those sanctioned, officially, by NERV during the suspension.
If, during this time, it is determined that one of the pilots suffered a
psychotic or suicidal episode, resulting in the disruption of the L5 experiment,
that pilot shall be placed under psychological observation, and evaluated to
determine if that pilot shall remain in the status as such that he or she can
continue to pilot an Evangelion. If it is discovered that one of the pilots was
making an attempt at murder of either or both of the other two pilots, that
person shall be Immediately terminated from the NERV personnel roster, and await
further inquiry, and possible discipline.
Signed,
Katsuragi Misato
NERV Operations Planning Manager
"Misato?"
"She called earlier, said it was all just standard procedure."
"Doesn't she think this is a bit drastic?"
"Yes I know it was a bit tough on them, but I'll not be the first person to
directly disobey Commander Ikaris' orders..." The major sat at her desk, filling
out a pile of forms and requests that had landed there just last night. "Yes of
course they were his orders... what?... Look, Ritsuko if you want to run those
tests on them, Then you had better go strait to the hospital with the equipment,
The orders are now for them not to leave that room without the Commanders
approval... Well then, if they can't fit into the doors, you can't test them
yet. Besides, Commander Ikari is the person you want to talk to, not me....
That's what I thought. Just get ready for the meeting. As for the tests, I'm
sorry, but there is nothing I can do..."
"You mean I'm stuck here?"
"That's right, Shinji. You, me, and Wonder Girl. Until they find out just what
happened, they are going to keep us all caged up."
Shinji got up from his bed, and walked over to the doorway.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm gonna see if they'll let us out."
Looking out, he could see the hall, the window to the outside, and far down the
hallway he could see tape stretching from the wall to the window. He could not
read it, but he knew what it said: 'DO NOT CROSS'. On either side of the tape
were two men dressed in black, intelligence officials; they usually come in
pairs. Suddenly, a dark figure rushed from the side of the glass, right in
front of Shinji. The dark man slammed up against the door sending a
reverberating thump through the whole room, startled Shinji stood totally
motionless, and stared back at the face in the window, as helpless as a lamb.
Frozen stiff, he blinked and bit his lip. The figure before him spoke up:
"Remain in this room until you are told otherwise. Understood?"
"Ye-yes, sir."
The man disappeared from sight.
"Shinji, you're my hero." remarked Asuka
"Oh, be quiet."
Shinji sat back in his bed, and pulled the sheets up. He looked over at Asuka
in the light of the rising sun. Since the recent event had come up a few times,
he felt one more couldn't hurt.
"Well.. uh, so um, you---liked it, huh?"
Asukas look turned deathly cold. The subject has been one too many times.
"Liked what? That occurance three nights back, is that what you are referring
to?"
Shinji drew the sheets more towards his face.
"well um, uh, yeah."
Asuka puonced on Shinji, and tightened his sheets in on him, so his arms
couldn't move. Asuka grabbed her pillow.
"That reminds me, what was it I said that I would do if you told anyone?"
Shinji sat there, immobile, and voulneable.
"Uh, I'm sorry."
"No, I remember it more along the lines of 'I WILL KILL YOU!'.
Asuka then proceeded to beat poor shinji with her pillow. After about fourty
wacks, his head gained a loose sence of dizzyness one only gets from pillow
fights. Asuka pressed her pillow on shinjis chest, and looked him straight in
the eyes.
"Now, can you keep it a secret this time?"
Shinji mumbled, appearing helpless, then his eyes whent calm, and his mumbleing
stopped, little did Asuka know that his hands were free now, he quickly snagged
her, and gave her one deep, but quick kiss once more. He let her go,
"Cross my heart."
Asuka then gave shinji the worst pillow beating of his life.
9:00 AM
The image was crystal clear, the float was being bent totally in on itself.. The
pontoons buckled, and then bursted from the intense pressure of the AT Tube.
The coolant fluid exploded in a geyser from the force of the blast. Quickly,
coolant entered the pontoons making the float twice as heavy as it already was.
It could not sink, however, the grip of the tube held it, and crushed it. It
was like watching aluminium foil, gripped in the hand of the tube, it was bent
and twisted, helpless to exert any net force. The coolant level rose to the
base of the L5 unit, the children's plug was now totally immersed. The
impossible then happened. Dark shadows loomed from under the coolant. One by
one the EVAs arose from the lake. Their massive metal hands grasped at the
tube, further closing the space in the center. The pontoons are nothing now,
shards of bent metal. Now the float herself was being folded inward, the nine
foot metal mesh platform, which held the plug in the center, gave way easily.
The crushing led straight to the epicenter of the tube, the plug. The mesh
surrounded the plug from all sides, caging it in. Wrapped in bent and twisted
metal, and completely submerged, the plug was totally helpless. Then without
warning, a blast turned the coolant to foam. A stream of bubbles cut loose from
just above the plug. The L5 unit had ejected, and it was streaming skyward.
The AT tube disappeared. The column of water fell like a ribbon. The plug
plunged down into the coolant, as would a stone. The EVAs sank. All was still
and silent, then the recovery teams dove in to rescue. Ritsuko stopped the
tape.
"As I'm sure you all know, these events transpired yesterday at 15:15 hours. We
can't give a full summary of the events that transpired, because during the
first stages of the accident a series of electronic pulses were released from
the plug. These pulses proceeded to knock out all monitoring equipment. The
origin of these pulses is still unknown, but we suspect that the person
responsible directed energy directly from the EVAs into the plug's circuit
boards, frying them. What we do know is that the commands given to the EVAs had
to be from the plug."
"How do you know that? Isn't it possible that the EVAs went berserk?" asked
Misato
"No, the odds of all three EVAs going berserk at the same time is approximately
750,000 to one. Also the odds that their movement would remain synchronised
while berserk is about 50 billion to one. The commands defiantly came from the
plug. The concrete proof is that since the L5 unit, which is what connected the
children to the EVAs, ejected and subsequently cut the link between the children
and the EVAs, deactivating them."
"Could the L5 be responsible?" Questioned Misato
"The L5 was just a middle-man; it carried the signals from the plug to the EVAs
it could have had no direct control."
"Well then Doctor, we only need then your recommendation to begin inquiry of the
children." Spoke Fuyutsuki
"The First child still hasn't regained conciousness, I can't give a
recommendation without questioning the children. I am heading to the hospital
soon for preliminary work. We should hold off on the decision until my
preliminary work is done and I can't do that until she is awake."
"She just woke up."
"Who?"
"What do you mean 'who?' Rei just woke up. Good morning Ayanami." Spoke Shinji
Rei lay silent in her bed, her eyes open, breathing, but unspeaking. Asuka, two
beds over was reclined, and eating her breakfast. Shinji had tried to just go
back to sleep, but ended up, just waiting to see if Ayanami would get up. Now
that she was, he had nothing else to do.
"Well, uh-glad to see you are ok."
"What happened?" she asked softly
"Well, shouldn't you know? From what I understand you are the prime suspect."
barked Asuka
"Asuka, that story can't be true, none of us could do such a thing, why? Why
would we do it Asuka?"
"Well, Shinji if you are so sure why don't you ask her?"
"Because, uh, well, because, uh, you can't just ask someone that."
"Ask what?" spoke Rei
Shinji looked at Asuka. With the look in his eye he refused to ask that
question. Asuka couldn't do it either. Asuka grabbed the folder.
"Nothing, just read this."
The folder landed in Reis' lap, she sat up and opened it. Asuka finished her
breakfast, and pushed the tray away. Shinji sat motionless, not knowing what to
do. He felt along the surface of his arm. He could feel the trace of LCL.. He
got up and walked to the shower.
"Make it quick, I want in there next." yelled Asuka
9:55
The door opened for the first time since last night, Ritsuko and Misato walked
inside. When they walked in they found the children playing chow.
"Pair of jacks"
"A Pair of queens."
"Tai di"
"Shinji? You were holding out on the 2's?" Screamed Asuka
"Oh, yeah Ritsuko. Here are your killers." Whispered Misato
"Rei, Shinji, Asuka do you know why you have been kept here?"
"Sure Ritsuko, you think one of us tried to kill everyone else." replied Shinji
"That's not entirely true, but it does seem to be pointing in that direction.
Official inquiry will begin tomorrow, and unless I can do something about that,
you may all be grounded from piloting and EVA, until the guilty party is found."
"But, nobody did anything."
"Yes they did, and I intend to find out just what happened, now I want those
stories from you, one at a time."
The children laid down their cards, and sat in bed facing the officers. Shinji
spoke up first.
"Ritsuko, there is no way that any one of us could have caused that accident."
"So you are saying that you all are innocent."
"What I mean is, that in the plug, our minds became one. If one of us wanted to
do anything that means that the other two would have to know about it. If
something happened, then we all did it."
"So, you all decided to close the tube?"
"No, none of us did."
"Then what exactly happened?"
Asuka spoke up, "I remember that we had just completed the tube, when I felt a
twitch in unit-00's right arm, I don't remember us ever commanding that twitch."
"I also felt that." spoke Rei, and Shinji nodded
"Then this weird sensation that I never felt before."
"I have. It felt like, like the other plug that time we were kidnapped. Like
piloting a tiny EVA that thinks. It entered the situation, and I'm not sure
what happened, I don't remember trying to synch with it, but it seemed to go
straight to the EVAs, before we could do anything about it had already Synched
with them. It was this overpowering force, that just took over the EVAs with
lightning speed." remarked Shinji
"It isolated us from the EVAs. We remained synched inside the plug. The plug
felt like it was lifting, then it stopped. Noises came from the outside -
bending metal - an explosion." said Rei
"I remember hearing the explosion," said Asuka, " and the bending metal, and
then another blast from just above the plug. The other presence that controlled
the EVAs left. That was the last thing I can remember."
"Then I woke up here." finalised Shinji
Misato walked over to the TV in the hospital room, fortunately it had a VCR
attached. She played the tape. When it was finished, the children were
dumbfounded.
"That is what was going on?" asked Shinji
"How odd." said Rei
"That pod, the L5 thing, why did it eject like that?"
"You're lucky that it did, When the L5 Ejected, your link to the EVAs was cut,
and you all survived, although the trauma of immediate nerve connection loss is
probably what knocked you out."
"If that is true, then when the L5 unit left; that was the same time that the
presence that you described before left, wasn't it?" pointed out Misato
"Yeah, when we heard that stream of bubbles above the pod, that was when it
left, and we all got knocked out." said Asuka
"Doctor Ikagi, may I see you outside?" Said Misato
"I was going to leave anyway. Children, I can't make any promises, but you
should be free to go by this afternoon."
10:30
Misato and Ritsuko sat in the lobby of the Hospital. Although she was confused
by all the details, Misato was now certain that the children were in the clear,
and now she just wanted to move on.
"Well, now we know that the L5 is the cause."
"That is not possible, Misato, The L5 is just equipment, and nothing can synch
with three EVAs at one time. We were lucky to pull it off with three people."
"Well if no one person can Synch with three EVAs, than how could the children do
it? How could just one of them overrule the other two, and pilot three EVAs all
alone?"
"If their will power was strong enough, they could have knocke the other two
out, but maintaned control over their bodys, but since none of the children
reported..."
Suddenly Ritsukos' cellular phone began to ring; she looked at the LED display:
Ikari, Gendo
"Just a second Misato, I have to take a call."
Ritsuko leaned up against the wall in the hospital, calmly lighting a cigarette,
and talking to Gendo. He was pleased.
"Excellent work Doctor Ikagi. All data concerning the L5 unit has been
adjusted, and the dummy has been placed. The smokescreen worked well, you can
call it off now."
"There would have been no danger if you had cleared those tests this morning."
"You must understand that it was of utmost importance to divert attention away
from NERV facilitys while the unit was removed."
"Then the L5 unit is..."
"It is back where it belongs. What is your explanation of the events that have
taken place?"
"I'm sorry sir, but there is simply not enough information to gather a proper
conclusion. I am afraid that the incidents surrounding the L5 Experiment will
have to be submitted as unsolved, but it has been proven that no one of the
children could have caused the events."
"But now that the L5 is gone, the truth will never be known. Your removal plan
worked flawlessly. I owe you for this."
"You can make it up to me right now if you tell me; What was inside the L5
unit?"
"Not even I know that, only the old men of SELEE know for sure. But it does not
matter, if it gives them a sense of control they may do whatever they wish.."
"Well then you still owe me. If you want you can make it up tonight." She
whispered seductively
"Well, that would be nice, your place or mine?"
"I'll come on over. See you then."
"Good day."
Ritsuko turned around, and headed back to where Misato was sitting.
"Misato, this is getting us nowhere. I just got the call from Commander Ikari,
he called it off."
"What about the explanation?"
"It will just have to be submitted as unsolved."
"But we know the L5 is responsible"
"Not according to technical division 2. They did diagnostics on the L5 and
placed it in equipment cellar 3. They conclude that the L5 was as I said, a
neutral middleman. There is no way the L5 could be responsible. If you want,
you can check it out yourself."
Misato stayed quiet. Ever since Kaji showed her the enormous being at the
bottom of central dogma, she knew that from now on, there would always be
secrets and cover-ups. She knew the L5 unit was the cause of all of it, but now
she also knew that it was too late to find any firm proof. What is the L5?, she
wondered, what did it have to do with SELEE and the abduction? All these
questions would never be answered for her.
5:43 PM
Seventy miles away, a tractor-trailer pulled into a gigantic compound. It
passed between the concrete walls, and pulled into a large, unlit hanger. The
door opened suddenly, and three armed guards took positions around the rear of
the trailer. The ramp was lowered, and a huge tube, with the markings L5
clearly visible loomed out from the inside. It was rolled to the center of the
hanger, propped up on a three-foot platform, over a symbol of an inverted
triangle, with seven eyes. A man, dressed in a pseudo-military uniform,
approached it from the darkness, he had a small video computer link in his hand,
and he placed it on the L5 and began to type his questions:
WAS LINKUP WITH ALL THREE EVAS TO THIS UNIT ACHIEVED? Y/N
---Y
WAS THERE ANY REJECTION? Y/N
---N
DID THIS UNIT SCAN THE SYNCHING PILOTS? Y/N
---Y
WAS THERE ANY NERV INTERFERANCE WITH THIS UNIT? Y/N
---N
WAS A CONNECTION WITH THE MAGI ATTAINED? Y/N
---N
"Keel shouldn't be too happy about that."
WAS THE EXISTANCE OF THE 11TH ANGEL CONFIRMED BY OTHER NERV SOURCES? Y/N
---N
ANYTHING ELSE TO REPORT:
Downloading...
-------------------Saved to memory
CONFIRM CLEARENCE CODE.
---THAT IS ALL THEY CAN DO FOR YOU-
THESE YOU HAVE LABORED WITH
AND TRAFFICKED WITH SINCE CHILDHOOD.
EACH ONE OF THEM GOES ON IN HIS ERROR;
THERE IS NOT ONE THAT CAN SAVE YOU.
ISAIAH 47:15
CLEARENCE CONFIRMED
"Ok, gentlemen, open the L5 unit."
Several men entered, and attached tubes to the bottom of the L5, The fluid began
to flow outward, but the tube was not attached tightly enough to the L5, and the
fluid dripped out slightly. Were it fell, a puddle formed and the smell of LCL
was strong. When all the fluid was drained, several men approached, and
inserted handles into the base. They rotated the handles, loosening the bottom
of the L5 like it was a lug nut. Finally, the base was removed as it hit ground
a huge metal clang reverberated throughout the hanger. A stretcher was placed
before the opening of the L5, and a human figure was pulled from the tube, like
it was on a drawer. His pale skin was covered in LCL.
"I must say, pilot, 2 days in LCL, quite a feat."
"Patience is the virtue."
"Any thoughts of your own, pilot?"
"That Boy, Shinji...The other two are difficult, but he seems to be friendly.
This is only the second time I've been with him, and I like him even more."
The man in the military uniform sighed.
"He's one in a million, Pilot Nagisa"
THE END
Gianax owns Neon Genesis Evangelion, so it gets all the ¥.
A.D.V and A.D.V UK own the english versions so it gets the $s and the £s
I just talk about it so I get squat, please don't sue me
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