One month later...
Yui was haggard and very, very tired. Rei's growth had not been uneventful and during the past month Rei had
shown a number of allergies, one of which was to animal fat of any kind. The first time she had attempted
to be fed with normal cow's milk, when Rei had reached the physical age of 3, had resulted in a week long period
where Rei vomitted every 2 minutes and had been dangerously dehydrated. Fortunately the tender care that Yui
bestowed on Rei as though she really was the daughter she had wanted had aided her recovery. There had been
other problems when Rei had first been taken out of the LCL just 3 days ago. Her right arm had simply disintegrated
the moment it had breached the surface of the liquid. Shocked, Yui had quickly immersed Rei back in the LCL. After
a day of investigation, Yui realised that since Rei had no soul, her body had no bonding. After another day of soul
searching, Yui hit upon an idea. Or rather a dormant soul. When Gendo had returned from the Antarctica expedition,
the Seele team had found a mostly intact angel, Lillith, and had handed it over to their own team of bio-engineers...
But fortunately for Yui, they had been unable to examine it thoroughly before Seele had given her access, ostensibly to
speed up Project E. By then Yui realised the old men had gotten suspicious of her rate of work and had decided she
was too untrustworthy to be allowed to analyse the angel first, however they knew fully well that Yui was the best
bio-engineer in the world and that they could not risk losing her over a vital matter like the analysis of an angel.
The angel had the ability to send weak telepathic messages to any organism that touched it, and had found Yui worthy
of guarding at least part of it's soul. This soul had been transferred to Rei's body, and soon Rei was able to get out
of the tank. On top of that she had spent several evenings wheedling and threatening Gendo into keeping the nature of
Project T, which is what Yui's project was now called, secret. In the end all it had taken was the threat to contaminate
all the food at Gehirn and home with advocado extracts...
-Well as soon as Project E has reached the stage they no longer need me I have no doubt that they will make their move
against me. Good thing I didn't record or write down any data concerning the extra components in all the Units. They
already know Unit 01 is the only one successfully developed from Adam, but they don't know that this Eva will have the
ability to function without power for about an hour... but that can only happen when the Eva's soul takes over, I still
haven't perfected the S2 organs... Won't they be surprised when the Evas are actually used in battle?- Yui smirked at
that thought. While she had direct control of Unit 01's construction and growth, Unit 00's construction and growth
had been placed under the care of Naoko Akagi and Unit 02 under Kyoko Zeppelin Soryu's supervision. While Unit 00 had
been built to the exact standards set out in Seele's orders, Units 01 and 02 were enhanced. Dr Soryu had implemented
some changes that she had come up with based on Yui's theories, one of which was the changing of the Eva's internal
arrangement so it could function underwater while using the B type equipment. Unfortunately this change was unusable
unless the pilot's synch ratio was fairly high.-
She heard a happy cry behind her and turned around to watch Shinji stumble over to where Rei was quietly building a
house out of letter blocks. -Just because she is going to control Third Impact doesn't mean she can't act like a normal
child, at least for now. Because Mrs Suzuhara has moved away I don't have anyone to care for Shinji. Luckily he can keep
Rei company and teach her a little bit about normal living. She needs to be humane to make the right choice when the time
comes... Besides she is practically his step-sister-
Yui smiled as Rei's perfectly built house came tumbling down as Shinji tried to add another block under the house. Rei
calmly picked up the blocks and started all over again. The only sign of her annoyance was a quick crimson glare that
Shinji totally missed, but Yui spotted it. -She looks so intimidating with red eyes, it was part of the genes that also
make her part angel... Right now the only directive I've imprinted is the most important one of making a choice when 3rd
impact occurs. It would be risky to imprint anything else, it may obliterate her young mind...-
The phone in the lab began to ring with the tone programmed for calls from Dr Soryu. Yui took one more second to look at
Shinji and Rei playing then picked up the phone.
"Hello Kyoko."
"Hello Yui, how are you doing?"
"Good, Unit 01 is nearing completion. Just a few more months of growth then it's ready to install the interfaces between
pilot and Eva."
"It is? I assumed that the interface development has a long way to go before it would be ready."
"Technically, it isn't ready. But Dr Akagi believes that it would speed up research if we test the interface and control
system as it develops. I disagree but the old men are backing her up..."
"Well that is worrying. Unit 02 is behind schedule, it's completion is set for the year 2005. The nerve linkages between
the four eyes is tricky, the nerve connections keep getting tangled along the optical trunk. So instead of one optical
nerve trunk to take signals from all four eyes, I've decided to divide the lower and upper eyes into separate nerve trunks.
The separate nerves added another 3 months to the growth schedule. The rest is because of the incident when a technician
accidentally put concentrated hydrochloric acid in the growth solution. Apparently he his hands were very busy at the time."
"Typical male... How's Asuka? Shinji's growing so fast..."
"I hear she is growing too. She seems to be getting along very well with my mother in law"
"Kyoko, you shouldn't neglect her like that. She's still only a little girl, she needs her mother."
"I know, I feel guilty about it every day. But what choice do I have? I'll make it up to her once Unit 02 is finished and
the old men stop pushing me around." Kyoko said in a tired voice.
"Same here, I can just barely keep up with raising Shinji and hiding the fact I have extra data on the angels."
"I felt honoured that you shared that data with me, it opened up a lot more possibilities for Unit 02."
"Well, you are my sister after all. If I can't trust you, who can I trust?"
"True enough, well I must get going, the test of the optical enhancer is occuring in 5 mins."
"Good luck on the test, it was good talking to you." Yui said before Kyoko ended the call.
Meanwhile in another part of the research building
"DAMN IT!!!!" Naoko shouted in frustration. She had been working on her Magi project on her terminal and had been entering
her most recent data, when the a hard disk error had forced a restart. Her anger at the lack of funding had reached a
boiling point. Due to the paucity of the funding, she had been forced to either timeshare one of the SuperCray
supercomputers or use an older Cray computer. She used the Cray most of the time and had to grovel to use the SuperCray
when needed. But the Cray was old and it's circuit boards were in a sorry state. Naoko's fury increased even further when
she remembered Yui had use of not one but FIVE SuperCrays for her new Project T. And she had over 50 technicians to maintain
them in optimum condition. Naoko was lucky she had seduced a Support section chief to keep her Cray barely functional.
-I am going to get that smug bitch!!! She has the Committee around her little finger and her husband is the director of
the facility... I'll get her, how dare she force me to accept her pity!!!! I'm the best scientist here but that bastard
Gendo isn't passing along the successes I have had onto the Committee. I'll get rid of her and force them to acknowledge
me. I'll also get her sister Kyoko, she's in on the plot...-
Naoko suddenly grinned evilly. She had thought of a way to eliminate Yui and Kyoko and become the leading researcher here.
And all without any significant possibility of getting blamed...
If you spot any serious continuity faults, email me. If you have any questions, email me. The next chapter will probably be
an interlude before the last one where I plan to wrap it all up. I surmised that Kyoko could be Yui's sister which would
make Asuka and Shinji cousins...
Yui was haggard and very, very tired. Rei's growth had not been uneventful and during the past month Rei had
shown a number of allergies, one of which was to animal fat of any kind. The first time she had attempted
to be fed with normal cow's milk, when Rei had reached the physical age of 3, had resulted in a week long period
where Rei vomitted every 2 minutes and had been dangerously dehydrated. Fortunately the tender care that Yui
bestowed on Rei as though she really was the daughter she had wanted had aided her recovery. There had been
other problems when Rei had first been taken out of the LCL just 3 days ago. Her right arm had simply disintegrated
the moment it had breached the surface of the liquid. Shocked, Yui had quickly immersed Rei back in the LCL. After
a day of investigation, Yui realised that since Rei had no soul, her body had no bonding. After another day of soul
searching, Yui hit upon an idea. Or rather a dormant soul. When Gendo had returned from the Antarctica expedition,
the Seele team had found a mostly intact angel, Lillith, and had handed it over to their own team of bio-engineers...
But fortunately for Yui, they had been unable to examine it thoroughly before Seele had given her access, ostensibly to
speed up Project E. By then Yui realised the old men had gotten suspicious of her rate of work and had decided she
was too untrustworthy to be allowed to analyse the angel first, however they knew fully well that Yui was the best
bio-engineer in the world and that they could not risk losing her over a vital matter like the analysis of an angel.
The angel had the ability to send weak telepathic messages to any organism that touched it, and had found Yui worthy
of guarding at least part of it's soul. This soul had been transferred to Rei's body, and soon Rei was able to get out
of the tank. On top of that she had spent several evenings wheedling and threatening Gendo into keeping the nature of
Project T, which is what Yui's project was now called, secret. In the end all it had taken was the threat to contaminate
all the food at Gehirn and home with advocado extracts...
-Well as soon as Project E has reached the stage they no longer need me I have no doubt that they will make their move
against me. Good thing I didn't record or write down any data concerning the extra components in all the Units. They
already know Unit 01 is the only one successfully developed from Adam, but they don't know that this Eva will have the
ability to function without power for about an hour... but that can only happen when the Eva's soul takes over, I still
haven't perfected the S2 organs... Won't they be surprised when the Evas are actually used in battle?- Yui smirked at
that thought. While she had direct control of Unit 01's construction and growth, Unit 00's construction and growth
had been placed under the care of Naoko Akagi and Unit 02 under Kyoko Zeppelin Soryu's supervision. While Unit 00 had
been built to the exact standards set out in Seele's orders, Units 01 and 02 were enhanced. Dr Soryu had implemented
some changes that she had come up with based on Yui's theories, one of which was the changing of the Eva's internal
arrangement so it could function underwater while using the B type equipment. Unfortunately this change was unusable
unless the pilot's synch ratio was fairly high.-
She heard a happy cry behind her and turned around to watch Shinji stumble over to where Rei was quietly building a
house out of letter blocks. -Just because she is going to control Third Impact doesn't mean she can't act like a normal
child, at least for now. Because Mrs Suzuhara has moved away I don't have anyone to care for Shinji. Luckily he can keep
Rei company and teach her a little bit about normal living. She needs to be humane to make the right choice when the time
comes... Besides she is practically his step-sister-
Yui smiled as Rei's perfectly built house came tumbling down as Shinji tried to add another block under the house. Rei
calmly picked up the blocks and started all over again. The only sign of her annoyance was a quick crimson glare that
Shinji totally missed, but Yui spotted it. -She looks so intimidating with red eyes, it was part of the genes that also
make her part angel... Right now the only directive I've imprinted is the most important one of making a choice when 3rd
impact occurs. It would be risky to imprint anything else, it may obliterate her young mind...-
The phone in the lab began to ring with the tone programmed for calls from Dr Soryu. Yui took one more second to look at
Shinji and Rei playing then picked up the phone.
"Hello Kyoko."
"Hello Yui, how are you doing?"
"Good, Unit 01 is nearing completion. Just a few more months of growth then it's ready to install the interfaces between
pilot and Eva."
"It is? I assumed that the interface development has a long way to go before it would be ready."
"Technically, it isn't ready. But Dr Akagi believes that it would speed up research if we test the interface and control
system as it develops. I disagree but the old men are backing her up..."
"Well that is worrying. Unit 02 is behind schedule, it's completion is set for the year 2005. The nerve linkages between
the four eyes is tricky, the nerve connections keep getting tangled along the optical trunk. So instead of one optical
nerve trunk to take signals from all four eyes, I've decided to divide the lower and upper eyes into separate nerve trunks.
The separate nerves added another 3 months to the growth schedule. The rest is because of the incident when a technician
accidentally put concentrated hydrochloric acid in the growth solution. Apparently he his hands were very busy at the time."
"Typical male... How's Asuka? Shinji's growing so fast..."
"I hear she is growing too. She seems to be getting along very well with my mother in law"
"Kyoko, you shouldn't neglect her like that. She's still only a little girl, she needs her mother."
"I know, I feel guilty about it every day. But what choice do I have? I'll make it up to her once Unit 02 is finished and
the old men stop pushing me around." Kyoko said in a tired voice.
"Same here, I can just barely keep up with raising Shinji and hiding the fact I have extra data on the angels."
"I felt honoured that you shared that data with me, it opened up a lot more possibilities for Unit 02."
"Well, you are my sister after all. If I can't trust you, who can I trust?"
"True enough, well I must get going, the test of the optical enhancer is occuring in 5 mins."
"Good luck on the test, it was good talking to you." Yui said before Kyoko ended the call.
Meanwhile in another part of the research building
"DAMN IT!!!!" Naoko shouted in frustration. She had been working on her Magi project on her terminal and had been entering
her most recent data, when the a hard disk error had forced a restart. Her anger at the lack of funding had reached a
boiling point. Due to the paucity of the funding, she had been forced to either timeshare one of the SuperCray
supercomputers or use an older Cray computer. She used the Cray most of the time and had to grovel to use the SuperCray
when needed. But the Cray was old and it's circuit boards were in a sorry state. Naoko's fury increased even further when
she remembered Yui had use of not one but FIVE SuperCrays for her new Project T. And she had over 50 technicians to maintain
them in optimum condition. Naoko was lucky she had seduced a Support section chief to keep her Cray barely functional.
-I am going to get that smug bitch!!! She has the Committee around her little finger and her husband is the director of
the facility... I'll get her, how dare she force me to accept her pity!!!! I'm the best scientist here but that bastard
Gendo isn't passing along the successes I have had onto the Committee. I'll get rid of her and force them to acknowledge
me. I'll also get her sister Kyoko, she's in on the plot...-
Naoko suddenly grinned evilly. She had thought of a way to eliminate Yui and Kyoko and become the leading researcher here.
And all without any significant possibility of getting blamed...
If you spot any serious continuity faults, email me. If you have any questions, email me. The next chapter will probably be
an interlude before the last one where I plan to wrap it all up. I surmised that Kyoko could be Yui's sister which would
make Asuka and Shinji cousins...