NEON GENESIS EVANGELION
Brave New World
Fanfiction by Raven Chaos
ravenkoruki@aol.com
Disclaimer: ...I don't own Evangelion, plain and simple, so don't sue me, I have nothing you want. Also, this quotes some things from comics books I've read...please, Marvel, DC, or Image, don't sue me.
Author's note: I recieved a review that the character of Kojiro is me and this is a self-insertion fic. Nope. Not a chance. Kojiro has an ego, I don't. I suffer from shyness, Kojiro has half a mind to run around naked during a rainstorm in Time Square, New York City. Nuff said.
Chapter two: Kojiro and Rei- Love in the VR Chamber!...or "Trapped!"
Scene: Kojiro and Rei's apartment, 6:00am.
Kojiro awoke...at least that's how it seemed...he was never too sure about anything in the morning...except the fact he always had a crick in his back and had the mental synch of a newborn until 6:30, after his cartoons and breakfast. That was his ritual. Moments later, his legs forced him out of bed and into the bathroom. The sight of his face in the mirror at this time of the day played tricks on his sensitive psyche.
"...Oon Gawa..."he mummbled as he fumbled for his toothbrush.
"...what does that mean?" a soft female voice that made Kojiro melt on impact reached his ears.
"Huh? What?" he spun around, almost falling onto the blue tile floor.
"You said...'Oon Gawa'...what does that mean?" Rei, garbed in her nighty, stood in the doorway.
"Oh...umm..." Kojiro kick-started his puttering brain to find the meaning of his moniker 'Wake-Up' phrase.
"...Oon Gawa...uh...it's kinda like sayin' ...'Good Morning'..." Kojiro scratched his head.
"Oh...then Oon Gawa, Kojiro-kun..." Rei vanished from the doorway.
"Oooh, I want her..." Kojiro sighed and rested his head on the cool surface of the sink.
Scene: Not too much later, Ritsuko's office.
"...So what do we have sceduled for today?" Misato Katsuragi inquired as she took her first of coffee. Her hair was a frazzled mess. Her face untouched by makeup, but was in dire need of some. Her uniform was poorly put on, making one amazed she even got an arm in one sleeve.
"VR tests...like we do every thursday." Ritsuko without looking back from her computer, typing away like a Stephen Hawkings on acid on some program connected to the Magi System.
Misato groaned and slumped in a chair. "...Please tell me there's a time limit this time..."
Ritsuko was silent.
Misato sighed and hung her head. "...God knows how long those kids can go..."
"Let's hope Kojiro and Asuka get along this time...Unit 0.7's damage to it's right foot and thigh just finished being repaired." Ritsuko finished a cigarette and lit another. "Didn't you go see Kaji last night?"
No response.
"Misato?"
Nothing.
"Major?"
The sound of snoring was heard.
"...Sigh..."
Scene: Locker Room.
"...So, what'd you and the Bitch in Red do last night?" Kaworu asked as he changed into his plug suit. "Hopefully it was more interesting than my night with Lea..."
"...Who's Lea?" Shinji asked, hitting the switch on his own suit. "...and since when are you dating...?" he added, almost in a mutter.
"Ha ha...very funny, Mr. Ikari...I happen to be very popular with the ladies." Kaworu huffed.
"Yeah, pull the other string and it plays La Bamba." Kojiro stuck his head out of the shower room and quickly got into his own suit, being the kind of guy who was none to proud of dressing with other guys. "I hear it's time for another VR test today...Let's pray Asuka isn't still mad 'cause I groped her Eva in there..." He hit the switch. "How the hell was I supposed to know she could feel it?"
"...Well, I will say that was one of your major downfalls..." Kaworu said as he shut his locker. "But I think the topper was when you lit that whole crate of Flash Bombs off and took out half the VR sensors for 5 hours...It's a miracle any of us can still see after that. "
"...Don't remind me...I'm still taking eye medications...Do remember I was grosse-point-blank of those things..." Kojiro sighed.
"All pilots reoprt for VR test simulation." the call came over the comm.
"Showtime..." Kaworu said.
Scene: NERV VR chamber.
"Okay, here's the set-up..." Ritsuko said over the speakers. "You'll be tested for accuracy against multiple targets and resourcefulness. This time around, there will be fewer battery units in the area, so use the most of your Eva's power reserves wisely and efficiently. This will show us if you're capable to go over enemy lines if the time ever comes for that."
Ritsuko stuck a hand in her pocket to fetch the data-card with the VR City Simulation Data and Enemy Unit Data. The only things she coud find was a half stick if lipstick and a pack of smokes.
"That's odd...Where's the disc?" She looked around. The only other person in the room was a crewman going over some files.
"Hey you, have you seen a blue disc anywhere?" She asked.
The man pulled his cap over his eyes. "...Blue, you say? ...I think I picked it up..." He produced a blue disc from his orange suit, handing it to her without turning to face her.
She took the disc and examined it. Yeah, it was the VR simulation disc alright...
"How'd you get this?" She asked.
"...Oh, I thought it was one of my music CD's...sorry for the mix up." He nodded to her and headed out the door.
"Odd..." Ritsuko shrugged and inputted the Data. "Okay, gang...Games begin in 5 minutes."
As Koruki left the room, he whipped off the cap, letting his long yellow hair drape along his shoulders. A grin cut across his face, a soft chuckle escaping his lips.
"...Nighty night, Pilots..."He laughed.
"Simulation Type: Tokyo 0.3.
"Enemy Targets: Mech units, Angel simulations.
"Time Limit: none.
"Scoring Based: Accruacy, resources.
"Simulation: Begin.
"Alrighty...two Orions Units to the left flank..." Kojiro observed. "Me and Ayanami will take sniper positions for the time being during the first wave!"
"...Grr! He always takes Sniper Position!" Asuka growled. "...Oh, alright...me and the Albino Wonder will take recon! Shinji! ....uh....Just shoot em when you see em!"
Eva 0.1 stood there as the others took position in the VR City. Something wasn't right...When was the Cities sky bright red? He shrugged it off and took position behind a building with Unit 0.1's new Katana Blade. "...Okay...bring it on!"
Kojiro and Rei laid their Eva's on there bellies on a wide building, perfectly concealed from enemy sight from left, right, and center. The only way you could possibly see them were if you used Heat-Goggles.
"...Any targets?" Kojiro asked.
"...No...only one recon scout...Langely seems to be on it's trail though." Rei said.
Kojiro smirked. Then he looked up. Red sky...odd...it was usually just plain blue.
"Kojiro-Kun! We've been spotted!" Rei said in panic as she shot off a few rounds.
"Damn!" Kojiro swerved around, pulling off a few more shots.
Shinji knelt down behind a low building structure. Two Loki units were nearby, judging by the sound distance of their clanking.
He checked his sytem status...He had 15 minutes until he needed to find a battery unit to recharge. Suddenly, the clanking went away. So much for a few additional points on his record.
"Hey, Idiot!" Asuka hailed him on his com. "It's Asuka! Pick up!"
"Shinji here...What's up?" Shinji asked, scanning the area for the two units that he lost.
"...there's....ugh.....damn....the...pressure...............Shin.....ji.............." the com went dead.
"Asuka?!" Shinji felt a ping of panic overcome him.
The Eva's emergency com picked up his call. "I'm sorry, the pilot you are trying to reach has ejected. Please try again later. Thank you."
"Kojiro! Ayanami! Something's wrong with Asuka!" Shinji's voice came over the com.
"...What?" Kojiro thumbed through the Eva's PC system to pinpoint Unit 0.2. No doubt about it. The Eva was on it's back, stuck in a postion where it was clutching it's neck, from what the scan was able to produce. A further scan showed the ejected plug on a building roof nearby.
"Nah, I'm sure she's fine." Kojiro resumed position.
"No, I'm serious...she was complaining of pressure! And I can't get a hold of Kaworu!"
"Ikari, calm down...I'm sure it's nothing."
No response.
"Shinji?" Kojiro turned in his plug to face the com screen, which now showed static.
Silence.
"Ikari-kun?" Rei asked.
"I'm sorry, the pilot you are trying to reach has ejected. Please try again. Thank you."
Ritsuko looked up from her computer when a red light caught her attention. With a swift kick to the floor, she maneuvered her swivel chair to the VR main terminal.
"Computer, name status." she commanded.
"Error in the system."
Ristuko arched a brow. "What kind of error?"
"Virus has entered the program. All Eva's rendered inoperable. VR simulation paused until Virus has cleared. Virus cleansing may take 29 hours."
"Damn..." she jumped from her chair to get help. Any one would do. She also made a note to find the man who gave her that disc.
"I don't like this, Rei...I can't get a hold of the others..." Kojiro sat down his Eva's gun and let the android sit up. "...It's too quiet out...I haven't seen an enemy units in close to five minutes."
"Correct. The simulation should not stop the enemy waves unless it was paused through the main system." Rei said with a calm tone. "Perhaps the system has errored."
"Hmm...maybe..." Kojiro switched visual to heat scan. Nothing. Only the wire frame from the VR structures came visible in heat mode.
"Ugh!...Ko...Kojiro! ...................................." Ayanami's paniced voice shook Kojiro away from his observations.
"Ayanami?" Kojiro swerved his Eva's head in the direction of his partner.
Unit 0.0 lay on it's back, thrashing wildly, clutching at it's neck. It arched it's back and the entry plug shot out like a bullet, crashing into a nearby structure.
"Hold on, Rei...what the hell is.....urk!" Kojiro dropped the Eva's control handles. The LCL suddenly became cloudy. The pressure was overwelming. He grabbed at his neck, feeling as if he was being choked. With one hand, he smashed the emergency abort switch, and soon the pressure vanished instantly. Kojiro blacked out before he hit the wall.
"The simulation was hacked??" Misato asked as she and Ritsuko, followed by tech support, return to the empty command area.
"That's my theory. That bastard who handed me that disc must have implanted some sort of virus in the data...The simulation is completely inoperable...Not even the Magi can open it back up." Ritsuko returned to her chair, bringing up the simulation status screen.
"What about the pilots??" Misato was ready to tear things apart.
"...We can't get a proper reading, but it seems they've all ejected." Maya called from her station. "What the...odd. It just started back up..."
"Oh...well, then we can get things back to normal..." Ritsuko turned to access the man screen.
The screens on all nearby PC terminal's went black.
Then, in big red letters, the words "L-I-L-L-I-T-H" appeared.
"Oh, hell...this can't be good..." Misato sighed.
"Maya, what can you get on this?" Ritsuko asked.
"It's no use! The whole system is being blocked!"
"...Ayanami...you okay?" Kojiro pulled the icy-haired girl from her plug. The wreck around them smoked and flamed. It was almost too real to be VR.
Rei was silent. Out like a light. Kojiro wrapped his arms around her and pulled her where they would be safe if any other strange effect occured.
"Let's pray the others are alright." he said, looking out towards the pretend horizon.
Shinji, Asuka, and Kaworu sat amongst the rubble on the building Kaworu's Eva had wrecked.
"Shit! Dammit!" Asuka hissed as she kicked at debris on the ground. "What the fuck is going on up there?! What the hell happened?!!?"
"Calm down, Langely...I'm sure this is just a slight mix-up." Kaworu sighed as he drew his knee's up to his chest. "...I'm sure everything's under control..."
"...Boy, you sound confident." Asuka grunted.
Shinji was silent.
Kaworu looked up, where a cloud hung in perfect stillness. It wasn't even in an interesting shape. He rubbed his eyes and looked again. The cloud was shifting north.
"Guys, I think the system just started up again." Kaworu tapped Shinji on the head to wake him.
"C'mon, Rei....wake up!" Kojiro grew frustrated as the girl lay comotose.
Kojiro sat there, pondering, watching a small bug scuttle across the piece of wreckage near him.
"..." a thought came to him. He looked over to where Rei layed. Almost like Snow White. And how did the prince wake Snow White up?
Kojiro considered it. She was out. No one was around that he could tell.
"Alrighty..." he more or less fell from his perch than anything else. He came up to her and brushed her hair from her face. Even out of commition, she maintained her angelic beauty. He always hoped this sort of moment would be under more...enjoyable surcumstances...like with candles and dinner...not a fouled-up VR test and a cumcussion.
Still, he wouldn't probably get a better chance.
*Center the target...pull the trigger...* the thought repeated in the back of his mind. *Center the target...Pull the trigger...*
He bent down over her face. Well...she was breathing...that much he knew. Carpe' Diem. He gently kissed her on the lips. If she was awake, this would have been much better. Still...take what you can get.
So, there Kojiro was. Bent over a comotose girl, locking lips with her. After what seemed like hours on end, he pulled back, hoping his Prince Charming powers had any effect.
She twitched her eyebrows like she was having a bad dream. Rei's eye twitch a moment again, then opened, her red eyes burning into Kojiro's.
Kojiro gave her a sheepish grin. Rei frowned at him. "What happened, Kojiro-kun?" she asked.
"Oh...uh...I...nothing...You had a nasty bump on the head, so I pulled you under here where it's safe..." Kojiro lied, fearing that if he told the truth, she'd break his jaw.
Rei nodded. Then, she rose up a little and leaned against him.
"...Rei?" Kojiro wondered if she was sick.
"...I'm tired...I want to sleep." She nuzzled her cheeck against his shoulder.
The whole command room above the testing chamber was in chaos. At each terminal, at least 10 techs were fiddeling away, trying to break through the virus's barrier on the VR system drives. The only things that could get through were the pilot terminal devices and the main hatchway. The only problem there was that you couldn't open the hatch without risking the VR structures turning on itself from the sudden exposure and causing the mother of all backdrafts, taking out the pilots, Eva's, and half of HQ. This was the major downfall of having access to the ultimate VR system...a system so real it could turn on itself.
"...So, if we dare tamper with it from the outsdie while it's on, it'll explode?" Misato was close to strangeling Ritsuko. "Who the hells devised this bullshit?!"
"Major, we have no time for this! For all we know, the pilots are in grave danger if we don't re-access the system!" Ritsuko didn't bother turn away from her terminal.
"And how in god's name do you intend on doing that!?" Misato growled.
"...We don't know yet..."
"Figures..."
Suddenly, a tech hurried to them. "Major! The sensors that are still working just picked up something moving about the VR chamber."
"What was it? One of the pilots?" Misato asked.
"No ma'am..." he looked paniced.
"Then what is it?!" Misato snapped.
"...It was an Angel..."
End chapter 2.
Next Chapter: "Battle of Fantasy" or "Form of the mind"
Brave New World
Fanfiction by Raven Chaos
ravenkoruki@aol.com
Disclaimer: ...I don't own Evangelion, plain and simple, so don't sue me, I have nothing you want. Also, this quotes some things from comics books I've read...please, Marvel, DC, or Image, don't sue me.
Author's note: I recieved a review that the character of Kojiro is me and this is a self-insertion fic. Nope. Not a chance. Kojiro has an ego, I don't. I suffer from shyness, Kojiro has half a mind to run around naked during a rainstorm in Time Square, New York City. Nuff said.
Chapter two: Kojiro and Rei- Love in the VR Chamber!...or "Trapped!"
Scene: Kojiro and Rei's apartment, 6:00am.
Kojiro awoke...at least that's how it seemed...he was never too sure about anything in the morning...except the fact he always had a crick in his back and had the mental synch of a newborn until 6:30, after his cartoons and breakfast. That was his ritual. Moments later, his legs forced him out of bed and into the bathroom. The sight of his face in the mirror at this time of the day played tricks on his sensitive psyche.
"...Oon Gawa..."he mummbled as he fumbled for his toothbrush.
"...what does that mean?" a soft female voice that made Kojiro melt on impact reached his ears.
"Huh? What?" he spun around, almost falling onto the blue tile floor.
"You said...'Oon Gawa'...what does that mean?" Rei, garbed in her nighty, stood in the doorway.
"Oh...umm..." Kojiro kick-started his puttering brain to find the meaning of his moniker 'Wake-Up' phrase.
"...Oon Gawa...uh...it's kinda like sayin' ...'Good Morning'..." Kojiro scratched his head.
"Oh...then Oon Gawa, Kojiro-kun..." Rei vanished from the doorway.
"Oooh, I want her..." Kojiro sighed and rested his head on the cool surface of the sink.
Scene: Not too much later, Ritsuko's office.
"...So what do we have sceduled for today?" Misato Katsuragi inquired as she took her first of coffee. Her hair was a frazzled mess. Her face untouched by makeup, but was in dire need of some. Her uniform was poorly put on, making one amazed she even got an arm in one sleeve.
"VR tests...like we do every thursday." Ritsuko without looking back from her computer, typing away like a Stephen Hawkings on acid on some program connected to the Magi System.
Misato groaned and slumped in a chair. "...Please tell me there's a time limit this time..."
Ritsuko was silent.
Misato sighed and hung her head. "...God knows how long those kids can go..."
"Let's hope Kojiro and Asuka get along this time...Unit 0.7's damage to it's right foot and thigh just finished being repaired." Ritsuko finished a cigarette and lit another. "Didn't you go see Kaji last night?"
No response.
"Misato?"
Nothing.
"Major?"
The sound of snoring was heard.
"...Sigh..."
Scene: Locker Room.
"...So, what'd you and the Bitch in Red do last night?" Kaworu asked as he changed into his plug suit. "Hopefully it was more interesting than my night with Lea..."
"...Who's Lea?" Shinji asked, hitting the switch on his own suit. "...and since when are you dating...?" he added, almost in a mutter.
"Ha ha...very funny, Mr. Ikari...I happen to be very popular with the ladies." Kaworu huffed.
"Yeah, pull the other string and it plays La Bamba." Kojiro stuck his head out of the shower room and quickly got into his own suit, being the kind of guy who was none to proud of dressing with other guys. "I hear it's time for another VR test today...Let's pray Asuka isn't still mad 'cause I groped her Eva in there..." He hit the switch. "How the hell was I supposed to know she could feel it?"
"...Well, I will say that was one of your major downfalls..." Kaworu said as he shut his locker. "But I think the topper was when you lit that whole crate of Flash Bombs off and took out half the VR sensors for 5 hours...It's a miracle any of us can still see after that. "
"...Don't remind me...I'm still taking eye medications...Do remember I was grosse-point-blank of those things..." Kojiro sighed.
"All pilots reoprt for VR test simulation." the call came over the comm.
"Showtime..." Kaworu said.
Scene: NERV VR chamber.
"Okay, here's the set-up..." Ritsuko said over the speakers. "You'll be tested for accuracy against multiple targets and resourcefulness. This time around, there will be fewer battery units in the area, so use the most of your Eva's power reserves wisely and efficiently. This will show us if you're capable to go over enemy lines if the time ever comes for that."
Ritsuko stuck a hand in her pocket to fetch the data-card with the VR City Simulation Data and Enemy Unit Data. The only things she coud find was a half stick if lipstick and a pack of smokes.
"That's odd...Where's the disc?" She looked around. The only other person in the room was a crewman going over some files.
"Hey you, have you seen a blue disc anywhere?" She asked.
The man pulled his cap over his eyes. "...Blue, you say? ...I think I picked it up..." He produced a blue disc from his orange suit, handing it to her without turning to face her.
She took the disc and examined it. Yeah, it was the VR simulation disc alright...
"How'd you get this?" She asked.
"...Oh, I thought it was one of my music CD's...sorry for the mix up." He nodded to her and headed out the door.
"Odd..." Ritsuko shrugged and inputted the Data. "Okay, gang...Games begin in 5 minutes."
As Koruki left the room, he whipped off the cap, letting his long yellow hair drape along his shoulders. A grin cut across his face, a soft chuckle escaping his lips.
"...Nighty night, Pilots..."He laughed.
"Simulation Type: Tokyo 0.3.
"Enemy Targets: Mech units, Angel simulations.
"Time Limit: none.
"Scoring Based: Accruacy, resources.
"Simulation: Begin.
"Alrighty...two Orions Units to the left flank..." Kojiro observed. "Me and Ayanami will take sniper positions for the time being during the first wave!"
"...Grr! He always takes Sniper Position!" Asuka growled. "...Oh, alright...me and the Albino Wonder will take recon! Shinji! ....uh....Just shoot em when you see em!"
Eva 0.1 stood there as the others took position in the VR City. Something wasn't right...When was the Cities sky bright red? He shrugged it off and took position behind a building with Unit 0.1's new Katana Blade. "...Okay...bring it on!"
Kojiro and Rei laid their Eva's on there bellies on a wide building, perfectly concealed from enemy sight from left, right, and center. The only way you could possibly see them were if you used Heat-Goggles.
"...Any targets?" Kojiro asked.
"...No...only one recon scout...Langely seems to be on it's trail though." Rei said.
Kojiro smirked. Then he looked up. Red sky...odd...it was usually just plain blue.
"Kojiro-Kun! We've been spotted!" Rei said in panic as she shot off a few rounds.
"Damn!" Kojiro swerved around, pulling off a few more shots.
Shinji knelt down behind a low building structure. Two Loki units were nearby, judging by the sound distance of their clanking.
He checked his sytem status...He had 15 minutes until he needed to find a battery unit to recharge. Suddenly, the clanking went away. So much for a few additional points on his record.
"Hey, Idiot!" Asuka hailed him on his com. "It's Asuka! Pick up!"
"Shinji here...What's up?" Shinji asked, scanning the area for the two units that he lost.
"...there's....ugh.....damn....the...pressure...............Shin.....ji.............." the com went dead.
"Asuka?!" Shinji felt a ping of panic overcome him.
The Eva's emergency com picked up his call. "I'm sorry, the pilot you are trying to reach has ejected. Please try again later. Thank you."
"Kojiro! Ayanami! Something's wrong with Asuka!" Shinji's voice came over the com.
"...What?" Kojiro thumbed through the Eva's PC system to pinpoint Unit 0.2. No doubt about it. The Eva was on it's back, stuck in a postion where it was clutching it's neck, from what the scan was able to produce. A further scan showed the ejected plug on a building roof nearby.
"Nah, I'm sure she's fine." Kojiro resumed position.
"No, I'm serious...she was complaining of pressure! And I can't get a hold of Kaworu!"
"Ikari, calm down...I'm sure it's nothing."
No response.
"Shinji?" Kojiro turned in his plug to face the com screen, which now showed static.
Silence.
"Ikari-kun?" Rei asked.
"I'm sorry, the pilot you are trying to reach has ejected. Please try again. Thank you."
Ritsuko looked up from her computer when a red light caught her attention. With a swift kick to the floor, she maneuvered her swivel chair to the VR main terminal.
"Computer, name status." she commanded.
"Error in the system."
Ristuko arched a brow. "What kind of error?"
"Virus has entered the program. All Eva's rendered inoperable. VR simulation paused until Virus has cleared. Virus cleansing may take 29 hours."
"Damn..." she jumped from her chair to get help. Any one would do. She also made a note to find the man who gave her that disc.
"I don't like this, Rei...I can't get a hold of the others..." Kojiro sat down his Eva's gun and let the android sit up. "...It's too quiet out...I haven't seen an enemy units in close to five minutes."
"Correct. The simulation should not stop the enemy waves unless it was paused through the main system." Rei said with a calm tone. "Perhaps the system has errored."
"Hmm...maybe..." Kojiro switched visual to heat scan. Nothing. Only the wire frame from the VR structures came visible in heat mode.
"Ugh!...Ko...Kojiro! ...................................." Ayanami's paniced voice shook Kojiro away from his observations.
"Ayanami?" Kojiro swerved his Eva's head in the direction of his partner.
Unit 0.0 lay on it's back, thrashing wildly, clutching at it's neck. It arched it's back and the entry plug shot out like a bullet, crashing into a nearby structure.
"Hold on, Rei...what the hell is.....urk!" Kojiro dropped the Eva's control handles. The LCL suddenly became cloudy. The pressure was overwelming. He grabbed at his neck, feeling as if he was being choked. With one hand, he smashed the emergency abort switch, and soon the pressure vanished instantly. Kojiro blacked out before he hit the wall.
"The simulation was hacked??" Misato asked as she and Ritsuko, followed by tech support, return to the empty command area.
"That's my theory. That bastard who handed me that disc must have implanted some sort of virus in the data...The simulation is completely inoperable...Not even the Magi can open it back up." Ritsuko returned to her chair, bringing up the simulation status screen.
"What about the pilots??" Misato was ready to tear things apart.
"...We can't get a proper reading, but it seems they've all ejected." Maya called from her station. "What the...odd. It just started back up..."
"Oh...well, then we can get things back to normal..." Ritsuko turned to access the man screen.
The screens on all nearby PC terminal's went black.
Then, in big red letters, the words "L-I-L-L-I-T-H" appeared.
"Oh, hell...this can't be good..." Misato sighed.
"Maya, what can you get on this?" Ritsuko asked.
"It's no use! The whole system is being blocked!"
"...Ayanami...you okay?" Kojiro pulled the icy-haired girl from her plug. The wreck around them smoked and flamed. It was almost too real to be VR.
Rei was silent. Out like a light. Kojiro wrapped his arms around her and pulled her where they would be safe if any other strange effect occured.
"Let's pray the others are alright." he said, looking out towards the pretend horizon.
Shinji, Asuka, and Kaworu sat amongst the rubble on the building Kaworu's Eva had wrecked.
"Shit! Dammit!" Asuka hissed as she kicked at debris on the ground. "What the fuck is going on up there?! What the hell happened?!!?"
"Calm down, Langely...I'm sure this is just a slight mix-up." Kaworu sighed as he drew his knee's up to his chest. "...I'm sure everything's under control..."
"...Boy, you sound confident." Asuka grunted.
Shinji was silent.
Kaworu looked up, where a cloud hung in perfect stillness. It wasn't even in an interesting shape. He rubbed his eyes and looked again. The cloud was shifting north.
"Guys, I think the system just started up again." Kaworu tapped Shinji on the head to wake him.
"C'mon, Rei....wake up!" Kojiro grew frustrated as the girl lay comotose.
Kojiro sat there, pondering, watching a small bug scuttle across the piece of wreckage near him.
"..." a thought came to him. He looked over to where Rei layed. Almost like Snow White. And how did the prince wake Snow White up?
Kojiro considered it. She was out. No one was around that he could tell.
"Alrighty..." he more or less fell from his perch than anything else. He came up to her and brushed her hair from her face. Even out of commition, she maintained her angelic beauty. He always hoped this sort of moment would be under more...enjoyable surcumstances...like with candles and dinner...not a fouled-up VR test and a cumcussion.
Still, he wouldn't probably get a better chance.
*Center the target...pull the trigger...* the thought repeated in the back of his mind. *Center the target...Pull the trigger...*
He bent down over her face. Well...she was breathing...that much he knew. Carpe' Diem. He gently kissed her on the lips. If she was awake, this would have been much better. Still...take what you can get.
So, there Kojiro was. Bent over a comotose girl, locking lips with her. After what seemed like hours on end, he pulled back, hoping his Prince Charming powers had any effect.
She twitched her eyebrows like she was having a bad dream. Rei's eye twitch a moment again, then opened, her red eyes burning into Kojiro's.
Kojiro gave her a sheepish grin. Rei frowned at him. "What happened, Kojiro-kun?" she asked.
"Oh...uh...I...nothing...You had a nasty bump on the head, so I pulled you under here where it's safe..." Kojiro lied, fearing that if he told the truth, she'd break his jaw.
Rei nodded. Then, she rose up a little and leaned against him.
"...Rei?" Kojiro wondered if she was sick.
"...I'm tired...I want to sleep." She nuzzled her cheeck against his shoulder.
The whole command room above the testing chamber was in chaos. At each terminal, at least 10 techs were fiddeling away, trying to break through the virus's barrier on the VR system drives. The only things that could get through were the pilot terminal devices and the main hatchway. The only problem there was that you couldn't open the hatch without risking the VR structures turning on itself from the sudden exposure and causing the mother of all backdrafts, taking out the pilots, Eva's, and half of HQ. This was the major downfall of having access to the ultimate VR system...a system so real it could turn on itself.
"...So, if we dare tamper with it from the outsdie while it's on, it'll explode?" Misato was close to strangeling Ritsuko. "Who the hells devised this bullshit?!"
"Major, we have no time for this! For all we know, the pilots are in grave danger if we don't re-access the system!" Ritsuko didn't bother turn away from her terminal.
"And how in god's name do you intend on doing that!?" Misato growled.
"...We don't know yet..."
"Figures..."
Suddenly, a tech hurried to them. "Major! The sensors that are still working just picked up something moving about the VR chamber."
"What was it? One of the pilots?" Misato asked.
"No ma'am..." he looked paniced.
"Then what is it?!" Misato snapped.
"...It was an Angel..."
End chapter 2.
Next Chapter: "Battle of Fantasy" or "Form of the mind"