Disclaimer in the first chapter... Ummm... Actually if ya don't know that by now... Then there's no saving you.
I'd tell you if something interesting had happened in my life.... Buuuuuut I'm pretty sure it wouldn't mean anything to the rest of you. So Nya :P
Due to the fact that things are beginning to get serious I've cut out the omakes. Sorry guys(or girls) but no OMAKES FOR YOU! Muahahaa (*I am the Omake Nazi!*) However I mixed in a touch of funny along the way, oh and please, please, please don't hate the ACC. Thank you.
Enjoy!
DrunkDrake
World from the eye's of Another
11: Reaching Strands
--?--?--
With a click a red phone was placed back on it's ringer.
Gendo Ikari sat in his dark office and pondered over the message he had received. No one but him would ever find out what he learned from that call. However Gendo Ikari was a man of plot and action. Gendo reached over and pressed a button on his desk and a serious voice of an intern spoke up asking what was needed.
"Have the sub commander report to me immediately"
The intern signed off and Gendo sat back against his chair until Fuyutsuki quickly walked through his door. Not until the room was completely sealed, did Gendo speak.
"We will have complications. Recall our pilot now"
Fuyutsuki blinked at Gendo's statement.
"Sir? We have three"
"That is only true in the most desperate time" Gendo folded his hands and stared at his old professor "We only have one reliable pilot"
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A man in a simple business suit strolled through the regular Tokyo 3 metropolitan crowds. Some would say these crowds were smaller then those that once littering across streets as sort of a time as 15 years ago, however things such as second impact's effects on the world of street walking held no meaning to the man.
Having crossed a street of the inner city he slowly paused to mingle with a large group of commuters waiting at a bus stop. Cars drove by, virtually all obeying the speed limit expect for one, which drove off too fast for the police to track a license, but the bus was still not in sight. The man didn't mind this as much as his fellow commuters and lightly smiled.
"Excuse me?" a female voice spoke up behind him. The business man cautiously turned and glanced behind himself, noting the cute late twenty-ish girl standing behind him, which had beckoned him "But, ahh, are you free later?"
"Hmm, I have a rather busy day ahead of me" he slowly spoke as if trying to remember why he couldn't agree with her "I work later shifts for my company"
The girl slightly shrunk at that but she chirped up and smiled giving him a wink then sliding her hand into his.
"Well, then I think you should call me when it's more appropriate ok?" She slinked away into the back of the crowd and the man slowly looked down into his hand at the little paper with a number scribbled on it.
"Well..." The man was lost with his words, but the bus came along and he boarded it not knowing the name of the girl that just made an impression on him. He pondered for a long while. Long enough, that he still couldn't make up his mind on her when he finally took off his regular old business suit in favour of something more, work associated.
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Void.
Nothing, and then.
Something...
"I live again" the angel announced to itself. Arael mentally paused.
"Live? How do I know such a meaningless term? Why do I even have this vanity for outward speech?" Arael slowly enfolded over itself and begun to probe itself with it's power.
"What caused this in me? Why am... I so... angered. Those two... Did something to me?" Arael sputtered out it's phrase completely confused not even knowing some of which it was saying. Arael was adding to it's hatred with each word, not knowing it.
"They poisoned me with their own essences... Why do I still use this infernal outward speech?" Arael's body slowly began to unfold and it's mighty spiky wings spread across the vast void of space.
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"... And so, with world order on the brink of collapse, the super powers began to consolidate there strength for one move to..."
Shinji sat and stared at the teacher letting a red lock of his red hair dangle in his vision as he rested his head across his arms on his school desk, all the while the teacher continued his history lecture.
Most the day has passed by now and the clock above the door was proudly displaying what time it was. Boring old clock, but a student tended to find it either beautiful or scary, based only on what was happening.
Shinji was watching it because he was testing a theory if whether or not the old teacher's rant reversed time to the era he was talking about.
'So boring...' Shinji's mind shuffled his feet and took a nap while Shinji watched the teacher. Brain power wasn't needed for this part of the day.
Just blank staring, which would have been Rei's role, if she hadn't been called into NERV. At first Shinji was worried if it was something to do with the Evas, the angel or even a new one, yet it had been a long time. So the worry in Shinji's mind was already replaced with boredom.
Toji was making a good effort though, with his feet propped up on the desk, both real and fake, sitting straight up while leaning far back in the chair, he was almost the perfect example of being comfortably ignorant, not on setting a good student example though. He may not hear a single word with his light snoring gently, giving the room a tempo as he shifted back and forth.
Kensuke was shaking his head over something on his computer screen, probably raiding chat rooms and monitoring the gossip over things. It really didn't concern Asuka as her eyes finally finished their scan of the room.
'Why is there nothing for ME to do during these times...' Asuka grumbled silently to herself. She turned on her computer and quickly scanned the list of lessons they'd done for the day. It was... a rather boring day. Asuka ran down the list in her mind.
'Math, geometry, Japanese, basic English-bleh, science-all theory' Asuka reminded herself before continuing 'and history to top off a day of desk work... Bleh bleh, blehdy bleh-BLEH!' Asuka stuck out her tongue and shook her head.
"You have an opinion to share with us mister Ikari?" The teacher shuffled his glasses and smirked that evil teacher smirk. Asuka sat up and withdrew her tongue in surprise, the teacher addressing a student during his lecture was enough to even rattle Toji into an appropriate school regulated position.
"No, sir. Sorry sir" Asuka stumbled through her apology. Shinji wearily eyed Asuka. Probably thinking I've blown our cover, Asuka's internal self booted her brain back into action.
"Well you may sit down mister Ikari" the teacher glanced outside and Asuka bashfully sat down not realizing she stood bolt upright.
"I think I have an announcement to make" the teacher grinned lightly and faced the class.
'Oh... No...' Shinji's mind screamed in horror 'Anything... Please'
School was slowly whirling through the day, the teacher had all but talked himself into a corner three times and got muffled by his lack of thoughts. Since he admitted he couldn't work in the classroom in a day so lovingly beautiful, with birds chirping and sun shining, he allowed the day to end with a Gym class.
- ' God... ANYTHING...' Shinji's eyes opened wide in shock.
Though it took a little bit of rearranging with the actual coach, for both the boys and the girls divisions, eventually it was agreed that the rest of the school day was to be spent outside.
'But this...' Shinji's mind settled his thoughts on the door in front of him.
*Girls changing room*
His greatest challenge yet. And perhaps that which shall define him as a man... No wait a minute... Any boy would want to sneak a peak into a girls change room... So really how does that signify his passing into manhood? I mean... Well Shinji is sort of a wimp, though I think even he'd leap at the chance to ogle naked girls changing in front of him... Given the ability. Pfft, just look! Toji and Kensuke are already selling off the peep holes over there-**smack** Right right, back to the story monologue... * Fooey, there goes my reservation... * ...OW....
This was something Asuka HADN'T warned Shinji about. Thinking over his pre-school warm up pep talk with Asuka before they ran inside, at the time something as possibly and mortally embarrassing as changing in a room with the opposite sex-
'No wait, I'm a girl now... Shinji, Your Asuka at the moment' Shinji swallowed the thought down as quickly as he remembered it. Shinji glared murder at the door, indecision racking his brain.
'Damn teacher... Ordering swimming for the last period... I need to teacher HIM something!' Shinji vowed as the rest of the female class filed past him and into the locker room.
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"It appears the target has begun to move on it's own again!" Maya reported skimming across the display on her screen.
"All outlying outposts also observing the angel are in agreement also" Aoba turned back to his work station and furiously begun managing the storm of reports piling up his screen.
Only Hyuga sat between the three of them with little to do, he was only command support, direct subordinate to Misato his talents would only come into play when the Angel was back into the zone of operations.
Misato rolled her eyes and slowly nodded her head side to side as she mentally sorted her own options and needed materials.
"Hyuga?"
"Yes ma'am?" Hyuga turned around from his silent station to face Misato expectantly.
"Begin counting up all our long range capabilities, rifles, beam weapons, even our ability to extend AT fields far enough" Misato turned around and paced thinking over other things. Hyuga gave an affirmative and his work space quickly caught up to the frantic pace of his co workers.
'What real options do we have to counter this thing? Ritsuko's section hasn't given us any real evidence of a weakness nor even something effective to use' Misato frowned as she paced 'Well there was JSSDF's prototype weapon. That's killed one angel and beat off this one'
"Hyuga! What's the status of the JSSDF's prototype high density rifle?" Misato ended her pace and stood over Hyuga. Hyuga blinked and shifted his quarrying to his order, quickly he received an answer and glanced up to Misato.
"The rifle seems to be nearly inoperable" Misato waited in silence until Hyuga was able to explain "Seems that all the power that was used by it in it's maiden operation has made it very delicate, as they say, and it is in need of heavy maintenance after use"
Misato blinked and frowned before nodding to Hyuga to get her original order under way. She slowly glanced around the command center hoping for an answer to appear to her but none were fore bearing. She paced as time began to tick away.
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Rei departed from the humming rail train used for transport to the lower section of Tokyo 3, the Geo-Front, and she quickly walked over to the NERV headquarters standing tall in the middle of the dome.
As she walked towards one of the gates she noticed an extra guard, dressed completely in black with glasses covering his eyes and something tucked under his arm. Rei kept the man under her unwavering stare as she approached.
"Your the first child" he said it matter of factly and reached under his arm. He held out an enclosed folio and waited for her to take it. Rei walked right up to him, standing a head shorter but just as intense as the dark clad man. The NERV agent travelled back into the commander center after she took it, leaving Rei to open her package.
With a quick tear across the top of the folio, out dropped a small typed note and a red booklet into her waiting hand. A quick scan of the red booklet revealed it was detailed plans of NERV with a route highlighted, a very unusual route. Rei folded the red booklet and peered over the note.
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The common business man from before, the one having received the note from the girl with her phone number, offering a date and possibly more he mused, quickly slid out of his suit and red tie.
'I wonder if I could have interested her with a line like "Hi, I'm really a super spy" maybe a wink or two in there, ya never know' he folded up the suit and tidied up his newly rented apartment and chose a selection of casual clothing, simple green shirt and a pair of blue shorts.
'Nothing fancy for now, just going for a stroll' he finished his dressing and left through the door in sandals, calmly padding down the carpeted hallway. Looking more like an uncommon vacationer then a permanent resident he enters the elevator and presses the button for ground level.
As he stands off to the side, politely giving room to the other people in the elevator he hums a nothing song to himself and walks through the halls to find himself outside and strolling along unheeded to a destination only he'd care about.
As he walked calmly along into a slightly grittier section of Tokyo 3 he made a turn off the sidewalk and entered a small modestly kept garage with it's name long erased from memory.
"Your late" a voice echoed from a dark corner of the near empty garage.
"Can't be helped" He gave a shrug as if he were relaxed beyond belief.
"It will be helped, since you've been dubbed what duty you get" the voice came again.
With a groan he realized what it meant "Pack mule?"
As the door to the garage closed, the lights all flicked on and in the middle of the room, surrounded by grinning men, fully dressed in kevlar, body armour and all sporting weapons and knives, stood a table with more weapons, pistols, rifles, bags, explosives and interesting trinkets that *might* prove to be an aid on the infiltration of NERV headquarters.
"Our boss says it's time to move in for a closer look" a slightly bigger man spoke up and nodded to the business man we thought we knew "Rob will be our supplier and radio traffic manager"
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"It seems SEELE's old men have been caught in a panic. They've sent some of their units to see the outcome. Since the prophecy diverged on a planned outcome, we ourselves shall force a path on our new course" Gendo unfolded his hands and rose from his desk.
"Well, what do we have to do to prepare for the new course?" Fuyutsuki pondered on Gendo's words.
"It's fairly simple. We discard that which hinders us and helps them" Gendo pressed a button on his desk and the door behind Fuyutsuki quietly slid open.
The former teacher couldn't help but turn to see if there was someone waiting entry. Instead of someone walking in, Gendo walked past Fuyutsuki and nodded for him to follow.
"I've already prepared for the wisest move in our arsenal" Gendo trotted down the hall and silently noted Fuyutsuki closed the door on his way, before catching up to Gendo.
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Hikari trotted down the school hall with Asuka, still in Shinji's body, close behind as they walked down the school hall towards the change rooms. Asuka was scowling, which was very weird since it was Shinji's face twisted in such a way.
"Can't believe he got us a gym class today of all todays" Asuka fumed and stomped behind Hikari.
"Well, yes I'm rather happy about it, but you and Shinji can skip without too much worry. The school day is almost done" Hikari was thinking out loud and Asuka was finding herself agreeing with the ponytail girl.
"That moron of a boy -err, girl ran off without even thinking about the consequences. Even left the cellphone behind" Asuka grumbled and pulled out Shinji's personal cellphone, eyeing it warily as if it was acting evasive.
"Even worse is when he's off galavanting around with" Asuka slightly growled and stomped ahead of Hikari "my body when NERV calls and demands we run down there for standby duty!!" Asuka spun around and pointed the cellphone at an unimpressed Hikari.
"Asuka, there's no reason you have to..." Hikari trailed off as they passed several classes with students before continuing "Wait for Shinji"
"What if he gets in trouble?" Asuka rose an eyebrow and followed Hikari.
"Well then he's in trouble" Hikari muttered and turned down the last corridor to the change rooms.
"In my FEMALE body, Hikari" Asuka slurred some of her words trying to make a point more obvious.
"... Huh??" Hikari paused and glanced at Asuka "... Yes... So he's a girl... OH" Hikari quickened her pace to the girl's change room and leaving Asuka to wait impatiently.
Suddenly an explosion erupts from the locker room in the form of a projectile female Shinji knocking down Asuka, flat on her face.
"HIKARI WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?!" Shinji chirped over the fallen Asuka.
"Cause you, S-H-I-N-J-I, may not enter that area under any circumstances!" Hikari glared down at him as Asuka struggled to get up to see what was happening.
"Wha?! Wha! HUH!? Your blaming me for this when I was told to do it!!?" Shinji stammered.
"Shinji! Your a BOY, not a girl!" Hikari pointed to him angrily "Regardless of circumstance!"
"That's right Hikari, chew him out, but would you mind helping me UP?" Asuka spoke up, getting tired of being crushed under Shinji. She was still rubbing her nose from falling on it.
"Ahh! Sorry Asuka! Shinji beat it!!" Hikari commanded, Shinji looked at her almost ghostly white.
"Can I at least get my shirt back!?" Shinji's shocked statement caused Asuka's head to whip around and take note Shinji was standing in a skirt, shoes, and bra. In the middle of a hall no less.
"Have you no shame!!!" Asuka bellowed and Hikari had a mental hiccup having put together more parts of a puzzle. Females, even semi fake ones, should never be undressed on school grounds!
"Ahhh, sorry sorry sorry!" Hikari buried her face in her hands and ran through the locker room door, leaving Shinji still on top of Asuka.
"Hey Shinji.... Get a shirt on that body!" Asuka growled angrily "Or else I'll show you where it can hurt a lot on that body of yours"
Shinji staggered to his feet and hurried to the locker room, being indecent tends to hurry the dear boy. As he was rushing to the door it suddenly swung open and whacked Shinji's head with a solid *CRACK*. Needless to say the poor dear had swirlies in his eyes for the rest of this segment.
"... I... got your shirt" Hikari held out Shinji's missing article of clothing. Asuka blinked and growled a bit deeper then normal.
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"Major stop pacing. The children will be here eventually" Fuyutsuki spoke from behind her.
"Oh, sir! The children hadn't came across my mind yet" Misato hopped into a salute and Fuyutsuki gently rolled his eyes. "I was more concerned that, with the approaching angel near, our choice of inventory concerning operational weaponry is less then I'd prefer"
"Major don't worry, you've always figured out a successful way to defeat the angels before" Fuyutsuki gentled patted Misato on the shoulder and walked past her to the command level "We still have in our arsenal the ability to fight back until we have nothing left but our fists"
Misato silently pondered over Fuyutsuki's brush against her, wondering over his almost defeated tone.
"Sir? Our fists? Isn't that a little too small compared to them?" Misato had meant angels, Fuyutsuki knew that, but Fuyutsuki was having a hard time remembering how varied his enemies were.
"Unit one had shown us how good a fist works in it's debut battle, didn't it?" with that Fuyutsuki boarded the small elevator and rode up to the commanders chair on the highest level.
What worried Misato was, the battle which Fuyutsuki had mentioned had no tactical planning, no successful deployed weapons, limited knowledge of the enemy and a wild card of a pilot, with an untested Evangelion to act as the last defense. It was a battle which everything could have went wrong, with or without her input.
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"Copy that, testing testing" Rob rolled his eyes as his teammate as dubbed S2 by radio traffic, was testing his radio transmission from across the aisle. Hell he even smiled and waved at Rob.
"Look, here bub, I don't have to like the duty, but don't mess with my work load" Rob glared across the small expanse between them, literally sitting within striking distance of each other. Both of their heads bopping as their ride, a truck or van of sorts which had become popular within the Japanese society cruised along on some of the streets of Tokyo 3, heading towards their target point for entry.
"SoS mission, bleh" came a voice from over the radio Rob had wired into his suit. With a sigh he picked up his transceiver and radioed in the second team which was already in action.
"Less chatter M5" "M6" "Whatever, and this isn't a same old..." Rob glanced up to see the same moron from before giving him a wink.
"S3, that wasn't my transmission over" came the voice, completely neutral in it's staticy delivery.
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Rei slowly exited from the elevator to the eva cages, having long left the winding corridors of NERV and having abandoned her school clothing in the change rooms in favour of the tight and form fitting plug suit.
As the cage rattled it came to a jarring stop at the umbilical bridge, connecting the Elevator to the Eva.
"Commander?" Rei's soft tone carried in the high ceiling of the cage for Eva 00.
"Rei... I have your role for this coming battle" Gendo glanced above his glasses to Rei. Cold stare to chilling glare.
--?--?--
And so ends this chapter. Good day.
I'd tell you if something interesting had happened in my life.... Buuuuuut I'm pretty sure it wouldn't mean anything to the rest of you. So Nya :P
Due to the fact that things are beginning to get serious I've cut out the omakes. Sorry guys(or girls) but no OMAKES FOR YOU! Muahahaa (*I am the Omake Nazi!*) However I mixed in a touch of funny along the way, oh and please, please, please don't hate the ACC. Thank you.
Enjoy!
DrunkDrake
World from the eye's of Another
11: Reaching Strands
--?--?--
With a click a red phone was placed back on it's ringer.
Gendo Ikari sat in his dark office and pondered over the message he had received. No one but him would ever find out what he learned from that call. However Gendo Ikari was a man of plot and action. Gendo reached over and pressed a button on his desk and a serious voice of an intern spoke up asking what was needed.
"Have the sub commander report to me immediately"
The intern signed off and Gendo sat back against his chair until Fuyutsuki quickly walked through his door. Not until the room was completely sealed, did Gendo speak.
"We will have complications. Recall our pilot now"
Fuyutsuki blinked at Gendo's statement.
"Sir? We have three"
"That is only true in the most desperate time" Gendo folded his hands and stared at his old professor "We only have one reliable pilot"
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A man in a simple business suit strolled through the regular Tokyo 3 metropolitan crowds. Some would say these crowds were smaller then those that once littering across streets as sort of a time as 15 years ago, however things such as second impact's effects on the world of street walking held no meaning to the man.
Having crossed a street of the inner city he slowly paused to mingle with a large group of commuters waiting at a bus stop. Cars drove by, virtually all obeying the speed limit expect for one, which drove off too fast for the police to track a license, but the bus was still not in sight. The man didn't mind this as much as his fellow commuters and lightly smiled.
"Excuse me?" a female voice spoke up behind him. The business man cautiously turned and glanced behind himself, noting the cute late twenty-ish girl standing behind him, which had beckoned him "But, ahh, are you free later?"
"Hmm, I have a rather busy day ahead of me" he slowly spoke as if trying to remember why he couldn't agree with her "I work later shifts for my company"
The girl slightly shrunk at that but she chirped up and smiled giving him a wink then sliding her hand into his.
"Well, then I think you should call me when it's more appropriate ok?" She slinked away into the back of the crowd and the man slowly looked down into his hand at the little paper with a number scribbled on it.
"Well..." The man was lost with his words, but the bus came along and he boarded it not knowing the name of the girl that just made an impression on him. He pondered for a long while. Long enough, that he still couldn't make up his mind on her when he finally took off his regular old business suit in favour of something more, work associated.
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Void.
Nothing, and then.
Something...
"I live again" the angel announced to itself. Arael mentally paused.
"Live? How do I know such a meaningless term? Why do I even have this vanity for outward speech?" Arael slowly enfolded over itself and begun to probe itself with it's power.
"What caused this in me? Why am... I so... angered. Those two... Did something to me?" Arael sputtered out it's phrase completely confused not even knowing some of which it was saying. Arael was adding to it's hatred with each word, not knowing it.
"They poisoned me with their own essences... Why do I still use this infernal outward speech?" Arael's body slowly began to unfold and it's mighty spiky wings spread across the vast void of space.
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"... And so, with world order on the brink of collapse, the super powers began to consolidate there strength for one move to..."
Shinji sat and stared at the teacher letting a red lock of his red hair dangle in his vision as he rested his head across his arms on his school desk, all the while the teacher continued his history lecture.
Most the day has passed by now and the clock above the door was proudly displaying what time it was. Boring old clock, but a student tended to find it either beautiful or scary, based only on what was happening.
Shinji was watching it because he was testing a theory if whether or not the old teacher's rant reversed time to the era he was talking about.
'So boring...' Shinji's mind shuffled his feet and took a nap while Shinji watched the teacher. Brain power wasn't needed for this part of the day.
Just blank staring, which would have been Rei's role, if she hadn't been called into NERV. At first Shinji was worried if it was something to do with the Evas, the angel or even a new one, yet it had been a long time. So the worry in Shinji's mind was already replaced with boredom.
Toji was making a good effort though, with his feet propped up on the desk, both real and fake, sitting straight up while leaning far back in the chair, he was almost the perfect example of being comfortably ignorant, not on setting a good student example though. He may not hear a single word with his light snoring gently, giving the room a tempo as he shifted back and forth.
Kensuke was shaking his head over something on his computer screen, probably raiding chat rooms and monitoring the gossip over things. It really didn't concern Asuka as her eyes finally finished their scan of the room.
'Why is there nothing for ME to do during these times...' Asuka grumbled silently to herself. She turned on her computer and quickly scanned the list of lessons they'd done for the day. It was... a rather boring day. Asuka ran down the list in her mind.
'Math, geometry, Japanese, basic English-bleh, science-all theory' Asuka reminded herself before continuing 'and history to top off a day of desk work... Bleh bleh, blehdy bleh-BLEH!' Asuka stuck out her tongue and shook her head.
"You have an opinion to share with us mister Ikari?" The teacher shuffled his glasses and smirked that evil teacher smirk. Asuka sat up and withdrew her tongue in surprise, the teacher addressing a student during his lecture was enough to even rattle Toji into an appropriate school regulated position.
"No, sir. Sorry sir" Asuka stumbled through her apology. Shinji wearily eyed Asuka. Probably thinking I've blown our cover, Asuka's internal self booted her brain back into action.
"Well you may sit down mister Ikari" the teacher glanced outside and Asuka bashfully sat down not realizing she stood bolt upright.
"I think I have an announcement to make" the teacher grinned lightly and faced the class.
'Oh... No...' Shinji's mind screamed in horror 'Anything... Please'
School was slowly whirling through the day, the teacher had all but talked himself into a corner three times and got muffled by his lack of thoughts. Since he admitted he couldn't work in the classroom in a day so lovingly beautiful, with birds chirping and sun shining, he allowed the day to end with a Gym class.
- ' God... ANYTHING...' Shinji's eyes opened wide in shock.
Though it took a little bit of rearranging with the actual coach, for both the boys and the girls divisions, eventually it was agreed that the rest of the school day was to be spent outside.
'But this...' Shinji's mind settled his thoughts on the door in front of him.
*Girls changing room*
His greatest challenge yet. And perhaps that which shall define him as a man... No wait a minute... Any boy would want to sneak a peak into a girls change room... So really how does that signify his passing into manhood? I mean... Well Shinji is sort of a wimp, though I think even he'd leap at the chance to ogle naked girls changing in front of him... Given the ability. Pfft, just look! Toji and Kensuke are already selling off the peep holes over there-**smack** Right right, back to the story monologue... * Fooey, there goes my reservation... * ...OW....
This was something Asuka HADN'T warned Shinji about. Thinking over his pre-school warm up pep talk with Asuka before they ran inside, at the time something as possibly and mortally embarrassing as changing in a room with the opposite sex-
'No wait, I'm a girl now... Shinji, Your Asuka at the moment' Shinji swallowed the thought down as quickly as he remembered it. Shinji glared murder at the door, indecision racking his brain.
'Damn teacher... Ordering swimming for the last period... I need to teacher HIM something!' Shinji vowed as the rest of the female class filed past him and into the locker room.
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"It appears the target has begun to move on it's own again!" Maya reported skimming across the display on her screen.
"All outlying outposts also observing the angel are in agreement also" Aoba turned back to his work station and furiously begun managing the storm of reports piling up his screen.
Only Hyuga sat between the three of them with little to do, he was only command support, direct subordinate to Misato his talents would only come into play when the Angel was back into the zone of operations.
Misato rolled her eyes and slowly nodded her head side to side as she mentally sorted her own options and needed materials.
"Hyuga?"
"Yes ma'am?" Hyuga turned around from his silent station to face Misato expectantly.
"Begin counting up all our long range capabilities, rifles, beam weapons, even our ability to extend AT fields far enough" Misato turned around and paced thinking over other things. Hyuga gave an affirmative and his work space quickly caught up to the frantic pace of his co workers.
'What real options do we have to counter this thing? Ritsuko's section hasn't given us any real evidence of a weakness nor even something effective to use' Misato frowned as she paced 'Well there was JSSDF's prototype weapon. That's killed one angel and beat off this one'
"Hyuga! What's the status of the JSSDF's prototype high density rifle?" Misato ended her pace and stood over Hyuga. Hyuga blinked and shifted his quarrying to his order, quickly he received an answer and glanced up to Misato.
"The rifle seems to be nearly inoperable" Misato waited in silence until Hyuga was able to explain "Seems that all the power that was used by it in it's maiden operation has made it very delicate, as they say, and it is in need of heavy maintenance after use"
Misato blinked and frowned before nodding to Hyuga to get her original order under way. She slowly glanced around the command center hoping for an answer to appear to her but none were fore bearing. She paced as time began to tick away.
---
Rei departed from the humming rail train used for transport to the lower section of Tokyo 3, the Geo-Front, and she quickly walked over to the NERV headquarters standing tall in the middle of the dome.
As she walked towards one of the gates she noticed an extra guard, dressed completely in black with glasses covering his eyes and something tucked under his arm. Rei kept the man under her unwavering stare as she approached.
"Your the first child" he said it matter of factly and reached under his arm. He held out an enclosed folio and waited for her to take it. Rei walked right up to him, standing a head shorter but just as intense as the dark clad man. The NERV agent travelled back into the commander center after she took it, leaving Rei to open her package.
With a quick tear across the top of the folio, out dropped a small typed note and a red booklet into her waiting hand. A quick scan of the red booklet revealed it was detailed plans of NERV with a route highlighted, a very unusual route. Rei folded the red booklet and peered over the note.
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The common business man from before, the one having received the note from the girl with her phone number, offering a date and possibly more he mused, quickly slid out of his suit and red tie.
'I wonder if I could have interested her with a line like "Hi, I'm really a super spy" maybe a wink or two in there, ya never know' he folded up the suit and tidied up his newly rented apartment and chose a selection of casual clothing, simple green shirt and a pair of blue shorts.
'Nothing fancy for now, just going for a stroll' he finished his dressing and left through the door in sandals, calmly padding down the carpeted hallway. Looking more like an uncommon vacationer then a permanent resident he enters the elevator and presses the button for ground level.
As he stands off to the side, politely giving room to the other people in the elevator he hums a nothing song to himself and walks through the halls to find himself outside and strolling along unheeded to a destination only he'd care about.
As he walked calmly along into a slightly grittier section of Tokyo 3 he made a turn off the sidewalk and entered a small modestly kept garage with it's name long erased from memory.
"Your late" a voice echoed from a dark corner of the near empty garage.
"Can't be helped" He gave a shrug as if he were relaxed beyond belief.
"It will be helped, since you've been dubbed what duty you get" the voice came again.
With a groan he realized what it meant "Pack mule?"
As the door to the garage closed, the lights all flicked on and in the middle of the room, surrounded by grinning men, fully dressed in kevlar, body armour and all sporting weapons and knives, stood a table with more weapons, pistols, rifles, bags, explosives and interesting trinkets that *might* prove to be an aid on the infiltration of NERV headquarters.
"Our boss says it's time to move in for a closer look" a slightly bigger man spoke up and nodded to the business man we thought we knew "Rob will be our supplier and radio traffic manager"
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"It seems SEELE's old men have been caught in a panic. They've sent some of their units to see the outcome. Since the prophecy diverged on a planned outcome, we ourselves shall force a path on our new course" Gendo unfolded his hands and rose from his desk.
"Well, what do we have to do to prepare for the new course?" Fuyutsuki pondered on Gendo's words.
"It's fairly simple. We discard that which hinders us and helps them" Gendo pressed a button on his desk and the door behind Fuyutsuki quietly slid open.
The former teacher couldn't help but turn to see if there was someone waiting entry. Instead of someone walking in, Gendo walked past Fuyutsuki and nodded for him to follow.
"I've already prepared for the wisest move in our arsenal" Gendo trotted down the hall and silently noted Fuyutsuki closed the door on his way, before catching up to Gendo.
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Hikari trotted down the school hall with Asuka, still in Shinji's body, close behind as they walked down the school hall towards the change rooms. Asuka was scowling, which was very weird since it was Shinji's face twisted in such a way.
"Can't believe he got us a gym class today of all todays" Asuka fumed and stomped behind Hikari.
"Well, yes I'm rather happy about it, but you and Shinji can skip without too much worry. The school day is almost done" Hikari was thinking out loud and Asuka was finding herself agreeing with the ponytail girl.
"That moron of a boy -err, girl ran off without even thinking about the consequences. Even left the cellphone behind" Asuka grumbled and pulled out Shinji's personal cellphone, eyeing it warily as if it was acting evasive.
"Even worse is when he's off galavanting around with" Asuka slightly growled and stomped ahead of Hikari "my body when NERV calls and demands we run down there for standby duty!!" Asuka spun around and pointed the cellphone at an unimpressed Hikari.
"Asuka, there's no reason you have to..." Hikari trailed off as they passed several classes with students before continuing "Wait for Shinji"
"What if he gets in trouble?" Asuka rose an eyebrow and followed Hikari.
"Well then he's in trouble" Hikari muttered and turned down the last corridor to the change rooms.
"In my FEMALE body, Hikari" Asuka slurred some of her words trying to make a point more obvious.
"... Huh??" Hikari paused and glanced at Asuka "... Yes... So he's a girl... OH" Hikari quickened her pace to the girl's change room and leaving Asuka to wait impatiently.
Suddenly an explosion erupts from the locker room in the form of a projectile female Shinji knocking down Asuka, flat on her face.
"HIKARI WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?!" Shinji chirped over the fallen Asuka.
"Cause you, S-H-I-N-J-I, may not enter that area under any circumstances!" Hikari glared down at him as Asuka struggled to get up to see what was happening.
"Wha?! Wha! HUH!? Your blaming me for this when I was told to do it!!?" Shinji stammered.
"Shinji! Your a BOY, not a girl!" Hikari pointed to him angrily "Regardless of circumstance!"
"That's right Hikari, chew him out, but would you mind helping me UP?" Asuka spoke up, getting tired of being crushed under Shinji. She was still rubbing her nose from falling on it.
"Ahh! Sorry Asuka! Shinji beat it!!" Hikari commanded, Shinji looked at her almost ghostly white.
"Can I at least get my shirt back!?" Shinji's shocked statement caused Asuka's head to whip around and take note Shinji was standing in a skirt, shoes, and bra. In the middle of a hall no less.
"Have you no shame!!!" Asuka bellowed and Hikari had a mental hiccup having put together more parts of a puzzle. Females, even semi fake ones, should never be undressed on school grounds!
"Ahhh, sorry sorry sorry!" Hikari buried her face in her hands and ran through the locker room door, leaving Shinji still on top of Asuka.
"Hey Shinji.... Get a shirt on that body!" Asuka growled angrily "Or else I'll show you where it can hurt a lot on that body of yours"
Shinji staggered to his feet and hurried to the locker room, being indecent tends to hurry the dear boy. As he was rushing to the door it suddenly swung open and whacked Shinji's head with a solid *CRACK*. Needless to say the poor dear had swirlies in his eyes for the rest of this segment.
"... I... got your shirt" Hikari held out Shinji's missing article of clothing. Asuka blinked and growled a bit deeper then normal.
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"Major stop pacing. The children will be here eventually" Fuyutsuki spoke from behind her.
"Oh, sir! The children hadn't came across my mind yet" Misato hopped into a salute and Fuyutsuki gently rolled his eyes. "I was more concerned that, with the approaching angel near, our choice of inventory concerning operational weaponry is less then I'd prefer"
"Major don't worry, you've always figured out a successful way to defeat the angels before" Fuyutsuki gentled patted Misato on the shoulder and walked past her to the command level "We still have in our arsenal the ability to fight back until we have nothing left but our fists"
Misato silently pondered over Fuyutsuki's brush against her, wondering over his almost defeated tone.
"Sir? Our fists? Isn't that a little too small compared to them?" Misato had meant angels, Fuyutsuki knew that, but Fuyutsuki was having a hard time remembering how varied his enemies were.
"Unit one had shown us how good a fist works in it's debut battle, didn't it?" with that Fuyutsuki boarded the small elevator and rode up to the commanders chair on the highest level.
What worried Misato was, the battle which Fuyutsuki had mentioned had no tactical planning, no successful deployed weapons, limited knowledge of the enemy and a wild card of a pilot, with an untested Evangelion to act as the last defense. It was a battle which everything could have went wrong, with or without her input.
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"Copy that, testing testing" Rob rolled his eyes as his teammate as dubbed S2 by radio traffic, was testing his radio transmission from across the aisle. Hell he even smiled and waved at Rob.
"Look, here bub, I don't have to like the duty, but don't mess with my work load" Rob glared across the small expanse between them, literally sitting within striking distance of each other. Both of their heads bopping as their ride, a truck or van of sorts which had become popular within the Japanese society cruised along on some of the streets of Tokyo 3, heading towards their target point for entry.
"SoS mission, bleh" came a voice from over the radio Rob had wired into his suit. With a sigh he picked up his transceiver and radioed in the second team which was already in action.
"Less chatter M5" "M6" "Whatever, and this isn't a same old..." Rob glanced up to see the same moron from before giving him a wink.
"S3, that wasn't my transmission over" came the voice, completely neutral in it's staticy delivery.
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Rei slowly exited from the elevator to the eva cages, having long left the winding corridors of NERV and having abandoned her school clothing in the change rooms in favour of the tight and form fitting plug suit.
As the cage rattled it came to a jarring stop at the umbilical bridge, connecting the Elevator to the Eva.
"Commander?" Rei's soft tone carried in the high ceiling of the cage for Eva 00.
"Rei... I have your role for this coming battle" Gendo glanced above his glasses to Rei. Cold stare to chilling glare.
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And so ends this chapter. Good day.