Disclaimer: I do not own Evangelion, Gundam Wing, or Starcraft or the
Megaman X series or Command and Conquer Red Alert 2 or Advance Wars. Xack,
Keagan and the Mobile Suits they pilot are of my creation.
Chapter 8
Key:
=insert evil text= equals evil mind speak
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Archgon blocked several pulsitron blasts from Eva 00 using an energy shield it erected on it's forearm. {I told them not to come. And now they want to fight?} "Hyaaaahhhhhh!" Archgon yelled a war cry pulled back it's shield and lauched a psionic energy ball at the Evangelion's head, just missing it by an inch but making 00 duck.
Yuri Clone fended off Eva 02's attacks from it's halbred and retaliated with a few beam sword strikes of it's own. {Impressive. The technology here is more advanced than I thought. This metal is actually blocking my beam. I better take control over her before it gets out of hand.}
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Something zinged in Asuka's mind, =You have no use for this mind anymore.=
"Is that you Dummkopf?" Even though no one besides Asuka could hear Yuri mind-speaking to her, the external speakers and the Lockman only defending itself while rarely moving was enough to warn Xack what was happening.
He could do nothing about Yuri speaking to Asuka directly, should it happen, but he could throw the Clone's focus off. The Archgon broke off from Eva 00's prog knife attack and threw a psionic energy ball at the Lockman.
"Whoa!" Yuri Clone #103 stumbled upon his butt within onto the cockpit floor and lost contact with Langley's mind. Xack quickly rushed toward the Lockman and cracked the power pack that was visible above it's forehead. "YAG!!" Keagan and Clone yelled in frustration as the Lockman dipped into the ground. The impact was hard and only Keagan survived the crash. Yuri Clone 103 was not so fortunate as a live wire had wrapped itself around his head.
"I know you won't thank me. Your just following orders. So carry out your duty." said Xack not facing Asuka and Eva 02.
And she did so, choosing to attack with her fists.
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With Keagan unconcious and all three Evangelions now assaulting the Archgon (Asuka screeched at Shinji to join in), things looked desperate for the remaining field member of the Various. 01 made Archgon stumble forward from a prog knife in the back. It (Archgon) found itself staring into a positron rifle, and it fired. The Archgon skidded across the ground and into a hillside. "Damn! Hey, wait a minute..." The hillside he crashed into was in the area where the Various base was. Xack chose to call for backup at that moment. **This is Unit Leader Psi-Delta, requesting Rezoid Unit Leader X for backup. Do you copy?**
The cockpit still looked like a cockpit, but the pilot was different. The Archgon glowed purple but so did Xack. His clothing had changed as well, he wore a mixture of Dark Templar and High Templar. Xack wore the High Templar armor and carried the Dark Templar's mask, his partially scaly hands that came with this form clutched the radio speaker, while the ankle part of his white pants with black hemming rested on the ground hiding his bare feet.
The radio crackled a bit, Xack suspected it to be broken but then a voice merged with the crackling. **We got your bearings guy! X is arriving in the Mega-Chameleon. ETA 10 minutes. Get out of the way before the weapons launch!** cracked the voice in an English accent.
Xack quickly responded, **NO! No weapons! Just get X to use the Stun Grenade! There are only youths piloting my assailants! I repeat, YOUTHS!**
**Is this some sort of joke commander?**
**No, it isn't. You got the visual feed right? And why is the ETA ten minutes Agh!** A punch from 02 contacted with Archgon's gut, getting past it's shield. The shield lowered and Asuka immediatly took advantage of the situation by lauching an uppercut to the Archgon's chin. A purple hand raised itself quickly and caught the fist. Then 00 caught Xack by surprise and buried an axe within the Archgon's back. Rei dragged the axe down the Archgon then removed the axe from the backside, and Asuka backed off, suddenly purple energy spurted out of the Archgon's back knocking 00 onto it's own back. Xack thought he was as good as dead due to the massive energy loss. But according to the status console, the Archgon had lost no power. Then the energy flow stopped spewing. The 'skin' of the Archgon repaired itself and the energy formed into a an exact shape of a pulsitron rifle! Xack smiled and thanked Rei, "Thanks for the boost, I didn't know Archgon could do this."
"..."
Xack discharged several energy shots at 02 who was charging at him with prog knife in hand. One of the blasts hit the prog knife, knocking it into the middle of the city.
**Commander, what happened? We lost reception after we heard a weapon split through the air.**
**It's all right, I've recovered.** Xack paced himself between breaths to continue his stamina for the fight.
**By the way, we just got attacked by OZ, we had to resort to using our Rezoid Squadron.**
**I see. Understandable, just get the Mega-Chameleon here. Over and out.**
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The battle ended with Xack slashing the umbilical cables and with only 5 minutes of power at the minimal performance stage, they succumbed somewhat easily to the Archgon and Mega-Chameleon. They ended up calling the Zero MXM to help get the Evangelions to the Various base. Many other Terran Dropsips were released to bring the Lockman home as well.
Shinji and the girls were pulled out of the lifeless EVAs and taken to the medical bay, where they rested for most of the day.
Rei was the first to come to, her eyes were open but she showed no reaction to the new surroundings. Rei just lay on the bed staring at the ceiling still in her plug suit. She had been given orders from Gendo to react to her own accord if she was captured. Since Rei wasn't used to moving to her own will, she just decided to follow Shinji's movement.
It was another 2 hours before Asuka became concious again, she leapt out of the bed as if she was laying in a pile of rusty nails. "Where is this place?!"
A doctor came through the door to check on the status of the children and noticed the firey pilot already up. He took one quick look at the medical status screen above the bed and clicked a few buttons on a panel near the screen. Asuka felt something drop off her head and hands and clatter to the floor, she looked down and noticed three very small dots on the floor.
She looked up again and saw the entry door slide open.
"I see at least two of you are awake children. Those items that came off you are our version of EKG examination units. Quite more advanced isn't it?" Xack smoothly walked into the room, now in his High Templar armor, almost gliding. "Doctor, you may leave."
"Yes sir."
The Protoss/Human explained what happened after he cut the umbilical cables and added, "When Shinji is up as well, meet me in the vid room. Just take a left out of this room, travel forward for 2 hallways and take the third right."
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"We recorded this news report while you were asleep. I thought you may want to see this."
Click!
I am Idan Retsu, filling in for Yato today. Our top story involves the alliance between OZ and our very own NERV. First off, NERV has been recently infiltrated and taken by a group called Yuri. We are unsure whether the group is made of, ahem, females.
We can now confirm that the following personnel of NERV are possibly being held hostage: Ritsuko Akagi, Gendo Ikari, Kozo Fuyutsuki, and Misato Katsuragi. We'll have more come time.
Also OZ leader, Treize Khushrenada, has recently announced that they have the situation under control and they can take NERV back within the week. This event may greatly help the alliance with one another.
Moving on, the Evangelions recently lost to a pair of other giant robots supposedly from the Various. The same people that OZ is fighti-
Click! Zyuu!
"I'll make this quick. Apparently, during our fight, the original Yuri took the time to bust into NERV. My best bet is that they went in there to get information on the EVAs, perhaps even to build one of their own.The bombs from the Lockman wiped much of an area of Geofront, with my men repairing Geofront and NERV staff watching the fight, it provided enough distraction for him to get in and take over NERV with a Yuri Prime unit. And on another note, Yuri is actually a hidden branch of OZ. Many of their units employ powerful mental abilities and physical strength. One false move and your Evangelions could be half drained of power in one swift beam from a Floating Disc. If we don't stop them before OZ 'stops' them, I'd say your world may develop a complete trust in OZ eventually, resulting in possible destruction of the Evangelions."
Asuka scowled at Xack, "How do we expect to do that without EVA 02?"
"It's been taken care of." replied the commander of the Various calmly, "Our technicians have hooked up a temporary power source to all three Evangelions. Should last for about 3 weeks, give or take a few hours between recharges. As for the LCL..."
Shinji wasn't listening to the conversation. He was worried for Misato's sake. Sure she was an alchoholic and a messy person, but she was still his and Asuka's guardian. Within himself, he could feel something he'd rarely felt in all his life. Was this courage? Was he finally building a 'spine'?
Rei was blank during the conversation. She wasn't sure what to do now, then again... When has she besides during orders? But Gendo was stuck within NERV held hostage by some group called Yuri, she wasn't going to stand by idly while he was in there. Not after what he did for her, for her life, not his.
"... for the last time, we didn't sabotage the EVAs Asuka." Xack's patience thread was thinning out with Asuka's constant badgering over what the Various had done to 02. One more little complaint about what the power cell would do to Eva 02, and he swore he was going to choke Asuka for a straight minute.
"Well whether you did or did not, we're not helping you, we'll get NERV back all by ourselves. With my guidance of course. Isn't that right Wondergirl and Baka?"
Asuka turned to face the remaining two pilots for their cooperation about her leadership.
Shinji and Rei surprisingly had no hesitation in saying "no."
"What?! Wha da ya mean 'no'?" Asuka placed her hands on her hips and scowled at Rei and Shinji.
Xack placed a hand on Asuka's shoulder and spun her 180 degrees, he had read the minds of all three children during interrogation, he'd seen their torments, their reactions toward others, and who they cared for. He knew what to say. "Soryuu, you've worked with them for some time. Surely you understand at least the feelings they have toward the people around them. Then again, you don't even take the time to get to know them, you focus only on yourself..."
"What's that supposed to mean!?" yelled the red-headed pilot.
"I mean that you 'alledgedly' don't care for anyone else, except Kaji Ryoji."
"... "
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"X, Zero, report to the armory slash shooting range. Ikari, put that down, it's got a hair trigger." Tanya of the Alliance was to train the three Children in basic firearms and if possible, semi-automatics. Progress so far was Shinji's hands shaking very badly after having to shoot 8 rounds straight with a handgun, Asuka already handling a machine gun with near complete mastery, and Rei only using the same handgun as Shinji did with better results.
Bam! "Sorry." The bullet imbedded itself in one of the fluorescent light sticks, putting it out.
"Ummm... We uh, needed to replace that anyway." The light fell down and shattered on the floor.
Bam! "..."
"Damn it, if Ikari does it, you have to do it too Ayanami?"
"I am only following my own decision."
"What is your decision?" asked Shinji.
"I will tell you when I am ordered by Ikari-san to do so."
Ssss! Clack! One of the leaders of the Rezoid Unit came in, Zero, the Maverick Hunter. His long blond hair fluttered behind him as he walked toward the three EVA pilots.
"So these are the new trainees." said Zero with his arms crossed.
Asuka scowled at Zero, "What makes you so big then?"
"My saber," with that Zero whipped out his Z-Saber, the green beam shined well on it's own without needing any help from the fluorescent light sticks on the ceiling.
Zero then added, "and my experience as a Hunter."
"Hmph."
X arrived in the room after Zero showed off his sword. His standard blue armor was now grey and black with minimal details, no doubt this was a stealth suit. "Tanya, are we prepared for the infiltration?"
"Nearly, we just need to have the boy practice a little longer."
A shady voice appeared out of nowhere, one that the EVA children could not understand, "En Taro Adun X, Neir Ma Tanya." A Dark Templar leapt out of the shadows of a corner in the armory. His sudden appearance (and his physical appearance) frightened Shinji. The next conversation also didn't make sense to the Evangelion pilots since the speech was entirely made of Protoss tongue (for the sake of the readers this will be English [also, when your part of a group of people from multiple dimensions, it's best to learn the languages of the unknown]
Tanya: I'm well aware of the matter of time, can't wait to get in the field myself.
D. Templar: You aren't going on this mission, and neither is Zero.
Tanya: What?! Why not?
D. Templar: The two of you are only the trainers for this particular mission, but your also the backup should we fail. That, and your guns are way too loud for the infiltration. Plus Zero's armor is too brightly colored.
Tanya: Why not just give me silencers and Zero a stealth ugrade?
D. Templar: One, you hate silencers, and two, Zero doesn't want upgrades. The only upgrades he'll take are repairs to his current body and Mobile Suit.
Tanya: *Grumble* Then who's on the front squad for this mission besides those three children?
D. Templar: Me, one other Dark Templar, a few Ghosts, X, and Xack. You may as well return to training now Tanya.
Tanya: One last question.
D. Templar: You may, how you Terrans say it, 'shoot'.
Tanya: Why only an infiltration?
D. Templar: Remember the news report? It said that they confirmed NERV staff are inside. Plus, some of our staff are inside, including Jim Raynor. I fear for what information Yuri may gather for OZ...
The Templar cloaked again and left.
Shinji was shaking from the spooky tongue of the conversation, Asuka left in the same position as Shinji (but she stopped shaking sooner [just before anyone could see her]), Rei asked Shinji if he knew what the scaly person with glowing eyes was. "D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d..." was Shinji's response.
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NERV HQ
"Thank you for the password Ms. Akagi." Yuri (original) left the blank-eyed scientist in the MAGI computer room to hack from there and proceeded to the bridge to further his own hacking attempts.
Klick, Clack, clack, calack, klack!
"This isn't as easy as I thought. The plans on the Evangelion are within OZ's grasp, just need to get past this MAGI firewall."
Clack, click, klik, klick, clak, clik, tap! "Eh? What the?! Not again..." The MAGI computers completely blocked off Yuri's progress in the NERV systems. Melchior, Balthasar, and Caspar, were the biggest hacking problems the genetic brain had come across in his travels with OZ. {The Maverick Hunter computers were never so hard. Neither were the Orange Star systems. And Yuri Prime #45 had no problem claiming everything in this complex, everything but the MAGI computers. They aren't even taking the passcodes from the one who knows them. How is this possible?} "May as well get my men to tear the MAGI down." muttered the frustrated Russian renegade.
Yuri left the bridge and located his main interior patrol, headed by a mind- controled Misato, he went by them and saw his left corridors patrol, their leader was Maya (carrying a pair of machine guns). Yuri continued to wander around NERV encountering his other patrols, each one headed by a different NERV staff member. After finding his way out of the complex, he went to his base area and began production of 30 Brutes...
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Outside the ruins that was part of Geofront
**Arbiter in position commander. Awaiting further instructions.**
**Prepare interdimesional Recall.** "Hang on you three, this is gonna be a bumpy ride." Xack clustered the rag tag group to make sure they would all be caught in the Recall warp. Since this was the EVA children's first warp, they all had received barf bags just in case.
Xack was now equipped with just a dark grey bulky chest armor, it covered much of his midsection, and it looked like he was wearing a mini-size version of EVA 01's chest and back part (including the sticking up things that hold the prog-knives).
The surroundings of the armory became a blue blur as the eerie swirl of energy surrounded the Various agents and Evangelion pilots. The trip through the warp field was brief, but rather exciting, waves of many shades of blue flashed before everyone's eyes. The Dark Templar, Ghosts, X, Rei, and Xack could maintain a straight, upright positon, but Asuka and Shinji had trouble holding their ground and just couldn't stand up again for the duration of the warp. Then that light blue circle at the end of the warp suddenly became large and covered everyone.
5 seconds later, the light cleared and the location had changed. Shinji opened his eyes (he shut them halfway through) and saw the Arbiter's miniscule shadow fly by them and go off back to the Various base's direction. Xack cocked the hammer on a gun that looked like it came out of the wild west, minus the fact that it had a silencer on it. "Alright, let's rock. Initiate phase 1 of our plan." Both Ghosts went into cloak and Xack told the others to stay out of sight of the Yuri units.
"OK Commander, where do we aim the nukes?"
"At-"
Xack's order was cut off as all three EVA children had heard what Ghost #1 had said.
Shinji/ Asuka (S= fearful, A= screeching): What did he say?!
Rei (quietly): What was that?
The now verbally harassed Protoss/ Human tried to explain over the two louder voices that it was a controled blast, the radiation would stay in the area the nuke exploded, so long as they didn't approach the area where the nuke landed for about 10 minutes, they'd be okay when they entered that particular area.
"Just how large is this radius?" asked Asuka.
"Should level about half of this Yuri base. Luckily, he built this one distanced from what remains of Geofront. NERV, Tokyo-3 and everyone inside the shelters will live and the nukes serve as a spectacular distraction for our infiltration."
"... Alright, launch them." grumbled Asuka.
"OK then, Zain, Zeke, approach the edge of the base and launch the nukes as far away from yourselves as you can, but make sure you camoflauge them well among the buildings." Though Xack was prone to make decisions that didn't involve casualties, he never forgave those who had joined Yuri without the use of mind control (actually, it was everyone but the Slave Miners, but Yuri can't set up a resource facility in such an area). Many of them had actually slaughtered their own families, this was true in the case of Keagan.
HiStOrY LeSsOn
He became part of the Yuri team, taking on the role of an Initiate, during their invasion of South America. He was quite sadist at the time and didn't regret any of the kills he made, this was most likely the result of Keagan's work with his father, he secretly helped him with the gunshop his father ran. Anyways, Keagan killed his father, mother, and his two sisters. One of them being only 10 years, the other was 20.
ClAsS dIsMiSsEd
So it happened, two nuke position dots pasted themselves on a seperate building. As soon as the nukes came, the twin brother Ghosts ran from the enemy base as the nuclear missiles began to touch down and Yuri personnel began to run in all directions for openings, even one of the Brutes was screaming for his life.
KAFOOOM! BANG! BOOM! x2 in volume
"All units, go, Go, GO!" ordered Xack with a ferocious tone.
"Alright, sheesh! Mein Gott!" spitted Asuka.
As the group headed in, Dropships and Shuttles began appearing from the skies dropping ropes and teleport beams which in turn brought down Marines and Zealots. Other transport vehicles were bringing out Dragoons or Siege Tanks with parachutes attatched onto the tanks and various vehicular units. Then from west, Md Tanks (Advance Wars) made their way across the plains, cannons at the ready.
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Location: Okinawa Gerad's hotel room
The last day and a half had been very fun for Gerad, besides having to tolerate Kensuke's and Toji's antics in the room.
Recently Kensuke complained of missing the latest Evangelion battle, nothing but more text messages from the government. Gerad was intrigued by this and watched a news report while both stooges were still asleep the previous night. Using the subtitles and photos taken at the time, he understood what was going on between NERV and the Various.
Seeing the Lockman perform like that against the EVAs disturbed him, OZ had indeed released Yuri into the fold. He began to think of what may happen in the next few days of this campaign, many of their battles against OZ proved to be nothing but a large skirmish. On several occasions the entire campaign in a particular dimension only lasted between 2-3 weeks! All OZ needed was a quick bond with the locals and they were off to the next area. These bonds were hazardous to the Various, so far, dimensions like X's homedimesion had been overrun with OZ mobile suits and dolls, near everyone was Maverick or OZrick except for X, Zero, Alia, and a partially rebuilt Iris. Gate, a rebuilt and upgraded Vile, and Dynamo worked with OZ. It sickened him to remember it.
This reminded him of a set of plans Keagan recovered on an operation in the Wars World dimension.
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Xack: Keagan, Status report.
Kegan: **No casualties Xack, as always.**
Xack: Good, good. What did we recover at the base?
Keagan: **Aside from a whole batch of half-completed Vayeates and some Acguys, we found a set of plans in a trash bin. The thing had a steel lid! Had to use Sami's bazooka to get the thing open.
Xack: What it it? {They must be pretty lazy not to burn the things.}
Keagan: **It looks like the Big Zam, but the blueprints show it to be a bit bigger and taller. The legs have a ton of extra boosters on them, and the 'head' has some laser cannon mounted on it. The name for this thing is KZ- 0, King Zam prototype. If we encounter these things, it may be difficult to take out. Despite our battles with Big Zams, OZ may equip it with 'other' technologies for better mobility.**
Xack: Right... You can come back to base now. Over and out.
Gerad: Xack, do you really think that OZ can complete the thing?
Xack: We had a difficult time finding this factory, I suspect that they might be able to complete it if we don't look everywhere in the dimensions.
Gerad: Hmmmm... *bites lower lip*
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Chapter 8
Key:
=insert evil text= equals evil mind speak
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Archgon blocked several pulsitron blasts from Eva 00 using an energy shield it erected on it's forearm. {I told them not to come. And now they want to fight?} "Hyaaaahhhhhh!" Archgon yelled a war cry pulled back it's shield and lauched a psionic energy ball at the Evangelion's head, just missing it by an inch but making 00 duck.
Yuri Clone fended off Eva 02's attacks from it's halbred and retaliated with a few beam sword strikes of it's own. {Impressive. The technology here is more advanced than I thought. This metal is actually blocking my beam. I better take control over her before it gets out of hand.}
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Something zinged in Asuka's mind, =You have no use for this mind anymore.=
"Is that you Dummkopf?" Even though no one besides Asuka could hear Yuri mind-speaking to her, the external speakers and the Lockman only defending itself while rarely moving was enough to warn Xack what was happening.
He could do nothing about Yuri speaking to Asuka directly, should it happen, but he could throw the Clone's focus off. The Archgon broke off from Eva 00's prog knife attack and threw a psionic energy ball at the Lockman.
"Whoa!" Yuri Clone #103 stumbled upon his butt within onto the cockpit floor and lost contact with Langley's mind. Xack quickly rushed toward the Lockman and cracked the power pack that was visible above it's forehead. "YAG!!" Keagan and Clone yelled in frustration as the Lockman dipped into the ground. The impact was hard and only Keagan survived the crash. Yuri Clone 103 was not so fortunate as a live wire had wrapped itself around his head.
"I know you won't thank me. Your just following orders. So carry out your duty." said Xack not facing Asuka and Eva 02.
And she did so, choosing to attack with her fists.
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With Keagan unconcious and all three Evangelions now assaulting the Archgon (Asuka screeched at Shinji to join in), things looked desperate for the remaining field member of the Various. 01 made Archgon stumble forward from a prog knife in the back. It (Archgon) found itself staring into a positron rifle, and it fired. The Archgon skidded across the ground and into a hillside. "Damn! Hey, wait a minute..." The hillside he crashed into was in the area where the Various base was. Xack chose to call for backup at that moment. **This is Unit Leader Psi-Delta, requesting Rezoid Unit Leader X for backup. Do you copy?**
The cockpit still looked like a cockpit, but the pilot was different. The Archgon glowed purple but so did Xack. His clothing had changed as well, he wore a mixture of Dark Templar and High Templar. Xack wore the High Templar armor and carried the Dark Templar's mask, his partially scaly hands that came with this form clutched the radio speaker, while the ankle part of his white pants with black hemming rested on the ground hiding his bare feet.
The radio crackled a bit, Xack suspected it to be broken but then a voice merged with the crackling. **We got your bearings guy! X is arriving in the Mega-Chameleon. ETA 10 minutes. Get out of the way before the weapons launch!** cracked the voice in an English accent.
Xack quickly responded, **NO! No weapons! Just get X to use the Stun Grenade! There are only youths piloting my assailants! I repeat, YOUTHS!**
**Is this some sort of joke commander?**
**No, it isn't. You got the visual feed right? And why is the ETA ten minutes Agh!** A punch from 02 contacted with Archgon's gut, getting past it's shield. The shield lowered and Asuka immediatly took advantage of the situation by lauching an uppercut to the Archgon's chin. A purple hand raised itself quickly and caught the fist. Then 00 caught Xack by surprise and buried an axe within the Archgon's back. Rei dragged the axe down the Archgon then removed the axe from the backside, and Asuka backed off, suddenly purple energy spurted out of the Archgon's back knocking 00 onto it's own back. Xack thought he was as good as dead due to the massive energy loss. But according to the status console, the Archgon had lost no power. Then the energy flow stopped spewing. The 'skin' of the Archgon repaired itself and the energy formed into a an exact shape of a pulsitron rifle! Xack smiled and thanked Rei, "Thanks for the boost, I didn't know Archgon could do this."
"..."
Xack discharged several energy shots at 02 who was charging at him with prog knife in hand. One of the blasts hit the prog knife, knocking it into the middle of the city.
**Commander, what happened? We lost reception after we heard a weapon split through the air.**
**It's all right, I've recovered.** Xack paced himself between breaths to continue his stamina for the fight.
**By the way, we just got attacked by OZ, we had to resort to using our Rezoid Squadron.**
**I see. Understandable, just get the Mega-Chameleon here. Over and out.**
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The battle ended with Xack slashing the umbilical cables and with only 5 minutes of power at the minimal performance stage, they succumbed somewhat easily to the Archgon and Mega-Chameleon. They ended up calling the Zero MXM to help get the Evangelions to the Various base. Many other Terran Dropsips were released to bring the Lockman home as well.
Shinji and the girls were pulled out of the lifeless EVAs and taken to the medical bay, where they rested for most of the day.
Rei was the first to come to, her eyes were open but she showed no reaction to the new surroundings. Rei just lay on the bed staring at the ceiling still in her plug suit. She had been given orders from Gendo to react to her own accord if she was captured. Since Rei wasn't used to moving to her own will, she just decided to follow Shinji's movement.
It was another 2 hours before Asuka became concious again, she leapt out of the bed as if she was laying in a pile of rusty nails. "Where is this place?!"
A doctor came through the door to check on the status of the children and noticed the firey pilot already up. He took one quick look at the medical status screen above the bed and clicked a few buttons on a panel near the screen. Asuka felt something drop off her head and hands and clatter to the floor, she looked down and noticed three very small dots on the floor.
She looked up again and saw the entry door slide open.
"I see at least two of you are awake children. Those items that came off you are our version of EKG examination units. Quite more advanced isn't it?" Xack smoothly walked into the room, now in his High Templar armor, almost gliding. "Doctor, you may leave."
"Yes sir."
The Protoss/Human explained what happened after he cut the umbilical cables and added, "When Shinji is up as well, meet me in the vid room. Just take a left out of this room, travel forward for 2 hallways and take the third right."
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"We recorded this news report while you were asleep. I thought you may want to see this."
Click!
I am Idan Retsu, filling in for Yato today. Our top story involves the alliance between OZ and our very own NERV. First off, NERV has been recently infiltrated and taken by a group called Yuri. We are unsure whether the group is made of, ahem, females.
We can now confirm that the following personnel of NERV are possibly being held hostage: Ritsuko Akagi, Gendo Ikari, Kozo Fuyutsuki, and Misato Katsuragi. We'll have more come time.
Also OZ leader, Treize Khushrenada, has recently announced that they have the situation under control and they can take NERV back within the week. This event may greatly help the alliance with one another.
Moving on, the Evangelions recently lost to a pair of other giant robots supposedly from the Various. The same people that OZ is fighti-
Click! Zyuu!
"I'll make this quick. Apparently, during our fight, the original Yuri took the time to bust into NERV. My best bet is that they went in there to get information on the EVAs, perhaps even to build one of their own.The bombs from the Lockman wiped much of an area of Geofront, with my men repairing Geofront and NERV staff watching the fight, it provided enough distraction for him to get in and take over NERV with a Yuri Prime unit. And on another note, Yuri is actually a hidden branch of OZ. Many of their units employ powerful mental abilities and physical strength. One false move and your Evangelions could be half drained of power in one swift beam from a Floating Disc. If we don't stop them before OZ 'stops' them, I'd say your world may develop a complete trust in OZ eventually, resulting in possible destruction of the Evangelions."
Asuka scowled at Xack, "How do we expect to do that without EVA 02?"
"It's been taken care of." replied the commander of the Various calmly, "Our technicians have hooked up a temporary power source to all three Evangelions. Should last for about 3 weeks, give or take a few hours between recharges. As for the LCL..."
Shinji wasn't listening to the conversation. He was worried for Misato's sake. Sure she was an alchoholic and a messy person, but she was still his and Asuka's guardian. Within himself, he could feel something he'd rarely felt in all his life. Was this courage? Was he finally building a 'spine'?
Rei was blank during the conversation. She wasn't sure what to do now, then again... When has she besides during orders? But Gendo was stuck within NERV held hostage by some group called Yuri, she wasn't going to stand by idly while he was in there. Not after what he did for her, for her life, not his.
"... for the last time, we didn't sabotage the EVAs Asuka." Xack's patience thread was thinning out with Asuka's constant badgering over what the Various had done to 02. One more little complaint about what the power cell would do to Eva 02, and he swore he was going to choke Asuka for a straight minute.
"Well whether you did or did not, we're not helping you, we'll get NERV back all by ourselves. With my guidance of course. Isn't that right Wondergirl and Baka?"
Asuka turned to face the remaining two pilots for their cooperation about her leadership.
Shinji and Rei surprisingly had no hesitation in saying "no."
"What?! Wha da ya mean 'no'?" Asuka placed her hands on her hips and scowled at Rei and Shinji.
Xack placed a hand on Asuka's shoulder and spun her 180 degrees, he had read the minds of all three children during interrogation, he'd seen their torments, their reactions toward others, and who they cared for. He knew what to say. "Soryuu, you've worked with them for some time. Surely you understand at least the feelings they have toward the people around them. Then again, you don't even take the time to get to know them, you focus only on yourself..."
"What's that supposed to mean!?" yelled the red-headed pilot.
"I mean that you 'alledgedly' don't care for anyone else, except Kaji Ryoji."
"... "
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"X, Zero, report to the armory slash shooting range. Ikari, put that down, it's got a hair trigger." Tanya of the Alliance was to train the three Children in basic firearms and if possible, semi-automatics. Progress so far was Shinji's hands shaking very badly after having to shoot 8 rounds straight with a handgun, Asuka already handling a machine gun with near complete mastery, and Rei only using the same handgun as Shinji did with better results.
Bam! "Sorry." The bullet imbedded itself in one of the fluorescent light sticks, putting it out.
"Ummm... We uh, needed to replace that anyway." The light fell down and shattered on the floor.
Bam! "..."
"Damn it, if Ikari does it, you have to do it too Ayanami?"
"I am only following my own decision."
"What is your decision?" asked Shinji.
"I will tell you when I am ordered by Ikari-san to do so."
Ssss! Clack! One of the leaders of the Rezoid Unit came in, Zero, the Maverick Hunter. His long blond hair fluttered behind him as he walked toward the three EVA pilots.
"So these are the new trainees." said Zero with his arms crossed.
Asuka scowled at Zero, "What makes you so big then?"
"My saber," with that Zero whipped out his Z-Saber, the green beam shined well on it's own without needing any help from the fluorescent light sticks on the ceiling.
Zero then added, "and my experience as a Hunter."
"Hmph."
X arrived in the room after Zero showed off his sword. His standard blue armor was now grey and black with minimal details, no doubt this was a stealth suit. "Tanya, are we prepared for the infiltration?"
"Nearly, we just need to have the boy practice a little longer."
A shady voice appeared out of nowhere, one that the EVA children could not understand, "En Taro Adun X, Neir Ma Tanya." A Dark Templar leapt out of the shadows of a corner in the armory. His sudden appearance (and his physical appearance) frightened Shinji. The next conversation also didn't make sense to the Evangelion pilots since the speech was entirely made of Protoss tongue (for the sake of the readers this will be English [also, when your part of a group of people from multiple dimensions, it's best to learn the languages of the unknown]
Tanya: I'm well aware of the matter of time, can't wait to get in the field myself.
D. Templar: You aren't going on this mission, and neither is Zero.
Tanya: What?! Why not?
D. Templar: The two of you are only the trainers for this particular mission, but your also the backup should we fail. That, and your guns are way too loud for the infiltration. Plus Zero's armor is too brightly colored.
Tanya: Why not just give me silencers and Zero a stealth ugrade?
D. Templar: One, you hate silencers, and two, Zero doesn't want upgrades. The only upgrades he'll take are repairs to his current body and Mobile Suit.
Tanya: *Grumble* Then who's on the front squad for this mission besides those three children?
D. Templar: Me, one other Dark Templar, a few Ghosts, X, and Xack. You may as well return to training now Tanya.
Tanya: One last question.
D. Templar: You may, how you Terrans say it, 'shoot'.
Tanya: Why only an infiltration?
D. Templar: Remember the news report? It said that they confirmed NERV staff are inside. Plus, some of our staff are inside, including Jim Raynor. I fear for what information Yuri may gather for OZ...
The Templar cloaked again and left.
Shinji was shaking from the spooky tongue of the conversation, Asuka left in the same position as Shinji (but she stopped shaking sooner [just before anyone could see her]), Rei asked Shinji if he knew what the scaly person with glowing eyes was. "D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d..." was Shinji's response.
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NERV HQ
"Thank you for the password Ms. Akagi." Yuri (original) left the blank-eyed scientist in the MAGI computer room to hack from there and proceeded to the bridge to further his own hacking attempts.
Klick, Clack, clack, calack, klack!
"This isn't as easy as I thought. The plans on the Evangelion are within OZ's grasp, just need to get past this MAGI firewall."
Clack, click, klik, klick, clak, clik, tap! "Eh? What the?! Not again..." The MAGI computers completely blocked off Yuri's progress in the NERV systems. Melchior, Balthasar, and Caspar, were the biggest hacking problems the genetic brain had come across in his travels with OZ. {The Maverick Hunter computers were never so hard. Neither were the Orange Star systems. And Yuri Prime #45 had no problem claiming everything in this complex, everything but the MAGI computers. They aren't even taking the passcodes from the one who knows them. How is this possible?} "May as well get my men to tear the MAGI down." muttered the frustrated Russian renegade.
Yuri left the bridge and located his main interior patrol, headed by a mind- controled Misato, he went by them and saw his left corridors patrol, their leader was Maya (carrying a pair of machine guns). Yuri continued to wander around NERV encountering his other patrols, each one headed by a different NERV staff member. After finding his way out of the complex, he went to his base area and began production of 30 Brutes...
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Outside the ruins that was part of Geofront
**Arbiter in position commander. Awaiting further instructions.**
**Prepare interdimesional Recall.** "Hang on you three, this is gonna be a bumpy ride." Xack clustered the rag tag group to make sure they would all be caught in the Recall warp. Since this was the EVA children's first warp, they all had received barf bags just in case.
Xack was now equipped with just a dark grey bulky chest armor, it covered much of his midsection, and it looked like he was wearing a mini-size version of EVA 01's chest and back part (including the sticking up things that hold the prog-knives).
The surroundings of the armory became a blue blur as the eerie swirl of energy surrounded the Various agents and Evangelion pilots. The trip through the warp field was brief, but rather exciting, waves of many shades of blue flashed before everyone's eyes. The Dark Templar, Ghosts, X, Rei, and Xack could maintain a straight, upright positon, but Asuka and Shinji had trouble holding their ground and just couldn't stand up again for the duration of the warp. Then that light blue circle at the end of the warp suddenly became large and covered everyone.
5 seconds later, the light cleared and the location had changed. Shinji opened his eyes (he shut them halfway through) and saw the Arbiter's miniscule shadow fly by them and go off back to the Various base's direction. Xack cocked the hammer on a gun that looked like it came out of the wild west, minus the fact that it had a silencer on it. "Alright, let's rock. Initiate phase 1 of our plan." Both Ghosts went into cloak and Xack told the others to stay out of sight of the Yuri units.
"OK Commander, where do we aim the nukes?"
"At-"
Xack's order was cut off as all three EVA children had heard what Ghost #1 had said.
Shinji/ Asuka (S= fearful, A= screeching): What did he say?!
Rei (quietly): What was that?
The now verbally harassed Protoss/ Human tried to explain over the two louder voices that it was a controled blast, the radiation would stay in the area the nuke exploded, so long as they didn't approach the area where the nuke landed for about 10 minutes, they'd be okay when they entered that particular area.
"Just how large is this radius?" asked Asuka.
"Should level about half of this Yuri base. Luckily, he built this one distanced from what remains of Geofront. NERV, Tokyo-3 and everyone inside the shelters will live and the nukes serve as a spectacular distraction for our infiltration."
"... Alright, launch them." grumbled Asuka.
"OK then, Zain, Zeke, approach the edge of the base and launch the nukes as far away from yourselves as you can, but make sure you camoflauge them well among the buildings." Though Xack was prone to make decisions that didn't involve casualties, he never forgave those who had joined Yuri without the use of mind control (actually, it was everyone but the Slave Miners, but Yuri can't set up a resource facility in such an area). Many of them had actually slaughtered their own families, this was true in the case of Keagan.
HiStOrY LeSsOn
He became part of the Yuri team, taking on the role of an Initiate, during their invasion of South America. He was quite sadist at the time and didn't regret any of the kills he made, this was most likely the result of Keagan's work with his father, he secretly helped him with the gunshop his father ran. Anyways, Keagan killed his father, mother, and his two sisters. One of them being only 10 years, the other was 20.
ClAsS dIsMiSsEd
So it happened, two nuke position dots pasted themselves on a seperate building. As soon as the nukes came, the twin brother Ghosts ran from the enemy base as the nuclear missiles began to touch down and Yuri personnel began to run in all directions for openings, even one of the Brutes was screaming for his life.
KAFOOOM! BANG! BOOM! x2 in volume
"All units, go, Go, GO!" ordered Xack with a ferocious tone.
"Alright, sheesh! Mein Gott!" spitted Asuka.
As the group headed in, Dropships and Shuttles began appearing from the skies dropping ropes and teleport beams which in turn brought down Marines and Zealots. Other transport vehicles were bringing out Dragoons or Siege Tanks with parachutes attatched onto the tanks and various vehicular units. Then from west, Md Tanks (Advance Wars) made their way across the plains, cannons at the ready.
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Location: Okinawa Gerad's hotel room
The last day and a half had been very fun for Gerad, besides having to tolerate Kensuke's and Toji's antics in the room.
Recently Kensuke complained of missing the latest Evangelion battle, nothing but more text messages from the government. Gerad was intrigued by this and watched a news report while both stooges were still asleep the previous night. Using the subtitles and photos taken at the time, he understood what was going on between NERV and the Various.
Seeing the Lockman perform like that against the EVAs disturbed him, OZ had indeed released Yuri into the fold. He began to think of what may happen in the next few days of this campaign, many of their battles against OZ proved to be nothing but a large skirmish. On several occasions the entire campaign in a particular dimension only lasted between 2-3 weeks! All OZ needed was a quick bond with the locals and they were off to the next area. These bonds were hazardous to the Various, so far, dimensions like X's homedimesion had been overrun with OZ mobile suits and dolls, near everyone was Maverick or OZrick except for X, Zero, Alia, and a partially rebuilt Iris. Gate, a rebuilt and upgraded Vile, and Dynamo worked with OZ. It sickened him to remember it.
This reminded him of a set of plans Keagan recovered on an operation in the Wars World dimension.
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Xack: Keagan, Status report.
Kegan: **No casualties Xack, as always.**
Xack: Good, good. What did we recover at the base?
Keagan: **Aside from a whole batch of half-completed Vayeates and some Acguys, we found a set of plans in a trash bin. The thing had a steel lid! Had to use Sami's bazooka to get the thing open.
Xack: What it it? {They must be pretty lazy not to burn the things.}
Keagan: **It looks like the Big Zam, but the blueprints show it to be a bit bigger and taller. The legs have a ton of extra boosters on them, and the 'head' has some laser cannon mounted on it. The name for this thing is KZ- 0, King Zam prototype. If we encounter these things, it may be difficult to take out. Despite our battles with Big Zams, OZ may equip it with 'other' technologies for better mobility.**
Xack: Right... You can come back to base now. Over and out.
Gerad: Xack, do you really think that OZ can complete the thing?
Xack: We had a difficult time finding this factory, I suspect that they might be able to complete it if we don't look everywhere in the dimensions.
Gerad: Hmmmm... *bites lower lip*
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