Disclaimer: I do not own Evangelion, Starcraft, the Megaman X series. The
only thing about this that I own is Xack, Keagan, and Gerad... That and a
DVD of the first 4 episodes of NGE (Besides that, I've only researched
Evangelion on Google searches)
Chapter 9
Bang! Bang! Thwip! Tong!
"Gah..." Thump!
"I never knew Yuri would go to such drastic measures to win NERV." Zain reloaded a tranquilizer gun after firing the last two rounds, one into Aoba and one into the wall by accident. "Forgive my marksmanship sir, I havn't poured bullets into anything for a long time."
Xack checked the body of the NERV employee and contacted a recovery team via radio. **... ... Okay.** "Zain, don't worry about shooting the enemy," Xack tucked away the radio into his pant's pocket. "Focus on the recovery of the staff. Remember that your the stunner, Zeke's the shooter." He turned his attention to the rest of the team. "We have to wait for the recovery team to pick up the hostage."
Asuka put her machine gun (still smoking) to her side and whined a little, "Why? Can't we just move on and find Kaji to get him out of this hellhole?"
"No." Xack replied, "The noise caused by our weapons may attract further guards, so we need to wait patiently for the recovery team." He grinned and added something in an attempt to raise Asuka's spirits, "Heck. Maybe Yuri will send Kaji's squad over."
Instead, Asuka frowned and yelled, "Is that your idea of a joke?!?!"
Xack rolled his eyes and didn't reply.
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Okinawa
Gerad swam through the bright shallows, repeating that news report he saw in his mind.
@Flashback.com
Time: 10:30 PM
The Rerun Channel
Click! Zwit!
-le that OZ is fighting. We have live photos of the fight, the source came from one of our helicopters high above the scene at the time.
Gerad: What the? This must be what Kensuke was peeved about.
Snort!
Gerad: ! *turns head* ... ... Oh phew, nothing but Toji snoring his head off.
*turns attention back to TV*
Idan in TV: *shows varying photos of the fight while talking* The battle that ensued between the Evangelions and the Various was catastrophic and has left several roads devestated. Authorities have yet to confirm whether they actually want to kill us all. I have my doubts, but I think that may not be so bad at all. *end photo show* *Idan pulls out a tape recorder* We have a recorded talk with a woman who claimed to be at the scene a little while before the battle. *Hits play on the tape recorder*
Tape Recorder: I was just finishing some grocery shopping with my younger child when I saw a black and blue robot scrambling across the streets, I looked up and saw a white plane pursuing it. I don't know what happened next, I just froze in place, staring at the sight... That's when I saw the bomb dropping in. I thought I was going to die so I shut my eyes. I heard a large explosion but when I opened them again, the black and blue robot had taken the blow. I don't know how he did it but I thank him for doing that.
Click! Zyuu!
Gerad: *hangs head in thought* ...
Log out Flashback.com
Bump! "ow." Gerad crashed into a tall rock covered in barnacles while he was lost in thought. With his goggles cracked, he rose up to the surface and started swimming back to the beach.
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The recovery team was even less equipped than Xack's group, consisting of only 2 Medics, 2 Guardian GIs, and 1 Mechanized Infantry. It was surprising enough for them to be able to make it through NERV to get Shigeru. Aoba was quickly taken outside to a waiting dropship and taken to the Various base for medical attention. Xack checked the area the infiltration team was in now and after declaring it clear in his mind, had everyone advance forward to retrieve the next person.
"Our sensors are being blocked off, the only way we'll find the rest of NERV's people is if we split up and go in seperate directions." Zain suggested.
"Good idea, we're at an intersection anyway. X, arm the Stun Grenade, take Asuka, Zeke, and Giado (one of the Dark Templar), then head in the direction of your choice." Xack arranged the groups with complaints coming from Asuka about sticking 'perverted' Shinji with Wondergirl. It ended with a quick slap to the head from Zeke, knocking her for a loop long enough to drag her to the right corridor.
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Checking back on Yuri...
The Brute production was brought to a halt since all the Barracks were destroyed in the Various assault.
Yuri himself was back in the bridge still hacking, this time with the cooperation of Ritsuko and Hyuga as well as most of the NERV operators. "That's it! Almost there..." *BEEP! Access denied* "GAHHHHHHHHHHHH! Why won't this thing open?!"
Yuri slammed the keyboard in frustration and ordered his 'minions' to continue work on cracking the code whle he goes to attend to the intruders 'himself'.
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"We'll take it from here X." Two more NERV members were knocked out (Misato and Gendo), and taken outside to the waiting transports. Getting them knocked out was extremely difficult as they were two groups combined. Consisting of 4 Brutes, 3 Initiates and 1 Virus apiece, Giado did most of the work with his Warp Blade and cloaking ability.
"Yes. Thank you. Ok troops, lets keep moving." X pointed toward a door that was broken down, but the lights within the room had been turned off. Asuka remembered what room that was, but didn't tell anybody as a revenge for the smack in the head.
Their feet entered the doorway slowly, one by one, barely making a sound along the metal. Giado started feeling around for a fuse box or a switch, then fell in the LCL. Splash! "HEY! What is this?! Splutter!" X quickly picked him out of LCL and Giado asked what this place was. Asuka piped up, "Glad you asked, this is an Evangelion cage. Used to hold one of the... worse EVAs."
"How is it worse? Aren't they all the same besides the design and color scheme?" asked X.
"Unit 00, the orange, is a prototype. Unit 01, the purple, is a test type. While my Unit 02 is the production model, which makes it the first true Evangelion, the first to be suited for combat." explained Asuka emphasizing 'my' and 'true'.
X did an anime sweatdrop and muttered"Like Mobile Suits and Zoids I guess..." The blue reploid began to speak again, "Where are the lights anyway?" Then at the end of his question, the lights snapped on, revealing the cage area. The group was standing on the umbilical bridge. The LCL was still slightly rippling from Giado's falling, aside from that everything seemed quite tranquil until the next few seconds passed.
"Does anyonelse hear a buzzing noise?" asked X. Indeed there was a buzzing noise, it became louder, it was coming closer. Another raft appeared, spraying the LCL from the back all along the way. Zeke squinted his eyes in an attempt to see the occupants in vain, for despite his possession of extra Lockdown energy, he did not posess his brother's talent with ocular implants.
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Rei shot in sync with Shinji as they helped gun down waves of Initiates, the psychic bastards were coming in waves, each one tougher than the last. Brutes were beginning to replace their fallen comrades thus making the battle even more bullet-consuming. Many bodies lay on the transport belt, creating a hill of corpses, several had fallen into the mechanical abyss at the sides. "Xa-Xa-Xack." stammered Shinji patting his holster assigned to him.
"What is it Ikari?" growled Xack who was firing a bullet right at a Brute's head, taking it out.
"I'm out of ammo."
"As am I."
Xack quickly tossed 2 ammo packs for them then yelled, "Protect the children whilst they reload!" As Xack cried out the order, he ripped off the sticky up items on his back and they transformed into a pair of Gauss rifles! In Xack's opinion he liked to call them 'Ass-haul Rifles'. He swiftly took down several Brutes and Initiates with them as he had applied Protoss technology with it.
Zain changed to an upgraded C-10 Canister Rifle, pulling off several high power shots at a slightly faster rate. Eventually all the Initiates and Brutes were taken care of and the only obstacle left was to cross the sea of bodies. "Crap. This many troops..." Zain commented. "We must advance quickly Xack, to avoid any further- Yowch!" A bullet struck the Ghost's gun flinging it off the edge. "Just great... We had to fight on a conveynor belt..."
Xack looked around for the assailant and saw a Marine clad figure standing on top of a pile of Brutes at the end where they entered of the disabled belt. "Jim? ... Get the tranquilizers ready!" Zain scrambled for his other gun. "Shinji! I need you to back up Zain while I reload!"
"Uh- Hai. Musn't run away..."
Xack pulled out several ammo clips for his rifles, as he reloaded he suddenly gripped his head in pain and thought to himself, {That last Initiate must have tried to attack my head... I hope Ikari and Ayanami are good enough to take down Raynor...}
Shinji ran over to Zain's front and readied his firearm, Rei did the same. The young Ikari felt more confident with Rei at his side with an exact same handgun, he steadied his own position with "Musn't run away, musn't run away." Checking his current clip and magazine of his gun he found only one bullet within the ammo chamber, if he was gonna shoot, it had to count.
The zombified Terran General was still in the same position when he had fired, he just stood there with the glazed eyes of mind-control, then his arm began to move shifting it's crosshairs to target Rei now. Without thinking, Shinji fired his last bullet the same time Jim did, Rei fired at the same time as well. Rei's bullet was directly parrellel to Raynor's bullet and both reflected off each other, sending them in diagonal directions upwards. Ikari's bullet was going at the same rate the albino's was, so as Ayanami's bullet connected with the Marine's, Shinji's continued to sail at Jim's gun and knock it out of his hands. By then, Zain was ready to unload a tranquilizer into Raynor.
Thump! He tumbled down the pile of Brutes, onto the floor and just breathed. Xack congratualated Shinji and Rei on a great shot, then contacted a recovery team via crackling like hell radio. **We have Jim Raynor under control, send Recov. Unit 3 for this job... What? Good news? ... ... ... That's excellent news, well, for Shinji and Rei anyway. I'll tell them right away.** Xack acted beyond the age he was, this was why MOST of the Various respected him despite the fact that he was practically the youngest member of the group clocking in at 14. This didn't prevent him from holding back a big grin in telling Ikari and Ayanami that Gendo and Misato had been recovered by X's team. Shinji smiled briefly and Ayanami flashed a grin at the news and took their time to reload their weapons.
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Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz! That raft's engine buzzed as it was still on the approach, but as an unshaven face came into the light Asuka waved both of her arms at the guy that was at the front of the raft and yelled at the top of her lungs, "KAJI-SAN! OVER HERE!!!" She was practically jumping in that red plug suit.
Zeke clamped a hand over her mouth, removed it and asked, "What's wrong with you?!"
Asuka slapped Zeke across the face and barked, "Can't I be glad that Kaji- san's here?"
Zeke didn't bother to attend to the red mark and bit back (verbally), "'Kaji-san' is being controled, do you see the look in his eyes???"
"He's the same Kaji he's always been!"
Giado's wielded his Warp Blades as the raft was almost upon them, "Asuka, Zeke, I suggest you prepare your weapons as the enemy is now upon us." The raft's other occupants were now visable, they consisted of Maya, Kozo, and some Male operator operating the motor.
The people didn't step out of the raft, they merely sat with their blank faces and guns.
"They aren't attacking? I expect them to be lobbing a grenade at us or at least have an ambush set up..." Zeke warily approached the raft with his gun poised to strike. Asuka ran past the Ghost and lept onto the raft.
"What are you doing?! You could get killed!" yelled Zeke.
"There is no need to worry, see? They aren't even moving!" Soryuu pointed at Kaji who was still in the same position he arrived in, sniper rifle just pointing at space. His companions on the raft were also in the same stature as well. It was as if they were statues... X hurriedly fired a Stun Grenade into the raft, (X had followed a technicality from the law of robotics, according to it, robots (or reploid) are not allowed to harm humans, that doesn't mean that they aren't able to disarm, freeze, trip, hit them with a water balloon, etc.) where Kaji, Maya, Kozo, and the operator all held sniper rifles to be fired on someone's command. The grenade exploded in a shower of blue light and golden thunder, the NERV staff suddenly raised their hands and shielded the brightness, Asuka was left seeing spots. That didn't protect them from the stun part of the weapon.
Zeke hurriedly carried Asuka's frozen body out of the craft after the light and sparks faded.
"Impressive display of preservation Megaman X, disobeying one of the rules of robotics. Your creator would be very ashamed of you." A voice sounded out of nowhere. Then a blur formed as Yuri teleported in next to the raft.
Everyone stared at the impossible appearance of Yuri, even with his tremendous psychic powers, there was no way he could teleport like that.
"Harm can help sometimes rather than hurt, Yuri..." X angrily said as he swiveled his buster's direction to Yuri.
Yuri merely chuckled, "That's what's wrong with you Various. You focus on the life, not the death of the enemy... X, you can't help but be one of the many pacifists, fighting for mortal lives of enemy and ally alike."
X frowned, "When I began fighting, I wanted peace for reploids and humans. A peace in which they could cooperate together. When I met the Various and got to know Xack's side of peace, I saw people that many thought impossible. So many worlds caught in combat and war, the conflicts already among them were bad enough. But to be ignited even further by OZ... It's just too much."
Yuri chuckled again, this time it was building to a laugh, "These conflicts are nothing but the termination of some opposition. If you Various would stop fighting us, the utopia we sought would already be built."
"Utopia for who?!" X advanced on Yuri, buster pointing right at his head. "Is this 'utopia' for yourself? Or for all? Is it built in OZ's image or the people's?" energy began to gather round X, slowly turning light blue, then yellow, energy rippled around him as flashes of green and blue ignited as he charged his buster, still pointing at Yuri's head.
"The utopia will be compiled of all opinions of the people, including you. Those opinions will form the ideal, the ideal worlds of no war or battles."
"All you'll end up doing is creating a peace that has to be controled by Mobile Suits pointing lasers at innocents!"
Again, Yuri chuckled, "Hm hm hm." then it built, "Heh heh heh heh heh heh... Ha ha ha ha ha... Ah Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha! You believe that! You believe that poor excuse for a commander?"
"THAT'S IT!" X let loose the charged buster shot into Yuri's head, the head vaporized in an instant (!).
So did every other body part of Yuri.
"Wuh?" Yuri appeared behind X and kicked him down to the floor. "Where did you come from!" X was completely caught off guard by Yuri by his sudden disappearing act. X fired several basic shots at Yuri, and just like the last shot, Yuri vaporized. This time Yuri appeared in front of Giado and gave the Dark Templar a swift blow to the head, Giado briefly groaned before falling to the floor unconsious. "Banded together you make a formidable foe, but apart you can't even block a simple punch." Asuka just came out of paralysis to hear that last phrase.
"You're the one that tried to control my brain!" Asuka slowly regained control of her mobile functions as she tried to stand up.
"Ah, the young girl of that impressive red... Evangelion was it?"
X sought to aim his buster at Yuri again but held back just in case of the possibility that he would hit Asuka. Zeke was slowly edging away from Yuri, guns at his sides.
"You bet! My name is Asuka Langley Soryuu, and you had better treat me with respect!"
"Of course young lady, OZ sees your potential as well as I. When my double attacked you, I was unaware of the situation. My other doubles are crawling around this complex, I had to resort to controling people for troops. I'm sorry if it has caused you any trouble."
"Don't listen to him Asuka!" Zeke yelled. "He will only bring you to his-"
"Silence fool!" Zeke's body went limp and his eyes glazed over, his body floated and was smashed against the wall, he fell to the ground near the door. The Ghost was still breathing, but he was paralyzed. Yuri proceeded to dissapear again to the front of X and stamped his foot on the reploid's head, knocking him out. "Now Soryuu, you have two options." Yuri still had his foot on X's head. "One: Join OZ and retaliate against the tyrannical Various group, or Two: suffer the same fate as that Ghost." He pointed to Zeke's body which now bled from the lip.
"Can I even trust you?" retorted Asuka.
"What is there not to trust?" Yuri advanced on the red-head holding out his hand in a handshake gesture. His other hand was now behind his back fingering a black handle.
Asuka's right hand lay on the machine gun strapped to her side, ready to be pulled out for firing...
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Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
One of them collapsed in a heap from several bullets...
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"Xack, our sensors just came back. It detects a massive amount of lifeforms in the next area. 4 Yuri signatures are in there, most definitely Clones. One of the Yuri signatures is moving around to each human signature." Zain was looking over the now blipping device. "The majority of the signatures are human, so their likely to be NERV staff."
Xack sighed in frustration, not only because of the enormous amount of innocents but also because he was trying to hack into, likely, the only door Yuri HADN'T broken down. It was apparent that Yuri somehow snagged the NERV IDs of the employees and pilots (on a visit to the shower room). So far, kicking the door down was now the only logical option. That, and bring backup.
"Agh, &@!*#^$%&:(|. Get X's group and Tanya's squad from base down here." ordered the twitchy eyed commander.
Zain had rarely heard Xack swear like this, in fact, he had never heard him swear once. He recovered speedily from the swearing and stated, "Sir, with all due honesty, we can take those Clones in just 3 seconds! Why get backup?"
"I have a suspicion that the Clone is handing out guns in case we come in. Any intruder goes in and they get turned to swiss cheese. That's why we need backup. Even if I activate the Plasma Shield, it won't hold out for long..." Xack picked the walkie-talkie from his pocket and flicked the on/off switch. "Eh?" Click click click click. "First our sensors bust then come back. Now our communications has been cut." He put it away and turned to the Dark Templar in his group, "Kyuavo, (Key-u-ah-vo) can you go and find X's unit?"
A scaled body in black and blue garb materialized next to Rei and accepted the command, Xack turned to the 2 second younger Ghost brother, "Zain, Kyuavo will require the location of X's unit to find them." Xack stated.
Zain pressed a zoom out button on the sensor, "Ok. Kyuavo, take the sensor and follow the blue blip." Several turquiose ripples issued from the dot on the edge of the screen. The silent DT nodded and became a clear entity once again. You could just see the traces heading down a corridor with a floating item in where his hands should be.
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A body lay on the umbilical bridge of Unit 00, 4 bullet holes were visible on the not dead husk. One in the left leg, one in the right forearm, the other two found themselves in each shoulder. Blood trickled onto the floor and made it's way to the edge, it hadn't contaminated the LCL yet, but it was on the verge of doing so.
The one left standing's gun smoked, the person calmly reloaded the weapon and blew the smoke away. A grin sprouted from the face.
Kyuavo just arrived as well. He was in the observing area and noticed the two people, both visible in the light. The Dark Templar's eyes flashed for a moment in saying, "Holy crap..."
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Chapter 9
Bang! Bang! Thwip! Tong!
"Gah..." Thump!
"I never knew Yuri would go to such drastic measures to win NERV." Zain reloaded a tranquilizer gun after firing the last two rounds, one into Aoba and one into the wall by accident. "Forgive my marksmanship sir, I havn't poured bullets into anything for a long time."
Xack checked the body of the NERV employee and contacted a recovery team via radio. **... ... Okay.** "Zain, don't worry about shooting the enemy," Xack tucked away the radio into his pant's pocket. "Focus on the recovery of the staff. Remember that your the stunner, Zeke's the shooter." He turned his attention to the rest of the team. "We have to wait for the recovery team to pick up the hostage."
Asuka put her machine gun (still smoking) to her side and whined a little, "Why? Can't we just move on and find Kaji to get him out of this hellhole?"
"No." Xack replied, "The noise caused by our weapons may attract further guards, so we need to wait patiently for the recovery team." He grinned and added something in an attempt to raise Asuka's spirits, "Heck. Maybe Yuri will send Kaji's squad over."
Instead, Asuka frowned and yelled, "Is that your idea of a joke?!?!"
Xack rolled his eyes and didn't reply.
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Okinawa
Gerad swam through the bright shallows, repeating that news report he saw in his mind.
@Flashback.com
Time: 10:30 PM
The Rerun Channel
Click! Zwit!
-le that OZ is fighting. We have live photos of the fight, the source came from one of our helicopters high above the scene at the time.
Gerad: What the? This must be what Kensuke was peeved about.
Snort!
Gerad: ! *turns head* ... ... Oh phew, nothing but Toji snoring his head off.
*turns attention back to TV*
Idan in TV: *shows varying photos of the fight while talking* The battle that ensued between the Evangelions and the Various was catastrophic and has left several roads devestated. Authorities have yet to confirm whether they actually want to kill us all. I have my doubts, but I think that may not be so bad at all. *end photo show* *Idan pulls out a tape recorder* We have a recorded talk with a woman who claimed to be at the scene a little while before the battle. *Hits play on the tape recorder*
Tape Recorder: I was just finishing some grocery shopping with my younger child when I saw a black and blue robot scrambling across the streets, I looked up and saw a white plane pursuing it. I don't know what happened next, I just froze in place, staring at the sight... That's when I saw the bomb dropping in. I thought I was going to die so I shut my eyes. I heard a large explosion but when I opened them again, the black and blue robot had taken the blow. I don't know how he did it but I thank him for doing that.
Click! Zyuu!
Gerad: *hangs head in thought* ...
Log out Flashback.com
Bump! "ow." Gerad crashed into a tall rock covered in barnacles while he was lost in thought. With his goggles cracked, he rose up to the surface and started swimming back to the beach.
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The recovery team was even less equipped than Xack's group, consisting of only 2 Medics, 2 Guardian GIs, and 1 Mechanized Infantry. It was surprising enough for them to be able to make it through NERV to get Shigeru. Aoba was quickly taken outside to a waiting dropship and taken to the Various base for medical attention. Xack checked the area the infiltration team was in now and after declaring it clear in his mind, had everyone advance forward to retrieve the next person.
"Our sensors are being blocked off, the only way we'll find the rest of NERV's people is if we split up and go in seperate directions." Zain suggested.
"Good idea, we're at an intersection anyway. X, arm the Stun Grenade, take Asuka, Zeke, and Giado (one of the Dark Templar), then head in the direction of your choice." Xack arranged the groups with complaints coming from Asuka about sticking 'perverted' Shinji with Wondergirl. It ended with a quick slap to the head from Zeke, knocking her for a loop long enough to drag her to the right corridor.
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Checking back on Yuri...
The Brute production was brought to a halt since all the Barracks were destroyed in the Various assault.
Yuri himself was back in the bridge still hacking, this time with the cooperation of Ritsuko and Hyuga as well as most of the NERV operators. "That's it! Almost there..." *BEEP! Access denied* "GAHHHHHHHHHHHH! Why won't this thing open?!"
Yuri slammed the keyboard in frustration and ordered his 'minions' to continue work on cracking the code whle he goes to attend to the intruders 'himself'.
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"We'll take it from here X." Two more NERV members were knocked out (Misato and Gendo), and taken outside to the waiting transports. Getting them knocked out was extremely difficult as they were two groups combined. Consisting of 4 Brutes, 3 Initiates and 1 Virus apiece, Giado did most of the work with his Warp Blade and cloaking ability.
"Yes. Thank you. Ok troops, lets keep moving." X pointed toward a door that was broken down, but the lights within the room had been turned off. Asuka remembered what room that was, but didn't tell anybody as a revenge for the smack in the head.
Their feet entered the doorway slowly, one by one, barely making a sound along the metal. Giado started feeling around for a fuse box or a switch, then fell in the LCL. Splash! "HEY! What is this?! Splutter!" X quickly picked him out of LCL and Giado asked what this place was. Asuka piped up, "Glad you asked, this is an Evangelion cage. Used to hold one of the... worse EVAs."
"How is it worse? Aren't they all the same besides the design and color scheme?" asked X.
"Unit 00, the orange, is a prototype. Unit 01, the purple, is a test type. While my Unit 02 is the production model, which makes it the first true Evangelion, the first to be suited for combat." explained Asuka emphasizing 'my' and 'true'.
X did an anime sweatdrop and muttered"Like Mobile Suits and Zoids I guess..." The blue reploid began to speak again, "Where are the lights anyway?" Then at the end of his question, the lights snapped on, revealing the cage area. The group was standing on the umbilical bridge. The LCL was still slightly rippling from Giado's falling, aside from that everything seemed quite tranquil until the next few seconds passed.
"Does anyonelse hear a buzzing noise?" asked X. Indeed there was a buzzing noise, it became louder, it was coming closer. Another raft appeared, spraying the LCL from the back all along the way. Zeke squinted his eyes in an attempt to see the occupants in vain, for despite his possession of extra Lockdown energy, he did not posess his brother's talent with ocular implants.
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Rei shot in sync with Shinji as they helped gun down waves of Initiates, the psychic bastards were coming in waves, each one tougher than the last. Brutes were beginning to replace their fallen comrades thus making the battle even more bullet-consuming. Many bodies lay on the transport belt, creating a hill of corpses, several had fallen into the mechanical abyss at the sides. "Xa-Xa-Xack." stammered Shinji patting his holster assigned to him.
"What is it Ikari?" growled Xack who was firing a bullet right at a Brute's head, taking it out.
"I'm out of ammo."
"As am I."
Xack quickly tossed 2 ammo packs for them then yelled, "Protect the children whilst they reload!" As Xack cried out the order, he ripped off the sticky up items on his back and they transformed into a pair of Gauss rifles! In Xack's opinion he liked to call them 'Ass-haul Rifles'. He swiftly took down several Brutes and Initiates with them as he had applied Protoss technology with it.
Zain changed to an upgraded C-10 Canister Rifle, pulling off several high power shots at a slightly faster rate. Eventually all the Initiates and Brutes were taken care of and the only obstacle left was to cross the sea of bodies. "Crap. This many troops..." Zain commented. "We must advance quickly Xack, to avoid any further- Yowch!" A bullet struck the Ghost's gun flinging it off the edge. "Just great... We had to fight on a conveynor belt..."
Xack looked around for the assailant and saw a Marine clad figure standing on top of a pile of Brutes at the end where they entered of the disabled belt. "Jim? ... Get the tranquilizers ready!" Zain scrambled for his other gun. "Shinji! I need you to back up Zain while I reload!"
"Uh- Hai. Musn't run away..."
Xack pulled out several ammo clips for his rifles, as he reloaded he suddenly gripped his head in pain and thought to himself, {That last Initiate must have tried to attack my head... I hope Ikari and Ayanami are good enough to take down Raynor...}
Shinji ran over to Zain's front and readied his firearm, Rei did the same. The young Ikari felt more confident with Rei at his side with an exact same handgun, he steadied his own position with "Musn't run away, musn't run away." Checking his current clip and magazine of his gun he found only one bullet within the ammo chamber, if he was gonna shoot, it had to count.
The zombified Terran General was still in the same position when he had fired, he just stood there with the glazed eyes of mind-control, then his arm began to move shifting it's crosshairs to target Rei now. Without thinking, Shinji fired his last bullet the same time Jim did, Rei fired at the same time as well. Rei's bullet was directly parrellel to Raynor's bullet and both reflected off each other, sending them in diagonal directions upwards. Ikari's bullet was going at the same rate the albino's was, so as Ayanami's bullet connected with the Marine's, Shinji's continued to sail at Jim's gun and knock it out of his hands. By then, Zain was ready to unload a tranquilizer into Raynor.
Thump! He tumbled down the pile of Brutes, onto the floor and just breathed. Xack congratualated Shinji and Rei on a great shot, then contacted a recovery team via crackling like hell radio. **We have Jim Raynor under control, send Recov. Unit 3 for this job... What? Good news? ... ... ... That's excellent news, well, for Shinji and Rei anyway. I'll tell them right away.** Xack acted beyond the age he was, this was why MOST of the Various respected him despite the fact that he was practically the youngest member of the group clocking in at 14. This didn't prevent him from holding back a big grin in telling Ikari and Ayanami that Gendo and Misato had been recovered by X's team. Shinji smiled briefly and Ayanami flashed a grin at the news and took their time to reload their weapons.
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Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz! That raft's engine buzzed as it was still on the approach, but as an unshaven face came into the light Asuka waved both of her arms at the guy that was at the front of the raft and yelled at the top of her lungs, "KAJI-SAN! OVER HERE!!!" She was practically jumping in that red plug suit.
Zeke clamped a hand over her mouth, removed it and asked, "What's wrong with you?!"
Asuka slapped Zeke across the face and barked, "Can't I be glad that Kaji- san's here?"
Zeke didn't bother to attend to the red mark and bit back (verbally), "'Kaji-san' is being controled, do you see the look in his eyes???"
"He's the same Kaji he's always been!"
Giado's wielded his Warp Blades as the raft was almost upon them, "Asuka, Zeke, I suggest you prepare your weapons as the enemy is now upon us." The raft's other occupants were now visable, they consisted of Maya, Kozo, and some Male operator operating the motor.
The people didn't step out of the raft, they merely sat with their blank faces and guns.
"They aren't attacking? I expect them to be lobbing a grenade at us or at least have an ambush set up..." Zeke warily approached the raft with his gun poised to strike. Asuka ran past the Ghost and lept onto the raft.
"What are you doing?! You could get killed!" yelled Zeke.
"There is no need to worry, see? They aren't even moving!" Soryuu pointed at Kaji who was still in the same position he arrived in, sniper rifle just pointing at space. His companions on the raft were also in the same stature as well. It was as if they were statues... X hurriedly fired a Stun Grenade into the raft, (X had followed a technicality from the law of robotics, according to it, robots (or reploid) are not allowed to harm humans, that doesn't mean that they aren't able to disarm, freeze, trip, hit them with a water balloon, etc.) where Kaji, Maya, Kozo, and the operator all held sniper rifles to be fired on someone's command. The grenade exploded in a shower of blue light and golden thunder, the NERV staff suddenly raised their hands and shielded the brightness, Asuka was left seeing spots. That didn't protect them from the stun part of the weapon.
Zeke hurriedly carried Asuka's frozen body out of the craft after the light and sparks faded.
"Impressive display of preservation Megaman X, disobeying one of the rules of robotics. Your creator would be very ashamed of you." A voice sounded out of nowhere. Then a blur formed as Yuri teleported in next to the raft.
Everyone stared at the impossible appearance of Yuri, even with his tremendous psychic powers, there was no way he could teleport like that.
"Harm can help sometimes rather than hurt, Yuri..." X angrily said as he swiveled his buster's direction to Yuri.
Yuri merely chuckled, "That's what's wrong with you Various. You focus on the life, not the death of the enemy... X, you can't help but be one of the many pacifists, fighting for mortal lives of enemy and ally alike."
X frowned, "When I began fighting, I wanted peace for reploids and humans. A peace in which they could cooperate together. When I met the Various and got to know Xack's side of peace, I saw people that many thought impossible. So many worlds caught in combat and war, the conflicts already among them were bad enough. But to be ignited even further by OZ... It's just too much."
Yuri chuckled again, this time it was building to a laugh, "These conflicts are nothing but the termination of some opposition. If you Various would stop fighting us, the utopia we sought would already be built."
"Utopia for who?!" X advanced on Yuri, buster pointing right at his head. "Is this 'utopia' for yourself? Or for all? Is it built in OZ's image or the people's?" energy began to gather round X, slowly turning light blue, then yellow, energy rippled around him as flashes of green and blue ignited as he charged his buster, still pointing at Yuri's head.
"The utopia will be compiled of all opinions of the people, including you. Those opinions will form the ideal, the ideal worlds of no war or battles."
"All you'll end up doing is creating a peace that has to be controled by Mobile Suits pointing lasers at innocents!"
Again, Yuri chuckled, "Hm hm hm." then it built, "Heh heh heh heh heh heh... Ha ha ha ha ha... Ah Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha! You believe that! You believe that poor excuse for a commander?"
"THAT'S IT!" X let loose the charged buster shot into Yuri's head, the head vaporized in an instant (!).
So did every other body part of Yuri.
"Wuh?" Yuri appeared behind X and kicked him down to the floor. "Where did you come from!" X was completely caught off guard by Yuri by his sudden disappearing act. X fired several basic shots at Yuri, and just like the last shot, Yuri vaporized. This time Yuri appeared in front of Giado and gave the Dark Templar a swift blow to the head, Giado briefly groaned before falling to the floor unconsious. "Banded together you make a formidable foe, but apart you can't even block a simple punch." Asuka just came out of paralysis to hear that last phrase.
"You're the one that tried to control my brain!" Asuka slowly regained control of her mobile functions as she tried to stand up.
"Ah, the young girl of that impressive red... Evangelion was it?"
X sought to aim his buster at Yuri again but held back just in case of the possibility that he would hit Asuka. Zeke was slowly edging away from Yuri, guns at his sides.
"You bet! My name is Asuka Langley Soryuu, and you had better treat me with respect!"
"Of course young lady, OZ sees your potential as well as I. When my double attacked you, I was unaware of the situation. My other doubles are crawling around this complex, I had to resort to controling people for troops. I'm sorry if it has caused you any trouble."
"Don't listen to him Asuka!" Zeke yelled. "He will only bring you to his-"
"Silence fool!" Zeke's body went limp and his eyes glazed over, his body floated and was smashed against the wall, he fell to the ground near the door. The Ghost was still breathing, but he was paralyzed. Yuri proceeded to dissapear again to the front of X and stamped his foot on the reploid's head, knocking him out. "Now Soryuu, you have two options." Yuri still had his foot on X's head. "One: Join OZ and retaliate against the tyrannical Various group, or Two: suffer the same fate as that Ghost." He pointed to Zeke's body which now bled from the lip.
"Can I even trust you?" retorted Asuka.
"What is there not to trust?" Yuri advanced on the red-head holding out his hand in a handshake gesture. His other hand was now behind his back fingering a black handle.
Asuka's right hand lay on the machine gun strapped to her side, ready to be pulled out for firing...
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Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
One of them collapsed in a heap from several bullets...
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"Xack, our sensors just came back. It detects a massive amount of lifeforms in the next area. 4 Yuri signatures are in there, most definitely Clones. One of the Yuri signatures is moving around to each human signature." Zain was looking over the now blipping device. "The majority of the signatures are human, so their likely to be NERV staff."
Xack sighed in frustration, not only because of the enormous amount of innocents but also because he was trying to hack into, likely, the only door Yuri HADN'T broken down. It was apparent that Yuri somehow snagged the NERV IDs of the employees and pilots (on a visit to the shower room). So far, kicking the door down was now the only logical option. That, and bring backup.
"Agh, &@!*#^$%&:(|. Get X's group and Tanya's squad from base down here." ordered the twitchy eyed commander.
Zain had rarely heard Xack swear like this, in fact, he had never heard him swear once. He recovered speedily from the swearing and stated, "Sir, with all due honesty, we can take those Clones in just 3 seconds! Why get backup?"
"I have a suspicion that the Clone is handing out guns in case we come in. Any intruder goes in and they get turned to swiss cheese. That's why we need backup. Even if I activate the Plasma Shield, it won't hold out for long..." Xack picked the walkie-talkie from his pocket and flicked the on/off switch. "Eh?" Click click click click. "First our sensors bust then come back. Now our communications has been cut." He put it away and turned to the Dark Templar in his group, "Kyuavo, (Key-u-ah-vo) can you go and find X's unit?"
A scaled body in black and blue garb materialized next to Rei and accepted the command, Xack turned to the 2 second younger Ghost brother, "Zain, Kyuavo will require the location of X's unit to find them." Xack stated.
Zain pressed a zoom out button on the sensor, "Ok. Kyuavo, take the sensor and follow the blue blip." Several turquiose ripples issued from the dot on the edge of the screen. The silent DT nodded and became a clear entity once again. You could just see the traces heading down a corridor with a floating item in where his hands should be.
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A body lay on the umbilical bridge of Unit 00, 4 bullet holes were visible on the not dead husk. One in the left leg, one in the right forearm, the other two found themselves in each shoulder. Blood trickled onto the floor and made it's way to the edge, it hadn't contaminated the LCL yet, but it was on the verge of doing so.
The one left standing's gun smoked, the person calmly reloaded the weapon and blew the smoke away. A grin sprouted from the face.
Kyuavo just arrived as well. He was in the observing area and noticed the two people, both visible in the light. The Dark Templar's eyes flashed for a moment in saying, "Holy crap..."
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