02/20/01
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Nights into Dreams
On the last "Nights into Dreams"...
"Alright kids, stay put, we are going to study it a bit more..." said Misato, but Asuka had already
grown impatient.
"Like Hell! Out of my Shinji, let me show you how it's really done!" Asuka said with a
newfound conviction. 'This time, I won't need Baka-Shinji or Wonder Girl's help.' she thought.
With a battle cry, Asuka charged toward the spiraled Angel.
"NO!! ASUKA DON'T!" shouted Misato, but it was too late...
Part II: Dreams into Reality
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Asuka slowly regained consciousness. Rubbing the back of her head, she groggily looked
around to see where she was. She was in the entry plug of Evangelion Unit 02.
"Where am I?" she asked herself aloud, "Am I...dreaming?"
"Asuka, liebling...." a small voice cried.
"I must be dreaming..." Asuka whispered, quivering.
"Asuka-chan..." cooed the voice, sounding as if it were getting closer and closer.
"No way," Asuka cried, astonished, "This is just like...that dream!"
"ASUKA!" a voice shouted, barely audible, but it wasn't her mother's.
"Baka-Shinji?" Asuka choked, with confusion in her voice.
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6 hours earlier
"NO!! ASUKA DON'T!" shouted Misato, but it was too late...
Her Evangelion speeded towards the spiraled angel in a mad frenzy.
"Your dead meat!" she screamed as she raised her progressive axe above her Eva's head.
Un-phased by Asuka's visual threat, the Angel uncoiled itself into a spaghetti-like shape
and flew straight for Asuka.
"Asuka, LOOK OUT!!" Shinji tried to warn, but the Angel was too fast for Asuka.
It incapacitated her like a python would do a prey, and started to bore into the Eva like a
leech.
Asuka's bloodcurdling screams and Shinji's pitiful cries went silent as the Angel had
completely bore into the Eva. All that was left was a silent Eva 02 unit, and a sobbing
Shinji.
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"Eject the plug!" Misato ordered hastily.
After pressing the emergency button, Maya Ibuki shook her head.
"No response, the emergency eject is not working."
"Asuka!" shouted Misato to herself, "Get a visual of the plug, now!"
On the screen, It showed the cockpit, and Link Connection Liquid, but no pilot.
"What happened?!?" Misato asked Ritsuko, "Has she been taken into the Eva?!?"
Wishing that was it, Ritsuko answered.
"No, Major. It's something much, much worse." she said grimly, "She has been taken
into the Angel."
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4 hours later
"We have quickly devised a plan to retrieve the pilot of Unit 02." Ritsuko started.
"Asuka..." Shinji said, barely over a whisper, his hair matted to his skin.
Ritsuko continued. "Using Pilot Ikari, we will use his mind to invade mind, and convince
her that whatever the Angel is manipulating her with isn't reality, so that we can destroy the
Angel without endangering Pilot Langley."
"Without the permission of the Commander..." Misato mumbled to herself.
"Is that clear?" Ritsuko boldly asked the staff.
"Hai!" they said in unison.
She smirked. "The operation begins in one hour, let's move out!"
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1 hour later
Shinji was laying on a flat table, completely naked, with metal objects and wires
protruding from his body.
"Okay, Shinji-kun," said Ritsuko, "Now close your eyes, and just relax. We can't put you
under with your pulse rate as high as it is now."
"You expect me to RELAX?!?" he shouted back with slight panic and anger. This was
not like Shinji's usual timid nature at all.
"You want to save Asuka, don't you?" Misato asked, with a wry grin on her face.
Shinji blushed.
"Thought so." Misato smirked.
"Ok, ok." Shinji sighed, "I'll do it, I'll relax."
With that, Shinji calmly closed his eyes, and fell into a deep sleep.
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"Wha...?" Shinji inquired, slightly disoriented.
He was in what appeared to be a dark chasm, until his vision focussed and he spotted an
unconscious pilot, sitting in the cockpit of the entry plug.
"Asuka? ASUKA!" he shouted.
She started to stir.
"Asuka!!" he started to yell, but to no avail. She didn't hear him.
Then, another voice emerged from the darkness of the darkness of the plug, a feminine
voice in fact.
"Asuka, liebling..." the voice cried.
"Was that in German?" Shinji asked no one.
"I must be dreaming..." Asuka whispered, quivering.
"Asuka-chan..." cooed the voice, sounding as if it were getting closer and closer.
'Asuka-chan...' thought Shinji.
"No way," Asuka cried, astonished, "This is just like...that dream!"
Shinji couldn't take it anymore, he screamed at the top of his lungs.
"ASUKA!" his voice shouted, barely audible to Asuka.
"Baka-Shinji?" Asuka choked, with confusion in her voice.
Nah, couldn't be.
"ASUKA, DARLING. I'M HERE!" yelled the other voice, and it formed the shape of a
woman, which looked like an older Asuka, with short auburn hair.
"Mother!" cried Asuka, "Is this a dream, or are you really here?"
"I'm here, my darling Asuka." smiled the figure of Kyoko Zepplin Soryu, "We'll be
together forever."
'This is, Asuka's mother?' Shinji inquired to himself, not believing what he was seeing.
He floated closer to the two and studied Asuka's "Mother" closely. The figure, seemingly
unnoticed by Asuka, had a very slight, but vivid evil grin on her face.
"That isn't her mother." Shinji whispered, "It's the angel!"
"My darling, come with me." Kyoko smiled, "Do you want to be with me forever?"
"Yes, mama..." Asuka replied, forgetting all her logic.
She was lost in the figure's motherly eyes.
"Then, take my hand..." she said, softy.
Asuka reached out for her "mother's" outstretched hand. The moment she touched it, the
entire surroundings turned into an illusion of that same Tokyo-3 cliff in her dream.
Under some sort of spell, Asuka gleefully walked beside her supposed mother. They
neared the edge, when the older woman stopped, and looked at Asuka with disturbing bright eyes.
"It's time." she said bluntly.
"What?" Shinji asked, hoping someone would answer.
"Mama?" Asuka said, puzzled.
"It's time..." the woman started, " To die with me, my Asuka."
"What?!?" shouted Shinji, "This angel is nuts!"
"Yes..." Asuka answered, her trance deepening, "I want to be with you forever."
"Good girl," the Kyoko smiled, "Come with me..."
The figure started floating away, until she was hovering right over the cliff.
"Jump Asuka," she said, "So we can be together."
"Alright, mama..." Asuka replied, "I'm coming!"
Asuka walked to the edge, took a daring look down of the bottomless cliff, and was about
to jump, when...
"ASUKA, DON'T!!" the familiar voice cried.
Asuka snapped out of her trance.
"Baka-Shinji?" Asuka said quizzically as she looked back and saw the lean and wiry
frame of her roommate, colleague and bitter rival, Shinji Ikari.
Guess she heard right the first time.
"Why are you interfering?" asked Kyoko angrily.
"I'm not gonna let you take Asuka away, we need her!" Shinji retorted as he neared their
position.
"What? You need ME? The one that can't even kill an Angel without another's help?
HA!!! No one needs me." Asuka huffed.
"......" Shinji paused. 'What now? Do I tell her why I'm really here?'
"I came... I came because..." he gulped, "Ah..."
"SEE? Shinji no BAKA!!" Asuka shrilled.
'I know!' Shinji thought.
"We need you...because...YOU'RE THE BRAVEST AND BEST EVANGELION PILOT
IN THE KNOWN UNIVERSE!" he cheered.
Even though Asuka knew what he was doing, she blushed. Her ego needed that.
She grinned haughtily.
"Ya think so, huh?" she smirked.
"I bow humbly and resign my title as 'the Invincible Shinji' and dub thee 'The
Untouchable Asuka.'" Shinji bowed heavily.
In one of the biggest ego trips in her entire life, Asuka couldn't stop smiling as Shinji
bowed to her feet like a lowly peasant.
"You may rise." she said with belying pride in her voice, completely forgetting about her
so-called mother, still floating over the cliff, now with an annoyed look on her face.
"Thank you, Asuka-sama, I don't even deserve to be in your presence." Shinji humbly
said as he got up.
"You got that right." she beamed brightly again.
"ENOUGH!!!" Kyoko screamed.
"WHAT?!?" Asuka screamed back before realising whom she was talking to.
After that, the illusion dissipated, and the true form of the Angel appeared.
Words couldn't describe how hideous it looked.
"AHHHH!!" both Asuka and Shinji screamed at the same high pitch.
"It's time, for you ALL TO DIE!!" the angel shrieked as he flew higher and higher into
the mock sky.
"YOU BASTARD!! NO ONE FOOLS ASUKA LANGLEY SORYU AND LIVES TO
TELL ABOUT IT!" she yelled at the top of her lungs.
'Now that's the Asuka I know.' Shinji grinned.
"You can't hurt me, fool." shrilled the Angel, "This is all an illusion, a dream."
"But If I can't kill you here, you can't kill us either!" Asuka shouted back.
"......." paused the Angel.
"And If this is a dream...." opted Asuka.
"We can do whatever we want." finished Shinji.
"You, you..." growled the Angel.
"Bitch? I already know that." Asuka laughed. "You're done."
With that, Asuka flew up to the Angel, and started an all out fist fight with the beast.
"Oooooook there..." Shinji sighed, "Now this is ridiculous."
Asuka was fighting the angel, and the storyline was getting quite confusing when...
FLASH!
The Angel sneered, and started his last, and final words.
"This is the end of your lives, I suggest you use your last minutes wisely. It was fun."
The Angel disappeared, the illusion faded and a floating Shinji and a bewildered Asuka
was left in her dormant Entry Plug of Evangelion Unit 02.
"Why are you floating, Baka-Shinji-kun?" Asuka quietly asked.
"I am a projection of my conscious self in your mind, right now my body is 1 km away on
a steel table in the geo-front." answered Shinji.
Before Asuka could react, red letters blipped on the screen in front of the cockpit.
"Mein Gott!" Asuka gulped, "Self Destruct sequence is on... but how?"
All went quiet. '2 minutes' flashed on the screen, precious seconds ticked by. Shinji's
face showed clear panic, not for himself, but for Asuka.
"Asuka! Try the manual eject sequence!" yelled Shinji.
Asuka frantically searched for the switch, tried it over and over again, but to no avail.
"Verdamnt!" she shrieked, "It's not working!"
20 seconds left.
"Asuka!"Shinji started sobbing, "Don't die, try...something! Please! ASUKA!"
"I'm trying, I'm trying!" she panicked, then stopped all of a sudden. "Why are you crying?
What does any of this matter to you? You are safe, why do you...why do you even other with
me?"
Only 5 seconds left.
Shinji couldn't hold it in anymore, he had to say something. Even if she was going to die,
he had to tell her before she did.
"Asuka, It's because I...I..." but the explosion drowned out his last words.
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Author's Notes: Well wasn't that fun? Not really. HAHAHAHAHA!!! The last part is, by far, the
best, so watch out for it, mm'kay? I'm too young for this, yawn, AHAHAHAHAHA!!!
You can tell it's late. ^o^ Ja Ne!
P.S: I wrote a tidbit on Asuka's ego as well as other things so (REALLLLLLLLY LATE)...
HERE IT IS!!!!!! (Don't make fun :-p)
Author's Note on the Pride of Asuka Langley Soryu:
Asuka's pride is like the Berlin( I would have used wall of Jericho, but she German and
I'm way too tired to get into this) like wall, it keeps her true self separated from the real world.
Leave it to Shinji Ikari to keep her on her toes. His sincerity and unconditional kindness, foreign
emotions known by Asuka, to break down the barriers she had built since she could remember.
Some of the few moments when she almost opened up to him showed how much of an impact he
had made in her life. Too bad that Asuka has to be the best emotional carpenter in Tokyo-3. Her
pride always shut her up before her true self was able to indulge her true nature to Shinji, and her
facade was fronted again and again. In her mind she thinks all she needs is pride, self image, and
the praise of others. When what she truly feels in her heart is loneliness, and all she needs is
somebody to care. She thinks that, along with Rei and Shinji as well, that being a Eva pilot makes
her a somebody. Makes her respected and loved by all, and that is all that she needs to live.
But what is she without her beloved Evangelion Unit 02, without her NERV ID card, without her
special red interface clips situated on her head she proudly shows off to others, without her status,
or degree, that she is as worthless as a rag on the street. Her insecurity is her greatest weakness,
and all she needs is someone to love her unconditionally, and that someone should be herself.