02/20/01
Disclaimer: I don't own Gainax, or any of the characters in this story. I have to write this so I won't be sued by Gainax or any of it's affiliates, so don't sue me. Thanks :-)
MiloGirl Productions
Nights into Dreams (Revised version)
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.
(Author's Note: I know it's been done a million times, but I'm real tired :P)
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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 Soryu."
"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.
"ASUKA, LIEBLING. ICH BIN HIER (ASUKA, DARLING. I AM HERE)!" yelled the other voice, and it formed the shape of a woman, which looked like an older Asuka, with short auburn hair. It was Kyoko Zeppelin Soryu. Asuka's mother.
"Mama?" Asuka choked. 'It couldn't be, just couldn't be...'
"Ich bin hier, Asuka liebling. Gekommen zu mir (I am here, Asuka darling. Come to me).
"Ja Mutter (Yes mother)." Asuka whispered, as she slowly floated out of her cockpit seat, towards her so-called mother.
'That can't be Asuka's mother, It can't be!' Shinji thought angrily.
The woman smirked an evil grin as Asuka floated closer and closer towards her, an weary, recognizable chill ran down Shinji's spine.
"IT'S THE ANGEL!" he shouted aloud. "ASUKA, STOP!"
Shinji just couldn't get through to her. He frantically floated over to her, and tried physically to stop her, but to no avail. Asuka reached the outstretched arms of her "mother", and, as tears streamed down her face, the Entry plug of Eva 02 was replaced by the outskirts of Tokyo-3.The sky was a Prussian blue, the sun had set beneath the hills in the distance. Not a cloud floated in the sky as nightfall had fell in the crystalline sky. The sight was breath taking, but that was not why they were there.
"Asuka, mein Liebling. Sterben Sie mit mir? Möchten Sie mit mir, mein Asuka sein? Mööchten Sie mit mir sein für immer (Asuka, my darling. Will you die with me? Do you want to be with me, my Asuka? Do you want to be with me forever)?"
"Ja Mutter. Für immer (Yes mother. Forever)." replied Asuka in an overjoyed, trance-like voice.
Both Asuka and the angel started walking towards the edge of a cliff nearby. Shinji watched, with tears in his eyes. He didn't understand what they had said, but realised what was going to happen as they both neared the cliff. The Angel was going to kill Asuka.
Just as they were nearing the edge, a small, yet emotional voice called out.
"ASUKA, DON'T!!" the familiar voice cried.
"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.
"Who are YOU! Why are you interfering?" spat Kyoko angrily. It was the first time she spoke in Japanese.
"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 your help? HA!!! No one needs me." Asuka huffed.
"......" Shinji paused. 'What now? Do I tell her why I'm really here?'
But, like Shinji, he just looked at the ground and said nothing.
"Thought so, the Invincible Shinji wants to save the day again, too bad it's only me your trying to save."
Shinji clenched his fists in anger.
"That's not fair to say that! You mean more to me than just that!" he started to scream, something that astonished Asuka. "I wouldn't even care if this was an order or not, I'd still come! Why can't you see..." Shinji started to falter, "see...the truth..."
"What the hell does that mean!?!" Asuka screeched, confused.
Shinji lost his spine and clammed up again. He mumbled nonsense under his breath.
"You always were a wussy..." she muttered.
"Now, Asuka, let us meet our destiny..." Kyoko disturbingly smiled.
"Hai..." Asuka began her trance-like state again.
Shinji ran and lunged at the Angel, but was hit with an AT field and rendered unconscious (in his already unconscious state, so would that be a coma?). Asuka, surprisingly this time, noticed that something was wrong. She shook off her trance.
"What? What did you do to Shinji-kun?" Asuka asked angrily.
Kyoko hesitated, "He is just resting, now come..."
"NO!!" Asuka screamed.
Kyoko stopped talking, stunned.
"No one, and I mean NO ONE, can treat Baka-Shinji like that but ME!" Asuka started her onslaught, "My mother was gentle, kind, loving. She wouldn't harm anyone, intentionally. YOU CAN'T BE MY MOTHER!!!"
The screen broke apart, leaving a landscape similar to the last minutes of End of Evangelion (Minus the Rei/Lilith head and Eva series crucified corpses). Asuka ran over to Shinji, and gently picked up his head. She gave a death glare towards the Angel, now in its true, hideous form.
"Not even Shinji deserved that!" Asuka fumed, "You'll pay!"
"MAKE ME!!" taunted the Angel, with it's blood shot eyes gazing into Asuka's with "thanatos" in mind.
The Angel started to laugh hysterically. Asuka lunged for the Angel in the same fashion in which Shinji had previously done. The Angel giggled and easily dodged her advance.
"Why don't you just stay still and DIE!" Asuka cried.
"Enough of this." the Angel chuckled, "This is pathetic. It's time for you to die now."
With that, the Angel disappeared, the illusion faded and a floating, unconscious Shinji and a bewildered Asuka was left in her dormant Entry Plug of Evangelion Unit 02.
Shinji started to stir and groggily opened his eyes.
"Baka-Shinji-kun?" Asuka quietly asked.
"Wha..? What...where am I? What's going on?" he incoherently mumbled back.
Asuka sincerely smiled, before she hid herself with an annoyed smirk.
"About time you woke up!" she said, haughtily.
"Yeah..." Shinji blushed, embarrassed.
"Um, I've been meaning to ask you..." Asuka started, "How ARE you here?"
"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 say anymore, 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 turned white.
"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..." Asuka's voice lowered, barely over a whisper, "Why do you even bother 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 Note: Thank God for the Altavista Translator!
Disclaimer: I don't own Gainax, or any of the characters in this story. I have to write this so I won't be sued by Gainax or any of it's affiliates, so don't sue me. Thanks :-)
MiloGirl Productions
Nights into Dreams (Revised version)
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.
(Author's Note: I know it's been done a million times, but I'm real tired :P)
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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 Soryu."
"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.
"ASUKA, LIEBLING. ICH BIN HIER (ASUKA, DARLING. I AM HERE)!" yelled the other voice, and it formed the shape of a woman, which looked like an older Asuka, with short auburn hair. It was Kyoko Zeppelin Soryu. Asuka's mother.
"Mama?" Asuka choked. 'It couldn't be, just couldn't be...'
"Ich bin hier, Asuka liebling. Gekommen zu mir (I am here, Asuka darling. Come to me).
"Ja Mutter (Yes mother)." Asuka whispered, as she slowly floated out of her cockpit seat, towards her so-called mother.
'That can't be Asuka's mother, It can't be!' Shinji thought angrily.
The woman smirked an evil grin as Asuka floated closer and closer towards her, an weary, recognizable chill ran down Shinji's spine.
"IT'S THE ANGEL!" he shouted aloud. "ASUKA, STOP!"
Shinji just couldn't get through to her. He frantically floated over to her, and tried physically to stop her, but to no avail. Asuka reached the outstretched arms of her "mother", and, as tears streamed down her face, the Entry plug of Eva 02 was replaced by the outskirts of Tokyo-3.The sky was a Prussian blue, the sun had set beneath the hills in the distance. Not a cloud floated in the sky as nightfall had fell in the crystalline sky. The sight was breath taking, but that was not why they were there.
"Asuka, mein Liebling. Sterben Sie mit mir? Möchten Sie mit mir, mein Asuka sein? Mööchten Sie mit mir sein für immer (Asuka, my darling. Will you die with me? Do you want to be with me, my Asuka? Do you want to be with me forever)?"
"Ja Mutter. Für immer (Yes mother. Forever)." replied Asuka in an overjoyed, trance-like voice.
Both Asuka and the angel started walking towards the edge of a cliff nearby. Shinji watched, with tears in his eyes. He didn't understand what they had said, but realised what was going to happen as they both neared the cliff. The Angel was going to kill Asuka.
Just as they were nearing the edge, a small, yet emotional voice called out.
"ASUKA, DON'T!!" the familiar voice cried.
"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.
"Who are YOU! Why are you interfering?" spat Kyoko angrily. It was the first time she spoke in Japanese.
"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 your help? HA!!! No one needs me." Asuka huffed.
"......" Shinji paused. 'What now? Do I tell her why I'm really here?'
But, like Shinji, he just looked at the ground and said nothing.
"Thought so, the Invincible Shinji wants to save the day again, too bad it's only me your trying to save."
Shinji clenched his fists in anger.
"That's not fair to say that! You mean more to me than just that!" he started to scream, something that astonished Asuka. "I wouldn't even care if this was an order or not, I'd still come! Why can't you see..." Shinji started to falter, "see...the truth..."
"What the hell does that mean!?!" Asuka screeched, confused.
Shinji lost his spine and clammed up again. He mumbled nonsense under his breath.
"You always were a wussy..." she muttered.
"Now, Asuka, let us meet our destiny..." Kyoko disturbingly smiled.
"Hai..." Asuka began her trance-like state again.
Shinji ran and lunged at the Angel, but was hit with an AT field and rendered unconscious (in his already unconscious state, so would that be a coma?). Asuka, surprisingly this time, noticed that something was wrong. She shook off her trance.
"What? What did you do to Shinji-kun?" Asuka asked angrily.
Kyoko hesitated, "He is just resting, now come..."
"NO!!" Asuka screamed.
Kyoko stopped talking, stunned.
"No one, and I mean NO ONE, can treat Baka-Shinji like that but ME!" Asuka started her onslaught, "My mother was gentle, kind, loving. She wouldn't harm anyone, intentionally. YOU CAN'T BE MY MOTHER!!!"
The screen broke apart, leaving a landscape similar to the last minutes of End of Evangelion (Minus the Rei/Lilith head and Eva series crucified corpses). Asuka ran over to Shinji, and gently picked up his head. She gave a death glare towards the Angel, now in its true, hideous form.
"Not even Shinji deserved that!" Asuka fumed, "You'll pay!"
"MAKE ME!!" taunted the Angel, with it's blood shot eyes gazing into Asuka's with "thanatos" in mind.
The Angel started to laugh hysterically. Asuka lunged for the Angel in the same fashion in which Shinji had previously done. The Angel giggled and easily dodged her advance.
"Why don't you just stay still and DIE!" Asuka cried.
"Enough of this." the Angel chuckled, "This is pathetic. It's time for you to die now."
With that, the Angel disappeared, the illusion faded and a floating, unconscious Shinji and a bewildered Asuka was left in her dormant Entry Plug of Evangelion Unit 02.
Shinji started to stir and groggily opened his eyes.
"Baka-Shinji-kun?" Asuka quietly asked.
"Wha..? What...where am I? What's going on?" he incoherently mumbled back.
Asuka sincerely smiled, before she hid herself with an annoyed smirk.
"About time you woke up!" she said, haughtily.
"Yeah..." Shinji blushed, embarrassed.
"Um, I've been meaning to ask you..." Asuka started, "How ARE you here?"
"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 say anymore, 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 turned white.
"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..." Asuka's voice lowered, barely over a whisper, "Why do you even bother 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 Note: Thank God for the Altavista Translator!