What time is it? I can't tell what's going on.
I'm not sure how long this is going to be, but the chapters will be getting
longer, slowly. Or maybe quickly. Now we get to see what will happen when
the infamous Unit 01 is reactivated.
Disclaimer: see some other chapter
Fourth Impact Chapter 11: Unit 01
Shinji stood next to Ritsuko, shaking his head. "I really don't think that we should be bringing this thing out of cryostasis." He told her.
"Don't worry," Ritsuko replied absently. "We've gotten rid of all the contamination. All we need to do is calibrate it for your daughter."
"And what if it goes berserk?" he asked.
"You said yourself that you can't feel your mother in there anymore." She answered. "Therefore there's nothing that's going to make it go off. It's purely Lillith now."
Shinji looked doubtfully at Unit 01.
Misato waited for her mother to stop yelling, nodded dutifully, and went up to her room. She heard her phone ring and picked it up. "Hi, Misato." Said Lilliko's voice.
Misato smiled. "Hey, how's your brother doing?"
"He's fine." Lilliko replied, sounding more than a little annoyed. "He used his 'injuries' to stay home from school."
Misato frowned in concern. "He's not hurt, is he?"
Lilliko laughed. "Misa-chan, we have S2 engines. We can regenerate within minutes if we have to." Misato nodded. "He just wanted to have an excuse not to listen to the teacher's theories about Third Impact."
"I don't blame him." Replied Misato.
Lilliko chuckled. "Say, you want to go to the mall? I need to get some new clothes."
"Sounds good." Replied Misato. "Saturday?"
"Meet you there." Lilliko answered. "Bye."
Misato put down the phone to hear the door close as her father returned home.
"How's Unit 01 coming?" she heard her mother ask. She couldn't hear her father's reply, but he looked worried as he came up the stairs. Nevertheless, he still gave Misato a big hug and ruffled her hair before going into his room. Misato was getting a very bad feeling that she was going to be the pilot of the infamous Unit 01. Suddenly her phone rang again. She picked it up to find Takoru on the other end. "You all right?" he asked.
He was rude, but he was sweet, thought Misato. "I'm fine. Sorry for breaking down in class."
"It was only to be expected." He said. "Are you free on Saturday?"
"Sorry, I'm going shopping with Lilliko." She could almost hear his grin.
"Can I tag along?" he asked, "And maybe you could get us lost, and then wander off on your own to get help."
"You shameless-" she laughed. "Why not. I ought to, just to see what Lilliko does to you."
"See you Saturday." Her phone clicked.
Saturday
Misato glanced around. She could see Takoru hiding behind a pillar several meters away, but there was no sign of Lilliko.
"Boo!" she stifled a yelp and spun around. Lilliko grinned. Adamu didn't.
"You dragged your brother along?" Misato asked incredulously. She nodded.
"Need someone to carry the bags." Lilliko explained. "Last minute decision."
Misato blinked. "Good. Let's go." Out of the corner of her eye she could see Takoru following them.
So, as she had two boys with her, and another mischievous girl, she led them to the clothing store and straight into the swimsuit section.
Adamu turned red. Bright red. Misato stifled her laughs. Lilliko didn't.
"Come on, brother. It's not like it's anything you haven't seen before." His face became even redder.
"Adamu?" asked Misato. "Lilliko, what did you mean, nothing he hasn't seen before? Has he been going around looking at girls in swimsuits?"
"Didn't you know?' asked Lilliko. "Angels have x-ray vision." She leaned in to Misato, whispering loudly, "He could be looking through your clothes right now."
Adamu spun away as Misato flung her arms over her chest. "Eek! Pervert!"
"Just kidding!" said Lilliko. Misato blushed and swatted at her. Lilliko laughed, grabbing Misato's hand. "Come on, let's try some swimsuits on so that Adamu can get a real glimpse of you."
It's a good thing that I can control my body, thought Adamu, nodding blankly at Misato. She smiled and went back into the changing room. Otherwise I would be in a lot of trouble right now. He was still blushing anyway. "That's enough." Misato said finally. "Adamu's about to run out of oxygen from holding in that nosebleed." His sister nodded and they went off to purchase their selections. Adamu absently noticed that they had only gotten two-piece swimsuits, all which seemed to emphasize their cores. The boys at school were in for a surprise.
"Misato!" she turned around to see Takoru waving to them. "Fancy meeting you here!"
She grinned. "What are you doing here?" she asked, striding out to meet him and placing her bags in his arms. He blinked.
"I'm-" he glanced into a bag. "What did you buy?!"
"Enough bikinis to make my brother have a heart attack." Replied Lilliko, dragging Adamu out of the store. "You should have seen the way she posed for him. So indecent." Misato blushed. Adamu was still blushing.
"I found this great new restaurant in a corner of the mall." Announced Takoru. "Want to check it out?"
They went over to the small restaurant and ordered. Suddenly Lilliko stood up. "I need to wash my hands." She said. "Where's the bathrooms?"
Takoru got up. "I'll show you." they walked off, leaving Adamu and Misato alone.
Misato smirked. "So, he's finally making a move on her." She said to herself. Adamu raised an eyebrow. He knew his sister's true intentions. He was neither going to spoil it, nor take advantage. He still had no clue why she wanted him and Misato to become a couple, but until he got a reason, he wasn't going to act.
Suddenly Misato's phone rang. She opened it. "Yes?"
"Misato, report to Central Dogma now." She got up, gave Adamu an apologetic smile, and said, "Sorry. I have to go. My turn to pilot." She gave him her portion of the bill and ran out.
Outside, Takoru and Lilliko watched as Misato ran out. "What happened?" asked Lilliko. "My brother isn't that rude."
Takoru shrugged. "Misato's a very flighty girl. She can change her mind the in blink of an eye."
Lilliko snarled. "And we had this so perfectly planned out." She and Takoru had planned the entire day out before calling Misato.
"Next time." Replied Takoru.
She stood in the changing room examining herself in a mirror. Her plugsuit was.colorful. It was as if someone had taken a pair of scissors, cut up her parents' plugsuits, and stitched them together. The lower arms and legs were red, while the thighs were blue and the upper arms white. The chest was red spliced with vertical white lines, and the stomach and hips were red with blue. Her neural connectors were red. She flung her hair over her shoulder and walked out of the locker room to the cages. Unit 01 is still as ugly as ever, she thought, looking at the beast. They still hadn't gotten any restraints on it except for a clamp holding the jaws shut and the shoulder bindings.
"Ready for your activation test?" asked Ritsuko. Misa nodded.
"Are you going to put the rest of the restraints on?" she asked. Ritsuko shook her head.
"It didn't work the first time. We're going to let it loose, see what kind of creature Lillith really was." Misa gulped. "It will be all right. We put a remote fuse between the Super Solenoid engine and the rest of the Eva. If something goes wrong we can shut it down."
"If you say so." Misa climbed into the plug, waiting patiently as it filled with LCL. She didn't really need the stuff. As an Angel, she didn't even need to breathe, as her S2 engine didn't need oxygen. "Let them have their traditions." She sighed. She hated the taste of LCL. But supposedly it made linking to the Eva easier, so she waited as it filled her obsolete lungs.
"Inserting entry plug." Announced Maya. "Pilot signs normal. Core pulse rate at 100."
"How are you feeling?" asked Misato. Misa shrugged.
"I feel a bit odd, godmother." She replied. "It feels familiar."
"It should." Grinned Misato. "Your parents spent quite a bit of time in the plug. Remember, that was how we found out about you, Misa-chan."
"Sync ratio at 67, rising." Announced Maya.
"I can feel something." said Misa. "Another presence. It feels like." she trailed off, staring at the white figure before her.
"You are the pilot?" it asked. "You have returned to me."
"Sync ratio at 117 and climbing!" Maya shouted.
Misato spun to face Makoto. "Any signs of an Angel?" he shook his head.
"Nothing at all."
They all looked up at the screen showing Misato. She was twitching, but they couldn't see why.
Suddenly the clamp on Unit 01's jaw broke off. Its arm raised and reached out toward the bridge.
"Stop that!" screamed Misa. Unit 01 froze. The figure disappeared. She was alone in the plug once more. Misa glanced around. No damage. Relieved, she lowered Unit 01's arm.
"Did you see that?" she asked the people on the bridge.
"See what?" asked Misato.
"The thing, the white thing in my plug!" Misa exclaimed. "It said something, and then." she didn't know what happened next. She had heard the figure say something.and then Unit 01 was standing there with its arm stretched out. What had happened?
"Eject plug." Ordered Misato. "I want a full examination of the pilot, the plug and Unit 01. Now!"
AN: So, does that scene sound familiar? More unanswered questions, more odd references, more caffeine. I just realized that Lilliko is acting more like Misato (Sr.) than the Ep. 26 Rei. Oh well. Next time, Unit 15 comes, and we also get a glimpse of one of those seven mystery AT fields. Plus, the beginning of a rivalry, next time on Neon Genesis Evangelion, Fourth Impact.
Disclaimer: see some other chapter
Fourth Impact Chapter 11: Unit 01
Shinji stood next to Ritsuko, shaking his head. "I really don't think that we should be bringing this thing out of cryostasis." He told her.
"Don't worry," Ritsuko replied absently. "We've gotten rid of all the contamination. All we need to do is calibrate it for your daughter."
"And what if it goes berserk?" he asked.
"You said yourself that you can't feel your mother in there anymore." She answered. "Therefore there's nothing that's going to make it go off. It's purely Lillith now."
Shinji looked doubtfully at Unit 01.
Misato waited for her mother to stop yelling, nodded dutifully, and went up to her room. She heard her phone ring and picked it up. "Hi, Misato." Said Lilliko's voice.
Misato smiled. "Hey, how's your brother doing?"
"He's fine." Lilliko replied, sounding more than a little annoyed. "He used his 'injuries' to stay home from school."
Misato frowned in concern. "He's not hurt, is he?"
Lilliko laughed. "Misa-chan, we have S2 engines. We can regenerate within minutes if we have to." Misato nodded. "He just wanted to have an excuse not to listen to the teacher's theories about Third Impact."
"I don't blame him." Replied Misato.
Lilliko chuckled. "Say, you want to go to the mall? I need to get some new clothes."
"Sounds good." Replied Misato. "Saturday?"
"Meet you there." Lilliko answered. "Bye."
Misato put down the phone to hear the door close as her father returned home.
"How's Unit 01 coming?" she heard her mother ask. She couldn't hear her father's reply, but he looked worried as he came up the stairs. Nevertheless, he still gave Misato a big hug and ruffled her hair before going into his room. Misato was getting a very bad feeling that she was going to be the pilot of the infamous Unit 01. Suddenly her phone rang again. She picked it up to find Takoru on the other end. "You all right?" he asked.
He was rude, but he was sweet, thought Misato. "I'm fine. Sorry for breaking down in class."
"It was only to be expected." He said. "Are you free on Saturday?"
"Sorry, I'm going shopping with Lilliko." She could almost hear his grin.
"Can I tag along?" he asked, "And maybe you could get us lost, and then wander off on your own to get help."
"You shameless-" she laughed. "Why not. I ought to, just to see what Lilliko does to you."
"See you Saturday." Her phone clicked.
Saturday
Misato glanced around. She could see Takoru hiding behind a pillar several meters away, but there was no sign of Lilliko.
"Boo!" she stifled a yelp and spun around. Lilliko grinned. Adamu didn't.
"You dragged your brother along?" Misato asked incredulously. She nodded.
"Need someone to carry the bags." Lilliko explained. "Last minute decision."
Misato blinked. "Good. Let's go." Out of the corner of her eye she could see Takoru following them.
So, as she had two boys with her, and another mischievous girl, she led them to the clothing store and straight into the swimsuit section.
Adamu turned red. Bright red. Misato stifled her laughs. Lilliko didn't.
"Come on, brother. It's not like it's anything you haven't seen before." His face became even redder.
"Adamu?" asked Misato. "Lilliko, what did you mean, nothing he hasn't seen before? Has he been going around looking at girls in swimsuits?"
"Didn't you know?' asked Lilliko. "Angels have x-ray vision." She leaned in to Misato, whispering loudly, "He could be looking through your clothes right now."
Adamu spun away as Misato flung her arms over her chest. "Eek! Pervert!"
"Just kidding!" said Lilliko. Misato blushed and swatted at her. Lilliko laughed, grabbing Misato's hand. "Come on, let's try some swimsuits on so that Adamu can get a real glimpse of you."
It's a good thing that I can control my body, thought Adamu, nodding blankly at Misato. She smiled and went back into the changing room. Otherwise I would be in a lot of trouble right now. He was still blushing anyway. "That's enough." Misato said finally. "Adamu's about to run out of oxygen from holding in that nosebleed." His sister nodded and they went off to purchase their selections. Adamu absently noticed that they had only gotten two-piece swimsuits, all which seemed to emphasize their cores. The boys at school were in for a surprise.
"Misato!" she turned around to see Takoru waving to them. "Fancy meeting you here!"
She grinned. "What are you doing here?" she asked, striding out to meet him and placing her bags in his arms. He blinked.
"I'm-" he glanced into a bag. "What did you buy?!"
"Enough bikinis to make my brother have a heart attack." Replied Lilliko, dragging Adamu out of the store. "You should have seen the way she posed for him. So indecent." Misato blushed. Adamu was still blushing.
"I found this great new restaurant in a corner of the mall." Announced Takoru. "Want to check it out?"
They went over to the small restaurant and ordered. Suddenly Lilliko stood up. "I need to wash my hands." She said. "Where's the bathrooms?"
Takoru got up. "I'll show you." they walked off, leaving Adamu and Misato alone.
Misato smirked. "So, he's finally making a move on her." She said to herself. Adamu raised an eyebrow. He knew his sister's true intentions. He was neither going to spoil it, nor take advantage. He still had no clue why she wanted him and Misato to become a couple, but until he got a reason, he wasn't going to act.
Suddenly Misato's phone rang. She opened it. "Yes?"
"Misato, report to Central Dogma now." She got up, gave Adamu an apologetic smile, and said, "Sorry. I have to go. My turn to pilot." She gave him her portion of the bill and ran out.
Outside, Takoru and Lilliko watched as Misato ran out. "What happened?" asked Lilliko. "My brother isn't that rude."
Takoru shrugged. "Misato's a very flighty girl. She can change her mind the in blink of an eye."
Lilliko snarled. "And we had this so perfectly planned out." She and Takoru had planned the entire day out before calling Misato.
"Next time." Replied Takoru.
She stood in the changing room examining herself in a mirror. Her plugsuit was.colorful. It was as if someone had taken a pair of scissors, cut up her parents' plugsuits, and stitched them together. The lower arms and legs were red, while the thighs were blue and the upper arms white. The chest was red spliced with vertical white lines, and the stomach and hips were red with blue. Her neural connectors were red. She flung her hair over her shoulder and walked out of the locker room to the cages. Unit 01 is still as ugly as ever, she thought, looking at the beast. They still hadn't gotten any restraints on it except for a clamp holding the jaws shut and the shoulder bindings.
"Ready for your activation test?" asked Ritsuko. Misa nodded.
"Are you going to put the rest of the restraints on?" she asked. Ritsuko shook her head.
"It didn't work the first time. We're going to let it loose, see what kind of creature Lillith really was." Misa gulped. "It will be all right. We put a remote fuse between the Super Solenoid engine and the rest of the Eva. If something goes wrong we can shut it down."
"If you say so." Misa climbed into the plug, waiting patiently as it filled with LCL. She didn't really need the stuff. As an Angel, she didn't even need to breathe, as her S2 engine didn't need oxygen. "Let them have their traditions." She sighed. She hated the taste of LCL. But supposedly it made linking to the Eva easier, so she waited as it filled her obsolete lungs.
"Inserting entry plug." Announced Maya. "Pilot signs normal. Core pulse rate at 100."
"How are you feeling?" asked Misato. Misa shrugged.
"I feel a bit odd, godmother." She replied. "It feels familiar."
"It should." Grinned Misato. "Your parents spent quite a bit of time in the plug. Remember, that was how we found out about you, Misa-chan."
"Sync ratio at 67, rising." Announced Maya.
"I can feel something." said Misa. "Another presence. It feels like." she trailed off, staring at the white figure before her.
"You are the pilot?" it asked. "You have returned to me."
"Sync ratio at 117 and climbing!" Maya shouted.
Misato spun to face Makoto. "Any signs of an Angel?" he shook his head.
"Nothing at all."
They all looked up at the screen showing Misato. She was twitching, but they couldn't see why.
Suddenly the clamp on Unit 01's jaw broke off. Its arm raised and reached out toward the bridge.
"Stop that!" screamed Misa. Unit 01 froze. The figure disappeared. She was alone in the plug once more. Misa glanced around. No damage. Relieved, she lowered Unit 01's arm.
"Did you see that?" she asked the people on the bridge.
"See what?" asked Misato.
"The thing, the white thing in my plug!" Misa exclaimed. "It said something, and then." she didn't know what happened next. She had heard the figure say something.and then Unit 01 was standing there with its arm stretched out. What had happened?
"Eject plug." Ordered Misato. "I want a full examination of the pilot, the plug and Unit 01. Now!"
AN: So, does that scene sound familiar? More unanswered questions, more odd references, more caffeine. I just realized that Lilliko is acting more like Misato (Sr.) than the Ep. 26 Rei. Oh well. Next time, Unit 15 comes, and we also get a glimpse of one of those seven mystery AT fields. Plus, the beginning of a rivalry, next time on Neon Genesis Evangelion, Fourth Impact.