First off,
Thanx Keyblade. Really appreciated your review. I would have liked to have
done more with Shinji and Asuka, but this story will center around the
children.um, the new Children. I might do a bit about what happened right
after Third Impact though.
Disclaimer: xaniaG dna onnA ikaediH yb denwo era sevitavired sti fo lla dna noilegnavE siseneG noeN. You all know what that says.
Fourth Impact Chapter 13: Falling
Misa stared at Unit 01. Unit 01 stared back at her. She blinked. It didn't.
"What is that?" she demanded.
"Wings." Replied Ritsuko. "Or as close as we could get it. Now get suited up. We need to take this Angel as soon as possible."
Misa ran to the changing room and got into her plugsuit. Climbing into the entry plug, she began to feel a tugging on her back as the neural connections went up.
"Sync ratio at 68." Said Maya. "The nerves on her shoulders are acting up. Brainwave activity normal, core pulse rate at 120." (AN: about the core pulse rate, I thought that perhaps an Angel's core corresponds to the human heart, so therefore a heartbeat would be like a pulse rate from the core or something.)
"Launch Eva!" Unit 01 shot up through the tunnels and into the air. The thrusters on its back flared into life. Misa screamed.
"That hurts!" she yelled, not caring that there weren't any audio links. "Stupid piece of-"
She stopped as the Angel came into view. The thrusters slowed. A pair of bat-like wings snapped out from Unit 01's back. Misa watched as the world began to tilt. "What is happening?" she asked.
"Misa-chan!" came Misato's voice. "You have to steady yourself with the wings."
"How?" the pilot asked, still tilting. She could hear a bit of conversation on the other end of the link, then some swearing.
"Can't help you there." Replied Misato. "No one here has wings."
Misa sighed. "Idiots." She concentrated on moving toward the Angel. She finally got a good look at it. Between the two wings was an Eva's torso and head, the wings connecting to where the arms would have been. Ten tubes stuck out of the chest, with the core in the middle. Then it saw her.
Misato paced back and forth, watching the screen. Unit 01 was still tilting to the side, but it was getting closer to the Angel. The screen was getting fuzzy as the connection to Unit 01 got weaker and weaker. Then the Angel turned. "Misa-chan!" shouted Misato. "Get in there and kill it before it attacks!"
"~ ~" Misa's reply came in garbled.
Misa suddenly pulled upward as a round of spikes came at her. She flung up her AT field and pushed against.something. Her wings started flapping and she managed to dodge the spikes. Then she came down again, heading straight for the Angel's core. The Angel spun away from her and launched another round of spikes. She barely managed to shift her field in time to block before the Angel moved again. Now it was behind her.
"Stop moving and face me!" she shouted. Then a searing pain lashed through her shoulder. She screamed as the spike tore through her wing. Spinning she grabbed her Progressive knife and launched herself straight at the Angel. Another spike hit her other wing, but still she flew forward.
"Stop that!" she screamed, ignoring the pain and coming up against Unit 15's spike-tubes. She slammed the Knife onto the Angel's core, but the tubes held her too far away to pierce it.
"Stupid Angel!" She scraped at the core with her Knife, using her other hand to try and bend the tubes. Another round of spikes shot through her. Finally she twisted and plunged the Knife into the Angel's core. It screamed in pain, sounding for a moment like a small boy in agony. But before Misa could think about it, the Angel exploded.
The people on the bridge gasped as the sky filled with light. Suddenly Adamu's voice came over the audio link. "I'm going to try and catch her." He told them. "When you calculate where she's going to land, launch me."
Misato could only mumble an affirmative. The techies were immediately working, trying to find the remains of Unit 01. What they found was a blackened bulk, wings shredded and thruster blowing smoke. It hadn't begun to fall yet. It floated alone in the air for a long moment, tilting backwards as if in slow motion. Then it fell.
The Eva fell like a rag doll, its limbs flailing upward as they followed its body. The tatters of its wings flapped in the rush of air around it and smoke billowed out around it.
"She's going to hit Tokyo 2!" announced Shigeru.
"Launch Adamu." Ordered Misato. "And muster all the planes nearby to help slow her fall." People began to scramble about. "We need something more than this, otherwise Unit 18's going to end up flattened."
The link to Misa opened up again. "I did it!" Misa was shouting. "I beat that Angel all by myself!" she was laughing, oblivious to the fact that she was plunging toward the ground. "I beat the Angel! I beat the Angel!"
"Misa-chan!" shouted Misato. "Get yourself together! You're falling!"
"I-" Misa's victory chant was interrupted by realization. "I'm what?!" she glanced down to see clouds hurtling past her. She could feel the air rushing over Unit 01's skin, over the holes left by the spikes. "Damn, damn, damn-"
"Adamu's going to try and catch you but we need you to slow yourself." Misato told her. The thruster coughed, the wings flapped uselessly. Misa tugged at the controls trying to at least right herself, but to no avail. Unit 01 continued to fall headfirst like a brick.
'Stay call, Misato, stay calm.' She told herself. "This is going to hurt, isn't it." Misa could see Unit 18 running on the ground. She flung up an AT field behind her, trying to slow down, but it wasn't working. She gulped.
She could feel pinpricks as planes latched onto Unit 01 and tried to slow her down. "Don't look down, don't look down." She repeated to herself over and over. "Don't look down-" she looked down to see the remains of Tokyo 2 flying toward her in a blur. She bit back a scream. By now she could clearly feel the wind as she fell. She felt one of the wings tear off, followed by the other. They caught on her arms for a moment, then ripped and flew off, their lesser density keeping them aloft above the falling Eva.
They say that you can see your entire life flash before your eyes before you die. All she was seeing were the clouds flying past her and the remains of her wings receding into the distance. "Does that mean that I'm not going die?" she asked.
Unit 01 twisted around to face the ground. She looked down again against her will. Unit 18 was right below her, as were many buildings and concrete streets. She shut her eyes, grateful that she didn't have a stomach and thus couldn't get nauseas.
For a split second she could hear Adamu telling her to be calm. She couldn't hear anything else from the wind screaming in her ears, but it sounded as if he was right next to her.
She opened her eyes for a moment, then shut them hastily as she saw Unit 18 only a few dozen meters below her. The ground zoomed up and
BLAM!
Misa opened her eyes to nothing but black. "Am I dead?" she asked herself. Wait, she could see the rest of the plug. The black was outside, and bore the number 18 on the left.
"Oh, that's right." She said. "Unit 18 is black." She groaned. She was covered in bruises, even worse than when she had been hit with the spikes. It felt like her arm was broken. Correction, it felt like her arms, legs and neck were broken.
She passed out moments before Misato's voice came over the speakers.
"Misa-chan? Misa-chan!"
She woke up to see an unfamiliar ceiling. "Where am I?" she asked.
"NERV hospital." Came the reply from her right. She turned to see her father.
"Hey daddy." She looked around. "So this is where you spent most of 2015." He grimaced.
"Are you all right?" he asked her. She nodded.
"I'll be fine when my S2 kicks in." she said. "Please tell me that you brought some food." He nodded and pulled up a cart. "Oh, great, hospital food." She sat up gingerly and groaned in pain. Shinji leaned forward and laid her back down, deciding to feed her instead.
"Stop that, I can eat on my own." She told him weakly. He continued to feed her. "How's Adamu?"
"He's a bit shaken up." Replied her father. "Most of the damage was to the two Evas. They'll both be out for a week at least."
She sighed. "That was fun," she said softly, "but the ending could have been better."
Misato watched as Unit 01 was lowered into the cages. It was damaged all over, its left arm broken, its legs mangled, and spikes stuck out all over its body. Its right arm was twisted at a ridiculous angle, and its face was flattened. It was still grinning, though. Unit 18 was still imbedded in the street, where it had been crushed in after sliding seven blocks by Unit 01. She stifled a smile. Adamu had actually cursed while getting out of the plug. She hadn't known the boy long, but she suspected that he had his mother's personality, or lack of it. The thought of Rei cursing was definitely laughable. "I need a beer."
Adamu lay on the hospital bed staring at the ceiling. A bandage was wrapped around his head, and his arm was in a sling. His other arm was covered in bandages. His lower body was a wreck. Lilliko sat beside him, laughing. "I swear, it looked like they were kissing!" she said.
"Lilliko, for the last time, we were not making the Evas kiss." Adamu replied. "She just landed on me like that."
"Oh, of course." Replied Lilliko. "Unit 01 is lying on top of Unit 18, with Unit 18's arms wrapped around Unit 01, their mouths are open and pressed against each other, of course that's not kissing. She just landed on you like that." Lilliko continued to laugh.
AN: okay, I don't know why I just wrote that last bit, with the /not/ kissing Evas. I was bored. It's too hot to stay indoors, it's too rainy to go outside, I'm to hyper to go to sleep, and Layra-chan is jumping up and down demanding another lollipop. Story of my life. On a lighter note. Live Action Eva! OMG! WTF! They gave Unit 00 a lower jaw! And that picture of Unit 01 without the restraints!.I sound like Layra-chan. Not good. Whack! Thud. *DreyonLegacy waits for Layra-chan to bounce away, then gets up, rubbing head.* If the chapters seem a bit short, it's because I'm trying desperately to outrun writer's block. It sort of helps that I don't have an ideas were I'm going, because then I don't have to come up with reasons why something should happen, but I also have no goals to work towards. Sorry to say, but something *cough-Layra-chan-cough* is urging me to kill off one of the main characters. Suggestions? Ideas? Rejections? I'm also going to attempt a love triangle at some point, but I'm not telling you who is in it yet. No, you do not have any idea, no matter what you think. I mean, I don't even have any idea at this point, how can you?
Disclaimer: xaniaG dna onnA ikaediH yb denwo era sevitavired sti fo lla dna noilegnavE siseneG noeN. You all know what that says.
Fourth Impact Chapter 13: Falling
Misa stared at Unit 01. Unit 01 stared back at her. She blinked. It didn't.
"What is that?" she demanded.
"Wings." Replied Ritsuko. "Or as close as we could get it. Now get suited up. We need to take this Angel as soon as possible."
Misa ran to the changing room and got into her plugsuit. Climbing into the entry plug, she began to feel a tugging on her back as the neural connections went up.
"Sync ratio at 68." Said Maya. "The nerves on her shoulders are acting up. Brainwave activity normal, core pulse rate at 120." (AN: about the core pulse rate, I thought that perhaps an Angel's core corresponds to the human heart, so therefore a heartbeat would be like a pulse rate from the core or something.)
"Launch Eva!" Unit 01 shot up through the tunnels and into the air. The thrusters on its back flared into life. Misa screamed.
"That hurts!" she yelled, not caring that there weren't any audio links. "Stupid piece of-"
She stopped as the Angel came into view. The thrusters slowed. A pair of bat-like wings snapped out from Unit 01's back. Misa watched as the world began to tilt. "What is happening?" she asked.
"Misa-chan!" came Misato's voice. "You have to steady yourself with the wings."
"How?" the pilot asked, still tilting. She could hear a bit of conversation on the other end of the link, then some swearing.
"Can't help you there." Replied Misato. "No one here has wings."
Misa sighed. "Idiots." She concentrated on moving toward the Angel. She finally got a good look at it. Between the two wings was an Eva's torso and head, the wings connecting to where the arms would have been. Ten tubes stuck out of the chest, with the core in the middle. Then it saw her.
Misato paced back and forth, watching the screen. Unit 01 was still tilting to the side, but it was getting closer to the Angel. The screen was getting fuzzy as the connection to Unit 01 got weaker and weaker. Then the Angel turned. "Misa-chan!" shouted Misato. "Get in there and kill it before it attacks!"
"~ ~" Misa's reply came in garbled.
Misa suddenly pulled upward as a round of spikes came at her. She flung up her AT field and pushed against.something. Her wings started flapping and she managed to dodge the spikes. Then she came down again, heading straight for the Angel's core. The Angel spun away from her and launched another round of spikes. She barely managed to shift her field in time to block before the Angel moved again. Now it was behind her.
"Stop moving and face me!" she shouted. Then a searing pain lashed through her shoulder. She screamed as the spike tore through her wing. Spinning she grabbed her Progressive knife and launched herself straight at the Angel. Another spike hit her other wing, but still she flew forward.
"Stop that!" she screamed, ignoring the pain and coming up against Unit 15's spike-tubes. She slammed the Knife onto the Angel's core, but the tubes held her too far away to pierce it.
"Stupid Angel!" She scraped at the core with her Knife, using her other hand to try and bend the tubes. Another round of spikes shot through her. Finally she twisted and plunged the Knife into the Angel's core. It screamed in pain, sounding for a moment like a small boy in agony. But before Misa could think about it, the Angel exploded.
The people on the bridge gasped as the sky filled with light. Suddenly Adamu's voice came over the audio link. "I'm going to try and catch her." He told them. "When you calculate where she's going to land, launch me."
Misato could only mumble an affirmative. The techies were immediately working, trying to find the remains of Unit 01. What they found was a blackened bulk, wings shredded and thruster blowing smoke. It hadn't begun to fall yet. It floated alone in the air for a long moment, tilting backwards as if in slow motion. Then it fell.
The Eva fell like a rag doll, its limbs flailing upward as they followed its body. The tatters of its wings flapped in the rush of air around it and smoke billowed out around it.
"She's going to hit Tokyo 2!" announced Shigeru.
"Launch Adamu." Ordered Misato. "And muster all the planes nearby to help slow her fall." People began to scramble about. "We need something more than this, otherwise Unit 18's going to end up flattened."
The link to Misa opened up again. "I did it!" Misa was shouting. "I beat that Angel all by myself!" she was laughing, oblivious to the fact that she was plunging toward the ground. "I beat the Angel! I beat the Angel!"
"Misa-chan!" shouted Misato. "Get yourself together! You're falling!"
"I-" Misa's victory chant was interrupted by realization. "I'm what?!" she glanced down to see clouds hurtling past her. She could feel the air rushing over Unit 01's skin, over the holes left by the spikes. "Damn, damn, damn-"
"Adamu's going to try and catch you but we need you to slow yourself." Misato told her. The thruster coughed, the wings flapped uselessly. Misa tugged at the controls trying to at least right herself, but to no avail. Unit 01 continued to fall headfirst like a brick.
'Stay call, Misato, stay calm.' She told herself. "This is going to hurt, isn't it." Misa could see Unit 18 running on the ground. She flung up an AT field behind her, trying to slow down, but it wasn't working. She gulped.
She could feel pinpricks as planes latched onto Unit 01 and tried to slow her down. "Don't look down, don't look down." She repeated to herself over and over. "Don't look down-" she looked down to see the remains of Tokyo 2 flying toward her in a blur. She bit back a scream. By now she could clearly feel the wind as she fell. She felt one of the wings tear off, followed by the other. They caught on her arms for a moment, then ripped and flew off, their lesser density keeping them aloft above the falling Eva.
They say that you can see your entire life flash before your eyes before you die. All she was seeing were the clouds flying past her and the remains of her wings receding into the distance. "Does that mean that I'm not going die?" she asked.
Unit 01 twisted around to face the ground. She looked down again against her will. Unit 18 was right below her, as were many buildings and concrete streets. She shut her eyes, grateful that she didn't have a stomach and thus couldn't get nauseas.
For a split second she could hear Adamu telling her to be calm. She couldn't hear anything else from the wind screaming in her ears, but it sounded as if he was right next to her.
She opened her eyes for a moment, then shut them hastily as she saw Unit 18 only a few dozen meters below her. The ground zoomed up and
BLAM!
Misa opened her eyes to nothing but black. "Am I dead?" she asked herself. Wait, she could see the rest of the plug. The black was outside, and bore the number 18 on the left.
"Oh, that's right." She said. "Unit 18 is black." She groaned. She was covered in bruises, even worse than when she had been hit with the spikes. It felt like her arm was broken. Correction, it felt like her arms, legs and neck were broken.
She passed out moments before Misato's voice came over the speakers.
"Misa-chan? Misa-chan!"
She woke up to see an unfamiliar ceiling. "Where am I?" she asked.
"NERV hospital." Came the reply from her right. She turned to see her father.
"Hey daddy." She looked around. "So this is where you spent most of 2015." He grimaced.
"Are you all right?" he asked her. She nodded.
"I'll be fine when my S2 kicks in." she said. "Please tell me that you brought some food." He nodded and pulled up a cart. "Oh, great, hospital food." She sat up gingerly and groaned in pain. Shinji leaned forward and laid her back down, deciding to feed her instead.
"Stop that, I can eat on my own." She told him weakly. He continued to feed her. "How's Adamu?"
"He's a bit shaken up." Replied her father. "Most of the damage was to the two Evas. They'll both be out for a week at least."
She sighed. "That was fun," she said softly, "but the ending could have been better."
Misato watched as Unit 01 was lowered into the cages. It was damaged all over, its left arm broken, its legs mangled, and spikes stuck out all over its body. Its right arm was twisted at a ridiculous angle, and its face was flattened. It was still grinning, though. Unit 18 was still imbedded in the street, where it had been crushed in after sliding seven blocks by Unit 01. She stifled a smile. Adamu had actually cursed while getting out of the plug. She hadn't known the boy long, but she suspected that he had his mother's personality, or lack of it. The thought of Rei cursing was definitely laughable. "I need a beer."
Adamu lay on the hospital bed staring at the ceiling. A bandage was wrapped around his head, and his arm was in a sling. His other arm was covered in bandages. His lower body was a wreck. Lilliko sat beside him, laughing. "I swear, it looked like they were kissing!" she said.
"Lilliko, for the last time, we were not making the Evas kiss." Adamu replied. "She just landed on me like that."
"Oh, of course." Replied Lilliko. "Unit 01 is lying on top of Unit 18, with Unit 18's arms wrapped around Unit 01, their mouths are open and pressed against each other, of course that's not kissing. She just landed on you like that." Lilliko continued to laugh.
AN: okay, I don't know why I just wrote that last bit, with the /not/ kissing Evas. I was bored. It's too hot to stay indoors, it's too rainy to go outside, I'm to hyper to go to sleep, and Layra-chan is jumping up and down demanding another lollipop. Story of my life. On a lighter note. Live Action Eva! OMG! WTF! They gave Unit 00 a lower jaw! And that picture of Unit 01 without the restraints!.I sound like Layra-chan. Not good. Whack! Thud. *DreyonLegacy waits for Layra-chan to bounce away, then gets up, rubbing head.* If the chapters seem a bit short, it's because I'm trying desperately to outrun writer's block. It sort of helps that I don't have an ideas were I'm going, because then I don't have to come up with reasons why something should happen, but I also have no goals to work towards. Sorry to say, but something *cough-Layra-chan-cough* is urging me to kill off one of the main characters. Suggestions? Ideas? Rejections? I'm also going to attempt a love triangle at some point, but I'm not telling you who is in it yet. No, you do not have any idea, no matter what you think. I mean, I don't even have any idea at this point, how can you?