Well, that was exciting. Adam + Misa = ?
Disclaimer: Neon Genesis Evangelion and all of its derivatives are property of Hideaki Anno and Gainax.
Fourth Impact Chapter 23: Ariline
Misato opened her eyes. She glanced up. That was the ceiling of the NERV medical warden. Looking to the side she caught sight of an IV bag. She would have sighed except that she was too weak. She could hear something making noise, but was too groggy to make out the words. Finally she woke up enough to make out Ritsuko's voice.
"Misa-chan? If you're awake, then listen. You've been quarantined for a while. Adam made some changes to your body, and we need to examine you." Misato stared at the ceiling.
"How long will she be in there for?" asked Lilliko. Ritsuko shrugged apologetically.
"I don't know. She's merged with Adam now; we don't know what Adam could have done to her."
"She made Unit 16 leave." Adamu said quietly. Ritsuko spun to face him, but Lilliko nodded in agreement.
"I heard her too." Lilliko confirmed.
"Unit 16, where are we?" asked Ariline, looking around. Unit 16 stopped moving. "Unit 16.you've changed." Ariline could feel all sorts of odd sensations, the feeling of limbs where she had none, of floating when she should have been able to feel the ground beneath her feet. She pulled open a diagnostics check on Unit 16 and gasped at what she saw. "Unit 16, what happened? Where are we?"
She suddenly saw an image of a giant glowing humanoid surrounded by melting snow.
"Adam! Unit 16, what happened to us? Why are we." she looked around and gasped. "We're in Japan!"
She looked around. "We have to get back to NERV-" she was cut off as a huge feeling of negation swept through the plug. "Why not? I need to find out what's happening." The same feeling of dissent filled her again.
Suddenly she felt a prick against her skin. She glanced out to see planes surrounding her, firing at her. "Aah! Why are you shooting at me?" she asked them.
They stopped. A voice link opened up. "Who are you?" asked a gruff voice in bad English.
"I am Ariline, pilot of Eva Unit 16." She replied, shaken. "What happened?"
There was a long silence. She could hear voices talking in the background.
"We'll let NERV handle this." She was told. At the sound of the organization's name, Unit 16 reared up and charged forward, away from the planes and into the wilderness.
When they'd finally escaped, Unit 16 slowed down. "Unit 16," Ariline asked, "what do you have against NERV?"
She screamed as an image flashed through her head, images forming a scene of a girl with blonde hair shrieking as she dissolved into LCL. Ariline froze. That was her. That girl that merged with the LCL, that was her. Her Eva had gone berserk.
"No! Unit 16, you didn't do that, did you?" A feeling of negation, then the name NERV. "NERV did this?" Ariline curled into a fetal ball. "I don't understand."
She stopped Unit 16 some distance from a city and got out, her plugsuit dripping. She made her way through the forest and entered the city, not noticing the stares that she was getting. She looked around, not understanding any of the signs.
She turned around as someone, a young girl, said something to her. "I don't understand." She said in slow English. Comprehension flashed in the person's eyes.
"Ah, you're from America." She said. "Are you part of NERV by any chance?" Ariline nodded, unsure.
"I was." The girl looked her over as Ariline did the same. The girl had green hair, and looked to be from somewhere on the east coast of America.
"So, you're one of Lillith's Chosen." The girl said finally. Ariline blinked.
"Lillith?" she asked stupidly. All she'd heard about Lillith came to somewhere around 'don't touch.'
"Lillith, the Second Angel, the mother of all Humanity." The girl paused. "The Light-giant." Ariline continued to stare blankly at her. The girl rolled her eyes and grabbed Ariline's hand.
"Come on, my friend is waiting for me. I'll talk to you over lunch. You're so thin."
Dai-syo peered at the still dripping girl that Samantha had dragged over. The girl was shivering despite the heat of Kyoto and the towel she was wrapped in, and hadn't touched her food at all.
"At least she's quiet." Dai-syo said to Samantha. Samantha shrugged and continued to chatter at the girl. Dai-syo interrupted. "What's her name?"
Samantha paused. "You know, I never found out." She turned to the girl. "What's your name?"
The girl stared at her, then looked down at the floor. "Ariline." She mumbled. She had a wonderful voice, warm and soft.
"My name is Samantha," Samantha shook Ariline's hand, "and tall, dark and handsome over there is Dai-syo." Ariline gave him a weak smile and went back to looking at the floor.
"Now that that's out of the way," Samantha continued, "how can you be one of Lillith's Chosen and not get anything from her?"
"I don't know." Replied Ariline. "I was in Unit 16 since.since." she trailed off. Dai-syo's eyes suddenly widened.
"You were in an Eva?" he asked incredulously. She opened the towel enough to reveal the neckline of her plugsuit.
"I was the pilot of Unit 16, stationed in America." She said quietly. "But something happened, and I ended up here." She began to cry softly. "I don't understand what's happening at all."
Dai-syo stood up. "Let's get her back to the room." He said to Samantha. "She's obviously had a terrible time, and needs to sleep it off." Samantha nodded uncertainly and they helped Ariline to her feet. The blonde then collapsed into Dai-syo's arms, so he picked her up and carried her.
When they reached the room, the first thing that Dai-syo did was order Samantha to see if any of her clothes fit. "Get her out of that thing." He pointed to her plugsuit. "She'll probably get a disease from that." Samantha nodded. "And we should probably get her washed up, too."
"Why do I have to do everything?" Samantha demanded.
"Because if I took her clothes off and put her in the bathtub, then went riffling through your clothes," Dai-syo said calmly, "then you'll scream and hit me and call me a pervert." Samantha blinked, nodded, and went back to taking Ariline's plugsuit off. Dai-syo turned to stare out the window. His eye caught on something in the distance.
"That's the monster that came through here yesterday." He whispered. He risked a glance back at Ariline, who was now stripped to the waist. He spun quickly to stare back out of the window, both hands going to his nose. "Is that her Eva out there?"
Samantha glanced out the window. "I hope she has it under control."
The next day before breakfast the three of them hiked over to where Ariline had left Unit 16. The huge Eva lowered its head to the ground in greeting, and Ariline ran over to embrace its huge eye. Samantha and Dai-syo stared at it. Samantha out of awe, but Dai-syo from memory. Apparently Unit 16 remembered as well, for as soon as it turned to look at them, it snarled at Dai-syo.
"No!" Ariline shouted. "They're friends!" Unit 16's eye spun to look at her, then back at Dai-syo. It snarled again and settled down.
"So, what do we do?" asked Samantha. "I mean, will Unit 16 get upset if we destroy Adam?"
"What?" demanded Ariline. "What do you mean, destroy Adam?" Unit 16 turned to peer down at Samantha.
"That's what we have to do." Samantha told her. "So that mankind can evolve along its correct path."
"But if you destroy Adam, Unit 16 will be-"
"It's just an Eva." Samantha said to her.
"No it's not!" Ariline flared. "It's not just an Eva! Unit 16 is my friend!"
Dai-syo decided that it was time to step in. "Ariline, calm down. Samantha, stop making her upset. We can figure this out." He gestured for them to sit down.
He turned to Ariline. "Ariline. We, Lillith's Chosen, have to go and destroy Adam."
"Why?" asked Ariline. Samantha and Dai-syo exchanged a glance.
"Because Lillith, the mother of Humanity, said so. She told us that in order for mankind to evolve beyond these inferior shells, we have to destroy Adam because Adam is restraining us." "But if you destroy Adam, Unit 16 will also be destroyed, because it is a clone of Adam." Dai-syo nodded. "Then I won't let you destroy Adam."
"But Ariline, you're also one of Lillith's Chosen. You should understand." Ariline shook her head vigorously.
"I don't understand. Why do you listen to this 'Lillith?' Lillith is an Angel, lost in Third Impact."
Dai-syo and Samantha exchanged another glance. She had a point. Lillith should be dead, or at least passed on.
They both turned as they heard a low growl. Ariline blushed. "Sorry. I haven't eaten in weeks." Dai-syo shook his head.
"Then let's get you some food, and maybe then we can find out why you haven't eaten for long over the human starvation span."
"LCL?" asked Samantha. Ariline nodded.
"We use it to enhance the neural connection with the Eva." She told them. "I also found out that when a person's AT field collapses, they turn into that."
"AT field." Samantha's eyes widened. "Lillith's blood!" The two turned to look at her. "People dissolve into the blood of Lillith when their AT fields go. But that means that they're using Lillith's blood in the Evas."
Dai-syo nodded. "There are chunks of Lillith's body all over the planet. They must have gotten it from one of those."
Ariline was turning green. "No wonder the plug always smelled like blood." She muttered. Then she brightened. "Thank you, for cleaning me up and feeding me and everything."
Samantha smiled. "Thank Dai-syo. I would have just gotten a quick conversation out of you and dumped you somewhere. He's the one that insisted that we fix you up." Dai-syo blushed.
Ariline walked over to him and gave him a peck on the cheek. "That's how we say 'thank you' where I come from." She whispered in his ear. His blush deepened.
Samantha glared at her. "Can we get back to the original subject?"
AN: Finally. You have no idea how long I've been trying to get those three together. Now how did one of Lillith's Chosen end up in a copy of Adam?
Disclaimer: Neon Genesis Evangelion and all of its derivatives are property of Hideaki Anno and Gainax.
Fourth Impact Chapter 23: Ariline
Misato opened her eyes. She glanced up. That was the ceiling of the NERV medical warden. Looking to the side she caught sight of an IV bag. She would have sighed except that she was too weak. She could hear something making noise, but was too groggy to make out the words. Finally she woke up enough to make out Ritsuko's voice.
"Misa-chan? If you're awake, then listen. You've been quarantined for a while. Adam made some changes to your body, and we need to examine you." Misato stared at the ceiling.
"How long will she be in there for?" asked Lilliko. Ritsuko shrugged apologetically.
"I don't know. She's merged with Adam now; we don't know what Adam could have done to her."
"She made Unit 16 leave." Adamu said quietly. Ritsuko spun to face him, but Lilliko nodded in agreement.
"I heard her too." Lilliko confirmed.
"Unit 16, where are we?" asked Ariline, looking around. Unit 16 stopped moving. "Unit 16.you've changed." Ariline could feel all sorts of odd sensations, the feeling of limbs where she had none, of floating when she should have been able to feel the ground beneath her feet. She pulled open a diagnostics check on Unit 16 and gasped at what she saw. "Unit 16, what happened? Where are we?"
She suddenly saw an image of a giant glowing humanoid surrounded by melting snow.
"Adam! Unit 16, what happened to us? Why are we." she looked around and gasped. "We're in Japan!"
She looked around. "We have to get back to NERV-" she was cut off as a huge feeling of negation swept through the plug. "Why not? I need to find out what's happening." The same feeling of dissent filled her again.
Suddenly she felt a prick against her skin. She glanced out to see planes surrounding her, firing at her. "Aah! Why are you shooting at me?" she asked them.
They stopped. A voice link opened up. "Who are you?" asked a gruff voice in bad English.
"I am Ariline, pilot of Eva Unit 16." She replied, shaken. "What happened?"
There was a long silence. She could hear voices talking in the background.
"We'll let NERV handle this." She was told. At the sound of the organization's name, Unit 16 reared up and charged forward, away from the planes and into the wilderness.
When they'd finally escaped, Unit 16 slowed down. "Unit 16," Ariline asked, "what do you have against NERV?"
She screamed as an image flashed through her head, images forming a scene of a girl with blonde hair shrieking as she dissolved into LCL. Ariline froze. That was her. That girl that merged with the LCL, that was her. Her Eva had gone berserk.
"No! Unit 16, you didn't do that, did you?" A feeling of negation, then the name NERV. "NERV did this?" Ariline curled into a fetal ball. "I don't understand."
She stopped Unit 16 some distance from a city and got out, her plugsuit dripping. She made her way through the forest and entered the city, not noticing the stares that she was getting. She looked around, not understanding any of the signs.
She turned around as someone, a young girl, said something to her. "I don't understand." She said in slow English. Comprehension flashed in the person's eyes.
"Ah, you're from America." She said. "Are you part of NERV by any chance?" Ariline nodded, unsure.
"I was." The girl looked her over as Ariline did the same. The girl had green hair, and looked to be from somewhere on the east coast of America.
"So, you're one of Lillith's Chosen." The girl said finally. Ariline blinked.
"Lillith?" she asked stupidly. All she'd heard about Lillith came to somewhere around 'don't touch.'
"Lillith, the Second Angel, the mother of all Humanity." The girl paused. "The Light-giant." Ariline continued to stare blankly at her. The girl rolled her eyes and grabbed Ariline's hand.
"Come on, my friend is waiting for me. I'll talk to you over lunch. You're so thin."
Dai-syo peered at the still dripping girl that Samantha had dragged over. The girl was shivering despite the heat of Kyoto and the towel she was wrapped in, and hadn't touched her food at all.
"At least she's quiet." Dai-syo said to Samantha. Samantha shrugged and continued to chatter at the girl. Dai-syo interrupted. "What's her name?"
Samantha paused. "You know, I never found out." She turned to the girl. "What's your name?"
The girl stared at her, then looked down at the floor. "Ariline." She mumbled. She had a wonderful voice, warm and soft.
"My name is Samantha," Samantha shook Ariline's hand, "and tall, dark and handsome over there is Dai-syo." Ariline gave him a weak smile and went back to looking at the floor.
"Now that that's out of the way," Samantha continued, "how can you be one of Lillith's Chosen and not get anything from her?"
"I don't know." Replied Ariline. "I was in Unit 16 since.since." she trailed off. Dai-syo's eyes suddenly widened.
"You were in an Eva?" he asked incredulously. She opened the towel enough to reveal the neckline of her plugsuit.
"I was the pilot of Unit 16, stationed in America." She said quietly. "But something happened, and I ended up here." She began to cry softly. "I don't understand what's happening at all."
Dai-syo stood up. "Let's get her back to the room." He said to Samantha. "She's obviously had a terrible time, and needs to sleep it off." Samantha nodded uncertainly and they helped Ariline to her feet. The blonde then collapsed into Dai-syo's arms, so he picked her up and carried her.
When they reached the room, the first thing that Dai-syo did was order Samantha to see if any of her clothes fit. "Get her out of that thing." He pointed to her plugsuit. "She'll probably get a disease from that." Samantha nodded. "And we should probably get her washed up, too."
"Why do I have to do everything?" Samantha demanded.
"Because if I took her clothes off and put her in the bathtub, then went riffling through your clothes," Dai-syo said calmly, "then you'll scream and hit me and call me a pervert." Samantha blinked, nodded, and went back to taking Ariline's plugsuit off. Dai-syo turned to stare out the window. His eye caught on something in the distance.
"That's the monster that came through here yesterday." He whispered. He risked a glance back at Ariline, who was now stripped to the waist. He spun quickly to stare back out of the window, both hands going to his nose. "Is that her Eva out there?"
Samantha glanced out the window. "I hope she has it under control."
The next day before breakfast the three of them hiked over to where Ariline had left Unit 16. The huge Eva lowered its head to the ground in greeting, and Ariline ran over to embrace its huge eye. Samantha and Dai-syo stared at it. Samantha out of awe, but Dai-syo from memory. Apparently Unit 16 remembered as well, for as soon as it turned to look at them, it snarled at Dai-syo.
"No!" Ariline shouted. "They're friends!" Unit 16's eye spun to look at her, then back at Dai-syo. It snarled again and settled down.
"So, what do we do?" asked Samantha. "I mean, will Unit 16 get upset if we destroy Adam?"
"What?" demanded Ariline. "What do you mean, destroy Adam?" Unit 16 turned to peer down at Samantha.
"That's what we have to do." Samantha told her. "So that mankind can evolve along its correct path."
"But if you destroy Adam, Unit 16 will be-"
"It's just an Eva." Samantha said to her.
"No it's not!" Ariline flared. "It's not just an Eva! Unit 16 is my friend!"
Dai-syo decided that it was time to step in. "Ariline, calm down. Samantha, stop making her upset. We can figure this out." He gestured for them to sit down.
He turned to Ariline. "Ariline. We, Lillith's Chosen, have to go and destroy Adam."
"Why?" asked Ariline. Samantha and Dai-syo exchanged a glance.
"Because Lillith, the mother of Humanity, said so. She told us that in order for mankind to evolve beyond these inferior shells, we have to destroy Adam because Adam is restraining us." "But if you destroy Adam, Unit 16 will also be destroyed, because it is a clone of Adam." Dai-syo nodded. "Then I won't let you destroy Adam."
"But Ariline, you're also one of Lillith's Chosen. You should understand." Ariline shook her head vigorously.
"I don't understand. Why do you listen to this 'Lillith?' Lillith is an Angel, lost in Third Impact."
Dai-syo and Samantha exchanged another glance. She had a point. Lillith should be dead, or at least passed on.
They both turned as they heard a low growl. Ariline blushed. "Sorry. I haven't eaten in weeks." Dai-syo shook his head.
"Then let's get you some food, and maybe then we can find out why you haven't eaten for long over the human starvation span."
"LCL?" asked Samantha. Ariline nodded.
"We use it to enhance the neural connection with the Eva." She told them. "I also found out that when a person's AT field collapses, they turn into that."
"AT field." Samantha's eyes widened. "Lillith's blood!" The two turned to look at her. "People dissolve into the blood of Lillith when their AT fields go. But that means that they're using Lillith's blood in the Evas."
Dai-syo nodded. "There are chunks of Lillith's body all over the planet. They must have gotten it from one of those."
Ariline was turning green. "No wonder the plug always smelled like blood." She muttered. Then she brightened. "Thank you, for cleaning me up and feeding me and everything."
Samantha smiled. "Thank Dai-syo. I would have just gotten a quick conversation out of you and dumped you somewhere. He's the one that insisted that we fix you up." Dai-syo blushed.
Ariline walked over to him and gave him a peck on the cheek. "That's how we say 'thank you' where I come from." She whispered in his ear. His blush deepened.
Samantha glared at her. "Can we get back to the original subject?"
AN: Finally. You have no idea how long I've been trying to get those three together. Now how did one of Lillith's Chosen end up in a copy of Adam?