It was an ordinary sunny day in Tokyo, again. The birds were singing, the
children playing in the park, and people doing their business. The Hikaru
household was peaceful and calm, yeah right! Wait till they wake up.
"KEITARO!!!!!" the loud voice of Eve rang through the apartment, waking everyone up. Except Keitaro, who was still sleeping soundly. "Keitaro! Wake up! Now!" she shouted standing next to her bed, fully clothed. Keitaro's eyes slowly opened.
"Mmm. Oh, morning Eve." he said, still sleepy. "Get dressed! Now!" she shouted, leaning over him. "Why?" he asked, confused. "You promised me, you'd take me shopping, remember?" she said, smiling. "I did? I must have been drunk." he said, getting back under the covers. "Hey you! Get up!" she shouted, pulling the covers of him and then pulling back as she saw his 'thermal expansion' "Eww! Not that 'up'!" she shouted, throwing the covers back on him. "What's the matter? Getting excited?"
Warning: Fist to Face connection.
"Now get dressed!" she shouted again at him. Keitaro got off the floor and held the part of his face where it had being punched. "Wow, you have a mean punch." he said standing up. "Thank you. Now hurry up." she finished and walked out the room. He sighed and started getting dressed.
"Hey Keitaro? What do you want for breakfast?" asked Hikaru as Keitaro walked into the kitchen. "Oh no, nothing for him. He's taking me shopping." said Eve, putting down her cup of coffee. He looked up. "Hey! Why do you get something and I don't?" he asked, giving her a look. "Oh, okay. Give the cry baby his bottle." said Eve, throwing Keitaro a look herself. Adam walked into the room as they stopped giving each other dirty looks and Hikaru had passed Keitaro a coffee.
"Morning all." he sounded very drowsy. "Morning baka. Snore well?" asked Eve, looking in his direction. "Not very- Hey! I don't snore! Do I?" he looked confused now. "Well, that's what she said, a few nights ago, or it could've being an excuse to get into bed with me." Keitaro had now joined the conversation. "Wha! Why would I get into bed with you?" shouted Eve, now throwing a sharp look at Keitaro. The argument continued and Hikaru couldn't help but watch. "This is more entertaining than pro-wrestling." she quietly said to herself.
The next day, at school, the argument was still continuing and Keitaro was starting to get bored. "Guys?" the shouting drowned out his voice. "Guys!?!" still drowned out by the shouting. "GUYS!?!" this got their attention. "What!?!" snapped Eve. "We're in class. Maybe we should stop." said Keitaro, looking forward. Eve looked at what he was looking at. The teacher.
"Miss Ishi, Mr Ishi and Mr Juroroachi? Please sit down and can we begin?" said the teacher sounding bored.
Lunchtime was busy as usual. Amane Toragotchi sat at the table with no one with her. "Hey Amane." came a voice. The American girl looked up and saw a handsome Japanese boy, with his tie loosely done up. She recognized him as Keitaro.
"Oh, hi! I heard the accident with the Eva. Is Eve okay?" she asked, returning to her food. "Yeah, she's okay. Better than my hands." he said, holding up his bandaged hands. "Ouch! How did that happen?" she held his hands and looked at them with surprise. "Trying to get Eve out off the Pilot Pod. Last time I try that." he said, putting on a smile. Amane laughed. "Hey Keitaro!" a voice rang from the other side of the lunch hall. He looked round and saw Eve walking up to him. "Oh hey Eve, this is-" "I'm Amane Toragotchi, the First Pilot." Eve looked surprised. "You're the First? Wow! Hey, I'm the Second, my brother is the Third-" Keitaro interrupted "Wait? Adam's an Eva pilot too?" Eve looked at him and replied. "Yeah, didn't you know? So, Amane, where's your Evangelion?" she asked turning back to Amane. "Oh, it's being transported from America, it should arrive tomorrow." replied Amane. "Oh really? Well, mine is being made in Britain and is being flown in. The Demon Evangelion, 2nd Flight Production Model and it has the attributes of the Devil Evangelion. Making it the perfect partner in battle with the Devil Eva." she said, more like gloating.
"Hey, Eve!" Eve's friend called over. She walked over and grabbed her by the wrist. "Come on, I don't want to guard your lunch all the time." she sounded a little angry. She dragged her off, but Keitaro heard her say: "He is soooo cute!" while she was walking away. She must of being talking about him. He gave a laugh and turned back to Amane. "So, what's your Eva called? Wait, don't tell me, the Angel Eva?" he asked, sounding confident. Amane laughed. "That's right. How'd you guess?" Keitaro put on a smile. "Easy. Mine's the Devil, so I naturally assumed it'll be an Angel." Amane put on a smile also and then asked, "Hey, would you like to visit me after school? I'd like some company, because I live alone, you see." Keitaro looked surprised, "You live alone? How old are you?" he asked, looking a little concerned. "I'm the same age as you, sixteen." she finished, and took a bite out of her sandwich. "Oh, okay. I come visit you. How about after school?" he asked, sitting down and nicking a chip off Amane's plate. "Yeah, I'll take you there. How's that sound?" she asked, putting her sandwich down. "Sounds great. I'll see you after school. Till then, bye." And he left.
The bell rang indicating the school day was over. Hikaru leaned against her car and waited for the three pilots to come out of school. Two and Three came out, but no Fourth. "Hey, where's Keitaro?" she asked, looking around. "He's with that American, going round to her place." said Adam. "Wha! He's what!?!" Eve didn't react well; she grabbed Adam by the scruff of his neck and started shaking him. "W-why d-d-do yo-ou caarrree?" he tried his best to get the words out. "Yeah Eve. Why do you care? Do you like him?" asked Hikaru, trying not to laugh. That went away when she saw the look on Eve's face.
Both of Keitaro and Amane walked down the street. The street they were walking down didn't look nice, what got him was the graffiti on the walls, the broken bottles and the distance sounds of sirens. "How the hell can she live here?" he thought. They arrived at an apartment building. The building looked very depressing and had an aurora of sadness and suffering about it. "Wow, this is the most depressing building I've ever seen." he thought. Her apartment room was even more depressing. It was very bland. No wallpaper, no carpet, just the basic furniture like a sofa, a bed, a table with a couple of chairs and a wardrobe. There was a bathroom and a kitchen, with only a fridge and a couple of worktops with a microwave on top of one. It looked like the kind of place only someone who didn't enjoy having fun would live in, and Amane wasn't that type of person. "Would you like something to eat?" she asked, putting her bag on the bed. He switched back to life and replied. "Ermm. No, I'm okay, thank you." He took a look around and put his bag down on the table and sat on one of the chairs. "Well, this is a nice place." he tried his best, but that didn't sound truthful. Amane looked at him and laughed. "I know, my place is boring." she said when she finished laughing. "No, it's not that, I just think it could use a make- over." He was starting to feel embarrassed. She laughed again. "Ya' know? I would, but I don't have the money. But I have pizza." she opened the fridge when finished. Keitaro looked up and a big smile grew on his face.
It was silent without Keitaro at the Hikaru household. Eve sat on the sofa; she was as bored as hell. Adam was reading a book. Eve took a look at the clock. It was eight o'clock, what could he be doing? Adam turned a page. Eve returned to looking at the ceiling. Adam turned another page. And another. And another. And another. Until finally, she snapped, "Will you stop doing that!?!" she got off the sofa as she shouted at Adam, who looked up and wondered what was wrong with his sister. "Doing what? Reading?" he looked confused. "Yes! Will you stop reading that book!?!" she snapped. "What the hell's wrong with you? Is this about Keitaro?" he asked, also getting up. "Don't bring him into this!" she shouted, her face going a little red. "Hey! Sorry! I didn't do anything to deserve this!" he shouted back and walked off to his room. Eve, tired from shouting, fell onto the sofa. "Why do I care? Do I like him?" she asked herself. No, she couldn't. Love is for the weak. She was not weak.
After pizza, a drink or two and a bit of talking, Keitaro was getting ready to leave. "Well, I'll see you tomorrow. Good bye." he said, grabbing his bag and putting on his shoes. He was about to open the door when his wrist was grabbed. He turned round and saw a blonde girl with teary eyes. "Amane? What's wrong? Are you crying?" he put on a concerned face as he asked these questions. "Please don't go." she replied. A tear dropped from her eye. "Why? Is there something wrong?" he sat her down on a chair. "I have nightmares. Scary ones." she answered. "Nightmares? Amane, everyone has nightmares. They're natural." he said, pulling up the other chair to sit next to her. "Please stay. Please." Another tear dropped from her eye. He could see the fear in her eyes. It was scary to see something like this in Amane. "Okay, I'll stay the night." he replied. She flung her arms around him. "Thank you." she sobbed.
The night was pretty quiet. Keitaro slept on the sofa, while Amane slept on her own bed, although she offered Keitaro her bed, he refused saying it was her bed, not his. He got up. 'Nature' was calling. "I knew I shouldn't have had those drinks." he said to himself, walking to the toilet. He was just in the middle of his business when he heard screaming. He was so startled he splashed the toilet seat. He ran out the bathroom to find Amane on the floor, screaming her voice box out! He grabbed her by the arms and tried to hold her down. "Amane! What the-!" he shouted then stopped as he saw a strange white glow emitting from her body. She started shouting, "SHINJI! KAWORU! REI! HELP ME!" Keitaro was having a hard time holding her down now; she was too erratic to hold. He could feel his muscles bulge and the blood rushing through his veins, he was beginning to bleed from his wrists and a red glow appeared. "Amane! Wake up!" he shook her. She woke up and threw herself on Keitaro. The Japanese boy was startled, but put his arms around her to comfort her. She fell into a deep sound sleep again. He sighed and put her back into bed. Amane's eyes opened and she turned, to find a Japanese boy next her. The American girl moved away in surprise, but she gave a sigh of relieve when she saw her clothes, and his, were still on. She gave him a slight shake to wake him up. His eyes slowly opened and smiled. "Morning." he said softly. "Morning." she said back. "Errm. Did we-?" Keitaro got up and replied. "No, nothing like that." Amane got off the bed and moved toward her wardrobe. "Well, I better find my trousers." he said getting off the bed, also. Amane closed her wardrobe and turned around. "I did it last night, didn't I?" she asked. "Keitaro pulled up his trousers and did them up. He turned around with a concerned look on his face. "Yes, you did." he replied. She sat down at the table. "It happens every night." she said quietly. He sat down next to her and held her hand. "Amane, what ever it is, you've got to forget it. Come stay with me." he said. Amane looked up at him, surprised. "Really?" she asked. Keitaro smiled. "Really."
Eve walked into the kitchen expecting to see Keitaro sat at the table, stuffing his face with pancakes like a pig, but no Keitaro. She felt herself snap, "What!?! He's still not back!?!" she shouted. Sometimes people take a cold shower to wake them up, sometimes a cup of coffee, but this was what fully woke up Adam. He held his ears and asked, "Geez, Eve. Can you get any louder?" Eve threw him a sharp look. He went back to eating his breakfast, quietly. The door opened. Eve ran straight to see who it was, Keitaro was back. She grabbed him by the scruff of his neck and started shaking him hard, while saying, "WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEING!?! ALL NIGHT YOU WERE GONE! WHAT WERE YOU DOING!?!" she shouted, shaking him back and forth. She stopped when she saw Amane walk in, then continued shaking him "AND WHAT THE HELL IS SHE DOING HERE!?!" her voice was even louder now. "Keitaro offered for me to stay with you guys, I hope you don't mind." she held up a suitcase. Eve dropped Keitaro to the floor, which at this time was pretty dizzy. "Oh, I see." She grabbed Keitaro again. "WHY IS SHE STAYING WITH US!?! FIRST YOU SLEEP WITH HER AND NOW YOU SAY SHE CAN MOVE IN WITH US!" Amane was taken back by this remark. "Excuse me! I didn't sleep with him! He just stayed the night." Eve swung round to look at her. "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know." She let Keitaro go, who fell to the ground, right now he was very dizzy.
"Okay Keitaro. You have five minutes to complete this training course." Explained the blonde haired Head of Research: Dr Toragotchi. "Five minutes? Is that all? Why so long?" asked Keitaro. "God. He's arrogant." said the doctor, under her breath.
"Yes, but he agreed to pilot the Evangelion again." explained Commander Ishi. "Yes, but does he have to be so arrogant?" asked the doctor. "Maybe, he uses it to hide something?"
Keitaro was doing the rifle training he should have been doing three days ago, and he was finding it easy. All he had to do was pretend the targets were his farther. He ravaged another target with the rifle bullets. "Hmm. These targets are too easy." he said, ripping another target to pieces. Another target caught his eye, this one fired back at him. He dodged with a roll and fired when he got back up, destroying the target. "Well, maybe that'll make it a little harder." smirked the doctor. The targets seemed like nothing to Keitaro, he wasn't being arrogant; they really were nothing to him. He ripped apart another target that had no time to react to his swift attacks. He was relentless in his attacks, he didn't care if he got hit, and he just kept on going. This was beginning to scare Dr Toragotchi. "Amazing. Terrifying, but amazing." She said to herself.
The inconvenient thing with being an Eva pilot was that, every time you did a Sync test or some training, you had to take a shower to get the NCF out of your hair every time, and to Keitaro, this was getting annoying. He left the NERV building shower and started to dry himself off. He'd just got his trousers on, when the alert siren sounded. "Ahh, crap!" she muttered to himself as he took his trousers off, again and slip into his Neural Suit.
"The target is moving towards the city at slow pace, but should arrive in thirty minutes. Keitaro you are to take the offensive and Amane, you are to take the defensive. Be careful with the Angel Evangelion, it still has to be tested and we don't know if it's got any bugs that need sorting out." explained Hikaru, to the young Eva pilots. They both nodded and headed for their respective Evangelions. The Angel Evangelion had just arrived this morning. It was certainly a sight. The armour was white and on its right arm it had the word 'Prototype 2' on it. The head had a total of six eyes. Four of them were slits on the right and left side of the head, with a round eye in the middle of them. The last eye was where the left ear would of being. The most noticeable part was the wings. It was certainly magnificent.
The surface was quiet; there was no sign of the Angel yet. Keitaro took cover behind a building, armed with a rifle and a survival knife. Amane had also taken cover behind a building, readied with a battle-axe. The Angel came into sight. This one looked much different from the one last week. This one hovered on the ground from what looked like a skirt, but it didn't have legs or it didn't have arms, but had tentacles instead, it donned a red orb on its torso, its head was small with no facial features, just a white circle and it had wings on it's back. It hovered towards the city. "I don't think this guy knows that we're here." said Amane over her comm. link.
"Amane? Don't attack it yet. We're still trying to determine if it's an Angel or not." said the doctor, looking at the various computer screens. Still no A-Field had folded yet; this was worrying.
"Ma'am? Maybe they should attack it?" asked Roshi, turning on his seat. "No, it's too dangerous." explained the doctor.
"Screw that! I'm attacking this thing now!" shouted Keitaro. He rolled out from behind the building and started firing. The Angel turned to see him, it flashed and the familiar white barrier appeared. "Shit!" he cussed as the bullets hit the barrier and stopped.
"A-Field confirmed! It's an Angel!" shouted Ichigo; she sounded frantic.
The Angel swung one of its tentacles and smashed the rifle into pieces. The Devil Eva stepped back and ran at it. The barrier appeared again. The Devil Eva crashed against it and fell to the ground. Keitaro felt the impact and let out a grunt of pain. He opened his eyes and saw the Angel hovering in front of him. It reared back a tentacle and flung it into the chest of the Eva. Pain was what he felt right now, incredible, unbearable pain. He was hit again. More pain. Where was Amane? He felt himself slipping into unconscious.
"Wake up!" it was that voice again. He woke up and saw the Angel Evangelion, it held the Angel by its tentacles. The Devil Eva slowly got up. The Angel Eva seemed to be having a hard time in restraining the Angel and just gave away. The Angel flung into a building and turned to the Devil Eva. The white circle on its head flashed and the next thing Keitaro knew, he was engulfed in a white fire. The pain was too much to take. The flames stopped and smoke lifted off the charred Eva. Amane saw what happened and gasped as she what saw next was the strangest thing she'd ever seen. Big pieces of the armour on the Devil Eva, were missing. The right arm armour was missing, the armour on the left leg had a huge chunk missing and half the head armour was missing. The eye of the creature blinked, it was a cat- like blue eye, the skin was red and the horn on it head was real. The true face of the Devil Evangelion had being revealed! It threw its head back and gave a terrifying roar. The Angel didn't hesitate in attacking, it threw a tentacle at its enemy. It didn't do much good as the Devil Eva caught it, then grabbed it by the head and held it up in the air. The Angel tried to escape, but the grip was getting tighter. The tentacle was going blue and the head was starting to show signs of bursting. Until, the head exploded. The Angels carcass fell to the ground, 'blood' congealing in a pool around it. The Devils eye narrowed and drove its hand into the torso of the, now dead, Angel. It pulled and pulled, until the red orb burst out in the hands of the Devil Eva. It stood up and held it high above its head. Something started happening to the chest armour on the Devil Eva, it spilt and a black orb pushed its way out. The Devil moved the orb in its hand to this new black orb. There was a flash of light and the red orb disappeared. Amane looked in terror as she this. The back armour was cracking and out of nowhere, two gigantic wings burst from its back. It continued roaring and then, went silent. The wings folded back into the body and, with that, it was over.
"KEITARO!!!!!" the loud voice of Eve rang through the apartment, waking everyone up. Except Keitaro, who was still sleeping soundly. "Keitaro! Wake up! Now!" she shouted standing next to her bed, fully clothed. Keitaro's eyes slowly opened.
"Mmm. Oh, morning Eve." he said, still sleepy. "Get dressed! Now!" she shouted, leaning over him. "Why?" he asked, confused. "You promised me, you'd take me shopping, remember?" she said, smiling. "I did? I must have been drunk." he said, getting back under the covers. "Hey you! Get up!" she shouted, pulling the covers of him and then pulling back as she saw his 'thermal expansion' "Eww! Not that 'up'!" she shouted, throwing the covers back on him. "What's the matter? Getting excited?"
Warning: Fist to Face connection.
"Now get dressed!" she shouted again at him. Keitaro got off the floor and held the part of his face where it had being punched. "Wow, you have a mean punch." he said standing up. "Thank you. Now hurry up." she finished and walked out the room. He sighed and started getting dressed.
"Hey Keitaro? What do you want for breakfast?" asked Hikaru as Keitaro walked into the kitchen. "Oh no, nothing for him. He's taking me shopping." said Eve, putting down her cup of coffee. He looked up. "Hey! Why do you get something and I don't?" he asked, giving her a look. "Oh, okay. Give the cry baby his bottle." said Eve, throwing Keitaro a look herself. Adam walked into the room as they stopped giving each other dirty looks and Hikaru had passed Keitaro a coffee.
"Morning all." he sounded very drowsy. "Morning baka. Snore well?" asked Eve, looking in his direction. "Not very- Hey! I don't snore! Do I?" he looked confused now. "Well, that's what she said, a few nights ago, or it could've being an excuse to get into bed with me." Keitaro had now joined the conversation. "Wha! Why would I get into bed with you?" shouted Eve, now throwing a sharp look at Keitaro. The argument continued and Hikaru couldn't help but watch. "This is more entertaining than pro-wrestling." she quietly said to herself.
The next day, at school, the argument was still continuing and Keitaro was starting to get bored. "Guys?" the shouting drowned out his voice. "Guys!?!" still drowned out by the shouting. "GUYS!?!" this got their attention. "What!?!" snapped Eve. "We're in class. Maybe we should stop." said Keitaro, looking forward. Eve looked at what he was looking at. The teacher.
"Miss Ishi, Mr Ishi and Mr Juroroachi? Please sit down and can we begin?" said the teacher sounding bored.
Lunchtime was busy as usual. Amane Toragotchi sat at the table with no one with her. "Hey Amane." came a voice. The American girl looked up and saw a handsome Japanese boy, with his tie loosely done up. She recognized him as Keitaro.
"Oh, hi! I heard the accident with the Eva. Is Eve okay?" she asked, returning to her food. "Yeah, she's okay. Better than my hands." he said, holding up his bandaged hands. "Ouch! How did that happen?" she held his hands and looked at them with surprise. "Trying to get Eve out off the Pilot Pod. Last time I try that." he said, putting on a smile. Amane laughed. "Hey Keitaro!" a voice rang from the other side of the lunch hall. He looked round and saw Eve walking up to him. "Oh hey Eve, this is-" "I'm Amane Toragotchi, the First Pilot." Eve looked surprised. "You're the First? Wow! Hey, I'm the Second, my brother is the Third-" Keitaro interrupted "Wait? Adam's an Eva pilot too?" Eve looked at him and replied. "Yeah, didn't you know? So, Amane, where's your Evangelion?" she asked turning back to Amane. "Oh, it's being transported from America, it should arrive tomorrow." replied Amane. "Oh really? Well, mine is being made in Britain and is being flown in. The Demon Evangelion, 2nd Flight Production Model and it has the attributes of the Devil Evangelion. Making it the perfect partner in battle with the Devil Eva." she said, more like gloating.
"Hey, Eve!" Eve's friend called over. She walked over and grabbed her by the wrist. "Come on, I don't want to guard your lunch all the time." she sounded a little angry. She dragged her off, but Keitaro heard her say: "He is soooo cute!" while she was walking away. She must of being talking about him. He gave a laugh and turned back to Amane. "So, what's your Eva called? Wait, don't tell me, the Angel Eva?" he asked, sounding confident. Amane laughed. "That's right. How'd you guess?" Keitaro put on a smile. "Easy. Mine's the Devil, so I naturally assumed it'll be an Angel." Amane put on a smile also and then asked, "Hey, would you like to visit me after school? I'd like some company, because I live alone, you see." Keitaro looked surprised, "You live alone? How old are you?" he asked, looking a little concerned. "I'm the same age as you, sixteen." she finished, and took a bite out of her sandwich. "Oh, okay. I come visit you. How about after school?" he asked, sitting down and nicking a chip off Amane's plate. "Yeah, I'll take you there. How's that sound?" she asked, putting her sandwich down. "Sounds great. I'll see you after school. Till then, bye." And he left.
The bell rang indicating the school day was over. Hikaru leaned against her car and waited for the three pilots to come out of school. Two and Three came out, but no Fourth. "Hey, where's Keitaro?" she asked, looking around. "He's with that American, going round to her place." said Adam. "Wha! He's what!?!" Eve didn't react well; she grabbed Adam by the scruff of his neck and started shaking him. "W-why d-d-do yo-ou caarrree?" he tried his best to get the words out. "Yeah Eve. Why do you care? Do you like him?" asked Hikaru, trying not to laugh. That went away when she saw the look on Eve's face.
Both of Keitaro and Amane walked down the street. The street they were walking down didn't look nice, what got him was the graffiti on the walls, the broken bottles and the distance sounds of sirens. "How the hell can she live here?" he thought. They arrived at an apartment building. The building looked very depressing and had an aurora of sadness and suffering about it. "Wow, this is the most depressing building I've ever seen." he thought. Her apartment room was even more depressing. It was very bland. No wallpaper, no carpet, just the basic furniture like a sofa, a bed, a table with a couple of chairs and a wardrobe. There was a bathroom and a kitchen, with only a fridge and a couple of worktops with a microwave on top of one. It looked like the kind of place only someone who didn't enjoy having fun would live in, and Amane wasn't that type of person. "Would you like something to eat?" she asked, putting her bag on the bed. He switched back to life and replied. "Ermm. No, I'm okay, thank you." He took a look around and put his bag down on the table and sat on one of the chairs. "Well, this is a nice place." he tried his best, but that didn't sound truthful. Amane looked at him and laughed. "I know, my place is boring." she said when she finished laughing. "No, it's not that, I just think it could use a make- over." He was starting to feel embarrassed. She laughed again. "Ya' know? I would, but I don't have the money. But I have pizza." she opened the fridge when finished. Keitaro looked up and a big smile grew on his face.
It was silent without Keitaro at the Hikaru household. Eve sat on the sofa; she was as bored as hell. Adam was reading a book. Eve took a look at the clock. It was eight o'clock, what could he be doing? Adam turned a page. Eve returned to looking at the ceiling. Adam turned another page. And another. And another. And another. Until finally, she snapped, "Will you stop doing that!?!" she got off the sofa as she shouted at Adam, who looked up and wondered what was wrong with his sister. "Doing what? Reading?" he looked confused. "Yes! Will you stop reading that book!?!" she snapped. "What the hell's wrong with you? Is this about Keitaro?" he asked, also getting up. "Don't bring him into this!" she shouted, her face going a little red. "Hey! Sorry! I didn't do anything to deserve this!" he shouted back and walked off to his room. Eve, tired from shouting, fell onto the sofa. "Why do I care? Do I like him?" she asked herself. No, she couldn't. Love is for the weak. She was not weak.
After pizza, a drink or two and a bit of talking, Keitaro was getting ready to leave. "Well, I'll see you tomorrow. Good bye." he said, grabbing his bag and putting on his shoes. He was about to open the door when his wrist was grabbed. He turned round and saw a blonde girl with teary eyes. "Amane? What's wrong? Are you crying?" he put on a concerned face as he asked these questions. "Please don't go." she replied. A tear dropped from her eye. "Why? Is there something wrong?" he sat her down on a chair. "I have nightmares. Scary ones." she answered. "Nightmares? Amane, everyone has nightmares. They're natural." he said, pulling up the other chair to sit next to her. "Please stay. Please." Another tear dropped from her eye. He could see the fear in her eyes. It was scary to see something like this in Amane. "Okay, I'll stay the night." he replied. She flung her arms around him. "Thank you." she sobbed.
The night was pretty quiet. Keitaro slept on the sofa, while Amane slept on her own bed, although she offered Keitaro her bed, he refused saying it was her bed, not his. He got up. 'Nature' was calling. "I knew I shouldn't have had those drinks." he said to himself, walking to the toilet. He was just in the middle of his business when he heard screaming. He was so startled he splashed the toilet seat. He ran out the bathroom to find Amane on the floor, screaming her voice box out! He grabbed her by the arms and tried to hold her down. "Amane! What the-!" he shouted then stopped as he saw a strange white glow emitting from her body. She started shouting, "SHINJI! KAWORU! REI! HELP ME!" Keitaro was having a hard time holding her down now; she was too erratic to hold. He could feel his muscles bulge and the blood rushing through his veins, he was beginning to bleed from his wrists and a red glow appeared. "Amane! Wake up!" he shook her. She woke up and threw herself on Keitaro. The Japanese boy was startled, but put his arms around her to comfort her. She fell into a deep sound sleep again. He sighed and put her back into bed. Amane's eyes opened and she turned, to find a Japanese boy next her. The American girl moved away in surprise, but she gave a sigh of relieve when she saw her clothes, and his, were still on. She gave him a slight shake to wake him up. His eyes slowly opened and smiled. "Morning." he said softly. "Morning." she said back. "Errm. Did we-?" Keitaro got up and replied. "No, nothing like that." Amane got off the bed and moved toward her wardrobe. "Well, I better find my trousers." he said getting off the bed, also. Amane closed her wardrobe and turned around. "I did it last night, didn't I?" she asked. "Keitaro pulled up his trousers and did them up. He turned around with a concerned look on his face. "Yes, you did." he replied. She sat down at the table. "It happens every night." she said quietly. He sat down next to her and held her hand. "Amane, what ever it is, you've got to forget it. Come stay with me." he said. Amane looked up at him, surprised. "Really?" she asked. Keitaro smiled. "Really."
Eve walked into the kitchen expecting to see Keitaro sat at the table, stuffing his face with pancakes like a pig, but no Keitaro. She felt herself snap, "What!?! He's still not back!?!" she shouted. Sometimes people take a cold shower to wake them up, sometimes a cup of coffee, but this was what fully woke up Adam. He held his ears and asked, "Geez, Eve. Can you get any louder?" Eve threw him a sharp look. He went back to eating his breakfast, quietly. The door opened. Eve ran straight to see who it was, Keitaro was back. She grabbed him by the scruff of his neck and started shaking him hard, while saying, "WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEING!?! ALL NIGHT YOU WERE GONE! WHAT WERE YOU DOING!?!" she shouted, shaking him back and forth. She stopped when she saw Amane walk in, then continued shaking him "AND WHAT THE HELL IS SHE DOING HERE!?!" her voice was even louder now. "Keitaro offered for me to stay with you guys, I hope you don't mind." she held up a suitcase. Eve dropped Keitaro to the floor, which at this time was pretty dizzy. "Oh, I see." She grabbed Keitaro again. "WHY IS SHE STAYING WITH US!?! FIRST YOU SLEEP WITH HER AND NOW YOU SAY SHE CAN MOVE IN WITH US!" Amane was taken back by this remark. "Excuse me! I didn't sleep with him! He just stayed the night." Eve swung round to look at her. "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know." She let Keitaro go, who fell to the ground, right now he was very dizzy.
"Okay Keitaro. You have five minutes to complete this training course." Explained the blonde haired Head of Research: Dr Toragotchi. "Five minutes? Is that all? Why so long?" asked Keitaro. "God. He's arrogant." said the doctor, under her breath.
"Yes, but he agreed to pilot the Evangelion again." explained Commander Ishi. "Yes, but does he have to be so arrogant?" asked the doctor. "Maybe, he uses it to hide something?"
Keitaro was doing the rifle training he should have been doing three days ago, and he was finding it easy. All he had to do was pretend the targets were his farther. He ravaged another target with the rifle bullets. "Hmm. These targets are too easy." he said, ripping another target to pieces. Another target caught his eye, this one fired back at him. He dodged with a roll and fired when he got back up, destroying the target. "Well, maybe that'll make it a little harder." smirked the doctor. The targets seemed like nothing to Keitaro, he wasn't being arrogant; they really were nothing to him. He ripped apart another target that had no time to react to his swift attacks. He was relentless in his attacks, he didn't care if he got hit, and he just kept on going. This was beginning to scare Dr Toragotchi. "Amazing. Terrifying, but amazing." She said to herself.
The inconvenient thing with being an Eva pilot was that, every time you did a Sync test or some training, you had to take a shower to get the NCF out of your hair every time, and to Keitaro, this was getting annoying. He left the NERV building shower and started to dry himself off. He'd just got his trousers on, when the alert siren sounded. "Ahh, crap!" she muttered to himself as he took his trousers off, again and slip into his Neural Suit.
"The target is moving towards the city at slow pace, but should arrive in thirty minutes. Keitaro you are to take the offensive and Amane, you are to take the defensive. Be careful with the Angel Evangelion, it still has to be tested and we don't know if it's got any bugs that need sorting out." explained Hikaru, to the young Eva pilots. They both nodded and headed for their respective Evangelions. The Angel Evangelion had just arrived this morning. It was certainly a sight. The armour was white and on its right arm it had the word 'Prototype 2' on it. The head had a total of six eyes. Four of them were slits on the right and left side of the head, with a round eye in the middle of them. The last eye was where the left ear would of being. The most noticeable part was the wings. It was certainly magnificent.
The surface was quiet; there was no sign of the Angel yet. Keitaro took cover behind a building, armed with a rifle and a survival knife. Amane had also taken cover behind a building, readied with a battle-axe. The Angel came into sight. This one looked much different from the one last week. This one hovered on the ground from what looked like a skirt, but it didn't have legs or it didn't have arms, but had tentacles instead, it donned a red orb on its torso, its head was small with no facial features, just a white circle and it had wings on it's back. It hovered towards the city. "I don't think this guy knows that we're here." said Amane over her comm. link.
"Amane? Don't attack it yet. We're still trying to determine if it's an Angel or not." said the doctor, looking at the various computer screens. Still no A-Field had folded yet; this was worrying.
"Ma'am? Maybe they should attack it?" asked Roshi, turning on his seat. "No, it's too dangerous." explained the doctor.
"Screw that! I'm attacking this thing now!" shouted Keitaro. He rolled out from behind the building and started firing. The Angel turned to see him, it flashed and the familiar white barrier appeared. "Shit!" he cussed as the bullets hit the barrier and stopped.
"A-Field confirmed! It's an Angel!" shouted Ichigo; she sounded frantic.
The Angel swung one of its tentacles and smashed the rifle into pieces. The Devil Eva stepped back and ran at it. The barrier appeared again. The Devil Eva crashed against it and fell to the ground. Keitaro felt the impact and let out a grunt of pain. He opened his eyes and saw the Angel hovering in front of him. It reared back a tentacle and flung it into the chest of the Eva. Pain was what he felt right now, incredible, unbearable pain. He was hit again. More pain. Where was Amane? He felt himself slipping into unconscious.
"Wake up!" it was that voice again. He woke up and saw the Angel Evangelion, it held the Angel by its tentacles. The Devil Eva slowly got up. The Angel Eva seemed to be having a hard time in restraining the Angel and just gave away. The Angel flung into a building and turned to the Devil Eva. The white circle on its head flashed and the next thing Keitaro knew, he was engulfed in a white fire. The pain was too much to take. The flames stopped and smoke lifted off the charred Eva. Amane saw what happened and gasped as she what saw next was the strangest thing she'd ever seen. Big pieces of the armour on the Devil Eva, were missing. The right arm armour was missing, the armour on the left leg had a huge chunk missing and half the head armour was missing. The eye of the creature blinked, it was a cat- like blue eye, the skin was red and the horn on it head was real. The true face of the Devil Evangelion had being revealed! It threw its head back and gave a terrifying roar. The Angel didn't hesitate in attacking, it threw a tentacle at its enemy. It didn't do much good as the Devil Eva caught it, then grabbed it by the head and held it up in the air. The Angel tried to escape, but the grip was getting tighter. The tentacle was going blue and the head was starting to show signs of bursting. Until, the head exploded. The Angels carcass fell to the ground, 'blood' congealing in a pool around it. The Devils eye narrowed and drove its hand into the torso of the, now dead, Angel. It pulled and pulled, until the red orb burst out in the hands of the Devil Eva. It stood up and held it high above its head. Something started happening to the chest armour on the Devil Eva, it spilt and a black orb pushed its way out. The Devil moved the orb in its hand to this new black orb. There was a flash of light and the red orb disappeared. Amane looked in terror as she this. The back armour was cracking and out of nowhere, two gigantic wings burst from its back. It continued roaring and then, went silent. The wings folded back into the body and, with that, it was over.
