The Devil loomed into sight. It's lower jaw stuck out over its upper jaw.
The skin was red and the eyes were a glowing green. It arms hung loosely
like a gorillas. The back was hunched and it was moving at a steady pace,
it didn't seem to be in a hurry.
"Okay, anyone got any ideas?" asked Keitaro. His Eva was ready and primed for action. Gripping a sword in its right arm, he was ready, but was Amane? "Amane? Are your ready to fight this thing?" he asked her over his comm. link.
"Yep, I think I am." she replied. Her Eva was in position, a few buildings away from the Devil Eva; it held a rifle in its hands and had a weapon cache near it in case the rifle ran out of ammunition.
"This is NERV command. Lilith calculates a 0.4 percent chance that the Devil Eva's E-Field will penetrate the D-Field of the Devil. But there's a 98.7 percent chance that the Angel Eva will penetrate it." explained Dr. Toragotchi. "Lilith? Who's Lilith?" asked a confused Keitaro.
"Lilith is the super computer of the entire NERV headquarters, 'she' calculates the chances of everything in the battles with the Devils and Angels. Even during your first battle, 'she' calculated a 17.56 percent chance that the Devil Eva would synchronize with you." explained commander Ishi, standing up and walking to besides the doctor. "But you proved 'her' wrong, didn't you?" He smirked. The doctor looked at him as to say, "You're just as worst as him." Keitaro simply smiled. "Okay, just needed to clear that up. So how are we to deal with this thing?" he asked, he observed it closely, "Hang on. Why do I feel like I've seen this thing before?" he asked himself. The Commander and the Doctor both put worried looks on their faces. "It doesn't matter Kei, let's just attack this thing and get it over with." Amane sounded a little impatience. "Okay, attack it and see how it response." said the Doctor, taken back by the sudden aggression in Amane's voice. Angel Eva left its position and fired a volley from the rifle at the Devil, who turned to see this attack in time to bring up a red barrier.
"D-Field has activated!" cried Roshi, swivelling around on his chair to face the commander and doctor. "Amane! Try hand-to-hand combat!" the doctor shouted over her comm. link. "What!? Are you insane!? The Angel Eva isn't built for close-combat!" Hikaru sounded shocked to hear that Toragotchi had told her own daughter to do something so dangerous. The Angel Eva threw its rifle to the floor and ran at the Devil, fists clenched. One punch landed, countered by a punch from the Devil, it was more of a swing really. The Angel's head jerked to one side. Amane felt the blow and held her face where the Devil had hit her. She really didn't care; she attacked again.
Keitaro watched the battle. He wanted to help, but he had to wait until the Devils D-Field was down, then he could do some damage.
The red barrier appeared and shattered.
"D-Field neutralized!" cried Ichigo.
"That's my queue!" shouted Keitaro running full-steam at the Devil. The Devil turned to see it's new opponent. It swung its arm round and whacked the Eva in the face. It twirled in the air and landed on the ground. "What a punch!" Keitaro held his face where he'd being hit, it felt like he'd being hit a ton of bricks! The Eva stood up and everyone noticed what had happened to it. The lower jaw hung loose and the armour plating was smashed and dented in the mouth region. "Ouch, that must hurt!" said Roshi. "It's broken its jaw." said the doctor. "We've got to be more careful. Keitaro, withdraw and obtain a projectile weapon, now!"
There was no point in arguing. He did what he was told, but he had to do it fast, or Amane could die, and he couldn't live with himself if that happened. He came across a weapon cache and inside was a katana. "Damn! Oh well, that'll have to do." He grabbed it and ran back to the battle.
"What the hell is he doing?" asked the doctor. "I told him to get a long- range weapon!" She was starting to get angry now. Hikaru backed away. The commander also looked scared and sat back down on his chair. "Keitaro! I told you to get a long-range weapon! Now get one!" she shouted over her comm. link.
"What was that? Chheezzz- I can't- Cheezzz- you. You're-Chheezz-up!" He wasn't really breaking up. He switched his comm. link off, and continued going over to help Amane.
The doctor was furious. The commander was trying not to laugh. She walked over to the control panel of Roshi's and brought up a screen that said:
"EMERGANCY DEACTIVATE."
The Devil Eva ran at the Devil, sword primed and ready to attack. It was just about to attack, when it stopped, right in the middle of jumping, so it fell to the ground, with a pavement smashing crash. "What the fuck is going on!?!" Keitaro tried jerking the controls back and forth, but nothing happened. "Control, Devil Eva has deactivated for an unknown reason." said Amane into her comm. link.
"We know Amane, we're trying to fix it as soon as we can." The doctor was sounding a little calm for such a crisis. Hikaru and the commander were too shocked to say anything. Then the commander stepped forward. "Doctor! Reactivate the Devil Eva now!" He sounded furious. The doctor turned around and looked at the enraged commander. She smiled. "I can't." She pointed to the screen showing the battle. The Devil Eva lay there; next to it, was a metallic object. "That's its battery." She smiled again.
Amane couldn't worry about Keitaro at the moment; she was busy avoiding attacks from the Devil. This thing seemed to swing its arms and they seemed to stretch a little in doing so. She activated her Eva's thrusters and took off. She rose at least a few miles off the ground, this way she'd be able to manoeuvre a lot better. Her Eva was a unique model, the flight production model. The thrusters were designed to move freely, so she could go up, down, left, right, and any direction she wanted. Which came in very useful against fast moving enemies. The Devil attacked again. It missed. It attacked again. It missed again. It seemed to be getting bored now. "Strange, it's getting bored like a human does." Amane said to herself. It was too; it turned around and saw the Devil Eva, still not moving. Amane knew what the Devil was thinking. "That Bastard! He's going to attack Keitaro while he's down!" The Devil loomed over the fallen Eva, and lifted it up by the neck. The Devil opened its mouth and light started emitting from its mouth. It shot a thin beam into the middle of the Devil Eva's chest, where the heart should be. Keitaro was screaming loudly. He was being boiled alive by the super heated N.C.F. He fell unconscious and his head hung low. He was very slowly dying and it was painful.
Amane looked at the sight, she knew Keitaro was dying. She had tears brewing in her eyes. "KEITARO!!!" she screamed and screamed.
The people in NERV Command looked with horror as Keitaro was having his live slowly taken away from him. Hikaru was starting to cry, she didn't want to, but she couldn't help it.
Amane was having tears streaming from her eyes. She felt her own mind slipping, her mind raging and wanting to kill. She was angry.
"What's going on?" cried the doctor. "We don't know! The Sync level is rising, beyond her own record!" answered Ichigo. The blonde doctor didn't believe this. The Angel Evangelion bezerking? This wasn't possible; it was docile. It wasn't now.
The mouth plating was cracking in places; a slight moan could be heard. The plating gave away and mouth opened wide. The Angel Eva lifted its head back and, didn't roar, it howled. The howling echoed through out the city, and it charged at the Devil, still holding the limp and lifeless Devil Eva, with the doomed pilot still in it. The Devil threw the Eva to the ground and engaged the Angel. It swung its arms round and smashed the Angel in face, at least, it looked like it did. The Angel Eva's E-Field shone brightly as the Devils fist stood there in mid air. The Angel Eva grabbed the wrist of the Devil and twisted it; a meaty crunch was heard. Then it connected two kicks to the stomach and a couple of punches to the face. The Devil opened its mouth to launch an attack. The Angel seemed to be running on pure instinct, it grabbed the Devil's mouth and kept it closed. A light shot out through the gaps, now it was having its mouth fried by its own attack. The Angel let go and kicked it hard in the face, sending it swirling into a building. The wings opened and the Eva started to hover in the air, by the use of its thrusters. Its eyes glowed and the clouds above started swirling and going black, thunder could be heard. A strike of lightning was seen.
"How can that be? The Angel can't control the weather. It isn't meant to do that!" ecstatically cried Toragotchi.
The lightning was getting more frequent and viscous. The Angel's eyes flashed and a huge bolt of lightning struck the Devil. It was screaming out in pain as the lightning started to take its toll. The skin started to burn and flames were forming on it. Then, it exploded. The Angel Eva floated down back to the ground and fell to the ground with a crash. It deactivated and the clouds returned too normal.
Amane woke up with a start. She was in a hospital room, dressed in a hospital gown and laid in bed. She rubbed her eyes and sat up, she felt like she'd being asleep for a few days. She rubbed her eyes again and laid back down. The battle. She leapt out of bed and opened the blinds. There were the remains of the Devil that attacked. There was the building it crashed into. There was the huge battery generator for the Devil Eva. There was the katana Keitaro had picked up- Keitaro! Was he okay? Was he still alive? She had to find out, and now. The door opened and Hikaru walked in. "Ah. You're out of bed, you should be getting some rest." She walked up to her and guided her back to her bed. Amane couldn't wait, "What about Keitaro? Is he okay?" Tears were welling up in her eyes as she asked these questions. Hikaru put on a grim face and replied, "He's in a very unstable condition right now, and he may not wake up." She turned her head away and closed her eyes.
Amane and Eve were standing outside the door of Keitaro's room; he was covered in burns and was hooked up to a life support machine. In the state he was in, it looked like a mercy killing would be a saint's work. Amane couldn't bear to see him like this; she turned away from the leaned against the wall. She took a look at Eve, who also looked like she couldn't bear it either, but still she stood there. Whatever she was hiding, she was hiding it well and it seemed like she wanted to keep it that way.
"Amane? Do you like Keitaro?" she asked, she sounded pretty upset. Amane turned to look at her and replied, "Yeah, he's a great guy." "No, I mean like-like." Eve turned to face her. Amane then understood what she meant. "Oh! No! We're only friends." She started to blush and felt a little stupid. "Why do you ask?" She sounded very curious. "Well, I think I like him." Amane raised an eyebrow. "Really? Does he know?" she asked. "Errm, no. He doesn't. But I want to tell him, bad." Amane walked up to her and smiled. "Just tell him." Eve looked back at Amane. "Yeah, maybe I should. Who knows? Maybe he feels the same way. Yeah, I'll ask him when he wakes up." She smiled and looked at Keitaro, still out-cold and still on life support. But she knew he was going to wake up.
The carrier ship lifted its cargo out off the ship. The new production Close-Combat model, The Human Evangelion. The first production model ever made. This was to be the template for other Evangelions to come. Covered in a blue metallic paintjob, with various parts of the arms and legs in white. Two wide silts shining in blue were its eyes, and had a radio aerial on the side of its head. The shoulder plates had built-in missile launchers in them; two tanks on the back of them that read 'Oxygen' and a light for exploring dark areas on one of them. It was the same height as the other two prototype models, but was built more like a human; it stood up straight, unlike the Devil Eva, which hunched over slightly and didn't have wings like the Angel Eva. Adam looked at his new toy, with slight contempt. He didn't like to fight; in fact he despised to fight. But with Keitaro in the hospital and the Devil Eva badly damaged and also the fact that nobody else could pilot it, he had no choice. He gave a deep sigh. He sat down as the Eva was loaded onto a truck, and was driven away, to NERV Headquarters most likely. Actually, it was a relief to see it go. Adam stood up and watched it disappear from the harbour. An odd forty or so NERV officers scurried around, picking up supplies, loading ammunition onto crates and transporting metal containers onto trucks. He eventually became bored of this and walked to his bike. The Human Eva was to be put through testing stages, however it was receive an unexpected test.
It all started off with a few little shakes, then tremors, then it turned into a full-blown earthquake.
"You mean, this earthquake is most likely Angel or Devil activity?" asked Commander Ishi, as he sat at his desk, holding the phone to Dr Toragotchi.
"That's right sir. We received some sort of field reading, but there was too much interference to actually confirm what it was. Plus the earthquake has opened up an abyss of some sort." Dr. Toragotchi said as she stood at the operation site investigating the newly opened abyss.
"Hmm. Send in the new Human Eva to investigate. Fit it out with a night vision camera and lower it in with a flex cable. I want Lt. Hikaru to monitor the operation and I want to find out where these earthquakes are coming from." He put the phone down and turned on his chair to look out the window. He regretted sending his own son in to a dangerous situation, but this was his last chance to redeem NERV.
Adam was sat on the shoulder of his respective Evangelion, dressed in his own Neural Suit, which was blue like he asked for. He watched as preparation staff hurried to send the Human Eva into the abyss. The crane was ready and he was ready, but the Eva needed some prep time to get used to it's pilot, there was a chance that his Eva would reject him, even though all tests with it's battle system all came up positive. It was time to get moving. He entered the Pilot Pod of the Human Eva and sat at the controls. He breathed deeply as the red N.C.F filled the pod. It took some getting used to, but he was now comfortable in the N.C.F.
"Okay Adam, this is the operation plan." Hikaru was very excited about this operation. This was her first operation that didn't have the commander or the doctor looking over her shoulder, so she was very excited about it all. "Right, first we're going to lower you in by the means of a flex cable. When you reach the bottom, activate the night vision camera and your searchlight. After that, we're going to lower a weapon cache down, in it will be a rifle, four magazines and a new weapon called the Anti-Field bomb. Don't worry about details about that now. Also there will be a couple of Eva-scale handguns in it. Right now, time to begin the operation."
The crane hooked on to the back of the Human Eva and lifted it into the air. It swayed a bit as he was lifted over the hole. It started lowering down into the hole and swayed a bit more, scraping the side of the hole.
"Watch it will ya?" asked Adam over the comm. link.
It finally reached the bottom after ten minutes. The hole was deep and very dark. Adam decided it was about time he activated his camera and his searchlight. "That's better." he said to himself as the light lit up the cavern. The cache lowered down next to him. He walked over to it and opened it. He pulled out the rifle and a couple of magazines. He started walking into the tunnels with the rifle loaded and ready. He walked for about half an hour, and then he started hearing noises. Noises that sounded like crawling, really fast crawling, like it was done with a multitude of legs. It came from behind the Eva. Adam swung round and aimed his rifle at nothing; it was gone. He sighed in relief, but still couldn't think calm until be found out what that noise was.
"Hmm. This is strange." Adam said to himself. He was in some sort of cavern room. The rocks around him were oddly shaped, a bit like buildings, wreaked ones, but still buildings. He continued walking, when he stepped on something that sounded like metal been crushed. He got closer to it for a closer look. A car? Yes, it was a car. But why was it here in an underground cavern? He took a closer look at the rocks. They were buildings! Where was he? His train of thought was interrupted as he was thrown across the ground by something hitting him from behind. He pushed himself up and looked behind. "What the-!?!" It was a giant creature that looked like an Oo-mukade. Except the skin was red and a red orb sat upon its head. It gnashed its mandibles together at lunched itself and the Eva. Adam reacted by jumping out off the way and rolling into a building. The creature smashed its face on the ground and reared itself back in pain. Adam saw the opportunity and opened fire, however the bullets were rebounded by a red barrier.
"Did you see that?" Hikaru was looking with amazement at the battle that was being shown by the night vision camera.
"So, that's the 3rd Devil?" came a voice behind her. The lieutenant swung round to see the blonde haired doctor, Toragotchi. "What are you doing here? And did you say the 3rd?" The doctor just walked up to the control board and turned to the brunette lieutenant. "I'm just here to see how things are going, that's all. You're still in charge around here." She turned back to the screen showing the battle. Adam had emptied his first magazine, and was loading another, as the Devil got closer.
Adam knew this was a Devil and he needed a way of neutralizing its D-Field. The Anti-Field bomb! He headed back down the tunnel and came to where the weapon cache was located. He opened it and pulled out the bomb, it looked like a canister with a push handle on the top of it. The bomb had a ten second timer on it, but the Devil was quite fast and would probably escape the blast radius before it blew. He had an idea. He ran back to find the Devil, but it found him instead. It crashed right through the wall and tried to grab him with its pair of mandibles. The Eva grabbed the mandibles with its hand and dropped the bomb in doing so. It stood up with the handle facing up. This gave Adam an idea. He was slowly losing his grip of the situation so he placed one of the Eva's feet on the handle and pushed it down. The timer started from:
Ten. He was losing his grip.
Nine, Eight, Seven. The mandibles slipped.
Six, Five, Four. He picked up the bomb and grabbed hold of the Devil.
Three, Two, One. He stuffed into the Devils mouth.
The bomb went off, releasing a blue barrier wave everywhere. The Devil cringed and screeched loudly in pain. Then all of a sudden it exploded into a red liquid, which was water-like in appearance. Adam gave a deep sigh of relief and sat back in the chair.
"Hikaru? Pull me out of here please?"
"Okay, anyone got any ideas?" asked Keitaro. His Eva was ready and primed for action. Gripping a sword in its right arm, he was ready, but was Amane? "Amane? Are your ready to fight this thing?" he asked her over his comm. link.
"Yep, I think I am." she replied. Her Eva was in position, a few buildings away from the Devil Eva; it held a rifle in its hands and had a weapon cache near it in case the rifle ran out of ammunition.
"This is NERV command. Lilith calculates a 0.4 percent chance that the Devil Eva's E-Field will penetrate the D-Field of the Devil. But there's a 98.7 percent chance that the Angel Eva will penetrate it." explained Dr. Toragotchi. "Lilith? Who's Lilith?" asked a confused Keitaro.
"Lilith is the super computer of the entire NERV headquarters, 'she' calculates the chances of everything in the battles with the Devils and Angels. Even during your first battle, 'she' calculated a 17.56 percent chance that the Devil Eva would synchronize with you." explained commander Ishi, standing up and walking to besides the doctor. "But you proved 'her' wrong, didn't you?" He smirked. The doctor looked at him as to say, "You're just as worst as him." Keitaro simply smiled. "Okay, just needed to clear that up. So how are we to deal with this thing?" he asked, he observed it closely, "Hang on. Why do I feel like I've seen this thing before?" he asked himself. The Commander and the Doctor both put worried looks on their faces. "It doesn't matter Kei, let's just attack this thing and get it over with." Amane sounded a little impatience. "Okay, attack it and see how it response." said the Doctor, taken back by the sudden aggression in Amane's voice. Angel Eva left its position and fired a volley from the rifle at the Devil, who turned to see this attack in time to bring up a red barrier.
"D-Field has activated!" cried Roshi, swivelling around on his chair to face the commander and doctor. "Amane! Try hand-to-hand combat!" the doctor shouted over her comm. link. "What!? Are you insane!? The Angel Eva isn't built for close-combat!" Hikaru sounded shocked to hear that Toragotchi had told her own daughter to do something so dangerous. The Angel Eva threw its rifle to the floor and ran at the Devil, fists clenched. One punch landed, countered by a punch from the Devil, it was more of a swing really. The Angel's head jerked to one side. Amane felt the blow and held her face where the Devil had hit her. She really didn't care; she attacked again.
Keitaro watched the battle. He wanted to help, but he had to wait until the Devils D-Field was down, then he could do some damage.
The red barrier appeared and shattered.
"D-Field neutralized!" cried Ichigo.
"That's my queue!" shouted Keitaro running full-steam at the Devil. The Devil turned to see it's new opponent. It swung its arm round and whacked the Eva in the face. It twirled in the air and landed on the ground. "What a punch!" Keitaro held his face where he'd being hit, it felt like he'd being hit a ton of bricks! The Eva stood up and everyone noticed what had happened to it. The lower jaw hung loose and the armour plating was smashed and dented in the mouth region. "Ouch, that must hurt!" said Roshi. "It's broken its jaw." said the doctor. "We've got to be more careful. Keitaro, withdraw and obtain a projectile weapon, now!"
There was no point in arguing. He did what he was told, but he had to do it fast, or Amane could die, and he couldn't live with himself if that happened. He came across a weapon cache and inside was a katana. "Damn! Oh well, that'll have to do." He grabbed it and ran back to the battle.
"What the hell is he doing?" asked the doctor. "I told him to get a long- range weapon!" She was starting to get angry now. Hikaru backed away. The commander also looked scared and sat back down on his chair. "Keitaro! I told you to get a long-range weapon! Now get one!" she shouted over her comm. link.
"What was that? Chheezzz- I can't- Cheezzz- you. You're-Chheezz-up!" He wasn't really breaking up. He switched his comm. link off, and continued going over to help Amane.
The doctor was furious. The commander was trying not to laugh. She walked over to the control panel of Roshi's and brought up a screen that said:
"EMERGANCY DEACTIVATE."
The Devil Eva ran at the Devil, sword primed and ready to attack. It was just about to attack, when it stopped, right in the middle of jumping, so it fell to the ground, with a pavement smashing crash. "What the fuck is going on!?!" Keitaro tried jerking the controls back and forth, but nothing happened. "Control, Devil Eva has deactivated for an unknown reason." said Amane into her comm. link.
"We know Amane, we're trying to fix it as soon as we can." The doctor was sounding a little calm for such a crisis. Hikaru and the commander were too shocked to say anything. Then the commander stepped forward. "Doctor! Reactivate the Devil Eva now!" He sounded furious. The doctor turned around and looked at the enraged commander. She smiled. "I can't." She pointed to the screen showing the battle. The Devil Eva lay there; next to it, was a metallic object. "That's its battery." She smiled again.
Amane couldn't worry about Keitaro at the moment; she was busy avoiding attacks from the Devil. This thing seemed to swing its arms and they seemed to stretch a little in doing so. She activated her Eva's thrusters and took off. She rose at least a few miles off the ground, this way she'd be able to manoeuvre a lot better. Her Eva was a unique model, the flight production model. The thrusters were designed to move freely, so she could go up, down, left, right, and any direction she wanted. Which came in very useful against fast moving enemies. The Devil attacked again. It missed. It attacked again. It missed again. It seemed to be getting bored now. "Strange, it's getting bored like a human does." Amane said to herself. It was too; it turned around and saw the Devil Eva, still not moving. Amane knew what the Devil was thinking. "That Bastard! He's going to attack Keitaro while he's down!" The Devil loomed over the fallen Eva, and lifted it up by the neck. The Devil opened its mouth and light started emitting from its mouth. It shot a thin beam into the middle of the Devil Eva's chest, where the heart should be. Keitaro was screaming loudly. He was being boiled alive by the super heated N.C.F. He fell unconscious and his head hung low. He was very slowly dying and it was painful.
Amane looked at the sight, she knew Keitaro was dying. She had tears brewing in her eyes. "KEITARO!!!" she screamed and screamed.
The people in NERV Command looked with horror as Keitaro was having his live slowly taken away from him. Hikaru was starting to cry, she didn't want to, but she couldn't help it.
Amane was having tears streaming from her eyes. She felt her own mind slipping, her mind raging and wanting to kill. She was angry.
"What's going on?" cried the doctor. "We don't know! The Sync level is rising, beyond her own record!" answered Ichigo. The blonde doctor didn't believe this. The Angel Evangelion bezerking? This wasn't possible; it was docile. It wasn't now.
The mouth plating was cracking in places; a slight moan could be heard. The plating gave away and mouth opened wide. The Angel Eva lifted its head back and, didn't roar, it howled. The howling echoed through out the city, and it charged at the Devil, still holding the limp and lifeless Devil Eva, with the doomed pilot still in it. The Devil threw the Eva to the ground and engaged the Angel. It swung its arms round and smashed the Angel in face, at least, it looked like it did. The Angel Eva's E-Field shone brightly as the Devils fist stood there in mid air. The Angel Eva grabbed the wrist of the Devil and twisted it; a meaty crunch was heard. Then it connected two kicks to the stomach and a couple of punches to the face. The Devil opened its mouth to launch an attack. The Angel seemed to be running on pure instinct, it grabbed the Devil's mouth and kept it closed. A light shot out through the gaps, now it was having its mouth fried by its own attack. The Angel let go and kicked it hard in the face, sending it swirling into a building. The wings opened and the Eva started to hover in the air, by the use of its thrusters. Its eyes glowed and the clouds above started swirling and going black, thunder could be heard. A strike of lightning was seen.
"How can that be? The Angel can't control the weather. It isn't meant to do that!" ecstatically cried Toragotchi.
The lightning was getting more frequent and viscous. The Angel's eyes flashed and a huge bolt of lightning struck the Devil. It was screaming out in pain as the lightning started to take its toll. The skin started to burn and flames were forming on it. Then, it exploded. The Angel Eva floated down back to the ground and fell to the ground with a crash. It deactivated and the clouds returned too normal.
Amane woke up with a start. She was in a hospital room, dressed in a hospital gown and laid in bed. She rubbed her eyes and sat up, she felt like she'd being asleep for a few days. She rubbed her eyes again and laid back down. The battle. She leapt out of bed and opened the blinds. There were the remains of the Devil that attacked. There was the building it crashed into. There was the huge battery generator for the Devil Eva. There was the katana Keitaro had picked up- Keitaro! Was he okay? Was he still alive? She had to find out, and now. The door opened and Hikaru walked in. "Ah. You're out of bed, you should be getting some rest." She walked up to her and guided her back to her bed. Amane couldn't wait, "What about Keitaro? Is he okay?" Tears were welling up in her eyes as she asked these questions. Hikaru put on a grim face and replied, "He's in a very unstable condition right now, and he may not wake up." She turned her head away and closed her eyes.
Amane and Eve were standing outside the door of Keitaro's room; he was covered in burns and was hooked up to a life support machine. In the state he was in, it looked like a mercy killing would be a saint's work. Amane couldn't bear to see him like this; she turned away from the leaned against the wall. She took a look at Eve, who also looked like she couldn't bear it either, but still she stood there. Whatever she was hiding, she was hiding it well and it seemed like she wanted to keep it that way.
"Amane? Do you like Keitaro?" she asked, she sounded pretty upset. Amane turned to look at her and replied, "Yeah, he's a great guy." "No, I mean like-like." Eve turned to face her. Amane then understood what she meant. "Oh! No! We're only friends." She started to blush and felt a little stupid. "Why do you ask?" She sounded very curious. "Well, I think I like him." Amane raised an eyebrow. "Really? Does he know?" she asked. "Errm, no. He doesn't. But I want to tell him, bad." Amane walked up to her and smiled. "Just tell him." Eve looked back at Amane. "Yeah, maybe I should. Who knows? Maybe he feels the same way. Yeah, I'll ask him when he wakes up." She smiled and looked at Keitaro, still out-cold and still on life support. But she knew he was going to wake up.
The carrier ship lifted its cargo out off the ship. The new production Close-Combat model, The Human Evangelion. The first production model ever made. This was to be the template for other Evangelions to come. Covered in a blue metallic paintjob, with various parts of the arms and legs in white. Two wide silts shining in blue were its eyes, and had a radio aerial on the side of its head. The shoulder plates had built-in missile launchers in them; two tanks on the back of them that read 'Oxygen' and a light for exploring dark areas on one of them. It was the same height as the other two prototype models, but was built more like a human; it stood up straight, unlike the Devil Eva, which hunched over slightly and didn't have wings like the Angel Eva. Adam looked at his new toy, with slight contempt. He didn't like to fight; in fact he despised to fight. But with Keitaro in the hospital and the Devil Eva badly damaged and also the fact that nobody else could pilot it, he had no choice. He gave a deep sigh. He sat down as the Eva was loaded onto a truck, and was driven away, to NERV Headquarters most likely. Actually, it was a relief to see it go. Adam stood up and watched it disappear from the harbour. An odd forty or so NERV officers scurried around, picking up supplies, loading ammunition onto crates and transporting metal containers onto trucks. He eventually became bored of this and walked to his bike. The Human Eva was to be put through testing stages, however it was receive an unexpected test.
It all started off with a few little shakes, then tremors, then it turned into a full-blown earthquake.
"You mean, this earthquake is most likely Angel or Devil activity?" asked Commander Ishi, as he sat at his desk, holding the phone to Dr Toragotchi.
"That's right sir. We received some sort of field reading, but there was too much interference to actually confirm what it was. Plus the earthquake has opened up an abyss of some sort." Dr. Toragotchi said as she stood at the operation site investigating the newly opened abyss.
"Hmm. Send in the new Human Eva to investigate. Fit it out with a night vision camera and lower it in with a flex cable. I want Lt. Hikaru to monitor the operation and I want to find out where these earthquakes are coming from." He put the phone down and turned on his chair to look out the window. He regretted sending his own son in to a dangerous situation, but this was his last chance to redeem NERV.
Adam was sat on the shoulder of his respective Evangelion, dressed in his own Neural Suit, which was blue like he asked for. He watched as preparation staff hurried to send the Human Eva into the abyss. The crane was ready and he was ready, but the Eva needed some prep time to get used to it's pilot, there was a chance that his Eva would reject him, even though all tests with it's battle system all came up positive. It was time to get moving. He entered the Pilot Pod of the Human Eva and sat at the controls. He breathed deeply as the red N.C.F filled the pod. It took some getting used to, but he was now comfortable in the N.C.F.
"Okay Adam, this is the operation plan." Hikaru was very excited about this operation. This was her first operation that didn't have the commander or the doctor looking over her shoulder, so she was very excited about it all. "Right, first we're going to lower you in by the means of a flex cable. When you reach the bottom, activate the night vision camera and your searchlight. After that, we're going to lower a weapon cache down, in it will be a rifle, four magazines and a new weapon called the Anti-Field bomb. Don't worry about details about that now. Also there will be a couple of Eva-scale handguns in it. Right now, time to begin the operation."
The crane hooked on to the back of the Human Eva and lifted it into the air. It swayed a bit as he was lifted over the hole. It started lowering down into the hole and swayed a bit more, scraping the side of the hole.
"Watch it will ya?" asked Adam over the comm. link.
It finally reached the bottom after ten minutes. The hole was deep and very dark. Adam decided it was about time he activated his camera and his searchlight. "That's better." he said to himself as the light lit up the cavern. The cache lowered down next to him. He walked over to it and opened it. He pulled out the rifle and a couple of magazines. He started walking into the tunnels with the rifle loaded and ready. He walked for about half an hour, and then he started hearing noises. Noises that sounded like crawling, really fast crawling, like it was done with a multitude of legs. It came from behind the Eva. Adam swung round and aimed his rifle at nothing; it was gone. He sighed in relief, but still couldn't think calm until be found out what that noise was.
"Hmm. This is strange." Adam said to himself. He was in some sort of cavern room. The rocks around him were oddly shaped, a bit like buildings, wreaked ones, but still buildings. He continued walking, when he stepped on something that sounded like metal been crushed. He got closer to it for a closer look. A car? Yes, it was a car. But why was it here in an underground cavern? He took a closer look at the rocks. They were buildings! Where was he? His train of thought was interrupted as he was thrown across the ground by something hitting him from behind. He pushed himself up and looked behind. "What the-!?!" It was a giant creature that looked like an Oo-mukade. Except the skin was red and a red orb sat upon its head. It gnashed its mandibles together at lunched itself and the Eva. Adam reacted by jumping out off the way and rolling into a building. The creature smashed its face on the ground and reared itself back in pain. Adam saw the opportunity and opened fire, however the bullets were rebounded by a red barrier.
"Did you see that?" Hikaru was looking with amazement at the battle that was being shown by the night vision camera.
"So, that's the 3rd Devil?" came a voice behind her. The lieutenant swung round to see the blonde haired doctor, Toragotchi. "What are you doing here? And did you say the 3rd?" The doctor just walked up to the control board and turned to the brunette lieutenant. "I'm just here to see how things are going, that's all. You're still in charge around here." She turned back to the screen showing the battle. Adam had emptied his first magazine, and was loading another, as the Devil got closer.
Adam knew this was a Devil and he needed a way of neutralizing its D-Field. The Anti-Field bomb! He headed back down the tunnel and came to where the weapon cache was located. He opened it and pulled out the bomb, it looked like a canister with a push handle on the top of it. The bomb had a ten second timer on it, but the Devil was quite fast and would probably escape the blast radius before it blew. He had an idea. He ran back to find the Devil, but it found him instead. It crashed right through the wall and tried to grab him with its pair of mandibles. The Eva grabbed the mandibles with its hand and dropped the bomb in doing so. It stood up with the handle facing up. This gave Adam an idea. He was slowly losing his grip of the situation so he placed one of the Eva's feet on the handle and pushed it down. The timer started from:
Ten. He was losing his grip.
Nine, Eight, Seven. The mandibles slipped.
Six, Five, Four. He picked up the bomb and grabbed hold of the Devil.
Three, Two, One. He stuffed into the Devils mouth.
The bomb went off, releasing a blue barrier wave everywhere. The Devil cringed and screeched loudly in pain. Then all of a sudden it exploded into a red liquid, which was water-like in appearance. Adam gave a deep sigh of relief and sat back in the chair.
"Hikaru? Pull me out of here please?"
