3. Duel

Yoji sat once again in the briefing room with Shougo and Kazuo, he was exhausted from fighting the Eva series, "You did amazingly well Yoji! We never thought you would be able defeat all nine units at once!" Shougo smiled as he talked, Yoji smirked but then he stood up quickly, "You thought that they would kill me?! What the hell is this?!" he said as he grew temperamental with his glare locked on the relaxed scientist, "They were under our control, there was no chance that your life was at risk, just relax." replied Shougo as he placed his hands on the back of his head and lent back on his chair.

"Don't worry Yoji, all you need to know is that you did well, wait outside, Shougo will show you to your room in a minute." Kazuo said as he raised from his chair, Yoji shrugged his shoulders in frustration and then he left the room, he crossed his arms and lent on the wall, he saw Kazuo as a smart person but was a bit to smart, "Yoji is a perfect Eva pilot." Kazuo said as he looked over his shoulder at Shougo, "He's nothing compared to what the eighth child is supposed to be like, Mike Docker, the eighth child, apparently he has an attitude problem." Shougo said, Shougo was a bit weird and very quite, he got up and walked out of the room.

Yoji looked up as Shougo walked out of the door, "Took your time?!" he said as he got off the wall, the two of them walked down the corridor not uttering a word to each other, they reached a corridor with lots of rooms down it, they stopped at one of these rooms as Yoji stepped in it was a small apartment, "Why do you need me so much?" Yoji said as he stood in the dark room, Shougo replied, "Mankind is a selfish race, only thinking for its self, that is what we are doing, using you to save ourselves, try to get some sleep, big day tomorrow.", the automatic door slid shut.

Yoji was woken by a knock at the door, "Who is it?" he shouted, a voice replied, "Your new Eva friend.", Yoji got to his feet and got changed, he pushed a green button unlocking the door, he was met by a kid with spiky blond hair, "I'm Mike, the eighth child." he introduced himself with a British accent, "Get your flight suit, I wanna train with you." he continued, Yoji grabbed a bag and followed him, "So your an Eva pilot?" Yoji, asked, "Of course, I trained in England but I was born in this base." Mike replied.

"So why do you pilot Eva?" Yoji asked, "Because of the chaos it causes, it is pure power in my hands, I can defeat anything." Mike replied, "So you pilot it to take life? Your crazy!", "It is better to show yourself than to hide behind pitiful excuses, why do you pilot Eva then?" Mike asked, "Why do I pilot it? Its clear to anyone, what fourteen year old wouldn't want to pilot it, it's so cool, and also the fact that I'm the best at it!" Yoji replied.

Mike smiled, "So you're the best huh? I bet you haven't even battled yet!" Yoji frowned "Yeah right loser! I beat all nine of the Eva series at once, and that was my first go!", Mike smiled again "I beat simulations of ten angels from genesis!", they reached Shougo's room and knocked on the door, Shougo stood there as the door slid back, he looked scruffy as usual, "Ah Mike, I see you two have already met." He said as the corridor light hit his eyes, "We want to train, set up the Eva's for hand to hand combat." Mike said with a serious look on his face, "Its a bit early isn't it, fine I'll see what I can do, suit up and go to your Eva's I'll have them set by then." the door shut and the two Eva pilots went to the changing rooms still bickering over who was the best.

The two pilots had suited up, Yoji was surprised to see Mike in a green flight suit, "You ready, and hey I'll race ya to the Eva's!" Mike said, Mike wanted everything to be a challenge, but Yoji always wanted to be best and both were hot headed, "Let's go!" Yoji said as he started his sprint down the corridors.

They arrived at their Eva's; Yoji looked up to see a giant green beast stood next to his Eva, "Is that your Eva? Why is it green and white and why does it have three eye's?" Yoji asked as he continued to stare, "None of the Eva's are exactly the same, there are individuals like you and me, and like you and me they also have a soul." Mike replied, Yoji looked back at his own Eva, "Hey, the armour on my Eva's head has changed!" he said as he looked at the changes on his Eva, They both entered the entry plugs and synced with they Eva's.

"The Eva's will be launched through an elevator at high speed, once they've reached the surface battle will commence immediately, Eva's will launch in five...four...three...two..." Shougo spoke from the control room mic, "One! Evangelion units 14 and 15 launch!" the two Eva's shot up through the ground at high speed.

"Mike you already know this but when you do any more missions you will use what's called an umbilical cord that's plugged into the back of your Eva, it will supply power to your Eva, Yoji you didn't use this because you were using standard reserve power which lasts for five minutes, if your umbilical cord is disconnected then you will automatically shift to an emergency reserve power of five minutes." Shougo continued to explain the Eva to Yoji.

"Shougo, why has the armour on my Eva's head changed?" Yoji said as the Eva's continued their ascent, "Well you know that Eva unit-01 broke loose, and that Adam has some how returned, but both of these have the same features and both are classed as dangerous, so we changed unit-14 so that they don't attack you accidentally, it does look better doesn't it?" Shougo finished talking, "Finally, didn't need a big story, laid back hippie." Yoji said to himself.

The Eva's reached the surface, it was the same rocky area from before, the blood from the Eva series was still covering the area, large puddles of congealing crimson gleamed in the light of the rising sun, "Seems you made quite a mess here, to bad that it wont happen again, I'm gonna bust up that Eva of yours!" Mike said as his Eva took a step forward and went into a stance, "We'll see!" Yoji said as his Eva did the same.

The two metal beasts ran full speed at each other, Mike struck the first blow punching Yoji's face, he threw another punch but Yoji recovered well and grabbed Mike's arm, he pulled on Mike's and tripped him also pushing his face into the ground, the green Eva thudded face first into the rocky ground smashing it with ease.

"Told ya I was the best!" Yoji said as he sat in his shiny red Eva, the fallen green Eva kicked unit-14 knocking it back, and giving itself chance to get up, "Don't get cocky, I just went easy on ya but not anymore!", the two Eva's locked hands neither of them showing signs of weakness, then unit- 15 kicked its red foe sending over onto its back, the two Eva's fought with heavy hanging movements as the original Eva's did.

A screen popped up out of nothing in the Eva entry plugs, Shougo was on it, there were alarms and red lights flashing behind him, "You two, we have a situation, we've picked up five aerial objects heading this way, confirmed that they are not J.S.D. air craft, be prepared for anything!" Shougo was panicked as he spoke from the speaker, "What have got to attack with?! No progressive knifes?!" Mike said as he readied his Eva, "We will be sending out a proto-type weapon in three minutes, until then do what you can!" Shougo said as the speaker cut out, "I'm good, what's the matter not good enough to handle it?" Yoji said as he also readied his Eva.

Mike panicked as a dark shadow swooped down behind Yoji, "Look out!" he said as the beast knocked Yoji to the ground, the creature stood above unit- 14, it was bird like yet resembled the shape of a human, it stood up right, with four human arms with sharp claws on the end of their fingers, they had long beaked faces with red eye's, six wings spread out in the sun light casting their shadow over Yoji, its legs were that of a birds with bright yellow clawed talons, its body was completely covered in brown and black feathers that reflected the sunlight.

"The enemy has been identified, code: green! They are class 2 Sirens! They are very strong and only attack in small numbers! But they don't have A.T. fields!" Kazuo shouted, the siren screamed, the high frequency noise temporarily disrupted the monitors in unit-14.

Yoji rolled his Eva over and got it to its feet, the siren swept at Yoji but missed, "Their fast!" he said as he grabbed its arm, the red Eva punched into the sirens stomach, red blood poured as the fist entered it, it let out another screech as it dropped to the floor.

A missile hit the ground near Mike, the hatch on it burst off revealing a silver container, the green Eva opened this case to find a large rifle like gun, "Hey look at this! I get the first go on the new weapon! Um...Shougo, what the hell is it?!" Mike said as he examined the gun, "It's a fifteen shot scatter gun; it's basically a pump-action shotgun, so use it like one." Shougo replied, four more sirens could be seen closing in, Yoji watched as unit-15 rested the butt of the weapon in its shoulder and taking aim.

Mike fired a shot at the closest siren blowing one of its wings off and sending it plummeting to the ground in front of him, the rest of the sirens split up, the injured bird like creature lie on its back still very alive, Mike took aim on it and fired tearing a ragged hole straight through its chest, "This rocks, too bad you don't get a go, eh?" Mike said with a smirk, Yoji replied "I don't need weapons!"

Another siren flew at Yoji and with its claws grabbed on to his chest, another from behind stabbing into his arm with the claws on its feet, LCL blood sprayed from the wounds and Yoji screamed in pain as he felt their grip strengthen, Mike fired at the one latched onto his chest knocking it to the ground in a flail of blood and bone, the siren on unit-14's arm began to flap its wings ripping the arm from the Eva, blood poured from the socket, Yoji clenched his arm as he tried to brave the over whelming pain, Mike fired again hitting the siren in the head causing it to explode.

Yoji looked up to see the green Eva holding the smoking gun, but there was another siren flying quietly at it with its claws ready, "I won't let anybody die again!" Yoji shouted as he filled with rage, unit-14's eyes went bright white and the armour on its face cracked revealing gums and human like teeth, the red Eva roared an unnatural cry of pure rage as it ran full pace at the siren, the Eva grabbed the face of the oncoming siren, it squeezed its head until it dropped to the floor, the Eva continued to squeeze, the sirens beak cracked and its body became lifeless as its head was crushed releasing claret.

The raging Eva roared again and began ripping the dead siren apart, sending intestines and organs all over the place, the red Eva ripped off the lifeless sirens wings sending blood pouring over the rocky ground, the red Eva raised from its crouch and stood there with its arm missing and covered in blood, the sun was high, "Hey are you ok?!" Mike said as he looked at the calm yet blood covered Eva.

The red Eva ran full speed at Mike, "What the hell?!" he shouted as the red Eva shoulder barged into the green Eva, Mike was knocked to the ground, "Yoji what the hell are you doing?! Wanna finish the duel eh? Bring it on!" he said as he got to his feet, the red Eva grabbed the face of the green one squeezing tightly.

"Aaaah! Jesus Christ Yoji! Stop its just training!" Mike shouted as the pressure on his face increased, "Mike, Yoji is no longer in control! The Eva is going berserker! Try to hold it of for a second while we initiate a stun programme!" Shougo shouted the screen popped up once more, the green Eva punched the berserker in the face which made it release its grip, the insane red beast grabbed the throat of the Mike's Eva.

Suddenly electricity surrounded the red Eva but also stunned Mike's Eva, both of the Eva dropped lifelessly to the floor.