He was in a police station, that much he knew for sure. How he got there and why he was there he wasn't really sure of. Actually that wasn't entirely true he had a vague idea on why he was there. He was pretty sure it had to do with the crazy guy coming off of a high and wanted another hit.

As Alex was taking in all of this he suddenly found himself in a hall out side the guys cell as he was trying to break out. Alex just stood there confident that he wouldn't be able to get free so he spaced out for a few minutes. He came out of it to find that the guy had indeed succeeded in breaking out of the cell and had gotten a hold of a switchblade. Suddenly he was charging Alex with a berserk's rage. (I'm not talking about a unit-01 berserk but the Middle Ages kind where they stripped down to nothing and fought.) Not thinking clearly Alex did the only thing that came to his mind, he ran.

Unfortunately it wasn't fast enough as the deranged lunatic caught and tackled Alex which made him realize why he was here. He was this guy's dealer and he had forgot to pay so Alex called the cops and had him arrested for dealing. As the guy pinned him down he brought the switch to Alex's throat. At that instant two officers burst in stopping him for a moment, as they ordered him to put the knife down a small grin appeared on his lips and made one last motion before three shots ran out and he fell down dead.

Alex of course felt all of this the pinning, the cold metal at his throat, the skin pull apart as the razor sharp blade cut him across the throat, then the coolness of his blood as it ran down his throat to the ground. Then as the world started to go black he felt the cut with his hand, noting how interesting it felt to touch the inside of his throat with his hand.

Chapter 3: A Sickly Sensation / Beginning the Project

Alex took a deep breath as he awoke with a start. The first thing he did was put his hand to his throat to check and see if there was a large gash, luckily there wasn't. "Whoa, that was a little spooky," he said as he go out of bed and looked at his clock, it read 5:43 am, it was Saturday morning and he was wide awake. Since he was wide-awake he went to get what every man who is wide-awake at that time, food.

Alex slammed a can of coke before he walked out of his room and let go a huge belch. He then headed down to the cafeteria only to find it was closed at the time and wouldn't open till about 9:00am so Alex returned to his room and decides to catch the morning news.

"In local news, a man was killed yesterday as a deranged drug dealer slit his throat after he broke out of his jail cell. The police where force to shot and kill this man," the news anchor said. "And in other news…" That was all that Alex had heard before running to the bathroom to have last nights dinner visit him again. He was in the process of trying to bring up lunch when Shinji walked in to take a shower.

"Sounds like someone had a good time last night," Shinji said to himself as he continued to the shower as the person in the stall heaved again.

"Yea but I didn't sleep to well," Alex said with his head still over the toilet. "Bad dreams

"Alex? What's wrong?" Shinji asked coming over to the stall where Alex is now done vomiting. He helped Alex to his feet and handing him a paper cup, which he used to rinse out his mouth. "Must have been one nasty dream to cause you bring yesterday's dinner and lunch back. Unless the food taste better on the way up rather than down," Shinji said trying to lighten the situation

"Ever experience death first hand?" Alex asked leaning against a wall. "I mean have you ever died?"

"No can't say that I have otherwise I wouldn't be here right now," Shinji said not trying to hide his confusion. "What brought on that question?"

"The reason I was calling up my past lunch and dinner," Alex said then proceeded to describe in great detail his dream. As he described it, it looked like Shinji was about to throw up himself. "And that's what happened. I could probably go to the police and tell them exactly what happened in fine detail but that would be dangerous and I don't see a need for it."

"Do you know what happened? I mean how you where able to experience that," Shinji asked. He already knew the answer though but how was Alex able to do that.

"From time to time when I sleep my 'powers' spike to extremely high and most of the time I enter someone's mind and see things though their eyes" Alex said. "It happens very rarely but when it does all I usually see is what they are dreaming I've never entered an awake persons mind before, it's a bit disorienting. But now it's all in the past so I don't have to worry about it, so I'm going to go see if I can sleep a bit more. Besides you need to shower and get ready or you'll be lat meeting Toji and Kensuke. G'night."

With that Alex walked out of the bathroom and back to his room where he promptly check his email and look up one of the professor's at the university phone number just as he was about to will his computer to dial it he sensed that Shinji was about to knock on his door to see if he was really alright.

"Just go away Ikari," He shouted loud enough for the person on the other side to hear. "I fine really"

"Are you sure," came the muffled replay.

"Very, now you better leave or I'm gonna come out there and kick your ass," Alex replied slightly annoyed.

Alex barely heard Shinji say sorry before he left to meet his friends. After he was sure Shinji was gone he went to take a shower and get something to eat. After he was done it was about 11:30 so he decided that it was late enough to call the professor.

I just hope she's willing to help. After three rings a female voice picked up on the other end.

{Hello}

"Dr. Ibuki, my name is Alex Tucker and I am in need of you assistance in an experiment I'm doing"

After about 3 hrs of explaining Dr. Ibuki finally agreed to help out and they planned to meet at 3 pm that day.

Well that was easier than I thought. Now for the hard part, trying to obtain my program 'specs'. Alex played a quick game of Homeworld 4 before leaving to meet with Dr. Ibuki. As he left he had an uneasy feeling that there was someone evil was following him.

Well that's interesting a figure clad in a skintight black jumpsuit thought. If he thinks that he can get rid of the "gifts" we gave him he better think again. We still need him for a little job. I'll have to make sure that he does not resist

Fast-forward 3 weeks:

Classes where over for the week and Shinji was bored to say the least. No one was around to do anything, Alex had disappeared into the labs and Asuka, well Asuka seemed to be everywhere he wasn't. This really didn't bother Shinji to much as he had been pretty busy the last two weeks with exams. But now they where over and he was bored out of his mind. He was just about to start his homework when there was a knock on his door.

"It's open," he called loud enough for the person on the other side to hear. He looked up to see Alex's friend Angel standing in the door. At first Shinji was a little surprised then found himself struggling to talk because of the image that was in front of his eyes. She was fully clothed but what she was wearing could almost easily pass for a second skin. "Um, what can I do for you?" Shinji finaly said after taking in a good eye-full.

"I was wondering if you knew where Tucker was because he promised to go diving with me some time?" she asked.

"Well s far as I know he's been in the labs for the last three weeks," Shinji said. "I was gonna go see if I could drag him out of there and go do something after I finished this. Want to come?"

"Sure that way if we find him I can kick his telepathic ass," She said with an eye flash.

"You know about that?" Shinji asked with a touch of surprise

"Well yea, I did go to high school with him after all," Angel said matter of factly. "I'm surprised he told you about it. He usually doesn't like talking about it."

"Who knows, shall we?" Shinji said standing up.

"Sure, but first I'm going to go get changed" angel said. "Be back in a few minutes."

I've heard that before Shinji thought to himself turning to finish his homework.

About twenty minutes later Shinji and Angel were walking towards the labs making small talk. Shinji attempted to hit on her but wasn't very successful so Angel help him refine his technique a bit. On the way there they decided that they would drag Alex down to The Wall for a round of drinks (on him of course) and Shinji could practice hitting on women. When they reached the lab building they decided to check the labs that had been closed off for private research. After about ten more minutes they heard Pink Floyd's song The Trial from the album The Wall.

"I bet he's in here," Angel said standing on one side of the door. She tried to open the door only to find it was locked. "Shit now how are we supposed to get in there?"

"I think I can open it but you need to turn around and not peek," Shinji said taking out his wallet.

"Why? You gonna piss on it?" Angel said in teasing.

"Just turn around ok," Shinji said Opening his wallet and taking out a card with a familiar red half fig leaf. He swiped it through the reader and the door obediently opened. What it reviled Shinji could never be prepared for.

Inside was what looked like a remake of the dummy plug system minus the tank full of Rei. In the center of the room was a tube filled of what looked like LCL and inside covered only by strategically placed bars. Inside the tube was a one Alex Tucker floating with his eyes closed. Shinji and Angel just stood there and took in what the lab looked like. After about thirty seconds of looking Angel fainted. Then from seemingly everywhere they heard Alex's voice.

"Looks like we have visitors Dr. Ibuki," he said turning and looking at Shinji.

"Oh, hi Shinji how's it going. Haven't seen you in awhile," Dr. Maya Ibuki said from the control booth.

"Umm, hi," was all Shinji could say before joining Angel on the floor.

To be continued…

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Now for the Authors babbling.

Well took me long enough. I'm going to try and write more often but it might be hard as I'm now back at school. I think there is only going to be two more chapters' of this then I'll start a new one so stay tuned. Please Review I really need the feedback, as this is the first fan fic I've stuck with.

Oh yea some other stuff I forgot at the beginning of the chapter.

I DON'T OWN THIS SO I'M NOT MAKING MONEY FROM THIS.

That's it for now. Back to "studies" (snicker).

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