I don't own Eva and I have no money so don't try and sue.

Quick recap: Shinji is in college; he meets a new friend who is a telepath, said telepath tries to turn off the telepathy and is turn bad by the organization that created him, now telepath has plans to harm the main Eva characters.

Sorry about the space between updates. If you've been following the story and have reviewed welcome back and thanks, if you been following the story and haven't reviewed welcome back and please review, if you're a new reader welcome and please review.

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Chapter 6: The Setup / Psi-ked up

It was dark where Alex was. Never before had he been so deep in his subconscious. Contained in the trap he put himself in he could see what was going on and what he planned to do but couldn't do anything to stop it. He watched on as Alex returned to their lab to make preparations for the following day. Alex could tell that he planned to let Dr. Ibuki go knowing full well she would return tomorrow to try and stop him from doing whatever he was going to do. He could only be a helpless viewer until he was able to regain control.

"Good morning doctor did you sleep well? Well no matter I've decided to let you go. I've got new toys coming tomorrow," Alex said as the bindings holding the sluggish doctor up opened and Maya fell to the floor in a heap completely exhausted. "Now I want you to go home and tell no one of what has happened here, and don't try to hide it from me because I will know if you speak of it and if you do then I can't grantee you safety. Now go, run along to your family and just forget all of this ok."

With that Maya watched Alex as she got up and staggered out of the lab and down the road. As she walked away she was knocked down by an unseen force, as if kick in the small of the back. When she arrived back home she found that her husband had left to visit an old high school friend that was in town and wouldn't be back till Monday. She went to her room and collapsed onto her bed completely exhausted and didn't wake up till her alarm went off at 10 am. Still feeling like shit but feeling much better than she did yesterday she left her house to try and stop Alex from hurting anyone by talking some sense into him or if need be by force. Even though she was one of the last people on earth to resort to violence she had decided already that she would do whatever it took to stop him even if it meant killing him before he could hurt, or even kill, some one.

10 am the next morning…

Hikari and the two other "stooges" arrived at the lab at ten sharp that morning thanks to much pushing from Toji's girlfriend. They knocked on the door and waited for Alex to answer it.

"Now why are we doing this again," asked Kensuke. "I mean does Shinji really deserve to have the 'Demon' latched on to him again. I mean he's already done his time in Purgatory!"

"What was that stooge? Just who is a 'Demon'?" asked Asuka in her most threatening voice as she was walking down the hall.

"You are and you know it! Eeep!" Kensuke said as he started to run away but everyone stopped as the door opened and Alex stood in the door.

"Hi everyone, you're early Asuka," Alex said said standing in the door still dressed completely in black. As Asuka began to speak he raised his hand to silence here and continued. "It is of no matter in fact it makes things easier. Now please step into my parlor."

A little uneasy the group of four followed Alex into the lab, once inside they all knew something was just not right. Besides the lab being completely dark Alex had disappeared and as soon as Asuka walked through the door it slammed closed and locked. For the first few seconds a small wave of panic washed through them before they got themselves oriented.

"Ha ha Alex very funny now turn on the lights," Asuka yelled into the darkness. When the lights didn't come on right away it didn't help the already uneasy feelings of the four young adults. "Enough kidding around Alex Turn on the lights."

"No," was all that a voice from all around them said.

"Well that's it, I'm leaving," Kensuke said and began to grope around in the darkness till he grabbed something that was round, firm, and covered in cloth. I'm a dead man.

"Kensuke would please remove your hand from my right breast or I will be forced to remove your hand from your body," Asuka said in a very calm voice.

"Sorry I was trying to find the door," Kensuke said jumping back to avoid any strikes that might come at him. After making sure he wasn't going to be assaulted he continued his search for the door and found it after a few minute. "I found it. Over here guys," Kensuke said and after a few minutes of a very tense game of 'Marco Polo' everyone had gathered around the door. Putting all of their weight into trying to open it they quickly realized that the door was going to stay locked for a bit. Suddenly the lights in the lab came on blinding them for a few moments until their eyes adjusted, once their eyes had adjusted the site that greeted them looked more like a medieval dungeon rather than a college lab.

"This doesn't look like any college lab I've seen what about you guys?" Toji asked taking a moment to look around then trying to turn and give the door another try he found his legs paralyzed. Looking around him he saw that everyone else was experiencing the same thing.

"Once again welcome to my parlor everyone," Alex's voice sounded from all around them but he was nowhere to be seen. "I do hope you all enjoy yourselves I know I will because I just love when company comes to visit, but this arrangement wont do at all."

Back at the dorms….

There was a knock on Shinji's door about ten seconds before his alarm went off. So he climbed out of his bed and noticed two things right off the bat; the first was that Asuka seemed to have left, and the second thing was that the person at the door wasn't very patient as they continued to pound on the door.So Shinji answered it and just barley avoided being clubbed by the fist coming down to pound on the door yet again.

"Well it's about time," said the red head on the other side of the door. "You could've probably slept through an N2 mine detonating over you."

"You're Maria, right," a still groggy Shinji managed to say, "What can I help you with?"

"Well I was looking for Alex but he seems to have disappeared do you know where he is?"

"Last I knew he was hiding in lab 10 on campus. I thought he would have told you?"

"Yea, well he likes to keep his secrets doesn't he?" Maria said. "Shall we go drag him out for the day?"

"Well I was going to hang out with so friends today but apparently they're helping Alex with something at the lab so I'm meeting them there. But if you give me about 15 minutes I can walk with you down there and get him out of the lab but after that you're on your own," Shinji said. "Give me fifteen min to shower and get ready hen we'll go."

"Ok, I'll be back in a bit," Maria said and headed off to her room.

Fifteen minutes later Shinji was showered and ready to spend the day with his friends. He was exiting his room and noticed Maria was already waiting for him. As he got closer he noticed just what she was wearing. At first glance she appeared to be wearing a modified plug suit. (Think of the suits they wore in Bubblegum Crisis: 2040 only black and gray and that would be about right)

"Umm…Maria…Umm," Shinji said unable to speak or look elsewhere.

"Men," she muttered as she walked out the door, her hips and shoulder length hair swaying slightly

Shinji on the other hand just stood and stared in awe. Almost as good as Asuka, he thought.

"You going to join me or just stare all day?" Maria asked and Shinji snapped out of it and quickly caught up to her. As they made the trek across the seemingly deserted campus they made small talk and discussed what Alex was doing in the lab. Most of it came as a shock to Maria who didn't understand why Alex would want to stop being a telepath. Shinji did his best to explain how having a special talent can bring all sorts of attention even if you don't want it. In the end Maria still didn't understand but said, "It's his life and if he wants to give up something that cool then who am I to stop him."

After the ten-minute walk to the lab the reached to door with the number ten on it. Shinji moved to open the door and go in but Maria stopped him, "Wait a sec Shinji, something doesn't feel right."

"What are you a psychic or something," Shinji smirked.

"No but think about it. There isn't any other activity in the other labs and I don't hear anything coming from the lab," Maria said looking a bit worried.

"Well it is the weekend so that would account for the inactivity, and as for the sound maybe he's taking a break for a bit," Shinji shrugged. "But we wont know till we go in now will we," and with that Shinji opened the lab's door and found complete darkness on the other side.

"See I told you something was wrong," Maria said from behind Shinji.

"Alex are you in here?" Shinji yelled into the darkness.

"Yea," said a voice from the inside.

"What happened, are you all right?" Shinji asked still not entering

"Yea blew a power circuit is all you can come in I'll have it fixed in just a second," Alex said from somewhere in the darkness.

Shinji and Maria stepped in the darkness and the door behind them disappeared, as it slammed shut placing them in total darkness. Maria grabbed Shinji's arm forgetting what she was wearing, which caused Shinji to blush, not that Maria saw it in the complete darkness. After a couple of seconds a small circle of light appeared reveling a single chair and a bare floor. Not particularly comfortable in the dark Shinji started to move towards it though Maria seem to think it wasn't such a good idea as she started to grip Shinji's arm tighter. A step away from the column of light Shinji felt a small breeze hit him and the pressure on his arm went away, then with one last hesitant step Shinji step into the column of light alone.

"Maria? Maria where are you?" Shinji asked spinning around hoping to find that she had just paused slightly. His answer seemed to come in the form of a loud metal clang that echo in a way that made Shinji relize this room was larger than he thought. "Alex what's going on here? What ever joke you are trying to pull it's not funny!"

"No, no jokes I'm afraid," Alex said stepping into the light opposite of Shinji and for the first time Shinji saw his eyes since his change. AS he spoke his next words the white of his eyes seemed to glow with a bright white light. "No, I'm afraid that this is serious…deadly serious."

Shinji only saw the blinding white light coming from Alex's eye then his world was full of darkness.

To Be Concluded...

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Damnit I didn't want to leave it there but I just couldn't finish the story in this chapter. The next chapter won't be very though as it pretty much is a fight scene and wrap up. Haven't decided if people will die yet but prolly not, at least none of the main eva characters.

Also if someone wants to write an omake for any chapter in this story I'll accept any but one has to do with sexual relation between same sex characters. Maybe I'll think of one later but not now I'm spent.

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