THE FORGOTTEN HERO

Chapter 2

The Fifth Child

Disclaimer: I do not own NGE or any of it's contents, however I do own the following characters: Tiro, Sunday, Sil, Eva Unit 05, and any other origional character in the story. Please do not steal any of my characters. Thank you. That being said, let's get on with the story.

NOTE: The writing in Italics represents speech in English

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"How are we doing so far?" says a voice.

"Don't worry Tiro, we're almost done," replies a female voice on a microphone, "We've almost reached the sync barrier. Just a bit more," a few seconds pass, inside what seems to be an entry plug there is a young man wearing a black eva suit. He has dark brown hair about an inch long with one bang hanging in front of his face, and eyes of hazel color. On his suit, lay the numbers 05. He is inside of a very odd looking Evangelion. It is Evangelion unit five, customized to be better, faster, and stronger than all of the other units. One of its features is two retractable swords on its arms, instead of the progressive knives, and two boosters on it's back, to make it run up to ten times faster than a normal eva. Not to mention that it is all black. "Just a bit more... What the hell! The nerve receptors are going in total reverse! Get him the hell out of there!" The eva started to move on it's own. It ripped the restraints off of it and started a rampage.

"Aunt Sil, what's going on out there?" Tiro yelled with a panic.

"Eject the plug, now!" Sil yelled with a look of terror on her face. The chamber opened and the entry plug was thrown out to the back of the room. At that moment, eva unit five's hand broke through the glass, and grabbed Sil. Tiro kicked open the hatch to the plug and ran out to find unit five holding his loving aunt, like it was about to crush her. All he could do was watch helplessly. Then, with her last breath, she said what she could get out of herself, "Tiro!"

"No!" Tiro screamed with horror.

Tiro then found himself in a dark empty room. It took a second for his eyes to adjust to the darkness. The room was empty except for a bed and a few moving boxes, stacked by the door. An old Somali cat then jumped on the bed. He then was relieved to find that it was just a nightmare, relieved to find that he was home, for the last time.

He then got up and walked into the kitchen. He was dressed in all black with a black trench coat and steel toe boots, which was his usual wardrobe. It was relatively quiet, which was unusual. So he started to make breakfast. While this was happening, the phone rang. He was so preoccupied with making breakfast, that he just let's the answering machine take care of it. "Hi, this is Sil and Tiro. We can't get to the phone right now so just leave a message after the tone. –Beep-."

"Tiro!" The voice of Sil roared, "Where are you? You're late mister! Don't you know that we are moving today? Get over here now!" Tiro then looked at the time, turned off the stove, and ran to the door. "Oh yeah, if you want that damn cat, take her with you. Take the bus so your hurry doesn't hurt her." Tiro went back to grab his cat Hidey. He put her in her carrying case and ran out the door with it.

((NERV Relay Hangar))

As he walked into the base, he noticed Sil standing next to eva unit five. "Aunt Sil." He called.

She walked over to him. "You're late!" she pointed to her watch.

"I'm sorry Aunt Sil, I overslept."

"I told you to set your alarm clock to go off at 6:30. It's 7:30!"

"Well my alarm clock is in the moving boxes."

"Well I guess it's not your fault then."

"All I know is that it shouldn't be."

"I see that you have a unique outlook on things. You probably got it from your father." Sil was a woman in her forty's, but easily mistaken for being in her early thirty's. She had light brown hair that went to the bottom of her neck, but usually pulled into a slight pony tail with strands of hair falling forward. She had blue eyes even though it is hard to see the color with her glasses on.

Right at that moment an air carrier landed, and entered the hanger. Three people descended from it and walked over to Sil and Tiro. Two females and one male. One of the females had long blue hair and looked in her late twenties. The other with short blonde hair, in her early thirties. The male had long black hair in a ponytail, in his early thirties. As they approached he knew right away that they were the ones who came to pick them up. Tiro then greeted them, "Good morning. I assume that you are the ones who came for unit five."

"That's correct." Said the one with the blue hair, "Allow me to introduce myself, I am Misato Katsuragi, the operations director for NERV. This is our head technician, Ritsuko Akagi. And this is--."

The black haired man interrupts her, "Kaji, Kaji Ryoji. Honor to meet you." He kneels down and kisses Sil's hand.

She struggles to get her hand back, "Charmed, what exactly do you do Mr. Ryoji?"

"Well I'm the NERV special inspector."

"Interesting, well let us introduce our selves then we can get underway. I am Mylisa Meier, and this is my nephew Tiro."

Misato looks at Tiro, "So you're the fifth child, am I correct?"

Tiro nods, "That's right. And I am also the one who suggested the customizations."

She looks up at unit five, "So that's unit five? It looks different than all of the other evas."

"Yes," said Tiro, "As you can see, the progressive knife have been replaced with two retractable swords on the arms, and it has a higher battery capacity than all of the others, that of five minutes at maximum power, and ten minutes at minimum. It also can run twice as fast as the ones you have, ten times if you activate the boosters on it's back."

"Wow, sounds like something you would see in a Video game." Stated Kaji.

Ritsuko walks up and says, "Okay, eva unit five is all loaded, we're ready for take off."

"That was fast." Commented Misato.

"Alright, let's get underway!" Sil said with enthusiasm.

Tiro picked up his carrying case. Misato, wondering what it was, asked while they were walking onto the air carrier, "Tiro, what's in there?"

"Oh, this? This is my cat Hidey. She was my father's cat."

"What happened to your father?"

"Dead. He was in Antarctica the day of second impact."

"I'm sorry to hear that." She said hesitantly. Changing the subject, she quickly said, "I have a roommate in Tokyo 3, his name is Shinji Ikari, he is about your age. I think you two could become quite friends."

Tiro was suddenly speechless. He didn't ever have any friends. Except at Nerv2 in the Nevada Desert. There was this one girl who showed him what friendship was.

"Is something wrong?" Misato was waiting for a response.

"No, nothing at all. It's just that, I don't have that many friends."

"Well lets see if we can change that." She smiled. All he could do was smile back.

Kaji decided to intervien, "I'd hate to Interupt, but shouldn't we be going by now?"

"Your right, let's go." As they walked to the airship, Tiro looked back at the base one last time, sighed, then boarded the ship.

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Well that was Chapter 2 for you, please Review after Reading, Chapter 3 should also be up, so you can read that, while I write Chapter 4.