I apologies for the lateness of this chapter, partially because I had to re-install my OS, twice (yes my PC hates me) and I've been waaaay too lazy. (slap me)
But enough of my excuses... on with the chapter!
Oh yeah, a thanks to ST Pika for the pre-read
Disclaimer: You know I can't afford Evangelion, so I'll say no more
Chapter 3: Waking Up, part 1
Misato groggily awoke in the hospital waiting room. It had been a long night and she was anxious to find out how her charges were doing. She walked sleepily towards the hospital lift, realizing when she got to it that it had already left. "Damn" she thought to herself. With that she headed for the stairs.
As she got to the top of the intended flight the elevator 'pinged' and she saw who was in it.
"Ritsuko, where the heck were you?"
"I came in about ½ an hour a go, to check on the pilots, I do wish for their well being too, you know" She stated bluntly
"Oh, right... well, how are they?" Misato replied cautiously
"As far as we can tell, they're ok, in a comatose state, but there's something weird about it." Ritsuko said.
"What do you mean 'weird'?"
"Well, they are showing the usual signs of comatose patients, but their brain patterns seem virtually the same, with only slight variations every now and then"
"What are you saying exactly? That they're... they're... well?"
"I'm saying that they are probably in complete awareness of each other, and nothing else" With that the doctor walked off towards the 'optical' department of the hospital, as she passed underneath the 'lift' sign, it dropped and hit her square on the forehead. Without turning round, she got up and muttered to herself as a chuckling Katsuragi observed her
"It's not my day today..." she mumbled
"Sure right there Rits," Misato said to herself
"What was that Major?"
"Oh! Nothing... heh,"
Meanwhile, back in a rather, well... white place...
"What exactly do you mean by 'again'?" Asuka asked cautiously
"That's easy, every time either of you defeated an angel, you saved the world!" Zef replied
"Oh..." Asuka looked blank "that wasn't expected"
"Why exactly?" Shinji piped up
"well baka, doesn't it seem rather simple to you?"
"Simple but logical"
"Ah! Mein gott! Try supporting me sometime!"
"Sorry"
"And stop apologizing damn you!"
"Sor... uh... ok then"
"Good"
Asuka turned back to Zef, who seemed to be getting distracted through the whole situation.
"So, what do you want us for then? She half-shouted, Zef seemed to come out of his 'own little world' and looked at her
"Ah yes, where were we?"
Asuka gave him a death glare
"Oh yeah... It sort of goes something like this, I was up in heaven, watering the plants, minding my own business, when I get a letter from the big guy upstairs..."
"Wait! You mean God?" Shinji interrupted
"No, I mean the Tooth fairy!" he replied sarcastically "So I get this letter and it says that a certain fallen angel was playing with earth again..."
"Playing! Trying to destroy humanity, you mean!" Shinji shouted
Zef raised his voice louder
"And this letter told me to find humanities saviors and help them, so here I am"
"OK, but what I don't get is" Asuka started "that you choose to turn up now, I mean we've defeated most of them!"
"Ah! I was... delayed"
Flashback
Smoke was pouring out of his GT900 hatchback, After 200 million light years on the clock, it had given up the ghost.
"Goddamnit! I thought he'd fixed it!"
The car then exploded
"Alright, I'm sorry about that last one" he yelled at the sky "Please let me have it back, father forgive me!"
Nothing happened
"Oh well... guess I'll use reserve plan 5"
He pulls out a large plastic sign and holds it up, the words Tokyo-3 written on them in black marker.
"I hope this works" he said to himself.
End Flashback
"So, yeah, I was delayed" he repeated
"So, anyway... Aaargh!" Shinji began
"What's the matter Shinji!" Asuka ran to catch him
"It's like... something's pulling at my... mind"
"Oh crap" Zef said
"What's wro...Sheise!" she tried to speak but collapsed
"Oh bugger, they're separating you" he began
"What...d'ya...mean" Shinji grunted
"No time to explain, but the only way help you is to give you some power" Zef replied
"WELL DO IT THEN!!" He shouted back
"OK, OK!"
Zef concentrated and there was a large purple flash, both Shinji and Asuka disappeared
"God, there gonna get such a shock when they wake up"
"Oh yeah, I know, but they would have received the power anyway" said a disembodied voice
"Well, wish me luck" With that Zef phased out.
"So," the voice said to itself "anyone up for chess?"
"Maybe," said another
"As long as we play Star Trek rules" another shouted
"Well," the first said "Hard luck!"
If disembodied voices could fall on the floor anime style, they just would have.
End Chapter 3
A-ha! It's done, the third chapter, finally!
Well, as always please read and review (I suppose you have read it, as you are reading this)
And I'll try and make the wait for the next chapter a lot less; I guess I'm the only person to say I got inspiration from a building site on the Isle of Wight at 2:00AM. Don't ask me how it works, I don't know myself.
See you on the other side!
Nightwish001