----------------------------------------A Day After---------------------------------------------------

HOT KEYS...

VIVACE...

FROLIC...

STRINGS...

THANATOS...

"Hey Shinji! That's not the right way to play that part!" Asuka commented.

"You're playing the piano like you're playing this cello!" Asuka garbbed the cello and played an excerpt from Pachelbels's Canon."

"Now what?! Can you play the piano?!"

"But you know that I can only play the cello!"

"That's no excuse Shinji! Look at Rei, why can she manage to play her part?!"

"Hey Misato, how about me?! I can also play my part!"

"Oh yes, I can see it! But you've been playing the same part over and over and over again."

Asuka grins at Rei

"You can't play it, because you're not pouring your heart into it." Rei told Asuka in a cold manner

"Look who is talking?! The doll is actually talking! Wow! Maybe it would snow tomorrow!"

Silence

"Did I do anything wrong?!" Rei asked to herself

Silence

All Units Are Needed In The LCL Pool Now. Synchronization Will Start In 10 Min.

"You heard that?! Now move kids, or Captain will get mad again."

"He'll act like the last Angel again if he won't get what he wants." Misato said to herself

"I love to dive in the LCL pool! By the way Misato, what's about the pool yesterday?! I heard from Maya and Dr. Ritsuko that another dummy was found there!? What does that mean?"

"Oh, that?! It's nothing! It...uhm...what do you call that? Yuh, their jargon! Yes, that's right. I also don't know what that means. But it doesn't concern NERV. Hahahaha..."

"White lies again Misato... White lies..." secretly looking at the Chosen Children

"She's hiding something again!" Asuka to herself

"Aren't Shinji and Rei even bothered by the news?! Huh! A bunch of weird kids!" Asuka combs her hair and sighed

"Ikimashou!" (Let's go!) Misato stood up and got her jacket

"You should be undressed by now! Hayaku (faster), Dr. Ritsuko will get mad to you!"

...............................Near the Pool

"Another Angel will attack us..." Fuyutsuki muttered

"Why say so?!" Asked Dr. Ritsuko

"The pool was red yesterday. The dummy was reproducing again. Unconciously or not, it's going to start again. Why did you let the dummy live?" Asked Fuyutsuki to Ritsuko

"I destroyed the dummies... I'm going to destroy the last one... that's why we're going to her Home. That's why we're going to Rus..." Answered Ritsuko, but Misato and the Chosen Children are coming near, so she stopped.

"You're late again! Have you been lost again Misato?!" Ritsuko to Misato

"No! Of course not! Didn't you remember that we have our daily lessons?!"

"Remove all your clothing so you can now jump to the pool. Pool no. 0 is for Rei, pool no.1 is for Shinji, and pool no. 2 is for Rei." Fuyutsuki instructed

The Children jumped to their pool and waited for instructions.

"Ok now! Hajimemashou (Let's start). The Units are waiting." Ritsuko commanded

"Yuh, as if the Units have their own mind to think!" Asuka muttered sarcastically

"Watch your tongue Asuka. You're a doll too." Rei muttered to herself. Biting her lips, her blood flows to her breast

Synchronization starts. The Units are in harmony with their pilots. Suddenly the pressure of the LCL pool increased to its limit.

The emergency alarm sounded

Angel approaching the Central Dogma

"I can't breathe!" Asuka screams and struggles inside the pool. Faints...

"The Children! Ritsuko! What's happening?!"

Shinji faints after Asuka fainted. The people in the pool are in a panic. The pilots are locked in the pool.

The systems are all turned off

The pilots are dying

"Gendo! The pilots! What are we going to do?" Shouted Fuyutsuki.

"Calm down Fuyutsuki. It's just a drill." Captaim Gendo Ikari answered coldly

"But captain?! They're dying! They're not ready! Stop the drill" Misato pleaded

"But how would they learn?" Answered Gendo

"They'll also wake after a while. If not, they dont deserve to be a pilot." Gendo left the cockpit office.

"He's an Angel!!!" Misato muttered. She waited near the pool

"What a decision! He caught me there! But that's not good!" Fuyutsuki to Ritsuko

"Maybe he wants his pilots to die." Ritsuko answered

A moment of Silence

Misato and the others didn't noticed the change in Rei's pool

Rei didn't faint. She's waiting patiently for the others to wake up

"I know you Gendo. You want our AT Field... You want me... You want my AT Field..." Rei is still biting her lips. The blood flowing from her lips to her neck, breast, and legs

"I won't fall to your trap Gendo... I'm not your's... You don't me... All you want is Yui." Rei looked at Shinji.

"You're hurt inside Shinji. You're AT Field is weak. I can help you. This is how I can repay you. Let our fields be one..."

Rei stretched out her hands to reach Shinji. Her hands penetrated to the glass division and she touched Shinji"s face.

Shinji's heart started to beat again. He slowly opens his eyes.

"Thanatos... Your death is removed... Don't hurt him... Save him... The way you saved me..."

Rei started her chant

"Uh... Itai... Doushite..." (Uh... It hurts... why...)

She touches her heart

"Why are you helping him Rei?"

"Mother"