Problem Three: Boy meets girl, girl meet name...
Finally, the tone rang out, and the elevator slowed to a stop. At first, Yukari hides, just in case someone was waiting to ambush her. After hearing silence, she looks around the corner to see an empty hallway.
'Hello, mysterious girl with no name, or memory looking for a St Peter, he's suppose to be bouncing at this joint.'
Seeing the cost is clear, the girl once more runs, this time with the sound of bare feet hitting the waxed floor with a slap. She stops however, when she turns a corner, and sees a partly open door. The girl decided to go into it, and rest her drained body against a wall. She takes the time to catch her breath, before taking off her blindfold. Since her vision is in full use, she scans her surroundings. The air is clammy as she locks around the locker room. The sound of a shower heard in the background. She takes note, and decided it is time to leave. As she cracks, open the door, to look down the hallway. She looks just in time; to see three men armed to the teeth, turn the corner.
"Shit! It's the Spanish Inquisition again!"
She closes the door and looks around to see a young boy step out from around the corner with only a towel around his waist.
"Rei!" Shinji shouts with an embarrassed tone in his voice. 'Why is she here.' Shinji thinks before running back the other way, holding his nose.
"Meow..." The girl whispered before prowling in the direction the boy went.
'She had her own locker room.' Shinji says to himself as he changes. 'This is the second time in two days one of us has been caught with just a towel.' His thoughts are disturb, by a scream.
"Hey kid..."
'Hey kid...' Shinji could not help but stare at his fellow pilot in confusion as blood ran down her face.
The girl Shinji thinks is Rei takes notice of her problem, as she feels a drip fall from her nose. Apparently, that nightstick did some damage as blood drips from the wound. The blood does not deter her, from her up beat personality.
'The big men with guns were the larger threat.'
"Hide me!" All she gets for her plea is a confused look.
'I can't understand what she wants.' Shinji sighs to him self as he looks up to the girl. After an unwanted time of silence, the boy answers. "Why..."
"I don't pay you to contradict me!" She looked about franticly for a place to hide as she spoke
'Pay...' Shinji was dumb founded. 'Why is she acting so different, she's acting?' Dare he think it? 'Silly?'
"You don't pay me anything..." The boy contests with a dazed look.
"Look, I'm not asking you to juggle chainsaws, just hide me from the over sized men with assault rifles, okay!"
The boy looks around a bit, before opening a locker. "Like in here..."
The girl gives him no chance, to change his mind, as she put herself in his locker.
"Thanks kid!"
'I never thought Rei would be so informal.' He tries to put together his dilemma. 'Is she insulting me."
"I'm Shinji..." The boy says as he holds the lock open staring at her.
"Nice to meet you, now can I please hide."
Shinji puts up no resistance as he close the door, however the girl opens the door back up.
"Oh if anyone asks I'm not here!" She partly closes it before opening it again. "Especially if they have really big scary guns!"
'Apparently, the boy knows me by the way he stares at me.' The memory- lacking girl also felt like she had some kind of bond to him but could not place it.
The girl waited in darkness, in Shinji Ikari's locker. Of course, she does not even know if the boy should save her. Someone wanted her really badly, but she wasn't about to find out, who sends crack SWAT teams after weak girls."
The same mean voice from before, begins to talk to the boy, she can only hear some of what is be in said.
"Are you alone!"
"Umm... who else would be in here..." Shinji says in a soft tone.
"Are you, or not!"
Umm... Yes sir..."
She begins to take note of some of the items; she takes interests in an ID card with the boys face on it.
'Shinji Ikari...' That is painfully familiar for her. 'Shinji... Shinji... Ikari, Ikari, Ikari...'
She draws a frustrating blank. 'Y-Shinji... Y-Shinji... Y-Shinji...Y- Ikari...Yikari...' Once more, her mind has drifted off, in to wonder land.
'Yukari?' She doesn't remember anything familiar about it, but it was a nice name. 'Yukari.'
"Umm, Ayanami..." She so spaced out; she did not notice that Shinji was looking at her, with the locker door open.
"What's up kid..."
"Excuse me..." Shinji seemed once more, has become utterly confused. "Are you okay Ayanami."
"Who..." The girl looked around herself trying to see whom he was talking. "Oh... Me... Sorry kid..."
"I'm not a kid..." Shinji seems somewhat irritated with me. 'I don't get her before she couldn't even build the will to smile, maybe the battle effected her.'
"But your so young..." She snaps at him with a smile.
This was making no sense for Shinji; the image he made of Rei, smashed to pieces. Even what others have said about her was melting away. "We are the same age Ayanami."
Now the girl is confused, she could have sworn; she was much old, then this kid. "How old are you!"
"Fourteen." Shinji asserts with much confidence. 'Maybe I should go get Misato, or something she's acting weird.' Shinji looks up a 'Rei' to see she has spaced out. "I think I should go get you help."
"Wait..." The girl trips out of his locker, falling to the ground.
Shinji rushes over lifting her to his lap. "Ayanami are you okay."
"I don't know..." The truth was that the pain was catching up with her. She also, did not want him to run off and get help. "Just help me up..."
The boy complies, and helps her to her feet, with no complaints to the order. When she stands, she is staring directly at her dead friend from the pool of LCL. For all to hear she lets out a blood-curdling scream; She put her hands in front of her face with fear.
"My dead friend! She's Alive! She's alive!"
'The dead has just raised and no would tell me other wise.'
Shinji just stands there shaking his head, chuckling. The girl looks at the ghost to see she is mimicking her. She glares at her, but she only to discover it was in fact her reflection.
'This was disturbing.' She thinks, as she puts her hands, down to her side and stares at the mirror.
'This isn't right. I could have sworn I was older, and much older.' The girl touches her face and examines it for the first time. "Bone structure is that of an Asian... Japanese decent... I'm albino." She dictates to nothing, as she plays with her hair. "The hair seems to be stained a possible birth defect..."
"Umm... Ayanami..."
Then it hits her, it is her eyes, and she runs to the mirror and looks at them. "Yellow!" The girl turns to the ever more confused Shinji, that could only stare at her. "What color are my eyes..."
Shinji rolls his eyes; his mind concludes that Rei has to be making fun of him. "Red..." He stops and looks at her, he is even more in shock then she was. "Yellow?!"
"The Madness!" The girl spins around before slamming her head in to a locker
"Look Rei, you should see Dr. Akagi, or something..." Shinji shudders; as his thoughts are still on the fact, she is making fun of him.
'Meow... Wait that name rang a bell, Akagi.' The girl thought as she could picture a face with dark cherry hair and green eyes. 'I also remember that she a bitch.' Nevertheless, it was the first thing she can remember that was relevant.
"Take me to her!" The girl grabs Shinji by his shirt demanding action. Shinji nods as he puts away his things, the girl watches and studies his mannerism. 'He was annoyed at something.' The girl shakes her head feeling that her needs were more important.
****
The two teens leave the locker room and prowl to an elevator. The yellowed eyed Rei did her best, to grasp her environment; she recognized some thing but not others. They entered the elevator, this one much older, then the other, and she remembered the clicking of the floor counter, as they went up.
"Umm... Rei... Thanks for saving me tonight."
"Meow?" The girl has no clue what he is talking about, and lying to someone whose is helping her did not feel right. "Umm... kid, I'm not this Rei person..." Her voice seems unable to speak above a whisper as reminded to the fact that she had no clue who she is.
'She had to of hurt her self, or bumped her head.' Shinji thinks, before speaking to the girl "Yes you are..."
The girl remembers that her first acquaintance was a dead girl that looked like her. She feels that this young boy doesn't need to know such a fact, seeing it might be his friend. "I'm sorry kid... but I'm not..."
'This is stupid...' Shinji crossed his arms feeling that Rei, of all people, is mocking him. "I'm fourteen Rei, I'm not a kid..."
The girl rolls her eyes at him; she also begins to feel agitated. "Sorry but you look like a kid to me..."
Shinji looks away seeing that, Rei that he pulled out of Unit Zero's Entry Plug was teasing him. "And my name is Shinji Ikari, if you don't like me, can you at least call me by one of the..."
The girl stares him down, Shinji only held his ground feeling that he is in the right. "Look I'm sorry about the kid stuff..." The girl mutters. "But when I ran into you I didn't know your name..."
"You used it before..." Shinji alleges, with a strange tone to his voice as he stares at her, as if she was crazy.
"You lie!" She yells out, knowing she never called this kid by name. "You don't believe me..." The girl shouts as she became teary eyed.
Shinji steps back think that he just upset her. "I think your ill Rei, and you need help..."
This Rei person is starting to frustrate the girl and she hasn't even met her as far as she knew. "I'm not Rei!"
"Then who are you?" The dazed boy asks her with a stutter.
"Well... I don't know..." Having no identity didn't seem right, she couldn't keep calling herself, you, or the person who looks like Rei, she needed a name. She also has to have it make scene.
'Rei Ayanami was my apparent double, slash twin, so it would make sense to use her last name. Hard part over...' Shinji still waited for an answer, as she thinks of a name. 'Where did all of that useless knowledge go?'
"Yukari..." Shinji can only stare at her as he waits for her to finish. "Ayanami, Yukari!"
With that out of the way, she smiles. 'I could live with a decent name like Yukari Ayanami.' Shinji just shakes his head, seeing that the girl just made up a name. The elevator slows to a stop, and both Shinji and Yukari turned to the door, as it opens. Yukari was not expecting what happens next. Before the door fully opened, she's struck in the chest.
"My grand kids are going to feel that." Yukari moans as she slams up against the back of the elevator holding her chest. Shinji stares in shock, as the girl she thought was Rei, cries in pain with her nose pouring out blood. Yukari looks up to see an army of soldiers in black fatigues and armed with an assortment of weapons. All are pointing at her, but the one person who was behind the shield caught her eye.
'Ah bloody hell, a beanbag shotgun...' Yet again, her gift of Knowledge came to her when there was no need. The second shot hits her right in the chest. She collapses to her knees as her vision begins to tunnel.
"A far shot..."
Finally, the tone rang out, and the elevator slowed to a stop. At first, Yukari hides, just in case someone was waiting to ambush her. After hearing silence, she looks around the corner to see an empty hallway.
'Hello, mysterious girl with no name, or memory looking for a St Peter, he's suppose to be bouncing at this joint.'
Seeing the cost is clear, the girl once more runs, this time with the sound of bare feet hitting the waxed floor with a slap. She stops however, when she turns a corner, and sees a partly open door. The girl decided to go into it, and rest her drained body against a wall. She takes the time to catch her breath, before taking off her blindfold. Since her vision is in full use, she scans her surroundings. The air is clammy as she locks around the locker room. The sound of a shower heard in the background. She takes note, and decided it is time to leave. As she cracks, open the door, to look down the hallway. She looks just in time; to see three men armed to the teeth, turn the corner.
"Shit! It's the Spanish Inquisition again!"
She closes the door and looks around to see a young boy step out from around the corner with only a towel around his waist.
"Rei!" Shinji shouts with an embarrassed tone in his voice. 'Why is she here.' Shinji thinks before running back the other way, holding his nose.
"Meow..." The girl whispered before prowling in the direction the boy went.
'She had her own locker room.' Shinji says to himself as he changes. 'This is the second time in two days one of us has been caught with just a towel.' His thoughts are disturb, by a scream.
"Hey kid..."
'Hey kid...' Shinji could not help but stare at his fellow pilot in confusion as blood ran down her face.
The girl Shinji thinks is Rei takes notice of her problem, as she feels a drip fall from her nose. Apparently, that nightstick did some damage as blood drips from the wound. The blood does not deter her, from her up beat personality.
'The big men with guns were the larger threat.'
"Hide me!" All she gets for her plea is a confused look.
'I can't understand what she wants.' Shinji sighs to him self as he looks up to the girl. After an unwanted time of silence, the boy answers. "Why..."
"I don't pay you to contradict me!" She looked about franticly for a place to hide as she spoke
'Pay...' Shinji was dumb founded. 'Why is she acting so different, she's acting?' Dare he think it? 'Silly?'
"You don't pay me anything..." The boy contests with a dazed look.
"Look, I'm not asking you to juggle chainsaws, just hide me from the over sized men with assault rifles, okay!"
The boy looks around a bit, before opening a locker. "Like in here..."
The girl gives him no chance, to change his mind, as she put herself in his locker.
"Thanks kid!"
'I never thought Rei would be so informal.' He tries to put together his dilemma. 'Is she insulting me."
"I'm Shinji..." The boy says as he holds the lock open staring at her.
"Nice to meet you, now can I please hide."
Shinji puts up no resistance as he close the door, however the girl opens the door back up.
"Oh if anyone asks I'm not here!" She partly closes it before opening it again. "Especially if they have really big scary guns!"
'Apparently, the boy knows me by the way he stares at me.' The memory- lacking girl also felt like she had some kind of bond to him but could not place it.
The girl waited in darkness, in Shinji Ikari's locker. Of course, she does not even know if the boy should save her. Someone wanted her really badly, but she wasn't about to find out, who sends crack SWAT teams after weak girls."
The same mean voice from before, begins to talk to the boy, she can only hear some of what is be in said.
"Are you alone!"
"Umm... who else would be in here..." Shinji says in a soft tone.
"Are you, or not!"
Umm... Yes sir..."
She begins to take note of some of the items; she takes interests in an ID card with the boys face on it.
'Shinji Ikari...' That is painfully familiar for her. 'Shinji... Shinji... Ikari, Ikari, Ikari...'
She draws a frustrating blank. 'Y-Shinji... Y-Shinji... Y-Shinji...Y- Ikari...Yikari...' Once more, her mind has drifted off, in to wonder land.
'Yukari?' She doesn't remember anything familiar about it, but it was a nice name. 'Yukari.'
"Umm, Ayanami..." She so spaced out; she did not notice that Shinji was looking at her, with the locker door open.
"What's up kid..."
"Excuse me..." Shinji seemed once more, has become utterly confused. "Are you okay Ayanami."
"Who..." The girl looked around herself trying to see whom he was talking. "Oh... Me... Sorry kid..."
"I'm not a kid..." Shinji seems somewhat irritated with me. 'I don't get her before she couldn't even build the will to smile, maybe the battle effected her.'
"But your so young..." She snaps at him with a smile.
This was making no sense for Shinji; the image he made of Rei, smashed to pieces. Even what others have said about her was melting away. "We are the same age Ayanami."
Now the girl is confused, she could have sworn; she was much old, then this kid. "How old are you!"
"Fourteen." Shinji asserts with much confidence. 'Maybe I should go get Misato, or something she's acting weird.' Shinji looks up a 'Rei' to see she has spaced out. "I think I should go get you help."
"Wait..." The girl trips out of his locker, falling to the ground.
Shinji rushes over lifting her to his lap. "Ayanami are you okay."
"I don't know..." The truth was that the pain was catching up with her. She also, did not want him to run off and get help. "Just help me up..."
The boy complies, and helps her to her feet, with no complaints to the order. When she stands, she is staring directly at her dead friend from the pool of LCL. For all to hear she lets out a blood-curdling scream; She put her hands in front of her face with fear.
"My dead friend! She's Alive! She's alive!"
'The dead has just raised and no would tell me other wise.'
Shinji just stands there shaking his head, chuckling. The girl looks at the ghost to see she is mimicking her. She glares at her, but she only to discover it was in fact her reflection.
'This was disturbing.' She thinks, as she puts her hands, down to her side and stares at the mirror.
'This isn't right. I could have sworn I was older, and much older.' The girl touches her face and examines it for the first time. "Bone structure is that of an Asian... Japanese decent... I'm albino." She dictates to nothing, as she plays with her hair. "The hair seems to be stained a possible birth defect..."
"Umm... Ayanami..."
Then it hits her, it is her eyes, and she runs to the mirror and looks at them. "Yellow!" The girl turns to the ever more confused Shinji, that could only stare at her. "What color are my eyes..."
Shinji rolls his eyes; his mind concludes that Rei has to be making fun of him. "Red..." He stops and looks at her, he is even more in shock then she was. "Yellow?!"
"The Madness!" The girl spins around before slamming her head in to a locker
"Look Rei, you should see Dr. Akagi, or something..." Shinji shudders; as his thoughts are still on the fact, she is making fun of him.
'Meow... Wait that name rang a bell, Akagi.' The girl thought as she could picture a face with dark cherry hair and green eyes. 'I also remember that she a bitch.' Nevertheless, it was the first thing she can remember that was relevant.
"Take me to her!" The girl grabs Shinji by his shirt demanding action. Shinji nods as he puts away his things, the girl watches and studies his mannerism. 'He was annoyed at something.' The girl shakes her head feeling that her needs were more important.
****
The two teens leave the locker room and prowl to an elevator. The yellowed eyed Rei did her best, to grasp her environment; she recognized some thing but not others. They entered the elevator, this one much older, then the other, and she remembered the clicking of the floor counter, as they went up.
"Umm... Rei... Thanks for saving me tonight."
"Meow?" The girl has no clue what he is talking about, and lying to someone whose is helping her did not feel right. "Umm... kid, I'm not this Rei person..." Her voice seems unable to speak above a whisper as reminded to the fact that she had no clue who she is.
'She had to of hurt her self, or bumped her head.' Shinji thinks, before speaking to the girl "Yes you are..."
The girl remembers that her first acquaintance was a dead girl that looked like her. She feels that this young boy doesn't need to know such a fact, seeing it might be his friend. "I'm sorry kid... but I'm not..."
'This is stupid...' Shinji crossed his arms feeling that Rei, of all people, is mocking him. "I'm fourteen Rei, I'm not a kid..."
The girl rolls her eyes at him; she also begins to feel agitated. "Sorry but you look like a kid to me..."
Shinji looks away seeing that, Rei that he pulled out of Unit Zero's Entry Plug was teasing him. "And my name is Shinji Ikari, if you don't like me, can you at least call me by one of the..."
The girl stares him down, Shinji only held his ground feeling that he is in the right. "Look I'm sorry about the kid stuff..." The girl mutters. "But when I ran into you I didn't know your name..."
"You used it before..." Shinji alleges, with a strange tone to his voice as he stares at her, as if she was crazy.
"You lie!" She yells out, knowing she never called this kid by name. "You don't believe me..." The girl shouts as she became teary eyed.
Shinji steps back think that he just upset her. "I think your ill Rei, and you need help..."
This Rei person is starting to frustrate the girl and she hasn't even met her as far as she knew. "I'm not Rei!"
"Then who are you?" The dazed boy asks her with a stutter.
"Well... I don't know..." Having no identity didn't seem right, she couldn't keep calling herself, you, or the person who looks like Rei, she needed a name. She also has to have it make scene.
'Rei Ayanami was my apparent double, slash twin, so it would make sense to use her last name. Hard part over...' Shinji still waited for an answer, as she thinks of a name. 'Where did all of that useless knowledge go?'
"Yukari..." Shinji can only stare at her as he waits for her to finish. "Ayanami, Yukari!"
With that out of the way, she smiles. 'I could live with a decent name like Yukari Ayanami.' Shinji just shakes his head, seeing that the girl just made up a name. The elevator slows to a stop, and both Shinji and Yukari turned to the door, as it opens. Yukari was not expecting what happens next. Before the door fully opened, she's struck in the chest.
"My grand kids are going to feel that." Yukari moans as she slams up against the back of the elevator holding her chest. Shinji stares in shock, as the girl she thought was Rei, cries in pain with her nose pouring out blood. Yukari looks up to see an army of soldiers in black fatigues and armed with an assortment of weapons. All are pointing at her, but the one person who was behind the shield caught her eye.
'Ah bloody hell, a beanbag shotgun...' Yet again, her gift of Knowledge came to her when there was no need. The second shot hits her right in the chest. She collapses to her knees as her vision begins to tunnel.
"A far shot..."
