Problem Three: Zero Child

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Marching down the security wing of section two is Gendo Ikari, His uniform is crinkled, his jacket top is open, and his fists clenched. As he passes members of NERV Security Forces, they part to the side of the hallway. He turns multiple corners before he reaches an area guarded by two armed security members. They both salute the Commander as he slams open the door and continues down a hallway were he sees about ten men all wearing black BDU and MP-5s slung to there sides. He passes them and enters in to a room were Ritsuko Akagi stands with other doctors staring through a window.

"Ah, Commander Ikari, good morning." Ritsuko smiles as she motions to have her colleges leave.

Gendo pulls off his glasses and rubs his eyes. "This better be worth it."

There is a slight pause as Ritsuko allows Gendo to look through the window. "Oh, I think it is worth it." She looks in to the window that shows Yukari shackled to a bed naked and multiple cords and wires strapped to her body.

"So this is..." Gendo mutters as he leans on the glass.

"This is Rei III, well kind of..." Ritsuko shakes her head studying the young girl.

Somehow, Gendo is not to shock, that there is another Rei out of the Sea. "This isn't the first time we had a sleepwalker."

Gendo yawns giving Ritsuko time to speak. "That's true, but this fish out of water is..."

"Destroy her..." Gendo's words drive cold daggers into Ritsuko's skin.

"I wouldn't have called you if it was that easy, sir." Ritsuko strives to show that the problem is greater then Gendo is making it out to be. "But she's the last one."

"What!" Gendo turns to Ritsuko in shock. "What do you mean the last one!"

"This isn't a sleepwalker, She was created by of shadow program hidden in the MAJI." Ritsuko hands Gendo her clip bored. "She has a soul, a mind of its own created by..."

"Yui!" Gendo drops the clip bored and stares at the naked child in the other room.

Ritsuko nods her head, as she folds her arms in front of her. "The program, is a little over ten years old, she hid it in the original Rei divers."

Gendo's silence begins to make Ritsuko uncomfortable, but all he can do is stare at the girl. 'Yui, my dear, what have you done.'

Seeing Gendo not going to speak for a little, she bends down and picks up her clip bored. "When she was created it shoot enough power into the room of Gauf, it fried every last one of our clones."

"What is her mental state at?"

Feeling that Gendo is not truly paying attention to her, Ritsuko hand him the clip bored once more. "I did a full body scan, CAT scans, AT field data test and a MIT." She lets Gendo read the paperwork.

"Her mental patterns..." Gendo whispers to him self. "There..."

"That of a four year old..."

Both turn and look at the girl that's seems so vulnerable naked on the table. "Place her in interrogation room three." No one responds to Gendo's command as he begins to leave. "This just changed everything, we lost control of our destiny."

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The only senses of the five Yukari has are her ears and a sense of touch, and what she heard, and felt was not pleasant. With a bag on her head, and hands handcuffed together, which they conveniently handcuffed to her waist, and just to be sure, she was not Houdini, her feet chained together. Now awake and after dragged for about ten minutes, she thrown into a room, the door slams shut behind Her. All she left to is the sound of her heart racing and the silence in the room. Therefore, she waited for her fate, minute's turns in to hours and food is becoming a big part of her thoughts, she not just hungry but scientifically starving. All most a day goes by, she becomes dehydrated, and tired yet she could not sleep. She finally visited, as a man ripped off the bag on her head and gag in her mouth. The man kept her head to the ground as he removes her bondage.

Once more the room became empty and quit, but at least this time the light were on and she has whoever was on the other side of the one-way glass for company. Finding she is wearing different style hospital close she begins to feel a little edgy but still willing to make a joke, Yukari decided to walk over to the mirror and fool around.

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On the other side, sit four members of section two suits freshly pressed, Gendo, Fuyutsuki, and Ritsuko stand behind them. Fuyutsuki begins to chuckle as the girl in front of her picks her nose and places her foul findings on the glass.

"We she certainly acts four years old..." Ritsuko mutters as she smiles at the child like antics.

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On the other side, Yukari decides that physical actions are not enough. "I have come to except your need for me. I congratulate you for acknowledging my superiority, in choosing me as your prisoner pig, thingy."

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Everyone on the other side of the glass, but Gendo, chuckles at Yukari. Yukari was not able to hear such laughter and gets frustrated that no one cares, or even talked back to her, or tell her to shut up.

"Feel Honored!" The brash young girl yells as she put her hands on her hips, starring at whoever is on the other side.

An intercom turns on and a voice grumbles to her.

"What is your name?"

Mad at the fact that they did not laugh at her antics, makes her want to refuse to go along with them. Knowing she really did not know her name she decides to use the one, she made up.

"Yukari Ayanami..." She smiles as she walks over and sat on the stool swinging her legs, thinking she might as well have fun, as her mind is brought to think about the principles of Psychodynamic psychology.

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On the other side of the glass, everyone looks at Gendo. After little thought Gendo looks over to the Section Two members. "Ask her for her DOB."

The well-built men nod and turn to face the one-way glass.

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"What is your date of birth?"

"2001." Yukari searched her mind for any date that came to mind. "August 15th 2001."

"Where are you from?"

The only place that came to her mind was Tokyo but she wanted more flavor then a capital city. Her mind and many city names flash in her head yet she had had no memory of being there.

"Hiroshima."

The silence after her answer made her somewhat nervous. It was not as if she was not trying to hide the fact that she is lying to them. Yukari finally decides to ask them a question seeing she could not stop thinking about psychology

"How does Erikson's theory of psychosocial development differ from Freud's theory of psychosexual development?" She sits there waiting for a response. "Any takers..."

The girl shrugs her shoulders as she felt she could easily spit out the answer.

"Erikson's theory differs from Freud's in two respects. First, it de- emphasizes the importance of sex and aggression and instead emphasizes the importance of social needs such as trust. Second, it extends development throughout the life span instead of restricting it to early childhood. Like Freud, however, Erikson believed that behavior was controlled by unconscious needs and that early life experience could have a significant impact on adult behavior."

The girl winded for saying it all in one breath, but glad that she could at least amuse herself with her skills in intelligence.

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This time, even Gendo seen cracking a smile under his beard from the girls antics. Ritsuko is the most impressed as she looks over to her comrades.

"She's pretty damn smart, for the mind of a child."

Once more Fuyutsuki chuckles, as he to knows that the girl answered her question with out error. "Ask her, what are the ego defenses..."

Seeing his plan, Ritsuko interjects. "Tell her to give examples."

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In the interrogation room, Yukari has discovered that biting her nails is more interesting then the interrogation.

"What are ego defenses? Give some examples of specific ego defenses."

Yukari gives a giggle, as she for some reason knows the answer, and the fact that they were willing to play along.

"Ego defenses are strategies used by the ego to deal with inappropriate or unwanted urges generated by the id. Some specific ego defenses are repression, projection, reaction formation, displacement, and sublimation. An example of repression is a person failing to remember an event because it triggers unpleasant emotions. An example of projection is one person thinking that another person is irritable when in fact it is the first person who is irritable."

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Ritsuko gives a golf clap; at the same time, Fuyutsuki shakes his head. The girl begins to spin on her stool.

"Praise me! Praise me, for I am ingénues!"

Her cry brings two of the section two members to laughter. Gendo rolls his eyes over the girl's lack of maturity. He then stares down his comrades to stop there laughter. "Ask what was the weather yesterday."

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"What was yesterday's forecast?"

The girl falls off the stool, it is such a simple question, but it is frustrating to her. All she could do is stare at the glass with a blank face.

"What was the last thing you ate?"

Yukari's frustration becomes that of anguish, as the painful reminder that her current memory about herself is not even a day old. She cannot help but cry as she crawls back on to the stool balling her eyes out. The girl cannot even hear their next question; all she can do is let her self go. Yukari perks up when she heard to door creek open.

Pain was all that she began to feel when she stared at a tall man in his mid forties with a beard and glasses that hid his Japanese decent.

"Gee Granny, what big teeth you have..." Gendo ignores her as he steps back in to the shadows to allow two men pick her up and put her on a gurney.

"Who are you?" The man in the shadow asked, his voice was so familiar to Yukari, yet she struggled to remember it. She shock off the feeling and tried to answer's the mans question, as best as possible.

"I don't remember my real name..."

He stood there as if a statue, his cold heartless eyes, gave Yukari chills.

"Oh, I came from a pool with dead bodies in it..." Yukari decided that thing were a bit to serious for her tastes. "I would look into that, if I were you."

'Meow-sigh... This one was as boring and as that Ikari kid...' Yukari thought to herself. "Am I in trouble..."

"That depends..." Gendo responds with just a whisper.

"On..." She asks as Gendo bends down and takes hold of her face. Yukari didn't like him that close and his rough scared hands were uncomfortable against her sensitive skin. Yet, she let him take a light to her deep yellow eyes, and then to her scalp, and mouth. However, when he went to touch her chest Yukari drew the line.

"Wait a minute!"

She lunges out and bits Gendo on the hand he winces in pain as Yukari holds on making cat like noses for effect. Gendo pulls her off her bed, as the two men try to get her off. Once they free the girl's mouth, she crawls into a corner and hisses at them, feeling it was a natural thing to do.

"Pervert! Going to take advantage of a little girl like me!"

The man rubs his hand and stares her down, but Yukari holds strong, she was not going to let him win.

"I was going to check your..."

"Shut your noise tube, you pervert!" Yukari shouts as she coves her self with her hands. For Yukari her useless intellect, already could guess the answer "Systolic blood pressure is probably 120 mmHg. My Diastolic blood pressure most likely at 66 mmHg, and my pulse rate is a steady eight- eight beats per minute, thanks your groping attempt. Now, Piss off! I want a female doctor!"

It seemed to work because Gendo leaves the two in black suits behind. A moment later, a female comes in with medical equipment, and for some reason Yukari knew what it, all is.

"Naoko?" For some reason Yukari thought that is her name, but all Ritsuko did was stare at her with a raised eyebrow.

"Excuse me..." The tall Doctor mumbles as she runs her had through her blond hair.

The yellow-eyed girl looks at her hoping that once more, she is the Naoko she knew. "Naoko right... Naoko Akagi... Wait why is your hair blond."

"My name is Doctor Ritsuko Akagi... just how do you know my mothers name..."

Yukari thinks about it, and then thinks some more, with no clear reason; she just smiles and pointed to her head. "I... don't know... You look funny with blond hair..."

"You really don't remember." Ritsuko's smile was not very convincing, but is at least trying to fake it.

"No I don't..." Yukari slumps her shoulders and stares at her bare feet.

"Well I will be truthful to you too, we don't know who you really are either."

She stares at Ritsuko as she began to write on a clip bored 'Somehow, that didn't sound right.' Yukari thinks to her self.

"You are the last, of sisters to a girl named Rei Ayanami." Ritsuko's voice began to fade as she read from the clip bored.

"Meow?" Just because the woman in front of Yukari waved around a PH.D, did not mean she was not going to catch what she said with more meaning. "What do you mean last of?"

Slowly Ritsuko begins to hook clips to Yukari's head "There are more then just one of you, however you are the only one left alive." The doctor tone deepens as she etherizes alive.

"Oh... so I come to life in your gooey cesspool of people parts, yet you don't know me..." The reminder of the LCL made Yukari cringe. "Have you even seen the stuff! Its so gooey..." If Ritsuko is trying to win her trust, she is failing. Yukari has a feeling she is in a big mess of lies, that she had to conform to, or she would die.

"We didn't wake you, you woke yourself, and so yes we know what you are we just don't know who."

Yukari guesses that is the simple way to put it, so she decides to move on. "Were is my sister?"

"She's on her way." The doctor took no notice of two large men in black suit walk in followed by Gendo.

"Oh great the pedophile is back." Yukari's mumbling defiantly isn't wanted as she gets a cold stare from all. "But its true... he tried to rape me!"

Ritsuko fakes a cough to get her attention; Yukari look at her still concerned about the Commander. "Ayanami, this ... this man, in front of you, is Commander Gendo Ikari, he's the reason your still alive."

Somewhat embarrassed that she just called the self-appointed lord and master, a pervert, and a pedophile. Yukari bows her head to show a little respect. "Sorry Sir."

"Your existence is a privilege." Gendo scorns at Yukari in a monotone voice. "It can be easily taken away. I have spared your life for two reasons. That you will work under the organization NERV and do what ever my subordinates ask. Second is to be determined."

"Your Shinji's father..." Yukari asked as she began to bit her toenails. Every one looks away in disgust from Yukari, as she bits her nails. Ritsuko grabs Yukari's feet and puts them down.

Gendo nearly spits on the ground in anger as he turns and leaves the room.

"Err. Yukari looks over to Ritsuko. "He must be the head boss around hear."

"Of course, why would you say that?"

With a smile, Yukari stares in to Ritsuko's eyes. "Because he stuck you with all the shit."

Ritsuko picks up a folder and booklet that says 'Your Eyes Only' handing to Yukari. "Zero child?" Yukari whispers as she reads looks as her ID card that has a picture of her in it, yet the eye are red not yellow.

"I don't understand..." Yukari looks to the good doctor that seems to be writing once more in her notepad. "Why does this thing call me the Zero child? And this picture isn't me."

The Doctor takes no time to answer her questions. "The picture is that of Rei, your sister. Don't worry its only a temporary ID card. Zero child is what the Marduk report calls you."

Confused, Yukari shakes her head. "And that means to me what."

"It means you're were our first pilot but went missing. Kidnapped more like."

"Oh... a lie, well then, what did I pilot..." Even more so then before did Yukari wish for more memories then none.

"Of the first Evangelion Unit Zero."

"The formal name is "General-purpose Humanoid Decisive Combat Weapon - Artificial Human (Android) Evangelion" [Hanyou Ninkei Kessen Heiki - Jinzou Ningen Evangerion]. In order to implement the Human Complementation Project Evangelion's were built, being able to deploy A.T. Field as well as neutralize it; it is the only weapon that we humans have to counter the Angels. It takes its power from electricity and without external supply, it can maintain only 5 minutes of activity. Thus, usually it takes the electrical power it needs through Umbilical Cable."

Yukari come out of another episode of spaced out, to see that Doctor Akagi has just broken her pen and tore nearly to the bottom of the clip bored. Ritsuko looks up at her in shock. "What did you just say..."

"Meow..." Yukari mutters thinking she has said something when she spaced out. "Did I say something."

"My god that was word for word..."

Yukari's child like mind takw over as she becomes frustrated at the riddle. "Word for word from what?"

"Never mind..."

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Next problem: Sisters.....