Problem Twenty-Two: Who's naked in a lake?
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Running out of the Pilots school as fast as they can Rei, and Yukari pass the gates, with Yukari holding Rei's hand doing her best to have her not fall. They don't speak as they make their way to the Fast track terminal. A single shout bullet car made for the pilots to be used when a first stage alert is made. The Pilots take this transportation train a lot; Section 2 has showed all how to use it, for when they scramble. The two twins, clones of Yui and an Angel reach the stairway to the terminal with Yukari in the lead. She swipes her ID card opening the entrance she goes to grab Rei to guide her in but she doesn't move.
"What's wrong!"
Yukari's shout at first doesn't get answered, Rei merely holds her ear to the sky. "The Siren has ended, I don't here the city going into defense mode."
Double checking on Rei's comment Yukari goes back up the steps, she looks around to see that she was right. The city sits silent when only the sound a normal city should make. No sound of the massive Hydraulic and Pnuedraulic lifts of the buildings raise and lower system at work.
Despite this Yukari comes back down to Rei grabbing her hand. "It doesn't matter we should at least Report."
Not resisting this time, Rei allows Yukari to take her into the car, but she does not except her help with the seat restraint belt. Once activated the Train car rides down its electromagnetic Rail system reaching nearly 200 kilometers and hour. Happy that Yukari is not speaking Rei allows herself to think on the way down.
'Its been nearly three weeks since the last Angel... Usually I could... I could always feel when one was around.'
With only the sound of the trains going down its rail, Rei reaches out to the quiet Yukari. Just as she touches, the girl's cold hand Yukari's head slides down resting on Rei's shoulder.
'She's asleep again. She still has not recovered, from her problem... What ever that is...'
Rei shifts her position and pulls out a book from her bag, unlike what she usually reads this was a gift from Major Katsuragi, it is a book to teach her to read brail. Her and Asuka have been practicing for two week, with lots of progress.
'Only if she was like this before, she is much better like this.'
As Rei reads her book she begins to feel the train slow down, at first it was slow but it makes a sudden stop tossing her and Yukari forward, Rei would have remained in her seat, but she improperly fastened her belt, she flies to the front of the car crashing into it. The sudden jolt awakes Yukari who instinctively reaches for Rei but discovers she is not in her seat.
"That was painful..."
Yukari looks up to Rei who lays in the front of the train, with the car on a forty five degree angle it is hard for Rei to stand back up. Quickly Yukari gets out of her seat and helps Rei up. She looks out the window to see they stopped at the surface of the Geo-Front.
"We're at the Geo-Surface." Yukari announces for Rei who is rubbing her head from the impact.
As Yukari opens the door Rei waits distraught that she got hurt because of her stubbornness. She feels Yukari and take her arm, she instantly knows were she's at when the cool breeze and the smell of the pine enlighten her remaining senses. Yukari looks around to see that the Alert lights at the station are on and the blast shutters are closed when she looks down the track to where going.
"Well, something is going on." Yukari looks to the giant pyramid that's dimension are identical to the Great pyramid of Giza.
The sisters don't need to talk to now what they have to do, Yukari gathers their bags and Rei's cane. As soon as Rei grasps her white cane with is red tip, a traditional Blind mans cane. She goes off down the long access road to reach NERV headquarters with her sister following her. Yukari watches every step that her sister makes, she has gained great skill with the use of her cane.
"Hey, Rei..." With a Yawn on its way, Yukari has to stop for it before continuing. "Do you ever wish we were normal?"
The question seems out of place, Rei sense of 'Normalcy is different from most. "It is a fruitless question, we must live our lives that we have."
Sinking her head into her shoulders Yukari swings her satchel behind her. "Come on, I mean like having normal parents, or simple dreams that don't involve Eva..."
'I dream, but..." Rei's thought is puzzling to her. 'Ever since I have moved in with Asuka, I have been having lots of dreams, happy dreams.' Rei pauses as she dodges a rock, and the question. "It is irrelevant, we are here for a purpose, if any dream, it would for you to loss your voice."
The joke is laughable and once Yukari chuckles she gets serious. Now looking down Yukari slows her pace. "I'm here by privilege, not for purpose."
The statement stops Rei she stands and thinks about the thought. In truth, Yukari is Rei; Rei is unaware of how she was created so Yukari is just herself. 'That would mean I am here by privilege as well.' The idea is not as fulfilling as she thought. She has always awaited death but she hasn't questioned what it would mean. "Ayanami..." She takes her time so to word her self properly. "Yukari... I believe every soul on this earth has a purpose, even yours."
As Rei continues to walk, Yukari catches up and walks beside her happy at the indirect kindness Rei has shown. However, this kindness doesn't stop her from falling asleep out side of NERV Headquarters. Rei doesn't mind as the blast shutters for the main entrance is also shut. She sits beside Yukari who sits with her head tilled to the surface as she sleeps.
"Ayanami... i's..." Rei instantly recognizes the voice, she perks her head up waiting to here Shinji once more. "Hi Rei."
"Pilot Ikari..."
Shinji stands in his school Uniform with his bag on his back. He keeps a little distance from the two, his experience with Rei are still fresh. "So do you know what's going on."
"No..." With a thought Rei remembers that Shinji and Asuka had tests today. "Why are you not at your tests."
The question brings a chuckle as he rubs the back of his head. "All I had was a emulation sync in Unit One, pretty quick."
"And Asuka."
"Oh..." Looking back on what he was told Shinji wasn't given a good answer. "They had other tests for her, Asuka wouldn't tell me... how about you."
"We where on the Fast Track alert train when the emergency, lock down the Geo-Front, stranding us at the Geo-surface station."
The sound of a cork leaving a bottle echoes through out the Geo-Front, Shinji ducks a bit and looks around to see a Entry plug sky rocket out of the Lake and into the air. The seen is surreal as the ejection thrusters run out suspending the plug just long enough for Shinji to yell out, and for the LCL fluid to be ejected.
"Asuka!"
The cry of Asuka's name has Rei standing up and Yukari awoken. Shinji runs off to the end of the parking lot closest to the lake as the plug lands into the water bobbing to the surface surrounded by the thick LCL, which still leaks from the Plug.
Running up next too Shinji is Yukari, who looks off to the plug. "Wow, that looked like fun."
"Shouldn't we do something."
The question Shinji asked is answered by a light smile by Yukari. "Sure I'm sure your Olympic swimming skills will help."
Nevertheless, Shinji is not deterred he looks to Yukari with a smile. "No time better then the present to learn."
In her soft Voice Rei, bring some reality to the problem. "We have no swim gear, our Uniforms will only swell and drown us."
Both Yukari and Shinji look down in disappointment but Shinji snaps his fingers. "In the Fast Track, they have plug Suits." Stunned by his own brilliance Shinji begins to run to the station. "Watch after Rei, I will get them!"
Surprised by Yukari for not responding she makes her way in her last known direction. She stops when her cane its Yukari who is leaning up against a poll asleep.
'She watch after me, she's never awake to watch after her self.'
At first Rei only stands, but her legs begin to loss to gravity so Rei sits down next to her sister to rest herself. When Yukari readjusts herself and gives out a small purring sigh, a crazy thought strikes Rei's head. She reaches and touches her sister's shoulder and followed it to the back of her neck when in the area she checks her pulse.
'Its almost a hundred beats minute.'
With that fact out of the way, Rei continues and finds Yukari's temples. When Rei was only a child, she began to have constant migraines. No medicine could fix it but the commander, all he did was rub her temples and the migraines would disappear. So Rei in a indirect thought that it might help her sister she rubs her temples the same way Gendo rubbed her.
Under Yukari's light purring, she whispers to Rei. "Do you really hate me?"
Knowing that the topic would come up, she has been avoiding the subject since Yukari said that she said that. "I do not hate you Yukari Ayanami, you are my family."
With such kind words, even if deceived in Rei's soft and cold voice comforts Yukari as she snuggles on to Rei's shoulder purring.
"But..." Rei pushes Yukari back to where she was. "You are still annoying."
Shinji comes running back from the Fast track with three plug suits one for each of them. For a second Rei and Yukari begin to take off their uniforms but stop with Shinji standing with no intent in moving. He wished he did as he receives a kick from Yukari and then his plug suit is taken from him and its arms are rapped around his head to act as a blind fold.
"That was unnecessary!" The scream of Shinji go unanswered for nearly ten minutes. Yukari who stands in her plug suit releases him. "That wasn't cool."
"Suck it up." Yukari crossed her arms as Shinji stands with his plug suit in hand.
Rubbing his head Shinji feels defensive for some reason. "Oh come on, its not like I haven't seen it before."
Rei comes up behind Yukari blushing at Shinji, Yukari looks to the two of them as something is going on and she's out of the loop. "What's wrong."
Shinji and Rei speak at the same time. "Nothing."
Not buying the two's answer Yukari stands in between them. "Now what."
"Yukari..." Rei grips her cane and looks to her sister hiding her thoughts. "Pilot Ikari walked in on me, it was my fault and nothing more."
"Asuka's not lying when she calls you a pervert is she." With her hands on her hips, Yukari stares down Shinji.
With all the attention on him, Shinji does his best to stay calm and stand his ground. "Hey, I'm a guy leave me alone..." Seeing that Yukari giving him the angry disappointed big sister look he goes onto the offensive. "Well she was looking to!"
The statement of desperation from Shinji has Rei drop her cane. She stands her place flushed and to busy on what Shinji is talking about.
Also not believing him is Yukari. "Likely story."
Not willing to give up yet Shinji points to Rei with a desperate look, for he is not good at being defensive. Giving up was is normal mode of operation. "Rei, she kissed me, and was crawling all over me and stuff, so you girls can't talk!"
"Ikari!"
Rei's face his direction upset that the subject came up; Rei knows that something was wrong with her when she did it. Her mouth begins to water as her memories stimulate perspiration and increased heart rate. If Rei could run off she would but she is kind of stuck. Wishing to get away that she hoped that Shinji would forget Rei sits down into a ball.
"Sorry..." Since he most likely did something wrong, Shinji steps back and goes around a tree to change.
Just when he finishes, Yukari pops her head around the tree. "Rei wants to talk to you."
The oh-shit oh-meter for Shinji is going off, he feels that he just walked in to a pile of shit of no return. He approaches Rei with caution she stands with her back to him, her cane is in her hand, and she grips it tightly.
"Pilot Ikari..." Rei tilts her head calling him, Ikari reminds her of Gendo, and that brings a sour taste to her mouth. "Shinji, I am aware what happened three weeks ago but, as you also know I was not well and the subject should not be brought up."
Bowing his head in shame, Shinji comes up beside Rei. "I'm sorry... I just felt I had to defend and well your kiss kinda stuck out. I'm so sorry..."
"My kiss..."
When Rei reaches out for Shinji he is making his way to the lake and her whisper was not heard. She snaps her finger and Yukari comes to her side and guides her arm to the lake. As soon as Rei can feel the water touch her feet, Yukari dives in sending a splash onto Shinji and Rei. Shinji looks to Rei with an uneasy stare.
"Well let's see if humans can float."
With just the lightest of whispers Rei bows her head and speaks. "Why my kiss?"
"It was a damn good one."
Rei feels Shinji leave her side and walk into the water where Yukari begins to show him the basics. After sometime Rei gets into the water and shows off her clear dominates in Swimming over Yukari and Rei is blind. Shinji easily picks up what Rei is teaching him faster then Yukari ever could. And in only a half hour Yukari Shinji swim with Rei in between them using their bodies as a guideline.
"You're a natural Shinji!"
With a thumb up Shinji looks around at how easy this is, and to top it off her is enjoying it. He looks over to see Rei smile at him as she swims along side. After sometime Shinji's fondness of swinging is ending as fatigue begins to set in.
"When were you going to tell me about this..."
The only one not tired is Rei who has to slow down so not to get lost from her only eyes, Yukari and Shinji. She however is not willing to answer the question but Yukari does. "About what."
"The whole, I feel like my arms are going to brake off."
"Oh that..." Yukari does her best to stay awake as she yawns a bit. "Your going to love when you get out of the water, then it feels like your arms are going to fall off."
"Oh, joy..." With a spit of water, Shinji looks to the Frigate that sits in the lake. "Now that's a waste of money."
All know what Shinji is referring to, when it comes to the JRN Junichi. This little frigate took Geo-Front construction crews nearly two years to get the ship down here and its never used. In fact, the ship hasn't seen a crew since she left the pacific, all of her weapons are computer controlled. So the JRN Junichi turned out to be a waste, in some eyes seeing that it has never been used. Rei is the only one to know about the JRN Sato that its way below in Terminal Dogma guarding the Second Angel and the end to all of mankind.
The Three finally reach the entry plug and Shinji is first to the hatch. Nevertheless, he realizes that opening the side hatch would flood the plug so he goes to the top. One thing Shinji does know more then any pilot, is how to work the emergency and manual release hatch. Rei and Yukari wait in the water as Shinji finally pulls the canopy release sending the canopy up and forward. The vibration and movement from the plug has Shinji falling inside, when Yukari losses sight of Shinji she looks to Rei to see that she is worried.
Shinji rubs his head after his fall he looks up to see Asuka naked inside of the entry plug. Frozen and unable to move Shinji stares at her naked and knocked out. Her beauty is unbelievable to Shinji who lost almost all functions. The innocent features of Asuka seem so calming as she lies in the Plug the light that shines in gives Asuka a glossy look from the LCL that is still on her body.
"Amazing..."
Shinji makes his fist movement and moves up the throne of souls touching Asuka's leg. As soon as he does she lashes out, still with her eyes closed she gives a blood-curtailing scream as she lunges at Shinji grabbing his neck. Her strength seems unbelievable; Shinji was completely caught off guard and now cannot breath. He looks to see Asuka's eyes are open and blood shot, she grinds her teeth like an animal as she applies more pressure onto Shinji. Unable to breath and speak a thought quickly enters Shinji's mind.
'She's going to kill me.' Becoming lightheaded, Shinji falls backwards with Asuka now on top of him, her eyes seemed to be glazed over and her pupils are only tiny dots in the field of Blue. 'They're... beautiful...' Shinji's brain is now in panic mode firing off unlocking different memories. He remembers the last time he thought he was going to die; it was when Asuka rescued him from drowning. 'At least its not a bad way to...'
Just as Shinji is about to black out the plug tilts a little as both Rei and Yukari fall into the plug. Yukari having sight is first to see the danger and she reaches out for Asuka only to have her strike her in the face cutting the young girls lip. She falls back onto Rei, who can feel that there is a problem. She scrambles to the Pilots seat, as soon as she feels Asuka's naked body she hears Shinji final cry.
"He...lp... me..."
With his call censer, Rei raps her arms around Asuka and pulls her back. Not able to judge herself, Asuka and Rei fall off the throne of souls and into the bottom of the plug.
"Momma!"
Asuka's cry is full of tears as she is literally knocked by to reality. She begins to shiver in Rei's arms grasping her tightly. With a sigh and a worried tone in her Voice Rei does her best to ease Asuka's pain. "I'm here Asuka..."
After a few minutes that seems like an hour for Asuka she finally calms herself and lessons her grip on Rei. Resting in peace, she begins to look around to see Yukari over top of Shinji who is doing his best to catch his breath. Not soon, after she looks at him, he looks to her and the two make eye contact. The reaction is not what one would believe even if Asuka lays in Rei's lap naked she does not take notice at first only the look in Shinji's eyes.
"So who's idea was it to go skinny dipping inside of a Entry Plug?" Everyone looks to Yukari who sits in the pilot seat sucking on her lip.
Now it sets into Asuka that she is naked and Shinji is looking at her. "Ahhhhh! With a swift kick to the jaw Shinji flies back to the end of the plug.
Crashing into the back in a ball Shinji allows the sting of the kick to pass. "I guess I disserved that."
"Pervert!" Asuka yells out as she covers her self with her arms. "Err..."
"Sorry!" Shinji call out as he remains in a pile at the bottom of the plug.
Rei, who still has her arms raped around Asuka looks to her friend. "If you wish you can have my plug suit."
Smiling at the gesture Asuka shakes her head. "No its okay I will take Shinji's."
"What!" Shinji remains in a ball but still well aware of himself. "First you choke me then you kick me now you want to steal my Plug suit!"
"You disserved, besides its payback!"
"Payback!" Shinji calls out in out right disparity to Asuka's comment. "Payback for what!"
"You saw me naked so I will see you naked!"
With no intentions on giving up his plug suit so a bunch of girls can see him, naked Shinji thinks of a way out of it. "But my suit its made for a guy wont it... you know..."
Yukari pops her head down from the throne of souls. "Don't worry Shinji, Asuka isn't as well endowed as us Ayanami's..."
Shinji hears a scream then the sound of a kick and in short, notice Yukari is next to him curled up in a ball. "I know you disserved that."
"Yukari give me your plug suit!"
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Far off in the middle of the Geo-surface forest Kaji pops his head out of a secret access hatch. After he is out he brushes off his uniform but freezes when he hears the all to familiar charging of a handgun. With the cool spy mentality that he has, he raises his hands in the air chuckling."You got me."
At first there is nothing but the one quickly identifies herself. "Going somewhere?"
The voice is none other then Misato, this is a surprise for Kaji as he turns to face her and the USP she has aiming at his head. "Leaving actually..."
"So Yukari was right." Misato keeps her gun steady as she also holds a firm look. "You're a spy for the Japanese government."
"Kinda, but isn't their a angel attacking"
A small smirk from Misato as she points downwards. "Ritsuko said she could handle it, but don't change the subject."
Kaji puts his hands in his pocket, in a effort to show Misato he is not scared. "I'm a spy for the truth... I do this for that alone."
Misato lowers her gun and holsters it but she still is not pleased with Kaji. "The truth, the truth is out."
"No..." With a smile, Kaji walks up to Misato. "The truth about NERV, we aren't earths saviors but her hangman." Misato steps back fearful of the look Kaji gives, it is the look if truth and a cold one at that. "The truth in the Evangelion, Rei, Yukari, and Seele..."
"Seele..." With a puzzled look Misato looks to Kaji. "What's Seele?"
"I don't know," Kaji ends his scare tactic and shrugs his shoulders as he looks at the Lake and the Plug that floats inside. "But I have a feeling that young girl does..."
Misato looks out to the lake. "Asuka?"
"No..." Kaji shakes his head. "Yukari..."
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Next Problem... Boomerang Part 1 (Dateius Maximus and the Angel that could)
