Wrath of the Evangelion
Chapter II Rage of Unit 01-X
WARNING: THIS CHAPTER HAS EXTREME GRAPHIC VIOLENCE. NOT INTENDED FOR THOSE WITH WEAK STOMACHES AS IT USES REFERENCE OF BLOOD.
It had been three weeks since Shinji returned; he and Asuka were still at arms but Asuka had calmed down considerably. Shinji started schooling again although one year behind Asuka and Rei he; never really minded. Shinji also met with Ritsuko to explain to her the mechanics behind whatever he knew of Unit 01-X which wasn't much. He was also stumped on how SunCe was able to conceive neither two components nor what he programmed into the unit to be able to reach its Berserker Mode easier. However Shinji never set foot back into the hangar for a long time, let alone NERV HQ, choosing to spend most of his time either in school or hanging with his two best friends. Today however Shinji chose to hang Asuka and Rei at the mall for the day.
They were having lunch together when Shinji spoke "Wow I don't remember Tokyo-3 having a mall," Shinji remarked as he admired the beauty.
"Well if you don't remember, we were on a constant state of alert because of the threat of angels," Asuka scoffed.
Shinji chuckled as he replied, "Your fiery attitude still hasn't changed. But at least you don't seem as egotistical."
"Yeah well some things change while others things don't," Asuka commented, "My, how did you say; 'egotistical' side is gone, so as Rei's obey every order like a machine personality," stating the obvious before taking a bit of her sandwich.
"That's true," Rei nodded as Asuka's comment, "But you've changed as well. You aren't that lonely or self-blaming boy that we met back then."
Shinji nodded as he was about to speak but was interrupted by Asuka, "Yeah well considering that he did spend a year by himself," her eyes looking at Shinji, "Which I might add is extremely stupid you idiot, I'm not surprised that he's changed. Who wouldn't after spending a year of solitude eh?"
"I guess. But you didn't have to rub it in my face Asuka," Shinji responded slightly fearing that Asuka might throw another fit and try to kill him again. But before anyone could say anything Shinji's phone started ringing.
Pulling his cell phone out of his pocket he answered the call, "Hello, Shinji speaking."
"Shinji, it's me Misato. Please tell me that you are with Asuka and Rei," her voice sounded urgent.
"Yeah she's with me," Shinji replied while the other two were listening in.
"Good. You three need to get here now!" her voice trembling from panic, "The 13th Angel has appeared. I don't know how but it's using the same body from last time. But we have a problem. Unit 02-A and Unit 14 won't be ready to sortie for a while so you will have to go at it alone."
"Alright Misato the three of us will be down there A.S.A.P." Shinji then hung up the phone.
"Yo Shinji, what's the haps?" Asuka asked wondering what that was about.
"I'll explain on the way, but we need to get to NERV HQ now," upon hearing that the three of bolted up and quickly went for the exit
"Ikari explain what's happening so far," Rei inquired as everyone piled into Rei's car as she started it up.
"The 13th Angel is about to enter the city, plus apparently it has showed up in its Eva form," Shinji started to explain, "But the bad news is that I will be soloing against it."
"The hell is that suppose to mean?" Asuka asked bluntly, "Are you that big of an idiot? How can you sortie against an angel by yourself even with your snazzy new Eva?"
"Your Eva as well as Rei's won't be operating for a while longer," Shinji explained, "So therefore I will have to sortie against that damn thing until your units are ready to go."
"Damn it all. This is going to be bad," Rei exclaimed, "Ikari have you been training at all during the past 4 years. In fact have you even piloted an Eva during the last 4 years?"
"Not for the last 3 years," Shinji replied angered that he might be out of shape, "Three weeks ago was the first time in three years."
"Damn it all you really are an idiot," Asuka cried out in disbelief, "Well looks like it's going to be a repeat of your very first battle."
"I hope not," Shinji quietly replied, remembering how the first time he felt this arm breaking as well as being impaled in the eye.
Soon they had arrived at NERV HQ all three of them rushing into the appropriate change rooms. Shinji opened his locker to find instead of his normal white and blue plug suit it was black and white. (AN: To those who don't get it, the first color is the upper body while the second is the lower body) All three of them quickly slipped on their plug suits and pressurized them. Shinji quickly went for the hangar while the other two reported to the command hub. Misato had just cleared the hangar when he entered. He quickly jumped into his entry plug which was then inserted. Quickly the command hub went through the activation of Eva Unit 01-X, flooded the tub with L.C.L. as normal going through all three stages of activation. By the time Unit 01-X was ready for launch the city had already went underground, and Bardial had just appeared.
"Alright then Shinji are you ready to go?" Misato asked, while Shinji merely responded by sticking his thumb up, "Then launch Eva Unit 01-X t-minus 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, LAUNCH!" as normal, the elevator platform shot up with a great force as 01-X traveled along the various shafts that led up to the surface. Moments after reaching the surface the clamps released as Shinji had his Eva take up fighting stance.
For a few moments nothing happened as Unit 01-X stood its ground. Feeling impatient Misato was about to call Shinji again when all of a sudden the Eva's eyes glowed from white to red as it threw its head back letting out a deafening roar.
"What the hell?" Misato breathed in amazement.
"But how did he enter Berserker mode?" Ritsuko asked in complete disbelief, "That shouldn't happen. Shinji isn't in any danger."
After a moment of silence, Eva Unit 01-X quickly withdrew the pistols from the holsters in it legs. As it drew its weapon Bardial reacted by launched its attack stretching an arm out. The Eva jumped to its left, getting back up as it fired its weapons. Not being able to move out of the way on time the angel backed away as it was bombarded by projectile fire. Emptying the clips of its pistols it quickly dropped them and extended its Progressive Blades. But before it could make a move Bardial renewed its attack as it launched both arms again towards 01-X. It quickly jumped aside but had not noticed that it had also extended a leg and kicked 01-X in the back lurching it forward into the path of the retracting arms. However when the arms were coming back the Eva was able to dodge one arm but the other grazed it's chest ripping off a bit of it's armour and cutting into the flesh underneath. The Eva let out a howl as blood spouted the wound, bringing a hand up to cover the wound. Shinji in the mean time was in control brought his hand to his chest as he also felt the cut on his chest. Looking down he saw that his gloves was covered in blood. After recovering from the pain, Shinji had his Eva do something that surprised everyone. His Eva had sprouted wings from its back.
"Impossible," Asuka whispered in disbelief, "Only Units 05-13 had that ability," her head turning to look at Rei, "Looks like our friend Shinji here has some extremely smart friends in China," Asuka said with a sly smile on her face. Rei smiled back before looking at the screen again.
"Ritsuko do you know anything about this?" Misato asked completely dumbfounded from what she was witnessing.
"Sure I noticed it in the schematics but Shinji didn't know anything about it was designed into the Eva," Ritsuko replied, "Also I don't think you noticed but did you see that it didn't have a section on its back for the Umbilical Cable?"
"What?" Misato asked her eyes widening, "But it's been three minutes. Shinji Eva will lose unless it finishes this battle soon!"
But Ritsuko simply shook her head, "Not in this case. Like Unit 01, this one also has an S2 Engine. But unlike Unit 01 which absorbed the engine, this one had it built in."
"Amazing," Misato breathed out before someone called her as she looked at the screen again.
Eva 01-X had taken off into the air, then diving straight for Bardial. The angel had launched its arms but Eva 1-X merely dodging the attacks as it got closer. Bardial's attack became less frequent as Shinji got closer but was also becoming more accurate as its attack grazed Shinji's Eva more often. At the last moment its wings spread out to break its fall, and landed in front of the angel. Before the angel had anytime to react, Shinji had Eva 01-X had swung its arms up cutting off both arms of Bardial. Afterwards Eva 1-X took a step back as it retracted it's Progressive Blades into its arms and pulled out a Progressive Knife. But before it could lunge its knife its body came to a complete stop except its arm which was shaking madly as if something was preventing it from attacking. Meanwhile Asuka who was watching the whole time was drawn to the plug camera when she heard Shinji screaming.
"NO, EVA 01 YOU CAN'T DO THIS. YOU JUST CAN'T. IT'S WRONG. NO!" Shinji yelled as he threw his head back clutching his head.
"Shinji, what's happening?" Asuka asked, afraid of what was happening.
"Eva 01 wants to stab that thing to death," Shinji weakly replied before he felt another wave of pain, "AGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH! WHY DOES IT WANT TO DO SUCH A DAMN THING! THE ORIGINAL WOULD NEVER GO THAT FAR!" Everyone went silent hearing after hearing Shinji's last comment.
She quickly grabbed a microphone set, put it on her head and started talking to Shinji, "Shinji. Two things, either A: Fight it and lose your mind, or B: LET YOUR EVA HAVE IT'S FILL, and then figure what the fuck is wrong with it later. Personally I choose the latter so that you can prevent this from happening in the future." Shinji looked at her for a moment as he saw the worried look in everyone's eyes. Knowing that he'd rather keep his mind he relaxed as he yielded control to his Eva.
"Wait, Ikari why is your Eva so different from the original?" Rei asked wondering why his Eva would act in such a way, "Didn't your Eva only go berserk to defend you? Shouldn't this one be the same?"
"No not in this case," Shinji replied, "This is a completely different model. Different mind set for this one."
"That's it!" Ritsuko's voice piped up.
"What's it?" Misato asked inquisitively, "Tell me what the hell is happening to one of my pilots!"
"It's really simply," Ritsuko replied in a matter-of-fact tone, "As you know, an Eva is only usable once it has a soul imbued into its body. Afterwards that determines whether or not the Eva accepts a pilot or not. Plus when an Eva goes Berserker it's usually the soul that's in comm..," but Ritsuko was cut off when there was a loud howl.
Eva 01-X had all of a sudden slammed its arm not only stabbing Bardial but also embedding part of its hand into its lower abdomen as well. The angel let out a howl as blood stained its chest as well as the front and hand of Eva 01-X. Although the blood was not as visible on the chest the blood could easily be seen on its face and abdomen as it was white. Yet the angel was still bleeding profusely, while Eva 01-X only had a little bit of its own blood dripping from its chest. The angel had wrapped one of its legs on the Eva's arm as it struggled to pull its hand out but to no avail as it only resulted in more blood to flow from its wounds. All of a sudden the red glow in the Eva's died down as actual eyes appeared, taking a look of its surroundings before it withdrew its knife from the angel causing it to howl in pain again. The angel using its extending capabilities jumped back in attempt to gain some distance from the Eva. Not deterred merely crouched down as it lunged forward with demonic speed as it forced its knife piercing through the AT field that Bardial had erected as it pierced the angel's left chest.
Meanwhile back in the control hub the crew was either in a state of utter shock, or running out to find a place to throw up while others merely threw up on the spot. Asuka and Rei watched in horror as they saw the ferocity of Eva 01-X relentless attack, knowing that Shinji was having it worse as he was in the cockpit.
Shinji had curled himself into a ball as he started mumbling continuously, "Please stop, please stop, please stop, please stop…" but to no avail as his Eva merely withdrew its blade and continued it onslaught. The Eva had pulled its left arm back as it extended its Progressive Blade, thrusting it into the stump that was its right shoulder as the blade pierced yet another AT field as well as the armour as it protruded out its back.
Bardial in a last ditch attempt to destroy Unit 01-X generated an AT Field around the two as it attempted to compress the two of them. Realizing what the angel was doing Unit 01-X generated its own AT Field preventing the angels AT field from crushing the two of them. Eva 01-X continued its attack as it continuously stabbed its torso, and thighs. With each stab blood spouted covering more of Eva 01-X's body. Finally with no strength left it's AT field collapsed as its body crumpled. Eva 01-X took a look around as it saw its surrounding covered in blood. Eva 01-X itself was drenched as blood dripped from its arms, face, body and even its legs. Eva 01-X let out yet another deafening howl as it splashed drops of blood all over. It then bent down ripping off Bardial's head. It took a moment to observe the head. The eyes remained wide opened as its jaw hung there leaving the mouth opened. Parts of it's spine was protruding from what was it's neck as well as it's trachea along with parts of it's lungs and even a bit of it's esophagus as well. Eva 01-X then started ripping off the armour that encased the angels head. After its entire helmet was ripped off piece by piece Eva Unit 01-X did something that made everyone within the command hub sick. Eva 01-X had started to eat the head, sucking in its entrails first. Everyone either fainted or started throwing up.
Asuka who started to feel sick from what she was seeing as she leaned over the dashboard looking at the keyboards in front of her to help prevent throwing up. Rei on the other hand watched paralyzed in fear as she watched her friend helpless and unable to control any of his Eva's actions
After consuming the head Eva 01-X backed away from the carcass, and let out another deafening roar before the ground beneath it erupted as something had jumped up and grabbed Eva Unit 01-X's neck.
There we go. I have finally revised the chapter. Please send me your reviews and your comments about the two revised chapters. Any better? If not tell me how I could improve it even more.