Disclaimer: Instead of doing a long typical disclaimer, I'll be brief. Anything that has a copyright protection belongs to their respective owners.
Notes: This is my first attempt at Eva fan-fiction, but who cares about that.
P.S: I suck at writing.
Eins Zwei Drei
By North Freezing
Chapter 1:
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It was a warm and cloudless night. The moon was up and the stars held all who gazed upon them spellbound, a perfect evening to do a little stargazing with love ones. Sakes or watermelons would make the scene even better. Oh, let's not forgot about the lovely fireworks, too.
Of course, that only applied to citizens lived outside of Tokyo Three Fortress City because over here, fireworks could kill you.
" High energy buildup detected inside the target again!" Shouted Maya.
" No!" Misato cried. Damn it! The recharge rate of the angel's weapon! How did I forget to test that! She mentally berated herself. The operation had gone down to hell when the 5th angel: Ramiel decided the eva, which was positioned just outside of its kill-zone, to be a potential threat and attacked simultaneously. The first shot misfired because of that.
Shinji made a surprised yelp when another deadly beam flew toward him. By instinct he closed his eyes and braced for the inevitable pain and maybe even death that would follow. But a few seconds later he opened them again when he realized that his heart was still beating. How? He peered around the targeting monitor for the positron cannon and quickly found his answer. " Ayanami!" Unit-00 was kneeling before his eyes, blocking the shot intended for him with the makeshift shield that was created by super electro-magnetically coated the bottom of a hand-me-down SSTO.
Which was melting away like butter.
"It won't be able to hold for long!" Ritsuko watched helplessly as said shield slowly turned into a giant alloy flat-cake around Unit-00's foot.
Misato snapped her attention back to Makoto with a worried expression on her face. "How much longer for the cannon?"
" Ten more seconds!"
Shinji pull his eyes back to the display screen and waited for the second shot of the positron cannon to be charged. Faster! He pleaded. Each second felt like a minute in his mind as the Nerv technician continued the countdown. The trucks that carried their umbilical cable had been knocked off balanced by the shockwave from the first shot, and it just happened to damage the power generators, so he and Rei didn't have much time left. "Shield reaching critical status!" Someone else exclaimed, Shinji couldn't remembered exactly who though, as he already willed the eva into action upon hearing a loud 'Fizz' sound which had the uncanny resemblance to scorching magma when it came in contact with cool water.
"Shinji-kun!"
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Click, Click.
The annoying sound from a pair of high heels echoed throughout the empty corridor of Geo-front. It finally stopped as the owner of said shoes found her intended target. Doctor Akagi wasn't surprised at the sight before her eyes. Misato was sitting on the far end of a bench near a vending machine with a blank look on her face, bags under her eyes, a half empty can of coffee in her hand and about a dozen empty ones laid around her feet as well. The artificial sunlight, which filled the hallway with warmth through the windows, seemed to mock the mood of the person sitting down.
" You know, sitting here looking like a zombie is not going to help with anything. Whatever happened wasn't your fault. The angel has been defeated after all."
" Ritsuko, don't try to make me feel better." Misato replied with a dejected tone then let out a sigh, "I won't be surprised if the commander decides to fire me, and I mean both figuratively and literally." A moment of silence passed between them. "And I can't blame him for either choices." Misato patted the seat beside her, gestured her old friend to sit down.
" Rei is fine. The heat had caused her body temperature to act a bit irregular, but its back to normal now. She'll just have to stay for observation for another day." Ritsuko took her seat. " Don't worry, even if he's a bastard, commander has enough sense to not do something that stupid." I think. She mentally added.
Trying to change the topic, she flipped through a couple pages of notes on her clipboard. " What Shinji has done was incredible. The data collected for this mission will have me working overtime this entire week."
"Don't you think you have your priorities backward? Shinji's still trapped inside the eva!" A bewildered and angry captain turned to face her friend. " We don't know how to get him out of that entry plug, or whether he's dead or alive!"
Dr. Akagi Ritsuko seemed a bit irritated at the major's comment, as if she already been through similar argument beforehand. " Be reasonable, you saw the situation yourself. I can't do anything about it. You know the only way to cancel an AT field is with another AT field of equal or greater strength, and one with magnitude this powerful had never been witnessed before, let alone when there are two of them."
After venting off a bit of steam, she continued. " Don't worry about Shinji, he appears to be alive. We did several scans to see if the pilot is all right, and from what we picked up his heartbeat appears to be normal. Albeit a little slower, as if he's asleep."
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" The committee isn't going to like this."
Gendo didn't reply. The gears in his head were working overtime trying to develop a solution to deal with this unexpected predicament, but so far he came up with nothing. Therefore he was doing his favorite hands-cover-half-of-your-face-and-act-like-you-eat-baby-for-breakfast pose, (Wow, that was long) also known as Gendo position (tm), as a display to show that he was in control of everything.
He reread the report that Akagi sent in an hour ago. It contained all records on the battle of the 5th angel and the aftermath. I guess reading it over again wouldn't hurt, the old men's spies probably got the exact same document back to them already. And since they haven't hit the panic button to summon him, his ass should be okay for now.
When the angel's assault had almost breached the shield that Rei was holding, Unit-01 stood up unexpectedly. The beam, which already had a lock-on on Unit-01's head, traveled upward as well, causing the shot to miss the crouching Unit-00. A powerful AT field of immense strength then appeared in front of Unit-01's face and ricocheted the deadly ray upward into the sea of stars above, just a few centimeters away from eva's face. The surprised look on all witness's face went up another notch when a second AT field of equal power materialized and reflected the beam back toward its gunner. The shaft of light formed a delta pattern in the night sky before it destroyed Ramiel, whose AT field apparently wasn't able to withstand it's own attack. All of this happened within five seconds. The eva ceased functioning afterward.
If it only were just another berserk pilot/machine incident… Gendo reflected. It would be much easier to deal with.
Nerv retrieved the walking death machines back to their respective cages in the Geo-front afterward. However, after power cables were inserted in order to get the pilots out, the spawn of hell called Unit-01 let out a growl. All active personnel nearby scrambled away from the hanger that contained Unit-01 in fear. The rescue teams that were preparing to recover the Third Child, whose communication apparently went offline during the phenomenon, retreated as well. Unit-00 appeared to have no problems. Its pilot was now under observation after minor medical treatment.
The emergency Bakelite was then released into the cage of Unit-01 as a safety measure in case of the unit going berserk inside the base; unexpectedly the same AT field that stopped the 5th angel suddenly materialized and held the flooding at bay. Nerv tried various tactics to breach the impregnable barrier yet the purple beast held everything from getting within its five-meter radius. The situation had become a stalemate between the giant robot and the people that created it, which already lasted about a day and a half. The good thing was that the eva had done nothing more and was apparently satisfied with just being left along, something many people were welling to comply, even if it meant losing their jobs.
The problem still remain however, as the Third Child was still inside. By all account, he couldn't be in control because of the lack of power. The life-support had already been switched on twenty-four hours ago when they cut the power source as an attempt to shut down the AT field. The attempt failed, and power was restored back to the unit to keep the pilot alive. Upon further analysis, two AT fields were detected, which meant that even if Rei somehow managed to nullify the first one, there's a second one to worry about. Furthermore, such action might trigger whatever self defense mechanism the eva had developed. IE. Berserk. Which led them back to square one. As such they could only wait until the pilot regain consciousness to see if he could regain control again, which hopefully wouldn't take too long.
Gendo rubbed his temple, and tuned back to reality in search of something less troublesome.
"I don't want to think what they'll do to us, probably have your head on a pike outside of Nerv and mine beside it. Anyway do you need some KY? Doctor Oshiri of the medical department said it's good at relieving stress or something."
" Fuyutsuki…"
" Yes Ikari?"
" Shut up."
" Fine."
Satisfied that he made someone else miserable, the supreme commander decided to take a washroom break, unfortunately the emergency light blinked on his desk, meaning a hologram meeting with Seele would be held in five minutes. At least that's the worst thing today. Maybe I could use some of those KY…
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"Hey guys! What is this thing doing over here?" Inquired Shigeru, he took a piece of paper that was sitting on top of the printer.
Curious by the comment, His fellow bridge mates scooted around him to see what was so important about it. All of them had been working overtime already and were grateful for the distraction. Their eyes grew wider as they read the content.
" Someone should deliver this to the commander." Makoto said. His voice trembled.
" Why, does that mean you are volunteering?" Shigeru snorted. Everyone knew how dangerous the commander was. The rumor had been that the last person who entered the commander office unannounced got send to the North Pole base. And they didn't have a base over at North Pole.
" Umm, shouldn't sempai deliver this to the commander? Why don't we just wait until she came back and give it to her?" Maya asked. " It's the calculation from the magi after all." The guys readily approved of such action.
They remained quiet for a moment." Coffee anyone?" said Shigeru. Makoto and Maya agreed, trying to forget the disturbing piece of information they just read.
Back at the commander's office, if anyone happened to be close by, they could hear the distress cry of Gendo Ikari as he heard the news first-handed from his superiors.
" TWO YEARS!"
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End chapter 1
TBC
Author notes: Well, that's the first chapter. Wish I had an editor or something. I tried to make things appear plausible, so if there's something that seemed out of place please excuse me. I guess this chapter is more of a prologue. Hopefully I could come up with more for the next chapter.
The next chapter will take place 2 years later, so some OOC is bound to happen. Don't worry though; Shinji isn't going to start chewing bubblegum and ready to kickass with an Uzi while wearing shades (no promise though…). I'm not even sure if I'll have him back that fast. As for Rei, she'll remain pretty much the same as I envisioned her. I don't know if it'll be a good thing or not, but I'm sure I'll enjoy writing about it. : Evil grin:
Oh yeah, if you don't like cross over you could stop reading now.
PS. I didn't create the term Gendo position (TM), another author came up with the term but I can't remember who…
Glossary:
Eins, Zwei, Drei: one, two, three in German, I decided on German because the English sounds boring.
SSTO (Single Stage to Orbit): a vehicle capable of achieving orbit without the use of staging: the entire vehicle reaches orbit.
Doctor Oshiri: Oshiri meant ass in Japanese. I thought it'd fit.
By the way, I hate the formatting of this site.