Disclaimer: I do not own AMG or NGE.
Dodging a force bolt for the shadow, Anata quickly recovered from the blast.
"Damn… This one's different. He's fast and smart!" Anata said to her self.
"Damn it!! Anata something's coming and it's big!" Kou yelled as he started to since something heading their way.
Looking off in the direction the feeling was coming from. Anata and the shadow both saw the huge robot's heading their way. Seeing a chance to up its chance of defeating its target, the shadow ran past Anata and headed straight for the red one.
In the cockpits of the three Evangelion, the children got am image of Misato on their screens. "Alright you three listen up! There's fur more signatures, it's unconfirmed rather they're Angels or not. But take no chances, level that forest!"
"Yes Ma'am!" the three replied.
"Yes this is going to be easy!" Asuka said out loud. "Smash a forest no problem."
The three Eva's stood at the spot where the reading where coming from but there was nothing, nothing but forest all around them.
"This is strange….. There's nothing there." Shinji said over the com link. "Misato are you sure that this is the place?"
In the geo front, Misato went over to where Hyuga sat. "Are they?" Misato asked.
Hyuga tapped his glasses up his nose more. "Yes ma'am, they should be right on top of it!"
"You hear that! Keep a sharp eye out for anything!" Misato yelled back to the children.
The three Eva's backed them self's to where they had their backs to each other each keeping a close eye on the forest below and around them.
"Asuka you see anything?" Shinji asked in a whisper.
Inside her Unit 02 she scanned the area but saw nothing but trees. "Nothing… false alarm maybe?" Asuka replied. "What about you wonder girl?"
Rei's eyes slowly looked across the forest before her then shook her head. "Negative… Perhaps there is a malfunction in the Geo fronts sensors?"
Just then there was an explosion off in the distance, making each of the pilots turning their Eva in that direction. Shinji and Asuka opened fire with their 120mm machine gun, while blasted away at the same area with her rifle. After a volley that lasted for a good thirty seconds, the pilots stopped and waited.
"Still nothing…. Is it invisible?" Shinji asked him self.
Then there was an other explosion.
"There! 1.603 Km's out!" Rei said over the com link. Shinji and Asuka then fired at the area the second explosion.
"Will you two knock it off!!! Stop wasting ammo!!!" Misato yelled over the com link, and crushing her microphone at the same time.
"Major! The target is 1.562 Km's from the Eva's!" Hyuga shouted. "1.530…… 1.389……1.232……. 1.143…….. And closing!"
"What about you three see anything!?" Misato yelled now worried for the children.
".572km….. .432….. .300….. .265….. .100! The target is right on top of them!!!"
"I don't see anything!!" Asuka said. "Damn it!!!"
Just then a black figure jumped out from the trees and darted at Asuka's Unit 02.
"What the Hell!!!" Asuka screamed as her unit 02 brought its arm up and fired the massive machinegun. The black figure was able to dodge the shells with ease. Then it drove it self in to the chest of Unit 02.
"The Target has come in physical contact with Unit 02!" Aoba yelled over his shoulder.
"Eject the entry plug! Get Asuka out of there!" Misato yelled as she tan over to Aoba's station.
Aoba pushed him self on his chair down to the other end of his work station. Then lifted a cover from a set of buttons, he then smashed his hand on to a red button. "Ejecting Unit 02's entry plug!"
"What the hell! MY controls aren't working!!" Asuka yelled as she fought with the controls to her Eva. Then the main screen went blank and then in red letters all around her the word EJECT appeared.
Out side the back to her Eva opened up allowing her Entry Plug to launch from inside the Eva to safety.
Back at the Ego front, every one breathed a sigh of relief when there was a confirmation that Asuka was safe. "The Second Child is at a safe distance…." Aoba reported. But their relief was short lived.
"The target is taking control of Unit 02!" Maya reported.
"Damn No break!" Misato said to her self. "Disconnect the power from Unit 02! Quick shut her down!"
Maya started to type madly at her station, trying to shut down Unit 02, but every command she entered was rejected. "It's not working! Every command I enter is rejected!"
Across from Maya, Ritsuko sat typing even faster then Maya was. "The Main command path way is being rewritten!" Ritsuko said. "But what about this!!!"
Just then out in the forest, the power cable supplying Unit 02 with power suddenly disconnects it self from the Eva.
"That all I was able to do before I was totally blocked out from the main command path ways!" Ritsuko yelled. "That gives Units 00 and 01 five minutes to stop it!"
Misato nodded. "Right! Shinji! Rei! You two hear that! Disable Unit 02, beat that angle out of it, and make sure that they never try something like that again!"
Before Shinji or Rei could reply, Asuka came over the com link in voice only mode. "Like hell!" She yelled. "If any of you two puts a scratch on my Unit 02 I'll kill you both!"
"ASUKA! STAY OFF THIS CHANNEL!!" Misato yelled back. "Rei, Shinji you two have your orders!"
"Roger." Rei said, she then quickly turned her Eva around and aimed her rifle at Unit 02, but just as she was able to pull the trigger, the possessed Unit 02 then with a swift punch to the chest sent Rei and her Eva flying across the forest.
"AYANAMI!!" Shinji yelled, "Sorry Asuka…."
Unit 01 then aimed his machine gun at Unit 02 then pulled the trigger. Before the first volley could hit Unit 02, the faster then normal turned around a used it's AT field blocking the shells. Then it rushed Shinji, grabbing his machine gun from his Eva's hands. Shinji watched in horror as his one weapon was turned on him, but he was able to knock the gun from Unit 02's hands just as the first shell was about to leave the gun striking the ground some fifty yards away in the forest.
When the dust cleared in the forest Anata found that Kou shielded her from the blast.
"Damn it Kou that was stupid!" Anata said. "Are you alright?"
"I'm fine what about you?" Kou asked as he stood up and helped Anata back up to her feet.
"I'm okay, but that Shadow just took that Robot……" Anata said but then she started to think. "Wait….. Robots don't have a soul, so how did a Shadow take a robot?"
Fiona, still dusting her self off looked over at Anata and Kou. "Yeah didn't you say that a shadow can only take something with a weak soul or when it's just a shell or something?"
Raziel then turned around to see the two huge robots still battling it out no more then fifty yards away from them. "Fiona look…. It's a huge Evangelion!" Raziel said pointing at the red and purple robots. Fiona, Anata and Kou then looked at the robots.
"Damn you didn't say that you guys can get that big!" Kou shouted at Raziel.
"We can't… at least not that I know of!" Raziel replied. Then he saw a huge knife fall from the sky heading right for them. "Watch out!!!"
Seeing the knife coming at them, every one scattered from the area just as the knife that looked like a box cutter crashed in to the ground.
"We need to stop it! It's still a shadow!" Kou said as he drew his staff.
"Right." Anata agreed, she then took a battle cross from her ear ring letting it unfold. "I just need the time and a clear shot to fire my divine beam. Can you guys give me the time?"
Fiona and Raziel looked at each other and nodded. Then in a flash they had changed in to their Evangelion armor. "We can think of something." Fiona said with a nod.
Meanwhile Shinji fought on with the possessed Unit 02, both having lost a progressive knife. "Damn…. IT still as three minutes and ten seconds remaining."
Just out of the corner of his eye, Shinji saw Unit 00 run up at Unit 02 landing a powerful punch right in its head; sending the red one flying into a mountain side.
"Are you all Right Ikari-kun?" Rei asked over the com link.
"I'm okay…. Ayanami watch out!" Shinji screamed as he watched Unit 02 draw its second progressive knife and throw it at Rei. only having seconds to react, Unit 00 brought its arm up, blocking the knife from hitting anything vital, But in side the entry plug Rei had grabbed on to her arm in unbelievable pain.
"Ayanami are you okay?" Shinji asked as his Eva stood back up.
"I will require medical treatment later on…." Rei replied as she fought back the urge to scream out in pain.
Unit 01 then drew its last progressive knife. Shinji sat in side his Eva breathing heavily. "Asuka…. I'm sorry; I know how you feel about your Eva. But I need to stop it….." Shinji said to him self. Then he forced the two control sticks forward, making his Eva run to Unit 02.
Standing back up, Unit 02 then made a display of power that no Eva has. Bring its hands together lightning started to spark between its hands. Then a ball of energy started to form. As Shinji got closer and closer the energy ball kept on growing. But just as the possessed Unit 02 was about to bring back it arms getting it self ready to use that energy ball, a bolt of lightning came down from the sky. Looking to where the lightning looked like it came from, Shinji saw a figure that looked like a person, but couldn't make out anything else.
Floating high above the two battling Evangelions, Kou raised his hand to the sky again. "God of thunder of lighting grant me your power! LIGHTNING BOOM!!!"
Just as the huge bolt of lighting came down striking Unit 02 again, Fiona and Raziel ran to Unit 02 with a knocked down tree under their arms. "Remember go for the ankles!" Raziel shouted.
"I know!"
Just then the made the tree hit Unit 02 in the back of the ankle to its right foot, making it stager on the loose earth beneath it. But only losing it balance for a second. Just as it regained its balance a battle cross came flying at it getting it self wedged in between two plates of armor. Then a second cross hit the first one in the blue orb, making the whole left arm turn to stone.
Kou looked over to where his love floated. "Now's your chance! Anata do it now!"
Unit 02 started to flex its arm making the stone crumble.
Anata brought her hands to her chest. Letting a ball of energy form, in between her hands; slowly it started to turn in to a small glowing rod with rings spinning around the rod.
In the Geo front alarms started to go off, Aoba turned to Misato. "There's a high energy level formed!! It's an energy beam!!!"
"Ah Hell!!! Shinji, Rei get the hell out of there!!!" Misato yelled. "Asuka get back in your entry plug and flood it with emergency LCL!! Shinji grab Asuka and you three run for cover!!!"
"Major the energy is still climbing!!!" Aoba yelled.
Asuka looked up past the trees to see that point where the energy was forming. "Shit!"
Asuka then ran to her entry plug, and closed the hatch behind her. Quickly Asuka made sure she was connected to her entry plug chair. Out side the power cables giving Unit's 00 and 01 disconnected letting the two Evangelions to run freely.
"Hold on Asuka!" Shinji yelled as he made his Eva run with great speed. Shinji watched as Asuka's entry plug became more visible from under the trees. Going in to a dive, the right hand grabbed on to the entry plug while the left hand planted in to the ground. Doing a rather impressive move, Shinji sent his Eva flying over a mountain. But while doing so the back of Unit 01's head slammed in to the same side of the mountain sending it in to a tumble.
Still forming her Devine beam, her eyes went in to a bright white then she focused on the red Evangelion. "DEVINE BEAM!!!"
The rod that was forming in her hands fired off making a bright beam, shooting through Unit 02 and driving the Shadow with in it out. The shadow let out a deafening scream of pain, and then the beam struck that earth making an explosion that encompassed the whole valley. When the dust cleared all that remained in the valley was Unit 02 with out power and untouched except for the damaged left arm. Unit 01 peeked up over the mountain to see what had happened. Shinji was stunned to see Asuka's Unit 02 relatively undamaged.
"Strange….." Shinji said to him self, thinking out loud. Then Misato's voice started to crackle over the com link.
"Sh….. Rei….. Shinji, do you have Asuka?" Misato asked.
Shinji looked down to his Eva's right hand to find Asuka's entry plug undamaged. "Yes I have her."
"Great you and Rei use recovery point 34 and power down. The recovery crews will take care of Unit 02." Misato said with a heavy sigh of relief.
"Yes ma'am." Both Shinji and Rei replied.
In the control room Misato flopped down in a chair. "That was a close one….." Closing her eyes Misato took a moment to gather herself, but when she opened her eyes there was a mug of coffee there in front of her.
"Great Job Major Katsuragi. You saved the Earth once again." Ritsuko said with a smile.
"Thanks but the kids should get all the credit." Misato said before she took a sip of her coffee.
"Well you're not going to think that after I tell you something." Ritsuko said, making all three the main control room techs look over at the two friends.
"What do you mean?" Misato asked.
"Oh the Commander wants to talk to you about what just happened." Ritsuko replied in a sort or playful tone.
"Is it bad?" Misato asked.
Ritsuko only shrugged her shoulders.
Up at his desk, the commander of NERV flipped through the reports of the latest attack. Hearing the door open to his look out point over the control room, he turns his chair around to see the Misato standing at the door.
"Sir you wanted to speak to me?" Misato asked.
"Yes… This resent attack has shown that we have some flaws in our training of the pilots." Gendo said coldly.
"Yes sir I'll admit that we where ill prepared for such a crises."
"Indeed…. But none the less, you and the children handled this 'crises' quite well, Good job Major." Gendo said as he turned his chair back around to his desk.
"Yes sir, thank you."
"You are dismissed." Gendo said. Misato was just about to walk away from the commander, but…. "Oh and Major Katsuragi."
Misato froze in the spot she stood. "Yes sir."
"Please extend my congratulations on a job well done to the pilot of Unit 01." Gendo said with out turning around or with out looking up from his paper work.
"Yes sir." Misato said then she quickly left the look out deck.
T.B.C.