Disclaimer: I do not own anything of Evangelion or Ah! My Goddess.
The earth will tremble…
Speeding back to NERV, Misato explained what was going on back at headquarters.
"That pilot that the commander used earlier today decided to take your unit 02 for a joy ride and there are these intruders through out the whole compound. You guys are to intercept and destroy the intruders and disable unit 02." Misato said as she took a turn at neck breaking speeds. "Rei take unit 00, there is a target that the commander wants you to deal with personally." Misato glanced up in the mirror. "Shinji, Asuka take unit 01and go after unit 02."
"If I get hold of the pilot I'm going to have my way with them! Their going to wish they never hear the word NERV or even set eyes on my Unit 02!" Asuka growled.
"What's going to happen to the pilot when we get them?" Shinji asked.
"For something like this, Shinji you don't want to know." Misato said with a tone that answered Shinji question.
Finally reaching an elevator car, to take the Misato's car right to the cage it self. Shinji stood at one side of the car getting in to his plug suit as Asuka and Rei stood at the other side doing the same.
"I still think that we should know more info…" Asuka said to her self.
"If the Commander thought we should know he would have told the Major." Rei remarked.
"But this person used your Evangelion and now is using mine to trash the place." Asuka pointed out. "We should know what we're dealing with… Shinji what do you think?"
Shinji pressed the button on the rest of her plug suit making it air tight. "I think that there was a reason for this pilot to do the things that they're doing, I want to know those reasons before acting."
Before Asuka could get on his case about his answer, the elevator car ground to a stop making all three of the pilots fall to the ground, getting out of her car, Misato hung up her cell phone. "Alright the intruders cut power to the lifts; we're running it from here."
"Hope you're good at the mile run Shinji." Asuka teased.
In the command room everyone scrambled around doing their jobs. "No… send reinforcements to sections A through H and subsections 36 through 40! I don't care if your men's weapons are having no effect; tell them to fight hand to hand if they have to! I don't want anything to reach central dogma!" Commander Ikari barked over the phone. "Where is the Major and my pilots?"
Hyuga turned to answer. "The major's Elevator car was shut off by those monsters, she's making to the cage on foot, and I've sent an armed escort to meet them once they climb out of the elevator shaft!"
In the elevator shaft….
"This sucks!"
On the latter above Asuka. "Quite Asuka and keep climbing!"
Above Misato. "We are three levels from the cage."
Above Rei. "Why am I at the vary front?"
Back down to Misato. "Because you're a boy and I have a skirt on, just keep climbing."
Back down to Asuka. "Yeah pervert."
"What I didn't mean it like that…. Never mind." Shinji sighed and kept on climbing.
"Look just because we're an item doesn't mean you get those types of privileges!" Asuka yelled from the bottom of the line.
Hearing this, Misato stopped dead in her tracks. "What! Since when?"
"Hay keep moving!"
Misato let a small laugh escape her mouth. "Sorry." She kept on climbing. "Shinji how come you didn't tell me about this, I'm a little hurt that you didn't at least tell me?"
"Pilot Sohryu has informed me that anyone should not have to worry about seeing them 'make out'." Rei said clearly not getting the point of the conversation.
"Oh really?" Misato said. "So Shinji… Asuka what's been going on while I've been working nights?"
NOTHING!
Everyone in the line on the latter went silent after the two's little out burst.
"We…" Rei said but stopped as she felt a cold stare coming from below her and above, but kept on going. "… We are approaching the cage."
Reaching the door to the cage, Shinji pounded on the in side and waited for someone to open it. "I hope someone's….." Before he had the chance to finish what he was going to say an explosion rocked the latter they clung to; each of them hugged it tight as it seemed to sway back and forth. "I hope someone's there to let us in!"
Just then to door was forced open and a NERV guard was standing there offering his hand. "Come on…" He said helping Shinji up out of the elevator shaft. Then he helped Rei out, Misato then Asuka. Then he gave Misato a salute. "Major, the monsters that's invaded the compound are all over the place spread out every section. Some more heavily infested then others."
"What are they?" Misato asked.
"Their black featcherless, but are well armed and relentless. The commander has ordered everyone capable of fighting to the entrance of terminal dogma." The guard replied. "But I was sent to make sure that the pilots make it to their Eva's."
"Just one?" Asuka asked. "Why just one?"
The guard looked over at Asuka, his expression saddened. "I was the only one to make it…. out of twenty."
At the Misato's apartment, Fiona flipped through the channels looking for something to watch but all the channels had same warning to stay in doors. "How do people live like this all the time?" She asked her self out loud.
Raziel then looked over from the food that was left on the table. "What you mean with the constant threat of something happening to the remainders of man kind?"
"Yeah, just how do people here deal with it?" She asked again.
"I guess they get used to it." Raziel answered. "I mean think about it, according to the stuff we learned from those super computers, the events happening now for them have been anticipated that's why they have the Evangelion and that huge underground base." Raziel stated. "I guess it takes a disaster like that Second Impact to let people put their faith in to originations like NERV to make sure that something like Second Impact dose not happen again."
Anata sat at the other end of the couch petting Pen-Pen, lost in her own thoughts.
"What do you think Sis?" Fiona asked looking over at Anata.
"Wha… Sorry I wasn't listening." She said back. "What where you guys talking about?"
"What do you think about all this with Second Impact and why people put their faith in NERV?" Fiona asked again.
"Well… about Second Impact? I think it's like this, something happened here on this world that made God want to hit the rest button sort of speak. Maybe he was sick of all the crap that humanity dose to this planet and to their own, but something happened that caused it to not work right. As for people relying of NERV for protection… People need something to believe in, and I think that NERV gives people just that." Anata replied then she went back to Pen-Pen. "God you are cute… too bad we don't have warm water penguins on our world."
"I cant believe that, Grandfather wouldn't just up and walk away from humanity. Sure humanity has its flaws, but what intelligent race doesn't?" Fiona said. "Even us as Gods and Goddesses have problems."
Anata then looked over at her sister. "If I had the power there are several things I would fix in both worlds. Look at Aries and Anubis for example. They hate the fact that we are half goddess and half mortal."
"Anata they are just gods from the old school of thought. It's hard for older zero class gods to change." Fiona said. "They're just stubborn."
"It's the fact that they are Zero class gods, that should prompt them to change and set the example." Anata picked up Pen-Pen, gave him a small kiss on the beak then placed him on the floor before standing up her self. "I'm going out to the balcony…."
"Anata! Wait!"
Kou then stopped Fiona from going after her sister by placing a hand on to her shoulder. "I'll talk to her."
Out on the balcony, Anata looked out to the empty city. The buildings had long since gone in to the earth, leaving a blank area of several huge doors in the ground. Hearing the door open up behind her, Anata turned around o see that had fallowed her.
"Disagreeing with Fiona?" Kou asked. "That's not like you two."
"We maybe considered as fraternal twins, but that doesn't mean we have to agree with everything." Anata said as she looked back out to the city. "You know I never really understood why Shinji and You hate this place so much until now." She paused to take a breath. "It seems to bring out the vary worst in people."
"Not completely, I also think it brings the best out of people too." Kou said as he walked up to the railing.
"Kou."
Kou looked over at his love knowing something was wrong. "Yeah I know…. Shadow and a lot of them."
"What are we going to do?" She asked. "We can't let this place have the same thing happen to out own, I don't think that mankind here can take something like that happening."
"Asuka and the others know is something happens they can get hold of us." Kou answered. "And we'll do all we can to keep that from happening to his place… like you said before. This place has seen its share of death; we'll stop them."
Just then out in the middle of the city there as an explosion that ripped out of the ground, making Anata and Kou jump back slightly. "What the hell?"
"We should be getting ready; they'll be calling for us soon." Kou said as he turned to head back in side.
At NERV, the pilots, Misato and the guard where just around the corner from the cage it self, peeking around that corner the guard could see that the intruders had taken over the cage and would put up a fight.
"Major the place it crawling with those things."
Before Misato could say anything they all heard foot steps fast coming up behind them. Turning to see who it was they saw that it was Kaji.
"Sorry I'm late I ran in to some unwanted visitors." Kaji said as he reloaded his gun. "What'd I miss?"
"About time you showed up." Misato hissed.
"As I was just telling the major, that the intruders are all over the cage. It's going to be hard to get the pilots to their Evas." The guard said, answering Kaji.
"Well we cant have you guys not getting to your evas now can we… This is what we do." Kaji said as he kneeled down to the high of the pilots. "The three of you run as fast as you can to your evas, don't stop just run as fast as you can. Misato myself and the sergeant here will cover you guys."
"But Misato…"
Misato kneeled down to the children's level. "Look you guys, I know it's going to be hard to get to your Evas just do your best. We'll make sure that none of those things get to you."
"Get ready…." Kaji said as he checked to see how many bullets he had left. "On three."
One…
Shinji, Asuka and Rei got them self's ready to run. Shinji just tightened up every mussel in his body, Asuka and Rei got them in a starting possession like they where in track, low to the ground and ready to go.
Two…
Misato pressed the eject button to check her guns clip, and then slid it back into her gun. The guard next to her flipped a switch on his gun turning it to simi auto to full.
Three…
Bolting out from around the corner Shinji, Asuka and Rei made a run for the Evas while Misato, Kaji and the guard fired at the featureless beasts.
"I'm almost out!" Misato yelled.
"Major start falling back to that office, I'll hold them off!" The Guard yelled back pushing her and Kaji back behind him.
"I just can't leave them!"
Kaji pulled Misato with him to the office. "Look Misato, they got to the Evas." Kaji pointed out.
Misato looked over to see Rei climb in to her entry plug and watched it screw in to the back of unit 00. then she looked over at Unit 01 to see Shinji and Asuka climb in to the entry plug of unit 01, and watch it screw in to the back of unit 01 while taking out one of the monsters on its back.
Inside Unit 00, Rei had a recorded message waiting for her on one of the screens inside. Hitting the play button on the screen, Rei listened to the message. It was from the commander.
"Rei, You are to find and destroy the pilot of from the last mission. She is not inside unit 00, but outside in service shaft three, there should be your rifle already there waiting. Pilot Ikari's machine cannon should be set up near his objective as well. Rei, She's not human she is classified as an angel."
The message ended just as the rest of the systems came on line. Controlling her Eva, she moved the catwalk that was in front of it. Then she instantly drew the prog knife that was on her Eva already.
But inside Unit 01 was a different story, for some reason Shinji was having some problems turning on his Eva.
"Come on Shinji get this pile of crap running!" Asuka yelled from behind him.
"I'm trying…. This hasn't happened before…. Come on damn you work!" Shinji yelled back while he went through the all the steps to start up his Evangelion. But like the first time nothing happened.
"We don't have time for this." Asuka said as she pushed Shinji out of the way. "Let me try!"
But instead of doing it the right way, Asuka had something else on her mind. Looking around the different controls from her own Eva she found what looked like the most sensitive on electronics, and then kicked it several times.
"Wait Asuka you're going to break it!"
Just as she kicked it the fourth or fifth time, everything came to life. She pushed Shinji back to the front of the plug. "Gets this thing moving?"
Doing what he was told Shinji climbed back in to the seat and started to do his thing. Just then an image of Rei came on a screen the popped up to Shinji's right.
"Ikari, Unit 02 is making it's way to central Dogma, intercept and disable. Your machine cannon should be there waiting for you." Rei said then the screen went blank.
"You heard the girl, get moving!"
Piloting his Eva through the narrow halls of NERV, Shinji looks back to Asuka.
"Do you think that we should get hold of…"
Before Shinji finished, Asuka nodded. "How do we go about that?" She asked. "There is no way to get a message to them from this thing."
Shinji thought about it for a second, then glanced back at Asuka again. "What if I would drop you off at the command center along the way? You can get hold of them there."
"Hello stupid, think about it. Those things are out there too." Asuka said crossing her arms over her chest.
"I can take care of them; you just have to get to the control room."
Asuka gave Shinji a questioning look. "Are you sure that you can pull this off?"
Shinji focused on his piloting. "I can't let you down… beside what type of boyfriend would I be if I did?"
"Boyfriend?" She asked her self out loud. "Look we're an item, there's a difference."
Shinji didn't even look back he just kept on piloting his Eva, making sure not to knock anything over on to the guards down below him. Then Asuka saw it. A side of Shinji that no one has seen, a Shinji with a spine, a Shinji that wasn't a coward, a Shinji that was… well a man. She smiled to her self. "Alright if you can hold your end up…. when this is all over I'll make it worth it."
Shinji just nodded.
At Misato's apartment Fiona, Anata, Raziel and Kou all waited to see if their friends needed any help. Anata sat there nervously tapping her foot on the ground. Raziel just went through Shinji's, Asuka's and Misato collection of CD's.
"Well I think I know who the odd one is in this place." He said looking over for the CD rack.
"Who's that?" Fiona asked.
"Shinji. Here listen to what he likes in music." Raziel picked up the CD and placed in a CD player, then pressed play. Seconds later a cello came over the speakers. It was Prelude in G major….
"He has good taste." Fiona stated then she went back to petting Pen-Pen. "Anata is right you are cute."
"We should be getting ready… they will be calling for us shortly."
Fiona rolled her eyes. "I really don't get it, maybe that's because I've never seen there shadow things. Are they really that bad?"
Before Anata could say anything Raziel said something. "Look I've only fought them a couple of time and Natsuki once. And they are all bad news."
Back at NERV, Natsuki took her time with the bringing down the whole NERV compound. Floating there in mid air she still could feel that approaching Evangelion from the far end of the service shaft. Turning in the directing she had just come from she just stood there and squinted her eyes.
"Come doll, let me see your furry! Your hate! Show me what darkness you hold in your heart!" Natsuki shouted.
Down at the other end of the shaft, Rei's Eva looked through its rifle scope; she saw who the pilot looked like. 'Pilot Sohryu…It can't be, she is with Ikari.'
Her finger twitched. Her orders are to kill the pilot, but this was Asuka she was looking at through her scope. She closed her eyes. 'Ikari will be hurt if something happened to Sohryu, I can not hurt Ikari...'
She opened her eyes again, to see the girl right in the cross hairs of the scope. Then she noticed it. The girl had black hair. Then she shook her head back and forth. 'The monitors may be not working properly.'
Then the Commander's voice came over the speakers in her Eva. "That is not the second Child. Fire!"
"I can not… Ikari will be sad, this will hurt Ikari."
In the control room, Gendo slammed his fist on his desk. "That is not the second child, Rei you are to fire."
"I can't…"
In side unit 00, Rei watched as the girl seemed to float in mid air. Then she knew that it wasn't Asuka. She pulled the trigger.
At the other end of the shaft, Natsuki saw the flashes then the shots. She stopped and held her hands out in front of her. The three shells stopped in mid air just in front of her. "Not good enough!"
The three shells exploded in front of her, and then she came flying out of the smoke and flames. "My turn!"
Unit 00 backed away and shot several shots from her rifle; all of them rather went off just in front of her target or missed all to gather. Rei watched as several orbs of red light formed around the girl. Then they shot off at her, each hitting her Eva hard; making it stagger back.
In the control room, Aoba turned to the commander. "Unit 00 has engaged the target and Unit 01 has stopped just two hundred feet from here and is letting the second child off!"
"What!" Gendo pressed a button on his desk. "Pilot Ikari what are you doing? You had your orders!"
"Asuka will explain! I don't have time!" Shinji shouted back at his father, and then shut off the channel. "Asuka hurry and get in that room, I'll hold them off!"
Still climbing down the side of Unit 01, Asuka shouted back up. "You could have gotten a bit lower!"
"It was the best I could do!" Shinji yelled back as he commanded the right arm of his Eva to come down to smash a group of monsters that where coming at him and Asuka.
"Just be careful with that thing!" She yelled just as she made it to the ground and started to run.
Shinji waited and watched as Asuka ran for the door, all while he used his Eva's hand to smash anything that came close to Asuka. Then he watched the huge blast doors to the command room open up and several armed guards started to fire at the Shadows.
Once Shinji was sure that Asuka had made it in, he commanded his Eva to stand back up and he started his way to Unit 02. But in the control room A vary unhappy Gendo Ikari looked down from his desk at Asuka as she coughs her breath.
"Pilot Sohryu, explain your self!"
"Shinji and I know some people that can help us…." She managed to say in between breaths.
"There is no one other then NERV that can handle this." Gendo said loudly from his look out over the command area. "No I hope that you have a better reason then that?"
"Look we know people that can make our job easier!" Asuka yelled back.
"Guards! Escort Pilot Sohyru to a confinement cell!" Gendo ordered as he turned back around.
Asuka slammed her fist against a near by TV screen. "You son of a bitch! I said we know people!"
Two guards came up behind her and started to take her away.
Back at the apartment, Kou placed his hand against Misato's TV screen for the umpteenth time. Anata rolled her eyes at him.
"Do you think that's really going to work?" She asked. "I mean what's the chances really?"
Kou removed his hand and looked at Anata and smiled. "Anata my love, they called."
"What? Let me feel it…" Getting up from the couch, Anata walked over to the TV and touched the screen too. "It did work… why did I even ask if it would?"
"I know you love me…" He said, and then he looked over to Fiona and Raziel. "Ready?"
"I've got a mirror." Said Raziel, then turned in to his Evangelion form.
Stepping in to the screen Kou vanished soon followed Raziel.
"I said let the fuck off of me!" Asuka screamed. "You're not doing your job as a good commander!"
Just then a beam of light shot in to the command room, then there was Raziel and Kou.
"About damn time!"
Raziel squinted his Evangelion eyes and pinched what looked like the bridge of his nose. "I really don't like going through closed channels. It hurts the head."
Kou stood there in much the same manner. "It's not to my liking either…."
Everyone in the command room just stared at the human sized Evangelion… Then Maya screamed…. Opening his eyes, Raziel saw the woman that was screamed.
"Oops… Sorry, I'm not mean… I'm really a nice guy." Said Raziel as he tried to approach the woman. "Oh damn it! I didn't mean too… Asuka say something!"
"Raziel the mirror." Kou said then he approached Raziel.
Pointing the mirror to his side, Raziel looked over at Kou. "You did remember to tell them that they'll me side ways right?"
Kou thought about it for a second… a second too long. Two more beams of light shot form the mirror, Then Anata and Fiona was there on the floor. "Ouch, get off me?"
"I didn't do it." Fiona screamed. "Raziel you jerk!"
"Mr. Ikari, as you can see that we are not from your universe… and neither are those monsters that ravages your compound, nor dose the Girl by the name of Natsuki." Kou said looking up to where Shinji said that Asuka said it would be while during dinner and joking about Shinji's father. "We ask, may we be of assistance?"
"A little over the top?" Asuka muttered.
Anata nodded. "I think we had them the way you two came in."
Kou sweat dropped.
Little did anyone know, during all this someone had opened a channel to Shinji. And her heard it all. "Father please, listen to them!" Shinji said over the loud speaker.
"Sir, the target it causing damage it Unit 00!" Aoba yelled. "Damage to left chest plate!"
"If Natsuki is here, we I have to deal with her." Anata said. "Where is she? And I do know that you know her or has seen her."
Then Fiona turned in to her Evangelion form, making Maya scream more. "Oops… sorry, really I am…."
Gendo's eye twitched. "Give them the current information." Then he turned around grabbing a phone. "Have every camera on them."
Just then Misato showed up at the command center and noticed the two smaller Evangelion. "What the hell is that!" She pointed at Raziel.
Raziel tilted his head to one side like her was smiling. "Hi Miss. Misato."
Fiona then gave a polite bow. "Hello Miss. Misato."
Asuka finally shook loose the guard that had her by the shoulder, and walked up to her friends. "Care for some fun?" she asked with a smirk. Seeing Asuka's face Anata matched her friends smirk.
"Any time."
Seeing that Asuka was acting friendly around the two human sized Evangelions, she knew that everything was alright then approached the whole group.
"Sure you guys can help…." Misato said, pressing a button a large map of the whole NERV compound appear. "…. As you can see the situation is pretty grim; we have those monster things on just about every level. All of them appear to me heading to this place, Central Dogma." She paused just long enough to catch her breath and allowing the spot to show up indicating where Unit's 00 and 01 where at. "… This is Rei she's currently engaging an unknown target…. Apparently looking like you Asuka…."
Asuka pointed to her self. "Why me?"
Swinging the fist of her Eva, Rei found that the field that surrounded the Pilot was much like an AT field. "Who are you. And why is it you look like Pilot Sohryu?" Rei asked her, her voice echoing through the loud speakers.
Using her great powers, Natsuki rammed her self in to the stomach of Unit 00, knocking her over. Then she landed softly on to the great eye of unit 00.
"By chance… " Natsuki answered smugly. "But it's not that I'm complaining…. This body is much smaller much faster."
Rei glanced over at the left arm of her Eva, then back at the girl that looked like Asuka.
"I can feel the nerves in this monstrosity…." Natsuki suddenly said, then she brought right hand up. Firing a beam in to the forearm severing it off.
AAAAHHHHHHH!
In side Unit00, Rei grabbed her arm in pain hugging it tightly.
"Shame…. I thought you other thin my sister could give me a change." Natsuki said as she brought her leg up slightly, then slamming it down. Making Rei then grab her forehead. Looking up again Rei saw the girl get on to her hands and knees, then taped on the glass to unit 00's eye. "It hurts no?"
She made a fist.
"Remove your self from this beast and allow me to control her again!"
She brought it back.
"I….. will not….."
She smiled.
"The glass covering Unit 00's eye shattered!" Hyuga yelled. "Heavy damage it main optical nerve!"
Raziel looked up to the Commanders desk. Then back at the screen showing the damage. "Rei!" turning to run to the exit to find her, Kou grabbed his arm.
"Raziel, you know what will happen to you." He said calmly. "Remember what you told me after she attacked you at that inn?"
"… She almost had me….."
"She is trained to pilot such a machine…" Kou said almost coldly. "If you really want to help her, make sure those things don't take her world." Kou then looked over at Anata. Then she leaned in close to her ear. "You should quickly deal with Natsuki… just take her off of Miss. Rei, Just do not remove the limiter."
Anata took a step back to give Kou a strange look, and then she whispered in to his ear. "That's a great idea, but what makes you think she's just not going to make turn on me when I start to run, let alone that I'll run from her in the first place!"
"Two reasons. The first is that it can kill you whit the bad connection you have with your reactors, and the second is its tactical thing not to show them all that we can do." He whispered.
Anata stood back from Kou's ear. "Using me as a crump card? Never thought you would do such a thing."
"It's simply my wanting to keep you safe." Kou rebutted. "And I love you."
"Shinji has reached unit 02!"
TBC
Preview
Shattered Evas…. Broken bodies….. lose of hope….. Broken minds, and lost sanity. Are what await the pilots. Helplessness and despair wait for the Gods and Goddesses.