Well, to everyone who's reading this story, thanks for the support! And I will continue my first story, but I've been really busy and I'll be gone another five days. Plus, I'm trying to figure out a good chapter, so it'll come soon I promise! But other than that, here's the third chapter/installment of this short series and I hope you enjoy it!
And thanks also to RahXephon for the help and everything, and to the readers whose also reading my other story, your encouragement and reviews have helped me to continue writing and to try and improve. So, on with this chapter!
Movement 3: Beginning to Fall; Trying to remember the tragic past
This is a Forbidden Zone, anyone caught trespassing will be executed by the Federal Government…
She took a sigh and looked back at the sign on the fence that was in her way of getting more answers to the boy in the picture. She looked at the sign again with a gloomed look and then shook it off, feeling determination course through her veins.
"I'll find out everything about this kid, I made a promise, remember?" snapped Asuka while walking towards the fence, putting her fingers through some of the holes.
"Well, here goes…" though Asuka, putting one foot up on the fence and slowly climbing up, making sure to not make a lot of sound and to also make sure she had good footing to climb. She kept climbing and climbing, until reaching the top, jumping down and landing as silently as she could. After landing and nearly falling down, she got up with a triumphant smile and dusting off her clothes.
"I still got it!" thought Asuka, looking at the doorways that once let her into NERV, pulling out her card and looking at the entrance with hesitation.
"Won't they know that I've been here then if I swipe it?" thought Asuka while she looked back down at her card, then casting a glance at the entrance, wondering what to do. Even if she didn't get caught now, wouldn't they know she came in if it kept track of everything happening at NERV? She brushed off the thought and walked over to the machine, sliding her card in and watched the doorway slide open, allowing her to step into the darkness that was once known as NERV.
"Hello…again…" thought Asuka while walking in, remembering everything that had gone on in the very short history of hers with NERV. The fights, the blows dealt by the Angels; emotionally, physically and mentally. She hated those thoughts and wanted them gone, to leave her and let her live another life but it wouldn't no matter how much she tried.
"Damn…" muttered Asuka, riding the elevator used to get to the main NERV HQ, watching the now decimated geofront with awe and dread too. Dread of returning to the past and the awe of how beautiful it still was. The hole in the geofront allowed the sun to truly shine upon the geofront, showing that even though there was a giant hole left by the explosion and the majority of it seemed barren, it still had some awe inspired beauty about it.
When she got out of the elevator, she walked into NERV HQ, gulping nervously as the door slowly slid open, and with the steps feeling like they were in slow motion, she entered the barren and nearly destroyed place.
The lights lit up automatically while she walked in, as if the program was set up for it to light up the place when someone walked into the place. She looked around the place, looking at the wing to where the hospital wings were, to see were more rooms were that she didn't know they were for, and mainly, the corridor she was going down to get to the mainroom to access the information.
"I need to get out of here quickly to make sure I don't get caught in here…" thought Asuka while she walked into the room, the lights also turning on with her in their. She looked around, feeling a sense of nostalgia. She pried around, using every computer to look for any information bearing any recordings of battles. She kept looking and prying into everything each container had, until there was only one left…
"Of all the places left…it better be in there!" snapped Asuka while she slowly walked up to the dreaded part of the main room, the place that hell it self manifested in the two eyes of one man, the place where he would just calmly sit and make both rational and harsh decisions; the main desk of Gendo Ikari. Of course, it never seemed to have a computer there, but the possibilities of this place were endless. Besides, no ones really seen what it looks like to its fullest since no one was up there except for Fuyutski, except Fuyutski would seem to glance down at the desk once in a while and look with a tint of disgust.
"It has to be here…somewhere…" said Asuka, reaching the desk and seeing nothing but an empty desk with nothing to show. No picture, no cup, no nothing, everything that would bring life or show existence there was gone.
"Where could it be…" muttered Asuka as she looked around in a furious search, still bearing no results of having found anything.
"Damn it…damn it…DAMN IT!" snapped Asuka, slamming her fists hard into the desk, a sudden shudder of the desk made Asuka flinch in shock. There, a patch of the desk slowly began to rise, along with a keyboard popping out of the front of the desk. She looked at it with shock and triumph. When it finished coming out, Asuka smiled and immediately sat in Gendo's old seat.
"Asuka wins again!" snapped Asuka to herself with a cocky grin, getting the computer to turn on and accessing the information on it. She immediately looked up pilot information to see if she could find anything, maybe bearing little results that appeared to help at first glance. She continued looking even if feeling defeated by a lousy computer, but she wanted to check her profile to see what they said about her:
"Name: Asuka Soryu Langley
Second Child
Age: 14
Evangelion: Unit 02
Nationality:German
A natural genius graduating college at the age of 14, pilots EVA Unit 02 and came to Japan with a man named Ryoji Kaji. Seems to be striving to continuously having to be the best at everything, but nearly is the opposite of it. Seems to create a barrier around others except for Kaji…and seems to have this very unstable ego at the same time.
Current Location: NERV Hospital"
"Wow, talk about basic information and yet not good enough to describe me, though it seemed a lot of what they said was true about me." Continued Asuka while she looked more and more into everything, until she struck upon something interesting she didn't pay attention to earlier.
"What the hell?" snapped Asuka while she continued to glance at the information on the screen, the words seemingly to puzzle her even more. There on the screen, it read simply the names of the pilots that ever existed in NERV and…
What child they were…
There was the First and Second Child…but then, it seemed the information skipped to the Fourth Child. It had Rei Ayanami, Asuka Soryu Langley, and Touji Suzahara as pilots, but how was there not a Third Child?
"Wait then that means…" began Asuka…typing away with blazing speed and looking at the results she pulled up. Misato was right, there was an EVA Unit 00, 02 and 03, but what about Unit 01? It was getting odder and more interesting by the minute, and it seemed Asuka was finally starting to get somewhere. What the hell was going on? Was it something that she couldn't see before?
"It's not making sense…what the hell is going on here?" thought Asuka to herself with shock, all the information presenting itself in front of her began to confuse her more and yet help her feel somewhat close to finding the answers to the unanswered questions. There had to be a Unit 01, there had to be a Third Child, there had to be a boy at the age of 14 who piloted Unit 01 and had a great synch ration, because no one seemed to be good enough to just fight the angels with only two people. Even the battle information seemed to stress her even more. It showed Unit 01 destroying almost every Angel that it fought with Asuka, except no data was left on the Third Angel nor any of the other Angels before Asuka came. It even said only Misato came to visit Asuka, when she remembered Touji and Kensuke being there too.
"Damn it…something is really wrong here…" snapped Asuka to herself while she looked at audio conversations recorded into the computer and written down into a script, showing no signs of a third pilot in any of the battles Rei and Asuka were in, seemingly sending Asuka into square one of her results; nothing proving his existence.
"This isn't helping me at all…maybe if I listen to the audio recordings…" thought Asuka while she launched the command on the computer, hearing the audio recordings of one of the Angels Asuka would fight later on.
"Heh, this Angel will be a piece of cake, it seems easy doesn't it?" said a familiar voice that embarrassed Asuka. She laughed at how she sounded back in the past and it amused her how childish she really was back then.
"Yes we will…" muttered the emotionless voice of Rei, Asuka continue to listen intently, trying to make sure that she listens to it.
"All he's doing is floating and seems to bear no sign of threats…and I'm sure someone can handle it because they're invincible huh?" muttered Asuka while a static covered the response of the person she was talking to, barely hearing the voice to where she stopped the tape.
"Wait I have to play it again…I swear that I heard something…" thought Asuka while she played the tape, turning up the volume to hear the voice.
"…I – can…handle…i….on…m….ow...Misa…."said the voice, breaking up every few parts of a word except for the beginning, but it made Asuka's eyes open in horror. Who the hell was this person and what were they doing on the Audio recording.
She went for another audio, the angel where she remembered being mind raped, skipping her part to see who saved her. This time, it was the same voice of the same person on the tape of the earlier recording of a seemingly young boy, except the word that he screamed made her feel a sense of fear and sadness.
".As…u…KA!" screamed this voice that she felt that she knew but couldn't place a finger on it, getting this sense that there was another person, that in the end Misato was right, but the question is what happened to him…?
"This is weird…and it's true…what if this is?" thought Asuka, playing the final tape left of any fight of EVA. IT seemed to have ended with her screaming and writhing in pain, causing Asuka to shake and tremble remembering those haunting memories. Then, she heard his voice loud and clear, sound of anything happening outside of what was said in the speaker was muted it out, the words plaguing her instantly in her heart and a single tear dropped from her face.
"Goodbye…Asuka…"
With that, a loud explosion could be heard throughout the room and the audio recording stopped on its own, Asuka sitting there still and in silence, not knowing what to do or feel. At the moment, she felt disoriented, not knowing if she was feeling regret and sorrow, or another feeling…could it be that…?
"Is this really…him…" thought Asuka while her head drooped and tears began to form into her eyes. Suddenly, as if just like an instant transmission, she remembered a few more things about him not known before; it was as if someone was typing in new data into her brain like a computer.
"If this is really him, which I'm sure of it, then the one place I have left it…" thought Asuka to herself, hearing footsteps coming closer to her.
"This is great…" thought Asuka, silently running to the doorway Gendo would use to get out of the mainroom, getting out of the view of the soldiers running into the room, the sound of guns could be heard locking and preparing to aim fire.
"Someone was in here sir, look!" snapped a soldier while another man walked up to him, his eyes looking at the computer and seeing the information just recently viewed.
"Whoever it was had to have worked here at NERV, so really there's nothing we can do about it but still…she broke laws and therefore she be put in jail…" thought the man to himself while he got up and told the soldier to "at ease".
"Sir, what do we do?" said the soldier who was definitely nervous since after all, it was his first mission.
"We can leave this person alone, whoever it is, worked for NERV and I'm sure I got a pretty good feeling who it is…" said the man while he patted his hand on the soldier's shoulder, the tenseness of the soldier could be felt in the stiff muscle.
"Sir but --," began the soldier, immediately being cut off by the leader.
"It's fine, trust me, no one hacked into the mainframe unless they were NERV, after all, whoever did this had to know the code to gain access and to see all of that information I saw, it didn't seem important…" said the leader, pushing the young soldier out of the doorway while he kept walking.
"Sir yes sir Colonel Kensuke Aida!" said the young soldier while getting on his own two feet and walking on his own, the Colonel smiling his "copyrighted" smile, fixing his glasses to sit on his nose and work well.
"Well I think that it was you in here anyway. Besides, based on the research of the NERV personel, no one is as quick as you are nor quick-thinking as you are in times of desperation…" he thought to himself while he continued walking down the corridor, the light of the outside blinding what awaited outside since the artificial light wasn't much…
"Asuka…what were you looking for?"
When they all left, little did they know that Asuka was barely hiding behind another wall of the NERV entrance to catch some breath. After all, to her it felt like a whole new workout than the mild workouts she did to keep in some shape. So to her, this was completely a workout that she didn't expect.
"Talk… about a …hard time there…I was sure to… almost get caught…not only that…I haven't ran that fast in years…" muttered Asuka in between breaths of her quickened breathing. It seemed that the years didn't do much grace to her, but she still kept the skinny frame and yet beauty of herself. Still, she hated the fact that she felt his winded by barely escaping anybody when she could take on an Angel for awhile even if being defeated.
"I'm sure of it…that voice that I heard in there had to be him…" thought Asuka to herself while pulling out the picture, seeing the once again smiling boy with blue hair and brown hair, standing there in front of Misato's place. It was so mysterious that this boy was gone and never seemed to exist and now…just randomly popping up in conversations and things seemingly getting weirder by the second.
"Why is he not here then? What could have caused him to be gone? And I need to find out more, I have to make sure that I'm right in what I think about him right now…" she thought to herself. She began in the direction going towards both towards her house and Misato's. However, she passed Misato's place and kept going onward, getting inside and looking back at her home with relief.
"First I'll take a shower to clean myself and wear some clothes to get ready to do what I'm need to do…" thought Asuka to herself as she went upstairs, going to bathroom and taking a shower. After taking a much needed shower, she felt clean and good. With the towel still wrapped around her.
"There's so many questions left unanswered about him, and it seems I got a lot of information about him but it seems that I only got half of the information…" she thought to herself, plopping onto her bed and staring into the ceiling.
"The only way to confirm it is to…" she thought to herself, getting up and getting dressed.
When she was done, she went downstairs and immediately grabbed her phone, dialing a phone number.
"Hello?" said the familiar voice with a tint of curiosity.
"It's me Misato, Asuka…" began Asuka while holding the phone with both hands.
"Hey Asuka, did you…" began Misato while being instantly cut off by Asuka.
"Something's not right here like you said Misato, he was real, I can feel it but there's still so much unanswered stuff about him…"
"I guess maybe I was right then…something is puzzling about him, I mean did you find more?"
"Yeah, I found out the information you got me, except nothing to bear any written existence could be found of him…"
"Ok…"
"But there was some audio evidence he was alive…and I think I need to do one more thing…"
"What is that Asuka?"
"I need to you to…unlock the room…"
"…Ok…"
Asuka said goodbye and hung up the phone, getting on her shoes and walking towards her next destination with much anticipation.
"I know that there's something there to prove more to me about your existence…," thought Asuka while walking with a determined face and her fists curled up with determination.
"that's why…I'll go look into the room Misato locked up; your room…"
