Can you believe it? It's only 9:30 and I'm starting the third chapter. I started these updates at about six O'clock today. I wonder If I can post all of my updates before 12 O'clock huh? Probably not, but it helps to have a goal!

If you need a disclaimer, plz go to chapter 1...or 2...

---Rebirth of the Evangelion---

Trieze Kushrenada sat back in his chair as he listened to the report of the general he had promoted two days ago. He definitly seemed more confident, Trieze thought to himself. The new general didn't have any hesitation in his voice like he did a few days ago and that was a good sign. He needed the best for his campaign to work out.

"...And now we are only waiting for your further commands. It is secured in the terminal hanger #9."

"Excellent work, you worked efficiently. Now let's focus on what must be done. First of all, have your scientists done their research on it like I asked them to do on the way here?"

"U-uh, yes sir. They have, but may I ask you what you wanted to do that for?"

"Oh, you mean the brain waves pattern. Try to understand how I am thinking, if it was made by humans it must be piloted by a human am I correct?"

"Yes, of course sir, but-"

"So if we can interrogate a pilot we can get information. We may even be able to turn him on our side."

The general instantly realized his thinking. Now he couldn't help but admire how Trieze thought his plans through to the details. "I understand sir."

"Right, now I need to know if they detected what I wanted."

"Yes, the head scientist told me to tell you there was a positive reading."

"Good, plus they did not do anything else to it am I correct?"

"They did not touch anything else sir."

"Good, then tell the scientists to remove the pilote in anyway that will deal the least posible damage to our new prise, understood? I would also like you to inform captain Zecks Marquise to come immediately to this base. Tell him to bring his new toy as well."

"Understood sir." The general responeded somewhat quizzically.

"..." Trieze sat quietly behind his desk and the general continued standing in front of him. Suddenly, he took his cue and realized what he must be doing. The general left the office somewhat embarrased. He took out his private line phone and called to the Hanger bay.

"Alcindo here."

"Al, it's Jenkins. You may proceed. Make sure you do as little damage as possible."

"Hey, no problem, we found out that this thing has a manual release, it won't take too long."

"Good, I'll be down shortly."

---

Shinji slowly opened his eyes. He wasn't blinded by the usual sunlight of his apartment room like he usually was. Was he up too early? He shifted his weight and tried to turn to face his clock but found himself stuck in place. Shinji groaned and opened his eyes and instantly remembered where he was. The LCL was colored everything a light orange around him as he sat inside his entry plug. He tried to straighten up and stretch his very sore joints; sleeping inside an entry plug was not very comfortable to say the least.

Shinji, when he was done stretching, brought his arms down and rested them on the sides of his seat. He brought his fingers around his joysticks and pressed the triggers, activating his Eva. Shinji almost swore when the bright lights blinded him again. He shut his eyes and waited for it to pass before looking out again. He turned to see Unit-00 to his left. He opened frequencies and waited for Rei to wake up as well, hoping it would be soon.

---

Rei looked around her. She seemed to be in some sort of black void. She turned around and around, trying to find some sort of sign of the color she had seen earlier.

Looking around her, she saw a ray of light in the distance and tried to move towards it. She tried to swim through the blackness to get to it, but she didn't seem to be getting any closer. She kept trying though, until a voice came out of nowhere.

"What are you doing?"

Rei looked up and heard the voice again.

"Where are you going?"

Rei heard it again but the voice was coming from all around her, so she couldn't figure out what it was. So instead, she tried answering the voice: "I'm going towards the light."

"You don't want to though."

This caught Rei off guard as the light seemed to move closer to her even though she wasn't moving towards it anymore: "Yes, I do. I feel as if I want to touch the light."

"No, you don't. You will be reminded; you don't want to be reminded of the past."

"Why not?"

"Because it will make your reality even more terrifying. You will understand that there will be no going back."

"Going back to what?"

"To your home."

The word 'home' triggered something in Rei. She wanted to move forward. She wanted to see the light. She used all the power she could and swam towards it. This time it actually started to come closer and closer.

"Stop, you don't want to see the light. That's why you forgot it."

"No." Rei suddenly felt sure of herself. She knew what she wanted from herself now. She was sure.

"Stop, you must not look at the light!"

"No, you are just hiding it from me. You are hiding reality from me." Rei finished her thought and broke into the pure whiteness all around her. She expected to see the magnificent colors as before, but she did not. Instead, she saw images. She saw the images she had once seen. All her memories flowed freely back to her:

Flashback.

"Ikari! Sohryu! Commander!" Rei called with all her might. The pain was so intense it made white bubbles apear in her vision. She could barely make out what was in front of her. She heard yelling in the background, but couldn't understand the wordless noise.

She was inside her Eva's entry plug watching the screen. Outside her Eva all she could see was white light while in the bottom left corner she saw a window open up that showed people in the background. She saw Gendo sitting in his command chair. She saw Fuyutski behind him. She saw them talking to each other, she tried to make out their words:

"The S2 engine is reacting!"

"I know that Kozou."

"Is it rejecting it's host?"

"No, it is trying to awake too early."

"How do we stop it."

"By sacrificing the Eva's themselves. It is too early to begin our scenario."

"But, what about the pilots?"

"They are expendable."

"Ikari..."

"That is enough, we will reassemble Unit-03 and it will be put to use once again. The fourth child is not dead yet, we can still use him."

The voices faded out as Rei lost their connection. Headquarters disappeared from view as her visual window disappeared at her left side. She could hear both Shinji and Asuka yelling in agony. Rei could barely stop herself from doing the same. At that point Rei finally realized that thw hiteness seemed to be tugging at her, tearing her away from her body...almost.

Her thoughts started roamingher head now; she was useless, She was just a tool. She was expendable. So were Shinji and Asuka, they were expendable. In order to save the Eva's, they would have to give up themselves.

Rei felt hatred burn inside of her at how heartless the commander was. He had never done this before, so why now? She felt herself falling away into the thick whiteness outside, the pain finally subsiding.

End of flashback.

"It hurts you now doesn't it?"

Rei heard the voice again and realized it was her own, yet it wasn't somehow. It seemed to represent only one aspect of herself.

"Now you remember how you were betrayed. Do you feel the pain?"

"No, I don't." Answered Rei.

"Not physically, mentally. How does your heart feel?"

Rei didn't say a word to this. She knew that this truth was bringing her a different kind of pain, but it hurt her heart, not her body.

"I told you not to look, though now you have figured out why you tried to forget it. Are you happy?"

"No, but I am content that I now remember."

"Well, at least that idiot of a commander got what he deserved. The Eva's are gone too. They followed thier pilots because they're bonded to them, they chose to protect you. Gendo is probably really angry right now, hehehe. He wasn't expecting that!"

Rei finally felt suspicion tugging at her. "Who are you?"

"You mean that you have not figured out my identity yet?"

"No."

"I am you, yet I am not..."

"I don't understand." Rei waited, but the voice seemed to disappear. Rei only had to wait a few moments before she felt her eyes open and she found herself inside the entry plug.

Rei wasn't quite sure if she was really awake or still in the dream. though she figured it out after a second; she felt achs creep up her whole body from sleeping in her awkward position the whole night. Rei stiffled a groan and immediately activated her Eva.

"Ayanami! Good morning!"

"Good morning." Rei thought for a moment about telling Shinji what she had remembered. "Ikari, have you been able to recall any of the events that lead us here?"

"Uh, no, why?"

"Because...Never mind." Rei stopped herself, she didn't know why. She didn't think it would be right to tell him yet. Besides, she knew so little. All she knew was from her point of view, which wasn't very much. Hopefully when the time came, Shinji would be able to remember more details. "What should we do now Ikari?"

"Huh? Y-you're asking me Rei?"

"Yes."

"U-um, I don't know. I was kinda thinking we should try and find Asuka..."

"Then we shall try."

"But how?"

"We will need to find help first." Rei was hoping she was not where she thought she was. If she were, then things would only get harder from here. "I have a plan Ikari, listen to me carefully..."

---

Asuka was motionless inside her entry plug. Any observer would have thought her to be dead, for she had not moved from this position for several hours.

It had been 2 full days by now. Asuka was trapped inside her Eva while the life support systems were completely depleted of energy. There were white specks floating around in the LCL and it was getting extremely cold inside. Though, possibly because the outside environment wasn't so hostile, Asuka was able to remain alive. Part of the possibility could be the fact the the LCL was nurrishing her bloodstream, but Asuka tried hard not to think because it hurt her.

2 days were too long for her to be left in solitude. Asuka kept on having to relive the most painful memories of her life. This time though, she didn't have anything to hide them with. She could only confront them.

"God," Asuka whispered to herself. "How pathetic. How pathetic am I? I forgot about precedure...and now what?" Asuka held her legs and arms closer to herself to keep warm. "Plus, I actually said that idiots name to comfort me. I have hit an all time low now." She allowed herself a grin at her comment, but it was less than half-hearted.

Asuka soon felt herself falling back asleep. Though she was not able to sleep peacefully, her dreams kept coming back to haunt her. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't block out the painful memories that were brought back since the 15th angel attacked her mentally. The happiness, the pride and the innocence, all lost in a moment when she saw that body hanging from the cieling.

Asuka tried to wonder why she kept on recalling these memories. She had time, so she thought well and hard. Spending days in a confined place where you can only fight the feeling of solitude by yourself will help you become more in-tune with yourself if you take time to do it. Asuka wasn't an exception, though her personality made people think that she was not one who could easily act calm, she used the reasoning that she had nothing better to do.

During that period, whenever she felt dispair take control of her, she would feel another feeling that seemed to come from around her, that seemed to confort her. This was a feeling that reminded her of something familiar, but she couldn't quite understand.

Asuka rose her head up after another few hours had gone by. She realized that the main reason she had felt so broken from inside was because her mother had gone insane and committed suicide. How was it possible to overcome the sadness created by watching the person you love the most kill themselves in your happiest moment?

At that exact moment she thought she could almost feel an invisible hand carresse her cheek. It was the feeling of...someone familiar, she thought. She leaned back in her seat, suddenly deciding that all she would have to do is forgive her mother, right? All she would have to do to rid herself of this pain would be to forgive her mother for her actions right?

She was then caught off guard and pried from her initial thoughts. She instantly remembered where she was when she heard noises on the outside of her Eva. She realized that she was in a serious situation here and quickly tried to judge the best thing to do.

"Dammit, was I asleep?!" She reached up to make sure the entry-plug hatch was sealed, though she was quickly nocked down by a tremor that ran through the whole Eva itself.

Suddenly, she felt gravity push her forwards and she realized what was happening. As gravity stopped and pushed her back into her seat again before returning to normal, she heard noise outside. Asuka jumped out of her seat as quickly as she could and tried to reach the locking mechanism at the top of the entry plug. She was too late.

Asuka saw the handle turning and immediately fell back. She sat back down, defeated. She felt tears coming at her and she began to cry again. 'There's no more use in living,' she thought.

'I love you, remember that...'

Asuka heard the voice again, but where did it come from? She chose not to think about that now for she had thought about her mother again. She then realized her situation. She heard voices outside and pannicked. Not sure what to do, Asuka finally settled for a defensless tactic and fell limp on her seat.

"Here we go, it's open!"

The hatch cover above her opened with a hiss and the LCL automatically started draining out of the entry plug. As the LCL stopped clouding her vision, Asuka looked up into the masked faces of several humans, (at least she hoped there were humans under those masks). Asuka still felt tears tugging at her eyes and she quickly hid her face.

Strong hands gripped her and she was lifted effortlessly out of the entry plug. Asuka just lay limp as she was deposited outside the Eva and onto a cold metal floor. She didn't have the energy or the will to look around her. So she just lay there, silently weeping. She was able to control herself after a minute though and listened around her. She knew that she would have to be strong to get through whatever mess she was in.

Asuka focused on the voices around her. At the moment it seemed as if they were ignoring her so she was able to catch most of the converstaions:

"What have you found?"

"Nothing else, it's some sort of control chamber. Look at this, it's crazy!"

"Huh? W-what do you mean? Whoa! What the hell, how was this thing supposed to be operated?"

"Don't ask questions, answer them dumbass. That's what you're paid for, some specialist you are."

"You idiot, do think I've ever seen something like this before in my l-"

"Be quiet, both of you."

There was silence for another few seconds before:

"That's all?"

"Yeah, I said so before."

"But, that means that there's only a-..."

"...Kid."

"Yes, we know."

"God! This is creepy man! What do we do?"

"I don't know. But, jeez, this is an infant. And it's just a girl, what the hell is going on here?" Asuka felt a hard boot push her onto her back as they tried to get a good look at her. Anger started to tug at her when she felt a rough hand grab her face and move it from side to side as something examined it. She was about to open her eyes and retaliate when another voice came in.

"Okay people, step aside!" A new voice came into the onversation. "Hey! What the hell do you think you're doing? Don't touch him! I have direct orders that we're supposed to bring the pilot directly to see the com-...what is this?"

"That's the pilot sir!"

"Wow, holy shit. It's a child?!"

"Well, she looks to be a teenager sir..."

"And it's a girl!"

"You sexist fiend!" Asuka heard a female yell from a little ways away. A few nearby people chuckled.

"Watch it Remm. You're talking to a general here."

"Yeah, and what did you do, bribe the commander to get that position?"

"THAT'S ENOUGH! Trieze wants to see the pilot. You two, pick her up and bring her with me."

"No problem, I'll take her alone, she's not going to be that heavy." Asuka felt two arms gently slide under her and pick her up by the back of the neck and the back of her knees. "Wow, she's not that heavy at all. But what the hell is this ornage stuff? This definetly isn't water sir!"

"Don't ask me those questions, let's go...wait, is she concious?" Asuka felt stares on her. There was few moments pause, then heard a clicking sound.

"Her brain waves are erratic. She's either having a bad dream or totally awake sir. I'd go with the latter."

"Okay then, let's go. You people have time off until you have further orders. Don't touch the machine during that time,...God dammit! I SAID DON'T TOUCH IT IMBECILES!"

Asuka felt herself being carried away. She felt fear grip her, all she could do was act limp and hope for the best...

---

"You find anything yet Heero?" Duo was watching in case any security personnel came nearby."

"Not very much. I doubt there will be any useful information in this facility. According to this, we should head to the source."

Duo almost yelped. "What?! You're not seriously going to go straight into the middle of Oz's headquarters are you?" When Heero didn't answer, he assumed he was right and instantly became somewhat frustrated. "Dammit. I think we're going a bit far now don't you think?"

"No." Heero got up and left the computer terminal and into the hallway. He carefully made sure the two technicians dead bodies were well hidden from view.

"Okay Heero, I'll follow only this once. But then no more of this okay? The way things are going we might as well just try and walk up into the middle of their army and surrender ourselves."

"Then we wouldn't recieve the necessary information."

Duo followed Heero down another hallways before responding. "Okay Heero, you've got reason. I'm depending on your hunch to be right though, understand?"

"I do. We're going north, so find something warm."

'Oh great," Duo thought to himself, 'Why does it have to be that I can't stand the cold as well? This is turning to be some hell of a week."

Well, that's the third chapter done. I don't know if I'll be able to finish the fourth one tonight. You'll find out in the next chapter I guess...

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