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Russia: December 1, 2032
Huddled around a barrel of fire, five or so guards talked amongst them self's as they tried to find any form of escape from Russia's winters. One guard pulled out a pack of cigarettes and pulled out a smoke. Putting it in his mouth he searched himself over for a lighter, but a buddy pulled out a lighter and offered to light his smoke. Inhaling the guard waited for a moment. Letting the nicotine set in; then he looked up to exhale. As he did he saw a light from a laser shine on to his forehead. It was the last thing he saw…
Seeing their friend's head being nearly blown off, the other remaining four guards searched for the attacker. They didn't see anything, and then they looked up. Seeing a person gliding at them with a parachute. Bringing their Weapons up, none of them had the chance to pull the trigger.
Just feet from the ground, the attacker collapsed their parachute. Then went about unhooking them self's from the harness. They went over to the controls where they found an access panel. Opening it, and taking off a backpack, the intruder pulled out a vary crudely constructed device, then went about wiring it in to the facilities own power systems. Then they waited for a meter to reach its peek, once there the intruder flipped open a cover to a button. Then pressed it…..
Tokyo-3: December 20, 2032
"…No uncle Kensuke, I don't know any thing about the missing thirty N2 bombs." Said a now sixteen year old Kenji. "Yeah I know the reasons why I should know. But I really think you might find something else more interesting." Kenji said then he went back to making a joint; licking the paper and rolling it to near perfection. Kenji listened to the reasons why he should know. He nodded then he held up his master peace; like an artiste looking over his work before the people see it.
"Again all good points, but maybe you might want to know what Aunt Rei wants for Christmas." Kenji said as he placed the joint with the others he's made. Then he put them in his hiding space in a small case. Just in between the wall and the head board of his bed.
"Okay go to the mall, and you know the store with all the snow globes?" Kenji asked. "Yeah that one. In there is a figure there that she's been telling my mom about."
Getting up from his bed, Kenji started looking for some money he's had stashed around the room. "Okay Uncle Kensuke talk to you later…. Bye."
Hanging up his cell phone, opened up his desk and pulled out some money…… it wasn't much maybe a couple hundred yen. But it was enough for a good night out. Walking out of his room and down stairs where he found his mom pouring over her work.
"Mom?" Kenji said.
Misato didn't say anything.
"Mom."
Again Misato didn't say anything.
"MOM!"
Jumping from her work, Misato started to scratch the back of her head. "Yeah sweetie?"
Kenji shook his head. "Mom you really need to rest some. I mean how long has it been since you took any break?"
"I wish I could, but with thirty stolen N2 bombs I cant." Misato replied. "Where you off to?"
"I was going to go out for a couple hours."
Misato tried to hide her smirking but Kenji could see it a mile away. "So who you going to see?"
"Neither of them." Kenji replied quickly.
"It's a simple answer dear. Aya or Natsuki? You three have been friends for years and now that you three are getting to that age…… well I really don't want to be a grandmother for an other ten to fifteen years at the vary least."
Kenji stood there, his eyes narrow. Giving her as much of an angry look as he could. But sarcasm was more his thing. "Yes mom…. I meet up with Aya and Natsuki and the three of us go back and forth. Sex with the two is amazing."
Misato could play that game. "Okay just be safe about it." She said in a tone that sounded like she didn't care.
"Mom….Please."
Kenji was losing this one.
"Have fun sweetie."
Kenji just looked at his mother then shook his head. Picked up his coat and opened the door where he found that Aya Krefta was about to knock on the door.
"A-Aya? What are you doing here?" Kenji asked.
The girl instantly blushed. "Umm… I was in the area and… thought about stopping by to see you."
Kenji didn't know what to do or say about that one. But he didn't know something else he could do. "It's cold out. You wanna come in and warm up?"
Aya shook her head. And Kenji stepped aside letting his friend in the house. Then the two walked past the door way to living room where Misato was still working.
"Mom… We're doing it here." Kenji said, making Aya give him a strange look.
"Okay dear…." Misato said back with out looking up from her work. "Just remember what we talked about."
"Kenji-kun… what was that about?" Aya asked.
"Nothing, just an inside joke." Kenji replied.
Taking their shoes off and leaving their coats there at the door. The two went up stairs. It wasn't uncommon for Kenji to have Aya or Natsuki up stairs in his room. The three have friends for seven years now. It was always Kenji, Aya and Natsuki. Or Natsuki and Kenji, Aya and Natsuki, Natsuki and Kenji. They where always with each other.
"What was it you where getting ready to go to?" Aya asked, as they went in to his room.
"What...Oh I was getting ready to see if you could do anything. And see if Natsuki was back." Kenji replied; pulling out the chair from his desk. Offering it for Aya.
Aya shook her head. "No. She's not back. But my dad said she'll be back by Monday."
Aya then spun around on the computer chair, she noticed at pitcher on Kenji's computer screen. It was an image of a woman and a man, both sitting on a hood of a car. "Who's that?"
Kenji then looked over from his dresser. "That's my mom and dad."
Aya took a closer look at the image; it was true the woman was for Sure Misato. And the man she's never seen before, but looking back over at Kenji, then back at the image of the man. She could see it.
"I see where you get your looks… You look a lot like your dad." Aya said. "What happened to him? Was it divorce?"
Kenji shook his head. "No, he was killed before I was born. So I've never known him and there's vary little around of him."
Aya looked at her friend, her eye follow him over to his bed. Where he sat down. "Do you know who killed him?"
Kenji shook his head. "No, I asked my mom. But she's not talking. Rather she knows and won't tell, or she really doesn't know. But some day I'll find out whom and what was the truth he died for."
Aya looked at the image again, and then she looked back at Kenji. Getting up she went over to the bed and sat down beside him. Kenji quickly gave a questioning look.
"What are you doing?" He asked.
"Ssshhhh…."
Aya inched closer to Kenji; all he could do was sit there. Unsure of what was going to happen. The just as he thought their lips where going to meet, Aya rested her forehead on to his. Kenji opened his eyes.
"You'll find out someday Kenji-kun." She said in a whisper. "I know you will. You're just that type of guy."
"What type of guy is that?" he asked back in a whisper.
"The type that says that he's going to do something and you do it." Aya replied.
Kenji smiled. "Thanks Aya."
Things where slowly changing between Aya and Kenji. They where getting closer, really close. Some that didn't know them would instantly mistake them for being a couple. But that wasn't true. They where good friends. But still there was something else there. They knew that Natsuki could see it. But it wouldn't be fare to her if something had happened while she was gone. So they never did anything.
"You still want to see if I can do something?" Aya asked with a smile.
Kenji then reached behind his bed and pulled out two of the joints he made earlier that night. "Care for some entertainment?"
Aya shook her head. "Sure let me freshen up some."
Pulling out a compact she was about to use some make up. But found that while in the cold it had froze the contents in side. "Oh no… My make up is frozen…."
"You don't need any."
"Kenji….."
"What it's true. You don't need any." Kenji stated.
"You don't suppose that your mom will let me use some of hers do you." Aya asked.
Kenji shrugged his shoulders. "I don't think she'll mind."
Getting up from the bed the two went over to the bathroom, where Kenji's mother kept her make up. Going through what seemed to be endless supplies of make up. Aya found something that was close to the shade she used. Opening the compact she took the it's applicator out. Along with it something fell out of the compact. Picking it up, Kenji took a closer look at it. It seemed to be a pill of some type, but it was weighted differently from any pill he's held before. Taking the pill apart he found something that looked like a computer chip.
"What is it?" Aya asked.
"I don't know…. My mom likes to hide things like this around the house." Kenji replied with a fake laugh. "It's probably something for her work." Kenji said then he went about putting the chip back in to the pill and the pill back in to the compact. "You ready?"
"Yep I'm ready."
The two went back down stairs to get their things and head on out for the night. "Mom we're leaving now." Kenji said as they walked past the door way to the living room.
"What done already?" Misato asked still not looking up from her work.
"Play along." Kenji whispered to Aya. "Yeah we thought about picking up something to make it more fun."
Then Aya then started to catch on. "Yeah and we thought about doing it in public and how more fun it would be."
Kenji looked over at Aya. "Nice one…." He whispered.
"Alright if you to cough by the police don't call me." Misato said.
"Sure thing mom."
The two friends where out the door.
Deep with in the NERV complex in Germany.
"… As you can see Natsuki preformed near perfectly." Chairmen Krefta said to Gendo.
"What do you mean near perfectly Krefta?" Gendo asked as he looked over the collected data.
"Natsuki received a minor injury during the operation. A flesh wound in the right bicep." Krefta replied. "Nothing that will hinder future operations."
Natsuki stood motionless, propped up on a table that was up at an angle. Her eyes slightly closed and lifeless, a peace of head gear that went around from the either side of her head. Wires connected to a large machine.
"And this is the Memory suppressing system?" Gendo asked.
"It is, this is much like the system that you used on the first child to make back ups of her memory for use of the dummy plug system." Krefta stated. "As long as the head gear she has on isn't damaged she and her brothers and sisters will be completely loyal." Krefta explained. "It will also let us control their memories. So she'll have no memory of the op."
Gendo had a look of that said he was displeased with something. "This equipment looked rather… flimsy."
Krefta nodded. "I agree. That is why I have been using the designs of the three Evangelion units. And modifying them in to a type of armor for the Children. But that is still under development."
"So they will look like the Evangelion?" Gendo asked.
"That's correct. Natsuki here is being used for data collection. The things we learn from her will be applied for her brothers and sisters when we bring them out."
Gendo walked around Natsuki a couple times. "What of the items?"
Krefta smirked. "Stored away until future use."
Some park in the city…
Sitting on the swings to a swing set, Kenji and Aya sat letting the effects of the pot set in. Both of them vary board. And vary high…
"Kenji-kun it's getting cold out, lets find something to do." Aya said.
"Like what?" Asked Kenji. "It's Tokyo-3, their isn't much to do here."
"What about the Geo Front?" Aya asked.
Kenji shook his head. "Can't get in with out my mom working. If she's off, I can't get in."
Aya looked down to the snow, slightly disappointed.
"But…" Kenji said getting off the swing he was sitting on. "Why don't we look in to finding some food. I'm pretty hungry."
Aya bused out in to a fit of laughter. "Me too…. Okay let's find something to eat."
Aya tried to get up out of the swing but the snow caused her to slip. So she sat back down on the swing, making Kenji laugh. "Kenji-kun.. Can you help me up?"
"Yeah Aya I'll help you."
Helping his friend up from the swing, Kenji then also slipped on the packed snow and fell back wards, causing Aya to fall on top of him. The two's faces where centimeters from the others. Neither of the two moved for several seconds. Then Aya slowly sat up so it looked like she was in an even more questionable possession.
"We should go to my place… My dad isn't home." Aya whispered.
"I think we should find some food." Kenji said. "It wouldn't be right."
"Why?" Aya said. Her tone much louder now. "You said when people are high, they show their true self's." Aya the lowered her self so her face was in Kenji's face. Her long blond hair hanging in Kenji's face. "So why not?"
"I've got three vary good reasons." Kenji replied. Then he rolled so he was now on top of her. "First it would be like I'm taking advantage of you and I don't think I could live with that. The second is I thought we where going to run things by Natsuki first. See how she feels about it. Because it would be nice to have some form of relation with you, I would much rather have two close friends then have one lover and a friend that watches her distance with us. And the third is I don't think that your dad would like finding me in your bed."
Kenji smiled and got up off the ground and offered his hand to help Aya up from the ground. Taking it they brushed the snow from their cloths. "How bout some roman?" Kenji asked.
"I'd much rather go to my place." Aya pouted.
"Come on… doesn't some chicken romen sound really good now?" Kenji asked changing the subject.
"Yeah it dose sound really good." Aya replied.
Kenji smiled. "I know a little place just on the other side of the park. Do you think you can make it?"
Aya nodded. "I think so…."
Meanwhile in a NERV hospital…
Lying in a hospital bed, Natsuki just looked up at the ceiling. Motionless, nearly lifeless. Chairmen then came up to her bed and removed the head gear that controls her memories. Placing the device in to a brief case. He went back to Natsuki.
"Natsuki?"
Natsuki didn't move.
"Natsuki." The chairmen said.
Still nothing from the girl on the bed.
"NATSUKI!"
Her eyes blinked a couple time then she realized that she was somewhere different from her least memory. Sitting up in a jerk, she looked around. She wasn't in the plane anymore.
"Where the hell am I?" She asked. "The last thing I remember was going to the bathroom on the plane!"
"Calm down Natsuki. The plane hit a patch of turbulence while you where in the restroom." Chairmen Krefta explained. "You bumped your head and got a nasty gash on your arm."
Recovering from her panic attack Natsuki then laid back down on the hospital bed. "Where am I?"
"A hospital with in NERV's complex in Germany." Krefta replied. "How are you feeling?"
"I've got a bit of a headache… and I'm thirsty." Natsuki replied.
"I'll get you some water…"
Getting up Krefta walked over to the sink and started to get the girl a glass of water.
"Mr. Krefta, can I also make a phone call?" Natsuki asked. "I want to call Aya and Kenji. And let them know where I'm at."
Krefta looked back at Natsuki through the mirror. "In good time dear, but first you need to rest."
"Yes sir…."
Tokyo-3: December 21, 2032
Just getting back from taking Aya back to her place; Kenji staggered up to his room. Flopping down on his bed, Kenji rolled over on to his back. His right forearm covering his forehead. He just laid their looking up at the ceiling. After a couple minutes, Kenji grabbed a remote control. And pressed the play button on it.
"Katsuragi. It's me. I've probably caused you a lot of trouble by the time you get this… I'm sorry… If I get to see you again… I'll tell you what I almost said that time. Misato. You have the truth. Get on with it."
"What is the truth dad?" Kenji said quietly to him self. "What was it you where telling mom?"
Getting up from his bed, Kenji walked out of his room and over to the bathroom. Opening the cabinet, Kenji went through his mother's make up. Finding the compact that had the computer ship in it, Kenji went back to his room. Sitting at his desk he turned on a lamp. Opening the compact, Kenji pulled out the pill that was stashed in it. Taking apart the pill, Kenji looked at the computer chip.
There wasn't anything remarkable about the chip; it looked like any other computer chip. But there wasn't any way to pull the information from it. It was just a computer chip. Rubbing his eyes, Kenji leaned back in the chair trying to think up of something. But he was much too tired to think. So taking a second look at the chip, Kenji copied down any thing that was on it. Writing it down, Kenji placed the note book in his backpack
Going back to his bed after shutting off the lamp. Kenji pulled out the remote again. Pressing another button on the remote, music started to play. Kenji laid there in his bed. Thinking about what had happened earlier that night. It was true. He and Aya where getting closer. And something told him that Natsuki was catching on.
'Natsuki…Aya… they're as different as night and day.'