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Volume Three
"Hey, hey Dumkopf!"
Shinji blinked and looked up, "Wha-uh . . ."
"Weren't you listening!" Asuka asked with disgust.
"Uhm, I'm sorry." Shinji said quickly, "What was it."
"Grrrrr, I said have you seen my sun dress!" She shouted in his face.
Shinji thought back quickly, not wanting the fiery German to shout in his face anymore. "No." He finally responded, "I haven't, are you sure you put it in the hamper . . . I mean I don't go in your room . . . you know . . . uhm."
"I know that dumkompf! Now where might you have misplaced it!"
"Hey!" Shinji countered, "What makes you think I'm the one who lost it, didn't you just hear me?"
"Of course." Asuka said turning her nose up to him. "After all, you're the one who does the laundry around here. I put it out for you to clean so it must have gotten lost because of you!"
Shinji couldn't escape the logic, assuming of course that Asuka had put said dress in the hamper in the first place like he had asked . . .
Cursing Asuka continued searching. Meanwhile Pen Pen sat in his fridge looking himself over in the stolen garment . . . perhaps one of Shinji's shirts instead.
Shinji turned back to thoughts concerning his life and fellow pilots in general. To be more accurate he wasn't just thinking, he was brooding. Misato . . . Misato was nice to him, even to the point of being kind and perhaps even loving, but it was hardly a strong relationship and it sometimes felt like he was supporting her more than her him.
Asuka . . . If anything could be said, it was that she was strong. Stronger then him by a wide margin. Why was he even here anymore? Wasn't he just getting in the way? Asuka was trained for this after all, he was just some guy they had picked up off the street. That said she was also cruel, she pushed away any attempt to be friends which was about as far as Shinji would dare to go with anyone.
Ayanami . . . Now there was a difficult spot for him. She was very odd, she didn't speak angrily to him or tease him or use him. She had never let him down, though admittedly he had never asked anything of her. Secretly he felt that if there was anyone he could get close to it was her. Still she was distant at the best of times. He only wished she would act a little more human.
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Rei starred up at the apartment building which held her new home. It was a five story structure centered on a small courtyard and with a small park directly across from it. It was vaguely reminiscent of a college dorm with the amount of activity during the daylight hours. Section Two Agents that were off shift seemed to cling in tight groups, smoking and talking or otherwise exercising. A group of agents were busy in the adjacent park going through close combat forms.
Section Two's greatest weakness was not its poor coordination or lack of funding, it was the fact that though it did have many competent members, these skilled agents were widely spread among a formation of thugs barely capable enough to stand guard. Most of the skilled agents were assigned to guard particular sensitive sections of the GeoFront and so were put even further out of circulation. Therefore Section Two's effectiveness suffered, badly.
Rei continued to stare for a few moments before proceeding towards the building, a group of section two agents watched as she approached one of them, a young woman with short cropped red hair and green eyes, most definitely foreign, seemed to give her a thoughtful look before making to intercept the girl at the doorway. "Your Rei Ayanami right?" The woman asked taking one of the small boxes that the girl was carrying.
Rei simply starred at her, slightly agitated, the box she had taken held her collection. "I'm Corporal Millan with Section Four internal security. We've been expecting you."
Rei still didn't say anything, simply starring until the woman gave up with socialization and gestured for her to follow. The entered the building and proceeded by elevator to the third floor. The room she was shown to was at the far end of the hallway near the emergency stairs. She waited as the Agent pulled a key from her pocket and opened the door allowing her inside of her new residence.
Rei examined her surroundings quietly for a moment.
Surprisingly, the room was almost identical to her old apartment, save for being completely clean and unused. The floor was hardwood and led to a small living space, it was furnished differently from her old home, a futon rather then a bed, and a small low dresser next to it. Quite nice actually, if a bit spartan, though that didn't interest Rei at all. What did interest her was that it was dry, that was good for her collection.
"Uhm, if you need anything else I'm right down the hall, room 178, ok?" Millan was disappointed when she didn't get a response and decided to simply leave the child be, it figured, piloting those damn things must do something to your head. With that thought and a shrug Millan was gone leaving Rei to her own devices.
Rei began to unpack quickly, first her clothes which went into the drawers of the dresser, then her beaker and the Commander's glasses, then finally she began to withdraw her collection, all twelve volumes in their plastic dust jackets, then her four PVC figures protected in bubble wrap. Placing them all down reverently she slid open the closet and found an appropriate hiding place well back in the shadows. Placing the stack of Manga in first and then the models before covering them with a few neatly stacked blouses.
Now nobody would notice her collection if they came in to look about. Perhaps I should purchase a safe box as well. The thought of losing her collection to a fire was quite troubling.
With that decision made she stood quietly and went back to her unpacking, she hardly notice as she absently tucked her spare satchel into the very back of the closet not even noticing how heavy it felt. A part of her was briefly curious about the weight, but when she thought to investigate she had a strong desire to do something else. With the unpacking finished however there was little to do, she had already finished her school work and there were no synch tests scheduled. In fact Doctor Akagi had ordered her to rest for the next three days, she apparently believed the lack of sleep was due to the stress of the last few angel Attacks.
Rei wavered slightly feeling her exhaustion build once more and decided it would be best to do as she had been told. She didn't bother undressing, instead choosing to simply collapse onto the futon, closing her eyes and sinking from consciousness. This time Yuki did not take control, she was as worn as her companion and required rest just as much at the moment. Still her plans were already developing she had been given a few days to use to her advantage and those days would, be, utilized.
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Kensuke starred at his screen eyes ringed and tired, his clothes were in disarray and his glasses hung half on his face as he scanned the lines of code once more. What had started as an enthusiastic hammering on his keyboard three days earlier had now died down to a systematic attack on the data's defenses. The encryption alone was proof of it being from the MAGI, nothing else could have this kind of security. The top layers were easy stuff and gave him access to some compartmentalized files, but now he was finding it almost impossible to crack, not only was the little bastard a tough nut, it was fighting back, he'd had to switch between his laptop and terminal several times now as the data's defensive programs crashed his computers. There would be many things to reformat when he was done with this, but he was enjoying the challenge . . . sort of. The fact that he didn't have to cover up his tracks so his dad didn't find out meant he could really hammer this thing, it was still slow going.
Ultimately, however, it was simply some good programming with only a limited ability to adapt against a human hacker, it couldn't hold out indefinitely. I'm surprised there isn't a viral cipher on this thing . . .Kensuke thought. If he had been the person to create NERV's counter hacking software he would have put a suicide Command into the programming for just such a situation. It was just another puzzle for now, he chocked it up to NERV never expecting a hack attempt on their internal network. He went back to work.
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Gendo Ikari was not happy as he sat with his fingers steeped before him deep in thought as he starred at the object of his irritation. "Report Doctor, why was Rei not present for today's synch test?"
Ritsuko looked at him calmly doing her best to suppress any external hints of agitation at the cold tone her sometimes lover was using with her. She quietly stepped forward and placed a folder on the Commander's desk giving Gendo time to read the contents. It didn't take him long, there really wasn't much that needed to be said.
"Its simply stress, Rei has been spending virtually all of her waking ours either here or at school and going on short sleep, even for her that isn't healthy. Combined with the stress from the last few Angel attacks . . . I wouldn't be surprise if the other pilots are having similar problems to a lesser extent."
Gendo closed his eyes behind his glass as he considered the answer. "Give her a week to rest, she must be back on duty by then."
Ritsuko nodded, "That should be more then enough time, I would suggest lowering the number of tests for the 2nd and 3rd Children as well, we've all been run ragged from the last few attacks."
The Commander relented on her second point and instructed her to check Rei over thoroughly when she returned to active duty at the end of the week. Fortunately all of the data had been gathered on time for the Dummy Plug so the project would not be affected by Rei's absence. With this done the Commander turned back to other matters.
No more data had been found on the attacker, but all of the evidence pointed to it being someone with intimate knowledge of NERV's inner workings, someone who had to have work in the facility for a considerable amount of time. That narrowed the possible staff down considerably but even so left many.
Still, this attack was damaging because we don't know what they retrieved . . . The sheer quantity of data in the MAGI secure files insured that the intruder was unlikely to have found anything vital in a random sweep but if they had accessed the dead sea scrolls data, or the data pertaining to Lilith . . . That was best not thought about . . .
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Kensuke shot up in his seat as a soft chirp went off reporting that the encryption had been broken on at least one of the files, a rather large one nearly six terabytes in size, it took up a third of the flash drives memory and was by far the largest file. Still the others had their own encryption sets and this one had been 'relatively' low security compared to the rest. He brought it up excited and frowned when he saw the title.
What did Op.DMY-PLG-REI stand for?
