Hello there again
I wish to thank you to those who read this story so far as I wanna keep doing my best to continue making this story as concise and legit as possible
Anyhow, this is the start of the story after the prologue (which takes place in episode 6 of the OG show) as we will see first our characters.
The pacing can change depends on the opinions on which worked best whenever I will upload (the one whole thing for one episode or currently I'm doing the two/three parts for an episode) for the sake for you, my viewer.
this will not have major changes but think of it as foreshadowing for this episode.
Anyhow.
Enjoy and roll out!
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN and CLAIMED TRANSFORMERS (owned by HASBRO) OR NEON GENESIS EVANGELION (owned by Hideaki Aono and/or GAINAX)
In a City...
it is a raging circumstance as an angel was detected, identified as Ramiel, a diamond pyramid size being, was halted as a purple tube-like driller suddenly stretched out from the bottom and penetrates the street, disintegrating it down.
At the bayside, a balloon 1/1 scale of a dummy generic Eva unit with a small sailboat was moving towards its alien being, while additionally pointing its gun, Ramiel, discovered it, fires a laser beam precisely at the balloon dummy, and it got vaporized to pieces.
in an unknown location...
"The enemy's particle beam cannon has been hit!" said an unknown male voice
"The Dummy has been vaporized!" said another unknown male in a fact tone.
Standing on the center was a 28-year-old purple hair woman name Misato Katsuragi, the operations director at NERV, who stared intently at the screen, where the battle has transpired.
"Next," she said.
in the mountains...
The railroad from the tunnel revealed an automated self-propelled mortar as it has shot towards Ramiel from a long-distance...futile since it has deflected its shot and fired it back, destroying it.
Back to the unknown location...
"The self-propelled mortar has been destroyed!" shouted an unknown male voice.
Misato observed the screen and smirked.
"I see," she said in amusement as now she has seen how does this Angel attacks.
To an Analysis room...
Misato was presently sitting on the chair with a pen in her hand, whirling it around, as she was now listening by a guy name Makoto Hyuga, the First Lieutenant at NERV, who was giving some data about the angel Ramiel.
"From the data we've collected, we're assuming that the target automatically attacks an opponent within a certain range. The likelihood of it hitting anything entering the area with its particle beam is 100%," he said formally as he continued " It's too risky for close-range combat in an Eva, isn't it?" He stated.
"What about its AT field?" she asked.
"Active. A strong enough field is present to make it visible by its phaseshift space. Inductive cannon bombing or similar attacks would be about as effective as throwing stones." he reported.
"Offensively and defensively it's almost perfect. A flying fortress," she affirmed it. Now, this is a dilemma, a stationary angel that has the right tools and skills to kill with an A.T Field acting as a shield, this is quite a predicament.
"What's the status on its drill?" she asked.
The purple tube driller was still drilling to the ground because, in actuality, the Angel has discovered its headquarters, which that's where all are entirely at currently.
"At this moment the target is directly above us, penetrating the New Tokyo-3 Null Zone. A gigantic Shield with a diameter of 17.5 meters is heading for Nerv headquarters in the Geo-front," he stated
"The enemy is planning to attack Nerv Headquarters directly," he concluded the data gathering about Ramiel.
Misato didn't like the results " Shit! And what's its ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival)?" she asked.
"Just past midnight, at 12:06:54, it will have breached all 22 levels of defensive armor and will penetrate Nerv headquarters," he affirmed
'Less than 10 hours left...' she thought, time is clicking down...
"Enemy Shield has contacted the first defensive armor." said an announcement.
"What's the condition of Unit One?" She asked.
In the hangar...
Down along the railing deck were two people standing over a humanoid cyborg that was battle damaged, one is a blond hair woman named Ritsuko Akagi, the head scientist of NERV, and the other was a short-haired brunette named Maya Ibuki, her assistant. Both were observing its condition after the pilot was rush to the emergency room.
"The defensive armor was melted down to the third layer. The silver lining is that the central control unit sustained no damage.." Ritsuko replied with a coffee in her hand.
"Three more seconds and it would have been over," Maya affirmed sadly
"In three hours, the replacement parts should be installed." said an announcement.
Back at the analysis room...
"Roger" Misato exclaimed, one unit down...
"What's the status of Unit 00?" she asked.
Back at the hangar...
"Re-activation itself should prove no problem, but there's still a feedback error..." Maya said as she looked on a pad.
Ritsuko just stared "So actual combat..."
Back at the analysis room...
"...is still impossible," Misato whispered, one unit also down...
"What's the condition of Unit 01 's pilot?" she asked.
"No physical damage. However, his nerve pulses are up by 0.8. Still within acceptable limits." Makoto said
"Enemy drill arrival: 9 hours, 55 minutes." said an announcement
"The situation certainly isn't favorable," she exclaimed
"Shall we just raise a white flag?" he asked as the situation was pretty dim
"Before we resort to that, there's one little thing I'd like to try," she confidently replied as she has strategized a plan, or rather... a reckless plan.
In the NERV commander's office...
"You want a sniper to shoot the target from outside its firing zone?" said an old male voice.
"Yes, Sir," she replied as she continued her proposal "Instead of trying to neutralize the targets AT field, I believe a pinpoint shot with a high-energy beam is the only way."
"What do the Magi say?" asked a gruff male voice.
"The responses from the Magi Super Computers were two affirmative and one conditional affirmative," she remarked
"So, our probability of success is 8.7 percent. It's quite a high percentage," she concluded
Showing here was a senior standing named Kōzō Fuyutsuki, the vice commander of NERV and the other man that was sitting on the chair with both hands clasped together under his chin with glasses on named Gendo Ikari, the Commander of NERV.
"I see no reason to object. You may proceed, Captain Katsuragi" He stated, still in a gruff voice.
He agreed on the plan for once.
"Yes sir," She exclaimed.
Somewhere else...
"But you sure have come up with a reckless plan, Operations Director Katsuragi." Ritsuko bemused as both were in the escalator.
"Don't be rude. It's not reckless!" She pouted as she turned to her "It can be executed within the nine hours we have left, and has the highest chance of success." she concluded
"This thing does? Really?" Ritsuko asked.
In another bay hangar...
Both women were staring at a giant object called Positron Rifle, a weapon that was specifically made for the Eva Units. unfortunately, it wasn't used by any of the units until now.
"But our positron rifle can't handle such a high output. What are you going to do about that?" Ritsuko asked.
"We'll borrow one, of course." Misato quickly replied.
"Borrow one? You don't mean..." Ritsuko raised her eyebrow but didn't continue as Misato just smiled.
"Right! The Strategic SDF Lab's prototype!" Misato replied
In the prototype lab...
"Nerv is hereby requisitioning this Self Propelled Positron Cannon as of 15:00 today," Misato ordered.
All of the scientists were nervous because of the limited time they have to build such a weapon "But still, this is ridiculous!" he stated.
Misato just grinned "We'll try to return this in as close to its original condition as we can. We appreciate your cooperation!" She remarked as she looked up.
"Okay, Rei! Take it away!" she shouted as the ceiling began to open to reveal an orange humanoid cyborg that has a single red eye called Unit 00 and she stared at the orange cyborg.
"That's a piece of precision machinery, so be careful!" she yelled.
"Even so, our calculations show that it will take at least 180 million kilowatts to penetrate that AT field." he noted thou begins to wonder "Where are you going to get that much electricity?" he asked as Misato turned her head with a grin on her face.
"Where else? From all of Japan!" she declared as the cargo was lifted by the Unit 00 hands.
On the News...
"We apologize for interrupting, Our regular programming for this
Emergency Bulletin." the news reporter announced. "From 11:30 PM tonight until tomorrow morning, there will be a large-scale power blackout, throughout most of Japan. We appreciate your cooperation." the announcement kept going with different locations being shown.
Tokyo 3...
The Angel Ramiel was still drilling on the ground.
At the NERV Headquarters...
Everyone was promptly preparing their tactics plan while the drill was still penetrating from the ground up.
"The drill has just broken through the seventh defensive layer!" said an unknown staff.
"What's the status of our energy system?" Misato asked.
In a different location...
Wires that were connected from all of the electric generators were spreading out as it goes towards the mountains.
"3.2% behind schedule, but we should manage to be finished by 23:10." said an unknown staff.
Back at the NERV Headquarters...
"And the positron rifle?" Misato asked.
"We'll have it built for you in three hours." the technician replied on the screen.
"What about our defensive measures?" she asked again.
In the hangar...
"Well, using a shield is about all we can do," Ritsuko stated as Maya awed at what's in front of her
Looking on was a grey giant shield that is triangled shaped, it looked like it wasn't used in a long while.
"So, this is the shield?" she wondered.
"Yes. It's a hand-me-down from a single stage to an orbiting rocket. It may look ugly, but it's got a super-electromagnetic base coating that Section 2 guarantees will stand up to the enemy's particle beam for at least seventeen seconds." Ritsuko replied.
Back at the NERV Headquarters...
"Good. Have you determined the sniper position?" Misato asked.
It popped up the Map of Tokyo-3
"Given the range to the target, geographical features, and considering power access, this would be the spot." Makoto pointed out as he managed to pinpoint a location.
"Looks good within there." She replied, "The sniping position will be atop Mt. Futago!" She shouted as she took a step back "The operation will commence
at 00:00 tomorrow morning! From this point on, this operation will be
called "Operation Yashima". she declared.
Everyone nodded to the plan "Roger!" they shouted
Despite all of this beginning to initiate, Misato has one tiny flaw to make the plan worked.
'Now, the only remaining problem is the pilot.' she pondered.
That would escalate quickly "Unit 01's designated pilot is conscious now. His examination results look normal." Makoto confirmed.
"Good. Then, the operation will proceed as planned." She said in relief as Ritsuko gazed on at her data-pad.
"Roger!" Makoto saluted.
"But I wonder if he'll pilot it again," Ritsuko asked
'I do hope so...' Misato thought as she was now in full commando mode "Get ready for a decisive battle at Mt. Futago!" she ordered.
In an emergency room...
Lying down the bed naked with the blanket covering his lower region... was the 14-year-old boy named Shinji Ikari, the rookie pilot unit-01, how he got here was that he got hit unexpectedly by Ramiel after he reached toward the top as NERV retreated him back to the headquarters and got him healed.
Sliding the door revealed to be a 14-year-old blue-haired pale girl wearing a boring school uniform named Rei Ayanami, the other pilot specifically for unit-00, who was strolling towards him with a small cart as she stared at him.
He stirred as he began to wake up and turned slightly to see Rei on his left side, no emotions written on her face.
"Ayanami..." He said softly as she pulled out from her pocket a small notebook and began to read out something.
"I'm here to brief you on the timetable of Operation Yashima, which will begin tomorrow at 00:00 hours. Pilots Ikari and Ayanami will arrive at the cage at 17:30 today. At 18:00, Units 01 and 00 will activate. The launch is at 18:05. They will arrive at the temporary base on Mt. Futago at 18:30. There, they will stand by and await further orders. The operation will begin promptly at midnight." She finished robotically as she puts back her small notebook in her pocket and slightly crouched to pick up a pack of ice and tosses it at him softly
"Here a new one," she remarked.
Shinji was still quiet as he tries to wrap his mind what had just happened, he remembered that he got unconscious after Ramiel hit him. He slowly rises and sat up straight silently.
"Don't show up half-asleep looking like that." She said factly.
He looked at her and blinked, didn't know what she meant by that statement until he felt so chilly and looked down, unaware that he was naked from top to bottom.
He panicked as he tried to cover himself up, feeling flustered and embarrassed that he was naked in front of a girl, at his age no less. Looking down sadly "Sorry..." he said quietly as he slightly raised his head melancholy "All I've been doing since yesterday is apologizing." he said silently.
"Your meal," she noted as Shinji looked at the meal Rei delivered, the tray consist of a small milk carton, sunnyside egg, bread, rice, and 3 pieces of ham (?).
Feeling uninterested as well as unhungry, he just shifted his head away "I don't want to eat anything." He answered.
Rei was still standing beside him, robotically and unmoved by his remarks "We'll be departing in sixty minutes." she noted
Shinji didn't like the fact that he had to ride it again ever since he came to Tokyo-3 a month ago, feeling that he hoped he would reunite his father... only to make use of him by forcing him to use the Unit-00 with no remorse, luckily defeating 2 angels despite without fighting experience but manifested the harsh reality of a battle, resulting in him getting traumatized and feeling useless.
"Do I have to pilot that thing again?" he asked sadly
"Yes, you do," she responded.
"I don't want to," he muttered and closed his eyes. "Maybe you can be so cool about it, Maybe you can be so cool about it because you haven't had the kind of experiences I've had yet," he remarked.
"I don't want to go through that again," he concluded.
"Then why don't you stay in bed?" She sought as he turned to look at her, confusingly.
"Stay in bed?" he questioned. Rei repositioned herself and furrow her brow.
"I'll pilot Unit 01. Dr. Akagi is already prepared to rewrite
Unit 01 's data files." she regarded. Shinji was surprised at what she had just told. It's been like the third time since his arrival on this kind of remark.
'Miss Ritsuko is...' he thought.
"I'm leaving. Captain Katsuragi and Dr. Akagi will be waiting at the cage." She said as she turned around heading towards the door.
"Goodbye," she said as it got closed, heading towards the meeting point. leaving Shinji in a sad and confused state as he was thinking.
Unknown mountain location...
it was pretty dark already despite that it's already 18:00, two shadowy silhouettes with glowing blue eyes were seen, for some strange reason... they were big, one was small and the other was average at scale but still, both were looking at the Tokyo-3 view with Angel Ramuel, who was still staying puSamuelell as drilling the floor, at the center of it while they were walking at the mountains until the small one almost tripped if it wasn't held on the shoulders by his companion.
"Shh, we don't wanna make a noise here, buddy," said an unknown silhouette as his ears were blinking whenever he speaks.
"BZZRT-BZRT-BZRT.," said his companion. Sadly, he cannot speak.
"I understand... but this is sad to see, Humans were fighting these beings for protecting their home... exactly like us," He remarked as they have seen the current events
"bzzrrt-bzrt-bzrt-bzzrrt!" said his companion with hope.
"You should know that our commander told us not to be involved in this conflict, she wouldn't like this," he stated.
His companion shook his head angrily "bzzrrt-bzrt-bzrt-bzzrrt"
"I feel the same way as you do... I don't even know if we can find more resources or assist them out, but why being involved if we can't find a way to restore our planet?" he grumbled "The doc even said that Bringing them in can result in more tragedies to come." he sighs as his friend was switching channels onto his radio, despite not the best on making a good synchronize flow on this, his efforts were trying to say something with a specific quote that is like a reminder of who they are.
"Fre-eed-om i-is th-the r-r-rig-right of a-all sentient be-beings," said a deep baritone voice with broken radio waves.
He knows too well who told that quote... and sighs heavily as he was shaking his head with his hand on the top "Our leader would never question that moral, despite that, unfortunately... he is in stasis lock since we arrived here on earth millions of years ago." He sighed heavily as his companion just looked at him.
"... your right. We are fighting for Everyone's freedom, even if we came from two different worlds... we shouldn't doubt it," He said as he turned around to his friend with second thoughts
"Besides... This might be a good opportunity to try out the experiment that I left at the lab to see if this will be a success or a fail." He chuckled as his comrade just rolled his eyes.
"Bzrt-bzrt-bzrt-bzrt?" He noted to his friend.
"Oh yeah, you're right... let's head back to base and warn the commander about this conflict, we might get ourselves involved... and this could be something big," he remarked as his companion nodded his head and both were running as the smoke covered their silhouettes completely, only hearing the sounds of mechanical gears switching and cars roaring into life as both disappeared.
Near Asahi Falls on Mt. Futago ...
Shinji and Rei, now in their plug suits (with Shinji colored an upper half white and lower half blue while Rei mostly in all white), were sitting apart on the platform, waiting for their orders and the time with their Eva's behind them as they looked on the city, admiring the view in silence since the city cut their electrical power stations in use for the rifle.
Shinji pondered on the events that changed his life ever since he came to Tokyo-3, all in while not giving a break to allow self-reflect. why reinstated to pilot again for the 2nd time even though Rei has informed him that Ritsuko was going to rewrite its data files? and why did he pilot an Eva?
Flashback...
"Shinji..." Misato called
"Yes, Ma'am." He saluted
"Your Unit 01 will be the gunner," Misato ordered, even though she knew it was a risky move, Shinji only learned to shoot on the Eva a few weeks ago, and not in the best results. still thou...
"Yes, Ma'am." He affirmed, went along with the order.
"Rei, you're in charge of defense with Unit 00," Misato ordered.
"Yes, Ma'am," Rei affirmed.
"This is because Shinji has a higher sync ratio with Unit 01." Ritsuko commented "and this operation will require exceptional precision. Since the positron beam will be influenced by the Earth's gravity, magnetic fields, and rotation, it will not fire in a straight line. You must remember to make adjustments for these deviations." She explained
"You must penetrate the core precisely." She concluded. Shinji didn't like it one bit because he had little experience with guns, let alone, he used one a few weeks ago.
"But I've never practiced this!" He cried. Of course, he doesn't practice before this event.
"Don't worry. Just do what the manual says, when the indicators converge
in the center, pull the trigger. The computers will handle the rest." She reassured Shinji about the situation at hand.
"Also, once you fire it, it will take time before you can fire again for cooling, reloading, and replacement of the fuses." She informed
"Then, if I miss and the enemy shoots back..." Shinji asked because it was a good question...
"Don't think about unnecessary things right now," Ritsuko stated. unflinching
"Just think about destroying it in one shot." she persuaded.
'So it's crisis time.' He thought.
"I..." Rei hesitated as Shinji turned to look at her "I just need to defend Unit 01, correct?" She clarified.
"That's right," Ritsuko responded.
"Understood" Rei affirmed.
"It's time. Both of you, get changed." Misato demanded.
"Yes, Ma'am." Both pilots affirmed.
End of flashback...
Shinji never knew Rei much other than the few times they have met in which he tries to be her friend, despite in failed attempts. and he doesn't have a good reason why does he pilot the Eva's.
"Why do you pilot this thing?" He asked.
"Because I'm bound," Rei replied as Shinji confused what she had just said.
"Bound?" He asked again since it doesn't make a lick of sense for bound as a good reason
"Yes, it's a bond." she clarified.
"With my father?" He asked again. Now, this is something that he got jealous, even more, upset about because his father, Gendo, never loved him as a son or give a damn about him.
"With all people." She commented.
"You're very strong, Ayanami." He complimented.
"Because I have nothing else." She added.
"What do you mean, "you have nothing else"?" He asked before he got interrupted by her as she stood up.
"It's time. Let's go." She had ignored his question but decided to drop it for now as he knew that they have a job to do.
"Goodbye," she murmured
To be continued...
A/N- there's part one for chapter one, it's quite hard to make it since I haven't done a fanfic story that is as big as both of these very good franchises
Fun Fact #2:
On making the story, I had to choose which route do I take- the bumblebee route (where it's mostly a few robots less than 3 before going many) or the transformers prime/G1 route(where many robots would be a bit many)
so I'll see you all to the next one or the end of chapter 1 (which is the battle)
Peace!
