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Night came. Asuka could see the dimming glow of the horizon shed its final glow over the mountains, stars beginning to emerge from the black abyss above. She really had no idea where they were but the soothing whipping of the wind through her hair and skin made that simple conflict a distant anomaly. She wished she had use of both eyes to see the scenery but she could go without it.
She checked around her shoulder and felt Shinji's head leaning sleepily over her back. This couldn't help but place a smirk on her face. It was cute.
She looked down at the leather bag that was slung over her shoulder and noticed a slight glow coming from it. With one hand she pried it open and spotted an elastic black band equipped with several long syringes. Each one had a distinct glow and it immediately reminded her of the drug that girl in New York had created. Was it the same? It looked like it.
She wrapped her long fingers around one of them and withdrew it. She held it up to the darkened sky and somehow that seemed to make it glow even brighter. The contents bubbled slightly and she could have sworn she had seen a white feather float within it. Don't be silly. Maybe it's her half vision working against her. Placing it back into her bag a random thought crept into her mind.
It looks like amniotic fluid, she thought.
They needed to head to the heartland of the U.S. If they went through the country of Canada and then took a direct turn into the middle of the U.S they could reach the state in about a week and half. Maybe. She was only guessing. She had recognized those enemy soldiers as Rose. They didn't have the insignia like they did in New York but something about them rung the same resonance within her. She shook it off. She didn't want to think of it and if they had chosen to go back through New York to head to the base in Massachusetts they would undoubtedly run into either Rose or Seele. The only real plus side of going to Nevada was because it became nearly world knowledge that it had been destroyed but like what Shinji said earlier not everything is what it seems.
So that's it. Their new objective was to get to Nevada and investigate the supposed destroyed base.
What's the deal with the weather, she thought?
She assumed now weather patterns were no longer constant. Despite upper New York being relatively the same latitude as Japan they experienced colder and harsher weather. The Earth was no longer rotating correctly on its axis.
Why was she thinking of this instead of looking at the road?
Who cares? There was no one on the road besides her.
Be careful...
Her ears perked. She scanned her surroundings and swiftly turned to Shinji who was drooling on her back fast asleep. It wasn't him, she thought. The darkness of night was preventing to her to look far enough to inspect the horizon. She switched on the bike's head light and shook off the shiver her spine was beginning to develop.
Look up...
She blinked and peered upward.
Something soared past the bottom of her chin and just nicked the skin.
A powerful gunshot soon followed.
They were being fired at... again?!
She revved the throttle and the bike spat back and roared forward. She lowered herself between the handlebars to reduce the air drag. It was an instinct of hers. The bike picked up considerable speed and the sudden arch of Asuka's back shook Shinji from his slumber. Once he realized they were going insanely fast he quickly braced his arms around her waist and was on the verge of screaming in fright.
"What's happening?" he yells over the roaring engine.
"We got spotted! Snipers!" she answers back. Shinji tucks his head behind her back to protect himself from the potential threat of incoming fire but as he did the darkness of his surroundings began to sightly brighten? He lifted his head and released his grip on her.
The darkness of night resumed its natural hue.
What's going on?
He took her by the waist again and placed his head on her back again.
"What are you doing?" Asuka calls to him.
"Give me a second." he calls back.
Once he finds his grip his eyes begin to adjust to the darkness. It was like someone had placed a super powerful black light in the distance shedding the outline of distant objects. However, the distant images weren't constant and every time Asuka revved the engine the images would become blurry and th succumb to the darkness once again.
"Asuka. Remember our training in Brazil. You know, sync training?" he shouts. More shots ring out and Asuka blasts the bike to stop speed.
"Yeah? So what?!"
"Here, take the gun." he said passing her the SMG he had on his shoulder. She took it but didn't understand the reason behind it.
"Don't tell me you want me to shoot at them. I don't even know where they are." she said.
"Don't worry about it. They are not far at all. Close your eyes and don't speed up the bike."
"What?!" she shouted.
"Just do it! When I tell you put your arm out in front of you, with the gun, and quickly aim it around you in a fast motion! When I say shoot, you shoot!"
"You're insane!"
"Do it!"
She shut her eyes and with her bad arm she clutches the throttle in an awkward angle. With her eyes shut she lifted her gun toting arm upward in front of her. Shinji grasped her waist with both arms and concentrated.
"Asuka, sync with me!"
"What?"
"Sync with me!"
"How the hell do I-"
"Like with your Eva. Sync with me like you would with your Eva."
She gritted her teeth and relaxed. Shinji did the same but the moment he widened his eyes the path before them came clear. He could see through the darkness. Not entirely but enough that he spotted several men lying on the ground with long rifles sprouting from their shoulders.
Up ahead.
There was a road block.
"Go! Upper right!"
Asuka swung her arm into a two o' clock position and squeezed the trigger. Shinji looked over her shoulder and saw dust kick up into the air where the bullets from the SMG had hit. When the dust cleared a man lied motionless but his comrade close by fired back.
"Asuka!"
He pushed her forward so her body would squeeze between the handlebars and well out of harms way but he had forgotten about himself. The round hit his shoulder causing him to lose sensation in his right arm. He lost grip of Asuka and the next thing he knew he felt the ground and sky chaotically clash together as he hit the floor. His body rolling along the pavement.
Asuka gasped and her head jerked behind her. The seat behind her empty.
"Dammit!"
More shots rung out as she tilted the bike to a stop. With a roar of the engine she sped back the way she came. The boy laid lifeless, his upper right shoulder in shambles. She skid the bike and jumped off of it in a quick fashion. She couldn't see anything around her. It was pitch black and the only light she was receiving was from the head of the bike. Anxiety was rushing through her. A ring of darkness surrounded her. The bike continued to purr.
She looked down and saw all the blood. She was horrified by the wound. She could see his bone sticking from his shoulder and a massive chunk of flesh was missing.
The syringes.
She took the leather bag and withdrew one of the glowing syringes from the elastic band.
Several powerful shots rang.
The air whipped around her but all of them missed.
She placed her hand on his chest and blinked.
She looked up.
She could see through the darkness but why? She took the syringe and injected him with it.
Rain began to fall.
"Come on, Shinji. Get up." she whispered.
More power shots rang and one of them struck the light of the bike plunging her into darkness. Her eyes traveled through the darkness and then her hand pressed up against his chest again. Her eyes lightened and the details of the area became apparent. She could see distant figures moving in with long rifles. She peered down at Shinji and something remarkable was taking place. She could see the drug she had injected into him coursing through his veins. She could literally see the liquid flowing through him as well as her. Was this her life force? Was this their life force? How was she able to see this? Was this the outcome of all of that sync training? Could they in fact sense each other?
The air whipped past her face taking several strands of red hair along with it. She could see distant figures reloading their arms.
"Shinji, if you value your life then get up." she begs.
The ground beside her erupts into dust from a stray bullet
"Okay, new plan!"
She was about to grab the SMG but it shattered from a sniper's round.
There she was defenseless.
Was this really it?
No, it couldn't be.
Maybe this wasn't the extent of what she could do? She could see through the dark but it was because they were connected. The sync they did in Brazil. It wasn't just for their Eva's. It was for them as well. If he had his eyes closed, her vision would be enhanced. If she closed her eyes, his vision would be enhanced. If one experienced pain, the other would know. There must have been more to it. Whatever was running through their system wasn't normal. She knew what it was now. That drug that girl had given her. That syringe Nana had given to Shinji. They were the same and they enhanced the sync both she and him had established.
It was the blood of an Angel. She knew it. It had to have been. They were in reality injecting themselves with the blood of Angels. That serum Carla had created. She really did not create it. She took it and made it her own. Nana must have been given the syringes by someone and something told her Seele had something to do with it.
Her hair was drenched now.
Her whole body was soaked to the skin.
She raises both hands into the air.
The silhouettes of men emerging from the darkness. Rifles squarely pointed at the the two teens.
"We finally got you." said a man.
Asuka said nothing as her front bangs drooped suspiciously over her eyes.
"You know how much damn trouble you caused us?" said another.
The girl said nothing.
"Yeah, if it wasn't for that embedded transmitter in that leather bag of yours you might have gotten away."
The girl's body slumps forward and lifelessly falls on the boy. The soldiers stand in confusion as they watch this unfold but they soon dismiss it saying to one another that she must have fainted. However, being the soldiers they were, all fight and no contemplation, they neglected to hear the girl whispering something to the boy as they themselves began to speak of their future agenda.
"Shinji..." she whispers into the boy's ear.
"Asuka?" he breathes, "It's over isn't it?"
Rain is falling much harder now. The soldiers are laughing.
"Not by a long shot," she whispers, "Something... is coming... I got this same feeling before... I can't control it. It's like a countdown is happening to me."
He opens his eyes to water grazing his lashes.
"It's the drug right? Carla's drug?"
"It's not a drug. It's the blood of an Angel..."
"Blood of an Angel?"
"Yes."
"So... it's the same thing Nana gave us?"
"Yes."
"How do you know all this?"
"I just do. Don't ask me how."
From her good eye a thin red substance begins to trickle down. The same just the moment she first injected herself with the drug... or rather the blood. Was the red tears the Blood of the Angel too?
A heartbeat begins to beat.
Da dum.
Da dum.
Da dum.
With each heartbeat, the image of the soldiers and the teens fade. With each heartbeat, the girl's body cringes, the red tears drip onto the boy's cheek.
Da dum.
Da dum.
Da dum.
With each heartbeat, memories of the past become visible. With each heartbeat time begins to refuse to proceed as if... as if.. as if it's scared to continue.
Asuka lifts her head, between her bangs the eye of the storm had begun to rage. Like a red hurricane... the calm before the storm... the solace before the devastation.
The sound of the soldiers laughter drowned out.
A red feather appears.
Da dum.
Da dum.
The girl rises.
Da dum.
Something is born today.
Da dum.
Something never before done. Can you feel the Earth shake? Can you feel your own heartbeat? If the choice of saving the future... to save the future for your own generation of children would you save it? To have your past on your shoulders... to have known of your wicked past... could you find the strength to get up? To stand? To fight? Can you hear the wind outside your home? The creak in a distant corner of the hallway?
My name is Asuka Langley Soryu. My story is legend.
(Her voice is static)
Don't look behind you. I am here. Within you.
(Static)
My name is Shinji Ikari. My story is legend.
(Static)
Don't look beside you. I am here. Next to you.
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This is not a mistake. You reading this. You know what happens. You can't abandon us now.
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Don't listen to them.
They don't want you to finish the story. They don't want you to finish the fight.
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Please. Listen to us. You have seen our story. Don't abandon us. Don't leave us like Yara. Like Nana. Like Misato. Stay with me. Stay with us. I need you.
(We gave you a warning didn't we?)
Stand your ground. Fight like we did. Don't give in. Please.
(Did you not hear us?)
Don't leave me alone. You know we need you.
We need you...
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Don't do it! You've been with us for this long! DON'T ABANDON US NOW!
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Author's Note: I'm srory I cuodln't sotp tehm. I kenw tleling tihs sotry wulod get me in torbule. I'm laeivng to a sceret lcotaion to tlel you the rset. It's not sfae wehre I am now. Good lcuk to any of you who siltl wnat to konw waht hpapens. I'll keep you psoted. Wsih me lcuk.
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