The Real Angel


(a/n: everything in previous chapters has been the actual PREQUEL to this. The confusion in the previous chapters in the essence are fragments and were intentionally made to be confusing. This chapter should highlight the reasoning behind it. It may seem as if the plot is suffering from plot holes but like all questions there will be answers.)

"They can't keep me in here. I finally understand now. Everything before this was a lie. Seele had done this. Rose had done this to confuse us. They did this to mentally destroy us so we couldn't get to them. Nothing before this was absolutely true. They literally took our memories and tossed them and left us here as if we don't exist. I do exist. My name is Asuka Langley Soryu and I am sure as hell I exist. They won't get away with this. They took the band. They took the band of syringes. Now it makes sense. They thought by pushing us away they could succeed but they hadn't fathomed that Shinji and I would come across their real reason for chasing us down like animals. We had something they needed. And now they have it. The Blood Of the Angel."

Asuka stared.

This was her writing.

She wrote this.

But how?

It didn't matter now. What did matter was now she knew the truth. Her memories were being controlled. Her thoughts were being controlled and now for the first time in nearly a year she was slowly regaining them! She was placed under Seele's and Rose's control. But what about Nerv? Where they still the culprit?

She heard the sound of boots walking casually down the corridor. Mustering up energy she threw her body to the corner of the room so that if anyone were to look into her cell they would think she had disappeared. The footsteps crawled closer and then suddenly a tiny opening on her cell door slid open and a shadow entered.

The sound of jingling keys echoed into her ears.

The door opened.

A thin woman wearing dark clothes entered.

"Where the hell?" the woman whispered. Asuka saw her chance and made a sharp turn into the doorway but she hadn't realized that despite being barefoot her own footsteps could be heard. The guard looked up from inspecting the room and yelled, "HEY!"

Turning around, Asuka quickly shut the cell door effectively locking the guard within the cell. She was lucky. The door could only be opened from the outside.

"Get your ass back here!" yelled the guard as she banged against the door. The door at the end of the corridor opened revealing a single male guard who had heard the yells.

"Michael! Get me out of here! The prisoner escaped!" yelled the female guard. The male guard known as Michael sped towards his trapped comrade.

"Where did she go?" he asked.

"I don't know. Just get me out of here." she retorted, "It's creepy in here."

Michael the guard took his keys and was about to open the cell door but a very odd sound struck his ears.

A soft thread of red hair drifted past his nose.

He looked up.

Asuka let go of her grip on the ceiling pipe and landed squarely onto his back causing his head to whiplash violently into the steel wall.

Rubbing her backside and ignoring the cries coming from the female guard she retrieved the male guards keys and headed to cell directly next to her former one.

"Misato? Can you hear me?" she asked.

"Asuka? How did you get out?" her frail voice echoed through the cell door's slit. Asuka jammed a random key into the slot and to her relief the door opened to her pull. Prying the hefty door her way light slithered into the darkened cell exposing a frail woman sitting by her lonesome in a corner. Her hair dark and her skin pale. Strength left the girl as she leaned across the doorway staring in waiting for a response from her guardian.

"I know what happened..." said Asuka. The woman looked up, her eyes hard and squinting.

"I do too." she responded.

"Nerv has gone too far." said Asuka.

"It's not its fault. It's The Commander. He's lying to them. He's having them do his bidding blindsided. They don't know what they're being told to do. To them, they are still working towards saving the life's of humans but they don't know what they're really doing. None of them do."

"So, he's sided with Seele and Rose?"

"Yes. Seele and Rose were never enemies. That I know. I've seen both of their soldiers on the field and not once did they have any conflict to one another. They wanted us to think they were so we would ultimately side with one of them. It was clever of them. They planned nearly everything. They cheated the system. At first they wanted you and Shinji to be distracted so they could find their missing project but it turns out you just got in the way."

"Project BOA? The Blood of the Angel?" asked Asuka.

"I remember when they scratched that project. Who would have thought they would need it later to complete Project EVA? They were too determined for their own good. They destroyed nearly all of the BOA's (Blood of the Angel's) in fear it might leak into the public. But they didn't destroy the source."

"The source?"

Misato pointed to the girl. Asuka's brow raised.

"Me?"

"You and Shinji."

"Well, that's a given. I mean we both have injected ourselves with that crap."

"Asuka, don't you get it?"

"What do you mean if I get it?"

"You and Shinji were born with the BOA. That's how his mother died! She was given the serum when she was pregnant of him. When your mother was pregnant with you! Both your parents were given it. The drug has very deep consequences for some and for others it could be a blessing. It can have a wide range of side effects. In Shinji's mother's case it would inevitably cause her death but the remnants of the serum transferred to him. Her soul became part of Unit 01 and he became the pilot. The serum in this case connected them... and in an essence... the serum caused your mother to become mentally unstable...connecting you two to unit 02."

"So, we were just goddamn guinea pigs from the beginning..." Asuka hissed.

"That's why Project Eva was established. To use the ones that were given the drug to use the Eva's. However they made a mistake. They thought you didn't need the serum and that it all depended if the potential pilot could sync with the Eva but they were wrong. No one had realized that the reason you two could sync with the Eva's so effectively was because both your mother's had been given the serum before you were born. They thought the project was just a waste so they destroyed almost all remaining BOA's but saved a few. Somehow it leaked into the public and private military corporations bought the serum. Much of it was used for their own military use for many wars but I guess they realized there were significant drawbacks. After so many years I guess Rose and Seele went looking for the rest of the serum to use it once more. But when they realized you had it they hunted you down and that's when they found out you both had the serum generating in your bodies. That's why you're in here..."

"... then... then why are you here?" asked Asuka.

"I am here because I made a mistake."

"And what would that be?"

"I was the one who lead Project BOA..." she looked up at Asuka, "I was the one who gave the order to give your mother's the drug."

Asuka dropped the keys she held.

The air in her lungs rushed from them as her hands cupped her mouth. It was HER! She's the one that caused her so much pain! It was her doing that made her mother love a doll and not her. The suffering! All of the suffering! It.. was... her doing...

The girl slid down the door frame, her audible gasps for air echoing through the corridor. Misato sat, her legs to her chest and her eyes glazed with water, she too recognized her mistakes and that's why she felt it was her obligation to become the guardian of the two teens. No one had ever realized she took them in not because she was doing anyone a favor but because she was guilty. Guilty of have taken away their parents, guilty of taking away their childhood...

"I didn't mean for anything of this to happen..." said Misato in a heartfelt burst.

"BUT YOU DID!" shouted Asuka pointing at her guardian, "YOU DID! YOU RUINED MY LIFE!"

More than tears were being shed from those words.

"I'm...I'm sorry... Asuka. There was no way... I could have known... any of this would happen." whispered Misato, "I'm really sorry..."

Asuka stood up with a sudden burst of energy and treaded down the hall in furious footsteps. She turned to a cell door and jammed the key into the slot. She tore open the door causing it to slam against the metal wall permanently denting it. She walked in and spotted a sleeping Shinji, wires and tubes connected to his body. Without thinking she tore the wires away and threw the standing I.V tower onto the ground shattering the container.

"Get up, Shinji." she said forcefully.

He didn't stir. Raw rage spilled into her veins.

She slammed her fist into his jaw, his body fumbled to the floor.

"What... the..." his sluggish voice responded.

"I said... GET THE HELL UP!" her voice thundered. She was about to exit the cell when Misato appeared at the doorway and immediately Asuka shot, "Get the hell away from me!"

"No."

"I will hit you... move..."

"No, listen to me."

"I don't have to hear A DAMN WORD YOU HAVE TO SAY!" she screamed at the top of her lungs. She went to go around Misato but the woman blocked her.

"I can't let you leave. You're going to do something stupid!"

Asuka stared at her dumbfounded.

"You... bitch..." she said.

"Call me what you want but you need me."

"I NEVER needed you. Move or I swear to God I will hit you!"

"No." Misato said flatly.

A whipping sound erupted into the cell. It took Misato a moment to realize she was brutally slapped across the face.

"Get out of my way... now..." Asuka hissed, a hint of rage laced on each word. Misato stared and then stepped aside without saying another word. Asuka turned to see Shinji sitting sleepily at his bed, she took him by the arm and literally dragged him out. She then stepped over to the unconscious guard she had knocked out and turned him over.

She lifted his shirt and sure enough a gun was trapped between his belt and waist. She took it and turned to leave.

"Asuka, please..." whispered Misato.

Asuka cocked the gun and shot at Misato's feet as a warning. She went to Shinji who was struggling to stand and hissed, "let's go."

"Asuka, what's going on?" he asked.

"I'll explain later. Just come on."

"What about Misa--"

She grabbed his neck and pinned him to the wall.

"Did.. you not... just hear me?"

She released him and walked out of the corridor, Shinji followed but glanced behind his shoulder.

He had never seen Misato so upset.

The Real Story begins...