Disclaimer – Don't own Eva or Armored Core, but you know that, don't you.
A/n here's 4 re-duxed
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Quote the Raven
Chapter 4
Warehouse Skirmish
Asuka was a bit steamed. Misato had called her and told her to be home for dinner. She had wanted to stay the night with Hikari but Misato said they had a guest staying and that she should come home. As she walked she kept dreaming that the guest was Kaji. As she rounded the last bend she noticed 2 medium sized transport trucks sitting in the apartment's parking lot. She didn't pay them much mind, but did notice the large Crest emblems of their doors. She made her way to the apartment and opened the door. She froze in the doorway, their in the living room sat a boy she had never seen before. Sitting beside of him was Misato and beside of her was Rei. Not knowing what to do Asuka fell back on her normal
"WHAT THE HELL"
Misato looked up from her conversation
"Huh, oh hay Asuka"
"Don't "hay Asuka" me Misato, what the hell is wonder girl doing here"
"Oh Rei, she's here with her partner on a job from Crest, they're going to be staying for a few days"
Asuka to say the least was not happy
"Oh hell no, let her go back to her commander but she's not staying here"
Now Misato was a bit steamed
"Listen little Miss, this is my house and I've already agreed to let them stay and no you're not going back to Hikari's so just deal with it"
"Damn you, Shinji get out here and talk some sense into her"
Misato smirked
"Shinji won't help you this time Asuka; he won't turn on his sister"
"I don't…"
Asuka froze; Misato had just called Rei, Shinji's sister. Misato continued
"And unless you want to get into a fight with a trained Raven I suggest you leave her alone"
Asuka responded
"Yeah right like anyone would help wonder girl"
Rei remained quiet as she grabbed Asuka by the wrist and pulled her out the door. A few moments later Asuka walked back in, her face as white as a ghost. She went to the kitchen table and sat down with out saying a word. She was still trying to digest what she had seen, the Lillian and the Wraith.
Asuka was quiet through the most of the night.
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At about 6:30 Shinji had dinner finished and everyone sat down to eat. He had even made some chicken soup for the Crest guys watching over the AC's, needless to say the Crest guys were happy.
After dinner everyone was sitting around the table, Requiem was going over tomorrow's battle plans on his palmtop while Shinji, Misato and Asuka listened to Rei as she told them of her two weeks away from Nerv
"After I arrived at the Ravens Nest I built my AC and then spent the next week in training. I then fought Requiem in a training match in the arena before being given this assignment"
Misato smiled a bit
"So while we've been waiting for the 13th angel you've been having fun"
"It has not been all fun, the training was extremely difficult"
Asuka, who had been thinking for a few moments now finally asked
"So what did Misato mean when she called you Shinji's sister"
"I am his biological half sibling, we share the same mother"
Shinji just sat smiling, Misato smirked
"You seem awful happy Shinji"
"Well, I guess…I'm just happy…I have a sister I didn't know about"
Misato accepted that
"Yeah, I guess I would be to"
Asuka just shook her head
"Thank god Aida isn't here"
Everyone silently agreed with that, including Requiem who remembered a few stories Rei had told him, still to Asuka something didn't add up
"Something I don't get Wonder girl, if you quit Nerv, why did section 2 even let you near this building, when Shinji did after the 4th they threw him to the curb immediately"
Requiem answered for her
"Actually it's kind of simple, Ravens can pretty much do as we please. Our UN edict gives us almost total immunity for anything as long as were on a mission. Basically, they can ASK us to leave, but if we say no they can't touch us"
"And if they tried anyway"
"Well, the last time somebody did anything like that to a raven the UN froze their accounts for a year, they went bankrupt, and if it were a government of a military organization, such as NERV, we could retaliate"
Now Misato was curious
"How so"
"Well, if say section 2 tried to forcefully remove us from here, we could kill them, if we were killed that would allow the Ravens Nest to counter attack Nerv for our deaths. But if we weren't on a mission, no one could do anything"
Everyone remained quiet for a while
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That night Rei and Requiem lay in the living room floor on spare futons Misato had in her closet, he though of the battle plans for the next day, while she thought of her sibling lying sound asleep not 10 meters away. Rei got up and headed to Shinji's room, she silently slid the door open and stepped in. She just as quietly closed the door and tip toed to his bed side. She gently slid back the covers and slipped into bed with him. In his sleep Shinji rolled over and wrapped his arms around his new source of warmth. Rei laid her head on Shinji's pillow before drifting off to sleep herself.
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Everyone had left their alarms set for the normal time since everyone would be leaving at around the same time. Shinji rolled over and smacked the poor clock. It wasn't until he started to get up he noticed a large lump in his bed. He pulled back the covers to revel Rei sound asleep in his bed. His first mental response was to freak out, but that gave way to the second which was of a brotherly nature. She was his sister after all, so this should be ok. He reached over and gently shook her
"Rei, Rei"
The girl in question stretched and groggily opened her eyes
"Brother?"
Hearing Rei call him that brought a smile to Shinji's face
"Good morning sister"
Before he could stop himself he leaned down and kissed her on the forehead. He stood up and went to his closet and whence a bit when he realized what he did. The only thing he felt was a pair of slender arms wrap around him
"What is wrong brother?"
"I'm sorry"
"For what"
"Kissing you on the forehead"
Rei rested her head on his back
"There is no need to be, you were merely showing brotherly affection. That is normal"
Shinji smiled and continued his morning routine while Rei got into her bag and took out her flight suit
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After everyone had gotten up and showered they all sat in the living room awaiting Hikari, Toji and Kensuke to arrive. Hikari arrived just before the other two. She was surprised that Rei was their and asked if she was coming back to school.
"I am afraid not, I am here on business"
Asuka left with her. When Toji and Kensuke arrived things were a bit different, less polite
"Good morning Ikari, Good morning Misato"
"Good morning boys, come in"
They walked into the living room. They were a bit thrown by the new guy talking to Shinji and Misato, though Kensuke could have sworn he knew him from somewhere
"Yeah Ikari, who's this"
Shinji, who was sitting on the couch beside of Misato, looked up at the two boys
"Huh oh…guys this is…uhh"
The new guy stood up from the recliner
"Requiem"
Kensuke's mind went into overdrive; he knew exactly who this was now.
"NO WAY, Requiem as in the Raven Requiem. OH MAN THAT MEANS THERE ARE AC's HERE HUH"
Requiem slapped his forehead with his hand, he then turned to Misato. She just shrugged
"He's always like that"
"So I've heard"
The bathroom door slid open and Rei walked out dressed in her flight suit
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Rei sat in the Lillian, she was currently inside of the west wing of Warehouse D that they had been assigned to protect. Requiem was positioned in the eastern wing. The plan was simple; once the enemy entered the warehouse a set of shutters would close trapping them. Rei and requiem would then engage and destroy them.
Like clockwork at precisely noon while the guards were changing shifts the MT's hit the warehouse. They blew the main doors off and entered the main room. The force consisted of 3 worker class MT's and 2 Reverse Jointed battle MT's armed with arm mounted chain guns. The AC followed them in; it was equipped with a missile launcher on its back right slot and a Rocket launcher on its left back slot. It didn't have any extensions on its shoulders but it did have a rather nasty right hand weapon, A high power Karasawa Mk II capable of destroying an AC in 4 to 5 shots depending on its AP. To an MT that cannon would have been a one shot kill.
Requiem monitored the group from his hiding place with his night optics, thinking to himself.
'No wonder they walked through the MT's at the other warehouses, if the raider MT's got into trouble the AC would just use its cannon'
He sent a signal to Rei; she looked down at her secondary screen which sat below her primary one
Orchid, leave the AC to me, concentrate on the MT's. Battle MT's first, workers second, we go on my signal. You'll know it when you see it
Rei sat back wondering exactly what Requiem had planed.
Requiem slowly raised the CR-WR73RS sniper rifle he had equipped for this mission. He leveled it out and put the crosshairs over the enemy AC's head, normally he would aim for the hand weapon first, but there were only about 10 of the rifle it was carrying. Needless to say, he wanted that Karasawa
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Rei sat patiently waiting for Requiem's signal, what ever it may be. She had targeted the nearest Battle MT with her chain gun and was ready. A sudden flash from the eastern end of the warehouse caught her attention.
Requiem checked his FCS again before depressing the fire ignition switch. The sniper rifle bucked slightly as the copper coated nickel round launched from the rifles muzzle and flew toward its target. The round hit the enemy AC directly in the side of its neck, severing the servos and removing the head from the body. With its head destroyed the AC pilot began to pull back, but found the entrance blocked by a 2 inch thick shutter that had closed over the door. The AC froze in place as the MT's surrounded it in a protective defensive pattern; it was quite obvious now that these MT's were AI controlled and that the pilot wasn't really a Raven. The battle MT's began to fire wildly into the darkness hoping to hit whatever they could.
Rei took the initiative and opened fire, raking the first battle MT with her chain gun.
Requiem locked onto the second battle MT with his sniper rifle and fired, the round shredded the control unit, dropping it unceremoniously to the ground. He dropped his rifle and charged forward with his laser blade slashing the nearest worker MT in half.
Rei switched to her machine gun and moved in; as she approached the group she fired a volley into the closest MT effectively turning it into metal Swiss cheese. She hit the next one with her laser blade.
The enemy AC managed to get a lock onto her using its back up systems and raised its Karasawa to fire, before it could even begin to charge it Requiem slashed its arm off with his laser blade at the elbow.
Rei took down the last of the MT's with a quick barrage of 4 missiles from her launcher. Seeing he was fighting experienced Ravens the raider AC pilot decided it would be best to surrender.
As a reward Crest allowed Requiem to keep the AC and its equipment, including the Karasawa- which he picked up and equipped in the place of the sniper rifle.
Through it all the Tokyo 3 alert systems never sounded once, it didn't need to
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When Shinji returned home that afternoon he found a third transport trailer sitting in the apartment's parking lot. Crest engineers were swarming around it making repairs to the AC inside. He figured Rei and her partner must be back so he headed up to the apartment. He found them sitting at the kitchen table going over the details of the mission. Rei noticed him as the door opened. She walked up to him and hugged him. Had this been any other girl, Shinji would have freaked, but it was Rei, his baby sister. He wrapped his arms around her and returned her hug
"How was your day brother?"
"It was ok…how about you…did you have any problems"
"Not many, the enemy AC surrendered once his support was destroyed and is now in Crest custody"
The pair separated and headed to the kitchen where Rei sat back down to fill out her mission reports while Shinji started dinner.
"That's good…well he won't be attacking anything else…oh Misato said she would be home for dinner and Asuka invited Hikari over to dinner is that ok with you two"
They both nodded their heads; Shinji could see they were busy so he just went back to fixing the fried chicken he promised Asuka and Hikari.
A little while later, after they had finished their reports Requiem sat in the living room watching TV while Rei helped Shinji with dinner
'Orchid's been opening up a lot lately, it's kind of nice to see her like that…could I be…no way, I can't be…falling for her can I. She's a great girl and she's got great potential as a Raven. She's also not dumb enough to go into the Arena. And on top of that, loving her wouldn't be hard…hell I think I already do'
Just then his palmtop beeped, the Crest guys outside were having trouble attaching the Karasawa to his AC, the weight was too much for the arm and had broken some of the servos in the right arm
"Damn, I was afraid of that, just held the weight long enough to bring it back"
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Asuka and Hikari rounded the corner to the apartment, Hikari froze in her tracks. Standing inside one of the transport trucks gantries which sat in the parking lot at the buildings base stood a black AC with gray highlights having its arms switched with another set, a pair of Crest CR-A92X5's. Asuka, who had kept walking, stopped and turned to her friend
"What's wrong?"
Hikari couldn't find her voice and just pointed to the AC. She knew what the Ravens were and knew of their reputation. Asuka looked at the AC and then back to her friend
"What about it"
"It's…a….Raven"
Asuka just shrugged, she had grown slightly accustomed to it being there so seeing it standing in the gantry that the trucks have on their backs wasn't a big shock. It kind of reminded her of the Eva's launch restraints really.
"Yeah I know, I had the same reaction when I first saw them"
Needless to say dinner that night was the most interesting experience of Hikari's life. When the pair entered the apartment they found Shinji had just finished dinner, the aroma the got when the door opened told them of that.
A/N well that ones done finally, on to the next