Disclaimer – Don't own Eva or Armored Core or anything in this chapter with a copy write on it, but you know that, don't you.
A/n well, on we go
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Quote the Raven
Chapter 10
Reunion
Rei, Shinji, and Misato sat in the lounge at the Airstrip terminal awaiting Yui Ikari's arrival. Neither Shinji nor Misato knew what she looked like so Misato made a sign with a piece of poster board and a black marker that read IKARI on it. They still had about half an hour to wait for her. Misato turned to Shinji who was sharing a magazine on AC parts with Rei
"So, what do you think she'll be like?"
Shinji turned in his seat and looked at Misato
"I'm not sure; I just hope she knows me"
Misato smiled
"I doubt she would come to see you with out knowing what you look like Shinji, anyway from what the commander said he gave Yui all the info they had on you so she must know what you look like"
The 3 heard a familiar voice behind them
"What are you guys doing here?"
All 3 turned, it was Requiem. He was still wearing his flight suit indicating he had just returned from his mission. Misato asked
"How did it go?"
Requiem shrugged
"I think the base was a decoy, there was almost no resistance and the target looked like a bunch of parts"
Everybody nodded, Requiem re-asked
"So…Misato why are you guys here"
"Were here to meet Shinji and Rei's mom when she arrives"
"Their mom..."
He looked back and forth between the two
"I thought she was dead"
Misato shrugged
"I guess not, the commander called today and said she was on her way"
Requiem looked to Rei
"Let me guess, can't actually discuss the truth yet"
Rei shook her head
"Well tell me later then, so when is she due"
Misato stood up as the scramjet liner in question pulled into the terminal
"Right now"
"Let me guess, she'll be staying too"
Misato smiled sweetly
"If you don't mind"
Requiem surrendered
"I guess, well I'm off, I have to do some adjustments to the wraith for my Arena Match tomorrow, see you later this evening. I'll order something for dinner"
With that Requiem was off, Misato, Shinji, and Rei walked over to the doors and went outside to the tarmac where the scramjet's passengers were off loading
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Yui stepped off of the scramjet stairs and onto the tarmac, she looked around and was impressed by the sheer size of the Garage area. It was easily able to hold all 250+ Ravens AC's should they all be called in, her eyes the stopped on the door to the main lounge. There stood a woman in her late 20's with mid-back length purple hair wearing a Nerv uniform; in her hands was a pasteboard sign that said IKARI
'She must be Misato' Yui thought
Beside of her stood a girl about 14 years old with blue hair and piercing red eyes, but what floored Yui, was that this girl looked EXACTLY like she had at that age
'…that's Rei…has to be…'
Then her eyes filled with tears. There, behind and between Misato and Rei, stood her son Shinji. He had grown so much since she had last seen him. She held on to her bag as tight as she could and ran to him, her little boy.
As soon as Shinji saw her he ran to her, they met in the middle, hugging for the first time in 10 years. Neither could stop from crying, neither cared, there were together again. Yui pulled back and looked Shinji over, he had grown much more than she had thought. Shinji finally managed to talk despite the tightness in his throat
"I missed you mom"
Yui pulled him back into her arms
"I…I missed you to sweetheart"
After a few more moments she looked up at Misato and a fidgeting Rei, Yui waived Rei over.
"Come here Rei"
Rei walked over to the pair and was immediately pulled into the now Family hug. She melted into it and put her arms around both her brother and mother. Tears filled her eyes as well as Misato's who was watching the tender moment from a few meters away.
Yui pulled back and looked at her children, she put her hands on their shoulders and then stood up, she then walked over to Misato
"Thanks you, for taking care of Shinji in my place"
Misato just shook her head
"Don't worry about it, come on, we'll take you to where were staying"
Shinji finally spoke up
"Umm…mom"
Yui looked down at her son and smiled
"Yes sweetie"
"Do you…want to see…our AC's…mine and Rei's?"
"Sure, that's if Misato isn't in a hurry"
Misato shook her head
"Not at all, and maybe she'll get the chance to meet Requiem, huh Rei"
Rei just blushed; Yui looked down at her daughter
"Requiem?"
Rei smiled a bit
"He is…a fellow raven"
Yui smiled
"So…my little girl has her first crush huh"
Rei's blush deepened; Yui smiled and followed the trio into the Garage
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A few hours later everyone sat in Requiems kitchen eating another Shinji cooked meal. Yui was amazed Shinji could cook so well
"You should be a chef Shinji"
He just blushed, not use to receiving positive reinforcement
"Thanks mom"
Yui just smiled and kept eating, suddenly a beeping sound echoed through the room. Requiem and Rei both checked their palmtops, Rei looked up
"It is mine, I will return in a moment"
Rei headed into the living room and stopped beside of the couch and read the notice on her palmtop. For just a second she appeared to shake a bit, but only for a second. Requiem and Yui saw it, Requiem stood
"Excuse me for a second"
He walked over to her and gently placed his hand on her shoulder
"Are you alright Orchid?"
She nodded and showed him the screen
Operator Name – Julia Knives
Client – Zio Matrix
Opponent – Defense MT's/Turrets number unknown
Place – Crest June Station Mineral Mine
Weather – Unknown
Mission Start – Friday, 2:30 pm
Departure time – 11:21 am
Mission Objective – Infiltrate Crest facility and capture mining facility, eliminate guard MT's and defenses
Reward – 0 up front, 30,000 upon completion
Success rate – 89
Summery – our forces have attacked the June Station facility and have destroyed the Crest forces outside. We are however unable to breach the inner facility. We want you to destroy the defense turrets and MT's and clear a path for our MT's to take over the control room
Accept
Yes/No
Requiem smiled a bit
"Your first solo mission"
She nodded
"Yes"
"You nervous?"
She nodded again
"Very"
He stepped around to face her and, reassuringly put his hands back on her shoulders
"Don't worry; missions like this aren't so hard. Look your success rate is over 89 percent, you'll do fine"
He removed his left hand and looked into her eyes and smiled
"You'll do fine. First missions are always the hardest, after the first one they get easier. And your operator will be on the line with you"
Rei smiled a bit
"Thank you"
She pressed the accept button and closed her palmtop. She then took Requiems hand that was on her shoulder into her own hands
"Will you help me with modifications to the Lillian before I go tomorrow?"
Requiem smiled in return
"We can do that here and the Mechanics will have it done by morning"
"How"
"I'll show you"
Requiem led Rei over to the computer terminal in the far corner of the living room and turned it on. He had Rei sit at the desk. After a few moments the computer came to its login screen
"Just type in your name and password Orchid, the computer will then log strait into the Nest's network, just click on the Garage icon and go from there, once you're done, I'll shut it off"
Rei nodded and went to work, Requiem walked back over to the table and sat back down to eat when his own Palm top started going off
"Oh for the love of…"
He flipped it opened; it was merely his opponent in tomorrow's arena match, a Raven called Faust, confirming the time and Arena set up. Requiem sent a counter message and closed his palmtop, it was then he noticed Yui smiling at him, he looked up at her
"What?"
Yui shook her head
"Nothing, just the way you reassured Rei that everything would be fine. If I didn't know any better I'd say you liked her"
He went back to his food and then looked up a moment later
"I do"
Misato smiled
"Then why not ask her out"
Requiem sighed
"I've already explained this Misato. I'm going after 9-Ball for killing my family and I'm not guaranteed to survive, I barely beat him last time"
Yui became a bit down at hearing how Requiems family had died, she then thought for a moment and nodded
"Yeah but you're a much better Raven now than you were then most likely, and anyway, I think she likes you just as much, it would hurt her if you died anyway, so why not"
Requiem sighed, Yui and Misato had him. There was no reason he couldn't or shouldn't be with Rei. But that also meant tying himself down, something that he wasn't use to.
"When she comes back from her mission, I'll talk to her then"
Rei called from the living room
"I believe I am done"
Requiem shook his head as he was getting up
"Or I could do it now"
He walked over to the desk Rei now sat at
"Finished?"
She nodded
"I believe so"
She called up her AC stats and parts list
"What do you think?"
Requiem looked over what Rei had done
"Well let's see, you switched your legs for a pair of ELN-2002-02A's. Their pretty good, that's what I started with. Let's see what else, you switched your arms for EAN-50, again good, that'll cut a bit of weight off. You switched to Interceptor Missiles for your extensions and dropped your missile launcher for an Extra Solid Ammo pod, switched your core to a ZCL-XA/2 and left everything else alone. Seems like your trying to get more mobility, and the new parts bring out the paint job more"
Rei nodded
"Yes, I noticed the Lillian was not moving as fast as I would have liked, so I remedied the situation and thank you for the complement"
"Listen, I've been meaning to talk to you about something"
Rei's heart went into overdrive, she could guess what it was, she had heard them talking. She listened as he continued
"I'd rather it be somewhere…better. Would you…like to go to dinner with me when you get back?"
Rei blushed 3 shades of red. She had just been asked on her first date
"I would…like that; it will have to be after my mother and brother leave for home of course"
Requiem smiled
"That's fine, if you want we could go visit them when were not busy. Tokyo 3 isn't a Cooperate base or anything so the Nest will allow us to stay for a while if we want. Ravens can technically base out of anywhere. And if we need to get back in a hurry there will be a transport stationed in Tokyo 2 at the airport because of the Nests deal with Nerv over your brother"
Rei nodded
"I will ask"
"Are you through with the Lillian?"
Rei took one last look over the design and nodded
"Yes"
"I'll go ahead and close this down then"
From her pace at the table Yui could plainly see Rei had more than a crush, her daughter could well have fallen in love with this boy. Misato shook her head
"To think our little Rei is falling for the 9-Breaker"
Shinji nodded
"Its kind of good to see, she's been alone for so long"
Yui nodded in agreement. Tomorrow Rei would ask her mother about herself and Requiem visiting on occasion.
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Kozu Fuyutsuki sat back in his chair in Nerv having just attempted to negotiate with the UN for Nerv to become an entity of it own, he was shut out by the UN completely. They didn't even want to discus it. While they did allow Nerv to sell their designs to the other corporations and even upgrade MT's and AC's for a fee, they would not allow Nerv to build their own. Keeping Nerv on their side was the UN's top priority right now.
Fuyutsuki sighed as Ritsuko walked into his office
"I take it things didn't go well"
"No, they flat out rejected the idea, oh sure we can sell our designs to the other corporations but we can't sell them our selves"
"Well at least we'll still get paid for them"
"Yes, Zio Matrix has already offered 200 million for the NML-01A medium legs and the NMA-FT01 medium arms"
"What about the MT's, can we sell those"
Fuyutsuki shook his head
"No, but Mirage already offered quite a bit for both designs, it seems someone leaked our specs and the Corporations are scrambling to get them before the others do"
Ritsuko smirked
"Still though, Nerv's name will still be listed as designer, if not manufacturer"
"True, at least we can still do customizations"
Ritsuko was a bit surprised
"Really"
Fuyutsuki nodded
"They don't consider that a problem it seems"
Ritsuko liked the idea of that. It would at least give them something to do other than constantly going over Eva test data for no reason when they weren't busy repairing them
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That night everyone had gone to bed a bit early, Yui slept in Rei's bed while Rei slept with Shinji…again. Misato had the couch and Requiem his bed. The next day would be a busy one.
A/N well there's 10 now on to 11