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 Here's all that parts lists and AC Games I have as of now
Armored Core 1 and Master of Arena
Armored Core 2
Armored Core 2 Another Age
Armored Core 3 (strategy guide)
Armored Core Nexus
Armored Core Last Raven
Getting Last Raven and Nexus is what precipitated the re do of all of this…but with that done we can move on now to the rest of the story.
Please note…IF YOU HAVE NOT RE-READ THE STORY DO SO NOW!!!!!!!
I changed major story points and it would be best to re-read or you will be totally lost!!!!!!!!!!
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Quote the Raven
Chapter 16
Facility of old Nightmares
The first hall Requiem found himself in was lit only by the few surviving lights along the ceiling. He could see that the hall split into 2 separate halls a distance ahead. One curved right while the other curved left and descended. He decided to check the right branch first
As he approached it the radar built into his AC's head tagged what appeared to be some form of MT, now weather or not it was active was up in the air. He stopped at the edge of the hallway and turned toward the open side passage
"Here goes'
The 4 MTs first sent down reported contact with an unknown MT, though they couldn't see because of the low light level they did come under fire, it used a combination of both energy and solid weapons.
This was probably that one, hiding and waiting.
He hit his thrusters and stopped in front of the opening. There in front of a collapse in the side hall stood a rather ungainly MT. its arms reached almost past its knees and ended in a 4 barrel gun where its hands should be. At the top of its torso sat a back lit triangular red spot the requiem guessed was its camera and sensor systems.
The camera seemed to glow brighter for a moment, and then the MT raised its arms and opened fire. The right arm fired solid rounds while the left fired energy. Requiem back thrusted and shot back around the corner, the MT didn't use its boosters but began to follow on foot.
Requiem moved up to the mouth of the hall and waited for the MT to round the corner
"Just a bit more"
The MT turned the corner and came face to face with the business end of his Emeraude made shot gun. Requiem chuckled and shook his head at the MT's stupidity
"Dumb ass"
He fired; the shotgun pellets tore into the MT's red sensors, shredding metal and electronics as though they were cardboard and tin foil. The MT rocked back on its hips and fell to the floor. Requiem called up the head MT back by the entry
"I thought you guys had trouble with this thing, one shot from my shot gun took it down"
the head MT responded
"our laser rifles just bounced off it, it must have some kind of tolerance to energy weapons. we'll call for our machine guns"
Requiem nodded
"good idea, you catch all of that Zero"
the sound of Shinji's voice came over the com line
"yes"
"good, you should call for a rifle as well, go for a solid sniper rifle"
"I can't afford one right now, I wanted to switch to one though, I really don't like this thing"
Requiem scanned his radar…nothing in range; he punched up a few things then spoke again
"I just ordered one for you; Morrison had a Zio-Matrix ZWG-SRF/8 in the shop and should be sending it with the MT's machine guns. Let me know when you get them, I won't go to far ahead until you do"
"ok…and thanks…when I sell my laser rifle I'll repay you"
Requiem thought for a moment
"Your birthday is in a few days right"
Shinji nodded
"Yeah"
"And you wanted to switch to this one anyway right"
"Yeah"
"Well consider this your birthday present then and treat yourself and Asuka to a night out when you sell the laser rifle"
Shinji just nodded, he hadn't really gotten much for his past birthdays, and of what he did get nothing compared to a 41000 credit Zio-Matrix built AC sniper rifle…this just meant he would need an extreme long range FCS.
About 10 min later a small cable lifted cage arrived carrying the MT's weapons and Shinji's sniper rifle, once Requiem got word he began to move on.
Since the side hall was blocked he followed the main corridor, as soon as he rounded the corner and started down a ceiling mounted turret opened fire on him. He boosted back and fired 2 rounds from his linear rifle into the small energy gun, which then exploded. That struck him as odd
"Even the turrets are weak to solid weapons; these people and their enemies must have relied on energy weapons…now I know I'm glad I didn't bring the Karasawa"
He moved on along the corridor and deeper underground until he came to a closed door, the voice of the Wraiths onboard computer chimed
Gate Check, Unable to unlock gate…advise pilot to destroy locking mechanism
Requiem scowled, but thanked his mother in heaven for lending her voice to this AC AI, at least now he could hear it from time to time
"Grrrr…Larna can you see the lock"
"Look around the door, see if you can find anything that could be a locking mechanism, any kind of console"
"Alright, any idea what's on the other side of this'
"None"
"Damn it"
Next to the door he noticed what looked like a control console at about the height a person would use. He lowered his Linear Rifle and fired. He heard an audible click and his computer voice sounder in his ears
Gate Check, Gate Unlocked, Proceed with caution
"I got it"
The doors slid opened and he was immediately assaulted by fire from not only 2 ceiling turrets but two of the same type of MT's as before. He raised his linear rifle and fired at the two MT's, distracting them long enough for him to back thrust and allow the door to close. He quickly formulated a plan
"Hey Zero, get up here"
After a few moments, Shinji in the Diligence arrived, sniper rifle in hand.
"What is it?"
"There are 2 MT's and 2 turrets inside that room, I'll go left you go right. You hit an MT and turret and I'll hit the rest"
"Right"
The pair approached the door
"On 3…1….2….3"
The doors opened and the pair shot in, Requiem immediately fired his linear rifle into the ceiling turret, the round shredded the small energy gun resulting in the detonation of its power supply, Shinji's sniper rifle had similar results.
Requiem then turned on the MT, spinning the wraith around with its boosters and firing his shotgun into the machine then finishing it with a quick shot from his Linear Rifle.
Shinji spun around and dropped to a knee, he then fired his slug gun into the MT in front of him. It rocked back and stumbled a bit before raising its arms and firing its arm weapons at him. He jumped back and shot to the side and began to fire his sniper rifle as he went each round fired dug into the MT and finally it dropped to the ground. Requiem came over his line
"Nice job Zero"
"Thanks"
The pair looked around the large cavernous room they were now in. It was lined floor to ceiling with multiple levels of dormitories; Requiem walked over and looked onto one that was on his AC's head level
"Looks like some kind of housing district, it's pretty intact. Do you see this Larna?"
Larna's voice came over the line
"Yeah we see it, hold position and secure the room; a team from Nerv is on the way"
"Roger that, MT's 1 and 2 move up to our position, 3 and 4 stay put and wait for the team"
Requiem got a chorus of acknowledgments from the 4 MT team
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Once the team had arrived Requiem continued on. In the next corridor he encountered another MT and 2 more ceiling turrets, 3 shots from his linear cannon finished them. Thus far his AP had dropped a bit, but nothing to really worry about
"You think they would have given them a bit more armor against solid weapons"
At the end of that hall he came to another locked door, slashing away the locking mechanism he stepped inside only to come under fire from 4 more turrets.
"Oh come on not these again"
These were a bit more powerful than the last group and caused a bit more damaged, he had to move around a bit more than the last ones. After destroying the turrets he finally took a look around, the room itself was empty except for what appeared to be some kind of computer station which came to his AC knee and what appeared to be a titanic computer system standing in the center of the room. It was circular and lined with computer stations. The side facing the computer station sitting away from the rest held a gigantic monitor, all still powered. At the far corner of the room sat a lift, going down. Requiem punched up his operator on his com.
"Larna do you see this"
"Yes we see it, stay put; Nerv's team is on the way"
"Roger"
Shinji, the 2 MT's and Ritsuko with a group of Techs arrived a bit later and immediately got to work while Shinji and Requiem went and secured the lower level which like the one above only had 4 gun turrets on the ceiling, it looked just like the room above but with out any computer terminals. The MT's then came down and secured the door while Shinji and Requiem used their thrusters to return to the level above. It was about that time that all hell broke loose
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On the bridge inside Nerv everyone was in a panic
"Blue pattern confirmed'
"MAGI confirm it's the 15th angel"
Misato stood looking at the readouts of the angel
"Damn it, and with Ritsuko gone below, what's its status"
Maya looked at her monitors
"Its in geosynchronous orbit above us, it's outside all of our weapons range, its AT Field is on an order of magnitudes two times higher than anything detected before"
The door on the command tower opened, in walked Commander Fuyutsuki, Yui, and Chairman Keel. Fuyutsuki was the first to speak up
"What's the current status?"
Maya spoke up
"Its outside out weapons range and its AT Field is far stronger than anything detected before, the MAGI give a 22 percent chance or weapons will be effective against it"
Misato turned to look at her
"What about the JSSDF's positron rifle"
"The Magi considered that to, it would only be partially effective and even then it has to descend"
Yui spoke
"But why is it just sitting there, could it be that it doesn't fell Adam anymore"
Keel stepped in
"If that were the case the 14th wouldn't have attacked us, no it's probably homing in on Lilith"
Misato nodded
"Alright launch Asuka and….."
Keel cut her off
"Belay that"
He looked down to Maya
"Miss Ibuki will you patch me through to the pilots please"
"Yes sir"
The techs had learned not to question the chairman, he knew more about this than them and most likely already knew what to do. The images of the pilots appeared on the gigantic holographic screen
"Tell me, which of you has the best aim, and which has experience with a javelin?"
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Toji in Unit 00 sat on the lift going down to the chamber that now held the 2nd angel Lilith. He had heard of the angel but this would be the first time he would actually see it.
Out of the three pilots he had the 2nd best aim, but he was the only one ever to have trained with a javelin before, thus the duty of killing the angel fell to him.
His instructions were simple, he was to remove the red spiral lance from the angel's chest and replace it with a fake one he had been provided, it supposedly was just as potent as the original but he would have only seconds to do this before the angel began to regenerate
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The ravens and the team below had continued their work even though they knew how serious the situation going on above them was. Requiem had pressed on deeper into the facility. In the hallway beyond the computer control room 2nd level had been another MT, which he easily dispatched with a pointblank blast from his shotgun. On the right that hall split off into another, but he kept heading strait. Finally coming to another door
After destroying the locking mechanism, and another MT which waited on the other side, he entered the room.
It appeared to be some kind of lab, though most of the equipment was trashed from what appeared to be a minor cave-in. Requiem punched up Ritsuko's com frequency.
"Doc I'm sending some images to you, what the hell is all of this"
After receiving the images and studying them for a moment Ritsuko responded
"It appears to be some kind of Bio-research lab; even in its condition that equipment is light-years beyond what we currently have, once we are done here we'll move up to that room"
"Alright"
He opened another line
"Larna, have Zero move up to my location and keep this room secure, once he's here I'm going to move on"
"Roger raven"
Once Shinji had moved up, he continued on
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The set up was simple
The 5th child would deploy in unit 03 and distract the advancing angel while Toji took aim with the lance and cut the angel down
No sooner had Kaoru hit the surface and deployed with the new positron rifle than the angel focused in on him and unleashed what appeared to be a beam of light struck his Eva.
He knew Ariel was attempting to enter his mind but he would have none of it, unlike the 2nd child or the 4th, he was able to resist her. Though he would keep just how a secret for now. Though he didn't really know what he would do now that he had confirmed Adam's destruction.
What was the point of a mission whose goal was no longer in existence?
On the other side of the city Toji in Eva 00 rose up, holding its weapon. The red spiral shaped Lance of Longinus. Toji stood ready as the Eva's targeting computer received its data directly from the Magi. Misato's voice came over the line
"Toji, were almost ready, the angel is trying to use some kind of Psychic attack against Kaoru but his AT Field holding out for now, get ready"
"Already am"
"Good"
Maya's voice was the next over the line
"Countdown ready, throw in 3…2…1"
Unit 00 took two steps forward and hurled the lance with every ounce of strength it had. The red lance shot through the atmosphere and flew, strait and true, into the angel. It pierced the angel and appeared to turn it inside out in the process. Misato looked to Maya
"Status"
"The angel has been silenced"
Everyone heard Toji hell over the com line
"Heh heh, Toji 2-Angels zip"
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief as Aoba spoke up
"The lance is moving on an outbound trajectory, it's past the moon and moving toward the inner solar system. The Magi predict it has a 76 percent chance of impacting Venus and a 24 percent chance of moving on and being vaporized by the sun as it passes Mercury"
Keel nodded
"So it is now beyond our reach, most likely forever"
Fuyutsuki nodded
"Yes, retrieve the pilots, and pass on a job well done"
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The call came down from Nerv of their near flawless victory over the angel which earned a brief moment of relief for the crews and Ravens in the abandoned base below Nerv, Shinji was especially glad no one was hurt.
Requiem had moved on back down the hall leading back to the computer control room and had headed down the hallways off branch. After a moment he encountered another branch and decided to investigate this time, the door was locked with no apparent locking device on the door. He decided to head back down the way he didn't go before and see if there was a lock release in that room…
What he got was a room full of 6 MT's only about knee high to his AC with little energy guns no more powerful than the first turret he had encountered.
He quickly dispatched them all and moved to the single structure in the room, a computer column slightly smaller than the one before. His onboard computer tagged it as the facilities security control computer. He dropped his now empty shot gun and equipped his laser blade, one clean slash from the energy bade and 2 linear rifle rounds took the system offline, he the turned and headed back toward the locked door, which he now found unlocked.
What he found beyond was rather disappointing, nothing, the hall beyond had caved in. he keyed up his com and contacted his operator
"Larna I've hit a dead end with no where else to go, requesting orders"
After a moment her voice came over the line
"Well done, Nerv will take the rest from there, go ahead and return, Zero will meet you at the lift"
"Roger that, on my way, and pass this on to Zero, good job on his first mission"
Shinji received the message as he headed back to the lift. 2 more Nerv MT's were on the way to reinforce the group already there.
He figured he would be a bit more shaken after this, but he wasn't. His time in Eva had readied him for this for the most part. After all, everybody got pre or post battle shakes, nervousness brought on by the stress of battle. It was a fact, it happened to everybody to a greater or lesser extent.
A/n well there's 16th chapter and the 15th angel dead, I hope the re-do brought the story up to everyone's expectations
later