A/N: Right Sorry for the delay folks Christmas Time and everything; busy with the buying of presents, wrapping the presents, seeing family, arguing with said family etc etc lol. A warning this Chapter does follow the anime (mixture of both) very rigidly but it is does start to diverge towards the end of this Chapter, I have already started Chapter 3 since I got carried away writing the end of this one and already started the main meat of the Fight scene. But since I got this chapter done I now have a more free flow to my writing now without sticking to the script too much, apart from the obvious main plot points. So expect a smaller gap between chapters. Thanks again and Please leave comments.
Chapter 2: Arrival
Something large begins to stir just off the coast of Japan judging by its silhouette it looks humanoid in shape, the only discernible feature is the 2 glowing eyes in the centre of its chest. It's currently heading for the coastline.
"Attention Please, as of 1230 Hours Today a Special State of Emergency has been declared for the Tokai district. Please All Civilians Evacuate to your Designated Shelters. I repeat..."
A Young boy with Brown hair and dark Blue eyes stands about 5ft 3in next to a pay phone, he proceeds to pick up the phone.
"Sorry but due to the state of emergency currently in effect all phone lines are out of service, please try again later."
"Hmm... The phone lines are dead and I'm due to meet someone any minute..." He looks at a photo in his other hand. Which reads; 'To Shinji, I'm going to pick you up so please wait for me. p.s. please note the cleavage.' *Sigh* "what am I suppose to do now."
As Shinji puts the phone down he glances down the road to see a young woman about his height with Blue hair and pale White skin. An explosion shockwave rips through the street causing the boy to flinch, after he regains his composure, he looks to see where the girl disappeared to.
"Huh? Must have imagine her, suppose I better get to a shelter..." the sound of numerous engines grabs his attention and he turns around, to see a large formation of UN VTOL aircraft, slowly backing away from something behind the hill.
A few seconds later the object is revealed to be a very large humanoid monster. Shinji's eyes grew wide as he sees the monstrosity, but is quickly snapped out of it as 2 cruise missiles over his head towards the monster, within a couple of seconds both missiles score direct hits and are joined by many more missiles fired from other locations.
"Direct HIT! All missiles confirmed impac..." The pilot is cut off as his VTOL is struck by one of the monsters retractable spikes that run through its forearms. Said VTOL crash lands on the same street Shinji is standing on, watching all this going on around him.
Now, the monster chooses that moment to leap from its current position and by sheer twist of fate picks the spot where the crashed VTOL was to land on, as a result the remaining fuel and ammo on the downed aircraft explodes! Shinji raises his arms in a futile attempt to protect himself from the resulting shockwave, but something screeches to a halt in front of him protecting him from the blast.
Shinji looks up and sees a Blue Nissan Alpine the driver's door swings open. "Hey, sorry I'm late Shinji, Quick! Get in!" Shinji scrambles into the car and the Driver shoots off away from the monster, while the UN VTOL's continue to pepper the monster with missiles/rockets/machine gun rounds.
Meanwhile
"First wave air attack has confirmed the target has suffered zero damage, it's continuing it's advancement on Tokyo-3." reports one UN officer
"Launch a Full assault! I want the Target surrounded and cut off its line of advance!" the 1st UN General orders. "Hit it with everything you've got, bring that target down at all costs!" the 3rd UN General quickly rattles off behind the first.
Outside billions and billions of Yen of ordinance is fired at the monster in the hope of bringing the beast down, in the end the monster is still standing without a scratch.
"WHAT THE HELL!" the 3rd General exclaims. "Why is it still standing?!"
"Tank battalion has been wiped out... It's just stepping over us like we aren't even there." the 1st General reports. "DAMM IT we need to hit it harder! We can't let it get through!" the 3rd General snaps back.
Sat behind the generals are 2 men in non-military clothing, watching the proceedings unfold. "An AT-Field, just as we suspected." the elder of the 2 men states. "Yes, conventional weapons won't be of any use against an Angel." replies the other.
*Ringing of a phone*
3rd General picks up the phone. "Yes understood, we'll activate the contingency plan."
Back outside Shinji and his female driver have pulled up watching the fight from a decent distance. Shinji sees the aircraft move away and asks. "Umm... why are the aircraft moving away from the monster?"
Staring through binoculars, the woman fails to notice the movement at first "wha...OH CRAP! They're going to use an N2 Mine! GET DOWN!"
The resulting explosion and blast wave results in sending the car Shinji and his driver are in off the road and rolling sideways numerous times until the car rests on its side.
"WE DID IT!" the 3rd General proclaims. "Sorry gentlemen, it seems you wont be needed he today after all." says the 1st General when he turns to face the 2 men at the back of the room. Just then visual and audio feeds cut off from the interference of the explosion.
Outside the passengers of the Blue Alpine are standing next to the damaged car dusting themselves off.
"You ok?" The woman asks.
"Yea I'm ok...*Cough* *Spit* I think, just got a mouth full of dirt out of that." Shinji responds.
"Good, help me with the car. On Three!" With that both Shinji and the woman proceed to rock the car a few times before finally pushing back on its wheels.
With a dust off of her hands. "Thanks for helping me with that, the names Katsuragi Misato by the way."
"No, really it should be me thanking you Miss. Katsuragi" Shinji responds with a smile.
"Please it's just Misato, and I'll assume you prefer Shinji over Mr. Ikari." Shinji smiles and laughs a little.
Back in Central Dogma the UN Generals are awaiting the results of the N2 mine.
"What's the status of the target." the 2nd UN General finally speaks up.
"You saw that explosion, nothing could survive that!" the 3rd General responds.
"Visuals are coming back online." the UN officer announces. With that a collective gasp can be heard as the silhouette of the target can be seen in the fires of the explosion, still standing, and what looks like the monster regenerating the received damage.
"That's it… that was our Ace in the hole." the 1st General says dejectedly.
"It had no effect?" the 2nd UN General rhetorically asks.
"DAMM IT ALL!" the 3rd General shouts out.
Back on the road speeding towards one of the entrances to NERV.
"At least the car still works, I got 12 payments left and I doubt the insurance covers N2 mines..." Misato chuckles. "I also got an express lift waiting for us once we get to the entrance, should save us some time, but... your being rather quiet... you ok?"
Shinji looks up from his lap. "Huh... yea... I'm fine."
"You sure?" Misato raises and eyebrow. "I'd thought you'd be asking a million and one questions by now."
"Err... no... Sorry" Shinji sheepishly replies.
"It's nothing you have to apologise for, it's just... you know... What was that thing back there? Why did I almost get blown to smithereens? You know natural responses to such a situation."
"Well... Um... Guess I figured you wouldn't give me answers even if I asked." Shinji replied looking out over the road.
Misato smiles. "So you're the type that likes to assume the worst huh? That is pretty jaded for a kid."
Shinji faces Misato with a frown. "I'm not jaded I'm just doing what my teacher told me to do that's all."
Misato just looks at Shinji for a couple of seconds before responding. "Oh... well... that's fine. Incidentally, that thing back there is a life form known as an Angel."
Back in Central Dogma.
"The 3rd Angel, Its regenerative abilities are most impressive." said the elder of the two men.
"Indeed, a near perfect organism, without that ability it wouldn't get very far without support." the younger of the two replied.
The 3rd Angel then shoots down the camera feed watching over it.
"Well... It seems to be able to adapt its operational parameters."
"And it's also getting smarter..."
"It should renew its attack any minute now." the elder man sighed.
At this time Misato and Shinji make it to one of NERV's vehicle elevators.
Please stand clear as the elevator will soon be in motion.
"NERV?" Shinji asks inquisitively while turning to face Misato.
"Ah ha." Misato acknowledges Shinji's question before elaborating. "It's a sub-division of the UN, though not completely known to the public."
"And this is where my Father works?" Shinji follows up.
"Well yeah... you DO know what he does don't you?" Misato asks with a raised eyebrow
Shinji frowns, then turns away from Misato. "All my teacher said was that it was important for the future of mankind." The vehicle elevator begins its descent.
Back in Central Dogma on the main command bridge.
"As of now operational command has been transferred to you and your team, don't screw it up." The lead General explains to the younger of the two men.
"Yes time to show us what you got." Says another of the Generals. "At this point we know our weapons don't have the offensive capability to deal with the target."
"I understand." The younger man standing impeccably just states.
"It makes YOU our last line of defence, Ikari." Then the Lead General asks "So tell us, can you stop this thing?"
The now Identified Ikari pushes his glasses up with his middle finger and with a smug smile. "That is what NERV is for, Gentlemen."
The Elder of the two men turns to Ikari and asks. "So how are you going to stop it? The UN defences are exhausted."
Ikari just turns his head to the side to partially face his elder. "I'm going to Activate Unit-01."
"Activate it?" the gasped response is. "But we don't have a Pilot?"
"We do now, a spare is just being delivered as we speak." And with that Ikari heads off to the EVA Cages.
Back to the Merry Train ride to Proverbial Hell.
"We're going to see my Farther aren't we?" Shinji asks hopping for a 'no' answer.
"Of Course we are, he does run the place." Misato replies in a light hearted tone.
Shinji then puts on a scowl as he remembers his dad abandoning him at 10 years ago.
"Oops almost forgot, your dad did send you an I.D card, right?"
Shinji blinks then digs into his back pack. "You mean this?" he asks as he pulls out a torn up but repaired piece of paper and hands it to Misato.
"Ah thanks." Misato takes the paper from Shinji. 'Jeez what made him tear this up like he has?' she thinks to herself. "By the way," Misato reaches over to her back seat. "You'd better read this." She hands over a NERV Handbook to Shinji.
"Welcome to NERV?" Shinji asks quizzically. "Wait… does this mean I'm going to be working for my father?" Misato doesn't answer. "Guess it wouldn't surprise me if that was the case, no way would my father ask me to come unless he needed something from me."
Misato then takes interest. "Hmm sounds like you and your dad don't get on too well… Guess we have that in common."
Shinji turns to Misato in surprise not expecting that kind of response. At this point the Vehicle Train enters an underground cavern. Gasping in awe, "Oh wow! A real Geo-Front!"
Misato responds smiling, "Yep that's it, our underground base, NERV HQ, Humanities shining beacon to a bright future."
"I'm sure we are going the right way." Misato muses to herself as she and Shinji are travelling through NERV's corridors. "I swear they built it like this on purpose, just to laugh at anyone who gets lost… pretty sure we are on the right track though." She says the last bit louder so Shinji can hear her.
Shinji looks away from the Handbook to Misato and asks. "Umm… Are we lost?"
Misato scowls. "I'm new here okay? Besides if we keep going, we will get there eventually right?" Shinji just sighs in response.
Lots of engineers and techs checking and surveying the maintenance of what looks like a giant immersed in some red fluid.
An announcement comes over the PA system.
Report for Doctor Akagi. Arrival of Lieutenant-Colonel Katsuragi and one additional in shaft S-36.
"I knew it." Removes goggles. "She got lost again." Says a Blonde haired woman.
Misato and Shinji stood in a lift when the door opens to reveal the Blonde woman dressed in a lab coat.
Misato Gasps. "Ritsuko!"
"You're late Lieutenant-Colonel Katsuragi, if I hadn't have come get you we would have had to send a search party to find you." The Blonde now identified as Ritsuko Akagi remarks while taking a shot at Misato's ability to get lost in NERV.
"Hehe Sorry." Misato bows slightly.
Ritsuko sighs. Then turns to look at Shinji. "So this is the boy I take it?"
Misato straightens up. "Yep, the Third Child as per the Marduk Reports."
"Ritsuko Akagi head of Project E Technology Division, Section 1. It's a pleasure."
Shinji now only just realising he is being spoken to looks up from his Handbook and looks are Ritsuko. "Umm Yea." realising he wasn't really listening it was all he could say.
"I trust you can handle the rest, Fuyutsuki" Ikari says to the Elder Man before descending to the EVA cage on his Personal Lift.
"Their first reunion in 3 years." Fuyutsuki says aloud to no one.
"Sir, Target is relaunching its attack." Reports an officer.
"Understood, all personnel to battle stations we are going to condition One." Fuyutsuki orders.
Repeat, All Personnel to Battle Stations, Prepare to Engage Ground Target.
"Sounds Serious." Ritsuko says after hearing the Announcement.
"Indeed, so… Do you think it will work? Unit-01 I mean." Misato responds.
"Well probability states a chance of around 0.00000000001% of it working, but it's better than nothing." Ritsuko says as all three enter a dark room.
The door shuts sealing away the only light source in the room.
"HEY! Who turned out the Lights! Why is it so dark in here?" Shinji exclaims when the door shuts.
"Shinji." Ritsuko starts. "I'm going to show you something."
*Click*
Shinji is suddenly faced with the face of a huge robot.
"AHHH!" He screams as he jumps back.
"You're looking at the most advanced weapon system ever developed by man. The synthetic humanoid Evangelion, this is UNIT-01. Humanities last hope for survival." Ritsuko introduces the giant machine.
Shinji then pulls a cynical look and asks. "So this is my father's work?"
"Correct." Says an emotionless voice.
Shinji's eyes go wide at the voice he looks up with a half determined half scared look and sees his Father. Gendo Ikari.
"It's been awhile." Gendo furthers his introduction.
"Father…" Shinji then looks away unable to stare down his Father.
Gendo smirks at this reaction as it is exactly what he was hoping for. "We're moving out." He orders.
"Moving out! But UNIT-00 is still in suspension right?" Misato then suddenly looks at UNIT-01 with realisation. "You can't be seriously be considering activating UNIT-01?" she asks turning back to Ritsuko.
"Can you think of another option?" she calmly responds. Misato just scowls.
"Shinji Ikari!"
Shinji looks up at Ritsuko.
"You will be the Pilot." Ritsuko states staring into Shinji's eyes.
"Huh?" Shinji asks not quite comprehending the statement.
"Father! Why did you send for me?" Shinji asks Gendo.
"I think the reason has made itself quite obvious." Gendo responds instantly.
"So you expect me to take this thing and go out there and fight!" Shinji states the obvious but hoping it's not true.
"Correct!" Gendo responds firmly in one word to hammer his point across.
"BUT THAT'S CRAZY! How could you do this you've never wanted anything to do with me before, WHY NOW?" Shinji fighting back tears as he struggles with his Dad.
"Because now I have a use for you." Gendo states with a small smirk that Shinji can't see.
Shinji drops his head as he tries to control his emotions in response to his father's cold demeanour. "But why me?" he asks the voice devoid of the defiance he showed earlier.
"Because it would be impossible for anyone else." Gendo states knowing that he has set up his son to think he has control of the situation.
"But it's impossible for me, I've never even seen anything like this before. How can I be the Pilot?" Shinji asks looking for a way out.
"You'll receive instruction" Gendo keeping the responses short to not give Shinji any room to manoeuvre in this conversation.
"But still… There's no way I can Pilot it." Shinji struggling to find an escape route starts repeating what he said earlier.
"If you're going to Pilot it, do it now!" Gendo starting to raise his voice. "Or leave!"
At those last couple of words Shinji's eyes relax as he realises he just found an exit to this encounter with his Father.
Suddenly the whole place starts shaking from what felt like an explosion.
"Damm it, it knows our location." Gendo states looking at the ceiling.
Level One Armour Plating 8 Destroyed.
"Shinji, there isn't much time." Ritsuko states to Shinji.
Fire Alert Block D, All Personnel Please Evacuate Immediately.
Shinji relaxes his expression only to turn to Misato when he hears her clearing her throat.
"Get in Shinji." Misato demands with a stonewall expression.
Shinji's face drops that even someone he got along with was now demanding him to do what he thought was impossible. "It's not fair, if I'd have known he wanted this… Oh why did I even come?" Shinji shouts the last part out as a rhetorical question to himself.
Misato still responds though. "Why Shinji? Why exactly did you come here? You mustn't runaway, not from your Father and especially not from yourself."
"I know that!" Shinji shouts while looking back to the floor. "But it's just impossible, I've never seen this thing before let alone pilot it!"
Silence falls in the EVA Cage.
Gendo turns to face a monitor. "Fuyutsuki." The elder man appears on the screen. "Begin prepping Rei."
"But can we use her? She's still badly injured from the accident." Fuyutsuki asks half concerned.
"She's not dead yet." Gendo responds coldly.
"Understood." Screen switches to a Sound only one, stating the name Rei Ayanami.
"Rei."
"Yes."
"We can't use the spare, you're going out." Gendo orders with a plain voice.
"Yes."
Ritsuko hearing this, gives Shinji a look of disgust, then turning away. "Let's move switch out the core unit set Unit-01 to the L Zero type and reactivate."
Rodger, cancelling current operation, reconfiguring core unit.
Other commands and reports continue in the back ground. 'I knew it, he never really needed me in the first place… no one ever really needs me.'
Target has crossed the last line of defence, and moving into position directly overhead.
Rei Ayanami gets wheeled into the Cage on a bed. Shinji looks up towards the doorway at the new person. Rei gets wheeled past Shinji on the way to the access gantry for Unit-01. Shinji looks at the crippled girl and wonders what is going on.
Rei struggles to get sit up on the bed after straightening her arms she is gasping for breath at the pain she is in. Shinji just Standing and staring, watching Rei struggle.
At this point the Angel launches an attack that blasts through one of the lowered structures causing debris to fall and crash into the 'ground' of the Geo-Front sending shockwaves through the base, this causes Rei to fall off her bed knocking Akagi and Misato off their feet and some of the gantry in the Eva cage to shake loose and fall towards our would-be hero.
Suddenly, while Shinji stares up at the metal work that was falling at him, a large purple hand reaches up, out of the red coloured water and shields Shinji from the debris sending it crashing into the observation box where a smirking Gendo stands steadfast despite the shaking and debris impact.
The Eva Activated itself! It ripped right out of the arm restraint.
"No! That just can't happen, it's impossible." Akagi exclaims not believing her own eyes.
"You mean Eva activated itself without any interface? To protect something? To protect Him?" Misato says aloud hoping to get an answer from someone.
Shinji soon gathers his wits and quickly gets up and runs to the injured Rei now lying unceremoniously on the floor in large amounts of pain.
Shinji kneels down and holds Rei with a look of concern. "You alright?" he asks already knowing he won't get a response, then he turns and looks at the purple Eva that saved his life. The Eva responses by looking at him without turning its head. All the while Rei is whimpering in pain.
He pulls his hand from behind Rei's back to see Rei's blood on it, to which his eyes snap shut as he begins to monologue to himself. 'I mustn't runaway, I mustn't runaway, I mustn't runaway, I mustn't runaway I mustn't runaway!' He shouts that last one at himself and his eyes re open to turn and look at his father.
"Fine I'll do it, I'll be your pilot." He says, still unsure of what he's getting himself into.
3rd Stage Cooling Complete, Auxiliary Voltage Nominal.
"Terminal signal plug ejecting now." Reports a short brown haired female tech.
Ejection confirmed. Inserting Entry Plug.
Shinji sits silently as he hears the whirl of the entry plug sliding into place.
Entry plug locked in place, Initiating Primary Contact Phase.
Shinji looks around as the lights suddenly come on in the entry plug, then he notices it starts to fill with orange fluid and looks concerned. "Wait! What is this?" he says before taking a lung-full of breath before the orange liquid covers his head.
Akagi seeing Shinji do this touches a button to open up the comm channel. "Just relax, once your lungs are filled with the LCL, it will allow your blood to be oxygenated directly, you'll get used to it."
Shinji even though hearing this struggles to hold his breath until he is eventually forced to breath the LCL in. "I think I'm going to be sick…"
Primary Power Source Connected.
Initiating Secondary Contact, Connecting Interface.
The Eva's eyes light up as the power supply filters through the systems.
A10 Connection Nominal, LCL charge is normal.
Through all this Shinji can see a myriad array of colours and patterns displayed in front of him until a view of the Eva Cage is displayed from the Eva's perspective.
Setting Thought Configuration to Japanese. All Preliminary Contacts Established.
"Synapse Synchronisation rate 41.3%." A Tech reports.
Akagi staring excitedly "And that is without the benefit of a Plug Suit, incredible."
"Harmonics are within normal parameters, no instabilities detected." The Tech further reports.
"Right" Akagi turns around. "We're clear!"
Misato nods in acknowledgement, and orders. "We are Go for Launch!"
Initiating Launch Sequence, Disengage Lock Bolt One.
Withdrawing Umbilical Bridge, Disengage Lock Bolt Two.
Removing 2nd and 3rd Restraints, Current Status Unit-01 is Free.
Internal Batteries Fully Charged, External Power Source Connection… Nominal.
"Rodger that, transfer Unit-01 to the launch pad." The Tech orders.
Unit-01 is now on Route to Eva Unit Launch Pad.
Meanwhile Shinji is sat in the Entry Plug with a mixture of apprehension and determination, as techs continue to run off technical jargon around the Launch.
Eva Unit-01 now Arriving at Terminal Launch Pad, Awaiting Final Confirmation of Launch Route.
Opening Launch Gate One Through Eight.
"Launch path is clear, All Green." A final report comes through.
"Understood." Misato responds before turning to Gendo. "Last chance to abort."
"No. Either we stop that Angel or Humanity's future ends here." Gendo states while leaning on his hands crossed across his face covering his mouth.
"Ikari, are you sure this was the right thing to do?" Fuyutsuki asks his superior. Gendo just responds with a hidden smile.
"LAUNCH IT!" Misato orders.
Unit-01 is suddenly shot upwards along the electromagnetic launch rails towards the surface where the Angel awaits. Shinji during this is busy struggling not to get squashed in his chair as it is his first time on the rails.
On the surface the Angel is slowly walking around looking for an entrance to the Geo-Front when it stops as it notices a hole appear in the main highway. But, instead of it being a way down, Eva Unit-01 comes sliding out of it and comes to a rest stood in-front of the Angel. The Angel stares at this new arrival somewhat perplexed and unsure what to make of it.
"Ready Shinji?" Misato asks hoping to calm her own nerves.
"Yea, ready." Shinji replies slightly unsure of himself.
"HERE WE GO!" Misato shouts out to everyone in Central Dogma. "Release final safeties." She orders.
The locks holding Unit-01 to the Rails release and Unit-01 slumps forward as it is no longer being propped up by its shoulders.
"Evangelion Unit-01! MOVE OUT!" Misato orders.
"Shinji." Akagi chimes in. "Just concentrate on walking for now."
Shinji with a look of concentration and fear thinks to himself. 'Walk'
Unit-01 responds by slowly lurching forward as a normal walking motion would be performed be it by someone learning to walk as an adult rather than child.
Gasps can be heard all around Central Dogma as Shinji completes his first step in the Eva. Akagi then voices everyone's thoughts. "He's doing it."
Shinji then mutters to himself. "Just walk." And as Unit-01 motions to take its Second step it hesitates mid stride, and comes crashing down unceremoniously on its face, performing its first Face-plant flawlessly.
Shinji holding his face as he felt the impact looks up as he hears his name. "Shinji, pull it together." The Angel now sussing out that this new object could be a threat starts to approach Unit-01. Shinji now with a look of fear can't do anything. "You got to get out, now!" Misato continues.
The Angel proceeds to grab Unit-01 by the head with one of its 3 clawed hands and lift Unit-01 onto its feet.
Shinji still frozen with fear can only watch as the Angel then proceeds with its other arm to take hold of Unit-01's left arm and pull VERY hard to the left trying to rip Unit-01's arm off.
"Listen to me, don't panic, your arm isn't really being pulled. Focus." Misato tries to get Shinji to settle.
The Angel continues to try and remove Unit-01's Arm from its socket/body which ever came first.
"Where are the Eva's defence systems?" Akagi asks the Tech
"System unresponsive." She replied "The Field hasn't deployed!" another Tech reports.
"What? Why?" Akagi asks hoping for an answer.
The Angel now realising it can't pull the arm off settles for simply breaking the lower left arm in two rendering the limb useless.
Shinji feels this and is in so much pain he can't speak/scream/shout.
"Left Arm damaged." "Main circuit cut." Two techs report.
The Angel then drops the now useless limb and then proceeds to power its Arm lance in the arm that's holding the Eva's Head.
"NO SHINJI!" Misato shouts as the Angel begins battering Unit-01 in the head.
Shinji, whimpering at every hit. Holds his right eye with both hands as he can feel every hit like it is happening to him not the machine he is Piloting.
"We have a crack in the Cranial Plating." The short haired Tech announces.
Akagi with a look of pure horror. "The armour won't last much longer."
The Angel then continues pounding Unit-01's head with its attack until…. It suddenly stops and tilts its body to the right slightly.
Everyone expecting the worst to happen, are suddenly dumbfounded when they see the Angel seemly stop its attack and look at apparently nothing.
"What's it doing?" asks Misato and Akagi simultaneously, neither having an answer until suddenly alarms start blaring around Central Dogma.
"Report!" Misato demands.
"We are reading a new analysis pattern, Unknown Type." The short haired tech reports. "Point of origin is near the fight between the Angel and Unit-01." She adds further.
"Unknown? Is it another Angel?" Misato asks hoping for a response.
Gendo and Fuyutsuki look impassively at the readings, Gendo small smirk turns into a slight frown at these unpredicted events.
Meanwhile outside about 200 yards away from the fight a small black disc appears out of nowhere suspended about 100 meters off the ground. This black disc rapidly grows in size covering the space of a football pitch.
Sobbing can still be heard in Unit-04's entry plug as a good deal of time has passed, well what felt like a good deal of time anyway. Gavin Takayama had slowly but surely began to lose hope he would see anyone ever again, he wanted to leave the Unit-04 and at least try and continue to live, but every moment that went by seemed to eat away at this hope.
"It's no use." Gavin mutters to himself. "I'm trapped here. I may as well close my eyes and give up."
As he does this Unit-04 suddenly activates, snapping Gavin's eyes wide open at the new development. "What the?" He watched as he felt Unit-04's hand reach out and grab seemly nothing, but his surprise grew when a hole appeared in the endless blackness in front of him and he could see tarmac, cars and buildings… but from a birds eye perspective.
Everyone in Central Dogma were staring with trepidation at the screen showing the larger black disc that seemingly hovered near the fight, wondering if another Angel was going to appear, but what they saw was the last thing they ever expected to see.
"Captain! Major energy spike coming from the anomaly." A Tech reported.
"Say what?" Misato asked being caught off-guard by the report.
That answer came when suddenly two silver hands reached out and they looked like grabbing the sides of a ledge in the middle of the disc. And just as suddenly the two hands flew apart seemingly ripping apart something in the middle of said disc.
Gavin seeing from his point of view had a pretty good idea what was coming next, he braced himself as he gathered there was going to a very rough landing coming up as his Eva 'pulled' itself out of the Black Void.
Misato, Akagi, the Tech's and even Shinji peering through his hands were all stunned when a Silver humanoid object crashed into the grounds of the city.
"Ouch… I landed harder than I thought." Gavin mutters to himself. He looks up to find the Black Disc slowly fading out of existence, then proceeds to stand Unit-04 up to take stock of his surroundings. "Right where the hell am I…" it's at this point Gavin spots the Angel and Unit-01.
"What the hell is that thing?"