Part 6: AT Fields

Hikari Horaki woke up underwater. Her first instinct was fear. She needed to get to the surface. Her lungs burned in fear that she would drown. Then suddenly as the fluid filled her lungs, she realized it wasn't water, it was something else and as it flowed into her body and she started to breathe easier. It took her several moments to realize that she was naked. As she took several strokes under the "Water" she felt warm like being in a womb. But, it was the redness of the water that concerned her. Then she remembered something that Kensuke had said to her, about breathing fluid. Then it hit her. That the fluid, the EVA pilots, Shinji, Asuka and Rei used as an interface to allow them to interface with the... She was swimming nude in a tank of LCL fluid.

Quickly, swimming to the surface knowing that she wouldn't drown calmed her down, She was hoping that she was somewhere in NERV. That was when she saw someone else swimming up to the surface ahead of her. It was her kid sister, Nozomi and then she saw Ayame Toji's kid sister struggling up to the surface naked like her. She wished that she could call out to them.

With an experimental nudge, she took a deep breath. She felt the fluid flow through her teeth and over her tongue in an unusual way. Then she yelled out. "Nozomi, Ayame!" Suddenly the two girls stopped swimming. That was when she saw the trial of urine squirting out from between their legs. It was a strange sight to say the least. She must have scared the crap out of the two of them. Slowly, Hikari slowly took a breath and called out again. This time calmer. "Nozomi, Ayame, don't be afraid, it's me, Hikari." There was a long pause as she caught up to the tow of them where she could see their faces.

"Where are you?" Nozomi called out nervously looking around and shaking in fear.

"Look down, you should see me." Hikari said as the girls' clamed down as they looked down to see them. The looks on their faces were clearly like receiving a mother load of presents on Christmas day.

"Hikari." Both girls called out in joy as they started to tread water staying where they were at. With each slow stroke, her legs pushed her up through the water.

"Stay there, I'll work my way up," Hikari said as she swam up and got about eye level with the girls. "Don't worry; I want you to stay close to me okay." The two younger girls stuck close to her as they swam up to the surface.

After a long time, the three girls broke through the surface. Where they were, it looked huge. It was like a cave. It felt warm and the air stank like blood. The room looked the size of the soccer field at school. Then she saw the observation window. She ducked further down into the LCL fluid to conceal her naked body. Then a moment later, she realized that the place was quiet. The slow sound of florescent lights flickering on and off told her that this place had been long abandoned given the bullet holes she saw along the wall. The place looked like it had been through a battle.

After taking a quick look around, seeing there was no one around, Hikari grabbed a hold of the ledge and tried to swing her leg onto the walkway they had seen while swimming up. After two attempts of trying to get over the ledge, Hikari was finally able to get her leg over and was able to pull herself out of the water. Slowly taking her time, she did a quick look around before she motioned for Nozomi and Ayame to come to the bridge she was on. Crouching down she bent over and pulled Nozomi out before reaching in to grab Ayame out.

"Where are we?" Ayame asked as she covered herself with her arms, trying to stay warm as not so much being overly concerned about being naked. Hikari looked around to see a jacket covering a work chair. Running over Hikari grabbed it and put it around the two girls.

"I think we are inside of NERV," Hikari said looking around. She would need more clothes. So, given two directions, she picked one that looked like it had promise. She picked the doorway on her left. Realizing that she was getting cold too, she took the girls by the hand and quickly trotted across the bridge until she got to the other side. After taking a few steps forward, she realized that they were in some locker room. Then it hit her, when she saw Asuka's name on the locker that this was the EVA pilot's locker room.

After tapping at the lockers, she found that there wasn't any normal clothing other than some loose baggy rubbery garments. It took her a moment to realize that it was something that she had seen. Kensuke's video of Asuka and her battle with that Angel, the video had gotten around, in that, it showed Asuka in her. This was her flight suit. Given that there were several in there along with several feminine products, it would allow her to get out of here somewhat clothed.

"Nozomi, Ayame come over here. I found some clothes," Hikari said as the two girls moved over to where she was standing.

Taking out a sweatshirt and some extra large pants, Hikari slowly moved her sister over and started to dress them. She roughly knew that she and Asuka shared about the same body size. That meant, if they ran out of clothes, most would go to the girls, but, this one she would wear given that from what she had seen on the video was that it had kept Asuka warm.

After getting her sisters dressed in some of Asuka's extra large clothes, she could find something in the girl's sizes. Then Hikari put on the plug suit. Given its bagginess, she wondered if the suit was too large or built for someone larger. But, she realized that it felt warm and felt great even as she slipped it on.

After getting her feet into the feet of the suit, she wiggled her toes; she noticed that they felt also warm, but very nice. As she pulled up the legs and the rest of the suit over her body, she noticed how loose it was, but realized it may have been made for someone larger. Right now, it was clothing, so she zipped it up. When it was fully on and the gloves and the neck put into place, she heard a beeping coming from the wrist of the suit.

"Uh, what is this?" Hikari asked as she reached over to touch her left wrist and hit a switch. Suddenly, the suit started to suck around her body. It wasn't until the suit sucked up between her legs; she let out a small shriek as the suit stuck to her behind. Quickly standing up, Hikari spun around to feel her body, she started to realize that the suit had clung around her body for the reason of protection. She actually felt warm and at ease, no wonder Asuka trotted around the place like she owned everything. Though, she wondered how Asuka went to the bathroom in this thing.

Also, it felt like she was wearing a thong. Grabbing the jacket, she had brought with her, made sure that her behind was covered. So, if they ran into any boys or guy, they wouldn't be eyeing her behind.

"The first thing is that we have to do is..." There was the low sound that sounded like a cat growling. Then, she heard a voice coming from back from the poolroom.

"Ah, crap, please don't die on me." A male voice called out. Quickly, Hikari realized that something was going on outside of the locker room.

"You two stay here," Hikari said as she told her sisters to stay where they were at on the benches. Moving very slowly out through the doorway, Hikari was in for the shock of her life.

Kensuke Aida was a little freaked out, being in NERV, but stark raving naked.

He didn't know what to think, but he did notice one thing so far. He had perfect eyesight. Second, was that the naked girl along with a young boy who was like five years old, which could have been her brother, both of which he had helped out of the pool of stuff NERV had put in Shinji's control plug so that he could operate it. Most of what Kensuke could do was keep his eyes on her head to prevent his... his...manhood from expanding. But the girl who looked so much like Rei was scary, with her skin and red eyes. But, her hair was long and white. It was way too creepy. Given how she was hugging her brother, she was scared out of her wits. That was when she started to barf up blood from both ends.

"Please don't die on me!" Kensuke said as she knelt down to the girl and held her as she heaved. After several long moments, the pain had passed, but, the blood coming out of her behind hadn't stopped. "Crap you are still bleeding." The girl looked up at him and in those red eyes her fear was clearly shown towards him. But, she calmed down some, before her hand touched the puddle of blood. She saw what was on her fingers; when she started to hyperventilate again, that was when Kensuke saw Hikari appear.

"Kensuke!" She said as she rushed over as she noticed the scared bleeding girl and the terrified naked boy nearby.

Navi was looking at Lillith. So many strange things had happened to her that Lillith seemed almost; well, in this world normal. Well, considering that floating off the ground and flying next to you was a normal thing for Lillith.

"Lillith," Navi said aloud. "Could you at least walk like the rest of us?" Lillith stopped levitating and planted her feet on the ground.

"We need to get there and if we run we will be out of breath." The female Angel said as Navi shot her a look.

"Listen, having superpowers might just be normal for you, but..." Navi looked down at her hands. "This is a bit out of my league." Lillith just looked at her, then the Angel realized that she was dealing with a people who never had an AT field to live with.

"Oh, that was when I realized that you never had the ability to produce an AT Field outside of your body," Lillith said as she realized her field and started to walk beside of Navi.

"So, what I am doing is something that you Angels can do, so, when everyone got turned to soup..." Navi's sentence was suddenly finished by Lillith as their thoughts merged as one on the same track.

"Then some of what makes the Angels have their powers must have been transferred to the humans here and the reason that the Angel's don't have their wings anymore," Lillith said reached behind her back to rub between her shoulder blades.

"Yeah, that means we will have a group of freaked out humans with serious superpowers and angels freaked out that they look human and..."

"Don't have wings..." Lillith said as it dawned on them of the seriousness of the situation was for both of their peoples. That is when they started running.

Tru was scared out of her wits. She was in a place, walls, the placed smelled like the Well of Life. Now her brother, Desmond was curled up completely scared out of his wits by her. Both she and her brother were without their wings, that and there were two humans by them, a naked male who kept squinting at her and at his hand every few moments and a female with brown hair wearing some sort of tight garment over her body.

Given that they were both talking in the human language, she was scared as she held onto her brother, as she knew she was bleeding from between her legs. The male with his strange brown hair and the female with the group of spots on her cheeks booth seemed unaware of what she and her baby brother were. Given her fears, she laid down her instincts inside of her AT field. But, given her sickness she couldn't raise the barrier up, as another series of waves of nausea hit her stomach.

After a long time, she felt a pair of hands on her, gently helping her up to her stand on her feet and carefully helping her walk over the bridge to the hallway door on the other side, supporting her ever footstep of the way still scared of the Human's touch on her arm.

"Please, don't kill me or my brother," she said in her native language.

There was a long pause as she felt a cloth covering her body. With a slow turn, she looked up to see the female human, that was the only term she had for this being, kneel down next to her and softly touch her face. The way she looked was almost compassionate and caring. That was when she turned to the human male and had him cover up his genitals with his hands. There were several words exchanged in some angry tones as she pointed in a direction of a hallway that the male started to trot off in that direction never taking his hands from her crotch. That was when she and her brother had been left with the female human.

Looking at the female, there were several words spoken to her, which she didn't understand, but, it looked like the human was attempting to help her to the doorway.

Quickly grabbing her brother and placing herself in front of him like a shield, they walked across the bridge and into a room with a series of metal doors along the walls and what looked like to be wooden seats attached to the middle dividing them. She then saw the female human pull out something out of one of the doors that seemed like a garment she had been wearing, but, this one was right. All through this, she kept saying the word Rei. It took a moment for her to realize that she was stating that it was probably what the garment was called.

"Rei." It took a moment, but, the human female stopped cold what she was doing and turned around.

"Rei," the girl said looking at her. She slowly moved over and brought the garment with her. After several words that were said in the human's language, there was a dawning that neither of the humans wanted to hurt them. They seemed to be in the same predicament as they were. Taking the garment in her hand Tru pointed to her chest.

"Tru." After a long moment, she pointed to her brother just to their names out of the way. "Desmond." Then there was a slow grin on the female human's face as she pointed to herself.

"Hikari." There was a slow grin as the tension was started to be broken, then, there was a drop as something fell. Tru grabbed her brother and protected him with her body not knowing to raise her AT field or not but shaking in fear as the human covered her, too. There was a voice, a young child.

There was a moment of relief as Hikari looked to see another human female who was considerably younger than her standing by the metal cabinets. There were several awkward glances between the two of them before the younger human started to wave at Desmond and Desmond waved back. This human had a younger sibling, too.

"Younger siblings, can't live without them, can't kill them or have the wrath of your parents come down on you," Tru said out-loud as she touched her brother's shoulder. That was when Hikari looked at her realizing that on some level they had understood each other and they started to laugh. Within the next few minutes, Tru was dressed in the white garment as Kensuke came in wearing the male equivalent of the stretch garment they were all wearing.

The slight Eep that Tru had made when hers was activated caused many of the children to giggle and break the tension over everyone in the room, but ,knowing that given how they were all behaving, they were out of their environment and for her communications was going to be the biggest hurtle for her.

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