A/N: Here is chapter five of Neon Genesis Striker. This will give more of an insight into Sanya as well as explaining her injuries and then the Fifth Angel arrives.
Thanks to my pre-reader: Makuhari-Fan01
Disclaimer: I don't own Evangelion or Strike Witches
Chapter Five : Beyond Sanya's Heart
Flashback to three weeks before Yoshika arrived in Tokyo-3
In the second NERV test facility at Matsushiro, Unit-00 and Sanya are waiting in a a large white room while Perrine, Ferrara and Minna watch from a control room through a reinforced glass window while technicians worked on computers along the wall. Sanya stood in her Striker, her familiar was a black cat as shown by the cat ears and tails she grew when she entered her Striker.
"Everything is ready Ma'am." replied Lynne as she sat at her computer.
"Begin activation of Unit-00." ordered Minna and Sanya floated up into the air and began to preform basic aerial acrobatics.
"Excellent." said Minna as she watched and Sanya preformed these routines for several minutes.
As it seemed the activation would be a success, the computer began beeping and 'Danger' began to flash across all of the computer screens.
"What's going on?" asked a very concerned Perrine.
"Unit-00 seems to be rejecting Sanya." replied Nishika.
"Cut power to Unit-00." ordered Ferrara.
"It's rejecting the order!" yelled Amaki.
Just then a white aura surrounded Sanya and her eyes became pure white. She then let out a primal scream.
"Unit-00 has gone berserker!" yelled Perrine as the now possessed Sanya began to thrash wildly around the room. Then it got even scarier as Sanya slammed into the reinforced glass window repeatedly sending glass flying.
"Everybody get back!" yelled Perrine and all in the room followed except Minna who stood in her place with concern for Sanya on her face.
"Ma'am the override system has kicked in, Unit-00 should power down." informed Lynne.
Indeed Unit-00 and its battered pilot slowly returned to the ground.
"Sanya!" called out Minna who then dashed down to the testing room. Once she got to Sanya, she grabbed the Striker placing her left arm around the right Striker and grabbing the top of it with her right hand and began to fiercely pull back on the Striker. As she was pulling Minna didn't notice a pair of glasses fall out of her pocket and crack upon hitting the floor. Minna pulled until the Striker came off then repeated the process with the other.
"Sanya?" she asked concerned as she fell to her knees and cradled the injured witch in her arms.
"Commander?" asked Sanya weakly.
Minna then buried Sanya's head in her chest and began stroking her hair gently saying, "It'll be okay."
As the medical team came in Minna noticed the glasses and frowned slightly, "Father."
"I want her take care of right away." Minna ordered the medics but well her back was turned Sanya managed to grab the glasses Minna had and place them in her pocket before being rushed for medical care.
End Flashback
Outside Tokyo-3 NERV was hard at work. A large tent was set up around the remains of the Fourth Angel.
"The failed activation of Unit-00." said Perrine as she and Sakamoto stood on the make-shift scaffolding.
"The pilot was Sanya wasn't it?" asked Sakamoto.
"Indeed." replied Perrine, "We believe mental instability on her part played a role in the incident."
"Mental instability in Sanya?" asked Sakamoto again not believing that, "I'm surprised her family let her keep piloting."
"Sanya doesn't seem to have any family. All of her files have been deleted." stated Perrine.
"Wow." said Sakamoto, "Though I still can't believe mental instability."
"It couldn't be anything else." said Perrine before she realized something, "Could it be?"
"You think of something?" asked Sakamoto.
"Nothing." said Perrine shaking it off.
Sakamoto and Perrine returned to the ground where they ran into Yoshika fresh out of school. The three of them went into a side room that was empty except for a computer on a desk which is where Perrine had set up her base.
"We still haven't figured out what the Angels are made of."she began as she typed away, "But look at this."
Perrine moved over and Sakamoto looked at the computer screen.
"No way!" said the shocked Sakamoto.
"It's true. The Angel's wave pattern is 99.89% similar to our own. We are almost the same as them." informed Perrine.
As Yoshika looked on pretending to understand, out of the corner of her right eye she saw Ferrara and Minna walk by. She watched as the two of them walked over to what was left of the core being lowered by a crane down to ground level and observing it.
"Yoshika, what's wrong?" asked Sakamoto noticing the distracted Yoshika.
"My sister walked by." Yoshika answered in a sad voice as she turned back into the room.
"Your sister isn't always bad." said Perrine, "When Sanya was hurt her safety was Minna's top priority. She even ran over and ripped the Strikers off Sanya."
"Bullshit." said Yoshika not believing what she had just heard.
"It's true." replied Perrine though Yoshika didn't believe it.
The next day at school Yoshika could only focus on one thing and that was Sanya. During gym the class was divided with one half doing swimming and the other track. Yoshika, Hartmann and Lucchini were in the track half well Barkhorn and Sanya, no longer in her bandages or cast, were in the swimming half. The whole time Yoshika kept looking over to Sanya. When the class stopped for a break and Yoshika kept staring at Sanya in her dark blue one piece swim suit almost in a trance, Hartmann decided to speak up.
"What are you looking at chief?" asked the blonde, which snapped Yoshika out of her trance-like state.
"Nothing!" Yoshika responded very defensively.
"You were staring at Sanya right?" asked Lucchini.
"No!" snapped Yoshika again defensively.
"Were you staring at her boobs?" asked Lucchini.
"Or her thighs?" asked Hartmann, "Or her..."
"Naughty bits?" they both asked in unison embarrassing Yoshika.
"No." Yoshika said defending herself, "I was just wondering why she always seemed alone."
"She's always been like that since she began attending this school last year." said Hartmann.
Yoshika then went back to staring at Sanya wondering why this was.
After school the girls were at NERV doing standard synch tests that had them entering their Strikers and try to harmonize with them.
As Yoshika finished see looked up and saw Sanya exiting her Striker. Then a smiling Minna walked over to her and as soon as Sanya saw her a large smile shot across Sanya's face and the two smiling women talked for several minutes surprising Yoshika.
That night at the Sakamoto/ Miyafuji residence Perrine had been invited for diner which she regretted accepting as soon as she realized Sakamoto was cooking.
"I can't believe you still eat this garbage." said the doctor as she looked at the questionable 'meal' in front of her.
"It's really good if you try it." said Sakamoto and both Perrine and Yoshika did. They immediately fought the urge to become violently ill as the toxic food reached their stomachs.
"Remind me only come by when you cook Yoshika." stated Perrine.
Staring at the trio from his room was Pen-Pen who returned inside to find Sakamoto's cooking on his plate. Pen-Pen takes one bite and keeled when the food made him sick.
"Hey Miyafuji, pour some that food in this ramen it'll be delicious." said Sakamoto.
"Yoshika you should really consider moving out." warned Perrine.
"Never underestimate the human ability to adapt to its environment." said Sakamoto very drunk put still sounding profound, "Besides the paperwork and red tape would take months."
"That reminds me." said Perrine pulling out a laminated card from her pocket and handing it to Yoshika, "This is Sanya's new ID card. I keep forgetting to give it to her so can you do it?"
"Okay." Yoshika said taking the card and staring at Sanya's picture.
"You're staring at Sanya's picture really hard. You like it?" questioned Sakamoto teasing her ward causing Yoshika to blush.
"I wonder who the real adult here is?" asked Perrine to herself.
The next day Yoshika went to the store and on the way home decided to go to Sanya's apartment before school. Sanya lived in a newer part of the city were construction work was a constant. Yoshika got to Sanya's apartment, apartment 402, and rang the bell with no response.
"Litvyak?" she asked as she knocked on the door which slowly opened.
"Litvyak, it's me Yoshika." the witch call, "I'm coming in."
As Yoshika entered she found the apartment bare and messy though better than Sakamoto's. When Yoshika entered Sanya's bedroom she found it as bare as the rest of the house with only a bed with clothes on it, a dresser and a desk with medicine on it which Yoshika didn't notice.
"I can't believe Litvyak lives like this." Yoshika said then she noticed a pair of broken glasses on top of Sanya's dresser.
"Litvyak doesn't wear glasses." said Yoshika who picked up the glasses and tried them on.
Yoshika put the glasses on and heard footsteps behind her. When she turned around Yoshika saw a naked and wet Sanya fresh from the shower wearing only a towel and slippers.
Sanya noticed the glasses on Yoshika's face and marched right over to pull them off. Yoshika stumbled backwards at the approaching Sanya and the handle of the grocery bag got caught on the dresser drawer handle. Just when it seemed things couldn't get any more awkward Yoshika tripped and fell forward into Sanya as her bag pulled open the drawer, sending bras and panties everywhere leaving Yoshika laying on top of the naked Sanya.
"Do you mind moving?" Sanya asked in a very calm voice causing Yoshika to look down and realized her left hand on was on Sanya's right breast. Yoshika quickly jumped off and Sanya rose.
"I..I..I.." Yoshika sputtered out as Sanya gets up and walks to the other side of her side of the room slowly and naked.
"What?" asked the naked girl in a calm and almost confused voice as she slid on the panties on that were on the bed.
As Yoshika kept sputtering trying to form coherent sentences telling Sanya why she was there the latter finished dressing and placing the glasses in her pocket left her apartment leaving Yoshika alone.
At NERV the next day, Sanya arrived outside HQ and took her ID card to swipe for entrance but when she tried the screen read 'access denied'. She tried several more times before another card was swiped and access was granted. Looking up Sanya saw Yoshika.
"This is you new card." said Yoshika, "I meant to give it to you at the apartment."
Sanya snatched the card from Yoshika's hand and went inside. She was followed by Yoshika who caught up to the pale girl on the escalator standing two steps behind Sanya.
After a few moments of silence Yoshika spoke, " You have a re-activation test today right? I hope it goes well. Aren't you afraid of getting Unit-00?"
"Why?" asked Sanya simply.
"I heard you were pretty hurt last time. " said Yoshika who asked, "Are you really okay with getting back in Unit-00?"
"Aren't you Commander Minna's sister?" asked Sanya monotone.
"She was adopted by my parents so we aren't related." replied Yoshika hurt and making sure to get that point across, "But since my parents did adopt her we are sisters technically."
"Do you have faith in your sister's work?" asked Sanya again monotone as usual.
"Of course not!" said Yoshika, angrily remembering the years of abandonment, "How could I ever trust her?"
This causes Sanya to angrily to turn around and face Yoshika.
"What?" asked Yoshika only to be slapped by Sanya.
In the activation room in the Geofront everything was ready for the second activation of Unit-00.
"Begin activation." ordered Minna well she, Ferrara, Perrine, Sakamoto and the three technicians looked on.
The test was begun and ran smoothly as Sanya preformed the aerial acrobatics just as before well everyone held their breath nothing would go wrong.
After a few minutes everything was going swimmingly. Then Ferrara received a phone call and after a brief conversation hung up.
"Commander Minna the Fifth Angel has arrived." reported the Sub-Commander.
"Ma'am you're not going to use Unit-00 are you?" asked Sakamoto.
"No, Sanya isn't ready." Minna responded before asking Perrine, "How long until Unit-01 can be ready?"
"Six and a half minutes." responded the doctor.
"Prepare Unit-01." Minna ordered before saying gently to Sanya, "The test is over now and it was successful."
Sanya just let out a sigh of relief.
The Fifth Angel slowly floated over the city while the population was evacuated and all the preparation for Unit-01 was being done.
The Angel had the body of a gigantic crystalline octahedron (two pyramids attached at the base with one on top and one on the bottom) with a blue color and highly reflective surface.
"Launch Unit-01!" ordered Sakamoto and Yoshika was sent up to fight the Angel.
"Ma'am you need to see this!" called off a worried Nishika, "An Inner Torus Reactor has been detected from within the Angel!"
"Miyafuji!" called out Sakamoto but it was too late as the Angel had fired off a particle beam which cut a hole into a skyscraper which melted because of the heat and though Yoshika got her shield up the blast the shield wasn't enough and it exploded causing Yoshika to be hit and fall crashing to earth.
"Recover Sergeant Miyafuji!" called Sakamoto worried about her ward and this powerful new enemy for which NERV seemed to have to way of stopping.
A/N: Yoshika has been shot down! Is there anyway to stop this new threat? The answer will come in the next chapter. An Inner Torus Reactor is a type of nuclear reactor. Sorry it'll take another month for chapter six but they'' be fan-service. Please review and happy Halloween!