Chapter 10:Failed espionage
"So the angel hatched as soon as you guys caught it?" I ask in (faked) disbelief. "Yeah, the bastard hatched and broke out of the cage like tissue paper!" Touji yells. "Well there goes our chance to figure out where the angels come from." I (once again fake)said in frustration. In all actuality I was relieved, I mean in the show Seele created the mass produced Eva's that killed Asuka with no trouble with only the knowledge of the S2 engine. I can't help but imagine what kind of monster they would create with an intact angel (well not including Lilith) to examine, then visibly shudder at the thought. "Brandyn!" Touji yells in my ear. "Ow, I'm right here!" I mumble. "You spaced out for a second." Shinji backs up his friends decision.
"Anyway, tell us how Asuka and Rei's mission went." Kensuke begs. "Geez man, you really have to get out of this whole military phase." I respond. Kensuke just gives me a dirty look. "But anyway, you'll never believe what Asuka did during the mission. She actually asked Rei for help." I add before getting a bonk on the head. "Ow." I mumble as I turn around to face my attacker. "Hey, that was a really powerful angel!" Asuka yells at me. I wanted to tell her that Isfarel was one of the weaker angels in the series but I didn't have the heart...that and I didn't feel like getting my face pounded in. "I'm sure it was Asuka." Shinji says either because that's just how he is or he's intentionally trying to defuse the situation. Either way I'm grateful, at least now Shinji was her target instead of me.
A few days later
"It's the best part of school. Lunch!" Touji celebrates. "We get it already Touji, you say this everyday." Kensuke says. "I agree with the military nerd, put a sock in it already." Asuka adds. "So anyway, you guys hear about units 05 and 06 finally being shipped over?" I ask. "Yeah, oh I just can't wait to pilot something!" Mari exclaims. "I wish I could." Kensuke says sadly. "Oh I'm sure Unit 04 will be shipped over sooner or later." I reply. "It just doesn't make sense though, why would Units 05 and 06 be sent over before unit 04?" Shinji questions.
"Speaking of wasn't there some treaty stating that we couldn't have more than 3 eva's?" Kensuke says curiously. "The vatican treaty was disbanded once the UN realized that angels were only going to attack Japan." Mari says. "Hmm." Kensuke hums obviously curious. "Well good riddance, that treaty was stupid anyway. The only way to explain how that got passed in the first is if the UN was run by idiots." Asuka says. This is one of the first times I actually agree with her.
"How did you know that anyway Mari, the rest of us weren't told." Kensuke asks. "Oh I heard Ritsuko and Misato talking about it." Mari says in an obvious lie. Once again noone directly questions her because animosity between pilots is the last thing anyone wants. "Hey guys lunch is over!" we all hear Hikari's voice.
The next day
A bright sunny day, busy streets, and two evangelion pilots on a mission. "What's Mari hiding?" Kensuke mumbles. "I don't know man, but I never trusted her from day one." Touji replies. Mari suddenly feels like someone's watching her and looks back over her shoulder, luckily Kensuke and Touji blend in pretty easily with the rest of the the crowd.
"Hey Touji have you noticed that none of the street lights appear to be working?" Kensuke asks. "I'm sure it's just a glitch." Touji replies. "A glitch in Tokyo 3, not likely especially with the magi system." Kensuke replies. "AH! We lost her!" Touji yells. "I think we have more pressing matters!" Kensuke replies while pointing at the angel Mataherael.
Meanwhile at Nerv HQ
Everyone is in a frenzy, Maya, Aoba,and Ritsuko are all furiously typing at their respective computers. "What is going on here?!" Misato asks while walking into the room obviously just hearing that something's wrong. "All we know is that all the power in Tokyo 3 has just gone out." Aoba replies while typing. "What, how?!" Misato yells.
"We're not sure yet-OH NO!" Maya suddenly yells. "What is it Maya?" Ritsuko asks. "AT field detected! An angel has infiltrated HQ." Maya replies. "What?! How did this happen?!" Misato yells while looking at Ritsuko. Ritsuko just keeps typing not even fazed by her accusations.
Back on the surface
"What the hell was that?!" Shinji yells. Shinji, Rei, Asuka, and I all pick ourselves off the ground. "It's gotta be the next angel." I say. "But Touji and Kensuke are still out there!" Shinji exclaims. "I'll help them, you guys go get to your Eva's." I say. "Hey I'm the one in charge here!" Asuka yells. Another quake knocks us down again. "Ugh Dummkopf, Wondegirl let's go." Asuka says before running off with Rei and Shinji trailing behind.
I run off in the other direction. I don't even know where to look, I fight through a crowd running towards the geofront to get to the bunkers. "I don't even know where to look." I think as I run. "I've been running around on a wild goose chase for 20 minutes now." I mutter as I pant for air. I take another look around, and my eyes spot something. Is that Mari's headband, I guess I'm getting close.
I walk up and pick them up, I might as well give them back to her. It's the least I could do after sending Kensuke and Touji to spy on her. Suddenly I hear a click and feel something pushing up against the back of my head. I put my hands above my head, and my assailant takes the head band out of my hand. "Thanks, I thought I lost these." I hear the gunman say. "What are you doing Mari?" I say while trying to make my trembling less noticeable.
Sorry about the delay again, I had a lot on my mind lately. Personal issues, Lack of drive at first, I wanted to take a few days and analyze where this story was heading, and one other thing that I'll mention a little later, so yeah a lot of reasons for this not getting done quickly.
I apologize once again. Another fun fact about this chapter, this was originally just supposed to be filler like in the original series and the whole Track Mari plot was something I came up with on the fly...then again that's how I do most of these chapters.
So about that thing that distracted me from writing this well I'm planning on writing another story. A The world ends with you fic to be specific so if anyone likes that game look forward to that. The reason I want to mention this (besides shameless plugging) is because that fic is going to take a hell of a lot more time and effort to make (not that I don't put effort into this story), and so I'll try not to let writing that interfere with this story but if I don't update for a while well that's probably a big part of the reason why. Also if your excited for the new story well don't expect the first chapter out for a while for similar reasons. As always feel free to comment.