Chapter 16: A cruel angel
"Come with me, the commander is waiting." A C-sec grunt orders me. "What does he want?" I wonder to myself as I follow the man out of the Eva hangar. The only sound is the squeaking of my footsteps, I was still soaking wet from head to toe in LCL.
With every step I take I feel a sharp pain in my left side. Eventually the man leads me into a changing room, I look around and see that my school uniform and a towel were in there. "Well at least I don't have to face Gendo in a plug suit, that would've been awkward." I muse to myself as I change.
While changing I brush my hand around where the sharp pain originated from, I take a look and see that there's a long gash going from my waist to my ribcage. I'm reminded of my stay at the hospital after the fight against Ramiel. "I have to be more careful, just because I can get a three hundred synch rate doesn't mean I should." I remind myself.
A minute or two later
I had finished changing and followed the man for a bit longer until we had reached a set of doors. The grunt tells me that the commander is inside. I take a deep breathe, "It's now or never." I mumble to myself. I stride confidently over to the doors and push them open. I'm greeted by a huge empty room, surrounded by windows. In the middle is my target sitting smugly in his chair. His hands folded in some sort of pyramid formation which in turn covers his mouth. "The bastard king himself." I think to myself.
We just stared at each other for a little bit, I can tell that he's slightly wary of me. I wasn't in the plan, I could be the wild card that turns his ambitions on his head. Realizing that fact gives me a bit more confidence. "I've been piloting these abominations for about six months now and this is the first time I've actually seen you face to face, you're not much a people person are you?" I begin with a ever so slight smirk on my face. Gendo ignores the smart remark and gets right down to business.
"You are done piloting Unit 06." he says coldly. "W-what?!" I practically yell. "You seem to have a problem with following orders, and with the fate of the entire world at stake we can't have disobedience." he continues. For the first time since I've gotten my own Eva I feel completely helpless.
"Don't worry." Fuyutski picks up where Gendo left off. "We will keep you as a spare pilot so you will still live in the Katsuragi households with your former teammates." he finishes. "So Unit 06 will be in suspension then?" I ask while clenching my fists. "Not exactly, we have a new pilot." Fuyutski responds.
At that moment I hear the door open behind me. I whirl around, having only one guess as to who this replacement could be. I see the same white haired boy from my "vision". "Kaworu." I grumble, he gives me a wry smile almost as if he's mocking me. What's he doing here, he shouldn't show up until all the other angels are dead. Just what are Seele up to?
"I'm Kaworu Nagisa, it's a pleasure to meet you." Kaworu introduces himself while holding out his hand. I take his hand and shake it but quickly pull it away afterwards. "Do I detect a hint of animosity?" the bastard king asks smugly. "No, we're all good." I reply through gritted teeth. I take a look back at Kaworu, he has some sort of smug smile on his face.
He kind of reminded me of Joshua from the world ends with you. As if reading my mind he says this gem of a line, "Shall we go and meet the other pilots partner?" while running his hand through with his hair. "God he's grating." I think to myself which just hammered in the The world ends with you comparisons even further. With that I followed Kaworu back to misato's place.
Really sorry for the delay, but quite honestly there was nothing I could do about it for the most part. First some personal issues came up, then my internet went out for two weeks, then once the internet was finally fixed (turns out it was an issue on the providers end, go figure) I had homework to make up (I go to an online school).
So yeah once again sorry but I had those pesky priorities to think of. I'm also sorry for the short chapter but I wanted to give you guys SOMETHING, that and I figured Kaworu's introduction could carry a whole(albeit short)chapter. To be honest I was forced into an ultimatum while writing this chapter, I had hyped up the confrontation against Gendo at the end of the last chapter but didn't really know what to do with it.
I also didn't plan to introduce Kaworu until much later but then I thought of the possibilities I could realize by introducing him now. Especially considering the self inserts development in the last chapter, imagine steeling your resolve only to have any and all power taken away from you. I'll stop now since I'm just sucking my own dick at this point, but once again I apologize for the delay.