The blue eyes light up. The gurgling abomination before the Eva
rears back, startled, before restraints in the cage and carriage tear
and a purple, clawed hand grabs him by the back of his head and pulls
him close. Two eyes blazing like two suns, the monster roars as the
Mark-01's horn is driven into his shoulder, black ichor pockmarking
the metal.
“Let's
take this outside,”
Shinji growls, and the Mark-01's free hand slams into the launch
controls on the wall. The carriage shudders, the catwalks attempting
to retract, before the rails light up and send both Eva and monster
speeding up the rails to the surface.
Neon
Genesis Evangelion
Nobody
Dies:
Season
5:
Gods
and (not) Humans
The Bird of Light and the Giant of Will. The two inhabitants of the
verdant green plane, lit under the golden sun high in the sky. Wings
unfurled for both of them, one set made of light, one set covered in
unblinking, crimson eyes. One stands, one floats, its light shining
down upon him to no effect. Of all her siblings, he is the one whom
her light cannot affect, cannot subsume, for he is Will and Truth.
“Arael,”
Tabris says, “You've
gone too far! What you did was-”
“What
I did was (was [was {was for the future} for us all] to bring new
life) necessary.”
The green field shudders and shakes. The Giant reaches out, but she
is out of reach, taking her place high in the sky.
“Do
you know what you've done?!”
he roars, “Do you
know what you cost me?!”
“Yes
(yes [yes {Yes}]), but it was (was [may be {was not what it seemed}
for the best] as real as you made it) unfortunate.”
The Overmind shudders and shakes. Tabris falls to his knees, his
many eyed visage dipping down, his wings folding down around him like
a great, many eyed cloak. The Bird of Light, the Light of God,
lowers herself to him, her face, that what it is, hidden by the
glorious presence she carries with her. So he cannot see her
sympathy.
“Why,”
Tabris
asks, “Why,
Arael? What prize is worth all this? This sacrifice? What is your
goal? What will you become?”
“I
will become (glorious and [the mother of {God} God] triumphant) our
savior.”
He looks up, his many eyes focused upon her.
“There
is power in (beauty and [creation and {control} life] wonder) all
things.”
-
-
Chapter
72: Will
-
-
The
lift shoots out, the carriage stopping and sending the tentacled
monster flying, flipping over before slamming into a mountain outside
Tokyo-3. The restraints release, and the Mark-01 pitches forward,
armor scored, horn half melted, and steps out of the carriage.
The left shoulder fin unfolds, a hand popping out, the purple and
green mecha's right hand grabbing the hand and pulling out an
extending Progressive short sword, flipping it in its hand and
leveling its left arm at the rising tentacle monster.
“Forward
momentum's a bitch, ain't it?”
Shinji asks, the Mark-01 stretching it's neck, “Bring
it, Squidbob.”
The back armor of the corrupted Go-kun explodes with a scream,
dozens of tentacles rising out, some baring eyes. Some baring fangs.
Some baring long, sharp, barbed knives.
“Hoo
boi,”
Shinji says, “I've
seen enough Hentai to know where this is going.”
Four spiked legs slam into the ground, and roaring and gurgling,
Go-kun charges the Mark-01.
And on a hill nearby, there is a squeal of delight as Kensuke Aida
aims his video camera. It's an Evangelion fighting a Tentacle
Monster.
His life is fulfilled.
The opaque field flashes, blurs, and becomes transparent, revealing
the white walls and ceiling of the Project E labs. Small boxes,
digital information surrounding them, click on the lights, the seams
in the wall, and finally focusing on the red haired face of Kyoko
Zeppelin Sohryu. Her hair is frayed, fuzzy, stray hairs curling up
and almost giving her a red halo around her head.
“Kirishima, do you hear me?” she asks.
“Loud
and clear, Dr. Sohryu. SUIT's systems are all responding.”
“Excellent. We're deploying you shortly.”
The view tilts. Mana realizes after a moment it is because she
tilted her head.
“Hate
to ask, Doc...but in what? Jet Alone's totalled and we don't have
anything, y'know, available Eva wise.”
The
floor shakes, and begins descending. She looks around, realizes that
they were in the part of the Project E labs they keep the bulk lift
platforms in, as floors and girders pass by.
“We've adapted it to run on the power cable. Its N2 reactor was
overloaded so it had to be replaced. And the system has been set up
to be flown by wire, as we don't have the room or the parts to
install a cockpit. Instead, it's going to be linked to your SUIT, so
you'll be up there and you'll be directing it by line of sight
remote.”
The girders and floors give way to a massive vehicle bay. And the
screen tilts again, as Mana tilts her head. The lines of her SUIT
glow blue, the seams glowing in tune with the power monitor, the
circle on her chest. Her opaque faceplate turns transparent to give
her a better view, as the platform clears the framework and she sees
the gigantic, vented blue back fin.
“Holy
crap.”
“Most of the damage was superficial,” Kyoko explains, “The
main damage was the sniper shot the Commander delt to its CPU, so
you're going to be controlling it. But since Tokita originally
intended to replace you and Jet Alone with it...”
They clear the head, easily the size of an Evangelion's head, but
blue and white, with cameras lain all over the plating. The mecha,
more a beast than humanoid, standing stooped over on two legs with
two cannon baring arms underneath it like a giant mechanical
tyrannosaur, begins to move as lights flicker over it.
“We thought that the TRIDENT would be a suitable replacement while
we figure out what to do with JAP's AI core.”
Underneath the helmet, Mana grins.
“Fucking
metal.”
The
doors at the back of Central Dogma open, and Pieter turns from the
station on top to see a beard enter, and attached to it Gendo Ikari.
He tilts his head, squints, and steps aside as Gendo stands at his
desk, a white gloved hand stroking the immaculately groomed facial
hair.
“What
is that?” Pieter asks.
“A
beard,” Gendo responds, “While we were out, I apparently grew
one. Excuse my tardiness, I had to look presentable.”
“Go-kun's
Core corruption at 87%,” Maya shouts from down on the bridge, the
screen shifting to the image of the corrupted Evangelion slamming the
Mark-01's head into a nearby hill, “TRIDENT ready for launch!”
“What
Evangelions do we have?” Gendo says, clearing his throat and
walking down the stairs to the bridge, “Katsuragi, report!”
“Unit-00
has been compromised,” Misato says, quickly saluting, looking up to
Ikari's eyes, “Uri rescued Mari, but we can't find him. Rei's been
spotted all over the base, sir.”
Gendo
nods. Hand still stroking his beard, he watches the battle that
rages up on high. For some reason, he has deja vu. That he should
be...proud...of the Eva, moreso than usual. Given, he no longer
hates her like he used to. No longer blames her for what happened to
Yui, those twelve years ago.
“TRIDENT
on the launch rails,” Makoto reports, “Sending it up!”
“Options,”
Gendo says.
“Not
many,” Yui says, arms folded, walking back to him, “Go-kun
compromised. Unless we can remove the Core and the S2 engine safely,
we can either destroy him, or restrain him.”
He
nods. A grunt, snapping off his glasses and staring at the screen.
“Well,
then,” he says, “Let's see if we can...”
He
slides the glasses back on.
“Tame
the beast.”
rears back, startled, before restraints in the cage and carriage tear
and a purple, clawed hand grabs him by the back of his head and pulls
him close. Two eyes blazing like two suns, the monster roars as the
Mark-01's horn is driven into his shoulder, black ichor pockmarking
the metal.
“Let's
take this outside,”
Shinji growls, and the Mark-01's free hand slams into the launch
controls on the wall. The carriage shudders, the catwalks attempting
to retract, before the rails light up and send both Eva and monster
speeding up the rails to the surface.
Neon
Genesis Evangelion
Nobody
Dies:
Season
5:
Gods
and (not) Humans
The Bird of Light and the Giant of Will. The two inhabitants of the
verdant green plane, lit under the golden sun high in the sky. Wings
unfurled for both of them, one set made of light, one set covered in
unblinking, crimson eyes. One stands, one floats, its light shining
down upon him to no effect. Of all her siblings, he is the one whom
her light cannot affect, cannot subsume, for he is Will and Truth.
“Arael,”
Tabris says, “You've
gone too far! What you did was-”
“What
I did was (was [was {was for the future} for us all] to bring new
life) necessary.”
The green field shudders and shakes. The Giant reaches out, but she
is out of reach, taking her place high in the sky.
“Do
you know what you've done?!”
he roars, “Do you
know what you cost me?!”
“Yes
(yes [yes {Yes}]), but it was (was [may be {was not what it seemed}
for the best] as real as you made it) unfortunate.”
The Overmind shudders and shakes. Tabris falls to his knees, his
many eyed visage dipping down, his wings folding down around him like
a great, many eyed cloak. The Bird of Light, the Light of God,
lowers herself to him, her face, that what it is, hidden by the
glorious presence she carries with her. So he cannot see her
sympathy.
“Why,”
Tabris
asks, “Why,
Arael? What prize is worth all this? This sacrifice? What is your
goal? What will you become?”
“I
will become (glorious and [the mother of {God} God] triumphant) our
savior.”
He looks up, his many eyes focused upon her.
“There
is power in (beauty and [creation and {control} life] wonder) all
things.”
-
-
Chapter
72: Will
-
-
The
lift shoots out, the carriage stopping and sending the tentacled
monster flying, flipping over before slamming into a mountain outside
Tokyo-3. The restraints release, and the Mark-01 pitches forward,
armor scored, horn half melted, and steps out of the carriage.
The left shoulder fin unfolds, a hand popping out, the purple and
green mecha's right hand grabbing the hand and pulling out an
extending Progressive short sword, flipping it in its hand and
leveling its left arm at the rising tentacle monster.
“Forward
momentum's a bitch, ain't it?”
Shinji asks, the Mark-01 stretching it's neck, “Bring
it, Squidbob.”
The back armor of the corrupted Go-kun explodes with a scream,
dozens of tentacles rising out, some baring eyes. Some baring fangs.
Some baring long, sharp, barbed knives.
“Hoo
boi,”
Shinji says, “I've
seen enough Hentai to know where this is going.”
Four spiked legs slam into the ground, and roaring and gurgling,
Go-kun charges the Mark-01.
And on a hill nearby, there is a squeal of delight as Kensuke Aida
aims his video camera. It's an Evangelion fighting a Tentacle
Monster.
His life is fulfilled.
The opaque field flashes, blurs, and becomes transparent, revealing
the white walls and ceiling of the Project E labs. Small boxes,
digital information surrounding them, click on the lights, the seams
in the wall, and finally focusing on the red haired face of Kyoko
Zeppelin Sohryu. Her hair is frayed, fuzzy, stray hairs curling up
and almost giving her a red halo around her head.
“Kirishima, do you hear me?” she asks.
“Loud
and clear, Dr. Sohryu. SUIT's systems are all responding.”
“Excellent. We're deploying you shortly.”
The view tilts. Mana realizes after a moment it is because she
tilted her head.
“Hate
to ask, Doc...but in what? Jet Alone's totalled and we don't have
anything, y'know, available Eva wise.”
The
floor shakes, and begins descending. She looks around, realizes that
they were in the part of the Project E labs they keep the bulk lift
platforms in, as floors and girders pass by.
“We've adapted it to run on the power cable. Its N2 reactor was
overloaded so it had to be replaced. And the system has been set up
to be flown by wire, as we don't have the room or the parts to
install a cockpit. Instead, it's going to be linked to your SUIT, so
you'll be up there and you'll be directing it by line of sight
remote.”
The girders and floors give way to a massive vehicle bay. And the
screen tilts again, as Mana tilts her head. The lines of her SUIT
glow blue, the seams glowing in tune with the power monitor, the
circle on her chest. Her opaque faceplate turns transparent to give
her a better view, as the platform clears the framework and she sees
the gigantic, vented blue back fin.
“Holy
crap.”
“Most of the damage was superficial,” Kyoko explains, “The
main damage was the sniper shot the Commander delt to its CPU, so
you're going to be controlling it. But since Tokita originally
intended to replace you and Jet Alone with it...”
They clear the head, easily the size of an Evangelion's head, but
blue and white, with cameras lain all over the plating. The mecha,
more a beast than humanoid, standing stooped over on two legs with
two cannon baring arms underneath it like a giant mechanical
tyrannosaur, begins to move as lights flicker over it.
“We thought that the TRIDENT would be a suitable replacement while
we figure out what to do with JAP's AI core.”
Underneath the helmet, Mana grins.
“Fucking
metal.”
The
doors at the back of Central Dogma open, and Pieter turns from the
station on top to see a beard enter, and attached to it Gendo Ikari.
He tilts his head, squints, and steps aside as Gendo stands at his
desk, a white gloved hand stroking the immaculately groomed facial
hair.
“What
is that?” Pieter asks.
“A
beard,” Gendo responds, “While we were out, I apparently grew
one. Excuse my tardiness, I had to look presentable.”
“Go-kun's
Core corruption at 87%,” Maya shouts from down on the bridge, the
screen shifting to the image of the corrupted Evangelion slamming the
Mark-01's head into a nearby hill, “TRIDENT ready for launch!”
“What
Evangelions do we have?” Gendo says, clearing his throat and
walking down the stairs to the bridge, “Katsuragi, report!”
“Unit-00
has been compromised,” Misato says, quickly saluting, looking up to
Ikari's eyes, “Uri rescued Mari, but we can't find him. Rei's been
spotted all over the base, sir.”
Gendo
nods. Hand still stroking his beard, he watches the battle that
rages up on high. For some reason, he has deja vu. That he should
be...proud...of the Eva, moreso than usual. Given, he no longer
hates her like he used to. No longer blames her for what happened to
Yui, those twelve years ago.
“TRIDENT
on the launch rails,” Makoto reports, “Sending it up!”
“Options,”
Gendo says.
“Not
many,” Yui says, arms folded, walking back to him, “Go-kun
compromised. Unless we can remove the Core and the S2 engine safely,
we can either destroy him, or restrain him.”
He
nods. A grunt, snapping off his glasses and staring at the screen.
“Well,
then,” he says, “Let's see if we can...”
He
slides the glasses back on.
“Tame
the beast.”