Once More With Feeling released a new chapter today, whereupon we all find out that the MAGI are not AI, but rather
closer to a somewhat bright master system. How? Well....
The aftermath for the other two, however...
"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."
closer to a somewhat bright master system. How? Well....
Quote: And so that left NERV in the awkward position of offering the pilots the illusion of a normal life. And an illusion it was as despite appearances; theyWhat was the security breach in question?
kept both Shinji and Asuka on very short leashes. Their guardian worked for NERV and their school crawled with NERV agents. Whenever they
stepped out of either their house or school, they were followed by a cloud of invisible Section Two agents as a matter of course, and when inside NERV
Central, the MAGI system tracked their location in real-time.
The one location they would be perfectly safe as, of course, the MAGI never made mistakes.
The Vice Commander admitted to himself he had taken a somewhat Luddite delight in the fact that it had failed so miserably to predict their actions today,
showing the damn things were not foolproof no matter what Akagi insisted, a fact that had left her rather red faced at the security breach.
Quote: MELCHIOR, which had been given the duty today of tracking the children among the thousands of other 'housekeeping' tasks it performed,The end result, of course, was Rei winning this little race, because she'd decided she damn well wanted to win, and pulling off a significantly stupidly risky stunt(which she managed perfectly) to do so.
had no remote sensors in the pre-NERV buildings area to log the Children vanishing into 'Utility Vehicle Shed 16-Bravo'. It did have the
perimeter of the area locked down however, meaning there was no way the Children could come back out of the area without being tagged, so the fact
it had lost positive tracking on them wasn't much of a concern to the semi-sentient mainframe.
So when three quad-bike ground-keeping vehicles came screaming out of the utility area two minutes later like bats out of hell, it did take a
look as a matter of course. But as the heavy motorcycle helmets hid all key features from the facial recognition software and the old black and white camera
prevented a skin tone/clothes match, a positive ID could not be determined.
Taking a few nanoseconds to investigate, the mainframe checked its files carefully before firmly deciding there was no reason for NERV personnel under the
'Evangelion Pilot' category to be using vehicles assigned to 'Geofront Maintenance' personnel. And so, 'happy' that it had logically
deduced the integrity of its perimeter, MELCHIOR retuned to waiting - with the infinite patience of a computer - for the children to re-emerge as it
knew they would, sooner or later…
The aftermath for the other two, however...
Quote: "You're still a stooge Third Child, but you're a good class of stooge. And for whatever it's worth, I do respect you…Shinji. Now---
that doesn't mean I can't get utterly pissed off with you at times…but you've earned my respect respect over the time I've
gotten to know you…and my friendship".
"A…arigato" he managed to stutter his reply out as a smile and a deep blush he couldn't help pushed its way onto his face at her words.
Asuka in turn gave him a tight smile of her own, her eyes shining with an unbroken spirit despite her confession of her 'loss', before she turned
away and placed her helmet onto her head, starting her engine back up before turning back, as if suddenly remembering she had forgotten something.
"Oh by the way Third Child regardless of winning or losing here, our agreement was 'if I beat you to that fountain'. We
have to cook Rei dinner as we lost to her, but our bet is independent of that. Tschüs"
And with a roar, Asuka sped off down the bridge.
His ego held him in place for a good ten seconds or so as he rejoiced in the feelings Asuka had admitted to him. It was more then she had ever
admitted in their first life together, to his face at least, and right now, he felt so confident, so strong that he would have taken an oath he
could have probably knocked out Angels by spitting at them and powered his Evangelion on ego alone…
Wait. What had that been about their bets…?
His eyes went wide.
That sneaky German son of a-
"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."