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NGE: Nobody Dies 2: The Reevival
 
#51
GreggHL Wrote:“When'd you hit 400%? Well, you hit 400% with me, but that was
scary for me since you were all angry and then I retreated into my
Core for a couple of weeks. That doesn't mean we had sex, did we?
Because if we did, then a) that's disgusting, and b) I'm going to rub
that into Zyuu's face.”

“NO!” Shinji says, and bites his lip, finding a spot on the
ceiling to stare at, “I mean, no. What we did was not sex. I'm
not even sure what the Hell we did, but I'm pretty sure it
wasn't sex. Sex usually doesn't end up with me a Nephilim and you
aging up six years. I think.”
BWAAA-HAA-HAAA!
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#52
  Next, Rei found Nana. In particular, she found Nana sitting in a
cafe a half mile from the apartment she shares with all her sisters,
with her hands forming a bridge in front of her face as she stares at
the cup of hot chocolate in front of her. According to the barrista,
she has been like this for the past half hour, staring at the sugary
concoction, as they were under strict orders from NERV to not give
her anything caffeinated, since she ordered it.

Taking a seat across from her, Rei folds her hands pursing her lips.

“Sooooo...”

“Bored now,” Nana says.

And then the cup glows as the porcelain, through an ingenious device
Nana had created and fitted onto the handle when no one was looking.
Combining with the liquid, contained by Nana's AT Field, the cup
lifts off the plate and achieves a solid state fusion, illuminating
the cafe with a roar of sound that is only overshadowed by the
girlish squeal coming from the lilithian nephilim staring straight
into the heart of the briefly flickering sun.

As the light clears and the patrons begin to look up from their
tables, Nana looks over to the barrista, raising a triumphant fist
into the air.

“I'll have another!”

Which is just when the Section 2 agents reveal themselves from
behind the fixtures, raining tranquilizer darts upon the patrons,
barrista, and Nana, before picking up the excitable girl.

“Yeah, we're gonna have to talk to Ikari about her,” one agent
sighs, “That's the second cafe she's turned into a lab this week.
Get the memory drugs, inject everyone.”

He turns over to Rei, shrugging.

“Sorry about that, Miss Ayanami.”

With that, they and the unconscious Nana exit.

“Yeah,” Rei sighs, “Iiiiii~ii'm gonna need a new plan.”
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#53
(O_o) Good grief. Chocolate powered micro-fusion?

But Rei's reaction is priceless. Smile
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#54
The Spark Force is strong with this one. *lol*

Also, seeing Rei out-weirded by one of her sisters for once is charmingly adorable.
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"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."
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#55
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/90/

Discuss.
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#56
I have to say, I liked seeing what the Ree were doing as individuals. It really makes it easier to keep track of which one is which. Up until now, I sort of looked at it as there being Rei, Kei, and the rest of the Ree, who were pretty much interchangeable to one degree or another. It's nice that that's no longer the case.
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.
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#57
"Yeah, this didn't work," Tres sighs, "Great plan, Una."

"Shaddup, Tres."

HAH! Nice finish. (^_^)
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#58
I'm laughing entirely too much at the fact that Iti has started talking like Mordin. :lol:

Also, this was just perfect.

Quote:"And stuff!" Ivy adds, "Cause we had a great plan to get you together and besides which you're having sex all the time!"
Go-kun and Rei turn to their youngest mindbaby. Rei cocks an eyebrow. She's relatively sure that she hasn't done the nasty with her 220' tall war machine. She'd remember if she did.
"...really?"
"How?"
"Auntie Zyuu explained it to us," Una says, "When your Entry Plug goes in and out of Daddy's neck, that means you're 'getting it on'. Just like when Uncle Shinji does it with Auntie Ichi!"
"...Really?"
"Yep! And Auntie Zyuu says that it's really special when it's with your brother, and that's cause Auntie Zyuu's really responsible and taught us all about the birds and the bees and stuff and how the Entry Plug's a special sort of bond!"
Rei taps her fingers on her knee.
"Ah...um...but Uncle Shinji's a boy, and Auntie Ichi's a girl," she says, "So doesn't that make your Daddy your Momma? And doesn't that make me your Daddy?"
The four Reego smile. JA-Tan raises an eyebrow, and shakes her head, turning and walking away.
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"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."
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#59
In
scientific thought, there is a term called Occam's Razor. It is a
principle that generally recommends selecting the competing
hypothesis that makes the fewest new assumptions, when the two
hypotheses are equal in other respects. In the third hour of the
drive, Asuka has found a flaw in her previous belief that the many,
many oddities of the Ree were all inherent behavior derived from
their link to Lilith. She has previously been ignoring the role of
the genetic template from which they were cloned, and its place,
through nature and nurture, in leading eight nephilim murder machines
into becoming the eight balls of energy, neuroses, and insanity that
they are now.

To
put it bluntly, before now, she was making the assumption that Dr Yui
Ikari, head of Project Eva, was a sane, well-balanced human being.


It's
not an assumption she's making any more.
.

"Mother
fucker!"
Yui
yells, slamming her palm against the horn, her free hand flipping her
middle finger in what she hopes is full view of the car that cut them
off, "I have half a mind to have Section 2 have him taken out and
sh...oh right I'd never do that of course. Dipshit. Fucking
half-assed driver probably got his license out of a cereal box!"

Popping open the can of Red Bull, she sips from it as she puts both
hands back on the wheel.

"So, I figured now's a good time to chat," she says, "You
know, girl time. Girl talk. We haven't had nearly enough chances to
talk lately, and I'm figuring Alicia's going to want to kill me when
we get to the house, so might as well make the most of it. How's
things with Shinji?"

"F-fine," Asuka squeaks, holding onto the door handle, toes
curled inside her sneakers.

"'Kay. If it helps, I'm sorry about blowing up at you two
about...well, you know," Yui responds, "There's teenage hormones,
then there's spending time face to face with Lilith. The fact that
you two haven't...well...since then does speak volumes about how
serious the two of you are."

Asuka cocks an eyebrow, shakily turning from view of approaching
death that is an Ikari driver and turning to the driver herself.

"I'm serious," Yui says, "You're young, your guardians are
working enough that you can do whatever you want, and according to
the tests you've run you're free of the main consequence. That
you're keeping things under control speaks volumes of your
commitment, Asuka. I'm actually proud of you two."

"Th-thank you."

Yui smiles, sipping her energy drink.

"So, assuming that we fix the whole 'baby-making' problem, I'm
partial to the name 'Ariel,' myself for my first organic
granddaughter..."
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#60
Ah, Yui drives like me! and Misato.

And freaking Dale Earnhardt.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies
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#61
It stands to reason, as it has been hinted that Yui was a bit of a Bad Girl herself, getting into barfights with Gendo and all...
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#62
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/91/NGE_Nobody_Dies]Chapter 91.

Discus. Or frisbee, depending on your preference.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
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#63
The school bell rings, and the
doors of the Tokyo-3 Municipal Middle/High school open to release
their charges for the day. First to exit are the children of Class
0A. Their classroom on the first floor, they are the youngest
students of the massive school- twelve years old, some thirteen, all
of them still children and yet beginning to blossom.

And today was the first day for
the newest of their number, a young girl with black pig tails, clad
in the green skirt and vest, and white blouse that the middle
schoolers wear.

Ichi Ikari, child of Yui Ikari,
Gendo Ikari, and Lilith, skips at the front of the crowd of new kids
she's just met. The noise in her joints is barely audible, a full
week of being coached in how to move now that she's a pubescent
teenage girl making her blend in, she completes her tradition and,
with a swing of her right foot, launches her shoe.

There is a snap and a crack.
The sneaker, propelled by hydraulics instead of muscle, warps the air
as it exceeds the speed of sound, leaving a trail of smoke from
literal burning rubber before it punches through the side of the
garbage truck, launching skyward and impacting a green and silver
pigeon that passes by.

The Israbird is dead before it
hits the ground. As the garbage falls onto the street, the stench
wafts through the air. Monkey like, green and silver, some orange
and silver, the Israfim come out of the bushes, raiding the piles of
fresh refuse...and then they freeze. They turn, their mask like
faces centering on Ichi.

The girl, her foot still in mid
swing, freezes as the remnants of the Angel focus their attention on
her. They sense her- that she is, in fact, the Enemy. That she is
somehow the same as the greater body the Lilim use to destroy the
Angels. The one they fear. The one that defeated Father.

“Um...hi?”

Claws out, the Israfim advance,
lining up in a pyramid formation in front of the students, arms up
over their head. The other boys and girls in her class, barely out
of childhood, scream. Ichi, on the other hand, grins. Grabbing her
backpack, she swings it off her back, wrapping the strap around her
hand, she releases the locks on the shoulder harness and wraps the
straps around each other into a strong, knotted rope.

With a swing, the 10 pound
backpack, filled with books, knowledge, and a lunch box, swings into
the lead Israfim's face hard enough to take the head clean off,
sending its body flailing as it breaks down into LCL.

“Oh, yeah!” Ichi
yells, one hand grabbing the middle of the makeshift flail rope,
directing the weapon-of-learning as the Israfim cautiously try to
surround her, “This is the best first day ever!”

-

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Chapter 92: Flurgen
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#64
 “Wh-why do you have a N-NERV
grade holographic communicator?”

Annette pauses. The six year
old girl, who nonetheless sounds like a mixture of Zeruel and ADAM,
wisely pauses in her own discussion, sensing that this is a
conversation for grown-ups, so she instead turns her attention to the
free-floating MP-Eva plushie.

Pulling the pen out of her
mouth, Annette inspects it for a moment before tucking it behind her
ear.

“I have connections.”

The
room is not normal.
That is the main conclusion Asuka has come to. In addition to the
pad at the middle of the room, and the wires connecting it to the
plastic, crescent shaped desk upon which three monitors and three
glowing blue CPUs are mounted on, there are wires covering the
entire, bright pink wall.

The walls are still pink. The
bed is big and soft, with way too many pillows, the night stand
holding a sealed, closed, unused diary. Everything says this is a
girl's room. But then there is the massive computer display, the
work stations, the equipment more set up for professional hackers
than sixteen year old girls.

“S-so,” Asuka says,
pointedly ignoring the computer set up that costs more than Misato's
old apartment, “U-Uri hasn't been talking, but I think
he's...um...worried about you.”

Annette nods, rising with the
sound of popping joints, running her hands through her hair and
walking over to her night stand. Taking out a black book from the
draw, she sits on her bed, flipping through it.

“Um...well, I wanted to see
how you were,” Asuka says, “We've n-never gotten to really
talk...”

“No, we never have,” Annette
says with a sigh, flopping onto the bed, “I'm your boyfriend's
cousin, you're my 'boyfriend's' sister,” she says with airquotes,
“And we've never really met.”

There
is another six year old girl appearing behind OMEGA,
tugging her shoulder.

'Meg,
the girl says, her voice a sound like crystals ringing in unison,
C'mon!
Almacia's
getting in trouble!”


“And that is...” Asuka asks.

“Delta,” Annette responds,
flipping through the book, “I'm pretty good at telling them all
apart. So, what's your question?”

The girls are gone. In the
background of the projector, she can swear she can see a line of six
to eight year olds filing past, whispering.

“Um...how exactly d-do you
know them?” Asuka asks, scratching her head, “What...what
exactly...”

Annette coughs, leaning back,
tenting her fingers in front of her face.

“Well, it started some time
ago, at Chairman Kihl's funeral,” she explains, “Or as I like to
call it,”

Epic Pony Saving Prana

Two weeks ago.

“So, Annette, how have you
been?”

“Less...talking,” the blonde
girl puffed, thanking providence that she wore flats to the funeral,
“More...running! How...could...he...?”

“How could he set the stables
on fire and let loose wolves on them?” Kaworu asks, annoyingly not
out of breath despite running at a full, desperate sprint alongside
her, “I imagine easily. All he would need would be access to fire
and wolves. Annette, this is the...man...who put a Cherubim in
Unit-03. He...look, get on my back.”

“F-F-Okay!” Her feet leave
the ground, and thankfully she grabs Kaworu's shoulders, still mildly
annoyed on how he can be running at full sprint without being tired
or out of breath. Breathing heavily, the spots in front of her eyes
slowly disappear. While maid work involved a lot of running around,
it rarely involved frantic sprints.

“So, if it isn't rude to ask,”
Kaworu says, casually, “How are things with you and Uri? And how
have you been adjusting to being back home with your parents? It
must be nice to see them...or at least have proper parents-”

“Save...save your breath for
running!”

Of course, that was more from
anger at both questions than anything. Uri's been too busy piloting
Zwei to pay any attention to her, and her parents are...well, a
sensitive matter.

It took her a while to accept
that the two old people were her parents, whom she hadn't been in the
same room with for ten years.

And then they turned the corner,
and Annette sees it. She sees the mountains in the distance, and the
mountains move. In the darkness of night, she sees the massive
shapes and hears the flapping of massive, impossible wings, the
terrified whinnies of the horses and the howls of the wolves, the
beating of wings a chorus over their terrified song. The mountains
walk, or stumble, the ragged noise of breath in time with the sounds
of destruction.

Annette shrieks. Kaworu comes
to a steady stop, carefully put her down, and then folds his arms and
clears his throat.

“Ahem!” he shouts, tapping
his foot.

The first of the white giants
unfolds itself from the no-longer-on-fire stable, turning as the
second giant lands, the massive wings blocking out the light
pollution from Berlin. It bends down to one knee, and speaks with a
booming voice which hammers the minds and senses.

UM,”
it starts, “UH.
HELLO, DADDY.”


“Daddy?” Annette hisses at
Kaworu.

“I'll explain in a bit. What
are you doing here, Meg?”

PONIES!
AND DOGGIES!”


“...okay,
OMEGA,
let's try this again,” Kaworu sighs, “What are you and...” He
glances at the second MP-Evangelion, “Delta doing out here? You
know you aren't allowed out without supervision.”

The second MP-Evangelion steps
forward, wringing its hands in an action that would be adorable if it
weren't sixty meters tall and had a mouth full of blunt teeth and no
eyes.

“Daddy?”
Annette asks, “Mind explaining?”

“I'll get around to it,”
Kaworu responds with a shrug, “I'm waiting.”

Um,
it starts, the voice having an underlying shriek and hiss to it,
Well...uh...we
heard some horses were in trouble, so we came out here to help save
them! Yes. That's it.”


The boy stared up at the two
giants.

“Don't lie,” he says, “You
were going to kidnap the horses and tell everyone they were eaten by
wolves. Which you also took. The horses are Annette's and you have
to give them back.”

Delta's head sinks down, a sigh
like scraping crystals escaping.

Yes,
Daddy.”


NO!
MINE!”


“Meg...”

MINE!
Somehow, the voice of the primordial giant sounded like it was
pouting. With a sigh, Annette pulls on Kaworu's shirt sleeve,
pulling him aside.

“Kaworu,” she says in that
warning voice she rarely has to use, “I know you just got a
girlfriend but...”

She gestures to the two giants.

“Really?”

The boy blushes, pink spreading
on his pale features.

“Oh.
Um. Well, if it helps they aren't biological
children. They're fork-based AIs that are based on Kei's and my
neural data,” he explains, “They're subjectively six, but were
raised in fast-time. In Evangelions.”

“I see,” Annette says, not
really, “I...well, I thought since you and Kei aren't strictly
human, that you...”

She unconsciously crosses her
legs.

“Ow.”

“Oh, don't worry about that.
We're using protection.”

The blonde facepalms.

“Kaworu, remember our many
chats about things you don't say in public? This is one of them.”

“Oops.”

WHAT
ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?”


The two turn back to the
Evangelions, which despite the lack of eyes were staring at them.

BABIES,
maybe?”
Delta asks, “Cause
they were talking about us.”


Kaworu blinks, sighs.

“Yes, exactly. We were
talking about that, but before the diversion. Meg. Those are not
your horses.”

MY
PONIES!

the MP-Eva insists, the terrified whinnies in her left hand
indicating that she did believe possession was nine tenths of the
law.

“No, Meg, they are not.”

ARE
TOO!”


“08-EF EVA0, I am your father
and I am telling you that you may not steal Annette's horses.”

B-B-BUT
I WANNA PET! A REAL ONE! IT'S NOT F-FAIR!”


Which is when Kaworu and Annette
were privileged to witness the embarrassment of an MP-Evangelion
crying at you. Annette sighs, resisting the urge to steeple her
fingers, and tugs on Kaworu's sleeve.

“Listen,” she called out to
the...little girl. They very large little girl. With no eyes, flat
teeth in a gaping maw, and flower decorated armor, “Right. What
was her name, Omega?”

“Yes,
OMEGA.”
he
responds, looking slightly lost.

“Right.
OMEGA.
I'm Annette, and I'm...well, I'm your mother's cousin, and I looked
after your father when he was very young.”

Delta looks down, her serpentine
neck curving to let her stare eyelessly at the two.

Ooh!
Really?”
she
asks, enthusiasm and alienness evident in her voice, “What
was he like? Does that mean you're like the F8s for us?”


“Ef...eights?” Annette asks,
“Fates?”

“Their brothers and sisters,”
Kaworu explains, “Subjectively older AIs in the Berlin MAGI.”

“...right,” Annette sighs.

“They aren't the same type of
AI according to Kei,” Kaworu continues, “But they are aged in
fast time too and-”

“Got it,” she says, flapping
him quiet, “Maybe. I think. Anyway. Anyway, I guess I am like
him, because I looked after him, too.”

Oo!
Cool!”

Delta squeals, making Annette cover her ears at the scraping
crystalline shriek, “That
means you must be really smart and cool, just like them!”


NUH
UH,”

OMEGA
pouts, “YOU'RE
JUST TRYING TO MAKE ME LIKE HER. BUT THE DOGGIES AND PONIES ARE
MINE!”


“Well, actually, I don't care
about the wolves...”

Really?
But they're doggies, and they're cute and fluffy and I licked one
and it tasted funny.”


“...right,”
Annette says, and turns back to OMEGA,
“Right. Well, OMEGA,
I need to talk to you about the horses. Can you be a...big...girl
and talk grown up about them?”

MINE!

“See, that's not very mature,”
Annette responds, “Pets are a big responsibility. I remember when
your father got his first kitten.”

“Don't bring that up,”
Kaworu says with a shudder.

KITTY,
DADDY?”


Kaworu remains silent.

“And so I have to be sure.
Where do you live?”

DOES
THAT MATTER?”


“Yes it does,” Annette
responds, “You see, a horse has to have a lot of space to be happy.
It needs a lot of outdoor time and a lot of grass.”

“UM.”

We
live in the hangars underneath NERV-Berlin,”

Delta says, cheerfully, “And
we have lots of space and people to help us take care of the horses!
And there's all the stuff we have there, like our lances and our
spare armor and we could just have the maintenance people who help
brush our teeth plant grass and stuff...”


“Okay,”
Annette responds, “Okay. So, OMEGA,
would you really want your horses to be unhappy?”

BUT...BUT...PONIES...”
she says, her primordial voice heartbroken.

“But that's why I need you to
be a big girl,” Annette says, “Firstly, you have all your new
doggies to look after. Have you checked to make sure that they're
alright?”

UH
HUH. I PRACTICED PICKING THINGS UP AND EVERYTHING SO I WOULDN'T HURT
THEM. I WOULDN'T WANT THEM TO EAT THE PONIES.”

She presented her right hand, from where the terrified howls could
be heard. “THAT
WOULD BE MEAN.”


“...right. See, that's what
I'm looking for. You're a good girl. Isn't she, Kaworu?” A nudge
to his ribs to make him agree.

“Yes, she is, but-”

Another elbow to silence him.

“See, you are,” Annette
says, “And that's why I need you to be brave and strong for me.
You and your sister-”

“Well, nine of them in that
batch,” Kaworu interrupts, “There are actually several hundred
more-”

Sisters,
Annette continues, directing a glare at Kaworu, “Have a new job.
You see, OMEGA,
I can't easily move the horses back to where I live in Japan, and I
certainly don't have the space to properly care for them. So they're
going to keep living here with your Daddy. But your Daddy is very,
very silly and not good with animals, so I'm going to ask you to help
look after my horses and make sure they're happy and well cared for.
And I will be checking up often, okay?”

“R-REALLY?”
OMEGA

booms, eyes she doesn't have wide.

“Yes.”

The
lips of the behemoth flutter. Then, “THANK
YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! I PR-PROMISE I'LL LOOK AFTER THEM IN THE
BEST POSSIBLE WAY AND BRUSH THEM AND CARE FOR THEM AND MAKE SURE
THEY'RE THE HAPPIEST PONIES EVER!

A deep breath, which pushes the trees back, and “THANK
YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU YOU'RE THE BEST AUNTY EVER AUNTY ANNETTE AND
I PROMISE I'LL NEVER LET YOU DOWN EVER!”


Annette smiles. Yes, the voice
was...not...that of a child's but it definitely had a child's
enthusiasm.

“Okay. So, will you put them
down?”

We
put our the fire. Else they wouldn't have a place to live.”


KAY.”

The giant lowers her hand that
does not have wolves, releasing the horses. The horses collapse,
terrified and exhausted, but a cursory examination from Annette
confirms they are all fine, just relieved.

“Okay,” Kaworu adds, “I
think it's time for you to head home. If the maintenance staff find
you not in your hangars, they could tell your mother, and you don't
want her to find out.”

'Kay,
Daddy!

Delta says, unfurling her wings, “It
was really nice to meet you, Aunty Annette! We promise not to let
you down!”


THANK
YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU-


And the two MP-Evangelions take
off, Annette holding onto Kaworu to keep the sudden wind from tossing
her like a rag doll. And then they are gone, and there are only two
people and several terrified horses.

“Well,” she says, “I leave
for a few weeks and you have a girlfriend and you're already a
father.”

“I think it was inevitable,”
Kaworu responds, “As you would put it, Kei is just as dorky as I
am. We connected. She does remind me of you.”

“Yes,” Annette says with a
shrug, “Well, we are related. And remember how there are things
you don't say to people?”

“Saying my friend reminds me
of my girlfriend is one?”

“Yes.”

“Whoops.”

The two begin walking back, at a
more sedate pace. Well, that went well. She made what appeared to
be a little girl very happy. She also has apparently won the loyalty
of nine Evangelions. Not bad for a night's work.

“And Kaworu? I think someone
should tell the Second Branch there will be wolves in the hangar.”

“...really,” Asuka says,
sitting on the bed across from her, “I'm...not sure I needed to
know all this. Wolves. And horses. And...um...huh. W-what
happened to his cat?”

“We don't talk about it.”

The door opens after a brief
knock, Alicia walking in with her hand clamped around Yui's wrist.

“...so I wanted you to talk
with her,” Alicia says, “If you want to help, then we all need to
talk-”

OMEGA,
Delta, and another girl in a six year old sized plugsuit crowd at the
projector.

GRANDMA!”
they shout.

Alicia begins to sputter.

Grandma?”
she
asks, “They're six!
And last I checked, Rei and Kei were both six...teen...Yui, what
have they been getting up to?”

“Relax,”
Yui says, shrugging, “They're not biological,
they're Fork-based AIs based on the neural patterns of one of my
eight clone daughters.”

Silence blankets the room.

“You're not helping, Aunt
Yui,” Annette chimes in.
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#65
Quote:free-floating MP-Eva plushie.

AGH..

ACGHKK.

AGHK
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies
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#66
OHGODTHECUTE.

I'm not sure if I'm talking about Kaworus kids, or Ichi having the best first day ever.
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#67
Makes me think of this.  (Click for mostly full size, and click that for full size.)
[Image: canikeepit.th.jpg]
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.
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#68
I swear, was making the MP-Series this adorable an intentional attempt to help folks forget about the Zwei Buffet in EoE? Because it's working, so very much. :lol:
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"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."
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#69
Alarms blare, shrill and
through the air. The stairwell doors open and staff are given a
moment to get out of the way as Pieter runs out, Ichi and 00-EM on
his trail as Pieter activates the speaker functions of his PDA.
Speakers throughout the base come to life, Sohryu's voice blaring
through them.

“This is Sub Director Sohryu
to all staff!” he announces, “For those of you who have
encountered Zophael, you should now be regaining memories of her!
She has infiltrated the base and has kidnapped Pilot Ikari! All
hands to battle stations, and seal off the base!”

“I repeat: The Cherubim is a
Spy! And she's sapping our pilots!”

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Chapter 93: Weaponized Tsundere
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#70
 “Great plan.”

“Shut up.”

“No, really. I honestly
couldn't have thought of a better plan.”

“Shut up shut up!”

“You sure you copied Asuka?
Because this is the sort of thought out, well planned escape that I'm
sure only my mother could think of.”

“Shut it, Ikari! You're lucky
you're part of my great escape plan!”

“Which somehow involves us
going deeper into NERV. Right.”

The glowing tsundere Griffon
glares at him, landing in the dimly lit corridor, the holes burnt
through the many armor layers still glowing gold as she stomps
onward, still holding Shinji in her paw.

“So, can I offer advice?” he
asks, “I mean, since you could probably use a sounding board for
escaping.”

“No!” Zophael barks, “No
you may not! Now, I've got to find a way out of this stupid base
while being chased by your stupid sisters and your stupid coworkers!
So you stay in this room, which I add has no stupid air vents, until
I come for your stupid ass!”

Forcing the door to the room
open, she shoves Shinji inside, closing it behind her.

Standing in the pitch black,
dark room, Shinji sighs, scratching his head as he looks at the
surface of the door, of what he thinks is probably one of the most
secure rooms at NERV. Or at least, until the room glows faint red,
and sees the reflection of two blood red, glowing eyes on the mirror
polished door.

Ikari-kun.”
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#71
Okay, I'm not sure exactly who that is... but I'm pretty sure that, in the short term, this does not bode well for Shinji. Wink
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#72
blackaeronaut Wrote:Okay, I'm not sure exactly who that is... but I'm pretty sure that, in the short term, this does not bode well for Shinji. Wink
Remember the Little Lilith who went around tanging people in Chapter 75?

Zophie just locked Shinji in a room with her.
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#73
Shinji is the only part Angel without some form of child at this point, isn't he?
On another note, what happened with those people from NERV Alaska, the ones that escaped the mini-Impact?
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.
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#74
GreggHL Wrote:
blackaeronaut Wrote:Okay, I'm not sure exactly who that is... but I'm pretty sure that, in the short term, this does not bode well for Shinji. Wink
Remember the Little Lilith who went around tanging people in Chapter 75?

Zophie just locked Shinji in a room with her.
... Oh boy. Ohboyohboyohboy...
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#75
The car speeds down the highway.
She pouted for a few minutes after losing the coin toss, but
nonetheless went with it because probability cannot be denied, even
after going through the rigorous steps of determining the coin was
neither weighted, fixed, or otherwise rigged. And hence Yui flips
through her emails as Asuka drives.

“S-so, Dr. Ikari?” Asuka
asks, checking the rear view mirror to confirm that, yes, the Section
2 escort is right behind them, “Can I ask something?”

“Sure.”

“Wh-what was it like, raising
the Ree?”

“It was...an experience. The
thing about the Ree is that all eight of them are highly intelligent
and curious. So, what would normally end up being ways to occupy
them would also end up being complex scientific experiments. Like
the lever exercise.”

“The...what?”

“It's a simple experiment,”
Yui says with a smile, “There's a lever on a desk. When you pull
the lever, you receive a static shock. The experiment is a
personality test, because it sees what stimulus a person responds to.
I found that the Ree all had a strikingly different reaction to the
experiment. But, they all had a similar reaction to me, which was to
pull the lever at least a second time to check for the causation and
correlation of the static shock.”

Asuka pauses. She purses her
lips.

“W-wouldn't it make more sense
to not pull the lever a second time?”

Yui pauses, this time.

“I'm not sure what you mean,
Asuka,” she responds, and sips her coffee.

“B-but if you're going to get
a shock, why would you pull the lever a s-second time?”

“To check for the connection
between the lever and the shock, clearly,” Yui responds, “Each of
them had a different reaction, which did give some hint of how their
personalities would develop. Nana kept pulling the lever even after
I disconnected the power cord, and eventually wrenched it out of the
socket. We didn't know how she was still getting shocked. May have
been an AT Field. Kei started to disassemble the device, and I'm not
sure what she was going to make but it's probably a good thing we
stopped her.”

“Um...”

“Kiko figured out a way to use
the electricity to stimulate muscles and cause a human body to
reflexively embrace something. Iti drew up a chart of the circuit
with scribbled in suggestions to increase current. And Zyuu...”

She continues talking for a
solid hour on variances, stimulus, coordination and repeat
experiments. Conditions for the experiment. Repeat experiments.
Variants of how many times a lever can be pulled. All the time she
is talking, the same sequence of events keeps repeating in Asuka's
head, that of Yui, her boss, her role model, repeatedly yanking on a
lever which repeatedly, without fail, shocks her. And all her
daughters lined up to take their turns with the shock stick.

“B-but you're being
electrocuted,” Asuka interjects, “Wouldn't it make more
sense n-not to pull the lever a second time?”

“...lost me again there,
Asuka.”

And once again, for the second
time this trip, Asuka finds her assessment of Yui Ikari's sanity
being adjusted downward.
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