Gendo's Desk: Battle in Terminal Dogma
"A-Asuka... I... can't... run... anymore..."
"Stop now Baka and you're as good as dead!"
The 14th Angel, continuing to destroy the core of NERV in its search, completely ignores the two children. At first, Shinji and Asuka were relieved, now; however, they seemed to be further from getting into their Evas than they were before. The debris from the Angel's attacks was now blocking the way to the stored Evas.
Inside the bridge room, Misato was frantically trying to get everyone available ready to help Asuka and Shinji to their Evas. Questions for where they had been could wait for later. Shinji and Asuka, reaching the top of the pile of debris, see their Evangelions ready for insertion with the entry plugs ejected. Asuka, taking the lead, quickly climbs the broken bridge up to the Evangelions. The bridge, which had previously connected the Evangelion holding cells with the rest of NERV, had broken off and was hanging down, luckily in reach of Asuka and Shinji. After climbing the wire grate bridge up, Shinji and Asuka enter their respective entry plugs and wait for the insertion.
Ten minutes later, Asuka and Shinji were still sitting in their ejected entry plugs, growing impatient and worried, respectively. The Angel paused its destruction for a moment and noticed the Evangelions, as well as the extremely vulnerable ejected entry plugs.
Inside the bridge room, Ritsuko and the other three bridge crew members desperately attempt to re-rout energy to the Eva cages. The Angel, on its path of destruction, had severed the main power line to the cages. So, in a desperate race against the Angel, Ritsuko and the bridge crew attempt to do what was hoped would never be done. They had the task of re- routing the rest of NERV's power supply through the secondary power couplings, a feat they weren't sure could be accomplished. The secondary couplings had a far less capacity than the main ones had, and the amount of power needed to get both Evas running was just over the maximum output. Ritsuko silently cursed Gendo for cutting back the funding for the secondary systems.
Shinji, looking up and out of the entry plug, finds himself staring at the face of the angel, its cold, empty eye holes beginning to glow with a bright light. Screaming, Shinji begins chanting his mantra in his head, 'I mustn't run away, I mustn't run away.' Then, just moments before the Angel discharged its beam at the child; the entry plug closes and spins into the Eva's spine, the Eva's armor latching itself into place. The beam, missing the Eva, instantly vaporizes the bridge leading to Unit 01's entry plug. Over at Unit 02, Asuka was also inserted. Inside their Evas, the power meter, which had been reading infinite, suddenly disappears as both entry plugs are cast into a red glow. Large red 'Warning' signs begin appearing all over the inside of the entry plugs. The countdown timer for power outage begins, the ominous red numbers reminding the pilots of the short amount of time before they die. Shinji, moving Unit 01 ahead, notices a large power cord leading to the rest of NERV. Halfway between the rest of NERV and Unit 01's cage the cord was blown apart, the two ends sparking electricity through the revealed wires.
Below the giants, the two Reis watch the Angel begin to move itself to fight the copies of its brethren.
"So... what do you plan to do now?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well, you've finally found a way out of the banished place. I suppose you'll bring the rest of us out."
"I have no regard for them any longer. I only need the creator's son."
"You're a fool."
Before the two could continue their argument, however, the Angel crashed into the wall behind them, knocking loose several large pieces of rubble. As the smoke clears and the Angel moves away, Rei looks to her right. Suddenly, she notices a wet sensation dripping down her leg. Looking down she finds her calves covered in blood. To her right was where the other Rei had been standing. Now a large piece of the wall lay next to her, blood trickling out from underneath it.
Asuka quickly moves Unit 02 to deflect the Angel's attack at Unit 01, Unit 02's progressive knife creating sparks as the blade comes into contact with the Angel's arm. Unit 01, which had been knocked against the wall, soon regains its footing in the narrow battlefield of the Eva cages. Noticing an opening, Shinji swings Unit 01's knife at the Angel's core, since both arms were occupied. The Angel, noticing the Eva moments before the charge, quickly closes its protective shell around its core, causing the progressive knife to bounce off harmlessly. The red timers inside both Eva's entry plugs had just run past the one minute mark. The Angel finishes its attack on Unit 02, leaving it bloodied and battered up against a wall, and then turns to Unit 01. The Angel's giant arms recoil towards its body, folding upon themselves, before lashing out and striking Unit 01 square in the chest. The Angel was charging up its eye beams to strike Unit 01 with until it was knocked aside and into an adjacent wall by a wild leap by Unit 02. The Angel recovered quickly from its blow and turned on Unit 02, lashing both arms out at it. Before Asuka had time to react, however, the arms were firmly implanted in Unit 02's chest. The timers read 00:30. The Angel was about to continue its assault on Unit 02 until it sensed another AT field. Turning to another part of the cages, the Angel draws its arms in in preparation for an attack. The attack came, but not in a normal sense. Unit 00, piloted by the actual Rei, came running through the corridors holding an N2 mine as if it were a football. Shinji and Asuka had just enough time to realize what she was doing to put up their AT fields before Rei tore through the Angel's AT field. Once more the Angel's core shield protected it, and Unit 00 now lay on the ground, smoking from the explosion. The N2 mine had done quite a number on the surrounds, leveling most of the still standing structures in the Eva cages and causing a large hole to be blasted through the roof. Asuka, hoping that the Angel was still distracted enough, makes a wild charge with the progressive knife. The Angel, unfortunately, sensed the AT field and turned to counter attack Unit 02. Just as Unit 02 raised its arms to drive the progressive knife down, the Angel blasted it with its eye beam, sending the Eva crashing into the opposite wall. The Angel continued its attack on Unit 02, pounding away at the armor protecting the Eva's chest. Unit 01 was in mid run to reach Unit 02 when the timer ran out, displaying 00:00 before the cockpit went dark. Shinji could still hear outside the plug, however, and soon the pounding of metal gave way to slicing through flesh. It was then that Shinji noticed the external camera link provided. The techs had placed shoulder mounted cameras after the last Angel attack in case an Angel would somehow block the Eva's vision, and the cameras ran on their own internal batteries. After only a brief glimpse at how damaged Unit 02 was, its armor was laying in pieces on the floor; Shinji began pulling on the controls inside the entry plug, hoping that somehow he could get the Eva to move.
The Angel had finally reached the entry plug inside Unit 02 and pulled it out, one of its arms wrapped tightly around the plug. In its final act against Unit 02, the Angel throws the entry plug against the wall, splintering the top half like a twig. After the plug falls to the floor, time seems to cease. No activity is made in the Eva cages as Shinji's mind slowly begins to break down, facing the fact that Asuka was most likely dead. Another minute passed before Shinji let out a scream, which was answered by the Eva re-activating. The Eva broke its mouth restraints as it joined in Shinji's scream. Leaping at the Angel, Unit 01 catches it off guard for once and manages to knock it against the wall, where it begins to beat at the Angel's face with its fists. The Angel begins to raise an arm to attack Unit 01 with, but before it can unfold Unit 01 grabs it and rips it out at the Angel's shoulder. The Eva continued its rampage as it shot its fist inside the Angel's chest before pulling down sharply, where it found the Angel's S2 engine. Grasping the orb from the inside of the Angel, Unit 01 slowly began to crush it. The Angel tried to blast Unit 01 with its eye beam, but even the Angel was startled as it was repelled by Unit 01's AT field. Eventually the Eva crushed the Angel's core, and the Angel became limp.
By this point all of the remaining NERV bridge staff had entered the Eva cages, though they were restricted to simply being on the entrance way. The bridge was shattered, preventing any further entrance to the battlefield. After Unit 01 destroyed the Angel's core it shut down again after the entry plug was ejected. Shinji quickly scrambles out of the open hatch and down his Eva before running to Unit 02's entry plug. Some of the engineering team that had survived was with the bridge staff and were able to create a rappelling line down to the floors of the Eva cages. By the time Misato, Ritsuko, Maya, and Fuyutsuki made it to Unit 02's entry plug, Shinji had pried open the hatch, which was a mere meter from where the plug had been crushed. Shinji was huddled over the entrance, obscuring the view of the NERV crew. Eventually Shinji moved out of the way and Asuka emerged, though her right temple was covered in blood. Looking up at the bridge crew, Asuka smiles and gives them the victory sign, before collapsing into Shinji's arms.
OOO
I know... a really poor, really short second to last chapter... but I need to end this, and before writer's block hits again, so please don't hate me too much! I may, after I get finished with Sacrilege and After Impact, revise these last two or three chapters, and I may even make a sequel, if I get any reviews saying that anyone would like to see a sequel... Anyway, tell me what you think, since I always like input, and watch for the end of Gendo's Desk!
"A-Asuka... I... can't... run... anymore..."
"Stop now Baka and you're as good as dead!"
The 14th Angel, continuing to destroy the core of NERV in its search, completely ignores the two children. At first, Shinji and Asuka were relieved, now; however, they seemed to be further from getting into their Evas than they were before. The debris from the Angel's attacks was now blocking the way to the stored Evas.
Inside the bridge room, Misato was frantically trying to get everyone available ready to help Asuka and Shinji to their Evas. Questions for where they had been could wait for later. Shinji and Asuka, reaching the top of the pile of debris, see their Evangelions ready for insertion with the entry plugs ejected. Asuka, taking the lead, quickly climbs the broken bridge up to the Evangelions. The bridge, which had previously connected the Evangelion holding cells with the rest of NERV, had broken off and was hanging down, luckily in reach of Asuka and Shinji. After climbing the wire grate bridge up, Shinji and Asuka enter their respective entry plugs and wait for the insertion.
Ten minutes later, Asuka and Shinji were still sitting in their ejected entry plugs, growing impatient and worried, respectively. The Angel paused its destruction for a moment and noticed the Evangelions, as well as the extremely vulnerable ejected entry plugs.
Inside the bridge room, Ritsuko and the other three bridge crew members desperately attempt to re-rout energy to the Eva cages. The Angel, on its path of destruction, had severed the main power line to the cages. So, in a desperate race against the Angel, Ritsuko and the bridge crew attempt to do what was hoped would never be done. They had the task of re- routing the rest of NERV's power supply through the secondary power couplings, a feat they weren't sure could be accomplished. The secondary couplings had a far less capacity than the main ones had, and the amount of power needed to get both Evas running was just over the maximum output. Ritsuko silently cursed Gendo for cutting back the funding for the secondary systems.
Shinji, looking up and out of the entry plug, finds himself staring at the face of the angel, its cold, empty eye holes beginning to glow with a bright light. Screaming, Shinji begins chanting his mantra in his head, 'I mustn't run away, I mustn't run away.' Then, just moments before the Angel discharged its beam at the child; the entry plug closes and spins into the Eva's spine, the Eva's armor latching itself into place. The beam, missing the Eva, instantly vaporizes the bridge leading to Unit 01's entry plug. Over at Unit 02, Asuka was also inserted. Inside their Evas, the power meter, which had been reading infinite, suddenly disappears as both entry plugs are cast into a red glow. Large red 'Warning' signs begin appearing all over the inside of the entry plugs. The countdown timer for power outage begins, the ominous red numbers reminding the pilots of the short amount of time before they die. Shinji, moving Unit 01 ahead, notices a large power cord leading to the rest of NERV. Halfway between the rest of NERV and Unit 01's cage the cord was blown apart, the two ends sparking electricity through the revealed wires.
Below the giants, the two Reis watch the Angel begin to move itself to fight the copies of its brethren.
"So... what do you plan to do now?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well, you've finally found a way out of the banished place. I suppose you'll bring the rest of us out."
"I have no regard for them any longer. I only need the creator's son."
"You're a fool."
Before the two could continue their argument, however, the Angel crashed into the wall behind them, knocking loose several large pieces of rubble. As the smoke clears and the Angel moves away, Rei looks to her right. Suddenly, she notices a wet sensation dripping down her leg. Looking down she finds her calves covered in blood. To her right was where the other Rei had been standing. Now a large piece of the wall lay next to her, blood trickling out from underneath it.
Asuka quickly moves Unit 02 to deflect the Angel's attack at Unit 01, Unit 02's progressive knife creating sparks as the blade comes into contact with the Angel's arm. Unit 01, which had been knocked against the wall, soon regains its footing in the narrow battlefield of the Eva cages. Noticing an opening, Shinji swings Unit 01's knife at the Angel's core, since both arms were occupied. The Angel, noticing the Eva moments before the charge, quickly closes its protective shell around its core, causing the progressive knife to bounce off harmlessly. The red timers inside both Eva's entry plugs had just run past the one minute mark. The Angel finishes its attack on Unit 02, leaving it bloodied and battered up against a wall, and then turns to Unit 01. The Angel's giant arms recoil towards its body, folding upon themselves, before lashing out and striking Unit 01 square in the chest. The Angel was charging up its eye beams to strike Unit 01 with until it was knocked aside and into an adjacent wall by a wild leap by Unit 02. The Angel recovered quickly from its blow and turned on Unit 02, lashing both arms out at it. Before Asuka had time to react, however, the arms were firmly implanted in Unit 02's chest. The timers read 00:30. The Angel was about to continue its assault on Unit 02 until it sensed another AT field. Turning to another part of the cages, the Angel draws its arms in in preparation for an attack. The attack came, but not in a normal sense. Unit 00, piloted by the actual Rei, came running through the corridors holding an N2 mine as if it were a football. Shinji and Asuka had just enough time to realize what she was doing to put up their AT fields before Rei tore through the Angel's AT field. Once more the Angel's core shield protected it, and Unit 00 now lay on the ground, smoking from the explosion. The N2 mine had done quite a number on the surrounds, leveling most of the still standing structures in the Eva cages and causing a large hole to be blasted through the roof. Asuka, hoping that the Angel was still distracted enough, makes a wild charge with the progressive knife. The Angel, unfortunately, sensed the AT field and turned to counter attack Unit 02. Just as Unit 02 raised its arms to drive the progressive knife down, the Angel blasted it with its eye beam, sending the Eva crashing into the opposite wall. The Angel continued its attack on Unit 02, pounding away at the armor protecting the Eva's chest. Unit 01 was in mid run to reach Unit 02 when the timer ran out, displaying 00:00 before the cockpit went dark. Shinji could still hear outside the plug, however, and soon the pounding of metal gave way to slicing through flesh. It was then that Shinji noticed the external camera link provided. The techs had placed shoulder mounted cameras after the last Angel attack in case an Angel would somehow block the Eva's vision, and the cameras ran on their own internal batteries. After only a brief glimpse at how damaged Unit 02 was, its armor was laying in pieces on the floor; Shinji began pulling on the controls inside the entry plug, hoping that somehow he could get the Eva to move.
The Angel had finally reached the entry plug inside Unit 02 and pulled it out, one of its arms wrapped tightly around the plug. In its final act against Unit 02, the Angel throws the entry plug against the wall, splintering the top half like a twig. After the plug falls to the floor, time seems to cease. No activity is made in the Eva cages as Shinji's mind slowly begins to break down, facing the fact that Asuka was most likely dead. Another minute passed before Shinji let out a scream, which was answered by the Eva re-activating. The Eva broke its mouth restraints as it joined in Shinji's scream. Leaping at the Angel, Unit 01 catches it off guard for once and manages to knock it against the wall, where it begins to beat at the Angel's face with its fists. The Angel begins to raise an arm to attack Unit 01 with, but before it can unfold Unit 01 grabs it and rips it out at the Angel's shoulder. The Eva continued its rampage as it shot its fist inside the Angel's chest before pulling down sharply, where it found the Angel's S2 engine. Grasping the orb from the inside of the Angel, Unit 01 slowly began to crush it. The Angel tried to blast Unit 01 with its eye beam, but even the Angel was startled as it was repelled by Unit 01's AT field. Eventually the Eva crushed the Angel's core, and the Angel became limp.
By this point all of the remaining NERV bridge staff had entered the Eva cages, though they were restricted to simply being on the entrance way. The bridge was shattered, preventing any further entrance to the battlefield. After Unit 01 destroyed the Angel's core it shut down again after the entry plug was ejected. Shinji quickly scrambles out of the open hatch and down his Eva before running to Unit 02's entry plug. Some of the engineering team that had survived was with the bridge staff and were able to create a rappelling line down to the floors of the Eva cages. By the time Misato, Ritsuko, Maya, and Fuyutsuki made it to Unit 02's entry plug, Shinji had pried open the hatch, which was a mere meter from where the plug had been crushed. Shinji was huddled over the entrance, obscuring the view of the NERV crew. Eventually Shinji moved out of the way and Asuka emerged, though her right temple was covered in blood. Looking up at the bridge crew, Asuka smiles and gives them the victory sign, before collapsing into Shinji's arms.
OOO
I know... a really poor, really short second to last chapter... but I need to end this, and before writer's block hits again, so please don't hate me too much! I may, after I get finished with Sacrilege and After Impact, revise these last two or three chapters, and I may even make a sequel, if I get any reviews saying that anyone would like to see a sequel... Anyway, tell me what you think, since I always like input, and watch for the end of Gendo's Desk!