Neo genezis evangelion 1. chapter 25

"Misato, when are we going to get paid?" I asked when we were driving home in the evening.

"They have to transfer it to the account tomorrow, but what?"

"Just like that..." I smiled slyly.

"You don't mean I might not pay you back?" Katsuragi narrowed her eyes suspiciously.

"Oh, no, really... I've just been thinking a little bit..."

"About what?"

"Have you seen what Ray's wearing?"

"Well, yes, but what's wrong?"

"That's it! She doesn't have anything but a school uniform, is that right? She's a girl after all, and she has to dress decently, and for that, one set won't be enough, in my opinion..."

"Look at the care!" The captain looked surprised. "What does that have to do with me?"

"And yet! You know what, Misato... Let's not repay the debt, but rather use the money to find something useful for Ayanami. Dresses, jeans, blouses, and other nonsense are all there to make her look like a normal person... You're a woman, too, after all, and it'll be easier for you to figure this out than for me."

"Hm... Okay, that's settled... Shinji, can I ask you a question?"

"Sure, go ahead. What is it?"

"And why do you need this? Okay, all these classes and the like — it can be explained by the fact that you are preparing a partner for yourself, a good idea, I want to say... But this..."

"Let's be honest, Misato," I gathered my thoughts a little. "I want to make Rey not only a partner, but also just a normal person. I'm not attracted to her as a girl, but I feel something akin to her... You know, I even think she might be my sister..."

"A sister?!" the captain was incredibly surprised. "But then why doesn't anyone know?"

"It's a dark business here, along the way... When I first saw her, I couldn't believe my eyes — she's just the spitting image of my mom, only the color of her eyes and hair is different."

"That's how? I'm sorry, I've just never seen your mother..."

"No wonder," I smiled bitterly. "She died in front of my eyes when I was four years old..."

"Sorry..." The girl said softly. "Information about your mother is closed to me..."

"You shouldn't have expected anything else", I drummed my fingers on my leg thoughtfully-I didn't understand a lot of things from fragments of my memories before, but now that I've become a pilot... As I now think, my mother also worked in the scientific department of NERV and took part in the first experiments on Evangelion piloting... My Evangelion. But something went wrong, and she just disappeared into the fucking LSL..."

"Shinji," Katsuragi interrupted me gently. "If it's hard for you to remember, it might be better..."

"No," I categorically shook my head. "I have to remember that. I... now I understand what she worked for, to protect others. She died for this, and now I have no right to let anyone down. For the safety of others, for... For the sake of Mom's memory, I'm going to be a better pilot. I will do everything for that. So that no one else has to die because of these fucking Objects A."

There was silence in the car.

Misato silently digested everything I had said to her. I was just thinking about my own words...

These are really my thoughts, but also the thoughts of a Younger one at the same time. Strange... Doesn't this mean that over time I will stop distinguishing the difference between myself and him, and we will become one single person? I don't know, I don't know, but I still don't like that outcome... But if there is no other way out... And it's not that scary, in principle — anyway, most likely, my personality will be dominant during the merger, so it really will be a merger, and not a takeover of one by another.

"I'm sorry, Shinji, but what were you saying about Rei?" Katsuragi was the first to break the silence.

It was as if I had woken up.

"What? Oh, Ray... uh... Well, when you told me that my father was her guardian, it seemed strange to me that he didn't actually take care of her. I got the impression that Ayanami is very important to him in some way, but at the same time, his father does not want to communicate with her closely..."

"And what do you think that means?"

"I have one theory..." I asked hesitantly. "Although she smacks a lot of soap opera..."

"Come on, tell me — I love soap operas", Katsuragi smiled at me encouragingly.

"Well, that's it... I think Rey is really my sister, but my stepsister. Our mother is probably the same, but our fathers are different..."

"Are you saying that your mother had an affair on the side, which resulted in Ayanami?" The captain was surprised. "I don't even know what to say to that..."

"I'm sorry, but there's no other way I can explain all these inconsistencies. Ray looks like my mother, all the data about her past has been destroyed or classified, she seems to have grown up somewhere with NERVES, communicating little with her peers and people in general... Further."

"My father is her guardian, but he takes too little care of her. Yes, he didn't take much care of me either, sending me to my uncle and aunt after my mother's death, who frankly didn't give a damn about me, but still... No, in short, I have other thoughts."

"Yes, that explains a lot..." Katsuragi drawled. "This version can really explain a lot..."

"By the way, why didn't Ray come with us?"

"And she has some special tests, but don't worry — her car will bring her home later."

Interestingly, this has nothing to do with the development of a system of automatic pseudo-pilot systems for Ev?..

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Rey's tests dragged on late today, and when she finally came to my place, I sent her to rest and sleep-studying in this state does more harm than good.

And I myself was puzzled by what I should have done a long time ago — I started making a list of future Targets, remembering their weapons and strengths, vulnerabilities and ways of destruction.

So, the first item on our list is Object A, numbered four.

I don't remember what they called him in the series anymore, but I don't know what they'll call him here yet, so I'll describe him as I remember. It looks like a gigantic pink beetle, with a large cephalothorax and a long belly, short legs folded under the body, and a core somewhere near the junction of the two parts of the body. I don't know what it will be like here yet, but it certainly won't be so ridiculous, especially with regard to color. It has the ability to fly, most likely using an AT-field cushion. The weapon is two long whip tendrils that can easily chop apart a medium-sized skyscraper. Shinji was destroyed by stabbing him in the core with a carving knife. Contrary to all expectations, the Fourth One did not explode, but remained intact and provided rich food for thought and research to Dr. Akagi and his colleagues.

And now let's return from the serial data to the current reality.

So, this nasty freak probably won't pose a serious threat — even if the original Shinji dealt with him without much trouble, then I probably won't make a mistake either. First, beat him up with the UN troops, then fire at him from the rear, and finish him off in close combat...

But there's something about it that I'm wildly interested in, namely the core, which is also known as the S2 engine or super-solenoid. In the series, Eva-01 fell into a "berserk" state and ate one of the last Objects, along with swallowing its engine, which is why she gained the ability to act without regard for the power cable. I can tell you, it's a very useful ability...

But...

This does not seem to threaten me — the "berserk" state is usually caused when the pilot falls into a state of complete helplessness or extreme stress, and I am not susceptible to this. My personal "berserk", which I fell into in my first and so far only battle, is precisely my rage and anger, and nothing more. So I need to think seriously about how to solve the power supply problem... As far as I understand, it is not possible to build something like an atomic engine into Eve, it is unlikely to increase the duration of the existing internal batteries — they are already made using the latest technology... There are still options for external wearable power, possibly in the form of a giant backpack. They probably won't put the reactor there — it will be too bulky and big anyway, and they won't give it to me — Japan doesn't need another Hiroshima or a second Chernobyl, if anything. So it's best to rely on something like a giant diesel or gas turbine engine... But the most excellent, but at the same time the most fantastic option would be to install the restored core of Object A on my Unit-01, or better yet, on the Aski, Rei, and maybe Toji Evangelions. But to do this, you need to get this very core (it would be good if not even one), and it is very desirable to be undamaged, and this can only be done in the case of relatively weak enemies... Such as, for example, the Fourth.

Carefully chop it without touching the core, or touching it, but also carefully.

Grab a carcass in a relatively undamaged state and start experimenting on it, conducting research, and you see, in half a year, a super saline will be put on my Eve. It seems that the experiments are already underway — the fourth Evangelion disappeared along with the entire laboratory during the testing of the S2 engine, in the version for Eve... It would be nice to just work out the technology again, so as not to get stuck in case of something. But at the same time, without really flaunting all this in front of ZIELE, otherwise they, such bitches, can also deliver a preemptive strike, in their best traditions. The Zielevites certainly won't want to lose their monopoly on super-solenoids for their serials...

So, as usual, I got distracted — I need to get back to our ridnyym Objects A...

So, Object A is number five.

It looks like a gigantic blue octahedron. An extremely dangerous opponent. It has a drill, a powerful AT-field and, most importantly, a super-ray cannon capable of roasting Eve at long range without the risk of being hit back. Shinji and Rei were destroyed with a positron cannon... By the way, I wonder what was meant by it? Is it a beam weapon?.. So, how do I kill him? Unclear... I hope that there will still be something adequate in the nerve cache for this fantasy positronka — a large electromagnetic cannon or a powerful laser... The latter, I think, would be the most likely — we would need to carefully probe the ground for the presence of such gizmos. In short, the only real way to destroy the Fifth is through remote combat using super-powerful weapons. Which I don't have at my disposal yet. It sucks. Something would have to be done about it, but what?

Again, a bunch of ephemeral plans built solely on the fail-safe Russian "maybe"... Okay, let's move on.

Object number six is Gagiel, and I even managed to remember his name. Attacked the UN fleet carrying Eva-02 and the Second Object, Adam, brought to an embryonic state. What exactly was the target of his attack is not known for certain. It resembles a monstrous cross between a stingray and a shark (about half a kilometer), it has sunk many ships, it is ugly. He was destroyed in the course of a completely delusional and adventurous operation, invented by Captain Katsuragi.

Eva-02, which was piloted jointly by Shinji and Asuka, engaged in battle with Object A, but failed — Gagiel simply grabbed the Evangelion attached to the ship by a power cable with his mouth and decided to play a little fisherman and a fish. When the aircraft carrier "Overthe Rainbow" (aka "Rainbow Way", aka "Ronald Ragan") dragged Object A, which grabbed Eva-02 like bait, two battleships were sunk on its way by Misato's order. Asuka and Shinji opened Gagiel's mouth and the heavy artillery ships somehow fired their bow guns underwater at that moment. Bang, and Object A was eliminated, and Eva-02 was thrown to the surface, right on the deck of an aircraft carrier.

The piano is sitting on the piano, and driving the piano, damn it... Full of fantasy and unscientific fiction... What should I do? Climb into the E-2 cabin with Asuka, too? Well, yes, there are no options, otherwise the girl will still mess up — you never know that she was trained there, after all, the first fight, and the "berserker" was never available to her. I almost lost my way with Sakiel the first time, too, so... Stop. And how to kill Gagiel? Wait until he jumps onto the deck of an aircraft carrier, climb into his mouth and pierce the core in his throat? It looks like we'll have to do exactly that... Oh, is this the malign influence of Captain Katsuragi? I also get into outright adventures... Uh-huh-huh...

So, now Object A is number seven.

A humanoid figure with some kind of sharp, bladed hands. It vaguely resembles Sakiel, only the line of arms and shoulders forms an even crescent, and has a beam weapon. The main feature is that, being divided into two parts, like an amoeba, it turns into two Objects A, the nuclei of which must be destroyed simultaneously, otherwise everything will repeat itself. Shinji and Asuka successfully failed the first attack on him, and while the enemy was being heavily bombed with N2 bombs, the Third and Second Children were training hard to achieve complete synchronicity of their actions...

How are we going to bring down this freak? If everything goes as it is, then by this time we will already have a full-fledged combat troika, and this Object A, I think, can be destroyed without any problems, and at the same time get another core...

The eighth Object is A.

It was discovered as an embryo in the crater of a volcano. It was decided to take the demon alive, for which Eva-02 was lowered into the mouth in a special heat-resistant spacesuit. During the capture, Object A suddenly began to increase in size at a hurricane pace, turning into a combat form, after which it attacked Asuka.

The heavy-duty coating of Object A, which looked like a giant stingray, was difficult to resist even a quantum knife, and to win, the Second Child used coolant from Eva's life support system in a special suit. Temperature drop, thermal expansion — Object A's armor gave way a little, and Asuka successfully finished him off. However, before his death, the ramp managed to damage the lifting system, the cables broke and Langley began to fall deep into the crater, where she would inevitably have died if not for Shinji, who selflessly rushed after her and saved Asuka.

Hmm... here, most likely, Langley will also have to be sent into battle -the heat-resistant suit is probably designed specifically for production models, and it simply won't fit our Evangelions. What are we going to equip Soryu with? There are definitely more knives, otherwise she lost her only blade in the series, so Shinji had to throw his own into the volcano. Next, take the coolant cylinders with you, so as not to spoil the life support system... Yes! And strengthen the cables, but better, better!..