Neo genezis evangelion 1-6

"Misato, what's wrong with my weapon?" I asked abruptly.

"You only have a quantum knife in your left shoulder pad," the response was not very pleasant. "The city's defensive systems haven't been turned on yet, so you can only rely on yourself."

"That's the thing," I muttered.

One time, and the tall, thin shoulder pad opens like an envelope. Two — and the rough handle of a quantum knife peeks out of it. I snatch it out, feeling it come out of the soft clamps. Intercepting it with a reverse grip with my right hand, slightly pressing it to my body, I put my left hand slightly forward. Of course, I have never mastered knife fighting skills. But I've read a lot of books on the subject and intuition makes things happen...

At least, that's what I want to believe.

...I'm taking my first step in Evangelion.

Boom! Out of the corner of my eye, I notice a glass phone booth shattering from the shaking of the earth. Walking turns out to be not so difficult... With small steps, trying not to get tangled in the power cable, I carefully try to get around Object A. Suddenly, he is enveloped in a familiar golden glow, abruptly soars into the air and lands right in front of me.

Healthy bastard. I'm not used to people above me...

The angel swings his left arm, intending to grab my head.

Yeah, right now...

"Barra!" the cry of the Roman legionaries turns out to be very useful.

With the right, deflect the blow to the side, and with the left, from the turn, hit the opponent's torso... The main thing is not to damage the power cable...

The beast is strong!.. I barely blocked his blow, but mine landed right on target — Object A is slightly staggering. Suddenly, I see that his arms are literally starting to swell. Damn, he's building up his muscles...

There's a lightning rush, and my left arm feels like it's being squeezed in a vice. The pain overwhelms my head. I think I can even hear my own bones cracking...

damn! I growl through my teeth and stab him sharply with my knife. shirrh. And the Object A right claw falls with a crash, severed at the wrist. I am turned around by inertia and carried past the opponent. Immediately, I feel something grabbing me by the head, Eva's legs lift off the ground — I'm hanging in the air. Now I understand how people feel when guns are pointed at them. The Objact A beamer, hidden in his palm, is pointed directly at my face. I just raise my arms to free myself from the grip... Just one stab and I'm free...

Blow! It gets dark in my eyes, a sharp pain pierces my head, and there is a ringing in my ears...

Blow! Spots of light dance in my eyes... A trickle of blood runs down his forehead... My forehead, my Eve's forehead-I don't know, and it doesn't matter...

Mom, it hurts...

Blow!..

...A crack in the head armor!

The defense won't hold up now!

The pain fills my whole body, and I can't stand it.

I scream, not hearing my own scream...

Gradually, it turns into an unintelligible growl. Infinitely distant voices are heard somewhere on the outskirts of consciousness...

"...Nerve connections are tearing apart one by one!"

"Shinji!"

"The connection is lost!.."

Hit.

I'm thrown aside.

The darkness envelops me... It's like I'm hearing voices from somewhere in another universe.

"Head injury! The degree is unknown!" A woman's voice.

"The pilot's condition?" Dr. Akagi.

"Out of sync, nerve impulses are disordered!" A man's voice.

"Block the chains!" Dr. Akagi.

"Impossible, the signal is not getting through!" A woman's voice.

"What's with Shinji?" Misato.

"We can't say anything! Strong interference in the channel is an AT-field!.." another male voice.

"Eva-01 is not responding to our commands!" A woman's voice.

"This is the end... Cancel the operation! Saving the pilot! Forced ejection!" Misato.

"Impossible! There is no control at all!" A woman's voice.

"Damn it!" Misato.

It hurts, it hurts me so much... Darkness and pain... Scary, scary, someone help me, please...

Shinji, Misato, Ritsuko, Gendo...

I'm sorry, for God's sake, I'm sorry... I shouldn't have bent my fingers and walked around like an omnipotent know-it-all... I shouldn't have pushed a barrel at Shinji, I'm no better than him... Oh, I've let you guys down, and there's no hope for any "berserker"— Shinji's mother won't help me...

A wave of warmth and peace, like a light summer breeze... Someone's light, childlike hand on my shoulder...

"Hold on!"

"Hold on?.."

"Hold on, we believe in you!"

"I shouldn't have. I'm just another loser dreamer, yes I am, yes with my knowledge... A lot of honor, but a complete lack of strength and will..."

"Not true."

"Truth..."

"It's not true, we need you."

..I feel like I'm literally starting to shake with anger. I don't know why, it's just that this invisible wave rolls over me and overwhelms me.

I'm needed here for some reason.

For some reason, I was needed in my reality.

But to find out what I have to live for, and for that...

I have to kill Object A.

...I open my eyes.

I'm getting up from the rubble of a high-rise building that I destroyed in the fall.

Object A is moving towards me-I've been out for quite a bit... Blood runs down his forehead, flooding his eyes. But is it me who's injured, or is my Eva damaged? It doesn't matter... The knife! Where's my knife?

Eve is moving!

Impossible... What's going on?! What is it?.. I'll rip this thing apart with my bare hands.

"Come here, you freak..." I croak. "I'm going to rip out your heart..."

Jump, I put all my strength and Eva's weight into the kick with my right foot. N-on!

Object A literally flies dozens of meters away from me, demolishing all buildings and structures in its path.

"Come here..."

I've never wanted to kill someone, and not just kill them, but tear them apart, smear them on the wall... "Berserk"? Oh, yes! This state can also be called "berserk", except that I did not feel blinding and insane rage. On the contrary, I was icily calm-it was as if someone had lit a scorching cold fire inside me...

The angel started to get to his feet. As I noticed, he had already managed to regenerate his right hand, and he had two beamers at his disposal again...

Let's just see how much they will help him...

Take off, and the Eva-01 rushes forward.

I've always hated running, and I didn't know how to run, but now it was so easy and enjoyable... Step, step, step. Run, feeling the asphalt crumble under your feet. Hey, you beast! I'm on my way to you!..

The angel throws up his claws with lightning speed, and some kind of radiance begins to flare up around them...

At the limit of flexibility of my armored body, I dive under the possible ray path, crouching as low as possible. Two streams of fire brush casually across Eva's back, and some kind of alarm sounds in her head.

The countdown numbers start flashing in front of my eyes — 5:00, 4:58...

Fuck! The cable is damaged! Now I have only five minutes for active actions... At the right pace, at the right pace, Vitya...

I straighten up like a spring, striking from the bottom up. The opponent flies to the side, receiving a crushing uppercut right to the skull. I rush to him to finish him off, but the Angel is already on his feet and raising his claws again. After a moment, they are enveloped in a golden glow, and I stumble upon some kind of invisible, but extremely strong barrier.

"This is an AT-field! As long as Object A supports the AT-field..."

"...Eve won't be able to get to him!"

Can't I get to that thing? Fuck you guessed it!

In a rage, I hit the invisible barrier, as if I were clutching it with both hands.

To me... need... to break through it... AT-field, you say? What about the antiphase wave, motherfucker?..

"Eva-01 also sets the AT-field! It neutralizes the Angel's field!"

"No... It's destroying him!"

"The force of action is equal to the force of reaction... O-on!"

The resistance disappeared, I was thrown forward by inertia, and I found myself right next to the Object A. He tried to grab me with his claws again, but I was already ready.

Kick the left paw to the side, and grab the right one. One, and Object A's limb crunches in my hands-I'm drenched in the dark blue blood of a monster. The angel raises his undamaged left claw again, trying to grab me, but I intercept it and break it too.

For symmetry.

Step back, kick with a roundhouse kick. The enemy, leaving a real gap in the buildings, flies away from me. However!.. And I always thought that all these bouncers were just showing off... Although this may be the case if your opponent has no idea about hand-to-hand combat.

The enemy is lying down and for some reason is in no hurry to get up again. Did it get to you, creature?..

I seem to have almost calmed down, but then a new attack of anger and thirst for murder hits me.

I jump straight at Object A, feeling the creature's bones break under Evangelion's feet, and blue blood sprays in all directions. Punch, punch, punch. I beat with my hands, trying to break the core of Object A — it is in it that his death and life are contained.

It's solid, damn it... And if you try the field?..

From the depths of memory, it seems, comes the knowledge of what needs to be done. It's not my knowledge-it's someone else's, alien.

I'm trying to form an enhanced field around my right hand. It's hard, damn it! It's about to disintegrate, you have to constantly monitor it... So, it seems to have stabilized... How do I do it? I don't know, ask for something easier...

Blow! The new tactic turns out to be good, but the accuracy is not very good — I miss the core. But it turned out well enough — the impact site on the body of Object A literally explodes with fragments of flesh and fountains of dark blue blood. Another blow and the strange skull on the freak's chest shatters.

Misato and the others are shouting something, but I'm no longer paying attention to them, I'm getting excited.

So, what if we try to stretch the field in space and hit the Object with it?..

I spread my arms wide to the side, and then, as if with an effort, I push something forward from myself, bringing them together.

Not bad... The angel flies to the side, he is dragged along the asphalt. Real rivers of dark blue blood are gushing from the torn back.

So, stop having fun — you need to complete the task, and not mess around and smash the city to pieces...

I aim to deliver a control blow, but suddenly the Angel rises from the ground with a sharp jerk and rushes straight at me like lightning.

...I admit, I was even taken aback by this, because in the heat of battle I forgot exactly HOW the Third Angel was eliminated...

More precisely, no one eliminated him — he somehow managed it on his own, a freaking kamikaze. But I don't have any desire to set off an explosion in the very center of the city.

Object A swoops with its entire rather large body onto the previously exposed AT-field and tries to push through it in order to get to my Eve. Strong, contagious — I'm just holding him on the edge of my strength, because I have to, I have to, I have to...

Gritting my teeth, I throw the opponent away, putting everything at my disposal into the AT-field blow — Evangelion's physical strength, my will and desire to live, my fear and rage...

N-on!.. The angel is thrown aside, and he demolishes several more huge buildings — damn it, we're going to destroy the whole city like this... The creature was dragged through the rubble of buildings, literally tearing apart; a core dimly flickered in the torn chest. Wow, the object А is soft... Apparently, when he tried to attack me and envelop me with his own body in order to enhance the power of the explosion, his structure was rebuilt into a more plastic one, but he did not have time to return to his original form...

I jump right up to him — I wish I could devour this angel generator and no longer bother with the power cable, but I can't even imagine how to do it... With my hands, I tear apart the flexible and malleable body of Object A, trying to pull out a large red core from it — I think it's fraught to hit it, but perhaps it's possible to pull it out... What time is it? Damn, it's only forty seconds!.. Faster, faster...

Suddenly, almost torn out of the body of Object A, the core began to shine with a dull crimson light — did the self-destruct system really start?! What should I do?! Well, well, it seems that the power of my AT-field should be enough to keep the explosion within a small space... I'm trying to form a hemisphere in my hands, cover the enemy, if only I could make it, if only the batteries wouldn't run out... I didn't have time.

A powerful explosion that flashed right in front of me, accompanied by the brightest flash, threw me into the air, scorching my entire body with unbearable heat. The last thing I remember, apart from a few seconds of flying, is hitting something big with my back and losing consciousness...

Chapter 3. The unfamiliar ceiling.

Silence.

I toss and turn restlessly after waking up.

...Damn, what a dream I had!.. The plot just swings — it's like I got into the anime "Evangelion", into the body of the main character, and even fought with a giant alien robot... And he won after all! I've rarely had such beautiful and interesting dreams... Okay, it's time to wake up, so as not to be late for practice...

I open my eyes. I realize that I'm lying on a hard bed...

Not on my bed.

A pungent hospital smell hits my nose. Recent memories flash through my mind — a minibus, a jeep on the wrong side, a blow... Am I in the hospital after the accident? How long have I been here, I wonder? Although... Why are there hieroglyphs everywhere, and why do I understand them? Here, for example, is the "exit"...

Damn, it wasn't a dream! What on earth is this!.. I look up at the sky in desperation... "An unfamiliar ceiling", I think, and I start giggling hysterically.

I guess I'm already one hundred percent Shinji, even if I'm starting to think like him. Oh, damn it!.. My body aches all over...

Still laughing like a madman, I lift myself up heavily and sit up on the bed. My whole body aches, as if after a good workout, my forehead is bandaged, and I'm wearing a hospital gown instead of my usual clothes.

"Okay, it's not like it's all a dream, but", I tell myself emphatically. "I am me. And I'm going to do something else that will make all these objects and demons feel hot... And I'm not going to register in the infirmary! I hate hospitals!"

I carefully lower my bare feet to the cool floor, walk over to the door, open it, and step out into the hallway.