Neon Genesis Evangelion Fan Fiction ❯ Heaven and Hell ❯ I Hate to Say Goodbye ( Chapter 13 )

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Heaven and Hell
Revelations 1:3 - I Hate to Say Goodbye

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Heaven and Hell written by Jino Turtlegod

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Revelations 1:3 - I Hate to Say Goodbye

Asuka looked out the window and down at the clouds, at the shadows that the EVA transport cast upon the white wisps. The droning hum of the engines that persisted throughout the transport made sleep nearly impossible. She could have ridden on the more comfortable UN personnel transport but she wanted to be alone for the moment. Misato had been concerned but Asuka had been adamant.

Asuka looked out the small window, at the fighter planes that flew alongside the gigantic flying wings that carried Unit 02 and Unit 15. From where she sat, Asuka couldn't see the personnel transport that carried the technical crew for both EVAs and Unit 15's pilot.

Sighing, the auburn beauty leaned back in her seat and closed her eyes.

She wanted to forget the hurt that she left at home; a boy whose name is Shinji.

000

The Monster roared.

The Angel looked as if surprised that its enemy did not cower in fear.

But there was fear. And anger. A killing rage was in the air, as palpable as the stink of blood.

They faced off, the most ancient of adversaries.

The smell of blood. The feel of flesh ripping in clawed hands. The roar of pain, anger, and fear as each being grappled for supremacy.

In the end, Divinity was no match for the Monster's hatred.

Red... everything was red. Its coppery tang and fishy smell clung to everything...

Then --

The embracing peace of darkness.

The Monster whimpered.

"shhh... it's alright Shinji, it's alright..." Rei whispered into the boy's ear as she cradled his head wrapped in blood stained bandages.

000

"Aim for the center... Switch." A child's voice chanted almost reverently. The roar of a palette rifle echoed through the stillness. On the main screen, several small explosions dotted the surface of an Angel and the Angel was finally engulfed in a large explosion. Some distance away a new Angel reappeared only to meet a similar fate after the same chant.

Maya looked at the gigantic biomechanical monstrosity that was an EVA Series Five Mass Production Model which was based on EVA Unit 04 which had disappeared along with NERV 2nd Branch. Its immense mass was painted white with red highlights. Two eyes were set upon an armored head above a short jutting chin. The jaw binder was specifically contoured so that the teeth or fangs were still protected even if the jaw ever opens (an event that the designers hope never happens).

"Her synch ratio's down." Maya noted as she checked her data. "50 synch ratio, down by 10 from the last test."

"What do you expect? She's traumatized from the fact that she nearly died from a terrorist gas attack." Ritsuko commented from her seat in a corner, drinking coffee from a mug. Unlike the child in the monster, she knew the truth. What tried to kill them the day before was nothing man made.

Misato watched the EVA move about in the large empty room. It would suddenly jerk up the palette rifle and pull the trigger at the walls. She knew that outwardly it may be doing nothing, but to the pilot inside a complicated simulation test was ensuing. They could hear the familiar chanting of the pilot through the communication gear inside the EVA.

"Aim for the center... Switch." Yuri chanted before pulling the trigger on her control sticks. Another Angel went bye-bye. It felt harder to control the EVA, it was more sluggish, as if a barrier had been erected between her and the EVA.

"Try to run target type thirteen dash E number twenty," Ritsuko suggested. Lt. Miyuki Kata glanced up at Maya who nodded assent.

"Aim for--" Yuri stopped chanting when she saw the next target. The people in the control room looked on in interest.

"Yuri, destroy the target," Maya commanded. They watched as a graph fluctuated.

"Aim for the center..." Yuri paused longer than usual. She could feel her heart tear itself apart with the last word; "switch." Toji's EVA was pockmarked by small explosion before it disappeared in a huge explosion. Unit 20 was completely destroyed. The monitors began to break up into rainbow patterns.

"Synch ratio falling. Zero percentage reached. Auto disconnect." Lt. Miyuki commented. They could hear the child crying inside the EVA.

"Misato, I think you should talk to her. If I'm reading this right, things would start going to Hell from now on. We'll need all the pilots at peak performance." Ritsuko commented as she sipped her coffee. Misato stood facing the EVA, her arms crossed.

000

Asuka stood imperiously with her back to her precious Unit 02's face, her arms crossed as she looked out and down at the basecamp for the assault team she had been assigned to. The red beast knelt, encased in a prefabricated mobile cage.

From below came the sound of machinery and marching soldiers. The din nearly drowned out the sound of the distant artillery.

Slowly, Asuka's arms uncrossed and one of her hands lay gently upon the side of her EVA.

"It's just you and me now, Mother..." she whispered to the EVA. The young woman refused to cry.

Outside the tent reserved for pilots, Kensuke sat at a table. The pilot looked at Asuka in concern as he sealed a large, bulky envelope.

000

"Ritsuko."

Ritsuko turned to face Misato as she continued washing her hands after using the toilet. She smelled trouble and the washroom was the last place she would have chosen to have this confrontation.

"Why was Rei in the hospital? You told me she was sent to Tokyo-2 for a test!"

"I am not allowed to tell you, and neither is Rei. It would be better if you didn't know." Ritsuko dried her hands with deliberate slowness.

Misato's eyes narrowed dangerously. "These are MY children. I am not allowed not to know!"

Ritsuko calmly removed her glasses.

000

Combined Operations Command
NERV-1

Lt. Corrie Hayes sat in rapt attention at his workstation. Lt. Antoinette St. Croix kept glancing at him, wondering why the usually energetic young man seemed to be sitting still for once. What Antoinette didn't know was that Corrie had mastered taking catnaps with his eyes open.

Lt. Miyuki Kata was not on the bridge since the Commander sent her to the different Tokyo-3 hospitals to see to the vaccination of the entire city population.

Maya came up to the bridge and saw that more than half of the control officers and technicians in the theatre were dead on their feet. They were on their second straight day of work. The inoculation of the base personnel against the Twenty-First Angel had an unfortunate side-effect: almost one third of the patients tend to get high fever. Added to that were the losses incurred in the Twenty-first Incident - the First Branch was shorthanded - way below the minimum required for the full war conditions currently in effect.

"Does anyone know where Colonel Hyuga is?"

"Huh? Um, no, Doctor?" Lt. Corrie Hayes answered as he swiveled his chair around to face Maya. "I could have him paged if you want."

Maya bit her lower lip. "No. That will not be necessary."

She went back the way she came, wondering why her husband seemed to be avoiding her - dreading the possible answer.

000

A stone plunked into the lake's surface. Toji looked on as his little sister wound back and let loose another stone. They had gone to the geofront's park to unwind, away from the crowds of Tokyo-3. Yuri wore a pink jersey, shorts and sneakers. Toji wore jeans, a white tank top and black sneakers. He unconsciouly scratched his left shoulder.

"I think I should talk to her," Toji said, grunting as he stood up. Hikari looked up at him and just nodded. She knew that the brother and sister should also have time to catch up. Toji gave her his hand so that he could pull her up.

"OK. I'm sorry but I have to go now, my leave time starts at five." Hikari said smiling happily at the young man. She gently laid her left hand on Toji's chest. A simple gold band with a small diamond was on her ring finger. "I'll be gone for three days."

The two looked at each other, understanding without any more words being said. They both looked at Yuri who had her back to them. Hikari walked off, waving good bye. Toji watched her walk away with bated breath. He relaxed as he saw the shadows move - her hidden escorts.

"Yuri-chan," Toji said as he walked over to the girl. He could remember the days he had helped her do her coloring books. The days he sat by her hospital bed as she healed her wounds after the first Angel attack. He remembered that the top of her head had barely reached his chest. Now the top of her head just reached his nose. He picked a stone and made it skip several times across the lake's surface before surrendering to its depths.

The girl looked up at her big brother. Toji looked down at her, wondering what happened to the carefree little sister he knew. This girl before him had sadness and confusion in her eyes. He had often seen that expression on Shinji and that made Toji worry for his little sister. A memory (or was it a dream?) came to mind. She had finally begun to pay the price for the power to change the world. The price was her innocence.

"Toji-- Why do people kill each other?" Yuri said with sadness. "Why did people want to kill us? Aren't we the ones protecting them from the Angels?"

Toji shivered. "But we are also the ones who knock them down." He was lucky enough not to be one of the first few sent against their fellow human beings, and so far his hands were free of human blood. Asuka had the doubtful honor of being the very first pilot to shed human blood willingly. Hikari, Kensuke and several of their classmates had been chosen during the first wave of the Conscription and had fought in several battles of the War of Unification.

Yuri's lips trembled and she looked down at the ground at her feet. "If people are so bad why don't we just let the Angels do their jobs and finish us off?!"

Toji paused. He could think of several reasons why not. One of his reasons just left him to visit her family, to tell them about the decision they made. But he must make Yuri see her own reason.

"Them people that are gonna die, do they include me and Dad?"

Yuri jerked her head up. Her brother looked at her with tired old eyes that reminded her of her Grandfather.

"There are people who love you and people whom you love. If we fail in what we do, we lose them. We're soldiers, you should know that. Before you joined NERV you told me you wanted to protect people, because you didn't want any other kids to lose their grandfathers." Toji laid his right hand on his sister's head. "The only thing we can do is live and do our jobs. Let the other people worry about what's wrong with the world. That's not our job. Even though it hurts, it's the painful truth. What we're doing is making sure that the world is still there to be set right."

"Big brother..." Yuri slumped her head on Toji's chest. Toji smiled gently and sighed as he pulled her into a hug.

"Jeez, this was easier than I thought," Misato said as she leaned back on a tree and scratched the back of her head with one hand. Yuri's sobs could be heard throughout the forested park behind her.

000

"No change, huh?" Ritsuko said as she entered Shinji's room in Misato's apartment. Shinji lay on the bed, bandages wrapped around his head, his broken ribs, and around his forearms. He was still unconscious and since the secure hospital in Tokyo-3 was closed and the base infirmary was filled, it was decided that he stay at home.

Rei sat by Shinji's bedside reading a book.

"Asuka should be the one sitting here," Rei softly said, as if pained by the words she said.

"What about you?"

"I love him. But not in that way." Again the soft words, but there was no pain, just a sense of release.

"She flew to Brazil this morning, right after we cleaned up."

"She didn't say goodbye."

"Something happened between her and Shinji," Ritsuko came over and stood beside Rei. "Do you know anything about it?"

Rei shook her head slowly.

"Well, if anything good came out of this, at least you're walking again." Ritsuko walked over to the girl. She ran her hand through Rei's hair. "Rest. You're tired."

Rei looked up at the doctor. The girl noticed the discoloration on the doctor's left cheek.

Ritsuko couldn't meet Rei's eyes. "I looked up the MAGI's logs. A low-level blue pattern was detected. Everybody was too busy to notice it, so I deleted the records."

Rei nodded and stood up but her legs gave way under her. Ritsuko deftly caught her.

"T-thank you, Dr. Akagi," Rei was able to whisper before she blacked out.

000

Asuka stood on a cliff and the collar of her jacket brushed gently against her cheeks and her skirt flapped against her thighs in the wind stirred up by the aircraft that passed overhead. The Brazilian jungle stretched before her eyes off into the darkness where the lights of the temporary camp could not reach. Asuka tried not to think, but found her thoughts wandering back to the boy she left in Japan.

"Shinji..." she whispered to the darkness as tears threatened to come to her eyes.

"Well, keep standing with the lights at your back and you won't see him again."

Asuka spun around, her gun's muzzle suddenly pressed against Kensuke's combat helmet. Her eyes are narrowed. "Don't sneak up on me again."

Kensuke grinned as he pushed up his glasses with his fore and middle fingers. Kensuke wore combat fatigues, body armor, and had a rifle slung over his back. "Yes, Chief."

Asuka tapped her gun against Kensuke's helmet, pushing the boy back. "I said leave me alone."

"Well, I thought it would interest the Chief Pilot to know that she's making a target of herself with her uniform and by staying in front of the lights. I mean this angst of yours is going to get you killed. The least you can do is change to fatigues and wear body armor."

"Leave me alone." Asuka holstered her pistol and returned to her vigil. "And body armor won't stop a sniper."

A few moments of silence.

"You still here?"

"Yes, Chief."

000

Shinji stood in front of Unit 01, his hands held his shirt together as it hung like a cloak over his naked shoulders. He looked at the monstrosity with dead eyes. In his mind's eye, the events of the past day returned to him.

The battle against the Twenty-First Angel. Going to the hospital.

His confession to Asuka. Her violent and unforgiving reaction.

Then his latest act of murder... He had killed that doctor with his bare hands. He had felt a sense of release as he bludgeoned that person with his fists, clawed with his nails, crushed with his hands. He had mauled that man as a dog would a rag doll.

Shinji's eyes focused on the EVA. It had corrupted him, made him into a monster! That was the only explanation! He wasn't really a murderer! It was the EVA's fault!

Was that the reason he had been able to take advantage of the girl he... Shinji gripped his shirt tighter.

"She ran away?" Commander Santiago stepped away from the shadows.

Shinji's hands clenched even tighter as they held the collar of his shirt closed. He felt fear stir within his heart as he looked at the shadow shrouded man.

"From where I came from, when one runs away, the other must give chase."

Shinji looked mutely at his smirking Commander.

000

Col. Makoto Hyuga stood in his flight-suit in front of an EVA flying wing transport that was in the immense hangar. In his arms he held his child. He watched with a small smile on his face as Rit-chan played with his finger and made sounds that baby make. The baby cooed at him, her bright, shining black eyes watched him curiously.

"Makoto."

He turned his head at his wife's voice. "Oh, it's you." Maya was scared at the coldness in his voice. She felt small and vulnerable in the middle of the cavernous hangar.

"Makoto, is anything wrong?"

Makoto simply continued playing with his daughter.

"Makoto..."

He looked up as a siren sounded and the hangar doors began to open. "Dr. Ibuki..."

Later, Maya held her baby as the gigantic aircraft began to taxi out. Tears slid down her cheek.

000

It was almost midnight and the Children were suiting up. Thin curtains separated the lockers. Kensuke finished as he always did, a full minute before everybody else. He sat on the bench and waited for the person on the other side to finish so he could go out since his locker was last in line and was against the wall.

He watched in fascination as the silhouette on the curtain pulled up the plugsuit and pulled its long hair out of the way. It pressed the button on the left wrist and the plugsuit conformed to the perfect feminine body. Kensuke grinned to himself and shook the thoughts away from his mind. The mission should be the only thing on his mind.

"Hey, Asuka," Kensuke said to the silhouette.

"What?" Behind the curtain Asuka was folding up the clothes she had discarded.

"He likes you, you know."

For a moment Asuka froze. But she continued folding her clothes. They both knew whom Kensuke was referring to. "In a perverted sense."

They were talking in Japanese and were not overly concerned about eavesdroppers.

"He can't help it." Kensuke grinned to himself, he could almost feel Asuka blushing.

"He also likes Rei... and Misato and probably even Ritsuko! The pervert."

"Yeah. But he likes you best. And not in a perverted sense."

"What do you mean?" Asuka tensed, like an animal sensing an unseen trap.

"Gee, I saw the guy's eyes when you hugged him at the waiting room the night the rookie died." Asuka held her breath as Kensuke spoke. "His eyes lighted up as if everything was all right and could go to Hell for all he cared."

"... Shut up."

"He's close to Rei because she's someone he feels something special. What it is, I have no idea. Probably love but not as strong as he feels for you or maybe a different kind. Misato's the typical older girl that he could never have, except as a mother, older sister or teacher. Ritsuko? Well, I don't really know what's going on but I don't think there's anything to be worried about."

"And me?" Asuka almost choked on that question.

"You? Why don't you ask him?"

"Because he's a wimp and never tell me anything?"

"Really? Ever tried it?"

A moment of silence. Asuka remembered the conversation she had with Shinji after the incident in the bathroom. She also remembered his confession. Maybe, just maybe...

000

Combined Operations Command
NERV-1

There were a lot of people in control theater, most of them were not supposed to be there, but they were all anxious to see the battle. Though only a small part of their resources was devoted to monitoring the battle, it was displayed on the main monitor by order of the base commander. Santiago believed that if he didn't do it this way, the technicians would be using up their equipment to monitor the battle secretly, thus lessening the total resources devoted to watching out for Angels.

"Preliminary bombardment has begun. NERV-9's defenses are returning fire." Lt. Corrie Hayes reported. "N2 weapon to be deployed in ten minutes to be followed by second bombardment. EVA teams would then charge from their positions under the bombardment cover. "

Everyone turned towards the bridge as a baby began to cry.

"I- I'm sorry, I can't get her to stop," Maya apologized. She was a mess, her hair was tangled and her face was tear stained. Ritsuko and Misato moved to help her. Allen, Toji, and Rei watched in curiosity, all wondered if the two women even knew how to hold a baby. They didn't find out as a commanding voice stopped both women.

"Give her to me."

They all looked up in interest at the command desk. Santiago stood up and walked over to the young mother. Apprehension was painted all over Maya's face. They all held their breath as the Commander took the crying baby from the mother. He slowly rocked the little girl in his arms and whispered soothingly in the baby's ears. In a minute, the child was asleep and everyone released their breaths.

"Babies don't like it if the person carrying them is distressed," Santiago said as he continued to cradle the sleeping baby. Maya, Misato, Ritsuko, Corrie, Antoinette, Miyuki, Allen, Toji, and Rei were close enough to see the wistful look in their Commander's eyes. There was no mistaking the reminiscent tone of his voice.

"Um, Sir, I didn't know you knew how to take care of babies," Antoinette voiced the question in everybody's mind.

"I had three younger sisters," Santiago replied as he bent his head and gently kissed the top of Rit-chan's head. Those on the bridge could have sworn that they briefly saw tears in the Commander's eyes.

"Where are they now?" Allen asked in a shaky voice. For some reason, he felt a tug in his heart as he looked at the large man cradling the small baby.

The Commander froze, and the cold, emotionless mask came back on. He gently handed the baby back to Maya. "Take her somewhere quiet, this place will be very noisy in a few more minutes." He completely ignored Allen's question.

Allen felt hurt. He asked an innocent question and didn't deserve the cold shoulder. In another time, he would have felt disgusted with himself for being hurt by such a simple thing. But that was another time, when he was still under the delusion that he had grown up. Unconsciously, he looked at Misato.

`Shit!' Misato thought as Allen looked at her with puppy eyes. She knew at an instinctive level that she should comfort the child but also that she couldn't comfort him here, where she could be accused of coddling the child or of being too soft and unfit for command. Needless to say, Misato was in a dilemma.

She was about to move to the boy's side when a voice stopped her.

"Pilot Alleyn, come with me." Rei remarked as she took the boy by the hand and led him out of the theater. Misato simply thanked God (even if He wasn't listening) for Rei's budding maternal instinct.

000

"Kensuke?" Asuka and Kensuke stood inside a bunker while the technicians finished arming their EVAs. All the pilots were wearing light bullet-proof vests over their plugsuits and the second and first class pilots had weapons ready.

"Hmm?" Kensuke looked up from where he was checking his weapons - not with the drooling interest of a military fan-boy but with the detached professionalism of a trained soldier.

"Thank you," Asuka whispered from beside him.

"Wha-? Hmph, well this is a first, thanks from Lady Asuka. That means I'm going to die." Kensuke laughed lightly.

"Don't joke about that," Asuka replied seriously as she continued watching the EVAs.

"Just nervous," Kensuke slung the weapon on his back. "Besides, if they're even half as strong as the ones you fought, I'll most probably die today. I don't have your skill or Shinji's raw power. I'm not even lucky."

"Just follow me, I'll get us through this!" Asuka grinned at the boy in her usual self-confident manner.

000

"ETA in seventeen minutes," Makoto announced from the cockpit as the dark coastline came to view. He started pouring power into the large engines of the flying wing.

"Yes. Thank you, Colonel." Shinji pressed the button on his left wrist and there was a hiss as the plugsuit conformed to his body. He gritted his teeth as his suit pressed on his broken ribs. Shinji then made his way towards the entry plug. His head was still bandaged and he paused to touch them. With a determined look in his eyes, he went into the EVA.

000

"Kensuke, are you all right?" Asuka opened up a frequency to her teammate.

"A little scared though," Kensuke answered truthfully. Asuka's image on the mini-screen was calm and confident. He wished he had her guts. Years earlier he'd hacked into the files and found the lowdown on the Dummy Plug EVAs since he knew they were what he saw flying into the sky during the Eighteenth Incident. He had nightmares for several weeks afterwards.

"You'll forget that fear once we're in."

"Really?"

"Yeah. You'll be too busy staying alive."

Kensuke gave a lopsided grin. Their EVAs were on a ridge over the base and each EVA was about a kilometer apart. Their battery counters were already at the twelve minute mark. All EVAs were armed with positron cannons and lances.

"All right, listen up! Keep close to me, follow my commands, and keep your heads low! And maybe, just maybe, you'll live through this!" Asuka sent to all her team members. She had no illusions that they would. She and Kensuke were the only ones getting out alive.

"Damnit! Would they call us in already," a boy on Asuka's team whined on the open link. Beneath them, the base erupted into explosions as bombers and missile launching tanks strafed it. Earlier, the white light of an N2 explosion lit the night like day, covering the movement of the EVAs from the forward camps towards their attack positions.

"Eager to die aren't you," another pilot retorted.

"Ah, screw you," the boy replied.

"We've got red light!" A pilot yelled. Simultaneously a red light signaling ready went on in every EVA.

"GREEN, GO!" Asuka yelled as the light changed to green. From around the base, positron shells arced into the base. All the EVAs had to sludge through water logged trees before they could reach the target. Brazil and most of the South American continent had been swamped by tidal waves during Second Impact and most of the continent was submerged under twenty meters of water. Asuka was suddenly reminded of an old movie about the Second World War where these soldiers had to charge this beach where the enemy had dug in. If she remembered correctly, most of the attacking soldiers died before reaching the beach.

000

"Bandits are coming on line," Corrie shouted when his equipment read the huge power output of the dummy plug equipped EVAs. On the screen, seven red blips were surrounded by thirty-one blue blips arranged in a slowly shrinking ring. They all watched as two blue blips labeled EVA 02 and EVA 15 broke away from the ring and charged into the red circle denoting the perimeter defense of the Ninth Branch.

000

Children screamed as they died. Kensuke trailed behind Asuka as they went to destroy the EVA assigned to their team. The target had already killed two of their teammates, the other one had his EVA heavily damaged. The boy was alive but the feedback had damaged his brain. They could hear the panicked screams of Children from the other teams.

"There!" Kensuke cried out as he fired at the silver EVA. Asuka followed suit as the target back-flipped away with exploding positron shells masking its retreat.

Asuka felt nervous. The target's movements were familiar to her. But she didn't have time to think as she charged after the target into a valley made up of ruined buildings.

"Kensuke! Go up and cover me from the rooftops!" Asuka cried out as she paused in the middle of the valley. Kensuke's EVA leapt into the air and landed on the ruins of an armored building twice the height of his EVA.

Asuka looked around at the battlefield. If she had been piloting the target, this was a good place for an ambush. Lead the enemy into the valley and then charge heroically with cannon blazing from the other end. Simple, effective, and very flashy, it would surely awe Shi-- anyone she wanted to impress.

Asuka shook her head clear of unnecessary thoughts. She saw the glow of the target's eyes and she narrowed her own. It was suddenly clear why the target's movements were familiar.

Asuka roared a battle cry as she and the enemy charged each other, their cannons spitting anti-matter.

000

Juno sat cross legged on the floor of her room. Half a world away, Children like her were dying. She turned her head and looked at Yuri who was lying face down on a futon. The younger girl had knocked on their door and had asked if she could sleep over since her brother and father were working at the base for the night.

Allen, Rei and Toji were on standby. Yuri had been relieved of standby duty because Misato had thought that the child would benefit from a few days off the job.

Juno took her gun from her backpack and stared at it. She slowly stroked the cold metal.

The British girl sighed as she remembered that she had taken a human life. She closed her eyes and placed the cold barrel against her temple. She cocked the gun's hammer with her thumb. Juno took a deep breath and held it.

She pulled the trigger.

"Bang." Juno said as the hammer struck the empty chamber. Silence. Her shoulders began to shudder. Her laughter slowly became louder until they echoed throughout the small room.

"This sucks." Yuri whispered to herself.

To Be Continued

In the Next Episode of Heaven and Hell:
Rei: An observer from the shadows, unnoticed in the turmoil of fate and destiny. By his own, seemingly unimportant. But his story is a part of the whole, a thread that runs across the tapestry truths and lies. Heaven and Hell 1:4 - Weaving a Story: A Flash of Life.