Recollection slowly returned: Coming to Japan to see her mother, stupidly agreeing to pilot a giant robot to prove herself in the eyes of her estranged parent, the robots cockpit turning out to be a tentaclepit and getting her brains screwed out of her body and into the robot. The last part had made her a bit angry and she had vented some of her frustration on a handy punching bag in the form of a giant monster. She had ignored the voice of the wannabe F-1 driver trying to tell her how to defeat the angel in a fast and efficient way.
As if Asuka had wanted to make things quick for that stupid monster. In retrospect she should perhaps not have drawn the dismemberment out that much no matter how therapeutic it had been. If she had not wasted so much time on the angel she would have been able to reach her primary objective. She had run out of power before she could climb back down into the geofront and crush Dr. Akagi.
"Stupid extension cords," she said out loud, "what sort of genius would build fighting machine that is completely useless without being plugged in?"
"The Evangelion's reliance on external power supplies is indeed a weakness." A voice admitted.
Asuka turned her head. Next to her hospital bed stood a strangely familiar looking girl. She had blue hair and must have been about Asuka's age. Judging by the flimsy hospital gown she was wearing she must have been a fellow patient.
"Who are you?" Asuka demanded harshly.
"My name is Rei Ayanami, I am the first children and Pilot of Evangelion Unit-00," the stranger introduced herself.
"You are the one who was originally supposed to fight that monster," Asuka realized.
Rei nodded
"You don't look very hurt," Asuka added some what suspiciously.
"I heal very fast," Rei explained, "I am sorry you had to go in my stead."
Asuka calmed down. The girl seemed honestly sorry. Asuka realized that if Rei was the original pilot she must now exactly what the synchronization process entailed and have gone through it many times.
"It is ok," Asuka said more softly, "It wasn't your fault that you could not go or that I was stupid enough to volunteer."
"The Synchronization process can be physically very taxing and the LCL does not completely protect from the force of impacts during a battle," Rei said changing the topic, "Are you feeling all right?"
Asuka wanted to say that she was fine, but in truth she felt like she had just run a marathon and went to rest afterwards in a washing machine. She must be bruised and sore all over her body and especially where she had been stimulated by the tentacles. Where she had been violated by the tentacles — violated and forced to enjoy it.
"I feel dirty," Asuka admitted despondently.
"The nurses were supposed to fully clean you when you were brought in by the recovery team, but they often are not as throughout as they should be for fear of coming in contact with LCL residue. They have been reluctant to risk exposure since several of them experienced some of its side effects after an incomplete decontamination," Rei explained.
There was still some of this slutmaker-snot on her?
"I am going to shower," Asuka announced hurriedly.
She got out of her hospital bed and would have collapsed when her legs buckled beneath her if Rei had not caught her.
"You are still to weakened from your ordeal to move around on your own," Rei declared as she eased Asuka back into her bed, "I will help you if you wish."
Rei made to get a sponge and wash rag and Asuka realized that she planned to wash her in her bed. Asuka was grateful, but not about to be further humiliated. A girl had to know when to make her stand. She could not just allow herself to be treated like an invalid.
She had only been fucked very energetically and bumped around a bit not been run over by a car.
"Just help me to the showers," she told Rei.
The girl looked at her skeptically for a moment before putting away the things she had gathered and came to her to lead her to the bathroom.
With her arm over Rei's shoulder Asuka managed to stumble to the bath. Taking hold of a convenient support bar she stripped of her hospital gown. Rei made to fold out a shower seat, but Asuka shook her head. She was going to stand.
As she tried to figure out how to best shower with only one free arm and rather unsteady legs Rei took hold of her free hand and placed it on another support rail.
"Just hold tight," she told her, "I will wash you."
"Why are you doing all this for me?" Asuka wanted to know.
"Because you piloted in my stead," Rei explained, "If I had been able to fulfill my purpose you would not be in this position. I owe you."
Rei stripped of her own hospital gown and turned on the water.
"Aren't you afraid of the LCL like the nurses?" Asuka wondered.
"I have been exposed to LCL often enough before and have learned to deal with the reactions it evokes," Rei assured her.
Asuka lacked that experience and the LCL must still have had some effect on her since Rei's touch conjured up feelings that clearly could not have come from herself.
True she liked the girl and was grateful for her help and she had to admit that the blue-haired pilot had a beautiful body, but that would normally not have been enough to make Asuka feel attracted to her. Asuka was reasonably sure that she was almost completely heterosexual and not in the habit of lusting after other girls. Even if they did look as exotically alluring and sexy as the pale beauty currently working on her naked body.
If Rei had decided to ravish her right now Asuka would have found herself hard pressed to resist and prevent the red-eyed girl from having her way with her.
Just how good was Rei's self-control if she really did get some of the LCL gunk on her?
Asuka did not know whether to feel relieved or disappointed that Rei stayed clinical and efficient in her attentions.
To cover over her own conflicting emotions Asuka tried to make some small talk on the first topic that came to mind.
"Is it always that bad to synchronize with an Eva?" she asked, "If I am this sore and exhausted after such a short time of piloting what happens if you stay in that thing for long term deployments."
"Piloting an Evangelion unit is indeed a strenuous activity taxing the body as much as the mind," Rei admitted, "I have been undergoing an intense ongoing training program to allow me to endure it for as long as I can. It is exceptional that you managed as well as you did on your first synchronization."
"I didn't do anything." Asuka found herself telling her, "I could not do anything. I was bound and completely helpless. I could not stop anything it did to me. I could not even stop myself from enjoying having it done to me!"
Asuka found herself hugged by Rei and pressed against her naked body. In her susceptible state the simple gesture had a profound impact on her.
"Don't blame yourself for that," Rei told her, "nobody could have resisted, but few of those who can synch with an Eva could have helped themselves from succumbing and loosing themselves in the pleasure. You managed to hold onto yourself and you should feel proud of yourself for that."
What happened with those who lost themselves in the pleasure? Had her mother know the risks she asked her daughter to take? Had that perhaps even been the source of Rei's incapacitation and why they did not have as many backup pilots on hand?
"How many have managed to successfully synch with an Eva? How many pilots does NERV have, Rei?" Asuka asked.
"You are the Second Children, Asuka. If you are to remain than NERV will have two pilots," Rei answered.
Asuka shivered. Her a pilot? Did they expect her to go through this procedure again? Could Asuka make herself go through it again? Could she leave Rei to face the Eva, the Angels and the perverted NERV scientists by herself?
While Asuka wondered about the future Rei silently continued washing her.
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