"As near as we can tell, it's in Turkey," said the stewardess.
"'as near as we can tell'?" repeated Asuka.
"Except for your red bag, we definitely know where that one is," said the stewardess.
"Well, let me have it!" demanded Asuka.
"It'll be in Tokyo no later than Tuesday," said the stewardess.
"Next week?!" asked Asuka. "That's the one with all my clothing!!!"
"It's the weirdest thing, our computerized baggage service has NEVER had this problem before," said the stewardess. "We put barcode stickers on everything and it is scanned at every terminal and routing station. It's always worked perfectly before."
"Why is it going to take a week for my baggage to get to Tokyo?" asked Asuka, wondering if EuroAir's recent restructuring were at fault. She hadn't ever HEARD of this happening.
"It's currently on an oil tanker heading to Tokyo from Egypt."
"How? Why?" asked Asuka, her rage draining away as curiosity hit. "How could that happen?"
"As near as we can tell, a server crashed in Tokyo-3, some programmer named Hibiki says he found the problem, and your baggage is the only one affected," said the stewardess, bowing her head in apology.
"Well, at least I'll be in Tokyo soon," said Asuka.
Kaji watched from the bridge. Asuka was apparently back to yelling and screaming at the poor stewardess.
It had been odd, as they'd been prepared to go with a military convoy. Instead they were here on a commercial yacht with a military escort.
Unit 3, Asuka's EVA, was loaded on a military ship - but the sleek little yacht they were on could go a LOT faster if it was needed.
He glanced down at the paperwork. He was to get genetic samples of Ranma Ikari. Somehow. Well, he'd have to figure that out after meeting the guy.
"Do we have confirmation?" asked Ritsuko Akagi as the lift took her onto the NERV bridge area.
"It's kinda obvious," said Makoto as he pointed to the screen. "What else looks like a kaiju and flies slowly over Japan?"
Ritsuko glared at Makoto briefly, but had to admit he had a point. Big floating weird-looking creature going about 15kph as it flew over the coastline. If it wasn't an Angel, it was doing a pretty darn good imitation. "It. Is. Not. A. Kaiju."
"Should we get the Third Child?" asked Makoto. "Rei's not ready to pilot yet."
Ritsuko smiled. Why not ruin HIS day? "Do it."
On the screen continued the image of the Angel dubbed Shamshel.
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