"So that's the Third Child," said Fuyutsuki as Shinji ran out the door.
"Yes," said Gendo.
"Do you think he's up to this?" asked Fuyutsuki.
Gendo smirked.
"I hate it when you do that," noted Fuyutsuki.
"Yes," repeated Gendo.
"He has to be here somewhere," said Ritsuko.
"Yeah!" yelled a young boy, grabbing a cable and then Tarzan-swinging out to the Entry Plug. Unfortunately slamming INTO said Entry Plug at the end of his trip.
"I am not feeling great confidence in this," noted Misato as the boy slid down the metal.
The boy rallied though, grabbed onto handholds, and then scuttled his way up and into the hatch.
"Could be worse, he could be some self-pitying emo-boy," pointed out Ritsuko.
"Well, I suppose." Misato shrugged as the Entry Plug was inserted.
"Let's get to the bridge," said Ritsuko, already going towards the lift at a brisk pace.
"Other than gagging on the LCL when it filled the Entry Plug, no problems so far," announced Maya as Ritsuko and Misato exited the lift.
"I would like to request a fresh minty taste be added in the future," said the pilot's voice from a speaker.
"Wouldn't work, you'll get used to it," said Ritsuko, quickly looking over the displays and pulling the actually useful information out of the sea of technobabble. "Synch rate of 72%? Amazing."
"Why are we calling them 'Angels' anyway? I mean, just look at the damn thing. Reminds me of one of those 'goon' villains from an old Popeye cartoon. Or is that ceramic mask-face supposed to remind me of the old Persona games. What was that one guy?"
"You're thinking of Igor from Persona," said Makoto.
"Oh, right," said Shinji. "So why 'Angels'? You're not going to make me fight Santa Claus or something next are you?"
"If you have to fight Santa Claus, you will fight Santa... Why are we even having this conversation?" asked Ritsuko.
"And this guy doesn't even look angelic," said Shinji. "We could probably get better funding if we called them 'yoma' or 'daimon' or something like that."
"How do you know we have funding problems?" asked Misato.
"The number of unfinished corridors and loose wiring we passed while you were lost," said Shinji. "Plus I used a couple of ventilation shafts to get around, and you wouldn't believe the size of the spiders in those things. I mean these were the size of some of those Australian spiders. You might want to have those checked to make sure they aren't like those. They can be pretty poisonous."
Every eye on the bridge left the displays to look at the nearest ventilation grating with varying degrees of trepidation.
"There are no spiders..." began Ritsuko.
The universe frequently showed a sense of irony in normal circumstances. With a god of mischief involved, the chance for such things rose to nearly 100%.
Plop!
Ritsuko froze.
"SHIT!" practically screamed Misato, leaping backwards and reaching for a gun that she currently didn't have.
"AIEEEEEEEEEE!" screamed Aoba.
"AGHHHHHHH!" screamed four other bridge members.
Ritsuko twitched.
Something about the size of an adult basketball player's hand ran down her hair, along her neck, lifted the collar, and went underneath her labcoat as it was entirely too noisy.
"Giant spider?" asked Ritsuko in a little girl's voice.
Misato nodded, spreading her hands apart to show a general size, though she was off a little bit because of reaction to this little event.
Shinji glanced at the little display as screams, yells, and repeated "getitoffs" (this last in Ritsuko's voice) began issuing from the communications link.
"Uhm, can someone launch me?" asked Shinji in a reasonable voice. "I really need to fight the Angel."
There was a sudden lurch as the Evangelion was moved to the appropriate spot and then a high speed elevator shoved him surfaceward.
"Thank you," said Shinji, licking his lips and ready for his first fight in a giant robot. A few shifts of the line and he was delivered to the street.
"AGH KILLITKILLITKILLIT!" said Ritsuko.
"That's the idea," agreed Shinji. "So, what weapons do I got? Something big and flashy, or big and slashy?"
"There it is!" announced Ritsuko. "HIT IT!"
"With what?" asked Shinji as the Angel strode into view. "Hey you! What do you call yourselves anyway?"
The Angel replied by letting its eyes flash and sending an energy beam at Unit 01, knocking it off its feet.
"Okay," admitted Shinji as the little stars and squiggles in his vision faded, "that could have gone better."
"Oh for crying out loud." CRUNCH! "Shinji! Get up!"
"Got you," said Shinji, coming to his feet so he could point at the Angel. "Hey you! WHO DO YOU THINK I AM?!"
The Angel blinked.
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