Okay, Shinji was completely lost.
"You're what?" Shinji asked, wondering how doomed he was.
"Yourrr mates," purred Asuka. "Now hurry up, Shinji, we've got some adventuring to do!"
"Save the world from evil empires, I mean it's a typical RPG script," agreed Ritsuko. "We have to do some subquests and level up first though."
"Ah hah," said Shinji. "So you're not going to be angry with me for sleeping with - ?!"
"Nah, I figure most of the Rei clones will eventually find other prides to join," said Misato as she checked her guns.
"My only worry is what that bunny is doing out there," said Asuka. "We'll have to move. Once our cover is blown they'll be here to try and capture us!"
"There are several vehicles pulling up in front," announced one of the Rei calmly. As she wasn't wearing anything it was difficult to tell which one it was at the moment.
Rei Saotome growled low in her throat and her ears went flat against her head.
Rei-ojou had gone after Makoto. Rei Himura-Aoyama and Rei Light had gone after the other two bridge crew members.
She was lagging behind everyone else in one department.
"This is so unfair," Rei Saotome said as she stood atop the building.
It came from office buildings and schoolyards. It came from residences and hotels. It came from concert halls and shopping malls. In short, it came from darn near anywhere you might expect to find little nooks with some semblence of privacy.
The satisfied pleasured yowl of some catgirl getting some.
"This is so unfair," said Rei Saotome as the little singing cries and purrs echoed through the concrete canyons.
There were cats everywhere. However, these cats did not act at all like normal cats.
That apparently they were appearing out of the LCL and migrating from there had been noted by a few people and dismissed as ridiculous.
NERV was a paramilitary organization and had a good host of bureaucracy settled in over the years since its inception.
Such as having an Officer in charge of Vending Machines. Normal companies and offices would just have the vendors restock machines. NERV had to be different, one supposed.
Actually, Eric Bierschtein didn't have much problem with his current position. Having been caught in a "delicate situation" many years ago with a trip to Burger Heaven - involving a small scandal as he'd snuck away during a power grid inspection in order to not have to wait another half hour for lunch and get his burger before the crowd hit - he'd been demoted to this as punishment.
Except that his punishment duty had been quite easy until now when he had to shoo cats away from the machines and extricate one cat that had somehow gotten inside a vending machine and then gotten stuck.
"Ugh, cat hair," said Eric, frowning at the gunked up interior cogs. How was he supposed to fix this sort of thing?
"You don't like cat hair?" came a feminine voice.
Not even looking up, Eric continued to focus on his task while replying. "Not when its in these fine little gears and rollers. On a cat the hair is fine, when it requires me to strip out mechanisms and then regrease the parts - I'm not too thrilled with it."
"Ah," said the female voice. "I'm glad to hear that."
"What the heck?" Eric held up a tweezer with a clump of the offending substance. "I've never had a cat but this doesn't look right. Is cat hair supposed to fuse together like this?"
"I don't think it normally does that," admitted the woman. "Didn't you used to have a dog?"
"Yeah," answered Eric, looking for a hooked ice-pick he'd made for getting stuff out of tight areas. "Sparkplug died five years ago though. Diabetes. Haven't had the heart to replace him."
"That's right, I remember that now."
Eric blinked and tried to put the voice with someone he knew. As one of the few foreigners working in NERV Japan, he was generally ostracized from a lot of their society. Just a slightly overweight gaijin. One of those he'd spoken with over in Technical maybe? "Manya? Tech Division 2, right?"
"Call me Rika, Eric-san, we've known each other for over five years," said the girl, sounding a little exasperated.
Eric shrugged, still not looking. He figured they'd maybe exchanged two dozen words in that time, mainly concerning what kind of snacks he'd been loading. Since gaining a spare tire (he was 39 after all, and losing that particular battle) he'd started stocking healthier snacks.
"It's that difficult?" Rika asked.
"Well, yes and no," said Eric, finally turning around to address the girl. This had to have been the most conversation he'd had with anyone since his fall from grace over a double cheeseburger with grilled onions. "Huh? What's with the tail and ears?"
Rika fidgeted nervously, looking exactly like a woman in her early 30s who wasn't too self confident. "Well. It's sort of a new look for me."
"So is the diet, I guess," said Eric. "Looks good on you though."
"Th-thanks," said Rika with a hesitant smile. "Look, there's some things going on and, well -"
Eric nodded. It made sense to him now. Pretty young (relatively) thing working late shift - had a case of nervousness with all the missing personnel. "I got to work at these things, but I'll be by a little later once I fix the coffee dispensers. I'll bring you a cup then."
"Thanks!" Rika seemed less nervous and more genuinely happy with that.
Eric nodded. "No problem." Heck, maybe this meant he was finally getting accepted by the Japanese. And talking with a pretty girl was hardly something for him to dread.
Rei the Bunnygirl was on a rampage!
Well, actually she was sneaking.
Into NERV Central. Into the launch bays. Finally she was at the proper place and found a joint area.
Scritch
Sneaking slowly and creeping carefully over armor to find vulnerable areas.
Scritch
Often having to cling to armor by using her high strength to literally sinking her claws in.
Scritch
The three Evangelion units were a mix of biotechnology and armor. Their batteries were linked to electronic systems to control the massive things and supply things like life support.
They were partly biological though, and so were vulnerable.
Rei Bunny snuck off, thinking that the next angel was in for a heck of a surprise.
Sandalphon erupted from the volcano, glowing hot and able to withstand great pressures.
Slowly it oriented itself. That way.
Sandalphon burrowed into the ground again and began heading for Tokyo 3.
(Posted Sun, 02 Nov 2003 12:36)
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