Chapter 13: Evil Unto Evil

Chapter 13:
Evil Unto Evil

 

Alarms detecting hostile movement blared throughout the command center.

“That was quick,” Fuyutsuki said. “Hold! Do not engage urban combat protocols!”

“Do not shoot!” Misato added for good measure.

<<This is Trois. Unit Zero ready at Komagatake sniping post.>>

“Thanks. Proceed as planned.”

<<Please don’t shoot me,>> a voice identical to Rei Trois said.

<<IFF signal registered to Quatre’s Eva! Coming in from old Owakudani!>>

“Quatre…!”

Rei Trois heard the voices of Ayanami Rei Quatre and Hyuga in her entry plug. Eva-0.0 had shed its bulky zero-gravity and pressure-restraint armor in favor of lighter equipment. She’d packed its gamma-ray laser cannon for the mission and was now pointing the weapon north. The accuracy of the zero-gravity cannon would normally suffer under the Earth’s atmosphere, and the mechanisms were already warning Trois of the damage that might be done to the barrel. But no matter. Accuracy wasn’t a problem at this distance.

Old Owakudani was a region where volcanic steam gushed out of Mount Hakone. Vegetation was scarce in the area, and yet something appeared to be cropping out of it now. Trois zoomed in to get a better look.

“This is Trois to command. Target in sight. Our guest has arrived.”

An orange-and-black mutant Eva rose out of the ground through the tunnel network. Looking at its Angel Carrier wings, no one could tell that this chimera used to be identical to the Eva-0.0 Trois was piloting.