[center][b]Episode 01[/b][/center]
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It had been two days since Shinji’s battle with the angel, and Misato Katsuragi was sat at her desk fiddling with the small cross around her neck while she skimmed though the pictures from the aftermath of the battle with the angel on her computer. The centre of the city had been almost totally destroyed, and in addition to the cost in material there was also Shinji…the boy had fallen into a coma after almost dying to the angel and showed no signs of waking up any time soon and although she had had no choice, but to force him to pilot she still felt guilty about what happened to him.
Misato clenched her fist, although he had need to pilot the Eva, she still felt bad for forcing him into it, but there was no use worrying now what was done was done. Although after the incident with Shinji the UN had panicked and were now sending six new Eva units to Japan…she wondered if Asuka from the German branch would be among them.
As she began thinking what the new pilots would be like there was a knock at the door to her office.
“Come in.”
The door slid open and Ritsuko Akagi walked in holding a large set of files under her arm. Misato quickly shut off her computer and looked up to face the blonde woman.
“Oh hey Rits, what you got there?”
The blonde woman smiled and dropped the stack of papers onto Misato’s desk.
“These are the files for the new Eva pilots, quite a varied bunch of individuals I must say.”
Misato quickly skimmed through the files, there were Americans, British, a Canadian and what was most surprising was that there was an Indian girl.
“Well I’ll leave you to read through them in preparation for them arriving tomorrow, I tell you it’s been hell fixing up this place to accommodate an additional six Eva’s bye.”
And with that Ritsuko was gone leaving Misato to read over the files for the new children. She signed, it was going to be a pain to deal with six teenagers...she needed help…hmm she considered asking Byron Hughes, he was an S2 guy who had transferred to Tokyo3 recently, but apparently he had experience with this sort of thing.
She checked her watch, it was almost midnight and she had a long day tomorrow…she'd read the rest of the files at home before she went to bed.
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Joshua Mercia held his bag with his left hand and ate an apple with his right as he walked into the main Nerv building, he had left England yesterday then had been flown to Tokyo2 to be picked up by JSSDF troops and then was driven to Tokyo3 and handed over to Nerv personnel and finally was dropped off in what looked like the reception area of the Nerv base.
The Nerv personal who had guided him thus far had left a moment ago and has told him to sit down on one of the many chairs and wait for Captain Katsuragi and the other pilots and everything would be explained then. Joshua shrugged after standing idle for a few moments and decided to take a seat; the place was almost empty apart from a few guards and scientists walking about.
He noticed the city had also been deserted…he wasn't surprised though who would want to stay here after the angel attack? Leaning back in his chair he decided to take open his small duffel bag and take out a book to read while waiting, he settled on Paradise lost and began reading from where he last left off, he sighed he hoped he didn't have to wait too long. He was anxious to get started, unit 05 was due to arrive here in a few hours, it had almost finished its long journey across Russia and was now being flown to Tokyo3.
Joshua sighed again…he hoped Japan wouldn't be too boring.