Location: NERV HQ, Command Center, 5 miles under Tokyo-3
Time: 00:00:00
Date: 5th of June, 2015
Operation: Yashima
Summary of Fifth Angel Encounter:
Fifth Angel appeared above Tokyo-3, in the shape of a giant airborne blue octahedron. EVA Unit 01 was deployed above ground and instantaneously took serious damage from a high power proton particle beam. EVA Unit 01 was immediately retrieved back into NERV HQ. EVA Unit 01 pilot Shinji Ikari injured and put under medical care for the next 5 hours.
Fifth Angel, designated Ramiel, is distracted by a deployed decoy Evangelion balloon while Type-12 Automatic Cannon fires at it at long range. Ramiel takes no damage due to an unusually powerful AT field. Angel proceeds to destroy both targets. It then begins to drill the middle of Tokyo-3 in an attempt to attack NERV HQ directly, located five miles underground and protected by twenty-two layers of armor. Estimated time for Angel to break through to NERV HQ: under ten hours.
At this moment, NERV Operations Director, Captain Misato Katsuragi, suggests to attack the Angel using a Self Propelled Positron Cannon aimed by EVA Unit 01 at extreme long range from Mount Futago. Due to the Angels AT field, it would require 130 million gigawatts to penetrate the target. Plan requires using the entire power output of Japan. Permission Granted. Designated Operation Yashima.
Unit 01 is repaired and Shiniji Ikari is recovered to execute.
"This flying rubix cube is a real pain in the ass" Thought Captain Katsuragi
The Angel was, defensively and offensively speaking, almost perfect. It attacked any threat within a certain range with an immensely powerful particle beam. Hell, it almost burned straight through Unit 01 when they deployed. If the EVA was out there for three more seconds, it would have been destroyed. The beam seems to only need fifteen seconds to recharge, leaving a small window of attack, but even then, its AT field is the most powerful they've seen so far.
The plan that had the highest possible chance of success selected by the MAGI supercomputers was hers, not that that gave her a bit of confidence. They calculated an 8.7% chance of success. Remembering that just made her all the more grim.
The fact that the situation was so grim was probably the only reason that Command granted her requests, first borrowing the Self Propelled Positron Cannon from the Strategic Self Defense Force Lab, then letting her use literally all the electrical power in Japan to power it.
She could only hope that her plan would work and that Shinji will make it.
Shinji
She didn't know how the 14 year old still hadn't given up. He almost died when they retrieved him from the first encounter with Ramiel. Something that she found out herself, and that the people up in the R&D department didn't bother telling her was that because the pilot is neurologically linked to their EVA, they felt every bit of pain that their machines experienced. And they most certainly felt pain.
He's gone through so much and still stuck to being a pilot. That she was concerned about him was an understatement. She even became his guardian since he became a pilot. She felt for him. She was there when Shinji's father, Commander Ikari, who is also head of NERV, manipulated and blackmailed him emotionally in order to pilot Unit 01. She knew that it was wrong, but she also found over the next few days that Shinji is the best EVA pilot alive, achieving feats that most considered to be impossible.
"A necessary evil"
Realizing her mind was going astray, she focused on the task at hand.
"All systems are go. Power is within acceptable limits." Said one of the technicians.
"EVA Unit 01 is positioned and ready to fire" Reported another.
She replied with a curt nod and accessed the com-link with Shinji.
"Unit 01, prepare to fire in 10, begin countdown"
"9..."
"8..."
"7..."
"6.."
"5..."
Location: Inside EVA Unit 01 Pilot Capsule, Mount Futago
Time: 00:02:11
Date: 5th of June, 2015
Operation: Yashima
Shinji's mind was utterly focused on the blue target in his scopes.
He knew that he only had one chance to shoot it. If he missed, the Angel would surely fire back and obliterate him and the EVA. He also knew that because of the Earth's gravity, magnetic fields, and rotation, the beam won't fire in a straight line, making it all that harder to aim.
"Just remember your training. When the indicator converges in the center, pull the trigger."
They told him that since he had the highest sync ratio with an EVA, he was ordered to execute this plan. That this task would require exceptional precision.
They told him that while he was still in a hospital bed, after he felt, quite literally, like he had gotten impaled.
"They must be really desperate"
His attention turned back to the countdown
"4....."
"3..."
Location: Command Center, Nerv HQ
Time: 00:02:14
Date: 5th of June, 2015
Operation: Yashima
"High energy output detected in the target!" Screamed one of the technicians.
"What?!!"
"0....."
Location: Inside EVA Unit 01 Pilot Capsule, Mount Futago
Time: 00:02:17
Date: 5th of June, 2015
Operation: Yashima
The indicators overlapped and Shinji pulled the trigger.
Time slowed by as he watched the beam sail towards its target. It flew inch by tantalizing inch in its bright white glow.
Then he saw the octahedron brighten too. Then he realized what just happened.
It fired back.
He saw that the beams were about to collide with each other and braced himself for whatever was about to come next.
Then everything went white.
Location: Inside EVA Unit 01 Pilot Capsule, Unknown
Time: Unknown
Date: Unknown
Operation: Unknown
For a brief second, there was a sense of weightlessness.
Then Shinji's world was tumbling around him.
The EVA was impacting the ground at an unbelievable speed. He could hear the metal and flesh of the EVA break and tear around him as he was rolling again and again. Not that he was faring better. He was feeling every bit of it. Every cell felt like it was on fire, screaming at him. The pain was immense.
Finally, the crash halted and everything came to a rest. Shinji was still in pain, but he still had a duty to uphold, he still had lives to save.
He checked his visuals. The EVA was still functional, barely, lying on its stomach in the middle of a forest. Fortunately, the Angel was no where to be seen, so it couldn't continue firing at him
"Wait, there weren't any forests near Mount Futago. Were there?"
Alarms blared all over his cockpit, bringing his attention back to the EVA. All systems seemed to be failing, battery life depleting. The EVA wasn't going to stay online for more than two minutes.
Since the Angel was not around, he knew his only option was to shut off the EVA until the Angel or help arrived.
As he was turning it off, a new sound started beeping in his ears, one that he recognized immediately.
"The Pilot Capsule Ejection system must have been triggered on accident!"
He braced himself once more as, for all intents and purposes, the capsule was fired at extreme force, up.
Again came the sense of weightlessness, and again he crashed into the ground.
"Ugh......that hurt way too much"
Then he realized he was bleeding from the chest. Badly.
"Oh no, I have to get out of this thing if I'm gonna make. That doesn't stop it from still hurting like hell though"
With all the strength he could muster, he opened the hatch of the capsule and tried to get himself out, hanging on the edge of the opening just as he passed out.
Location: Unknown
Time: Unknown
Date: Unknown
Operation: Unknown
It was the middle of the night and Applejack was as tired as much as anypony can possibly be. She and Big Macintosh had been working hard on the apple trees for the past week now, day and night. Finally, after finishing all that work, the most that she needed was some sleep before she passed out from exhaustion.
She was about to head to bed too, but fate decided otherwise. That's when she heard a series of booms and cracks that almost shook the house to pieces. It sounded as if a full scale war was going on outside. As quick as she could, she got Big Macintosh out of his room, his expression in shock due to the noise, and calmed down Applebloom and Granny Smith. Both of whom were terrified.
"Me and Big Macintosh are going to go outside and see whats going on. I promise we're both gonna be back as soon as possible" She told them both.
Galloping out into the night with her brother, it didn't take them long to find it. It's as if a giant bulldozer rammed through half of the apple trees in a straight line, tearing up the ground where it went. The damage was humongous.
"What the hay could have cause all of this?! All our work, gone! Do you have an idea, brother?" She asked
"Nope" He replied in his all to usual way, with a worried expression on his face.
Then she spotted an unusual....thing.....where the damage ended. As she ran closer, she realized she was looking at a face.
A giant metal face.
It was purple and green in color, reminding her of Spike, but this thing was as tall as one of those skyscrapers in Manehatten. There was debris of metal and trees all over it, and nearby she saw a small pod that looked out of place from all the damage.
There was a little creature, something she's never seen before, trying to get out. But there was something familiar about it. Red. It was dying
"Oh no" She said as she sprinted towards it with all the force her hooves could muster.