Eduard worked on a computer near Gabriel, monitering the testing of Evangelion Unit-00.
"Everything appears to be functioning normally right now. Mental wavelengths appear normal. Electric currents are stable. The testing appears to be going quite well," Eduard recited. Standard procedure.
"It really is impressive, isn't it?" Eduard said to no one in particular, "The kind of technology we're testing here, it's almost unbelievable. Like, sci-fi, or something."
He shrugged and went back to monitering the test on the computer.
edited 21st May '13 7:50:13 PM by ImperialSunlight
''The eternal question of reality, it still stands today.''Arianna couldn't really remember much of her home country, understandable considering that it had been brutally destroyed by a world-wide cataclysm around the time she had been born. In a normal child's mind there would be no reason to assume that she could at anyway be held at fault for events that only happened to coincide with her birth. But sin was universal, and as mother and father had taught her stringently before they had both gone, she would be committing repentance for the evils of her time till her last breath where she would presumably reunite with them at His kingdom once more. The Italian girl nervously fingered at her dyed silver locks, the vaguest of heartbeat-like trills resounding through the LCL protectively surrounding her in time to the swishes of her index.
"... How am I checking out?" Arianna wasn't the type to ask anything impatiently. Her tone always came out to that of polite and patient, saint-like if one was inclined to descriptors of that nature. She was of course curious about the results currently being projected by the synchronization test, which she had of course taken in the past, but curiously couldn't remember much about...
The beat about her thickened slightly in that second, and Arianna closed her eyes with a relaxing sigh. She had learned that the pulses of the Evangelion were measures of synchronization, though she wasn't quite sure how she understood that. Like the beat of music that we all enjoy, it seemed almost instinctual for her to 'feel out' her Evangelion in this fashion. As she well knew how to by this point, she was able to relax and passively become 'one with the Eva', to use a cliche statement.
Silva HooooouuuuundNabiki was quiet.
Her hair, though usually messy, was even more of a tangled mess today. She quietly leaned forward on her desk, even as there was movement from students around her. She didn't like this. She rarely liked it, however. There was only one other person in her class whom she felt comfortable around, and unfortunately, the girl was several seats away. Around her were people she had never spoken to. Nabiki didn't like going to school, either. It meant she had to leave home, and without anyone who she felt comfortable around, short of that girl. Her name was Sakura, Yoshida Sakura. She was nice, and friendly, and didn't mind that Nabiki had little to talk about other then the newest volumes of Densetsu no Shoujo Konata, or the hardest quest in some RPG. But in class, Nabiki sat far away from her.
It didn't help that Nabiki had... wasted her time to sleep last night. She'd really just lost track of the time, and spent it largely playing games and watching anime. She wasn't sure how much sleep she had actually gotten, but it wasn't very much.
And now... she had to sit in class. Nabiki had to deal with being so far from her room, tired, and without being able to be near the one person in the school she felt comfortable with.
She couldn't see any way for how this day would turn out good.
"Oh, dear. The toad, the monkey, and the dog have all screwed up."Kukiko took a long and thoughtful sip at the brew that NERV had the nerve to call coffee. It would serve to fully wake her up at least. Nothing like tussling with your pet wolf in a bed to face the day with the adequate humour... of killing someone.
She eyed up the readings, letting the numbers flash and simmer. Both technicians were in a daze, explaining about how awesome was to work in NERV, and how wonderful was the tech.
"Yeah, the tech's wonderful, but you know, It's meant to be used, Liutenant." Kukiko sipped a second time. "NERV command doesn't shit money like the hen of the golden eggs of fable."
She then paused, and eyed her clock.
"Whoever made this watery stuff, better take up some lessons on actual coffee making. I would like proper coffee in a while. I have things to do, I can't afford to pamper the pilot brats right now."
And with that, she sat on a chair, and began typing on a keyboard. "Marduk said we're going to get more... recruits. I have to induct them in this fine organization." As if it was an easy task. Kukiko thought with sarcasm. Probably a bunch of hormonal teenagers with daddy issues.
edited 26th May '13 1:48:29 PM by AtomicNut
Gabe punched a few more keys on his keyboard. "Oh yeah, I'm well aware what we're doing is for the defense of humanity and not just Commander Ikari's expensive science fair project, but those... those things haven't attacked us for fifteen years now, right? But maybe hoping they'll hold off is wishful thinking..."
Taking another sip from his mug, he added, "I do agree with you on one thing, ma'am. For all our bleeding edge tech, you'd think we could get the coffee right occasionally. ...So uh, what about those new recruits? Have you heard anything about them yet?"
At the school where the four young pilots waited, a call came over the intercom. "May I have your attention please. Will the following four students please report to the office: Namikaze Kei, Izumi Nabiki, Musashi Hikaru, and Arianna Antonio. That is all."

Tokyo-3, the last line of defense for humanity after the disaster known as Second Impact. Somewhere in this city, four children await their fates as a van is dispatched to bring them back to NERV headquarters. Little do they know, they are about to face a threat not seen since the dawn of the 21st century, a threat that even now looms in the blood red sea just over the horizon…
"Okay, slowly bring her back in. Zero point five, zero point eight… yes, very good."
Gabriel Scott poured over the stream of data coming in on the monitors at his workstation, cup of coffee steaming on the desk beside him. Some might have considered his job boring, but this was exactly the kind of work he had signed up for. He was very good at it too - being here at the main NERV Tokyo branch overseeing sync tests on Unit-00, the original Evangelion prototype, was nothing short of an honor, though something still bothered him about it that he couldn't shake. It wasn't the culture shock, or some of his decidedly eccentric coworkers, or anything like that. No, he had just never really gotten used to the fact that his transfer order was apparently indefinite, and his new job was technically in tactical, not the science division. Gabe had always fantasized earning the title "Doctor" to put before his name, not "Lieutenant". Oh well, it was a technicality he had gotten used to over the past couple of months, uniform and all, and it's not like his job was all that different here. Yet.