This is my Eva; there are many like it, but this one is mine! [Closed]

[redheadcarrier.livejournal.com]

Asuka grinned. She'd been waiting for a few minutes now - this guy (whoever he was) had better show up soon! She didn't have all day, as much as she wanted someone to get her beautiful Unit 02 working again. Sure, she'd had an X-Wing to pilot and the training and all of that, but she really wanted to be able to sit in Unit 02 again, to be able to take the fight to the enemy, to get up close and personal.

She'd been born for this, after all.

She let her legs dangle - she'd already called up a simulation of the Eva and she was perched on its shoulder, about forty meters off the ground. She didn't mind the height. She was used to it. Besides, her Eva was a safe zone for her. If she could get it to run without external power, well... she'd be unstoppable. She knew that much.

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[sonofether.livejournal.com]

"Very impressive! I don't think I've ever seen anything like this before." Well, he hadn't known any Ethernauts, the ones who were most likely to produce anything remotely like an Eva.

So color him extremely impressed. Little kid in a candy store excited, almost.

"Do you want to show me what she can do, or just tell me, or do you have schematics or anything? I'm thinking something fusion powered, maybe..." Stephen would readily let himself rattle on, but he didn't want to seem too much like a mad Scientist, no matter how much the shoe might fit.

[redheadcarrier.livejournal.com]

"Of course not! It's unique!" Or so say she claimed. She settled her hands on her hips - it didn't bother her that she was essentially telling an adult what to do. She did this kind of thing all the time.

"I can show you how it moves, but I don't know much about the schematics..."

Which was true. Alas.

[sonofether.livejournal.com]

"That would be fine, I can manage with that. So, do you know what it runs on now? I doubt I need to do anything serious like rewiring..." He was looking up at the unit skeptically, brows furrowed.

"Eh, I can take some input with my goggles, and see if Stacy can give me anything via cross-reference, schematics wise." That was why he'd created the data recorder for them, anyway. And he had a pocketful of extra chips, just in case.

He slid the dark-tinted goggles down over his eyes from where he'd pushed them on his brow, and started up the data feed by pressing a button. Then he gave Asuka a nod.

"Whenever you're ready, Miss Soryu."

[redheadcarrier.livejournal.com]

"It's got an internal battery, but it usually needs an external cable to keep running for longer than five minutes..."

A flaw, but one she tended to ignore. She shrugged carelessly. "It runs off of electricity just fine though."

She tossed him a devilish grin and then trotted off. A few moments later she was back in her entry plug and the unit loomed over Tokyo-3. Stephen probably found himself observing from a distance. "Let's go!"

She kicked the unit forward, moving into an all-out sprint. For something so huge, it moved damn fast - give her a few seconds and she'd break the sound barrier.

[sonofether.livejournal.com]

Luckily for him, he had a distance viewer built into his goggles as well. It'd be just like he was there. (Really, it might be smarter to ask what he didn't build into them--well, the kitchen sink was an obvious omission.)

Stephen was fairly startled when the sonic boom hit--though in retrospect, he felt he shouldn't have been, but he still jumped. The data was scrolling through his goggles' display screen, and he was very glad that he had that handful of chips to prevent a break in the recording.

He could understand perfectly, however, why Asuka was in the market for a new power source. That unit had to drain an incredible amount of energy to do what it did, and Stephen got the impression that this was the low end of the light show, so to speak.

[redheadcarrier.livejournal.com]

Asuka put it through a few more paces, slowing to a jog as she vaulted over a set of power lines. The ground shook, deforming beneath the massive feet as she landed in a crouch.

"Alright! Stacy, give me some targets!" Her voice was an arrogant sing-song as a squadron of attack helicopters popped into existence and immediately started to buzz the giant red machine. With a thought, her Eva's rifle was in her amrs. She raised it and squeezed off a burst, firing massive shells at the incoming helicopters. One of them exploded into a fireball, while the others opened fire with their own missiles and cannon.

The projectiles never hit their target. With a smirk, Asuka watched as the barrage simply exploded on her AT field. Glowing circles spread out from the point of impact, surrounding the AT field in a nimbus of light.

Piece of cake.

_{[[OOC: See also: this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtjJe4elifI&feature=related) starting from about 1:30. ]]}

[sonofether.livejournal.com]

You could definitely color Stephen impressed, that was certain.

"I'm--well!" Speechless was also good, right? Though it might be unlikely that Asuka could actually hear him where he was.

Still, he had an incredible amount of data to process. This was a good thing. But he definitely still wanted to get Asuka's input as to anything else he might need to know, and what she might want done to her machine.

After all, he was VERY used to people and their "babies". He was the only one who could touch his best friend's car, back home, after all.

[redheadcarrier.livejournal.com]

Asuka brought the Eva back around. It took her a moment to find Stephen in the virtual expanse of Tokyo-3, but after she'd brought it to a halt, she left the projection fade. She dusted herself off, looking quite pleased with herself. She just wished it had been real instead of a simulation.

"Pretty impressive, huh? And that's only a taste of what I can do once I get going!"

Arrogance dripped from her voice. She cocked her hip and settled her hand against grinning, "Think you can do something about it? We couldn't make a generator small enough back home, but here..."

[sonofether.livejournal.com]

"Oh, definitely, I can do something about that." Arrogant wasn't precisely the word for Stephen's countenance. Confident on the other hand, definitely was.

"So, I'd still like your opinions. How small do you want the energy source?" He'd really need to get his paws on some schematics, but he was hoping Stacy would provide that. "I assume you want as much power as I can theoretically have it pour out with your unit's capability to take it?"

Dangerous ground, Stephen, watch where you tread!

[redheadcarrier.livejournal.com]

"Well, I want it to be mobile!" Asuka exclaimed, "No more of this power cable crap."

She called up a three-dimensional image of the Eva and it's usual power source. She jabbed a finger at the trailing cable and traced it up to the power slots high on the back of the monstrous machine. "It can jack in there, I guess. Maybe jettisonable if there's an emergency or something. I think it's doable. In theory."

[sonofether.livejournal.com]

"So you want it to plug in there instead of a cable? Does it have an internal battery or somesuch, then?" He'd left the goggles on (ostensibly so he could see) but by the expression on his face, the wheels were already turning.

"Jettisonable if necessary. Hm. Yes, I can definitely come up with something, I think. I'd like to see the actual unit, but I'll enter some data into my omnicomm and get to work. I plan to make a prototype to be certain it can interface properly, and not damage your unit." Because Stephen was a careful sort of fellow.

"You don't mind if I make records of the power source I build and leave them on file in Engineering, do you?"

[redheadcarrier.livejournal.com]

"I think it'd be the simplest way to do it. Otherwise we're going to have to crack it open ad I really don't want to do that to my beautiful Unit Two." She shrugged carelessly, still eying the hovering image. "And yeah, of course it has an internal battery! Gives me five minutes of emergency power when the exterior cable fails."

She finally glanced at him with another shrug, "Oh, you might as well go ahead and leave the schematics..."

[sonofether.livejournal.com]

"I'd prefer to be as inobtrusive as possible myself, truth be told." Stephen figured he could eye the Eva unit's schematics, which would reveal enough to him, and then he wouldn't have to dig around in the actual machine. He at least tried to have some respect.

Not that it always happened that way.

"Well. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to help you out, Miss Soryu. I'll get right to work on looking up the schematics, and as soon as I have the prototype ready for you--give me a week, maybe? I'll be in touch. If some problem comes up, I'll be sure to contact you."

Though he really didn't expect the latter to happen, Stephen was just expressing professional courtesy.