GENTLE GRACE AND MOVEMENT

Asuka took in a deep breath as she walked into the gymnastic floor she felt so out of place here it was like being in another place entirely. In all the nine years she'd been here she'd never gone near this floor and it wasn't helping that the Nerv staff were all looking at her. Like didn't they have anything better to do with their time than stare at her?

She looked up seeing the high bar and the many gym mats. She could see the curved glass at the far end that led out onto a balcony where people could sit and eat, there was one on the opposite side it was the same on every single level. While down at the very bottom was the huge sub-tropical swimming pool below with its flumes, wave machines and cocktail bars.

On both sides were the glass spa and hot tub sections which were on both sides and interlinked to every part of the vast gym so you could visit the spa areas from any section of the gym while a huge section of spa made up three to off the floors.

She put her gym bag down fiddling with her new red gym sleeveless top and sports bra along with silk trousers as her bare feet pressed in to the floor, she turned as Rei ran in behind her wearing a thick tight gymnastic top which was black and body hugging pants in the same colour.

She put a hand on her face groaning inwardly, this was going to be like mental torture she loved this woman's one-piece black swim wear but this was on a whole other level of sexual that was going to kick her in the lowers, why did she ever agree to this? Oh that's right because she couldn't vocalize the word "no" when Rei asked her to do something.

Rei moved over seeing that Asuka's good eye was on her for a very long lingering moment before she forced it upwards to look at the bar. "Oh don't worry we won't be trying that, maybe when you get more advanced." She caught sight of the gathering Nerv staff watching them through the glass above with great interest.

That was getting to be a habit in that whenever she dragged Asuka somewhere new they wanted a front row seat, her brother never had this issue with Kaworu him and his lover could go anywhere and be mostly ignored but she and Asuka just never got that.

She could only assume it was because it was Asuka she was dragging around and people were still trying to wrap their heads around their relationship and how it even worked and of course they wanted to know who was in control even though it wasn't either of them as it didn't work that way.

She moved over picking up two of the dancing ribbons she had one of these hanging in the wreck room but it was a trophy hence why it was on display and not used. She eased up the ribbon which was red; she'd asked the gym to put one out for her. "We are going to do dancing with ribbons." Asuka took the ribbon from her hand. "Okay…"

Rei eased up her blue one. "The idea is to get this flowing as you move your feet." She paused. "We'll start simple I just want you to copy me." Asuka blinked suddenly starting to feel nervous. "I'm not so sure this is such great idea I'm not that good at dancing." Rei raised an eyebrow as she came to stand next to her. "I remember you being a really good dancer back when we were younger in the Tokyo Three night clubs."

Asuka looked at her for a long moment. "Yeah that's because I was drunk." Rei felt a smile form as she took hold of her hand rotating it watching as the ribbon started to spin it. "The point is to be loose and gently and I know you can be very gentle.” She eyed the flowing ribbon. "That's why I know you'll be good of this."

Asuka took in a deep breath ignoring the warm sensation in her left eye wishing she could stop it because that meant it was glowing. "You have so much faith." Rei moved over as she started to spin her own ribbon opposite. "Stand wider Asuka like me." She watched as the red head shifted copying her. "Just keep the ribbon in motion."

She paused. "Do you remember that time Shinji and Kaworu danced in really perfect sync, you know for that Nerv dance competition?" Asuka turned watching her trying to get her pose and movements right. "Yes I remember." She breathed in deeply. "I tried out with Shinji and I really screwed it up because I just got frustrated and angry and kept missing the moves because I just couldn't keep sync, hence why he went with Kaworu."

Rei looked up. "You know maybe it wasn't so much you screwing up have you considered that maybe you just had the wrong dance partner?" She turned slightly. "Granted I never took part but maybe you'd have been better off with me."

Asuka laughed but it was a dry laugh. "Look you really don't have to make me feel better, I know you wouldn't have picked me a year ago when that event was going on, we didn't even talk that much."

Rei stopped as she grabbed her hand seeing Asuka's good eye meet her own as she stood still. "No but here's the thing Kaji mentioned that I could do something with you and I laughed at the idea, I thought he was joking until it hit me he was actuality being serious."

She could see that Asuka was deeply confused as to where this was going. "He even said you were really good at hand to hand and that skill might transfer over well in my form of dance. I just didn't get what he was talking about until you fought Yuki because your skill with lightning rods is pure perfection." She eased up the ribbon. "This isn't much different you just need to learn a more gentle touch and motion."

She moved closer. "So I know you can do this." She looked up seeing that more people were now gathering behind the glass. "You shouldn't worry about them either." Asuka looked up. "I just wish sometimes they'd leave us alone, I mean when I was around before Bardiel they barely noticed me I could just fade in to the background." Rei lowering her voice to a silky soft whisper. "They just don't get us we are a puzzle they are so desperate to solve."

She felt a sly smile form. "Or more to the point they are trying to figure out how I get you to go places, they probably think I somehow tame you." She moved her hand up running it through the long red hair letting it spill though her fingers. "Though there very much mistaken, as you don't need taming, you're very much in control of your own wants and desires and you come with me because you love me and you trust me."

Asuka breathed in sharply feeling the blush creep on to her cheeks she wanted to say something but nothing was coming, her voice was completely stuck in her throat. Rei only ever used that voice normally when they were in bed together she was going to have to blast herself with a freezing cold shower after this.

Rei stepped away, okay maybe that was a little mean because she knew she'd just turned on the sexual charge in Asuka's body but she knew she would now focus completely on her and by the end of this session that sexual energy would get knocked out and be replaced with tiredness but it wouldn't be from being overworked but more intense concentration.

People really just didn't get it, Asuka's rough confident unafraid façade wasn't really who she was it was up there like a shield so she could protect herself from harm as she was so untrusting of people underneath she wasn't very underconfident and always questioning what she could and couldn't do granted in an Evangelion she could do anything but she had only recently realized that and now outside the entry plug she got very nervous about trying new things and had to be gently guided in to it.

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She turned raising her blue ribbon. "Shall we try this again?"

She watched as the taller red head nodded quietly her good eye now really fixed on her. "Just remember no harsh movement okay you want it to be really soft and flowing." She started to move watching as Asuka went with her movement she was trying far harder now to go in time with her and the music which was playing off side through the speakers which was meant to help with relaxation.

Misato looked through the glass watching as Rei and Asuka danced in motion neither of them had seen her as she was much more to the back away from the crowds she looked at Kaji as she spoke. "You're right they do have natural rhythm I mean okay it's quite choppy now but given time they could get that perfect sync like Kaworu and Shinji."

Kaji raised his hand. "Now imagine if you could get that in the Evangelion's personally I think Rei's Evangelion bearing so much similarity to Asuka's isn't some random coincidence." He carried on watching. "It's like a yin and yang duality, granted Asuka's model is the bigger stronger one but Rei is the faster one even before it changed Asuka could never take down 00 on the training ground."

He pointed to Asuka. "I also don't think she ever will and maybe that's the point maybe she's not meant to because Rei is her only true equal, I think it's time we up their training to see if they can run the Diablo inferno simulation together."

Misato turned sharply. "You do realize that is the hardest simulation of all right? Asuka has run that simulation countless times and never once completed it with anyone, neither has Rei, not to mention the hologram pain threshold is at max level so the pain feels real even in the Evangelion, only Shinji has ever completed it and that was with Kaworu."

Kaji looked up. "In my opinion you should run them both if they can get half way through it or even a third you'll know you're on to something." Misato looked up. "You know the others cannot even enter the training field when it's running its half an hour of hard slog." Kaji raised his finger. "Great then the press and media will love it I mean we only run it once a year and on very rare occasions outside that."

He stroked his short thick beard. "Also up the stakes tell them they have to use the Evangelion's body, because Asuka is better at this and Rei can pick up on how she uses 02's claws and teeth and maybe get that tail moving as she's barely used it in training for more than working out balance between all fours and hinds unlike Mari who instantly got how to use her units massive whip lash tail straight away."

Misato folded her arms. "Yeah her unit is very different to Rei's and Asuka they're more powerhouse's her unit springs around and its real slender and thin and it can crawl out of Asuka and Rei's grip and even Shinji has issues holding it, it snakes its way out and leaps way higher than the others, Kaworu has to move fast when he's airborne to avoid it."

She breathed in deeply. "Also unlike Rei and Asuka she didn't need her guns adjusting because the only 04's front hand fingers are longer but not the palm so she can still fire all her weapons and use knifes while the back legs are lycanthropic with claws." She shook her head. "Just really wish she'd stop grabbing and licking with that super long pointed tongue though just to put the others off."

Kaji smirked. "I heard that people don't like the sound either, Rei and Asuka's units both bellow and roar like big cats but the media and press say's Mari's unit sounds like a pissed of king cobra and it screeches so loud that it hurts peoples ears."

Kaji raised his hand. "There's just one thing I don't get, Asuka can make her eye left glow even control her teeth in that she make them grow and go back to normal outside the Evangelion but Shinji, Rei and Mari can't and we have seen them both angry in their new Evangelion's they both get sharp teeth and glowing eyes." Misato breathed in deeply. "I believe they can probably do the same but they just don't know how yet."

8

"Let me see it in action!"

The old woman in the dark suit watched as the huge mouth filled with razor teeth opened letting out a roar as the four glass red eyes turned on as the white Evangelion with its gold and blue patterns coming into view its two set of arms could be seen as they moved in the bay as the pilot tested them while the long whip lash tail flicked through the air.

The huge lycanthrope like feet and four clawed hands moved in perfect tune with the pilot without issue. "How is the sync?" The man looked up. "Perfect Pharaoh, your grandson has perfect tune." The woman smiled. "Of cause he does he's a true Langley as is my granddaughter."

The scientist looked up as the huge Evangelion started to move around the test bay though it remained on all fours. "The final products are very akin to a mix of Bardiel and 02's Nekomata we were concerned for a while as when we got the guts in it and the muscles started growing it grew the secondary arms the unit for your granddaughter did the same but we are still fitting the armour it will be four hours until its completion."

He paused. "Though her units secondary arms didn't grow downwards like this one they grew above the head much like Bardiel's and it's got six eyes and three body length tails."

He looked at his tablet. "Even better because Nekomata was already enhanced as it's in a permanently controlled berserker form, it means these two units are as well and your grandchildren don't have to go through the effort of changing them, they basically have these animals at their beckoning and the S² Engines both grew perfectly."

The woman's dark eyes narrowed as she pushed her dark hair back. "My late son's dream finally a reality at long last to have living gods that can take control of this world and all of humanity." The scientist paused. "Your son was right of course the Evangelion's should not be tools to protect humanity they should rule humanity and humanity should kneel to their demands."

The woman looked up a smile forming. "We also have the added bonus that only three of Nerv's six units have fully transitioned so they will not stand a chance against these two living gods."

He stroked his white beard. "We may have problems though dealing with Mari, Asuka and Rei's unit's as they are all like this in that they have transitioned to their permanent primal forms." The woman looked at him. "Don't worry about that stack of domino's I have plans for them." The scientist turned his face filling with confusion. "What sort of plans?"

The woman's gaze drifted up to the Lance of Longinus which was in its stone form hanging above on the ceiling. "I'm going to get that bastard child Asuka and I'm going to ruin her life from the inside out along with her lover Rei, they're only strong as a couple but they are weak once you cut through their hide.

Nerv won't know what hit them and Asuka will do as I command and bring that lance back to life as she is it owner, the former destroyer of the worlds and then she will call up on its counterpart and bring it back to life as well and then she will hand a lances to my true Langley children, Mari will be of no concern she's weak and her Evangelion looks like a weeding rake, thin ugly pink thing that it is with its angler fish mouth and despite being my blood I don't class her as a Langley."

The scientist raised a bushy white eyebrow. "You make it sound so very simple."

The woman raised her hand looking at her ringed finger. "It will be, you see it's very easy to build the world up but even easier to send it crashing down and as I've said before I will no longer play second fiddle to Cerberus or Ouroboros, Ankh will rule this world. We lost our grip over it in the Second World War and third because we relied too heavily on the chaos, it won't happen again my family have been denied ruler ship for four generations now will take it back by force."

The scientist turned. "What do you want to call these Evangelion?" The woman looked up. "I want this one to be to be called Sobek after the crocodile god who embodied a pharaoh power, fertility and military prowess." She turned. "The other shall be called Sekhmet after the lion goddess of destruction, war and violence who breathed life into the deserts and was said to protect the pharaoh's."

She paused eyeing the Evangelion. "I want the world to know fear again but not the fear of Ouroboros's half-cocked angel child hybrids abominations, I want them to people to see an Evangelion and kneel to it and plea for forgiveness for their sin of asking help from living gods."

End of part 4

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