"Water of Life gas has filled the chamber! Charge density reached!"
"Begin connection!"
"Water of Life charge is normal. Activate all integrated computational systems!"
"What's our status?"
"All personnel accounted for. Transfer confirmed!"
"All Isolation Walls confirmed closed! Pressure testing complete!"
"Auxiliary output is rising! Feeding ignition power into the main engine system! Five percent remaining until the critical threshold."
"Activate the rotary flywheel! Stabilizers normal!"
"Begin processing visual information. Activate the main display."
Inside the Wunder Warship's control room
Misato and the others sat at their respective consoles, undergoing the same procedures and processes EVA pilots experienced when entering an Entry Plug.
LCL filled the chamber, synchronizing their visual and sensory neural connections.
The exterior view appeared inside the control room, presenting everyone with a magnificent, breathtaking sight.
The fleet of warships and aircraft carriers on the sea felt close enough to touch, as though they themselves were giants.
"Special Unit X is two hundred meters above us at ninety degrees! Targets are still approaching! They're forming an encirclement!"
"Modified Unit-02 has discarded its thruster! Replacing its left arm!"
Beneath the Wunder Warship
Unit-02 felt around in the seawater until it found the approximate position, then detached its left-arm cannon and fitted a mechanical hand.
Inside her Entry Plug, Asuka tried clenching and unclenching all five fingers. The hollow sensation of her missing left arm was replaced by the joy of having a lost limb restored as the mechanical hand was fitted.
Although it did not respond as naturally as the original, it was better to have her missing hand back.
Asuka brushed her hair aside and looked up at the ignition assembly beneath the Wunder Warship.
The densely packed, thick pipes and strangely shaped components made her brow furrow slightly.
"Let's do this! Absolute Territory! Deploy!"
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