A good scientist is prepared for the unexpected. Sometimes results don't quite go the way you think they will. That's rather the point of experiments, isn't it? Not to prove yourself right but try every variable you can think of to prove yourself wrong.
After all if you do prove yourself right you have learned nothing. If you find you were mistaken, you can ask questions. Discover the truth. Well, she certainly hadn't expected this response from the pilots. Especially in the midst of an Angel battle!
"Any idea what's going on?" Misato asked. "They're acting really strangely."
"Looking into it," Ritsuko said. Though really her concern was more directed towards Gendo. Sitting silently up there, monitoring everything with a stern all seeing gaze. Over the years she felt she had grown to know him somewhat, but he was still difficult to read. He always acted confident, never showing the slightest bit of uncertainty or hesitation.
Of course she didn’t know just how much of that was just him bluffing and trying to look like everything was planned. Thus she had no idea about the mixed feelings he had while watching his son.. be targeted by the affections of two attractive girls.
One part of him was proud, a feeling he curbed quickly, not least of which because he didn’t feel he deserved the role of the proud father. Gendo Ikari was well aware of what sort of villain he was after all.
Another part was measuring, pondering how this would influence the scenario. Would Rei still be willing to go along with the plan if she was being pulled into a three way relationship between his son and Asuka? It was a tricky question.. but then he <i>did</i> want to bring back Yui, something he was sure Shinji would also want.
Even if he would probably be disgusted at the things Gendo had done to come this far.
“Please arrange a check up of the pilots professor Akagi.” He finally said, folding his fingers under his chin in a familiar pose. “We need to make sure that they are mentally and physically fine.”
First time he'd shown any real kind of genuine concern for either of those, but <i>anyway</i>.
"I have a few tests in mind that we should be able to apply," Ritsuko said. "It was probably a psychological attack by the Angel. If so, we must be prepared for similar such attacks in future. If not... then we still need to identify the cause."
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Welcome, Asuka. This is hell. Please enjoy your stay. Up first for your eternal torment is a glimpse of heaven to your left in the form of man meat without a spine, Shinji Ikari. On your right is emotionless domination incarnate, Rei Ayanami.
What was so hellish about this? Why, the simple fact that the three of them were sitting in a large (well, large enough for them all to fit comfortably) LCL bath together. If any of them moved wrong then Asuka would feel them up against her. She felt grateful they were at least wearing swimsuits - but still, it was the principle of the thing. With her sudden realisation of her own sexuality, this kind of situation was still a bit much for the German redhead.
"Are the three of you comfortable?" Doctor Akagi asked. Oh, thank goodness she was here to supervise this. If not then Asuka was genuinely afraid she might start licking Rei's feet like a puppy or begging Shinji to fuck her silly. Maybe even both at once! Her pride couldn't take that.
"My foot itches," Rei said. Asuka perked up at that.
"I'll get it for you!" Asuka said, practically diving through the LCL to get at the offending foot which she grabbed hold of with both hands and started to squeeze and massage with wild reckless abandon.
“Hmm.. that feels nice, good girl.” Rei was now leaning back a little, eyes halfway closed as she enjoyed Asuka’s fingers working enthusiastically. Her lips were curved just the tiniest bit upwards, a smile that only someone who knew her very well or was very perceptive would have noticed.
Shinji was watching with confusion and growing arousal. Which only makes sense when you consider the way their pheromones were all playing off each other. Not that any of them knew that. Only the scientist taking notes from above knew anything about it.
"Oh shoot, I left some equipment in the other room," Ritsuko said. "The three of you behave, I won't be gone for long."
Just long enough to see what removing herself as a variable did to the three pilots below.
The first reaction was nervousness from Asuka. What had she just been thinking about again? Her head moved closer and closer to Rei's foot. Her tongue felt especially moist and... ah, her swimsuit felt really tight. She kind of wanted to take it off. Even though doing so right now would leave her bare and exposed to Shinji. Who knows what he might do at the sight of her bare butt wiggling in the air in front of his perverted, dirty eyes?
Didn’t he already have a boner? She glanced at his lower body out of the corner of her eyes and gulped at the sight of the bulge on his swim shorts. Had he always been this big? She had never noticed anything like that during their Synch tests, and he had to have gotten hard a few times, right? After all, he had been pretty close to her and Rei with only a thin bit of high tech rubber covering their naked bodies.
Then, moments before Asuka did anything, Shinji put his hands into the LCL - and squirted it at Asuka. The spell broke. It was as though Asuka had suddenly returned to normal. As though the pheromones weren't bothering her anymore.
"You're dead!" she yelled, letting go of Rei's foot and quickly dunking Shinji into the LCL. Not that this had much of an effect, this stuff was designed to be breathable for humans. It did make him choke on it a little before he remembered that fact.
He pushed her off and rose back out of the LCL. "That's more like it," he said. "Asuka, you didn't seem like yourself -"
She interrupted him by squirting LCL directly into his mouth. Hah! Don't mess with a genius!
Spitting out the liquid and trying to think of how to best get back at the redhead, Shinji raised his head a little further.
Only to see that behind Asuka, Rei had started to take off her swimsuit without the slightest hint of embarrassment. As he stared, she removed her top, airing out her pale breasts. Shinji knew that he should look away, or at least cover his face, but he just couldn’t stop staring at the girl’s flawless skin or the pink nipples which were slowly starting to grow erect.
"Oh, there it is!" All three of them froze at the sound of her voice. Rei hastily put her swimsuit back on and the other two sat back down where they had originally been. Just in the nick of time before Ritsuko came back into the room, carrying what looked like a new set of plugsuits.
Looked like being the important part, because aside from the coloration and material they had little in common with their normal piloting outfits.
If she had to describe the idea behind it.. well Asuka had to wonder if someone had made a bet to make a plugsuit using less than a quarter of the normal material. The bottom was the most normal, if you ignored the fact that it just sort of stopped at the legs. That part looked kind of like the lower half of a leotard, though as Ritsuko held it up, she wondered how much of the buttocks it would even hide.
They had really saved material wherever they could in this design.
Never mind the fact that there was nothing where the girl’s chest would be. It was like they had decided that they had run out of material, so yeah let’s just stop around the belly area and leave everything free. Th-there had to be some kind of separate top part that Ritsuko didn’t have on hand, right? After all, these things didn’t even have suspenders!
“Don’t worry about it falling off, this new design uses a experimental technology to stick to the skin like glue. It won’t come off unless you want it.” Ritsuko said as if she had read her thoughts.
But then the way she was staring was probably making these same thoughts obvious.
Well, whatever. At least these plugsuits hid more than the swimsuits if there was a separate top piece. That had to count for something. Right? Right.
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These plugsuits were the next natural step in Ritsuko's experiments. It was rather obvious that the changes to Asuka were having effects on the other pilots as well, so she had to broaden her scope a little to best make sure all variables were accounted for.
Such matters were vital in the pursuit of science, after all. You had to know what variables have what effect, otherwise you don't learn anything.
"Doctor Akagi, I have a question," Asuka asked.
"Yes, Pilot Sohryu?"
"Since when did we have a giant maze hidden below the Geofront?”
"Last week," Ritsuko answered. "It felt like a good exercise option."
"Second question," Asuka said. "Why am I in a giant hamster ball at the entrance to this maze?"
"In order to get the best possible readings, we need to have you exert yourself. This is an effective exercise for your brain and your body at the same time."
And not at all because Ritsuko found the 'lab rat' parallel too funny to ignore. Nope. Not even a little bit. Of course the other two pilots would get their turns before long. The real point to this experiment was twofold: Get the readings, as she had said. But also to make them sweat while wearing the new plugsuits. Get them breathing really heavily. Then stick them together in another LCL bath to see what happened next.
Somehow Ritsuko felt that she was going to learn quite a lot in the near future.
“Okay.. final question, why does this plugsuit have pasties instead of a top part?
"Oh, don't be silly. Those aren't pasties," Ritsuko said, waving the matter aside. "They're miniaturized data gathering equipment. In order for this to function properly we need as much LCL to skin contact as possible, I'm sure you understand."
Normally Asuka would protest something like that... But Ritsuko hypothesised that she was feeling quite a bit less confident in herself than usual. Add in the way that her hands were smoothing up and down her sides while she looked over towards Pilot Ikari - who was sporting the mother and father of all erections underneath his new plugsuit, which Pilot Ayanami was making very bad efforts to pretend she was not looking at - standing off to the side, awaiting the beginning of their own experiments. During which time she would give them both a little taste of what Asuka had been going through... yes, pheromone production for one and enhanced senses for the other. That should provide some interesting data.
"Off you go then," Ritsuko said while starting her stopwatch. "The fastest to beat the maze gets a treat."
Yep. A nice big cheese wheel. How appropriate for a lab rat.
- Asuka runs the maze and starts getting really horny as she runs.
- Shinji's experiment begins, as his senses are enhanced.
- Rei figures out what's going on and moves to stop the experiments - that is, once she's given her newfound pheromone production ability.
- Something else
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