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"Charge to 300!"

BA-WHAP!

"Still in V-Fib!"

Ritsuko growled and pulled the paddles away, "Push another ampoule of insulin and put the paddles at full charge." She watched the ampoule being forced into the central line that they'd put into the Commander not ten minutes ago and watched his blood sugar levels, which had gone hay-wire twenty minutes ago, which had sent his pulse into the high one hundreds and stayed there, "Clear!" Everyone pulled away as she pressed the paddles to the man's chest and triggered the paddles.

BA-WHAP!

The Commander's body surged off of the table, arching up, and for a brief instant his vitals stopped dead cold, but soon they started back up again and began to surge up, "Shit! Alright, give me the black vial, we're doing a controlled kill." A controlled kill was just that, a controlled way of stopping a person's heart and brain function for a short period of time so that whatever was causing them to go into shock or arrest could be taken care of, but it was risky in that if it was held too long the person would just stay dead.

Off to the side, in his medicated state, Shinji was grinning even as Misato watched in horror as her boss was being killed to save his life.

On the other side of the observation glass, Rei Ayanami reached into her school dress and gripped a source bottle that she had pulled from the medical ward. Her orders had been quite clear as to what was to be done, but to watch things happen like this… it almost made her want to cry.

"I'll take that, Rei." She looked up at the Sub-Commander, who had a grim look on his face, "Your job is done."

Rei nodded and handed over the source, "Sub-Commander, was this necessary?"

He nodded and looked at the husband of his dead student as his chest was being cracked open by Doctor Akagi, "I believe it was, Rei, but even if it was not, we had our orders."

Rei nodded, "Very well. May I be excused to pursue Pilot Ikari, then?"

Kozo Fuyutsuki looked at her with an odd look, "You DO realize that he's at least a decade older than you, right?"

Her red gaze unnerved him slightly, "As you were at least two decades older than Yui Ikari, Sub-Commander."

He winced, "Point. Give him time, First Child, let Shinji stabilize before you make any decisions."

Rei nodded and neither said anything until they heard Doctor Akagi, an hour later, sigh, "Call the time."

"Midnight."

"Let the record show that Commander Gendo Ikari is being pronounced dead at 12 midnight…"

Born of Conflict, Chapter 6