“ Well hello there, dear doctor.”ĭoctor Akagi spun around, drawing a bead on the person behind her with the pistol, before freezing in shock, gun shaking in suddenly numb fingers. Until a voice eerily similar to her own spoke behind her. She dismissed it as a trick of the low lighting. The shadows almost seemed to leer at her, looming as much as an immaterial thing could. The voice had been right next to her ear that time, and she looked around frantically, pointing the gun at the shadowed corners of the room. The Commander would be mad, but then again it would only be a few hours work to wake up another clone - her train of thought was interrupted by a voice from somewhere indeterminate but close. But the duplicate, they are the only one not to treat her as a doll.ĭoctor Naoko Akagi stared down at the cooling body of the grade school girl - no, not a girl, she was just a doll - that the Doctor had just strangled to death in a fit of murderous rage and jealousy. The Adults, Commander Ikari, Doctor Akagi, they all treat her as important. It, the duplicate, had always been there for her. It was as if it was a figment of her imagination. Curiously, nobody else seemed to see the duplicate, nor hear her. The duplicate had been at her side for as long as she could remember, whispering in her ear, telling her the secrets and plans of those around her. It was not of her flesh and blood, did not contain a piece of her soul. The Duplicate was not her, merely a copycat, something that has taken her form. The duplicate was not a twin, not a clone from the tanks that Doctor Akagi made. Rei did not remember how long her duplicate has been around. I rolled the idea around in my head for a bit before thinking you know, that would be really fun to read! Unfortunately, as far as I could find, there is no NGE/Warframe crossover. So, a friend pointed out to me a few months ago that Warframes are basically person-sized EVA.