Well it's about time to get this out of my head and on paper. Attention readers, for you are about to read one of the freakiest concepts I have had. On with the story.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything in this story.
Origins of the truth-Chapter 01-Azazel and the Ev.
------------------A small research facility in Antarctic—September 12, 2000------------------
Misato Katsuragi didn't really know what to think. She was a young girl, only 14, who had grown utterly disgusted of her father. Yet here she was with him in the middle of nowhere, searching for something she had no clue about. Needless to say, she was bored, badly too.
She just sat on the snowmobile her father and the other researchers used to travel and watched them dig in the snow and ice. The team had detected something not excepted on a continent covered in ice, an open area under the ice the size of a large sport stadium. She perked up at hearing a loud clank as one of the workers hit something hard with a shovel.
"HEY! I think I hit the edge of that anomaly," the digger said to his superior.
"Ok, now everyone dig this hole out wider so we can get a better view," Misato's father yelled out. Everyone complied and started digging outward.
What they found amazed them. A massive white crystalline wall. The shovels they carried couldn't penetrate it. One of the workers pulled out a diamond saw from his snowmobile and started trying to get through it. Nothing but dust as the blade failed and ground away.
Misato got off, walked over to the now large hole, hopped in it, and sat on the unknown material. She slowly rubbed her hand on it. It was pure white, like perfect snow, harder then a diamond, and yet warm. She quirked her eyebrows. 'How can it be warm?'
"Hey dad, how can it be warm?" she asked innocently to her father.
He followed his daughter's example and felt it too. The weird material slowly got warmer and warmer yet didn't melt the nearby snow and ice. He was about to attribute this to the super low temperatures of Antarctica, until he felt it give slightly to his touch. He reached out and grabbed Misato and hopped out of the hole just in time to see what they had dug up disappear into what was still buried.
"That was close. Someone get a camera and carefully scout that place out. I don't want anyone falling in. Are you ok, Misato?" he said to his men and daughter.
"Yeah, but that was a little close," she said softly, still shaken by the material disappearing from under her.
The workers returned with some repelling gear and a camera to film the discovery. As they looked inside, they were amazed. Inside wasn't a single snowflake that wasn't there because of the hole they made. It was a giant white dome in the snow. The floor was like a mix of savannah and forest. Green everywhere in the middle of Antarctica, not exactly something expected. In the center was something that shocked everyone. Two giant statues. Both human in appearance, but it showed an extremely high degree of detail.
The researchers carefully dug around the hole and touched the surface as Misato did and watched as it again kept opening. The crews used repelling gear to lower themselves into the dome to investigate the finding.
Misato wandered around the smaller of the two statues as the rest were setting up a small command base. A giant being with an odd face. No mouth, nose, ears, or hair. It was as if all it had was eyes. Many of them too. Three eyes arranged in a triangle stared intensely at the other statue. The giant was kneeling on one knee and a hand on its knee.
'Is it trying to stand up?' Misato thought as she examined it. Sure, she hated her father for devoting his life to his research, but it had its benefits like seeing stuff like this.
Misato laid her hand on the side of the creature's foot. It was at least twice as tall as she was; the whole thing had to be five or six stories tall. It had what looked like clothing on it. Large plates of dark silver covered its legs, arms, chest, and neck. The material looked like stone, but felt like flesh. It was soft, spongy, and warm.
"Warm, like the shell was. Wait a sec! Daddy!" She looked up in horror to see the tree eyes had shifted and now looked intently at her. The hand of the beast moved from its knee towards her and she screamed out to the father for help.
Everyone was in awe at the sight. One of the two statues was moving and apparently hostile. The creature took Misato gently in its hand and brought her slowly to its unblinking eye. Everyone stopped cold and watched the exchange. Ancient, and highly advanced, technology and modern people interacting for the first time. Misato just closed her eyes and hoped it didn't hurt her. She was surprised when it…put her back down. The monstrosity put her down and kneeled down until its head was lying on the ground. She slowly crawled out of the hand and looked at it. The silver plating on its neck seemed to split and extend out as a large cylinder shot out of it.
Misato's father ran forward and grabbed her as the others gathered around and on the now dormant monster. One of the researchers laid a hand on the cylinder following the logic that served them so far, touch activated technology. Luckily he was right as a plate from the cylinder popped out and slid away to reveal an unusual sight. A young man about twenty-five was sitting in what looked like a cockpit. The researcher slowly entered the cylinder and approached the man.
"Hello? Are you awake?" the timid researcher asked the man while gently shaking him.
"Ugh, what's going on?" the man said as he slowly woke up and peered around. "What? Who are you? How did you get in Evrei?" he seemed shocked to see the researcher before he promptly leaned forward and lost consciousness.
------------------A small research facility in Antarctic—September 13, 2000------------------
The young man lay on the bed as he slowly awoke. He was about as tall as the average person was. His skin was fair and nearly perfect, only slight freckles and a few scars along his arms and torso. His hair was a bright blue and a few strands of a deep red streaking through it. Eyes of a, almost glowing, bright green scanned around until they fell on the person next to him.
Dr. Katsuragi sat by his side. "Hello young man. My name is Hiro Katsuragi. I lead the research team that found the place you were in. Can you understand me?"
"Of course I can. I'm a Terran like you idiot." The young man said back. His voice sounded almost like he was use to this.
"I'm sorry? I belong to a race called Humans. We call ourselves Earthlings sometimes when referring to other planetary species."
"Well to me you're a Terran. A creature created by God to inhabit the planet Terra." The young man looked around. "Can someone give me a Cronoev?"
Everyone just stared at him and looked confused. "May we ask what part of that thing you were is a 'Cronoev'?'
The man just raised an eyebrow. "Take me to Evrei. Now!" They decided to do as he asked and helped him to his machine and sat him in his seat. He reached around and pressed a few buttons until an image of the Earth appeared in front of him like a hologram. "No…it can't have succeeded…I was sure I had stopped him…I-I-I had to have!" he yelled slamming his fist into the consol.
"What happened?" Dr. Katsuragi asked him.
"Simple, an Impact." The young man replied.
"A what?" Dr. Katsuragi asked him as the man slowly climbed out of the structure dubbed "Evrei".
"I'll tell you when I'm comfy." He said walking back to the bed he was in before with the help of a couple workers. "First my name is Azazel. I'm a Terran, the first race of 'Humans' to be created. God made Angelions and us at the same time. Each was given a duty and a planet. We would guard the Tree of Knowledge on Terra and Angelions would protect the Tree of Life on Gaia. Unfortunately that didn't last forever."
"What happened?" Misato's father asked. Misato was sitting next to him listening closely to the man named Azazel.
"Adam, Eve, and Lillith, three Terrans blessed with the traits of both of races. Adam fathered all Terrans and Angelions. Eve was the mother of all Angelions and Lillith the mother of all Terrans." Azazel explained.
"So you are the child of Lillith from the first age of mankind." Katsuragi nodded in a simple understanding.
"Eve became jealous that her children had been denied the power of the Tree of Knowledge, and challenged us for it. We had taken the fruit of the Tree and used it to make the Ev. Ev is the term used for our technology." He looked closely at the watch on Dr. Katsuragi's wrist. "That device on your arm is like our Cronoev. A time recording device. We could see we were horrible outclassed. The power on Angelions was second only to God. Therefore, we used the Ev to steal some Angelions' souls from their bodies and trap them in crystals. After a little remodeling, we turned those shells into the Ev-Angelions."
"So Evrei is your Ev-Angelion?"
"Yes. I personally took the soul of the Angelion and sealed it in the gem in my chest. I named mine Evrei in honor of my sister, Rei. I found that the body needed a soul. She gave hers to the Ev-Angelion to help me. After Eve saw what we were doing, she got really mad and attacked us all out. We didn't hold for long before she we were forced to fight her directly. It was either kill her or die defending our Tree. She didn't take well to that idea and used her Impact to merge Gaia and Terra. That's what my Cronoev told me when I checked it. I was the only one to survive I guess. The Cronoev said it has been over four billion cycles since that day."
"The day Eve merged the planets?"
"No. The day I challenged Adam. He sealed me within his White Egg while our mother Lillith hid in her Black Egg. I fought him to stop him aiding Eve. I had no clue what was going on outside."
"We had to pass through a white membrane to get here. There was a second statue in the field. Is that Adam?" Dr. Katsuragi asked curiously. Some of the other researchers couldn't believe he actually believed the tale. Then again, they had no possible explanation for the events.
"Probably. Eventually we both were so tired I nearly collapsed. Rei took my soul into her own as Adam released his power during the Impact and froze us both. I guess the Egg was waiting for word on who won the War. Rei would only have revived me if the winner was friendly."
They were about to ask him more when the ground began to shake. A worker came running in screaming that the second statue had come to life too and started rampaging. Azazel ran out and headed towards Evrei.
Jumping into his cockpit and reentering the machine he watched as the cylinder flashed many colors before showing the images before him. A giant being of bright light stood before him, holding the bodies of a few dead workers and researchers. Azazel just stared at the scene.
"Just like last time huh, Rei." He could feel the machine slowly nod in his mind. "Well let's show him the might of what Life and Knowledge can do!" he screamed as Evrei roared forward.
Elsewhere Misato and her father ran away from the rest of the battle. Emerging from the Egg, they retreated to the base and tried to radio for help. Unfortunately, the radio wouldn't function
Back in the Egg, the battle was fierce. Evrei had many wounds from the fists and claws of Adam. Breathing heavily Azazel noticed one of the wounds had punctured the cylinder and Evrei's blood was slowly filling it. 'Oh no, I'll only have a few more minutes until I drown in blood.' He thought before hearing something in the back of his mind.
"Do not worry my Brother. My blood is breathable by you and our kind. Now call upon that which God granted the Terrans, The Lance of Angelic Bane."
The Lance of Angelic Bane? What was that? He didn't know what she was talking about, but at least he didn't have to worry about drowning. He placed his hands in the stance of holding a lance and watched in amazement as the armor on Evrei's arms melded out and wound on itself into a twisted, two-pronged lance perfectly fit for his weapon.
"This I like. Let's go!" he roared out and swung the lance across Adams core. Adam Screamed in pain as his six wings sprouted from his back and shot through the Egg.
Above with Misato, she and her father were shaken by the rupture of the Egg. A piece of the buildings used on the base sliced her across her chest leaving a cross shaped cut on her chest. She looked at the piece of metal that had cut it. It had stopped so short because it was sticking through her father. Her eyes went wide as she realized he had saved her life, but lost his own. He gently carried her to one of the pods used to transport injured workers and researchers and closed it just as Adams wings retreated into its body and it detonated itself. The mass of energy melting the ice on the pole and starting the Second Impact.
-----------A U.N. Naval Vessel—the remains of the Katsuragi Expedition---2002-----------
"So this is where it all happened." The aging man known Kozo Fuyutsuki said as he looked over the ruins and blood red sea.
The young man next to him just looked around and frowned. "Evrei survived. But we caused so much death with the Second Impact."
"Do not worry my new friend. Your words will be taken to heart and you can be of help to us. Didn't you say that there were many more of these things?"
"No, just one, Lillith. She will be in the Black Egg somewhere on the opposite side of the planet from here. I could use the Lance of Longinus that Evrei had to seal her and stop anything. However, Adam didn't die. There will be more. And Evrei won't be enough."
"Well then you should come with me to an old student of mine. I'm sure she will be glad to have your help in making her concepts reality."
"What concepts?" Azazel asked curiously.
"Your description of your machine Evrei sound remarkable like her Evangelion design."
"Wait! Ev-Angelion is what I called my creation. Can it be God wanted humans to be the new Guardians of the Tree of Knowledge?"
"Maybe my friend. For now we will see what we can do." The old professor said turning around and walking back to check on the still stunned Misato.
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Well that's all for now. Let me know what you think. I had the idea, what if the Eva existed LONG ago and was actually the cause of Second and First Impacts. Well here's my fic's first chapter. Ill post when I can thanks to a hectic work schedule, writers block and me wanting this to be as accurate as I can. Read and review please.