The Broken and Unbreakable

by Traitor of All Traitors

Genre likely subject to change later on. As we understand that not all things are set in stone, what if what we thought was supposed to happen never does? And what we didn't expect to happen at all begins to happen a lot? No one shows up when they're supposed to, events don't turn out like they're meant to, and the unknown may turn into the new normal for those that can't take it.

1. The Broken and Unbreakable

Creation began on 05-25-19

Creation ended on 05-25-19

Neon Genesis Evangelion

The Broken and Unbreakable

A/N: The unexpected can occur to change fate and destroy what is believed to be destiny…and create something else entirely.

NERV Commander Gendo Ikari was a man of many things, and patience was clearly not one of them. The Third Angel hadn't arrived…and neither had the Third Child. Both were supposed to have arrived within the day and Tokyo-2 should've been reduced to a crater while Tokyo-3 should've been a battleground.

Captain Misato Katsuragi had arrived at the train stop where the boy was supposed to be, but the train hadn't shown up in over three hours.

If there was one of the few things Gendo didn't like about the world, it was the delays in his goals and the incompetence of his agency's personnel.

It doesn't take a train over three hours to arrive at a stop, he thought as he sat in his office. That useless boy must've run away like he always does. He will always be useless.

The door to his office opened and an elderly man dressed in gray came in.

"Ikari, have… Haven't you been watching the news?!" The elderly man yelled. "It's been all over the media!"

"What are you talking about, Fuyutsuki?"

"I'm talking about the train, Ikari. The one your son was on. It was derailed! That's why he didn't show up!"

Gendo turned on the small television in his office and turned to the news that was currently playing, seeing that somewhere in the countryside, there was a train laying scattered everywhere.

"…Firefighters and paramedics are still searching through the debris, but it's an ongoing nightmare," a woman reported from a helicopter overlooking the wreckage. "One after another, another victim is found beyond any hope of aid by these brave men and women. It's anyone's guess if there's any survivors left to be saved."

On the screen, the number of the derailed train was shown, and Gendo needed to make sure that this train was the same one that the Third Child had been made to take on the way to Tokyo-2.

"Do we have a copy of the receipt of the boy's ticket?" He asked the elder.

"We do, and it was the Forty-Seventeen."

"Hold on," the woman reporter went, and her cameraman was looking down at the wreckage, seeing several firefighters working under a large piece of one of the passenger cars. "Wait, I think they've… Yes, yes, they have. They seemed to have found a survivor! They found one!"

The shot was sketchy at best, but the cameraman had gotten a glimpse of what appeared to be…a small boy being carried away by the paramedics after the firefighters pulled him out from under the debris.

"Where is Captain Katsuragi?" Gendo asked.

"On her way back to base," Fuyutsuki answered.

"Find out which hospital that survivor is being taken to…and confirm their identity before sending her to make sure."

To be continued…

A/N: Congratulations will go to whoever's first review can reveal where the inspiration for this story came from.