Title: Eva: Above and Beyond
Author: Knife Hand
Feedback: Constructive feedback appreciated, flames unappreciated
Spoilers: None
Rating: R
Disclaimer: I do not own Neon Genesis Evangelion or Space Above and Beyond. I would buy them but I am broke.
Summary: Follows the 106th Japanese Marine Squadron, lead by Shinji Ikari, in their battle against the Chigs. A Neon Genesis Evangelion, Space: Above and Beyond crossover.
AN: I know that there are military regulations prohibiting fraternization between officers, just imagine that they were waived from high up for the Royalty.
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The pale blue sun set over the shimmering velvet of the pail violet coloured ocean, the occasional wind driven wave achieving a small white cap, the overlooking shear cliffs were wooded with tall fernlike trees with smaller brush with foliage that resembled living lace, and the landward slope gradually became rolling grassland about a few hundred feet back from the precipice. The grasslands were vast, the swaying blades of the tall wild grasses only interrupted by sparse stands of trees and the occasional primary herbivorous mammal that resembled a cross between a cow and antelope grazing on the gently rolling landscape. The entire landscape seemed void of 'Intelligent' life, the only movement coming from the herbivores and the gently swaying grass, however there were two forms, completely still in the almost empty landscape, blending into their environment so much that they were almost completely invisible, even their breathing slowed so as not to give them away to any possible observer.
One figure very slowly turned his head to look at the other, lying mere inches away, covered in an identical camouflage cloak to the one disguising him. Their position was just inside the edge of the woodland, hidden from casual observation behind a veil of the lace like shrubs. Checking the terrain through the scope of his sniper rifle, the first figure, Captain Shinji Ikari, waited for the target to arrive. The other figure, Lieutenant Rei Ikari, waited silently without any hint of movement, except for the very slight motion of her breathing. Just as the sun touched the surface of the water the tranquillity of the surroundings was broken by the heavy sound of a human designed spacecraft, carrying their target, an Areotech executive, as it landed in the grasslands half a kilometre from the woodlands. Except for their eyes tracking the ships landing, Shinji and Rei did not move a muscle. The second craft landed with the high pitched whine of a Chig vessel rather than the deep thumping of a human designed craft. When they saw, through their scopes the high ranking Chig officer emerge, they realised it was a listed 'Target of Opportunity'.
Using hand signals, Shinji relayed to Rei to find a separated firing point and fire in ten minutes, her target being the Chig while he would take the Areotech executive. Making his way quickly and silently through the edge of the woods, looking for a perfect place to take the shot, his emotions and desires locked away till after the mission was over. He found a good location, not perfect but not bad considering the time constraints, and he set up, using the fallen and rotten trunk of a tree that had a hole completely through it as cover. Counting down in his head, Shinji caressed the trigger of his rifle, making sure that it would be a clean shot. The two shots rang out at exactly the same time, making it sound like a single shot and impossible to locate. The two targets fell, with clean holes through their heads, dead before they hit the ground. After the initial mad sweeping fire from both human and Chig weapons, Shinji slung his rifle and made his way to the rendezvous point with Rei to wait till retrieval.
'I'm sorry father, but you made your choice.' He thought as he ghosted away.
In the open grassland, with a hole through his head, lay the dead body of Gendo Ikari, the traitorous Areotech executive.
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Shinji swept the area around the landing zone as Rei boarded the evacuation ship and turned to cover his hundred yard sprint to the bird. The second Shinji was in, the doors closed and the transports powerful engines powered up, launching the large craft off the ground and into an escape vector from the planet's gravity well and back towards the Japanese Marine Corp carrier 'Atsugi'. A few minutes after dust off, one of the crew, the 153rd 'Black Devils' squadron, approached and gave them each a box that contained all their personal items, which had been left behind for the mission. The first thing they retrieved were their wedding rings, which they immediately slipped on their finger. After retrieving their dog tags, they attached their unit patch to the Velcro strips on their shoulders. The patches had a tilted crown, its grey colouring with white specks represented stone, with an inlayed flaming red jewel on one side and an ice blue one on the other, proclaiming 'Royalty' along the top and '106th Squadron' at the bottom. A single tear rolled down Shinji's cheek and Rei gave his hand a slight squeeze, the only grieving they allowed themselves for their absent father figure. The 'Black Devil' Lieutenant who had given them their belongings watched in awe at the small but definite show of emotion of the emotionless leaders of "The Royalty", no one would believe him if he told them.
The 106th had become legendary in the Japanese Marine Corp, having finished advanced training six months before the start of the war and being the only squadron to successfully engage the Chigs in combat prior to the battle of the belt, not that it had helped, as the Chigs simply decimated the forces around them and moved on. Shinji and Rei were the most famous of the 'Royals', and not only because he was the commanding officer and she was the executive officer. Their cool mannerisms and calm demeanours in battle had given rise to their call signs of 'Stone King' and 'Ice Queen', however they were legendary for seemingly physic abilities in combat. Many believed that they could read each others mind, having seen one seeming to react to the other almost before they had acted. The truth of the matter, that only the other 'Royals' knew, was that they had live together so long that the subtlest shifts in body language were as obvious as a shout.
Shinji and Rei had been born a mere hour apart in the same hospital in downtown Tokyo 3. After the deliveries, Rei and Shinji's mother had been placed in the same room in the maternity ward. When Rei's mother had died of complications two days later, Yui Ikari had decided to take care of Rei, since her father had been a Marine who had died about three months before Rei's birth. With Gendo's position as a high level executive with the multi-national Areotech Corporation, and Yui's fame for microbiology and molecular physics, no one particularly inclined to argue. Yui never tried to hide the fact that Rei was not related to the rest of the family, keeping her surname of Ayanami; however she never tried to exclude her either. As babies, if Shinji and Rei were placed in sperate cribs they would, somehow, end up together. They always spent time together and whenever something happened, they would always head to the other before all others.
"Sir. Lieutenant. We're about to land." The "Black Devil" said.
Shinji just nodded his head as he and Rei began to get their gear ready. The shuttle landed on the pad which was then retracted into one of the Carrier's flight decks. Still wearing the distinctive, in a Carrier's corridors, jungle webbing camouflage of a Sniper's cloak and with their green painted Sniper Rifles slung over their shoulders, Shinji and Rei marched through the corridors headed strait for the briefing room. Even under the black and green camouflage pain obscuring their faces, everyone who passed could see their hard set faces, severe even compared to their usual emotionless, hard appearance. When they arrived at the briefing room, Major Masato Katsuragi, their CO with the call sign 'Empress' and Commodore Rioji Kaji, commander of the 'Atsugi', were waiting for the debrief.
"Report, Captain." Misato said.
"Lieutenant Ikari and I were dropped onto the surface of Melenor one week ago, approximately seventy two miles from the target site..." Shinji began.
About three hours later, Shinji and Rei left the briefing room, having outlined the mission and the kills of Gendo Ikari and the Chig officer referred to as 'The Admiral' by Intelligence. After another two hours of being poked and prodded during a post mission physical by Dr Ritsuko Akagi, Shinji and Rei were finally able to return to the Royalty's quarters.
The Royalty's quarters consisted of four sleeping quarters situated surrounding around a central common area. The common room had a small kitchen area in the back corner, with a scattering of couches, coffee tables and a large viewscreen occupying the rest of the space. The door from the corridor was flush against the left hand wall, with the viewscreen to its right. The door on the left wall, almost at the back of the room, opposite the kitchen, lead to Shinji and Rei's room, while the door close to it on the back wall lead to the room of Lieutenant Kensuke Aida, Call sign 'Baron' and the team's intelligence officer, with half the room covered in electronics equipment.
The door just to the left of the kitchen, lead to the head; located behind the kitchen area. Towards the back of the right hand wall were two doors next to each other. The rearward on lead to Lieutenant Asuka Langley Soryu's room, the temperamental half-German redhead's call sign being 'Fire Princess' and the resident tactics expert, while the forward door lead to the room of Touji and Hikari Suzuhara, call signs 'Duke' and 'Dutches' respectively. Touji was the squad's heavy weapons specialist while his wife, Hikari, was the team medic. As Shinji and Rei entered, Touji and Hikari were seated on one of the couches watching the Viewscreen, Hikari having obviously conned Touji into watching another sappy movie. The music and the hissing of a soldering iron coming from Kensuke's room indicated that he was working on some new project or other, while the clicking of a keyboard and occasional laughter from Asuka's room just as clearly said that she was chatting with her secret online boyfriend.
"Hey Shinji. You look like shit man." Touji said from the couch.
"Touji, shut up. That's an order." Shinji said tiredly.
"Hey, your back." Kensuke said, sticking his head out of his room.
"Well, it's Mr States The Obvious." Asuka retorted, leaning against the door frame to her own room.
"You ok? You weren't injured were you?" Hikari asked, her medic training coming to the fore.
"We're fine. Dr. Akagi gave us a clean bill of health." Rei replied.
"We just need a shower and a week's worth of sleep." Shinji added as they moved to their room.
Touji and Kensuke chuckled at this, before Kensuke returned to his room and Hikari elbowed Touji to get his attention back to the movie. Rei closed the door behind them and they finally let down their defences. They slumped wearily into each other's arms as they made their way to the shower recess in their room. To tired to anything but stand under the flow of hot water, they showered then collapsed into their king sized bed. Finally able to let their emotions go, Shinji and Rei cried and held each other as they mourned the end of Gendo Ikari. Gendo Ikari, the absentee parent, the man who cared more about his work than the children he was raising, the executive who ignored reports that lead to the start of the War, the bastard who betrayed his world and family. Their father.
TBC.
Author: Knife Hand
Feedback: Constructive feedback appreciated, flames unappreciated
Spoilers: None
Rating: R
Disclaimer: I do not own Neon Genesis Evangelion or Space Above and Beyond. I would buy them but I am broke.
Summary: Follows the 106th Japanese Marine Squadron, lead by Shinji Ikari, in their battle against the Chigs. A Neon Genesis Evangelion, Space: Above and Beyond crossover.
AN: I know that there are military regulations prohibiting fraternization between officers, just imagine that they were waived from high up for the Royalty.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The pale blue sun set over the shimmering velvet of the pail violet coloured ocean, the occasional wind driven wave achieving a small white cap, the overlooking shear cliffs were wooded with tall fernlike trees with smaller brush with foliage that resembled living lace, and the landward slope gradually became rolling grassland about a few hundred feet back from the precipice. The grasslands were vast, the swaying blades of the tall wild grasses only interrupted by sparse stands of trees and the occasional primary herbivorous mammal that resembled a cross between a cow and antelope grazing on the gently rolling landscape. The entire landscape seemed void of 'Intelligent' life, the only movement coming from the herbivores and the gently swaying grass, however there were two forms, completely still in the almost empty landscape, blending into their environment so much that they were almost completely invisible, even their breathing slowed so as not to give them away to any possible observer.
One figure very slowly turned his head to look at the other, lying mere inches away, covered in an identical camouflage cloak to the one disguising him. Their position was just inside the edge of the woodland, hidden from casual observation behind a veil of the lace like shrubs. Checking the terrain through the scope of his sniper rifle, the first figure, Captain Shinji Ikari, waited for the target to arrive. The other figure, Lieutenant Rei Ikari, waited silently without any hint of movement, except for the very slight motion of her breathing. Just as the sun touched the surface of the water the tranquillity of the surroundings was broken by the heavy sound of a human designed spacecraft, carrying their target, an Areotech executive, as it landed in the grasslands half a kilometre from the woodlands. Except for their eyes tracking the ships landing, Shinji and Rei did not move a muscle. The second craft landed with the high pitched whine of a Chig vessel rather than the deep thumping of a human designed craft. When they saw, through their scopes the high ranking Chig officer emerge, they realised it was a listed 'Target of Opportunity'.
Using hand signals, Shinji relayed to Rei to find a separated firing point and fire in ten minutes, her target being the Chig while he would take the Areotech executive. Making his way quickly and silently through the edge of the woods, looking for a perfect place to take the shot, his emotions and desires locked away till after the mission was over. He found a good location, not perfect but not bad considering the time constraints, and he set up, using the fallen and rotten trunk of a tree that had a hole completely through it as cover. Counting down in his head, Shinji caressed the trigger of his rifle, making sure that it would be a clean shot. The two shots rang out at exactly the same time, making it sound like a single shot and impossible to locate. The two targets fell, with clean holes through their heads, dead before they hit the ground. After the initial mad sweeping fire from both human and Chig weapons, Shinji slung his rifle and made his way to the rendezvous point with Rei to wait till retrieval.
'I'm sorry father, but you made your choice.' He thought as he ghosted away.
In the open grassland, with a hole through his head, lay the dead body of Gendo Ikari, the traitorous Areotech executive.
********
Shinji swept the area around the landing zone as Rei boarded the evacuation ship and turned to cover his hundred yard sprint to the bird. The second Shinji was in, the doors closed and the transports powerful engines powered up, launching the large craft off the ground and into an escape vector from the planet's gravity well and back towards the Japanese Marine Corp carrier 'Atsugi'. A few minutes after dust off, one of the crew, the 153rd 'Black Devils' squadron, approached and gave them each a box that contained all their personal items, which had been left behind for the mission. The first thing they retrieved were their wedding rings, which they immediately slipped on their finger. After retrieving their dog tags, they attached their unit patch to the Velcro strips on their shoulders. The patches had a tilted crown, its grey colouring with white specks represented stone, with an inlayed flaming red jewel on one side and an ice blue one on the other, proclaiming 'Royalty' along the top and '106th Squadron' at the bottom. A single tear rolled down Shinji's cheek and Rei gave his hand a slight squeeze, the only grieving they allowed themselves for their absent father figure. The 'Black Devil' Lieutenant who had given them their belongings watched in awe at the small but definite show of emotion of the emotionless leaders of "The Royalty", no one would believe him if he told them.
The 106th had become legendary in the Japanese Marine Corp, having finished advanced training six months before the start of the war and being the only squadron to successfully engage the Chigs in combat prior to the battle of the belt, not that it had helped, as the Chigs simply decimated the forces around them and moved on. Shinji and Rei were the most famous of the 'Royals', and not only because he was the commanding officer and she was the executive officer. Their cool mannerisms and calm demeanours in battle had given rise to their call signs of 'Stone King' and 'Ice Queen', however they were legendary for seemingly physic abilities in combat. Many believed that they could read each others mind, having seen one seeming to react to the other almost before they had acted. The truth of the matter, that only the other 'Royals' knew, was that they had live together so long that the subtlest shifts in body language were as obvious as a shout.
Shinji and Rei had been born a mere hour apart in the same hospital in downtown Tokyo 3. After the deliveries, Rei and Shinji's mother had been placed in the same room in the maternity ward. When Rei's mother had died of complications two days later, Yui Ikari had decided to take care of Rei, since her father had been a Marine who had died about three months before Rei's birth. With Gendo's position as a high level executive with the multi-national Areotech Corporation, and Yui's fame for microbiology and molecular physics, no one particularly inclined to argue. Yui never tried to hide the fact that Rei was not related to the rest of the family, keeping her surname of Ayanami; however she never tried to exclude her either. As babies, if Shinji and Rei were placed in sperate cribs they would, somehow, end up together. They always spent time together and whenever something happened, they would always head to the other before all others.
"Sir. Lieutenant. We're about to land." The "Black Devil" said.
Shinji just nodded his head as he and Rei began to get their gear ready. The shuttle landed on the pad which was then retracted into one of the Carrier's flight decks. Still wearing the distinctive, in a Carrier's corridors, jungle webbing camouflage of a Sniper's cloak and with their green painted Sniper Rifles slung over their shoulders, Shinji and Rei marched through the corridors headed strait for the briefing room. Even under the black and green camouflage pain obscuring their faces, everyone who passed could see their hard set faces, severe even compared to their usual emotionless, hard appearance. When they arrived at the briefing room, Major Masato Katsuragi, their CO with the call sign 'Empress' and Commodore Rioji Kaji, commander of the 'Atsugi', were waiting for the debrief.
"Report, Captain." Misato said.
"Lieutenant Ikari and I were dropped onto the surface of Melenor one week ago, approximately seventy two miles from the target site..." Shinji began.
About three hours later, Shinji and Rei left the briefing room, having outlined the mission and the kills of Gendo Ikari and the Chig officer referred to as 'The Admiral' by Intelligence. After another two hours of being poked and prodded during a post mission physical by Dr Ritsuko Akagi, Shinji and Rei were finally able to return to the Royalty's quarters.
The Royalty's quarters consisted of four sleeping quarters situated surrounding around a central common area. The common room had a small kitchen area in the back corner, with a scattering of couches, coffee tables and a large viewscreen occupying the rest of the space. The door from the corridor was flush against the left hand wall, with the viewscreen to its right. The door on the left wall, almost at the back of the room, opposite the kitchen, lead to Shinji and Rei's room, while the door close to it on the back wall lead to the room of Lieutenant Kensuke Aida, Call sign 'Baron' and the team's intelligence officer, with half the room covered in electronics equipment.
The door just to the left of the kitchen, lead to the head; located behind the kitchen area. Towards the back of the right hand wall were two doors next to each other. The rearward on lead to Lieutenant Asuka Langley Soryu's room, the temperamental half-German redhead's call sign being 'Fire Princess' and the resident tactics expert, while the forward door lead to the room of Touji and Hikari Suzuhara, call signs 'Duke' and 'Dutches' respectively. Touji was the squad's heavy weapons specialist while his wife, Hikari, was the team medic. As Shinji and Rei entered, Touji and Hikari were seated on one of the couches watching the Viewscreen, Hikari having obviously conned Touji into watching another sappy movie. The music and the hissing of a soldering iron coming from Kensuke's room indicated that he was working on some new project or other, while the clicking of a keyboard and occasional laughter from Asuka's room just as clearly said that she was chatting with her secret online boyfriend.
"Hey Shinji. You look like shit man." Touji said from the couch.
"Touji, shut up. That's an order." Shinji said tiredly.
"Hey, your back." Kensuke said, sticking his head out of his room.
"Well, it's Mr States The Obvious." Asuka retorted, leaning against the door frame to her own room.
"You ok? You weren't injured were you?" Hikari asked, her medic training coming to the fore.
"We're fine. Dr. Akagi gave us a clean bill of health." Rei replied.
"We just need a shower and a week's worth of sleep." Shinji added as they moved to their room.
Touji and Kensuke chuckled at this, before Kensuke returned to his room and Hikari elbowed Touji to get his attention back to the movie. Rei closed the door behind them and they finally let down their defences. They slumped wearily into each other's arms as they made their way to the shower recess in their room. To tired to anything but stand under the flow of hot water, they showered then collapsed into their king sized bed. Finally able to let their emotions go, Shinji and Rei cried and held each other as they mourned the end of Gendo Ikari. Gendo Ikari, the absentee parent, the man who cared more about his work than the children he was raising, the executive who ignored reports that lead to the start of the War, the bastard who betrayed his world and family. Their father.
TBC.