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A/N this was an idea I had floating around for a while, I'm going to be using a lot of custom stuff so in later chapters there will be heavy Techno Babble so be ready
Neon Genesis Evangelion - Gabriel
Chapter 1
Arrival
Shinji Ikari had not lived a normal life
He was abandoned at a young age by a father who didn't care
Raised by his aunt and uncle
And now summoned to Tokyo 3 by the same abandoning father.
Life for Shinji was not easy by any means.
After they had been given formal guardianship of him, his aunt and uncle had enrolled him in public school. Bad idea they later admitted.
As he stood holding the receiver to the pay phone he couldn't believe his luck. The day he arrived in Tokyo 3 his ride was late, everyone had evacuated and now the pay phones didn't work. And not only that, but he had forgotten to pack most of his good casual clothes. So now he was reduced to wearing a pair of black dress pants with a crimson stripe down the side of each leg and a dark blue dress shirt. He wore a thin black button up shirt over it, which he wore like an unbuttoned jacket, tossed over his shoulders. The jacket had Crimson red trim and matched the dress pants he wore. He also had on a pair of black field boots. All in all he radiated confidence and authority.
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Flashback
2008 AD
Young Shinji Ikari sat behind his bedroom door in his uncle and aunt's home listening as the talked with a guest, a military general
"But why do you need him"
"His age, he is one of the candidates to be a pilot"
The argument ended there, Shinji went back with the older military man. A general named Cosmo Riggs. The first traveled by car and then by plane to his base in northern Canada. On the way the general explained everything to the slightly frightened 8 year old
"Don't be scared son, were not going to hurt you"
Shinji sank further into his seat
"You don't trust us do you?"
Shinji eyed the other 3 occupants in the small 9 passenger jet all wore what looked like black military uniforms with crimson red trim; the same thing the general wore. The youngster shook his head and the general nodded
"I can understand that"
He reached into his shirt pocket and withdrew a silver pocket watch
"Here, this is for you"
The surprised 8 year old took the watch gently into his small hands
"Open it"
Shinji pressed the button on top of the watch and opened it, is eyes went wide, inside the lid was a picture of a smiling woman between age 25 and 30 with short brown hair and blue gray eyes, it was his mother. He clenched his tearing up eyes shut and silently cried, he had no pictures of his mom, and he hadn't seen her since she had died 4 years ago. He had been there that day and it still hurt him. The general did his best to comfort the crying 8 year old, as did one of the other officers, Lt Kara Ignas. She and the general then explained all about the organization the worked for, called Cosmos they were the head of something called Project Babylon.
Flash forward 10 hours
Shinji the general and Lt Ignas stood in on of the labs in the base in front of a giant glass window, inside of which dwelled a giant with white skin and a red half orb on its chest being covered with armor. The window was about at the creatures head level and allowed a clear view of the green visor on its armored head which covered its eyes. The youngster was scared, but that was to be expected. The Lt placed her hand on his shoulder
"Don't be scared Shinji it wont hurt you"
"What is it?"
The general answered
"You remember what I told you about the coming of the Angels on the plane right Shinji"
He nodded
"This is the vessel of the angel Gabriel; he is here to help us fight them. We are adding his armor and putting new parts inside of him"
"What's wrong with him?"
The general had to smile at the boy's innocence
"We must put in certain things to allow him to be piloted"
"Why"
"Because if anyone found out what he is, very bad people would take him for study and do very bad things to him. This way, he will be able to make a difference, and you Shinji will be his pilot"
Shinji began his training with Gabriel that summer and each one following.
On his first time inside he discovered he could talk to Gabriel, the angel explained to the boy the reason for the coming of the angels and why they needed to fight them, he understood. A bond formed between the two and the came to trust each other utterly, so much so that they considered each other brothers. Then on Shinji's 12th birthday he was cleared to become Gabriel's full time pilot.
End flashback
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He still couldn't believe the spot he was in, where was that woman who was suppose to pick him up, he took out the picture she had sent him again and looked at the time on the back
"Damn, why now. Guess I should get to a shelter"
Just then he noticed something out of the corner of his eye. A blue haired girl wearing a school uniform standing in the middle of the street staring at him
"Hay"
He reached down to get his bag, when he looked up though the girl was gone
"What the hell, where did she go"
Just then the sound of a distant explosion caught his attention.
There it stood, over 90 meters in height, greenest ugly you have ever seen. And it was determined to destroy anything in its path.
Shinji knew what it was, Sachiel, the 3rd angel
The UN forces, which by this point consisted almost exclusively of VTOLs, were dropping like flies. One crashed down the street from Shinji, it was promptly stepped on. Deafened by the crafts explosion he barely heard the squeal of tires as a blue Renault screeched to a stop betwine him and the Green Ugly. The door of said vehicle opened revealing the person Shinji was looking for, Misato Katsuragi
"Get in, sorry if I'm real late"
Shinji did as ordered and the purple haired driver sped away with her new passenger. After they were a few blocks away Shinji chanced a look at the Green Ugly
"Damn, that was close"
"Yeah I know, so you're Shinji Ikari"
Shinji scoffed
"Yeah, but I don't claim it"
Misato smiled and brought the car to a halt on the empty highway to get a better look
"Hand me those binoculars ok"
Shinji handed them to her
"Now let's have a look"
Misato then noticed the VTOLs move quickly away from the angel
"Now wait a second, no their gona use an N2 mine GET DOWN"
Misato threw herself onto Shinji as an extremely large, nuke like explosion rocked the entire valley the car rocked a bit but didn't fly back like it should have. She looked out her window only to have her view blocked by a giant black knee. The owner of the knee was a machine the size of an Eva, humanoid in appearance, covered head to toe in sleek black armor with gray and red accents here and there on its back were two pods with one small red fin like wing and a thruster on the bottom, its head was covered in helmet like armor with a green visor covering where its eyes would have been and a simple gray face plate. The machine had straddled the car and covered it from the shockwave from the mine. All at one the machine stood and a voice called out
"Shinji I suggest you and whoever you're with get going, I can only distract it for so long before my power reserves run dry"
It then took off to face the angel; Misato floored the gas and headed for HQ. Shinji knew the bit about Gabriel's power reserves was bull, the S2 organ residing in his stomach provided infinite power. Misato looked over at him
"You look awful calm, do you know what that was"
"Yes"
"Are you going to tell me?"
"Classified, sorry, all I can say is that its mine, its artificially intelligent and it and I belong to a group called Cosmos. I can't say any more for now"
"Did your dad send you an ID card?"
"Yeah, here it is"
Shinji pulled the folded piece of paper from his bag with a small identification card paper clipped to it.
"Here read this"
Misato handed him a booklet labeled NERV Top Secret Your Eyes Only.
"Nerv, that's my dad's agency right, am I going to be working for him"
Misato just kept driving, Shinji just shook his head
"Of course he'll want me to, but I probably won't"
"Why not"
"I work for cosmos remember, most likely they already knew this would happen, that's probably why Gabriel was here"
"Gabriel"
"My machine, it's called the Gabriel"
Misato just nodded
"You're more mature than you should be"
"I do have military training; you're not so bad either"
"Thanks"
'I think im going to get along with this kid, though I wonder about that robot. And what exactly is Cosmos' Misato thought as she drove to Nerv
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Misato and Shinji stood on the moving walkway in Nerv as it moved them through the facility, Shinji busy reading the booklet and Misato looking at a map of the facility. As they passed through a door the equalizing pressure caused an up draft
"It's because of these things that I hate to ware a shirt around here"
"Yeah, I figure Gabriel has pulled out by now"
Misato sighed
"I'm sorry I'm not use to this place"
"We passed this spot twice already"
Misato growled a bit
"Well don't worry they make these tram things to be used you know"
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Dr Ritsuko Akagi, Technical Division 1, please contact Misato Katsuragi of Operations
Ritsuko just shook her head
"I don't believe it is she lost again"
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Misato and Shinji stood in the elevator. Shinji, who was feeling a bit cold, put his jacket back on. About that time the elevator doors opened revealing a woman in a lab coat and blue a one piece bathing suit. Though she had blond hair her eyebrows were brown indicating she had dyed her hair.
"Uh hi there Ritsuko"
"Why are you wasting my time Captain?"
"Eh sorry"
The older woman sighed
"So is this the boy"
Shinji's eye twitched
"Excuse me"
The two women turned to him
"I'm a person you know"
It was then that the two noticed the 1st Lt Insignia's on his lapel, Ritsuko then examined the rest of his clothing
"Why are you wearing military type clothing and a Lt Rank Insignia?"
"Remember that machine out side"
Ritsuko shook her head, she hadn't heard yet, Misato told her about what happened outside and Shinji retold what little he told Misato and elaborated a bit more on Cosmos as he could.
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Shinji followed Misato and Ritsuko through Nerv HQ he knew why he was here and knew where they were going. After a little while they came to a darkened room. When the lights came on Shinji was confronted by the purple vestige of Evangelion Unit 01
"…"
Shinji, not wanting to give away that he probably knew as much about the Eva's as their creator, began to flip through the book Misato gave him. He knew quite well, this was the thing that had taken his mother away and the thing she herself had created. It was also the vessel of her soul now, Ritsuko looked over at him
"You won't find this in there; this is Evangelion, our last hope against the angels"
Misato grinned
"You like it"
Shinji just starred at the thing
"It's purple"
The two women just shook their heads Shinji just smiled
"What I kind of like purple black is better though, so where's the old man"
Shinji had seen Gendo in the observation window above the Eva already and looked strait at him
"Never mind girls I found him, so I'm guessing you want me to pilot your little people eater here huh"
"Correct"
A mix of emotions shot through him.
Happiness, finally seeing his father again, anger and betrayal, this bastard had left him with her aunt and uncle and never even called to check on him.
Guess which one won out
"Your little toy isn't so good you know"
He totally ignored him
"Were moving out"
Misato was quick to respond
"Moving out, but Unit 00 is still in cryostats, Wait were going to use unit 01, but Rei is still injured, we don't have a pilot"
Ritsuko just shook her head
"We just received one"
"You're serious"
Ritsuko turned to the boy
"Shinji…"
Before she could finish Shinji cut her off
"No"
"What"
"I won't pilot the thing that took my mom away"
Ritsuko was a bit shaken 'he shouldn't be able to remember that'
"How did you…"
"I was there remember"
Gendo had herd enough, he activated the intercom
"Fuyutsuki"
"Sir"
"Wake rei"
"Can she still do it?"
"She's not dead yet, Rei"
"Yes sir"
"The spare refuses, you will do it again"
"Yes sir"
Shinji had herd the whole conversation and was pissed
"So I'm just a spare to you huh, maybe I should leave and let your little doll die up there, Gabriel and I, are more than capable of killing that thing"
"And exactly what is that"
"The other machine outside earlier"
Gendo knew exactly what he was talking about
"And where did you come by it"
"All I'll say is that it and I are part of an organization called Cosmos, anything else is classified, and don't bother trying to just jail me until I talk, its artificially intelligent and I share an empathic bond with it, if something happens to me, it'll know and I doubt your purple thingy can scratch it"
Just then the side doors opened and a pair of medics wheeled out a stretcher which had a blue haired girl on it. A sudden jolt caused the stretcher to tip dropping the girl to the catwalk in front of unit 01's face, Shinji was immediately at her side comforting her as best he could.
He had read Cosmos's file on this girl Rei, she was a half angel half human who's human half was made up of his moms DNA, which in a way made her his sister, so he would treat her like one.
Another jolt knocked loose some beams above Shinji and the girl. Shinji closed his eyes, shielded Rei and waited for the inevitable, which didn't come. He opened her eyes to find a gigantic hand above him, Unit 01's hand. He smiled a bit
'So you are in there, huh mom'
Ritsuko couldn't believe it, unit 01 had just activated, with out power or commands, and protected Shinji. Misato just sat amazed. Shinji looked down at Rei, how could his father even want a girl this hurt to pilot this thing his mother built.
'How can he do this, did he ever cared about anything? Rei can't even move. It's me or her. At least I'll end up with mom if I die, I doubt that will happen with Gabriel out there'
"Misato, show me how to do this"
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Shinji sat in the entry plug after a few minuets of explanations by Ritsuko and Misato on how to pilot the Eva.
"So its gona fill up with a breathable liquid"
Misato nodded
"Yep"
Shinji handed Misato his bag and jacket which had his watch in it. Ritsuko reached into the plug and input a few codes for some of the sub-systems
"There now it's ready"
Shinji smiled a bit; already he was getting use to the idea of doing this. After all from what they said, piloting Gabriel was almost the same.
Ritsuko closed and locked the hatch. The entry plug was then loaded into the Eva. Shinji sat still as the entry plug filed with the orange LCL
'God this stuff is nasty, it tastes like blood, smells like it too, now I need a shower'
The scenes in the plug then flashed various colors befor turning on. Shinji could see through the Eva's eyes, see what it saw in the scenes. He could even feel what it felt; it felt like he was feeling the world through a sweater. She also felt warm inside the Eva, even comfortable. And also the very faint feeling of someone hugging him from behind
'It feels like mom'
He thought to himself remembering his mother's warm embrace.
Ritsuko's assistant Maya Ibuki had been monitoring the progress of the Eva's activation
"Sync graph cleared, synchronization now at…78.9 how is that posable"
Misato just smiled
"Seems like he's a prodigy"
Maya tilted her head to look at her superior officer
"Maybe"
"Yeah"
She turned and looked at the commander
"Sir, can we really do this"
"Of course"
Misato nodded and turned back to the console
"Ready Shinji"
The younger boy's confident voice filled the speakers
"Ready, let's do it"
"EVA LAUNCH"
A/N well what do you think. I don't know if this is actually a unique idea or not but im gona try it anyway. Updates will be every so often, I can't guarantee a time
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