Evangelion: Lost Reports

The Song of Eva

At the time we didn't know, we had no idea what we were getting ourselves into. With the sudden death of Dr. Akagi, and the dissolution of Gehirn. We were lost. The new organization was to be called NERV... I was skeptical, we had lost our chief researcher and the person who could've contributed the most to the Project. So I, Dr. Ryoko Fujibayashi took matters into my own hands... I hacked into the central database to gather intel based on the Evangelion prototype unit 00. If I were to create my own Evangelions, based on the prototype unit, I could essentially carry out the ideals originally laid out to us at Gehirn... I had no idea how wrong I was in my thinking back then until after all hell broke loose...

Chapter I

Kouji Toujigamori

It was morning, about half past nine when I arrived in Tokyo-02. All along the way I heard reports of a Tokyo-03 redevelopment project... but I didn't see anything out of the ordinary. Old Tokyo was under water, and Tokyo-02 looked like any other city... sure it was bustling and large, but all in all – it was just another city in the world. My name is Kouji Toujigamori. I think my parents decided to play a game when naming me because of the similar soundings to the beginning of my surname and the sound of my given name... other than that, I'm 23 years old and I attend Tokyo University.

I haven't always lived in Tokyo, as a matter of fact, I come from Osaka. I was born 23 years ago today, making this my 23rd birthday. It just turned 2011, so I'm happy to say as a New Year child, I get to usher in the new year with my birthday every year. My girlfriend, Ouka, always teases me about it – but it makes our "New Year Celebration" all the more better, if you know what I mean.

"Ah, you must be Toujigamori Kouji – I'm Dr. Ryoko Fujibayashi – it's a pleasure to finally meet you in person", said the woman who was standing behind me. She must've caught my reflection in the large window of the party store that I was looking in while daydreaming.

"I'm glad you decided to meet with me, Toujigamori--"

I immediately cut her off, "'Kouji'", I didn't like my last name, and I sure as heck didn't want our business relationship to start off with her using it all the time. I make it my 'way' to ensure that people call me by my first name all the time. You can imagine how the polite-natured people of Japan would have a difficult time in doing this... you should've seen me in highschool...

"Oh, well then, Kouji-kun, I'm glad you decided to meet with me. To be honest, I was starting to worry that you'd reconsidered..."

"Well, I'm just a mere medical student, but when you told me about being able to study 'new organisms' that weren't listed on the International level... I couldn't help but be intrigued."

To be honest, I was more interested to see if she was pulling my leg or not. I'm not a fan of people who claim to have found 'new life' and it only turns out to be something ridiculous... but the way Dr. Fujibayashi put it, it didn't come off as your average BS story. And I couldn't deny the fact that she was absolutely beautiful. She had long black hair with a tint of forest green in direct sunlight. She wore glasses along with her business dress shirt and short skirt. It was enough to get me nervous... luckily I have Ouka or I might've reacted in a more... embarrassing manner...

"Is something wrong, Kouji-kun? You don't have a fever or anything do you?" She said without warning, placing her forehead directly against mine.

"N-no, nothings wrong... I just, uh..." I said, feeling like a complete idiot. It's not like I could've told her that I was thinking about her bespectacled beauty...much less her body...

"Well, that's good. There are three others who have been selected by me as well. I managed to get in contact with them fairly recently – like you, I was worried they too would've stood me up on my offer."

I had no idea there would be more, but that would make it interesting I thought. That way, I wouldn't have to worry about the workload all by myself. Taking part in a study with others is like a field trip, you know there's work to be done, but you take joy in the fact you don't have to do it all alone. As we walked towards an office building in the office district, I wondered to myself just who the other three were whom I'd be working with... Needless to say, I was quite surprised when the three others were all close to me and attended Tokyo University with me as well...