A Nautilus Production.

By Capt. Nemo

Well folks, here is the first rewritten chapter of 'A Mother's Wish'. I hope that you all approve of the changes that I made. I added some more description and some more lines. The grammar was also fixed.

On with the story

Disclaimer, I don't own any of this.

A Mothers wish

The purple bio-mechanical robot seemed to be looking at her though the window. It's yellow eyes boring into here mind, as if it knew what was about to happen. As if it knew that it would be come the resting place of her soul, the place that she might never leave.

"Its almost time" a woman said to her refection in the window. Beyond the window was her greatest achievement, the bio-mechanical construct known as evangelion. She remembered the day that the need for this had come about, June 13, 2000. Second impact. She remembered it well for only a few days later her son was born. Four years later, after research and many failed attempts, they had finally gotten it right. Now there was only one piece missing, and she would provide it.

'I don't want to have to go through with this, but it's the only way.' she thought to herself. The core had to be aligned, and this was the only way to do it. She was doing this because she knew that her son would be piloting it, and she would not let any one else do this. It was the only way she thought to truly protect her son.

'I hope Gendo takes care of Shinji. Despite what he says, I don't think that he cares for him as much as he should.' Yui thought. Shinji meant the world to her, her only son. It was his fate that he would pilot unit 01, the unit that stood on the other side of the glass looking back at her.

"I only wish that he have the strength to pilot it, and protect those that can't protect themselves" she said to herself. When she said those words, the world started getting dark. 'What's going on?'

"For him to have the strength to protect others? To have the strength to pilot it? Is that what you wish for you son, what about the will to live? The will to stand up for what he knows is right? What about the will to fight for what he knows is right?" A voice said from the dark. It was soothing and comforting, yet it also carried with it a sense of power. Power that was massive, but under complete control. "You don't have to do this, there must be another way?"

"There is no other way. The Evangelions are the only way for us to destroy the Angels, we have to in order to live. I looked for another way, but I couldn't find any." She replied to the voice that seemed to come from everywhere.

"What about your son? What will happen to him? Will he not be the pilot?" The strange voice asked the brown haired woman.

"I don't know what will happen to him. The only thing that I can do is to hope for the best. I can only hope that he has the strength to live through what is ahead of him."

"The strength to live? Is that nothing with out the will to live?"

"I only want him to be able to live and to protect."

"Don't you want to see him again? Don't you want to see him as he grows up? Don't you want to see him be happy?"

"Yes I do, I want to help him have the strength to do all that. The only problem is that I am the only one that can make it work, no one else can. I also know what will become. As the third child, he is destined to be the one to defeat the Angel's," she knelt down on to the ground and started to cry, no longer able to hold the tears back. She let them flow freely, knowing that this would be the last time she'd feel them run down her face. Simple things, like crying, she had never thought about missing, now she realized that she would be missing everything we would consider mundane, she would never feel pain, she would never taste food, and never be able to smile again.

"How do you know this?"

"It is predicted in the dead sea scrolls. They say that the one to defeat the Angels is the son of the forger of the weapon that will destroy them, and that her soul shall rest 'inside' that weapon. That's how I know," the woman replied to the question. She had seen parts of the scrolls as they had been apart of her work. She never truly trusted the SEELE committee, but she had no choice but to trust them. They held the power to decide what was going to happen.

"How do you know this to be true?"

"Because everything that they said will happen so far has happened."

"Everything can change, and everything can stay the same. Yet nothing can change, and nothing can stay the same. Because of this there has to be another way, scrolls written thousands of years ago may have had a meaning in their time, but do they have a meaning today?"

"I don't know, I just don't know," The woman replied from the ground. "All I want is for my son to be able to fight, survive, and Live. Yet I also want him to have happiness in his life. That's all I wish for him, A chance at a normal life after."

"Is that truly your wish? Do you truly want your son to be able to fight, survive, and protect everyone else and be happy? Is this truly what you wish?" The voice asked.

"Yes, that is what I wish for."

"Then your wish shall be granted." With that word, the darkness began to fade.

She looked at the clock and saw that it was time to go. On the way to the Eva, she ran into her son. Picking him up for what would be the last time, she carried him into the control room where she gave him with one final hug. Her fate awaited her, and she would answer it's call.

That evening.

That night a figure could be seen standing atop the sea of LCL looking into the eyes of the eva, the soul and a mother now resting in its core. "For what you wished for, I shall grant you another wish, one that you know wish for. You shall see you son again. That I promise." After she had said this, another figure came into view beside her.

"Come on sis, its time to go home. You have done all you can for know."

"I know Urd, I'll be right there."

"Okay Bell, see you at home." with that the other figure disappeared.

She glanced back to where her sister had disappeared, then looked at the monstrosity that was Evangelion Unit-01. "Everything will not be as hope for, but you will see your son again Yui Ikari, that I promise." And with that the figure disappeared.

END

Well folks, here is the first chapter that has been rewritten. I hope that you all like it. I tried to capture the feelings of Yui as she got ready for the test, and I hope that I got it.

Until next time,

Keep your stick on the ice