On September 13th, 2000, a massive explosion in Antarctica occurred.
Many nations were shattered by this explosion, plunging the world into a hellhole of war and death.
Many helpless souls perished, many economies faltered and government corruption grew stronger in the fallout.
This catastrophic event was dubbed by many as the "Second Impact"
From the ashes of ruin and disaster, hope for change and prosperity for the future arose.
However, many believed that that something within Antarctica was responsible.
Something inhuman.
Many believed that a race of beings were living deep inside Antarctica.
An unusual, mysterious race only known as The Angels.
With the threat of the angels in the near future possible a new breed of combat weapons has been born to answer the call of duty.
They are...
The Evangelions.
Biomechanical organisms of flesh and steel unlike anything the human eye has seen.
However, there are only few on this world that are able to control these titans.
Few that share one thing in common…
They are mere children in their early teens.
Children conceived just after the Second Impact.
It is currently unknown why only they can pilot these potential saviors of the world.
With that said, this tale follows one of those children.
A child who will stand center stage in the spotlight for the fate of mankind...
Ayanami: Vengeance
Prologue
March 31st, 2001.
Somewhere in Japan a dark, grimy and humid underground parking lot footsteps are heard.
A young Caucasian woman, frantically keeping her clutches on her day old child, neatly wrapped within a light blue blanket, is on the run deep in a dark, grimy and humid underground parking lot.
She is sweaty, panic-stricken, dressed in a damp gray hospital gown with a denim jacket covering it and gray hospital slippers, panting and heaving as she runs through the parking lot to find her charcoal-colored Dodge Viper.
Behind her, a group of soldiers wearing JSSDF tactical combat uniforms and wielding custom outfitted AN-94 Assault Rifles, with the laser scopes being clearly aimed at the escapee.
The woman, who's long, unkempt dark brown hair flies around as she runs, turns her head and sees the soldiers on her tail. A split second later she finds her car.
She gets in and initially reaches her right hand into the right pocket of the jacket, but quickly remembers that she's an escapee from a hospital, which all of her personal belongings were taken away from her shortly after being admitted, with the jacket belonging to her husband's and the gown and shoes being the property of the hospital.
Quickly coming up with an alternate plan to get in, she backs away from her car, runs towards it and with a strength befitting a mother on her own protecting her only offspring, she kicks the left back door window, breaking through it with startling ease.
She then reaches her hand in though the broken window and despite stressing her left hand out, manages to unlock and open the back right door. She then grabs a bassinet sitting on the back seat, frantically pulling it out and shaking the shards of glass out.
She then places her one day old child into the bassinet, securely puts it back onto the seat and puts a seat belt over it. She then reaches her hand towards the driver seat side, unlocks it and pulls her arm back out of the car to slam the door shut.
With everything ready to do, she steps back out to steal a glance at her pursuers.
They're getting closer, ready to incapacitate her well being and steal her child away.
She takes one more look at her child, then properly enters the car.
Once inside, she begins to quickly hot wire the car, all the while combating the stress and exhaustion from running a great distance.
From outside she begins to hear muffled gunfire from her pursuers, which all the more gives her a greater incentive to hurry up.
With a simple spark, the car roars to life. She keeps a strong grip on the wheel until her knuckles turned white, puts the car in reverse and without a second though, backs her car out while proceeding to run into several soldiers, sending them flying into other nearby parked cars. She then ducks down to avoid getting hit as a hail of gun fire shattered her windshield, tries her best to navigate out of the parking and blazes out of the parking lot , breaking out of the darkness and entering the light, leaving her pursuers and the hospital behind without any regrets.
The remaining JSSDF soldiers, who managed to barrel out of the way in time to prevent getting hit, stand up and see the crippled bodies of their fallen comrades, sickeningly spread out on dented cars like grotesque hood ornaments.
"That bitch killed Carth and Boomer!", the lead solider yells at his remaining comrades as he examines the stiff, mangled bodies of his deceased men on top of the dented parked cars.
"I know... but she managed to escape. Mr. Lorenz isn't gonna be pleased to be presented that kind of news", another solider informs her superior officer.
"Yes. She escaped with that child our bosses value. That, in particular, is why Mr. Lorenz is gonna want my ass on a silver platter with a side order of your heads", the lead soldier replied.
'Well, it was nice knowing you, Rodion", a third soldier informed his superior. "Hope your father can get you out of this one."
"Yeah yeah yeah...head out.", the lead soldier commanded his remaining comrades as they all walked out of the parking lot and into an entrance way to their place of command.
The JSSDF soldiers follow their leader as he walks through a metallic hallway which a mixture of various people in business suits and scientists are passing by and doing their own things. They all then walk up to a large oak door with a name plate that read "Keel Lorenz" and proceed to enter the room one by one.
After they all stepped inside, they see a black office chair facing backwards behind a desk. Before any of them could settle in, the person behind the desk informs, "Lieutenant Frammartino and Captain Bosque. You are excused. Leave me and General Nicholaiev alone." which leads to two of them exiting the room, leaving their commanding officer behind.
"General Rodion Nicholaiev. I've been expecting you", the man behind the desk informs him.
"Yes, Mr. Lorenz. I know you have...which is why I am here to inform you that Private Carth and Lieutenant Boomer were killed in action.", General Nicholaiev replies as he stands in front of the table and chair doing his best not tofurther anger his boss.
"Hmmm... I wonder why. Did you manage to capture our escapee and the prize she took from us?", Mr. Lorenz, still hidden in view, asks.
General Nicholaiev, having a very nervous look in his face, lightly tiptoed around the room while fiddling his fingers together, replied "Well.. we managed to eliminate her husband, since he got in the way but...uhhhh...ummmm..."
Mr. Lorenz then turns his chair around, revealing him to be an aging gray haired man dressed in a green business suit. He leans in towards his desk, looks into General Nicholaiev's hazel eyes with his piercing dark gray eyes and sternly asks "Did you...let her escape with the key to humanity's future?"
Nervously shifting his eyes to the left and the right, General Nicholaiev slightly took a glance at Mr. Lorenz's face and chuckles, "Heh...she got away". He then nervously nods his head and ads, with his voice reaching a higher octave and chuckling "She got away. Fucking bitch got away all thanks to her piece of shit husband, who we successfully terminated, yet she escaped. Got in her car, backed out and turned Carth and Boomer into car ornaments. Yup...we failed to capture her and take that little brat you and your friends are relying on so much to be retrieved."
As General Nicholaiev continues to mumble and essentially "one man mosh" through the room, his ranting and passing comments end up degenerating into pure spastic gibberish, thus prompting Mr. Lorenz to latch onto General Nicholaiev's left shoulder with his right hand and pull him towards the table while slamming his left hand down on the table hard. He then twists his face into a stiff, snarling look and coldly growls, "YOU LET HER GET AWAY WITH THE CHILD!"
"Unfortunately...yes. Like I said...", General Nicholaiev frantically jabbers in response as he skittishly rolled his fingers against each other and displays some twitches in his face.
Mr. Lorenz the put his other hand onto General Nicholaiev's right shoulder and roughly pulls him onto the desk, with his face facing directly into Mr. Lorenz's own staring at him with a look that displays absolute rage and anger, with his teeth clamped to each other as he growls "DO YOU NOT REALIZE WHO SHE IS, GENERAL NICHOLAIEV. DO YOU?"
"Negative, Mr. Lorenz...", General Nicholaiev admitted in a spooked tone.
Mr. Lorenz then edges his face even closer into General Nicholaiev's and coldly informs him "That woman is Agent Danielle Mann-Parkerson of the United States Government and happens to be the mother of humanity's key to the future. She is a top of the line agent in the CIA, a former marine and all around considered by many to be one of the the most lethal and unpredictable human being in all fields of combat and investigation. In other words...she is someone to not be underestimated."
General Nicholaiev darts his eyes to the left and to the right, with several sweat drops dripping from his face. He then nervously chuckles, "But the bitch just gave birth yesterday. How in the fuckin' world was it possible for her to escape, let alone... break a car door window with a single kick under those circumstances?."
Mr. Lorenz then grits his teeth again and grunts, "I told you all this in the briefing. Just because she gave birth yesterday doesn't mean she would just back down and give up without a fight. In fact, you didn't need to bring her in alive. All I want is the child brought back to me without a single scratch"
"Mr. Lorenz, I understand that this child is important to you and you friends, but what is it that makes her so...special?", General Nicholaiev asks Mr. Lorenz, while still sounding a bit nervous, has calmed down considerably, due to realizing that Mr. Lorenz isn't going to crucify him for his failure...just yet. "If i'm going to put all of my time and energy into retrieving this damn child, I need to know full, explict details of what make her so fuckin' special."
Mr. Lorenz immediately eases his clutch on General Nicholaiev, clears his throat and tells him "Alright then. I'll grant your wish and elaborate why we need that child...as long as you don't inform any of your men and take a seat for me.", in which Nicholaiev simply complies by pulling up a chair nearby and sitting down on it. "Since last year, we've been conducting an experiment by injecting a special strand of DNA extracted from a mysterious race of beings we, at SEELE, refer to as 'Angels' into developing human embryos. We hoped that we could create a new race as the next phase in human evolution. However, as fate would have it, most of these experiments often resulted into total failure, with the newborn children often being too deformed and physically unable to live."
"So you're telling me is that you're trying to play god with some DNA and developing human embryos?" General Nicholaiev replies to the first batch of information he received, sounding a bit repelled by some of it.
"Yes and no, General Nicholaiev.", Mr. Lorenz replies "What we're trying to do is take our evolution to the next level by making the next generation superior than any of us living today."
Mr. Lorenz stretches his neck around and adds. "Despite the failures, we continued to keep experimenting, always ending up in failure... until we met the Nagisas. Unlike previous tests, their child managed to survive birth...with some unfortunate birth defects"
"What kind of birth defects?", General Nicholaiev asks Mr. Lorenz with a strong sense of morbid curiosity in his voice as he places his hands onto his knees and leans on his chair.
"The Nagisa kid was born with a severe case of Bronchopulmonary Dysphasia. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease if you're not educated in the medical fields. Poor child can't breath on his own and requires to be in a Pressure Chamber at all times. He's also rather sickly looking, judging by various observations me and my colleagues have made", Mr. Lorenz replies in his typically cold, morose tone.
"So what about Agent Mann's child. What makes her different from the Nagisa child?", General Nicholaiev asks as he continues to lean on his chair, completely invested in hearing what Mr. Lorenz is telling him.
"As I keep telling you, that child is the key to our future. Unlike the Nagisa child and the failed experiments, we decided to use the DNA of another angel in hopes to see if it could yield us some better results. Now, with Mrs. Parkerson in the picture after signing up to our...ahem...bogus newborn disease prevention serum program after calling the number found on the program's infomercial, we felt that her unborn child should be the first to receive this brand of DNA and to our shock...she was a complete success. In fact, she is genetically superior in just about every aspect to any of the failed experiments, the Nagisa child and practically humanity as a whole. She is what we have been hoping for ever since we started this program, but you and your officers weren't persistent enough and managed to let her get away!", Mr. Lorenz replies and continues to scold General Nicholaiev for his poor planning and actions that led to Mrs. Parkerson escaping.
"Mr. Lorenz, I assure you that me and my team will not let her get away with the child next time...if there is one.", General Nicholaiev replied in response.
"There certainly will, General Nicholaiev. I entrust you now to take care of the matter, especially since I wouldn't want your father, who is a member of the Russian Federation, to view you as a total failure. If you are able to bring the child in, you'll not only benefit humanity's future, but your family name will be engraved in the annals of history's greats", Mr. Lorenz informed General Nicholaiev, with his voice sounding more optimistic and manipulative than before.
"I won't fail either of you. I promise", General Nicholaiev replied as he stood up. He then bowed and added, "Now...when is our next chance to capture the child?"
"Right now, we do not have a confirmed location of where our escapee is, but when its given to us...I'm coming along with you...and my own personal team of negotiators and secretaries. You and several others will be my body guards in case Mrs. Parkerson decides to attack, okay?" Mr. Lorenz asked General Nicholaiev as he clamped his hands together and hunched towards the desk.
"Yes I do.", General Nicholaiev replied as he nodded.
"Good. Now hand me a bullet proof vest. I need it in case she attempts to shoot me.", Mr. Lorenz responded back as he ordered General Nicholaiev to fetch him a bullet proof vest for protection.
Hours have passed since Danielle Mann-Parkerson has escaped from the SEELE-fronted hospital where she gave birth to her daughter.
"There there, my little angel", Danielle calmly whispers to her daughter as she sits on a wooden platform in a shadowy alleyway within a rather small town as she breastfeeds her to keep her alive. She then spots several different Japanese posters nailed to the wall on the other side of the alleyway. She also hears a constant dripping from an exposed pipe nearby that, aside from the nursing of her child, was the most audible noise in the area.
"Well...this is rather surprising. I came here to give you a serum to prevent you from developing debilitating diseases and disorders, all while planning to stop Seele, but instead, I find myself stripped of all my belongings and reduced to goddamn hospital gown and some slippers. At least your father, bless his soul for letting us escape with our lives, gave me his jacket to make me look a little more presentable. I never wanted you to be whisked into this type of a life, especially so soon in your life, my darling, and I will go out my way to keep my promise", Danielle tells her one day old child, who continues to receive her mother's milk as a meal for the day.
Danielle slowly lets herself off the platform and walks out of the alleyway to take a peak at the buildings on the street. Most of them were mom and pop shops for various goods and supplies. However, what caught all her attention was a rather odd looking building with a large white tarp with words in Japanese painted in black.
"I don't understand a single lick of Japanese, but I wonder if that's an orphanage?", Danielle ponders to herself as she examines the building and tarp from a distance. She then looks at her daughter, still drinking her mother's milk, and informed her "My dear angel. I think i've found a place for you to live a burden free life".
She then pulls her child away from her left breast and towards her face, adding "You are so beautiful, my angel. I wish I could raise you myself to guide you through life, but since I know I won't be able to survive any longer being free, I can only hope someone else can appreciate the angelic qualities you possess, especially at this age."
Danielle pauses for a second to let out a depressed sigh, then adds "I know you will grow up to be a very beautiful woman with a perfect life, which is why I am doing this for you"
Danielle then began to tear up and sniffles while she continues. "I hope you will forgive me in the future once you find out, but this is for your own good. "
She clears her nose with a single sniff and adds, "I just want you to live free and prosper!", which she then broke into tears and cries "My angel, my beautiful angel. I love you with all my heart. Even thoughI won't be of this planet when you grow up, I will still be with you by your side all the time!"
Danielle, while crying, slowly walks towards her parked Dodge Viper and opens the left back door, situating her child back into the bassinet. She then lifts it, walks away from the car door and shuts it, proceeding to head back to the building with the white tarp hanging on it.
As she reaches the door steps of the building, she then gives her daughter one final look, informed her "Goodbye, my angel. Not ever death will stop me from loving you", plants a big kiss on her forehead and plac the bassinet on the main doorstep. She then knocks on the door and runs back to the alleyway, spying on the building.
The door of the building opens with an aging Japanese woman wearing a formal suit of sorts walking out. She picks up the bassinet, sees the child and says several words in Japanese in a shocked yet delighted tone that at one point sounds marginally hostile but in the end remains calm. With the bassinet in hand she then walks into the building, shutting the door behind her.
Despite not knowing what was said Danielle was satisfied that her daughter will receive the life she wanted her to have.
As she stands by the alleyway, a nearby payphone begins to rings for reasons unknown, which greatly startles her. Having no other choice, she runs towards and answers it.
"Who is this?", Danielle asks as she talked into the phone.
"Agent Mann, I want you meet me at the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in roughly ten minutes.", the voice on the other line replies.
"How the hell do you know who I am?" Danielle yells back, trying to get an answer out of the person on the other end.
However, much to her irritation, the phone immediately hangs up on her without hesitation.
Realizing what the phone call means, its now her time to meet her maker. She knows that she's not going to make it out of the country alive, especially since her husband sacrificed himself to help her and her daughter escape. She then runs towards her Dodge Viper, gets in and sits on the driver's seat.
Inside, she opens the glove compartment, revealing her custom outfitted Colt Delta Elite. Danielle took the gun out, examined it and reloaded it, proceeding to place it in her husband's jacket right pocket. She then starts the car up and drives off, heading towards the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge as fast as she could.
Roughly eight minutes later, the sun has being to set in. Danielle arrives on the bridge, only to be surrounded by a swarm of cars, armored vans and a helicopter hovering overhead.
"Agent Mann...please step out of the car. I repeat. Agent Mann...please step out of the car now!", a voice from the helicopter yells out, using a megaphone to amplify the volume of his voice.
Danielle, knowing that it's the end, gets out of her car and finds herself surrounded by a swarm of people with camcorders and JSSDF soldiers. She then spots a limo drive up and park, which a young woman in a custom fitted business suit and a familiar looking aging man emerge out of it.
"Keel Lorenz, long time CEO and head of Seele, I've been waiting to meet you.", Danielle announces to Keel as he walks towards her.
"I share the same sentiments, Agent Mann. You know who I am, but I very much know who you are", Keel replied as he stood in front of Danielle. "and you've proven yourself to be quite the nuisance to us."
"I can imagine, Keel. In fact, I've been waiting for this moment myself so I can take you down myself.", Danielle informed Keel in a marginally sadistic, frustrated yet at the same time satisfied tone while grinning.
"So that's why you called the number on that informercial, Agent Mann. You basically went out all your way to risk the life of your unborn child and loving husband just to see if you can put an end to our control?" Keel asks Danielle with a hint of a chuckle in his voice. "Even though your child turned out to be quite the valuable asset we've been waiting for."
"Of course, Keel. I know how much of a iron clutch you and SEELE friends have on our precious world. If I was able to take you all down through other means I would've done it in a heartbeat. However, as much as I admit it was stupid of me to even risk the life of my child by signing up to your bullshit super embryo serum infomercial program, it was the only way possible for me to get to this point." Danielle replied with sternness in her voice.
"Regardless of your little plan to exterminate us, your child is now the key to our evolution. She's all that matters to us, Agent Mann. Just hand her over to us and there will be no harm.", Keel informs Danielle as his eyes dart right into her own and steps closer towards her.
Danielle shifts her eyes to the left and to the right, thinks for a second, then replies "You want my child? Fine. Take her. I wasn't ready to start a family yet anyhow."
Keel, although sensing a bit of fishiness in Danielle's remarks, is satisfied by what she said and tells her "I'm glad that you made this decision for the sake of mankind. We'll appreciate it dearly.". He then reaches his right hand towards one of Danielle's to receive a handshake. Danielle complies and shakes it with her own.
"Anyways, give me a second to hand over my useless daughter to you." Danielle informs him after they shook hands. "She's in the car."
"Make it quick, Agent Mann. We don't have any time for you to fiddle around.", Keel replies to Danielle's statement.
Danielle simply nods as she walks towards her parked Dodge Viper, opens the left back door, reaches in and pulls out something wrapped in blankets. With it in hand, she shuts the door and walks back towards Keel and his group.
"Here's my child. Take her. Do what you want. I was naïve to think I could singlehandedly take you and SEELE down, but since I failed..why not. Do whatever the fuck you want with my daughter, I have no desire to raise her myself anymore." Danielle tells Keel as she hands the object towards him.
He then takes it, smiles and replies "Thank you. Thank you for handing her own and paying you dues to humanity. Your contributions will not go without credit. You are excused."
Danielle begins to walk back to her Dodge Viper, but stops halfway, turns around and heads back to Keel and Co. as she replies, "You know... sometimes I wonder how it feels to be in full control the world. Have all of that power to stifle society and manipulate everyone in your path to further your own greed and power?"
"Why is that, Agent Mann?" Keel questions her as she decided to not leave just yet. "Your job is finished. Go back home and return to your pathetic way of living without your husband and child. Our business is done here and you did your part, now be gone!"
"Yes, Keel..i'm leaving, but before I part I have a question to ask you." Danielle asks him.
"Enlighten me, Agent Mann." Keel replies, sounding relatively irritated with her.
"Have you ever took a bullet to your body?", Danielle replies. "If not, I think it's a good time for you to do so.", which she whips her Colt Delta Elite out of her right jacket pocket and aims it at Keel.
Everyone, except Danielle, gasp as she reveals her firearm to everyone. Without hesitation, she pulls the trigger, sending the bullet right into Keel's chest, violently knocking him down to the floor.
General Rodion Nicholaiev screams"Open Fire!", which prompts his troops to aim their guns at Danielle and open fire, causing streams of blood to erupt from Danielle's body and viciously forcing her body to stumble to the pavement.
Believing that his men neutralized the threat, General Nicholaiev slowly walks up towards Danielle's bloodied, bleeding body and aims his gun at her. However, much to his horror, Danielle raises her head, which blood is dripping and pouring out of her nostrils and mouth in a stomach churning manner. She twists her mouth into a demented blood drenched grin, looks at him and raises her gun towards his head
Dumbfounded that Danielle is still alive, General Nicholaiev does nothing but stands like an idiot, at a complete lost in trying to decided what to do next.
Deciding to not waste any more time on her depleting mortality, Danielle pulls the trigger, sending a bullet flying right into Nicholaiev's left eye and squeezing right out of his head, letting a sickening geyser of blood and brain matter spray out out of the hole. His body then frantically stumbles around like a possessed man having a seizure, clutching onto the trigger of his assault rifle as one final act of impulsive, reflex-imposed action.
The gun fire hits the secretary, another JSSDF soldier and several men in suits, killing them all instantly. General Nicholaiev's body then finally falls down, still firing the gun at an aimless direction hitting nothing but a nearby wall until the gun runs out of ammo and his reflexes stop dead cold.
Horrified by their commanding officer's sudden death, the remaining soldiers aim their guns at a dying Danielle and without any hesitation, get into position to open fire.
Still standing but losing her grip, Danielle aims her gun at the JSSDF soldiers, smiles and lets out one final laugh before she pulls the trigger.
Despite her increasingly weakening state, she pulls the trigger, which sends a bullet flying into a wall. This prompts one of the JSSDF soldiers, which happens to be Lieutenant Patrizia Frammartino, to point at Danielle and yell, "FIRE!"
The JSSDF soliders open fire, sending a plethora of bullets at Danielle. Her left arm is completely ripped off by the hail of bullets, her torso and stomach are torn open, allowing her entrails to fall and fly out in a quesy manner. Her cranium is ripped is shreds a little, with brain manner, bone, hair and skin fragments splash away like a barrel of cranberries being poured, all while her lower jaw gets split in half and dangles on her skull like a horrific slab of meat suspended in the air. The skin of her left leg gets shredded, showing bones and muscle tissue.
The force of the bullets become strong enough to knock Danielle's lifeless body right down to the ground, which the bullets continue to reduce it to a disgusting, nightmarish pile of tattered clothes, body parts, blood and entrails.
Amidst the chaos, Keel lays on the pavement, physically unable to stand back up. Blood oozes from his back and large gobs of spinal fluid dribble out of his nostrils His eyes then grow heavy as his vision becomes fuzzy and incomprehensible. Unable to keep consciousness, he blacks out.
"Master Lorenz, are you awake?", Lieutenant Frammartino's voice calls out of the darkness.
"I think he should be responding soon, but be patient if he doesn't regain conscious." an aging meek man with a long nose replies.
Keel finally opens his eyes and finds himself in a darkened room, firmly situated on a hospital bed surrounded by various gizmos and electronics.
As he looks around the room, he spots Lieutenant Frammartino and the meek man, only to ask the latter "Nigel Gibeault, what the hell am I doing in here?"
"I'm afraid to be the bearer of bad news...but your spinal cord has been severed as a result of a bullet that pierced through your bullet proof vest during the standoff with the late Agent Danielle Mann-Parkerson." Nigel replies back with a grim tone in his voice.
Keel does not reply, but instead rolls his eyes around in shock as he's been rendered speechless by this news.
"...I can assure you this will not be a complete inconvenience since there's an operation out there that can give you an artificial spine." Nigel adds. "At first it may take a while to adjust your lifestyle with it, but in the end you'll be able to continue living your current lifestyle."
Keel remains silent, obviously bitter and taken aback by this news.
"...Master Lorenz...if you're at a loss of words, I can tell you the news of the child at a later date." Lieutenant Frammartino informs him.
Hearing what the JSSDF solider said, he coldly darts his eyes towards her and growls, "Don't wait on it, Ms. Frammartino, I want you to tell me now."
"But what about your spine?" she replies back.
"Forget about it." Keel growls back. "As Nigel said, I can get a new one, just give me the information on the child."
"There was no child at the scene, Master Lorenz." Lieutenant Frammartino replies. "Agent Mann fooled us all with her little diversion that cost her life."
"Damn it!" Keel growls back. "I knew I should've not underestimated her during our little exchange."
"I have some more bad news to tell you." Nigel informs him.
"What is it?" Keel asks him, sounding increasingly angry over the situation at hand.
"The lid has been blown off our little informercial scam and we're in deep shit." Nigel replies. "You don't know how much of our reputation is on jepardy because of what went down."
"Son of a bitch!" Keel growls back. "How the hell our we going to deal with this?"
"I've already managed to contact our favorite lawyers to see if we can soften the blow this mess has gotten us into." Nigel responds. "However, I doubt anyone will take us seriously in the end. Might as well kiss our precious clutches on the world goodbye."
"Damn it! That child was supposed to be the gateway to our evolution." Keel yells out, "but her cunt of a mother messed it all up for us, that arrogant bitch. It's all over for us, Nigel. It's all over."
"Not so fast, Keel, my old friend." Nigel replies, trying to calm him down. "I've been looking into an alternative to reach our goals of evolution since our little master race scheme has been leaked to the general public."
"Please...tell me what it is?" Keel asks him, marginally calming down a bit. "I cannot stand living in this putrid state of living any longer."
"Well...first off...are you familiar with the concept of Instrumentality?" Nigel asks.
"...well yes, but not quite." Keel replies, sounding a little curious. "How would it play into the evolution of mankind?"
"Well first off, in order to achieve instrumentality, we must create some vessels to interact with Adam's embryo and Lilith." Nigel adds. "as far as I can tell, it's the only way we can achieve this plan."
"Vessels?" Keel asks him. "What kind of vessels?"
"Well...perhaps we can hire someone to create biomechanical war machines derived from Adam and Lilith to assist us in opening the tree of life." Nigel continues to inform his fellow SEELE board member.
"Why machines of war?" Keel asks, initially unsure of what Nigel is getting at have a hunch that one of these days the angels could resurface to attempt recontact with Lilith, so we can get someone to create these beings to fight the angels until we can throw our plan into motion at the right place and at the right time."
"Yes, Keel." Nigel replies. "a bit more convoluted than I conceived, but it works."
"Exactly." Keel replies back.
Nigel, looking around the room, asks Keel, "So who should we hire to build these...vessels for our plan?"
Keel starts to think about possible candidates until he yells out, "What about the American child prodigy Naomi Mifune?"
"Keel, I may have commited many sins throughout my life, but I refuse to bring an innocent child into our master plan, no matter how brilliant he or she is." Nigel scoffs back, obviously disgusted that Keel would think of such a thing.
"But it's perfect." Keel replies. "If we manage to make her loyal enough, we can integrate her into SEELE without question when she gets older."
"No..no no no, Keel." Nigel continues to disagree. "I put my foot down to this terrible idea."
"Fine." Keel snorts back. "Who do you suggest to do it?"
"Well, I personally think Yui and Gendo Ikari could be great candidates for this, especially since they're been discussing in creating a weapon of war to combat the angels once they return." Nigel replies.
"The Ikaris?" Keel asks, sounding initially confused by his friend's suggestion, but then adds, "Yes I think they're exceptional candidates to look into."
"Exactly." Nigel replies back. "especially with their affiliations with Kozo Fuyutsuki and Naoko Akagi, they can really assist us into reaching our goal."
"Perfect." Keel replies, twisting his lips into a sinister grin. "So when do you suggest arranging a meeting with the Ikaris?"
"As soon as you get your artificial spine." Nigel replies. "We need you to convince them to help fund them making an organization to make these machines and military projects."
"Yes." Keel replies, then adds, "but when do you think the angels will return?"
"Only time will tell, my dear old friend." Nigel coldly replies. "Only time will tell."