A Nautilus Production.

By Capt. Nemo

Well folks, here is my next story. I haven't seen anything like this. I might do more on my last story 'A mothers hope', but at the moment I moment I don't know.

On with the story.

Truths.

Chapter 1: All shall be revealed

Shinji was laying down on his futon with his SDAT in his ear listening to classical music. Asuka had moved in a few days ago and was still getting used to living in Japan, her biggest complaint so far was the lack of a 'real' bed. He was about to fall asleep when he heard something coming from the living room, it almost sounded like someone had fallen. Getting out of bed he went into the living room to see what had happened. He found his purple haired guardian laying on the ground in what looked like a lot of pain.

"Misato" Shinji shouted when he saw her. He ran over to her, seeing that she was in a lot of pain judging by the look on her face. "What's wrong" he asked her.

"What the hell is going on out here?" shouted the angry red headed German as she can out her room after pulling on a shirt.

"Asuka, call an ambulance, something's wrong with Misato." Shinji told her in a voice that had no room for argument in it.

"What happened?" she asked as she went to get the phone.

"I don't know, it looks like she just collapsed. She's in really bad pain, so tell them to hurry."

"What the Hell, 911 doesn't work." Asuka responded after nothing happened on the phone.

"Dail 119, that's the emergency line." Shinji told her. Asuka dailed the number as fast as she could. When she got through she told them all she knew and was told that an ambulance was on the way. She then went over to Shinji and Misato. Kneeling down next to Misato she saw that she was in great pain. There was a feeling of helplessness in her because there was nothing that she could do.

Shinji just sat next to Misato, holding her hand and talking to her, telling her that help was on the way. He then noticed that she was trying to say something, he leaned over to try to make it out.

"Rits...call...Rits.. ahhggg...Dr...ahhggg...Akaagggghhhhhhhhh...Akagi......knows what's...Going on...aaaaaaaaaaggggghhhhhhhh...she can ...help" was all the Shinji could make out.

"Asuka, go get her cell phone and call Dr. Akagi." He told her, once again there was no room for argument in his voice and Asuka jumped up to go get said phone.

Asuka found Misato's phone in her room on her desk, and found much to her horror that it was in kanji. She couldn't read the names.

"Shinji, I can't read this." Asuka said as she came back into the living room holding the phone.

"Here, let me see it." Shinji said holding his hand out for the phone. Asuka quickly handed him the phone. He started running through the contact list looking for Dr. Akagi. Finding an entry labeled 'Rits', he pressed send and the phone started to ring.

"Misato, if this is another one of your prank calls, I'm going to hurt you." Dr. Akagi answered in a sleepy voice.

"Dr. Akagi, something's wrong with Misato, she just collapsed and it looks like she's in a lot of pain." Shinji told her as fast as he could.

"Does she have a fever?" Dr. Akagi asked. 'It couldn't be that, could it.'

"Yes, she does. Asuka already called an ambulance."

"Have them take her to the NERV hospital. My orders, threaten them with her gun if you have to, but get her to NERV." Dr. Akagi commanded Shinji.

"Okay. We'll get her to NERV."

"Make sure that she gets there Shinji, or she could die, got it."

"WHAT, she could die."

"I'll explain when you get there. I'll meet you there." Ritsuko said as she hung up the phone. She grabbed the nearest shirt and pants she saw, pulled on a pair of slippers, grabbed her purse and headed for the door for her car.

Back at the apartment, the ambulance had just arrived with section 2 agents following them. They loaded Misato on to a stretcher and headed out the door. They headed for the NERV medical wing having been given permission by Dr. Akagi to enter. The children had hopped in a section 2 SUV and had followed them there, arriving at the same time. Dr. Akagi was arriving at the same time also. Asuka almost burst into fit of laughter when she what the doctor was wearing.

Dr. Akagi, head scientist of NERV, on of the smartest people on earth, was wearing a t-shirt with a picture of a kitten laying on a beach, wearing sunglasses, with the words 'Beach Bum' under it. She was also wearing what could be considered a minnie skirt, it was also a bright red. Her feet where adorned with fuzzy slippers that looked like cats.

"Take her to room five right now and get an IV set up. Some one go to my lab, there is locked box in the closet, third shelf from the floor, second from the door, labeled 'Misato'. Get it and bring it here stat. And find me a pair of scrubs to change into." Ritsuko barked as she led to gurney into the ER. The staff jumped at her orders with one of the nurses running for her lab. She could tell what was wrong with her long time friend from the instant she saw her being taken out of the ambulance. 'I hope we're not to late, at least we know what it is.'

"Dr. Akagi, what's wrong with her" Shinji asked.

"I'll explain later, but for now it has something to do with her past." Ritsuko told the young pilot. She then went to change into the scrubs that she had just been handed. Shinji then went and joined Asuka in the waiting room.

Dr. Akagi had just arrived in Misato's room after changing into the blue scrubs. She saw that her friend was in great pain. 'Where is that box?' She thought to herself, contained in that box was the one thing that could save Misato and she didn't know how much longer they had left to get it to her.

"Dr. Akagi, here's the box you asked for." The nurse said as she ran into the room clutching a lock box in one of her hands. She handed it over to Dr. Akagi who entered the code to open the box. Inside was an IV bag with a purple solution inside. With out hesitation she hooked it up to the IV in Misato's right arm that had been put in while she was changing. Putting the bag on the IV tree she started squeezing the bag to get what ever was in it into Misato. She kept squeezing until she saw her friends face relax. Only then did she let out a breath that she didn't know that she had been holding. After giving orders to the doctors and nurses to watch over her and report any changes what so ever to her she went to talk to the two young pilots.

Waiting room

Shinji and Asuka where sitting on a bench waiting for Dr. Akagi to return. Shinji was pondering what the doctor had said, that it had something to do with her past. Asuka was wondering the same thing also as Shinji had told her what he had been told. Then Dr. Akagi walked into the room wearing a set of blue scrubs instead of what she had on earlier, though she still had on the fuzzy cat slippers. She asked them to come with her to her office.

When they had arrived at her office she told them to sit down and started explaining.

"Before I start, do you two know the truth about second impact?" She asked the two. They both answered yes. "Misato has been dying for fifteen years because she is the only survivor of ground zero. She saw it happen with her own eyes. Her father was killed there saving her.

"You see after second impact, everyone was contaminated with angel contamination. The closer you where to second impact , the more contamination that you would have. As you can see the angel contamination causes pain, but for people that where more then a thousand miles away all they would get where minor aches and pains, nothing that couldn't be solved with out an aspirin or over the counter pain medication. And the only person that survived within a thousand miles was Misato." Ritsuko explained.

Shinji and Asuka where shocked. Misato, their guardian, was the only survivor from ground zero of second impact. She had seen with her own eyes what had changed the world forever, and had lived to tell the tale. Seeing it had also started to slowly kill her because of angel contamination that she received from the explosion.

"So does this mean that you're contaminated too?" Asuka asked.

"Yes, I am. you see all I get are stomach aches, nothing a little pepto can't fix. In fact it's because of the fact that you two where conceived after second impact by contaminated parents that you are able to synch with an eva." Ritsuko replied shocking the pilots even more. The only reason that they could pilot was because of angel contamination. The two pilots saw the doctor reach over to a panel on her desk and flip a few switches.

"Now it's safe to go on. You see, your bodies have adjusted to the contamination because you where born with it. And due to the nature of the Eva's, only those born after second impact can pilot them." she explained.

"What do you mean the nature of the Eva's, aren't they just big robots?" asked Asuka.

"No, the Eva's aren't just big robot, In fact you could call them bio mechanical robots. You see, the Eva's are in all actuality, living beings, the armor on them is what controls them and binds them two are will. Here I'll show you some pictures of when they where being built." She then turned around and started to open up some files on her computer. "Now Shinji, some of these pictures may look familiar to you. let me know if I should stop, okay?" She told him.

"Before we go on, why are you telling us all this?" Shing asked. he did know the truth about second impact, but the other stuff was new to him.

"Well, I was going through some of the files on the MAGI, and found an old program. It was created by my mother years ago, In fact it was created right before she died." She said in a low voice.

"I'm sorry" was all shinji could say.

"Don't be. In fact I was glad that I found it. The program that I had discovered contained files that where date stamped. That means that they couldn't be opened for a certain amount of time. The time on these files had already passed so I took a look inside them. In one was a letter that I could not access, there was a not in the file that said only one person could open it after saying one word into a microphone. I'll get back to that later.

"In that program was a letter addressed to me from my mother, the creator of the MAGI. She told me everything. From the truth about Yui to the real truth about second impact and a group of men that conspired to start it."

"What do you mean by that, and what about my mother?" Shinji asked, almost yelling.

"You see, after Adam was found Misato's father wanted to try something. He wanted to see if he could make contact with him. He did, and thats when everything went wrong, and the rest you already know. As for your mother Shinji, that's what is in the letter, the letter that I found in that program is addressed to you. To open the letter, all you have to do is say the word 'mother'." She told the two.

"What do you mean the truth?" He asked.

"That is for you to find out. It is not for me to tell you. I can set it up for you if you want me to?" She asked calmly. She knew what was contained in it. She was worried though, what was in it might destroy him. She had opened the program only last week, and had been pondering the letter left by her mother. When she had first read it, she had almost hit the alarm, but something had stayed her hand. She found herself thinking. Was it worth it, was the commander right? She decided to let Shinji know of the letter, the incident with Misato had convinced her to tell him sooner.

"Okay, I'll do it." Shinji said. This was the chance of a life time for him. He would find out about his mother, someone he had not seen in ten years.

Dr. Akagi then got up and motioned for them to come with her. She led them down to the bridge and saw that Maya was there. She asked her to set a micro phone her. When it was done she had Shinji sit down in front of a monitor and pulled up the program. When she was ready she had Maya and Asuka step out side. Asuka refused. Dr. Akagi told her that this was very personal, and that she would even leave Shinji alone so that he could read his letter in peace. Asuka finally agreed to leave.

When they had left Shinji alone, he spoke one word into the micro phone and the program activated.

Outside in the hallway.

Everyone had been waiting for several minutes. Maya Hadjoined them as she had forgotten something at her desk. When they heard a lite sobbing coming from the other side of the door, The group stayed out sde for a bit longer, only when they heard the sobbing grow louder did they enter. They found Shinji still at the terminal, crying.

"Shinji, is everything okay?" Asuka asked as she approached the crying teen. It looked like he just had his heart torn out, or his life turned upside down.

"My mother, she ...she's an angel, the angel Lilith."

TBC

AN: And how about that for a bomb shell. I originally got the idea from a blurb on Shinji Ikari01 profile, he's a good writer, check him out. I do owe thanks to him for giving me the Idea, Thank you Shinji Ikari01. I played around with Idea in my head for awhile, writing, rewriting, and rewriting some more. And finally got this.

As for Misato, there will be more of her later.

AN2: Okay folks, the rewrite on this chapter is done. I should have the next few done in a couple of days. I'm changing a few things that bugged me, and making them fit into the timeline better. I hope you like it.

Until next time

Keep your stick on the ice.