Disclaimer – I don't own Transformers and or Evangelion, can't state that any more simply
A/N so no one has picked out whom that was coming from the ocean yet. Oh well you'll see eventually.
Transfiguration
Chapter 2
Brave New World
In the 5 months since the incident, Optimus and Elita-One had managed to locate all information on Shinji Ikari, Primes new human alter ego.
He had been abandoned by his father following the death of his mother Yui Ikari and left in the care of a teacher. They also discovered a lot about his father and the newly formed organization he ran.
It burned the Autobot leader, who had finally come to fully accept the fact that he was both Shinji Ikari and Optimus Prime, that he had been abandoned for no good reason. They also had reason to believe that there was more behind the facade of attempting to defend humanity from an invading alien species than they liked.
More Autobots had also arrived, these were refuges from Cybertron who had received the Autobot leader's message and departed the planet as soon as they could. The reports weren't good, Cybertron was slowly but surly dieing, it would only be a matter of time till the planet was totally dead and would have to be abandoned.
With the information they had obtained on the coming of the Angels the Autobots had decided to move their HQ to Japan. It was there that the refugees from Cybertron began to construct their underground cities. Autobot HQ was located in a carved out cavern between Tokyo 2 and the newly constructed Tokyo 3 and connected to the underground cities by an extensive tunnel network. Bumblebee had remained in the US with Sam and Mikaela who now had a 1 year old son named Daniel Witwicky.
Optimus had continued living as Shinji Ikari, the new detachable hologram generators mounted in his wrists could create a static, tactile hologram, one that could appear perfectly human and to external sensors would appear to be one as well. Prime used all known images of Shinji and extrapolations made from his memories to create a near perfect hologram and then age it accordingly.
For the next 5 years Optimus carried on, living both his human life and leading the Autobots. To their surprise the Decepticons still on earth were quiet for the most part.
Then the letter came.
Prime had been expecting this, his human father Gendo Ikari had sent a letter telling him to return to Tokyo 3.
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He had arrived in Tokyo 3 about 3pm
As he stood holding the receiver to the pay phone he couldn't believe his luck. The day he arrived in Tokyo 3 the human woman who was suppose to meet him was late, everyone had evacuated and now the pay phones didn't work. He stood on the sidewalk with a blue Peterbuilt 379 Semi-truck with red flames parked behind him. He wore a red button up short sleeve shirt and blue denim pants with white tennis shoes.
"Damn, where is she. Even Hot Rod was never this late"
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.
"Hey"
Shinji stopped and watched as the image of the girl slowly faded from sight.
"What in Primus' name, where did she go"
It was then that the enemy made itself known. Shinji wiped his head toward the sound of deafening footsteps thinking for a moment that Starscreem or one of the Decepticons had decided for another round, the truth was much worse.
The creature itself was over 40 meters tall, much taller than Prime himself who did well to push 9 meters at his full height. It was covered at points in bone like white armor and had olive drab colored skin and a bird like face. Perched in the center of its chest sat a red sphere which, if it was similar to a Spark container, was the core of its being.
It apparently grew tired of being pestered by the VTOL's that were attacking it and shot a beam from its hand, the beam pierced the wing of one of the VTOLs slicing its engine off, dropping it to the ground just down the street from Shinji where the creature promptly stepped on it causing it to explode and throw degree for blocks in every direction.
Several small but harmful pieces of it were headed right for him.
He was about recall the holograms and Transform when a blue Renault Alpine skidded to a stop in front of him, in the drivers seat sat Misato Katsuragi, the human woman who was suppose to have met up with him.
"Hurry and get in, sorry if I'm real late"
The hologram climbed in, No sooner had he fastened his seat belt than Misato sped off, followed by the Peterbuilt. They remained in silence for a time before Misato turned to him.
"So Shinji Ikari, we finally meet"
The Autobot leader nodded.
"Indeed we do, do you know why my father sent for me"
She remained silent, Prime already knew why. Gendo intended for him to pilot the gigantic purple machine called Eva 01 which had taken Yui Ikari's life. Shinji just sat back, now he was curious as to what Eva's were, were they that powerful?
The car stopped on a section of highway overlooking the creature. Misato pulled out a pair of binoculars and began to observe the Angel. Shinji took this time to ask the obvious as he looked out the same widow she was, he decided it would be in best interest to play dumb…for the moment
"So exactly what is that thing"
"Its called an angel…no wait…their using an N2 mine"
Misato grabbed Shinji and forced him down, just as the bomb went off.
Prime was thankful that he didn't need to expend a lot of his processor to control the hologram. Especially when he noticed exactly what was happening. He couldn't reveal himself yet; he wanted to know what his human father was up to first. The Autobots had known for 7 years that it was only a matter of time till their existence was revealed to the world. They merely tried to delay that as long as they could.
Prime pulled next to the Alpine, shielding it from the majority of the shockwave from the blast. Both were rocked a bit, but not thrown around as they should have been
Inside the car, Misato straitened up a bit.
"Are you alright Shinji?"
The human hologram of the Autobot leader sat up.
"I'm fine"
Misato noticed the truck now parked next to them. She had seen it earlier in the city itself
"Where the hell did that come from?"
Shinji looked over at the truck, not use to seeing his vehicle mode from the outside. He knew he needed to think of something.
"Maybe the shockwave blew it here"
Misato nodded, she didn't have any better explanation for now so she accepted that.
"Well, let's get out of here before they try something else"
She shifted the alpine into drive and floored the gas. Once they were away Prime started up and followed. Far enough back not to be noticed but close enough to follow. He quickly noticed 2 other vehicles following him, he knew them well, a yellow Rescue Humvee and a black Topkick…Ratchet and Ironhide. The two other Autobots quickly caught up with Prime, ratchet was the 1st to speak.
"We were monitoring the situation and decided to follow once the battle started"
Ironhide agreed.
"We thought you may need help, and we didn't want to miss the excitement"
Prime sighed, that was just like Ironhide. The three followed Misato's alpine as it headed toward Nerv HQ and stopped inside the car elevator. Ironhide stooped in front of the closed door.
"Now how are we suppose to get in"
A quick sensor sweep by ratchet discovered there were no monitoring devices and no one with in visual sight, the Autobot medic transformed into his robot mode and began to scan the door.
"It's a simple passcode for the lift device; this should only take a moment to unlock, Prime where did the vehicle stop"
Optimus was quiet for a moment.
"Quite some distance below, in what appears to be a garage of some kind with another elevator system. We'll need to do a more detailed scan, can you do that Ironhide"
The black Topkick shifted and changed into its robot mode and activated a scanner on its forearm.
"Not a problem, should be done by the time Ratchet is"
After a few moments the doors parted revealing a lift with enough room for a single vehicle…or 3 transformers in robot mode. As Prime Transformed and Ironhide was about to enter ratchet reached out and stopped him.
"There are video monitoring devices in the garage below, we will need to go in our vehicle modes until we can disable them, I will go first and disable them, then you and Prime can follow in the next car"
The Autobot weapons specialist nodded as ratchet transformed and entered the lift which immediately set off once the doors closed. A few moments later they got the all clear and entered the lift, they joined ratchet at the bottom. Prime didn't trust this Nerv organization. The Autobots had sworn to protect their new home, and would do so from any threat, even one form inside. Prime turned to Ratchet.
"The only thing separating us from them is a large metal walled shaft and a concrete wall, how long will it take you to cut an opening into the shaft for us to drop down"
Ratchet checked his interments.
"About 10 human seconds, why"
"Gendo expected a withdrawn and obedient child, I'm not what he expected, I'm being told to leave. Apparently he no longer has a use for me. I fear he may try something drastic to try and force my hologram into the Evangelion machine as its pilot"
Ironhide stepped forward.
"Your human avatar is only 14 human years old, that's far too young to be sent into combat"
Prime shook his head.
"To them it doesn't matter"
Ratchet didn't wait for the order; he immediately began to cut into the wall separating the 3 Autobots from the shaft that led to the Eva cages. Once the cut was complete Ironhide kicked in the section of wall and attached a cable to the outer wall and dropped down followed by the others. Now only a few feet of concrete separated them from Eva 01.
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The hologram of Shinji followed Misato and Ritsuko through Nerv HQ toward what he assumed was a meeting with Gendo. 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
"What the hell
Shinji knew he had to play dumb, it was still awe inspiringly large, but he had expected that. He began to flip through the book Misato gave him playing at the fact that they believed he didn't know what this was. He knew quite well. Ritsuko looked over at the Autobot leader's human avatar.
"You won't find this in there; this is Synthetic Humanoid Life-form Evangelion, our last hope against the angels"
Misato grinned.
"You like it"
Shinji just starred at the thing.
"It's too large"
The two women just shook their heads Shinji just looked over at the two.
"Something this size will be slow and ineffective especially if its organic based"
Ritsuko blanched a bit, how had he known that.
Shinji looked up above unit 01; there on the observation deck stood her father.
"What do you want Gendo"
Gendo 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 avatar of Prime.
"Shinji…"
Before she could finish Shinji cut her off.
"No"
"What"
"You can not force anyone to do anything they don't want to"
Gendo looked down at the boy.
"You will do as I say, I am your father"
"You gave up that right, even if I still recognized you as such, you still have no right to send a child into combat"
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"
Seeing the injured girl being brought in was all Prime needed, he transformed into his vehicle mode and drover strait through the wall.
Misato and company scattered as debris rained down on the catwalk they stood on, said catwalk was part of the Eva's restraints and was built to restrain a berserk Eva for a few seconds. Still the women were horrified to see a Semi-truck dropping towards them, more so when it began to shift and change. It was humanoid in appearance with blue on some of its external body panels accented with red flames in places.
Prime dropped onto the catwalk and stood. He turned to face the group.
"I will not allow an innocent child to be harmed"
Ritsuko and Misato watched as 2 more machines dropped into the cage, one black and one a greenish yellow. The black one, which had sprouted two large cannons on its arms, pointed one towards the Section 2 agents attempting to place Rei into the Eva and one towards Gendo.
"you feeling lucky, punks"
The other approached Rei, who was still laying on the gurney she had been brought in on. It appeared to change into some kind of emergency vehicle. Its hand retracted into its arm revealing a tool of some kind. As bluish beam of light shot from its arm and hit the girl who immediately relaxed back onto the gurney. It turned toward the taller, the apparent leader of the group and to everyone's surprise, spoke.
"Prime, I have placed the girl into a deep slumber and administered a pain retardant, she will be unable to feel pain for the next few days but must be treated immediately. With humans primitive medical knowledge they have sealed the wounds but could not repair all of the damage"
The one known as prime turned to the other and spoke.
"Do what ever is necessary to save her life Ratchet"
"Yes sir"
Misato was about to speak up but froze, seeing Shinji till standing between the machine known as Prime's feet.
"Shinji come here hurry"
Shinji turned toward her, but so did Prime.
"You need not worry Ms Katsuragi you will not be harmed"
Misato watched on in shock as the hologram of Shinji Ikari faded from view leaving only a small spherical device in its place. The device then floated up and locked into place on the Autobot leader's wrist. Ritsuko was the 1st to get her voice back.
"What are you"
Prime looked back to ratchet who was still working on Rei and Ironhide who had kept his weapons trained covering Ratchet. Gendo had calculated retreat, but if the weapon pointed at his was energy based as he supposed the glass in front of him would offer no protection, neither would the bulkhead door should he get through. Prime looked back to the doctor and answered.
"My name is Optimus Prime, I am the leader of a group of autonomous robotic organisms from the planet Cybertron called the Autobots. The two with me are our Medical officer Ratchet and my weapons specialist Ironhide"
Misato stepped forward.
"If your alien then where the hell is Shinji Ikari"
The answer she got wasn't what she expected.
"I am Shinji Ikari"
Ritsuko spoke up.
"That's imposable"
Prime shook his head.
"5 years ago Shinji Ikari and the Autobot leader Optimus Prime were mortally wounded by the Decepticon called Starscreem, in order for both to live the remaining shard from the Allspark fused their Sparks, what humans call souls, I am the result. Why this happened is unknown"
Before Ritsuko could speak again prime held up his hand.
"Any reaming questions will be answered in due time"
He turned to this Weapons specialist.
"Ironhide, relieve the humans of their weapons"
The black Autobot retracted one of his cannons and held out his hand. Every section 2 agent had their weapons pulled away, even Misato's weapon was pulled from its holster beneath her arm and crushed with the rest by Ironhide. Prime activated a small device on his arm, a communications device.
"Cliffjumper, are you still on station"
"Yes sir and awaiting orders"
"Good, I want you to attempt communication with the Angel, should it continue its attack you are authorized to fire. Also contact our friends and let them know what we've found on Nerv's computers"
"Done boss bot, we have control of their systems, I'm transferring it all to Autobot HQ"
"Excellent work Cliffjumper"
Ritsuko looked up at the Autobot leader.
"What do you mean our computers, its imposable to invade the Magi from an outside source"
Iron hide spoke up.
"Looks like your about to get proven wrong again"
Ritsuko turned just in time to see the blast doors behind her slam shut.
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Cliffjumper maneuvered the Autobot shuttle Rax toward the angel and began to circle it in a holding pattern.
"This is Autobot Cliffjumper to the approving angel you age in Tokyo 3 airspace please state your intentions"
As if an answer to his question the angel turned its bird shaped mask toward the shuttle, which was twice as long as it was tall, and fired. Its positron blasts slammed into the shuttles center section causing damage to the outer hull.
"So you want to play hard ball huh, fine be me"
The Autobot set the shuttles 2 main weapons to overcharge and pulled into line allowing the targeting computer to lock on, once he heard the tone he loosed the 2 balls of glowing energy. They streaked down range toward their target at insane speed but the angle was ready, it raised its AT Field and was surprised and frightened that the 1st round that impacted managed to overload and drop the field. Its reaction time was too slow to stop the 2nd one which slammed into its chest and flew strait through. The Angel sank onto its hips and dropped onto its back, its center chest completely vaporized.
"This is Cliffjumper to Prime the angel is dust"
A/N I hope I met your expectations of hat this chapter should be, address any questions to me and I'll do my best to answer.