This took longer than needed. I guess going out to watch Into the Spiderverse can be seen as the reason why.
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The scientific mind within Ritsuko was already racing at all of this. A bit of bile threatened to come up her throat as she recalled the pile of gore. The remains of the Angel was brought to here for any research before they sent it off for disposal. Next to her was the vial that had Yui's blood. 'A Succubus.'
Gendo showed both her and Kozo part of the video that was written for him. Finding out that Yui wasn't human started to explain a few things about their daughter and the strangeness with the MAGI system. 'You think he would be mad about her hiding it from him,' Ritsuko hated how consumed he was with her. That hatred extended to Rei who looked like her due to being a partial clone if her. 'Except she isn't.'
The human DNA was meant to emulate Yui's if she had been one. It was synthesized, artificial just like her. The girl was even less human then she was lead to believe. Ritsuko was actually feeling rather bad for her. Rei was practically made in an image that didn't exist, to be thrown away when Gendo had no more use, and with a soul that belonged to the thing in the basement. She could honestly see Gendo possibly destroying the clones and starting over with an actual partial clone of his wife.
Pulled from her thoughts the MAGI finished its work. The DNA samples from three sources were compared. From Yui, Sachiel, and Ritsuko herself. The system was comparing their species and came with a surprising answer. "A common ancestor?"
The genetic profile of the three sources seemed to indicate that at they all had the same source. However, the similarities between that of an Angel and a Human was far closer to one another then either was to a Demon. 'Still similar enough for them to have healthy offspring.'
Ritsuko was actually curious about the Third Child. While she was a hybrid according to the MAGI it seemed that her demonic heritage was by large dominate on a genetic scale. The idea of forming a profile of another species and testing the girl danced within her mind. "Perhaps I should see if I can run a few tests."
Shinjiko awoke greeted with an unfamiliar ceiling. She stood up as her hand moved to her head. There was a pause as she felt something in her hand. It was hard and felt like bone. Looking around she saw a tray on a stand next to her and held it up. The metal was reflective enough that she was able to see her reflection. What she was greeted with was yellow eyes and slit pupils, two horns coming from the side of her head that draped around it, and finally the look of almost supernatural beauty.
She should feel something about this. Fear, confusion, or even curiosity. Instead, she just looked at herself with nothing. It was like she was staring at herself normally in a mirror. Putting it down she looked over any other changes to herself. The first was that her figure had filled out greatly. Her hands moved to her rather full, developed, perky, and rather large breasts. A blush formed on her face and a light moan escaped her lips.
Shinjiko pulled her hands off her breasts as she realized that she had been playing with them. Focusing away from the soft mounds she looked over the last change. The two black feathered wings they laid on the bed with her. She didn't even notice them. There wasn't any strangeness when she moved them. She ran her fingers through the soft, smooth to the touch feathers. 'What happened?'
The last thing she remembered was falling over and the Angel attacking her. Beyond that, she felt a comforting presence as she lost consciousness. 'Mommy…' She blinked in confusion at this. Focusing she looked around in the room that she was in. 'Is this the medical ward?'
Looking for anything yo tell her the time she wondered out of bed. As she looked around she stopped when she came across the sleeping form of Rei in one of the medical beds. Shinjiko looked at her wondering how she had gotten like this. Rei slowly opened her eyes and looked at her with her one uncovered eye. Her vision was blurry but she did make out someone next to her. 'Is that the Commander's daughter?!'
When her vision cleared Rei was greeted with a sight that she honestly didn't expect to see. Her eye took sight of the horns, inhuman eye color, and the two wings. If this was the Third Child than what had happened to her? "I see that you are up."
The both of them turned their attention over to the owner of the voice. Gendo looked at his daughter's appearance. Her true appearance not hidden under the fake skin that Yui had used to allow her to blend into society. It was actually pretty weird to think that his child wasn't human. That Yui was a demon and by extension so was Shinjiko. "You likely have a lot of questions about what had happened to you?"
"Yeah," Weirdly enough her changes were not the first thing on her mind. There was a sense of familiarity about it.
Gendo hid his feelings before handing her an envelope and a map of the base. "A report is ready for your eyes only and Doctor Akagi has requested that you for a few tests," He tried to appear like he was holding eye contact. "Also, I have something to give you that belonged to your mother."
Shinjiko had a raised eyebrow at this as she took the envelope in hand. The thing that she wanted to ask was about the thing attacking but the surprise of what was in the report and the last part consumed her thoughts. "Fine."
As she left the room Gendo turned his head to Rei. He knew that there was likely some questions on her mind concerning his daughter. "If you have a few questions am I correct?"
Shinjiko put down the papers in the envelope. It included everything from the battle plus a genetic scan of both her and her mother from the MAGI. The computer had already given her a Blood type Black designation and while it didn't officially record it NERV was going to treat it as the designation for demons. 'I'm part Succubus…'
The thing was she was just too accepting of this. She should be yelling about it or in denial and yet she couldn't bring herself too. Some part of her knew that it was true. Maybe it was instinctive. "Great I'm probably going to be some lab experiment for the next few days."
Actually, how long was she asleep for? Looking at an overhanging clock she saw that it was around eleven forty-five in the morning. She at least had to be unconscious for several hours. Letting out a sigh she pulled out the map and walked to Ritsuko's lab. As she walked down the halls she saw as the passing NERV staff just stared at her. Most of them were told that the changes were due to a side effect of negative synchronization. Dormant genes in the human genome being activated. Still, they couldn't help but stare at the girl who walked past them.
Shinjiko tried to pretend that their gazes were not getting to her. A part of her wanted to run away from them while another part was annoyed at it. The two conflicting desires were put in the back as she just walked to Ritsuko's lab. Looking at the map she seemed to be heading in the right direction. 'This whole place is a maze no wonder Misato got lost.'
She had to double back twice already because of this. Finally, she made it to the doctor's lab as Ritsuko was looking at a vial of blood on her table. The faux blonde turned her head over to her when she entered. "Oh, Shinjiko you're finally awake."
Ritsuko looked at the hybrid girl in front of her. The MAGI system run over a few things based on genetic scans. It was likely she processed super strength when compared to a human, could survive with much less in terms of organs, a possible regeneration factor, and even more surprising despite being a hybrid and the tendency for them being infertile she was very likely fertile. For all purposes, Shinjiko was a Succubus given how regressive her human side was. "Before we start I do have to ask how are you taking the revelation as to what you are?"
"If you mean being part Succubus?" Shinjiko still couldn't feel much in the way of care about it. It just felt like on some level she knew the truth. "I honestly don't feel any different."
Ritsuko made note of this. She would have to look into this later. Now, she had an unknown life form to study. "Alright, now we're going to have a few tests."
Gendo looked at the floating monoliths. Each one having the symbol of seven eyed and with a snake wrapped around an apple resting on a triangle. SEELE the secret puppet masters of the U.N. and his benefactors. Unofficially, that was and the feeling of distrust could be felt from Gendo's end. The MAGI records couldn't all be deleted and while they did manage to isolate the knowledge of their discovery of demonic life SEELE still wanted answers about the other surprises. "Gendo can you explain to us what Blood type Black is?"
"To be honest we have no idea ourselves," That wasn't a total lie. They only had a theory but Ritsuko and even Kozo theorized that it was the designation for Demons. The later wondering if the reason the system couldn't use Blood type Orange due to the possibility of demonic souls being radically different. "Our scientists are running with the idea that the MAGI system might have been affected by something within its operating system."
This wasn't completely unbelievable. The German branch had a MAGI system that she to a minor error ended up sending a warning about everyone at the base being Blood type Green. Of course, they tried to hide it but Gendo had managed to learn of it. "Here, I thought you had staff that monitors the system around the clock."
He hid his annoyance well at this. Gendo had been running over what he was going to say to them for hours now. "They were a little tied up with the whole Angel attack catching them off guard."
It seemed to be enough for them. The monolith talked to each other for a moment before SEELE One spoke. "Make sure that this doesn't happen again Gendo."
The Commander of NERV had no attention too. He gave the order to have the MAGI never record instances of Blood type Black. This way the computer wouldn't record it on the chance his daughter or Eva-01 triggered whatever they did. "I've already taken care of it there is no need to worry."
With that, the monoliths deactivated one after another. Kozo walked up to him after having hanged back to listen into the conversation. "It seems they didn't know a thing about Yui being a Demon otherwise they would have called you out."
Gendo adjusted his glasses at this. He had known that Yui as the former head of GEHRIN would have had direct contact with them. From his conversation with them, it was clear that she had kept her nature a secret from them as well. "I suspected as much."
"What are you going to tell them when the Third Child goes missing?" Gendo paused and stared at Kozo with a confused look on his face. The elder of the two raised an eyebrow at this. He and Ritsuko had gotten to see Yui's recording for him and knew what she had asked of him. "You are going to deny your daughter to the Veil per Yui's request aren't you?"
He gave his old teacher a neutral expression. Leave it to Kozo to remind him about that. "We'll see what happens."
With that Gendo left the room. Kozo looked at the man before he had a soft sigh. He suspected that Gendo didn't have any desire to actually go through with Yui's wishes. 'Strange you are going through with his to be with your wife and yet she wants you to save your daughter.'
Thinking about it he did wonder what was it that Yui had with her. From what he knew Gendo went personally to collect them and the things he had managed to see were limited though they did raise a few questions. 'I wonder why she did have an axe.'
The tests were not as bad as Shinjiko expected. The first part was more of her asking about certain things. For instance, if she had any allergic reactions or if she had any problems with certain foods. There was of course none for each. When asked about any strangeness about her eating habits she did let it known that she enjoyed sweets a lot. A bit too much then should be reasonable as she was once told. Ritsuko put that down as something of a unique trait.
Then came her health. Besides an inability to seemingly gain weight in a large amount, which made Ritsuko a bit jealous at this, she did let it known that many of her bullies attempts to get her sick never worked. In fact, she never really could get sick. 'Seems earth based virus and gems are either ineffective on her or her immune system fast enough that it isn't a threat.'
A part of her was finding all this fascinating. Although learning that she was being bullied that was disturbing. "I see so what about anything like cuts and bruises do they leave any scars?"
Shinjiko shook her head at this. Never once did her skin blemish. Any cut would never leave a scar. It was part of why the kids hated her. "Nope, in fact, they always seemed to heal before my very eyes I never have seen a scab form at all."
That did just confirm a healing factor. If that was the case then the upper limit of which was something that could be theorized by observation. Still, as easy as asking her to cut herself would be she couldn't well ask Shinjiko too. "Now, what about your period?"
"I never had one." Thinking back it could be due to her nature as being part Succubus. She never really knew that importance of it and just assumed that the bleeding put bit was kind of weird.
Ritsuko felt a bit jealous at this. Although again given what the girl was it was likely something do with her physiology. Speaking of which there is one thing she wanted to physically test. "Alright, now follow me I would like to see if it's possible for you to fly."
The Cambion girl looked at her wings. She didn't think about it but she did have wings so maybe she could fly. Ritsuko led the girl out of her lab and after a few minutes, they came into a large and empty room. "This is one of our currently empty storage facilities it's big enough for you to see and practice flight," Ritsuko explained as she looked at the girl. "Assuming you can of course."
Turning to the two wings coming from her back Shinjiko gave them a small flap. There were no problems in either of them. Calming herself she let instinct take over. Unknown her or the doctor Shinjiko's dormant A.T. field finally came to life. The field feeding itself through her wings as she gave a might flap jumping into the air. Ritsuko watched as Shinjiko floated in the air before her with her wings flapping steadily to keep her afloat. 'Think how is she doing this?'
She was just curious about if there was any practical use for the wings. A part if her figured that flight was out of the question but figured that she might try anyway. 'It could be possible that she has control of her own A.T. field that is allowing her to fly,' It was known that the field allowed Angels to move around in restricted by the gravity if the world. Given that the MAGI believed that they shared a common ancestor with Angels it should be possible for demons to also be able to use their A.T. fields for similar things. 'This would require more study to understand if any differences that may exist between them.'
"Alright, I think that is enough for a start we'll see how you do with flight later," Ritsuko was already making notices on the possibility of having the storage room turned into a flight training area for Shinjiko. It wasn't like this place was going to be used for anything in the near future. Shinjiko landed on the ground below her as her wings rested at her side.
In his office, Gendo looked at the battle axe. When he looked at the unit that Yui owned he was greeted with a few things. The first was an almost solid black, with the blade being a lighter shade and a rather heavy axe. The thing was designed to look like a feathered wing with a jewel giving the appearance of a yellow eye at the base of the axe head. It requires two people to just move it in here.
The second was inside his desk. It was likely the device that his wife wanted him to use to send their daughter to her homeworld. The Veil as she had called it. He would have Ritsuko and her team analyze the device later. The third thing he found was a SDAT player with Yui's favorite music in it. 'It has been a long time since I had listened to them,' A memory of the two of them in college having a free day and listening to each other's favorite tracks. After that, they both admitted to disliking it and with that, they had a laugh. 'Was that when she had started to become Yui?'
It was strange to think about but looking back there was a change in how she acted. With the experience, he now had at manipulating people he could tell that at the start she was doing it to him. Then slowly it must have turned genuine and before he knew it Yui was too terrified to tell him. If she did he would have forgiven her without complaint.
The last thing he had found was a copy of Shinjiko's birth certificate. This one having another name for their little girl with a not in the box explaining it. Shinjiko was fitting for a human name but not for a Succubus. Keridwen La Discordia was their little girl's Succubi name. There was something else he had learned. Yui's name before she became Yui. His name was unchanged except for the bit of his last name being Ikari-Discordia.
Gendo was broken from his thoughts as Shinjiko walked in. The girl was now wearing a modified school uniform that allowed her wings to stick out. Her eyes caught sight in the large battle axe leaning on his desk. "Mom had a battle axe?"
"Yes, and a few other things," Gendo motioned to the SDAT player on his desk and her second birth certificate. Shinjiko looked at the birth certificate first as Gendo noticed her reading it along with her other name. "If you wish we can refer to you by either name."
Shinjiko's eyes looked back up at her father and then back to her second name. Having gone her whole life with just Shinjiko it was a no brainer to use that name. Although if she ever did meet another Demon she might use her other name. "So, this is it?"
Despite how civil they ere anyone could feel something off between them. This was best seen with the awkward silence between them for a full second. Gendo reaching into his desk and handed her the NERV ID card with her fake appearance. "Captain Katsuragi will be acting as your guardian," Although he would rather Shinjiko be on her own. "She's been informed about what you are."
While she didn't show it Shinjiko was mentally rolling her eyes at this. 'Oh, so now you are just going to drop me off on someone else,' She clenched her fists at this for a moment before she had a mental sigh. 'Wouldn't be the first time.'
At least he wasn't outright tossing her out of his life. If he did then she didn't know what she would have done to him. "You will also be enrolled in school though your differences will be explained by a cover story."
NERV dealings tend to have such things. Even the battle with the Angel was being spun about as a fight with a sea creature mutated by the effects of Second Impact. Most in the media seemed to buy it for now at least. Repeated attacks that were to come would eventually force NERV to reveal the truth but by then they should have an answer for every public relations question.
'I haven't been to school in almost four years now,' The memories of public school surfaced within their mind. The bullying ending with her first outburst. When she let her Succubi instincts out. 'Maybe it won't be so bad.'
Rei looked on at the ceiling as the Commander's explanation continued to echo in her head. He made it very clear that she would never speak a word of this to anyone without proper clearance. 'She's like me in a way.'
Officially she was listed as an orphaned girl that had been taken in by the commander. Unknown to anyone without the proper clearance she was a clone made from a combination of Yui Ikari along the flesh and genetics of the Second Angel. The being known as Lilith. The later of which turned out to be nothing more but artificial human DNA that mirrored said, woman. 'She isn't human either and neither was her mother.'
A strange feeling came over at this. It was like she felt a sort of understanding with her. Rei was not human and interacting with them seemed to be something she believed she could never do. Now, there was someone else, who like her wasn't human, and would have a lot of trouble with interacting with them. She looked on her bed as she noticed a black feather resting on her cast-covered arm.
Taking it in her hand she looked at the feather. Rei placed it on her chest as she continued to lay on her hospital bed. The girl's thoughts turned to Monday when she would be allowed to leave the medical ward and resume the usual routine she had gone through for the past year. This time it would be met with another person who she had taken an interest in.
Misato looked at the girl sitting in the back of her car. The Operations Director was rather adamant that she be placed in her care. After all, a girl her age shouldn't be living alone especially after a life-changing revelation. 'Demons are real.'
She was first given the same story as everyone else. Then when she offered to take Shinjiko in the Commander allowed her to know the truth given she would be taking care of her. Of course, she wasn't allowed to tell anyone about it. "Hey, Misato I been wondering what day is it?"
Given everything that had happened Shinjiko forgot to ask how long she was out. "Oh, it's Saturday."
"I was unconscious for three days?!" The Cambion girl hoped that this wouldn't be a thing she would have to look forward to. Her mind turned blank as she thought about what had actually just happened.
She was now piloting a giant robot to fight ancient life forms that attacked the city. In short, when she came to Tokyo-3 her father had basically drafted her into a war. 'You have got to be kidding me!'
Yeah, I am not just handing you guess Yui's true name in the second chapter. As for the name on the second birth certificate Keridwen is a creation on the name of a Celtic goddess who is tied to the arts, magic and the moon. If you know your Evangelion symbolism then you would know why I chose this. Also, no lore dumb for right now you are going to have to wait and see come next chapter.
Cya all next time.
