AN: So, looks like I still have a bit more free time on my hands, this snow still isn't gone. Eh, its igven me an extra week and a half out of school, so I ain't complaining. So, what's in store for for our mini Domon? Lets see.

NGE: Outside Help

Ch3, pt 1: Demon in the Basement

Two years latter

Shinji was curious. That was no surprise, most children are. But he was curious about one specific thing. Just what was in his Sensei's workshop? Surely he was old enough to take care of himself, his masters had taught him well. Sure he may get into trouble, but his spirit of adventure overwhelmed that fear. So with the lust for the forbidden filling his mind, he opened the door to his Sensei's workshop and got his first surprise. The room was almost bare, save a button on a platform. Curiosity overwhelming him, he pushed it. Hydraulics hissed as the floor slowly began to lower. Numbers were painted on the wall, which alternated from concrete to a strange golden metal. They began to increase, 10, 20, getting larger and larger as it went down till it hit 1000. This disturbed Shinji, as his Sensei's house was built onto the side of Mt. Asama. Sure, the impacts had rendered the volcano dormant, but the lava chamber still existed, which would explain the heat. But at this depth, it should be hotter, unless someone had spent an extreme amount of time installing climate controls. Before tha thought could continue, the elevator stopped. It had left him in a large intersection, with about ten different branches, most of which were sealed with massive steel bulkheads, save for one labeled Cage. What was Sensei hiding down here? Surely this wasn't one man's work. Was their home build above a pre-Impact fallout shelter? Curiosity in him once more, we went down the hall.

Elsewhere

"We have an intruder in main elevator."

"Put it on screen."

A large display lit up, showing Shinji walking thru the halls of the elaborate underground facility.

"So he finally got curious. A bit younger than we had hoped, but it was merely a matter of time. I'll be in the Cage. Time to let our charge in on our secret."

Back to Shinji

Shinji had finally arrived at the end of the tunnel. It had opened up into a massive room almost completely black, but as he entered, overhead lights began to flicker to life. They began to show a steel catwalk, stretching over the cavern, probably a good hundred and fifty meters above the floor. Looking up at the lights, he figured the ceiling was a good three-hundred meters above him, and he couldn't see the outer walls. With no other course, he followed the catwalk for about another two hundred meters till the lights ended. He could feel the catwalk continued forward into the darkness till he could see a shape in it. It was impossible to make out a true shape, merely a mass in the dark.

"Do you truly wish to know what lies before you Shinji?"

Turning around, Shinji saw his Sensei standing before him. He was shocked, unaware that he had been behind him the entire time. He thought he would be angry that he had disobeyed him, but he seemed to have an expectant look on his face.

"Do you truly wish to embrace the first great sin of man, to lust for what has been forbidden to you, at any cost?"

"I-... Yes. You've always taught me to expand my horizons, and I wish to know just what you have hid from me!" Shinji screamed this, amazing himself. Perhaps it was shock at the cavernous bunker. Perhaps it was repressed rage at his father leaving him for "reasons".

"Then cover your eyes Shinji."

Shinji barely had time to cover his eyes before the entire cavern erupted I into blinding white light. As his eyes recovered he saw what the mass before him was. A massive throne, made of the same strange golden metal he had seen earlier, mixed with basalt, with a huge creature sitting on it. It must have been two hundred meters tall, shaped like an armored human. Most of what he could see was the upper chest and above. A golden chest plate, with blood red piping in an intricate lattice pattern, covered the breast. Rounded red cauldrons lined with black, a large pure red fin sticking our of each, perfectly straight. Vambraces of the same shade of red, each split with gold lining, covered the arm down to the elbow, beyond which he couldn't see. The neck was guarded by a gorget like that connected to the chest-plate, red like the shoulders. Above that was helmet, mostly styled like a futuristic barbute, in gold, but unlike its inspiration, this covered the eyes with a visor, bright blue, and the mouth seemed to be covered by a retractable plate. It terrified Shinji, like an Oni of the old legends.

"It is time for you to know the truth. This is part of that truth. The truth of the Fall. The truth of the Impacts. The truth of your abandonment. The truth of you mother's suicide before your very eyes. "

The last part blasted Shinji like an artillery barrage. His mother... he had watched her approach... something and... the pain! Something in his mind screamed and clawed at him, begging him not to look deeper!

"You are a victim of fate Shinji. You are to many a pawn in a massive game, a game where mankind's fate is at risk. Every action that you were involved in since your conception has all been for a purpose so vile that I fear man may truly be lost. Every moment since birth before you were left with me you were groomed to be broken. You were born by vile people at the machinations of others to be used for their own gain at the expense of all others."

"WHY! What could be so important!"

"Godhood."

"I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT! WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH ME!"

"Then let me explain. Since the dawn of man on earth, when we first fell from the Garden of Eden we have continued the sin the cursed us, the sin that is our greatest gift: our insatiable thirst for knowledge. But there are somethings that were not meant for man to know, at least not yet. And what triggered the Second Impact was one of those things."

"What do you mean! Second Impact was a meteor!"

"Shinji, I taught you better then that. Remember, we discussed this in length when you first asked me to explain it to you, just last year. A meteor of the size needed to cause a cataclysmic event on the scale of Second Impact would have been the size of Old Central Park, traveling at an immense speed. Even with the limited efforts spent on deep space tracking, especially of the Plane of Ecliptic, we should have seen it."

"Unless the event was terrestrial..."

"Which it was. Man awakened something in the Arctic, something ancient beyond words. The ancestral source of life on earth before Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, an alien life form known as ADAM. It was what brought life to this world, a biological alien teraforming machine, a creation of a race so ancient and advanced that the soul was something that could be manufactured on an industrial scale. It was the source of all the life on the earth, till the First Impact. You see, ADAM wasn't the only one of it's type. There was another like it in purpose, yet so far away in design. ADAM's creations were all based on power, size, strength, but never intelligence, emotion, for that was the design purpose of LILITH. These two creations were scattered among the stars, to fill the universe with life. But they were never supposed to exist on the same world. But here it happened. LILITH arrived on earth, 65 million years ago. It landed, wiping out almost all of ADAM's creations. The two demigods waged war with there strongest creations before they fell dormant. It was from this that man was created. LILITH tried to control us, keep us dormant inside her control. We rebelled. And we began to conquer the world. Flash forward a few millennium, near the end of the Second World War. A group of less then moral people uncovered a group of objects they called the Dead Sea Scrolls. These were documents of prophetic knowledge that enabled them to seize the reigns of the world to prepare to unseal ADAM and begin the path to Third Impact. If it were carried out according to their plans, all of man will be united in an undying hive-mind, with them as Gods. But it would take more than just them, a group of twelve, to do this, for the servants of ADAM would try to cause their own Impact. This is where your familiy lineage steps in, along with the ill-fated Katsuragi Expedition, and the expenditure of two billion souls, literally and figuratively. Your parents were key to their plans. Gendo would rule the public front, lead the battle against ADAM's warriors. And your mother would be the one to create the weapons that would fight the monsters they would unleash. And that is where you come in."

"I- I don't-"

"I'll continue. Your birth was part of a catlyst. The weapons that were created to fight ADAM's servant, the "Angels" as they were dubbed, would require... tuning, as they are artificial Angels in their own right. They would try to destroy everything, unless they were bound. And you mother found the way. Angel's are soulless creatures. Why not lock a human soul inside to leash the beast to the whims of humans?"

"Thats... that's horrible! How could my own mother, who cared for me-"

"That's exactly why. For the soul to aid the pilot of the creature, it would need to have a bind to the pilot, and what stronger bond than that of mother and child? But it would need to be aided, as the bond could be weakened by outside experience. An event would be needed to separate the child from all others. Traumatizing the chosen pilot at a young age would be the best way. Which was part of the reason why your mother had you present and staring at her as she forced he own soul into one of the creatures."

Shinji's disgust at what he was hearing made itself well known as he collapsed to all fours, his lunch exploded onto the catwalk.

"But there was another reason as well. The plan called for a devoted and knowing slave to it, with a reason to carry it out at all costs, and your father was the perfect choice, for he was given the knowledge to use Third Impact to reunite himself with your mother and live in bliss for eternity, even at the cost of mankind's existence. And that would require further trauma to fuel hatred, which was why your father abandoned you here, along with nullifying his parental rights to you. All according to you mothers plan, who saw no way for man to live, and planed to use this beast as monument to mankind's existence, with your soul locked inside with her to power it forever."

Shinji began to dry heave.

"And that was why you were left to me. Your father expected an old man with no care for you to raise you. Your mother made you watch something no human should ever see. All for man's weapon in a war of fools. The "Ultimate All-Purpose Humanoid Decisive Battle Weapon: Evangelion".

To be continued in part 2

AN: Sorry for the cliffhanger and info dump, but I needed a place to leave off at. So, we see our new Eva, sitting upon a throne, and the back story of Eva, along with all the horrid details that make you wish the Angels would win. But stay tuned folks, as part two will be a bit brighter, as the OC plot kicks in with all the fury of an Inazuma Super Kick for TTGL.