After Evangelion
Chapter 4
A fan fiction based on the universe of the Neon Genesis Evangelion anime and manga series created by Hideaki Anno, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, and Ikuto Yamashita.
Fan fiction written by Jaxson Jaguar
Disclaimer time, I do not own any reference to the Neon Genesis Evangelion. Hideaki Anno created the world of the Neon Genesis Evangelion, to include NERV, the Eva's, the characters, and places originally seen in the Neon Genesis Evangelion anime and manga. This fan fiction will contain original characters of mine but I'll do my best to keep the interaction between my characters and the original characters to a minimum.
This fan fiction is if anything my way of finding answers to questions left unanswered by the last Eva movie. This fan fiction will follow an international team whose mission is to find the Magi computers and get them up and running. The secrets lie at the bottom of a crater created by Third Impact. Amidst the team are three specialists who were once selected to be Eva pilots they now journey to the place where all the answers lie.
"It's you?" Markus said in disbelief.
"I'm sorry do I know you?" The figure asked as he turned to face Markus.
"Probably not, but I know who you are, Suzuhara Touji. Markus said as Touji stepped into the light.
"So who are you and how do you know my name?" Touji asked as he placed the flowers at the foot of the memorial and gave a silent prayer.
"My name is Markus Garrett, I test piloted your Eva before it was sent here." Markus explained.
"Did you now? You know you must have missed something, the damn thing turned out to be an Angel." Touji said as he started to walk away.
"It was fine when I piloted it." Markus responded.
"Well it nearly killed me. Tell me why do you think it became an Angel?" Touji asked looking over his shoulder at Markus.
"My theory… It was because of the dummy plug. My father was the lead Eva technician back at Area 51 and from the beginning he didn't trust the dummy plugs. I guess we were all shown why. Unit 4 explodes and takes all of Area 51 including my father with it. While here in Japan Unit 3 turns into an Angel and nearly kills you." Markus tried to explain as he walked up to Touji.
"I guess that makes sense, either way we both were in its cockpit. So what brings you to Japan?" He asked.
"Research, I'm here as part of the UN investigation team. My job will be to repair, restart, and hack the Magi. I'm here to find answers. Why are you here?" Markus asked.
"Before third impact I was moved out of Tokyo to Lake Kisaki. My sister was to be moved also but because of her injuries it was hard to move her such a long distance so they were still prepping her when it happened. She died that day, every year I come down here and lay flowers at the memorial for her." Touji explained.
"I'm sorry, if you like I can see to it that you are included when we find things." Markus said as if offering answers could bring Touji some kind of closure.
"No thanks. I don't want to know what happened. But thank you though." Touji said as he made his way to his car.
"So what have you been doing all these years if you don't mind me asking." Markus asked as Touji opened his car door.
"I still live at Lake Kisaki, I got a wife, some kids, and business." He explained.
"May I ask what your business is?" Markus asked.
"It's a small restaurant, my wife Hikari's idea. You should stop by some time." Touji said as he got into his car.
"Oh Mark, one thing." Touji yelled out as he started to pull away.
"What is it?" Markus asked as he started to walk away.
"If you by some miracle happen to find that bastard Shinji alive, hit him for me. I'm talking don't hold back I mean break his nose, knock out a few teeth, hit him as hard as you can okay." Touji requested.
Markus laughed as he agreed to Touji's request. With that Touji drove off and Markus turned back toward the dorms deciding to bypass the memorial and go straight to bed. As he did, he heard an alarm coming from the lake. He then ran over to the edge of the lake and was soon joined by a few other bystanders.
"That's one of the salvage ships." One person yelled out.
"What the hell were they doing out on the lake at this hour?" Another person wondered.
Soon some emergency vessels were on their way to the ship. As that happened some security guards showed up to disperse the crowd. Markus figured that there was going to be a long brief about this in the morning so he decided to be on of the first to go back inside. As he made his way back to the dorms he noticed Albrecht watching the scene from his window with binoculars.
"See something interesting Al?" Markus asked.
"That is a German vessel, The Recovered." Albrecht said as he looked through his binoculars.
"You know that vessel?" Markus asked.
"I've had a few drinks with members of her crew from time to time." Albrecht explained.
"Any idea why they would be pulling a night shift?" Markus asked.
"Not a clue." Albrecht replied.
"Well I'm sure we're going to hear about it in the morning." Markus said as he shrugged.
"You've got that right mein freund." Albrecht replied.
"Well with that, goodnight Al." Markus said as he opened the door.
"Gute nacht Mark." Albrecht replied as he closed his window.
The next morning Ms. Kano was in her office with the German UN Ambassador broadcasting live on a video wall and the Captain of the Recovered. There was a long uncomfortable silence as Ms. Kano read the report of what happened. At times the Ambassador and the Captain wanted to say something but the words would not and just could not come out. Ms. Kano put down the report and brought her hands up to her face making her look like a female Ikari Gendou.
"Ambassador Franklin, could you explain to me why your government ordered the Captain here to excavate Terminal dogma without first getting my permission to do so?" Ms. Kano asked in German.
"Fraulein Kano, the we received permission from your superiors at the UN and the Japanese government to excavate Terminal Dogma to recover items that contain sensitive data essential to our national security." The Ambassador tried to explain.
"Ambassador do not think for one moment that you can even remotely bullshit me. I did not get to where I am by allowing myself to be fed garbage like that by people such as your self. Several members of this man's crew testified that your government was after DNA from one of the early Eva units. Also I have been given final say on all operations that take place here. The UN saw to it that no one is above me." Ms. Kano said not moving an inch.
"Captain, you can leave this room unharmed if you confirm what your crewmembers testified to. Also I would like to know if you were offered money, gifts, or were threatened." Ms. Kano said turning her attention to the ships Captain.
"Me and my crew will be able to continue with the investigation of Third Impact with the current contract and immunity?" The Captain asked.
"Correct and I'll see to it that the families of the dive team are well compensated for their loss." Ms. Kano replied.
The Captain looked over at Ms. Kano, then at the German Ambassador, then back at Ms. Kano. He took a deep breath and revealed everything. He revealed how the German government offered him and his crew double what the UN offered. He told her that the German government wanted the DNA to make Eva clones in an attempt to make up for the failure that was Unit 2.
"Captain you are dismissed." Ms Kano said.
The Captain thanked Ms. Kano and walked out of the room.
"Now as for you Ambassador, I find it hard to believe that the German government wanted Eva DNA to restore national pride." Ms. Kano said as she leaned back in her chair.
"Also I doubt your government is worried about another Angel attack." Ms. Kano added.
"Unit 2 was the most advanced of all the mass produced Eva units. It far surpassed that which the U.S. had created. A few years ago as we began to close our Evangelion research facilities, terrorists attacked one. These were radical leftist that wanted to make sure all research involving the Eva's were destroyed." The Ambassador explained.
"I've heard of this group, their numbers continue to grow and we even had to increase security due to threats by them." Ms. Kano added.
"Well we thought that they destroyed everything but upon further investigation a lot of data was stolen, so much so that if they wanted to make an Eva they could, even one as great as Unit 2. However we did hold out hope that they would destroy the data that was until we received a video threat by them. Apparently they have been dealing with a rouge nation in the Middle East and are close to beginning operations." The Ambassador explained.
"And since Third Impact wiped out all the spy satellites in orbit you have no idea where they are." Ms. Kano added.
"Correct, it's amazing in ten years all we managed to put back in orbit were communication and G.P.S. satellites, and those were put up by private organizations. Our government as well as many others, have been able to put up the kind of money necessary to create a top of the line spy satellite." The Ambassador explained.
"I see, so it was in fact a matter of national, dare I say global security." Ms. Kano replied.
"In the future Ambassador, let your government know that this operation will not be taken over by any government. All operation will go through and be approved by me and only me. This discussion is over." Ms. Kano said as she turned of the monitor.
She then opened one of her desk drawers and pulled out a canister of prescription pills. The pills were prescribed to her to combat migraines she occasionally suffered from. She took them with some water then reclined her chair.
"Six people dead, governments undermining my authority, and international terrorists." She thought to herself.
"At least Gendou didn't have to worry about terrorists." As she said that a red light started flashing on her desk.
"Not them, not now anyone but SEELE." Ms. Kano complained as she reached under her desk and pressed a button.
The button lowered a steal shutter over her window, sealed her door shut, and removed part of her floor revealing projection monitors in the floor. Once the room was dark holographic images of the original members of SEELE minus one appeared.
"Gentlemen, no doubt you over heard my conversation with the Ambassador." Ms. Kano said as she regained her composure.
"Yes we did, the news is unsettling. The Eva's were not to be used in conventional war." SEELE 2 said.
"That is correct their soul purpose is to combat the Angels. We were going to destroy the data anyway but this group thinks other wise." SEELE 5 responded.
"Yes but how can any country just through away a weapon with the potential that the Eva's have?" SEELE 3 asked.
"Gentlemen I'm siding with the German government on this one." Ms. Kano stated.
"This group is so fanatical that I would not be surprised if they did build an Eva and used it on other countries. I believe they forced Germany's hand in this." Ms. Kano continued.
"I agree, and it is truly naive to believe that the U.S., German, and even Japanese governments would just simply destroy all data pertaining to the Evangelion units." SEELE 2 added.
"Ms. Kano we leave the situation in your hands, all information you discover is not to leave this instillation and if anything is leaked to the press we trust that you will handle it." SEELE 4 added.
"Thank you gentlemen, rest assured that I am more than capable of handling the terrorists and the media." Ms. Kano said as she stood up and bowed.
"See that you do Ms. Kano. We learned our lesson with Gendou; do not make us regret our decision of you." SEELE 2 said.
"You won't sir." Ms. Kano replied.
"Good, until next time Ms. Kano." SEELE said as the lights came one and the office went back to normal.
Meanwhile the staff was not treated with a mass briefing on the commotion that happened the night before but rater a day off and an ultimatum to not engage the press. It was though, a nice day, partly cloudy, and with a cool breeze. Markus decided to take this opportunity to go up to the roof of the dorms and play one of his instruments. Growing up he was encouraged to take up playing an instrument. His parent's suggested taking up something small and easy to travel with. His father suggested the violin and his mother suggested the acoustic guitar. He ended up doing both. He didn't prefer one to the other but he did like the guitar in that if you messed up while playing the guitar it wasn't entirely obvious. So he took his guitar and violin up to the roof and flipped a coin.
"Heads, violin it is." Markus said as he took out the violin.
He never played with a sheet of music, in fact he could hardly read music, he chose to either play by ear or make stuff up. He tuned his instrument then started playing something with an Irish style tone. As he played Albrecht and Kelly both came up tot the roof with their own instruments. Albrecht played the tenor saxophone while Kelly specialized in the flute. The quietly came onto the roof, stood and listened to Markus play. As soon as he stopped they broke out in applause.
"What do you call that piece of ear candy?" Kelly asked as she walked up to him.
"Well to be honest I was making it up as I went along, but I guess if I had to call it anything I'd call it, "Irish Sea breeze". Yeah, I wanted to play something with an Irish tone to it and while I played it I thought back to the sea breezes in Florida." Markus explained.
"So why not call it, "Florida Sea Breeze?" Albrecht asked as he pulled out his saxophone.
Markus thought about it for a second and agreed with the name change.
"So you also play guitar?" Albrecht asked.
"Yep it was my mom's idea. Hey considering what we have to work with we could probably do some jazz-fusion." Markus suggested as he put away his violin and pulled out his guitar.
"I'm game, how bout you Al?" Kelly asked as she pulled out her flute.
"You don't even have to ask, I was in a jazz-fusion band at the university." Albrecht bragged.
"Markus, I was thinking since we got today off you want to go to the shrine after lunch?" Kelly asked.
"Sure thing, you care to join us Al?" Markus asked.
"No not today, medical team only has the morning off." Albrecht said.
With that Markus led off with a soft tone, followed by Albrecht, then Kelly. They jammed for a while doing various jazz-fusion, jazz, and at times Markus would break out some American folk. Albrecht's solo was some smooth jazz; while Kelly soloed with a Japanese song her mother taught her when she first learned to play the flute.
They soon packed up their instruments and joined each other in the cafeteria for lunch. Afterward Albrecht went back to the medical offices in the warehouse while Kelly and Markus went and signed out a car from the garage. They drove for a while till they reached the shrine Kelly had spoken of. It was a modest little shrine that looked like it had undergone a lot of repair over the years.
Markus and Kelly approached the front and each tossed in a few yen, rang the bell and gave a silent prayer each. As they started to walk around the grounds they heard the sound of a cello and a violin playing. Markus ran back to the car and returned with his violin thinking those playing wouldn't mind if he joined in. As they approached the source Kelly recognized the piece as Johann Pachelbel's Kannon in D minor. Only with two instruments a violin and a cello. Kelly remembered hearing it once played with a cello, a viola, and two violins. But despite not having a second violinist and a viola player they were doing quite well.
Markus pulled out his violin and filled in the missing part. The original players noticed this and kept on playing as if to say he was welcome. As they played Kelly sat down on some steps and saw a young girl near the couple napping on the floor. As the song ended Kelly gave an enthusiastic applause.
"That was so beautiful! Thank you for allowing my friend to join in. Have you been playing long?" Kelly said enthusiastically in Japanese.
"I'm glad you enjoyed it, me and my wife don't get very many visitors here so we often play to pass time. Your friend here is very good." The man with the cello said with a wide smile.
"Thank you, I was amazed I was able to remember the piece, it has been a long time since I played anything classical." Markus replied.
"Your Japanese is pretty good, and your violin skills aren't bad either." The woman said as she set her violin in her lap.
"Oh how rude of me, I'm Kelly Nakamori and this is my friend Markus Garrett." Kelly introduced.
"Hello, I'm Akira Shinjo, and this is my wife Kyoko." The man said as he got up to greet them.
Upon hearing this the young girl stood up and said…
"No you're not daddy, your name is Shinji Ikari and momma is Asuka Langley Soryu-Ikari." The girl said with a sense of pride as she corrected her parents.
Upon hearing this Markus and Kelly shocked to the point where they could not move. You could have knocked them over with a feather, for they have found two people that the UN could not find after ten years of international searching.
To Be Continued.
Okay a couple of parings in this plus some other things. I figured Touji and Hikari would eventually have gotten together. I figured they would have a restaurant because Hikari likes to cook. As for Shinji and Asuka I guess it was obvious those two would get together. I chose to make it so they hid out in plain sight because every now and then it works. The idea that those two actually had a kid came out of a couple of rationales. One, at some point those two would grow to love each other. Two, I figured what the hell go ahead and tack it on. Three, it was actually an interesting way to blow their cover. Well till next time.