Neon Genesis Evangelion: Lantean days
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Yeah but it's not a complaint that you hear tonight,
It's not the laughter of someone who claims to have seen the light
No it's a cold and it's a very lonely Hallelujah.
-Leonard Cohen, Hallelujah
Chapter Three B: Hallelujah.
Shinji felt like a child on his first day of school as he walked through one of Atlantis's many thousands of hallways. The medical bay seemed so alien to him, here there was a machine that cured you of your ailments where as on earth he would have been told to suck it up or get some bed rest if he ever vomited out of fear. The staffs themselves were different as well, no clear line between doctors or nurses. He was getting tired now; he had been walking around for about two hours.
He came to an inconspicuous room, in the centre were a throne like chair and a few consoles scattered about.
"Hello?" He asked as he walked in, apparently it was empty. He couldn't see what the consoles did and to be perfectly honest with you he didn't really care. The chair looked very ornamental, not so much that it had been designed and built by a man but more like it had been sculpted and crafted by the gods. He let out a sign as he sat down. Its apparent lack comfort wasn't that big a problem as within three seconds of him sitting in the chair its base lit up in a blue light that illuminated the entire room as the chair changed into a more 'therapists couch' shape.
Suddenly a hologram appeared over his head, then another and another. The first one was of a large blue planet; Shinji recognised it as this planet, Lantea. The second was apparently a list of things found on the pilots persons when they were pulled out of the entry plugs and the third appeared to be a censor scans of a room, four people on one side with another two on the other.
"Help!" Shinji shouted as the chair began to spin around forcing him to feel nauseous again..
"Shinji? Where are you?" He heard Hippaforalkus's voice reply back to him.
"I don't know. I was lost when I found this room."
"What do you see around you?"
"There are two consoles, what looks like a water tank, I think I saw one of those transporter closets…things and there's a chair in the middle of the room, the arms feel like a water bottle"
"Chair over ride room." He heard someone say.
"Its okay Shinji I'll be there in three a few. Now whatever you do…don't think about anything. Keep your mind blank." Hippaforalkus said.
Suddenly the all the lights and the holograms in the room went out.
"Shinji, turn the lights back on." Hippaforalkus added…
15 minutes later, the high council chamber…
"This is unacceptable, if they weren't ATA positives they'd have their memory wiped and be sent to a human world. How the General thinks that it would be acceptable to allow them to stay here is beyond me…" Moros said as he nursed his nose that was now bleeding before he was interrupted by the sound of the large Lantean doors opening.
"Shut up Moros, if we listened to all your suggestions we'd still be submerged under the ocean still struggling through the Wraith war." Hippaforalkus said as he entered the room with young Mr Ikari in tow. Shinji walked forwards towards the sears where Asuka and Rei had been sitting and sat down in between them.
"…And as you know this is Hippaforalkus, Captain General of Atlantus's navy and high councillor." Ganos said as she stood up to greet Hippaforalkus. Asuka was surprised that one could be of such a high rank and be so relatively young.
"I apologise for my lateness but Shinji had wandered into the chair override room by accident. I needed to retrieve him." He said as he sat next to his obvious second in command, or at least his closest friend on the council at the central shortest side. Both the children and the council members looked at Shinji.
"Was it you who turned the lights out a few minutes ago?" Asuka whispered into Shinji's ear. He nodded.
"How did it go?" Asked Melios.
"You would have been proud if he was Melia." Hippaforalkus replied to his compatriot councillor." He activated the chair within seconds of sitting down and even managed to open the comm. System." Hippaforalkus said.
"Hippaforalkus, how can you just consider letting the stay here. They may be enemy spies or worse." Moros said, still angry that Asuka had punched him in the nose and that Hippaforalkus had given him a proverbial 'bitch slap',
"Moros, you know I'd normally agree with you but we cannot ignore the facts. All three children have our legacy and even you must be able to sense how close to Ms Ayanami is to ascension. But more importantly, what happened to your nose?" Hippaforalkus replied.
"I punched him in the nose." Asuka said as she displayed her reddened knuckles. Shinji looked at her in quite amazement that she could have had the courage to punch a Lantean council member,
"why…"Hippaforalkus asked before he was interrupted by Rei.
"What do you mean 'your legacy' and what is ascension?" She asked.
The councillors looked at one another before the high councillor opened his mouth to speak.
"Rei…We are physically, mentally indistinguishable from your kind, Humanity except for one genetic marker. It is this gene that allows us to control out technology. Like the throne chair...Shinji. Normally only Lanteans or children of Lanteans and humans have this gene. You three Howether, have the gene. Something very odd considering that your records have no mention of us beyond myths." Ganos Lal replied.
"Yes that's another thing I was wondering about. How do you know so much about the terms that we use like the Pegasus or the Milky Way?" Asuka asked.
"When we pulled you out of the entry plugs we discovered a few interesting things about the beings you call Evangelions. First and foremost it is a biological entity with about 98.4 the same DNA structure as humans. We also discovered that there has been extensive surgery on the Evangelions, most notably for the inclusion of the entry plugs but also an unidentified organ has been replaced with a primitive version of the modules that we use to gather what you call zero point energy and one of the most important things we discovered was an extensive database which we were quickly able to connect to. Oddly Howether it had no mention of the organisation that you call NERV or of the Evangelions themselves." Melios Replied to Asuka.
"Speaking of which, where are the evangelions now?" Asuka said after her previous question was answered.
"The Evangelions were heavily damaged by wraith fire and the fall through the atmosphere. We had them moved to a secure location in the Pegasus galaxy for repair. Eventually we'll have a hanger retrofitted here so that they can be stored here, on Atlantus if you wish." Hippaforalkus said.
"Excuse me but what are the Wraith?" Shinji asked. The council looked at each other in amazement; it had been so long since they had encountered a life form that had never heard of the wraith.
"The Wraith, are a parasitic race of beings native to this galaxy that we encountered several thousand years ago. They are a highly aggressive hybrid between human and another creature we have come to call the Iratus bug. We sent a delegation protected by several of our most powerful warships to try to negotiate with them but their was just…so many of them. For seventy five of your years we were at war with each other. Eventually they laid siege to Atlantus itself. Howether we were able to defeat them. The fighter that attacked you in orbit was a suicide fighter, a left over that was trying to create damage before its pilot died. We believe the closest analogy you have for it is a vampire" Hippaforalkus said slowly, like a war veteran would speak of a past, horrifying war. The three pilots looked at one another; Shinji looked scared out of his mind at the idea of real vampires, Asuka having the same trail of thought and Rei looking unaffected.
"If you so desire we would be proud to have you stay with us as Lantean citizens or alternatively we will send you to any human world you desire." Hippaforalkus said quickly in an attempt to change the subject. The three pilots looked to once again.
"May we have some time to think about this?" Rei asked with a hint of concern in her voice.
"Yes off course, Melios would you take them to quarters, something big with a view." Hippaforalkus said as he turned to face the councillor Melios Isanagi. Melios stood up and walked towards the large doors. The pilots did the same as the doors opened. Suddenly Hippaforalkus stood up.
"Oh and Shinji, we found this in your entry plug." He said, Shinji turned around to be confronted by a small flying black object no bigger than a ten year olds fist. He caught it in both hands and smile, he recognised it.
"What is it? Oh..." Said Asuka as she noticed the large white letters on its side; .S.D.A.T. It was Shinji's SDAT player. Melios made a break for the door and the children followed him like lost puppies.
Several hours later…
The children were exhausted, the search for appropriate quarters having taken two hours not to mention actually getting there as well as getting requisitions such as multiple pairs of clothes, what Shinji had been told was the Lantean version of a Laptop not to mention food and water bottles that could be replenished.
"And if you need anything simply wave your arm over the pad next to the door as you do to open it but instead of going to the bottom hold your arm over the middle, make sure you don't say anything inappropriate as it runs directly to the control room." Melios said as he opened the door and walked through. The trio dispersed in their new apartment. Shinji headed into what Melios had designated as the kitchen to unpack the food stuffs and the water, Rei headed towards the balcony to gaze upon the city and Asuka headed to what had been the largest bedroom, a lioness claiming territory.
They had been told that the apartment was one of the largest in the city, with many amenities that the apartments on the 'inner city' didn't have such as a computer terminal, multiple bedrooms and most importantly(to Asuka at least, she never told him it but she secretly loved Shinji's cooking,) a kitchen. The main living room had a large view screen that they had been told could be connected to the Lantean laptops to make a bigger screen and several medium sized couches. There were two(what they'd guessed child sized beds) in as many rooms and a large bedroom which they had guessed was meant to be a parental room or a master bedroom.
"Asuka, Rei are you hungry?" Shinji asked as he finished putting the Lantean ingredients away.
"Yes, Shinji Kun." Rei replied as she took in the vast view of Atlantis that their Eastern peer apartment afforded the.
"I'll eat if everyone else is eating." Asuka said from the bedroom where she was now surely putting her clothes in the room's closet.
"What should I cook?" Shinji said, a process slightly wasted as immediately a hologram appeared with Lantean recipes popped up. "Never mind, I'll make some Lantean food." Some time went by while Shinji picked what to make and then made it. The apartment lay in silence for about ten minutes while Shinji cooked, Rei looked and Asuka unpacked.
"After careful deliberation regarding out latest problem I have decided with a clear and even head." Asuka said from the bedroom. The newly designated brother and sister listened in, hopefully Asuka would give her decision first so that they could make theirs around hers. "That this is definitely my bedroom!" At the exact same time, in perfect unison Rei and Shinji groaned in perfect harmony.
"Okay Asuka, the Lentacalum will be ready in about three minutes." Shinji said submissibly as he found the fruit.
"Lentacalum?" Rei asked as she entered the living room/kitchen are from the balcony, slightly afraid if the 'Lentacalum' had meat in it.
"Its abit like weetabix but cooked and then you put honey and fruit on it." Shinji assured her as he produced three plates and put them on the counter.
"So we've travelled three million miles, ten thousand years back in time just to eat an English middle class breakfast?" Asuka asked humourlessly as she joined Rei and Shinji in the kitchen/living room. Shinji grinned slightly but Rei's expression didn't change. Rei sat on one of the 'bar stools' which lay under the counter. Asuka walked towards her and sat down next to her.
"Have you two had any thoughts on the captain general's offer yet?" Rei asked as she opened one of the water bottles that Shinji had left on the side and drank from it.
"I want to stay on Lantea, Hippaforalkus seems sincere and I think we can do some good here." Shinji said as he waited for the cooker to finish the lentacalum. Asuka looked stunned.
"Idiot Shinji (she had apparently lost the ability to call him Baka due to it not being an alteran word or even possible slang.) What about Touji, Kensuke or Hikari? What about Misato? If the angels trigger third…" Asuka screamed at Shinji before she was interrupted.
"The angels cannot initiate third impact without Liliths soul. That is now safely beyond their reach." Rei said slowly and calmly. Shinji and Rei's jaws dropped, the quietest girl in three galaxies just shut the loudest girl in the universe up.
"So you're staying here on Atlantis then Shinji?" Rei asked
"Yes."
"And you Asuka?" Rei asked the third child.
"Someone has to look after Ikari."
"Then in the morning I will go tell Hippaforalkus that we are all staying." Rei said as she let the second smile she had ever made escape her facial features.
Later that night…
According to the Lantean clock that had been placed anonymously at his bed side it was about 2:41 in the morning, an insane hour to be listening to a SDAT player to be honest but Shinji couldn't sleep. Misato had oddly replaced his classical music tape with her personal favourites. Shinji had to admit that he did like some of the music but most of it was pure garbage (or grunge). Suddenly he felt the call of nature. He got out of bed, turned the SDAT player off, put it on his night stand and proceeded to the apartment's singular bathroom.
Relieved he made his way back to his room thankfully, except for a few plants Lantean apartments came with very little in the way of obstructions so there was very little that he could trip on or stub his toe on so he made little or no noise getting to and back from the bathroom. On the way back Howether he heard something that he had wished to never hear before, he couldn't just ignore it. He made his way to her room and opened her door to see if she was awake. He looked her up and down in a pitying stare, she wasn't. She was crying in her sleep, something that he found saddening. He realised that he couldn't do anything to help her while she was asleep he walked out of the room and closed the door.
With a worried pace and shoulders that seemed to have the weight of the world on them he made his way back to his room slowly, carefully not to wake his room mates up. In his room he pulled the door to, closed it and grabbed his SDAT player, with great gentleness he put the earphones into his ear lobes and turned the device on. He got back into bed and closed his eyes.
The piece was sparse, with only single guitar in the mix. He listened intently 'I heard their was a secret chord, that David played that pleased the lord' He heard the door opening and foot steps He felt the covers being pulled up and the feel of unfamiliar skin, someone had pulled his arm and had rapped it around the side of their stomach. He had an urge to sneeze...their was hair in his face. Whoever it was who had decided to lye next to him in his bed proceeded to pull the earphone out of his left ear. He opened his eyes slightly…He saw a beautiful head of red hair.
Authors notes.
Wow! What a type that was, 6 word pages. God I'm almost scared to see the word count now. Now there are a few questions with things.
What's with Hippaforalkus's personality.
As a character Hippaforalkus is based of three other characters. Rouji Kaji, Janus (who will appear later in a younger form) and colonel John Shepherd. I felt that as a part Stargate fan fic we deserved a rebellious commander (don't worry, his personality quirks and character flaws will be pulled apart later and he will be left a shell of a man…in true Evangelion style.) He is named after the ship that the Atlantis expedition found in 2005 in the episode 'Inferno'. Who was in turn named for a Lantean general aka he was named after the ship who was named after the man aka himself(the ship was named after the Hippaforalkus who appears here).
Why do you refer to thinks such as your years or Lantean clocks
Humans have a different way of counting that Lanteans. Humans count things in tens (the decimal system, derived from how many fingers and thumbs you have on both hands.) where as Lanteans count in eights (the octal system, supposedly derived from fingers only.) Look here for more information on the octal system and here for a number converter.
How come the Lanteans know all the human terms?
During the salvage of the Evangelions the ancients found what they thought was a computer and a processor. Which has allowed them to interface with what they thought was a computer. I'm not going to tell you what they did interface with but I will remind you that NERV has managed to communicate the other occupants of the Evangelions several times (remember Gendo in his office asking 01 what it wanted) on one level or another.
Any plans for holiday instalments?
Yes if all goes well I hope to do a Halloween one based on oceans eleven (mwwaa haa haa! Yes I've lost it.) and a Christmas one either based on it's a wonderful life or a Christmas carol .
Any Omake?
When I get a flash of inspiration for an Omake I'll post it.
Where oh where are Janus, Melia and Orlin?
By about 10 o'clock tomorrow morning Lantean local time outside the apartment door…
Anothe of this nice and pansy love bollocks, we want to see fighting and big ass battles!
Calm down there, I admit that the first few chapters have been slow in the action side of things. Don't worry I hope to have the first action story starting by Tuesday 18th September and the first Eva/Angelic centric storyline up by the following Saturday.
And what's coming next chapter?
The crew of the Aurora as well as the other ships of the 5th fleet get some well needed rest…
Asuka and Shinji are disturbed by three unfamiliar Lanteans…
First day of Lantean school!
Thanks to all those who reviewed and those who added this story as a favourite or as one to watch and I ask you to please continue doing so. See you soon.
Yours faithfully ErakStarlight