After Evangelion

Chapter 7

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.


"So where have you been all this time?" Albrecht asked as he noticed Kelly walking away from the garage to the dorms.

"Oh I was on my way to pick up some supplies from Yokota when the attack happened. I got back here as soon as I could, I was lucky the guards didn't shoot at me." She explained.

"So what's with the camera?" He asked as he noticed a very professional looking camera hanging from her shoulder.

"Oh I thought I'd take some pictures along the way. I never really spent much time in Japan and my parents use to talk about her all the time. The last time I was here I didn't get a chance to enjoy it, so I'm making it my mission to not waste this second chance. I hope this whole mess with the terrorists is resolved quickly. By the way have you seen or heard from Markus?" She asked.

"He has been trying to get in touch with you. He's stranded at some shrine and he wants you to call him." He said relaying the message.

"He's been trying to contact me? Oh shit I left my personal phone in my dorm I've been carrying around my work phone this whole time." With that she ran to the dorms.

"Thanks for the message Al." She called out as she rushed into the dormitory.

Al started back to the clinic, as he did he couldn't help but to think that something didn't sit right with the situation. He then shrugged it off as just a bit of paranoia brought on by the current situation, but as he got closer to the clinic he couldn't help but have a feeling that someone was following him. He entered the clinic and headed towards his office when he was stopped by the chief physician and the coroner.

"Guten Tag Albrecht." The chief physician said as he greeted Albrecht.

"Guten Tag Doktor Warner. To what do I owe this visit?"

"Albrecht, I would like you to accompany us with the autopsy of those divers that died in the incident a couple of weeks ago. This is Dr. Sonya Zhirinovsky; she is one of the leading coroners in Russia and a professor at the University of Moscow." Dr. Warner said as he introduced the coroner.

Sonya Zhirinovsky was a slightly middle aged woman born and raised in Moscow. She was well versed in many languages and was world renowned for her work. She was slender and of average height with straight, long black hair that had a grey streak that went down the right side.

"It is a pleasure to meet you, Dr. Warner has told me quite a bit about his prized student." She said extending her hand

"Thank you, Dr. Zhirinovsky. Might I say your German is excellent. But linguistics aside might I ask why are they just now letting us do the autopsies?" Albrecht asked as they headed toward the morgue.

"That is a question I can not answer my boy. The UN cover up machine is running on this one so be careful what you say after this." Dr. Warner said as they entered the morgue.

"Gentlemen, why or rather how could five well trained divers drown in a situation like they were in? They were rescued rather quickly and they had their oxygen tanks and dive masks with them. So again I ask you, how could five men, who were highly trained divers, drown so quickly." Sonya Asked as she walked over to the five covered corpses.

She walked over to the head of the first man and as she pulled back the sheet all three of them jumped back in shock at what they saw.

"Mein Gott!" Dr. Warner said as he slowly crept forward.

"Dr. Zhirinovsky, consider your question answered." Albrecht said as he looked down at the look of sheer terror that was frozen on the man's face.

At that moment over in the lakeside command center one of the people assigned to observing Terminal Dogma walked over to the head of the command center informing him that their was something he had to hear. The head of the command center followed the observer to his observation center. Once arriving he handed the C.C. head a pair of headphones and turned up the volume. The sound of the headphones was that of an eerie giggling from a young girl.

Meanwhile over at Yokota AB, Nene was putting in some over time as she analyzed more of the samples taken from the skull. Earlier that day they completed cleaning all the mud and grime off the skull but some substances still remained. At first they thought it could be mold but there was something about it that required a closer look. That is what Nene had been doing for a good portion of the day. She was noticeably tired and frustrated that her observations were going nowhere.

"Damn I'm tired, what am I missing common Nene think." She said to her self as she rubbed her temples.

"At this point the only thing I haven't done is compare this sample to the tissue sample." As she said that a light bulb went off in her head.

She walked over to retrieve the jar with the tissue sample. She then turned on another microscope and prepared the sample. As she did she put a fresh sample of the unknown substance under another microscope and brought the image up on a monitor. She put the tissue sample under the microscope and began looking at the two samples side by side. As she looked at the samples she about fell back in shock.

"I have to find Dr. Hurwitz." She said as she gathered up her notes and printed out photos of the samples.

The sun was now well behind the curve of the Earth leaving the east coast of Japan to be lit by the light of the half moon. Markus sat on the steps of the shrine wrapping up a two hour phone conversation with Kelly. As he hung up his cell phone he stared out in the distance. The impact zone was all lit up with stadium and flood lights as everyone prepared for the rising of the Magi.

The extra lighting also helped the guards keep a lookout for the terrorist. The next twenty four hours were critical. The terrorists that captured the member of the investigation team warned of another attack when the Magi broke the surface. On some level Markus could understand why the terrorists were so adamant about stopping the UN from learning the Magi's secrets. Their intentions were good but their methods were horribly wrong. It was kind of like eco terrorists. Their cause is a just one but it's hard to for people to sympathize with saving the rain forest when you commit arson.

"You know I ran into Touji the other day. He said he wanted me to punch you if I saw you." Markus said as he turned around.

"How did you know it was me?" Shinji asked as he sat across from Markus.

"Well I heard someone approach and I figured it was you because your wife still doesn't seem to trust me." Markus replied.

"So are you going to try to go back tomorrow?" Shinji asked.

"Not tomorrow, the security will be too tight. I'll head back the day after, security won't be as tight and the Magi will be secured." Markus explained.

"Well you're welcome here as long as you need." Shinji offered.

"Arigato." Markus replied.

"So Touji wanted you to punch me?" Shinji said with a slight laugh.

"Yeah he told me to not only punch you but to make sure that I either broke your nose or knocked out a few teeth." Markus said with a grin.

"How is he doing these days? It's been so long since I last seen any of them." Shinji said as he looked up at the stars and reminisced.

"He told me that he marred a girl named Hikari, they have a couple of kids and they own a restaurant in Lake Kisaki. He seems happy considering his sister died in Second Impact." Markus explained but as he did he noticed that Shinji had momentarily frozen upon hearing the last part of what he said.

"I didn't know, after that all he wants to do is punch me. I wouldn't blame him if he wanted to kill me. He has every right to you know." Shinji said as he hung his head.

"Perhaps he knows that it wasn't entirely your fault. Then again no one except you and your wife knows what happened that day. For some reason no one can remember that day." Markus said as he looked over at Shinji looking for some answers.

Shinji stood up and turned to the Shrine. But as he did he looked back at Markus and responded in English.

"A fair warning Markus, its best you not know what transpired that day. Trust me on this one." As he said that he walked back to the Shrine, with Markus now following behind.

Once inside Shinji walked over to Misato who fell asleep on the floor watching T.V. He picked her up and headed up stairs.

"He's right you know. It is better you and the rest of the world, not know what happened. I have been trying to forget it myself. Are you prepared for what you will find when you activate the Magi?" Asuka asked as Markus entered the Shrine.

"Your English is good, only a slight hint of your German accent. To answer your question, no I am not prepared. I don't think there is anything to prepare me for the truth all I know is that I must know it." Markus explained.

"You're a fool. As they say, "Some ghosts are better left buried." Asuka quietly snapped.

"But then you can't even do that. I watched as your people exhumed Rei's head out her grave. I only now pray to every God left on this planet that they do not return and herald another impact." She said as she got in his face.

Markus chose not to get into a debate with her. Instead he humbly thanked her for allowing him to stay and excused himself from the conversation. He almost made it out of the room when Asuka called him out again.

"Garrett, you will be betrayed by the UN. Once they get the information you know damn well that they will restart the various operations associated with the Eva's only this time children will be asked to fight wars against people not from false angels. Can you live with that knowledge on your conscience?" She asked trying her hardest not to be too loud.

"If something like that did happen, assuming I'm still alive I would destroy the Magi with my own hands." Markus said as he went to the guest room.

The next day Markus watched from the shrine as the Magi were raised to the surface. They were brought up by large balloons then once on the surface lifted by cranes onto waiting barges. The Magi were still in their airtight storage containers proving that the plan everyone agreed on worked.

Security was extremely tight. There were armed guards all over the complex consisting of a combination of UN, US, and JSD forces. As expected there were protesters at all of the gates. As he watched this Markus couldn't help but wonder about the hostage that had been taken. The news had reported that the hostage was rescued over night but something about the whole ordeal made Markus wonder about the legitimacy of it all. But then again the manipulating the media would be nothing new to the UN.

"Balthazar, Melchior, and Caspar, so those damn eye sores see the light of day yet again." Shinji said as he walked out to where Markus was.

"They need me right now and there is no way in hell I can there today. Well they could send a helicopter but that would just draw too much attention." Markus said as the Magi were moved from the barges to vehicles that transported them into the warehouse.

"They seem to be doing a good job against the protesters. I'm surprised riots haven't broke out." Shinji added.

"Order is easy to obtain when you have high powered automatic weapons aimed at people." Markus said pointing at the various Hummers.

"I see." Shinji said as he also noticed.

Just then there was an explosion at one of the unguarded parts of the fence. As the smoke cleared a jeep burst through with a person standing up with an RPG launcher. The person aimed the RPG at the warehouse, then in a blink of an eye the person fell over and out of the Jeep causing the launcher to go off and explode as the RPG was fired into the ground. The driver of the Jeep continued to race toward the warehouse but was soon mowed down by two or three .50 caliber guns fired from the Hummers. Once that was taken care of, two Hummers moved to take positions in front of the hole in the fence to act as temporary barricades.

"Well that was exciting." Markus said as he turned back toward the shrine.

"How can you be so calm?" Shinji asked astonished by Markus's calm almost uncaring demeanor.

"It's called disconnecting. In my line of work you have to be able to disconnect yourself from the personal impact of an event so you can do your job. Also those guys could have killed many innocent people. I have no love or remorse for people like that. Call me cold, call me whatever you like but sometimes it's best to not think of things on a personal level." Markus explained.

On some level Shinji knew he was right. Shinji could not forgive those who slaughtered the members of NERV, nor could he forgive his father for among other things setting in motion the events that caused Third Impact.

"Do you want to know what caused Third Impact?" Shinji asked Markus.

"Of course I do, that's why I'm here, that is why I need to get back down there to begin work on the Magi." Markus answered.

"My father caused Third Impact. Trust me I was there." Shinji said causing Markus to stop dead in his tracks.

Meanwhile at a restaurant at Lake Kisaki, Touji walked in while Hikari was working the register and acting as a hostess.

"Oh thank god you're okay. I heard what happened on the news I still can't believe you went down there." Hikari said as she ran over and hugged him.

"Yeah it was quite the scare; I managed to get some good pictures I'm sure will get top dollar from the various news organizations." Touji said as he walked into the house part of the restaurant and sat his camera down on the table.

He had been doing some freelance photography for some time. Nothing major but thanks to his long time friend Kensuke, who was now a news camera man for a major television network in Japan, he had connections and could get top dollar for his pictures. Recently he had been making several trips to Tokyo to cover the UN investigation.

"Touji, I know you're making a lot of money from your pictures, but I worry about your safety. Just please be careful out there. With things the way they are I wish you would stay out of Tokyo for the time being." Hikari pleaded as she hugged him from behind.

"Well how about this; I got to go back to Tokyo tomorrow to sell some pictures after that I'll stay here and take over the restaurant for a week giving you some time off." He said as he turned around and embraced her.

"You have a deal, and trust that I will hold you too it." She said as she looked up at him and smiled.

To Be Continued.