Ch 8
"You still haven't told me your name." Carter pointed out.
"I haven't?" the stranger replied, "That's unusual, usually I would have introduced myself by now. Eren C. Jaeger, pleasure to meet you. Now, before we do anything else, I have a few things I need to do; the first would be to talk to Sister Margaret, the second would be to get something to eat."
Eren walked towards the nearest building and in no time at all was he in the Sister's office.
"Good day, Sister Margaret. Eren C. Jaeger, interdimensional being and time traveler at your service, pleasure to make your acquaintance. I know you have questions, you can ask those later, in the mean time I'll be heading over to the cafeteria for something to eat. That's OK, isn't it? Of course it is, as long as I remember to pay for the food right?" Eren said, he then walked off to the cafeteria, got several trays of food and started eating.
The next few days went by as normal; Carter was in the top of his class when it came to combat, fights broke out amongst the girls, their Limiters supported them, all was normal; even for Carter.
Every now and then he would spot Eren watching them from the distance, simply observing. At one point a girl tried to talk to him, Eren replied with "I'm thinking, please leave me alone.", the girl would then try to talk to him again only to get the same answer; she tried over and over, the cycle repeating itself. Eventually she got pissed off at Eren and tried to attack him. She threw high speed punches at him, she tried to break his neck, she even broke her Volt Weapon on his head when she tried to hit him with it. Eren simply stood there, completely unfased by what she had dished out to him. In a final attempt to get Eren's attention the Pandora went into Pandora Mode, used an accel and rammed him…
Eren simply grabbed hold of her by the throat as she was about to ram him, the force of her own attack hurting her. Eren then set her down in a nearby chair, healed her neck the same way he had healed Satellizer's injuries a few days before and continued his silent vigil.
Then one day everything just went haywire.
The Ravensbourne Nucleotide was giving off the strangest readings ever, as if reacting to something. Gengo arrived promptly and headed straight for the Nucleotide, not saying a word to anyone, at one point he nearly bumped into Sister Margaret, he simply gave her a nod and continued walking, the Sister following all the way to the Nucleotide, picking up Ticy along the way.
When they got to the Nucleotide they saw that nothing had changed physically, the Holy Corpse hadn't moved, nothing was broken, absolutely nothing had changed.
Gengo started checking all the computer screens, checking to see if there were any clues as to the sudden seismic activity which seemed to emanate from the Nucleotide itself.
The readings were off the charts! Gengo had never seen anything like it, never before had Maria's corpse given off such readings. Then he heard a voice…
"Where?" the voice said, trailing off into the silence.
"What?" Gengo asked, "Where's what?"
Right about now, Ticy and Sister Margaret were looking at Gengo in confusion, to them, he seemed to be talking to himself.
"Gengo Aoi?" Ticy asked, "Is everything alright?"
"All is fine, Ticy Phenyl, all is fine. I have something to tell you." Gengo replied.
"What?" Ticy asked.
"Maria Lancelot, the Holy Corpse, she's alive. She is alive and conscious."
"Gengo, what are you talking about?" Sister Margaret asked, confused and slightly infuriated that such a fact, if true, was kept from her all this time.
"Where is he?" the voice asked, this time both the Sister and Ticy could hear the voice.
"That, my friends, is the voice of Maria Lancelot herself. Before she came to be in this state she had saved the world from the Nova twice over, the second time was just before she and I got married and had children, all of whom are either students at Genetics academies across the globe or are currently members of Chevalier itself." Gengo stated, in an almost showman-like manner, which was unusual for him.
"Where is he?" the voice asked again, louder and more persistent this time.
"I'm here, Maria." a voice said out of the shadows. A man stepped out of the darkness, showing his identity to those present: Eren.
"Is- is it really you?" the voice stammered out, sounding shocked and sad.
"It's really me. I'm here." Eren said.
"Who are you?" Gengo asked Eren.
"Eren C. Jaeger, now shush son, I'm trying to talk to a long lost family member." Eren stated flatly, almost ignoring Gengo.
"It's- it's just been such a long time…"
"I know, I thought I'd never see you again after the Babel Incident. I thought long ago that you were dead, you'd simply vanished into thin air." Eren said, "I struggled for millennia to find you, I searched and searched; but no manner of magic, power or technology could find you, none could even pick up traces of your existence."
"Fathe-…" Maria's voice faltering, as if she were sobbing.
"I'm here, my daughter, I'm here." Said Eren, trying to soothe his daughter with his words and voice, as he knew that he could not touch her, the Nucleotide was the only thing keeping her alive at this point and he'd figured that out the moment he saw her again.
"Daughter?" Gengo asked, looking back and forth between Eren and his wife, Maria.
"There's a reason I called you son, I don't give nicknames without good reason, normally I just use them after they've been established but in this case I have every right to call you that." Eren replied.
Through all this Ticy and Sister Margaret had been silent, too shocked to say anything.