Everything to do with Eva doesn't belong to me, it belongs to Gainax
This being my first fic, it will be rough around the edges.
It is a continuation fic, but don't worry if everyone is OOC, remember they have all been to hell and back several times, and if they remained the same then what's the point of character development. I have been a fan of Eva for a long time, and I have been a fan of Eva fanfics for almost as long, so I thought that I'd do one. I hope to bring together a few ideas that have been floating around for a while. Anyway I hope you enjoy any C&C would be greatly appreciated and without further ado I present:
Neon Genesis Evangelion: True Destiny
Episode 1 Rebirth/The Truth
He had killed Kaworu, his friend. When he got out of the entry plug he just went to the changing room, had a shower, got dressed and went to the spot where he first met him, he didn't think about it, it was like he was on autopilot. He didn't know how long he sat there, but Misato came and sat down beside him, when she did, it hit him, he had done it. He said something, and Misato relied, but he never heard her, the next thing he knew was that he was being dragged away by men in black suits, and Misato shouting something, but he didn't care. They took him to the deepest part of the geofront and to a door, they opened the door and pushed him inside. And there he saw his father standing before a large tube filled with LCL, it looked familiar but he realised that it wasn't the same room he saw the Rei clones in, there was no tank surrounding it. then his father spoke.
Ikari: Welcome Shinji.
Then he was suddenly sitting on a chair the only light was from a spotlight shining on him, the rest was complete darkness. He saw things, dark things from the deepest recesses of his mind all his fears were made real and then slowly he began to understand, he understood why he felt the way he did and how he could stop feeling the way he did, he understood that all his fears were in his imagination, and that people cared for him. The last thing he remembered before he woke up was that he was surrounded by all those that cared for him, they were congratulating him for his epiphany, then he saw his father blured in a yellow light and then darkness, but he was finally happy.
He woke up in hospital. He looked up at the ceiling.
Shinji: Not that damned ceiling again.
Misato: Shinji, you're awake!
She proceeded to him give him one of her famous hugs, the ones that could prevent oxygen from reaching the brain.
Misato: I was so worried about you!
Shinji: (Smiling)I'm fine Misato, really I am.
Misato looked at him, was this the same Shinji that she was talking to on the beach.
Misato: Are you okay?
Shinji: I just told you I'm fine.
Misato: Are you? Last time I saw you, you very upset about Kaworu.
Shinji: I was and I still am, but he was an angel, I had to kill him and he wanted to die, as his friend I have to accept that he died to save humanity, he sacrificed himself for others, just as Rei did. I am proud to be called his friend.
Misato: (Quietly)Shinji. What the hell is going on, this isn't like Shinji
Shinji: By the way Misato what happened to me?
Misato: I don't know but I'm going to find out.
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In Gendo Ikari's office, the two commanders are going over the daily reports.
Fuyutsuki: I see your son has awakened, only two days, this must be a record for him.
Ikari: He has gone through instrumentality, and soon we will be reunited with Yui.
Fuyutsuki: But why your son, I thought you were going to use Rei.
Ikari: I was until she became unable to pilot Unit 01, now the third child will be the one that stops SEELE. And I will be able to see Yui sooner than I expected.
Fuyutsuki: But will he pilot again.
Ikari: He will, once he knows a few truths.
Fuyutsuki: You're going to tell him!
Ikari: No, you will, he won't listen to me.
Fuyutsuki: I see.
He looks at Ikari will utmost contempt, then he walks out of the office.
Ikari: Soon, very soon.
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Shinji lies on his hospital bed, staring at the ceiling. He is trying to make sense of what has happened, but one thing that he is sure of is that for the very first time he feels good inside.
Shinji: I wonder how Touji is, I haven't seen him since the accident and Asuka, I wonder if they are still in the hospital or have they been moved to Tokyo 2. What happened to me why do I feel different, like I could take on the world. Father. He did something to me. Why? What does he want from me now? That bastard. He hurt Touji. He doesn't care about me and I don't care about him, that's fine with me. But when he hurt those I care about, he'll wish that I was never born. Those I care about. Those I care about, care for me also. I know that now, I won't let anyone hurt them if I can help it, even if I have to pilot Unit 01 again, I'll protect them till my last breath. Misato, Touji, Kensuke, Rei, Asuka, I care for all of you, and I promise that I will protect you.
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Rei is at her apartment, she is lying on her bed, staring at the ceiling.
Rei: This feels familiar, like I have done this before but I know that I haven't. Why am I alive? Why did the fifth child say those words?
Flashback
Kaworu: ...you're the same as I am.
End Flashback
Rei: In what way are he and I alike. He was an angel. I am not. Was he being used? Am I being used? Pilot Sohryu called me a doll. I don't remember talking to pilot Sohryu but I feel as if I had. Maybe I am a doll. I think I am the third but I do not know what this means. What am I? Pilot Ikari, does he care for me. When we first met he appeared to be concerned. Concern. What is concern? How do I know that he was concerned? I have so many questions, but I know that they will never be answered. What is this feeling? Loneliness. I feel lonely. I don't want to feel this way. Shinji, will you help me stop feeling this way? Why him? Why not the Commander? Because I am the Commander's doll and I don't want to be any longer. I used my AT field to help Shinji, because I wanted to not because I was ordered to. I want to be one with Shinji.
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In a darkened room far from Tokyo-3 the 12 members of SEELE have begun their final meeting. As usual the 12 monoliths bear the name, the number and 'SOUND ONLY'.
SEELE 03: The nine production model Evangelions are finally complete.
SEELE 05: The pilot of Unit 01 has undergone instrumentality.
SEELE 01: Our time is at hand, send the nine to the geofront, before Ikari implements his plan. We will succeed.
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Misato is exiting the hospital at the same time that Sub-Commander Fuyutski is entering.
Misato: Good afternoon sir.
Fuyutsuki: Good afternoon Major.
Misato: What brings you here sir?
Fuyutsuki: I am here to see the third child.
Misato: What! Shinji? If I may ask sir, why?
Fuyutsuki: There are a few things that he must know, and I feel that you should also know Major.Well he didn't tell me not to tell her.
Misato: Sir?
Fuyutsuki: Please come with me Major.
Misato follows the Sub-Commander to Shinji's room. Along the way thoughts of she was going to be told filled her mind.
Misato: Are we going to be told the truth? Or are we going to be told another lie? What has happened to Shinji? Where did Section 2 take him?
Fuyutsuki: We're here Major.
Misato: Hmm, oh yes of course.
The enter Shinji's room, he is still staring at the ceiling and stil deep in thought. He doesn't notice his two visitors enter the room. Fuyutsuki coughs, Shinji doesn't notice, Fuyutsuki coughs again but louder, still Shinji doesn't notice. Misato sees her superior getting slightly annoyed at the young man staring into space.
Misato: Shinji!
Shinji: Hmm, oh Sub-Commander Fuyutsuki sir! I didn't hear you come in!
Fuyutsuki: The confidence in his voice, it really did work Not to matter Shinji, how are you feeling?
Misato: Shinji? He normally calls him pilot Ikari.
Shinji: I'm fine sir, and how are you?
Fuyutsuki: Just like his mother I'm fine. I suppose that you are wondering why I'm here. Well I'll cut to the chase. Your father has deemed it necessary for you to be told a few things, in particular what has happened to you.
Shinji: I was wondering that myself, it's strange, I feel different, more confident, happy even.
Fuyutsuki: Do you remember what happened after the death of the 17th Angel?
Shinji: I was siting at the edge of the lake with Misato, when men in black suits came I guess they were NERV intelligence or something they picked up and broght me to headquarters. Then I see my father, and the next thing I know I'm waking up here, but I seem to remember having some sort of dream, involving a theater and everyone I know, but I can't remember it now.
Fuyutsuki: What I am about to tell you does not leave this room, understood?
Shinji: Yes sir.
Misato: Yes sir.
Fuyutsuki: How much of your mother do you remember Shinji?
Shinji: Not much, but Ritsuko told me that she worked on Project E and that she was taken from me and that I was there at the time, I have vague memories of something like that, but I just can't remember.
Fuyutsuki: She didn't just work for Project E, she was Project E. Everything about the Evas, from initial design to final construction was done by your mother.
Shinji: My mother created the Evas, but why?
Fuyutsuki: For you. You were her whole reason for living, for working on the project, she built Unit 01 so that one day you would pilot it.
Misato: What! Are you telling me that Shinji was going to be a pilot since he was born?
Fuyutsuki: Yes. It was discovered early on that nobody born before second impact would sucessfully and safely synchronise with an Eva. It was discovered that the radiation emitted from the blast affected the part of the human brain that allows synchronising to occur. When Yui was pregnant with Shinji, tests were carried out, they discovered that although the parent was prevented from piloting, the unborn child wasn't and therefore the goal of the project altered slightly to allow the fact that children would be the only hope for humanity. The angels were predicted to arrive 15 years after a great disaster befell the planet, so said the Dead Sea Scrolls, so we had only a timeframe of 15 years to train the pilots and prepare the Evas. Tragedy struck when Yui decided to test pilot the Eva. Although theoretically it was possible for her to synch with the eva and acheive a maximum of 3%, there was a slight chance that something terrible could go wrong, and it did. As Shinji was absorbed into the Eva a few months ago, ten years ago Yui befell the same fate. And Shinji watched it all happened. We tried to recover her, but it was impossible, recent events have suggested that it is still impossible.
Shinji: (In tears) Why did she do it when she knew that something could go wrong?
Fuyutsuki: Again for you. She could not allow her son to get into and Eva without making sure it was safe. A similar event occured in Germany six months later when the mother of the second child attempted to synchronise with Unit 02. This time the pilot was not absorbed into the Eva but rather was contaminated by it. She commited suicide several weeks later.
Shinji: (Quietly) Poor Asuka.
Fuyutsuki: Using the information gathered from both events we discovered that the Evas were infact safe to use by the children, but that the two pilots should never have attempted what they did. One of the projects that your mother worked on was the Instrumentality of Man project, the project was a sort of advance psychological treatment that made whoever took part in it accept himself and those around him, in essence instructing his mental being how to live and how to interact. Shortly after the accident with your mother, final approval for Instrumentality project was given.
Misato had remained silent until now, tears were making their way down her cheek.
Misato: What is the purpose of the Instrumentality project.
Fuyutsuki: To create pilots that could complete the true project, the only project that really mattered, the Human Complementation Project.
Misato: What is the HCP?
Fuyutsuki: I can't tell you Major, to be honest I don't think anyone has a full understanding of what the HCP will do, only that it will benefit man and produce a better future for all.
Misato: How do you know this?
Fuyutsuki: It was all in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Shinji: Instrumentality. Father used it on me didn't he?
Fuyutsuki: Yes he did, he changed you and made you better than what you were, you feel different because you are different.
Shinji: These changes, did my mother want them to happen to me?
Fuyutsuki: Yes she did, she always wanted the best for you, it sadened her deeply when she learned that you would have to be a pilot.
Shinji: Why did I have to be a pilot?
Fuyutsuki: To acheive the maximum possible synch rate, the core of the Eva must have a personality within it, a personality that cares deeply for the pilot. The personality within Unit 01 is your mothers, cores aren't easy to make in fact only 14 successfull cores were ever made and only 3 of those had personalities transferred into them, Units 00, 01 and 02 have those cores. The personality transfer system was created by Dr Naoko Akagi. She tested the system by first tranferring her personality onto the Magi and then onto the core of Unit 00, followed by your mother transferring her personality onto the core of Unit 01, your father tried to put his personality onto a third core but the procedure failed, it turned out that only female personalities could be transferred, the third core was abandoned, until it was shipped off to the United States to be the core for Unit 03. When it was discovered that only 14 cores were successfully made, to make sure that the maximum number of Eva's could be made it was decided that the core would have to be used, therefore you had to become a pilot, there was no one else who could.
Shinji: My mother...I often wondered why I felt comfortable within the entry plug, now I know.
Fuyutsuki: There's more. It is believed that your mother still resides within Unit 01, the proof of this, is all the times that Unit 01 went beserk.
Shinji: My mother? If he had only told me, I would have accepted being it's pilot.
Fuyutsuki: He didn't tell you because he was jealous. Jealous that you could be with her and that he couldn't.
Misato: I had no idea, I'm sorry Shinji.
Fuyutsuki: The reason why I decided to tell you this Major is that I felt I owed your father.
Misato: My father?
Fuyutsuki: He and I were friends and rivals for many years, I'm surprised you don't remember me. I remember times when you woke up during the middle of the night and came into your fathers study to interupt our disscussions. I was also one of the rescue that was sent to see if we could recover any survivors, I was also the one who identified you.
Misato: I don't have many memories of my life before Second Impact, I remember shutting myself away for years.
Fuyutsuki: Well after what you saw, who could blame you, although you never did tell anyone what you did see.
Misato: Please, I don't want to talk about it.
Fuyutsuki could see tears forming in her eyes and decided not to push it.
Fuyutsuki: I'm sorry that I mentioned it Major, and I'm sorry that I'm the one who has to tell you all this. If there is nothing else, I have to be going now.
Misato: There is something, you mentioned that the Dead Sea Scrolls predicted these events, but I'm sure that the Dead Sea Scrolls are just an ancient bible.
Fuyutsuki: They are, but the final part of the bible is Revelations, where the end of the world is predicted. The Dead Sea Scrolls go into more detail than the current bible does, and mentions things that the person who wrote them could never known, like the second world war. The person who discovered these lost scrolls kept them hidden, he used the knowledge within to gain power. That person is Chairman Kiel of the NERV oversight commitee. Only a few people have seen these scrolls and each person seems to have a different opinion of what they due to they fact that the language the scrolls were written in can be interpreted in a veriety of ways. The outcome of the HCP is one of the more debated aspects of the scrolls, although Commader Ikari believes that the secret to rescuing your mother lies in the scrolls. In the end all he wants is for his wife to return.
Shinji: Why didn't he tell me? I could have helped in some way, if only I knew.
Fuyutsuki: I truly am sorry Shinji, I have to go goodbye.
With that Fuyutsuki leaves the room, leaving Misato to comfort a crying Shinji.
Misato: He may have undergone a life changing promise, but at least he still the same old Shinji in some ways.
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Fuyutsuki returns to the Commanders office and finds that Ikari has moved since he left.
Ikari: You told the Major aswell.
Fuyutsuki: I felt that if she knew some of the truths she wouldn't poke her nose into other affairs.
Ikari: No matter, the time is approaching. SEELE have made their move.
Fuyutsuki: What!
Ikari: They have sent the nine, they will arrive shortly, our time is at hand, launch Unit 01 immediately, tell him to destroy the 9 production models at all cost I will take Rei to Lilith, and then I shall be reunited with Yui.
To be continued...
Well what do you think. I'd like to take this time to acknowledge a few other fanfic writers
Axel Terizaki for writing 'The Child of Love' and 'An Amnesic Angel'
Strike Fiss for writing 'Higher Learning' and 'Shinji The Casanova'
Mahar Al Samkiri for 'Eva-R'
Alain 'Rakna' Gravel for 'The One I Love Is...'
Without their fanfics I may have actually had a life.
This being my first fic, it will be rough around the edges.
It is a continuation fic, but don't worry if everyone is OOC, remember they have all been to hell and back several times, and if they remained the same then what's the point of character development. I have been a fan of Eva for a long time, and I have been a fan of Eva fanfics for almost as long, so I thought that I'd do one. I hope to bring together a few ideas that have been floating around for a while. Anyway I hope you enjoy any C&C would be greatly appreciated and without further ado I present:
Neon Genesis Evangelion: True Destiny
Episode 1 Rebirth/The Truth
He had killed Kaworu, his friend. When he got out of the entry plug he just went to the changing room, had a shower, got dressed and went to the spot where he first met him, he didn't think about it, it was like he was on autopilot. He didn't know how long he sat there, but Misato came and sat down beside him, when she did, it hit him, he had done it. He said something, and Misato relied, but he never heard her, the next thing he knew was that he was being dragged away by men in black suits, and Misato shouting something, but he didn't care. They took him to the deepest part of the geofront and to a door, they opened the door and pushed him inside. And there he saw his father standing before a large tube filled with LCL, it looked familiar but he realised that it wasn't the same room he saw the Rei clones in, there was no tank surrounding it. then his father spoke.
Ikari: Welcome Shinji.
Then he was suddenly sitting on a chair the only light was from a spotlight shining on him, the rest was complete darkness. He saw things, dark things from the deepest recesses of his mind all his fears were made real and then slowly he began to understand, he understood why he felt the way he did and how he could stop feeling the way he did, he understood that all his fears were in his imagination, and that people cared for him. The last thing he remembered before he woke up was that he was surrounded by all those that cared for him, they were congratulating him for his epiphany, then he saw his father blured in a yellow light and then darkness, but he was finally happy.
He woke up in hospital. He looked up at the ceiling.
Shinji: Not that damned ceiling again.
Misato: Shinji, you're awake!
She proceeded to him give him one of her famous hugs, the ones that could prevent oxygen from reaching the brain.
Misato: I was so worried about you!
Shinji: (Smiling)I'm fine Misato, really I am.
Misato looked at him, was this the same Shinji that she was talking to on the beach.
Misato: Are you okay?
Shinji: I just told you I'm fine.
Misato: Are you? Last time I saw you, you very upset about Kaworu.
Shinji: I was and I still am, but he was an angel, I had to kill him and he wanted to die, as his friend I have to accept that he died to save humanity, he sacrificed himself for others, just as Rei did. I am proud to be called his friend.
Misato: (Quietly)Shinji. What the hell is going on, this isn't like Shinji
Shinji: By the way Misato what happened to me?
Misato: I don't know but I'm going to find out.
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In Gendo Ikari's office, the two commanders are going over the daily reports.
Fuyutsuki: I see your son has awakened, only two days, this must be a record for him.
Ikari: He has gone through instrumentality, and soon we will be reunited with Yui.
Fuyutsuki: But why your son, I thought you were going to use Rei.
Ikari: I was until she became unable to pilot Unit 01, now the third child will be the one that stops SEELE. And I will be able to see Yui sooner than I expected.
Fuyutsuki: But will he pilot again.
Ikari: He will, once he knows a few truths.
Fuyutsuki: You're going to tell him!
Ikari: No, you will, he won't listen to me.
Fuyutsuki: I see.
He looks at Ikari will utmost contempt, then he walks out of the office.
Ikari: Soon, very soon.
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Shinji lies on his hospital bed, staring at the ceiling. He is trying to make sense of what has happened, but one thing that he is sure of is that for the very first time he feels good inside.
Shinji: I wonder how Touji is, I haven't seen him since the accident and Asuka, I wonder if they are still in the hospital or have they been moved to Tokyo 2. What happened to me why do I feel different, like I could take on the world. Father. He did something to me. Why? What does he want from me now? That bastard. He hurt Touji. He doesn't care about me and I don't care about him, that's fine with me. But when he hurt those I care about, he'll wish that I was never born. Those I care about. Those I care about, care for me also. I know that now, I won't let anyone hurt them if I can help it, even if I have to pilot Unit 01 again, I'll protect them till my last breath. Misato, Touji, Kensuke, Rei, Asuka, I care for all of you, and I promise that I will protect you.
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Rei is at her apartment, she is lying on her bed, staring at the ceiling.
Rei: This feels familiar, like I have done this before but I know that I haven't. Why am I alive? Why did the fifth child say those words?
Flashback
Kaworu: ...you're the same as I am.
End Flashback
Rei: In what way are he and I alike. He was an angel. I am not. Was he being used? Am I being used? Pilot Sohryu called me a doll. I don't remember talking to pilot Sohryu but I feel as if I had. Maybe I am a doll. I think I am the third but I do not know what this means. What am I? Pilot Ikari, does he care for me. When we first met he appeared to be concerned. Concern. What is concern? How do I know that he was concerned? I have so many questions, but I know that they will never be answered. What is this feeling? Loneliness. I feel lonely. I don't want to feel this way. Shinji, will you help me stop feeling this way? Why him? Why not the Commander? Because I am the Commander's doll and I don't want to be any longer. I used my AT field to help Shinji, because I wanted to not because I was ordered to. I want to be one with Shinji.
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In a darkened room far from Tokyo-3 the 12 members of SEELE have begun their final meeting. As usual the 12 monoliths bear the name, the number and 'SOUND ONLY'.
SEELE 03: The nine production model Evangelions are finally complete.
SEELE 05: The pilot of Unit 01 has undergone instrumentality.
SEELE 01: Our time is at hand, send the nine to the geofront, before Ikari implements his plan. We will succeed.
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Misato is exiting the hospital at the same time that Sub-Commander Fuyutski is entering.
Misato: Good afternoon sir.
Fuyutsuki: Good afternoon Major.
Misato: What brings you here sir?
Fuyutsuki: I am here to see the third child.
Misato: What! Shinji? If I may ask sir, why?
Fuyutsuki: There are a few things that he must know, and I feel that you should also know Major.Well he didn't tell me not to tell her.
Misato: Sir?
Fuyutsuki: Please come with me Major.
Misato follows the Sub-Commander to Shinji's room. Along the way thoughts of she was going to be told filled her mind.
Misato: Are we going to be told the truth? Or are we going to be told another lie? What has happened to Shinji? Where did Section 2 take him?
Fuyutsuki: We're here Major.
Misato: Hmm, oh yes of course.
The enter Shinji's room, he is still staring at the ceiling and stil deep in thought. He doesn't notice his two visitors enter the room. Fuyutsuki coughs, Shinji doesn't notice, Fuyutsuki coughs again but louder, still Shinji doesn't notice. Misato sees her superior getting slightly annoyed at the young man staring into space.
Misato: Shinji!
Shinji: Hmm, oh Sub-Commander Fuyutsuki sir! I didn't hear you come in!
Fuyutsuki: The confidence in his voice, it really did work Not to matter Shinji, how are you feeling?
Misato: Shinji? He normally calls him pilot Ikari.
Shinji: I'm fine sir, and how are you?
Fuyutsuki: Just like his mother I'm fine. I suppose that you are wondering why I'm here. Well I'll cut to the chase. Your father has deemed it necessary for you to be told a few things, in particular what has happened to you.
Shinji: I was wondering that myself, it's strange, I feel different, more confident, happy even.
Fuyutsuki: Do you remember what happened after the death of the 17th Angel?
Shinji: I was siting at the edge of the lake with Misato, when men in black suits came I guess they were NERV intelligence or something they picked up and broght me to headquarters. Then I see my father, and the next thing I know I'm waking up here, but I seem to remember having some sort of dream, involving a theater and everyone I know, but I can't remember it now.
Fuyutsuki: What I am about to tell you does not leave this room, understood?
Shinji: Yes sir.
Misato: Yes sir.
Fuyutsuki: How much of your mother do you remember Shinji?
Shinji: Not much, but Ritsuko told me that she worked on Project E and that she was taken from me and that I was there at the time, I have vague memories of something like that, but I just can't remember.
Fuyutsuki: She didn't just work for Project E, she was Project E. Everything about the Evas, from initial design to final construction was done by your mother.
Shinji: My mother created the Evas, but why?
Fuyutsuki: For you. You were her whole reason for living, for working on the project, she built Unit 01 so that one day you would pilot it.
Misato: What! Are you telling me that Shinji was going to be a pilot since he was born?
Fuyutsuki: Yes. It was discovered early on that nobody born before second impact would sucessfully and safely synchronise with an Eva. It was discovered that the radiation emitted from the blast affected the part of the human brain that allows synchronising to occur. When Yui was pregnant with Shinji, tests were carried out, they discovered that although the parent was prevented from piloting, the unborn child wasn't and therefore the goal of the project altered slightly to allow the fact that children would be the only hope for humanity. The angels were predicted to arrive 15 years after a great disaster befell the planet, so said the Dead Sea Scrolls, so we had only a timeframe of 15 years to train the pilots and prepare the Evas. Tragedy struck when Yui decided to test pilot the Eva. Although theoretically it was possible for her to synch with the eva and acheive a maximum of 3%, there was a slight chance that something terrible could go wrong, and it did. As Shinji was absorbed into the Eva a few months ago, ten years ago Yui befell the same fate. And Shinji watched it all happened. We tried to recover her, but it was impossible, recent events have suggested that it is still impossible.
Shinji: (In tears) Why did she do it when she knew that something could go wrong?
Fuyutsuki: Again for you. She could not allow her son to get into and Eva without making sure it was safe. A similar event occured in Germany six months later when the mother of the second child attempted to synchronise with Unit 02. This time the pilot was not absorbed into the Eva but rather was contaminated by it. She commited suicide several weeks later.
Shinji: (Quietly) Poor Asuka.
Fuyutsuki: Using the information gathered from both events we discovered that the Evas were infact safe to use by the children, but that the two pilots should never have attempted what they did. One of the projects that your mother worked on was the Instrumentality of Man project, the project was a sort of advance psychological treatment that made whoever took part in it accept himself and those around him, in essence instructing his mental being how to live and how to interact. Shortly after the accident with your mother, final approval for Instrumentality project was given.
Misato had remained silent until now, tears were making their way down her cheek.
Misato: What is the purpose of the Instrumentality project.
Fuyutsuki: To create pilots that could complete the true project, the only project that really mattered, the Human Complementation Project.
Misato: What is the HCP?
Fuyutsuki: I can't tell you Major, to be honest I don't think anyone has a full understanding of what the HCP will do, only that it will benefit man and produce a better future for all.
Misato: How do you know this?
Fuyutsuki: It was all in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Shinji: Instrumentality. Father used it on me didn't he?
Fuyutsuki: Yes he did, he changed you and made you better than what you were, you feel different because you are different.
Shinji: These changes, did my mother want them to happen to me?
Fuyutsuki: Yes she did, she always wanted the best for you, it sadened her deeply when she learned that you would have to be a pilot.
Shinji: Why did I have to be a pilot?
Fuyutsuki: To acheive the maximum possible synch rate, the core of the Eva must have a personality within it, a personality that cares deeply for the pilot. The personality within Unit 01 is your mothers, cores aren't easy to make in fact only 14 successfull cores were ever made and only 3 of those had personalities transferred into them, Units 00, 01 and 02 have those cores. The personality transfer system was created by Dr Naoko Akagi. She tested the system by first tranferring her personality onto the Magi and then onto the core of Unit 00, followed by your mother transferring her personality onto the core of Unit 01, your father tried to put his personality onto a third core but the procedure failed, it turned out that only female personalities could be transferred, the third core was abandoned, until it was shipped off to the United States to be the core for Unit 03. When it was discovered that only 14 cores were successfully made, to make sure that the maximum number of Eva's could be made it was decided that the core would have to be used, therefore you had to become a pilot, there was no one else who could.
Shinji: My mother...I often wondered why I felt comfortable within the entry plug, now I know.
Fuyutsuki: There's more. It is believed that your mother still resides within Unit 01, the proof of this, is all the times that Unit 01 went beserk.
Shinji: My mother? If he had only told me, I would have accepted being it's pilot.
Fuyutsuki: He didn't tell you because he was jealous. Jealous that you could be with her and that he couldn't.
Misato: I had no idea, I'm sorry Shinji.
Fuyutsuki: The reason why I decided to tell you this Major is that I felt I owed your father.
Misato: My father?
Fuyutsuki: He and I were friends and rivals for many years, I'm surprised you don't remember me. I remember times when you woke up during the middle of the night and came into your fathers study to interupt our disscussions. I was also one of the rescue that was sent to see if we could recover any survivors, I was also the one who identified you.
Misato: I don't have many memories of my life before Second Impact, I remember shutting myself away for years.
Fuyutsuki: Well after what you saw, who could blame you, although you never did tell anyone what you did see.
Misato: Please, I don't want to talk about it.
Fuyutsuki could see tears forming in her eyes and decided not to push it.
Fuyutsuki: I'm sorry that I mentioned it Major, and I'm sorry that I'm the one who has to tell you all this. If there is nothing else, I have to be going now.
Misato: There is something, you mentioned that the Dead Sea Scrolls predicted these events, but I'm sure that the Dead Sea Scrolls are just an ancient bible.
Fuyutsuki: They are, but the final part of the bible is Revelations, where the end of the world is predicted. The Dead Sea Scrolls go into more detail than the current bible does, and mentions things that the person who wrote them could never known, like the second world war. The person who discovered these lost scrolls kept them hidden, he used the knowledge within to gain power. That person is Chairman Kiel of the NERV oversight commitee. Only a few people have seen these scrolls and each person seems to have a different opinion of what they due to they fact that the language the scrolls were written in can be interpreted in a veriety of ways. The outcome of the HCP is one of the more debated aspects of the scrolls, although Commader Ikari believes that the secret to rescuing your mother lies in the scrolls. In the end all he wants is for his wife to return.
Shinji: Why didn't he tell me? I could have helped in some way, if only I knew.
Fuyutsuki: I truly am sorry Shinji, I have to go goodbye.
With that Fuyutsuki leaves the room, leaving Misato to comfort a crying Shinji.
Misato: He may have undergone a life changing promise, but at least he still the same old Shinji in some ways.
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Fuyutsuki returns to the Commanders office and finds that Ikari has moved since he left.
Ikari: You told the Major aswell.
Fuyutsuki: I felt that if she knew some of the truths she wouldn't poke her nose into other affairs.
Ikari: No matter, the time is approaching. SEELE have made their move.
Fuyutsuki: What!
Ikari: They have sent the nine, they will arrive shortly, our time is at hand, launch Unit 01 immediately, tell him to destroy the 9 production models at all cost I will take Rei to Lilith, and then I shall be reunited with Yui.
To be continued...
Well what do you think. I'd like to take this time to acknowledge a few other fanfic writers
Axel Terizaki for writing 'The Child of Love' and 'An Amnesic Angel'
Strike Fiss for writing 'Higher Learning' and 'Shinji The Casanova'
Mahar Al Samkiri for 'Eva-R'
Alain 'Rakna' Gravel for 'The One I Love Is...'
Without their fanfics I may have actually had a life.