Neon Genesis Evangelion - FanFiction
Turning Points IV : INVASION
by Ulrich-Alexander Schmidt
Version: 15.05.2001
Legal Boilerplate:
NGE and the Characters are the property of GAINAX, etc.pp., I do not own them.
All mistake made within this FF are mine alone.
This FF begins, where Episode 26 ended...
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Prolog - End of EVANGELION:
"Death or rebirth..." the white glowing figure that hovered in front of him asked.
Shinji Ikari could only stare at the being with the face and the body of Rei Ayanami,
but with blue angellike wings.
"Why me?" he whispered.
"Chose, Shinji, death or rebirth?"
"I..."
He hesitated. A year ago he wouldn´t have cared if he lived or died but than his
existance had gained a sense, even if he hated it.
He had met others who were like him, alone...
Now he had resisted merging his soul with the souls of humanity, had denied the Third
Impact.
And now the being that he knew to love him offered him a new chance...
There were things tempting him to chose death... he had killed, with his own hands,
with the hands of EVA-01...
Kaworu... he had been his friend... and he had killed him...
And he had lost those dear to him...
Rei... the Rei he first had met, the Rei who had died within the explosion of EVA-00...
Misato... shot down while rescuing him...
Asuka... ripped apart by the EVAs of series five...
Kaji...
He was able to bring them back...
"Rebirth...!"
She nodded.
"So it will be..."
Rei-Lilith turned around, walked away into the void.
She had sacrificed everything to ensure his happyness... her purpose... her life...
"Rei..."
She looked back over her shoulder.
"I will find you... and if it takes eternity... we will meet again..."
And so it begins...
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About 25 years ago:
He was the Warlord of the 13. swarm...
He was the Armsmaster of the Empress, Commander of the Imperial Guard...
He was Angeloi...
His name was Tabris...
He knelt before the throne of Imperatrix Lilith within the throne chamber, his gaze
lowered, not daring to look into the face of his Empress... and mother...
Next to him laid his Khadja-blade, the traditional weapon of the Armsmaster.
He could the stone-hard floor even through his bodyarmor.
"Rise, First Born."
The Empress´ voice was like the whisper of the wind and the thunder of the storm, he
was unable to resist. And if she had ordered him to fall into his own blade he would
have done so without hesitation.
He got up with the due respect, slowly raising his gaze.
Next to the amberthron of the Imperatrix stood his sister, Sel, queen of the 13.
swarm, second born of the Imperatrix and just a few minutes older than he. While he
was the Imperatrix´ first born son, his twinsister was the second child.
But it was hard to believe them siblings, too great were the differences.
While he was an albino with pale skin, grey hair and eyes, she was clearly showing
the human heritage of their race. Her hair was of a golden blonde, her eyes were black
and gold.
The bald-headed Imperatrix herself resembled her daughter in not being an albino like
most of her children.
Noone else was within the trone chamber, neither guardsmen nor servants.
"I´ve listen to your suggestion and decided. You have my blessings."
For a moment he kept him breath while thinking about her words.
Freedom and hope for our people...
"The discovery of the position of the world of origin made this decision necessary.
We, the Angeloi, banished from heaven, were at a crossroad. The devellopment of the
artificial LCL freed us generations ago from the thirst for other being´s lifeforces.
Alas, the legends of the world of origin are still told, the legends about the
strenght of the lilims´ blood... I don´t wish our people to fall back into an age of
barbarism, while slaughtering the lilim as some of my advisors ask. But I do want to
lead them into a new golden age... So I decided."
"You´re doing the right thing, Imperatrix."
"Do you thinks so, Sel? It means breaking with traditions."
"Old and dusty traditions, mother. Even traditions can´t withstand change forever."
The Imperatrix gave a sign of approval and turned to her son.
"Tabris, with impression I´ve seen the results of your experiment to give the
Imperial Guardsmen the power of free will. I´m sure that this will be the necessary
spark to prevent our people from stagnating."
"I do not earn your praise, my Empress. I live to serve."
"Tomorrow, when the second sun will be at the zenith above the thronchamber, I will
speak to our people... and turn over the crown to my daughter Sel, so she can lead us
into the future."
Sel panted.
"Your highness, that... I am not the oldest among the queens of the swarms..."
"But you have a vision. As you said, it´s time to break with tradition. I don´t wish
my children to follow me into my grave when I am gone as tradition would ask for if
Sal ascended to the thron. Prepare, daughter."
"I... I listen and obey."
Sel bowed deeply and then left the thronchamber, followed by her swarm´s Warlord.
"I still can´t believe it..."
"Now our people will have a future", Tabris whispered.
***
"So, you want to steal my birth right from me, mother..."
The Imperatrix looked up, saw into the face of her firstborn daughter, saw into a
face full of hate and anger, heard a voice dripping with poison, felt the blade cutting
into her chest...
"Sal..."
"I can´t allow this, your highness", Sal, queen of the first swarm whispered sweetly,
while the Empress of the Angeloi sank down on her amberthrone.
She straightened, pushed back her flamming-red hair and nodded to her co-conspirators.
"Tell everybody: The Imperatrix Lilith is dead, long live Imperatrix Sal!"
And the second civil war in Angeloi-history begun. The first had cost them the world of
origin, the second would cost them their future...
On one side where the Zeruels of the 13. swarm, the Empire´s elite warriors but small
of numbers, supported by a handful of warriors bred by the scientists of the 8. swarm,
following swarmqueen Sel and the Warlord Tabris.
And on the other side was... everybode else...
Sel, Tabris and his younger brother Armisael had barricaded themself within the building
of the Great Portal. For three days now they were at war and the troops of the new
empress were coming closer and closer.
Tradion asked for the other Swarmqueens, their Warlords, High Assistants, Taskmasters
and however else they were called, to follow the former Imperatrix into death so that
nobody was left to doubt the new empress´ claims.
"Sil is dead."
Armisael´s voice was full of sadness, his eyes had lost their light.
"I mourn the death of the 8. swarm´s queen." Tabris spoke the traditional words.
One of the perimeter-guarding Zeruel-guardsmen aproached, went down to his knees, not
wishing to tower over his betters.
"My Warlord, our last lines of defense have been breached! I must suggest that you and
the Queen flee."
Tabris´ hands clamped around his weapon´s grip.
All dreams destroyed... Sal, you are ascencing to the throne over the bodies, the blood
and the hope of our people...
"Armisael, is the portal ready?"
"Yes, brother. The gateway to the world of origin is ready."
"Good. Take Sel with you and leave."
"No. I will stay here."
"Armisael..." Tabris hissed.
"I am just a scientist. But the Queen needs the protection of a Warlord, a warrior born.
Logic orders me to stay and you to go."
"Yes..."
A final time he looked around.
"Armisael, I will return one day. I know that I will die under the stars of our world."
Then he turned to the Zeruel, whispered the name he had given to him.
"Listen, Ishmael, trusted friend... our warriors shall withdraw. They shall hide within
the worker-swarms and the swarm-less ones. You have my word that I will return..."
"We will wait for that day, my Warlord."
"Good. - Armisael, leave with them."
"That´s not possible, too. I will seal the portal when you´ve left and take care of it,
so that nobody will be able to follow you for a long time. Now the future of our people
is within your hands... a long time it was told, that the Warlord of the 13. swarm will
set ablaze the Fanal of War. I believe that it will be you to do it. Leave..."
And Tabris stepped through the portal, following his sister.
***
They found themselves within a white wasteland of ice and snow. Their AT-fields were
protecting them from the wind and the cold.
"So, that´s the world of origin... this wasteland..."
"Don´t judge too soon. It is told that our forefathers had to withdraw to a lifeless
waste to escape the wrath of the other lilims."
"Yes, sister... Queen... you have my word, that I will return to the swarm-world to
reclaim your throne..."
"I know that you will, Warlord."
"Until then I will be Th´om´hh, the Warrior in Exile..."
And so it began...
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Cast:
Ikari, Shinji - a fourteen-year old boy
Ikari, Gendo - Shinji´s father, Colonel of UN forces
Ikari, Yui - Shinji´s mother, Doctor at the Institute for Genetical Research
Soryu, Asuka - fourteen-year old girl, grew up with Shinji, lives within the same house
Suzuhara, Touji - one of Shinji´s best friends
Aida, Kensuke - another one of Shinji´s friends
Horaki, Hikari - Touji´s girlfriend
Akagi, Rei - a new girl at Shinji´s class
Akagi, Ritsuko - Rei´s mother, Doctor at the Institute for Genetical Research
Katsuragi, Misato - a teacher
Kaji, Ryoji - a spy
Shigen, Thomas - Commander of NERV
Shigen, Selene - Commander of NERV-HQ at Tokio
Tamakura, Deiko - Captain of the NERV-Flagship Prometheus, old friend of Thomas Shigen
Hyuga, Makoto - First Officer of the Prometheus
Aoba, Shigeru - tactical officer at NERV
Diane - An Arteficial Intelligence, the child of the MAGI
Falk, Roderick - Lieutenant-Colonel, husband to Selene Shigen
lots of EVAs, Matriels, Zeruels, Satchiels, Bardiels and stuff
this FF doesn´t contain avatars or any other kind of SIFF (Self Insert FanFic Characters)
Turning Points IV : INVASION
by Ulrich-Alexander Schmidt
Version: 15.05.2001
Legal Boilerplate:
NGE and the Characters are the property of GAINAX, etc.pp., I do not own them.
All mistake made within this FF are mine alone.
This FF begins, where Episode 26 ended...
****************************************************************************************
Prolog - End of EVANGELION:
"Death or rebirth..." the white glowing figure that hovered in front of him asked.
Shinji Ikari could only stare at the being with the face and the body of Rei Ayanami,
but with blue angellike wings.
"Why me?" he whispered.
"Chose, Shinji, death or rebirth?"
"I..."
He hesitated. A year ago he wouldn´t have cared if he lived or died but than his
existance had gained a sense, even if he hated it.
He had met others who were like him, alone...
Now he had resisted merging his soul with the souls of humanity, had denied the Third
Impact.
And now the being that he knew to love him offered him a new chance...
There were things tempting him to chose death... he had killed, with his own hands,
with the hands of EVA-01...
Kaworu... he had been his friend... and he had killed him...
And he had lost those dear to him...
Rei... the Rei he first had met, the Rei who had died within the explosion of EVA-00...
Misato... shot down while rescuing him...
Asuka... ripped apart by the EVAs of series five...
Kaji...
He was able to bring them back...
"Rebirth...!"
She nodded.
"So it will be..."
Rei-Lilith turned around, walked away into the void.
She had sacrificed everything to ensure his happyness... her purpose... her life...
"Rei..."
She looked back over her shoulder.
"I will find you... and if it takes eternity... we will meet again..."
And so it begins...
***************************************************************************************
*************************************** N G E *****************************************
********************************** I N V A S I O N ************************************
***************************************************************************************
About 25 years ago:
He was the Warlord of the 13. swarm...
He was the Armsmaster of the Empress, Commander of the Imperial Guard...
He was Angeloi...
His name was Tabris...
He knelt before the throne of Imperatrix Lilith within the throne chamber, his gaze
lowered, not daring to look into the face of his Empress... and mother...
Next to him laid his Khadja-blade, the traditional weapon of the Armsmaster.
He could the stone-hard floor even through his bodyarmor.
"Rise, First Born."
The Empress´ voice was like the whisper of the wind and the thunder of the storm, he
was unable to resist. And if she had ordered him to fall into his own blade he would
have done so without hesitation.
He got up with the due respect, slowly raising his gaze.
Next to the amberthron of the Imperatrix stood his sister, Sel, queen of the 13.
swarm, second born of the Imperatrix and just a few minutes older than he. While he
was the Imperatrix´ first born son, his twinsister was the second child.
But it was hard to believe them siblings, too great were the differences.
While he was an albino with pale skin, grey hair and eyes, she was clearly showing
the human heritage of their race. Her hair was of a golden blonde, her eyes were black
and gold.
The bald-headed Imperatrix herself resembled her daughter in not being an albino like
most of her children.
Noone else was within the trone chamber, neither guardsmen nor servants.
"I´ve listen to your suggestion and decided. You have my blessings."
For a moment he kept him breath while thinking about her words.
Freedom and hope for our people...
"The discovery of the position of the world of origin made this decision necessary.
We, the Angeloi, banished from heaven, were at a crossroad. The devellopment of the
artificial LCL freed us generations ago from the thirst for other being´s lifeforces.
Alas, the legends of the world of origin are still told, the legends about the
strenght of the lilims´ blood... I don´t wish our people to fall back into an age of
barbarism, while slaughtering the lilim as some of my advisors ask. But I do want to
lead them into a new golden age... So I decided."
"You´re doing the right thing, Imperatrix."
"Do you thinks so, Sel? It means breaking with traditions."
"Old and dusty traditions, mother. Even traditions can´t withstand change forever."
The Imperatrix gave a sign of approval and turned to her son.
"Tabris, with impression I´ve seen the results of your experiment to give the
Imperial Guardsmen the power of free will. I´m sure that this will be the necessary
spark to prevent our people from stagnating."
"I do not earn your praise, my Empress. I live to serve."
"Tomorrow, when the second sun will be at the zenith above the thronchamber, I will
speak to our people... and turn over the crown to my daughter Sel, so she can lead us
into the future."
Sel panted.
"Your highness, that... I am not the oldest among the queens of the swarms..."
"But you have a vision. As you said, it´s time to break with tradition. I don´t wish
my children to follow me into my grave when I am gone as tradition would ask for if
Sal ascended to the thron. Prepare, daughter."
"I... I listen and obey."
Sel bowed deeply and then left the thronchamber, followed by her swarm´s Warlord.
"I still can´t believe it..."
"Now our people will have a future", Tabris whispered.
***
"So, you want to steal my birth right from me, mother..."
The Imperatrix looked up, saw into the face of her firstborn daughter, saw into a
face full of hate and anger, heard a voice dripping with poison, felt the blade cutting
into her chest...
"Sal..."
"I can´t allow this, your highness", Sal, queen of the first swarm whispered sweetly,
while the Empress of the Angeloi sank down on her amberthrone.
She straightened, pushed back her flamming-red hair and nodded to her co-conspirators.
"Tell everybody: The Imperatrix Lilith is dead, long live Imperatrix Sal!"
And the second civil war in Angeloi-history begun. The first had cost them the world of
origin, the second would cost them their future...
On one side where the Zeruels of the 13. swarm, the Empire´s elite warriors but small
of numbers, supported by a handful of warriors bred by the scientists of the 8. swarm,
following swarmqueen Sel and the Warlord Tabris.
And on the other side was... everybode else...
Sel, Tabris and his younger brother Armisael had barricaded themself within the building
of the Great Portal. For three days now they were at war and the troops of the new
empress were coming closer and closer.
Tradion asked for the other Swarmqueens, their Warlords, High Assistants, Taskmasters
and however else they were called, to follow the former Imperatrix into death so that
nobody was left to doubt the new empress´ claims.
"Sil is dead."
Armisael´s voice was full of sadness, his eyes had lost their light.
"I mourn the death of the 8. swarm´s queen." Tabris spoke the traditional words.
One of the perimeter-guarding Zeruel-guardsmen aproached, went down to his knees, not
wishing to tower over his betters.
"My Warlord, our last lines of defense have been breached! I must suggest that you and
the Queen flee."
Tabris´ hands clamped around his weapon´s grip.
All dreams destroyed... Sal, you are ascencing to the throne over the bodies, the blood
and the hope of our people...
"Armisael, is the portal ready?"
"Yes, brother. The gateway to the world of origin is ready."
"Good. Take Sel with you and leave."
"No. I will stay here."
"Armisael..." Tabris hissed.
"I am just a scientist. But the Queen needs the protection of a Warlord, a warrior born.
Logic orders me to stay and you to go."
"Yes..."
A final time he looked around.
"Armisael, I will return one day. I know that I will die under the stars of our world."
Then he turned to the Zeruel, whispered the name he had given to him.
"Listen, Ishmael, trusted friend... our warriors shall withdraw. They shall hide within
the worker-swarms and the swarm-less ones. You have my word that I will return..."
"We will wait for that day, my Warlord."
"Good. - Armisael, leave with them."
"That´s not possible, too. I will seal the portal when you´ve left and take care of it,
so that nobody will be able to follow you for a long time. Now the future of our people
is within your hands... a long time it was told, that the Warlord of the 13. swarm will
set ablaze the Fanal of War. I believe that it will be you to do it. Leave..."
And Tabris stepped through the portal, following his sister.
***
They found themselves within a white wasteland of ice and snow. Their AT-fields were
protecting them from the wind and the cold.
"So, that´s the world of origin... this wasteland..."
"Don´t judge too soon. It is told that our forefathers had to withdraw to a lifeless
waste to escape the wrath of the other lilims."
"Yes, sister... Queen... you have my word, that I will return to the swarm-world to
reclaim your throne..."
"I know that you will, Warlord."
"Until then I will be Th´om´hh, the Warrior in Exile..."
And so it began...
***************************************************************************************
Cast:
Ikari, Shinji - a fourteen-year old boy
Ikari, Gendo - Shinji´s father, Colonel of UN forces
Ikari, Yui - Shinji´s mother, Doctor at the Institute for Genetical Research
Soryu, Asuka - fourteen-year old girl, grew up with Shinji, lives within the same house
Suzuhara, Touji - one of Shinji´s best friends
Aida, Kensuke - another one of Shinji´s friends
Horaki, Hikari - Touji´s girlfriend
Akagi, Rei - a new girl at Shinji´s class
Akagi, Ritsuko - Rei´s mother, Doctor at the Institute for Genetical Research
Katsuragi, Misato - a teacher
Kaji, Ryoji - a spy
Shigen, Thomas - Commander of NERV
Shigen, Selene - Commander of NERV-HQ at Tokio
Tamakura, Deiko - Captain of the NERV-Flagship Prometheus, old friend of Thomas Shigen
Hyuga, Makoto - First Officer of the Prometheus
Aoba, Shigeru - tactical officer at NERV
Diane - An Arteficial Intelligence, the child of the MAGI
Falk, Roderick - Lieutenant-Colonel, husband to Selene Shigen
lots of EVAs, Matriels, Zeruels, Satchiels, Bardiels and stuff
this FF doesn´t contain avatars or any other kind of SIFF (Self Insert FanFic Characters)