NEON GENESIS EVANGELION
Brave New World
Fanfiction by Raven Chaos
ravenkoruki@aol.com
Disclaimer: I don't own Evangelion or any other already owned property mentioned.
Chapter 4: Voices in my head....or "Staring down the barrel of a Gleak"
Scene: A 2nd rate apartment in Tokyo 0.3's downtown slums.
Koruki delicately searched through each file he had collected from his laptop.
NERV had done a pretty excellant job of coding their data discs. It took four passwords
to get to the main menu area. Nothing occured that Koruki couldn't get himself passed.
He paused after working for a few hours, rubbing his weary eyes from the too-bright
screen. According to reports, the faux Angel had done better than planned. It was only
meant as a light threat, but apparently the altered program had other plans. This pleased
Koruki
immensly, meaning everything was going well. Had the Angel simply demolished a few buildings
and vaporized after being clobbered, that meant it was back to the drawing board.
...Well, for now, he put the thoughts away. He had more pressing matters this time.
Now that he had momentarily thrown NERV for a tizzy, it was time to move to step 2...The
7th child.
Kojiro Lister...a boy supposedly born in the States near New York. According to
records, he had just made it passed his Sophmore year when NERV came knocking on his
door. Like the other pilots, he was without any real family, just a grandfather who
would die a year after Kojiro left. Of course, that was what the records said, and
the fools believed what was put to the papers.
To the ordinary eye, Kojiro appeared as your simple, non out-of-context male
teen going through hormone stages. But to Koruki...He saw the face he had seen so
many times in his life. Indeed, "Kojiro Lister" was merely an alias.
Scene: Misato's Apartment.
It was time for Asuka's annual monthly movie fest, where the red haired
wonder would rent 10 movies, invite a bunch of people aiming to be her friend
and live off what's in the fridge all weekend, leaving the living room only to
use the bathroom and get munchies.
Kojiro thumbed through his arch nemesis's selection this time around...a
few romances, a Jackie Chan, something with some guy named Jet Li...Ooh, she
rented Evil Dead, maybe she isn't so snooty after all.
"So, Kojiro-kun, are you staying for the fest?" Misato asked as she sorted
through the groceries she stocked on before the mayhem began.
"Oh, maybe...depends on how Rei's feeling." Kojiro said as he took a swig
from his lunchtime soda.
"What?! You'd rather spend the weekend with that frozen statue than at my
party?! You ARE an idiot!" Asuka got on Kojiro's case once more.
"C'mere..." Kojiro motioned for her to come close as he took another swig.
Asuka sighed and did thus as told. Kojiro opened his mouth slightly as if to
speak. Suddenly a straight spray of saliva shot out, covering the fiery
queen-bitch-of-the-universe's face.
Asuka stood frozen with bewilderment for a few moments. Her face went
from bewildered to frightened, to frightened to angry. She howled that
she-bitch monkey screech, tried to clobber Kojiro, who had ducked just in time,
and stormed off to her room.
"What the heck was that?!" Misato asked.
"Gleaked her." Kojiro said calmly.
"...Gleaked?" Shinji looked at Kojiro as if the slightly older pilot had a
second head growing out of his shoulder.
"...A gleak, as we Americans call it, is the spray that emits from your mouth
when you open your mouth slightly after taking a drink of something sugary, and press
your tongue against the roof of your mouth and let fly." Kojiro sat back in his chair,
feeling triumphant over his victory over the She-Bitch.
Anyone who heard him describe this odd ritual simply stared at Kojiro as he
thought nothing of it.
"...Why would you do such a thing?" Rei asked.
"...Humor." Kojiro said.
"You do much for humor, Kojiro..." Kaworu said from behind him.
"...That's what drives the women wild, Nagisa..." Kojiro sighed.
"Oh...?" Suddenly, Kojiro felt a wet spray spritz on the top of his head. He
jerked up and saw Kaworu grinning at him.
"...You're dead!" and the chase commenced. Kojiro almost caught him, too, but
Asuka stepped in and tripped Kojiro into a group of her female schoolmates. As the
group crashed to the floor, Kojiro pondered...which would have been the better outcome?
catching Nagisa or this. Several slaps wrecked that train of thought right then and there.
Shinji had retreated to his room to avoid any initial chaos that would come
from his fellow pilot and his housemate.
He sighed as he stared out his window, watching the rain drench the city.
It was beautiful. The quiet grey and the soft, delicate smell of the falling water.
It was days like this that made saving the earth that much more rewarding.
A knock pulled him away from his pondering. He turned to see Rei at his doorway.
"Ikari...Asuka is starting the movies. She asked me to come get you." She said,
remaining in the doorway.
"...I'm...gonna stay here for a while..." Shinji said, resting his chin on the
windowsill.
"...What are you doing?" Rei tilted her head.
*She's been asking that alot these days.* Shinji thought. "I'm watching the
rain...it makes me feel good."
"Oh..." Rei took a seat on the bed, following Shinji's gaze to the window.
"Shinji-Kun...there's something I want to tell you..." Rei turned to face him.
"Huh...?" Shinji felt a lump form in his throat as he watched her.
"Geuss the idiot and wonder girl are no shows...alrighty, movie one, begin!"
Asuka announced as her party began with some sappy romance Kojiro and Kaworu decided
not to get involved with.
"So, how's things going with Lea?" Kojiro asked, refilling his drink at the
table where Kaworu and him resided with a deck of cards.
"...Not too good. She is too...serious." Kaworu sighed.
"...What'dya mean, 'serious'?" Kojiro arched a brow. "Does she want it in bed
now or what?"
"Oh,no no...nothing like that...well...maybe.....yeah." Kaworu turned red,
which contrasted against his pale skin.
"Oh hoooo...Reh-heh-heh-eeellly." Kojiro got that grin.
"No, Lister...I do NOT want your advice!" Kaworu raised his hands in defense
as if Kojiro's grin was a prog knife going for his neck.
"C'mon! I know girls like Lea." Kojiro pleaded for his albino friend to
accept his helping hand.
"No, not after what happened with Hotaru!"
"Hey, quiet back there!" Asuka growled from the couch.
*...Why are you still here?*
Kojiro arched a brow. "What didja say, Nagisa?"
"Hmm? I said nothing..." Kaworu took a drink from a can of soda Shinji had
left abandoned.
*They are weaker than you...much weaker...you should be ruling them, not helping them...*
"...Must be the movie...heh." Kojiro shrugged.
*Come back to us, Kojiro...come back to us, and we will rule them...*
Kojiro furrowed his brow in thought. It was not possible a character in
the movie had his name. He waited a few minutes or another voice to come to him. Nothing.
He shrugged again. "I need to lay off the late night ramen..."
Not to far away...actually, it was right down the hall...
"I love you, Shinji..." Rei said rested her head against the pillow.
"But...don't you love Kojiro?" Shinji asked as he looked down at her, wiping
the sweat from his head from the ordeal they just had.
She nodded. "I do...but you I have known the longest, and the one I truly
love...Kojiro...is more of a brother to me."
Shinji nodded.
Rei got that mischevious glint in her eyes as she pulled Shinji back under the covers.
Scene: NERV
"Gendo Ikari...you have much to explain to us...The reason we lost a
multi-million dollar system and the extensive damage to the Evangelion series units."
"Yes, these events are all linked to terrorist activity within our halls...
But it is disputable on how the atagonists made their way into security level 7
area's." Gendo said, appearing like a statue, with his hands steepled in front of
him. "Still, we will find whoever did this...and bring them to justice."
"For your sake, Commander Ikari...you had better."
Later.
As Ikari left, the members of SEELE sat about, staging act 2 of their plans.
"Now, with the Eva's temporarily out of commision, we may begin the next phase."
"Indeed...Ikari was a fool to not think we would be at the head of the plots
against him and his followers."
"It's only a matter of time, though, before he puts two and two togethor and
decides to plot against us."
"Of course...Ikari must be dealt with, as well as the 7th."
"...no, the 7th is vital to our plans. We will leave him alone until his part
has been played out to it's extent."
Commander Gendo Ikari sat at his desk, mulling over SEELE's meeting with him.
The old men were obviously up to no good. There is no way that an intruder could
penetrate sector level 7 without being spotted as out of the obvious, unless they
had be given clearances.
However this played out, it involved the 7th and the 3rd, that much was known.
"Now to explain the reports by the pilots that Shinji activated unit 0.1
without a plug." Commander Fyutski said solemly.
"Indeed..." Ikari sighed.
Scene: Misato's Apartment.
Night fell over the apartment complex, but you couldn't tell by the cloud cover.
The girls were still watching movies, by this time it was a James Bond, and
Kojiro and Kaworu had gotten fed up with playing Poker for the past few hours.
"I'm gonna go check on Rei..." Kaworu said as he got up and headed down the
hall to where Rei had vanished.
The door was securely shut, but not locked when Kaworu reached Shinji's room.
Inside the dark room, the only form was a lump under the covers, and two sets of
breathing. It took only a moment for him to understand what was going on. Red faced
and embarassed, he shut the door softly. And he always thought he would be the one
to get Shinji in bed first.
"You look like a ghost walked through ya..." Kojiro said as Kaworu returned to
the table.
"Oh...Not really. I'm just coming down with something...yeah." Kaworu said as
he reshuffled the cards.
"Shinji and Rei are pretty close, hmm?" Kaworu asked after a moment.
"Yeah...too bad I'm gonna get her first. nyuk nyuk." Kojiro took a swig from
his 9th soda.
"Hmm...don't be so sure..." Kaworu said as he dealt out the first hand.
End Chapter 4.
Next Chapter:"Karikaru Who?"
Brave New World
Fanfiction by Raven Chaos
ravenkoruki@aol.com
Disclaimer: I don't own Evangelion or any other already owned property mentioned.
Chapter 4: Voices in my head....or "Staring down the barrel of a Gleak"
Scene: A 2nd rate apartment in Tokyo 0.3's downtown slums.
Koruki delicately searched through each file he had collected from his laptop.
NERV had done a pretty excellant job of coding their data discs. It took four passwords
to get to the main menu area. Nothing occured that Koruki couldn't get himself passed.
He paused after working for a few hours, rubbing his weary eyes from the too-bright
screen. According to reports, the faux Angel had done better than planned. It was only
meant as a light threat, but apparently the altered program had other plans. This pleased
Koruki
immensly, meaning everything was going well. Had the Angel simply demolished a few buildings
and vaporized after being clobbered, that meant it was back to the drawing board.
...Well, for now, he put the thoughts away. He had more pressing matters this time.
Now that he had momentarily thrown NERV for a tizzy, it was time to move to step 2...The
7th child.
Kojiro Lister...a boy supposedly born in the States near New York. According to
records, he had just made it passed his Sophmore year when NERV came knocking on his
door. Like the other pilots, he was without any real family, just a grandfather who
would die a year after Kojiro left. Of course, that was what the records said, and
the fools believed what was put to the papers.
To the ordinary eye, Kojiro appeared as your simple, non out-of-context male
teen going through hormone stages. But to Koruki...He saw the face he had seen so
many times in his life. Indeed, "Kojiro Lister" was merely an alias.
Scene: Misato's Apartment.
It was time for Asuka's annual monthly movie fest, where the red haired
wonder would rent 10 movies, invite a bunch of people aiming to be her friend
and live off what's in the fridge all weekend, leaving the living room only to
use the bathroom and get munchies.
Kojiro thumbed through his arch nemesis's selection this time around...a
few romances, a Jackie Chan, something with some guy named Jet Li...Ooh, she
rented Evil Dead, maybe she isn't so snooty after all.
"So, Kojiro-kun, are you staying for the fest?" Misato asked as she sorted
through the groceries she stocked on before the mayhem began.
"Oh, maybe...depends on how Rei's feeling." Kojiro said as he took a swig
from his lunchtime soda.
"What?! You'd rather spend the weekend with that frozen statue than at my
party?! You ARE an idiot!" Asuka got on Kojiro's case once more.
"C'mere..." Kojiro motioned for her to come close as he took another swig.
Asuka sighed and did thus as told. Kojiro opened his mouth slightly as if to
speak. Suddenly a straight spray of saliva shot out, covering the fiery
queen-bitch-of-the-universe's face.
Asuka stood frozen with bewilderment for a few moments. Her face went
from bewildered to frightened, to frightened to angry. She howled that
she-bitch monkey screech, tried to clobber Kojiro, who had ducked just in time,
and stormed off to her room.
"What the heck was that?!" Misato asked.
"Gleaked her." Kojiro said calmly.
"...Gleaked?" Shinji looked at Kojiro as if the slightly older pilot had a
second head growing out of his shoulder.
"...A gleak, as we Americans call it, is the spray that emits from your mouth
when you open your mouth slightly after taking a drink of something sugary, and press
your tongue against the roof of your mouth and let fly." Kojiro sat back in his chair,
feeling triumphant over his victory over the She-Bitch.
Anyone who heard him describe this odd ritual simply stared at Kojiro as he
thought nothing of it.
"...Why would you do such a thing?" Rei asked.
"...Humor." Kojiro said.
"You do much for humor, Kojiro..." Kaworu said from behind him.
"...That's what drives the women wild, Nagisa..." Kojiro sighed.
"Oh...?" Suddenly, Kojiro felt a wet spray spritz on the top of his head. He
jerked up and saw Kaworu grinning at him.
"...You're dead!" and the chase commenced. Kojiro almost caught him, too, but
Asuka stepped in and tripped Kojiro into a group of her female schoolmates. As the
group crashed to the floor, Kojiro pondered...which would have been the better outcome?
catching Nagisa or this. Several slaps wrecked that train of thought right then and there.
Shinji had retreated to his room to avoid any initial chaos that would come
from his fellow pilot and his housemate.
He sighed as he stared out his window, watching the rain drench the city.
It was beautiful. The quiet grey and the soft, delicate smell of the falling water.
It was days like this that made saving the earth that much more rewarding.
A knock pulled him away from his pondering. He turned to see Rei at his doorway.
"Ikari...Asuka is starting the movies. She asked me to come get you." She said,
remaining in the doorway.
"...I'm...gonna stay here for a while..." Shinji said, resting his chin on the
windowsill.
"...What are you doing?" Rei tilted her head.
*She's been asking that alot these days.* Shinji thought. "I'm watching the
rain...it makes me feel good."
"Oh..." Rei took a seat on the bed, following Shinji's gaze to the window.
"Shinji-Kun...there's something I want to tell you..." Rei turned to face him.
"Huh...?" Shinji felt a lump form in his throat as he watched her.
"Geuss the idiot and wonder girl are no shows...alrighty, movie one, begin!"
Asuka announced as her party began with some sappy romance Kojiro and Kaworu decided
not to get involved with.
"So, how's things going with Lea?" Kojiro asked, refilling his drink at the
table where Kaworu and him resided with a deck of cards.
"...Not too good. She is too...serious." Kaworu sighed.
"...What'dya mean, 'serious'?" Kojiro arched a brow. "Does she want it in bed
now or what?"
"Oh,no no...nothing like that...well...maybe.....yeah." Kaworu turned red,
which contrasted against his pale skin.
"Oh hoooo...Reh-heh-heh-eeellly." Kojiro got that grin.
"No, Lister...I do NOT want your advice!" Kaworu raised his hands in defense
as if Kojiro's grin was a prog knife going for his neck.
"C'mon! I know girls like Lea." Kojiro pleaded for his albino friend to
accept his helping hand.
"No, not after what happened with Hotaru!"
"Hey, quiet back there!" Asuka growled from the couch.
*...Why are you still here?*
Kojiro arched a brow. "What didja say, Nagisa?"
"Hmm? I said nothing..." Kaworu took a drink from a can of soda Shinji had
left abandoned.
*They are weaker than you...much weaker...you should be ruling them, not helping them...*
"...Must be the movie...heh." Kojiro shrugged.
*Come back to us, Kojiro...come back to us, and we will rule them...*
Kojiro furrowed his brow in thought. It was not possible a character in
the movie had his name. He waited a few minutes or another voice to come to him. Nothing.
He shrugged again. "I need to lay off the late night ramen..."
Not to far away...actually, it was right down the hall...
"I love you, Shinji..." Rei said rested her head against the pillow.
"But...don't you love Kojiro?" Shinji asked as he looked down at her, wiping
the sweat from his head from the ordeal they just had.
She nodded. "I do...but you I have known the longest, and the one I truly
love...Kojiro...is more of a brother to me."
Shinji nodded.
Rei got that mischevious glint in her eyes as she pulled Shinji back under the covers.
Scene: NERV
"Gendo Ikari...you have much to explain to us...The reason we lost a
multi-million dollar system and the extensive damage to the Evangelion series units."
"Yes, these events are all linked to terrorist activity within our halls...
But it is disputable on how the atagonists made their way into security level 7
area's." Gendo said, appearing like a statue, with his hands steepled in front of
him. "Still, we will find whoever did this...and bring them to justice."
"For your sake, Commander Ikari...you had better."
Later.
As Ikari left, the members of SEELE sat about, staging act 2 of their plans.
"Now, with the Eva's temporarily out of commision, we may begin the next phase."
"Indeed...Ikari was a fool to not think we would be at the head of the plots
against him and his followers."
"It's only a matter of time, though, before he puts two and two togethor and
decides to plot against us."
"Of course...Ikari must be dealt with, as well as the 7th."
"...no, the 7th is vital to our plans. We will leave him alone until his part
has been played out to it's extent."
Commander Gendo Ikari sat at his desk, mulling over SEELE's meeting with him.
The old men were obviously up to no good. There is no way that an intruder could
penetrate sector level 7 without being spotted as out of the obvious, unless they
had be given clearances.
However this played out, it involved the 7th and the 3rd, that much was known.
"Now to explain the reports by the pilots that Shinji activated unit 0.1
without a plug." Commander Fyutski said solemly.
"Indeed..." Ikari sighed.
Scene: Misato's Apartment.
Night fell over the apartment complex, but you couldn't tell by the cloud cover.
The girls were still watching movies, by this time it was a James Bond, and
Kojiro and Kaworu had gotten fed up with playing Poker for the past few hours.
"I'm gonna go check on Rei..." Kaworu said as he got up and headed down the
hall to where Rei had vanished.
The door was securely shut, but not locked when Kaworu reached Shinji's room.
Inside the dark room, the only form was a lump under the covers, and two sets of
breathing. It took only a moment for him to understand what was going on. Red faced
and embarassed, he shut the door softly. And he always thought he would be the one
to get Shinji in bed first.
"You look like a ghost walked through ya..." Kojiro said as Kaworu returned to
the table.
"Oh...Not really. I'm just coming down with something...yeah." Kaworu said as
he reshuffled the cards.
"Shinji and Rei are pretty close, hmm?" Kaworu asked after a moment.
"Yeah...too bad I'm gonna get her first. nyuk nyuk." Kojiro took a swig from
his 9th soda.
"Hmm...don't be so sure..." Kaworu said as he dealt out the first hand.
End Chapter 4.
Next Chapter:"Karikaru Who?"