NEON GENESIS EVANGELION
Brave New World
Fanfiction by Raven Chaos
Ravenkoruki@aol.com
Disclaimer: Don't sue me. (hey, writing the same disclaimer gets tiring).
Chapter 5 recap: So far, we've met all 5 pilots; Shinji, Rei, Asuka, Kaworu,
and Kojiro. Also, there's that guy Koruki who's been making their lives hell
for the past week, what with sabotaging the VR training with an actual Angel,
which Shinji totals by climbing into the plugless Eva 0.1 and summons the spirit
of his mother to control the Eva, then after that, we find out Rei likes Shinji...
(don't worry, I'm fixing Kojiro up with someone.) and now we discover Kojiro
isn't Kojiro at all...who is he? And who was that voice that beckoned to him
at Misato's?
Chapter 5: Karikaru who?
Scene: High School, lunchtime.
"And so Shinji swerves around and delivers the dreaded nad-kick-of-death
to the sonuvabitch and the bastard goes flying and KABOOM!" Kojiro said as he
finished the story of the VR battle to a bunch of amazed schoolgirls.
Shinji, Toji, and Kensuke sat back and marveled at how Kojiro could BS a
bunch of perfectly smart women so easily.
"So, Shinji...did it really happen that way?" Kensuke asked, pushing his
glasses back onto his nose.
"...I'm not sure...I...sort of...fell asleep." Shinji said, feeling kinda
embarassed.
"You fell Asleep?!" Toji scowled. "How could you fall asleep during an
Angel attack?!"
"I...It wasn't an Angel...At least we don't think so...it just sorta came
into the system..." Shinji cowered from Toji.
Kensuke pondered. "Then there must have been a virus in the system. Or even
worse, NERV's been infiltrated and sabotaged."
Shinji sighed. "Maybe..."
Now the girls over yonder were 'ooh'ing and 'ah'ing. Shinji wondered what
that moron Kojiro was doing now.
"That guy is a disgrace to NERV..." Kensuke said.
"Whatcha talkin' about? You'd be doing the same thing!" Toji punched Kensuke
in the arm.
"True...very true." The computer nerd grinned.
"oh...by the way, Toji...Ritsuko wanted to know when you'll be returning to
pilot." Shinji said.
"...Ah, hell...My legs still kinda numb. I can't even feel my left hand...I
dunno. I might be on compensation for some time." Toji groaned.
"...Yeah right...but you still pick up a NERV paycheck every month." Kensuke
grunted.
Toji punched the nerd harder in the arm.
The girls left as the bell rang and Kojiro sighed and laid down on a table
with a soda in hand. Cherry Cola...necter of the gods.
He laid there...stairing at the blue sky as a cable-train crossed overhead.
He always wondered what would happen if it ever fell.
He must have fallen asleep, because that annoying moment of memory blank
occured. By now the sky was a deep orange. He opened his eyes and saw Rei, staring
down at him.
"...oh, Hi, Ayanami..." he grinned and sat up, taking a chug of his soda,
which was disappointingly flat.
"You slept through today's Synch Test..." Rei said.
"What?!" Kojiro checked his watch. It was almost 6:00 pm!
"Don't worry...I said you weren't feeling well today." She sat next to him.
"Thanks...I owe ya one." Kojiro sighed in relief. "So, did I miss anything important?"
"No..." she shook her head. "Just basic drills."
The two sat in silence, watching the evening fall on the city.
"Ayanami...uh...there's something I gotta tell ya..." Kojiro said, breaking
the long silence.
"Yes?" She turned to look at him.
Kojiro hesitated, not finding the words to say it.
"Come now, boy...it can't be that hard."
The two switched there gaze to whoever had been watching them.
Koruki leaned forword against the railing, admiring the city. Indeed, it did
have a beauty to it.
"...Can I help ya?! You kinda ruined the moment, pal." Kojiro said dryly.
"...Actually...I think I can help you." Koruki turned to face them. "There is
much we can do to help each other, in fact."
"...How do you know Kojiro?" Rei asked, narrowing her eyes.
Koruki arched a brow and chuckled. "Kojiro? Who is Kojiro? I'm talking to this lad."
"And his name is Kojiro. State your business with us." Rei almost growled.
"...His name is not 'Kojiro', little girl...and my business is with him strictly,
so do be a good girl and leave us." Koruki said with a hint of mockery in his voice.
"I will not."
Koruki grinned again. "Well, I suppose one other pilot can learn the truth...eh,
Karikaru?"
Kojiro looked at Koruki oddly. "What did you call me?"
"I called you by your name...Karikaru."
Rei suddenly fell. "...Kojiro.....my head..."
Kojiro suiddenly felt pings of immense pain shoot through his head.
Darkness fell.
Rei awoke in a room of darkness, Kojiro laying next to her.
"Kojiro-kun...?" she called out.
"I'm right here..." He sat up, rubbing his head. "Where are we?"
"Welcome to the Abyss, children." Koruki appeared.
"Who are you?! What do you want?!" Kojiro growled.
"No no, kid. It's what you want..." Koruki grinned at them.
"...I don't understand what's going on..." Rei said.
"Of course not...Humans can only handle so much. That is why we're in
darkness." Koruki spread his arms, as is motioning to something in the pitch blackness.
"Alright then...explain..." Kojiro said, standing.
"By all means..." Koruki grinned and turned his back to them.
"In the beginning, there were Humans...they lived in perfect harmony...But they
weren't content with just that...their own lives. They wanted more...so, they created us..."
"Us?" Kojiro asked.
"We, the children of Lillith..." Koruki said.
"...Adam's first wife?" Rei inquired.
Koruki continued. "We were from Lillith a long time ago, before the documentation
known as history began, when Lillith left Adam and took shelter with the humans that
would come later. From her, we, the truly devine were born, and we walked the earth,
knowing we were stronger, but with no way to prove out dominance, or even a way to
gather ourselves togethor. But now...Now we have the Angels...and the Evangelion
Androids...oh, how our predessecors have faired."
"Get to the point." Kojiro was growing impatient.
"Join us, Karikaru...Join us and lead us...For you are the one we need...A
true child of Lillith." Koruki stared Kojiro straight in the eye.
"I am not this Karikaru guy! My name is Kojiro!" Kojiro hissed.
"...Think about it, Karikaru...NERV is using you...using you against us, your
true family. Your brothers and sisters."
"No...I don't believe you..." Kojiro shook his head.
"You cannot deny it, Karikaru! How long have you been in the shell of a child?
What became of the man from my past? The legendary warrior Karikaru? You are lying
to yourself!"
"Stop it! I don't know what the hell you're talking about!!" Kojiro shouted.
"...Stop lying to yourself and open your eyes!" Koruki said.
Rei stood away from them, trying to see in the darkness. Only the shadow
around them could be seen, as if her eyes could not understand what lay beyond them.
Where were they?
"This is not real, Kojiro." She said softly, but audibly.
Both men's eyes centered themselves on the azure haired one.
"...This is not real, what it is around us." she looked around her. "We need
to wake up, Kojiro-kun."
"Don't listen to her, Karikaru! Your place is here, with your kind! In time
you will understand!" Koruki said.
"Kojiro-kun...it's time to wake up. Let's go home."
"No! You are home! This is your home!"
"...I don't know anymore..." Kojiro hung and shook his head slowely. "I just
don't know anymore..."
"...Trust what you do know, Kojiro-kun." Rei said softly. "Let's go home..."
How he had woken up in his bed is a mystery. It was dark, and he was afraid
that he was still back there, with that maniac. He forced himself up and stopped
in Rei's room. When he saw her sleeping peacefully, he was convinced he was home.
Where he belonged. He smiled to himself and returned to his bed.
Next Morning...
"...So, this guy said that the 7th's name was in reality Karikaru and not
Kojiro." Fyutski nodded to himself as he listened to Rei's report.
"Yes sir. The 7th Child seemed very shocked by the ordeal, as if he did not
really know we had not really left the school area at all. After I had convinced
him that it was not real, but an illusion created by this man, I regret to say I
did not get his name. The 7th collapsed. The man disappeared after that." Rei
finished her report.
Commander Ikari sighed as he took this in. Some new force was muscling in.
Perhaps one of the old man's hired guns had ulterior motives? Could the 7th still
be trusted?
"And where is Kojiro now?" Ikari asked.
"He is staying at home for today. I think it best that he rests." Rei said.
At Kojiro and Rei's apartment...
Kojiro sat at the kitchen table, absently letting a pen in his hand travel
around a notepad as he stared out the window. The previous days event had triggered
events for him that seemed almost like a distant daydream. Karikaru...a name that
was almost vaguely familiar, and not just from the stock and store of memories from
yesterday.
Almost as if he knew the name well. He just couldn't understand anymore.
What if he was the guy that weirdo said he was? Something about being trapped
inside a childs shell. Was he truly something else?
He sighed and hung his head. His eyes drifted to the notepad he had been idly
doodling on. Among the scribbles on the notepad was the image of a legless figure
crucified on a cross. Where the legs were supposed to be were tiny little strands,
like millions of tiny legs. The head was bald, wth five eyes within a triangular shape.
He had never seen it, but he knew. This was Lillith. Somehow, he knew what
it looked like. Where it was now. Something beckoned to him from within. Beckoned
him to come to it.
Elsewhere...
Shinji meandered by himself outside. He didn't really know where he was at all,
but he didn't care right now. Thoughts of what had happened between Rei and himself
dominated his thoughts. The way it all happened so quickly. It was strange. No one
had ever scted like that towards him in his life.
He looked at his watch. Almost 7:00pm. Misato was going to hit the roof when he
got back. Either that or she'd be passed out at the table. Either way wouldn't be that
out of the ordinary.
"Shinji..."
Shinji turned around. Had someone called his name? No one in particular was
even walking along the same sidewalk he was. Maybe his head was playing tricks on
him again. It wasn't that uncommon.
"...Time is almost out...hurry, Shinji...Hurry..."
"Who's there?!" Shinji said aloud. No one answered. He really must be out of
his gourd, he thought. He turned on his heels and quickly began heading for home.
From afar, she watched him. It had to be him who was chosen. It had to be.
She had watched him so many times, destroying those who came for her, to take her back.
Her time was running out. Soon, they would come for her.
"Please, Shinji...Hurry..." Lillith pleaded in her mind.
End chapter 5.
Next chapter: True Colors and Revelation.
Brave New World
Fanfiction by Raven Chaos
Ravenkoruki@aol.com
Disclaimer: Don't sue me. (hey, writing the same disclaimer gets tiring).
Chapter 5 recap: So far, we've met all 5 pilots; Shinji, Rei, Asuka, Kaworu,
and Kojiro. Also, there's that guy Koruki who's been making their lives hell
for the past week, what with sabotaging the VR training with an actual Angel,
which Shinji totals by climbing into the plugless Eva 0.1 and summons the spirit
of his mother to control the Eva, then after that, we find out Rei likes Shinji...
(don't worry, I'm fixing Kojiro up with someone.) and now we discover Kojiro
isn't Kojiro at all...who is he? And who was that voice that beckoned to him
at Misato's?
Chapter 5: Karikaru who?
Scene: High School, lunchtime.
"And so Shinji swerves around and delivers the dreaded nad-kick-of-death
to the sonuvabitch and the bastard goes flying and KABOOM!" Kojiro said as he
finished the story of the VR battle to a bunch of amazed schoolgirls.
Shinji, Toji, and Kensuke sat back and marveled at how Kojiro could BS a
bunch of perfectly smart women so easily.
"So, Shinji...did it really happen that way?" Kensuke asked, pushing his
glasses back onto his nose.
"...I'm not sure...I...sort of...fell asleep." Shinji said, feeling kinda
embarassed.
"You fell Asleep?!" Toji scowled. "How could you fall asleep during an
Angel attack?!"
"I...It wasn't an Angel...At least we don't think so...it just sorta came
into the system..." Shinji cowered from Toji.
Kensuke pondered. "Then there must have been a virus in the system. Or even
worse, NERV's been infiltrated and sabotaged."
Shinji sighed. "Maybe..."
Now the girls over yonder were 'ooh'ing and 'ah'ing. Shinji wondered what
that moron Kojiro was doing now.
"That guy is a disgrace to NERV..." Kensuke said.
"Whatcha talkin' about? You'd be doing the same thing!" Toji punched Kensuke
in the arm.
"True...very true." The computer nerd grinned.
"oh...by the way, Toji...Ritsuko wanted to know when you'll be returning to
pilot." Shinji said.
"...Ah, hell...My legs still kinda numb. I can't even feel my left hand...I
dunno. I might be on compensation for some time." Toji groaned.
"...Yeah right...but you still pick up a NERV paycheck every month." Kensuke
grunted.
Toji punched the nerd harder in the arm.
The girls left as the bell rang and Kojiro sighed and laid down on a table
with a soda in hand. Cherry Cola...necter of the gods.
He laid there...stairing at the blue sky as a cable-train crossed overhead.
He always wondered what would happen if it ever fell.
He must have fallen asleep, because that annoying moment of memory blank
occured. By now the sky was a deep orange. He opened his eyes and saw Rei, staring
down at him.
"...oh, Hi, Ayanami..." he grinned and sat up, taking a chug of his soda,
which was disappointingly flat.
"You slept through today's Synch Test..." Rei said.
"What?!" Kojiro checked his watch. It was almost 6:00 pm!
"Don't worry...I said you weren't feeling well today." She sat next to him.
"Thanks...I owe ya one." Kojiro sighed in relief. "So, did I miss anything important?"
"No..." she shook her head. "Just basic drills."
The two sat in silence, watching the evening fall on the city.
"Ayanami...uh...there's something I gotta tell ya..." Kojiro said, breaking
the long silence.
"Yes?" She turned to look at him.
Kojiro hesitated, not finding the words to say it.
"Come now, boy...it can't be that hard."
The two switched there gaze to whoever had been watching them.
Koruki leaned forword against the railing, admiring the city. Indeed, it did
have a beauty to it.
"...Can I help ya?! You kinda ruined the moment, pal." Kojiro said dryly.
"...Actually...I think I can help you." Koruki turned to face them. "There is
much we can do to help each other, in fact."
"...How do you know Kojiro?" Rei asked, narrowing her eyes.
Koruki arched a brow and chuckled. "Kojiro? Who is Kojiro? I'm talking to this lad."
"And his name is Kojiro. State your business with us." Rei almost growled.
"...His name is not 'Kojiro', little girl...and my business is with him strictly,
so do be a good girl and leave us." Koruki said with a hint of mockery in his voice.
"I will not."
Koruki grinned again. "Well, I suppose one other pilot can learn the truth...eh,
Karikaru?"
Kojiro looked at Koruki oddly. "What did you call me?"
"I called you by your name...Karikaru."
Rei suddenly fell. "...Kojiro.....my head..."
Kojiro suiddenly felt pings of immense pain shoot through his head.
Darkness fell.
Rei awoke in a room of darkness, Kojiro laying next to her.
"Kojiro-kun...?" she called out.
"I'm right here..." He sat up, rubbing his head. "Where are we?"
"Welcome to the Abyss, children." Koruki appeared.
"Who are you?! What do you want?!" Kojiro growled.
"No no, kid. It's what you want..." Koruki grinned at them.
"...I don't understand what's going on..." Rei said.
"Of course not...Humans can only handle so much. That is why we're in
darkness." Koruki spread his arms, as is motioning to something in the pitch blackness.
"Alright then...explain..." Kojiro said, standing.
"By all means..." Koruki grinned and turned his back to them.
"In the beginning, there were Humans...they lived in perfect harmony...But they
weren't content with just that...their own lives. They wanted more...so, they created us..."
"Us?" Kojiro asked.
"We, the children of Lillith..." Koruki said.
"...Adam's first wife?" Rei inquired.
Koruki continued. "We were from Lillith a long time ago, before the documentation
known as history began, when Lillith left Adam and took shelter with the humans that
would come later. From her, we, the truly devine were born, and we walked the earth,
knowing we were stronger, but with no way to prove out dominance, or even a way to
gather ourselves togethor. But now...Now we have the Angels...and the Evangelion
Androids...oh, how our predessecors have faired."
"Get to the point." Kojiro was growing impatient.
"Join us, Karikaru...Join us and lead us...For you are the one we need...A
true child of Lillith." Koruki stared Kojiro straight in the eye.
"I am not this Karikaru guy! My name is Kojiro!" Kojiro hissed.
"...Think about it, Karikaru...NERV is using you...using you against us, your
true family. Your brothers and sisters."
"No...I don't believe you..." Kojiro shook his head.
"You cannot deny it, Karikaru! How long have you been in the shell of a child?
What became of the man from my past? The legendary warrior Karikaru? You are lying
to yourself!"
"Stop it! I don't know what the hell you're talking about!!" Kojiro shouted.
"...Stop lying to yourself and open your eyes!" Koruki said.
Rei stood away from them, trying to see in the darkness. Only the shadow
around them could be seen, as if her eyes could not understand what lay beyond them.
Where were they?
"This is not real, Kojiro." She said softly, but audibly.
Both men's eyes centered themselves on the azure haired one.
"...This is not real, what it is around us." she looked around her. "We need
to wake up, Kojiro-kun."
"Don't listen to her, Karikaru! Your place is here, with your kind! In time
you will understand!" Koruki said.
"Kojiro-kun...it's time to wake up. Let's go home."
"No! You are home! This is your home!"
"...I don't know anymore..." Kojiro hung and shook his head slowely. "I just
don't know anymore..."
"...Trust what you do know, Kojiro-kun." Rei said softly. "Let's go home..."
How he had woken up in his bed is a mystery. It was dark, and he was afraid
that he was still back there, with that maniac. He forced himself up and stopped
in Rei's room. When he saw her sleeping peacefully, he was convinced he was home.
Where he belonged. He smiled to himself and returned to his bed.
Next Morning...
"...So, this guy said that the 7th's name was in reality Karikaru and not
Kojiro." Fyutski nodded to himself as he listened to Rei's report.
"Yes sir. The 7th Child seemed very shocked by the ordeal, as if he did not
really know we had not really left the school area at all. After I had convinced
him that it was not real, but an illusion created by this man, I regret to say I
did not get his name. The 7th collapsed. The man disappeared after that." Rei
finished her report.
Commander Ikari sighed as he took this in. Some new force was muscling in.
Perhaps one of the old man's hired guns had ulterior motives? Could the 7th still
be trusted?
"And where is Kojiro now?" Ikari asked.
"He is staying at home for today. I think it best that he rests." Rei said.
At Kojiro and Rei's apartment...
Kojiro sat at the kitchen table, absently letting a pen in his hand travel
around a notepad as he stared out the window. The previous days event had triggered
events for him that seemed almost like a distant daydream. Karikaru...a name that
was almost vaguely familiar, and not just from the stock and store of memories from
yesterday.
Almost as if he knew the name well. He just couldn't understand anymore.
What if he was the guy that weirdo said he was? Something about being trapped
inside a childs shell. Was he truly something else?
He sighed and hung his head. His eyes drifted to the notepad he had been idly
doodling on. Among the scribbles on the notepad was the image of a legless figure
crucified on a cross. Where the legs were supposed to be were tiny little strands,
like millions of tiny legs. The head was bald, wth five eyes within a triangular shape.
He had never seen it, but he knew. This was Lillith. Somehow, he knew what
it looked like. Where it was now. Something beckoned to him from within. Beckoned
him to come to it.
Elsewhere...
Shinji meandered by himself outside. He didn't really know where he was at all,
but he didn't care right now. Thoughts of what had happened between Rei and himself
dominated his thoughts. The way it all happened so quickly. It was strange. No one
had ever scted like that towards him in his life.
He looked at his watch. Almost 7:00pm. Misato was going to hit the roof when he
got back. Either that or she'd be passed out at the table. Either way wouldn't be that
out of the ordinary.
"Shinji..."
Shinji turned around. Had someone called his name? No one in particular was
even walking along the same sidewalk he was. Maybe his head was playing tricks on
him again. It wasn't that uncommon.
"...Time is almost out...hurry, Shinji...Hurry..."
"Who's there?!" Shinji said aloud. No one answered. He really must be out of
his gourd, he thought. He turned on his heels and quickly began heading for home.
From afar, she watched him. It had to be him who was chosen. It had to be.
She had watched him so many times, destroying those who came for her, to take her back.
Her time was running out. Soon, they would come for her.
"Please, Shinji...Hurry..." Lillith pleaded in her mind.
End chapter 5.
Next chapter: True Colors and Revelation.