(N.G. Evangelion "B" version [subversion])
Chapter 2
By Q.C. of {PpG}
This fic has been rated R for content.
1st draft completion date: 9/25/01
Final release date: 9/25/01
Current revision number: 1
Welcome to the second chapter of Betrayal of the 1st Degree, N.G. Evangelion. The story thus far is as follows: The Bomb is dropped on Moscow, causing an immediate retaliatory strike which was shot down by the SDI system. In the mean time NERV prepares for a Russian attack at the warning of Colonel Drake of C-Division. The Russians send an Alfa-X, which cripples Unit-01 with a railgun shot. A few hours later the Evas destroy the Alfa. In the mean time Gendo and Drake call General Anderson for help, who sends help which will arrive in four days. Finally, Drake secretly requests for the BM-25 "Timber Wolf" to be brought to Tokyo-III as a precautionary measure, and as a nuclear launch platform. This is where we left off, now on with the fucking show!
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The peaceful silence in mountains outside the still smoking Tokyo-III was suddenly interrupted by the noise of a massive engine as a shiny black Corvette Stingray rounded the last corner before parking at an overview. Gendo Ikari stepped out of the passenger side and peered down at the city to assess the damage with his own eyes. A few seconds later Colonel Drake got out of the driver side, lit a cigarette and stood next to Gendo. He took a look at the mountains before speaking up.
"It's been close to 70 years since I last saw this country, and then it was only the sandy beaches on Iwo Jima. A lot has changed, between the War, modernization and the Second Impact."
"Yes, a lot has changed. Mankind is now a better, purer race than it was. And now you've gone back to the ways of our ancestors, trying to conquer the world."
"I'm doing my job. Now if you're done assessing the damage we'd better get back underground. It isn't safe for you to stand there..." As if to reinforce what Drake said a stray bullet hit a stone near Gendo's feet. Needless to say he quickly got in the car, as did Drake. It was just the beginning of a very long day, Drake thought, as he sped off back to Headquarters.
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Hours later school let out as normal. The pilots said goodbye to their friends for the day and just as they were about to start walking home they spotted three marines standing near the front door chatting and smoking cigarettes. Corporal Sanders threw down her cigarette and walked over to the three pilots.
"Hey! Want a free ride by any chance?" she said. The pilots nodded, and she led them to an all-black Camero parked at the curb. They climbed in, with Asuka sitting in the front (to avoid Rei) and Shinji and Rei in the back. Shinji looked over Jamie's shoulder at the dash, and was bewildered by the array of dials and controls.
"What's with this?" he asked.
"I don't know. I haven't driven this car yet, the Colonel parked it here this morning and ordered me to pick you up and take you home." Jamie took a quick look at the gauges and controls. "A 7-speed manual that redlines at 15,000 RPM? Let's see how this baby runs..." She turned the key and the whole car shook and roared to life.
"Shienza! I hope it's not going to be like this the whole way."
"Same here..." Jamie said as she put it in first and popped the clutch. Instead of stalling the whole car flew foreword and the rear end dropped a full eight inches, throwing it's occupants back into their seats as if they'd been hit by a battering ram! Before she even had to shift the car was well over the speed limit, and the tires were still spinning!
"Idiot! Are you trying to kill us?" Asuka yelled.
"No, I've never driven a car with a 750 cubic inch engine before! Now roll down your windows, it's too damn hot in here!"
"I think I'll take my chances walking tomorrow..." Shinji said while rolling down his window.
"I don't think you're gonna have much of a choice! Now someone find that plug-in lighter for me."
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They soon arrived at Misato's apartment without incident. As soon as they got out of the car Jamie popped the trunk and pulled out a long case and a military ammo can. She slammed the trunk closed and said
"Hey Shinji, you carry this for me." as she tossed him the can. He caught it and it's sheer weight almost knocked him to the ground!
"Ow! What's in this thing?" he said.
"100 rounds of .50 caliber ammo. So don't drop it!" Jamie followed Shinji and Asuka up to their room. Rei also followed, as she'd been ordered to stay until the immediate crisis was cleared up. Misato wasn't there when they arrived, so they let themselves in and settled in. The first thing Shinji did was to put down the heavy can! Jamie immediately sat down and opened the case, and pulled out a huge black metallic rifle with a hexagonal stock and a large scope, and inserted a proportional magazine into the receiver. She leaned it up against the wall.
"What the hell is that thing? I've never seen a gun like that before!" Asuka exclaimed.
"This is my Barrett M82A1 .50 caliber sniper rifle. I'm also supposed to stay here and protect you." Jamie explained.
"Okay then Corporal Tomboy!" Asuka joked before ducking into the bathroom.
"Damn... This is going to take some getting used to..."
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Down in the Geo Front things were just beginning to return to normal when the status board lit up like a Christmas tree. Everyone was running in circles trying to figure out what was going on.
"What's going on?" Gendo demanded.
"We have an incoming object, range 500 kilometers, altitude 18,000 meters, speed 1800 knots." Maya called out.
"Is it an Angel?"
"No sir, it's too big!!!" Yuga yelled.
"Then what is it?" Gendo calmly asked. Could it be? No, that's impossible!
"I don't know, all our scans bounce off, but it's emitting an American transponder code. It is heading directly for us!"
"It can't be! Someone find Colonel Drake immediately! I need an explanation!"
The object continued towards Tokyo-III. It wasn't long before NERV had a visual. It appeared to be a huge black mecha with cannons for arms. As it approached the air shook violently. It slowed and landed a mere 40 kilometers from the city. Even at that range it appeared huge, as it was over a mile tall! Finally Drake walked up to Gendo and said
"I trust you recognize that toy?"
"Yes I recognize it, but I never recall you saying anything about bringing THAT into Japan! Just how many missiles are on it anyway?"
"Sir, what is it?" Maya asked.
"That is Timber Wolf. The BM-25C, man's deadliest creation. And for your information that's 40 nuclear MIRVs and 100 tomahawk cruise missiles, as well as a million tons of ammunition and bombs. More than double the amount of firepower required to duplicate the Second Impact! Your promised reinforcements have arrived." Drake said with an evil grin on his face...
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Meanwhile in the command center of the massive mecha things were almost as hectic as they were in Central Dogma. At the center of the relatively small rectangular room was a proportional table, and sitting at the head of the table was a middle-aged man with dark hair and a scar under his right eye wearing an Admiral's uniform. Hanging on the chair behind him was a black trench coat adorned only by an American flag patch. He leaned foreword in his seat and said
"Okay, make certain not to land on any of our forces. Also, send Adams to old Tokyo to take care of the SDF."
"Yes sir, anything else"
"Yes, this time leave something for the Navy to shoot dammit!" the Admiral ordered.
"I think we can manage that. Also we have orders from Drake to undock our Dire Wolf as soon as we have a chance."
"Understood. Take care of it." Just as the Admiral was beginning to relax an Italian-looking man wearing Nike clothes carrying a couple huge containers of Chinese food barged into the room and blurted out
"One extra extra large chicken fried rice for Admiral Kelley!" as he carefully threw the boxes so they landed in front of the disgusted-looking Admiral.
"Thank you BrokenBoard, now I don't need any of you V-Division clowns in my command center!" The Italian quickly left, allowing the Admiral to sigh. Why do those bastards have to deliver this delicious food at such bad times?!?
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Back in Central Dogma things had gone from startled to insane. Everyone was scrambling to keep things in order even though twenty armed men wearing black canvas jackets with a large gray letter "E" on the back had just entered the room and secured all critical positions. A heavily muscled man walked up to Drake with a locked titanium briefcase, which he quickly opened and presented to the Colonel. Drake removed it's contents; a sheaf of papers and a black laptop computer adorned by the "IBM" logo. As the muscular man left Drake looked over the papers and then lit them on fire.
"The nuclear launch will take place in 12 hours. Until then I am in direct control of NERV and the nation of Japan. Upon completion of this operation you have six months to complete the Human Instrumentality Project and/or defeat the Angels, at which point you are to relinquish the Evangelion unit 0 and it's pilot to Area 51 at Groom Lake AFB for research. Are hope you find these terms acceptable because if you don't I'm under orders to kill everyone in this facility." Drake demanded while lighting a cigarette.
"The terms are acceptable..." Gendo said reluctantly, and only because he didn't have a choice.
"Good. We're bringing in our Dire Wolf urban assault mecha as a backup to the Evangelions, against any threat either Russian or Angel."
"Your weapons are useless against the Angels, it's AT-field is impenetrable."
"Well thanks to our little prize from the Chicago incident we can generate our own AT-fields. And don't think those SEELE assholes didn't try to remove it from us, that's why we had them terminated. And to make things even more interesting, also order them to unload our new Tactical Evangelion..."
"WHAT?!?" Gendo exclaimed in utter shock.
"Do you really think that if you give us the plans and samples required to make units 3 and 4 we're gonna stop at that?"
"But what about the pilots?"
"We used our doppleganger computer technology to simulate a synchronized pilots, so anyone trained on a Dire Wolf movement translator can pilot the Tactical Evangelion... But you wouldn't be interested because it requires a completely different set of replacement parts. That and it has problems of it's own." Drake explained as Gendo watched the two mechas unloading from the gigantic BM-25 on the monitor. The first was very blocky like the BM-25 itself, but the second looked virtually identical to Unit 1, except for it had a urban camo color scheme and a Marine Corps logo on the shoulders.
"If you hadn't already killed everyone else you'd never get away with this... How many of those did you make anyway?" Gendo demanded.
"We've built 20 total. Any more would be too expensive. We require Unit 0 to get raw data to fix some of it's problems." Drake explained.
"Dammit I'm getting sick of your little tricks and ruses! Next you're going to ask me to turn over the MAGI?"
"Not quite, but we will be downloading all your files and transferring copies to our protected mainframes at Langley and Groom Lake. You've been very useful to the War Department. Thank you." Drake said as he took the laptop down to Melchior to begin the download.
"Fuyutsuki, I've had just about enough of Drake. Why do they need enough firepower to destroy the entire world twice over just for our defense? Unfortunately there's nothing you and I can do about it. Take over for a few minutes, I need to get some air..."
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Later that evening at Misato's apartment not much was going on. Rei was off in a secluded corner studying while Shinji and Asuka fought for control of the TV. Jamie sat back on the couch and watched with mild amusement while she lit the last cigarette in the pack. She was about to get up and steal one of Misato's beers when a small light by the door blinked. Her spine stiffened and she reached into her duffel bag...
"Idiot! We're watching channel 17 and that's final!" Asuka yelled at Shinji, despite the fact that he was right next to her.
"I got to it first! We're watching 34! Don't you even change it again!" Shinji yelled back. Suddenly he noticed Jamie pulled a .45 caliber semi-automatic pistol out of the duffel bag and took dead aim at the door. "What the..."
"Quiet! There's someone outside, and I don't think he's the pizza delivery man." Jamie replied. Then suddenly she fired three rounds through the door, ran up, and opened the door. There was a large Russian man laying in a puddle of his own blood right outside!
"You killed him!" Asuka gasped, having never seen such a gruesome death before.
"Hey, am I gonna let that commie bastard kill you three? If you think you could do better you're more than welcome." Jamie mocked as she tossed Asuka the hot pistol while also taking a long drag off her cigarette.
"On second thought, you did a good job." Asuka said sheepishly while trying to hand the gun to Shinji.
"I don't want it! Why don't you just put it back in the bag?" Shinji asked.
"Give me that!" Jamie said while grabbing her pistol back. "You may be Eva pilots but I don't trust you with a loaded gun, not yet anyway."
"Well Tomboy, when you're right you're right... Now we're watching Channel 17, right?" Asuka asked.
"Oh my God, not again..."
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The next morning dawned just like the previous. Things were soon to change however, as a sneaky threat inched it's way towards Central Dogma so far undetected...
"Sir, we're detecting something in Sector Alpha... Looks like superficial movement." Yuga reported.
"And why are you bothering to tell me this?" Gendo demanded.
"Well it just... SIR! I've just lost control over security!"
"What? Have you gotten a positive reading on that signal yet?"
"No sir, but I believe it's humans."
"Excuse me Ikari, but I need to get something." Drake said before leaving the room. Suddenly the general alarm went off! Above the klaxons Maya managed to yell
"Sir! We've been breached by the Russians! They managed to get 500 commandos into Headquarters without our knowledge!"
"Damn! How close are they?"
"They'll be here in five minutes! I can't seal off Central Dogma!" Maya screamed. Just then Drake walked back into the room with a huge black assault rifle that had a clip almost as big as the gun itself!
"Okay Ikari, we're evacuating... You're too important to leave in a compromised area. Besides, I might need an ashtray later." Drake said while grabbing Gendo by the wrist and literally dragging him out of Central Dogma. The rest of the men in trench coats took defensive positions around the MAGI and the Cage.
Gendo was now running headlong next to Drake as they made their way to the surface where his car was parked. As they reached the surface and made a mad dash for the parked Stingray a shot rang out! Gendo suddenly flinched as the bullet bit into his left shoulder Drake took aim in the general direction of the sniper and fired his massive rifle. The sound was like repeating thunderbolts as a spray of .50 caliber bullets tore towards the sniper! Drake didn't waste time confirming his kill, but instead helped Gendo into the car and jumped into the driver seat.
"You're hit bad..." Drake stated as he tore the right sleeve off his trench coat. "Use this as a bandage until we reach the Timber Wolf. Now let's go!" he said while turning the key to the 'start' position. Like the Camero earlier the whole car shook and roared to life. Drake immediately floored it, leaving jet black skid marks as he screamed towards the BM-25 at 200 MPH.
As Gendo bandaged his wound he looked at the emblem of an American flag on the coat sleeve. He then noticed that in tiny lettering under the flag was embroidered "United States Government C-Division; Col. Matthew Drake; #A4998-923484..."
"United States Government C-Division..." Gendo muttered to himself. "You mean you've been using us all this time?"
"Damn straight Gendo, you're fucked! The Instrumentality project is over, the Evas and everything else in NERV is now property of the Department of Defense. And if you don't like it I'll give you to the Russians myself!"
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Jamie woke with a start because her pager was going off like crazy. She checked it, only to find out that it was the code that meant 'attack imminent, transport precious cargo to Timber Wolf Command." In other words the war had started and there was no time left to fuck around. She stood up and shook all three pilots awake.
"Hey! It's only six in the morning!" Asuka complained.
"Well you may not make it to noon if you don't get your ass in gear. The war's starting!" Jamie yelled. Neither of the other pilots complained as they got up and grabbed anything they may need in the next few hours. Jamie scooped up her Barrett and cocked in a shell before opening the door and leading the children to the parking lot.
When they arrived Jamie opened the trunk of the Camero and reached inside. Before any of the children had a chance to ask any questions Jamie pulled out three Colt M16 rifles and distributed them amongst the children. She then handed them each a bandoleer of ammo and a bulletproof vest (that was about 5 sizes too large for them) and said "These are for your own protection... I don't care if you want to shoot at anyone or not, put on the vests and carry those rifles in a threatening manner! Got it?"
"Yes mam!" Asuka said, showing even a hint of enthusiasm.
"I.. I'll carry it." Shinji half-moaned while slipping on the Kevlar vest. Rei didn't say anything, she slipped on the vest and loaded the rifle like she'd done it a thousand times.
"Good... I'll do any killing if it becomes necessary. Now we're gonna have to walk it, it's too dangerous to attempt to get there on the main roads."
"Um, mam... Where are we going?" Shinji asked sheepishly while Jamie lit a cigarette.
"Well, see that black mountain over there?" she said while pointing a finger at the massive BM-25. "The Marines have a base camp set up at it's feet, and that's where we're headed. Now we'd better get moving." Jamie took the point, now carrying the Barrett by the grips rather than it's shoulder strap. They silently walked almost halfway there, ducking behind bushes and cars for cover, without incident...
Jamie peered around a street corner, checking for the distinct twinkle of a lens flare off a rifle scope. Sure enough, she saw it from the window of a building close to a mile down the street. She held her left hand in a "get back!" position, and rolled into a prone position, placing a mail box between herself and the sniper. She slowly got to her knees and extended the rifle's bipod legs which she rested on the top of the mailbox. Carefully observing the environment around her, she then carefully adjusted the telescope on her rifle to compensate for range and the slight crosswind. She then pushed the safety catch to the "fire" position and whispered "Put your hands on your ears, this thing's fucking LOUD!"
"Right." All three said, before obeying. Jamie then placed the crosshairs right on the glint of the enemy's scope and held them there for 10 seconds, before squeezing the trigger back... The rifle let out a deafening CRACK and shot out a massive fireball, and knocked Jamie back several inches while sending the overlarge empty case towards the gutter. Quickly re-aquiring her target Jamie watched the closed part of the window suddenly turn red and a rifle fall out the window about four seconds after she pulled the trigger.
"It's safe. Let's hurry on!" The pilots got in line behind Jamie and marched forewords. About a half hour later they arrived at the base camp, and there was another all-black Camero waiting at the perimeter. A man wearing a black trench coat got out and said "Eva pilots, you're needed at Headquarters."
"Great, we just got here and we have to leave already!" Asuka said.
"You don't have a choice about it BITCH! Now get in the mother-fucking car and shut the Sam hell up!" he yelled. All three pilots got in without saying another word...
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The Admiral stood and saluted as Drake and Gendo walked into Timber Wolf Command. Drake checked a couple monitors before speaking up.
"Well Commander Ikari, sit down. We just finished patching our mainframe into the MAGI and we have some disturbing news..."
"Well?" Gendo demanded.
"We've detected an unknown object approximately 300 miles to the southwest. We ran our scan reading through the MAGI, and they confirmed that it had a blue pattern... The target is now uncomfortably close to Hiroshima, especially considering the damage our countermeasures will do..." the Admiral explained.
"Okay... I've made up my mind then. Load one of our Tomahawk missiles with a 5-megaton lithium-dutranium warhead and target the object. We'll deal with the Japanese government later."
"Wait a minute! You're going to use a thermonuclear device on the Angel that close to a populated area?" Gendo said.
"In one word, yes. Those bombs pack close to 90 times the firepower of a normal N2 mine, we might just vaporize the fucker. If not it'll give us time to deploy the Evangelions and the Tac Eva..."
"Ummm, Colonel that might be a slight problem... Our pilot for the Tactical Evangelion was injured earlier, and is incapable of piloting it through hand-to-hand combat. You said yourself that you want to keep this operation in the Marine Corps, and only mecha pilots and special forces Raiders are trained on Class-A mechas. We're out of pilots and the only Raiders in the area are yourself and Corporal Sanders." the Admiral explained.
"God dammit! Why today? Very well, inform Sanders of her new assignment. Now where's that missile?"
"We're firing it now sir." Gendo watched the monitor as the missile fired out of the BM-25's shoulder and streaked off to the southwest.
"Three minutes to detonation." the computer droned...
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Jamie watched the three pilots enter the new Camero and drive off with the man in the black trench coat to NERV to board the Evas, when she suddenly heard the roar of a rocket being launched from a mile up. She watched the missile scream to the southwest. Three minutes later a blinding flash dominated the sky as the nuclear warhead detonated, vaporizing all for miles around. Moments later a man tapped her shoulder.
"Corporal Sanders, you're under orders from Colonel Drake to pilot the Tac Eva. You are qualified, right?"
"I took the simulator tests, but I've never actually piloted one. I'm a sniper with the Raiders, not a mecha pilot!" she replied.
"Well they want a Marine to pilot it, and you're the only qualified marine who doesn't already have an assignment. I'm under orders to assist you in boarding the Tac Eva and starting it's systems."
"Allright... I'll do it.... And I'll stop complaining if you give me a pack of cigarettes! I haven't had a smoke in 14 hours and I'm about to go fucking crazy!"
"Fine! Take it!" he said, giving Jamie what was left of his pack. "Now let's get going." he said, leading her to a jeep.
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Drake lit another cigarette as all the external sensors fizzled out. The Electromagnetic pulse from the nuke had disrupted all the electrical systems in the area, and blinded almost all the sensors in the southern half of Japan! Gendo stared at the image of the huge mushroom-shaped cloud of fire that was now becoming visible on a telescopic visual monitor. He was pretty sure of what he'd hear next, but rather than making assumptions he decided to wait...
"Commander Ikari, it looks like you're gonna get your shot at it after all... We have only partial sensors but we have a reading on the Angel and it isn't good..." the Admiral stated.
"Let's hear it." Gendo said.
"Our hydrogen bomb managed to burn off 95% of the target, but we didn't kill it. Unfortunately it's behind enemy lines or we'd just drop the Evas on it and finish it off, but the MAGI estimate we have between 24 and 72 hours before it regenerates enough to attack again."
"Damn. Well until we can secure the area I see no reason not to let you use the Evangelions to defend Tokyo-III against any threats. I'll remain here if I may as a consultant." Gendo mumbled.
"Very well. You have your assignments. I'm going up to the cockpit to brief the pilots on our situation. Dismissed." Drake ordered before leaving.
"Dismissed to where? There's just this room, the cockpit, and the small quarters downstairs. Not counting the troop transport area. And I'm damn hungry!" The admiral complained. As if on cue the Italian Nike man with his big bags of Chinese food ran into the room and threw a box of chicken fried rice at the Admiral, of course landing perfectly in front of him. He then looked at Gendo and dropped a box of plain fried rice in front of him and left a box of Mongolian beef on the table for Drake before saying "Here's your food, sirs." before leaving just as quickly as he'd arrived.
"Who was that?" Gendo demanded.
"He's with V-Division. They're kinda thick but they do know where to get good Chinese food. I hope you like it."
"I guess it's allright..." he said while opening the box. "Now if you'll excuse me I've had a rather disturbing day..."
"That makes two of us..."
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Jamie sighed as she strapped herself into the movement translator harness in the Tactical Evangelion's cramped cockpit. The cockpit was only marginally larger than the standard entry plug, and despite the fact that she was a fairly small girl she was still bigger than a 14-year old kid! She finished connecting the harness, then grabbed the console keyboard and typed "init 6; eva entry-plug connect master-power connect restraint disconnect." The whole cockpit groaned and flickered to life as the giant robot came to life. She snickered as she looked at the steering wheel and 5-speed shifter before putting the Tac Eva into cruise mode, and moved it close to the city center before connecting it to a power cable like a normal Evangelion. She then got on the radio and said
"Hey, I thought this thing was equipped with a micro-fusion power generator! Why did I just have to connect to external power to prevent shutdown?"
"Well, we deactivated the fusion cell because it wouldn't be able to handle the impact of an Angel's attack. And if it breeches it'd make Hiroshima look like a firecracker!" Drake explained over the radio.
"Okay... When do the other Evas arrive?"
"Any time..."
End of Chapter 2
AUTHOR'S NOTES: Here we go again... Another cliffhanger ending. The Eva pilots are damn hard to write for. That explains their lack of involvement thus far. Sorry to you hardcore fans about the Tactical Evangelion, but honestly do you think the US government would pass up such a powerful weapon? As the endgame draws nearer and the tensions increase as the Evangelions will soon have to face an attack by both an Angel and the Russian army! Stay tuned, cause it ain't over yet! See ya on the other side. -QC
