Ep 4... Yay! I love writing.
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GuyverX53
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Ritsuko, Misato ad Rei sat in the X-Lab near the plug, which Chris was in. Chris had just gone berserk, destroyed Seele's Eva mercilessly, and them collapsed. It was all very strange, but Ritsuko began to explain.
"This is top secret... I am not meant to tell you this." she wiped here eyes and continued. "The injections I'm giving Chris are to keep him alive."
"Why? What's wrong with him?" Misato wondered. She looked at Ritsuko with pity. She had taken him in and looked after him like a son and now this. She could understand her feelings, because she went through the same things with Shinji and Auska.
"Chris..." Ritsuko began. "Isn't completely human."
Rei looked up at the scientist with a questioning look on her face. She wiped her tears away and sniffed.
"What... what do you mean?" Rei whispered. Ritsuko swung round and positioned herself at the computer.
"See for yourself..." she pressed a button and a screen came up with a cross section of Chris on the screen. "He's rather like you Rei..."
"Like me?" Rei swallowed.
"Yes. You know you are a clone of Shinji's mother don't you?"
"Y... Yes..." she lowered her head. Misato sat there open-mouthed.
"Chris is a clone?" she said shocked. "Of who?"
Ritsuko looked deeply saddened and guilty. She pressed another key on the keyboard and a chart appeared.
"What the hell? You!?" Misato yelled loudly. Ritsuko could only lower her head.
"Yes..." she cried.
"And what's all this classified shit!?" Misato shouted again.
"I... Can't..." Ritsuko wept.
"Tell me!!"
"... I... Not authorised..."
Misato slapped her friend hard across the cheek, leaving a bright red mark.
"What is the other 25%?" she said again, more calmly.
"The other data is..." she began. "It is... Adam."
Rei listened in horror to what Ritsuko had said. Chris was part angel. She stood up and ran out of the room in floods of tears.
"Rei!" Misato called after her.
"Let her be alone..." Ritsuko swallowed back a yell. She walked over to the plug and looked upon the prone form inside.
"My son..." she brushed the glass roughly where his hair was and let the tears flow down the smooth exterior of the plug.
Misato put her hand on Ritsuko's shoulder and sighed deeply. She looked at the unconscious pilot in the cage and spoke.
"How." she stated. It wasn't a question. Ritsuko looked up at her, pain in her eyes.
"It was a year ago. We were experimenting with the X-Technology." she began. "But none of the test pilots could synch, not even a dummy plug."
"So, where does he fit into this?" Misato whispered.
"We... We decided to see if we could make another like Rei. We had many failed attempts, Yui Ikari's DNA would not produce anything different than Rei's DNA."
"So you had to use different DNA?" Misato asked.
"Y, yes... we tried DNA from the commander, even you... but all failed."
"You used MY DNA!?"
"Yes, that routine blood test last year... we tested everyone. But mine... was the only one which could bond with Angel DNA."
"Why yours?"
"We don't know... but we went ahead anyway." she motioned to Chris.
"This is the result..."
Misato looked into the plug again, the needles had retracted and it looked as though Chris was sleeping. He was breathing slowly and every so often his eyelids flickered. Misato ran a hand through her hair.
"What happened to make him like this?"
"Well... when we created him... there were a few problems..." Ritsuko cried. "We had to accelerate his growth so that he would be old enough to pilot efficiently, so we had to... had to... Implant false memories."
"What!?"
"We had to implant a lot of data into his mind, and that caused problems... the first of which are his fits. The memories of his parents are fake, and when his thoughts cross to their fake death, his mind rejects the implantation."
"I see..." Misato thoughtfully said. "That's why he has medication?"
"Yes... but lately it hasn't been working, and the only thing that calms his fits is me. They used one of my Eggs to create him, and his Angel power reaches out to that and it somehow calms him." she looked thoughtful for a second. "I think that Rei also has some effect on him..."
"What's the second thing?" Misato pressed. Ritsuko looked at the floor.
"Mental Degradation."
"What does that mean?"
"It means... that... he will die." Ritsuko collapsed onto the floor and cried into her hands. Misato sat next to her and put an arm around her shoulders.
"Can you prevent it?"
"N, no... I cant..." she wailed. Misato patted her on the back caringly and nodded her to go on. "The only... thing that can... s, save him... is..."
"Yes...?"
"A new formula. But... nothing works..." she cried some more and buried her face in her friends shoulder.
"Its alright... We'll find something." Misato soothed. "We have too..."
Rei lay on her bed, tears flowing freely out of her red eyes and wetting the pillow. Her face was red and swollen from crying. She thought of Chris, and how, of al things... he was an Angel.
"Is that the reason I love him? Is his very presence reaching out to me?" she wondered. She buried her face into her pillow, wetting it even more. "No... I love him because of who he is."
She couldn't stop thinking about the Eva battle. The way he had gone berserk and ripped Seele's Eva to pieces.
"It wasn't like him..." she sobbed into the pillow. "He is usually so calm..."
She fell asleep in tears, he sobs subsided as sleep overtook her mind. She dreamt of waking up and everything being all right.
The next morning, a knocking at her door woke her.
"Go away!" She shouted groggily. The knocking continued. "Leave me alone!"
There came another knock at the door. Rei got up and adjusted her crumpled uniform. She staggered to the door and opened it.
"I said, go...!" she started to shout as she saw who it was. "Chris!"
She launched herself at him and she knocked him over. They both tumbled into the hallway, Rei landing on top of Chris.
She showered kisses on his face before he stopped her. He held her close to him and put his arms around her neck. He held her for quite a while then moved his hand so that they were on her shoulders. He stopped hugging her and gently held her at arms length.
"Rei... I have to tell you something." he bean quietly. Rei looked him in the eyes. She reached up and caressed his cheek with her hand.
"I know what you are." she whispered. "I heard it all today."
Chris sat there looking confused.
"What?" Chris asked. a bit bewildered.
"That you are a clone. Of Ritsuko and Adam." Rei looked into his eyes again and then to her horror, realised that he wasn't aware of it.
"W, what? I...." Chris began. He suddenly felt a stab of pain in his head. "Ahhhhh!" he screamed. He leapt up and away from Rei. "Its... a lie!!! It... I had a family! NOOOOO!"
He bent over clutching his head. Rei rushed to his side but as she neared him, he held his hand out to stop her.
"Don't come near me!" he coughed.
"But...I..." Rei managed, starting to cry. Chris looked up at her and she saw his eyes had changed. They wee no longer his kind and gentle eyes, but confused and strangely alone. Chris let go of his head and ran off down the corridor. Rei ran after him and caught up to him as he reached the un-open lift.
"Rei...Stay away." He warned.
"But Chris.." she slowly walked towards him. She got within a few paces before it happened. He screamed.
"NOOO!" the cry came out as more of a roar, his hand flew up and emitted a pulse of white light. Rei was thrown against a nearby wall and the last thing she heard before lapsing into unconsciousness was;
"Rei... I wanted to tell you I loved you and wanted to be with you forever. I'm sorry."
An hour later, the alarm sirens went off. The buildings of Tokyo-3 started to descend into the ground, the usual during an attack. But where was the angel?
"I can't confirm the target!" Maya reported. "There's nothing out there!"
"Maybe its in here?" Came a voice from the door. Everyone looked round to see Chris in his golden plug suit, but he seemed different.
"What do you mean?" inquired Maya. Ritsuko and Misato shared a knowing glance. Chris wandered over to her console and initiated an inside scan of the base. "That's what I mean."
Maya looked at the results with a look of fear and amazement. She tapped a few keys.
"My god! It's in here! But... it isn't!" She suddenly felt very afraid and looked at the smiling pilot next to her. "Where is it?"
"Here." Chris smirked, pointing at himself.
"Don't be absurd!" Maya blurted. "Your not an Angel, are you?"
Chris put his hand in front of her face. It glowed white.
"Sleep... you are innocent." he whispered. Maya slumped forward onto the control panel, sound asleep. The other technicians had fled already, which left Misato, Ritsuko, Fuyutski and Gendo Ikari left in the room. He turned to fuyutski.
"You are innocent in this matter." he held his glowing hand out and pointed to the man, who instantly fell asleep.
"Chris... what are you doing!?" Misato shouted at him. He could hear the fear in her voice.
"It is none of your concern."
"Like hell it isn't!" she screamed. She pulled her gun out and trained it on his head. "Don't move!"
"Misato... You are a good person, there fore innocent." he was about to send her to sleep...
"Chris... I'm sorry," she whispered as she pulled the trigger. She was sure she saw Chris's face return to its normal kind natured look, as she fired, but she couldn't be sure.
A hexagonal flash appeared as the bullet was disintegrated, a few centimetres before it hit its target.
"Misato Katsuragi..." Chris said. "Sleep." he sent her to sleep and turned to face Ritsuko and Gendo. "Where is my father?"
The control room of Central Dogma was quiet. Maya Ibuki, Misato Katsuragi and Colonel Fuyutski lay in a deep sleep while Chris cornered Ritsuko Akagi and Gendo Ikari. His right hand was glowing white and his eyes had changed to a bright silver colour.
"Pilot Chris..." Gendo began. "Your parents died in England, don't you remember?"
Chris snarled like an animal at his words. The glow on his hand turned black.
"Don't lie to me!" he growled. "Those memories... are not mine!"
"Chris... Calm down, please." Ritsuko pleaded, tears forming in her eyes.
"M, mother..." Chris whispered. His eyes and hand returned to normal for a brief moment, in which a tear fell from his eye. His Angel DNA flared back up and he asked again, but only to one of them.
"Mother... where is father?" he was breathing heavily, as if he was sick. "Please..."
Gendo reached under his desk quickly and pulled out a pistol. He fired off a few bullets at Chris, who didn't have time to raise the AT Field, which he had used earlier to prevent Misato from shooting him. Six bullets pierced his chest and he staggered further back with each impact. He fell to his knees, the expression on his face was one of sorrow as a trickle of blood ran from the corner of his mouth and hit the floor with a tiny splat. He tried to stand but fell to the floor. Commander Gendo Ikari, with a triumphant grin, walked to the sprawling boy and put the gun to head.
"I thought you would remain loyal to us... I guess I was wrong..."
Chris looked up, the silver gleam in his eyes still bright. He smiled and couched up a bit more blood.
"I am loyal... Loyal to Nerv, to the team... to Rei... but not to you."
He laughed as Gendo pulled the trigger. A yellow hexagonal flash appeared, and Gendo Ikari was ripped apart in a shower of gore. The last expression he had, was confusion.
"You... Seele's lap dog... you are Guilty." Chris whispered and passed out.
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Epilogue.
A scream echoed through the NERV command centre, a woman's scream. It came from Central Dogma's command centre. Ritsuko Akagi, NERV's greatest scientist was holding the motionless body of her son. She didn't know how to respond except for crying. She had lived with Chris for quite a while, but not as a mother... as a guardian. She wished he had known sooner, but the circumstances prevented her from telling him. Every day she felt like confessing, but never did so.
A medical team came running into the room with a stretcher and resus kit. They hooked him up to it and put him on the stretcher. Maya, Misato and Fuyutski began to wake up, with no knowledge of what had happened. They awoke to see Chris being carried out on a stretcher, with a distraught Ritsuko holding his hand and Gendo Ikari, splattered all over the room. Of course... they didn't know it was the commander.
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GuyverX53's final words:
Well, that concludes the "Old Loves, New Loves" quartet. I hope you enjoyed it. Series two, entitled;
"Neo-Evangelion X"
Will start where this left off, but don't expect it for a while.
That's all from me. (points to himself)
And that's all from him. (Points to his cat, who is always watching him when he is writing)
Goodbye... for now.
R+R PEOPLE!!!
Please R+R.
GuyverX53
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Ritsuko, Misato ad Rei sat in the X-Lab near the plug, which Chris was in. Chris had just gone berserk, destroyed Seele's Eva mercilessly, and them collapsed. It was all very strange, but Ritsuko began to explain.
"This is top secret... I am not meant to tell you this." she wiped here eyes and continued. "The injections I'm giving Chris are to keep him alive."
"Why? What's wrong with him?" Misato wondered. She looked at Ritsuko with pity. She had taken him in and looked after him like a son and now this. She could understand her feelings, because she went through the same things with Shinji and Auska.
"Chris..." Ritsuko began. "Isn't completely human."
Rei looked up at the scientist with a questioning look on her face. She wiped her tears away and sniffed.
"What... what do you mean?" Rei whispered. Ritsuko swung round and positioned herself at the computer.
"See for yourself..." she pressed a button and a screen came up with a cross section of Chris on the screen. "He's rather like you Rei..."
"Like me?" Rei swallowed.
"Yes. You know you are a clone of Shinji's mother don't you?"
"Y... Yes..." she lowered her head. Misato sat there open-mouthed.
"Chris is a clone?" she said shocked. "Of who?"
Ritsuko looked deeply saddened and guilty. She pressed another key on the keyboard and a chart appeared.
"What the hell? You!?" Misato yelled loudly. Ritsuko could only lower her head.
"Yes..." she cried.
"And what's all this classified shit!?" Misato shouted again.
"I... Can't..." Ritsuko wept.
"Tell me!!"
"... I... Not authorised..."
Misato slapped her friend hard across the cheek, leaving a bright red mark.
"What is the other 25%?" she said again, more calmly.
"The other data is..." she began. "It is... Adam."
Rei listened in horror to what Ritsuko had said. Chris was part angel. She stood up and ran out of the room in floods of tears.
"Rei!" Misato called after her.
"Let her be alone..." Ritsuko swallowed back a yell. She walked over to the plug and looked upon the prone form inside.
"My son..." she brushed the glass roughly where his hair was and let the tears flow down the smooth exterior of the plug.
Misato put her hand on Ritsuko's shoulder and sighed deeply. She looked at the unconscious pilot in the cage and spoke.
"How." she stated. It wasn't a question. Ritsuko looked up at her, pain in her eyes.
"It was a year ago. We were experimenting with the X-Technology." she began. "But none of the test pilots could synch, not even a dummy plug."
"So, where does he fit into this?" Misato whispered.
"We... We decided to see if we could make another like Rei. We had many failed attempts, Yui Ikari's DNA would not produce anything different than Rei's DNA."
"So you had to use different DNA?" Misato asked.
"Y, yes... we tried DNA from the commander, even you... but all failed."
"You used MY DNA!?"
"Yes, that routine blood test last year... we tested everyone. But mine... was the only one which could bond with Angel DNA."
"Why yours?"
"We don't know... but we went ahead anyway." she motioned to Chris.
"This is the result..."
Misato looked into the plug again, the needles had retracted and it looked as though Chris was sleeping. He was breathing slowly and every so often his eyelids flickered. Misato ran a hand through her hair.
"What happened to make him like this?"
"Well... when we created him... there were a few problems..." Ritsuko cried. "We had to accelerate his growth so that he would be old enough to pilot efficiently, so we had to... had to... Implant false memories."
"What!?"
"We had to implant a lot of data into his mind, and that caused problems... the first of which are his fits. The memories of his parents are fake, and when his thoughts cross to their fake death, his mind rejects the implantation."
"I see..." Misato thoughtfully said. "That's why he has medication?"
"Yes... but lately it hasn't been working, and the only thing that calms his fits is me. They used one of my Eggs to create him, and his Angel power reaches out to that and it somehow calms him." she looked thoughtful for a second. "I think that Rei also has some effect on him..."
"What's the second thing?" Misato pressed. Ritsuko looked at the floor.
"Mental Degradation."
"What does that mean?"
"It means... that... he will die." Ritsuko collapsed onto the floor and cried into her hands. Misato sat next to her and put an arm around her shoulders.
"Can you prevent it?"
"N, no... I cant..." she wailed. Misato patted her on the back caringly and nodded her to go on. "The only... thing that can... s, save him... is..."
"Yes...?"
"A new formula. But... nothing works..." she cried some more and buried her face in her friends shoulder.
"Its alright... We'll find something." Misato soothed. "We have too..."
Rei lay on her bed, tears flowing freely out of her red eyes and wetting the pillow. Her face was red and swollen from crying. She thought of Chris, and how, of al things... he was an Angel.
"Is that the reason I love him? Is his very presence reaching out to me?" she wondered. She buried her face into her pillow, wetting it even more. "No... I love him because of who he is."
She couldn't stop thinking about the Eva battle. The way he had gone berserk and ripped Seele's Eva to pieces.
"It wasn't like him..." she sobbed into the pillow. "He is usually so calm..."
She fell asleep in tears, he sobs subsided as sleep overtook her mind. She dreamt of waking up and everything being all right.
The next morning, a knocking at her door woke her.
"Go away!" She shouted groggily. The knocking continued. "Leave me alone!"
There came another knock at the door. Rei got up and adjusted her crumpled uniform. She staggered to the door and opened it.
"I said, go...!" she started to shout as she saw who it was. "Chris!"
She launched herself at him and she knocked him over. They both tumbled into the hallway, Rei landing on top of Chris.
She showered kisses on his face before he stopped her. He held her close to him and put his arms around her neck. He held her for quite a while then moved his hand so that they were on her shoulders. He stopped hugging her and gently held her at arms length.
"Rei... I have to tell you something." he bean quietly. Rei looked him in the eyes. She reached up and caressed his cheek with her hand.
"I know what you are." she whispered. "I heard it all today."
Chris sat there looking confused.
"What?" Chris asked. a bit bewildered.
"That you are a clone. Of Ritsuko and Adam." Rei looked into his eyes again and then to her horror, realised that he wasn't aware of it.
"W, what? I...." Chris began. He suddenly felt a stab of pain in his head. "Ahhhhh!" he screamed. He leapt up and away from Rei. "Its... a lie!!! It... I had a family! NOOOOO!"
He bent over clutching his head. Rei rushed to his side but as she neared him, he held his hand out to stop her.
"Don't come near me!" he coughed.
"But...I..." Rei managed, starting to cry. Chris looked up at her and she saw his eyes had changed. They wee no longer his kind and gentle eyes, but confused and strangely alone. Chris let go of his head and ran off down the corridor. Rei ran after him and caught up to him as he reached the un-open lift.
"Rei...Stay away." He warned.
"But Chris.." she slowly walked towards him. She got within a few paces before it happened. He screamed.
"NOOO!" the cry came out as more of a roar, his hand flew up and emitted a pulse of white light. Rei was thrown against a nearby wall and the last thing she heard before lapsing into unconsciousness was;
"Rei... I wanted to tell you I loved you and wanted to be with you forever. I'm sorry."
An hour later, the alarm sirens went off. The buildings of Tokyo-3 started to descend into the ground, the usual during an attack. But where was the angel?
"I can't confirm the target!" Maya reported. "There's nothing out there!"
"Maybe its in here?" Came a voice from the door. Everyone looked round to see Chris in his golden plug suit, but he seemed different.
"What do you mean?" inquired Maya. Ritsuko and Misato shared a knowing glance. Chris wandered over to her console and initiated an inside scan of the base. "That's what I mean."
Maya looked at the results with a look of fear and amazement. She tapped a few keys.
"My god! It's in here! But... it isn't!" She suddenly felt very afraid and looked at the smiling pilot next to her. "Where is it?"
"Here." Chris smirked, pointing at himself.
"Don't be absurd!" Maya blurted. "Your not an Angel, are you?"
Chris put his hand in front of her face. It glowed white.
"Sleep... you are innocent." he whispered. Maya slumped forward onto the control panel, sound asleep. The other technicians had fled already, which left Misato, Ritsuko, Fuyutski and Gendo Ikari left in the room. He turned to fuyutski.
"You are innocent in this matter." he held his glowing hand out and pointed to the man, who instantly fell asleep.
"Chris... what are you doing!?" Misato shouted at him. He could hear the fear in her voice.
"It is none of your concern."
"Like hell it isn't!" she screamed. She pulled her gun out and trained it on his head. "Don't move!"
"Misato... You are a good person, there fore innocent." he was about to send her to sleep...
"Chris... I'm sorry," she whispered as she pulled the trigger. She was sure she saw Chris's face return to its normal kind natured look, as she fired, but she couldn't be sure.
A hexagonal flash appeared as the bullet was disintegrated, a few centimetres before it hit its target.
"Misato Katsuragi..." Chris said. "Sleep." he sent her to sleep and turned to face Ritsuko and Gendo. "Where is my father?"
The control room of Central Dogma was quiet. Maya Ibuki, Misato Katsuragi and Colonel Fuyutski lay in a deep sleep while Chris cornered Ritsuko Akagi and Gendo Ikari. His right hand was glowing white and his eyes had changed to a bright silver colour.
"Pilot Chris..." Gendo began. "Your parents died in England, don't you remember?"
Chris snarled like an animal at his words. The glow on his hand turned black.
"Don't lie to me!" he growled. "Those memories... are not mine!"
"Chris... Calm down, please." Ritsuko pleaded, tears forming in her eyes.
"M, mother..." Chris whispered. His eyes and hand returned to normal for a brief moment, in which a tear fell from his eye. His Angel DNA flared back up and he asked again, but only to one of them.
"Mother... where is father?" he was breathing heavily, as if he was sick. "Please..."
Gendo reached under his desk quickly and pulled out a pistol. He fired off a few bullets at Chris, who didn't have time to raise the AT Field, which he had used earlier to prevent Misato from shooting him. Six bullets pierced his chest and he staggered further back with each impact. He fell to his knees, the expression on his face was one of sorrow as a trickle of blood ran from the corner of his mouth and hit the floor with a tiny splat. He tried to stand but fell to the floor. Commander Gendo Ikari, with a triumphant grin, walked to the sprawling boy and put the gun to head.
"I thought you would remain loyal to us... I guess I was wrong..."
Chris looked up, the silver gleam in his eyes still bright. He smiled and couched up a bit more blood.
"I am loyal... Loyal to Nerv, to the team... to Rei... but not to you."
He laughed as Gendo pulled the trigger. A yellow hexagonal flash appeared, and Gendo Ikari was ripped apart in a shower of gore. The last expression he had, was confusion.
"You... Seele's lap dog... you are Guilty." Chris whispered and passed out.
End
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Epilogue.
A scream echoed through the NERV command centre, a woman's scream. It came from Central Dogma's command centre. Ritsuko Akagi, NERV's greatest scientist was holding the motionless body of her son. She didn't know how to respond except for crying. She had lived with Chris for quite a while, but not as a mother... as a guardian. She wished he had known sooner, but the circumstances prevented her from telling him. Every day she felt like confessing, but never did so.
A medical team came running into the room with a stretcher and resus kit. They hooked him up to it and put him on the stretcher. Maya, Misato and Fuyutski began to wake up, with no knowledge of what had happened. They awoke to see Chris being carried out on a stretcher, with a distraught Ritsuko holding his hand and Gendo Ikari, splattered all over the room. Of course... they didn't know it was the commander.
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GuyverX53's final words:
Well, that concludes the "Old Loves, New Loves" quartet. I hope you enjoyed it. Series two, entitled;
"Neo-Evangelion X"
Will start where this left off, but don't expect it for a while.
That's all from me. (points to himself)
And that's all from him. (Points to his cat, who is always watching him when he is writing)
Goodbye... for now.
R+R PEOPLE!!!
