Evangelion: The Dawn Of Fear
Chapter Three : Red Nero/The Theory Of Dreams
By The Critical Doctor X
"Here, I'll drive," Grant said getting into the seat of Misato's car. Misato threw him the keys and he slammed them into the ignition as she sat down in the seat next to him and the children sat down in the back with Shinji in the middle. He slammed into fifth and peeled out onto the highway.
"So, Grant," Asuka said leaning forward from the back. "How did you get to be in your position?"
"It's a long story," Grant said, flooring the gas and screaming through some lights just changing to red with a laugh.
"Well come on, we want to hear it!" Misato agreed with everyone else in the car.
"It all began years ago. My father and mother worked for the American NERV and were part of the south pole expedition before the second impact. My mother was killed in an accident when I was only little and my father brought me up the American way before he was killed by terrorists when I was ten. I remember the day well, we were playing at the local park when suddenly three masked men drove up in a car and got out. They were holding European-built machine guns as they ran up to my father. 'Ha ha, look at this American swine!' The leader of them said and kept his mask on. My father told me to run, I didn't want to I wanted to stay and help him fight but he made me and as I made it to the nearest trees I saw the leader and he pulled out his pistol and all three of them began blowing my father up. Suddenly a siren sounded and the police showed up. The three cowards ran back to their car and escaped. I went back to find my father bleeding and lying on the floor. 'Avenge me, son!' he said with tears in his eyes. 'Find those bastards and make them pay in blood.' 'I will, father' I promised him. 'by this day I pledge that I will find those men that killed you and dedicate my life to making them feel the awesome hell of my vengeance before I destroy them'."
Grant looked up to see everyone in the car wiping away a tear. Even through the mirror he could see Asuka and even Rei had been touched by the story.
"Grant... that's so sad. I'm so sorry!" Misato cried and everyone agreed.
"It's okay, I forgive you," Grant replied smiling before continuing with his tale. "But that's only the start. After that I made good on my promise and decided to find out everything I could about my father's killers. I know he was killed because he worked for the NERV so I began training to join up. I began training weights, wrestling, street-fighting technique, anything to make me ready for the task. I was specially allowed to join the NERV security a year later at eleven because of my experience and I continued my training more. I designed a special extra gravity chamber that I could train in to give me the edge and within two months they had promoted me to head of the regional security because of my extra training. I began to find out more about the terrorists and their European fundors and sympathyzors. Then I began leading missions to destroy terrorist bases, but I could never find the same men who had killed my father, it seems they had gone into hiding in Europe somewhere. That was true and we tracked him down to Morocco soon afterwards but the europeans allowed him to slip through their fingers. The man in charge of the european security forces was... Ulysses Strong!"
"And Ulysses Strong is part of the security team here today?!" Misato shouted in shock.
"Yep!" Grant said. "But don't worry, I'm on the case, and I've been reassured by the Japanese NERV intelligence committee that there's no immediate threat although I'll be keeping my eyes peeled."
"Well that's good to know," Misato said. Grant brought the car to a steady halt by the side of the road next to a bar.
"Hey, what are you stopping for?" Asuka asked from the back.
"Are you kidding? Grant just read my mind there," Misato said and got out. Grant got out and they all went into the bar.
"We've got a couple of hours before we need to be at the ceremony, so the drinks are on me!" Grant shouted and they all took a table. A waiter came over and asked them for their orders.
"I'll have a beer," Misato said.
"Damn, beers all round!" Grant ordered.
"I'm gonna have to see some ID" the waiter asked. Grant frowned and stood up, towering over the quivering waiter and pulling back his shirt so the man could see his gun.
"What was that?"
"Nothing, sir! Five beers!" The waiter scuttled off like a dirty roach as Grant slammed back into his head next to Asuka and across from Misato and punched the air. Misato laughed with him. While they were waiting for their beers a conversation was started.
"So what do you think will happen today?" Asuka asked Grant.
"I don't know. I'd like to think it'll be nothing but that's not what I'm here for. Especially after what happened to my plane on the way in."
"Yeah, I still can't believe you came out of that without a scratch!" Shinji said.
"Ah, it's nothing, I've been through worse than that."
"Really?" Misato said and leaned forward resting her chin on her hands as she looked at Grant. "Like what?"
"I'll tell you sometime," Grant promised seeing that the beers were ready. They all drank up.
"That'll be 3750 yen please," the waiter said coming back. Everyone looked at Grant.
"Well looky here!" Grant said showing his big wallet around. "Do you take dollars?"
Misato paid and then they all got back on the road with Grant at the wheel. They were making their way to the base of the newly opened towers the Tokyo-3 Needles when suddenly a beat up looking car slammed into their lane of traffic. Grant scanned the plate and recognised it as one of the cars that had been reported missing. It didn't take much to work out what was going on.
"It's a car bomb!" Grant shouted, flooring the gas. "I'm going to run it off the road, everyone hang on!" He screamed across and slammed the back of the car, it skidded off the road and towards the side of the bridge. "Hold on to your asses!" He sideswiped the car and it smashed through the barrier and went into the river below where it sank immeidately. Everyone began cheering for Grant and congratulationg him! He stopped the car and everyone got out and looked down.
"Wow, that was some fancy driving!" Misato said.
"That was great, Blades, thanks for saving us!" Asuka said, grabbing his coat sleeve.
"All part of the job! Are you okay?" he asked everyone.
Everyone nodded. "Are you okay, Grant?" Misato asked, and held him.
"Yeah, I reckon they'd have blown us all up if I'd have given them a few more seconds. We must have been the target." Suddenly his phone began to ring, he reached in and answered. "Grant Kavanagh!"
"Blades? This is the American delegation, we've just heard, are you okay?"
"Yeah, I iced their asses. Watch out, there might be more bombers out there. I don't think today's going to go as planned, let me get there with Misato and everyone and we'll take it from there!"
Fifteen minutes later he was at the Tokyo-3 needles. They were three linked buildings of five hundred and fifty five floors to signify the three ages of man and also the Man, God and Eva. A ring of police were at the base, also helecopters flew around shining lights on the nearby streets and checkpoints. Snipers looked out fromt he roofs.
Grant came up to a roadblock and was met with an armed cop who bent over. He had a crooked nose and small eyes. Hair could be seen under his hat.
"ID!"
Grant flashed his card and was waved through. He got out at the doors with everyone else and a paid man drove the car away to the secret underground car parks.
"OKay everyone, this is for real," Misato said to the three children.
"I've got your backs, everyone," Grant said and smiled.
"Thanks, Blades!" Misato, Asuka, Rei and Shinji said as they walked past into the unified lobby. The main crowd of delegates was gathered, Grant could just make out Ulysses Strong and his boss, Clint Sabbath over towards the other side.
"Hey there!" Ritsuko and her group shouted Misato and co across. Grant followed them, tracking all movement as he reported in. "What took you so long?"
"Are you kidding? We had to stop for a beer, courtesy of Grant here!" Misato said, grabbing Grant by the arm.
"Grant? Grant Kavanagh?" Fuyutski said, stepping forward. "From the American NERV?"
"Wait, wasn't your plane attacked?" Kaji said ,stepping forward.
"Yes, that's me," Grant said, looking Fuyutski and Kaji straight level in the eye, having only to look down a bit. "I had to bring the plane in myself, but fortunately the attacking terrorists killed only the pilots. I managed to kill them myself."
"We could use someone like you at NERV HQ, you know? Ever think about it?" Fututski said.
"Well, I could think of some reasons," Grant Kavanagh said, looking around Misato, Ritsuko and Asuka and Maya.
Their conversation ended on this.
--End Of Chapter 3
Chapter Three : Red Nero/The Theory Of Dreams
By The Critical Doctor X
"Here, I'll drive," Grant said getting into the seat of Misato's car. Misato threw him the keys and he slammed them into the ignition as she sat down in the seat next to him and the children sat down in the back with Shinji in the middle. He slammed into fifth and peeled out onto the highway.
"So, Grant," Asuka said leaning forward from the back. "How did you get to be in your position?"
"It's a long story," Grant said, flooring the gas and screaming through some lights just changing to red with a laugh.
"Well come on, we want to hear it!" Misato agreed with everyone else in the car.
"It all began years ago. My father and mother worked for the American NERV and were part of the south pole expedition before the second impact. My mother was killed in an accident when I was only little and my father brought me up the American way before he was killed by terrorists when I was ten. I remember the day well, we were playing at the local park when suddenly three masked men drove up in a car and got out. They were holding European-built machine guns as they ran up to my father. 'Ha ha, look at this American swine!' The leader of them said and kept his mask on. My father told me to run, I didn't want to I wanted to stay and help him fight but he made me and as I made it to the nearest trees I saw the leader and he pulled out his pistol and all three of them began blowing my father up. Suddenly a siren sounded and the police showed up. The three cowards ran back to their car and escaped. I went back to find my father bleeding and lying on the floor. 'Avenge me, son!' he said with tears in his eyes. 'Find those bastards and make them pay in blood.' 'I will, father' I promised him. 'by this day I pledge that I will find those men that killed you and dedicate my life to making them feel the awesome hell of my vengeance before I destroy them'."
Grant looked up to see everyone in the car wiping away a tear. Even through the mirror he could see Asuka and even Rei had been touched by the story.
"Grant... that's so sad. I'm so sorry!" Misato cried and everyone agreed.
"It's okay, I forgive you," Grant replied smiling before continuing with his tale. "But that's only the start. After that I made good on my promise and decided to find out everything I could about my father's killers. I know he was killed because he worked for the NERV so I began training to join up. I began training weights, wrestling, street-fighting technique, anything to make me ready for the task. I was specially allowed to join the NERV security a year later at eleven because of my experience and I continued my training more. I designed a special extra gravity chamber that I could train in to give me the edge and within two months they had promoted me to head of the regional security because of my extra training. I began to find out more about the terrorists and their European fundors and sympathyzors. Then I began leading missions to destroy terrorist bases, but I could never find the same men who had killed my father, it seems they had gone into hiding in Europe somewhere. That was true and we tracked him down to Morocco soon afterwards but the europeans allowed him to slip through their fingers. The man in charge of the european security forces was... Ulysses Strong!"
"And Ulysses Strong is part of the security team here today?!" Misato shouted in shock.
"Yep!" Grant said. "But don't worry, I'm on the case, and I've been reassured by the Japanese NERV intelligence committee that there's no immediate threat although I'll be keeping my eyes peeled."
"Well that's good to know," Misato said. Grant brought the car to a steady halt by the side of the road next to a bar.
"Hey, what are you stopping for?" Asuka asked from the back.
"Are you kidding? Grant just read my mind there," Misato said and got out. Grant got out and they all went into the bar.
"We've got a couple of hours before we need to be at the ceremony, so the drinks are on me!" Grant shouted and they all took a table. A waiter came over and asked them for their orders.
"I'll have a beer," Misato said.
"Damn, beers all round!" Grant ordered.
"I'm gonna have to see some ID" the waiter asked. Grant frowned and stood up, towering over the quivering waiter and pulling back his shirt so the man could see his gun.
"What was that?"
"Nothing, sir! Five beers!" The waiter scuttled off like a dirty roach as Grant slammed back into his head next to Asuka and across from Misato and punched the air. Misato laughed with him. While they were waiting for their beers a conversation was started.
"So what do you think will happen today?" Asuka asked Grant.
"I don't know. I'd like to think it'll be nothing but that's not what I'm here for. Especially after what happened to my plane on the way in."
"Yeah, I still can't believe you came out of that without a scratch!" Shinji said.
"Ah, it's nothing, I've been through worse than that."
"Really?" Misato said and leaned forward resting her chin on her hands as she looked at Grant. "Like what?"
"I'll tell you sometime," Grant promised seeing that the beers were ready. They all drank up.
"That'll be 3750 yen please," the waiter said coming back. Everyone looked at Grant.
"Well looky here!" Grant said showing his big wallet around. "Do you take dollars?"
Misato paid and then they all got back on the road with Grant at the wheel. They were making their way to the base of the newly opened towers the Tokyo-3 Needles when suddenly a beat up looking car slammed into their lane of traffic. Grant scanned the plate and recognised it as one of the cars that had been reported missing. It didn't take much to work out what was going on.
"It's a car bomb!" Grant shouted, flooring the gas. "I'm going to run it off the road, everyone hang on!" He screamed across and slammed the back of the car, it skidded off the road and towards the side of the bridge. "Hold on to your asses!" He sideswiped the car and it smashed through the barrier and went into the river below where it sank immeidately. Everyone began cheering for Grant and congratulationg him! He stopped the car and everyone got out and looked down.
"Wow, that was some fancy driving!" Misato said.
"That was great, Blades, thanks for saving us!" Asuka said, grabbing his coat sleeve.
"All part of the job! Are you okay?" he asked everyone.
Everyone nodded. "Are you okay, Grant?" Misato asked, and held him.
"Yeah, I reckon they'd have blown us all up if I'd have given them a few more seconds. We must have been the target." Suddenly his phone began to ring, he reached in and answered. "Grant Kavanagh!"
"Blades? This is the American delegation, we've just heard, are you okay?"
"Yeah, I iced their asses. Watch out, there might be more bombers out there. I don't think today's going to go as planned, let me get there with Misato and everyone and we'll take it from there!"
Fifteen minutes later he was at the Tokyo-3 needles. They were three linked buildings of five hundred and fifty five floors to signify the three ages of man and also the Man, God and Eva. A ring of police were at the base, also helecopters flew around shining lights on the nearby streets and checkpoints. Snipers looked out fromt he roofs.
Grant came up to a roadblock and was met with an armed cop who bent over. He had a crooked nose and small eyes. Hair could be seen under his hat.
"ID!"
Grant flashed his card and was waved through. He got out at the doors with everyone else and a paid man drove the car away to the secret underground car parks.
"OKay everyone, this is for real," Misato said to the three children.
"I've got your backs, everyone," Grant said and smiled.
"Thanks, Blades!" Misato, Asuka, Rei and Shinji said as they walked past into the unified lobby. The main crowd of delegates was gathered, Grant could just make out Ulysses Strong and his boss, Clint Sabbath over towards the other side.
"Hey there!" Ritsuko and her group shouted Misato and co across. Grant followed them, tracking all movement as he reported in. "What took you so long?"
"Are you kidding? We had to stop for a beer, courtesy of Grant here!" Misato said, grabbing Grant by the arm.
"Grant? Grant Kavanagh?" Fuyutski said, stepping forward. "From the American NERV?"
"Wait, wasn't your plane attacked?" Kaji said ,stepping forward.
"Yes, that's me," Grant said, looking Fuyutski and Kaji straight level in the eye, having only to look down a bit. "I had to bring the plane in myself, but fortunately the attacking terrorists killed only the pilots. I managed to kill them myself."
"We could use someone like you at NERV HQ, you know? Ever think about it?" Fututski said.
"Well, I could think of some reasons," Grant Kavanagh said, looking around Misato, Ritsuko and Asuka and Maya.
Their conversation ended on this.
--End Of Chapter 3
