Neon Genesis Evangelion: Neo Angel

Copyright Notice: I don't own Neon Genesis Evangelion or any related characters, GAINAX does.

Quick Notes: I got Chapter 3 up pretty quickly. If you read the last chapter you'll see I tried to add some originality to my battles (Ex. Rei's new "senses" and the new Angels color coding the Evas) And Kaworu and Arael are in this Chapter. So is Kaji, well his, you know if you read the last chapter. No mecha battle this Chapter, but there is in the next. And about the relationship being implied in my fic, I'll leave it as a mystery know but it's actually predestined. (I have an Eva couple site) So you'll figure out if it's S/R or S/A over time.

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Neon Genesis Evangelion: Neo Angel

Chapter III: For the Mysteries

"Goodbye, Misato-san!"

"Goodbye, Asuka."

Asuka left the apartment room. Shinji abruptly ran out the door without saying goodbye. It was an unusual thing that was now a usual thing. Misato sighed at the thought of Shinji never being able to trust her again, which now became a usual thing. Misato walked into the bathroom. She removed her clothing, and turned the bath water on. As the tub filled, she got in, and sat down. The water was nice and warm. Misato was finally relaxed.

"Hey, it looks nice in there!"

Misato covered up her breasts. "You!"

Kaji appeared in front of the bathtub. "Don't throw a bar of soap at me, you'll only end up staining more of the walls."

"I'll throw what ever I want at you!"

"Looks like bodily hygiene always comes first."

Kaji stared at Misato as she held her breasts. Misato was in a rage. "I want you out!"

"Why? It looks nice in there. I bet the water's warm."

"You're not here, you're not here, you're not here, YOU'RE NOT HERE! Kaji Ryouji is dead!"

"Of course I am."

"I wish I were the one who killed you."

"Well, someone beat you to it."

Misato was angrier than ever. Kaji gave her a complacent stare. "You're not mad, are you?"

"I want you to get out!" Misato screamed.

"But it'll be just like old times. Kaji and Misato . . . Misato and Kaji . . ."

"Damnit I hate those times . . ."

Kaji now knelt down next to the bathtub. He placed his hand on Misato's shoulder. "Don't touch me," she said protectively.

"You won't even feel it . . . you only see and hear me." Kaji now "rested" his hand on Misato's shoulder.

"It feels a little warm."

"Just trust me, Misato. Okay?"

"Okay . . ."

"I also promise I won't seduce you," said Kaji with a smile on his face.

Misato let out a short laugh. "You better not."

"I can't, anyway."

"Right, you're dead. I should thank whoever did that."

"Say what you want, Misato, but you need me around."

"Need you around?"

"Misato, I know how you're feeling right now."

"You don't know the half of it."

"Just put your trust in me."

"Into a dead guy? I don't even know if you're really here or if I'm paranoid."

"Just forget about everything else and put your trust in me."

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In a World farther from Earth, where Angels are forced to tread after death, Angels are forced to take form like lilum.

Kaworu sat down in the midst of nothingness. He floated in the air and rested. But there was no smile on his face. Soon, a light skinned, light green haired female passed by. He didn't notice it was Arael at first. "Hello, Nagisa."

"Hmm? Oh, Arael, I haven't seen Bardiel or Leliel in a while. Do you think you might know where they are?"

"No, I haven't seen them either. What do I do if I find them?"

"Nothing."

Arael turned and began to walk away.

"Arael." The boy called out for her with an intent stare.

"Yes, Nagisa?"

"Did you feel a presence . . . leave this place?"

"Actually, yes."

"He's gone back." Both Kaworu and Arael turn their attention to the one who said that, Armisael.

"Who has gone back?" Kaworu demanded.

"Bardiel. He's taken over a human body that works for a group known as "Seele"."

"What!?" Kaworu screamed. "What are his intensions?"

"I do not know . . . but he told us all that he will bring glory to us all!"

Kaworu floated away. He couldn't believe Bardiel was so desperate to go back and take revenge. And what happened to Leliel? Arael watched Kaworu float away. She then turned to Armisael. "Tell me."

"Tell you what?"

"How? How did Bardiel do it? How did he go back?"

"I do not know. He was in a rush to go back. You would've been able to ask Leliel or Ramiel, but they've somehow gone back already."

Arael sighed. She then continued her search for a way for Tabris . . . Kaworu to go back.

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"How convenient, reporting damage to the commander," said a miserable Ritsuko.

"What's so bad about it?" said the voice coming from her head.

"It's the commander . . . I can't believe I'm talking to myself."

"You're not talking to yourself, you're talking to me. Tsuroki."

"You are I."

"No . . . we're two different people spawned from the same shell."

"Oh, just please shut up. And please don't talk while I'm speaking with the Commander. Damn, I can't believe I'm telling the voices in my head abusing my mouth to shut up."

Ritsuko now stepped into Commander Gendou Ikari's office. "Sir, I have a damage report."

"Come in, Doctor Akagi."

"Unit 01 has suffered little damage. Unit 02 has major damage in the legs. Unit 04 has suffered no damage."

"The damage is not as bad as originally thought."

"That is correct, Commander."

"Excellent. You are dismissed, Doctor."

Ritsuko turned around and walked toward the door. She then abruptly stopped. She again continued toward the door, but then stopped. She walked, then stopped again.

"Is . . . something wrong, Doctor Akagi?"

"No, Commander. I'm just fine." Ritsuko stepped out of the room, and began walking down the hall.

"What was I doing?"

"You want the guy, so go after him."

"You! You stopped me every time! How the hell can a voice in my head control my body movements?"

"We're spawned from the same shell. You only think I'm an odd voice in the back of your head that's caused by paranoia. I'm really a person with a personality that can control your body parts."

"J-Just never do it again!"

"But that won't be any fun."

"Just don't!"

"Alright, I won't."

Ritsuko continued her work in Nerv. In about an hour, she took a break, and began to drink a cup of coffee while watching the incredibly ugly gray Unit 04.

"Hello, `friend'," sarcastically said Misato.

"Good morning, Major Katsuragi."

"What did you need me for this early in the morning?"

"Actually, it was something Rei brought to my attention yesterday."

"It's 1st Lieutenant Ayanami. We should call her by her rank."

"Whatever. 1st Lieutenant Ayanami was able to lure the Angel away with the leg of Unit 02. And Unit 02 was the first to be attacked by the Angel."

"So it made Unit 02 its target."

"But notice how the Angel acted. We haven't encountered one that attacks a particular Unit. It was like that Angel yesterday rushed toward anything red, like Unit 02."

"So, you're telling me that this Angel targeted Unit 02, as if it were sent her to destroy that one Eva."

"Exactly."

"You're even more paranoid than I thought, even for a woman who talks to a computer."

"Would you please shut up?"

"Why? I'm not the paranoid one. You're calling these Angels `smart'."

"Angels are a lot like humans, they are intelligent, maybe even more intelligent than we are."

Misato walked away from Ritsuko and headed toward where Unit 01 was kept. She stood on the bridge and watched the Eva.

"Ouch. What a fight." Kaji enigmatically appeared next to Misato and began to walk with her.

"Shut up."

Kaji now stood on the head of Unit 01. "Sometimes I forget how disgustingly ugly they are. And we trust them to save the World."

"We trust the pilots."

Kaji now disappears, and reappears on the shoulder of Unit 01. "I think we trust the Units more than the pilots."

"What makes you say that?"

"We say we trust the pilots to fight the Angels. But, we're really asking them to get into these Evas so they synch with them, and we really leave the rest to the Eva Units.

Kaji now vanished, and reappeared next to Misato. Misato began to stare into the deep face of Unit 01. "You can think what you want . . . and I still don't see why I'm the only one that can see you."

"You're a lot like Rei."

"Like Rei?"

"Neither of you can fly. You both can't give yourself wings."

Misato was a little confused but figured that Kaji wasn't being literal. "So?"

"That's why you can see me."

"Because I can't fly?"

"Because you don't know how to."

"And that's why?"

"That isn't the only reason. We both had common goals. Yet, we fail. We're just in the way, Misato."

"I refuse to believe that."

"But it's the truth. And you can't ignore the truth."

". . ."

"The truth hurts, too."

Misato sighed. "Just because I can see and talk to you, doesn't mean I want you around all the time."

"I know."

"Then why are you here?!"

"Because you were the one who brought me here in the first place, Misato. You need me. I'm your guardian angel."

". . ."

"Just trust me, Misato. I'll make sure that you'll be able to fly."

Misato again had nothing to say.

"Well, looks like I have to go. The Angel will be here soon." Kaji slowly began to vanish.

"An Angel?"

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As the sensei continued to his lesson, Shinji did nothing but rest his head on his desk. He kept on thinking of the same thing. `Is Ayanami right? Are we nothing but mutants? What are we? What are we really? I'm an Angel, part Angel.' The class got even more boring every second. Shinji paid no attention to anything other than his feelings.

`No . . . Ayanami is wrong, we're just like everyone else, we won't be neglected. People don't even know what we really are.' Shinji then clears his head, and remembers the time he first found out Rei was an Angel. `I neglected her . . . I had no courage . . .I couldn't speak to her after I discovered she was an Angel. She said we were called "Evangels".'

A message now came up on Shinji's computer screen. `Will you shut up?'

Shinji immediately wrote back. `Who is this?'

`Who do you think, baka.'

Shinji immediately knew it was Asuka. `What are you talking about?'

`You're beginning to talk out loud. Can't you shut up for one minute?'

`Sorry, Asuka.'

The exchange of messages ended there. But then, Shinji decided to send a message to Asuka. `Have you ever felt as if you were different?'

`What?'

`Have you ever felt different from a person like Hikari or anyone else?'

`No.'

`Oh, okay.'

Asuka began to talk to herself. "Stupid jerk, it's just like him to ask stupid questions."

A new message now appeared on Asuka's screen. `Asuka, it's me, Hikari'

`Oh, hi Hikari.'

`You know, I really think that you and Ikari would make a nice couple.'

`And bring myself down to his level? You've got to joking.'

Shinji continued to live in his World. He now began to stare at Rei. `How can she stay so calm? She knows what she is, but she stays so calm. It's like she doesn't even care.'

Shinji now entered a message into the computer. He hesitated about sending it. Before he sent it, a message came in. `You do not look well.'

Shinji types a new message into the computer. `Ayanami?'

`How is it possible that you knew it was me?'

`I know your use of words.'

`I see.'

`Why did you send me a message?'

`I glanced at you. You do not look well.'

`It's just that I really can't talk to Touji and Kensuke about anything. I miss Kaworu. He knew what to say.'

`But Kaworu died so you could live, Ikari. He wanted the best for you.'

`I guess you're right.'

Soon, school ended. Shinji stepped out and began his trek home. The sunny day would soon by a starry night. A beginning and an end. Shinji wished he had died, that he had ended, that he would enter his starry night. Life disgusted Shinji so much he could hardly stand it anymore.

"Hi!"

Shinji stared down at the little girl in front of him, Schala. "Who are you? I've never seen you before."

"I'm Schala. This is a really big city. What's your name?"

"I'm Shinji, Shinji Ikari."

"You're big and cute. How old are you?"

Shinji blushed at the little girl's comment. "I'm fourteen."

"Wow. I'm only seven. Do you want to play?"

"I really don't think so. I've got to get home.

"Well . . . can I walk with you then?"

"Umm . . . well . . ."

"Please. Pretty please." Schala spoke in a very cute and innocent tone.

"Alright, Schala."

Schala smiled and jumped with joy. "Thank you, Shinji-chan!"

"My apartment is on the outside of town. Will you be able to get home after I reach my place?"

"Sure I will."

Shinji and the seven-year-old Schala began their route toward Shinji's house.

The hyperactive child then spoke during their walk. "Hey, Shinji-chan. What's it like?"

"What do you mean?"

"What's it like to pilot those big robots? They're just so big! I really want to know what it's like!"

"How do you know that I pilot one of the Evangelion Units?"

"I . . . heard that there was a guy who piloted them. I was thinking it might be you."

"Oh well, piloting them, it's hard to explain. But you need to concentrate really hard."

"Oh . . ."

"Is something wrong?"

"I meant, well, what does the robot feel?"

Shinji gave the girl an odd look. "What do you mean?"

"The robots. How do they feel? They look hurt when they fight. I think they might have feelings, too."

"I'm really not sure how the Evas feel. But, I think you might be right." The two now came up to Shinji's apartment. "I'm home."

"Okay, Shinji-chan. I'm going to go home now. It was nice meeting you."

Shinji continued toward the entrance of the building.

"Hey, Shinji-chan!" the girl called out.

"Huh?"

"Do you know a Rei Ayanami? She's big just like you."

"Ayanami, I know who she is."

"Oh, well, okay, tell her I said hi!"

The little girl turned around and began to skip home. Shinji continued into the apartment building and walked into the elevator. He quickly realized something. "That little girl, Schala, how did she know I piloted Unit 01 and how was she able to see the battle? And how does she know Ayanami? She's a very mysterious girl . . . she reminds of Ayanami and someone else I can't quite make out."

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Gendou Ikari sat at his desk in his office. His put his elbows on the table and rested his head on his fists.

(Flashback) Over 10 years ago . . .

"I see . . . the Complementation of Mankind . . . the coming of a greater being."

Gendou was standing in the middle of the leaders of Seele for the very first time.

"That is what we strive for," said Keel.

"That is our goal."

"The pinnacle of evolution."

"The coming of a greater being."

Gendou nodded in agreement. "Our quest is to both stop and initiate Third Impact."

"That is the point," answered Keel. "We have a time limit to complete the Evangelion Units, and stop the coming Angels."

"It's been a long time since Second Impact. Adam destroying Antartica."

"Remember, you're secrets lie with us Ikari, do not betray us."

"I shall not."

"We trust in your judgment."

"Do not fail us."

"One last thing, Ikari."

Gendou turned to Keel. "What is it?"

"First Impact."

"First Impact? When a comet hit the Earth beginning the Ice Age. The first impact that brought a great change to the World."

"Correct?"

". . . ?"

"Incorrect."

"Incorrect?"

"Ikari, have you ever heard of having a projector camera millions of years ago?"

A projection came up in front of Gendou. It showing a group of people. One of the beings was a human being, not fully evolved. The other, a being that resembles a human, but is not. The others look like humans.

"Humans win. Diffect lose battle."

"So we have . . . humans have overcome us advanced beings."

"Humans now have control of land."

"But it was never our goal to win."

"What Diffect talk about?!

"The sky . . .the black sky . . . yellow lights . . . red World . . .the red star shall paint the Earth red!"

"Red star?"

The man looks into the sky and sees a red star fall to Earth. The other people, were members of the Council - all evolved "humans".

"Look Bardiel, it is finally coming."

"Yes, Zeruel. The Second Angel."

"We shall finally attain glory."

The human that wasn't evolved, one among many during his time, turned to the council of humans. The reason they were they high council was because they were evolved humans. "Council side with Diffects? Diffects lose battle! Humans own land!"

"But now, we shall become superior beings, while humans shall live through the coming ice age."

"We shall rule the World."

The sixth Councilman, a councilwoman stepped forward. "All we must do is sleep while awaiting the coming of Tabris!"

"Then we shall be with mother and father again!"

The non-evolved human shook his head. "I no understand. Why smart humans join Diffects?"

"Of course you don't, you dolt! You would never understand us! You're nothing but a pathetic human who does not get to feel the glory of eternal life and evolution!"

The red star then ripped through the atmosphere, and the projection ended.

Gendou had a surprised look on his face. "How was that possible? I didn't even think humans were alive at that time.

"We are unsure. But how the Angels came is nothing to us. This is not a research project, this is the Human Instrumentality Project."

"I understand."

"Do not fail us." (End Flashback)

Gendou began to speak to himself. "First Impact . . . the Second Impact . . . the coming of the Angels . . . Third Impact. The red star . . . Second Angel . . .Tabris . . . Evangelion. Keel held something back. He knew I would betray him."

`Night in check.'

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Rei sat in her class sitting down and looking like she was paying attention like some sort of honor student. But really, she was in her own little World.

(Flashback) "Sir." Rei was now in the Commander Ikari's office.

"Good evening, Rei."

Rei gave Gendou a cold look. She had begun to hate him for constantly bringing her back to life and abusing her. But, she needed to ask him a question. "Sir, may I ask you a question."

"A question?."

"Yes, sir."

"What is it?"

"What is laughter? I do not understand the concept."

"Laughter isn't important, Rei. It's like death. After it's done, it's useless. There is no "concept"."

"I understand, sir." She turned around and prepared to leave.

"Rei, who else have you asked that question?"

"Pilot Ikari, sir."

"2nd Lieutenant Shinji . . . don't come into too much contact with him."

"Yes, sir." Rei left the room. (End Flashback)

`Why must I not come into contact with Ikari? I will find the answer to my question. I will no longer obey orders. I wish to have a voice of my own . . .' And with that in her mind, she decided to rest her head on her desk before the Angel arrived . . .

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