Shin Seiki Evangelion
The Gospel Of The New Era
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Chapter II-"I Was Once Lost, But Now Am Found"
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The sounds of construction and life filled the city. A city that had been teeming with life only a few months ago, was virtually abandoned when unit 00 self-destructed. But now hundreds, if not thousands, of people had come back to help rebuild and live in it.
'Strange. A year ago I was the new guy. Now look at all of them,' Shinji thought to himself from the lookout point that Misato had shown him so long ago. The reddish dusk was filled with the glimmer of countless lights.
He kept watching the slowly darkening valley of Neo-Tokyo 3 for a long while.
Then he was startled out of his thoughts, as his cell-phone rang. He quickly answered it.
"Hello?"
"Shinji, it's me, Misato. Where are you?"
"Hi Misato. I'm at the overlook. Don't worry I'm on my way home now, okay?"
"No. You stay there, and I'll pick you up in a minute."
"Sure thing."
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"Oh!" exclaimed Shinji as the wind was knocked out of him. He staggered for a moment on the practice mat, but soon regained a defensive stance.
"Yeah! That's the way Shinji! Just shrug 'em off! But come on, you have to attack sooner or later!" called out Misato from the gym's wall, who was wearing a white Gi. Both Shinji and his opponent, Rei Ayanami, spotted similar garb.
Ever since the first construction vehicles had arrived, they were instructed in semi-formal military training. But so far Shinji had been only trying, feebly, to defend himself. Even after learning Rei's secrets he still did not want to harm her, she was still a girl after all.
For the past few minutes, Shinji either dodged or blocked, his defenses only faltering when Rei accidentally revealed something. As the fight went on, however, it became apparent that Shinji was shattering Rei's seemingly forever patience. This was characterized by the fact that her eyes were narrowed, and the speed and ferocity of her attacks had gone up.
Then after Shinji had just barely dodged a punch, aimed at his head that would have sundered a tree, she stopped entirely.
"Pilot Ikari. I admire your chivalry, but now is not the time it. We must prepare for what is to come," she stated flatly.
"And what is to come, Rei?" Misato asked with a curious expression. Rei turned her head in the Major's direction.
"I'm afraid your security clearance is not high enough at this point."
"What? How is that possible? I'm the head of the Tactical division, for God's sake!" Misato continued this rant in a low voice to herself.
Shinji looked back at Rei.
"Rei?" she looked intently at him. "Is my clearance high enough?"
She pondered it a minute before saying, "No. But I can tell you one thing."
"What?" he asked in a nervous voice
She cocked her head to one side by a little and gave a very faint, ghost of a smile. "If you promise to really spar with me, I'll tell you. Is that alright?"
Shinji nodded as he sweated bullets.
Her smile died. "They are the antithesis of the Angels. Now if you will."
Before he could think about what she said, she attacked him. He dodged to the left and proceeded to jab at Rei's side.
She blocked and attempted a kick, which was blocked and followed by a sweep by Shinji…
The fight went on for over half of an hour, before Misato stopped them for their sync tests.
As they were leaving Rei walked along Shinji's side. He was taken aback when she gave him a full smile and said, "Thank you."
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"Wow Shinji! You're doing way better than last time! You've gone up by 2.3 percent!" exclaimed Maya from the control room.
"Uh…Thanks," he stammered from the test plug. He could see her smiling face in the Comm. Window.
"That's all you have do today." She rubbed her chin. "But I would like to see you up here after you've cleaned up. Alright?"
He smiled back. "Sure thing." She nodded and the Comm. Window vanished. The hatch popped open, spilling out the L.C.L. into the pool below. The test plug went onto its side, the open hatch on top, and moved towards the catwalk.
Shinji hopped out and made his way to the door. As he left he looked back at Rei's test plug.
It was not moving.
'Guess she's not done yet,' he thought to himself.
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Shigeru kept looking over the communication monitors, which all held nothing. Ever since the work crews arrived, all he had to do was order things for them.
It was so utterly boring.
'I used to watch out for Angels, relay information between all of NERV's branches, and dozens of other things. Now I'm just a freaking secretary,' he thought to himself. 'Oh well, At least I don't have it as bad as Makoto does.'
He looked over at his four-eyed compatriot, who was typing furiously under a mountain of paper work.
'Now that is a lot of work,' he thought with his head resting one of the MAGI's main consuls. 'He could use a break. Hey! Wait a minute! I know what to do!'
"Makoto!" Shigeru yelled as he suddenly jumped up. "I just remembered! The new 'Lupin the Third' movie opens today! You want to go?"
Unfortunately, he had failed to notice that Makoto had been so startled, when he jumped, that the poor man was now buried alive under his paperwork. Shigeru awaited a reply nonetheless.
He waved his hand at the paper hill, that had a hand reaching out of the top, and said, "Awe for-"
A beeping from the monitor cut him off. The longhaired tech stared at the screen for a moment. 'It has to be a joke' his mind told him, but he still had to get to the bottom of it though.
He entered the open channel command.
A smug looking American face filled the main monitor.
"This is Base Commander Robertson reporting. The testing of unit 04's S2 engine is complete. Everything is green!" the man exclaimed with a smile and salute.
The entire bridge was silent.
"Someone send for the Commander," Shigeru said calmly.
Silence.
"Now!" he yelled over his shoulder. A dozen people scrambled at their various consuls.
Somehow, Makoto had managed to climb out his hole at that precise moment, and be immediately startled back in.
Robertson looked around the room for a moment. "Did I miss something?"
"Only about five angels," Shigeru said quietly to himself.
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Shinji stood before the observation room's main door, his hair still damp from his shower. He opened the door and entered the room.
The floor and walls were white and as sterile as a hospital, while the various workstations and desks were littered with paperwork. The room's only occupant was Maya Ibuki, who was examining a readout on the 1st child's sync ratio.
"Miss. Ibuki. You wanted to speck to me?" Shinji finally said. Maya jerked back, holding her chest and breathing fast.
"Oh! Shinji it's only you," she said in a startled voice. "I didn't hear you come in."
Shinji bowed. "I'm Sorry Miss. Ibuki; I should have said something as I came in."
She waved her hand, dismissing the matter. "Don't worry. It's no big deal. But I have t finish this up before I can speck to you. So would you please wait over there for a few minutes?" she asked pointing to a desk a few foot away.
Shinji nodded and stood by the desk, to wait for her to finish. After a moment he looked down at the paperwork on the table. At first glance it seemed to be meaningless techno babble, but then he picked it up to examine it further. And to his own surprise, he understood it fully. 'It's just like in her notes, all of it,' he thought to himself.
The paper he was examining contained information on unit 02. Mainly, it was a report of it's current physiological status. The paper said everything was fine with it, but Shinji saw things that could become large problems later on. So, summing up his courage, Shinji decided to tell Maya about his opinion.
"Uh…Miss. Ibuki?" stammered the boy, with oh so little self-confidence.
Maya turned towards him. "Yes Shinji?"
He gulped. "I'm not sure how to tell you exactly, but I think something may be wrong with unit 02…"
"What do you mean?" she asked as she stepped towards him, to see what he was holding.
He showed the paper to her. "It's just that, according to this, Unit 02 is fine; but I noticed that some of it's enzymes aren't quite high enough, with it's regeneration and all…"
Maya carefully looked over the page. After a moment, she slowly looked into his eyes. Shinji blushed, realizing that she was within kissing distance.
"I missed that Shinji. If you hadn't caught it." Her voice faltered for a second. "I don't even want to think, of what could have happened. So thank you Shinji."
He bowed.
"It's nothing, Miss. Ibuki…" his voice absent of confidence.
She shook her head and put her hands on her hips, as she took a step back. "No Shinji, it's not nothing! A dozen college graduates missed that, myself included! So don't tell yourself it wasn't important."
Shinji nodded absently.
She looked quizzically at him a moment, then she smiled. "You really studied that disk, didn't you!" she exclaimed.
"Yes," he answered. "How did you know about it?"
She ran a hand through her hair. "Well I did make it at the Major's request, of course."
The boy smiled. "Well, I guess I should be thanking you, then. Without that disk, I would still be hating the Evas."
She snapped her fingers. "Then that settles it. I need an assistant, and you know more about the way the Eva works than most other people. So what do you say?"
She put her and out towards him.
He thought for a moment, before smiling and taking her hand.
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Omake
Who Killed Kaji? (Part I)
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Announcer: (Kouzou) It's time for everybody's favorite game show!
Audience: Who! Killed! Kaji!
Kouzou: And here's your host, Gendo Ikari!
(Canned applause, at gunpoint, as Gendo's command, uh, I mean, quizmaster's podium rose from the ground)
Gendo: (Behind steepled hands)…thank you…
(The lights come on revealing that the stage consists of two podiums for contestants, a panel of three judges, and lots of flashy paint)
Gendo: Our contestants tonight are: Hikari Horaki. (She rises from the floor)
(Applause)
Gendo: and Kaoru Nagisa. (He also rises from the floor)
(Applause)
Gendo: And finally, our judges for this evening are: The Three stooges!
(Shinji, Touji, and Kensuke all rise from the floor amid applause)
Gendo: As you know, in this game the contestants are to develop their own theories
on who killed Kaji. And additional points are given for good ideas of who
ordered the kill, and how it happened. The Contestants-
Shinji: Wait a minute!
Gendo: Yes?
Shinji: Didn't I kill Kaoru?
Gendo: Well, he was dead, you see…
Kaoru: (In a British accent) I got better.
Shinji:What?
Gendo: Moving on. The contestants are allowed to ask Agent Ryouji questions that have
yes and no answers, and he may elaborate if he wishes to.
Kouzou: And here he is ladies and gentlemen, Kaji!
(Applause as Kaji is lowered onto stage, sitting on a cloud. He hops down and stands next to Gendo)
Kaji: Thank you, you're too kind!
Shinji: Okay, I know Kaoru's an Angel, so logic doesn't apply to him. But this is just
ridiculous!
Gendo: Blame the author. God knows I do…
Baladar: (Booming voice from above) Enough! Ikari, as punishment for breaching the
Forth Wall, I will cut this Omake short!
Gendo: (Whispering) Thank God for small favors…
Kouzou: We'll be back after these messages from our sponsors!
(Fade to black)
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Rei is now mortal,
Asuke is in a coma,
Shinji is the only capable pilot left,
Touji is hurt,
And Kaoru lost his head.
Who then will pilot unit 04?
Chapter III
"As I Look To The Past, Do I Also Look To The Future?"
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Written by Baladar. Send all comments to Tasslehoff_11@yahoo.com
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Neon Genesis Evengelion is owned by GAINAX
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The Gospel Of The New Era
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Chapter II-"I Was Once Lost, But Now Am Found"
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The sounds of construction and life filled the city. A city that had been teeming with life only a few months ago, was virtually abandoned when unit 00 self-destructed. But now hundreds, if not thousands, of people had come back to help rebuild and live in it.
'Strange. A year ago I was the new guy. Now look at all of them,' Shinji thought to himself from the lookout point that Misato had shown him so long ago. The reddish dusk was filled with the glimmer of countless lights.
He kept watching the slowly darkening valley of Neo-Tokyo 3 for a long while.
Then he was startled out of his thoughts, as his cell-phone rang. He quickly answered it.
"Hello?"
"Shinji, it's me, Misato. Where are you?"
"Hi Misato. I'm at the overlook. Don't worry I'm on my way home now, okay?"
"No. You stay there, and I'll pick you up in a minute."
"Sure thing."
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"Oh!" exclaimed Shinji as the wind was knocked out of him. He staggered for a moment on the practice mat, but soon regained a defensive stance.
"Yeah! That's the way Shinji! Just shrug 'em off! But come on, you have to attack sooner or later!" called out Misato from the gym's wall, who was wearing a white Gi. Both Shinji and his opponent, Rei Ayanami, spotted similar garb.
Ever since the first construction vehicles had arrived, they were instructed in semi-formal military training. But so far Shinji had been only trying, feebly, to defend himself. Even after learning Rei's secrets he still did not want to harm her, she was still a girl after all.
For the past few minutes, Shinji either dodged or blocked, his defenses only faltering when Rei accidentally revealed something. As the fight went on, however, it became apparent that Shinji was shattering Rei's seemingly forever patience. This was characterized by the fact that her eyes were narrowed, and the speed and ferocity of her attacks had gone up.
Then after Shinji had just barely dodged a punch, aimed at his head that would have sundered a tree, she stopped entirely.
"Pilot Ikari. I admire your chivalry, but now is not the time it. We must prepare for what is to come," she stated flatly.
"And what is to come, Rei?" Misato asked with a curious expression. Rei turned her head in the Major's direction.
"I'm afraid your security clearance is not high enough at this point."
"What? How is that possible? I'm the head of the Tactical division, for God's sake!" Misato continued this rant in a low voice to herself.
Shinji looked back at Rei.
"Rei?" she looked intently at him. "Is my clearance high enough?"
She pondered it a minute before saying, "No. But I can tell you one thing."
"What?" he asked in a nervous voice
She cocked her head to one side by a little and gave a very faint, ghost of a smile. "If you promise to really spar with me, I'll tell you. Is that alright?"
Shinji nodded as he sweated bullets.
Her smile died. "They are the antithesis of the Angels. Now if you will."
Before he could think about what she said, she attacked him. He dodged to the left and proceeded to jab at Rei's side.
She blocked and attempted a kick, which was blocked and followed by a sweep by Shinji…
The fight went on for over half of an hour, before Misato stopped them for their sync tests.
As they were leaving Rei walked along Shinji's side. He was taken aback when she gave him a full smile and said, "Thank you."
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"Wow Shinji! You're doing way better than last time! You've gone up by 2.3 percent!" exclaimed Maya from the control room.
"Uh…Thanks," he stammered from the test plug. He could see her smiling face in the Comm. Window.
"That's all you have do today." She rubbed her chin. "But I would like to see you up here after you've cleaned up. Alright?"
He smiled back. "Sure thing." She nodded and the Comm. Window vanished. The hatch popped open, spilling out the L.C.L. into the pool below. The test plug went onto its side, the open hatch on top, and moved towards the catwalk.
Shinji hopped out and made his way to the door. As he left he looked back at Rei's test plug.
It was not moving.
'Guess she's not done yet,' he thought to himself.
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Shigeru kept looking over the communication monitors, which all held nothing. Ever since the work crews arrived, all he had to do was order things for them.
It was so utterly boring.
'I used to watch out for Angels, relay information between all of NERV's branches, and dozens of other things. Now I'm just a freaking secretary,' he thought to himself. 'Oh well, At least I don't have it as bad as Makoto does.'
He looked over at his four-eyed compatriot, who was typing furiously under a mountain of paper work.
'Now that is a lot of work,' he thought with his head resting one of the MAGI's main consuls. 'He could use a break. Hey! Wait a minute! I know what to do!'
"Makoto!" Shigeru yelled as he suddenly jumped up. "I just remembered! The new 'Lupin the Third' movie opens today! You want to go?"
Unfortunately, he had failed to notice that Makoto had been so startled, when he jumped, that the poor man was now buried alive under his paperwork. Shigeru awaited a reply nonetheless.
He waved his hand at the paper hill, that had a hand reaching out of the top, and said, "Awe for-"
A beeping from the monitor cut him off. The longhaired tech stared at the screen for a moment. 'It has to be a joke' his mind told him, but he still had to get to the bottom of it though.
He entered the open channel command.
A smug looking American face filled the main monitor.
"This is Base Commander Robertson reporting. The testing of unit 04's S2 engine is complete. Everything is green!" the man exclaimed with a smile and salute.
The entire bridge was silent.
"Someone send for the Commander," Shigeru said calmly.
Silence.
"Now!" he yelled over his shoulder. A dozen people scrambled at their various consuls.
Somehow, Makoto had managed to climb out his hole at that precise moment, and be immediately startled back in.
Robertson looked around the room for a moment. "Did I miss something?"
"Only about five angels," Shigeru said quietly to himself.
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Shinji stood before the observation room's main door, his hair still damp from his shower. He opened the door and entered the room.
The floor and walls were white and as sterile as a hospital, while the various workstations and desks were littered with paperwork. The room's only occupant was Maya Ibuki, who was examining a readout on the 1st child's sync ratio.
"Miss. Ibuki. You wanted to speck to me?" Shinji finally said. Maya jerked back, holding her chest and breathing fast.
"Oh! Shinji it's only you," she said in a startled voice. "I didn't hear you come in."
Shinji bowed. "I'm Sorry Miss. Ibuki; I should have said something as I came in."
She waved her hand, dismissing the matter. "Don't worry. It's no big deal. But I have t finish this up before I can speck to you. So would you please wait over there for a few minutes?" she asked pointing to a desk a few foot away.
Shinji nodded and stood by the desk, to wait for her to finish. After a moment he looked down at the paperwork on the table. At first glance it seemed to be meaningless techno babble, but then he picked it up to examine it further. And to his own surprise, he understood it fully. 'It's just like in her notes, all of it,' he thought to himself.
The paper he was examining contained information on unit 02. Mainly, it was a report of it's current physiological status. The paper said everything was fine with it, but Shinji saw things that could become large problems later on. So, summing up his courage, Shinji decided to tell Maya about his opinion.
"Uh…Miss. Ibuki?" stammered the boy, with oh so little self-confidence.
Maya turned towards him. "Yes Shinji?"
He gulped. "I'm not sure how to tell you exactly, but I think something may be wrong with unit 02…"
"What do you mean?" she asked as she stepped towards him, to see what he was holding.
He showed the paper to her. "It's just that, according to this, Unit 02 is fine; but I noticed that some of it's enzymes aren't quite high enough, with it's regeneration and all…"
Maya carefully looked over the page. After a moment, she slowly looked into his eyes. Shinji blushed, realizing that she was within kissing distance.
"I missed that Shinji. If you hadn't caught it." Her voice faltered for a second. "I don't even want to think, of what could have happened. So thank you Shinji."
He bowed.
"It's nothing, Miss. Ibuki…" his voice absent of confidence.
She shook her head and put her hands on her hips, as she took a step back. "No Shinji, it's not nothing! A dozen college graduates missed that, myself included! So don't tell yourself it wasn't important."
Shinji nodded absently.
She looked quizzically at him a moment, then she smiled. "You really studied that disk, didn't you!" she exclaimed.
"Yes," he answered. "How did you know about it?"
She ran a hand through her hair. "Well I did make it at the Major's request, of course."
The boy smiled. "Well, I guess I should be thanking you, then. Without that disk, I would still be hating the Evas."
She snapped her fingers. "Then that settles it. I need an assistant, and you know more about the way the Eva works than most other people. So what do you say?"
She put her and out towards him.
He thought for a moment, before smiling and taking her hand.
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Omake
Who Killed Kaji? (Part I)
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Announcer: (Kouzou) It's time for everybody's favorite game show!
Audience: Who! Killed! Kaji!
Kouzou: And here's your host, Gendo Ikari!
(Canned applause, at gunpoint, as Gendo's command, uh, I mean, quizmaster's podium rose from the ground)
Gendo: (Behind steepled hands)…thank you…
(The lights come on revealing that the stage consists of two podiums for contestants, a panel of three judges, and lots of flashy paint)
Gendo: Our contestants tonight are: Hikari Horaki. (She rises from the floor)
(Applause)
Gendo: and Kaoru Nagisa. (He also rises from the floor)
(Applause)
Gendo: And finally, our judges for this evening are: The Three stooges!
(Shinji, Touji, and Kensuke all rise from the floor amid applause)
Gendo: As you know, in this game the contestants are to develop their own theories
on who killed Kaji. And additional points are given for good ideas of who
ordered the kill, and how it happened. The Contestants-
Shinji: Wait a minute!
Gendo: Yes?
Shinji: Didn't I kill Kaoru?
Gendo: Well, he was dead, you see…
Kaoru: (In a British accent) I got better.
Shinji:What?
Gendo: Moving on. The contestants are allowed to ask Agent Ryouji questions that have
yes and no answers, and he may elaborate if he wishes to.
Kouzou: And here he is ladies and gentlemen, Kaji!
(Applause as Kaji is lowered onto stage, sitting on a cloud. He hops down and stands next to Gendo)
Kaji: Thank you, you're too kind!
Shinji: Okay, I know Kaoru's an Angel, so logic doesn't apply to him. But this is just
ridiculous!
Gendo: Blame the author. God knows I do…
Baladar: (Booming voice from above) Enough! Ikari, as punishment for breaching the
Forth Wall, I will cut this Omake short!
Gendo: (Whispering) Thank God for small favors…
Kouzou: We'll be back after these messages from our sponsors!
(Fade to black)
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Rei is now mortal,
Asuke is in a coma,
Shinji is the only capable pilot left,
Touji is hurt,
And Kaoru lost his head.
Who then will pilot unit 04?
Chapter III
"As I Look To The Past, Do I Also Look To The Future?"
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Written by Baladar. Send all comments to Tasslehoff_11@yahoo.com
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Neon Genesis Evengelion is owned by GAINAX
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