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A Mobile Suit Gundam / Neon Genesis Evangelion crossover
written by Lloyd Barrieses (kachiko00@yahoo.com)
Mobile Suit Gundam (c)1978 Yoshiyuki Tomino/Bandai/Sunrise.
Neon Genesis Evangelion (c)1996 Gainax/Project Eva./TV Tokyo/NAS.
All rights reserved.
This fanfiction owned and authored by Lloyd Barrieses. Any attempt to
steal this fic (i.e. putting your name in the credits) shall be met with
appropriate punishments. I'm serious, folks.
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[Act 6.5: Dead ^Keiichi_Morisato Day]
Episode 12.5, "Emma and Henken"
"Dead Kei Day" you ask? Well, this chapter, although basically still a part of the whole storyline, has little or no relevance to the main story of "Gundam / Evangelion: Crtossover" itself. Rather, it's sort of a telling of what's going on other than what's happening in Shinji's and Camille's lives, a "side story" if you will.
Very well, on with the show:
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"I guess I can never prove to myself if the rumors are true or not," Henken Heckner told himself as he sat back in his captain's chair, double-checking reports on the status of all of the Radish's own mobile suit squadron and everything related to it: ammunition, supplies, the works.
As with common human nature, Henken *was* feeling a little bored for tonight, as most of his AEUG crew was feeling as well. He wished he could just go out for a while and see if Hong Kong really *is* one of those "cool" places to go to on Earth, since he'd been *so* involved with so much work even when he was still one of the middle-rank officers in the Earth Federation. Now that he's with the AEUG, he felt like...well, nothing much has changed. He *was* still a ship captain.
But then, he had a reason not to be bored for tonight, as he had prepared for this moment for "a very long time"--a few weeks, actually--and he felt like this was his "shining moment".
He would finally have a moment together with that goddess of beauty, Lieutenant Emma Sheen.
Sure, technically he would have little or no chance of being her boyfriend since: one, he wasn't really that handsome to begin with; two, he was extremely shy when it comes to these kinds of things; and three, judging from how everything looked at the moment, it looks like Emma has no interest in men whatsoever, other that he sees that she was sort of a surrogate mother to the AEUG's star pilot, Camille Vidan.
And besides, although he *is* a ship captain *and* technically higher in rank than Emma...that wasn't any guarantee that she'd like him.
Henken: (mumbles) Awww heck, let's do this...
A few minutes later, while Henken was fighting with himself not to fall asleep, one of his bridge crew members turned to him to inform him about something. He had hoped that it wasn't a sudden titan ambush...
AEUG bridge crew A: Sir, I think your...umm...visitor has arrived. She's on line 4. Shall I put her on speaker phone or you'll pick it up yourself?
Henken: Umm...*ahem*. You fool, of course I'll pick it up myself. Excuse me... (walks over to where the crew member was and picks up the receiver) Umm, Lieutenant?
AEUG bridge crew A: (mumbles and rolls his eyes as he gets back to his work) Whatever...
Emma: /Yeah, this is me, Captain. You called for me?/
Henken: Uhh, yeah, I guess I did! Eh heh heh heh heh...
Emma: /What is this for? Some kind of new orders assignments that Captain Noah hasn't told me about?/
Henken: Oh, no, no, it's nothing like that. I just...I just want to talk to you about something in private.
Emma: /Well, what is it?/
Henken: This isn't really exactly a "private conversation" since well...I'm at the bridge and everyone's listening and all and uhh...
Emma: /What's wrong with everyone in the Radish's bridge listening? Is the matter you want to talk to me about something of urgent importance or whatever?/
Henken: Something like that. Just...just come to my office and let's talk, okay?
Emma: (pauses for about 5 seconds) /All right. Be there in five minutes./
Henken could then hear Emma put down the phone on the other end of the line. As he put down his own phone receiver, he sighed and all of a sudden felt like he was very nervous. this was very much like when he was on his violin recital back in 6th grade, only much worse...
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Henken was a lot tense tonight. He realized he was making himself look silly what with double-checking to see if the couch is all neat and dandy, if there's no more dust within his office room, if everything was just "perfect".
The allotted time of five minutes soon ended. He gulped at that very moment that those five minutes were through, and anticipated the next event that would transpire.
Finally, a few knocks on the door. This is it, Henken told himself over and over again as he straightened his uniform, and with a sigh, walked over to the controls of the automatic sliding door separating the office from the rest of the ship...and maybe, separating himself from the former Titan goddess herself.
Emma: (blinks as the automatic door opens) Well, hi there! (smiles) May I come in?
Henken: Umm, sure, why not? Oh, you can sit down on the couch if you want to... (thinks) Wow, this is weird--she doesn't seem to be wearing her uniform tonight like she usually does...
Emma: (snickers) You seem to be pretty tense tonight, Captain Heckner, what's up?
Henken: Oh, it's nothing, I just noticed you weren't wearing your uniform like you usually do. It's just that I'm not used to seeing you in a t-shirt and jeans... (scratches his head)
Emma: Ahhh. Well, get used to it now, cuz this is what I usually wear when I'm off-duty, even when I was still in the Federa--I mean, the Titans... (sits down on the couch)
Henken: Heh heh...right. Can I get you something, tea and cookies, perhaps?
Emma: (giggles) Oh, I love cookies! Yes, please, i'll have a whole DOZEN of them! Eh heh heh heh heh...hey, I've never gotten to ask you about something, Captain...
Henken: (turns to prepare the food for the both of them) What is it?
Emma: (fidgets at a plushie across from where she was sitting) Well, I've been hearing your name as being one of the top officers for the Federation when I was still just in the academy as a cadet and I was just wondering why you hadn't joined in the draft when the Federation organized the Titans...
Henken: Ehh, well, I was sick at the time, and I was on vacation in Side 6 when they had..."The Draft", as I'd like to call it. Besides, I was happy at my current position in the Federal Forces so I didn't even bother joining the draft anyway.
Emma: Ahh...
Henken: Well, how come *you* were included in the draft?
Emma: (twiddles her thumbs and looks at them) It's not like I wanted to join in the first place anyway, it was more like a position offered to me where I had no other choice. Almost all of my batch mates in the academy were drafted out of compulsion. I mean, I wanted to join the Federal Forces, not the Titans...
Henken: I see, and well, I guess I can say, "the rest was history", huh?
Emma: (shrugs) I guess so...oooh, thanks! (takes two cookies from a plate and munches on one) These are good! Mmm... (wipes off any crumbs from her face and snickers at Henken) I could only be so clumsy when it comes to cookies, you know?
Henken: Heh heh, yeah, I can tell... (munches on a cookie as well and drinks his tea) So, how's Camille doing?
Emma: (rolls her eyes) Aaagh. Well, to be blunt, he's *out* there, if you know what I mean. He hasn't been quite himself lately, maybe it's the tension and stress one gets when he's quite inexperienced with stuff that only we, ummmm..."military types" get to endure, if you know what I mean. I can still remember how his father had been so cruel and insensitive to the poor guy...oh well, at least now I won't be surprised if I see him kill his own dad just because... (sighs) i guess you can tell I'm quite concerned for Camille, huh?
Henken: I would think "concerned" is an understatement, Lieutenant. You look like you want to adopt the boy...I mean, who wouldn't feel sorry for him? He's just 15 years old, and yet he's dragged into this big fight that we adults have started...
Emma: (sighs) Yeah...
Henken: (sweatdrops) Speaking of children, I was just wondering... (gulps)
Emma: (looks at him curiously) Yeah, go on?
Henken: Well, it's just that I think that...that...
Emma: (scratches her head) Come on, don't leave me hanging here, what do you want to tell me about children?
Henken: (gulps heavily) It's just that I'm kind of sad that more children are being involved with all of this political bullshit that, like I said, we adults have been fighting over, and the wars that result from the disagreement of opinions between the Earthnoids and spacenoids...
Emma: Ahh...well, I'm kinda sad about it as well, considering that a lot of lives have been lost during the One Year War alone... (sighs) And I fear that more lives will be lost during *this* war...it's all ugly, but we have to play our part, you know?
Both of them kept silent for around five minutes. Neither of them moved nor spoke a word, after almost all of their refreshments have been consumed. Unknown to each other, they both felt the air was "getting thick" as this deafening silence loomed on.
Emma: So...ummm...
Henken: Yeah?
Emma: Have you ever had any girlfriends yet? Errrr...not that I'm implying anything, it's just a simple question that some girls would ask a guy out of curiosity...
Henken: (sighs) Unfortunately, my love life's been all *stale* every day of my life. I've been *so* much involved with work, so much that I forget that one of the most important things in life is that you should have a partner to share your whole life with. I guess I've never been really big with the girls, huh?
Emma: Aww, don't be so hard on yourself... (pats Henken's back) I've never had any luck with my love life either, in case you want to know. (giggles) But then I could stop if you don't want to hear any useless rant by a 25-year-old boyfriend-less military gal like me...
Henken: (blinks) Why not? Let's hear it, Lieutenant.
Emma: Well, all of my life I've only had a few suitors come to me, but then this was before I enrolled in the academy and when I was in high school, back when me and my mother and sister lived in New York. Turns out that, well, my general perception of guys was that you were all jerks because I can tell when a guy wants to take advantage of me. Being the tomboyish gal that I was, I vowed to rebel against the male species and entered the Earth Federation Military Academy to become a soldier. Well, now that times have changed, I feel like I should turn away from my childhood and turn towards the future, like they always say on TV...
Henken: Pretty interesting life you have there, Lieutenant...
Emma: Yeah, well, it doesn't get any more interesting than kicking your butt in piloting an MS, Captain. (grins)
Henken: Uhh...
Emma: (laughs) It was a joke, Captain! Gee, you really *are* tense about something, aren't you?
Come on, you can tell me, let a former Titan gal who knows her way around the AEUG listen to your problems. (holds his hands)
Henken: (blushes lightly) Uhh...umm...well...
Emma: Yeah?
Henken: ...it's nothing. Honestly. I was just thinking maybe you should go back to the Agama by now since I think they need you there more than I want you here as someone to talk to. Please. Just...j-just get back to your work, okay?
Emma: (looks at him for a few seconds and sighs lightly) ...you're right. I should get back to the Agama. (stands up and faces him) You can call em any time you'd like, Captain. Even if it's just having a friend to talk to. I'm always there, you know. (stands in attention and salutes him) Permission to leave the room, sir.
Henken: (sighs and stands up in attention, saluting Emma back) ...by your leave, Lieutenant.
And as Emma left the room, Henken just sat back on the couch, exactly where Emma was sitting earlier and just stared at the empty plate which was filled with cookies a just while ago. He couldn't believe he could just be so pathetic tonight...
End Episode 12.5
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Why is this called a "Dead Kei Day" chapter anyway, you might ask? Well, as always, I've been busy with my day job that I have either little or no time to write a new chapter anymore lately, and what's more, the life of someone who's just come out of college is quite...hectic, to say the least, in terms of seeking employment and stuff like that. Life sucks sometimes, but that's what you get from growing old. You know, I once heard a saying that states, "Growing old is easy; the hard part is growing up." But then, that's not quite important anymore so blah. (I am never going to grow up from my anime fandom, that's for sure. :3 )
Well anyway, you guys have been great, although I've been getting VERY, VERY limited feedback from among Gundam and Evangelion fans alike who ahve read this fanfiction of mine. It's okay with me. I realize that I can't please everyone all of the time, and for all of this, my determination to be the best UC Gundam - Evangelion fic writer is spurred greatly. And yadda yadda and all that crap. Whatever. :3
By the way, "Dead Kei Day" was inspired by the "Dead Piro Days" from the web comic "Megatokyo" which you can find at http://www.megatokyo.com/. Much credit would go to Mr. Fred Gallagher a.k.a. Piro for making such a wonderful web comic.
Hopefully I'll be able to post a new chapter soon. As usual, "C&C's are welcome, NO FLAMES PLEASE." Until then, "Believe in the sign of ZETA...beyond the hard times from now."
A Mobile Suit Gundam / Neon Genesis Evangelion crossover
written by Lloyd Barrieses (kachiko00@yahoo.com)
Mobile Suit Gundam (c)1978 Yoshiyuki Tomino/Bandai/Sunrise.
Neon Genesis Evangelion (c)1996 Gainax/Project Eva./TV Tokyo/NAS.
All rights reserved.
This fanfiction owned and authored by Lloyd Barrieses. Any attempt to
steal this fic (i.e. putting your name in the credits) shall be met with
appropriate punishments. I'm serious, folks.
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[Act 6.5: Dead ^Keiichi_Morisato Day]
Episode 12.5, "Emma and Henken"
"Dead Kei Day" you ask? Well, this chapter, although basically still a part of the whole storyline, has little or no relevance to the main story of "Gundam / Evangelion: Crtossover" itself. Rather, it's sort of a telling of what's going on other than what's happening in Shinji's and Camille's lives, a "side story" if you will.
Very well, on with the show:
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"I guess I can never prove to myself if the rumors are true or not," Henken Heckner told himself as he sat back in his captain's chair, double-checking reports on the status of all of the Radish's own mobile suit squadron and everything related to it: ammunition, supplies, the works.
As with common human nature, Henken *was* feeling a little bored for tonight, as most of his AEUG crew was feeling as well. He wished he could just go out for a while and see if Hong Kong really *is* one of those "cool" places to go to on Earth, since he'd been *so* involved with so much work even when he was still one of the middle-rank officers in the Earth Federation. Now that he's with the AEUG, he felt like...well, nothing much has changed. He *was* still a ship captain.
But then, he had a reason not to be bored for tonight, as he had prepared for this moment for "a very long time"--a few weeks, actually--and he felt like this was his "shining moment".
He would finally have a moment together with that goddess of beauty, Lieutenant Emma Sheen.
Sure, technically he would have little or no chance of being her boyfriend since: one, he wasn't really that handsome to begin with; two, he was extremely shy when it comes to these kinds of things; and three, judging from how everything looked at the moment, it looks like Emma has no interest in men whatsoever, other that he sees that she was sort of a surrogate mother to the AEUG's star pilot, Camille Vidan.
And besides, although he *is* a ship captain *and* technically higher in rank than Emma...that wasn't any guarantee that she'd like him.
Henken: (mumbles) Awww heck, let's do this...
A few minutes later, while Henken was fighting with himself not to fall asleep, one of his bridge crew members turned to him to inform him about something. He had hoped that it wasn't a sudden titan ambush...
AEUG bridge crew A: Sir, I think your...umm...visitor has arrived. She's on line 4. Shall I put her on speaker phone or you'll pick it up yourself?
Henken: Umm...*ahem*. You fool, of course I'll pick it up myself. Excuse me... (walks over to where the crew member was and picks up the receiver) Umm, Lieutenant?
AEUG bridge crew A: (mumbles and rolls his eyes as he gets back to his work) Whatever...
Emma: /Yeah, this is me, Captain. You called for me?/
Henken: Uhh, yeah, I guess I did! Eh heh heh heh heh...
Emma: /What is this for? Some kind of new orders assignments that Captain Noah hasn't told me about?/
Henken: Oh, no, no, it's nothing like that. I just...I just want to talk to you about something in private.
Emma: /Well, what is it?/
Henken: This isn't really exactly a "private conversation" since well...I'm at the bridge and everyone's listening and all and uhh...
Emma: /What's wrong with everyone in the Radish's bridge listening? Is the matter you want to talk to me about something of urgent importance or whatever?/
Henken: Something like that. Just...just come to my office and let's talk, okay?
Emma: (pauses for about 5 seconds) /All right. Be there in five minutes./
Henken could then hear Emma put down the phone on the other end of the line. As he put down his own phone receiver, he sighed and all of a sudden felt like he was very nervous. this was very much like when he was on his violin recital back in 6th grade, only much worse...
-----
Henken was a lot tense tonight. He realized he was making himself look silly what with double-checking to see if the couch is all neat and dandy, if there's no more dust within his office room, if everything was just "perfect".
The allotted time of five minutes soon ended. He gulped at that very moment that those five minutes were through, and anticipated the next event that would transpire.
Finally, a few knocks on the door. This is it, Henken told himself over and over again as he straightened his uniform, and with a sigh, walked over to the controls of the automatic sliding door separating the office from the rest of the ship...and maybe, separating himself from the former Titan goddess herself.
Emma: (blinks as the automatic door opens) Well, hi there! (smiles) May I come in?
Henken: Umm, sure, why not? Oh, you can sit down on the couch if you want to... (thinks) Wow, this is weird--she doesn't seem to be wearing her uniform tonight like she usually does...
Emma: (snickers) You seem to be pretty tense tonight, Captain Heckner, what's up?
Henken: Oh, it's nothing, I just noticed you weren't wearing your uniform like you usually do. It's just that I'm not used to seeing you in a t-shirt and jeans... (scratches his head)
Emma: Ahhh. Well, get used to it now, cuz this is what I usually wear when I'm off-duty, even when I was still in the Federa--I mean, the Titans... (sits down on the couch)
Henken: Heh heh...right. Can I get you something, tea and cookies, perhaps?
Emma: (giggles) Oh, I love cookies! Yes, please, i'll have a whole DOZEN of them! Eh heh heh heh heh...hey, I've never gotten to ask you about something, Captain...
Henken: (turns to prepare the food for the both of them) What is it?
Emma: (fidgets at a plushie across from where she was sitting) Well, I've been hearing your name as being one of the top officers for the Federation when I was still just in the academy as a cadet and I was just wondering why you hadn't joined in the draft when the Federation organized the Titans...
Henken: Ehh, well, I was sick at the time, and I was on vacation in Side 6 when they had..."The Draft", as I'd like to call it. Besides, I was happy at my current position in the Federal Forces so I didn't even bother joining the draft anyway.
Emma: Ahh...
Henken: Well, how come *you* were included in the draft?
Emma: (twiddles her thumbs and looks at them) It's not like I wanted to join in the first place anyway, it was more like a position offered to me where I had no other choice. Almost all of my batch mates in the academy were drafted out of compulsion. I mean, I wanted to join the Federal Forces, not the Titans...
Henken: I see, and well, I guess I can say, "the rest was history", huh?
Emma: (shrugs) I guess so...oooh, thanks! (takes two cookies from a plate and munches on one) These are good! Mmm... (wipes off any crumbs from her face and snickers at Henken) I could only be so clumsy when it comes to cookies, you know?
Henken: Heh heh, yeah, I can tell... (munches on a cookie as well and drinks his tea) So, how's Camille doing?
Emma: (rolls her eyes) Aaagh. Well, to be blunt, he's *out* there, if you know what I mean. He hasn't been quite himself lately, maybe it's the tension and stress one gets when he's quite inexperienced with stuff that only we, ummmm..."military types" get to endure, if you know what I mean. I can still remember how his father had been so cruel and insensitive to the poor guy...oh well, at least now I won't be surprised if I see him kill his own dad just because... (sighs) i guess you can tell I'm quite concerned for Camille, huh?
Henken: I would think "concerned" is an understatement, Lieutenant. You look like you want to adopt the boy...I mean, who wouldn't feel sorry for him? He's just 15 years old, and yet he's dragged into this big fight that we adults have started...
Emma: (sighs) Yeah...
Henken: (sweatdrops) Speaking of children, I was just wondering... (gulps)
Emma: (looks at him curiously) Yeah, go on?
Henken: Well, it's just that I think that...that...
Emma: (scratches her head) Come on, don't leave me hanging here, what do you want to tell me about children?
Henken: (gulps heavily) It's just that I'm kind of sad that more children are being involved with all of this political bullshit that, like I said, we adults have been fighting over, and the wars that result from the disagreement of opinions between the Earthnoids and spacenoids...
Emma: Ahh...well, I'm kinda sad about it as well, considering that a lot of lives have been lost during the One Year War alone... (sighs) And I fear that more lives will be lost during *this* war...it's all ugly, but we have to play our part, you know?
Both of them kept silent for around five minutes. Neither of them moved nor spoke a word, after almost all of their refreshments have been consumed. Unknown to each other, they both felt the air was "getting thick" as this deafening silence loomed on.
Emma: So...ummm...
Henken: Yeah?
Emma: Have you ever had any girlfriends yet? Errrr...not that I'm implying anything, it's just a simple question that some girls would ask a guy out of curiosity...
Henken: (sighs) Unfortunately, my love life's been all *stale* every day of my life. I've been *so* much involved with work, so much that I forget that one of the most important things in life is that you should have a partner to share your whole life with. I guess I've never been really big with the girls, huh?
Emma: Aww, don't be so hard on yourself... (pats Henken's back) I've never had any luck with my love life either, in case you want to know. (giggles) But then I could stop if you don't want to hear any useless rant by a 25-year-old boyfriend-less military gal like me...
Henken: (blinks) Why not? Let's hear it, Lieutenant.
Emma: Well, all of my life I've only had a few suitors come to me, but then this was before I enrolled in the academy and when I was in high school, back when me and my mother and sister lived in New York. Turns out that, well, my general perception of guys was that you were all jerks because I can tell when a guy wants to take advantage of me. Being the tomboyish gal that I was, I vowed to rebel against the male species and entered the Earth Federation Military Academy to become a soldier. Well, now that times have changed, I feel like I should turn away from my childhood and turn towards the future, like they always say on TV...
Henken: Pretty interesting life you have there, Lieutenant...
Emma: Yeah, well, it doesn't get any more interesting than kicking your butt in piloting an MS, Captain. (grins)
Henken: Uhh...
Emma: (laughs) It was a joke, Captain! Gee, you really *are* tense about something, aren't you?
Come on, you can tell me, let a former Titan gal who knows her way around the AEUG listen to your problems. (holds his hands)
Henken: (blushes lightly) Uhh...umm...well...
Emma: Yeah?
Henken: ...it's nothing. Honestly. I was just thinking maybe you should go back to the Agama by now since I think they need you there more than I want you here as someone to talk to. Please. Just...j-just get back to your work, okay?
Emma: (looks at him for a few seconds and sighs lightly) ...you're right. I should get back to the Agama. (stands up and faces him) You can call em any time you'd like, Captain. Even if it's just having a friend to talk to. I'm always there, you know. (stands in attention and salutes him) Permission to leave the room, sir.
Henken: (sighs and stands up in attention, saluting Emma back) ...by your leave, Lieutenant.
And as Emma left the room, Henken just sat back on the couch, exactly where Emma was sitting earlier and just stared at the empty plate which was filled with cookies a just while ago. He couldn't believe he could just be so pathetic tonight...
End Episode 12.5
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Why is this called a "Dead Kei Day" chapter anyway, you might ask? Well, as always, I've been busy with my day job that I have either little or no time to write a new chapter anymore lately, and what's more, the life of someone who's just come out of college is quite...hectic, to say the least, in terms of seeking employment and stuff like that. Life sucks sometimes, but that's what you get from growing old. You know, I once heard a saying that states, "Growing old is easy; the hard part is growing up." But then, that's not quite important anymore so blah. (I am never going to grow up from my anime fandom, that's for sure. :3 )
Well anyway, you guys have been great, although I've been getting VERY, VERY limited feedback from among Gundam and Evangelion fans alike who ahve read this fanfiction of mine. It's okay with me. I realize that I can't please everyone all of the time, and for all of this, my determination to be the best UC Gundam - Evangelion fic writer is spurred greatly. And yadda yadda and all that crap. Whatever. :3
By the way, "Dead Kei Day" was inspired by the "Dead Piro Days" from the web comic "Megatokyo" which you can find at http://www.megatokyo.com/. Much credit would go to Mr. Fred Gallagher a.k.a. Piro for making such a wonderful web comic.
Hopefully I'll be able to post a new chapter soon. As usual, "C&C's are welcome, NO FLAMES PLEASE." Until then, "Believe in the sign of ZETA...beyond the hard times from now."