Author: KK
Title: Nagisa Project:: Until the End
Pairings: mainly Kaworu/Shinji
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Neon Genesis Evangelion doesn't belong to me. Marie does, though.
Summary: -_-' Just read the fic.
Chapter 3 part 1: Revelation
Please read the Author's Notes.
****** And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. [Genesis 2:17]
For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. [Genesis 3:5]
******
"Why you don't ever bother to reply to my questions?"
Shinji didn't bother to reply. Again.
Marie sighed. The girl's most annoying flaw was probably her over- talkativeness. Sometimes she just couldn't keep her mouth shut . She blamed for it the fact that usually she had no one to talk to; unless you'd count a few stray moths, attracted by the bright light of her laptop's screen. They weren't very talkative, though.
In her not-so-distant days of youth and carelessness Marie used to talk to herself, keeping herself amused with her own jokes and gossiping to her hearth's content; taking pride in her sharp wit and exuberant imagination. Soon she became a victim of gossiping herself; her co-workers seemed to find her sudden bursts of amusement and quiet murmurings more than a bit peculiar. She couldn't blame them, really.
She gave up the habit when she was fourteen, thinking bitterly that she was probably close to being fired because of the serious mental disorder.
Can't have that, can we..?
Mental disorders aside, she just liked to hear her own voice. Not being someone who wasted her chances, she kept on attacking the young Ikari with questions.
Sadly, Ikari was probably the least talkative person she's ever met, including the old men from Seele, grumpy scientists from the Committee's laboratory, and that old technician who had half of his tongue cut off because of some kind of disease. And that was telling something.
"You aren't very talkative, are you?" said Marie brightly, finishing her preparations. She looked at the door dubiously, then took a deep breath and slid the card through the reader.
With a soft 'beep' the doors started to open. "It worked..! I can't believe it worked!" It seemed that sudden mood swings were Marie's specialty. She got up quickly and nearly tripped over the cables. "Frigging stuff," she gasped, trying to catch her balance.
Every torture must come to its end; true to this popular proverb Marie finally managed to untangle her legs from the wires. Then she spat on the floor in general direction of her laptop, mumbling curses under her breath.
At the back of his mind Shinji thought that spitting on the floor wasn't generally considered as an appropriate behavior for young ladies, but he kept that thought for himself. Instead he looked at the opened doors and shuddered. He did not know why this noisy girl so desperately wanted to open them. He wasn't sure if he did want to know.
Oblivious to Ikari's inner turmoil, Marie packed her things into her bag.
"You stay here," she said to Shinji. "I don't want you wandering around the laboratory. I should be back in a few minutes." She went inside the laboratory, unconcerned about Shinji's utter lack of response.
The boy just remained fixed on the spot, staring at the opened doors; fighting with the urge to slam the doors shut and run as far away as it was possible.
******
"Doctor Akagi."
The harsh tone of the soldier's voice did nothing to turn the woman's attention. She was lying on the small, uncomfortable bed inside the dark cell, staring at the ceiling.
The soldier looked at her, feeling vaguely put-out by the entire situation.
He saw many people, locked in a cell. When locked, they used to swear, pace around the cell, yell obscenities at the guards or throw furniture around.
But this woman - a pretty one, at that - was just sitting or laying on the plank-bed. She wasn't even sleeping.
Was she afraid that she's going to be executed..? No, not a trace of fear marred her beautiful face. She looked almost as she was.
Waiting.
For what? Ritsuko wasn't sure anymore. Perhaps she was just waiting for death. Would she met her mother, if she died..? Ritsuko would like that. There was something she would like to talk about with her mother.
Ritsuko used to be sure that her mother could never understand her. there was nothing that could convince her otherwise.
.In the end she found out that they had more in common than neither of them could imagine.
Funny, that. Both mother and daughter have fallen for the same man.
Sometimes Ritsuko thought that they have proved a point that some things just run in the family. You'd think that as a scientists, they were smart enough not to make such a stupid mistake.
Ritsuko closed her eyes and hoped the soldier will become bored soon. She heard him calling her name again, but the soldier was just wasting his time.
Apparently he gave up when he was ignored again, because Doctor Akagi heard someone closing the doors.
"Ritsuko."
For a split of the second she thought that the soldier came back. She abandoned that thought quickly. No, that wasn't the soldier's voice; this voice she knew by heart. God, how she hated it.
How she missed it.
She forced herself to keep her face expressionless.
"I need you," said the man.
Liar, she thought. But she raised from her bed and followed him like a puppet.
I'm sorry, mother... I'm not ready to die yet.
******
Marie had tried to find the switch to turn the main lights on, then she remembered that the power in this section of the Geofront was still off and she gave up. Besides, she could see the soft, blue light coming from the end of the corridor (probably the laboratory had its own power supply), so she hoped that she would be able to find her way even without the main lights. 'Semi-darkness has its own merits,' thought Marie. 'At least I won't be spotted, even if there is someone wandering around. Then again, who would have been stupid enough to have a nice night walk in this creepy laboratory..? Well, there is a possibility that some frustrated Doctor picked this highly unromantic place to engage in highly immoral activities with his assistant.' Marie winced. 'Eugh. Bad mental images.'
To the girl's intense relief, her worries were proved futile. The place was abandoned and Doctor-free; spy-cameras, thanks God, were turned off.
The blonde girl was close to having a heart failure when she went inside the huge room and stood face to face with the remains of Eva-00.
'Who the hell did put this thing here, anyway!?' For a second, Marie was sure that vicious technicians transported the Eva inside the laboratory only to scare innocent passersby out of their wits. Evangelions without the armor certainly weren't pretty. 'Well, it is a laboratory, after all,' she mused when she calmed down a little. 'Could have been worse. At least Eva-00's more good-looking than Eva Series.'
Marie looked around nervously. 'Heck, this place's huge.' It didn't look so big when she was looking at the map of the laboratory. She hadn't bothered to check where exactly were Nerv's scientists keeping Nagisa's body; she was sure that she would be able to find it without troubles.
'Well, my mistake.' There was no use to cry over spilt milk. The blonde girl just quickened her pace, and, sure enough, soon she found what she was searching for.
******
Misato swore for the umpteenth time this day.
Two men from the Section Two had brought her the news she did not want to hear. In short, Security's search for the pilots was still fruitless, Main power supply was still dysfunctional, and one of the men from Section Two had broken his leg.
'God help me.'
Suddenly, Misato stopped pacing around. Instinctively, she checked if her gun was in its place.
"Maya, I'm going to search for them," she said. "If something happens. Well, my pager is still working." She smiled.
"But..." Maya obviously didn't think that was the best idea ever. She looked at Major with worry in her eyes; but Misato had already made her mind up.
"Those idiots from Section Two wouldn't be able to find their way out of a wet paper bag to save their lives." Misato's face twisted in disgust. "And I just know something's going to happen."
Shigeru and Makoto looked at Major Katsuragi in alarm.
"We can't afford losing the pilots now." Misato turned away and walked off.
She didn't notice that Makoto was squeezing his chair's arm so hard that it almost broke.
******
Marie gasped and stared in awe at the sight before her.
She stood in front of a large tube, filled with LCL. The tube glowed in otherwise dim room, casting strange, shivering shadows on the walls.
'It looks like an amber,' thought Marie. The gold-orange liquid was quite eye-catching indeed, but Marie's attention had been drawn by something else.
There was a body inside the tube, a body so pale that it seemed almost white. It was the body of an about fifteen years old boy. His delicate, pointed face was framed by the halo of gray hair, which seemed almost gold because it was submerged in LCL.
The boy's eyes were closed; with his calm, untroubled expression he looked almost as if he was slumbering peacefully, but the terrible bruises covering his arms and chest were telling otherwise.
"Nagisa," whispered Marie and pressed her palms to the cool glass of the tube. There was no reaction. The girl lowered her head. She looked around the room.
The room was quiet aside from soft beeping of the life-support system. According to EEG machine, Nagisa's heart was still beating. However, this body contained no soul, and only an artificial AT Field kept it from falling apart.
'Now all I need to do is turn off the life-support system.' Marie clenched hers fists. 'But how..?'
Finally she noticed a small room filled with computers and her face twisted in a smile.
'I'm home.'
******
The air was hot and dry, but the boy didn't seem to mind.
He was laying on a large, hot like an oven rock. The teenager had snow- white skin, which gave him the appearance of a statue made of snow. It was a wonder he didn't melt like a snowman in the first rays of sunshine.
He looked strangely out of place, surrounded by the dessert sands and people whose tan was so intense that their skin seemed almost chocolate- brown.
Around him people kept whispering, looking at him or pointing at him with their fingers, as if they were sure that he wasn't able to understand human talk.
It didn't seem to bother him, but when he heard soft footsteps just beside his head he opened his red eyes lazily.
"Are you going to fry yourself?" A tall, suntanned blonde girl pushed her hair out of her sweaty brow. "I hate it, this Nevada place. Even hell seems like Arctic compared to this damned frying-pan."
"Hmm." The teenager looked at the sun without blinking. The tanned girl tried to look at it as well, but even in her sunglasses she couldn't look at the sky without closing her eyes.
"The tests are about to begin, Nagisa," said the girl finally. "You'd better."
".change into the plug-suit," finished the boy. "You didn't need to bother yourself coming here just to tell me." He fixed the girl with an intense stare of his blood-red eyes.
The girl shuddered.
"Why are you still here, Iruka?" asked crimson-eyed boy. "They won't let you stay. You know it, I know it, and they know that you know it."
"Don't call me 'Iruka'." The girl's face twisted in disgust.
"Ma-rie," chuckled the boy. "This name doesn't suit you at all. You are not the mother of God, nor are you innocent." The boy rolled over, still looking at the young woman.
"Are you a virgin..?" he asked finally, with a mischievous glint in his eyes.
"YOU SPAWN OF DEVIL!!!" spluttered Marie. "You. You. You pervert!!!"
She turned around and started to walk away as fast as it was possible without being accused of running away. No matter how fast she walked, she still heard Nagisa's loud laugh following her, mocking her.
"I hope you'll get blown into pieces! Goddamned miracle-boy!!"
The boy finally stopped laughing.
"Maybe I will."
****** ------------ The first activation test of EVA-04 Pilot: Kaworu Nagisa with Dummy System as a support ------------
Kaworu Nagisa looks at the screen and smiles. 'They are lying even to themselves,' he thinks. The Dummy System isn't installed inside EVA-04 for a support. It serves a different purpose; it's supposed to record Kaworu's reactions, his usual behavior in dangerous situations, his brainwaves' patterns.
In other words: his personality.
Kaworu's a brilliant pilot, but he cannot pilot several Evas at the same time. .or so Seele thinks.
"Entry plug secured. Begin the first phase of connection."
The boy smiles. Here, inside the entry-plug, he finally feels at peace.
He still hears the steady voice of the operator, screams of technicians, the soft buzz of the machines; but they don't matter anymore.
Nothing matters anymore.
"Transmitting pulses. Graphic display within norms."
The boy closes his eyes and drives 'inside', inside his own world. The colors shifts around him, pulsing, shivering, surrounding him like a soft wave of warm seawater. He sees the light surrounding him, guiding him. No one can follow him here.
"List clear. Transfer the operation to the second phase."
The sand is warm under his feet. He can hear the music; he breaths in the fresh, salty air. He throws his arms in the air and starts running around, his whole self filled with joy.
"Full nerve link established. Harmonics in normal. Approaching absolute borderline."
Suddenly the world shifts around him. The seashore isn't bright and sunny anymore. The world is surrounded in semi-darkness, illuminated by the last rays of amber-like sunshine.
The sky is red, like blood.
The boy founds himself sitting on a rock. Soft humming fills the air and the boy realizes that he is the one who's singing.
A familiar song.
He hears a startled sound behind him and turns around slowly.
He sees a boy, about his own age. Their eyes meet, blood-red and midnight- blue.
The world spins again, and when Kaworu opens his eyes again he sees. himself.
"There's a huge power surge coming from inside the unit..!"
"Abort the experiment. Cut all nerve's connections!"
"..It's not working!!"
******
I've never knew who I am.
All I knew was the fact that I was different. I didn't belong here. I wasn't one of them.
Until that day. that day.
******
"Danger! Eva-04's bio-parts are being penetrated!"
"Label the target as the 13th Angel. What's the status of the pilot?"
"He's unconscious. He's right arm is being penetrated by the Angel!"
"God help us. Call the USA Air Forces! Evacuate the personnel!"
******
Kaworu isn't scared. He has never been. He looks at the other 'him' with curiosity.
..No.
It's not him, that other boy. Kaworu's sure he has never met him in his entire life, but the boy is familiar to him, nonetheless.
Such a familiar feeling.
"Who are you..?"
"I am part of myself and I am part of yourself.If we become one I'll become myself. You are the one I once was, I am the one you will soon be." The other boy keeps his head lowered, so Kaworu cannot see his eyes.
"Who am I..?" asks Kaworu again.
"You are the last of 'me' and the first of 'us'. Messenger's shell filled with stray soul. The only of 'me' who's been gifted with Free Will." The other 'Kaworu' twist his lips in a smile. "So. what do you wish for..?"
Kaworu ponders for a while.
"I wish.. to Know."
The foreigner finally raises his head. His eyes are crimson, like Kaworu's.
"You wish for something I cannot tell you," he says. "But I can show you."
The boy's body starts to glow and he extends his hand in Kaworu's direction.
"Come with me. Become one with me, stray child. I will give you a part of my mind, you will give me a part of your heart.We shall complete our imperfect selves."
Kaworu hesitates, then reaches out in the mysterious boy's direction.
"Come with me. 'Tabris,' says the boy.and their hands touch.
Kaworu gasps and bright light fills his eyes. He forces himself to keep his eyes open, and he sees.
/.the light. The giant made of light, his eyes crimson like blood, his wings large enough to reach the moon./
/.explosion/
/.the name; ADAM/
/.himself, a small kid in a clinical-white laboratory/
/.the brown haired woman holding a kid/
/.an Evangelion with purple armor/
/.a city, it's buildings coming down/
/.another giant, but it's skin is dark-green this time/
/.and another, one by one the images keeps flashing in front of his eyes, and every one of them has its name/
/.a pair of midnight blue eyes/
/.a blue haired girl, many of them/
/.a pair of broken glasses/
/.the fights, defeats and victories, pain and tears/
/.an old SDAT player/
/.the boy, curled in a small ball inside the entry-plug, crying.The boy feels familiar, and Kaworu realizes that he was the one he saw inside his 'dream' before the other being appeared/
/.an explosion of other images, people and places and items and faces spinning around so fast that he barely has the time to look closely at them, but they are flowing inside of him, filling his heart/
.and he KNOWS.
******
TBC.
- And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men (.). [Revelations 12:13]
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Title: Nagisa Project:: Until the End
Pairings: mainly Kaworu/Shinji
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Neon Genesis Evangelion doesn't belong to me. Marie does, though.
Summary: -_-' Just read the fic.
Chapter 3 part 1: Revelation
Please read the Author's Notes.
****** And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. [Genesis 2:17]
For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. [Genesis 3:5]
******
"Why you don't ever bother to reply to my questions?"
Shinji didn't bother to reply. Again.
Marie sighed. The girl's most annoying flaw was probably her over- talkativeness. Sometimes she just couldn't keep her mouth shut . She blamed for it the fact that usually she had no one to talk to; unless you'd count a few stray moths, attracted by the bright light of her laptop's screen. They weren't very talkative, though.
In her not-so-distant days of youth and carelessness Marie used to talk to herself, keeping herself amused with her own jokes and gossiping to her hearth's content; taking pride in her sharp wit and exuberant imagination. Soon she became a victim of gossiping herself; her co-workers seemed to find her sudden bursts of amusement and quiet murmurings more than a bit peculiar. She couldn't blame them, really.
She gave up the habit when she was fourteen, thinking bitterly that she was probably close to being fired because of the serious mental disorder.
Can't have that, can we..?
Mental disorders aside, she just liked to hear her own voice. Not being someone who wasted her chances, she kept on attacking the young Ikari with questions.
Sadly, Ikari was probably the least talkative person she's ever met, including the old men from Seele, grumpy scientists from the Committee's laboratory, and that old technician who had half of his tongue cut off because of some kind of disease. And that was telling something.
"You aren't very talkative, are you?" said Marie brightly, finishing her preparations. She looked at the door dubiously, then took a deep breath and slid the card through the reader.
With a soft 'beep' the doors started to open. "It worked..! I can't believe it worked!" It seemed that sudden mood swings were Marie's specialty. She got up quickly and nearly tripped over the cables. "Frigging stuff," she gasped, trying to catch her balance.
Every torture must come to its end; true to this popular proverb Marie finally managed to untangle her legs from the wires. Then she spat on the floor in general direction of her laptop, mumbling curses under her breath.
At the back of his mind Shinji thought that spitting on the floor wasn't generally considered as an appropriate behavior for young ladies, but he kept that thought for himself. Instead he looked at the opened doors and shuddered. He did not know why this noisy girl so desperately wanted to open them. He wasn't sure if he did want to know.
Oblivious to Ikari's inner turmoil, Marie packed her things into her bag.
"You stay here," she said to Shinji. "I don't want you wandering around the laboratory. I should be back in a few minutes." She went inside the laboratory, unconcerned about Shinji's utter lack of response.
The boy just remained fixed on the spot, staring at the opened doors; fighting with the urge to slam the doors shut and run as far away as it was possible.
******
"Doctor Akagi."
The harsh tone of the soldier's voice did nothing to turn the woman's attention. She was lying on the small, uncomfortable bed inside the dark cell, staring at the ceiling.
The soldier looked at her, feeling vaguely put-out by the entire situation.
He saw many people, locked in a cell. When locked, they used to swear, pace around the cell, yell obscenities at the guards or throw furniture around.
But this woman - a pretty one, at that - was just sitting or laying on the plank-bed. She wasn't even sleeping.
Was she afraid that she's going to be executed..? No, not a trace of fear marred her beautiful face. She looked almost as she was.
Waiting.
For what? Ritsuko wasn't sure anymore. Perhaps she was just waiting for death. Would she met her mother, if she died..? Ritsuko would like that. There was something she would like to talk about with her mother.
Ritsuko used to be sure that her mother could never understand her. there was nothing that could convince her otherwise.
.In the end she found out that they had more in common than neither of them could imagine.
Funny, that. Both mother and daughter have fallen for the same man.
Sometimes Ritsuko thought that they have proved a point that some things just run in the family. You'd think that as a scientists, they were smart enough not to make such a stupid mistake.
Ritsuko closed her eyes and hoped the soldier will become bored soon. She heard him calling her name again, but the soldier was just wasting his time.
Apparently he gave up when he was ignored again, because Doctor Akagi heard someone closing the doors.
"Ritsuko."
For a split of the second she thought that the soldier came back. She abandoned that thought quickly. No, that wasn't the soldier's voice; this voice she knew by heart. God, how she hated it.
How she missed it.
She forced herself to keep her face expressionless.
"I need you," said the man.
Liar, she thought. But she raised from her bed and followed him like a puppet.
I'm sorry, mother... I'm not ready to die yet.
******
Marie had tried to find the switch to turn the main lights on, then she remembered that the power in this section of the Geofront was still off and she gave up. Besides, she could see the soft, blue light coming from the end of the corridor (probably the laboratory had its own power supply), so she hoped that she would be able to find her way even without the main lights. 'Semi-darkness has its own merits,' thought Marie. 'At least I won't be spotted, even if there is someone wandering around. Then again, who would have been stupid enough to have a nice night walk in this creepy laboratory..? Well, there is a possibility that some frustrated Doctor picked this highly unromantic place to engage in highly immoral activities with his assistant.' Marie winced. 'Eugh. Bad mental images.'
To the girl's intense relief, her worries were proved futile. The place was abandoned and Doctor-free; spy-cameras, thanks God, were turned off.
The blonde girl was close to having a heart failure when she went inside the huge room and stood face to face with the remains of Eva-00.
'Who the hell did put this thing here, anyway!?' For a second, Marie was sure that vicious technicians transported the Eva inside the laboratory only to scare innocent passersby out of their wits. Evangelions without the armor certainly weren't pretty. 'Well, it is a laboratory, after all,' she mused when she calmed down a little. 'Could have been worse. At least Eva-00's more good-looking than Eva Series.'
Marie looked around nervously. 'Heck, this place's huge.' It didn't look so big when she was looking at the map of the laboratory. She hadn't bothered to check where exactly were Nerv's scientists keeping Nagisa's body; she was sure that she would be able to find it without troubles.
'Well, my mistake.' There was no use to cry over spilt milk. The blonde girl just quickened her pace, and, sure enough, soon she found what she was searching for.
******
Misato swore for the umpteenth time this day.
Two men from the Section Two had brought her the news she did not want to hear. In short, Security's search for the pilots was still fruitless, Main power supply was still dysfunctional, and one of the men from Section Two had broken his leg.
'God help me.'
Suddenly, Misato stopped pacing around. Instinctively, she checked if her gun was in its place.
"Maya, I'm going to search for them," she said. "If something happens. Well, my pager is still working." She smiled.
"But..." Maya obviously didn't think that was the best idea ever. She looked at Major with worry in her eyes; but Misato had already made her mind up.
"Those idiots from Section Two wouldn't be able to find their way out of a wet paper bag to save their lives." Misato's face twisted in disgust. "And I just know something's going to happen."
Shigeru and Makoto looked at Major Katsuragi in alarm.
"We can't afford losing the pilots now." Misato turned away and walked off.
She didn't notice that Makoto was squeezing his chair's arm so hard that it almost broke.
******
Marie gasped and stared in awe at the sight before her.
She stood in front of a large tube, filled with LCL. The tube glowed in otherwise dim room, casting strange, shivering shadows on the walls.
'It looks like an amber,' thought Marie. The gold-orange liquid was quite eye-catching indeed, but Marie's attention had been drawn by something else.
There was a body inside the tube, a body so pale that it seemed almost white. It was the body of an about fifteen years old boy. His delicate, pointed face was framed by the halo of gray hair, which seemed almost gold because it was submerged in LCL.
The boy's eyes were closed; with his calm, untroubled expression he looked almost as if he was slumbering peacefully, but the terrible bruises covering his arms and chest were telling otherwise.
"Nagisa," whispered Marie and pressed her palms to the cool glass of the tube. There was no reaction. The girl lowered her head. She looked around the room.
The room was quiet aside from soft beeping of the life-support system. According to EEG machine, Nagisa's heart was still beating. However, this body contained no soul, and only an artificial AT Field kept it from falling apart.
'Now all I need to do is turn off the life-support system.' Marie clenched hers fists. 'But how..?'
Finally she noticed a small room filled with computers and her face twisted in a smile.
'I'm home.'
******
The air was hot and dry, but the boy didn't seem to mind.
He was laying on a large, hot like an oven rock. The teenager had snow- white skin, which gave him the appearance of a statue made of snow. It was a wonder he didn't melt like a snowman in the first rays of sunshine.
He looked strangely out of place, surrounded by the dessert sands and people whose tan was so intense that their skin seemed almost chocolate- brown.
Around him people kept whispering, looking at him or pointing at him with their fingers, as if they were sure that he wasn't able to understand human talk.
It didn't seem to bother him, but when he heard soft footsteps just beside his head he opened his red eyes lazily.
"Are you going to fry yourself?" A tall, suntanned blonde girl pushed her hair out of her sweaty brow. "I hate it, this Nevada place. Even hell seems like Arctic compared to this damned frying-pan."
"Hmm." The teenager looked at the sun without blinking. The tanned girl tried to look at it as well, but even in her sunglasses she couldn't look at the sky without closing her eyes.
"The tests are about to begin, Nagisa," said the girl finally. "You'd better."
".change into the plug-suit," finished the boy. "You didn't need to bother yourself coming here just to tell me." He fixed the girl with an intense stare of his blood-red eyes.
The girl shuddered.
"Why are you still here, Iruka?" asked crimson-eyed boy. "They won't let you stay. You know it, I know it, and they know that you know it."
"Don't call me 'Iruka'." The girl's face twisted in disgust.
"Ma-rie," chuckled the boy. "This name doesn't suit you at all. You are not the mother of God, nor are you innocent." The boy rolled over, still looking at the young woman.
"Are you a virgin..?" he asked finally, with a mischievous glint in his eyes.
"YOU SPAWN OF DEVIL!!!" spluttered Marie. "You. You. You pervert!!!"
She turned around and started to walk away as fast as it was possible without being accused of running away. No matter how fast she walked, she still heard Nagisa's loud laugh following her, mocking her.
"I hope you'll get blown into pieces! Goddamned miracle-boy!!"
The boy finally stopped laughing.
"Maybe I will."
****** ------------ The first activation test of EVA-04 Pilot: Kaworu Nagisa with Dummy System as a support ------------
Kaworu Nagisa looks at the screen and smiles. 'They are lying even to themselves,' he thinks. The Dummy System isn't installed inside EVA-04 for a support. It serves a different purpose; it's supposed to record Kaworu's reactions, his usual behavior in dangerous situations, his brainwaves' patterns.
In other words: his personality.
Kaworu's a brilliant pilot, but he cannot pilot several Evas at the same time. .or so Seele thinks.
"Entry plug secured. Begin the first phase of connection."
The boy smiles. Here, inside the entry-plug, he finally feels at peace.
He still hears the steady voice of the operator, screams of technicians, the soft buzz of the machines; but they don't matter anymore.
Nothing matters anymore.
"Transmitting pulses. Graphic display within norms."
The boy closes his eyes and drives 'inside', inside his own world. The colors shifts around him, pulsing, shivering, surrounding him like a soft wave of warm seawater. He sees the light surrounding him, guiding him. No one can follow him here.
"List clear. Transfer the operation to the second phase."
The sand is warm under his feet. He can hear the music; he breaths in the fresh, salty air. He throws his arms in the air and starts running around, his whole self filled with joy.
"Full nerve link established. Harmonics in normal. Approaching absolute borderline."
Suddenly the world shifts around him. The seashore isn't bright and sunny anymore. The world is surrounded in semi-darkness, illuminated by the last rays of amber-like sunshine.
The sky is red, like blood.
The boy founds himself sitting on a rock. Soft humming fills the air and the boy realizes that he is the one who's singing.
A familiar song.
He hears a startled sound behind him and turns around slowly.
He sees a boy, about his own age. Their eyes meet, blood-red and midnight- blue.
The world spins again, and when Kaworu opens his eyes again he sees. himself.
"There's a huge power surge coming from inside the unit..!"
"Abort the experiment. Cut all nerve's connections!"
"..It's not working!!"
******
I've never knew who I am.
All I knew was the fact that I was different. I didn't belong here. I wasn't one of them.
Until that day. that day.
******
"Danger! Eva-04's bio-parts are being penetrated!"
"Label the target as the 13th Angel. What's the status of the pilot?"
"He's unconscious. He's right arm is being penetrated by the Angel!"
"God help us. Call the USA Air Forces! Evacuate the personnel!"
******
Kaworu isn't scared. He has never been. He looks at the other 'him' with curiosity.
..No.
It's not him, that other boy. Kaworu's sure he has never met him in his entire life, but the boy is familiar to him, nonetheless.
Such a familiar feeling.
"Who are you..?"
"I am part of myself and I am part of yourself.If we become one I'll become myself. You are the one I once was, I am the one you will soon be." The other boy keeps his head lowered, so Kaworu cannot see his eyes.
"Who am I..?" asks Kaworu again.
"You are the last of 'me' and the first of 'us'. Messenger's shell filled with stray soul. The only of 'me' who's been gifted with Free Will." The other 'Kaworu' twist his lips in a smile. "So. what do you wish for..?"
Kaworu ponders for a while.
"I wish.. to Know."
The foreigner finally raises his head. His eyes are crimson, like Kaworu's.
"You wish for something I cannot tell you," he says. "But I can show you."
The boy's body starts to glow and he extends his hand in Kaworu's direction.
"Come with me. Become one with me, stray child. I will give you a part of my mind, you will give me a part of your heart.We shall complete our imperfect selves."
Kaworu hesitates, then reaches out in the mysterious boy's direction.
"Come with me. 'Tabris,' says the boy.and their hands touch.
Kaworu gasps and bright light fills his eyes. He forces himself to keep his eyes open, and he sees.
/.the light. The giant made of light, his eyes crimson like blood, his wings large enough to reach the moon./
/.explosion/
/.the name; ADAM/
/.himself, a small kid in a clinical-white laboratory/
/.the brown haired woman holding a kid/
/.an Evangelion with purple armor/
/.a city, it's buildings coming down/
/.another giant, but it's skin is dark-green this time/
/.and another, one by one the images keeps flashing in front of his eyes, and every one of them has its name/
/.a pair of midnight blue eyes/
/.a blue haired girl, many of them/
/.a pair of broken glasses/
/.the fights, defeats and victories, pain and tears/
/.an old SDAT player/
/.the boy, curled in a small ball inside the entry-plug, crying.The boy feels familiar, and Kaworu realizes that he was the one he saw inside his 'dream' before the other being appeared/
/.an explosion of other images, people and places and items and faces spinning around so fast that he barely has the time to look closely at them, but they are flowing inside of him, filling his heart/
.and he KNOWS.
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TBC.
- And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men (.). [Revelations 12:13]
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