Title: Return from Middle Earth
Author: Knife Hand
Feedback: Constructive feedback appreciated, flames unappreciated
Spoilers: Spoilers for Eva, no event spoilers for LotR. Must read Children In Middle Earth first.
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I do not own Lord of The Rings or Neon Genesis Evangelion. I would buy them but I am broke.
Summary: After fourteen years and a new life in Middle Earth, Shinji, Asuka and Rei return to Tokyo 3 twenty-four hours after they left, reverting to teenagers again. (Sequel to Children In Middle Earth)
AN: Just to clarify in this I am ignoring the whole 'Rei is a clone' thing. She is the original and she bears no relation to Shinji whatsoever. Set just after the eleventh Angel.
AN2: Rudy, that part was to explain why Rei followed Gendo seeing as she is not a clone. :) Adyen remember that technically have only been gone for 24 hours, so the computer technology has not changed, and they are geniuses.
"__" means speech (Japanese or denoted), '__' means thought, *__* means ME Common --__-- means computer messages.
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"The Angel's body can only be described by abstract mathematics, a Sea of Durack. It's a pocket universe, and the sphere that appears in the sky is only apparent when the hypothetical circuit of the body is closed." Ritsuko explained.
"So the true target is the shadow, correct?" Commander Ikari asked.
"Yes sir. We believe that if we drop all remaining 992 N2 mines while simultaneously activating the AT fields of the two remaining Eva's at specific points, we will be able to destroy the Angel." Ritsuko said.
"NO!" Rei said, emphatically.
"Quiet." Gendo said to Rei before turning back to Ritsuko. "Proceed."
"Rei, calm down." Asuka whispered.
"No one should ever have to burry their chid, why are you in such a hurry to?" Rei asked Gendo menacingly.
"What is your problem, Pilot Ayanami?" Commander Ikari asked.
"That is my husband in there! And the name's Ikari!" Rei practically screamed.
Shock swept through the group, except for Asuka who had attended the wedding as the Maid of Honour. Misato was so shocked that she literally fell out of her chair, while Ritsuko dropped her glasses, which she had been holding during her lecture. Sub-Commander Fuyutsuki had a slightly intense look on his face, as if he had finally found a new piece to a puzzle but was not sure where it goes, while Gendo had a look total shock, something that no one at NERV had ever seen before, in fact no one had ever seen anything but his patented "I'm a total bastard" expression. After a few seconds, Rei ran from the meeting.
"You bastard. She had to burry her daughter and now you want to kill the only reminder of her son." Asuka yelled at Commander Ikari before taking off after Rei.
When Asuka finally caught up with Rei, the blue haired girl turned and began weeping into the shoulder of the redhead.
"I can't lose him too. Not now. I'm still getting over losing Yui." Rei sobbed.
"We'll get him back. I promise. He's like a brother to me." Asuka reassured her distraught 'sister'.
The only thought that entered Commander Ikari's mind in the next few minutes was 'I am a Grandfather?'
********
"Look, Asuka. I think I understand what you are going through." Misato said.
"No. I really don't think that you do." Asuka replied.
They were waiting in the staging area for the operation to "save" Shinji, by blowing him up, to begin.
"We were gone for a long time, Misato." Asuka said sadly.
"You were gone for one day."
"We were gone for fourteen years. We had a whole other life. If anyone needs someone to talk to at the moment it is Rei."
"Why Rei?" Misato asked, genuinely confused.
"Because of what is happening. We lived in a harsh and violent world, a world where death is a daily occurrence. Shinji and Rei were the kindest and most loving parents imaginable in a world of pain, and their reward was to watch as their four year old daughter's body rebelled against her. They watched their daughter suffer in agony for three months till she could not stand the pain anymore and gave up on living. Now that bastard who calls himself Shinji's father wants to bomb the last reminder that Rei has of her dead daughter and her lost son. Tell me, wouldn't you need someone to talk to?"
"Asuka, I." Misato started.
"Excuse me. I have to go and help the Devil kill my brother." Asuka said as she walked away from Misato towards Unit 02.
********
Asuka and Rei were sitting in their Eva's waiting for the operation to start. Officially Ritsuko was in charge of the operation because Commander Ikari was still digesting the fact that Rei was an Ikari and he was a grandfather, while Sub-Commander Fuyutsuki had returned to the Geofront to laugh uncontrollably at the look on Commander Ikari's face when Rei had made the revelation. The bombers with the N2 mines were lining up the approach to make their runs on the shadow that was the 12th Angel.
'Shinji, my love. Come back to me. Please?' Rei though desperately.
'Rei?' a faint voice whispered into her mind, so faint that it almost wasn't there.
Suddenly the ground began to shake and the black and white ball floating in the sky turned dead black.
"Abort. Repeat, Abort the bombing run. Something's happening." Asuka ordered over the comms.
Far above the contrails from the massive bombers began to veer off from the target.
"Holy Shit." One bombardier whispered as he looked through his bomb sights.
He got a bird's eye view of the large black disk, which was the target, cracking like a broken plate and spraying blood into the air. Then the floating black ball rippled before rupturing to reveal a blood soaked arm, followed by a head which gave off a roar that he could almost hear over the constant noise of the engines, and the thirty five thousand vertical feet separating them.
For a second the monstrosity emerging from the sphere looked up and he saw, through thirty five thousand feet and a bomb sight, a madness in the eyes of the beast. The madness that bomber crews get after flying through very heavy flack, the look of someone who has been through hell, wounded and jaded, and is now looking to return to loved ones and not willing to let anything get in his way. As the bomber speeded away, dragging the devastating scene below from his sights, the bombardier said a silent prayer to the pilot of the rescued machine that he finds his loved ones in good stead, another for the quick death of any the pilot considers an enemy and then resolved to go home and talk with his wife, to work through the issues that had been slowly pushing the pair of them apart.
********
Light poured into the entry plug, momentarily blinding Shinji.
"I just wanted to see Rei, one more time." He whispered.
"I'm hear, Shinji. I'm here." Rei said, half collapsing over him in tears.
"Welcome back, brother." Asuka said, standing slightly back from the hatch.
"I saw her. I saw Yui, and she's in a better place." He said slowly.
Rei broke down into a new wave of crying, and Asuka silently began shedding tears behind the married couple.
"She, above all, deserved it." Asuka said softly.
Misato looked on with a mix of emotions. 'Her children' had changed, they were much more mature and she wondered if they would still want her around, not that they had ever needed her, but she had, and still, needed them.
********
Far away, in a room lit only by the flickering of a TV set, men railed at the images they were seeing.
"How dare they?" The leader preached. "How dare mere mortals challenge the Messengers of God, and His Divine Will? The heathens will pay for their insolence. We will show them the true will of God. The Knights of Divine Justice will spread, as if wings give speed to our feet, and we will stop the demonic heathens. We will find the soulless beasts who murder the expression of the Divine and we will send them back to the pit of Hell, where they belong. Amen."
"Amen." Voices echoed through the near darkness.
The light of insanity glinted in the leader's eyes as he issued orders and planed for the destruction of NERV.
(AN: This is not a knock on Christianity or any other, major or minor, religion. This is a demonstration of how one individual with a warped perspective of the world can influence other into irrational and illogical behaviour. The Knights are a representation of the suicide and doomsday cults around the world who would resort to violence and terrorism to achieve their warped views of religion and the world.)
********
Elsewhere, a solitary figure also watched the TV. The figure's eyes flashed to a bundle resting carefully on the bed nearby. She paced the room nervously. She had been waiting for this for a long time. Unlike The Knights of Divine Justice, of which she had no knowledge, she was aware of the identity of those who would defy godlike beings. She knew her mission but she wondered about other things as well. Thoughts from long ago filled her mind as she struggled with the path ahead of her.
'I know what I must do, but I wonder. Can I let them stand alone?' she thought.
With that question unresolved, she began to pack her belongings. She had a long way to travel before this was over, and she only hoped that the question would be answered before she got where she was going. Pulling on a loge trench coat and pulling up the hood to protect her from the rain outside, she looked around the small hotel room. She missed her old home, either one, but that was a life that she had left behind long ago, and now she had one last task to perform, one holdover from that former life. When she pulled the door closed, the room bore almost no witness that she was ever there as she faded into the rain and the darkness.
TBC.
Author: Knife Hand
Feedback: Constructive feedback appreciated, flames unappreciated
Spoilers: Spoilers for Eva, no event spoilers for LotR. Must read Children In Middle Earth first.
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I do not own Lord of The Rings or Neon Genesis Evangelion. I would buy them but I am broke.
Summary: After fourteen years and a new life in Middle Earth, Shinji, Asuka and Rei return to Tokyo 3 twenty-four hours after they left, reverting to teenagers again. (Sequel to Children In Middle Earth)
AN: Just to clarify in this I am ignoring the whole 'Rei is a clone' thing. She is the original and she bears no relation to Shinji whatsoever. Set just after the eleventh Angel.
AN2: Rudy, that part was to explain why Rei followed Gendo seeing as she is not a clone. :) Adyen remember that technically have only been gone for 24 hours, so the computer technology has not changed, and they are geniuses.
"__" means speech (Japanese or denoted), '__' means thought, *__* means ME Common --__-- means computer messages.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"The Angel's body can only be described by abstract mathematics, a Sea of Durack. It's a pocket universe, and the sphere that appears in the sky is only apparent when the hypothetical circuit of the body is closed." Ritsuko explained.
"So the true target is the shadow, correct?" Commander Ikari asked.
"Yes sir. We believe that if we drop all remaining 992 N2 mines while simultaneously activating the AT fields of the two remaining Eva's at specific points, we will be able to destroy the Angel." Ritsuko said.
"NO!" Rei said, emphatically.
"Quiet." Gendo said to Rei before turning back to Ritsuko. "Proceed."
"Rei, calm down." Asuka whispered.
"No one should ever have to burry their chid, why are you in such a hurry to?" Rei asked Gendo menacingly.
"What is your problem, Pilot Ayanami?" Commander Ikari asked.
"That is my husband in there! And the name's Ikari!" Rei practically screamed.
Shock swept through the group, except for Asuka who had attended the wedding as the Maid of Honour. Misato was so shocked that she literally fell out of her chair, while Ritsuko dropped her glasses, which she had been holding during her lecture. Sub-Commander Fuyutsuki had a slightly intense look on his face, as if he had finally found a new piece to a puzzle but was not sure where it goes, while Gendo had a look total shock, something that no one at NERV had ever seen before, in fact no one had ever seen anything but his patented "I'm a total bastard" expression. After a few seconds, Rei ran from the meeting.
"You bastard. She had to burry her daughter and now you want to kill the only reminder of her son." Asuka yelled at Commander Ikari before taking off after Rei.
When Asuka finally caught up with Rei, the blue haired girl turned and began weeping into the shoulder of the redhead.
"I can't lose him too. Not now. I'm still getting over losing Yui." Rei sobbed.
"We'll get him back. I promise. He's like a brother to me." Asuka reassured her distraught 'sister'.
The only thought that entered Commander Ikari's mind in the next few minutes was 'I am a Grandfather?'
********
"Look, Asuka. I think I understand what you are going through." Misato said.
"No. I really don't think that you do." Asuka replied.
They were waiting in the staging area for the operation to "save" Shinji, by blowing him up, to begin.
"We were gone for a long time, Misato." Asuka said sadly.
"You were gone for one day."
"We were gone for fourteen years. We had a whole other life. If anyone needs someone to talk to at the moment it is Rei."
"Why Rei?" Misato asked, genuinely confused.
"Because of what is happening. We lived in a harsh and violent world, a world where death is a daily occurrence. Shinji and Rei were the kindest and most loving parents imaginable in a world of pain, and their reward was to watch as their four year old daughter's body rebelled against her. They watched their daughter suffer in agony for three months till she could not stand the pain anymore and gave up on living. Now that bastard who calls himself Shinji's father wants to bomb the last reminder that Rei has of her dead daughter and her lost son. Tell me, wouldn't you need someone to talk to?"
"Asuka, I." Misato started.
"Excuse me. I have to go and help the Devil kill my brother." Asuka said as she walked away from Misato towards Unit 02.
********
Asuka and Rei were sitting in their Eva's waiting for the operation to start. Officially Ritsuko was in charge of the operation because Commander Ikari was still digesting the fact that Rei was an Ikari and he was a grandfather, while Sub-Commander Fuyutsuki had returned to the Geofront to laugh uncontrollably at the look on Commander Ikari's face when Rei had made the revelation. The bombers with the N2 mines were lining up the approach to make their runs on the shadow that was the 12th Angel.
'Shinji, my love. Come back to me. Please?' Rei though desperately.
'Rei?' a faint voice whispered into her mind, so faint that it almost wasn't there.
Suddenly the ground began to shake and the black and white ball floating in the sky turned dead black.
"Abort. Repeat, Abort the bombing run. Something's happening." Asuka ordered over the comms.
Far above the contrails from the massive bombers began to veer off from the target.
"Holy Shit." One bombardier whispered as he looked through his bomb sights.
He got a bird's eye view of the large black disk, which was the target, cracking like a broken plate and spraying blood into the air. Then the floating black ball rippled before rupturing to reveal a blood soaked arm, followed by a head which gave off a roar that he could almost hear over the constant noise of the engines, and the thirty five thousand vertical feet separating them.
For a second the monstrosity emerging from the sphere looked up and he saw, through thirty five thousand feet and a bomb sight, a madness in the eyes of the beast. The madness that bomber crews get after flying through very heavy flack, the look of someone who has been through hell, wounded and jaded, and is now looking to return to loved ones and not willing to let anything get in his way. As the bomber speeded away, dragging the devastating scene below from his sights, the bombardier said a silent prayer to the pilot of the rescued machine that he finds his loved ones in good stead, another for the quick death of any the pilot considers an enemy and then resolved to go home and talk with his wife, to work through the issues that had been slowly pushing the pair of them apart.
********
Light poured into the entry plug, momentarily blinding Shinji.
"I just wanted to see Rei, one more time." He whispered.
"I'm hear, Shinji. I'm here." Rei said, half collapsing over him in tears.
"Welcome back, brother." Asuka said, standing slightly back from the hatch.
"I saw her. I saw Yui, and she's in a better place." He said slowly.
Rei broke down into a new wave of crying, and Asuka silently began shedding tears behind the married couple.
"She, above all, deserved it." Asuka said softly.
Misato looked on with a mix of emotions. 'Her children' had changed, they were much more mature and she wondered if they would still want her around, not that they had ever needed her, but she had, and still, needed them.
********
Far away, in a room lit only by the flickering of a TV set, men railed at the images they were seeing.
"How dare they?" The leader preached. "How dare mere mortals challenge the Messengers of God, and His Divine Will? The heathens will pay for their insolence. We will show them the true will of God. The Knights of Divine Justice will spread, as if wings give speed to our feet, and we will stop the demonic heathens. We will find the soulless beasts who murder the expression of the Divine and we will send them back to the pit of Hell, where they belong. Amen."
"Amen." Voices echoed through the near darkness.
The light of insanity glinted in the leader's eyes as he issued orders and planed for the destruction of NERV.
(AN: This is not a knock on Christianity or any other, major or minor, religion. This is a demonstration of how one individual with a warped perspective of the world can influence other into irrational and illogical behaviour. The Knights are a representation of the suicide and doomsday cults around the world who would resort to violence and terrorism to achieve their warped views of religion and the world.)
********
Elsewhere, a solitary figure also watched the TV. The figure's eyes flashed to a bundle resting carefully on the bed nearby. She paced the room nervously. She had been waiting for this for a long time. Unlike The Knights of Divine Justice, of which she had no knowledge, she was aware of the identity of those who would defy godlike beings. She knew her mission but she wondered about other things as well. Thoughts from long ago filled her mind as she struggled with the path ahead of her.
'I know what I must do, but I wonder. Can I let them stand alone?' she thought.
With that question unresolved, she began to pack her belongings. She had a long way to travel before this was over, and she only hoped that the question would be answered before she got where she was going. Pulling on a loge trench coat and pulling up the hood to protect her from the rain outside, she looked around the small hotel room. She missed her old home, either one, but that was a life that she had left behind long ago, and now she had one last task to perform, one holdover from that former life. When she pulled the door closed, the room bore almost no witness that she was ever there as she faded into the rain and the darkness.
TBC.