Disclaimer: Evangelion is copyright Gainax, Project Eva, and all other respective companies. This is a work of fan fiction, nonprofit, and so on. However, the Muses that will be used later on (as posted on my profile) are mine, and the various ideas that I'll be using in this story (Technologies, Concepts, Plot, etc.) also belong to me (I think, therefore I do. Right?), and if you wish to use any of it, you may ask for permission and chances are that as long as you ask me, I'll say "yes."
Author Note's (Please Read for Your Benefit): Also, I would like to state that this story is an Alternate Universe to Evangelion, and will loosely follow the Anime, with a few quotes and such from the Anime as well. Also before anyone bothers me with this, this story is not a romance, so I will not announce the pairings because they're going to be a surprise and will be loosely linked to the plot, since this will be more of an Action/Adventure and Sci-Fi. However, everyone will pretty much get a "soul mate", so to speak... I will stand firm on this because even throughout the entire series, Gainax didn't really have the time to develop the relationships between the pilots, and like them I won't focus on some of the relationships until later on in the story. In addition to that, several little details will be changed, such as the appearance of a few of the Angels, and a few other things, and I can assure you, there is a reason behind this. Finally, please review if you have to time to give me any ideas, suggestions, constructive criticism, and names for characters (and possibly descriptions) that sound interesting and are unique, but not overused.
Anyways, enjoy the story!
Rise of the Titans: Prelude: The Tale of an "Angel"
My story, so to speak, began about five years ago...
I was found frozen solid in a glacier on the continent that the Lilium call Antarctica. The ones that found me frequently referred to themselves as the "Katsuragi Expedition." Other things that I often heard were things that had to do with an organization called the U.N., and also a newer organization that was related to the U.N. called "Gehirn."
Even though I wasn't able to interact with the Lilium physically, I was able to communicate with them through their computers and machines. Some how I could understand what they were said to me, even though I'm not entirely sure how.
Two of the Lilium that I became well acquainted with was a scientist named Gendo Rokubungi, who was in charge of monitoring me, and a young girl named Misato who often came to visit me when her father was out working, which was quite often.
Gendo, when I first spoke with him, wasn't very interesting and in the beginning he wasn't very interested in me either. However, with time, we established a common ground of interest with science and technology, and in some cases even weaponry. Even though I knew the Lilium were quite primitive, they learned fast, and Gendo was no exception. We would sometimes talk for hours as I described a theory, and Gendo would write it down, and then I would explain to him how to apply it. As a result of our talks, biotechnology was accelerated ahead several hundred years and potions and antidotes were developed to completely eradicate diseases such as HIV, Influenza, and even the terrible Ebola that is apparently rampant throughout a continent called Africa.
All of this was accomplished in a matter of mere months. Of course during this time, the Lilium conducted various experiments on me to figure out my unusual physical structure, especially since my molecular and waveform patterns were 99.89% identical to the Lilium's own physical structure. This is probably why I looked "human" to them; if I had the right clothing, I would pass for one of them without a second glance...
I guess... That's probably why I met Misato in the first place; I looked like a male Lilium. Perhaps she was lonely and wanted a companion to talk to, or perhaps she felt out of place being the only child on the expedition. Or maybe she was still dealing with the trauma of her mother's recent death and the subsequent rejection of her father... I might never know, since I felt that it was important to respect her privacy. After all, it was her business, not mine...
I remember our first encounter just like yesterday...
She had been chased around half of the complex because she was in a classified area. But she couldn't understand this restriction because she was a small child that was just lost, and all the guards did was frighten her and cause her to run deeper into the complex, until she came upon the laboratory I was being held in. Gendo had been present at the time and had loudly told off the guards for entering a classified area.
Gendo had met Misato before and had known she was too young to know the significance of what I was, so he made a deal with her, that as long as she didn't tell anyone what was in the laboratory, he would arrange an I.D. card for her so she could enter the laboratory whenever she wanted to, whatever an I.D. card is, I'll never know... I guess being spoiled with DNA scans for clearance would have that sort of affect, much like those VCRs that they mention from to time… Lilium certainly are primitive creatures…
She in a way became Gendo's assistant, although that isn't exactly accurate since she didn't really help him, she just told me about what the rest the world was like. I was curious about the places she told me about, like Japan, Kyoto, Tokyo, Asia, etc. so she would tell what was there, what it looked like, the foods there (foods that were much better than the Intravenous fluid that fed nutrients directly into my body), the tastes, the smells, and the people. Although she could only tell me these things to the level of a twelve to thirteen year-old girl, I still found it interesting and it filled my infinite curiosity somewhat.
Gendo often took part in these more casual conversations and aided Misato when she didn't understand my question, or help answer my questions, like showing me maps and such things. Together, we would talk for hours, about everything we knew of and thus we each grew mentally and emotionally, and became as Misato put it; "family." Gendo preferred to use the word, "friends", but Misato stubbornly said that we were like a family, able to talk about anything and that Gendo was like the father she never had. I could tell Gendo was touched by this, and made a deal with Misato that once he got married, he would try to adopt Misato. I was easily confused by their conversation and decided to take a nap while they continued about the years to come...
But unfortunately, all good times come to an end, and that's exactly what happened when the Lilium found the one thing that I carefully never had mentioned in my conversations with Gendo and Misato. It had come to my attention when Gendo mentioned it as I asked about the outside world, like I commonly did. However, as soon as Gendo mentioned an enormous object buried deep within the ice cap, my fears were confirmed. Gendo and Misato had noticed my unusual body language, and asked me what was wrong which I promptly refused to answer.
However, when Misato mentioned that my readings had begun to go "all crazy and scribblely," Gendo immediately grew suspicious and asked politely what it was, and I politely refused. Misato then asked what it was with her typical curiosity and my stubbornness to not answering Gendo's questions began to crumble. By the end of the day they had exhausted me significantly with their combined efforts, but I still wouldn't tell them what was wrong. For a day, they interrogated me and I continued to not answer, but finally in exhaustion my fortitude at last collapsed...
I finally answered their question to what the object was... a monster; no word could describe it better. This monster was unfortunately... my one sole companion when I was literally thrown into the planet so many years ago...
I then told them how to obtain the information that would help them prevent that which I had worked to prevent... Total Annihilation, the fiery Apocalypse, the true Armageddon, and the chilling end of the world...
They had less than a week to find it before the traitors to the Lilium would begin the process of destroying the world.... They found it and Gendo tried to allow Misato to leave with him before it was too late. But Katsuragi was too stubborn to allow Misato to leave; he thought the experiment would show how important his work would be to the future to his daughter. Unfortunately for him, his stubbornness would mean his death...
Gendo left the day before the experiment, while Misato was forced to stay behind in Antarctica. After Gendo left that day, Misato spent the rest of the day talking with me to help work off her anger at her father. I did my best to help her, but several scientists placed my containment tank onto a mobile platform and took me away. Unable to communicate with Misato I panicked and began to strike the container in order to free myself and succeeded in making a large crack where my fist impacted upon the transparent barrier.
The scientists reacted by activating pacification electrodes in the tank, electrocuting me and knocking me unconscious. As I lost consciousness, I can remember Misato's screams as the scientists tried to restrain her, and keep her away from me like I was some sort of monster...
Even today, I still find that quite unsettling...
My next conscious thought was finding myself yet again within the core of my companion, the last place I wanted to be, regardless of the power that was at my fingertips. Even these outrageously foolish Lilium didn't deserve to know what would happen once they reanimated my companion, especially by trying to use the Lance of Longinus to reanimate my companion, an action that was possibly even more foolish than just activating it by normal means...
However, I could do nothing in my drug induced stupor. Apparently some drugs work on me the same way they worked on the Lilium, although in my case with much reduced affects. And then they began the experiment of placing the two tips of the lance onto the chest. However, the monster reanimated itself the instant the lance touched its armor and with a maddening howl of lust... It went berserk...
In an explosion of power, a fireball the size of Texas incinerated half of the scientists present in Antarctica. And once the reaction began, there was no stopping it. In the middle of the fireball, was the golden form of a God-on-Earth... With a vengeance...
The monster then released its stored power in two pairs of golden dragon like wings, announcing the advent of the hell to come...
Mere seconds after the impact, the southern tip of South America, up to the southern borders of Brazil had become submerged by a wave of water five miles high. Meanwhile, India was torn from Southern Asia and sucked under the waves of the Indian Ocean as the tectonic plates shifted. In Africa, volcanoes erupted around the southern edge of the continent as the rising waters of the Mediterranean and Red Seas engulfed the Saharan Dessert. In Europe, parts of the coastal areas were claimed by the rising waters of the sea, as a result of the impact in Antarctica.
In Australia, the Outback was flooded by the Indian Ocean, while miraculously, the Eastern Metropolitan areas were left untouched. In North America, every island in the gulf was claimed by the sea, while thousands of square kilometers of the Missippian River Basin was flooded. Meanwhile, the tectonic plate that the eastern coast rested upon tore in two, releasing a band of Volcanoes along the smoky mountains towards the Florida Keys. Meanwhile the Rockies soared to new unprecedented heights as the tectonic plates crammed together, with the only way to go being up, whereas the Himalayas were torn in two as a result of India's detachment from Asia.
In a matter of hours, the Mediterranean Sea engulfed as far south as the Sahara, to as far north as the Black Sea and as far east as Iran, bringing the main religious centers of three of the largest religions of the world to the bottom of the Sea. In China, rivers flooded taking half of the land of China underwater. In the Panama, a canal was no longer needed since southern North America was also swallowed by the relentless waves. Later, half of the Russian Siberia became nothing more than an attachment of the Arctic Ocean. And Finally, Antarctica was reduced to nothing more that a sea of red with occasional glaciers, and a few small islands that escaped the rising waters and the impact.
Later... I would learn that the U.N. released a press-statement saying that half of the planet's people had died that day. But like many things, such as the cause of Second Impact as it became to be known, that was a lie... Closer to two thirds of the planet's inhabitants died, many not knowing why they died, or that they even died, as the waves engulfed their homes, drowning them in their sleep...
And I... I was at the center of it all, and yet I lived...
Reduced to nothing more than an embryo, I would be discovered again by the recently married Gendo Ikari since I was in the exact place that he had expected me to be in with the information I had given him. Apparently unscathed by Second Impact, he had married, changed his name, and was even going to have a child soon... Unfortunately, Misato who was also on the ship had faired worse and had experienced severe mental trauma and had become mute... I'm sorry to say it's my fault, but if I hadn't acted the way I did... No one would have survived Second Impact...
My companion, who was also picked up, was missing its legs, and its body was now free from the Armor that was once part of its being...
Unfortunately... Second Impact was not the end, but just a beginning for Hell on Earth...
For the time of Judgment was coming, and unfortunately for the Lilium... This time I wouldn't be able to save the world...
But I was able to help, for as a result of nearly destroying my body, I had given several Lilium the Gift that would be needed in the time to come... And to aid these Children, I had also given them the tools that would aid them, and in time... They will gain the knowledge on how to use their Gift and their tools...
For now... I can only wait patiently for my time to come... For I know I am the first...
And unfortunately for them... I am also the last...
End Prelude, To Be Continued...
Finishing Notes: And so the story begins. Anyways, I would love to hear what you think about this Prelude, but keep in mind that the speaker is because later it'll prove to be important. Second, all chapters following this one (for the most part) will be in the third person. Third, as I said at the top, please review once your done reading, because I need as much input as possible, and on the note of characters, the new ones will just be support characters and will not be the focus of the story. They'll only be in the story to make things more realistic and also to give more life to the main characters as a whole by means of human contact.
Until we meet again, Dark-Titan out.
Version 1 Completed 12/31/03
Version 2 Revisions 1/28/04
Version 3 Pre Read Revisions 2/15/04