The room was almost featureless, save for the large black table in its middle. The walls of the chamber lurked somewhere in the deep shadows at the edges of the only lamp's feeble territory. Gendo Ikari was growing more and more disturbed by the meetings with SEELE, and he was used to unpleasant situations. Recently, there had been talk of a "breakthrough" in the field, but as far as Gendo knew, there where no major excavations going on outside of Tokyo. That they had hidden something from him, and flaunted that fact, had increasingly driven the rouge organization out of his good graces. Still, he continued to go to the meetings. He was at one such meeting now, and as had been the growing trend, talk shifted away from his Eva's and even the Instrumentality Project, and onto something called "project re-genesis." He had the sneaking suspicion that SEELE was in the midst of a major internal upheaval, and there was nothing he could do about it.

With a curt nod, and a half hearted excuse he left the digital meeting room.

When Gendo left, the digital chamber became a frenzy of arguing voices, the five SEELE directors milled over the trust they should place in the Scientist.

"He is getting suspicious, that is not acceptable," one droned out. Another shot back "What does it matter? He has no Idea of what to look for." "Even so, it is possible for him to stumble upon our secret by chance," a third declared. The forth and fifth both sated bluntly "He must not interfere with our plans."

What happened next, would have shocked the elder Ikari speechless. From the depths of the shadows, a voice began to laugh. It was a deep metallic laugh that shook the room and left chills in even the coldest of hearts. "YOUR PLANS? What wondrous illusions of grandeur you humans have! It is my greatest pleasure to watch you roll in your baseless pride! Your only plans are what I place in your heads!" From the shadows stepped a ghostly figure, its visage pale and gaunt. Once it had been beautiful perhaps, but no longer. It strode with an eerie calm and a chill aura glowed coldly around it. The leader of the council responded, "Of course my lord Daemien... but there have been, unusual occurrences as of late, and in your... confined state you are not aware of them." The creature cocked an eyebrow at the old man, "Like what?" On cue, a screen appeared, and displayed the battle between the Gundams and the Eva's. Daemien's visage went from shock to anger to fear in a mater of seconds. "Michael..." he growled ferally, eyes glowing red. "YOU ARE NOT TO MEET AGAIN UNTIL THE FOURTH JEWEL IS FOUND!" Daemien bellowed in anger, "NOW BE GONE!" one by one the they vanished from the virtual table leaving the creature alone, "Soon, my brother... I will be free of this prison you sealed me in, and I will have my vengeance on you and this pathetic human race..."

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AN—

Ok short chapter this time... but It had to be this way, It just wouldn't work to stick another scene in this.

Also Im tryin to get the next chapter up ASAP, but it is a bit longer... so who knows?

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