Problem Thirty Two: United Nation sat on a wall... SEELE vs. Yukari Take 3?

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Standing up at her seat and her class watching, Yukari Ayanami reads from a folder. Its title reads The United Nations Show. Everyone else but Rei, whose unable to write, has a folder on their desk each with a different title on it. The room is quiet as they wait to hear from the greatest in wise cracks and comic routines. The girl everyone is watching stands firm she gives a clear of her throat and places her gaze on all in the room.

"Once upon a time, a long time ago..." Yukari stops, puts her folder down and scratches her head. "Ooh, it must have been, ooh, ages-so long ago I can't remember it and my friend, Ritsuko, who's 30, she cant remember it. It must have been a long time ago." Everyone gives Yukari an odd look not sure on what's she getting at.

"I mean come on, I'm not talking about measly little bits of time, minutes and all that, but proper grownup years and I mean lots of them." A cricket can be heard in classroom 2-A, this doesn't bother Yukari as she picks her folder back up.

"Anyways, a long time ago in a far, far land, I mean a really long way..." Once more Yukari puts her report down and explains herself. "I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the arcade, but that's just peanuts to this sort of distance..."

Leaving some time for silence Yukari picks her report back up and continues. "There was a beautiful organization between nations..." Once more she places her report down, as she does her class sighs in unison. "Well, not particularly as beautiful as me in fact... But for an organization it was first class I could tell you that..." Yukari points to herself really trying to make it sound important. "I mean where do you draw the line, I mean some people find short blue hair and a figured body as beautiful. But some might like a group of nations with a lot of people in them just as beautiful..."

To every ones relief Yukari picks back up her report. "Anyway, this Organization respectively just under or equal in beauty then I, Stated that the world powers will rebuild and reform the world to peace. It was called the League of Nations. One day in 1938 a war broke out in Europe and the League died very messily, which prevented it from living happily ever after."

The class looks in shock; no one has a clue what she's going with this. Yukari waves her hands to end any dismay. "But from the ashes came the United Nations that worked in an office... The UN was like..." Yukari begins to jump up and down pointing to people. "End colonizes of Africa Damn it!"

Shriveling up in the corner of her seat Yukari speaks at a whisper. "But... What will happen to us..."

Yukari jumps on to her desk waving a mini UN flag. "Don't worry you will spend fifty years in a slow and painful death through starvation, AID pestilence and civil war... before you demise in the Second Impact."

Once more Yukari hides in her corner. "What? With out a slow decolonization you know take time for us to adjust give us about twenty years or so..."

In a flash the young girl is standing waving her tiny UN flag. Sorry, loves, that's all." Standing on her desk once more she points to everyone. "Anyways then the UN got beat up by North Korea and their Chinese Allies when they went to nation build... RUN AWAY!" Yukari jumps of her desk and scream bloody murder out of the room."

She slowly creeps back in talking at a whisper. "Anyway... the UN became extremely weak and shifty, and unreliable... It's impossible to say how pathetic and dishonest and defective it all was... They stole from the Oil for food program and when second Impact came, they turned into a regular Yakuza..."

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Far from Yukari's report, is Doctor Ritsuko Akagi in the Room of Guaf over looking the Twelfth Angel as it floats in the room's center tube. The door slides open and has her quickly turn. To her relief and her indefinable dead, she sees Gendo Ikari entering into the room with Mana a good five paces behind. He is showing his typical demeanor as he walks thinking God is on his shoulders.

With a small spit of spite Ritsuko turns back to her work. "The infallible Ikari graces me with his presents... IF you come for me to fix your UN I'm fresh out of clones."

Giving a chuckle Gendo comes to a stop putting his hands behind him as he looks up to the Angel. "Too late, that egg just broke; the UN was just kicked out of Tokyo Two an hour ago. Japan, United States, China, England, Australia have all walked out in light of the Second Impact controversy."

"Really..." Thinking about how Ikari must of spent all night writing a 'new scenario' seems irritating. "So how did you sleep last night?"

Seeing that Ritsuko is still pissed over the Asuka clone he gives a small sigh. "On my back, I think..." Gendo studies the Angel in front of him. "Although I can't be sure, I slept through most of it. How about you..."

As Ritsuko writes on a clip bored she shakes her head with a smile. "Funny you should ask. The first stage went off all right, but I had a bit of trouble during my R.E.M. phase, until I remembered my Mneumonic Induction for Lucid Dreams..."

Looking back on his studies of sleep he tries to stay scientific. "Polyomnograph hooked up?"

Ritsuko puts her pen to her lips thinking on the subject. "I think so. Anyway, when I finally dropped off into full R.E.M. lucid dream phase, you know, complete left-right-left-right eye movement and all that, I discovered the most amazing thing."

The tale intrigues Gendo as he merely stands hands be hind his back looking at the Angel. "What's that?"

"That I hate you..."

"But we all hate Commander Ikari..."

The one not smiling is Gendo as he roles his eyes at the sight of the man. 'You're just asking for it...' With his thought past him Gendo tries to play cool. "Last time I checked you're not supposed to be here."

"Yui said I could..."

With a grunt Gendo looks away from Kaji cursing his wife. 'Damn it Yui...' To calm himself he puts a mental picture of him kicking the spy in the head. "The reason why I came is because the Zero Child came to me today..."

"She was playing in your office again wasn't she..."

With a bitter sigh Gendo looks away from Ritsuko as she smiles once more and walks to the other side of the room. "Besides that she gave a suggestion for the fourth child..."

Maya thinks about the subject then points out a fact. "But the Marduk Committee selects the Eva pilots..."

"No..." With a cynical grin Ritsuko puts down her work and stares at Maya. "Gendo is the Committee..."

"Anyways..." Gendo shakes his head not believing so much classified information was just said. "I'm going to go with her suggestion, its time to see what her game is..."

"Who's the Forth child..." The ever curious Maya asks softly.

"A Kirishima Mana..."

Kaji who is looking at the Angel in the jar in the center of the room, nearly collapse at the sound of the new pilots name. "Mana..."

Everyone looks to Kaji as he chokes on the air he breaths. Ritsuko gives him a couscous glare. "Do you know her..."

Kaji has been keeping his roommate a secret for sometime now. However his first reaction blows any chance of him making a lie to recover. "She is my roommate..."

"That sick... She's a fourteen year old girl!" Maya shakes he head in disapproval. "You pedophile..."

Turning to the two upset females Kaji waves his hands in defense. "She's my cousin!"

"Kirishima, Mana?" Gendo goes over the girls file remembering nothing about her having Kaji as a relative or as a roommate. "Why isn't it in the record..."

"Like I would let you put it in the records..."

Ritsuko looks to Gendo and he does the same as they then look to Kaji. "He has a point..."

"Agent Kaji, I suggest you file this..." Gendo does his best to remain cool and calm. "I didn't think little girls were your type..."

Kaji gives a grin at the Commanders comment. "Isn't Yukari's nickname for you Pedophile?"

"I don't sleep with them..."

"I'm not sleeping with her; she's my roommate Mr. Pussy wiped..."

Ritsuko slaps her head as she looks as the two men have a staring contest. "This is rich..."

With a small sigh, Maya looks to her teacher with a frown. Gendo looks to his watch then leaves not blinking once as he watches Kaji. "This is stupid..."

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Exiting the school in the late afternoon is Shinji, he walks out saying good bye to his friends Touji, Kensuke and Hikari. He looks up the street to see Asuka and Rei walking away with caution to each other.

'I hope those two can get along...' Shinji chuckles as he looks from the road to the city. 'I don't see any difference... of course I'm not to sure on what cloning is anyways...' Shaking his head from the complex thoughts of Bio engineering Shinji swings his satchel over his shoulder and begins to walk. 'Misato and Yukari will be at NERV until nine so I guess it's just me the cat and the penguin. As he walks home, Mana steps in front of him.

"Hi Shinji..."

Not expecting to run into Mana, Shinji gives a small wave. "Sorry for bumping in to you..." Wanting to get away from Mana, Shinji steps to the side. He finds that Mana just steps in front of him. He steps back to arms length and eyes his formal girl friend. "Yes..."

With a bright and open smiles Mana takes Shinji's hand. "Have you heard the news..."

"Yes..." Shinji puts a hand on his hip letting the other dangle to his side. "UN broke up..."

As she waves her finger in the air, the high spirited girl shakes her head. "No, this is good news!"

Going back on Yukari's report the UN dissolving was good news. "Well, isn't that good news..."

"Yea, I guess..."

"Then I heard the news." Shinji waves good buy a walks past Mana. It takes the young girl some time to figure out what was said and turn to catch up with Shinji.

She frowns to see his back turned and him walking away with not a care in the world, in what she has to say. This brings a sickly feeling in the pit of her stomach. She grabs her chest as her eyes begin to water. "I never stopped loving you!"

The hair on Shinji's back stands on end, he comes to a quick stop looking down to his feet. Desperate to find any willpower in his body and mind to stand in front of Mana Shinji begins goes into conferences with himself. 'I can't, do it, I mustn't ... But she loves me and you love her! Mana is a liar, she betrayed me! She's the only one willing to be next to me who wants to love me...' Shinji's heart begins to race as he closes his eyes to concentrate. 'Its Yukari fault anyways... No, she saved me from being hurt! I don't see her confessing her love for you... She does love me we are family! Does family give you a warm kiss on the lips does Family provide you with true love... I don't kno...'

"Shinji..." Mana places her hand gently onto the distraught boy, worried for his health. "I'm sorry; I shouldn't have said that..."

"Mana..." Shinji dos his best to keep her at arms length. "I'm sorry... I'm sorry for everything... I should have never of... let you go..."

Quickly Shinji takes Mana into his arms and cries pressing his head into her shoulder he lets out the agony of loneliness. Not the loneliness of others but of the heart.

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In Gendo's office it is pitch black, Gendo sits at his desk with his halo system active. It glows a faint white with him sitting in his standard pose. He watches as Keele appears in front of him. His cybernetic implants look back at him. Nothing is said as other members of the comity appear. Six in total, with Gendo and Keele anchoring both ends of the Halo desk they have just formed.

"Ikari..." Keele's voice is deep and deductive his visor seems to narrow as he speaks. "The UN is falling apart, how dare let the Japanese Diet approve to leave the UN!"

A short pointy nose member of SEELE slams his fist down. "You should be killed, are you were planning to betray us from the beginning."

Still nothing comes from Gendo. Everyone looks in silence wondering if he can hear them. They begin to check their Halo system to see if it hasn't locked up. All are shocked when a white circle spreads out in the center of the pad. All look in horror as coming up from the hole is Yukari Ayanami in her school Uniform. All have faced her and some even fear her.

"No it can't be!"

"No her anyone but her!"

Yukari gives everyone a big wave. "Hi yea fellows..."

With a smile Gendo's looks up at the thorn in his side with a glare. "Complete your end of the bargain..."

"Sure thing pervert..."

Everyone stops staring in horror at Yukari and look to Gendo strangely. "She called you a what?"

Yukari sits down Indian style, pointing to Gendo. "He tried to grope me..."

"You lie..."

"You sick twisted son of a bitch!" Keele can't see the man he is cursing due to Yukari but he knows he's there. "How dare you let her in here..."

"You are old..." Yukari crawls on all fours over to the man pocking her hand through the halo graphic image.

Watching the girl poke at his head Keele goes to push her away bur his hands pass right through her. "You insolent child! You don't know your place, our rule is the worlds rule!"

Standing up on the desk Yukari shakes her head in a sarcastic disproval. "Tisk, Tisk..." The brash young girl says as she marches to the end of the table just as Gendo's and his desk disappears. "Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some circle jerk of old men..."

"What..." One of SEELE leans back in his seat. "The UN was under our finger, and now it was destroyed."

"Don't give me that you snotty heap of parrot droppings..." She says with a deep tone. "Your type really makes me sick... You pervert, running around thinking you control everything."

"We do..."

Yukari looks to Keele and gives a hap hearted smile. "Oh, oh, well then never mind, your still perverts."

"Why are you here?"

"Ah..."

On the end of the table she stands strait and clears her voice preparing to sing.

"Yui said, straight ahead, not to delay or be misled. I should have heeded her advice, but the world seemed nice."

Yukari slowly walks down the table giving a sway to her skirt.

"The world showed me things, many beautiful things, That I have never thought to explore. They were off my path, But I went and dared. I was not so careful, I really should have cared, And I changed a little, Well More then a little."

Everyone decides to hear out the song believing she might enlighten them.

"When she said, 'Save my son.' With that caring grin, How could I know what was in store? Once the truth was bared, though I really got scared, well excited and scared. But when I came back, I brought back an angel down, down from the heaven host. Now we lie in secrets that I never thought I would know, and when everything familiar seemed to disappear forever, at the end of the path was the world once again.

Slowly the girl sits at the end of the table Gendo was at.

"So we wait in the dark. Until someone sets us free, And it wont be NERV who hates us all, and it wont be SEELE who wants to kill us all. So I must make a path and not stray to save us all from you alll."

"And I know things now, many valuable things, that I hadn't known before: Do not put your faith in a Leaf or a Mask; they will not protect you when both are against you. And when they betray each other like strangers, even friends have their danger and though I have no soul, it is better then you.

Yukari points to all of SEELE.

"Now I know; don't be scared. Yui is right, just be prepared. Isn't it nice to know a lot, And little bit not..."

Out of now where Keele bellows with a cynical laugh, he begins to clap with a hardy smile. Everyone else slowly follows their leader some what reluctant. "Very clever Young lady..." Everyone stops applauding and looks to Keele as he speaks. "And such a beautiful voice, you are the most unique adversary..."

"Sir..."

With the raise of his hand Keele silences the member of SEELE. "Yukari Ayanami you are bold to challenge us and so is Ikari."

"A regular Mexican stand off, sir."

"So it is..." Keele sits forward leaning on his arms. "You know that there is only one way for us to go..."

Still sitting Yukari shrug's her shoulders. "Well... if I recall what the scrolls say, then yes, but remember I have chosen the simplest..."

"Maybe... I assume that this will be the last time we meet..."

Silence is all SEELE receives from Yukari at first. She stands walks into the center of the room and raises her hand in the shape of a gun. She pulls her finger back as if it was a trigger. "Bang... you're dead."

"Say good bye to the pervert for me..." Keele gives a smile as the rest of SEELE disappears. "Even if Japan and the second branch betray me... I still have the world."

"The World is not enough..."

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On top of the apartment building that the pilots and Misato lives, Asuka Langley Souyu sits at the edge. She is all alone; her only connection to the world is through the memories of some one she is not. At her side is a box she dragged from Asuka's closet, in a fruitless venture in learning more about who Asuka was. She looks back to the book to the only thing that intrigued her.

The violin was old and fine, hand made and crafted from the finest wood in all of Germany. On the back it has the initials KZS that looks faded from use. She pulls out the musical instrument with care, as if by muscle memory she knows how to handle the violin, she then pulls out the bow. It is newer then the Violin and has on its tip in gold

'To my beloved Asuka'

The sight such words touches Asuka, she knows she has never seen this bow, but the painful memory of who wrote what's on it comes to life. 'Her mother... this was a gift from her mother... How could anyone hind such a memory...'

With an heavy sigh Asuka puts the violin to her shoulder and mounts the bow into passion to play, she freezes as if to savor the feeling she is in. A song and its notes come to mind and begin to dance in Asuka's minding taunting her to play it. She delays only to study what she sees. The music is just in reach as she closes her eyes a cold breeze suddenly comes from the north it is not normal and has not been felt for years in Japan. With the wind blowing around her Asuka strikes her blow with a gentle attack. The song is immediately recognized to any one of the Christian faith or of the Christmas Season. It is very universal and even heard in Japan.

"Carol of the Bells'

Not Far below Rei guides herself to the open balcony door to close as a cold breeze gives her a chill. However she stops as coming with the wind is the playing of a violin; the sound is crisp and unchanged even with the wind. She is compelled to pause to listen to the song. Also in ear shot are Shinji Ikari and Mana Kirishima they stand on the sidewalk just about to enter the apartment complex holding hands. In near shock Shinji for some unknowing reason knows who is playing and it scares him, but not scared in a bad way but in a way he cannot explain. It's just that he can't do anything but stare up at the roof.

"Asuka..."

Mana takes notice of this and stares at Shinji unable to speak. She looks to see she is the only one holding on to Shinji, with Shinji merely letting her. A worried look strikes her face. 'Don't leave me Shinji...'

From Misato Balcony she looks down to Shinji and Mana and also hears the sound of the song. She looks to her calendar to see what the day is. In surprise she looks to see the date as December 5th 2015. Knowing who is playing the song Misato realizes that it's Asuka's birthday.

"Poor girl..."

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Next Problem... Go, Go, GO Shinji... So who's going up to Heaven...