Disclaimer: I DO NOT own Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Claimer: The Original Characters (OC's) I created for this fan fiction, such as Ayame Johnson (adopted, in a rather surprising operation military operation and yes she does meet her real family), LTCOL Paul Johnson aka Shadow Paladin, US Army, and the Shadow Stryker Brigade.
Note: Any likeness to any real persons, places, things, etc. is completely coincidental. I'm a honest guy with zero capabilities except for the imagination department and how to piss off (that's make angry, those of you from Europe) elder relatives, and insult cowards as I see'em (Osama bin Laden is a wimpy-little-girl that hides behinds the skirts and diapers of the innocent, some hero-would-be-martyr; quite frankly a die hard Commie has more courage to try Capitalism).
"Two Fathers, Two Children, One Mother"Chapter One: "It Begins Anew"
Kobe-4, JapanMarch 13th, 2014 AD
1300 hrs. Tokyo Standard Time
A small boy ran across an abandon city as he came to stop by a payphone and began to make a call, but the phones – like everything else in the city – were out of order due to a sudden state of emergency. He began to grumble about his situation.
"She's late, maybe I should go and find a shelter or something," he said as he looked at a picture of a woman with look lavender hair in a loose short sleeve and very tight short cut-offs, then he noticed a girl with blue hair and red eyes staring at him from the corner of his eye and then turned to look at her.
Suddenly, birds flocked into the air, scared. He looked at them fly away for a moment and then looked back and the girl had vanished. He blinked a couple of times before he heard a horrid screech in the air that shook buildings and rattle doors, windows, wires, etc. Then he heard and then saw a flight of Japanese Air Self Defense Force (JASDF) Vertical Take Off/Landing (VTOL) fighters assigned to the United Nations (UN) flying in reverse as a huge monster appeared from behind a small mountain.
Then JSDF missiles streaked passed the boy, at ground level, startling him and messing with his short brown hair. The missiles flew towards the monster and detonated, they failed to due any damage to the monster.
The fighters attacked and failed to due anything, except incur losses, as one panicky pilot began screaming about the obvious uselessness of their attack and failed to evade and attack. The attack severed the left wing from the fuselage and the pilot began to panic even more as he went down, crashing dangerously near the child.
The boy watched as the VTOL crashed into the road and the side of the building in front of him; then the monster's right foot immediately crushed the VTOL. The boy was shielded from the debris as a blue sports car stopped between him and the flying wreckage. The passenger door opened and a woman with purple hair in a black dress and black sunglasses finished with white driving gloves called to him and made a remark about being late or something, the boy was too scare to remember at the time. Then as they were tearing out, the monster noticed them and then started chasing them.
Command Bridge of NERV Headquarters, Tokyo-3 Geo-Front, Japan
March 13th, 2014
1313 hrs. Tokyo Standard Time
"Commander Ikari! The 3rd Angel is now pursuing Captain Katsuragi and the Third Child!" Lieutenant Maya Ibuki reported from her post, panic written across her face.
She had been observing the video feed – via satellite – when she noticed a car pull up and rescue a young boy the computer identified as Shinji Ikari, the Third Child and the car belonging to NERV's own Operations Director, Captain Mistao Katsuragi.
"What?" Commander Gendo Ikari, commander of NERV, asked, maintaining a cold stone face.
"Huh, better not let them die now, shall we," a JSDF general said.
"Have the Izumo 4546th Air Group regain the Angel's attention and cover the car's escape, in fact, let's set up for our last option just in case," another general said.
It was at that moment a trio of tanks of unknown origin and make appeared and began firing on the Angel. The NERV personnel and the JSDF generals knew that no matter what, those three crews were dead meat. If a battalion of tanks failed to stop the Angel, then a trio of these new tanks wouldn't even slow it down, boy were they surprised when the Angel had been felled from the first three bursts of fire.
"The unknown tanks have stopped the Angel, but it's getting back up. The trio are withdrawing to new a location," a female tech reported.
The tanks looked kinda on the blocky side, but seemed to process greater speed then the American made M1A2 Abrams Main Battle Tank (MBT). Despite the blocky hull's appearance, the turrets were streamlined and the fronts then began to show that it too was streamlined. The tanks were also rather squat, but not too much so, nor were they too wide that they couldn't fit in the back of a regular transport plane or ship. They also began to show great abilities such as being highly rugged, high-grade suspension, but when the 3rd Angel attacked them, their best feature appeared. They had been hit directly, but continued to retreat and return fire with only scorch marks on the hulls.
(Think the Linear Tanks from Gundam Seed.)
"What kind of guns are those tanks firing?" yelled a third JSDF general, shocked and surprised to see that the trio of armor were holding their own against the 3rd Angel.
"They appear to be some type of linear magnetic cannons, I've heard of such technology, but the smallest I've heard of is the size of a standard-size rail gun at best," NERV Chief Scientist, Ritsuko Akagi, explained.
"But those aren't rail guns, they're tanks!" yelled the first JSDF general angrily.
"Like I said, I only heard and we too have been working on a weapons system using that principle for the EVA's, but no go so far," she replied.
No one notice a bit of peeling paint revealing a symbol of a unit or organization, in this case, both with a Pin-Up and words saying "NO DICE!" Two people did, the commander and the vice-commander, Kouzou Fuyutsuki, and they both were quite surprised to see the Seal of JADE with a yellow thunderbolt through the middle.
"Looks like they're back sir… Do you think he survived?" the Vice-Commander asked his superior.
"I doubt it, but it was probably one of his friends or allies that believed like he did," the Commander replied to his subordinate.
"Still… I have a feeling things are about to go wrong with the plan," the XO said.
All Gendo Ikari, the Commander of NERV, did was nod his head as they watch the three tanks go inside a forest and vanish in the trees.
"Thermal patterns lost!"
"Magnetic signal lost!"
"The three tanks just vanished into hiding!"
"The 3rd Angel is confused! It's just standing there… no, wait! It's moving towards Area CQ-89!"
"It's resuming its previous course, projected path will bring it to Tokyo-3 in two hours!"
A phone rang and orders given. Then the JSDF got the hell out of dodge as a N2 Mine was detonated and the 3rd Angel was stopped, for now. The little blue car, though, had been caught in the shockwave and knocked around. The two passengers of the vehicle managed to get the car righted from a side standing position and salvage a few batteries to get the vehicle moving again. On the way to NERV HQ, the two began to have a small argument that ended with a bit of reckless driving on the part of Captain Katsuragi. What had caused the little disagreement? Let's see…
'Salvaged' Batteries
Shinji inquiring if it was okay for them to take them.
Mistao coming up with an extremely lame excuse and Shinji saying no one was going to believe it.
To which Mistao said, "You know you're not as cute as I thought you were."
To which Shinji retorted, "You are not as mature as I thought you were."
Mistao hated to be called immature and started her bit of reckless driving to scare the pants off Shinji.
They finally and safely, more or less, arrived at one of NERV's vehicle gates and entered a tram and were shuttled down to the Geo-Front. During the time on the tram, Mistao gave Shinji a book to read, talking about NERV, and asked to see the ID they set him and his (for lack of a better term) marching orders, which had been heavily blacked lined (trusting, isn't NERV, more like paranoid). Shinji really enjoyed the view of the Geo-Front when he first saw it, but then got bored as Mistao got them lost, at one point Shinji said, without looking up from his book, "We passed this spot twice already." To which Mistao scowled, then she paged Ritsuko who had gone down to double check the EVA Unit-01, needless to say the faux-blonde was not pleased that the Captain had gotten herself lost, again. Elsewhere in the base, a fire-team of commandoes just shook their heads at the page.
"How many times does that make and now of all times," asked the leader, it was their 900th breach of NERV's security and the 234th time they had been in the area they were in.
"Since arriving, 624, add the number of times earlier listed by NERV Second Branch and you got 9,824 times she has gotten herself lost," the second man in the team said.
"How in the world did that ditz make the rank of Captain?" the third man asked.
"Welcome to NERV, next on the agenda, teen pregnancy and attack of the clones," the leader mocked.
"Yeah, only in NERV is where you will find attacking clones, cloned from Angel DNA and a dead woman's DNA," the third man also mocked.
"SHHH! Miss Ditz, Miss Faux, and the kid," the second team member warned.
The trio passed without noticing the fire team, but an ally fire team following the good doctor did notice them and the squad of men followed the two women and young boy. They continued to follow them, despite having passed into an area that had been deemed to dangerous to breach. They followed them all the way to the cages of the Evangelions. Then they did what they came to do, gather information.
"It's so dark in here I can't see!" Shinji was panicking, but he nearly fell into the strange liquid when he saw a huge face staring at him.
"W-what? A face? A robot face!" Shinji started to thumb through the book of NERV looking for information on the robot.
"You won't find anything in there," Dr. Akagi said, she continued, "This is Evangelion Unit One, the best and last hope for all of humanity."
"This is my father's project, what he has been working on?" Shinji inquired and got a rather unexpected ('Should have expected him,' Shinji thought) and the wanted answer from an unwanted voice.
"Correct," Gendo Ikari had left the NERV Command Bridge and now stood in a overlooking observation room.
"Father," Shinji acknowledged him and then the two begin to argue back and forth as to why Shinji was there, why his father had recalled him, what Gendo Ikari wanted his son to do, and Shinji steadfastly refusing to pilot the machine.
During the 'father-son talk,' the two fire teams struggled with themselves not to go ballistic and attack Gendo Ikari. They wanted to rip him about for even trying to consider himself to be the boy's father, but they barely, just barely held themselves in check. Then the 3rd Angel arrived on the high ground on the outskirts and began bombarding the city. One shot breached through to the Geo-Front dropping debris everywhere, the resulting tremors broke the fixed anchors of the squad's hiding places and the six men would've dropped them right into the red liquid, but they had special jump packs on their backs and so they landed safely on the EVA and made themselves invisible on the most visible spot in the whole room and no one noticed them the whole time.
Though doing the two fire teams' fall, some dislodged scaff-holding fell towards Shinji and then the EVA came to life and blocked the debris from falling on top of him. Everyone, but Commander Ikari, were stunned, especially as the reports flooded in about it not having an entry plug and ripping it's own right arm out of the arm restraints. It was a wild few minutes, before Shinji, cradling the injured and in pain Rei Ayanami the First Child, decided.
"Alright, I'll pilot. I'll pilot the robot," he had said.
The EVA Unit-01 was immediately repaired and readied for battle. The six commandoes stayed aboard and carefully began to slipped away as the EVA Unit-01 began to walk towards it's enemy, but when it fell, it exposed the six to the Angel and it began to chase them! While down on the Command Bridge, they saw the 3rd Angel changed direction once more and now they saw the six commandoes trying to put a few star systems between them and a rather vengeful 3rd Angel, vengeful, because they had been holding the Angels back for 14 years and now they were going to let NERV have a shot, but right at the moment, the six commandoes were learning just how fast they really could and did run. Now confusion reigned down in NERV's Command Room.
"Where the hell did they come from!" Mistao yelled.
"I thought all UN and JSDF forces had already withdrawn," Lt. Ibuki said.
One of the techs on a lower level of the Command Bridge noticed something and made a report of it feeling it to be significant.
"The Unit One has lost over a half ton of added weight! I think they had been inside of NERV!"
"That must be it!" Mistao yelled.
"Inform NERV Second Branch of the breach in security!" a high ranked junior officer orders.
Even as people inside NERV scrambled about and the six commandoes fled for their lifes, Shinji did not sit idle, or rather laid. He mustered some strength and managed to get the EVA standing on his own, it was Ritsuko who first noticed him standing up and then he started walking towards the 3rd Angel as a voice broke through the heavily encoded NERV communication network, a pre-recorded female voice.
"Shinji my one and only son, I leave the Evangelion Unit Zero One in your hands. I know that you must have lived a hard life full of sadness and despair, but do not worry, I know that in my heart of hearts that you are not alone in this world as your twin sister still lives."
To say that Shinji was shocked that he was listening to his mother's voice and learning of his twin sister, a sister he had longed forgotten, would be a major understatement. Everyone in NERV eyes were wide as they listened to this. They couldn't believe it. The recording of Yui Ikari's voice continued.
"She is with a dear friend, who at the right time will reveal himself and teach you the art of war. You will unfortunately need those skills and training. You will need to be strong and understand that he can be rough, but deep in his heart, he cares more for you than any other. Though he would say he would be second only to only me. – chuckle – He is often very serious about that fact. You will find your sister with him and both will be nearby. I was so very glad to hear he had survived an Angel attack back in late 2001. He was an officer with the Joint Angel Defense Enforcer, JADE. Now before I end I want to tell you one thing Shinji, I am sorry Shinji for not being there when you needed me the most, because if you are listening to this, it means I have died, but remember that my soul shall always be there to protect and guide you, no harm shall befall you while I live or die, I love you with all my heart, my precious Shinji."
The message ended, hardly leaving a dry eye in the whole of NERV. Shinji was actually crying full out inside the cockpit. Tears streaming down his eyes as he remembered his mother and sister and a man in a US military uniform fighting with his father, then the man took off as a few other soldiers ran by readying weapons.
"Ayame," Shinji said softly, then it happened.
"THE SYNCH RATIO HAS TOPPED OVER 400 PERCENT!" Maya Ibuki yelled from her post just as the EVA Unit-01 went into a controlled Berserker Mode.
The 3rd Angel heard only one more thing before it died, self-detonating on the edge of the city, wrapped around Unit-01.
"You will not harm another ever again!" Shinji had roared with unchecked rage and fury, killing the 3rd Angel before it could Self-Destruct, but it still did blow up.
An aging military officer with silvery-blonde hair and ice blue eyes watched with a hint of satisfaction and pride at the destruction of the 3rd Angel at the hands of Unit-01 Evangelion piloted by Shinji Ikari walked out of the blast zone with minimal damage. With him was a young Asian girl with light brown eyes and light brown hair. Nodding towards the driver as the six commandoes arrived and quickly got aboard a truck, the two vehicles and a trio of battle damaged tanks, one called "NO DICE," took off for their hidden base of operations. They drove in clear view of the Unit-01, the aging officer giving a salute and the young girl smiling up at the EVA.