A/N: Happy Birthday to Shinji Ikari. Thanks to everyone who has supported me so far. This chapter will focus mostly on the terrorist group behind the attempted murder of Shinji so bear with me. Also, I want to state now I have no ill will against anybody's religion, country or ethnic group so if anyone that does happen I am sorry but I don't mean to as I am very liberal and respectful of everyone's nationality and beliefs and I don't mean any content as prejudice. Thanks, I hope I don't anger anyone. Sorry for all the talking and parenthesis but it is necessary.
Thanks to my pre-reader gunman
Disclaimer: I don't Evangelion it is the property of Gainax
The interrogation room at NERV was your stereotypical interrogation room you might see in a movie. The room was black except a pendant lamp in the center of the ceiling. The lamp shown down on the only furniture in the room, a wood table with two wood chairs on opposite sides.
"This is crap" snorted Takumi Kiamora.
The prime suspect in the poisoning of Shinji Ikari sat in the chair opposite the door. He was mercifully picked up by Section 2 before Misato could get to his apartment so he wasn't in a body bag. Yet.
The Major sat opposite Kiamora because the Commander allowed her to question him against the advice of Sub-Commander Fuyutsuki, Doctor Akagi and even Kaji.
"Why?" asked the Major simply as she looked right at Kiamora with dead pan eyes. "Why did you try to kill Shinji?" To which she got no response.
After a few moments of silence Misato spoke again.
"Tell me now dammit!" she yelled as she slammed her fist on the table and this time got a response.
"You are the reason. The boy and girl were also targets as per the leader's orders but you were my main target, the one I really wanted dead." Kiamora said with absolute contempt in his voice.
"Why and who is this leader of yours?" Misato spat back
"When I couldn't pass my exams and flunked out of high school I moved around for a while before I got a job with the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Forces as a repairman on the battleship Dejima fixing equipment" he began.
Misato knew she heard of the ship before and then remembered, it was in 2007 and she was in college when the boiler on the Dejima explodedwhile the ship was in port, sinking it.
Seeing the realization on her face Kiamora continued ,"I was in the boiler room when it happened and that is how I lost part of my ear from the shrapnel and I was lucky I was alive. How do I get treated? I was thrown out by the JMSDF and within weeks I'm homeless! The only friend I had for three years was alcohol and so I drank and drank to the point of near death. In 2010 I got sober and try to get my life on track, and in 2012 I got a job with NERV. It was great and I loved it there but then I got fired so I started to drink heavily again after two years sober and got a job working as a maintenance worker in that run down crap hole you call an apartment! Your moving in was a coincidence."
Misato memory sparked as she heard that, she had read a personnel file on Kiamora and he was fired for stealing computer equipment which he then resold
Kiamora kept going smugly "I was treated like dirt by everyone there as I did for them the most degrading jobs possible. I was at the end of my rope when followers of the leader contacted me. They help me get sober, got me my own apartment and it was them who taught me how evil NERV for slaying the holy Angels. When this mission came I gladly took it."
Misato was starting to see a pattern here. This guy had fallen on hard times, one after another, with bad experiences with both the army and NERV, he was vulnerable and this terrorist group used that to brainwash him into joining them.
"Who is this leader and why does he want NERV destroyed?" asked an anxious Misato who wanted more than anything to get revenge for Shinji but was instead met with silence.
"Talk to me!" yelled the almost frantic Major but instead of giving more information Kiamora made the greatest mistake of his life.
"That little bastard deserved to die."
Misato flew into a rage upon hearing that. She grabbed the chair and she was sitting in and threw it at Kiamora trying to take his head off but Kiamora ducked and the chair hit the wall exploding into broken pieces. Misato then used the opportunity given by Kiamora ducking down to jump over the table after delivering a roundhouse to his head punching Kiamora in the face non stop until eight Section 2 agents pulled Misato off and removed her from the room as she screamed death threats to the battered man.
With Misato gone Kiamora looked up to see Gendo and a quartet of Section 2 agents around him and spat blood at Gendo's feet in between gasps of breaths.
"I'm not giving you shit."
Gendo didn't flinch and in a calm way looked to the head of Section 2 and simply ordered "torture him" which Section 2 followed up on.
An hour later Misato, Doctor Akagi and Kaji found themselves in the NERV debriefing room (the one from episode 9) as Commander Ikari stood at the front and Fuyutsuki stood in the back manning the slide projector.
"We are here because thanks to 'intensive interrogation' tactics we have received highly valuable information we need on the people behind this." began Commander Ikari who nodded causing Fuyutsuki to change slides. The first slide shown was of a man in his early thirties. He had hazel eyes and black hair. He stood 6 ft. 2 inches. "This is Junichiro Aizen the leader of the terrorist group responsible for the current status of the Third Child."
"So that's the head bastard then." said an angry Misato hissed
"Correct" said Commander Ikari who continued "Aizen was born in Ogaki, Gifu prefecture in 1984 as the son of a housewife and a father who was an agitator for the far-right. At fifteen he joined the xenophobic and nationalist Japan First organization." (the slide changes to shown Aizen at a Japan First rally in 1999. )
"Everything changed in 2000 with Second Impact and more importantly the Second Russo-Japanese war triggered over both countries claim to the Kuril islands. Things came to a head on September 18, 2000 when the Russian launched a failed invasion of Sapporo, Hokkaido under Field Marshal Alexei Stovich which failed when the Russians were pinned down and forced to surrender the next day in what was deemed 'the Russian Bay of pigs' (slide changes to show Russian soldiers with hands in the air and they march pass JSDF forces). The next day on September 20, 2000 (my eighth birthday and that's no joke) as both Emperor Heisei (known in the West as Emperor Akihito) and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (both real) were visiting the troops in Sapporo when Russian Field Marshal Sergei Tutov used an old Cold War nuke to destroy Tokyo-1 (changes slide to show the ruins of Tokyo-1) for which he was executed as a traitor for acting with out orders."
"We can only somewhat grateful secessionists in Chechnya decided to rebel again and even though they was suppressed, Japan survived." chimed in Fuyutsuki
Commander Ikari ignored this and kept going. "Aizen was sent away by his parents after Tokyo-1 was nuked which was good on their part because during the anarchy after the nuking and that lasted until order was restored both of his parents were killed. Aizen went to Brazil to live with relatives in the Japanese community in São Paulo. It was during this time he came across the Soldados de Deus, or
Soldiers of God, under its leader and founder Pedro Gouda as the name implies is a right-wing and Traditionalist Catholic paramilitary terrorist group. (Changes slide to show members of the group in formation.) Their goal is to eradicate all forms of 'heresy' including NERV because we destroy the Angels who they see as the messenger's of God."
"It is important to note both Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican, The Archbishop of São Paulo who is the head of the Catholic church in Brazil, the mainstream Catholic church and the overwhelming majority of Catholics have denounced this group." added Fuyutsuki
Commander Ikari again ignored the distraction and continued. "Shortly after Aizen arrived in Japan the Franco-Brazilian war broke out (changes slide to show Brazilian tanks in Cayenne which is the capital of French Guiana) This of course was because while France struggled to stay together a group of generals in the Brazilian army annexed French Guiana as a state of Brazil. Once the French re-established order they went to war with Brazil to regain this territory (changes slide to show a French war ship of the coast of Belém,Brazil). The French failed on most landings, but did manage to occupy Rio de Janeiro (changes slide to show French soldiers celebrating with the statue of Christ the redeemer in the background).
The the French smuggled agents into São Paulo and after contacting secessionists established the Republic of São Paulo, which was a French puppet state. At first it was liberal country, but then the Soldiers of God staged a coup and took over (changes slide to show members of the Soldiers of God celebrating after the successful coup. Aizen is dead center holding the São Paulo flag which is composed of thirteen horizontal black and white stripes and has a red canton with a blue silhouette of Brazil in a white circle and four yellow five-pointed stars appear in the each corner of the canton) and they replaced the former government by establishing the State of São Paulo which was no longer a puppet state but now an independent and theological fascist dictatorship even going so far as to revive the Inquisition.
However the Brazilian government regained control from the militarists and decided to end the war with everything to back to before. As a sign of good will the French even helped the Brazilians crush the new government in São Paulo (changes slide to show Brazilian flag again waving over São Paulo).
Punishment for anyone who led the takeover or invasion but especially in the São Paulo secession attempt were arrested, tried and executed including Gouda. As a result many fled including Aizen who returned to Japan living where he educated himself and helped to revive the Soldiers of God (changes slide to show foundation ceremony for the revival of the Soldiers of God with Aizen dead center) in Japan in 2002. He was ranked Lieutenant and reached Captain in 2005.
The issue was the leader, Ganju Hayama (changes slide to show Hayama) the first cousin of Gouda and now leader. Hayama was a moderate who wanted to disarm the group and make it mainstream which made radicals like Aizen irate, and in 2003 Aizen began to secretly rearm and train the group. He also made friends with high-ranking members so he isolated Hayama. In 2007 at the fifth party celebrating the Soldiers revival in Japan, Captain Aizen and his supports launched a coup and took over (changes slide to show Aizen after the coup as the new leader).
Aizen returned the group to its roots as a terrorist organization but kept ties to legitimate groups like Japan First and the Japanese National Socialist workers and welfare party which is Neo-Nazi in nature (I kid you not there is a Neo-Nazi political party in Japan). Ever since its founding Aizen has been against NERV and in fact in 2013 he held a rally against NERV in Tokyo-2. Mr. Kiamora was present and we believe followers of Aizen took advantage of his weakened state to brainwash him. He confessed he used his master-key to get access to the apartment of Major Katsuragi so he could harm her and the pilots. He also confessed to being the one who called the Major while disguising his voice and confessed to being the person who tried to poison both Rei and Dr. Akagi as well." finished Commander Ikari.
With that the show ended, Fuyutsuki shut off the projector and turned on the light as everyone except the Commander and Sub-Commander stretched.
Doctor Akagi then cleared her throat " I have an update on Shinji" she began, but was mobbed by Misato who only backed off on the order of the Commander. "It's not good" started the doctor "I'm afraid Shinji has developed symptoms of advanced Brugmansia poisoning, due to the extended poisoning. His condition has gotten clearly worse, but Maya is watching him and since she hasn't contacted me then he is not doing any worse as of now."
Upon that everyone took their leave, both Commander Ikari and Sub-Commander Fuyutsuki went to the Commander's office.
"Professor" began Gendo "Your interruptions during the presentation were not warranted nor were appreciated at all."
"I was attempting to interject as much information as possible. Why do seem to care so much about Shinji now? You've always been so cold to him since he arrived in Tokyo-3." asked the older man.
"Exactly why. I've hurt that boy so much I can't let others hurt him. Besides I know Yui would want the people who hurt him punished."
"Dammit!" Misato cursed. While Misato and the other knew what they were dealing with, she was upset with finding out Shinji had taken a turn for the worse.
After the meeting she went around shadier parts of Tokyo-3 trying to find out where the Soldiers of God were but she had come up empty. From empty warehouses to bars, she was leaving her latest stop, a heroin den, She found drug addict but nothing to do with the Soldiers of God. As she left, she again failed to notice the same white van from outside her apartment.
As the two men inside nodded the sadistic passenger quickly hoped in the back, grabbed a Uzi, threw open the door, aimed where Misato was and started to fire.
A/N: Cliffhanger! I hope the ending made up for everything else but it was necessary. Again I don't mean to offend anyone so if you were I'm sorry but I wanted to make clear I'm not generalizing anyone which is why I had the general who nuked Tokyo-1 executed as a traitor and I added that the Soldiers of God were denounced by the Catholic church and Catholics in general (I was Catholic until 9 years old) and again it does not represent the kind, tolerant and peace-loving Catholic community as a whole just as Al-Qaeda doesn't represent the tolerant, peace and freedom Muslim community nor did Osama Bin Laden before we blew his brains out. The name Gouda was a reference to Ghost in the shell 2nd G.I.G. and if you can't tell I am really political hence why I added those conflicts. The names Aizen and Ganju as well as the rank Aizen held which was Captain are references to Bleach his former rank . Junichiro Aizen will definitely appear again but I am not sure about the other Ganju and his surname of Hayama is a reference to Kodocha. I just wanted to say about the intensive interrogation is I don't condone torture per say but I do support tactics such as water boarding only as a last resource or if it can save hundreds or thousands from being hurt. Thanks for reading and see what happened next. Please review!