Creation began on 10-17-18

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Neon Genesis Evangelion

Potential Paradise: Altered status ruins government authority

A/N: An earlier chapter is still in-progress, but I'd like for this chapter to go down on what relocating a lot of people from places that are supposed to promise a new life to those less fortunate to a place that does just that makes the former looks bad. This was inspired to be made by the most recent episode of Chicago Med. Here goes.

NERV had gotten some flak from the United States over the fact that the Third Child had ships from his space station come onto their air spaces and relocated dozens of their population, including the undocumented people, simply because the fourteen-year-old boy was offering them sanctuary on his new residence and could care less about their immigration statuses. And when NERV was getting this heat, it was mainly Gendo, because it was his son that was throwing off everything political and jeopardizing national security.

"What was that old saying that made America a great place back in the old days?" Misato asked Kaji in Central Dogma as they saw one of Shinji's space station's transporters leaving the air space around Chicago, Illinois with up to eighty-thousand people, almost emptying the city.

"Oh, it used to be, 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free', but now they treat everyone without a green card or an American face as a terrorist threatening to endanger American cities," Kaji explained. "Maybe Shinji knows about ICE and doesn't like how the government treats foreigners that just want to live free."

"And there are millions of immigrants that are probably grateful that they're someplace up there where they don't need to be afraid of being deported or incarcerated, where a green card isn't necessary and where you're from is irrelevant."

"Except he takes these big risks that's not going to get him in anyone's good graces," went Maya, overhearing their conversation and sharing her opinion.

"I'd say he wasn't in anyone's good graces before he even got here and was made to pilot the Eva by his father, but at least he's helping the people that need it most and he's not fearing anything as ridiculous as where people are from and who did what wherever for whatever or whoever," added Shigeru. "Still, he's putting the U.S.A. to pasture because they can no longer risk to maintain freedom of the dream."

"Funny, you can't live the dream anywhere on the planet these days," expressed Hyuga, "and Commander Ikari will want him thrown in the brig for doing whatever he pleases, just as the Americans will likely want him executed just for giving sanctuary to people he doesn't even know anything about."

-x-

Except the truth was that Shinji did know who these people were; his space station's computers were registering everything there was to know about these former immigrants. Somehow, their entire background, from the year they were born to the last prescribed drugs they ever took for their ailments; there was nothing about them that was hidden from him. Even the drones that maintain the order made sure none of the violent people ever got onto the space station and endangered the good people.

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free," Shinji uttered as he observed a transporter docking back and unloading the new arrivals from the desk in his ancestress' room, including a Mexican woman carrying a little boy that looked sickly and in need of medication. "Give me all your falsely accused, your unjustly suspected, your illegal, your sickly and your unwanted masses that deserve to live freely as much as you do. Even if everyone on Earth was on here, there'd be plenty of room for everyone to live freely. They can call this place their home, their refuge, their shelter from those that don't want them, that don't need them for the right reasons."

He smiled as a drone directed the sick and elderly to the medical bay where they could be treated, and the mother laid out her son on one of the medical beds present and had his body scanned to see what was wrong, from untreated fractures to untreated diseases, and undo them.

-x-

"…He's emptied more than half of the immigration centers where we hold suspected terrorists!" A man shouted at Gendo during a holographic meeting.

"There are hundreds of businesses scattered across the United States that are completely understaffed because the immigrants were relocated to a place where their illegal statuses don't matter!" A woman yelled. "How is ICE supposed to do their job if there aren't any immigrants left to suspect or are happy to go elsewhere where they won't be suspected of any political suspicion or because your son up and welcomes them onto his space station with open arms?!"

"While some would say that this Shinji Ikari is doing the countries a great service," another man stated, "he's also making us look like we're inadequate at our jobs, and this will not stand, Ikari. As much as we can live without many of these illegal aliens, their presence and suspicion of terrorism brings in stability and trust in the government, so they need to be brought back and dealt with. Returned to their home countries, incarcerated within the detention centers, wherever they can be crammed into and left there until there's no longer a reason to suspect one of them will try to crash a plane into a building or a neighborhood. Get in contact with your son and have him return the people to Earth. Work out a deal with him, resolve this matter before he puts everyone out of a job."

But as far as Gendo cared, they were all already out of a job because of the Third Child's actions that put them to pasture. There were less than five-million people left on the planet, and even that number could've dwindled down at any given time because there were still some evaluated lives that were invited to live on the space station. It was taking everything he could enforce in his orders for the invited NERV personnel not to leave NERV.

"Understood," he told them all.

"Get it done, or otherwise you'll be out of a job soon!" They all responded, and their holograms disappeared from sight.

Damn you, boy, he thought.

Unfortunately, Fuyutsuki, who had been present during the entire meeting, wondered if whether or not it was anyone's call to force Shinji to bend to their will and do as they ask. If the more-resourceful countries weren't going to raise a finger to help or tolerate the less fortunate or underprivileged, then what right did they have to make Shinji do less?

To be continued…

A/N: Well, I feel better now that I've written this.