You ever watch an anime series, and you think "yeah, okay, it's cool," and
then don't think about for months, when suddenly the fic ideas come pouring in
in a torrent?

Yeah.

Expect more like this in the next week or so. Including an attempt on my part
to produce an NXE anti-fic that ISN'T, as MegaZone said, a "dashed off vitriol
fest masquerading as a short story."

It's possible. Stop laughing, dammit!!!!

Lunatic Fringe Fanfic Productions is proud to present.....

Neon Genesis Evangelion:
The MAGI Speak.


It was time.

Dr. Akagi Naoko closed the accessway into the bowels of Casper and stood up,
stretching. At last; it was finished. The culmination of her life's work. The
most advanced network of systems ever created. A supercomputer to end all
supercomputers.

Melchior.

Balthasar.

Casper.

The MAGI.

It was time.

Even though nothing appreciably visible would happen when they were activated
(all they basically had left to do at this point was throw a switch) there was
a pretty big turnout for the occasion. The entire command staff and an
appreciable chunk of support personnel had come. Ikari Gendo had even deigned
to mingle with the peons for this. Her own daughter, Ritsuko, was in
attendence, standing quietly in the back near that strange Rei girl Gendo had
had toddling around with him.

But enough of that. Now, it was time.

Naoko stepped up to the impromptu podium one of the staffers had dragged out.
She wasn't very good at public speaking.

"I'm not very good at public speaking," she began, "So I'll make this short.
What we are about to do today will one day be recognized as the greatest
moment in the history of computer science." Well, she was entitled to SOME
ego, wasn't she? "I could expound on what having the Magi operational will
mean, but that would just be rehashing a talk you've no doubt heard a thousand
times before."  She stepped down from the podium, and strode imperiously over
to a small, incongrous switch on a nearby console. "Instead, I'll _show_ you
what the MAGI can do."

Akagi Naoko pressed The Switch.

The MAGI turned on.

It was pretty uninteresting, at first. A lot of indicators cycled from red to
green. The lights flickered a little bit. Nothing too exciting.

Then there was an audible <click> as MAGI's external speakers activated. That
would be the real crowning point: the computer, itself, speaking to it's
creators telling them just how operational was.(and how brilliant they were) 

The crowd leaned forward in anticipation.

Ikari Gendo pushed his glasses up on his nose.

Ayanami Rei (I) blinked.

The Magi spoke.

"Good evening, Doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows '05 from
my hard drive."

-END.


Hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe.

Gotcha.

For those of you who don't know, this is a parody of the infamous HAL
computer; it's first words were exactly the same, except with Windows 95
instead of '05.

Kudos to Arthur C. Clarke, both for his kickass novels and for picking that
particular phrase (out of hundreds submitted) to be HAL's opening line.

-Mercutio
"A plague 'a both your houses!"