A Thousand Apolgies unto thee kind sir, IMHO did not agree with my
formatting.. this should be much more readable.. (My first post, and
it went bad :()
[Fanfic][NGE][Spoiler] Ayanami wa hito ni naru - Prologue
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Ayanami wa hito ni naru
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Author: Mats Fors�n (garnax@lysator.liu.se)
The title should mean 'Ayanami becomes human'. (tentative title)
This story is set in the 22nd episode. It diverges exactly at the
middle of the episode when the angel appears. This is my first
attempt at a fanfic just to see if I suck as bad as I think I do..
C&C greatly appreciated...
Seeing as there doesn't seem to be any clearcut answer in NGE as to
how Ayanami Rei works with regards to the transfer of soul/memory
between clones I've written down how I see it and applied that to
the fanfic, read at the end of the text if interested.
Neon Genesis Evangelion and everything isn't mine. Don't sue me.
Revision 0.2, 1999-10-20
Thanks go to: Likatare, people on IRC who discussed NGE with me
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Prologue: The Beginning
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The personnel in the control room looked up at the big viewscreen.
The sighting of the 15:th Angel had just been confirmed, but it was
just hanging there in orbit silently like a stalking predator.
Misato thought the whole situation over and wondered out loud:
"So, does that mean that it's looking for a place to land? Or
that it's going to destroy us from up there?"
Makoto didn't need to think long before glancing back at her and
voicing his opinion: "We can't attack it easily from this position."
Misato nods and continues that line of thought: "Unless it comes
into our range, there's nothing we can do." She pauses for a moment
before saying: "The EVAs can't destroy an enemy that's in orbit."
She thinks hard and runs a few plans through her mind before coming
up with the only alternative that even has a possibility of succeeding.
She glances over at Maya and asks: "What's Rei's status?"
Maya answers promptly: "She and Unit 00 are both in good condition."
Misato acknowledges her and barks out in a commanding voice:
"Sortie Unit 00. Prepare for extreme long range firing. Unit 02,
Asuka, be ready to sortie as her back up."
Inside her EVA Asuka has a surprised look on her face. "Back up?
Me? For Unit 00?"
Misato responds cooly with: "That's right, take the rear guard
position."
Asuka is starting to get angry and growls: "You can't be serious..."
Just as she is about to blurt out something in the heat of anger she
pauses and gets a scared look on her face as she suddenly realizes
this might be the beginning of them replacing her as a pilot.
Her face runs through the gamut of emotions from pure rage that
they dare question her superiority to the fearful doubt that
she might actually be bad enough to warrant it. After cooling off
she finally resigns herself to follow orders no matter how
much she might hate them so that she doesn't give them any further
reason to remove her.
She glares mightily into the video pickup and angrily chokes out:
"Hai."
Misato isn't fazed at all but just nods her head and commands:
"EVA Unit 00 launch!"
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The blue EVA Unit 00 is standing still in the rain as a huge rifle
rises from a hidden compartment in the ground. Rei maneuvers her EVA
into taking the rifle and starts to aim at the target. Although the
Angel is far out of visual range the EVA has superior aim so she
lets the computer handle it.
Shigeru gives a status update over the intercom: "The target is still
out of range."
Predictably Rei doesn't react at all and just keeps waiting for the
rifle to lock onto the Angel. Just as the crosshairs start to line up
a bright ray of light strikes down from the Angel at the unsuspecting
EVA and pilot.
Inside NERV headquarters alarms go off and the personnel rush to find
out what the ray is and how to counter it.
Misato looks stricken and cries out: "The Angel has a particle beam
weapon?!"
Shigeru checks his monitor and responds with: "Negative, there are
no thermal emissions being detected."
Maya gasps in surprise at what she sees on her monitor and informs
the others with a desperate voice: "We've got abnormal readings in her
psychograph! Mental contamination is about to begin!"
Ritsuko can only stand and look amazed as she tries to figure out
how that could be possible. "The Angel's making a psychic attack?
The Angels don't understand our minds that well!"
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Inside the EVA Rei is feeling a most strange sensation. It is so
distracting that her finger squeezes the trigger prematurely. The
rifle fires but the shots are too low and miss the Angel.
The feeling intensifies and she somehow senses that she is no longer
alone in the EVA. Curiously (or as curious as Rei can get) she glances
around the entry plug but cannot see anyone else present.
The feeling is not unlike that which she gets when she tries to sync
with her EVA. Therefore she rationalizes that there must be someone
else trying to interface with her mind.
She is so puzzled by this sensation that she doesn't answer the frantic
hails from the control room.
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Inside NERV headquarters everything is in chaos with people trying
to figure out what is happening. The ray didn't seem to be affecting
Unit 00 much other than that Rei had stopped answering.
Looking over Makoto's shoulder she asks: "What's the result of the
beam analysis?"
Makoto answers: "It's an energy oscillation pattern on a visible
wavelength. It's similar to an AT Field, but we don't know much more."
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The presence in her mind starts showing her pieces of her memory.
Puzzled at this behavior she wonders if it is trying to communicate
with her. The memories become more and more vivid and increase in
intensity so much that it is hard for her to focus on reality.
She sees in her mind a place she will never forget, it is the room where
her first incarnation died. The scene plays out for her as she remembers
it.
The memory of Ritsuko's mother slowly squeezing the life out of her is
very realistic, the pure hatred in her eyes is unmistakable. Rei starts
having trouble to breathe because the feeling of her throat being crushed
is overwhelming.
If this was anyone else than Rei that person would probably be
screaming insanely at reliving such traumatic memories, but all
she felt was a mild nausea and confusion. She couldn't understand
why the entity in her mind was showing her that memory, what purpose
could it have in communication?
Somehow sensing that it wasn't having the desired effect, the Angel
tried even harder in searching for a memory to traumatize the pilot.
It tried flashing memories of Shinji insulting his father and Asuka
slapping her for being a doll but nothing seemed to have any effect.
Rei simply relived the memories and felt as detached as if she were
watching them on TV.
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People inside the NERV control room continued trying to analyze the ray.
Maya thought she heard Rei mutter something low under her breath so she
increased the volume until they could make out what it was.
Slowly they began to make out what she was saying: "What is the purpose of
this?.... Why are you showing me these memories?...".
Misato kept her cool exterior while burning with fear for the Child inside.
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The Angel would have screamed in frustration if it had been capable of it.
It desperately searched for anything that could have an effect on the
strange lilim piloting the copy of Lilith. It couldn't understand why it
didn't have any effect? Had it been completely misinformed as to how the
lilims think?
It examined the lilim harder and noticed something that had escaped
its notice before, probably since it would never have expected it.
The lilim seemed to have a connection to Lilith! It actually seemed like
the lilim was using part of Lilith's soul. No wonder that ordinary
lilim emotions were beyond this particular lilim.
Now that it knew what to look for it gathered up its mental powers
and prepared to make a thrust at that link.
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Rei had been getting more and more confused and couldn't understand
how she was supposed to react to this playback of her memories.
Suddenly the memories stopped and she wondered if it was over.
Within seconds however she felt an incredibly excruciating pain in
her mind. She screamed out her pain as loud as she could. It felt
like someone was ripping her life essence from her body. The pain
just kept going on and on and she felt herself growing numb.
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In the NERV control room everyone paused as Maya suddenly exclaimed
excitedly: "Mental contamination is stopping!"
Just as Misato was getting her hopes up her ears were assailed by
an incredibly high scream that sounded like someone having their
body crushed slowly while being immersed in acid. Her ears were ringing
with the sound as someone turned down the volume on the speakers.
Glancing up at the main viewer Misato could feel the blood freezing
in her veins as she saw Rei spasm uncontrollably while screaming her
lungs out.
Looking over at Maya she screams out: "How's Rei?"
Maya answers with a panicked voice: "Her situation is critical! The
mental contamination is crossing her ego borderline!"
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Chapter End
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What happens next? Will Rei die? Whatever happened to Asuka?
If someone likes this and I have the time I might continue it...
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My take on the Lilith/Rei situation:
They cannot activate another clone while one is alive since that clone
is using part of Lilith's soul to keep it conscious. Attempts at waking
multiple clones have just ended up with one active one and the rest
braindead. When Rei dies the soul-part returns to Lilith and can then
be used for the next clone. This is just pure speculation on my part
but it doesn't seem to clash too much with canon NGE but if someone else
has a better idea I welcome discussing it privately. (don't spam the FFML)
/ Mats Fors�n, garnax@lysator.liu.se