This is the prologue to an Eva series. The idea started bouncing around
in my head and wouldn't sit down until I wrote it down. Don't ask when
chapter 1 is coming, its plotted but I still have to finish polishing up
Shades of Gray Chapter 5 and finish writing Heart of Fire, Heart of
Darkness Chapter 2. C&C is very welcome, and might inspire me to
increase this fics priority. This fic will (eventually) be posted at
http://www.geocities.com/anowack/ where all my other fics are kept.
Enjoy!
Aaron Nowack
"Never let reality get in the way of a good hypothesis."
http://www.geocities.com/anowack/
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Second Iteration
A Neon Genesis Evangelion Fanfic
By: Aaron Nowack
Prologue: First Ending
***
Disclaimer: Neon Genesis Evangelion is owned by Hidaeko Anno and
Gainax, not me. I make or imply no claim of ownership. However, the
text of this fanfic and all original characters are mine, and should
not be used without permission. Thank you.
***
The year was 2018. The place was Geneva, in the New European
Union. More specifically, the United Nations Headquarters in that
city. The halls of power from which the world was governed. Tall and
imposing, the twin towers hung over the city like giant monoliths,
casting their shadow over the city. Within a large hall inside the
Unity Tower, the final act of a decades old story was being performed.
Sitting behind a large table at the front of the room were the
nine members of the United Nations Evangelion Oversight Commitee.
Before them stood the elite of the newly formed United Nations
Evangelion Force. In front of that group was the Commander of that
organization, Makoto Hyuga. In the shadows in the back of the room sat
Commander Maya Ibuki of the troubled Gehirin II. In between these two
were perhaps the most important people in the room, the Evangelion
pilots.
"...and so it is my pleasure to introduce to you the fighters of
the UNEF," finished Makoto as he stepped back, allowing the children to
step forward.
A small girl with pale skin, blue hair, and piercing red eyes
stepped forward. "Captain Rei Ayanami, designated pilot of Evangelion
Unit 00."
A boy with a brown hair and a downcast expression was next to
step forward. "Captain Shinji Ikari, designated pilot of Evangelion
Unit 01."
A red haired girl with a fierce expression then stepped forward.
"Captain Asuka Langely Soryuu, designated pilot of Evangelion Unit
02."
A tall, massive boy with black hair and with a barely noticable
prothsetic arm and leg followed. "Captain Toji Suzahara, designated
pilot of Evangelion Unit 03."
They were all seventeen years old. Not even adults, but the fate
of the world had already rested on their shoulders not once, but twice.
The head of the commitee, Chairman Pierre Leblanc, straightened his
glasses, the TV camera lights glistening off nearly bald head. He
tried not to notice the flinch Ikari made at that simple gesture. He
glanced down at his notes before speaking. "This commitee has a number
of questions about your conduct in the destruction of the NERV-India
facility. Mr. Nehru?"
Nehru, the Indian member of the UNEOC, glared at the pilots.
"Thank you, Chairman. Captain Suzahara, at one point during the
attack, you opened fire on a group of infantrymen whom later analysis
shows were trying to surrender. Do you have any explanation for this?"
Suzahara returned Nehru's glare. "They were SEELE men. They
worked for the bastards who killed my sister. Besides, it was a
battle. It can be difficult to tell the differance between men with
their hands up and men raising missile launchers."
Nehru continued. "Surely, Captain Suzahara, one can tell the
differance between men running away and men firing at you?"
Suzahara frowned. "Yes. But it sure is hard to tell the
differance between fleeing men and men running to better firing
positions."
Soryuu interjected at this point. "In any case, those men were
sentenced to death for failing to surrender after Tokyo-3."
Chairman Leblanc banged his gavel. "You are out of order,
Captain Soryuu. However, your point is well taken. I believe that
matter of discussion is closed. Major Anderson?"
Major Anderson had been the head of the American First Branch,
but had resigned after the destruction of Second Branch. "Thank you,
Mr. Chariman. Captain Ayanami, at one point during the hostilities,
you ordered a N2 mine detonated over the SEELE positions, causing a
great deal of collateral damage to the city of Coimbatore. Would you
care to enlighten us as to your reasons for this decision?"
Ikari sighed as Ayanami began her explanation. This was going to
be a long meeting, and they all had important work to do afterwards.
After all, with the final destruction of Unit 07, they now possesed the
only active Evangelions in the world. They had a great deal to
prepare.
***
A few days later, the four Children stood outside the abandoned
Tokyo-3 Geofront. The ruined skyscrapers cast vast shadows over the
ruined landscape. Every crater brought back memories to the Children.
There Unit 00 had self destructed. There Unit 02 had battled the Evas
of the First Production Series. There... was where Third Impact...
It hadn't taken too much effort to get Commander Hyuga to quietly
evacuate the ruined city and Geofront, leaving behind all for Evas. He
had a vague idea as to what the Shinji was going to do. It was
Shinji who spoke first. "Have you all read what I gave you?"
The other Children nodded. "This was Commander Ikari's personal
journal?" Rei asked.
Shinji nodded. "Yes."
Toji grimaced. "Those SEELE bastards were worse than I thought."
"So what?" Asuka asked. "They might have caused Second Impact.
They're all dead now, so what differance does it make? Wonder Girl
caught the last of them with her N2 mine."
Shinji sighed. "That's what I came here to talk about. I also
found the relevant sections of the Dead Sea Scrolls, with my fath...
Commander Ikari's commentary." Rei nodded.
"I hate to agree with Wonder Bitch here, but that's all in the
past now, isn't it?" Toji replied.
"No," said Shinji. "Seventeen messangers were sent to test
humanity, from Lilith to Ka... Tabris. This could have been the end,
but it wasn't. Humanity survives, and will be tested again."
Toji gasped, Asuka swore, and Rei blinked. "You mean..." Toji
began to ask.
Shinji nodded once more. "Yes. The Angels will be back. And
those prophecies hold the only way for humanity to survive. And we
must be the ones to make sure they come to pass."
"What do we need to do?" Rei asked.
"A lot of things," Shinji said. "We're going to need allies...
Kensuke, Hikari, Maya, Shigeru, Makoto, all our friends, even
Professor Fuyutsuki. We're going to need to be sure Maya never builds
another Evangelion. We're going to need power... and SEELE's databases
give us all the tools we need for that. Obviously, we're going to need
to stay alive."
Eveyone nodded at that. "It's a tall order," Asuka commented,
and then grinned. "But I'm up to it. After all, I'm the best."
Shinji smiled in what seemed the first time in ages. "Good. And
this is the first step." He removed a small black box from his pocket.
"I took this off Ritsuko's body. It's a self destruct program."
"What?" exclaimed Toji as Shinji activated the device. All four
were silent as the explosions sounded deep underground. With a great
roar, the Geofront collapsed. NERV HQ, and the Evas, were buried under
tons of rubble. The results of nearly two decades work of defending
humanity were destroyed in a comparitive instant.
As Shinji began to explain his action to his friends, he wondered
whether his father had experienced this heavy feeling he now felt.
***
Appendix 1:
Important Organizations from Second Impact to the SEELE Conflict
From: CHAI Databases
Clearance Level: Gamma Limited
Date: January 1, 2115
Gehirin
Founded in 1996 as the Gehirin Biogenetic Research Foundation, Gehirin
was intended as a front orginization for SEELE. However, anti-SEELE
elements under the leadership of Dr. Yui Ikari soon seized control of
the organization. Gehirin performed extensive reseach on the creature
codenamed "Lilith" and funded the Katsuragi Expedtion. After Second
Impact, Gehirin began contstruction of the first Evangelion Units under
the auspices of the UN, though they suffered over two dozen failures.
In 2004, they began the construction of the first sucessful
Evangelions, Prototype Unit 00 and Test Type Unit 01. That same year,
Gehirin was rocked by the scandal of the twin deaths of Dr. Yui Ikari
and Dr. Naoko Akagi under circumstances which suggested criminal
negligence. Gehirin was disbanded, and its members were forced to
regroup under the name of NERV, once more indentured to SEELE.
NERV First Branch
Also known as NERV-1, NERV-Japan, or simply NERV, NERV First Branch was
the main NERV facility. It completed the construction of Units 00 and
01 in 2014. An American facility affiliated with this branch, known as
the "American First Branch", produced Unit 03, the Second Production
Model. The organization was headed by Commander Gendo Ikari, and was
made up of Gehirin remnants. The organization, though indebted to
SEELE for its continued existance, continued to covertly work against
SEELE's designs. Most famous for its role in the Angel Invasion, First
Branch was the only NERV organisation to ever see combat. After the
Invasion, First Branch served as the battleground for the most
important battle of the SEELE Conflict.
NERV Second Branch
Known as NERV-2 or NERV-America, Second Branch was founded at the
request of SEELE in 2010. It was heavily infiltrated by SEELE from the
start, and it is believed that its commander, Andrew Farmer, may have
been a member of the SEELE Commitee. Second Branch produced Unit 04 in
2015, however the Evangelion and the entire facility were lost when a
prototype S2 engine produced by Third Branch malfunctioned during a
test. Some historians suggest that the S2 engine was sabotaged by the
then anti-SEELE leadership of Second Branch. The loss of Second Branch
crippled SEELE's operations, and may have lead to its defeat in the
SEELE conflict.
NERV Third Branch
Known as NERV-3 or NERV-Germany, Third Branch was founded as an
extension of First Branch in 2012. Its charter was to produce the
first combat ready Evangelions and train the first combat pilots. It
was headed by Commander Kejiro Soryuu. Its most famous products were
Unit 02, the First Production Model, and its pilot Asuka Langely
Soryuu. Fairly independant from SEELE up to the Angel Invasion, it was
evidently infiltrated by SEELE agents during the production of Unit 08
there. During the SEELE Conflict, Third Branch was destroyed by an N2
missile, believed to have been launched by rogue elements of the German
Army revolting against the SEELE controlled government.
Other NERV Facilities
Many other NERV facilities not under the direct control of any of the
three main branches existed in the years between Second Impact and the
SEELE Conflict. Nominally under direct UN control, many of these
facilities were actually controled by SEELE. Eight of the Evangelions
of the First Production Series were constructed in these facilities.
The facilities responsible were: NERV-Russia (Units 05 and 13), NERV-
China (Units 06, 10, and 12), NERV-Australia (Unit 07), NERV-Antartica
(Unit 09), and NERV-Africa (Unit 11). These facilities served as SEELE
bases during the SEELE Conflict, and some of them remained under SEELE
control for years after the defeat of the First Production Series in
the Final Battle of Tokyo-3. The last of these, NERV-India, fell in
2018 to a UN Evangelion assualt, marking the end of the SEELE Conflict.
SEELE
SEELE was a secret organization started to research the "Lilith"
creature after its discovery in 1947. It quickly grew in power,
gaining influence over many world governments. SEELE secretly founded
Gehirin in 1996, apparently as part of a plan to cause Second Impact.
After Second Impact, SEELE's existance became well known as it entered
the new power stucture. It is believed that SEELE may have started the
disastorous wars that followed Second Impact to facilitate its rise to
open power. SEELE was insturmental in creating NERV after the scandals
that destroyed Gehirin, and heavily infiltrated that organization. It
used this influence to gain control of the First Production Series
Evangelions. After the defeat of the Seventeenth Angel in 2015, SEELE
used these Evangelions to attack Tokyo-3 with the support of the
Japanese government, apparently to destroy the other Evangelions as
preparation for a campaign of world conquest. Although the SEELE
Evangelions were defeated by the battle-hardened NERV Evangelions, the
attack did a great deal of damage, destroying the "Lilith" creature and
all the Angel samples NERV had acquired. This blow sparked the war
known as the SEELE Conflict, as UNEF forces attacked SEELE controlled
facilities and nation-states. The war did not end until SEELE, and all
its minions, had been completely destroyed.
UNEOC
The United Nations Evangelion Oversight Committe was created in 2002 to
administrate the production of Evangelions. It was this body that
ordered Gehirin disbanded in 2004. Nominally NERV's controlling body,
UNEOC was almost completely made up of SEELE committe members by the
time of the Angel Invasion. During the SEELE Conflict, the UNEOC was
reformed with non-SEELE members, and would control the UNEF and Gehirin
II throughout the war, and afterwards.
UNEF
The United Nations Evangelion Force was created from the ashes of NERV
First Branch in the wake of the SEELE attack on Tokyo-3 to prosecute
the war against SEELE. Commanded by Makoto Hyuga, the UNEF began with
only one operational Evangelion, Unit 01. It quickly rebuilt Units 00,
02, and 03. Based out of the Tokyo-3 Geofront, these Evangelions were
used in numerous battle against SEELE forces. After the war, the UNEF
would be mothballed until the successful production of Unit 15 in 2030.
Gehirin II
Commanded by Maya Ibuki, Gehirin II was established in 2016 to begin
production of new Evangelions. However, the disastorous failure of
Unit 14, resulting in the near destruction of the Tokyo-3 Geofront,
would put the project on hold for many years. It was not until 2030
that Gehirin II produced a sucessful Evangelion.
***
Author's Quite Random Ramblings
This came out my second complete watching of Evangelion. It also was
partly inspired by reading Eva 2055 and NEGEV, as well as watching
Gundam Wing. The main story will be taking place in the year 2115.
The storyline diverges after the first half of End of Evagelion, though
not too wildly at first. Obviously, the information given in the
Appendix is not the absolute truth.
C&C muchly welcome.