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NGE: Nobody Dies 2: The Reevival
 
#76
ooooohhh yeah. Pretty sure I know where the girls get it from now. Wink
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#77
Nice xkcd reference, there.
Fits quite well.

My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.

I've been writing a bit.
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#78
Now, running concurrently with this is Shinji Ikari vs. the World, A ND New Game +.  What's happening there is that Shinji finds himself at the beginning of the story again, having been sent back, ala Quantum Leap, from the fight against Tamiel.  Problem is, the other people he was with when Instrumentality hit are not there, as they've all been sent into different timelines.

The 12 year old Ichi is now in the canon verse, having taken Yui's place inside their Unit-01 as it's being sent out against Sachiel.

And Mari is now in a stripped down Unit-05 in another timeline, in this place called Bethany Island.
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#79
Ah. Sounds like fun. *grins ree-ishly* Link please?
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#80
“Due to special
emergency circumstances, all lines are currently out of service.
Thank you.”


Blinking,
Shinji Ikari drops the phone, letting it hang, bouncing, off of the
line and the phone booth itself. He stares at it for a moment, as if
the receiver would hold the answer to the questions he had. As if
the receiver would explain to him where he is. Looking around,
spinning, there are a few things he notices.

First,
that the 'city' has no high buildings. Everything is flat, quaint.
There are no buildings higher than the three and four story apartment
buildings, and no people. But that isn't the problem.

The
problem is he knows everyone is in the shelters. He knows that the
other buildings are retracted, waiting for the signal to rise again.
He knows that, he knows the layout of the city, where where he is,
and he also knows how he knows that.

“Crap,”
he whispers, “Mirror. Mirror mirror mirror-”

He
runs back over to the phone booth, looking into the reflective
surface.

“Black
hair,” he says, looking at his hand, “And I'm not pale. Holy
crap, I'm not a Nephilim, am I-”

Wait.
Wait wait wait. This is both good and bad. Good, in that he's now
human again. Probably. But it's also bad. It's also bad because he
remembers the last time he was using a phone booth, and wearing the
sweatshirt and jeans he's wearing right now. Digging into his
pocket, he takes out a note. A note with an address, many blacked
out lines, and a single word.

'Come.'

“Oh,
shit.”

The
explosion rips through a building several blocks down. The VTOL
craft flies past, backwards, overhead, rippling out a swarm of
missiles at the unseen target. A lance of pink spears it, igniting
fuel and consuming it in an explosion.

“Oh,
shit!”

And
the entire apartment block collapses as the foot smashes into it, the
lime green giant leaning forward. It is massive, sixty meters tall.
Its head is a limp on its shoulders, the massive bone bird face
encompassing its eyes. Its form is a sick parody of the human body,
and as it turns from the latest kill it spots him, turns to him, sees
him.

Oh,
Shit!”


-

-

Shinji
Ikari vs. the World.


Nobody
Dies, New Game+


-

-

In normal circumstances, when faced down with a 60 meter tall
creature that, for a hobby, violates fleets with pink phallic laser
hand like a...well, complete failure of a metaphor, Shinji would then
use his nephilim phisiology to run at seventy miles per hour down the
street and away from the danger zone. Instead, he's currently human
again. Which is a problem, as that sense of relief does not save him
from Sachiel.

However, if he remembers correctly, something else will.

REI!” he screams/shrieks, “HELP!!!”

The hand of the Angel stops, reflecting off on an orange, octagonal
wall. Which then ripples, pulses, and pushes the Angel away, making
it stumble back as it considers what the Hell just happened.

Heee~ey.

Shinji turns. Standing behind him where a pale nephilim girl was
not standing before is now a pale nephilim girl. He sees no
ductwork. He also knows that Lilly was not alive back then, so his
only conclusion is that somehow, Rei can teleport. He does not know
if this comforts him.

“How do you know my naa~ame?” Rei asks, her smile a thin line on
her face.

So, Shinji thinks, How do I bullshit my way out of this?
What sort of elaborate lie do I tell Rei to maintain...wait, no.
This is Rei.


“I know you're my half sister created by Naoko Akagi to
kill me and my Mom,” he says, grabbing Rei by the shoulders, “You
have seven sisters in the Sheol section of NERV-1, you're half
created with Lilith and you have super powers that let you beat up
Angels on foot. I know all of this because I travelled through
time.”


Rei clasps her hands together, emitting a squealing, squeaking sound
at the utter insanity of Shinji's statement that could best be
described as a Reegasm. Which is around when Sachiel decides
to do something about it, stumbling forward at them.

“Right!” Rei says, “Gotta go!”

Grabbing Shinji by the arm, she takes off, running at a brisk pace
of forty miles per hour down the street, the Angel stumbling after
them in pursuit.

“So!” Rei yells, “Where's your Time Machine?”

“It's Ichi!” Shinji yells back, not nearly as frightened by this
situation than he was those months ago when it first happened to him,
but that's the effect of, say, doing this regularly, “Ichi's my
time machine! But I'm not sure if she still is, or if I'm the only
one who went back!”

“So, you know that Ichi's-”

“My baby sister that was absorbed into Unit-01? Yes!”

“Maaa~an I wanted to break that to you...”

“Trust me! I've had an interesting few months!”

A universe away, and Shinji Ikari can only watch in mute horror as
the entry plug fills with the fluid, smelling like blood, the copper
stench filling his nostrils as he tries, in vain, to hold his breath
against the oncoming tide of sloshing, heavy liquid. It fills up,
past his chest, past his chin, past his nose, as he finally gives in
and inhales. Like they said, it is breathable. Like they didn't
say, it feels...tastes...everything...horrible.

Oh, you big baby. Suck it up and deal.”

His eyes snap open. The 14 year old boy, clad in his school
uniform, the odd...alien...attachments on his head flickering on,
turns. The voice did not come from behind him, but all around him,
everywhere...

“Um...hello?”

Sh. I'm going through your memories...yep, this is the sucky
timeline. Mom's dead, Dad's a dick, you went to live with one of the
teachers Mom schooled with and he was a distant dickish dick who was
a big old dick. Great. I'll have to work on you while I'm here.”


The form materializes, forming almost out of the light reflected in
the LCL, but visible only to him. The girl, all of twelve years old,
in a green and white girls school uniform, her black hair tied back
into pig tails and a wide smile on her face, bends down and meets her
blue eyes with his own.

So! I'm Ichi Ikari, your baby sister turned teen sister
shunted into here from another timeline. A pleasure to meet you!”


EVA LAUNCH!”
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#81
oh yes... Yes-yes-yessy-yus.

I love Rei's reaction, and I can only imagine the reactions of Gendo and Yui, aside from the "TELL ME EVERYTHING!" reflex.

And I am going to seriously enjoy seeing what you have Ichi do with Canon!Shinji. (It actually runs close to an idea that I had involving a couple of characters from Fenspace and the dimensional door from Scott Pilgrim.)
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#82
Oh, yeah. Do want. Thanks for posting that, Gregg.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
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I will somehow incorporate Yakkety Sax into this chapter.
#83
 “Ikari-kun.”

Midway through the five minutes
he spent scratching at the door, Shinji realized that Lilith was not
moving. In fact, in the darkness, illuminated by her glowing red
eyes, he could see that she tied to a large diagnostic bed, propped
upward, her hands and arms restrained in a fashion similar to how her
larger body once was on its cross.

Come
closer.”


He turns to her, the restrained
jouten of the progenitor.

“Yeah,” he says, “Uh...no.”

The white skinned, obviously
naked 14 year old girl pulls at the restraints, the wires and
monitoring devices covering up the obvious nudity. She frowns, an
odd expression on her usually placid face.

Come
closer. You have questions. I possess answers.”


“Does your answering those
questions involve you turning me into orange drink?”

...that
is not untrue.”


“Then
again, no.

Lilith frowns, again. This
should be much easier than this. At least, that is what Shinji
thinks that she thinks, looking at the confused, maybe frustrated
expression on her face. But he has trouble knowing the mind of the
ancestor of all life, and direct ancestor of the Ree.

“Okay,” he says, “I do
have some questions.”

Speak, Ikari-kun.

“...I had a
vision, a sort of...I guess dream during the last Angel,” he says,
“Do you know anything about that?”

I am but a part of the
greater whole. I am an aspect, not the entirety of Lilith. But I,
too, saw. It was a memory. Another step in a cycle.”


“I saw...Angels. Not just the
type we fight, but...can you make Angels, too?”

Lilith turns to Shinji. A small
smile crosses her face.

Of course I can.”

He nods. Tapping his foot, he
considers his next question.

“Are the Ree your Angels?”
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#84
....ohhhhh shit, that's gonna be a small bombshell. :lol

Though it does reinforce the fridge horror of the dream sequence Ree-lings tearing apart ADAM and his Angels if you picture them resembling Rei in any way.
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"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."
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#85
OpMegs Wrote:....ohhhhh shit, that's gonna be a small bombshell. :lol

Though it does reinforce the fridge horror of the dream sequence Ree-lings tearing apart ADAM and his Angels if you picture them resembling Rei in any way.
Or if the things that were tearing them apart are the Ree's true forms.
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#86
I wonder, do the Ree know about this?

Also, in the unlikely event that you weren't already aware, Thrythlind wrote an omake involving a number of characters from his fic Divine Blood, including Lusca, the Demoness of Crushing (things with tentacles), ending up in the ND 'verse. Among other events that occur, Lusca mentions a word to the Ree that is probably on Yui's list of words not to even think where the Ree could possibly be nearby. The omake can be found here: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6906181/1/C ... ke_Theater

(Post #998)
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.
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From Ayanami Sisters Fight Crime
#87
Fingers
tap on the touch display. It is a new install in his office, a
bluetooth device which emits a laser pattern on the flat surface,
saving space so he doesn't need an actual keyboard. He's still
figuring out how to use it. Asuka sat him down and programmed it to
be ergonomic, and easier on his wrists.

He'll
have to ask her how to program his DVR, later.

The
desk chimes. Right, he thinks. He had that installed, to, on his
insistence. Reaching under his desk, he stares and finds the
flashing red button, tapping it. The desk rumbles, and a projector
folds out from the ceiling of his office, projecting a holographic
map of Tokyo-3 in the center of his office.

A
blinking red light on a building, and he pushes off from his desk,
sliding his leather chair back and rising. Walking to the hologram,
he takes his glasses out of his pocket and slides them on, staring at
the map.

“Damn
it. That's my bank.”

Muttering
german, Pieter Sohryu pulls the bluetooth headset out of his pocket
and slides it on.

“Girls,
this is Mission Control,” he says, “There's a bank robbery at the
Tokyo-3 First Local Bank. You're on call.”

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Chapter
2:


Covered
in Bees


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“They've infected you.
They work by vectors, apparently, and are able to turn you to them
via inhalation, as I'm quite sure they've never spent time along with
you.”

Cocking an eyebrow,
Pieter looks up from his monitor screen and the financial reports he
is assuming he is going to sign off on as Kyoko Sohryu enters his
office as is her wont to do so- completely uninvited and almost
propelled by her sarcasm and snark.

“Ah, yes,” he sighs,
“So, first it was Akagi, then it was Naok00. I think Shinji thinks
my idea is inane, to, but he's easily intimidated by authority that
didn't birth him.”

Kyoko purses her lips,
folding her arms. Her gaze, usually a source of intimidation with
others, mainly serves as a source of arousal with him. Mostly
because, unlike other people she works with, he regularly has sex
with her.

“Okay,” he says,
putting his feet up on his desk, interrupting the light beam from the
bluetooth keyboard and sending gibberish flowing over his screen,
“Let me explain. I'm mission control for the Ree when they go out
and fight crime. I talked it over with Yui, and it makes sense for
someone to you know, herd them.”

“That works with,
maybe, with cattle. This is seven super-intelligent, super-powered
teenage girls-”

“Eight. Mari's
joining up with them.”

She goes silent. Her
eyebrow twitches.

“Okay,” he says,
hands up, looking at his screen and sighing as he puts his feet down,
“You have a point. But that's exactly why I'm doing what I'm
doing. As much as we want the girls to be normal, we'd also want to
win the lottery every week or for there to be world peace. That's
not going to happen, and the Ree aren't going to be normal.”

Kyoko sighs, leaning
against the doorway.

“Right.
So...why...this?”

“Because that's the
approach I did with Mari,” he says, shrugging, “Mari wouldn't do
what I want just because I said 'no.' She was smart, determined, and
stubborn. I got her to do what I wanted by making what I wanted her
to do seem like the fun option.”

“By having them go out
and fight crime.”

He kicks back the chair,
spinning it before standing.

“So street crime goes
down,” he says, “I feed them information, get them to go after
low risk crimes that can't possibly hurt them. I don't let them run
wild or go after Angels. The girls could dismantle a tank with their
bare hands. Mari can punch through five armor layers with a full
powered blast. This is childs play for them, and it gives them
something productive to do.”

He
shrugs.

“What's
the worst that can happen?”

The
smoke wafts up, only lightly hinting at the fire. Normally, in this
situation, the alarms throughout Tokyo-3 would be blaring, and the
city would be in full panic mode. However, in this case, it is not
to be so. In fact, the sensors set up throughout the city are
picking up the disturbance and do register the presence, but in fact
do not trip- after all, the sheer power they are picking up is
impossible, and hence the AI behind them assumes it is a glitch.

At
the center of the bank, lying inside the vault, the one whom
appeared, whose presence set off the alarms in the first place before
causing to reset out of sheer impossibility, stirs.

This
one is a girl of around thirteen, long auburn and red hair falling
past her shoulders, dressed in a button shirt, blue blazer, and knee
length blue skirt. One shoe is missing- possibly a result of
whatever sent her this way. One hand, her right hand, holds a long
rod made of red crystal, a yellow ribbon tied around it, her fingers
tightening as she opens blue eyes and shakes her head, sitting up
with a moan.

“Ow,”
she mutters, “Ow ow ow!
That shouldn't've happened...”

She
looks to her side, a relieved smile on her face. Sitting on the
floor, surrounded by tossed lock boxes from the force of their entry,
the air around him a haze of light and ionized particles, a cat
stares back. But it is not an ordinary cat. Rather, it is a cat of
light, a silhouette of a medium sized housecat, with two black spots
for its eyes and a black spot at the center of its chest.

“Good,
I thought I lost you,” she says, climbing to her feet with a groan,
“C'mon, we need to find out where we are. We could've been thrown
anywhere.”

MEOW.

“I know, I know,” the girl says, extending her arm, the Kitty of
Light jumping on and climbing up to her shoulder, “Intelligence
first! Food later...I'm starting to sound like Yomi, aren't I?”

The Kitty starts, and looks up, through the hole in the ceiling that
they descended through earlier, where they made their entrance. The
alarms are blaring, the motion sensors inside the solid steel vault
registering their presence.

“Uh oh,” she says, “This isn't good.”

The Kitty hisses. Clad in a pink and green plugsuit, an aura around
her faintly resembling a blue octahedron, Mari descends into the
hole.

“Well, that's new,” Mari says, adjusting her glasses as the
vents in the room begin popping open, “Dad, we found the source of
the alarm. It's a big freakin' hole in the roof and a teenager with
a weird looking cat. And...oh dear that cat looks very familiar...”

The girl tilts her head, staring at Mari. And her eyes go wide when
one of the ducts opens and Kiko, in a pink and white plugsuit, A-10
connectors extended like cat ears, drops down.

“Aunt Kiko!” the girls squeals.

Which is when the Cat began to hiss.

“So, okay,” Pieter says, “The Ree found a teenager had dropped
from the sky, crashed through the roof of the bank, and is somehow
not showing up as an Angel. Is that right?”

“It is,” Yui responds, sitting at her desk and tapping her
pencil as Pieter paces in front of her, “MAGI confirms, Junior
confirms. Although the cat she has is weird, and it didn't
react...well...to the attempts at separation. We have them both in
the secure infirmary, and Section 2 is keeping an eye on them. I
have Lilly also watching, and ready to port in the Ree at a moment's
notice.”

Pieter nods.

“Great. Any idea of who she is or where she comes from?”

“I got a cheek swab before we took her to the infirmary,” Yui
responds, tapping on her computer, “We should get the results
shortly.”

The Kitty of Light has curled into a ball at the foot of the
infirmary bed as the girl goes through her satchel. Her face lights
up as she pulls out the book, with the emblazoned red fig leaf and
the words ALTERNATE UNIVERSE GUIDE stenciled on the front, and the
words DON'T PANIC on the back.

“So you're in an alternate universe,” she reads to herself, the
Kitty of Light perking an ear up, “Let's see...um...step 1, ask
yourself these important questions to figure out what type of
universe you are in. Question 1.

“Is Gendo a dick?”

She bites her lip, thinking for a moment.

“No. Question 2. Is Yui alive? Yes.”

She turns the page. An eldritch horror, resembling a mass of
tentacles for a face and bat wings emergent from its back, straddling
a mountain appears.

“Question 3. Is there Cthulhu? Hm...I don't know. What if there
is? Okay...page 32...”

She flips the page over, wincing at the picture of the assembled
horrors on the capital steps, writing a constitution in blood.

“Warning. If Cthulhu is present, this is a bad universe,” she
reads, “Do not contact NERV. Do not approach Rei. Okay...I don't
think there is, but I don't know. What's the fourth question?”

She flips back.

“Question 4. Is Kiko the Godhead? Um...how do I know...oh, page
16.”

She flips the page. On either side of the open book is two images.
On the left, there is a picture of a Ree, waving to the camera,
dressed in pink and with cat ears. The caption reads 'Kiko.' On the
other side is the same Ree, but dressed in pink leather and a high
colored cape, holding the severed head of an enemy, flailing
tentacles behind her. It reads “Kikoseid.' Below the two pictures
is the additional line, 'KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.'

“Okay,” she says, “I think we're in a good universe.”
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#88
GreggHL Wrote:The Kitty of Light has curled into a ball at the foot of the
infirmary bed as the girl goes through her satchel. Her face lights
up as she pulls out the book, with the emblazoned red fig leaf and
the words ALTERNATE UNIVERSE GUIDE stenciled on the front, and the
words DON'T PANIC on the back.

“So you're in an alternate universe,” she reads to herself, the
Kitty of Light perking an ear up, “Let's see...um...step 1, ask
yourself these important questions to figure out what type of
universe you are in.
...You've been reading Eyrie Productions, Unlimited, haven't you? Wink
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#89
The world coalesces. He sees
the frothing yellow streams, the sun high in the sky like a red,
unblinking eye. He's reasonably sure the world has never looked like
this. Hiding lakes of LCL or a sun that resembles Lilith's eye would
be beyond even his mother's ability to cover up.

Then he blinks, and the world is
normal. He stands on a bridge over a blue stream. To his right,
there is a town, a small little city dominated by the white capped
mountain in the distance. It reminds of Tokyo-3. But, then again,
he remembers that the city he's called home lately was built over a
smaller town.

Hakone, right?

He sees the hotels, the onsens
in the distance, scratching his head as he sees the larger city in
the further distance. He guesses that may be Tokyo itself, the
original city before it was destroyed following Second Impact.

Which is when he wonders why
he's coming to these conclusions. He's never had the head for
science the rest of his family does, but he does tend to go with gut
instinct. His gut is telling him that he last remembers Lilith
smiling. Lilith smiling is a bad thing. So he's guessing he got
absorbed by her, but for a reason.

He turns, to get a view of the
rest of the area. What strikes him is the fact that he's standing in
the middle of a road. What also strikes him is a white sedan, which
does literally strike him, pitching him forward against the hood to
see his pale, blue haired reflection in the windshield before he
bounces off the front bumper and is tossed to the pavement.

Groaning, thankful that he is
still not entirely human- or he might have been killed. Again-
Shinji Ikari manages to keep his eyes open as the doors open and two
people frantically run over.

“Is he alright?” a voice
which is familiar but still somewhat alien to him says, looking up to
see a woman in her middle ages bent over him, black, straight hair
framing her face, familiar blue eyes staring at him.

Then another face, which looks
very much like Rei's, a teenage girl who's face is frantic looking
over him.

“I think so, Mom,” the girl
says, “Oh crap. Oh crap. This isn't good!”

“Hitting someone with a car
usually isn't, but let's get him home so your father can take a look
at him. Then we'll call a hospital.”

He elicits a groan in agreement.

“Well, at least he's awake,”
the woman says, “Can you hear me? What's your name?”

“Shinji,” he groans.

“Shinji, my name is Misao
Ikari. We're going to get you some help.”

She turns, to the girl. Her
daughter.

“Yui, help me get him in the
car.”

Yep, Shinji thinks, that
confirms it. Lilith has apparently sent him back in time.

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-

Chapter 94: 
Stick It In
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#90
many many years ago, when I was twenty three, I married a widder who was pretty as could be...

*hum*
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies
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#91
Now where did I leave that flux capacitor...
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I'm hoping for Fuyutsuki to play the part of Doc Brown. Will I be correct? No! Will I be disappointed? Also no!
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.
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#92
I'm having trouble envisioning Gendo as the elder McFly, though...
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
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#93
 To describe it as dark or pitch
would be a misleading statement. Instead, think of it as a void- the
colorless landscape only because there is not powerful light source.
Well, save for the one she finds when she appears, the mass of white
and red, drifting in the ether in perpetual dream-state. The Giant
of Light, white mixed with red and black, does notice her as she
drifts past Him, but does not react. Only a single, half lidded
black spot upon the face before Lilly drifts past, trilling.

When she went to visit Mari,
upon Pieter's request, she found herself detoured. Instead, she
finds herself here, in the ether, in the world between universes,
floating past the being she realizes is her grandfather.
Unfortunately, he does not seem to be the type to lavish attention on
his progeny like the rest of her friends do.

Ah. There you are.

O.o?

It
starts as an outline, blossoming into a shape like a flower, then a
tree. Eyes numerous as fruit upon it look down upon Lilly, as the
shape of the being of light folds out like a fractal snowflake.

I greet you, Leliel the
Second.


I have summoned you from the
world


To speak to you

And convey to you the message
that


You must carry to others.

Lilly makes a faint cooing
sound. She trills, as the Tree of Life envelops her, carrying her
away from the sleeping giant, past the infinite explosion. And as
they travel further and further, Lilly once more finds her voice.

“...who are you...?”

I am the Tree of Life.

Awakened in the Aeons before

As were you

And our sisters and brothers

But as I have waited

For the end to this war

Others have not been so

Understanding

As you.

I am the Tool of God

Angel of Plantlife

I am Cahethal

And one of the Seraphim.

Like you.

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#94
Quote:And she smiles.

shit shit shit shit!

Gregg, you magnificent bastard!
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies
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#95
 “Unit-02 and Unit-05 report as
ready for sortie!” Maya announces, as the lights chime on next to
the Big Screen, rotating out into diagnostic charts for Zwei and
Go-kun, “Reego reported in PROBE mainframes! Cherubim on approach
to Tokyo-3...reading smaller Pattern Blues disengaging!”

“So we only have two Evas,”
Pieter growls, rubbing his chin, standing behind the bridge bunnies
as Ikari's station rises up behind them, “Can we unfreeze the
Mark-01?”

“Unfortunately, no,” Gendo
announces, “Not in time to combat the Cherubim, and we still
haven't found the Third Child. What is the condition of Unit-00?”

Maya pauses, punches in commands
on her station, and a third screen pops up to show Unit-00, with the
red x over its head.

“Still being fixed,” she
says, “Armor and dermal regeneration for the head. Section 1 is
heading to the infirmary to check on Mari.”

“And what about Unit-07?”
Pieter asks, “Can we deploy Mana as is in it...”

“Dr. Akagi's heading to the
infirmary to run a remote synch test to check on Mana,” Makoto
reports, “Unit-07 is reported as prepped and awaiting pilot-”

And pilot is present.
I've contacted Akagi and she has agreed to cede the Unit-07 to me for
this sortie.”


A new screen flips open, showing
a familiar, absent figure for the past few days, clad in a dark red,
green piped and highlighted plugsuit. As Maya's jaw drops and Gendo
pushes his glasses up his nose, Pieter stares at the floating image
of the woman he loves, and is in that moment convinced of one, true
thing.

She is completely insane.

“Kyoko,” he says, “What
are you doing in the entry plug?”

Well, as it is, I was
planning to fight the Angel. I designed Unit-07's AI, so I should be
able to synchronize with it to a degree enough to provide covering
fire for Zwei and Unit-05.


“But-”

We can argue all day, or
we can deploy Unit-07. Kirishima is in no condition to pilot, Ikari
is MIA, and the more Evangelions we deploy against the Cherubim, the
better our odds. If you argue that I need more bedrest for a minor
incident, I will cut open my own head to show you my brain is
undamaged. Ibuki, what's my synchronization score?”


Maya pauses, turns from the Big
Screen, and taps up a command.

“Synch holding...at 17%.”

On the screen, Kyoko's face
drops. Pieter sighs, hands on his hips, shaking his head.

“Kyoko, for crying out loud-”

Pieter. It's me or the
Ree.”


Central Dogma goes silent.
Nana's rampage in Go-kun comes into fresh focus.

“F___ it,” Pieter growls,
“Evas launch!”
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  Blue eyes light up. Sitting up, the twelve year old girl looks
around, then stretches both arms above her and yawns. Her hair is a
dark chocolate brown, her face the same angles and curves. The
curiosity on her face, while he knows it is mechanical and responding
to commands given to it from her Core, is a mirror. It is a mirror
to the girl he met those years ago, and even if they do not see each
other like they did those years ago he cannot help but marvel at the
creation in front of him.

She notices the stone walls, the open window giving her a view of
the mountainous peaks surrounding Hassenstadt, the capital of the
small country he rules through the elected Parliament as Prime
Minister. Technically, he rules more, but always keeps in mind the
importance of delegation.

Sipping the chilled white tea from the goblet- the only one the
kitchen staff had ready, the coffee mugs he usually uses were all
cracked when the dishwasher broke- he watches as the girl, in reality
a complex and advanced android, gets out of the plush seat and
strides across the royal purple carpet to look out the window.

Very curious. Just like her 'mother.'

“Ahem.”

She turns, spinning on her sneakered heel.

“Good afternoon, Miss Ikari,” he says, holding the goblet in one
hand, his other hand behind him as he stretches out the soreness from
the trip, “I welcome you to Latveria. I am your host, Victor Von-”

“Doom?”

“-Gibels,” he says, and sighs, once more, at the assumption that
he is a supervillain, “My apologies. But the arrangements made
with your mother are brief. We have a small window of time to
accomplish what must be done.”

And in Cage 03, a set of red eyes peak out of the ductwork as the
Core is shifted into place in the bakelite locked Mark-01. So, Siyon
thinks, that's what happened.

Ichi has been kidnapped. The blank Core was put there so noone
would know, especially them.

Programming put in years ago takes over. Red eyes glow faintly.
And the subliminal commands and algorithms take route in a simple,
commanding phrase.

Are you a bad enough Nephilim to rescue your sister?
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#97
Ichi has been kidnapped by ninjas? Well, I suppose if anyone could...
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"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.
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#98
Jorlem Wrote:Ichi has been kidnapped by ninjas? Well, I suppose if anyone could...
Worse.

She's been kidnapped by...

DOCTOR DOOM.
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GreggHL Wrote:
Jorlem Wrote:Ichi has been kidnapped by ninjas? Well, I suppose if anyone could...
Worse.

She's been kidnapped by...

DOCTOR DOOM.
*Shrugs*. I suppose DOCTOR DOOM is pretty bad. He just doesn't complete the reference, that's all. Unless he has robot ninja. Does he have robot ninja? I don't know enough about Marvel Comics.
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.
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Jorlem Wrote:
GreggHL Wrote:
Jorlem Wrote:Ichi has been kidnapped by ninjas? Well, I suppose if anyone could...
Worse.

She's been kidnapped by...

DOCTOR DOOM.
*Shrugs*. I suppose DOCTOR DOOM is pretty bad. He just doesn't complete the reference, that's all. Unless he has robot ninja. Does he have robot ninja? I don't know enough about Marvel Comics.
Last I checked, Doom had whatever Doom wanted, and woe betide anybody who stood in his way.

My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.

I've been writing a bit.
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