Neon Genesis: Angel 3: An Angel's Redemption
Sparkling
angel Blinded by faith I see the angels No remorse 'cause I still remember You took my heart Sparkling angel Fallen angel I see the
angels No remorse 'cause I still remember You took my heart
I believe
You are my savior
In my time of
need
I couldn't hear
All the
whispers
The warning's so clear
I'll
lead them to your door
There is no escape now
Now mercy no
more
The smile when you
tore me apart
Deceived me right from the
start
You showed me dreams
I wished they'd turn to real
You
broke the promise
And made me realize
It was all just a
lie
Couldn't see
Your dark
intentions
Your feelings for me
Tell me
why?
What is the reason?
The thorn in your eye
I'll lead them to your door
There is no escape now
No
mercy no more
The smile
when you tore me apart
Deceived me right
from the start
You showed me dreams
I wished they'd turn to
real
You broke the promise
And made me realize
It was all
just a lie
Could have been forever
Now we have reached
the end
This world may have failed you
It doesn't give the
reason why
You could have chosen
A different path of life
The smile when you tore me apart
You took my heart
Deceived me
right from the start
You showed me dreams
I wished they'd turn
in to real
You broke a promise
And made me realize
It was
all just a lie
Could have been forever
Now we have reached
the end
Prologue
Tokyo-3
2015
"MOVE OUT!!" Shinji Ikari, Pilot of Evangelion Unit 01 and Third Child, called out over the radio.
Simultaneously, his Eva, as well as Units 00 and 02 leapt from their positions, running towards the estimated impact area of the 10th Angel.
Misato Katsuragi, Major of NERV and currently in charge while the Commanders were away, watched from Central Dogma.
"10 seconds to impact!" Lieutenant Makoto Hyuga called out.
"Unit 02," Rei Ayanami's voice came over the radio, "deploy your AT-Field!"
"I'm doing it!" Asuka Sohryu Langley's growl exploded in the control room.
"Impact." Hyuga called out.
"Do it now!" came Shinji's cry.
"AHHHHHHHH!!" Asuka screamed.
A second later the screens in Central Dogma went bright white as the Angel detonated.
"Another one bites the dust." Lieutenant Shigeru Aoba muttered.
"Wonder how much damage the city took this time." Lieutenant Maya Ibuki replied.
"Better then usual." Hyuga said, "The hills protected the city from the shock wave."
"Eva status?" Misato called out.
"All three Units are currently offline." Maya called out. "The pilots are fine."
"Angel status?"
"No sign of…" Maya began before the alarms went off.
"What is it?" Misato called out, "Is it still alive?"
Maya stared at the data flying past her screen. She felt someone standing behind her.
"It's not the Tenth." She heard Dr Ritsuko Akagi say from behind her. "The power level is different. And there are these strange readings."
Misato walked over and looked down at the screen.
"What do you mean it's different?" Misato asked, "Is the same Angel or not?"
"It looks like an Angel. There's a blue pattern." Ritsuko said, "But it's not the Tenth. The Magi are tentatively identifying it as the Eleventh."
"Tentatively?"
Ritsuko shook her head. "The Magi are debating wither this is an Angel or not. And they are deliberating on the other readings as well. It's….."
Maya's screen blinked and flashed data across the screen.
Code 485
Security Clearance Level 1 required
"Level 1?" Misato asked.
Ritsuko frowned.
"Maya," she said slowly, "Where is the Angel located?"
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Shinji popped the hatch on his plug and looked around. His Eva, along with Units 02 and 00, was laying in the crater created by the Tenth's explosion. A ringing noise then filled the air.
"Oh no." Shinji murmured. He opened a hidden hatch in the back of the Eva and opened it. He reached in and pulled out a phone.
"Hello?" he asked timidly.
Almost immediately a scream came through the receiver.
"WHY IS YOUR EVA ON TOP OF MINE AGAIN!?!?!?!?!"
Shinji held the phone away from his ear and carefully looked over the edge. Down below he could see Asuka, sitting just outside her plug's hatch, phone in hand.
"WELL?!?!" she screeched.
"I'm sorry." Shinji said.
"YOU'RE SORRY?!?!"
"Well I didn't have any power left to avoid you!" Shinji shouted back.
"YOU IDIOT!!! When I get my hands on you….."
"It was not his fault." Came a very soft voice.
Shinji looked over to see that Rei had also exited her plug and was now joining the conversation.
"Besides," Rei continued, "Your Eva has fallen on mine."
"Well you should have enough experience to keep out of my way Wondergirl!" Asuka snapped back.
Before Rei could reply, Misato's voice came over the phone.
"Rei," she said, "Look around the ground near Asuka's Eva. What do you see?"
The children frowned. Asuka began moving around the edge, trying to see the ground below her Eva. Shinji moved along to the end of his plug to get a better view. He spotted it just as Rei began to speak.
"I see a woman." Rei began, "Hair color is…..grey?"
"Avoid contact." Misato ordered.
"But Misato!" Shinji said into the phone, "She could be injured! She needs…."
"Stay where you are Shinji!" Misato said, "Do not approach the woman."
Shinji frowned, by obeyed the order. He watched as men in Biohazard suits approached the woman. They briefly examined her, before carrying her off on a stretcher to a waiting ambulance. The ambulance then drove off on its way.
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"So?"
Ritsuko looked up from her computer terminal. Misato stood in the doorway to her office.
"What?" she asked.
"The woman." Misato asked, "What happened?"
"Oh…" Ritsuko replied, looking back at her terminal. "She'll be released tomorrow after 24 hours of observation."
Misato blinked.
"But, I thought she….."
"It turns out the hills reflected the scans, giving off a ghost image." Ritsuko explained, "Thus the Magi detected the Blue Pattern, even though the Angel was already gone."
Misato's forehead crinkled in thought.
"A ghost image?"
"Oh don't worry about it." Ritsuko said, "I've already fixed the problem and the Magi won't detect these Ghosts anymore."
"Right……"
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"So who was it?" Asuka asked Misato later at the Ramen stand. Beside her, Shinji and Rei looked up, curious as well.
"Hmm?" Misato looked up, confused.
"The woman!" Asuka snapped, "The one Baka over here almost crushed!"
"I didn't…." Shinji began before Misato waved her hand.
"It was nothing." Misato replied, "Just a civilian in the wrong place at the wrong time."
Asuka shrugged and went back to her meal.
Rei and Shinji however continued to look at Misato curiously.
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Days later
"She was found in the crater beside the Evas." Ritsuko told Commander Gendo Ikari and Vice Commander Kouzou Fuyutsuki as they walked down a hall deep in NERV. Ritsuko approached a door and ran her card through the reader. The door opened, allowing them to proceed down the hallway.
"Any identification?" Fuyutsuki asked.
"None." Ritsuko replied, "But she was wearing a baseball jersey. The Anaheim Angels." She glanced at the commanders. "The name on the back was 'Aida' and had the number 15."
"Aida?"
Ritsuko looked at her clipboard. "The only known Aidas in the Magi are an employee for NERV and his son." She glanced at Ikari. "He's a classmate of the Children."
"Are they related?" Ikari asked.
"I don't know. There's not enough information." Ritsuko said, "The Magi did finally came up with a possible source for the strange readings we detected just after the Tenth exploded."
"What were its findings?" Ikari asked.
"It believes the Tenth Angel's destruction tore a small hole in space and time, bringing us this…..visitor." Ritsuko slid her card through another slot. The door opened to a large room. Dominating this room on the far side was a thick glass wall, looking into a cell. A door to the left of the glass wall permitted entry into the cell. Hanging from the ceiling were several heavy weapons, lasers from the looks of them, pointed at the cell.
Inside the cell, secured to the chair was the woman. She was dressed only in a surgical gown. Her head was down, chin against her chest.
Ikari approached the window and looked at the woman.
"Is she an Angel?" he asked.
The woman looked up, apparently hearing him through the thick glass. Her red eyes bored into him.
"From the samples I've taken from her," Ritsuko said, "I would have to say yes."
"Are we safe?" Fuyutsuki asked, looking at the Angel curiously.
"She's being given intravenously the same cocktail as Rei to control her AT-Field and core." Ritsuko replied, "The most she can do is heal." She then looked back down at her data.
"It's strange, but she is very similar to Rei in quite a few ways."
"Explain" Ikari asked.
"I can't be sure," Ritsuko said, "But the Magi are 75 percent sure this woman was created artificially."
"SEELE?" Fuyutsuki asked.
"I doubt it." Ikari said, "Creating her would jeopardize their precious timeline."
"Then where did she come from?"
Ikari looked at Ritsuko.
"Given certain factors of the time needed to grow a clone." Ritsuko began, "And the approximate age of this person, I would postulate that she is from the future."
"How far from the future?" Ikari asked.
"We don't have enough information to determine that."
"I see." Ikari said, looking back to the cell. "Then we shall get you the information you need."
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Arael stared at the man known as Gendo Ikari. Just behind him she could see Ritsuko Akagi and Kouzou Fuyutsuki. Akagi seemed to be talking about her.
She didn't know quite how she got here. But from the look on Ikari's face, she knew she was in trouble.
Big trouble.