Neon Genesis Evangelion Fan Fiction ❯ Past, as it will be tomorrow ❯ Chapter 6
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By: shanejayell 
Anime/Manga: Neon Genesis Evangelion Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama / Romance | Type: Yuri | Uploaded On: 10.28.2009 | Pages: 2 | Words: 1.5K | Visits: 316 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Neon Genesis Evangelion Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Drama / Romance | Type: Yuri | Uploaded On: 10.28.2009 | Pages: 2 | Words: 1.5K | Visits: 316 | Status: Completed
Past, as it will be Tomorrow
Six
Naoko Akagi stood in the caverns deep beneath GEHIRN, looking up at the most top secret element of their project. The artificial human Evangelion stood bound in it's test cage, the single cyclops eye staring out blindly through the stylized face mask. This was the product of her and Yui Ikari's genius, the combination of biological science and high technology. The prototype unit-00, and in another part of the facility unit-01, the most powerful war machines on Earth.
“It's rather frightening, isn't it?” the woman's voice said a bit breathlessly.
Naoko turned to look at their guest from the German branch of GEHIRN, the redhead looking up with a prideful intensity at the ice blue colored being. Kyoko Zeppelin Soryu was a striking figure, with high, well shaped breasts and curvy hips, the near perfect model of womanhood. Of course, if the rumors were right that perfection was marred....
“I don't consider it frightening,” Naoko answered honestly. “I'm certain we can control the power contained within this being,” she said simply.
“I'm not so sure,” Kyoko shook her head. The two women walked along the catwalk suspended over the LCL as she noted, “How is the pilot testing going?”
“Slower than I'd like,” Naoko pressed her lips together irritably.
“I'd heard,” Kyoko said, diplomatically not elaborating any further.
The two women entered the elevator, rising swiftly into the rest of the facility. Naoko sighed softly, “As much as I hate to admit it, going slow might have been a better idea. Over the last week of testing with Ibuki, we've had some very strange reactions between her and the simulated Evangelion.”
Kyoko raised her eyebrows, “Interesting. Could I look at the test data?”
“Certainly,” Naoko agreed. Kyoko was in the development team for what would hopefully become a mass production Evangelion, once the Tokyo branch worked out the bugs in the original system. She would have access to their data eventually, anyway, so letting her look now seemed harmless enough.
The halls of GEHIRN were busy with lab techs and management staff, men and women rushing to deal with various jobs. They cleared the way for Naoko and her companion respectfully, but Naoko could feel judgmental eyes on her, the rumors about her and her daughter Ritsuko poisoning the air.
'I wonder if Yui has been spreading the word?' she thought to herself bitterly. 'Or it might be my own lab assistants, the two wretches were disloyal enough.' She knew the thoughts weren't charitable, but the weeks of silent commentary were getting on her nerves.
The lab was quiet as they entered, Naoko flipping on the lights as she led the other woman into her well ordered domain. “Use the main terminal,” she nodded towards the computer set up, “I'll call up the data for you.”
“Thank you,” Kyoko nodded politely as she sat down, her eyes flickering over the screen rapidly as the data came up. She leaned forward slightly as she read, murmuring, “Fascinating.”
“Isn't it?” Naoko agreed as she pointed out details on the brain scan. “Look at the jumps here,” she said, “they happened as we were running a manual control test. And here during a puzzle, too.”
“It's some kind of feedback,” Kyoko agreed thoughtfully as she traced the spike on the chart with her finger, “the system is responding to her, somehow.”
“Which shouldn't be happening,” Naoko made a face.
Kyoko sat back with a frown, picking up a pen and tapping it on the table. “There is some precident involving our technology and human interaction,” she pointed out. “Consider Gendo's disappearance, as well as your own imprinting experiments on the magi.”
Naoko shook her head, “The Magi are a totally different thing.” She had a troubled expression, “But Gendo... do you seriously think that he was absorbed by Evangelion somehow?”
“No one's found a body,” Kyoko shrugged. She gave a evil smile, “Though I suppose Yui could have chopped him up somehow....”
Both women found themselves imagining Yui Ikari as a axe murderer and shuddered at how easily it came to mind.
“Eeek,” Naoko grimaced, “I don't think I want to think about that.”
Kyoko nodded, “Seconded.”
'Gendo, what have you been up to?' Yui wondered as she walked down the dark hall not far from the core of GEHIRN, Terminal Dogma.
There was a unmarked door at the end of the hallway, no lock or keyboard nearby the blank sheet of steel. Only a simple palm reader waited, sitting on a podium beside the door. The top glowed faintly in the dim light as Yui put her hand on it, a soft beep signifying it had done it's job as the door hissed open.
The chamber within was dimly lit, then with a click a recording started up. “Yui,” the familiar man's voice started, “if you are hearing this, I am probably dead or incapacitated.”
“Gendo,” Yui breathed out as she walked inside.
“We've devoted our efforts to making GEHIRN and the defense of the Earth successful,” Gendo continued, “but I believe you may have missed a major step. For our efforts to succeed there must be a bridge between humanity and the Angels... so I built one.”
A light went on, illuminating a tube filled with LCL, and within it floated a young girl. Possibly less than ten years old the child had a odd air of the alien about her, with white hair floating around her sweetly innocent face. A face, Yui noted in horror, that resembled her own.
“Gendo, what have you done?!” Yui muttered as she booted up a nearby terminal, shutting out Gendo's droning about the future and mankind's destiny to join in instrumentality and become a giant puddle of tang. Instead she studied the data, scanning through pages as she tried to understand what Gendo had created.
A soft tapping sound got Yui's attention and she looked up, realizing that the sound came from the tube. The child looked out of the LCL filled container curiously, studying Yui with kind, red irised eyes. She smiled shyly then drifted backwards, seeming to fall asleep again in the LCL.
Yui looked back at the computer screen a moment, filled with conflicting emotions. Part of her was filled with horror, wanting to grab a piece of metal and begin smashing the place to pieces with all her strength. But within her there was also a kind of wonder at the birth of this strange new life and curiosity about what it might become. Silently Yui wrestled with her emotions, then reached out to press a key on the LCL filled tube.
There was a gurgling sound as the LCL shifted, then it began to be pumped out gradually as the top of the tube began to slide down. Soon it was gone as the child blinked in the open air, breathing in as if it was the first time she had.
Yui knelt down beside the child as she smiled at her gently. “My nane is Yui,” she introduced herself, “what's yours?”
The little girl blinked at her in confusion, and Yui wondered if Gendo had even engineered her to be able to talk. Finally the child quietly answered, “I do not know.”
Yui felt a pang at the child's confusion, reaching out to gently brush her still damp hair away from her face. “That's all right,” she said comfortingly, “we'll find a name for you.”
“All right,” the child agreed, docilly following Yui as she took her hand and lead her from the dimly lit room.
“I always wanted a daughter,” Yui noted as she took off her labcoat and wrapped it around the girl, “I even had a name picked out.”
“Yes?” the child looked curious.
“How would you like to me called Rei?” Yui asked as they left the concealed hall and headed down a slightly more well used route to the elevators.
Rei looked thoughtful, “I think I would like that.”
To be continued....
Six
Naoko Akagi stood in the caverns deep beneath GEHIRN, looking up at the most top secret element of their project. The artificial human Evangelion stood bound in it's test cage, the single cyclops eye staring out blindly through the stylized face mask. This was the product of her and Yui Ikari's genius, the combination of biological science and high technology. The prototype unit-00, and in another part of the facility unit-01, the most powerful war machines on Earth.
“It's rather frightening, isn't it?” the woman's voice said a bit breathlessly.
Naoko turned to look at their guest from the German branch of GEHIRN, the redhead looking up with a prideful intensity at the ice blue colored being. Kyoko Zeppelin Soryu was a striking figure, with high, well shaped breasts and curvy hips, the near perfect model of womanhood. Of course, if the rumors were right that perfection was marred....
“I don't consider it frightening,” Naoko answered honestly. “I'm certain we can control the power contained within this being,” she said simply.
“I'm not so sure,” Kyoko shook her head. The two women walked along the catwalk suspended over the LCL as she noted, “How is the pilot testing going?”
“Slower than I'd like,” Naoko pressed her lips together irritably.
“I'd heard,” Kyoko said, diplomatically not elaborating any further.
The two women entered the elevator, rising swiftly into the rest of the facility. Naoko sighed softly, “As much as I hate to admit it, going slow might have been a better idea. Over the last week of testing with Ibuki, we've had some very strange reactions between her and the simulated Evangelion.”
Kyoko raised her eyebrows, “Interesting. Could I look at the test data?”
“Certainly,” Naoko agreed. Kyoko was in the development team for what would hopefully become a mass production Evangelion, once the Tokyo branch worked out the bugs in the original system. She would have access to their data eventually, anyway, so letting her look now seemed harmless enough.
The halls of GEHIRN were busy with lab techs and management staff, men and women rushing to deal with various jobs. They cleared the way for Naoko and her companion respectfully, but Naoko could feel judgmental eyes on her, the rumors about her and her daughter Ritsuko poisoning the air.
'I wonder if Yui has been spreading the word?' she thought to herself bitterly. 'Or it might be my own lab assistants, the two wretches were disloyal enough.' She knew the thoughts weren't charitable, but the weeks of silent commentary were getting on her nerves.
The lab was quiet as they entered, Naoko flipping on the lights as she led the other woman into her well ordered domain. “Use the main terminal,” she nodded towards the computer set up, “I'll call up the data for you.”
“Thank you,” Kyoko nodded politely as she sat down, her eyes flickering over the screen rapidly as the data came up. She leaned forward slightly as she read, murmuring, “Fascinating.”
“Isn't it?” Naoko agreed as she pointed out details on the brain scan. “Look at the jumps here,” she said, “they happened as we were running a manual control test. And here during a puzzle, too.”
“It's some kind of feedback,” Kyoko agreed thoughtfully as she traced the spike on the chart with her finger, “the system is responding to her, somehow.”
“Which shouldn't be happening,” Naoko made a face.
Kyoko sat back with a frown, picking up a pen and tapping it on the table. “There is some precident involving our technology and human interaction,” she pointed out. “Consider Gendo's disappearance, as well as your own imprinting experiments on the magi.”
Naoko shook her head, “The Magi are a totally different thing.” She had a troubled expression, “But Gendo... do you seriously think that he was absorbed by Evangelion somehow?”
“No one's found a body,” Kyoko shrugged. She gave a evil smile, “Though I suppose Yui could have chopped him up somehow....”
Both women found themselves imagining Yui Ikari as a axe murderer and shuddered at how easily it came to mind.
“Eeek,” Naoko grimaced, “I don't think I want to think about that.”
Kyoko nodded, “Seconded.”
0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0
Yui Ikari's brown hair fell around her face as she made her way down the dusty hall, a frown on her pretty face. Digging through files kept on her husband's laptop she had found this annex of GEHIRN, a section that had been kept off the official maps and artfully concealed during the early stages of the facility's construction.'Gendo, what have you been up to?' Yui wondered as she walked down the dark hall not far from the core of GEHIRN, Terminal Dogma.
There was a unmarked door at the end of the hallway, no lock or keyboard nearby the blank sheet of steel. Only a simple palm reader waited, sitting on a podium beside the door. The top glowed faintly in the dim light as Yui put her hand on it, a soft beep signifying it had done it's job as the door hissed open.
The chamber within was dimly lit, then with a click a recording started up. “Yui,” the familiar man's voice started, “if you are hearing this, I am probably dead or incapacitated.”
“Gendo,” Yui breathed out as she walked inside.
“We've devoted our efforts to making GEHIRN and the defense of the Earth successful,” Gendo continued, “but I believe you may have missed a major step. For our efforts to succeed there must be a bridge between humanity and the Angels... so I built one.”
A light went on, illuminating a tube filled with LCL, and within it floated a young girl. Possibly less than ten years old the child had a odd air of the alien about her, with white hair floating around her sweetly innocent face. A face, Yui noted in horror, that resembled her own.
“Gendo, what have you done?!” Yui muttered as she booted up a nearby terminal, shutting out Gendo's droning about the future and mankind's destiny to join in instrumentality and become a giant puddle of tang. Instead she studied the data, scanning through pages as she tried to understand what Gendo had created.
A soft tapping sound got Yui's attention and she looked up, realizing that the sound came from the tube. The child looked out of the LCL filled container curiously, studying Yui with kind, red irised eyes. She smiled shyly then drifted backwards, seeming to fall asleep again in the LCL.
Yui looked back at the computer screen a moment, filled with conflicting emotions. Part of her was filled with horror, wanting to grab a piece of metal and begin smashing the place to pieces with all her strength. But within her there was also a kind of wonder at the birth of this strange new life and curiosity about what it might become. Silently Yui wrestled with her emotions, then reached out to press a key on the LCL filled tube.
There was a gurgling sound as the LCL shifted, then it began to be pumped out gradually as the top of the tube began to slide down. Soon it was gone as the child blinked in the open air, breathing in as if it was the first time she had.
Yui knelt down beside the child as she smiled at her gently. “My nane is Yui,” she introduced herself, “what's yours?”
The little girl blinked at her in confusion, and Yui wondered if Gendo had even engineered her to be able to talk. Finally the child quietly answered, “I do not know.”
Yui felt a pang at the child's confusion, reaching out to gently brush her still damp hair away from her face. “That's all right,” she said comfortingly, “we'll find a name for you.”
“All right,” the child agreed, docilly following Yui as she took her hand and lead her from the dimly lit room.
“I always wanted a daughter,” Yui noted as she took off her labcoat and wrapped it around the girl, “I even had a name picked out.”
“Yes?” the child looked curious.
“How would you like to me called Rei?” Yui asked as they left the concealed hall and headed down a slightly more well used route to the elevators.
Rei looked thoughtful, “I think I would like that.”
To be continued....