From: "Knightmare" Neon Genesis Evangelion: A New Life Prolong: The Mother I Never Knew I Had / A Mother's Love For Her Child By: Hyun Min Kim & Kim Pardue "Has Unit-3 been completed." asked Commander Ikari sitting in his darken office with Commander Fuyutsuki. "It was completed yesterday and we are planning to start activation test with the 1st and 3rd Child's personal data inside a Dummy Plug immediately." Ritsuko stand in front of the Commanders casually as she reads her notes she brought with her. "Has one of are candidates been selected to be the 5th and last Child?" Commander Ikari asked slowly crossing his hands in front. "A Candidate has been selected, but not from section 707. The Candidate is from America. He has been in selection for about a year now ever since the Council made a point for him to be on the list." Ritsuko read from her notes looking at the small picture that that provided with the Candidate's personal history and synchro test. "When will he arrive here," asked Commander Fuyutsuki suddenly. "He will arrive tomorrow and the Security Force has been notified about his arrival." Ritsuko stared at Commander Ikari coldly for a moment as Commander Ikari only returned her stare. "Has the others been notified of a new Pilot arriving," asked Commander Fuyutsuki. "No, the only ones knowing of his arrival is Major Katsuragi, you, Commander Ikari, myself," Risuko was hesitant for a moment before reading the final name, "and Rei" "Why was Rei informed of the 5th arrival," asked Commander Ikari in a somewhat hateful tone. "Rei found the 5th's file and was selected by her schoolmates to meet the new student that has been transferred to their school, Sir." Ritsuko explained as she received a colder stare from Commander Ikari. "That will be all Doctor Akagi," said Commander Ikari. Ritsuko bowed and then starts for the doors that exited the Commanders' office. The large wooden doors closes as Commander Ikari and Commander Fuyutsuki began to have a private meeting of their own. "Do you think the 3rd Child will be a problem for this my turn out to be another 4th Child Incident and he my go off the deep end and attack NERV with Unit-1," reminded Commander Fuyutsuki of what happen after Shinji found out who the Pilot of the orignal Unit-3 was and making him almost kill him. "No, for he has been placed under close observation along with Major Katsuragi and the spy Rouji Kaji." Commander Ikari explains as a phone starts to ring. Calmly Commander Ikari opens a desk drawer at his side to reveal a phone. Slowly he pickuped the receiver and answered "I gave orders not to be disturbed under any circumstances." Quickly he began to listen to the person on the other end. "Yes, I understand." Was Commander Ikari's only words before he placed the receiver back in the drawer. "What was that about," asked Commander Fuyutsuki. "The Council wants a emergency meeting." Commander Ikari slowly rose from his desk as Commander Fuyutuski did the same. Both Commanders then proceeded to the large wooden doors of the office to attend the emergency meeting that the Council had called. While the Commanders proceed to the meeting room for the Council, Rei Ayanami was in a deserted part of NERV thinking to herself. "Why was I so blinded by his love for me. Was I so desperate for that love that I did not see his true intent of using me in his plans or did I see the truth and allowed myself to be used by him. I have nothing, but to change myself in hopes to find someone that I might have a bond with. May it be Ikari, Asuka, or the new Pilot. I will find someone that I might have a bond with." Rei thought sitting alone in the deserted service room with the window that look out at the forests that surrounded NERV headquarters. In another part of NERV headquarters Misato with Hyuga was talking about the new Eva series that had been built. "So Unit-3 has no records along with what ever its' new weaponry is." Misato said reading over what little declassified information that survived the burnings. "Yes, but that is not the strange thing about Unit-3. Unit-3 was built here, but most of the parts was from the original." Hyuga explained as clicking of the elevator was slowing down from the rapid clicking it was doing. "What Unit-3 was rebuilt from the original Unit-3 after it was possessed by the 13th Angel." Misato was shocked as it could be clearly heard in her voice. "Yes, from what I have gained or what was not destroyed by the Research and Development Teams was that Unit-3 post to be a Combat Series Model and that she has extra systems that are on loan from NERV U.S. after what happen to the original one. Do you think that the whole incident was staged so that Unit-3 would be possessed by the Angel and NERV just used the whole incident to build the new Model after it was destroyed?" Hyuga said as the clicking sound of the elevator stopped for a moment then started again. "I don't know. Did you find anything on the 5th Child," Misato asked changing the subject. "Yes and no. Must of the data on him is current the furthest the files goes on him is when he was about 12, not like Shinji's and Asuka's that go back when they where 10 when they where selected to pilot the Evas." "Tell me what little data you do have." "Well it is fragmented, but I will try. When he was 12 he was placed on the Marduke's list as a possible candidate. But, nothing for the exception of that is lost or I cannot find anything. The real file starts when he was 13 and he was placed on the Marduke's positive candidate list. He ranked pretty high on it considering the Council was the ones who requested him on it. While in that year he attended West Point Military Academy, but never graduated from unknown reasons. His Step-Uncle worked for the 2nd Branch and was in it when it disappeared. He currently lives with his two older sisters on a UN Base based in America." Hyuga explains before looking over at Misato that had a concern look on her face. "Can you tell me anything on his personal life?" "Well his schooling mostly consist of Military schools or private teachers with some tie to the UN. He is fluent in five languages. Korean, Japanese, German, English, and French. He been treated for depression after he withdrew from West Point. That's about it for the fact that he was found abandon on a street corner when he was a baby." Misato began to feel the same thing when she saw Rei's file for the first time "So his file is like Rei's. Little or no data in it." "There has been some concern for a Angel did invade NERV once. Do you think that he is an Angel sent by the Council," asked Hyuga. "I don't know. We just have to see if he is or not." Misato said as the elevator stopped and the doors opened. In a activation chamber's control room, Ritsuko and Maya was staring at the new Unit-3 as it activates with the soulless Dummy Plug of Shinji's and Rei's personal data. "All signals are clear. No oddities in the nerve connections. The ratio is a little lower then in Unit-1, but it is in tolerance range." Maya said looking at the data that was on the computer screen in front of her. "O.K. eject the plug and replace it with Rei's and change the core to be more like Unit-0's." Ritsuko ordered as the entry plug hatch opened and the plug was ejected into the robotic loader. "Replacing plug now. Rei Ayanami personal data is being uploaded to Unit-3's core now." Slowly the robotic loader reappeared with Rei's dummy plug in the loader. The plug was placed in the entry slot and the hatch closed reforming the back of Unit-3's neck. "Plug is sending the signal. Signal received. Eva is activating," Maya said as the eyes of Unit-3 glowed a bright white for a moment before going to a dull white. "Amazing. Rei's personal data is being received better then Shinji's. The ratio has rose eight percent in the little time its' been in there," Maya said as the nerve connections connected faster then in the last activation and the ratio rose faster. "Configure the core to the Pilot's data," Ritsuko ordered. Maya began to reconfigure the core as Ritsuko stares at the head of Unit-3 with a look of coldness and hatred. "Reconfiguration complete. Ratio is lowing, what something is happening." Maya said suddenly as her screen flashed the word "Son?". "What's happening?" Suddenly the words disappeared and the monitor returned to normal. "What was it, Maya ?" Ritsuko asked slowly walking up behind Maya. "It was nothing I thought there was an error the activation that's all." Maya said watching the screen with some difficulty now as she wonders what the error message meant. "OK, eject the plug and tell the tech crews that they can take Unit-3 out and place it in the Cage for storage till the Pilot arrives tomorrow." Ritsuko said starting for the door. At the emergency meeting of the Council, Commander Ikari was being put under criticism from the Council members. "Why was Unit-3 rebuilt from the remains of the original one." The Council member in green demanded to know. "Unit-3 was built as a safety precaution to NERV since you have found out that a Angel did invade NERV. I thought it best to have an Eva that was not post to fight the Angel directly, but indirectly if the Angels did attack NERV directly like in the case in question," Commander Ikari explained. "That does not answer the question of why. You have Unit-0 through 2 at your deposal. Why not use one of them for protecting NERV against an Angel if that is the case Unit-3 was reborn into this world." The Council member in blue said. "Unit-1 has been experiencing problems lately and we have considerable doubts about Unit-2's Pilot in loyalty to this Council's plans and schedules." Commander Ikari said in his defense. "What about Unit-0 and its Pilot, Rei Ayanami?" The Council member in orange asked. "The 1st Child and Unit-0 are not fit for direct combat with the Angels nor is strong enough to handle the possible two or more stage attacks if the Angels are indeed becoming smarter to are methods of handling them." "Then who will the Pilot of Evangelion Unit-3 then," the Council member in white asked. "I would have thought that you would have that information already for this Council was the one who made him a candidate." Commander Ikari explained folding his hands in front of him. "You mean you used the candidate we specifically instructed you to not use." The Council member in white said with anger in his voice. "You never gave me any instruction on who can be selected as a Eva Pilot. I was under the influence that it was up to Doctor Akagi to find a suitable candidate and then I only approve if she is right or wrong in her selection." "This meeting is over till are next scheduled meeting." The Council member in white said before suddenly disappearing along with the rest of the council. "Ikari, do you think you stepped on their toes a little to hard?" Commander Fuyutsuki asked "It is a matter of point of view," Commander Ikari said before standing up from his seat. In the office of Ritsuko Akagi, Ritsuko was thinking to herself as she stares vacantly at a spot in her office. She had a pen in between her fingers, tapping it on a file she was looking at. On her desk was all four Eva Pilots files with a picture of them in it. "Rei Ayanami, the 1st Child to be selected to pilot the Prototype Evangelion. Asuka Langly Soryu, the 2nd Child and pilot of the first Production Model Eva. Shinji Ikari, the 3rd Child to be selected and Pilot of Evangelion Unit-1. Touji Suzuhara the fourth Child and Pilot of Evangelion Unit-3, at least the original one." Ritsuko thought to herself before turning her attention away from the spot in her office she had been looking at. Slowly she turned in her seat to the computer that was on her desk. Pressing a few keys on the keyboard, a picture suddenly appeared on the screen. The picture was of her when she first came to NERV to work with her Mother. "How long has it been since I smiled like that?" She questioned herself looking at the picture with her smiling and holding a baby in her arms. "Soon we will be reunited after all these years apart." Ritsuko looked at the picture for a moment longer before she felt a tear run down her cheek. ---Please visit the web page for Neon Genesis Evangelion: A New Life for further chapters into the world of New Life and side stories into the world of Evangelion. http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Gulf/5556 ---Please E-Mail us. 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