A Janok Production;

 

General disclaimer;

The usual... Some characters and original storyline copyright Gainax

and affiliated companies.

 

WARNING

This is a Post-Episode 26 story, if you haven't seen up to Episode 26

of NGE I advise you not to read this story. You have been warned, so

no complaints.

 

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NEON GENESIS CHAPTER 2

A Fall From Grace: Out of Eden

 

VERSE 1

 

"So the Lord God sent him out of the Garden of Eden...."

Genesis 3:23

 

 

Somewhere, yet everywhere, a place of existence;

 

 

Feelings of contentment, warmth, security.

Light and Dark in perfect balance,

Perception of everything and yet nothing,

time passes...

 

Feelings of contentment, warmth, security.

Light and Dark in perfect balance,

Perception of everything and yet...

Disturbance... feeling of disquiet...

time passes...

 

Feelings of agitation... cold... pain...

Darkness closing in... Light fading...

Perception fading...

time passes...

 

Feelings of disturbance... movement... of being pulled...

Total darkness...

Pain...

time... stops...

 

Jolt...

Light... pain... eyes close... darkness...

time passes...

 

Sounds... voices...

"Blood type analysis... Red, he's human." soft voice... female?...

"Right, put him in the Jeep, we'll finish up here and take him

back." ... male voice?

"Yes Captain"

noise approaching...

"Sorry kid, but I've got to move ya... by the way welcome home..."

... Movement... pain... screaming...

"Quick get him sedated, he'll draw them to us"

darkness...

 

Light again... Voices...

"...Captain Hyuga's orders, we have a patient..."

"... emergency cases only... go over... clinic..."

"... in a bad way... wildlands... tore him up before we

got there... take a look..."

sensation, warmth... pain... screaming again...

"Hell! Get him inside, move..." sense of motion... "...ward 5...

gentank..."

darkness...

 

**********

 

3 Months Later

 

In a small room two men sat together looking over reports. They sat

across a table from each other, one man wore a beige uniform, and the

other a navy one.

 

"Patient 216 appears to be making significant improvement," said the

man in the beige uniform.

 

"Indeed, he appears to be regaining his sense of self faster than the

others," the other replied.

 

The man in beige picked up the patient report, "He looks like a

promising candidate, he appears to have all of the necessary

requirements, and his reintegration program should be finished in 2

weeks, what should we do with him?"

 

The man in blue considered this for a while, then said decisively, "We

shall put him through test program 6."

 

The other man appeared quite shocked at this answer "6? Ikari are you

sure? We never put someone through 6 until we are sure they can pass

5, if he isn't ready it could tear out his mind!"

 

Ikari clasped his hands in front of his face, "There will be no

problems, he will do fine."

 

The other man glanced at him, "What are you up to Ikari? You know the

committee is evenly balanced on whether you should be removed, after

what you caused last time they are watching very carefully, if you

make one mistake Ikari, one mistake, and you'll be removed

permanently."

 

Ikari just stared off into the distance, "If I make a mistake we will

ALL be removed permanently."

 

A sense of quiet foreboding filled the office, and neither man spoke

for several minutes.

"Has he settled on a name for himself yet?" asked Ikari

 

"Yes, he has chosen the name Michael, fortuitous name don't you

think?"

 

"Indeed"

 

**********

 

2 Weeks Later

 

"So this is what the real world looks like," thought Michael as he

left the re-education centre. He looked around at the buildings

towering above him and above them he could just make out the ceiling

of the cave. He felt a strange lurch in his stomach, and he quickly

looked back down at the street in front of him. "I know this is a

geofront, I know I'm perfectly safe here," he thought, "but I wish

someone would tell my stomach."

 

He looked at the sheet of paper in his hand, it read;

 

Memo to Patient 216; Michael Kysler

Your new designation will be Candidate 312

Report to:

Central Test and Evaluation Centre

Building 615, 1st District, Geofront 1

13:00, 9th May 2036

 

He looked around until he found a signpost pointing to the first

district, and then started walking down the street with the bag on his

back carrying the few possessions that he had acquired in the last few

months. He looked around at his surroundings as he walked, the streets

he saw had large evenly spaced buildings along them, but between the

buildings to his left he noticed an extensive forest and a harbour in

the distance.

 

As he continued his stroll down the street he took a closer look at

the buildings hemming him in, he noticed that they looked a lot more

decrepit than the ones he had seen on his computer, these didn't seem

to have been repaired in years, he knew that many had been

constructed as long as 32 years ago, but surely someone could have

thought to have carried out at least partial maintenance since the

return of the first humans at the beginning of 4th impact 6 years ago?

 

He had just reached a sign saying that he was entering the first

district, when he heard a loud wail behind him; he quickly turned and

saw the sound was emanating from a speaker system attached to a

streetlight. Red lights were flashing and a voice cut in on the

speaker system, "A special state of emergency has been declared,

please proceed to your designated shelter immediately."

 

Out of the surrounding buildings he saw streams of people hastily

flooding onto the streets and different groups heading off in

different directions, obviously going to different shelters.

 

He opened his bag and started to root around for the papers the people

at the re-education centre had given him.

 

He heard a sudden buzzing sound coming from somewhere behind him,

and he turned just in time to see a purple blur shoot off toward the

cave ceiling.

 

"What are you doing there kid, didn't you here the siren? Get to your

shelter, hurry!" said a man who had left the building nearest to him

and had left the main crowd to see what he was doing.

 

"But I don't know where my shelter is, I'm looking for my documents"

he replied as he continued to root through his bag.

 

"You don't have time for that kid, come with me and we'll register you

at my shelter," the man said, grabbing his arm and pulling him along.

 

"But will there be enough room? And are you sure that it is allowed?"

Michael asked as he was dragged down the street at an almost running

pace.

 

"Yes and yes, stop asking questions kid and just come on, you do want

to get to a shelter don't you?" the man said as they ran further

along.

 

They had been running for a few minutes and Michael looked around,

they were coming to the end of the buildings and the forest appeared

very close now, "Where are we going? There must have been a shelter

closer than this." He suddenly came to a halt and yanked his arm out

of the other man's grip. "Where are you taking me?"

 

The man came to a stop a few paces from Michael, turned around and

spoke calmly, "I'm taking you to a shelter, that's what you want isn't

it?" He beckoned Michael, "Come along we don't have much time!"

 

Michael suddenly felt a wave of hostility emanating from the man, he

backed up a few paces, "I don't trust you, I'm going to find my own

shelter." With that he turned around and began running down a side

street.

 

He heard the other man running behind him to catch up "Get back here

Michael, stop right now or I will kill you as you run."

 

Michael continued to run and increased his pace further.

 

"This is your last chance Michael, stop now or die!"

 

When Michael showed no sign of slowing, a strange tearing sound came

from the strange man; Michael glanced round and came to a complete

halt, a shocked expression on his face.

 

Not ten metres behind him the strange man had halted. The ripping

sound came from his arms, as they began to lengthen and bulge with

muscle, out of each finger grew a large black claw. A low gurgling

sound came from the man/creature's throat and Michael looked up to see

the face shift into something more bestial.

 

Before the creature could resume its pursuit Michael turned to face

back down the street and continued to put as much distance between

himself and the thing behind him. He began to glance around for

someone or something to help him.

His luck was in, down an intersection to his right he caught sight of

a manned security post. Several soldiers in black uniforms and

strange red insignias on their chests glanced at him, running around

in the otherwise deserted area.

 

He ran towards them and shouted "There's a monster after me!"

 

The men all gave each other a sceptical glance, but a man, probably

the officer in charge, signalled a couple of his men to investigate.

The two men ran past Michael, and then darted into cover beside the

buildings. They moved slowly up the rest of the street, providing cover

for the other as each took it in turns to move. Meanwhile the officer

pressed something in his ear and started muttering to himself.

 

As Michael arrived at the post, the officer stopped muttering, put his

hands on his hips and glared at Michael, "Is this some kinda joke kid?

Command reports no breaches of the geofront, there cant be any

'Monsters' here."

 

"It isn't a joke. I'm telling the truth," Michael gasped as he tried

to regain his breath.

 

"Sure kid, and we believe you, but we've got an emergency on at the

moment and we can't take the time to frighten the bogey man away,"

the officer said. A couple of his men chuckled and muttered something

about kids.

 

"Alright lads, false alarm, get your butts back here now!" The officer

shouted at the two men further up the street. The two in question

moved back into the middle of the street, big grins on their faces,

and began to jog back to the post.

 

It was just then that a black and white blur hurtled around the

corner, one of the men at the guard post shouted a warning, but it was

too late, the blur collided with the men in the street and a fountain

of blood spurted into the air accompanied with a thudding sound as the

two corpses thunked to the floor. The blur halted, revealing itself to

be a white and black furred, bestial humanoid of about 7 feet in

height. It then began to take bites out of one of the bodies beside it.

 

"Shoot it down!" The officer screamed. His men needed no further

urging and began to fire their automatic weapons, however, as the

bullets approached the target they seemed to rebound off a shimmering

piece of air.

 

Michael looked on in horror......

 

**********

 

Meanwhile in NERV Command Centre

 

"AT Field detected inside the Geofront!"

 

The wild cheering that had filled the room a moment before turned to

dead silence.

 

"That can't be, the Angel has been eliminated!" Shouted Commander

Fuji.

 

"None the less I'm reading an AT Field," shouted back the computer

operator.

 

"AT Field confirmed Sir! The Magi are analysing now," said another.

 

"Bring that sector up on the monitor!" Major Veitch demanded, and

promptly a scene of a security post inside the 2nd District of the

Geofront appeared, several soldiers were pumping out their machine

guns at a strange manlike beast which was eating something on the

floor that was luckily out of focus.

 

"The Magi are trying to identify the source of the AT Field, they can

confirm the existence of the AT Field, and that that creature is the

source but they can't confirm that it is an Angel," shouted another

operator.

 

"Then what in the Hell IS it?" muttered Commander Fuji.

 

Major Veitch was staring at the monitor, "Enlarge quadrant 3A. Who is

that civilian?"

 

A section of the main screen showed an enlarged image of a 15-year-old

boy in a white shirt and dark trousers staring at the soldiers and the

creature with an obviously shocked expression, an expression Veitch

noticed on many of the faces of the command staff.

 

"Well?" He shouted, "Who is he?"

 

"Erm...checking now sir," an obviously stunned operator said.

 

A new screen popped up to the side of the main monitor, it held the

image of the boy and some of his statistics.

 

"His name is Michael Kysler, he is a new 1st level candidate, No. 312.

He just left the re-education centre today."

 

Major Veitch glared at the image, "And he just happened to walk into

this battle on his first day out? This can't be just a coincidence,

this one's going to be trouble, I can feel it."

 

**********

 

The creature left the rest of its meal and turned to face the soldiers

who were still firing at it, slowly but methodically it began to

approach them, the bullets still bouncing off the shimmering air in

front of it. Several of the bullets ricocheted off surrounding objects

and flew back into the group of soldiers, three of whom collapsed to

the floor, groaning and clutching their wounds.

 

Michael watched in horror as the creature approached the soldiers. His

mind searched desperately for something he could do to help, but he

was just a kid, what could he do? He was nothing more than a child,

what could HE do?

 

The creature reached the line of soldiers who were still frantically

firing at their impervious opponent. It lifted one wickedly clawed

arm above its head in readiness to strike down the irritating pests

in front of it...

 

Something in Michael's mind snapped, "No..." He screamed...

 

**********

 

"A second AT Field has appeared, it's breaking through the first one,"

shouted a computer operator.

 

"Analyse it, what is causing it?" Major Veitch shouted back.

 

"Unknown, analysing now... its disappeared," shouted the operator.

 

**********

 

Its protection vanished, the creature lurched backwards as a hundred

bullets ripped through its chest. It collapsed to the floor, twitched

for a few seconds, then lay still.

 

Michael suddenly felt very dizzy and he saw the ground rush up to

meet him. As the world blacked out he heard one of the soldiers

mutter, "What in the Hell are you kid?"

 

**********

 

To Be Continued...

 

 

"Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels

fought against the dragon, who fought back with his angels"

Revelations 12:7

 

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Author's Note:

 

If you have any comments about this fanfic then gladly send them to

me.

 

Janok_Re <jreproduct@hotmail.com>

 

 

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