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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
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