First Vessels for Souls, now Fonts of Chaos . . . . (Part 1)

Yes, you heard correctly! Shinji's mother is back, albeit presently unconscious (and naked) back at the still buzzing (and panicky) NERV HQ.

This proves to be entirely TOO much for Dr. Akaji, who herself had been engaged in something of an affair with this woman's wife. Suffering from something of a temporary bout of insanity . . .

Come ON! Trying to actually strangle the unconscious woman in front of witnesses?!), you really think that it couldn't be called anything BUT insane what she just tried there?

Real irony is that once Yui wakes up, besides being VERY insistent on seeing her son (who'd just arrived here with his guardian), she was VERY verbal in telling those who asked just WHY she wants . . . .certain pieces of Gendo Akari's anatomy on a platter. That and she wanted a divorce.

Well, technically due to her having been officially been declared dead after the incident ten years ago (her world's calendar) there really was no need for legal matter such as that. Just was that she wanted to make as clean of break from her husband as possible. Why?

No, while Yui had some idea that her husband had been with other women while she'd been . . . away for a while, that was not the (main) reason for her ire. Oh there was the fact that she'd heard (while trapped within Unit 01) that her work was getting misused by shadowy types to no good (well away from the bright future she'd been working for for her son and the rest of the world) and her husband was part of it. No, it keeps coming back again and again to Shinji Akari. Gendo abandoned him ten years ago so as to fully be able to devote his energies to his (mad) plans (which included using nothing less and insane as forces that could extinguish the human race just to get back with Yui Akari).

She wants NOTHING more to do with Gendo, and thus the irony. Dr. Akaji had tried to kill her in order to keep Gendo to herself, and YUI wouldn't have anything to do with the man.

That's the irony, if you hadn't already guess.

In the meantime, people are still trying to get things shored up and straightened out back at NERV HQ. Trying to find people (like Gendo), who've gone missing. Stuff like that just adds to the chaos that has struck this para-military organization based in Tokyo 3, Jappan. It's all a mess, still, though they're getting on top of things (albeit slower than desired).

Then again, they're doing an admirable job, considering having been scooped up and scattered hither and yon....

If the Doctor and his Companions had known that, perhaps they'd have been less (slightly less) critical of those of Section 2, who'd kind of bolloxed up things with their retrieval of Rei III back to HQ.

Oh well...

In the meantime, long departed mothers are now finally getting their chance to actually reach out and touch their children in a way that does NOT involve carrying them around inside monstrous bio-mechanical constructions (the EVA units within which they'd dwelled for years). Shocking and tender moments all around, I'm sure.

However, we must concentrate on what is going back with Rei III and Rei II, right?

"Done," the Rule smiles slightly, glad to have been able to at least do something that would not involve jumping through all sorts of "legalistic" hoops in order to bring it about (if at all). At least Rei III listened when he'd warned to not wish for things that would REALLY screw things up for the other Champions.

He would have to reluctantly refuse to grant a wish for that Quest the others were on to be done then and there, successful. It would have been something of a conflict of interest, intervening in mortal affairs like that. Even FOR Rei III's desires, you see. The other Offices would be all over him for that and he'd be forced to undo the deed, nothing to show for it but trouble for HIM.

. . .

This particular Rule likes the Reis, but there are limits. As it stands, even though the Rule is thrilled that Rei III (or Reika as she decided to rename herself . . . for her new lot in life) opted to become a Champion!

. . . .

Actually, he'd been more than a bit surprised that Rei III had opted on becoming a Champion, truth be told. If he would have gambled, he would have betted on the opposite choice, really. Bloody understandable, considering the aversion Reika understandably had to being brought back from the dead again and again through arcane means into a new body, with gaps in memory (intentional ones to help her be kept . . . .controllable). Quiet honestly, one would figure that she'd like to just live a normal life and when her last gasp comes . . . she'd like to actually have SOME kind of final rest (whatever that entails, won't go and spill secrets or trample religious beliefs by revealing what could be painful).

Well, honestly after this was all said and done there would be no more NEED to bring her back from death but perhaps it was just the . . . thought of it being possible must disturb her to no ends.

That may be why in some manner why she'd joined.

Then there was the thing with her . . . newly minted connection between Rei II (Rei for now on) and the rest of her family....

Perhaps she just wanted a fresh start. Something as FAR away from Eva as possible?

That or perhaps the mad lure of being a Champion (going out to save the world and universe just because it was the right thing) had called to her?

Whatever the case, she now is one forever and ever, amen.

So, back to it.

Rei

"Okay," the Rule says, nodding slightly. "'Tis done but of course with the new Champion here that means that she's going to need a Validation Quest. Pro Forma and all that . . .It'll mean that she'll be staying on afterwards, back at her home planet, after your current Quest to do hers. Helping her doing her job would be . . . appreciated from you and the others."

"Sir?" I blink. "Isn't she going to be rolled into THIS Quest I and the others are on as her Validation Quest?"

"I don't understand," Reika adds to the conversation, herself looking more than a bit curious at this turn of events. "I was under the impression that I was soon to leave to Terra Prime with the others after their business was done. Then I would have been tasked for my Validation Quest, if not making the one they currently were upon . . . mine as well for a Validation."

The Rule sighs a little bit, shaking his head a bit in consternation.

"It's like this," the Celestrial begins, answering my sister's question directly (and mine indirectly). "Your sister and her family are familiar enough with what certain of this upcoming Quest shall entail from Artizza and Fertal."

. . .

Those Authors of Game 3 are making trouble again?

This time around (for whatever reason) instead of that world with Daria that Fertal and Artizza got tasked with saving from the throws of Game 3, this time around it is different. This time around the "playing field" will be on Reika's Earth, but if we should fail it shall not be her world to be sucked into that hellish realm known as Game 3. It will be a world which . . . I actually recognize from Star Trek: TOS in that one episode, Mirror, Mirror.

. . . .

It would appear that the Authors found the peaceful inhabitants of that world too . . . dull to play with for this challenge they'd forced, but instead opted on using my sister's Earth instead (with all it's violent, bloodthirsty and exciting inhabitants). Make it more . . . fun. The world that the Enterprise is right now floating in a limbo, awaiting the outcome of the Validation Quest.

. . .

God help us, that is why the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) is currently orbiting Reika's world instead of the one where that ion storm had displaced Kirk and other landing party members to that evil mirror universe.

And whether or not we win this Validation Quest we shall still have a LOT of alterations in both landscape and people (just like had happened with Fertal's and Artizza's Validation Quest).

1. As for WHO we must protect from dieing (the object was to keep not one person but TWO alive) . . .

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