Just when you think that things would never change, they do!

It is just that in the process instead of it just being seen by Chiana, it is also being shown on the main screen of the Control room in NERV . . .

But we'll get back to that in a moment...

Reika

This is so . . . .strange. Things have changed so MUCH so quickly for me. For want of a better term I woke up in down in the bowels of NERV HQ this morning, less than what I had been when I . . . went to sleep, shall we say.

I died and had been brought back into the third vessel for my soul, with quiet a bit of loss through not only the virtue of the it having been quiet a while ago since the last memory backup into my spare clone bodies, but also do to the fact that Commander Akari did quiet a bit of editing to MAKE sure that whatever memory and experience that would endanger his precious "scenario" was excised.

. . .

I barely recognized Shinji Akari, the one I had been growing so close to before dieing!

When he was thanking me for saving his life by me sacrificing Unit 00 (and as it turns out my prior BODY) I barely had a CLUE . . .

But then again that had been my lot in life. Yes, the one known as Rei would never die, but if I should ever dare stray? Well, I could always be replaced. The new "me" would have my old soul, but minus anything that had let me stray in the first place!

But somewhere along the lines I believe that though the Commander had intended through this third . . . incarnation for me to be again the obedient tool to bring about his scenario, would I have been? Honestly, even before I met my sister (much less inadvertently stepping upon the pathway that led me to have to rename myself Reika) I feel I was beginning to question my relationship with the man. Would I have eventually seen him as unworthy of my loyalty? Turned on him ?

I mean I always had been in the habit of believing that of everyone in the world nothing would change for me, in the end. Heh, well that turned out to be a crock, eh?

Memories back. Experience regained from not only my time as the "Second Vessel" but as the "First Vessel". The red wings and hair. Green eyes?

Let us not speak of the wonderful changes that have gone on inside of me (the more "humanizing" changes to be blunt about it) that these experiences have done to and for me!

. . .

Or maybe I shall, for it is after all MY choice to make, right? Family and . . . other things. They are partly responsible . . . . but I did change because of choices I made. I changed by my own actions.

That-that is why in part why I find all this very strange. I did this to myself in part, WITHOUT orders. I've lived my entire life up to now in a very structured fashion, doing little to nothing that hadn't been sanctioned beforehand. Very structured and here . . .

I'm different. Similar to my older sister, but still not a perfect mirror. My own person and definitely not a doll! Not any MORE, thank YOU.

. . .

I . . . doubt that many would recognize me now. Put me off as some kind of person who only LOOKS somewhat like my old self because of the way I find myself acting and reacting to things, now.

Yes, very strange (but not unwelcome).

But still, even IF things like all this hadn't changed like they had. If my life hadn't taken a left turn . . . into the "Twilight Zone" (whatever exactly that means, but the phrase kind of fits). Would I have just . . . obeyed blindly Gendo Akari's orders, no matter what it would have cost the rest of my world? Maybe? Maybe not?

Hm. Maybe I should as sister about that. That and my new family because they're rather adept at such matters, shall we say. Elrondir, Rei told me, has uncanny insight into such matters due to this "anime" based upon my (and her) life.

Later. Later! As of right now I and my sister are fulfilling our duties and trying to calm our parents of their worries AND update them at what had befallen BOTH of us whilst away. That and remind them why we should spare this G-man, even IF he had been somehow behind that rather bloody kidnapping attempt.

Even IF, like me, she feels little to no remorse for having killed that one murderous thug who pointed that "displacement weapon" at her . . . our parents. Oh, I know that as Champions cannot die, but we can be BADLY injured! That weapon would have--at the point of impact--teleported a chunk of whatever dragon it had hit to some other far away place where it landed and would have. At the peripherally, it would be as if a bomb exploded, doing massive "splash" damage to the other dragons nearby (and their riders).

Nothing to feel remorse over. The dead man was obviously in the wrong and meant to do harm. Maybe something less . . . .deadly could have been used but in the heat of the moment what Rei did was VERY understandable.

Besides leaving my family in a possible BAD way, it would have pretty much "put to paid" (catchy phrase that . . . wonder where sister learned it and from who she learned if from) any chance of completing Rei's Quest.

Well, I shall do what I can for them here and now! Rei's done what she needed to do in both calming our parents (angry and distressed dragons running amok aren't something to be taken lightly).

Hm, maybe after this Quest of my sister and my upcoming Quest is done I shall look into taking up some actual hobby or profession. Maybe something like what my sister took up, a weaver of magic? Honestly, do I want to learn how to do THAT! Oh, I guess it makes a kind of twisted sense that like in that one children's tale I'd had to once to a book report on that the offpsring and descendant of Lilith (credited to have been the first witch) would be involved in magic or wish to be involved in it.

. . . .

Somehow, though, I have doubt that sister's made any blood pacts with the Devil and would much appreciate being called a witch. There were . . .ah . . .I guess I should say are such things as mages and wizards, though that type usually are male. Why NOT have female versions of the type as well?

Pulling out my cell phone (a wonder it is still with me after all I'd been through here), I look over at the patiently and silent (though with MUCH effort on his part). I pause, only halfway through the menu for dialing up NERV. While I should now contact someone within NERV to facilitate the offsite meeting between my group and them, I stare a bit at this Fred Takahashi.

This man played a large part in my sister becoming a more rounded person. Through hobbies of all things... Roleplaying.

I wonder, since I am thinking of hobbies did my sister take a different path than I did when Shinji asked me about what hobbies and interests I had outside of piloting Eva Unit 00? Or was there more to it than just that? I had said after much deliberation that I played the violin and that pretty much had been the extent of the conversation as far as it went. I somehow have an odd feeling that this Fred Takahashi is a bit more than he appears.

What is HIS story, really, in all this? Should he not be much older appearing, by now? By the tales my sister told me in that timeless place we were within, he should be!

"Oh, by all means don't let me keep you," he says, noticing my stare. A slightly amused, slightly annoyed tinge within his voice I see. "Hey, take care of your other business first! Oy, calming down irate dragons and contacting superiors before greeting with old friends? By all means!"

. . .

Hm, I see where sister got some of that sarcasm I see.

Still, he sees and understands the need, but he's still annoyed all the same I guess.

Sigh, let's get to it now. I know that the others are trying in the other groups to do their part in getting things straightened out, but I believe that through this simple device I could make it so MUCH easier in as far as NERV is concerned, surely.

1. "Reika," the one known as Inquirer calls out as I frown, seeing that for SOME reason I have NO reception in this part of town.

Add New Option

Go Back

View Forward Story Tree
View Back Story Tree