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"I suggest that we have a meeting," the G-man says slowly into the receiver we'd spliced into the communication network. "We have much to discuss."

….

Just got to say here that I did not exactly expect (or want) the G- man here to be our spokesperson here. Oh, I understand Sigin's argument about it being a good diplomatic gesture and all that, but still. . . . the guy gives me the creeps. Not just because he's in the spy business (Hey, remember what job I had before being reincarnated as an elf?) do I find him disturbing. Not because he has a very eerie speech pattern do I find him disturbing. No, as stupid as it sounds the whole "man in black" thing is really getting on my nerves with this guy! And it is not just my imagination, either. The guy has a slight but real air of menace to him right now that can only BE is psychic in nature.

Everyone senses it and responds to in in some manner, even IF they are able to block it (for the most part).

As it is, we let him speak for us. To set up things for us to build some kind of working relationship with the man, but all in all I'm glad to say that we're keeping a weather eye on the guy. Keeping an eye on him and will take . . . measures if need be.

All except that one new guy, Fred Takahashi? Something is definitely off with that one there. The only people I'm familiar with being anything as inaccessible to psioinic/magical attacks and emanations on the mind are . . . dragonslayers like Fertal and others of the Fred D'Honaire clan.

That and my elf senses are tingling with this guy. He is definitely more than he appears.

Heh, as if the fact that he still looks the same age as Rei described him being, even THOUGH it has been twenty years (his calendar) since he and Rei last met . . .

However, right now I'm rather MORE concerned about some of the people in the room. Hm, is "concerned" the right word for it? More like disturbed, actually.

Granted, the absence of some in the room is VERY understandable. Mr. Spock, the Science Officer of the USS Enterprise is not present here because he is in command of that starship. As such, his presence is required in that other conference room as some kind of . . . .understanding to be hammered out here (maybe even a treaty or whatever diplomacy for First Contact is needed).

Captain Kirk should be in there hammering out the details with the others. However . . .he's not amongst the living. Yes, while the place he and his landing party had been before (ala the "Mirror, Mirror" Enterprise) finally managing to get back to their own universe had been incredibly brutal and dangerous it had not been there Kirk had bought the farm. Nor did he somehow die from transporter trip home when that one woman of that mirror universe, Lt. Marlena Moreau, managed to force them to take her along at phasorpoint. Yes, I know from Betty Ragan that in the TV show Uhura managed to overpower that woman at take the phasor (and thus Moreau was left behind) but that is TV. This is something else.

She and the others managed to get back, despite being one heavy. I guess the evil landing party made it back to their universe safe and sound, but that's besides the point. Kirk survived that, only to die while trying to lead (from the front) a bunch of Enterprise folks attempting to repel boarders.

. . .

People from all over got swept up into this mess. In this case bunch of soldiers from both the JSSDF (ala Neon Genesis Evangelion and Recon forces of the Marines who invaded Black Mesa in Half-life) suddenly found themselves in an unknown situation, in a strange land indeed.

Somebody panicked and shots started getting fired. Without most of the Intruder suppression systems working with the whallop the Enterprise took from the Dawntreader (hetch drive fields and warpfields do NOT mix), it was in the end only the quick thinking of SOME nameless tech who up the gravity setting in the troubled areas to where people couldn't even crawl that settled things down!

. . .

Shit, I can see the anger in a lot of the Enterprise crewmembers who survived directed towards both sides, but especially towards the JSSDF.

Why flame throwers? I mean it happened (the JSSDF using them) in the movie to clear out troubled . . . er. . . . rooms and corridors, but still!

Sigh, but who shot first? Who is to blame? Who's the good guy? The bad guy?

Well, both sides (JSSDF and those marines) were something of the victim here, to give fair dues. Both the aggressor, as well. Both had been called in to do a rather unpleasant task, tricked into it. With the JSSDF, SEELE made those soldiers believe that they were storming NERV HQ in Tokyo 3 to prevent the extinction of mankind by the "maniacs" within. They'd been told that NERV was out to cause Third Impact, even though they'd fought all the Angels to avoid that up to then . . . . The Marines had been told lies. That some terrible lab accident had occured, due to an act of sabotage. The end result was that everyone within was considered dangerous due to having been infected with some kind of organism that would, over time, mutate them all into hideous flesh eating monsters (ala headcrab zombies). Actually, that was . . . would have been more of a half-truth than anything. Not everyone within who survived to make it to the surface would have been doomed to turn into . . .

Well, nevermind. If you know the video game you know the story. But both sides tore into each other (and those around) with brutality born of fear.

Thank the Creator that Gordon Freeman was up there to lend a hand! Without his fully energized H.E.V. suit--thanks to one inventive Commander "Rei Ayanami" (BAH, it's Yui Akari incognito)-- it could have been MUCH worse! That suit of Gordon is like some high tech armor as found seen in various animes (http ://en .wikipedia. org/wiki/ Gordon_ Freeman# H.E.V._suit) on par with what the Marines were wearing, PVC (yet another kind of armor akin to the H.E.V.). Yeah, though one man he was able to do what the Redshirts couldn't, being that the PVC armor of the Marines was . . . proof against phasors fire.

Gordon Freeman the man in the flesh is as deadly as he is in the video game, gah!!

I hear that, however, Fred Takahashi did a fair imitation of Gordon Freeman back in Black Mesa from some of the the G-man's blacks. More than a bit of awe (and FEAR) in those whispered conversations.

Eh, a lot I need to talk about with that Fred guy. Got a lot of questions.

. . .

Anyway, at least the G-man (sinister creep) had enough decency to pull some strings to get whoever had actually ORDERED the attack to stop. Not to say that he was totally FREE of blame for this attack upon Black Mesa. He could have prevented the bloodbath there after that Resonance Cascade disaster struck, but stood back.

He didn't, though. Oh, it was because to be too overt in his actions would/could prove to backfire disastrously, in the end, for his group. He is fighting a war against a numerically superior enemy, the Combine Empire ( http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/ Combine _%28Half - Life_2% 29) so must be choosy in his engagements with his enemies. Stealth is called for and some VERY draconian measures at times, I fear.

. . .

Even though he's not exactly human (at least not totally), I do know that his eyes lit up with the idea of the technology that could be afforded him and his handlers IF some kind of friendly relationship with the Star Trek people here. That's where we come in, helping him to afford some kind of rampart between his group and those of the Enterprise.

In the end he needs US and we need HIM.

. . .

His future self DID somehow master this teleportation system that had run amok here, allowing the events that had lead to Reika returning to us, whole and hale. Somehow had mastered the more intricate powers of said system to allow enough time for the mental healing and growth that Reika needed and received through interacting with Rei while in that timeless place (re: 62461). We fail to help him get what he needs and wants and we might have . . . problems.

. . .

Well, we'll keep an eye on him, even IF he's doing what he's doing to (in the end) help the Half-life Earth more out of a sense of enlightened self interested than true concern for human beings. We'll help him, but only up to a point . . .

"True enemy or false friend?" I mutter to myself, shaking my head while quoting a line from Megadeth's song (http:// www.lyrical content.com /37645. html).

With "friends" like the G-man, we better have eyes in the back of our head I feel. Then again, I just don't LIKE the fellow. Wish we didn't have to tap him for help.

. . .

And if I'm wishing, might as well wish that it was either Maya Ibuki or Shgeru Aoba here as primary reps for NERV instead of Dr. Akagi! Oh, it's nice to see them here in the flesh, but they're only in support role to this . . . . female.

Maya's nice, even if a bit on the mousy side. Don't have any problems with the anime's implied desires . . . though I do think there would be MUCH better choices in life partners . . . ( http://en .wikipedia. org/wiki /List_of_ characters _in_Neon _Genesis _Evangelion# First_ Lieutenant_ Maya_ Ibuki)

As for the Aoba . . . Well, he might not be the best bet for being the tech rep for figuring out a means of getting people home and whatnot. Might not be the one to even be given a primer for what's up here, but I've just got to admire him all the same. Maybe if only because we both share the same taste in music. (http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/ List_of _ characters _in_ Neon _ Genesis _Evangelion# First_ Lieutenant _Shigeru _Aoba )

The G-man's not exactly helping in making it easy for us. His demeanor plays against him and it is not like he totally trusts US, you know. Me especially, you should know! I . . .kind of make him nervous, me (an elf, a being from fantasy) knowing so much about his business.

And as for the Neon Genesis Evangelion people? Well, we kind of scared the living shit out of some of them with our cowboy tactics, but at least they'd stopped anything they'd regret later on.

Still, tis First Contact had been a hellacious thing.

. . .

Tell you something though, I don't want to be nuked to I glow and then shot in the dark, thank YOU!!

Doesn't mean that there aren't those who resented what we'd done . . . We got a lot of people from all sides a bit ticked at us. I do hope that SEELE has been exposed enough, though, to signal it's death kneel, though . . .

Glad that at least we'd talked Spock into safeguarding my sister and the Doctor until they recover up in the Enterprise (high up in orbit and away from assassins who might try to take advantage while they're out of it).

Sigh, at least all sides are talking now. If nothing else for the opportunities afforded them, anyway.

The Feds will want to at least get home and that means the teleportation system. The G-man had the knowledge on how to manipulate it (says something about it belonging to a long lost kin who called themselves Iconians) to get them home . . . but at a price. Oh, he was "dealing in" the Evangelion Earth into the mix but. . .

Sigh, it's complicated and let us just say that even though Mr. Spock and the others of the Enterprise actually DO understand the G-man's position . . . . they don't exactly like having their noses rubbed in it. Throw in the rather morose (and angered) feelings towards the Half- lifers . . . .

Frell.

Thank the Creator for Sigin to soften the blows . . .

Meanwhile, let us return to just why I and my wife are here with the science types of this world's NERV, the Dawntreader, and the Enterprise. While Sigin is trying help in the diplomatic scene, I and some of the others are trying to give a basic rundown as to just WHY such outlandish people like elves, dragons (and Star Trek folk) are running about in their back yard, as it were.

And I've got to do it without spitting in Dr. Akagi's face for the part she played in crippling Reika's development early on in her life...

1. That said, I must bite my tongue right now to avoid laughing as Dr. Akagi is suddenly realizing just who will be giving my group's brief. Honestly, Rei deserves this time in the limelight (and seeing Akagi fidget a bit). . .

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