One of Two (Part 2)

Tabris

Imagine, she said so much to me without saying anything to me. It was all done through a kiss on my forehead given while I was gobsmacked by her beauty!

She had been other than what she is now. Fantastic things too easily believed by me if I had been confronted by her in anything but her ultimate form: a true Angel. Before coming into her ultimate form. She had been a warrior Amazon princess who'd been captured by a evil dragon (re: 38) before being transformed into a djinn (re: 6669). Then, as a djinn (re: 14682) she had an encounter with a REAL Demon (re: 14061). She did not go into the details at how she won free from that state and into her heavenly form, but she DID tell me that my fate would be tied with that group . . . a clan who witnessed her ascension (re: 14818). A clan of Champions who deal with the impossible on a regular basis. A clan of Champions has within it a small band who my fate is intertwined with.

I must give a Message to them given to me from her so I can fulfill my . . . .duty as set forth from . . . .the Lord.

Yes, yes. Some of you perhaps feel that my belief in such things is stuff and nonsense? Well, perhaps but then again my belief is not up to discussion and such. Do not criticize my religious beliefs and I shall not ridicule yours, okay?

Anyway, thank God that my now missing S2 organ (and Angel Core) had not been active at the time of the Event (the time of transference from the Neon Genesis reality to another one). Both would have been the death of me but the S2 organ!.... That thing, the super soleniod (S2) --as seen the TV series--with practically limitless energy to power the body and give the owner a form of immortality UNDER the old laws of physics. With the new physics, I believe that you know that something somehow goes disastrously wrong and the S2 organ actually incinerates the host body.

Burning to death is a bad way to go, I fear. Seen a lot of ways to go in that damn war with the Enemy to have become somewhat of an expert on how . . . friends and comrades can go. . . .that's a pretty bad one.

. . .

What the Angel named Astra began on that fateful day pretty much was finished up by my time walking amongst the human beings AS a human being.

. . .

I have lived a life before now. Went and seen things that makes what even the Neon Genesis Angel called Adam (my progenitor) pale in comparison, and that one caused Second Impact when . . . . what amounted to being poked by a stick (the Lance of Langenis) in a defensive reflex.

Oh, in case you have not guessed already . . . I joined the Military decades ago midway through that Enemy/Alliance war. Not like there was a lot of call out in the civilian sector for a pilot of EVA units out there back Home, you know. Astra rather suggested that course of action. Sort of a penance for having planned (good intentions or not) Instrumentality, you see.

. . .

Beyond piloting giant robots (not something you'd likely find even in the Military, who DOES have a plethora of exotic weapon platforms) I honestly did not have much else I could do. With the upbringing I had I did not have much in the way of . . . being able to actually live a normal life as human, you see. Besides, I had gotten a feeling as Angel Astra departed that the best pathway to my fulfilling my task as Message giver. Oh, I could do it in the form of a ghost if I should die and THEN move onto whatever happens to the dead when they get judged, but . . . honestly I found the idea of actually continuing to live . . . preferable.

In the Military, I learned a LOT of things (humility being one). Boot Camp was perhaps the most . . . painful but rewarding learning experience that one demon of a drill instructor, Diane Walker I shall never forget and hope NEVER to meet again. Then after that . . . somewhere along the way I found myself rather . . . interested in the fairer sex. Yes, it could have easily gone the other way, what with my "pretty boy" looks back then. More than a few young males had been fans of the anime (and of MY character), you know. Figured that since I obviously was such a fan of the show to have had been body sculpted to be a dead "real life" ringer for the anime Kaworu Nagisa/Tabris. As it were, there had been a female fan back then who drew me in and her personality (and something that she saw in ME beyond the initial fan attraction) drew us together.

But even though we are now one I fear that I could not tell her the truth about myself. Angel Astra made me promise never to reveal my true past to anyone until she came for me again. And one does NOT break easily promises like that to such heavenly beings, you know!

. . .

Anyway, back to it.

Walker. Heard that she went "native" somewhere on some far off reality out there. Also had heard that she had been proclaimed as some kind of Goddess/Emporer by a bunch of honest to goodness dwarfs (ala JRR Tolkien), but that is about as believable as . . .some of the things I had read from the artist's biography page at his website. The person had posted a hand drawn picture of himself, supposedly. It was him as an elf and he claimed to have made himself home on that one world that scuttlebutt called Terra Prime.

. . .

Yes, I have spoken with true Angels and seen many fantastic thing in my time, but the tales of that tiberian rich planet which played such an integral part of destroying the Enemy are too fantastic for even ME to believe. Myself, I belong to the camp that believes that it is all some sort of massive smokescreen to keep sensitive data from falling into the wrong hands. Like say the Company (though it has been diminished for some reason in recent years) or any remnants of the Enemy we failed to "mop up" after that massive blow to their Empire. By now I am sure that any of those reptiles out there have by now recovered from the psychic shockwave of them feeling their precious Emperor having died in the bombardment of their bases and worlds.

Seemed a bit extreme to me even back then, but then again with so much bad blood between humans and the Enemy it did not totally surprise me. Sadden me that we'd be so barbaric, but not surprise me. Then later on I learn from sources that if the Enemy should have captured this fabled Terra Prime they would have done the same to us, had actually came UP with such a vicious plan first and had been EAGER to . . .

Sigh, well at least we humans aren't as totally barbaric as I had feared back at that final blow. After all, at least we had early on tried to open some form of diplomacy to

But here I am. Back walking inside a place I recognize somewhat in layout to several NERV facilities I'd visited earlier in my life whilst under the sway of SEELE. But just why do the walls call this place GEHIRN, what NERV had called itself before being reorganized into it's present form? I only know fragments of it's the story concerning that time period, having been more concerned with the here and now. I do regret that oversight which could have enlightened me here and now.

Questions aside, I'll be damned if I let a little girl be strangled before my eyes by this homicidal woman! Oh, I admit that Rei here (WHY does she look so young?!) had been MOST rude here, egging the old woman here before me. I'm SURE that it has all to do, somehow, with that time period when NERV was GEHIRN with this scene being played before me

God, I just WISH I'd been more diligent with my studies. Hindsight is always 20/20.

Why am I back to looking like I did? I look fifteen again (but at least not as thin). I'm young again, but I'm old enough to be a grandfather, for Heaven's sake! Will my grandchildren even recognize me?! I'm even shorter than what I was before. My uniform practically hangs off of me now!! At least I could roll both pants and shirt up enough to make do until I get something better fitting!

And while I'm asking questions, just WHY is this woman . . .

Oh stop sniveling, Tabris and get a grip!!

"Yes yes, by all means I'm sure that this is ONE happy family reunion," I snap angrily. "But that really does NOT explain to me just WHY this female before me was going to harm Rei . . . .Rei!?"

That is about the time that Tabris (aka Kaworu Nagisa) notices the eighteen year old Rei looking at him through the tear in space/time and despite the years (and wings), recognizes her for who she is.

But before things get even more snarled and confused the very entity that Tabris had HOPED to appear to perhaps make things more clear . . . .appears. Appears and suddenly the group around Tabris suddenly finds itself standing in the room with Elrondir's group.

1. Of course, this causes a bit of an incident, shall we say?

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