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Shinji Ikari hadn't known just what he was getting into when he'd answered his father's letter-He just wanted to reunite with him. Maybe they could be a family again.
But this... This, he didn't know what to make of.
"I'm sorry Shinji, the main transit systems are down," she apologized. "We'll have to go in the other way."
"Other way?" Shinji asked.
The Renault turned down what appeared to be a service road, away from what he could only assume was Tokyo-3's downtown area. As they travelled along, the road dipped, heading towards a tunnel entrance. It was marked by a guardhouse and protected by a steel link fence, barbed wire running over the top of it. The tunnel entrance itself was dark and ominous, and even the orange lighting peeking out from it didn't improve it's disposition.
Misato showed her id to a computer scanner in the empty guardhouse, and the gate opened. She drove into the tunnel, a number of high-security doors made of high-grade steel opening at further checkpoints, her ID badge and retina scan allowing them through most of them.
"Gah... I hate this security," Misato mumbled.
"Why does this tunnel have it then?" Shinji asked. Misato turned and gave him a grave look.
"To keep them from getting out," she said simply. Shinji blinked and was about to ask who she was talking about (or what), when the final security door opened, and sunlight shined through the windshield. Shinji squinted a bit as his eyes adjusted. Two figures emerged, set against a backdrop of a huge internal landscape. Shinji's jaw dropped as he stared ahead of the two armored soldiers.
"Captain Katsuragi, you are cleared to enter," one of the soldiers said, after examining her ID badge. "Fastest way is through District 4."
"I know," Misato said grimly. Once the barricade was lifted, Misato drove forward into the massive cavern. Shinji looked up in awe through the windows, seeing the huge roof of earth above them.
"It's really a Geofront," he said.
"Yeah," Misato said flatly. Shinji lowered his gaze and looked ahead. A huge walled "fortress" lay ahead, one of it's gates the destination of the road. The walls seemed to stretch across a third of the grassland area of the Geofront, in view of a giant pyramid. Security towers lined the wall, heavily armored soldiers with machine guns and searchlights stationed at every one.
"What... What is this place?" Shinji wondered, as the Renault came to a halt outside the main gate.
"It's the Secured Habitation District," Misato said, as the guards on this gate opened it up. She glared ahead as she stepped on the gas, the sports car trundling through the armored doors.
And seemingly into an entirely different world.
Outside, it was pristine grass and wooded areas as far as the eye could see. Within the walls... Shinji had read about third world countries, but he'd never actually been to one. He wondered if he'd just stepped into a nightmare.
Crudely built homes of concrete or welded-together metal lined the road. Armed soldiers patrolled dirt streets, littered with trash. And everywhere, he saw them.
They looked at him as the car passed, through bizarre bony masks, with glowing red eyes. Some were hulking creatures, almost three meters tall, while others were slim, almost skeletal, almost human but... No hair, slitted noses, four eyes... All wearing a bracelet of some sort.
There were smaller versions of the creatures, what Shinji presumed to be children, that seemed to be playing, but fell silent once the car rolled within range. A crystalline-shaped creature, wearing a pink dress that seemed comically out of place, looked at him directly as they went by.
"What... What is...?" Shinji tried, staring in a mix of horror and wonder. Misato's expression was dark.
"They're Angels," she spat. "And their big brother is coming here..."
Shinji's eyes widened as he caught sight of a girl among the crowds of creatures, pale, red eyed and blue haired. She stared at him... And then she was gone.
What have I gotten myself into? Shinji thought, as the Renault rolled on towards Central Dogma in the distance.
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Second Impact didn't just bring one Angel to life-It woke up more. A lot more. An entire race of beings descended from the bigger Adam-descended lifeforms, more like humans in some ways. They were contained in the remnants of the Antarctic continent, before Yui Ikari devised a control collar that neutralized their super human abilities. Later, they were brought to Tokyo-3 and housed in an area known as the "Secured Habitation District" within the Geofront-Little better than a concentration camp.
While they have attempted to keep it a secret, news has leaked out, and the Angels are regarded as "refugees" by some nations of the world, while others feel they are captured combatants. And so they stay within NERV's control, SEELE's own feelings on the matter that they may yet prove useful to their plans.
Yes, inspired by the premise behind District 9. I bring it here to see what you guys can do with it.
Shinji Ikari hadn't known just what he was getting into when he'd answered his father's letter-He just wanted to reunite with him. Maybe they could be a family again.
But this... This, he didn't know what to make of.
"I'm sorry Shinji, the main transit systems are down," she apologized. "We'll have to go in the other way."
"Other way?" Shinji asked.
The Renault turned down what appeared to be a service road, away from what he could only assume was Tokyo-3's downtown area. As they travelled along, the road dipped, heading towards a tunnel entrance. It was marked by a guardhouse and protected by a steel link fence, barbed wire running over the top of it. The tunnel entrance itself was dark and ominous, and even the orange lighting peeking out from it didn't improve it's disposition.
Misato showed her id to a computer scanner in the empty guardhouse, and the gate opened. She drove into the tunnel, a number of high-security doors made of high-grade steel opening at further checkpoints, her ID badge and retina scan allowing them through most of them.
"Gah... I hate this security," Misato mumbled.
"Why does this tunnel have it then?" Shinji asked. Misato turned and gave him a grave look.
"To keep them from getting out," she said simply. Shinji blinked and was about to ask who she was talking about (or what), when the final security door opened, and sunlight shined through the windshield. Shinji squinted a bit as his eyes adjusted. Two figures emerged, set against a backdrop of a huge internal landscape. Shinji's jaw dropped as he stared ahead of the two armored soldiers.
"Captain Katsuragi, you are cleared to enter," one of the soldiers said, after examining her ID badge. "Fastest way is through District 4."
"I know," Misato said grimly. Once the barricade was lifted, Misato drove forward into the massive cavern. Shinji looked up in awe through the windows, seeing the huge roof of earth above them.
"It's really a Geofront," he said.
"Yeah," Misato said flatly. Shinji lowered his gaze and looked ahead. A huge walled "fortress" lay ahead, one of it's gates the destination of the road. The walls seemed to stretch across a third of the grassland area of the Geofront, in view of a giant pyramid. Security towers lined the wall, heavily armored soldiers with machine guns and searchlights stationed at every one.
"What... What is this place?" Shinji wondered, as the Renault came to a halt outside the main gate.
"It's the Secured Habitation District," Misato said, as the guards on this gate opened it up. She glared ahead as she stepped on the gas, the sports car trundling through the armored doors.
And seemingly into an entirely different world.
Outside, it was pristine grass and wooded areas as far as the eye could see. Within the walls... Shinji had read about third world countries, but he'd never actually been to one. He wondered if he'd just stepped into a nightmare.
Crudely built homes of concrete or welded-together metal lined the road. Armed soldiers patrolled dirt streets, littered with trash. And everywhere, he saw them.
They looked at him as the car passed, through bizarre bony masks, with glowing red eyes. Some were hulking creatures, almost three meters tall, while others were slim, almost skeletal, almost human but... No hair, slitted noses, four eyes... All wearing a bracelet of some sort.
There were smaller versions of the creatures, what Shinji presumed to be children, that seemed to be playing, but fell silent once the car rolled within range. A crystalline-shaped creature, wearing a pink dress that seemed comically out of place, looked at him directly as they went by.
"What... What is...?" Shinji tried, staring in a mix of horror and wonder. Misato's expression was dark.
"They're Angels," she spat. "And their big brother is coming here..."
Shinji's eyes widened as he caught sight of a girl among the crowds of creatures, pale, red eyed and blue haired. She stared at him... And then she was gone.
What have I gotten myself into? Shinji thought, as the Renault rolled on towards Central Dogma in the distance.
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Second Impact didn't just bring one Angel to life-It woke up more. A lot more. An entire race of beings descended from the bigger Adam-descended lifeforms, more like humans in some ways. They were contained in the remnants of the Antarctic continent, before Yui Ikari devised a control collar that neutralized their super human abilities. Later, they were brought to Tokyo-3 and housed in an area known as the "Secured Habitation District" within the Geofront-Little better than a concentration camp.
While they have attempted to keep it a secret, news has leaked out, and the Angels are regarded as "refugees" by some nations of the world, while others feel they are captured combatants. And so they stay within NERV's control, SEELE's own feelings on the matter that they may yet prove useful to their plans.
Yes, inspired by the premise behind District 9. I bring it here to see what you guys can do with it.
