Neon Genesis
EVANGELION
... Ockham's Razor ...

Problem Zero: Yui I was...

"Is it disturbing to be dead. On the other hand, is it so outlandish enough that I still have thoughts, yet no way to tell anyone what they are? Well except for you, the damn voice in my head."

"When I thought up the idea, that sacrifice I made so long ago didn't look like the smartest thing to do. Nevertheless, being a woman of science, I always have plans, and of course, back up plans. Do not forget the stupid sounding plan, that no one picks. Yet, with my brilliance, no one ever expected the stupid plan, nor did they expect it to work."

"This 'stupid plan' started when I felt, I could not trust Gendo anymore; his obsession over me had gone to far. He lost sight of our goals, which of course was, to save the world. Maybe the sex was just that damn good, maybe he needed more friends as a child... Anyhow, he forged an unforgiving doll, in my own image. Flattered that he would even hold his love for me after death, I disliked the idea behind the Rei Experiment. Why didn't I like it? Having a coupe dozen of 'me' running around was freaking me out, that's why. As a mater of fact, this Rei project of Gendo's was more disturbing than Project E."

Sitting, in a small booth in an upscale restaurant, Yui Ikari sits, with a flattering black dress on, and her hair done up, something she never took time to do, since she was four. In front of Yui sits, the young, slapdash, slick and clean cut, Gendo Ikari. Wearing a tuxedo and an ear-to-ear smile, Gendo Ikari sits opposite Yui, his love drenched eyes stared into Yui's. Slowly Gendo's hands grasped Yui's from their place resting on her place mat. He gently pulls her over towards him, both try to close the distance despite the obstacle of the table. With their faces only inches apart a whispering discourse begins. However, the sweet nothings muttered by Gendo turn to matters of business, as is often the case with him. As the talk turns to business, the two turn to their newly arrived dishes.

"I still consider its wrong..." Yui mutters as she holds her wine glass, allowing the wine to spin inside of her cup.

Gendo still holds a smile, as he swallows his food before speaking. "Yui dear, I fear we must have it, as a back up at leas. You may disagree with my solution, however I disagree with yours, but I'm not going to stop you."

Still unsatisfied Yui leans in. "Seriously Gendo, clones... Don't you believe that's kinda immoral?"

"No..." Gendo simply did not see the issue...tools are tools.

With a small frown on her face, Yui thinks about how hypocritical her clone statement was, because she used that very same technology in creating...no cloning the Evangelions. "I still don't like the fact we are going to hide it from Dr Akagi..."

"The less the hag knows, the better..." Gendo nonchalantly takes a sip from his wine, and looks down at his food. "She's only with us, because of her bad fashion sense, and breakthroughs in brain transfer interface systems."

"Oh don't give me that Gendo." Yui smiles as she takes a bite of her gourmet chicken dish, chuckling at Gendo's joke. "I see how she looks at you. She's your biggest fan."

Gendo shakes his head at the joke. "Speaking of fans, I hear you set up a meeting with your good old Fuyutsuki, at twelve tomorrow."

"Will you cut that out..." Yui blushes at the fact that her former teacher has a liking for her. "I have to go over my will and testament, one more time." The thought of what she is going to do, silences them both.

"I was drunk that night, that faithful night when I thought of yet another back up plan. Yes a third backup plan, but the way I see it why the hell not. SEELE is not going to go down easy. Those old fogies, they must of ran out of Viagra when the company was destroyed during Second Impact. So now, they have to get their jollies by destroying the world, couldn't they have taken up fishing. Besides, somehow I knew that my stand would have to be made after my physical life was over. "I honestly should of thought plan three out better, but I also had a little ego layered in with this idea. You see, I used something I was very proud of in plan number three. It was a simple AI program, which was part of my PHD thesis. It wasn't even a good AI, it was made to mimic a cat, and to be able to learn from its environment, I called it "Cat's Cradle."

"The next step in the plan was to abuse Dr. Akagi's pride and joy, the MAJI computers. I'm not one to steal, so I kinda barrowed Naoko Akagi's brain interface system to save my memories in to my AI program. Unknown to her Cat's Cradle was stored deep with in the depths of the MAJI's memory. Which part of the MAJI, the same place that Gendo stored his little Rei Experiment.

Going back to my nerdy high school days of hacking, something girls are never famous for doing, even though we are better at it, I hacked into Gendo's files on the Rei Experiment, and the highly secret room of Gauf. The Room of Gauf intrigued me. I found some images of the horrid place. What I had found was that he had gone through with his cloning project, far faster than I had anticipated. The funding sheets showed that only twenty- four clones were to be created, however the room contained far more than that. I studied all the data I could on the creatures that were contained in the chamber. They were essentially my daughters, that is if I was to be impregnated by an Angel, as they had a hybrid DNA composed of Angel DNA and my own. There was one thing that separated them from me: they lacked a true soul. According to Gendo's research, these...soulless forms hold the keys to the ultimate power, Instrumentality. I knew that they were to use my DNA as it was the only way to ensure their compatibility as pilots, should Dr. Souyu and I fail in our experiment. However, their Soulless and horrid forms shocked me.

"For a scientist I don't see how you can drag your son into this." Kyoto Zeppelin Souyu muttered as she cradled a baby in her arms. Both her and Yui, are sitting next to each other in a park, the lights of Berlin burn around the trees as a cool German fall wind blows through the tall green wood.

"What do you mean Kyoto..." Yui asks using her perfect 'high' German accent, as she holds the fragile body of baby Shinji in her arms. "I think that he should see what kind of future we can bring."

Confidence does not seem to be Kyoto's strong point, as she plays with her daughter's hand, which constantly wants to grasp her fingers. "Say we fail, say we cant return from the solidification, we would be trapped in our own creations, or driven mad by the contact."

With a somber tone, Yui looks over to Kyoto. "It's a risk worth taking, don't you think, Asuka should live in a world, free from the dangers of SEELE."

"Your forgetting about your own theories... are you not, Yui." Kyoto speaks with her eyes glazed ready to cry. "Who do you think they would use for an interface with us once were trapped inside of those things."

"That's why Gendo made the clones..."

"You don't see it..." Kyoto's interruption silences even Yui's thoughts. "Our children make better candidates then those half breeds you made in secret. And I would rather die, then see Asuka be put in one of those monsters."

"We had only met that one time, just once. However, we had reached a turning point in our little conspiracy, a point of no return. Deep down I knew she was right; I knew that my 'first' back up plan was Shinji, my beloved son. How could I look at him, knowing he would once face the very coffin I used to seal my death? Gendo only showed some care for his son's fate, I felt Gendo had invested too much of his efforts in assisting in my eventual suicide, than to the needs of fragile young Shinji. I knew that Shinji would have to one day have to come to grips with the fear, the fear that then gripped me. I could handle it, but could he, or would he crumble in the face of it?"

"This was the final nail in the proverbial coffin that is plan 'Three'. I was to use that which my husband had obsessed so much over, the Rei, to resurrect myself. From this new form I could fight in the stead of my son. Obsessed, I was becoming as obsessed as Gendo, except I had my own secret projects to occupy my time. I thought too much about it, worked too much on it, before my death in the contact experiment. Every night, I would stay up, updating my memories, which would fester in the AI, in my Cats Cradle. Then it seemed like too much, but now I wonder...was it enough?"

"Then I had to give it a activation date, and since I had little information on when the third Angel would come, I had to make my choice wisely. The Angels were capable of causing Instrumentality, in fact it was easier for them, and it would be their choice in the end, not ours. Tokyo 3 was going to be the target of the next Angel, few new what secret was held deep with in the misnomer called the Geo-front. Tokyo 3's true purpose was to prevent the Angles from making contact. Once the Angels made contact, it would be the Angel's choice in the end, not ours. SEELE loved this plan. Not what I would call a great plan, but the best one they could think of at the time. Besides it made SEELE happy, for the reason that once the prophecies came to fruition, the history erase button was covalently packaged in a fortress of steel."

"This meant the only way to know if an Angel was around, would mean the city was under attack. Therefore, I would resurrect the day that the Geo- Front was penetrated by an AT Field. The program would be activated, and be sent to the room of Gauf, were it would hijack one of these clones, to take a human form."

Brilliance does have its limits, as the day came for my resurrection, little did I know that nothing is as simple as it should be, and just maybe...

The easiest way is most likely the right way...

Next problem... Y... forget it, I forgot it...