Terrible Father Quest (Evangelion)

[1] Mari Makinami
[8] Mari Makinami
- [8] move her in with Shinji and Rei.
[1] Asuka
[3] Asuka Langley Sohru
-[1] She can share room with Shinji, make it clear she can not share with Rei.
[6] You know what? You have an opportunity to show yourself off as being 'Generous' and 'Transparent' in your activities, here. Cut a deal to let them both in. Another Eva pilot and if whatever Makinami is related to falls through, a back-up pilot, just in case. Reserve pilots and back-up plans are good to have... though, you have to wonder if any of the Evas will take a shine to her.
-[6] They'll be living in the same building, of course. Sharing an apartment. You think... there will be an error with the water heating. The faucets and showers will only run cold.

[1] Have the Evas pin down the Angel with Pallet rifles and use their AT feilds to render the core open to an Airstrike.
[8] The airstrike is only useful if the Evas are neutralizing the Angel's AT field, so hold the JSSDF back at least until that much.
-[8] Have the Evas flank (come at it from two different directions) and move to melee at mostly the same time. Only use the airstrike if they need cover to pull back, or if an extremely good shot presents itself.
-[8] Don't rely much on the pallet rifles.
-[7] If necessary, motivate Shinji with a "I have faith in you Son." Line.
[6] Angels generate a biological force field, that can only be jammed and disrupted by the Evas. Make this clear. As such, the initial plan of assault is to lock down the Angel's position, disrupt its AT field, and then deploy the air strike, targeting the Angel's Core. If successful, this should in theory neatly destroy the Core and eliminate the Angel. .... If unsuccessful, then Plan B is for the Evangelions to stab it to death with giant knives. Ideally, this won't be required. Make no comment on any Plan C's.


“Deploy Unit 00 and Unit 01 on opposite sides of the fourth angel.” You say, and the orders are relayed as the pilots get into their entry plugs. “Operations Director- be sure to take advantage of outnumbering the enemy. You have permission to allow the JSSDF to make an attack with their jets, once the AT field is neutralized.”

You snag a passing lab tech and take his microphone, dialling the number into the base that, combined with today’s date, patches you into the pilots’ network, but you don’t say anything.

The scenario is ruined, but you still have a plan.



When the Evangelions are deployed, they’re at wide angles to each other and the angel, freeing both of them to open fire as soon as they snatch a pallet rifle, Rei with disciplined bursts and your son with . . .

Well, at least he knows how to reload.

The angel’s advance stalls under the dual hails of fire, and for a moment it looks like the pilots are close enough to scramble its AT field, but after half a minute, the tentacles hanging from it’s stumpy arms glow brightly, and a lab tech screams-

“Code blue intensifying! It’s using its AT field!”

You bark into your pilfered mic. “Block with the rifle!” And Shinji throws his pallet riffle up just in time for the energy whip to hack into it, rather than his Evangelion. Rei takes a measured step backwards, but Unit 00 is unable to move as smoothly, and its arm is snared as the whip coils around it. “Ah.” She exhales, but brings the rifle around in her other hand to try to shoot the tentacle out.

Shinji whips around. “Rei!”

No use! The bullets vaporize as soon as they touch it.

Wait- That means. . .

Misato realizes it an instant before you. “It’s focussing its AT field on overwhelming Rei’s! Generals, we need that air strike now!”

Six streaks of fire and steel slam home almost simultaneously on the angel’s back, missing its core but sending it reeling.

Shinji lunges in, knife held high and a wordless scream echoing through the comms.

The progressive knife cuts the core all the way through, and Rei goes silent.

“Rei, are you all right?”

“I am. . fine. Are . . . you?”

You set the microphone down and sigh in relief. That was close. Those whips had cut right through your pilots’ AT fields. If either one had been deployed alone, you might not have been able to kill it so cleanly. As it is, all you need to do is put up with some more military swagger and repair some armor plating on Unit 00’s arm. And as a bonus, your son manned up enough to jump a on a giant phallic angel to save a girl.

You nod to the Operations Director as Unit 00’s timer runs out, and she tells Shinji to pick it up and bring it back down with him, and then you leave.

As you re-enter your office you dial your UN contact again. “I’m sorry. Something came up, but it wasn’t a threat. Now I have an idea that will get us both what we want. . .”

Two days later Mari Makinari, the Americans’ Evangelion pilot, arrives in Tokyo III. You don’t go to meet her yourself of course, that would tell her that she’s important, but from the deerstalker cap on her head and the magnifying glass she insists on looking back at the surveillance cameras with, you understand that she’s already been contacted by the U.N. to ‘spy’ on you.

You watch as Misato talks to her, and the backup pilot visibly brightens as she hears what the older woman has to say, though. . . there’s something odd about that child.

You’re reminded of a student intern from your days just starting at Gehirn. Smart, opinionated, and probably related to one of SEELE’s members.

Section two answers on the first ring. “Bring miss Makinari’s things to the pilots’ room. She’ll be staying with the others.”

It’s Wednesday, and since neither of the pilots suffered any major injury your ‘family night’ is still on. It used to be more of a family night, just you, your son, and the clone of your wife, but now there’s a new addition to the mix.

One that actually talks during meals, and assigns everyone her age nicknames.

“So I was wondering, who cooked this? Because this is some seriously good stuff here.” Mari says around a mouthful of salmon. “It wasn’t you, was it Blue? I swear I’d offer to eat fish every night if I got food this good!”

Shinji doesn’t get it, but Rei blushes. What has that girl been reading these past few weeks?

Neither of them seems to want to speak up though, and you’ve just had an idea.

A wonderful idea, that leaves taking away a few doors in the dust.

“My son cooked this.” You say.

What’s your idea?
[] “And you can have him if you want him.”
[] “But you have to ask Rei first. She has a claim already.”
[] “But you have to earn him, first.”
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