Subject: [FFML][EVA][Fanfic][Lime][FinalRevision] Garden of EVA 0:1 - Reality Bites
From: Jim Lazar
Date: 7/22/1998, 9:32 PM
To: FFML
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[EVA][Fanfic][Lime] Garden of EVA 0:1 - Reality Bites

Okay, here's the final draft of Garden of EVA (was Reality Bites) part
1.

It's mostly the same as the last FFML draft, but with some tweeks here
and there (it's Rei's first WEEK at school instead of first day... and I
added some Eva specs at the end. Let me know if you have any problems
with this or the author's ramblings at the end.

Basically I'm sending part 2 next, so I want you to have the latest
draft of part 1 to compare to. Part 3 is half written.

I also put a lime warning in the title...since I think there is enough
sex and bad language to warrant it in this series.

Enjoy.
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Garden of EVA 0:1 - Reality Bites

Neon Genesis Evangelion characters and situations created and Copyright
by Gainax, Project Eva, ADV Films - Used without permission

Garden of EVA series created, written, and Copyright 1998 by Jim Lazar

A biting series set within episode 26 of Neon Genesis Evangelion
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Spoiler warning: This story contains references to episode 26 of the
Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series. If you have not seen that episode,
this story may contain spoilers and/or spoiled food. Also, some
understanding of that episode is useful to fully enjoy this story. This
story has no connection with any of the Eva movies (mostly because I
have not seen any of the movies).
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Naughty words warning: There be some bad words in this here story.
Rather than bleep them out or tone them down, I'm just warning you.
Live with it.
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Naked people warning: There be some naked people in this story. Unlike
the Eva anime, they do have nipples and other bits. Of course, you have
to use your imagination to see them anyway.
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Sex warning: No sex to speak of in this story. Well, some talk of sex,
but no actual sex acts. Well, that depends on your definition of sex
acts, I guess.
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Warning warning: There are no more warnings in this story.
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     "Unit 01, Angel at 9 o'clock."

     "I've got it. Asuka, take the Angel on your right. I'll take this
new one," Shinji called out. He quickly adjusted his Eva's controls and
his Eva Unit 01 lumbered to engage the new threat.

     "Who put you in command?!" an angry female voice replied over the
intercom.

     Shinji sighed. It was like this every time they piloted the Evas.
"Just do it, you're closer to that one!" Shinji yelled back.

     "Jackass," Asuka replied. Then her Eva Unit 02 launched a volley
of high-powered bullets at her target.

     "You'd be better off using hand to hand with that Angel," a calm
female voice informed Asuka.

     "When I want your advice, I'll ask for it!"

     Shinji was wrestling with an Angel that was twice the size of his
Eva. He tried to get his progressive knife into the Angel's core, but
it kept moving around the body to avoid the knife.

     "Damn it!" Shinji cursed as an explosion rocked his entry plug. He
turned his Eva's head to find the source. It was Unit 00. "Rei!"

     "I am undamaged," Rei replied.

     Shinji returned to trying to kill his Angel. He grinned as he
finally found the core with his blade. The Angel exploded underneath
him and sent him flying backward to land on top of Eva Unit 02.

     "Get off of me, Shinji!" Asuka called.

     "I'm not doing this because I like you!" Shinji screamed back. He
tried to move his Eva off Eva Unit 02, but the Angel Asuka was fighting
had wrapped an elastic arm around both of them.

     "Hey look! Shinji and Asuka are doing it!" Touji called out.

     "Pervert! Just fight your own Angel and leave the lovebirds
alone!" Hikari scolded Touji.

     "We are not! Our Eva's are just tangled up!" Asuka insisted.

     "Very well, I'll take care of this," Rei said.

     Soon, Eva Unit 00 deftly destroyed the Angel holding Units 01 and
02 in their doggy style position. As the Angel exploded, the three Eva
units were blasted in all directions.

     Touji was chasing a glowing Angel through the streets of Tokyo-3
in his Eva Unit 03 and used his Eva's flexible arms to strangle the
glowing Angel in front of him. With a sickening sucking sound, the
Angel's head popped off and a bloody mess fell to the ground. "Cool!"
Touji exclaimed.

     "Oh, that's just sick," Hikari said, holding back her lunch. She
then pivoted her Eva Unit 06 quickly to dodge the Angel who was rushing
at her back. With a graceful sweep of her long progressive sword, she
cut the Angel in half. She smirked. Poetry in motion was the best way
to deal with Angels.

     "Nice form, Hikari," Kensuke called out, just as he used his Eva
Unit 05 to toss an Angel into an energy barrier that the ground forces
had erected nearby. The Angel exploded along with a chorus of song.

     "Hey! Quit hitting on my babe!" Touji snapped.

     "I'm not a babe! You Neanderthal!"

     Shinji had gotten his Eva Unit 01 back to it's feet and was
scanning for an Angel to attack. He spotted one advancing on the group
of Evas from his left; he raced off towards it. "Die!" he screamed, as
he grabbed a huge rifle from a nearby ammunition building. He swung the
rifle up and blasted the Angel repeatedly. The Angel's advance was
slowed by his shots, but not stopped.

     Suddenly, Eva Unit 00 was in front of Shinji. It was facing him
and appeared to be grinning, but that couldn't be. Shinji was so
surprised at it's appearance that he didn't even get an arm up to block
the knife that Unit 00 thrust deep into his Eva's head. The knife
sliced through the armor of Unit 01's head and projected out the back.
A dark red liquid oozed out. Shinji saw Unit 00 start to pull Unit 01's
arm off before his controls all went dead and he was left in darkness.

     "Damn it! Why did you do that, Rei?!" Shinji shouted, but got no
response since his systems were all dead.

     After he had run through every swear word he knew, and some that
he just made up, his entry plug opened up. Shinji crawled out. Rei was
standing over him in her school uniform. Rei grinned and put her hand
on her hips. "That's for looking at my panties after school," Rei said,
then added, "Not to mention on my first day of school, too!!!"

     "That was an accident!" Shinji insisted.

     "Yeah, right. Hikari filled me in on you and the rest of the Idiot
Trio," Rei said. "And how in the hell is flipping my skirt up after
school an accident?"

     "Fine then. If all it cost me was losing a dumb VR game, it was
worth it for a peek at your panties!" Shinji snapped back at Rei,
grinning. "A nice pink lace, with little hearts on them...if I remember
correctly."

     Rei blushed. He had gotten a good look at them after all. "That's
the last time you'll ever see them! Pervert!" Rei informed Shinji and
stormed out of the game area.

     Shinji watched her leave, then was joined by Touji and Kensuke.
"Oh yeah...she has the love jones for me," Shinji said.

     "She hides it well," Kensuke said, smirking.

     "So, Shinji...what was it like to hump Asuka?" Touji asked.

     "Huh? Oh...that was nothing."

     "Tell me about it... I didn't even feel it," Asuka said, as she
walked up behind the Idiot Trio. "But since I have seen you naked it
actually was pretty realistic." She smiled at Shinji and made her exit.

     "Hey! It was cold this morning!" Shinji shouted at her back.
"Bitch," he muttered.

     "Okay you three morons! Get out of the game area and we can see
how pitifully you did," Hikari commanded, then herded them out. The
next group of Eva pilots crawled into the game entry plugs.

                    -E-           -V-           -A-

     They all sat in the food court at the shopping center where the
Evangelion game center was. "That was a fun game, until Rei killed me,"
Shinji remarked, glaring at Rei.

     Rei stuck her tongue out at Shinji, then leaned in to take a sip
of her drink. She winced in pain as the straw jabbed into her still
extended tongue. She gasped, then rubbed her hurt tongue.

     The gang all started to chuckle. "Hey, Shinji! Why don't you kiss
Rei's tongue to make it feel better!" Touji said, pushing Shinji closer
to Rei.

     "Hey! Cut that out!" Shinji exclaimed, taking a lingering look at
Rei.

     "If only those Eva units were real. It'd be really cool to pilot
them," Kensuke said, examining a schematic book of the game Evas.

     "I guess, but Shinji would want his to be anatomically correct,"
Asuka remarked.

     "I already said that was an accident!" Shinji insisted.

     "Shinji loves Asuka. Shinji loves Asuka!" Touji and Kensuke
taunted.

     "Cut that out!" Shinji yelled.

     Ignoring the three stooges, Hikari examined their scorecards.
"Looks like Rei beat us all on points scored."

     "How the fuck did she do that?" Asuka screamed, pounding the
table.

     "Well, she got a big bonus for killing Shinji," Hikari explained,
pointing to the scorecard.

     "Well, that's easy enough to emulate," Asuka remarked, grinning at
Shinji.
 
     "Damn. No fair ganging up on me! Asuka, you're just mad because
you're not number one anymore!" Shinji exclaimed.

     "Well, we'll see how 'Wondergirl' does in tomorrow's game."

     "Tomorrow?" Rei asked.

     "Well, can't beat me and then not give me a rematch. Can you?"
Asuka asked, then smiled at Rei.

     "You're on, Asuka," Rei replied, then added, "We can take turns
killing Shinji."

     Shinji grew pale.

     Kensuke looked up from the blueprints, adjusted his glasses, and
said, "Maybe I'll use Unit 01 tomorrow. It seems to respond a little
quicker than the later models.

     Shinji yelled, "No! I always use Unit 01!"

     "He's so set in his ways, isn't he?" Rei asked Asuka.

     "Yeah, but if you hit him hard enough he bends," Asuka quipped.
Asuka slurped down some sort of gelatinous food, then asked, "Rei...how
did you know about Unit 00, anyway? It's not listed in any of the Eva
books."

     "Oh...I used to play Eva down in Osaka-2. One of the Eva-heads
down there discovered the secret prototype Eva in the program," Rei
explained, awkwardly.

     "Is that how you found out how to override the lockout on killing
your teammates?" Touji asked.

     "Yup. Just wait till you see what I show you tomorrow," Rei said,
smiling knowingly.

                    -E-           -V-           -A-

     The gang walked home from the mall, Rei and Hikari brought up the
rear. "So...is Asuka really Shinji's girlfriend?" Rei asked Hikari,
softly.

     Hikari replied, "Not that I know of. They just grew up together."

     Upon hearing this, a small smile crossed Rei's face. She watched
the cute butts in front of her as she walked. She wore a large smile by
the time she got home.

     "I'm home!" Rei called out as she walked in her front door.

     "Welcome home, Sis!" Ritsuko replied. "Mom's still at her new job,
so it's microwave lasagna again."

     "Can't you just nuke a different instant meal for once, Big
sister?" Rei called back, as she pulled her school uniform off.

     "No," Ritsuko replied, poking her head into Rei's room. "How was
your first week at the new school?"

     "Not bad. I met some kids...they are a little strange, but
nice...I guess," Rei said.

     "Any cute boys?"

     "Err...maybe," Rei replied, blushing.

     Ritsuko smiled. "What's his name?"

     "No, it's not that...honestly," Rei insisted.

     "Right," Ritsuko replied, unconvinced. "What did you do after
school?"

     "Me and the gang went and played Neon Genesis Evangelion at the
mall."

     Ritsuko raised an eyebrow and smiled. "Already 'The Gang', huh?
Did you tell them that your mother designed that game and you probably
have more hours in the entry plug than anyone else in the world?"

     "No, it didn't come up." Rei grinned, mischievously.

                    -E-           -V-           -A-

     "I'm home!" Shinji called as he walked into his family's
apartment.

     "Welcome home, Shinji!" his mom called back.

     Shinji tossed his books into his room, went to the kitchen, and
rummaged through the refrigerator.

     "Shinji, don't spoil your appetite. Dinner is in an hour," his
mother informed him.

     "Okay, Mom," Shinji replied, but kept looking through the
refrigerator. "Nag, nag, nag," he muttered, as he pulled out a can of
soda out and a leftover pork bun.

     He inhaled the pork bun, then thought that he should have nuked it
first. He chugged down the soda on his way to the bathroom. He washed
up and then sank his body into the tub.

     He sat silently with his eyes closed.

     "Is this really the world you want?" a female voice said.

     Shinji opened his eyes and saw Rei standing over him. Naked.

     "Rei!" Shinji gasped, then tried to cover himself. Then he
realized that he wasn't in the bathroom anymore, although he was still
naked. "What's going on?" he asked, as he rose to his feet and scanned
the large empty theater he found himself in.

     "Your dream world isn't perfect," another female voice said,
behind him.

     Shinji looked back at Asuka, who was also naked. She hadn't been
there when he looked around the room a few seconds earlier. "Asuka?
But...my mom is alive and I don't have to see my friends die and don't
have to pilot a real Eva and I don't have to kill and even my dad seems
human. It seems perfect to me."

     Rei said softly, "There is no perfect world. You created this
world with what you considered a set of perfect conditions."

     "But after that initial starting point everything will start
changing as people interact with each other," Misato said, from
Shinji's left.

     Rei added, "No person is an island."

     Shinji looked at Misato and wasn't too surprised that she was also
naked. "Seems okay to me so far."

     "But, it's not real," Asuka said.

     "Reality bites! I'll take this...no...I'll take *MY* world any
day!" Shinji exclaimed.

     All three of the women faded out saying, "We'll see."

     Shinji awoke from the dream he was having about the new girl. "Rei
has a naughty side, apparently." He grinned, as he remembered the
whipped cream all over her body.

     "Shinji, dinner!" his mom called from outside the bathroom.

     "Coming!" Shinji replied, then got up and dressed.
 

[End - Garden of EVA 0:1]
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Neon Genesis Evangelion
Virtual Reality Experience Simulator (VRES)
Game Evangelion Data

Eva Unit 00 - Prototype/Modified Model
    (disabled on commercial game systems)
Color:                     Blue
Design date:               June 16, 2014
Eye configuration:         One
Armor:                     Dual-polymer titanium (38 metric tons)
Built-in weapons:          (2) Progressive knives in shoulder holsters
Usable weapons:            All type 1, 2, and 3 manual weapons
AT field generator power:  135x2
Response time delay:       30 milliseconds
Power supply:              600 seconds run time, average usage
Special equipment:         Mono sighting scope, for long range
                               targeting
                           Invincible mode for debugging purposes

Eva Unit 01 - Testtype/Modified Model
Color:                     Purple
Design date:               July 12, 2014
Eye configuration:         Two
Armor:                     Dual-polymer titanium (44 metric tons)
Built-in weapons:          (2) Progressive knifes in shoulder holsters
                           (1) Head horn can be removed and used as
                               sword or spear
Usable weapons:            All type 1, 2, and 3 manual weapons
AT field generator power:  145x2
Response time delay:       21 milliseconds
Power supply:              600 seconds run time, average usage
Special equipment:         Invincible mode for debugging purposes
                               (disabled on commercial game systems)

Eva Unit 02 - Production Model
Color:                     Red
Design date:               September 1, 2014
Eye configuration:         Four
Armor:                     Tri-polymer titanium (48 metric tons)
Built-in weapons:          (2) Progressive knifes in shoulder holsters
Usable weapons:            All type 1, 2, 3, and 4 manual weapons
AT field generator power:  130x2
Response time delay:       42 milliseconds
Power supply:              600 seconds run time, average usage
Special equipment:         Two mouths with razor sharp fangs
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Email me at:  mailto:jimlazar@earthlink.net  with comments, criticisms,
or if you want to join my pre-reader list.

http://home.earthlink.net/~jimlazar/anime
 

Author's notes/ramblings:

In the beginning, there was darkness. Then the author pressed the
fast-forward button on his remote control and fast-forwarding past the
devilish commercials at the beginning of the thirteenth Neon Genesis
Evangelion videotape. And the author beheld what the creators were
working up to for the past 24 episodes.

And the author was confused. Therefore, the author watched the tape
once again. And, alas, the author was still confused.

However, on the third viewing the author latched onto a brief
five-minute piece of inspiration. The author tried to sleep as an idea
for a twisted fanfic floated in his head.

The next morning, the author mumbled something about why didn't they
end the story with the alternate world. He then realized that would
have been a major cop out on the creators' part. Then with a burst of
light and angelic music, he realized that what was fanfic authors were
for. To cop out. Or cop a feel.

Divinely inspired, our noble and handsome fanfic author put data to
disk. He composed a short 8k story based on the aforementioned five
minutes of episode 26. A scant hour and a half later, the story was
sent to the FFML. The author jumped in his jeep and drove to the coast
to get some sun.

Two sunburned legs later, the author returned to find his holy mailbox
was full.

And it was good.

But how to expand on this story, for it had no angst. It was a
14-year-old boy's perfect world. The author pondered for two sunsets
and two more viewings, then arrived at the solution.

Our saintly author put more data to disk and rewrote the story to
provide for more action, more bad language, more nudity, and tossed in
a dream that set the tone for the series. Angst this.

The pre-readers and FFML agreed. Mostly.

And thus a new series joined the busy author's masterpiece, Childhood
of a Modern Dynasty. <--blatant plug.

And it was good. <--blatant ego trip

And then the author changed the title of the series from 'Reality
Bites' to 'Garden of EVA'.

This Bites.

No, that is the name of the next part. This part is called Reality
Bites.

Stop before your ramblings are larger than the story.

Yes, Rei.

                    -E-           -V-           -A-

Unlike my big series, Childhood of a Modern Dynasty, this one isn't as
tightly plotted, but I do have an mental image of where this series
will lead. I just don't know how long it'll take me to get there and
how many parts it will be (much the same as CMD). This series will be
in small parts (between 15k and 20k). I can't handle another big series
of 60k to 100k chapters right now. Besides, the small parts for this
series seems to work well (of course I've only done two parts as of
this writing, so who knows). The up side is that I'll probably have
more parts in a shorter time span.

Sorry (sort of) about the language in this series, but it is keeping
with the five minute alternate world Shinji envisioned in episode 26.
Considering that world is based on a 14-year-olds idea of an ideal
world, it's understandable they would all have potty mouths and raging
hormones.

The specifications for the game Evas are similar to the real Evas, but
not exactly the same. More specifications will appear in the next part.

I'd like to thank all the FFML members who commented on the rough
drafts and also my pre-readers: Ryan Erik, David Johnson, Nlson31, and
Antookis. Of course in the end, any mistakes and botched characters are
my fault.
 

Revision 0.2
July 22, 1998

Revision 0.0 - Initial draft/FFML feedback piece
Revision 0.1 - Pre-reader/FFML draft (highly revised from initial
piece)
Revision 0.2 - Final draft (hopefully)

--
Jim Lazar

E-Mail - mailto:jimlazar@earthlink.net
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