Ritsuko lifted up a clipboard, flipping thru a few pages before frowning. It had been three days since Ranma defeated the Angel, and like all new employees of NERV he was required to take a Physical and Mental examination. That was where things started to get.. bizarre. Muscle Mass was off the charts for what would be considered the norm for a fully grown adult male, much less a fourteen year old child, but highly compact. Bone Density as hard as Steel, hyper-active metabolism that would make anyone green with envy. He was in short fit as a fiddle and end some. She wasn't even willing to classify him as human anymore, but rather Meta-human, the next great step in human evolution.
While that was disconcerting, especially considering just who is father was, it was the least of her problems at the moment. Brain scans relayed problematic information of its own. Signs of recent Cranial trauma were present, but healing. At first she had theorized the damage itself had come from piloting the Eva, but examining the wounds themselves showed the healing process was already well underwear, which meant the damage happened weeks ago. And then there were his neural kinetics to explain, which were way above normal for an average human, and much to the Commanders aggravation, capable of rendering any and all current attempts to use chemicals to ascertain all of what he knew concerning SEELE and the EVANGELIONS a wasted effort. He was like your perfect spy, you couldn't just force the information out of him, he had to volunteer the information. All of this was just giving her a headache.
Gathering up her clip boards, she turned and headed for the elevator. She had a meeting to attend to.
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"Diagnosis."
"He's in perfect health." Ritsuko explained, "Better then perfect, in fact."
"Yes.." Gendo spared the reports a look over, "I can see that. Explanation?"
"With so little data present, I couldn't even give you a hypothesis." she really didn't like that fact, but she just didn't know enough. "He's far too mature for his age, both in stature and physical prowess, DNA tests conclude that he is your son." she didn't bother listing anything else about the boy's past. She had read the reports, and much like Gendo trashed them all as doctored. There was just no way his son could be a shy, docile, and impressionable child one day, only to become outspoken, physically fit, and rather arrogant the next. "The matter of his true age is highly suspect, he's just too physically mature to even pass it off as a growth spurt, but that's circumstantial evidence at best."
Fuyutsuki frowned, "He's a security threat."
"Yes." Gendo sighed, "That goes with out question. The question now isn't why he's so different, but what to do with him."
Ritsuko was quick to list some options, "We could quarantine him within NERV head quarters indefinitely, however, the problems this could cause would be numerous and damaging if things ever got out of hand."
"He could refuse to pilot the EVANGELIONS, " Fuyutsuki shook his head tiredly, "Not to mention what he could do if he decided to get a little revenge while piloting them."
"I agree." Ritsuko allowed, "But if we don't quarantine him to the installation, we will need to find a place were he can be under constant surveillance, not necessarily with some one in the know, but with some one loyal to NERV."
Gendo frowned, "But who could be trusted with the boy?"
"I have a suggestion." Fuyutsuki spoke up, sparing Gendo a glance, before turning to Ritsuko, "Unless you've come up with one yourself?"
Ritsuko shrugged, "Not really."
"Captain Katsuragi."
Ritsuko blinked, deadpanning. "You can't be serious."
"And why not?" Fuyutsuki raised an eyebrow, "Captain of NERV operations, her own mental evaluations classify her with an obsession against the Angels. She's loyal, and with her military back ground she's bound to attain a measure of control over him sooner or later."
Gendo remained silent, just listening.
"Are we even talking about the same Katsuragi?" Ritsuko snorted, rubbing her head tiredly. "Misato can barely take care of herself, and even that she does poorly. Unless your plan is to have a perpetually drunk Third Child, then I think we should consider other options."
"Dr. Akagi." Gendo looked up at the woman, seriously.
"Commander?"
"I'll let you decide where the child ends up. However.." He left a little warning, "If you fail to find a suitable guardian, you will be chosen by default. Is that understood?" he smirked inwardly at that, still maintaining his cold bastardness on the outside. If he knew the woman, and he'd like to think he did, she would go to any limits to make sure she did not get saddle with this responsibility.
Ritsuko sweat dropped. "I.. see."
Fuyutsuki smirked.
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