Oculus Arescente

The Acme warhouse, it is a simple one at that. Located in the middle of California, it prides itself on the proud tradition of storing many hilarious treasures, but most importantly it also contains behind it the home of Toons called Toontown. The factory is ran by the grandson of Marvin Acme named Charles Acme who is taller than two of the Three Stooges, but shorter than one of them. For years the factory has been peaceful and sound, with no conflict actual conflict. That is where Shinji Ikari comes in...

In a dark room inside of the Acme factory, Charles in a white business suit and sun-glasses takes out a cigar and lights it up. He sits back on his chair just relaxing as he putes his arm under his head to rest on. Before he can fully relax though, his secretary bursts through the door. "Sir we have someone who said he wants to talk to you," he said, "Should we send him away?"

Charles sits back up and shakes his head. He gesteres him to let the visitor speak with him and it turns out to be a fourteen year old kid wearing casual clothes with brown hair. "Hello Charles Acme," he says, "My name is Shinji Ikari. Famous lead actor of Neon Genesis Evangelion and all around spectacular guy."

Charles doesn't respond to Shinji yet and gestures him to continue. "I'm fine and all," Shinji says, "Um, I come from a special group of Toons called Anime. We were created in Japan and like the Toons in Hollywood, we too act in shows and movies overseas. I don't want to brag, but we're pretty succesful."

Charles keeps staring at him waiting to see if he's done. Shinji feels a little stress from this, but continues talking anyways. "I can see that you inherited your grandfathers property," he says, "You must be very proud. However if I might be a little critical, well this warehouse is not really big and you're not very big."

Charles still listens to Shinji talk with no change of expression. "So in otherwords, I am going to invade your warehouse," he says, "My group is going to come to California, enter your warehouse, and take it over as our own. Now don't try to resist or fight back, my group is large and indestructible, while you are just well, one guy. So I'll give you a chance to make it easy by just letting me have the Will to Toontown and we will not invade your work place, deal?"

Charles doesn't say a word as he lightly pushes Shinji out of his room with the secretary grabbing his shrit to escort him out of the warehouse. Shinji backs away from the secretary and walks out of the place by himself. "Why do people always want to do this the hard way?"

Afew hours later, Shinji is seen sitting before a laptop in an apartment. He opens up the website to the Acme warehouse as he scrolls down the page. 'Acme Warehouse. The gate to Toontown and my ultimate achievement.' He then picks up a phone besides him on a table and calls Stocking Anarchy.

Stocking at her home picks up her phone and answers it. "Hello," she says,

Shinji smiles and says "It's time." He then hangs up and calls many others saying the same phrase to L, Conan Edogawa, Kamina, and many others before hanging up on one last member he could find. Shinji confidently puts his phone away, but then it rings and he answers it. "Hello" he says.

"I'm sorry to disrupt you on short notice," L says, "But what do you mean when you said it's time? I mean you just told me 'it's time' like I'm supposed to know what that means."

Shinji is shock by this. "Get on the band-wagon L" he says, "It's the takeover of the Acme warehouse, oh wait just a minute I got another call." He hangs up and takes the second call, which is from Stocking.

"Um yeah what do you mean by it's time?" she says.

"You don't know?," Shinji says.

"Yeah, I'm a little stuck on that," Stocking says.

"It doesn't matter right now," Shinji says, "Just meet me at- oh wait a minute I got another call."

He then takes the other call which is from Kamina. "Well Shinji I think it's 2:22 PM," Kamina says.

Shinji is a little confuse by this. "I thought you were wondering what time it was." Kamina says.

"No I'm telling you it is time!" Shinji says.

"That's right," Kamina says, "And I'm saying that it's 2:22 PM."

"No I mean-" Shinji says, "Wait just a minute, I got another call."

Then he takes the other call from Vash the Stampede. "I am right behind you 110% Shinji," he says, "Any Chick-Felae refusing to serve us on Sundays, will be blown sky high!" He then laughs manaically.

"Wait what are you talking about," Shinji says.

"Well what are you talking about," Vash says.

"The invasion of the Acme warehouse." Shinji says.

"What's an Acme?" Vash says, "Is that something you get on your face?"

"I- Hold on, I'll get back to you." Shinji says. He then takes a call from Conan.

"Alright my clock says 2:24," Conan says, "But I think Kamina has a more accurate time."

"Hold on just a moment." Shinji says. He hangs up, but it is still on Conans line.

"It's still me Shinji." he says.

"Sorry about that." Shinji says. He then calls back Stocking.

"Um, hi I'm still confused here." she says.

"Look it's hard to explain," Shinji says, "Just meet me at the Acme warehouse in California."

"Okay, I'll just walk over to California." Stocking says.

"I'll fly you there." Shinji says.

"When will you?" Stocking says.

"I don't know," Shinji says, "I can barely keep track of who I'm talking to. Oh that reminds me, I need to call Rei for a moment." He hangs up, but then gets a call from Kamina again.

"Now it's 2:23 PM." he says.

"Go away," Shinji says, he hangs up and calls Guts. "Hey Guts, are you there?"

"I don't know how I have a phone," Guts says, "But what do you want?"

"Any reason you have Rei's number?" Shinji says.

"Why don't you know her number in the first place?" Guts says.

"Just give me the number already." Shinji says.

Afew seconds later he calls Rei, but then he encounter her answering machine. In the background a theme is playing with Rei singing in a monotone over it. "Believe it or not, I am not at home," Rei's answering machine says, "Leave a message at the beep."

"Damn it," Shinji says, he then hangs up, "Let's see if the other Rei could help out." So he enters the numbers and calls Rei Hino.

"Hello," she says, "Hino's residence speaking."

"Rei, it's time." Shinji says.

"It is?" Rei says.

"Yes, we are taking over the Acme warehouse!" Shinji says.

"We're taking over the Acme warehouse?" Rei says.

"I know right," Shinji says, "So get your stuff together and head over to-"

"Oh by the way, this has been an answering machine the whole time," she says, "Leave your message after the beep." Afterwords it beeps.

He sits there with a confuse look on his face for afew seconds before calling up Hatsune Miku. "Hatsune, I need your help," Shinji says, "We are going to take over the Acme warehouse."

"Oh sorry Shinji I'm a little busy," she says, "I got to promote some things so I will not have enough time and my manager is getting kind of rude."

"Oh come on it's just a little skin." the manager says.

"Hold on, another call." Shinji says, he hangs up and then calls Kamina again.

"2:24 PM" he says.

"Alright, I'm putting everybody on speaker," Shinji says, "Can you all hear me now?"

Everyone responds yes after he put the speaker on.

"Look, we are taking over the Acme warehouse," Shinji says, "I'm flying you all out to California so we can prepare for the invasion."

"And where are we all going to stay?" Vash says.

"It's okay," Shinji says, "I booked a hotel for everyone."

A day or two later, the group stays in one hotel room, crammed together. "Well gee, I didn't see that one coming." L says.

The people in the room includes Tamama a frog-like alien, Alphonse Elric a mechanical robot-looking figure and his human brother Edward, Conan Edogawa, Ash Ketchem, Guts, Kamina, Mamoru Chiba, Stocking Anarchy, Homura Akemi, Mashiro Kuno, San, Tetsuo, Krillin, and L. "Oh man I am so excited," he says to Alphonse Elric sitting next to him, "Are you excited? Because I'm excited!"

Alphonse looks annoyed, or as much as he can having a still face. Even Conan looks stress-out by this. "I can't believe he dragged us here to California." Conan says.

"Tell me about it," Ash says, "I could be selling dangerous miniture Pokeballs at Burger King right now."

Guts sitting next to Kamina sees a purple bottle that he's holding. "Hey I think that bottle looks familiar," Guts says, "Doesn't that have that doctor Tomoe guy in there?"

"How did you know Tomoe is in there?" Kamina says.

"Yeah I remeber when he commited that one crime." Guts says.

"you know I don't want to recall that incident," Kamina says, "So I'm just going to forget you just said that."

"No I remember it," Guts says, "He actually-"

Kamina snaps towards him. "No, I mean yeah that happened, but let's just forget about it. That was the past." Kamina then dramatically looks up to the sky as he remembers that incident.

Guts decides to just let it go. Homura Akemi and Mashiro Kuno look at each other. "So who are you supposed to be," Homura says, "Are you like some Power Ranger or something."

Mashiro then looks at her body for a second and then looks at Homura's. "Something doesn't seem right about this," she says "...Did you get a new haircut?"

Outside of the hotel room, Shinji contemplates about somethings. "Okay I got them all under the same roof," he says, "Now to be brave and Tell them my plan." He inhales and exhales heavily for a second. "Okay I musn't run away." He then smiles and walks in through the door. "Alright, is everybody here?"

"It better be," Homura says, "We can't fit anymore people in this room."

Tetsuo then realizes something. "Hey wait a minute," he says, "Where's Edward?"

Krillen looks at what Tetsuo is sitting on. "I think you're sitting on him dude." he says.

Tetsuo looks below to see that Krillen is right. "It's okay," Edward says, "I didn't want to stand anyway."

"Okat everyone, we are going to do the most dangerous thing we have ever done before," Shinji says, "We are going to takeover the Acme warehouse!"

"Why?" San says.

"What?" Shinji says.

"Well why are we invading the Acme warehouse," San says, "Isn't it just a warehouse filled with gag toys and the like?"

"San do you actually think that everyone else is asking-" Shinji says.

He gets interrupted by the others who all at once ask why. "Alright just listen," Shinji says, "Look the fact is that we don't get as much praise as we usually get in the U.S. I mean have you ever wondered what it's like to have your own town?"

"Well actually..." Mamoru says.

"Listen guys," Shinji says, "This is a once in a lifetime oppurtunity. Just behind the walls of the warehouse is Toontown, which we will take over once we get the warehouse."

"The wall is made of steel that no Toon could break through," Conan says, "Even if we get through to Toontown, what will we use to take over it? All we will have is a warehouse of jokes and gag toys. What can we do with a warehouse of toys?"

"What can't we do with a warehouse!?" Shinji says.

Tamama in his dorkiness says "Woah"

"I swear to you guys," Shinji says, "Once we capture Acme, we will grow throughout the states and blossom into the ultimate power house!"

"Oh yeah," Conan says, "If there is anyone that can lead a bunch of people, it's Shinji Ikari, the 'I musn't run away kid.'"

The other members snicker with Shinji clenching his fist angrily. He does however calm down to talk back to Conan. "You know there is another group of people like you Conan," Shinji says, "I think they were called Nazis! They were hateful people who just wanted everything their way, are you a Nazi Conan?"

"No" Conan says.

"Are you a Nazi Conan?" Shinji says.

"I'm not a Nazi," Conan says.

"Because I don't want any Nazis in my plan!" Shinji says.

"No I'm not a Nazi," Conan says, he looks around to see the others looking at him, "I'm not, I'm not a Nazi!"

Shinji calms down a little bit. "Good, because we are not Nazis," he says, "We are Samurai warriors like our ancestors before us."

The others suddenly start listening to him. "You remember the Satsuma Rebellion, everyone thought they were crazy," Shinji says, "But you know what? They've gotten far haven't they, because they were dedicated!"

The others agree as they all give out a "Yeah!"

"That's right everyone," Shinji says, "They were strong!"

Another hooray from the group as Shinji continues his speech. "Some say that they were crazy." he says.

The group were indecisive on that line, but Shinji continues. "Well everyone else thinks that we are crazy," he says, "So in the end that gives us a bigger advantage!"

The group lets out another hooray. "First we will take the Acme warehouse," he says, "Then the company, then Toontown. Until we got enough power to take over California and soon the U.S. then we go global! First we do Mexico, then Germany, then France, and everyone else who stands in our way, and then..."

"The Moon," Mamoru says.

"Before that" Shinji says.

"The world?" Mamoru says.

"The world! And don't let anybody tell you that you can't do it," Shinji says, "So everyone, what are you? A Nazi or Samurai!?"

The group cheers loudly, motivated by his speech. Even Tamama cries out of pride and total respect. In the midst of this, Shinji confronts Stocking. "Now as the future Prime Minister of this world, I need someone to take over afterwords." Shinji says, "You are the only one who can keep this nation alive. I mean you do work under the same company that I do. Interested?"

"Um I don't know Shinji," Stocking says, "I was kind of hoping for being a Prime Minister."

"Well I think I can work you into a cabinet," Shinji says.

"Okay then," Stocking says.

Shinji then faces everybody. "Alright everybody," he says, "Let's go kick some Acme ass!"

All of them run out of the hotel room, cheering and yelling with Edward closing the door behind them.

Back at the Acme warehouse, Charles seems to be discussing with someone over his office table. "Alright Chuckster D. Jonas, a kid named Shinji says that he is a Japanese Toon who wants our warehouse," he says, "He plans on doing that through force. What would be your suggestion?" It turns out however that he is really talking to noone in then goes into the closet, changes into a grayish business suit and a mustache, and then goes to the other side of the table. "I think we should pay attention to any visitor that comes around," he says, "But we shouldn't worry too much about that." He then goes back to the closet to change back into his white business suit and sits back before the table. "Okay"

A couple of steps outside of the factory, Shinji and the others dramatically walks towards it. Most of them seem pretty serious about this matter, except for Tamama who is very excited about it. "Oh man, we're going to beat them aren't we," he says, "We're going to annihilate them?"

"Yes Tamama," Shinji says, "But save your energy. You're going to need it when we get to the pointless torture."

Tamama rubs his hands together in delight. Inside of the office, Charles begins to relax on his chair, but then his secretary barges in. "Sir, a couple of Toons are marching over to the warehouse," he says, "What should we do about it?"

Charles gets off of the chair and walks out of the office without saying a word to the secretary. He finds an object covered by a cloth and pulls it outside. He sees the Anime Toons marching towards him. "Wow, he looks so much smaller than I thought he would be." Edward says.

"That's because you're far away from him idiot." Homura says.

"Well he's going to be alot closer," Shinji says, "Now charge!"

The group then runs towards him, screaming and yelling as Charles just stands there waiting for them to come closer. As the group finally gets close enough to attack him, he pulls the cloth off of the object to reveal it as a cannon. The group runs away as soon as they see the cannon like cowards. Charles smiles as they run away and he just casually walks back inside, dragging the cannon with him.

Afew minutes later, the group is back at the hotel room in very melancholy moods. "Well that turned out well." L says.

"Didn't you have any other startegy than just going up to the warehouse and screaming ahhh?" Tetsuo says.

"Well I didn't really think ahead." Shinji says.

Guts face palms at Shinji. "No, you were just thinking like an internet meme," he says, "Step one: Gather group to invade warehouse. Step two: Invade warehouse. Step three: ... Step four: Ruler of the world."

"Well actually it works more like Step one: Gather group. Step two: Invade warehouse. Step three: ... Step four: Ruler of the Universe." Shinji says.

"Well you can't just do that Shinji," Krillin says, "You have to have a plan for Kami's sake. You got to have a strategy!"

"Krillin, you're asking that I develop a plan to invade a warehouse," Shinji says, "Let's analyze that for a second. How the fuck could I know that he had a cannon. It's a small warehouse of gags and toys for gods sake!"

"Well I consider this a failure." San says.

"Yeah I agree," Homura says, "Let's go back to Japan."

The others agree and heads towards the door, but Shinji runs towards it and blocks the exit. "Now wait a minute you guys," he says, "Do you honestly want to back down from our chance to have tjis moment of glory?"

Tamama runs towards Shinji and floats up in the air to Shinji's face. "I would never abandon you Shinji."

Shinji lightly pushes Tamama back to the floor. "I know that Tamama" he says, "Alright, all we need is a plan."

"Mabye we should make an ultimatim." Vash says.

"Nah, we still have to get close to him." Shinji says.

"How about I use Pikachu to cut the power out." Ash says.

"Nah, they'll expect us to do that." Shinji says.

Then suddenly Myotismon appears out of nowhere. "How about I use my bats to take over the warehouse," he says, "They can fit through most small entrees."

"No, that guy practically lives at that warehouse," Shinji says, "And how did you get in here anyways?"

"I just wanted to be noticed." Myotismon says.

"Get out of here!" Shinji says.

Myotismon pitifully leaves the room. "How about we use Alphonse as a battering ram." Edward says.

"Hey" Alphonse says.

"Nah, his head is not hard enough." Shinji says.

"Hey" Alphonse says.

"Maybe we could use our Hollow form to attack the warehouse head-on!" Mashiro says.

"That's your answer for everything." Shinji says.

"Well it would work if you gave it a try." Mashiro says.

"Um, hey I know this might be a shot in the dark," L says, "But why don't we just use the weapons we have?"

"Nah that won't work." Shinji says. After two seconds of silence Shinji speaks again. "Wait, I have an idea!"

"Well gee, does it involve using-" L says.

"It involves using weapons," Shinji says, "Vash get your guns, Ash get your Pokemon, Guts get your blade, Edward search for some useful alchemy tricks, San get some of your weapons as well, Tamama, Kamina, you guys might have some heavy duty weapons to spare, and Stocking you get your sword from your... stocking."

"Well what are you going to use to combat Charles?" Stocking says.

"I'm going to use the greatest weapon I'm going to find," Shinji says, "And everyone else find any weapon you can find. By god we're going to need this and this time... there will be no dawn for Acme." Shinji then goes into the closet as the others suit up for battle.

Vash pulls out two pistols from his pocket and swings them around just to show off, Conan tries making a weapon out of a pillow before just settling on a gun, Kamina waits by the window to see his robot Gurren, San pulls out one of her spears and practices its sharpness on a pillow, L hypothesis what weapon he could use before grabbing a fruit from a plate and eating it, Tamama pulls out a ray gun out of nowhere, Ash takes out some minature pokeballs from his bag, Stocking takes off one of her stockings and transforms it into a katana, Edward reads a book on some alchemist techniques while Alphonse sharpens up his body, Homura pulls out a gun from her sleeves, and Tetsuo practices his levitation on a lamp, but it doesn't work out until he focuses more of his energy onto it which causes it to fly over and hit Guts by accident. Guts gives him an angry look before practicing his swing on his sword and finally Mamoru throws one of his roses near the closet door, in which Shinji comes out with the EVA suit still deflated.

"Are you sure about using that robot?" Guts says.

Shinji looks at Guts and smiles before he presses a button on his suit that causes it to fit firmly onto his body.

To be continued...