Neon Genesis Evangelion:
The Darkness Emerges
By Doffman
Ohayo! Omeni kakarete ureshii desu! (I am most happy to meet you!)
This is a story written by ME! Doffman the Great!
Ahahaha, AHAHAHAHAHAHA! (Lucca Ashtear is my Idol!)
I have this little forward here to tell you about how much of a bastardization of the real anime series this story is! This story has most of the main character breakdowns cut out of it, so everything is peachy at the moment.
There are a few things that I'm not sure about, and if you see any errors, PLEASE e-mail me immediately! That's
DISCLAIMER: Evangelion is owned by GAINAX, not me.
On with the story!
Chapter 1:
April 9, 2015
"Guten Morgen, Shinji!" Asuka called out from across the courtyard. Shinji took note of the cheerfulness of her voice, and suddenly shivered.
"G-guten Morgen…" He said fearfully. If she was this happy, and she had decided to talk to him, that meant that she was about to tease him, abuse him, or worse.
"What's wrong, Shinji? Why are you acting so shy?" she asked with complete innocence. Shinji could see in her eyes the mischievous gleam. If that gleam hadn't been there, he could have stared into those eyes for hours…
"N-no reason. Just… N-nervous about meeting the Sixth Child, that's all." Shinji said, not totally lying. The last of the Eva Pilots, Kaoru, had been an Angel in disguise. It had left a great many questions in his mind about a great many things…
"I'm not! Maybe there will finally be a male pilot that ISN'T a stooge! Unless they picked Kensuke! {Shiver} I hope NERV wouldn't be that irresponsible!" Asuka cried with fear. For once, Shinji had to agree. The thought of Kensuke with any form of weapon capable of doing as much damage as an EVA was terrifying.
"I wonder where Ayanami was. She wasn't in class today." Shinji said absent-mindedly. Asuka suddenly smacked Shinji on the back of the head.
"I'm sure WONDER GIRL will be just fine without you mooning over her every second, Baka Shinji! We have to go to NERV for Sync testing now, remember?" Asuka said viciously. "Rei probably went strait there, deciding that she didn't need to go to the first half of school! I don't know WHY Misato insisted that we go here today!" Asuka said, frustrated. Shinji desperately tried to stop the wound on the back of his head from bleeding. His efforts were, sadly, in vain.
Even after they arrived at NERV to start the sync testing, there was still no sign of Rei. "Uh… Dr. Akagi? Where's Rei?" Shinji asked.
"Rei and the new pilot will be here shortly. For now, why don't you change into your plug suits?" Ritsuko said from behind her clipboard. Shinji and Asuka changed and returned to the Cage, by that time Rei had made her appearance, along with a boy with blond hair. He shuffled his feet quite a bit and stayed noticeably close to Rei.
"Ah! Shinji, Asuka! I would like you to meet Dracan, the 6th Child. Drac, this is Asuka, and this is Shinji." Ritsuko said. Drac extended his hand shyly, and Shinji shook it firmly.
"It's nice to meet you, Drac." Shinji said cheerfully.
"Um… Yeah… Nice to meet you, too." He said quietly. He was obviously very nervous.
"Hello, Drac! I am the Great Asuka Langley Sohryu! You've heard of me, of course." Asuka said grandiosely. Drac just shrugged, signifying that he had not. "You've never heard of me, Pilot of Eva Unit 02, Second Child? Greatest Eva pilot of all time?"
"Sorry…" Drac said with an apologetic grin.
"Where have they been keeping you?!? Have you been locked in a basement for the past five years or something?!?" Asuka growled. Before he could respond, Ritsuko clapped a hand over his mouth and began to drag him off.
"I have to show the Sixth Child to the Locker Rooms! Coming Rei? You have to change into your plug suit as well!" Ritsuko said quickly.
"Yes, Ma'am." Rei followed Ritsuko down the hall, dragging Drac along with them. Shinji blinked a few times.
"What's going on here? Something really big is happening, and I want to know what it is!" Asuka said with spite. "Why did Dr. Ikagi act so strangely?"
Shinji, of course, really didn't care. All he wanted to do was go home and take a nap.
***
"My first activation test… I wonder what it will feel like once this baby turns on…" Drac asked casually to no one in particular. Suddenly, the small plug began to full up with liquid. Drac started to panic.
"Um… Rei? Dr. Akagi? ANYONE? HELP! THE PLUG IS FILLING UP WITH WATER! I'M GONNA DROWN!" Drac took a deep breath and held it. As the water rushed in over his head, he frantically attacked the hatch to escape the plug.
He held his breath for over a minute, but after that, he couldn't help it, and his lungs took the liquid in.
***
"My sync ratio has sky rocketed! I've increased by 5 points! How about YOU, Shinji?" Asuka asked Shinji mockingly as they went to get changed.
"The Third Child is presently 3 points higher than the Second Child. Rei has increased to 2 points higher than the Second Child, making her 1 point away from Shinji's score. Sixth Child, Drac, is presently 20 points lower than Asuka. Not bad for a first try, I'd say. It seems that Asuka is the under achiever here." Ritsuko said with a strait face. Asuka screamed and yelled bloody murder at Ritsuko, which Dr. Akagi took in stride.
"Someone could have told me that you would be attempting to drown me!" Drac said indignantly crossing his arms across his chest.
"You did not drown. The LCL in the Eva supplied you with all the oxygen that you required. You panicked and hyperventilated." Rei said calmly, walking beside him. Drac smiled nervously.
"S-sorry…" Drac said quietly. Rei looked at him with her head tilted slightly to the right.
"Why are you apologizing?" Rei asked.
"Well… I…" Drac said, baffled.
"If there is nothing to apologize for, than do not apologize." Rei said, turning her head forward. Asuka nodded her agreement.
"Hear that, Shinji? Even Wonder Girl agrees! Spineless little boys that apologize all the time are no fun to be around!" Asuka said in a snobbish voice.
"Hey! What is that supposed to mean?" Shinji asked defensively.
"Simple. You're a spineless little coward that runs away at the first chance of escape. A wuss, to use simpler words," Asuka said matter-of-factly.
"I am not a wuss! I stand up for myself!" Shinji yelled. Asuka made like she was going to hit him with her balled up fist, and Shinji covered his head with his hands.
"I rest my case! THE INVINCIBLE IKARI SHINJI IS A WUSS! A PANSY! A WITTLE BABY!" Asuka screamed with amusement in her voice. Shinji began to clench and unclench his fist. "Aw… Is de wittle baby getting angwy? Would he wike his baba?" Asuka asked Shinji in a baby voice. It had just occurred to him that Rei, Drac, and Dr. Akagi had kept walking, while he and Asuka had stopped. A small voice in his mind cried out, 'NO WITNESSES!' but Shinji did his best to ignore it. He couldn't help but begin to grit his teeth.
"Shut up!" Shinji said loudly. Asuka smiled broadly.
"What's wrong Shinji? Can't take a few insults? Or is the Invincible Ikari Shinji too weak to stand up to words, much less Angels?" Asuka smiled broadly, glaring at Shinji with an evil glare.
"Stop calling me that!" Shinji shouted shaking a fist at her.
"Oh! Did I hit a nerve? Are you going to try to hit me now? It would be like a Hentai like you to hit a girl! I bet you get a thrill out of beating girls! It probably turns you on! Or, maybe…" Asuka's smile grew bigger. "Maybe, you like beating yourself—" Shinji ran as fast as he could, away from the torment, away from Asuka.
***
"Running away, Shinji? That's what you're best at, isn't it?" Asuka screamed after him. Shinji was such a wuss. The statement immediately caused Shinji to stop in his tracks. Asuka didn't know why she was laying it on so thick today, but she didn't care, either. He was a little wuss and, until Shinji proved that he actually had developed a spine, she was going to tease and poke and humiliate him for all he was worth.
That last comment really got to him, eh…?
"You heard me! Spineless, Pathetic, Worthless, Baka Shinji is only good at running away like a little coward!" Shinji approached Asuka with a menacing look on his face. "What? Are you here to apologize? 'I'm sorry for being a coward, Asuka! Please forgive me!' Or maybe you're just going to break down and cry! Whatcha gonna do, Shinji-kun." Asuka said putting extra emphasis on 'Kun'.
Shinji glared at her as though he was going to murder her in the hallway at this very moment. He looked her strait in the eyes balled his fist and…
His face softened greatly. He then responded in a weak, defeated voice, "I apologize for yelling at you and telling you to shut up, Asuka. We should really get changed out of our plug suits now." Shinji said, and walked away. That wasn't what Asuka had expected at all. She didn't expect him to cower away when he was so angry. She expected…
'Well, I expected something! I expected for him to yell at me some more, or sock me in the face, or both! Not, "I'm sorry, Asuka"! How disappointing! I'm not going to get any sort of reaction like this… Maybe if…' Asuka's smile expanded to the type of smile that you usually see the villains on old cartoons use.
***
That bitch.
Shinji then decided that the true female dogs of the world might be offended if she were called a bitch. In any event, bitch was to light of a word for her. Her bitchiness extended beyond all boundaries of space and time.
She had never gone this far with her taunting before, and Shinji had been ready to break her nose. No amount of thought had been able to stray his mind from the act of assault that he was about to commit. The fact that she was a girl would not even avert his urge to blacken her eye. He had tightened his fist, and nearly reared back, but…
He looked into her eyes and saw a gleam there that he had only seen once before. When he had dived into the volcano to save her. It was a look of… Admiration? Joy? Gratitude? None of them fit. But all it took was that gleam to destroy his resolve and make him see how beautiful she was.
That it would be a sin to damage such an elegant face. Added to the fact that, in all reality, he really didn't want to hit Asuka, his will to cause her pain crumbled and was blown away in the wind of sadness. Shinji had since changed and gone home. He found himself staring at the ceiling of his bedroom with contempt. 'How does she always manage to do this to me?' he asked weakly. He would have nightmares about her again. And ever so sweet dreams…
***
April 10, 2015
"Shinji-kun! Wake up! It's time for school! And it's your turn to make breakfast!" Asuka called cheerily. Shinji covered his face with a pillow and let out a sigh.
"It's always my turn to make breakfast…" Shinji mumbled from underneath his pillow. Asuka removed the pillow and got 2 inches from his face.
"Do I hear complaining?" Asuka asked, irritated. In a lower voice, she said, "It's actually Misato's turn to make breakfast. Are you sure you want to even ATTEMPT to digest anything she puts in front of you?" Shinji quickly got up, and headed to the bathroom. Shinji definitely didn't want Misato cooking. Something that Misato made would be liable to digest him from the inside out.
He took a quick shower, changed quickly into his school uniform, and quickly made breakfast before Misato awoke. And he tried to be quick about it.
Misato crawled into the room, searching endlessly for her morning beer. The three-toed sloth probably took lessons…
Misato found the Refrigerator, opened it, removed a can of beer, and took a long, 30-second swig of the fresh, mountain brewed, urine-flavored liquid.
(If you want to drink something that tastes like the liquid excretions of a horse, you should drink the real thing. It's cheaper, better for you, and you don't loose your judgement. Of course, you could do what my friend Greg does, and drink horse urine when he's too piss* drunk to tell the difference…)
(It's a PUN! A play on words! I'm so funny**! HAHAHA!)
(*Not really…)
"YEEEEAAAAAAAAHH! That's the STUFF! Nothing like a little sake to get the morning rolling! What's for breakfast, Shinji?" Misato asked vigorously.
Shinji was about to take his first bite, when he realized something odd.
Asuka had called him "Shinji-kun". Without contempt, or malice. Her voice wasn't sinister or cruel. It had, in all actuality, been cheery.
This startling revelation made him drop his fork. It hit his plate with a loud clang, causing attention to be drawn towards him. He found that he was now staring at Asuka.
"What? Do I have something on my face?" Asuka asked curiously.
"You called me 'Shinji-kun' when you woke me up this morning…" Shinji said with shock.
"Yeah, so? Why not? You're my friend, aren't you?" Asuka asked innocently. Misato spit out a large portion of her can of beer, spraying it all over Pen Pen, much to his dismay. "What?" Asuka asked.
"SQUAK!" Pen Pen cried angrily, more about the waste of the beer than becoming wet with alcohol and spittle.
"Went down the wrong pipe… Have to get ready for work now." Misato said with avoidance.
"But Misato, it's your day off. You don't have to work today." Asuka said, suspiciously.
"Going back to bed. Good night. Have a good day at school." Misato rushed out of the room. Both Asuka and Shinji sweat-dropped.
"Um… Maybe we should get going…" Shinji said, but immediately regretted saying it. Asuka was probably going to hit him and say, "I know that, Baka!" or something similar.
"You're right, Shinji. We're going to be late if we don't hurry." She said picking up her bag. "Listen, Shinji, I know I'm beautiful, but please don't stare, and please close your mouth." Shinji picked his chin up off the floor, grabbed his bag, and walked with Asuka to school.
***
Drac pushed the doorbell for the 40th time, and Rei still hadn't come to the door. He couldn't think of any reason why she didn't answer. Maybe she was already gone and had headed to school already. Drac stood there, thinking about it for some time.
Drac decided that, if the door was unlocked, he would enter and call for her. He reached for the door handle just as the door opened, showing Rei in her school uniform, ready for school.
"Oh. Drac. Would you like something?" Rei asked in her monotone voice.
"I just wanted to walk with you to school. I rang the doorbell, but you didn't answer…" Drac trailed off.
"The doorbell is broken." Rei said, walking past him. Drac followed and they walked down the sidewalk together.
"So, Rei… How are you today?" Drac asked, nervously.
"I am well." Rei said, looking strait ahead. Drac sighed.
'What's wrong with her?' He thought. 'She was never been this quiet before… I wonder how I can make her feel better.' Drac felt an idea formulate in his head, and he acted upon it. Rei's hand felt warm to the touch, and the instant tightening of grip from Rei indicated that she didn't mind. Rei looked at Drac, and smiled.
***
Prepared for another boring day of class, Kensuke took his normal seat and prepared himself for a long nap. Since Touji had been in the hospital nearly 3 months, the Three Stooges had become short a member. Supposedly, Touji was undergoing therapy for the artificial limbs that he was given, but Kensuke knew that something else was going on. He had no power over the situation, so Kensuke decided to let it drop until he could talk to Shinji about it.
After a few minutes, Asuka entered the room, immediately followed by a severely puzzled Shinji. Shinji took a seat next to Kensuke. "Hi, Shinji! What's up?" Kensuke asked. Shinji had been so deep in thought that he jumped at the mention of his name.
"Oh! Hi, Kensuke! I'm thinking about stuff…" Shinji trailed off.
"Like what?" Kensuke asked.
"Uh, well… Asuka called me her friend this morning…" Kensuke had a sub-second blackout. "Kensuke? Are you okay?"
"Asuka said what?" Kensuke asked in a whisper.
"No, she didn't say 'What?' She said that I was her friend. It surprised me greatly." Shinji said nervously, hoping that Asuka couldn't hear their conversation.
"I knew something was wrong with her! When she wasn't fazed by Kaji's death, I KNEW she had flipped! Has a few screws loose! Lost her marbles!" Kensuke said loudly. Asuka, hearing her name spoken, stood up and walked over to Kensuke's desk.
"Why are you guys talking about me?" She asked.
"We-we-we-we-we-we-we were just commenting about your lovely… uh… fashion sense! Yes! You always wear such great clothes!" Shinji said frightened.
"Really? Thanks! …Shinji, I asked you once before not to stare! It's embarrassing! I won't even ASK you Kensuke! The next time you stare at me, I will rend you in two with my FINGERNAILS! Anyway, it's almost time for class! See ya, Shinji-kun!" Asuka winked at him and smiled. She walked to her seat quickly, and sat down.
"Shinji, she has lost her only marble. Several screws have fallen out of her head. I think she's less frightening when she's evil." Kensuke typed out on his computer and sent it to Shinji.
"I kind of like her better when she's not teasing me." Shinji typed back and closed his laptop slowly.
***
The lecture was long and drawn out, but it was mostly boring. When the lunch bell finally rang, students leaped from their seats with haste. Shinji ate his lunch quietly next to Kensuke, mindlessly devouring whatever creature was in his lunch.
Shinji snapped out of his empty-mindedness, and shifted to sheer terror as he realized that Asuka had just taken a seat next to him, and began to eat her lunch quietly.
Shinji was terrified mostly because she had a gigantic smile on her face. Shinji panicked internally.
"Er… Hi, Asuka! How are you?" Shinji asked nervously. Kensuke slowly slid away, taking great efforts not to make eye contact.
"I'm doing great, Shinji-kun! How are YOU?" She asked cheerfully. Asuka was definitely acting strangely, but Shinji kind of enjoyed her non-violent side. It made him think less about worrying how to avoid triggering her wrath, and more about how beautiful she was.
"I feel slightly better than I did this morning, thanks." Shinji said, beginning to relax. His mind told him that this was some form of trick, but Shinji's heart told him that he really didn't care if it WAS a trick or not. "So, Asuka, what's up?"
***
Shinji talked to Asuka for the whole lunch period about the Sixth Child and Touji, and other similar topics. When they realized that lunch was over, they quickly ran back to the classroom to make it just before they were tardy.
Asuka and Shinji also talked to each other on the walk home in great length. Shinji liked to talk to Asuka when she wasn't being violent.
He also loved to gaze into her beautiful blue eyes...
He had enjoyed himself so much, that he hadn't even realized Rei's absence.
***
Drac and Rei walked side by side, hand in hand down the road to the school. Rei liked the feel of her hand in Drac's and she also liked Drac. He was always nice to her, and always explained everything out for her when she asked. This was something that he would not do for anyone else, and it made her feel special.
The true reason that she had spent a lot of her time, at least an hour a day for the past 2 years, with Drac was solely because he needed her. Drac was very mentally unstable, and seemed to, most of the time, stabilize when she entered the room. Whenever she visited him, he brightened greatly and sat as close to her as possible, even coming as close as holding her hand on more than one occasion.
Today, however, Drac seemed distant and far off. Rei was caught off guard when he stopped suddenly, and he began to stare at a piece of paper on the ground. He whimpered, and then screamed when the wind picked it up and blew it towards them. Drac ran off into an alley, Rei chasing after him. When she caught up, he was curled up into a ball, crying.
Rei walked closer to Drac meaning to reassure him when she realized that he wasn't really crying. The laughter escalated from a small chuckle to a maniacal laughter in mere seconds. Rei took out her cellphone and dialed Dr. Ikagi.
"Hello?" Came Ritsuko's voice.
"Dr. Ikagi. This is Rei."
"Let me guess. Drac is having problems."
"Yes, Ma'am."
"Okay. I'll send someone to pick you two up. You won't be able to go to school today."
"Yes, Ma'am."
"I would like to ask a question before you hang up, though."
"Yes, Ma'am?"
"Is he saying anything legible?"
"Yes, Ma'am."
"What is he saying?"
"He is repeating the same thing over and over again." Rei said. "He is saying, 'The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.'"
The End of Chapter 1