Evangelion Heroes: The Last Son of Krypton
Disclaimer: For the fourth time, no I do not own Evangelion. And I do not own the Man of Steel either.
Notes: This was meant to be a one-shot that helped with writers block, but it got bombarded by Superman the Animated Series extended intro theme and changed forever, so now it seems that I have another story to tell…
P.S yes, I do know that there are 2 other Shinji becomes superman stories, although if there are others please do inform me, if you haven't noticed I enjoy these kinds of stories.
Chapter 1: Faster than a Speeding Bullet
On a dying world, a father placed his only son in a stolen space craft after completing his small recording so that his son would at least know where he had come from.
'Will he…be cared for Jor-El?' asked the mother, worry and tears falling through her eyes.
'I…do not know Lara, but at least he will live. And under the light of their sun, Kal-El will be like a God amongst them' the father explained.
'Goodbye, my little Kal-El, take care' the mother said, placing a hand on the small crafts window, where her child slept.
'Goodbye son and…good luck,' the father said, activating the ship and watching his only son leave them, never to return home again. His wife held him tighter, and he hugged her tighter too, as the end of their world came.
The tiny space craft barely made it out of the exploding planet, zipping its way across the universe, followed closely by the last remnants of its passenger's world.
On its exit of the planets crumbling system, the infants fathers final recording played, 'You will travel far…my little Kal-El, but we will never leave you, even in the face of our deaths. You will make my strength your own. You will see my life through your eyes, as your life will be seen through mine. The son becomes the father, and the father…the son.'
For a long time it travelled until it found a mostly blue planet, bathed in the light of a yellow sun, the ship made a crash landing on the small island of Japan.
- [Last Son] -
Yui Ikari sighed; it was now the first anniversary of the separation from her husband. It had followed soon after the miscarriage with her first born. She couldn't believe that her husband would be so…cold towards her.
Her eyes began to tear up at the thought of her little baby who didn't make it, the little child never got the chance to have a name…She wiped her eyes quickly, crying and driving at the same time was not a good idea. She had just finished her inspection of Evangelion Unit-01, and in a few years they would be ready to have the first contact experiment with it.
At least she had her job, but she would rather have her child, she thought bitterly. Yui's eyes went wide in fascination at the sight of a large number of meteors heading to rain down on the Earth, just a few kilometres ahead of her.
The shockwave from the many meteors impacts overturned her small car, and Yui was lucky that she had been wearing her seatbelt; instead of being unconscious she would have been dead.
Yui slowly opened her eye, groaning from the pain in her head and neck, she was a split second from wondering what had woken her, before she heard metal being torn apart. She looked in the direction of the noise and received the biggest shock of her life. A little boy, around 3 or 4 years old, was busy tearing the car door off its hinges.
When the little boy (who was stark naked) saw her open eye, he giggled and waved at her. Yui quickly undid her seatbelt and dragged herself out of the care, with a lot of effort.
'Hello, how…did you do that?' Yui asked the little boy, who tilted his head as if he didn't understand her. Yui then pointed to the crumpled car door, and the little boy thought she wanted to hold it, so being a gentleman he picked it up effortlessly and handed it to Yui.
Yui could only gape at the little boy's otherworldly strength, but her maternal instincts soon took over and she asked, 'Where's your mom and dad?'
The boy said something in a strange language that Yui didn't follow, but the boy took her hand, surprisingly he was very gentle, and led her to the centre of where the meteors had struck. He looked a little ill when they passed one of the meteors, but he soon was back to pulling Yui along to his destination.
He pointed and Yui's eyes widened when she saw a small spaceship in the centre of a crater, the little boy climbed in and had fun pressing the buttons on the side of the ship.
Yui watched him, but cast a glance at all the other items in the ship. Two cloths, one red with a yellow "S" in a pentagon, the other blue, there was also a strange suit with another "S" on the chest and several crystals in a type of box all appeared to be alien and had strange symbols on them. Yui yelped in fright when a man and woman appeared, by way of hologram, and the little boy listened intently to what they where saying and tried to grab them, not understanding that they were not really there.
'Is that your mommy and daddy?' Yui asked softly.
The little boy looked at Yui and then back at the holograms, who were still talking, and he repeated her words, 'Mommy, daddy…'
Yui looked closer at the man and woman, trying to figure out at least some of what was being said. The boys father, who wore a robe type of outfit with the blue and red colours and the "S" symbol (Yui guessed that it must have been a symbol of importance in their culture), began to explain something and pointed to what looked like a countdown, with a sorrowful expression and then the mother moved away from the recording device. She returned holding the little boy in her arms tears falling down her face; she kissed his forehead and gave him to the father, who placed him in the ship. The last words Yui could only guess, but she was positive that the mother had asked for her son to be taken care of.
Yui turned her attention back to the little boy, who was sniffling. She picked him up and hugged him, telling him that she would take care of him and not let anyone hurt him.
Walking away from the crater, Yui mused out loud to the boy, 'I'm never going to find out the truth about you, am I?'
Her mind then clicked on a name after her musing, 'How does the name "Shinji" sound?'
The boy looked at her and smiled. Yui smiled back, 'Shinji it is then, Shinji Ikari.'
- [Last Son] -
13 years later…
Shinji pushed his glasses further up on his face, he hated them, but they were necessary to project a certain image that he wanted maintained. He clutched his bag tighter; it held several things of great importance to him, pictures of his adoptive family's home and the like.
He looked all over, but there didn't seem to be anyone around. He then decided to use his more enhanced senses to see if the city really was as deserted as it seemed.
The whole of Tokyo-3 was deserted there was no one around, not a sound, aside from…gunfire? No, bigger; heavy artillery most likely. Shinji lifted his glasses and strained his eyes, allowing him to see with greater acuity and in far more wave lengths than a normal person.
There in the distance, Shinji saw a giant monster with a beak/skull-like face. He also heard sobbing from a broken building. Seeing that the Katsuragi woman would most likely be preoccupied and unable to pick him up, Shinji decided on the next best course of action. He broke out into a run at the monster, and while doing so, he removed his glasses and undid his shirt, revealing a blue one underneath it, with a red S.
- [Last Son] -
Little Akira Suzuhara lay trapped underneath piles of rubble, unable to move herself from under it, as a series of pipes lay, criss-crossed over her body. All she could do was sob in despair that no one would be able to help her, not with the monster outside. She was only ten years old and already she had to deal with something as cruel as death. Her thoughts and prayers went to her family, especially her overprotective brother, Toji, who would be crushed by his little sisters passing.
Her thoughts were interrupted by an impossible sound. The rubble was shifting, moving…up? With this impossible sight and feeling Akira, gasped at the sight of a young man lifting the tons of weight that had collapsed on top of her.
After her saviour, wrapped in a red cape had moved the rubble away from her, he moved to her side, where she still had the pipes preventing her from moving, 'Hold still' he said in a gentle voice.
His strange blue eyes suddenly turned crimson, and Akira felt the pipe that lay across her start to grow warm. After the pipes had been removed safely, her saviour picked her up gently, she groaned in pain from her sore sides, 'Sorry' he said, 'hold on tight'
The man, who wore a blue suit with red fingerless gloves, boots and an odd symbol, that looked like the English letter "S", lifted himself and her into the air, 'How…how did you do that?' asked the frightened Akira.
'Long story' he answered with a smile, 'lets first get you to a hospital.'
'What about the monster?' she asked, looking at the large creature with skeletal armour.
'I…hmm, looks like I'm gonna have to drop you off with the army' the man said when he noticed the JSSDF having trouble with the monster.
After the medics, who where at one of the army's bases that were far enough from the monster, got over their initial shock of the gravity-defying man, they quickly helped Akira onto a medical bed and looked at her injuries.
As Shinji took off into the air, he heard her whisper, 'be careful.' The speed that he went towards his target broke the sound barrier, causing a sonic boom and the Angel never noticed the red and blue blur nor did it have a chance to put up an A.T field, before the red and blue bullet had gone straight through its red core.
- [Last Son] -
Misato drove frantically, screaming at herself in her mind for waking up late. Now the boy that she had had to pick up from the train station was stuck in the middle of a war zone or worse he could be dead.
Misato was driving so dangerously and so fast, that when she tried to take the turn off her Blue Alpine was sent careening off the small cliff.
She shrieked in horror, first because she still had 32 payments left on her car and secondly because she realised that she was going to die. Throwing her arms over her face to "protect herself", she prayed for a miracle.
She stopped screaming when she slowly realised that the car was not falling anymore, it was stationary in the air which made no sense at all unless Newton had been wrong about gravity. Her car, seemingly taking on a life of its' own, flew back towards the road and landed gently.
Misato just stared at the road ahead, she had grabbed the wheel when it had started to move back to the road and now her knuckles were white.
'Are you alright Miss?' asked someone from outside the car.
Misato slowly turned her gaze to the voice and her jaw hung open. A young man stood outside her car with the most amazing pair of blue eyes and an even more amazing body, with an odd looking red and blue outfit and a red cape.
'…yes…' she answered quietly.
'That's good' he said. The man raised a fist into the air and took off, flying into the sky.
- [Last Son] -
The blue Alpine stopped just outside the phone booth that Shinji was just finished using; he grinned and exited the booth.
'Hey, Shinji! Thank God you're alright' said Ms. Katsuragi as she left her car to hug the boy, who was a lot taller than he seemed at first.
'Um…h…hello, ka…Katsuragi-san' said the timid boy, most of his timid ness was not part of his act in this case.
'Please, call me Misato and you shouldn't slouch so much Shinji' Misato said, then beckoned him into her car.
They drove towards the Geo-Front, Misato telling him why his mother's "husband" had called him and where he worked, she was surprised to discover that Shinji had only met the man a few times.
'So then, who raised you?' asked Misato, hoping she hadn't pushed the timid boy too hard.
'Well, my mother raised me for 4 years then when she…uh, I moved to Metropolis in America to stay with some family friends after her…' Shinji tried to swallow the lump in his throat; he always had trouble saying that his adoptive mother had died, he had cared deeply for her and she had never looked at him as a freak.
'Hey, don't worry I lost my parents too' Misato said softly, understanding the painful times this boy had gone through, it also explained why he was so shy and timid.
There was silence in the car for the rest of the journey, the car came to a stop outside a pyramid-like structure, the Geo-Front; Shinji corrected himself, remembering the NERV manual that Misato had given him to read in the car.
'So what do you think?' Misato asked as they walked to the entrance.
'It…it's…really great' he answered shyly.
Misato smiled and shook her head, she really wanted to tease him, but she didn't think that the boy would take it too well.
After travelling through the same room several times, Shinji had discovered several things about the inside of the Geo-Front, one: it was most definitely designed to confuse those who entered, two: everywhere he tried to look was blocked by lead and three: (the most disturbing one) was that he could smell something that was eerily similar to blood, lots of it.
Misato gave another cry of frustration when she realised that they had taken the wrong door again.
'There you are what took you so long!' A condescending voice said, from around the corner, which belonged to a blonde lady in a doctor's outfit.
'Oh, hey Ritz…' said Misato with a hint of embarrassment on her face and in her voice.
'Sorry, but you know I only just started' Misato tried to explain.
'And this is Shinji Ikari I take it' the doctor said looking at the boy, who slowly shrunk back, as if he was scared of her.
'Yup, say hello Shinji.'
'H…hello' he said weakly.
Ritsuko raised an eyebrow at the timid boy, thinking that Yui's death must have really been a blow to his psych, although others took it a lot worse.
Ritsuko then led the two to the bridge, were a number of technicians were studying footage of the Angel and its unexpected and very quick defeat.
'Can you believe the speed it was moving?'
'I wonder what it was'
'It was definitely faster than a speeding bullet, Shigeru'
'It probably had more force than train would have moving at…'
'What on Earth is going on here?' Misato asked Ritsuko, she was unable to make sense of what the technicians were saying.
'Well, as it turns out we didn't need to sortie Unit-01. Some unidentified object collided with the angel and it was decimated' explained the doctor, who was miffed that the Magi had been unable to calculate anything on the strange object.
'Uh, what colour was it?' asked Misato, her mind thinking back to the moment on the cliff or rather off the cliff.
'Red and blue, why?' the doctor looked at Misato strangely.
'I think I know who it was' said Misato, causing the entire room to stop what they were doing and look at her.
'Then we should discuss this in my office, Captain.'
Everyone looked upwards, where Gendo Ikari, the Commander of NERV stood, and all returned to their work immediately.
Captain Katsuragi, Ritsuko and a reluctant Shinji made their way to the Commanders office.
Shinji felt a chill go down his spine when he entered the office, only one other person in the entire world had been able to do that by his mere presence or, sometimes, his lack of presence.
After explaining the cliff situation to the Commander in a formal manner, Gendo looked at Shinji, 'I see you brought the Third Child.'
'Yes sir. I'm sorry about him being late.'
Shinji raised an eyebrow, what made him the "third child" and who were the other two?
'Next time an angel attacks we will require you to pilot the Eva. You will do this or else your families bills will be very hard to keep up with, understood?' Gendo said coldly, staring at the boy, as if he were trying to figure out a particularly hard puzzle.
Shinji clenched a fist, but released it soon and answered, 'Y…yes sir.' Shinji didn't know what an Eva was or why they called the monster an "Angel", but he was determined to find out as much as he could, even if it meant working for Gendo. The Angel had a strange wavelength that seemed to be trailing off to somewhere, it was strange because the same wavelength that Shinji saw in living creatures came from them and did not act in that manner, which meant the creature was not alive exactly, more of a vessel for something else.
'Good.'
'Commander where will the Third child be staying?' asked Misato, she had seen Shinji's anger when the Commander had threatened his family and, whilst she did know that the world was at stake, that was going too far.
'Here at the Geo-Front, unless you have a more suitable location' Gendo said.
'He could stay with me that way I could protect him and he would have a direct link to NERV if he lost contact for some reason.' She did not think it would be wise for Shinji to stay in close proximity with the Commander for long and her place was the only place she could think of.
'That is a suitable suggestion. From now on you are the Thirds legal guardian' Gendo stated simply, 'Dr. Akagi, show the Third his Evangelion.'
'Yes, sir' replied Ritsuko.
The three left the room, silence following them.
Ritsuko showed Shinji the purple giant and was midway through her speech about it being humanities greatest achievement and best hope, when Shinji walked towards it like he was possessed.
Shinji stared at it, his unique vision allowing him to see the wavelength no human being had discovered yet and he whispered, 'Mom?'
-Chapter 1 end-
Yes, I know it is really doff having four stories that I'm writing, but writers block hit me and the Guide to writing Bionicle stories said that it helps to sit and write whatever enters your head and, well, this happened. So blame the writer for the guide (actually don't 'cos it was a real help). Anyway, as normal please tell me what you think of the story and hopefully I will update this and all my others soon (although not too soon, I have exams in 2 days [since I posted]). Oh, well, I hope you enjoyed reading and are hungry for more!