Immovable Barrier Part 1
Neon Genesis Evangelion/End of Evangelion/Rebuild of Evangelion © Gainex.
Welcome to my third fic. This one will hopefully not go the way of the others, as I'm giving myself a scheduel for it!
GO ME!.
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"C'mon, Shinji. What's the rush?"
Shinji didn't hear the other boy's words over the sounds of explosions and general cacophony in the back, but the artificial voice in the handset on the payphone came loud and clear.
"All residents must evacuate to their designated shelters. This is a recording. All residents-"
The voice was cut off as Shinji slammed the handset into the hook, causing the coins to jangle roughly. He turned to the taller boy, and frowned.
"Bro, didn't you hear? Evacuation orders; Get to a shelter and get inside."
The taller boy considered speaking, but the thrum of an engine followed by the screech of tires. Not a sports car, but a small hatchback, probably a pre-impact sports car. White. Misato leaned across.
"You must be them. Get in. Gendo is waiting."
"Sure. Right. Because we'll just get in the car with a strange woman who HAPPENS to know our employer's name."
"Bro, what other option do we have? Get in!"
Shinji pushed the taller boy into the vehicle, before climbing in himself. Misato was moving just as the fourth angel lowered it's foot where the vehicle had been.
"The standard ordinance is having no effect, and most of the forces on the ground and in the air have been wiped out. How should we proceed, sir?"
The generals looked sheepish, then glanced at a red phone on the table. The slide of a card and man in the center lifted the phone to his ear. The bombers prepared to drop their payload.
Misato watched the Angel march toward the core of Tokyo-3 as she drove... She couldn't help it, since it was dead ahead. She then watched the scant remaining fighters pull back from the machine, and knew immediately.
"They're seriously going to...? SHIT!"
She swerved off the road, powering into a nice-sized ditch, and looked at Shinji and the other teen.
"Out! They're going to use N2 Mines!"
All three made it out of the vehicle and away in time to avoid the blast wave, though the car was not so lucky. It ended up beat up, flipped over, and generally in shambles. The taller boy looked to Simon, and with no further prompting, the two began the task of flipping the vehicle.
In NERV HQ, the screen showing the Angel finally cleared, revealing that nothing had come of the N2 mines what-so-ever, to the surprise of all but two people in the room. Gendo simply sat, smugly, as one of the generals approached him, defeated. The go-ahead was all but already given... Now, to get the pilot down here...
Misato was back on the road quickly, Shinji and the other boy both back in the vehicle. She now realized the urgency and was driving as fast as the damaged vehicle could manage. They pulled into a NERV entry, and the elevator took the vehicle down, passengers and all, toward the Geofront.