Neon Genesis Evangelion
Evangelion Loop Theater!
By BrokenChosenofEva
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Title: Start the Show
Prompt: various
Word Count: 1.7k+
Rating: T
Summary: Time Loop AU. Asuka wakes up back at the beginning, and in wondering why she is back again she finds a small book only she can read with information on "Looping" and revealling she is her universe's "Anchor".
Disclaimer: I do not own Neon Genesis Evangelion [or any of the other shows that pop up]. This is in no way connected to the established Infinite Loops Universe. This is only for my own amusement, those who read it, and those who send in ideas.
Notes: I decided, since I loved reading "Log Horizon Loops" by Mivichi, that I wanted to write my own "Loops" series. Not sure how often this will be updated, and I am willing to take ideas from reviewers [I'll tag the source at the top of each section that came from someone else].
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.1.a.
Watching Touji close his eyes, a smile on his face as he exhales one last time, Asuka smiles through the tears in her own eyes. She lets the tears fall now, having held them back while Touji still looked at her, not wanting her love's last sight to be her crying.
They'd managed nearly eighty years together, through all the ups and downs of life since the Angel Wars. They'd watched Mana and Kyo grow, marry, and have children of their own. They'd seen their friends have their own families, and laughed and cried beside them through their own ups and downs.
But everything was slowing now, the clock on the wall no longer noticeable though it's endless ticking had been nearly deafening earlier.
This was how she'd imagined it, or one way. After the Angel Wars her vision of dying had switched from a glorious battle to simply falling asleep with the one she loved nearby.
Taking a deep breath, Asuka closed her eyes, and simply fell asleep.
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And woke up to the gentle shifts of a ship at sea, barely noticeable unless one had been on a solid surface moments before.
Eyes snapping open, Asuka's first thought was a simple grumble of "Not again!", followed by bolting upright and looking around her cabin on the Over The Rainbow.
This is not how I imagined heaven...
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.1.b.
Well, here goes nothing... again... Leaping down to the fight deck, Asuka strode across to Misato and the Three Stooges. Ignoring the "older" woman's greeting she grabbed Touji by his coat and planted a hard kiss on his lips. While he, and the others, were staring open-mouthed she grabbed Shinji's hand.
"We have somewhere to be, and I don't want to be caught flat-footed." she growled, "Misato, get that emergency power socket set up."
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.1.c. [by How-not-to-do-something, minor edits with permission]
Asuka was on the verge of losing her temper, simply because Shinji kept freaking out about how she was a time traveler -a Looper, baka!- and had met, fallen in love, and married at least a dozen different times. Sighing, she regretted telling him anything about the Loops.
Though, she had to admit it had a certain level of amusement to it...
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.1.d.
Waking up in her cabin again, Asuka grabbed a book and threw it at the door.
"Note to self: Distracted Shinji is useless!"
Then the fact she didn't have any books in the cabin registered. Standing, Asuka picked up the small leather-bound book and flipped it open.
"Your Guide to Looping?" she turned to the next page, "A guide to being the Anchor for a Looping Reality, the responsibilties and limits there of. What the hell is this?"
Turning to the chapter listing, her incredulity grows. Titles like "Looping and You" and "Things to NEVER do" where there, along with slightly more helpful sounding ones like "How to remain sane in endless repeats".
While not exactly a stranger at this point to repeating "history" having been through the "Original" lifetime and two different "repeats" where she'd lived for years, the idea of actually being in a looping reality was a bit much even if this was her "second" loop. Trapped in the same year, give or take, for an unknown length of time?
Laying down after locking her door, Asuka focused on remaining calm and centered even when she heard banging and yelling at her door accompanied by the ship shifting violently. Next she knew, her room started to crumple around her before she woke up again in the exact same place.
Strike three, she thought, throwing herself out of the bunk and moving out of the cabin, Let's make it to Tokyo-3 this time...
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.1.e. [prompt "Convincing Rei" from How-not-to-do-something]
While convincing Shinji had been relatively easy -the boy was far to trusting, if she was honest with herself-, getting wondergirl to believe she was stuck in a time loop was challengeing almost to the point of pulling her hair out.
Nearly every argument she had "proving" her tale was countered by some obvious argument against it. Ocham's Razor worked against her in this case, as Rei's points were valid. Yes, she could have hacked the Magi for her knowledge, or simply gained it from Kaji or even Misato once Asuka had moved in with the raven-haired woman.
After an even dozen Loops spent trying to convince Rei, Asuka gave up for the time being. Especially when in the last loop she had been so pissed she had accessed her Looper abilities to get her Angel heritage so she could stomp Israfel bare-handed, and was then captured and "questioned" until Third Impact had triggered another reset.
Looking back at the beginning of the next loop, she wondered why she hadn't tried that sooner to convince Rei, then realized the Nephilim girl would simply say she was an Angel and write off that argument as well.
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.1.f.
Asuka glared down the two boys accompanying Shinji, the timid girl between the two oddly unbothered, and watched as the otaku wilted instantly and the Osakan struggled to keep his bravado and stubbornly refused to look away.
Though that may have been because Asuka was a 5'10" wiry male and had yet to even glance at her during this staredown of "alpha males".
This was perhaps her rudest awakening thus far, and she had nearly missed the arrival of Misato and the others if not for Kaji stopping by to remind her. She silently swore that whoever had screwed up reality would pay for this if she ever found them.
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.1.g. [by how-not-to-do-something. Edits with permission]
This was beyond embarrassing! Never in her lives could she recall such indignaty as how she found herself now: Clag in a filly, colourful dress -at least it was patterned much like her EVA had been-, she floated, floated, above the deck of the Over-the-Rainbow -oh, irony, how I hate you- while Misato called over her small headset to use her "special move" and finish the Angel.
At least the Angel was suitably digusting looking compared to "normal", perhaps some cosmic counter to how disgustingly "cute" she now looked.
She wasn't sure she'd ever felt so mad in her lives, but she calmed herself and mentally dug through this reset's memories for the words and, sighing to release the last of her anger, called out:
"Magical Girl EVA Two, Asuka! MAR'S HAMMER OF JUSTICE!"
And cracked the Angel's core in a sinlge blow, sending the creature down into the sea.
Satisfied, she lands and with a flash of colourful light returned to her normal sundress. I need a shower.
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.1.h.
"Sohryu, what do you think of this dress?" Rei asked, holding up a somewhat frilly, pale blue dress for her redheaded friend to inspect.
Asuka flinched, though few would catch the twitch of her head and shoulders, at the sight of the dress.
"Not your style, Wondergirl, And no way am I wearing something like that again..."
Rei arched a brown eyebrow above her green eyes at the comment, her dyed-lavender hair almost hanging almost far enough to cover the expression, before shrugging and returning the dress to the racks so she could look for something else.
Aside from this excursion with Rei, Asuka was glad for this completely mundane reset. No Angels, no magical abilities, just "slice-of-life" with her mother and "childhood friend" Shinji here in Tokyo.
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A/N: This will be ongoing as I get ideas, both my own and others. If you have a prompt or paragraph just send it to me in a PM. If you don't have an account, just leave your idea in the reviews and I'll credit it as "anonymous".
Sorry for the long note, I'll trim future ones down a little.
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1.c This has very little editing, just enough to flow and I added the last line.
1.e I hope how-not-to-do-something likes what I did with their prompt.
1.g This was a hilarious idea, the original sentence sent to me by them was "She cried out in terror: Asuka had expected to come back during the sixth angel battle, and she had, but instead of being in an Eva, she wore a frilly colorful dress, like something out of a magical girl manga, and was being told to hit that thing with her 'special move'." I hope you like how I expanded on that, we might see that "reality" again at some point for some more laughs. Sailor Asuka anyone? XD
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Timeline, as much as there is one:
a: After the end of "NWYBF"
b, c, and d: "b" is around a dozen resets after the "start", with the others falling right on it's heels.
e: This covers several resets, starting several resets after "d".
f: "Reality is maleable during loops, do not expect to always face the same situations", and Asuka recieved a somewhat traumatic Awakening. Total Loops thus far: 40
g: "insult to injury" as they say. Loop: 41
h: Vacation Loop, without having to "jump ship" and let "nature" take its course. Loop: 43? Yes, that means Asuka is around 50yrs old, give or take a few, since she does track time to some extent. She's rather proud of how good she looks for being so old. XD