Authors notes:

Been a long, long time. So, I thought I may as well upload this story since it has been in the works since...well, a long time ago. Anyway, it's very different from my usual stuff and I hope the changes aren't too much of a turnoff.

"With Great Power"

Evangelion AU fanfic

The year is 2015 and Second Impact has not happened…yet. Everything is about to change, all beginning with a fateful bug bite. Ikari Shinji, a reluctant participant in this great change, will soon learn that with Great Power, comes even Greater Responsibility.

Prologue

Prepare for something amazing…

Two men sat in the NERV Research Centre, a large building made of steel and glass in the centre of a city known as Tokyo-3.

One of the men sat behind a large desk in his office, a dark and intimidating room at the top floor of NERV. He wore orange tinted glasses, white gloves and had a face as cold and unemotional as stone itself. The other man was far larger than his partner, several times in fact and was completely bald. Oddly enough, this man's body was not overcome with fat, but rather an incredible amount of muscle, some of his subordinates tell a story that their boss only has 2% fat; the rest is an incredible amount of tough muscle and bone.

Lying on the desk, was a file containing a small photo of a blue haired albino girl with red eyes, she had a blank face, completely devoid of emotion.

'My sources have told me you have seen fit to have her moved out of the orphanage, I wonder if this has anything to do with a certain financier threatening to back out?' a smirk appeared on the large man's face.

'Your idea will prove far more profitable in the future, Mr. Fisk,' Gendo replied, his voice still devoid of emotion.

'Well, you know me, always ready to lend a hand to the children.'

Not being as well trained at keeping his expressions hidden, Mr. Fisk's face held a trace of sorrow which he quickly hid with a gaze outside the window, his back facing the head of NERV.

'Of course, public image is important.'

'Glad you see it that way…speaking of which, should you not make at least a few appearances?' Mr. Fisk cast a curious look at the intimidating man who just stared ahead of himself. Gendo had not been seen in public, even though his company was part of the public eye.

'No, it is unnecessary, that is were your skills lie,' Gendo replied.

Realising he was not changing Gendo's mind, Fisk decided a change of topic was required.

'Very well, as you know I am not here to question your lack of interest in public relations.'

'Naturally,' agreed the emotionless man.

'Here it is then.'

The large hands of Wilson Fisk picked up a solid looking briefcase, which he lay down on the desk in front of Gendo.

After typing in a password on the sophisticated lock, the briefcase opened with a hiss. Within the case was a glass container, keeping a strange red orb from the outside world.

'I pray that you keep to your end of the bargain Ikari,' Fisk warned with a stern face.

Eyeing the container that held the greatest source of power on Earth, Gendo let a small, sinister smirk appear on his face.

'Of course…'

[]

Meanwhile, in a less chilling place, two people waited inside of the Tokyo-3 Airport.

'Misato, do I really have to be here?' a tired looking boy with dark hair and grey-blue eyes asked his companion, a bodacious woman with purple hair.

'Trust me Shinji, your hormones are gonna go nuts, you'll thank me later,' Misato winked at the boy, who groaned in response.

Clutching his face in his hand, the boy bemoaned his life. Wasn't being stuck with a slob and rather…open older woman bad enough? Did he really have to have two roommates of the opposite sex? Worse, Misato had kept on saying that this…Asuka girl was his age and incredibly sexy. How was a 14 year old boy going to deal with such temptations?

The two waited at the "Arrivals" portion of the Airport, Shinji stared with a bored expression on his face while Misato waited a little impatiently for their new roommate.

It had been a long time since she had seen the German girl, she wondered if the girl was still a little…aggressive towards boys. Hopefully Shinji's sarcasm would help him survive…although it could also get him killed.

The teenage boy in question suddenly perked up, spotting a flash of long red hair, something he had never seen in real life, there weren't many redheads in Tokyo-3, or at least not any that he knew of.

The exotic hair belonged to a girl, a very, very good looking girl. She had blue eyes, bluer than his own, and a cheeky smile…that was replaced with a rather disturbing look of anger when the girl spotted him staring.

'Hey there, Asuka! Been a while, huh?' Misato called out to the girl, somehow missing the approaching German's death glare at Shinji.

'Uh oh…' Shinji groaned.

Suddenly the girl's expression changed when she noticed Misato.

'Hey Misato, who's this?' the redhead asked.

'This is Shinji, you're new roommate.'

Shyly, Shinji raised a hand and waved.

'What!' the German girl screeched.

Obviously she did not like that idea.

'There is no way I'm staying with a horny teenage boy, what if he tries to take advantage of me!'

'What! I-I'd never do anything like that!'

'Hah, yeah right! You're probably planning it right now aren't you!'

'What…no!'

The German girl's expression soon turned from angered to prideful, which was shown through a smirk and a "superior then you" look.

'Then again, I guess I can't really blame you. All these Japanese boys must have lustful desires when they see a great specimen of Germany.'

Shinji stared at the girl in disbelief. Was that her ego talking? Wow, it must be bigger than…well it was the biggest he had ever seen.

'Oh, calm down Asuka. Shinji is a great cook and he cleans, he's also good at other things too!'

Misato grinned at the effect her words had on the boy, the effect being his face turning bright red.

'Misato!' he groaned.

'Ew, that's paedophilia! Gott in himmel! What the hell is a baka like you doing with an old bag like her?'

'Hey, I'm not that old!'

'Yeah right, and I'm a guy!'

'Well, with that personality…' Shinji began his sentence but he decided against finishing it, unfortunately it was a little too late.

Asuka blinked for a few seconds, before her face twitched and slowly became overcome with rage.

'What did you say?'

'N-nothing…'

Several seconds later, Shinji was running out of the airport, dodging luggage and people as he tried to get as far away from the angry redhead as possible.

Misato laughed, nearly falling to the floor, the apartment was going to be a great place to be with these two around.

[]

Inside of NERV's laboratories, a petite brunette walked in to meet her boss.

'Good morning Sempai!' A bubbly young technician greeted the blonde doctor at the computer.

'Morning Maya, how are the test subjects for the gene splicing?'

'They're mostly doing alright, although most of the rats died off, as well as the locusts.'

The blonde looked at her assistant with a raised brow.

'We had locusts?'

'Well, we did,' Maya said sadly, whilst progress in science was necessary she didn't want to see the animals die.

'Right…what about the others?'

'Well, the mice seem to be okay for now, but there are some signs of minor cancerous growths probably due to the radiation. The only odd one out is the spider…it just isn't reacting in any way.'

Dr. Akagi leaned back in her seat and looked over the reports. They should be making at least some progress, bonding genetics efficiently would definitely aid in the upcoming events that Gendo had planned.

'Keep a close eye on that spider, maybe we're just missing something or it's having a delayed reaction.'

'Alright, Dr. Akagi,' Maya replied.

As the brunette technician and assistant to Dr. Akagi was about to leave, she remembered what day it was.

'Oh your new assistant is arriving today, isn't she?'

Dr. Akagi looked thoughtful for a moment, 'That's right Asuka's plane just arrived I think. Might be interesting to have a young genius around…although, if the stories that Misato told me are true…'

'What kind of stories?'

'Just that she has a rather large ego.'

'Ooh, sounds like a handful, Sempai. If you still need my help I wouldn't mind you asking.'

The doctor smiled at her now ex-assistant.

'Thank you, Maya.'

[]

A blue Renault Alpine screeched to a stop in the parking bay of an apartment complex. The two teenage passengers leapt out of the car to greet the solid, safe ground gratefully.

'Gott in Himmel…I can't believe Misato's driving is actually as bad as I remembered!'

The boy next to her seemed to agree fully.

'You can say that again.'

The driver left the car and looked at her passengers with an annoyed expression.

'What the heck is wrong with you two?'

The two stared at Misato and shook their heads in unison, getting to their feet.

'Hey baka, grab my luggage.'

'What's a baka?'

'That's you! Now be a man and bring my luggage!'

'Hey, I'm not your personal slave! You don't even know me!'

'I'm a lady and you're supposed to be a man! Now prove it!'

Shinji grumbled under his breath and decided to just go along with it. He opened Misato's boot and groaned at the two large bags, which looked really heavy.

'Stupid girl…'

His hands met the material of the first bag and with a grunt of exertion he managed to lift it up, just barely.

'Hey, hurry up baka!' Asuka yelled from the entrance of the building.

'This isn't exactly feathers y'know!' retorted the struggling boy.

'Sissy!' she replied, walking inside and not offering any help whatsoever.

After making two trips up the elevator lugging Asuka's insanely heavy bags into her room, Shinji collapsed in a heap on the couch.

'Finally…done…'

A person emerged from the bathroom, a trail of steam leaving the open door.

'What are you doing lazing about?'

Groggily, Shinji looked towards the voice, about to retort to the annoying German.

'Do you ever-!'

His face went a shade of red, the same colour as the towel Asuka was wearing.

'What are you staring at?'

All she got was Shinji gaping like a fish and snapping his head away from her direction.

'Boring baka.' she said, moving to her room where Shinji had placed her bags.

Slowly the boy's mind rebooted, telling him he had just seen what he thought he had seen. It was not any consolation to him at all, it just made his head hurt. First the girl tries to strangle him for having "perverted" thoughts about her then she does nothing to conceal herself better with her towel.

'Weird.'

Deciding it would be best to let his body receive some rest, Shinji sank down into a more comfortable position and tried to get his mind away from the rather visual thoughts of Asuka and her towel.

Naturally, his luck got him another irritation from the door bell.

'Hey, Shinji can you get that?'

Shinji groaned, knowing he couldn't deny Misato, resigning himself to his fate as a human doormat he went to answer the door.

'Uh, hello?' he inquired to the person at the other end of the intercom.

'Hi, is this the Katsuragi Residence, it's the DHL Movers.'

After checking with Misato if they where expecting someone from DHL movers, which they were, he opened the door and received yet another shock to his system.

The men carried in box after box, filled with God knows what, it was almost never ending.

Shinji was barely able to regain his composure enough to ask what the heck was going on.

'What is all this?'

'Hey, all we do is move we don't ask questions.'

Shinji stared, bug-eyed, at the piles of boxes as the men left. The poor boy barely remembered signing the proof of delivery form he was in such shock.

He stared at the boxes, before curiosity took over, the compulsion to just take a peek at what was inside was soon too great to suppress.

Checking if the coast was clear first, Shinji tenderly placed his hands on the box, slowly opening it. It turned out to be filled with underwear…female underwear.

'Oh good it arrived!'

'Yah!' yelped Shinji, slamming the box closed to keep Asuka from finding out what he had just seen.

The redhead peered at Shinji, making her way over to him, only the box was between them.

'What the hell are you so jumpy about?'

'N-nothing…'

Asuka took one look at her box and spotted that it was partially open, the lid didn't want to stay down it seemed.

'See anything you like?' She asked menacingly.

'Um…no…'

Shinji slowly began to back away, as Asuka took a look inside her box and found out what was in it, revealing what Shinji had most likely seen as well.

'Baka-HENTAI!' she screeched, dashing after him.

[]

The dark office of Ikari Gendo was partially illuminated by the odd appearance of thirteen obelisks being holographically displayed. The head of NERV was currently in an important meeting with the shadowy group called "SEELE".

'So, Ikari how far is Project: Adam?' a sinister voice emanated from the obelisk with the word SEELE-03.

'I have obtained the embryo that was found during the Antarctic Expedition.'

'Excellent.' SEELE-04 said enthusiastically.

'Just remember that we are watching you Ikari, don't try to fool around with something you cannot comprehend.' SEELE-09 warned.

'I'm sure Gendo understands the ramifications of insubordination' SEELE-01 said.

Gendo was barely able to suppress a smirk, 'Of course.'