Run Like Hell

Preface

First things first, I don't own Evangelion or Full Metal Panic. All credit is to the original authors and artists. Original characters are mine, well they belong to the voices in my head but I was the one to write them.

Ideas for this story came from many stories and I can't pinpoint one over another in weight of influence. I decided to do a rewrite and rename after exchanging thoughts on it with two people whose opinion I value. One was a fellow author and the other a longtime reader and reviewer. Guys, I really appreciate your input and your listening to my ideas, reasons and schemes.

I am going with an idea that Traitor of all Traitor posed to me one time as well as it being mentioned at the end of the series or the OVAs, can't remember which. As 3I occours universes split off with Shinji at the center of each one. Things change from univers to universe but one thing is constant, the girl. She is his life and ideal woman no matter how she acts. He needs her to function even in a dysfunctional manner. They love each other and he will let the world burn if he ever looses her.

This is a rewrite of One Tin Soldier, it is the first act of my story and tells of Shinji and Asuka beginning a life together before the Angel War with Shinji as her bodyguard. Shinji in this fic is strong but not god like and still has his moments of crisis but around Asuka he stays strong to protect her and what little normalcy they have.

Asuka is mellower and has had a better childhood than canon as Misato actually took her job as her guardian seriously and she maintained a relationship with Kaji giving the girl a stable home enviroment. She is still competitive and a bit of a brat but she has always clung to Shinji even if he was a memory.

Growing up until their mothers "deaths" the two spent lots of time together, so much it got to be a running joke between mothers that they would be a couple someday. To the children it was not a joke but a promise and a destiny. Now Shinji is back and has the tools he needs to make it happen.

Gendo is involved but he is more doubting his wife and his choices along with the others involved in "PROJECT E". I will tell you I hate the man with a passion and writing him in a different light is not easy but he is the Bastard King we know him to be. This is my take on his slide into darkness.

Rei is still going to be an enigma to both of her fellow pilots and she is now colder and calculating to the point that all but one of her classmates shy away form her. That person is Kensuke Aida. He has known her the longest and is not put off by her personality or lack of one.

Shinji's adopted parents are Sousuke and Kaname Sagara from Full Metal Panic and have given Shinji the chance to thrive and grow. Kaname is very much an over protective mother as she began as his sitter from the tim ehe was almost five years old. Sousuke cares just as deeply for the boy and when the time comes helps in his training. He also manages to slip in to see his son once in a while as does Kaname as she is now an officer in Mithril.

Shinji is aided to a point by his parents team mates and contacts as well as Mithril in general. Shinji is also a warrent officer in the company and draws a salary like his old man did when he was protecting his mother. In fact it was his mothers stories of how she and Sousuke met and fell in love that planted the idea to protect his Asuka.

There will be a lemon or two in this story and I'm not going to break the flow of the story to warn my readers. Since this is an M rating for a reason I expect the readers to be mature about things. So if lemons offend you for what ever reason please don't read. And on the subject of lemons I want to say this, I am a lot older than the average reader and having been in the US Navy for twenty years I have read my share of dirty books starting from when I would buy them late at night while in HS. That said, I'm not going to get dirty just to get dirty, I know what a good lemon is and while I'll be clean in my description, the characters are going to sound like every normal couple that makes love.

Now, I am not putting this in crossovers, it is still an NGE story, the FMP characters and equipment are just seasoning to a good dish. As this story and the one after continue the role of Shinji's adopted family and employer will get smaller over time.

I like long chapters and I am very verbrose if given the chance so I rend to write long chapters. I have no set cutoff, I write until that particular chapter has run it's course. At a logical point I stop writing. Hopefully I won't put everyone asleep.

Location, Location, Location, I try to write what I know and in the cities and towns I try to put in details and spots that I have been to myself and I try to do some research on other places. I have been to Livorno and Naples Italy and thses figure in the first part of this story. Same as where they end up on the US west coast. Not all of it was trashed in 2I.

Not much left to say other than to my readers who were waiting fo this rewrite I am so very sorry I missed my deadline, blame chapter four. It was difficult in two ways. One, since I haven't a good battery in my laptop and anytime the cord pulled out I lost my work. I kept getting involved in writing that I forgot to save at every paragraph. Number two, the chapter was difficult in writing Shinji and Asuka, especially how to advance their relationship. I think I got it right, at least I hope you all think so. And so without further delay...

RUN LIKE HELL