Who Framed Shinji Ikari?
Disclaimer: I do not own ANY of the anime or its characters that will be included in this story they belong to their respected creators and or corporations. This includes FLCL, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Digimon, Bleach, Paranoia Agent, and many others that I can't name.
A/N: After watching "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" my mind hatched the weirdest idea. What if I put the same style of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" but with anime? And thus this story was born. I will try my best to have the same style as the movie. I just felt like I needed to get this off my chest. This is an experimental story if the story becomes successful then I will continue with it. If not I might drop it depends on the situation. This story will be more a mix of FLCL and Neon Genesis Evangelion than anything else, but there are going to be references from other animes in this so it can be more even. Now on with the show!
Chapter 1: The Calm Before The Storm
It's just another plain day in Tokyo-3. Well it ain't that normal. Normal being the fact there was always an angel sighting. However for the past few weeks there hasn't been an angel sighting for weeks. As far as anyone can tell it's going to be about a month since the last angel appeared. Which was no doubt good news. It was early morning in Tokyo-3 the sun is beginning to rise the sky is dark blue with a little of red tint glowing in the horizon. At a train station a train made it's last stop as it reached its destination. Many came out of the train but a trio are the ones who really struck as odd.
"Question, why did we have to bring Canti along?" A young kid asked who was called Naota. He was carrying a White Guitar that is a Gibson Flying V that was on strapped on his back.
"Do you have a problem with that Takun? Or would you rather have your father just use him around the house doing mindless work? A peach haired woman said who is famously named Haruko. She too had a guitar strapped on her back. The only difference was that it was a Bass Guitar. A Rickenbacker 4001.
" I see your point...So 'First class space patrol officer Haruko'... Naota began. " Why are we here no wait I stand corrected what am I doing here?"
"Because your head is the only one the works Takun." Haruko softly said.
This caused Naota to blush profusely and lost his concentration that he nearly lost his balance on the sidewalk. Thanks to Canti's quick thinking he was caught in the nick of time.
"Thanks Canti." Naota said as he got off the robot's grip. And they continued to walk to wherever it is they are going. Canti is their trusty companion and very reliable in many ways espically in combat. A robot that is basically harmless and is more of a pacifist than a fighter. When he transforms hell is unleashed. So for Canti to appear more human he was wearing human clothes. He was wearing navy blue shorts along with a formal suit that looked like a school uniform. He also had a guitar strapped to his back. A Gibson EB-0, the 1961 model.
They were walking to a hotel that was near their location until Noata spotted something he wish he didn't see. He grunted to himself realizing the reason of why he was brought here in the first place.
"I know why were here." Naota said which caused them everyone to stop in their tracks. Canti had a question mark on his monitor and Haruko glanced at Naota to hear what he has to say.
He then pointed to a familiar building that is in the shape of an iron. " Thats why. Medical Mechanica is here."
Canti took a glance at the building and his screen was flashing with Question Marks and Exclamation marks. You could tell he was flabbergasted by the discovery. Haruko was just standing grinning the type of grin that was cute, but at the same time it's the type of grin that is like Im-gonna-slam-your-face-with-my-Rickenbacker-4001-bass-guitar grin.
Naota knew shit was gonna go down he just didn't know when the shit was going to go down. Speaking of shit going down...
"Damn Haruko why did you have to make curry before we left. Espically spicy curry you know I hate spicy stuff!" Naota growled while holding his stomach which was making gurgling noises.
Haruko was just grinning until they reached their hotel location. "You don't need to worry anymore because we are here." she replied. And with that they quickly head inside the hotel to check in. Soon after Naota took care of his business. Yet he had another problem...
"WHERE THE HELL IS THE TOILET PAPER!" Naota yelled but received no response.
"This is going to be a hell of a day." he muttered to himself.
Meanwhile at a apartment complex not far from where they were...
Naota wasn't the only one that was having problem there was someone else. A 14- year old kid was awaken by the stinging of the sun's rays that were piercing through his window. He was also awaken by a certain redhead German girl's yelling. It was a typical morning either you get bitchslapped by the German, the German tells you off and then bitchslaps you, regardless what happens in any case you will get slapped.
"Hey is that Baka Shinji still in bed!" Asuka shouted as she opened Shinji's room to see Shinji still in his bed still quite dazed. They just glared at each other until Asuka broke the silence.
"You better not be having any perverted thoughts about me Baka." she stated.
Shinji just mumbled at her and just wanted to go back to sleep. Or at least tried to. He knew he was going to slapped it was just a matter of time.
"Hey it's time to get up you dork, and make me breakfast!" Asuka exclaimed as she forcefully lifted Shinji's bed sheets from his grasp to reveal something that already woke up bright and early.
Noticing this Shinji immediately grabbed his bed sheets from Asuka to hide his awaken companion. Asuka just stood there shocked, her face was blushing like crazy. She could not believe what she just saw.
"CAN YOU PLEASE LEAVE ASUKA!" Shinji yelled causing the redhead to snap herself back to reality.
"Once a pervert always a pervert!" Asuka exclaimed as she walked out of his room slowly swaying her hips on purpose to tease Shinji.
Shinji just sat there embarrassed on what just happened. He then slowly got up from his bed noticing his companion's presence. He was also shocked this was the actual first time that he never got slapped by the redhead German girl. Besides even though Asuka was too shocked to see it he was blushing madly. He always had a thing for Asuka. He didn't what it was though. Was it because her looks would put Venus to shame or was it the way she always had a fiery spirit. He may never know but one thing is certain. He was smitten for the German. He knew that but he did not want Asuka to know not yet.
At the same time Asuka was outside the door a little bit surprised. She was the one to never show any type of affection because her pride wouldn't allow her but something happened that cause her affection to be shown clearly. She didn't want no one to know but she had quite the crush on Shinji. When they first met on the 'Over The Rainbow' she wanted to say the first thing that came to her mind but her pride beat her to it. From what they went through they have gotten along with each other quite well even though her ego got in the way. And with everything that happened between them only fueled her desire and affection to be with Shinji. Yet one thing bothered her that might bring her whole world down. 'Does he feel the same for me?' she wondered. She just shrugged it off and headed towards the living room. But the thought kept nagging on the back of her head. As for Shinji he was stuck in his room trying to thinking to think of a solution for his 'big' problem.
"Damn it." he muttered to himself. "Why does Asuka always have to tease me like that? I swear I think she does that on purpose." He stared down and noticed that it was still erect. 'Why won't you go down!' he thought. Then he had an idea. 'Ill think of disturbing things. Umm dead kittens, Father in a thong...' Right after that thought it shrunk back to it's original size. "Well that did the trick." he muttered as he stretched himself and began to exit his room.
He then put slowly walked at the end of the hallway to see Asuka still in her PJs sitting on the couch watching a show with PenPen and Misato joining her.
"Morning." Shinji called out.
"Morning Shinji-Kun!" Misato exclaimed.
Asuka just leaned a bit from the couch so could give Shinji a evil and menacing grin. Shinji just shuddered by the sight of it but then regained his composure. Then he proceeded towards the kitchen. It was a Wednesday but due to the fact that the school is still partly destroyed, school has been temporarily closed.
He was preparing breakfast for himself and his roommates. The sound of the sausages sizzling was making Misato and Asuka quite hungry. So they put forth all their efforts into watching the show that was on T.V. It was a show featuring a pink dog named Maromi who was helping a young baseball kid with a problem that he was having (This was featured in a episode of Paranoia Agent.). Asuka wanted to watch the show which gave Misato quite the shock.
"Never knew this side of Asuka before, this show is for kids!" Misato thought to herself as she popped open her beer can which she began to guzzle down.
Then Misato looked at what Asuka was wearing. Her PJs was covered with Maromi designs that Immediately gave the fact that she was quite the Maromi fan. Even from the sizzling of the sausages and eggs Shinji could overhear the show's dialogue and soon realized what the show was.
"Ain't that kid show with the pink dog?" he called out from the kitchen.
"Yes, do you have a problem with that Third Child?" she growled at him.
"No, no problem at all!" he stammered. He didn't want to get start another quarrel with Asuka especially in the morning. Before he knew it he ad finished preparing breakfast for him and his roommates. He prepared scrambled eggs with sausages something that he did not prepare often but thanks to the constant bickering and 'convincing' courtesy of the redhead German known as Asuka Langley Soryu, he decided to make the traditional European breakfast more often. He then prepared the table for breakfast. Asuka and Misato saw this as the sign the breakfast was about to be served. They proceeded towards the table where Shinji came out with the plates almost up to the rim with food. Almost immediately they gobbled down their food. Well almost everyone Shinji was eating but it was like he wasn't was hungry. Misato noticed this and decided to take action.
"What's wrong Shinji-Kun?" Misato asked. This caused Asuka to look up from her plate and took a glance at a troubled Shinji.
"Are you aware about that new plant that opened up?" Shinji asked.
"You are talking about the Medical Mechanica plant right?" she replied. Shinji replied by giving a nod.
"That is the building that is shaped like an iron right?" Asuka asked in curiosity as in wondering where the conversation is leading to. Shinji then gave a nod to Asuka.
"Yeah, I was wondering why they decided to build a plant here?" Shinji asked.
"Well Baka it is maybe because Tokyo-3 is one of the safest places to be at!" Asuka exclaimed. "It's better to be here than anywhere else at least here we have protection against the Angels." she finished.
"Asuka is right Shinji." Misato began. She was quite surprised that for once she was taking Asuka's side. " If Medical Mechanica wants to build a plant they should do it here."
"But we don't anything about it though, besides even though we live in Tokyo-3 it is still not safe, you know as much as I know that Tokyo-3 still gets heavily damaged by angel attacks." he points out to porch and outside are craters left behind by previous angel attacks.
"Damn Baka you worry to much." Asuka flatly replied. "If Medical Mechanica even tries to pull a fast one, they would soon regret it, after all NERV is stationed here you know."
"Yeah I guess your're right." he barely said.
"Of course I'm right after all I am the great Asuka Langley Soryu after all." she proudly said. And with that they continued to eat their breakfast but Shinji still had the nagging thought in the back of his head that this was not going to end well.
Inside the Interstellar Immigration Bureau building...
The Interstellar Immigration Bureau is one of the most confidential military organizations in the planet. It has a military clearing that outclassed all military related organizations in the planet including NERV. Yet they remain secretive and elusive. After the Second Impact ordeal The Bureau was considered a huge necessity than ever before. No one knows they exist or what they do. They are like the Area-51 but on a Global Scale. Their job is to investigate any extraterrestrial happenings and or events.
"Commander! Commander Amarao!" a blond woman uniform shouted to her superior officer. She was fully dressed in her Military Uniform attire. She was then approached by a man wearing a black suit with short red hair and unnatural eyebrows. The eyebrows look like paper cut outs.
"Lieutenant Kitsurubami?" he asked abruptly. He was working out on his treadmill but then stopped to hear what the Lieutenant had to say that was so urgent.
"It's- It's about Medical Mechanica..." she panted.
"What about Medical Mechanica?" he asked seriously as he glanced and noticed some papers in her left hand.
"They have a new plant located in Tokyo-3." she stated.
The Commander looked perplexed when he received the information he was wondering why would Medical Mechanica set up a plant inside a fortified city that at most cases is heavily guarded.
"But that is not all..." she replied ending his train of thought. "We have another problem." she finished as she handed him the papers that was in her left hand.
"Raharu..." he growled. He starts to crumple the paper that showed camera images of Haruko along with Naota and Canti.
"According to reports that she has arrived in Tokyo-3 not to long ago along with the boy and the robot."
"With Medical Mechanica in Tokyo-3 and Raharu being there as well along with the others being there it's going to be a disaster." His mind was then a trail of thought thinking on what to do while the Lieutenant was there next to him waiting for his next response.
"How long will it take for us to reach Tokyo-3?" he suddenly asked.
"About a two or three days by train." she stated.
"Not good enough... Do we have anyone that is stationed at Tokyo-3?"
The Lieutenant then began to go through The Bureau files at a computer that was nearby and to see if there was anyone that could called upon. It took a while then she got the results that she wanted and then presented them to the Commander.
"We have two agents stationed there. They are named Keiichi Ikari and the other is named Mitsuhiro Maniwa. We also have a confirmation that another agent from America is on his way to Tokyo-3 he goes by the name of Edward "Eddie" Valiant and is being accompanied by a Roger Rabbit? He seems to be an agent as well."
The Commander then got off from his treadmill and wiped the sweat off his face with a clean towel that was around his neck. He then began to walk out of the room with the Lieutenant trailing not far behind.
"Ms. Kitsurubami..." he began.
"Commander?"
"I want you to contact those agents by the looks of things we are going to need their help."
"Anything else Commander?" she asked in her concerned tone. The commander then shot a glance at the Lieutenant then turned his attention back to the front.
"Yes, prepare your belongings we are going to Tokyo-3."
Back in Tokyo-3...
" I see Naota Nandaba, Haruko Haruhara or Haruha Raharu, and Canti a teal robot." a man with brown hair spoke while on the phone. "Can you process more information on our computer it would greatly affect the help the case. Thanks. Bye."
"What was that about?" another man asked approaching him. He looked like a seasoned agent. He looked at his companion, his partner in crime literally. "Maniwa..." he began to feel slightly aggrivated by being ignored.
"We have an assignment... and by the looks of it this is going to be quite the assignment."
Keniichi Ikari gave a uneasy look at Maniwa.
"I wish I was back in the good old days." Keniichi muttered to himself.
'The same old chief.' Maniwa thought to himself. Then proceeded to inform oldest agent of what their assignment is about.
"We have a couple of people to track. It seems they have something related with Medical Mechanica and they want us to spy on them for the time being. I requested more information about this assignment so we can get off at the right foot."
"Anything else, Maniwa?"
"Believe it or not Commander Amarao and his right hand man I mean woman is coming here as well. Not to mention we have another agent coming from America to help us out as well."
"Shit... this is going to be one hell of an assignment."
While they were discussing their assignment another agent arrived at the Tokyo-2 International Airport along with another agent who happened to be at his side. However this agent was different then other agents. There was something about him that was quite different.
"We are in Japan!" an overjoyed white rabbit said while jumping up and down in happiness.
Now this is a good time to tell you the story between the famous duo Eddie Valiant and Roger Rabbit. You may have heard the story of how Eddie Valiant along with Roger Rabbit have saved Toontown from the hands of Judge Doom. But what you didn't hear is what happened next which is what I am about to tell you. After the Toontown incident Eddie Valiant lived in Toontown for quite the while, living among the toons and being the chief Detective for Toontown and his partner in crime was none other than Roger Rabbit. Roger Rabbit had two jobs one working for R.K Maroon studios and working with Eddie. For a while they solved plenty of crimes until they were specially called. They were called by none other than the The Interstellar Immigration Bureau. Noticing their experience they have been asked by The Bureau to join in. At first Roger declined the offer but then when he saw Eddie eventually accepted he decided to join in. After being admitted to The Bureau, Roger made history by being the first toon in history to ever be accepted in The Bureau. As for the detective agency in Toontown it is being temporarily operated by Mickey Mouse, Daffy Duck, and Goofy along with Bugs Bunny and Donald Duck working in Forensics. The cops are Porky Pig, Tom Cat, Jerry Mouse, Woody the Woodpecker and some others.
"Cool it Roger." Eddie grumbled. The thing about Eddie is that he knows how Roger acts. When he gets all happy and giddy about something he gets really annoying sure he is still lovable but damn so much a man can take. Especially for Eddie who had more than his fair share of toons. Over the course of how long they knew each other he knew only one thing that would stop the over-hyper, sugar-induced Bugs Bunny look alike. By grabbing his ears and grabbing them hard.
"Didn't I tell you to cool it!" Eddie growled. The rabbit just responded to him by giving the sad puppy dog that any experienced toon already knows how to do. But Eddie having a enormous amount of experience of toons wasn't going to fall for Roger's trick.
"Don't give me that look." he flatly said as he let go of Roger's ears. "You have to act like a professional, and I am still surprised that they let a toon be an agent."
"The first toon to ever be an agent for The Bureau!" he gleefully said.
Eddie just shrugged off Roger's response and wanted to ask a question.
"Roger, I have a question why the hell did you choose Japan as a vacation spot?" he asked quite aggravated.
"Because Eddie my dear boy, Japan is known for Anime!" he happily said. But even that response made Eddie even more confused.
"Umm what is anime?" Eddie asked cluelessly.
"What is anime, what is anime!" Eddie then noticed some people staring at them which caused him to be even more aggravated. He then kicked Roger in the groin which caused him to fly and land at the Luggage claim which was nearby.
"No respect!" Roger grunted as he got off the conveyor belt of the Luggage Claim.
"It's your fault!" Eddie said abruptly. "Now tell me what this anime is."
"Well my dear chum..." Roger began as he dusted himself off. "Anime is like the toon's of Japan, it's Japanese animation but the majority of the time it has a serious tone. You could say that this could easily fit your personality."
"We'll see about that." Eddie said as he got his luggage out of the conveyor belt. "Just what I need more toons!" he muttered.
"It's not toons it's called Anime." Roger responded. The response just caused Roger to have daggers glared at him by Eddie. Roger just zipped up his mouth literally.
"Regardless they are still..." he was interrupted by a ringing of his phone. He took a glance at his phone and realized that The Bureau was calling him.
"What the hell do they want?" he grumbled. "Can't they see that I am on vacation?" Then he proceeded by answering his phone. "Agent Valiant speaking." he answered.
The Rabbit just looked at Eddie he looked like he just ate a truckload of Louisiana peppers! Boy was he fuming and fuming hard.
"Alright, alright!" Then Eddie hanged up the phone in rage.
"What's wrong Eddie?" Roger asked curiously.
"Well we can kiss our vacation good-bye. Because we have another assignment to do." he replied while ending it with a heavy sigh.
"Where do we have to go?"
"Next time Roger I pick where we are going, because it's either me or its a mere coincidence that or next assignment is right here! In the land of the rising sun!"
Roger was about to speak but was interrupted by Eddie.
"We have to go to Tokyo-3 and meet up with two other agents but. Plus I heard Commander Amarao and Lieutenant Kitsurubami are coming as well. As far as I can tell this is going to be crazy."
They waited for the transport that would take them to Tokyo-3. The ones to pick them up would be Agent Maniwa and Agent Ikari. So they were waiting that sat on a bench at the pickup station at the airport. While they were waiting Roger pulled something out of his unseen pocket. It was a Manga which then he began to read. Eddie noticed this and looked at the book with curiosity.
"What's that a comic book?" he asked.
"It's not a comic book it's called a Manga." That didn't help at all. He looked confused as much as he when he didn't know what anime was. Roger noticed this and then gave a sigh. "It's more of a graphic novel than a comic book plus it has the styling of anime."
Eddie then nodded and realized that he was reading the book backwards or so he thought...
"Aren't you reading it backwards?"
"Nope. It supposed to be read from this direction It takes some time getting use to especially a guy like you but it's easy once you get the hang of it."
"What do you mean by a guy like me?" he growled.
"Umm it's not what you think..." By then Roger was saved by the screeching of tires. They looked up and saw a black car that looked like Subaru Impreza. The windows were brought down to reveal two agents.
"Are you Agent Valiant and Agent Rabbit?" Maniwa asked since he was in the driver's seat (You know how the driver seat is in place of the passenger seat in Japan.).
'So that's how Anime Characters look like, they look pretty damn sophisticated if you ask me.' Eddie thought to himself but then regained his attention
"Yeah thats us and you must be Agent Maniwa and Agent Ikari." Eddie responded.
"Yeah, thats us as well now get in we don't have much time to spare you know."
With that they opened the trunk so they can put all their belongings inside. Once they were done with that they got inside the car and began their trip to Tokyo-3. It was quite the trip so they took the highway to get there but it would be about a good hour until they arrive at Tokyo-3.
"So you guys are from America right?" Maniwa began. He was always the eager one to start a conversation.
"Yeah we are!" Roger happily replied. "It's good to meet other toons like yourself I mean anime characters." Eddie just sat there snickering.
"So Roger I think your aren't the first toon to ever be in The Bureau." he sniggered.
"Oh he is the first toon. We aren't toons like Roger said we are anime characters, big difference. There are plenty of anime characters in The Bureau but not a toon." Ikari stated. Eddie just muttered in disbelief in his opinion he did not see any damn difference with the two. They are both animated.
"Wait a minute... I recognize you, you're Roger Rabbit!" Maniwa exclaimed. "Oh man you worked with Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse right?"
"The very same guy." Eddie replied out of nowhere. "The name is Eddie Valiant."
"The same Eddie Valiant that saved Toontown some years ago?" Ikari asked.
"The very same." he simply replied.
"Oh man you must have had a good job working with all those toons. Who did you meet?" Maniwa was very eager now. Something that truely detested Ikari. So he stopped him the only way he knew how slapping him on the head.
"OWW WHAT WAS THAT FOR?" Maniwa cried out. Ikari was just holding his ears as he was wincing in pain.
"DAMN IT MANIWA I'M NOT DEAF YOU KNOW!" Ikari yelled at Maniwa. Valiant and Roger just stood there dumbfounded and sweatdropping. Realizing that there would be no end to this Roger thought of a immediate solution.
"Don't you dare Roger." Eddie grumbled as he saw Roger pull out a bottle of seltzer water that read "Acme High pressured Seltzer Water. Fun for all your friends!". Ikari and Maniwa wasn't aware of the impending watery consequence that was going to be bestowed on them.
"No choice!" he said. Then he sprayed both Maniwa and Ikari in the face with the seltzer water at the same time, he bought a bottle that had "A dual action nozzle for more fun!" as stated on the bottle. All was heard was gurgling noises telling him to stop. Roger then forgot to let go and sprayed Eddie and himself in the face. Roger then let go of the handle to reveal a royally pissed off Maniwa and Ikari and a hellbent Valiant glaring daggers at Roger.
"Hmm you guys have no sense of humor." Roger said as he put away the seltzer bottle.
"How can we have a sense of humor when you ruined this car!" Maniwa shouted his face was dripping with water. The car was dripping with water the interior was soaking wet and the radio was like stuck on repeat indicating that it was also ruined. So in order not to have any more problems he stopped the car. "Besides the car doesn't belong to us anyway!"
"It doesn't?" Roger worriedly said as his ears were drooping as a sign of being ashamed.
"No you dolt!" Valiant spoke up. "It belongs to The Bureau! Didn't you notice the bumper sticker that was in the back of the car?"
"Why would have a bumper sticker about The Bureau if it's supposed to be a secret!" Roger implied trying to have have a chance. But it failed as much as Daffy Duck tries to upstage Bugs Bunny or when Sylvester tries to catch Tweety or Speedy Gonzalez.
"That is not the point!" Ikari yelled. "The point is that the car is ruined and The Bureau is going to torch our asses for this, I know for a fact this is not coming off my paycheck!"
"Mine neither!" Maniwa chimed in. Then the both stared at Eddie and Roger especially Roger for being the perpetrator of this crime.
"Fine I'll pay for it." Roger said dryly. Eddie just gave Roger the look.
"Like you ever had a choice." Eddie replied. With that they continued on their destination to Tokyo-3.
They then laid down the facts that were bestowed on them.
1. They were drenched in water.
2 .The interior was drenched in water.
3. The radio was dead because of the water.
4. It was an hour drive to Tokyo-3.
5 .The windows are jammed because of the water.
6. The A/C for some weird reason was still on and cannot be turned off.
7. The nearest mechanic is at Tokyo-3.
8. This was going to be the worst ride of all time.
A/N: That was the first chapter of the story. Keniichi Ikari and Mitsuhiro Maniwa are from Paranoia Agent and Eddie Valiant and Roger Rabbit are of course from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?". Anyway all the characters in this chapter are going to be the main characters for the story. Some other characters in this story will have more appearances than others but I'll try my best to create even spotlight to all that are featured I can't guarantee it. Some might have a brief appearance while others might have more. By the way expect there to be some surprise occurrences. Anyway this was my first shot at an Evangelion fanfic and what a way to make a first one hope you like it and if its successful there will be plenty more of this to come. So please Read & Review!