I was surfing the net one day and stumbled on a fan-made image of Rei in a Star Wars-esque environment. That's what gave me the idea to write this fic, therefore I want to thank that unknown artist (couldn't see any name) for giving me inspiration. I hope you'll enjoy my fic!
OOC Warning: It's a well known fact that the personality depends on a person's environment, therefore if you change the environment the characters are bound to have different personalities. However I'll still try to preserve most personality traits in this fic, I'm just giving you a little warning here.
Disclaimer: Boy, would I've been loaded if I owned both Star Wars and Eva, but since I'm broke I guess I don't own it.
Fly Me to the Stars
A Star Wars/Evangelion x-over by Ausir
Prologue
"The Clone Wars; that is what we call the series of devastating battles which raged across the galaxy…" The old teacher walked slowly back and forth in front of his class.
"It went on for nearly three years and claimed countless humanoid lives…" He stopped and gazed over the students in black and grey uniforms who were all sitting at attention.
"And, as if this was not enough, in the final moments of the war, those fanatic Jedi attempted to assassinate our great leader!" He sighed. "Fortunately, due to lord Vader's loyalty, our Emperor's life was saved, and the treacherous Jedi destroyed"
He began to walk back and forth again "By the closing of the war, fifteen years ago, the galaxy lay in ruins. However, thanks to the suffering and hard work of your parents and those of others, as well as the leadership of our great Emperor, the galaxy has recovered much. It is up to you, the younger generation, to lead the Galactic Empire to further glory under the wise rule of Emperor Palpatine"
The teacher stopped his ramblings when the electronic bell sounded. The class rose as one, saluted their teacher and marched out. However, once they had left the classroom, all formality was thrown out the window, and the class began to behave like most other fourteen and fifteen year olds across the galaxy.
"Can't he ever shut up?"
"He's been telling us the same story for several years now"
"Teach is like an old holonet-recording"
"Anyways, what are you doing this weekend?"
"Going to the arcade, wanna come?"
"Hell yeah!"
"I can't, I've got an assignment"
Among the fifty or so students, a certain trinity was now headed for the gates of Coruscant's Imperial High School. The members of this small group were: Ikari Shinji, the son of two of the highest ranked imperial researchers, Gendo and Yui Ikari, Aida Kensuke, whose father worked in the Imperial Security Bureau and finally Suzuhara Touji, whose father was an engineer on one of the countless Star Destroyers scattered across the galaxy.
Touji put his hands behind his neck and gazed towards the sky "Man, if graduation came tomorrow it wouldn't be one day too early" he announced.
"Yep" Kensuke nodded in agreement.
"Hey, Shin-man" Touji turned towards his other friend "Can'tcha get ya parents to take the Teach in as one of their experiments?"
The meek boy shrugged "Don't think so" he answered "I think you have to be a convicted prisoner or something to be used as a guinea-pig"
"That sure is a shame" Touji said.
Kensuke grinned "Don't worry! Once I'm a Walker pilot I'll hunt Teach down and step on him!"
"Yeah right like they'll ever let you pilot anything" Touji made a macho pose (although everyone else thought he just looked stupid) "Me on the other hand, will be an elite commando trooper" he boasted.
"And you said my ambition was ridiculous" Kensuke mocked him.
Touji glared at him "At least it's cooler than sitting in a cockpit for the rest of your life" he said.
"Hey Shinji what do you want to be" Kensuke asked, completely ignoring Touji's response.
Shinji looked unsure "Um, I don't really know" He sighed "I think mom and dad wants me to become an imperial commander or something like that though" Shinji really loved his parents, but sometimes he felt they had too high expectations on him.
Touji and Kensuke looked at each other and then burst out laughing "You? An imperial commander? Hope they're prepared for disappointment" Touji said still laughing.
As they continued to walk their way home on the sidewalk, Shinji could hear something approaching at high speed a bit above and behind them. He looked behind him to see what it was and instantly paled.
"Get down!" he yelled, casting them to the ground mere seconds before a blue speeder whooshed over them. The speeder made a U-turn and scraped against the wall of a nearby building and finally made a screeching halt right in front of the three boys, who were all trembling from the shock.
Out f the speeder stepped a purple haired female imperial officer, wearing a typical black uniform, although it was slightly… modified. The long sleeved shirt with buttons all the way up to the neck had been buttoned up to reveal a lot of cleavage. Further more, the black skirt which normally reached down past the knees had been folded so it now ended a good way above her knees. The overall appearance of the bombshell in front of them made small streams of blood trickle down all three boys' noses. The purple haired beauty steeped up to them.
"Which one of you is Ikari Shinji-kun?" she asked.
While the boy in question merely blinked dumbly, his two friends assaulted him with looks of envy and hatred. Touji spoke first. "Hey, Shin-man, how come you've managed to hook up with such a babe!"
"That's right!" Kensuke exclaimed while pushing his glasses up the bridge of his nose "you shouldn't be keeping these kinds of things secret from your two best friends!"
Shinji backed a few steps and raised his hands defensively "I don't know what you're talking about! I've never seen her before in my entire life!"
"Yeah right!" the two others yelled in unison.
While Touji and Kensuke demanded their friend to 'spill the details', the woman in question walked up to Shinji. "I take it you're Ikari Shinji-kun?"
"Um… yeah I am" he said, thankful that she had saved him from Touji and Kensuke's embarrassing questions.
"Your parents sent me to pick you up"
"Mom and dad did? Why?"
The woman shrugged "Dunno, but they asked me to hurry up so I guess it's pretty important, now come on"
Shinji obediently followed the female officer to her speeder. She jumped in and began to start it up, while Shinji turned to his friends "Eh, see you later guys" he said.
"Sure, just don't forget to tell us how your date went!" Kensuke said. Both he and Touji were grinning broadly.
When the speeder took of, Shinji was thrust back into his seat by the huge g-force. 'Damn', he thought, 'she must be driving near the speed of sound!' Aside from driving insanely fast, the woman also seemed to be blissfully ignorant of any traffic rules, speeding past or zigzagging between all the other drivers, probably causing quite a few accidents in the process. After a while, Shinji got used to the speed and the rocking from side to side and ventured to talk.
"So… um… what did you say your name was?" he asked.
To his horror, the purple haired woman took her eyes from the traffic and put them on him instead. "Oh that's right I forgot to tell you my name", she said. "I'm Captain Katsuragi, but you can call me Misato" She flashed him a grin which made Shinji blush. She was being a little too friendly in his opinion.
His embarrassment was overridden however, by the much more acute need for self preservation. "Misato-san!" he pleaded "please keep your eyes on the traffic!"
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In the depths of the GEHIRN research lab, a short haired female in a lab coat stood inside her office. She was looking at a small photo. 'I can't believe I'm going to let this happen to my own CHILD' Behind her a door opened, and a tall man with dark hair and orange tinted glasses stepped in.
"Is something wrong, Yui?" the man asked with a worried look.
Yui turned towards the man, her husband. "I don't know, dear" She put down the photo on a nearby bench and heaved a sigh. "It's just… what if we're wrong, what if something happens and…" She began to break into tears. "I couldn't bear loosing my little boy"
Her husband walked up to her and embraced her. "Shhh… nothing will happen to our son" He tried to comfort her while she continued to sniffle against his shoulder. "Besides, his parents will be there"
The sobbing stopped and Yui rose her face to meet that of her husband "Yes Gen-chan, we will be there" Yui wiped the remaining tears away "We can make sure nothing happens to Shinji" Gendo smiled at her and they shared a brief kiss before reluctantly parting away from each other.
"We should get going" Gendo said "Captain Katsuragi will be here with Shinji any minute now" They both exited the office and went to meet up with their son.
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There were only a few buildings on Coruscant which could rival the Imperial Palace in its size. Among these were the Imperial Academy, the Imperial Advertising Department and most notably, the GEHIRN Research Centre. The research centre consisted of a pyramid shaped depression several kilometres deep, connected with a tall pyramid at one of its points; this was where most of the research took place. The administrative part was nowhere as impressive, it was merely a very tall building behind the pyramid. There were also rumours about a second underground lab for the more… eccentric… experiments; however, any GEHIRN staff would always deny that such a lab existed.
The whole compound spanned an area of several hundred kilometres and could even be seen from high orbit, a fact which Shinji had no difficulty believing in when Misato's speeder closed in on the monumental compound. Since GEHIRN was owned by the government, it was well protected by several powerful blaster cannons and its own garrison of patrolling storm troopers.
"Wow" It was Shinji's first time to see where his parents worked, and the sight awed him.
"Pretty impressive, huh?" Misato asked.
"Yeah" Shinji absently answered, never once averting his gaze from the impressive sight.
They were briefly halted by a patrolling trooper on a speeder bike who asked for identification. Once they had been cleared Misato steered them towards a landing platform by the pyramid. Once they had landed, Misato led Shinji towards the entrance, where he could see his parents waiting for him. Shinji had barely seen them for months; they had been too occupied with their latest project.
"Mom, Dad!" he called out and waved at them.
"Glad you could make it sweetie!" Yui waved back, Gendo just smiled at his approaching son.
After giving his parents a quick hug, Shinji aired the question which was burning in his mind "So, what's the big deal you guys? I mean, I've barely seen you for months and now you invite me to your work?" Both his parent's expressions became quite serious.
Yui put her hand on Shinji's shoulder "Sweetie, we've brought you here because we have something we want to show you"
"Huh? Show me what?" Shinji was taken back a little by his mother's serious tone.
Gendo stepped in "I think we should take this inside" he proposed.
Yui looked at him "Yeah, I think you're right, dear" Then she turned to Misato "Thank you for bringing our son here, Captain, you may leave now" Misato saluted wordlessly and turned to walk back to her speeder, but not before flashing Shinji another flirtatious smile.
"Now, Shinji" Gendo spoke "we are going to show you what we've been working on for these past months" He began to walk towards the entrance, shortly followed by his wife and son.
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Inside the research centre they had taken an elevator. Shinji couldn't be sure, but he felt that either the elevator was just slow or it went a long way down. They got out of the elevator and walked for quite a bit, Shinji behind his two parents. They walked in silence. After what seemed like hours, Gendou and Yui stopped in front of a door.
Yui turned to face Shinji. "Before we can show you what we've been working on down here, sweetie, we need you to do a couple of tests for us" She opened the door. Shinji hesitated. "Go on sweetie, there's nothing to worry about" his mother told him reassuringly. Shinji, being careful by nature, hesitated for a few more seconds before entering.
When the door closed behind him, Shinji was greeted by two females in lab coats. One was quite young, the other about the same age as his mom. The older woman smiled at him.
"You must be Shinji-kun" she said. Shinji nodded.
"Good, I am Doctor Akagi Naoko and this is my daughter, Ritsuko" Shinji turned to the one called Ritsuko who gave him a short nod before her mother continued.
"Would you please take of your shirt so we may begin your testing…"
The tests went on for nearly two hours. They weighed him, checked his reflexes and eyesight, made him do some exercises to learn his physical condition and so on. Most of the tests were fairly normal; however some of them were beyond Shinji's comprehension. Like when they took a blood sample and began to count his midi-something-s or when they asked him to guess what was shown on a screen which was turned away from him. Although they did seem to like whatever they found out from it.
When they had finished testing him, Ritsuko presented a black rubbery uniform to him. "You should put this on" she said.
"Um… what is it?" he asked timidly. Some of the tests had been very embarrassing.
"It's a special suit needed for the final test" she explained.
Shinji put it on with some reluctance. Even though the two doctors had already seen all of him, it was still uncomfortable to change in front of two women. The suit was quite flabby when he put it on, but when he was finished, the elder Akagi told him to press a button on his left wrist. Once he pressed the button, the suit instantly became skin tight. It was still quite comfortable to wear however, like a second skin. After a quick inspection of the suit, the two doctors pushed him trough a second door and into a pitch-black room.
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Unknown to Shinji, both his parents were looking over his test results as they came in.
"I always knew our son was in tip top condition" Yui said proudly.
"Hm-mm" her husband agreed "His reflexes are pretty good and so is his stamina and…" Gendo frowned "His hand-eye coordination is lacking though" It wasn't that big a surprise to him. Gendo knew that his son could be quite clumsy on occasion.
"It is? Let me see" Yui took the info-screen from him. "It's not that bad" she decided after looking it over for a minute "we'll just have to train him in those areas where he's lacking" She handed the info-screen back to her husband.
Gendo nodded "Yes, besides, he's doing very well considering the circumstances" He smiled.
His wife punched her fist playfully into the air "Hell yeah! That's my baby!" she yelled.
The info-screen made a little sound as new information was added. Gendo looked down at it. "Oh" he said "Shinji's midi-chlorian test is just in" After he had read the message, Gendo merely stared at the small screen.
"Well how is it?" Yui asked "Come on, tell me, tell me!" She went to her husband's side and looked at the text and numbers on the small screen. Her eyes grew large. "Wow"
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To be continued…
AN: MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I'm gonna leave you hanging from this cliff for a weak or so (I have school and other fics to attend to) but I will update soon enough so just hang on and review if you feel like it.