Devil Never Cries
By: Andross937
disclaimer: Neither Neon Genesis Evangelion, nor Devil May Cry belongs to me in any way. I claim no ownership over either, and am making no profit from this story. The sole purpose for me writing this story is my own personal enjoyment, and so that others may possibly take some enjoyment from it as well. If the owners of either Neon Genesis Evangelion or Devil Man Cry wish it, I will remove this story from the internet completely. If someone is seriously offended by the material in this story, I will take the story down and attempt to remove the offending material before reposting it. If it is impossible to remove the offending material, I will leave the story off the internet all together.
-prologue-
The night was dark and cold as rain poured onto the streets and rooftops of the small city that few cared about. Despite the rain and the angry thunder rolling off the building walls, the sounds of crying could be heard near the train station. The sky thundered again at the sounds, as if trying to drown out the sounds of sadness from its ears, so that it could continue watering the city's streets in peace.
Still, the sounds of crying continued. At its source was the four year old Shinji Ikari, kneeling over the dead body of his teacher who he had been given to less then a full hour ago. The man had been stabbed in the chest with a large blade, and the one who had stabbed him still stood before Shinji. Shinji looked up with tears and rain stinging his eyes as he looked upon his teacher's killer.
It was a demon, Shinji's young mind knew that for a fact, without any hesitation or doubt. It was almost nothing but a skeleton covered in black robes with glowing red eyes. The bloody scythe it held over its head, still dripping with his teacher's blood, only served to hammer this fact in. It moaned lifelessly as it stood over Shinji, looking down at him with its dead face of a shriveled elongated skull.
Slowly it raised it's scythe up into the air high above its head, intending to bring it down on Shinji's child body. A lightning bolt flashed just over head, and thunder cracked that moment as the scythe cast a shadow over Shinji's face from the lightning. It paused as the demon made a strange noise of confusion, and Shinji finally looked away from the frozen scythe to see what had caused it. A huge sword was impaled through the demon's chest from behind, freezing the demon in motion.
With a quick slash upwards, the sword cut the demon in half. It's body burst into sand, spraying across Shinji's wet face, nearly blinding him as he had to cough to get the sand out of his open mouth and nose. Still, his stinging eyes returned to that blood stained scythe as it fell to the alley floor, landing in a puddle. He watched unblinking as the water and rain washed the blood off of the blade. Quickly the puddle turned red with the blood, while the blade became clean again.
Only when he saw the reflecting shine of the blade in the bloody puddle did he look up to see what had saved him. It was a man, standing tall above the kneeling four year old. He twirled the sword expertly for a moment before placing it back in its holder behind his back.
The man had white hair in a similar style to Shinji's hair cut, and soaked with the rain. His skin was pale, like a white American. His eyes were light blue and looked down at Shinji with some sympathy. He wore a red trench coat with only the inside buckle of the two buckles buckled, and his bare chest was plainly shown underneath. A pair of brown leather pants traveled down his legs until they were tucked into a pair of black heavy duty boots that were unzipped and buckled.
Looking up at the man's face again, even young Shinji could see the sympathy held in his features.
"Hey kid."
-end of prologue-
A train came pulling up into the station and its doors opened. As soon as the doors opened, the lights went out and the entire train powered down, leaving its doors wide open to let the passengers out. The gesture was appreciated by the lone passenger as he stepped out. The now fourteen year old Shinji looked up into the sky, shielding his eyes from the light with his hand.
Casting a glance around, he could see no one in the station or in the streets just outside of the station. Calmly walking out of the station and out into the middle of the street, he cast another glance around the streets. When he could still see no one around, he let out a low whistle.
"Well, this city looks dead to me. Isn't this a pretty picture that just fills a person with confidence." Shinji said with a smirk.
-scene change-
Misato drove her car like a mad woman through the cleared streets. Nervously she looked down at her G.P.S. tracker to see her location and where to go next. Catching a glimpse of the picture of her passenger-to-be, she sighed to herself. Why couldn't they have gotten her a more recent picture then one from his fourth birthday. That cute little party hat nearly covered his hair completely, and his eyes were tightly shut as he grinned wide into the camera.
"Oh man, why did I have to lose him at a time like this? What's the commander going to do when he finds out that I'm late to pick up his son in the middle of an angel attack! I'm going to get fired for sure!" Misato exclaimed to herself. "I sure hope the area he's in is already evacuated, because this picture does squat to help me tell what he looks like, ten years after it was taken!" Misato mumbled loudly to herself in frustration.
The car took another insanely tight turn around a corner, nearly putting it up on two wheels.
-back at the train station-
"We're sorry, but due to the special state of emergency, all lines are unavailable until further notice. Please hang up and try again at another time." came the feminine voice of the machine on the other end of the phone.
Shinji rolled his eyes at this and hung the phone up.
"Well, that just sucks doesn't it... Oh well, can't call my ride." Shinji said as he shrugged.
Shinji pulled out the picture that Misato had sent him and stared at it one more time. It showed Misato in some very relaxing clothing, leaning over and giving the peace sign. The writing on it said that she would meet Shinji at the train station, and to wait for her. The last note on it told him to check out her cleavage, something that was well shown off with the angle she was bent at. Again Shinji's eyebrow raised and his smirk grew slightly as he did just as the note told him to do.
"Well, at least not everything was a total waste in coming here. Maybe I'll get lucky and get to hang around this babe for a while before I consider splitting." Shinji said with a confident smile.
Looking up Shinji glanced at the streets again. This time he spotted something interesting. A young girl with blue hair and red eyes stared at him from across the street. Her stare was blank and her eyes lifeless, but most interesting to Shinji, was the fact that she had no shadow. A flock of birds suddenly took off over head with a gust of wind, crowing and cawing for all they were worth, but Shinji didn't move his eyes. The girl vanished into thin air before Shinji's eyes.
"Well, maybe things will be interesting around here after all." Shinji said with his smirk returning full force.
Just then the ground shook lightly, and the wires of the telephone and electric cables whipped about wildly. Again the ground shook, this time with an audible 'thoomp' from the distance. Again the ground shook and the sound came, now obviously from behind a large hill in the distance.
Shinji looked with curiosity as a giant creature the size of a sky scraper came walking out from behind the hill, with several VTOL's buzzing around it like bees. The creature was ugly, with a black body, green shoulder plates, a red orb in the center of its chest surrounded by ribs sticking out, and a bone face like that of some kind of bird with empty eye sockets. It made no sounds other then the thunderous footsteps as the VTOL's swarmed around it firing all their weapons.
Their weapons did no good as they were stopped by a glowing field of colors that only appeared as something impacted against it. Still, the VTOL's fired on, doing no good against the giant creature. A huge cruise missile flew only a hundred feet above Shinji's head as it curved around a building down the street and flew straight at the creature. It too impacted against the field and did no good as the explosion was shielded against by the field protecting the creature. Shinji let out another low whistle at the sight.
"Wow, now that's a big ugly mug that only a mother could be proud of." Shinji said with his smirk unaffected.
The creature seemed to look up and for the first time, taking notice of the many VTOL's attacking it with as much effect as a bee against a tank. Focusing its almost curious gaze on the nearest VTOL, it reached its arm out as if to grab it. Its arm wasn't quite long enough to reach the craft, but it seemed unaffected by such petty details. A huge energy lance shot out of its palm and impaled the VTOL, sending it crashing to the ground just a few hundred meters in front of Shinji.
Only now did Shinji's smirk disappear, replaced by a frown as his eyes went cold.
"Now that wasn't very nice. Why is the military even bothering with attacking this creature with such ineffective weapons anyways?" Shinji questioned himself.
The creature floated up for a moment, before coming down on the VTOL with one of its feet. The craft exploded in a giant fireball, but the flames never reached Shinji. A blue car screeched its way into the path of the explosion and blocked Shinji's body from the heat and debris. Misato quickly rolled down the passenger window.
"Hey, sorry I'm late! Hop in!" she called out the window.
Shinji took her advice literally as he smirked and grabbed the roof, using it for leverage as he swung his legs and body into the car and landed neatly in his seat. Buckling up quickly, Shinji barely finished before the car took off like a bullet away from the creature's stomping feet. Shinji turned and grinned widely at Misato as soon as they were clear of the danger.
"Nice to finally meet you. And would you mind if I just say... What took you so long!" Shinji exclaimed loudly with his smirk returning.
"Uh, well... I uh... hey, what are you questioning me for? You should be thanking me for saving your life you little..." Misato suddenly stopped talking as she took a good look at Shinji for the first time.
Shinji was in no way little. From what she could tell from looking at him sitting down, he should stand at five feet and seven inches, rather tall for a fourteen year old. Yet his larger size didn't come from his height, but from his well built figure. From what she could tell, he looked like he had been working on a heavily athletic body build, one that was well muscled, but not overly so.
He wore a near body length red trench coat that had only the top of the two buckles done. Beneath the trench coat was a black shirt that was tight on Shinji's chest, showing his figure. The shirt met with the brown heavy duty jeans that were somewhat baggy, but managed to show a bit of muscled leg here or there. The jeans were tucked into loosely tied heavy duty black boots. Also his hands were covered in black fingerless gloves with metal knuckle studs.
A gleam caught Misato's attention and brought it to his neck. Around his neck was a gold necklace with a red gem in the center of it. Looking up from it Misato examined Shinji's face. It showed no signs of pimples or other imperfections that came with puberty, but instead it had only hardened features as if he had already gone through all the developments needed. His dark blue eyes gleamed with confidence that practically oozed out at her. The only thing that matched his confident eyes was his equally confident smirk. Finally his head was topped off with a brown mop of hair that barely hung down enough to get in the way of his eyes, yet the bangs parted just perfectly to never get in his way or get in his eyes.
"Well, are you done looking me over like I'm a piece of meat?" Shinji asked with a bit of a laugh.
"What? No! I mean, uh, are you really Shinji Ikari?" Misato finally asked.
"Last time I checked." Shinji said as he gave himself a quick glance over, pretending to check and see if he was still himself. "Yeah, I'm Shinji Ikari." Shinji said with his smirk showing a bit of playfulness.
"The Commander's son?" Misato asked, still finding it hard to believe that this young man was the same Shinji she was sent to pick up.
Immediately Shinji's happy playful expression dimmed to a darker more serious look as his eyes instantly hardened.
"Yes and no." Shinji said with a frown, his voice lowered and slightly angry.
"What do you mean by that?" Misato asked, suddenly finding herself nervous.
"I mean that he was my father when I was born, but he isn't any more. I've abandoned him the same way he abandoned me, in mind and in body, washing all presence of him out of me and my life." Shinji said darkly, before casting his gaze out the window and letting out a deep sigh.
"Oh, bad subject I guess..." Misato said, giving a small nervous laugh.
They drove like that for a few minutes before Shinji gave a bored sounding grunt.
"Man this awkward silence bit sucks. How about this... You ask me a question and I'll ask you a question." Shinji suggested, wanting to have something to do other then observe Misato's maniac like driving habits.
"Okay... Hmm, a question huh... Alright, are you really fourteen years old? Because you look like you're almost eighteen." Misato got off her chest.
"Yeah, I'm fourteen. Why? Is there something you had in mind that required me being eighteen, hmm?" Shinji asked with his smirk returning once again.
"Huh? Oh shut up you! You know, you're not as cute as I expected..." Misato accused as she stuck her tongue out at Shinji, taking her eyes completely off the road.
"What, like baby cute? Like this picture?" Shinji asked as he held up the picture of him at four years old, completely unfazed by Misato's suicidal driving.
"Well, uh..." Misato couldn't think of anything to say to that.
"Anyways, it's my turn to ask a question. How come the government is suddenly letting the military take on fighting demons?" Shinji asked curiously.
"Demons? You mean that thing back there? That was an angel." Misato said, somewhat confused by what Shinji asked.
Shinji leaned over, getting his face right in Misato's face as she still didn't look at the road. His eyes told of seriousness and playfulness at the same time.
"What do you think demons are? They're angels that have fallen into hell." Shinji said as he lightly flicked Misato's nose.
"Hey, I know that!" Misato said as she turned back to the road and rubbed her nose with her hand, deftly steering madly with her left hand. "It's just that they're designated angels. There's no such thing as real demons anyways." Misato said with some of her confidence back.
"Hey, I take offense to that." Shinji said suddenly, and none of his playfulness could be heard in his voice.
Misato decided to shrug that comment off for now, and ask about it later.
"Anyways, it's officially NERV's responsibility and duty to fight the angels. The UN is just taking their swing at things before handing over control of the operation to NERV." Misato explained.
"Right. In other words, their sending their soldiers out to their inevitable deaths against a foe they have no chance of hurting because someone high up is being stubborn. What ever..." Shinji muttered as the car came to a stop.
"Excuse me, I have to lean over you to see out the window." Misato said as she pulled out a pair of binoculars.
Shinji got a huge smirk at hearing that, and a gleam came into his eyes. "Sure Misato, go right ahead." Shinji said as he leaned back against his seat.
"Don't get any ideas." Misato muttered as she leaned over and began staring out the window.
"I wouldn't dream of it." Shinji said with a smile.
Misato watched as the VTOL's still tried to pound on the angel. They swarmed around like angry bees, pelting on the angel's AT-field. Suddenly they stopped firing, and took off like hell was on their heels. Just as Misato was trying to figure out why they acted that way, she spotted the one thing that explained that perhaps hell really was on their heels.
"Oh no! They're going to use an N2 mine! Get down!" Misato shouted.
She tried to tackle Shinji under her to cover him from the explosion. Instead she was forced down and felt a warmth cover her up just as the deafening bang erupted in the city by the hill they were on. The shockwave of the blast sent the small car rolling several times until it finally rested on its side. It took Misato a few more seconds to get her senses back in order after that.
Instead of having Shinji safely tucked under her body, she was pressed down into his lap, being held there so she wouldn't fall now that gravity was coming from the side and not from the floor. Her face was firmly held in Shinji's lap as his chest covered her and her upper back, while her breasts were pressed against Shinji's leg. Strangely, Misato felt rather safe in this awkward position.
"Don't get any ideas Misato." Shinji mockingly mimicked Misato's earlier command.
"Wouldn't dream of it..." Misato mumbled out, still lingering in her position for a few moments. 'Focus on the situation at hand. Focus on the situation at hand. Don't focus on where your hand is. Don't focus on where his hands are. Don't focus on where you want his hands...' Misato thought to herself.
Moaning lightly, wether out of frustration or something else she didn't know, Misato began to work her way out of Shinji's lap. Shinji graciously let her escape and helped her get her footing in the sideways car. When she was securely balanced, Shinji unbuckled and flipped himself out of the car easily through the open window.
"Here, let me help you out." Shinji offered as he held out his hands to Misato.
"And just what makes you think I need your help?" Misato asked.
"Well, I don't know, but I didn't figure you wanted to be in the car when I push it back over for you." Shinji said as he grabbed Misato's shoulders and lifted her gently out of the car.
"And why do you think I need your help flipping my car over?" Misato asked.
"Well, you're welcome to try on your own if you like." Shinji offered.
Misato did just that, as she began to push on the roof of her car. It wouldn't budge under her strength, but she kept trying anyways. She continued on for nearly a minute before Shinji gently pulled her arm away from the car.
"You're going to get all sweaty like that, and I don't want to have to ride with a stinky attractive woman. I much prefer the way you smell right now. Let me do it instead." Shinji offered.
"Fine, whatever. Give it a shot if you think you can do any better then me." Misato offered, even though she was eyeing his muscles like she knew that he could do better in strength then her.
Shinji reached over with one hand and gave what looked like a gentle shove, immediately pushing the car over and onto its wheels. Misato gaped at the ease that Shinji displayed at that. Before she could say anything, Shinji got behind the car and rested on it.
"Well, I'll admit it Shinji, you're useful for something after all." Misato finally said.
"You're about to find out another way that I'm useful." Shinji said, his voice sounding oh so slightly suggestive.
"Oh yeah? And just what are you doing now?" Misato found herself asking, only letting her thoughts wonder for a moment.
"Getting ready to push the car. The batteries look shot, so we'll have to get some new ones. Until then, I'll have to push the car so we can get to some." Shinji said as he leaned over and gestured at the driver's door with a grin. "Shall we go now, before they try that N2 mine thing again. I don't think the car can handle another tumble like that and still work..." Shinji offered.
"Yeah, alright, let's go then..."Misato mumbled as she got in the car and put it in neutral.
-NERV HQ, bridge-
"It must be dead! It took the full blast!" exclaimed one of the military commanders.
"External cameras online." one of the tech officers said calmly. "Target confirmed. It's still active."
"No way! That thing's a demon!" shouted another military commander.
Gendo only smirked at the military commanders inability to defeat the angel. Fuyutuski leaned in to speak privately with him, a smirk also decorating his face. His voice was filled with calm control, despite the apparently hopeless situation.
"And thus the military proves themselves helpless against the might of the angels." Fuyutuski spoke with a bit of victory detectable in his voice.
"Yes. Soon they will turn authority over to NERV, as they must. We will destroy the angel with the Evangelion." Gendo spoke with a bit of smugness to his otherwise monotone voice.
"Yes, but we don't have any reliable pilots. Rei is in no condition to pilot successfully, and as for the Third... Can we really trust him when we have so little information on him?" Fuyutuski asked, a bit of worry entering his voice.
"Hmm, he will have to do. All he has to do is sit in the plug for the scenario to be carried out." Gendo said, his voice going back to its emotionless monotone.
"Yes, but isn't it worth worrying about at least some? After all, his teacher was found murdered brutally only hours after you left him. He never even left the train station before dying. Shinji hasn't been seen or heard of by anyone since then until a week ago. Isn't that worth considering in the scenario?" Fuyutuski suggested.
Gendo folded his hands in front of his face menacingly as light reflected off his glasses.
"The scenario will go as planned. Any deviations caused by the third's upbringing will be dealt with. If necessary, he can be replaced when it is more convenient." Gendo said in his monotone voice, as if referring to a cold cup of coffee being replaced with a fresh cup.
"Very well Ikari. Continue to keep the illusion of control." Fuyutuski said as he leaned back.
"Control is only an illusion for those who have not prepared." Gendo ended their conversation.
-back in the car-
'Aw man, I just had this car repaired and now it's a total wreck!' Misato thought to herself in depression.
"Uh, Misato..."
'I still have thirty-three more payments on this thing too!' Misato continued to think. 'Not to mention the cost of repairs!'
"Uh, Misato...!"
'And my favorite dress is ruined! I looked so good in this dress too! Just when I have someone to show off to too! No Misato! Bad thoughts! He's still just a kid, no thoughts like that. No thoughts about Shinji. No thoughts about...'
"Misato!" Shinji exclaimed louder.
"Shinji!" Misato yelped out in surprise. "I mean, uh, what!" Misato exclaimed as she stuck her head out the window.
"Now that we got some fresh batteries in the car, can I stop pushing it now. It might be faster getting there you know." Shinji said as he continued to push the car forwards.
"Oh, right. Sorry. Go ahead and get in now." Misato said with a smile and a wink as she stuck her head back in the car. 'Oops.'
Pulling out her cell phone, she started up the car and immediately reeved off just as Shinji got in the door. Dialing up a familiar number she waited until they picked up.
"Hello. Yes, don't worry. Everything's alright now. We're coming in now, so could you have a car train ready for us. An express of course. Well I did volunteer to pick him up, so it's only my duty to make sure he gets there safely. Yes alright, see ya!" Misato said as she hung the phone up.
Minutes later they pulled up to the train station and loaded the car onto the express train. Sitting back Misato relaxed into her chair for a bit. A calm quite fell over the car for a minute before something important popped into Misato's mind.
"Hey Shinji, did you get any kind of identification?" Misato asked.
"Yeah, hold on." Shinji said as he searched the inner pockets of his trench coat, before finally pulling out some papers. "Here you go."
"Thanks. Here you go, read this for a bit." Misato said as she handed over a NERV manual.
"NERV huh, doesn't sound too big." Shinji said to himself with a chuckle.
"It's a secret organization run by the UN. It's bigger then you think." Misato said as she looked up at the ceiling of her car.
"You think so huh. Well, whatever. It's not like I care anyways. If the old man wants to think he's big, then I won't rock his boat just yet." Shinji said as he tossed the manual in the back and leaned back as well.
"Do you even know what your father does?" Misato asked.
"He's not my father anymore, or did you forget?" Shinji growled suddenly.
"That reminds me, what do you mean you washed all presence of him out of you?" Misato asked.
"I mean that I had all of his DNA removed from my body and replaced with something stronger." Shinji responded as if he didn't care, staring up at the ceiling too.
"Are you serious? You could do that?" Misato asked, a little shocked.
"Yup. Don't get me wrong, it hurt like hell, in more then one way, but it was more then worth it." Shinji said with a smirk again.
"Wow... sometimes I wish I could do that." Misato mumbled to herself.
"Yeah, well, be careful what you wish for when you don't know the whole story. I paid a price, but I'm more then happy with it. Not everyone would be comfortable with what I sacrificed and what I gained, or even consider it. As for me, I'm happy with it." Shinji said with a bit of a far off smile.
"Oh yeah, and what did you sacrifice?" Misato asked.
"Part of my humanity." Shinji answered calmly. "But as I said, I replaced it with something stronger, and I still have some of my humanity." Shinji finished with his smirk back at full force.
Just then the train came out and into the Geo-front. Misato yawned and looked over to examine Shinji's reaction. To her surprise, Shinji took it all quite well, as he almost seemed to be expecting to see a Geo-front. This made her just a bit curious.
"Hey, you know, most people are at least a little shocked or awed to see a real live Geo-front in full operation." Misato prodded.
"Meh, you seen one underworld, you've seen 'em all. This one just looks prettier then most." Shinji said as he shut his eyes to catch a quick nap.
'He's nuts, right?' Misato thought to herself as she stared at him for a minute.
-later, NERV transits-
"What in the hell! Isn't this the way?" Misato exclaimed as they came to another doorway that wasn't where she wanted to be.
Shinji stood behind her, glancing around as they stood on the transit moving all about NERV. This may not be the official tour, but he might as well make use of the time to memorize his way around. Just then the door opened and the wind rush pushed the back of Misato's skirt up just as Shinji looked her direction. The eyeful he got was pleasing to him.
"It's because of these things that I hate to wear skirts around here." Misato commented.
Letting out a wolf whistle Shinji commented. "That may be, but can I request you do it as often as possible while around me?" Shinji asked as he savored the sight he had seen.
"Oh, shut up you! I'm not used to this place yet! Where's Ritsuko?" Misato exclaimed as she looked around.
"Who cares! Let's pass by this place a few more times before we get on the right track!" Shinji encouraged.
"Shut up!" Misato shouted.
Just then an elevator opened up next to them as they were about to pass it again. Ritsuko stood with an annoyed look to her face as she stared the frustrated Misato down. Misato suddenly got nervous and embarrassed.
"Yahoo! Another good looking woman to walk around with! Care to join us miss?" Shinji offered with a big grin.
That threw Ritsuko off her game for a moment as Misato took advantage of her distraction and quickly entered the elevator. Shinji followed and the elevator started again, thanks to Shinji quickly pressing a few random buttons with a grin.
"What the-? Misato what is going on? Are you wasting my time again? You know we're low on manpower." Ritsuko exclaimed.
"Eh, sorry Ritsu..." Misato said apologetically.
"Well, don't worry, because I've got enough manpower to spare!" Shinji said before striking a quick pose of a muscle man.
"And you! You little prankster! We're too low on time to play your little games. Quit that posing at once!" Ritsuko demanded.
"Alright, alright. Just joking around." Shinji said with his hands up in a submissive gesture.
"Well, it seems that the first button you pressed is the floor we want anyways. Now Misato, is this the boy?" Ritsuko asked, able to get back into her serious flow again.
"Yeah, according to the Marduk report, he's the Third." Misato answered.
"Third? Third what? Third... walrus?" Shinji asked.
"What? No! Third Child. I'm Ritsuko Akagi, nice to meet you." Ritsuko said as she extended her hand to Shinji.
"I assure you, the great pleasure of meeting you is all mine." Shinji said as he bowed and accepted her hand, giving it a gentle kiss.
"Hey, how come you didn't give me such a nice hello?" Misato asked.
"Maybe because there was a giant demon stomping around us the whole time?" Shinji suggested.
"It's an angel." Misato responded.
"You call 'em what you want to, I'll call 'em as I see them." Shinji said before suddenly leaning towards Misato, nearly pinning her against the elevator wall. "Besides, if you really want that kiss, I'll give it to you now if you want..." Shinji offered.
"No thanks." Misato responded.
"Alright." Shinji said as he immediately pulled back.
"Hmm, reminds me of someone back in college." Ritsuko commented.
"Yeah, but Shinji actually takes no for an answer." Misato answered.
"I feel a little out of the loop here." Shinji commented.
Ritsuko took a better look at Shinji now, comparing him to the one she was thinking of. She had to admit, Shinji was nothing like she expected. In fact, he was far from what she had thought he would be. Not to mention he dressed so much differently then she thought he, or anyone in Tokyo-3, ever would.
"Isn't that trench coat hot?" Ritsuko asked.
"Hot?" Shinji asked.
He seemed to think this over for a moment. After another moment, he rubbed his chin, then he began to chuckle. Finally he started to giggle and chuckle in a way that made the two women a bit nervous, like he had gone insane. He seemed to be enjoying some great inside joke that they weren't in on. Finally he let out a few outright laughs before finally calming down.
"No doctor, there isn't much that can make me feel hot temperature wise anymore." Shinji answered with another chuckle.
With that the elevator stopped and the doors opened. Not wasting time, and feeling a little nervous around Shinji, Ritsuko quickly got off and began to stride purposely down the hall. Misato and Shinji followed closely behind, Misato because she didn't want to get lost again, and Shinji because he thought that they were suppose to go with her, and a little because he wanted to enjoy the view for a moment. Before he could get any good looks at the 'scenery' that the two women offered, they entered another elevator. Shinji snapped his fingers and grinned a little in disappointment before getting on with them.
"What's the matter Shinji?" Ritsuko asked as she noticed this.
"Oh, just trying to figure out why I'm called the 'Third Child' is all. Is this some kind of super secret organization that takes in teenage children and mutates them into super warriors capable of flight and super powers and taking on giant demons?" Shinji asked with a grin.
"Eh, not quite no. It's true, this organization is charged with fighting the angels, but we don't make super heroes. It is also true that only special few children are able to fight against the angels too, but not like that, no." Ritsuko answered.
"Ah, so... no super powers for me huh...?" Shinji asked.
"No Shinji, no super powers for you." Misato finally said.
"Oh well, I like my current powers just fine thank you." Shinji said with a knowing grin.
"Oh, and what are those? The power to annoy people with stupid questions?" Misato asked.
"Nope. It's the power to see through women's clothing." Shinji said with an even bigger grin.
Both women tried to take a step backwards against the elevator wall as Shinji began to stare at them, hard. With another grin Shinji began to laugh until he finally stopped staring at them. Turning around to stare into the glass with the pink liquid behind it, he began to settle into another chuckle.
"Just kidding ladies, I can't see through your clothes. Although, thank you Ritsuko for wearing that nice tight one piece swim suite under your lab coat, and thank you Misato for wearing that nice tight dress. It looks very good on you." Shinji said with his smirk returning full force.
"You little piece of-!" Misato exclaimed in frustration, barely able to keep herself from smacking Shinji.
Shinji grinned and continued to stare out the glass into the pink liquid. Misato took a calming breath before looking over at Ritsuko. Ritsuko just stood there, a small pink blush detectable on her cheeks.
'Well, I got to give the kid some credit...' Ritsuko thought to herself. 'He's definitely better looking then his father.' Ritsuko thought as she gave Shinji another once over, carefully observing the muscles that were showing.
"Hey Ritsuko, as soon as all of this is over, I want you to run a few tests on Shinji's DNA." Misato said softly to Ritsuko, trying to keep Shinji from hearing.
"What do you mean?" Ritsuko asked.
"She means that she wants you to confirm that I'm actually Shinji Ikari. She means that I've told her that I've had all evidence of my former father's DNA removed from my body, and had it replaced with something stronger." Shinji said coldly, sending a shiver down Misato's spine.
"You're not serious are you? It's impossible to do such a thing. You can't just remove a part of your DNA code." Ritsuko said suddenly.
"Run a test for yourself some time Doctor. The procedure was not without its... sacrifices, but they were worth it. I now have no more connection to my former father then name, and that belongs to my mother." Shinji said darkly.
"And would you care to explain this 'procedure' that you used to remove part of you DNA code?" Ritsuko all but demanded, feeling a bit insulted that Shinji would challenge her knowledge of medical science.
"Would you care to explain how you expect me, and two other 'children' to fight off a giant demon?" Shinji said coldly back.
Ritsuko paused in her response, before visibly attempting to calm herself. She shut her eyes for a few moments and tried to slow her breathing. When she opened her eyes again, she was all cold business, as she would have to be around Gendo in his more 'darker' moments.
"That will all be explained at the proper time Shinji." Ritsuko said with a voice of authority.
Turning to face Ritsuko now, Shinji pierced her with his cold gaze, managing to send more of a chill down her spine then Gendo ever could.
"Then I too will explain everything when the time is right. Until then, we will both have to have patience, right Doctor Akagi?" Shinji asked before gazing out into the glass again.
"Very well then." Ritsuko answered, trying hard not to let her voice waver as the shiver in her spine wouldn't let up.
"Uh..." Misato began, feeling extremely nervous in the freezer that the elevator was becoming with all the cold stares and tension in the air. "So... how's Unit One coming?" Misato finally asked Ritsuko.
"It's currently undergoing refrigeration using the B-type equipment." Ritsuko answered, at last letting her voice calm back down into a civil tone.
"Does it really work? It's never worked before has it?" Misato asked.
"The possibility of activation is 0.0000000009. Around here we just call it the '09 system.'" Ritsuko replied.
"Does that mean it doesn't work?" Misato asked carefully.
"Don't be insulting. It's 09, as in a Japanese Devil." Ritsuko replied.
That comment seemed to bring out another nerve wracking chuckle from Shinji as he seemed to be in on an inside joke they didn't know about.
"Uh... right, well, I suppose it's a little late to be saying 'sorry, it doesn't work!'" Misato said with a nervous chuckle.
The elevator came to a stop and they exited it. Going through a door, they made their way to a boat floating on the pink liquid. Shinji gave another look at the pink liquid, before getting in the boat with the women. Soon the boat took them to yet another door. They walked through, as the light was out in the next room, but they were obviously on a cat walk.
Suddenly the door behind them shut, leaving them in complete blackness as they were in the middle of the catwalk. The darkness didn't alarm Shinji, as he was quite comfortable in it. Patiently he waited for them to turn the lights on. Then, in a sudden flash, the lights were on and he found himself staring eye to eye with a giant purple armored face.
"Hmm..." Shinji hummed to himself for a moment. "That's a mighty big Lego toy you got there girls." Shinji finally said.
"That's no Lego toy Shinji. This is man's ultimate fighting machine, the synthetic life form known as Evangelion, Unit One. Built here in secret, it's mankind's last hope." Ritsuko said, excitement as detectable in her voice as a flame in a dark room.
"No, it's a giant Demon that you built yourself, just like the one outside stomping around. Is this bucket of bolts and unintelligent flesh what that old man Gendo has been working on all these years?" Shinji asked.
"Correct." came Gendo's booming cold voice from above.
Looking up, Shinji immediately locked eyes with Gendo's glasses, which shown with reflected orange light. The two stared each other down for a few seconds, a strange smirk of superiority on Gendo's face. Time seemed to freeze in the cage as they continued to match gazes.
"It's been a while." Gendo finally said, a smile appearing on his face.
"Yes, it has Gendo." Shinji answered.
"We're moving out." Gendo said, no longer looking at Shinji.
"Moving out? But Unit Zero is still in cryostasis... Wait a minute. You're going to use Unit One?" Misato asked in panic.
"There's no other way." Ritsuko responded coldly.
"No wait! Rei can't do it yet, can she? We don't have a pilot!" Misato shouted.
"We just received one." Ritsuko dead panned.
"You're serious!" Misato accused as if it were a crime.
"Shinji Ikari, you will pilot it." Ritsuko said to Shinji, who was still starring hard at Gendo.
"Fuck off." Shinji replied, never looking away from Gendo's gaze.
"What?" Ritsuko stumbled.
"He can't pilot anyways. Rei took seven months to synchronize with her Eva. There's no way he can do it!" Misato kept going.
"He just has to sit in the seat. We don't expect more then that." Ritsuko said, frustration building in her voice.
"I said... fuck off." Shinji growled.
"Listen you, defeating that angel is our top priority. If we have someone with even the slightest chance of synchronizing with the Eva, we have to take the risk. Do you understand that Shinji? Misato?" Ritsuko said, anger now evident in her voice.
"Y... yes, I understand." Misato finally gave in.
"I said..." Shinji began.
"Get in Shinji." Misato prodded.
"Fuck off!" Shinji shouted as he pulled a large silver pistol out of the back of his trench coat and shot it off at the ceiling.
Both girls let out a scream of surprise as they dived away from the gun-wielding Shinji. His eyes were filled with a cold anger as he stared at his father, his gun still pointed at the ceiling. Gendo didn't react at all, only hardening his gaze at Shinji.
"You know why you were called here." Gendo said, hoping to break Shinji's spirit. "I have a use for you." Gendo said coldly.
Shinji slowly put his pistol back into the trench coat behind him where no one had seen it. Still he held Gendo's cold gaze. A cold smirk crept onto his face as he stared at him, reviewing a few ways to kill him in a few seconds or less.
"Fuck you and your uses. What makes you think I care what you want?" Shinji asked.
"I am your father." Gendo said, now hoping to appeal to the little boy inside Shinji, make him look up to his father.
"No, you're not my father anymore. You gave up that right when you left me with that teacher. After he died, an hour later, I was set on a path where I eventually rid myself of all traces of you at all. Now I am of no relation to you at all, so don't call yourself that anymore old man. You're nothing to me anymore." Shinji said darkly.
Just then the ground shook some from a blast on the surface. Still Shinji and Gendo seemed unaffected by it. They continued to stare at one another for a moment longer, before Gendo made his choice.
"Fuyutuski." Gendo said as he activated the intercom.
"Yes." Fuyutuski answered.
"Wake up Rei." Gendo ordered coldly.
"Can we use her?" Fuyutuski asked, a hint of concern in his voice.
"She's not dead yet." Gendo stated, a slight hint of anger to his voice.
"Understood." Fuyutuski said, disappointment in his voice now.
"Rei?" Gendo asked as her image appeared on the screens beside Gendo.
"Yes sir?" the injured girl asked.
"Our spare is unusable. You will do it again." Gendo ordered.
"Yes sir." Rei responded, no emotion detectable in her voice.
"Reconfigure Unit One for Rei, then activate. Let's move out!" Ritsuko commanded.
Soon the doors opened as a stretcher was wheeled in with the heavily injured Rei lying on it. They stopped her almost right in front of Shinji. Shinji looked down at the bloody and tightly bandaged girl who was trying to get up. Taking one look at her, Shinji snorted out loud.
"So, you intend to use her? You really are desperate Gendo if you would do something like this." Shinji said, laughing to himself the whole time.
He calmly walked over, standing himself in front of the struggling Rei. With a move of his arms, he pushed back the doctors until they got the hint and backed off. Then, acting in the blink of an eye, Shinji picked Rei up by her arms and held her tightly above his head.
"Regenerate." he commanded her in a cold voice that even froze the tone that Gendo was using.
"I...I, I can't." Rei whimpered.
"What good are you as a devil if you can't even heal yourself?" Shinji asked coldly.
"I...I can be replaced." Rei admitted weakly.
By now Misato was ready to try and make Shinji stop abusing Rei, but the thought of the gun he kept on him was stopping her. Shinji smirked darkly at Rei as he held her in the air. Putting her back on the stretcher, he forced her to lie back down.
"Stay down, or you'll just die. Trust me, they can't fully replace you, they would be different." Shinji said, some of the coldness gone from his voice.
Just then the ground shook again, and a beam came loose from the ceiling. It fell directly at Shinji and Rei, speeding down at them. Suddenly the Eva's hand broke free of its restraints and slapped the beam away, slamming it into the window that protected Gendo, causing it to shake violently as the beam bounced off and into the liquid below. Shinji grinned to himself at these events.
'So, some devils stick together eh?' Shinji thought to himself.
Ignoring the resulting fuss from Ritsuko and the maintenance crew present, Misato slowly walked to Shinji's side. Gulping on her nervousness, she spoke up finally.
"Shinji, it's time for you to face your fa... the commander. It's time for you to face why you came here." Misato tried to say.
"Bullshit Misato. I didn't come here to pilot the Eva, and I didn't come here to confront Gendo. So, don't try telling me to confront my fears or some shit. You're the only one who could possibly comprehend the kind of hell I've seen and confronted in my life, and you don't even know it. So, if you want me to go out and fight the demon inside the Eva, then just ask me. Don't try to guilt me into it, or force me into it. Just ask me to fight." Shinji said calmly, staring into Misato's eyes.
Misato stared back into his eyes for a moment. She didn't see hatred like when he looked at Gendo, or anger when they tried to tell him to get in the Eva. She didn't see any of the coldness from before, she just saw Shinji being serious with her and looking into the windows of her soul. Slowly she gulped, and then spoke.
"Please Shinji, would you go and fight for us and kill the angel?" Misato asked.
"Alright, I'll pilot the Eva." Shinji said, his happy smirk returning finally.
"Thank you." Misato said softly. "But, you can't go into the Eva with your gun." Misato said, wincing as she thought Shinji might get upset.
Smirking, Shinji took off his trench coat and handed it to Misato. "Hold this for me until I get back. Oh, and, you can have my guns if you can find them." Shinji said, his smirk turning playful.
"What?" Misato asked as she began to turn the trench coat inside out and back again, looking all over it and in it for the pistol. "Guns?" Misato asked as she could find no sigh of the pistol.
"Yup. The silver one is one of two twin pistols. The other one is black. Their names are Yui and Lady." Shinji said with a chuckle.
Misato continued to look through the trench coat for the weapons, still finding nothing as she spoke. "You named your pistol after your mother?"
"Yeah, the silver one. The black one, Lady, is named after Lady, because she's been like my second mother since I was taken in. Anyways, you won't find them in my trench coat." Shinji said, his smirk turning into a grin.
"Oh, and where are they then?" Misato asked.
"Like I said, you can take them if you can find them." Shinji said as he did a quick spin to reveal that they weren't stuffed in the back of his pants. "Search me if you want." he said, inviting Misato to do just that.
"Eh, Ritsuko?" Misato called out, now nervous. Thoughts of her hands roaming all over the now even more revealed muscular figure of the older looking fourteen year old in front of her clouded her mind and made her a bit warm. He definitely acted too much like Kaji for her tastes, or maybe just enough for her tastes.
"Just search him Misato. He can't take those pistols into the Eva." Ritsuko said as she came up behind Misato, just to watch for... scientific reasons.
"Alright. Turn around please..." Misato said quietly.
Shinji grinned once more and turned around.
"Raise your arms please." Misato asked.
Shinji raised his arms into the air in obedience. Misato quickly began to pat from the beginnings of his t-shirt sleeves down his shirt, all over the back of it to check for any kind of holsters. She didn't find any. Sighing to herself, she began to pat the sides of his pants, down his legs, back up the back, and finally on his butt. She didn't feel anything that told of a gun or holster. Again she checked around his feet to make sure he didn't have them in his shoes or something, and gave him another pat down just to make sure.
"Alright, turn around again." Misato said in frustration.
Shinji turned around, revealing that happy playful grin of his. Misato wanted to smack him one good for this. She started at his sleeves again, down the side, back up, and around to his neck. She felt tempted for a moment to begin squeezing that neck of his. Patting the front of his neck and down the chest, she knew she wouldn't find anything with the way the shirt showed off the impressive muscles of his chest. Again around the sides of his pants, on the shoes, and back up. She slowed down as she neared the groin of his pants, hesitating for a moment, before quickly patting it over to check for the weapons. She still didn't find anything.
"I can't find anything. You didn't... hide it inside of yourself Shinji?" Misato asked tentatively.
"Nope Misato. I sure didn't." Shinji said, his facing going serious for a moment.
"Alright, I can't find them. How can you hide two guns that large so easily?" Misato asked.
"My little secret. I can only assure you that I won't have them when I go into the Eva." Shinji finally said.
"Why you little shit! You could have told me that before!" Misato said, nearly slapping him.
"Well, you didn't ask if I had them on me. You just decided to search me. Besides, don't you feel better now that you know I'm not lying?" Shinji asked with a cheeky grin.
"Shut up and get in the plug." Misato said with a slight frown. To tell the truth, she did feel better, for more then one reason.
-minutes later, inside Unit One's plug-
Shinji sat in the plug, weird looking hair clips in his hair. He wasn't really paying attention to any of the babble that the techs were saying over the comm. That is until his ears picked up on something important sounding.
"Filling the plug." came a female voice.
"Filling the plug?" Shinji asked.
Looking down he saw some yellow liquid that looked a bit like urine and smelled like blood begin to fill the plug from the bottom up. Arching his eyebrow he instantly recognized the smell of blood, but it smelled different from the blood he was used to smelling. Something was different about it. That and the color didn't make him feel very comfortable.
"Could you stop using my plug like a giant toilet bowl please!" Shinji exclaimed.
"Shinji, that is LCL. It will oxygenate you blood directly once you have taken it into you lugs. It helps you synchronize with your Eva. Nobody's using your plug as a toilet." Ritsuko assured Shinji.
By then the LCL had gone over Shinji's head. Smirking, Shinji didn't breath it in. Seeing a small keyboard in the corner of his controls, Shinji opened up a text comm channel on the same channel they were on. Typing with incredible speeds with one hand, Shinji sent his response.
/Doesn't mean that I have to actually breath the stuff. Nyaah!/ Shinji sent over the text link.
"Real cute Shinji, but you'll have to breath sometime. You can't hold your breath forever." Ritsuko said with a triumphant smile.
/And what makes you say that Doctor?/ Shinji asked over the text link.
"Get over it Shinji! Don't act like a child. You're a boy you know!" Misato exclaimed, getting frustrated.
/No one would know better then you after that nice little pat down you gave me Misato./ Shinji typed as he rolled his eyes and breathed out, then breathed in the liquid.
Surprisingly to everyone, he didn't cough as he took in the LCL and adapted to it like he was completely used to it. Though, few noticed fully as most were focusing on Misato's glowing face with the bright red blush she had. No one noticed the slightly jealous look on Ritsuko's face for a moment.
"Very well, now that we're done playing around like kids, shall we get ready for battle?" Ritsuko asked.
Again the techno babble began, and again Shinji ignored most of it. Only when the word 'synchronisation' came up did he pay attention.
"Pilot synchronisation at... Dr. Ritsuko? It says that his synch is at seventy-three percent..." the same female tech from before said in confusion.
"What? Impossible!" Ritsuko said as she began to check over the screens for herself.
"Heh, us devils like to stick together sometimes doc." Shinji said out loud, but was ignored by most.
"Harmonics seem normal. There are no disturbances..." the female tech said.
"Alright, then let's proceed. We'll determine the reason for his high synch later."
"Begin launch sequence!" Misato ordered.
More techno babble began, but Shinji ignored it once more. The Eva was moved to the launch pad, and the bridge waited in silence for the order to launch the Eva. There was a moment of hesitation before Misato spoke up.
"Can we really do this?" Misato asked, suddenly nervous again.
"Of course. If we do not defeat the angels, then we have no future." Gendo said with a smirk.
"Are you really sure Ikari?" Fuyutuski asked quietly beside Gendo.
"Misato?" Shinji asked suddenly.
"Yes Shinji?" Misato asked, looking up at the screen that had his face, he was staring back at her, a cold calm look in his eyes before he suddenly grinned.
"I'm ready for this. Launch me." Shinji said, his confident smirk and eyes returning full force, not a hint of fear in his face at all.
"Right Shinji." Misato said with a smile, suddenly feeling a bit better. "Launch Eva!" she shouted.
The Eva launched upwards like a rocket on the platform it stood on. Seconds passed like minutes for Misato as she kept her eyes focused on the image of Shinji's face. His smirk was still intact as he was focusing on what was outside the Eva. Heck, he looked like he was enjoying the g-forces being put on him, like it was some kind of roller coaster ride or something.
Finally the Eva reached the surface and stopped suddenly, the head of the Eva flipping upwards with the loss of momentum. Shinji hardly seemed effected as the locks quickly fell off the Eva, allowing it to go free. Now the real test would begin.
"Alright Shinji, I want you to just concentrate on walking for now." Ritsuko spoke calmly through the comm link.
"Alright, alright. I'll only walk for now." Shinji said with a smirk.
The angel was only a matter of blocks away, directly in front of the Eva, staring at it with what seemed to be a puzzled expression. Shinji smirked at it as he gave the Eva mental commands. The Eva's reaction time was as good as his own muscles, well, almost anyways.
'Walk, yeah right!' Shinji thought as his smirk grew slightly.
The Eva broke into a jog, hopping over the spare cord that had gotten in front of it when it had stopped. Ritsuko's eye twitched at seeing Shinji start at such a speed, while Misato only twisted her fingers, hoping they did the right thing. The Eva kept its jog up, and the angel went into a slow run to meet it in the middle.
As soon as the angel got within arms reach, it tried to reach out and grab the Eva, but Shinji ducked and twisted down, avoiding its high grab. When the angel tried to bring its arms down on the Eva, Shinji lunged up and grabbed its right arm and positioned himself under its shoulder. Suddenly he shifted his weight and tossed the angel in a judo throw over his shoulder and down to the ground.
The angel wasn't dazed at all as it grabbed his feet, pulling him down to the ground suddenly. It rolled so that it came over the Eva, and grabbed it by the face. Quickly the angel stood up and held the Eva into the air by its head, grabbing it's left arm as fast as it could. Shinji kicked out and tried to knock its legs out, but the angel stood firm. The angel quickly squeezed as hard as it could on the Eva's left wrist, inflicting pain on both the Eva and Shinji.
"Relax Shinji, it's not your real arm." Ritsuko tried to assure Shinji.
"Who's upset at a little pain?" Shinji asked.
The angel twisted hard on the wrist and broke the Eva's arm. Shinji kicked out again and wrapped his leg around one of the angel's legs, pulling it back so the angel fell into the splits almost on top of the Eva. Unfortunately the angel didn't let go of the Eva's head as it fell, so it still had it by the face. The angel quickly charged its energy piston and pounded on the Eva's face as hard as it could. Shinji tried to force it to let go with his right arm, but the angel kept slamming the piston into the Eva's right eye.
Shinji punched out and nailed the angel in its core, causing pain to the angel as it suddenly realized the Eva was more of a threat then previously thought. With that, the angel stood quickly, twisted its body, and slammed the piston into and through the Eva's eye and out the back of its head, sending the Eva to smash into a building. The piston withdrew as blood began to squirt out the Eva's head from both sides and the Eva slumped.
"Unit One has gone completely silent!" a tech shouted.
"Eject the plug and save the pilot!" Misato shouted.
"We can't! It's not accepting our commands!" the female tech shouted.
"What!"
"The Eva is activating!" the first tech shouted.
-inside Eva Unit One's plug-
Shinji sat in the slumped position that the Eva was in. His eyes were shut and he moaned lightly in pain. The angel had seriously hurt his Eva, but he was far from done. To him, the Eva was still a demon, like him. So, he could control it better then anyone, and he knew things about it no one else could know. Raising his head to stare at the angel, the Eva followed his actions. A growl escaped his lips as he looked at the slowly approaching angel.
"Alright you big ugly devil you. It's time that I stop kidding around and get serious!" Shinji shouted. "Ahhh!" he let out a shout suddenly.
Suddenly, as he shouted, his body changed. His clothes faded in the blink of an eye to be replaced with a hard, armored looking body in a mimicking design to his outfit with the trench coat. Large demonic wings sprout from his back and his body bulged with more muscle then before, and his hands and feet almost became full claws. His face changed to what could only be described as that of an angry demon, not too unlike the Eva's face plate with out the horn. His hair stuck up like he had been shocked with electricity, and his eyes shown with a dark red light of anger, hatred, and power.
His shout became a heavy growl in a demonic voice that filled the entire plug as heat and electricity traveled along his body.
"The Eva is activated, but I can't get anything on the status of the pilot. It's not accepting any of our commands. It's cutting us off!" the female tech shouted.
"No! It can't be!" Misato exclaimed.
"Berserker." Ritsuko said in a breathless voice.
Gendo grinned under his hands at this.
"Wait! I'm getting footage from the plug. Putting it up now!" the first tech shouted.
Suddenly the entire bridge could see clearly what Shinji had become, but none could believe what they were seeing. Shinji had become a beast, or a monster, or a demon. What had happened to him while they had been out of contact?
"Alright demon, it's time we fought devil to devil!" Shinji shouted in a distorted version of his voice.
The Eva's jaw broke free of the lock that kept it shut. It let out a growl much like Shinji's own growl of anger. Its left eye flashed yellow as the Eva stood suddenly. The Eva suddenly launched itself forwards in a sprinting run for the angel. Half way there, it jumped up and slammed into the angel, tackling it to the ground as it wrapped its legs around the angel's waist.
The angel struggled to push the Eva off, but Shinji wouldn't have any of it as he held on tightly. The Eva began to pound down on the core, but the angel acted quickly to stop that. It charged both its lances and wrapped its hands on the Eva's waist. Energy lances pounded into the Eva's armor, stabbing into it deeply, drawing blood to flow from the stomach.
Shinji shrugged off the pain and the Eva held its left arm up. Suddenly the Eva regenerated from the damage that had been done to it. Grabbing the angel's arms, the Eva forced them to the ground above the angel's head. With a horrible squeeze and twist of his wrists and hands, Shinji broke the angel's forearms so badly that they nearly ripped off the angel's arms completely.
Light started to build in the angel's eyes. Shinji recognized what was happening immediately, and brought his forearm down on the angel's face quickly, nearly knocking its head off its chest as it forcefully twisted it to the right. A split second before the angel fired a cross flare, Shinji suddenly rolled the Eva's waist back into the path of the beam.
For a moment the bridge wondered why Shinji took the blast when he had already avoided it. Suddenly information that the Eva sent came up on the bridge's screens. Half a mile away was the life signs of a little girl hiding in front of a building. The blast would have vaporized her had the angel fired without the Eva in the way. Misato gasped at seeing this, realizing that despite Shinji's demonic appearance, there was still something human left in him.
"No you don't you devil!" Shinji shouted as he untwisted himself from the angel and stood tall.
Twisting the Eva's body, Shinji tossed the angel in the opposite direction of the girl. Charging after it, the angel almost had time to stand before the Eva football tackled the angel into a string of buildings, actually moving them back rather then knocking them over. Pounding on the core again, Shinji suddenly demonstrated his devil side again as the Eva bent down and bit deeply into the angel's face, drawing a gusher of blood into the air.
The angel suddenly wrapped itself tightly in a ball around the Eva's face. The bridge began to panic and scream things, just as Shinji shouted and the Eva roared. A bright explosion blinded the cameras for a few moments, before they could see the giant cross shaped explosion that lit the sky. Still the fires remained even as the cross faded, turning that crater into a pit of hellfire.
"Is the pilot?" Misato started to ask.
"Status of the Eva confirmed. It survived. Visual coming up now." another tech stated.
An image of the Eva walking out of the fires came up in the screen. It's wounds were regenerated, it's face plate burned off, its chest armor twisted and melted, and the armor on its arms burned off. Not a wound appeared anywhere on the Eva as it walked through the hellfire towards the camera. As they saw it, its left eye glowing yellow, and its right eye shining green in the fire, and they looked at the image of the demonic pilot sitting in the plug with a dark grin on his face, they couldn't decide who looked more like a demon out of hell.
"Shinji?" Misato asked tentatively, scared at his appearance.
"Yes Misato..." Shinji said as his body changed back and his clothes reappeared in the blink of an eye.
"I'm a demon, or rather... I'm a half demon. No longer am I the son of Gendo, but I am now the son of Sparda, with his demonic blood flowing through my veins. My mother's human blood also flows through me, so I have not abandoned my humanity completely. You might be afraid of what I am, but please don't be afraid of me." Shinji pleaded in a calm voice.
"I...I, I'm not afraid of you. I just want to know how..." Misato finally said.
"Don't worry. I'll explain everything when I get back in. See you then." Shinji said as he headed for a recovery point.
Gendo frowned at this behind his closed hands. Fuyutuski had a shocked look on his face. Ritsuko and the bridge looked confused, and maybe a little scared. Slowly Fuyutuski leaned forwards until his head was beside Gendo's.
"And what plan do you have for this now Ikari?" Fuyutuski asked, his grin only partly returning.
"This will be dealt with if necessary. Until this presents a real problem, we will leave this matter be. As long as he can still pilot, no actions will be taken." Gendo spoke emotionlessly.
"But the scrolls mentioned nothing of demons interfering with the battle with the angels... The Council won't like this one bit." Fuyutuski said as his grin started to return fully.
"It doesn't matter. They will have to cope with this. The scenario will not be changed." Gendo stated as if it were the law of the universe.
"I hope you know what you are doing Ikari. Who knows if we can deal with a war against heaven and hell at the same time..." Fuyutuski said as he leaned back.
Gendo only smirked.
-To Be Continued-