The Past and Future Angel
Emerging from the 12th angel, Shinji is changed. For better or for worse, only time will tell.
Disclaimer- I do not own Evangelion. If I did, Shinji would not be so annoying.
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"Talking"
'Thinking'
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Evangelion Units Zero and Two watched helplessly as the ground before them began to shake and sway.
"Is it a reaction to the AT field?!" called out a frantic Misato in the control room.
"Negative" responded Aoba, "they haven't deployed their fields yet!"
Turning her attention back to the screen, she could only watch in a mixture of horror and fascination as the black and white ball of the 12th angel turned solid black before becoming distorted.
From one of the protruding bulges, a crack appeared releasing a stream of red blood down the body and onto the ruined street below. Soon the wound widened and before they knew it a hand clawed its way out of the angel's body.
Not a word was ushered in the command room as the upper torso of Evangelion Unit 1 followed the hand in a groom birth from the angel's corps. Rearing its head it let out a deafening cry.
"My god! Is that what I'm piloting" whispered Asuka as she watched Unit One rip the angel apart and fall down to the ground.
Letting out another defining roar Unit One took a single step forward, the blood streaming down its purple armor making it appear to be a creature of blood.
Unit One took another step and another, all in the direction of the two other Evas.
"Be careful you two!" warned Misato from the control room. "We have no idea of the conditions inside Unit One. It could be going berserk, or it could be controlled by the angel! So watch yourselves!"
Unit One continued it's slow and steady advance and right as the other two Evas were about to take action, something unexpected happened.
Without warning cuts and holes opened up all over Unit One's body and it collapsed in a boneless heap onto the ground.
Before Unit One even hit the ground, Rei was already rushing forward.
'Ikari!' she thought as she pulled the lifeless Eva off the ground.
Reaching to the back where the entry plug is the pulled at the metal shielding the plug. Surprisingly it came of with little effort and as it was flung aside thin strands of blood and flesh could be seen trailing from the mettle back to the body of Unit One.
Reaching in she manually pulled out the entry plug. Her brows came together in a look of concern as she felt the heat coming off of the entry plug. It wasn't enough to damage Unit Zero's hands, but it was hot enough to be uncomfortable, to say the least, for Shinji inside the plug.
Lowering the entry plug to the ground, Rei quickly made her way to the entry plug. In the distance she could see NERV vehicles rushing over the ruined landscape in their direction.
Right as she was about to reach the heated hatch, it was opened from the inside. Reaching her arms out reflexively, she caught Shinji as he fell into her arms in a dead heap. His breathing was raged and blood could be seen coming from his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
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Shinji was floating.
All around him there was nothing but darkness.
Reaching out his hand he couldn't feel anything and when he looked around all he saw was the same black and empty void.
'How did I get here? The last thing I remember was engaging the Angel. I was sinking into its body.'
Looking around he muttered, "So this is what it's like to be inside an angel?"
Suddenly, without any warning, he felt himself getting pulled by an unseen force. It felt like something was yanking on all of his bones and the flesh was being dragged along with his skeleton.
Letting out a gasp, Shinji closed his eyes to block out the pain.
When he opened his eyes again, he was no longer in an empty void but in a train car.
Outside the city of Tokyo 3 could be seen streaming by the window and the entire landscape was bathed in the orange glow of a setting sun.
Sitting in the seat across from him was a younger version of himself. Strangely this did not concern Shinji in the slightest.
"Who are you?" questioned his younger self.
"I am Ikari Shinji" replied Shinji in slightly confused tone of voice.
"Why?"
"It was the name given to me by my parents, it is what I am known by, people address me as Ikari Shinji!" said Shinji, a since of panic creeping into his voice although he didn't know why the word or his younger self were affecting him so.
"But what do you call yourself?"
"I call my self Ikari Shinji too!"
"Is that what you also call your past self too?"
"Yes, I am Ikari Shinji!"
"But how can that be? The past Ikari Shinji is very different from the present Ikari Shinji. How can you continue to call yourself Ikari Shinji?"
"People change, that's life, but we still remain who we are!" yelled Shinji, the panic evident in his eyes as he put his head in his hands.
Getting up from his seat the younger Shinji walked over to Shinji and put a hand on his shoulder.
Leaning in close, his eyes became covered with his hair and a cruel smile played on his lips, "But you are not Ikari Shinji!"
Opening his eyes, Shinji was greeted with an unfamiliar ceiling and an overhead light. He was covered in sweat and when he tried to sit up he couldn't. Looking down he noticed two things. One, he was completely naked, and two he was strapped to the bed with heavy restraints.
From off to his right he heard a voice, "Ma'am he's regained conciseness."
"This is too soon, sedate him!"
Turning his head he saw a figure in an environmental suite. The glare from the overhead light prevented him from seeing the face and before he could even struggle or ask a question he felt a prick on the side of his neck and the world darkened again.
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As Ritsuko can out of the contamination chamber she saw Misato looking into the contamination room through the observation window.
Without even turning to look at her friend, Misato asked, "How bad is it?"
"We don't know yet, I just sent some samples to get tested. On initial checkup the person in there physically seams to be the Shinji we know…"
"But?"
"But there were some small abnormalities that we detected in his bran wave pattern as well as some other things we need to go over. We won't know for sure until the tests get back."
"And what will happen if it is really is Shinji in there?" asked Misato.
"Then he will be released. But the question is… what will you do if that isn't Shinji?"
Misato's face darkened as she looked at the figure on the bed, "Then we will kill it. That room can be sealed off and flooded. That should hold it until we can get one of the Evas to come and crush it."
"That's a hard call to make" said Ritsuko glancing at Misato next to her.
"It's what has to be done to wipe out all the angels."
Turning on her heals Misato left the contamination chamber area. Making her way outside the bunker she looked over at the sight of the pyramid that contains the central headquarters for NERV. Tears began to fall down her face and she made it to her car before completely breaking down.
"Please, please be Shinji!"
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Reaching her apartment Misato had cleaned herself up enough that her earlier emotional outbreak was not evident. Unlocking to door she was greeted by Penpen with his food dish.
Smiling she said, "Ok, lets get you something to eat."
Going to the fridge she pulled out some fish and put it in the dish. While she was doing this she called out to the seemingly empty apartment.
"Asuka, you here?"
"Yea I'm here" replied the redhead as she stuck her head outside of her room. "Any word about the idiot?"
"No, nothing yet. Ritsuko is still running tests to verify that it is Shinji and not the angel" said Misato as she sat down at the table with a beer.
"It's that idiot's fault for rushing in like that" said Asuka sitting down at the table.
"Asuka, let's not start this again! I'll chew him out when he get back..."
Asuka was silent, but thought, 'That's if he get's back.'
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That night in her office, Ritsuko was going over the results of the tests done on Shinji.
DNA and brainwave analysis came back that it was Shinji, but there were changes in the spectrum of his brain waves. It was almost like…
Before she could ponder this new development any further, the door to her office opened up. Turning around she was greeted with the sight of Commander Ikari walking through the door.
Giving him a smile she turned back to her screen. When the commander was standing right behind her she began to speak.
"The test results came back. That person physically is Shinji. No abnormalities were detected in his body or his DNA. But what concerns me is his brain waves" she said as she brought up the screen on her computer.
"Here are Shinji's brain waves before the battle and these," she said bringing up another graph over the old one, "are his brain waves now."
Looking at the graphs you could see that they lined up perfectly with each other, showing that they are from the same person. But the color of the two was different, showing a difference in the frequency that the brain waves were running at.
"Originally his waves were red like a normal human, but now they are a purple, almost blue pattern. It's like he is now part angel or is turning into one. The only place I've ever seen this is with Rei."
The commander was silent for a few minutes as he looked over the data and ran the scenario in his mind.
"This will not be a problem" he said in a cold voice.
"But sir, what will happen if this growth continues? He could turn into a full fledged angel right under our noses."
"Not if we control him properly. And besides even if he becomes a fully realized angel there is still a high probability that he will be under our control. This will not affect the scenario at all."
Looking at the commander Ritsuko suppressed a shudder at the coldness of the man. It was this same coldness and cunning that she found so attracting in her superior officer.
"How do you suggest we control him? He is given considerable freedoms when he's not at NERV, from living with Misato to going to school."
The commander was silent at this for a moment before a smile appeared on his face. "We will hold him in the contamination chamber for the next two weeks before releasing him back to Misato. And we'll tell her exactly what has happened to Shinji. Her hate of the angels will make her keep a closer eye on the boy and this knowledge will help to separate him from his friends at school and the second child."
"What about Rei? She has always been close to him and this might just increase it?"
"Such situation is unavoidable. Besides, it is only a matter of time before the third Rei is awakened. So as long as she is still loyal to me, her relations with my son are of no concern."
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Shinji slowly opened his eyes. The same unfamiliar ceiling and the bright light greeted him.
'Great, I was hoping that was just a dream'
Looking down at his body he saw that he had been put in a hospital dress, but was still strapped down to the table.
Looking to his right and left he saw that no one was in the room, but there were cameras, one on each wall.
After laying there for a few minutes the crackle of an intercom filled the room and was soon followed my Ritsuko's voice.
"Shinji, you are in the contamination chamber… Do you remember what happened with the Angel?"
Pausing for a moment, Shinji thought back, "I remember being sent out against the angel and then being sucked into the angel. After that my memory becomes hazy. I think I had a dream were I was floating in the dark before talking to a younger version of myself on a train."
In the monitoring room Ritsuko's eyebrows went up at this comment and she wrote down, 'Possible contact with the angel'
"What did you talk about with your younger self?"
"He kept on saying that I am not me. I tried to say that I am me but he kept on saying that I wasn't. For some reason this really bothered me."
Hearing this Ritsuko wrote down, 'Possibility that Angel or his subconscious told him that he is no longer human.'
"Why are you asking about that, I thought it was just a dream?"
Ritsuko paused before answering. The commander never told her not to tell him about what happened, and it would defiantly server to control him more if he knew he could never run away.
"There is a possibility that you weren't dreaming. In all likelihood, that was either the angel or your subconscious talking to you. The truth is that that you've been contaminated by the angel."
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That's it from the first chapter, I hope you enjoyed it. I will be following the anime for the angels that appear but I will be going with the manga for the character's personalities.
Please tell me what you think!
Ja Ne!