Tuesday, 22nd, August, 2000
This is the first Fanfic I have created so I would appreciate any feedback you can offer.
I am writing this because I'm a fan of Neon Genesis Evangelion and I thought to myself, I could do that... So here it is, my first Fanfic. This Fanfic doesn't follow the series at all, apart from using the concept of the war with Seele, the characters and Evangelions. It is mainly about the relationship between Auska and Shinji.
All characters are property of Gainax, they are NOT mine!
(But the Jet-Black Eva is mine.)
GuyverX53
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(Tune of Cruel Angels Thesis.)
The morning, a peaceful, tranquil time... or is it?
All is quiet in the Katsuragi household; nothing can spoil such a peaceful morning...
Or can it?
"Get out of here you pervert!"
"Auska, I can explain..." whimpered a frightened Shinji. "I thought you'd left for school already, I..."
(Slam!!)
Shinji half fell out of the bathroom as the door was slammed in his face.
Shinji decided that it was better to leave the already angry redhead alone for the time being, and headed off for some breakfast.
Pen-Pen had taken this opportunity to take a peek at Auska in the shower, but was forcefully ejected in the same manner as his predecessor.
At this point, Misato had just woken up and was frantically opening a beer can and trying to find some clean clothes amongst the piles of junk which littered the small apartment.
(Shinji grew a small sweat drop, and sighed.)
The way to school was particularly uneventful. The occasional run in's with school friends. He had considered walking to school with Auska, but in the mood she was in. it didn't seem wise. Around halfway to school he met up with his two best friends, Kensuke Aida and Touji Suzahara. As usual, Kensuke was drooling over a military armament magazine while Tuoji chatted to Shinji.
"Hey, what happened to you this morning?" Touji chuckled. "Oh, I see... ya sneaked a peek at Asuka in the shower this morning, didn't you?"
"I did not! I went into the bathroom and there she was... I didn't mean to." Shinji Turned bright red.
"OK, I believe you." said Touji, but the surepticious wink said otherwise.
(Later, at school)
"What!" bawled an extremely annoyed Auska. "What do you mean you didn't have time to make our lunches!?"
"Auska... I..." moaned a frightened Shinji.
But it was too late; Auska had already started to repeatedly slap him across the face.
"Stop." the emotionless word rang out in Auska's ears like a thunderclap.
An attractive girl with blue hair, named Rei Ayanami blocked in Auska's hand mid-slap.
"Why did you do that?" said Rei in her usual monotone.
"That stupid dork didn't make my lunch this morning!" huffed Auska.
"You can cook, can't you?" inquired Rei.
"Yeah, but he..." Auska was cut off in mid-sentence.
"Why are you so mean to Ikari?" Rei queried.
" It's because he's such a spineless idiot!" shouted the angry German redhead.
At this point, Auska decided that she couldn't win against Rei's red-eyed, cold, emotionless stare and stormed off to harass Kensuke and Touji, who instantly fled when she went over to them.
"Thank you Rei, I..." quavered Shinji.
"You don't need to thank me Ikari. I did it because I don't like seeing Auska hurt you all the time.," answered Rei.
Rei's mobile phone rang. She answered it.
"We have to go, Seele has sent one of THEIR Evangelions against us."
"Not again!" cringed Shinji. "The last one wiped the floor with Auska and me!"
"We have to go. It's our duty," retorted Rei.
Shinji grabbed his book bag and followed Rei off to find Asuka.
As soon as they found Auska, the sirens went off and the instructions for which shelter to go to sounded all around the school.
The three children quickly headed for the headquarters of Nerv.
They had no transport, so they had to run all the way.
"Suit up!" screamed Misato (Nerv's beautiful purple haired operations director) as all three children darted quickly past her.
The three children ran into the changing room and started to change into their plug-suits.
They were all changed at roughly the same time. They pressed the compression rings on the wrists of their suits. Creatings a vacuum inside the suit and pulling it skin tight, hugging every feature of the pilot's body. As they ran down the winding corridors of Nerv HQ, they secured their Synch Nodes on their heads, Which increase their compatibility with their Evas.
After they had ran along the maze of platforms above the Eva bay, the children scrambled into their Entry Plugs.
The three plugs spiraled into the Evangelions and the metal back plates slid over the insertion points.
Inside the plugs, swirling lights were displayed on the viewscreens for a couple of seconds, then the LCL filled the plug. It poured into the lungs of the three pilots and every time this had happened, it felt like they were going to drown, but the LCL is breathable, so they only felt it for a few seconds while their lungs completely filled.
Misato's voice blared out over the internal comm.'s system.
All three Evas skyrocketed up through the catapults and to the now barren streets of Tokyo-3, and Seele's Evangelion.
It looked rather like the first yellow Unit 00, with its prominent chin and single red eye, apart from the fact that it was coloured jet-black, had large sharp fingers and a curved horn in the middle of its forehead.
Came Misato's voice over the comm.
It attacked.
It charged like an athlete, covering ground at a phenominal rate, straight at Unit-00. Rei saw it on her view-screen, rolled to the side and grabbed a rifle from a nearby weapons building and let off a hail of shots at the oncoming enemy with her rifle, but the Eva's AT (Absolute Terror) Field vapourised the bullets upon impact. She let off a few more rounds but they had the same effect as the first.
"... The AT Field..." Rei gasped in surprise.
The jet-black Eva launched his first assault on Evangelion Unit-00. It leaped at Rei's Evangelion, its fingers cutting deep into the blue exterior of Unit-00's front, ripping off some armor plating and exposing the Eva's insides.
"Ahh!" screamed Rei, clutching her stomach.
The Black Eva started another attack on the injured Unit-00. It grabbed the arms of Unit-00 and pulled them off, one by one and flinging them over its shoulders.
"Ahhhhh!" screamed Rei as the pain made her convulse and bend double.
"Cut the Nerve connections and eject the plug!" screamed Misato, just as the black Eva's hands came down on Unit-00's shoulders as its horn smashed through it's head.
"Rei!" gasped Auska and Shinji in unison.
Both Unit-01 and 02 rushed straight for Seele's Eva, both drew their progressive knives from their shoulder sheathes and started their attack.
Instructed Misato.
"Right!" came the unified achnowlagement.
They both spread their fields to engulf Seele's Eva.
Came Lt Maya Ibuki's voice over the comm.
Blood (or whatever the red liquid that comes out of an Eva is called) gushed out of the it's eyes and mouth, as its AT Field was neutralised and it let out a blood-curdling roar.
"Just hurry up and die!" growled Auska.
Then it happened. The jet-black Eva launched a last, desperate attack on the two surviving Evas. It lashed out at Unit-01 with its finger spikes, just as the fingers were about to tear Unit-01's head off, out of nowhere Auska's progressive knife rose up and cut off the black Eva's hands, and while it stood there leaking blood, both Units drove their knives into the core of the evil Eva... It exploded with such a large force, the Evas were protected by their armor, but all the buildings in a ten block radius were completely destroyed.
(After the battle.)
"Good work you two," Misato complemented them, as Shinji and Auska wandered into Central Dogma.
"Where's Rei?" asked a concerned Shinji.
"In the hospital, she's fine."
"That's a relief," breathed Shinji.
"Stupid Wonder girl! Should have let us handle it," seethed Auska, folding her arms and turning her back on Shinji and Misato.
At this point Shinji clenched his fists and gritted his teeth in anger.
"She always screws things up, I mean..."
"Auska!" screamed Shinji. "Rei is seriously injured and all you can do is insult her!?" shouted Shinji. "Don't you have a heart!?"
Misato thought it best to leave the two alone to sort out their problems, and quickly sidled out of the room.
"Can't you just try to get along with her?" Shinji shouted loudly.
Asuka was shocked by the change that had come over Shinji. It frightened her a little.
"Why are you always so mean to everyone? I have had it up to here with your attitude towards Rei and everyone else!"
"Shinji, I... I'm sorry...." breathed Auska in a quiet tone. "I... I hate...I hate the thought of you and Won... Rei together. When I see you talking to her and not me, it cuts me up inside!"
"Auska, I had no idea..." gasped Shinji in surprise.
"Shinji, I can't hold my feelings back any longer. I... I love you. When I'm mean to you... it's only because I'm lying to myself, telling myself that I don't love you. But I do, I love you, Shinji."
Shinji was taken aback by her admition. He thaught that she was mean to him because she hated and resented him. In his heart he knew that he loved her and if he declared his feelings, but didn't know if she would hit him and call him a pervert. He made his move.
"Auska... I don't love Rei. I feel something for her, but it's not love," replied Shinji.
"You don't love Rei?" said Auska, trying to hold back tears.
Silence
"Auska..."
Shinji said softly as he moved towards her and held her close to him.
"It's OK Auska, I love you too." whispered Shinji in a comforting tone.
Auska started to cry, she flung her arms around Shinji and cried into his chest while Shinji comforted her.
When she stopped crying, she started to speak.
"I meant what I said," sobbed Auska.
"So did I," whispered Shinji as he leaned in to kiss Auska. She didn't protest as he planted a long kiss on her pouted lips. They leaned into each other, neither one breaking the kiss. It seemed like an eternity but finally they let go. They didn't want to, but Misato had wandered in and caught them in the middle of the long kiss.
Shinji and Auska had took the opportunity to quickly leave the room and rush to the changing rooms.
Misato Sweatdroped and let out a long sigh.
"Kids..."
Later Misato, Shinji and Auska went to visit Rei at the hospital.
(Knock, Knock.)
"Rei, can we come in?"
(Tune of Fly me to the Moon.)
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Well, that was my first Fanfic; hope you can give me some feedback at:
GuyverX53@hotmail.com
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This is the second episode of my fanfic. The first showed that Auska and Shinji love each other. This carries on a week later, when Rei will have recovered from her defeat.
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Shinji was lying in bed listening to his tape player. Cruel Angels Thesis was playing through his ears while rain splashed at his window.
His mind replaying the days events, the bathroom incident, school, the battle with Seele's Evangelion... and Auska. Auska had finaly told him that she loved him. It was a good feeling to love someone and to have them love you as well. He put his tape player on the bedside cabinet, and was about to go to sleep when...
"Shinji?"
Auska was at the door to his room in her nightdress. "Shinji, can I... sleep in you room tonight?"
"O... o,ok. Do you want the bed? I can sleep on the floor..." Auska walked up to the bed, lifted the covers and got in next to him. "There's room for two, I'll be fine with you."
"Why are you in here any way?" he asked as he put his arm around her. She snuggled down under the covers next to him. "I... I had a nightmare. I, I don't wanna talk about it."
Shinji hugged her tightly and kissed her on the forehead. "Its ok, youl be safe here." He gave her another kiss and they went to sleep in each ohers arms.
Misato awoke to the smell of cooked food. She stumbled out of her room and was led by her nose to the smell. She was confronted by a sight that she wouldn't have expected to see... ever! Shinji and Auska were leaning over the table, locked in a kiss.
"Whats going on here?" she gasped. Shinji and Auska both jumped a mile.
Shinji started to stutter. "M... Mi, Misato?! I, I can explain..."
But Auska had already started. "What does it look like MI-SA-TO! We were kissing." Shinji had turned bright red.
Misato sat down. "I've seen things that I would never have believed and this is one of them." Misato sighed. "You do know... dont you?"
"About what?" They asked.
"Don't make me spell it out!" she growled. "Sex, you do know about it...right?"
Auska and Shinji fell about laughing. "Of course Misato!" They both giggled.
"What! You... you..." she croaked.
Auska laughed. "No, of course not!" she fell to the floor clutching her sides after seeing the look on Misatos face. "We, we, ha ha, were taught in, in ha ha school Misato." she rolled around in a laughing fit. Shinji was just sitting there with a grin on his face. Misato scowled at them, they instantly calmed down and sat bolt upright on their chairs.
"Well ok then." she grumbled. "ts saturday, so I'm going back to bed." she stood up and ambled back to bed, muttering under her breath. It sounded like, "Stupid kids!" and "Hmph! I just don't understand teenageers..."
Auska started to laugh again. Shinji just sighed.
"Lets go back to bed..." Shinji groaned. "I'm very tired."
Auska smiled. "I've got things to do, you go." He left the kitchen and went back to his room.
He woke up bleary eyed, he had no idea how long he sleapt. So he headed off down the coridor to the bathroom. He opened the door, and there was Auska. Stark naked getting out of the shower.
(SLAP!) "Get out! Pervert!" Shinji ran out of the bathroom with Auska , now with a towel around her, chasing him.
"Some things never change..." he screamed as he ran into his room. It was a stupid mistake. He was cornered, Auska backed him to the wall.
"Don't you ever knock?!" she bawled as he cringed in fear.
"I, I... Don't... please don't hit me!!" he whinged as she raised her hand. "I'll knock, I swear!!" he screamed. Auska stopped intentionally in front of his face.
"Shinji, don't be such a coward!" she said. "Why don't you stand up for yourself?"
Shinji was confused. First she loved him, then wanted to hurt him.
"Auska, I... I..." he stammered. Her fist swung back.
"Why are you such a spineless idiot?" She swung it forward, but Shinji had already taken what Auska said to heart, and grew a backbone. The fist was about to connect with his jawbone... when, to her suprise, Shinji's hand whipped up and grabbed her wrist. "SHinji!?... MPHHH!" Shinji had spun her around so her back was to the wall, and was already kissing her. He stopped and looked at her.
"I love you Auska." he smiled and hugged her.
"I, I love you too Shinji." Auska pulled him closer and they kissed again. A passing Misato saw them and decided to just keep going. Auska and Shinji spent the night in each others arms.
The next day Shinji, Auska and Rei had a synch test. Rei's synch ratio was the same as the last test, but Shinji and Auska's ratio was up by fifteen percent.
"I don't beleive it!" Ritsuko said looking at the charts. "Their synch ratios are way up, what could be the cause?"
Misato knew full well what the cause was. "I know whats causing it... Shinji and Auska are in love." Ritsuko looked at her notes.
"Well... stranger things have happened. All we can hope for is a continual rise." She pressed a switch on a keyboard. "You can get dressed now guys, tests are over."
Shinji was first out of the changing room. He sat in the coridoor waiting for the girls. They were all going to the shopping center to attend the grand opening of the new virtual reality arcade. Rei and Auska exited the changing room and together with Shinji, they headed off towards the city.
"Shinji?" Auska asked as she slipped her hand into his. "Whats this new virtual reality thing anyway?"
"Its like being in an Eva. Except you don't move, it just appears that you do, and there are a wide variaty of different games to play." Shinji gripped her hand a bit tighter. "Lets get a move on, or the line'l be huge." The trio set off at a quickened pace toward the VR center. They arrived at the arcade, the que for the opening wasn't very long because they had got there early.
"NEXT!" came the attendants voice.
"Hey!" Auska piped up. "Thats us!" they all went inside. The VR arcade
was smaller than they had expected. Only a few rows of VR machines. The ones that really caught their eyes, were the mech simulations.
"Lets go on these..." Auska grabbed Rei and Shinji and hauled them into a mech sim.
"Now, lets see..." Shinji looked at the controls. "Hmmm, not too different from an Eva..." The game started. The three pilots were placed into a large city area. The idea was to destroy each other. Shinji and Auska teamed up,, and Rei teamed up with another contender.
"C'mon wondergirl!" hollered Auska as she slashed out with a lazer sword. Rei retaliated with her own sword. The battle raged, neither one letting up.
"You can do better than that Auska." Rei said as she parried a swing from the redhead. Auska was getting rather annoyed at Rei's constant defence.
Shinji was fighting the newcomer. He tried to raise an AT Field, then remembered that he was only in a game. The arm spikes of his opponent smashed through Shinji's mech. The robot stood watching the fight between the girls. Their swords were locked together the sound was the sound was unbearable. Not the swords... but Auska!
"God damn you!" she screamed. She dived to one side and rammed her sword into Reis side. She was out of the game. Now she and Shinji were spectators.
"Ha!" cackled Auska. "I'm the best... WHAT!" Auska's mech fell to the ground... destroyed. She watched the screen in disbelief as she saw the unknown pilot pull one of his spikes out from the back of her mech. The game, was over.
"That was cool!" exclaimed Shinji.
"It was... nice." Rei said
Auska was in a stress. The mystery pilot had beaten her. They all turned round as a VR machine opened. Out stepped a large kid with short dark brown hair, square black rimmed glasses and green-grey eyes.
"Hi, i'm Chris. Guess you lost... no hard feelings?"
Auska flipped out. "No hard feelings?!! I'm the best, no one can beat me!" she stormed out. Chris looked puzzled.
"Whats with her?" he sighed.
Shinji walked over to Chris. "Don't worry, she's got a violent temper."
Chris laughed. "Yeah, i'll say. I used to, that was untill I found a thing that made me special. I have no need for anger. But... I'm not supposed to talk about it."
"Thats ok." Shinji said. "We all have secrets, even us."
"I gotta go now, se ya around." Chris walked away and out of the arcade silently. Shinji liked him, he was like him in some way, but he couldn't quite place it. Rei felt something she had never felt before and she couldn't place it. But she was able to hide it behind her usual emotionless expression.
"I must go now. I have to see Ritsuko for some tests." Rei started to head out of the arcade.
"Se ya!" Shinji called after her. He had some free time on his hands so he tried a few more VR games.
Alarm sirens echoed through the city, people ran to the shelters and the city was left barren and deserted. Shinji and Auska ran to Nerv HQ. Rei was already suited up when they got there.
"C'mon Shinji!" huffed Auska. "We don't have time to waste!"
"I;m hurrying!" retorted Shinji as they quickly changed into their plug suits. They ran along the Eva gantrys above the Eva bay.
"SHinji!" Auska grabbed him and kissed him passionatly. He returned the gesture and then all three children ran to their prospective units.
Maya Ibuki's voice sang clear over the comm system. The pilots all felt the effects of the connection. Coluors danced around the walls of the plugs and then they were linked.
came the voice of Maya Ibuki.
The colours stopped swirling, the pilots could see all around them, the Evangelions had become artificial extensions of their own bodys.
Misato was commanding the mission as usual, her voice commanding them to the catapults. The gigantic androids stood motionless on the platforms.
Misato shouted. All three Evas were shot up through the surface of the Earth. Their heads snapped up as they reached the surface... and their first look at the enemy.
"W, hat!? It, it looks like Eva Unit-01!" Shinji exclaimed.
Misato was in awe, usually Seele sent easily dispatchable Evas against them, but a copy of Unit-01? Never. The only difference, was that it was black with white highlights.
"Lets go!" hollered Auska. She charged at the psudo-Unit-01 (Unit-P01). It raised its guard... and struck. It moved with the speed of a cheetah, it dodged and drew a progressive knife.
Auska reacted a little too late, she couldn't stop. Unit-02 was impaled on Unit-P01's knife. She was lucky, the nerve connections were disengaged at the point of contact.
"Why me?" she cried. "Why always me?" she sobbed as she slammed her fist on the controls. Shinji and Rei were not faring too well either. Rei had been sliced in half by P01. Her body was wracked with pain.
"Ahh!" she clutched at her stomach as her connection was severed. The pain lessened, but it still hurt like hell.
Misato called out over the comm.
"Y, yes... I will be fine. But, it hurts so much!" Rei was almost crying, which was very unusual.
Now it was just the two Unit-01's. They faced off. P01 matching the moves of Unit-01, and blocking all the attacks Shinji threw at it. P01 tired of the game and launched a devestating assault on Unit-01. It leaped at Shinji, kicking its self off a nearby building, and knocking Eva-01 over with one hit.
Shinji screamed in pain. As p01 stood over him with a triumphant grin on its face. Shinji tried one last desperate attack. He brought Unit-01's legs around in an arc, in an attemt to kick p01's legs out from under it. P01 grabbed Eva-01's legs and swung them around so it went smashing into a skyscraper.
shouted Misato and Gendo Ikari in unison. The entry plug of Unit-01 went spiralling out of its back and out of danger.
P01 advanged on Nerv HQ. Inside Central Dogma, all the staff were in despair, all that is, except Ritsuko and Commander Ikari. The commander stood up.
"Prepare Unit-X!" he ordered.
"Ritsuko hit a few buttens at a panel, and stood there looking smug.
"Why in the hell are you smiling? And whats Unit-X?" Misato growled at her friend. "Why wasn't I told of a fourth Eva?"
"It was on a need to know basis." Ritsuko replied. "Its only an experiment. If it works, it will be the greatest Eva we have." She looked at a control station, "Launch Eva." she commanded.
Shinji, Auska and Rei were watching Unit-P01 from their plug monitors. It was advancing on HQ and destroying a lot of property in the process. Then they saw it... Evangelion Android Unit-X.
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That was the second episode, hope you like it.
All feedback to:
guyverx53@hotmail.com
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This is the third episode in my series of episodes. All Evas have been trashed by a Psodo-Unit-01. The new Unit-X is being launched, and all standard disclaimers apply, but Unit-X is mine.
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Unit-X hit the surface of Tokyo. Its head snapping up automaticaly. All the children looked at it in amazement. It was the colour of burnished gold, with a network of silver lines running all over its body. It Looked like Unit-02 but with Unit-01's horn. It flexed its arms and two wings made ou of what seemed to Be At Fields, projected out of its back.
"What is that thing?" All of the pilods gasped.
Ritsuko answered them. Misato butted in. she grumbled.
Unit-X clenched its fists, and two progressive spikes slid out of sheathes on the top of its wrists. It jumped into the air, and was held aloft by its wings. It flew towards P01 at an amazing speed. As it neared its target, it rose to around three times the height of itself and let itself freefall . It projected an AT Field and neutralised P01's own. Eva-X held out its progressive spikes, flipped in midair so it landed behind P01 and jammed a spike into its back.
Maya stated in amazement.
The three pilots had seen that style before, but couldn't quite place it...
Unit-X retrieved all the Units and Plugs, and placed them into the repair bays. It then went to its own bay, but it didn't really need too. All the pilots were amazed at what the new Eva and its pilot had done. They all however, had to stay in hospital for a day or so.
After the attack Misato was going balistic.
"Why didn't you tell me about the new Eva?!" she groweled at Ritsuko.
"I wasn't authorised to tell you. It was a need to know situation." Ritsuko's brow furrowed a bit. "I wanted to tell you, but... Commander Ikari forbade it."
Misato looked at Ritsuko. "I suppose you had no choice, its ok." Misato walked to the door, "Oh, tomorrow the kids and I are going to view the new Eva, and I wan't you to show us."
"Ok." was all Ritsuko could say. She couldn't refuse, after all she had kept the X-Project a secret from everyone.
The next day Ritsuko, Misato and the three children walked down a dimly lit coridoor deep underground.
"We're deep within the bowls of Nerv HQ." they reached the end of the coridoor. Ritsuko opened a hidden door in the wall.
"Welcome to the X-Technology labratory. It was here that Unit-X was developed." She walked to another door. "Come and meet the pilot who saved all of you."
They all walked into a room where a single test plug was situated in the center. The large display screen next to it, displayed the synch ratio of the pilot in the est plug. Auska freaked out.
"WHAT! That must be a lie! Its over triple my top ratio... its a lie, I wont believe it!" Shinji held her.
"Calm down Auska. I think your the best, don't go by synch ratios." he kissed her on the cheek. She calmed, but was still very disturbed.
Ritsuko motioned to another screen. Please watch the virtual scenario that the pilot is playing."
It was Unit-X fighting the Angel with the paper like arms. The Angel fired its arms at the Eva. Unit-X reacted swiftly, it raised its armspikes in a direct line with the paper arms. The arms split. The Angel advanced on Unit-X. It had its arms shreaded, but it was not beaten, it fires a devestating beam of energy from its mouth. Eva-X leaped into the air, expanded its AT-Wings and spiraled spike first at the Angel. The Angel fired multiple beams but Unit-X dodged them all. Just as the Angel was about to be demolished, Unit-X moved in an arc to land behind it and spiked the core from behind.
"Hey!" Shinji exclaimed. "I've seen that style before. I noticed it in the last battle, and I thaught it was a coincidence. I think I know the pilot... but it can't be. It just can't..."
"Well, nows your chance to find out." Ritsuko smiled as she pressed a button on a keyboard. The LCL drained out of a tube and the plug opened.
Out stepped a large kid with short dark brown hair, sqare black rimmed glasses and grey-green eyes.
"I knew it." Shinji smiled.
"WHAT! HIM!" Bawled Auska.
Rei stood silent.
"Hi. I'm Chris. I beleive we met at the VR arcade. I knew you all, but you didn't know about the new Evangelion experiments. I was told to keep quiet." He walked over to them. "Shinji, you fight well, and I don't mean to be rude but you need to learn more combat focus.
"Hmph! Like you you mean?" Auska said sarcasticly.
"Yes. You Auska Langley Souyu, need to control your angry feelings. Anger is your worst enemy, it leads to bad judgement." Chris tried to be tactful, but failed. Auska slapped hin hard on the cheek and stormed off.
"I'll calm her down." Shinji ran after her out of the room. Chris walked over to Rei.
"Ahhh, the beautifle Miss Ayanami." Chris took her hand and kissed it gently. Rei blushed. It was a big thing for her to blush. She usually showed no signs of emotion. Misato and Ritsuko could see that Chris felt attracted to Rei and that Rei's blush ment that Rei felt something too.
"I... I have to, to go" Rei ran out of the room.
"What was that about?" Chris asked himself. He walked over to Misato and Ritsuko. "Major Katsuragi, it will be a pleasure to be under your command." Misato's brain jerked into motion.
"Thanks. Your piloting skills are formidable, it will be good to have a new face around here." Her mind just snapped to attention. She motioned Ritsuko into a corner and lowered her voice as she spoke.
"He doesn't have to live with me does he because I don't have the space and..." Ritsuko stopped her.
"Don't worry, he'll be living with me. I need to keep an eye on him, I am helping him adjust to things here."
"He seems well adjusted to me." Misato commented.
"Yes, but his past is a trajic one. His mind occasionally tunes out the things all around him and he can't stop rockling back and forth clutching his knees and crying."
"Why?" Misato asked, a little concerned. "He seems so... so normal."
"He is. I can't tell you, he made me promise. He doesn't want people to know, don't tell the kids."
They went back over to Chris who was waiting patiently by the test plug.
"Can we go home now Ritsuko? I feel kinnda tired. I start school tomorrow, I need to be on top form." Ritsuko put her hand on his shoulder.
"Yes, we can go. Misato, feel free to ask the scientists here anything you need to know about Project-X. G'night." Rirsuko and Chris exited the lab and headed to Ritsuko's appartment.
"Nice kid." thaught Misato. She stayed in the lab for some time before heading back to her appartment. "Shinji's cooking tonight, joy!"
Ritsuko and Chris entered the appartment around half an hour after they left the lab. Ritsuko put the kettle on.
"Chris? Do you want a cup of coffee?"
"No thanks, just water please." Chris sat at the small table in the kitchen as Ritsuko handed him the water.
"Is that all you want?" Ritsuko asked.
"Yes. I like water. People say its flavourless, but their wrong, different area's water tastes different." Ritsuko sat down opposite him.
"I couldnt help but notice that kiss you gave Rei today. You like her?"
He got up from the table and headed to his room. He turned to Ritsuko. "Yes, I don't know much about her but I just feel like... I don't know what, but it was the most exhilerating feeling I've ever had. Good night, and thanks... for everything." He went into his room and closed the door.
"Well, better hit the sack myself." she thaught. And headded to bed.
Later that night Ritsuko woke to the sound of crying coming from Chris', room. She ran down the coridoor and flung open his door. Chris was sat on his bed rocking backand forth hugging his knees and crying pitiffuly. Ritsuko sat down next to him and pulled him close to her and began to run her fingers through his hair, hoping that it would calm him.
"Shhh Shhh calm down its all right." she soothed. "I'm here, its alright." Eventually, Chris calmed down and Ritsuko put him to bed.
"Th... thanks Ritsuko. I... I just can't control my actons when I get like that."
Ritsuko held his hand. "Its ok, I will be in the next room if you need anything." She walked out of the room and into her own. As she lay in bed she started to think. "He was doing so well. Not one fit for a month. I'll have to try and find a cure." She drifted off into a light dreamless sleep.
At around the same time as all that was going on, something was happening at Misato's... Shinji and Auska were lying in bed.
"Auska? Why did you get mad at Chris today?" Shinji asked her. Auska growled.
"Because he's a dork! He was rude to me!" she squeezed the pillow.
"I see what he meant." snickered Shinji. Auska turned to him and glared.
"JUST WHAT DOES THAT MEAN!" she screamed at him. Shinji smiled,
"You need to control your anger. Like Chris said... Anger is your worst enemy." Auska looked stunned. She tried to control the anger that was building up.
"I can control my anger! Stupid Xth child! What does he know?" with that, she fell asleep. Shinji couldn't repress a smile as he wrapped his arms around her and also fell asleep.
Rei sat on her bed. She was engaged in thaught and couldnt sleep. She thaught about her emotional outbirst the other day... and about the new pilot Chris.
"What am I feeling? Why am I feeling these feli gs?" she looked at the cracked glasses on her table. She used to look at them every day, but all she could think about was Chris.
"Am I in... in love with him? I hardly know him, yet... I feel something." She sat there for a while before drifting into sleep. It was unusual for her to dream, bbut she drempt. She drempt about Chris. They were on a date at an expensive restaurant and they were conversing as a normal couple would. Chris leaned over the table... and kissed her.
Rei woke with a small yelp. It was mrning and she had just had the strangest if not the best dream she had ever had. She got up, stretched, and went off to her bathroom for a shower. She washed as she normaly did, and then got ready for school. She knew that Chris was starting school today. What was it about Chris that she liked?
The bell rang out over the schoolyard. All the students ran into their classrooms and stood behind their seats.
"sit down class." their old, bespectacled teacher instructed. "We have a new student with us. Now I hope you'll all make Chris feel welcome." Chris took an empty seat by the window in front of Rei.
"Class, open yuor books to page 148. And read chapters 4 through 6. There will be a test tomorrow." the teacher left the class to study on their own. As soon as he left, the class broke into chatter. (Well, who's going to study when you can talk to your friends?) Chris was a little confused by this. He turned round to see Rei looking out of the window.
"Rei?" he asked. "Why isn't anyone working?" She turned to look at him. His face, a mask of confusion.
"No one is working because they can eisily do the work at home in a few minutes." Her answer did make sense but it still seemed strange that the teacher would just leave them.
"Well, seen as no one's working I think I'll do the same." He didn't know anyone in the class appart from Shinji, Auska and Rei. Shinji was involved in conversation with two other boys and Auska... well, Auska didn't like him so there was no point talking to her.
"Rei?" he asked again. "What are you staring at?" Rei was about to tell him about the things outside the window, when she realised she had been staring at Chris. A blush formed over her cheeks and her whole face went bright red. She couldn't say him... but it was the truth.
"I was looking at you." she said flatly. A glimmer of a smile tugged at Chris's mouth. Rei was about to appologise for staring, but Chris spoke first.
"Umm... Errr, that is... to say... Would you... like to come to the cinema tonight? With me I mean." Chris had never asked anyone out before, and he was very nervous. "I... I understand if, if you don't want to go with me..." Rei cut him off in mid-sentence.
"Yes. I would like that." Rei was still blushing. She had accepted to go out with Chris and she quite liked the idea of going out with him, but she didn't let it show.
"Great!" Chris exclaimed. "What do you wanna see?"
"I don't mind." she stated. "Anything thats on." Chris didn't know what was on, so he just muddeled along.
"Umm... So, I'll pick you up at around seven thirty?" he asked nervously in case she had changed her mind... but she hadn't.
"That is acceptable." The bell rang for the end of lesson and they proceeded to lunch. The rest of the day passed reasonably quickly, a Chemistry, Art and PE lesson later, and the school day finished.
Ritsuko picked Chris up from school in her car. She noticed that he had a smile on his face as they neared home.
"Did your first ay go well?" she inquired. Chris turned his head in her direction.
"Yes thanks, It was nice. I learnt a lot about Japan that I didn't know... and I got a date with someone." Ritsuko nodded.
"Not bad for your first day." she pulled the car into her parking space. "We're home." They both got out of the car and went up to the appartment. They both entered and sat at the kitchen table.
"Ritsuko? I was wondering about something."
"What?" she replied.
"About dating." he was rather shy. He'd never been on one before.
"Ahh, you said you had one tonight." she smirked a little as Chris told her he had never been on one before. "Well, I see. You don't want to foul it up, correct?"
"Thats about it." Chris looked at Ritsuko, waiting for her wise knowlage.
"Be yourself." She said. Chris looked at her open mouthed.
"Is that it?" he replied, somewhat bemused.
"Thats it. Whadda ya want? A ten page essay?" Ritsuko could only laugh at seeing Chris's facial expression.
"Whats so funny?!" Chris growled at her. She stopped laughing.
"You. Were you expecting something more... romantecised?"
"Well yes as it happens..." Chris got up. "Well, gotta make myself presentable." He headed off to the bathroom, where he proceeded to have a bath. Meanwhile, in the kitchen, Ritsuko was laughing under her breath.
"Kids... ha ha ha!"
Rei on the other hand was sitting on her bed. She was trying to decide what she was going to wear. This was an easy decission because she only had around three unique sets of clothes and around five school uniforms. She decided to wear her Hello Kitty" t-shirt and her kahiki shorts. She looked at herself in her full length mirror, and wondered if Chris would like it. She was displaying a lot of new emotions lately and finding it harder and harder to conceal them. She tried out a smile in front of the mirror.
"I like it." she said to herself. "In fact, I love it." she giggled to herself for afew minutes. Then she stopped and resumed her normal demeaner. "These new emotions. Did Chris unearth them when I first saw him?" She went into the bathroom, and opened a cupboard that was above the sink. She found her tothbrush and toothpaste and retreived them. She put some paste on her brush.
"Not to much, not to little." she giggled to her reflection. It mirrored her actions as it always had done as she proceeded to brush. A few minutes of brushing and washing, she emerged looking more beautifle than ever.
Chris was also geting ready. He had his bath, washed his hair and cleaned his teeth. Then he went through his entire wardrobe looking for the perfect clothes. Eventually he picked a pair of white cotton trousers and a white hooded fleece. He grabbed his wallet which fortunately had quite a bit of money in it, from the sideboard and went into the kitchen.
"I'me going in a minute Ritsuko. I am just getting a drink." He poured himself a glass of water and downed it in one swallow. Ritsuko looked him over.
"Nice and tasteful. You look great!" she gave him the all clear thumbs up sign. Chris made for the door.
"See ya, I'm off to Rei's." he shouted. Ritsuko stopped him.
"Rei's? I thaught you had a date..." she was confused. Chris smiled.
"I do, I'm taking Rei out to to see a movie." he smiled again. "She's the ideal girl for me. I think I am in love." Ritsuko was a bit unclear on his reasoning.
"Well, have a good time but if she doesn't return your affections... don't be suprised." She patted him on the back and he ran out the door.
Rei waited on her bed for Chris to arrive. She jumped as she heard the doorbell. She rose from the bed and opened the door. Chris stood outside with a slight smile on his face.
"Ummm... Hi." was all he could say when he saw her. "Sh... shall we g... go?" Rei noticed that he was very nervous and he had never done this sort of thing before. Well neither had she, but... what the hell.
"Ok. Don't want to be late do we?" she giggled.
"Are you ok?" he asked her. He was confused now. "I was told you were devoid of emotion... but your not. Are you?" Rei giggled again.
"I was, but now i'm not. It seemed to start the day I met you." she grabbed his arm and looped her own through it. "C'mon, time to get going." Chris was very confused. First she accepted a date, and now they were walking arm in arm down the road. This doesn't sound like the Rei he had been told about. But he didn't care.
Rei hugged his arm tightly. "I don't know much about you. Where'ya from?" Chris's mood lightened.
"England. Its a nice little country, a bit wet though..." he recalled his memories of his homeland and the good times he had there. "But i'm here to stay." they both continued until they reached the cinema. The one problem was the big sign on the door. {CLOSED FOR IMPROVEMENTS}
"Ahhh Shoot!" exclaimed. "Well thats a big let down. Our first date and the venue's closed." Rei leaned in on him.
"I don't mind. I'll be happy just to be with you." she hugged him, and he hugged her back. "Lets get takeout." she suggested.
"Great idea!" Chris laughed. "Better than wasting time looking at the cinema door." he hugged her again. "Your place or mine?"
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Thats the third eddition of my fanfic. You know the drill...
GuyverX53@hotmail.com
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This is the first Fanfic I have created so I would appreciate any feedback you can offer.
I am writing this because I'm a fan of Neon Genesis Evangelion and I thought to myself, I could do that... So here it is, my first Fanfic. This Fanfic doesn't follow the series at all, apart from using the concept of the war with Seele, the characters and Evangelions. It is mainly about the relationship between Auska and Shinji.
All characters are property of Gainax, they are NOT mine!
(But the Jet-Black Eva is mine.)
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(Tune of Cruel Angels Thesis.)
The morning, a peaceful, tranquil time... or is it?
All is quiet in the Katsuragi household; nothing can spoil such a peaceful morning...
Or can it?
"Get out of here you pervert!"
"Auska, I can explain..." whimpered a frightened Shinji. "I thought you'd left for school already, I..."
(Slam!!)
Shinji half fell out of the bathroom as the door was slammed in his face.
Shinji decided that it was better to leave the already angry redhead alone for the time being, and headed off for some breakfast.
Pen-Pen had taken this opportunity to take a peek at Auska in the shower, but was forcefully ejected in the same manner as his predecessor.
At this point, Misato had just woken up and was frantically opening a beer can and trying to find some clean clothes amongst the piles of junk which littered the small apartment.
(Shinji grew a small sweat drop, and sighed.)
The way to school was particularly uneventful. The occasional run in's with school friends. He had considered walking to school with Auska, but in the mood she was in. it didn't seem wise. Around halfway to school he met up with his two best friends, Kensuke Aida and Touji Suzahara. As usual, Kensuke was drooling over a military armament magazine while Tuoji chatted to Shinji.
"Hey, what happened to you this morning?" Touji chuckled. "Oh, I see... ya sneaked a peek at Asuka in the shower this morning, didn't you?"
"I did not! I went into the bathroom and there she was... I didn't mean to." Shinji Turned bright red.
"OK, I believe you." said Touji, but the surepticious wink said otherwise.
(Later, at school)
"What!" bawled an extremely annoyed Auska. "What do you mean you didn't have time to make our lunches!?"
"Auska... I..." moaned a frightened Shinji.
But it was too late; Auska had already started to repeatedly slap him across the face.
"Stop." the emotionless word rang out in Auska's ears like a thunderclap.
An attractive girl with blue hair, named Rei Ayanami blocked in Auska's hand mid-slap.
"Why did you do that?" said Rei in her usual monotone.
"That stupid dork didn't make my lunch this morning!" huffed Auska.
"You can cook, can't you?" inquired Rei.
"Yeah, but he..." Auska was cut off in mid-sentence.
"Why are you so mean to Ikari?" Rei queried.
" It's because he's such a spineless idiot!" shouted the angry German redhead.
At this point, Auska decided that she couldn't win against Rei's red-eyed, cold, emotionless stare and stormed off to harass Kensuke and Touji, who instantly fled when she went over to them.
"Thank you Rei, I..." quavered Shinji.
"You don't need to thank me Ikari. I did it because I don't like seeing Auska hurt you all the time.," answered Rei.
Rei's mobile phone rang. She answered it.
"We have to go, Seele has sent one of THEIR Evangelions against us."
"Not again!" cringed Shinji. "The last one wiped the floor with Auska and me!"
"We have to go. It's our duty," retorted Rei.
Shinji grabbed his book bag and followed Rei off to find Asuka.
As soon as they found Auska, the sirens went off and the instructions for which shelter to go to sounded all around the school.
The three children quickly headed for the headquarters of Nerv.
They had no transport, so they had to run all the way.
"Suit up!" screamed Misato (Nerv's beautiful purple haired operations director) as all three children darted quickly past her.
The three children ran into the changing room and started to change into their plug-suits.
They were all changed at roughly the same time. They pressed the compression rings on the wrists of their suits. Creatings a vacuum inside the suit and pulling it skin tight, hugging every feature of the pilot's body. As they ran down the winding corridors of Nerv HQ, they secured their Synch Nodes on their heads, Which increase their compatibility with their Evas.
After they had ran along the maze of platforms above the Eva bay, the children scrambled into their Entry Plugs.
The three plugs spiraled into the Evangelions and the metal back plates slid over the insertion points.
Inside the plugs, swirling lights were displayed on the viewscreens for a couple of seconds, then the LCL filled the plug. It poured into the lungs of the three pilots and every time this had happened, it felt like they were going to drown, but the LCL is breathable, so they only felt it for a few seconds while their lungs completely filled.
Misato's voice blared out over the internal comm.'s system.
All three Evas skyrocketed up through the catapults and to the now barren streets of Tokyo-3, and Seele's Evangelion.
It looked rather like the first yellow Unit 00, with its prominent chin and single red eye, apart from the fact that it was coloured jet-black, had large sharp fingers and a curved horn in the middle of its forehead.
Came Misato's voice over the comm.
It attacked.
It charged like an athlete, covering ground at a phenominal rate, straight at Unit-00. Rei saw it on her view-screen, rolled to the side and grabbed a rifle from a nearby weapons building and let off a hail of shots at the oncoming enemy with her rifle, but the Eva's AT (Absolute Terror) Field vapourised the bullets upon impact. She let off a few more rounds but they had the same effect as the first.
"... The AT Field..." Rei gasped in surprise.
The jet-black Eva launched his first assault on Evangelion Unit-00. It leaped at Rei's Evangelion, its fingers cutting deep into the blue exterior of Unit-00's front, ripping off some armor plating and exposing the Eva's insides.
"Ahh!" screamed Rei, clutching her stomach.
The Black Eva started another attack on the injured Unit-00. It grabbed the arms of Unit-00 and pulled them off, one by one and flinging them over its shoulders.
"Ahhhhh!" screamed Rei as the pain made her convulse and bend double.
"Cut the Nerve connections and eject the plug!" screamed Misato, just as the black Eva's hands came down on Unit-00's shoulders as its horn smashed through it's head.
"Rei!" gasped Auska and Shinji in unison.
Both Unit-01 and 02 rushed straight for Seele's Eva, both drew their progressive knives from their shoulder sheathes and started their attack.
Instructed Misato.
"Right!" came the unified achnowlagement.
They both spread their fields to engulf Seele's Eva.
Came Lt Maya Ibuki's voice over the comm.
Blood (or whatever the red liquid that comes out of an Eva is called) gushed out of the it's eyes and mouth, as its AT Field was neutralised and it let out a blood-curdling roar.
"Just hurry up and die!" growled Auska.
Then it happened. The jet-black Eva launched a last, desperate attack on the two surviving Evas. It lashed out at Unit-01 with its finger spikes, just as the fingers were about to tear Unit-01's head off, out of nowhere Auska's progressive knife rose up and cut off the black Eva's hands, and while it stood there leaking blood, both Units drove their knives into the core of the evil Eva... It exploded with such a large force, the Evas were protected by their armor, but all the buildings in a ten block radius were completely destroyed.
(After the battle.)
"Good work you two," Misato complemented them, as Shinji and Auska wandered into Central Dogma.
"Where's Rei?" asked a concerned Shinji.
"In the hospital, she's fine."
"That's a relief," breathed Shinji.
"Stupid Wonder girl! Should have let us handle it," seethed Auska, folding her arms and turning her back on Shinji and Misato.
At this point Shinji clenched his fists and gritted his teeth in anger.
"She always screws things up, I mean..."
"Auska!" screamed Shinji. "Rei is seriously injured and all you can do is insult her!?" shouted Shinji. "Don't you have a heart!?"
Misato thought it best to leave the two alone to sort out their problems, and quickly sidled out of the room.
"Can't you just try to get along with her?" Shinji shouted loudly.
Asuka was shocked by the change that had come over Shinji. It frightened her a little.
"Why are you always so mean to everyone? I have had it up to here with your attitude towards Rei and everyone else!"
"Shinji, I... I'm sorry...." breathed Auska in a quiet tone. "I... I hate...I hate the thought of you and Won... Rei together. When I see you talking to her and not me, it cuts me up inside!"
"Auska, I had no idea..." gasped Shinji in surprise.
"Shinji, I can't hold my feelings back any longer. I... I love you. When I'm mean to you... it's only because I'm lying to myself, telling myself that I don't love you. But I do, I love you, Shinji."
Shinji was taken aback by her admition. He thaught that she was mean to him because she hated and resented him. In his heart he knew that he loved her and if he declared his feelings, but didn't know if she would hit him and call him a pervert. He made his move.
"Auska... I don't love Rei. I feel something for her, but it's not love," replied Shinji.
"You don't love Rei?" said Auska, trying to hold back tears.
Silence
"Auska..."
Shinji said softly as he moved towards her and held her close to him.
"It's OK Auska, I love you too." whispered Shinji in a comforting tone.
Auska started to cry, she flung her arms around Shinji and cried into his chest while Shinji comforted her.
When she stopped crying, she started to speak.
"I meant what I said," sobbed Auska.
"So did I," whispered Shinji as he leaned in to kiss Auska. She didn't protest as he planted a long kiss on her pouted lips. They leaned into each other, neither one breaking the kiss. It seemed like an eternity but finally they let go. They didn't want to, but Misato had wandered in and caught them in the middle of the long kiss.
Shinji and Auska had took the opportunity to quickly leave the room and rush to the changing rooms.
Misato Sweatdroped and let out a long sigh.
"Kids..."
Later Misato, Shinji and Auska went to visit Rei at the hospital.
(Knock, Knock.)
"Rei, can we come in?"
(Tune of Fly me to the Moon.)
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Well, that was my first Fanfic; hope you can give me some feedback at:
GuyverX53@hotmail.com
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This is the second episode of my fanfic. The first showed that Auska and Shinji love each other. This carries on a week later, when Rei will have recovered from her defeat.
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Shinji was lying in bed listening to his tape player. Cruel Angels Thesis was playing through his ears while rain splashed at his window.
His mind replaying the days events, the bathroom incident, school, the battle with Seele's Evangelion... and Auska. Auska had finaly told him that she loved him. It was a good feeling to love someone and to have them love you as well. He put his tape player on the bedside cabinet, and was about to go to sleep when...
"Shinji?"
Auska was at the door to his room in her nightdress. "Shinji, can I... sleep in you room tonight?"
"O... o,ok. Do you want the bed? I can sleep on the floor..." Auska walked up to the bed, lifted the covers and got in next to him. "There's room for two, I'll be fine with you."
"Why are you in here any way?" he asked as he put his arm around her. She snuggled down under the covers next to him. "I... I had a nightmare. I, I don't wanna talk about it."
Shinji hugged her tightly and kissed her on the forehead. "Its ok, youl be safe here." He gave her another kiss and they went to sleep in each ohers arms.
Misato awoke to the smell of cooked food. She stumbled out of her room and was led by her nose to the smell. She was confronted by a sight that she wouldn't have expected to see... ever! Shinji and Auska were leaning over the table, locked in a kiss.
"Whats going on here?" she gasped. Shinji and Auska both jumped a mile.
Shinji started to stutter. "M... Mi, Misato?! I, I can explain..."
But Auska had already started. "What does it look like MI-SA-TO! We were kissing." Shinji had turned bright red.
Misato sat down. "I've seen things that I would never have believed and this is one of them." Misato sighed. "You do know... dont you?"
"About what?" They asked.
"Don't make me spell it out!" she growled. "Sex, you do know about it...right?"
Auska and Shinji fell about laughing. "Of course Misato!" They both giggled.
"What! You... you..." she croaked.
Auska laughed. "No, of course not!" she fell to the floor clutching her sides after seeing the look on Misatos face. "We, we, ha ha, were taught in, in ha ha school Misato." she rolled around in a laughing fit. Shinji was just sitting there with a grin on his face. Misato scowled at them, they instantly calmed down and sat bolt upright on their chairs.
"Well ok then." she grumbled. "ts saturday, so I'm going back to bed." she stood up and ambled back to bed, muttering under her breath. It sounded like, "Stupid kids!" and "Hmph! I just don't understand teenageers..."
Auska started to laugh again. Shinji just sighed.
"Lets go back to bed..." Shinji groaned. "I'm very tired."
Auska smiled. "I've got things to do, you go." He left the kitchen and went back to his room.
He woke up bleary eyed, he had no idea how long he sleapt. So he headed off down the coridor to the bathroom. He opened the door, and there was Auska. Stark naked getting out of the shower.
(SLAP!) "Get out! Pervert!" Shinji ran out of the bathroom with Auska , now with a towel around her, chasing him.
"Some things never change..." he screamed as he ran into his room. It was a stupid mistake. He was cornered, Auska backed him to the wall.
"Don't you ever knock?!" she bawled as he cringed in fear.
"I, I... Don't... please don't hit me!!" he whinged as she raised her hand. "I'll knock, I swear!!" he screamed. Auska stopped intentionally in front of his face.
"Shinji, don't be such a coward!" she said. "Why don't you stand up for yourself?"
Shinji was confused. First she loved him, then wanted to hurt him.
"Auska, I... I..." he stammered. Her fist swung back.
"Why are you such a spineless idiot?" She swung it forward, but Shinji had already taken what Auska said to heart, and grew a backbone. The fist was about to connect with his jawbone... when, to her suprise, Shinji's hand whipped up and grabbed her wrist. "SHinji!?... MPHHH!" Shinji had spun her around so her back was to the wall, and was already kissing her. He stopped and looked at her.
"I love you Auska." he smiled and hugged her.
"I, I love you too Shinji." Auska pulled him closer and they kissed again. A passing Misato saw them and decided to just keep going. Auska and Shinji spent the night in each others arms.
The next day Shinji, Auska and Rei had a synch test. Rei's synch ratio was the same as the last test, but Shinji and Auska's ratio was up by fifteen percent.
"I don't beleive it!" Ritsuko said looking at the charts. "Their synch ratios are way up, what could be the cause?"
Misato knew full well what the cause was. "I know whats causing it... Shinji and Auska are in love." Ritsuko looked at her notes.
"Well... stranger things have happened. All we can hope for is a continual rise." She pressed a switch on a keyboard. "You can get dressed now guys, tests are over."
Shinji was first out of the changing room. He sat in the coridoor waiting for the girls. They were all going to the shopping center to attend the grand opening of the new virtual reality arcade. Rei and Auska exited the changing room and together with Shinji, they headed off towards the city.
"Shinji?" Auska asked as she slipped her hand into his. "Whats this new virtual reality thing anyway?"
"Its like being in an Eva. Except you don't move, it just appears that you do, and there are a wide variaty of different games to play." Shinji gripped her hand a bit tighter. "Lets get a move on, or the line'l be huge." The trio set off at a quickened pace toward the VR center. They arrived at the arcade, the que for the opening wasn't very long because they had got there early.
"NEXT!" came the attendants voice.
"Hey!" Auska piped up. "Thats us!" they all went inside. The VR arcade
was smaller than they had expected. Only a few rows of VR machines. The ones that really caught their eyes, were the mech simulations.
"Lets go on these..." Auska grabbed Rei and Shinji and hauled them into a mech sim.
"Now, lets see..." Shinji looked at the controls. "Hmmm, not too different from an Eva..." The game started. The three pilots were placed into a large city area. The idea was to destroy each other. Shinji and Auska teamed up,, and Rei teamed up with another contender.
"C'mon wondergirl!" hollered Auska as she slashed out with a lazer sword. Rei retaliated with her own sword. The battle raged, neither one letting up.
"You can do better than that Auska." Rei said as she parried a swing from the redhead. Auska was getting rather annoyed at Rei's constant defence.
Shinji was fighting the newcomer. He tried to raise an AT Field, then remembered that he was only in a game. The arm spikes of his opponent smashed through Shinji's mech. The robot stood watching the fight between the girls. Their swords were locked together the sound was the sound was unbearable. Not the swords... but Auska!
"God damn you!" she screamed. She dived to one side and rammed her sword into Reis side. She was out of the game. Now she and Shinji were spectators.
"Ha!" cackled Auska. "I'm the best... WHAT!" Auska's mech fell to the ground... destroyed. She watched the screen in disbelief as she saw the unknown pilot pull one of his spikes out from the back of her mech. The game, was over.
"That was cool!" exclaimed Shinji.
"It was... nice." Rei said
Auska was in a stress. The mystery pilot had beaten her. They all turned round as a VR machine opened. Out stepped a large kid with short dark brown hair, square black rimmed glasses and green-grey eyes.
"Hi, i'm Chris. Guess you lost... no hard feelings?"
Auska flipped out. "No hard feelings?!! I'm the best, no one can beat me!" she stormed out. Chris looked puzzled.
"Whats with her?" he sighed.
Shinji walked over to Chris. "Don't worry, she's got a violent temper."
Chris laughed. "Yeah, i'll say. I used to, that was untill I found a thing that made me special. I have no need for anger. But... I'm not supposed to talk about it."
"Thats ok." Shinji said. "We all have secrets, even us."
"I gotta go now, se ya around." Chris walked away and out of the arcade silently. Shinji liked him, he was like him in some way, but he couldn't quite place it. Rei felt something she had never felt before and she couldn't place it. But she was able to hide it behind her usual emotionless expression.
"I must go now. I have to see Ritsuko for some tests." Rei started to head out of the arcade.
"Se ya!" Shinji called after her. He had some free time on his hands so he tried a few more VR games.
Alarm sirens echoed through the city, people ran to the shelters and the city was left barren and deserted. Shinji and Auska ran to Nerv HQ. Rei was already suited up when they got there.
"C'mon Shinji!" huffed Auska. "We don't have time to waste!"
"I;m hurrying!" retorted Shinji as they quickly changed into their plug suits. They ran along the Eva gantrys above the Eva bay.
"SHinji!" Auska grabbed him and kissed him passionatly. He returned the gesture and then all three children ran to their prospective units.
Maya Ibuki's voice sang clear over the comm system. The pilots all felt the effects of the connection. Coluors danced around the walls of the plugs and then they were linked.
came the voice of Maya Ibuki.
The colours stopped swirling, the pilots could see all around them, the Evangelions had become artificial extensions of their own bodys.
Misato was commanding the mission as usual, her voice commanding them to the catapults. The gigantic androids stood motionless on the platforms.
Misato shouted. All three Evas were shot up through the surface of the Earth. Their heads snapped up as they reached the surface... and their first look at the enemy.
"W, hat!? It, it looks like Eva Unit-01!" Shinji exclaimed.
Misato was in awe, usually Seele sent easily dispatchable Evas against them, but a copy of Unit-01? Never. The only difference, was that it was black with white highlights.
"Lets go!" hollered Auska. She charged at the psudo-Unit-01 (Unit-P01). It raised its guard... and struck. It moved with the speed of a cheetah, it dodged and drew a progressive knife.
Auska reacted a little too late, she couldn't stop. Unit-02 was impaled on Unit-P01's knife. She was lucky, the nerve connections were disengaged at the point of contact.
"Why me?" she cried. "Why always me?" she sobbed as she slammed her fist on the controls. Shinji and Rei were not faring too well either. Rei had been sliced in half by P01. Her body was wracked with pain.
"Ahh!" she clutched at her stomach as her connection was severed. The pain lessened, but it still hurt like hell.
Misato called out over the comm.
"Y, yes... I will be fine. But, it hurts so much!" Rei was almost crying, which was very unusual.
Now it was just the two Unit-01's. They faced off. P01 matching the moves of Unit-01, and blocking all the attacks Shinji threw at it. P01 tired of the game and launched a devestating assault on Unit-01. It leaped at Shinji, kicking its self off a nearby building, and knocking Eva-01 over with one hit.
Shinji screamed in pain. As p01 stood over him with a triumphant grin on its face. Shinji tried one last desperate attack. He brought Unit-01's legs around in an arc, in an attemt to kick p01's legs out from under it. P01 grabbed Eva-01's legs and swung them around so it went smashing into a skyscraper.
shouted Misato and Gendo Ikari in unison. The entry plug of Unit-01 went spiralling out of its back and out of danger.
P01 advanged on Nerv HQ. Inside Central Dogma, all the staff were in despair, all that is, except Ritsuko and Commander Ikari. The commander stood up.
"Prepare Unit-X!" he ordered.
"Ritsuko hit a few buttens at a panel, and stood there looking smug.
"Why in the hell are you smiling? And whats Unit-X?" Misato growled at her friend. "Why wasn't I told of a fourth Eva?"
"It was on a need to know basis." Ritsuko replied. "Its only an experiment. If it works, it will be the greatest Eva we have." She looked at a control station, "Launch Eva." she commanded.
Shinji, Auska and Rei were watching Unit-P01 from their plug monitors. It was advancing on HQ and destroying a lot of property in the process. Then they saw it... Evangelion Android Unit-X.
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That was the second episode, hope you like it.
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This is the third episode in my series of episodes. All Evas have been trashed by a Psodo-Unit-01. The new Unit-X is being launched, and all standard disclaimers apply, but Unit-X is mine.
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Unit-X hit the surface of Tokyo. Its head snapping up automaticaly. All the children looked at it in amazement. It was the colour of burnished gold, with a network of silver lines running all over its body. It Looked like Unit-02 but with Unit-01's horn. It flexed its arms and two wings made ou of what seemed to Be At Fields, projected out of its back.
"What is that thing?" All of the pilods gasped.
Ritsuko answered them. Misato butted in. she grumbled.
Unit-X clenched its fists, and two progressive spikes slid out of sheathes on the top of its wrists. It jumped into the air, and was held aloft by its wings. It flew towards P01 at an amazing speed. As it neared its target, it rose to around three times the height of itself and let itself freefall . It projected an AT Field and neutralised P01's own. Eva-X held out its progressive spikes, flipped in midair so it landed behind P01 and jammed a spike into its back.
Maya stated in amazement.
The three pilots had seen that style before, but couldn't quite place it...
Unit-X retrieved all the Units and Plugs, and placed them into the repair bays. It then went to its own bay, but it didn't really need too. All the pilots were amazed at what the new Eva and its pilot had done. They all however, had to stay in hospital for a day or so.
After the attack Misato was going balistic.
"Why didn't you tell me about the new Eva?!" she groweled at Ritsuko.
"I wasn't authorised to tell you. It was a need to know situation." Ritsuko's brow furrowed a bit. "I wanted to tell you, but... Commander Ikari forbade it."
Misato looked at Ritsuko. "I suppose you had no choice, its ok." Misato walked to the door, "Oh, tomorrow the kids and I are going to view the new Eva, and I wan't you to show us."
"Ok." was all Ritsuko could say. She couldn't refuse, after all she had kept the X-Project a secret from everyone.
The next day Ritsuko, Misato and the three children walked down a dimly lit coridoor deep underground.
"We're deep within the bowls of Nerv HQ." they reached the end of the coridoor. Ritsuko opened a hidden door in the wall.
"Welcome to the X-Technology labratory. It was here that Unit-X was developed." She walked to another door. "Come and meet the pilot who saved all of you."
They all walked into a room where a single test plug was situated in the center. The large display screen next to it, displayed the synch ratio of the pilot in the est plug. Auska freaked out.
"WHAT! That must be a lie! Its over triple my top ratio... its a lie, I wont believe it!" Shinji held her.
"Calm down Auska. I think your the best, don't go by synch ratios." he kissed her on the cheek. She calmed, but was still very disturbed.
Ritsuko motioned to another screen. Please watch the virtual scenario that the pilot is playing."
It was Unit-X fighting the Angel with the paper like arms. The Angel fired its arms at the Eva. Unit-X reacted swiftly, it raised its armspikes in a direct line with the paper arms. The arms split. The Angel advanced on Unit-X. It had its arms shreaded, but it was not beaten, it fires a devestating beam of energy from its mouth. Eva-X leaped into the air, expanded its AT-Wings and spiraled spike first at the Angel. The Angel fired multiple beams but Unit-X dodged them all. Just as the Angel was about to be demolished, Unit-X moved in an arc to land behind it and spiked the core from behind.
"Hey!" Shinji exclaimed. "I've seen that style before. I noticed it in the last battle, and I thaught it was a coincidence. I think I know the pilot... but it can't be. It just can't..."
"Well, nows your chance to find out." Ritsuko smiled as she pressed a button on a keyboard. The LCL drained out of a tube and the plug opened.
Out stepped a large kid with short dark brown hair, sqare black rimmed glasses and grey-green eyes.
"I knew it." Shinji smiled.
"WHAT! HIM!" Bawled Auska.
Rei stood silent.
"Hi. I'm Chris. I beleive we met at the VR arcade. I knew you all, but you didn't know about the new Evangelion experiments. I was told to keep quiet." He walked over to them. "Shinji, you fight well, and I don't mean to be rude but you need to learn more combat focus.
"Hmph! Like you you mean?" Auska said sarcasticly.
"Yes. You Auska Langley Souyu, need to control your angry feelings. Anger is your worst enemy, it leads to bad judgement." Chris tried to be tactful, but failed. Auska slapped hin hard on the cheek and stormed off.
"I'll calm her down." Shinji ran after her out of the room. Chris walked over to Rei.
"Ahhh, the beautifle Miss Ayanami." Chris took her hand and kissed it gently. Rei blushed. It was a big thing for her to blush. She usually showed no signs of emotion. Misato and Ritsuko could see that Chris felt attracted to Rei and that Rei's blush ment that Rei felt something too.
"I... I have to, to go" Rei ran out of the room.
"What was that about?" Chris asked himself. He walked over to Misato and Ritsuko. "Major Katsuragi, it will be a pleasure to be under your command." Misato's brain jerked into motion.
"Thanks. Your piloting skills are formidable, it will be good to have a new face around here." Her mind just snapped to attention. She motioned Ritsuko into a corner and lowered her voice as she spoke.
"He doesn't have to live with me does he because I don't have the space and..." Ritsuko stopped her.
"Don't worry, he'll be living with me. I need to keep an eye on him, I am helping him adjust to things here."
"He seems well adjusted to me." Misato commented.
"Yes, but his past is a trajic one. His mind occasionally tunes out the things all around him and he can't stop rockling back and forth clutching his knees and crying."
"Why?" Misato asked, a little concerned. "He seems so... so normal."
"He is. I can't tell you, he made me promise. He doesn't want people to know, don't tell the kids."
They went back over to Chris who was waiting patiently by the test plug.
"Can we go home now Ritsuko? I feel kinnda tired. I start school tomorrow, I need to be on top form." Ritsuko put her hand on his shoulder.
"Yes, we can go. Misato, feel free to ask the scientists here anything you need to know about Project-X. G'night." Rirsuko and Chris exited the lab and headed to Ritsuko's appartment.
"Nice kid." thaught Misato. She stayed in the lab for some time before heading back to her appartment. "Shinji's cooking tonight, joy!"
Ritsuko and Chris entered the appartment around half an hour after they left the lab. Ritsuko put the kettle on.
"Chris? Do you want a cup of coffee?"
"No thanks, just water please." Chris sat at the small table in the kitchen as Ritsuko handed him the water.
"Is that all you want?" Ritsuko asked.
"Yes. I like water. People say its flavourless, but their wrong, different area's water tastes different." Ritsuko sat down opposite him.
"I couldnt help but notice that kiss you gave Rei today. You like her?"
He got up from the table and headed to his room. He turned to Ritsuko. "Yes, I don't know much about her but I just feel like... I don't know what, but it was the most exhilerating feeling I've ever had. Good night, and thanks... for everything." He went into his room and closed the door.
"Well, better hit the sack myself." she thaught. And headded to bed.
Later that night Ritsuko woke to the sound of crying coming from Chris', room. She ran down the coridoor and flung open his door. Chris was sat on his bed rocking backand forth hugging his knees and crying pitiffuly. Ritsuko sat down next to him and pulled him close to her and began to run her fingers through his hair, hoping that it would calm him.
"Shhh Shhh calm down its all right." she soothed. "I'm here, its alright." Eventually, Chris calmed down and Ritsuko put him to bed.
"Th... thanks Ritsuko. I... I just can't control my actons when I get like that."
Ritsuko held his hand. "Its ok, I will be in the next room if you need anything." She walked out of the room and into her own. As she lay in bed she started to think. "He was doing so well. Not one fit for a month. I'll have to try and find a cure." She drifted off into a light dreamless sleep.
At around the same time as all that was going on, something was happening at Misato's... Shinji and Auska were lying in bed.
"Auska? Why did you get mad at Chris today?" Shinji asked her. Auska growled.
"Because he's a dork! He was rude to me!" she squeezed the pillow.
"I see what he meant." snickered Shinji. Auska turned to him and glared.
"JUST WHAT DOES THAT MEAN!" she screamed at him. Shinji smiled,
"You need to control your anger. Like Chris said... Anger is your worst enemy." Auska looked stunned. She tried to control the anger that was building up.
"I can control my anger! Stupid Xth child! What does he know?" with that, she fell asleep. Shinji couldn't repress a smile as he wrapped his arms around her and also fell asleep.
Rei sat on her bed. She was engaged in thaught and couldnt sleep. She thaught about her emotional outbirst the other day... and about the new pilot Chris.
"What am I feeling? Why am I feeling these feli gs?" she looked at the cracked glasses on her table. She used to look at them every day, but all she could think about was Chris.
"Am I in... in love with him? I hardly know him, yet... I feel something." She sat there for a while before drifting into sleep. It was unusual for her to dream, bbut she drempt. She drempt about Chris. They were on a date at an expensive restaurant and they were conversing as a normal couple would. Chris leaned over the table... and kissed her.
Rei woke with a small yelp. It was mrning and she had just had the strangest if not the best dream she had ever had. She got up, stretched, and went off to her bathroom for a shower. She washed as she normaly did, and then got ready for school. She knew that Chris was starting school today. What was it about Chris that she liked?
The bell rang out over the schoolyard. All the students ran into their classrooms and stood behind their seats.
"sit down class." their old, bespectacled teacher instructed. "We have a new student with us. Now I hope you'll all make Chris feel welcome." Chris took an empty seat by the window in front of Rei.
"Class, open yuor books to page 148. And read chapters 4 through 6. There will be a test tomorrow." the teacher left the class to study on their own. As soon as he left, the class broke into chatter. (Well, who's going to study when you can talk to your friends?) Chris was a little confused by this. He turned round to see Rei looking out of the window.
"Rei?" he asked. "Why isn't anyone working?" She turned to look at him. His face, a mask of confusion.
"No one is working because they can eisily do the work at home in a few minutes." Her answer did make sense but it still seemed strange that the teacher would just leave them.
"Well, seen as no one's working I think I'll do the same." He didn't know anyone in the class appart from Shinji, Auska and Rei. Shinji was involved in conversation with two other boys and Auska... well, Auska didn't like him so there was no point talking to her.
"Rei?" he asked again. "What are you staring at?" Rei was about to tell him about the things outside the window, when she realised she had been staring at Chris. A blush formed over her cheeks and her whole face went bright red. She couldn't say him... but it was the truth.
"I was looking at you." she said flatly. A glimmer of a smile tugged at Chris's mouth. Rei was about to appologise for staring, but Chris spoke first.
"Umm... Errr, that is... to say... Would you... like to come to the cinema tonight? With me I mean." Chris had never asked anyone out before, and he was very nervous. "I... I understand if, if you don't want to go with me..." Rei cut him off in mid-sentence.
"Yes. I would like that." Rei was still blushing. She had accepted to go out with Chris and she quite liked the idea of going out with him, but she didn't let it show.
"Great!" Chris exclaimed. "What do you wanna see?"
"I don't mind." she stated. "Anything thats on." Chris didn't know what was on, so he just muddeled along.
"Umm... So, I'll pick you up at around seven thirty?" he asked nervously in case she had changed her mind... but she hadn't.
"That is acceptable." The bell rang for the end of lesson and they proceeded to lunch. The rest of the day passed reasonably quickly, a Chemistry, Art and PE lesson later, and the school day finished.
Ritsuko picked Chris up from school in her car. She noticed that he had a smile on his face as they neared home.
"Did your first ay go well?" she inquired. Chris turned his head in her direction.
"Yes thanks, It was nice. I learnt a lot about Japan that I didn't know... and I got a date with someone." Ritsuko nodded.
"Not bad for your first day." she pulled the car into her parking space. "We're home." They both got out of the car and went up to the appartment. They both entered and sat at the kitchen table.
"Ritsuko? I was wondering about something."
"What?" she replied.
"About dating." he was rather shy. He'd never been on one before.
"Ahh, you said you had one tonight." she smirked a little as Chris told her he had never been on one before. "Well, I see. You don't want to foul it up, correct?"
"Thats about it." Chris looked at Ritsuko, waiting for her wise knowlage.
"Be yourself." She said. Chris looked at her open mouthed.
"Is that it?" he replied, somewhat bemused.
"Thats it. Whadda ya want? A ten page essay?" Ritsuko could only laugh at seeing Chris's facial expression.
"Whats so funny?!" Chris growled at her. She stopped laughing.
"You. Were you expecting something more... romantecised?"
"Well yes as it happens..." Chris got up. "Well, gotta make myself presentable." He headed off to the bathroom, where he proceeded to have a bath. Meanwhile, in the kitchen, Ritsuko was laughing under her breath.
"Kids... ha ha ha!"
Rei on the other hand was sitting on her bed. She was trying to decide what she was going to wear. This was an easy decission because she only had around three unique sets of clothes and around five school uniforms. She decided to wear her Hello Kitty" t-shirt and her kahiki shorts. She looked at herself in her full length mirror, and wondered if Chris would like it. She was displaying a lot of new emotions lately and finding it harder and harder to conceal them. She tried out a smile in front of the mirror.
"I like it." she said to herself. "In fact, I love it." she giggled to herself for afew minutes. Then she stopped and resumed her normal demeaner. "These new emotions. Did Chris unearth them when I first saw him?" She went into the bathroom, and opened a cupboard that was above the sink. She found her tothbrush and toothpaste and retreived them. She put some paste on her brush.
"Not to much, not to little." she giggled to her reflection. It mirrored her actions as it always had done as she proceeded to brush. A few minutes of brushing and washing, she emerged looking more beautifle than ever.
Chris was also geting ready. He had his bath, washed his hair and cleaned his teeth. Then he went through his entire wardrobe looking for the perfect clothes. Eventually he picked a pair of white cotton trousers and a white hooded fleece. He grabbed his wallet which fortunately had quite a bit of money in it, from the sideboard and went into the kitchen.
"I'me going in a minute Ritsuko. I am just getting a drink." He poured himself a glass of water and downed it in one swallow. Ritsuko looked him over.
"Nice and tasteful. You look great!" she gave him the all clear thumbs up sign. Chris made for the door.
"See ya, I'm off to Rei's." he shouted. Ritsuko stopped him.
"Rei's? I thaught you had a date..." she was confused. Chris smiled.
"I do, I'm taking Rei out to to see a movie." he smiled again. "She's the ideal girl for me. I think I am in love." Ritsuko was a bit unclear on his reasoning.
"Well, have a good time but if she doesn't return your affections... don't be suprised." She patted him on the back and he ran out the door.
Rei waited on her bed for Chris to arrive. She jumped as she heard the doorbell. She rose from the bed and opened the door. Chris stood outside with a slight smile on his face.
"Ummm... Hi." was all he could say when he saw her. "Sh... shall we g... go?" Rei noticed that he was very nervous and he had never done this sort of thing before. Well neither had she, but... what the hell.
"Ok. Don't want to be late do we?" she giggled.
"Are you ok?" he asked her. He was confused now. "I was told you were devoid of emotion... but your not. Are you?" Rei giggled again.
"I was, but now i'm not. It seemed to start the day I met you." she grabbed his arm and looped her own through it. "C'mon, time to get going." Chris was very confused. First she accepted a date, and now they were walking arm in arm down the road. This doesn't sound like the Rei he had been told about. But he didn't care.
Rei hugged his arm tightly. "I don't know much about you. Where'ya from?" Chris's mood lightened.
"England. Its a nice little country, a bit wet though..." he recalled his memories of his homeland and the good times he had there. "But i'm here to stay." they both continued until they reached the cinema. The one problem was the big sign on the door. {CLOSED FOR IMPROVEMENTS}
"Ahhh Shoot!" exclaimed. "Well thats a big let down. Our first date and the venue's closed." Rei leaned in on him.
"I don't mind. I'll be happy just to be with you." she hugged him, and he hugged her back. "Lets get takeout." she suggested.
"Great idea!" Chris laughed. "Better than wasting time looking at the cinema door." he hugged her again. "Your place or mine?"
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Thats the third eddition of my fanfic. You know the drill...
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