Evangelion Heroes: Shinji Inika
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Instead of being raised by an uncle or teacher, Shinji is taken in by a group of biomechanical beings and raised on their island home. When he returns home, Gendo discovers that his scenario might be in danger, as Shinji is VERY different from what he should be and a lot more powerful…
Chapter 1: Home again
{Tokyo-3, just the way I left it} Shinji thought with a smile as he looked at the bench where he had sat, just 10 years ago. On that day he had been crying his eyes out, his father had abandoned him and the uncle that was meant to collect him never came. Thankfully two people did find him, and they made him part of a family, a real family.
{'We just gonna stare at a piece of wood all day or are we gonna see what that lady wants with you?'}
'Sorry Iden, zoned out I guess' Shinji apologised, apparently speaking to no one in particular, 'Best just to see what my father wants and be done with it.'
{'Meh, take your time here, maybe there's something to fight!'}
Shinji put on a displeased face and replied, 'Hey that's not something to be excited about.'
{'Come on I was only kidding'}
'Yeah, well the last time you said that we ended up going against a bunch of Veruks all by ourselves!'
{'Oh come on it was fun, besides the other Toa arrived to help us anyway'}
Shaking his head and deciding to not remark on his disembodied friends' ideas, he grabbed his backpack and began to move for the pay phone.
{'It wasn't so deserted 3 years ago was it?'}
That sentence caused Shinji to remember that moment. He had come back to Earth for his annual visit to his mothers' grave, unfortunately his father had set up a trap to capture him for some incomprehensible reason (he couldn't understand why the man who had abandoned him was springing traps left, right and centre every time he came back to earth), he was lucky to pay his respects to his mother and not reveal his…unusual abilities to the Section 2 agents. That being said, him and Iden agreed that it was too dangerous for them to come back, so his brothers and sisters agreed to come over and grab whatever he needed. Last time it had been a letter from his father (how they had been able to get it was beyond Shinji) with a single word: come. Also attached was a picture of the woman who was meant to be picking him up, "a very gifted woman" as his brother, Arconn, had said.
{'Ah hem'}
'Oops sorry, zoned out again'
{'Mata Nui, is this gonna happen all the time here?'}
'Sorry, it's just that…' Shinji was cut off when he saw a girl, a teenager like himself in a school uniform, standing in the distance with blue hair.
Before he could call out to her and question the absence of people, a flock of birds caused him to turn the other way, when he looked back he noticed that the girl was gone.
{'Lujaka said to never take your eyes off an opponent!'}
'Wha…she wasn't an opponent Iden! Look just be quiet for awhile or float around town or something' said Shinji, who was getting annoyed with his talkative Kanohi.
Taking the phone in his hand he attempted to dial the numbers, but all he got was silence in return.
'Huh, the lines must be down or something'
Suddenly a pair jets flew over head, giving whatever unseen target that was in their sights all they had.
'Oh please tell me that Iden did not jinx me again' groaned Shinji as he ran in the direction the jets had gone. Which he now wished he hadn't, because the target they where facing was a lot larger than he was.
The monstrosity was swatting the jets away as if they were flies, and nothing seemed to be causing it any damage.
'Oh man' Shinji wracked his brains to try and figure out how to fight it, by himself he stood 0 chance of beating it, if only the others where here then they might be able to break its ankle or something at least.
In the nick of time a car stopped (too close for Shinji's taste) right in front of him. A purple haired woman opened the passenger seat and yelled for him to get in. Not wanting to get stood on, he was more than happy to oblige, before he even closed the door the woman sped off.
Now Shinji was busy thinking he would have more chance surviving a battle with the giant than with this woman's driving.
'You're Ikari, Shinji right?' the woman asked.
'That must mean you are Miss Katsuragi.' Shinji said when he realized that this was the woman on the picture, 'Thanks for the save'
'No problem, and Misato is fine, Miss Katsuragi makes me feel old' she said with a smile, 'There's a manual in the glove compartment I would suggest reading it on the way.'
'Uh, is now really the time for reading?'
'Well, you're gonna have to read it if you want… OH CRAP! GET DOWN!' she screamed as she encircled him with her arms.
A bomb suddenly went off in the distance, the shockwave made the car roll around, but miraculously they where both unharmed.
'Misato are you alright?'
'Yeah, fine'
They both crawled out of the overturned car and looked at the damaged vehicle.
'Oh no I still had 32 payments left!' cried Misato, mortified at the damage her car now had.
'Uh shouldn't we be more concerned with the giant monster?' Shinji asked, while questioning Misato's sanity.
'If we don't have a car we don't have a way to the Geofront' with a sigh, Misato moved towards the car and started to try and turn it the right way up, 'little help please.'
Moving towards the car Shinji did his best to make it look as much of a mission to turn the car as possible. The car fell down onto its tyres, its last side view mirror breaking off, causing Misato to groan.
'You're stronger than you look Shinji-kun'
With a blush now appearing on his face, he muttered a thank you and then they both hopped into the car. Try as she might Misato could not get the car to start; popping the hood she moved to the car's engine and muttered something about the battery being dead.
'Misato there's a supply store just down there' he said, pointing towards it, 'I'll see if I can do something to get it to start while you grab something to repair the car in case I can't'
'Well if you can do something go ahead, can't damage the car anymore I guess' she said making her way towards the store.
Standing in front of the car's insides, he placed his hand on the battery letting loose a small arc of crimson electricity, which caused the car to roar back to life.
'Wow, strong and smart huh, Shinji you're the best!' Misato said, upon returning from the store and finding her car injured, but alive at least.
***Unity, Duty, Destiny***
Finally reaching the Geofront Shinji gaped at it in amazement, even Iden came back from his little trip to admire it.
{'Wow'} exclaimed the amazed kanohi.
'No time for that Shinji-kun' Misato said, as she led him towards the entrance.
'Is this where my father has been working?' Shinji asked, as they walked through the maze that was the inside of the Geofront.
'Yeah, didn't you know that?' she asked.
'We're…not on the best of terms' Shinji answered softly, suddenly going silent.
{A bit like I was} Misato thought.
{"Clearing his throat" (although it was actually impossible for him to do so, he still managed to produce the noise) 'This is taking too long. I'm gonna have a look around, see ya in a bit'} said Iden, leaving abruptly, not entirely out of impatience, but because he knew Shinji needed to prepare himself before he met his father again.
***Unity, Duty, Destiny***
After going around in circles and Shinji questioning Misato's sense of direction for an extended period of time, they finally found someone (or more accurately someone found them).
'Having fun Major?' came a voice just behind them.
'Oh, hey Rits we just got a little lost that's all' Misato replied sheepishly.
Arching an eyebrow at Misato's excuse, but deciding not to annoy her any further, Shinji instead chose to greet the person who found them, holding his fist in front of him out of habit.
The swimsuit clad Doctor arched her eyebrow at this, 'So, this is Shinji Ikari I presume?'
Realising his mistake, he quickly put his hand next to his side, 'Yes, a pleasure to meet you Miss…?'
'Akagi, and it's doctor actually' she replied.
***Unity, Duty, Destiny***
After being led through the labyrinth by the more experienced doctor, they finally reached the command centre, and Shinji came face to face with something that he had long forgotten, but it still filled him with dread to look at it.
'Is that what my father has been working on?' Shinji asked as he stared at the purple giant.
'Correct, and I need you to pilot it for me' came a voice from above.
'Wait, what!' came Shinji's surprised response when he realized that the voice came from his father.
Regarding him with a cold glare Gendo Ikari continued, 'If you do not accept then we will simply use the First.'
'Wait, Commander Rei can't pilot, she's injured and how would Shinji be able to pilot?' asked the surprised Major.
'He is the Third Child' stated Gendo, who was growing impatient (not visibly though).
'So, you just called me here to be a guinea pig for your little experiment?' shouted an enraged Shinji.
'Fuyutsuki, the spare is useless send in the First'
'But wouldn't her injuries make it…' began the second in command.
'So long as she is alive she can be of use' was his cruel answer.
Before Shinji could even say a word, the girl that he had seen earlier that day was wheeled in on a gurney. Shinji was horrified to think that his father would let this girl pilot some robot; she was injured so badly that the bandages made her appear like a mummy, not even he had ever been so wounded in his lifetime and he had gone up against creatures that no human being (besides himself) had ever seen!
'Are you insane, she can't…' began Shinji, but he was cut off by an earthquake of some kind that broke the ceiling and sent debris falling right above the girl.
Shinji moved faster than was humanly possible to get the girl out of the way, grabbing her and protecting her with his body. When he found that he was not crushed by rubble, he looked up to see a large purple hand above his head.
'The Evangelion moved by itself! But that's impossible!' said an astonished Ritsuko.
Still cradling the girl in his arms, he looked into her crimson eyes and saw the pain that she was suffering. Coming to a decision he put her back on the gurney, gently and then turned to face his father.
'I'll do it' was all he said.
***Unity, Duty, Destiny***
{'Mata Nui, Shinji! I can't believe you left my kanohi in that place! It took me forever to find you again.'} Said a peeved Iden, {'and what is that foul substance you're sitting in?'}.
'I'm sorry Iden. I tried to get them to let me take my backpack but they said something about interference and it's called LCL, it's meant to allow me to use the Eva better or something like that' Shinji explained to his disembodied friend.
['Uh, Shinji who are you talking to?'] Misato inquired over the radio, now worried that the crash course on piloting the Eva had driven the boy insane.
'Yah, uh nobody, it's nothing' was Shinji's rushed reply, embarrassed that he had been caught talking to Iden, whom they could not see or hear.
['Right, well the angel is just ahead of you good luck']
{'So, they dumped you in this robot and told you to just go crazy on that giant, huh?'}
Shinji replied with a small nod, as he could not speak openly without being deemed insane.
{'Well, then lets show 'em what we're made of!'}
Shinji then willed the Eva to dash at the angel. Before he spear tackled it, he took in its features, it had bones that jutted out on top of its torso and shoulders and a beak like face. Upon his spear tackles success Shinji then punched its face again and again. In its defence it grabbed the Eva's arm and Shinji felt as if something had impaled his arm. Screaming in pain, the Eva fell onto its back, gripping its arm as Shinji gripped his.
'ARGH! What happened?'
['It's your synch ratio, the higher it is the more you experience what the Eva experiences'] Dr. Akagi answered.
{I thought a high ratio was a good thing!} He thought.
The angel then blasted Shinji with a cross shaped energy beam that sent him flying back.
{'Doesn't this thing have any weapons?'} Iden asked, concerned for Shinji's safety and his own.
Shinji relayed Iden's question to the command centre who responded that there was a progressive weapon in his left shoulder pylon.
{'This should be interesting!'}
Shinji then willed his Eva to retrieve the weapon and held it in front of him, what he saw was not as encouraging as he thought it would be.
{'…Or not. Do they expect us to poke this thing to death or something?'}
Before Shinji could reply, the angel attempted to impale him with the spikes that protruded from its hands. Dodging it by spinning around, he then stabbed the angel in its arm. It reeled back, howling in rage, and attempted to hit him with another cross blast, but Shinji weaved his Eva out of the way and stabbed the red jewel in its chest. Sparks flew out as the knife proved to be a lot more effective than Iden gave it credit for.
['That's it Shinji! Keep pushing the knife into its core!'] Misato encouraged him, amazed that he knew to go for the core without prior knowledge of its importance to the angel.
Before death could claim it, the angel self-destructed hoping to take its murderer to be with it.
***Unity, Duty, Destiny***
Smoke and fires billowed from where the Eva and its enemy had been only moments before.
['Shinji? Shinji, are you there?']
Misato was growing worried. Shinji wasn't answering their calls and the cameras could not pick up his Eva, there was just too much smoke.
Just when all hope was lost the figure of Eva Unit 01 appeared, trudging through the smoke, victorious.
'Yeah, I'm fine Misato' replied Shinji, who did not sound at all fine, because now he had broken a sacred code that he had taken when he received his powers, the code to not kill another sentient being.
*End Chapter 1*
Well there's the first chapter (anybody who's reading, yes YOU). So if you don't mind dropping a review or a few hints, tips anything that will fuel my ego, please just do so, you don't even need to ask, Just Do It.