Disclaimer: I do not own, and never will own, anything of Evangelion. You can sue me if you wish, but you have to find out where I live first, but you won't get much out of it. As usual, since I get tired of typing it, only disclaimer for this story. Now that that's been established, on to the story.
Chapter 01: The Foetus of a New Day Kicking
Shinji stood in front of his locker, staring at it, ignoring anything that anyone was saying to him. He wondered briefly why he was doing what he was doing, but then he remembered that he was abandoned when his mother died, and his father pushed him away, far away.
The locker room that he was standing in, was just like any other locker room; plenty of guys taking off their clothes to take a shower before or after a job, lockers lined up in several rows, but he was just standing there, like his locker was on fire or something.
"Shinji! What are you just standing there for man, there's a job to do!" His friend said, but Shinji did not hear him until a hand was waved in front of his face.
"Yo, you in there, Shinji?" Kensuke asked concernedly.
"Huh? Y-yeah, I was just thinking about something." Shinji said, finally moving to open the locker that he was just staring at moments before, and started to get dressed.
"Thinking about why you're here again?"
"Yeah."
"Well, anyway, there's another assignment for you." Kensuke said, pulling a picture out of his pocket and handing it to Shinji.
"Whoa, she your new wannabe girlfriend or something?" Kensuke frowned, indicating that it was no time to be joking around.
"No, she's your job, Shinji."
"What do you mean by that?" Shinji asked as he finished dressing.
"I mean she's a mark." He said darkly. Shinji sighed heavily. Taking out beautiful women wasn't something he was used to. Plenty of guys yes, the occasional chick, yeah. But the chicks were never that good looking.
Shinji sighed again as he started walking out the door and down the hall with Kensuke. "Alright, give me the details."
"I thought you'd never ask. Anyway, her name's Ritsuko Akagi, NERV's head scientist ever since her mother, Naoko Akagi killed herself."
"Okay. What's the recommended approach?" Shinji asked as they turned a corner.
"The recommended approach is that you get in close and then do her in when she's not expecting it, like when she's sleeping or something. It may be a bit tough, but we all know how good of an actor you are, especially when it comes to a job."
"Yeah. What about back up? And how am I to get inside NERV in the first place?"
"How you're getting in just happens to be on the way. You're father is sending for you, so you can save humanity."
Shinji stopped walking and laughed for several minutes before asking, "Are you series Kensuke?"
The look on the otaku's face was enough to convince Shinji that he was indeed series. Shinji quickly straightened out his face and waited for his companion to continue.
"Shinji, you must understand, this job is not like any other. It will most likely be a while before the situation will allow the disappearance of Akagi, but it's your job to make sure that humanity will benefit from the timing of her disappearance."
"From the way you're talking, it's a kidnapping, not a job."
Kensuke shook his head slightly. "Don't be stupid, Shinji. She has to die, but her body has to be well hidden so that it cannot be found. Now, as you were asking before," Kensuke paused before clearing his throat and continuing to walk, Shinji following.
"As I was saying, I am to be your backup."
"What? You can't be serious! Not after the last time!" Shinji exclaimed.
"Yes, I know what happened last time was my fault, but there's no choice in this situation. I'll be close at hand, since it's taking place near where I live. Also, it helps that we'll be in constant contact."
"Meaning?" Shinji asked.
"You're being sent to Tokyo-3, and you'll be going to be going to my school once you accept to pilot for your father."
"Pilot? What the hell are you talking about?"
It's best if we talked somewhere private for this. How about my room?"
"Uh, sure." Shinji said, following his friend. They were soon inside Kensuke's room. Kensuke then started explaining everything.
"Alright, here's what you'll be "piloting"" he said as he pulled a picture out of a folder. In the picture was a huge purple, green, and black creature. "It's called an Evangelion. That the test type, Unit 01. They've got a pilot, but she's been injured in combat. Her name's Rei Ayanami." He said, pulling out another picture.
"S-she looks like…"
"Yeah, I looked into it, and some her genes came from where you think they did. She's a test tube baby, relatively speaking. She really a clone of the first Rei, and chances are, there's a process that keeps her from dying through this process of cloning. We don't know the actual details, however. Anyway, you're father wants you to pilot Unit 01 to save humanity from a special type of being called an Angel."
"Angel?" Shinji asked, confused at the name.
"Yeah, we're confused about it as well, and we have no pictures of one, as Second Impact destroyed the second and possibly the first Angel, but we have no proof of this. Now as to why you have to kill Akagi-" Kensuke started, but was interrupted by Shinji.
"Let me guess, she's helping my father to destroy the world because it'll reunite him with mother or something like that, right?" Shinji said, sitting down on Kensuke's couch.
"Actually, you were dead on." Shinji's mouth dropped open at that. "You're joking, right?"
Kensuke shook his head. "Afraid not, Shinji. We suspect that Akagi is helping him build and come up with whatever he needs to make the predicted apocalypse happen, and that Ayanami some how falls into place by somehow controlling this apocalypse."
Shinji didn't like where this was going. "And let me guess again, this was all predicted by the Dead Sea Scrolls?" Another nod from Kensuke. He actually knew that part, as he had read some of the scrolls, but had never been able to fully comprehend the meaning of what he did read until now.
"Crap." Shinji said out loud as something inside his mind clicked from putting all this information together. "I've read part of the scrolls, but until now, they never meant anything, and now I don't have access to them."
"Leave that to me." Kensuke said, pulling a disk out of the folder. And handing it to the now pacing Shinji.
"What's this?" he asked, examining the disk. "It's the scrolls. I've seen them as well, but I was able to look at them for an extensive enough time to get all the info off of them and into writing, which I then typed up." Kensuke said, looking proud.
"Thanks, this will definitely come in handy. Anything else I should know?"
"Well, you should consider which persona will fit this type of job, and then make sure that you take the rest of the time to get into your chosen persona until your "invitation" to head to Tokyo-3 arrives." Shinji smirked evilly, knowing exactly which one he wanted to use. "I know exactly which persona would be perfect for this job."
Kensuke smirked as well, knowing which one Shinji would pick. "Alright, you should probably be getting into character, since the invitation should be getting here soon. And be sure to be careful of which weapons you choose to bring."
"Yeah, I know. See you later, Kensuke. Thanks for the info." Shinji said as he headed out of Kensuke's room in the assassin's hideout that he was living at, and headed for his own room, also located within the same building.
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Shinji spent the next few days getting his persona for what was sure to be a long and arduous mission, so he had to be perfectly settled into his new persona. When the invitation to go to Tokyo-3 arrived, just like Kensuke said it would, he was ready, ready to save humanity. However, things would be different than his father would expect them to be.
AN: I ended this chapter like this on purpose. And when Kensuke kept saying, 'we', he meant his department, as he's in the information department while Shinji is in the 'dirty work' department.