Alien vs Misato Katsuragi (La posta!) by Adun DISCLAIMER: The characters, story, universe, etc. of Neon Genesis Evangelion belong to Gainax. The characters, story, universe, etc. of Alien belong to the 30th Century Fox. They're not mine, and I make no claim to them. I do not own anything related to either Evangelion or Alien, if I did you would be damn sure I would be sueing all those people who don´t write disclaimers (like they were a lot). ^_^ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------

"So, Shinji- asked Misato Katsuragi as she stood in her kitchen, opening the fridge - I´m making breakfast today, what do you want?".

No response.

"Let me see... - she said as she looked inside of it, obviously discarding all the beer- there are some instant Ramen and Miso Soup left, want some?".

No response.

"Tell me, what´s wrong?- said as she turned to face the third child- you haven´t talked to me in all the morning".

...

"If you aren´t going to talk to me, at least you could take that mask off your face, it´s really disgusting".

There stood Shinji Ikari, pilot of Unit 01 and savior of humanity, sitting on a chair beside the table, arms hanging loosely and with something yellow stuck in his face.

"Where did you get that thing- asked Misato, Yebisu in hand- I´ve never seen you with it before".

The mask was shaped like some kind of weird spider, each one of the six leg- like ornaments that sprouted from it´s sides were embracing the pilot´s head firmly and it also had this strange tail-like appendix rolling up his neck.

Again, no response.

"Please Shinji talk to me- she pleaded- I won´t write about this in my surveillance reports, if that´s the matter, I swear".

Around three weeks ago, Shinji found one of this daily surveillance reports (brief notes about his daily doings and some commentaries), making him realize that Misato´s invitation to live in her department wasn´t because of her kindness, but just some Nerv´s trick to keep a eye on him more closely thus, making him believe that she and his father were only interested in him as a pilot. Following the 4th Angel´s defeat, he ran away from her department and was considered missing for at least one day and a half when Nerv´s security operatives found him in the outskirts of Tokyo-3 taking him back to the Geofront, when Shinji met her again, she asked him if he truly wanted to be a pilot, he answered he didn´t and the commander decided to retire him from the EVA pilot´s active roster and made preparitives to send him back to his hometown. Just before Shinji´s train left, Misato showed up and told him that she hadn´t taken him in her home because of her work or pity, that she had done that because she had thought of him as family, making him return to her side. After all, each other were the other´s only family, Shinji´s mother had died a long time ago and the commander barely noticed he existed, and as of her family...

"Heck, I don´t even write them anymore...".

keep talking to him -she thought- he´ll snap out of it at some moment.

"So what it will be, the Ramen or the soup?". ...

The annoying fact wasn´t that she had to talk to that horrible thing on his face but that he wasn´t giving her any sign of life.

Having a better look at it, Misato noticed that the mask itself didn´t have any eyeholes or just any hole for that matter, and what kind of mask was that?!, with all those bones and skin, it actually looked like the back of some alien spider!.

It can´t be, it would be ridiculous.

All right!, she had enough of it!.

"Shinji, take that mask off- she said, seriously- now".

...and most of all, if it was only a mask, why he acted like he was unconscious?.

And if it is?.

"Take that mask off - she said, more seriously, unable to hide that hint of nervousness inside of her - or I´ll take it off for you".

...

With a fierce determination, she walked right next to him, and just before she placed her hands over the mask, she saw that..

The mask´s tail moved, making it´s grip over Shinji´s throat even tighter.

Oh my god...

It was no mask at all, but a very alive something choking him.

Shinji!...

As quickly as she could, she placed her hands over the warm, wet skin of the creature and tried to pull it out of Shinji´s face, she couldn´t do it, for the spider wouldn´t get off his head.

She tried again and again, harder each time, but proved to be useless, the thing remained attached to his face, place where she had first seen it and never moving a bit.

In her desesperation, Misato grabed a kitchen knife and decided to cut off the spider´s legs, as soon as the blade made a small incision over one of the creature´s legs, a little smoke begun to come out of it, when she held the blade close to her eyes to have a better look of the smoke, she noticed that it was all corroded.

Acid blood?...

Never in her entire life she had seen or heard about something like that before, for all she knew, the thing could even be an Angel!.

She felt at a complete loss, a void inside of her, the damn thing choking Shinji and nothing she could do about, until she saw the phone...

And called Ritsuko.

"Hello?" - the doctor said. Misato had never been so happy of hearing her friend´s voice.

"Ritsuko!, you got to help me! - she said, tears falling from her face- Shinji´s choking!, I tried everything but I can´t take the damn thing off his face!".

"Calm down Captain, - she said, coldly- I won´t be able to help you unless you do so and pay attention to me, now, does Shinji still breathe?".

Although she had done a lot of things to try to take off the creature off Shinji´s face, she had never taken the time to even check if he still had pulse, she was greeted to see that his chest rose and fell quietly.

"Yes, he´s still breathing".- she said, a bit more calmly.

"Good, that means he´s not choking - she continued- I assume he´s unconscious, right?".

"Well, he seems so". He had to be.

"You were saying that there was something stuck in Shinji´s face and that you couldn´t take it off, right?, what is it?".

"I don´t know! - she said, walking in circles and stoping to see Shinji- It´s all yellow and boney and looks like a spider, it has six legs and a tail and bleeds acid from it´s wounds, I tell you Ritsuko, I´ve never seen something like this...".

"Bleeds acid?, - Ritsuko said, in a questioning tone- are you sure of what have you seen?".

No response.

"Captain, are you there?".

...

"Misato, - she asked, in a more concerned tone- what´s happening there?, Misato!".

"It fell off... - she answered, astonished- the thing fell off his head".

While they were talking by phone, the creature´s tail begun to unroll from his neck, and just like that, it dropped dead to the floor.

"Does the creature move?".

The thing was no longer on it´s back, reavealing it´s pink, fleshy chest. It´s skin changed from yellow to gray, and it no longer moved.

"No, it seems like it´s dead or something".

"How´s Shinji?".

Shinji Ikari remained sitting in his chair with his eyes closed and his mouth shut, unmolested from the struggle of Misato and the creature, if anyone who hadn´t been there would get inside the room would think he was asleep.

"I think he´s sleeping".

"Okay, now listen to me Katsuragi, put Shinji on his bed and leave him there, and by any means do not touch the creature until I get there, understood?".

"Yes".

"Good, I´m going there, don´t touch anything, bye".

And she hanged up the phone.

Misato lifted him and took him to his bedroom, placing him on his bed. It was weird, looking at him, it seemed like he was having a good dream.

She stood in his door and looking him for the last time, closed it.

Shinji...

To be continued...

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------Author´s Notes: Well, how was that?, hope not that bad. You know, strange ideas can come to your mind if you watch Eva while you are playing AvP, like it happened to me. Am I going to kill Shinji?, maybe, how knows?. To be frank, I don´t even know how this fic is going to end, I have some ideas, but I´m not sure. I do promise Rei will show up in next chapter. I think that´s all for now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------