Evangelion: Iron Man
Disclaimer: I do not own Neon Genesis Evangelion or Iron Man
Chapter 1: A Heart of Iron
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Outside Tokyo-3-Countryside:
It was a warm day, as it has always now been in the world after the Second Impact that wiped out half the world's population. Walking down the street passing people as he goes to his single apartment dorm of his boarding school, with a school bag in hand, earphones connected to an SDAT player, and a depressed look on his face was one twelve year old Shinji Ikari.
Shinji was a lanky and small lad with his short brown hair and casual clothes. His parents were workers in something that to this day Shinji did not know, and were unattached to their son. He periodically received emails from them on his condition and how he was doing in school, but never any phone calls or personal visits. They were for the lack of the term too "busy" to take care of him. Shinji was sent to live at a boarding school and hadn't had contact with his parents for years. He was sent a considerable fund each month that had a lot of zeroes but Shinji always believed in saving money, of course this more made him wonder what their jobs were.
Shinji was a brilliant young man could be called genius level if his straight A's said anything. In fact being in the school level he was currently in would be an insult to his intelligence, but Shinji didn't like standing out. He didn't have any friends or any dreams for the future, but he did have hobbies. Shinji liked reading anything to deal with technology, physics, and mathematics. He also loved reading science fiction and listening to music, one of his favorite writers being H.G. Wells and the band The Beatles.
His life was a lonely one that wasn't getting anywhere. The sad look on his face was from another failed attempt to have a phone conversation with one of his parents.
'That plan went as mostly expected it.' Shinji thought somberly 'Time to go back to the lonely dorm I hate. Well I could get back to working on the computer A.I. idea I had, maybe I should name it…Jarvis.'
You know the phrase wrong place at the wrong time? That aptly explains the drunk driver that was driving into the street heading towards the crowd. The normal crowd turned into a panicked one as others dove out of the way. Shinji to busy listening to his music and thinking on more project ideas barely noticed the car till he lucky looked up in time to trip out of the way as the car zoomed past him and crashed into a phone line and knocked sparking phone cables everywhere.
The car started leaking gas as the driver behind the wheel was a bloody mess. Shinji still shocked a few feet away from the car but still close enough to be in danger. The danger being the sparks of the phone cables lighting up trail of gas that was now going up to the leaking gas tank.
Shinji watched in horrid fascination too scared to move as he watched the fire move up the gas to the leaking car. To Shinji it was like everything was in slow motion before the tank ignited Shinji had one last thought.
'Why me?'
Before the car exploded and he was thrown back with mild burns, a great amount of pain, and a little bit of the shrapnel of the gas tank embedded into his chest as shocked and panic people started calling for an ambulance.
Shinji went in and out of unconsciousness as he barely was aware of anything. He heard multiple voices around during the short moments he was conscious.
"His pressure's dropping!"
"Patient is going into cardiac arrest!"
"It's no good the shrapnel is heading towards his heart!"
"Move! This should keep his heart going!"
Shinji eyes were barely aware of a figure standing above him with a kind smile on their face and a glowing blue device in their hand.
"Don't worry you're going to be alright."
Shinji went back to blessed unconsciousness.
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Hospital:
Shinji awoke to the smell of antiseptics and the sound of a heart monitor. He was lying on a bed wearing a hospital gown with bandages around his frame under the gown and some on his face.
Of course the thing that really came to Shinji's attention was the electrical plug that seemed to be attached to a device on his chest that had said device being powered by a hi-tech adapter next to his bed. Shinji was too shocked to say anything as slowly with shaking hands reached for the plug.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you." A voice said.
Shinji's head snapped to the source of the voice seeing in the doorway an older man who looked to be just reaching his late sixties. He was tall and wearing an orange shirt, black tie, slacks and dress shoes under a white doctor's coat. He had a gray beard and hair concealed under a black newsboy hat. His face and brown eyes were crinkled in a grandfatherly smile behind a pair of round glasses.
"I still haven't tested to see if that device can function without the plug yet." The older man said finishing his first statement.
"W-w-where am I, who are you?" Shinji stammered nervously, and then he looked fearfully and with some fascination at the device on his chest. "What is this?"
"Well in order you're in the hospital after being hit by a car explosion, my name is Dr. Ho Yinsen or you can call me Yinsen-oji," Yinsen had said with a smile. "and that device on your chest is what is keeping your heart beating." The now named doctor finished with a somber look.
Yinsen walked over to Shinji's heart monitor while also checking the device's charging station. He checked to see if the energy transferred by the plug was sustaining enough in the device so it could be removed. He nodded to himself then gently reached over to the plug on Shinji's chest and unplugged it.
Yinsen's name sounded familiar to Shinji as he thought of the Chinese name. Back with the device now without the plug covering it Shinji looked at it with scientific awe. It was a circular device that gave off a soft blue glow and softly hummed as it was giving off a heartbeat.
"The accident you were in caused metal shrapnel from the exploded gas tank to embed into your chest and damaged your heart. While small enough to take care of, there was still some shrapnel in your chest that was heading to your heart that was too risky for an operation to remove. That device in your chest is my invention called an arc reactor it is essentially a mini electromagnet that keeps the shrapnel from reaching your heart." Yinsen explained.
Shinji stared in awe at the device keeping him alive. "So…it's basically a magnet that repels the shrapnel from heart at a magnetic frequency that doesn't harm me, and was made to not interfere with my heart from making blood cells. A device like this has this has to need a lot of energy to work and must cost a lot of money."
Yinsen gave a little chuckle. "You're pretty smart. You're right about the energy you're now going to need a regular charge up. Don't worry about the cost though it was something I had lying around untested from my other experiments, I have a soft spot for kids who get dealt an unfortunate hand. Of course the other medical expenses were paid for by your parents though."
"Of course they didn't come to see if their son was alright." Shinji thought to himself sadly. It then occurred to Shinji where he heard Yinsen's name from before.
"Um…" Shinji started now nervous.
"Yes?" Yinsen asked.
"Are you the same Ho Yinsen, a renowned medical doctor, physicist, and engineer?"
"I'm surprised a boy your age would know something that." Yinsen said with another smile "I'm more of a medical doctor than a scientist nowadays.
"Well I'm really into science." Shinji responded lamely.
"Ha, ha!" Yinsen laughed cheerfully. "It's nice to know I have a fan. Well I've got to go don't worry about the burns on some of your body their not even first degree, you were lucky in that case."
Yinsen walked to the door, but turned back to Shinji to show a face full of grandfather like concern. "Be sure to get a plenty of rest, I'll be back to check on the arc reactor. Hey, maybe we could have a game of chess over a cup of my famous coffee."
As Yinsen left Shinji went to sleep with a good feeling of someone showing genuine care for him.
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A month and a half later:
Shinji's stay at the hospital was a very pleasant experience for him. Yensin visited him constantly and talked to Shinji about topics like technology, science fiction, and music. Yensin had a good collection of music albums from Pre-Second Impact. Shinji started to take a liking to coffee from Yensin's homemade one.
Now it was time for Shinji to leave the Hospital with no mark on him besides the arc reactor in his chest to show he was in an accident. While walking with Yensin to front doors of the hospital Shinji finally gathered the courage to ask the request he was thinking of asking for months.
"Yensin-oji." Shinji started with the nickname Yensin told him to call him.
"Yeah Shin?" Yensin responded with his own nickname for Shinji.
"I was wondering if you're not too busy sometimes." Shinji looked up at him while trying to muster up a determined look. "I wondered if you would take me as your apprentice in science."
Yensin was surprised, he knew Shinji was a bright child if the effort he barely needed to exerted to do his homework sent from his school meant anything. He also understood everything Yensin said when they had their big science and technology debates.
"I'll be honest with ya, I never taught anyone outside a classroom." Yensin said remembering his days as a professor while scratching the side of his head under his newsboy hat, then he grinned down at Shinji. "But what the hey sure Shin."
Then Shinji did something he thought he would never do repeatedly a month and a half ago.
He smiled.
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Six months Later: Yensin's Lab
Shinji was busy working while listening to rock music. He was working on what looked like a palm device that was sitting on top of a scanner device that was connected to a computer next to him.
"The particle levels are at minimal charge right now sir." A masculine voice next to Shinji said in a British accent that could be heard even when speaking Japanese.
"Good that means I won't blow any heads off accidently. Thanks Jarvis I don't know what I would do without you sometimes." Shinji said without looking at the computer where the voice was coming from and had the results of the scan displayed on the computer.
"Most likely fail miserably sir." The voice now dubbed Jarvis replied.
"This is what I get for designing a computer A.I. with a personality." Shinji said.
Yes the computer A.I. Shinji was in the process of designing before his accident was a success, in the form of his personal assistant A.I. Jarvis.
"Kids play nice." Yensin joked coming into his where he saw his apprentice working. "So Shinji what are you working on there."
Shinji looked up at his teacher to answer him with a giddy expression on his face from his invention. "Well I thought of how the arc reactor in my chest uses electromagnetic tech and decided to invent something related to that." He gestured to the palm device.
"This device gathers charged neutron particles and fires it out to form a propelling particle beam that can be used to assist transportation." Shinji said
"Interesting, but how will you get the particles to travel in the air." Yensin asked
Shinji was eager to answer. "Inside the device there is a small laser device that can fire compressed and ionized air that will make a path for the particles to travel on. This could be used to give greater flight to machines and clear debris in construction. Behold my latest invention repulsor technology."
Yensin gave an approving grin. "Well done my boy, but guessing this has to do with you other project." Yensin said while nodding towards a silver unfinished suit of armor lying on a table.
"Yep." Shinji nodded. "Just think if that suit is successful it could revolutionized to be a suit used for land, sea, and possibly space exploration." Shinji said with growing excitement.
"Good dream Shin." Yensin said while ruffling Shinji's hair. "Now how about I go and make us both some of my homemade coffee."
While Shinji nodded, Jarvis said "I would have some coffee too but I am just an artificial intelligence made a boy with too much time on his hands."
Shinji gave the computer a dry look. "Really regret giving you a personality."
Yensin laughed while departing from the bickering duo. He was really happy for Shinji's presence in his life. After getting permission from his parents (not that they showed caring of either way) to be his apprentice Shinji showed himself to be young man that was very brilliant and thought outside of conventional thinking in his inventions.
As Yensin headed upstairs he listened to the song Shinji selected to work to. "Iron Man, good choice."
To Be Continued
Next: Test Run
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AN: Hi everyone, from those who know me from Rosario Vampire Spider-Man chapter five is on the way. This is an idea that would not leave my head since I thought why not make fanfics about down on their luck anime characters that get powers and how it would affect the world around them. Let me know what you think and give some constructive criticism. Have a good day or night depending where you are.
