Chapter 1
The New Soul
"You are the worst cook ever!" Asuka yelled at the boy standing up and punching the table with both of her fists. Asuka, for some reason, hated the diner that was given to her by her roommate, Shinji, the two pilots argued constantly about things that most people would ignore for courtesy… Asuka didn't.
"It's not bad!" Shinji said back to her "It's just the traditional way of Japanese miso soup." Shinji never liked arguing with her, no matter how many reasonable things he told her they never seemed to get past that pride that she held so dearly. In turn, he always lost. "If you don't like it you can eat the meat, it is sweeter than the soup."
Asuka sighed and looked at him, fire in her eyes. "The meat is too sweet and the soup is too sour. Make something else!"
Asuka demanding something else to make without considering the time, effort, and concentration it took to cook something well, that it tasted good, no one had problems with his cooking, only Asuka did. But well, she had problems with everything he did, and that included sleeping.
"Asuka, I don't have time to cook something else." Shinji answered "I have to start doing homework or I will never finish."
"Then don't finish. I need to healthy and I can only do that if your cooking improves, but as it goes, it won't happen in a million years."
Shinji started to get annoyed "Then cook something yourself! I can't be cooking for you all the time; I got my own stuff to worry about."
"Like what?"
"Like… like." Shinji did it again, he spoke without thinking. Of course, Asuka, being military trained and everything, could find her way into the winning side of the argument, no matter if her side of the argument was not logical… But well, Shinji lost again, he lost another argument, awesome. And, being who he was, winning arguments wasn't his strongest attribute… even if he had a strong attribute at all. Piloting was the only thing he was good at. He hadn't fought against an enemy yet but Ritsuko said that he had good reflexes and seemed to be a natural. Of course that remark pissed of Asuka and she kept saying how awesome she was at everything she did (as usual) but when you brought up the schools tests she just angrily stated that Japanese was a hard language and stormed off.
"HA" Asuka smiled pointing a finger at him "You got nothing besides cooking and studying. I win again."
"I got piloting."
"That doesn't count, and even if it did, I am still better at it."
Shinji sighed; there was simply no point in arguing any further. But as Asuka was about to continue with her 'I'm awesome, you suck.' usual speech, the phone rang. Shinji picked it up smiling and said:
"Yeah?"
"Shinji, its Misato." She said through the phone "We got an Emergency. There's a car waiting for you downstairs. Tell Asuka and come to HQ as soon as you can." With that he hanged up.
"Who was it?" Asuka asked
"Misato, she says we have to go to HQ immediately, there's been an emergency."
Asuka smiled and jumped "YEAH! We get to see some action." She celebrated all the way down towards the car.
Shinji couldn't help but wonder what was wrong with her; how could she be so happy about being thrown into the middle of an extremely dangerous opponent. He, on the other hand, couldn't be more nervous. The car ride was slow and in the meantime gunfire started to be heard across the city and, coming from the west, a few explosions and smoke could be heard and seen, the whole package. It freaked out Shinji quite a bit. But Asuka seemed happier than ever. For some reason, going into battle with the powerful yet unknown force hyped her curiosity.
"We will be there in ten minutes." The driver said to his earpiece "Yes sir, directly to the elevator…"
Shinji looked out the window as the car drove by the city, 15 minutes later they arrived at the checkpoint. The driver showed their I.D. and looked inside the car. Shinji smiled and waved, Asuka… just turned her head and crossed her arms. The officer sighed and let them pass. A few minutes passed and both pilots were escorted to the briefing room. The screen showed military planes, tanks, artillery shooting at a big black humanoid object. The humanoid wasn't even flinching; the bullets, missiles and projectiles weren't even hurting it. Shinji looked back and saw the military generals discussing strategies they could use against the humanoid. Of course, no matter how many times they thought and acted, nothing worked.
The smoking general bumped his fist into the table. "God dam it!" He yelled "That's it!" He yelled picking up the phone "Major, plan 66… YES! Just do it!" He yelled and hanged up the phone.
'Plan 66, what is that!' Shinji looked up at Misato but she didn't answer.
Shinji turned his head to Asuka, but she looked just as puzzled. Turning to the screen, Shinji saw the planes and artillery moving away from the target. After there were none left… the screen turned white blinding Shinji in the process.
"HA, we got it." The general smiled.
"Regaining image." Maya said
The image went back to normal, but what they saw stunned everyone, except Gendo and Fuyutzuki. The humanoid was still standing; it seemed to be melting and scale-like extremities were… breathing?
"It has amazing regenerative abilities." Fuyutzuki exclaimed
"Hm." Gendo didn't flinch
A general turned around "You gain full authority upon this operation and any that appears in the future." Then their table went under the floor.
"Misato." Gendo started
"Yes, sir?"
"Prepare the pilots for deployment."
"Sir." Misato turned to Shinji and Asuka "Kids, change to your plugsuits and report to your respective Eva."
Asuka jumped from the excitement but Shinji just looked at his father, who didn't return the look. Shinji sighed and followed Asuka; they went down the elevator and took their respective changing rooms. Shinji went inside his and started changing into his white and blue plug suit.
In the other room, Asuka started changing. She couldn't be more excited on finally fighting her first enemy. But somewhere deep in her mind, she was scared. She has never faced anything like it, what if she did something wrong? What if she got hurt? Or died? Asuka slapped her face a few times and looked at the mirror.
"You can do it" She said to herself "You are the best at everything."
Smiling to herself she walked out the changing room and went to the elevator with a big smile to herself. The smile faded as Shinji walked next to her, he wasn't chosen because of his skill… it actually was a favor from his father. Asuka resented him for that, but without a word she went into the elevator first and Shinji just sighed going after her.
"So, do you want to plan something?" Shinji asked
"Plan? I don't need a plan." Asuka smirked
"I just believe it is important to have a strategy before engaging an enemy which we know almost nothing off." Shinji did have a good point.
"I got a good strategy; let me go first and I'll punch it till it dies." Asuka giggled. She knew that this fight was not going to be easy, but she had been training for years just to be the spotlight in this event; to kill the first angel seen since the second impact. No one was going to take that away from her.
"But, we should approach this in a clever way. You can have the last hit if you want. Hell, I do not want to fight this thing, but I do not want to get hurt either, so we should approach this in a strategic way."
"Clever? Strategic?" Asuka repeated "Baka, you can't even cook."
"You are the only one that complains about my cooking, Asuka!" Shinji almost yelled. "Everyone else likes it."
"Well, I don't like it. So it sucks…" Asuka sighed "Besides, you aren't even half the pilot I am."
"Asuka, you might get hurt. Even killed if you are not careful." Shinji sighed again. This girl was unbelievable.
The doors of the elevator opened and Asuka stepped out first. "I might. But I'll kill it first before it has a chance to do so." The door closed.
A few seconds later it opened again on the EVA 01 hangar. It just felt weird that Asuka was taking this as a chance to prove herself; she already proved she was the best. She was above Shinji by 12 points, it was a lot on NERV standards. Shinji stepped out and walked towards the EVA, its blank eyes staring down at him. Even when it was asleep it still scared him… it felt so different inside the EVA but familiar somehow. With a sigh he walked towards the pilot seat and carefully, avoiding head collision like the first time, sat down on his seat and checked that the controls were functional. Seeing that everything was ready, Shinji's cabin sunk inside of the Eva's back.
"Unit 01, controls are green." Shinji said remembering the protocol.
"Affirmative 01" One of the scientists at HQ stated "Starting neural connection."
The familiar tingling feeling happened again, he was now connected to the EVA "Connection at 45%" Another scientist answered "All systems normal, 01 ready."
"Transfer him to the launch pad." Misato said from HQ "How is 02?"
"Same with 02, ma'am. Ready and heading for the launch pad."
"Good, tell me when both are ready for Launch."
Both Shinji and Asuka had a screen which showed each other. Shinji glanced at the screen a few times but Asuka didn't seem to react or even notice he was there. "Asuka, we will approach the target from two different sides and attack it simultaneously." Shinji suggested
"Roger that." Asuka answered with a smile…
Did Asuka just agreed to Shinji's plan? What the hell…
"LAUNCH!" Misato yelled, a couple of seconds later both EVA's were being launched into the battle ground, where the Angel was sending weird beams which were causing massive destruction and were starting to penetrate through the armor plates and into the Geo-front. But the EVA's were just in time to save the day.
As the EVAs reached the top they were released and Asuka sprinted towards the Angel yelling. "YOU'RE MINE!"
The Angel looked human; it was black and a red sphere, which was called a core, was in the middle of its chest. For some reason it had heads that looked like ghost masks but Misato and Nerv named him… Sachiel.
"Asuka, no!" Shinji yelled at her, but it was too late. She was already sprinting.
Asuka brought her fist back and with all the EVAs force tried to punch the Angel, only to be blocked by an A.T field. Asuka clinched her teeth and did a front flip while jumping just too bring her foot down at the Angel, which blocked it again. She got pissed and started throwing a series of kicks and punches, but the Angel blocked them all with its A.T. Field. Shinji, on the other hand, didn't know what to do. He wouldn't be able to actually penetrate it easily and he knew that it had other tricks up its sleeve.
"Shinji, use the progressive knife on the A.T. Field" Misato ordered "It should be able to penetrate it."
Shinji unsheathed the knife from the E.V.A's back and started sprinting. He went around the Angel and stabbed it in the back and it got stopped by the A.T field for a few seconds before it started to slowly penetrate it. Unfortunately the Angel took notice and jumped high in the air, landing on top of 01.
"I… ma… wa.. ta… no.." Both radios rang out.
"What the hell is that?" Asuka asked in between kicks
"I… I don't know." Ritsuko said trying to find the source of the noise.
"Negai… igoto ga."
As the transmission lost static and became clearer, the screen showed a small black dot rapidly descending from the sky and the words sounded… extremely familiar.
"Unknown object descending quickly." Asuka exclaimed reading her charts "What the hell is that?"
"Kanau naraba" The voice this time was a lot clear and the Shinji zoomed in on the figure…
"An EVA." Shinji gasped in surprise.
The EVA was black colored, it had the strong build from 02 but the shape of the EVA 01, that wasn't it, and the weird part was that two swords were being gripped by both hands (one in each); which seemed odd since Shinji didn't remember any swords being listen in the inventory for the EVA's.
"Tsubasa ga Hoshiiiiiiiiiiii" The mysterious pilot sang as it got into a dive position, placing the tip of both swords in front of the EVA.
The swords made contact and a huge A.T field appeared making the ground shake and the Angel lost its balance. The mysterious EVA started swinging both of its swords repeatedly at the Angel but the A.T Field kept blocking them and the Angel started counterattacking, which made the black EVA use defensive moves.
"Whoever is piloting the purple EVA, get up and start punching. I can't hold out much longer." The voice seemed to come from a kid, or a teenager to be more precise.
Shinji didn't have to be told twice. He got up and started helping their mysterious ally.
"An EVA!" Misato couldn't believe her eyes; there wasn't any recent messages or operations that stated that a new EVA would be stationed in Japan. She looked at Ritsuko but got the same response, she didn't know as well.
Either way, the fight was starting to turn. Asuka joined shortly after with her progressive knife on hand and started working on penetrating the A.T Field from the Angels blind-spot. Unfortunately for the Angel, it couldn't take three EVAs at the same time. The A.T Field suddenly ripped open and Asuka, unknowingly, stabbed the Angel in the back which it growled in pain throwing his arms up into the air. The black EVA stepped forth and plunged both of its swords straight into the Angels core, the core broke apart and the Angel exploded into a beam of light which made a cross.
When the light disappeared Asuka jumped back and pointed her knife at the mysterious EVA but Shinji just stared…he couldn't move for some reason.
The EVA sheathed its swords and made a peace sign with its right hand. "Sup."
"Who the hell are you?!" Asuka yelled over the radio, which made Shinji rub his hears… jeez she could shout really loudly.
"Your welcome, jeez not even a day in this country and people are already yelling at me."
"Shinji, Asuka, and whoever you are; go to the drop zones and we will sort this mess out." Misato said over the radio to the three pilots.
Asuka clenched her teeth and walked off going to the closest drop zone, so she could kick the face of the new pilot.
Shinji on the other hand waved at the newly arrived EVA with his own and walked off "Thanks for helping us; I don't know what we would've done without your help."
"No problem" The pilot responded "All in a day's work." The black EVA started to walk off but then stopped and turned around "Hey… ahh.. Purple guy." Shinji turned around and saw the EVA rubbing its head in embarrassment "Where's the closest drop zone?"
With a sigh Shinji pointed at his feet "You are standing on one."
"Oh…." The EVA looked at its feet and rubbed its head again "Thanks"
Half an hour later all three EVAS were in their respective hangars and Shinji and Asuka moved to meeting room C to figure out what to do with the new EVA. Unfortunately for the pilot, he got lost and it took another half an hour to find his way here.
The door opened and the new pilot came in. The pilot had black hair and light gray eyes. He was as tall as Shinji, but what made him particular was a scar that ran across his left cheek to his neck and it didn't seem to stop there. He walked over to Shinji and starched his hand.
"Hi, I'm Katashi Chiyoko." But before Shinji could take his hand, Katashi fell to the floor who was hit by Asuka.
"The hell is wrong with you?! Jumping in like that, without even telling us you were coming."
"Well, I was told to come here with my EVA as backup for you two." He explained griping his nose "Man, you do know how to throw a punch."
"Sorry, but we were never informed of your arrival." Misato told the new pilot
"It was kept a secret." A voice startled everyone making them jump back just to see that Commander Ikari had entered the room. "He is the fifth child."
"See I to… wait fifth child, the hell does that mean?" Katashi asked
"You are an idiot." Asuka sighed
Shinji smiled and walked up to him "Well, you see, us pilots are given a number. First is Ayanami Rei, she is the first child. Then Asuka over there, me and…. Misato who is the fourth child?"
"Don't know, commander says it's classified."
"It is, now. Well, fifth, you will be neighbor to Rei, apartment 401. Here is the address." The commander gave a sheet of paper to Katashi and left.
"Man that guy is weird." Katashi said smiling
"His my father." Shinji said without looking at him and walked off annoyed that his father didn't even bother to look at him.
Katashi turned to Asuka "Did I say something wrong?"
"Hm" Was all she said before leaving
"Man, what I did I do wrong…"
"You did nothing" Misato reassured him "Shinji's upset, and Asuka will grow to like you before long. Hopefully."
AU: So this is going to be a re-write of a story I did about a year ago which I had to change thanks to quite a few people that did not agree on some points in my previous story (Shinji wasn't dead). This story will cover both the movies and the series, in other words I will combine angels from both the movies and the series.
Of course it will have some plot twists and additions from my OC and canon characters while keeping the original story line in place. What does this mean? Well, it means that my story will have original (my creation) stories besides the plot from the series/movies. Keep in thought that some things will change regarding characters/relationships and plot... nothing too major.. maybe.
What else... Oh yeah, thanks to animewatcher4685 for beta reading this chapter, even though you took 57 tries to find hehe. But seriously thank you very much.
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