I have no rights to the characters in this story. They are all owned by brilliant individuals who have made grotesque amounts of money. Hopefully they will continue to produce fine, quality products. I've written this partially on break at work to kill time but mostly for me. When you've made something the worst thing you can do is hide it. Just share it, if it sucks then it sucks. At least you did something instead of sitting back and laughing at the people who failed. On with the fic.
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Shinji was having a beautiful day. First he steps off the train into a veritable ghost town and misses getting crushed by some gargantuan monster. Then he was almost blown up by SSDF to be saved by a crazed woman who nearly ran over him in the process. Only to be nearly blown up again by an N2 mine. Nobody had given him any real reason why he had to go to Tokyo-3 other than he was "reassigned." Now his new supervisor had him wandering the bowels of a compound larger than some prefectures. He was angry, tired, filthy, hungry, lost and had yet to report for duty.
"Captain I don't suppose I'd have time to clean up before I report to the commander?"
"Not really Shinji, we need to get there as soon as possible. Nervous about meeting your father again?"
"No. He's not my father, not really."
"Huh? What do you mean by that Shinji?"
"He didn't raise me. He never even contacted me Captain. He's no more my father than you are."
Stunned Misato stared at Shinji and walked smack into a blonde woman in a lab coat. Without any introductions they headed down the hall lead by the blonde while the two women started bickering about who ran into who. Shinji took the time to take off his uniform jacket and dust it off. Argh. There's another thing that's wrong with this day. I know I wasn't supposed to draw attention to my self but why did Kaname make me dress in a stupid school uniform. Why not just regular civvies, I could have just worn a nice shirt and slacks. The motion of putting his coat back on drew the attention of the blonde.
"I'm Dr. Ritsuko Akagi, Project E chairperson. You must be Shinji, good to meet you."
"Likewise ma'am. Could you do me a favor and let me know why I'm here? Capt. Katsuragi doesn't know either."
"All the commander told me was that you were coming, nothing about why."
Peachy. Just peachy. I think I want to go back outside and play with that reject from a 50's American sci-fi flick.
The captain and the doctor walked on and Shinji followed. He wasn't really paying attention to anything. If he had he would have found out that somewhere there was an injured pilot, the SSDF had pulled out, something called unit-0 was damaged, and there was a giant hand sticking out of the wall behind him. Instead he was thinking of white sandy beaches, a secret fishing spot and all the people he left behind. If Shinji were left alone right then, he'd be so hopelessly lost that he would probably end up starving to death before he ran into another human being. It took a total black out to snap him back to reality. When the lights came on they found Shinji crouched on the catwalk with pistol at the ready. He would have been scanning the room but his eyes had become fixed upon a purple behemoth. His eyes never left the machine as he holstered his sidearm and began to speak.
"That has to be the largest AS ever in existence."
Ritsuko decided to clarify things for the boy, "It's not an AS Shinji. It's a highly advanced biomechanical weapon. Artificial Human Evangelion."
"So I take it this is fathers work?"
"Correct," came a voice from above.
"father," the boy muttered.
"It's been a while." Noting his lack of response Gendo Ikari turned to Ritsuko, "how long until we can sortie?"
"Three minutes."
"Start."
Misato's mind went into overdrive trying to understand this new information. "We cant' sortie, Unit-0 is still being repaired… Wait, your going to use Unit-1!?! Rei is still hurt! We don't have a pilot!!"
Gendo smirked, "one was just delivered."
So that's why I'm here. Watching Misato turn and stare at him in shock, Shinji gritted his teeth and decided it was time to get started. He snapped to attention, rendered a salute, and began to speak directly to his new boss.
"Sir, Sgt Shinji Ikari, Mithril, reporting for duty."
"You will sortie in Unit-1and kill the angel. Captain Katsuragi will have tactical command. Refer to Dr. Akagi for information on the OS. and armament"
"Understood sir."
"Captain report to your station. Dr. prepare to sortie." With that, Gendo's platform rose back to the command deck.
"I take it there'll be no barbeque." Shinji muttered.
"Come with me Shinji, I'll give you a quick overview on piloting an Eva," Ritsuko said while motioning for him to follow. Misato just shrugged and headed to her post. Well at least now I know why he wouldn't stop calling me Captain.
When Shinji reached topside, a voice came over the intercom. "Just concentrate on walking, Shinji." Who is that? Everyone sounds the same in this goop. Hhrnn. If I got this right, this thing moves using something like the lambda driver. Sousuke said that to operate the driver you had to pour your will into what you wanted. That makes no sense but he does it all of the time so it must work. Step. Step. Easy enough, hey why is the ground……Aw shit. The purple Eva fell flat on its face while it's pilot was struggling to adapt to the new controls. While he was trying to right himself, the angel decided to give him a hand. So it picked up the Eva by its head and drug it up to get pummeled. As Shinji realized what was about to happen flashes of everyone he cared about ran through his head.
no
And that was the last coherent thought out of his mind before all hell broke loose. All in all the battle had taken about five minutes. Four of those were just unit one rending the angel to tiny shreds and gore. Ten minutes after they finally called the angel silent, Shinji stumbled out of the entry plug and promptly vomited, passed out, then vomited again
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Shinji was having a beautiful day. First he steps off the train into a veritable ghost town and misses getting crushed by some gargantuan monster. Then he was almost blown up by SSDF to be saved by a crazed woman who nearly ran over him in the process. Only to be nearly blown up again by an N2 mine. Nobody had given him any real reason why he had to go to Tokyo-3 other than he was "reassigned." Now his new supervisor had him wandering the bowels of a compound larger than some prefectures. He was angry, tired, filthy, hungry, lost and had yet to report for duty.
"Captain I don't suppose I'd have time to clean up before I report to the commander?"
"Not really Shinji, we need to get there as soon as possible. Nervous about meeting your father again?"
"No. He's not my father, not really."
"Huh? What do you mean by that Shinji?"
"He didn't raise me. He never even contacted me Captain. He's no more my father than you are."
Stunned Misato stared at Shinji and walked smack into a blonde woman in a lab coat. Without any introductions they headed down the hall lead by the blonde while the two women started bickering about who ran into who. Shinji took the time to take off his uniform jacket and dust it off. Argh. There's another thing that's wrong with this day. I know I wasn't supposed to draw attention to my self but why did Kaname make me dress in a stupid school uniform. Why not just regular civvies, I could have just worn a nice shirt and slacks. The motion of putting his coat back on drew the attention of the blonde.
"I'm Dr. Ritsuko Akagi, Project E chairperson. You must be Shinji, good to meet you."
"Likewise ma'am. Could you do me a favor and let me know why I'm here? Capt. Katsuragi doesn't know either."
"All the commander told me was that you were coming, nothing about why."
Peachy. Just peachy. I think I want to go back outside and play with that reject from a 50's American sci-fi flick.
The captain and the doctor walked on and Shinji followed. He wasn't really paying attention to anything. If he had he would have found out that somewhere there was an injured pilot, the SSDF had pulled out, something called unit-0 was damaged, and there was a giant hand sticking out of the wall behind him. Instead he was thinking of white sandy beaches, a secret fishing spot and all the people he left behind. If Shinji were left alone right then, he'd be so hopelessly lost that he would probably end up starving to death before he ran into another human being. It took a total black out to snap him back to reality. When the lights came on they found Shinji crouched on the catwalk with pistol at the ready. He would have been scanning the room but his eyes had become fixed upon a purple behemoth. His eyes never left the machine as he holstered his sidearm and began to speak.
"That has to be the largest AS ever in existence."
Ritsuko decided to clarify things for the boy, "It's not an AS Shinji. It's a highly advanced biomechanical weapon. Artificial Human Evangelion."
"So I take it this is fathers work?"
"Correct," came a voice from above.
"father," the boy muttered.
"It's been a while." Noting his lack of response Gendo Ikari turned to Ritsuko, "how long until we can sortie?"
"Three minutes."
"Start."
Misato's mind went into overdrive trying to understand this new information. "We cant' sortie, Unit-0 is still being repaired… Wait, your going to use Unit-1!?! Rei is still hurt! We don't have a pilot!!"
Gendo smirked, "one was just delivered."
So that's why I'm here. Watching Misato turn and stare at him in shock, Shinji gritted his teeth and decided it was time to get started. He snapped to attention, rendered a salute, and began to speak directly to his new boss.
"Sir, Sgt Shinji Ikari, Mithril, reporting for duty."
"You will sortie in Unit-1and kill the angel. Captain Katsuragi will have tactical command. Refer to Dr. Akagi for information on the OS. and armament"
"Understood sir."
"Captain report to your station. Dr. prepare to sortie." With that, Gendo's platform rose back to the command deck.
"I take it there'll be no barbeque." Shinji muttered.
"Come with me Shinji, I'll give you a quick overview on piloting an Eva," Ritsuko said while motioning for him to follow. Misato just shrugged and headed to her post. Well at least now I know why he wouldn't stop calling me Captain.
When Shinji reached topside, a voice came over the intercom. "Just concentrate on walking, Shinji." Who is that? Everyone sounds the same in this goop. Hhrnn. If I got this right, this thing moves using something like the lambda driver. Sousuke said that to operate the driver you had to pour your will into what you wanted. That makes no sense but he does it all of the time so it must work. Step. Step. Easy enough, hey why is the ground……Aw shit. The purple Eva fell flat on its face while it's pilot was struggling to adapt to the new controls. While he was trying to right himself, the angel decided to give him a hand. So it picked up the Eva by its head and drug it up to get pummeled. As Shinji realized what was about to happen flashes of everyone he cared about ran through his head.
no
And that was the last coherent thought out of his mind before all hell broke loose. All in all the battle had taken about five minutes. Four of those were just unit one rending the angel to tiny shreds and gore. Ten minutes after they finally called the angel silent, Shinji stumbled out of the entry plug and promptly vomited, passed out, then vomited again
