Neon Genesis: Evangelion
Genesis 0:14: The Sixth
Child
[Disclaimer: I don't own
any of these characters, concepts, terms, etc. I made up Kasumi Shiro, but I used certain names from X/1999, so I don't
own the name either. Eva unit 14 is
something I made up too. In other
words, DON'T SUE ME! And please ignore
everything that happened in tape 12 and 13. Ritsuko isn't in a jail, and Asuka is her usual, wacko self.]
[Note: If this stinks, R/R
and tell me. But don't flame me too
much. It's my first attempt at an Eva
fic.]
Shinji
lay silently, staring up at the ceiling of his tiny room. The orange glare no longer bothered his
black-blue eyes. It seemed that he had
been staring at it for all eternity…
"Shin-kun?"
Misato's voice came through the door. Jumping, the fourteen-year-old Pilot ripped the earphones from his ears
and sat at attention. His commanding
officer slid open the white door and smiled at the Eva Pilot. "C'mon!" she laughed, "We've got sync tests
in twenty minutes! So let's get
moving!"
The
soft beeping of the synchronous testing computers echoed through the small
room. "Lower Asuka's depth point 02."
Ritsuko ordered, scratching something on a green clipboard. As the mock-plug lowered slowly, Asuka's
face contorted with concentration, and her sync-ratio teetered on the verge of
dropping.
"None
of the Children seem to be progressing in their sync-ratios." Maya
remarked. "I wonder what their scores
will be under a little more competition." Ritsuko thought silently, reading
over the notes on her clipboard.
The
next day, at school, the old man cleared his throat and paused in his rantings
about 2nd Impact when a note was given to him from an office
aide. "It seems that we have yet another student coming in." he sighed, "May I introduce Miss
Kasumi Shiro." The door slid open as a
tall girl stepped into the room graciously, catching the eyes of many of the
boys in the room. She turned on the
balls of her foot to face her classmates with gleaming purple eyes. She greeted them with a smile, brown bangs
falling over her face. Her strangely
short hair barely brushed her slender shoulders, but seemed very attractive.
Asuka
grimaced as the girl laughed lightly at the many boys that seemed to be staring
at her. "God she's hot." Touji breathed,
drooling slightly. A loud 'THWACK'
echoed through the room as Asuka slapped the warm-up-wearing boy hard.
"You
may take the empty seat behind Miss Ayanami." the teacher cleared his throat at
the fight that threatened to break out. "Arigato." the new girl said with a small bow, in a voice that sounded
as a beautiful, clear crystal. She
strode to the back of the room, having to go by Asuka's desk to do so. The red-haired pilot stuck out her foot
discreetly, seeing the girl's eyes shut. Smiling, the tall girl leapt over Asuka's foot, and turned around behind
Asuka's desk to get to her seat. Asuka
scowled, then her head snapped downwards to the desk as the new girl slapped
her in the back of her head.
Shinji
blinked as if slapped himself. Asuka
began glaring holes in the back of the new girl, her fists shaking with
rage. "So…" Kensuke leaned back, "How
fast should I run to catch the new girl's death? I'll be happy to testify against Asuka!"
As
the bell toned for lunch, Kensuke was looking around wildly, his camera ready
to tape some action. He and Shinji
spotted Asuka storming off towards somewhere, and followed closely.
Kasumi
sat at a table, her chin resting on her left hand and a sandwich in her
right. She casually nibbled on the
sandwich whilst reading a magazine that was lying on the table. A shadow suddenly fell across her reading
material, and the girl looked up with a blank, bored stare.
Asuka
reached down with an evil glare, and grabbed the magazine. With a growl, she ripped it up and threw
aside the ripped remains. "Now just
what the HELL do you think you're doing?!" she shouted. Immediately, a large crowd, all of which
were eager to see a fight, surrounded the two.
Kasumi
stared at Asuka, blinking every once in a while, and took a small bite of her
sandwich. "You know," she said while
chewing, "I wasn't finished reading that at all."
"I
DON'T CARE!" Asuka screamed angrily, reaching across the table and grabbing the
girl's collar, "Just who do you think you are, hitting me like that?!" Kasumi shut her eyes somberly, and then
grabbed Asuka's wrist, dropping her sandwich. Her thumbnail began to dig into Asuka's wrist sharply and painfully. "You could have some manners, and wait until
I was finished with my lunch before you challenge me to a fight." she said.
Asuka
let go of Kasumi's collar quickly, trying to get her wrist free. But Kasumi held tight, and Asuka's
struggling only served to cause the pilot of unit-02 more pain. "Let go!" she screeched. She reached up to slap Kasumi, but the new
girl dodged quickly, letting Asuka go.
"Oh
man!" Kensuke squealed, "I've never seen someone last so long against Asuka!"
"So
is it really a fight you want?" Kasumi asked, a small grin creeping onto her
face, "Then let's go." She stepped back
with one foot, and raised her fists. Asuka paused. No one had ever
accepted her challenges, and this was a shock.
"Heh!"
she laughed weakly, "I'll save you the trouble of a humiliating defeat." With that, the red-haired pilot walked off,
with everyone staring at her.
"Did…Asuka
just back out of a fight?" Kensuke lowered his camera slowly. "I guess…" Shinji replied slowly,
"But…" And to his amazement, Kasumi sat
down again, picked up her sandwich, and pulled out an identical magazine from
her briefcase. She began to read it
again, and finish her lunch.
That
afternoon, Asuka spent the hours before sync tests and after homework ranting
about Kasumi. "Mien Gott!" she raved,
"I can't believe what a stuck-up, egotistical brat she is! 'I wasn't finished with that' she says! SHIEST!" "Asuka, maybe if you hadn't stuck your foot out in the first place-"
Shinji began. "Oh, so this is MY fault
now?!" Asuka screeched. "I didn't say
that!" the pilot of unit-01 tried to protest.
"All
right, you two!" Misato stepped in, "We have sync tests in-" The Major was cut off as sirens began to
blare, warning the city of-
"An
Angel!" the three cried in unison.
"Eva
units 01 and 02 will attack simultaneously, unit-00 will be back-up." Misato
explained through the com-link, "I want you to focus completely on the
enemy!" "Roger!" the three Eva pilots
called in unison. "Ready?" Misato
asked, "HA-SHIN!"
The
Evangelions began their attack on the newest Angel. It appeared to be a vague cross between the fourth and eighth
Angels, and extremely ugly. "CHARGE!"
Asuka shouted. She rushed forwards,
raising her lance. She swung the sharp
lance through the top area of the Angel, ripping through a few of the
tentacles. But like the seventh Angel,
it healed itself too quickly to calculate.
"Rei,
watch out!" Misato called out. But the
Angel was unbelievably fast, and unit-00's head was snapped back badly,
knocking Rei unconscious. The blue Eva
collapsed, and Shinji leapt forwards. The purple and green Evangelion fired its pistol-like handgun and the
pilot grinned as the bullets slammed into the Angel's core. But the core healed itself quickly enough
for the Angel to keep fighting.
The
Angel swooped low and tripped the Eva up, and then slammed its tentacles into
the center of the Eva's chest region. Inside the entry plug, Shinji coughed and passed out as his diaphragm
bent the wrong way. The Angel slowly
turned to face unit-02, and Asuka stepped back in fright.
No
Shinji the hero to save her, and not even Rei to back her up. Asuka stepped backwards again as the Angel
began to advance. As the Angel flew
towards her with the speed of the eighth Angel, Asuka screamed in terror.
"UNIT-14,
NOW!" Ritsuko shouted. With the force
of a bullet, a black Eva launched from a hillside, and slashed through the
Angel completely. The core was ripped
in two, and couldn't heal itself anymore. The Angel let out a strange scream, then blew up into a grand explosion
of green and white. Asuka watched
frozen as the new Eva walked over to the two fallen Evangelions and put them
onto their respective launch pads. Asuka stepped onto hers, and watched as the Eva disappeared as she sank
into the ground.
"Unit-14. Your new ally." Ritsuko flicked on a
projector that showed a front and side shot of the new Eva. The three pilots, who were all well and
awake, looked intently at the black unit. "Unit-14 is equipped with the standard Progressive Knife, and is also
equipped with a Progressive Sword that we originally intended for unit-03. But…well, you know the story." Ritsuko
explained, "The pilot of unit-14 is the Sixth Child." "So, where are they?" Asuka asked eagerly, "I wanna meet
'em!" The soft, rhythmic tapping of
plug-suit plastic rang out from the hallway, and Ritsuko gestured.
Asuka
leapt up and dashed over, ready to thank the person that helped her out. But when the person stepped into the light,
Asuka turned red as a tomato. "It! CAN'T BE!" she shouted, "Not you AGAIN!"
Kasumi
Shiro smiled at Asuka, her hands behind her black plug-suit.