Discliamer: I don't own Star wars or Evangelion.
Chapter 2: A Farmboy
Ikari Shinji lied down in his bed, staring at the wall aimlessly. He feels very bored since many of his friends have gone to the Imperial's University already. 'I miss them' He muttered 'I miss them all. Touji, Aida and Hikari. I wonder that…..'
"Shinji! Shinji!! Come up here and help your uncle will you." His aunt calls him.
"I will be right there"
As Shinji come out of his house, he found his uncle talking with a Jawa merchant. 'May be buying some robot', he thought.
"Shinji!! Here you are, get these robots into the house and clean it right now" He ordered while pointing to the two robot in the bunch one humanoid gold and one red R5 unit.
"Alright, uncle" Shinji answered, boringly.
As Shinji walk to the robots, he saw the blue R2 unit, trying desperately to move despite having a restraining bolt on it. Leave him to thinking of himself that want to go out of this planet. Then he moved to the gold robot which talks to him immediately.
"Hello sir, I am C-3PO a human-cyborg relations"
"Yeah, whatever. Followed me, both of you." Shinji answered, a little bit annoyed, begin to lead the robot into the house.
As he walking midway to the house, suddenly, the red R5 unit head has been exploded by the short circuit.
'Fantastic', Shinji think. He knows that the droid that are sold by Jawas are mostly come from scrap and does not surprised when saw it brown up.
"Uncle, this red one is broken." He shouted.
As his uncle heard this, he become angry and begin to get argument with the Jawa merchant, the 'cute' scavenger as Shinji's friend Mana called it.
"Sir" C-3PO speak"You might take a blue R2 unit instead. He is in good condition."
Shinji look at the blue R2 unit again, see it trying to leave more desperately. While C-3PO may not express his concern much on his voice, he can be clearly see that the R2 unit was it friend after all.
"Uncle, how about that blue one" he asked.
His uncle asked the Jawa merchant to exchange the droid, which accept immediately. Shinji then take the droid into his house.
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"So, you were in the war!!" Shinji said, excited by knowing some of C-3PO history.
"Quite a few, sir. Me and R2 has gone though quite a lot of battle." C-3PO answered.
Shinji smile while trying to examine R2. He found that the disc container of the droid has been struck with something. Like the droid won't like to open it. He tried to open it with his tool and suddenly the holographic message has been played.
"Help us, Kozo Fuyutsuki. You are our only hope."
When Shinji saw the messenger of the hologram, he felt stunning by her beauty and elegant, mesmerized by her lips and her cold red eye. Somehow, it wasn't feel like a teenage crush like he have on Mana (Yes, she is 'sort-of' his girlfriend six years ago.) but something like more…………… familiar.
"Who's she?" Shinji asked. "She's beautiful."
"She's one of our latest master's friends, sir." C-3PO answered
"Bob beep boop beep." R2 speaked.
"He claimed that he is a property Kozo Fuyutsuki, sir."C-3PO translated.
"Hmm… I don't know anyone name Kozo Fuyutsuki. Still, there was an old Kozo Fusui live in the jundlands waste, I wonder if he knows him." Shinji speak.
"She seems to be in danger, still…." Shinji paused for a moment to see that the message has play repeatly. " This is not whole message. Play at the beginning, will you?"
"Beep Bob bib boop." R2 answered.
"He said that the restraining bolt has causing some malfunction on the message content. He suggests that removing them might make repair it" C-3PO translated.
"Alright" Shinji agreed and remove the restraining bolt to find that the message is gone. He tried to get the droid playing the message again but R2 stood silent like the message was never played. Feeling pissed, Shinji left to eat dinner.
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"Do you know Kozo Fuyutsuki? The droid seem to be his property." Shinji asked his parent.
His uncle look tense a little before answer.
"Yes I know him, but you don't have to worry about him. He's a friend of your dad and he's dead."
"That's too bad. Still…."Shinji speak, inhale his breath then continue. "Now, with these droid helping you, can I enter the academy yet?"
"No"
"But…..it has been three years."
"Shinji" His uncle talk in a more smooth tone "I need you for the harvest this year. After this year you can go"
"Anyway Shinji, tomorrow, you will take the droid into Anchorhead and erase their memory." His uncle implied.
Shinji didn't answer but slowly leave the room.
"You can't hold him forever, you know. His friend and his girl are gone. He is much like his father." Shinji's aunt said after he left the room.
"That was I fear." Shinji's uncles answer.
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