Hello, there. This is the second chapter to my test story, which I decided to try to write the first angel battle at least, then I will decide if I should continue.
Now, while I will be using the anime plot, I will be adding elements from Rebuild as well.
Recommend reading:
'Facets of Magic' by MysticMew (Sailor Moon/Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha/Negima)
'More Than Familiar' by grenouille7777 (Harry Potter- Harry/Hedwig (human)/Hermione)
'HaloTech' by Thelordofstorms (Mechwarrior/Battletech/Halo)
'The Songstress' by damon blade (Gundam Seed- Kira/Lacus)
I would like to thank the following for reviewing and giving me a chance:
Chaodixe, Dr1ft3r0I, CodeGeassWriter, kopakanuvafan20, PeteSkizzle, RX78-3, Blackholelord, McKnight2012, Chaos, dest03yer.
I will say first that I am not good at describing things. Also, forgive my grammar, English is my second language.
This chapter is not beta read.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything except for the plot of this story. This is for pure entertainment.
Publish date- 12-29-12
Location- Tokyo-3, Evaverse
It was a quiet day in the city of Tokyo-3. The sun was up and the birds were chirping, but what the strange thing was that the streets of this particular city were completely abandoned with the exception of one car going through its streets.
Inside the care, the woman driving was voicing her complaints. "Damn, where the hell is this kid, and why am I looking for him now?" she said, getting more irritated with the fact she can't find the so called "Third Child".
She looks at the picture she was given of the child. "How exactly is this supposed to help me, this picture was taken what eight years ago?" she said as she saw the picture in her hands shows a six year-old child, who had an empty look in his eyes.
Location- Other street in Tokyo-3
In the middle of the empty street of the city, a human size Slipspace rupture appears and from it walks out an armored person. Just as he walks out, the rupture closes behind him.
The armored person looks around him and notices that he is not where he is supposed to be.
"Um, Dawn, where exactly are we?" Shinji said in a tone that showed that he was trying to stay calm.
"Uh, apparently we ended up in another place." Dawn said in slightly panicked tone.
"No shit another place. I knew something like this was going to happen, but did you and mom listen, no." Shinji said somewhat angry.
"I am sorry; we didn't think this might happen." Dawn said in as scared tone.
Shinji sighted. "Sorry for yelling at you Dawn, I am just a little angry and somewhat worried that we are in an unknown place." Shinji said apologizing.
"It's ok, Shinji. Now, let me take a moment to examine any communications around here. While I am at it, try to find a place to hide, I mean we just landed in the middle of the street." Dawn said as she started to examine the surroundings using the armor's advanced sensors.
Shinji then moved out of the street and started walking in the sidewalk, looking for anything out of the ordinary.
"Ok, I see we landed in a city, but where is everyone? This place looks more deserted and quiet then a city that is going to be attack by the Covenant." Shinji said.
"Shinji, I finished my scans." Dawn said.
"So what did you find out about this place?" Shinji asked.
"Do you want good news or bad news?" Dawn asked.
"Give me the good first." Shinji said.
"The good news is that we arrived in Earth." Dawn said.
"Wait this is Earth? If it is Earth then why haven't we seen any UNSC presence?" Shinji asked since due to the fact that he and Dawn arrived with a Slipspace rupture, the new UNSC sensors (that were developed to detect any Slipspace readings, no matter the size due to how the Prometheans moved) would have picked up their arrival, so the UNSC should have sent someone to investigate.
"That has to do with the bad news. This is Earth, but not our Earth. We have somehow traveled to another reality." Dawn said.
Shinji stayed quiet for a few minutes after Dawn said that. The fact was that they were not just lost, but lost in the space-time continuum. Then he thought off something that was in the deepest bowels of his mind, something that only those closest to him actually knew about him.
"Dawn, any chance that the Earth we are right now it's the one I came from?" Shinji said as memories of his time in his original dimension started to come out, the worst of them being when his 'father' abandoned him a day after the death of his mother, who Shinji saw dying in front of him.
"From what you have said about your original reality, yes, this is your home reality Shinji." Dawn said in a serious tone, as she knew full well of what happened to Shinji in this reality.
"Dammit, of all the places to land and I have to appear in this reality, great. So what can you tell me of this place?" Shinji asked.
"From what I have been able to gather, we are in a city called Tokyo-3, which is apparently a military city controlled by a sanctioned UN agency called Nerv; that is the best I have been able to gather from public terminals. Also the year is 2015." Dawn said.
"2015? But that means that I have been gone only for six years." Shinji said as he remembers that the last time he was in his home universe was when he was 8 years old. Although it was still strange how he got to the UNSC universe because he remembered going out into the forest that was outside his house after reading from his guardian's, if he even qualified as one, library. While in the forest, he found a weird blue portal (which he later on learned that was a Slipspace rupture). Curiosity got the better of him and he entered it. Not only did he somehow landed inside an ONI ship, that was in Slipspace transit, carrying his future adopted mother but it also de-aged him to a four year old with his memories intact. He landed in the year 2516. At least because of this event he was adopted by her and later on he would have a family.
"I don't know either Shinji, you know very well that Slipspace defies all laws of time and space. If by any chance you see your 'father', what are you planning to do?" Dawn asked.
"If I see that man again, I will not hesitate to put a bullet between his eyes. By the way, have you figured out why this city is abandoned?" Shinji said with a dark and then questionable tone.
"Don't know. All I am getting from the Emergency channel is that 'As of 12:30 p.m. today a state of emergency has been declared for the Kanto and Suga region of the Koto district.' They are not saying exactly what the emergency is." Dawn said.
Shinji was about to say something when he noticed something in the street. He looks towards the street and he notices a girl with blue pale hair and red eyes, wearing some sort of school clothing, but that only lasted for a second when birds over head flew making their noise, making Shinji look at them for a moment. When he looked back to the spot where the girl was, she was gone.
"Um, Dawn did you see that?" Shinji said as he tried to comprehend what he just saw.
"If you mean the girl in the middle of the street that just disappeared, then yes I saw her." Dawn said as she too was surprised.
"Did you detect anything that might explain what we…" Shinji said but got stopped when a shockwave was felt across the city.
"What was that?" Shinji said as he got into a battle stance, ready for anything that might appear.
"Don't know, but I am detecting an unknown energy signature coming this way, and it's huge." Dawn said.
"What could possibly be coming this way?" Shinji said but later he regretted it when he saw what it was.
From the nearby mountain, he saw several old models of VTOL vehicles flying in the vicinity firing at something that was coming their way. Shinji then saw what they were firing against.
Coming out of the mountain was by all intents and purposes, a giant monster. The monster's body looked humanoid; having a dark green body with two gray looking ribs coming out its supposed spinal cord and gray shoulder guards, and a sort of bird looking face with a blood red orb in the middle of its body.
(Like I said I am not good at describing things, but here is my shot, but to make it clear, it's the Rebuild version of Sachiel)
While Shinji had faced monsters during his time as a soldier, this one took the term to a new level.
"Holy shit! Dawn, are you seeing this?" Shinji said in a shocked toned.
"NO SHIT I AM SEEING THIS; YOU DON'T THINK I DON'T NOTICE THE GIANT GREEN MONSTER IN FRONT OF US!" Dawn yelled at Shinji.
The two then saw how the UN Forces (Dawn managed to tap into their communication's signal) firing everything they had at the monster, from bullets to missiles. The monster just took all of it and continued attacking them like it didn't bother it.
Shinji then saw how the monster used some sort of beam from his hand to destroy one of the VTOLs, which causes it to crash land just a few feet in front of Shinji, who is able to hold his ground, still watching the conflict. Then the monster jumps and stomps the downed VTOL, destroying it.
Just as Shinji was about run away from the conflict, he sees a car coming in fast into view and then it stops just in front of him. The door then opens and then Shinji sees a purple haired woman in the driver's seat. She then speaks.
"Hey if you want to live through this get in now." The woman said in a hurry.
Normally Shinji would have ignored a person like her, but right now circumstances dictate that it was the right choice. Shinji immediately got onboard the car and closed the door.
"Go." He shouted.
The woman did not say anything as she immediately floored the accelerator and the car speed off the area.
Minutes later….
The car was going thought the mountain after escaping the area where the monster was. During that time, the two people in the car were quiet, thought the woman kept doing glances at the armored person, somewhat suspicious at the fact that she just picked up an unknown person, but she could not just leave a person behind.
While she was thinking, Shinji and Dawn were listening to the radio conversations between the UN Forces who were still fighting against the monster. Then the UN receives orders to retreat, that they were dropping an N2 Mine.
"Dawn, what's an N2 Mine?" Shinji said to Dawn in privacy mode, meaning that nobody outside could hear them, as he was worried about that fact.
Dawn stayed quiet as she quickly checked what it was and then she spoke.
"Oh crap." Dawn said in a panicked tone.
"That does not sound good. What it's it?" Shinji asked in a hurry.
"Think nuke without radiation fallout. They are going to drop it now!" Dawn quickly said.
Shinji was surprised at that, since even back in the UNSC all nukes caused radiation at some scale, to this dimension be able to create such a weapon, even a weak one compared to UNSC ones, was interesting. Then Shinji realized what was going to happen.
"STOP THE CAR." Shinji yelled at Misato.
Misato, due to the shock of being yelled at, immediately stops the car, just inside a tunnel.
"What's the big idea?" Misato yelled at Shinji for what he did.
"The UN Forces are going to drop a N2 Mine." Shinji said.
Misato's eyes widen at Shinji mentioning that.
"What? How do you know that?" Misato asked.
"My armor can tap into communication lines, just heard the order. We better stay here until the Mine goes off." Shinji said.
"Look, I don't know who you are, but how do you expect me to beli…" Misato stopped talking when a shockwave was felt. It shook the car and the tunnel they were in for a few moments and then it stop. Misato stood still for a moment, while Shinji, whose face could not be seen behind his helmet, spoke.
"You were saying?" Shinji said in a deadpanned tone.
Misato then huffed and muttered "Whatever." But Shinji still heard her. Misato then accelerated the car outside the tunnel and then stopped to check out what happened. Both she and Shinji got out of the car and started looking toward the area where the monster was when the mine detonated. At first they thought that the monster was dead, but then after the area cleared itself, they see that the monster was still alive, injured, but alive.
"Oh, great. The Angel is still alive. Well I guess it's up to us to take care of it." Misato said.
"Angel? You call that thing an Angel?" Shinji asked, somewhat confused at that piece of information.
'Okay I know that when we encounter an unknown enemy, we give them names, like we did to the Covenant, but at least the names matched their descriptions. Her calling that monster an Angel was just weird.' Shinji thought.
'Maybe they are fallen Angels.' Dawn thought right back.
"Yeah, that thing is an Angel, one of several whose sole goal is to destroy mankind."Misato said in a serious tone.
'I knew it. I just knew that this experiment was going to be bad. The same thing happened to John those years back, except for the fact that he got stuck with Didact, a humanoid size enemy; while I apparently get the FREAKING GIANT MONSTERS.' Shinji thought while crying anime tears.
'Okay, I admit that we really don't have luck on our side.' Dawn thought back.
"By the way, I know that we got on the wrong foot when we met, but maybe now we can have a proper greeting. My name's Lieutenant Colonel Misato Katsuragi from the UN Agency Nerv." Misato said cheerfully as she takes off her shaded glasses she had on.
Seeing as she was being honest in introduction, Shinji decided to at least say his name and decided to show his face. He made his helmet retract, showing his face to Misato.
"The name's Captain Shinji Keyes from the UNSC." Shinji greeted back with a smile.
Misato, upon looking at his face, became shocked. Right in front of her was person she was looking for. There were only three issues at that moment: one, who was this UNSC; second, why did he introduce himself as Keyes, wasn't his last name Ikari; and third, Shinji was supposed to be a 14 year old boy, not a giant, military looking adult.
Shinji saw the shocked face Misato had and wondered why she was shocked.
"Are you by any chance Shinji Ikari?" Misato asked in a timid voice.
Shinji's eyes widen a bit and then narrowed straight at Misato, who fidgets a little under his gaze.
"How did you know that?" Shinji asked in a hard tone, since that was one of his most guarded secrets.
Realizing that she would be in trouble if she did not answer him soon, she spoke.
"I know of you since my job was to pick you up today, though the Angel appearing sort of made things difficult." Misato said.
"What do you mean you were sent to pick me?" Shinji asked.
"Um, look I want to explain, but we are on deadline, so can we please continue this in car as we go to Nerv, the Angel is starting to move and we need to find a way to stop it." Misato said.
Shinji contemplated on what to do, but after reviewing the facts, taking care of the Angel was top priority.
'We don't have a lot of options, so we better go with her for now. But keep an eye on things.' Dawn thought.
'Roger that Dawn.' Shinji thought back.
"Alright, I will go with you. Just to be clear, I am giving you a bit of trust, so you better not blow it." Shinji said as he got back to the car.
"Don't worry Shinji, you can trust me." Misato said as she let out a breath she been holding, happy that the situation was calm for now. She got back to the car and accelerated towards Nerv.
Meanwhile…..
Gendo Ikari was standing in the Command Center inside NERV's Headquarters. He had witness what he deemed the useless fight the JSSDF had put against the Angel, and how they attempt to kill it with a N2 mine, which also failed as well. Now, he was waiting to be cleared to take command and take matters into his own hands.
"You are now the commander of this operation," one of the JSSDF generals said after a phone talk with his superiors "We'll see how you deal with it."
"Ikari, considering our available weapons, I have to admit that we have no effective way to deal with the target." another general spoke.
"Are you sure you can destroy that thing?" the first general asked.
"That's the reason NERV exists." Ikari said calmly as he pushed his glasses toward his face.
"We leave matters in your hands." the generals said before leaving the Command Center.
Standing behind Gendo, Sub Commander Fuyutsuki wasn't as confidant as his former student. Hands clasped behind his back, Fuyutsuki turned to look at Gendo.
"The UN's forces can't do anything. What are you going to do?" the professor asked.
"Activate Unit 01." Gendo responded, turning to face his second in command.
"Activate it? But we don't have a pilot." Fuyutsuki said in a surprised and confused tone.
"A spare is being delivered as we speak." Gendo said.
"But how can you be sure he even came? We have not heard or seen anything from him for over six years." Fuyutsuki said.
"He will come. The scenario will proceed as plan." Gendo said in a cold tone as he walked away to meet the Third Child.
Hope you enjoyed this. If I got something wrong, please tell me and I will rewrite it.
I literally wrote the entire first episode of Evangelion during my family's Christmas party. But I decided to separate it so that is not so overwhelming. Expect the rest in the following days.
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