Disclaimer: I don't own evangenlion or the game PROTOTYPE where I took some of its elements for this story. They have their respective owners and you know who you are.
ANGEL INFECTION
Chapter two: Father…
Shinji didn't know how but it has been three days since he ran away from Nerve and has been living with someone that found him in an alley. The man introduced himself as Keitaro Urashima, he told Shinji that he was an archeologist and was doing some business in Tokyo. It was just sheer coincidence that he had run into him and offered his help.
The archeologist had seen Shinji's face on the television broadcast the day he had found him, Nerv had given out a bounty for the young man, and said in the news that Shinji was dangerous and should be given to Nerv.
Shinji was there when he saw the news and fear showed in the young man's eyes, Shinji stared at Keitaro like a scared child and stepped back when Keitaro moved to shut the television off. Keitaro just sighed and smiled at the young man and asked if he wanted something to eat ignoring the news he had just seen.
Shinji was confused to say the least and warily looked at the older man.
"Aren't you going to tell them?" Shinji asked looking at Keitaro preparing their dinner which was beef bowl take outs.
"Tell them what?" the older man asked and placed the bowls of food on the table. Keitaro sat at one end and sniffed his food.
"NERV, is looking for me , if they find out you're hiding me , they're going to kill you!" Shinji yelled and shook.
Keitaro stopped inhaling his food and set it down on the table slowly, he dropped his elbows on the table and replied.
"Why would NERV want to kill me? The way I see it I only helped a harmless kid." Keitaro smiled and Shinji just suddeny burst into tears. A man that he barely knew saw him wanted to help him while his father wanted him dead. Keitaro moved to Shinji's side and hugged the boy as he sobbed on the floor.
"Hey, I'm not so good at this so how bout you stop crying and let's just eat." Keitaro said sheepishly and Shinji couldn't help but laugh a bit and nod.
"Thank you."
"Don't mention it."
That was three days ago now there he was, the third child, hiding in an apartment with a thirty something klutzy archeologist. Keitaro finished his business in the city and had come home from the university where he worked at. Shinji greeted the older man and helped him carry in his equipment.
Keitaro sat down at the dining table and popped open a can of beer. He emptied the can halfway and wiped his mouth with his sleeves. He then looked at Shinji who was looking in the fridge for something to drink himself after lugging all those heavy artifacts into the room.
"Hey Shinji, what do you think of South America?" Keitaro asked as he looked at the boy that sat across the table. Shinji looked confusedly at the older man and shrugged his shoulders. "What about it?" He replied and Keitaro smiled.
"I have finished my business here and we'll be leaving the country tomorrow and I wanted your opinion on where we're going." Keitaro replied sipping his beer again and Shinji almost dropped his juice after hearing what Keitaro had just said.
"You're going out of the country… with me?" He said disbelieving that Keitaro would be willing to take a stranger like him to another country, especially him that's being searched for by a big ass organization such as NERV.
"I can't leave you here alone now can I? I have my own plane, so we don't need to worry about you being found at the airport. The planes on a private lot where no one can see us, we use it to bring uh… unsigned artifacts…" Keitaro said the last part in a weaker voice. "You're a smuggler!" Shinji exclaimed/ "What no, I just bring unregistered artifacts and relics I find in other countrys." Shinji looked at him oddly.
"You just basically said you're a tomb raider!" Shinji again exclaimed and Keitaro looked at the kid sheepishly. "Hey, it couldn't be helped you know, the government of the sites where very unreasonable wanting 90 percent of the findings when they didn't do nothing. I bet most of the artifacts we were going to get were either broken or junk and the government would be selling the good ones to some rich collectors that would just lock the relic inside some vault not letting the world see its glory!" Keitaro finished and Shinji stared at the older man and slowly a laugh escaped his lips.
"What's so funny?" Keitaro asked and looked at the laughing young man. "Nothing it's just that, you're really into archeology aren't you?" Shinji said and drank his orange juice.
"Yeah, initially I wanted to study law, but I met this professor while in college and sparked my interest in archeology and the rest is history." He said and drank finished his beer.
"So how about it, will you come with me?" Keitaro asked and Shinji looked down on the table for a moment and sighed.
"Yes, I don't have anything here anymore." Shinji said and Keitaro nodded. The older man threw the can at the trash bin but missed and groaned.
Shinji smiled from his seat as he watched Keitaro moved from his chair to pick up the stray can. I don't have any reason to stay here in Japan anymore; Keitaro is offering me a chance to start over. Shinji thought.
Two section two officers stood on the top of an adjacent building of Keitaro and Shinji's apartment. One of the agenst lowered a binocular and pulled out a cellphone. He dialed it and waited for the man to pick up on the other end.
"Yes?" a calm cold voice answered.
"We have confirmed the report given to us, the infected one is being harbored by someone. They seem to be planning in getting out of the country sir." Said the agent.
" We'll capture the subject when he tried to excape, find out everything about the man that's helping him." He ordered.
"Yes, sir" the agent replied and turned to leave the building roof. Gendo back in his dark gloomy office entwined his fingers in front of his face leaning his elbows on his desk.
"You won't get away this time." the NERV commander muttered to himself darkly as his teacher and subordinate advisor, Fuyutsuki, stood silently at his side.
Somewhere near Tokyo-3 in an isolated lot there was a small plane in the middle of the tarmac and Shinji and Keitaro were getting off a white van. Shinji was dressed in a dark blue hoodie and black shirt and denim pants. Keitaro was dressed in black shirt and khaki top over by a white lab coat.
"Come on Shinji, help me load the stuff." Keitaro said and opened the back of the van, Shinji followed the older man.
Just then they heard the engine of helicopters coming and both of them looked up to see five fully armed BLACK HAWKS coming their way. Various jeeps and soldiers also came out of nowhere from the woods and surrounded the lot.
Shinji looked around and his eyes widened at the number of soldiers pouring out the jeeps their guns aimed at the both of them.
"I will only say it once, give up or we will open fire." A man said from a distance and both Keitaro and Shinji looked at the speaker and saw the bearded commander of NERV holding a 9mm.
"Father…" Shinji said in a whisper and Keitaro gritted his teeth.
"What do you want from Shinji! He's just a kid!" Keitaro said stepping infront of Shinji and getting in the firing sight of Gendo.
"He's not a kid Mr. Urashima, the being standing behind you is an entity that would be the death of mankind. HE's an ANGEL…" Gendo said and Keitaro's eyes widened.
"You'r lying." Keitaro said narrowing his eyes and Gendo smirked. "Major Katsuragi, please come out and show how HUMAN, Shinji is right now." Gendo ordered and from a jeep behind him a very beautiful dark violet haired woman came out carrying a laptop.
She looked at Keitaro and then at Shinji, her heart dropped knowing it was kinda her fault for the boy's death and letting this angel take his form. The tactical officer showed Keitaro the security videos of NERV base the time Shinji escaped. Keitaro couldn't believe it was Shinji that killed all those people and Shinji looked down on the ground.
The young man was thinking that it was all over, he was going to get killed and Keitaro would hate him now after seeing the things he did. He fought back tears that were threatening to fall as he resigned his fate.
Misato stepped back stood behind the commander. Keitaro was contemplating at what he just saw and Gendo smiled knowing he had won. "Now, do you think that boy is harmless, Mr. Urashima?" Gendo asked and Keitaro looked up to the commander his eyes narrowed. Keitaro glared at the man and then looked at Shinji who was shaking at the side.
"I still don't believe you…" Keitaro said and Shinji was surprised. Gendo sighed and Misato had a looked of surprise at the man's reply after seeing what the ANGEL could do.
"I guess you need to see directly how unhuman he is." Gendo said and before anyone could blink he pulled the trigger without hesitation and hit Shinji right in the head. Keitaro's eyes widened and along with Misato. Sure she knew that thing wasn't the commanders's son anymore but it still it had his son face and couldn't believe the commander could shoot him without hesitation.
Keitaro expected Shinji to fall to the ground dead and bleeding from a head wound. But instead the young man was still standing his head hung back facing the sky. He snapped his head down and the bullet in his forehead was pushed out and his flesh healed in an instant.
Keitaro couldn't believe his eyes and stared at the bloody face of the young man. Shinji's eyes were wide from the shock of getting shot in the head and still alive. The young man touched his head and felt no wound and looked at his fingers stained with blood. He looked at Keitaro who was staring at him with horrified eyes.
"You see Mr, Urashima… that boy is an ANGEL, he is not human and it would be best to give him up to NERV." Gendo said again.
"Shinji…" Keitaro called out to the young boy.
"I'm sorry, I dind't mean to hide it from you." Shinji said crying. The young man was about to apologize again but he was caught off guard when he Keitaro hugged him.
"I thought you were dead!" Keitaro said hugging the boy tightly. Shinji didn't know what to do but then heard another gun shot and felt something warm through his clothes.
"Thank goodness you're okay. I'm sorry, I don't think we'll be going anywhere." Keitaro said weakly and his grip on Shinji loosened and Shinji caught the older man fall, his white lab coat stained with blood. Keitaro's eye were glazed under his glasses and looked at the younger man.
"Keitaro! Oh god please don't die… please don't die…please." Shinji cried holding the man in his arms.
"I don't care what they say… you're a good kid Shinji. I'm glad I met you." Keitaro said and took in his last breathe.
"No. no. no. no no no no….Keitaro!" Shinji shook his body. Tears fell from the boys eyes and slid down Keitaro's glasses and on to his cheeks.
"It was clear that the angel had Mr. Urashima under some kind of control. I just helped him to get free." Gendo said and lowered his gun. "Everyone move in and capture the ANGEL." Gendo ordered and the teams moved in on the distraught young man.
"I'm so sorry…" Shinji said and from his body tentacles again came out and wrapped around Keitaro's dead body and started to absorb him. Keitaro's memories flashed before his eyes and Shinji again let his tears fall.
"I'm so sorry." The young man said and stood up. His eyes narrowed and his body pulsing dark tendrils crawled around his body. The tendrils then formed around his body hardening into some kind of armor and his hands took the form of massive claws.
"What's happening?" Misato yelled inside the jeep. Gendo stared in awe at the ANGEL and was now more than ever fascinated by it.
When the soldiers were in ranged Shinji let out an inhuman roar and trust his claws into the ground and infront of him a large wall of spikes reaching 20 feet into the air burst out from the ground and impaled about three soldiers.
"!!!!!!!!"
Somewhere in the deep recesses of his mind the part where Gendo's survival instinct was buried made a small squeaked sounding like 'Oh shit'.
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A/N: well here's chapter two hope you like. I wanted to keep Keitaro in this story but Shinji needed a driving force to fight angels and Keitaro's death is kinda the catalyst for it.
