Neon Genesis Evangelion: Divine Gene Birth
A 'Neon Genesis Evangelion' rewrite fan fic
1: Angel Attack
FLASHBACK (10 years ago)
It was to become Tokyo-3 in the year 2005 A.D., yet tragedy struck the world of humans hard and fast. Especially to one specific child——
4-year-old Shinji Ikari cried and cried. His mother was gone and his father just left him behind. What had he done to deserve such treatment? He'd been a good boy, right? If he was a good boy then did why did his mommy disappear inside of the big purple monster? Why did his daddy leave him here and drive away?
He then heard loud crumbling from nearby and turned to find a piece of the building nearby crumble and fall on him!
Getting caught in the debris, Shinji is nearly crushed.
His blood slowly flowed from his barely conscious little body covered in grey cement and steel debris. He couldn't move any part of him nor make a sound, much less speak or open his eyelids completely.
Hours in his condition felt like years to the dying child. Dying was not pleasant for him, especially when the person that originally came for him closed his eyes in a combination of frustration and grief before leaving after removing the debris, silently declaring the poor boy dead without checking.
Young Shinji wept, he could've told the man he was still okay but he barely had any strength in his horribly hurt body. Then Shinji felt that all hope for him was lost…
But then… a single ray of hope to get back up shone onto him, in the form of a man in a green jacket. He looked to be in his early 20's with spiked up emerald-green hair in a short ponytail and a firm but kind face. Around his neck is a necklace with a large green meteorite-like stone.
The man gasped at the sight of the poor dying boy and pulls out a square emerald with triangular claw-like extensions on top like it was made from a robotic bear paw print, then appearing in a flash of light between his index and middle fingers came a card depicting a gray stone emitting glowing waves of blue.
"Hang on, kid!" says the man "I'm going to change your 3 percent chance of surviving to a full 100 percent!"
He waved the card over the crystal in his palm— FLASH! The card vanished into the glowing crystal, as he quietly called out "Stone Elixir!"
"Landome Spell; Earth Elemental Healing!" called a disembodied voice.
Shinji's severely injured body glowed in a heavenly radiance of blue-green before emerging from it looking and feeling better than he was previously.
As the glow dispersed, Shinji marvels his amazingly healed body, "I'm no longer hurt." But his moment of joy died immediately as he resumed sobbing.
"Hey, kid, what's wrong?" asked Shinji's worried savior. Shinji hiccupped and sobbed, " M-my f-father l-l-left me b-b-behind!"
The man frowned and thought to himself, 'What kind of father leaves his kid behind like this? Especially not knowing that he would die? Damn bastard deserves to be placed in the Cursevil World for at least a week.'
"Ano, Onii-chan…" gulped the dismal little Shinji, earning the older man's undivided attention "How did you speak without moving your lips? And what is this Cursevil World?"
"You've heard my thoughts?" gasped the boy's mysterious savior, "Have you always heard the thoughts of other people?" The child shook his head, "No, onii-chan."
Then seeing small pale blue feathery wings of light extending from the child's back for a moment, the man with Shinji realized 'My Stone Elixir Spell Light Technique Card must have awakened dormant Genes of Divine Power within him.' "Genes of Divine Power?" hiccupped a confused Shinji.
"Never mind that for now," said the older man, shaking his head "So, what are you doing here?"
Shinji told him "Someone was going to come and pick me up, but he left me. I've been waiting hours for him." He knew his mother had told him before not to talk to strangers, but he was feeling lonely right now and this man just saved his life.
Starting to feel attached to the boy, the man tapped his forehead with his right fist while he introduced himself, "I'm Kuma, one of the Divingels; life forms possessing great powers and pure souls whose duty is to protect the world and all creations."
Kuma then asks the child, "Would you please tell me your name?"
"Ikari Shinji."
After a moment of silence…
Kuma pulled out his square emerald device and spoke into it, "Land Mistress Gaia, I apologize for calling but——"
"Calm yourself, young Kuma of the Landome Tribe" spoke a gentle heavenly female voice from the crystal in his palm "I have seen the future that was supposed to come, but your recent battle with the Cursevil renegade has awakened a new and brighter future for this child. If he chooses not to come with you, please stay beside him as a normal guardian until he's ready. If he chooses to come with you back to our dimension, we shall raise him as one of our one; the first Semi-Divingel in over two thousand years."
Shinji felt his newfound hope expanding like a balloon when he heard the woman's voice; she surprisingly sounded exactly his disappeared mother in every way.
Looking back to the boy child, apparently filled with joy now, Kuma extends his hand to him "Do want to come with me, Shinji-kun?"
Reaching for Kuma's hand, Shinji fondly nods "Yes."
END FLASHBACK
"We're sorry. All lines are currently out of order..." says the automated voice on the local telephone.
Shinji Ikari hangs up the phone and looks around the deserted city called Tokyo-3.
"Great," sighs Shinji as he places on his crystal blue headset "10 years spent in the Divingel World living the perfect life and Gendo Ikari dares to call me back without knowing I was near death. I'd rather be with Kuma-niisan or the other Searc Tribe kids than bother to come and see the man when he doesn't know I've nearly died years ago."
Shinji Ikari, now of 14 years of age, sighs as he waits for someone to pick him up. He has tried the local phone but for some reason the phone lines are dead. Whatever's going on has to have something to do with why he is called here in Tokyo-3.
His short wavy dark-brown hair flutters in the breeze as he closes his navy blue eyes and listens to his tunes. When he compared himself to most children his age, he deemed himself average height but slightly above the average build.
He is dressed in a blue jacket with a wavy blue mark on it and the letters SEARC over the mark over a white-and-black short-sleeved shirt. He's also wearing black slacks and comfortable blue tennis shoes. Around his neck is a necklace with a jewel resembling the Earth.
Being raised as a Semi-Divingel from the Searc Tribe, Shinji was brought up to be capable of becoming a hero to the world of normal humans and is given the various training and education sessions for it. He also has permission to travel between the two worlds at any given time.
In the Divingel World, there are four main tribes——
The Landome Tribe, whom Kuma originates from, is a division of stable and resilient folk with the most power over all aspects of the earth element.
The Searc Tribe, whom of which raised Shinji partly, is a division of well-balanced people with the most power over all aspects of the water element.
The Firend Tribe is a division of impulsive, hotheaded, and brash but warm-hearted and courageous people with the most power over all aspects of the fire element.
The Skyond Tribe is a division of easygoing and optimistic yet quick and clever people with the most power over all aspects of the air element.
Kuma came to him because it is necessary for those who came of age in the Divingels to train in the world of humans, for the Divingels are the material link between them and the true Heaven and they must do as much good in their respective Tribe's perspective as possible for a rise in rank.
Visiting the Earth dimension of normal humans, Land Mistress Gaia, who is one of the superiors and leaders of the Divingel World and the one who enacted as another mother figure to Shinji, sent him a message that his biological father is calling him back much to the boy's personal distain and is going to be picked up by a woman named Misato Katsuragi.
The woman in question had also slipped in a suggestive picture of her in a low-cut tank top and denim jeans with its legs torn off to make them look like shorts. The photo has memo that she will pick him up, plus it has an arrow pointing to her cleavage to attempt to call his attention and a red lipstick mark.
Opening his eyes for a second, Shinji immediately sees a girl in what appears to be a school uniform standing several feet away. Her skin is deathly pale and her eyes are red. Oddly enough, her hair is bright blue.
Shinji isn't sure what to make of her, but before he would ask her anything, some birds flying away captured his attention. Turning back, he sees that the strange girl is gone. Before he could contemplate, he starts feeling uneasy.
'I sense something,' thinks Shinji as he looked up and notices a squadron of military planes headed for a much larger object that was walking. 'Ugly, but big and powerful.'
The jets bombards the large greenish monster while Shinji just looks on. To his shock, the beast manages to shoot down one of the planes with some kind of energy lance in its arm. The plane itself explodes in a cross-shape formation. It hits the ground not to far away from Shinji, but he only backs away slightly to avoid shrapnel.
Out of nowhere comes his guardian, Kuma, who is now in his early 30s and has his hair combed down, standing next to Shinji, who staying composed says "Any flashier appearance and I would've considered watching you rather than the useless onslaught I see before us." "Hey, excuse me, little brother."
Just as they consider confronting the mammoth beast, a speeding sleek blue sports car slams its breaks and came to a stop next to Shinji and Kuma.
Inside the car was a woman who was wearing a dark-red dress with white trimming and a silver cross necklace around her neck and gold wheel earrings. She has long purple hair and despite the seriousness of the situation, she still has a kind of carefreeness in her eyes under the cool sunglasses she's wearing.
"Are you Shinji Ikari?" the attractive looking woman inside asked. "Last time I checked… yeah," nods Shinji "Are you Misato Katsuragi?" "Yes," she replied.
Looking at Kuma she frowns, "Hey! What are you doing here?!" Kuma blinks in confusion, "I don't think we've met before, Misato-san. My name is Kuma and I've been Shinji's primary caretaker for 10 years now."
Sheepishly grinning, Misato apologizes "Sorry, I thought you were someone else. But more importantly why aren't you in any of the shelters?" "I'm new here and Shinji and I just arrived here today," replies Kuma. "Makes sense. Get in!"
The two males climb into the car with the hot woman at the wheel, with Shinji in the shotgun seat and Kuma in the back seat behind her.
Shinji comments, "You look better wearing your tank top and shorts." Misato just smirks slightly, proud that her photo has managed to catch the young man's attention.
Once the men secured themselves into their seats, Misato hits the accelerator and speeds off in a hurry towards NERV, all the while the two men keep their eyes focused on the battle.
Looking at the onslaught the military is up against, Kuma frowns "Much good those simpletons are doing against that monster." "You've got to give them credit for trying" shrugs Misato.
As soon as they come to a stop, Kuma's eyes widen suddenly "Shinji, can you feel what I feel?" "A strong wave of urgency? Yes" nods Shinji. Misato is confused, "Huh?" 'This Kuma sure is a strange one. How did he raise the boy anyway? On the bright side, they're both really cute.'
Shinji and Kuma smile a bit, as they both heard her thoughts, and then return their attention to the battlefield. Curious about what is catching the men's attention, Misato pulls out her electronic binoculars and looks at the battlefield, just to see the planes flying away!
"NO!" screams Misato, "They're going to use an N2 Bomb!" "A Bomb?" gulps Shinji, "Hit the dirt!" "Get down!" shouts Kuma.
Misato grabs Shinji and covers his body with her own; in an angle in which that Misato has pulled Shinji into has the boy's face buried in her crotch. Kuma then pulls the driver's seat down and covers both the young Semi-Divingel and normal human woman with his own body. However, inevitably, they notice as a massive explosion has sent a shockwave that causes the blue car to turn over and over.
When it finally comes to a stop on its side Shinji finds Misato sprawled out on top of him and Kuma in a likely undignified and very suggestible position on top of her from behind, with her butt in his lap.
Getting feelings in his male anatomy, Kuma sighs inwardly 'This is the second person from this dimension that I'm starting to get too attached to.' 'Maybe you should retire here when this is all over' telepathically suggests Shinji, innocently joking. 'Very funny' sighs Kuma.
"Are any of you alright?" asks Misato. Kuma replies, "As much as I don't mind dirt, I think I need some room to spit please." "Okay" sighs Misato.
"Can the two of you get off of me, please?" asks Shinji, whose voice is slightly muffled.
"Huh? OH!" the older woman shrieks as she and Kuma climb off of Shinji and out of the car. "I'm sorry about that!"
While Kuma commences spitting out dirt in his mouth, Shinji climbs out and asks, "Do you drink much, Katsuragi-san?" "Yes, why do you ask?" blinks Misato in confusion. Shinji stretches a bit, "You reek of beer." Misato grimaces "I do?"
"Yeah, but it's not as bad as some of the stuff I've smelt before," smiles Shinji.
"Oh, okay" she says, her carefree mood returning. Still, she feels a little apprehensive about smelling of booze, she thinks to herself 'I don't drink that much, do I? And my dress is still new… sort of.' She couldn't pick up her uniform off the floor and put it on, so she just bought a new favorite instead.
After Kuma finishes expectorating dirt, he says "Let's get your car back on its wheels. Come on, Shinji." "Right" nods Shinji.
Kuma takes the rear end and Shinji the front, as if they are going to lift it up. Misato says, "No, wait! We just need to push it, you'll strain your muscles if you——"
However, much to her shock, the two men succeed in picking the car up without any effort and gently place it back on its wheels. Kuma says "It's common for most people from where I come from to handle such weight and more."
Misato blinks "You mean to say that the lifestyle you've raised Shinji in——" "Basically, Misato-san" nods Kuma. 'Hot damn!' thinks Misato admirably 'I think I may have struck gold from Superman Heaven.'
She then places a hand on Shinji's shoulder, "You and your friend, Kuma-san, are a big help each, Shinji-kun." Shinji nods "Thank you." "I'm glad to meet you at last."
After checking the car for some needed repairs, the three are once again on their way.
After making a cell phone call, confirming she has Shinji with her, Misato then complains and cries inwardly 'Oh, this stinks! I just had this car repaired and it's a total wreck already. 33 more payments to go plus the cost of repairs. And look at my favorite dress; it's ruined! And I looked so good in it too!'
'Feeling pity and attraction for a slightly immature normal woman,' cringes Kuma 'why did I bother to come back here?'
Shinji sighs, 'It's a wonder that her plundering of a mostly destroyed auto-parts store for bunch of car batteries when she only needed one. Her excuse that she may need them in case of emergency is so pathetic.'
Then Shinji senses the creature the military was facing is regenerating itself, as if their last resort, the N2 Bomb was ineffective. Shinji says, "I suggest we get to wherever we're going A.S.A.P." "So soon?" blinks Misato, before she shrugs it off "Okay."
The underground gates close behind them after a few minutes after entering a tunnel behind them.
"'NERV'? What's that?" asks Shinji. Misato explains, "It's a secret organization controlled by the U.N."
"So, I imagine it's going to be quite a surprise to see your father," Misato said.
"No," Shinji simply said, sounding incredibly cold. Gendo Ikari being a father in the first place is the last thing in the world Shinji expects his biological father to be.
Misato blinks in confusion, ' 'No'? Is he bearing a grudge against the commander?'
"Well, I imagine it wouldn't be a surprise to meet his biological father…" comments Kuma "unless he has had change of heart and started smiling, as well as welcome his son in a warm embrace and feeling sorry for leaving."
Misato laughs at Kuma's comment. She had dealt with Shinji's father many times in the past. She also knows that Kuma had named some of the least likely things to happen with the stoic man. Just hearing someone talking about him that way was enough to make her laugh.
"Well…" says Misato, trying to stop laughing "your father works her at NERV, Shinji-kun. Do you know what he does?"
Shinji frowns and say nothing.
Kuma sighs, "Maybe you should explain to him. He's still pretty sore about subjects about his biological father. I've heard that it's supposed to be for the good of mankind, but we have our doubts."
Misato tries to smile to try to cheer Shinji up, "NERV's purpose is to defeat the Angels, and Shinji's father is the head of that organization." "That thing's an angel?" blinks Kuma "Looks more like a giant alien invader if you ask me." "You didn't know? Seriously?" blinks Misato in surprise "We codename them Angels, with a capital 'A', or Shito. We're not so sure if they are actually angels. Where were you living exactly? From under a rock?"
Shinji thinks to himself, 'I prefer the Divingel World and its residents over my father; my surrogate family from that dimension were supportive and nurturing. They also taught me many things, but the most important thing was to fight for the sake of justice. If humanity survives and I happen to get married and have kids of my own, I'm not going to let history repeat itself for them.'
Shinji also starts to wonder just how much fun he could have in his father's organization and with the people inside it. If his father was expecting an obedient tool, and a normal one at that, he has another thing coming.
"Oh yeah," says Misato "Did your dad sent you an ID card?"
Shinji hands her a paper with his ID card on it, with the commander's writing on it, which simply says 'Come. Gendo Ikari.' On the back is writing in red exclaiming 'Damn thee, Gendo Ikari!'
"Uh…" gulps a nervous Misato "Who wrote the red message?" "Me," says Shinji "and I really meant it when I wrote it."
'Oh man!' shivers Misato 'it's definitely a grudge against his father. I have a strong feeling that it won't bode well.'
She tries to cheer up again "Here, start reading this, okay?" She hands the younger man a folder with the title 'Welcome to NERV', complete with with the maple leaf logo.
'From the looks of things,' thinks Kuma 'I'm almost positive that if she was born into one of the Tribes, she'd definitely be mostly from the Skyond Tribe.'
Shinji just skims through the folder before handing it to Kuma. In reality, he learned how to read faster than one normally would.
But what honestly impresses Shinji is when they take a first sight at what's appearing below them——
Looking out the car windows they find the interior of an underground urban society and base.
"Awesome!" exclaims Shinji "It's a real Geofront!"
"I say it is amazing," says Kuma "but I bet it would be more amazing when they blast off into space to colonize."
Misato giggles and then proudly says, "I guess I would agree to that. But this is also NERV Central, our secret underground base; the city you see is the key to rebuilding our world. Our last hope to stand against the Angels."
'Actually,' thinks Kuma 'the scientists back in the other two dimensions have the keys to rebuild the world of normal humans.'
The tram-ride has been pleasant enough, but the escalator ride is funny to Shinji and Kuma because Misato's lost. It's not that they're sure they passed through this section before, it's not even that Misato seemed to be regarding a map several times and checking her surroundings, it's the fact that she is holding it upside-down and still following it is a big tip-off.
"We're lost, aren't we?" smirks Shinji.
"Well, that's what these mobile walkways are for," she says sheepishly while behind them.
"Nice breeze in this place. Glad I'm not wearing a skirt," said Kuma, getting Misato's swung fist in his face.
After a moment's pause…
"Ow…" is her reply to the pain to the man's rock-hard face.
"I'm sorry for joking like that, knowing you would punch me, Misato-san" bowing Kuma apologetically. The stunned woman waves her fingers to relieve the recoil.
Shinji had also witnessed what kinds of women would react and do to others, like that, before by watching this world from the Divingel World and in the Divingel World.
After a while on the elevator…
The elevator's doors open up to reveal an attractive blonde woman in a white lab coat and swimsuit. Shinji and Kuma each keep a straight face; inwardly they accept the fact that despite her apparent supermodel good looks she is definitely a scientist.
Shinji thinks to himself 'I knew it was a good thing I've told Kaiyo-sempai to not come along, he'd want to meet her and ask her out.'
Kuma shakes his head 'She's apparently the kind of hot scientist Bud of the Skyond Tribe would surely bed with if he found out Shinji was here. Just telling him what this scientist looked like would also bring him flying. Worst of all I'm half-tempted to do that just to see how this cold scientist would react.'
"Uh, hi there, Ritsuko" gulps Misato. The scientist, Dr. Ritsuko Akagi, stoically berates Misato "Why are you wasting my time, Captain? Don't you know we're short on time and manpower?" "Sorry" giggles Misato nervously.
"Hey, hey" says Kuma, defending Misato "give her a break would you? We just got lost. Okay?"
Looking at Kuma strangely, Ritsuko says "So, you've picked up a new boyfriend while there's work to be done." Misato shakes her head, "Oh no, no, no! He's the primary guardian of the Third Child, Kuma-san. I just couldn't leave him out in Tokyo-3 just to be killed."
"Then I assume that the boy here is the Third Child?" asks Ritsuko.
"Third Child? Okay… so… who are the other two before me? Preferred specimens for a new utopia or an orgy you're having at the lab? Because we know a few people who would love to do that kind of thing" smirks Shinji before batting his eyes at her.
Misato stifles a laugh while Ritsuko cocks an eyebrow.
'If only an orgy was possible with Ritz in it, it would be satisfying if it weren't serious right now!' mentally laughs Misato.
'Okay… I don't see any resemblance to Gendo in looks or personality. This kid is not what I was expecting. Obviously things didn't go as planned concerning his son' wonders a stunned Dr. Akagi.
Kuma thought-speaks to Shinji 'Keep quiet, Shinji.'
Ritsuko says offhandedly, "He is definitely nothing like the commander."
On another elevator with the ladies and his guardian, Shinji stays pretty stoic and listens that the weapon NERV possesses has an extremely low chance of activation from Dr. Ritsuko to Captain Misato.
Shinji, Kuma, and Misato are lead to the Eva cages where Shinji is introduced to the giant purple-colored, horn-headed biomechanical robot or mecha mostly surrounded and immersed in magenta liquid.
"This wasn't in the NERV documents Misato showed to me," says Shinji. Ritsuko says, "That's because it's a top secret weapon; this highly advanced synthetic weapon, built here in secret, is mankind's last line of defense against the Angels. It is called the Evangelion, Unit-01."
"Unimpressive" responds Shinji.
The reaction to the women's faces are eye-catching "WHAT?!?"
"Not that I'm given to fashion over function or anything, it's just that I find it hard to believe that this synthetic machine is the last line of defense against these Shito monsters" says Shinji.
"Well," slowly says Ritsuko, attempting to regain her composure "we've got nothing else."
"And still you wish me to pilot this purple monstrosity against the monstrosities you call Angels?" asks Shinji.
"Correct" responds a male voice from above.
Everyone looks up to see Gendo Ikari standing in a large observation booth.
Shinji's eyes narrow in a glare. It's quite absolute that Gendo didn't hear that in normal human views that his son was declared dead for 10 years and when he appears back on Earth a day ago, and he dare to call for him when he hadn't gotten a word from him in 10 years. Shinji is taught to do what was best for the people like a true angel would.
"Hello, Shinji. It's been a while," says Gendo.
Shinji responds indignantly, "Hello, Commander Ikari."
Ritsuko gasps ''Commander Ikari'? He must be incredibly livid toward his father!' Misato thinks worriedly 'I was right; the young man is holding a grudge against him.'
Gendo smirks "We're moving out."
Misato is shocked, "Moving out?! But Unit-00 is still in cryo-stasis!" then she gasps in realization, "You're going to use Unit-01?" Ritsuko says, "There's no other way." "Now wait! Rei can't do it yet, can she? We don't have a pilot!" "We've just received one." "You're serious?" Looking at Shinji, Ritsuko says to him "Shinji Ikari, you will pilot Unit-01."
Shinji doesn't respond.
Misato says "But even Rei Ayanami took 7 months to synchronize with her Eva. It's impossible for him to do it! He just got here!" "We just need him to sit in the seat, we can't expect more than that," states Ritsuko "Our top priority is defeating that Angel. If we've got a chance of synchronizing with that Eva, than we've got to take that risk. You do understand that. Don't you, Captain Katsuragi?"
'Isn't there at least one spark of pure goodness left in this Geofront enough to make them realize that they're making a mistake?' inwardly growls Kuma.
"I have seen and heard enough," says Shinji.
"What?" asks Ritsuko as everyone else, excluding Kuma, freeze in shock.
"I'm not piloting for you, Commander Ikari," says Shinji to Gendo. "Explain to me why you've personally let my mother, your wife, get devoured by this thing you control for now!"
Ritsuko gasps, 'The Third Child knows what Unit-01 is and its previous history? This could not bode well' Misato is horrified, 'Unit-01 ate the boy's mother 10 years ago? That would be a good reason for him to hate his father.'
Shinji continues, "I don't owe you anything, so let's see you get in this thing and pilot it yourself instead of me."
Gendo just looks at the boy.
Shinji mocks, "Unless you can't. Unless the weapon you built requires someone special to pilot it. I've heard Dr. Akagi; this bio-machine has a percentile chance of functioning of 0.0000000001."
"There's nothing special about you," states Gendo.
Kuma shakes his head, 'I wouldn't say that if I were you.'
"Then why was I called back and no one else?" grins Shinji.
"Then you agree to pilot it," says Gendo "If you're going to do it, do it now! If not, then leave!"
Shinji demands "Give me a better reason to do it than for you."
After a moment of silence… the room suddenly shakes.
Kuma feels the ground calling him, 'That Shito monster is working its way down into this Geofront. So much for this place being well-hidden.'
"It's close," says Gendo "It must sense us." He turns to the screens nearby, "Fuyutsuki!" The screen shows the face of his right hand man, who replies "Sir?"
"Wake up, Rei."
"But she's injured!" protests Fuyutsuki.
"She's not dead yet" he replied.
Fuyutsuki closes his eyes and nods, "Understood."
Gendo switches communications to another individual, "Rei."
"Yes?" replies a young woman's voice.
"Our spare is unusable. You will do it again."
Rei complies "Yes sir."
Hearing their communication via psychic means, Kuma growls, 'Using an injured pilot to continue fighting? Unforgivable!'
"Reconfigure Unit-01's system for Rei then activate!" calls out Ritsuko to the crew.
Gendo says "Get that civilian off the base." One of the security members asks "Which one, sir?" The stoic commander answers "The older one." "Yes, sir."
The security team arrive to attempt to surround Kuma and remove him from the base, only to be thrown by him like they were tennis balls!
Misato gasps, 'Is that Kuma guy really a civilian? He fights like an elite!'
Ritsuko notices, "What kind of guardian was he?"
Gendo also notices but remains stoic 'This guardian, whoever he is, is trouble and must be dealt with.'
Shinji frowns as he sees a pair of nurses and a doctor wheel a severely injured girl about his age out into the cages on a gurney. First his 'father' calls for him after ten long years after returning to the dimension of normal humans, and now he's putting a girl who is barely alive to pilot a monstrosity to combat a monstrosity.
Images of Shinji as a child mostly dead years back flashes in Shinji's mind, enough for him to roar out "YOU BASTARD!"
The exclamation is heard throughout the base!
Suddenly, the whole base shakes again. Steel beams fall from the ceiling as Shinji races over to the girl as she gets jarred off the gurney. He catches her before she fell to catwalk or worse the fluid below.
While the steel beams still heading for them… suddenly, a giant purple hand explodes from the magenta liquid, knocking the steel beams away from them, hitting the glass Gendo was on the other side of.
Faster than a few normal humans' eyes could see, while running to rescue Rei, Shinji had just pulled out a baseball-sized blue crystal shaped like a four-pointed star with the two side arms angled downward, then appearing in a flash of light between his index and middle fingers comes a card depicting rain with each drop emitting glowing waves of blue.
He slashes the card through center of the crystal in his palm— FLASH! The card vanishes into the glowing crystal, as he quietly calls out "Wound Wash!"
"Searc Spell; Water Elemental Healing!" calls a disembodied voice.
Under the giant's hand, the body of the barely living girl named Rei Ayanami glows in a heavenly radiance of blue in Shinji's arms. As the glow dies down, she starts acting as if she is already feeling better than well.
Misato's eyes catch the event take place, 'Oh my god… Shinji has rescued Rei in a flash and she glowed blue in his arms. What just happened? And what was that crystal and card?'
Shinji hears a familiar woman's voice speaking to him——
'Shinji dear,' says a woman's voice 'I will always be with you. Today, you possess a growing power to create a whole new world for all mankind. I would be happy to partner with you, my son.'
Shinji looks up to the Eva, giving an image of his mother overlapping it. 'Mother…'
Kuma smiles, 'There is another spark of pure goodness here in this world!'
"Unit 01 activated!" a female voice says over the intercom.
"It lifted right out of the arm restraint?!"
"How? That's impossible! The power socket wasn't inserted!" shouts Ritsuko.
"Then how… did it move without… an interface…? And willing to… protect him?" asks Misato, but then she notices Shinji holding Rei and realizes, "It's him."
"Alright, Gendo Ikari…" says Shinji, earning everyone's attention "you win… I'll pilot the Evangelion and stay until all Angels are dead. But you had better pray to your maker that I would not come to smite you personally. Also, the Shinji Ikari you've planned to build with has died years ago… and so is the subject."
Gendo just grins.
As the Eva lowers its arm back in the magenta fluid below, he whispers in Rei's ear "It's alright, my new friend. I won't let anyone hurt you again."
Lowering Rei onto the gurney, allowing the nurses to take her to safety, Shinji then walks to the giant mecha. Misato follows to help him get in, but there's something about him now that's making her feeling hesitant in getting close. Almost as if there's not a young man but an angel incarnate waiting to burst out before her.
She feels a comforting hand on her shoulder, she turns to find Kuma and she blushes a bit. He says "Soon the words 'heaven on earth' will mean something again. I can feel it."
'Perhaps laying a beatdown on that creature will ease my anger' thinks Shinji as he climbs into the entry plug and places on white brain-computer interface clips called A10 nerve clips on his head as he sits down.
As the cockpit or entry plug lights up, a woman's voice announces "Filling entry plug." "Filling it? With what?" blinks Shinji. The answer to hi question comes in the form of a yellow-tinted translucent liquid filling the plug and engulfing him.
"Huh? I can breath in it?" he blinks in surprise, "What is this stuff?"
"Don't worry," says Ritsuko's voice through the communicator "It's called LCL, once it reaches your lungs your blood will be oxygenated directly. It will also help protect you from mental attacks and physical shocks."
Relaxing a bit, Shinji's nose then wrinkles up at the smell "Whoa! It smells a lot like blood! Once this is over, I'm going to need to get to the Laundromat immediately."
"Stop complaining!" berates Misato's voice "You're a boy, you know!"
Shinji responds, "Boyhood becomes manhood when a boy is placed to fight in a life-or-death battle."
The other woman's voice announces, "Connecting secondary contact."
Everything turns from yellow to colorless, enabling him to see normally, and then the chamber flashes a few colors before becoming like a regular cockpit letting him see through the Eva's eyes.
In the control room…
"What's his synch ratio?" asks Ritsuko to one of the technicians.
Maya Ibuki gasps and stutters out "It's… it's at 82.6%!"
Ritsuko gasps "WHAT? THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE! It's just… IMPOSSIBLE!"
"Doesn't that just mean it would be easier for him to control it on the first try?" asks Misato.
From the elevated platform, Gendo and Fuyutsuki just stares in amazement and shock.
"Maybe the boy is special," says the older man. "We'll see," grimaces Gendo, still not liking the attitude that the boy is sporting.
Shinji should've grown up to be a cowardly, meek, indecisive, insecure, timid, weak-willed child desperate for any kind of positive attention from his father. Instead he's grown up to be an apparently gifted, self-confident, courageous, and strong-willed warrior who doesn't acknowledge him as his father. Something has gone wrong and now his well-planned scenario may be falling out of control.
Kuma and Misato smile with reassurance.
"EVA PREPARE TO LAUNCH!" shouts Misato from the control room.
The giant Evangelion rockets to the surface, coming to a grating halt as it hits the streets. Shinji finds himself facing the green-and-grey Angel walking towards him.
The Angel, codenamed Sachiel, is a massive, vaguely humanoid creature with large bony structures on its shoulders and torso, gill-like structures on its legs, tridactyl hands, a red core in its chest, and a distinctive beaked face (a second face, behind and slightly to the side of the first one).
Misato mentally prays 'Please don't get killed out there, Shinji-kun.'
"Just focus on walking for now, Shinji," transmits Ritsuko through the communicator.
'This thing is primitive compared to the technology the Divingel World possesses, but I guess I better humor them' sighs Shinji. He easily gets the Eva walking.
"He's walking!" smiles Ritsuko.
Then Shinji concentrates on moving his arms, so far according to the technology in his hands he knows all he has to do is think of the Eva as his body and it would respond. Testing the movements, he tries to get the reaction timing down. It's not perfect, but it's close enough. He says, "Mind over matter."
"Basically," nods Ritsuko, "just remember that your umbilical cable is your Eva's source of power. Disconnecting it may give you full mobility but only 1 minute of power to run on a backup battery, and no more than 5 minutes in minimal activity gain mode, so it's only for emergencies."
Shinji thinks 'Since this thing should be an extension of me, that means I can use my powers and the Technique Light Cards and my Amulet Driver.'
Kuma's eyes widen "Shinji, look out!"
Hearing his first guardian, Shinji looks up to Sachiel to see that it's become extremely interested in him instead above all else on its mind previously. It grabs onto the Eva's head and left arm, bulges its arms, and attempts to rip it apart with its newly pumped up arms!
Worried for Shinji's sake, Misato calls to him "Shinji, calm down! That's not your real arm!"
"Just who you think doesn't know that?" calmly replies Shinji, ignoring the pain.
Sachiel damages the Eva's arm and the other arm pile-drives the Eva's head with a sliding sharp spike like a jackhammer in it before finally driving it through the side of the head, sending the hurt Eva flying into a building! As the Eva lowers its wounded head, red blood spills from it.
Gendo says, "This should be where he goes into berserker mode."
Shinji's anger starts to rise after spotting small children on the streets and an unconscious little girl with dark-brown hair nearby, Shinji knows about his berserker rage tendency deep inside but he keeps his cool——
"You've hurt innocents… and you've just made me angry" frowns Shinji.
Shinji let his senses and energies spread all over the body of the Eva. From what he's learned from Ritsuko, the Evangelion is much more than a machine; it is made with flesh and blood and possesses the energy which all living beings generated.
FLASH! The injuries inflicted onto the Eva vanish in a flash of lavender light!
"It regenerated?!" exclaims Shigeru back in the control room. Misato exclaims "No way!"
The Shito strikes fast and aims a fist at Unit-01, but the purple Evangelion manages to sidestep the strike and then plants an uppercut that sends the Shito reeling. The Shito gets up and fires its cross-shaped beam. Instantly, an AT field formed and deflected the shot. Shinji inhales a little while pumping his life energy to better defend his body and, but the field had come up and deflected the shot before absorbing it.
Makoto gasps "The Eva absorbed the energy from the Angel's attack and rerouted it into the power system!" "We're recharging from the Angel?" blinks Maya. "Impossible! The Eva's AT Field shouldn't do that!" exclaims Ritsuko.
Shinji's not complaining about it, but he recalls the monster using a similar field when it had deflected missiles from the military.
The Shito now gets desperate, seeing how its attack wouldn't work against the Eva at all, so it puts up its AT Field just to defend itself.
"Not this time" says Shinji, glowing a bright blue.
A bright blue aura then forms around Unit-01 and taking the shape of an angelic figure.
Now this is when the people in NERV freak out; Ritsuko's eyes go wide as did Maya's. Even Misato is stunned. Gendo's eyes widen by a fraction of an inch while even Fuyutsuki gasps.
"What the——!?" shouts Ritsuko in shock at what she sees. A bright blue aura is forming around Unit-01 and taking the shape of an angelic figure and no one in NERV has seen this thing before and never has one of the Evas revealed the kind of abilities it's displaying.
"Is it an AT Field?" questions Ritsuko. Maya tells her, "Sempai, it's not registering!"
"What does this 'Berserker Mode System cooling off' mean?" asks Makoto. Ritsuko tells him, "The Third Child's avoiding to go berserk."
Gendo's eyes widen another fraction of an inch and then whispers to his former mentor "He's fighting the berserker instincts and focusing it into his attacks? This is just not possible."
"Everyone here keeps saying that," comments Kuma, earning everyone's attention for the moment "I don't think it means what they think it means."
Inside the plug, Shinji pulls out his crystal, or Amulet Driver, and considers saving it for later. He then gets his Eva to punch into the Angel's AT Field, which shockingly shatters the Field like it was nothing at all, not even glass, and continues on at the Shito's red core that later cracks upon impact, earning a agonizing groan from it.
"He penetrated the AT Field and cracked the Shito's core with one punch!" calls Maya. Shigeru says, "I think he's channeling all the anger into the Eva's fists."
Makoto gulps "The kid must be really angry inwardly then."
'That alone wouldn't be enough,' thinks Kuma 'he's also channeling a small portion of his power into the Evangelion, sharing his strength.'
Sachiel falls to its knees, looking like it's begging for mercy.
"Not this time, damn false angel," utters Shinji "return to the abyss of oblivion."
Shinji then slashes another card, or Technique Light Card, which depicts a godly blue figure with a crown, trident, a fish tail, and his right fist bathed in radiance through his Amulet Driver in his palm— FLASH! The card vanishes into the glowing crystal, as he quietly calls out "Poseidon Punch!"
"Searc Final Attack; Poseidon Punch!" calls a disembodied voice.
A similar blue figure of energy on the card appears behind the Eva before dissolving into a blue aura that begins to concentrate into Eva-01's fist, making it glow brightly. Seeing the Angel struggling to get defend itself, Shinji urges the Eva forward, having it dash towards the downed monster. Sachiel doesn't even have time to bring back its AT field before Eva-01 goes face to face with it.
The biomechanical giant then unleashes a mighty uppercut into the weakened core in the body of the monster. The fist obliterates the core and launches the monster into the air.
Sachiel dies in a blue blaze of glory above Tokyo-3.
Shinji yawns and then snickers "That wasn't so hard… but I'd like to hear what Gendo has to say about the eventful actions of tonight."
The Eva then creates an angelic blue image of a beautiful woman with feathered wings protruding from her back for a few moments.
In the control room on base…
"Whoa!" exclaims a lot of witnessing technicians and members of NERV.
"The target has gone silent," reports Maya, but there really isn't any need to report.
"Uh… okay," nods Misato "Right, let's get some recovery teams out there. We need to get the pilot back in here and to clean up the mess the JSSDF made for us."
"What was it that we saw?" Makoto asks Shigeru in confusion. "Not sure, but it totally rocked," laughs the other computer technician, Shigeru "As long as the Angel's gone I'm definitely not complaining."
Ritsuko finds herself trembling, 'All that power… where does the Third Child get it? This one is different from all the others. What has his guardian done to grant him such powers? No human could do so.'
Kuma smiles lightly and says "Well, I guess I'll be seeing everyone some other time." Misato looks at Kuma and says to him "You're going to have to walk through walls like the Juggernaut to get out of here."
Pulling out a Light Technique Card depicting a metal wall and a person walking through it, Kuma responds to her "I've got a better idea." Waving over his Amulet Driver, he says "Metal Leave."
"Landome Augmentation, Metal Transportation!" calls a disembodied voice.
Kuma then walks into the walls of metal and disappears into them. Misato gasps, 'He certainly is more awesome than Kaji!'
Meanwhile, Gendo is seeing it but doesn't believe it. The scenario has changed far beyond the map of his expectations and he definitely doesn't like where it's heading.
Unit-01 was supposed to awaken its berserker mode and bring the scenario one step closer to fruition. Instead, the boy had somehow accessed something never seen before and defeated the Angel with minimal effort, and all without activating berserker mode.
Now Gendo sees that the scenario is on the brink of slipping into the unknown now.
"The council will want to know about this, Ikari," comments Fuyutsuki to his former student.
"Of course," Gendo frowns. The Council of SEELE is going to be in an uproar about this. This is neither in his or their scenario.
Also the strange happenings would turn everything the Council of SEELE and NERV believe and know upside-down.
To Be Continued…