Disclaimer: Same as the last chapter… I don't own Evangelion and Coded Arms… I also don't own the guns that will be featured here…
Coded Arms: Black Diamond Rhapsody
Turn Two; the Arrival Chapter – Meetings
After Misato introduced Shinji to Ritsuko, they entered the elevator that went down to the Eva Cages. During the trip, Shinji couldn't help but smile a bit at the fact that he will get to use another weapon other than the Coded Arms System. Not that he considers the C.A. System as a weapon… It was more of a partner for him…
But there's question that lingers in his head every time he uses the C.A.… Is the internet a sentient network? The internet constantly changes every time he log-in. It looks like the real world before Second Impact… Viruses, Firewalls, Bugs, and Scanners always take forms of mythical creatures, zombies, demons, rabbids, and Barney dinosaurs, while Hackers has humanoid forms. The internet has become a dangerous place for newbie hackers.
Some areas tend to become too deadly for Hackers that if they don't tag some friends along, they may end up with large bad sectors on their Hard Disk, CMOS/BIOS corruption, multiple virus infection or worse… their Laptop or Personal Computer suddenly exploding in their face. That's the risk in using Coded Arms for hacking… but as his sensei always says…
"It's good to have a naked girls sleeping by your side..."
"What the- not that one!" He mentally kicked himself out of the gutter and tried to remember what his sensei said. "Life is nothing but a big risk…if you don't take the risk; you already lost in the game of life…"
"After all, all I want is to find the Throne Room…" Shinji thought.
He was cut out of his reverie when the elevator suddenly stopped. What he noticed after stepping out is, "Why is it so dark?"
"You'll see…" Ritsuko said.
"I'm not the type of person who likes to be 'kept in the dark'…" Shinji spoke.
"Wow… you know what words to use in a situation…" Misato said.
"I just said what is on my mind…" Shinji said as he tried his best to keep from grinning. Then he noticed Misato's firearm. "Is that a Fabrique Nationale de Herstal Five-seveN?" then he pointed at her side arm, "and your side arm, is that a Beretta 950 Jetfire?"
Misato looked surprised, "How did you know?"
Shinji just smirked, "Internet…" "Actually, those are my reserve side arms on my C.A. System... But I still prefer my IMI Desert Eagle Version 3.5…" he thought. He then lied, "…and I play wargames once in a while…"
The two shrugged as they continued to walk a dimly lighted hallway. Shinji have a hunch that they going to show off the Evangelion. Instead of ruining their plan, Shinji decided to go with the flow…
"This is humanity's final hope… the Evangelion Unit-01." Ritsuko said as the lights suddenly turned on to show the head of Unit-01.
Shinji raised an eyebrow, "So, humanity's final hope is colored purple… I'll understand if it's white, black or red… but purple? It reminds me of Barney…"
The engineers who were there suddenly began to quarrel.
"I told you, he will not like it!"
"And he commented that it reminds him of Barney!"
"Whose idea is to paint the Eva purple?!"
"You!"
"No you!"
Then a fight ensued. Shinji just ignored the commotion and asked, "So this is the reason why my father left me…"
"Correct." Shinji looked up and saw his father standing there. "You will pilot it."
"What?! He will pilot Unit-01?! But he haven't got prope-" Misato was silenced my Gendo's icy glare.
It took Shinji a lot of self-control to prevent himself in getting Misato's handgun and shoot Gendo in the face. "Have it entered your mind that I might refuse?"
"You will not refuse."
The temperature in the room began to critically drop as the two Ikaris were locked in a glaring battle.
"Fine… Ill do it as long as I get two million Yen as hazard pay every time an Angel attacks, and my monthly pay of three hundred thousand Yen is not included in the hazard pay…"
Gendo took a whole minute to think about that matter before he answered, "Yes."
"So, where do I go now?"
Fuyutsuki looked at Gendo and said, "So we didn't need Rei as blackmail…"
Shinji slightly panicked when the entry plug was being filled with some icky orange substance.
"Don't worry Shinji, its LCL. It's a breathable liquid." Ritsuko assured.
After getting used in breathing liquid, he asked, "Tell me, how I move this thing?"
"You use your mind to make the Eva move." Misato said.
"Like that answer. Straight to the point…" Shinji said, and then he asked again, "Do I have any ranged weapons in disposal?"
"Sorry Shin-chan… the only weapon you can use is a prog knife." Misato said.
"I find the suffix 'chan' demaning…" Shinji said bluntly. "…and I think we'll gonna die because you supplied me with just a knife…"
"Ehehehe… Alright, Eva-01 launch!"
"Wonder why did they call that creature an Angel?" Shinji thought, "Does that thing have a weakness?"
"The red sphere is their core…" Ritsuko explained, "You can nail a one hit kill if you successfully destroy the core."
"Nice!"
Maya Ibuki then noticed the sudden increase in the synch-ratio, "Sempai, his sync-ratio just increased by 30 percent! It's now at 80 percent."
"It seems that he is born to pilot the Eva…" Misato commented.
On the other hand, Shinji was about to attack when he noticed in the corner of his eye a kid in a building. "Misato, we have a situation-" but he was cut off when the Angel, Sachiel attacked him and was sent to the ground. "Damnit, that hurts! There is a kid in the building in my right, send some rescuers!" He then rushed at Sachiel, only to collide with its AT Field. "And you guys didn't told me that I feel the pain if I got hit!"
"Sorry we forgot…" Misato laughed nervously.
Shinji gritted his teeth as he tried to push Sachiel back. "Has that civilian been rescued yet?"
"Not yet, please hold on!" Misato said.
Five seconds later, "Has that civilian been rescued yet?"
"Not yet."
Another five seconds later, "Has that civilian been-" But Misato angrily interrupted him.
"Damnit Shinji! Stop asking the same question!" Misato growled.
"Ehehe…"
Maya looked at the synch graph and went bug-eyed, "His synch-ratio just went up another 5 percent…"
"It looks like he's the best pilot we have now…" Ritsuko said.
"Just wait until Asuka hears about this!" Misato grinned.
Above the Central Dogma, Gendo was not amused. "Unit-01 was supposed to activate its Berserker Mode…"
"The Council will surely want an explanation about this…" Fuyutsuki spoke.
Gendo grunted in annoyance.
"Hey! Is that kid been rescued yet?!" Shinji growled.
"Wait a minute…" Misato hecked, "Yes."
"Finally…" then Unit-01 was pushed back by Sachiel's AT Field. "What the…"
Back in the Central Dogma, everyone is in panic.
"The pilot is unconscious!" Maya reported.
Gendo was about to smirk when they heard Shinji speak.
"What do you mean unconscious? I just took a quick nap…" Unit-01 stood up then rushed at Sachiel. Shinji didn't know that he deployed an AT Field that nullified the Angels AT Field. Shinji took this chance by driving the prog knife through its core. After a few minutes, the Angel wasn't moving.
"Blue signal disappeared, the Angel is dead."
"Finally…" Shinji sighed, "I can now-"
"Detecting massive energy buildup from the Angel!" Makoto reported.
"What the?" Shinji turned around and his vision was filed with white.
When Shinji woke up, what greeted him were the tiles on the ceiling.
"Hmm… wonder how many tiles are there…" He then remembered what happened to him. "That Angel gave me an explosive farewell gift…" He then chucked at his eccentric joke.
Someone knocked at the door. When it was opened, it was Misato. "How are you feeling?"
"Aside surviving an 'I'll take you with me' attack from the Angel… I'm mostly fine." Shinji said.
"Great!" Misato said happily, "Then, get your things because you'll be living with me!"
Shinji stared at her for a few seconds before speaking, "You're not a pedophile, aren't you?"
"Of course not!" Misato slapped his arm playfully. "I'll be waiting for you in the parking lot."
"By the way, do you have an internet connection in your house?"
"Yeah, why?"
"I'll gonna chat with a friend of mine."
"Oh, okay…"
Shinji mentally smiled at himself. Putting a different personality works wonders.
"I feel I'm the main character in an espionage game…" Shinji thought as he took this knapsack. "Unit-01 has a computer on it… wonder if I can hack it…"
"Shin-kun!" Misato called, "Hurry up!"
"Alright…" Shinji spoke.
Flashback; Two Years Ago…
"So sensei, what you'll gonna tell us today?" Keith said while munching on a pretzel stick.
"I was thinking to give you two the 'Talk'…" Sensei mused… until a bottle of vodka sent him face down.
"I'll not allow you to corrupt my innocent mind!" Shinji spoke, he then pointed at Keith, "You can tell him that, he's already a lost cause…"
"Hey!" Keith's fist began to shake angrily. "How many times I'll tell you, Shuffle is not hentai! It's a love story!"
"Right…" Sensei and Shinji rolled eyes.
"Anyways, It's time tell you about the four main domains in the internet." Sensei said.
"Four domains?"
"Yes… the four main domains are Utgard, Midgard, Asgard and the lost domain called Aventheim… Utgard is the unsecured domain as it is filled with viruses and bugs; yet that place is filled with relic programs like Shinji's IMI Desert Eagle…" Sensei paused to see if the two has any questions. "Next-"
"So you say that Utgard is like a dangerous dungeon filled with gold?" Shinji asked suddenly.
Sensei kept his temper in check, "Yes… back to the topic, next is Midgard. It's the normal internet domain we use. This is where Hackers usually hang out… or frag each other… Next is Asgard, the secured domain of the internet. Government connections, secret agencies and other things that requires high-level security is located at this domain… The last is Aventheim… but it disappeared after Second Impact…"
"So what is this Aventheim?" Keith asked, curious about that domain.
"Aventheim is the center of the internet domains. It a small domain… but there rumors that the Throne Room is located there."
"Okay… this is getting confusing… what is the Throne Room?" Shinji asked.
"The Throne Room is the place where Hackers, who use Coded Arms, try to find. They say that once you get there, you will have absolute control over the internet."
"Are you sure that it's true sensei? It might me some kind of hoax…" Shinji was skeptic.
"Aventheim is the pillar of the other three domains. If it was destroyed during Second Impact, the internet today would not exist."
Flashback ends
Shinji snapped awake when Misato's car stopped moving. "We're here Shinji!"
Shinji yawned and went out of the car. "I have a gut feeling that there is some kind of scheming going on here…"
Misato just laughed nervously, "Shit… Is he a psychic or something?"
And Shinji was right, once he arrived at Misato's apartment, what he saw almost sent him to a coma.
"OH FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT'S HOLY! WHEN DID YOU LAST CLEAN YOUR APARTMENT?!"
In the end, and much to Shinji's dismay, he became Misato's personal house cleaner and cook.
"At least I don't need to eat Misato's cooking… and I'm not planning to have a taste of it as long as I live!" Shinji shuddered at the idea of Pizza flavored cheese on instant Ramen.
Too tired to even log-in the internet, he decided to end the day by dropping on his bed and getting enough sleep.
"And I have to go to school tomorrow…" Shinji groaned as he let sleep eat his consciousness.
After saying goodnight to her sisters, Hikari decided to sleep early since she finished checking the test papers their History teacher handed to her. She was about to lie down when she saw the framed photo of her with a boy who gave her a kiss on her cheek. She was still seven years old at that time. Below the picture were the word 'Hikari-heart-Shinji' that was written by her sister Kodama.
She wished that she asked for Shinji's last name, but he was called by an annoying kid who kept calling him Shin-chan…
Deciding that it's getting late, she closed her eyes and let sleep overcame her.
Morning. The sun is bright, the birds are chirping, and one teenage boy running down the apartment in a hurried rush, "I'mlateI'mlateI'mlate!"
The truth is, Misato whipped out last nights Instant Ramen with Pizza flavored cheese as breakfast. Deciding that he doesn't want to get sick, he reasoned that he was running late.
Upon reaching Tokyo-3 Municipal High School, he decided to look for his assigned room.
After fifteen minutes, of going up then down, then up and down… and up and down… he was able to find his assigned room.
"Oh you must be the new transfe-" Hikari's words died at her throat. "Shinji?"
"You're… Hikari… right?"
To be Continued…
Next Chapter: Final Turn of the Arrival Chapter – Memories
A/N: So, what do you think of this chapter? Please read and review!
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