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A/N not much to say yet, but yes the title has to do with the chapter.
'Thought'
"Words"
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Why Me
Chapter 2
Purple Super Beasts and Red Heads
I awoke the next morning to a gentle knock on the door
"Come in"
It was the nurse again, this time with breakfast, and wouldn't you know it Dr Akagi. She walked over to my bed side and stopped. Once the nurse left she spoke
"So Sato have you had time to read everything"
I nodded prepping for breakfast
"Yeah, I've got the general gist of it though most of the papers were blacked out. You guys want me to pilot something to save the world right"
"Yes that's right, so will you?"
I thought for a moment, well appeared to, I had decided this yesterday
"I guess, I don't have anything else now anyway"
"Alright if you're willing to follow the rules"
She placed some papers on the table. She pointed to the bottom of the top sheet
"Sign here"
I picked up a pen and signed on the dotted line so to speak
Sato Koruna
Ritsuko picked up the papers
"Good, now then, do you prefer to live alone or with a guardian?"
Now this I had to think about, not very long though
"I've never lived by myself before"
"I'll take that as a no, in that case I know just where to put you"
'With Misato no doubt' I thought
"Where"
"Well two of our other pilots, Shinji Ikari and Asuka Soryu, are staying with the Operations Director Misato Katsuragi; you'll stay with her that will make protecting you easier for section 2"
"What's she like"
Ritsuko thought for a moment. I had to ask this, can't let her suspect anything can I
"Can you cook and clean for your self"
"Yes for the most part, I think"
"Can you deal with really temperamental girls?"
I tilted my head as if thinking, if she only knew the truth of it.
"I think so, I'm not sure"
"Well you'll be fine then, I'll go call her now and make the arrangements"
After she left I let out a sigh of relief, from now on I would go on the assumption that if I slipped up and said something I shouldn't know, to anyone, I would die, which with Nerv was mostly true.
After a few minuets she returned
"Misato has agreed to take you in; your things will be delivered tomorrow. She will be here in about an hour to pick you up. She will take you to Nerv HQ there after to familiarize you to your duties, understood"
"Can I ask one question?"
"Go ahead"
"Is this a military type organization with ranks and such?"
Like I didn't know this already
"Yes it is, why"
"Just wondering"
"Well if that's all Misato will be here soon so gather your belongings prepare to leave"
"I don't have much; as soon as I eat I'll be ready"
"Good"
And with that she left. The only things I dreaded were Misato's driving and Asuka. Shinji, Pen-Pen and the Eva's I could handle. Actually those three would be pleasant
As I lay on the bed after eating I formulated my plan.
1 Make friends with Shinji, at all costs
2 make sure I don't change much until after the 16th angel, with Kaoru having brought me here that one was up in the air and try not to get either run through by the 16th angel or mind raped in Asuka's place by the 15th, that meant I had to be an excellent pilot, Asuka went first because she had a declining sync score and her usefulness was, really, almost over anyway..
3 when the time is right, screw SEELE and Commander Ikari's scenarios completely up and maybe take Gendo out at the same time, and until then, play good little solder.
'Yeah' I thought 'that's my plan, and maybe get Rei to open up a bit'
After about an hour or so there was a knock on my door
"Come in"
In strode Misato Katsuragi herself
'God she is hot'
"I'm Misato Katsuragi, I assume your Sato Koruna"
I sat up
"Yes Ma'am"
She held up her hand
"Please no formalities, just Misato; I'm your legal guardian you know"
"Of course, Misato. I guess I should get my shoes on"
"That's a start; after we leave here we'll go to Nerv so you can get a look at the Eva's"
I slid my socked feet into my shoes and started to tie them
"Ok, don't know what those are, but ok"
Bull I didn't know, I knew more than anyone except Dr Akagi and Commander Ikari
"You mean Ritsuko didn't tell you"
"No but I can assume they are classified info"
"Yep that they are, well you ready"
I had just tied my shoes and picked up my back pack
"Yep"
"Ok then lets go"
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About 30 minuets and nearly 2 crashes later we pulled into the Nerv parking lot. I immediately jumped out and backed away from the car.
"Misato, please never do that again"
"What"
"Drive like that"
"You got a problem with my driving"
"I almost died in a car crash 3 weeks ago along with my mom and you ask that"
She seemed a bit depressed after that, guess Ritsuko didn't tell her
"Sorry I didn't know"
I sighed; guess I'm really getting into this
"Its ok, I don't remember it, I really don't remember anything befor yesterday, everything befor that is fuzzy"
"What about your mom"
"Dead"
She walked over and hugged me 'I'm loving this, but its kinda touching that she would want to comfort me and she's only just met me'
"Im so sorry Sato"
"It's alright I guess, it sucks that I don't remember her but, well, I guess it's not such a big shock right now. If I ever get any of my memories about her back, then later, yeah it will really suck but right now, I don't remember her well enough to make an impact"
She let me go and backed up a bit
"Thanks for that though Misato, it's nice to know I'm wanted"
She smiled a bit
"Well hey come on lets go, lets show you Eva"
I followed her as she walked though the complex. I hadn't realized it at the time but I had fainted when we first stopped and slept through the entire ride on the car train, thus I missed the sweet view of the GeoFront. Misato gave me a booklet about Nerv. Basically the one Ritsuko had given me but it wasn't blacked out. It was mostly about Nerv, the Eva's and the Angels. I read it as I followed her
"Umm I've got a question Misato"
"Yeah"
"Which Eva am I gona see"
'Unit 01 please unit 01'
"You're going to see Eva Unit 02"
'Damn'
"What's wrong you seem disappointed?"
I thought back to the info the book gave me and came up with a quick response
"Well, from its description I kinda wanted to see Unit 01 it sounds cool looking"
She thought for a moment, or she spaced out, you never can tell with her. After about half a minuet she finally responded
"I guess we could go see unit 01, their still repairing it though"
"What Happened?"
"During an operation it received a bit of damage"
"How many angels have you guys fought so far?"
"We beat the 7th 3 days ago"
Thank god, they had just beaten Israfel, damn dancing Digifairy, which meant volcano boy AKA Sandalphon was next up. Asuka would have a field day and we would go to hot springs in a few weeks, if I didn't get to go on the trip that is.
After a little bit of walking and 4 times getting lost we reached the cage door
"Now don't freak out ok"
"Ok"
She hit the bottom by the door and it slid opened, there stood Evangelion Unit 01, buried up to its chest in a fluid I guessed was either cleanser or LCL. The presence of the Eva itself was awe inspiring to say the least. I guess Misato read my expression.
"Impressive huh"
I barely got any response out. I had watched the series through about 5 times and had so many pictures of this Eva alone it wasn't funny, but to actually see it, is a whole other thing. Massive doesn't do it justice.
"Ya think"
We walked out onto the catwalk immediately in front of the Eva, its large purple face looming befor us; I decided to try something dangerous, something that might evoke a response, and something I would regret later
'Hello Eva 01, how are you Ms Ikari'
I thought to my self, as soon as the thought entered my mind Unit 01, though it didn't move seemed to lock its gaze onto me as if trying to figure out just how the hell I knew that. I got that feeling that someone was staring at me, really hard. Misato broke the silence in the cage though the tension was still high.
"Its designated pilot is Shinji Ikari, who just happens to be your new room mate"
"So you want me to pilot this"
"Not this one, one like it, Unit 04"
'Oh crap, it explodes'
"Where is it?"
"Their shipping it from the US right now and should arrive today. It wasn't finished yet so we told them to just send the parts; it will take about a week to assemble"
"So next week, ok. Anything else I should know about it"
I wasn't faking this interest, I needed to know if I was gona explode or worse during the activation test
"Well, it does have a thing similar to a generator, but they won't finish that for a few months"
"So it's not finished"
"Nope, they'll ship that after they finish it and test it"
Thank god, it was that very test that was suppose to blow up unit 04 and the Nerv Nevada base, at least now it will be just the base, which I did feel bad about, but if I said anything no one would believe me anyway, and if I proved it, they would ask where I got the info in the first place then I would really be up the creek. I stood there taking in the sight of the purple super beast for a moment befor I spoke again
"So my room mate pilots this huh"
"Yep"
I smiled 'joke time' I thought 'gota calm the mood' surprisingly the intense stare I was getting form unit 01 greatly lessened, as though it wasn't interested anymore or had given up for now.
"A two eyed one horned, giant, purple people eater?"
I have never seen anyone laugh that hard in my life once what I had said sank in. Misato was breathless, kneeling on the deck for about 25 seconds from laughing. One of the techs asked if she was ok, I told him what I said, he laughed to. It seems I unintentionally started a running joke. After she recovered she stood back up, I was all smiles and a giggle or two
"Figured that would wake you up"
She finally managed to talk after she had calmed down a bit
"I think you and me are gona get along just fine"
"God I hope so, I've got to live with you now"
"That you do"
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We stepped out of the elevator about an hour later onto the floor Misato's flat was on. I knew the moment I walked through that door all hell would break lose and I would be looking at hurricane Asuka. The only bright spot was that my stuff was sitting outside the door, unfortunately so was Asuka
"Hay Misato, who put this junk here"
"Go on inside Asuka, you me and Shinji have to talk"
For a second I kinda pitied her, I remember hearing those words before. We walked inside and took our shoes off at the door. I followed them into the kitchen, prepared for the torrent I had just walked into
"This is Sato Koruna, the 4th child, designated pilot of Eva Unit 04 and he will be living with us"
Asuka was up in arms almost instantly
"Now wait just a second, why does he have to stay here"
"Because he has no where else, plus it's easier on section 2 for you three to be in one place"
"Humph the last thing I needed, another house broken male, I'm going to my room, and you better have dinner ready when I come out baka"
Se walked into what I now considered forbidden Dark Territory and slammed her door; Shinji took the opportunity to ask the obvious question
"Umm…Misato"
"Yes Shinji"
"Where will he sleep?"
"He's going to have to share your room I guess"
I shrugged, I had slept on a couch at my grandma's by choice since I was 10, and I could here
"If you don't want me to Shinji I can sleep on the couch, no big deal"
"I…umm…don't mind"
"As long as you're ok with it, but if you want your room to yourself at any time, just tell me and I'm out"
He stuttered for a second before Misato cut in
"Hay Shinji, help him move his stuff into your room ok"
He didn't say anything for a while I only had about 7 boxes of stuff. We worked in total silence, I had to break it
"You don't like me being here do you Shinji"
"Well…it's umm…not that"
"Be honest, I can already tell were going to be friends, so be honest with me ok"
We sat the last two boxes in his floor. I sat down and started to open them up, checking the items inside one at a time. After a moment he finally spoke up
"Do you…have any family?"
I sighed
"My mom and I were on our way here three weeks ago when our car crashed, I spent the time in a coma, and she died. I don't have any memories of her; they were lost in the crash"
"Im sorry"
"Don't be, it's not a big thing right now. From what I over heard when I woke up my memories won't come back so it's like my mom was just some person, I am sad she died but it's not a big think now. What I mean is that I can't do anything about it. I heard it said once that, that was not for us to decide, all we can do is chose what to do with the time that is given to us"
Shinji smiled a bit, I knew he had caught what I had done
"Gandalf the Gray"
I smiled back, he knew the quote
"From Fellowship of the Ring, if a bit modified for the situation"
He seemed to ease up a bit but remained quiet, the silence went from just quiet to a comfortable quiet
"So do you deal with her everyday?"
I had to restart the conversation
"She's not so bad, so umm, have you seen your Eva"
"Nope but I've seen yours. The Techs and Misato seemed to have at good laugh when I called it a Purple People Eater"
To my surprise Shinji actually snickered a bit at that one. He seemed comfortable in snickering so I continued
"Don't get me wrong, it's not a bad color but, with that and the way it looks. I mean it looks cool but it should have been black with dark red accents with a look like that, not purple and green"
Yeah we became friends pretty quick. Shinji left to fix dinner and I unpacked the rest of my stuff into the unused dresser in his room, just my clothes, some books, DVDs, and a few models of different things including a model of the Gundam F91. As I turned it over in my hands I remembered the F91 I had at home.
'I wonder if my brother got that stuff'
I put my computer in the dresser and opened it. I put the backpack beside of the dresser and put the backup disks in my top drawer.
About 20 minuets later Shinji called us to dinner. We all sat quietly around the table until Asuka spoke up
"So forth what's your sync score?"
I thought for a moment, I couldn't remember if I had training or not
"Can't remember"
"What the hell do you mean you can't remember?"
Misato cut her triad off
"He has total amnesia Asuka"
"Total, you can't remember anything"
"No, nothing befor the day befor yesterday just fuzzy and blurry stuff"
"My god how the hell do they expect you to pilot"
I just shrugged; anything I said would get me in deep guano (crap) Asuka continued her questioning
"What about your parents"
"From what my file says my dad died when I was 4, and mom, in the crash I lost my memories in"
She seemed satisfied at that and droped it. Misato finally spoke up to break the tension
"So have you met Pen-Pen?"
I tilted my head to the side I had never seen the penguin befor, well not in person
"No"
"He's your other room mate, he's a rare warm water penguin he lives in that fridge if you get a chance say hi"
She pointed to the fridge in the living room and continued eating. Nothing else was said until after Shinji and I had turned in for the night. I rolled over on my futon after I herd him ask me something.
"Why did you agree to pilot Eva, Sato?"
"Well, I really don't have anything else right now, so it's something to do"
He seemed to digest that pretty well so to keep things going I asked
"Why do you"
"Well…I…like being praised by others I suppose"
"Everyone does to some extent"
"Yeah…I guess"
We both fell asleep soon after that
'God what's tomorrow gona be like'
A/N I was actually surprised when no one flamed me for this, most consider self inserts a "Cardinal Sin"
For those who red and reviewed, thanks a lot
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