Chapter 3: Showers and Evas
A/N: Thanks to you guys who gave reviews. And this was pre-read by YoungBoch. Thanks man.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything but the characters I put into the story. Everything else is not mine. Damn it.
"Speaking"
'Thoughts'
"Another language or flashback"
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The Next Morning
Asuka and Shinji had been having some of the best sleep of there lives that morning. Shinji himself was nestled up against Asuka from behind. They both held small innocent smiles on their faces as they slept. Well that was until the only remaining pilot woke them up.
"What the hell… MISATO! What the fuck do you think you're doing!" was heard all throughout the apartment and some other nearby ones too.
Both of the once sleeping teens were so startled by the outburst that they ended up on top of each other on the floor next to the bed. "What the hell…" Shinji said as he got up from the floor, helping a very drowsy Asuka up with him.
"What happened?" Asuka asked drowsily.
The two pilots walked out of their room to see Misato with a face of deeper red than either of the two teens had ever seen before. "Misato, what happened?" Asuka inquired from her hung over guardian.
Misato acted as if she had not seen either of these two as she walked right past them and entered her room, locking the door behind her. As the clicking of the lock reverberated throughout the hallway a loud crash could be heard from the other side of the door. The two teens just shrugged and went to where the yell had come from.
Shinji knocked on the door of the bathroom, only to hear a very irritated Jason fuming from inside. "What!"
"I'm sorry to disturb you, but are you ok?" Shinji's voice shook a little as he asked.
"Oh! Sorry Shinji. Umm…I'm fine. Can you do me a favor?" Jason asked through the door, calming down a lot.
"Uh… Sure. What do you need me to do?"
"Can you go get me some clothes? Misato made me drop my clothes in the shower and now they are all soaked." Jason's voice was starting to shake a little.
"O… k…" Shinji turned and walked to Jason's room. Asuka was following behind him.
"I wonder what could be going on with Jason?" she asked.
"I don't know. He sounded scared when I talked to him through the door." Shinji responded.
When the two pilots reached Jason's room, they both looked in horror to the condition of it. There were clothes hanging from almost every place clothes could possibly hand from.
"What the hell happened in here?" Asuka asked as she walked into the room.
Shinji walked in after her and picked up some clothes he thought might be clean. "I don't know, but what ever happened, happened last night. His room was cleaner than ours when I came in here to get my SDAT player."
"Could someone have snuck in here last night and attacked him?" Asuka was looking around the room for signs of a fight.
"No, there's no damage here and we would have heard the fight from our room." Shinji looked around the room one more time before turning to leave. "Something happened to Jason last night, and we need to find out what."
"Yeah and fast." Asuka added as she followed him out of the room.
As they walked back up to the bathroom door they heard some mumbling from inside. "…sleep normally anymore? God damn these nightmares." The two active pilots looked at each other in confusion.
Shinji knocked to get Jason's attention. "I got your clothes Jason."
"Yeah, and what happened to your room?" Asuka asked worriedly.
"One sec, Asuka please turn around." Asuka did as told, not wanting to get any peaks at the new pilot. Jason quickly opened the door and grabbed the clothes from Shinji and closed the door again. "Thanks."
"I'll be out in a little bit, just wait for me in the living room." Jason's voice carried a very scared and sad feeling with it. 'Why the hell do I keep dreaming of that woman, and why was her presence so soothing? Man, watching her get ripped apart by those monsters was the most horrible thing I have ever seen. And those eyes… Those big and dark red eyes floating above me until HE came.' Jason shivered. 'I've never been so scared in all my life. This has been the worst nightmare I have ever had. Does this mean anything? Ever since I joined the Eva project they have been getting worse… I wonder if the other pilots have the same problem. I'll have to ask them when I get back out there.' Jason sighed as he got dressed.
Shinji and Asuka had stared at the door for a moment before going to the living room like they were told.
"He's acting different. His attitude has changed since last night." Shinji sat down on the old sofa and bounced a little as he said this.
"Yeah, I know what you mean. He seems really scared for some reason. I wonder what's wrong." The fact that his room was destroyed didn't help Asuka relax. She took the seat next to Shinji and they both bounced for a moment before sitting still.
Back in the bathroom Jason was looking himself over in the mirror. 'Man, I look like shit. I guess that God damned nightmare didn't help my already bad sleep.' Jason looked down and sighed. He meandered out into the living room and sat down on the floor in front of the two other pilots. "I have a question for you guys."
"What is it?" Shinji asked as he and Asuka raised one of their eyebrows in inquisition.
"Have either of you had really horrid nightmares, since joining Eva?" Jason looked down as he asked the question. 'Man this is embarrassing.'
Both of the teens looked at Jason with confused faces. "What do you mean?" Asuka asked.
"I mean, after you joined Eva, did you have really horrid nightmares?" Jason tried to explain.
"I did, but I had mine since my mom died." 'Damn I hated those dreams.' Asuka had gained a small frown as she talked to Jason.
"I started to have nightmares when I joined Eva. Mine were always of me yelling as myself for being such a wimp though. What made yours so horrid?"
"I'll explain in a moment. Do either of you still have these nightmares?" Jason's face was that of a pleading child's.
"No, not since I got together with Shinji. I always sleep really good when I sleep with him." Asuka gained a small smile.
"Same here, ever since I started to sleep with her I haven't had any nightmares." Shinji also gained a smile as he looked over to Asuka, but lost it when Jason started to talk again.
"Oh…" Jason looked down; he was loosing a mental battle with himself. 'You can control it. Relax man.' he thought. "You, two are lucky. For the last six years all I have had are nightmares or nothing. Since I joined NERV to pilot the Evas all my nightmares have become really horrid." Jason was having a very hard time controlling the emotion in him. 'Don't lose it man, just calm down.'
"Oh…" was all the other two pilots could mutter.
Jason looked up to the other teens with two puffy red eyes. "I keep seeing this woman get killed! I can't stand it!" he broke down right there in front of them, letting his tears fall freely from his face.
Shinji and Asuka both quickly went to their friend's side. "It's ok, it was just a dream. It can't affect you out here."
"I know, but it feels so real. The one I had last night was the worst so far!" Jason was sobbing uncontrollably as he spat this out.
"Ok… how about you tell us what happened. Maybe it will help you." Asuka said as she got up and got a glass of water from the kitchen. "Here, drink this." She handed Jason the cup and he guzzled it down.
"Thanks…" he said as he calmed down a bit. "Well if you guys want to hear it, I'll guess I can tell you." Shinji and Asuka motioned him to the couch. Jason took the offer and got on the couch. A squeak could be heard as he bobbed for a moment.
"Go ahead. We've both seen horrid things. You're nightmare can't be any worse." Shinji stated with some care on his voice as he and Asuka sat down on the floor. They both looked at him with looks telling him to talk about it.
"Well…" Jason ran the nightmare back through his head as he told them.
Flashback There was nothing
but darkness all around, like a void in space. A small swoosh sound
could be heard as Jason appeared.
"Where am I?" echoed off some unseen walls after Jason spoke up.
Not too long after the echoing faded a woman appeared not too far away from Jason. She had brown hair and stood about six inches shorter than Jason. "You are here." She stated as Jason turned to look at her. Her voice was soft and caring like that of a mother's.
"Who are you?" Jason asked the woman
"Someone very close to you, that's all." Just after her statement stopped echoing a deep and dark voice could be heard.
"YOU WIIL BOTH DIE! My challenge starts now!" A pair of huge bright red eyes appeared above Jason and the woman.
As several monsters appeared by the two, they took away the woman. She was struggling with all of her might to get away but the monsters were just too strong. "JASON, HELP ME!" She screamed as they started to beat her.
Jason tried to go after the woman and the monsters, but was held by some invisible force. He could be seen struggling against the power with all of his might. "FUCK!"
The woman's screams were all that could be heard as the monsters beat her to death. When they were done all that was left of her was her head. One of the monsters picked it up and rolled it toward Jason, like it was a bowling ball. All Jason could do was look at the head in horror as all the monsters started to surround Jason with big fang filled smiles on their deformed faces.
Two of the monsters in front of Jason parted as a man with red skin and stood a good 7'10" walked up to him. "You and the others are my challenge? This is pathetic." The man and the monsters all let out demented laughs when the man finished.
Jason looked at the man with pure rage sketched on his face. The powers that were holding Jason released him. "Why the fuck did you kill her, you fucking demented bastard!" Jason glanced at the head again only to look in horror as the head had changed in appearance to that of Alice's.
"She was just in the way, and I needed to dispose of her. I also want you to fight your best." The man calmly stated with and evil grin on his red face.
Jason's blind rage reached its peak and he irrupted. Jason lunged at the man, intending to kill him.
The man easily side stepped the attack as if Jason was moving in slow motion. He continued to easily dodge Jason's attacks for the next couple of minutes.
Jason was becoming very tired because he couldn't land a single blow on the man. He threw one last punch, which the man easily dodged, before the man decided to attack. He moved around Jason like he was standing still and kicked him hard in the lower back.
Jason went flying through the air from the kick. When he landed he slid another good twenty feet before actually stopping. The man calmly walked up to Jason as he was trying to get back up. He put his foot on Jason's back and pushed him back into the ground really hard.
"AHHHHH!" Jason screamed as a bone chilling crack could be heard throughout the void.
"You are no challenge," the evil man stated as he picked Jason up by the neck, and held him about six inches off the ground. "You fought; you lost, so now you die."
One of the monsters walked up and handed the man a sword. "By Excalibur's blade your blood shall run." The man brought the sword in to run it through Jason, as it suddenly shown a brilliant white, and stopped him. "What the… Oh no! It can't be!" All the monsters and the man vanished with the light. As Jason fell to the ground he woke up, returning to reality.
End Flashback
"Holy mother of God," Shinji looked at Jason in horror from the dream.
"Mine Gott!" Asuka had her hands up to her mouth, covering it. Neither pilot had ever heard a story so gruesome.
After a couple of minutes of silence Jason spoke up. "I've dreamt of that woman several times, but that man; that was his first appearance in one of my dreams."
"Do you have any idea who he could be?" Asuka asked worriedly.
"No, I don't, but I had a feeling that I had seen him somewhere before or at least felt his presence." Jason was looking at his feet as he stated this with uncertainty on his voice.
"Hey, don't worry about it. It was just a dream right?" Shinji was trying to bring up Jason's low spirits.
"Yeah, you're right. It was probably nothing anyway." Jason stood up and was about to leave when Asuka spoke up again.
"Ok, now that that's taken care of, can you tell us what the hell happened in-between you and Misato, to make her blush some much that she looked like a tomato?"
"Umm…" Jason looked both ways, and then darted to his room, locking the door behind him.
"Damn. Oh well, I'll just talk to him later." Asuka shrugged, sat down on the sofa, and turned on the T.V. to watch some anime about a demon and some middle school girl. Shinji stood up with a small grunt and walked out into the kitchen to make breakfast.
The rest of the day pasted with boredom following everyone at every turn. Jason came out but was left alone by the other two pilots, and Misato came out to leave for work, but decided to stay home, after what happened that morning.
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A Couple of Days Later
The days following Jason's nightmare had moved by slowly for everyone. This day on the other hand would be different. Today is when Jason would activate Unit 04.
The morning had gone by without a hitch and they were on their way to NERV when they hit a small speed bump. "Umm… Ma'am, can I see your license, registration, and proof of insurance please?" Misato had finally gotten caught for going fifty-five on a twenty-five miles and hour street. Misato handed the officer her license and proof of insurance.
As the officer walked back to his car, the teens became restless.
"Great job, Misato" Asuka shot at the driver of the car angrily.
"Hey, there was no one on the street and it's a Saturday. No kids were around so why should I go twenty-five through a school lane?"
"Because it's the law," Shinji stated plainly.
"Yeah, I'm going to have to back up those two Misato." Jason turned to Misato after looking back at the other two pilots in the back seat.
Misato just pouted as the officer came back with a ticket. "Here you go ma'am. Next time watch your speed." With that Misato was off, going the speed limit until she was out of sight of the officer.
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Outside NERV
They were at NERV a couple of minutes later. Misato was out of the car and up to the entrance before any of the pilots decided to get out. Shinji and Asuka got out of the car and stood in front of it waiting on Jason, who was taking an unusually long time to get out of the car.
"Come on! Hurry up!" Asuka was tapping her foot waiting very impatiently for Jason to get out of the car.
"I'm comin', I'm comin'." He called with very little emotion as he got out of the car sending a clank all around as he picked up his sword. He slowly walked with them to the entrance. Misato had already gone inside; waiting on Jason took too long for her.
They slowly made their way to the briefing room that they were told to go to when they arrived. As they walked in they were welcomed by some people, including: Commander Fuyutski, Maya, Kinori, and Misato (who had waited about ten minutes for them to arrive).
Maya started. "Ok, now that we're all here, we're going to have Jason activate his Eva while Shinji and Asuka do synch tests. That way we keep them all on the same schedule."
"Ok, but what about the S2 engine in Unit 04? Is it stable?" Jason tossed at Maya. A hint of worry could be heard on his voice.
"Yes it is. It was tested on it's own in the Nevada dessert, before being installed in Eva Unit 04, the commander made sure of that." She looked over to Fuyutski who was in Gendo's old position.
'I've always wanted to do this.' He thought until Maya interrupted him. "Yes, I remembered the incident that happened in the second branch so I made sure that this engine was tested before being used in your Eva. I don't need to lose another branch while SEELE is still out there."
"Yes, and on that matter I have some bad news. The men who attacked Jason somehow escaped from Section 2. All we could get out of them was who hired them. We definitely know that SEELE is still out there and that they want you pilots dead. They must be planning on taking over NERV once you guys are out of the way." Maya walked over to a screen, pushed a button, and sat back down at her chair.
A small video popped up on the screen, it showed the assassins escaping from the cell they were held in. Chris, the leader, walked up to the screen and mouthed the words 'I'll be back' into the camera.
Jason watched this with anticipation. 'YES! I hoped he would get out. Now I have someone of a slight challenge to fight.'
Everyone else just watched the tape with emotionless faces. When it was done Maya continued.
"As you can see, I believe he will come after the pilots again, so we're stepping up security until…" Maya had seen Misato shaking her head, so as to not spill the info about Krystal just yet.
"Until what, Maya?" Jason asked he also saw Misato shake her head.
"Until we find a better way to protect you guys," she half lied.
"Ok, can we just get this over with? It's going to be boring as hell, synching with the Evas," Asuka spoke her mind.
"Well… if you want to. Pilots to the changing rooms, then get to your Evas." Maya ordered.
The three pilots all got up and left the room. As they walked to the changing rooms, Jason had a question. "Hey, umm… where's my Eva?"
"I don't know, but I'd bet it's in the Eva cages with ours." Shinji answered as they walked. They reached a fork in the hallway and they split, Asuka taking the left as Shinji and Jason took the right. "Bye Asuka, see you in about five hours."
"Bye baka," she waved as she walked off.
The two boys reached their changing room, and changed into their plug suits. Shinji's was still the same, but Jason's was a little different, not just in color, but in style. Instead of having the breast plates it was one piece, everything else was the same. The top of the suit was a bluish grey, while the bottom was completely sliver, matching the coloring of his Eva.
The two boys walked in silence to the Eva cages. When they got there they looked upon the newest addition to the Eva family: Evangelion Unit 04. This unit looked a lot like Eva Unit 03 but instead of being black, it was silver. The secondary color on its arms was a light blue grey, like frost on grass.
'So this is Unit 04, eh? Looks good,' Jason was staring at his Eva, while Shinji looked over to his Eva.
'Mom, please let me talk to you.' Shinji hadn't forgotten about where Jason said his father might be.
Asuka was already in her Eva doing the normal synch procedures as the two boys looked upon the Evas.
Shinji got into his Eva and started his normal synch procedures. 'Mom, can you hear me?'
"Yes, I can. What do you need Shinji?" Shinji heard, even though he was the only one to hear it. He became elated to know he could freely talk to his mom now.
'Umm… how are you doing?' Shinji didn't want to get straight to the point.
"I'm doing the best I can, being stuck in Unit 01 or monster as they call it now."
'Umm… ok. Uh…" Shinji didn't know how to ask the question.
"What is it Shinji?" a deeper voice could be heard.
Shinji immediately looked up with a surprised face etched on. "Father!"
"Yeah, I'm with your mom now. I'm sorry I was such a bastard to you." The deep voice carried a hint of sadness on it. The bastard king (as some people put it) actually has a soft side.
'It's ok… but how did you get here?' Shinji remembered Jason's possibility but wanted to know what really happened.
"I didn't have a body to return to when everyone came back from the Third Impact, so I decided to go to your Eva. I wanted to see your mom anyway," he added with a matter-of-fact tone.
'Cool, mom, are you ok with this?'
"Yeah, but he got such a yelling when he arrived," she stated with a trace amount of anger.
As Shinji and his parents conversed Jason was just getting into his Eva for the first time. 'Man, this better work,' was all he could think.
"Starting activation," one of the technicians stated emotionlessly.
While the technicians monitored Jason's progress Misato decided to check up on him. "Hey, how you feelin'?" she asked with kindness and care laced on her voice.
"I'm fine… Just a little worried, that's all." Just after Jason spoke up a problem arose in the Eva and he immediately passed out.
"What the hell just happened!" Misato yelled as she turned to the technicians.
"We don't know ma'am. The Eva just stopped activating. We're trying to get the pilot out but the Eva isn't responding to any of our commands." All the technicians were typing away furiously as Misato turned to Maya.
"What do the MAGI say about this!" she yelled at Maya, hoping the MAGI have it figured out.
"I don't understand… They're saying the Eva is without a soul and is trying to find one, but the Eva should already have one. I just don't understand…" Maya turned to a terminal and started to type away furiously, her hands looked like blurs over the keyboard.
"God damn it!" Misato yelled as she glared at Unit 04. "I hate these damned creations of man."
While the bridge was in chaos Jason floated in a void as several of his memories past him by. "What the… Where am I?" Jason's voice echoed like in his dream.
"You are in me. I am searching your memories so I can find a proper soul for me," a voice sounded back in response to Jason's question. The voice was flat and monotone.
"Who are you?" Jason asked back to the invisible speaker.
"I am me." A smaller version of Unit 04 appeared before Jason.
"What the hell!" Jason yelled as he looked at the Eva in front of him.
"Is something wrong?" Jason could swear he could see the head of the Eva tilt to the side a little.
"Yeah, why the hell are you in front of me talking to me?" Jason asked angrily.
"As I previously stated I am looking through your memories trying to find a person whose soul I can use for myself." The Eva said flatly.
"Why? Since you're talking to me, don't you already have a soul?" Jason had calmed down a bit.
"I do, but my soul is incomplete. For you to fight efficiently you need a complete soul. I am searching for one that would benefit you the most by using your memories. I need this soul so I can be an efficient tool for you to use." The Eva wavered a bit like a hologram.
"You want to be a tool? How is your soul incomplete?" Jason watched the image as it blipped out of existence.
"I have found a soul," the Eva said with a monotone voice.
"Wait, can I still talk to you?" Jason looked around to see if he could find a trace of the Eva.
"Yes, but you will be talking to the soul I have chosen to incorporate into myself."
"Who is it?" Jason asked as everything around him went dark.
Jason woke up back in the plug of the Eva just to hear Misato yelling at the bridge technicians. "You guys can't even get him out, what the fuck is wrong with you! This entire facility is going down hill. Section 2 can't do their job, and you guys can't get Jason out of his Eva…"
"Whoa, calm down Misato. I'm fine; don't worry about it." Jason said wondering how long he had been out.
"What the… Jason! Are you ok? What happened?" Misato was looking at Jason with pleading eyes.
"I'm fine. According to what I saw, the Eva needed to pick a soul to complete its own soul."
"Really? Hmm… Maya I think the MAGI were right."
"Yeah, I believe it may have something to do with how Shinji's and Asuka's Eva took the souls of their parents. What I don't understand is why it didn't take Jason's soul. I didn't think it would need one anyway but I guess I was wrong." Maya stated as she glanced from her terminal to Misato and then to Jason.
"Naw, you weren't wrong," Jason said sarcastically.
"Well just so you know Jason your synch score is about sixty-nine. Pretty good for a first try in a real Eva." Maya was just glanced down to her terminal when she noticed something. "What the…! Shinji are you ok?"
"What is something wrong?" he responded.
"I don't know. Your synch rate is at 99. What are you doing?" Maya looked at the screen to a calm Shinji with a smile on his face.
"Oh… Umm… I'm just talking to my parents," he said with a blush. 'They're going to think I'm insane for this.'
"Even if they do, we'll still love you," Yui whispered.
"O…k… How are you talking to your parents? Your mom is in the Eva and the commander is dead." Maya said very skeptically.
"Well as you just said my mom is in the Eva, and so I just think to talk to her. Oh, and she says 'Hi,' and father moved into here after the Third Impact somehow."
"Ok, hi Yui. Umm… Yeah, I guess that's what's giving you the high synch rate. Hmm… can either of your parents talk through the comm. system?" 'I need to talk to the commander.' Maya thought.
"No, they can't. I can relay their messages to you, though. They can hear you but you can't here them." 'Damn it.' Shinji thought.
"Yeah, I really want to thank that Misato person for taking care of you, unlike somebody else." Shinji was guessing that his mom was glaring at his father.
"I said I'm sorry. I wasn't exactly in perfect mental condition at the time." Gendo tried to cover for himself.
Shinji looked down as his parents argued like they were a normal family. He was brought out of his thoughts by one red-headed German girl.
"Hey, Shinji what's up over there? You look down." Asuka asked.
"Oh, nothing just getting used to having a family, besides you and Misato that's all." Shinji was scratching the back of his head as he chuckled a bit.
"Hmm… ok. I wonder if I can talk to mama." Asuka turned off the comm. and thought to herself. 'Mama, are you there?'
"Yes, Asuka I'm here. I've always been here." A kind voice was heard in Asuka's head.
Asuka almost jumped in her plug when she heard the voice. 'How can I be sure you're mama?'
"Because before I…" there was an awkward pause. "…before that I always had that doll thinking you were some other child. I'm so sorry for that," the voice was dripping with sadness as her mother spoke to her.
Asuka held back tears from showing out of habit, before letting out couple of sobs. 'Mama, I should be sorry, for not being a good child,' she cried in her head.
"No, my child, I should be sorry for putting my work before you. Now let's change the subject." Asuka nodded. "I've been monitoring your thoughts when you synch. You seem to be uh… obsessing over a certain boy. Can you tell me exactly who he is?" Asuka face went to that of a deep red, just when Shinji and Jason showed up over the comm.
"Uh… Asuka, is something wrong?" Jason asked.
"Yeah, why are you blushing?" the other male asked.
"Oh! Umm… Nothing I was just talking with mama." Asuka was still blushing.
"Oh, so you can talk with your mom too. Cool. Jason what soul does your Eva have?" Shinji looked at his image of Jason in his plug.
"Uh… I don't know yet. How do you talk to them?" Jason asked.
"You just think," was Shinji's calm reply.
"Ok…" 'Hello, is anyone there?' Jason thought.
"Apparently not if you have to ask yourself," came a voice Jason swore he heard before.
'Who are you?' Jason asked.
"Oh, just someone close to you, that's all," the womanly voice replied calmly.
It hit him when she repeated that line. 'You're that woman from my dreams. How the hell did you get in my Eva!' Jason yelled in his head. Shinji and Asuka had both been watching Jason through the comm. talking with their parents about the new pilot.
"Is he a nice guy?" Asuka's mom asked.
'Yeah, but he's a little weird, not that anyone with NERV isn't.'
"Well what's this pilot like? I only got a very brief description of him when he was selected from by NERV." Gendo didn't pay much attention to all of the potential pilots that he looked over, but Jason had caught his eye, a little.
'He's a really nice guy, and he kicks ass too. He took out three assassins a couple of days ago. Oh, yeah that reminds me. SEELE is out to get us father, pilots specifically. Got any advice?' Shinji and his parents started to talk about SEELE for a bit while Asuka and her mom talked about Shinji. Jason was still conversing with the woman from his dreams.
'Why do I dream of you? I don't even know who you are!' he couldn't get a straight answer out of the woman.
"I'm someone you have known all your life and I have been with you since you were born. Also do you know who that man is that you dream of?" she asked as if Jason knew the answer.
'No, I don't. I was hoping you did.'
"No, it is still a mystery to me. Hmm… I have to go. I can only talk to you for so long, since I just got here. Bye Jason."
"Bye, umm… what's your name?'
"My name is… 'I shouldn't show him my real identity yet' uh… my name is Eliza."
'Oh… ok bye Eliza.'
"Bye, Jason…" the voice faded away.
"Hey when do we get done with these tests?" Jason was looking at a very surprised Maya and Misato. "What?"
"Oh… my… God…" was all either of them could say.
"What's wrong?" Shinji asked.
"Yeah, what can make you guys freak like that?" Asuka added.
Both Maya and Misato looked up at the three pilots with surprised looks. "You… are… each… at…a 99 percent… synch ratio…" Maya muttered.
"You got to be kidding me?" Jason was delighted to make it that high on his first try in a real Eva.
"Mine Gott, you're kidding!" Asuka was just as delighted as Jason.
"Great, I'm not the best anymore," Shinji pouted.
"Wow… well I'd say the tests are over. You guys can leave when you want," Misato looked back at the computer screen with big eyes. "Wow…"
"Awesome!" Jason yelled, as his comm. disappeared.
"Yes, finally, time to shower!" Asuka's comm. did the same.
"Ok, over and out," Shinji was the last.
After the three were out, they went to their respective changing rooms and changed out of their plug suits and took some showers. After that they all met out in front of the entrance to NERV.
"Hey boys what's up?" Asuka asked as she walked up to the waiting boys.
"What took you so long?" Jason asked almost annoyed.
"I'm a girl, so I take longer showers, got a problem with it?" Asuka raised her voice near the end in anger.
Jason hearing this and not feeling like getting beat today responded "No, I was just wondering." Asuka still glared at him. "Yikes, Shinji help me." Jason ran behind Shinji and tired to hide behind the boy who was almost half a foot shorter than him.
Asuka and Shinji both burst out laughing at Jason's cowardly act. Jason joined in after a minute or so. After about five or so minutes of laughing they noticed Misato wasn't there yet.
"Hey, where's Misato? It doesn't usually take her this long in there," Asuka was wondering.
"I don't know." Jason responded.
"Well it doesn't matter. Jason you got your sword, so let's go," Shinji stated.
"Wait, you want me to protect you guys?" Jason pointed at himself.
"Yeah, is that ok?" Shinji just looked at Jason. Asuka and Jason were wondering where this confidence and bravery in Shinji came from.
"Yeah, but what if the guy has a gun? I don't think I can become a Jedi, and block their bullets with my sword." Jason glanced at Asuka with eyes asking 'Where the hell is this coming from?' Asuka just shrugged.
"Hmm… You're right. Well we'll just have to take that chance. Is there a problem with that?"
"Yeah, WHERE THE HELL IS THIS COMING FROM!" Jason yelled at Shinji.
"What do you mean?" Shinji just stared at the bewildered Jason.
"When did you grow balls the size of Jupiter! That's what I mean."
"Oh… I don't know. I just want to get home I guess," Shinji tried to explain.
"What ever, let's go. It's starting to get cold." Asuka was hugging herself to get warm.
"Alright…" The group started the walk home. Shinji was right next to Asuka with his arm around her as she was cuddling up to him as much as she could as they walked down the street. Jason was on his own listening to his music. They walked like this for awhile before Asuka remembered something.
"Hey Jason." Jason looked at her.
"What?"
"What happened that morning a couple of days ago?"
"Umm…" Jason immediately shot a deep red.
"Yeah, what happened that morning?" Shinji asked while looking at Jason with evil eyes.
"Umm… Misato walked in on me taking a shower." Jason said very slowly, who was still a very deep red.
"Wait, you mean she seen you naked!" Asuka almost yelled.
"Shhh, shhh… Keep it down. Yes she did." Jason had his finger up to his mouth and was almost whispering.
"Man, she must be a pedophile or something. She's walked in on me too." Shinji whispered just so the others could hear. He was blushing the same color as Jason.
"WHAT! She walked in on you too? Oooooh… I'm really going to have to talk to her now." Asuka wasn't staying quiet. Some people who were walking by looked at them with weird looks.
"Whatever just keep it down would ya?" Jason asked.
"Ok, fine." Asuka hugged closer to Shinji. Luckily for the pilots the rest of the walk was made in silence and was also made safely.
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Misato's place
As they entered the apartment a certain bird could be heard squawking and warking all around. Jason walked in first and was immediately attacked by the irate penguin.
"What the… HEY, get the fuck off me!" Jason yelled as Pen-Pen latched on him with his beak.
"What's wrong Pen?" Shinji asked as he noticed the birds food and water dish were both empty. "Hey, you're out of food and water."
Pen-Pen let go of Jason and ran… or waddled over to Shinji as fast as he could and with pleading eyes warked up a storm.
"Please, feeeeeeed me. Please," the poor penguin pleaded.
"Ok, ok, here." Shinji spooned some tuna into Pen-Pen's dish and poured some beer into his water bowl.
"Thank you, oh thank you God Shinji," Pen-Pen bowed several times.
"Well, Misato going to get a speech when she gets home," Shinji stated.
"Well, that happens." Asuka stated flatly.
The group walked into the living room and sat down to watch T.V. Misato somehow had a new couch bought and had the other one against the other wall. Jason sat on the old one causing a couple squeaks to emanate through the room and Shinji and Asuka sat down on the brand-new one.
For the rest of the night they all just sat there watching T.V. like nothing happened at NERV. It was just another day in the life of an Eva pilot. Soon the three parted for bed and were all asleep in a very short time. Not one wondered where Misato was since they figured she went out drinking that night.
They couldn't be any further from the truth…
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A/N: Who was that woman in Jason's Eva? Misato got a peek at Jason. shivers Ok anyway, cliff hanger. HA. What do you thinks going to happen next. We'll all see then. Keep it frosty people.