Disclaimer: No money, not enough to drink, just a crappy laptop, do want money from this but I won't get some anyway.
A/N: I am so sorry for the delay (yeah, 3/4 of a years delay, huh), but now I'm hopefully back with a few improving chapters. PLEASE forgive me, I have had so much sht on my mind lately. Please enjoy, once again I am sorry as hell (the warm, happy place u know) and I ask for forgiveness!
The music played softly and the boy hummed to the tune as he drove the truck closer and closer to the fortress city in the dawning light. The girls were fast asleep, and had been the past two hours and would hopefully still be the following few. Shinji looked at the blue haired girl sleeping peacefully in the seat next to him and smiled, he looked at the crimson haired girl sleeping in the seat behind Rei, clutching a stuffed animal, tears rolling down her cheeks to stain the stuffed ape in her arms. Shinji looked out the front windshield again, noticing that he also had tears on his cheeks. He wiped them off and continued to drive into Tokyo-3, the fortress city that stood against the angels for so long. Only to be annihilated by Eva units, the white ones and the purple one that had initiated and aborted the Third Impact. Shinji almost pulled over the truck in panic.
'The Eva's!' Shinji screamed internally before a small, but steadily growing, logical part of his brain stated that he and the girls were the only ones who could make them move.
'Idiot…' his mind added as a final thought and he went back to driving. By now he could see the ruins rising before the horizon and he smiled dryly. Now there was an issue of finding what he wanted to find.
Rei and Asuka opened their eyes at the same time as the door slammed shut behind a running Shinji. They stared at his back that disappeared into the apartment he and Asuka (and also Rei at a later time) had shared with Misato.
"Shinji-kun…" Rei straightened up in her seat and looked at Asuka. She merely shrugged and opened the door. One look at Rei and then she was off after Shinji. Rei looked understandingly after Shinji and climbed after Shinji and Asuka, careful to close and lock the doors, the keys she held firmly in her left hand.
Shinji slammed the door open and slumped down on his knees as he took in the scene before him. Asuka saw him slump and prepared herself for a nasty scene. There was no person before them, but furniture and kitchenware was scattered throughout the apartment along with clothing and empty beer cans. An axe stood against one wall, but as Shinji's tired eyes scanned the rooms more thoroughly he saw something. Before the couch was Pen-Pen, drunk as a stone it seemed and in a similar but worse condition was Misato. Her drunk snoring could be heard echoing everywhere in the apartment, emanating from her room.
"Misato!" Asuka could not refrain herself anymore and gave in to the joy, she ran across the apartment, slammed the door open and threw herself around Misato's throat, and belly at the same time. Misato awakened by having the air knocked out of her by the redheaded projectile.
"Well hello schexy…kids…" Misato squeezed in a puff of stinking breath out before going down again.
She got up after being doused with cold water though.
"AAAH! What the hell was that for you stupid, inbred, son of an unloving, oh hi Asuka, Shinji, Rei." Asuka glared at Misato a moment before asking the obvious question.
"Why are you here?" The answer was interrupted by two other teens throwing themselves at Misato. Shinji and Rei squeezed the air out of Misato, along with some abdominal contents.
After changing back to their old clothing, the three pilots (make that ex-pilots by the way) repeated the question. Misato downed a beer along with Pen2 and answered them.
"I was at the HQ during the attack, and then I woke up here, got drunk after seeing you-know-what through the windows," Shinji looked at the still shutter concealed windows, one with a large hole in the steel plating, the fire axe still standing next to it. "and I downed half the refrigerator, passed out with him there," Misato pointed at the still snoring penguin, "and was woken by you guys." She downed another beer and began to cry/laugh/snore.
"I am so glad to see you; I thought I had lost all of you…" Shinji noticed a few tears rolling down his cheeks too and wiped them off. They were soon replaced by new ones and Shinji gave in to crying.
As soon as Pen2 got up however, he slaughtered the mood by shooting straight past the shocked four into the bathroom and demonstrating that he had gotten more alcohol than he could handle. And that won't say a little, being raised by The Katsuragi Misato, the protective saint of all bars and pubs. Misato sighed and stood up.
"We might as well move the stuff out of here; you got a vehicle with a trunk?" Shinji smiled and nodded excitedly.
"Great, I've kept all of your stuff." 'When would I've gotten the time to throw it out by the way?' Misato shrugged at her own question and started loading all the bags she could find that weren't chewed on or contaminated by the penguin. Shinji thanked Pen2 for doing his business in Shinji's favourite school bag with a kick to the posterior, Pen2 responded with a peck to Shinji's shin and the fight started.
Misato separated them after five minutes when, to her and Shinji's shame, Pen2 was seconds from winning.
"You outside!" Misato threw Pen2 out the flight of stairs, forgetting that penguins don't fly that very often. An apology was thrown after Pen2 when a series of insults flew at Misato, in 'penguinese' of course.
"So, what's your plan?" Misato looked at the monstrous truck that gleamed in the sunlight before her. Shinji answered after taking a few gasps of air; it really drained you to load Misato's beer supplies into the truck.
"The…gasp…the mall…fortify…" Asuka glared at him.
"And you're supposed to be the strong and protective male, right. Alright here's the plan, we go with this baby here," She pointed over her shoulder with her thumb, sticking out her hip, "to the mall and use tools and stuff to fortify it. That's the plan for now, we'll think of the next steps after we get to the mall." Rei nodded and got into the cockpit.
"Katsuragi-san, please follow us in your vehicle. Otherwise it will get pillaged and stolen." Misato hastily looked at her beloved (but still beaten up) blue sports car and nodded. She got in and started the engine. Shinji smiled and got into the truck as Asuka climbed on the outside to the machinegun, looking out for any dangers. She did not have to look long before spotting a potential one. Pen2 got into Misato's car and huddled along the supplies. Misato locked all doors, readied a handgun in her holster and another on the passengers seat next to her. Asuka cocked the machinegun and smiled. Two heavy cars speeded towards them with guns sticking out the side windows. Asuka smiled as she signalled to Shinji to start the engine and Misato to follow them. Asuka licked her lips and started to grin.
"Incoming, guys…"