As always thanks for the reviews guys, it keeps me going. By the way, fans of Static Shock (from DC comics) may like to read eastWOLF's story "Heroes of EVA: The Ties that Bind". I enjoy it, so other Static fans should too.

Chapter 4: Some Doom, anyone?

Part 1

A week had passed by quickly, most at NERV were used to the Third Childs appearance, but all knew to steer clear of the Second if they did not have any flame retardant items at hand.

During this week, all four had discovered various extra's that came along with their respective powers.

Shinji was able to hold his breath for far longer than was humanly possible and his senses were slightly more acute than the average person.

Rei discovered that she could create invisible constructs when she applied herself, although Ritsuko was still baffled by how Rei was able to affect light in such a way.

Maya's malleable body could withstand more injuries than a normal human, as her body formed itself around the object to spread the force out.

Asuka could achieve flight and they also found out that their equipment melted before she reached her total temperature output, although she was still having trouble getting her anger under control, which in turn made her powers also be difficult to control.

Misato was happy that Shinji was happy, Rei merely did what was required of her, Maya found life as a technician easier and a lot faster (she controlled the skin on her hands to "make" pseudo-fingers), although Asuka was getting annoyed with her abilities, as she was not going to admit that she was getting angry at petty things.

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Meanwhile at the Tokyo-3 High School, the three friends of the absent pilots were growing concerned with their friend's prolonged absence.

So much so, that Hikari had decided to approach Rei on the matter, as she did not buy the "advanced training regime" that NERV had told the school.

'Um, Rei may I speak with you?' asked the brunette, who was always weary of Rei, due to her perceived cold nature.

'Of course, Class Representative' replied Rei, 'what is it that you require?'

'Well…I was wondering…what are Asuka and Shinji doing exactly that is keeping them away from school?'

'You already know that, do you not?' Rei answered simply, 'they were required to undertake an advanced training regime, to strengthen their piloting abilities.'

'Are you sure that nothing else is going on?' Hikari continued, hoping to get to the bottom of it, 'they aren't seeing each other are they?'

'Of course they see each other' the first child replied, not understanding what Hikari was implying, 'they are living within close proximity to each other.'

'What! They are? When did it happen?' the class rep bombarded the blue haired pilot with questions, amazed that the two actually got together, she had noticed that they both looked at each other when the other wasn't looking, but due to Shinji's shyness and Asuka…being Asuka she never thought it possible.

'A week ago from today' replied the first, she did not understand why the class representative was so emotional about it, although she, herself, did not have much experience with emotions, so she probably just did not understand the necessary reactions needed, she rationalised.

'But that's when their training… they didn't run off together did they?' This shocked Hikari, she was happy that they got together, but running off?

'They are merely staying at NERV, in the living quarters'

'WHAT! THAT…THAT'S LIVING IN SIN!' cried the horrified Hikari, dating was one thing, but sleeping together was something entirely different.

'I do not see how it would be sin, as it was authorized by NERV and the Major'

Hikari only gaped at what Rei had just said. Her mind was greatly disturbed by this revelation and meltdown was imminent. So Hikari decided to just sit in her desk and try to forget about the disturbing things that she now believed NERV was doing.

Rei was (internally) confused by Hikari's reaction, but shrugged it off as Hikari did not know what had happened to the two pilots and most likely came to some other conclusion from her words.

The intercom called Rei, speaking of NERV related business, and that she should wait on the schools field for a lift to the base.

Excusing herself, Rei made her way to the field and was surprised to see that Section 2 was not there to give her a lift.

As she had been told to wait on the field, Rei decided to do just that. She moved to the tree she sat at during break, and retrieved a "comic book" that she had been given by Makoto, who had noticed her eyeing his little stash near his work station, this particular one was about a father from a distant planet who was willing to go against his superiors to save his only son from their dying planet. The son was then raised on earth and was considered an outsider due to his incredible abilities, but he was soon looked on as a hero.

Rei found this intriguing; she had always been considered as an outsider by others, particularly when she was younger, due to her appearance. She was also fascinated that the father chose to go against his superiors will and do what he wanted to save the one he loved.

Rei was pulled from her thoughts by the arrival of a robot with a green and silver colour scheme that looked similar to her unit 00, but it was bulkier and possessed built in weapons on its hands and back.

Rei regarded it, as only Rei could, with indifference. She returned to her reading, but raised her eye when it started towards her, slowly and its metallic voice said, 'First Child: Ayanami, Rei, targeting parameters required, Filename: Invisible Woman. Please, come with this unit. The Lord of Latveria wishes an audience with you.'

'I'm afraid I do not have permission to go' she stated, returning to her reading once more.

'The word of Van Damme overrides all other, lesser intellectuals order, you must accept or this unit will be required to use excessive force'

Rei's eye visibly twitched at this robot calling the Commander a "lesser intellectual" and she placed her comic back into her bag and said to the annoying contraption, 'If you attempt to endanger my life, Section 2 will converge on you and destroy you, if you are successful in causing my demise, I will simply be replaced.'

'Termination is not required; unconsciousness is all that is needed' the robot replied, raising its arm and spraying gas out in Rei's direction.

Rei reacted quickly, willing a small force field around her body into existence. The robot then placed its larger, clawed hand onto her force field and put it under as much stress as it could muster, causing Rei's nose to start bleeding (she had not had much practice with this ability). Rei soon fell unconscious after a few minutes, from the pressure and from the lack of oxygen (being submerged in LCL often, obviously had lessened the effect of a lack of oxygen that the body usually screamed, as she had to "drown herself" so to speak).

The robot placed restraints on Rei, lifted her up and flew off into the sky.

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Maya was having a relaxing day off, as there where no angel attacks, no "power testing" and Ritsuko was the one who decided to let her have the day off.

Right now she having a nice, warm bubble bath to ease her body's stress, she sighed, content and care free. She also found having these powers as a huge plus, whatever used to be out of reach before, that required her to move her whole body to retrieve was no longer an issue.

Unfortunately, she was snapped back to reality by a knock on her door. With a sigh, she got out of her bath and got dressed.

As she opened the door, she received a spray of gas; thankfully, it attacked her body at a slow pace.

With the spare time, Maya quickly weaved herself around her attacker, who turned out to be a robot of some kind, and moved down the street as fast as she could.

The robot wasted no time, it began to chase Maya, flying through the air and grabbing the startled technician.

'Hey, put…put me down…' she said weakly, the gas had begun to kick in, forcing Maya to lose consciousness.

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'Hey, Third!' Asuka called Shinji over, 'I'm bored, wanna get out for a while?'

'Huh? Asuka, how would you even manage that?' asked a confused Shinji.

'Simple, sneak past the guards and go shopping' she replied with glee.

'Well, maybe you can get out, but it's pretty easy to spot me, so…' Shinji said, a bit reluctantly, he had been getting bored of being cooped up in NERV, but he knew he would not be able to slip away unnoticed.

'Oh, please baka, throw a trench coat and hat and no one will be the wiser' she said, as if it really was that simple.

'Even if we did manage to get out, what happens when Misato finds out?' he asked, hoping this would shoot down Asuka's plan.

'You can pull your little "I'm happy the way I am" stunt again and she'll just go all "I'm happy that you're happy Shinji-kun"'

'I don't know Asuka; can't you do it by yourself?'

'Humph! Fine, be like that!' she said, surprised that it seemed to have lost its flair now that Shinji wasn't coming.

She made her way down the hall, towards the exit. She heard heavy foot steps from behind her, and she turned to see that Shinji had begun to follow her.

'So, changed your mind, I see' she said with a grin.

'Just going to make sure you don't set the mall alight' he retorted.

'Whatever' she brushed the comment off, feeling happy that he had decided to come with.

'Hold it right there you two!' said one of Section 2's agents, he was shaking a bit and had a fire extinguisher ready.

'What didn't you hear?' Asuka said, while she shook her head, 'they need the baka to move some heavy stuff into the labs.'

'Uh, I didn't hear anything about that' he said, looking confused and intimidated by Shinji.

'Well, too bad 'cos he's going to get angry' she said and then added with a small grin, 'and you won't like him when he's angry.'

The agent gulped at this, he had heard from some of his friends, that Shinji had beaten a small army of Section 2 agents and JSSDF soldiers, by accident, no less. Looking at the man in question now, he was not so surprised by the quick defeat.

'Well, okay then' he said, before running round the corner and out of sight.

Shinji chuckled, 'that was a pretty good idea, Asuka.'

'Well, I heard about your little fight with them and deduced that many of the Section 2 guys would be rather frightened of you'

'It was an accident, I was just walking towards them to explain what happened and I kind of tripped and squashed the front end of their tank' Shinji replied.

'Wow, no wonder they're so scared of you.'

'Well, we'd better hurry to the mall, before they figure out what we did."

Less than an hour later, found the escapee's in the mall. Asuka had removed her Nerve clips from her hair, and wore sunglasses. Shinji was forced to wear the trench coat and hat that Asuka mentioned, although he admitted to Asuka that his disguise was more useful than her own, as her red hair gave her away.

Fast forward another two hours, we find Shinji carrying a large amount of shopping bags for Asuka who decided that since she staged the prison break he needs to repay her, while he was able to carry the weight, a few bags kept falling due to the amount.

Also, because of the amount of bags, he had difficulty seeing where he was going, and knocked an 8 year old boy over.

'Oops, sorry' he apologised to the little child, kneeling down to help him to his feet, this action made Shinji's hat fall down.

The little boy first picked the hat up, before he was going to take the large hand that was offered to help him up. He gasped when he saw Shinji, then leapt to his feet and shouted excitedly, 'Look everyone it's the THING!'

Everyone in the mall turned and stared at Shinji, who shyly smiled and waved.

Asuka, who had gone on ahead (not realising that she had left Shinji behind), turned around to see why everyone was making their way towards the back. Then she realised her comrade was nowhere in sight, and rushed along with the crowds hoping Shinji hadn't done anything stupid.

When she reached the front of the small crowd, she saw, much to her horror, Shinji standing in the centre, without his hat. The crowd was ecstatic about a celebrity being in their humble mall and were asking Shinji a load of questions.

She took a few deep breaths to try to not explode with anger. When she had managed to gather a small amount of control, and she walked over to Shinji.

'Hey, do you idiots mind moving out of the way, we're trying to get through' she shouted.

'Hey, you're Eva pilot!'

'Are you going out with him?'

'What happened to him?'

'How did you meet?'

'SHUT UP' the red head screamed, silencing everyone, 'he is…my new body guard, as NERV found Section 2 to be rather incompetent. Now if you don't mind I have some shopping to do, come on Thir…Thing let's go.'

'Alright, Pilot Soryu' said Shinji, as they made their way out the mall, the mob deciding its best not to follow the celebrity in case the fiery pilot of unit 02 decided to crush them with her Eva.

'Great work, baka' said Asuka, clearly annoyed with him.

'Hey, it's not my fault, you bought all that stuff and I knocked a kid over, because I couldn't see and then my hat fell off…' he began to explain.

'Not another word Third, don't even try to lay the blame on me'

'Second Child: Soryu, Asuka Langley accessing Filename: Human Torch, Third Child: Ikari, Shinji accessing Filename: Thing' came several voices behind the two pilots.

Asuka groaned, 'Not more of you stupid fans will you just…huh?'

As Asuka turned around she realised that they where not any members of the Thing fan club, they were in fact some type of robots, who were currently aiming several weapons at them.

'Uh, you think that they're with NERV?' asked Shinji, feeling concerned.

'No, but I think I've seen these before somewhere.' Asuka replied.

'You must come with us to Latveria, your presence is required.' Said one of the four robots that stepped in front of the other three, keeping its weapon trained on Asuka.

'Latveria?' Asuka repeated, she had heard the name before, but couldn't quite place it, 'Wait a minute! Van Damme built you!'

Igniting herself, she was about to attack them, when the one that had moved to the front shot its weapon at her. Whatever it was, it put Asuka's flame out as soon as it hit her and made her unable to ignite herself again.

'HEY!' said Shinji, as he leapt at the one that had hurt Asuka, smashing it to pieces.

He was about to clobber the remaining three senseless, but they unleashed their ammo on him. It was some sort of dough like substance that made it impossible for Shinji to move, no matter how hard he tried.

They sprayed the knockout gas on both of them; causing Asuka to slip into unconsciousness, but Shinji remained awake as if it did not affect him. One robot placed restraints onto Asuka, lifted her up and flew off, while the other two used a net to hold the substance that Shinji was in and took off into the sky as well.

'Whoa' said Kensuke, camera in hand, still not quite sure it had not just been some kind of hallucination, 'Toji, did you see what I think saw.'

'Was that really the devil-girl going on fire?' Toji asked his otaku friend, feeling the same confusion as Kensuke had.

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It was a long flight to Latveria. Shinji lost track of time, so he was not sure what the time was in Japan at the moment (changing time zones and all).

Anyway, his captors landed on a helicopter pad on a large fortress like building that over looked a large city. They stood still for a moment, as if waiting for something to happen, then, the entire pad began to move downwards into the fortress.

They dragged their captives to a large hall, that had various decorative clothes hanging from the walls and a throne near the end, and sitting on the throne was none other than Victor Van Damme. He wore a green cloak with a hood (which was down at the moment), and a smug expression on his face.

'This was unexpected, Shinji Ikari I see you are awake, it appears that your lungs are able to filter out unwanted elements in the air' Victor said, with an amused expression, 'well, anyway what do you think?'

'About your disturbing choice of decorating?' Shinji quipped.

'No, about turning the four of you into gods!' he said, with a serious expression.

'Uh, great…I guess' answered Shinji, confused with Victors question.

'I must say at first, I thought that since you did not even possess your father's or mother's adequate intelligence' he said with an arrogant tone, 'that nothing spectacular would happen when you where exposed to the cloud, but you continue to surprise.'

'So, Asuka was right, you did plan on us getting hit by it,'

'Yes, of course I did, everything that I do planned to be completely perfect' he spoke as if he were explaining some difficult science to a young child.

'But, why?' Shinji asked, not sure why someone would make people into the guinea pigs of their experiment.

'I needed to observe the effects that it would have on human beings and you four made interesting test subjects.'

'Why did you bring us here then?'

'All brawn, no brains I see, because I wanted to look, first hand at my work' he said, and then snapped his fingers, 'take the two to their holding cells, I need to ready my equipment for their dissections.'

-Chapter 4 end-

Yes, I'm sorry! It's a cliff hanger. I am just having trouble coming up with the other part so… I'm afraid that it might take some time, till the next update (Schools coming up in 4 days, and with that !MATRIC EXAMS!). Oh, well enjoy and please any, errors that you notice whether it be grammar, language or plotline or if you have some ideas just drop them off in a nice little thing called a review, please!