Double update...I haven't been online for two whole days! Whoa, that's so long...I think I might kill myself just to relieve the boredom.
My dad reckons I should buy a soccer ball...sigh He doesn't understand me.
Anyway, this is the first big action scene, I hope. If it doesn't turn out to be more explanations for the utter chaos that is Chapter One. I hope I don't get writers block...sigh Ooh...jeez...How to start of the chapter? Lets start with...Adam? Nah...Too chaotic to try and write...Silk? Hmm...Interesting...Nah...What would I start with? Zandramas? I think I'll do that...Wait, no...
I THINK I HAVE WRITERS BLOCK, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I woke up, blinked.
Got kicked in the ribs.
"I'm sorry," I said, saying about half my standard vocabulary.
"Don't say sorry! Just get up and cook breakfast, you baka! Don't be such a wimp!"
Needless to say I was sick of her.
"I'm not a wimp..." I tried to say. Bad idea. The very way I said it sounded wimpy.
"You finally say it and you can't even do it properly! Baka! Get up and cook breakfast!"
"But, I'm not..." I pushed. Too far.
"BAKA! GET UP AND COOK! STOP COMPLAINING!" and the compulsory kick in the sweet spot followed.
"I-I'm s-sorry," I mumbled.
Then she left. Without another kick? Was she getting soft?
I got up, careful not to under-dress, and went to cook breakfast.
"Breakfast is rea-"
The usual happened. I then began to eat the remainder of breakfast, which was little, said goodbye to Misato, and set off.
I walked along the street and continued my favorite pastime: Thinking, until I reach school.
As soon as I got there I stopped thinking...
Because Touji and Kensuke, along with most of the class, were there today...And weren't last week
"Touji...Kensuke?" I groaned. I wasn't in the mood for their insane ideas of fun. "Even Hikari is back..."
'This means we're going to play Dodge ball for gym class, now we have enough people...'
And I had it first part of the day...Oh, shit.
We started the class and changed into our trainers, then got out onto the little..court...arena...thing. Our gym teacher gave some of the better players dodge balls, the "pro" ones, that make that cliché bounce noise, and are always colored red. Then I felt like I was the ball next, I was getting thrown all over the place by the serious players, couldn't get out of the way fast enough. Then I got hit in the stomach with a ball, and praised the Lord...for I was free. I sat down at the side when my cell phone rang, which only meant one thing...I was needed at NERV for something, most likely very important. The usual monotone recording was played and I waved at my gym teacher who nodded and effectively told me to piss off with a wave of the hand...I took his advice, and pissed off toward NERV. Nothing important happened on the train. I got off and walked into NERV.
"What's wrong?" I yelled to Ritsuko as I walked across...a...big...room...toward her.
"We've detected some anomaly off the coast of Japan. It's not an MP Eva, but...We like to feel safe. It's a very strange anomaly. There's no solid mass in it at all...Just, light, trapped in one place...Like a black hole, where the speed of light is not fast enough to reach the escape veloc-"
"Okay, Rits. I think I get it," I told her firmly. She got carried away like that sometimes.
"OK. Well, this being is about the size and shape of Eva Unit 01, so needless to say we are a bit worried...Don't blow yourself up or do something stupid," she replied.
"Yep," I counter-replied.
"Eva Unit 01 is prepped and ready for launch..." she counter-counter-replied.
'The big fight? Could it be Adam? Or...Eriond, or whoever? The spirit...of...Void, was it? I hope not...I don't want to be..cosmic filler?'
The Eva launched and I felt the G's ripping into me...or, more accurately, my Eva. Then I was at the top, and my head shot up.
(A/N): From this point on, I will refer to the Eva as Shinji's own body, as such, since it pretty much is. If I say, "I clenched my hand," it means the Eva's hand, not Shinji in the cockpit. Any radio transmission will be: (EVA UNIT-01): Shinji's message or (NERV Control): Whoever's message . It will always be Misato speaking.
I peered around and headed toward the beach at top speed, where the anomaly was supposed to "hit" the coast. I reached it in a few minutes, but there was no sign of the anomaly.
(EVA UNIT-01): I don't see anything, where is it?
(NERV Control): We're detecting the anomaly at the exact same place you are... Wait... Look out! It's close to you! Can't you see it?
(EVA UNIT-01): No, I can't see anything! Why can't I s- oof!
I was cut off as something hit me in the stomach...I couldn't breathe for a second then. I recovered from the blow and looked around.
(NERV Control): Shinji, are you okay? Try the filter option we just sent you.
I switched to the filter and saw...A mirror image of myself! This was insane! We looked the same, we both even had a single horn...It must be Adam, then?
The realization scared me shitless.
(NERV Control): Shit, that's it! It must be Adam!
Misato barely had time to finish before Adam, or Eriond, grabbed my shoulder and my head, and started pulling them apart. I screamed, as a cut appeared near the base of my neck, turned into a gash, and continued down from there all the way to my hip on the opposite side...Then I was thrown on the ground, like a chew toy. The sand abraded my wounds, and the pain intensified even more, if possible, to levels I could barely stand anymore. My heart beated like a rabbit, I could feel it in my head, which felt like it was about to explode, and the worst of it, was that I couldn't feel my right arm, my stomach, or my legs...It was more painful, the absence, than the sand abrading the wound. I screamed some more.
(NERV Control): Shinji! Shinji! Shinji! Shinji!
The noises faded as I went down into inky blackness...It scraped at the edges of my eyes, threatening to engulf me...Then I felt, or heard, a voice. A very dry-sounding voice.
Don't give up now! You can still win. Impossible as it would seem, him being a being of light and you being a chewed-up piece of meat on the beach...
The voice went on, and on...So I used it. I held on to it, with a mental grip like iron, to keep myself from fading. The voice was my link to consciousness...
The blackness faded, and I stood up...Suddenly I realized, I had managed to stand up. My body was back together again! How? No time for that...I searched for the being of light, intending to punch his lights out with a savage fury.
Hey hey hey, slow down! It's not solid matter! You CAN'T punch his lights out...Because there's nothing to punch. There has to be another way to defeat it...Think!
The voice didn't stop me from throwing a punch. The hands which ripped him apart had seemed solid enough, I reasoned.
I connected...Or did I? I phased right through it, and fell over again, to have my head stomped into the sand by Adam's foot.
I heard something over radio transmission, but all that entered my mind was a kind of gurgling pitched noise. My counterpart in my head seemed to have heard it, however.
Shinji! They have something that will change the light into solid matter! You'll have to draw him away from their base so they can set it up, however.
I thought about it, and decided that there was no other option...Then the magnitude of it hit me. How would I lure him away? Perhaps I can "fake" a wound and get him to try follow me and finish me off? It seemed like a good idea. For a spur-of-the-moment one...I set myself up for a kick, felt it...But I was ready for it. It wasn't half as bad as it normally would, but to any outsider it would seem like it had the effect of a monkey being shot with a cannon. I launched myself into the air, back toward the water, began to start away from the city. Adam followed. He fell for it hook line and sinker...Or did he? Maybe he was playing along for a coup de grace? Either way, soon enough, he'd be solid enough to throw a brick at. A really, really big brick.
They have it ready! Adam should be solid now! Go for it, Shinji!
I found my brick...A small restaurant. I picked it up and aimed the pitch, and power, and threw like a true shot put pro. My aim was true and I hit the bastard in the torso/head...part. The place where said parts were before I threw were now...Not there...I just couldn't look there...It was Void, kind of like you don't see past the edge of your vision... It just, stops. Same applies to where Adam's head and parts of the torso were. The absence of any color or substance there shone like a beacon, even thought I couldn't see it, its very absence led me to see it.
It's...Void. It's directly interfering! We can't have that! It's against the rules!
My mouth spoke, a dry, rasping voice that hurt my throat, against my will. Eva Unit-01 followed my actions, somehow without moving its jaw..
"You interfere directly, Void. That is against the rules we have laid down and followed since the beginning."
My throat hurt like a bitch.
"The rules are no longer my concern, Light. I do not care. Go play with the others if you wish to follow absurd rules. I play for keeps," came the reply from the lips that I couldn't see...but knew were there.
"We all do, but you are cheating now. Therefore, I am permitted to cheat, too. Let the REAL games begin."
My muscles unlocked from stasis and my throat stopped hurting. Then I felt something...Like a feeling of joy, or elation. I suddenly knew I would win. I had my Mother with me now. I had felt this before...But there was a new presence. I presumed it was the Light, because it filled me with it. Then I simply sat back and enjoyed the show, so to speak, as the demisoul was awakened, and took over my body.
I was on autopilot, so to speak.
I ran over to Adam, which had now fully regenerated light over the Void that was there after I threw a building at it. Now it seemed solid...I felt the Light counteracting the strange nothing-ness that seemed to flow underneath the light Adam generated.
Then my shoulder blades itched, and spectral wings appeared, my jaw restraints broke with a snap, and all hell broke loose. I flew up, landed behind Adam, swung around and windmilled my arms, using my legs to power myself into Adam's head. I felt a sudden snag, then it let go and I wasn't windmilling any friction anymore. I had broken his neck? Did I? It was so easy.
Adam fell, twitching, for about 2 seconds, then his head popped back and he jumped to his feet, and tried to kick me, launching himself into the air. My wings moved of their own accord and deflected the blow, sending my enemy off-balance, and I swept his feet out from under him. While he was on the ground, I launched into the air on my wings, and dove down, slamming where his sternum would be, all the way until it poked out of his back, when he rolled over again.
'A deep cavity through the source of your power downs most Angels,' I thought, and almost believed it would kill him.
Almost.
He got up, slowly, and threw a punch, It was sluggish, and I could tell, it was so obviously, forced. He probably didn't have much chance of stopping a geek from Greenpeace now. I went for an elegant move which would end up with my enemy on the ground in front of me, face practically inside his head, but suddenly his speed increased and his hand plunged through my torso, at the center and just below my left collarbone. It stung a little, but the Demisoul was the pilot now, and it did not feel pain. The muscles and nerves which moved my left arm cut off from the rest of my body, the demisoul decided it would be a cruel fate to see the very arm you wounded kill you, and plunged my left arm through his forehead, and out the other side. The being of light faltered...And succumbed to shadow. Adam was no more.
Then all was black.
I thought I was unconscious but, my mind-friend was talking to me, so, I realized I wasn't.
And so, by the power of Light, I force you, Adam, once known as Eriond, and the Spirit of Void to sacrifice yourselves and help heal the wound in the Universe which was split into four.
Then the darkness receded, and I saw what I had ignored during the battle...And also a sight I hoped I would live to see happen once more.
The remains of 6 city blocks around me, destroyed by the battle's fury. (Perhaps this was not what I hoped to see more of…)
And...What remained of Adam and the Nothing-ness I saw, flying toward wherever it was the Universe split.
Respectively.
Plus, the two other Evas, just standing there, weapons ready, just a little too late...
(EVA UNIT-00): It would seem Pilot Ikari is capable of handling the situation masterfully. We were not needed, Pilot Sohryu.
(EVA UNIT-02): I could've done it much faster than HE did! Stupid baka, had to be a showoff and use the INJURED arm to kill Adam! I would've had it done way more elegantly, and much faster.
(NERV Control): I don't have much to say Shinji. Wow? Return to the EVA lifts, everyone.
Okay! So that's it! If you see anything wrong, please tell me. Also I'm not sure if I got Asuka's last name right. It seems...More...Right...Than Soyhru. Soy...Hru. Sounds like a Chinese guy that makes soy milk...
Reviews please!
(Himonky, if you're the only reviewer, feel free to do one for each chapter. :P Sorry about...erm...not...knowing...your...proper...pen name.)