A steady beeping noise rang through ought the room, emanating from a heart rate monitor. Anyone else would automatically know that it was an infirmary by its white walls and sterilized atmosphere, as if the various medical machinery wasn't a dead giveaway.
We find the room empty with the exception of one individual; resident pilot Shinji Ikari. Shinji was in a standard hospital gown with a purple dot pattern covering the entirety of the gown. His hair was splayed wildly across his face, unkempt for what seemed like days.
He was stone still as he rested his mind and body. A rest that was soon to be over as the beeping woke him from his slumber.
The youth groggily opened his eyes, dim light met his gaze as he could barely make the outlines of the ceiling, a chair that had been pulled up to his left side , and the safety rails of the bed that he was currently resting in.
"Where the fuck am I?" He said. His voice raspy from his dry throat.
He slowly tried to sit up only to feel a tightening around his left shoulder blade. He looked under his gown to see gauze wrapping around his left pectoral muscle and shoulder. He rotated his arm to try to get the stiffness out.
"What in the hell happened?" He said out loud. At that moment the door opened, Shinji stiffened only to relax as Misato came in with a cup of water. She had a worried look on her face and rings were beginning to form under her eyes from lack of sleep.
She quickly strode over to the boy and encased him in one of her over protective bear hugs. "Oh my god Shinji I was so worried about you!" She nearly sobbed.
When section 2 finally got the alert that Shinji's school was being attacked, they recovered him and immediately brought him in for treatment at NERV.
Misato had immediately wanted to go on a hunt for those who caused her adoptive son so much harm. To cause them the pain that they had caused her Shinji, but she knew that she had to get him taken care of before she could spill any blood.
"Ok Misato now let me go." He said desperately under the immense strength of the hug.
"Oops, sorry Shinji." She said in an apologetic tone of voice.
"What happened Misato?"
"I could ask you the same thing, mind telling me how you got shot? I tried asking Auska but she hasn't said anything in 3 days." She said as she sat down in the chair to Shinji's left, placing the water in front of him.
He snatched it up in an instant, taking large throaty gulps of the liquid. He wiped his lips with the back of his hand as he drank the very last drop.
"We wouldn't have known anything if Rei hadn't of filled us in on it." She had heard the girls tale , and to say she was surprised was an understatement. Just what has Shinji been hiding from her? And better yet who was after him? Her questions where stopped as he spoke.
"I remember taking Kaylan to the dance and then dancing with her and then…." He said grabbing his head as if trying to remember.
His eyes widened in recognition as he finally put the pieces together. "Kaylan! Where is She!" The boy exclaimed. Wasting no time for Misato to answer, he quickly threw the covers from his body, leaping out of the bed as he did so.
He staggered a bit from vertigo as his feet touched the ground. "Where are my clothes Misato." He said.
Misato quietly pointed to the curtain on the far right of the room. "Calm down Shinji, she is right behind that curtain, she got a little banged up, but nothing too serious." She said trying to appease the frantic boy.
Shinji walked over and pulled the curtain roughly to the side with his hand. Kaylan had indeed been in the room the whole time. She was in the same gown as himself, with a heart monitor and IV hooked into her right arm. She had light scratches over her face as w3ell as a bandage wrapped around her fore head.
Shinji felt relieved and enraged at the same time. He was relieved that Kaylan wasn't seriously hurt but enraged that she was hurt in the first place.
Who was it that tried to attack him in the first place? And why? He didn't have anything of value that he knew of besides the fact that he piloted EVA.
He knew it had to be the enemy that Shadow had spoken about earlier. So he knew it was him that would have the answers he was looking for.
"Misato where are my clothes." He asked. Misato pointed her hand to a cabinet on the far left side of the room near Shinji's bed.
He walked over, opened said cabinet up, and started getting dressed.
As he did Misato's eyes had become hard and analyzing. How was it that a 15 year old boy was able to repel an armed force of trained mercenaries, and only come out of it with a gunshot wound to the shoulder.
Misato's face hardened, she knew Shinji was hiding something from her.
Any further thought was halted as Misato heard the sound of tearing fabric. She looked up to see Shinji tearing off his bandage, but that wasn't surprising, it was what was underneath.
There was no blood, no scab, not even a faded scar. Just smooth toned muscle. Misato frowned at this. 'Yup definitely hiding something. The question is what and how to get it out of him.' Misato thought to herself.
She knew how Shinji was now after learning the hard way. He was defiant till the end. If you pushed him, he would push back, only much harder. She had to coax it out of him.
With her decision made she looked up to see Shinji dressed in a black t shirt, jeans, and sneakers that she had picked up for him from his own closet.
He started walking in the direction of the door on his path to find answers , only to be blocked by Misato. Before he could protest, Misato spoke.
Shinji do you remember how we brought you here with no training , no knowledge, to fight an enemy you did not even know of?" Misato asked. She had to reach to the boy's sense of logic.
Shinji nodded confused at what she was getting at. He decided to voice his concerns.
"Your point is?"
"Shinji you can't just try to handle this on your own, I know I wasn't really worth a damn when you needed me, but I'm here now, and I can't go without knowing what you are getting into Shinji." She said with a sincere tone of voice.
Shinji felt his heart wrench at Misato's words as realization clicked in his mind. He had been hiding everything, although unknowingly so, from her since day one. He sighed. He knew he had to tell her.
Shinji raised his right hand. A look of confusion came upon her face until Shinji ignited his hand. A flourish of purple plasma enveloped his hand like a flame, small arcs of electricity cackling every now and then.
Misato was in complete shock at what she was seeing, the purple light illuminating her features.
"I don't know much about it, just that I can produce a plasma like energy from my body, as well as manipulate it to a certain point as well, still trying to get that part down." He said.
Before last night, he had never been able to utilize the power in combat, his control had not yet gotten to that level, but with the explosion of such...wrathful emotions gave him the inspiration to fully draw on his power, thus taking the first step to mastering it.
"As for how this happened, I have no idea. Ritsuko hypothesizes that it was the Eva that did this, you can ask her on the full details." He said looking at his plasma burn and dance in the room. "I also have an accelerated healing rate now as a result, seems my genes were completely rewritten." Shinji said.
Misato was rooted to the spot, taking it all in, but finding it difficult. Her hands lay limp to her side, eyes locked on Shinji.
Sensing her distress he spoke.
"I wasn't trying to keep it a secret, just didn't know how to tell you. Things started changing so fast and I had to concentrate on what needed to be done at the time." Shinji said with no regret in his voice as he extinguished his hand.
"But think about this Misato; what do I really know about you? What have you told me about your own past. I'll bet my left arm that you have a file on every small detail of my life laying around the house somewhere."
Silence took over in the room as Misato took everything in. Shinji's eyes bored into Misato's, looking for some type of indication as to what she was thinking right now.
The scent of lavender filled his nostrils as his arms were limp at his side as he was enveloped in a tight hug.
Misato backed away to look Shinji in his eye. "Shinji, I'm not mad at you, I can understand that things can change drastically in a small amount of time, and your right, I haven't told you that much about myself, and that is unfair to you. But I promise we'll sit down and talk about it ok ?
He nodded at her with a smile.
Then the alarm rang.
"Angel!" They both yelled at the same time.
Shinji and Misato bolted out of the room, heading for the Central dogma control center. They arrived on the deck short of breath as Misato took charge.
"Report!" She barked.
"We have an angel just on the outside of Earth's orbit!" Maya stated as she typed on her terminal, bringing an image to the main screen.
The camera focused and there and behold was the 15th angel. It looked as if it were made completely of light. It was bird like in shape and had a red orb in its center marking it as an angel.
Misato looked up to see that the commander's empty spot, he had to go to a business meeting with some of Nerv's financial advisers
The angel was a long distance away, so they would need to use the positron rifle that they used on the 4th. But they would be unable to use as much power this time because the angel wasn't drilling into Nerv. Which was key to the success of the operation.
Misato grunted in thought. 'It's all we have right now, plus unit 01 is still on lockdown, so Shinji's out of the fight already. That leaves only Rei and Auska.' Misato thought to herself.
"Have the pilots made it to their plugs yet?"
"They're on the linear catapult now major." Shigeru answered.
"Open a com link to both pilots."
The man complied .
"Rei as you get to the surface, take the positron rifle from the weapons cache marked on your HUD and take cover."
"Roger." She said simply.
"Auska , you'll be on back up for Rei understand?" Misato said,
Auska bristled at that. "Me play back up for wonder girl? Please!" EVA 02 LAUNCH!" Auska yelled, activating her linear catapult and rocketing towards the surface at literal break neck speeds.
"Goddamn it Auska!" Misato cursed as she grit her teeth.
"Calm down, if she fails we will take her off of active pilot duty. We can't have this type of recklessness in situations like this." Ritsuko said as she made herself known, standing beside Shinji and him beside Misato.
Misato nodded at her. She didn't want to do anything to upset the girl , but if her behavior persisted she would have no choice...
IU
It was raining hard outside, all of tokyo 3 in shelters due to the angel attack. The ground opened up with a large square panel of concrete and reinforced steel, then two rails the size of a tall building slid vertically from out of the ground.
Soon after a red and orange beast slid up from out of the ground as well, stopping at the end of the rails. Auska disengaged the lock holding her evangelion and started forward towards the weapons depot that Misato had mentioned earlier.
The weapons cache disguised as a skyscraper opened one of its sides, revealing the prototype positron rifle that Nerv had 'borrowed' indefinitely.
She grasped it in her hands tightly as she looked for a spot to snipe from.
"They think I'm useless, that i'm weak, that's why they always choose wondergirl or the amazing Shinji." She said, saying their names as if they were bile on her tongue.
She finally found a low lying building that was perfect. She hoisted the rifle up and set it's bi pods down onto the center of the building's roof.
"I'll show them." She said as she cocked the rifle's bolt, loading a fuse into the barrel.
She then willed her eva to take a sniper's stance, the butt of the gun up against her right shoulder tightly, her right hand on the trigger and her left steadying the barrel.
She then heard a whirring noise as a visor came out from behind her seat and covered the top half of her face.
The visor made everything look crisp and clear to Auska, she watched on as the targeting system zoomed in onto the angel.
It was like a giant bird, but with no head or legs, just wings and a body and the red core in the middle.
Auska slowed her breathing as her hand tightened around the butterfly stick. She waited for the system to finish adjusting for the Earth's gravity and pulled the trigger as it gave her the green.
She felt the rifle buck against her and saw the shot fly out towards the angel, but before it could make it, it drifted down lower and went completely off course.
"What the hell?" Auska said. She had aimed right for its center and she had missed completely.
"The rifle didn't have enough power to reach the angel due to the distance and Earth's gravity."Ritsuko chimed in. "Come back to base so we can regroup."
"Damn it!." The girl said as she slammed her arm against the side console.
The girl was breathing hard and her eyes filled with rage. She slowed her breathing and tried to control her breathing.
She had no choice but to return to base, without a suitable weapon that could reach the angel she wouldn't be able to kill it.
"Roger." She replied.
She grabbed the rifle and placed it onto the evangelion's shoulder. She then started walking in the direction of the nearest recovery tunnel.
It was then that Shinji felt a weird feeling crawl into his spine. He looked at the satellite image of the angel blown up on the big screen in central dogma.
His instincts were telling him something, but he couldn't make sense of it . He saw a flash in the angel's orb and Shinji's mind finally turned over.
"Auska get out of their NOW!" he yelled over the comm.
Auska was about to reply when a bright, white shining light pierced the dark rain clouds and ended the rain, as it washed over her eva.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH," She yelled as she began to spasm as the light made contact.
"Pilot's psychograph is going crazy! She can't take much more of this Major!" Hyugga yelled, typing frantically.
"Heart rate 195, sync ratio dropping, 70,62,45!"Maya added in.
"Cut eva connections, shut it down!" Ritsuko barked.
"It's rejecting the signal!" Shigeru said.
"My mind...it's raping my mind!" Auska wailed over the comm. The girl could feel something digging through her most deepest memories, making her relive them as the angel did so. Her worst memories were replayed before her, causing her to slowly break apart mentally.
Misato was frozen, she knew she couldn't send Rei up simply because if she tried to retrieve her she would be caught in it as well.
She felt a breeze to her left. She looked over to see Shinji gone, and the door sliding shut.
"Where did Shinji go?" Misato said.
She turned to Ritsuko. "You don' think, he would..." Misato trailed off as she was interrupted.
"Intruder in linear catapult 01!" Shigeru yelled.
"Is it an angel?" Misato asked. 'That would be the last thing we need right now.' Misato thought to herself/.
"Bringing up the surveillance camera," Maya said.
On the big screen an image appeared of Shinji, facing his front as he stood cross armed with a grim expression on his face.
"He would." Ritsuko said reaching for her cigarettes. She popped one into her mouth and lit it. Knowing what he had in mind, she sat down at a terminal and began typing frantically. With the commander not here she needed to make sure that she erased the data, but not before she uploaded it to her private server.
She also turned off all of the sensors that would pick Shinji's unique energy signature.
"Well, good luck kid." She said as she turned her gaze back to the image of Shinji.
Shinji closed his eyes .He knew he couldn't get in his eva because it was on lock down from his last fight, and only the commander had the authority to release it.
So he would have to do it himself, eva or not. He grit his teeth and his eyes flared open, burning a furious color of teal. He knew he and Auska were not on good terms, hell he knew they had an extreme possibility of killing each other. But he would be damned if he stood by and let a human being be killed.
But he would need to move fast and the fastest way was the catapult. He was hoping, that his enhancements would stand up to the g forces while he was outside his EVA. If Ritsuko's theory that his abilities were directly proportioned to his emotions, then if he had a strong enough will to save Auska he could do it.
In theory anyway.
"Shinji what in the hell are you doing!" Misato said.
Shinji sighed. "What I have to Misato, I'm sorry but I don't have the time to explain." He then spread his arms straight out to either side of his body and to the amazement to the staff that had been watching Shinji's hands burst into a plume of purple plasma laced flame.
"What-"
"in the-"
"hell?' Maya finished.
Before anyone else could say a word Shinji slammed his hand into the bottom of the catapult's control panel, thus activating the machine.
Shinji slammed both hands into the bottom of the catapult, digging his fingers into the metal as he heard the machine charge up.
"Shinji NO!" Misato yelled.
"Bye Misato." He said right before he was sent rocketing upwards.
( Play Behind close Doors-Rise against.)
Shinji felt the g forces weigh down on his body as the wind whistled in his ears. It felt like some one had dropped a skyscraper onto his back, but despite the hindering weight, he held firm.
He gained the strength to raise his head to look up. He saw the top of the shaft open up to the street above quickly approaching. He undid his hands from the metal as the platform came halting to a stop, launching him high into the sky.
He felt the wind rush past him as he reached the peak of his launch, he saw Auska thrashing around in her eva on the street below, firing off rounds in random directions from the rifle.
"Hold on Auska." He said as he narrowed his eyes. With his hands still aglow, he dove downwards, the roof of a nearby building his target.
He front flipped and landed onto the roof, causing some of the roof to shear off into pieces. He cast his gaze upwards and spotted the angel.
"I don't know why you are here, and honestly I don't give a fuck. You have done nothing but bring destruction to this planet for reasons unknown to us. I do not plan on dying after all the shit you and your other friends have put me through. If you block my path I shall break right through you! He yelled at the end.
He closed his eyes, and made both hands into fists and concentrated. The plasma around his hands grew brighter and larger in form. The lightning clouds from before reformed, the center of the storm being Shinji. He opened his eyes as large arcs of lightning shot out from the clouds and hit each one of his hands, making him gasp from the sudden impact of power. He could feel himself shaking from the energy he had gathered.
'Hadn't counted on the lightning boost. ' He thought. But with Auska in danger he didn't have time to think about it.
He spread out his legs and arms and slammed both hands together in front of him.
"Here goes everything, oh god I better not blow myself up doing this." He said as he started to mold his energy into his hands, gathering it, molding it.
The ground around him started to crack around him, pieces of roof and concrete lifting into the air by some unknown force.
Shinji began to growl, his teeth formed in a viscous snarl. "You owe me for this Auska!" He yelled.
He pulled his hands apart, a trail of plasma following from both hands. The plasma trail then formed into a purple lance made of solid energy.
The lance was 7ft long with a 3ft ft wide double ended blade. Shinji grabbed the lance with his right hand, without any hesitation and looked up towards the sky where he spotted the angel.
The whole staff meanwhile were flabbergasted at the sight that was before them.
Misato was the most shocked of them all. She felt her anger grow as she turned her gaze to Ritsuko. "You knew he could do all of this and you didn't tell me!" Misato yelled.
Ritsuko finished typing in a command before responding. "I knew he had some level of control, but nothing like this. Look, that doesn't matter right now. I will tell you everything, but can we do it after Shinji kills the angel that's trying to fucking kill us!" Ritsuko retorted before taking in a large drag off of her cigarette.
The bridge bunnies all gulped at the same time as they saw the blonde scientist.
Misato on the other hand glared in response before turning her sight back to the main screen.
With Arael(The name of the 15th if you didn't know it)
The angel had almost finished breaking Auska's mind apart. Her mind had already been slightly fragmented, so it was simple for a being like her to finish the job. With her out of the way she could reclaim her father from the lillim race.
But before Arael could bask in her victory, she felt an energy spike near down below. She felt her core tingle as she had felt this power eons ago when she was first created.
'It could not be. Father rejected that creature's life. How can they still exist?' Arael spoke.
'No matter, it must be destroyed.' Arael said with finality. She stopped her mental attack on Auska and started to slowly descend down onto earth. To her Shinji's existence was an insult to her and her kind, and must be eradicated.
Ariel retracted her reach from Auska and targeted Shinji.
Back with Shinji
His eyes burned brighter as he felt his enemy's attack. Shinji could feel a strange scratching at the back of his head, but otherwise he was unfazed.
Ariel was shocked as he got into stance and reared back his right arm that was holding the lance.
He mustered all of his strength and threw the lance with a godly force. As Shinji threw the lance a ring of air burst around him signaling a sonic boom erupting. The lance rocketed through the sky like a comet, heading towards the angel at an insane speed.
Arael was just entering Earth's atmosphere when a streak of purple passed her gaze. Before she even had a chance to react, the lance tore through her body, just narrowly missing her core. Shards of light shot out of Araels back as she continued her decent unable to stop.
She knew she would not be able to survive reentry with such a severe wound, so there was only one option in her mind.
'I will take them with me, and remove that scum from this plane of existence.' Arael spoke.
"Major the angel has changed its speed and course." Hyugga yelled.
"Where is it headed." She spoke.
"Here." Ritsuko spoke. "In a matter of 10 minutes that angel with it's mass and trajectory will destroy half of Tokyo 3, Nerve included." She replied. gravely as she typed.
Misato's eyes widened. Rei would be able to get up their fast enough , but could she do it by herself.? Misato shook her head. 'Of course not it took three of them to pull it off the last time and this time we only have Rei!' She thought frantically to herself.
She knew Shinji had some mysterious power now, but he was only one boy , and without his eva...
"We're doomed." She said simply.
IU...
Shinji looked up as he saw the angel start to burn its way into earth's atmosphere. Shards of its body shearing off as flames started to consume its outer shell.
Shinji's face turned grim. He knew he himself did not have the power to stop the angel, he had barely gained enough control for his little show before.
Shinji grit his teeth harder than before, a visage of rage appearing on his face. Unknown to Shinji his power was influencing his emotions. His will to survive, his will to defeat, and his will to protect.
"I can not run away . I cannot runaway . I cannot runaway . IWILL NOT FUCKING RUN AWAY!" Shinji yelled
Shinji's eyes bled to teal as he let out a thunderous howl.
""
Shinji watched with neon teal eyes as the angel neared him, the temperature around him rapidly rising.
Shinji crouched down slightly, as he threw his arms out in front of him , palms facing up , poised in a claw like shape. Plasma quickly gathered in his hands, burning away like two stars about to supernova.
He looked up right as the angel came crashing down upon him. With a horrific battle cry he threw his hands up and planted both hands into the angels core.
The effects were immediate as Shinji's feet were forced into the reinforced roof of the building as all of the windows below burst into a storm of sharp glass pieces. He felt the enormous weight of the angel fighting against him, trying to end his existence.
He also felt his hands burning from the contact, it was as if someone had dropped a cup of napalm on his hands and a match on top.
This only drove him on as he pushed with all of his strength. He was matching the angel's force , thus keeping the angel from dropping below.
The staff of Nerv looked on in awe. There in front of them was the meekest of all of the pilots holding up an angel that must weigh several if not hundreds of tons. The act was nothing short of amazing.
Arael was losing power fast, she knew she had only one choice left.
'Brother's may my sacrifice ensure your victory.' She said out loud. With that she started pulling all of her remaining energy into her core.
Unknown to Ariel, Shinji had heard her, and like before he sensed a mass buildup of energy and he knew what the angel had in mind.
"Oh the hell you are!" He yelled as he drew back one of his fists , and with all of his strength , he drove his fist into the angel, a shock wave of plasma flowing over her core and creating a single deep fissure that ran horizontally down the angel's pseudo heart.
Shinji wasted no time as he forced both hands into the crack and started to pull with all of his strength.
"Die you bastard!" Shinji raged as the fissure spread and branched out through the middle of the angel, bisecting it.
With one final tug Shinji ripped the angel literally in two, sparks of electricity arching between the two separated pieces of angel.
But Shinji didn't stop there, he started pumping all of the power he could into his hands and he squeezed.
Unknown to Shinji and Ariel, the angel's attack did affect Shinji, it just had a delayed effect. His most darkest memory was played before his yes; the day he lost his mother.
"Arggggggggggggggggggggg!" Shinji yelled as the angel pieces started to give way, streaks of cracks appearing over them.
Finally they gave weigh as they burst into several large shards, flying dangerously close around Shinji. Before his eyes was a large shard the size of an Eva's index finger heading straight towards him.
He knew he was too weak to move in time, he glared forward at his impending death with steel eyes.
But before it struck him, A familiar figure garbed in black appeared with a flourish of black flame. Shadow whipped his arm out and caught the shard with little difficulty and slammed it into the ground.
The hot shard cooled and lost its white light, turning into a dark grey color with a bright shine to it.
Shadow eyed it with interest. He looked around and saw the other shards around him had also done the same. He smiled as an idea formed in his head.
He then turned his gaze to Shinji
His arms fell to his sides, his hands both billowing clouds of steam and red irritated flesh. He dropped to one knee as his eyes bled back to white and teal, tomoed pupils.
Shinji looked up to the sky and smiled. "Heh , heh that wasn't so hard." He said right before promptly passing out.
FIN
OMAKE
Shinji reaches the surface he looks at the angel with extremely determined eyes.
In the meantime back at HQ everyone is wonder what the hell is going on and WTF shinji is thinking going out into the battle field without his eva, when they all see shinji stare at the Angel with Extremely determined eyes. They wonder in suspense for a moment before shinji gets a big smirk on his face and says:
"Alright angel you picked the wrong day to fuck with me. so let me give you the finger, the burning FINGER... THIS HAND OF MINE GLOWS WITH AN ASWOME POWER. ITS BURNING DESIRE IS TELLING ME TO KILL YOU... TAKE THIS MY PAIN MY SORROW AND ALL OF MY ANGER... ERUPTING BURNING FINGER!"
Out of nowhere Kaylan pops up and says "did I hear burning finger… that's what he said last night before I blacked out."
The room was left speechless….. as was this audience reading this…
Fin 2
Well I hope you all enjoyed this chapter I worked really hard on this and after several, ahem , setbacks I have managed to post it. So review please!