Disclaimer: I do not own Neon Genesis Evangelion, however, I do own exclusive rights to Dick Cheny's soul, (Which explains why he seems like a robot.)
Uh, another chapter, here it is….bitches… : )
7/22/06-7/23/06
"Do you think you could really hide this from us Gendo?" asked SEELE 01.
"I don't know what you are talking about." Gendo replied.
"We know about the whole incident with the Angel in NERV!" said SEELE 05.
"It was merely an error in the alarm system, someone was trying to break into the Magi, and it set off the alarm."
"No one would have been able to break into the Magi if it weren't for that son of yours!"
"It is none of your concern, he is posing no threat."
"Not yet."
"What is it that you want?"
"We demand you turn the boy over to us!" yelled SEELE 01.
"I will turn the boy over when the time is right, as of now, we have nothing more to discuss."
"Likewise."
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It had been a full three weeks since the computer virus incident. Windows, thankfully, has been fully removed from the Magi computer system, which to Shinji's displeasure, who will no longer be allowed to even look at the Magi from now on. And the incident with the Shinji's eyes has been dismissed for it merely was a sign that the Angel was trying to contaminate his body. Once it has been shown that Shinji showed no signs of mental contamination, he was released and everyone went their merry little way. And Asuka, has finally toned down and is cleared to pilot.
"That's the Angel?" Toji said, looking at the screen. Unit 03 and 04 have yet to be fully completed, having been delayed for a month, so Toji and Kaoru were invited to watch and learn from their fellow pilots.
"It looks like some fucked up volley ball." Misato said. The Angel was Leliel the weird little ball sucking Angel thing.
"I'm in position." Shinji said over the intercom, he knew it would all be pointless, the only thing he really needed to do was get sucked in and bust out of it like the last time, but he needed to remain under cover.
"Remember Shinji, this is the day when everything went straight to hell." Asuka said softly in a one-way transmission.
"Alright, proceed with the plan." Misato said over the intercom. As Shinji expected, the ball disappeared, only reappearing as a shadow beneath him.
"FUCK!" Shinji yelled, trying to act worried as the damn thing began to suck him into the dirac sea.
"Asuka, Rei, retreat." Misato said, not wanting to lose another Eva. The two left the battlefield, leaving Shinji to finish up with the Angel.
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"Hello Shinji." called a voice in the void.
"This is a new one, since when could you talk?" Shinji replied, looking around.
"The Angel can't, I'm just communicating through it."
"If you're not the Angel, then who the hell are you?"
"You left quite a scar on the world you know."
"Answer me!"
"Was all that really necessary?" the voice said, "all for some petty revenge?"
"SHUT THE HELL UP WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!"
"You, all you have done, just to get your revenge."
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"Oh, but you do."
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"Shinji, what the hell is taking you so long?" Asuka asked herself, it had been several hours since he had been sucked into the dirac sea, and he has yet to return.
"All pilots, report to the cages, there is nothing we can do at this time." Misato said, tears forming.
"But what about Shinji?"
"I'm sorry…"
"…"
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Everyone gathered around the around the table, Ritsuko had come up with a plan, although risky, she is willing to go through with it.
"THIS IS MADNESS!" Misato yelled, Ritsuko had told everyone that they were dropping all remaining N2 mines into the void, in an attempt to destroy it.
"YOU CAN'T DO THIS RITSUKO!" Asuka yelled.
"Yes, what about Shinji?"
"I'm sorry, but at this point, the pilot has been declared KIA." Ritsuko said.
"NO HE CAN'T BE! HE CAN'T DIE AND YOU ALL KNOW IT!" Asuka was tearing, "He just can't…he'll get out on his own…" Misato was trying to comfort the poor girl. Shinji would have normally busted out by now, considering his current skill level, for him to be stuck inside, there must be something wrong.
"I'm sorry Asuka, but there is nothing we can do."
"YOU'RE HAPPY HE'S DEAD AREN'T YOU!" Asuka yelled, directing all her anger at Ritsuko.
"Asuka, I'm just as worried about him as you are."
"YOU LIE!" Asuka said, trying to fight back the tears. Everyone remained quiet, feeling it was best that way.
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"You have to understand, you're the one at fault for this, not me."
"How would you know, you're nothing but an Angel."
"I'm hurt, and after all we've been through together."
"Leave me be."
"Was it really worth it?"
"Yes."
"You are saying that all the destruction and carnage you brought upon the world was all worth it?" the voice asked, angry.
"I did what I must."
"The ends always justify the means, don't they?"
"Yes." He said, getting ready to bust out.
"You are just like your father."
"I know." Shinji said, cryptically.
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"Clear the blast sight, N2 mines will be deployed in 10…9…8…3…2…1…" the announcer said.
'Shinji…' Asuka thought, Shinji has yet to escape, and she is afraid that he may be lost once this ordeal is over. A large explosion erupted from the Angel, killing it and leveling much of the city.
"Target has been eliminated." The feeling was a mix of joy and despair, joy for the elimination of the Angel, and despair for the lost of one of their fellow pilots.
"Shockwaves have past.' said one of the technicians.
"No energy signal has been detected from the epicenter."
"We have visual."
"Oh my god…" the screen turned on to show what was left of the city, the Angel had indeed exploded, leaving a crater of destruction three miles in diameter.
"What's the status on Unit 01?" Misato asked, afraid of the truth.
"Nothing…" everyone held their heads low, feeling a sense of dread, Asuka took it the hardest, breaking out into tears. However, despite all this, a certain figure on the control bridge smiles, as to why, no one knows…
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"Asuka it's been a month already, you can't just cry in your room for all eternity." Misato said, pulling the sheets off the girl in the corner.
"WATCH ME!" she yelled back, pulling back the sheets.
"Asuka, Shinji's death hurt all of us…I'm sorry…but there is nothing we can do."
"HE'S NOT DEAD, AND DON'T YOU EVER SAY THAT!" Asuka yelled trying to choke her, she however, was too short to reach her neck.
"I'm sorry, but you have to be strong about this." She said, trying to comfort the poor girl.
"I can't, he was all I had left." She said softly, 'Momma left me, Papa left me, Eva will leave me once I'm useless, and now…Shinji left me…' she said, tears forming.
"I'm sorry…"
"You don't understand."
"Maybe I do, maybe I don't."
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"You are saying that the Third child has been eliminated?" SEELE 01 asked.
"I only said that he disappeared, it was never confirmed if he was dead." Kaoru said.
"True, however, this will be to our benefit." SEELE 05 said, happily.
"Don't underestimate Shinji, he'll be back, I just know it." Kaoru said.
"Again you use his name, what it is about the boy that makes you want to act so familiar with him?" asked SEELE 03.
"He is a kind and gentle soul, I can feel it, despite what you all believe about him."
"Well, it matters not, he is gone, and Instrumentality will go unhindered.
"Very good." Kaoru said, leaving.
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"Welcome back Asuka." Hikari said. Asuka had finally returned to school, not that the mood was any better, not only Asuka, but the entire school felt a pain when they read the report about the last battle.
Date: March 14th-15th, 2016.
Designated number: 12
Description: A spherical shaped object with black stripes.
Special Ability: The ability to seal an Eva within itself.
Details: As of 0900 on the morning of March 14th, Eva units 00-02 were assigned to launch a pincer movement upon the Angel. At 0930, Eva unit 01 open fired. The Angel then disappeared and reappeared beneath Unit 01, dragging it into a shadowy void, as to where is classified. At 1800, Supreme commander released the "Eva salvage program," In an attempt to destroy the Angel; UN forces will drop all 1,345 remaining N2 mines into the shadow, pilot status was deemed negligible. At 0600 the next morning, all forces were to clear the area. At 0700, the "Eva salvage program" was initiated and the plan proceeded. The Angel was eradicated.
Damage: A 1.5 mile radius from the Angel's location, repairs are made using the Third child's paycheck.
Casualties: Shinji Ikari, designated pilot of Unit 01: KIA
"I only came because Misato threatened a funeral." Asuka said, head hanging low.
"…"
"He's not dead Hikari, I just know it." Asuka cried.
"Asuka…you have to let go…"
"Leave me alone." Asuka left the room in the middle of class; everyone however, felt her pain.
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"He's not dead, he's not dead!" Asuka yelled out from the roof top.
"Asuka…" Mana said, feeling the same way Asuka felt; Hurt, upset, and all alone.
"Leave me alone Mana!"
"Asuka."
"What is it?" Asuka asked bitterly.
"I know it feels." The girl sat down next to her.
"How would you know anything about?"
"I just do, look, what would Shinji think?"
"…"
"Would Shinji be proud seeing you like this?"
"…" Asuka remained quiet.
"Come on, when Shinji comes back, he's going to have a laughing fit seeing you like this." Asuka, hearing about Shinji's free-spirited personality, felt somewhat better.
"Yea and when he reads that report, he's going to go around saying he's Jesus." They both shared a laugh, something they hadn't had in a long time.
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Kaji was not having a good day. With the death of the Third child, it seems his chances of finding out the secrets of NERV had all but diminished, forced to search for answers on his own, instead of figuring out Shinji's clues. He had always known that 106 of the 108 companies that made up the Maduk Insitude were fake. This one made it 107.
"This just raises more questions." Kaji looked around the empty warehouse.
"The commander was right; we do have a mole in the facility." Ace stepped out into the shadows.
"What are you doing here?" Kaji asked, having been found out.
"Since the Third has been lost, I have been reassigned, pity the other Agent assigned to the job was so incompetent, and it only took me two weeks to find you."
"You act as if Shinji meant nothing to you." Ace winches upon hearing his name.
"He was a kind soul, but there will always be casualties in war." He held his head low.
"This isn't war, this is madness!"
"I know that, and I have reason to believe, it was Shinji who kept everything in line." Ace said, sadly.
"How so?"
"Everything going crazy, the committee has ordered the production of Evangelion Units 05-13.
"Why would they do that?"
"Maybe they're doing so in case we lose more pilots."
"Or maybe they're doing so they could use them against us." Kaji eyes him carefully.
"Only time will tell."
"I best get going, I think its best we not report this to the Commander, right?"
"Agreed, it seems that both side of the track are dangerous."
"And Shinji was the only one keeping the train from coming for those in the middle…"
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"I can't believe they would actually fucking do that!" Toji yelled from his seat.
"Come on Toji, you heard what the commander said, he was already presumed dead." Kensuke said, trying to calm the mood down.
"HOW COULD YOU SAY THAT!"
"…"
"Look, if he's willing to throw away his son's life like that, what's to stop him from throwing the rest of us away?"
"…"
"I believe we all know the answer to that question." Kaoru spoke.
"What?" Kensuke asked, curious.
"Nothing."
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"What is this feeling?" Rei asked herself as she was walking home. "Despair…sadness…loneliness? I do not know what it is. I do not know, these emotions are so new to me, yet so familiar. Why do I feel such a loss, such casualties were to be expect, then why is it that when Shinji is gone, everything changes. Life has diminished, no one fells safe anymore, every felt, empty, as if a part of their soul was ripped away from them. The mood has changed considerably, everyone felt…empty…is it emptiness…yes…I believe so, Shinji was always there for me, he made cared for me, he made me feel unique, he made me feel…special…
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Asuka was walking home later that day, feeling slightly better, but not good enough. Her heart told her that Shinji was okay and that he would come back and laugh in everyone's face for calling him dead. However her brain told her that he was gone, that she should let it go or it will away at her forever.
"Shinji, please come back…"
"He really is quite a character isn't he?" Kaoru said as if it were a statement.
"…." She replied.
"He can irritate and comfort at the same time, we're left with wishing he'd leave us forever, but wanting him to stay."
"…"
"And yet, now he's gone, we're left to wonder, will we all survive?"
"…"
"He has become a part of us; a part of our very soul, to believe life without him seems…"
"Meaningless."
"Yes."
"I can't imagine my life without the idiot, he always gets on my nerves, he pisses me off for the sake of it, yet, and he has always been there for me, no matter what I did for him, whether I hit him, or threw him out of the third story window." Memories of herself and the old spineless Shinji appeared in her head, even despite the changes he had gone through, that one aspect, the part were he would always fight for those he cared for, even if it meant going through hell itself.
"I always thought you've been too proud to admit something such as that." Kaoru said, looking at her.
"When you've been through everything I have, you'd change." Asuka chuckled, it was true. This behavior would have been much too OOC for her the last time around. She was too proud of herself, always wanting to be the best, I guess having yourself ripped apart by nine Evas, surviving the Apocalypse, and death TWICE could do that to a person.
"Yes, he is quite a character isn't he?"
"He sure is, he sure is." Asuka smiled.
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Evangelion Unit 04 Activation test.
Nevada, USA.
"Activation will commence at 0900 hours, I repeat, activation will-" the voice said over the intercom.
"Unit 04, the first Unit to be built with an S2 engine, am I correct?" asked one of the technicians.
"Yes, using the cores taken from the previous Angels captured by the Third child in Japan, we have been able to duplicate and create our own S2 engine, much similar to those used in the Angels themselves." answered a scientist.
"I see, and how were you able to accomplish such a feat?"
"That information is classified, I'm afraid."
"Activation will commence in approximately ten minutes, all personnel, report to your stations." The announcer said.
"What if something were to go wrong?" asked the technician.
"Nothing will go wrong; everything will proceed as it should."
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"Dummy plug inserted." Said the technician, the dummy plug will be used and tested with Unit 04, to kill two birds with one stone.
"We will be using the dummy plug?" asked another.
"Orders from the Supreme Commander at NERV Japan himself." he looked at the report, "Also was a request made from the pilot too."
"Weird."
"Activation will begin in 5…4…3…2…1…" the monstrous beast powered on.
"Eva had begun syncing with dummy plug protocol."
"Power levels stable."
"Sync level reaching borderline."
"Wave patterns reversed, there's a problem." An alarm sounded in the system.
"Activate the secondary locks; we don't want a berserker with an S2 engine."
"Anomaly detected from the S2 engine."
"It's exceeding the power limit, abort the…" Before he was able to finish, a blinding light entrapped the testing sight, leaving nothing, but silence.
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"Yes…what…you've found him?" Misato said, cheerfully as she put down the telephone.
"Found who?" Asuka asked, trying not to get her hopes up.
"They found Shinji."
"REALLY, WHERE?"
"Nevada."
"Nevada, what the hell is he doing in Nevada?"
A/N: In case your wondering where the hell Shinji went, that will be explained in the next chapter, which will focus on nothing but Shinji's little mishap in that month. I hope you enjoyed the chapter; I will get started on the next chapter ASAP.
Also, I have several ideas for new stories and I may start writing them. However, I promise that I will finish this story even if I do start new ones. Also, tell me what you think of them.
The Berserker: Follows non-Canon theme of more Angels attacking after Tabris, in the fight with an Angel, Shinji gets sent 100 years into the future, we he has been heroically idealized beyond belief. He will be forced to decide between getting back to the past, or fight to defend the future, oh and the fact that his great-grandson is older than him will cause for quite a laugh.
Emotions are for the weak: The summary doesn't really sound all that good. In the anime Shinji is a spineless coward, however this Shinji was different. He is a cryptically cold and dark child; never needing before, but what will happen when he does? Complete personality change basically.
I have a feeling the first one will get a better thought. Well,
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