Meant for One Another
A/N: Ok! Chapter 14, first off, I would like to thank you for putting up with my WAFF crap but hopefully you won't see that much of it anymore because, from here, it's all going to hell and back. So now, I proudly present to you, Chapter 14 of Meant for one Another: Leliel's Strike.
(A/N: The pictures for this story can be found at my hompage, which you can acess from my author profile page.)
Disclaimer: If you think I own Eva...you are obviously high on something.
(Thanks again to ST Pika for once again prereading, you do me any more favors and I'll have to call you St. Pika!)
The next day, Asuka and Shinji woke up to find a surprise in store for them. The minute they were up Misato told them that they wouldn't be going to school today, they were going to NERV for a few hours of Synch testing. The children goraned and went o get dressed. After a hasty breakfast of Cup-O-Noodles, the three got into Misato's car and sped off to NERV headquarters. As they arrived a truck bearing parts for a EMAWP unit came in the other direction, Shinji watched it out of his window.
"Are the EMAWPs getting refitted?" he asked Misato.
"Nah," Misato said giving the transmission stick a jerk. "Reloading the ammo and weapon bays."
Shinji nodded and looked at his partner next to him in the back seat, Asuka sat with her head against the window, asleep again. Shinji put his hand on her lap and she jerked awake.
"Sorry Asuka-chan," he said "But we're there."
Asuka nodded and closed her eyes again. When Misato pulled the car to a stop, Shinji woke Asuka up again and helped her out of the car.
"Is something wrong Asuka?" he asked as they walked. "Did you get enough sleep?"
"No, but it's not that." she answered. "I have a bad feeling, something... feels... it's like... as if, the air is getting thick, like something is hanging over me."
"Don't worry Asuka, it's nothing I'm sure." Shinji said and pulled the girl closer to him.
Asuka wrapped her arms around his neck and they kept walking after Misato. At the command bridge, Ritsuko Akagi greeted them with an order to suit up and get in the Evas. Shinji and Asuka head to the locker rooms, sharing a quick kiss before going inside their seperate locker rooms. When Asuka entered she spotted Rei depressurizing her plug suit. Asuka scowled and brushed past the girl, still mindfull of her move on her Shinji the other day. Rei did not even gave any signs she noticed Asuka. As Asuka changed into her suit, Rei left the room without a word, Asuka did not mind at all.
Shinji, on the other side of the wall in the boy's locker, got into his plug suit, and neatly folded his clothes and put them in his locker. He exited the locker room and bumped into Rei Ayanami.
"Oh... gomen..." Shinji said.
"It is alright Ikari-kun." the azure haired girl replied. "I must go now..."
As she left, Shinji grabbed her shoulder and stopped her. The startled Rei turned, Shinji looked nervous.
"Ayanami... I wanted... to apologize, for Asuka." he said.
Rei cocked her head. "It was not your fault."
"But... she did push you because of me...' Shinji said. "And she didn't mean it Ayanami, she's just...protective..."
Rei stared into Shinji's blue eyes. "I understand..." she said and left.
Shinji stood at the ertrance of the lockers, staring after Rei. Then a kick from behind sent the boy crashing on his face.
"Bastard!" the redhead responsible yelled. "How could you!!?"
Holding back the tears she vowed never to shed again, Asuka ran down the hall to the command center. Shinji got up and ran after her, trying to explain.
"Ok Rei," Akagi said through the com. "Harmonics are stable, synch rate holding at 78.9%"
Rei nodded. The pilots were in their simulation plugs, drowned in LCL, they had com-links patched up from plug to plug and also to the control room.
"Asuka, also stable," she moved on. "But your synch rate is dropping, whatever is bothering you, get over it! It's at 64.7%!"
Asuka shot a glare at Shinji through the view only com link. He sighed and hoped he could clear things up when he got out.
"Shinji, great job!" the scientist said. "Synch ratio at an all time record of 97.3%!!"
"Really!?" the pilots, and Misato, and bridge bunnies asked.
"Yes..." Akagi said. "Wow... good job Shinji."
Asuka stared at Shinji, with anger and awe, and sense of being outdone by both her fellow pilots. Asuka's mood drops, as well as her synch.
Dr. Akag was alarmed by the sudden drop and yells, "What the hell... Asuka! What are you thinking about!?"
As Shinji looked over to watch her, Aoba sounded the Angel alarm.
"Damn it, always interupted!" Akagi swore and rushed to get the pilots into the real Evangelion units.
Misato supervised the preping of the EMAWP units.
"Evangelions, hasshin!"
The Evas, armed and mounted, shot out of a new catpult that allowed room for both units.
Asuka landed first and pulled Lodernd behind a building, the others joined her shortly and they observed the floating Angel as it moved through Tokyo-Three. Asuka, filled with raw rage, charged out, rocket launcher at the ready. She slapped her steed and it jumped on a building, Asuka fired from that position but the ball form of the Angel disappeared on impact.
"Huh?" Asuka said looking around.
"Asuka! LOOK OUT!!" Misato yelled through the com.
"What? OH CRAP!!" Asuka yelled as the shadow of the Angel appeared under her building and it sank. The shaking was so much that Asuka couldn't get balanced enough to get her hands on Lodernd's reins.
"Asuka!"
Suddenly Eva-02 and it's EMAWP was knocked from the building to a safe distance away into another street. Unit-01 and Pegasus was now hovering above the Angel. Shinji watched as the Angel sucked up the building that a while ago, had Eva-02 on it. Shinji pulled out a spear from a compartment on Pegasus and flung the spear stright down, it extended in mid air and shot into the Shadow. A roar was heard and the shadow increased it's suction, now Eva-01 and Pegasus was being pulled in. Shinji pulled on the reins and Pegasus fired the thrusters, they started inching away from the vortex of air but the Angel again increased it's intake level. The small cable that the EMAWP provided for the Eva's power snapped and Eva-01 fell off of Pegasus, the EMAWP shot off out of the vacuum but Eva-01 fell striaght down into the hole.
"ASSUUKKKAAA!!!" Shinji screamed as Eva-01 dissapered into the shadow and off of the map at Central Dogma.
"No! SHINJI!!" Asuka yelled, having witness the scene from the street Shinji had knocked her into. She took an Ax out and rode Lodernd pass the Angel's ball shape, slicing it as she passed, it did nothing. Asuka was about to circle around for another attack when Misato's voice ordered a full retreat.
"WE ARE NOT LEAVING HIM!!" Asuka yelled.
"We have to, for now..." Misato said. "Don't worry Asuka, we'll come up with a plan to save him."
"No! Shinji!" Asuka turned but Rei came up in Unit-00 and on Shadow. She reached across and pulled the reins on Lodernd and it turned tail and galloped towards Nerv.
"Ahh! NO! DAMN YOU AYANAMI" Asuka yelled as her horse kept heading back to HQ.
"I am sorry, Sohryu." Rei said to no one and guided her horse right behind Asuka's.
SLAP!! Rei snapped back and cluched her left cheek, where Asuka had slapped her the minute she fould the pilot of Unit-00 after exiting her Eva.
"Why the hell did you force me back!?" she yelled into the other girl's face. "I could've saved him!"
"We had our orders." Rei said softly.
"Who said you could decide what I should do? Who decided you could touch Lodernd? Who decided you could steal my Shinji!?"
Asuka slapped her again but Rei caught her arm, but Asuka's other one shot out and got Rei on the right cheek. Rei backed away a step but said nothing, Asuka's blood boiled and she lunged at Rei, but a hand pulled her back by her suit's neck. She turned and saw Gendo Ikari's special guards sourounding her.
"That is enough Second Child." A cold voice said.
(A/N: To see a pic of the bastard king here, go to- pic 19)
The owner of the voice appeared out of a door soon enough, it was Gendo Ikari himself. Asuka stopped her struggle and glared at the First Child, the guard released Asuka. Shooting a disgusted look at Rei, she stormed out of the launch area. Gendo went over to Rei.
"Did she harm you?" he asked.
"Yes, not seriously, it will be healed in a matter of minutes." Rei replied.
"I see..." Gendo said and went down the hall where Asuka went. "Hurry Rei." he said. "Conference."
"Hai!"
"You mean, that shadow portion is the Angel's body ?" Misato asked.
"Yes, about 680 meters in diameter, about 3 nanometers in thickness. It sustains that super-thin space with the inverted A.T.Field, and the interior of the Field is the imaginary space called "Dirac's Sea." It may connect to another space." Ritsuko answered, most of the bridge was gathered at the top of a building in Tokyo-Three so they could easier understand Ritsuko's explaintion. Some of the officers watched the shadow in the middle of the city that held their prized Unit-01 and its pilot, Shinji Ikari.
"What's that sphere?" Misato asked.
Ritsuko turned and looked at the Sphere in the sky. "It vanishes when the imaginary circuit of the body closes. The object in the sky is nothing but a shadow."
"It means the black shadow that introjected Unit One is the target?" Misato demanded.
"Then we have to go there and get SHinji out!" Asuka yelled.
Ritsuko and Misato glanced at Asuka, then they got up and walked over to a corner of the roof, then they started another duscussion.
"Force salvaging Eva ?" Misato gasped.
"It's the only way that might be possible." Ritsuko said nodding. "Dropping all 992 existing N2 depth charges to the central portion, in timing with, interfering with the imaginary circtuit of the Angel in 1 millisecond with two existing Eva's AT-Fields. In that moment, we will be concentrating the explosive energy; it should be enough to break the Angel apart from the Dirac's Sea that forms its body."
"But, how do you know... how Eva's body will be after this?!" Then it dawned on her "Heck, It's not a rescue operation..."
Ritsuko nodded. "In this operation, salvage of the body of Unit One is the number one priority over everything. We don't care if the body is damaged, or the pilot's condition."
Misato was mad now. "Hey, wait a moment!"
Ritsuko took off her glasses and said coldly. "In this case, we don't care about the pilot's life."
Misto slaps Ritsuko hard, just like Asuka did to Rei.
Ritsuko stepped back and held her face. "Aw! Oh, it's your fault if you lose Shinji-kun. Huh, remember that!"
Misato got into her friend's face. "What's the reason why you and Commander Ikari are so stuck on Unit One? Huh, what is Eva!?"
Ritsuko turned away. "The materials I gave you tell you all about what Eva is."
Misato flung her off. "You're a liar."
Ritsuko ajusted her coat. "Trust me, Misto. I'm in command of this operation. We'll forward flights to the Kankuu airport; contact the air control and the air transport division of the JSSDF."
"WHAT!!?" Asuka screamed as the plan was explained to her. "We're blowing him up!?"
"It's our best chance," Misato said sadly. "I don't like it anymore than you do but this is our only option."
"No, Shinji..." Asuka whispered and sank on the floor against the wall. "Why him?"
It was a stab to Misato's heart to see her two kids like this, she glanced back at where Gendo, Ritsuko, and Rei were talking.
'Bastards!' she thought.
Asuka got up, "I'll go, maybe I can do something for him out there!"
With that she ran to the Evas that were docked next to the building. Rei saw her and said goodbye to Gendo and went after her. Dr. Akagi went to the side of the building.
"Start the operation!" she yelled.
The two Evas lit up and made their ways toward the Angel without their EMAWPs, Asuka and Rei fanned out, ready to use their AT-Fields.
"Shinji, I'll do what I can..." Asuka said as she moved her Eva into place.
Inside the Angel, Shinji looked at the counter on the side pannel, 0:07:46.
'My life ends in seven minutes...' Shinji thought. 'Just when me and Asuka were... it's... not... fair...'
He began to dose off into unconsciousness, memories of his life, especially of times this past few weeks with Asuka filled his vision.
"Asuka..." he said, then he heard a woman's voice. "Asuka... no... no...this scent, it's................. mother!?"
Shinji's eyes snapped open, he could have sworn he heard his mom's voice. He looked at the controls around him, "Eva, what are you?"
Then the power meter went crazy....
Asuka watched in horror as the gash spread across the Angel's ball form, a trail of blood gushed out from the wound, she gasped as another hole apeared on the side of the Angel, it screamed. People back at the rooftop were cowering, Asuka and Rei stood, transfixed, as they witnessed Eva-01 pulled the sides of the Angel apart and stuck it's upper body out. Its eyes turned orange and it roared.
"Beserker!" Akagi cried out as the carnage continued.
Unit-01 tried to get out but the hole wasn't big enough, it pulled it's right arm out, in its hand was the spear Shinji had thrown eariler. Unit-01 used this and slashed a bloody way out of the Angel. It lunged with a wet and sick 'splat' as the blood hit the streets. It reared up and roared again, spinning its spear. Around the Angel lay shreds of the Angel's body...
"Shinji!"
Shinji Ikari's eyes stared to move at this sound... someone calling him. "Shinji!"
He opened them a little, when he saw what had made the noise he opened them fully. Asuka was in his entry plug, the hatch was open, she was on top of him and crying uncontrolablely.
"Baka Shinji!!" she screamed "What the hell were you thinking!!?'
Shinji moved his right hand and rested it on her back, "I'm sorry Asuka."
She continued to cry.
Then he remembered. "Asuka, me and Rei..."
She looked up at him, her crying suspended for the moment.
"There's been a misunderstanding, I was just apologizing to her eariler..." Shinji said.
Asuka smiled and buried her head against his chest, "It's ok, I should have had more faith in you."
"Asuka..." Shinji said stroking her hair.
"Don't." She said. "It's full of that LCL crap."
"Then let's hit the showers and go home huh?" he suggested.
"Then what are you waiting for!?" Asuka grinned.
A/N: Ok, An Angel fight, as promised, hope you're happy now...now I gotta find a way to get my head out of my ass and write ch 15, which is...the begining of the 13th Angel yes. See you soon. As always, authors love reviews.
Later. -
A/N: Ok! Chapter 14, first off, I would like to thank you for putting up with my WAFF crap but hopefully you won't see that much of it anymore because, from here, it's all going to hell and back. So now, I proudly present to you, Chapter 14 of Meant for one Another: Leliel's Strike.
(A/N: The pictures for this story can be found at my hompage, which you can acess from my author profile page.)
Disclaimer: If you think I own Eva...you are obviously high on something.
(Thanks again to ST Pika for once again prereading, you do me any more favors and I'll have to call you St. Pika!)
The next day, Asuka and Shinji woke up to find a surprise in store for them. The minute they were up Misato told them that they wouldn't be going to school today, they were going to NERV for a few hours of Synch testing. The children goraned and went o get dressed. After a hasty breakfast of Cup-O-Noodles, the three got into Misato's car and sped off to NERV headquarters. As they arrived a truck bearing parts for a EMAWP unit came in the other direction, Shinji watched it out of his window.
"Are the EMAWPs getting refitted?" he asked Misato.
"Nah," Misato said giving the transmission stick a jerk. "Reloading the ammo and weapon bays."
Shinji nodded and looked at his partner next to him in the back seat, Asuka sat with her head against the window, asleep again. Shinji put his hand on her lap and she jerked awake.
"Sorry Asuka-chan," he said "But we're there."
Asuka nodded and closed her eyes again. When Misato pulled the car to a stop, Shinji woke Asuka up again and helped her out of the car.
"Is something wrong Asuka?" he asked as they walked. "Did you get enough sleep?"
"No, but it's not that." she answered. "I have a bad feeling, something... feels... it's like... as if, the air is getting thick, like something is hanging over me."
"Don't worry Asuka, it's nothing I'm sure." Shinji said and pulled the girl closer to him.
Asuka wrapped her arms around his neck and they kept walking after Misato. At the command bridge, Ritsuko Akagi greeted them with an order to suit up and get in the Evas. Shinji and Asuka head to the locker rooms, sharing a quick kiss before going inside their seperate locker rooms. When Asuka entered she spotted Rei depressurizing her plug suit. Asuka scowled and brushed past the girl, still mindfull of her move on her Shinji the other day. Rei did not even gave any signs she noticed Asuka. As Asuka changed into her suit, Rei left the room without a word, Asuka did not mind at all.
Shinji, on the other side of the wall in the boy's locker, got into his plug suit, and neatly folded his clothes and put them in his locker. He exited the locker room and bumped into Rei Ayanami.
"Oh... gomen..." Shinji said.
"It is alright Ikari-kun." the azure haired girl replied. "I must go now..."
As she left, Shinji grabbed her shoulder and stopped her. The startled Rei turned, Shinji looked nervous.
"Ayanami... I wanted... to apologize, for Asuka." he said.
Rei cocked her head. "It was not your fault."
"But... she did push you because of me...' Shinji said. "And she didn't mean it Ayanami, she's just...protective..."
Rei stared into Shinji's blue eyes. "I understand..." she said and left.
Shinji stood at the ertrance of the lockers, staring after Rei. Then a kick from behind sent the boy crashing on his face.
"Bastard!" the redhead responsible yelled. "How could you!!?"
Holding back the tears she vowed never to shed again, Asuka ran down the hall to the command center. Shinji got up and ran after her, trying to explain.
"Ok Rei," Akagi said through the com. "Harmonics are stable, synch rate holding at 78.9%"
Rei nodded. The pilots were in their simulation plugs, drowned in LCL, they had com-links patched up from plug to plug and also to the control room.
"Asuka, also stable," she moved on. "But your synch rate is dropping, whatever is bothering you, get over it! It's at 64.7%!"
Asuka shot a glare at Shinji through the view only com link. He sighed and hoped he could clear things up when he got out.
"Shinji, great job!" the scientist said. "Synch ratio at an all time record of 97.3%!!"
"Really!?" the pilots, and Misato, and bridge bunnies asked.
"Yes..." Akagi said. "Wow... good job Shinji."
Asuka stared at Shinji, with anger and awe, and sense of being outdone by both her fellow pilots. Asuka's mood drops, as well as her synch.
Dr. Akag was alarmed by the sudden drop and yells, "What the hell... Asuka! What are you thinking about!?"
As Shinji looked over to watch her, Aoba sounded the Angel alarm.
"Damn it, always interupted!" Akagi swore and rushed to get the pilots into the real Evangelion units.
Misato supervised the preping of the EMAWP units.
"Evangelions, hasshin!"
The Evas, armed and mounted, shot out of a new catpult that allowed room for both units.
Asuka landed first and pulled Lodernd behind a building, the others joined her shortly and they observed the floating Angel as it moved through Tokyo-Three. Asuka, filled with raw rage, charged out, rocket launcher at the ready. She slapped her steed and it jumped on a building, Asuka fired from that position but the ball form of the Angel disappeared on impact.
"Huh?" Asuka said looking around.
"Asuka! LOOK OUT!!" Misato yelled through the com.
"What? OH CRAP!!" Asuka yelled as the shadow of the Angel appeared under her building and it sank. The shaking was so much that Asuka couldn't get balanced enough to get her hands on Lodernd's reins.
"Asuka!"
Suddenly Eva-02 and it's EMAWP was knocked from the building to a safe distance away into another street. Unit-01 and Pegasus was now hovering above the Angel. Shinji watched as the Angel sucked up the building that a while ago, had Eva-02 on it. Shinji pulled out a spear from a compartment on Pegasus and flung the spear stright down, it extended in mid air and shot into the Shadow. A roar was heard and the shadow increased it's suction, now Eva-01 and Pegasus was being pulled in. Shinji pulled on the reins and Pegasus fired the thrusters, they started inching away from the vortex of air but the Angel again increased it's intake level. The small cable that the EMAWP provided for the Eva's power snapped and Eva-01 fell off of Pegasus, the EMAWP shot off out of the vacuum but Eva-01 fell striaght down into the hole.
"ASSUUKKKAAA!!!" Shinji screamed as Eva-01 dissapered into the shadow and off of the map at Central Dogma.
"No! SHINJI!!" Asuka yelled, having witness the scene from the street Shinji had knocked her into. She took an Ax out and rode Lodernd pass the Angel's ball shape, slicing it as she passed, it did nothing. Asuka was about to circle around for another attack when Misato's voice ordered a full retreat.
"WE ARE NOT LEAVING HIM!!" Asuka yelled.
"We have to, for now..." Misato said. "Don't worry Asuka, we'll come up with a plan to save him."
"No! Shinji!" Asuka turned but Rei came up in Unit-00 and on Shadow. She reached across and pulled the reins on Lodernd and it turned tail and galloped towards Nerv.
"Ahh! NO! DAMN YOU AYANAMI" Asuka yelled as her horse kept heading back to HQ.
"I am sorry, Sohryu." Rei said to no one and guided her horse right behind Asuka's.
SLAP!! Rei snapped back and cluched her left cheek, where Asuka had slapped her the minute she fould the pilot of Unit-00 after exiting her Eva.
"Why the hell did you force me back!?" she yelled into the other girl's face. "I could've saved him!"
"We had our orders." Rei said softly.
"Who said you could decide what I should do? Who decided you could touch Lodernd? Who decided you could steal my Shinji!?"
Asuka slapped her again but Rei caught her arm, but Asuka's other one shot out and got Rei on the right cheek. Rei backed away a step but said nothing, Asuka's blood boiled and she lunged at Rei, but a hand pulled her back by her suit's neck. She turned and saw Gendo Ikari's special guards sourounding her.
"That is enough Second Child." A cold voice said.
(A/N: To see a pic of the bastard king here, go to- pic 19)
The owner of the voice appeared out of a door soon enough, it was Gendo Ikari himself. Asuka stopped her struggle and glared at the First Child, the guard released Asuka. Shooting a disgusted look at Rei, she stormed out of the launch area. Gendo went over to Rei.
"Did she harm you?" he asked.
"Yes, not seriously, it will be healed in a matter of minutes." Rei replied.
"I see..." Gendo said and went down the hall where Asuka went. "Hurry Rei." he said. "Conference."
"Hai!"
"You mean, that shadow portion is the Angel's body ?" Misato asked.
"Yes, about 680 meters in diameter, about 3 nanometers in thickness. It sustains that super-thin space with the inverted A.T.Field, and the interior of the Field is the imaginary space called "Dirac's Sea." It may connect to another space." Ritsuko answered, most of the bridge was gathered at the top of a building in Tokyo-Three so they could easier understand Ritsuko's explaintion. Some of the officers watched the shadow in the middle of the city that held their prized Unit-01 and its pilot, Shinji Ikari.
"What's that sphere?" Misato asked.
Ritsuko turned and looked at the Sphere in the sky. "It vanishes when the imaginary circuit of the body closes. The object in the sky is nothing but a shadow."
"It means the black shadow that introjected Unit One is the target?" Misato demanded.
"Then we have to go there and get SHinji out!" Asuka yelled.
Ritsuko and Misato glanced at Asuka, then they got up and walked over to a corner of the roof, then they started another duscussion.
"Force salvaging Eva ?" Misato gasped.
"It's the only way that might be possible." Ritsuko said nodding. "Dropping all 992 existing N2 depth charges to the central portion, in timing with, interfering with the imaginary circtuit of the Angel in 1 millisecond with two existing Eva's AT-Fields. In that moment, we will be concentrating the explosive energy; it should be enough to break the Angel apart from the Dirac's Sea that forms its body."
"But, how do you know... how Eva's body will be after this?!" Then it dawned on her "Heck, It's not a rescue operation..."
Ritsuko nodded. "In this operation, salvage of the body of Unit One is the number one priority over everything. We don't care if the body is damaged, or the pilot's condition."
Misato was mad now. "Hey, wait a moment!"
Ritsuko took off her glasses and said coldly. "In this case, we don't care about the pilot's life."
Misto slaps Ritsuko hard, just like Asuka did to Rei.
Ritsuko stepped back and held her face. "Aw! Oh, it's your fault if you lose Shinji-kun. Huh, remember that!"
Misato got into her friend's face. "What's the reason why you and Commander Ikari are so stuck on Unit One? Huh, what is Eva!?"
Ritsuko turned away. "The materials I gave you tell you all about what Eva is."
Misato flung her off. "You're a liar."
Ritsuko ajusted her coat. "Trust me, Misto. I'm in command of this operation. We'll forward flights to the Kankuu airport; contact the air control and the air transport division of the JSSDF."
"WHAT!!?" Asuka screamed as the plan was explained to her. "We're blowing him up!?"
"It's our best chance," Misato said sadly. "I don't like it anymore than you do but this is our only option."
"No, Shinji..." Asuka whispered and sank on the floor against the wall. "Why him?"
It was a stab to Misato's heart to see her two kids like this, she glanced back at where Gendo, Ritsuko, and Rei were talking.
'Bastards!' she thought.
Asuka got up, "I'll go, maybe I can do something for him out there!"
With that she ran to the Evas that were docked next to the building. Rei saw her and said goodbye to Gendo and went after her. Dr. Akagi went to the side of the building.
"Start the operation!" she yelled.
The two Evas lit up and made their ways toward the Angel without their EMAWPs, Asuka and Rei fanned out, ready to use their AT-Fields.
"Shinji, I'll do what I can..." Asuka said as she moved her Eva into place.
Inside the Angel, Shinji looked at the counter on the side pannel, 0:07:46.
'My life ends in seven minutes...' Shinji thought. 'Just when me and Asuka were... it's... not... fair...'
He began to dose off into unconsciousness, memories of his life, especially of times this past few weeks with Asuka filled his vision.
"Asuka..." he said, then he heard a woman's voice. "Asuka... no... no...this scent, it's................. mother!?"
Shinji's eyes snapped open, he could have sworn he heard his mom's voice. He looked at the controls around him, "Eva, what are you?"
Then the power meter went crazy....
Asuka watched in horror as the gash spread across the Angel's ball form, a trail of blood gushed out from the wound, she gasped as another hole apeared on the side of the Angel, it screamed. People back at the rooftop were cowering, Asuka and Rei stood, transfixed, as they witnessed Eva-01 pulled the sides of the Angel apart and stuck it's upper body out. Its eyes turned orange and it roared.
"Beserker!" Akagi cried out as the carnage continued.
Unit-01 tried to get out but the hole wasn't big enough, it pulled it's right arm out, in its hand was the spear Shinji had thrown eariler. Unit-01 used this and slashed a bloody way out of the Angel. It lunged with a wet and sick 'splat' as the blood hit the streets. It reared up and roared again, spinning its spear. Around the Angel lay shreds of the Angel's body...
"Shinji!"
Shinji Ikari's eyes stared to move at this sound... someone calling him. "Shinji!"
He opened them a little, when he saw what had made the noise he opened them fully. Asuka was in his entry plug, the hatch was open, she was on top of him and crying uncontrolablely.
"Baka Shinji!!" she screamed "What the hell were you thinking!!?'
Shinji moved his right hand and rested it on her back, "I'm sorry Asuka."
She continued to cry.
Then he remembered. "Asuka, me and Rei..."
She looked up at him, her crying suspended for the moment.
"There's been a misunderstanding, I was just apologizing to her eariler..." Shinji said.
Asuka smiled and buried her head against his chest, "It's ok, I should have had more faith in you."
"Asuka..." Shinji said stroking her hair.
"Don't." She said. "It's full of that LCL crap."
"Then let's hit the showers and go home huh?" he suggested.
"Then what are you waiting for!?" Asuka grinned.
A/N: Ok, An Angel fight, as promised, hope you're happy now...now I gotta find a way to get my head out of my ass and write ch 15, which is...the begining of the 13th Angel yes. See you soon. As always, authors love reviews.
Later. -