Shinji Steel 35
Disclaimer; I do not own Neon Genesis Evangelion or Max Steel. Wish I did, though.
Author's Notes; Thought I'd try a variation of the pool scene between Shinji and Asuka. Also Rits will receive a priceless gift while in mourning.
(Tokyo-3; NERV HQ; Pool 5)
As Rei swims under the pool's cool waters, Shinji's putting the finishing touches on his Physics work. Just as a bathing suit clad Asuka walks up, no less.
"What are you doing, Shinji?" Without looking up at the redhead, Shinji shrugs as he brings up his S-DAT.
"Just now finished wrapping up my Physics primer, actually."
"Really? What segment?"
"Regarding thermal expansion." Asuka gives him a sultry smirk before leaning over him.
"Care to do an experiment to see if my breasts get bigger or smaller by heating them up?"
"Been there, done that with Rits. The results were disappointing, yet the experiment was quite fun for us."
"You perverts." Shinji only gives her a wry chuckle and shrugs. "No wonder your scores are good. You're such a good student."
"What can I say? Berto brought it out of me. He felt that if I'm anything like my Mother, I'd have her smarts too."
"You had a happy home-life. I'm so incredibly jealous of you."
"How so?"
"Are you stupid? Your surrogate family's more supportive than your own Father while… no. Never mind." Asuka's expression is sad, prompting Shinji's next question.
"Ready to start on your kanji or do you want to do it back at the apartment?"
"Back at the apartment. We're here to have fun, not concentrate on something I'm not fully fluent in."
"Okay. But first…"
Reaching into his bag, Shinji brings out a cassette marked 'jam session'. Sliding the cassette into place, he brings out his headphones. Getting Asuka's full attention.
"What are you doing now?"
"The cassette of my last jam session with Hoshi. I have to take a listen and see if I'm indeed missing something."
"Oh? Mind if I have a listen? I'm something of a musician myself."
"Have at." Passing her the headphones, he adds, "Maybe you can tell better than I can."
"Why of course I can. I'm German after all." With that, she puts the headphones on and presses 'play'. The soft sounds of a cello are soon audible to her ears, causing her to smile. "I can hear a cello. Who's playing it?"
"That's me. Hoshi's next."
"Ah. What's he play?" Just then, the cello stops and another instrument takes its place. As the instrument doles out its tones, Asuka scrunches up her face in confusion. "Why am I hearing a saxophone?" Shinji doesn't answer, yet she can easily hear Shinji's recorded voice counting down.
"Three, two, one, now." Next thing she hears is the unholiest racket ever to assault her ears. Her eyes go wide before she strips the headphones from her head.
"WHAT THE FUCK?" Looking over at Shinji, she asks, "What the fuck was that racket, Third?"
"The duet with Hoshi. Was something missing?"
"DUET? DUET? THAT WAS NO DUET, THIRD! THAT WAS A SEMI-ELEGANT HEAD-ON TRAIN WRECK WITHOUT THE TRAINS' HORNS BLARING!"
"Hmm." Asuka's eyes bulge in shock at Shinji musing about it.
"Don't you dare think it, Third!"
"Huh? What?" Next thing he knows, the hot-headed German's got her right arm around his neck from behind and she starts squeezing.
"Get rid of any ideas you have of putting train horns in that cacophony of noise! I have no doubt that Mozart's rolling in his grave right now!"
"Mozart played piano, not cello or saxophone." Shinji's reply is slightly choked out, causing Asuka to growl before tightening her arm's grip.
"I mean as in his sense as a musician, idiot!" All further attempts to strangle Shinji end when the vid-con window opens. Heading under 'Rits'. "Saved by your future wife, Third."
Unclasping her arm from around his neck, she puts her left hand onto his left shoulder. Shinji gives Asuka a nod before accepting the connection. When he sees Rits, he smiles widely before greeting her.
"Hey, Rits. How's it going?" Rits only gives him a faint smile, with unshed tears shimmering in her brown eyes. Giving Shinji the impression something's wrong. "Rits, what happened?"
"Shinji…" She suddenly bolts away, sobs escaping from her.
"Rits! What happened? Rits?" Next thing he knows, a distraught Hikari comes into view. "Hikari, what's going on?"
"During our first dive trip, Rits found her late parents' yacht. It had a big hole in the hull." Hikari looks to her side before sighing sadly and looking back toward him. "From the looks of it, Aida's considering it a double murder." Asuka can't help but snort incredulously at the notion of Aida considering it.
"Oh like that stooge knows a murder from a freak accident."
"Don't be so sure of that, Asuka. I've known Aida far longer than you have, as has Suzuhara."
"So you're buying his absurd theory?"
"It's the only feasible one. Especially given the damage to the hull. Even more, Aida found a 'black box' that was adapted for maritime usage."
"I take it he's working on it right now?"
"He is, Shinji. Oh, here comes Rits." With that, Hikari clears the monitor, allowing Rits to be seen.
"Hey, how're you holding up?"
"Just barely, truth be told." Rits takes a deep breath before smiling fondly at him. "So have you gone over your tape yet?" Instead of Shinji that answers, it's Asuka.
"I don't know where he got the idea, but that racket is not music."
"It sounds like music."
"GAAAAK! You're as JAFO as Wondergirl is!"
"What does that mean, Pilot Sohryu?" Rei's soft voice gets Asuka to jump slightly, and Rits to giggle. "I trust your trip is going well, Takamiya."
"Not so much, I'm afraid. Especially since it seems my parents were murdered."
"I am sorry to hear that. When will you know for sure and what do you plan to do?"
"We'll cross that bridge when we get to it."
"Where is the bridge for… oh. You are using a metaphorical expression."
"Yep. I see Shinji's been teaching you what he can when he can."
"Yes. Pilot Ikari has been quite helpful in that regard." Rits' smile fades slightly, but returns when she remembers that Shinji had told her about how they'd regard each other whether within the Geofront or not.
"That's good." Wanting to change topics, she does so. "So any word from Misato yet?"
(Mt Asuma Volcanic Research Facility)
Misato watches the display of the facility's only probe blink right into static as the probe implodes from the pressure. Looking over toward Hyuga, she waits for him to utter the words she'd been both dreading and anticipating.
"Pattern Blue."
"This facility is now under the Jurisdiction of NERV. All files regarding this are now classified. Hyuga, hold the fort down."
"Yes, ma'am." With that, Misato steps out, bringing her NERV-issue phone out.
"This is Captain Katsuragi. Aoba, get me in touch with Commander Ikari."
"Yes, ma'am." A second later, Gendo's voice comes through.
"Ikari here. What is it, Captain Katsuragi?"
"Commander, I'm requesting an A-17 declaration to capture an Angel."
"Very well. I'll set things in motion on my end, Captain." With that, Gendo hangs up. Causing Misato to roll her eyes.
"Good-bye to you too, prick." Looking around and seeing no one, she softly asks, "You get all that, Berto?"
"Loud and clear, Misato. What kind of things 'Commander Dumbass' has in mind, I have no idea. It's almost as if he's predicting when these 'Angels' show up."
"I know. If only I knew where Kaji was. I'm sure he'd be chomping at the bit for this."
"You're that sure about him? He's pretty cagey about what he's doing there."
"Are you kidding me, Berto? He lives for this shit. By the way, where is he now?"
"He's currently on his way to a spot famous for cable-cars."
(NERV HQ; Meeting Room 8)
"An A-17? This is madness, Ikari! Have you forgotten what had happened the last time we tried capturing an Angel for study?" The members of the 'Human Instrumentality Committee' are all aghast at Gendo's intent.
"I recognize that fact. However, we cannot let an opportunity to capture a live specimen for study to pass us by."
"Your words had better ring true, Ikari." Chairman Lorenz Kiel dismisses the other members, yet stays behind to speak with Gendo further. "How goes your project to prepare the Third Child for his role?"
"It's a dismal failure so far, Chairman Kiel. But I'm still working on it."
"I see. What about the Agent you had specially assigned to this project?"
"Agent Psycho is doing all he can to carry out his instructions. However, the Third Child has proven himself to be so resilient, it's annoying."
"Did you say Psycho?"
"Yes, I did." Upon seeing Kiel's face scrunch up in thought, Gendo asks, "Is there something wrong, Chairman?"
"No. Any chance you can arrange a meeting between the two of us?
"I don't see why not. Might I ask as to why, though?"
"I'm afraid not, Ikari. In time perhaps. But, for now, make no mention of this to Psycho. Only tell him that someone wishes to meet with him. That is all."
"Very well." Perplexed to no end, Gendo ends communication with Kiel and switches the meager lighting in his office back on. Yet two questions flow through his mind. 'How does Kiel know Psycho, anyway? Were they enemies or allies?'
(Cable-car; fifteen minutes later)
"An A-17's been declared. Which means access to all files from NERV have been cut off until after it ends."
"Well, no one said this job would be easy. Nothing worthwhile ever is."
"I'd thank you to keep your glib comments to yourself, Ryoji. Even more, the Japanese Ministry of Intelligence sent me a report of an unknown faction."
"Oh? What is the faction doing?"
"They're mainly sticking to the shadows, yet they've managed to so far keep the world from deteriorating further than it already has."
"Shadow warriors, huh. Sure like to meet 'em."
"I don't think they're warriors per se. I think they're mainly interested in intelligence work. If need for action arises, they step in. I trust you are familiar with the 'Kirishima Incident' a few weeks back."
"Yeah. He created a pair of prototype compact N2s."
"Correct. He got as far as Chicago before he showed up a day later at the conference."
"Then why is the Ministry so concerned with these guys if they did such a good job?"
"They view these characters in particular as the lowest form of life. They'd interfered with a Japanese affair either knowingly or unknowingly. The Ministry Head did not enjoy getting egg on his face."
"Well, if he'd been just a little more proactive…"
"I won't tell him you said that. Just keep your eyes peeled for anything out of the ordinary, Ryoji."
"Right." Kaji then looks around and lightly grimaces. His contact notices it and arches her eyebrow.
"Something wrong, Ryoji?"
"Dunno. Can't help but feel I'm being watched. Yet there's no one around." He then shrugs before chortling. "Maybe it's the 'shadow faction' that you were just talking about."
Outside the cable car, a cloaked Sparrow trails it. With the pilot snickering at Kaji's comment.
"Hey, that's catchy."
(NERV HQ; Briefing Room)
"Is that an Angel in there?"
"It is, Shinji."
"But that's a fucking volcano!"
"We're aware of that, Asuka. Right now it seems to be in its embryonic stage. A big embryo, which means that an Evangelion in Type-D equipment is to go into the hot depths."
"Oh, pick me, I love diving!"
"Well, actually, the Type-D equipment is compatible with Unit-02 only. Unit-01 will be on-site as backup. Rei's to remain behind on reserve."
"Aww, poor Wondergirl. She doesn't get to have any fun this time."
"Shut it, Asuka, or I'll play the cassette during the mission." Asuka can't help but give a horrified gasp.
"You wouldn't dare! That's cruel and unusual punishment!"
"So?" Asuka looks right at Shinji and sees that he's stone serious. She lightly shudders as she has one thought.
'Mean. The boy's just plain mean.' Sighing, she asks, "When do we head out?"
"Within the hour. So move!"
"Roger!"
(Thirty minutes later)
As Asuka seals her specialized plug-suit, she doesn't notice any severe differences in the one she normally wears.
"So what's so special about this one, Dr Akagi? It doesn't look or feel any different. I could have worn one of the other ones."
"Not in this case, Asuka. Push the button on your left wrist." Akagi's words are so oblique, yet Asuka knows full well that the scientist is quite busy looking over her clipboard. Pressing the button, Asuka soon feels her suit expanding around her.
"W-W-What's going on?"
"The suit's insulated in this manner. Allowing you to survive extreme environments like a volcano or deep underwater. We've already gotten Unit-02 prepared."
"WAS?" Agitated, Asuka bolts out of the room and heads right for the cages. Rei and Shinji gazing up at it. "What have you done to my Unit-02?"
At her query, Shinji and Rei turn around and see a very rotund Asuka standing in the doorway. Berto can't help but burst out laughing so loudly, it's taking everything Shinji has to not laugh as well.
'Mustn't laugh. She'll kill me slowly and painfully.' He then communicates with Berto. 'You're so lucky you're there and not here. Otherwise Asuka would so kill you for laughing at how she looks!'
"I know, hermano. But that sight is just too funny to not laugh at."
'I know. I'll laugh later on when I'm alone.' Next thing he knows, Asuka's voice cuts through the mirth-filled tedium.
"Why not use Shinji, then? He'd make an excellent stuntman!"
"We don't have a suit like that for him. Plus, the Type-D equipment is made only for Unit-02." Rei then raises her hand before speaking.
"If necessary, I will pilot."
"Like Hell you will!" Asuka bolts over with surprising speed and declares, "If anyone's going to go in there, it's going to be me!" Looking up at Unit-02's visage, she then whines out, "Forgive me. They made me do it."
(Okinawa; hotel; boy's room; that afternoon)
As he eagerly removes the casing from the data recorder, Kensuke peers inside before smiling widely.
"It's even got a voice recorder!"
"Gonna make a recording of yourself talking, 'Suke?"
"Would if I could, but once these things power down, they only thing they can do is playback."
"Meaning the voices of Takamiya's birth parents are on there! She can hear their voices if she wants to! Right?"
"That's right, Touji. But first…" Connecting the V/R to his laptop, he adds, "I'll make a duplicate onto a flash drive for Rits' ears only. Then I'll concentrate on the voyage data."
"Shouldn't you hear it first to ensure it's not fucked up or anything?"
"Like I said down there, Touji, as long as the seals were intact underwater, the data should still be intact. I didn't see any sign of rupture on the seals."
Instructing his laptop to copy the recording onto a flash drive after inserting the drive, Kensuke watches the progress bar. When it's complete, he removes the flash drive and hands it to Richard.
"Richard, could you take this to Rits, please? I need to get to work on the voyage data."
"Sure, Kensuke. Leave it to me." Exiting the room, he makes his way to the elevator and presses the button for the next floor up. Once the door's opened, even though the doors along the corridor are closed, he calls out, "Male on the floor!" Making his way to the Takamiya/Horaki room, he knocks on the door. When it opens, he sees Hikari's face.
"Mr. Nez? What is it?"
"I have a delivery for Miss Takamiya, Miss Horaki." Richard then notices Hikari grinning mischievously and quickly adds, "Rits."
"Oh? Come on in, then." Once Richard has entered, he sees Deidre and Rits sitting together. Rits huddled into Deidre's embrace. "Rits? Richard's here." Rits turns around and gives Richard a soft smile.
"Hey. You're being pretty brave coming up here into 'No Man's Land', Richard."
"Yeah, well, I've something for you. Remember that data recorder Kensuke found, Ms Takamiya?"
"I do, Richard. He come up with anything helpful?"
"Partly." Bringing up the flash drive, Richard goes on. "Kensuke found a voice recording unit in the data recorder. He made a recording without listening to it. Ritsuko Takamiya, will you accept this, even under the circumstances?"
"I will, Richard Nez. Thank you." Richard hands Rits the flash drive and makes to leave. "Richard?"
"My objective is complete, Rits. I'm going back to our room."
"Oh. Okay. See you later, then."
"Yeah. Later." With that, Richard exits the room, Hikari closing the door after him. Deidre looks over at Rits and sees the girl's eyes watering again.
"Ritsy?"
"I've never heard my parents' voices that I know of. Now that I have a chance to, I don't know if I should take it or not. Mom, what do I do?"
"Ritsy, I never knew my parents either. I was found abandoned as an infant in China. I was raised in the system until I came of age. I always wondered why my parents ditched me. It's likely they're long dead by now. You have an opportunity I've never had. Take it, Ritsy."
"Okay." Bringing up her laptop, Rits plugs the flash drive into the USB port. Upon seeing an icon wishing to know if she wants to open it, she clicks 'yes'. Right then, a woman's voice is heard.
"Hoshio. Did you get Ritsuko into her pod?"
"Yeah, Yuriko. I also checked the IV system. If in case of a disaster, and we die, the pod's IV system activates after twenty-four hours and injects her nutrients. She'd have a month's worth of IV nutrition."
"Well, here's to hoping it's not needed at all, Hoshio. I've no intention of leaving our baby all alone in the world if no one comes along before the month's out." Yuriko then giggles on the recording and adds, "Only you'd be so crass as to put our little girl's name on the top of the pod."
"Hey, at least they'll know what her name is. Better than Muffy or some other whacked out name there is out there for a girl." Yuriko giggles again before kissing is heard on the recording. When the kissing ends, Yuriko contentedly sighs.
"I've known girls with names other than Ritsuko and none of them were whacked out."
"You know what I mean, Yuriko."
"I do." Another kiss is audible before Yuriko sighs. "Are you sure it was a good idea to ask Mr. Kiel to pass along what we heard to the UN Secretary General? About some shadowy bunch wanting to destroy the world."
"It was the best idea I could think of. He has more pull than either of us, 'Ko. You know that as well as I do."
"I do, 'Io. But I just can't help but feel as if there's something about that guy I don't like." Yuriko snorts incredulously before muttering, "I don't know. It's probably my dumb intuition."
"Nah. You've just been so overprotective of Ritsuko for the past two weeks ever since we brought her home from the Hospital." Hoshio then chuckles as he adds, "In any case, Dad's going to flip when he sees her when we get to Okinawa."
"Oh yeah. When should we arrive there, anyway?"
"We should be coming up on the coastline shortly." All of a sudden, a semi-muffled sound is audible. "What the heck? I'm gonna check below."
"Alright." Two minutes later, Yuriko cries out. "Hoshio! We're sinking!"
"I'll say! We're taking on water fast! Jettison the pod! We'll stay with it!"
"Roger!" An audible thump is heard and Yuriko's voice comes back. "Pod jettisoned. Should I split the bow from the rest of the boat?"
"Yeah, go ahead. We've got a month's supply in… Yuriko! Tidal wave!"
A sudden rush of water and the voices of Rits' birth parents are silenced. A stunned Deidre looks over at Rits and sees her fighting back tears. Hikari right behind her. Rits then lets out a wail of agony.
"Mom! Dad! Why?" Deidre can only hold Rits and Hikari close. Tears shimmering in her eyes as well.
"I'm so sorry, Ritsy."
"It's okay, Mom. At least I know my folks loved me as much as you do." Letting out a sniffle, she adds, "At least I now know how you knew what to call me." Deidre can only hold the two girls close and glare at the innocent computer. Thinking vile thoughts toward the responsible parties. Whoever they are.
'You'd better hope I never find you. Because if I do, I will do such things to you that would have had Dread cringing in fear if he'd have survived at N-Tek's Del Oro facility!'
(Boy's room)
As Kensuke accesses the data for the ill-fated voyage of 'Perseus', Richard and Touji wait semi-patiently. Kensuke then shouts triumphantly.
"I've got the data!" Richard and Touji go right to his side as Kensuke goes on. "Okay, according to the data from the GPS transponder, 'Perseus' left out from Hokkaido en route to Okinawa. The trip lasted for roughly three hours. But that's not the bad part."
"What is the bad part, 'Suke?"
"The transmitting signal terminated at about the same time Second Impact struck."
"But if it was a bomb, then the timing would have had to be downright uncanny. Wouldn't it?"
"Indeed, Richard. Whoever set of this bomb knew that Second Impact was going to happen and sought to kill any innocents to make it look like they died in Second Impact."
"But why? For that matter, who did it?"
"Those, Touji, are very good questions." Next thing Kensuke knows, a knock is heard on the door. "Richard, could you get that please?"
"Sure, Kensuke." Richard goes to the door and opens it. Once it's opened, he sees a tall Caucasian man with dark hair and an infectious grin. "Hello."
"Hello. Is this the Aida/Suzuhara/Nez room?"
"It is."
"Excellent." The man brings up a badge and says, "I'm with the UN Special Investigations Unit. We understand you came across an item called a 'black box' during a dive trip."
"Yeah. At least Kensuke did, anyway."
"Alright. I've come to take custody of the 'black box' and transport it to our lab for analysis." Kensuke's voice chimes up, catching the man's attention.
"If you'd like to come in, I can tell you what I'd found so far."
"You mean you've accessed it already?"
"Yeah. Sorry. I did some legwork already and found its course of travel. From Hokkaido all the way to just outside of Okinawa. From there, the GPS just stopped working. But I can tell you this much." Before Kensuke can say anything, Touji does.
"We all saw a big-ass honking hole in the hull just below the waterline. It was a bomb that killed Ritsuko Takamiya's birth parents. Some cowardly low-life shit-bag bombed our friend's parents." Slamming his fist into his palm, Touji grinds it menacingly as he snarls out, "When you find them, please let me know so I can grind their bones into dust!"
"You got it." Kensuke hands the Agent the 'black box' and the Agent asks, "Did you do anything to alter it or make any duplicates of any information?"
"No alterations and the only duplicate I made was of the voice recorder. Ritsuko had never heard her parent's voices once that she knew of."
"That's normally a breach in the Evidence chain. But you did it for the right reason. Just wait next time until you get clearance to do something like that, anyway. Okay?"
"You got it." With that, the man exits and Kensuke sighs. "Man, they work fast. Wait a minute. How did they know about it anyway?" Kensuke bolts toward the door and opens it. Intent on asking the 'Agent' about that. Much to his surprise, the man's nowhere in sight. Touji comes up behind him and asks the most sensible question he could.
"Where the fuck did he go?"
As the Sparrow flies away, Max Steel Sr reverts back to Josh and grins.
"Got the precious cargo, bro. Thank goodness for Yumiko's report."
"I'll say. It's too bad we couldn't get to it before he made a duplicate of the voice recording."
"It's alright. Besides, Ritsuko did deserve the chance to hear her parent's voices. Oh, how's Dad doing in getting back to being in charge?"
"It's like he'd never stopped. Aside from spending fifteen years in a coma, that is." Josh lets out a chortle before sighing.
"I wonder what Shinji's doing right now."
(Mt Asuma)
The situation at the volcano had quickly gone to Hell in a handbasket. At first, everything went semi-smoothly. Asuka got the Eighth Angel into the electromagnetic cage without difficulty and was starting her ascent. Then the Angel woke up and started thrashing around. Shinji had just now thrown down his Unit's prog knife. Only to hear Asuka swearing voraciously.
'She's got quite a mouth on her. That's for sure. She's certainly expanded… that's it!' Turning on his communications, Shinji yells out, "Asuka, thermal expansion! Cool this fucker's heels!"
"Roger!" A minute later, Asuka calls out, "Route all coolant into line five!"
"Of course." Akagi's voice is audible while line five surges with coolant. "The rapid change in temperature will make it vulnerable."
"Now die, motherfucker!" A minute later, Asuka says, "The Angel's dead. So am I. All the fighting compromised the lift lines."
"No. Asuka, hang on!" Next thing he knows, Gendo speaks up.
"Stand down, Pilot Ikari. Unit-02 is lost."
"Like Hell, dumbass assface!" With that, Shinji hurtles Unit-01 right into the volcano. Ignoring the searing heat surrounding Unit-01. He quickly gets Unit-02 in his sights in time to hear what she'd consider her final words.
"That's it. I'm done for." Unit-01 makes a successful grab for the end of the lift line. Bringing Unit-02's death descent to a halt. "Huh? Shinji?" A second later, she murmurs, relief evident in her tone, "You idiot. Showoff."
"Me? You're the one that can't keep out of trouble for ten minutes."
"What was that, Third?"
"You heard me, Second. We can't take you anywhere without you getting into trouble."
"You've got a point." With that, Shinji erupts into laughter while maintaining his grip before calling out.
"I've got our precious cargo, Misato. Bring us up."
"Got it, Shinji. Don't lose your grip."
"Wouldn't dream of it, Misato." The next voice he hears is Gendo's. Much as he'd prefer not to.
"Pilot Ikari, you are to release Unit-02 at once."
"Go fuck yourself, Commander Dumbass!"
"You are inviting censure upon yourself."
"Do I sound like I give a fuck about what you say, dumbass?"
"I am your Commanding Officer and Father, Pilot Ikari. Release Unit-02 this instant!"
"You are not my Father, dumbass. You may have fertilized the egg, but you were no Father at all." At that point, he 'feels' the ground below him and grins. 'Feet dry.'
"Captain Katsuragi, you are to sever the drum."
"Too late, Commander Ikari. Rescue complete and recovery has just been commenced."
"Very well then. I expect Pilot Ikari to be in my office upon your return to Tokyo-3."
"Yes, Commander." With that, Gendo's signal terminates and Misato sighs. "Sorry, Shinji."
"Don't worry, Misato. It's the story of my life here." Smirking, he asks, "Who knows? I might even make a book deal on my experiences as a boy that was abandoned by a no good sack of shit and raised up by a cool guy and his friends." Misato can only laugh at that right there. Asuka right behind her.
"Oh man! I can just see that now, Misato! It'd even make best-seller for five years, I bet!" Asuka then sighs and says, "I owe you one, Third."
"Don't worry about it. Just, please, please try to stay out of trouble." Asuka only snickers. "Aw dang." Misato can't help but snicker as well, amused at the unique situation. "Not you too, Misato!"