Taming the Beast

Summary: An error in the Space Bridge Project sends Coby, Lori, and the Convoys into the Eva Universe. Why are the Rumbles that Coby and Lori pilot so similar to the Evas? Is there a connection between the Angels and the Transformers? Will they survive?

Disclaimer: I don't own Evangelion or Transformers Galaxy Force, but they are interesting stories.

Author's Note: Soushireikan means 'Supreme Commander'.

I was going to have Jet Alone in this chapter, but this chapter got too long. Jet Alone will be in the next chapter.

Chapter 9

Sunlight filtered into the room slowly until it revealed two teens wrapped in each others' arms under a tangle of sheets. Slowly, Coby opened his eyes to see his lover sleeping peacefully, a smile on her face. Smiling as he remembered the night before, he pulled her in closer. She reacted, even in her sleep, burying her face into his chest. He smiled, closing his eyes to join her in sleep, only to gasp slightly as he felt her begin to plant kisses on his chest.

"Lori?"

She tilted her head up to his and opened her eyes, smiling, "Good morning, Coby." She kissed him passionately, making sure he knew what she wanted.

Coby grinned into the kiss. To hell with Misato if she walks in on us!

Cue the toast, Shinji mentally thought.

CACHUNK!

Cue the can opener.

DING!

Cue PenPen.

"Wark!"

Shinji grinned as he took the can from the can opener, put the fish inside it on the toast, and put the dish in PenPen's bowl. I'm getting way too good at this! He watched Misato's hot water penguin pet start downing his breakfast. Then again, pet probably wasn't correct. PenPen took regular showers, ate fish and toast, drank beer, read the paper, and lived in a small fridge in the kitchen. Apparently, the poor guy almost never came out of his fridge before Shinji, Coby, and Lori arrived.

The first time the penguin and Shinji met had been quite embarrassing though. Shinji was in the shower, and PenPen had hopped in with. The end result was that Shinji freaked out and ended up giving Misato a free show as he babbled about a penguin in the shower. Misato calmly waited till he had calmed down, and then told him that PenPen was her pet, and that Shinji was standing in front of her in the negligee. Shinji had been very embarrassed. Thankfully, Coby and Lori were at NERV at the time, working with Ritsuko on making accommodations for the Symbiocons.

Misato came out of her room as Shinji began to cook breakfast for the Humans in the apartment. She muttered a good morning as she dragged her half asleep body to the fridge and grabbed a beer. Sitting down at the table, she opened it and chugged half the can. Shinji quickly put his fingers in his ears.

"YYYEEEEAAAAAHHHH!"

"Why do you do that every morning?" Shinji asked, going back to his cooking. "It can't be healthy. It's a wonder you're still alive if you've been doing this for any long length of time."

Glaring at the back of the white haired teen's head, Misato tried to justify herself. "It's part of Japanese tradition."

"Who's tradition?" Coby asked rhetorically as he walked in and sat down.

Lori grabbed a beer for him and one for herself and sat down next to him. "Misato, I'm quarter Japanese on my mother's side, and I know that what you do is not Japanese tradition. They drink sake, not beer." She took a sip from her can, "Maybe I could make some. It's healthier than this stuff, and it probably tastes better too."

"It doesn't, unless you can find some way to flavor it," Coby answered, drinking from his can. Lori gave him a confused look and he explained, "One of your cousins tricked me into drinking some at my Bachelor's Party."

"I still don't understand why you two have to drink," Shinji said as he served breakfast.

"It's because of our SD Fields," Coby explained. "Most things we control consciously, but there are a lot of things that we control unconsciously. I can hit that wall and unconsciously change the power behind my punch, as well as the energy I'm drawing from Rumble, to determine whether or not I break the wall or my hand depending on how strong my will is. But that constant, unconscious flow of energy is useless without something to burn as fuel, like a car with a battery, but no gas. In order to keep us alive, our bodies burn alcohol instead of the food we eat to live, or we'd die of malnutrition and starvation. Without alcohol to serve as fuel, and because our bodies won't go into a self destructive cycle for fuel, our bodies would burn the oxygen in the air around us, and that can be explosive." Misato had a sudden image of her apartment exploding, leaving only Coby and Lori behind.

Lori nodded and continued to explain as Coby ate, her own plate finished, "During battle, or when we're stressed, angry, or frustrated, our bodies react by burning more, requiring us to drink more. It's like adrenaline, except our bodies burn it up faster than they can produce it, so we have to ingest it."

Shinji raised an eyebrow, "The Human body produces alcohol?"

"Very small amounts, and not enough for me," Misato answered, grabbing another beer.

DING DONG!

"Toji and Kensuke," Coby remarked, tossing his empty can into the bin. "I'll get it. Thanks for breakfast, Shinji-san." He opened the door to see just who he thought, Kensuke and Toji, who stood with silly grins and, in Kensuke's case, a camera. "Hey look! It's Moe and Larry!" he joked, inviting them in. He immediately warned Kensuke to put the camera away before it broke under his foot.

Rei was scared, so scared she couldn't go to school. She wanted to, to see Shinji and talk to Lori, but she couldn't. She knew she couldn't leave her apartment until what was happening to her passed, or killed her.

Her S2 organ was breaking down, and she had no idea what to do.

Looking out her window, she noticed a car near her apartment building. It was unlike any car she had ever seen, exotic and streamlined for racing and decorated with red and white. She frowned, wondering whose it was, and why it looked so… alien.

"Where are the others who came with you?" Commander Ikari asked once again.

Galaxy Convoy folded his arms, "I will not tell you. They are hidden in needed locations to await my call, fulfilling the orders I gave them. I am not required to tell you information that you do not need to know, or are authorized to know. I am not under your command." His voice was commanding and metallic, but didn't carry far across the Geofront.

"Can you at least tell us who they are?" Ritsuko asked. She was talking to Galaxy Convoy earlier about the Cybertron Army and NERV continuing to work together, but Gendo had interrupted, demanding that Galaxy Convoy tell him where the rest of his subordinates are.

"Planet leaders from my universe: Nitro Convoy, Flame Convoy, Live Convoy, and Megalo Convoy," Galaxy Convoy answered her. He was acting somewhat friendly toward her, but Commander Ikari was receiving more of a cold shoulder and disapproval.

"I could tell the UN that you are here, and that you are a threat like the Angels," Gendo threatened. It had no effect.

"I know more about the Angels than you, Commander Ikari," Galaxy Convoy said, his eyes narrowing. "I also know what you are hiding, down in the basement of that pyramid." Ritsuko's and Gendo's eyes widened in shock. "Do you think I cannot sense Her, your Creator? I can sense Her as easily as I can sense Primus in my universe. You should consider yourself lucky, Commander Ikari, that She is willingly allowing her body to bleed to draw the Angels here, into a trap. If it were not so, those at NERV who were behind what happened to Her, yourself included, would be classified as enemies of the Cybertron Army."

"The lives of your two Human pilots and their Symbiocons are still in my hands," Gendo tried again.

"Do not lay to waste the gifts you are given, Commander Ikari," Galaxy Convoy warned. "They are still my subordinates, and you would put yourself in a very bad position if you threaten them. Good luck trying to kill them, too. I've seen Transformers with enough power to wipe out this Geofront and the city above try and fail." His optics narrowed more and his voice became deadly low, "And if I were you, Commander Ikari, I would think twice about trying anything against them. Flame Convoy considers them family, and would not hesitate to rip you apart if you threaten their lives, and I would not stop him. I am thankful that you have made sure that Coby and Lori will be looked after, but my gratitude stops there. I have no respect for a man who throws his son away, and then calls him back to try to use him as a tool in a war, showing no respect for what he does. And yes, I know, Commander. If you think you can intimidate me, you are wrong. If anything, you disgust me, because you remind me of Master Galvatron." He turned, transformed, and drove off to return to the surface.

Nice going, Ikari, Ritsuko thought bitterly.

Ritsuko met Rei in the Room of Gauf, and was shocked to see the blue haired girl crying in the corner. Though she held little love for Rei, Ritsuko was concerned that she was crying like this. "Rei, what's wrong?"

Rei looked up, her red eyes stained with tears, "My core, Dr. Akagi! My S2 organ that was given to me! It's gone, Ritsuko-san! It's gone!"

This was a shock to Ritsuko. After Yui Ikari's 'death', Gendo had Rei's reproductive organs removed, and an S2 organ specially grown to replace it. The problem was that it couldn't be done twice. After calming Rei down, Ritsuko gave the girl a full examination. The results were surprising, and a little scary. Rei's S2 organ was gone, her reproductive organs regrown in their proper place. But a new S2 organ had also grown. Her lungs were now both the same size, and the organ was on the opposite side of her chest from her heart.

And while the new S2 organ was smaller, Ritsuko had a feeling that it was several times more powerful then the one Rei had before.