Note to all readers all chapters prior to Redemption have been REVISED....with fixed grammical errors and more Shinji-Goodness. I expanded a BUNCH of parts so check it out and r&r thanks!
p.s. sorry it took so long to put up the next chapter! -nikolai
Redemption
I was…under the stairs, after I had done Asuka wrong.
"I must get to Eva!"
I then got up and ran quicker than a bolt of lightening through the corridors in attempt to find the Hangar. Upon getting there I slammed into Misato.
"Shinji! You have to get to Eva now! Asuka is out there already fighting the rest of the Eva series!"
"I know. We have to go as fast as possible!" She looked at me strangely, and smiled faintly. She knew that I knew what had to be done.
We drove through the Eva graveyard and she told me the "truth" that I already had known regarding the Evas the angels and mankind's relationship to both. I nodded, and almost humorously attempted to look interested, but all that was on my mind was saving Asuka, perhaps even saving Misato from the stray bullet and finally confronting Lilith and/or Rei, depending on whether or not they have united yet. My father has it coming to him already so he was not really on my mind. All this time I had screamed to myself that I mustn't run away. This time is no different. But now and only now do I realize that I cannot run away. Nor will I run away. I will stand my ground.
We arrived at the entrance to the Hangar, hopefully the bakelite hadn't fully dried yet was what was running through my mind. We had entered the elevator room. This is when Misato should have been shot. But of course because I wasn't slowing her down, the invading forces hadn't reached our position yet and therefore, that stray bullet never even left the barrel of the gun that shot at her. Upon standing in front of the door I then began to speak.
"I already know what you are going to say. For I have seen things that you haven't yet. I want you to know Misato, that even though it was difficult for you to be a mother to me. You did a good enough job. Thank you Misato."
"Shinji…"
She then gave me a warm motherly hug.
"Now Shinji, go do what you have to. And please Shinji, don't give up."
"This time…I won't."
"This time—?"
The opened to the elevator and I ran in. I then yelled for her to run back to the Control room. She nodded, smiled, and the doors closed abruptly. There should have been blood from her kiss. But this time. This time was different. The elevator was taking its time getting to the Hangar. Over the speaker I heard Asuka scream something about her Umbilical Cable being dismantled from her Eva.
Upon arrival of the hangar I ran onto the drying bakelite, and stumbled onto the Eva's shoulders. The tough part then came into view. How was I supposed to get to Eva? Last time, it was merely Mother awakening the full potential of the A.T. Field. Then as if on cue, Eva Unit 01's plug dispatched from its head, allowing me to enter it by climbing up its neck.
"Thank you mother. Now…lets get the hell out of here!"
An explosion of light then destroyed the Hangar as Eva and I were shot up out of the ground and above Nerve headquarters.
"It's not time to be crucified yet. This time I fight."
I saw Asuka destroying each of the Evas but I knew that they were still alive due to their dummy plugs. Little known by anyone other than the members of SEELE, Kaworu was alive inside of each of them. And I had to destroy it. Asuka's speaker than blurted out into the cockpit of Unit 01.
"God they're persistent! But I can handle them… ugh! That idiot Shinji is nowhere to be found!"
"Right here Asuka!"
I leaped out of the ground almost flying over unit 02.
"Shinji! There you are! Were the hell were you?"
"Sorting out a few things…listen, Asuka, they are equipped the Lance of Longinus! You have to be careful. I'll back you up."
"How do you know that—"
"Asuka there is no time! Third Impact is about to take place!"
"Third impact.."
As it clicked into her head, those two dreadful words, she then ceased talking and pummeled the closest Eva. I backed her up continuing to destroy the following opposition. It was then had believed to destroyed the Eva, when expectedly, the completed Eva series began to awaken from their bloody heaps.
"The Eva Series, they're getting back up!" Shrieked Asuka.
"I know, and you're about to see those lances that I was talking about."
There was something else that I kept forgetting about. The lance. Something about the lance. These lances were copies. The real one was… It then appeared in my memory. "The lance of Longinus returned…fruit of life—fruit of wisdom—"
"Incoming!" I yelled.
As the Eva series awakened with they're now newly formed lances, something then almost at the speed of light shot down from the heavens. I leaped up and grabbed it, twirled it and upon landing stabbed an Eva through the S2 Engine.
"That's it! Get the lances and use them against them! Strike their S2 Engines!"
"Got it." Affirmed Asuka.
We then leaped from Eva to Eva battling them with as much force as we possibly could. They struck us down a few times but we managed to get ourselves up, steal the lances from them, and use them against the series.
"This is the last one!" I screamed as I jumped with the lance and shoved it directly into the engine. All of the Evas then went silent. A voice came onto the intercom. It was Misato.
"Shinji! Asuka! You did it! The Eva's are destroyed. Now Third impact can't take place!"
I could here cheering in the background. Asuka then put on the private intercom.
"Shinji, you did it. Thanks for the help! It was much appreciated."
"No problem Asuka, I'm here for you. In fact any time you need help of any kind I'll always be here."
"…Same to you."
What I had wanted to hear for the longest time had finally been uttered. She then went on speaking.
"Listen, Shinji I know I can e annoying and I know I might have seemed to hate you but…I realize how unkind I was being…and I'd like to make it up to you."
I gulped.
"Yeah?"
"Shinji—all this time I—"
The main intercom turned on seemingly accidentally.
"Angel!"
"No—It's human!"
"Shinji!" screamed Misato "Rei merged with Lilith! It's heading you're way!"
Suddenly a bright light began to rise from beneath unit 01 and 02's feet. We both ran in fright from Rei, who had risen from the Egg of Lilith.
"But Third Impact can't happen! Right?"
"Wrong, it still has a chance to take place, but…what…what am I going to do?"
The Intercom turned on once more. "Shinji, You must use the Lance of Longinus, to prevent her from growing!"
"How can third impact still take place?! The Evas have been obliterated!"
"Those Eva's weren't important. It was Unit 01 that was. If Rei gets the lance, she still has a chance to merge it with Unit 01…and if that happens, The Instrumentality Project plan will succeed, mankind will fuse together in order to institute the next form of evolution for man, And the word 'we' will be no more."
"Not on my watch…"
I then ran to the tenth Lance of Longinus stuck in the ground. It had not been used because there had only been nine Eva Series Units. My Eva caught the attention of Rei who also was in need of the lance. She began to seemingly float, casually if not without emotion towards it in order to merge it with me. There was an equal distance between us. We both had the same objective. The only question now was who was going to get it.
* * *
Come, Sweet Death
I know, I know I've let you down
I've been a fool to myself
I thought that I could live for no one else
But now through all the hurt and pain
It's time for me to respect
The ones you love mean more than anything
So, with sadness in my heart
Feel the best thing that I could do
Is end it all and leave forever
What's done is done it feels so bad
What once was happy now is sad
I'll never love again
My world is ending
I wish that I could turn back time
Cos now the guilt is all mine
Can't live without
The trust from those you love
I know we can't forget the past
You can't forget love and pride
Because of that, it's killing me inside
It all returns to nothing
It all comes tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down
It all returns to nothing
I just keep letting me down, letting me down, letting me down
In my heart of hearts
I know that I could never love again
I've lost everything, everything
Everything that matters to me
Matters in this world
I wish that I could turn back time
Cos now the guilt is all mine
Can't live without the trust from those you love
I know we can't forget the past
You can't forget love and pride
Because of that, it's killing me inside
It all returns to nothing
It just keeps tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down
It all returns to nothing
I just keep letting me down, letting me down, letting me down
It all returns to nothing
It just keeps tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down
It all returns to nothing
I just keep letting me down, letting me down, letting me down
* * *
p.s. sorry it took so long to put up the next chapter! -nikolai
Redemption
I was…under the stairs, after I had done Asuka wrong.
"I must get to Eva!"
I then got up and ran quicker than a bolt of lightening through the corridors in attempt to find the Hangar. Upon getting there I slammed into Misato.
"Shinji! You have to get to Eva now! Asuka is out there already fighting the rest of the Eva series!"
"I know. We have to go as fast as possible!" She looked at me strangely, and smiled faintly. She knew that I knew what had to be done.
We drove through the Eva graveyard and she told me the "truth" that I already had known regarding the Evas the angels and mankind's relationship to both. I nodded, and almost humorously attempted to look interested, but all that was on my mind was saving Asuka, perhaps even saving Misato from the stray bullet and finally confronting Lilith and/or Rei, depending on whether or not they have united yet. My father has it coming to him already so he was not really on my mind. All this time I had screamed to myself that I mustn't run away. This time is no different. But now and only now do I realize that I cannot run away. Nor will I run away. I will stand my ground.
We arrived at the entrance to the Hangar, hopefully the bakelite hadn't fully dried yet was what was running through my mind. We had entered the elevator room. This is when Misato should have been shot. But of course because I wasn't slowing her down, the invading forces hadn't reached our position yet and therefore, that stray bullet never even left the barrel of the gun that shot at her. Upon standing in front of the door I then began to speak.
"I already know what you are going to say. For I have seen things that you haven't yet. I want you to know Misato, that even though it was difficult for you to be a mother to me. You did a good enough job. Thank you Misato."
"Shinji…"
She then gave me a warm motherly hug.
"Now Shinji, go do what you have to. And please Shinji, don't give up."
"This time…I won't."
"This time—?"
The opened to the elevator and I ran in. I then yelled for her to run back to the Control room. She nodded, smiled, and the doors closed abruptly. There should have been blood from her kiss. But this time. This time was different. The elevator was taking its time getting to the Hangar. Over the speaker I heard Asuka scream something about her Umbilical Cable being dismantled from her Eva.
Upon arrival of the hangar I ran onto the drying bakelite, and stumbled onto the Eva's shoulders. The tough part then came into view. How was I supposed to get to Eva? Last time, it was merely Mother awakening the full potential of the A.T. Field. Then as if on cue, Eva Unit 01's plug dispatched from its head, allowing me to enter it by climbing up its neck.
"Thank you mother. Now…lets get the hell out of here!"
An explosion of light then destroyed the Hangar as Eva and I were shot up out of the ground and above Nerve headquarters.
"It's not time to be crucified yet. This time I fight."
I saw Asuka destroying each of the Evas but I knew that they were still alive due to their dummy plugs. Little known by anyone other than the members of SEELE, Kaworu was alive inside of each of them. And I had to destroy it. Asuka's speaker than blurted out into the cockpit of Unit 01.
"God they're persistent! But I can handle them… ugh! That idiot Shinji is nowhere to be found!"
"Right here Asuka!"
I leaped out of the ground almost flying over unit 02.
"Shinji! There you are! Were the hell were you?"
"Sorting out a few things…listen, Asuka, they are equipped the Lance of Longinus! You have to be careful. I'll back you up."
"How do you know that—"
"Asuka there is no time! Third Impact is about to take place!"
"Third impact.."
As it clicked into her head, those two dreadful words, she then ceased talking and pummeled the closest Eva. I backed her up continuing to destroy the following opposition. It was then had believed to destroyed the Eva, when expectedly, the completed Eva series began to awaken from their bloody heaps.
"The Eva Series, they're getting back up!" Shrieked Asuka.
"I know, and you're about to see those lances that I was talking about."
There was something else that I kept forgetting about. The lance. Something about the lance. These lances were copies. The real one was… It then appeared in my memory. "The lance of Longinus returned…fruit of life—fruit of wisdom—"
"Incoming!" I yelled.
As the Eva series awakened with they're now newly formed lances, something then almost at the speed of light shot down from the heavens. I leaped up and grabbed it, twirled it and upon landing stabbed an Eva through the S2 Engine.
"That's it! Get the lances and use them against them! Strike their S2 Engines!"
"Got it." Affirmed Asuka.
We then leaped from Eva to Eva battling them with as much force as we possibly could. They struck us down a few times but we managed to get ourselves up, steal the lances from them, and use them against the series.
"This is the last one!" I screamed as I jumped with the lance and shoved it directly into the engine. All of the Evas then went silent. A voice came onto the intercom. It was Misato.
"Shinji! Asuka! You did it! The Eva's are destroyed. Now Third impact can't take place!"
I could here cheering in the background. Asuka then put on the private intercom.
"Shinji, you did it. Thanks for the help! It was much appreciated."
"No problem Asuka, I'm here for you. In fact any time you need help of any kind I'll always be here."
"…Same to you."
What I had wanted to hear for the longest time had finally been uttered. She then went on speaking.
"Listen, Shinji I know I can e annoying and I know I might have seemed to hate you but…I realize how unkind I was being…and I'd like to make it up to you."
I gulped.
"Yeah?"
"Shinji—all this time I—"
The main intercom turned on seemingly accidentally.
"Angel!"
"No—It's human!"
"Shinji!" screamed Misato "Rei merged with Lilith! It's heading you're way!"
Suddenly a bright light began to rise from beneath unit 01 and 02's feet. We both ran in fright from Rei, who had risen from the Egg of Lilith.
"But Third Impact can't happen! Right?"
"Wrong, it still has a chance to take place, but…what…what am I going to do?"
The Intercom turned on once more. "Shinji, You must use the Lance of Longinus, to prevent her from growing!"
"How can third impact still take place?! The Evas have been obliterated!"
"Those Eva's weren't important. It was Unit 01 that was. If Rei gets the lance, she still has a chance to merge it with Unit 01…and if that happens, The Instrumentality Project plan will succeed, mankind will fuse together in order to institute the next form of evolution for man, And the word 'we' will be no more."
"Not on my watch…"
I then ran to the tenth Lance of Longinus stuck in the ground. It had not been used because there had only been nine Eva Series Units. My Eva caught the attention of Rei who also was in need of the lance. She began to seemingly float, casually if not without emotion towards it in order to merge it with me. There was an equal distance between us. We both had the same objective. The only question now was who was going to get it.
* * *
Come, Sweet Death
I know, I know I've let you down
I've been a fool to myself
I thought that I could live for no one else
But now through all the hurt and pain
It's time for me to respect
The ones you love mean more than anything
So, with sadness in my heart
Feel the best thing that I could do
Is end it all and leave forever
What's done is done it feels so bad
What once was happy now is sad
I'll never love again
My world is ending
I wish that I could turn back time
Cos now the guilt is all mine
Can't live without
The trust from those you love
I know we can't forget the past
You can't forget love and pride
Because of that, it's killing me inside
It all returns to nothing
It all comes tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down
It all returns to nothing
I just keep letting me down, letting me down, letting me down
In my heart of hearts
I know that I could never love again
I've lost everything, everything
Everything that matters to me
Matters in this world
I wish that I could turn back time
Cos now the guilt is all mine
Can't live without the trust from those you love
I know we can't forget the past
You can't forget love and pride
Because of that, it's killing me inside
It all returns to nothing
It just keeps tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down
It all returns to nothing
I just keep letting me down, letting me down, letting me down
It all returns to nothing
It just keeps tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down
It all returns to nothing
I just keep letting me down, letting me down, letting me down
* * *