Chenalos flips on the TV set.
"...He is purple, the color of Gay pride. He has a giant elongation
extending from his head; representing the male erection..."
"But Mr. Falwell, Eavangelion Unit-01 is female."
"SURE, NOW HE IS! I urge all of you faithful people to forever abandon
this Queer Japanese degradation of American moral standards."
Chenalos turns off the TV. "*Whew* good thing he didn't actually WATCH
the series, or he woulda been REALLY pissed. I can't stand it when good
Christians go totally wacko, reminds me of Carrie."
Chenalos works his way to his inner sanctum, hits the switch on his
computer, nothing happens. He smiles and hits the switch again, nothing
happens. He walks out of the room and returns to the computer with a
skorpion sub-machinegun.
BABABABABABABABABABABA
"Ohh, well I guess I'll have to use the laptop." Looking at the bullet
holes, a realisation comes to him. "Hey, those bullet holes may interfere
with AOL. No matter, really, I'll just Wright in the fic that until
further notice I can be contacted at Steberb@regents.ac.uk, and if people
have sent me mail, with no response, From the Chenalos@aol mail, to just
send their mail again to the regents address.
Speaking of fics, it's time for a new volume of "_Fan Fiction_."
A hunchbacked underling enters the computer room. He sees the bullet holes.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOO, WINAMP! I JUST DOWNLOADED DMB'S 'ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER'!
YOU, YOU MANIAC, YOU BLEW IT UP! DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU TO HELL!"
"Yeah, but I thought you liked guns, Chuck."
***SPELL CHEKED VERSION***
I HATE writing this:
GIANAX owns NEON GENESIS EVANGELION
ADV and ADV UK release it in English. Check out the ADV UK sight sometime
and see MY selection of anime, then compare to yours, depressing huh?
MIRIMAX owns Pulp Fiction, but I don't rely on it mutch here, even so
Quentin Taratino wrote and directed it.
Like E.bola on a steak, this fic has got spoilers
You MUST have read some Pulp Evangelion by now. Keep reading it.
Pulp Evangelion ROCKS. By now you probably know the story behind it, so I
won't repeat it anymore. It's written by my good bud, and I mean BUD,
A1-I-BUS. Just read it.
There, Intro is done, now for the long stuff. Just for you Rei-heads I put
her in the opener. I did rip her off last ep, But this opening goes out to
all the the worshipers of our zero-melanin heroine.
Fan
Fiction
-Chapter 4-
Chase and Resolution
--------------------
bebebebebebebebebebebebebep
bebebebebebebebebebebebebep
bebebebebebebebebebebebebep
A little louder this time.
bebebebebebebebebebebebebep
Rei opened her eyes, and looked on the countertop, to see her phone
ringing quite loudly. The feeling had been that it had been ringing
for some time. She had been having trace fragments of a dream,
and than this odd ringing sound suddenly entered the situation. She
came back into consciousness to be greeted with the name 'Soryou' in
big black LCD letters across her phone. She closed her eyes, and
took her hand off of Kaoru's, which rested on her bare navel, his arm
spooning her. Her hand emerged from the sheets, grabbed the phone
and pressed the send button.
"Hello, Asuka...Only my sleep. What is it?..."
Kaoru became slightly disturbed, and pulled Rei's warm body in towards
his own. Rei cooed merrily.
"I'm sorry, Asuka, I don't think I can help you right now."
The noise from the telephone seemed to double in volume in Asuka's next
sentence.
"Easy Asuka, I trust you, you can handle it...Yes, alone."
Kaoru became more and more awake, opening his eyes, he sat up and stroked
Wondergirl's hair. Then Asuka said somthing That made Rei sit up in bed
and put her feet on the floor, even as this tore her head from Kaoru's
hand and exposed her nakedness to the moonlight.
"He did? Then you have to get him."
"What is it Rei?" Asked Kaoru
"Shinji just...What was that Asuka?...Yes, he's up...I don't think
that would be appropriate."
"What would?" he asked
Rei paused, even though she is pretty uninhibited, she still found this an
uncomfortable thing to ask.
"Asuka said to ask you to drive me to headquarters."
"Hey, sure, you haven't seen my motorcycle yet."
"You have a motorcycle?"
Rei's hair flew back in the wind, as the crisp cold night air blew past her.
Kaoru ducked and weaved through the few cars out at 10:45 that night. On
straight and narrow roads he got right into the middle of the street, and
gassed the cycle, which was actually more of an off road dirtbike, but
Kaoru had spent time and money souping the bike up, and it raced like never
before tonight. The streetlights blew by at incredible rates, so fast
they left impressions of blurs on Rei's eyes. She held on tight to Kaoru
as he blasted through Tokyo-3. After about fifteen minutes of blissful
high speed travel, they arrived at a tunnel passage to the Geofront.
Kaoru came to a stop inches in front of the crossing gate. Rei quickly
flashed her ID, and the gate went up. The motorcycle dove into the tunnel
During decent, several tunnels began to coalesce into one large shaft.
During this coalescence, a taxi appeared to their right moving at rather
high speed. Red could be seen in the back seat, red hair. Kaoru pulled
the bike along side the taxi long enough for both Rei and Kaoru to give
a quick wave to Asuka, who was on her cell phone. Then the bike
accelerated down the shaft, passing the taxi, and minutes later, arriving
at central dogma. Rei let her grip loose when the bike was finally at
rest. She slowly got off.
"I don't know what to say, Kaoru."
"Eeeh, my pleasure. It's not everyday I can see a two mile wise fissure
under my home town."
"I am sorry about tonight."
"That's Ok too, You have a job to do."
"Then...I still don't know what to say."
"Come here then. I know what to do when you don't know what to say..."
Rei complied. Kaoru slid his hand down to the girls back, while his other
hand held her head. He tilted his head
"...You just shut up..."
Kaoru locked his lips onto Rei's. He tilted her back slightly, and she
wrapped her arms around him. The dome gleamed twilight onto the two
lovers. Standing there, nothing else mattered. He had her, she had him.
There was nothing to be said, so they just shut up, and kissed.
"...Because you don't always need words to say something." Finalised Kaoru
after he had separated the kiss.
Rei lay there, not stood, her legs had long since stopped supporting her.
She lay in Kaoru's arms, now totally at a loss for words. Kaoru set her back
on her feet. Kaoru kissed her hand and was on his way. Rei watched the
cycle, hands folded at her waist, as it turned up the corridor, and
vanished. She fell to her knees. The sudden realisation hit her.
This thing that loomed like an aura whenever she saw Kaoru, whenever she
thought of his name, whenever anything regarding Kaoru came up, this
thought came with him always. At first she thought it was just pleasure,
but it had always seemed more than that. Rei was constantly at a loss to
explain it, something she never felt before and could never label it. It's
name now came spilling out like rain, and whispered as
quietly as a drop from a misty shower,
"I love you."
The taxi pulled in a few minutes later and Asuka jumped from the cab
throwing bills as quickly as she could at the cabby. Rei was still
on her knees in the grass outside the dogma pyramid. Her mind Racing,
yet drifting, confused but understanding. She sat there working this new
feeling into her senses. Asuka had no patience for this, however.
"What are you doing you idiot? Get to unit-00! We gotta get that bastard.
Put the plug suit on fast as you can. This boy must pay! Hi, Maya."
"Hello."
None of what Asuka was saying was registering, but that third voice out of
nowhere had her complete attention. She turned to face the short haired
vixen.
"How long have you been there?"
"Well, I know what to do when the words run out. Get inside and get to the
Evas." Maya trailed off as she walked to the control room.
Asuka sat in the Eva, getting more and more perturbed. She communicated
with Rei through a private comm link.
"I can't believe this. I take that brat Shinji out for the time of his
life, I SANG to the bastard. I sat with him and watched Ran, I was about
to give him a night he would NEVER forget, and what does this loser do?
STEALS OUR DAMN CAR!"
"Yes, I know" spoke Rei, silently
"We're just lucky, I guess, that that traffic copter found him. We know
that he is entering the mountain areas, so he is moving away from the city.
Geez, maybe this will convince Gendo that I tried, but...certain things
just happened. It's not my fault. But this is Gendo here; if he is
gonna blame anyone, he is gonna blame me. This may be the last time I
pilot the Eva. When he finds out about how I goofed this up I'm as good
as back in Germany."
"Germany, Yes."
Asuka's face went cold as she looked at Rei who wasn't even looking at her.
Rei just stared forward, not looking at anything. Asuka knew just how to
snap her out of it.
"Kaoru."
"What? What was...I am sorry Asuka, my mind was drifting, what were you
saying again?"
"FOCUS AYANAMI! Situation is; we have one boy, who has stolen our car.
He got caught in a traffic jam uptown, so he didn't make good progress
until he left the city, lucky for us. Our Evas will be launched in two
minutes, headed towards the mountains. It will take ten minutes for the
platform to shuttle us there. When we arrive, we will have five minutes
to surround Shinji. since the only umbilical cable point in that region
won't be able to stretch far enough. Hey, Maya, when do these S2 things
I've heard so much about come in?"
"I don't know what you're talking about, Asuka. You've been babbling with
Hyuga too much."
Maya put her finger vertically to her lips, reminding her that the S2
engines are strictly hush-hush.
"Fair enough, five minutes is all I need."
Units zero and two moved out and stood back to back on the platform. The
shaft opened above them, as bulkhead after bulkhead slid out of view.
Asuka saw the green light.
"EVA LAUNCH!"
14.4 minutes later
Shinji looked down at the speedometer. He was going 70, blazing around
tight turns, hugging the lines of the road. His headlights lit the path
ahead of him. To his left the huge mountain loomed like a catherdal wall.
To his right, a small cliff, on which the road was mounted and a field
beyond that in the valley. Sweat had collected on his forhead. That
chopper shining a light on him, as he left the city still had him pretty
shaken. He only had one thought and he repeated it, over and over again:
"I gotta get outa here, I gotta get outa here, I gotta get outa here..."
Without warning, the moon went black. Shinji looked out to see why,
and saw the huge silhouette of Eva unit zero's head directly in the
moonlight. It was about a mile away, and running fast.
"Asuka, I found him. He's just to the west of my position"
Rei was now low on power as was Asuka, they had spent four and a half out
of five minutes combing the mountainsides. Even with infrared scan the task
still seemed daunting, until just now. Rei raced toward Shinji, with
thunder in every step. She did a knee slide in the valley, leaving a
quarter mile of excavated ground in her path. Looking at the active
time display, she noted that she only had ten seconds remaining. She
watched as Shinji came around a curve. She slammed her hand down in front
of the red Kitana. Shinji hit the brakes as hard as he could to avoid
colliding with the hand. The car stopped only inches from the palm of Eva
unit zero. Rei felt sure that she had him, but then she saw the reverse
lights come on. She raised her other hand to block his escape, but it did
not respond. It lurched slowly like it was moving in a vat of pitch.
She looked down at the display once more, and saw she had just two seconds
remaining, and they would be low power movements. Shinji was going to
slip away like a fish. The image went dark, and the last thing she could
see was unit two's hand destroying the pavement behind the car. Shinji
was trapped.
It didn't take her long, as soon as the screen went blank, Asuka ejected
the plug and opened the hatch. The world rippled, bent, and rushed away
from her as the L.C.L. dumped out of the Eva. She jumped from the cockpit,
and collapsed on the back of unit two. With one quick heave, she cleaned
her lungs of the fluid and took in a breath of air. No cough, the L.C.L
rushed into the bloodstream, and washed from her lungs. She looked up and
saw Shinji opening the car door and running to the cliff. He rushed over
the guard rail and began climbing down to the field below. Asuka hurried
toward the back of her Eva, and jumped down from it's buttox into the
field. Fortunately, when she jumped from the mountain, and blocked
Shinji, she landed the Eva in a laid down position. She got easily into
the field and looked up just in time to see Shinji sprint past her.
"You idiot, where do you think you're going?"
Asuka jumped to her feet and chased after Shinji in the moonlight. He bent
the tall grass ahead of him, and Asuka followed in that wake. Rei had just
Ejected, she only saw the two running off into the distance. Asuka stayed
on his trail, running with the cool night air at her back. She was running
faster than she thought she could. 'Shinji should be way ahead', she
thought. The thought that she was outrunning him gave her an exta speed
jolt. She was closing in on him.
"Stop running you car snatching thief."
"You know why I took the car, Asuka." He screamed while huffing and puffing
"Yeah, because you're an ass."
"No," Shinji swung around quickly and drew the black gun from his belt
"Because of this."
Asuka stopped in front of Shinji. For the first time, in a long while,
she felt helpless.
"I found this in the glovebox. I didn't think much, you know, at first,
but then I started to think about it. This must be one of the guns you
used in that hit this morning. But yours wasn't black, because I saw it
this afternoon, it was silver. Then I started to think 'if this isn't
your gun then it must be Rei's.' But then, where is your gun? Why isn't
it in the car? I guess it was in the car, but you took it out, and put it
in that, that, bag of yours."
"What? No, Shinji I..."
"D-Don't bother Asuka, I don't like the fact that you were about to do it,
but I don't blame you. I, I know father is the one pulling the strings. I
can't quite see what I've done so wrong for him to want to-to KILL me, but
I, I guess that's just the way it is, he wants me killed."
Asuka started to chuckle slightly. Shinji grew upset
"What? What? What's so funny?"
"That wasn't a gun in the bag." Asuka said, remembering how quickly she had
gotten into her plug suit.
"What was in the bag then?"
Asuka paused to look at the Moon, it was out in full splendour tonight, it
Was also the only light around.
"Well, What was in the bag?"
Asuka hit the Decompression button on her plug suit. The skin of the suit
lifted off of her body. She pulled the rubber off of her body exposing the
items she had bought earlier that day. In her hurry to put on the suit she
had left them on. In the pale moonlight Shinji could plainly see the
tactile folds of the lingerie. He was taken back a bit.
"This was in the bag, Shinji." she said, not even looking up at him, just
staring at the grass at her feet. "Your father wanted me to sleep with you
tonight. I didn't just come by your house today, I was told to do it.
We were going to make love tonight, Shinji, commanders orders. If I didn't
I would loose my Eva. That is what has been tormenting me all day long.
I want to pilot it," she closed her eyes, shamed "So I was willing to sleep
with you to do it."
There was a long silence, then Shinji raised the gun.
"My dad is a prick, but not even he would do something that cruel, how do I
know you're not lying?"
In a rage Asuka's hand ripped the gun from Shinji, and She threw it as hard
as she could. She grabbed Shinji, and threw him to the ground, screaming
as loud as she could.
"WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO, DAMMIT? WHAT WILL CONVINCE YOU THAT I AM TELLING
THE TRUTH? Do we have to do it right here? If I was gonna kill you, you
would have been dead by now. YOU WANT THE TRUTH? Well here it is. I had
a great time tonight." Asuka's voice became calmer, "Everything we did was
just fun, and I wouldn't have sacrificed a second of it. The truth is
that I thought you were a great person. I eventually convinced myself to
give it up for you, that's how great you were. But I was wrong, because
the truth is that you don't trust me. I told you the truth and you didn't
believe in me. The truth is that you don't trust me at all."
Asuka got up off the ground and picked up her plug suit. Shinji sat up.
"I will never, NEVER share myself with someone who doesn't trust me."
Shinji watched as Asuka walked her way back to the Eva. He stood up and
did nothing, he hated himself for this. He stood there and repeated to
himself 'IDIOT I AM SUCH AN IDIOT' with his eyes closed tightley. When he
opened them he could barely see the girl in the moonlight.
"ASUKA! I'm sorry, I didn't mean it."
She kept on walking
"Please, come back ASUKA...Asuka."
She just kept on walking.
Fifteen minutes later a taxi came to pick them up, rung in by Rei. It took
some effort from her to get Shinji out of the field, and even more to get
the two of them into the car, but here they all finally were. Heading back
to Tokyo-3. No one spoke. Asuka looked out one window, not wanting to
hear a word from Shinji. Shinji looked at the reflection of Asuka in his
window, knowing that there was not one thing he could say could make it
better. Rei sat in the middle, thinking silently to herself about love.
How she was so new to it, and how it has it's complications. They were just
outside of Tokyo-3 when Shinji finally spoke up.
"Take a left up here."
"The Geofront?" asked Asuka, compassionlessly
"Yeah..." he replied
Rei lightened up slightly, now that they finally said something to one
another.
The Taxi pulled into the central dogma lot, much to the joy of the driver,
who had never seen the Geofront. Shinji got out.
"Will you guys come with me?"
The response he got from that question took quite a while to resolve. In
the end, Rei managed to get Asuka to follow Shinji. There they walked,
first Shinji then Rei then Asuka, they came to a stop outside of commander
Ikari's office. Shinji reached into his pocket to get his spare key for
the entrance. He put it up to one of the double doors.
"What are you trying to prove, Shinji?" Asuka asked
"That I trust you." he replied "I am going in here and I'm going to leave a
message on his desk, that I know about what he pulled, if he gets rid of
you, then I'm leaving too. I want you to trust me. That's all that
matters"
Shinji raised the key to the slot and turned it. He opened the door, and
what he saw shocked him.
"DAD?"
"SHINJI! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?"
Shinji developed a shocked expression.
"What am _I_ doing here? Simple you put Asuka up to sleeping with me, and
now she HATES my ass."
Shinji walked inside and let the door close behind him.
"But what are YOU doing here? First you tell me that you can't go to the
Sumo tournament tonight then I find you here with..."
The door slammed and the Conversation was cut off. Asuka and Rei could not
help themselves, they pressed their ears up to the door frame and listened,
but heard only mumbling though the door. About five minutes later the
door opened, and out stepped a slightly sweaty Ritsuko Ikagi. She wished the
girls a good night and walked down the hall. Asuka and Rei exchanged a
glance.
"Uhhhh-huh." spoke Asuka
"Intriguing." Remarked Rei
Thirty minutes later the door opened up, out stepped Shinji. Lo and
behold, Gendo's head appeared from behind the door. He turned to Asuka.
"Asuka....recently, I issued you some---improper orders."
"Is that so?" spoke Shinji
"Yes, and I am...sorry for the mistake, now if you'll excuse me I have work
to do."
The door slammed shut, louder than anyone ever heard before.
Asuka and Rei looked at Shinji, he had done the impossible, Commander Ikari
actually apologised for something. This was unheard of. Neither of the
girls spoke.
Shinji finally made an overture of speech.
"Every man has balls, and in life you either use them, or someone grabs you
by them." he said with a smile
A taxi pulled up to Asuka, Rei had long since gone home. Shinji stood next
to her, they had been talking all along about the things that happened
today. It would seem that in one day they went through all these diffent
emotions, but in the end, their status was as friends, maybe better.
"Asuka, I uhh, just remembered."
"What?"
"I forgot to tell you something tonight."
"What's that?"
"Well I think you should know I had a really good time tonight, and I'm
glad that we went out."
"That's sweet of you Shinji I had a great time too."
"Can we go out again sometime?"
"Any time."
Asuka and Shinji stood there a moment. Shinji finally mustered up the guts
and took Asuka off her balance, he planted his lips on hers, and leaned her
back against the cab. That moment officially ended the trauma. The gun,
the chase, the anger, they all washed away from them. Resolution ushered
in understanding. They kissed for a long while, so long that the cab
driver became impatient.
"You kids keep this up and I'll put it on the meter."
Asuka pulled back and asked Shinji a question,
"Did you get a cab yet?"
"No."
"Well, then you can ride in this one with me."
"No, I don't wanna put that on you."
"Hey it's fine, I don't want to leave you just yet tonight."
With that the cab door closed, and the car pulled away into the night.
To Be Continued...
GUESS WHAT? I'M NOT GOING TO TELL YOU! HA HA HA HA HA! The next
episode won't explore weather or not Shinji did the deed! All of you that
read The Entry Plug Trilogy should have seen this coming a mile away!
Don't worry the next ep switches the sights onto Rei. go and read it
it's Chapter 5 of _Fan Fiction_:
"Exodus Ayanami"
----------------
"I knew you would read further.
I want to stress again. If your just reading Fan Fiction, your only
reading half the story. Check out my partner in crime, A1-I-Bus as he
pits Rei and Asuka against the world. In _Pulp Evangelion_.
(He's got Misato worked in there already. You are gonna have to be REAL
patient with me on those terms. So, read about Misato in Pulp Evangelion)
ENERGYMAIL I WANT ENERGYMAIL!
To me, E-mail is like those glowing cubes they had in the TRANSFORMERS.
good night.
-Chenalos
Chenalos@aol.com
"...He is purple, the color of Gay pride. He has a giant elongation
extending from his head; representing the male erection..."
"But Mr. Falwell, Eavangelion Unit-01 is female."
"SURE, NOW HE IS! I urge all of you faithful people to forever abandon
this Queer Japanese degradation of American moral standards."
Chenalos turns off the TV. "*Whew* good thing he didn't actually WATCH
the series, or he woulda been REALLY pissed. I can't stand it when good
Christians go totally wacko, reminds me of Carrie."
Chenalos works his way to his inner sanctum, hits the switch on his
computer, nothing happens. He smiles and hits the switch again, nothing
happens. He walks out of the room and returns to the computer with a
skorpion sub-machinegun.
BABABABABABABABABABABA
"Ohh, well I guess I'll have to use the laptop." Looking at the bullet
holes, a realisation comes to him. "Hey, those bullet holes may interfere
with AOL. No matter, really, I'll just Wright in the fic that until
further notice I can be contacted at Steberb@regents.ac.uk, and if people
have sent me mail, with no response, From the Chenalos@aol mail, to just
send their mail again to the regents address.
Speaking of fics, it's time for a new volume of "_Fan Fiction_."
A hunchbacked underling enters the computer room. He sees the bullet holes.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOO, WINAMP! I JUST DOWNLOADED DMB'S 'ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER'!
YOU, YOU MANIAC, YOU BLEW IT UP! DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU TO HELL!"
"Yeah, but I thought you liked guns, Chuck."
***SPELL CHEKED VERSION***
I HATE writing this:
GIANAX owns NEON GENESIS EVANGELION
ADV and ADV UK release it in English. Check out the ADV UK sight sometime
and see MY selection of anime, then compare to yours, depressing huh?
MIRIMAX owns Pulp Fiction, but I don't rely on it mutch here, even so
Quentin Taratino wrote and directed it.
Like E.bola on a steak, this fic has got spoilers
You MUST have read some Pulp Evangelion by now. Keep reading it.
Pulp Evangelion ROCKS. By now you probably know the story behind it, so I
won't repeat it anymore. It's written by my good bud, and I mean BUD,
A1-I-BUS. Just read it.
There, Intro is done, now for the long stuff. Just for you Rei-heads I put
her in the opener. I did rip her off last ep, But this opening goes out to
all the the worshipers of our zero-melanin heroine.
Fan
Fiction
-Chapter 4-
Chase and Resolution
--------------------
bebebebebebebebebebebebebep
bebebebebebebebebebebebebep
bebebebebebebebebebebebebep
A little louder this time.
bebebebebebebebebebebebebep
Rei opened her eyes, and looked on the countertop, to see her phone
ringing quite loudly. The feeling had been that it had been ringing
for some time. She had been having trace fragments of a dream,
and than this odd ringing sound suddenly entered the situation. She
came back into consciousness to be greeted with the name 'Soryou' in
big black LCD letters across her phone. She closed her eyes, and
took her hand off of Kaoru's, which rested on her bare navel, his arm
spooning her. Her hand emerged from the sheets, grabbed the phone
and pressed the send button.
"Hello, Asuka...Only my sleep. What is it?..."
Kaoru became slightly disturbed, and pulled Rei's warm body in towards
his own. Rei cooed merrily.
"I'm sorry, Asuka, I don't think I can help you right now."
The noise from the telephone seemed to double in volume in Asuka's next
sentence.
"Easy Asuka, I trust you, you can handle it...Yes, alone."
Kaoru became more and more awake, opening his eyes, he sat up and stroked
Wondergirl's hair. Then Asuka said somthing That made Rei sit up in bed
and put her feet on the floor, even as this tore her head from Kaoru's
hand and exposed her nakedness to the moonlight.
"He did? Then you have to get him."
"What is it Rei?" Asked Kaoru
"Shinji just...What was that Asuka?...Yes, he's up...I don't think
that would be appropriate."
"What would?" he asked
Rei paused, even though she is pretty uninhibited, she still found this an
uncomfortable thing to ask.
"Asuka said to ask you to drive me to headquarters."
"Hey, sure, you haven't seen my motorcycle yet."
"You have a motorcycle?"
Rei's hair flew back in the wind, as the crisp cold night air blew past her.
Kaoru ducked and weaved through the few cars out at 10:45 that night. On
straight and narrow roads he got right into the middle of the street, and
gassed the cycle, which was actually more of an off road dirtbike, but
Kaoru had spent time and money souping the bike up, and it raced like never
before tonight. The streetlights blew by at incredible rates, so fast
they left impressions of blurs on Rei's eyes. She held on tight to Kaoru
as he blasted through Tokyo-3. After about fifteen minutes of blissful
high speed travel, they arrived at a tunnel passage to the Geofront.
Kaoru came to a stop inches in front of the crossing gate. Rei quickly
flashed her ID, and the gate went up. The motorcycle dove into the tunnel
During decent, several tunnels began to coalesce into one large shaft.
During this coalescence, a taxi appeared to their right moving at rather
high speed. Red could be seen in the back seat, red hair. Kaoru pulled
the bike along side the taxi long enough for both Rei and Kaoru to give
a quick wave to Asuka, who was on her cell phone. Then the bike
accelerated down the shaft, passing the taxi, and minutes later, arriving
at central dogma. Rei let her grip loose when the bike was finally at
rest. She slowly got off.
"I don't know what to say, Kaoru."
"Eeeh, my pleasure. It's not everyday I can see a two mile wise fissure
under my home town."
"I am sorry about tonight."
"That's Ok too, You have a job to do."
"Then...I still don't know what to say."
"Come here then. I know what to do when you don't know what to say..."
Rei complied. Kaoru slid his hand down to the girls back, while his other
hand held her head. He tilted his head
"...You just shut up..."
Kaoru locked his lips onto Rei's. He tilted her back slightly, and she
wrapped her arms around him. The dome gleamed twilight onto the two
lovers. Standing there, nothing else mattered. He had her, she had him.
There was nothing to be said, so they just shut up, and kissed.
"...Because you don't always need words to say something." Finalised Kaoru
after he had separated the kiss.
Rei lay there, not stood, her legs had long since stopped supporting her.
She lay in Kaoru's arms, now totally at a loss for words. Kaoru set her back
on her feet. Kaoru kissed her hand and was on his way. Rei watched the
cycle, hands folded at her waist, as it turned up the corridor, and
vanished. She fell to her knees. The sudden realisation hit her.
This thing that loomed like an aura whenever she saw Kaoru, whenever she
thought of his name, whenever anything regarding Kaoru came up, this
thought came with him always. At first she thought it was just pleasure,
but it had always seemed more than that. Rei was constantly at a loss to
explain it, something she never felt before and could never label it. It's
name now came spilling out like rain, and whispered as
quietly as a drop from a misty shower,
"I love you."
The taxi pulled in a few minutes later and Asuka jumped from the cab
throwing bills as quickly as she could at the cabby. Rei was still
on her knees in the grass outside the dogma pyramid. Her mind Racing,
yet drifting, confused but understanding. She sat there working this new
feeling into her senses. Asuka had no patience for this, however.
"What are you doing you idiot? Get to unit-00! We gotta get that bastard.
Put the plug suit on fast as you can. This boy must pay! Hi, Maya."
"Hello."
None of what Asuka was saying was registering, but that third voice out of
nowhere had her complete attention. She turned to face the short haired
vixen.
"How long have you been there?"
"Well, I know what to do when the words run out. Get inside and get to the
Evas." Maya trailed off as she walked to the control room.
Asuka sat in the Eva, getting more and more perturbed. She communicated
with Rei through a private comm link.
"I can't believe this. I take that brat Shinji out for the time of his
life, I SANG to the bastard. I sat with him and watched Ran, I was about
to give him a night he would NEVER forget, and what does this loser do?
STEALS OUR DAMN CAR!"
"Yes, I know" spoke Rei, silently
"We're just lucky, I guess, that that traffic copter found him. We know
that he is entering the mountain areas, so he is moving away from the city.
Geez, maybe this will convince Gendo that I tried, but...certain things
just happened. It's not my fault. But this is Gendo here; if he is
gonna blame anyone, he is gonna blame me. This may be the last time I
pilot the Eva. When he finds out about how I goofed this up I'm as good
as back in Germany."
"Germany, Yes."
Asuka's face went cold as she looked at Rei who wasn't even looking at her.
Rei just stared forward, not looking at anything. Asuka knew just how to
snap her out of it.
"Kaoru."
"What? What was...I am sorry Asuka, my mind was drifting, what were you
saying again?"
"FOCUS AYANAMI! Situation is; we have one boy, who has stolen our car.
He got caught in a traffic jam uptown, so he didn't make good progress
until he left the city, lucky for us. Our Evas will be launched in two
minutes, headed towards the mountains. It will take ten minutes for the
platform to shuttle us there. When we arrive, we will have five minutes
to surround Shinji. since the only umbilical cable point in that region
won't be able to stretch far enough. Hey, Maya, when do these S2 things
I've heard so much about come in?"
"I don't know what you're talking about, Asuka. You've been babbling with
Hyuga too much."
Maya put her finger vertically to her lips, reminding her that the S2
engines are strictly hush-hush.
"Fair enough, five minutes is all I need."
Units zero and two moved out and stood back to back on the platform. The
shaft opened above them, as bulkhead after bulkhead slid out of view.
Asuka saw the green light.
"EVA LAUNCH!"
14.4 minutes later
Shinji looked down at the speedometer. He was going 70, blazing around
tight turns, hugging the lines of the road. His headlights lit the path
ahead of him. To his left the huge mountain loomed like a catherdal wall.
To his right, a small cliff, on which the road was mounted and a field
beyond that in the valley. Sweat had collected on his forhead. That
chopper shining a light on him, as he left the city still had him pretty
shaken. He only had one thought and he repeated it, over and over again:
"I gotta get outa here, I gotta get outa here, I gotta get outa here..."
Without warning, the moon went black. Shinji looked out to see why,
and saw the huge silhouette of Eva unit zero's head directly in the
moonlight. It was about a mile away, and running fast.
"Asuka, I found him. He's just to the west of my position"
Rei was now low on power as was Asuka, they had spent four and a half out
of five minutes combing the mountainsides. Even with infrared scan the task
still seemed daunting, until just now. Rei raced toward Shinji, with
thunder in every step. She did a knee slide in the valley, leaving a
quarter mile of excavated ground in her path. Looking at the active
time display, she noted that she only had ten seconds remaining. She
watched as Shinji came around a curve. She slammed her hand down in front
of the red Kitana. Shinji hit the brakes as hard as he could to avoid
colliding with the hand. The car stopped only inches from the palm of Eva
unit zero. Rei felt sure that she had him, but then she saw the reverse
lights come on. She raised her other hand to block his escape, but it did
not respond. It lurched slowly like it was moving in a vat of pitch.
She looked down at the display once more, and saw she had just two seconds
remaining, and they would be low power movements. Shinji was going to
slip away like a fish. The image went dark, and the last thing she could
see was unit two's hand destroying the pavement behind the car. Shinji
was trapped.
It didn't take her long, as soon as the screen went blank, Asuka ejected
the plug and opened the hatch. The world rippled, bent, and rushed away
from her as the L.C.L. dumped out of the Eva. She jumped from the cockpit,
and collapsed on the back of unit two. With one quick heave, she cleaned
her lungs of the fluid and took in a breath of air. No cough, the L.C.L
rushed into the bloodstream, and washed from her lungs. She looked up and
saw Shinji opening the car door and running to the cliff. He rushed over
the guard rail and began climbing down to the field below. Asuka hurried
toward the back of her Eva, and jumped down from it's buttox into the
field. Fortunately, when she jumped from the mountain, and blocked
Shinji, she landed the Eva in a laid down position. She got easily into
the field and looked up just in time to see Shinji sprint past her.
"You idiot, where do you think you're going?"
Asuka jumped to her feet and chased after Shinji in the moonlight. He bent
the tall grass ahead of him, and Asuka followed in that wake. Rei had just
Ejected, she only saw the two running off into the distance. Asuka stayed
on his trail, running with the cool night air at her back. She was running
faster than she thought she could. 'Shinji should be way ahead', she
thought. The thought that she was outrunning him gave her an exta speed
jolt. She was closing in on him.
"Stop running you car snatching thief."
"You know why I took the car, Asuka." He screamed while huffing and puffing
"Yeah, because you're an ass."
"No," Shinji swung around quickly and drew the black gun from his belt
"Because of this."
Asuka stopped in front of Shinji. For the first time, in a long while,
she felt helpless.
"I found this in the glovebox. I didn't think much, you know, at first,
but then I started to think about it. This must be one of the guns you
used in that hit this morning. But yours wasn't black, because I saw it
this afternoon, it was silver. Then I started to think 'if this isn't
your gun then it must be Rei's.' But then, where is your gun? Why isn't
it in the car? I guess it was in the car, but you took it out, and put it
in that, that, bag of yours."
"What? No, Shinji I..."
"D-Don't bother Asuka, I don't like the fact that you were about to do it,
but I don't blame you. I, I know father is the one pulling the strings. I
can't quite see what I've done so wrong for him to want to-to KILL me, but
I, I guess that's just the way it is, he wants me killed."
Asuka started to chuckle slightly. Shinji grew upset
"What? What? What's so funny?"
"That wasn't a gun in the bag." Asuka said, remembering how quickly she had
gotten into her plug suit.
"What was in the bag then?"
Asuka paused to look at the Moon, it was out in full splendour tonight, it
Was also the only light around.
"Well, What was in the bag?"
Asuka hit the Decompression button on her plug suit. The skin of the suit
lifted off of her body. She pulled the rubber off of her body exposing the
items she had bought earlier that day. In her hurry to put on the suit she
had left them on. In the pale moonlight Shinji could plainly see the
tactile folds of the lingerie. He was taken back a bit.
"This was in the bag, Shinji." she said, not even looking up at him, just
staring at the grass at her feet. "Your father wanted me to sleep with you
tonight. I didn't just come by your house today, I was told to do it.
We were going to make love tonight, Shinji, commanders orders. If I didn't
I would loose my Eva. That is what has been tormenting me all day long.
I want to pilot it," she closed her eyes, shamed "So I was willing to sleep
with you to do it."
There was a long silence, then Shinji raised the gun.
"My dad is a prick, but not even he would do something that cruel, how do I
know you're not lying?"
In a rage Asuka's hand ripped the gun from Shinji, and She threw it as hard
as she could. She grabbed Shinji, and threw him to the ground, screaming
as loud as she could.
"WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO, DAMMIT? WHAT WILL CONVINCE YOU THAT I AM TELLING
THE TRUTH? Do we have to do it right here? If I was gonna kill you, you
would have been dead by now. YOU WANT THE TRUTH? Well here it is. I had
a great time tonight." Asuka's voice became calmer, "Everything we did was
just fun, and I wouldn't have sacrificed a second of it. The truth is
that I thought you were a great person. I eventually convinced myself to
give it up for you, that's how great you were. But I was wrong, because
the truth is that you don't trust me. I told you the truth and you didn't
believe in me. The truth is that you don't trust me at all."
Asuka got up off the ground and picked up her plug suit. Shinji sat up.
"I will never, NEVER share myself with someone who doesn't trust me."
Shinji watched as Asuka walked her way back to the Eva. He stood up and
did nothing, he hated himself for this. He stood there and repeated to
himself 'IDIOT I AM SUCH AN IDIOT' with his eyes closed tightley. When he
opened them he could barely see the girl in the moonlight.
"ASUKA! I'm sorry, I didn't mean it."
She kept on walking
"Please, come back ASUKA...Asuka."
She just kept on walking.
Fifteen minutes later a taxi came to pick them up, rung in by Rei. It took
some effort from her to get Shinji out of the field, and even more to get
the two of them into the car, but here they all finally were. Heading back
to Tokyo-3. No one spoke. Asuka looked out one window, not wanting to
hear a word from Shinji. Shinji looked at the reflection of Asuka in his
window, knowing that there was not one thing he could say could make it
better. Rei sat in the middle, thinking silently to herself about love.
How she was so new to it, and how it has it's complications. They were just
outside of Tokyo-3 when Shinji finally spoke up.
"Take a left up here."
"The Geofront?" asked Asuka, compassionlessly
"Yeah..." he replied
Rei lightened up slightly, now that they finally said something to one
another.
The Taxi pulled into the central dogma lot, much to the joy of the driver,
who had never seen the Geofront. Shinji got out.
"Will you guys come with me?"
The response he got from that question took quite a while to resolve. In
the end, Rei managed to get Asuka to follow Shinji. There they walked,
first Shinji then Rei then Asuka, they came to a stop outside of commander
Ikari's office. Shinji reached into his pocket to get his spare key for
the entrance. He put it up to one of the double doors.
"What are you trying to prove, Shinji?" Asuka asked
"That I trust you." he replied "I am going in here and I'm going to leave a
message on his desk, that I know about what he pulled, if he gets rid of
you, then I'm leaving too. I want you to trust me. That's all that
matters"
Shinji raised the key to the slot and turned it. He opened the door, and
what he saw shocked him.
"DAD?"
"SHINJI! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?"
Shinji developed a shocked expression.
"What am _I_ doing here? Simple you put Asuka up to sleeping with me, and
now she HATES my ass."
Shinji walked inside and let the door close behind him.
"But what are YOU doing here? First you tell me that you can't go to the
Sumo tournament tonight then I find you here with..."
The door slammed and the Conversation was cut off. Asuka and Rei could not
help themselves, they pressed their ears up to the door frame and listened,
but heard only mumbling though the door. About five minutes later the
door opened, and out stepped a slightly sweaty Ritsuko Ikagi. She wished the
girls a good night and walked down the hall. Asuka and Rei exchanged a
glance.
"Uhhhh-huh." spoke Asuka
"Intriguing." Remarked Rei
Thirty minutes later the door opened up, out stepped Shinji. Lo and
behold, Gendo's head appeared from behind the door. He turned to Asuka.
"Asuka....recently, I issued you some---improper orders."
"Is that so?" spoke Shinji
"Yes, and I am...sorry for the mistake, now if you'll excuse me I have work
to do."
The door slammed shut, louder than anyone ever heard before.
Asuka and Rei looked at Shinji, he had done the impossible, Commander Ikari
actually apologised for something. This was unheard of. Neither of the
girls spoke.
Shinji finally made an overture of speech.
"Every man has balls, and in life you either use them, or someone grabs you
by them." he said with a smile
A taxi pulled up to Asuka, Rei had long since gone home. Shinji stood next
to her, they had been talking all along about the things that happened
today. It would seem that in one day they went through all these diffent
emotions, but in the end, their status was as friends, maybe better.
"Asuka, I uhh, just remembered."
"What?"
"I forgot to tell you something tonight."
"What's that?"
"Well I think you should know I had a really good time tonight, and I'm
glad that we went out."
"That's sweet of you Shinji I had a great time too."
"Can we go out again sometime?"
"Any time."
Asuka and Shinji stood there a moment. Shinji finally mustered up the guts
and took Asuka off her balance, he planted his lips on hers, and leaned her
back against the cab. That moment officially ended the trauma. The gun,
the chase, the anger, they all washed away from them. Resolution ushered
in understanding. They kissed for a long while, so long that the cab
driver became impatient.
"You kids keep this up and I'll put it on the meter."
Asuka pulled back and asked Shinji a question,
"Did you get a cab yet?"
"No."
"Well, then you can ride in this one with me."
"No, I don't wanna put that on you."
"Hey it's fine, I don't want to leave you just yet tonight."
With that the cab door closed, and the car pulled away into the night.
To Be Continued...
GUESS WHAT? I'M NOT GOING TO TELL YOU! HA HA HA HA HA! The next
episode won't explore weather or not Shinji did the deed! All of you that
read The Entry Plug Trilogy should have seen this coming a mile away!
Don't worry the next ep switches the sights onto Rei. go and read it
it's Chapter 5 of _Fan Fiction_:
"Exodus Ayanami"
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"I knew you would read further.
I want to stress again. If your just reading Fan Fiction, your only
reading half the story. Check out my partner in crime, A1-I-Bus as he
pits Rei and Asuka against the world. In _Pulp Evangelion_.
(He's got Misato worked in there already. You are gonna have to be REAL
patient with me on those terms. So, read about Misato in Pulp Evangelion)
ENERGYMAIL I WANT ENERGYMAIL!
To me, E-mail is like those glowing cubes they had in the TRANSFORMERS.
good night.
-Chenalos
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