Neon Genesis: Evangelion
Genesis: 0:22: Fallen Angels
[A/N: YEAH! KASUMI/SHINJI! Now, for the REAL fun!]
[Disclaimer: Don't own.]
"So, do you want this made public knowledge?"
Kensuke waved his disc before Shinji's face, "I can make copies and sell them
quick!" Suddenly, the disc was plucked
from his hand and pulled away. Kensuke
gaped at the person who had stolen his disc.
"Like heck you'll be making copies!" Kasumi growled, dropping the disc
into her bag, "I thought we said to not be throwing that thing around!"
"Aw,
but the scene is so cute!" Touji wrapped his arms around Shinji and Kasumi's
shoulders, "It's pouring rain…a distraught girl finds her true love…and they
kiss!" In unison, Kasumi and Shinji
slammed their palms against Touji's temples and shouted, "Shut up!"
The
group had stopped and was laughing when they heard the clopping of high heels
against concrete. They looked in unison
to find a very pretty girl walking towards them, wearing some of the most
revealing clothing the group had every seen.
The girl had blond hair and dark sunglasses, but wore red high heels,
and a red one-piece that ended a fourth down her thigh.
"Hey,
you kids seem to be heading towards school." she said, "Can you tell me—" She paused and looked towards Kasumi and
Asuka. She flipped her sunglasses up
onto her forehead and held them there, staring towards the two girls.
"My
word, you are a catch!" she said with a sudden smile, "So tell me, does
everyone go after you?" "Well, I
wouldn't say that—" Asuka flipped her hair and smiled.
"I
wasn't talking to you devil cow!" the girl said, "I was talking to the
pretty purple-eyed one!" She smiled at
Kasumi while Asuka's eyes widened in shock.
The hell-haired pilot felt a sudden memory flow through her mind, and
then shouted, "HEY!" Kasumi stared at
the girl's eyes for a moment. They were
blood, crimson red, exactly like Rei's.
And exactly like…
"So,
where is the school, pretty girl?" the girl questioned. "Um, well, it's that way." Shinji pointed,
"You can come with us, if you want."
The girl looked straight at Shinji and grinned. "Walk with pretty girl?" she said, "I'd do
that any day!" She looked back towards
Kasumi, but she was gone.
Kasumi
ran as fast as she could towards the school.
She wanted to get away from that girl as quick as she could. Something about her, something about her
eyes just frightened her badly. She
darted through the school doors and towards her classroom.
Shinji,
Asuka, Touji, and Kensuke walked lazily into the classroom, and Shinji and
Asuka walked to Kasumi. "Hey, why'd you
run away like that?" Asuka questioned, "That Marie Ann girl is actually pretty
nice! Even if she called me a devil
cow." "Sorry." Kasumi sighed, "I'd just
like to stay away from her, if you don't mind." "Don't worry." Shinji patted her reassuringly on the shoulder,
"She's fifteen! We won't be seeing her
at all!"
As
the day slipped on and into lunch, Kasumi and Shinji stayed together. Kasumi stared up at the shaking leaves of
the tree above, watching the fragmented sun move between the fresh green
leaves. "So why did you really want to
get away from that Marie Ann girl?" Shinji swallowed what he was chewing, "You
can tell me." Kasumi sighed and looked
down at the bento that Shinji had made for her, himself, and Asuka. Her hands tightened slowly and she
shuddered.
"Hey,
are you all right?" Shinji slowly slid his arm around her shoulder nervously,
"What's the matter?" "How long was I
inside unit-14?" Kasumi asked softly.
"Two months, I think." Shinji replied, "Why?" "Well, it's just that you looked taller." Kasumi murmured, "That
and everything seemed to be changed around."
"Yeah,
Misato said that this was just about the time that it was just the middle of
spring." Shinji replied, "It's one of the best times of the year. Everything's coming back to life." "I have a bad feeling about her." Kasumi
suddenly said, "I don't know why, but I have a really bad feeling about her."
"Aw,
who? The devil cow?"
Two
hands covered Kasumi's eyes as the person said those words. Kasumi let out a scream and leapt away from
the bench, landing hard on the ground.
She panted and looked back up towards the grassy hill that the bench was
by to find that girl, that red-eyed girl.
"Now,
c'mon pretty girl!" Marie Ann laughed, "You don't have to be so scared around
me! I just want to be your
friend!" Shinji chuckled
good-naturedly, "You know, you don't make friends by scaring the living
daylights out of them!"
"Who
the hell asked you, wimp-boy?!" Marie Ann snapped. But by the time she looked back towards Kasumi, the Sixth Child
was gone again. "Damn, she's a quick
one too!" Marie Ann growled.
Kasumi
hid behind a nearby tree, praying that that Marie Ann girl would leave. After glancing around, the blonde girl
shrugged in defeat and trotted off.
Kasumi sighed and nearly started out from behind the tree. Suddenly, a hand tapped her on the
shoulder. The brown-haired pilot
screamed in shock.
"Geez,
Kasumi, calm down would ya?" Asuka had her hand up and let it drop, "I just saw
you hiding back here and wanted to talk to you." "About what?" Kasumi slowly caught her breath. "Marie Ann was talking to me a little bit
ago, and she said she wanted to come over." Asuka replied.
"Please
tell me you said no." Kasumi squeaked.
"Sorry, but I already called Misato." Asuka held up her cell phone,
"She's coming over." Kasumi squeaked
sadly.
"So,
you're the new girl." Misato said behind her can of Yebisu, "Asuka said that
you're pretty nice." Kasumi kept
nervously glancing sideways at the blond-haired girl, who was sitting next to
her. "Well, thank you very much!" Marie
Ann smiled, "I just moved here to Japan a few days ago!"
"Huh?"
Asuka asked. "Oh, I'm American." Marie
Ann replied, "My parents thought it would be best if I took part in a foreign
exchange program, so they sent me here to Japan!" "Cool!" Shinji smiled, "So how long are you staying here?" "Oh maybe a year or two." Marie Ann replied.
"Damn
it…" Kasumi cursed in her mind silently, "I have to put up with her for at least
a year?!" She looked up towards the
ceiling with an unnoticeable grimace.
"Not only that, but I think she's hitting on me!" she thought.
"So,
you guys are all government agents?" Marie Ann asked. "No, not like that!" Misato laughed, "Um…" "We're just soldiers!" Asuka smiled, "Misato
is the only agent, if you want to look at it that way." "Fourteen-year-old kids?" Marie Ann
questioned, "This government uses fourteen-year-old kids as soldiers? That's just cold."
"Hey
now, we don't mind." Shinji waved his hand, "Actually, Asuka likes—" Asuka and Misato nearly screeched and
slapped their hands over Shinji's mouth.
"Uh, I like…the training!" Asuka said, "Yeah, that's it! The training!" "And what about you, pretty girl?" Marie Ann nudged Kasumi in the
side, "Do you like this, or do you want to quit?"
"Well,
I really don't mind really." Kasumi murmured, trying not to look at the
red-eyed fifteen-year-old. "How could
you not?" Marie Ann asked angrily, "Children should not be forced to do this!" "You wouldn't happen to be part of C-O-G,
would you?" Misato asked.
"Part
of cog?" Asuka blinked, "How could she be part of a watch?" "Asuka, C.O.G. is a protest-group that's
protesting against NERV." Kasumi said, "They're saying that we pilots should be
taken into their custody, and the Evangelions should be destroyed." "Come again?" Marie Ann asked. "Well, since Kasumi's a blabbermouth, the
children really aren't soldiers in the normal sense." Misato glared at Kasumi,
"They're Eva pilots."
"Eva
pilots!" Marie Ann shouted, leaning forwards, "You mean you have to pilot those
freakish robots?!" "I don't mind."
Kasumi replied, "Actually, piloting unit-14 is better than living alone and
staying alone." "But why would you want
to?!" Marie Ann seemed frantic.
Misato
stared at the two girls, and then her Yebisu ran dry. "Shinji, can I have another?" she asked sweetly. "Right!" Shinji leapt up and away from the
line of fire Kasumi and Marie Ann had.
Shinji
opened the fridge door and wheeled out the Yebisu container. It was absolutely empty. "Uh, Misato, you're…out." he called. "What?!" Misato shouted, "Damn it! Can you go and—"
"I'll
go, Misato." Kasumi stood up, "I'd do that sooner than stay here and listen to
someone question my choice." She walked
to the door, slipped on her shoes, and left.
"Arigato!"
Kasumi called with a sigh over her shoulder.
She shifted the bag on her back with a twitching eyebrow. The owner of the liquor store said that
Misato was his best customer, and he gave Kasumi a backpack so she could carry
the Yebisu Misato needed easily.
The fourteen-year-old pilot walked down the sidewalk
leisurely, frowning at that Marie Ann girl.
"How dare she question my choice?" she whispered angrily, "She has a
family! I only have unit-14 to connect
to!"
"Now
that's a cold thought. You've connected
to me!"
Kasumi
paused and stood up straight. Kaoru's
voice…? "Kaoru?" she whispered, "Kaoru,
are you…"
"Speaking
to you telepathically? Yes."
Kaoru's voice replied. "God, I thought
someone was messing with my head!" Kasumi laughed, "I didn't know that we could
speak to each other!" Kaoru laughed.
Suddenly,
Kasumi became aware of someone standing behind her. She turned slowly around to find a small group of people standing
behind her. A tall, slender woman who
had raven-black hair and identical eyes headed the group.
"What
do you want?" Kasumi growled.
"You are Shiro Kasumi, pilot of Evangelion unit-14, are you not?" the
woman asked. "And what if I am?" Kasumi
snarled. The woman chuckled darkly and
said, "That's what we thought." The sun
glimmered over the horizon as it slowly sank.
It was nearly vanished below the Tokyo-3 horizon.
"You
know, even though the store is about a half-a-mile away, this shouldn't take
Kasumi so long." Shinji murmured, "And I have to make dinner right now." "Hey, if you want, I can finish the dinner
for you, and you can look for Kasumi." Asuka offered. "Thanks a lot, Asuka." Shinji smiled, "I owe you one."
Kasumi
was flung against the wall of the alleyway.
"Uh…" she growled, "Damn it!"
She had pulled off the backpack just before entering the alley to
'speak' with the group, and was grateful.
"You
little devil!" the woman laughed, "We are the Children Of God, and we will do
his will!" "His will?" Kasumi growled,
holding her recently kicked stomach in pain, "What the heck are you talking
about?"
"Angels
are his messengers!" the woman shoved by the two men that had attacked Kasumi,
"Angels are holy beings that should be held in supreme regard, not destroyed
mercilessly as you have been doing!"
"To hell with those things!" Kasumi shouted. The woman's hand shot out and stabbed viciously into Kasumi's
side.
Horrible
searing pain ripped through Kasumi and she let out a scream. She doubled in pain and drew in a shaking
breath between her teeth. "I know all
pressure points on anybody's body." the woman laughed, "I just poked your left
kidney. I can cause immense pain,
without killing you."
"If
you don't plan to kill me, what do you intend to do with me?" Kasumi
hissed. The woman's fingers shot out
again and stabbed Kasumi in the middle of the chest. Kasumi's mouth opened in a scream, but she could not make a
sound. She slid to her knees and the
woman's foot slammed into the side of her head.
The
blow sent Kasumi reeling and she fell to the ground. Kasumi twitched and she pressed her hand to the ground to raise
herself. "Goddamn it…" she growled. Her eyes flared red.
"Kasumi?"
Shinji called, "Hey, Kasumi!" He looked
carefully and slowly from each side of the road, but still didn't see the Sixth
Child.
Kasumi
slowly let her back press against the wall and chuckled softly. "What's so funny?" the woman asked. "You think that I would be destroyed by such
pitiful creatures as you humans?" Kasumi said.
Her voice was dark, and a second, even darker voice echoed her words.
"What?!"
the woman roared. Kasumi chuckled again
and started to bring herself to her feet, pressing her hand to the wall to
support herself. She stumbled once, but
still forced herself to her feet. "You
pitiful humans." Kasumi murmured, "If you wish to protect the Angels, why do
you attack me?"
"Because
you are a pilot that destroys them!" the woman shouted. Kasumi looked up slowly. Her eyes were crimson blood red, and the
group members stood back with a gasp.
"A
pilot?" Kasumi questioned, "What in the hell are you talking about? I am an Angel!" "SHUT YOUR DAMN MOUTH!" the woman shouted, drawing out a handgun.
Kasumi
jolted and stared at the handgun.
"Human flesh." a distant part her mind said, "You are made of human
flesh, and so you have its weaknesses.
Concentrate! Use it! Use the holy barrier of your soul!" "Barrier of my soul?" Kasumi's conscious
mind wondered. "You have used it
before!" the cold-hearted voice laughed, "Your life, your physical being is in
mortal danger! Realize this and take
control!"
The
world seemed to slow for Kasumi as the handgun was readied with a click. Kasumi's conscious mind reacted and made her
draw back, but then the second mind, her Angel blood showed Kasumi a different
path, and she took a step down it.
The
head woman fired the gun. Kasumi let
out an echoing roar as a nonexistent gust of wind blew her clothes and hair
back. The bullet slammed into a
brightly glowing wall. "AN AT FIELD!"
the woman screamed.
"AT
Field!" Maya shouted. Ritsuko dropped
her mug of coffee and immediately looked over Maya's shoulder. "It's one of the strongest Fields we've ever
experienced!" Makoto cried, "It's being spread from section S-1009 and folding out
from there!" "Oh my God!" Shigeru
roared, "It's breaking through the armor plating!"
The
AT Field dove down through the ground and folded out in a straight line in an
incredibly fast pace. Shinji looked up
and fell backwards just in time. The
concrete was ripped up as the AT Field expanded.
"DIE!"
Kasumi screamed. The AT Field moved
forwards, ripping through everything it was already cutting through. The group from C.O.G. screamed and tried to
run. The head woman just stood still,
staring at the girl she had tried to kill.
Kasumi stared back coldly. And
then, the AT Field forced the woman to the building, and then…
Shinji
ran as fast as he could away from the moving AT Field, and froze when he heard
a scream of fear, not pain. He looked
towards the origin of the AT Field, and gasped as he saw a building collapse
upon itself.
Kasumi's
eyes widened and everything slowed down again.
"I made…a mistake…" her second mind whispered in terror. "Yes." Kasumi smiled in her own mind, "You
lost all control of your power and abilities to me. I have control."
Shinji
watched in horror as the building collapsed.
Suddenly, a whisper came to his ears that was hardly heard, "…help,
Shinji…" It was Kasumi's voice.
Shinji
took a step towards the collapsed building, and then began to run to the
building. He came to it in a matter of
moments, and then tried to pry up a piece of concrete. Using every ounce of strength, he lifted the
heavy piece of concrete and flipped it over.
Kasumi
lay beneath the stone, her face tired and streaked with dirt. Her eyes were closed, and she didn't look to
be breathing. "Kasumi!" Shinji
whispered, "Oh God, Kasumi!" He shook
her by the shoulders roughly, but Kasumi didn't move. Tears welled in his blue-black eyes, and he bent double and
sobbed.
Kasumi
opened her eyes and blinked once. She
raised herself up on her hands and looked around. She rubbed her head slowly and looked around. "Looks like I made one hell of a mess." she
chuckled. Shinji looked up with a
gasp. "Kasumi!" he wrapped his arms
tightly around Kasumi and sobbed against her shoulder, "God, I thought you were
dead!"
"No,
just pinned under some rubble." Kasumi laughed, putting her arms around
Shinji. She stared out at the rubble
coldly, hardly aware of the sobbing Third Child. "Shinji, you saw the AT Field from just a few minutes ago,
right?" she whispered. Shinji paused in
his crying for a moment and looked up at Kasumi. "Yeah, why?" he sniffed.
Kasumi's eyes narrowed, "It was mine."
"Kasumi,
I don't care." Shinji rubbed the remaining tears from his eyes and smiled, "I
just care that you're safe." Kasumi
turned to face Shinji, twisting her torso in an almost painful way. "By the way, Misato decided that you
shouldn't be sleeping on the couch anymore." Shinji smiled even more, "She had
the idea that you should sleep in my room, with me. Her theory is that you should maybe have a little human contact
with you when you sleep. It gets her to
sleep easier."
Kasumi
blinked, and then laughed at the statement.
The two pilots laughed for a while, and then Shinji stood up. He held out his hand and helped Kasumi out
from under the rest of the rubble.
Kasumi brushed off her clothes, and then noticed something. "The bag!" she pointed a finger, "The
Yebisu-bag is still OK!" Shinji looked
at her strangely and said, "I'm not gonna ask."
"Damn!"
a shadowy figure screeched, "We almost had her! We almost had that beautiful fallen Angel of mine! But no, she had to think of big brother and
lover-wussy boy! Shit!" The figure kicked a pebble and the tiny rock
sliced a tree in half. The figure took
a deep breath, and then straightened their long hair and strange robes. They smiled evilly.
"Well,
tomorrow's just another day."
