Neon Genesis Evangelion:
A Young Man's Trial
Chapter 2
Disclaimer: I don't own Eva. I wish I did, but I don't. So please, please don't sue me!
"What is this??" Shinji yelled out.
"This is an Evangelion. Man's ultimate fighting machine," Ritsuko replied.
"Is this my Father's work?"
"Correct," a deep voice came.
Shinji looked up to see a man, in a dark jacket and dark pants with tinted glasses. Both of his hands were in white gloves and his right was in his pocket. It was his father.
"Father… why did you call me here?" Shinji asked.
"Because I have a use for you. You must pilot Evangelion Unit 01."
"What the hell are you talking about? I've never even seen one of these things before! How the hell do you expect me to pilot it? There must be someone else that you can get!"
"There is no one else."
"I don't believe you! Why the hell don't you pilot it yourself father?"
After Shinji screamed this out, Gendo Ikari turned to his right and spoke a few words that Shinji could not hear. The next thing he knew, his father turned back to him with a cold look in his eyes.
"If you will not pilot, then leave."
Shinji looked up at his father and quietly picked up his bag and prepared to leave when a door opened to his right. A pair of doctors were pushing a hospital bed with a young girl on the bed. He watched in horror as he saw her terrible wounds and the blood that was seeping through the bandages that was beginning to soak the bed.
"WHAT THE HELL? YOU WOULD HAVE HER PILOT? SHE'S TOO BADLY HURT FATHER!" Shinji screamed.
"There is no one else."
At that moment, an explosion rocked the hanger and several cross beams began a silent descent from the ceiling towards the gantry that Shinji was standing on. Without realizing what he was doing, he started in a sprint towards the injured girl. When he reached her, the bed she was on was beginning to overturn.
With a strength that desperation gives, he caught her before she fell onto the ground and continued to run with her in his arms. But the hospital bed tripped him up and they both fell to the ground. Shinji managed to crawl over to where the girl lay and covered her body with his own, expecting the end to come.
What he got was quite different. Shinji heard a screech of metal and another crash of a cross beam and closed his eyes, expecting to die within the next few seconds. After a minute had passed, and the fact that he felt no pain, he opened his eyes, perplexed as to what had just happened. At that moment, he noticed that he was covered by a shadow of a giant hand. When he looked up, he saw that the hand of the Eva was over him.
Shinji heard some screaming coming from Ritsuko but paid no attention as he raised the young girl into his arms once again. She was whimpering in pain, unable to even open her eyes. Her blue hair was matted down to her skull from sweat and blood seeped through her bandages, staining Shinji's hands and clothing.
"All right father. I'll do it," Shinji said as he looked at the girl. Leaning closer to her, he whispered, "I will protect you."
All he heard were whimpers of pain.
A few minutes later, Shinji was sitting inside of the entry plug in Unit 01, waiting. His face wore determined expression and his thoughts were on merely one thing, to keep his promise, no matter what.
"Filling the entry plug," came a voice across the speakers.
"What the hell? Water?" Shinji asked, quickly losing his determined look for a look of sheer panic.
"Don't worry, once the LCL fills your lungs, it will oxygenate your blood," Ritsuko's voice came.
Nevertheless, Shinji screamed and tried to hold his breath as panic set in. All the while he was thinking, 'Damn it! At this rate, I'm going to die before I even get to the actual fight!' Finally, unable to hold in his breath for any longer, he released it and sucked in the water and found that he could breathe normally but felt a queasiness in his stomach. "I'm goeng do be sick."
"Quit your whining! You're not as cute as you think you know!" Misato yelled.
Calming down, Shinji again began to think about that girl. He wondered about who she was and what was going on around NERV. Gaining some courage, he asked "Misato? Who was that girl?"
"Which girl? The cute one we passed on the way here? One of the girls in the command center? Although, don't you think that this is a bad time to be trying to hit on someone?"
"WHAT? NO! IT'S NOT LIKE THAT! I just want to know who that blue haired girl was!" Shinji's face was turning an interesting shade of red.
"Oh her? That was Rei Ayanami, but she's going to be in the hospital for a while, so I don't think you can ask her out yet." Misato grinned.
"I don't want to ask her out yet!"
"Oh? So you do want to?"
"Ye, I mean no!" Shinji's face suddenly became an even brighter red than Rei's eye color.
Guffaws could be heard over the comm link in the command center as everyone there had a laugh at Shinji's expense but were quickly quieted down when Commander Ikari returned.
"Is Unit 01 ready?" he asked.
"Beginning synchronization now," Ritsuko replied.
Inside the entry plug, lights began flashing all around Shinji and he began to feel like his nerves were now extra sensitive, like they were receiving more data than they were used to. Shinji found the experience rather strange but kept his mouth shut.
"Synchronization at 42.5%!" Maya called out.
"No problems in the synchro graph!" came another voice.
"Amazing!" Ritsuko remarked. She turned to Misato and stated, "It's going to work!"
"Understood. Shinji get ready! LAUNCH EVA UNIT 01!"
End Chapter 2
AN: Well, I said I would change Shinji a bit, and I did! I don't think that he should have been as spineless as he was in the series. Sure, a little spineless, but not to the point where running away was his choice for every situation. I do plan on keeping him a little cowardly though. As for the thing with Rei, in the series, Shinji gets into the Eva after Rei is brought out and hurt even more during the explosion. In the manga, he states that after the battle with the 3rd angel, he didn't get in to save her, only because he wanted his father to be proud of him. I have a different take. Throughout the entire series, Shinji rises to the occasion with a rather abundant amount of courage to save the lives of others. Asuka, for example, after the battle with the 8th angel. I believe that Shinji did so again here, unconsciously maybe, but nevertheless, he chose to pilot to protect Rei. Now I have to thank Jon Cook and Melkor for reviewing my fic. Jon, thank you for the information on the H-Bomb. My understanding previously was that in order to get a thermonuclear explosion (Hydrogen Bomb) you needed to reach a certain energy level gained only through series of nuclear explosions. I maybe wrong, in fact I probably am so thanks for telling me. Melkor, I thank you a lot for your comments. I'll try and not make this dull. My problem in writing this fic is that all my previous writing experience comes from writing poems and writing reports and essays for school. I hope I can get into my groove quickly, but I have to ask you to bear with me. One more thing, you wouldn't happen to be interested in pre-reading for me would you? I got no one to turn to here so I'm trying to write this without other people to bounce it off of before I release it. If you can, please E-Mail me at matterhorn45@hotmail.com. I appreciate it, thanks!
A Young Man's Trial
Chapter 2
Disclaimer: I don't own Eva. I wish I did, but I don't. So please, please don't sue me!
"What is this??" Shinji yelled out.
"This is an Evangelion. Man's ultimate fighting machine," Ritsuko replied.
"Is this my Father's work?"
"Correct," a deep voice came.
Shinji looked up to see a man, in a dark jacket and dark pants with tinted glasses. Both of his hands were in white gloves and his right was in his pocket. It was his father.
"Father… why did you call me here?" Shinji asked.
"Because I have a use for you. You must pilot Evangelion Unit 01."
"What the hell are you talking about? I've never even seen one of these things before! How the hell do you expect me to pilot it? There must be someone else that you can get!"
"There is no one else."
"I don't believe you! Why the hell don't you pilot it yourself father?"
After Shinji screamed this out, Gendo Ikari turned to his right and spoke a few words that Shinji could not hear. The next thing he knew, his father turned back to him with a cold look in his eyes.
"If you will not pilot, then leave."
Shinji looked up at his father and quietly picked up his bag and prepared to leave when a door opened to his right. A pair of doctors were pushing a hospital bed with a young girl on the bed. He watched in horror as he saw her terrible wounds and the blood that was seeping through the bandages that was beginning to soak the bed.
"WHAT THE HELL? YOU WOULD HAVE HER PILOT? SHE'S TOO BADLY HURT FATHER!" Shinji screamed.
"There is no one else."
At that moment, an explosion rocked the hanger and several cross beams began a silent descent from the ceiling towards the gantry that Shinji was standing on. Without realizing what he was doing, he started in a sprint towards the injured girl. When he reached her, the bed she was on was beginning to overturn.
With a strength that desperation gives, he caught her before she fell onto the ground and continued to run with her in his arms. But the hospital bed tripped him up and they both fell to the ground. Shinji managed to crawl over to where the girl lay and covered her body with his own, expecting the end to come.
What he got was quite different. Shinji heard a screech of metal and another crash of a cross beam and closed his eyes, expecting to die within the next few seconds. After a minute had passed, and the fact that he felt no pain, he opened his eyes, perplexed as to what had just happened. At that moment, he noticed that he was covered by a shadow of a giant hand. When he looked up, he saw that the hand of the Eva was over him.
Shinji heard some screaming coming from Ritsuko but paid no attention as he raised the young girl into his arms once again. She was whimpering in pain, unable to even open her eyes. Her blue hair was matted down to her skull from sweat and blood seeped through her bandages, staining Shinji's hands and clothing.
"All right father. I'll do it," Shinji said as he looked at the girl. Leaning closer to her, he whispered, "I will protect you."
All he heard were whimpers of pain.
A few minutes later, Shinji was sitting inside of the entry plug in Unit 01, waiting. His face wore determined expression and his thoughts were on merely one thing, to keep his promise, no matter what.
"Filling the entry plug," came a voice across the speakers.
"What the hell? Water?" Shinji asked, quickly losing his determined look for a look of sheer panic.
"Don't worry, once the LCL fills your lungs, it will oxygenate your blood," Ritsuko's voice came.
Nevertheless, Shinji screamed and tried to hold his breath as panic set in. All the while he was thinking, 'Damn it! At this rate, I'm going to die before I even get to the actual fight!' Finally, unable to hold in his breath for any longer, he released it and sucked in the water and found that he could breathe normally but felt a queasiness in his stomach. "I'm goeng do be sick."
"Quit your whining! You're not as cute as you think you know!" Misato yelled.
Calming down, Shinji again began to think about that girl. He wondered about who she was and what was going on around NERV. Gaining some courage, he asked "Misato? Who was that girl?"
"Which girl? The cute one we passed on the way here? One of the girls in the command center? Although, don't you think that this is a bad time to be trying to hit on someone?"
"WHAT? NO! IT'S NOT LIKE THAT! I just want to know who that blue haired girl was!" Shinji's face was turning an interesting shade of red.
"Oh her? That was Rei Ayanami, but she's going to be in the hospital for a while, so I don't think you can ask her out yet." Misato grinned.
"I don't want to ask her out yet!"
"Oh? So you do want to?"
"Ye, I mean no!" Shinji's face suddenly became an even brighter red than Rei's eye color.
Guffaws could be heard over the comm link in the command center as everyone there had a laugh at Shinji's expense but were quickly quieted down when Commander Ikari returned.
"Is Unit 01 ready?" he asked.
"Beginning synchronization now," Ritsuko replied.
Inside the entry plug, lights began flashing all around Shinji and he began to feel like his nerves were now extra sensitive, like they were receiving more data than they were used to. Shinji found the experience rather strange but kept his mouth shut.
"Synchronization at 42.5%!" Maya called out.
"No problems in the synchro graph!" came another voice.
"Amazing!" Ritsuko remarked. She turned to Misato and stated, "It's going to work!"
"Understood. Shinji get ready! LAUNCH EVA UNIT 01!"
End Chapter 2
AN: Well, I said I would change Shinji a bit, and I did! I don't think that he should have been as spineless as he was in the series. Sure, a little spineless, but not to the point where running away was his choice for every situation. I do plan on keeping him a little cowardly though. As for the thing with Rei, in the series, Shinji gets into the Eva after Rei is brought out and hurt even more during the explosion. In the manga, he states that after the battle with the 3rd angel, he didn't get in to save her, only because he wanted his father to be proud of him. I have a different take. Throughout the entire series, Shinji rises to the occasion with a rather abundant amount of courage to save the lives of others. Asuka, for example, after the battle with the 8th angel. I believe that Shinji did so again here, unconsciously maybe, but nevertheless, he chose to pilot to protect Rei. Now I have to thank Jon Cook and Melkor for reviewing my fic. Jon, thank you for the information on the H-Bomb. My understanding previously was that in order to get a thermonuclear explosion (Hydrogen Bomb) you needed to reach a certain energy level gained only through series of nuclear explosions. I maybe wrong, in fact I probably am so thanks for telling me. Melkor, I thank you a lot for your comments. I'll try and not make this dull. My problem in writing this fic is that all my previous writing experience comes from writing poems and writing reports and essays for school. I hope I can get into my groove quickly, but I have to ask you to bear with me. One more thing, you wouldn't happen to be interested in pre-reading for me would you? I got no one to turn to here so I'm trying to write this without other people to bounce it off of before I release it. If you can, please E-Mail me at matterhorn45@hotmail.com. I appreciate it, thanks!