An Evangelion fanfiction by ShinRyuKen
Disclaimer: I don't own Eva or any of the characters, Gainax does... I think. I don't really pay much attention to these details. Anyhow, this fic is set during Episode 16, only the story is changed abit. Please excuse any OOCness, and Cheesiness, I'm feeling cheesy. ^_^;
Chapter 2 - How does she feel?
Asuka, Shinji and Rei all sat in the entry plugs as the sync test were taking place. Shinji was having trouble concentrating properly, after what happened recently with Asuka. Misato came along to look at the sync ratio's and was stunned. Then she grabbed the microphone excitedly.
"Hey Shinji, can you hear me?" Misato asked.
Shinji openned him eyes, "Hey Misato! How are my test scores going?"
"Great! You're number 1!" Misato gave Shinji a thumbs up.
"What?! Him?! Better than me?! Oh, this is going to make things alot more fun..." Asuka thought to herself and growled slightly. Shinji smiled slightly and closed his eyes again as the test came to a finish.
On the way home Shinji heard a voice behind him, "Hey, Shinji!"
Shinji span around to see Asuka running up to meet him. Shinji smiled and waited for her to catch up. Asuka caught up to Shinji and stopped to catch her breath, then turned to face Shinji.
"Congratulations." Asuka said with a grin.
"Huh?" Shinji said. He knew Asuka and him were close now, but he didn't expect her to be so nice to him about this.
"What, do I have to spell it out for you, Third Child?" Asuka asked again, a hint of annoyance in her voice.
"Uh... thanks." Shinji sighed and hugged Asuka.
Asuka grinned deviously and broke the hug, then continued home with Shinji. Neither of them noticed Rei Ayanami was following close behind the couple, her as face passive as always. "Something does not seem right..." she thought, then stopped following them, to head towards her own home. Pain. Asuka wanted him to feel more pain then he'd ever felt in his entire lifetime. Asuka had started this as a prank, something just to screw with his head. But now it was personal. HE beat her. No one could beat Asuka Langley Souryu! No one. Shinji could tell something was wrong now. Asuka would never congratulate him on beating her. No way, No how. Something was going on. Ofcourse, Shinji just brushed these thoughts aside. "No, Asuka loves me. She said so..." Shinji convinced himself then continued to walk down the street.
Later that day, above a seemingly peaceful Tokyo-3, a strange object began to materialize. A huge black and white sphere now floated in the space which was once occupied by nothing more than air, the ground underneath it was darkened by the huge shadow. Afew minutes later inside NERV Head quarters, everyone was hurriedly doing their jobs. Every that is, except for Misato Katsuragi, who was no where to be seen. Finally, Misato rushed in panting.
"You're late Major!" Ritsuko yelled.
"Sorry!" Misato replied, "What's going on? The Fuji observation center..."
"Never detected it! It just suddenly appeared right above us!" Shigeru Aoba replied, looking up from the screen infront of him.
"Blood pattern is orange, no AT Field detected!" Yelled Hyuga.
"What is that thing?" Misato muttered under her breath.
"A new kind of Angel?" Ritsuko asked.
"Unknown, the Magi are with-holding their judgement on that!" Ritsuko's loyal assistant, Maya Ibuki replied
"Damn, another situation like this and Commander Ikari is not here again!" The frustrated Major, almost yelled.
Above the city Evangelion Units Zero, One and Two were getting into position around what they assumed to be an Angel. Eva 01 was armed with a pistol, 02 armed with a progressive Axe, and 00 was armed with a Positron Rifle. Inside each of the Eva's entry plugs, Misato's face appeared in the corner.
"Can you all hear me? I've sent you all of the current target data. That's literally all we know right now." Misato said, "Aproach it carefully and observe it's reaction, and if possible, try to lure it outside of the city. I want you to back up each other. Is that understood?"
"Yes maam. I'll take point!" Asuka said confidently over the com-link.
"No, that's my job!" Shinji's claimed, with a little more backbone than usual.
"Oooh, Shinji finally grows a spine eh? Okay, Unit 02 will back up Unit 01." Asuka chuckled as she cut off the com.
"Unit 00 will also back up Unit 01." stated Rei then closed her com also.
Above the Geofront, Evangelion Unit 01 crouched behind a building, Pistol ready, waiting for they other two to get in position. Shinji clenched his fist and openned up a com channel.
"Ayanami, Asuka, are you in position yet?" Shinji asked impatiently.
"Not yet." Rei replied calmly.
Asuka's reply however, was not so calm, "You know Eva's can't move that fast you twit!"
Asuka attempted to run around another building, only to be jerked back. Her umbilical cable was to short. "Shiest." She mumbled and released the cable, then openned up the building next to her and plugged a new cord into the back of her fearsome humanoid mecha, then continued around to get in position.
"Are you there?" Shinji muttered again.
Then finally he lost his patience and clenched his fist. "Alright, I'll stop it myself." Shinji thought and monouvred his purple monstrosity around the building and fired of three shoots from his pistol with a vicious roar. Only for it to disappear into thin air! Everyone inside NERV HQ was shocked.
"It vanished!" Dr. Akagi yelled.
"Status?" Misato asked.
"Pattern blue, Angel confirmed! It's right beneath Unit 01!" Hyuga exclaimed.
Suddenly and out of nowhere, a large black shadow appeared and began to grow, Shinji thought nothing of it at first, until his Eva's foot, a car and a building all began to sink into the large black abyss.
"Uh, wha? A Shadow!" Shinji shreiked in suprise.
Desperately, Shinji fired off two shoots from his pistol at the shadow, which had absolutely no effect on the shadow's rate of growth, nor the speed at which his Eva sunk into it. Shinji cried out in fear.
"What the hell is this!? This can't be happening!" Shinji cried desperately.
"Shinji get out of there! Shinji!" Misato ordered the pilot.
"Ikari!" Ayanami gasped.
"Shinji! Get the hell out of there!" Asuka yelled.
"Mi-Misato! Asuka! What's going on!? Help Me! Misato! Misato!" Shinji pleaded as tears began to flow down his cheeks.
"Eject the plug, get him out of there!" Misato yelled out Maya, gasping for breath.
"No response! It's not working!" Maya replied helplessly.
"Can you hear me Misato?! MISATO!!!-" Shinji's voice was cut off as his Eva's head was fully submerged, with nothing left to be seen.
"SHINJI!" Misato cried.
"Asuka, Rei. Rescue Unit 01, hurry!" Misato ordered the pilots.
"What's the point in getting A's in tests but not in the real world?!" Asuka complained as she ran towards the sphere in the sky.
As Asuka's Eva 02 approached the target, Rei fired two earth shattering blasts at the sphere from her Positron rifle, however the sphere disappeared and the two blasts hit the building behind where it was.
"It's gone again!" Maya exclaimed.
"Asuka, watch the street!" Ritsuko order the young pilot.
"The Shadow!" Asuka yelled.
Asuka lept up onto the building and clutched on for dear life, then slammed her progressive Axe into the side of the building and used it to climb to the top, where she hoped she would be safe from the shadow that was causing the whole city to sink into the ground.
"The whole city is sinking!" Asuka gasped.
"Asuka, Rei. Pull back, get out of there!" Misato yelled, fearing that she might lose another pilot.
"Wha!-" Asuka began, then was cut off by Rei.
"But Shinji and Unit One are still in there." Rei sounded worried, which was an extremley rare occurance.
Asuka looked at the image of Rei in the corner of her entry plug, Rei had a look of concern on her face. A look of fear. A look of worry. And if Asuka had looked even closer, she would have noticed the look, of a mother.
"This is an order. Withdraw now..." Misato said uneasily.
Later that day, after being debreifed and excused from duty for a short while. Asuka sat down on a chair in the mess hall, her expression passive. Many things seemed to be running through her head. If she had taken point, it would've been her instead of Shinji... She had always liked Shinji since the moment she met him. He was brave when it mattered. He could have more backbone than most other people at times. And his smile, she loved his smile. But she never thought that she loved Shinji, not for a second. Not until now. Knowing that Shinji could be dead released emotions that she had supressed for along time. And her eyes began to water.
"Please Shinji, don't abandon me. Don't leave me, like everyone else has..." Asuka sobbed quietly.
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There, another chapter finished. I would personally like to make an apology to Worldmage, and thank him, I didn't mean to sound like I only cared about getting praise. I really do care about my fic and I thank everyone who replied. Creative criticism is more useful that praise anyway.
My thanks go out to everyone who commented on my fic, those who liked it, and those who did not. Comments of any kind, help me become a better writer. Criticism helps improve my technique, praise increases my confidence, which I am lacking alot recently. And I assure you, nothing will stop me from continuing this fic... unless I break an arm or something. ^_^'
That's all for now,
ShinRyuKen
