If you haven't figured out that I don't own anything that's listed in the fic by now. Then there's no saving you from yourself. I'll repeat myself.
I own NOTHING in this fic(however I'd love to take an eva for a spin). I merely am putting them in the front lines of this angel war. Thank you good bye.
Last where we left our heroes, Shinji was captured by a crab like red pattern angel and the other eva pilots have set up to intercept the second angel.
Enjoy!
DrunkDrake
A Calling Of Souls
Chapter 06 : A Turning of Tables
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"Say Shinji...I'm bored..." Shinji irked at Asuka's tone. Her voice had a sound like honey to a bear, causing the cat to stare into curiosity and all sorts of other stupid rhymes and tales that popped into his mind when Asuka used that voice.
"Ahhh... Well..." Shinji stumbled like a near sighted man in a moonless night for words. Asuka was leaning against the door frame that connected their rooms together. Why it must have been at least 15 seconds since she'd been in his room. His room? Looking around he found he was in the hospital still after that fight with the 3rd angel wannabe.
"Well what? I'm bored let's do something together!" Shinji had trouble with words before but now he was lost. Asuka just stringed together some suggestive ideas through his head, but she didn't seen to register to her yet. Distract her, don't make her think your really a pervert. Think! Speak! No words dared form, in case something wrong was said. He still made a heartfelt effort though.
"Ahh...heh, umm..."
Asuka raised her eyebrows expectantly. Shinji then wondered if Asuka meant what she said with all the implied subliminal ideas. No, no, no. Not with Asuka, if anything she's playing with you Shinji. Speak, man! Open mouth, produce words...
"Your sure your bored" insert foot...
"Ahh... yeah, Shinji. I sort of made that clear. Wanna play a few rounds" She jerked her head indicating the game system she had in her room. Problem solved.
Shinji felt a weight lifted from his shoulders, and he felt like he just learned something about Asuka. When she's bored she'll pick on me badly. However once she hits an even lower state of boredom, she doesn't even register her own taunts and set ups. Interesting. Though he had to admit he was stark raving mad/bored also...there really wasn't anything to do here for 24 hours a day with only an SDAT, some books and perhaps the operations manual(which he gave up on after the 4th day). He sighed and nodded his head, and thus began a massive video game competition unequalled in post second impact history if not for quality time it made up for quantity.
After beeps, bloops, missiles, ray guns, etc(all that fun video game stuff) had gone on for about an hour Asuka started to think. It was actually starting to be fun being here. It was unpleasant to say the least to study the walls, mess with the sparse furnishings, or even play games for days without end. The lack of school work was refreshing, but she couldn't see Hikari her only real friend and she had to be cooped up with Shinji which really was below par for her standards.
Actually when she found out about this, she violently 'removed' Shinji from her half of the 2 room hospital and threatened him with a familiar 'wall of Jericode' from the night before a certain 7th angel was beaten. Well Shinji followed though on his promise not to 'cross that wall' but this left Asuka alone. Alone for 3 days. Alone for 3 days with no one to talk to or bother with. Soon all the boredom got to her and she couldn't help herself as she begun to think back. It was a personal hell for Asuka. Memories she swore never to remember, attempting to rise again. She blocked out the more painful ones with less painful ones, oddly(at least to her) most of these ones had Shinji in them. Shinji standing on 'over the rainbow's' deck blissfully watching Asuka Langley Sohryu introduce herself. Shinji cooking breakfast for his roommates. Shinji starring out the window at the setting sun from the balcony. Shinji...WHY ARE ALL MY MEMORIES ABOUT SHINJI ALL OF A SUDDEN! Asuka fumed and threw her pillow across the room and watched it slide down from it's new indention in the wall. When her anger subsided the memories returned...the bad ones.
"Damn it..." She gave up and decided the idiot was better then the doll or her...idiot it is. Ok. Think Idiot, think pervert...think roommate...Ok got it! She roamed about her memories of Shinji. Shinji during the sync week, Shinji coming to find her after she ran. Ok so the idiot wasn't so bad... Shinji leaping into the volcano to save her...ok so he really was a nice guy that cared...Asuka teasing Shinji for his apologies. Asuka slapping Shinji for standing there after that 'over the rainbow' incident. Shinji smiling at Asuka as she vented her pride before they belted down to do some serious sync training...Mien Gott. I was a total...bitch to him...daily...yet he still...Shinji leaping into the volcano against orders to rescue her...
"I gotta make it up to him or something..." She thought for a minute and soon her second pillow slid down from a new dent near the original.
"Pilot Sohryu, open fire!"
Asuka snapped out of memory lane after Rei's Monotone voice giving warning and the constant blaring of the lock-on she had on the angel.
"Somebodies gonna pay for this.."
'Stay alive for now Shinji'
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The angel was hovering almost peacefully over Tokyo-3. It's main body mass was a white sphere that had about 7 appendages that seemed like they belonged to the 4th angel. The number of appendages was always shifting as they melted into the main body or more came out. Also there was a set of odd wings on top the angels apex, the wings of a bat. The very shape of the thing was weird but the sheer mechanics of how it maintained flight was sheerly mind-boggling. From science's point of view, it was impossible. It had a mission and it was planning to fulfil it. It was hunting a specific 'Lillim', one that could shift the tide of power. If only it made itself known...
A sudden pain tore into it's sides. A river of palette rifle rounds was beginning to eat away at the beautiful white sphere. 'Ah pathetic, but at least one of the Lillim wants to play'. The angel begun to bat away several of the rounds sending them back towards the city. The rounds were all coming from a red fake angel, the one deemed EVA 02. 'My, my. The slayer of my brothers wants to fight me!'. The angel felt an emotion then, the first in it's life, it was the one of hunger, the hunger for blood.
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David only stared as the 'angel' started to bat away more and more of the palette rounds. Actually it was getting faster at deflecting them that and it was coming closer and closer too. This battle was going to be ugly. His crosshairs locked on the approaching 'angel' and he sent another string of super heated explosion palette rounds with deadly intent. Like before the first few got through but the angel had begun to block both sides of attack almost completely.
"Yep, definitely ugly"
But for Shinji. He would win. They all had to.
David's EVA threw the spent rifle aside and gripped a bazooka type weapon. The lock-on was almost immediate, so close was the angel.
"Wondergirl, where's our covering fire?!" Asuka's words then made David realize that the positron sniper rifle that was supposed to have been fired several times past his shoulder hadn't fired yet. Turning around he saw it was firing. Only that it was firing in the opposite direction...
"Oh shit..."
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"Target 2's speed has increased! It's in the engagement zone!"
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It was fast. Rei cocked the rifle again. This would be the 5th shot. The rifle wasn't meant for constant use like this and was obviously started to disintegrate. The damned thing was built for power not for multiple uses like this. The odd crab 'angel' from before was making a speedy descent down one of the mountains. Rei was just following orders to shot the target but her finger hovered over the trigger this time. If this 'angel' had absorbed Unit 01 then doesn't that mean... Rei blanched. She had her emotionless mask on again but she had emotions parading through her skull like a circus side show. One pull of the trigger could have been the end of Shinji Ikari, pilot of Unit 01. She just stared as it continued to charge her.
"Rei! Wake up! What are you doing Ayanami!" David's voice cut through the fog in her mind. She released the rifle and stood up.
"Rei...what are you doing?" Gendo's tones came through the main bridge com.
"Ikari, is still in the angel"
"Irrelevant. Take it out" Again Gendo's tone came across sternly.
Rei Ayanami, first child, pilot of EVA 00 deployed her progressive knife as a response. David only watched this drama half earnestly. His attention was drawn more towards the 'angelic furball' that was lashing out at unit 02. Asuka had lost her rifle, well more accurately it lay upon the ground as ashes. One of her own rounds hit the gun. She was now forced to fight the thing with only her Progressive knife and whatever was in her shoulder blades. The appendages had almost doubled in number however they were easy to cut and shoot off. Asuka was doing some pretty impressive knife slashes but she was in a constant state of retreat. David had again emptied his rifle's ammunition and he drew out his progressive knife. Time to get down and dirty too bad Asuka's there already. He couldn't resist the image of Asuka, scantily clad with mud smeared all over her. But forced the image out of his head just as fast as it came.
"Ick. Damn hormones, who needs'em?" He joined the hedge clipping frenzy that was the battle against the 'furball angel'.
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Ahhh. I can sense the Lillim is close now! Yes! Very close. I can almost taste it's tortured heart! But where is it! And where is that infernal fake blue angel? In it's rage it slapped aside the fake grey angel out of the way. 'Stupid Lillim, and they're fake angels. I won't be stopped!'
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Rei had successfully dislodged all the tentacles from the crab thing and she had her eva kneeling on it as she begun cutting through the armoured hide. However she wasn't ready for the strike from behind. The 'furbal angel' had just used 3 of it's appendages to stab/knock Rei off the angel. One had pierced the eva's lower torso going right through it. The angel 'leaned into it pinned unit 00 against the ground as it turned towards the fallen comrade.
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You are have been struck down? By the Lillims!
I have done my mission. Here is the one, and he is ready. Take him.
Claim him, that I will.
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"Mien Gott!"
"Jesus...."
"What the hell"
Misato's shocked exclamation left her mouth as she watched the 'furbal angel' rip apart the crab angel. It was a sickening sight as grey silver matter that was armour was flung in many directions and red blood seeped from the many wounds staining the ground. The appendages tunnelled into the angel and erupted from the other sides. the 'furbal' had maybe 3 dozen tentacle/arms going through the body of the slightly larger angel as it roamed looking for something. The gory display held everyone rapt.
"YOU BASTARD!" Asuka cried as she charged the 'furbal' she had hoped that perhaps there was a chance to save Shinji but that would be impossible if that thing killed him and the angel that held him. She stabbed forwards but her knife didn't reach the 'angel' as it swung a tangle of arms still immersed within a large chunk of the crab angel blocked.
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'Shinji?'
"Yes? Who are you?"
'I am the one'
"One?"
'I can do for you what none shall ever do'
"You mean this?" The scene he had seen played again in the background of the sub space Shinji and the voice occupied.
'I can't do that'
"Why?"
'Because the one you love doesn't love you back'
"Wh...at?"
'I can only make happen what can be allowed to happen. I can't change this...this was to have been your future. However, the one you love has fallen for another' images of about every boy Shinji knew flickered in the background.
"No...she wouldn't do that...They wouldn't do that..."
'Yes, they would...and they have' the scene on top of the school replayed but their was no words or sounds. He saw that while he had been raptured by David's talk, Asuka had been eyeing David almost hungrily. Another scene came to his mind, one where Toji and Asuka were hugging each other under a porch light very tightly almost like...
"NO" .Then he saw Hikari standing off to the side watching them and crying before running off in the darkened alleys.
"I caused this?..."
'No, the one you loved doesn't return it. The ones you trust will turn against you when your back is turned'
"NO!!" Yes "NO!!!!" Yes... "Not Toji! Not Hikari!!! NOT ASUKA!!!!!"
"Already they plan to get rid of you"
"No...." Shinji's voice was sounding almost hollow as it begun to echo weakly.
'But look, the very one you love is twisting the very knife that is meant to kill an enemy'
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Asuka begun to shake... she hadn't struck the angel. She struck the gelatinous crap that once was the innards of the crab angel. However the force of her strike caused the innards to slowly slip off. What she saw horrified her. It started with the top part of the mess to fall back, revealing an all too familiar horn. Then the mess started to flake off in chunks and she saw eva unit 01 with it's eyes dim it's armour covered in scarlet angel blood with Asuka's Progressive knife stabbed into the left breast.
"Cut Shinji outta there! Asuka!" David's words got Asuka to bring the knife out and she pulled back and swung for the appendages holding Shinji's eva in place.
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Shinji opened his eyes and saw unit 02 standing right in front on him. A pain was ripping from his heart as he saw it held it's knife extended ending with a progressive knife handle sticking out his chest.
Emotions and feelings, swirled in Shinji's head as he saw what the voice said come true.
Shinji's mind was reeling from blow after blow. He saw unit 02 pull back it's knife and prepare another swing.
"love...hate...betrayal...hate...betrayal....death...pain...betrayalpaindeathbetrayalhate..."
Shinji's mind suddenly stopped as he focused on one word.
"Revenge..."
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Asuka pulled back horrified that she had stabbed the eva but had regained enough of her senses to attempt to dislodge Shinji's eva. She swung forward again, much higher aiming for one of the appendages that was rapped around the trapped unit's left arm, when suddenly pain caught her in her left arm. She muttered a shout when she felt an awful pain smash into her forehead to accompany what she felt on her arm. Looking up from her curled up position she saw an up close view of unit 01's glowing eyes. So close in fact, that she could swear she saw it's iris's through the armoured glass. What scared her more was that she saw it narrow it's eyes and give a small growl that didn't belong to anything sane...
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Rei's eyes had widened when she saw eva 01 was under the fleshy goo but she was in a sweat when she saw the what it just did to eva 02. When Asuka swung her knife to hack off another limb from the angel, unit 01's right arm shot out and yanked unit 02 with an iron grip. This pull had unit 02's head smash into unit 01's. They were eye to eye, and even from this distance she heard the growl. Other then the time with the 12th angel Rei hadn't seen an eva go berserk on the battle field. Eva 01 had been frightening covered in angel blood roaring to the sky that day, frightening enough to cause Asuka some doubts about the Evangelions. Now with eva 01 once again berserk it lost none of it's furious intent, the red blood staining it's armour only completed the effect.
"Is...that, pilot Ikari?"
"Oh my god..."
"What are...his vital stats?" Rei said still watching the display. Unit 01 now lifted 02 and hefted it in to the air and dropping it/throwing it so that it rolled a few blocks away. It started to rip and tear at the remaining innards that held it's legs and lower torso as it's eye's continued to glower at unit 02.
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Maya was typing furiously away, with Rei's request. Most of the other crew were still shocked at seeing eva 01 working, and even more scared that it didn't seem too happy to be back. Hyuga and Aoba had also overcame their stupor and where working away also. It was Hyuga that made the first statement.
"Pilot life signs confirmed!"
"Sync ratio steady at 219%!"
"WHAT?!" Misato's voice echoed in the main office from Aoba's statement. Technically speaking 100% was the highest you could go. 100% meant you were maxed, there wasn't anything else above. The second thing that clicked in Misato's mind was the insanely high number. 219%?! How?! The pilots were struggling just to reach 80% not to mention maintain it. Maya's voice suddenly shouted out over the din.
"46.45% mental contamination!!!!"
"We've lost the connection to unit 01!!!"
Maya's words rang out at the same time the eva freed itself from the remains of it's prison. The other angel however had a firm grip on the eva but they moved in tandem, almost as if they had one mind. Straight towards an unmoving unit 02.
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Increased senses, rage...pure emotional rage. I nearly laughed when I overheard the excited yells about my leaping Sync ratio. It leapt by an incredible amount and easily landed me as the top slot, if I had still cared about such things. More importantly I was ready, ready to kill, ready to tear apart my enemies.
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The angel seemed to grin inwardly, it's mission was done. Now it only had to wait until this fake angel did the work for it. It detached from the purple monster and disappeared down on of side streets as Rei's new pellet rifle tore up the street where it had been.
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Eva 01's jaw opened as wide as it could go and roared at it's toppled foe. Asuka had begun to scramble back from the monster. She had been violently woken up from a forced sleep by the roar, and it had chilled her to the bone. She felt icy fingers grip her heart when she saw the eva charge her. It leapt into the air and dove at her. That was only until a grey blur obscured the view
"David?!"
The purple and grey eva rolled across the street crushing cars, benches and all sorts of objects as they rolled down the street to the right. It was really just a mess of limbs and colours that spun rolling around. The angel wasn't anywhere in sight but Rei's eva, damaged or not was still at the hill like earlier but this time it held a small arms rifle(pellet) and was tracing holes in the streets somewhere to Asuka's far left.
"Pilot Sohryu are you functional?" Rei's voice came over the air waves just as emotionless as any other given time but there was a sense of urgency, Asuka thought.
"Yeah, just peachy. What happened? Did the eva actually jump me?!"
"The angel responsible for that is still around. Perhaps if we kill it, the control it had placed on the eva will end" Asuka had to hand it to Ayanami. She really could keep her cool even in really had situations.
"Sounds good girls but could you do it FASTER! This thing definitely wants to be uncooperative!" about every third word was interrupted by his heavy breathing "I really doubt I can hold it back for say... 30 SECONDS!!!!!"
"Well hold him until we kill that thing. Even a rookie like you should be able to distract that thing long enough"
The red eva stood up again having shaken it's earlier fears. Misato must have said something but regardless an armoury door opened up and offered a progressive lance and a progressive axe. Soon the blue and the red were hunting for angel scum in downtown Tokyo.
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My god what the hell is this thing! A berserk eva...wonderful how I end up baby sitting one. Even better when it's throwing a temper tantrum!!! David's thoughts were a tornado of ideas. He had(much to his disbelief) wrestled on top of the purple beast and had it's chest pinned to the ground. And all with one arm he thought.
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"Ahh...wondergirl what happened to the angel?!"
Rei was still on her little hill and was lying flat on the ground with her rifle propped up as she sighted along the western half of Tokyo-3. Her radar was playing merry-go-round between screaming red pattern and no pattern. Her targeting brackets sweeped the city as she searched. Asuka was in the middle of her search pattern and they were systematically scouring each section. Suddenly the squid like form of the angel stood up.
"2 blocks to the right, 3 blocks behind you" Rei fired her rifle peppering the target with round after round as Asuka whipped around and swung at several appendages that were closing in on her. Asuka was steadily getting closer to the target and Rei was half finished her third clip when David's voice came over the com again.
"I can't hold him much longer...HURRY UP!!!...SON OF A BITCH BIT ME!" unit 01 had flipped around and was biting into the grey eva's left shoulder and pushing it off at the same time. David balanced his eva just in time to watch eva 01 whip it's hand forward in a slap. His mind didn't realize that the hand no longer had digits but sharp needle like claws. When the hand hit, it ripped off a part of the face plating along the left cheek leaving a nasty gash. David couldn't take the pain and his eva deactivated along with the pilot.
A roar was heard in the direction that Asuka remembered where Shinji was but her mind didn't click right away. She didn't realise that one of the team was down, only that the angel in front of her was still defying her, taunting her, whipping it's arms at her. She battled closer to it and swung her weapon into the core. The core darkened and soon the angel dying down. Asuka smirked seeing the remaining arms collapse around her.
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This victory was in the bag.
"Pilot Sohryu"
"What wondergirl? You calling to congratulate me already?" The battle may have been over for less then a minute but Asuka was already basking in the warmth of her victory that she felt coming.
"I have lost visual of unit 01 after it defeated pilot Cever" Asuka snapped out of her gloating and spun around. She could clearly see the cable that lead to the eva which was crumpled against the streets but no sign of the purple monster that housed Shinji.
"WHAT?! Why weren't you watching them!!"
"I was making your back safe..." Asuka really didn't feel like figuring out what Rei implied by that statement because she felt that the battle wasn't over yet.
"Sohryu. My sensors detect movement 3 blocks to your right, 5 blocks back"
"What the hell is wrong with that eva anyhow?" Asuka said viewing the streets behind her.
"Movement...it's closing in..."
"So you think you can beat me Asuka?" Shinji's com-window popped up in front of her. He had a little grin on his face that would have been better used for chit-chat at tea time.
"Damn straight Third"
"Well you'd better keep better track of your teammates"
"David was a Baka! A rookie! I'm the great Asuka Langley Sohryu! The best of the best!"
"Too bad Rei ain't 'keeping your back safe' no more" Asuka spun around and saw that where the blue eva was there was just a green hill, a shattered positron rifle and chunks of blue armour littering the ground. She approached cautiously and saw a mangled blue eva propped against a low building to the right. If it were human, Asuka could have sworn it looked like it was tanning, if not for all the nasty cuts across the body.
"So what, that's just wondergirl for ya. Never keeping her guard up" Asuka spied a shadow between 2 buildings behind her. She spun and fired the rifle, but the movement was gone and the high speed rounds peppered across the city.
"That will be coming out of your pay check Asuka" Misato said grinning ear to ear.
"Well excuse me, for piloting a multi billion dollar piece of high tech junk that's supposed to defend all of humanity"
"100 yen says Shinji wins"
"Stay outta this rookie!" David's view screen showed him grinning. His smile suddenly widened.
"I'll add 1,000 yen if he bear hugs you" Asuka continued to scan the buildings around her while snickering. Shinji's voice came up on a sound only screen.
"David... your an idiot...that won't even cover the hospital bill when she's done with me" Shinji's monotone voice came into their ears.
"I'll cover the bill Shinji" Misato grinned widely at the exchange and sat in a chair she brought with her in the main office watching the eva pilots duke it out in a virtual Tokyo-3. Ritsuko had programmed this little 'game' in order to train for eva/eva battles. The last fight had been a wake up call and Misato didn't have a snooze option this time.
It had been a week since that last attack. All fears were unjustified about a berserk eva continuing to trash the defenders. Once the angel that held control over Shinji was killed, the berserk eva just deactivated. Other then some nasty bruises on Shinji and David nothing to bad had really happened. Well Shinji's thinking pattern had been Swiss cheesed from the high sync rate for a few days but he was back to normal now. That David fellow had become pretty good friends with the pilots and he seemed to bring a bit of cheer into the pilots lives, by making silly remakes and joking around with his co-workers. He was a nice guy, with a quiet joke on his tongue waiting to be freed, though he had a tendency to really get on your nerves after prolonged exposure to his jokes. Luckily he never bothered with them as time went on, but rather turned to gentle teasing.
His eva was finally complete and had a dark blue base with black outlines. Because the material used to make David's eva wasn't what was used to make the Japanese eva's, Ritsuko was forced to construct a robotic left arm. It rather looked like a normal eva arm but it wouldn't bleed much like the eva's if struck their. This also worked in his advantage because he couldn't feel pain from that arm.
However his eva was rubble in the virtual world at the moment as Asuka surveyed her surroundings. It had been a 3 on 1, with David, Rei and Asuka versus Shinji. Shinji was the best suited for sneaking his eva around the city and he was proving it by knocking off this opponents one by one. David had been somewhat easy. He charged ahead of them and Shinji had pulled David to the ground by his cable and with one knife sweep David grumbled his way to the nearest viewing feed to watch how the rest were doing. Rei had been a tricky one. She was safely on top of a hill with the positron rifle sweeping the area that her allies were. Shinji had snook around the hill using buildings as his cover until he was behind her by about half a mile. He had leapt and pinned the eva to the ground and used his knife to slash the weapon. With another deft swing of the prog knife, Rei made her way from the virtual entry plug to where David watched the action.
"Misato... your not helping the situation!" Asuka replied her eva sweeping the nearby buildings with her crosshairs. Still nothing.
"Where is he?"
"Make it 2,000 yen?" David grinned as he watched Shinji shift his eva into a crouching position.
"Deal" Asuka was getting peeved. These idiots kept talking and there was no action where is that idiot?!
"Less talking more figh*UFF*" Asuka exhaled as she her world suddenly leaped out at her. 2 purple arms rapped around her eva and she felt like a sponge being rung over a bucket.
"BAKA-HENTAI?! Oh It's on now!!!!"
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The 4 pilots had lined up in order of their number. Rei stood looking normal in her plugsuit with a Shinji that couldn't make up his mind if he should be angry from Asuka's slap or thrilled that he made easy money. Asuka stood arms posted at her hips with mostly the same expression as Shinji, pissed that he had done that yet happy that she won. David the 4th child stood to her left looking really down trodden, a red mark on his face for putting the idea in Shinji's head and brooding because he owned 2,000 yen he didn't have.
'Like really, who knew Shinji would do it' ran through David's head.
"Good work, Asuka" Misato beamed looking over the stats of the simulation battle.
"Of course, I did good. I'm Asuka. That alone means victory!" Asuka placed a hand over her chest and assumed a stance fit for a super model. Smartly no one made a comment about what else Asuka probably stood for.
"However, this is not good enough. Losing 66.66% of the team is not acceptable is it?" Rei questioned. Asuka remained in her pose but her eyes stared little daggers towards Rei.
"Very true Rei. Your all skilled for single combat, however your team efforts are less then par for defenders of humanity" Ritsuko said walking into the briefing room. She had assorted papers under her left arm that she handed to Misato. Misato gazed at the papers for a second before walking off.
"Damned paper work... Will the world ever be rid of it's evil?" Misato exited the room. Ritsuko watched Misato until the door closed then she faced the pilots.
"Alright. Orders state you need better team effort. The sooner the better" This perked David's left eye brow.
"So by orders you are to report to the simulator's every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 4 pm for the next week" Ritsuko said this and headed for the door.
"Oh and don't forget Shinji's 2,000 yen David" Ritsuko left, a small smile on her lips, leaving the 4 pilots starring at her back as the door closed.
"I'd ask if this was a sick joke, but she's a superior..." David blinked "So much for Saturday"
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If you didn't know (though most of you do know probably) Japanese have saturday morning classes. And sorry if Shinji seemed OOC for that last part. I just wanted to see what he would be like if he had a spine. Where I live, I spell Toji as Toji, Sohryu as Sohryu and Gendo as Asshole(well maybe not the last part but I was tempted to often).
If you loved the fighting, the gore and swearing... then I'm apologizing right now. Except for the swearing the other 2 will be dying down as the pilots attempt to live their lives after one of the most exhausting months of their lives(yes, everything so far took place in ONE MONTH!). I don't know maybe I'm soft... maybe I'm bored... Maybe I'm just another lunatic fanfic writer that wants to mess with the pilots social lives. There's only one way to find out, and that is to read the next installment of ACOS!!!
R&R. Live long and read fan-fics!
I own NOTHING in this fic(however I'd love to take an eva for a spin). I merely am putting them in the front lines of this angel war. Thank you good bye.
Last where we left our heroes, Shinji was captured by a crab like red pattern angel and the other eva pilots have set up to intercept the second angel.
Enjoy!
DrunkDrake
A Calling Of Souls
Chapter 06 : A Turning of Tables
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"Say Shinji...I'm bored..." Shinji irked at Asuka's tone. Her voice had a sound like honey to a bear, causing the cat to stare into curiosity and all sorts of other stupid rhymes and tales that popped into his mind when Asuka used that voice.
"Ahhh... Well..." Shinji stumbled like a near sighted man in a moonless night for words. Asuka was leaning against the door frame that connected their rooms together. Why it must have been at least 15 seconds since she'd been in his room. His room? Looking around he found he was in the hospital still after that fight with the 3rd angel wannabe.
"Well what? I'm bored let's do something together!" Shinji had trouble with words before but now he was lost. Asuka just stringed together some suggestive ideas through his head, but she didn't seen to register to her yet. Distract her, don't make her think your really a pervert. Think! Speak! No words dared form, in case something wrong was said. He still made a heartfelt effort though.
"Ahh...heh, umm..."
Asuka raised her eyebrows expectantly. Shinji then wondered if Asuka meant what she said with all the implied subliminal ideas. No, no, no. Not with Asuka, if anything she's playing with you Shinji. Speak, man! Open mouth, produce words...
"Your sure your bored" insert foot...
"Ahh... yeah, Shinji. I sort of made that clear. Wanna play a few rounds" She jerked her head indicating the game system she had in her room. Problem solved.
Shinji felt a weight lifted from his shoulders, and he felt like he just learned something about Asuka. When she's bored she'll pick on me badly. However once she hits an even lower state of boredom, she doesn't even register her own taunts and set ups. Interesting. Though he had to admit he was stark raving mad/bored also...there really wasn't anything to do here for 24 hours a day with only an SDAT, some books and perhaps the operations manual(which he gave up on after the 4th day). He sighed and nodded his head, and thus began a massive video game competition unequalled in post second impact history if not for quality time it made up for quantity.
After beeps, bloops, missiles, ray guns, etc(all that fun video game stuff) had gone on for about an hour Asuka started to think. It was actually starting to be fun being here. It was unpleasant to say the least to study the walls, mess with the sparse furnishings, or even play games for days without end. The lack of school work was refreshing, but she couldn't see Hikari her only real friend and she had to be cooped up with Shinji which really was below par for her standards.
Actually when she found out about this, she violently 'removed' Shinji from her half of the 2 room hospital and threatened him with a familiar 'wall of Jericode' from the night before a certain 7th angel was beaten. Well Shinji followed though on his promise not to 'cross that wall' but this left Asuka alone. Alone for 3 days. Alone for 3 days with no one to talk to or bother with. Soon all the boredom got to her and she couldn't help herself as she begun to think back. It was a personal hell for Asuka. Memories she swore never to remember, attempting to rise again. She blocked out the more painful ones with less painful ones, oddly(at least to her) most of these ones had Shinji in them. Shinji standing on 'over the rainbow's' deck blissfully watching Asuka Langley Sohryu introduce herself. Shinji cooking breakfast for his roommates. Shinji starring out the window at the setting sun from the balcony. Shinji...WHY ARE ALL MY MEMORIES ABOUT SHINJI ALL OF A SUDDEN! Asuka fumed and threw her pillow across the room and watched it slide down from it's new indention in the wall. When her anger subsided the memories returned...the bad ones.
"Damn it..." She gave up and decided the idiot was better then the doll or her...idiot it is. Ok. Think Idiot, think pervert...think roommate...Ok got it! She roamed about her memories of Shinji. Shinji during the sync week, Shinji coming to find her after she ran. Ok so the idiot wasn't so bad... Shinji leaping into the volcano to save her...ok so he really was a nice guy that cared...Asuka teasing Shinji for his apologies. Asuka slapping Shinji for standing there after that 'over the rainbow' incident. Shinji smiling at Asuka as she vented her pride before they belted down to do some serious sync training...Mien Gott. I was a total...bitch to him...daily...yet he still...Shinji leaping into the volcano against orders to rescue her...
"I gotta make it up to him or something..." She thought for a minute and soon her second pillow slid down from a new dent near the original.
"Pilot Sohryu, open fire!"
Asuka snapped out of memory lane after Rei's Monotone voice giving warning and the constant blaring of the lock-on she had on the angel.
"Somebodies gonna pay for this.."
'Stay alive for now Shinji'
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The angel was hovering almost peacefully over Tokyo-3. It's main body mass was a white sphere that had about 7 appendages that seemed like they belonged to the 4th angel. The number of appendages was always shifting as they melted into the main body or more came out. Also there was a set of odd wings on top the angels apex, the wings of a bat. The very shape of the thing was weird but the sheer mechanics of how it maintained flight was sheerly mind-boggling. From science's point of view, it was impossible. It had a mission and it was planning to fulfil it. It was hunting a specific 'Lillim', one that could shift the tide of power. If only it made itself known...
A sudden pain tore into it's sides. A river of palette rifle rounds was beginning to eat away at the beautiful white sphere. 'Ah pathetic, but at least one of the Lillim wants to play'. The angel begun to bat away several of the rounds sending them back towards the city. The rounds were all coming from a red fake angel, the one deemed EVA 02. 'My, my. The slayer of my brothers wants to fight me!'. The angel felt an emotion then, the first in it's life, it was the one of hunger, the hunger for blood.
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David only stared as the 'angel' started to bat away more and more of the palette rounds. Actually it was getting faster at deflecting them that and it was coming closer and closer too. This battle was going to be ugly. His crosshairs locked on the approaching 'angel' and he sent another string of super heated explosion palette rounds with deadly intent. Like before the first few got through but the angel had begun to block both sides of attack almost completely.
"Yep, definitely ugly"
But for Shinji. He would win. They all had to.
David's EVA threw the spent rifle aside and gripped a bazooka type weapon. The lock-on was almost immediate, so close was the angel.
"Wondergirl, where's our covering fire?!" Asuka's words then made David realize that the positron sniper rifle that was supposed to have been fired several times past his shoulder hadn't fired yet. Turning around he saw it was firing. Only that it was firing in the opposite direction...
"Oh shit..."
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"Target 2's speed has increased! It's in the engagement zone!"
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It was fast. Rei cocked the rifle again. This would be the 5th shot. The rifle wasn't meant for constant use like this and was obviously started to disintegrate. The damned thing was built for power not for multiple uses like this. The odd crab 'angel' from before was making a speedy descent down one of the mountains. Rei was just following orders to shot the target but her finger hovered over the trigger this time. If this 'angel' had absorbed Unit 01 then doesn't that mean... Rei blanched. She had her emotionless mask on again but she had emotions parading through her skull like a circus side show. One pull of the trigger could have been the end of Shinji Ikari, pilot of Unit 01. She just stared as it continued to charge her.
"Rei! Wake up! What are you doing Ayanami!" David's voice cut through the fog in her mind. She released the rifle and stood up.
"Rei...what are you doing?" Gendo's tones came through the main bridge com.
"Ikari, is still in the angel"
"Irrelevant. Take it out" Again Gendo's tone came across sternly.
Rei Ayanami, first child, pilot of EVA 00 deployed her progressive knife as a response. David only watched this drama half earnestly. His attention was drawn more towards the 'angelic furball' that was lashing out at unit 02. Asuka had lost her rifle, well more accurately it lay upon the ground as ashes. One of her own rounds hit the gun. She was now forced to fight the thing with only her Progressive knife and whatever was in her shoulder blades. The appendages had almost doubled in number however they were easy to cut and shoot off. Asuka was doing some pretty impressive knife slashes but she was in a constant state of retreat. David had again emptied his rifle's ammunition and he drew out his progressive knife. Time to get down and dirty too bad Asuka's there already. He couldn't resist the image of Asuka, scantily clad with mud smeared all over her. But forced the image out of his head just as fast as it came.
"Ick. Damn hormones, who needs'em?" He joined the hedge clipping frenzy that was the battle against the 'furball angel'.
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Ahhh. I can sense the Lillim is close now! Yes! Very close. I can almost taste it's tortured heart! But where is it! And where is that infernal fake blue angel? In it's rage it slapped aside the fake grey angel out of the way. 'Stupid Lillim, and they're fake angels. I won't be stopped!'
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Rei had successfully dislodged all the tentacles from the crab thing and she had her eva kneeling on it as she begun cutting through the armoured hide. However she wasn't ready for the strike from behind. The 'furbal angel' had just used 3 of it's appendages to stab/knock Rei off the angel. One had pierced the eva's lower torso going right through it. The angel 'leaned into it pinned unit 00 against the ground as it turned towards the fallen comrade.
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You are have been struck down? By the Lillims!
I have done my mission. Here is the one, and he is ready. Take him.
Claim him, that I will.
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"Mien Gott!"
"Jesus...."
"What the hell"
Misato's shocked exclamation left her mouth as she watched the 'furbal angel' rip apart the crab angel. It was a sickening sight as grey silver matter that was armour was flung in many directions and red blood seeped from the many wounds staining the ground. The appendages tunnelled into the angel and erupted from the other sides. the 'furbal' had maybe 3 dozen tentacle/arms going through the body of the slightly larger angel as it roamed looking for something. The gory display held everyone rapt.
"YOU BASTARD!" Asuka cried as she charged the 'furbal' she had hoped that perhaps there was a chance to save Shinji but that would be impossible if that thing killed him and the angel that held him. She stabbed forwards but her knife didn't reach the 'angel' as it swung a tangle of arms still immersed within a large chunk of the crab angel blocked.
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'Shinji?'
"Yes? Who are you?"
'I am the one'
"One?"
'I can do for you what none shall ever do'
"You mean this?" The scene he had seen played again in the background of the sub space Shinji and the voice occupied.
'I can't do that'
"Why?"
'Because the one you love doesn't love you back'
"Wh...at?"
'I can only make happen what can be allowed to happen. I can't change this...this was to have been your future. However, the one you love has fallen for another' images of about every boy Shinji knew flickered in the background.
"No...she wouldn't do that...They wouldn't do that..."
'Yes, they would...and they have' the scene on top of the school replayed but their was no words or sounds. He saw that while he had been raptured by David's talk, Asuka had been eyeing David almost hungrily. Another scene came to his mind, one where Toji and Asuka were hugging each other under a porch light very tightly almost like...
"NO" .Then he saw Hikari standing off to the side watching them and crying before running off in the darkened alleys.
"I caused this?..."
'No, the one you loved doesn't return it. The ones you trust will turn against you when your back is turned'
"NO!!" Yes "NO!!!!" Yes... "Not Toji! Not Hikari!!! NOT ASUKA!!!!!"
"Already they plan to get rid of you"
"No...." Shinji's voice was sounding almost hollow as it begun to echo weakly.
'But look, the very one you love is twisting the very knife that is meant to kill an enemy'
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Asuka begun to shake... she hadn't struck the angel. She struck the gelatinous crap that once was the innards of the crab angel. However the force of her strike caused the innards to slowly slip off. What she saw horrified her. It started with the top part of the mess to fall back, revealing an all too familiar horn. Then the mess started to flake off in chunks and she saw eva unit 01 with it's eyes dim it's armour covered in scarlet angel blood with Asuka's Progressive knife stabbed into the left breast.
"Cut Shinji outta there! Asuka!" David's words got Asuka to bring the knife out and she pulled back and swung for the appendages holding Shinji's eva in place.
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Shinji opened his eyes and saw unit 02 standing right in front on him. A pain was ripping from his heart as he saw it held it's knife extended ending with a progressive knife handle sticking out his chest.
Emotions and feelings, swirled in Shinji's head as he saw what the voice said come true.
Shinji's mind was reeling from blow after blow. He saw unit 02 pull back it's knife and prepare another swing.
"love...hate...betrayal...hate...betrayal....death...pain...betrayalpaindeathbetrayalhate..."
Shinji's mind suddenly stopped as he focused on one word.
"Revenge..."
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Asuka pulled back horrified that she had stabbed the eva but had regained enough of her senses to attempt to dislodge Shinji's eva. She swung forward again, much higher aiming for one of the appendages that was rapped around the trapped unit's left arm, when suddenly pain caught her in her left arm. She muttered a shout when she felt an awful pain smash into her forehead to accompany what she felt on her arm. Looking up from her curled up position she saw an up close view of unit 01's glowing eyes. So close in fact, that she could swear she saw it's iris's through the armoured glass. What scared her more was that she saw it narrow it's eyes and give a small growl that didn't belong to anything sane...
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Rei's eyes had widened when she saw eva 01 was under the fleshy goo but she was in a sweat when she saw the what it just did to eva 02. When Asuka swung her knife to hack off another limb from the angel, unit 01's right arm shot out and yanked unit 02 with an iron grip. This pull had unit 02's head smash into unit 01's. They were eye to eye, and even from this distance she heard the growl. Other then the time with the 12th angel Rei hadn't seen an eva go berserk on the battle field. Eva 01 had been frightening covered in angel blood roaring to the sky that day, frightening enough to cause Asuka some doubts about the Evangelions. Now with eva 01 once again berserk it lost none of it's furious intent, the red blood staining it's armour only completed the effect.
"Is...that, pilot Ikari?"
"Oh my god..."
"What are...his vital stats?" Rei said still watching the display. Unit 01 now lifted 02 and hefted it in to the air and dropping it/throwing it so that it rolled a few blocks away. It started to rip and tear at the remaining innards that held it's legs and lower torso as it's eye's continued to glower at unit 02.
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Maya was typing furiously away, with Rei's request. Most of the other crew were still shocked at seeing eva 01 working, and even more scared that it didn't seem too happy to be back. Hyuga and Aoba had also overcame their stupor and where working away also. It was Hyuga that made the first statement.
"Pilot life signs confirmed!"
"Sync ratio steady at 219%!"
"WHAT?!" Misato's voice echoed in the main office from Aoba's statement. Technically speaking 100% was the highest you could go. 100% meant you were maxed, there wasn't anything else above. The second thing that clicked in Misato's mind was the insanely high number. 219%?! How?! The pilots were struggling just to reach 80% not to mention maintain it. Maya's voice suddenly shouted out over the din.
"46.45% mental contamination!!!!"
"We've lost the connection to unit 01!!!"
Maya's words rang out at the same time the eva freed itself from the remains of it's prison. The other angel however had a firm grip on the eva but they moved in tandem, almost as if they had one mind. Straight towards an unmoving unit 02.
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Increased senses, rage...pure emotional rage. I nearly laughed when I overheard the excited yells about my leaping Sync ratio. It leapt by an incredible amount and easily landed me as the top slot, if I had still cared about such things. More importantly I was ready, ready to kill, ready to tear apart my enemies.
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The angel seemed to grin inwardly, it's mission was done. Now it only had to wait until this fake angel did the work for it. It detached from the purple monster and disappeared down on of side streets as Rei's new pellet rifle tore up the street where it had been.
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Eva 01's jaw opened as wide as it could go and roared at it's toppled foe. Asuka had begun to scramble back from the monster. She had been violently woken up from a forced sleep by the roar, and it had chilled her to the bone. She felt icy fingers grip her heart when she saw the eva charge her. It leapt into the air and dove at her. That was only until a grey blur obscured the view
"David?!"
The purple and grey eva rolled across the street crushing cars, benches and all sorts of objects as they rolled down the street to the right. It was really just a mess of limbs and colours that spun rolling around. The angel wasn't anywhere in sight but Rei's eva, damaged or not was still at the hill like earlier but this time it held a small arms rifle(pellet) and was tracing holes in the streets somewhere to Asuka's far left.
"Pilot Sohryu are you functional?" Rei's voice came over the air waves just as emotionless as any other given time but there was a sense of urgency, Asuka thought.
"Yeah, just peachy. What happened? Did the eva actually jump me?!"
"The angel responsible for that is still around. Perhaps if we kill it, the control it had placed on the eva will end" Asuka had to hand it to Ayanami. She really could keep her cool even in really had situations.
"Sounds good girls but could you do it FASTER! This thing definitely wants to be uncooperative!" about every third word was interrupted by his heavy breathing "I really doubt I can hold it back for say... 30 SECONDS!!!!!"
"Well hold him until we kill that thing. Even a rookie like you should be able to distract that thing long enough"
The red eva stood up again having shaken it's earlier fears. Misato must have said something but regardless an armoury door opened up and offered a progressive lance and a progressive axe. Soon the blue and the red were hunting for angel scum in downtown Tokyo.
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My god what the hell is this thing! A berserk eva...wonderful how I end up baby sitting one. Even better when it's throwing a temper tantrum!!! David's thoughts were a tornado of ideas. He had(much to his disbelief) wrestled on top of the purple beast and had it's chest pinned to the ground. And all with one arm he thought.
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"Ahh...wondergirl what happened to the angel?!"
Rei was still on her little hill and was lying flat on the ground with her rifle propped up as she sighted along the western half of Tokyo-3. Her radar was playing merry-go-round between screaming red pattern and no pattern. Her targeting brackets sweeped the city as she searched. Asuka was in the middle of her search pattern and they were systematically scouring each section. Suddenly the squid like form of the angel stood up.
"2 blocks to the right, 3 blocks behind you" Rei fired her rifle peppering the target with round after round as Asuka whipped around and swung at several appendages that were closing in on her. Asuka was steadily getting closer to the target and Rei was half finished her third clip when David's voice came over the com again.
"I can't hold him much longer...HURRY UP!!!...SON OF A BITCH BIT ME!" unit 01 had flipped around and was biting into the grey eva's left shoulder and pushing it off at the same time. David balanced his eva just in time to watch eva 01 whip it's hand forward in a slap. His mind didn't realize that the hand no longer had digits but sharp needle like claws. When the hand hit, it ripped off a part of the face plating along the left cheek leaving a nasty gash. David couldn't take the pain and his eva deactivated along with the pilot.
A roar was heard in the direction that Asuka remembered where Shinji was but her mind didn't click right away. She didn't realise that one of the team was down, only that the angel in front of her was still defying her, taunting her, whipping it's arms at her. She battled closer to it and swung her weapon into the core. The core darkened and soon the angel dying down. Asuka smirked seeing the remaining arms collapse around her.
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This victory was in the bag.
"Pilot Sohryu"
"What wondergirl? You calling to congratulate me already?" The battle may have been over for less then a minute but Asuka was already basking in the warmth of her victory that she felt coming.
"I have lost visual of unit 01 after it defeated pilot Cever" Asuka snapped out of her gloating and spun around. She could clearly see the cable that lead to the eva which was crumpled against the streets but no sign of the purple monster that housed Shinji.
"WHAT?! Why weren't you watching them!!"
"I was making your back safe..." Asuka really didn't feel like figuring out what Rei implied by that statement because she felt that the battle wasn't over yet.
"Sohryu. My sensors detect movement 3 blocks to your right, 5 blocks back"
"What the hell is wrong with that eva anyhow?" Asuka said viewing the streets behind her.
"Movement...it's closing in..."
"So you think you can beat me Asuka?" Shinji's com-window popped up in front of her. He had a little grin on his face that would have been better used for chit-chat at tea time.
"Damn straight Third"
"Well you'd better keep better track of your teammates"
"David was a Baka! A rookie! I'm the great Asuka Langley Sohryu! The best of the best!"
"Too bad Rei ain't 'keeping your back safe' no more" Asuka spun around and saw that where the blue eva was there was just a green hill, a shattered positron rifle and chunks of blue armour littering the ground. She approached cautiously and saw a mangled blue eva propped against a low building to the right. If it were human, Asuka could have sworn it looked like it was tanning, if not for all the nasty cuts across the body.
"So what, that's just wondergirl for ya. Never keeping her guard up" Asuka spied a shadow between 2 buildings behind her. She spun and fired the rifle, but the movement was gone and the high speed rounds peppered across the city.
"That will be coming out of your pay check Asuka" Misato said grinning ear to ear.
"Well excuse me, for piloting a multi billion dollar piece of high tech junk that's supposed to defend all of humanity"
"100 yen says Shinji wins"
"Stay outta this rookie!" David's view screen showed him grinning. His smile suddenly widened.
"I'll add 1,000 yen if he bear hugs you" Asuka continued to scan the buildings around her while snickering. Shinji's voice came up on a sound only screen.
"David... your an idiot...that won't even cover the hospital bill when she's done with me" Shinji's monotone voice came into their ears.
"I'll cover the bill Shinji" Misato grinned widely at the exchange and sat in a chair she brought with her in the main office watching the eva pilots duke it out in a virtual Tokyo-3. Ritsuko had programmed this little 'game' in order to train for eva/eva battles. The last fight had been a wake up call and Misato didn't have a snooze option this time.
It had been a week since that last attack. All fears were unjustified about a berserk eva continuing to trash the defenders. Once the angel that held control over Shinji was killed, the berserk eva just deactivated. Other then some nasty bruises on Shinji and David nothing to bad had really happened. Well Shinji's thinking pattern had been Swiss cheesed from the high sync rate for a few days but he was back to normal now. That David fellow had become pretty good friends with the pilots and he seemed to bring a bit of cheer into the pilots lives, by making silly remakes and joking around with his co-workers. He was a nice guy, with a quiet joke on his tongue waiting to be freed, though he had a tendency to really get on your nerves after prolonged exposure to his jokes. Luckily he never bothered with them as time went on, but rather turned to gentle teasing.
His eva was finally complete and had a dark blue base with black outlines. Because the material used to make David's eva wasn't what was used to make the Japanese eva's, Ritsuko was forced to construct a robotic left arm. It rather looked like a normal eva arm but it wouldn't bleed much like the eva's if struck their. This also worked in his advantage because he couldn't feel pain from that arm.
However his eva was rubble in the virtual world at the moment as Asuka surveyed her surroundings. It had been a 3 on 1, with David, Rei and Asuka versus Shinji. Shinji was the best suited for sneaking his eva around the city and he was proving it by knocking off this opponents one by one. David had been somewhat easy. He charged ahead of them and Shinji had pulled David to the ground by his cable and with one knife sweep David grumbled his way to the nearest viewing feed to watch how the rest were doing. Rei had been a tricky one. She was safely on top of a hill with the positron rifle sweeping the area that her allies were. Shinji had snook around the hill using buildings as his cover until he was behind her by about half a mile. He had leapt and pinned the eva to the ground and used his knife to slash the weapon. With another deft swing of the prog knife, Rei made her way from the virtual entry plug to where David watched the action.
"Misato... your not helping the situation!" Asuka replied her eva sweeping the nearby buildings with her crosshairs. Still nothing.
"Where is he?"
"Make it 2,000 yen?" David grinned as he watched Shinji shift his eva into a crouching position.
"Deal" Asuka was getting peeved. These idiots kept talking and there was no action where is that idiot?!
"Less talking more figh*UFF*" Asuka exhaled as she her world suddenly leaped out at her. 2 purple arms rapped around her eva and she felt like a sponge being rung over a bucket.
"BAKA-HENTAI?! Oh It's on now!!!!"
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The 4 pilots had lined up in order of their number. Rei stood looking normal in her plugsuit with a Shinji that couldn't make up his mind if he should be angry from Asuka's slap or thrilled that he made easy money. Asuka stood arms posted at her hips with mostly the same expression as Shinji, pissed that he had done that yet happy that she won. David the 4th child stood to her left looking really down trodden, a red mark on his face for putting the idea in Shinji's head and brooding because he owned 2,000 yen he didn't have.
'Like really, who knew Shinji would do it' ran through David's head.
"Good work, Asuka" Misato beamed looking over the stats of the simulation battle.
"Of course, I did good. I'm Asuka. That alone means victory!" Asuka placed a hand over her chest and assumed a stance fit for a super model. Smartly no one made a comment about what else Asuka probably stood for.
"However, this is not good enough. Losing 66.66% of the team is not acceptable is it?" Rei questioned. Asuka remained in her pose but her eyes stared little daggers towards Rei.
"Very true Rei. Your all skilled for single combat, however your team efforts are less then par for defenders of humanity" Ritsuko said walking into the briefing room. She had assorted papers under her left arm that she handed to Misato. Misato gazed at the papers for a second before walking off.
"Damned paper work... Will the world ever be rid of it's evil?" Misato exited the room. Ritsuko watched Misato until the door closed then she faced the pilots.
"Alright. Orders state you need better team effort. The sooner the better" This perked David's left eye brow.
"So by orders you are to report to the simulator's every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 4 pm for the next week" Ritsuko said this and headed for the door.
"Oh and don't forget Shinji's 2,000 yen David" Ritsuko left, a small smile on her lips, leaving the 4 pilots starring at her back as the door closed.
"I'd ask if this was a sick joke, but she's a superior..." David blinked "So much for Saturday"
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If you didn't know (though most of you do know probably) Japanese have saturday morning classes. And sorry if Shinji seemed OOC for that last part. I just wanted to see what he would be like if he had a spine. Where I live, I spell Toji as Toji, Sohryu as Sohryu and Gendo as Asshole(well maybe not the last part but I was tempted to often).
If you loved the fighting, the gore and swearing... then I'm apologizing right now. Except for the swearing the other 2 will be dying down as the pilots attempt to live their lives after one of the most exhausting months of their lives(yes, everything so far took place in ONE MONTH!). I don't know maybe I'm soft... maybe I'm bored... Maybe I'm just another lunatic fanfic writer that wants to mess with the pilots social lives. There's only one way to find out, and that is to read the next installment of ACOS!!!
R&R. Live long and read fan-fics!