Disclaimer: Honestly I've put one in every chapter so far. Just go look at any of the earlier ones. I don't own Eva!!! However I do have first rights on my ACC David Cever so HANDS OFF!!!!
Sorry I haven't updated this lately(or at all for the past month...eh heh he..) But I'm BACK! and with a vengeance. for those of you wondering about Shinji's change of heart at the end of the last chapter you'll get to see the process of WHY he had a backbone in that part!! Oh and the dates do have a significance.
"..." talking
'...' thinking
Enjoy!
DrunkDrake
A Calling Of Souls
Chapter 07 : Return to the world
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~The day after unit 01's recovery~ Oct 24th
Ritsuko sat at the table in the crew lounge, enjoying one of the few guilty pleasures she could enjoy in public. She exhaled and felt the smoke curl up wafting it's way past her nostril's towards the air vent. Her blonde hair hung behind her head in messy clumps, a result of too many working hours and not enough time to manage hygiene. Her lab coat hung off the chair as her arms rested at comforting angles. She was almost managing NERV's projects on schedule, in fact she smiled as she remembered how some projects were ahead of schedule even finished. The work on eva 4 mark II, formerly known as 'the grey eva' finally had it's left arm ready for installation. It had been completely robotic so it was a piece of cake for Ritsuko's skills.
Ritsuko opened her eyes and watched as the dying embers of her last cig die in the ash tray on the table. Her quiet time was interrupting by a door opening behind her.
"Well, Well... your hiding from the reality of life too?" Ritsuko merely smiled at Misato's words. 'Maybe, the caffeine is running low in my system or something' she wondered.
"Misato, wonderful to see you again. How's your hell treating you today, or as some of the techies like to mistake it as, how's life?" Misato didn't answer as she stood in front of the coffee machine filling a spare mug with the black liquid. Ritsuko stiffled a giggle when she saw Misato shudder after almost inhaling the sludge.
"I really wonder how we get along if our personalities are almost as different as our preferences of coffee" Misato said as she set another pot on the highest setting she could find. Ritsuko stole another puff from the cigarette before ending it's life by facing planting it with it's brethren.
"They say opposites attract" Misato sat across from Ritsuko and found the table's texture worth a long look. Ritsuko finding the conversation dying decided to bring up what was on Misato's mind.
"So how's our Shinji Ikari doing?" Ritsuko almost spat out the pilot's family name. Gendo Ikari was a bastard people manipulator. How could such a caring young boy come from that monster behind the glasses?
"Well... he's in a state of comatose" Misato fiddled with her empty mug eyeing the coffee machine as it chugged about it's duty "I really didn't think he'd be ok after that angel had captured him..."
Misato's paused answer all that Ritsuko had heard. One of the medical personnel in charge of managing the pilots health had left a report saying that the child was exactly that, perfectly fine on the outside, but his mental pattern was a little 'messy' thus currently he rested in a constant state of rest...comatose.
"He will break out of it... I'm sure" Ritsuko said finally sitting up. Misato only nodded half hearted.
"He's the invincible Shinji..." Misato gave a half hearted smile while using Asuka's term for Shinji's luck on the battlefield. Ritsuko left the room at that.
---
"A world that anything I wanted could be mine... another cruel joke..." Shinji mumbled to himself in the darkness.
He'd been here... what, 2 hours? 3 days? A week? There was no way to tell. All he knew was that now he was alone, completely alone.
"Did I wish this for myself? To be locked away in eternal darkness for my sins?" Shinji turned around again the darkness unyielding.
"Left behind... spent, used and toyed with... I'm more a doll then Rei ever will be..." Shinji turned again finding the darkness still behind and in front of him. He rose a hand to his head.
"At least... let me see what could have been mine..." The darkness flowed and the world reshaped to a familiar kitchen he had seen perhaps 100 times now. However as he watched it he felt detached... like it was nothing but hollow husks reinacting some sort of play. He watched it with tears. Not because of what he is denied but because he no longer feels anything from it.
"Empty..."
---
Asuka walked through the hospital halls searching out for the room that Shinji was currently housed in. Oddly enough it was the same one that Shinji and Asuka had shared. Looking at the door from this side though shows that it is in fact not really a door.
"More like a movable wall" She mumbled as she slid open the door and closed it behind herself. A resounding *CLICK* from the multiple lock bolts in the door frame made itself clear. She narrowed her eyes as she remembered why she got stuck in her again.
The Tokyo-3 cityscape came back to full view as Asuka remembered diving the prog knife through the angel's core. When the angel shuddered and sunk into itself she felt relieved.
"Well wondergirl. That's another angel" Asuka smirked at Rei's com-window.
"Now to see if the hypothesis is correct. Unit 01 should be finished without the mental contamination" Rei sighted along the streets the where Unit's 4B and 01. However, only 4B was where it should be.
"Well? what are those idiots doing?" Asuka was moving her eva for a better view, too bad the industrial section had some of tallest buildings in the way.
"4B is down. Unit 01 is not in my sighting ability" Rei coolly scanned the surrounding regions but found nothing. 'Odd... monsters the size of skyscrapers can't just...'
"What the He..." The rest of Asuka's curse was muddled by the sound of metal scraping asphalt over the com-channel. Eva 01 leaned over the fallen eva 02 pinning it under it. a slight ooze came from the open mouth drooling onto the trapped unit below.
"23% eva 02 bio-contamination!"
"Sohryu?" Rei saw Asuka pinned under a certain bio-mechanical purple monster. However it was powered down, it's fiery green orbs, now were lightless. Asuka pushed off the crouching eva and it toppled to the streets as Asuka jerkingly rose. The eva's left arm had what would have passed for that medieval black plague. Purple and bulbous in regions big and small starting from the hand ending about lower left shoulder.
"Bio-contamination has stopped at 23%... wait something weird is going on..." Maya fumbled for an answer from her screens.
"The bio contamination has... well, stopped. It is now just dead cells" Asuka was heard uttering grunts and curses. It's wasn't the bridge crews fault, for her pain. Pain... damn it felt like her arm caught fire then suddenly froze way below sub zero, adding serious pins and needles to the list didn't make it any better.
"Asuka... report" Asuka looked up and uncurled from the ball she had some how managed to become.
"Fine... feels... like hell but... fine..."
"Move unit 01 onto one of the recovery zones. Rei, return through your nearest recovery zone" Asuka manhandled the dead weight with her one good arm and begun to descend under the streets.
Asuka propped her belongings onto her new bed for god knows how long, and wandered through the connecting door. She opened the door and sat next to Shinji in the hospital room.
"I guess we've stuck together 'AGAIN'" Asuka muttered crossing her arms and glaring at the nearest lamp set on his desk. 'First the damned sync training, then the hospital trip after that rematch with Sachiel wannabe'
"Then wham, not even 2 weeks later we're shoved back in the same damn hospital room cause of another Angel attack..." Asuka sighed as she watched Shinji's comatose form.
---
'I promised to protect him... Did I fail him?' Rei pondered as she looked out the window in her room. 'The angel had possessed him... correct...?'
Rei's gaze wandered over the dark room scanning the floor, the curtains and the few(sparse) furniture. The light sliced across the gloom as it made it's way through the dirty curtains and the beam that hit the glass of water shattered into a rainbow spraying the room was small dazzling lights. The effect was only temporary as the wind that moved the curtains died down.
"Ikari was removed from the eva alive but... did I break my promise to protect him?" She looked back at the bed sheets in front of her and pondered this line of questioning.
"No... I haven't but..." Rei still couldn't get the picture of Shinji Ikari's limp form being hauled out of the entry plug. Arms dangling, head down and LCL dripping off him as her was rushed to a contamination ward.
"But..." When she had changed to her normal clothing she had attempted to locate him. The hospital staff stated that he was in deep comatose state and had been in the isolation ward due to the recent battle.
Everything Rei tried failed. She had attempted to out rank the staff, however the order came from an Alpha level order and Rei can't over ride the commander's wishes. Then she tried to find Shinji on her own yet when she did find him he was behind 2 metre thick armoured walls with viewing windows just as thick and reinforced.
"Did I disobey the commander by searching for Ikari?" Rei now flipped the new question over through her thought process and silence again over took the dirty apartment.
---
"What do ya mean I can't go see him!?" David bashed his hand on the nearest desk as the nurse on duty eyed him.
"He's in isolation ward, no visitors" David glared at the nurse like she was the most appalling thing he'd seen.
"Then why did Sohryu go then, HUH?"
"That is because Sohryu is sharing that isolation ward" David's jaw dropped.
"What?! Roll that over me again!!" The nurse sighed and explained in greater detail.
"Due to the fact that the evangelion unit 02 was thoroughly infected by a non angelic source but by a fellow evangelion, commander has deemed pilot Asuka langley Sohryu to be in the same state as pilot Shinji Ikari" David rolled this over his head. This took a while as he sorted through possible arguments but sighed as they each ended up the same.
"Well, when is 'PILOT Ikari' going to be released?" the nurse checked her data files on the computer on her desk and shook her head.
"Unknown"
David rubbed his head with his hands
"Wonderful"
---
"So Ikari, what's your current plans for this evening?" Gendo glanced back at Fuyutsuki who had broken the almost sacred silence of his dark temple(office).
"I plan to salvage this"
"How's that? The angels haven't been appearing as fore-told and we are getting thoroughly beaten by these nasty little critters that we don't have a name for"
"They are code named as demons as of now" Fuyutsuki smirked
"Well it's about time, I was getting a headache trying to sort of the true angels and these copies" Gendo now glared at his sub commander who promptly lost his smug attitude
"I already have doctor Akagi sorting out the new threats" Fuyutsuki regained his posture and faced Gendo again.
"So what did we face this month?"
"They were challenges from another..." Fuyutsuki perked an eyebrow before Gendo continued.
"The first that was fought was the keeper of Nemesis..." That made so sense to Fuyutsuki. The first angel that was fought was the 3rd Sachiel. That effectively made eva-01 and 3rd angel Nemesises.
"The second was the wielder of shadows..." Fuyutsuki had watched that fight and had to agree that it was a fitting title.
"The third was the demon of rebirth..." The images of that demon flashed through his mind and he had noted the similarities between it and the 4th angel.
"The fourth was the stealer of souls..." Fuyutsuki pondered which of the 2 demons had that title, but decided that the crab creature fit that title very well.
"The fifth was the wielder of souls..." Fuyutsuki nodded in agreed meant. That was almost indefinitely the newly dead angel. The crab demon stole Shinji and the squid demon used him.
"There are still more to come but my new project allows for this"
"How so?"
"Simple... we kill them"
---
"So Shinji stay or hit?"
"..."
"Stay it is"
Asuka flipped her hand onto the top of the removable tray table then turned over Shinji's cards. She blinked and then fumed.
"Damn invincible Shinji... even beats me in Blackjack in a comatose state..."
Asuka fumed again but her flame died out when she noticed nothing really changed. Shinji still sat on the bed in a slightly upright position with the UV bag still strapped onto his arm. The drip, drip being her only companion she almost felt like beating something.
"Shinji... didn't we promise that we'd watch out for each other..." Asuka sat on the bed and watched his chest slowly rise and fall.
"I don't want to be alone... again..." Asuka leaned over and opened Shinji's eyes and peered into their dark depths. She quickly closed them and hugged herself after seeing them.
"Just... like...momma... before she..."
---
The children giggled, the parents sighed happily. Nothing changed it was a state of replay, limbo to be exact. Shinji stopped and wondered if this dream paradise would be better then what happened to him when he was back to where he was before. He knew this wasn't real, he felt a slight feeling like a draft at the base of his neck that told him that if he turned around he'd be back to where he came from. Back to... the world he left. Shinji stared at the hollow images and slightly turned his head away from the parents show of affection. That's when he heard it.
"...alone... again..."
'Asuka?' Shinji listened more closely and overheard a slight sob after something else was said. 'Asuka wouldn't be crying... she's too strong...'.
"Shinji...not like momma...ease..." Asuka's voice faded in and out of Shinji's hearing. He then realised that he was causing pain. He may be painless here with his false memory but what had he done outside... 'There is one who could still use me?'
Shinji turned all the way around and the breeze turned to be a full blown hurricane as the darkness swapped him.
---
"You left me too even after promising to watch me... why... am I so evil so hated that I must be alone..." Asuka was slowly wrapped in a tight embrace.
A soothing voice whispered little words of encouragement and joy. Asuka looked up from the ball she'd become and looked straight into Shinji's open dark blue eye's. She found herself on the edge of the bed closed to Shinji and had cried out her heart. She had stayed there until now crying and curled in a ball hoping the world would go away. Her pink pajamas were shaded from the dried tears now and Shinji's blue hospital robe contrasted them.
"I promised you Asuka... I'd never leave you..." Asuka sat in his arms in the locked room in the isolation ward and she slowly fell into a restful sleep in the arms of her invincible Shinji.
"Thank you... for not leaving me... too..."
---
Gendo sat and watched the little drama on the screen before him. His mouth conformed to a smirk. The effects of watching this 3 day drama had warmed his heart for just a moment. Asuka had sat there in a curled up ball for 3 days next to Shinji. It was now October 26th. She had been whispering something to herself for days now. She even started to break down into tears by the second day. Her latest mental reports before the battle had warned of a possible break down if she started loosing her anchors. So had done just that. He stripped her of all her anchors except for a comatose boy she had come to rely on.
Gendo didn't feel like playing match maker but it was needed if the new plan was to succeed.
"The fall of the second had to be sped up and controlled. Otherwise we may not make it" Gendo spoke aloud the words Fuyutsuki earlier told him. It was too true. If they only had to worry about the angels, losing the second wouldn't hurt the plan. In fact it might move it along. However these mockeries were very powerful and it took multiple evangelions to take one down. Add to the fact that theories about what would happen if they came into contact with Lillith or Adam all came out with a worst possible scenario.
"Match maker, match maker, match maker man" Gendo hummed to himself as he stared at the sleeping children.
"Make, me a match, to finish the plan..."
Gendo smiled a little smile that brought chills to Fuyutsuki...
...His plan was back on track...
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Short but SWEET eh? Well, we say that Gendo was slowly despairing into oblivion as these ex-angels(demons) were making their appearances. So now he's taking a personal role in making the pilots stay in ready condition. As you can see he's a puppet master(and might I add he's my third favourite character in EVANGELION too!!) How will Shinji and Asuka adapt to their new/strengthened bond?
Read then do me a favour by leaving your review. I don't care if it's good, bad or a flame. I want everyone's opinion!! If you absolutely, MUST, reach me my E-mail is DrakeforBake@hotmail.com(not that you couldn't have found that out in my profile) and I will respond in some form(either by posting a review, replying to the message or making a note in my newest chapter)
Till later cya.
PS: Thanks for the encouragement Jacob, I almost gave up on this. This Omakes for you!
_-~Omake~-_
Asuka shuffled another hand of Blackjack for herself and Shinji as they sat in the hospital room.
"Hit or stay?"
"..."
"A hit? If you insist!" *SLAP*
Asuka grinned as she added another bruise to Shinji's face. Amazing how this kid's a better stress reliever when he's not even awake.
Gendo sat watching the 2 from his desk with a shocked expression. His own son was getting the beating of a lifetime and wasn't even defending himself... This is a MOCKERY!!! A SHAME!!!
"I CAN'T IN GOOD CONSCIOUS LET THIS CONTINUE!!!" Gendo stared at Shinji in his view screen " I DIS-OWN YOU, YOU SHAME THE IKARI NAME!!!"
Shinji's eye's opened up and he looked around. For so reason he felt infinitely happy... too bad smiling caused his cheek to hurt.
"Hit or stay?"
"Huh?"
"Hit it is!" *SLAP* Shinji returned to the bliss of comatose with a small smile as the words circled his head.
"He ain't my father"
_-~End of Omake~-_
Sorry I haven't updated this lately(or at all for the past month...eh heh he..) But I'm BACK! and with a vengeance. for those of you wondering about Shinji's change of heart at the end of the last chapter you'll get to see the process of WHY he had a backbone in that part!! Oh and the dates do have a significance.
"..." talking
'...' thinking
Enjoy!
DrunkDrake
A Calling Of Souls
Chapter 07 : Return to the world
~~~~~~~~
~The day after unit 01's recovery~ Oct 24th
Ritsuko sat at the table in the crew lounge, enjoying one of the few guilty pleasures she could enjoy in public. She exhaled and felt the smoke curl up wafting it's way past her nostril's towards the air vent. Her blonde hair hung behind her head in messy clumps, a result of too many working hours and not enough time to manage hygiene. Her lab coat hung off the chair as her arms rested at comforting angles. She was almost managing NERV's projects on schedule, in fact she smiled as she remembered how some projects were ahead of schedule even finished. The work on eva 4 mark II, formerly known as 'the grey eva' finally had it's left arm ready for installation. It had been completely robotic so it was a piece of cake for Ritsuko's skills.
Ritsuko opened her eyes and watched as the dying embers of her last cig die in the ash tray on the table. Her quiet time was interrupting by a door opening behind her.
"Well, Well... your hiding from the reality of life too?" Ritsuko merely smiled at Misato's words. 'Maybe, the caffeine is running low in my system or something' she wondered.
"Misato, wonderful to see you again. How's your hell treating you today, or as some of the techies like to mistake it as, how's life?" Misato didn't answer as she stood in front of the coffee machine filling a spare mug with the black liquid. Ritsuko stiffled a giggle when she saw Misato shudder after almost inhaling the sludge.
"I really wonder how we get along if our personalities are almost as different as our preferences of coffee" Misato said as she set another pot on the highest setting she could find. Ritsuko stole another puff from the cigarette before ending it's life by facing planting it with it's brethren.
"They say opposites attract" Misato sat across from Ritsuko and found the table's texture worth a long look. Ritsuko finding the conversation dying decided to bring up what was on Misato's mind.
"So how's our Shinji Ikari doing?" Ritsuko almost spat out the pilot's family name. Gendo Ikari was a bastard people manipulator. How could such a caring young boy come from that monster behind the glasses?
"Well... he's in a state of comatose" Misato fiddled with her empty mug eyeing the coffee machine as it chugged about it's duty "I really didn't think he'd be ok after that angel had captured him..."
Misato's paused answer all that Ritsuko had heard. One of the medical personnel in charge of managing the pilots health had left a report saying that the child was exactly that, perfectly fine on the outside, but his mental pattern was a little 'messy' thus currently he rested in a constant state of rest...comatose.
"He will break out of it... I'm sure" Ritsuko said finally sitting up. Misato only nodded half hearted.
"He's the invincible Shinji..." Misato gave a half hearted smile while using Asuka's term for Shinji's luck on the battlefield. Ritsuko left the room at that.
---
"A world that anything I wanted could be mine... another cruel joke..." Shinji mumbled to himself in the darkness.
He'd been here... what, 2 hours? 3 days? A week? There was no way to tell. All he knew was that now he was alone, completely alone.
"Did I wish this for myself? To be locked away in eternal darkness for my sins?" Shinji turned around again the darkness unyielding.
"Left behind... spent, used and toyed with... I'm more a doll then Rei ever will be..." Shinji turned again finding the darkness still behind and in front of him. He rose a hand to his head.
"At least... let me see what could have been mine..." The darkness flowed and the world reshaped to a familiar kitchen he had seen perhaps 100 times now. However as he watched it he felt detached... like it was nothing but hollow husks reinacting some sort of play. He watched it with tears. Not because of what he is denied but because he no longer feels anything from it.
"Empty..."
---
Asuka walked through the hospital halls searching out for the room that Shinji was currently housed in. Oddly enough it was the same one that Shinji and Asuka had shared. Looking at the door from this side though shows that it is in fact not really a door.
"More like a movable wall" She mumbled as she slid open the door and closed it behind herself. A resounding *CLICK* from the multiple lock bolts in the door frame made itself clear. She narrowed her eyes as she remembered why she got stuck in her again.
The Tokyo-3 cityscape came back to full view as Asuka remembered diving the prog knife through the angel's core. When the angel shuddered and sunk into itself she felt relieved.
"Well wondergirl. That's another angel" Asuka smirked at Rei's com-window.
"Now to see if the hypothesis is correct. Unit 01 should be finished without the mental contamination" Rei sighted along the streets the where Unit's 4B and 01. However, only 4B was where it should be.
"Well? what are those idiots doing?" Asuka was moving her eva for a better view, too bad the industrial section had some of tallest buildings in the way.
"4B is down. Unit 01 is not in my sighting ability" Rei coolly scanned the surrounding regions but found nothing. 'Odd... monsters the size of skyscrapers can't just...'
"What the He..." The rest of Asuka's curse was muddled by the sound of metal scraping asphalt over the com-channel. Eva 01 leaned over the fallen eva 02 pinning it under it. a slight ooze came from the open mouth drooling onto the trapped unit below.
"23% eva 02 bio-contamination!"
"Sohryu?" Rei saw Asuka pinned under a certain bio-mechanical purple monster. However it was powered down, it's fiery green orbs, now were lightless. Asuka pushed off the crouching eva and it toppled to the streets as Asuka jerkingly rose. The eva's left arm had what would have passed for that medieval black plague. Purple and bulbous in regions big and small starting from the hand ending about lower left shoulder.
"Bio-contamination has stopped at 23%... wait something weird is going on..." Maya fumbled for an answer from her screens.
"The bio contamination has... well, stopped. It is now just dead cells" Asuka was heard uttering grunts and curses. It's wasn't the bridge crews fault, for her pain. Pain... damn it felt like her arm caught fire then suddenly froze way below sub zero, adding serious pins and needles to the list didn't make it any better.
"Asuka... report" Asuka looked up and uncurled from the ball she had some how managed to become.
"Fine... feels... like hell but... fine..."
"Move unit 01 onto one of the recovery zones. Rei, return through your nearest recovery zone" Asuka manhandled the dead weight with her one good arm and begun to descend under the streets.
Asuka propped her belongings onto her new bed for god knows how long, and wandered through the connecting door. She opened the door and sat next to Shinji in the hospital room.
"I guess we've stuck together 'AGAIN'" Asuka muttered crossing her arms and glaring at the nearest lamp set on his desk. 'First the damned sync training, then the hospital trip after that rematch with Sachiel wannabe'
"Then wham, not even 2 weeks later we're shoved back in the same damn hospital room cause of another Angel attack..." Asuka sighed as she watched Shinji's comatose form.
---
'I promised to protect him... Did I fail him?' Rei pondered as she looked out the window in her room. 'The angel had possessed him... correct...?'
Rei's gaze wandered over the dark room scanning the floor, the curtains and the few(sparse) furniture. The light sliced across the gloom as it made it's way through the dirty curtains and the beam that hit the glass of water shattered into a rainbow spraying the room was small dazzling lights. The effect was only temporary as the wind that moved the curtains died down.
"Ikari was removed from the eva alive but... did I break my promise to protect him?" She looked back at the bed sheets in front of her and pondered this line of questioning.
"No... I haven't but..." Rei still couldn't get the picture of Shinji Ikari's limp form being hauled out of the entry plug. Arms dangling, head down and LCL dripping off him as her was rushed to a contamination ward.
"But..." When she had changed to her normal clothing she had attempted to locate him. The hospital staff stated that he was in deep comatose state and had been in the isolation ward due to the recent battle.
Everything Rei tried failed. She had attempted to out rank the staff, however the order came from an Alpha level order and Rei can't over ride the commander's wishes. Then she tried to find Shinji on her own yet when she did find him he was behind 2 metre thick armoured walls with viewing windows just as thick and reinforced.
"Did I disobey the commander by searching for Ikari?" Rei now flipped the new question over through her thought process and silence again over took the dirty apartment.
---
"What do ya mean I can't go see him!?" David bashed his hand on the nearest desk as the nurse on duty eyed him.
"He's in isolation ward, no visitors" David glared at the nurse like she was the most appalling thing he'd seen.
"Then why did Sohryu go then, HUH?"
"That is because Sohryu is sharing that isolation ward" David's jaw dropped.
"What?! Roll that over me again!!" The nurse sighed and explained in greater detail.
"Due to the fact that the evangelion unit 02 was thoroughly infected by a non angelic source but by a fellow evangelion, commander has deemed pilot Asuka langley Sohryu to be in the same state as pilot Shinji Ikari" David rolled this over his head. This took a while as he sorted through possible arguments but sighed as they each ended up the same.
"Well, when is 'PILOT Ikari' going to be released?" the nurse checked her data files on the computer on her desk and shook her head.
"Unknown"
David rubbed his head with his hands
"Wonderful"
---
"So Ikari, what's your current plans for this evening?" Gendo glanced back at Fuyutsuki who had broken the almost sacred silence of his dark temple(office).
"I plan to salvage this"
"How's that? The angels haven't been appearing as fore-told and we are getting thoroughly beaten by these nasty little critters that we don't have a name for"
"They are code named as demons as of now" Fuyutsuki smirked
"Well it's about time, I was getting a headache trying to sort of the true angels and these copies" Gendo now glared at his sub commander who promptly lost his smug attitude
"I already have doctor Akagi sorting out the new threats" Fuyutsuki regained his posture and faced Gendo again.
"So what did we face this month?"
"They were challenges from another..." Fuyutsuki perked an eyebrow before Gendo continued.
"The first that was fought was the keeper of Nemesis..." That made so sense to Fuyutsuki. The first angel that was fought was the 3rd Sachiel. That effectively made eva-01 and 3rd angel Nemesises.
"The second was the wielder of shadows..." Fuyutsuki had watched that fight and had to agree that it was a fitting title.
"The third was the demon of rebirth..." The images of that demon flashed through his mind and he had noted the similarities between it and the 4th angel.
"The fourth was the stealer of souls..." Fuyutsuki pondered which of the 2 demons had that title, but decided that the crab creature fit that title very well.
"The fifth was the wielder of souls..." Fuyutsuki nodded in agreed meant. That was almost indefinitely the newly dead angel. The crab demon stole Shinji and the squid demon used him.
"There are still more to come but my new project allows for this"
"How so?"
"Simple... we kill them"
---
"So Shinji stay or hit?"
"..."
"Stay it is"
Asuka flipped her hand onto the top of the removable tray table then turned over Shinji's cards. She blinked and then fumed.
"Damn invincible Shinji... even beats me in Blackjack in a comatose state..."
Asuka fumed again but her flame died out when she noticed nothing really changed. Shinji still sat on the bed in a slightly upright position with the UV bag still strapped onto his arm. The drip, drip being her only companion she almost felt like beating something.
"Shinji... didn't we promise that we'd watch out for each other..." Asuka sat on the bed and watched his chest slowly rise and fall.
"I don't want to be alone... again..." Asuka leaned over and opened Shinji's eyes and peered into their dark depths. She quickly closed them and hugged herself after seeing them.
"Just... like...momma... before she..."
---
The children giggled, the parents sighed happily. Nothing changed it was a state of replay, limbo to be exact. Shinji stopped and wondered if this dream paradise would be better then what happened to him when he was back to where he was before. He knew this wasn't real, he felt a slight feeling like a draft at the base of his neck that told him that if he turned around he'd be back to where he came from. Back to... the world he left. Shinji stared at the hollow images and slightly turned his head away from the parents show of affection. That's when he heard it.
"...alone... again..."
'Asuka?' Shinji listened more closely and overheard a slight sob after something else was said. 'Asuka wouldn't be crying... she's too strong...'.
"Shinji...not like momma...ease..." Asuka's voice faded in and out of Shinji's hearing. He then realised that he was causing pain. He may be painless here with his false memory but what had he done outside... 'There is one who could still use me?'
Shinji turned all the way around and the breeze turned to be a full blown hurricane as the darkness swapped him.
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"You left me too even after promising to watch me... why... am I so evil so hated that I must be alone..." Asuka was slowly wrapped in a tight embrace.
A soothing voice whispered little words of encouragement and joy. Asuka looked up from the ball she'd become and looked straight into Shinji's open dark blue eye's. She found herself on the edge of the bed closed to Shinji and had cried out her heart. She had stayed there until now crying and curled in a ball hoping the world would go away. Her pink pajamas were shaded from the dried tears now and Shinji's blue hospital robe contrasted them.
"I promised you Asuka... I'd never leave you..." Asuka sat in his arms in the locked room in the isolation ward and she slowly fell into a restful sleep in the arms of her invincible Shinji.
"Thank you... for not leaving me... too..."
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Gendo sat and watched the little drama on the screen before him. His mouth conformed to a smirk. The effects of watching this 3 day drama had warmed his heart for just a moment. Asuka had sat there in a curled up ball for 3 days next to Shinji. It was now October 26th. She had been whispering something to herself for days now. She even started to break down into tears by the second day. Her latest mental reports before the battle had warned of a possible break down if she started loosing her anchors. So had done just that. He stripped her of all her anchors except for a comatose boy she had come to rely on.
Gendo didn't feel like playing match maker but it was needed if the new plan was to succeed.
"The fall of the second had to be sped up and controlled. Otherwise we may not make it" Gendo spoke aloud the words Fuyutsuki earlier told him. It was too true. If they only had to worry about the angels, losing the second wouldn't hurt the plan. In fact it might move it along. However these mockeries were very powerful and it took multiple evangelions to take one down. Add to the fact that theories about what would happen if they came into contact with Lillith or Adam all came out with a worst possible scenario.
"Match maker, match maker, match maker man" Gendo hummed to himself as he stared at the sleeping children.
"Make, me a match, to finish the plan..."
Gendo smiled a little smile that brought chills to Fuyutsuki...
...His plan was back on track...
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Short but SWEET eh? Well, we say that Gendo was slowly despairing into oblivion as these ex-angels(demons) were making their appearances. So now he's taking a personal role in making the pilots stay in ready condition. As you can see he's a puppet master(and might I add he's my third favourite character in EVANGELION too!!) How will Shinji and Asuka adapt to their new/strengthened bond?
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Till later cya.
PS: Thanks for the encouragement Jacob, I almost gave up on this. This Omakes for you!
_-~Omake~-_
Asuka shuffled another hand of Blackjack for herself and Shinji as they sat in the hospital room.
"Hit or stay?"
"..."
"A hit? If you insist!" *SLAP*
Asuka grinned as she added another bruise to Shinji's face. Amazing how this kid's a better stress reliever when he's not even awake.
Gendo sat watching the 2 from his desk with a shocked expression. His own son was getting the beating of a lifetime and wasn't even defending himself... This is a MOCKERY!!! A SHAME!!!
"I CAN'T IN GOOD CONSCIOUS LET THIS CONTINUE!!!" Gendo stared at Shinji in his view screen " I DIS-OWN YOU, YOU SHAME THE IKARI NAME!!!"
Shinji's eye's opened up and he looked around. For so reason he felt infinitely happy... too bad smiling caused his cheek to hurt.
"Hit or stay?"
"Huh?"
"Hit it is!" *SLAP* Shinji returned to the bliss of comatose with a small smile as the words circled his head.
"He ain't my father"
_-~End of Omake~-_