Darkened Exodus: Evangelion
Author's Rants: Lots of nice reviewers! Yay! Think I'm finally figuring out
where this fic is going which is always a good thing. Anyway, here Asuka get's
portrayed as a bit of bitch, but you still love her. Also the second part of
this chapter contains some major explaining, so pay attention! Enjoy! Dark Eva!
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Darkened Exodus: Evangelion
Episode 0:8 A kiss from a girl with a hollow heart.
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Shinji Ikari was in the living room watching the television, or at least that's what it looked like he was doing. He was really thinking about Rei, and that kiss. She hadn't really talked to him after that, he wondered if it was something he had done. He heard a door open, it was only Asuka.
Asuka walked through to the kitchen and got a soda out the fridge and walked back into her room, shutting the door hard behind her. She had spent a lot of time in her room lately; she barely even came out, only to eat and to get the occasional soda. Shinji hadn't noticed as he was too wound up in that kiss. Asuka slumped herself down on her bed and took a sip from her soda can. She too was thinking about 'Wonder Girl'.
She thought about all her experiences in NERV, all of that staff and her life in the apartment with Shinij and Misato. Nobody really liked her, she thought. Rei and Shinji are together. Misato is too busy with her social life. No body cares. Just then a small penguin waddled through Asuka's door.
"GO AWAY SHINJI, BAKA!" She screamed. She turned around and realized it was PenPen.
"How did you open the door?"
"Waaarrk!"
"Sure. You still care about me, don't you PenPen?"
The little penguin let out another 'wark' and waddled his way to Asuka's bed, he scampered up onto the mattress and cuddled up beside Asuka. She held him close. His feathers where smooth and warm. He fell asleep in her arms, she lay there stroking his feathers.
About a half hour later she moved him aside and put the covers over him so he was warm and she left the room. She walked into Misato's room where the phone was. She noticed there was one message on it. She played it through and smiled. She looked round at the clock. She then left Misato's room and walked down the hall. She saw Shinji in his chair, watching T.V, she walked into the living room and lay down on the sofa.
"Hey Shinij, what ya watching?" She said sweetly.
"Oh, eh, just some cooking show."
Asuka tried to contain her remarks to that statement, but was finding it hard.
".... whow... thats... eh. . .. .. nice." She said, half snickering. "So is 'Wonder Girl' coming round?"
"Rei? No, not that I know of, why?"
"Oh, no reason" She smiled innocently. She looked round at the clock again.
Then she leaped off the sofa and dived over to Shinji. She grabbed him by the shoulders and pulled him forward and starting kissing him. He put up a lot of resistance but she kept on going. About a minute later she let go and ran back into her room, laughing.
Shinji fell back into his chair and sighed. He noticed the answering machine the living room was blinking. The 'Delete message' button was flashing. Someone must have forgotten to delete the last message. He decided to play the message through before deleting it. He pressed the button.
"Hello Ikari, its Ayanami. Misato said it would be alright if I come over for dinner, I'll be round at about 4:30. See you later."
Shinji looked at the clock, it was 4:40. He heard tears coming from behind him, he thought it was Asuka, but is wasn't.
"Why did you do that? With her? I don't understand." Rei ran out the apartment.
The door slammed. Then Shinji heard the lock on Asuka's door click. He ran over to her door and started slamming it with his fists.
"WHY DID YOU DO THAT ASUKA. YOU KNEW SHE WAS COMING, YOU KNEW. WHY!" He howled, tears streaming down his face.
Inside Asuka's room, she was sitting on her bed holding PenPen, laughing histerically.
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Darkened Exodus: Evangelion
Episode 0:8 Angels & Devils.
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Misato katsuragi was sitting
in her car, on top of the hill that gave her favorite view of the city. Her
head was firmly pressed against the steering wheel. As she had asked for, the
commander had told her the truth, all of it. She kept recalling the whole
conversation over and over in her mind.
"Major Katsuragi, the truth is... that we, the 'Lilum' or 'humans' as we are more commonly know, are not the last of the angels. There are more."
"But that's impossible, the Dead Sea Scrolls say---" She was terrified.
"The Dead Sea Scrolls are the first of these new 'Angels'. The first Devil - Dijinn, is the Dead Sea Scrolls." The commander spoke plainly as if this news was old him.
"Commander I don't understand" She spoke, confused.
The Commander sighed. He hadn't expected her to understand, but she'd come too far not to know.
"In the year 2000 the First Angel, Adam, was discovered and started The second Impact. This organization, NERV, was formed to defeat the following Angels up to the 17th, which we have. Then the discovery of all of Humanity being the 18th Angel, lead us to the conclusion that we could not defeat all the angels without destroying ourselves. Now, when we were fighting the Angels, with every passing event the SEELE organization continually rewrote the Dead Sea Scrolls, at least that's what they told Commander Ikari and I. In reality the Dead Sea Scrolls rewrote themselves, to predict every event. They couldn't however, predict what Shinij would do during the Third Impact, that appeared beyond the power of Dijinn. This left a fork in the road, the Devil predicted we could either live together in relative harmony as one being or we would be cast back to Earth and live as we did. And to live as we did we need a threat, something to fight against, hence the Devils."
Misato stood in aw at what the commander said, her mind raced.
"But if that's true and we were to live as before, then, shouldn't everyone be back."
"Ah, you mean Mr. Kaji. He made a choice, as did Commander Ikari. Their choice meant that they would remain in the place Third Impact took them, together."
"And Rei?"
"Yes, Rei Ayanami, I would've thought that was obvious, she didn't come back."
"What?!?"
"The Rei that's here now is the Forth Rei Ayanami, Rei IV. She is the SEELE's clone. A carbon copy."
"This is to much." Misato clutched her head with her hands. "and what will we do about the Ang- I mean Devils? And how will I tell Shinji and Asuka?"
"We will do what we have done already. When we are threatened we will retaliate against that threat. As for the pilots under your care, they are your responsibility, now I have told you everything, please leave, I have important work to do."
Misato turned around and left his office.
That is what happened in the office of Commander Fuyutsuki. Misato started the ignition on her car and drove of. She still wasn't sure how to tell Shinji. Or how he'd react. Would he still pilot the Eva? Do we fight Devils with the Eva? These thoughts and many more rushed through Misato's head. She parked the car and got out and into the elevator. She paused when she got to her door. She was afraid. Afraid of what Fuyutsuki had told her, afraid of what she had to tell Shinji and Asuka. Afraid.
But she knew that she mustn't run away.
The door slid open, she walked through and removed her shoes. She was about to call for the pilots, when she saw Shinji huddled outside Asuka's door. She walked over to him and put her arm on his shoulder. He raised at his head, she could see he'd been crying. They went into Shinji's room, Shiniji got into bed and Misato sat at the end of it. She sat there for two hours, until Shinji fell asleep. When she was sure he was asleep she left him alone.
Misato decided that it was best to wait awhile before telling the pilots about what she'd been told. But something inside her told her she was just running away, again.
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O.K, before I get flamed to hell, don't count out Shinij
and Asuka yet. Hope you liked this chapter and the next is on its way. R&R!!!
Bye! Dark Eva!