I do not own Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Extended Impacts of Second Impact
Chapter 2
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Shinji Ikari gasped as he awoke. He quickly shot his head around, looked around at the room he was in, desperately trying to determine where he was. When he had finally calmed down, he realized that he was in a hospital. The strange thing was, he couldn't remember how he got there.
Suddenly the events of the day before came flooding back to him. He remembered so much, so fast. But he could tell that something was eluding him. He tried to remember what was missing from his memory by going through it in as many details as he could. Finally he realized what he couldn't remember.
Part of the Angel battle was missing. All he could remember was up to the point where the Eva's eye had been pierced through by the Angels' energy spike. After that, everything was fuzzy. Something was blocking the rest of it. He had no idea what had happened that saved him from the Angel.
The trauma was what Shinji expected to be the reason why he had memory troubles. He had learned from his teachers that trauma could do that to a person. Shinji laid back again and concentrated on remembering everything.
Finally Shinji decided to let it come back on its own, and got up. He just started wondering around the hospital, gazing out of the windows. The hospital was in the Geo-Front, and he could see the buildings hanging from the ceiling still. It still amazed him.
As he stood in the hall, starring at the beauty of this place, he heard the doors open just down the hall. He turned to see who was coming. He saw a crew of doctors and nurses pushing a gurney with a girl on it.
Three things caught Shinji's attention concerning this girl. The first was how badly injured she was, with bandages all over it seemed, and a few blood spots on the bandages. The second was that she was an albino, with a blue tint to her hair. The third was the feeling he got as she passed by him.
Her red eyes starred into his eyes, with no emotion. She seemed to be as emotionless as the commander, but with out the coldness. She seemed to be trying to look into Shinji's very soul. It sent a small shiver down his spine.
The feeling wasn't just brought on by her emotionless face. Shinji could tell that she was a psychic type. He couldn't be sure, but he guessed that she at least had a telepathic ability. Something was different about her though, something off about her abilities. He couldn't figure out what it was though.
"Probably someone hurt by me in the battle. It seems to always be my fault." Shinji said in a dark voice.
Soon he found himself sitting in a chair in a waiting room. He had no idea what he was doing there, he just needed to think for a while. His feet had led him here. There wasn't any other real reason for him to be in this room, other then it had chairs. He was still looking out the window though, trying to remember.
Misato walked to Shinji's room. She had received a report that he had awoken, and was waiting in his room. She had also heard that his memory wasn't quite fully clear. She stepped in, fully expecting to find him sitting on his bed waiting for his clothes to be returned to him. What she found though was an empty room, with the bed neatly made.
Confused would have been an understatement for what Misato was feeling. She quickly grabbed a young man who was dressed as a type of medical assistant.
"Excuse me, where's Shinji Ikari?" she asked the puzzled young man.
"I'm sorry Captain. I don't know. The last we knew, he hadn't left that room." he answered.
"I'm sorry, I have to go check on another patient." he said as he pulled his arm from Misato's grasp and left her standing there.
"Great, where'd he wonder off too?" Misato muttered to herself. Taking out her cell phone she dialed a quick number. "Hello? This is Captain Misato Katsuragi. What is the location of the Third child? …Thank you." she said as she hung up the phone.
Shinji was just about ready to give up on trying to remember what had happened when something popped into his mind. A few stray memories that he couldn't quite place were coming to the surface.
(KILL!KILL!KILL!KILL!KILL!KILL!KILL!KILL!KILL!KILL!KILL!KILL!KILL!!!!!) Shinji heard in his mind. The voice in his memory almost seemed familiar, but he couldn't place it.
Before Shinji could think any more on this, Misato came walking up next to him. She starred
down at him, almost worriedly. There was, however, an upset look in her face as well. Shinji looked up to her and smiled.
"What's up Misato?" he said in a cheery voice.
"How did you get out of your room with out any one knowing?" she asked in a serious voice.
"I needed to think for a while, so I just left my room. You'd be surprised how easily one can leave their room when their legs can work. I guess no one was paying attention when I left." Shinji lied.
He knew that he had used a type of psychic invisibility technique to leave his room unnoticed. It didn't really make him invisible, just made it so no one noticed him. It seemed to fit him, he thought. In his mind, few people noticed him anyways. Misato didn't look convinced by his lie. She let it slip though.
"Let's get you your clothes back, okay?" she asked.
"Yeah!" Shinji exclaimed. He was missing his clothes, no matter how plain they were.
Soon Shinji had gotten his original clothes back on and was once again walking through the halls of the NERV hospital. This time though, he was leaving. They were to see a NERV official about where he was to be assigned to live. They approached an elevator now.
As they reached the doors, they pressed the 'up' button. The elevator dinged as the doors opened. Inside the elevator stood Gendo Ikari, commander of NERV, and quite possibly the most powerful man in the world. He starred at Shinji through his tinted glasses.
For a moment they starred emotionlessly at each other. Their eyes could have bored through three inches of solid steel. With either of them, Misato didn't dismiss the possibility. Then, Shinji stepped onto the elevator, quickly joined by an extremely nervous Misato.
To say that Misato was nervous, would actually be an extreme understatement. Sweat was almost pouring as she observed these two powerful people, father and son, stand facing the elevator doors with absolutely no emotion. After seeing Shinji attempt to kill his father just the day before, and now having them in the same elevator, Misato just hoped that neither would attack the other at any second.
Surprisingly, no one said a word the entire time. The doors opened again, and Shinji and Misato stepped off. Suddenly Shinji turned around, causing all the worries of Misato's to escalate to extreme levels. Shinji just bowed to his father, then stood straight again.
"I apologize for my attempt at your life yesterday father." Shinji said with a good amount of respect in his voice.
Gendo's expression did not change at all. "It is irrelevant. Your demands are being met as we speak. Carry on your business pilot."
"Yes sir." Shinji said, again with the emotionless voice that the Ikari's seemed to be experts at.
The elevator doors shut, and Shinji starred at them for only a few more moments. Then he turned back around and they continued to walk through the halls headed for the exit. Misato sighed with relief. That was the last thing she expected to happen.
Soon they were in front of the man who would inform them of where Shinji would be living. What Misato heard surprised her, and upset her.
"Shinji will be living in barracks 6-24 district F." the man said.
"What!" Misato said shocked, and slightly angered. "But that means that he'll be living alone!
Are you sure you're alright with that Shinji?" Misato asked him in concern, and hoping he would object to this so she could place him with someone to watch over him.
"Yeah, I'm fine with it. I don't mind living alone Misato. It's like having a bachelors pad or something.
"But you can't bring friends back to your barracks Shinji." Misato pointed out.
"Oh, well that's still okay. I'm used to living alone anyways. It's not like I have anyone else anyways." he added in a whisper.
Misato looked at him with a worried look. Suddenly her expression changed to that of determination. If it had to some to this, then so be it!
"WHAT?!" Ritsuko shouted over the phone at Misato.
"That's right. I've made arrangements to take Shinji home with me and have him live with me."
Misato said into her cell phone. "It's already been approved." now a smile graced her face, a very mischievous smile. "And, don't worry. I won't be making any passes at him." she said cheerily into the phone.
"OFCOURSE YOU WON'T!!! HOW CAN YOU EVEN THINK ABOUT THAT AT A TIME LIKE THIS!!! YOU HAVE NO SHAME AT ALL!!!" Ritsuko shouted through the phone.
Misato held the phone away as fast as she could, but doubted that prevented any ear damage. Ritsuko was shouting her lungs out at her, her voice echoing down the halls. Misato hung the phone up and put it away.
"Man, some people can't take a joke." Misato stated to herself.
Shinji stood just behind her, rubbing his ears from the screams of Ritsuko. He wasn't quite sure about living with Misato, but he really didn't have much choice. He sighed to himself.
"I guess life just got a whole lot more interesting…" he said in a low whisper.
Shinji now sat in Misato's car. This time, she seemed to driving according to all, or at least most, of the traffic laws from what Shinji could tell. She seemed to have a strange smile on her face.
"Well, I guess we'll have to have a party tonight. What do you think?" Misato said in a cheery voice.
"Huh? Why would we have a party?" Shinji asked.
"It's going to be a welcoming party of course! In honor of my new roommate! What do you think?"
"Uh, that okay, I guess." Shinji said. Suddenly a thought hit him. "Oh no! What am I going to tell everyone at school?" he asked. "Hi! I'm the new Eva pilot here! I live in an apartment with only one roommate that just happens to be a hot chick and my superior officer!" Shinji declared to an invisible class.
"Heh, yeah, well… that's your problem Shinji." she said.
"Great…"
Shinji and Misato stand at the register of a store, buying supplies for the party. It was mostly instant food and alcohol. Shinji didn't pay attention to any of it. He continued to stare at nothing at all, trying to piece together what was still missing from his memories. Something was coming back to him.
(MUST KILL THE ANGEL!!!) he heard the voice again in his mind.
The voice still seemed somewhat familiar, but yet it was alien to him at the same time.
Again Shinji and Misato were in Misato's car. Shinji assumed they were heading to her apartment. He was still thinking about the snippet of the memory he could remember.
"Hey, earth to Shinji! Anyone there?" Misato called out.
Shinji snapped out of his concentration. "Yeah Misato?" he asked slightly embarrassed.
"Stop daydreaming about me modeling lingerie for you and pay attention to what I'm saying!" she accused, with a mischievous smile.
Even though Shinji knew she was messing with his mind, he still couldn't help but blush at the simple suggestion of his new 'roommate' modeling lingerie. Misato smiled, having achieved her desired effect. Shinji couldn't hardly believe how easily he had been manipulated by Misato. He finally told himself it was because it had been a long time since anyone had tried something like that on him, and he had been caught off guard.
"You mind if we make a stop on the way home?" Misato asked, the mischievousness now gone from her voice, thankfully.
Shinji thought for a moment. He decided that she had walked right into an opportunity for him to strike back at her for her lingerie joke.
"What kind of stop Misato?" Shinji asked, a high amount of mischievousness to his tone, and smile.
Just for good measure he added a telepathic message.
(I though you told Ritsuko you weren't going to be making passes at me.)
Misato glared at him, realizing that she had easily walked into that. Still, she had to counter attack somehow. Quickly she swerved the car violently. Shinji's head was treated like a pinball as it bounced off the window, his seat, and the dashboard.
Suddenly Misato's plan backfired. Shinji's head landed in her chest. It took Shinji a few seconds to register where exactly his head had ended up. When it finally snapped in his mind where he was, he quickly drew back, so fast that he smacked his head into the window. This went unnoticed by him though, as he was busy blushing with intense heat.
"Why Shinji, I was beginning to think you were going to take up permanent residence there." Misato said in a all too sweat and innocent voice.
Shinji didn't reply as he just kept his face and eyes trained on Misato's face. Misato decided that now was the time to strike fear into this boy.
"Don't you EVER do that again Shinji Ikari!!!" she screeched at him, before continuing in her sweet and cheerful voice. "But, thanks again for the attention! You made my day again Shinji!"
They went for several minutes without any speech after that. Finally things got to the point where they were acting as normal as before the swerving, but they still avoided the subject of what happened. Then, they arrived.
Shinji and Misato exited the car. They were atop a hill outside the Geo-Front, looking at the city above it. The area that was closest to them was empty of life, and buildings. The buildings that were farther away were very small compared to the buildings one would normally see in a big city like Tokyo 3.
"It's so empty. The city seems to lonely." Shinji stated.
The whole time he looked on from his position at the railing, Misato stood next to him looking at her watch. Finally she put her wrist down at her side and looked at the area near them.
"It's time." she said.
Shinji wondered what she meant for a moment, before an alarm went off. At first, Shinji panicked.
"Oh no! Is there another Angel attack?" Shinji asked in a fearful voice.
"No Shinji, just watch." Misato calmly answered.
Just then, the buildings began to rise up out of the ground. Shinji realized that these were the buildings that were hanging from the ceiling in the Geo-Front. It was an amazing sight to see as they finally finished and locked into place.
"Wow! The buildings seemed to just grow out of the ground." Shinji said still amazed.
"This city was designed to stand against the Angels, to be a fortress. This is our city Shinji. This is Tokyo 3. This is the city you saved." Misato said.
'But how?' Shinji thought to himself. He still could not remember anything about the fight or what happened after the Eva's eye was pierced. All that he could remember was the voice that he could hear in his head, talking about killing the Angel.
Shinji and Misato were now in the large apartment building that was to become his new home. They walked up to the door and Misato slid the ID card through the scanner.
"You're things ought to have been delivered by now Shinji. I just moved here myself you know." Misato stated as she stepped through the door.
"Actually, I didn't know that." Shinji said back.
He hesitated at the door. Silently he wondered if there was any other way out of this. Misato refused to let him live by himself, and he didn't know anyone else in the entire city. Finally he all but gave up.
"Are you sure you want me to live with you Misato?" Shinji asked nervously, hoping she would change her mind.
Misato now grew an annoyed face and starred hard at Shinji. Shinji could feel the temperature in the air around her steadily rise. Shinji didn't mind this though, since he couldn't really be effected by heat. In fact, he actually kind of liked the heat.
"Shinji Ikari! You get into this apartment right now! This is going to be your new home, so get used to it!" Misato demanded.
Shinji had to respect her at least because of the fact that she was his superior officer, so he did as he was told. Also, he didn't want her to come after him with a frying pan or something.
Misato quickly shut the door and headed for her room. She called out to him from there.
"Um, as you can see, the place is just a little bit messy. Just uh, make yourself comfortable." Misato called somewhat nervously.
Shinji starred in awe at all the empty bear cans, liquor bottles, boxes of instant ramen, old newspapers, chip bags, old magazines, still un packed boxes, and just about every other type of garbage imaginable stacked on ever single surface in the kitchen, and living room. He couldn't believe his eyes, as he tried to rub away the delusion. However, when he opened his eyes again, there they still were. His mouth hung open for a few moments.
"Um, this is what you call a little messy?! You live like a pig! Wait! I take that back, not even a pig could live in this place." Shinji declared.
Misato apparently ignored his comments completely. She stuck her head back into his view to speak to him once again.
"Oh, sorry. Could you put the food in the fridge please?" she asked in a sweet and innocent voice.
"Um, alright." Shinji said, nervous at her strange behavior.
He opened her fridge up compartment at a time. He found ice, snacks, and fifty gallons or more of beer. He couldn't believe his eyes yet again. He wondered what kind of life she led with supplies like these.
Now Shinji saw the other fridge in the corner of the room. His first instinct was too look in it, but then he decided that he didn't want to really look. He was afraid of what he might find in it. Images of several ages old boxes of ramen crawling forth to grab at him and pull him into their lair where they would devoir his flesh gripped his mind. Silently he shuddered at the thoughts of what horrors lay in that fridge. Finally he decided to ask.
"Hey, what's in this other fridge?" Shinji called out to Misato's door.
"Oh, don't mind that. He's probably still sleeping." Misato called back.
"Sleeping?" Shinji said aloud.
He starred at the fridge a moment longer as the images of the creatures growing in that fridge grew stronger in his mind. He then wondered if he would be able to get any sleep in this apartment at all, what with worrying about living meals of ancient instant curry sneaking up on him in his sleep. He shuddered yet again.
"LET'S EAT!" Misato declares loudly, so that the entire apartment can hear her.
Shinji just starred down at the table covered solely in instant food and alcoholic substances. Still he wondered if she were alerting some creation of hers in that other fridge of the ready meal. A shudder ran down his spine yet again. If it was caused by the idea of being eaten by Misato's leftovers, or the idea of eating Misato's obviously burnt and yet still cold instant diner.
Misato quickly grabbed a beer and downed it in under five seconds. She slammed it down on the table when she finished with it.
"WHOOH YEAH! Good stuff!" Misato yelled out. "You know, life just doesn't get better then this." she stated.
"Somebody shoot me now." Shinji mumbled a plea of release from the food before him.
Misato apparently didn't hear his little cry of despair and just stared at him, trying to figure out why he wasn't eating.
"What's the matter? Not hungry? It's good, even if it is all instant." she tried convincing him.
"I'm sorry Misato. It's just that I'm not used to food like this." he said meekly.
"WHAT?!" Misato screamed as she leaned over across the table so her face was right in Shinji's. This wasn't helping as she had changed into her clothes from the picture. The collar was very, very low cut. "ARE YOU BEING FINIKY?!" she accused.
"Um, no, um, I didn't…" Shinji tried desperately to keep his eyes focused directly into Misato's eyes. This proved to be difficult though.
Suddenly Misato smiled at him, assured that she had intimidated him enough. "Isn't this nice?" she asked in her sweet and innocent voice. "Having two for dinner sure beats eating alone, huh?"
"Uh, huh." was all Shinji could get out as his brain was shutting down in an attempt to keep his eyes from wondering as Misato kept lingering in front of his face.
Soon they were playing paper, rock, scissors for who would do what chores on what days. So far, Shinji was winning, but only by a little. If he won too many times in a row, Misato accused him of reading her mind. He would always deny it though, even though he only did it a few times.
There was one thing though, Shinji had insisted that he cook on all the days he possibly could. Silently he hoped that the days Misato cooked were few and far between.
Misato leaned back in her chair and proceeded to announce some ground rules to Shinji.
"This is your home Shinji. So I want you to feel free to take advantage of everything here, except myself that is." she said with a almost mischievous grin.
Shinji couldn't help but blush. Still, he managed a reply to her comment.
"Aw man! I was looking forward to that. Oh well, guess I'll have to settle for access to your underwear drawer." Shinji said in a mock disappointed voice.
"Don't push it Shinji." Misato said in a mock threatening voice. "Now get out of here and go take a bath. You smell like that hospital does. Bathing cleanses the mind and soul." Misato said in a somewhat happy voice.
Shinji found himself looking up at Misato's lingerie casually hanging from the ceiling above the bathroom door. Already he was undressed, except for his boxers. He silently sighed and walked into the bathroom. Suddenly something from the already misty room caught his attention.
Standing there before him was a creature that he just couldn't identify, shrouded in mist. It was smaller then him, less then half his size. It suddenly and almost violently began to shake what Shinji assumed to be it's head. Suddenly all the images of living creatures of ancient food came back to him.
"AAAAGH!!!" Shinji shouted. "WHAT IN THE WORLD IS THIS THING?!!" Shinji shouted as he came running out of the bathroom, and straight in front of Misato. He pointed at the creature as it walked out of the dark and cloudy mist of the bathroom.
A penguin walked by Shinji and glared at him before going into the other fridge. Shinji starred in awe yet again today. He couldn't believe his eyes, which was becoming a regular occurrence at this new home of his.
"Oh him? He's one of those new warm water penguins. His name is Penpen, and he's your other roommate." Misato said, unfazed by all of this. "Um shouldn't you cover up?" she asked as she still stared at his plain blue boxers.
Shinji quickly realized what she meant and ran back to the bathroom, glad to have it empty of all penguins.
Shinji lied in the bathtub, thinking as usual. It seemed that memories always seemed to return like drops of water to him when he was in the bath. Memories of his father, a fleeting memory of his mother, and that strange red eyed girl he saw in the hospital. He still felt that somehow he was the cause of her suffering.
The camera now goes to a strange room that looked into the room where Evangelion unit 00 was being stored. The room had broken glass and fallen pieces of ceiling all over the room. What furniture there was still in the room, was covered. The dim lighting gave the room a dark and creepy feeling, or maybe it was just its sole occupant, Gendo Ikari.
Shivers ran down Ritsuko's spine as she entered the room, stopping just behind the commander. It could have been the cold air in the room, but she knew better. Everyone that has ever met the commander of NERV knew better then that.
"So, how was Rei today? You did go to see her in the hospital, didn't you?"
Gendo spoke in an emotionless tone of voice, never looking away from the Eva, with its fist denting into wall.
"She can work again in twenty days. By then we'll be ready to reactivate unit 00 from cryo-stasis."
"It's so hard on these children." Ritsuko said in a concerned voice.
"There's no one else who can pilot the Evas. As long as they survive, that is what I'll have them do." Gendo said in a colder tone then before.
" With no regard to what they may want?!" Ritsuko asked.
Shinji Ikari now lay in bed, with his Mp3 player playing in his ears. His special sleep music tracks were selected. Sleep was finally about to come to him when the door opened. Misato stood there in the door way, looking in. She stood, wearing only a towel. Shinji modestly kept his head turned away from her.
"Shinji, can I come in?" she asked in a whispered voice.
"Yeah Misato." Shinji answered in a small depressed voice.
"I forgot to tell you something. You did something very good and very noble today. You should be proud. Good night Shinji." with that, Misato left him alone in the dark room again.
"Yes, but how did I do it?" Shinji whispered to himself.
He again faced the ceiling. Looking up at it, images flashed through his mind. Images of the battle. Slowly he remembered everything of what happened. Slowly he remembered every gory detail. Then he remembered the voice again.
(MUST KILL THE ANGEL!!! MUST KILL THE ANGEL!!! MUST PROTECT SHINJI!!!)
(Who are you?)
(………………)
Then Shinji remembered seeing the eye of the Eva regenerate itself. He remembered realizing that that was the eye he could see out of. He remembered the stress that his body was under, and how he fainted with a scream of horror.
"So, this is my fate. Shinji Ikari, demon among men, son of Gendo Ikari, most powerful man on the planet, must pilot the Evangelion unit 01, demon made by men." Shinji said emotionlessly.
Shinji continued to look at the unfamiliar ceiling, his new home. He hadn't had one in years. Not since what happened to his old guardians. Suddenly, a dark expression took over his face.
"So be it."
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So, what do you think of this chapter? Any good? And now to respond to the reviews left by the anonymous reviewers. Oh, and if any of you were wondering, I'm still going to make this a Shinji/Asuka fic.
Dragonfly: Thanks for the review. Shinji may not seem vindictive, but what few realize is that Shinji has the wrath of a demon ripped from hell. He blames his father for all the horrible things that have happened in his life since he abandoned him. He believes that his father could have helped him learn to control his abilities better, and no one would have been hurt by him over the years.
anon: Thanks for the review. Don't worry, I have the abilities for just about everyone I plan on giving abilities already decided on.
Shinji Yagami: Sorry, but this is a Shinji/Asuka fic. If you have any ideas for who else you would like to see Rei paired with, then please let me know. I already have her ability decided on. I think it will suite her, so don't worry.
paulo_i1983: Don't worry, I have the perfect abilities in mind for Asuka to be a match for Shinji. Also I have the abilities for everyone else planned out too.
Just so you people know, I appreciate your suggestions for their abilities, but I am not drawing on X-men for my inspirations. Also, I thank you for your suggestions on the pairings. Please keep sending them. Anyone got a suggestion for Maya? Sorry, I don't do homosexual pairings. How about one for Ritsuko? I don't want to do one with Gendo.
Thanks for the reviews! Please keep them coming! I need advice! Answer my questions, send reviews, or just flame me at andross937@yahoo.com
