Guardian Within

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word -Flashback

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Asuka looked at the shadow that took Shinji. The invincible Shinji. He

was gone like that.

"Baka," Asuka whispered as she held back the tears. She was still sitting

her Plug seat as her unit was being locked down. The plug was ejected. Asuka

rushed out of the plug.

"Why the hell did we have to leave Shinji behind!" Asuka yelled to her

commanding officer.

"It was the 'commander's' orders," Misato said. She said commander like a

curse word.

"The commander was in incorrect with his judgment," Rei said. She seemed

to appear beside Asuka and Misato. Scaring them

"Man its cold," Shinji said as he ran his hands up and down his arms.

All around him was black. Darkness. A void of nothingness.

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"Sea of Dirac. A dimension

[Wake up!!] The voice yelled. Shinji shot up in his seat.

"Don't do that!!" Shinji yelled.

[Sorry but do you want to bust out?] The Guardian asked.

"You got it," Shinji said.

[Just be careful. You body may not be able to manage the power overload

for long,] the guardian said.

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"Go!!" Shinji yelled as his body exploded with a lightning surge. 01

roared as it started to move.

"Something's happening!" Maya yelled. The two Evas were standing in

position for the operation.

"There!" Misato yelled as a hand exploded out of the black sphere. Blood

were blasting out. Then another hand came out and started it rip it wider.

"Oh my god!" Ritsuko yelled as a head came out. The head of the demonic

Eva 01. The Eva unit got through the sphere and crashed to the earth. The

shadow shattered as the ground gave way. 01 looked at the two Evas. Blood

dripped from the face of 01.

"I pilot something like that?" Asuka asked.

Shinji groaned as he got up holding his head. His vision was blurry.

"Shin-chan!" A voice yelled. He felt a weigh hitting him and arms around

his neck. He felt something against his lips. Shinji's vision returned to

normal find the red head Germany Child in a rather passionate kiss with him.

She broke away for a second.

"Asuka?" Shinji asked before he was locked with another kiss.

"Hey Asuka. I think that's enough," Misato said, "He's still recovering,"

"He's my boyfriend. I do what I want with him. Right Shin-chan?" Asuka

asked. Shinji was simply speechless.

"Come on Asuka. Shinji. You can leave now. Here are you clothes," Misato

said as she tossed them over. Misato turned to leave. He almost started to get

up when he remember the weigh on him.

"Asuka. You do mind?" Shinji asked.

"No I don't," Asuka said without moving.

A few second later Asuka who was carried by Shinji in his hospital grown

dropped her outside and closed the door. The doors opened with a fully clothed

Shinji. Asuka latched herself to his arm.

"Come on Shinji. Let's head home. I'll hope your arm has some feeling

left when you get there," Misato joked as she headed out.

[Something's different. Something about the atmosphere,] Shinji said.

Shinji arrived at the apartment with Asuka still hanging onto his arm.

Shinji had to use force and finally got her off his arm. He started dinner

when he got another surprised. He opened the fridge to find actual food. No

beer.

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"Hey Misato. Where's the beer?" Shinji asked.

"Beer? I don't drink that horrible stuff," Misato yelled.

"What?" Shinji asked as he looked back at the living room where she and

Asuka were watching a movie. Shinji hit head with his hand for a few seconds.

"This is getting weird," Shinji said. He grabbed some vegetables when the

doors opened and Shinji heard two sets of footsteps. One of a man and one he

could barely hear against the ground.

"We're home!" Kaji yelled. Misato jumped into his arms and gave him a

huge kiss.

"Hey bro," Rei said as she came into kitchen. A hop in her step. She

opened the fridge and opened a can of soda. She left with the soda with a

cheerful smile on her face. He nearly fell down.

"Clam down Shinji. Something's going on. Maybe they're playing a joke or

that angel messed mess up and I'm seeing things," Shinji said. He watched

things as he went through the day. Seems like Kaji and Rei lived with them.

The apartment and the apartment next door were joined.

Shinji looked through his drawer and found it. It's was his journal he

started when he first arrived. Of course no mentions of his guardian. He went

back to the day he first arrived.

Dad called me here. Lousy SOB. Piloting the Eva 01. Living with Misato

and Rei is great through Misato is not cleanest roommate ever. Rei's still the

cheery and happy girl from all those years ago.

"Rei didn't live with us before and she was silent. Nothing like before,"

Shinji whispered. He changed to when Asuka arrived.

Asuka arrived today. We slaughtered an Angel on the trip. Anyways. Her

first day at school was about the same as me but the boys were drooling. Like

I cared. They came close to her and I'll beat down. First date with her is on

Friday.

"I never wrote this," Shinji said as he searched the journal. The main

facts like angels killed were the same but the small thing were changed like

his relationship with Asuka to even Kaji's engagement to Misato.

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Shinji woke up. He found himself asleep on the ground. He stretched out

his body then stood up. He looked outside to find it raining. He grabbed a

trench coat out of his closest and a fisherman's hat. He wrote a note and left

into the rain.

Shinji visited his favorite spots like the arcade and the movie theater

until he came to the spot outside the mighty city.

"I was wondering when you get here," Asuka said as she came out of the

trees.

"Asuka!? Hi," Shinji said. He turned sat down looking down at the city.

"What's up you baka? You scare everyone with your disappearing act,"

Asuka said as she hugged him from behind.

"I had to think," Shinji said.

"About what?" Asuka asked.

"Everything," Shinji said.

"What's there to think about? Anyone wish for a life like your. You're

the hero of the world. You got a great family despite that bastard of a

father, but who cares about him? And most of all, you got a beautiful

girlfriend. Me," Asuka said. Shinji closed his eyes.

"Is this a fantasy?" Shinji asked.

"Fantasy. Reality? Who cares?" Asuka asked, "Home is where you want it to

be,"

[A fantasy. This is all a fantasy. It's too good but isn't too far

fetched either. How can I wake up? Wait. Do I want to wake up? I can live here

and be happy. NO!! Only the weak live in a fantasy,] Shinji's eyes open and he

started to run. Asuka yelled as Shinji jumped off the roadside and down the

hill.

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Shinji shot up from his seat. His breath was shallows. He took in one

breath and screamed as lightning surged through his body. All around him was

the void. 01 mimicked its pilot as it roared. The power levels skyrocketing.

"Ma'am! Something happening!?" Maya yelled as the black sphere started to

deform like a water balloon before it exploded which the sphere did.

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The black sphere exploded dropping 01 to the ground. Blood straining the

building and roads. It raised it's out up and smashed it into the shadow.

"250% sync!" Aoba yelled.

"What!?" Ritsuko yelled. She turned to watch 01. [He's more than half way

to awakening it.]

"Shinji?" Misato asked as the bloody face of 01 looked at the camera.

The eyes shut off.

In the dark plug of 01 Shinji started to control his breaths "That was a

bit much?" Shinji asked.

[Wasn't me. Strength. You showed that. Strength to see through the

illusion and the strength to unleash your power,] the guardian said.

"My power?" Shinji asked.

[You'll find out one day,] The guardian said as his voice die away. The

entire unit started to move.

"So tried," Shinji said as he fell asleep.

"Shinji!" Asuka yelled as she got out of her Eva and ran to 01 as the

plug came out. She feared the worst when nothing happened. She opened the plug

expecting the worst to find something she froze.

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In the plug asleep and snoring are the invincible angel slayer Shinji

Ikari. Which he earned that day. They would be cleaning the blood off the city

for weeks. Shinji started to wake up. First thing he saw was red.

"I won. You owe me a date," Shinji said with a smirk.

"You got it," Asuka said, "But first. This is for scaring the hell out of

me," Asuka actually connected with a slap to the face.

"That's not much of a way to treat your boyfriend," Misato teased.

"So getting drunk is? I was awaken when you came home all drunk," Asuka

said. The two started to argue as Shinji fell back to asleep.