Saint Shinji

Evangelion crossover with Saint Seiya

(This takes place shortly after the 13th Angel)

If you don't know Saint Seiya now, shame on you, it's good, so go watch it. For those who don't know Saint Seiya, there's a lot of property damage in it, breaking buildings made of stone are a necessity.

In a dark room somewhere

2020

The meeting was in a panic, voices squabbled for coherence as SEELE reeled from the blow they received. Finally someone took charge…

SEELE 01: "What are our losses?"

SEELE 13 was hysterical: "Losses? This is beyond mere losses. Our entire scenario is ruined!!"

This started the entire meeting off again, as each SEELE member tried to make themselves heard. SEELE 13 was particularly loud in his vocal contributions to the mess…that was until a gunshot was heard and the monolith known as SEELE 13 faded out. The meeting fell quiet after that.

SEELE 01: "Now that I have your utmost attention. My sources have told me that this is a minor setback at the most; we aren't dealing with other phenomenon. The other gods are dead, you see, my colleagues, we are merely dealing with a mortal, namely a mortal that we know as the Third Child, and he is a pawn in our plans. Regarding the Fifth Child, undoubtedly he will go to NERV as it was in our scenario, even if he resists the calling, the MP Series Evangelions will complete what we had set out. The Third Child's actions will not hinder our scenario any longer; finally we can be at peace"

SEELE was sort of pacified after his words, soon they will be free of their mortal shells and will wield enough power to challenge God himself, but they couldn't help having a shadow of doubt in their minds.

Tokyo 3

2020

Shinji awoke to something poking him, cracking open his eyes, he found Pen-Pen prodding him with his beak. Shinji turned away, but the warm water penguin kept on prodding him with his beak, until Shinji finally got up.

Shinji: "All right! All right! Sheesh! Didn't take ya long to slip back into routine, did ya?"

Pen-Pen: "Wark!"

Shinji stood up, and stretched, popping out his cramped spine after spending the night on the couch, since he gave his bed to Rei. Soon Shinji slipped into his old routine, get up, feed Pen-Pen, make breakfast and prepare for school, even though Shinji wondered if he was even going to school. Misato and Rei were the first ones to get up beside him and Pen-Pen. Misato stumbled in clutching her stomach, she lurched over to the fridge and pulled out a beer, hollering once she finished. Shinji sighed, as he realised that Misato still hasn't gotten out of that habit. He was startled to see Rei clad only in a white shirt and panties, rubbing sleep from her eyes, Shinji blushed and turned his head away politely.

Rei: "Good morning, Shinji"

Shinji: "G-good mm-morning Rei"

Misato going for her second beer: "Morning Shinji"

Shinji: "Morning Misato, and no, sake is not part traditional breakfast today"

Misato remembered the conversation so long ago, but recalled like it was yesterday, and she pouted.

Misato: "Is too"

Shinji: "Is not. Plus we don't have any so there, so it's just miso soup, rice and some greens"

Rei watched this byplay with some amusement, something she recognised and liked. She took a seat and helped herself to the breakfast Shinji had made. Soon Asuka stumbled out of her room, and plonked herself into a seat; she wrinkled her nose at the food.

Asuka: "Dammit, Shinji! You know I hate this crap!"

Shinji surprisingly did not apologise, instead he shrugged and started eating. Misato watched with interest but Asuka didn't like the treatment she was given.

Asuka: "Hey, don't ignore me"

Shinji put down his bowl and chopsticks, and looked at the fiery girl calmly: "Either you eat it or you don't. I'm not about to cook anything else, just to please you. If you don't like it, don't eat but it's your problem if you go hungry"

Asuka's eyes bulged as she spluttered: "Excuse me, Third Child. What did you say?!"

Shinji merely glanced her way and answered around his bowl of rice: "I said either you eat what's in front of you or you don't eat at all"

Asuka bristled, but Shinji merely ignored her as he finished and started washing his dishes. The meal was rather tense after that when Shinji left to take a shower, leaving the enraged redhead with the other two females.

Asuka's left eye twitched for the rest of the morning, even after she had her shower. Shinji had found out from Misato, that he was allowed to attend classes with Asuka and Rei, even though he had been missing for three years, and the other two were in the final year of high school. And so Asuka twitched as Shinji followed the both of them to school, Shinji was wearing a white shirt but it was unbuttoned as it didn't fit as well as it used. Underneath he wore his sleeveless blue shirt, and the same black slacks he wore the day before, the one with fur wrapped around the shins, and he also kept the wrappings on his arms and fists. His long, wild hair fluttered gently in the breeze, all in all, he didn't look too bad, at least to the females he passed by on the way to school, but the police that were eyeing him got annoying.

Inside the school

The students' attention immediately turned to the newcomer in their midst as Shinji walked in behind Asuka and Rei. Almost all of the entire female population in the school swooned at the sight of him, and the guys sized up the fresh face. If they only knew who they were looking at…

Shinji stepped into the school yard, and right away he got the feeling that he was being watched. He scanned the place, searching for a reason for this feeling, disturbingly he found nothing, except that some of the students were looking at him funny.

Asuka: "Hurry up, dummkopf! We haven't got all day"

Shinji: "I'm sorry already, geez"

Rei continued on silently, but she did turn her head to look at Shinji.

In the classroom, Toji grinned as the gossip started with Shinji as the main focus. However besides him, nobody knew it was Shinji, not even Kensuke and Hikari knew as they sat there waiting in class. The door slammed open as Asuka stalked in, bristling like an angry cat, and she was followed by a more cool Rei.

Toji snorted at the sight: "What's wrong devil-girl?! Woke up on the wrong side of the bed"

Asuka: "Shut up, you sorry excuse of a Neanderthal"

Toji: "Oh boohoo, is that the best you got"

Asuka had to visibly restrain herself from hitting him, but then she hit him anyway as she didn't try very hard.

Hikari: "Asuka!"

Asuka grumbled and left the boy on the ground as she stomped to her seat.

Soon the teacher came in and set up his things on the teacher's desk.

Teacher: "It seems like that we have a student returning to our class today"

Shinji took this time to walk in, most of the class broke out into excited whispering at the wild-looking boy. Shinji took off the white shirt since it was uncomfortable, so his appearance took most by surprise.

Teacher: "Why don't you introduce yourself?"

Shinji nodded to the teacher: "Hi! I'm Shinji, Shinji Ikari"

Stunned silence met his revelation, the whole class stared at him with some notable exceptions with them being Asuka, Rei and Toji. Asuka just snorted and Rei had her head turned towards the window and Toji just grinned at him. Hikari and Kensuke stood up and knocked over their chairs, speechless.  

Shinji: "What? Do I have something on my face? You guys look like you've just seen a ghost"

Teacher: "That will be all, Mr. Ikari. Please take a seat"

Shinji: "Hai!"

The entire class followed his movement to an empty seat behind Rei, and like her, he stared out the window as well. This teacher was just like the one Shinji had known, both seemed to be intent on indoctrinating their students about Second Impact, Shinji wondered if this actually prepared any students for higher education. Shinji didn't even bother listening as he was already educated enough, Saori-san had seen to that, every so often in addition to his training, he would be privately tutored in some subjects. It turned out, he was almost on a genius level, once his hidden talent was uncovered, he passed every subject with ease, which was good as it gave him more time to train. Shinji continued to stare out the window; however he didn't seem to notice that none of the class was paying attention to the teacher but were staring at him instead.

Asuka found her eyes drawn to the young man sitting by the window; she couldn't help but like what she was seeing. When she realised, she mentally slapped herself for even thinking about the baka that way, as she was doing that, her eyes inevitably swung back to Shinji. She slapped herself for doing it again, and drawn some attention to her, she glared at the offending students until they looked somewhere else, and cursed Shinji under her breath.

Asuka: "Damn him! Damn him for doing this to me"

Asuka wasn't even sure what he was doing to her, but she was certain he was doing something on purpose and that she didn't like it one bit. She didn't seem to be aware that her eyes fell on Shinji again.

Hikari glanced at her friend worriedly when she slapped herself, but when she saw who Asuka was looking at; she had to suppress a giggle. She diverted her face, when Asuka glared at her; she resolved to do something about Asuka later.

Come around lunch time, instead of the usual rush for everybody to leave, all the students surround Shinji by his desk instead. As usual to curious crowds, they bombard Shinji with numerous questions; Shinji couldn't make out one question from another, and ended up pressed against the window from the sheer mass of people. Frantically he searched for an escape, it was around then, he remembered he was next to a window. Quickly he slid it open and hopped out, the crowd gasped, thinking the boy died to avoid them. They all rushed to an available window, even Rei was stunned, but then she hadn't moved from her seat and had an excellent view on want happened when Shinji jumped.

Shinji spread his arms wide as he plummeted from the fifth floor, despite contrary belief he landed without splattering himself all over the pavement. He survived the pavement, but it could be said that the pavement didn't survive him, when he landed; the concrete broke beneath him. Large broken shards of concrete rose from the point of impact, surrounding the crouching Shinji, like a circle of jagged spikes. Springing to his feet, he sped off away from the crater, most couldn't follow his movement as he moved so fast that he was an indistinguishable blur, if they even caught a glimpse of him.

The entire class was awed by this new Shinji, he was different from the boy they had known four years ago, but then they didn't know him that well, then they saw him as a timid and quiet boy, now he was something else, something beyond them, a superhuman possibly. Only those that really knew him, saw through the changes to the quiet, yet stubborn personality he had four years ago.

Hikari took action: "What are you staring at?! Go to lunch already!"

The class quickly complied, muttering their awe at what they just witnessed. Asuka scowled darkly, as she was sure now that Shinji was doing something to spite her. Touji and Kensuke aka the other two stooges stood at the window, jaws dropping at what Shinji had just done that was until Hikari grabbed them by the ear and dragged them away. Rei followed silently behind them, as they went to have lunch.

Shinji ran along the rooftops of Tokyo-3 taking gravity defying leaps from building to building. His speed defied imagination as those who actually caught a glimpse of him only saw a blur as he passed, it wasn't long before he was out of the city proper and taking a path that he hadn't used in ages. Soon he was leaping through forests and green fields covered with many sunflowers, the wind of his passing ruffling the plants. Passing a small lake, he soon reached his destination, a terraced cliff shrouded in mist that overlooked all of Tokyo-3. Sighing in something akin to relief, he sat down and watched as the wind caused shifting patterns to appear in the mist.

Shinji: "So how long are you going to stand there watching me?"

"How did you know I was here?"

The stranger had a light, melodic voice like Rei's, Shinji mused but this voice had a definite male tint to it.

Shinji: "I could feel you, Tabris. Even if you were hiding your power"

Tabris aka Kaworu Nagisa: "Please call me Kaworu"

Shinji shrugged: "As you wish. Care to join me?"

Kaworu: "Don't mind if I do"

From the shadow of a tree behind Shinji, out walked a slim, silver-haired young man, roughly Shinji's age with pale skin, almost like an albino. Looking less rough and more well-kept, than the previously missing young man; obviously women would have found him attractive, even his light smile radiated a peaceful joy that made him look heavenly (pun intended). His walking excluded a grace found in only the best dancers or gymnasts. However it was his red eyes that seemed most compelling about him, it drew the gaze of others and looked deep into their souls, yet it was not invasive or hostile, at least not at the moment, but it invited people to look into them and release their inner most feelings of joy or erased dark emotions to be replaced with a sense of contentment and happiness. The silver-haired young man walked without a sound towards his destination, as if his steps floated on air, leaving neither trace nor sound to mark his passing. Languidly he folded himself into a sitting position beside Shinji, who remained staring at the mist that hid Tokyo-3 from his sight.

Kaworu: "This view is beautiful, Shinji"

Shinji nodded silently, his inner senses taking a measure of the seemingly young man beside him, but he knew that the 'young' Angel existed before Man. Something about his Cosmo was throwing him off, suddenly it clicked as he compared the Cosmo of the Angel and others he knew, especially his. It was like his; very similar to his that meant only one thing.

Shinji: "You're mortal"

Kaworu grimaced slightly: "Yes, how did you find out so fast?"

Shinji smiled a slight upturn at the corners of his mouth.

Shinji: "I compared your Cosmo to Saori-san's and then mine. Yours differs from Saori-san's a bit but those differences hold some similarities to my power so I concluded that you are a mortal now"

Kaworu: "Yes, when I chose to stay, I gave up my immortality; it had to be that way for the final struggle"

Shinji: "I see. So what can you do?"

Kaworu: "Why don't I show you?"

Shinji understood, standing up, he took a few paces away from Kaworu who turned to face him. Kaworu crossed his wrists below his waist, and powered up, Shinji observed with a sort of detached curiosity maybe, the only expression on his face was a slight widening of the eyes when Kaworu's Cosmo manifested itself visibly. It was pinkish-red, and it was powerful, Shinji had the restrain himself from taking a step back.

Kaworu: "NEBULA STORM"

Shinji just barely dodged the attack by jumping upwards, as he fell towards the earth, he suddenly found his movements restrained, effectively immobilising him. He smashed headfirst into the ground, slowly he tried to get up but like before his movements were restrained, he couldn't move beyond getting to his feet.

Shinji: "What the?"

Then he saw it, Kaworu's light smirk as well as what his Cosmo was doing, it was emitting an air current connected to him. He could see it, the air that flowed around him, trapped him, he marvelled at the power needed to do this and Kaworu seemed to do it effortlessly. Kaworu powered down with a sigh, and the restricting air current vanished almost immediately.

Shinji: "Most impressive"

Kaworu bowed: "Thank you"

Shinji: "How did you learn that? I do not recall Shun taking on a student"

Kaworu shrugged: "It was a gift, the knowledge I already had, I just needed to train in it. During the last four years, I frequently took leave from SEELE without their knowledge, he watched me"

Shinji: "Where is it?"

Kaworu shrugged and walked to the tree that he was hiding under before, and easily lifted a rectangular metal case with one hand. It was as large as a standard safe and probably as heavy if not heavier. On the outside, it was decorated with swirling symbols and a woman bound in chains. Shinji lifted an eyebrow even though he knew he shouldn't be too surprised.

Shinji: "So you took over for Shun"

Kaworu nodded respectfully: "Yes, he taught me a lot, it was a humbling experience, me an Angel of Heaven, taught by a mere mortal. No, not a mere mortal but a great mortal, he was a wonderful teacher, a beautiful human," the pale boy smiled gently, "Just like you, Shinji"

Shinji was a bit confused, but he understood most of it, he flushed slightly at the compliment Kaworu gave him.

Shinji: "No, I am not worthy. I merely seek my own existence and hopefully protect the ones I love"

Kaworu just shook his head at Shinji's belittling of himself, years ago he would have said something but like Shinji, he too had changed; now he knew that too many words at the wrong times could do more bad than good. Also he knew that sometime in the future that Shinji's opinion would change, at least he hoped so.

Shinji: "I suppose I should take you to meet the others then"

Shouldering the heavy metal box, Kaworu nodded, and the two, now Saints, hopped off the cliff towards Tokyo-3. They were fast, the naked eye would only see twin bouncing blurs, as they descended the cliff jumping from terrace to terrace like hyped up fleas. Even the heavy-looking metal case carried by Kaworu didn't hamper him from keeping pace with Shinji, although he wasn't as fast as Shinji. Within minutes, they reached the city proper, and were soon on their way to NERV, wondering what the upcoming trials held for them. And who else would show up.

End part 3

Sorry, it's a short one despite my taking so long to get around to updating it. I had a bit of trouble getting off my lazy ass to go do it, plus I was a bit busy with my uni stuff and my efforts to gather new anime. (Go Go Naruto!)

So was anyone surprised that Kaworu became the Andromeda Saint to help out, I have to thank one of my reviewers for that idea, and you know who you are. However I like to point out that in the series it was never truly said that Rei was created from Yui's DNA, it was suggested, so it could have been genetic manipulation that made Rei resemble Yui so much but I felt like making Rei, Shinji's sister even though it could be an interesting Shinji/Rei fic in this. I just may consider writing an alternate one to this storyline for Shinji/Rei or maybe Shinji/Mana or even crazier Shinji/Rei/Asuka/Mana. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, but Mana might appear later on in this fic. By the way, does anybody know the attacks for the Steel Saints and other stuff about them?

So SEELE is still around and ready to strike with the MP Series Evangelions, but what will happen now that there are two Saints, not just one? Hopefully part 4 will show up soon enough.