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.
The gathered personnel looked at him in a mixed expression of surprise, awe and fear. Kaworu smiled indulgently at the assembled masses.
¡§Hi!¡¨
A few jumped back in surprise as if expecting an attack. Shinji looked at them exasperatedly but then he could understand, it¡¦s not everyday a divine being that previously was trying to wipe out your existence stood in front of you. The last four years haven¡¦t done much in erasing the fear of Angels ingrained into the people who had lived through them. After watching Kaworu¡¦s bewildered expression for a few minutes as he attempted to talk to the others, his easy countenance relaxed some of the people he was trying to talk to but the knowledge that he was an Angel frightened them. Even Gendo was affected as he tried ineffectually to stare down Kaworu but his cheerful demeanour wasn¡¦t one bit affected by the hostile stare. In fact he kept smiling at him to the consternation of the now openly scowling Ikari, until Yui Ikari came in and slapped the back of his head.
¡§Stop that! You¡¦re being rude,¡¨ Yui berated her husband.
Gendo mumbled something that sounded like, ¡§Yes dear¡¨
Yui Ikari had taken up position of research scientist at NERV again but not as Head of Ritsuko¡¦s department which she declined stating that Ritsuko was more familiar with the position and its duties. However she had taken up a position as head technician and scientist for Unit 01 as she was most familiar with that particular Evangelion as she was its creator and the time she spent in it. Despite what Shinji said that the Evangelions were no longer needed, Yui hoped that she could find other applications for which the Evangelion could be used. Somehow she managed to strike up a peculiar friendship with the blonde scientist despite the cold exterior on Ritsuko¡¦s part. The others that knew of Gendo¡¦s relationship with Ritsuko, namely Misato, Kaji and Fuyutsuki was rather surprised at the friendship and suspected that Yui knew everything. However it seems she hasn¡¦t done anything about it, well it seems that way¡Kthe reality of the situation was kept private but Gendo does look a bit harried since Yui¡¦s return.
¡§I¡¦m pleased to meet you, Mr Nagisa¡¨
Yui shook hands with Kaworu.
¡§I am honoured to meet you, Mrs Ikari¡¨ greeted Kaworu.
¡§What a polite young man. I hope that you will enjoy your stay here,¡¨ she turned to Gendo, ¡§Isn¡¦t that right, dear?¡¨
Gendo mumbled an affirmative.
¡§Where will you stay in the meantime?¡¨ Yui inquired.
¡§Honestly¡KI don¡¦t know. I came here seeking Shinji, so I wasn¡¦t all too prepared¡¨
¡§Ahem!¡¨
They all turned towards Commander Fuyutsuki and Dr Akagi who were examining the metal box that Kaworu had brought in with him.
¡§This is absolutely astounding, the scanners indicate that this is just a normal alloy of iron and bronze, yet even a diamond won¡¦t scratch it¡¨
¡§Well well well, I never thought I¡¦ll get to see one of these up close,¡¨ commented Fuyutsuki.
Everyone looked at Fuyutsuki as he examined the case that stored the Andromeda Cloth.
¡§Yes, this is what my old friend Mitsumasa Kiddo described to me¡¨
¡§Mitsumasa Kiddo?¡¨ chorused everyone in the room.
Gendo spluttered, ¡§You know something about this, Fuyutsuki¡¨
¡§Ah yes, Gendo. An old acquaintance of mine often told me of something like this over a cup of tea. I didn¡¦t believe him then until he showed me one, it was made of gold, I believe, solid gold, I¡¦m sure that most of you are thinking that a lot of gold or that gold is too soft to be armour of any sort¡¨
¡§Armour?¡¨ Gendo was puzzled.
¡§Yes, although we call them Cloths. Inside that box is a set of armour,¡¨ answered both Shinji and Kaworu.
¡§But gold is too soft to offer any decent protection as armour,¡¨ Ritsuko protested.
Shinji and Kaworu burst out laughing, ¡§If a diamond won¡¦t make a scratch on something like this, it can be done to gold too¡¨
Shinji continued, ¡§I¡¦ll explain, Kaworu¡¦s Cloth is ranked among the lowest levels at the Bronze level, therefore the weakest, Gold Cloths such as the one Commander Fuyutsuki described are ranked as the highest level excluding the Cloths worn by the gods themselves. The Gold Cloths are a lot stronger than ours, mainly due to the power contained within them, they are almost impossible to destroy unlike ours¡¨
Ritsuko and the others had confused looks on their faces as they tried to wrap their heads around that.
¡§So you are saying that there are objects even stronger than this¡¨
¡§Yes, we are ranked among the least powerful of all of Athena¡¦s warriors,¡¨ Kaworu answered.
¡§But¡Kbut¡¨ Misato stammered.
¡§If you were referring to my previous status as an Angel, yes we are powerful but our power could still be dwarfed. We are only so powerful because we were granted forms which enhanced our strengths. Those giants that attacked you were not our true forms, outside of those forms we would have been defeated by any of the Gold Saints, even if the light of our soul was protecting us¡¨
The people gathered in the room were stunned.
¡§You mean to tell me that there are people in this world that could have taken an Angel on hand to hand and won,¡¨ Misato was almost hysterical.
¡§Yes¡¨ Shinji deadpanned.
¡§Then why did all that happen! They could have prevented it all!¡¨ Misato almost screamed.
A quick slap from Kaji brought her to her senses; she glared at him as she rubbed her sore cheek.
¡§Misato, they weren¡¦t allowed to interfere at that time, they had their own troubles. Plus even as powerful as the Gold Saints are, they wouldn¡¦t have stood that much of a chance against the 5th and the 14th in their giant forms,¡¨ Shinji calmly explained.
¡§Oh right¡¨ Misato felt a bit sheepish.
Yui was going over the conversation in her mind until something caught her attention, ¡§Shinji dear¡¨
¡§Yes mom¡¨
¡§You said you too have one of these Bronze Cloths as well. Where is yours?¡¨
Shinji sighed and closed his eyes in concentration, Yui started to speak again but Kaworu motioned her to be quiet. They gasped when Shinji started emitting a bluish-white light; the light surrounded him like an aura as it grew and wavered like a flame. Shinji slowly raised his arm, finger pointing up at the ceiling, as his Cosmo blazed around him forcing the observers to look away.
In a cold, commanding voice, he shouted, ¡§Cloth! To me!¡¨
A flash of light flared above Shinji¡¦s head, within was a shape of a gliding swan. It glowed intensely for a few seconds, then suddenly separating into many pieces of glowing light that flew around Shinji¡¦s body, attaching themselves to him at various places. When the light faded, Shinji stood there garbed in silver-white armour, gauntlets, cuirass, metal kirtle, greaves and a circlet shaped like a swan¡¦s wings, all over a layer of blue cloth that draped Shinji¡¦s body like a second skin.
¡§Ok, what the hell was so important that you had Section 2 goons drag me out of class for?!¡¨ Asuka shouted rather loudly as she stepped through the door. Then she caught sight of an intensely glowing Shinji and fainted dead away. Rei walked in sedately a few seconds later to find an armoured Shinji standing in the middle of the room and Asuka sprawled out on the floor at her feet.
¡§What is going on?¡¨ Rei asked innocently.
One long story cut short later¡KRei turned to Kaworu who was also clad in his Cloth, red on aquamarine and with silver chains wrapped around the forearm protectors.
¡§So you were the Seventeenth,¡¨ Rei silently added, ¡¥A being like me too¡¦
Kaworu seemed to read the expression in her eyes and nodded.
¡§And that brings us to this point. Kaworu and I will be staying and prepare for the final battle¡¨ Shinji finished.
¡§Shinji wouldn¡¦t it be wise to train more fighters or have others more experienced to fight instead¡¨
Shinji shook his head, ¡§Since we were the ones that were going fight, we have been chosen to do it and the others cannot interfere. As for training the others, I¡¦m afraid we might not have enough time to do so. My training alone took four years to raise me to this level and I am far from taking on any Gold Saints. My sensei is much, much more powerful than I am, it only takes him only one move to defeat me and I can barely scratch him.¡¨
Kaworu butted in at that point, ¡§And what Shinji didn¡¦t say was that our training had to more intense than any of our senseis as we had a limited time frame to reach even our current level. We had to master all that they had learnt in two-thirds the time they had¡¨
Shinji looked at him oddly, ¡§I honestly didn¡¦t think Shun would have pushed you that hard¡¨
Kaworu smiled ruefully, ¡§He didn¡¦t want to but he had his orders. Living on Andromeda Island was a unique experience¡¨
The others were definitely confused, as one they asked, ¡§Andromeda Island?¡¨
¡§Yes, it¡¦s the island I spent my time training at. It is a volcanic island, dry as a desert as well. During the day it would reach temperatures of around 40 to 50 degrees Celsius and at night to below zero. Hardly anything grew there or survived, it was an inhospitable place. Everyday was a fight for survival¡¨
The others including a revived Asuka were stunned except for Shinji who nodded knowledgeably.
¡§My god! Who would take a child to such a place?¡¨ Yui gasped. Ritsuko and Misato couldn¡¦t really say anything without sounding like a hypocrite as they too placed the children in danger many times. If Kaworu¡¦s training ground was like this, they weren¡¦t too sure if they wanted to hear about Shinji¡¦s or how he survived with his sanity intact at such a place.
¡§Shinji? I think it¡¦s time that you explained about your training,¡¨ Misato spoke quietly.
¡§My training? It was nothing special¡¨
Fuyutsuki coughed quietly, ¡§You wear the Cygnus Cloth you must have trained somewhere cold, didn¡¦t you?¡¨
¡§You sure know a lot, Commander Fuyutsuki¡¨
¡§I did some research about this in my spare time and my friend has told me a lot about this and about the young boys he gathered and sent off to gain Cloths like the one you wear right now¡¨
¡§I see. Well, I trained in Oriental Siberia¡¨
Gendo¡¦s glasses fell off his face, ¡§But there¡¦s nothing in Oriental Siberia since before the Second Impact. Temperatures there reach well below zero everyday. You would have frozen to death, even with protective clothing there isn¡¦t enough out there to support human life¡¨
¡§Who says we had anything to make us comfortable. It was either make do or die. I didn¡¦t wear anything beyond the clothes I was wearing before because protective clothing would have gotten in the way of training¡¨
Yui cried out suddenly, resisting the urge to reach out and grab her son. Shinji continued talking, his eyes never leaving Gendo¡¦s as he talked.
¡§You are quite correct. The temperatures there were hardly ever above minus forty degrees Celsius. Half the time we didn¡¦t get daylight and I often had to rough out blizzards in the open for a lack of shelter. To eat me and my sensei often had to hunt reindeer and other artic creatures to eat and for clothing. I believe my favourite pastime there was swimming¡¨
¡§Swimming?¡¨ Ritsuko was confused, ¡§Where would you find a pool in Siberia?¡¨
¡§Who said anything about a pool? I went swimming in the Artic Sea, under two to three metres of ice. It was an exercise to increase my endurance and stamina¡¨
Ritsuko was as astounded as the others were, Asuka couldn¡¦t believe what she was hearing so she didn¡¦t.
¡§That¡¦s a lie. You would have frozen to death in a matter of seconds if you did that and how would have gotten beneath the ice. Punch through it,¡¨ she scoffed.
Shinji and Kaworu shared a glanced and burst out laughing.
In between laughs, Shinji gasped out, ¡§That¡¦s exactly what I did¡¨
¡§HA! Now I know you¡¦re lying, you idiot!¡¨
Shinji simply shook his head, ¡§How about I show you then?¡¨
He raised his hands, palm up as if cradling a bowl or something and once again his Cosmo visibly manifested itself. A ¡¥window¡¦ made of wavering light appeared in his hands, ¡§Now Asuka look within¡¨
Asuka and the others did just that looking into the ¡¥window¡¦ they saw an expanse of white as far as the eye can see. Then they realized it was a large sheet of ice covered in snow with two figures standing on it.
¡§That¡¦s Oriental Siberia, a large sheet of ice metres thick and real land very scarce¡¨
The view zoomed in on the two figures, one was a blonde haired man with tanned skin and the other was¡KShinji, who was nodding to what the older man was saying. Then that light erupted around Shinji again as he raised his right fist high, to slam it into the ice at his feet.
¡§Nothing¡¦s happening¡¨ Asuka commented.
¡§Just watch¡¨
As Asuka turned back to the window, columns of light erupted at random intervals from the ice in a circular pattern. Within those columns, the ice cracked and shattered, falling into the frothing sea below, leaving behind a large hole metres deep to the black sea and the one who had made the hole dived in. Abruptly the sight faded as Shinji banished the ¡¥window¡¦ he had made with his Cosmo.
¡§Now do you see, Asuka¡¨
Asuka couldn¡¦t believe her eyes, here he was radiating a power that shouldn¡¦t be possible, yet was asking her if she believed him.
¡§How can you be that strong?¡¨
Gendo was interested as well as Ritsuko who was looking at Shinji like he was an interesting experiment she would like to get her hands on that glazed look in her eyes wasn¡¦t helping.
¡§I think I¡¦ll need to sit down,¡¨ Yui muttered weakly.
She didn¡¦t get to say anymore before the alarms sounded.
Misato whirled around and dashed out of the room, followed closely by the others as she headed out to the Command Centre whilst Asuka and Rei headed for the pilot¡¦s changerooms.
¡§Angel alarm! Hurry up and get changed,¡¨ Ritsuko yelled as she dashed off, leaving behind a bemused Shinji, Kaworu, Yui, Gendo and Fuyutsuki.
Shinji turned to Kaworu, ¡§Do you sense any of your brethren?¡¨ He asked.
Kaworu shook his head mutely, ¡§No, it is something else¡¨
¡§So one of them is here?¡¨
¡§That seems most likely¡¨
¡§I suppose we shouldn¡¦t keep him waiting then¡¨
¡§I suppose not, but isn¡¦t it too early for them to appear now?¡¨
¡§Maybe it is, maybe it isn¡¦t, but the fact still stands that one of them are here now¡¨
¡§Agreed. Let us go, Shinji¡¨
Meanwhile on the bridge, Misato and Ritsuko rushed into the room, yelling for status reports.
¡§What it¡¦s ETA?¡¨ Misato asked.
¡§Unknown! All attempts at retrieving data on it has been blocked.¡¨ Hyuga replied as he rapidly tried to gain data on the enemy.
¡§What it¡¦s pattern?¡¨ Ritsuko demanded.
¡§The Magi are deliberating, the pattern scans keep cycling,¡¨ Maya added.
¡§What about the non-combatants?¡¨ Misato inquired.
¡§All non-combatants have safely made their way to the shelters. All buildings have now been accommodated into the Geofront,¡¨ Aoba informed her.
¡§Good, launch all Evas¡¨
¡§Units 00 and 02 have been successfully launched but Unit 01 is still yet unmanned¡¨
¡§What the hell is Shinji doing? He should be in Unit 01 by now. Where is he?!¡¨ Misato roared.
It seemed like everyone has somehow conveniently and suddenly forgotten that Shinji has stated that he will never again pilot an Evangelion and the fact that the Angels will not appear again.
Beyond the limits of Tokyo-3, a fatigue-clad man slowly lowered his binoculars as the distant buildings of Tokyo-3 slowly lowered themselves below the ground.
¡§So it begins,¡¨ he sighed and raised his hand.
From within the trees emerged numerous tanks and infantry. Overhead missiles streaked by headed for numerous tactical targets scattered throughout the city.
Once the first explosions reached the ears of the man, he turned to the large command tent set up nearby. After a moment of brooding over the map lay out on the table inside, he turned to the three shadowed people standing opposite him.
¡§Will this work?¡¨ he directed his question to them.
¡§For the sake of the world, it has to,¡¨ replied a feminine voice.
The three turned and disappeared.
Screams of terror reached the ears of Athena¡¦s newest two Saints. A look flashed between them and the two took off at speeds unimaginable. The scene they saw when they had stopped sickened them. The many bodies of NERV personnel were strewn all over the corridor, their blood painting the walls. At the end of the corridor a woman was vainly trying to pull her dead friend¡¦s body away only to be cruelly and casually gunned down where she stood by a smirking black clad soldier with a machine gun. The soldier turned towards them and raised his gun with a smile. That smile widened when he saw Shinji leap towards him, the machine gun in his hands started spitting out lead death.
The man¡¦s smile faded as Shinji continued towards him, none of the bullets hitting their target. Shinji grabbed the barrel of the soldier¡¦s gun.
¡§Do you think a Saint would fear your guns?¡¨ Shinji growled out.
With a squeeze, the barrel started to crack and would have broken if Shinji didn¡¦t suddenly unleash his power, ice started to creep up the length of the gun towards the terrified soldier holding it. The soldier dropped the frozen weapon and run away towards his stunned comrades. Those that raised their weapons suddenly found them shattering in their hands, raising their eyes they could see Kaworu recalling his chains. As if with a will of their own, they writhed around like snakes and pointed at them. The sight apparently unnerved the highly trained soldiers, dropping their remaining weapons they turned tail and fled. With steely determination, the two Saints made their way through the invaded corridors of NERV, eliminating any JSSDF soldiers that they found. The Nebula chains of the Andromeda Cloth were extremely effective in taking out the soldiers, as they can automatically seek out enemies. Entire squadrons fell to the twin chains with their lightning fast strikes, often going through walls to attack their prey.
Whilst the two Saints were clearing out the corridors of NERV, above them in the Geofront, Asuka and Rei were battling with the war machines of the JSSDF. Conventional weaponry, no matter how advanced was not doing much in slowing down the two Evangelions. In the four years Shinji was absent the two female pilots had worked hard on teamwork to make up for the lack, albeit it had been forced but it is still teamwork. The two biomechanical giants were systematically destroying all the tanks, VTOLs, missiles and artillery sent their way. With the power of the AT-field aiding them, the JSSDF¡¦s numerous war machines were quickly dispatched, the forces seeing the situation began a tactical retreat, escaping to the cover of the trees.
Asuka was yelling in the entry plug, ¡§Yeah, you fricking losers. Run and fear my wrath. The wrath Asuka Langley Soryu! You snivelling cowards!!¡¨
Rei just exhaled in relief.
Just beyond the battle, a person stood there quietly observing the Evas. Suddenly the person¡¦s hands clenched by their sides as the retreat was sounded, as it turned away to leave, one would be able to hear it speak, ¡§Shinji, I will avenge you. I swear it¡¨
End part 4
Ok, sorry for taking so long but I wanted to re-watch Saint Seiya all over again just to get some things right and it¡¦s a hassle trying to translate some stuff from Cantonese to English since some of the wording used in the Japanese and Cantonese versions don¡¦t translate real well into English ie Cloth and Cosmo are just vague descriptions. So some of the information would be a bit inaccurate. Plus I was trying to see where the heck I was trying to go from here, thinking took some time and university killed everything else.
Some people asked me why I chose Hyoga to be Shinji¡¦s teacher and not Shun as they relate better more. Now that I thought about it a bit more, I realise what I¡¦m trying to achieve is improvements to the character, handing Shinji to Shun would be a disaster, if the only saviour for the world doesn¡¦t want to fight because people will get hurt, the world¡¦s doomed. So I thought that Hyoga would improve Shinji best, although Shiryu wouldn¡¦t be too bad but Shiryu would do better being Asuka¡¦s teacher teaching her self-discipline and control. Plus I would like to see her reaction to Dohko.
Omake (sorta Asuka bashing):
Asuka: ¡§Why did you bring me here?¡¨
Shiryu: ¡§To train of course¡¨
Dohko from his place next to Lushan Waterfall: ¡§Shiryu! Who do you bring with you?¡¨
Asuka looks up: ¡§What¡¦s with the Yoda lookalike?¡¨
Shiryu: ¡§That¡¦s my master, who will also be training you¡¨
Asuka looks indignant: ¡§No way! I ain¡¦t gonna be trained by some stupid Yoda dwarf puppet looking thing and I ain¡¦t training all the way out in the middle of nowhere. There isn¡¦t even television around here¡¨
Dohko stands up but he doesn¡¦t even reach Asuka¡¦s waist so she isn¡¦t really impressed.
Dohko: ¡§A stupid dwarf puppet, am I?¡¨
He raises one of his big eyebrows, ¡§Can a puppet do this?¡¨
He glows with a golden aura and Asuka suddenly finds herself upside down over a waterfall that is slowly, yet surely rising in the opposite direction a waterfall is supposed to go.
Dohko smiles one of his smiles as he stops glowing and Asuka plummets, screaming all the way, to the bottom of the Lushan Waterfall.