Chapter Three

Shinji entered his mother's office and witnessed the shocking scene of his mother and Ritsuko making out on the couch.

He yelled, "What are you doing mom?"

Yui quickly turned to face her son while Ritsuko pulled her hand out of Yui's blouse. Misses Ikari tried to mask the panic in her voice, though she did not do the best job. "Shinji, what are you doing in here?"

Out of embarrassment, the boy averted his gaze from the floor to the ceiling. "Uh, I'm here to tell you, of your, um, promotion…and you also, Ritsuko."

With her voice now calm, Yui asked, "What promotion?"

Shinji, still nervous, shifts his gaze from one vertex of the room to another. "Well, uh, after Rei told me about what happened, I got kinda pissed off and contacted the APDF committee. I threatened to resign my status as a pilot if they did not fire that asshole father of mine. They agreed it would be unacceptable, so they granted me my wish. Um, I guess that means Misato, as well as the two of you, are in command of this facility."

"Look me in the eye, son."

The youngest of the Ikari family slowly shifted his field of view so it met with his mother's.

"Shinji, this is your first step to becoming a real man, unlike that dirt bag father of yours." Yui slowly closed in on her son, before pecking him on the forehead.

A second later, a knock was heard on the door, followed by Misato's entrance. She calmly addressed her coworkers. "Doctor Ikari, Doctor Ritsuko, since we are in command now, I believe we should discuss base procedure."

Yui regarded her son. "Shinji dear, why don't you go hang out with your friends?"

He did not complain. "Alright." Shinji started for the cafeteria. Along the way, he saw a girl headed towards in the direction of his mother's office, accompanied by an old man. The girl, who looked his age, had teal eyes, shoulder length maroon hair, a gorgeous face, and a fantastic figure to match. She was dressed in a short, tight, pink sundress. The hem was only about an inch below her crotch area, and the top portion was low cut, allowing generous cleavage to shine through. It showed off her C chest, as well as her flawless abdomen, hips, buttocks, and legs, which were nothing short of miraculous.

The old man was pretty tall and thin. He had gray hair, brown eyes, and was dressed in a brown suit and a red tie.

Shinji instantly recognized the old man, Kozo Fuyutski, the professor to his mother and father in their college years, as well as his god father. 'Who's the chic? She's fuggin' fine!'

After being passed, he stood still and watched as they entered his mother's office.

The young man pondered some more, 'Is she a pilot?'

Without any more thought on the matter, he continued on his trek to the cafeteria.

As Shinji entered the cafeteria, he saw his male comrades, Toji, Koaru, and Kensuke.

Toji, who's mouth was stuffed with a bean burrito, waved, "Yo, Shin man!"

The young Mister Ikari gave a slight node before taking a seat with his friends.

Nagisa asked, "Yo, how's it goin'?"

Shinji shrugged. "I dunno, but I think we're getting a new pilot."

Kensuke was curious. "Really, how do you know?"

"Well, when I was walking out of my mom's office, an old friend of the family was escorting a girl, our age, to her office. Man, was she hotter than anything I've ever seen. Anyway, I think he was bringing her for her reassignment here."

Kaoru asked, "How can you be sure?"

"Well, the guy escorting her was my god father, and my idiot father told me a while back that he was training new pilots."

Toji had a funny grin on his face. "You think she's hot, eh? I wonder what Asuka would think of that…"

Shinji replied, "How do you think Hikari would feel if your unit was accidentally blown up in battle?"

Looks of fear were plastered on their faces, knowing the boy's malicious threats were, in fact, promises.

Suddenly, they were paged on the base PA. "Attention, this is doctor Ikari. All pilots and IT professionals are to report to the briefing room in one hour. Repeat, all pilots and IT professionals are to report to the briefing room in one hour."

Three certain young women strolled down the metal corridors of the APDF base. One had Cyan colored hair, another auburn, and the other brown. They were clad in their skin tight wife beaters, showing off their quite large B chests, which were tucked under their baggy camouflage pants. Of course, they were also equipped with knee high combat boots.

Asuka inquired, "So, Rei, how does it feel to be the first of us women to be in combat? Was it fun?"

Rei smiled. "It's hard to describe, though I'm sure it's almost better than sex. To truly understand how it feels, you have to do it yourself. Anyway, I heard you girls had an interesting experience while I was away."

Asuka clapped her hands together in an adoring fashion. "Your brother is so amazing in bed. His penis is like the holy grail!"

After hearing that last remark, Rei managed to choke on oxygen alone. "That's totally disgusting; I did not need to know that!"

Hikari asked, "…Right. How did you hear about our experience?"

"Kaoru told me."

Miss Sohryu pressed on. "How did he find out?"

"I asked him the same question. He told me that Kensuke told him."

Miss Horaki had a plan. "The men are probably in the cafeteria right now. Let's see if we can smoke out the rat."

The fiery redhead smiled. "Agreed!"

In the cafeteria, the girls sat a couple of tables away from the boys.

Rei had a delightful smirk on upon her beautiful face as she mockingly asked her friends, "Asuka, Hikari, I heard you two hand an interesting weekend with your boyfriends." She was quick to glare at Asuka. "Please, do not tell me about your time with my brother. That would be a mystery best left unsolved."

The redhead shrugged.

Hikari mocked confusion. "Interesting weekend?"

Rei giggled. "You know, his rod in your vertical smile for the first time? Fixing his breakfast the following morning, in the nude?"

Hikari smiled. "Of course!" Then she quickly frowned. "Who told you?"

"Kaoru."

"Who told him?"

"Kensuke."

"Who told him?"

"I don't know."

Hikari mocked pouting. "That's too bad, I really wish I could give that jerk a firm kick to the family jewels."

Across the room, Toji cringed. "Not the family jewels, I beg of you!"

Hikari shot up from her seat. "It was you!"

Toji shot up from his seat also, his hands raised defensively. "I'm so sorry baby, really!"

Hikari smiled warmly at him as she slowly approached where he was standing. "Honest?"

"Honest."

They smiled at each other reassuringly, right before Hikari hissed.

All Mister Suzuhara could think was 'Uh oh,' right before receiving a fierce kick to the nuts from a steel toe. The entire facility echoed with a scream of agonizing pain.

Hikari screamed, "You will not even receive even one hug from me this next month!"

In the Ops area, everyone was gathered. All the pilots were seated, except for Toji, who was holding an ice pack against his scrotum. The maroon haired newcomer stood at the head of the room, on the right side of Yui Ikari. Also, there were two other guys and one female. The three of them seemed to be around 21, and were the base's leading techs. The female had short brown hair and brown eyes. She also sported a nice figure. She was Doctor Ritsuko Akagi's direct assistant, Lieutenant Commander Maya Ibuki. One of the men had short, spikey black hair and glasses. Lieutenant Hyuga Makoto spaced out as he gazed upon Misato.

Shinji pondered, 'Hope he doesn't get caught looking, Misato would probably make him end up like Toji.'

The other guy, Lieutenant Shigeru Aoba, had long brown hair, and constantly eyed the cyan-haired Ikari.

Shinji chuckled internally. 'Man, that guy has got bad taste.' He glanced over at his childhood friend, Kaoru Nagisa, who was shifting his gaze from Rei to Aoba. The youngest Ikari sighed. 'Oh yeah, there's gonna be a fight between those two.'

"Attention, pilots, IT professionals, this is Ensign Mana Kirishima, who recently transferred from the Matsushiro branch.

Mana beamed as she waved. "Hi everyone! It's so nice to meet you all!"

Rei, Hikari, and Asuka frowned in disgust at the overly cute girl's optimism.

The maroon haired pilot glanced at Shinji. 'So he's the director's son and the number one pilot, eh? He's so cute!'

Shinji looked at Mana. 'No way, is she checking me out?' He smiled. 'She must be!'

Asuka, after witnessing their eye contact, growled internally. 'What a slut!'

After several boring words uttered from Yui's word hole, she finally spoke to her son. "Lieutenant Shinji Ikari, you will give Ensign Kirishima a tour of the base."

Shinji was happy. 'Alright, promotion, and who knows where things will go with that Kirishima girl.'

Mana clapped her hands together in delight. "How utterly delightful!" She beamed like the sun.

Asuka growled, "No way!"

Yui ignored Asuka's rudeness. "Ensign Kirishima, you will be bunking at our place. We have more than enough guest rooms in our estate."

Rei hissed internally. 'I have to live with that tramp?'

Asuka also was angered by this revelation. 'That bitch, she's gonna be living with my Shin-chan! She'll probably try to steal him too!'

Later, as Shinji and Mana strolled down the metal corridors of the APDF headquarters…

Shinji pointed out a large set of steel double doors. "Um, that's the cafeteria, we usually stuff our faces with bean burritos before going to our little pub to drink ourselves senseless."

Mana nearly screamed. "Wow, that's so interesting!"

Shinji shrugged. "Don't know about that."

Ensign Kirishima giggled. "Say, don't you think that Asuka girl is dangerous? It took five guards to haul her to the brig."

Lieutenant Ikari nodded in agreement. "Yeah, she's something all right."

"Shinji…?"

"Y-yes?"

"You're really cute, you know that?"

"Not really…"

"Non sense! Too bad you're not free…"

"Huh?"

Her smile betrayed her words. "It's too bad that Asuka and you are an item."

"You knew?"

"Yeah, but there's something you should be aware of…"

"What's that?"

Mana placed her left hand on Shinji's right shoulder as she leaned in to whisper, "What Asuka doesn't know, won't kill her."

He leapt back in shock after a peck on the cheek. "Isn't it a bit early for that?"

Mana, beaming with that annoyingly ever happy face, shook her head. "No, not if you believe in love at first sight."

Shinji trembled in fear. 'Oh man, what do I do? I don't want to hurt her feelings, but I don't want to betray Asuka either!'

End Chapter Three

Author's Notes

Ultima Tech: Nothing comes to mind.

King Drako Starwind: Great fan fic we wrote, huh? We worked long and hard on it; hoped you enjoyed it. If you didn't: kiss my ass. I will be writing a new Final Fantasy fan fic, hope you will read it. We will try to get chapter four to you as soon as possible, but with work and school, it could prove difficult. See you next time… -KDS