Disclaimer: I don't own Eva, Gainax and ADV do, I don't own any other
animes I just decide to throw in for a laugh. One such anime would be
RahXephon which is owned by Bones and ADV, the characters are used but
there is no major influence of the series, don't worry hardcore eva fans,
there won't be any Dolems and Angels attacking at once or anything. If
there are any characters that appear that don't seem to be from Eva or
RahXephon then I have thrown them in and they are mine, you can't have
them! (Without asking anyway) Waya and Lilith would be such characters. Now
then, on with the show.
Title : Evangelion The New Testament
Chapter Title : Bad Timing
Asuka stood behind the podium, she wasn't sure if she would be able to do this when Misato first told her to. To stand up and give a speech about the one person that everyone wanted to hear about, the boy, the one who saved them from Third Impact, from the person who knew him the best. That was what the guide said anyway, Asuka didn't know Shinji, although she knew he was kind and gentle, she didn't know him like she should of, like we wished she had. With the lights burning down on her, hundreds of people watching and millions watching the cameras, she felt like dying, perhaps a Lilim would attack. Or something along those lines, she stared out at everyone, then saw Misato and Rei smiling, Ayato was frowning.
"The boy..."
Asuka remembered that they never released Shinji's name, he was an unnamed hero that would be best.
"...the boy who you idolise, who saved us all from destruction, never asked to do it. I remember now, what it was like, he cried, he moaned but he always did what he could. He was never the best or the brightest, never the strongest or the fastest, he was just, him. I can't say his name because even now it hurts me to think it, he fought wars and battles and saved mankind, not for mankind, not for the love of the masses, just to impress a few, none of whom ever gave him the adoration they should have. I was one of them."
While Misato, Rei and all the others who knew Shinji bowed their heads and smiled, cried and laughed, in memory of him. What Asuka didn't know was that these proceedings were being broadcast live and was on every television station, radio station and Internet in the world. Which meant that as he walked Shinji could hear what was being said. Waya and Lilith were in the small apartment listening to a radio.
"He always wanted to be loved, to be given praise and to feel value. He rarely felt any of those and now we say sorry, I know I feel this and that everyone who knew him feels the same way. I owe my life to him several times over, and each and every person on the planet owes his or her lives to him. So I want him to know that he is loved, he has value, not just from us but also from the entire planet. So I just want to finish with something I probably shouldn't say but... I love you Shinji and I'm sorry."
Shinji's pace increased as he ran, although they seemed a bit off put by Asuka disclosing his first name, everyone clapped, there was also a large amount of muttering and chatting as people were asking who this Shinji was. The other speeches were made, they were okay but none of them had the same impact as Asuka's, this was evident as none of the other speeches made Ayato even twitch after his face stuck with homicidal rage after Asuka's. Misato was the last to stand and Ayato had convinced himself to talk to Asuka once this speech was done. Misato had unfortunately not prepared her speech very well and was basically copying Asuka anyway, that is except the 'I love you' part. So she stood on stage, she was used to commanding a few hundred people, not speaking to a few million. She hated the feeling, the feeling of everyone watching waiting for that one mistake. She opened her mouth when she felt something warm behind her, held in the air behind the woman was a ball of fire. At first it looked like some sort of stunt or effect, although the crowd were surprised there were no screams. Misato knew she hadn't organised it, she dived out of the way and the cameras went dead, in fact an AT Field surrounded the area and no one knew what was happening. Without knowledge, the guards at the door just did their job, let in those with invites and throw out those without.
"That was some quick moving..."
Misato looked up and a smug face looked back at her, there was some screaming in the background as a man with black leather on stood, flames all the way up his arm. He looked at the crowd and laughed a little before firing a ball of fire at a table, there was a large shake that should have had the guards running but it didn't. When Misato looked at the windows they were clouded over, the room was now outside of normal space, it was inside another AT field. After the pyrotechnics display the man walked to the front and stood behind the podium
"Is this thing on? Good, I would like to take the time to tell all of you that you are my hostages, you will be held here until I get what I want."
Misato was helped up by Hyuga, and was taken over to the techs' table, the man looked around and Asuka was the only one to stand up.
"What is it that you want?"
"Oh the red head, I like that colour..."
Asuka looked at a small tuft of hair dangling in front of her eyes and got angry that he was just chatting to her.
"Look you!"
"Fine, you really want to know? I am here because I was told to be here, I was told to take care of a problem we've been having."
"What problem?"
"Well this isn't some lovey, dovey, happy, television world where the bad guys tell the hostages their plans down to the smallest detail, I mean honestly."
"What haven't you got one?"
The glare Asuka got at that point told her not to talk anymore, it was obvious that he wasn't going to be tricked into revealing more of his plan to them. In fact it became even more obvious when he started tossing a fireball in his hand, he grinned as Asuka sat down. He started walking backwards and forwards along the stage.
"Well, I think I'll let you all talk and walk, if you must, you can't leave this room and no one from the outside can come in. So feel free to talk, I'm just going to sit at the back here."
Misato was the first to stand, she stood without fear, that is without looking scared, and walked to the back to see how Asuka was. She stood and walked, the whispers that then went unpunished was cue for the others to start chattering amongst themselves. They all surrounded the one table and started talking quietly.
"What are we going to do?"
Misato put it on the table, this table was now holding double capacity as all the NERV workers were standing with them, along with Asuka, Rei, Touji, Kensuke, Hikari and Ayato.
"I don't know, maybe the thing he is waiting for won't come."
Hikari said quite naively, she didn't really know how to cope in such situations.
"That would probably be a bad thing for us."
Misato muttered quietly, as to not offend the girl too much.
"How so?"
"Well, if he is disappointed he may just decide to torch the lot of us to prove a point."
"Very subtle Asuka."
"Why thank you!"
While they were trying to come up with better plans, they began to form small circles with people swopping trying to pull together ideas. Kensuke talked with Rei and Maya, but out of the corner of his eye he saw Touji standing on his own. Touji was flexing his hand a bit too much for Kensuke's liking, and with the look in his eyes, Kensuke knew exactly what he was thinking.
"Excuse me for a moment."
Kensuke said as nicely as he could to the two women before joining his almost life-long long friend in the corner. He looked at the boy's hand, it was still flexing, Kensuke then looked at his friend seriously.
"Don't even think about it."
"Oh, I have already thought about it enough."
"Well don't you know that he wants something that isn't in this room, the last thing we need is for you to be a hero and get hurt."
"Who says I can't take him?"
"I do."
"And so do I."
They both looked over, Hikari was standing beside the two, her eyes were full of tears, Touji knew at that moment that he couldn't even try. He looked at her and smiled, his hand dropped to his side and his glance went down to her stomach. He then hugged her tightly.
"I won't do something stupid and end this family before it even gets started."
Kensuke raises his eyebrow, spotting Hikari's hands resting on her stomach he smiles mouths 'Okay...' and tiptoed back into his conversation with Rei and Maya.
"What about switching on the sprinklers?"
"I doubt it...he has this room locked up in an AT field, nothing is passing in or out, not even quarks and neutrinos. I somehow doubt that full water molecules can pass through."
"Fair enough, but you haven't come up with much more than throwing bottles of wine on him."
"Arghhhh!"
Rei screamed as she rubbed her hands through her hair, trying to stimulate her brain into action. Misato was busy talking with Hyuga, Aoba and Haruka when she just gave up. She went and grabbed a chair, passing Touji and Hikari, she started hitting the chair against the door as hard as she could. Rei and Maya looked at each other, they were going to speak but they could both tell they were about to say the same thing, 'and the metal atoms in the chair definitely won't get through'. Misato kept on banging against the door for another minute or so before she stopped, turning to see the man's face, he was leaning back on a chair with a smirk on his face. He had some sort of novelty party hat resting over his eyes but she could tell he could just about see out of them. In a fit of anger Misato grabbed the chair and threw it at the man.
"MISATO!?"
The chair cut through the air like a knife, Misato put a lot of energy behind it, it flew over people's heads and then over the stage. As it neared the man, Misato smiled, but that quickly became a look of shock as it bounced off a more conventional looking AT field. The man remained still and managed to keep the smile as he spoke.
"You'll have to try harder than that, love."
Misato had to be held back by all the men at her table when she tried to run down to strangle the Lilim. They dragged her back to the table and realised that they couldn't think of any other way of combating an AT field. Looking at Rei, all those who hadn't heard her earlier statement of 'I'm human and can't use my AT field' were quickly told of this. They all looked between one another, Misato was the first to notice that Asuka was nowhere to be seen. She turned and saw her in the corner, sitting with her back to Ayato, Ayato was facing the wall and Asuka was looking towards the door.
"Asuka...I need to know..."
"Why?"
"Because I can't be in a loveless relationship."
"But I don't understand my feelings."
"Well you need to if you want me to stay around any more."
"Ayato..."
"You are a big girl Asuka, you need to sort your feelings out before you are left alone forever."
"Ayato...Shinji..."
Ayato gave the last comment a second, perhaps, he thought, she was balancing the two up in her head and once she realised that he would always be there to protect her, then maybe she would pick him. In fact while thinking about it he thought he should remind her off this point.
"Remember Asuka, I will always protect you, but I can't do that from far away and I'm not willing to stay by you if you have no feelings for me."
"Protect..."
"Are you listening?"
"Protect..."
"Asuka!?"
"To protect what you care about..."
No sooner had the words left Asuka's mouth did the Lilim's head tilt slightly, because at that moment, Asuka saw a white blade cut around the frame of the door. Her eyes widened and her smile copied, especially when the door blasted open and a tall man in a long coat stepped forward.
"Protect...those you love..."
Asuka suddenly pictured all the people in Shinji's life including the two children.
"Shinji...will protect all of us."
Author's note – How do you like it, I'm trying to keep up the writing but it's getting harder. I find I like writing the beginning and the end but the middle is hard to do. I would like to thank all those who read these because I really couldn't find the patience to write the boring middle bit without you.
Title : Evangelion The New Testament
Chapter Title : Bad Timing
Asuka stood behind the podium, she wasn't sure if she would be able to do this when Misato first told her to. To stand up and give a speech about the one person that everyone wanted to hear about, the boy, the one who saved them from Third Impact, from the person who knew him the best. That was what the guide said anyway, Asuka didn't know Shinji, although she knew he was kind and gentle, she didn't know him like she should of, like we wished she had. With the lights burning down on her, hundreds of people watching and millions watching the cameras, she felt like dying, perhaps a Lilim would attack. Or something along those lines, she stared out at everyone, then saw Misato and Rei smiling, Ayato was frowning.
"The boy..."
Asuka remembered that they never released Shinji's name, he was an unnamed hero that would be best.
"...the boy who you idolise, who saved us all from destruction, never asked to do it. I remember now, what it was like, he cried, he moaned but he always did what he could. He was never the best or the brightest, never the strongest or the fastest, he was just, him. I can't say his name because even now it hurts me to think it, he fought wars and battles and saved mankind, not for mankind, not for the love of the masses, just to impress a few, none of whom ever gave him the adoration they should have. I was one of them."
While Misato, Rei and all the others who knew Shinji bowed their heads and smiled, cried and laughed, in memory of him. What Asuka didn't know was that these proceedings were being broadcast live and was on every television station, radio station and Internet in the world. Which meant that as he walked Shinji could hear what was being said. Waya and Lilith were in the small apartment listening to a radio.
"He always wanted to be loved, to be given praise and to feel value. He rarely felt any of those and now we say sorry, I know I feel this and that everyone who knew him feels the same way. I owe my life to him several times over, and each and every person on the planet owes his or her lives to him. So I want him to know that he is loved, he has value, not just from us but also from the entire planet. So I just want to finish with something I probably shouldn't say but... I love you Shinji and I'm sorry."
Shinji's pace increased as he ran, although they seemed a bit off put by Asuka disclosing his first name, everyone clapped, there was also a large amount of muttering and chatting as people were asking who this Shinji was. The other speeches were made, they were okay but none of them had the same impact as Asuka's, this was evident as none of the other speeches made Ayato even twitch after his face stuck with homicidal rage after Asuka's. Misato was the last to stand and Ayato had convinced himself to talk to Asuka once this speech was done. Misato had unfortunately not prepared her speech very well and was basically copying Asuka anyway, that is except the 'I love you' part. So she stood on stage, she was used to commanding a few hundred people, not speaking to a few million. She hated the feeling, the feeling of everyone watching waiting for that one mistake. She opened her mouth when she felt something warm behind her, held in the air behind the woman was a ball of fire. At first it looked like some sort of stunt or effect, although the crowd were surprised there were no screams. Misato knew she hadn't organised it, she dived out of the way and the cameras went dead, in fact an AT Field surrounded the area and no one knew what was happening. Without knowledge, the guards at the door just did their job, let in those with invites and throw out those without.
"That was some quick moving..."
Misato looked up and a smug face looked back at her, there was some screaming in the background as a man with black leather on stood, flames all the way up his arm. He looked at the crowd and laughed a little before firing a ball of fire at a table, there was a large shake that should have had the guards running but it didn't. When Misato looked at the windows they were clouded over, the room was now outside of normal space, it was inside another AT field. After the pyrotechnics display the man walked to the front and stood behind the podium
"Is this thing on? Good, I would like to take the time to tell all of you that you are my hostages, you will be held here until I get what I want."
Misato was helped up by Hyuga, and was taken over to the techs' table, the man looked around and Asuka was the only one to stand up.
"What is it that you want?"
"Oh the red head, I like that colour..."
Asuka looked at a small tuft of hair dangling in front of her eyes and got angry that he was just chatting to her.
"Look you!"
"Fine, you really want to know? I am here because I was told to be here, I was told to take care of a problem we've been having."
"What problem?"
"Well this isn't some lovey, dovey, happy, television world where the bad guys tell the hostages their plans down to the smallest detail, I mean honestly."
"What haven't you got one?"
The glare Asuka got at that point told her not to talk anymore, it was obvious that he wasn't going to be tricked into revealing more of his plan to them. In fact it became even more obvious when he started tossing a fireball in his hand, he grinned as Asuka sat down. He started walking backwards and forwards along the stage.
"Well, I think I'll let you all talk and walk, if you must, you can't leave this room and no one from the outside can come in. So feel free to talk, I'm just going to sit at the back here."
Misato was the first to stand, she stood without fear, that is without looking scared, and walked to the back to see how Asuka was. She stood and walked, the whispers that then went unpunished was cue for the others to start chattering amongst themselves. They all surrounded the one table and started talking quietly.
"What are we going to do?"
Misato put it on the table, this table was now holding double capacity as all the NERV workers were standing with them, along with Asuka, Rei, Touji, Kensuke, Hikari and Ayato.
"I don't know, maybe the thing he is waiting for won't come."
Hikari said quite naively, she didn't really know how to cope in such situations.
"That would probably be a bad thing for us."
Misato muttered quietly, as to not offend the girl too much.
"How so?"
"Well, if he is disappointed he may just decide to torch the lot of us to prove a point."
"Very subtle Asuka."
"Why thank you!"
While they were trying to come up with better plans, they began to form small circles with people swopping trying to pull together ideas. Kensuke talked with Rei and Maya, but out of the corner of his eye he saw Touji standing on his own. Touji was flexing his hand a bit too much for Kensuke's liking, and with the look in his eyes, Kensuke knew exactly what he was thinking.
"Excuse me for a moment."
Kensuke said as nicely as he could to the two women before joining his almost life-long long friend in the corner. He looked at the boy's hand, it was still flexing, Kensuke then looked at his friend seriously.
"Don't even think about it."
"Oh, I have already thought about it enough."
"Well don't you know that he wants something that isn't in this room, the last thing we need is for you to be a hero and get hurt."
"Who says I can't take him?"
"I do."
"And so do I."
They both looked over, Hikari was standing beside the two, her eyes were full of tears, Touji knew at that moment that he couldn't even try. He looked at her and smiled, his hand dropped to his side and his glance went down to her stomach. He then hugged her tightly.
"I won't do something stupid and end this family before it even gets started."
Kensuke raises his eyebrow, spotting Hikari's hands resting on her stomach he smiles mouths 'Okay...' and tiptoed back into his conversation with Rei and Maya.
"What about switching on the sprinklers?"
"I doubt it...he has this room locked up in an AT field, nothing is passing in or out, not even quarks and neutrinos. I somehow doubt that full water molecules can pass through."
"Fair enough, but you haven't come up with much more than throwing bottles of wine on him."
"Arghhhh!"
Rei screamed as she rubbed her hands through her hair, trying to stimulate her brain into action. Misato was busy talking with Hyuga, Aoba and Haruka when she just gave up. She went and grabbed a chair, passing Touji and Hikari, she started hitting the chair against the door as hard as she could. Rei and Maya looked at each other, they were going to speak but they could both tell they were about to say the same thing, 'and the metal atoms in the chair definitely won't get through'. Misato kept on banging against the door for another minute or so before she stopped, turning to see the man's face, he was leaning back on a chair with a smirk on his face. He had some sort of novelty party hat resting over his eyes but she could tell he could just about see out of them. In a fit of anger Misato grabbed the chair and threw it at the man.
"MISATO!?"
The chair cut through the air like a knife, Misato put a lot of energy behind it, it flew over people's heads and then over the stage. As it neared the man, Misato smiled, but that quickly became a look of shock as it bounced off a more conventional looking AT field. The man remained still and managed to keep the smile as he spoke.
"You'll have to try harder than that, love."
Misato had to be held back by all the men at her table when she tried to run down to strangle the Lilim. They dragged her back to the table and realised that they couldn't think of any other way of combating an AT field. Looking at Rei, all those who hadn't heard her earlier statement of 'I'm human and can't use my AT field' were quickly told of this. They all looked between one another, Misato was the first to notice that Asuka was nowhere to be seen. She turned and saw her in the corner, sitting with her back to Ayato, Ayato was facing the wall and Asuka was looking towards the door.
"Asuka...I need to know..."
"Why?"
"Because I can't be in a loveless relationship."
"But I don't understand my feelings."
"Well you need to if you want me to stay around any more."
"Ayato..."
"You are a big girl Asuka, you need to sort your feelings out before you are left alone forever."
"Ayato...Shinji..."
Ayato gave the last comment a second, perhaps, he thought, she was balancing the two up in her head and once she realised that he would always be there to protect her, then maybe she would pick him. In fact while thinking about it he thought he should remind her off this point.
"Remember Asuka, I will always protect you, but I can't do that from far away and I'm not willing to stay by you if you have no feelings for me."
"Protect..."
"Are you listening?"
"Protect..."
"Asuka!?"
"To protect what you care about..."
No sooner had the words left Asuka's mouth did the Lilim's head tilt slightly, because at that moment, Asuka saw a white blade cut around the frame of the door. Her eyes widened and her smile copied, especially when the door blasted open and a tall man in a long coat stepped forward.
"Protect...those you love..."
Asuka suddenly pictured all the people in Shinji's life including the two children.
"Shinji...will protect all of us."
Author's note – How do you like it, I'm trying to keep up the writing but it's getting harder. I find I like writing the beginning and the end but the middle is hard to do. I would like to thank all those who read these because I really couldn't find the patience to write the boring middle bit without you.
