Other side chapter 6: A Mans Job/Nothing
A/N:
Whats up ppl. Seems people really enjoy the fic so far, you sick freaks! I'm back too my old self now after crying about how bad chapter five was, but hey its over now. I'll try and fix the damage in this chapter, but I'm sure it won't help. Oh and too who ever Non-Slash is please go and shove your own head up you ass for being such a dick. You suck the hairy horse cock and beg for more, and you smear peanut butter on your balls to let stray French people lick it off (note: I am not a sexist, if you are indeed a women I'm sure you do the same thing with your tits.) I'm sorry but I hate morons who put shit on people's stories for no good reason and I quote 'LOL, THIS IS COMPLETE BULLSHIT.' end quote.
So there we have it, a moron (or bitch as I said before) who can't think up a good reason too bag my story other then LOL. Whoever you are, I'm sure you and your bong will be very happy together spending all day every day together in front of the T.V. Jerking off to re-runs of old Charlie's angel's programs while eating dog food, which is all you can afford cause you are on the dole and can't get a job. You are the type of person who's only come backs to these two paragraphs will involve me being homosexual ('shut up you fag' is not an insult, just your vague attempt at wit). You will most likely include words in said retort such as 'woot'; 'noob', L337, 'P00NZ3D' and vague references too counter strike. Get a girlfriend (or boyfriend) and move on.
(Takes deep breath)
Anyway, enjoy the fic.
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Shinji was bored out of his mind.
How the sensei could talk about the second impact for so long amazed the young boy. He prattled on and on, totally oblivious to the lack of attention from his students and their light snores, never even looking at them from his view from the window. In fact if you listened to him for more the ten minets, you would realize that he was simply going in circles, telling the same old stories over and over again. Of course this was almost humanly possible, with only Hikari able to stand more then five minets of the seemingly endless drone.
The classroom was your normal school build, and its set up was the same as the rest of the many classes. Rows of desks, each one occupied by a daydreaming or lightly dozing student, faced the black board where the sensei continued his 'lecture'.
Windows lined the walls, giving light too the room. Shinji circled the room with his eyes, his attention nowhere near the board.
Rei was two rows in front of him, looking out the window in her usual emotionless stature. Rei had not spoken to Shinji these past few days', something that puzzled him greatly. He really thought that she was interested in him. But why would she be, he was just poor pitiful Shinji, a loser, an outcast...
'Snap outta it Shinji' he told himself, his newfound confidence coming back too him. He wrenched his eyes away from the blue haired girl and focused on the rest of his friends.
To his right Billy was sleeping, not too subtly either. He was leaning back on his chair with his legs sprawled across his desk. His arms hung limp, and his head hung limply over the back of his chair. He snored quite loudly, and was attracting a few glances from other students. Toji was lightly snoring in the next desk; his head slumped against the wood.
Kensuke was next to Shinji on the left, but was too wrapped up in his computer. His hands where moving across the keyboard, as though he was playing it like an instrument. He had a grin on his face and his eyes where fixated on the flashing screen. 'Computer games' sighed Shinji inwardly as Kensuke leaned forward, his nose almost touching the monitor.
As he was seated in the back row, all he could see was the back of Asuka's head in the left corner, she too slumping against the desk, looking at the wall in a silent dream. Shinji felt his inner anger begin to boil, and he gritted his teeth. Fucking bitch! All she cared about was him cooking and cleaning; nothing meant a thing to her. Self centred little cow!
A part of him said he shouldn't think such thoughts, and even his angry heart played a few strings of lost love, and that made him even madder. She just didn't care, and he doubted she ever would.
He clamed himself, taking a few deep breaths. He was ok now; he was outta that place, for good. As much as he cared for Misato, and how much he cared for Asuka as much of a bitch she was, he couldn't live their any more. He had made the right choice to move in with Billy.
Then why did he feel so guilty, why did his soul trouble him so at night when he tried to sleep. He hadn't left them; they had driven him out. Or had they? Was he at fault here? Who was to tell?
Struggling, his mind came too the only conclusion it could.
'I need a smoke' he said in his head, and he too slumped back.
Why me?
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Shinji ate his lunch as Billy told some outrageous story about him, a French village girl and a barn. Toji and Kensuke where laughing with him, holding their sides as the story unfolded. Shinji was even smiling, eating his sandwich slowly one bite at a time.
"And then!" said Billy between chuckles "He walks in and just yells "what are you doing to my daughter!"
He stopped short as he laughed again.
"And I just turn at him, still going at it, and say calm as ever "Daughter! She said she was your wife!"
Kenuske hit the ground he was laughing so hard, and Toji leaned back as his face went bright red.
"And then he picks up this rake and starts chasing me, and accidentally wallops her over the head! So now he's chasing me with this rake, but still he has to drag her with her cause she's all fucked up. And outta the blue my mate Chris comes in the barn and just says."
He stopped cause his laughter came over him. Billy had a great roar of a laugh, one that was happy, but at times tiptoed on the edges of insanity.
"He says," he paused here for dramatic effect "Billy I told you, you're a young man just don't do it!"
Toji collapsed on the floor too, tears streaming down his face. Shinji even started laughing, even though he didn't believe half of the story.
Their fun though was cut short as a shadow of death loomed over them.
Shinji looked up and saw Asuka glaring down at him, definitely ticked off.
"Where's my lunch" she said to him, her voice white but ready to burst into a blind rage.
Shinji looked at her blankly "what?"
Asuka leaned up real close, too close for Shinji's liking.
"I said where's my lunch?" she said, still in that same deadly voice, her eyes smouldering like a fire ready to ignite.
"You can't be serious," replied Shinji slowly towards her, his anger at even seeing her enough to stop him backing down.
"So you don't have it?" she said still very calm, almost too calm for Shinji's liking.
"Of course I don't you crazy bitch!" he spat back and returned to his lunch. There was a hushed silence as his three friends looked at him in shock. No one had expected a reaction like that, especially from Shinji.
For Asuka, it was the match to her gas leak.
"WHAT DID YOU CALL ME!" she screamed at him, so suddenly that he nearly jumped out of his desk. Billy stopped smiling, one of the few times he did, and Kensuke and Toji seemed too go numb with shock.
Shinji looked back at her, his eyes brimming with barely constrained fury.
"I called you a crazy bitch, now go away!" he growled between gritted teeth.
Asuka reeled back a little, her face the living embodiment of terror. Shinji did not back down, or cringe or apologise. He was too angry for that, in fact all he felt was a need to strike out at her, to hurt her, really hurt her. Then maybe she would leave him alone for good.
Before he had time to even think this theory through...........
SLAP
Shinji came off the chair, and felt shocking pain in his left cheek. It burned, burned like a red-hot fire had just been lit in his mouth. He tasted blood and his rage overcame him.
"YOU FUCKING SLUT!" he screamed back at her. Toji and Kensuke nearly passed out, Shinji yelling? This was unheard of. Billy simply watched.
Asuka looked down at the boy with hatred, fucking asshole. All he ever thought about was him self, selfish little bastard. Now he thought he could just up and leave. She would show him, she would show him all right. He was hers, not any one----
WHOMP
Asuka doubled over, the wind knocked out of her by a terrific force. Shinji had gotten up and delivered an uppercut to her stomach in one fluid movement. She staggered back, her mind not really registering what had just happened.
Had Shinji really hit her? Was he that far gone from her? Would she ever see the old Shinji again? She felt her breath returning and looked up. Shinji was standing over her, his eyes flashing with malice. She straightened up a little and looked him directly in his eyes.
"Bastard..........." she spat out, turned, and ran.
Shinji followed her progress across the yard, trying not to meet the stares of idle passers by. He sat down with his friends, and took a bite of his sandwich. Pain flared in his cheek and he grabbed it involuntarily. Crazy bitch.
Suddenly Billy reached over the table and grabbed him by the collar. It happened so fast that Shinji never saw it coming. He felt his head being slammed into the table, and coupled with his tender cheek and Billy's massive strength he almost yelped.
Billy let him go and looked at him in the eye, his smile still gone from his face.
"That's for hitting a girl!" he said, his voice calm but eyes flashing, "and now your going to go apologise."
Shinji looked at him in surprise.
"Huh?" he said to his friend.
"Go and apologise," said Billy, deadly serious for once "and mean it!"
Shinji was about to argue, but the way that Billy was looking at him almost made him crawl on the floor in terror. He thought that any sudden movements might trigger Billy's short and fearsome temper.
"Fine" he said with contempt and got up. He walked towards the school, which was the direction Asuka had run off too. All the while he could feel Billy's eyes digging into him, as though they where daring him to turn around and face his wrath.
Shinji kept his head low, and just kept walking.
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It took Shinji half an hour to find Asuka on the school roof. His cheek was starting to swell and even the lightest touch could trigger off a miasma of pain. Asuka was looking over at the horizon, sitting down with her legs pulled up too her face.
The roof was basic enough, just a large square cement space with two or three lonely ventilation ducts sticking out. A few aerials where also poking into eh sky and cables ran down from telephone poles, directly into the one fuse box up here.
Shinji looked at Asuka for a while, in silent anger. He couldn't believe he was here, and was about to leave when a little voice reminded him of a 6 ft 5 Irishman waiting for him.
He lit a cigarette; the teachers wouldn't see him up here, and let the toxic fumes fill his body. He sighed inwardly, yeah that was relaxing. He only had to take a few steps towards Asuka before her voice rang out voice rang out.
"Go away Hikari!" she said with venom and Shinji paused.
"It's not Hikari," he said, wondering how she would react to him "and I'm here to apologise."
Asuka laughed, a soft and mocking laugh that made him even madder.
"Oh," she said in between laughs "the great and powerful Shinji is going to apologise too the crazy bitch! Well what fun that should be! Do you want me to start grovelling about how I'm not worthy?"
Shinji could have hit her again, arrogant little cow.
"No I don't, I don't expect you too say anything. I just came her to say- -"
"You're sorry?" said Asuka, finishing his sentence.
Shinji started to say something, but stopped. How could he talk to some one like this?
"You know," said Asuka, still sitting down on the cement rooftop "when you were away the first night I thought you where an asshole, and I still do, but back then I REALLY hated you. As soon as that boy shows up you gallivant off with him as though life with me was so bad you couldn't take it. It's sad you know, running away from your problems like that."
Shinji was really mad now.
"Don't drag Billy into this!" he said, a bit louder then he intended.
"Of course not," said Asuka, still in that mocking tone "we wouldn't want to bring that asshole into his own doings would we?"
"I made this choice!" said Shinji with all the fury he could muster.
"Whatever- -"said Asuka, and she got up and turned towards him. She had been crying.........
"But can I ask one thing?" she said, and the mocking voice was gone. Now all Shinji saw was a girl who looked as though she had lost the dearest thing in the world to her.
"Just for one second, can you be the Shinji that I knew?" Shinji looked at her with a dumbfounded expression, was this really Asuka?
"Please," she asked again, moving closer with every step "just one more time, can I see my Shinji again?"
Shinji looked at her for a while, summing it up. It was time to break all ties now, this was the do or die moment. He had left Misato, and this was the last step.
He took a long drag of his cigarette, and held the smoke in his throat for a while. He made his choice.
He blew the smoke into Asuka's face.
"No."
Asuka looked at him with eyes that would haunt him for nights to come. He almost cringed though, when they turned to anger.
"Asshole!"
She pushed him over in a strong shove, and left down the stairs. Shinji felt a sharp pain in his backside, but nothing too serious. He was thankful in a way; he could have taken a much worse beating then that. Then her eyes flashed into his mind once more. They had looked almost.........pleading.
'I'm such a coward........." he told himself. It was a while before he came back down.
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FOUR DAYS LATER
A shadow stretched appeared on the pavement. It wasn't very big, just a perfectly shaped circles resting next to a car. You wouldn't notice it really; it would just appear to be the shadow of some over hanging street lamp. But if you looked for said street lamp, above the afore mentioned shadow, you would find nothing. Peculiar? Yes, but it could only get worse.
The shadow expanded, slowly at first, but picking up speed fast. Soon it stretched the street, then the block, then four blocks. When it reached six blocks of size, it stopped, the dark blanket resting firmly on the pavement. If you did not look up, you would think that it was merely a thick, slow moving cloud.
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Shinji and Billy where getting changed into their plug suits, the bright florescent glow of the change room lights hot on their backs. Seeing as the over sized square room was empty save for its two occupants, who where both silent, the gentle humming of the lights filled the room.
"Hey Shinji," said Billy, almost seriously "I'll cut you a deal."
Shinji pressed the button on the suits arm and felt it tighten around his body. He smiled and turned to his friend.
"Sure, what you got in mind?"
With a slight whoosh Billy's green and white suit hugged around his body and he leant over too his bag. He rummaged around in it and produced two cigarettes.
"Victory smokes," he replied, "we both have these when both of us are safe back home?"
Shinji looked at the cigarettes in Billy's hand
"Why not" he stated with a little bit of a smile.
Billy grinned even wider, and placed the cigarettes on the bench. He then turned towards the door and Shinji followed up beside him.
"You ready for this?" he asked Shinji half seriously.
"Hey," said Shinji with a slight smile "you're the rookie here."
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Chaos had erupted in the Bridge, men and women scurrying too and fro from their posts, trying to figure out exactly what was going on. On the central platform, raised a fair distance about the other two decks, stood the main control group. Ritsuko busily tapped something across her keyboard, furrowing her brow now and again. Her three subordinates where working hard too. Hyuga was furiously typing away at something or other while Maya tapped away at a touch screen.
"Its what?" said a confused Major Katsuragi, not quite understanding what the bridge bunny had said as she leant over his workstation.
"Pattern Orange, no A.T. field detected" repeated Shigeru "The Magi are withholding information until more data is collected."
"A new type of Angel..." said Misato under her breath; this is just what they needed, especially with the commander away. He and the sub-commander always seem to disappear at the most inopportune times, leaving her to handle the whole show.
"Sir, the pilots are waiting in their Eva's for your orders" rang the voice of Maya over the loud speakers. The four young faces flashed up across the view screen. Rei looked like her normal self, unfazed and emotionless, her hair floating softly in the LCL. Asuka looked angry, but that was normal considering her persona, but Misato suspected recent events would have made her demeanour even sourer. Shinji looked quite serious, but a small smile was still etched across his face. Billy looked about as serious as a person does when they go out too a nightclub, his face plastered all over with that same annoying smile.
"Ok guys" said Misato "I want you to just sit back in military three point position, Billy I want you covering the north side while we set up the Eva's in a southern most position. We don't know much about this one, so don't attack until you get the order."
There was a collective nod from the children, and for a second even Billy seemed to be taking this seriously.
"Ok now, Asuka your on point, Rei and Shinji........."
"Not too sound rude or anything Major but don't you think Shinji should take point, as the second highest scoring pilot?"
Misato clenched her teeth "Pilot O'Neil..." she began but Asuka cut her off.
"I think that too, or is the big brave Shinji too scared to take up the challenge?"
What happened next no one expected.
"Ok fine I will!" snapped Shinji "In fact, I'll show you how it's done you bitch!"
This took Misato back a little, where the hell did that come from?
"Hey don't worry ladies" joked Billy "Me and Shinji here are the ultimate bad-asses, we got all the bad-ass equipment right here, we'll be sure to protect you guys with all our bad-ass shit!"
"Yeah, anyway, isn't Combat a mans job, ill take point!" Said Shinji laughing slightly. He and Billy switched off their comm links and their faces disappeared in a flash.
"Little pig! Ugh, Unit-02 will back him up!" Asuka's voice sounded pissed, but she logged off all the same.
"Unit-00 will follow" said Rei quietly and she too signed out.
Misato gritted her teeth and put her hand in her forehead "fucking kids!"
Ritsuko simply smiled "Shinji's hormones have started to kick in?"
"He's gonna get a talking too when he gets back!"
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Shinji watched the giant black and white orb with tension building inside his trigger finger at an enormous rate. He could see Billy standing on top of one the buildings across the city; a rifle firmly gripped in the giant machines hands.
"You there yet?" he asked over the comm link.
"You know an Eva can't move that fast you dolt!" snapped Asuka back at him.
"Negative Pilot Ikari" came Rei's quite reply.
He could feel the pistol in the Eva's hand, he could feel the shadow of weight and pressure as its finger tightened around the trigger. He looked at the weapon, all it would need was a quick spin and.........
Shinji looked up back at the angel as it silently hovered above him. Even though it was in fact hundreds of feet in the air, from Shinji's point of view he could have reached out and grabbed it.
"Hey Billy" he raised over the comm link "you think we could take this thing down ourselves?"
Billy chuckled back at him "once again, man is left waiting for the women kind to get it together." He paused, and stroked the slight stubble underneath his chin.
"Yeah I reckon we could."
"Now wait just a mome........" Misato began but her words went unheeded.
'I'll take it myself then," Shinji thought to himself.
Eva-01 spun around the corner and raised its pistol, from this range Shinji didn't even need to aim.
He let off three consecutive shots, each one leaving the barrel with an earth-shattering crack. It felt extremely satisfying in the young Pilots hand.
The angel would have left quite a corpse, had it not disappeared.
Asuka was mid way through installing a new umbilical cable when all hell broke loose.
First she heard the collective gasp from the bridge crew and Shinji, then she heard something that put the fear of god in her heart.
"New A.T. field detected, blood pattern blue, its right under Eva-01!!!!" some one shouted frantically, she would later find out it was Hyuga, just as surprised as she was.
Chaos broke over the comm link and Misato began franticly shouting orders. She heard Shinji's sidearm firing wildly. Frantically she finished attaching the cord and began a full sprint through the city streets.
"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS!" she heard Shinji scream, still letting of blast after blast into an enemy she knew not of.
"Move it you idiot! " she screamed into the chatter, it was the only thing she could think of too say.
"MISATO!" Shinji screamed "HELP ME, DO SOMETHING! THIS CANT BE HAPPENING, MISATO!!!!!!!"
His voice was reaching an almost high-pitched squeal, and Asuka could no longer hear his pistol.
"FUCK!" she heard Billy say, what the hell happened to him?
"MISATO!!!!! HELPsssshhhhhhhhhhqqqrrrkkk" Shinji's voice turned to static. It sounded more chilling then if he had started screaming in agony.
"Shinji!" Misato yelled frantically over the comm "Rei! Asuka you've got to- Eva-06 what the hell are you doing!"
Asuka almost panicked for a second, knowing Billy it would probably get them all killed!
Billy saw the whole thing happening before him, Shinji screaming as his unit became, well, ABSORBED by the angels shadow, Misato screaming orders in everyone's ears, Rei and Asuka frantically trying to get there in time. He knew they wouldn't make it, it was up to him now.
He raised the rifle, took aim, and pulled the trigger.
It jammed.
He cursed out loud, and hastily tried to fix the damned machine. But he knew he didn't have time, and Shinji's head started to disappear into the almost endless blackness that surrounded it.
He engaged his wings, and started smiling. If Misato had taken even a bit of time to know Billy, she would have known that this type of smile was reserved for two things. He smiled like that when people where going to get hurt, or when he was about to do something suicidal.
This time it was the latter.
He leapt into the air, the controlled A.T. field that formed his Eva's wings catapulting him miles into the sky. He looked down, and started a speedy downward nosedive.
Right into the Shadow.
"What the hell are you doing!" Misato screamed at him.
"Getting Shinji back" he replied and switched off the comm link.
He was almost there, and he braced himself for an impact, if there was one. But suddenly his view went black, and he could feel himself falling at a random pace, most likely the Eva had gone slightly loose and was now spinning in all directions. He felt a jerk in front of him, and then a tremendous impact as he hit something, passed through it, then hit the concrete.
He swore once again, this time in Gaelic, and it was a good thing, as most people would be highly offended as to what he had to say.
Misato breathed a slight sigh of relief, while the battle was far from over, the last thing they needed was another Eva lost. It had been Hyuga who had blown off the chest armour, pushing the Eva ever so slightly in its descent, throwing it through a skyscraper and into the street. She was angrier with him then ever before, she had seen crazy stunts in her life, mainly by her on the freeway, but that one was just way to psychotic to imagine.
She had bigger problems though as Rei fired on the target, once again hitting nothing but air.
"Asuka watch out!" she yelled as the same reading as before flashed on the screen.
"The Shadow!" gasped Asuka, and she leapt onto the side of a building. But that was being slowly pulled in as well. She grunted as she used her hand axe and prog knife to dig into eh side of the building, hoisting her self up while using them as footholds.
Misato heard Asuka's words, and she knew that it was going to be a bad day.
"The whole city is sinking!"
"All Eva units," began Misato "I want you to retreat."
"WHAT!" screamed Asuka "But............"
"But pilot Ikari is still inside the angel!" said Rei, her voice sounded almost worried as well.
"Pull out" said Misato between clenched teeth, her voice filled with restrained rage and sorrow "that's an order!"
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The actual retreat was quite a feat in itself, with Asuka having to perform a wonder in hopscotch technique, and Billy having to be dragged by his cable to the edge of the city. They could have reactivated him, but Misato gave direct orders not too. It was too risky to have him try another suicidal leap, and his cable started well outside the city limits.
Meanwhile though, Eva-01's umbilical cable was pulled deeper and deeper into the abyss.
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Ritsuko stood in front of the assembled crowd, a white board of complex mathematics behind her. The 'crowd' didn't really deserve a name that implied such largeness, it was more like a group huddle. Asuka and Rei stood at the back, Asuka with her arms crossed and her head cast to one side. Rei seemed to be paying attention but you could never be sure with her. Billy was at the front to the right, his back relaxed against a chair. For some one who had just attempted to dive into the unknown factors of a parallel universe, he was quite relaxed. Misato stood near the middle, her arms crossed as well, with a look of almost frustration on her face. The rest of the 'crowd' where the technicians and bridge crew she deemed necessary to be here
She sighed and started her brief.
"The 'shadow' is in fact our real enemy here, our scans show that it has an inverse A.T. field, which works opposite to conventional physics. This is why we see the angels true shadow, the orb you all viewed in the sky. What the angel is composed of can only be explained in abstract mathematics, a shadow that has a thickness of only a few nanometres, but its theory states it as the Sea of Dirac. We have no idea what is inside this 3 nanometre plane, but it could be a whole other universe."
Every nodded their heads, even though no one really understood a word she just said.
"In basic terms," Ritsuko continued "this means that any attack on the angel itself is effectively useless, as anything that comes into contact will just be absorbed."
There was a murmur from the audience, and Ritsuko simply looked at all of them. She had no real answers at this point.
"So how to you plan we kill this thing then, good doctor," said Billy "or do we just wait until it decides to throw Shinji up?"
Ritsuko looked at him, then bowed her head a little.
"At this point, we just don't know."
"And you where the fastest sperm?" said Billy gruffly, his smile now most definitely gone. He'd heard enough of this scientist's theory.
"I say you strap a cable round my Eva and let me dive in there like I wanted too. If you had just let me do it the first time you wouldn't have this many problems. I would have just dragged Shinji out, then hopped back in and finished whatever's inside that thing."
Misato thought it was time to interrupt this child.
"Your actions where completely reckless sixth child," she snapped "you where lucky we stopped you before you got yourself killed."
Billy chuckled a little then returned to his serious state of mind. He rose from his seat and began a slow walk backwards.
"Well I hope you guys have fun theorizing about what this thing is, hope there's a breakthrough REAL soon," he smirked "but I think I'll just leave and kill it now before it decides to absorb everything else!"
He turned to leave, but the three section-2 agents that had been hanging around behind the group stopped him. They didn't actually touch him, but they stood in front of him in a very intimidating way. One circled behind him, forming known in military terms as the 'triangle of capture', meant to intimidate you with the feeling of being surrounded and the fact you are out numbered three to one.
Billy wasn't one to be intimidated though, and gave the two in front of him a sneer. He ignored the one behind him.
Misato walked over to him, she looked dead serious. This was Misato in 'major' mode, and she didn't have the job for looking pretty either.
"Pilot O'Neil, you're actions against my orders where reckless and a danger not only to yourself but the mission and well being of your fellow pilots. You are here by put on permanent long-term leave until stated otherwise. The paper work has already been signed by me and the Operations director in England, he wasn't too happy with that little trick you pulled with the countries most valuable asset"
Billy let out an almost animalistic growl in her direction, but Misato stood her ground. It was hard though, she had read his file and knew what he was capable of.
"I will warn you Pilot, that if you do not co-operate with this order, you will be physically removed from head-quarters."
Billy felt the agent behind him put his hand on his shoulder. He smiled that smile again.......
He spun around, and his head connected with the agent's nose, breaking it instantly. The agent fell back, clutching his face, while his two companions moved forward drawing their pistols as they did so.
Billy was too fast for that though, and fell upon them with a series of devastating kicks and punches to the head and ribs. One fell instantly after an especially hard roundhouse punch, while the other doubled over in pain from an uppercut, only to receive a knee in the head that knocked him out cold.
Billy dodged a punch from the agent with the broken nose and delivered a side rip into his torso, winding him. A kick in the face and the guard fell on the ground beside his partners, blood still oozing from his nostrils.
That was when Billy felt the cold hard press of steel into the back of his head. 'damn' he though 'I'm getting rusty.'
Misato pulled the hammer back with a click, she had had enough of this.
"Pilot," she said "make the choice now, you leave here alive, or dead!"
Billy laughed, he laughed very loud.
"Nice work officer!" he hooted "Ya got me, now you can cuff me and take me away."
Misato did exactly that, cuffing the boy's hands behind his back, and four more agents took their comrades places. Two grabbed Billy roughly, but let go after he gave them that same scary grin as he gave the last guard that man handled him. The other two picked up their fallen companions, and helped them limp off.
Misato lowered her pistol, and turned the safety back on.
"Put him in the lock up over night!" she barked at the retreating figures, and they all replied positively, those that could speak that is.
"The rest of you can leave," she said turning to the stunned audience "I'm sorry you all had to see that, I had hoped that he would co-operate."
Every one started to dissipate, even Rei and Asuka left without much of a word. There was an ever-present murmur in the air over what had just happened.
"Did you see him move! It was like lightning or something, just too fast to follow!" said Hyuga, sounding shocked and even slightly impressed
"All I know is I'm glad he's on our side" replied Makoto, looking up at the roof as he did so.
Misato turned on her own, and walked away. Yeah she had hoped he wouldn't fight them back, but she knew he would anyway. She sighed in her head, she had more important things to worry about.
Like Shinji.
Ritsuko stood alone, looking at the bloodstains on the floor. She had just witnessed a 14 year old boy single handily beat, no, ANNHILATE three fully grown men who had high level combat training. Something here wasn't adding up.
"Dammit it Gendou," she hissed under her breath "what are you up too this time!"
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Billy was led into his cell, steel, four-walled room with no furniture save an iron bench. 'Like grandad said,' he thought 'Japanese don't like their prisoners.' He turned and looked at his escort. The man was as tall as he was, which was huge, and even a little broader. His face was cut sharply, and his hair was blonde and slicked back. He looked at Billy with a face that tried to show pure unemotional professionalism, but Billy could almost feel a slight air of contempt and hostility that the other agents did not seem to have. He could not see the mans eyes under his glasses, but he knew he was staring at him.
They stood like that for a while, trying to beat down each others will. Billy saw his opponent twitch his eyebrow, and knew he was winning.
"Why don't you leave secret agent man," said Billy, smiling his most deadly smile yet "before I repeat what happened five minets ago."
The agent smiled, and jutted forward slightly. He had expected Billy too flinch, but just found his face closer to the boys.
"I'd like to see you try" he said quietly, his voice betraying no emotion what so ever. But Billy could feel his anger about his smart-ass comment. Good.
"I'm shaking," said Billy "run along and play."
The agent twitched again, his façade of indifference cracking slightly.
"Hey Simmons, get outta there!" he heard some one bark.
The agent looked Billy up and down, and then turned to leave. But just as he went through the door, he stopped and turned back.
"I'll be seeing you soon punk," he growled, and Billy felt victory yet again.
The door slammed shut, leaving Billy alone in the darkness. He slumped against the wall and lit a cigarette.
"Cant wait........" he said with a laugh.
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Nothingness.
A Sea of nothing.
Brighter then he thought it would be.
It was like a white screen had descended over the Eva's view scope, blinding its pilot to any kind of hope for escape. There was no horizon, no ground as he could tell, no sky and no perspective. It was just...........
Nothing.
Shinji leaned back and turned off his Eva's visuals, the rainbow array of colours flooding the plug, then going dim once more.
He looked at his wrist, where the plug suits timer counted down. He had ten hours to go, ten hours of life before the LCL stopped getting oxygen and suffocated him. He had heard that drowning was one of the most peaceful ways to go, after you got past the panic and lung pain. You where supposed to fall into a trance and see things, then die quite dreamily.
Didn't sound too bad.
He leant back into his chair and closed his eyes, letting out a deep sigh.
"I'm hungry..........."
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A/N
Phew!
Well thank god THAT'S over, sorry about the delay, but I honestly had to think up some new ideas before the masses started coming for me with pitchforks and torches.
(Notices masses with pitchforks and torches on his front lawn)
HEY, GET OFF MY LAWN! NO DON'T GIVE ME THAT LOOK, SCRAM!
(Masses bow their heads in rejection and wander off.)
Uh....anyway, I have good news and bad news for you fans of the fic, yep all 5 of you. Well sorta bad news and good/bad news, so it's looking pretty grim. Good news first.
Well for one the world didn't end on September 29th, so thankfully we just have to wait for bush to blow us all to hell "we have reason to believe that America has nukes" "uh, sir we are America" "That's exactly what they want us to think FIRE THE MISSILES!!!!" I love being Australian, I get to make calls like that and not get put in jail.
Good/bad news, apparently there will be an Evangelion movie coming out in the future, and I'm at split ideals about it. Rumours are the script is done, along with most of the conceptual art, and they are now looking for a director. Some say Peter Jackson, as the guys doing the effects did the Lord of the ring film, and some say the guy that did Terminator, you know what's his face. Personally I think that Quentin Tarintino should do it, after all he LOVES anime and would make Gendou just evil enough, Misato just drunk enough and Kaji sorta a mix between Samuel L. Jackson and Mister Blonde, nice. Although I think he might make himself play a part........Shigeru anyone?
I myself am quite torn between this movie. Oh I know it will suck, anything that was a game or an anime that gets turned live action sucks ass (except the Mario brothers movie, that was so crazy it was cool) but I'll pay to see it anyway. Hell I'll probably buy it when it hits DVD. The graphics WILL rock and all, but they changed it too much. Rei is now Ray and she has black hair and Asuka's name is now something Heart while Misato's name is now Susan.....what the fuck? But hey who cares, you go to see these movies and you know it will suck, you know it will suck hard. But if you think that, then it wont matter when you feel the urge to stand up and say "SINCE WHEN WHERE THE PILOTS 19-18!!!" cause you can just make little grunting noises as the beautifully done Eva-01 rips open another angel and quietly mutter "heh, cool." I will see this move, love the action scenes and possibly the plot if they really do love the series (but its being made in western world, so they'll dumb it down) and then kick the shit outta that 24-year-old fat geeky guy with the beard who says "but Rei's hair was blue, not black!" You don't like it, don't see the movie just to bag it THIS MEANS PEOPLE LIKE YOU NON-SLASH!
Bad news? The fic is going to be continued....suffer mortals.
Catchya next chapter!
Dark Romeo
FIN