Red Red Sky
Notes: The chapter has been redone, the first time I wrote this, was with a friend, and yes he is a very big fan of Rei, doesn't much like Asuka, so there was lots of Asuka bashing. So I apologize for any crap like that, I do like Asuka too, Rei is my favorite for Shinji though. Asuka has her own battles to fight. Anyways sorry for taking so long, Chapter 6, came out the same time when I redid this, so you can read the chapters through again. Thanks.
Chapter 5 - Throttle
Light clouds swooped over the landscape; while the crimson sun grew closer to the horizon. It was a normal day, but yes it was cloudy, for Tokyo-3. The climate has had changed, there was no more seasons, but there were weather patterns. But the climate wasn't bad, temperate warm, with high humidity during the summer time.
It was approaching; no one expected what was going to happen. The sky started to turn dark, there was hope, but who would tell how it would all turn out.
Two people lay in bed, wondering what was next for them. Shinji had bought himself a fold out bed, but had grown into liking sleeping with Rei, and she felt the same way. Rei got up before and was getting dressed for a normal day. Shinji got right up a few minutes after that. While Rei was taking her shower Shinji made them a quick breakfast before they would have to go Nerv for synch tests.
The sky started to churn. It was changing, the sun was gone it was pure darkness. There was the moon only to provide any light at all.
Nerv headquarters were on full alert.
The moon turned yellow, then dark orange. There was the smell of hatred in the air.
The angel moved closer and closer. It had a mission, and its mission was to break the defenses and find Adam.
Rei and Shinji sat eating, and then heard their cell phones go off. They were being summoned by Nerv. An angel attack was imminent. Alarms were going on.
Arriving at Nerv they both got ready and ran into the prep room. Both came in at the same time. Asuka noticed this; she looked at them, with a hatred like smirk. Shinji and Rei for the past few weeks kept to themselves, they did not talk to anyone or any who.
Misato watched this, and knew that there was something going on between Shinji and Rei, but she didn't want to jump to conclusions and seem some sort of an Idiot. She knew that they were staying together and what she heard from Rei the commander said it was alright.
"The angel is entering Tokyo-3 territory in 30 minutes, it's a slow moving target but from the looks of it, it is very agile and fast." Misato spoke, while looking at each and every pilot.
As always Asuka started to get annoyed of this briefing and wanted to get in her Eva and fight, afraid that she wouldn't prove herself that she is the best pilot, with the best synch with the Eva at 57%. She wanted to go into battle like a star and come out a star. There was no other way for her to live. Getting a bit worried that she might lose her number one status as Eva pilot, she kept on rethinking what she was going to do, fight and kill, that's what it was all about.
After Misato explained everything to the crew she told them to get into the Evas and wait for the launch command. All of them walked out except Asuka. She was waiting to chit chat with Misato, she had some things on her mind.
"So Misato how's our couple doing, they seem to be very quiet, do you think they are going to break up?" Asuka asked with a very large smile on her face.
Misato just looked at her for a second. Then she grew a smile, and in a couple of seconds she started laughing at Asuka. Asuka didn't understand why.
"You're jealous aren't you, you want Shinji, oh little Asuka is in love!" Misato laughed in between words while exclaiming at Asuka.
"Your stupid if you think I would want such a little boy, only Kaji will be able to take my heart, he is such a man!" Asuka yelled back at Misato before running off towards her Eva gate.
Asuka and Shinji were supposed to attack the angel while Rei was the backup. Both of them went up closer to the beast, It was a humanoid looking angel.
Asuka stormed at the Angel, she was at point as Misato briefed her, she had the highest synch ratio. Taking her spear and running full speed at the angel. Stopping herself with some ground left between the angel and her Eva. She threw the spear at Israfel. The spear penetrated the angel, thinking that she had won the battle, something happened.
The angel started to change, it was mutating, with a flash of light and some body movement from the angel it had split into two, same size dimension and height.
The angels attacked Asuka, slamming her into the ground. There were parts of the Eva flying everywhere, a beam of pure energy hit Asuka's Eva. Screams coming from her cockpit were heard in Nerv. She was in pain. Misato gave the order to eject the plug, Maya was trying to send the signal but her Eva was refusing it.
Shinji got the chance ran full force at one of the Angels slamming it with his shoulder. The other angel kept pounding onto Eva-02's armor plating. Shinji moved in too help Asuka, after he got the other angel on the ground, and got himself on his feet again. Moving closer to Asuka, he was slammed by a beam of energy from one of the angels. Though managing to keep the Eva Standing from such a powerful attack, but one of his arms was left for the birds to peck.
Asuka Unit-02 was in trouble, its arms and legs were severely damaged and the angel kept on assaulting it. The angels' fists were digging into her army like a hot knife through butter. Misato finally gave an order to eject her plug; the plug flew from Unit-02 and landed safely some distance from the ongoing battle.
Shinji was trying to battle it out still with the two Angel's; he was not having very good luck. Trying to punch one of the angels, it retaliated and smashed him into the ground. The other angel picked him up by his neck and started to choke him. The armor could not stand to more of this type of abuse.
Rei saw this and it scared her that Shinji was going to get hurt so she screamed, "NO SHINJI!!"
Commander Gendo Ikari heard this. He didn't understand how Rei knew Shinji so well that they would call each other by their first names. Misato saw the glee of misunderstanding in Commanders Ikari's eyes and thought why would he be reacting to this so strangely.
Shinji heard the scream; he got worried thinking that Rei got hurt.
"Shinji has cut all communications with HQ and any other radio type of broadcasting," Misato spoke, "Why would he do this, I don't understand"
Shinji closed his eyes in the Eva, thought of a clear way of defeating these two angels. He let Eva-01 take over, and help him fight, he thought of life, rather than death. He thought of love, yes love, and pictures of Rei flew through his mind, he wanted to see her again.
In Nerv HQ, Maya saw the synch graph grow to all time high of 99.9% on Shinji, her eyes were in awe. Moving her head towards Dr. Akagi, she pointed at the screen.
"How could this be so high, just a few days ago he was synched at 48% that is high too, but not compared to this, this is just crazy!" Maya exclaimed while starring at the screen. Dr. Akagi saw this too, and was confused.
Ritsuko thought, if he crosses any further than 99.9% he might synch too far, but for some reason it's staying completely stable, not fluctuating. When this is over, I will have a nice investigation on my hands.
Eva-01 eye's started to glow, it broke from the double hand choke, and with its one hand it grabbed the closest angel. Unit-01 slamming the angels head right into the ground. Moving its body in the right position it stepped onto its neck with 01's right foot. Using its only arm left in working operation it pulled the head of the angel as far as it could. Blood was everywhere, covering the valley with red.
The angel was still moving and trying to heal itself, the damage to its head was immense. It stood up and tried to attack Unit 01. But was counterattacked with a big kick into the its face. The other angel saw this happening and started to run towards Unit-01. Jumping into the air just to slam into Eva-01, but Shinji was synched so high he could make the slightest moves to make that angel feel more pain than it had ever felt. Pulling out his knife he threw it at the angel while it was in air. The knife went into the angel's leg. The angel started tumbling.
Turning around Shinji saw the falling angel, he ducked and let the angel pass, the angel hit the ground still tumbling and smashing up buildings. Shinji ran towards the angel while it was still moving grabbed one of its legs, and while still in motion slammed it into the nearest mountain breaking the angel into pieces and watching its core blow half the mountain away.
The other angel watched him do this and stood up. It was not having a time of its life, its head was torn to shreds, its neck was broken, and so it looked like a popped balloon. It took a few steps towards Eva-01. Blood gushed out of its head like a water fountain in a park. Eva-01 eyes started to glow even more. Shinji got angry that this one was back up. He felt the adrenaline run through his body. He started to run as fast as he could towards the angel. The angel saw this and began running at him. Both were about the same speed. But finally twenty some feet from each other the angel shot another shot at Eva-01 destroying its other arm. Shinji screamed in pain but kept on running, Unit-01 screamed in atrocious agony, and lunged and bit onto the angel's core. With its teeth it punctured the core. The angel screeched, its pain was immense, the core started to glow more and more, like it was going to self destruct.
People at Nerv watched this in horror. Misato was worried; if that core didn't puncture the angel would explode and destroy Eva-01 head, at the same causing Shinji most horrifying pain ever imaginable. Shinji saw this was happening, he let go of the angel and swung around, using the strength he had left, he ran a few meters away from the angel. Turning around he saw the angel was going to blow in a few seconds, running at it as fast as he could, and then jumping up into the air, he kicking the angel back into the valley it had crawled up from. Before the angel hit the ground it went off.
The angel had finally died. And Unit-01 was still alive. It was victory for human kind again. Or was it?
Everyone in Nerv HQ watched in awe. What has just happened? Was it a victory or a loss, there was blood everywhere, Asuka was found.
Misato just looked at the commander which seemed to be smiling, like he enjoyed the bloody show. There was enough blood in the streets to fill the Atlantic Ocean. They would be draining all of this mess for the next couple of months she thought.
Ritsuko Akagi just walked out of the command room thinking to her herself, how could have Shinji earned such a high synch ratio. Has something good happened or has his mentality stopped fluctuating compared to his first tests in Nerv when he just arrived. What was going on? How could he control that Eva with such precision? There were many questioned that she thought should be answered.
In the view screen in Nerv you could see, Eva-01 standing grabbing its left arm with its right, and healing it. Everyone in the room looked awed, this is the second time its happened.
Misato couldn't comprehend what was happening. Gendo in the room just looked and smiled, his son has finally turned into a killing machine. Fuyutsuki looked at Gendo and back at the view screen, Eva-01 had started to move closer to the city, with only two thirds of its body armor still holding, the rest looked like normal flesh, something that startled him was the skin looked human.
Shinji had finally got his mind back together from the onslaught. He reopened all his com links to Nerv. His body ached, his head hurt, but most of all he was worried if anything happened to Rei, but on the view screen he zoomed into the position where Rei was piloting unit-00.
Opening a com link to Rei, Shinji was relieved that nothing had happened to her.
"Rei-chan, I fought this battle because I had a reason too, people asked me why I pilot, and this was the reason. You," Shinji spoke, water in his eyes, happiness on his mind.
Rei was confused, what he meant that he was piloting for her, why would she be worth it. Then it hit her, she was something for Shinji, not just a tool, but more. She zoomed in at Eva-01 and was shocked how damaged it was. The Evangelion looked like it went through a paper shredder
"Ikari-kun please help me to understand," Rei whispered into the com link.
Gendo Ikari was listening into the entire conversation, he got a little angry, but he could use this to fight the angels. The mass production Eva's weren't complete, he only had three in working condition, the others were in production but not complete, the last prototypes were still being completed.
"Major Katsuragi please come to my office after you have finished, I have some things to talk to you about." Gendo said, while keying in a request for a report on Shinjis activities.
All the Eva's were put into their cages, there was going to be lots of work done on 01. Unit 02 wasn't in very bad shape but some of the main components were damaged the chest plate was completely gone, half three out of four eyes were destroyed. There was no damage of unit 00, it was the backup unit if the other two lost, which would go in and attack the angel, because of this, and it survived with only a few scuffs from the explosions.
Misato got done with her routine, turned around and said her goodbyes to everyone in the command room, walking out a few seconds later. The commander of Nerv called her, she was nervous. She almost never talks to him.
The report came in, Shinjis activities in the past few weeks, Gendos eyes grew and then he just took a deep breath when he heard his offices door open. Misato Katsuragi was coming in. She will provide him with some info at least he thought.
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Authors note: Was listening to this song by Tool when I wrote this chapter so I thought to include it inside the chapter, I love this song, and tool altogether. This song made me write this chapter with a little bit more action than usual. This chap has more action I guess, next chapter will be more like the others I wrote, I didn't want to overdue how Shinji fought the angels, but kinda did anyways, that's why it's a fan fiction heh J
TOOL - Schism
Know the pieces fit cuz I watched them fall away
Mildewed and smoldering. Fundamental differing.
Pure intention juxtaposed will set two lovers souls in motion
Disintegrating as it goes testing our communication
The light that fueled our fire then has burned a hole between us so
We cannot see to reach an end crippling our communication.
I know the pieces fit cuz I watched them tumble down
No fault, none to blame it doesn't mean I don't desire to
Point the finger, blame the other, watch the temple topple over.
To bring the pieces back together, rediscover communication
The poetry that comes from the squaring off between,
And the circling is worth it.
Finding beauty in the dissonance.
There was a time that the pieces fit, but I watched them fall
away.
Mildewed and smoldering, strangled by our coveting
I've done the math enough to know the dangers of our second guessing
doomed to crumble unless we grow, and strengthen our communication.
Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any
Sense of compassion
between supposed lovers/brothers
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