BOREDOM
by: Andross937
disclaimer: I do not own Neon Genesis Evangelion or Dragon Ball Z. I do not claim any ownership over any of the characters of either series. I am not making any profit off of this story, and am only writing it for entertainment purposes. If the owners of either series wishes it, I will remove this story from the internet. I do not wish to offend anyone with this story. If anyone is seriously offended by this story, please notify me of the material you found offensive and I will attempt to remove it from the story. If it is impossible to do so, I may leave the story off of the internet. I do own the character Andross. He is not patented, but it would be greatly appriecated if anyone that wishes to use him would contact me for permission to use him before using him.
Authors Note: Well, here's another chapter. I was going to wait until I got a few more reviews for chapter two, but its been so long since I got even one that it could be months before I even got one review for that chapter, or for the story at all. I'm very serious people, I need the reviews in order to keep going. If you can't think of anything to say, then just say that you read it, and maybe if you thought it was good or not. If there was something you didn't like, or would like to see changed, then tell me so. I'll see what I can do about it. If you have a suggestion you would like to see happen, then send it in the review, or even just an e-mail. My e-mail is found in my account just above. Just send an e-mail or a review please! It's the only way I know people are looking at this story at all. Thank you.
-story begin-
Shinji smiled in his sleep. He was having wonderful dreams. They continued to switch from living a normal life, as a normal kid, with normal friends, to dreams of great battles where he had full control over his power and could easily whipe out the opposition. Both dreams put a smile on his face.
His smile only seemed to grow as the dreams went on. The dreams were peaceful. It had been years since he had had such peaceful sleep with out being drugged. He didn't want the dreams to end. He didn't want the peaceful sleep to end anytime soon.
(THUMP, THUMP!) came a muffled noise.
Shinji's tired mind hardly processed the fact that there was a noise, and it wasn't coming from his dreams.
(THUMP, THUMP!) came the muffled noise again, a tiny bit louder now.
This time Shinji stirred oh so slightly. He thought he had heard something. He listened for a moment, his dreams went on pause for a moment, and all the imaginary figures within the dreams leaned to listen with him. For a moment, there was nothing but silence.
(THUMP, THUMP!) came the muffled noise again.
Now Shinji was sure that the noise was indeed real. His dreams began to fade and the figures within them were swept away from his mind as if the planet had blown up underneath them. Shinji hardly noticed though as he was quickly forgetting the dreams and was beginning to concentrate on the noise. Was it his heart? Tiredly he began to move his hand up to his chest. He sleepily rested it on top of his heart and waited.
(THUMP, THUMP!) came the muffled noise again.
He heard the sound, but it wasn't coming from his chest. Perhaps the sound was coming from the floor above him. Shinji forced himself to concentrate through his tiredness and strech his senses to check for any ki in the room above him. His search found nothing but a small residual ki. Whoever lived up there had already left.
Was the sound coming from the floor below him? He streched his senses again, and checked for ki below him. Sure enough there was a ki signature below him. It was weak, like it was asleep or just generally weak. Could they be hurt and making noise to get someone's attention? Could they be trying to get help?
The thought of someone being hurt and needing help made Shinji wake up more as he rolled over to listen for the noise again. His body got caught in the blankets and he ended up falling off of his bed. His face and uper body landed on the floor while his legs remained in the bed with the blankets. Shinji sighed in slight frustration before placing his ear to the floor to listen for the sound.
A moment of silence passed. Shinji's anticipation grew, waking him up more every second.
(THUMP, THUMP!) came the sound, but it wasn't coming from below Shinji.
Where could that sound be coming from? It couldn't be coming from outside could it? It would have to be pretty loud to seem so close if it were coming from outside. All these thoughts and more went through Shinji's head as the rest of his body fell to the floor.
(THUMP, THUMP!) "Shinji?" came the sound, and now a voice from Shinji's door. His mind had woken up enough to tell the direction the sounds were coming from now.
Shinji tried to pull the blanket off of himself, but it hung to him tightly. Frustration began to motivate Shinji as he floated into the air and hovered over to the door. He opened it and stuck his face out, only to have Misato begin to knock on his head. She continued this for a few seconds as she was looking away from the door, not realizing that she was knocking her fist against Shinji's skull.
"Shinji!" Misato called out to try and wake Shinji up.
"Yes Misato?" Shinji asked.
"Whaaah!" Misato exclaimed as she jumped back at realizing what she was doing.
She grinned sheepishly at Shinji for a moment before resuming her normal calm appearance.
"Sorry Shinji. I remembered that I had set your alarm clock a little late, so I had to wake you up myself. You had better start getting ready for school. I won't be able to drive you..." Misato made it a point to ignore the releaved look on Shinji's face with that statement. "...today since I have an early shift at NERV. Have to get all the paper work done making you the offical pilot of Unit 01 and all. I've already gotten all the papers and everything you'll need for your first day at school ready and waiting on the table in the kitchen. Well, I have to go get dressed, and the shower's all yours. Get started." Misato said before heading off to her room.
Shinji stood there for a second before what Misato said fully sunk into his head. When it did, a look of slight panic washed over his face, and he sent his body into a blur of motion. His body rushed into the bathroom, and the shower started up. A cry of surprise escaped the shut bathroom door and into the apartment as he found that all the warm water was gone. If Shinji wasn't awake before, he sure was now! It made him hurry his shower all the faster, which lasted all of sixty seconds.
After he had dried off with a quick ki burst, low enough that NERV wouldn't pick it up and think something was wrong, Shinji rushed out and back into his room. The door shut and Misato could hear the whooshing sounds of Shinji's movements all the way in her room. She also heard the extra loud alarm clock she had gotten at a bargen ben go off. The very next second she heard a crunching sound.
When Misato came out dressed in her work dress, Shinji also exited his room, holding a smashed alarm clock. His face held a very sheepish look to it as he held it out to Misato. Misato took it with a grin.
"Need a new one?" she asked with a bit of amusement.
"That would be nice please... Sorry about that one. I didn't think before I put my finger on it to turn it off. The next thing I knew, I had crushed it." Shinji answered with a bit of a sheepish grin.
"No problem Shinji." Misato answered with a laugh.
Immedaitely Shinji went to work making them breakfast. It wasn't long before it was ready, and Misato began to greedily eat it up. It was good enough to even draw out the depressed penguin of the house. He was still quite upset at Shinji for getting rid of the alcohol, even to the point of walking up to him and kicking him in the shin, but he still went and ate his share of the breakfast. Shinji didn't mind this at all, wondering if he could have felt that kick even if he wasn't as powerful as he was.
Soon he had left and was looking for his school. Since he had only ten minutes before it was supposed to start, he had to drop the 'normal kid' act and take to the skies. He put out a small aura as he flew through the sky searching for his school. It took him a few minutes of following roads, but he eventually found it. He looked down to watch the various kids just standing around the school waiting for the first bell for a time, but eventually decided that he might as well go inside.
Shinji landed in an alley way less then a block away and walked up to the school, making his way inside. He started his search for the principle's office to get his regestration over with and anything else he would need to do.
-beginning of class - class 2-A-
The elderly teacher stood at the front of the desk. He had been standing there, demanding the class's attention for the last five minutes. He hadn't moved a muscle, and his old eyes were perminately squinted, never allowing anyone to tell if his eyes were open or not. For the entire five minutes the entire class had been devoting to the statue of a man their attention, not daring to take it off of him.
He rarely did anything but call for role and then go into endless lectures about the world before second impact, and how it was so much better before. He did the same thing every school day, never changing his preset schedule. Some had even seen him come to the school and go through these same actions even when it wasn't a school day. It was so regular for him to do what he normally did, that today was an extremely rare day indeed. So rare, that no student dared take their eyes off of him for the entire five minutes he stood there.
However, with his lack of movement, even bringing his breathing to near undetectible levels, he started to look just plain strange to the class. Some students began to laugh at him as he stood there, still as a rock. Others leaned forward to try and see if they could see any movement at all. One student directly infront of him even leaned forward and poked him. They got no response.
"Is he dead?" came a whispered question from the back.
"I don't know. I can't hear any breathing." the student at the front said.
Suddenly the teacher shook and little bit and cleared his throat, as if waking up from something or just regaining his train of thought. It scared the students with its unexpected volume and speed. The teacher went on unnoticing their reactions to anything he did.
"Class, today we have a new student." the teacher began.
It had been so long since they had heard their teacher say something new that the class took a few moments to actually realize what he had said. When they did, they were just as equally shocked. Who would want to move into this city when it was being attacked by giant monsters! Yes, they had seen and heard of the giant creature that had attacked the city. However, they had no idea what had killed it, except that NERV most likely was behind it.
"Would you come in please?" the teacher asked when he faced the door.
The door opened up and Shinji Ikari came walking into the room. He stood infront of the class, only feet from the teacher's side. He didn't want to get too close to the old teacher. The man's ki was so low, Shinji was amazed that he was alive enough to stand. He was afraid that his meer presence would be enough to push the man over and kill him, much less if the teacher wanted to shake hands or something like that.
"Please introduce yourself to the class son." The teacher said.
"More like great great grandson!" came a jeer from the back.
"Silence back there!" shouted a brown haired pig tailed girl in the front.
Shinji went on as if he hadn't really heard any of it. "Hi! My name's Shinji Ikari! I'm fourteen, I just moved here a few days ago. Now don't go spreading this too much, but I'm also an employee for NERV and live with my superior." Shinji said with a great big smile. It wasn't a smile of pride or anything like that, but just a smile of over all happiness.
The class started to laugh for a moment, before Shinji realized what they were laughing at. He calmly reached into his pocket and pulled out his new wallet. He opened it up and showed the NERV id. that Misato had given him the night before to the entire class. They quickly silenced as they found that he was quite serious. Still his happy smile remained, finding it an honest mistake.
"Wow...!" came the awed response from a brown haired kid in the back, his eyes staring at the id. in wonder through his big glasses.
"Hmm, yes Shinji... that was your name, right. Well... ... ..." The teacher started, going back to standing still again. Shinji became worried a bit as he felt his ki lower just a smudgen, even though it was already incredibly low to start with. Suddenly the teacher perked up again. "Yes... please take a seat where ever you want. Only that seat back there..." the teacher said as he pointed out a seat with his boney finger. "and that one over there..." he said pointing to one by the window, both empty."...are taken by absent students. The rest are empty for you to use." he finally finished his slow speech.
Without anymore distractions, the teacher went straight to his normal lecture, and was promptly ignored by the entire class. Shinji wondered breifly where he would sit, before deciding on one that was towards the center of the room and a little towards the back. It didn't escape Shinji's attention that nearly half the class worth of seats were empty for him to sit in, which is why he picked one that had at least a few people near it.
Shinji's attention was picked up a little as he felt a ki signature approach the door to the classroom. The door slid open to reveal a young man about his age, dressed in a school track suit. he looked like he had spent much of his life getting into shape, and had good reason to be proud of what he had accomplished. Despite this, his face held little happiness.
The teacher was worlds away and had no chance to ever notice the arrival of the student. Seeing this, and knowing it by experience burned in by years of such things happening, the brown haired girl stood. It was obvious to Shinji that she must be the class representitive.
"Mr. Souzihara, why were you late for class?" she demanded.
"Sorry about that class rep. My little sister got hurt in the attack a few days ago. Her ankle was sprained, and she still isn't able to walk on it too well. I had to help her to walk here and to her class first since my dad and grandpa can't spare the time." the boy answered, his face still showing little happiness, even a bit of tiredness.
"Oh... I'm sorry." the class representitive said in a quieter tone then before. "You may go to your seat." she said before sitting down.
"No problem class rep. I hadn't told anyone yet, so there was no way you could've known. I'll have a note for it by tommorrow." the boy said with a bit more of a smile now before going to his seat, right next to the boy with the big glasses.
Shinji sat at his new desk and didn't pay the slightest bit of attention to the teacher. He had taken the liberty of reading the entire book they were supposed to be studying at the moment while he was waiting out in the hall. Being able to move faster then light, and read at almost the same speeds did have its advantages. His mind was on something else though. He was thinking about what that student said. Was it his sister that Shinji had saved during the attack? She had hurt her ankle before Shinji could get to her...
-perspective change-
"Hey man, when's your sister going to be alright?" Kensuke asked Touji.
Touji smiled as he leaned over to answer. "She'll be fine in a week or so..." Touji said, feeling better about getting to talk about his sister getting better. "What I would like to know is what saved her from being crushed... she said that something came out of the sky and snatched her up..." Touji said, almost to himself.
"Something? She didn't get a good look at it? Was it huge like a robot or something?" Kensuke asked, having long hacked into NERV and found out about the Evangelions. It didn't matter as nearly half the city knew of them anyways.
"No, she said it was a teenage boy around our age. I don't know about that though. She said he was flying around and everything. She even said that he blew the monster to bits. No kid can do that. What have you been able to find out about it?" Touji asked Kensuke, knowing his friend enough to know he had already hacked into NERV to find out as much as he could about the attack. That was just the way he was.
"Not much, but I think we have a new source now. One that could turn up better information..." Kensuke said before nodding in Shinji's direction.
Touji turned and looked at him for a moment, before becoming confused. He turned back to his friend with a very confused look to his face.
"What do you mean? How is a new kid going to get us any information on a flying kid?" Touji asked.
"He's not just any new kid. He works for NERV, has a real NERV id. card and everything. He moved here a few days ago, right about when the attack happened..." Kensuke said, letting the information sink fully into Touji's head before continueing. "It's worth a try at the least." he finished.
"Yeah, you're right about that. We'll ask him up on the roof during lunch..." Touji said before leaning back into his chair.
-lunch time-
The lunch bell gave a ring, and the entire class stood up to go eat somewhere. Shinji stood too, not really knowing where he was going to go eat. Suddenly a hand clamped down on his shoulder. It wasn't enough to hurt him even before he became as strong as he was, but it would've been enough to keep him from walking off. Shinji turned a smile to the owner of the hand, the kid in the track suit.
"Come have lunch with us on the roof new kid." Touji invited.
"Alright." Shinji said before they left.
-on the roof-
"Alright new kid, spill it! You work for NERV, so that means that you know something about the attack. What killed the monster!" Touji demanded almost as soon as the roof door shut.
Shinji cocked his head a bit in confusion. He hadn't been expecting to get interigated up here, especially on the angel attack. His hesitation only served to irritate Touji, who already wasn't in the best mood of his life.
"Well, I don't know if I should tell you guys. I mean, it might be classified or something like that." Shinji said, not really sure if it was classified or not.
"I said tell me!" Touji shouted.
Touji hasn't always had the best control over his temper in his life. This was one of those moments where he lost it. In his moment of anger, he swung his fist out and at Shinji at what would've been rather incredible speeds, had Shinji not have been who he was now. Shinji's instincts kicked in, and he easily dodged the fist. This served to only enrage Touji more.
Again he swung at Shinji, and again Shinji dodged. Touji continued to throw punches at Shinji at his very fastest speed. Still Shinji swung his head this way and that, keeping his face and every other body part away from Touji. Touji got even madder and started to try and kick at Shinji too. Shinji piveted from one foot to another as he moved his entire body from one spot to another over and over again and then back again.
Touji threw his hardest punch ever right for Shinji's face. Deciding to stop this right now, Shinji easily let the fist slam into the palm of his own hand. Touji was so shocked that his fist hadn't even budged Shinji's hand, that he stood completely still for a moment. Shinji then wrapped his fingers around Touji's fist. In a flash of a movement, Shinji had twisted around Touji's body and held his arm tightly behind him, keeping him where he was and from moving too much.
Touji was still shocked. Shinji didn't look like he was in any kind of special shape like he himself was, nor did he look to be trained in any kind of martial arts. Even if he was, how did he catch his fist so easily, or move so fast? Then it dawned on him.
"It was you..." Touji said in a breath.
"What?" Kensuke asked, still surprised that Touji had attacked Shinji, and that Shinji had so easily subdued him.
"It was you, wasn't it? You were the one that saved my sister and killed the monster. It was you!" Touji exclaimed.
Shinji let go of Touji and smiled at him as he stood back a step, before nodding at him.
"Yup, it was me. I probably wasn't suppose to tell you guys that, but what are they going to do? Drop another N2 mind on my head?" Shinji asked with his now usual smile.
"Another!" the two boys asked.
"Yeah, there was a bit of a misunderstanding when I first fought the angel. No one thought that I could do it, and they might have thought I was dead for a bit. By the time they realized I was still alive and fighting it, it might of been to late to stop it, or they went through it anyways to ensure the angel died. Either way, it didn't kill it or me, but it did pack a mean punch! Let's sit and eat and I'll tell you guys all about it." Shinji said with a smile.
The three boys sat together, eating lunch, and trading stories about the day that the angel attacked.
-Commander Ikari's office-
Gendo sat at his overly large desk. The room was dark, lit only by the light of the design on the ceiling. It was panted dark, made of dark material, and everything was polished so that it would best reflect dark reflections of the glowing design on the ceiling. Even with this light, Gendo's glasses reflected orange light back at Ritsuko as he sat and read her report, with the ever present sub-commander Fuyutuski reading over his shoulder.
Ritsuko stood perfectly still as Gendo read the report. She had learned a long time ago that unneeded movement only draws unwanted attention from the commander. The more still you were, the safer you were, though you never were completely safe while anywhere near his presence. He'd be willing to sacrifice ten people's lives to get a good cup of coffee. Finally he raised his head up to look her in the eyes through his dark glasses that hid his eyes completely. To this day she wasn't sure on his eye color. His cold stare seemed to bore a hole through her body, and she didn't doubt for a second that it could if he willed it to do so.
"Do you believe it is possible?" the commander asked.
"Yes sir. The compability is extremely close." Ritsuko answered.
"Is it safe?" sub-commander Fuyutuski asked.
"Yes sir. There is no chance of contamination. If this succeeds well, we may be able to implement it in the others. If it does not, the damage will be easily fixed." Ritsuko answered confidently, because without confidence, she is far too easy of a target in the commander's presence.
The commander lowered his head, letting the light reflect off of his glasses once again. He thought for a moment before raising his face again to face Dr. Ritsuko.
"Very well, procceed. Make the neccessary arrangments with the Third child." he ordered.
"Yes sir." Ritsuko said before leaving the office.
As soon as she had left, Fuyutuski spoke up.
"Will you inform the commitee about this?" he asked with a bit of a smile, always enjoying seeing how Gendo dealt with them as if it were only a chess game. A chess game that held the fate of the world in the balance.
"No. Those old fools have enough to be upset about with the change in their scenarios." Gendo responded evenly.
"Then there are no changes in your scenario?" Fuyutuski asked with a smile, a bit of a questioning look to his face.
"It has been changed accordingly. This will not harm it, it may even help it along when the time comes." Gendo said, his smirk growing behind his hands.
"You mean when the confrentation comes?" Fuyutuski asked.
"Yes."
-Katsuragi/Ikari apartment-
Shinji flew home with a smile on his face. He had gotten to make two good friends today. He had also gotten several months ahead of the class in terms of homework, and had very little to do during class now, just like all the other students. Now he was on his way home, to his new home, where he would make a wonderful meal and consume his portion of it with great enthusiam.
He landed on his floor, to find three men in suits standing outside of his door waiting on him. They were tall, well built, and had ear plugs with wires going from their left ears down into their suits through the collars. Shinji also couldn't help but notice the slight glimpses of gun holsters within their jackets when they moved.
"Section 2 guys? Or just someone looking for trouble?" Shinji asked with a kind smile, but getting his body ready to fight if necesary.
"Section 2. We've come under Commander Ikari's orders. We are to inform you that there is some top secret work being done to Evangelion Unit 01. This will take several weeks to finish, and until then, it will be out of operation. If an angel should attack during this time, you are ordered to attack it directly. Is that understood?" the lead agent asked.
"Yes, it is. What did he think I was going to do anyways with the Eva not usable? Throw a party for the angel!" Shinji asked as a kind of joke. The agents didn't appear to have gotten it.
"Thank you for your time." the agents said before leaving.
"Dang, stuffy guys, aren't they?" Shinji asked himself with a bit of a laugh. "Oh well, at least I won't have to worry about my performance inside an Eva during battle for a while longer. Hey, this works out pretty well. If all the angels come before the Eva's working again, I can just blow them away without ever having to use it! That might work out... We'll just have to wait and see... Oh well, time for food!" Shinji said before letting himself into the apartment.
-later that night-
Misato came in the door, quite tired from a day of filling out paper after paper to make everything offical, on top of her normal daily paper work. Not to mention the various reports she had to fill out because of some servailence camera's having to be replaced due to damage from the vibrations of the battle over head during the angel attack. She had had even more work when the papers came in for the five blast doors that had malfunctioned during the attack and closed. It had taken almost two days to get to them and manage to open them back up and replace the damaged wiring. That all added up to a lot of paper work for her.
She went straight to her room, passing by the kitchen where she smelled some very good food being cooked. Shinji must have been in a good mood to be making something that could top all the food he had made so far. She didn't stop to think about it long as she immedaitely went to changing her clothes. When she was finished, she exited her room with a bit of a smile, happy to be out of her work clothes. Normally it would have been a huge smile, but then she remembered that she wouldn't be having a beer tonight, or ever again. This brought that normal huge smile down to a bit of a smile. Still, the smile was there.
She walked into the kitchen, following the delicious smells coming from it. She sat in her normal chair and strecthed her tired muscles as she watched Shinji cook at his higher then normal human speeds. She could hardly tell because of his fast speed, but he was wearing a pretty big smile. This brought a bit more of Misato's smile back, though she hardly knew why.
"What's with the jumbo sized smile Shinji?" Misato asked.
"Today I made some friends. They figured out that I killed the angel, but we became friends anyways." Shinji said, his usual joyfull tone sounding extra happy.
"How in the world did they discover that you killed the angel with out the entire class finding out? How did they find out at all? I thought that no one saw it happen?" Misato asked, becoming quite curious.
"The little girl I told you that I saved, well one of them is her big brother. Touji Souzihara. He knew the truth about what happened with the angel, though he wasn't sure. So he interrigated me, and lost his temper a little bit since the safety of his sister was involved. He tried to hit me, but I kept dodging him, and kind of had to show a little of my strength. It wasn't hard for him to figure it out after that, so I told them all about it after that." Shinji said with a smile.
"He tried to hit you? And you're not the least bit upset about this?" Misato asked.
"Not at all. If I had been in his shoes, I might have done the same thing too, felt the same way. Anyways, now we're good friends. I've never really had good friends, so I'm happier then normal. Does that explain it?" Shinji asked with a smile.
Misato giggled a bit at Shinji's explaination of the whole thing. She answered him with a bigger smile then before.
"Yeah Shinji, that explains it. I'm happy that you have friends. Oh yeah, that reminds me. I have something to give you. Hold on..." she said as she got up and went into her room.
When she came back out a few seconds later, she held a fancy looking cell phone in her hand. It looked much fancier then any normal cell phone Shinji had ever seen, and a bit bulkier too. It was even made of nothing but a very polished metal. Shinji stared at if for a second before taking it with a big smile.
"I got it for you today. It took almost the entire day to prepare from what I understand." she said.
"Thanks a lot Misato, but why did it take so long to prepare?" Shinji asked.
"Well, with your record of... how should I say this... over using your strength against small and delicate objects, I decided that it had to be as tuff as possible. Also, since you might have to rush into battle without your Eva for a while, you might have it on you when you go fight. I wanted to be as sure as I could that it wouldn't brake during a fight. It's made out of an experimental alloy that Ritsuko's playing around with. We made it kind of bulky just to be sure." Misato said with a smile while ruffling Shinji's hair.
"How tuff is it?" Shinji asked.
"That phone should be as tuff as a half a foot thick block of steel even though its only four or five times heavier then a normal cell phone. Hopefully you won't break it too soon." Misato said with a big smile.
"Thanks a lot Misato. I apprecaite it a lot! Don't worry, I'll try not to brake it." Shinji said before giving Misato a hug.
Misato blushed for a moment, especailly when that piece of notebook paper popped back in her head. The line with the words Seduce him... popped back into her head. She was releaved when Shinji broke off the short hug and placed the phone in his pocket before going back to cooking. Misato carefully got back into her seat while trying to calm down so the blush would go away.
"Oh yeah Shinji, one more thing..." Misato began after the blush went away. "I realized today that you might not know that you're not the only pilot we have, and that your Eva isn't the only Eva we have." Misato said.
"Yeah, I kind of figured that you had to have another pilot around. I mean, if you knew the angel-thing was coming for long enough to develop and build a giant living robot, you probably wouldn't have forgotten to train a pilot for it. So, who are they?" Shinji asked while still cooking.
"One moment." Misato said before getting up again.
She walked into her room to look for the picture of Rei that she had. She opened up her drawer and started shuffling through it. She stopped dead in her tracks when she came across the notebook that she had written in. She hadn't bothered to shut it before, and it was still opened to the written on page. Immedaitely her eyes focused on the words Seduce him... like they were an 18 wheeler barreling at her with its brights on in the dead of night.
Shaking her head to take her eyes off of it, and her mind off of what it suggested, she lifted it up. She spun it shut and tossed it carelessly on the ground, kicking it under her bed in her search for the picture. Finally she came across it and held it up in truimph, but remained in the room for a minute or so. She had to let the blush go down again.
When she came out again, she walked over to Shinji once again. She held out the photo before speaking.
"This is Rei Ayanami, the First Child. You are the Third Child. The Second Child is Asuka Langley Soryu." Misato said. (AN: I checked out three different scripts online, and they all said that's how you spell Soryu, tell me if I'm wrong or not.)
Shinji turned his head to the picture, and stopped his cooking immedaitely. He couldn't believe his eyes. That girl, Rei Ayanami, was the same girl he saw appear and then vanish!
"Misato? That's the girl I saw vanish just before Andross gave me this power." Shinji said, uncertainty to his voice from confusion at seeing her picture as a Eva pilot.
"What? Oh well, we can't really tell if that meeting with that Andross guy was or wasn't a hallucination for you Shinji. Maybe your dad had sent you a picture in a letter or something, and you just don't remember." Misato said, nervousness to her voice. She didn't know what was going on, but she knew she probably wouldn't like hearing the answers either way.
"No, my father never sent me any letters or contacted me at all. The only time he ever made contact with me other then visiting mom's grave at the same time as me was when he sent me the letter telling me to come. I've never seen her before then." Shinji said.
"Well, let's just drop it for now. I'll do some looking in for now. But really Shinji, I don't think you could've seen her at all. She's pretty badly injured from getting hurt during her first activation test of her Evangelion unit 00. She can't even walk yet."
Shinji shrugged his shoulders before going back to cooking. "I know what I saw Misato. But yeah, let's drop it for now. So, who's the Second Child again, and why wasn't she here?" Shinji asked.
Misato walked back to her seat and sat down before answering that one.
"The Second Child is Asuka Langley Soryu, and she's in Germany. She was born and trained there. I've visited her a few times, and I have to warn you about her. She can be a bit... oh who am I kidding. She's extremely head strong and pridefull. She's the best Eva polit for now, and very pridefull about it. She's extremely sensitive about any kind of compitetion in that area, or even any mention about being beaten in being the best pilot. So, could you just learn to live around her hot temper, since her entire life revolves around piloting Eva. I've tried to get her to see other things as bringing value to her life, but nothing's really worked. She'll probably give you a lot of trouble if your any compitetion as a pilot." Misato warned. "Especailly since you're so powerful already." she added.
"Don't worry Misato. Right now, words and insults do as much damage to me as a mosqeuto does to a tank, or even better, to my skin. I can probably live around her, but I'll be careful like you ask." Shinji said with a smile.
"Good boy Shinji. I'm glad to hear it. Now about your performance as a pilot. Tommorrow you have a schedualed first synch test at NERV at four o'clock. Try not to be late for it please. I'll call your school to get you let out early if you need it." Misato said.
"No problem. I can make it with time to spare. One question though, what's a synch test?" Shinji asked.
"It's a test to see how well you synch with the Evas. The Eva is piloted through thought in conjunction with hand and foot controls. It makes it infinitely easier to pilot then pure hand and foot controls. If one gains a high enough synch with an Eva, the hand and foot controls are nearly unneeded completely. However, there is one major draw back. Due to the thoughts and feelings of the pilot being connected with the Eva, everything that the Eva feels, the pilot will feel aswell. That means mostly that if the Eva is hurt, the pilot feels the pain without sustaining the injury itself. Like a sort of phantom pain, or at least that's what Ritsuko says." Misato explained. "You'll probably be able to feel the pain of the Eva even with your immense power, so don't be too surprised." Misato warned.
"Thanks for the heads up. I won't forget it out there. Well, hope I do well... though not higher then that Asuka girl. That wouldn't be proper, her being trained for her entire life for one thing, then some new kid just walks in and beats her on their first try, probablye due to the power up he received from some stranger that just gives him the power to kill the angels with his bare hands. That would suck, no matter who it was other then Asuka." Shinji said before laying out the food. "Now, let's eat!" he said with a big smile.
The penguin of the house came out from his fridge, sat at his chair, and gobbled up its food. Shinji watched it carefully as he ate his own food. Misato just wolfed the food down like she had been starved for days.
"You know Misato, I think that Penpen is actually starting to forgive me a little bit." Shinji said.
"WARK WARK WARK! Wark warkwarkwark WARK! WARK!" Penpen exclaimed.
"I'm not sure, but I think he just cursed you out in penguin." Misato said.
"Wark!" Penpen said with a nod, before doing his attempt at giving the finger, finishing his food, and going back into the fridge.
"That was a little disturbing." Shinji said.
-next day at synch test-
Shinji sat in his plug with his plug suit on and his synch clips in his hair. He was confused by why he had to wear all this junk. It was unconfortable and confining to him. Shinji shook his head before speaking up, hoping that they were monitoring his comm channel.
"Tell me again Dr. Akagi. Why do I have to wear this stuff? It's really unconfortable and a little silly looking. It looks like it's suppose to be a kind of conforming body armor, only with out the armor." Shinji said. "Wouldn't it make more sense to put at least padding in this thing, so the pilots wouldn't be hurt as much if they were sent flying around the plug?" he asked.
"It's suppose to help the pilot synch better with the Eva by fine tuning specific impulses and nerve connections with those of the Eva's. And, yes you're right. It would be better if we gave it a bit more padding for safety, but it would decrease the pilot's mobility. However, there is little concern about the pilot flying around the plug." Ritsuko said.
"Why?" Shinji asked.
Suddenly the console piece of the chair came down around him in his seat, pressing in slightly tight on his pelvic area. He didn't mind too much because of his' bodies strength, but it would have been more uncomfortable if he wasn't as strong as he was.
"That's why. Now, just slip your hands into the handles right there and let your feet reach the pedals. When the simulation begins, it will simulate the activation of a real Evangelion. Don't think too much about what lever to pull or switch to flip when you do your basic motions. Just simply think and visualize the Eva doing the movement as it were yourself moving, and your actual body should go through any secondary motions needed automatically. You ready Shinji?" she asked.
"Yes Dr. Akagi." Shinji said.
"Please Shinji, call me Dr. Ritsuko." she reqeusted.
"Yes mam Dr. Ritsuko." Shinji said.
"Very good, here we go." she said before leaning back from the visual comm to the test plug and nodding at Maya, the assitant for this test.
"Filling the plug." Maya said.
"Filling the plug?" Shinji asked, before a sloshing sound caught his attention.
He looked down to see a yellow liquid filling the plug, coming right up at him. Shinji paniced a little as he remembered that he couldn't swim, before it dawned on him that it didn't really matter while he was in the plug. Then he really paniced.
"Hey! What is that! Stop it! Let me out of here! Let me out now!" he shouted.
"Don't worry Shinji. It's breathable. We call it LCL, and once you've let it into your system, it will oxygenate your blood directly. It helps you synch with the Eva and can keep you oxygentated longer then if we had an actual air supply in the Eva. Just calm down and take big gulps of it into your lungs. Breath deeply into it and you'll be fine once your body's used to it." Ritsuko assured Shinji.
By now the LCL had covered over Shinji's head. He was still paniced, and was having to hold back from blowing his way out of the plug. However, once Ritsuko assured him he could breath it, and ordered him to do so, he nodded for a moment. He hesitated a little longer, before blowing all the held in air out, making bubbles blow up infront of his face for a moment.
That only made him panic more as the liquid suddenly filled his lungs. No amount of preperation on his part could have prepared him for that first paniced feeling, as his body went through a huge series of twitching for several seconds. He had to hold on tightly to his muscles so he wouldn't damage any of the equipment. When his body finally calmed down, he was breathing normally, but had a disgusted sick look on his face.
"It tastses like blood or something." he complained before settling down.
"Sorry about that Shinji, but it's a neccessary side effect." Ritsuko said.
"I understand. Don't worry, since I know it's not blood, I'll probably get used to it after a few tries." Shinji said, his smile finally coming back.
Maya, one of the three higher techs, went through all the preperations and proceedures that would actually be used to activate an Eva, despite it was all being simulated. When the simulated Eva activated, Maya's eyes grew wide and she looked up at Ritsuko with a look of excitement.
"Sempai, his synch is holding steady at forty-nine point eight percent." she said.
"That amazing. No one has ever scored that high on their first try. It's as if he were born to pilot Eva." she said before a slight frown formed on her face thanks to the dark knowledge that her mind called up with that phrase.
She leaned over to speak into the visual comm again. "Shinji, you're doing excellently. Keep up the good concentration. Now, just think about taking a step, but don't over think it." she said, her voice calming itself thanks to her self control she had developed from so many years of working for NERV.
Shinji nodded, before willing the Eva to take a step. The simulated Eva took a single step, before taking another, and then another. It continued to do this, quickly going into a run around a giant sized running track. Soon Ritsuko had him doing several other common high school exercises like he were in a giant gym class. When that was all done, and they were pleased with his performance and mobility with the simulated Eva, they went on to other actual training exercises, such as city maneuvering and target pratice with the various Eva weapons.
This continued on for quite some time, several hours as a matter of fact. Shinji picked up on everything they tossed at him rather quickly. Ritsuko observed all of this with a critical eye, noting that Shinji seemed to have an enhanced ability to learn since he had been powered up. After a while when they gave him a minute's worth of a break, she spoke into the visual comm again.
"Shinji, I remember how you read that NERV manual in only seconds. With that thought in my mind, I must ask you how you are doing in school. Are you finding anything difficult? How far along are you with the school work itself?" she asked.
"I'm doing great actually. Everything's pretty simple really. I'm several months ahead in most subjects, and completely done in a few others. Why?" Shinji asked.
"Because I would like to give you some advanced school materials to help you advance faster." Ritsuko answered.
"Would I still be able to stay in that school, in that room?" Shinji asked.
"Yes, if that's what you want. You can remain there, but you can also do this work while you're at home. Are you interested?" she asked.
"Yes mam! I would enjoy that very much. Thanks!" Shinji exclaimed.
"That's okay Shinji. Just, don't call me mam again and we'll call it even." Ritsuko responded.
"Yes Dr. Ritsuko." Shinji said with a bigger smile.
"Now, let's get back to work." Ritsuko said before detailing the next exercise.
-three weeks later-
School is coming to a close. Shinji couldn't have been much happeir if he had tried. His friends, Kensuke and Touji, both had plans to go by the local arcade and play games for the rest of the day before coming by his place for the night since the next day wasn't a school day. He watched the clock count down, and listened intently as the teacher was wrapping up his customary speech as he always did, never being late for the bell.
The anticipation was beginning to get to him. His body was twitching slightly. He tried to calm himself, but his foot started to shake up and down on the ground. Without even realizing it, he began to put too much strength into it, and a small crack began to form under his foot, too small for anyone to really notice. However, people all around began to notice when the ground began to shake ever so slightly from the vibrations his foot was making in the ground.
Realizing what he was doing, Shinji immedaitely stopped, and the ground settled back to its still state again. Everyone was quite startled by the sudden start and stop of the shaking, but no one had the slightest idea what had caused it, everyone but Touji and Kensuke who had been watching. Their eyes were as big as tennis balls as they had watched Shinji shake the earth his just his foot alone.
His friends did know about Shinji's immense power yes, but they had rarely seen examples of it besides him flying or reading super fast. They had only seen him display his speed once, when he was playing a small and harmless joke on some students, rushing behind them to tap their shoulders, before flashing away before they turned around. Now they had seen a true example of his strength, and they were awe struck. It deffinately was enough to truely get them curious as to what else he could do.
They were so awe struck that they hadn't even noticed that they obeyed the stand-bow-dismissed order that Hikari had given purely out of habit. Shinji however was paying full attention, and grabbed them to take them outside. He found those video games at the arcade quite addictive for some reason, and wanted to face off against his friends as soon as possible.
"Alright Shinji, you can let go of us now!" Touji exclaimed as Shinji had rushed them outside of the door.
"Yeah man, you don't have to be in such a hurry just because you can move super fast! Did you ever stop to think that we might not be able to withstand the force that your kind of speed would put on us?" Kensuke asked.
That stopped Shinji in his tracks. He stood back for a moment, holding his hand to his chin. He kept that position for a few moments. After a while, he got his smile back and answered them.
"Touji's little sister held up fine under super speed. Ofcourse, I only had to use it for a few seconds to get her to safety, but she was fine afterwards." Shinji said with a smile. "Are you saying that you two are weaker then a second grader?" Shinji asked with a slightly mischeivous smile.
"Shinji, she said that she was so dizzy that she barely was able to see you kill the angel. You wouldn't want your pals barfing all over the arcade, would you?" Touji asked.
"Yeah... you're right about that..." Shinji started, but was interupted as a shadow fell over him.
He looked up to see a blue haired, red eyed girl in bandages and a school uniform standing there. It ofcourse was Rei Ayanami standing there. To this day he was puzzled and a little nervous with her lack of emotion to her face and body. Her strangely different ki signature from any other human didn't help.
"There is an emergency. I will report to NERV, I suggest you call in to find the status of the target and follow your orders." she said in a complete monotone voice before running towards the nearest NERV entrance.
"Aw man, and I was looking forward to those arcade games. Oh well, if everything goes okay, I'll see you guys later tonight. See ya! And get to a shelter, there's going to be trouble!" Shinji called as he took to the air while no one but Touji and Kensuke was looking.
"Well, if it's an angel, it just saved us from getting our butts kicked at video games." Touji said.
"Mmhmm." Kensuke said with an agreeing nod.
-NERV-
"The government and all concerned ministries have been notified." one of the lower techs stated.
"The present effective rate of the anti-aircraft interception system is forty-eight percent." Maya stated.
"Status of noncombatants and civilains?" Misato demanded.
"Reports indicate evacuation is complete." one of the higher three techs, Shigeru, answered.
The large holographic screen showed an image of the floating squid looking angel just entering the city near the mountains. It had two stubs, one on each side of it, that looked like someone had amputated its arms, and no evidence of any legs or other appendiges. Its large beady eyes didn't even move as its face was facing the ground the whole way while it floated.
"So the fourth angel comes while the Commander is absent. It's a lot earlier then I expected.
"The last one gave us a fifteen year preperation. This one comes before we're even finished replenishing our city defenses in three weeks." the last of the three higher techs, Makoto, said.
"They never take our schedule into consideration. They're the type that women hate." Misato said.
Suddenly Misato's cell phone rang. She picked it up to see Shinji's number on the caller id. She quickly answered.
"Yes Shinji?" she said into the phone.
"Misato, I can sense where it is. It might be able to sense me too. You want me to attack it directly, or let the city defenses attack him as a distraction?" Shinji asked as he hovered where he hoped was out of the angel's detection range.
"Yes Shinji, let the city defenses distract it before making your initial attack. Be ready to attack in exactly two minutes." she said.
"Alright, I'm hanging up now. You have my number if you have anymore orders." Shinji said before hanging up.
-in the mountains-
Touji and Kensuke snuck up and out of one of the emergency exits located in the mountains. They looked up to see the angel floating through the city just a few miles away. Kensuke started to freak out with happiness as he filmed it while they ran to a safer and higher spot to view from.
"This is so absolutely COOL!" Kensuke exclaimed.
"Yeah yeah, whatever. It's really dangerious up here you know. We could die or something and all you can think about is how cool it is." Touji said as they ran.
"You agreed to come. Don't complain! You know you wanted to see Shinji fight the angel as badly as I do. So don't deny it." Kensuke said.
Touji only grunted as they reached a good viewing spot and stopped to watch. Suddenly both boys were brought to silence as the city defences opened up and opened fire on the angel. Every bullet, every missile, every piece of shrapnel that was flung at the angel was stopped dead by it A.T. field that held strong against the battering of the defences.
-change of perspective-
Shinji too watched for a moment as the defences pounded on the A.T. field like raw eggs being flung at a cruise ship. All they did was make a splattering effect before falling away. He still watched for a few moments as they angel neared one of the defence platforms shooting high speed bullets at it. It raised up so as to face it, and two long energy whips extended out of the holes that were on each side.
With a near lightning speed slash from each whip, the platform fell clean to pieces, and then exploded. Now Shinji knew what its primary offensive attack was. With that knowledge in mind, he tore through the sky at it like a bullet out of a gun barrel. The angel barely had a moment to enforce its A.T. field before Shinji slammed into it.
Before Shinji had a chance to ram his way through, the angel slashed a whip at him. Shinji brought up his left arm to block, and the burning whip slammed into his arm, burning his skin. It was so big and had so much momentum that it continued on and wrapped completely around Shinji, squeezing him in its burning embrace. With a quick power up, Shinji slipped out of its grasp and flew backwards away from the angel.
Looping around, Shinji charged at the angel once again. This time he fired thre high powered ki blasts at the angel's A.T. field. All three hit different spots, causing it to shimer. Shinji used the temporary weakness to push his body through the A.T. field. Immediately the angel slashed at him with its whips again. Shinji dodged several dozen times, before charging up a large ki blast and firing it at the angel.
The blast didn't hit its face like he had planned, but it did cut the angel's whip clear off. It seemed to be in pain and quickly backed off. Shinji went to charge at it, but the angel surprised him with a cross beam firing off out of its eyes. He braced himself and spred his aura to minimize the damage. The cross beam detonated below him him, causing very little damage to the city, and quickly faded. When it faded, Shinji still hovered there, unharmed.
Shinji charged at the angel again. The angel trailed Shinji's zig zagged path at it with cross beams. When Shinji was almost to its A.T. field again, he was caught off guard by an energy whip. The whip hit him so hard that it knocked him back over half a mile, steam coming off of his body from the burning he had gotten from it. He was about to try and charge again, when the angel suddenly made the strangest of noises, and then its lost whip came out of its socket once again. It charged at Shinji this time, and Shinji started to back away.
He fired off over three dozen low powered ki blasts at it as he backed away. They all slammed into the A.T. field, doing noticably more of an effect against it then the city defences that had since stopped firing. The A.T. field shimmered more brightly and almost seemed to waver a moment as the blasts detonated against it. The angel quickly chased after Shinji through the air as he retreated back towards the mountains.
Suddenly as Shinji ducked under a whip, and had to sideways dodge to avoid the other whip, both carving small cuts into the mountain, Shinji detected two small ki signatures on the mountain below them. He instantly reconized them as Touji and Kensuke. He gasped at this as the whips came at him from both left and right.
He reached out and caught both whips with his hands, burning his skin from the cutting energy, as he held on to them for a few seconds. The angel applied pressure to try and kill him between the whips, but he would have none of that. Shinji let out a yell of power as he called up a powerful aura that blew the whips about like paper in the wind while he still held tight to them. He lowered himself, pulled the whips hard over his head, before heaving them even harder back at the angel. The result sent the angel hovering at high speeds back into the city.
Shinji dipped down to the ground quickly and snatched up his friends. They screamed for only a moment as he phazed away at high speeds for a distant part of the city, leaving them on top of a building roof top. He frowned at them a moment, before charging at the angel again.
"Now you got me mad angel! I'll finish you off quickly this time!" he shouted out as he slammed against the A.T. field once again. He let out a shout of pain as both whips wrapped around him tightly and burned his entire body at once. He gritted his teeth, powered up his aura again, and kept pushing into the A.T. field. All at once, he broke through the A.T. field and slipped from the angel's grasp.
His fist slammed into the core of the angel, sending casms of cracks riddling the entire core right in the center of the angel. He pulled his fist back and punched it again, and again, and again. Suddenly he charged up a blast, and sent a ki beam right through the core. It dimmed quickly and went silent and dark. The angel's life drained out of it and it was soon completely lifeless.
Shinji backed up and took a few seconds to collect his breath. When he had regained his breath he pulled out his phone again. Dialing up Misato's number he waited for her to pick up.
"Shinji? Are you alright?" she asked.
"Misato, target is eliminated. I'm fine. I'm going to go pick up my friends off of the roof I left them on, take them back to the apartment, change my clothes, have a talk with them about being outside during battles, and then go play at the arcade with them for the rest of the day. I'll talk to you later." he said with his smile coming back.
"Alright Shinji. Have a good day and make sure you're okay before leaving the apartment." Misato said, not really able to do anything to stop him.
"Thanks. See ya!" he said before hanging up and flying to meet his friends.
-several minutes later-
Andross hovered infront of the dead angel's broken core. He wore a smirk as he looked at the thousands of cracks in the center of the core, and smaller less damaging cracks in the rest of it. He was beginning to really enjoy watching this dimention.
"That kid is doing pretty well so far. I wonder how well he'll do with what is coming later. Maybe I'll drop a few more surprises on him just to see how he deals with them too. This is really getting fun. Just what I needed to releave my boredom. Well, keep up the good work kid, and thanks for leaving the core again." he said to himself.
Andross ripped out a chunk of the core and put it in the waiting funnel coming out of his arm. The funnel closed and quickly absorbed the chunk. Andross's body sent out a shockwave of power again, still undetectable by NERV or Shinji. He smirked even bigger as his new A.T. field increased in power and his bag of angel tricks grew larger. With that finished, he vanished into thin air.
To Be Continued...!
