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 Notes: Well, here it is... Chapter Seven. I know that a lot of you have been waiting for this one for a while now. This is the chapter that I was offering a clip from if anyone could guess the answer to the hospital room 404 joke. That means that some of you know that something big is coming, but don't really know how. As for the rest of you, well, you'll just have to read and find out too!
If anyone sent in an answer, weither they believed it to be correct or not, please let me know. I can no longer offer the clip, but I can offer you something else. I am now offering a list of the modifications being done to unit 01, and it may shock and surprise you what is in store for the future. So, I am still excepting answers, correct or not. I am also still taking pairing suggestions, and especially suggestions on how to have them occur and how to make them work. Any other suggestions for the story, or just plain e-mails are also welcome. Here is my e-mail address. Just remove the spaces.
a n d r o s s 9 3 7 (at sign) y a h o o . c o m
Well, I hope you enjoy this chapter. I've been waiting to post this for over three weeks!
-story begin-
Shinji floated a hundred feet in the air. It wasn't that high for him, but for most people, ten stories was more then enough of a drop to kill you. Despite this fact, the fear of his death due to sudden drop from even ten times as high up as he was had been long gone from his mind for quite some time now. His mind was occupied with something else completely.
He hadn't had a very peaceful sleep that night. It was true that most nights his dreams were filled with battles, but most of the time he was winning or at least holding his own. He had always had control over his ki in his dreams, just like in life. However, those nasty green things had been in his dreams that night, and they had beat the living snot out of him all night. It was true that he felt no physical pain from the dream beating, but he was tremendously mentally tired from it.
But in the end of his dream, hope had come to him. More knowledge had unlocked in his mind. It felt like he had to fight harder to unlock it then he had to when he had unlocked any of the other knowledge, as if it were somehow forbidden to him until he were more ready for it. Still, his mind had unlocked it and released it. He had more control then before, and he was preparing to try and use it in real life.
Despite the great hope it had given him in his dream, and the incredible adrenaline high it had put him on today, he couldn't remember what that knowledge had done. He only remembered that it had been the key to his success in the battle, and he had wiped the floor with those little green monsters. His mind raced as he was recalling the knowledge he had gained, almost slower then it should have come. It was as if his mind were trying to warn him about some kind of danger from the knowledge.
Still, if it could give him another advantage in the fight against the angels, and anything else that came along, he had to embrace the knowledge. Besides, his curious side was begging to get to try the new ability out. Even with all his determination, he still wasn't sure about the safety of it though. That was why he was floating over the empty field several miles from the city.
He had his eyes shut as he concentrated on his breathing. He did all he could to calm himself and prepare himself. He had to keep his ki lowered, only just high enough to keep him in the air. He didn't want NERV to detect him and wonder why he was out here so far from the city. The last thing he needed to keep his concentration was his cell phone going off.
He suddenly opened his eyes as he felt that he was finally ready to try out the ability. He started to shout out as he raised his power, no longer caring about NERV and their concerns about his rising power. He had to power up to use the knowledge, that much he knew so far. As he was nearing his maximum, his mind was flooded with the full knowledge he sought.
The Split Form technique. That was what he sought. It was a technique that allowed him to split into two people, both of them being himself, both being connected on some level. When a certain amount of time elapsed or enough damage was done to one or both forms, they would join again. Until then, they were seperate and completely equel, keeping his previous power level. Having two of himself to fight the angels and anything else that came along sounded like a very good idea to him.
He shouted out more as he felt himself readying to split in two. It hurt, alot. The pain was immense! Still, he kept his concentration through it, and continued on. A terrible ripping sound came, like someone was ripping flesh. He looked down to see his arm coming out of... his arm. He had two left arms!
Next his right arm broke loose from itself. It hurt unlike anything short of the most severe battle inflicted injuries he had ever felt. His legs came next, wiggling free of themselves. Suggenly something went wrong. He could feelt it go wrong. He could feel that something was going terribly wrong!
He felt all the adrenaline he had in his system course out and into his chest. It spread a cool feeling through his entire body, though it wasn't the source of the cold chills he felt. He could see his aura now, twisting around his mutated looking body that was still splitting in two. On his back he could see his normal steem aura, but something else was there too.
A horrible black aura twisted, mixing with purple and red collors as it swirled. It all swirled and twisted, gathering together until it poured into his chest, as if into his heart. Right then he saw his chest break free of itself. The dark aura poured into one chest, while the steaming aura came from the other. Then his head split, his own head staying with the steaming aura body, while a new one, just like his, went with the dark aura body.
He stared for a moment as the new Shinji examined himself, before laughing a menacing laugh. Before Shinji had a chance to react, the new Shinji twirled and slammed his entwined fists into the back of Shinji's head. The blow instantly knocked Shinji unconscious as he fell harmlessly to the grassy field below.
The new Shinji still hovered there in the sky, a full out smile on his face. Though, his smile was not the customary care free smile that Shinji wore, but a different smile, a demented smile. He had a malicious look to his eyes as he looked down at the sleeping Shinji, and then up at the city. His deranged smile grew even further as he flew off towards it with no one to stop him.
-NERV, one hour later-
Misato was a little upset, a little annoiyed, a little confused, and a little worried. Shinji was late for his synch test. Rei and Asuka had already begun, but Shinji wasn't here. Shinji was always here on time, always! He hadn't been late for one thing since Misato had known him. Now he was nearly twenty minutes late.
"Try his cell phone again." Misato ordered Makoto.
The higher bridge tech nodded and pressed a few buttons. He waited with his hand pressed against the head set he was wearing. Several seconds went by before he shook his head with his face in a slight frown.
"I'm sorry mam, but he's still not answering. The phone is deffinately on, he just isn't picking it up." Makoto said, sounding somewhat dissapointed. He hated to give the Captian a negative answer.
"Alright. I'm authorizing a search for his energy patterns through out the entire city." Misato said. She was starting to get really worried. She didn't know why, because they would've detected an angel, and had set the Magi to detect any high energy patterns other then Shinji's, just incase more of those green things showed up. She shuddered when she thought of those things.
"Yes mam." Maya said as her fingers flew across the boards.
A large holographic display of the entire city of Tokyo-3 came up and waves of blue swept across it. They were scanning for any kind of high energy source, but especially Shinji's particular waves. The search went on for several seconds, before big red letters came up declaring that no search results had been found.
Suddenly Misato's phone rang. She picked it up with impressive speed for someone not as strong or as fast as Shinji. She checked the caller id., and sure enough, it was Shinji's phone calling her. She answered it quickly.
"Shinji, where the hell are you! You're twenty minutes late!" she scolded.
The response she got wasn't the kind she was expecting.
"Are you looking for me Misato?" Shinji asked in an almost maniacal tone.
"What?" Misato breathed, too shocked to hear Shinji sounding like he did just then.
"Are you looking for me?" he asked again, sounding like he got some kind of demented joy from making her sound so upset.
"Y-yes Shinji. We just ran a search of the city for your energy. We didn't detect you. Where are you?" Misato asked, speaking slower and more nervious then before.
Suddenly the holographic display lit up on one section. In a brilliantly bright light, the display updated itself to account for one destroyed building. According to the display, controled by the Magi, the estimated cassualties were in the several hundreds. Misato gasped in shock and fear, a cold feeling spreading through her system as a small but bright dot appeared by the destroyed building, apparently hiding itself from detection before.
"Found me yet?" Shinji asked before going off into a crazed type of laughter.
"S-s... Shinji, how could you?" Misato asked, her voice going completely cold from the shock.
"Don't call me that. It's not my name. It's his name, yes, but not mine!" Shinji declared angerilly. "Just call me Shin." Shinji said, you could almost see the deranged grin as he said it.
"Why?" Misato asked.
"Because I'm not him! I'm the darkness that was within Shinji. I'm the darkness that was in him, just like there's darkness in everyone, waiting to be set free. Also, just because I think I might like the name, because I'm still part of him, but I'm not him. I broke free of him and his restrictions, and now I'm out to play. I like games. Do you like games Misato? I think we should play a game. You had better put me on speaker so that everyone there can hear the rules of the game." Shinji said wickedly.
Misato did put the phone on the speaker so that everyone there could hear it. When she did, Commander Ikari and Sub-commander Fuyutuski entered the room and sat on their platform, watching over the entire situation from high above. The Commander didn't show any reaction at all to the destroyed building on the display, nor to the casualty numbers, or to the fact that his son was the one that caused it all.
"Okay, time to play. Here's the rules to the game. I go somewhere in the city, and then I count down from ten. If you can't shoot me with one of the city's defenses by the time I get done counting, I kill some people beneath me. If you can shoot me in time, then I let them live and move to the next spot. Don't worry, I'll stand still. Here, I'll show you how it works!" Shin exclaimed with maniacal glee.
With that he flew to a rather highly populated zone of the city. There was just one problem, the city defenses in that area had been too badly damaged to work properly, and hadn't been fixed yet. By now they had Shinji on camera as he floated there with his crazed grin.
"Ten..." he began counting. "Nine..."
"Shoot him!" Misato ordered in despiration.
"Eight..." Shin said as he raised a finger at an apartment building.
"Tracking and targeting. Missile accuracy prediction, only twelve percent!" Shigeru shouts.
"Seven..." Shin said, an energy ball beginning to build infront of his finger.
"That will have to do. Fire!" Misato ordered.
"Six..." Shin kept going.
"Firing missiles!" Makoto exclaimed.
"Five..." Shin said.
Three missiles ignited, but only one took off. The second one exploded immediately, also detonating the third one.
"Four..." Shin kept going.
The missile shot through the air, swirling and curving in its crooked path, passing by Shinji with several miles in between them.
"Three..." Shin said, as if it were only a fly that went past him.
The missile impacted with a highly used mall. It exploded and blew up the entire mall, and everyone inside of it. It was estimated by the Magi that at least a thousand people had been inside of it.
"Two..." Shin continued unfazed.
The bridge watched in horror. They had fired the faulty missile, and it had killed those innocent people. Why was this happening? Why were they forced to do this?
"One... You know the rules. You didn't hit me, so I get to do this!" Shin exclaimed as he shot the small ball of ki.
It shimmered in the air for a second, before tapping against the building. Suddenly there was a brillaint explosion that wiped out an entire three city blocks. Shin still floated there with his demented grin.
"Shall we play again?" Shin asked wickedly.
Shin flies to another populated area of the city, stopping right over one of the buildings that would lower in the case of an angel attack. As he arrives, the angel alarms begin to go off, and people scatter for the shelters. He watches for a moment as the building begins to slowly lower down into the ground. Suddenly he gets a serious look to his face as he looks to where he knows, from NERV training, where one of the cameras is. He stared right into it as they stare back at him through it.
"Misato..." he starts into the phone.
"Y-y...yes Shin..." she starts to say back, almost unable to speak as she is looking at a side to Shinji that there never should have been. If Shinji had this kind of evil locked up inside of him, what was inside her? What waited in the shadows, craving for release from its chains of control.
"Promise to kill me." he said, his voice cold and emotionless, but with a darkness that Rei's voice never held. It sounded too much like Gendo's voice for Misato's liking.
"What...?" she asked in shock again.
"Promise to kill me." Shin said again.
"Why?" she asked, her body twitching from the intense emotions going through her. She was confused and scared. She didn't know what was going on, but she had to stop it, some how.
"Promise to kill me, or I'll kill them all." Shin said.
"Why Shinji?" she asked.
"My name is not SHINJI!" Shin shouted in anger, his voice scaring her, but not as much as his eyes. They were so filled with malice and hate, it sent shivers down her spine. "Now promise to kill me or I'll kill them!" he said.
"A-al...alright Shin, I promise to kill you..." Misato said quietly.
"Then do it!" Shin roared before pointed his finger at the still decending building, even as it locked in place. "Ten..." he started to count again.
"Shoot him now!" Misato exclaimed.
"Nine..." Shin kept counting.
Fingers flew across mulitple controls.
"Eight..."
The city defenses rose.
"Seven..."
They locked on to him and prepared to fire.
"Six..."
Massive bullets the size of cars fired from the defenses.
"Five..." Shin said with a grin.
The bullets slammed into his body, denting and bending around his shape before bouncing away without doing even the slightest thing to him. He kept his smile on him the whole time. The bullets just bounced away to bounce and skid along the city streets. Several seconds of them just shooting at him went by before the bullets ceased coming, and he still floated there with his smile, and his finger was still pointing at the building.
"Very good Misato. You just saved these people's lives. Too bad that I plan on killing so many more. Well, let's keep the game moving right along, shall we?" he asked with his smile, his deranged smile.
-NERV synch testing area-
"What the hell is the idoit doing?" Asuka shouted out as she watching a feed of what the command center was watching. She just couldn't get audio for some stupid reason having something to do with the test plug. "What's wrong with him!"
"That's not Shinji." Ritsuko said, her professional voice sunding slightly off. "He calls himself Shin, and he say's he's not Shinji. You are ordered to engage him. Use lethal force." Ritsuko ordered.
"What? You can't be serious." Asuka said, utterly confused. One minute Shinji was NERV's hero. He hadn't even stepped into his own Eva yet, and he had already killed three angels with his bare hands. He helped her kill the sixth angel, and then defended them all from those green things. Now he had flipped and they wanted her to kill him? It just didn't make sense to her.
"You have your orders, now get to your Eva before he kills anymore people." Ritsuko said coldly.
Asuka could only nod numbly as she saw Shinji threatening another building.
-Tokyo-3-
Shin was laughing as hard as he could, they had missed him that time. Now there was only a hole in the groing where the building had been. It had been in the ground, hiding from the wrath of the angels. Too bad it couldn't hide from his power. Now there was nothing left to hide.
Suddenly another building that was still standing high in the air shook. He turned to it with a knowing smile. The front of it dropped down and revealed Evangelion unit 02 standing there. It stared at him with its four glowing eyes, hate and rage almost apparent on its face. Shin grinned a demented grin at it, wondering what kind of face the pilot of the Eva wore.
"I've been waiting for you to come Asuka." Shin said with a malicious voice.
"I can't believe they're sending me against him without even Ayanami to back me up. Oh well, I can take care of him by myself." Asuka said to herself, knowing it was just a lie. She would have to try and kill him as fast as possible. One chance, and he would surely tear her Eva apart.
The Eva lunged forward and clamped its hands around Shin. He didn't move, wanting to play with her a little. It was then that he discovered that she wasn't in a playful mood. Asuka focused her entire AT-field in between her fists to try and crush Shin. Shin actually shouted in unexpected pain as the force on his body increased to levels he didn't know an AT-field could create.
It was hurting him, alot. Still, through it all he didn't let go of his demented grin. It did hurt, but not enough to keep him from enjoying her futile efforts. He waited a few more minutes, shouting even louder then before, letting her think that she was killing him.
Asuka didn't know if she could do it. She hated to admit it, but Shinji had saved her and everyone else from those green things. Now she was killing him. She didn't honestly know if she could do it. After all, she was trained to kill angels, not people. His shouts of pain where starting to get to her, make her feel the slightest bit of pity for him. Then something caught her eye in the corner of her vision.
She looked over to see the smoldering hole in the ground. It took a few seconds, but it dawned on her that that was where a building used to be. It had been a building filled with people hiding from the angel attack. People had been in there, innocent people, and now they were dead. They had been killed, by Shinji. That gave her the firm resolve she needed to finish the job. She squeezed all the harder now.
Shin felt the pressure. He felt her force her fists down on him, trying to crush the life out of him. Still he smiled, deciding that now was the time. He decided to act when she was the most sure of herself, sure she would kill him. His smile grew as his shouts of pain changed to shouts of power and control.
His aura of darkness roared to life around him, forcing the AT-field to waver and shimer brightly. He kept shouting, forcing his ki outwards, while Asuka grunted and tried to push her AT-field farther inwards, using her hands to put more force into it. It didn't help as she could hear a cracking sound, like glass getting ready to break.
Asuka's hands shot apart as her AT-field shattered and broke from a sudden burst of Shin's ki. He laughed at her, a dark and menacing laugh. Before she could regain her balance, Shin shot forward and slammed his fist into her Eva's gut, forcing her to bend forward from the pain. She could swear that she would've bruised if the Eva's injuries were transferred to her body and not just her mind. Shin then twisted up and back handed her Eva's upper chest.
Her Eva flew backwards and slammed into the ground hard. The breath had been knocked out of her from his two blows, and she was getting scared. If he pressed his advantages, she could easily be killed. Shin laughed and fired off a ki blast. It was giant and near black in its darkness, as it passed right past her head. She was confused for a seconds, until a count down began as her umbilicle cable had been cut.
"Shit!" she shouted.
Shin laughed as he flew around her for a second, before flying away into the city again. She quickly taps into the NERV cameras to track him. A cold feeling runs down her spine when she sees him stop over a shelter. He grins at where he knows the camera is, that deranged look still on his face.
"Asuka, get to another power station and get another umbilicle cord. If you don't, you'll run out of power and you won't be able to fight him." Misato ordered.
"Asukaaa?" Shin called out in a wicked sing song voice. "I know you can hear me. How about we keep playing that game we were playing. If you don't get to me before I stop counting, I kill everyone in this shelter with one little blast." Shin called out. "Ten..." he started.
"No time Misato!" Asuka called out over the intercom.
"Nine..." Shin called as he pointed down at the shelter.
"Eight..." Asuka was up and running.
"Seven..." She dodged around two more buildings.
"Six..." Asuka jumped clear over a smaller building.
"Five..." Asuka was jumping from building top to building top in an effort to reach Shinji in time.
"Four..." She jumped up and into the air...
"Three..." She came down and tried to swat Shinji right out of the air.
She only struck an after image. She didn't even have time to see that much as Shin slammed his elbow into the gut of her Eva again, knocking the air out of her, and her out of the air. Her Eva slammed into the ground hard once more. She tried to stand again, but Shin grabbed the arm of her Eva and flipped her through the air.
Asuka's Eva slammed to the ground on its face. Before she could even try to stand again, Shin was standing on her back, keeping her held to the ground just by standing there. No matter how hard she struggled, she couldn't get up. She pulled and tugged at the controls, screaming in rage and fear as she couldn't get up. The timer counted down, slowly almost as time seemed to slow down, and she knew she was going to die. Just as the realization came over her, her Eva went dark from lack of power.
"No,no,no,no,no,no,NOO!" She shouted.
There was silence after that. The silence lasted for several seconds as she could hear nothing, see nothing, and feel nothing of the Eva. Then the sound of metal bending and warping reached her ears. She realized what it was in terror. It was the sound of her Eva's neck plate being ripped off. Sudden motion washed over her as she felt her plug being pulled out of the Eva.
Once again silence reigned inside her plug. She was afraid even more now. Why had he pulled her plug out? Why hadn't he just blown her Eva to pieces? Then a massive noise assaulted her senses as the back of the plug was ripped right off. Shin didn't stop there though as he continued to rip the plug apart, pulling the walls off of it, letting the LCL flow and slosh out as he did. Finally he was standing only feet from her, the LCL having covered him and washed over him.
Even with the sticky and smelly LCL having covered him while he was still in his school uniform, he was still smiling. For a second she thought it was his kind and caring smile, but then that illusion stopped. She saw his smile for what it really was. It was a smile of wickedness and malice. She knew then that it truely wasn't Shinji standing before her.
Shin held his hand up towards her, a glowing ball of ki floating just in front of it. Her breath caught as it flew towards her. She closed her eyes and braced for her death as she saw it coming for her head. When she heard a small explosion and an electricle popping sound, she opened her eyes to see him still standing there, still smiling. She briefly peeked behind her to see that he had destroyed the console to control the Eva, and also the communications between her plug and NERV.
"Just didn't want anyone peeking in on us." Shin said as he started to approach Asuka.
Asuka was scared. She didn't know exactly what Shin was going to do to her, but she knew that she wouldn't like it. His grin only grew as he saw her fright. When he was only two feet away, she suddenly snapped and lunged at him. She pounded on him with her fists, hitting him as hard and as fast as she could. None of it effected him in the slightest.
Shin let her carry on like that for a minute or so, before he snatched up her by the wrist. He held her up so that she couldn't get away, keeping her face only inches from his own. She still struggled, hitting and kicking for all she was worth. Still he let her continue on. Then he suddenly forced her into a kiss, ignoring how she bit his tongue. It didn't hurt him at all. He even enjoyed it. After he was done he tossed her back to the ground, not hurting her.
"I've wanted to do that since Shinji first saw you. I'll come back for more when I'm done." Shin said before flying off towards the nearest NERV entrance.
-NERV command center-
"Tracking target's energy signature. It is confirmed, he's headed here. He's headed for NERV." Makoto reported.
"Understood. Alert all security to avoid him. They would do nothing but get themselves killed." Misato ordered, her voice becoming harder to use. She was worried about what he might have done to Asuka. They had seen him ripping her plug to pieces to get to her, and then the survalence and communications equipment was destoryed.
"Negetive. Cancel that order. Order them to engage and stop the target." Gendo ordered from high up on his platform.
"What!" Misato exclaimed. "Sir, they can't stop him. They won't even be able to slow him down! He'll just kill them all!" she shouted.
"They may distract him." Gendo said simply, his voice cold. It was suddenly apparent to Misato where Shinji's inner darkness came from. It was the same kind of darkness that festered within his father, this man that gave them commands, and that they followed.
"Mam?" Maya asked tentatively.
"What!" Misato said as she turned on Maya suddenly.
Maya leaned back in the slightest amount of fright. Misato saw this and softened.
"What?" she asked softer.
"Well.. I was just wondering... what do you think he did to Asuka? Do you think that she's alright?" Maya asked worriedly.
"I don't know. We can only hope that she's alright." Misato said, her voice heavy with worry.
Ritsuko walked into the room and immediately got to action.
"We mustn't allow him to reach the command center!" she declared, getting Misato's full attention. "We will have to put the maze program into effect." she said in a firm tone of voice. (A/N: I credit the author dragon's death for this idea, though I must admit that it isn't all that original, since the place is pratically a maze anyways.)
"Right. Alert and evactuate all non-essiantal personel. Once they're out, flood all corridors that aren't effected by the maze program with Bakelite." Misato ordered.
"Roger." Makoto said.
-NERV entrance-
Shin touched down in front of one of the NERV entrances. Surprising to him, there were two guards standing there pointing guns at him. They looked nervous, while Shin only smiled his wicked smile. Immediately they opened fire on him, but the bullets did nothing to faze him in the slightest.
Shin walked forward, towards the large door. The guards kept firing, but he ignored them. He walked through it, bending and ripping the metal around his body as he walked on with out slowing down in the slightest. He kept a steady pace even as more guards threw themselves at him with their guns blazing. Still their gunfire did nothing to even faze him. Large doors began to lower from the cieling all over NERV, cutting off his path, or so they hoped. Shin just kept walking, bursting straight through the doors by walking into them. None of it slowed him down.
He raised his eyebrow as entire passage ways had been filled with Bakelite before him. Still he walked on though. He broke it and crushed it, forcing it out of the way just by walking. Seeing this as an oppertunity, Misato ordered that his already made path also be filled with Bakelite, hoping to cut off his oxygen.
Large amounts of Bakelite poured into the hole he was making in the already hardened Bakelite. It did cut him off from air, but he didn't let that stop him. He stopped his movement, and sent out a powerful shock wave of his ki. It ripped and shattered the Bakelite around him, sending it out like shrapenal the way he had came, killing each and every guard that had stopped chasing him at the beginning of the Bakelite. When he started walking again, there wasn't enough of the guards in one piece to i.d. what belonged to who.
He found himself surprised again when he broke free of it, to find the walls of all the corridors ahead moving around in a constant and slow motion. It was ever shifting, making a maze that didn't stay the same for even one second. It would take forever for any normal person to make their way to the command center through this way, but Shin wasn't normal.
Shin locked on to the ki signatures of those in the command center and used them as a beaken. He walked on, straight for the command center, using their ki to guide him. Any walls or other obstacles that got in his way was ripped right through. None of it slowed him down in the slightest. Not even the guards that he encountered in the maze along the way.
They too fired their guns at him. Shin just let them continue firing all they wanted. It was only after five minutes of non stop gun fire that he became annoiyed with the constant loud noise. He looked at them in a menacing way and actually growled.
"Stop." he ordered.
The commander of the guards gulped, before shooting at his head.
"Fine then. Die." he said simply.
Holding up his hand, he let out a few small ki blasts. The blasts vapourized the guards, leaving nothing left. These blasts also cut several other paths through the walls, but soon stopped. In seconds the pathes were covered up again by the shifting of the walls.
-NERV command center-
"Three meters... two meters... one meter! He's here!" Makoto shouted.
The large entrance to the command center was bent inward, before ripping away as Shin walked in at a casual pace. He still wore his deranged grin, and it now increased as he was finally able to see all their scared faces. They looked like deer caught in the headlights, just waiting to die very painful deaths. He looked up to see his father already gone, having taken his personal elevator. He already knew that ofcourse, but it still got him mad.
It made him so mad that he completely ignored everyone else. He started to walk towards the platform, passing by the various scared techs. Everyone stood perfectly still, as if maybe he wouldn't notice them if they didn't move. He even walked right passed Misato. She however did move, to pull out her gun and shoot at Shin in the back of the head. She unloaded her entire clip at him as fast as she could.
Shin stopped dead in his tracks. An air of coldness came off of him as his face changed to a very cold look, though it was not emotionless. It was filled with a barely supressed rage as Misato quickly reloaded her gun and fired at him again. This went on for several clips of ammunition, until Misato was finally out of bullets. Only now did Shin move.
He didn't move with lightning speed or dissapear as she had expected him to do. Instead he turned to face her very slowly. It sent very cold chills deep down her spine as she looked into his anger filled eyes. She could also see something else in those eyes. She didn't know what it was at first, until he began to walk towards her. It wasn't murderous intentions or a look that promised torture before a slow and painful death. No, it was something very different. It was a look of lust and desire hid by his rage, and it struck even more fear into her heart.
Shin walked to her, and she couldn't move a muscle. Makoto showed impressive courage by standing between Shin and Misato. It didn't help a bit though as Shin simply shoved him aside, slamming him into a wall. It was enough to knock him out, but not cause serious injury. Still, it caused everyone to become even more afriad. This fear increased as Shinji floated two feet off the ground, and picked Misato up to his eye level.
"I was going to wait until after I had completed my revenge, but I guess since you're so eager, I'll go ahead and do it here. Asuka's humilation was private, but yours will be public." Shinji said before kissing Misato deeply.
She grunted and struggled, biting his tongue as hard as she possibly could. It did her no good, and Shin only seemed to enjoy it. He held her in the kiss for several seconds, to the point where she was beginning to suffocate a bit. Finally he released her from the kiss, but didn't let her down. He held her back some more, looking into her angry and scared eyes.
"I wanted you to know that I won't be piloting the Eva after all Misato. So our agreement is off, and you can go back to your alcohol. After all, before I came around, it was probably the only thing you were good at, other then this..." he said before pulling her into another kiss, ignoring the tears that began to fall from her eyes.
Misato attempted to scream, but he just swallowed her screams as he forced the kiss deeper. Misato felt like he was sucking the air out of her, like he was going to kill her. Just as her body was beginning to panic purely from the lack of air, Shinji stopped the kiss again. Then he tossed her back to the ground, letting her fall to her butt. It didn't hurt her, but she was angry and humilated by him, and also emotionally hurt.
"I'll come back for more later." Shin said, striking even more fear into her heart.
Before Shinji turned back fully to the platform, he noticed Maya out of the corner of his vision. He turned to her with the same kind of grin as he had after kissing Misato.
"Hey there pretty lady..." he said before hovering towards her a foot.
He suddenly stopped though as he remembered that he came for another, more important reason. He could pick up more girls afterwards, when he would have time to really enjoy them. He made a kissing motion towards her, then turned and gave the same motion to Ritsuko. He even went so far as to reach over and grab her butt, giving it a squeeze, ignoring the slap she gave out of reflex. He grinned at her and released her butt from his grasp.
"I think I like that doctor. We'll try more later." he said.
With that he floated up and to the platform his father normally sat at. Fuyutuski stood defiantly infront of the elevator, as if to stop Shin. Shin only grinned his menacing grin again. The next thing Fuyutuski knew was that he was in intense pain as Shin had his fist against his stomach, having hit it very hard. Shin shoved Fuyutuski aside before ripping the elevator shaft open and lowering himself down.
Shin lowered down farther and farther, until he was sure he had gone over two miles down. It was then that he came across another door, the only one he had seen so far. He forced it open and floated in. He found himself in a giant chamber, big enough to fit several Eva's inside, with a giant metal door on the other end, also big enough to easily fit an Eva.
That was one of the reasons it didn't surprise him when he saw his father near the door, with Evangelion unit 00 standing behind him. It's orange paint reflected the lights down here like his father's glasses would, making it seem menacing to all but Shin and Gendo himself. Gendo still wore his smirk, though now it seemed ever so slightly troubled.
"Tell me, Shin, did you kill Fuyutuski?" Gendo asked.
Shin grinned before shaking his head no.
"You can relax father. I didn't permanetly harm your lap dog. He'll be fine in a few hours or so." Shin said.
"Good. Do not come any closer or I will order Rei to kill you Shin." Gendo said.
Shin grinned wider at this before starting to laugh, loudly. His laugh echoed through out the huge chamber. It made it seem all the more deranged and demented. It was bad enough to even make Rei cringe at it, disliking it very much.
"You think that I care? I tell you what father. You want to live, then you get down and beg for your life. Don't put it on others to die." Shin said as he started to slowly hover towards his father.
"Rei." Gendo simply said.
"Yes sir." Rei said, though you could hear the slightest amount of hesitation in her voice.
Before she was able to make her Eva take a full step forwards, Shin had attacked. He shoved it to the side and against a wall, causing it to dent the wall badly. He then blasted the one and only umbilicle cord down there. Rei's count down began, in more then one way in Shin's mind.
"You know Rei. I was having fun with Asuka, but you're really in my way. So, you're nothing more then an obstacle that must be removed." Shin said as he charged again.
Rei raised her AT-field to full strength as she could actually see Shin coming at her. Shin slammed into her AT-field and broke through it as if it wasn't even there. She gasped, before having the air knocked out of her as he began to pummel the Eva's gut. He continued to strike at the Eva, causing massive dents in its armor with each blow.
He struck several blows every second on the Eva, all the way until her timer was only a minute from finishing its count. Her Eva was almost out of power, and its armor was mishapen and lay in pieces on the floor. Now Shin could see what an Eva truely looked like, and it was truely ugly. He compared its greyish brown skin to that of a giagantic flightless bird or something that had its feathers pulled. Now he truely began his torture as he beat directly on its skin. Huge bruises formed all over, along with abrasions and all out cuts. As she only had fifteen seconds left, Shin spoke.
He floated to the Eva's face and looked right into its eye.
"Shinji promised to protect you Rei. Here's my promise to you. I will kill you when I have finished killing my father." Shin said.
Rei screamed more in pain as she felt Shin tear all four of the Eva's limbs off almost at the same time. He didn't stop there though as he began to rip it to pieces, lieterally, taring into its gut. She finally stopped screaming when the time ran out and her Eva lost power. She curled up into a small ball from the mental pain that had been inflicted on her as she waited for death. That was not Shinji out there, but it would kill her soon.
With that done, and his body now covered in the blood of the Eva, Shin turned his attention to his father. Gendo stared at what remained of Eva unit 00, the slightest look of shock and horror on his face. It was all Shin needed to see to know that his father was truely afraid.
"Ready to die father?" Shin asked.
Gendo did not answer him. Shin smirked more as he slowly approached. He waited infront of him for a few moments, just looking at the fear on his father's face. He took a great amount of wicked and insane pleasure from looking at his father's fear. If it were something physical, like a type of food, it would be his favorite meal that he would savor every day. Slowly he began to reach out to him, to grab his face.
Suddenly a huge shockwave echoed out into the chamber as something slammed into Shin so hard that he was tossed deep into the far wall, sending huge dents and cracks out into it like a web, twisting and mishaping the metal and breaking the concrete. Gendo looked up in surprise to see Shinji floating there, still in the stance he used to ram his leg into his other form as hard as he could. Shinji looked down at Gendo, before looking back at where his other form dissapeared into the wall.
"Run if you want to live." he said in a very serious tone of voice.
Gendo only nodded before running for his life towards the elevator. Shinji watched the hole in the wall with intense concentration for several seconds. Suddenly the walls shook and the floor and cieling rumbled as a roar of rage and power came. The web of twisted and broken metal and concrete grew and then shattered outwards as Shin came out with his dark aura blazzing at full strength. Shinji also let out a shout of anger and power as he too powered up to his absolute maximum, his aura glowing blood red in his anger. They stayed that way for several seconds staring into each other's eyes. They didn't need to guage each other's strength because they both knew that they were completely equal. The one to win this fight would be the one that wanted it more.
"Why are you saving him?" Shin asked.
"Because he doesn't deserve to die the way you would kill him." Shinji answered coldly.
"How do you know I wouldn't just kill him quick and painlessly?" Shin asked cocking his head to the side, an almost sarcastic tone to his voice as he grinned his deranged grin again.
"Because I wouldn't if I gave into my darkness." Shinji said coldly.
"Damn right you wouldn't." Shin said with malicious enjoyment, his deranged grin only growing at this. "Then shall we begin?" he asked.
"Let's." Shinji said.
Immediately the chamber shook and rocked hard as they impacted their fists together, going at it full strength. Their speed was incredible, no one on earth could keep track of them as they flew and fought, no one could've even tried. With each impact, the ground shook heavily, with each impact coming several times a second. It was like a constant shockwave that seemed to shake the entire planet.
-NERV command center-
The entire command center was shaking as they tried to keep track of the battle down below. Everyone tried to do their jobs, but fear was overriding each of them. Misato was the most shaken up, with Ritsuko being the second most shaken, and Maya trailing a very close third. Makoto was still unconscious and Fuyutuski could only sit in Gendo's chair.
The elevator dinged, and everyone turned to look at it nervously. Gendo stumbled out numbly. He wasn't injuried really, but he was badly shaken up from the shaky ride up due to the heavy shockwaves. It had rattled his senses pretty badly. Still, he regained his footing and walked back over to his desk. He remained standing though as he saw the pained look on Fuyutuski's face, and how he held his stomach in pain. He nodded in understanding before looking back down at the bridge crew.
"Status?" he demanded.
"Shinji and Shin are still fighting in Terminal Dogma. Their energy readings are off the scales, we've never seen anything this powerful!" Shigeru said in shock and amazement.
"From what we can tell sir, they're still both even, though its hard to tell exactly from their energy patterns alone. It's nearly impossible to tell them apart, as their energy patterns are the same. They're moving at such a high rate that they seem to fill the entire chamber all at once sir." Maya said, her voice coming out very shakely.
"Understood." Gendo said.
"We can only hope that Shinji wins sir." Misato said.
"Indeed." Gendo said, flashing his glasses in the light.
"He will die to prevent Shin from winning." Misato said, almost as if to herself. "This is a fight between him, and his demons." she breathed even quieter as the true realization came over her.
"Or demon." Shigeru corrected.
"What do we put these kids through? We ask them to fight the angels to save us whenever they come, to give up their youths to that preperation. Now we are even asking them to fight their demons. I can't help but wonder if we're as much monsters as the angels." Ritsuko asked, also to herself, though outloud where everyone could hear it.
"We ask them to do what must be done." Gendo said simply.
-Terminal Dogma-
The two still fought on for the next twenty minutes. They each used their full extent of power, knowledge, and experience. They had completely torn the chamber to pieces, to the point where the walls were threatening to fall in on themselves. One side had already completely caved in. It was nothing but a miracle that the huge metal door still stood there, almost untouched.
Still they fought on. Shinji grabbed Shin's foot and swung him into the ground, making another series of cracks and dents with Shin's face. Shin kicked his hands away before planting his foot in Shinji's stomach. Shinji spit, before bringing his fists down on Shin's knee. Shin screamed in pain before rushing up and head butting Shinji.
Shinji shouted in anger and pain. The two tried to punch each other, but caught their fists. They tried to kick, but intercepted their own knees. Shin's knee was the weakest because of Shinji's blow there, so he was hurt more by it. Shinji took advantage of his slower speed from the pain and brought his knee to Shin's chin, knocking it back. When Shin tried to recover, Shinji viciously head butted Shin's face as hard as he could, breaking his nose in yet another spot.
Shin forced Shinji back with a burst of ki, and they went at it again at full power. Thier ki was getting lower though as they were getting tireder. Still, their battle was no less intense. It still shook the earth, complaints beginning to come in from all over the globe demanding to know what was the source of the earth quakes coming from Japan. With the intensity that they fought, it was quickly coming to a close. They were just plain running out of power to fight with.
They blew each other apart once again, ending up on opposite sides of the chamber. They look each other in the eyes, sending a silent message to the other. It was time for the final blow to end the fight. Which of them would deliver it, niether of them knew.
They charged at each other with faster then light speeds, blinking out of any form of sight humans could hold. Yet, even at this speed, time seemed to slow to a snail's pace for each of them. Shin swung his fist at Shinji's head, but Shinji ducked. Shinji came up with his fist for Shin's stomach, but Shin blocked with both his fists, pushing Shinji's fist back. Shin suddenly twisted and broke Shinji's wrist, it was for the second time that fight.
Shinji cried out in pain, but did what he had to do. A beam of ki fired from his eyes, and cut past Shin. Shin didn't know at first what happened. When he didn't feel pain, he thought Shinji had missed. It was very bad looking for Shinji as he had put most of his remaining ki into that beam. Shin grinned his maliacious grin once again, before it dissapeared.
He looked as he realized his body was in shock and his ki was draining away rapidly. What he saw, stunned and shocked him. He was bleeding from his arm near the arm pit, bleeding a lot. The blood was pumping out quickly, and he somehow knew he couldn't stop it.
"Wha...?" he asked as his breath was quickly leaving him.
"It's a vein we learned about in school. It pumps thirty leters of blood a minute. The problem is, the human body only has five leters of blood." Shinji said grimly.
Shin looked up at Shinji and gave his grin once more, knowing it was the last time he would grin again.
"You know... Shinji... you played it pretty dirty... with that move..." Shin started.
Suddenly he poured his remained ki into an eye beam and tried to shoot Shinji in the same spot, but Shinji dodged away, having expected it. It did hit him though, cutting is left arm open pretty badly, spilling his blood onto Shin's face. Shin just kept grinning.
"You know you'll never really be rid of me..." he said, his last words.
"No, I won't, but I'll never let you out again." Shinji said.
Shin just stared Shinji in the eyes, no longer having the strength to speak. His look said it all though. It said very clearly that Shinji could never truely know if that were going to come true. Shinji nodded and hoped to all that was good that it came true. Shin died then, lying on the cold cracked floor of Terminal Dogma. He didn't shut his eyes, nor did he stop his grinning. The life simply left his eyes and he dropped his head to the ground, his ki fadding away.
Now Shinji had to concentrate on other pressing matters. His arm was bleeding badly. If he didn't stop the bleeding soon, he would bleed to death soon too. He quickly ripped his shirt into wide strips, hoping it would be enough. Suddenly he stopped.
He felt a calling. He didn't truely know what it was or what it was coming from. He only knew that what ever was calling him was behind that giant door. He knew he didn't have the strength to lift it or knock it over anymore, but the calling was so strong. He had to get past it, that much he knew for sure.
He got up and stumbled over to it, leaving a bloody trale in his wake.
-NERV command center-
"Energy patterns have ceased." Shigeru reported from the consoles.
Misato began to cry. She knew exactly what that ment. They were both dead. She felt extreme sorrow, but also relief. It was the relief that sickened her. Everyone else felt the same way, also hating themselves for feeling good about it now that Shin was dead. The only one that was unaffected was Gendo.
-Evangelion unit 00-
Rei's breathing calmed as the shaking stopped. She was actually afraid of the battle that had been going on, because she knew that it would determine the fate of everything. She had been so sure of things, where everything was going, and what her purpose was. When that fight had been going, she wasn't so sure about anything anymore, and it scared her some. Now though, she was more afraid of what the results of the battle would be. She just didn't have any way of finding out since too much damage had been done to her Eva to eject the plug. She would just have to wait for rescue, or horrible death. This time, there would be no other to replace her if she died, and that scared her worst of all.
-outside Evangelion unit 02-
Asuka felt the earth stop shaking. She was still by her broken and defeated Eva, still waiting for the recovery team. With no way to communicate with NERV since all the phones were out, and NERV was more then a twenty minute walk from there, she had no way of finding out why the recovery team was taking so long. She also had no way of finding out the results of the fight she knew had been going on.
She hadn't actually seen Shinji go into NERV since he entered from the other side of the city, but she knew that he was the only one who could face Shin. She was just concerned about which one had won. She knew that they may both very well be dead, and she also knew what would happen if Shin had survived. While she was strongly hoping that Shinji had won and lived, she still hated herself for thinking it would be better that they both die then then for Shin to have won and live.
She was scared, for herself, for earth itself, for every human, and for Shinji too if Shin should have won the fight. It would mean that Shinji was dead, and every person on earth could very well follow him into death. She also knew exactly what it meant for her, what Shin would do to her if he won, and it scared her so badly.
What also scared her almost as badly, was what Shin was. He was a completly evil person, with no good in him at all. He said that he was the darkness within Shinji, just as everyone had darkness within them. She was scared, because if Shinji, kind and carefree Shinji, had that kind of darkness inside him, what did she have inside her? What craved release every time she lost her temper at someone. How many times had she almost let it go free? What would happen if she ever did? It chilled her to the bone.
"Please have won Shinji..." she found herself saying quietly to herself.
-Terminal Dogma-
Shinji smashed at the console next to the door, hoping it would work the way he wanted it to. Luck seemed to be on his side this time as the door began to open. What he saw when it raised up enough for him to see inside chilled him deeply.
There in the center of an even bigger chamber was a giant red cross in the middle of a sea of LCL. It all smelled like blood to Shinji. It wasn't the cross that caught his attention though, it was what hung on it. It was a giant angel, completely white and almost human looking. It wore a mask with seven eyes on it, and its head was tilted to look right at him. Its arms were stuck to stakes on the sides of the cross. Its legs weren't completely formed, with little human sized legs and arms sticking out of the stumps. A huge red spear of some sort stuck out of it, keeping its chest from sagging down, pinning it to the cross.
"That's just sick..." Shinji said, feeling himself growing weaker.
The calling grew stronger, and Shinji knew now what was calling him. He didn't have the strength, and for some reason the will, to resist it now. He barely managed to float up to about chest level with it, staying beside the spear. He could feel his strength leaving him, and he was about to have to start to lower to the ground again, only he would now end up in the lake of LCL.
Still the calling grew stronger. It was so strong now, that he thought of nothing else. It was so strong, that he didn't even notice the angel move. Part of its stomach streched out and wrapped itself around Shinji, engulfing him completely. It stayed streched out like that, unmoving as the face mask of the angel seemed to stare directly down at him. Finally it retracted again, leaving Shinji still hovering there.
Shinji was in a heavy state of shock as he floated there. His wounds were healed and he was completely energized. He even felt stronger then he had before the fight began! However, he still stared at nothing as he was in shock. It looked like he was in his own little world in his mind, and like it scared him worse then anything.
Suddenly his eyes focused on something. His bangs were haning in front of his eyes, and two strands had turned blue. Several strands of his hair all over his head had turned blue, looking like highlights or something. His staring eyes had also changed, from thier natural blue color, to blood red. Still, it was none of these changes that caught his attention enough to shake him out of his mind.
It was the orange and other multicolored glow in front of him. He reached out and gently touched the wall of colors that streched out in octagon paterns. It shimmered more under his touch, spreading brighter colors all over it going outwards. A realization slowly came over Shinji as he realized he could now feel his finger tips in another sense. The AT-field before him wasn't from the angel. It was his own.
With that realization he let out a scream of shock and horror. His scream was so loud that it echoed up into NERV's central command.
-NERV command center-
"Energy pattern detected! It's Shinji, but wait! Somethings wrong..." Shigeru started to say.
Suddenly alarms began to blare all over NERV. It was a very familiar alarm. It was the angel alarm.
"AT-field detected! Blue pattern comfirmed! It's Shinji!" Shigeru exclaimed in shock.
His shock was shared by all others in the command center. They didn't know what to feel. Misato was by far the most confused of them all. Shinji was an angel? Suddenly they heard Shinji's unmistakable scream filtering up through the still open elevator doors. They couldn't be closed anymore, and the elevator barely worked, but it let them hear his terrified scream. Was he just as surprised as them, maybe even more?
-outside Evangelion unit 02-
Asuka began to panic as the angel alarms began to blare all over the city. They had nothing to defend themselves with. Her Eva wasn't going to be working for a while. She couldn't even pilot it with the damage done to the neck. Rei's Eva was most likely in the same shape, if not worse. Shinji could be dead, and wasn't in any condition to fight even if he was alive.
Suddenly an idea came to her mind, an idea she hated very much. If she could get to Eva unit 01, she might be able to pilot it. They said that it was still going through some modifications, but if it could function, then it would be better then nothing at all. Qucikly she ran to steal a nearby car if she could, knowing the fate of the planet may be on her shoulders.
-Evangelion unit 00-
Rei gasped as she could hear a scream all the way inside her Eva. It wasn't just the scream that made her gasp though. It was the she felt something. It was the unmistakable presence of another. She couldn't truely feel the presence of an angel because she wasn't full angel, but she could feel half angels. She knew that was what she felt now, another like her...
-Terminal Dogma-
Shinji continued to scream. Suddenly he felt his energy give way as he fainted. He did not land in the sea of LCL though, as something caused him to land softly on the other side of the metal door, which now closed again. It was all that Lilith could do, but she did the most she could while still confined to this cross with the lance still in her. Shinji slept a very troubled sleep, even as his blue streaks changed brown again. His AT-field shimmered some before fading, and even though his eyes were closed, they too changed back to blue.
-NERV command center-
"AT-field has dissappeared, and Shinji's energy pattern has fadded. I think he fainted, or he..." Shigeru couldn't even continue.
"Get some people with me to check and find out what happened!" Misato demanded.
"I can't allow that Captian." Gendo said even as Misato got up to his platform, physically putting himself in the way of her and the elevator.
"Sir, right now, I don't really give a shit what you think you can and can't allow." Misato said before knocking Gendo out cold with a hard punch to the face. "Man, that felt reeeally good!" she exclaimed before getting into the elevator wirh a nervous looking Ritsuko and a small team of paramedics that had come to tend to Makoto, who had since gained consciousness. Fuyutuski didn't even attempt to stop Misato as she pressed the down button, only quickly joining them. He knew what would happen to him if he tried to stop her, especially since Misato still clung to her pistol tightly. She didn't have any more bullets, but he didn't want to find out how hard she could pistol whip him.
-to be continued-
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