Disclaimer: See chapter 1
AN: thank you guys for your patience, I kinda had a hard time with some writer's block, but uh, I got this done! This is for fun, nothing more, please don't hurt me!
Chapter 2: Shinji's tale
It's another long, boring day in Tokyo-3. Shinji's sitting in his room, listening to his SDAT play Ludwig Van's 9th, and he's slowly falling asleep….until Asuka breaks in and demands he cook on her designated cooking day.
"Dammit Shinji, are you even listening to me!" She shouts before ripping the headphones out of his ears. "I'm telling you to cook for me, dammit!"
"But it's your day to cook," Shinji mutters under his breath.
"I heard that baka! I'm not cooking today because Misato's not gonna be here today! Why should I cook when there's not a descent audience in the room to witness my glorious cooking!"
"Glorious? I thought glory was a good thing?"
Asuka's taken aback by his blunt attempt at comedy, but she grabs him by the collar and throws him into the kitchen anyway.
"And make it GOOD this time, baka, or I'll put you through the wall!"
Shinji mutters curses under his breath, but begins cooking the meal nonetheless. He's not sure whether it's his inherent fear of Asuka that makes him want to cook or his need to be fed himself, but he cooks a fairly descent miso soup dish and pours himself a bowl. Then he begins the fun he's been suppressing for a LONG time. He first pours Tabasco sauce into it, not much, just the whole bottle. Then he takes salt and unscrews the cap. Once removed, he dumps the remainder of the salt into the soup.
His masterpiece completed, he sits down at the table, happily munching his soup. It's about that time Asuka notices the food that he prepared and goes to get some. She completely ignores the empty bottles of Tabasco and salt and heads straight for the soup. She pours herself a large bowl and sits across from Shinji.
"Well, it SMELLS good enough, baka!" she says. But then she takes a bite and turns a pale shade of green…quite sickening, if I do say so myself…
She rushes to the bathroom and continues to vomit out the disgusting taste that somehow manages to top Misato's famous country-fried chicken.
"What's the matter Asuka?" Shinji yells to the back room, "I thought you WANTED me to cook today!"
His teasing gets him nowhere fast, however, as Asuka rushes out of the bathroom, looking like a red-hot teapot with steam coming out of her ears.
"I'm gonna KILL you, Shinji!" she yells as she rushes him.
Shinji ducks to one side to avoid her kick aimed at his family jewels, but she launches a right hook that collides with his left temple, knocking him out instantly. She loses interest in that pursuit, however, when she notices that his bowl of Miso soup is untouched by his prank. She happily finishes his food as he bleeds from the head on the ground.
Shinji awakes in a strange room with a man in all black robes with a hood up so he can't see his face. Another man wearing a red shirt with gold trim and black pants is standing in front of him.
"It begins," the hooded man says, "It all begins now! The fate of all mankind rests with me and you shall become part of me!"
The man in the red shirt takes a step back, then yells "Fuck THAT, man! I'm not becoming part of you!"
The hooded man simply repeats himself, "It begins! It all begins now! The fate of all mankind rests with me and you shall become part of me!"
The pigtailed boy in the red shirt seems to lean forward, trying to figure out what's under the man's hood, then asks, "Don't you say ANYTHING different!"
The other man repeats himself AGAIN and Shinji takes that time to chime in.
"Where are we?" Shinji asks
The man in the red shirt turns to regard him. "Oh, so I'm NOT the only one in here with this loony! Look, I don't know WHERE we are, but I wanna find the fastest way outta here. You with me?"
Shinji nods and the other boy (he discovered it was a boy when he turned around, and his previous thoughts of him being a full grown adult were wrong.) seems to lighten his mood noticeably.
"I'm Ranma," he says with a handshake.
"I'm Shinji, Shinji Ikari," that was that, and they both wandered into the darkness.
AN: what do you think so far? I'll write more when I get the chance, and I WILL incorporate other characters, but for now, this is it.
