Under Powered 4
Disclaimer: What? If I owned NGE, it certainly would be different… But I don't, Hence the fictionalization.
"Mmm, Asuka-sama…"
The dream went on, much to Shinji's enjoyment, but he was unaware that a fiery room mate was just then approaching the bathroom as he uttered his mumblings.
"…Yes Rei-sama, more to the left good?…"
Asuka paused halfway across the thresh-hold of the bathroom as she clearly heard the last bit. 'What the hell's that baka thinking of now?' She slowly crept up on the couch, partially listening as her main intent was to chastise him for his dreams. Slowly she sneaked up behind where his head lay, also picking up some rambling snippets of his dreamstate dialogue.
"Hai Rei-sama, the chocolate is ready….."
Dream SequiVision Peek
Shinji was serving both Asuka and Rei, just having finished giving Asuka a back massage and was now spoon feeding chocolate to Rei. Asuka was watching the proceedings when suddenly she blurted:
"BAKA Shinji! Wa-"
Dream SequiVision off
"-ke up!"
Asuka hit the back of his head as she yelled at him, then in a act of pure indulgence, took hold of his top most arm and shoved him so he fell sprawling on the floor, expelling a grunt and a whimper of pain.
"Wha-"
"Baka, get up now and make breakfast! And stop dreaming hentai with wondergirl!"
As Shinji slowly recovered and started work on breakfast, Asuka went back to her usual morning routine.
Shinji didn't feel very enthused about life today, primarily due to lack of sleep and his fellow roommate's continued misunderstanding about his dreams. He continued to prepare the eggs as he wished that Asuka would be gentle with him for once. Yet, as he knew all too well, Asuka just wouldn't be Asuka without her flamboyant temper…
The sound of knocking permeated to the sleeping occupant, as well as the voice of one of the more demanding mouths in the apartment.
"Come on Seventh! Time to get up. Breakfast is served!"
"OooeeeEEE!" The sleeping form stretched out as blue eyes opened at nearly the same time the door did. The voice turned out to be Asuka, who we all know as being her usual demanding self.
"Idiot! Get up-" She grabbed hold of the covers just as Adley really woke up and puncuated the last word with a yank. ""NOW! Oh.…."
At that moment, Adley thanked God that he wouldn't be living in the same apartment as the Second Child, who now had a rather large blush on her face.
"Second Child…" Came the strained patient voice of Hawklyn, "You better be glad that this happens only once.…"
"Mein Gott, you …hmph!" She turned and exited the room, slamming the door behind her as Hawklyn started getting dressed.
"So Asuka…" Misato smirked as she nailed the brightly lit returning redhead with a teasing stance, "Seen anything of interest?"
Her answer was a glare, that could very crucify if the eye had the ability to administer force. "I… He was NAKED! I'm not ever going to wake him up again! That hentai…." Asuka began eating to avoid saying anymore while Shinji prepared their lunches for the day.
Hawklyn came out as the other two pilots finished their meals and headed off to school. "Morning Misato, I hope we can go to the mall todsay, cause I have some things to get…"
Misato's eye's lit up, "Ooo, Shopping! Cool, let's get the NERV stuff done with then!"
Hawklyn cringed at the excitement in the Major's voice while he ate breakfast then nodded slowly, "Yes, I suppose work before play is required, not that I mind much."
At school, our favorite two pilots went their separate ways in order to communicate properly with their respective circles of friends, or in Shinji's case, not so respectable.
"So Shinji," Began the artificial ocular improving apparatus wearing boy, Kensuke Aida, who was half busy filming surroundings with his video camera. "Where were you yesterday?"
"Yeah Shin-man, you, Devil-girl and Ice Queen were gone yesterday. What happened?"
"Well I-"
"-Yeah, there was supposed to be a new pilot coming soon according to my sources-" Kensuke was interrupted by a new and much recognized voice entering the airspace of the conversation.
"Probably illegal sources obtained through similar means." Asuka dryly needled the young part time and freelance hacker as she and Hikari momentarily stopped by the three boys. Touji of course had to glare at the redhead in near instinct.
"So, what brings over here Dev-"
"SUZUHARA!"
"-Er…. Sohryu?"
"Asuka smirked as Hikari pressed her authority into Touji before answering, "Mainly cause class will start very soon and Hikari here wanted to make sure you stooges weren't late."
A look at the clock soon enflamed the 5 youngsters to scurry into class akin to what one would call "conditioned lab rat syndrome". Of course, no one ever thought of it like that even as the students of 2-A got organized for the day.
The teacher walked in, prompting Hikari to start the morning ritual.
"STAND!" A chorus of chair scraping followed as the class rose to stand, all facing more or less towards the teacher.
"BOW!" The motions that followed this command resembled that of an ocean beach, the students bowing in waves upon the seashore.
"SIT!" A quiet caphony of gentle thuds backed up by a symphony of chairleg bumps and scrapes followed the class rep's last command.
Then the teacher took over from there as the class began to zone and tune the old geezer's voice out. After about five minutes, the class chat room began to fill up and spread out over several private areas. One of these belonged to the class rep herself, which explained why she had invited Asuka and the rest of the tribe of pilots and Shinji's friends.
You have entered the class rep's lair, beware!
CR-2A: Hey Asuka.
FireQueen-U-02: Hey.
CR-2A: Incoming…
FireQueen-U-02: Huh?
PurpleAngelEater has entered the roomSportsRme has entered the room
SeekingTruth has entered room
FireQueen-U-02: Oh great, it's the Baka and the idiot Duol.
PurpleAngelEater: Hello to you too Asuka.
SportsRme: Hey class rep.
SeekingTruth: Hey all.
CR-2A: Ok, why were you two and Rei gone yesterday?
FireQueen-U-02: Misato gave us the day off from school so we could meet the new pilot at the airport.
SeekingTruth: I KNEW IT! So Shinji, what's the new pilot like? will she be here at school?
FireQueen-U-02: He's MALE dumkopf!
SeekingTruth: Oh sorry…
PurpleAngelEater: But yes he will be joining us for school soon.
CR-2A: Ok guys, Lunch is coming, talk then.
Room closed, all occupants have been extracted.
With that the students of 2-A awaited the ringing bell that would signal the beginning of lunch.
Hawklyn was at the mall with Misato, or as he thought of her at the moment, the Shopping Demoness as she dragged him to another store.
"Misato?" Hawklyn's muffled voice wavered out from behind a pile of bags. He was seriously thinking of taking the clothes he bought to the car, because he seriously wanted to get to the larger stuff on his list.
"Yes Adley-kun?"
"Can we take this load of clothes to the car then come back and tackle the big stuff then?"
She pondered that piece of common sense for a while and nodded in agreement, wondering why the hell she hadn't thought of it before. "Sure, I suppose we can…"
A bit later, the pair was walking considerably faster, due to the style of Adley's walking and the fact that there was no bags to carry. Hawklyn pulled out a shopping list and crossed off the item marked "clothes".
"Now, for the electronics…" He led Misato into a store called "ElectroTokyo" and started dealing with a salesperson.
"Sir, I was wondering, what size are your biggest speakers?
The sales clerk directed the pair to speaker room noting how the woman seemed very leery of so much noise causing material in one room. Then his attention turned to the young man as he pointed out the largest set of speakers they had. "Here is our best speakers, four 12"subwoofers in the bottom, one 18" woofer, two 10" mid ranges and three 3" tweeters." He smiled at the guy who seemed to be on the verge of salivating and pitied the woman beside him who's eyes looked about ready to pop out of her head.
"Of course Sir, this speaker set is only part of a matched Surreal Field 17.1 Surround system, which includes multiple in wall speakers for perfect quality sound you wont be able to tell where its coming from."
"Would these speakers rival the angel alarm system by chance?" Misato rifled in a question before she got completely lost in the ocean of confusion.
The sales guy frowned a bit as the Major found his expression somewhat encouraging. "Sadly no, but then again, we need to hear those alarms anyway. After all, I'd rather live to see another day myself."
"As would we all." Agreed the NERV Major as the clerk recovered his lost track of thought on the subject of electronically forced sound.
"As I was saying. You would get a dual center speaker system along with another set of smaller speaker towers. These towers include one 15" subwoofer, three 6" woofers, two 4" mid ranges and three 2" tweeters…."
The sales clerk went on to help Adley choose everything needed for his electronic needs, even at the behest of Hawklyn who insisted that the equipment be delivered and set up that day. Once he had paid for his stuff, he left the Major to work with the store to smooth out possible friction points with Section 2.
Hawklyn then headed to pick out his furniture which generally consisted of getting a dining set, couch and chairs, a western style bed with some end tables and book cases to finish the apartment look off. He then contacted one of his Section 2 agents to tell the Major that things needed to be worked out at the furniture store.
Then after all that, he settled down to wait for the Major to rejoin him. After sitting and watching people go by for about ten minutes, she appeared looking annoyed.
"Do you know how much you spent today young man?" She asked rhetorically as she flopped down beside him angrily, "About 5 million yen! That's almost what I make in a year!" She hissed at his blank but contemplating face before relaxing into the bench with a sigh. "Was it worth it Adley-kun? Was today worth your happiness?"
Hawklyn nodded slowly and smiled, glancing at her before watching all the other shoppers going by, "Yes it was Misato-san. Considering that we could die tomorrow, we should at least have a taste of the best in life available." He looked at his watch, "We should be getting back to the apartment, deliveries will be there soon."
Misato nodded and the pair returned to the Major's blue car for the return trip to their home.
At school, the day was winding to a close. A day that could be one of the more mundane considering Asuka and Shinji were acting normal if you count Rei's missing self. That and the teacher had bored the class to death already.
One group of students had the rest of the day planned out however, added on to Shinji's food gathering foray that he had found necessary due to Misato's insistence of a house warming party, that and some sustenance to offset the large presence beer had in his guardian's life.
All musings were cast aside as the bell rang to end the day complimented by the end day formality presented by the class rep with the flavorful announcement of some other classmates for clean up duty.
After that, Touji and Kensuke magnetized towards Shinji's desk as he packed up his bag for the trip home.
"So Shin-man, ready to go?"
"When I'm ready, you're ready, got it Baka?" Floated over a very familiar arrogant feminine voice to which Shinji finished up his recollection of paraphernalia into his bag.
"Hai." Came the meek reply as the boy hoisted his bag onto his shoulder and walked out of the class with Asuka, Hikari and his other friends. Once they were outside of the school building, the group of youths turned down a street that would take them by a market where Shinji usually got the ingredients for many of his meals.
As they walked along the street, a duo of noisy delivery trucks sped by. While it was a regular occurance to see trucks like these go by, these particular trucks were from the stores at the mall, specifically, ElectroTokyo and Furniture Mart. Something that was an exceedingly rare occasion with all the angel attacks currently.
"Woah!" Gushed Kensuke as his eyes followed the speeding trucks down the street and over the hill, "Did you see that! Someone had to have just made a large purchase considering…Ack!"
The interrupter of Aida's gushiness smirked to herself as she watched the nerd boy get helped up by his friends. "Well, while its true that that is probably the case stooge, I doubt we really need to have it carried on by you. Got it Geek-boy?" Her glare was the finality in the short discussion as the group wandered into the market unintentionally following Shinji as he hunted down that which he needed.
Asuka was primarily lost in her own thoughts as she followed Hikari among the grocery aisles. She wasn't very happy today because of the way the morning had gone for her. With one major "defeat" as she termed it, having the last word in pretty much all conversation was standard for her. And to have a new pilot throw her a curveball like that… She did admit that she was a bit hasty to suddenly treat him like she did Shinji, but of course, the baka usually wore something. Her thoughts continued while following her friend and Shinji continued discussing food.
Back at the living complex, the Major and the Seventh Child had almost gotten the clothes stored away with Rei's help when the delivery people escorted by the section two goons arrived, but first, to recap…
The car ride back to the complex was uneventful and silent as Adley was focused on organizing his apartment in his mind and Katsuragi generally paid 80 of her attention to driving.
The eventfulness began when they saw Rei quietly sitting beside the door to Misato's place.
"Rei? What are you doing here?"
"I thought I would help with Hawklyn's moving in." Rei looked over at Hawklyn who, if Rei were a more adept person with reading emotions, was looking a bit embarrassed for a moment.
Hawklyn smiled as he walked over to his own door and unlocked the new abode. "Glad you could volunteer to help Rei, its appreciated… Can you go down to Misato's car and get the rest of the clothes please? My feet would appreciate it."
Rei nodded her ascent and rose to her feet as Hawklyn disappeared into the flat with some of the clothing bags and went to get the rest of the bags from the Major's car. She found herself wondering about why she was thinking of the new pilot in the way she did, the thought was discarded as she stepped into the new apartment to hear voices coming from the bedroom. Then Misato popped her head out of the doorway.
"Oh, its you Rei, come on in, maybe we can get Adley to model some of these clothes for us-" She broke off laughing as a wad of empty bags flew past her head and Hawklyn's voice followed.
"Not now, not tonight, probably when I wear em in the future… Speaking of which, does Rei have the bags with the school uniform clothes?" Hawklyn wondered as Rei appeared at the bedroom door with arms full of bags.
"I believe some of these bags will contain what is needed for school clothes." Rei replied in her usual soft as a breeze monotone voice as Hawklyn took the bags from her to look through.
"So, I know there's uniforms for school here, but what are the specifics? Like say shirts for instance? Will white turtleneck be permissible or does it need to be button-up?" He held up two shirts for example indicating the latter one with a slight frown, then he shrugged. "I can always wear one and bring the other with me, in case a bee gets up some person's ass about technicalities."
He then folded both shirts and put them aside for tomorrow as Rei replied to his rhetorical question. "I believe that would be a wise choice of action for you to do Pilot Hawklyn, as I believe offense will be taken about your clothing."
Hawklyn frowned and shook his head slowly, "Figures I'd be sent to a conformists heaven. My former guardian warned me about this. Hell, in America, you can still wear caps and coats in class. Didn't matter the color of uniform as long as it was a legit uniform, basically ended up wearing my NERV overcoat over turtleneck and black slacks."
The doorbell sounded, interrupting and ending the conversation for the time being as Hawklyn looked at Misato.
"Furniture stuff is here." Adley looked toward Rei pausing at the doorway, making sure the room was clean. "Come Rei, I'm sure we can all help in some way."
"Very well." Rei followed him out to the main room where the movers, both section 2 and helpers, were manhandling in several large crates, some VERY large crates actually.
More crates came in as the Section 2 agents opened the present crates and extracted various items from within the multitude of boxes. Hawklyn and Misato directed the movement of the heavier equipment while refering the smaller stuff to be placed later.
Certain large items, like the speaker towers, were maneuvered into position as Ayanami watched with mild interest. The wiring techs setting up the wiring from the speakers to where the sound center would be. Eventually, everything was moved in and the Major signed off on the paperwork as Hawklyn directed Ayanami to help him with the connecting of components.
After that, Hawklyn grinned as he took off the speaker covers on two of the large speaker systems that dominated the main room and fiddled with the sliders on the various equalizers.
"So Adley," Misato said looking around at all the electronic gadgets that were now in place, "How'd you know I was planning a party tonight?" 'This stuff would fit right in a party' She thought in amazement as Hawklyn answered her while his laptop booted up.
Adley smirked as he watched his new guardian, "I think you mentioned something about it at the mall today. I do remember something about you saying something about a party to the bridge crew."
She frowned absently and took a pull at the beer she'd bought, "Oh." She had hoped that he hadn't paying much attention to what she was talking to the bridge crew about so that she could surprise him, but that seemed to be a plan in the furnace now. "I hope Shinji is getting lots of food for tonight." She mused out loud as Hawklyn activated the system after plugging a connector to his laptop and selecting a Crystal Method mp3 to play.
Outside, the group of five youngsters and their burdens of food were entering the complex foyer where they waited for the elevator.
Touji suddenly cocked his head to the side listening, "Ya hear that?" He asked the group, who by now could also hear some low booms from somewhere in the complex.
The elevator arrived and they all crowded into it and began the ascent upwards as the silence continued to infect the teens during the interlude of the elevating box. Each hearing sounds of music growing louder as they ascended to their destination floor. The elevator doors opened to have a symphony of sound hit the ears of the occupants as they exited and made their way to the Katsuragi/Ikari/Sohryu household. The noise seemed to be coming from the open door next to the two pilots apartment.
Asuka, realizing that Misato was likely to be found within the sound spewing doorway, led the food laden group to investigate.
"Taidama?"
(A/N: Yes, I know, I'm mean. Then again, I've rambled on for this chapter long enough. Not to mention that its about time I update. Part of the reason I cut it there was the small fact that I'm getting ready to move to a different place. Another reason is I've been playing the sims 2… Anyway, I realize that Misato isnt a Major till the 10th angel episode, but for the sake of my story, she is already a Major. But for chapter 5 I can try to focus on the other pilots reactions more as well their friends. And will we ever know what Asuka told Hawklyn? Probably not, because I can't figure out exactly what she would say. There's a couple more chapters before the 9th angel shows up… Stay Tuned.)
