UnderPowered 6

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Door opens leading a shadow outline in light into the room.

DC: …And the Dark lord Lurks… Oh, its you.

Hikari: Greetings Author-san. Just to let you know, Anno does own the rights to Evangelion.

DC: Correct, as well as all other used copyrighted shindigs are to those who own them respectively.

Hikari: Hai Author-san… By the way, you got something. She tosses the author a note.

DC: Opens note and reads. Ah yes. My definition of pre impact bands includes those that started before S.I and survived it. In the meantime, Keep reading.

Hikari: On with it! Door closes.

A New Day

!Dream Sequivision!

Shinji was having a strange dream.

"Okay class," Began the old crow of a teacher. "Today we shall focus on an entirely different subject…"

The subject was akin to the birds and the bees, rabbits and mink, more commonly known as procreation. He and his class listened in rapt fascination as their Sensei proved to be something other then a dried up fossil.

"…For this portion of the lesson, we will need volunteers…" Cue everyone pretty much sinking into their seats as the teacher scanned for faces. "Ok, how about Shinji Ikari and Asuka Sohryu to demonstrate…"

"BEEEEEE-

00 In Reality 00

-EEEEEEP"

Shinji stabbed at the alarm clock, deciding to get up and start the day before his room mates hijacked the bathroom.

000

In Asuka's mindscape, shadows plagued her dreams. The same dreams in fact, that she'd been having for years.

"Momma, I'm a pilot now! Look at me!… Momma?" The scene that so haunted her cheerful almost fanatical spiel about being a pilot now lay before her.

On a rope that suspended from the ceiling, her mother hung lifeless as the rope beside her held the unanimated reason for Auska's dislike of dolls. The body of her mother turned to face her on its rope, and for the first time ever, Asuka found the face of Unit 02 staring back at her.

"Die with me Asuka."

She screamed in blatant terror and denial.

00 In Reality 00

Asuka awoke breathing hard, her eyes wide with fear as she replayed the last scene of her dream in her head.

000

The Unit shook as it slid back from the force of the angel's wrath. Adley gritted his teeth as he tried to stabilize his unit, glaring at the bipedal eva-like angel. He could hear the chatter on the comnet which didn't encourage him at all.

"…5 is out of the-"

"The hell it is!" Adley switched to English, "Computer, switch to English internal command structure… Lockout external command system entirely."

"Complying… External command is attempting to raise environment factors, ignoring and locking out."

Adley grinned as he prepared his unit's final weapon-

"beep, beep-"

00 In Reality 00

"Beep, beep-"

A questing hand slapped the alarm silent as the form became coherently identifiable as Hawklyn. "Hello new day…"

000

"Ohayo Asuka." Greeted Shinji as he finalized the morning's meal for the just arrived beauty queen of his dreams. Said beauty queen just glared at him until he handed her the expected meal.

"Good morning baka hentai." Her return was rather dull and lacking her usual bluster.

Does she know! ran through Shinji's mind as his hands momentarily froze in the air above preparation of Asuka's bento. Nah… He continued on with making his own lunch.

"You know," Came Misato's voice from the Kitchen entrance, "That you two really should get going to school."

"Sheist!"

Shinji grabbed the lunches and followed Asuka out the door to find the new pilot waiting by the elevator.

000

Hawklyn yawned as he dried off from his shower, "Need more sleep when possible." He dressed then went to the kitchen to see if there was anything left over from the night before, also getting a view of the time.

"Stukach." He quickly grabbed his bag, shoved his laptop into it, ran out the door, locked the door then turned toward the elevators. Not a minute later, Asuka came barreling out followed by Shinji. He called a greeting as the elevator door opened. "Hey Shinji."

……

"Ohayo Adley." Shinji greeted in returned as the elevator began its way down after they'd piled into it. He arched a brow at the other guy's choice of clothes, "Why a backpack?" He looked down toward his own school bag as Hawklyn replied.

"Simple as the difference in capacity. That book bag you have there won't hold all of what I need." Adley adjusted the bag straps as he waited for the end of the lift ride while Shinji faced into the returning silence.

The brown haired pawn of his father glanced over at Asuka, who seemed uncharacteristically quiet this morning. "Asuka, you ok?"

The redhead glared at Shinji, stuck her nose in the air. "Yes Third child, I'm perfectly fine…"

The elevator door opened and the three exited the building Asuka raving about certain brown haired pilots minding their own business. Shinji simply sighed and looked at the ground as Asuka finished her diatribe, but quickly realized that she'd stopped due to a remark by the other dark haired pilot.

"What did you say Seventh?"

Shinji turned to see Asuka confronting the new boy with one of her usual scowls. Adley was rather nervous as he stood there then abruptly tried to shake off the Seconds grasp as he started walking again.

"Shouldn't we be walking instead of wasting-erk!" Adley was spun around and pulled down to a seething Asuka.

"What did you say!"

"Its not that time of the month is it?" Somehow, Adley knew higher powers were laughing at him.

SMACK!

A nice handprint now adorned Adley's cheek as they once again started walking to school. The rest of the way to school was mainly silence, with Hawklyn asking questions about school.

"So, she always like that?" Adley nodded to the girl ahead of them.

Shinji nodded, "Some days are worse then others… There's the school."

000

Hikari sighed as she looked over the new students file.

Name: Adley Hawklyn

Birth: 11/12/01

Age: 14

Summary: Perceptive, quiet. Possibly socially inhibited. Lost his mother at seven years old. Lost father before birth. American school record unknown.

Hmm, from what I saw last night he seemed to be a good host, but I guess things can be different. Hikari looked over to the door where the pilots entered, her eyes widened slightly as the proclaimed Seventh child entered.

Hawklyn paused momentarily then followed Shinji into the room to where his two friends were chattering away. He could feel as he moved through the room the assessing eyes of his new classmates on him. He quietly murmured to Shinji, "I feel like a side of beef in a store."

Shinji chuckled silently and nodded, "Felt that way myself when I first came here. Sometimes I still do, especially after an angel attack. That's when everyone gets appreciative of the fact you saved them again."

Hawklyn nodded slowly, "True, even at my old school, there were a lot of people who, for the lack of a better word, idolized my being picked as a pilot. Sadly however, it got the point where the girls would blame me for-."

"Excuse me Shinji, but we do have class." The class rep interrupted with an apologetic smile toward Hawklyn. "For right now, go stand in the hall till the sensei calls you in formally."

"Hai." Adley rose and walked out of the room to quietly stand in the fast emptying hallway that got lonely as the bell rang and the teachers entered the rooms.

"Rise… Bow… Sit."

"Thank you Miss Horaki." The teacher looked at a stray piece of paper on the edge of his attendance book. "Would the class representative be kind enough to let the new student in please?"

Hikari nodded and went to let the transfer student in while the teacher quickly summarized the day's agenda. Hikari directed the new guy to stand by the teacher as he finished the summary. "…but first, we have a small matter to take care of. I shall let the new student introduce himself."

The gaijin boy nodded and began speaking, "Hello, I'm Adley Hawklyn, I bring greetings to you from America. Feel free to ask questions later. Now, where do I sit?"

Later, Adley listened to the old teacher drone on about pre second Impact life while gazing at and over the top of his laptop screen. He could see the rest of the class pretty much tuning out on the old guy's lecture. He decided to answer the one message that popped up on the screen instead of being fed who knew what conspiracy.

T-3 2-A Class Chat

You have been Invited to a room, Proceed?

Hawklyn hit yes.

You have entered the room GenericStuff. Op: HH

AH is now known as Hawk7U5

HH: Hello Adley, how are you today?

Hawk7U5: Alright considering last night and yesterday. Especially yesterday morning…

HH: Oh? What happened?

Hawk7U5: An Asuka alarm P

HH: Heh, really?

Hawk7U5: Yep. I guess she does that nearly every day Shinji doesn't wake upbefore her or something, cause what she did to me was rather mortifying.

HH: Oh?

Hawk7U5: Yeah… Ask her about it sometime, she might even do a decent red light impression.

Hikari had to cover her mouth to hide her giggles.

HH: You pilots have interesting lives, yet it seems you all have a great deal in common. At least in some sense and issues anyway.

Adley stopped and pondered that for a minute, glancing at his fellow pilots in turn, pondering the class rep's words as he thought over each one of them.

Rei is very quiet, reserved, doesn't speak unless asked usually. Shinji is nearly as quiet, but a bit better then Rei. Still very private person though. Asuka is loud, brash, talkative, but yet also very private about herself. Hmmm…

Hawk7U5: You know Hikari, I believe your right. We all have unsavory past experiences, especially we who are pilots. We all act in different ways, but underneath our armor of personalities, we are similar. Though, I must admit that being similsr to Asuka is a bit scary.

Hikari smiled at that.

HH: True enough. Say, what was it like for you back at your old school?

Hawk7U5: Well, it was ok I guess. Though the social atmosphere there was not kind to me.

HH: Oh? Why?

Hawk7U5: Well, let's say that there are a lot of girls who go into hero worship mode and look at the bookcover with an idea of the title in their minds. They just wanted to have me as their boyfriend because I was actively in pilot training and therefore a pilot. Simply shallow minded and very unredeeming to the female gender. I was not impressed to say the least.

HH: Wow, well, I can see the signs of some girls being shallow in this class. In fact, when Shinji first arrived, practically the entirety of the female side of the class was mobbing him after he said he was a pilot. It was to the point where even I couldn't keep control of the class. The teacher just let it go and stopped lecturing, which was a relief in some respects, but it was painful to see the class disrespect my authority that day.

Hawk7U5: Wow. Thanks for the warning.

HH: You're welcome… You mind if I invite others?

Hawk7U5: No, go right ahead.

FireQueenU2 has entered the room

Hawk7U5: Hmmm… Sohryu?

FireQueenU2: That's right Seventh, don't wear it out.

PurplePilot1 has entered the room

Hawk7U5: Just stow it Second.

FireQueenU2: Grrr.

HH: Guys please, try to get along.

SportsRme has entered the room

Cheerteam1 has entered the room

Hawk7U5: …Who is cheerteam? O.o

HH: Mariko…

CheerTeam1: Sorry Class Rep, but is that new guy here?

Hawk7U5:  New guy. Why?

CheerTeam1: Well, I wanted to ask if you were single, that and would you consider a date with me next weekend?

Hawk7U5 sighs: Yes, I'm single…

Adley glances around the room a bit before spotting a girl looking at her screen adoringly. Great, one of those airheads.

CheerTeam1: Really?

FireQueenU2: What would you want with a hentai perv like him?

Hawk7U5: But I refuse your invitation as I'll most likely be busy with things.

SportsRme: Ooo, brutal… Hello Class rep.

CheerTeam1 has been ejected from the room

SeekingTruth has entered the room

HH: Hello Suzuhara.

PurplePilot1: About time you speak up Touji.

SeekingTruth: He was assisting me with something.

FireQueenU2: Something perverted or illegal.

HH: Oi, the lunchbell's about to ring. Everyone out, talk after lunch.

The Chat room has been evacuated.

Adley sighed and prepared for lunch. It had been an interesting day so far with talking to the class rep, being hit on and just learning about others in his class. Going through the stand, sit, bow routine before being dismissed, he looked forward to the second half of the day to come.

000

Shinji and his friends were in the cafeteria eating lunch while giving the new guy help and information. Moreover, it was Kensuke and Touji doing the advising while Shinji was gazing off in the direction of a certain redheaded coworker. He also hoped to avoid his friend's grief giving this time but it was not to be.

"So Shin-man, what ya lookin at?

"You aren't looking at the she devil are you?"

"Er-" Argh! I've been caught! "-well yeah, but you wouldn't understand why at all."

"Maybe because there's just something that calls to you… Like a moth to a flame perhaps."

Hmmm, Adley seems correct in one way. I do seem drawn to her somehow.

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(Note: Sorry the abrupt ending.. just that I've reached a ponderance that according to Gendo, is unacceptable to the scenario.

Gendo in usual position: That is correct. Also, chapter 2 has been revised for continuity and fluidity.

DC: At any rate, what I need is for readers to give their input on where this should go from here. I will be getting to the meat of the story soon, which incidently means the end of this part. Also, let me know if I should post a teaser of my idea of what happens with the 12th angel. RnR)