Disclaimer on Chapter 1.
A/N: I always had writer's block, you know? I just wrote whatever came off the top of my head. Maybe that's why it's so uber-corny for the last few chapters, and this as well.
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"Rokubungi, how do you plan to deal with the leak caused by Katsuragi?"
"I plan to throw out dummy data as SEELE's attempt at sabotage." Shinji replied. "It could be considered as a scandal, and the way it was distributed was quite... Suspecious." Shinji tried to keep his composure from giving way to nervousness with great effort.
"I see. Her skills are still valuable. Consider her lucky. If another such episode repeats, she will be executed by our agents."
"Understood." Shinji said, before turning off the hologram projectors in his office. "Close one... Dad left me so many toys!"
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"NOOOO! NOT AGAIN!" Asuka screamed in frustration.
"Oh come on, Asuka. You're his mother!" Shinji retorted, as he cleaned up the little Sachiel's meal. It seems that although he leaves no droppings, sometimes when its little stomach can't hold everything down...
"Quiet, Third Child! I'm not a housebroken male, or female! I am the great Sohryu Asuka Langley!" Asuka's pride had spoken, as she looked away. "You better clean this up good! It's so disgusting!" Asuka continued.
"Well, that's something you have to live with when you create biological weapons, Asuka." Shinji said, dumping the cleaned up vomit. "It seems that angels do not evolve and change as much as we thought. It's still not ready to eat food like humans do."
"Well, I can see that, Third Child!" Asuka stated in anger. "Stupid little-"
Shinji cut her off. "Language, Asuka. We don't want Sachiel to learn bad things now do we?" He said sagely, waving his index finger and shaking his head.
Asuka instead muttered under her breath as she hid herself in her room, unable to face the tiny abomination any longer.
"Biological warfare had never been this much trouble..." Shinji sighed. "I'm sorry Asuka!" He shouts loud enough for her to hear, and picked up his baby. "Good night!"
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Meanwhile, at NERV Infirmary, a purple haired major in a flight jacket was being transported to the Emergency Room at full speed.
"Hang in there, Misato!" Ritsuko cheered, running alongside the nurses. "You have to make it!"
"I... Might not... Last... Ritsuko." Misato replied, weakly. "The paperwork... They BREED!" She continued. "Goodbye, Ritsuko. It was nice... Knowing... You..." With that, Misato fainted.
"Geez, it's just a severely swollen wrist, nothing life endangering." Ritsuko commented, as she walked back to her post.
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Kaji laid a flower by the unconscious Misato's bed, along with a card.
"Get well soon, Misato. Asuka and Shinji can't take care of your grandchild much longer."
-Kaji."
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Kensuke and Touji exited the elevator, and started for the door.
"Say, do you think we'll see Misato this time?" Kensuke asked his companion.
"Misato..." Touji started to drool, but was cut off by a hand ripping his ear. "OW OW OW OW OW!" He protested. Behind him was a sadistic Class Rep, Hikari.
"Touji! Still thinking about older women I see." She whispered through gritted teeth.
"Hikari! Mercy!" Touji begged, as Kensuke squirmed to the doorbell. "TRAITOR! SAVE ME!" He shouted to his otaku buddy.
Pretending to ignore him, Kensuke called for its residence. When Asuka had answered the door with a glare that meant certain death, Kensuke could only step back in horror.
"Well, stooge, what do YOU want?" Asuka demanded. Her stance towering over the shrinking Kensuke.
"ASUKA! When are you getting married?" Hikari shouted cheerfully, waving her free arm as she dragged Touji in a run for the door.
"OW OW OW OW OW! HIKARI!" Touji protested in pain, and was ignored by the Class Rep once again.
"WHAT! Who'd want to marry THAT idiot!" The redhead turned on her demon mode, almost igniting the air around her.
"The little baby said you were its mama and Shinji was its papa!" Kensuke cried out, before thinking. He shrunk again, this time behind Hikari as Asuka's eyes started to burn holes into his own.
"Spit it out, Asuka!" Hikari pleaded, though with quite some force.
"WE'RE NOT ENGAGED!" Screamed Asuka in an extremely high pitch, shattering many fragile solids. One of them included Shinji's heart, but he was busy taking care of Sachiel in the background.
There was a disturbing silence. Nobody dared make a sound in fear of setting off Mount Asuka again, until Touji felt the grip of the class rep loosening.
Breaking himself free, he quickly said what he had to say. "Hey, devil girl, where's Shinji?"
The human-sized Eva-01 they all thought was a statue turned, twitching, to the door.
"S-Shinji...?" The three guests said in unison.
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"Misato Katsuragi... A hindrance to our plans!"
"Yes, now a piece of information had been exposed. SEELE will sure to hear of this."
"If we didn't foresee bloodbaths in the near future, Katsuragi would've been punished severely by now."
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The monoliths lit up, 01, 04, 06, 11 and 12 formed a circle.
01: "Damnit, we must push ahead our schedule!"
04: "But do you think we have the resources right now?"
01: "Of course. Right now, their secret project is in the infant stage. If we can destroy, or capture it before it matures, we might have a chance!"
06: "But as you might know, NERV HQ had been researching combat weaponry since Third Impact."
01: "It is of no importance. JSSDF and the abandoned Jet Alone project is in our hands."
04: "Our course of action has been set. Perhaps we can even salvage our MP Evas if we're lucky."
11: "Good, let's re-watch that videotape then."
12: "Indeed, quite a scandal! The Commander and his best pilot having an affair."
The monoliths giggled and howled in laughter as they faded, a holographic projection of the video still in place.
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"She just said it to hide behind her mask."
"HEY!"
"She didn't mean it..."
"EWWW!"
"It was just empty words..."
"AUGGH!"
"I mustn't believe... I mustn't believe... I mustn't-"
A plate found itself into Shinji's mask. He had explained to his friends about the protection needed in case of Sachiel being agitated. Though not only did the plates protect him against the baby, it also protected him against religious terrorists as well. 'The plates were made to stand up to machine guns, explosions, angel attacks and Asuka's wrath.' He had said, before getting an ineffective slap from Asuka.
The plate shattered, bringing Shinji back to reality as he noticed Sachiel defending him. Startled, Shinji stood and spilled all of the Angel-puke on his lap onto the floor.
"Oh, great. I'll get the towel, enjoy your meals everybody." Shinji said in defeat and sarcasm, as he put Sachiel on his chair and headed for the cleaning supplies.
"How the hell does he expect us to eat now?" Touji asked, green as wasabi on his plate.
Asuka, however, was still wolfing down her meal happily, as if Sachiel barfed roses.
"The devil seems fine." Kensuke stated, trying to get his minds off of the vomit by hacking into NERV's database.
Hikari was already at the washroom, so nothing could be heard from her.
"You know, stooge, Sachiel is not ever going to be placed there." She said, seeing what Kensuke was doing with her excellent peripheral vision, after a huge swallow. She smiled internally as Kensuke paled. It was a stupid habit he never got rid of, hacking into confidential files for Shinji and Asuka to see. Now that Shinji is the commander, he could get the military otaku of a hacker arrested if he wanted to.
Shinji came back, not paying attention to Kensuke and Asuka, as he wiped the floor.
"Sachiel can't eat human food properly yet." Shinji explained as he made his way to wash off the towel. "He pukes the excess material, since he doesn't have... The exit."
"Damnit Shinji, how do you put up with this... Disgusting routine?" Touji asked his wimpy, powerful friend.
"Shut up and eat!" Shinji avoided the subject, as he picked up his baby and returned to clean up the rest of the puke before heading to the showers to clean up his lap.
Asuka stayed uncharacteristically silent, glad that nobody had dived into the subject of her being a mother yet.
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Shinji stood in the shower, fully clothed in his cosplay costume and uniform. Looking down at the little black blob with him, he sighed.
"When will you stop barfing all over me?" Shinji asked.
"When..." Sachiel repeated, with difficulty. "W..hen..."
"Isn't that cute, your fourth word!" Shinji exclaimed, as he scrubbed his lap with a bar of soap. He remembered that fateful day when Sachiel learned his third.
"Baka-Shinji! Get your baka ass here and clean your mini-baka's vomit, now!" Asuka shouted. It had been the first day that Sachiel ate, and he vomited nearly everything he ate after digestion.
"Can you stop teaching Sachiel bad words, Asuka?" Shinji retorted. He couldn't stand up to himself, but he could protect his baby from the horrors of insulting words.
"Shut up, baka-Shinji! When did you grow a spine?" Asuka screamed. "Just get your baka ass here and clean it up, NOW!"
Sachiel watched the whole exchange, and simply pointed at Shinji with its energy rod. "Ba..ka..."
It made Asuka laugh a sincere, genuine laugh. Shinji, however, was not in the least bit amused.
"What a horrible memory..." Shinji thought aloud to himself, as he wiped his costume with the towel. "Sachiel, don't ever use that word, ok?" He talked to the mini-Angel as if he was a real baby. But the reply wasn't in the least bit innocent.
"Ba...ka..."
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Kensuke, Touji and Hikari enjoyed an awkwardly silent meal. Shinji was in the showers with the little blob, and the usually outspoken devil was contently happy for the silence, much to the guest trio's bewilderment. Finally, Hikari decided to take the risk and tread into dangerous grounds.
"So, Asuka. How is it like being a mother?" Hikari asked, doubting that she'll get a positive answer.
Asuka's glare of doom confirmed it.
"I see..." Hikari acknowledged, and returned to her food.
It was an awkwardly silent meal for the guests, but none dared to break the silence until Shinji returned. He looked pretty stupid, using a towel to dry off his cosplaying body.
"Asuka, your litt-" Shinji tried to say, but was cleanly sliced by Asuka's glare of doom. "I'm sorry!" He quickly said on reflex. It was his one defense against all of Asuka's possible offensive scenarios. Surprisingly, she didn't scold him for apologizing this time.
The rest of the meal passed in silence after all.
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Shinji Ikari had saved mankind, by diverting the Third Impact from its intended goal. However, not all believe so, since the monstrosities were named Angels. Religious extremists, especially of the Christian religion, burned with rage upon the murdering of the messengers. In this underground make-shift church, a make-shift religious politician delivered his speech.
"To this day, I sincerely thank you all for believing in the path that is God's. Whatever your religion, whatever your culture, I know you all must feel great hatred for the organization known as NERV." He had a sagely look of understanding. "My brothers, sisters, sons and daughters. I wish for you all to enjoy prosperity, and join Christ in his paradise. However, our path had been destroyed by NERV!" He slammed his hand on the altar, causing a thunderous bang. "They had killed the messengers God had sent to us!" He leaned forward, with a threatening look on his face. "But we mustn't hate, or we are no better. Rather, we shall give them the wrath of the followers of god!" He held his fist up in the air. "We shall destroy NERV by delivering holy retribution!"
At the conclusion of the speech, fifty thousand religious extremist terrorists of various religions raised whatever weapon they had, may it be a gun or a pitch fork, and cheered in unison.
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The silence finally broke when everybody finished eating. But that silence was broken by the sound of running water and clattering china. Finally snapping, Hikari stood up.
"SOMEBODY JUST TALK ALREADY!" She screamed, more to the ceiling than to everybody else. What she accomplished, however, was less than what she had hoped for.
"Um... Hey Hikari, how do you like Sachiel?" Shinji asked, from the kitchen.
"The little guy is... Cute, I guess." She answered, calming from her outburst.
"If you joined NERV, I can let you and Touji adopt Ramiel or something." Shinji said with the slightest hint of a tease in his voice. Hikari blushed, and Asuka finally made her grand entrance to the conversation.
"Hikari, you can do better than this stooge!" Asuka commented. "Almost everybody in our class is better than THIS guy."
"What do you know, devil girl?" Touji retorted. "Why don't you bitch at Shinji for choosing the worst possible girl?"
"Who is he dating?" Asuka asked, oblivious to the insult, despite her genius IQ.
"You, demon!" Touji shouted as he pointed to Asuka with an accusing finger. Feeling the need to join in, Kensuke finally spoke up as well.
"Yea, what did you do to our Shinji!"
"Pfft, I'd rather DIE than go out with that squirming little wimp." The acid and venom from Asuka's words dripped to vaporize everything it touched. That included Shinji's already shattered heart.
"She didn't mean that, she didn't mean that, she didn't mean that..." Shinji chanted to himself, convincing himself Asuka didn't mean what she said.
"Sure..." Kensuke rolled his eyes.
"Oh come on, Asuka. Shinji isn't THAT bad." Hikari pleaded, getting a surprised look from the three stooges.
"Hikari! You traitor!" She cried.
"A-Asuka, I'm just hoping for the best for the both of you!" Hikari stammered a little, as she defended herself and her friendship.
The little exchange turned into a full-blown war afterwards, revolving around Asuka loving Shinji and the stooges trying to break them up, while the class rep played Matchmaker.
"She didn't mean that, she didn't mean that, she didn't mean that..."
"Shinji! Do you love her or not?" Touji said after an undetermined amount of arguing.
"She didn't mean that, she didn't mean that, she didn't mean that..."
"SHINJI! YES OR NO!" Kensuke screamed in his friend's ear.
"She didn't mean that, she didn't mean that, she didn't me-" He snapped out of it, realizing the screaming otaku in his ear.
"Huh?" He didn't quite hear what his friend had to say, except the part asking yes or no. On impulse, and in his normal agreeing manner, he replied.
"Yes."
What came after that could only be described as 'hell and torment' for the dish washing pilot.
Sachiel had only one thing to say to this situation.
"Ba...ka..."
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Pen-Pen, afraid of the black blob that had moved in, stirred in his fridge.
"WARRRK WARK WAR WAAAAAARARK!" "Curse that blob! I can't go to that party!"
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Three weeks have passed. The scandal had somehow succeeded, and SEELE's popularity dropped like lead. Not like they were that popular in the first place, after Third Impact. Sachiel grew magnificently, and was now a human-sized Angel. Shinji kept mumbling about treating his son with love and respect, while Asuka still denied being her mother. Sachiel had moved to a NERV HQ room designed for pilots, though it was never used in the first place. Shinji was soaked in tears the day he was to part, and visited Sachiel frequently. Fuyutsuki could only hang his head in shame as Shinji embarrassed NERV for the second time.
"Shinji, Sachiel is an adult now. Stop treating him like a kid!" Fuyutsuki advised. "He is just a tool, it wouldn't be good to get too attached to him."
"Fuyutsuki-sensei, I can't bear to be like my father. I guess... I guess when I tried, I tried a bit too hard." Shinji said to the wise old sub-commander. The old man knew what went on between Gendo and his son during the Angel attacks, and had acted as a grandfather for the traumatized boy ever since his return from Third Impact.
"I know, but you must have the heart to throw him into the front lines, Shinji." Fuyutsuki said to his pupil. "As a commander of NERV, you're way too soft." He explained, knowing how caring Shinji is.
"Maybe so, but I like it better this way. At least... At least in the short period of time that Sachiel can enjoy himself, he will know a loving father." Shinji smiled, and bridged his hands in front of his face. "Now, onto daily business. How's the miniaturization of the Eva weaponry going?" Shinji asked, in the tone that one would associate with Gendo Ikari.
"Here's the database for current process. Of course, the pallet rifles, the handgun and the bazooka were simply modified versions of the current models we have. The positron rifle and positron sniper rifle are the only two guns being modified." Fuyusuki stated in his business tone. "Your personal Counter Sword is nearly completed, and the Magoroku Exterminate Sword had just begun."
"You know, Fuyutsuki-sensei, I wonder why Asuka's Eva was outfitted with all those guns and rocket launchers while I got the swords." Shinji ranted to his teacher. "I mean, she's the one who likes to go up and kill stuff up close. I have a better history with ranged weapons."
"Well, that's a mystery that your father never mentioned." The wise old sage replied indifferently.
"Well, the katana is not very useful in a real battle situation, is it Fuyutsuki-sensei? I want the katana to be finished last."
"Very well. I am to be dismissed, I assume?" Fuyutsuki left for the door, and as he twisted the knob he couldn't help but feel that this was all planned by yet another committee.
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Back in Misato's apartment, peace and harmony returned to reside with its loving occupants. If Asuka shouting curses at her guardian for teasing her as Pen-Pen get stepped on in their childish chase was peace and harmony, that is.
"MISATO! EAT PILLOWS!" Asuka screamed as she threw the last surviving pillow at the last surviving eye witness to Adam.
"When you admit your undying love!" The amazingly fit woman leaped from the couch to the table, then dived into her room and locked the door. One has to imagine HOW she does it, when she lived her life on instant ramen and beer until Shinji came along.
"DAMN YOU MISATO!" Asuka screamed as she banged on her door loudly.
"WARRRK!" "DROP IT!" The penguin cried as he rushed to his refrigerator.
The week was a troublesome week. After Sachiel's relocation to NERV HQ, Misato and Asuka basically exchanged teases. Misato being Granny Misato, and Asuka being unhappy that she wasn't Shinji's make-shift wife anymore. In reality, however, they liked the little black blob despite the amounts of time it puked. Pen-Pen, being the unlucky penguin that he is, was stuck in middle of it all. Always either a cushion to step on when he went to get a beer, or used as a projectile by Asuka to attack Misato.
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARK!" "I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!"
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Reviewing the data Fuyutsuki had given him, Shinji viewed the status on his weapon development plan. It would serve not only as training for piloting the Evas, it would also be used to protect the pilots from religious zealots and SEELE's agents.
Shinji had grown cold when it comes to the life of SEELE or zealots. SEELE had almost taken Misato's life, and he would never forgive whoever worked for them. The zealots had known how much pain and suffering he had gone through to bring them back to this world, but they still wanted him dead. There was only so much a meek little boy could take before snapping, and now he no longer fears getting his hands stained by the blood of whoever threatened his life. He withdrew his miniature progressive knife, and stared at it a good moment.
"I wonder how much blood I can draw with my Magoroku Exterminate Sword." He mused loudly to himself, a sadistic grin on his face. This was not Shinji Ikari. Now he's showing the legacy of Rokubungis, cold blooded murderers, corrupted politicians, manipulating bastards who thought of people as tools. All in the name of various committees.
Shinji Ikari, the boy with two sides. Two conflicting sides. A kind, loving side and a side that longs for the blood of those who had wronged him.
His grin turned back into his usual, weak smile, as he put the knife back into his shoulder compartment. "Maybe I'm going crazy. Stop thinking about blood! Damn it! No more blood!"
To be continued... Maybe?
A/N: You know... I was glad that the first three reviews I got were positive reviews. Thank you! Thank you! I love you all! Though I still await constructive criticism from experienced authors.
RELIGION-RELATED RANT! DON'T READ IF YOU'RE EASILY OFFENDED BY RELIGION OR ARE OFFENDED BY THE RELIGIOUS EXTREMISTS IN MY STORY, OR JUST PLAIN DON'T LIKE TALKING ABOUT RELIGION.
Also, I don't mean to offend anybody Christian, or of any religion. I just want to dip into the overused idea of religious personnel hating the Children, for a lack of better idea. In my opinion, that is a very likely aftermath to Third Impact if everybody knows of Shinji, Asuka and Rei's involvement in terminating angels. Religious extremists are willing to KILL for their religion. I don't mean being religious is wrong, but going overly religious is not healthy at all. You should simply accept others for who they are, not what god they believe in. Just because somebody is a Satanist doesn't mean that person can't ever be worth the scum off of Christians' shoes. I'm just going in circles at this pace. Just remember, everybody. Religion doesn't change who you are. No matter what your religion, you are still a child of whatever god you believe in.
END RELIGION-RELATED RANT!
Next chapter will be the first of the little Third Impact stories, and I'm going to do my best to fill it up with teary angst and drama and all sorts of dark stuff, since the main story I've written so far are pretty light. Thank you all for your support! Here's an omake!
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Kaji looked at the beauty that lay before him unconsciously.
"I... I don't know if I can bear to see you like this much longer. I need you..." He sobbed. He loved her, and he was alive for her.
"I-I'm not going to let Shinji beat me!" He said, determined to show his love. He tried to pull down his zipper, but was met with unexpected difficulty. "DAMNIT! My zipper is stuck!" He screamed. Instead of pulling down his zippers, he stood, undid his belt and pulled his pants down.
"There, now to show that Shinji is not the only one brave enough to do this..." He removed the cover on Misato, and sat back down on his seat. He reached inside his underwear as Misato opened her eyes.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING! PERVERT! TRYING TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ME!" Misato shrieked. "HELP! RAPE! AHHH!" She continued wailing, under the doctors came in.
"Why did Shinji get away with it...?" He thought aloud as he was dragged away by security.