Title: "Neon Genesis-R Evangelion 0.5"
'Ranma 1/2' - 'Neon Genesis Evangelion' x-over
Created by: Trooper1023

Prologue:

When Shampoo, Ukyou, and all other objectors storm into the doomed wedding of Ranma and Akane, the former completely blows his top. He pounds Kuno into Intensive Care and boots Kodachi halfway across Tokyo. Ranma knocks both Ukyou and Shampoo into unconsciousness, and breaks the barrel of "Spring of Drowned Man" water over the heads of Ryouga, Mousse, and Genma, then kicks them all the way to Nagasaki. As for Happosai, well... Ranma sends him to the Moon with a massive, anger-fueled chi-blast. He then convinces everyone else to proceed with the wedding. A year later, which Ranma and Akane have spent living together surprisingly happily, the Second Impact occurs and changes the face of the Earth forever...

Chapter 1:

2015. Shinji Ikari arrives at Tokyo 2. He looks like your average 14-year-old boy, with two exceptions. First, he has his hair in a pigtail. Second, his eyes are deep blue, flashing blue-gray in a certain light. Shinji looks a bit on the thin-and-weak side, but something about him tries to draw the eye to what lies beneath the surface...

After having his first close encounter with an Angel and an Evangelion, Shinji is brought by Misato Katsuragi to NERV HQ. Upon being found by Ritsuko Akagi, Shinji is escorted by her and Misato to Unit-01's holding pen, where Commander Ikari... Shinji's mother... awaits.

Her full name is Akane Ikari. Blue-black hair. Dark brown eyes behind tinted glasses.

When Shinji refuses his mother's order to pilot the Evangelion, Akane, in a voice colder than ice, calls for the EVA unit to be reset for "Rei"... and a very shapely 14-year-old girl with fire-engine-red hair, heavily bandaged and in bad shape, is brought out on a medical gurney. Akane orders Rei to get back in the EVA, but Shinji can see the pain in Rei's odd red eyes. Something kicks him from the inside for letting a girl suffer like that and Shinji agrees to pilot Unit-01. When Misato raises her objections about putting a green pilot in an EVA and immediately sending him off to fight an Angel, Akane replies, "Shinji only has to enter him. Unit-01 will do the rest."

Later, when Shinji blacks out from the pain of the pseudo-injuries he's sustained from fighting the Angel, he finds himself floating in blackness. A hand lands on his shoulder and Shinji spins around... and finds himself held immobile by a pair of blue-gray eyes, like his own yet seemingly far older. An indistinguishable voice asks, "Giving up all ready?" Shinji nods, and the voice, now distinctly male, growls, "Weakling. How can you give up when you've only just started?" The voice snorts derisively. Shinji shivers and says, "But I don't know how..." and the voice replies, "Then let me guide you. I'll show you how to really fight."

In NERV HQ, Ritsuko reports a sudden spike in Shinji's brainwave activity from where it was a moment ago in the unconscious range. She also reports some kind of energy-wave pattern in Unit-01... which seems to be synchronizing with Shinji's brainwaves. Then Unit-01 is suddenly active and moving, charging the Angel... and weaving between its attacks with ease! In seconds Unit-01 is in hand-to-hand range and is throwing lightning-fast punches and kicks at the Angel, damaging it heavily. Even more astonishing is that Unit-01 is glowing, not only with the reddish hue of an AT-field, but also with a shimmering aura of yellow. Its movements seem to radiate confidence...

If you can't guess where this is going... well, reader-no-baka!

Ideas for later chapters:

--When Kaji joins the story, his trade mark isn't a pigtail (as in the original series) but a yellow-and-black spotted bandanna... and a GPS device on his wrist, which he spends ALL his time looking at whenever he's trying to get somewhere (he's never seen in transit either, he just seems to pop up at the right place, either right on time, or almost too late).

--Shinji is confronted by his father Ranma (instead of meeting his mother Yui, as in the original series) when he is absorbed into the LCL in Unit-01 (I forget which Angel he was fighting, but it was the battle when Unit-01 not only went berserk, but gorged itself on the Angel and absorbed the S2-organ into itself). Ranma teaches Shinji the Saotome School of Anything Goes Martial Arts over an indeterminate amount of time, which seems to Shinji to last a whole year, maybe even several (while in the original series only a few minutes seem to pass for Shinji). Of course, the Shinji that wakes up after being recovered from the LCL is most definitely NOT the Shinji that was absorbed a month previously!

A LOT of fun can be had with this idea. Just the thought of having Shinji suddenly turn from spineless wimp to top-notch, arrogant martial artist/fighter is enough to start my head spinning! And imagine what it will do to poor Asuka!