Haluu peoples. Yes I am back! After nearly a year of just…. Blahr and gwar. Well here's the deal with this chapter, I wrote it a while ago I just never put it up. I haven't even read through it I'm just going to post it right now anyways because I'm bored. It's kind of a jump from the last chapter. The children are now at nerv for one of the more infamous sync tests. Well I let you read it now, rant later. I have no real idea what happens in here, just read and review anyways or no chap 7, which I have also wrote last year. Random 1337 is still my idol, I'm still an uber-lazy high school student, and I still don't own Evangelion, Gainax does! And if I don't watch my ass with these disclaimers, they'll own me too.

Changing Attitudes Chapter 6

Chapter 6: The Second Encounter

"Why do we have to do this every week?" He said to himself not forgetting the fact that the other two pilots were in the locker bay and listening.

"What kind of stupid question is that! Besides it's not like YOU have anything better to do." Asuka replied as a matter of factly and without her usual mocking tone. Her voice then got quiet and wishful thinking came to mind. "I could be at the mall right now."

"It is out duty as pilots of Nerv and the guardians of the human race. These tests are performed to ascertain whether we will be ready to act when the call arises." Calmly added by Rei Ayanami. He sighed in retaliation.

"Yea, I guess your right Ayanami." Asuka brow furrowed.

'That jerk just completely ignored me! Finally showing a bit of spine eh Shinji?' She smirked but in a positive way. Only a white nylon curtain separated the pilots as they changing from their clothes into their plug suits. They had no problem seeing each others shadows through it. Shinji slipped his right arm through the plug suit and pulled it on and pressed the button on his left wrist. It instantly sucked up to his skin with a hiss. Quite a bit was going on the young pilots mind. He looked up to a ceiling light and wondered.

"Ayanami?" She made no response but stopped moving behind the curtain as if acknowledging him.

"Why do you pilot Eva?" Rei had to think about it but quickly came up with an answer though quietly as if slightly ashamed.

"I…" She was interrupted by the entrance of Doctor Ritsuko Akagi.

"You should all be ready by now. We're prepared to initiate the test."

"Yes" Shinji replied.

"Yes" Rei replied

"Let's get this over with" Asuka demanded.

"YOU WANT US TO WHAT!"

"The test requires the clearest feedback possible, your plug suit inhibits our objective of this test. Hence we've eliminate any interference short of your own skin, It's a simple solution. No plug suits." Announced the intercom with Doctor's voice.

"SO STRIP DOWN!" Added Misato gleefully having fun with the situation.

"Then what will we wear!" Asuka cried refusing to accept what they just said.

"You won't be wearing anything. I thought I made that relatively obvious."

"No way!" She whined. "I won't let my body become a spectacle for every single pervert in Nerv! There's already one too many of them just in this room!" The remark was clearly targeted at Shinji. Asuka was quite upset.

"Nonetheless, this test is required and don't worry we'll respect your privacy. Every security camera from here to the test platform are disabled and the techinicians are on lunch break. No one will see you."

"WHOOPADY DOO! Didja ya forget the two people I'm standing next to Docter!" She placed her hands on her hips in a fury."

"Well just don't look at another."

"What kind of solution is that!" She threw her right arm behind her back and pointed at Shinji. "It's fine for Wondergirl but I swear I won't let this hentai see my gorgeous body! Can't we wear towels to until we get to the plugs!"

"No they would leave fibers all over your skin and contaminate the fresh LCL. It would interfere too much. However we will have them waiting for you when the test ends."

"Still how the hell am I going to change in front of HIM!"

"We'll turn off the lights. After your finished, walk from the sterilization chamber one by one to your individual plugs." Misato heard this and simply couldn't resist the urge.

"Too bad Asuka, now you won't be able to peek on Shinji either!"

"Misato your so full of it! I could…" Ritsuko slapped off the intercom.

"Misato is provoking her really necessary?"

"Just spicing things up!" She giggled.

"Things don't need spicing up." She said drably.

"Oh your no fun!" Ritsuko looked at her coworker and friend with contempt.

'She'll never change.' She opened the intercom back up and leaned over the microphone.

"Okay I'm turning off the lights now."

"I HATE Y…" She slapped the intercom back off.

The lights clicked off and Shinji could immediately hear a plug suit depressurize, he did the same, and another quickly followed. The environment around them was silent aside from the rustling of the pilots removing their plug suits.

"Shinji stay on your side of the room!"

"But Asuka I am on the other…"

"I SAID STAY!" He decided to not tick her off further and stayed put which he was already.

'She's just psycho sometimes. Although it's been a while since she's gotten this riled up. I hope it doesn't last.' He then realized the situation a scant meter or three in front of him. He gulped. 'Holy crap, they're both naked and only feet in front of me. I can hear Asuka's breathing. Oh man this isn't good.' His subconscious started thinking for his body. 'No, no not now! Baseball, soccer, basketball, baseball, soccer, basketball.'

The computer screen bleeped and Maya Ibuki answered quickly looking up from her manga.

"Hmmm, Shinji's pulse and neural feedback is rising. But I think it's alright.' Ritsuko leaned beside Maya and pressed the intercom button.

"Okay you'll need to deposit your plug suits in the disposal chute. It's immediately underneath the green led light."

Asuka immediately flocked to the light and threw her plug suit down in front of the light. She moved quickly back to the other side of the room. Rei and Shinji on the other side other hand cautiously approached the light. Rei placed her white suit into the chute and turned away from it. However she walked directly into Shinji felling them both. His plug suit flew from his hand and into the chute but that was unnoticeable compared to his current situation. He fell to the floor but stopped his descent with his left hand and felt something… soft and warm in the right.

Ooff Rei simply gave a soft gasp as they fell.

"Sorry!" he shrieked as they fell but was quickly silenced.

Shinji mouth was covered. The room was totally silent and the two were frozen whilst tangled over another. The soft warm object in his hand rose and fell. 'Oh my God! It's a breast! I'm gonna die! I'm gonna die!' But the thought melted from his mind as he realized were his lips were. They were on another pair of lips. He wouldn't be able to move right now if it meant his life. 'I'm gonna die! I'm gonna die!'

"What the hell was that! What are you apologizing for! What hentai thing is he doing to you Ayanami!" she screamed the last part very loudly.

Ritsuko had heard Asuka's statement over the speaker but frankly could give a rat's ass, she was too busy daydreaming about her many cats. Makoto and Shigeru didn't didn't care because they were too busy playing blackjack. And Maya noticed but waved it off as she was busy also reading the most recent issue of her favorite manga.

Although the sinister man with glasses had noticed and taken account. Sitting over his giant desk he opened a special drawer and flipped a green button. The screen in front of him warped to green as the night vision capability in the security camera activated.

"Shinji you Casanova!" He took another spoonful of his ice cream.

Shinji's mind flashed. 'Asuka's over there so this must be.' He paused and relaxed slightly knowing that he could come out of this alive. 'Rei.'

"ANSWER ME!" Asuka yelled. "That's it I'm coming over there!" She walked randomly around the room searching for them because there was simply no sight to be had in the pitch black darkness. She came from 4 feet from them , 2 feet, 6 inches. The intercom crackled over the silence.

"Asuka you may go to your plug first now." Asuka huffed.

"Fine, whatever!" She turned on her heel and stormed out covering her private parts with her hands as she made her way to the sterilization chamber.

Meanwhile Shinji and Rei still had not disentangled themselves from another. Shinji body was hung over hers. Skin to skin and limbs were tangled. Shinji felt Rei relax under him. He gained control back over his body and slowly lifted his head from hers an inch or two.

"Ayanami I'm so sorry. It was an accident." He voice got louder and nervous. "Rei I'm so sorry! Accident… It was…" Rei slid her hand down his arm and grasped his hand gently with hers. She didn't know what compelled her to do it, she just did. He got much more nervous very quickly but it faded fast.

"Do not worry Shinji. I know it was an accident. I was not harmed. Were you in any way hurt?"

"No."

She smiled faintly but Shinji couldn't see it. "This is not the first time this has happened to us, ne?" She giggled quietly and softly. This shocked Shinji.

'Rei… Rei just made a joke?' He thought with disbelief. 'She giggled… Rei giggled.' He didn't know what to do other than chuckle softly with her. He was feeling many things at this point. Her grip around his hand tightened but quickly loosened as the speaker above them cracked to life.

"Rei, Asuka is in her plug you may go out now." Ritsuko ordered.

"Hai." She lifted herself up and pressed herself against Shinji's body and slipped out from under him with ease. But in both ways of fortune her body completely brushed Shinji's body. She got up a silently left to her entry plug. Meanwhile his subconscious had taken control again.

'Oh jeez why did you have to go like that Rei! Oh jeez.'

'You know it felt great!' a voice in his mind said.

'Errr!' He shot back. 'What am I going to do now stupid! Everyone will see it when I go out!' The voice said nothing but Shinji knew it was entertained.

The computer screen bleeped again. Maya checked what is was this time. 'Whoa, his heart rate is up and his feedback is erratic. I better check the thermal cam.' She clicked it on and she saw nothing out of the usual aside from the fact that Shinji was on his knees not moving at all. That is until he turned around.

'Oh my,' she put her hand her hand to her mouth and giggled lightly. 'Well I guess an occasional spontatneous one is normal for a boy his age. 'His age? Your only 23 Maya, only 7 seven years apart. Do you have any idea how old you sound when you say things like that. Hell, he is old enough to date you!' A voice in her mind complained. She realized that did sound kind of old and Shinji was more or less a man now. Still she couldn't stop herself from staring at the thermal image a bit longer after her realization. 'Ara ara, I still didn't expect that from him.'

He was still breathing nervously and still very aroused when Ritsuko's voice broke over the speaker. "All right Shinji your turn."

'What I can't go out there like this!' He looked down at himself. There's no way they wouldn't see that.' It may have been dark in the room and the sterilization chamber but the platform is as well light anywhere in Nerv. He took his hands and covered himself and decided to sprint for the plug.

'Dream on baka, that would only draw more attention.' An inner voice sniped. How was going to have a meltdown if he couldn't come up with something and quick. The speaker popped on again.

"Shinji I said it was your turn. Go on, there's nothing to be embarrassed about." If his face could break it would do it right now. Misato slapped the microphone into her hand.

"Shinji get out there now! We don't have time for this!" She said impatiently. Shinji was stumped on what to do so he decided to go down in a ball of flames.

"Don't look!" Ritsuko jut rolled her eyes. Shinji gulped dryly down and moved to the sterilization chamber. The cold woosh of air chilled him although that felt like next to nothing when he hit the platform area. It was like a shock to his system and his body shuddered. He quickly shambled outside onto the platform sideways, back to the Magi control center window high above and the Bridge Bunnies occupying it. Though he had requested them not to look, security protocols required at least three people to watch at all times when near active equipment.

"What is he doing?" Makoto said with disbelief. Several faces were raised from various activities and looked at the young man side-stepping across the platform cock-eyed. All of them had the same thing going through their minds, 'WTF?' Except for a Miss Ibuki who had already known what he was trying to hide. He jumped onto his test plug and opened the hatch a bit too hard and hit himself with it across the jaw.

"Awww, that smarts." But with no time to waste he hopped inside.

"Shinji are you alright!" Misato yelled. But no response came as he scrambled into the plug and shut the hatch unfortunately on his other hand.

"AHHHH!" he pulled in his hand quickly and shut it again finally sealed. The Bridge Bunnies all laughed though only Maya got the real joke.

'Hmm he's really filling out isn't he? Doesn't look half bad, nothing like when he first got here.' Noting his more developed muscles and more mature build. She giggled again.

"Oh Shinji your still such a kook."

He sat in the plug's form-fitting seat shivering nervously.

'Holy crap it's so cold out there and cold in here too. Man, I hope they didn't see me.' His thoughts were interrupted as something warm sloshed across his feet and rose up his legs. The plug was filling with lcl. He relaxed a bit and rolled his shoulders.

'Oh, warm, that's nice.' He exhaled.

"Okay this, other than your lack of garment will be a normal test so just focus as usual. By the way," she paused, "interesting entrance Shinji." Some technicians could be heard snickering in the background.

'Why must she they torture me.'

"What is she talking about Shinji?" Asuka messaged quizzically. She saw Shinji look down at him self and away from the intercom's camera and sighed. 'Must have been embarrassing. I wont torture him this time,' she turned her head sideways, ' I didn't wanna walk in front of those pervs naked either.' She clicked the intercom off and the floating screen collapsed into itself. 'I'll ask him later about what happened in the changing room though. Mein Gott I hope what I think happened didn't happen.'

'All this LCL feels so weird naked.' His face jerked involuntarily, the temperatures between his appendages and the lcl was beginning to equalize. His body calmed and his mind shifted back to previous events.

'Rei, I… I kissed her, by accident but still. Geez, and we were both naked too. Nothing like the first time it happened.' His mind flashed back to the time he attempted to delivered to her her new ID card. 'Although she didn't get mad at me for that incident, not even irritated. But even so if she told me it was an accident it's so hard to tell what she's thinking. It's that mask of hers, impenetrable. But she giggled then, she actually giggled and made a joke. I think I'm really making strides with her. But still it's hard to tell what any woman thinks. I hope we don't have to do this naked thing very often'

Rei sat in her plug unmoving and emotionless as per usual. Although her mindset was anything but usual for her, it was in a frenzy at least by her standards.

Author's Rant

Blah blah blah, just review and leave comments, If I get plenty I WILL post the next chapter in a due amount of time. Although I have to take a little while and get my bearings on this story again. Like I said it's almost been a year since I've even looked at it. Depending on the response and the fact that I have a nice new shiny laptop so I can type anywhere I'll keep writing. I'll do a plot rant next chappy after I figure out what the hell is going on.