Shadow of the Angels

Ch.2

A Violent Encounter

Standard disclaimer


"Due to the special emergency, all lines are currently unavailable." The automated phone teller said. Shinji slowly pulled the phone down from his ear. Letting out a sigh he was about to hang up when a searing pain assaulted his mind. Images flashed through his mind, and sensations through his body.

A giant angel, the breaking of his arm, a pain in his right eye, images of Misato and Rei.

Stumbling from the vision, Shinji realized where he was. He had been summoned by his father, no not that. Something was different, something very important. Shinji felt a burning near his collar bones. His right hand shot to his chest. Feeling a small burned symbol on his flesh, he remembered crystal clear the Colossi. But, why had he been there in the first place. Quickly looking around he found none of his equipment. No sword, arrows, or his bow, nothing to bring down the angel to come.

"Wait, angel to come?" Shinji reiterated, as he couldn't believe his own thoughts. Then as if on queue a tremor shook Tokyo 3. He stumbled into the wall next to the sight of a falling VTOL jet. Without hesitation, Shinji ran knowing that the VTOL would strike the ground. As the Angel stepped on the VTOL it exploded and Shinji was clear of the destruction. Suddenly a loud screech signaled the coming of a road raging maiden and her trusty blue steed.

"I'm Sorry! Were you waiting long?" The woman in the car asked as a fiery heap of metal burned behind her car. As Shinji laid eyes on her, more images flashed in his mind. But it wasn't painful, soothing images and a bit of happiness washed over him. The woman that had accepted him, helped him when he was deep in despair. Even the antics of her scantly dressing brought him a smile. Seeing this woman in front of him, was very important, it could almost bring tears to his eyes. But he didn't know why, he just knew that he cared deeply for this woman. And in some odd sense, he knew he loved her.


From the mind of Misato Katsuragi

Opening the door the young man she was looking for came into view. Shinji Ikari was his name, though she only had his school ID. In person she saw the things that the photo did not make noticeable at all. The boy's frame was developed, and even under his clean white button up, you could see the well formed muscles stretching across his frame. By no means was he a muscle head, it was more like the build of a gymnast. And in truth he was cute for his age, it wasn't evident in the picture but he would definitely grow into a lady killer, well that is if his psychiatric assessment was completely wrong. And in the case of one Rei Ayanami it wasn't. As she spoke her words, she looked into the eyes of the young lad.

And saw something that she couldn't quite put her finger on. His eyes seemed to waver for a second, but then a small smile stretched across his face.

"No." He simply answered back, stepping into the car. And began the hard task of trying to decipher the visions he had seen.

Somewhere Far Away

As the explosions rang across Japan, a single man worked outside of Tokyo 3. The horse he had found had two legs broken and massive respiratory problems from landing in the lake nearby. In truth, the horse should have drowned, but something was very odd. There was damage to the left ear, due to a water pressure issue that probably occurred in the lake. He would have to operate on the horse, well not like he had any real good experience in operating on horses.

Slowly the horse was strapped down and made unconscious. As the world shook around, he tried to save the life of an impervious spirit, that didn't give up even in the face of death. Several metal objects lowered to the large steel operating table. Automated machinery, and two large metallic objects lowered near the table. He would succeed, and maybe this horse would live.

In the blue Alpine

As they sat in the car, in silence, something was different. Misato couldn't say it was uncomfortable; it was more of a soothing feeling. She sometimes would make small talk, just sitting in silence was odd for some people. But the look on Shinji's face said he was perfectly happy, and it seemed she was comfortable with that look on his face. Slowly coming to a stop she, she took out her binoculars and crawled over Shinji to look out the window. As she saw the VTOLs back away from the Angel, she felt a grab at her body and was immediately covered by the muscular frame of one Shinji Ikari. And then the explosion ripped across the land of Tokyo 3. The car was tossed into the air and through the whole thing she could feel their bodies bounce between the seats and other pointy objects in the car. Wondering how much it would hurt if she had been the one to react to the N2 mine. But wait, how did he know?


From the mind of the Third Child

As Shinji fished through his memory, he remembered what that Dormin figure had said. But if he had no memories, why was he having these visions? And why were these feelings he had still here. When they stopped and Misato crawled over him, he looked outside the window. Immediately another image self imposed itself over the giant figure standing on the land. Into a giant crater with an explosion in the center, and then the feeling of a shockwave ran across his body. Without hesitation he grabbed onto Misato and hit the floor of the car. As it went airborne, he felt the steering wheel ram into his spine and lower dash board hit him in the shoulders. He wondered how Misato lasted through it last time, last time? Before he could finish his thoughts the shockwave passed over. And they were back on the ground.

"Getting a little too familiar with me huh kid. I thought you were cute before but now you're something else. A little pervert now aren't you." Misato teased as Shinji's head was wedged between her two breasts. In truth she liked how he had protected her. Not many people had ever; they always left her to her own demise. But, having someone automatically care for your own well being without any previous incentive was a nice discovery. She knew that if she knew of the N2 mine she had an obligation as a captain of NERV to protect the son of the commander. However instead of having an obligation he had whole heartily protected her from the damage she surely would have received in protecting the boy. And an odd sensation filled her heart as the boy quickly blushed and got off her. Then they realized they were vertical in the car.


Back to the Operating Table

The horse had flat lined several times, an immediate heart massage had revived him. When in truth after the fifth time of critical heart failure, anyone's body would truly give up. This black steed was something else; both his legs were completely shattered. Beyond repair they had to be removed. But the other part he had to operate on was finished. As the synthetically enlarged lungs were inserted, and the ear hooked up to the cranial nerves, the horse had to be awoken.

When Agro awoke, he came to the astonishing surprise that he was indeed alive. But the real surprise was that he was missing two legs. Yes two legs were visibly missing and he was strapped to a large steel pan. Thrashing about, to break free of his bindings he felt a hand on his muzzle.

"Settle down there boy. I'm trying to help." The man said his face shrouded in darkness. Agro continued to kick around eliciting some blood from his removed limb's areas.

"I said settle down I need you awake for this part boy. It might hurt but it'll make you much better. Ha I'm talking to a horse, I must be going crazy. Well anyway stay calm this might hurt, but I need you to do it. Ok so settle down." In truth Agro couldn't understand what the man was saying. But the very tone he had was calming and he showed diligent care in the brushing of his mane. Slowly putting his head back down onto the table, the man took out several metallic shapes and wires. When someone opened the door, walking in Agro saw a woman, through the darkness of the room.

"Are you sure about this? Do you really want to save this horse so badly you called me from the hospital's shelter? Well at least we can use this stuff for something." The woman was wearing a white lab coat. And though Agro couldn't read, much less see much there was something important on the badge.

"Let's get started," As the woman donned her gloves.


Inside NERV headquarters

"No I won't pilot that THING!" Shinji yelled at his father. Just looking at it filled him with flashes of pain and agony. A brewing animosity filled him as he saw his father and the infernal giant that stood before him. Unimaginable sadness filled him as he stared into the eyes of the beast. He knew that when he got into that thing, he would feel pain and inflict it on others.

"Retrieve Rei," Gendo Ikari buzzed to the medical technicians. Quickly the first child was wheeled into the Eva cage, to be the pilot of Eva Unit 01.

The squeaking of the wheels, brought flashes of memories to Shinji's mind, and that same feeling of déjà vu washed over him. Steering the table to the Unit Shinji's eyes widened dramatically. A flash of falling debris imposed itself over the ceiling. He started in a dead sprint towards the medical bed.

"Shinji wait you can't……" Before Misato could finish her words the complex violently shook. Chunks of concrete broke off from the ceiling. The technicians, fled for their own safety completely forgetting about the defenseless child they were caring for. As another tremor shook the complex, Rei was tossed violently into the air. But before she could feel the hard ground on her opened wounds, she was caught.

Looking down into the singular red eye of Rei Ayanami summoned many blurring visions. A smile, the small thank you, and many other events rushed across his mind. But when he felt the blood seep onto his hand, he remembered an event just like this one. From before, but he didn't know why. Just deep inside his heart he knew that this person was important, and individual. Seeing her in such pain brought him grief and he didn't know why. Softly cradling her in his arms he seemingly did not care about the large amount of concrete falling on them. Luckily the Evangelion did.


From the perspective of the First Child

Her body was completely utterly useless. It was rattled with pain and agony as they carted her to the cage. But in an instant she was in the arms of a boy. She was not paying attention to him, the pain to great for her. Warmth was what she knew in his hands. Opening her single eye, she looked into the face of the boy who had caught her. An emotion she was unfamiliar with emerged from her soul. Unknowing of what this emotion was she did what she always did. She stared unblinkingly at the boy, trying to decipher the emotions that welled inside of her.

Before she scrutinize further he was already speaking.

"I'll pilot, I'll pilot." He sighed in defeat. Slowly he lifted Rei up and moved what was left of the cushion to the floor and laid Rei down. The medical technicians ran back to their duty when the danger had past. As he walked towards Ritsuko and Misato, he felt a heavy burden on his shoulders.

"You're doing the right thing Shinji." Misato put a hand on his shoulder. Turning his head to meet hers, she was shocked by the look in his eyes. Utter misery was apparent, even to those who couldn't read facial expressions and body language. Rolling off him in waves, she sensed that he felt betrayed by those words.

"So what do I have to do?" He directed his question towards Ritsuko, who was still shocked at the movement of the Evangelion with no pilot. Rei watched baffled by the young man getting into the pilot seat.


Somewhere far Away

The horse kicked viciously, it was feeling unimaginable pain. Agro whined as he was secured again to the table. Feeling cold metal on raw flesh and blood flowing from his legs was an uncomfortable feeling. One of the legs removed was replaced with an odd metallic insert. The new insert was metallic and newly cold to his flesh. Replacing the natural tri axel joint with a metallic one, and every nerve ripped with agony.

"I'm sorry boy, but you have to be awake for this. We have to find every nerve connecting your legs together." The man said, quickly connecting two wires together that made Agro jump.

"He can't understand you, why do you even try?" The woman said as she fished through the metallic parts to look for the next piece.

"Maybe because I'm really lonely out here all by myself," the man retorted back as he withdrew his bloody hands.


On the Battlefield

"Shinji just concentrate on walking right now." Ritsuko said not trying to overburden the young lad.

"Roger." As the restrains were unhooked, the Evangelion's own weight went unsupported.

Something was familiar about the plug. Eerily, it was a warm sensation that flushed through him. However; he knew that he disliked it, everything about it was wrong as the stench of blood flared through his nostrils. Walking was easy, one step after another he did without care, receiving the odd sensation of getting used to an unused limb.

"It walked." The bridge cheered as a small victory was won. Evangelion unit 01, never having been activated before was walking. However they looked over the fact that they were sending in a completely inexperienced boy to his untimely death. The cheering was short lived as Evangelion unit 01 fell to the ground.

Shinji's eyes met with those of the angel, Sachiel. How he knew the name was beyond him. But pain rushed through his arm and right eye with renewed vigor. Gripping the controls he was going to attack. Taking in a deep breath, his chest tightened immensely. And the feeling of acid dripping down his chest was like a crawling inferno. The scar below his collar bones burned with adamant vigor. Losing his concentration he fell, leaving him wide open to the Angel's attack, Shinji was gripping his chest in pain. Shinji didn't notice as he was bodily lifted up by his head, and his arm pulled out to its furthest length.

He did notice when the Angel's grip tightened his arm as he felt the bones crack. Hearing Misato's voice didn't comfort him as he felt the extreme force on his arm.

"Shinji, calm down! That not your real arm." Were the words he heard as the bones gave way in his arm.

For Misato, the bridge was a hell hole. People were throwing there professional faces out the window when they saw the failure of a 14 year old boy against an ancient monster. Ritsuko was looking at the read outs over Maya's shoulder when the real damage started. They heard the colossal bang of the Angel's positron elbow on the head of the Evangelion. The grunts from the pilot of Unit 01 were not welcome additions.

"Shinji, Dodge." Misato yelled as the Angel reared back its glowing elbow. Hit after hit he grunted in pain.

"There's a crack on the front of the brain case!" Maya stated as she read the current structural damage to the Evangelion.

"The armor won't last much longer!" Ritsuko said stunned by the very animosity the Angel used in its attack. Then a shout from Maya and a bang from the audio warned everyone of their failure.

"Brain case shattered, we've lost the pilots life signs. All connections have been severed." Maya screamed.

He hated the Evangelion, as every puncture to his eye burned with renewed pain. He hated Eva, and the pain it brought. But, before he had needed it, not possessing the strength he had now. Feeling as if his face would shatter under the barrage of hits, he gripped the controls unnoticing of black tendrils coming from under his shirt. Tendrils swirled around the wanderer, several moving to his face, slowly coming together. Each seemed to decorate the top half of his face and wrap itself around to fit. Each strand became substantial and then more moved to cover the rest of his body. As the final strands came together on his face, the undeniable Mask of Power was back. As he willed the Eva, he didn't notice as his vision shifted from open, to looking through two eye wholes. Or the feeling of more wet cloths on his back and hand. Hearing Misato over the radio did not bring him back to reality.


"Saving the pilot is our top priority. Eject the plug." Her shout rang into his ear.

"Evangelion unit 01 has reactivated. Sync ratio at 42 percent" Maya shocked by the sync read out by the Eva. Everyone turned their eyes to the monitor. As the final blow was struck, and the beam of energy plowed through Unit 01's head, as unimaginable happened. An unbroken arm shot forth and grabbed the extended elbow. Gripping it tight, the plug was already ejected.

"Entry plug, ejected, but it's not an emergency discharge." Ritsuko said seeing that the plug didn't discharge at 90 mph in the opposite direction.

"Oh my god, SHINJI!" Misato knew that if the Angel did practically anything, the young boy would die from a fall, or be crushed by the Evangelion's own weight.


The burning in his chest was unbearable; he ripped off the front of his shirt to look at the glowing emblem below his skin. Grabbing at it with the intent to rip off his own skin, he felt an undeniable bulge. Taking a steady breath, he placed his right hand on the bulge and began to pull. Nerve clusters overloaded with an agonizing, throbbing sensation as he pulled the bulge out of his chest. Enraptured by dark tendrils, the sword never gave an inch. Gritting his teeth, he pulled the sword out, and hit the control for ejecting the plug. Knowing already most of the controls of the Eva, as the plug opened and LCL poured forth from both his lungs and mouth. He grabbed the railing of the open entry plug, and began his ascent.
Somewhere far away

"Finally done," the man said stepping out onto an open porch. Sadly he looked upon the two behemoths fighting, and it was obvious that who would be the victor. Stepping to his telescope, he repositioned to get a good look at the final moments of the battle for humanity. About to turn around and leave the telescope he saw something. Focusing it on the two he saw a small flicker of light bounce across the Angel's arm.

"What do we have here?" he chuckled amused, refocusing the telescope.


The cloak wrapped tightly around him, he ran across the extended arm of the Angel. In an instant the Angel reared back its arm and sent the Evangelion flying into a building. Gripping to the surprisingly elastic skin of the angel, he brought his sword high, and the light from the stars was enough. The sword itself pointed towards many areas over the Angels upper body. Closest to him was the junction in the elbow. As the Angel lowered its extended arm, the Wanderer shifted his weight and braced for the feeling of gravity. Hugging the arm, he repositioned himself to climb. Only at the forearm, he noticed that the Angel was completely ignoring him, pressing his advantage he climbed higher.

Wet hands and cloths made it difficult to climb quickly on the slick flesh of the Angel. Reaching the elbow was no easy task, however, a different symbol glowed then the ones on the Colossi. Several circles connected by three long sticks extending down, from an origin circle. Not pondering the difference, the Wanderer drew his sword and readied a devastating blow. Plunging the sword swiftly into the glowing symbol caused the Angel to scream in pain. Spurting freely from the wound into Shinji's face was the fluid that still had remains in his lungs and stomach. However; as the blood caused the flesh to become slick, the Wanderer fell.


"What's going on!" Misato yelled as the bridge crew was looking for the pilot's life signs.

"We can't get any signals or video feeds from the entry plug. It must have been damaged when the Evangelion collided with the support tower in Section A-2." Hyuga said quickly scrolling through the available read outs from the entry plug.

Then a shriek from the Angel alerted everyone to the impossible.


The Wanderer tried to grab more flesh on his descent from the elbow. Extending his hand, it was repelled by an odd octagon shaped shield. Looking confused, he drew his sword and plunged it into the flesh to try and slow his descent. Easily, the sword cut into the flesh of the Angel. Drawing a long line down the angels arm, bracing himself for shock. The sword hit the outer cuff off bone on the Angel's wrist snapping the Wanderer's body, and further causing pain to shoot up his already damaged left arm. With a grunt, he did not hesitate as the blood poured onto him, and the Angel started to frantically wave its hand around, to give him whiplash every second. As more blood coated the skin he felt his grip loosen. Quickly he got to the palm of the Angel, and stabbed violently. Causing the Angel to double over in agony, it stilled its arm long enough for the Wanderer to jump with sword in hand to the midsection.

Making a grab for the midsection, his hand banged against the octagon shield again. Without any hesitation, he plunged his sword in the flesh. But he had missed his mark of the rib exoskeleton on the midsection of the Angel. Nothing slowing the descent as the razor sharp sword cut through the flesh like butter. The Wanderer looked down, to see the thigh of the giant monster. Pulling the sword out he positioned it below him, so as to get the full force of gravity on the strike.

In an instant the sword plunged into the thigh of the Angel. Stunned, it keeled over, and rested itself on a building.


"The infrastructure of Support tower B-12 is crumbling." Shigeru said, keeping track of the extra weight the building was supporting.

"What about the pilot of Eva Unit 01?" Misato noticed the nonchalance of the Commander, was he not even worried about his own son. Or that he was possibly already dead.

"Still nothing from the entry plug Ma'am." Maya listened to the audio feeds and tried to repair the connection between the plug's cameras.


As the colossal angel rested on the building, The Wanderer had made his way to the rear of the monster. Wiping a hand on the back of his cloak, he kept the other on the angel. The moment he let go, he was going to be pushed away by the strange field again. Pondering the shield once again, more images floated into his mind. All of them indecipherable, he did hear a single phrase in his mind, originating from an all too familiar voice of one Ritsuko Akagi.

"A.T Field." He muttered under his breath. But if this was what he thought it was, why could his sword cut through it. And why, was it nonexistent if he stayed in contact with the Angel itself? Not having the time or energy to further study his findings, he reached the spine where several large bumps were visible. Grabbing onto the one closest to him, he began climbing. A shift in the flesh beneath him told him that the Angel was far from finished.


In utter frustration it destroyed the building it was previously leaning on. Turning around it came up with a bright idea. It knew of the pest on its back and searched for another building.

A feeling of foreboding doom, washed over him. Shifting, the Angel turned around and started to walk backwards. The Wanderer looked in the direction they were walking, to see a tall steel building directly in their path. Without any panic, he climbed with all the speed his hands and feet could give him. The steel building was getting closer and closer. Making his way to the middle of the back, he did the only thing he could do. He reared back his sword and jammed it into the deep spinal cord. Fortune was with him, as the entire chest flew forward in reaction. Giving him enough time to climb high enough on the Angel to avoid the building, reaching the upper right shoulder blade, was when the Angel recuperated. Frustrated it smashed its back into the building, making it crumble to the ground.

Feeling the adrenaline course through his veins, he quickly made it to the top of the shoulders. Seeing the glowing emblem across from him on top of the left shoulder, he sprinted towards it. Under his feet he felt the shifting muscles of the Angel. Gripping the back of the Angel's neck he was frightened when he saw another, bigger building come into his vision.


"It's moving towards Evangelion tower 21." Shigeru screamed as the Angel was clearly being self abusive.

"Why is it ramming itself into buildings?" Ritsuko Akagi asked out load. For being the most brilliant mechanical and electronic scientist and engineer in NERV, she was completely mystified. Commander Ikari and Fuyutsuki continued to look on, seemingly not interested at all. That is until.

"WHAT THE, THE ANGELS BLEEDING." Maya screamed at the top of her lungs as she watched the screen. Yellowish blood erupted into the sky, as the Angel's screams of pain rung out across the battlefield. From the right shoulder they only saw the geyser of LCL, not the person it was drenching.


Using his cloak for cover, he quickly ran to the front of the Angel. Even with its constant spasms, he kept his balance. Looking down, he saw another emblem, right above the Angel's head. Scanning for more targets, he felt a like his mind was being towards the large red sphere embedded in the angels chest. Getting over his hesitation, he fell with his sword drawn. Quickly he thrust the sword into the Angel's flesh during his decent towards the head. Grabbing flesh with his other hand he halted to a stop right above the head of the Angel. Drawing his sword back, another foreboding feeling shot through his body, looking away from the emblem, he saw that a shadow had extended over him. Taking his sword out, he turned around to meet the giant hand coming towards him.

Sachiel had, had enough of this pest. As it sliced his arm and above its face. It would receive much pain for this indignation. Taking his left hand, he brought it swiftly to above his face. That is until a sharp pain wrenched up his arm. Drawing the hand back for another attempt, he felt like the blood above his head turned to molten lava. Burning his body and mind, doubling over in agony, Sachiel didn't stop moving until the final blow was dealt.

The angel so stunned, the Wanderer slid down the head and onto the slick surface of the red orb. Despite the moving of the Angel, he drew back his sword and plunged it into the crystalline structure. The resistance from the blow shuck the Wanderer's whole body. But, he drove the blade in harder, as it sunk into the very core of the sphere, the angel stopped moving.

As the entire Nerv staff watched on in awe, as the Angel seemed to become streams of white tendrils, Gendou Ikari and Kouzou Fuyutsuki kept their outer appearance. Although Maya had declared the target silent and the blue pattern gone, Gendou was far from unruffled by these events. Kouzou was completely at a loss to what had caused this outcome of the battle. Evangelion Unit 01 had not been used at all. And the pilot had not been found, or recorded alive. But, what amazed him was that the angel seemed to lose all its physical features, and become earth and rock, as the white tendrils vanished.

The Wanderer finished the blow, and out of the core came white tendrils. Circling around him, he knew what would happen. Staying in the same place, he felt the blow to come from his back. Tails from the tendrils whisked around as they entered, finally all of them vanished. Feeling the urge to collapse, Shinji began falling to the ground; that is until he heard crying.


"The horse should be coming to soon. You handled yourself pretty well without and previous medical knowledge. How'd you do it." The woman asked while taking off her blood soaked gloves. And stepping into the light, to reveal a rather beautiful woman of Chinese descent, she stood shorter then the man. With brown eyes and her black hair in a pony tail she stared at the man leaning against the railing of the balcony.

"Come on now, I've been out here all by myself for a couple years. I've read a lot of books, Ms. Qwon. Really your fake name is so damn close to your real name; just replace the Q with a K. Is that intentional, or just incompetence by a woman who scored in the 99th percent tile for the medical school final exam." he said, his face still covered by the night shade. Taking out a cigarette from his pocket he put it into his mouth.

"Why don't you figure it out, Mister I don't need formal education." Ms. Qwon said.

"I didn't teach myself everything Jin-Sun." he retorted covering his cigarette to light it, and taking a large puff.

"O really, what did the next step on the evolutionary tree, not teach himself." Jin-Sun inquired, itching at the mole under her left eye.

"How to feel," He declared, letting out a cloud of smoke.


No he is not an author created character. Well in some ways he is, but Jin-Sun Kwon. Where have you heard that name before huh? Well if you can't figure it out, think of being in the woods surrounded by a pack of hungry wolves. If you can't understand that, well then shrugs o well.