A/N: Yes I know Gendo wasn't at Nerv when this happened and the locations are slightly different but this is my story so I'm god and what I say goes so don't even bother saying I'm wrong (unless you want to I really don't care). Also prepare for some but hopefully not too much OOC-ness.
Now on with the story.
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How I spent my summer as a clone
Chapter One
Deep in central dogma alarms were going off and lights were flashing.
"Pattern is blue. It's an angel" Makoto Hyuga informed the commander of Nerv.
"Understood. Designate it as the seventh angel and get me the pilots," ordered the Supreme Bastard of the Universe™ Gendo Ikari.
"Yes sir" Makoto replied.
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The three pilots were walking with their classmates on their way to school. As usual Kensuke was bugging Shinji for information about his Eva and the technology behind it.
"Come on Shinji you got to give me something." Kensuke pleaded. "Ever since I got in it I've craved more" Kensuke was desperately trying to get Shinji to reveal some facts about Unit 01.
"Sorry man, but I can't do that" was Shinji's answer every time his friend would ask.
"Just give it up dummkopf" Asuka just couldn't take Kensuke's annoying behavior on a daily basis. She'd rather hangout with wonder girl everyday.
"Pilot Soryu is correct Aida. It is pointless" Rei's monotonous statement shot down any attempt by Kensuke to argue.
"You even got Ayanami against him. Man Shinji when did you become such a player" Touji joked but quickly had his ear pulled by Hikari.
"Serves you right stooge" Asuka laughed at his pain and stuck out her tongue.
Suddenly emergency alarms started going off getting all of their attention and at that same moment the three pilots phones simultaneously went off alerting them of an angel. They looked at each other and nodded.
"Get to a shelter and we'll see you guys later" Shinji informed his friends. They agreed and ran towards the shelter next to their school. With them gone the three pilots started sprinting towards Nerv.
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"Sir the angel has come from the sea and is in the city heading towards us" Maya stated the facts as she received them.
"Where are my damn pilots" Gendo is one impatient bastard.
"Section Two reported seeing them about a kilometer a way running on foot towards Nerv sir" Maya informed him.
"Good my patience is beginning to thin" Gendo sat in his usual Gendo Pose™ while surveying his crew. "Where is Captain Katsuragi?"
"Right here sir" Misato said while panting a little from her quick jog up to the command deck.
"Good, now do your job captain" Was his dark reply.
"Cold hearted bastard" Misato quietly whispered while Gendo abruptly sneezed. "We need to buy some time pull up our defenses and stall the angel".
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"So why is Wonder Girl following us anyway. It's not like her Eva works right now" Asuka never missed an opportunity to mess with the first child.
"Because pilot Soryu if an emergency is to occur I would serve as a back up for either you or Ikari".
"Like I would ever let you near my Unit 02" Asuka was repulsed with just the thought of somebody else in her Evangelion. "The Third on the other hand I could see him needing a replacement" She smirked as she stated that.
"Hey" Shinji whimpered. Missiles started flying by them and they turned around to see them slam into the angel at the edge of the city.
"What a waste of perfectly good firepower" Asuka commented as she watched them be deflected by an AT-Field.
The seventh angel, Israfel, was not to pleased with this and shot back where the objects that hit it came from. The beam of energy shot towards a mountainside where a missile launcher was waiting hitting a few buildings in the process and one of those buildings just happened to be towering over our young heroes and immediately debris started raining down on them like…well rain. Shinji was the only one to notice this as they ran.
"Look out" Shinji yelled as he pushed both Asuka and Rei out of the way of the collapsing walls. The two girls fell to the ground from his shove but quickly got up.
"Ouch what was that for Third Child" She looked around but couldn't find him. "Shinji" All she could see was rubble behind her.
"Ikari" Rei gasped. She spotted him under some of the debris and ran to him immediately followed by Asuka.
"Mein Gott Shinji" Asuka shrieked as she looked at his bloodied body. His left arm was crushed and squashed while he had a huge gash on his head and to top it off he had a long narrow pipe sticking out of his chest and was bleeding everywhere.
He coughed up blood that shot out and splattered on the girls clothes scaring them more before he painfully spoke "An…gel…get…it" he winced in pain then passed out.
"Shinji. Shinji." Asuka was crying. Something she promised herself she'd never do again and Rei wasn't doing much better.
Though she couldn't explain the painful feeling in her chest right now Rei knew they had to leave him there. "Pilot Soryu" no response "Pilot Soryu" still nothing "ASUKA" the German girl turned around and looked straight into Rei's eyes. Eyes she thought would never show any emotion and would never cry. The eyes of a doll. Eyes that right now were full of worry, hurt, and confusion. Eyes that for once in her young life had tears in them. Asuka just stared but was interrupted by another explosion from more missiles.
"Right we have to go" Asuka sounded like Rei when she said it. She looked back at Shinji's unconscious form and lipped a 'thank you' before grabbing Rei's hand and running towards Nerv.
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"This isn't right" Maya said out loud.
"What is it" Ritsuko asked.
"The children are here but Shinji's not with them".
"WHAT" Misato yelled. "I'm heading towards the lockers. I need to find out what the hell is going on".
"Maya take over for me. Wait up Misato" Ritsuko shouted.
Back in the lockers the girls were stripping out of their school uniforms as quickly as possible to get into their plug suits when Misato and Ritsuko came barging in.
"Girls where's Shinji" Misato shouted like a possessed maniac but received nothing but silence. "Asuka where is he" Asuka looked down and let her bangs cover her eyes but didn't speak. "Rei answer me" Rei flinched when she heard her name but responded…slowly.
"He's a half a kilometer away from here" a few tears leaving her eyes shocking the two older women "He…he…saved us from a collapsing building" she stopped herself then spoke some more "He's unconscious buried under the rubble of the building that collapsed and I fear he is dieing".
"Oh dear god no…Shinji" Misato was having trouble breathing.
"Look" Ritsuko decided to take control of the situation. "I'll take some Section Two agents with me and retrieve Shinji but I need you girls to suit up and take out this angel. Rei your in Unit 01. Now go you two".
They wiped away the tears and finished with their plug suits then ran out of the locker room towards the Eva cages. Rei briefly stopped to look at the doctor.
"Do whatever you can to save Ikari" Rei asked totally surprising Ritsuko "Whatever it takes Dr. Akagi" another tear left her eye as she resumed running towards Unit 01.
"Misato…Misato" the violet haired women looked up at the doctor "I'll get Shinji but we need you here to help the girls to take out this angel. OK" Misato nodded and walked out. 'I hope Shinji's not to banged up' Ritsuko thought 'I would hate to think what Gendo would do to him if he no longer had a use for him. Come to think of it what would he do to me if I had no use' She shudder and ran out to go get some agents to help her.
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Asuka made it to her Eva first and quickly jumped in the entry plug. She started it up and was immediately sent towards the catapults. As Asuka finished Rei had just gotten into Unit 01's entry plug. She tried synchronizing with it but it refused her.
"Ma'am Unit 01 has denied Rei" Maya reported.
"Try it again" Misato yelled.
"Negative it's shutting down completely. We've lost all connections to it" Maya yelled back".
"Damn it" Misato cursed.
Inside Unit 01 Rei was desperately trying to activate it.
"Please I'm the only one who can pilot you right now" nothing happened "Shinji has been injured and may not survive" Unit 01's eyes slowly lit up "I know who you really are and I…I feel the same as you do towards him" The entry plug started humming to life.
"Ma'am Unit one has activated".
'Good job Rei' Misato thought "Send it towards the catapult immediately".
Unit 01 was lined up with Unit 02.
"Units 01 and 02 are ready to go on your orders captain" Maya informed Misato.
"Launch the Evas," She ordered.
Generic hero music begins to play.
Both Units are catapulted to the surface to engage the seventh angel.
"Asuka you're upfront for a frontal assault while Rei…".
The music immediately stops with the scratching sound from a record.
"Your going to pay for what you did to Shinji you bastard" Asuka screamed as she charged the Angel.
"Asuka stop we still don't know anything about this angel" Misato shouted but it was too late.
"Her sync ratio is at 82 percent".
Asuka split the angel in half and kicked it across the city back towards the sea. She ran towards it to finish it off. Though split in two the angel had reawaken and began to rise. It completely separated to form two different entities and dodged the attack. The two individual angels charged Asuka but one was shot by Rei and collapsed onto the ground.
"You will not harm anybody else" Rei said with a bit of anger in her voice.
"Rei currently has a ratio of 79 percent".
Asuka intercepted the other by shoving her progressive knife into its core cracking it. Rei jumped onto the angel she had shot and pulled out Unit 01's progressive knife as well and continuously stabbed it's core. So caught up with thinking about Shinji the girls didn't even realize they were fighting in synch the whole time. Rei pushed harder into the core till it started cracking and finally shattered along with Asuka shattering the other core.
Needless to say that the entire crew that watched this happen were in awe at the battle they just witnessed. Even the cold-hearted bastard was shocked.
"Report" The commander asked while staring at the monitors in disbelief.
"Umm…" Maya was still in shock. "Angel defeated" She paused again "Battle time thirty four seconds…wow" She couldn't help herself.
"Captain" Rei asked over the radio.
"Yeah Rei".
"What's the status of Sh…" she stopped herself from calling out his first name "Unit 01's pilot".
"Oh shit I almost forgot…he just got here but I haven't talked to Ritsuko about him yet".
"Misato were heading back," Asuka told her with sadness clearly in her voice.
Both girls silently headed back towards headquarters. Nobody celebrated the victory instead they were all waiting for word on the Third Child.
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In the dark room of the Commanders office Ritsuko and Rei stood in front of the head of Nerv.
"What is the status of Unit 01's pilot doctor?" He asked while still in his Gendo Pose™.
"Frankly sir he's unstable and wont last more then a day I'm afraid" She sounded a little disappointed in her own answer.
Gendo sighed, "This is not good and completely ruins the scenario I so precisely established already. We need pilots for all Units"
"But sir we have still not located the Fourth Child…".
"Sir" Rei spoke up.
"Yes Rei".
"I have an idea that might work but involves pilot Ikari knowing of my…origins".
Gendo and Ritsuko had already figured out what she was implying.
"That wont work Rei he…" the doctor was cut off by the commander.
"Proceed with her plan Dr. Akagi" Gendo ordered.
"But sir we've never tried that before I can't promise it'd work".
"That is irrelevant. It is are only course of action we can proceed with in are allotted time".
"Very well sir" She turned towards Rei "Rei come with me".
"Yes Dr. Akagi".
Together they walked out the door and towards the lab "Your going to be doing all of the explaining to him you know".
"I had already planned on that doctor but…I do not know how to go about this".
"Just make sure to keep it simple and to not divulge certain information".
"Yes doctor".
Ritsuko stopped and looked at Rei "Nobody can know of this so make sure to tell him that as well" Rei nodded her head "Well I'm off to make an excuse to Misato about how Shinji needs treatment outside the country and she can't see him for a while" The faux blonde walked away from the pilot of Unit 00 "I'm gonna need a cigarette or two after this".
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Shinji woke up in a hospital bed. He felt numb all over and he also seemed to be lighter. He looks up at the ceiling above him.
"Another unfamiliar ceiling" He states. He slowly turns his head to its side and finds Rei in a hospital bed next to him staring back at him. Shinji notices she has no injures so he decides to ask her if she's ok.
"Ayanami why are you here you look all right to me" He noticed that she said something at the same time but didn't hear her over his own voice. He decides to sit up and notices she does the same he also notices her hospital gown had lifted up showing off her…area…to which he turns away blushing and says sorry.
He noticed she turned away at the same time so he decided to look down afraid he's exposing himself. He notices his chest is sticking out and something seems different…down there…he quickly covers himself freaking out and looks back at Rei. He noticed she has a scared and confused look on her face and stands up to comfort her. She stood up as well and they walked towards each other. As they went to embrace each other he noticed she had green eyes now but that didn't matter right now she needed him. He walks into her embrace only to hit something hard and fall to the ground.
He looks up and realizes that there is a mirror in front of him he then notices Rei is reflected in that same mirror.
"What the fuck is going on here?" He yells in a soft voice and quickly covers his own mouth in shock.
The door to the room opens and in comes the real Rei.
"Good morning Shinji" Rei looks towards the mess of a person looking at her with horror in 'his' eyes. "Where should I begin"?
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A/N: Well my second story has been started and wow I thought I was going to write one completely different. Oh well I can always write those later. Anyway leave a review if you want Negative or Positive I, like most writers, enjoy reviews.
One thing though just like my other story the updates wont be fast since I'm not a writer and I only do them when I have free time. I like reading your stories more then writing my own but I wont abandon my stories. So I hope to hear from you soon my peers. Read ya Later©.
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