Chapter 10

The streets of Tokyo Three have never been safer, thanks to the constant patrols by Misato's army. The women have made a killing with all the money they have brought in and Shinji now has enough money to start implementing his plan to take over Nerv. But Shinji has one problem. He promised a certain warm water, genetically advanced war penguin a mate and he has, as of yet, not fulfilled his promise. But today he is going to because without the penguin on his side, taking Nerv will be difficult.

Shinji has used all his connection and those of O-Ren Ishii's to find a lab that still does genetic experiments on penguins. All of Shinji's connections came up negative but O-Ren Ishii came through with one, and as luck would have it they were carrying on the same work as the people that made Penpen. Now that Shinji knows where the place is, he calls Miho to collect him then gets ready. He Picks up his two Anti-Angel pistols, now will recoil dampeners, and his finished Anti-Angel rifle also with a dampener. He quickly gets dressed in his Hard Body gear and makes his way down the apartment. When Miho arrives he jumps on the back, tells Miho the location and they take off.

O-Ren Ishii told Shinji that the facility is heavily guarded. To Shinji that is a little strange considering that no weapons are held in the facility or animal activists have protested in over ten years. The place is also a maze and every door requires a card with a level of clearance. The clearance gets higher the further you inside you get, and there are patrols every five minutes which make staying undetected very hard. Luckily for Shinji, O-Ren managed to get one of her operatives into the building. The operatives name is Meryl Silverburgh She has been trained to blend in with the enemy. This makes her invisible but still in plain sight. By the time Shinji gets their, Meryl should already have the placed mapped out and waiting for him to arrive.

Miho pulls over to the electoral fence surrounding the compound. Shinji hops off and tells Miho to hide until Shinji gets out of the compound. Miho nods and drives off leaving Shinji with a mouth full of dust. Next time Shinji will stand away from the back tyre as Miho revs the engine, holds the break and puts her foot on the gas peddle as they say.

To Shinji, the place looks more like an army compound. From his position he can see search lights everywhere and patrolling soldiers. It is going to be far from easy to get inside. Shinji walks up to a near by power distribution box. O-Ren said that this is the only flaw in their defense. Shinji took out one on of his pistols and shot the box. Shinji knew that this would alert the guards and that means they will also be distracted for a short period of time but afterwards they will be searching for him.

Then the fence went down, Shinji quickly scrambled up and over it and ran to the nearest building just before the guards arrived. Power was reestablished and the alert is sent out. Shinji hides in the shadows for a lone guard to come by. He pounces on one that let their guard down; he knocks him out and takes his card then slips inside the building. Inside his codec goes off.

'Can you hear me Shinji? This is Meryl.' Shinji puts his hand to his ear.

'I hear you Meryl'

'WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKINIG! You alerted the guards to our presence!'

'I had to get in some how.'

'There is a hole in the fence that you could have used! Did you listen to a thing O-Ren said?

'Err of course I did. I just wanted to make a scene.'

'This is not the time or place to be making scenes. We have to stay covert unless you want to be killed. Now make your way to the first floor elevator. You will find a room next to it. Inside you will find a guard with a clearance card for the elevator. I will contact you when you make it to the first laboratory. Meryl out.'

Shinji makes his way to wards the elevator, staying out the security cameras FOV. (A/N Field Of Vision) He finds the elevator and the room next to it. Shinji slips in and finds the guard sleeping on the job. Shinji quickly hits him on the head, putting him into a deeper sleep, and takes his card. Shinji then enters the elevator and pushes one of only two buttons, the down button. Exiting the elevator Shinji sees a drastic change in the appearance of the place. The walls are covered in bullet holes and slash marks, blood everywhere but no bodies but Shinji does find a card to allow him to proceed further. Going down he halls Shinji surveys the place further, a lot of doors have been broken into and the cameras have been destroyed. When Shinji reaches the first laboratory, he finds the door open and everything pitch black inside. Shinji's codec goes off again.

'You took you time and that's something we no longer have thanks to your stunt earlier'

'What happened down here?'

'The very reason you are here is what happened'

'You mean the penguin?'

'It's a war penguin. That's what it's designed to do.'

'Yeah but the one at home.'

'Your one is domesticated. This one is not. Now the soldiers have it pined down in the second lab. I don't know how long it will last so you better hurry. You will find a maximum level clearance card on the table near the door. More soldiers are coming so you better get a move on.'

Shinji runs to the door, picking up the clearance card and makes his way through the maze of corridors following the trail of blood. Shinji turns a corner and stops. In front of him are twelve soldiers. As they are not yet aware of Shinji's presence, Shinji quietly draws his pistols and sets them to automatic. Shinji brings the guns up and fires. The clicking sound alerts the soldiers to Shinji's presence and turn with their guns pointed at him. When they see the tips of Shinji's guns start to glow, they start shooting, Shinji's guns also release their delayed shots. The men, most of the door and walls are blown to pieces by Shinji's guns.

Shinji falls to the floor and rubs his body through the Hard Body clothing. Not one bullet got through but the impact of the bullets stung really bad and bound to leave a lot of bruising. Having a rapid fire system is nice but the charge up time is far too long.

Shinji Stumbles through the decapitated door to the second laboratory and starts searching for the penguin. When Shinji gets close to a container, something jumps out slashes him across the chest. Shinji become very grateful that the Hard Body is slash proof or he would be dead right about now. The creature tries again but Shinji evades and makes an attempt to knock it out, but without sufficient light Shinji can't see where to attack. The creature attacks again knocking Shinji to the floor and starts slashing at him again. In a panic, Shinji grabs one of his guns and starts pounding the creature until it stops moving.

Someone wielding a flash light comes into the room and points it at Shinji when they hear his hard breaths. The person moves to his side and helps him up.

"I see you found your penguin?"

Shinji looks down at the creature that attacked him. "I guess so. I didn't kill it, did I?"

"No, it's just knocked out. Lets bag it and get out of here." Shinji picks up the penguin then follows Meryl. Meryl brings him to a passage that leads to the surface. They both make their way towards the hole in the fence and find Miho and a man both waiting for them.

"Good luck with what your doing Shinji. Lets go Snake." Meryl jumps onto the man named Snake's bike and takes off. Shinji quickly jumps on Miho bike and they make their way back to Tokyo Three and Misato's apartment.

Shinji kicks open the door to Misato's apartment and calls Penpen to him. When Penpen arrives, Shinji places the penguin in front if him just as the female penguin wakes up. The Female penguin looks like it's about to attack Shinji but Penpen starts speaking to her. After a while the female penguin jumps into Penpens flippers and he carries her off bridle style to his fridge. Shinji now walks slowly toward his bedroom. The door opens before he gets to it and a very irate looking Asuka appears in the door way.

"So you thought you could skip out of out love making by getting the bird a bird!"

"No Asuka I just." Asuka cuts him off.

"I don't care for your excuses! You are going to please me until I pass out!" Asuka grabs the very tired Shinji by the scruff of his collar and drags him into his room.

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