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A.N: "Moo"
'Quack'
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"Ikari…" A man spoke. He and several others were seated around a table in a dark room. All were cast heavily in shadow, as if trying to hide their identity from each other.
"We demand an explanation as to the choice of the pilot of Unit-01"
"Yes…" another interrupted. "We see this as a problem. It seems you have chosen to give that… toy, to your own son…"
"Furthermore," a third put in, "he seems to have an… unhealthy amount of knowledge as to the angel's existence."
"We also can not look past the fact that he knows of us…"
"We wish for you to monitor this child. We can not have him become a threat to our ambitions."
"I understand." The commander of NERV said. "If he becomes dangerous, I will have him disposed of."
"Very good Ikari. We shall hold you to your word."
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"YAWN…" Shinji Ikari said as he sat up. 'Damn that was tiring…' he looked around the room to try and focus his mind. His inspection stopped when he realized the condition he was in. He was heavily bandaged and his arm seemed to have been set in a cast. 'Damn this is annoying' he thought. With one strike of his fist, he struck the plaster over his left arm and shattered it. 'Ugh…' he said when he saw the state of his arm. 'Just great, both of the bones in my forearm snapped.' He grabbed his arm and twisted and pulled on his arm, re-aligning the shattered bones. Without even flinching at the pain he inflicted on himself. He pulled off some of the bandages covering him and tied it around his arm. 'There.' He thought once he finished. 'That's a hell of a lot better and at least I can use it now.' He then got up in order to better asses the rest of his injuries. 'Hmm… one, two, three… five cracked ribs.' He said as her ran his hand across his sides. 'Everything else is minor.'
Feeling bored he decided to walk around after getting dressed. As he walked down one of the hospital's hallways, a bed wheeled past him. On it lay the blue haired girl he saw before the battle. It kept rolling until it was stopped in front of the commander. He leaned downward to speak to her before glancing up to see that his son was facing him.
Shinji smirked at his father, "Hope you get better soon, Ayanami!" he called out before walking away, completely ignoring the commander. This, obviously, infuriated him, but, as long as he was the only one who could pilot, that made him as good as invulnerable.
He walked forward for a bit, feeling pleased at having messed with the commander again before being called out to by a familiar voice.
"Hey there!" Misato said.
"Hello. What's up?" he responded.
"I came to pick you up! I heard you were injured pretty badly. How are you feeling?" She asked. 'Wait, wasn't his arm broken? What the hell? He looks perfectly fine…'
"Well, my arm got a bit messed up, but I'm perfectly fine."
"Gah!" she shouted. "Back you! Stay out of my head!"
"What?" he said confused. "What the hell is wrong with you?"
"Oh umm… nothing… yeah, that's it… ha ha ha…" She stammered. "Anyways, I've come to take you to your quarters."
"Oh, okay, that's fine…"
"The commander decided that you are to stay with me." She continued.
"Oh… wait, WHAT!" He shouted. "What kind of moron would agree to that?"
"Moron is it…?" She asked, a vein popping out on her forehead. "This one would."
"Oh… that explains it…" he told her.
'Why that little… If it wasn't for the commanders orders there's no way I'd even consider something like this!' She thought angrily to herself.
"So what?" he said as he interrupted her thoughts. "Did the commander order it or something?"
"Um… yeah…" 'Damn it! How the hell does he do that!'
She continued to rant in her head until she saw Shinji staring evenly at her.
"You're thinking that I'm reading your mind again, aren't you…?"
"N, no… NO of course not! Ha ha ha ha ha… I know you can't! Let's just get out of her…" 'Ugh… this is going to be harder than I thought…'
A few minutes later they were driving on the roads of Tokyo-3 towards Misato's apartment. "Hey Shinji?" Misato asked.
"Hmm…?"
"Why don't you tell me a little about yourself? I went through your personal files but there was almost nothing on them."
"About me? Maybe later." Was all he said.
'What the…? Here I am trying to be friendly, and he has to say something like that! Oh well, he must have a hard time opening up to people. Oh yeah! Maybe I should take him there!'
"Hey, I'm going to show you something awesome, okay?" she said with a lecherous smile. 'Maybe I can at least tease him a bit.'
"Sure." He said as he turned his head to look out the window.
'Damn! He was really talkative before he got in the Eva, and now he's completely silent! What the hell!'
They drove for a while before finally arriving at a cliff overlooking the city.
"Is this it?" Shinji asked, clearly unimpressed. "Doesn't seem to be anything here…"
"So impatient…" Misato chided. "Just wait a little bit." The words were barely out of her mouth when the actual reason for their visit became apparent. The skyline of Tokyo-3 began to slowly rise out of the ground. It was as if it could actually sense that the danger to its existence had long since passed. The backdrop of a setting sun contrasted amazingly with the image of the rising city. Needles to say, Shinji was indeed impressed.
"Wow…" he said. "The buildings are rising from the ground?"
Misato smirked at his awestruck face and told him: "Not just any buildings – New Tokyo-3! This is the 'Anti-Angel Siege Fortress' Our city! More than that… the city you defended!"
"Heh…" he said. "I guess you memorized what was on the card Ritsuko gave you…"
"Huh! What gave you the idea that Ritsuko helped me with what to say just now!"
"I saw you reading something while we rode here."
"I did not!"
"Sure you did… when I was looking out of the window you were probably memorizing it. Which would explain why we nearly crashed about a dozen times…"
"Not fair!" she whined. "You're cheating!"
"Ha ha ha ha…" Shinji laughed on his way to the car. Before he stepped in, however, he turned towards her and said, despite the fact that those words weren't yours, I appreciate the fact that you went to the trouble of showing this to me. Thank you."
"Umm… Shinji, there's something I want to ask…" she said once they were on the road again.
"What is it?" he said.
"Why did you want to know the Angel's name?"
"Why?"
"Yeah…"
"Hmm…" he said as he thought for a few seconds. "I guess because I hate murdering."
"Murder!" She said. 'What the hell? He's killed!'
"Okay, let me put it this way. What is the difference between killing someone and murdering them?"
"What? I… I don't know…"
"Alright, listen to this then, what matters is that you consider your opponent as being equal to you. And if you can look your opponent straight in the eyes as the life flows out of them and tell them your name, or ask for theirs as you die, then that is not murder. Whether your motives are right or wrong is completely irrelevant." He told her. "Well, that's the best I can explain it anyway. My master taught me, but not really with words."
There was a few more minutes of silence before she gathered up the courage to ask; "Have you ever killed anyone…?" He turned towards her, seemed to stop and think for a few seconds, smirked at her, and then turned away again. Needless to say, that killed the possibility of further conversation.
As they finally arrived at the apartment complex where Misato lived, they went up a few floors until they reached her room. What Shinji witnessed as the door slowly creaked open was a sight that would frighten even the most hardened and experienced of warriors. Something even those accustomed to the sights, sounds, and smells of eviscerated corpses would pale at. Shinji stared in awe at what had to be the most frightening thing he had ever seen. Misato, however, being the progenitor of It, was completely unaffected.
"Hey, your stuff is here! To tell you the truth, I just moved here myself! Come on in! It's a little messy but… " She said, completely unaware as to the state of near-shock that the young man next to her was currently experiencing.
'Wow, this is a little messy? I wonder how much worse it could get…'
"Just a sec…" she said. "I'll get dinner ready."
'Dinner?' he thought then said. "Don't worry about me, I'm not hungry."
"What!" She exclaimed. "You haven't eaten anything since you got here!"
"No, that's not true." He claimed as he picked up a water bottle, he covered his mouth with his hand to stifle a yawn, then drained it in one drink. "I ate the hospital food they gave me."
"Are you sure?" she asked.
"Yeah, and if you don't mind, I'm gonna take a shower then go to sleep." He walked out of the kitchen and headed for the bathroom. Not two minutes later he walked back in, said "This is yours" as he placed a penguin on the floor and walked back out.
'Aww…' she thought to herself. 'I was hoping PenPen would have surprised him at least a little. Oh well.'
A quick shower later, he walked back into the kitchen and asked, "Hey, where am I sleeping?"
'The perfect chance!' Misato's mind shouted at her.
"With me of course!" she told him, smiling seductively at him. A smile which faltered seeing as how his expression seemed to stay the same.
"Is that so…?" he said. His gaze intensifying with each passing second.
'Uh oh… Maybe this wasn't too good an idea after all…' "Gah! Stop staring at me like that! It was a joke!" She had lasted about thirty seconds before caving in and telling him where his room was. Unfortunately for her, he kept looking at her the same way. She was about to snap and either attack him or run away before… "Ha ha ha ha ha! Oh man! That's way too easy!" As he walked away, he saw her out of the corner of his eye. She seemed a bit shock at this sudden and completely random turn of events.
A few mornings later, as Shinji woke up, he was informed by Misato of an executive decision. "Shinji," she began, "It has been decided that you are to attend school while you are here."
"What for?" he asked.
"Well, believe it or not, I'm here to make sure you get a good education. The angels won't attack forever, and once that's done, you should be able to resume a normal life." 'Strange, I thought he would have at least complained a little…' "You start this morning. I got you a cell phone in case of emergencies."
One seemingly endless walk later, Shinji arrived at his destination. Despite the fact that he got lost for over an hour before realizing that he had gone in the opposite direction from the start.
As the teacher rambled on and on about something no one in class seemed to care the slightest bit about, they were finally snapped out of their state of pseudo-wakefulness by the classroom door opening.
'This place looks so boring…' Shinji thought as he walked into the class. 'Hey is that Ayanami? Didn't know she got out of the hospital already, or that she went to the same school as me.'
He talked with the old man for a few seconds before the teacher said, "Class, we have a new transfer student starting today." Then, addressing Shinji, said "Go ahead and introduce yourself."
'Man I hate talking in front of crowds…' "Hello." He began addressing the class. 'Ugh… do they have to stare…?' "My name's Shinji Ikari, it's, uh… nice to meet you all."
"Very good mister Ikari," the teacher said. "Just go sit over there and take notes" he said while directing him to a seat at the back of the room. Not five minutes later, Shinji was completely asleep, oblivious to all of the people whispering about.
"Say, did ya hear?" A random student asked another.
"Hmm?" Said random student answered.
"All the guy's have been talking about it…"
"About what?"
"You know, the boy who transferred in?"
"They say he's the pilot of that robot."
"What? You're kidding!"
"Are you serious?" Both random individuals flinched at the fact that one had accidentally screamed her line out.
"….." Was what the teacher said while looking straight at them. The two looked away from each other and pretended to be too busy taking notes to realize that they were being observed.
Meanwhile, a strange boy in the corner pushed his glasses up while suspiciously glancing off to the side…
"Hey Ikari! Got a minute?" Random girl #1 asked him once class was over.
"Wha…?" he asked after just being woken up.
"How come you transferred here just when people are starting to evacuate?" #2 asked.
"Huh? Well…" he managed to answer before being cut off.
"So the rumor's true isn't it?" She asked.
"Rumor…?" he said groggily, obviously not fully awake yet.
"Don't play dumb. The rumor that you're that robot's Pilot!" #1 pressed him for an answer.
"Is it true?" #2 added.
Shinji, only wanting to go back to sleep said, "Uh… yeah…" before his head slumped forward onto the desk. Unfortunately that was the worst answer he could have given.
"What, What?" Random guy #8 shouted across the room.
"Hey, everyone! It's true!" #2 announced to the class.
"He was in that robot!"
"That is so cool!"
"How'd they choose you?"
"Was there a test or something?"
"Say weren't you scared?"
"Does it have a special attack?"
The rambling went on and on but all Shinji was thinking was 'Damn I just want to sleep! Why are they so loud?'
What he did notice was the hostile voice calling him from the door. "You think yer all dat, but ya don't know nothin' do you? What are ya -- stupid?"
He turned towards the origin of the sound to see a kid in a track suit walk towards him. Slamming his hand on the desk, he said, "Yo! New kid! Step outside – Now!"
'Who the hell is this?' he thought as he followed the loud obnoxious guy out.
"Okay, new kid… listen up!" the loud obnoxious guy began as they arrived outside. "My younger sister was hurt bad – she's still in da hospital! My dad and gramps work in your lab, and I'm da only one who can stay with her!" While his ranting was taking place Shinji was thinking 'What the hell is he babbling about and how the hell does it affect me?'
"It ain't da goin' dere I mind…" the guy continued his tirade completely unaware that the person he was talking to was more or less ignoring him. "but supposin' she ends up with some scar --? She'll never be a babe! Don'tcha feel sorry for her? Whose fault d'ya think it was…?" At this statement, Shinji started paying attention, hoping he was finally getting to his point. Only to be surprised as the guy started shouting; "It's your fault! She was pinned under rubble because you had to go crashin' around! Don't think yer so hot just cause they're all over ya!"
"Oh…" Shinji said, then said what he hoped would be enough to shut this guy up, "Sorry."
"You tryin' to make fun of me! 'Sorry' just don't cut it!" obviously, Shinji's statement did nothing more than get the guy angrier at him.
"H-hey, Toji! Enough already." The suspicious looking kid from earlier shouted to his friend as he tried to restrain him.
"What do you want me to do? Kneel down and beg for forgiveness?" Shinji said, getting very tired of this idiot's ranting.
"Why you…!" Toji growled and swung at Shinji's face. The strike collided with a solid thunk but seemed to have caused more damage to the fist than the face.
"Hmph…" Shinji said. "You're weak. Is that it or do you want to complain about how I stepped on your pet dog or something?"
"You bastard!" Toji shouted at him before swinging at him again. This time the strike was caught by Shinji. He twisted Toji's arm, tripped his leg, and dropped him to the ground while pinning him down with a knee to the back.
"Will you shut up already?" He commanded the prone boy below him. Do you know whose fault it is that your sister is injured? Yours! If you did your job as a big brother, and protected her, with your own life if necessary, then she would have never gotten hurt! Don't bring this whole 'It's your fault' crap to me because I don't care! My job is to kill the monsters coming to kill us! Whatever happens on the battlefield outside of that mission is completely meaningless to me. I don't care who does or does not get injured during a battle so shut your mouth and leave me alone!" He got off of the stunned Toji and walked away. On his dramatic exit from the scene he happened to notice Rei watching him from a third story window. He turned towards her, flashed a grin and a 'thumbs-up' before walking away.
'How strange.' She thought to herself. 'Where is he going? School has barely begun…'
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"Hey Shinji, how goes it?" Misato told Shinji over the intercom. It was later on in the day and Shinji had come in to NERV for a synch test.
"Not too bad…" Shinji replied from within the entry plug.
"Oh? I heard that you decided to skip out on school. Why is that?" she asked.
"Why? Well, I got into a sort of fight at school…"
"A fight!" she said sounding surprised. "What happened?"
"Well, not really a fight, I got punched in the face, knocked a guy into the ground, said some really cool heroic sounding things, and walked off into to the sunset!"
"Wha? Some excuse… just don't do it again…" Shinji's strange response had thrown her off balance and as such, did not react the way she would have normally done.
"Yes, yes, I'll try not to…"
"Sigh… I guess that's the best answer I'm gonna get out of you… Anyway, the Eva's exit gates, power sources, locations of armed buildings, and recovery sites… Have you memorized them all?"
"Yeah… More or less…"
"Good, we'll pick up where we left off yesterday… Start Induction Mode!"
"Umm… that's the target practice one right…?"
"Yes… just shoot already…"
The Eva had a great many cables sticking out of it, as well as an unloaded rifle for the simulation. The cables transmitted data to and from the entry plug allowing for combat training with out wasting money or destroying NERV property. Inside of the entry plug, the monitors were displaying an image of the Third Angel. Shinji would aim at the glowing red ball in the middle of the pseudo-Sachiel and fire the rifle. The round would shatter the red ball thing and the Angel would be considered destroyed.
"Wow…" Misato stared at the Eva's performance. "What's the accuracy of his shots?" Misato asked Ritsuko who had been in the control room the entire time. "He's shot forty rounds and killed thirty-six angels so about ninety percent…"
"Wait." Misato said after a few seconds of thought, "What's his synch ratio at?"
"Huh? Oh, only thirty-eight percent."
"Wouldn't that make him less accurate…?"
"I suppose so, but this brainwave feed shows that he's slowly falling asleep… I guess that would be the reason he missed four shots in a row…" Ritsuko said to Misato before turning back to her instruments then saying "I would think giving a teenager a Giant Bio-Mechanical Robot capable of destroying the world if the pilot would so wish it would be enough to keep them awake…"
"Yeah well, this seems to be the way he acts so I guess it's to be expected…" Misato told Ritsuko before walking forward to yell into the intercom, "Shinji!"
"What?" he asked after a few seconds.
"Stay awake!"
"I can't help it! After the fiftieth pretend-angel I shot, they all start to kind of blur together!"
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"Mr. Ikari!" The teacher yelled from the front of the room. It was the next class day and Shinji decided that the best use of his class time was to sleep.
"Wha…?" he said while failing to contain a forming yawn.
"Do you know what the answer to this problem is?" the teacher asked pointing at something that he had written up on the board with the sole intent to humiliate Shinji for daring to sleep in his class. At this statement, a large portion of the class began talking amongst themselves. It turned out that a rumor started circulating as to the 'real' reason that the new kid slept during all of his classes. Many people were of the opinion that he already knew all of the materials covered in class because he was working with the government in order to find more Eva pilots. A rumor which was started by a brown haired kid with glasses who was dreaming of one day being a pilot as well.
"That problem..?" The whole class held their breath, expecting to see an astounding feat of intelligence from this mysterious kid. All of a sudden he spoke and said;
"I have no idea." Before slumping down to continue his nap. The whole class stared dumbfounded. Then slowly, as the shock of such an incredible demonstration of nothingness slowly wore off, heads started turning to the sole individual who foolishly entranced them all with such an obviously false hope. Shinji slept on, oblivious to the fate of the poor boy who was being beaten because he was too lazy to say the answer was twelve.
Later on at lunch time, Shinji wandered around looking for something to take his mind off of the depressing boredom he felt. Fortunately for him, the answer to his prayer was given in the form of a young, blue haired girl sitting against a fairly large tree. Shinji grinned to himself before walking over to the girl and calling out, "Hey there Ayanami! How's it going!"
'It's pilot Ikari, what does he want?' Rei thought to herself before saying, "Hello Ikari."
Unperturbed by her cold and indifferent answer he asked her, "Do you mind if I sit here?" while pointing at the big tree.
Rei, seeing no plausible way to deny him, was forced to agree. "If you wish…"
Shinji smiled at her again and then sat against the tree. Not right next to her, but close enough so that he could have talked with her if he had wanted to. What surprised her was that he made no attempt to start a conversation.
'What is it that he could want from me?' Rei thought to herself. 'Perhaps I should ask him.' She turned to speak with him but found him sleeping against the tree.
'He seems to sleep a great deal, I wonder if it is some sort of medical condition…'
While she was absorbed by her thoughts she failed to notice that a group of people playing baseball had accidentally hit the ball in the wrong direction and it was currently flying on a collision course with her face. She had no idea that anything was amiss until the young boy she had been pondering over shot up and extended his left arm in front of her. The oncoming ball collided with a resounding crack that made anyone who heard it, save for the one who actually experienced it, flinch.
"Are you okay?" he turned and asked her.
"I am fine Ikari." 'He protected me again, why does he keep doing that? I don't understand…' she answered him before thinking to herself.
"That's good." He said. He pulled up his shirt sleeve to inspect the damage done to him. When he unwrapped the bandage binding his left forearm, Ayanami let out a gasp at the condition of his arm. It was swollen and a bit discolored from the tight wrapping, but what surprised her was that the ball had twisted the previously broken bones out of alignment. Of course to Rei, who had no knowledge of his previous condition, it seemed as though the impact of the ball had shattered his arm.
'Damn!' he shouted to himself. 'And it wasn't even finished healing from the start!'
"You are injured…" Ayanami said to him. 'I do not understand why he allowed himself to be injured in this way, if the ball would have struck me in the face, it is doubtful that I would be hurt to the extremes that he was.' Being curious and without any reason not to ask, she did. Shinji's reply was a slight chuckle followed by "I said I wouldn't let you get hurt no matter what."
She was about to ask him why it was that she felt that he had to protect her when his next actions shocked her into silence. He grabbed his twisted arm in the same way he did when he awoke from the hospital and grinded the bones in his arm into place. He then rewrapped his arm with the bandage, flexing his fingers and moving his arm about to test them.
Ayanami continued to stare in shock as he stood, dusted himself off with both arms as if he was completely uninjured, and smiled at her again. He was about to say something to her as the angel alarm sounded.
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"All personnel prepare for level one combat!" Misato shouted from Central Dogma. Shinji and Rei had run to NERV headquarters after a phone call from Misato ordering them to report in.
"Shinji! Are you ready!" Misato called to him.
"I suppose so…" he answered.
"Neutralize the enemies A.T. field, then repeat fire. Just like in practice. Got it?" Ritsuko commanded.
"Fine…"
"… Eva-01 Launch!"
The Eva rocketed upward towards the surface to confront it. As he faced it, the order came from the command center, "Fire!" An order which he did not follow.
"What are you doing Shinji!" Ritsuko shouted at him, "Fire at it!"
"He won't." Misato said.
"What? Why the hell not?" Ritsuko demanded of her.
"Not unless he knows it's name…"
"What an idiot! Damn it Shinji! We don't have time for this! If you won't fight the angel, then get your ass back here so we can stick Rei in it!" Ritsuko turned her anger at Shinji while pointing at the aforementioned pilot who had just walked into the command center.
The Eva did turn, but did something completely unexpected; it opened fire at the camera they were using to observe the battle.
"Shinji! What the hell…"
"Shut up!" He shouted at the command center, "If you ever threaten Rei like that again, I will kill you. Since you do not allow me to fight in my own way, the blame for this death falls on your hands as well!"
They tried to talk with him again only to find out, "all communications have been cut-off from the inside!"
The Eva faced the angel again and opened fire. The rounds shattered on impact with the angels A.T. field, effectively bringing up a smoke screen of debris.
'Damn!' The pilot thought to himself. He was completely caught off guard when a pair of energy whips struck him. One in the left arm, and one around his right ankle. The struck with enough force to crack the armor on his Eva, which obviously was a very bad thing with a broken arm…
"Damn it! What the hell is wrong with him?" Ritsuko shouted. "Why is he firing that rifle with only one arm!"
"He can not use his left one." Rei answered her in her soft voice.
"What? Why the hell not!" She demanded of her.
"During break at school today, a ball was thrown at me. He intercepted it with his arm and it was broken on impact."
"Why didn't he inform anyone of this!" Ritsuko shrieked. "Force open a com-link I want to speak with the pilot!" she shouted to the command staff. Several seconds later, she had a communications port to Shinji.
"Shinji!" Misato and Ritsuko shouted at him.
"What!" he shouted right back.
"What the hell is wrong with you! Why didn't you tell anyone your arm was broken!"
"What gave you that idea?"
"Rei told us what happened! Now get back in here so we can form a new plan!"
"Heh, Ayanami talks too much… Anyway, shut up! I'm working!" His statement shocked the control room into silence. A few chuckled a bit at his little joke before the mood sobered up when they heard Misato yell at him, "Damn it! You're going to get yourself killed!"
"Probably." Was his only response before communications were cut again.
To say the Eva wasn't faring well would have been an understatement. He was loosing, badly. When the Eva ran back to get a better shot, the rounds would ricochet and cause no damage. When he ran in to attack with his newly discovered progressive knife, he'd get energy-whipped and thrown backward.
'Damn it, Damn it, Damn it! What the hell! Nothing works…' he kept this attack pattern up for a few more repetitions before deciding that no change to this plan would yield different results. 'Wait, what did Ritsuko say, something about canceling its A.T. field…?' Shinji activated his own A.T. field and charged the Angel with his knife again, only to crash headlong against an invisible wall…
"What the hell happened!" Misato shouted at Ritsuko back at Central Dogma.
"I would guess that the Eva's A.T. field caused the Angel's to solidify…" was Ritsuko's only reply.
"How the hell is that possible!" Misato demanded.
"I don't know! And if that idiot had left his communications on, we might be able to form a plan!"
'Wait, a solid barrier?' Shinji thought to himself, "I wonder…' He ran back again and opened fire. The rounds struck the A.T. field and pierced a short way through. They remained stuck in it for a few seconds before that particular are of the barrier shut down long enough to drop the bullets.
'Yes! I think I got it!' He fired off a seven-round burst and hit in front of the core. It the A.T. field was a bulls-eye, then all of his shots would have hit the center about a foot from each other.
'Damn! I can't aim right with my arm messed up!' True to his words, the recoil from firing, however slight, was enough to throw off his aim, if only by a single degree.
'What can I… oh crap, this is going to hurt…' the Eva grabbed it's arm, placed its left hand at the base of the rifle, then nailed it in place with his progressive knife.
"Ow! What the hell is he doing?" Misato shouted at seeing what Shinji had done.
'Damn it this hurts!' Shinji shouted to himself. 'This better work…'
Shinji lifted his rifle, aimed along the sights, completely ignoring his computer suggested aiming, and fired off a six-round burst. The first hit right at the center of where the imaginary bull's-eye would be driving forward a small amount. The next hit exactly behind it, driving the first round forward. The next three rounds followed the same trajectory and pierced through the A.T. field. The final round, fired about a half-second after the first, scattered the spent rounds out of it's path and shattered the Angel's core. The Angel slumped forward, dead.
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"Why did you shut off all communications?" Misato asked Shinji. The fight was over and Shinji was being reprimanded for cutting himself of from the command center. "Don't you understand what would have happened if you hadn't figured out how to defeat the angel?"
"Yes, yes, I'm sorry. Happy?"
"'I'm sorry' isn't good enough! I'm your operations supervisor! You have an obligation to follow my orders!"
"Obey you?" Shinji said.
"Yes! As your Commanding Officer…" she managed to say before being cut off.
"Don't be an idiot! I don't follow orders from anyone! Not yours and definitely not the Commander's. Besides, why the hell are you complaining to me for? I won didn't I!"
Misato stepped forward and delivered a right-handed slap to Shinji. "How dare you! Just what do you think your duty is!"
There was a few seconds of silence before she said, " …That's all… Go to the hospital to have them look at your arm okay?"
Shinji walked towards the door and before it closed behind him, said to her in the same voice he used towards the commander, "Never thought you'd be stupid enough to become my enemy."
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"What!" Ritsuko shouted at Misato. "What do you mean he's been missing since yesterday!"
To Be Continued…
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Well, there it is! Part Two! I hope I did alright; anyway, at least I gave it my best shot. And hey, not too bad right, only about four days since my first post and I come up with something this long! Anyway, I'm trying really hard to come up with some interesting plot twists along the way. If anyone out there has any good ideas they'd like to see included, let me know. I could always use the help! Oh, and as for pairings, tell me what direction it should go and I'll see about it 'cause seriously, I'm not sure about that. I know I'm leaning towards one side now, but only because I just started this thing and if I can't think of anything good, I won't add any at all.
Later!