Sorry about the delay in releasing this chapter, I have a few more on hand to upload that will be coming as I get around to it.
Anyway Thanks to James Axelrad and Nysk for their help with this fic.
And hopefully I will be releasing other stuff shortly it's going to be a hectic next couple of weeks for me.
Disclaimer, I often forget to tack these on to my chapters so I don't own either series.
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The Last Grandmaster Chapter 3
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Ranma sighed as she walked along on top of the fence on her way to her first day of school with Shinji and Rei. She wanted to grumble and complain about it, about how it wasn't fair, she had been in college before her coma after all but despite herself she couldn't voice her complaints. "This is really getting annoying. It seems like I can't even complain any more. The worse part is, is that every time I decide that I can't take it anymore and decide to leave to go look for Akane, Pops or someone, I allow myself to be distracted by something." Shivering not from the cold but rather from the cool breeze wafting through her legs the pigtailed girl scowled and continued her mental rant, "And another thing… I can't believe that I'm not fussing over wearing this stupid skirt, a school uniform is one thing but I don't see why I couldn't pick out a boy's one… No Misato had said to pick out some school uniforms and I went straight to the girls section without even realizing it."
With her shoulders slumping in defeat the cursed girl continued to trudge along the top of the fence while muttering to herself, "I suppose that I should be thankful that at least I know that I am doing this rather than just going along and being clueless about it. And well… I suppose that things could be worse, Rei's been to this school before and from what I managed to be able to voice out about my old school even if I was calling it my fathers school, it seems like this is a pretty normal place so at least I shouldn't have to worry about pineapple bombs and crazed kendoists."
Pausing in mid stride to work out some stiffness in her shoulder with a grimace of discomfort the pigtailed girl held back a growl of irritation, it had been 3 weeks to the day since her fight with the Angel and she still wasn't at a hundred percent. If she had to take a rough estimate she would guess somewhere around 80-90 percent but just the fact that she wasn't totally healed yet unnerved her slightly as it gave her a really good idea of exactly how serious her injuries had been. Still though at least her training had managed to get back on track in the little over a week that she had been living at Misato's as there had been nothing else to do but train.
"Well that's not exactly true, Rei was there during the day recovering along side me and once they were done at Nerv Misato and Shinji would come back. Misato seems really nice so far, bit of a drinker but she seems to mean well. Rei is really hard to get a good read on. Sometimes it seems like she is trying to be friendly other times it's like she's there but… There just seems to be something off about her, can't even really explain it to myself." Sparing the silent boy trudging slightly up ahead of them a glance Ranma mentally continued, "Shinji is a lot easier to read, quiet, shy, try's to appease everybody while maintaining his distance."
Stopping mid stride once more, this time to adjust her back slightly Ranma added, "If this was Nerima fifteen years ago I'm not even sure I would talk to either of them. Sure I had a few semi normal friends and I'd like to think I'm fairly easy going but these two are so completely different from anyone I've ever really hung out with."
Rolling her eyes as she felt her quad muscle spasm slightly Ranma continued, "But I gave Misato my word that I would watch out for them, and …"
"Yoiko are you alright?" Shinji asked, having realized that he was walking alone.
"Huh… Yeah, just a little stiff." falling back onto her previous line of thought Ranma gave the boy a thoughtful look before squatting down on the fence and calling out, "Hey Shinji, come on over here for a minute."
"Okay…" Shinji muttered as he tried to ignore the fact that his roommate was currently flashing her panties at him and whomever passed by.
Rei was in a quandary, like Shinji she also was bearing witness to the rather gratuitous panty shot her roommate was giving them and while she was only being ordered to pretend to be Yoiko's friend the orders themselves left a lot of wiggle room in their interpretation. Taking her current example, she could either alert Yoiko to what she was doing and risk alienating her due to embarrassment or she could say nothing and possibly have the matter that she said nothing back fire upon her. Not wanting to disappoint the Commander with a setback in progress Rei decided to say, "Yoiko, you are currently displaying white panties with pink bunnies on them to Shinji. I thought I would make you aware of this in the case that the incident is non-intentional. However should you be intentionally be flashing him your white panties with pink bunnies on them as a measure of flirtation then please disregard my statement,"
Hopping off of the fence with her face flushed from embarrassment Ranma denied, "Unintentional Rei… COMEPLETELY UNINTENTIONAL…" Seeing the beet red face and the way the other kid was sort of flinching away from her Ranma sighed and continued in a much softer tone, "It was unintentional Shinji, I'm just not used to wearing a jumper while walking on fences, sort of have a lot on my mind right now…"
"Sorry Yoiko… I tried not to…"
"Ah don't sweat it Shinji, I'm not going to pound ya for it, It's just a little misunderstanding that's all… These things happen… trust me."
"Ah okay…" Shinji answered back unsure as to what she meant but now slightly terrified of anything like that happening again.
Smiling as she approached the sole physically male in the group Ranma started, "Now as for why I called you over here, give me your hand." Taking the hesitantly offered hand Ranma reassured the boy with, "Hey relax buddy, this is going to help you out." Moving the hand onto her still stiff shoulder she continued while placing her own free hand on his shoulder, "Now just do what I do, grip firmly but not too hard and sort of roll the thumb around like that, then slowly take away the pressure from your grip and reapply like so… Ah much better… Now just continue doing that." Turning her head over to the blue haired girl next to her Ranma added, "Now Rei go stand on his other side… Shinji wrap your arm around her and do the same thing that you're doing to me to her…"
Flushed and flustered in embarrassment at having such intimate contact with two attractive girls Shinji stammered, "But… Yoiko… This… I can't…"
"Hey relax Shinji, trust me on this, this is going to make you the talk of the school and give you a huge boost in confidence, and if anyone asks all Rei and I need to say is, 'Shinji kun is such a great friend he's so nice, he can cook, plays the cello, and even though he felt it improper he risked being seen as a cassanova just to help Rei and I feel better.' Sides as long as you remember that we're just friends I'm okay with this."
Still blushing at the constant contact Shinji turned his bashful gaze to the blue haired girl and asked, "What about you Rei? Is this bothering you? Do you want me to stop?"
"It does not bother me…" Rei replied somewhat surprised at her own answer because surprisingly enough the massage was actually making her shoulder feel better so with that taken into consideration she added, "I shall alert you as to when I decide for you to discontinue."
"See there…" Ranma replied with a grin giving the boy a thumbs up, "She likes this… and you know what? Honestly, you are doing pretty good with this, your grip needs a bit of work but I'm sure with practice you'll have this mastered in no time."
Reluctantly Shinji sighed as attempted to fill his mind with images of hairy Irish sumo wrestlers while pushing away the thoughts of just exactly how much work his grip was probably going to be receiving later due to the close contact he was having with two attractive girls.
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Ranma smiled in satisfaction as her little impromptu plan seemed to be working, sure it had taken most of the day but she could already see some of the results. She had already witnessed several other guys go up to the boy to talk to him. And while the conversations didn't seem to last long the girls sitting near her were already gossiping about it saying that the lad was a true gentleman. Thus drawing even more attention to the kid and despite her own rocky misgivings with the fairer sex Ranma could admit to herself that having so many women chasing after her had done wonders for her confidence. "Well in general… Romantically, not so much… But everyone wants to feel wanted. Even if nothing really comes from this, Shinji should at least start to feel a little better about himself."
Turning her attention back to the teacher and his lecture about second impact Ranma briefly considered the option that whatever was messing with her mentally had led to her putting herself out there for the kid. She quickly shook that off though as back before in Nerima she had done similar things for little to no reason or even for the wrong reasons. "Honestly, as long as he doesn't start proclaiming everlasting love or stealing my panties I'm actually okay with what I did. Now if I could just find my pencil…"
After making sure that the teacher was still looking away from her Ranma quickly turned around and asked, "Rei? Can I borrow a pencil or something?"
"Is there something wrong with your computer?" Rei countered back after shifting her gaze away from the window.
"It's broken…" Ranma supplied while holding back her surprise at actually being able to lie, while the truth of the matter was that she had never really used a computer before and couldn't even figure out how to open the one on her desk up. Resigning herself to asking for help with a computer later Ranma took the offered pencil and turned around to start taking notes. After all while this might be common knowledge to the majority of the class she had only the vaguest idea on what happened.
Much to the pigtailed girls frustration though any further Intel on second impact would have to be put onto the next lecture as the classroom suddenly erupted in chaos. "I hadn't really counted on this much of a delayed reaction; I mean it was just a shoulder massage… Practically the entire class is swarming the poor kid…"
"How were you selected?"
"Did you have to have examinations?"
"Were you frightened?"
"How hard was it?"
Ranma almost chuckled to herself as the swarm of girls started rattling off crazy and slightly perverted questions to Shinji only to frown when her eyes came across a guy sitting in the back wearing a track suit. Pity that as then she might have realized that the girls were talking about Shinji being an Eva pilot and not the little show for their benefit earlier that morning.
Moments later the bell rung and eventually the girls surrounding Shinji began to taper off.
"Yoiko, I shall wait for you out front."
"Sure Rei, I'll be along in a min or so, going to wait on Shinji." Ranma supplied before mentally cursing herself for losing sight of the guy in the track suit.
Roughly five minutes later the last girl left and Ranma watched Shinji sag down in his seat before he began collecting his things to leave for the apartment. Thinking that perhaps she had over hyped him up or something she gathered her own things and said, "Sorry about that…"
"Huh?"
"You know all those girls… I didn't think they would swarm all over you like that man."
"No that's not it…" Shinji sighed, "They found out I'm a pilot…"
"Ah…" Ranma supplied cheerfully, "Well if it helps any I've heard chicks dig giant robots… Not this one course, I'll stick to my hands and feet for now… But still."
Chuckling slightly at his roommates attempt to cheer him up Shinji replied, "Thanks Yoiko."
"Hey no problem…" Noticing that they were going the opposite way in which to meet back up with Rei Ranma asked, "Say… where are we going?"
"Someone sent me a message to meet them around back." Shinji answered with a frown.
"A girl?"
"Don't know, they said to come to the back by myself."
Not liking where things were going Ranma nodded and said, "Give me a few minutes to go tell Rei and I'll go out there with you, just walk slowly or something… Okay?"
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Ranma had a sinking suspicion that Shinji wouldn't wait for her, but it didn't really matter as she was much faster than he was so she was able to make it to the front door, tell Rei briefly to meet them around back, hop up onto the roof and down the other side just in time to see the track suit guy go in for a sucker punch.
Toji blinked as he felt a vice tighten down on his hand mere seconds before his fist should have had made contact with the new kid.
"Need something?" Ranma asked neutrally as she glanced back towards Shinji just to make sure he was alright.
"Just trying to give the new guy a friendly warning." Toji supplied with a grimace as he felt the girl increase her grip on his hand.
"Let me guess…" Ranma snorted in disbelief, "You want to date either Rei or I and were going to tell him to back off? Well, let me save you some time, I aint going to be going out with anyone and even if I did it wouldn't be some boy…"
"Huh… NO… I mean yes… I mean… This punk was piloting that robot and because he couldn't even walk my little sister almost got hurt…" Toji stammered in his defense.
"Little sister huh?" Ranma replied skeptically before spotting a familiar looking girl staring at her in shock. "Let me guess, long black hair, green eyes, eight years old or so?"
"Yes… How did you know?" the Jock asked in shock.
Releasing her grip on the guys hand Ranma stated, "Because for one I'm looking right at her and two I also happen to be the one who saved her in the first place."
"Wait you're real? She wasn't making you up?"
"Yeah, I'm real…" Ranma snorted, "After I saved her I handed her off to a guy in a panda suit who took her to safety while I went back to fight the Angel… And another thing, I never got back in the fight. I was about to, but the angel chose to blow itself up instead, If it hadn't been for Shinji there the thing could have tried to swallow me and I know for a fact I'd be a goner right now. I almost died as it was, so not only should you be thanking Shinji for saving your sister by proxy but you should be begging him for his forgiveness. Heck you wanna know something else, for his first time in a Eva he didn't do that bad, sure he couldn't really walk, had problems standing on two feet, Basically fell on the angel, but hey it worked and thanks to his help I made it out of that alive."
Shinji blinked as he slowly tried to decipher Yoiko's backhanded complement and while some of the negative managed to sink in those were quickly outweighed by the positive aspects, I can't believe she thinks that I saved her life."
"There has been an emergency, we are to report to Nerv and await further instructions." Rei announced, making her presence known for the first time during the altercation.
Blinking as she stepped back from the wanna be jock Ranma replied, "Right, you and Shinji go on ahead, I'll be along shortly." turning her attention to the guy in front of her and asked, "What was your name?"
"Toji… Toji Suzuhara…" The teen stuttered nervously as now that the redhead wasn't crushing his hand he could plainly see how beautiful she was.
"Well Toji Suzuhara, might I make a suggestion?" Ranma asked rather sweetly as she moved into the other teens personal space.
"Yeah… Sure… Anything…"
"Good," Ranma continued sweetly, "Why don't you take your sister, head for a shelter, and if the alarm goes off, go inside and stay there until the all clear is given. She's your little sister you should be making sure that she is safe not letting her run around when the alarms are going off. Can you do this for me?"
"Yes…" Toji muttered
"Well get going then."
"Yes sorry…"
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Only staying long enough to see the tall kid grab his sister Ranma leapt up onto a nearby light pole before leaping across the street onto another building.
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Kensuke gaped in awe as he continued taking shots with his camera. At first he had disregarded the rumors of some high end martial artist straight out of myths and legends having fought the angel. Mainly because the whole idea of a giant robot being upstaged was just preposterous. But after taking shot after shot of the new girl as she leapt into the distance he was starting to have second thoughts.
Noticing that his friend was leaving him behind, The bespectacled boy gave chase while announcing, "Did you see that? She jumped nearly 20 feet straight up before bounding all the way across the street…" Smiling as he realized something else Kensuke added, "Dude… I saw her panties… And got pictures…"
Toji stopped in his tracks as what his friend said filtered across his mind, temporarily letting go of his sisters hand he grabbed desperately onto his friends collar and desperately stated, "I must have them… Pictures of the fiery pigtailed goddess…"
Takara Suzuhara rolled her eyes; her brother could be such a pervert at times. Grabbing the much taller and older boy by the ear she ordered, "You can be perverted with Kensuke later. You were told to bring me to the shelter and we're going."
"Awe but sis…" Toji whined as he was forcibly dragged by his ear away from the camera and its treasured contents.
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Ranma had been intent on making her way to Nerv but then in the horizon she caught sight of something big and purple heading in to the city. Thinking that it would be a waste of her time to head back to Nerv only to then head back out to fight whatever was coming her way the redhead altered her course and picked up speed.
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"Where's Yoiko?" Misato asked Rei having sent Shinji to change into his plug suit.
"I do not know." Rei answered, "She stated that she would be along shortly."
Having a certain sinking feeling in her gut about where Yoiko actually was Misato called out, "What's the status on the angel?"
"UN forces have stopped firing and the Angel has slowed it's advance."
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"Hey I have something to talk to you about."
Caught between his sisters glare and his best friends request Toji shook his head and replied, "Uhuh.. No way… I'm staying right here with my sister, not going anywhere."
"But the new girl she looked sort of banged up, what if she gets hurt or something and needs help." Kensuke tried.
"My pigtailed goddess… In danger… We must…"
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"Nerve mind…" Toji whimpered while clutching his aching head.
"Good now that that's settled," Takara stated with a sweet smile, "Kensuke-kun can I braid your hair, I'm bored and my brothers hair is way too short… please…"
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Craning her neck upwards to get a good view of the angel in the sky Ranma took a moment to really observe the Angel, with it's purple coloring, the long shaft and mushroom shaped head she had to wonder why she was feeling just a tad bit intimidated.
Shaking the crazy thoughts of taping her thighs together with duct tape the redhead tried to form a plan of action. The Angel was too high in the sky for her to jump up there and while she was pretty sure that she could hit it with a Moko Takabisha she really wanted to get into a better position offensively before she started blasting it.
Looking around with a sigh the redhead mentally muttered to herself, "Well if the others were here, Shampoo could glomp me then Akane would get upset… At least then I'd be able to get up to that thing…"
Letting the fond almost wistful smile play across her face before it was turned into a grin of determination Ranma nodded to herself, "They might not be here but I don't need explosive feminine wrath to blow myself up." Smirking to herself as she began to channel her ki and aim it towards the ground Ranma yelled out, "MOKO TAKABISHA…"
"Maybe this wasn't the best idea…" Ranma muttered while flinging through the sky as she realized that unless she did something she would miss her target by a wide margin. "Well if something works… It works…" Adjusting herself in midair the pigtailed martial artist let loose a another cry of, "Moko Takabisha." nodding to herself in congratulations as she noted that she was now on target for the angel.
Spinning in midair as she prepped herself for her landing the pigtailed teen noted she was going to land right on top of one of the Angel's eyes, shrugging as she figured landing on a vulnerable spot would be better than just landing on the things skin she began to build up momentum by curling herself into a ball and increasing her spin.
Moments away from impact Ranma uncurled herself and with a cry of, "Meteor Kick…" She struck out with her foot, putting all of her momentum and force into the blow. Not stopping there she flipped backwards and shouted out, "Moko Takabisha." Still not done with her assault she followed that up with, "Saidaikyū Kijin Raishū Dan."
While her opening attack hadn't even caused the Angel to so much as blink the ki attack followed by wave after wave of powerful vacuum blades seemed to have gotten the angels attention while relieving it of the majority of one of its eyes. Noting that thing had stopped it's advance Ranma was quickly forced to forgo attacking the other eye as she found herself hard pressed to dodge the angels two large glowing tentacles.
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With a sickening feeling welling up in her gut Misato ordered, "Bring the Angel up on the screen at maximum resolution."
"Yes ma'am." Makoto answered before zooming onto a point on the Angels head and reporting, "The Angel seems to have taken damage to its left eye and is currently…" Unsure as how to accurately describe what he was seeing, Misato's senior aide stated, "The angel seems to be smacking itself with its two tentacles?"
Palming her face Misato asked, "Did anyone try Yoiko's cell phone?"
"No ma'am…" Shigeru added, "I tried contacting Shinji first but didn't get an answer so I called Ayanami instead." Sensing the upcoming order he added, "Calling Yoiko now, putting it on speaker."
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Hearing a ringing noise coming from her person Ranma sighed, there was only one person whom that could be since she didn't even know the phones number. Dodging another swatting attempt from the angel she flipped the phone open and cheerfully offered, "You've reached the cell phone of Yoiko Saotome, I'm currently busy right now. Please leave a message after the beep?"
"YOIKO… I KNOW THIS ISN'T YOUR VOICMAIL MESSAGE… I CAN HEAR YOU FIGHTING THE ANGEL…" Misato shouted in annoyance.
"ALRIGHT GEESH… I was just kidding anyway…" Dodging another tentacle as it continued chasing after her the red head added, "I am sort of busy at the moment though… I don't suppose that this can wait?"
"NO THIS CAN'T WAIT…" Misato ranted before her voice soften and she started anew, "I want you to withdrawal from the angel and wait for Shinji to get into position so we can coordinate the attack."
"I'm not so sure I can do that." Ranma muttered as she nodded to herself in satisfaction having the Angel tangle his two tentacles into knots in it's attempts to swat at her.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE NOT SURE YOU CAN DO THAT?"
Holding her phone away from her ear Ranma was about to offer a retort when she started to notice the Angel shifting it's position. Waving her arms as she almost comically began to slide down the things shaft the redhead dug in with her free hand and replied awkwardly, "Yeah well about that… See I'm sort of really high up at the moment… And there's really nothing for me to break my fall besides the ground… And well… from this height things could get a little dicey."
"A little dicey?" Misato parroted back as she took note of the Sub Commander looking intently at the screen.
"Yeah well look on the bright side." Ranma commented as she began to scale the purple beast intent on relocating herself to its large purple head while avoiding the almost ribbon like tentacles that were struggling to untangle themselves.
"There's a bright side?" Misato asked incredulously.
"Well yeah, I managed to stop the things advance." Ranma stated almost casually as she leapt upward and to get a hand hold on the lowermost tip of the angels head.
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It had been difficult, but he had managed, sure he was alone, and nearly terrified. He would have liked to get a bit closer to the action but with Toji staying with his sister back at the shelter he just did not feel the same amount of bravado that he normally might have if the taller teen had been with him.
Thankful that a telephoto lens almost covered for his self-preservation instincts Kensuke Aida filmed in awe of the tiny redheaded dot on top of the angel.
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"Unit one is ready for launch." Makoto supplied as forced himself to not stare at the incoming feed.
Nodding for the reminder Misato ordered, "Launch Unit one." Turning her attention back to Yoiko she added, "I'm sending Shinji up now, when he gets there we'll see about getting you down from there."
"No problem." Ranma answered back as she grinned down at the Angels undamaged eye, "I think I can keep myself occupi-eyed until then."
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"All I did was stumble around and get blown up…" Shinji dwelled shooting up through the catapult, while completely missing the fact that Yoiko had earlier claimed that his actions had saved her life.
"Shinji, when you get to the surface you are not to use ranged weapons to engage the Angel. Yoiko is already out there and has it distracted. Your orders are to approach the angel, assist Yoiko in a withdrawal and then move back in to finish off the angel. Do you understand?"
"Yes, Misato." Shinji answered quietly as he felt himself coming to a jarring halt signifying his arrival on the surface.
"Good, now, Yoiko is currently on top of the Angels head, it has ribbon like arms but those have already been temporarily neutralized, just approach the angel and watch your back… Oh and Shinji. You might want to deploy your progressive knife."
"Yes Misato." Shinji stated again as he started feeling a little overwhelmed.
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"Yoiko? Can you still hear me?"
"Huh… Yeah… I hear you… Sorry I think I ticked this thing off…" Ranma shouted as the Angel began thrashing around in the hopes of dislodging her from its body.
"Just try to hold on a little longer, Shinji is almost into position."
"Yeah… yeah… crap…" Ranma muttered to herself as she was forced use both hands to hold on as the Angel started to thrash even more violently consequently losing her phone in the process.
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"Shinji, I can't contact Yoiko anymore can you see her?"
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Makoto began panning around the angel, manipulating the feeds to get every angle of the angel in view. After a moment of intense searching he exclaimed, "Captain, found her, she's on the head near its right eye."
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"Shinji, did you hear that?"
"Yes Misato."
"Shinji stop it, just stop it. Just snap out of it, Yoiko is counting on you so get in there and get her." Misato snapped as she tried to get Shinji out of whatever funk he had currently wrapped himself in.
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He was trying he really was, but piloting the Eva just seemed like a daunting responsibility, he wasn't a fighter, didn't know the first thing about fighting. And despite the fact that his role as of yet hadn't managed to really include much actual combat he felt that he should be replaced, that someone else better suited for it should pilot it, someone like Yoiko whom despite everything was managing to combat the angel on her own without an Eva.
Still though Misato's words did affect the boy, Yoiko needed his help and he couldn't let her down especially with how kind she had been to him. Spotting her hanging on up the Angels head he shot forward and tried to hold it still only to scream out in pain as he felt his chest burning.
"Shinji, it's just the Eva, the energy ribbons are charged with the Angels AT field, Just hold on for a minute longer."
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Noticing that the Angel's thrashing seemed to subside slightly Ranma looked down and spotted the Purple monstrosity that was Shinji's Eva. Kicking off with her feet while letting go with her hands she started her fall, aiming for the Eva's shoulders.
"SHE'S FALLING RIGHT TO YOU… GET HER SHINJI…"
"I see her Misato." Shinji stated as he moved the Eva's arm to intercept the small body coming right at him.
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Misato watched with her bottom lip quivering with trepidation as Yoiko's form plummeted towards the outstretched arm of unit one. She had almost let herself relax with secure knowledge that everything was going to be fine when the angel suddenly lurched and freed both its ribbons from their entanglement and struck out at Unit one sending the Eva crashing off to the side.
'"SHINJI… YOIKO…"
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Ranma lay motionless on the ground, momentarily struggling with rotating between consciousness and searing pain. With a pained grunt the redhead pushed past both obstacles and struggled to her feet, noting nearly instantly that her leg was most likely broken.
However, she did have enough wits to realize that lying helplessly underneath a freely rampaging Angel was probably not the safest position, even if said Angel was extremely high in the sky.
Attempting to hobble along out of the way to regain her composure the redhead winced as another building was tore apart by the blinded angels flailing tentacles. Deciding to go with the tried and true method of lightning never strikes the same spot twice the injured teen altered her course to the closest recently demolished building as she practiced a temporary strategic withdrawal.
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"Shinji, Yoiko is down… You are to re-engage the angel and take it down."
"Yoiko…" Shinji muttered in disbelief while staring at the Eva's hand in betrayal. "Yoiko… I… YOIKO…"
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"Unit one has re-engaged the angel." Makoto reported as he watched the battle, only to wince at the shrill shriek that sounded off over the comm that coincided with Unit One rushing the Angel.
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Shaking her head with the hopes to subdue the nagging nausea Ranma turned her attention back to the fight with a grimace, things had been going so well, yet one little slip up had knocked her out of the fight. Spotting something that she might be able to use the redhead mentally corrected, "Almost knocked me out… Not done yet."
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In hindsight Shinji realized that charging blindly at the Angel had probably not been the brightest of ideas. The lesson was further reinforced by the Angel's ribbons severing his power cable. It was not all bad though as he screamed in pain, somehow he had managed to grab a hold of both ribbons and was keeping it in place.
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Ranma knew the dangers involved in trying out a untested technique, but for the most part she felt she had enough of a handle on it to pull it off. The first part was easy enough as she had already figured out how to use her former sensei's draining attack. The problem was that she had hit a road block at that point as she was having a lot of spectacular failings with trying to store the drained ki from the fish in an object.
"But that shouldn't matter… Well not with what I'm going to do anyway."
Lifting a semi splintered toilet seat out of the rubble while secretly vowing to not egg Mouse on for his special attack the pig tailed teen shouted, "HAPPO FIFTY-YEN-SATSU…" Satisfied with the incoming ki from the Angel Ranma then began to wrap herself in the soul of ice.
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"Ma'am… The angel is slowing down…"
"Slowing down? Aoba?"
"Yes ma'am… it's like what happened during the previous Angel attack."
"Captain, we're getting some odd readings on the sensors. Minute temperature fluctuations… I'm not really sure, The angel's slowing down and…" Makoto supplied unsure as to what was going on with the sensors.
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'HYRO SHOTEN HA- REVISED STRIKE OF THE COILED DRAGON SMITING THE FALSE MESSENGER" Ranma shrilled out as her temporary circle exploded in her face sending her skidding through the rubble.
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And there you have it chapter 3 of this fic. I was meaning to add a few other works today but I just haven't had time to give them the once over before posting them so hopefully later this week once things slow down for me.