Old Friends, New enemies
Disclaimer: Ok peps I am getting very, very, very, VERY sick of disclaimers! So death to all disclaimers MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…..HA ^_^
It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone
An hour to like someone
And a day to love someone
But it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
Quote from Strike Fiss's homepage
Japan: Late 2005
Shinji and Asuka had just started their daily walk to school accompanied by a friend of the family. Miyuki was a nice young girl around 17 that lived down the road from Shinji and Asuka. They had met one day at the park where Shinji and Asuka were playing in the sand pits. Of course Asuka was persistent in destroying anything they made after they made it.
"So, what are you two up to today?" Miyuki asked the two children beside her. She was asked to take them to school seeing as though the high school was only five minutes away from the primary.
"We are going to a fair!" Asuka said happily as she put a hand on Shinjis shoulder. "Baka Shinji is going to go on the roller coaster with me, aren't you Shinji?" Shinji didn't answer he just kept walking quietly thinking to himself.
"Asuka, you shouldn't call Shinji a Baka, it's not nice" Miyuki said frowning at the girl. Ever since Asuka had learned the word she always used it when referring to Shinji, even when it hurt him. "And you can't go on the roller coaster they're for grown ups."
"I'm grown up" Asuka stated proudly, her head shifted to look at Shinji who carried a saddened expression on his face. 'What is wrong with Shinji?' she thought to herself. In a short time they arrived in school and Miyuki said goodbye telling them she would walk with them home.
A few moments later and they found themselves rounded up into the bus and on their way to an annual fair that was held every year. Asuka was ecstatic she couldn't stop jumping around and wriggling in her seat. She constantly joined in on the spit-ball fights and paper plane throwing, all while Shinji sat there looking more sombre than ever.
"Cheer up Baka," Asuka said playfully to her companion. Of course Asuka didn't let anyone sit next to Shinji but her and if someone else tried she'd kick them in the shins. "What's wrong with you?" she asked finally settling down into her seat.
Shinji just stared blankly off into space until Asuka waved her hand in front of his eyes. "Uh…" he gulped when he saw the hand, "s-sorry." He looked down at his knees and didn't raise his head for a long time.
"Like I said cheer up we are going to a fair and you aint going to spoil it for me Baka," the young redhead snarled.
"Stop it" Shinji suddenly yelled, causing the bus to go quiet.
"S-stop what, what's wrong Shinji?" Asuka asked nervously her voice was full of concern. She had never, in the year that she had been with the brown haired boy, seen or heard him yell like that, "What is it Shinji?"
Shinjis face contracted from the angry look and turned back to his sombre one, "stop it please." He sighed and looked up at Asuka, "stop calling me that Asuka…please."
Those few words whispered barley audible worked even more than when he had shouted a second ago. Asukas face became saddened 'I hurt him by calling him dat; all I do is hurt people. Not anymore, Shinji is my best friend and I won't hurt him!' "I-I'm sorry Shinji, I won't call you Baka again."
"Thank you" Shinji sighed lowering his head once more.
"Shinji" Asuka said softly, brining Shinjis head up with her hand "don't be sad, don't be upset. It hurts me to see you like dat, please be happy."
Something about her voice, and the look in her eyes made Shinji smile, not a fake smile but a real one like they had shared before. He nodded and took his friends hand in his "ok Asuka, for you…we'll sneak onto a roller coaster."
Asuka brightened up and her little hand clenched Shinjis tightly, "you're da best Shinji!"
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Japan: Present
"Ok guys this is it" Misato Katsuragi, operations director of NERV said into the comm. "The seventh Angel has arrived off the coast; due to the last battle Tokyo-3 defence systems are badly damaged. So you will be dropped in at the shore where you will engage the target cooperatively. In other words back each other up and take turns."
"Roger that Misato" Asuka replied from within her entry plug of Unit-02. She looked over at the image of Shinji Ikari and sighed 'I'll show you, I'll show you I'm better than that blue haired bitch. Then you'll come begging for my…what the hell am I thinking? We…could never be like that…he…he's my best friend.'
"Asuka" Shinjis voice snapped the redheaded pilot out of her musings, he looked down at her image from within his entry plug. "Asuka, I have no idea why you're mad at me but…I'm sorry. B-be careful" with that the boys' image flickered out of existence.
"He…he is sorry, for what?" Asuka whispered to herself not even realising her Eva was rapidly descending to the ground. "Shiest!" she finally noticed the fact that the transport planes had released her Eva over the targeted drop zone. She quickly gained control over her decent and landed loudly on the beach.
Unit-01 pounded into the ground next to her and she smiled at how well he handled the Eva. At that point she recalled someone telling her about his first battle, '40% synch ratio without prior training. That's my Shinji, always full of surprises.'
"Let's do it" Asuka smiled confidently to herself, "Cover my back Shinji" she added in thought 'I'll make you mine again.' With the thought of a fresh victory in her mind Asuka Langley Soryu charged head first into battle. She willed her giant red Mecha to leap forward onto the roofs of sunken buildings.
"Asuka!" Shinji yelled as he started laying down a cloud of suppressive fire. 'What do you think you're doing?' His finger pulled on the trigger of his butterfly controls causing a stream of bullet and tracer fire to rocket towards the Angel. It looked like a play dough man you know pointy feet pointy arms and just, clay looking.
Asuka charged forward bringing her large Eva style spear up into the air, with a powerful thrust she ripped the spear through the Angels body. The Angel ripped open with a loud squishing sound and Asuka just laughed, "Pathetic Angel."
"Well I'll be damned, good work Asuka" Shinji smiled broadly.
"See" Asuka started her victory speech, "a fight should be quick and elegant, without waste." Asuka heard something yelled over the comm but she didn't have enough time to ask what it was. Her eyes locked on to the Angel and she gasped in horror.
The Angel began to bulge where it had been split in half. Asuka jumped back pulling the Eva style spear with her, "what's going on?" A second later the Angel split completely apart, each side was standing separate. Then she saw it, a new core. The Angel had sprouted a new core on the other side of its split body.
After its new core appeared the Angel regenerated itself, but not back into one. It was now two separate beings each equal in size and mass. Asuka groaned at what she saw and then decided that her earlier actions were a bit to hasty. "OOOHHH I'm gonna kill you for making me look bad."
Without thinking about it for a second time Asuka charged forward and sliced at the first Angel with her spear. She missed as the Angel pulled off to the left. The second used her misjudgement to its advantage and used its arm to smash her unit-02 on the head. The first then used its foot to kick Asuka in the stomach then grabbed unit-02 lifted her above its head then threw here into the water.
"Asuka" Shinji stared terrified at the scene he was witnessing, 'Asuka, they're ganging up on her.' The two Angels continued their double assault on the red Eva without acknowledging the presence of the purple unit-01.
He wanted to help, but he couldn't. He couldn't move. His mind was sending messages to his body telling him, begging him to move, but his body wouldn't respond. "Mustn't runaway, mustn't run away, mustn't runaway…I can't."
FLASH
Young Asukas voice, "Shinji, don't run away stand up to them. They're just bullies, you are better then them!"
FLASH
"S-stop, stop…stop…STOP IT!!!! NOW," Shinji screamed, his voice laced with anger. He pulled hard on the control yokes and his Eva responded with a leap into the air. As the Evas' feet hit the ground Shinji found the Progressive knife already in unit-01s hand. Shinji came face first with his first target; the Angel was in mid fight holding Eva unit-02 high above its head.
"Put her down, NOW" his arm pulled up brining the Prog knife to pierce into the Angels stomach. He pushed with all his power trying to gouge the Angels core out, his actions weren't meant to kill the Angel but was to get it away from unit-02.
Shinji watched as the Angel dropped Asukas Eva, he sighed in relief but he knew it was not over. Asuka brought her Eva back to its feet and pulled out her Prog knife, "I'll take care of this back off Shinji."
Shinji was taken aback by this comment, he realised she had said it with anger; this was not the Asuka he knew. He had expected a thank you from her first, and then he thought they could work together to kill both targets. She sounded extremely pissed off. Shinji was even more taken back when he was pushed backwards. Not by the Angel, not by the Angels double, but by Asuka.
He struggled to regain his balance and ended up falling onto his back in the sea, "what are you doing?" His question was unanswered; even if Asuka wanted to answer she wouldn't get the chance because she was thrown back where Shinji was, by an Angel.
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"This is PATHETIC" the blond scientist and chairperson of Project-E yelled in disgust. Though Shinji couldn't see her face because it was an audio clip he knew Ritsuko Akagi would have looked pissed, and I don't mean drunk.
"I can agree with that," Kouzou Fuyutsuki sighed as he viewed the image of the two Evas lying upside down in the bay. "What were you two doing?" he raised his voice to the two pilots standing before him. Before either could answer he started again "NERV is not here to create grotesque spectacles such as this. Just what do you think your job is?"
Asuka turned her angry gaze away from Shinji and replied, "To pilot the Eva of course." She used a slightly defiant tone in her voice and her gaze was that of pure flames, threatening to incinerate anyone in their path.
"Wrong!" Kouzou yelled causing Asuka to involuntary flinch, "your job is to kill the Angels. You two will have to learn to work together."
"Why should we?" Asuka yelled back sending the sub-commander a little off guard. "HE" the redhead pointed to Shinji, "stuffed up my first mission. If you had of been covering me like I told you to…"
"ME" Shinji yelled back making everyone in the room flinch, "you disregarded procedure and went off in there half cocked. You acted stupidly and jeopardized both the mission and your own life! NOT to mention the lives of the support crew and my own."
Shinji's words were hard hitting and effective, Asukas' face dropped the nasty scowl and contorted into an apologetic and sorrowful one. "I-I…" hearing Shinji say that to her made the young redhead realise where her mistake was, the only problem was admitting she was wrong. "Shinji…I…I didn't know…I…"
Shinji looked away off into the shadows of the dimly lit briefing room, "Sub-Commander are we done yet?" he asked in a deject voice. He didn't want to think at that point about his redheaded friend, probably his ex friend now he was thinking. She had been mad at him for a while now and he didn't even know why. She probably didn't like him anymore or something; Shinji almost let a tear escape his eye, almost.
"Unfortunately yes, you two will remain on standby until we call for you" The sub-commander sighed. "You are dismissed for now and are not to leave the Katsuragi Apartment until further notice."
Shinji walked straight out wanting to get as far away from NERV and Asuka as fast as he could. He could just see his fathers' reaction to the bill for the damages and such caused by this incident. "He'll probably chew us out all over again" he whispered as he turned into the locker room.
Asuka was left standing in the briefing room alone; the sub-commander had resigned to his paperwork and the tires of running an organization. Slowly Asuka placed her hand on her forehead "good one Asuka, you just blew it with Shinji. Now that bitch will be his friend and you'll be left behind."
A/N: MWHAHAHAHAHA I'm so mean to Shinji at the moment, oh well he'll thank me later! Well there goes another chap of my writers-block killing fic and damn it is working ^_^ I'm really getting back into it. Sorry I have been sick for about a week now so I haven't been up to writing fics or doing anything.
Anyway how will my Synch training differ? When, if at all, will Rei come into the story? And what new crazy things will I eat for dinner tomorrow….that none of your business!!!!!
Seya on da other side………..
