This chapter will be about how the rest of the eva crew are reacting towards Shinji's apparent death. Anyways thanks for the support guys, This is my first time writing! I hope you guys enjoy this chapter! If you guys wanna add me on discord, here's my user: The nugget man#4059. Enjoy!
Really obvious disclaimer, You know the drill. I don't own evangelion nor Doom. On with the story!
In a dark circular room Gendo ikari was surrounded by 6 floating monoliths that had the word Sound only imprinted on them. The first one to speak was Keel.
"Gendo Ikari do you understand the consequences of your actions and the severity of them?" Gendo took a deep breath. "I do.. Without the third child and unit 1 instrumentality cannot be done.."
"And because of your carelessness! You have doomed all of humanity in the next phase of evolution!" He sat there silently while the rest of the committee cursed at him and insulted him.
"And tell me ikari.. Can instrumentality still be done!?"
"Y-Yes it can...we can simply clone what was left of the third child.. The same can be done for unit 1"
After a short discussion between the committee Lorenz Issued an order, "Then do it.. Or we will dispatch you, When a doll loses its purpose.. It's disposed of.."
"Understood.."
After a short grunt he spoke,"Don't disappoint us…" The monoliths then faded to black leaving only Ikari and the dark silence of the room. Little did he know that the carelessness that he had done would change the fate of Shinji Ikari for he would become one of the fiercest warriors to face the legions of hell for he is... the berserker.
Gendo's Office
Ritsuko stood before Gendo's desk waiting for whatever he was going to say. The demeanor of the place was almost depressing and gave off vibes of despair. Ritsuko herself didn't like this place either but it is what it is. She already feared why the commander summoned her. She already had enough problems as it is with Misato and Asuka ever since Shinji's Death.
"Ritsuko.. Do you know why I summoned you here?"
"No I do not.." Gendo adjusted his glasses and gave ritsuko a folder.
She opened the folder seeing a strand of hair and a piece of paper that read Project B, Evangelion unit 12. She grabbed the paper and read it. Her eyes widened upon realization. Gendo wanted her to make a clone of Shinji to continue his plans of instrumentality. She immediately felt disgusted that she would make another doll. The same doll that won the commander's favor. Rei ayanami, She soon felt jealous but the feeling faded away.
He asked,"I take it, you know what your task is, Dr Akagi?"
After a brief silence she managed to stutter some words out. "Y-Yes sir"
"Also How is the dummy plug's progress Dr Akagi?"
Her face went blank. "It's complete.. But I wouldn't recommend its use.."
Gendo Gave a stern glare. "I don't care, Install it by tomorrow"
"Yes sir…"
Gendo smirked under his hands. "Very good.. And don't fail me Ritsuko, the committee will both have our heads on pikes if this task is not.. Succeeded.. Dismissed"
Ritsuko exited the room shakily closing the door behind her. She quickly went to her apartment to Drink of the feeling that she felt. The jealousy… and the feeling of disgust.
In a large sea of grey, filled to the brim with gravestones. Asuka stood near Shinji's gravestone staring at it. Next to him was his mothers. She just sat there staring at the words embezzled on it. Shinji Ikari, 2001-2015, Died a hero during combat. She grunted.
"He shouldn't have gone out like this..not like this… I wish he were here…And it was all my fault.. No, it was Ritsuko's.. Fuck her"
Out of all the people that visited Shinji's grave, Her, Misato, Kaji, Pen Pen, Fuyutsuki and even damm wondergirl! Not even his father came. Not even for a visit. She felt anger dwell inside of her which was soon replaced with sadness.
"It shouldn't have been like this.. It shouldn't have been.. Why did you have to Die Idiot.."
She soon took a fetal position and started crying. "Why… Why are you… the only person that.. Can make me cry.. "
Weeks later
Ritsuko was in a lab at some Unknown place. In a corner of the room she was being observed through a camera. This sent chills up her spine. After examining some records she took out a bag that held a single strand of hair. What was left of Shinji's Dna. She took the strand of hair and placed it into a nearby machine. After typing something onto a nearby computer, the machine then activated and scanned said hair strand for a few minutes. Once that was complete it made a dinging noise. Shortly after a screen showed up showing a bar that read 1 percent. Above that bar read, Incubation process. A large tube of LcL opened up showing something that resembled a fetus.
Ritsuko took a small device in her pocket. After clicking on it she spoke.
"Log 1.." She rubbed her face "Of 2015.. I am doing something that would violate.. Human nature as we know it and something that goes against everything I.. stand for, god I hope Yui would forgive me.."
She cleared her throat and continued.
"...The fetus seems relatively healthy and is growing at an alarming rate, probably due to the LcL exposure, though that might not be true.. Further tests could be conducted to see if this theory is true"
"..The overall structure of the fetus is already reminicist to that of an infant, Due to being cloned from the Dna of shinji ikari, that might be why the fetus is different but.. Only speculation"
" Nothing else abnormal could be seen throughout the fetus.. Only the abnormal growth, That is all I have to address for this log.. And godspeed to myself.. For what i'm doing"
She clicked a button on the recorder ending the log. She sighed and continued to monitor the status of the fetus. "If only Misato and Asuka knew the atrocities that I'm doing.. And if they knew.. I wish they could forgive me.."
After weeks without going to school, Asuka entered the classroom with a depressed face. She silently walked to her desk and stared out the window just like Rei did. Strangely enough Shinji nor Rei were nowhere to be seen. The stooges were the first to spot her demeanor.
Toji whispered to kensuke. "Hey ken.. You know why The Red Devil is sad?" Kenuskue shrugged, he checked something on his computer and shortly after he had a worried look.
"What?"
"You might not like this.. But for some reason Shinji isn't on the school roster.. "
Toji's eyes widened, "Wait… did shinji get transferred..?"
"No.. I checked every School roster in Tokyo 3 and he doesn't show up"
This gave Toji a worried look as well. "Maybe we can ask the red devil… She can give us some info"
Toji shrugged. "I'll try.." Since class didn't start until a few minutes later, they took this opportunity to find out what really was going on.
"Hey asuka!" Once toji shouted, Asuka was released from her trance. She slightly tilted her head to face the stooges.
Both Kensuke and Toji were surprised to see that Asuka had tears in her eyes. With a slightly broken voice she spoke," Y-Yea..?"
"Holy shit.. She's crying.. Is it because of shinji? What happened to him?"
Kenuskue asked,"Do you know what happened to shinji?"
She started to tear up. "He's… de-
Suddenly the school speaker announced something,"Toji Suzuhara and Kensuke Aida please report to the principal's office"
The stooges sighed and went to the office as implied. Once they entered inside they were met with Ritsuko akagi, she had some marks on her neck from an earlier ordeal. "Holy shit, it's the blond Chick Misato mentioned, what does she want and what happened... to her neck?" She then said, "I would recommend if you two sat.. because we are gonna be talking for a while"
10 minutes prior
Misato was in Ritsuko's office leaning against the doorway glaring at her with hatred in her eyes. "What do you want?",Asked Misato. Her tone was a bit bitter. Ritsuko sighed. "Looks like there's no mending our friendship.. "
"I've come to tell you that Unit 4 and Unit 3 are being shipped to japan and will arrive in a few hours"
Misato raised her eyebrow. "But wasn't Unit 4 gone?" Ritsuko drank her coffee.
"Turns out it's back from the Dirac Sea.. how.. I don't know but the interesting part is that it's been.. Augmented, other than a few armor adjustments the entire skeletal system has been rearranged"
"But how..?" Ritsuko Shrugged. "It turns out my theory on different universe's might be true"
Misato asked,"Huh..but who are the pilots?" Ritsuko grabbed a nearby folder and gave it to Misato. She snatched it from her hands and opened it. Her eyes widened when she saw the candidates. Marduk institute, 4th and 5th child: Toji Suzuhara and Kensuke Aida. She spoke quietly.
"Shinji wouldn't want this…" Ritsuko just took another sip from her coffee.
"But we need more units to defend Tokyo 3.. And without them our chances are slim.."
"Shinji wouldn't want this…"
"Who cares what he thinks Misato! He's dead and we have to move on for the sake of huma-"
That's when misato snapped, she threw the paper away and lunged at Ritsuko Strangling her.
"I've had enough of your crap with humanity! You killed shinji! You killed him!
Ritsuko grasped her neck looking at the rabid eyes that misato had. Ritsuko went to grab the mug on her side but failed when she applied more pressure to her neck. She slowly felt that she was going to faint until misato stopped. That rabid look that misato had was replaced with shame and sadness.
She slowly cried and collapsed onto her apologizing.
"Im Sorry.. I'm sorry.. I'm fucked up…" Whilst in an uncomfortable position Ritsuko awkwardly patted Misato on the head while she cried her eyes out.
The stooges sat there listening to what Asuka was telling them. They were on top of the school roof, a place where people rarely went except, our Eva crew. After a few minutes she finally finished talking "And that's what happened.. "
Both Kensuke and Toji sat there baffled. "The same woman that we spoke to minutes ago was the one that killed Shinji?... and the one that issued the order to deploy the N2 bombs?"
Asuka slowly nodded.
Toji felt really pissed. He felt like he wanted to punch something but instead he restrained himself. He clenched his hand. "So that bitch killed him!?"
"Yes she did.."
"That little whore.. When I get my hands on her Ill.. ill.. Ill.."
Kensuke put his hand over Toji's shoulder. "I don't think Shinji would wish for that..."
Toji sighed.. "You're right.. What would Shinji want?" This time Asuka spoke.
"I think…. He would want us to continue our lives and to survive" After a brief silence Kensuke adjusted his glasses. "Then it's what we're gonna do.. For shinji"
"For shinji"
"For shinji"
Asuka gave a Wry smile. "Welcome to the shitty life of an Eva pilot…"
A few days later
The last few days, Asuka and the stooges formed a sort of truce in Honor of shinji. But in the past few days that truce turned itself into a friendship. Toji in Asuka's eyes was the embodiment of a gentle giant. Piss him off for a good reason and he'll punch you. Not much in smarts but he's pretty nice.
Kensuke on the other hand was your run of the mill geek who had a really weird obsession with the military but, putting that all aside, Kensuke can hack small computer's for small means. Hell he even got into the Nerv database! Overlooking his weird geeky desires, Kensuke was pretty enjoyable to be around with.
Currently the trio were doing Sync Tests. Toji wasn't because of the delayed arrival of his unit. Instead he was in the Eva hangar next to Unit 4 and 2. In the far left lay unit 00 surrounded in a large room. From what he heard some incident happened midway during flight causing them to land on Hawaii. Why, though? He honestly didn't care, as long as Shinji was resting, watching them somewhere above he would be at peace. "Does heaven exist?.. And if so.. Does hell as well?" Toji was stuck out of his trance when Eva 04's speaker's boomed to life.
"Hey toji you alright?" He nodded. "Yeah just thinking about stuff.." The speakers on eva 2 roared to life shortly after. Asuka asked,"Shinji?"
Toji sighed. He spoke rather sarcastically, "Wow! You just won the lottery!"
Asuka chuckled. "Your jokes are still pretty bad.." He shrugged. "Who cares.. As long as it gives a smile"
Misato this time interrupted them,"I think you guys should concentrate" Kensuke agreed, "Right misato san" Asuka gave an approving grunt. Inside the pribnow box overlooking the dormant form of unit 00 Misato had a smile on her face. She was happy that Asuka had gone out of her depressed state and that she had some company. Some odd company to say the least. She never thought that Asuka would get along with the stooges but fate sure does have.. Surprises.
Misato still felt shameful about the incident she had with ritsuko. She forgave her but everytime she thought about that moment, Her stomach would turn with guilt and shame. She sighed and took a swing of her beer. Through the camera's she looked at unit 4 and thought,"What is the Dirac sea?" Glancing at the Eva she took notice of the numbers on the shoulder pylons. 2154 . She shrugged and took another swing of her beer because today she would be working 24/7.
The trio had finished testing for the day and they were heading to Shinji's grave to give offerings. Something that the Stooges told her was that with these offerings the dead would rest in peace. Shinji would rest in peace. So she agreed to the Idea. Now in present time Asuka realized that she forgot her offering in the locker rooms of Nerv. "Oh shit"
"Hey guys" Toji turned his head. "Yeah"
"I forgot my offering, I'll catch you guys later," Kensuke nodded.
Shortly after Asuka was darting through the corridors of Nerv to reach the Female locker rooms. She took a turn through a corridor and was surprised to see the male locker rooms. That's when she remembered. She forcefully moved the Female locker rooms to the other side of the complex so that Shinji wouldn't peek. "Looking back.. That was a stupid Idea" After more running she finally reached her destination. She checked her locker to see that it was empty. "No..No..No..No!" She checked every locker and was met with nothing. In frustration she kept kicking one of the lockers.
She stopped and sluggishly went to one of the elevators. She pressed some buttons on the keypad and waited. The doors opened and she was met with Rei. Her face then turned into a frown. "Just my fucking luck, if it aint wondergirl" She went inside and pressed the floor she wanted to go. After a few minutes of silence she asked,"Do you care about Shinji's death?"
"Why should I? The commander told me not to" Asuka did a double take.
"He told you that!?" Asuka had a horrified look.
"Yes...And what of it?" These simple words infuriated Asuka to no end, causing her to unleash her Anger on Rei.
"What of it?... What of it!? Where talking about fucking shinji for christ's sake! Oh and guess what he's Fucking dead!.. And what are you doing? Following the commander's order's like some poor Doll!"
"I'm not a doll"
"Yes you are!.. Do you even care about Shinji?" Rei turned and gave her an answer.
"Why should I?... He can be easily replaced" She was mentioning what ritsuko had been doing. Little did she know that Asuka didn't know this. Instead She took it personally..
"Why you little Shit!" She raised her arm and slapped Rei on the face. The noise of it could be echoed through the entirety of Nerv. Shortly after the elevator doors opened up giving Rei a chance to stumble out. She was surprised by her crying but this visage was cut shortly when the elevator doors closed.
"Fucking doll…"
In that same sea of grey A redhead along with his friends stood before Shinji's Gravestone. In front of the gravestone lay A tiny Shrine containing a small basket and a photo of Shinji. Toji took off his sweater and put it around the stone marker. His friends looked at his offering. Asuka raised an eyebrow.
He shrugged, "I really don't have anything better..at least it's something"
"Right.." Kensuke took out his camcorder and placed it inside the basket.
This really surprised toji. "Are you offering your Camcorder?"
"Yeah..Something of value you know?" Toji nodded. Soon after Asuka took off her A10 Nerv clips and placed them into the basket along with the Camcorder.
"Don't need these anymore.. I'll get some new ones"
After saying a few prayers they went to Misato's car to depart. While they drove Asuka thought,"Old habits Die hard.."
Taras Nabad
In one of the many cells of taras nabad lay a 17 year old boy named Shinji Ikari. He had a slim yet Buff physique. Like A pillar of concrete that's wrapped around in Rebar. His hair was pretty reminiscent of Kaji. He really didn't like Long hair so he did a ponytail. He was wearing Sentinel training armor except he had the torso off. For some reason at night, it would be unbearably hot. Why? He honestly didn't care. Even after being 3 years stuck in taras nabad, he still didn't know everything that this world had to offer.
From his bed he looked over to see Miven sleeping with piles upon piles of books surrounding him. The scene itself made him chuckle. "Heh.. He still has his obsession with history even after all these years"
He yawned and lied back down onto his bed. "Tomorrow is the initiation.. Better get some rest... That is if my Damn nightmares disturb me.."
He sighed and let the sweet embrace of sleep take him. "I hope my friends are holding up with the angel attacks.." He then smiled. "Nah I bet there ok.." Soon after Shinji Ikari was sleeping well and much to his luck without nightmares.
AUTHORS NOTES:
Seems I gave you a peek of Chad Shinji.I brung unit 04 back because why not and made kensuke and Toji pilots. I guess Shinji's death would've caused a severe blow to Asuka's pride, making her open up a bit to the stooges while making a friendship. That would be my take on the situation. The other scenario would be a bit grimer. Asuka would've hated Shinji because once he died Asuka felt hurt and betrayed but, I Chose the first one. I suppose Gendo would clone shinji to preserve instrumentality, giving our friend Ritsuko more burden's. Talking about ritsuko, almost everyone hates Ritsuko because asuka thinks she killed Shinji but, we know that hasn't happened *Troll face* I also remade the elevator scene into something interesting. Anyways that's that. I know I'm a shitty writer at times so I'm doing my best to improve. I'll give you a challenge. Try and figure out who were the people responsible to augment Unit 4. If not you can just guess. Anyways I hope you enjoyed this chapter! Adios.
