"You went against my order, and nearly jeopardized this mission. Third Child, you-"
"Major Katsuragi, that's enough." I interrupted.
"Sir, just because he's your son, that doesn't mean we can't pull our punches on him." The purple haired woman retorted.
"You don't know much about the internal structure in our organization, Major. Those two boys he saved are essential to our project. He might did not get any order from me, but I'll vouch that he had done the right thing, and not just morally."
"Essential? For what?" Ups. Should I say that Touji would be our pilot? Well, Ritsuko just gave me a head shake, and Fuyutsuki also waving both his hands. Maybe not now.
"W-well, Suzuhara is the son of our best engineer and-"
"Sir, don't tell me you bluffed just to save your son from some scolding. I trusted you enough to be more professional-"
"YOU'RE A MEAN ONE, MISATO! I TRUSTED YOU SINCE YOU LOOK LIKE A FUN WOMAN, BUT IT TURNED OUT THAT YOU'RE JUST AS HEARTLESS AS THOSE OLD GOATS! BUHUHUHUHUUUUUU!" I ran away with crocodile tears to avoid telling the conspiracy stuffs behind The Children and Gehirn.
And looked even whinier than Shinji at his worst.
-evangelion-
And that's how we ended up enjoying the scenery on the hill.
"Please forgive Misato, Shinji."
The boy said nothing, and I had to call his name again. Turned out he didn't even listened.
"S-sorry, father. What did you say?" Shinji asked, before he looked away.
"Don't be. Listen, you need to forgive Misato. She's a good woman, it's just...This angel business, she had personal grudge against them."
"R-really?" He perked up. "Well, that does explain why she become much more serious whenever job calling. M-may I know about it?"
"Well it's not the place for me to explain, but let's just say that when half of the population is wiped out, it's almost 100% guaranteed that someone important for you were one of those who perished."
"Oh." That was all Shinji's reaction, and we went to inhale the very enjoyable breeze.
"The world is healing."
"Huh?" Shinji asked for a clarification.
"If you meet someone who claimed that the world will be forever doomed, then this place will show that person on how wrong they are. This was used to be a ruin, Shinji. Nothing but green patches around the pale looking mountain. It just returned to its glory two years ago. Can you see any flaw from this place?"
"I...I never know. And, uh...I think it's beautiful?" My boy meekly replied.
"However, we believe that one link's missing." Shinji looked at me with curiosity once again. "For some reasons, despite the world slowly returned to its former state, there are stuffs that still not even showing any fix. Winter never come. Parts of sea overfilled with red tinge of bacteria. And human pregnancy is scarce. Call me crazy, but...I believe that another action need to be done. Maybe one of the angel will be the key to all of this? Maybe something else need to be done?" Obviously not Jar-Jar. And an initiated third impact without its destructive effects could done it. But how?
"Commander." A Section-2 agent approached us before Shinji could give a response, with Ayanami Rei who now sported no injuries. "We brought the First Child."
"Good job! So I take it everyone went with my excuse?"
"Everyone but the Captain. She's still upset over your...attitude." He summarized.
"Meh. It's Misato! She will be fine with a party, even if the only one who attended it was her penguin!"
The agent just shook his head, probably still not used with my new attitude. "Whatever you said, sir."
He then entered his car, and left us. Good thing that they still did their job and not taking a side despite all of this.
"Come here Rei! Let's try to enjoy this scenery, shall we?" She only nodded before she walked next to us.
But the girl did not take her seat, and I took it as she had something to say.
"Shinji," Rei said with her soft voice. So soft she sounded more like a whisper.
"I am your mother."
We spat our drink to each others at Rei's crazy (but actually based) confession.
"W-what the hell?!"
"S-shinji, there is something I want to discuss with Rei first. I think she might took too much of her new medicine, hehehe!" I excused myself before dragged Rei behind our car.
"Rei, what the hell did you talking about?"
"I was made from the remains of your wife. At least that's what Doctor Akagi said."
Damn you for nearly ruined my shipping, Doctor! "That's true. Except her uncorrupted remains constituted like, what? 4% of you?"
"Then why she said I looked just like her?"
"Because we filled what was missing with dna of people who have several great similarity with her that can filled the missing genetics to make you. And it just happened that...agh!"Even considering how smart she was, this would take hours. For once, I nearly blamed reality instead of thanked it for making Rei less oedipal. "Listen, Rei. I know my own wife. And while both of you are beautiful and looked similar, I don't recall my wife was an albino with blue hair. Not to mention, she's-no offense-much more sociable. You're not her. I mean, why would I made a clone of my wife with blue hair if I could just make her whole?"
"I do not understand. I thought my purpose was the reason for my pigmentation?"
"Don't you trust me?" Rei simply nodded without questioned me. Just like always. "Now since you came here announced yourself as Shinji's mother out of nowhere, I'm afraid you need to lay in my car so you can be excused as taking the wrong pills. Or else your relationship, working and personal, will be awkward for the rest of your life."
"I think calling Section-2 and a doctor will be better-"
"OH REI! SOMEONE HELP US" I shouted before I grabbed her in bridal style. Worried, Shinji ran toward our position to check what was going on.
"Pretend to sleep, girl!" I growled, and she did it just before Shinji could see her.
"Wh-what happened, father?"
"She passed out of nowhere. I think she reacted to her new medicine badly."
"H-how could her d-doctor messed her prescription?" Shinji was flabbergasted by my lies.
"Rei is our special project, Shinji." My answer made him shocked, so I continued. "She's part of our dummy plug program, and she took medicine that restrain her emotion for it. We need not just a suitable person for it, but a very stable mind for our dummy plug program as well."
"What's a dummy plug?"
"Entry plug filled with artificial intelligence, made so when the pilots went unconscious, the EVA can still goes on without berserk mode. Without a properly modeled intelligence however, it's just as bad as the berserk mode." I failed to mention on how the plug is filled with her clones too.
"So what happened now? Why did she passed out?"
"New medication." I lied again. "Rei is one of the smartest girl you could find around Tokyo-3, and her personality is already pretty quiet since the beginning. So I decided she would be better to get her emotion depressant taken off, and learn how to deal with it from footage, books and such. After all, her mental being restrained made her sync rate suffered. However, she had been on the meds so long, it created a new side-effect on itself. Damn doctor and their wrong prescription. How long till they get it right?"
That was just a half-lie. I really took the depressant out of her system.
Not for piloting purpose though. More like to make her more human. Although it might increased her sync rate.
"H-how are we going to save her?"
"It's pretty simple." Man, this Commander's brain made me able to lie on the spot. What a genius that Rokubungi-Ikari brain was! "We need to make her feel as comfortable as possible. So we'll lay her down in the backseat."
"Oh, okay-"
"And, to make her even more comfortable, she needs to sleep on your lap!"
Shinji's neck created a whiplash so hard, he created some noise. Ignoring the
Wait a minute. Did Rei just blushed?
"WHAAAAT?!"
-shinji-
"W-will she make it?"
"That's why she's sleeping in your lap now. She needs to feel as comfortable as possible, and if we did it right, she won't even need to get a medical attention. Part of the medicine side-effect, I think. The more uncomfortable she got, the worse the medicine will react badly."
"S-so why won't she just sleep in your lap instead? Why we even need to drive in the first place?"
"Part of my scenario. If she still needs to get more medical attention for another side-effect that we still don't know, then by driving back to the city, she will get her medication better. Meanwhile, you learn how to be less awkward around her! Isn't that great?"
Well the whole reason was a shipping, actually. LMAO.
"A-are you telling me that to make thing less awkward, I need to do...this?"
"Let's be honest, my boy. Which one is more awkward? Hanging with a girl who just sleep in your lap, or hanging with a girl who just claimed that she's your mother?"
"Uh, point taken, I think." Shinji just meekly accepted my reasoning. Hmm, perhaps I could push it even further...
"Well since we're already here, how about patting her?"
"Wait a minute, father! I-I can't just do that to her-"
"Hey, I wish I'm the one who do that, but my hands are doing something else, boy!"
Not to mention that I never drive a car before. Driving something this big was something else, man. I never every bit of my concentration, even if my driving skills are still intact.
"O, okay." My boy just obliged, and it was silence back there. "S-soft..." He muttered to himself. Oh, Shinji. My perverted boy, you!
And my girl back there also purred! Seemed like she was contend in his care too. And soon enough her breathing became much more stable, showed that she went to sleep.
Ah, our bonding was more or less a success. The shipping as well.
This day couldn't get any better!
-evangelion-
"Come on! Why can't you two agreed with me?"
"Stripping The Commander out of his title for what again, Misato?"
"Incompetency! Insanity! Misconduct! Anything that can describe his erratic behavior!"
"I don't know, Captain. He actually become even more competent in my opinion."
"And my data objectively said he did become more competent." Ritsuko added. "For one, Commander correctly predicted that mere high caliber bullets would never penetrate AT-Field, no matter how high the velocity of the impacts. We added electric charges as he suggested, and the guns now working as intended!"
"To disrupt the AT-Field forming, that is. The Evangelion is still our best option to destroy the angels."
"...Okay, how about the popcorn throwing stuffs in the first battle?" Misato asked.
"Well he just so happy that his boy survived-"
"Or about the free caramel beverages for last battle?"
"Obviously it's to raise our morale, despite-"
"Or how about how he just changed TOO MUCH! Can't you see it? The guy just flipped! Right before our first battle! Didn't that a red flag for you that he snapped?"
"Okay, he changed. So?"
Misato couldn't believe it. Were they the same people who drank themselves into oblivion after witnessed the change? Was the bribe of living in the same apartment that good? "Whatever. I'll confront him alone then."
"Suit yourself, Misato." Doctor Akagi dismissed her friend who stomped out of the room. "Still can't believe her being opposed to changes around here."
"Well Ikari's new behavior is bizarre, I admit."
"But why oppose it when it produce result?"
"Result? Are you talking about the fights, or the last night you spend together?" Fuyutsuki asked with a sneer.
The doctor drank her coffee without any visible twitch, despite the rather boorish question.
Although she developed a slight smirk after she finished her drink.
-evangelion-
For some reason I feel like shouting about how manly I am. Oh yeah! That must be my good doctor. I am really a man!
"Ikari-kun, you can do it now."
Wait a minute...
"Mmm, so big."
Next thing I know, I had to control my car that turned into oversteer machine. All thanks to Rei's first ever lewd dream.
Even Gendo was shocked! What the hell did she just read man?
-evangelion-
What happened next? Who Gendo will crashed into? Will Misato managed to report Gendo and made him a homeless hobo? Find out next chapter!