AN: ok this is my first fanfic, but you can guess that I will mostly write astarting poem then move onto the story. please tell me what you don't like soI can fix it.
disclaimer: only the poem and the plotline actually belongs to me. otherwise all characters reffered to in this fanfiction belongs to Ginax and the songs reffered to belong to their respective artists and companies.
On the line
On the borderline of insanity,
trapped beneath the lies,
lays the thing thatI am missing,
wishing it could fly
Calling to me constantly,
the fallen angel prowls the sky
while bound by chains of love and hate
People continue to die.
On the wings of a forgotten yesterday,
the wings that angels use to fly
Lay innocent souls
ready to die.
ONE MONTH BEFORE THE EVENTS OF NGE
Shinji Ikari sat down on his bed, wondering why had he accepted the CD he was given not too long ago, by the T- shirt clad stranger. He certainly was a weird fellow, he talked like Yoda and jar jar blinks, wearing a T-shirt with the pre-impact band SYSTEM OF A DOWN mascot, the "OBEY GIANT" phrase and pictures emblazoned on it. And the CD was strange too, probably because it was not a CD, rather it was a custom music mix on a streamlined silver 1024mb USB mp3 player. Shinji wondered why would someone give him something so nice. He decided to put it away to somewhere where he would never lose it... his mother's cello case! And there was a secret compartment there too! It was perfect. He would never lose it now.
"I wonder what's inside..." Shinji wondered out loud, but suppressed the urge to turn the mp3 player on and stick is SDAT headphones into it, as he remembered what the mysterious stranger had said.
"Use this item when the shadow is broken apart by you, when the reality is the real shadow" these words rang in Shinji's head as he put the strange device away. Eventually he would forget about it in the commotion that followed his arrival at Tokyo-3. Until a certain day...
AFTER THE 12th ANGEL
"Another unfamiliar ceiling" Shinji said tiredly as he laid on the hospital bed...again. After a few agonizingly silent minutes, Shinji couldn't take it any more and sat up. He saw his pants from the other day folded gently on a chair, then he remembered HIS SDAT PLAYER! He will be saved from this deadly silence! So he went to his pant's pocket and took out... a pair of overused headphones. Sadly, there was no beloved SDAT player anywhere to soothe his mind so he looked around again... and saw his mother's cello case.
"How did you get here?" Shinji asked the cello case. Of course there was no answer to his question, but he got up and walked up to the cello case anyway. Sighing forlornly, remembering his mother, he opened the case and something caught his eye. A mp3 player. A streamlined silver mp3 player. A mp3 player that will keep him busy and soothe his mind. Then he remembered how he got it.
"I guess I just defeated the shadow..." suddenly Shinji realized that it meant that he was supposed to listen to the mp3 player now. He carefully picked it up from the secret compartment and plugged in his earphones. He then popped the earphones into his ears. And he pressed play.
The sounds assaulted him, but he liked it. It was a gothic metal rock song called Chop Suey. It reminded him of his life, killing angels, having a father that didn't care, himself crying all the time, and the beginning of the song reminded him of Asuka.
He became absorbed in the music,
The rhythm overwhelming him,
The sounds touching is newly exposed soul,
With his mind spinning out of control,
Engrossed in the melody,
Seeing it as the remedy,
For the problems others had caused in his life.
Sitting down on the edge of the bed, he rocked along with the beat until the end. He was just about to press "previous" to rewind the music… until he saw his clothes… or lack thereof. He quickly threw on some clothes and listened to 'Chop Suey' again. He really liked that song. Maybe he could get it as his ringtone… His thought started wandering at that point.
As the song ended, a sudden sound caused him to turn off the mp3 player and put it in his pocked barely a second before Asuka burst in. A composed Rei and a flustered Misato followed her; both concerned abound Shinji's well-being.
"BAKA!" Asuka screamed. "You shouldn't have stole my spotlight! That was my angel to kill…" Her rant went on over a minute before it started trailing off when she noticed that Shnji was not even bothered when she, the great Asuka Soryu Langley, had yelled at him. No, he wasn't even paying attention!
"PAY ATTENT-"
"I don't think you trust in me, because I surely don't trust you" Asuka was cut off by Shinji's cryptic statement. A statement stated very calmly. Ok, he wasn't calm. He sounded like a cold-hearted parent scolding a child. Only the heart wasn't cold. It was made out of frozen diamond. Impossibly cold and hard.
To say the females were stunned would be the understatement of the millennia. It was like saying the Eva's were just a bit bigger than a grain of sand. To emphasize this point, Rei's jaw was hanging open like a fish. One could imagine what happened to Misato and Asuka. Surprisingly, Misato was the first to recover.
"Shinji, are you sure you haven't been contaminated by the Angel?" Misato asked uncertainly. Shinji's eyes just narrowed.
"So just because I talked back to that little gaki I get the third degree? Just because I grew a spine that I needed, my position is questioned? Unless you want to lose a valuable pilot and Eva-01 you better weigh your options and actions carefully… Very carefully. Contaminated by the Angel? Hell No. Just won't take you and your sht anymore? Definetly." With that said, he took his meager needed belongings and walked away. In other words, he left behind things that NERV could deliver back to his room later that he didn't need at the moment. Of course, the females in the room were still paralyzed at how much venom was in his words. Rei was the first to recover this time.
"There is a point where someone snaps. I believe Pilot Ikari was pushed past that point by the Second Child." Said Rei in her monotonous voice. Of course, Asuka and Misato started to back away slowly, for now that two signs of apocalypse showed up.
"Mien Gott! Baka-Shinji grows a spine and the doll talks of her own free will in more than one sentence! What's next, finding out we are a type of Angel?" Asuka screamed with hysterical madness in her eyes.
"Well, this is confidential but… Humans and Angels have a 99 DNA similarity, and it has been thought that humans are the 18th angel." Misato helpfully supplied.
At that point Asuka collapsed into the welcoming arms of unconsciousness.
Tokyo-3 Mega-Mall
Shinji began to wander around aimlessly. The mall was perfect for that, so big, so many things to do so he would have a great alibi, a food court in case he gets hungry, everything he needed was there. Strangely, he started to hear little bits and pieces of "Chop Suey" as he walked. Was he going crazy? And why did it get louder when he walked forward? He quickened his pace until…he saw the music store. The Music Store. CD's, cassette tapes, SDAT tapes, mp3 download cards, media players, instruments, equipment… and loudspeakers blaring out System of a Down all stood in front of him in it's shining glory.
'Heaven… It does exist!' Shinji thought as he entered the store, not really paying attention. If he did, then he would have noticed the ironic name for Shinji's "heaven". Slightly Sinful Sounds.
"Hello, how may I help… Shinji?" the cute uniformed young woman with the melodic voice from behind the counter inquired. This snapped Shinji out of his daze.
"How did you get here… Hotaru 'nee-chan?"
AN: alright, first fanfiction to be posted, please tell me what i did correctly or wrong. Also, please email me if you want the version with the lyrics in them (you will see the connections) this is dedacated to a fellow fanfiction reader who said "Chop suey from system of a down seems to be made after neon genesis evagelion
The mp3 player referred to in this if is one of the ones that are shaped like a pen drive, and plug directly into the computer. The computer thinks it is a hard disk memory extension, and allows you to put media files on it without having a driver, and makes life a lot easier.
Gaki means brat