Well I am finally back. Ha that stupidhospital thought that they could hold me forever, damn speeding vehicles. Well this is the newest chapter to my story hope y'all like it. Ohh and please try to contact me I finally got a proof reader, but more than one is always better. So here it is chapter three of A Second Chance (.)v
Whoa deja vue' were the first thought that entered the young Ikari's mind, after stepping out onto the sidewalk outside of the train station. Well I guess that can happen in this situation, he thought to himself trying to stifle a small laugh, but he was interrupted by the loud scream of multiple rockets flying only a few feet from his body. It was then that his natural instincts kicked in and he wanted to look around for somewhere to hide, but those actions were stopped, when his self survival instincts (those that had been honed in, in the years of fighting with Eva) kicked in and he reached into his memory and remembered that Misato should be arriving any second, so with knees almost shaking he held his ground and waited. Almost as if on cue, Misato arrived in her blue sports car. "Hurry get in," Misato shouted as she was throwing open the side door. Shinji willingly jumped in and was trying hard to stay in his skin while Misato floored it, was trying to avoid a giant foot that was about to make it into nothing more than a small smear on the highway.
"Hi, my name is Shinji Ikari, it is nice to meet you Miss. Katsuragi," Shinji said to Misato. "Well it is nice to meet you too," Misato responded through gritted teeth as they raced through the city trying to avoid falling debris. "Oh yeah but please call me Misato, Miss, Katsuragi, makes me feel so old," Misato said as she was stopping at a small cliff to overlook the battlefield. "Why are they all pulling out," Misato whispered to herself as she noticed that all the VTOLs were retreating away from the angel. "what in the hell?" Misato began thinking when, "Uhh Miss Katsuragi?" Shinji said quietly distracting Misato from her observing the battle field. "Yes Shinji" Misato said looking away from the angel. "Uhhm shouldn't we head for a shelter?" It was then that both of the car's occupants noticed a small white light flying straight at the angel, and right when Misato was pulling herself inside through the window that suddenly there was total silence, and then the horrible roar of the shocwave tore through the surrounding area, destroying, throwing, or just bashing away at all things in its path. The Sound and sight of said Shockwave kicked Shinji into overdrive as he tried to grab Misato, so he might act as a shield for her.
The shockwave soon receded, leaving a stunned Misato, and Shinji in its wake, Misato was the first to come too. "owwww, I can't believe they would use an N2 mine like that," She said feeling a tightness around her, her head still spinning she kept her eyes closed. "Shinji are you alright." Misato said still slightly dazed. "Shinji, are you here Shinji?" Misato asked again after getting no reply. As she opened her eyes, and began getting her bearings, it was then that she realized the pressure she was feeling was a Shinji Ikari holding on to her, for what seemed to be, dear life. Misato smiled, and then in the flirtiest voice she could muster "Shinji-kun Shinji-kun" she whispered in his ear. "what's going on, I'm sore all over" Shinji replied, Misato smiling as she put the icing on her Shinji harassment cake. "was that as fun for you as it was for me?" Misato purred into his still dazed, and ringing ears. "what Shinji shouted springing into a sitting position bashing the back of his head into the steering wheel. "Shinji if you wouldn't mind getting off of me, I would like to get going." Misato said looking up at Shinji who was sitting on top of her. "ahh, sorry sorry.
"Here you should read this," Misato said as she gave Shinji the small NERV handbook. Not so long after they had arrived at the bottom, they were lost in the bowels of NERV. It was then they both heard an elevator door open. 'Enter Ritsuko,' Shinji thought with a small smirk. "Ah hi there Ritsuko," Misato said with a slightly nervous tone. "Why are you wasting my time, captain? Don't you know that we are short on time and manpower!" Ritsuko answered angrily. "Sorry" "so this is the boy" Ritsuko said looking down at Shinji with a look that just screamed anticlimax. "Hi my name is Shinji" The young man said putting his hand out for a hand shake. "What happened to your hand?" Ritsuko said while looking at his stigmata marks. "Ohh it is just a bruise from when our car flipped on the way here," Shinji responded, while praying that she would believe it. "Ahh I see, well why don't you come see me later on so that I can look at that," the good doctor told Shinji. "Ohh no it quite ok, it will heal, I am quite a fast healer," Shinji answered.
Before they knew it, they were skimming across the cooling fluid leading to Eva unit 1. 'I got to act surprised or they will know that something is up, but what am I supposed to do about Rei, should I have her still come out. I think I should act cold towards dad to let him know that I will not let him push me around, that ought to put a little hole in his scenario.'
They were soon at the bridge and then the lights that changed his life turned on, and he saw her again, his mom. "What is this thing supposed to be," Shinji said with some very well faked surprise. "This is man's ultimate Fighting Machine, the synthetic life form known as Evangelion, Unit One. Built here in secret, it is mankind's last hope," the good doctor said. "My dad made this huh." Shinji said. "Correct." The cold hearted Gendo said as he appeared above the Eva behind the reinforced glass. Shinji looked at his father and then said, "it's been a while huh dad." "Yes it has, we're moving out, I want you to pilot it." "You want me to pilot that; I have no experience in that there is no way that I can." Shinji said in mock anger, but his message got out. Gendo pressed a button and said, "Fuyutski." "Yes," the sub commander answered. "Bring out Rei, the replacement is useless," The evil Gendo said. "Yes... can we use her?" Gendo fixes his glasses, "She's not dead yet." Fuyutski, with no other options says, "Understood." Then Rei came on the line, as a small voice only screen popped up. "Rei" "our spare is unusable, we need you to pilot again," Gendo said. "Yes sir," Rei said from her bead and was then wheeled out towards Eva Unit 1.
Suddenly a large rumbling sound filled the room followed by a cracking noise, it was then that a large light came flying towards Rei; Shinji was off like a shot, protecting her with his own body, while the Eva decided to protect him. "Impossible, the Eva wasn't plugged in to any sort of external power and its batteries were drained." said a random staff member in the background. (a.n. I wonder how many random staff members they have wandering around NERV I mean in E.O.E. there were tons. I wonder what their pay is.) "There was no entry plug inserted either that is impossible." Ritsuko shouted yanking at her hair. "Did it try to protect him?" Misato asked with a mystified look on her face. "Alright" Shinji shouted at his father, "I will pilot Eva Unit 1, but I want 10 million yen transferred to my account the moment I am done, and once I am done you will grant me one request or I do not pilot, do we have a deal?" Shinji said with a look of pure fury, and determination plastered to his face. "That is outrageous," Said the good old Doctor. Gendo then sneered at shinji but knew there was no way Shinji was going to back down "You will have your money," Gendo said in his evil Gendo way. "As for the other part?" Shinji asked. "Meet me in my office afterwards," Gendo said. "Good, now how do I get in," soon after Shinji was in the plug, and he plug was inserted into the Eva.
"This should be a piece of cake" Shinji thought to himself. "Which could pose a problem?" Said a small voice coming from his right shoulder. "What the" Shinji thought as he jerked his head to the right to see a chibi girl on his right shoulder. "Who are you?" Shinji asked surprised by the small wings on her back. "I'm Melinda, have you already forgot me?" Melinda said felling sadness. "No it's just that you look different than last time," Shinji answered.
"Well I can do that, how I look is my choice. I can look however I want, but right now that is no the point, as you know you have an incredibly high sync ratio, which could be a problem because if you had a 100 synch ratio the first time you piloted, a lot of unwanted questions could arise," Melinda said looking Shinji into the eyes, making hand motions throughout the small speech. "So how do I fix that?" Shinji asked a little worried. "Like this" she replied snapping her fingers, as Shinji felt a light pop in his left ear.
Shinji proceeded to feel his ear, and felt a small, but elaborate pewter cross pierced into his earlobe. "What's this," Shinji asked getting angry. "It will bind your synch ratio, so as long as you wear it, it will put your synch ratio at the point where it was the first time you did all of this, so you need to remember that you will not be able to work at full power, you'll be slower, and not as strong, so it would be wise to remember this information, and try to compensate." Melinda answered with a sigh.
"Well I believe that we should start the flow of time again, and get your fight started." Melinda said disappearing as everything outside started moving, and the dissonance of the surrounding area started filtering through the cockpit's internal speakers. Shortly after everything started to return to normal the lcl started flowing in through the invisible little holes on the bottom of the plug, (A.N. Seriously, do they ever show us where the lcl comes in, and they must have had a bitch of a time wiring the cockpits, I can just see the techs getting electric chaired due to faulty wiring, well anyways back to the story.) Shinji started to feign fear "uhhh Miss. Misato, why is there liquid leaking in here." "don't worry, once your lungs are filled with LCL your blood will be oxegenated directly, It's okay you'll get used to it." Ritsuko said to Shinji in her usuall, I-know-more-than-you-do-so-do-what-I-say voice. "Tastes like blood." Shinji said sounding as whiney as possible. The Eva then started to move to the launch platform.
And I leave you all hanging hahahaha. Sorry for the shortness of the chapter, and the obnoxious cliff hanger, but I tried to write the fight scene a good five times, and I still haven't gotten it right so I am just going to post it and finish the fight scene, as the next chapter… However if I get enough requests I will put in the aftermath of the fight into the chapter. I plan to update on Monday, so time is of the essence. If you want to know one of the reason's I haven't been updating check my Love Hina story, I have the info in the after note. Hope you enjoyed the chapter
Ja Ne