Disclaimer: See chapter 1.
'Thoughts'
"Speech"
Chapter 7: Musical Play Smiling Rebellious Flower
Shinji and Misato were passed out on the couch when a ringing phone woke them, or rather, Misato up. She didn't want to get up, as she was still rather tired and Shinji's body was very warm, but she knew she had to get the phone.
'Damn phone, always seems to be waking us up' Misato grumbled as she made her way to the contraption that kept ringing.
"What is it?" she asked, and got a familiar faux blonde's voice on the other end.
"Rei's unit just went berserk."
"WHAT?"
"Yeah, I can't quite explain it either, but at least she's alright."
"Where is she?!" Misato yelled, taking up the role of the responsible guardian immediately.
"She's in the NERV hospital, in a normal room, before you ask."
"Alright, we'll be right there" and she slammed down the phone before the doctor could say anything else
NERV Hospital, 25 minutes later, Rei's room
"So, you're basically saying that she's been like this since the attempted start up?" Shinji asked.
"That is essentially the gist of it."
"Any idea how much longer she'll be out?" Misato asked.
"Not really, though I'd probably give her about a week, maybe two."
"Two weeks!?"
"Calm down Misato, you have to understand that she's not entirely human, so having the soul of her previous Eva coming out of her body and into the new Eva took quite a toll on her."
"Then why didn't Shinji-" Misato started, but was interrupted by Akagi.
"Weren't you just listening? Rei's not entirely human, so it took a bigger amount of her energy than it did for Shinji. Rei is half Angel, but also half human. The soul of her previous Eva was from two Angels, so it put her in a sort of coma, and so she needs more time to recover. Got it?"
Misato could only nod at her friend and said nothing further. Shinji basically tuned all of what Ritsuko said out and was staring out into the distance, lost in thought, though he wasn't really thinking about anything in particular.
Ritsuko left the room, sensing that everyone else had nothing more to say on the matter; she had other things to do than just stand inside a silent hospital room.
After several minutes of staring at Rei's face, Misato finally said, "C'mon Shinji, let's go."
"R-right" he said, suddenly startled from being brought out of his thoughts. When they were in Misato's car, Shinji was surprised to see that she wasn't talking all that much like she would normally.
"Misato, is something wrong?"
"No, why?" she asked, concentrating on the road, and, surprisingly, she wasn't speeding through traffic like she normally would.
"Well, for one thing, you're not speeding through traffic and another thing, you haven't really said anything since we left the hospital."
Misato said nothing for another minute and continued driving.
"It was just…quite a shock that anything like that could happen to Rei."
"Misato, you're forgetting our line of work; it's dangerous. And that was only from the soul transfer part. It can only get worse from here."
"Yeah" was all she said as she continued to carefully drive back their apartment.
A few days later…
Misato was waiting in front of the men's locker room as the Angel alarm was going off.
'C'mon Shinji, hurry up' she thought. Right at that moment, the locker room door opened up and Shinji appeared in his plug suit.
Shinji started to head towards the Eva cages and Misato followed. When he got to the door that read 'Evangelion Cages. Authorized Personnel only', he turned around and kissed Misato and disappeared behind the door and headed to his plug. Misato headed for Central Dogma, and arrived in time to see his Eva launch.
"Any word on what the Angel is?" Ritsuko asked.
"Not yet, ma'am." Maya said. "The MAGI can't really determine what it is or where.
Xxxxxxx
Up on the surface, Shinji was waiting to see or hear the Angel that he was dispatched to kill. However, he didn't see anything but the Japanese landscape.
"Shinji, the MAGI can't determine where the Angel is, but you should be able to see something soon." Came Ritsuko's voice from the comm. screen that opened up on the right of him.
"I don't see anything except-" but his sentence was interrupted by something slamming into his Eva and knocking it down. He quickly got up and looked for the Angel but again saw nothing.
"Ritsuko, I'm not seeing anything."
"That's because the Angel is invisible. You need to focus pretty hard and look for any sign of movement. Once you see that movement, strike."
"Right" Shinji said and then started focusing on the surrounding landscape to try and find the Angel.
He was looking at Tokyo-3 when he saw something that looked like movement. He didn't even hesitate in rushing toward the movement. He pulled the new progressive knife, which is a bit longer, and made it look more like a sword.
He swung and apparently hit the Angel, as something came spraying out of what it was he had hit. The substance that was now coating the Eva was a deep, dark red that made it look like the horrible monster that it was, but the battle wasn't over yet.
The Angel stood up (Shinji could see when it was standing up, as it was spraying blood everywhere) the Angel rushed forward in an attempt to grab him, but he knew better. He dodged to the right and slashed at the Angel again.
The Angel didn't like this too much and rushed forward while it thought the Eva had its back turned to it. It rushed forward again, but when it got to where the Eva appeared to be, the Eva disappeared.
If Angels could look confused, it would have. Out of nowhere came the progressive "knife" and went right into the S2 Engine that the Angels have that appears on the surface of their "skin", and through repetition of stabbing so many other Angels, Shinji was able to stab this one just the same.
However…
"Shinji, watch out!" Misato yelled over the comm. Screen, but it was too late. The Angel had self destructed, and Shinji didn't have an AT field up. The surrounding area was covered in nothing but smoke, and Misato couldn't help but cry as she thought her lover was dead.
A few minutes later, however, Dr. Akagi saw a huge shadow of what looked like the Eva, and it was soaked with blood.
"What a monster mankind has created" Ritsuko said under her breath before she finally pointed out that Shinji was okay.
When his Eva was back in the cages, Shinji felt a little shaken but nothing a little time wouldn't heal. As soon as he was out side the door to the cages, he spotted a crying Misato running towards him.
When she was close enough, she jumped into him and tackled him to the ground where she continued to cry on him until she fell asleep about a half hour later. Shinji lifted her up and was grateful that Misato had been teaching him how to drive.
He set her down outside of the locker room and took a quick shower before getting into his normal clothes and driving them home. Misato was still asleep by the time he had gotten them home and lifted her up and brought her up the stairs and got her inside their apartment. He lay her down on the bed that they shared and then crawled up next to her and fell asleep himself, unknowing and uncaring for what could happen tomorrow. The world could almost end tomorrow, but he didn't really care right now, he had his Misato.
AN: No it's not the final chapter of this story, and yes I know, it was a kinda cryptic ending, but, who cares.