Chapter #4 "Sachiel"
On the third day after receiving the letter from his father Shinji found himself walking towards the entrance to the train station in Okinawa he had bought another ticket to change from coach to first class after all it was going to be a rather tiring trip without adding the lack of comfort from the coach seats.
He had left with a small suitcase and was now sitting on the train on his way to Tokyo-3 he sat back relaxed and closed his eyes then he realized that he better phone his father and tell him that he will be arriving earlier than expected.
He dug out his cell phone in the inside pocket of his jacket and dialed the number that appeared on the top of the letter.
"Yes"
"I will be arriving an hour earlier, I didn't use your cheap tickets please notify the person that will pick me up bye"
With that Shinji hanged the phone placed it back in his pocket and closed his eyes.
He dreamed of VTOLs flying all over the skies firing ant some distant object, he then imagined a blue hared red eyed girl and thought that looked incredibly pretty, however he also noted that she was badly hurt, and could only wonder why?
He woke up just as the train entered the station and stood up, he straightens out his outfit to make it less wrinkly and grabbed his bag and he then moved to the doors and waited. When they opened he stepped out of the train as the ring of an alarm was heard from everywhere in the city.
He stepped into the streets and sat down on a bench near a phone both waiting for this Misato Katzuragi to show up.
As he was sitting there he heard the sound of a battle near by and when he looked up he saw VTOLs flying from everywhere towards a giant monster that seemed to not mind at all the fact that it was being fired at.
However from out of the corner of his eyes he saw a girl dressed in what looked like a school uniform, but when his attention was drawn from her to a flock of pigeons that were standing on a near by cable he looked back to where the girl had been only to find her gone.
From the corner of the street came running a blue Renault Alpine A310 piloted by a woman with lavender colored hair and as she got closer Shinji was able to see that she was the one that was sent to retrieve him.
"Are you Shinji Ikari?" she asked leaning forward to see him "If you are jump in"
Without waiting anymore he jumped into the passenger seat just as she was about to hit the accelerator, he sat and buckled himself up as he was sent all over the car by Misato's reckless driving.
"So you are Shinji Ikari, I'm Misato Katzuragi nice to finally meet you" said Misato with a warm smile on her face.
"The pleasure is all mine" said Shinji flashing a smile to the good looking woman next to him "What was that thing back there?"
"That was what we call an angel; your father is the one in charge of the agency that in turn is in charge of killing them"
"Hhm" said Shinji as he was looking towards the creature who had just taken out half a squadron of VTOLs.
Back at NERV headquarters three generals were talking fast between themselves as everything that they fired at the angel seemed to make no difference then one of them said "We have to use an N2 mine it is our last hope"
The other two generals nodded in agreement while the other picked up the phone and uttered orders to the person at the other end.
Shinji saw the approaching bombers and then he said to Misato "What ever happens Misato, don't stop driving, OK?"
Misato nodded without knowing why he said that and then looked to the horizon where a bomber was fast approaching the angel.
"They are going to use an N2 mine" she shrieked making a move to stop the car.
"Don't stop keep going nothing will happen to us, just keep driving" said Shinji calmly as if nothing was happening.
Misato didn't know why, but she somehow knew that he was saying the truth. She continued driving towards NERV Headquarters when suddenly a bright flash was seen and strangely enough she felt nothing and continued driving without a problem.
However this didn't go unnoticed by the bridge bunnies at central dogma "the Magi has spotted an AT field heading this way" cried out Maya Ibuki from her station.
"Is it blue?" asked the Commander Gendo Ikari from his position overlooking the activity below.
"Negative" cried Makoto Hyuga "Pattern is far more powerful than blue, the Magi have cataloged it as red"
Gendo was impressed, however he showed carelessness about the fact that a far more powerful being was heading their way and it happened to come aboard Major Katzuragi's car.
Misato and Shinji entered the elevator that would take them to NERV and as they were being lowered they found themselves over looking a Geofront.
"Take this I forgot I had to give this to you" said Misato pulling out a small hand book from the backseat.
Shinji looked at the small booked and read the cover "Welcome to NERV" he then looked at Misato "this is some kind of sick joke from that bastard right?"
Misato looked at Shinji for a moment "You really don't like your father do you?"
"Well that is to be expected really, mother dies in an accident which is likely I can't talk about and then father abandons me" said Shinji coldly however the strange thing was that it seemed that as he spoke the temperature inside the car seemed to drop considerably and Misato could have swore that his eyes flashed red for a second.
They said nothing else and Shinji followed Misato through NERV towards where he was supposed to go.
After half an hour they were still trying to reach where they were supposed to be going so Shinji spoke what was clearly obvious after passing the same corridor four times already.
"I think we are lost Misato" said Shinji looking at the map that she was looking at over her shoulder "maybe we should ask for help?"
"Doctor Ritsuko Akagi, Ritsuko Akagi please contact Captain Misato Katzuragi" came the speaker over where Ritsuko Akagi head of Project-E was checking the LCL filters.
"I can't believe that she is lost again" said Ritsuko as she pulled over hear lab coat and went to look for Misato again.
The elevator doors opened and in came a blond woman with a fine body, but not quite like Misato's and wearing a blue swimsuit under a white Lab coat.
"I'll have you know that we are short on time and manpower Captain Katzuragi" said the blond woman looking with a serious face to the lavender colored hair beauty.
"This is him?" asked the Doctor looking Shinji over.
"Yes according to the Marduk Institute this is the Third child Shinji Ikari" said Misato motioning for Shinji to come into the conversation.
He extended his hand and said "Shinji Ikari nice to meet you Dr…"
"Dr. Ritsuko Akagi" said the blond taking his hand.
"So tell me Doctor is that the usual dress code?" asked Shinji with a straight face.
Dr. Akagi was speechless and began to blush after his comment however decided to say nothing about it and continued to talk to Misato.
After a few minutes they entered a room in total darkness and after they walked inside the lights turned on and he was face to face with a giant purple face.
"What is this… thing?" asked Shinji looking puzzled for a moment but not scared.
"This is the Humanoid Battle android known as Evangelion Unit-01 it is man kind last hope" said Dr. Akagi no doubt proud of her accomplishments with Project-E.
"So this is what my father has been working on giant Robots?" asked Shinji shocked and at the same time bored by it.
"Correct" said a voice from over head.
Shinji looked up to see his father standing in a viewing point overlooking the giant purple Evangelion.
"It's been a while" said Gendo with coldness on his voice only equally matched by his son's own.
"Yes it has"
"We are moving out" said Gendo.
"But we don't have a pilot, Rei is still hurt and Unit-00 is still on cryo-stasis" said Misato urgently.
"We just got one" said Ritsuko Akagi looking at Shinji, as if he was a piece of fresh meat.
"Wait a second" said Shinji looking at his father "You abandon me, then you send me to some teachers house that turned out to be even worse than you and after a decade where we only saw each other once you expect me to just hop on the ride and like it?" asked Shinji bewildered.
"That is correct." Said Gendo eying his son in calculating manner.
"Well I'll have to say no" said Shinji looking back to the Doctor who had an astonished look on her face no one ever contradicts the commander and refuses to do anything.
"Fuyutsuki" called Gendo to one of the screens in the wall "Bring out Rei she is going to pilot again"
"Are you sure sir, she is hurt really bad" said Fuyutsuki with concern for Rei clearly evident in his voice.
"She is not dead yet" said Gendo "And is better than the Pilot we just received"
"Oh so now you are resulting to blackmail are you father?" asked Shinji amused by all the antics that Gendo was going though.
Gendo was shocked that his son had turned out to be like this, he was defiant independent and above all was a free spirit, however how did he know about the fact that he was going to use Rei's condition as leverage to bend him at his will.
"You will find father that I have a thing for predicting persons actions in advance, so why don't we cut the crap and you bring this Rei person in shall we?" asked Shinji looking bored around the place.
As he finished saying this, the doors at the end opposite of where they came from opened and in came a gurney pushed by to doctors.
As Shinji looked at the girl in the Gurney he looked at the beautiful girl with blue hair and read eyes from his dream, he also noticed that she was in fact very ill and the simple fact that they were moving her was hurting her.
"Stop their" said Shinji looking at the girl, he walked up to her, took her hand in one of his and said "what is your name?"
"Rei" the girl said with a painful expression on her face.
Shinji looked to Dr. Akagi and said "You should observe what I'm about to do" said Shinji as he placed a hand on Rei's forehead and another in her stomach. He closed his eyes and in a moment white pure light came from his hands and after that he said "How are you feeling now Rei?" with a warm smile on his face.
Rei was shocked this boy that she didn't know had healed her and now was feeling better than ever she stood up, but just as she was standing up the room shook and a piece of the sealing dropped.
Instinctively Shinji Raped his arms around Rei and used his AT field to cover both of them, however at the same time he tried to give out an order to the Evangelion and miraculously it worked, the Eva's hand came into contact with the debris and deflected the pieces from harming anyone.
Shinji stood up and brought Rei along with him, he then turned to Gendo and said "The following requests are non negotiable, first wherever I live Rei will live with me, I saw where she lives and that is not appropriate, we will each earn one million yen a month"
Gendo looked thoughtful for a moment then he said "very well, but you shall pilot without question"
Shinji nodded and turned his head towards Ritsuko "How do I enter the Eva?"
Ritsuko lead the way to the entrance of the entry plug.
Shinji took off his suit jacket, shirt and tie and entered the plug without a second thought, as he the techs were about to close the hatch Dr. Akagi gave him a pair of hair clips which he put on and rested comfortably on the chair.
After a few moment communication was established with the outside of the entry plug and to Shinji's dislike it started to fill up with an orange liquid that smelled of blood "Oh man what the hell is this, it smells like Blood"
"Top complaining about it you sound like a girl" said Misato over the com-link.
"Well you try it some time and see if you like it Mr. Tough Guy" said Shinji which caused the bridge bunnies to laugh out loud, even Sub-commander Fuyutsuki smirked at the comment.
Shinji sat there and waited to be drowned by the LCL however he found that he could breathe the liquid without problem and after a few minutes he started to hear Misato give out orders to everyone in the command center.
"Neural Connections linked waiting for Sync Ratio to pass the ego Border line" said Maya Ibuki.
"Eva-01 is online" said Shigeru Aoba.
"Eva Launch" cried Misato and suddenly Shinji felt the rush of adrenaline surge though him as the speed increased until he came to a sudden stop face to face with the Angel.
"Dr. Akagi" called Maya looking shocked at her screen "Sync Ratio has stabilized at 136.7"
"Tha… That's impossible" said Dr. Akagi then he looked at the graph and confirmed it.
Meanwhile Shinji walked towards the angel and grabbed the red orb in its middle with both hands and with a powerful kick it reaped it out of the angel in one swift movement.
Everyone in central Dogma was incredulous at what had happened they looked how Shinji placed the core on the ground and returned to the catapult. He waited for several moment until it was clear that the angel was death and called "Permeation to return to base, I'm kind of bored hear"
With that the Commander and all of central dogma came out of their daze and the Misato spoke "Well done Shinji, time of battle less than twenty five seconds and damage to the city was minimal"
With that they brought Shinji down to the Eva cages and opened the entry plug to find him sleeping peacefully as in nothing had happened.