DARK CHILD III
by Gunman
Disclaimer: I don't own anything.
Author's Notes: Be warned, I'm gonna be doing a bit of time-skipping throughout this chapter, which will take place over the course of a year's time.
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Mechapunk87: That's a great idea about Shinji fighting Obi-Wan and Anakin. I will probably put that into my next chapter, or Chapter 5, but I will put it in.
dogbertcarroll: Rei with AT-Field abilities like Shinji with Force powers? That's a good idea.
Sabby92: the timeline at this point is about six or seven years before The Battle of Geonosis.
Shinji kills tabris: I am going to have his 'world hop', but not crossing over dimensions anytime soon.
Jess D: you actually gave me a few good ideas with Shinji and Rei returning to their world after killing Gendo.
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Chapter 3
The Assassins
The planet Anzat, home to the deadly league of assassins known as The Anzati. A dark, cold, often cloudy world which was dangerous to many offworlders.
However, Shinji was no ordinary offworlder.
"Welcome, young Sith." the aged Chinese-featured man said as the boy had snuck up on him and had a red lightsaber at his throat. "I'm am impressed. Your stealth skills are formidable."
"I had a good teacher." Shinji said as he extinguished the blade. "You're Akku Seii, correct?"
"I am." he older man said, rising up off his seat. "Welcome to Anzat, young Sith." he said, formally welcoming him. "Allow me to give you a more appropriate greeting."
Shinji suddenly went on the defensive as a half-dozen shadowy figures leaped out at him, attacking with all manner of lethal bladed weapons.
Akku Seii had pulled back to avoid being caught in the melee as Shinji moved with animal-like speed and grace honed under the tutelage of Komari Vosa. He ignited his lightsabers and cut down two of the attackers as he backflipped through the air to kick down a third one. He spun around and sliced off the left and right leg of two more attackers before he Force-pushed the sixth into a tree.
With the attackers down, Akku Seii stepped up to the victorious Sith.
"Impressive. You didn't kill them all." the older man said.
"You set me up the second you saw my ship land at the space port. I chose to make an example out of them instead." he replied.
"Indeed. May I ask why you have come?"
"I need a trainer."
He cocked an eyebrow. "After the display you just put on?"
"Not for me." he said as a lithe female figure emerged from the shadows.
Akku Seii took in the exotic looking girl. Granted that a girl with blue hair and red eyes were not that unusual in this universe, but there was something about her that made the old man twitch. She was dressed in a modified version of her white plugsuit. This new suit, which looked like her old one but now included a small belt, pocket compartments, and had a white hood and cloak, was made for greater durability.
"This is Rei Ayanami. My bride." Shinji explained.
"Indeed." he said as he looked at the girl. "And you wish for us to train her in our ways."
"Yes."
"And how skilled is she? I ask only because I would like to know to which degree we should begin her training."
"I've taught her the basic saber skills, and she is trained in basic hand-to-hand combat."
"Basic. Very well. I will train her personally."
"Thank you." Shinji bowed, but kept his eyes on the older man. "And what payment do you want in return for her training?"
There was a glint in Akku's eye that Shinji didn't like.
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The Infiltrator flew through space, on it's way to the Outer Rim.
Interesting that Akku would choose this as a form of payment. Shinji thought as he set the ships computer and blasted into hyperspace.
He would be at his intended destination without two hours.
As he sat back to relax a bit, his mind wandered back to how he had left his bride on Anzat.
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"Very well. I will acquire what you need. I will be back to retrieve Rei within a year." Shinji said.
"A year? Why so long?" Akku asked.
"So that she will have the best training possible." he answered.
"I see."
Shinji stepped up to Rei, a quivering sadness in her eyes.
"I do not wish to leave your side." Rei said.
"I don't either. But I have a duty to preform for my master. The path I walk is dangerous and only those who have the strength and skill to be even close to my equal can accompany me. I can't teach you and go on missions at the same time. Therefore, this is the best option." He said, caressing the side of her face.
"I love you, my husband." she said.
"And I you, my wife." he replied as he leaned in to her.
The pair kissed warmly and passionately for nearly two minutes before Shinji bowed to Master Seii and walked back to his ship.
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Shinji musings ended, though he was not sad.
I cannot be sad. I know I will see her again. I have to believe that. He thought as his ship flew on it's way.
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Shinji's mission was to eliminate a local warlord who wasn't willing to join the Separatist cause. His name was Horde Grako of Centron 4, and he wasn't a man to oppose. He had forged himself on the battlefields and established himself as a world figure. His word was law.
As such a man like him had few true friends. He ordered his soldiers using fear and strength, he controlled the movements of his people on virtually every continent.
And like all men of power, he had but one weakness.
"AAAAAHHHHH!!" the woman gasped as Grako plunged into her depths again and again. "That's it, lover! Yes! Just... Like... That!!!!"
The muscular dark-haired man thrust hard into the red-skinned woman, groping her breasts and biting at her neck from behind.
Her name was Lyra, a Zeltron with the ability to control emotions. As skilled a fighter as she was beautiful, and she used that to her advantage in her given profession.
She was a promiscuous thief.
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!" she moaned loudly as her legs wrapped around his body like vice, as if trying to milk his member for all it was worth. "Don't Stop! Don't STOP!!" she screamed as her hands dug deep into the dark skin of his shoulders.
"GODS! Aren't you satisfied yet, woman? Three hours!! Damn It! But I... I can't refuse you and I don't know why!" He grunted as he continued to pleasure himself and the woman. "You're like a succubus and a Jedi all at once!"
"Jedi can only affect the weak-minded my lord! OOOOHHHHH!!! And I can tell you are not weak!" she hissed as he came hard into her folds.
He collapsed hard onto her body, the conniving Zeltron playfully stroking his hair for a couple of minutes and then pushing him off of her body.
"And now to work." she grinned as she silently padded across the room to where the safe was.
Being an emotion controller and not a mind reader, Lyra had to be careful in how she approached and talked to the man. Getting into his bed was easy enough. Getting the code out of him was much more difficult.
But she had succeeded in that.
"YES!" she gasped as she cranked the handle and opened the black safe door. Inside was a fine take. Several precious jewels and bags of gold coins for herself, and several disks with the security codes and technical information of his armaments, troop placements, weapons and vehicles. Those would fetch a very pretty price to the right buyer. Like the Hutts for example. "Easy money!"
"Indeed." a gruff voice exclaimed from behind her.
Lyra spun around to see the towering Grako looking down at her.
"I should have mentioned. I'm a lite sleeper!" he said with a strong slap to her face.
"ARGH!" she cried out, sprawling herself over the floor.
"Your life ends here, thief!" she growled as he grabbed his axe from the wall. "Not that you weren't bad in bed, but I will not be so easily taken advantage of!"
Lyra tried to crawl away as her assailant continued to thunder towards her.
"YOU ARE ENDED!" he growled as he raised his axe and was prepared to bring it down hard into her head.
Suddenly, the axe was plucked from his hands as if by magic.
"What?" Grako gasped in confusion.
"What?" Lyra gasped in relief.
"Didn't your mother ever tell you it isn't nice to hurt ladies?" a young man in black garb said as he stepped out of the shadows, right hand outstretched and pointing at the floating axe.
"I killed my own mother, Jedi-scum! As I will you!" he growled.
"You're mistaken. For one, I'm not a Jedi. And for two..." he waved his hand and brought the axe flush against Grako's face. "...you're the one who has been killed."
Grako crumbled to the ground, face-down into his axe.
Shinji walked up to the lovely and naked young Zeltron.
"Are you alright?" he asked.
"Ye-Yes! Who are you?" the exposed Lyra asked the young warrior.
"You're new boss." he said simply.
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(Anzat, one month later...)
"Remember, you skill as an assassin is nothing if you give away the element of surprise." Akku said as Rei leaped from pole to pole.
The blue haired girl was dressed in the dark robes of the Anzati, leaping from wooden pole to wooden pole that were sticking out of an oozing swamp. The purpose of this exercise was agility and grace.
It was a test that Rei was easily mastering.
Such extraordinary grace and nimbleness. Akku thought. It's as if she were dancing on those poles.
Rei continued to move effortlessly from pole to pole for nearly an hour, before Akku upped the stakes a little.
"Students, give her a workout!"
All at once, four others students appeared out of nowhere and leaped onto the poles, seeming as if to fly towards the girl.
"Is this wise?" one of the teachers asked.
"Four-against-one, you mean?" Akku asked.
"Of course." another teacher asked.
"Do not be concerned. She will not harm your students." the older man smiled.
Rei saw them coming and leaped high into the air, dodging one of the attackers and coming down onto another pole she bent low to avoid the mid-level kick of a second. Twisting around she planted her hands on the pole, her stomach coming to rest on her hands, as her foot reeled back and struck the attacker in the head, knocking him off balance enough to drop him into the swamp.
The other three students attacked her, as one, only to have Rei drop down lower than the head of the pole, wrapping her arms around it to swing over to the next one. She caught it with her legs and held on tight as the students surrounded her on the upper pole-levels. They thought that they had her trapped midway between them and the swamp, only to discover that she had a secret plan.
Taking a small cable line with a hook out of her robe, she tossed it at one of the students and snagged his pants. With her legs secured around the pole she was able to yank hard and pull the student off balance and into the swamp.
Amazingly, she didn't get any of it on her when he splashed.
The other two students sprang away, least they get caught like their associate. Rei quickly climbed back onto the pole just in time to see the other two rush her. However, Rei didn't move as the pair were on her quickly. The girl twisted and ducked low to avoid their strikes, the pair hitting each other and, knocked off balance, they tumbled into the swamp.
Actually, only one made it into the swamp. The other managed to recover and catch himself on the pole midway in, just like Rei had.
He pulled himself back up to the pole and charged the girl once more. This time, Rei held her ground as she swiftly caught his outstretched fist and flipped him over her shoulder. Normally he would have recovered from that, twisted his body and landed on another pole.
Or he would have, if Rei hadn't pinched one of his arm nerves that caused a slight deviation from his normal alertness. As such, he was an inch off his mark when he landed on the pole, slipping and tumbling down into the swamp below.
Rei hopped over the poles and flipped back to land effortlessly on the ground in front of Akku.
"How did I do, master?" she asked.
"Excellent. Quite excellent. Work on your combat technique for another hour, then get yourself cleaned up for dinner." Akku said.
"Yes, master." Rei bowed and ran off to continue her training.
The other masters looked at Akku.
"And you say she has only been here a week?" one of them asked the smiling master.
However... one of the students, the last one to fall in fact, was just staring at the blue-haired girl as she departed.
Who is that girl? He wondered.
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(Tattooine, three months later...)
"Are you sure this is the right place?" Shinji asked as he eyed the seedy looking tavern.
"Relax, boss. If anything, this place serves the best drinks all the way around the Outer Rim." Lyra smiled as she lead him inside.
Shinji only groaned as he allowed himself to be swallowed by the dim lights, the foul smell and the endless chatter of this slipshod hole in the ground.
In the four months since he had taken on Lyra as a underling she had proven rather useful and loyal to him, especially since he offered her more than just money and her life. As part of her 'benefits package', as it were, Shinji used his powers to stimulate her pleasure centers so that she flew into orgasm nearly twice a week. It was also during this time that she revealed a long list of contacts and clients who employed her talents for various reasons.
Some of them required thievery, others required blackmail, and others required a more... carnal satisfaction.
The last part nearly disgusted Shinji, but despite this, the woman got the job done. At times, Shinji wondered if he should consider himself her 'pimp'.
Still, despite her thieving and promiscuous nature, Lyra had proven herself several times. It was her own special talents that had gotten both of them close to taking down three other rather annoying thorns in his masters side. Two up and coming politicians, and one Trade Federation leader who was looking to sell information to the Republic in exchange for a pardon. And of course, there was Grako to consider. For without him, Centron 4 and it's army and resources now belonged to Count Dooku.
All Lyra had to do was get close to them, use her emotion controlling powers to make them drop their guard, and BAM! Shinji would finish the job.
With their current assignment done, the pair were looking for a new recruit for another job.
"Here, take a swig!" Lyra grinned as she sat the drink down before him.
The drink was called Boga Noga. Not the healthiest thing on the menu. The only thing it was really good for, was clearing out your sinuses or maybe killing a few brain cells. And in a place like this, most people welcomed it.
Shinji stiffed as he took a sip. This is foul! Mental note: never let Lyra order again! But for his part if for no other reason than to fit in, Shinji slowly drank the horrible concoction.
They sat in the side corner of the dirty bar to two hours, as if waiting for someone.
"Are you sure he's here?" Shinji finally asked.
"Yes. I'm sure. They're pretty much the last of their kind, and he's the most reclusive. It took me more than a month to track him down. But I tell you he's here." Lyra explained.
"If he's as good as you say he is, he'll be worth the wait."
Just then, a loud roar and a fierce slamming of tables caught the pair's attention.
"I TOLD YOU NOT TO TOUCH ME, SCUM!!!" a deep voice roared right before the bar erupted into a melee.
"That's him." Lyra said as she took another sip of her drink.
"So I gathered." Shinji exclaimed.
The pair watched as the entire bar exploded into a literal life-and-death situation. Chairs were broken over peoples heads, tables were thrown against walls, people were thrown against walls, and floors, and out the tavern doors.
It continued like this for nearly ten minutes, until their target was the last one standing.
"Well?" Lyra asked.
"Let's go talk to him." Shinji said as he quickly downed the last of his Boga Noga, slammed it down, and got up to walk over to the large, scaled man.
However, this wasn't a man. This was a Morgukai warrior named Barraco. He and a small handful of others were the last of their kind, due mostly to their highly aggressive natures. He looked like a fierce humanoid lizard with armored scales for skin, spiked bones all around his head and shoulders, and a jagged scar across his forehead.
"Nice fight." Shinji said, clapping his hands. "You're as strong as they say you are."
"And who are you, little man?" Barraco hissed as she towered over Shinji at least two feet.
"Dark Oni. You're new boss."
"I serve no one!"
"Not even if they were to offer you all the bloodshed you could ever want? Enough money to live as you wished? The chance to bring glory back to the Morgukai?"
Barraco narrowed his eyes and glared at Shinji.
"You offer me nothing I cannot obtain myself!" he said and started to walk away.
"Well then, how about I just kick your ass?"
Barraco paused and stood up straight, a soft growl escaping his lips.
"What... did you say?"
"I'm saying I can defeat you in battle." Shinji stated.
That was enough for him. True Morgukai value only one thing above all else.
Their pride as warriors.
And right now, that pride was being challenged, by this boy!
"RRRRAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!" Barraco shouted as he quickly spun around and charged the boy.
However, this was also another reason their race was dying out.
Barraco snarled as he brought his spiked mace down hard upon the ground, directly where Shinji's head would have been, had he not stepped to the right at just the precise moment.
"What?" Barraco gasped as he felt two heat pulses directly in front of his neck and behind it.
"Care to try that again?" Shinji asked as he extinguished his lightsabers and backed off.
Barraco growled again as he charged the boy, swinging his mace wildly from left to right, but unable to hit the boy as he kept dodging. He brought his mace up high once he had backed the boy into a corner, and brought it down hard onto his head. However, Shinji managed to catch the mace with his left hand, barely avoiding the spikes, using his Force powers to match Barraco's brute strength.
"What?" the Morgukai gasped.
"And for my next trick." Shinji grinned as he Force-punched the Morgukai with his right hand across the bar and into the far wall.
Lyra just watched as the young Sith walked over to the fallen warrior and stood over him, lightsaber drawn and aimed at his throat.
"So... will you serve me now?"
Barraco huffed, but conceded.
"What would you have me do?" he asked.
Shinji grinned.
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(Anzat, two months later...)
"You certainly must be hard of hearing, Nor, because this makes the 87th time I have rejected you!" Rei shouted as she flipped into the air, spun around twice and lashed out with a fierce kick to the long-haired Anzati student, knocking him down.
Rei was frustrated to say the least. Ever since she had defeated him and his friends at the swamp, Nor had been the most insistent stalker in the Anzati.
He followed Rei everywhere. Training. Dinner. Her sleeping quarters. Everywhere she went it was almost certain that he was nearby. He trained with her. Assisted her. Helped her with small things that she could easily do herself. All to gain her favor. She was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen, and yet despite his persistence, she barely recognized or acknowledged him.
As such he had been beaten, slapped, kicked, whipped, flipped, slammed, and tossed into various objects such as trees, swamps, walls, thorny bushes, other students, etc.
While Rei enjoyed the extra training that it afforded her, the fact was that is was also becoming quite the tedious exercise. Even to her.
"But why Rei?" Nor asked as he got back up. "Why do you reject me? I have proven myself time and time again as an Anzati. As a warrior. And as your trusted friend." he stated as he brought his lance down hard upon the girl's staff. "Why do you reject me?"
"Because I love another. And you cannot possibly measure up to him!" Rei stated as she knocked the lance from his hand, leg swept him again, and spun around quickly as he was falling to strike at his gut, knocking him back into another tree. "If you cannot defeat me in combat, how can you even hope to be my equal as he is?"
With that Rei walked off.
However, Nor wasn't finished.
I... will... not... be... rejected! he thought as he pulled out a bladed throwing star and hurled it at the girl's back.
Rei just smirked as she heard the weapon approach her. She angled her wooden staff behind her back to block the star, which became imbedded in the staff itself.
"Perhaps when you are strong enough... then you will be worthy to join me... as my underling." she said as she flicked the staff back at him, the jolt releasing the star and sending it back at him, coming to a rest right next to his ear.
Her underling? HER underling? Nor thought in disbelief. Then again... he paused, changing his own thought perception on the issue. It's not like I'm not getting used to being beaten by her.
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(Coruscant, one month later...)
WHACK!
Another security guard went down, his helmet cracked and his head worse than that.
"You are just not the subtle type." Shinji said as he stepped over the dozen other security guards that Barraco had just barreled through like a hurricane.
"I am a warrior, not an assassin." Barraco hissed as he stepped towards the door.
In the three months since Barraco had joined Shinji and Lyra, he had proven to be a more than adapt warrior for their purposes. As stated he was in no way the subtle type, but Shinji had made it work for them. More than anything, he was the distraction. While everyone's attention was on Barraco, Shinji was able to easily get inside and nail his target. This had been effective on five specific targets and while Count Dooku wasn't big on his attention-attracting methods, Shinji made the argument that it worked for their plans.
Basic scenario: Lyra would set up the targets, Barraco would deal with the guards, and Shinji would execute the target.
However, this time, Barraco was impatient. While in Shinji's service, he had been provided with more than his share of battles and fairly challenging opponents to fight, this time around Lyra had taken her sweet time in trying to seduce their current target that Barraco had just snapped. Shinji had just let him have at the guards, fighting through more than a dozen on the first level, knowing that nothing short of killing him would actually stop him. Literally smashing through the second wave of guards he moved to the bed, gripping the senator's neck and dragging him naked from the bed to the window.
"Oh for crying out... I Wasn't Finished With Him!" Lyra shouted as she covered her naked body with the sheet.
"I care not!" Barraco shouted as he tossed the green-skinned man out the window.
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One minute later...
SPLAT!
"Well, I guess it doesn't matter. We had to kill him anyway, but you could have been more subtle about the whole thing. Alright?" Shinji groaned to the Morgukai as he tossed Lyra her clothes. "Get dressed, we're headed for Brentaal IV."
"Brentaal IV? What's so special about that place?" Lyra asked as she pulled her shirt over her bare chest.
"You'll see. But we have to go now."
"Will there be blood?" Barraco asked.
"Definitely." Shinji said as he pulled a strange thermal detonator from his belt.
"Will there be money?" Lyra asked.
"Of course." Shinji said as he set the detonator.
"Then what are we waiting for?" Lyra asked as she headed out of the room.
Shinji set the bomb in the Senator's room and departed with his two companions in tow.
Five minutes later, the explosion that resulted took out the entire floor of the building.
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(Brentaal IV, six months later...)
"A toast, comrades!" Shogar Tok exclaimed as he raised his goblet before the assembled group.
Said group consisted of Shinji Ikari, the Sith agent. Lyra the Zeltron. Barraco the Morgukai warrior. And lastly Rok, a muscular Wookie bandit that Shinji rescued from one of the prisons. It wasn't hard to get him on their side, thanks to Shinji's dark force influence.
Shinji and his team had spent the last six months infiltrating every sector of this planet in order to make sure Shogar Tok held absolute power. It was at Count Dooku's orders since Brentaal IV held a major hyperspace lane that was imperative to space travel.
The team had located and assassinated several of the major political and religious leaders that Brentaal IV had. A job that had taken a good six months, as the team were few in number and the leaders were spread out all over the planet. Some never leaving their shielded domiciles, others surrounded by hundreds of fanatical followers/bodyguards.
It had been a hard fight most of the way, trying to find where they were, but Shinji and his team had been successful. And worse, they made it look like the Jedi were responsible for the deaths.
Easy enough for someone like Shinji.
As the Jedi are the protectors of the Republic, it made everyone see just how 'corrupt' and 'evil' the Republic was.
With 90 of the planet's major leaders wiped out, Shogar would eventually be able to take power when the time came. Which was Dooku's plans at this point in time.
Because of this, Shinji and his team were being honored by Shogar at his fortress.
"Is something wrong, my friend?" Shogar asked Shinji as the young Sith clipped his lightsabers on his belt.
"I have to be going now." he said.
"What? On this, our glorious celebratory day?" the man asked.
"It's a personal matter that I must attend to."
"How personal are we talking?"
"I haven't seen my wife in a year's time."
That got a shocked expression from Shogar. He had no idea that the Sith was married. None of his teammates did.
"Look after my team. I'll be back for them soon." Shinji said as he walked out towards the hanger bay and his ship.
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(Anzat)
Shinji walked quietly up to the aged master and stood silently next to him.
"You're just in time, young Sith." Akku said.
The pair were on a hill overlooking a serious final exam of sorts.
It was Rei alone against six other highly skilled students.
From the hillside, Shinji watched as the six attacked, each one slamming their weapons hard against her body, but not connecting.
Rei was moving with amazing skill and grace as Shinji had never seen before. She lifted herself into the air, lashing out at each of the students with speed and accuracy that was not to be believed unless seen for yourself.
She was even rebounding off the other students so as not to touch the soft ground until all six of them were defeated.
Within less time than it took to write this sentence, Rei had defeated all six highly skilled students.
"Impressive, is she not?" Akku asked.
"Words don't do her justice." Shinji said as he set down the box containing the items Akku had asked for as payment.
Akku opened the box and grinned.
"Cortosis Gauntlets. Excellent. These will make a fine gift for one of my students." he said.
Shinji turned and saw that one of the students had pulled a gun.
"What the..."
The student fired at Rei, a clear shot at her back. However, before Shinji could react, the beam struck something that was around Rei and bounced off.
"What? A force field?"
"Yes. I noticed that the girl possessed a strange energy of sorts. A hidden power. Through meditation and training she was able to fully manifest it. She calls it an..."
"AT-Field." Shinji replied as another student emerged and threw out a bladed weapon that dug deep into the other students arm.
Akku smiled. "You know it."
"You could say that." Shinji said as he headed down to the open field.
The second Rei saw him, she burst into emotion.
"SHINJI-KUN!" she shouted as she rushed to him and leapt into his arms.
Their lips met, passionately and animatedly.
Several minutes passed until finally their mouths parted.
"I missed you so much, my love." Rei sighed as she hung her head on the Sith's shoulder.
"I missed you too, my sweet Rei." Shinji replied softly as he held her tightly.
Off to the side, the young Nor looked saddened at the arrival of the one Rei claimed to love.
But then again, it made sense to him. Rei was a special woman, so it was only right that she already had a mate. And one that loved her so passionately.
Still...
Nor took out three blades and hurled them fiercely at the young Sith.
Shinji simply held out his hand, stopping the blades in mid-air and sending them back to their owner. They sliced at his clothes, but not his skin, imbedding themselves into the ground in front of his toes.
"I saw you disable the shooter of my wife. I assume that this was an attempt at trying to see if I was at all worthy of Rei." Shinji stated to the young Anzati.
"Yes." Nor replied.
"You have talent. Join me and make the most of your skills."
Nor didn't have to think about that. "Where Rei goes, I go."
Shinji smiled. "Good."
With that, Shinji, Rei and Nor left Anzat and headed back to Brentaal IV to introduce Rei to the other members of his rather... unique little group.
A group that would have a decided outcome on the coming war.
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Authors Notes:
Did everyone like that little update? (Okay, not so little, but you get the point.)
I hope so. Most of the characters were taken from a pair of Clone Wars graphic novels.
Lyra the Zeltron. Barraco the Morgukai. Rok the Wookie. And Nor the Anzati.
All characters based on real characters from Volume 2 and Volume 8 of the Clone Wars graphic novels that will have a larger part to play in the rest of the chapters.
I was really hard pressed to get this finished, as I had been procrastinating on it for a while. Hopefully this won't be the issue with my next chapter for this story. And with my other stories, I'm sure you can understand why.
Anyway, after the omake, please review.
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OMAKE!
By Shinjithegoodsharer
"There had to be something you can do." Misato snapped.
"If there was I would have done it already!" Ritsuko snapped back.
"Well... try harder!"
While the pair argued, the German born Second Child Asuka Langley Sohryu and the blue-haired, red-eyed First Child, Rei Ayanami, stood at odds as well. Asuka was upset that everyone was fussing over Shinji, and Rei was upset that Shinji wasn't back yet.
Suddenly, a burst of air and light caught everyone's attention as a greenish energy portal appeared at the far end of the command center where both Rei and Asuka stood.
WA-BOOM!!!!
Everyone backed away from it, but Rei remained only a meter apart of the glowing portal itself. As if she was not afraid of what was to come.
All the occupants watched as a single individual strode through the portal. Everyone froze as they took him in.
He was tall, clearly of Japanese descent, athletic and possessing a commanding presence. His hair was brown and wavy, his eyes a strange combination of blue and yellow, but amazingly familiar to the group.
Shinji looked around the large room, taking stock of those around him. At first he didn't recognize them, but slowly, one-by-one, he recalled.
Before him stood Misato Katsuragi-his guardian and commanding officer. Dr Ritsuko Akagi-chief scientist of NERV who maintained the Eva's and the Magi super computer. Ryoji Kaji-Misato's former lover and agent of NERV. Kouzou Fuyutsuki-the sub-commander of NERV and the oldest person in the agency. Asuka Langley Sohryu-female pilot of Unit 02 and the most arrogant person Shinji had ever known. Gendo Ikari-the commander of NERV and his father. Maya Ibuki, Makoto Hyuga, and Shigeru Aoba-the 'bridge bunnies' who monitored the computers and the Eva battles.
And finally, Rei Ayanami-female pilot of Unit 00... and the only person Shinji truly felt for.
"What the... who the heck is that?" Kaji gasped.
"It.. looks like..." Ritsuko tried to recognize the man.
"Shinji?" Misato gasped as she stared at the seventeen year old boy.
"Whoa. He's a babe!" Asuka noted.
Shinji's eyes focused on the blue-haired girl in front of him. A fond memory of her flowed into his mind, old feelings he had long forgotten but were now renewed. Shinji lifted his hands and pointed at the girl, turning his hand palm-up and bending his fingers in a 'come here' gesture. Without any hesitation, the blue-haired girl moved towards him.
"Rei!" Gendo gasped as he saw his doll move towards the older boy.
If she heard the commander, she didn't acknowledge or show any signs of care.
Rei stepped up to the young man, who was now half a foot taller than herself. She was entranced, unable to deny him, without the will to break free even if she wanted to. She stared into his eyes and felt her cheeks flush.
Shinji increased his Force influence, even as he pulled a strange greenish pill out of his belt with his left hand and inserted it into Rei's mouth. She accepted it willingly, swallowing as his left hand caressed the side of her face, leaning in to kiss her.
"REI!" Gendo shouted as he leaped down from his elevated platform and raced over to the pair, prepared to forcefully remove Rei from this boys grasp and kill him if necessary.
However, before he got within a meter's reach of the pair, Shinji pulled something from his belt. With a press of a button on the remote, another figure emerged from the portal.
The figure was definitely female, with shoulder-length hair than Rei, but with a more 'adult' body, dressed in a pair of shiny black leather pants and a metallic bodice. There was also a large Vibro-Axe attached to her back.
"Kos-Mos, kill this prick." Shinji ordered the woman.
"Yes, Master." the woman said, pulling the large high-tech looking axe from her back and grinning at Gendo. "Come here, little beard. I'm going to make you pay for disturbing my master!"
She started swinging the axe at Gendo, the blade just missing his beard.
The whole of NERV just stood off to the side as their once-feared commander was being chased around the command center screaming like a little girl while the android assassin tried to kill him.
"HEEEELLLLLLPPPPPP MMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" the man shouted as he continuously dodged the axe, which was breaking apart everything she was hitting, except Gendo.
"Don't Run! Don't Run! FAKE! Your beard is fake and I will prove it by shaving you bald!!" Kos-Mos shouted as she started chopping at the door to Gendo's office.
CRACK!
"Heeeeeeeeeeeere's Kos-Mos!" the android grinned maliciously through the hole in the door.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!"