SHINJI TENGE
Chapter 5
by Gunman
Disclaimer: I do not own Shinji Ikari, Tenjho Tenge, Ranma, Love Hina, Appleseed, Inuyasha, Tenchi, Sailor Moon, Project A-ko, and GI Joe.
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Shinji Ikari walked to Toujou Academy with a slightly sluggish pace to his step. Last night his sword mentor Motoko Aoyama and his genius scientist aunt Washu had come by for a visit and the group had spent most of the night talking about everything and anything.
Most of the conversation was peppered with questions as to how Shinji's first day of school went, and how he had managed to get a fiancée as well. Shinji had actually said that to stun his parents, and it had worked like a charm. Because to be honest, he was still mixed about having a fiancée so early in his life. While it didn't seem like a bad thing, and he liked the affection that she had given him, he realized he was too young for marriage. It was something he would have to talk to her about when next he saw her.
Shinji's story left a lot to be desired, and it took Washu thoroughly examining Shinji's arms to confirm what he said was the truth. Motoko for her part had heard of the Natsume clan and was well aware of some of their traditions, such as the fiancée part where Shinji say the girl naked. She even accepted his reason why that had happened.
He told them about the school, it's rules, the different martial arts clubs, how he happened to join one, his new enemies Bob and Nagi, and the hysterics that Ranma caused during class and after school when he arrived. He didn't tell them about his cousin's curse, keeping his promise to let the boy/girl reveal that in his own time.
His parents were for the most part impressed at Shinji's good use of common sense and analytical thinking of dealing with the amazon Shampoo and his fight with the nearsighted Mousse. Though they were concerned a bit for him that so much had happened to him on his first day. More so in regards to the rules and activities of the Academy itself. They obviously hadn't counted on the most reputed Academy in the country being so... wild.
Even with their reputation for excellent martial arts clubs, this was a little much.
The boy had eventually turned in for the night and was now up and on his way to school for another adventure filled day.
"Shinji!"
The boy looked back to see his cousin, Ranma, running up to him.
"Ranma! Hey!" Shinji smiled at the boy. "Good to see you're a boy again."
"You're telling me." the pigtailed fighter huffed. "I managed to loose Shampoo before I got back to the Tendo training hall. But I'm worried she might know about our being friends with them."
"Hmm. Well, can't worry about that now."
"Why not?"
"For one thing, we're almost to the school, you'll get wrinkles on that pretty face of yours worrying about it so much."
"Ha. Ha. Funny man." his cousin chuckled as he slapped him on the back.
The pair made their way to the entrance of the walled off Academy grounds and Shinji paused when he noticed an attractive young woman with blue-gray hair waiting at the entrance.
"Ah. Fancy meeting you here, newbie." Biko said with a grin.
"Ms Daitokuji." Shinji acknowledged with a bow.
"Call me Biko." she said with a smile.
"Ms Biko. I almost didn't recognize you without your battle suit. Can I help you with something?"
Boy, naive much? "Actually, I've come for a rematch."
"Rematch?" Shinji gasped. Ranma poised himself, not liking the sound of that. "But... why?"
"Why? You have to ask?"
"Actually I do. I didn't beat you, just got in the middle of your fight with Maya. You broke both my arms if you remember."
She nodded her head. "I do remember. Regardless, your interference gave her the time to compose herself and defeat me, and that has pissed me off slightly. I'll deal with her eventually, but for now I decided some payback was in order. For you."
"I'm a little short this week."
"Yeah, under 5 feet." she gibbed.
"4'10", to be precise, but I'm Japanese and 14 years old, so it's better than most."
Biko waved off his attempt at humor. "Please meet my Battlebot."
The ten foot mechanical behemoth suddenly rose up from behind the wall she was standing against and stepped forward to tower over Shinji and Ranma. It was mostly silver and battleship gray with a single large eye on it's head. It had a gattling gun for a right arm and it's left arm was a spiked fist.
"You have got to be kidding me." Ranma gasped.
"Actually, she's not." Shinji said as he handed his backpack to his cousin.
"Just who the hell is this crazy girl?" he asked, accepting it.
"Biko Daitokuji. She's the heir to one of the largest weapons manufacturers on the planet."
"And she wants to fight you?"
"Something like that."
"Isn't this a little unfair?" he asked, indicting the robot.
"Welcome to Toujou Academy."
Just then, Shampoo arrived.
"Now Shampoo have you!" the Amazon shouted to Ranma as she took a fighting stance.
"Can we do this some other time?" the exasperated pigtailed boy asked. Right now he had other problems on his mind.
The Chinese girl looked at him oddly. "Why?"
Ranma pointed at the giant robot.
"What this ugly thing?" she gasped as she backed away a couple steps.
"Something that's after me." Shinji said as he bolted away from the pair, lunging at the robot and diving quickly between its legs. He rolled forward and sprang back to his feet, taking off in a dead run towards the academy itself.
"SHINJI!" Ranma shouted as the robot turned around and gave chase to Shinji.
"It's after me, Ranma! Stay there!" the boy called back.
"Like hell!" the pigtailed boy shouted as he bolted after the robot that was after his cousin.
He very brave. Shampoo thought as the pair ran off.
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"Here he comes." Bob Makihara said to his friend as he pulled back around the corner of the building.
"Finally. We're gonna get the little punk!" Souichiro Nagi grinned as he cracked his knuckles.
"Any second now. Any second." Bob said, hearing Shinji's footsteps getting closer.
"Now!" Nagi shouted as the pair started their lung.
However, before they could even get out from behind the building, a hail of bullets shattered the stone wall they were behind.
On instinct they pulled back to avoid getting their brains splattered all over the school yard.
"What the hell..." Bob gasped as Shinji came barreling around the corner, skidding across the ground and then taking off into a dead run around the building.
Just then, the giant robot turned the corner and continued after him.
"What in..." Nagi gasped.
"... God's name!" Bob finished.
"Where did that thing come from?"
"Must have been following him."
Nagi looked at his friend. "And You Didn't Hear It Coming?" Nagi shouted.
Shinji continued running, but the robot was slowly catching up.
This is just great! Second day of school and I get a crazed robot after me, built by a woman who is pissed at me for interrupting a fight she was in. How can this get any worse?
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Deep beneath the grounds of the Toujou Academy, a creature was traveling along it's chosen path. It's years of searching had nothing to show for it. Still it continued.
Suddenly it paused.
What issss thissss? I ssssensssse a pressssence. Where? Above? Then above I sssshall go.
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Shinji continued running as he suddenly heard the Battlebot open fire with its gattling gun. Worse, he looked ahead and saw a female student with long black hair in the same line of fire as himself.
DAMN IT! Biko's going to get these students killed just to get to me.
Shinji pushed himself harder to get ahead of the Battlebot.
"AAAAHHHH!" the girl shouted as the bullets whizzed around her. "What the hell is that?" she shouted to no one in particular as she suddenly noticed the boy rapidly approaching her. "Huh?"
"Don't move!" the boy shouted as he continued to run.
"Don't whaaaaaaa!" she shouted as he scooped her up in his arms and continued running.
"Hang on!" he said, not caring that the extra weight was slightly slowing him down as the advancing robot continued after him.
"What are you doing?" the girl asked, mildly struggling in the boys grip.
"Trying to get you clear of this!" he shouted as he quickly turned a corner and stopped dead in his tracks. "Here you go." he said as he set her down.
"Uh... thank you." she said, noticing he was rather winded.
"No problem. Excuse me, I've got to go." he said before taking off in the opposite direction.
The Battlebot caught a glimpse of him and gave chase, away from the girls position.
"That's one of Biko's robots, I'm sure of it." she said. And that boy, he saved me.
"Raye!" a female voice shouted as the girl turned to see her tall friend with the ponytail run up to her. "Raye, are you alright? I saw that robot chasing you and... where's the boy who saved you?"
"Come on, Lita, he's in trouble!" the girl said as she grabbed the girls hand and took off after him.
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Maya and Aya were walking back from the forest. Maya was in her 17-year old body and both of them looked a little battle ravaged.
"I can't believe those gombas! Trying to get us in an ambush!" Aya huffed as she held her hand over her chest, covering the exposed area where a sword had opened her shirt, but miraculously hadn't cut into her skin at all.
"Really." Maya groaned as she wiped the blood off her sword. Her mini-skirt and loose-tied shirt had seen better days, but she was good to start with. The two strands of hair on her head, that shot up farther than the rest of her hair and looked like antenna, had amazingly sustained no damage. "It seems that's the only way they can inflict any damage upon us. You do have a change of clothes in your locker, right?"
"Yes." Aya said. Then she smiled. "Unless Shinji's around."
"And then he won't be the only one staring at your exposure." she chuckled.
Sounds of a machine gun caught the girls attention.
"Speaking of Shinji." Maya said as she saw the boy running at full speed with a ten-foot robot on his heels. "Looks like Biko's upset with him."
"SHINJI-KUN!" Aya shouted as she took off after the boy.
"And here we go." she said as she bolted after her sister.
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Shinji suddenly found himself cornered at miniature cul-de-sac as the Battlebot approached him.
"Trapped." Shinji groaned as he turned around. "Fine. Let's get it on!"
The Battlebot leveled it's gun and opened fire, only to have Shinji leap forward and roll under it's large legs. However, instead of trying to run, Shinji staying underfoot, as it were, as the Battlebot tried in vain to aim its gattling gun at the target. However, it's gun arm didn't bend that far down and continued to spew out bullets without coming close to hitting the target.
I was right. Shinji thought as he remained underneath the bot itself. Its not designed to aim down at itself for any reason whatsoever. Now all I have to do is wait until...
Suddenly, the gattling gun stopped firing, a repetitive clicking sound emanating from it.
It's out of ammo. Shinji grinned as he quickly made a break for it.
The Battlebot's sensors detected the running boy and turned around to give chase.
"Well, that's one problem solved." he gasped as he continued to run.
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The girl ran through the school grounds desperately trying to find Shinji.
I can't believe I didn't recognize him yesterday! She mentally scolded herself. I mean hell he saved my life more than once, how could I forget that? I've got to find him! I've got to talk to him! It was bad enough when he had to leave but...
Suddenly she paused as she sighted her target running like wind.
There he is! But why is he...
Then she saw the ten-foot Battlebot that was chasing him.
Oh...my...god!
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Shinji ground to a halt, turning around to face the giant robot as it advanced upon him.
"Let's hope I'm right about this!" he groaned as he bolted towards the robot at top speed.
He was ten feet away from it when he dropped to the ground and slid along it, passing under the robot and then springing up to stand. He spun around and leaped at the Battlebot, jumping up high enough to grab onto its back and hoist himself up to the head. The Battlebot, not having specific sensors, didn't detect Shinji until it had reached its head.
Aunt Washu better have been right about this. Shinji thought as he gripped one of the panels on the Battlebot's neck and ripped it off. He shoved his hand into the casing and pulled out a mess of wire and cables.
The second the Battlebot realized that Shinji was on its back, it started gyrating and shaking to get him tossed off.
Come on! Come on! He mentally screamed as he savagely yanked the wiring out. Sparks shot out of the hole he had made and caused the Battlebot to slow down as its movements become rather jerky.
Shinji leaped off the Battlebot as the mechanoid fell onto it's face.
"Thank god that's over." he said as he noticed several people running up to him.
"Shinji!" "Are you alright?" "Did that thing hurt you?" "What happened?" "How did you beat it?" the gaggle of people assembled around the tired-looking boy.
"I'm fine. I'm not hurt. The robot belongs to Biko Daitokuji. And I just pulled the wires out of its head." Shinji answered, holding some of the wires in his hand.
Gathered around him he noticed his cousin Ranma, the Amazon Shampoo, his fiancée Aya and her sister Maya, the raven-haired girl he saved, a taller ponytailed girl he didn't know and another girl with a ponytail whom he did know.
It can't be. Is that... but his thought was cut off as Aya threw herself at Shinji, planting a huge wet kiss on his cheek.
"Oh, Shinji-kun! I was so worried about you! Are you alright? That nasty robot didn't hurt you did it?" Aya gushed as she glomped him hard.
However, because of the glomp Shinji couldn't really answer.
"You know he might be able to answer better if you let him breath." Maya groaned as everyone watched the boy struggle for air while buried in her bosom.
"Huh? Oh, sorry." Aya said as she loosened up her grip on the poor boy.
"No...(pant).. Problem." Shinji gasped as other students started gathering around them.
Suddenly, the Battlebot's back-up system kicked in. It rose up off the ground and clenched its spiked fist, ready to strike at the group.
Shinji and company spun around to stare at the slowly advancing robot.
"And here we go again." Shinji groaned.
However, the Battlebot never got it's second chance to attack as the entire ground started to shake. Suddenly the ground beneath the Battlebot exploded open as a gigantic creature caught the robot between it's teeth and rocketed fifty feet into the air.
Everyone watched as the gigantic snake-like creature bit the Battlebot in two and tossed it away before lowering its head down towards the group of assembled humans.
The other students had bolted away when the snake had appeared, but Shinji and his friends didn't move.
"What the HELL is that!" Lita shouted.
"It's a giant snake, what do you think it is?"
"You!" the snake suddenly spoke, staring right at Shinji.
"Huh? Me?" the startled boy asked.
"You are... the one... I ssssseek!"
"What are you talking about? For that matter, you can talk?"
"Unimportant. All that mattersssss issss that you are coming with me."
"I don't think so!" Aya shouted as she hugged the boy protectively.
"I do." the snake said as it lunged for Shinji with its open mouth.
The whole group quickly dodged and narrowly avoided the snakes open jaw. It was quicker than they expected and the group was split in half as the giant 95 foot snake swivelled around and turned back to take another shot at Shinji.
Shinji was still wrapped in Aya's arms as they struggled to stand up. The snake lunged at them as the boy suddenly pushed the girl away.
"Aya, move!" Shinji shouted as he pushed her away and jumped into the air with all his might to narrowly avoid the snakes mouth as it passed beneath him. He landed on the snakes back, its forward momentum caused him to roll and tumble across its scaly skin.
"We have to stop that thing!" Maya shouted as she channeled her ki-energy into her sword and leaped at the snake.
"Lita, come on!" Raye shouted as the pair pulled their rather fancy pens out of their pockets and activated them. "MARS TRANSFORMATION!" Raye shouted, instantly surrounded by reddish energy that changed her clothes into a cute red and white sailor fuku with a red mini-skirt and high heels.
"JUPITER TRANSFORMATION!" Lita shouted, herself surrounded in greenish energy that changed her clothes into a form-fitting green and white sailor fuku with a green skirt and ankle-high boots.
Aya grabbed her own sword and leaped at the snake, her ki-energy focused through it to slice at the snakes skin, actually peeling it.
Ranma and Shampoo kept leaping at the giant snake, kicking it as best they could, but unable to make little more than dents in it's skin.
Shinji was riding on the snakes back, slowly climbing towards the head of the creature.
However, the girl who had been searching for Shinji was statue-still.
I have to help him. I have to. But.. How?
The group continued attacking the giant snake and both trying and failing to take it down. Even Raye and Lita's attacks, fire and lightning respectively, were virtually useless.
I... Have... To... HELP! The girl mentally screamed as her entire body suddenly exploded with ki-energy.
Shinji was the only one to notice, especially from his vantage atop the snake.
The girl's school clothes blasted apart, her entire body becoming clad in black and pink skin-tight clothing. A giant boomerang materialized on her back. The grin that spread across her lips threatened to split her face.
"I'm baaaaaack!" she said as she gripped her boomerang and with a mighty toss launched it at the giant snake. "Shinji, look out!" she shouted as the weapon spun wildly through the air and slammed into the snake's head, imbedding itself not ten feet from where Shinji had climbed up.
Everyone paused as the snake suddenly went limp and fell to the ground.
"And here we go." Shinji groaned as he leaped from the snakes head just as it hit the ground. He hit the ground and tumbled until he came to an abrupt stop.
When the dust cleared, everyone cautiously headed towards the head of the giant snake where they found the girl pulling her boomerang out of the snakes head.
Shinji walked right up to her.
"Sango? It is you, isn't it?" he asked.
"Yes, Shinji." she smiled as she shoved the boomerang into the ground and wrapped her arms around the boy. "Oh my god, it's good to see you."
"You too." Shinji said, hugging her back. "But... how did you..."
"How did I what?"
"The last time I saw you, you were back in the Warring States Era with Inuyasha and the others. How did you get here?"
"You know, for a while I didn't know. I have all these memories of everyone before. You, Kagome, Inuyasha, Shippo, Miroku, everyone. I was so confused at how I knew all those people, and where it was that I remembered you from, especially since I figured I'd never met you before coming to this academy. Then suddenly, last night, it came to me. I remembered everything."
"You remembered?" he paused for a second. "Does that mean..."
"Yeah. Somehow I got reincarnated and ended up here, and... honestly that's the only thing I can think of how this happened."
Shinji looked at her in shock. "Reincarnated? But you didn't believe in that stuff!"
"Well, Kagome was Kikyou's reincarnation after she died, you know, for good, so I know it's not impossible. And I'm sure I didn't use that ancient well that Kagome always did."
Wish I could have. It would have been easier than waiting for Aunt Washu to come and pick me up. Shinji thought internally with some sadness, remembering how disappointed he had been when he tried and failed to go through with Kagome herself. He was at least lucky he was able to send a letter with her through the well to his family so they could retrieve him.
"I was going to say, that would have been the only other way you could have gotten here." Shinji said.
"I wish. Up till this point, it's still been her and Inuyasha." Sango said.
"Yeah, how is that guy doing? He ever get that haircut?" the boy joked.
"Not that I know of. And what do you mean 'Guy'? He's still a half-demon you know."
"I've met guys who were less civil than him." he informed her.
"I find that hard to believe."
"Haven't been at this academy long, have you?"
Suddenly, Aya and the others appeared behind the giant snake's head and froze.
"Shinji-kun!" Aya shouted.
"Oh, no." Shinji groaned when he realized he was still wrapped in Sango's arms.
"I'm worried sick about you riding a giant snake, and here I find you in the arms of another woman!" she cried as she pulled Shinji out of Sango's embrace and wrapped her own arms protectively around his body from behind.
"Oh, that's right, you've got a fiancée." Sango giggled.
"Just what are your intentions towards my Shinji-kun?" Aya practically growled.
"Sango's an old friend of mine."
"From where?"
"We met during the Warring States Era." Sango said.
"Huh? But that was like... nearly 600 years ago." Raye said.
"Pretty much."
"How..." Lita asked.
"Long story, not worth going into right now."
"Why's that, cuz?" Ranma asked.
"Because we've got classes to go to."
The group looked at their watches, or those of them that wore watches, and realized they were all late for class. Even so, they all walked back to the Academy's main building.
"But why was that snake after you?" Sango asked.
"You're asking the wrong person." Shinji replied, Aya possessively holding his hand.
"But... it did come after you." Raye stated.
"And I have no idea why." the boy replied.
The group continued to talk about this entire bizarre affair, even as the other students watched with awe at what the group had accomplished. Biko herself was rather put-out at the fact that her Battlebot had been first neutralized by the 'punk kid' as she mentally referred to him as, then destroyed by a giant snake that was apparently after him. She had been close enough to witness both events, but could not have anticipated the outcome.
Who is this boy? She thought with aggravation. And why would that snake have been after him? There is definitely more to this boy than meets the eye.
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Authors Notes:
Hope everyone wasn't bored with this chapter. I tried to make it as fun and entertaining as possible, adding a couple new characters. I also hope that you don't mind, but I'm going to be adding a few more characters before all of this is said and done with.
I have ideas for a couple of them, and they all look promising. Hoping for more romantic/humourous interactions between the group.
As for the giant snake, it's just part of a larger story arc that I'm writing up in regards to Shinji's origins and his true powers.
Please read and review. Extensive reviews welcome.