Chapter Interlude
A/N: So there have been several requests/demands for a look into how "Shinji B" is doing in "Universe A." I was planning on writing his story after I finished this one, but I decided to write a preview. I'm not setting anything in stone, but I'm thinking of making this interlude the first chapter in Shinji B's story.
I don't own Evangelion, any of the characters associated with it, and intend to make no profit/gain from this story
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Asuka Langley Soyru was thinking bad things about Shinji Ikari that would make a sailor blush. He had just stood up to her, an action so unlike him. It had all started when Shinji's sync ratio had surpassed Asuka's own. This sudden "growing of a pair" by Shinji was confusing Asuka, she didn't know whether she liked this attitude change in him or not. She often wondered what Shinji would be like if he had total confidence.
She was told to back Shinji up but a snag in her umbilical cable was slowing her down. She heard Shinji mutter, "Are you there, Ayanami, Asuka?"
"Of course I'm not there yet; you know an Eva can't move that fast!" She glared at Unit 01 as she replaced umbilical cables, which would allow her to reach the position assigned to her by Misato. But before she could finish attaching her new power source she heard shots firing.
Immediately, out of the corner of her eye, Asuka noticed the Angel disappear. She looked to where it should have been but her attention was snapped back by Misato's voice over the radio, "Shinji under you! Get out of there!"
Asuka gasped, a rare occurrence for her. But the sight before her warranted it; Eva Unit 01 was sinking into the ground. She heard Shinji scream, "Wha, what the? A shadow!" before starting to shoot at the Angel and flail like a wounded gazelle. The depleted uranium alloy shells had no effect on the shadow and Shinji continued to shout for help, "What the hell is this? This can't be happening!"
Asuka pushed the controls forward to initiate a sprint from her Eva. She shouted at Shinji hoping he would get out on his own, "Ikari! Get your ass in gear!" She continued in her head, "What's the point of getting A's on tests but failing in the real world?"
Shinji continued to scream in terror, heard over the radio by Asuka. She wasn't even halfway to him when an even more disturbing sound met her ears; silence. She stopped her Eva as she observed the purple hand of Unit 01 disappear from sight. Her breath shortened as the realization that she might never see Shinji again crossed her mind. It was a miracle she heard Dr Akagi tell her, "Asuka, watch the street!"
She looked down in horror as the ground blackened. Asuka's quick reflexes from the years of training she underwent prompted her to jump onto the building next to her. Using her progressive axe and knife, she climbed to the top of the building. The sight before her was breathtaking; the entire city was sinking into the ground like it was quicksand. She heard Misato give the order to retreat but before she could refuse the building she was standing on shuttered as it stopped sinking.
The entire city had stopped sinking. Asuka maneuvered her Eva to look over the edge of her building. The shadow was gone. "What's going on? Where's the Ange…"
Asuka was interrupted by the NERV tech Hyuga shouting over the radio, "I'm detecting a pattern blue, the Angel is above the city!"
Asuka looked up to what looked like a gigantic black disc floating half a mile in the sky. The Angel hung there motionless for several seconds before it rippled. It contorted and twisted and it let out a loud screech. Then something hard to make out fell out before the Angel disappeared. With the Angel gone, it was clear to Asuka that the object falling at an alarming rate was Unit 01. Asuka watched the purple Eva as it impacted the ground feet first, a loud scream coming from its cockpit, "God Dammit to Hell!!!! That hurt!"
Over the intercom Asuka heard Misato ask, "Shinji are you okay?"
Immediately anyone with an ear piece installed that was listening was deafened by the response, "WHAT THE HELL KIND OF QUESTION IS THAT!! I just fell from the God damn sky you moron, of course I'm not okay." GET A MED TEAM OVER HERE NOW!!!"
Asuka was stunned. She was unprepared for the verbal onslaught brought by Shinji and even though it wasn't directed at her, she actually shrunk back into her seat. What had gotten into Shinji? Asuka was lost in her thoughts and was only brought back to reality by the voice of Misato coming through on the radio, "Asuka, Asuka… Asuka!"
"Oh… what is it Misato?"
"Asuka, with the damage to the city as extensive as it is, we won't be able to recover Shinji on the surface, so you'll need to move his Eva to an elevator. Oh and be gentle, I think the pain from his injuries is affectinghim somehow."
"Roger Misato, will do." Asuka began to maneuver her Eva towards Shinji's, which started with getting off the building she was perched atop. "That idiot Shinji better not give me any attitude just because he's hurt," Asuka thought to herself as she approached Unit 01, "or he'll regret it in the worst way."
"Hey Asuka, what's going on, where's that damn med team?" Shinji asked over the Eva to Eva line. Asuka was taken aback, it wasn't natural for Shinji to initiate a conversation and the tone in his voice seemed different. It radiated confidence.
"Hey Asuka, are you deaf, what taking them so long?" Shinji asked, more demandingly this time.
"There's too much damage to the surface of the city for a team to reach you, so I have to move your Eva to an elevator."
"Okay Asuka, but be careful, I think my legs are broken."
"How can he sound so reserved with his legs broken?" Asuka thought to her self as she steered her Eva so she could grab under Unit 01's arms, to drag him. She began to do so in silence, moving slowly not only because she was trying to be sensitive to Shinji's injuries, but the mech she hauling was 100's of tons. She momentarily lost her footing and in doing so jerked Unit 01.
"Hey watch it bitch! That hurt." Shinji's indignant expression changed to one of confusion on the screen as Asuka gave him a look that could kill. She jerked Unit 01 again, this time never losing her balance. "Ow, stop it, that hurts you idiot!" Again another jerk, "Stop it you stupid bitch, that fucking hurts!"
Another jerk, "Demon!"
Another jerk, "Slut!"
A kick to Unit 01's legs… and nothing. Shinji didn't respond this time, and from the view screen it appeared that he had passed out from the pain.
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A/N: So that's it, a look at the Eva-verse we know and love at the same time Chapter 1 is going on. A short one at that, but I didn't want to write a long chapter, that's going to happen when I write Quantum Genesis Evangelion: Universe A. So read, review and peace!