Chapter 2: Tokyo-3
2015, Emiya Estate:
"Senpai? Senpai? It's time to get up." Shirou's eyes fluttered open at the voice that had awakened him from his sleep. He had to squint them though, as the morning light was blinding. As his eyes were adjusting, his vision came into contact with the source of the voice. The source appeared to be a violet haired hair that went to her shoulders and held a red ribbon on the left side of her head. Her eyes also held the same color as her hair, a very violet color. The clothing that she appeared to have consisted of a pink cardigan, a white top and long cream-colored skirt. Shirou smiled at the girl.
"Sorry Sakura," he said, "I was up a little late fixing this heater." The girl he was talking to was his former Archery club teammate and his junior, Sakura Matou. And indeed had he been working late. But it wasn't just on the heater. But before he knew it, he fell asleep in the shed which he uses as his little workshop. "Did I keep you waiting?"
The violet haired girl smiled back at him. "No, Fujimura-sensei and I just got here." Shirou had sighed at this.
"Well, we better not keep her waiting. You know how she tends to act when she's hungry."
Sakura giggled at this. In the time she has known Shirou, she has also gotten to know his guardian and self-proclaimed 'big sister'. "I guess we should." They ghad then began their walk from the shed that was located outside the main house and into the dining. And true enough to Sakura's word, there was the 'Tiger of Fuyuki', sitting at the table waiting for breakfast to be served. As they stepped into the room, she turned her to look at them.
She grinned as she saw them. "Shirou there you are! Sakura wouldn't let me eat anything!"
"Fujimura sensei, it would have been rude to have eaten without senpai."
Taiga had just waved her off. "It's fine, as long as we left him some. Right Shirou?"
However, Shirou had just decided to ignore her and head to the kitchen area to help Sakura with the morning's breakfast. "So what have we got here?"
He was then joined by his junior who had donned an apron. "I had just prepared the rice and I was beginning on the miso soup."
Their sensei did not take their ignorance of her very well. "HEY! DON"T IGNORE ME!" They, however, continued to do so, as they continued preparing breakfast. Taiga gave a huff and turned on the TV to the news. A few minutes, to the tiger's never ending pain, Shirou and Sakura had brought to the table today's breakfast. Taiga gleefully served her up a plate and got Sakura to fill her bowl with rice. After getting her servings she clapped her hands. "Thanks for the meal!" With that, she dug in.
Shirou only could smile at this sight. As mind aggravating as the women was, she held a special place in his heart. She was the first person, besides his dad to make him feel so welcomed and loved. He shook his head as he watched her then ask Sakura for more rice. All was peaceful, until...
*Ding Dong*
Shirou blinked as he heard the doorbell ring. He was confused. No one was supposed to be coming over today. Apparently, Taiga and Sakura shared his confusion. They both looked at him with confusion clear in their eyes.
"Hey Shirou," his guardian began to ask him, "Were you expecting someone now?"
He shook his head. "No I wasn't. What about you two?' They both replied with shaken heads. 'Maybe it's Issei,' he thought as he got up to make his way to the door. When he had opened the front door, expecting to see his friend and student council president, he found nothing. He looked around to try and see if anyone was hiding. Shirou had then looked down and noticed something laying there on the mat; a letter. He bent to pick up the letter, and took in the words that were printed onto the front of them.
Emiya Shirou
Fuyuki City
From: Tokyo-3
Shirou just stared at the envelope as he made his way back to the dining room. When he returned he noticed that Taiga was talking with Sakura. Well he didn't see it, because his gaze was still on the letter. However, he could hear them. As he sat down, making his presence known, Taiga had turned to look at and then noticed the letter that held his gaze.
"Hey Shirou," she asked trying to grab his attention. He then looked up at his self-proclaimed 'sister'. "What's with the letter," she asked.
Shirou looked back down at it, as it was still in his hands, and shook his head. 'I don't know Fuji-nee. I just found it on the front porch."
"Do you know who it's from senpai?"
Again, he shook his head. So in wanting to satisfy his curiosity, he opened it up. There appeared to be thing notes in the envelope, so he took out the bigger paper to read it.
Come.
Gendo Ikari, Commander of NERV
Shirou blinked as he read this. 'Gendo Ikari,' he thought to himself. Who the hell was that? And why was he telling him to come. Come to Tokyo-3? But, why? Shirou's thoughts were broken by Taiga's voice.
"Hey Shirou! Hey, are you even listening?"
"Huh," was all he could say. He then regained his surroundings. "Oh, sorry Fuji-nee. What was it you asked?"
This caused her to sigh. "I said, what does it say?"
He then looked back at the note. "It just says, 'come'."
Taiga had face faulted at that. "That's it?" Shirou nodded. "Who'd send something like that?"
Shirou had just shrugged for his answer. He then reread the letter and something drifted into his mind. It was like something was telling him to go to Tokyo-3. He pushed those thoughts aside and then focused in on one question that he needed answered. "Hey Fuji-nee, what's NERV?"
This caused Taiga to cup her chin and close her eyes in thought. "Let's see, NERV, NERV, NERV...!" She then pounded her fist into an open palm. "Now I remember! Gramps had said something about them I think!"
Shirou cocked his head in confusion. "Grandpa did?"
The older woman nodded. "Yep, he said that they were some kind of big organization. They were supposed to be doing some work for the UN I think." Well if Raiga had said it, then it's got to be true then. Shirou had learned over the years that his father's longtime friend had very deep connection and good informants. "I believe he also said something about the guy that runs the place too."
This time Sakura spoke up, intrigued about the current subject. "What did he say?"
Taiga had then tuned towards the younger girl. Her chin was once again cupped as she tried to remember her grandfather's words. "I believe it was something along the lines that he is some kind of horrible monster or something. I don't know much, but all he said to me was that the commander-"
"Gendo Ikari."
Both women had turned to look at the only male in the room. Said male was looking both of them eyes with unreadable face. "Yeah," Taiga had continued, "that' the guy, he was supposed to be said to be heartless and cold, even to high ranking officials." She then stopped a moment to think about something. "Hey Shirou, how'd you know the guy's name any way?" Shirou then handed her the letter that held the very short message on it. Her eyes widened with shocked as she read who had sent the letter. "Wow Shirou, what kind of trouble did you do to warrant a message from the big guy himself?" Even though she said this, it was meant as a joke. But inside she was very worried after reading the letter.
Sakura had then looked at him with worry in her eyes. "Senpai," she started, "you didn't really do something did you?"
It was then Shirou's turn to have his eyes widen with shock. "N-no, Sakura it's not like that! Fuji-nee, don't even make jokes like that!"
Said older woman was busying laughing that all she did was wave him off. "Relax Shirou I didn't mean it like that." She then turned to once again face the violet haired girl. "Don't worry Sakura! I'm sure Shirou isn't in any kind of trouble at all!"
Shirou sighed at the woman's antics. But it was too much unlike her to not do something and embarrass him. Let alone in front of Sakura. He sighed again as his gaze turned upon the envelope once more. He reached over and took the other note that he had left in there out. Inside, he found something much smaller than the note written to from NERV's commander. When he pulled it out from its container, his face went into to total shock from one glance at it. The second item that had been sent to him was a photo of a woman. In the picture, the woman appeared to have purple hair that looked to go past her shoulders and her clothing seemed to consist a yellow tank top and cutoff jeans. On the picture, there was a note written.
To Shirou: I'll be picking you up in Tokyo-3. So, please wait for me, okay?
- Misato Katsuragi
Now this in itself wouldn't be so bad. At least the could help him know what this Misato person looks like. However, luck wanted to screw with Shirou today. There was also another note that had an arrow going off it pointing to her cleavage, which she was most definitely, purposely show off. That note had read:
Pay Attention!
The dark brown haired boy could literally feel his face flushing from reading those words and seeing what it was he was to pay attention to. This blush was not overlooked by the two women he had almost forgotten that he was still in the room with them. "Hey Shirou," Taiga asked with a sly grin etched upon her face, "Whatcha looking at?" She began to move around the table they were all sitting at to get closer to Shirou.
"N-nothing Fuji-nee," Shirou tried to say calmly, but had failed to. It was then that Taiga had made her way next to him.
"Aw come on! I just want to see what you got there." She then reached out to grab the picture from his hand. Shirou had tried to keep the object away from her grasp, but he did not account on the older woman's reflexes that he had forgotten. It was those same reflexes that had caused him to lose so many (all) of their matches against her.
The 'Tiger' had then pulled the picture out of Shirou's grasp, much to young boy's argument, and pulled it so that she could get a good look at the image. The results were not pretty.
One look; that is all it took for the English teacher to cause her body to shake uncontrollably. Her hair had fallen to cover her eyes, and all that anybody could see was a shadow.
"Fujimura-sensei...what's wrong?" Taiga then handed Sakura the photo, and Shirou could only think one thing.
'Dear god, please not Sakura!'
Sakura had then taken the photo from the English teacher's hand to look at what had made her senpai blush like that. It was then, when the violet haired girl set her gaze upon it, her face felt hot. 'Would Senpai have something like this,' she thought as her face increased in temperature. "I didn't know Senpai liked things like this," she said softly, but loud enough so Shirou could hear her.
"Wait n-no! Sakura, it's n-not like that," he tried to defend himself, but the blush on his face was denying his protests.
"Shirou."
The boy had flinched as heard his name. He could swear he saw all the times in his life when he was called in that way. The brown haired boy turned his head slowly and looked up at his guardian. She had turned her entire body to face him and he had noticed the changes in her. Her eyes were still covered by shadows. Behind her was what scared him the most, and he rarely got scared, except with one thing. In the backgroun behind Taiga, a giant tiger head had appeared and was giving a loud and vicious roar.
"SHIROU! WHY DO HAVE A PICTURE OF SOME BIMBO WITH A NOTE LIKE THAT?!" She had then materialized out of nowhere, her most trusted weapon. Shirou had felt his blood run cold as he looked upon this weapon. The weapon that she had a hold of was a shinai, but it was not any normal one, no. This was the very shinai that had caused him so much pain when he was first learning kendo from Taiga. This shnai was a weapon that people had learned to fear after the first encounter with it. This shinai was a weapon that was said to be so frightening, it took twenty men of the Fujimura clan to seal it, only to be releases and tamed by her.
This shinai was the cursed and blood lusting, Tora Shinai.
Shirou had realized that he only had one option Running would be pointless and fighting back is asking to be killed. He had to try and calm her down. "N-now F-fuji-n-nee, hold on a minute-"
"You ain't gonna talk your way out of this one buster!" And then, Shirou flt a pain worse than he had felt before. The pain of angry guardian/sister who was wielding a cursed weapon. It did not feel good at all.
It was then after he had received his beating, or as Taiga called it, "punishment for indecent actions", had Shirou explained that he had only just got the letter and he doesn't even know why it was sent like that. Sakura had apologized for her misunderstanding of the situation, with a light blush crossing her face. Taiga was a little harder to convince, but finally, but reluctantly she had believed him and apologized to him. After breakfast, Sakura had helped him wash the dishes, while Taiga was still at the table watching the news. After the two had finished, they had walked outside to the front gate. Sakura had turned to face him and bowed to him. "Thank you for having me over senpai. And once again, I am sorry for misinterpreting the situation." She was looking really flustered about this to him.
Shirou smiled and patted her head. "Don't worry about it Sakura," he said, "You didn't know and you were right to wonder about it." He then rubbed the back of his head while finding the ground to be very interesting. "Truth be told, I was very surprised myself and wondered about it myself." He then looked her back in the eye. "So again, don't worry about it. It's fine."
Sakura blushed at the boy's word and quickly nodded in response. She then thought about something that should be asked. "What about the attack by Fujimura-sensei with her shinai. Will you be okay?"
Shirou nodded at her while showing her a smile. "Yep, I'll be fine, don't worry about it. So I'll see you tonight."
Sakura attitude changed from one of worry to one of joy. She nodded and smiled at the boy. "Yep, I'll be here senpai."
"Well then," Shirou said, "see you tonight Sakura."
"See you tonight." With those last words, Sakura had then departed for her home. Shirou smiled as he watched the girl leave. His mind then went back down his memory lane. It was only about a year ago when he had bone fracture in his shoulder that was caused by one of his part-time jobs. Because he couldn't do somethings such as cooking or cleaning, the violet girl had come over to help him with those tasks and take care of him while he was injured. Even after he was fully healed, she kept coming over, but he didn't complain. When she came over, it changed his life. Ever since his dad died, he had felt the way he did before then. But when Sakura had come into his life, he could feel his life change. How he wasn't sure though. But it was nice. Shirou then turned around after seeing that his junior was out of sight, and headed back inside. As he made his way back into the house, he saw that Taiga was standing there with a sad look on her face. To Shirou, this was something that was almost nonexistent. He had only seen this face one other time and that was during Kiritsugu's funeral.
"Fuji-nee, is there something you need? Because if it's about the picture, like I said-"
"So are you going?"
That question had caught him off guard and his eyes widened in shock. Taiga had saw this and looked away while rubbing her arms sheepishly. "I mean, are you going. To Tokyo-3. Like that note asked you to?" The boy could tell that his older sister was very uncomfortable with asking the question. And that surprised him. This was Fuji-nee! She was one of the most comfortable feeling people in the world. Only when she was enraged was that rule broken, but still most of time she appeared to have the happy go lucky spirit. Shirou looked at her with a feeling understanding in his eyes, for he knew why she was so uncomfortable with him going to Tokyo-3.
"I'm going."
Taiga had then stopped her arm rubbing and looked back at her ward with a gaped mouth. But then, before she could answer she was cut off.
"But I'm coming back."
This time it was her turn to have her eyes widen from shock. "Then why are you going," she asked. "You don't even know why this Gendo guy sent you that letter or why that woman is going to pick you up?"
"I don't know why," he replied. The 'Tiger' had cocked her head in confusion at his statement.
"You don't know?"
Shirou shook his head. "Well not excatly. It's more of a voice ringing in the back of my head telling me that I need to go." Which was a true fact. The moment he had touched the letter and read the message from the NERV commander, he thought he was hearing something in his head. It was like it was telling him or instructing him to go there and see him.
Her head had titled down a little bit after hearing that. "A voice, a voice," she asked without any emotion traced within her statement. "You are just going off on a voice?"
"Yes, but there is more than just that." She lifted her head to look at him. "You said that NERV was some kind of organization that helps people." She nodded. "I'm going to try and see if I can help them. If I can save people if I go there, then that's what more important to me. More than any voice"
Taiga blinked at him. She then started to chuckle at him. "Well that's Shirou alright; wanting to be a Hero of Justice. Well, I guess it's alright. But you need to promise me one thing." She received a nod as an answer. "Come back safe." The brown haired youth felt his eyes widen once more by his guardian's request. However, she continued what she was saying. "It's just..," she looked down away from Shirou, and resumed her arm rubbing. "Ever since Kiritsugu died, you've been the last true family to me." That sentence couldn't be truer for the woman. Yes she had her parents and her grandpa, and loved them very dearly, but she didn't get to spend that much time with them growing up as she wanted to. Kiritsugu and Shirou had been like the family she always wanted to have. Shirou would always be the younger brother she could never have, and Taiga felt fine because of that. "If you went off somewhere and died, I'd..." Shirou had smiled at this. Fuji-nee was never really subtle in expressing her feelings.
"Fuji-nee."
She looked back up at him.
"I promise."
She looked at him with shock written on her face; a gaped mouth and widened eyes. But that face of shock had turned to one of joy. "Well I'll be holding you to that promise then. So you better not try and skip out." She then walked past Shirou to head for the door, with the boy giving her smile as walked past.
"Don't worry, I won't," was his reply.
"Good," she replied back. She then gave him a big smile before heading out the door. "By the way, I want onigiri for dinner tonight." With those final words, she shut the door closed and began her journey home. Shirou could only smile and shake his head at the older woman's antics.
'Well,' he thought, 'at least she isn't sad anymore.' He then headed back inside to get his daily routines done before he had to head to work.
It was evening when Sakura and Taiga had returned to the Emiya Estate for dinner with him. He had gotten there after them. The boy had picked up someone else's shift that hadn't arrive, so he was a little late getting home. However on the way home something had happened to him. As he was walking up the path that leads to his house, he stopped. This was because he had seen someone standing in front of him. This person appeared to be of at least 10 years of age. Her face was pale by the looks of it; she had snow white hair that only went a little past her shoulders, and red eyes. Her clothing was consisted of a purple coat, that also held an appearance of a dress, as it went past her knees, purple boots, a white scarf, and some kind of purple hat*. He took in her appearance as she stood a ways back in front of him.
She then giggled as she walked forward to move past him. "You better summon a servant real soon Onii-chan. Or else you'll get killed." When she said this, Shirou had felt his blood run cold. HE turned to find her, only to see her gone. He began to wonder what the heck he just saw, but shook it off and resumed his way home.
He got yelled at by Taiga for getting back home later than usual. He sighed though. Better just take it argue with her. When they had finished dinner (one that Sakura had prepared as Shirou was late to get home, and she arrived first), he told her about his plans to go to Tokyo-3 tomorrow. She had been even less-enthusiastic about the plan than Taiga had. To reassure the girl, he had told her that she could call him on his cell, as she had his number, and that he would most likely be back in a day. Her expression had brightened up at that. After the two had left, Shirou was left alone within the estate. 'Well,' he thought, 'might as well try to work on reinforcement while I still got time.' Shirou then headed for the outdoor shed located in the backyard. When he reached it, he stepped inside and closed the door behind him. He then closed his eyes and breathed in and out. He tried to empty his empty his mind so that he could focus on creating the magic circuits within his body.
"Trace on."
When he said those words, it felt as if a huge hot iron rod was slowly being inserted into his spine. Shirou had struggled to maintain the connection, as he let out heavy, painful grunts. After many seconds had passed - he couldn't tell how many - he had finished creating the artificial magic circuits.
Shirou then bent down and picked up a metal pipe.
"Trace on." His circuits activated, mana flowed through them.
"Basic structure, established. Components, determined. Basic structure, altered."
The pipe began to have mana flow through it.
"Components, reinfor - ahh!"
His circuits disappeared, and with it the mana Shirou was using. His grip on the pipe failed and said pipe had fallen to the ground, letting out a clatter. He then doubled over, gasping for breath.
'I failed again,' he thought. This had been a reoccurring process for the past few years since Kiritsugu had passed away. Ever since then, Shirou had continued to practice the few types of magic taught to him. However, he could not learn how to properly reinforce an item. He could grasp their structural analyze very well, but that was it. But that would not discourage him. If he was to become the hero his father had dreamed to become, he had to get better as a magus.
Unfortunately, tonight would not be the time. As he wiped the sweat from his brow, he opened the shed door, with intent on heading to his room to get some rest. He was heading to the biggest city in all of Japan tomorrow and he had no idea what was going to happen. 'Better to get some rest so I'll be prepared,' he thought.
But as he headed out the shed door, he had failed to notice a carving on the floor that was giving off a dim blue light.
Tohsaka Manor, Fuyuki City, The Next Day:
"We are sorry for the inconvenience but all channels, for emergency reasons, must be switched to an emergency broadcast report. We are again, sorry, for any problems."
"That's the fifth one," yelled an angry Rin Tohsaka. The teenage girl had an appearance of twin tailed black hair and aqua colored eyes. The clothing she had chosen for herself was a red turtleneck, a black skirt, and knee high black socks. It was little doubt that the 17 year old was beautiful. She was an idol student at her shool. But that was merely just the appearance she portrayed to everybody; an ideal student who had good looks and gets good grades. In reality, she was loud, stingy, shrewd, and very bossy (if a certain someone could testify for that). After all she was the current head of the Tohsaka family, so she needed to put up that front to everybody. She was however, at the moment, growing rather frustrated with the TV. She had tried to watch the news, but all that had come up was the same, damn, stupid, message that was just played. "What the heck is causing this happen?"
"Perhaps it is in relation to the message that told everybody in Fuyuki to remain inside their homes?"
She turned to look at the source of the voice. Her gaze met the servant she had summoned. As a magus and the current head, it was only appreciate that she participates in the 60 year annual war, the Holy Grail War. She had performed the summoning a few days ago, using the knife that was left behind to her from her father as the catalyst. She was hoping to get a servant of the Saber class, but life had to just mess around with her. Instead she got this, a amnesiac Archer. She re took in his appearance as she had when she first met him. He stood a lot taller than her, with white hair that was slicked back and tanned skin. His clothing was a red jacket that split at the waist, a black under armor, and black boots. She wouldn't have minded the servant that much, if it wasn't for that cynical attitude of his that was getting on her nerves.
When she first met him, he had acted so sarcastically to her. He even had the gall to deny that she was a proper master for him. It took one of her command seals to just get him to obey her. Afterword he showed respect towards her and had acknowledged her as his master.
The twin tailed girl allowed a scowl to form on her as she looked him. "I'm not dumb Archer," she said. Rin then turned back to face the TV. "Of course it has something to do with us being told to remain indoors or in shelters. It's because something is going on that city." That last part was said more like a whisper though. She thought about the name as if it was poison, 'Tokyo-3.' She faced her servant again. "Archer, you wouldn't perhaps be able to know exactly what is going on do you?"
Said Archer shook his head in response. "Unfortunately, no. The grail has not provided me on any information that would be able to help us find out the situation."
"Great," she murmured as she allowed herself to fall back into the chair she was seated in.
"Would at least like some tea then Rin, to pass the time?"
"Yes Archer that would be fine."
The Servant of the Bow gave a nod and turned to head to the kitchen to prepare the tea. But on his way there, his thoughts were elsewhere. 'So it begins again. I don't exactly remember when they struck, but I remember what that they were like.' He then stopped as he was near a window. He looked out of said window, with a serious expression etched onto his face. 'Let's see just how well you do then.'
(At that same moment):
"I'm sorry but the number you have dialed is currently not in service due to the current state of emergency. Please head for the nearest shelter or your district supervisor."
Shirou looked at the pay phone that was in his hand, before being overcome by a sigh. He hung up the phone. 'Well this is great,' he thought. It was not a great day for him so far. When he had got up that morning, he only allowed himself a small breakfast; a glass of milk and a piece of toast. He then headed to the train station for a ride to Tokyo-3. Luckily it was only a 10 to 20 minute ride there, so he did not have to wait very long. However, when he got off the train at the station, he was greeted by one thing; nothing. No one was at the station, nor were there anybody around the city. He expected there to at least be someone around. But nope, he was alone. He then soon found this payphone and decided to call the number on the letter he had to contact them to see if they would pick him up. All he got was that recorded voice message.
Shirou then looked around him. "Well," he said to himself, "might as well try and find a shelter." He was about to move from his spot, when he notice something.
It was a young girl, who looked younger than him. What he noticed most was that her skin was about as pale, if not paler than the girl he saw last night, and she had almost the same color eyes: red. However she had blue hair that didn't even reach her shoulders.
"Someone's around," he said, "Hey! Do you need help finding a shelter or something?"
It was then, when a vehicle moved in front of his line of sight, the girl had disappeared. Literally disappeared.
"Was she real?"
He then heard a loud noise that sounded as if it was above him. He looked up to see a military aircraft zoom past him. He looked at that path that it was headed on and his eyes widened from the shock. In front of him, standing far away from him, was some kind of giant monster. The beast was as large as the buildings around it. It had a very lanky form and was exaggerated in its proportions. Its face also appeared to be on its torso. All in all, with the planes flying around it shooting and failing to damage it, it was like something out of a giant monster movie.
Shirou was stunned by the beast and was at a loss for words. "W-what is that-?"
He was cut off as he saw a blue sports car of sorts speed towards him. He put up his arms as if he was trying to block it from hitting him, but it was needless action. The car skidded to a stop and it's side was facing the brown haired youth. Its passenger side door opened towards him to reveal its driver. The same woman from the photo he received.
"You Shirou?!" He nodded on pure instinct. "Great, get in." He didn't know what was driving him, but after she said those words to him, he dove into the car and closed the door behind him. The woman slammed her foot down on the accelerator, and put the pedal to the metal. She had to however swerve to avoid debris and other things that were falling to avoid her car from getting wrecked. Shirou barely had enough time to get his seatbelt on, so he was literally holding on for his dear life as the purple haired woman drove frantically to get away from the large monster and the destruction it caused. As they were driving, she began to converse with him. "So you're Shirou?" The boy nodded at her question. The woman driving smiled at his answer. "Great, nice to meet you. Name's Misato Katsugari! Hope I wasn't late!"
Despite the situation, the boy allowed a small laugh. "Well you cut it pretty close there." They continued to drive until they were out in some kind of desert. The woman, now identified as Misato looked over Shirou through his window with binoculars to survey the scene. What she found startled her.
"No way," She said worriedly, "There gonna use a N2 bomb here?!"
'N2,' Shirou thought. 'Aren't those for extreme situations?' He then thought back to the monster in the city. 'You'd have to be crazy to not consider it.'
Suddenly, his whole body was pushed down by the older woman. "Get down!" The next thing he knew, he felt as is the car was sent flying by a strong gust of wind. When it finally stopped moving and settled down, he groaned from the experience. "Ugh," the woman moaned. "You OK?"
"I should be asking you that," replied back.
"Well I guess I'm fine," she said, "But the same could not probably be said about my car however." Shirou rolled his eyes. The two then proceeded to crawl out of the car. With the combined effort of the two, they then had managed to flip the car back onto its wheels. "Thanks Shirou," Misato said to the boy. "You know you're really useful."
His replied to her with a smile. "Thank you Katsugari-san, I try to be whenever I can."
"Oh just call me Misato." She then proceeded to take a better look at her car and the results were not pretty. "AHHH! No, my car," she yelled, "I just got it repaired too!" She then looked down at her clothes. "No, I just bought these two!" Shirou had to allow himself an eye roll. They just almost died, and she's worried about her car.
"If you want I can try to see if there is anything wrong with it." She looked at him doubtfully. "Don't worry, I fixed one or two cars and have repaired my landlord's motorcycle." Misato sighed and nodded at him to go to work. He then went to the front of the car and popped the hood. He then closed his eyes.
"Trace on."
He then began to use analyze the car see if he could find out if anything was broken. He wasn't called the 'Fake Janitor' of his school for nothing. When he had deduced the problem he opened his eyes and closed the hood. "It's an electrical problem," he said. "It's going to need some sort of source of electricity or a jump start to get it running again."
"A jump start, eh?" It was then that Shirou could swear he saw a smile that scarily resembled a plotting Taiga.
Later:
"We're lost aren't we?"
Misatao turned to glare at the young boy behind. "We are not lost," she replied, "It's just...this is a large building that's all."
Shirou sighed. In the past few minutes since knowing the older woman, he could feel a headache coming on. He still felt sick from her driving. He swear she was some kind of relative of Taiga. No one woman could cause as much grief as she could. They kept walking until they reached an elevator. When it opened, it revealed a blonde haired woman. Misato looked nervous when she saw the new female.
"Uh," the purple haired woman said, "hey Rits."
The blonde shook her head. "Captain Misato, we are in an emergency crisis. How much more of my time do you plan to waste?" She then looked down at him. "So this is him, huh?"
Misato nodded. "Yep, he is Shirou Emiya, the Third Child according to the Marduk Institute."
'Third Child? Marduk Institute? What are they talking about?' His thoughts were broken as he was greeted properly by the blonde female.
"Hello Shirou," she said, "my name is Dr. Ritsuko Akagi."
Shirou bowed to her and replied back with, "Hello. My name is Shirou Emiya."
The blonde smiled at his response. "He has good manners at least." Just then the elevator stopped. All three occupants stepped out and Ritsuko lead them into a dark area.
"Hey, can someone turn on the lights," he asked. Then, the lights flashed on revealing a giant head. Shirou's eyes widened at the sight of the behemoth. He then took in its full appearance. It had the look of a samurai helmet except it was colored purple. He then noticed that there was more to it than just the head. It also seemed to have a body too. "A robot?!" He then opened up the book that was given to him by Misato back on their way here.
"You won't find anything in there about this."
"Well why wouldn't be in here," he asked very curiously.
She continued on and ignored his question. "This is the Ultimate All-Purpose Humanoid Decisive Battle Weapon. Or the Evangelion. This is Humanity's last hope." She seemed to have said that last part with a load of great pride in her voice.
Shirou once again took in the appearance of the robot or the Evangelion. "So this is what you guys have been working on?"
"Correct."
Shirou looked up to see the source of the loud booming voice. It looked to be a man that was wearing some kind of official looking uniform. He could also see that the man was wearing sunglasses of the sorts. Shirou allowed his mouth to gape at the man. From his perspective, it was if that man was some kind of god looking down at its subjects.
"It's been a long time."
He didn't know why, but as he heard those words, Shirou could swear that he could hear some kind of second voice speaking to him. But he pushed that out of the way to speak his current thoughts. "A long time?"
The man's gaze then seemed to have shifted to Misato. "We're moving out."
Misato looked surprised at this. "Wait a minute, but we don't even have a pilot."
Ritsuko seemed to answer her confusion. "One just arrived."
The purple hair woman's eyes widened as she looked from the blonde to Shirou, whose face had confusion written all over it. "You don't mean..."
"Shirou Emiya." Shirou then looked back up at the man, who could guess was the commander. "No, Shinji Ikari, you will pilot the Evangelion."
"Shinji? Ikari," Misato asked. Wasn't this kid supposed to be named Shirou? What's with this Shinji bit? The only one between the three people on the walkway below the commander that didn't look surprised was the doctor.
"Um," the brown haired boy said. "I think you have the wrong person. My name isn't Shinji, it's Shirou. And I think something I need to know is, who are you and how do you know who I am? What's going on? What was that thing?"
If Gendo Ikari was surprised, he certainly didn't show it. Of course, he never really showed any emotion. At that moment, the whole building shook. The occupants within said building, besides him, looked worried.
"It has found us," the older male said, "I don't have any more time to waste on this amnesiac business." He then turned to a control panel and hit a button. "Fuyutsuki."
The older gentleman's face appeared on the screen. "Yes, commander?"
"Wake up Rei."
"Are you sure she can pilot?"
"She's not dead yet." The screen then turned back and only allowed audio through it. "Rei, our spare is useless. You will do it again."
A soft and painful 'yes' could be heard. It was then Shirou heard a sound that was increasing in volume. He turned his head to see a stretcher being wheeled towards them. As the object passed him, he caught a glance at the person on the stretcher. It was a pale skinned girl with blue hair and red eyes. It was the same girl he had seen earlier. The only difference is was that she was cover in bandages and she looked extremely injured. The stretcher was then stopped a few feet away from him. The girl had then tried to, but was failing to stand herself up. She then collapsed after her failed attempt. Shirou then ran towards her.
"Hey," he cried, "are you okay?" He then reached her side and cradled her in his arms. However she flinched at his touch, which only caused her to strain from the pain in her body. But, before anyone could do or say anything, another small earthquake happened. This one however caused a steel beam to fall; right on course for Shirou and the injured girl. Acting on instinct, the boy brought the girl close to him and hunched over to try and cover her from the incoming blow. He closed his eyes, waiting for the impact, but all he heard was a loud clang. He opened one eye to look up, and saw that the Evangelion had raised an arm over the two teens, thereby protecting them.
Ritsuko looked completely stunned at what had happened before her. "The Eva…broke free of its restraints...no...it moved...without a pilot?"
Shirou then looked back at the girl, to still see that was writhing in pain. It was then that Shirou felt something. It was like 10 years ago. Where he had lived. Where he couldn't save any one. Where he survived while others had died. 'Not this time,' he thought. "I'll do it," yelled passionately. "I'll pilot this thing. I'll fight that monster. Just don't make her do it!"
Gendo just looked at the boy, before turning around and walking away. One thought drifted in his mind. 'Is the scenario still safe?'
A/N: Hey paysno's! It's the super RoboVolcano4 super fanfic! OK that was stupid. But anyway we're back with chapter two. And within one week?! I shock myself sometimes. But I'd like to thank everybody who has read the story so far. Over 1000 views in one week. 55 followers, 30 favorites and 18 reviews. What the hell?! That is the most I have ever gotten in a fanfic, much less one chapter. Also, fun fact, this is the longest chapter I have ever written for my stories. But back to the point. The fact that so many people are following this story makes me so happy. It shows how much confidence you guys have in me. With that I thank you. Now I know you guys want to see the angel battle, but I don't think I could have fit it in here. But I hoped you enjoyed this chapter. I think this fanfic is going to be one crazy train. So I await you all in the next chapter!
Guest: Yep, and don't worry, his hero of justice dream is still going strong. You'll have to wait though to see how structural analyze works on the EVA.
pataponvideo: Yep, this is also why I chose Shirou. It will make him a lot harder for Gendo to control him. Whether it be good or bad, you'll just have to wait.
Reviewer: Yeah, I do too. That's the problem with most F/SN fanfics or crossovers; they don't exactly manage to capture his PTSD very well. I hope I can accomplish this task or die trying.
Next Chapter:
First Battle and The War for the Grail begins:
"How do you control this thing?"
"Shirou!"
"I refuse...I refuse to die!"
"I ask of you, are you my Master?"