DISCLAIMER: I do not own Neon Genesis Evangelion or Full Metal Alchemist. Please Enoy!
CHAPTER 1: What are you?
"Shinji, return to base now! Use route number 24!" Came Misato's voice through the comlink. But Shinji did nothing, his passengers spoke to him asking if he heard the woman on the com, but he paid them no attention. His eyes scanned around the rubble and saw a white bolder, he willed his Eva to pick-up the bolder, tho it was just the size of a small stone compaired to his Eva. His count down timer reached 45 seconds and he leapt out at the Second Angel, it tried to cut him down with it's tenticals but, failed.
Shinji screamed as he jumped his Eva upon it's back and began to draw something on it.
"What in God's name is he doing?!?" Misato yelled at Ritsuko who zoomed in on the Eva and watched as Shinji drew a circle with two upside down triangles in it. Then he drew some characters none of them recognized. "What the hell is that?" Ritsuko asked looking at Miya. Whose eyes widened. "That's spell circle!" She said then her expression shifted to a confused one.
But Shinji didn't care what the chatter was saying on the COM link he just continued his work quickly, 15 seconds to go he tossed the bolder aside and it landed with a thud against a building and cause it to go thru the wall. He slammed his Eva's hands down on the circle and concentrated hard on it.
The circle glowed brightly and then something amazing happened. The Angel screamed and started to change shape. Its features contorted and turned almost human and at that instant Shinji felt like his innards were being pulled out. Then he saw it, the gate. It opened; then he felt like all the knowledge of alchemy fled into his mind and he gasped. The Eva roared feeling and absorbing the knowledge as well. Then the Angel was sucked from the ground and into a portal and disappeared. The gates shut, and Shinji and the Eva were thrown back into reality.
XxX
Shinji awoke with a start. He bolted up, "The Angel!" He looked around and saw only Misato sitting in a chair half asleep. She looked up at him and frowned. "M-Misato?" He quizzed, looking into her eyes. He reached out for her but she pulled away.
"Shinji," she started not sure how to word this, "what are you?"
Shinji suddenly remembered the battle. How he used alchemy to transmute his oppentt into a human form, to bring back the people who he had killed.
"I…" He started, and then decided to tell her, "I'm an Alchemist."
Misato looked at Shinji and stifled a laugh then looked serious at him. "An Alchemist? You mean like the State Alchemists?"
He nodded.
"Okay, so how did this happen?" She asked bluntly.
He decided to tell her how he got into Alchemy. He told his short tale.
Xxxxxx
It was a warm balmy day, and Shinji was on his way back to his Uncle's house after a very excellent band practice. He didn't show it on the outside, but he was happy. He walked slowly and saw a book shop. He entered this book shop and a very old man was asleep on the counter. Shinji closed the door silently and felt as though he was being drawn to the back of the store. Where a book was lying on the floor open showing a transmutation circle.
Xxxxx
Elsewhere, a blond boy and a suit of blue armor made their way on to a jet. The shorter of the two looked up at the suit of armor, "Well Al, looks like all we have to do now is report to Col. Mustang and we can look forward to some R&R!" He said with a smile.
Al looked down at him, "I can't wait to see Winry! I bet she will flip out when she sees us again Ed!"
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"So you stole a book about Alchemy and studied it huh?" Misato asked deadpan looking at him. He nodded seriously.
Xxxx
So it came to be that Shinji was an Alchemist. Everyone who had witnessed it knew now. But, a few weeks have passed and our hero is now an established Alchemist with his best friends Adia and Toji, who he began to teach. But something happened to him that he could not explain and he could now transmute things without a circle.
Shinji could barely remember the gate he had viewed from inside Evangelion Unit 01. It was like a blur. But something seemed to be wrong. He couldn't put his finger on it. It was like something was missing, but his medical check proved otherwise. Everything was, were it was suppose to be, and his vitals were excellent.
XxX
A few weeks have passed since the fight with the Third angel (Shamshel); in this time Shinji has learned much about the Evangelion and how it operates. But, since the angel attack Shinji has not even tested with the Eva. But, today; Shinji was about to have his first sync (short for synchronization) test. He was nervous to say the least.
"There is no reason to believe that there should be any problems." Ritsuko, the blonde haired scientist that headed-up all of NERV's projects explained as they walked toward the Eva cages. Shinji finished affixing his A-10 Neural Clamp to his head with the glue like substance that bonded it to his scale.
"However," She took in a breath as they entered the elevator, "I should warn you that if something does go wrong we will be standing by pull you out."
"Yes, Ritsuko." Shinji said mildly. He looked at the counter on the panel and watched as the numbers clicked down to his destination.
They said nothing as the door opened and Shinji walked out then stopped.
There Rei Ayanami stood in the door way, she turned her head around and regarded him out of the corner of her eye as she walked into the room.
Stupid, you should have said 'Hello!' at least! He berated himself mentally and followed her out the door into the loading area. She went and sat in her control seat and pushed a button on her left control stick that started the crane moving the command chair toward Evangelion Unit 00, its orange frame glistened in the bright light from the cage.
Shinji followed suit and did the same thing. His command chair locked into the Entry Plug smoothly and the hatch closed. Leaving him bathed in dim light. Then, with a lurch the plug began to move, slowly then it started to turn clock-wise and Shinji soon found himself upside down in the plug and then right side up again as it locked into place. He heard the back platting meet then retract closed with a dull thud of metal from somewhere above him. Then the LCL started to fill the Entry Plug. He exhaled all the air in his lungs when it reached his neck and then dived his face into it, took it into his lungs. He started to convulse then his body stopped as he took in lung full after lung full. He calmed down and stretched his entire body to shake the feeling.
He looked at the control panel between his legs and pushed a button bringing the power connection with the Eva on-line. Bright light filled the plug and the communications system activated and he heard Maya speak clearly.
"All systems reading normal. Beginning A-10 neural connections."
Bright flashes of light flood his vision as the plug activated. Then he felt a presence at the back of his mind as the Evangelion's brain became interlinked with his. He then turned his head toward the window where he could see Misato and Ritsuko, looking back up at his Eva. The Eva's head turned and looked at the window as well.
XxX
"Well that is a good sign." Misato commented as she watched the giant purple head look in their direction. "Status!" She barked out to Maya.
"The Pilot is doing fine. No fluctuations in the connection phase. His sync ratio is…" Maya's eyes widened, she blinked twice and spoke again, "Is holding steady at 57 percent."
Ritsuko leaned over her shoulder and cocked an eyebrow. "Well that is unexpected, but not unusual."
She reached for the microphone and spoke into it, "Congratulations Shinji! Your Sync ratio is at 57 percent. I have no idea what you have been doing but excellent work."
XxX
Shinji smiled to himself at the news. He hadn't done anything though. Then Ritsuko's voice came over the speakers again, "Alright Shinji just relax and…"
"I know what to do Ritsuko." Shinji interrupted and closed his eyes clearing his mind and started the sync test.
XxX
An alarm started to sound and Misato sprung into quick action picking up a phone and heard the other end pickup. "Status report!" She almost yelled into the receiver. Lt. Shiguru's voice responded. "We have a Blue Pattern coming in from off the coast. We have it on Satellite tracking now. We have confirmed it as an Angel."
Misato's brows met and she looked at Ritsuko. She nodded and instructed everyone to get to their stations. She typed a few quick commands into the keyboard and Evangelion Unit 01 started to recede into the wall toward its catapult. "Misato, what's going on?" Came Shinji over the com. "Shinji we have picked up an Angel heading this way. It has just reached the Tokyo-3 limit and has entered the city. We are getting ready to launch you to access point D-9."
She looked up at the monitor that showed Shinji and he nodded. "Understood." Came his voice seconds later.
Misato and Ritsuko headed for Terminal Dogma. Arrived only a minuet later as Hyuga Makato said, "Eva Unit 01 is ready for launch."
"Launch!" Shouted Misato as she bounded up behind him.
The ground beneath the Eva sparked, then as if God had slammed Shinji down into his seat as the Eva shot like a bullet from Hell toward the surface.
Mere seconds later a door opened up at ground level and rails shot up not even a second later Eva Unit 01 slammed to a stop and Shinji got his bearings looked at the Angel. It was like a cube turned onto one of its points and floated gracefully above the retracted buildings. But the point that drew his attention was a line of blue started to form on the black as one of the points started to point toward the Eva.
XxX
"Captain!" Maya yelled, "There is a huge energy buildup within the target! The readings are off the scale!"
Ritsuko looked in horror to Misato, "It's an energy beam!"
Misato cursed as she yelled to Shinji, "SHINJI MOVE!"
XxX
He heard her half a second too late as the energy beam lanced through two buildings and into the Eva's chest. Shinji felt like a javelin was trying to drive its way into his chest and the LCL started to boil around him. He let out a loud yell as the beam started to melt the chest armor.
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Authors Notes: Okay this is my first attempt at a fanfic. So R&R are welcome.