"Hey, baka!" Asuka screamed. "Come here!"
Shinji sighed as he set down his cello, getting up to see what the Second Child wanted. "Yes Asuka, is there something I can do for you?"
"If there wasn't, why would I call you?" Asuka smirked as she folded her arms. She was in casual attire – a plain shirt and dress.
Good point, Shinji thought. "So what do you want?"
"You're going to be accompanying me to the store – simple! I have to get some new perfume because Misato said KAJI's coming tonight!" She giggled like a little girl.
"But then why don't you go yourself?" Shinji said feebly.
"I don't want any guys to be hitting on me. As much as I'd love to show them how great Asuka Langley Sohryu is, I'm saving all my charm for Kajiii…" She sighed.
Oh great…
Asuka snapped out of her brief daydream. "So YOU'RE going to be acting as my pretend boyfriend. Of course, why I would choose someone as pathetic as you is easy – there's no one else!" She quickly linked arms with him. "So OFF we go!"
It was only now that she realized how tall he had become. Her eyes widened in shock. How could I have not noticed this before?
And as she grabbed his arms… AH! These things are bigger than Kaji's! Her heart pace quickened considerably.
And unfortunately Shinji's super ears picked it up. "Uh Asuka…are we going now?"
Asuka quickly snapped out of her shock. "Y…yeah…let's go Third!" He must've wrapped socks around his arms…yeah! There's no way they could be that big, he's doing this to impress me!
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Asuka dragged Shinji across the city towards their destination, the guy's worst nightmare…
The girl's store!
But thankfully for Shinji, there was a massive roadblock in the way.
"What?" Asuka moaned. "Why are they blocking the road?"
"Sorry, miss, but you can't come through here," The soldier said.
"I'm an Evangelion Pilot!" She screamed. "I demand to be let through here!"
The soldier then told her the clearance she needed to get in.
Asuka growled. "One level above mine…BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN…"
But Shinji was thinking. It's time…
"Uh…Asuka?"
"Yes, baka?" She growled angrily.
"I totally forgot that I left the oven on!" Shinji said frantically. "I've got to get home and turn it off!" And without waiting for an answer, he quickly hurried back.
Asuka smirked. Stupid baka, you're not even going the right way…
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"BURN!" The lunatic screamed as he sprayed them with his flamethrower. Bullets harmless bounced off him as he did. "BURN, BECAUSE THE DEVIL IS HERE!" He cackled insanely as he grabbed his machine gun, letting a loose of shots that killed the burning soldiers.
"We've had enough!" The Chief shouted from a nearby car. "What is it you want?!"
"Simple," the heavily armoured, clad from head to toe in Kevlar and carbon fiber plating man said. "I want you to give me the pilot of the red Evangelion!"
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As the soldier seriously considered whether to shoot Asuka as she screamed and ranted, he got new instructions on his mike.
"Yes...I understand, sir." The soldier turned to the angry redhead. "Are you the pilot of Evangelion Unit-02?"
Asuka grinned. "Of course! It is the best, after all."
The soldier turned. "Come with me, then."
The soldier led Asuka past a bunch of jeeps, several special units and snipers loading up their rifles.
Geez…what's up? It's not like an Angel is attacking.
That's when she saw the lunatic, heavily armoured and several hostages behind him.
Whoa…
The loony saw her. "It's her!" He screamed, taking up his machine gun. "YOU WILL DIE FOR YOUR INCOMPETENT EVA!"
Asuka's eyes widened in shock and fear as her proud self deserted her.
RAT-TAT-TAT-TAT-TAT-TAT-TAT!
"Looks like I made it just in time," The costumed man smiled as the bullets bounced harmlessly off him. He walked towards the lunatic as the bullets simply rebounded off him.
Asuka was stunned. Those bullets are bouncing off him like an AT field! How is this possible?
"Why are you doing this?" The hero asked as he came face to face with the lunatic.
He scurried backwards, away from this caped being. "WHAT ARE YOU?!" He screamed.
"Superman."
"No…no one can deflect bullets like that." He eyed Superman's sleek suit suspiciously. "Your suit must be an advanced version of my armour. Yes…" He aimed his machine gun at Superman's head. "But your head is entirely unprotected!"
As he emptied his gun at Superman's face, the caped hero grinned. "It looks unprotected…but it isn't."
The murderer dropped his machine gun, quickly reverting to his old flamethrower, setting it onto full-power and blasting him, completely engulfing Superman in flames. "Ha ha!" He cackled gleefully. "Whatever you've got, it can't…WHAT?!"
Superman walked through the flames, his suit not even having a scratch on it. "Didn't your mother ever teach you not to play with fire…or guns, for that matter?"
"MY MOTHER'S DEAD!" He wailed. "And it's all because of that…that bitch over there!"
Superman narrowed his eyes as he turned to look at Asuka.
Asuka giggled nervously. His intense look seemed to break through her mental defenses, staring into her very soul. It seemed that she couldn't summon any of her pride or courage just by being stared at by him.
He turned back to the person. "If you fight fire with fire, there will only be more fire. Surrender now or I will be forced to apprehend you."
Growling in anger, the criminal dropped his weapons, deciding to fight the good old way –
His fists.
The soldiers surrounding them were too shocked to move, even though the man had dropped his weapons.
The good old right hook was heavily slowed down by the heavy armour, but it was a sort of double-edged sword as it would increase his damage greatly.
But he was stupid enough to think that if bullets wouldn't hurt him, and then neither would his fist.
CLANG!
"ARGH!" The man gripped his fist in agony as he heard several sickening cracks. The armour on his hand was also heavily dented, crushing his hand bones inside. "What are you?!"
"I told you – I'm Superman," The hero said calmly.
"You may have won this round…" He hissed, "But not the next! You don't know, but there are several bombs hidden inside in the building and foundations! They're already on the countdown now!"
Superman did a quick X-ray scan. "You're lying," He said bluntly.
The criminal stepped back. "But h-how did you know?"
"Give yourself up!" Superman snapped. "NOW!"
The criminal grinned as he pressed a button on his wrist. A sudden beeping sounded.
Superman's eyes went wide. "A self-destruct!"
Immediately, using his super-speed, since he couldn't get to all the hostages behind him in time he settled to grabbing him and chucking him away into the sky.
Although he had incredible strength that would easily put him into orbit, the self-destruct suddenly went off as he went past the roof.
BOOM! The massive explosion sounded, causing the hostages to run away screaming and Superman to quickly hover up, using his heat vision to dissipate the rubble.
However, even he couldn't burn them all quickly enough and a particular large one went flying towards a very familiar redhead.
Superman quickly reacted, super-speeding in front of her and easily holding out his hand to catch the massive chunk of rubble.
The caped crusader turned to the Eva pilot. "Are you alright?"
Asuka finally got a good look at him. He was very powerfully built, his skin-tight silver and black suit showed off his muscles quite nicely and he wasn't too bad-looking either. In fact, with his long dark brown hair and a curl sticking out in front of his forehead, his deep, piercing blue eyes and calm look, he was almost more fetching than Kaji… but also strangely familiar.
Shinji felt his defenses flicker briefly as he faced her, however somehow managed to maintain his calm facade as he spoke. "Don't act stupid in your Evangelion again." With that, he floated upwards, then flew towards the sky at super-speeds, his silver cape streaming behind him.
Who was that guy? Asuka wondered.
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Shinji sighed a breath of relief as he set down on a nearby roof. He smiled as he looked down at his costume.
It was the sleek, cool silver and black plugsuit he had taken earlier. However, his insignia was sewn onto it using a copy of the original S-Shield (A/N: bought from the souvenir shop – Shinji won't steal!). It seamlessly integrated into the costume as it was a silver 'S' with a black background.
His cape was made of a shiny silver fabric he found in the school. They were throwing out old drama props, so he decided to take it in for a better use.
The suit did something strange to him. For some reason, the suit seemed to belong as he put it on for the first time. It felt like he was wearing 12, 000 plates of fortified armour, like in the EVA, even though he knew he could deflect bullets.
In this suit, a new Shinji was revealed, a different persona – Superman.
Overall, he felt like in this suit he was simply invincible, undefeatable by any words, weapons or foe.
Shinji took his clothes lying beside him as he began to put them on.
A/N: Next chapter there will be more characterization – this chapter was just to introduce him as Superman.