Evangelion Rewrite: Chapter 3 The Third Angel
'Getting stuffed into a giant purple robot isn't so bad, being made to fight a monster isn't going to be the worst part of the week. But what's pissing me off the most are those people out there telling me to behave.' Shinji thought this to him whilst sitting in a sea of LCL. "Misato! Ritsuko! The offer for one of you two to come in here still stands!" Shinji yelled to them. "It doesn't work like that Shinji, you're the only one who can pilot this thing." Misato said to him through her microphone.
"Well tell the people who built this thing that they're idiots for making me the only guy who can pilot it. Did nobody think that, that would be a huge design flaw?" Shinji's words found no reply and instead they shot him through a high tech elevator system. The Eva flew up at a rapid speed with static flying out in all directions. 'Sure make a purple robot that can save the world, make it so only a teenager can pilot it, make it so it fills up with LCL in order for it to work, even though I saw it moving a while ago without me even in the damn thing. Great fucking planning tech guys!'
The Eva slowed down and the ground above it opened up allowing Shinji to face the nightmarish creature. Darkness was Shinji's first opinion of it, it looked like darkness and death to him. So he breathed in deep and asked "Hey, what do you guys call this thing anyway?" The three people who worked at the Evangelion control room looked at each other before the girl on the far right of the two male techies looked up at Ritsuko and she nodded. "We call it, the Third Angel." She told Shinji.
"Oh, you have a cute voice, that will make things more pleasant, thanks for the info." He replied and the tech girl not sure how to react just blushed fifty shades of pink before pulling a stern and focused face again. "Shinji, confront the Angel." Misato said trying to pull things back into focus.
"Alright, alright just let me get used to this thing first. It feels as stable as a toddler's first walk in here." Shinji's reply made Misato grit her teeth, but Ikari Senior showed no emotion.
After quickly rotating the Eva's arms, Shinji started walking backwards, at one point he had to grip onto a nearby building for balance after nearly falling over, shattering the glass. In the meantime the Angel had been circling the area but now it seemed to lock on to something. Which was good timing for Shinji. "Alright I think I'm more stable now." He told them.
"Very well Shinji, engage the Angel with your Eva." A grey haired, older man said to Shinji from Gendo Ikari's right. Shinji nodded again and stretching out the Eva's arm he shouted "Hey Angel! How about we make a truce and then afterwards I'll help you go stomp on Gendo Ikari!" The Angel remained unaware of the Eva's presence and continued marching towards the Nerv compound that it had now locked on to. "Shinji this is no time to mess around." Exclaimed Misato "Even if it could hear you it wouldn't want to form a truce!"
"Does that mean you tried making a truce before?" Shinji asked Misato.
Misato clenched his fists and opened her mouth to yell but Shinji had already started moving the Eva at rapid speed. The sudden motion notified the Angel, which turned to face Shinji. 'Good boy' Shinji thought and just before moving into reach of the Angel's arms, he dug the Eva's feet into the ground and kicked up a lot of dirt and rubble into the Angel's path. The Angel then fired an explosive beam at Shinji but missed completely and was greeted by the Eva's fist slamming into it's head, knocking it into building where it fell into the ground. Shinji meanwhile gasped in surprise, he felt that punch in his own hand. "Hey!" He called out, "why did I just feel what my Eva just felt?" One of the techies wearing glasses checked his screen and then answered. "You've synched in with your Eva, Shinji, at an abnormally high level for your first piloting. So you're going to feel the same things that your Eva feels." Shinji grimaced at first, but then he smiled.
"That's perfect, thanks man." After he said this, the man with the glasses looked up with a face of sheer surprise. "But you'll feel the pain that your Eva feels." He told Shinji and Shinji replied immediately.
"Exactly." He said and raised his hands high into the air and brought them down with a clubbing motion directly into the Angel's back, smacking it back down on the floor after it tried to get up. 'The Eva's arms are now my arms. I'll fight with it, not behind it.' He thought and started stomping on the Angel without mercy. His face completely blank and devoid of emotion. But without warning, the Angel sent a blast that knocked Shinji flying into a building. Gritting his teeth, he got back up again and ran towards the Angel. But it had gotten up first and stretched out it's arm, like elastic, towards the Eva's neck. Forcing him into another building in a strangle hold. Shinji had now lost his control and he grabbed hold of the Angel's chocking arm and started punching it madly. "I'll kill you!" He screamed. "I'll kill you, I'll kill you, I'll kill you!"
Waking up, Shinji first saw the white ceiling and then the white room and then the white cloth that he was wearing. "Heaven never looked so pointless." Shinji muttered and decided to go back to sleep. Enjoying this moment of blissful peace.
The doctors who woke Shinji up earned themselves a hearty "fuck off" and Shinji rolling to face away from them. But they kept insisting that he'd come with them, so eventually he complied. Several tests later, Shinji was swearing foully at anybody who got too close to him. So they gave him his clothes and left him alone. He unfolded his clothes and studied what was in reality, the last things he owned in his life. Until the picture of Misato fell out. He smiled and gave it a look, wondering why she looked so naturally cheerful and then folded in back in his trousers after putting his clothes on.
Leaving the hospital ward, Shinji was greeted by Misato who had just arrived. But he ignored her and walked on. Until he found a clean looking corner and sat leaning against it. "What are you doing Shinji?" She asked him quietly.
"I'm waiting for the next Angel attack or when I'm next in arm's reach of my father's throat." He answered coldly. Misato clearly looked confused by his response and asked "why would you want to wait around doing nothing?" Not even looking up at her, Shinji just answered in the same cold tone "It's better than what I did before." Getting annoyed Misato asked "and what did you do before, when nobody needed you?" Shinji just answered with
"I did anything I could to stay alive, no questions asked, any dirty job was fine with me."
"So as I was saying." Misato interrupted an angry Ritsuko with. "I'm going to look after Shinji on allow him to stay with me at my place."
"Absolutely not." Ritsuko fumed down the telephone. "Not only is he an aggressive and uncontrollable person, he's still a child and having a young boy in your home would be bad on your record." Misato choose her next words carefully.
"I got permission for it and I can't leave him on his own. He's the way he is now because he was all on his own before now." Ritsuko's sigh sounded out from the telephone like a gust of wind. "Fine" she said "but you're his guardian, so make sure to remember that."
"You didn't seem to be very impressed with Tokyo-3" Misato remarked to Shinji, who was carrying the shopping that they had picked up on the way to Misato's home. "They'll make a better Tokyo eventually and then a better one after that." He said without much thought and Misato chuckled. "Yeah, I suppose that's true." she said. "Alright this is it, I've only just moved in myself. So it's messy but only a little bit." Misato smiled as she said this and swiped a card down the middle of an electronic lock causing the door to slide open. "Okay you can come in Shin-" Misato stopped midsentence when she saw Shinji already making his way into the house. "Shinji." She called out to him. "Yes?" He asked, not knowing that he had done anything wrong. "You're supposed to wait for me to let you in."
"But you opened the door." Shinji replied to Misato. Misato put one hand against the door frame for support. 'Of course, he won't know that's he in the wrong will he? I didn't expect that I'd have to teach him though.' She thought and then decided not to say anything for now and looked up again to see that Shinji was even further in the house.
Upon entering Misato saw that Shinji was already busy cleaning the place and removing rubbish. "Hey now, you don't have to do me any favours." She said to him.
"I'm not." He replied "this place looks more like a hole where rats go to die. It's unfit for humans." Misato was no longer surprised by his bluntness. "Never mind this now. There's some food in the fridge, can you cook something to eat?" She asked him nicely. Shinji nodded and dropped the rubbish he had in his hands on the floor and went to check the fridge. Misato looked at the mess that was on the floor 'there's one tracked minds and then there's this kid. I'll have to make a note of that.'
After getting into more casual ware Misato saw that the entire room had been cleaned, with all of the rubbish inside of bin bags lined up against the wall adjacent to the apartment door. Shinji himself was cooking in a pot, with a beer in his hand. "Hey now Shinji, I can't let you drink anything alcoholic." Shinji looked up at Misato after she said this and gently threw the beer can at her, she caught it and discovered that it was already empty. "I'm cooking at the moment, so you'll need to put that in the bin." He said to her naturally and without pause for thought. "Shinji?"
"What's up?" He replied to Misato, waiting for an answer without looking away from his present duties. "Nobody does anything for you, if you never ask them nicely you know." She told him sternly, waiting for his reply and was disappointed when he said "I did ask nicely, dinner will be ready soon." 'There's no helping him she thought' and got a beer to sit down with.
"Ah~hah!" Misato cried out after chugging down half a can of beer.
"Are you sure you can handle beer if you act like that after every mouthful?" Shinji asked her. She smiled gleefully and said "do you think you could do better, Shinji?"
"Well I know I don't act like that after having something to drink." He told her and started eating. "Lighten up Shinji, no girl will ever want you if you keep being this unapproachable." Misato said to him mockingly.
"That's fine." Shinji told her. Misato saw her chance to mock Shinji further.
"No boy will ever want you either if you act like this." She said and Shinji shot her a hard glare, that went right through her, before going back to eating his meal. 'Obviously a nerve.' She thought to herself. She sighed and said "You're no fun acting like this, go take a bath. I've just realized how much you smell. I'll have your clothes cleaned by the time you get out and we'll go buy you some new ones tomorrow."
Shinji nodded, he smiled at the thought of having a nice bath after so long but the smile quickly dissipated, however not quick enough for Misato to notice. 'Maybe, just maybe. He's still just a normal kid at heart after all.' She thought to herself and finished her beer.