Evangelion Rewrite: Chapter 4 Meeting New People
Shinji stood in the bathroom in his birthday suit taking in his surroundings, the bathroom was clean at least. But he wasn't sure what to make of all of the underwear hanging on a washing line from the ceiling. Shaking his head, he found that there was already a warm bath and so he decided to jump in. Relaxing for a little while he reflected on his situation. In some ways he was the person that humanity relied upon, if things had have been different he would have found the idea to be a sick joke and yet here he was. After all the horrible things that he had done in his short life, he was now earth's protector. 'Can you be sure that they will never find you again?' That was something he had forgotten to ask himself. The people he previously dealt with before coming here won't give up so easily. A burned apartment would slow them down, but would they ever stop looking? Shinji doubted it and it was more then likely that he was putting Misato at risk too. "I should never have come here." Shinji whispered to himself. The sudden noise made something stir inside the bathtub. Shinji crouched up and watched what was happening curiously. Then a penguin stood up and looked at Shinji, who was staring right back at it. "My penis, is not a sardine." He said to the penguin. The penguin leaned it's head sideways. "MISATO!"
The sudden shout echoed the entire apartment and could surely be heard in surrounding apartments. The woman in question, looked up to see Shinji standing in the doorway; holding a penguin with one hand. "Misato, what is this penguin doing here?" Shinji said, point jabbing a finger at the penguin making his daddy bags shake to one side. "That's your other roommate Shinji, he's a warm water penguin called PenPen and I'd prefer it if you'd let him go now." Shinji put the penguin down gently and watched it waddle away like nothing was out of the ordinary, even when it pressed a button to allow itself into what seemed to be it's room. "By the way Shinji." Misato said to him "you do realize that you're naked, right?" Shinji looked down and saw that she was speaking the truth. But it didn't seem to bother him, instead he asked if she'd cleaned his clothes yet and with a flat denial from Misato, he quietly went back into the bathroom. 'Seriously, a Penguin? What kind of a person keeps a penguin?" Shinji thought to himself whilst leaning against the door.
Lying in bed the memories of his fight flooded back into his skull, he lost the fight and would have died if his Evangelion hadn't of taken over. It's monstrous form wasn't a problem, it's the fact that it had to fight his battle for him. Nobody had ever done that for him before and he swore never to let it happen again. Remembering the moment when he saw the Eva look at him through a reflection in the glass, Shinji grew angry. He had let it down, whatever it was he had let it down. "Shinji?" A voice called. Shinji got up and faced Misato who had just come out of the bath. "What's wrong?" He asked. She kept an unusual seriousness in the air that was unlike her
"I want you to know that you did good today." She told him and Shinji put his hand up to stop her. "Save it, I haven't done a good job until it's finished. Until the Angels or my father lie dead on the ground, I won't have done anything special."
"Do you really think that there's anything special about revenge?" She asked.
Shinji shook his head. "No, nothing special but his death is my goal and I can't deny that." Misato looked on, not sure how to tell him that trying to harm the commander would be useless. Instead she said "goodnight Shinji" and left.
"I wonder" the tech girl called Maya said "I wonder why he came back after what had happened." Ritsuko didn't even look at the girl and just said "It seems that he has nowhere else to go and that through all of his bravado, he'll just do whatever anybody tells him." Ritsuko watched him destroy another hologram of the Third Angel on her heads-up display. Shinji remained quiet and focused in the Evangelion, he wanted to learn this part the most because this was what counted. He didn't want to fail his Eva a second time.
Shinji sat at his new school desk, at first being contained the way he was, was nauseating. But now he had gotten used to it, people muttered in the background like usual and like usual the only thing quieter than him was the blue haired girl he had seen at Nerv. However this time another teenager entered, which was apparently significant because the few people in the classroom had become quiet. But he came in and started muttering too, so Shinji went back to not paying attention to what was going on around him.
One boring lesson later and Shinji found himself in the same position, this time he had been equipped with a beeping laptop. Shinji slowly pressed the button and waited for whatever happened next. But it seemed like he had just opened some kind of message that asked him if he was the 'robot pilot.' Shinji looked to the blue haired girl for guidance but she remained motionless. 'No help there then' he thought and instead he decided to ignore the message and the eyes burning into him. Someone prodded him for attention from behind, but he ignore it. Instead he leaned back, put his arms behind his head and stuck a middle finger up at the old teacher when he told Shinji to 'start paying attention.' But the poking in his back kept coming. He turned round to face a girl 'damn I can't punch this person' he thought. So he decided to go back to ignoring her and then another message came up on his screen. Getting frustrated, he decided to leave the classroom.
He sat outside on the school grounds, there was no point going home and having Misato chew him out just yet. But then a guy around his age showed up, he clenched his fists, Shinji stood up and smiled as he knew what was coming. He gut sluggishly threw a punch at Shinji and Shinji didn't try to dodge it. The punch connected with the middle of Shinji's forehead causing blood to drip from his head and mix with the blood coming from the other guy's hand. The assaulter held his hand, not crying out but clearly in pain. "Do you think that you're some kind of hotshot tough guy!" He yelled.
"Shut up, mutt." Shinji said quietly and slammed a punch into the other guy's diaphragm, forcing all the air out of his lungs. "Your rage, needs to be more direct and focused." Shinji said, as if coldly educating a child that he did not care for. Then Shinji hit him in the solar plexus with a palm thrust, knocking the assailant off of his feet. "Toji!" Another guy yelled, who appeared next to him. Shinji pushed the newcomer out of the way and grabbed hold of Toji's head, lifting him up.
"Right now you have no idea who am I, so you're just trying to relieve a little frustration with whatever bad thing happened to you before now and if going to do that you might as well go home and masturbate. But if you're going to attack me, you better be prepared to use all your hatred to kill me." After saying this, Shinji let go of Toji and his head fell against the floor. Shinji ignored the other guy who kept his distance, but Toji yelled out to Shinji. "You'll pay for hurting my sister with that robot!" Shinji sighed and guessed that he was getting soft since living at Misato's place.
"I couldn't give a damn about your sister. But just remember that she's alive, so stop attacking random people like a diseased dog and spend your time doing something worthwhile like looking after her while she recovers." With this Shinji finally managed to leave quietly only to find the blue haired girl waiting for him at the front gates. "What's wrong?" He asked her. Standing next to her, Shinji could clearly see the mummified of this girl. "We have an emergency call." She said and left afterwards. Shinji bit into his thumb and drew the forked emblem, with his blood, on his hand again. '"I guess it's time to go to work." He bemused to himself.
The familiar smell of blood lurched it's way up Shinji's nostrils as the LCL filled his entry plug. As putrid as it was Shinji knew that he'd have to ignore it, god knows how long it's going to take for him to run out of Angels. 'Well at least I pity the poor Angel that's fighting me after that Toji guy got me so angry." Shinji thought to himself. "Shinji, are you ready?" Misato asked him over the communications.
"Yeah, just give me a moment to get my head straight. Some guy scrambled my brain and now this Angel's going to give it a go." Shinji told her.
"Man up, Shinji. If you fail, we'll be out of options."
"Alright, I'm ready." After saying this, Shinji was once again blasted through the Eva-lift.
Reaching the top, Shinji breathed in deep and span around to begin firing on the Angel in rapid succession. Seeing that this had no effect Shinji backed off and waited for the Angel to make it's first move. The Angel moved quickly and wrapped round a building showing it's full body to Shinji for the first time. It looked like a cross between a snake and a beetle and then ten times more revolting.
Shinji bent his knees waiting for an attack, but despite this preparation, the Angel fired out two long whip-like energy beams and Shinji only just managed to dodge. He took out the progressive knife and arced his aim at the creature's single red eye. But the range of the Angel was longer and it whip lashed at Shinji over and over, forcing him back. 'No good, I have to get to higher ground otherwise they'll be nothing left out here' and with that thought Shinji slashed the ground with his knife, cutting the Eva's umbilical cord. "What are you doing Shinji!? This goes against what was taught to you!" Misato barked at him, but he ignored her. The Angel launched it's assault again, but by the time it had finished attacking and all the smoke had settled down, Shinji was outside the city on top of a large hill; dense with forests. The Angel made it's move towards Shinji, but he had the higher ground and jumped forward, launching himself towards it at a hurtling speed. The Angel barely had time to react to such a quick, downward fall and Shinji's knife dug deep into it's head, piercing it's red eye. Which turned out to be it's core, causing the Angel to fall completely silent. 'That's good.' He thought to himself. "We did better today, Eva." He said and got no response, but he didn't feel like he needed any. He turned the Eva to get a look through it's eyes during peace time, but froze when he saw Toji and the other idiot, who's name he didn't catch, staring up at him from higher up the hill. "What are those two idiots doing." He shouted and the Eva grew dark inside.
Author's Notes: Hurray! It's time for my first ever Omake!
Omake:
Today would be Shinji's first day at school in five years. Misato had dragged him to the school grounds and told him to wait, pointing a gun at him in case he tried to leave. Eventually a blonde male teacher in a white suit showed up and walked towards Misato, ignoring Shinji. He said to her "hey there, my name's Great Teacher Onizuka, but you can just call me Onizuka." After a moment's silence Shinji finally said "Fuck..."