Evangelion Rewrite: Chapter 5 Breaking The Bank
Shinji had left in the dead of the night whilst Misato was still asleep. The people at Nerv had congratulated him for doing such a good job this time around, even if it was a little unorthodox. But what made Shinji the most happiest was being able to change himself from being a deadweight for the Eva to a worthy partner in such a short amount of time. All of these things would normally guarantee somebody a good night's sleep, but Shinji had work to do.
The plan was to walk as far away from Misato's apartment as possible, then take public transport down to Hokkaido. This first trip should take only about sixteen hours. Then the second step would be slightly harder, breaking into Hokkaido Bank would be no easy goal. The first time Shinji did this, he was thirteen and got purposely caught so that he could pass off as a lost boy, which wasn't unusual considering that he had made use of a perfectly timed earthquake. However this time Shinji was fifteen, there would be no earthquake and he would be taking money out of the bank instead of hiding money in the bank.
Standing in the lobby of Hokkaido bank, with a large bag on his back, Shinji had it all figured out during the sixteen hour trip. He was a little fatigued from the long trip and he hadn't slept since the night before the fourth angel attacked. But his mind remained unhindered as he put his plan into action.
He walked up to one of the bank cashiers and struck up a conversation "Hello, I'd like to open a bank account please." The bank cashier, an old woman, looked down at the tired and scruffy looking boy and wearily decided to go on with the conversation. "Name please?" She asked and Shinji replied with "Eikichi Takakura, son of Koichi Takakura and Yoko Takakura." The bank cashier suspected that the boy of fifteen was trying to pull something. 'Everybody knows that those two famous actors don't have any children.' She thought. Which was what Shinji was banking on. "I see." She said "May I ask, as to, why you are looking to open a bank today?" She asked him. Shinji smiled, this was the killer point. "No particular reason, my dad just wanted me to open an account here." With this, the bank cashier had decided she had enough and started pressing a red button furiously. Two suited men appeared behind Shinji. "This young man is trying to pull something, take him to the detention room. We'll figure out what to do with him from there." The bank cashier screeched at them and the two suited men firmly grasped hold of Shinji and lead him down a corridor further into the bank.
From Shinji's memory, close to the detention center was the security control room. In fact the corridor that split off to the control room was coming up now. Shinji dropped to the floor and the guards looked at each other before bending to pick him up by his bag. But when he was off the ground, Shinji dropped a medium sized ball, the size of a fist, from his pocket and when it hit the ground it split open and let out a lot of gas, causing the two men to drop Shinji. Shinji landed on his feet and swung round with his left leg and it connected with the head of one of the guards. The smoke cleared and the second guard looked for Shinji, but Shinji was quicker and stun gunned the man in the back. He then went and tasered the first guard for safety measures.
Shinji didn't have much time, the security control room would have already seen what had happened and would be sending new guards to capture him.
He quickly walked down the corridor that would take him to the control room. Three guards appeared and calmly walked towards him. The two opposing sides walked towards each other until within arms reached, then they all made a grab for him and Shinji ducked underneath and span through a gap that they'd left open. Then he ran at full sprint until he reached the control room, he took out a card that he had pick pocketed from the two previous guards, and opened the door.
The security staff were surprised to see that Shinji had run straight into the hornet's nest, but that surprise didn't last for long. Because Shinji had thrown in a small bomb that exploded with a flash when the magnesium mixed with some potassium perchlorate that Shinji had stolen from Nerv's hospital ward after the fourth angel attack. Shinji had dropped to the floor before the makeshift flash bomb went off and waited to seconds before getting up. Tiny fragments of shrapnel had been scattered around. But thankfully they caused no major injuries to any of security inside the room. Shinji stepped forward and looked at the camera feed on the display screens. He saw his goal, the bank manager's office in the top right display screen. The manager was out for now, but he'd be back in fifteen minutes with the police. Shinji had to move even quicker.
He opened his bag and pulled out the third to last item, an electrical charge. Shinji briefly remembered how he assembled all of the items he had used so far. When he lived in his old apartment with his fake landlord Sam, he would sneak into a warehouse not far from the apartment and spend an hour a day practicing and learning how to mix chemicals. He'd normally come back to his apartment with nasty burn marks, but the hard work paid off. The electrical charge was a microwave, that he had stolen from Misato before he left, and was hooked up to a large array of equipment that made it look like something from a fifties b-movie sci-fi movie. He turned the dial to two minutes and spent a full minute making sure that everybody was a safe distance from the microwave. He then turned and saw the three guards that he had run away from, they had two guns on him and the third guard took out a hi-tech walkie-talkie. Shinji smiled and dropped the second, and last, smoke bomb that he had took out from his pocket. The smoke filled the room, much to the dismay of the security staff that were just waking up. He calmly passed through the guards who were swiping their arms in all directions, and then took off at a run when the smoke disappeared. Leaving the guards to try and sort out the microwave that had just gone off.
Shinji ran for the stairs, making sure to hit the up button on the elevator beforehand. Then he ran up the stairs for the manager's office. Reaching the top he took out the second to last item from his bag, a small crowbar. Then he ran threw the offices, the bankers screamed and gasped at the young teenager running through with a crowbar and fled when they saw him break through the door to the manager's office.
Breaking in Shinji found his prize, the bank manager's price oak desk. Shinji dived underneath the desk and tore the false bottom off with his crowbar, revealing an unbelievable amount of yen that he had hidden here the last time he broke into the office. Then he discarded the crowbar and pulled a large thick rope out of his bag and throw it to the side of the room. After that, he filled up the bag with all of the yen notes and zipped up the bag. Dragging himself from underneath the desk he grabbed hold of the rope and tied it around himself, then he tied the rope around the oak desk and jumped out of the window. The desk moved instantly and smashed into the wall, unable to follow Shinji. He then carefully slipped himself down the rope and after landing on the ground, he disappeared into the streets of Sapporo.
The bank manager arrived with the police three minutes later and was not pleased. His desk lay ruined and the expensive security equipment was completely trashed and unsalvageable. Six people got a clear face of the culprit and they all swore that it was a small kid in his teens. After the police finished their investigation the detective
in charge said to the manager. "I'm sorry, but we can only find evidence of vandalism and destruction of government property. This gives us access to full Hokkaido jurisdiction in finding your culprit. But because he didn't take any money, we can't search for him in the rest of Japan. This normally wouldn't be a problem, but if a kid did all of this by himself, then he's probably making his way down to Tokyo-3 by now." The Bank manager looked like he was about to explode, his big eyes bulged even bigger and his tanned skin turned red. The detective made his way to leave but he decided to turn around and add "I do want to catch him though, not to help you out, since I couldn't care less about you're desk and equipment. But I want to know what kind of a kid could do this and why would he stop at mindless destruction." He tipped his hat and left saying "goodbye."
Shinji swayed on his feet when he reached Tokyo-3, the trip back was the third, final and longest part of his plan and it included lots travelling. He had lucked out and managed to find a truck driver willing to take him from further most reaches of Honshu all the way down to Kyoto. When the driver wasn't looking, Shinji left the him a bundled up wad of yen notes all accumulating up to one million yen as a way of saying thank you. Then he hid the money he stole, which in the end turned out to be two billion yen minus the one million he just gave to the truck driver. Afterwards he doubled back and took a train to Tokyo-3 to throw off anybody who just might have been following him all of this time. The trip had been four days long and Shinji could only ever sleep in the truck, giving him horrible back pains. He felt like was going to pass out, but he lucked out again. When he stood on the platform he turned to see Misato, who oddly enough just smiled at him and not far away from her were the two stooges that had seen his Eva fight against the fourth angel. 'They really are banking on me being the Eva pilot aren't they? I guess I'll actually have to admit it when I get back to school.' Shinji thought to himself. But first things first, "Hey, Misato! Have you brought your car? I need a lift back to the apartment!" Misato scowled after hearing this from Shinji. But she decided to punish him later and instead opened the car doors, inviting him.
Inside the car, thought to himself. 'One day I'll have to tell Misato about the money, how I originally stole it and what I plan to do with it. Perhaps I should tell her about everything. But for now...' these thoughts cut off as Shinji feel asleep in Misato's car.
Omake:
Shinji was walking along a highway, when he heard a large truck coming up behind him, he stuck out his thumb. The truck stopped and pulled up next to him and the driver opened the door. The driver was blonde, unshaven but hadn't yet grown a beard and was the same man that had introduced himself to Misato at the start of Shinji's first day of school. "Hey there." The driver said "my name's Great Driver Onizuka, also known as GDO and the best driver in all of Japan." Shinji stared at his old teacher and opened his mouth to say "please don't hurt me."