Evangelion Chapter 7 Goodnight Shinji
Shinji walked through the tacky apartment block, the smell felt familiar to him in all of its putrid stenches. But he had forgotten how utterly abysmal such a broken down place truly was. Eventually, Shinji arrived at Rei's apartment and saw the letters that were practically falling out of the letter box. The tell-tale signs of someone who's closed themselves off from the rest of the world. Shinji sighed deeply and pressed the doorbell but it was broken. 'Of course, nothing's ever easy is it?" Shinji thought this to himself and opened the door.
Letters and pieces of paper scattered when Shinji closed the door and made the whole place look more desolate than it already was. "Hey, it's Ikari here with something to deliver!" Shinji shouted this, but received no reply. Shinji gave his shoes a quick rub on the floor and then walked into the main apartment still wearing them. The inside of the building looked more like a murder scene than a place to live. It was dark inside, blood covered the bed and Shinji saw the bloody bandages inside a box.
Shinji turned when he heard a noise behind him and saw Rei standing there, looking like she had just come out of the shower. "Here's your security card, don't lose it." Shinji kept a straight face whilst saying this and put the card down on the bedside locker next to a pair of broken glasses. He then turned to see Rei getting dressed and decided to leave for Nerv. However Rei followed closely behind.
Going down an unusually long elevator, Shinji turned to see that Rei was still close behind him. So he decided to kill time by trying to talk to her. "Nice weather we're having." He said, opening with the most casual conversation that he could think of to keep her personal life at bay. But it didn't work. "Why do you avoid your father?" She said in a dry, monotone voice. 'This girl is truly an idiot.' Shinji thought to himself and decided that he didn't care what this girl thought of him from now on. "I avoid him for the same reason I avoid you, you're both untrustworthy idiots." Rei directly looked at Shinji after he said this and then swung for him. But Shinji simply leaned back, causing her blow to miss, then he struck out with his hand and lifted her by the neck of her clothes. "Like I said, you're both idiots." Shinji forced this through his teeth and then slowly put Rei down, back on the elevator. He then turned around and started walking down the elevator, hoping to finally get away from her.
Walking down a long corridor, Shinji faced the Nerv logo that was on the metallic wall. He didn't know how to feel about the symbol, looking at it he realized that it truly was no different from the logo of the last group of untrustworthy people that he served. This should have made Shinji feel angry at himself for his own stupidity, but instead he just felt empty. He heard the sound of someone running, coming from his left and turned to face Misato. "Shinji, get in your Eva, the fifth angel has arrived." Shinji scowled after Misato said this. "How fucking convenient for an angel to attack while I'm at Nerv. Maybe the damn things actually want to get trashed."
"Don't get cocky Shinji." Misato told him and Shinji scowled again.
"You should at least let me have some fun... alright, I'll get ready." Shinji said this and then bit into his thumb and used the blood to draw the fiery emblem on his left hand.
The Eva-lift did it's promised job of lifting the Eva into Tokyo-3, but the fifth angel was already there waiting for him. As soon as Shinji saw the unearthly darkness of an angel he tore through the lift and hosted himself out into the open, only just missing the Angel's blast of energy that completely destroyed the lift. Shinji looked at the devastation and shouted "hey jackasses, how about you try putting me somewhere where the angel isn't waiting? I nearly got turned into fried octopus there!"
"We had no idea that the angel was going to be waiting for you, I'm sorry." Shinji recognized the voice of the tech girl that had helped him in his first fight and dodged far away from the angel to talk to her. "Well I can't get mad at you, but shouldn't you guys be using satellite or something?" The tech girl sunk into her seat as the other two techies to her left gave her questioning looks. "That doesn't matter Shinji, stop screwing around and engage the angel!" Misato commanded.
Shinji nodded and analyzed the situation, this angel attacks at range and judging from it's crystal appearance, it's going to be hard to break it's core. So I'll just have to see how much damage it can take for now. Shinji tore up a large building next to him and threw it at the angel, but it was blasted into dust by the angels energy burst. However, the energy blast continued for a short while after the building was disintegrated. Shinji saw his opportunity and ran to another large building and threw that at the angel but it struck the angel's AT field this time and the angel itself blasted an energy beam, which tore into the Eva's right shoulder. The pain jolted into Shinji's own shoulder immediately and he threw his head back to scream, but he gritted his teeth and yanked on the Eva's controls to force the Eva out of danger. "Shinji!" Misato yelled. Shinji breathed heavily and his panting could be heard through communications. "I'm alright, but I won't be able to destroy the angel like this. Unless of course you plan to turn me into a suicide attack?" Shinji bitterly laughed at his own gruesome joke before using the Eva to dodge another energy beam. Misato breathed a sigh of relief before communications went up again. "Hey! Tech girl! I need to get out of here!" Shinji screamed this down communications and the techie immediately gave him assistance. "There's another Eva lift, you can locate it on your head's up display. I'll have it ready for you to escape with" She said this as Shinji panted throughout her explanation. But Shinji still forced out a muttered thanks before escaping the battlefield.
Voices from all over Nerv shouted out information and commands, as Shinji groaned in pain. Then without warning, his Eva plug was forced out of his Eva and LCL burst out of it like a fresh wound. Shinji's eyes were forced to adapt to the light when his chair was yanked out of the plug by a robotic arm. Looking around he saw Misato's worried face and stuck out his tongue at her before falling unconscious.
Shinji woke up slowly to Rei entering what seemed to be his intensive care room. "Why can't you just piss off and leave me alone?" Shinji asked and Rei, predictably, ignored him and continued to tell them and Nerv's newest plan. "Since you're reading that from a book, can't you just give it to me and go?" Shinji questioned but Rei continued until she was finished. She then threw him a sealed plastic bag with his Eva suit inside. Shinji picked it up, got out of bed naked and asked where his casual clothes were. "Those are the clothes that you will be wearing." Rei said, despite Shinji remembering that his casual clothes were fine the first time he fought an angel. But he decided not to protest and remained silent until Rei left, then Shinji bit into his thumb drew the fiery emblem with his blood and prepared himself for what could be his last fight.
The plan was to use all of Japan's electricity to power a large rifle that used blast through the angel, Shinji would be the sniper and it was Rei's job to protect him and as Shinji looked out at the moon. He decided that something was wrong with the plan. Rei stood up and said "it's time to go." But Shinji shook his head and apologized "I'm sorry, but I can't have you risk your life like this. Even if it's only for my father, you are fighting for somebody and that makes your life more valuable than my own." Then Shinji got up and jumped over to the platform that Rei was standing on. She opened her mouth but Shinji closed it with a finger. The he clenched his hand into a fist and hit her as hard as he could on the forehead, Rei flew back into a railing and fell to the floor unconscious. Shinji then got inside the Eva and marched off to fight the fifth angel.
"Commencing operation!" One of the techies yelled and Misato started to brief Shinji immediately afterwards. Shinji breathed in and out steadily as he gripped hold of the large rifle. A countdown began and Shinji focused on his target, then a voice screamed out "high energy output detected inside the target!" When Shinji heard this, he knew something was wrong. But it was too late, he pulled the trigger and a massive outburst of energy exploded from the rifle only to meet with the angel's beam of energy. The energy forced each other away as if they were twice shy and then the two beams of energy exploded away from their targets. Shinji yelled out as the tremors from the energy blast, next to him, hit him with rapid force. "Ayanami, protect Shinji while he loads the second shot!" Misato yelled.
"Ayanami's not here right now and I'm afraid that there's going to be a change of plan." Shinji said then he grabbed the ammunition from the rifle and ran towards the Angel at full speed. "What do you mean Ayanami isn't here right now!?" Ritsuko yelled at Shinji, but he ignored her and focused completely on the angel. A voice buzzed through the communications. "There's another energy reading!" Shinji slammed the Eva down into a skid and a second energy blast over him. Then he used all of the force that he could muster from the Eva's legs and jumped into the air and fell into a large volume of water, which sprayed up and hid the Eva.
Shinji could see the Angel tunnelling into the underground in what must be an attempt to reach Nerv. Seconds passed by as Shinji waited, but it felt more like the final moments that tick away before one's appointed death. Then Shinji leapt out of the water, high above the angel, and fell towards the angel with one falling strike. He heard the voices of Nerv blare and fade inside his head, then he reached back the arm that was holding the rifle ammunition and pummelled it at the angel. The angel hadn't been waiting for it's destruction and fired off another energy beam at the Eva's arm. But Shinji forced his arm into the energy beam, screaming like a lunatic as gravity forced him towards his target. A massive explosion occurred when he reached the angel, the energy force of the sniper ammunition combined with the angel's own energy blast into a single volatile source of energy that exploded outwards, completely shattering the angel. The arm of the Eva was ripped apart and revealed what looked to be like bone. Energy shook through the entire body and caused it to tear, then the force of the blast threw the Eva up into the air until he finally fall down. Back into the water. As the lights faded inside the Eva, Shinji got one last glimpse of the moon. 'Today was a good day to die after all.' Shinji thought to himself and closed his eyes as he sunk to the bottom.