Evangelion Rewrite: Chapter 10 Shinji loses his temper
"Remind me why I let you two come along?" Shinji asked Touji and Kensuke as they flew across Japan in a helicopter. Misato chuckled from the front of the aircraft. "After stealing my car to go out on a date, I think you owe it to me to allow me to have a date of my own." Touji nearly popped out of his seat when Misato said this, clearly the idea of a 'date' thrilled him. Shinji put his hand onto Touji's shoulder and said. "If you kept your blood inside your head instead of your crotch, you'd be able to tell that she has another agenda Touji." Touji smiled at this and put his own hand on Shinji's shoulder, creating a powerful EMP-like tension that threatened to crash the helicopter. The strength of will competition was cut short by Kensuke's happy declaration of "aircraft carriers!" and other heaps of misused metal. Shinji blocked out the following conversation and focused his mind on a tint of red hair that he could see below.
Shinji stretched his legs and arms as he got out of the helicopter, he looked up to see Kensuke running around with a camera that he'd brought, filming everything. Close behind was Misato looking worse for wear and next to Shinji laid Touji. Who had fallen on the floor in an attempt to keep his on straight. "Touji, it's a ugly looking hat. So why you'd bring it?" Shinji asked this question as Touji got back up, clearly his pride had a nasty bruise. "Because it's a classy hat and it's a good job that you don't understand class, since Misato does." Shinji laughed at Touji for this and slapped him on the back, causing the hat to fall off again. "Alright, fair's fair. Just don't try and jump overboard if it falls into the water." Shinji said this and walked off, leaving Touji to pick up the pieces.
He saw Misato talking to the redhead that he'd spotted earlier, oddly enough she was a girl around his age. "You've grown some, haven't you?" Shinji heard Misato ask as he walked towards the two girls, intent on finding out why he'd been brought here. "I've not only grown taller, my figure has filled out as well." The redhead said with clearly too much pride. Shinji decided that this girl was just an obnoxious brat and decided to interrupt her in order to talk to Misato. "Good for you redhead, Misato, can you please tell me what we're doing here?" The redheaded girl blew off steam at Shinji's casual dismissal. "And just who the hell do you think you are!?" The redheaded and red faced girl shouted at Shinji. Who ignored her still.
"This old rust bucket of a ship can't possibly have anything important, so why are we here?" Misato was doing her best to ignore Shinji as she looked on silently and Shinji, in turn, ignored the redhead and walked right past her.
But he stopped when he heard her yell something that struck a nerve. "So, you must be the third child! Only someone who has such an important role could be so self-important." Shinji turned around and walked towards her until they were face to face. "So what if I was? It doesn't make anything difference, but what about you redhead?" The three onlookers remained silent, Misato looking bored and the two boys looked unsure of themselves. "I am the second child, Asuka Langley." The redhead explain. Shinji looked her in her blue eyes as he said his next sentence with complete disdain. "Someone who openly and proudly calls him or herself a Evangelion child is clearly nothing more than a fool who'll crawl at the feet of their masters and to be brutally honest I already have somebody like that back home. So I don't need another one." Asuka lost her temper at this, she struck her with her hand and grabbed Shinji's throat and reached behind his legs with her leg, intending to trip him up. But Shinji hand bent down on one leg and stiffened. Preventing her from tripping him, with his throat still being gripped by Asuka's hand, Shinji struck out with his palm against Asuka's stomach. She fell to the floor, letting go of Shinji in the process. Who rasped as he breathed in fresh air and stood back up on two legs. "Pathetic, if you lose you're temper then you damn well better make sure that you can back that anger up with a powerful rage." Shinji left as he said this, no longer interested in Asuka Langley.
Shinji walked around the ship with his hands behind his back, guards looked at him as if to say "What are you doing here kid?" But none of them had the balls or tenacity to say this to him, so instead they watched him. All of a sudden the sea wind stopped dead and the smell of salt disappeared as the environment around Shinji changed until Shinji found himself in a classy room with a rug, a lit fireplace and an assortment of pretty wares. In front of the fireplace was a leather chair, a hand beckoned Shinji. 'No! I mustn't freak out.' Shinji screamed this in his head and closed his eyes silently until he felt the wind on his face again. When he opened his eyes, the hallucination was gone. 'They're starting to occur more often and dig deeper into my most hated memories.' Shinji shook his head and left to find Misato.
When found Misato up on the bridge with his two friends, a group of navy officers and the ginger idiot. He opened to mouth to make himself known but another voice spoke out before him. "Well you're as gallant as ever." A confident voice spoke out and Misato turned to face the man who spoke out and immediately lost all focus at his appearance. Shinji kept quiet as he observed this new unknown element. The oldest navy officer was the next to speak. "Mr Kaji, I insist that you don't simply let yourself onto the bridge." Shinji observed the newcomer as he brushed off his superior and continued forward with the same brash confidence. He turned his head slightly as he looked at Misato, revealing a pony tail. 'This guy can't be for real.' Shinji thought to himself as he stood next to Toji and Kensuke, effectively blending into the crowd.
Shinji found himself below deck in some kind of mess hall, after a long trek down and even a trip down the elevator. The atmosphere was less than pleasant as Misato did her best to put up a mental barrier in front of the smirking Kaji, which was strong enough to keep the other two boys plus Asuka quiet. Shinji kept himself focused on the smirking man, but didn't pin his eyes on him; trying to avoid making his observations known. "Do you have a boyfriend now?" Kaji finally asked, breaking the awkward silence. "That's none of your business." Misato said, clearly upset by something. Shinji expected this kind of back and forth, but Kaji instead turned to him and asked. "You're living with Katsuragi aren't you?" Shinji said nothing at first, instead loosening his knuckles by cracking them, but he felt Kaji try and mentally egg him on. So he answered with, "and what if I was?" Kaji leaned forward and looked directly as Shinji as he said "if so then tell me. Is she still wild in bed?" The atmosphere froze as Touji, Kensuke, Asuka and Misato reeled back in shock.
But it soon fizzed and cracked with a nasty tension as Shinji shook violently. He stood up silently, grabbed his end of the table and threw it into the air. Pots and plates smashed against the ground and shattered into pieces. The table fell back onto another table and caused more damage to the mess hall. Kaji smiled at this sudden loss of control, but that smile when Shinji net said. "Don't you ever, talk about her- like that." Shinji's words barely came out as he seethed pure, unbridled rage. "I- don't want- you to ever- ever! Say anything! Like that- EVER AGAIN!" Shinji almost roared his last two words as his fists shook dangerously, making Shinji look like he'd snapped. Asuka backed off, finally understanding what Shinji meant by "back that anger up with a powerful rage." Touji and Kensuke fell silent like dormice and Misato watched Shinji lose his temper more than he had ever done before. But a smile returned to Kaji's face. "What kind of a reaction is-" his words were cut off, after Shinji nailed him a punch in the face; which was so quick that flesh visibly rippled around the center of Shinji's punch. "Kaji!" Asuka screamed out and ran to the slumped over figure lying on the floor next to his knocked over chair. Shinji's rage hadn't quelled though, as he stood in the center of the group, he hunched over and tense his whole body so much that he turned red and veins angrily popped out on his body and forehead. He breathed in and out slowly though his clenched teeth, making his breathing sound tense and painful. Misato put a hand on Shinji's shoulder and he froze immediately, he turned to look at her and she down at him with an emotionless face that was stone in appearance. Within a few seconds, he breathed normally and his skin colour returned to normal. A few moments later, he leant up straight and he let his hands hang loose. But he was still visibly shaking though. Misato looked down at Kaji and Asuka and said "I believe Nerv's most reckless Eva pilot just introduced himself to you." She then looked over to Toji and Kensuke, who immediately received the message and took Shinji to the top deck.
Shinji trudged over to the railing and leaned over, looking out at the sea. Whilst Touji and Kensuke stood on either side of him. "Wow Shinji, that punch was so quick and direct. If you'd thrown a punch like that at me after I hit you, then I think I'd have been put into hospital myself." Toji said this as he rested his back against the railing and looked out at the sky. Shinji felt a weight on his shoulder and looked up to see Kensuke's hand on him. "Cheer up Shinji, sure you overreacted, but you'd have never done so if he hadn't insulted Misato like that." Shinji nodded at Kensuke's words, but went back to looking at the Shinji. "What made him think that he had the right to say that about Misato?" Shinji asked quietly, showing his first glint of weakness to his two school friends. Touji and Kensuke looked at each other, before Touji sighed and decided that he'd better try and explain this one. "Usually people like me and Kensuke are seen as the sort of people who'd say that. Since we're perverts and we don't have girlfriends. But if you actually pay attention, you'd find that it's the people like him that usually end up saying or doing stuff like that, since they believe themselves to be better than everybody else for whatever reason. But that's just not how it works. This is a lesson that you're starting to learn now Shinji, because you're still just a kid like us. No matter what you think, you can afford to make mistakes so long as you learn from them. But he's an adult, whatever mistakes he's made in the past he clearly hasn't learnt from and that's why he thinks himself to be better than everybody. Which is why you should try and learn from this if you can. I don't know how, but if you find something to gain from this experience, it will make you a better person Shinji" Touji finished and let Kensuke take over. "Besides, you pilot a giant robot. I think giant robot beats a pony tail any day of the week." Shinji laughed at this and turned around to look at his friends. "Alright, this trip hasn't been turned into a complete nightmare just yet. Let's explore this ship inside out and see just what we'll be brining back with us." Kensuke and Touji nodded at Shinji after he said this and they all snuck off to unauthorized areas of the ship.