Shinji of Gaul
Ch. 2
I OWN NOTHING!
A few hours later found them inside the geofront. As they approached Central Dogma, Shinji took one look at the half fig leaf logo and started laughing his head off.
"What's so damn funny?" Misato snarled, already surly from the car incident and only getting worse with the lug behind her laughing obnoxiously.
"Ahm sorry, It's joost, tha' is th' doombest bannar Ah've ivver seen. Oghma hisself could nae inspire a man wit tha' silly thing." Shinji gasped out between wheezes.
Misato was truly peeved now and was asking herself why the hell she had wanted to feel sorry for this stupid oaf. He had put her in an uncomfortable situation when the N2 mine had been dropped. He had intimidated her with his freakish height when all she had asked for was a bit of help. She had seen pictures of Yui Ikari and worked with Gendo Ikari for some time neither of them were this damn big! He had insulted her car, her driving, Her Car, her boss though she wasn't sure if she should feel mad at that one, HER CAR, the organization she worked for and the only hope for humanity, HER CAR!!!!
She was taken out of her mental tirade when Shinji made the remark of "We're loost arrren't we?"
"Pain! Instant pain for you after this!!" She thought to herself.
Finally a door opened before they reached it and standing there in the doorway was a woman around Misato's age but with blonde hair and an open lab coat. She looked at Misato in a pitying way and said, "You never could find your way in this place could Misato?" Misato put her hand behind her head and smiled a very sheepish grin.
Shinji looked at the woman warily, she tampered with her hair that much was obvious, he had grown up with whole towns that used limestone and see all the indicators in a heartbeat. It was a better job he had to admit but it still was fake. The white robes also made him uneasy. The only ones who wore robes like that were the druids and even if he never heard of a female one, he knew that ticking one off back home was a BAD idea. Since he didn't want to risk ticking a potential druid off he decided to be as polite as possible. Thinking back he remembered a play on the magic entertainment box he had seen before that showed how men in Briton greeted women nowadays and he also decided to pour on with the flowery language.
To Ritsuko Akagi's shock, the big young man with the odd clothes and tattoos suddenly went into a Western style and highly gentleman like bow at the waist, his left arm behind his back and his right hand taking her hand and bring it to his lips so he could kiss the knuckles, he then said, "Tis an hona' t' meet an oobvious masterrr ov th learned ways. Though Ah've nae seen one as loovely as ye."
Misato looked like you could have slapped her with a 300 lb tuna and she would never have noticed. What the hell happened to the young oaf she had been dealing with moment ago. The sudden flip in personality shocked and highly irritated her. "Why couldn't he act like that for me? Not that I care!" She shook her head clear of that line of thought.
She decided to try and get back at Shinji for the insults earlier. "Hey, Rits-chan, stop drooling at this big oaf, he's not a gentleman in the least. You should have heard the awful things he said to me." She put her best to sound pathetic and failing miserably.
Ritsuko blushed at Misato's accusations then recovered and looked at the young man. "You're Shinji Ikari right?"
"Aye m'lady." Shinji answered.
Ritsuko blushed again then said to the two of them "Well come one we've got a bit of a problem over head."
As they continued through the insane labyrinth that was Central Dogma, they eventually reached a huge vat with a colossal purple robot sitting in it.
Shinji stared in open mouth shock at the huge construct. Misato grinned at Shinji's lost cockiness. Shinji turned to the two women and said in an impressed voice "By Goibenu's scrotum! How did ye knock eh giant oot, drag oonder ground, an' put it in tha' mooch armor witout waking t'brute?"
Both women and the several people who had come in with them immediately face-faulted. Ritsuko recovered first and said, "No, it's our weapon against the Angels, mankind's greatest invention, a humanoid synthetic construct, the Evangelion, Eva 01!" a small glint in her eyes.
Shinji looked at her, then at the Eva, then back her and said, "So…. it's nae a clubbed giant, an' ye built th' thing?" He looked over the huge mecha and said, "Nae th' color Ah would've chosen."
All of Ritsuko's fire was snuffed out by that comment and she was back into the stunned mode.
At that moment there was the sound of several more someones coming down the corridor. Shinji looked to the sound and went from mildly interested to open and flaming rage. There was Gendo Ikari, leader of NERV, and general bastard. "Well Shinji, it's been a while. You've grown quite a bit." Genndo said his voice warm but his face looked like it had been carved from stone.
"Hello father." Shinji answered his voice barely under control and his face contorted in rage. "It looks loike ye've been doin' well. Ya fookin bastard!"
Misato started to back away slowly from the irritated young man, she had expected angry but the raw waves of rage she felt coming off the young man were unnerving. The snarl on his face made his teeth almost look like fangs, or was it something else? She looked closer; rage was contorting his face something horrible because it almost looked one eye was almost bugging out of his socket. Then with a suddenly force of will Shinji made himself calm down and his face turned back to normal, Misato blinked and rubbed her eyes trying to decide whether what she had seen was real or not.
Shinji took a deep breath then asked his father "What is it ye want from me?"
Gendo replied, "We need you to pilot the Evangelion."
"No!" Was Shinji's immediate answer. "Ye abandoned me fer 10 years da. Ten fookin years! Now when t'world's aboot t'end ye want me t'get in tha' giant monstrosity an' foight fer ye loike noothin ivver happened wiell ferget it?!!" He spat at Gendo's feet. "An' woiy didye abandon me, when Ah woz little moore then a bairn? Did Ah look too mooch loike ma an' ye couldn't a take th' look oov me coose Ah remoinded ye too mooch oov 'er?" He tore of his tunic and cloak and held his arms out to the side.
Misato, could hear a collection of gasps when she saw the young man's body. He was coated in an amazing vine work of tattoos and a horrifying collection of scars on his young person, some of which looked as if he had only recently healed from them. Shinji them roared, "Wiell then, do Ah look loike 'er noow, wiell, DO AH!!!!!"
Gendo took all of this in stride then said to Dr. Akagi, "Get Ayanami ready for combat. This pilot is useless."
The old man next to Gendo said, "But Rei is still injured she no good to anyone right now!"
Gendo answered, "She's not dead."
Rei was then rolled in to the causeway in a wheelchair, bandaged, and still having an IV unit in her.
Shinji looked at the girl in horror, a small part of his brain recognized her from before at the train station, but was swallowed by the part of his mind that saw the state this girl was in, and his bastard father wanted her to fight? He stepped forward and said, "Ye are a reel bastard ye noow tha'? Foin all pilot that giant hoonk oov metal!" Everybody in the room sighed in relief at the young man's words, unnoticed was the tiny slump of relief the girl in the wheelchair made.
At that moment the Eva moved it right hand straight into the air making a fist. The others stared in shock while Shinji could only grin.
The suit up procedure went fine until the LCL was started filling up the Entry Plug. "AAAGHH! Wha' th' hell is this?!!"
"Shinji calm down, I know it's nasty but you can breathe this stuff!" was the given answer.
Shinji accepted this, after all, only an idiot argues with a druid. It was still nasty.
The next shock came when the Eva came online. Shinji was struck by a huge and massive will from the colossal thing. It wasn't all that smart but it was monstrously driven, and it didn't like Shinji. Shinji was used to strong willed beasts and this thing felt no different. "Shoot Oop ye fookin hoonk oov metal afor Ah make ye inta chariot spokes!!" Shinji mentally bellowed and emphasized this by slamming the side of the Entry Plug. Whatever beast was the heart and soul of this thing shut up and backed off. After a few moments Shinji got the strange feeling that something inside the thing, something female and vaguely familiar, was cursing at the top of her lungs.
"Sync ration has jumped from 20 to 80% and has leveled off!" was heard in the control bridge. Ritsuko and the other stared in utter shock. The Eva when Rei had tried to use her's it had gone apeshit wild. Yet Shinji was able to control the Eva just through sheer force of will.
A few minutes later the Angel was greeted by the sight of the Evangelion rising from the ground.
Inside the Entry Plug Shinji heard the sound of Ritsuko's voice. "Okay Shinji just try to focus on walking."
Shinji grinned in the LCL, "Oh Ah'll do moore then tha'." Grabbing a large piece of rail bride, he charged the giant beast at a blinding speed and swung at it. The pillar shattered when it hit the AT field of the Angel. Shinji looked at the small piece of the pillar still in his hands and said, "Ooh Foo-" He was cut off by the Angel decking him and continuing to pound him.
Shinji screamed "Noow ye made me mad! Doo Ah have anythin' t'break tha' fookin wall?!!"
The prog knife was deployed from the shoulder armor. Shinji took it his right hand and said. "Noot an axe boot it'll doo." He then charged the Angel again, knife in his hands, roaring a battle cry that the Angel imitated from its own mouth.
What came next was too gruesome to watch as it was no fight and was instead a mauling, for the Angel. The fight ended with the skull mask of the Angel tied to the neck of the Eva by a cable that was threaded through the eyes. Its remains spread across the city before they rapidly disintegrated. The core glowed on the ground before the Eva stomped on the core completely destroying the Angel. The Shinji bellowed out over a speaker system. "Hear me Angels. Ye destroyed moi world an' th' people oov moi birrrth. Boot boi th' gods Ah will destroy evarywoone oov ye an' Ah'll have yer skoolls as oornaments." Shinji then howled another war cry, one that sounded like a wolf on the hunt. The Eva also howled its rage, agreeing with its master. Across space, deep underground, and in a small suit in Paris-2 the foes of humanity heard the howl of the Wolf and shuddered involuntarily.