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textdump: as much as I hate to use this excuse, watch the Sachiel fight over a couple of times…in the series not that much really happens. Basically, Shinji gets his ass kicked then Eva 01 goes berserk. I really couldn't think of a way to pad the fight out more than what I came up with, but I'm going to try to be more descriptive in the next ones.

Disclaimer: See Prologue
Chapter 5: New Kid

"Did you visit Rei in the hospital today, Commander?"

"Yes I did; she should be discharged soon. How is her condition?"

"Well, the growth acceleration program got her physically and mentally old enough to meet the Unit 00 activation test deadline, but it's left her anemic and frail. She is in constant risk of internal and external bleeding and bone fractures. Regular LCL exposure and anti-rejection medication is staving off the effects, but I don't feel comfortable stringing the girl out on Neuropazine for the rest of her life."

"The program can end as soon as she and Unit 00 have a stable sync history, Ritsuko."

"All right, Shinji, how does the simulator plug feel?"

"I guess training won't alter my video game schedule much." He joked.

Ritsuko almost laughed in response. "Trust me, after seven or eight hours in the tube, you'll be thoroughly sick of it. Your assignment for today is to observe and memorize the computer-assisted targeting system. The Eva can automatically locate the core in an Angel's body. It will present you with a shooting solution, when there aren't any external factors, the Eva will always target a kill shot."

"…Isn't a battle nothing but external factors?"

"Shut up and shoot at the target Shinji."

= Center in on the target and pull the trigger. =

The virtual rifle peppered the graphic model of the Fourth Angel, causing it to pixelate and disappear.

"Good enough Shinji, you'll be repeating this drill for the remainder of the evening."

= She's right. I do already hate it. =

Shinji was walking the halls of his new Junior High, SDAT music player looping the same song, when he was blindsided by a fist in his left cheekbone.

"Sorry, new kid, but I had to take that out on someone." A tall boy in a track suit growled out.

His short, freckled companion ran up, helped Shinji to his feet, and told Shinji "I'm Kensuke. Don't take Touji personally; he's been really depressed since his little sister got hurt in that battle last week."

Shinji was too taken aback to hold his tongue, a decision that let slip one too many details; "What? I'm sorry! I didn't even want to pilot it!"

Touji heard him, stopped, did an about face, and gave an arrogant reply: "You shouldn't have said that, new kid, I was all ready to leave you alone, and then it turns out you're one of those pilot freaks!"

He rushed at Shinji, and time seemed to slow down as Shinji's five years of self-defense came into focus. = "An unskilled opponent will mask ignorance with arrogance and anger. Your restraint is the weapon that you will use against him." = He remembered his Aikido master's words to him.

= He's got no self-control; he's just running wildly at me with a raised fist…his high center of gravity leaves me to force him around backwards and down… =

Touji tried throwing a rageful punch, only to find his wrist bound by Shinji's hand, with an arm shoving his chest and his legs caught around Shinji's own. He spiraled into the ground, landing confused and surprised at the stick-thin kid in front of him.

"Please, I don't want to fight you! It's just…I'm sorry I hurt your sister, but if I didn't fight that thing then none of us would be here for you to be pissed off at!"

Touji felt sick, this new kid just kicked his ass and made him look like a stupid caveman.

From a couple of floors above, a certain bandaged girl saw Shinji absorb the punch and then respond with a skilled display of defense.

= He appears to be qualified to defend himself; why did the Commander call me and tell me that this 'Spare' failed? =

Shinji silently drifted into 2-A, saw Touji and Kensuke glaring at him, and avoiding contact with anyone else that he could cause a problem for, walked to the rear corner of the class. He sat down and didn't realize that Rei was in the seat in front of him. He simply opened his laptop computer and buried his gaze in it.

"Rise, bow, sit."

Shinji sat back down, and an instant messenger window popped up.

RailGun
'Hey, Shinji, you've gotta tell us what it's like!'

Ikari01
'What is what like? Getting into a fight on your first day of school? It sucks.'

RailGun
'Look, Touji will apologize as soon as he starts feeling better. But you know I mean what's the giant robot like? It must be awesome!'

Ikari01
'Okay, Kensuke, two things. One, I don't even remember piloting it at this point; and Two, you're asking for classified information over a school message system. Do you not think anybody is listening to us? You're going to get us both arrested. Probably shot, too.'
—Ikari01 signoff—

Shinji was alone on the sunlit roof of the school building during his lunch break when he saw a cloud of blue hair enter his vision.

"There has been an emergency, we have to go." She ran off after delivering the message.

Out to sea, another alien being was levitating its way to shore. In NERV control, the bridge crews were pulling a video inspection of the target.

"MAGI confirms a Code: Blue. It's definitely the next angel." Aoba reported.

= It seriously looks like a flying jellyfish. = Misato thought to herself. = Somebody tell me that this is a joke. = "Give me a status on the Pilots!" she called out.

"Ma'am, Ikari's getting plugged as we speak; Ayanami's on her way to the bridge."

"The JASDF has begun surface-to-air missile barrage!"

Ritsuko stated what everyone else was thinking when she said "Don't those public-sector idiots know how much taxpayer money they're wasting?"

"Enemy AT field is intercepting the missiles. Unit 01 is prepped for launch!"

Kensuke dragged Touji away from the orderly school evacuation.

"C'mon, man you've gotta get Hikari to let us out of here!"

"And say what to her, huh? 'Hey class rep, we're just gonna go watch the robot fight and get killed.'"

"Just ask to go to the bathroom and then pick the lock to the exit; I saw you break into the girl's locker room, I know you can do it!"

"You will never tell that to anyone, understand? God you're pushy. Hey class rep! We gotta take a leak!"

Hikari was naturally suspicious of the pair "Seriously, now of all times?"

"Yeah, it sucks doesn't it?"

"Just go…"

"All right, it's the main event!" Kensuke said as he focused his camera on the levitating Angel.

"…Is it a jellyfish?" Touji had no idea what he was looking at.

"All those missiles are just exploding in the middle of nowhere, they aren't even hitting it! Oh, man this footage is gonna be great!" Kensuke was basking in the middle of an otaku's wet dream when he saw the massive purple-green robot shoot out of the ground.

"That's the Eva unit! It's incredible! Shinji's gonna kick the Angel's ass! Come on Touji, up on the hill, I need to get a higher shot."

Ritsuko radioed in to the Eva. "Shinji, after your AT fields interact, you will both become vulnerable. Before it gets within striking range, empty your pallet's magazine into the visible core. We've determined that it will be somewhere underneath the creature's 'Cobra Hood'. You'll understand that description when you see the Angel."

= Center in on the target and pull the trigger. =

Shinji turned out of the elevator and immediately unloaded his ammunition into the Angel.

"Dammit Shinji, you fired too early! Target's been obscured by powder smoke. What's your ammo load?"

"Uhh… send me a full magazine, I fired everything…oops."

"Fine, it's coming up on an elevator. Ritsuko, we need an AT field status!"

"The field is still up, repeat, field is still up! Shinji, move forward and wait for the fields to interact this time! I need you danger close to that thing!"

Shinji focused his nerves and willed Unit 01 forward, walking directly up to what could be described as the Angel's head…and stopped in fright as he saw what he could only describe as the Angel's exposed ribcage, spread open with its bones making a biting motion towards him.

Aoba noticed his vitals accelerating; "Pilot has accelerated pulse and respiration, adrenaline detected in his bloodstream! He's panicking!"

Misato cut in "Get a hold of yourself, Shinji! I don't care how scary it looks; you're in position, get your knife out and kill that thing!"

As it turns out, it was too late for a pep talk; while Shinji was reacting to the grotesque sight in front of him, the Angel extended two burning whips from its shoulder protrusions and began slicing the air in front of Unit 01. Shinji snapped back into reality and leaped backwards to the waiting ammo elevator, which was promptly sliced in half by the whips.

"All right Shinji, we don't have time for more ammo now," Misato commanded, "focus entirely on a knife kill!"

Shinji never got a chance as the Angel's whips sliced at him again, severing the power cable.

Maya reported the bad news, "Unit 01 operating on internal power, 5 minutes until shutdown!"

Ritsuko began to organize a field refit. "Shinji, retreat and we'll get you another power coupling."

He didn't get the chance to run because the Angel wrapped its whips around Unit 01's wrist and ankle and fired it like a slingshot through the air into the nearby hillside, where the Unit's massive left hand landed with two high-school age kids between its fingers. Shinji, shaken, looked around to shake off his disorientation, when his video identification picked up the two spectators at ground level. The Unit automatically ran a recognition program and broadcasted the two boys' identities to NERV HQ and to Unit 01's entry plug.

= Touji and Kensuke…they should be in a shelter, when did they get away from Hikari? = Shinji thought as Misato confirmed the boy's information. The Angel continued levitating towards the power-draining Unit and drew its whips back for a stabbing blow, only for both whips to be caught by Unit 01's hands.

"Why doesn't he attack it?" Touji asked nobody out loud.

"He's probably trying to protect us!" Kensuke answered

"Plasma burns on Unit 01's gloves! Its hands are burning as we speak!" Maya reported.

"Shinji, open the plug, get those civilians inside!"

He raised his entry plug, opened its hatch and extended an emergency ladder; Misato announced on a loudspeaker for the two boys to climb the rope and get in.

*SPLASH*

"What the hell is this stuff?!" Touji reacted to the deionized LCL in the open plug, while Kensuke reacted to the short-circuited camera in his hands, his video footage drowned in the electrified liquid-gas. Shinji threw the plasma whips away from Unit 01, its hands burned down to the skin.

"30 seconds of power remaining!"

"All, right Shinji, retreat to a safe distance and we'll regroup."

= No, I'm not running away! =

Shinji stood the Eva up, drew the knife and started grinding down the mountainside towards the waiting Angel down below. He and Unit 01 roared in unison as the Angel drew its whips back for an easy strike. They stabbed each other at the same moment; Unit 01 still having the upper hand. Shinji cried in pain while twisting the progressive knife inside the Core.

"5…4…3…2…1, Unit 01 has shut down. We have confirmed the Fifth Angel's Core detonation, Shinji did it!"

Misato fumed while the bridge staff celebrated. = Damn that boy. =

Unit 01 had been dragged back into NERV HQ, and Misato confronted Shinji in the locker room.

"Shinji, I gave you a direct order to retreat. Why did you disobey me?"

"I'm sorry."

"Sorry isn't good enough, dammit, explain yourself."

"I don't know…I decided that I wasn't going to run away again…"

"What you should have done was listen to me."

"If I did that, the Angel would still be out there, and I'd get my ass kicked twice."

"Shinji, I don't care if you beat the Angel back there. You will obey your superior officers, do you understand?"

"You know what, I don't. If I listened, the base would be under attack right now, and I'd be letting more innocent people get hurt topside. You told me to do what I think is right. Touji's little sister is in the hospital because of me, and I'm not going to be the cause of anything else like that!"

"Dammit, Shinji. If you want to bet your own life, fine, but that Eva does not belong to you. If you keep writing these checks your underdeveloped ego can't cash, you're going to kill everyone! Not just you and me, not just all of NERV, but EVERYONE!"

"Ok, I'll do differently next time…"

"'Doing differently' isn't good enough, Shinji, I want you to obey your ranking officers."

"Fine."

"Fine!? I am one of those ranking officers, and I demand respect same as anybody else here!"

"Alright, I understand Ma'am. You're talking to me like I know this. I'm not a trained soldier like you."

She grabbed him by the neck of his shirt and raised her hand back. Shinji simply averted his eyes and waited for the strike.

Misato froze, let go of him, lowered her voice, and said "Just go home, Shinji. I'll be working late tonight.

"Yes Ma'am. I'll head home." He started on his way back. The sound of a slap came from the locker room after Shinji left Misato as the only occupant.

A/N: This one was actually a complete pain to write. So please criticize, review, offer insight, flame, because I need the advice.