Chapter 8: Welcome to the family
Hey kid I have to question, whats with the violent agression?
"So cool!" Kensuke exclaims, while moving around in the already cramped helicopter to get a shot. "Sit down military nerd." Touji says while putting a hand on Kensuke's shoulder and forcibly making him sit back down. "Couldn't we have traveled in anything roomier?" I ask. Misato looks to the back seat and almost laughs at the site of Shinji, Rei, Touji, Kensuke, and I all cramped in the back of the helicopter which was probably only made to fit 3 people at the most.
"I'm sorry but the captain of the Over the Rainbow wouldn't let us travel any other way and despite the fact that we're important NERV employees on the sea what he says goes." Misato explains. Eventually the helicopter lands and when the doors open we all fall into a big pile. "Well I'm going to go introduce myself to the captain." Misato says while stifling a giggle at our predicament. We all pick ourselves while she walks away. I look around at the scenery, I lived in the country so I was never around the sea too much. "The water looks nice but it smells a bit..." Shinji pauses for a second while trying to think of the right word. "I think the word your looking for is fishy." I say. "Yeah that's the one." Shinji replies. Suddenly our conversation is interrupted by a sudden outburst by a loudmouthed jock as Hikari once put it.
"My hat!" Touji exclaims as he and Kensuke chase after it. Shinji, Rei, and I follow after them. I watch as a redheaded girl stomps on the hat, "The crimson princess herself" I mumble. Yep standing before our little gang is none other than Asuka Langely Sohryu, the girl with hair almost as fiery as her personality. Wait a minute is someone else with her, before I can get my answer the wind picks up and since Asuka was wearing her yellow sundress just like in the anime well...
A few seconds later the sound of four audible slaps echo throughout the ship. Kensuke, Touji, Shinji, and I were all rubbing our cheeks, I guess Rei got a free pass since she was a woman. "Ow, what the hell was that!" Touji yells. "That was the viewing fee, pretty generous wouldn't you agree?" Asuka asks smugly.
"I sure got my moneys worth, Red." comes a voice from the other girl that you saw earlier. She drapes her arm around Asuka's shoulders while laughing a bit. "Of course YOU would Mari." Asuka replies as she rolls her eyes. I take another look at the girl "Mari? She wasn't in the show." I think to myself. She has brown hair, a headband that looks suspiciously like the ones pilots wear while wearing their plugsuit, and glasses. She seems to of worn a simple T-shirt that shows off her navel and some shorts. Suddenly she walks up and...sniffs everyone? She practically purrs when she finally gets to me. "Oh you must be the fifth child who killed Ramiel single handedly." she says.
I blush at how close she is and lean back a bit "Uh y-yeah that's me." I stutter. "You gonna fill me in Mari?" Asuka asks. Mari backs off from me a bit and answers Asuka. "They're all Eva pilots." Mari says. "ALL OF THEM?!" Asuka yells in disbelief. "Yeah, you seriously didn't hear about all the new recruits?" Mari asks. "That can't be possible, this many new pilots in such a short amount of time?" Asuka says still in disbelief. While Mari and Asuka argue a bit my mind wanders a bit. Who is this Mari and more importantly how could she tell we were Eva pilots through the power of scent?
The argument seems to have ended "Geez Nerv must be getting desperate." Asuka says after finally believing Mari. "Hey this guy right here defeated an angel the first time he ever piloted an Eva." Mari drapes an arm over Shinji. "And this guy achieved a 300% synch rate during his second fight." Mari drapes her other arm over me. "T-thanks Mari." Shinji says still a bit surprised. "No problem." Mari says cheerfully before winking at him.
"Well since I guess we're going to be teammates we might as well introduce ourselves." Asuka says with more than a bit of disdain, and that look in her eye, is that jealousy for mine and Shinji's piloting skills? I smirk a bit since I couldn't help but get some satisfaction out of that.
"I'm Asuka Langely Soryu, charmed huh?" Asuka starts off. "I'm Mari Makinami." Mari says before giving you guys another flirtatious look. "Shinji Ikari." says in his usual passive way. "Brandyn Hicks here." I say casually. "I am Rei Ayanami" Rei says in her usual monotone voice. "Wonder girl." Asuka practically growls. I look around "Um...where did Kensuke and Touji go?" I ask. "They left a few moments ago." Rei answers. "Ah I see, Kensuke probably went to go get some more footage of the ships." I respond.
"So where's Misato?" Asuka asks all of a sudden. "She said she was going to introduce herself to the captain." Rei says. "Why do you care anyway?" I ask. "Misato was Asuka's guardian albeit only briefly." Mari answers. "Can't I want to go see how she's doing?" Asuka says. I would've said something smart but my cheek is still stinging from her last slap.
Our little gang walks to the captains bridge (sorry if I got that wrong I don't know the first thing about ships.) and find Misato arguing with the captain. "Look until that toy is on land it's my responsibility." the captain says. "Alright fine but sign this saying that in case of angel attack Nerv gets full authority over the Eva." Misato says, I could tell that Misato was just tired of arguing with the stubborn captain.
Misato turns to find us standing there, "Oh hey Asuka." She says. "It's been a while Misato." Asuka replies. "You've sure grown up." Misato says. "And that's not all, my figure's filled out as well." Asuka brags while putting her hands on her hips. "Must not think dirty thoughts, Must not think dirty thoughts." I chant in my head.
"So what toy was that captain talking about earlier?" Shinji asks. "God you're such an idiot, he's talking about my Unit 02." Asuka replies." O-oh." Shinji says. "And these are supposed to be the saviors of the world, give me a break." the Captain snaps. "Let's get out of here." Mari states. "I agree." I well...agree.
"Hey don't forget about me." says a mysterious voice. "Oh No." Misato mumbles while pinching the bridge of her nose. Meanwhile Asuka's face lights up almost instantly. I take a large step back to make sure I'm not caught in the middle when the sparks fly. The mysterious figure steps onto the bridge, "Kaji!" Asuka yells and hugs him. "Why are you here?" Misato bitterly asks. "I couldn't just pass up the chance to see my favorite woman in the world." he replies. I couldn't tell if he was playing along with Asuka's game or if he was talking to Misato...probably both.
"Oh come on Brandyn there's plenty of room." Mari purrs. I look at the packed elevator, Misato, Touji, Shinji, Asuka, and Kaji just barely fit in the elevator. "That's ok Mari I'll just take the next one." I say. "Oh well I guess Shinji will have to do." Mari says. Shinji's face instantly turns red. I push the elevator and the last I hear from the group are Misato and Asuka yelling at Kaji and Touji. I wait for a little bit and take the next elevator with Kensuke and Rei.
A few minutes later everyone was sitting down for lunch. "So tell me you two, is Misato still wild in bed?" everyone except Me, Mari, and Shinji are shocked at what they just heard. "Well she does snore." I comment, I savor this moment since she's the one usually doing the teasing.
Suddenly the boat is rocked and the alarm sounds. "Touji, Asuka follow me." Misato says and runs towards their Eva's. "So...what do we do?" I ask casually. Before anyone else can say anything Kensuke runs off with his camera. "Well I guess that answers my question." I say before running off after him. We make it just in time to watch Units 02 and 03 activate. "Oh geez these two working together, this oughta be good." Mari says. "This isn't a game Mari." Shinji says.
"Now this angel swims and you guys have B type equipment on, so wait for it to come to you." Misato says over the loudspeaker. "Got it!" both pilots say simultaneously. Gaghiel suddenly jumps out of the water towards Unit 02 jaw wide open. Asuka dodges the angel and it lands on the ship, Asuka then prys the angels jaw open. "Touji now!" Asuka yells. Touji aims at the core with his rifle but before he can take the shot the angel bites down on unit 02. "Asuka!" Misato yells. Unit 03 hops to the ship Asuka's on and prys open Gaghiels mouth. Asuka wastes no time getting out her progressive knives and stabbing that bitch in it's core.
The core explodes as per usual and Touji just kinda casually kicks the Angel back into the sea.
Some time later
"You alright Asuka?" Mari asks. "Of course I am, the hardest part of this mission was having to work with this stooge." Asuka jerks her thumb towards Touji. "Hey would've been fish food if it wasn't for me!" Touji yells. "Yep" I think, "everything's back to normal." "Hey we're only a few miles off shore, we'll be on dry land in no time." Misato exclaims. Everyone cheers at that, we would've been strangling each other if we had to spend anymore time together like this. I look around...wait a minute where did Kaji go?
Sorry about the dissapoint fight...again. I just can't write them for the life of me. On another note a few disclaimers and clarifications. 1. Why do "I" know nothing about Mari despite being a huge Eva fan? Well because I wanted some sense of mystery in this story. 2. Speaking of Mari why is she such a flirt, she's not like that in the movies(from what little we've seen of her anyway)? Well because I'm basing this off the personality that she was given in the fanfic Rebirth by RyoshiMorino. If you haven't read that yet well I recommend it.
3. If any avenged sevenfold fans have read this you'll notice that Welcome to the family is the name of one of their songs and that the little quote is from that song. I'll be doing this from time to time (or all the time...IDK yet) I'll just name the chapter after a song and put a quote from said song at the beginning of the chapter, this quote will describe an event of character featured in that chapter. For example the quote I used this time obviously describes Asuka.
That's about it hope you enjoyed the chapter.