Chapter 9:Teamwork
Now normally I save any comments I have for the end of the chapter but this is pretty important, for anyone who has been following this story since the beginning, I just wanted to tell you guys that I've retconned confessing to knowing everything to Misato because honestly I just don't think that the ideas I have in mind will work as well if I kept that plot point in. For anyone who has started reading this story after I post this chapter well I've already edited the chapters so you have nothing to worry about.
"Wait what?!" Misato exclaims, shortly after getting back on land Gendo had asked to speak with everyone. "I cannot believe you." Shinji bluntly states. "I'm not doing this, no way!" Asuka yells. Mari just winks at me and Shinji. "I've already set everything up, all the pilots will be living together from now on, with you Captain Katsuragi as their guardian." Gendo repeats himself. "But my apartment isn't big enough to fit these many kids." Misato says. "We've had a house built while you were gone." Gendo says.
Two weeks later
Mari's out, Shinji's cooking lunch, Rei's petting Pen-Pen, Touji and Kensuke are reading some kind of comic, and Misato's still asleep, yep everything's peaceful. "Asuka don't get in my way!" I yell. "In YOUR way, I'm the one doing most of the work here!" she yells back. "Oh no! Asuka, Ramiel's got me in a corner." I say. "Well then go berserk, I've got my own troubles with these mooks!" she responds. "I don't have enough energy-ah goddamnit!" I yell. I had bought a game system shortly after moving in, the job of saving the world nets you a pretty big paycheck. We were playing a 2d beat em up centered around the Eva's (think turtles in time with Evangelions instead of the turtles.)
I look at the screen, it's just a picture of all the the angels taunting the fallen Eva's with the text game over in the middle of the screen. "Dummkopf! Thanks to you we lost!" Asuka yells before throwing the controller at my head. "EEP!" I yell instinctively while ducking under the projectile. "Oh, looks like Asuka's gone on another rampage." Touji states. Asuka begins to go on a rant about how she's better than me at everything, including video games, I just nod throughout the speech. "God your just as housebroken as that pathetic Shinji." she says before storming back to her room. "Lunch is ready." Shinji says as he walks into the living room. He takes a look at Asuka as she stomps back to her room and then at the game controller wedged into the wall. "Uh what did I miss?" he asks.
After explaining the situation to Shinji, we all sit down for lunch (well everyone but Asuka and Misato) by this point Mari had come back. "So where did you run off to anyway?" I ask her as she sits down. "Oh uh, Shinji asked me to get groceries." she says while holding up a small bag. "No I-" Shinji suddenly stops. "Don't think I didn't notice that wink his way, Mari." I think to myself, though I don't actually call her out on it. I go back to my rice. Honestly the only two japanese foods I could adjust to were rice and miso soup, I feel a bit bad about forcing Shinji to essentially cook two meals whenever he cooks but it's not like I can change my taste buds. Suddenly we all hear a knock at the door.
Shinji goes to answer it, he opens the door and...Ritsuko?! "I uh hi Dr. Akagi." Shinji stutters obviously surprised by her sudden appearance. "The third and sixth children will come with me." Ritsuko states. "Wait a minute what the hell is going on here." Touji demands "An angel is attacking and I need you and Shinji to come with me. Mari, Brandyn, Kensuke, and Asuka...wherever she is will stay in Tokyo 3 in case of another angel attack, also hand this note to Misato when she wakes up, it'll just be easier than explaining it to her." Mari being the closest one to the door (except for Shinji obviously) takes the note. Ritsuko, Shinji, and Touji leave. "So uh...what do we do now?" I ask.
About an hour has passed and by this point Misato has woken up and Asuka has calmed down. Kensuke, Mari and I explain the situation to them. "I wish my Eva was here, then I would've been able to go on a super cool mission." Kensuke says. Asuka scoffs, "Please, as if someone like you will be able to pilot an Eva." "Hey I was chosen for a reason." Kensuke defends. "Only because Nerv was desperate, which I don't really understand when they have the greatest Eva pilot in their arsenal, me!" Asuka brags.
"Asuka you're going to learn how to work with other Eva pilots sooner or later." Misato says. "Hah! I can take care of the angels myself, I don't need any help from the rest of these so called 'Eva pilots'". Asuka spits venomously. Jesus christ now I know why Shinji strangled her in the End of Evangelion. Well it was a hallucination of sorts but still. "Didn't Touji save you just a few days ago?" I ask before ducking down expecting something heavy to be hurled at my head.
Suddenly Misato's phone rings, "What, why now?!" she exclaims. "Come on, another angels appeared." She says before walking towards her car. "Um, can't we walk?" I ask remembering the last time Misato drove us anywhere. "Oh don't be such a baby." Asuka mocks. I sigh and get into the car and immediately realize that fitting four people into Misato's back seat is a bad idea. "Well at least I got a window seat" I think to myself.
Mari's right beside me to my left, of course. I wonder whats with her anyway she always seems to be flirting with me and Shinji yet not Kensuke and Touji, weird. The car suddenly stops making all of us fly forward a bit and interrupts my train of thought. "We're here." Misato says.
"Rei and Asuka go get suited up." she adds. A few minutes later Mari, Kensuke, and I are in the command HQ watching Units 00 and 02 being launched to the surface. "This is going to be so cool!" Kensuke exclaims while pointing his camera towards the screen. "Pay attention, you'll have to do this soon." Misato says to Kensuke.
"Units 00 and 02 have reached the surface, what are your orders captain?" Makoto asks. "Rei, Asuka we don't anything about this angel so just keep your distance and if you see an opening go for the core." Misato orders. "Heh I can take this angel on myself, so just stay out of my way wonder girl." Asuka says before charging towards the angel with her sonic glaive. She jumps up and cuts the angel in two.
Everyone begins to cheer thinking we've won. I take the mircrophone from Misato, with her yelling a startled "Hey!" "Asuka I think I just saw it twitch, get out of there." I order or well try to anyway. "What you talking about you dummkopf?" she asks. Suddenly the angel splits into two, and tries to attack Asuka, she dodges though. "Look wonder girl, I need some help here." Asuka whines. Everyone in Hq is surprised by Asuka's cry for help.
"While your in the giving mood will you trust me?" I ask her. Misato's just kind've standing there not knowing how to react to the fact that I basically took her job. "What are you planning?" Asuka asks curiosly. "Well it's not too far fetched that the core split when the angel did, so taking both cores out at once makes the most sense." I say trying to act like I'm just figuring this out now. "Your smarter than you look, you get all that wonder girl?" Asuka asks. "Affirmative." Rei responds. "Then follow my lead." Asuka orders.
She takes out her handy progressive knife, and Rei, her Eva recently being refitted with the shoulder pylons does the same. Asuka dodges another swipe by Isfarel as Rei runs up to the other half. Both Rei and Asuka, apparently being of one mind for a little kick their respective half towards each other thus forcing Isfarel to reform into it's base form. Before it can complete doing that though both Rei and Asuka stab into the core with their progressive knives. Suddenly Isfarel explodes, leaving a small crater in it's wake.
A quick zoom in on the monitor shows that the Evas are relatively unharmed. "Now see Asuka was asking for help really that hard?" I ask. "Hmph." is the only response Asuka gives. "Good news! Shinji and Touji destroyed their angel too." Ritsuko's voice suddenly states over the monitor. I mentally breath a sigh of relief, that's two more angels down. Suddenly I feel like someone is watching me, I whip around and see Gendo higher up in the room staring at me. That's right you bastard, I'll be coming for you soon enough.
I apologize for the delay guys, I just had no motivation to write this particular chapter for some reason. I guess this is what writers block feels like. Anyway I now have a bit more of a plot formed in my head so things should pick up by the time I get to Leliel (the zebra ball...thing). P.S yeah I know I was lazy with the title this time.