Shinji sighed as he looked at the fancy, yet empty limousine. He wasn't surprised that Corset told the unknown driver to take him to the shopping district of Daten City, since he was sure that the man wanted to speak to Scanty and Kneesocks about their new duties as his apprentices. He wasn't afraid to admit that he would of liked a guide that could take him to trust worthy stores that he could shop at without worrying about people recognizing his NERV issued bank card, but he didn't feel like bothering Corset even more than he must of been.
"If you ever need a ride, no matter where you are, just whistle loudly while thinking of the word Fastener. Do that, and you'll be picked up within seconds of your current location." Was all Corset told him before waving him off. What a Fastener was, Shinji didn't have a clue, but he did know that he was glad to see the large mall coming up to the limousine. When the vehicle stopped, he slowly got out, taking careful glances at the people that were looking at him and the vehicle. It wasn't everyday you saw someone walking out of a limousine, and he was hoping, again, that no one would recognize him.
"Thank you driver-san." Shinji said before closing the door. He quickly hurried into the mall, instantly taking in the hundreds of conversations into account and smiled as he found an electronic store to his left. It wasn't hard to find the batteries he needed, though he would of liked to of found them for a cheaper price, and bought three packs of batteries, rather than his usual high amounts. He noticed that some of the customers in this store were unique, for lack of a proper term that wasn't insulting, as they wore either capes, kitty ears, or some form of mask that reminded him of ancient Indian and African tribes.
Seeing as he wanted to explore parts of Daten City anyway, he decided to look around the mall in hopes of finding more places he would enjoy to be at. His choice to explore the mall was the right one, he decided, when he saw that a toy shop was stocked with Evangelion toys, some stocked with mini figures of them. Each were wonderful in details, though the Angels were the only figures that had the most differences, possibly due to not obtaining enough information or images to base a figure off the original. He couldn't help but to laugh at the least popular figure, an Asuka figure that was blown up similarly when she was sent to capture Sandalphon, and bought one to send to her in the future.
After he bought the figure, he found himself feeling hungry, a reminder that he hadn't eaten anything in the past several hours that wasn't airplane food or peanuts, and made his way for the food court. Finding the elevator to take him up was tricky, as all of the escalators in the mall were being worked on today, and he had to wait a solid ten minutes before being able to get to the top floor. The line to get through the elevator was annoying, and he was sure that there were more people leaving the elevator than going up it, but he wasn't sure if his eyes were tricking him or not. By the time he did make it up there, he was welcomed with an unfamiliar sight that he was sure wasn't a sign of good cuisine.
Vomit, and a lot of it.
"Yuck! who the hell brought out the Two Girls and A Cup on the jumbo screen here? At least it smells better than the Immoral Motel..." Shinji turned to see Panty walking towards him, followed by Stocking, who had a thick, leather bound cook book in hand, and a teenage guy with poofy orange hair, slight freckles, and wore a green jumpsuit. On his back was a large gray container with a tube connected to its side, making him think if he the guy's job was to suck up the vomit, or was a leaf blower. He wouldn't be surprised if it was either of those two, since America's jobs weren't as bountiful to find anymore as they were several years ago.
"I-I don't know P-Panty-chan. I think-"
"Oh, you're still here Geek Boy?" Shinji saw the guy flinch at her words. Well, flinch might of not been the right way to put it. Hurt, maybe? Either way, he watched as the trio stood next to him, each wearing a different facial expression that made him wonder if the two girls would remember him. "Why HELLO cutie! At least I have something good to look at amongst this shit."
"Hello there person from our flight." Panty, who was only inches away from hugging Shinji, suddenly stopped midstep and kicked him into the pool of vomit. The force of the kick caused him to make a decent size tidal wave, which coated the trio before they could even attempt to dodge the disgusting slime.
"What DA FAK man! I just got the cum smell back into these too!"
"Well," Shinji stood up and glared at the blond, "then you shouldn't of PUSHED ME INTO THE VOMIT NOW SHOULD YA!" The two glared at one another, slowly walking towards one another with their hands turning into fists, though, in his case, it was so he could walk past her and hurry for a bathroom and buy some new clothes.
"I don't see why you're complaining." Stocking commented, catching his attention. "You're somehow not even convered in the vomit like we are." At that, he stopped walking and looked at himself. There wasn't a single trace, not even a tiny smudge was on him, and that was certainly not normal. He didn't know why, but he felt something inside of him burn in rage, and closed his left eye, picturing miniature heads of Rei and Lilith appearing side by side.
"Something is coming, and it doesn't like us one bit." As if Lilith's words triggered the unknown thing to appear, the vomit that laid uselessly on the floor began to rise, using the unconscious people that were in the food court to hide its liquid self behind the mass of humans. When it found out that, despite the amount of humans it managed to make unconscious, wasn't enough to hide its core, it sought its sights upon the four of them, and launched several tables at them.
"Take cover!" The ginger guy shouted as he dove to the side, narrowly avoiding the round table that would of cleaved his head right off. It was thanks to all of the simulation training he did in the Eva that Shinji found himself moving down the broken escalator to avoid being hit by the flying debris, though, he was more thankful for his position as it allowed him to see, though barely, Panty and Stocking release their unknown energy from a safe distance. If he thought that their energy was bad before, now it was as if he was smelling raw sewage that was infested with radioactive crap within it.
It was a wonder that the two girls found enough time to perform a strip tease on two randomly produced poles that weren't there before, singing as they did so. It was MORE of a wonder as to why the unknown monster allowed for the two girls to finish their transformation sing-a-long, as the Angels wouldn't of waited for him to finish coming out of the Geofront to attack. He was unsure as to what exactly the two were, thanks to Lilith's words earlier, but now that he saw the transformation, he had a pretty sure idea as to what they were, and it was hilarious to an extent.
"Angels?" Shinji muttered to himself with a shake of his head. "A perverted girl and a gothic girl are ANGELS..." The energy, which he would now call their unique energy angelic, toned down enough for him to walk back up the escalator to witness more of the battle between the unknown entity and the angels. He noticed that most of the energy seemed to be coming from their wings, which were smaller than what he'd assume actual angels would have, and their blue and white weapons. Panty's weapons were two pistols, each had a small, tiny pink bow right above the barrel of the gun, making him wonder how much ammunition those things had, since she was shot more rounds at the entity than a regular pistol could hold.
"Tch, Stocking! Those meat shields of his are preventing me from getting a clear shot at the true him! Draw out the bastard's shields for me, K!" Stocking's choice of weapons were much different, though more practical in this situation. Two long, sharp katana were her weapons, allowing her to cut at the humans that were forced to become the "flesh" of the entity, which made said entity extend its arms towards the running goth. Surprisingly, though to the horror of the angels, the entity simply ran its liquid mass through the rear entrance of the humans, allowing it to exit through their mouth and connect more victims that were hiding in nearby food stations to its limbs. If it continued to obtain more humans, the entity could grow to become a giant, or at least have multiple thick layers of human meat.
"What the hell!" Stocking stabbed two of the humans, who were conscious, through their stomaches, causing both them and the entity to scream in pain before she was slapped into a wall. The entity didn't allow her to prepare herself, and took little to no time to slam its large arms onto her, earning the wrath of her sister's bullets. This sudden force of opposition was enough for the entity to pull away, allowing for Panty, who was in the air using her wings for flight, to pick up her sister and her katanas.
"FAK! This isn't going well! So many men, yet I can't touch a single one until I get rid of this disgusting fuck!" Despite the random statement that would of normally made Shinji choke on air, he ignored the comment and looked at the unknown entity, wondering how the two angels would combat against the enemy of unknown origins. His answer, at least to the wonder of the origins of the entity, would be revealed via the speaker system.
"Hey, you bitches!" A deep, booming voice declared, causing the entity to pause in its attack. It wasn't the only one that stopped its movements, as Panty floated in mid air, merely inches away from one of the entity's long arms, which was for the best, as Stocking was slowly regaining movement. "That is Barf-o-lous! It is the ghost of all of the victims at this mall that have died due to the food served here that didn't pass code! It now lives, hoping to bring about despair to those who didn't fall victim to the food served at this mall! Do not let it collect any humans, or else it will-"
"A bit late for that AFRO PRIEST!" Panty shouted as Stocking got out of her sister's hold. She flew towards the entity with both katanas spinning, causing the blonde to look at her hands to see that she no longer held the deadly short range weapons. The entity moved its right arm to block the deadly attack, a tactic that most likely would of worked, if it weren't for the fact that Stocking aimed for the heads of the humans, allowing the spinning katanas to amputate more than half of its arm. However, the victory was short lived, as the entity slammed itself into Stocking, forcing her into a bubble of vomit that, despite all logic, couldn't pop with her weapons.
"W-What the hell!" Stocking's words sounded muffled, as if she spoke behind a mask, though that wasn't the strangest bit that Shinji saw. What was strange was that, after several seconds of being stuck in the vomit bubble, her katanas lost their glow, and changed into a pair of stockings.
"They won't win that way." Lilith spoke, startling Shinji, who was deeply enveloped into the battle. "Their weapons, though they have the angelic energy imbuned into them, don't have enough substance within them to penetrate the being of that ghost, was it? It would take them to keep a cool head and to charge up for a large scale attack to completely diminish that abomination."
'What about Panty's weapon? With the amount of bullets she has been shooting at it, wouldn't it be enough to slow down its regeneration enough for Stocking to land the killing blow?'
"As long as that ghost doesn't reveal its core, then it doesn't matter how often they cut its limbs or kill the humans that shield its true form. As long as its core is hidden, then it can escape when it has no more humans, and repeat its process of regaining skin, using them as its puppets for them to kill, and attack or trap them as the gothic one is going through." Shinji looked up at Panty, who seemed to be getting angrier and began shooting at the light fixtures and kicked them at the ghost. Despite the general idea, her current tactic was doing more damage towards the surrounding area, rather than hurting the ghost, as well as nearly killing Shinji, thanks to the pile of deceased humans that was sent his way.
'Can we do anything about it?' He asked as he looked down to see the humans that didn't have their heads cut off from Stocking's attempt were beginning to stir. He felt something within him move, something he hadn't felt before, and found himself slowly walking towards the pile of humans that were now at the base floor of the escalator. 'W-what am I doing?'
"Do not worry." Lilith called out to him as he reached the floor. He bent down, moving the deceased bodies towards one another in an orderly fashion. He couldn't help but to feel disgusted at the blood that began to stain his hands, but couldn't stop himself of whatever Lilith was planning. "I am simply providing you with a weapon, no, a means to defeating the enemy that the angels can not. Now, pay attention, as you will have to do this on your own one day without my guidance..." Before he could fathom what she meant, he felt his the palms of his hands split open, earning a wince from him as bright orange liquid poured from his new wounds onto the bodies. Within seconds of making contact with the corpses, they began to twist, ripping the clothing that covered them until only shreds remained, allowing the liquid to melt the corpses at an alarming rate.
The liquid proceeded to float up to his chest level, spinning in a constant location until he reached out for it with both hands. As soon as he touched it, he felt the openings on his hands close, and the liquid condensed itself into a long, familiar object he was surprised to have in his hands. The red spear that was used to kill the Angel Arael, was now clutched in his hands, with his right hand near the point where it unwined to become the massive tines, with the left stabilizing the lower half of the spear. He suddenly felt himself become much warmer, and saw himself being covered by the orange blood that came out of him, causing him to lose his balance and fell onto his butt.
"Fear not," Lilith's voice called out from his mind, "I am merely providing you a, disguise, I believe it is called. It wouldn't do you any good if you were recognized with such a weapon now would it?" Shinji, seeing the reflective surface of the metal on the escalator, used it as a proxy mirror to see that what he now looked like. The changes weren't serious, as his hair was now pale blue, similar to Rei's, with his eyes being that of Lilith's alluring orbs that promised a peaceful death, and his simple white button up shirt and blue dress pants replaced with a cloak with a white and red diamond pattern that, if he could see correctly, had an image of the Tree of Life upon his shoulder.
'Were...were these changes truly necessary?' He found himself standing with the spear of Longinus held in his hands at an angle that wouldn't stab his foot as he walked up the escalator. As he reached the second floor, he was welcomed to see that Panty was now stuck in a vomit bubble next to her sister, watching as Barf-o-lous continued to destroy the food court without any sign of stopping its attack.
"Now, go on and vanquish the enemy as you were meant to, mankind's savior." With that, he felt Lilith's presence leave him, allowing him to regain control of his body. Her presence must of been masking him from the ghost's senses; however, as it instantly turned to him and released a mighty roar, sending multiple humans towards him in seconds. He, much to his honest surprise, found himself dodging the sudden onslaught, making steady progress to get close enough to the ghost, rather than falling back for cover. As he got several feet away from it, it brought its arms, even if the one that Stocking previously amputated was more of a stub, tried to punch him into the wall to his right. He stabbed the spear forward with his eyes closed, feeling as if it was the last thing he would ever do. Imagine his surprise when, rather than screaming in pain, he heard an unearthly roar of agony, and opened his eyes to see the liquid that made the ghost evaporating in the general direction of the spear, allowing for the humans connected to it to safely fall to the ground.
'Its...its as if its producing a ton of heat. No...' Shinji thought of the footage that he saw of Rei using the true size of the spear to destroy Arael, who was too high in the atmosphere for any of humanity's weapons to hurt it. The weapon, from what the footage showed, warped the physical body of the angel until its physical form was no more. 'It penetrated the A.T. Field that kept the liquid body together, which in turn forced its control of the victims to fall! I can do this! I can fight this without hurting anyone!' "Die!" Shinji found himself lunging at the ghost with the spear twirling in his hands. The ghost pulled back, flinging humans at him, though he knew that, if he didn't hurt the ghost soon, it would leave through an opening that he couldn't follow through!
'Its a SPEAR Shinji-kun...' Rei's voice whispered to him, causing him to stop spinning the deadly weapon and threw it. The ghost began to duck down, ejecting a platoon of humans off its back to avoid anymore of its body to be evaporated from the spear, causing Shinji to widen his eyes in anger. No, he would not allow it to escape. It would die so humanity could be safe for a while longer! Nothing would prevent its death today, NOTHING! Then, right as the spear would of flew through the window, shattering it with ease, and flying off out to space, it stopped mid-flight, turned around in a blur of red, and flew straight through the ghost, causing it to explode upon contact. Even as the ghost known as Barf-o-lous's screams were painfully obvious to him, he couldn't help but to smile as the spear of Longinus flew back in front of him, waiting for him to reclaim it in his grasp.
'I...I did it.' Shinji grabbed the spear, turned around, and began to hurry down the escalator, hoping to get out of the hopefully empty mall before anyone saw him. He didn't expect for the spear to start to melt in his hand, nor was he expecting for his palms to open up, allowing the suddenly liquified spear to enter his body. He did not need anyone, especially the angels, to see him being the person who killed a ghost, and hurried straight into the closest clothing store he could. He grabbed as many different articles of clothing as he could, not caring for what he grabbed, and ran straight into a clothing booth, and sighed as he saw his physical features slowly returning to their normal color tones. Once he was sure that his body was done with its changes, he put on as many of the different clothes as possible, not caring for how ridiculous he would look.
It was then that he recalled Corset-san's advice about when he needed to be picked up from his destination. He was unsure as to how it would work, since he was sure that there were millions of people who whistled exactly like he did, even if they didn't know the word Fastener. So how could one particular driver, one that might of been already back at the corporate building, hear him? With a sigh, he whistled as loudly as he could, thinking of the strange word that he was told to think. After a few seconds, he sighed once more, knowing that the action must of not done anything. A prank, he figured, the man had done in order to have him become more relaxed around him, perhaps?
"FASTENER!" A loud, devious voice called out as the smell of burning rubber tires suddenly filled Shinji's nose. He coughed at the sudden strong scent, knowing something was wrong in seconds, and opened the door. Much to his surprise, the limousine was inside the clothing store, through means that he couldn't possibly decide how it could of been done, and slapped his forehead. Now WASN'T the time to think of how it was done!
"We need to get back home, now!" Shinji yelled as he stepped into the limousine. He heard the high pitched voice once more respond in an odd noise, and felt the vehicle move at a speed he wasn't used to feeling. It was as if he was riding with Misato all over again, and that certainly wasn't a pleasant trip. Either way, he was content to of killed a ghost, even if it wasn't what he pictured an actual ghost to be, though it placed a troubling thought into his mind. What if there were more ghosts in this town that were as bad to fight against as that one?
What if they were worse?
Panty and Stocking didn't seem to be the best of fighters, as they simply rushed into the battle letting their emotions control them more than it should of, and got them captured. He knew from experience that letting emotions rule over you wasn't the smartest of choices, ESPECIALLY during a life or death battle, so he wondered if there were any other protectors to this city. Then again, if this was happening in the city, then why should he stay in Daten City if it was going to end up being another Tokyo 3?
'I can think about it after I get something to eat.' Shinji thought as his stomach growled. He wasn't sure if he was hearing correctly, but he could of sworn the driver was laughing at him. Still, he could live with a little laughter made from his expense. 'At least I can get out of these tacky clothes.'
"And in other news! A crazy thing happened at the Daten Mall earlier today, around two O'Five or so, witnesses have reported an enemy ghost appearing and attacked the victims inside of the mall at the time. Even though the enemy ghost was killed by the Anarchy sisters, there was extensive damage done to the mall structure, unfortunately closing it down until further notice. The damage is thought to be in the high thousands. Back to you Jeff!"
"Thanks Anna. Speaking of Daten Mall, THIEVES! There was an unknown man who robbed a popular store, Lunar Moon's, of hundreds of dollars worth of clothing! Despite the best technology has to offer, video cameras couldn't get a clear image of the man in question, but, when he escaped the store, we did get a shot of him wearing all of the clothes he grabbed in order to hide his looks!" On the TV was a man wearing two wigs, a mullet styled wig that was mostly green with blue streaks, and a bright blue twin tailed wig. In order to hold down the wigs, there was a long, yet tight, black top hat that had a bit of strain around the man's head.
As if to "compliment" the head piece, the man wore multiple shirts, most of which were only noticed due to the different shirts peaking below the shirt before them, with the first shirt being a bright pink "Not Homo" shirt. The jacket was a high collar fuzzy winter jacket that would, when zipped up, prevent the individual's lower jaw from being seen, and wore a pair of dark green cargo pants. Finally, the final piece of the outfit were a pair of large, orange shades that poked out several inches past the person's face, which, due to how sharp the acute corners of the shades looked, could be used as a weapon if needed.
'Was...Was that how I looked when I ran to the limousine?' Shinji thought as he felt his left eye twitch, his mouth wide open above his small dinner plate. He was eating a rather fancy dinner at Corset's home, who also had Scanty-san and Kneesocks-san enjoy dinner with him as well. He couldn't find himself getting rid of the ridiculous look out of his mind, and found himself unable to finish the rest of his breaded tilapia.
"Kekeke, such splendid fashion thieves are sporting these days, don't you think girls?" Corset stated before taking a sip of his wine. Scanty began to giggle as Kneesocks shook her head, glancing at the television with a frown.
"I can't believe that someone would steal such tacky clothes while their life was in danger. If they were going to steal, they should of stolen something much more valuable, such as cell phones or jewelry. One should plan for an event such as this in, isn't that right Onee-chan?" Shinji stood up and grabbed his plate to store it for later tonight, as he was sure that Lilith would keep him up by discussing the events that happened at the mall.
"I'm sorry," Shinji said, as he noticed that he was getting looks from the others, "I'm not feeling so well. Must of been from smelling all of that vomit from the ghost." Seeing them nod, he hurried to his room, feeling a certain weight fill his heart as he walked away.
-Author Note-
As usual, I don't own P&S or Evangelion. If I did, well, I'd be tested for drugs due to the insanity each series holds, and most likely wouldn't be allowed to create anything new. So, now that I've said that, I'm glad that I've gotten several reviews about continuing this story, though I will most likely save the final decision for one, maybe two more chapters in order to reach an actual canon event. With that said, time for review responses!
HotelKatz: Thank you for your review! I'm sure I can have Panty insult Lilith somewhere in the future if this is continued, though I'm more sure that Lilith will demand punishment for whatever our favorite blonde angel says about Shinji. She seems to care for her new avatar, doesn't she?
The Lord Of Pages: Thank you for your review, and I'm happy to see a dedicated reader review for the first time! I might actually make another Sailor Moon story soon, since my girlfriend has the entire manga collection at her disposal (major bonus), so I can come up with more plot and facts than doing guess work. I do hope that you start writing your own P&S stories, as I want to read what you come up with, and maybe we can chat of many ideas?
Bloody Brandy: Thank you for your constant stream of reviews! Panty is, I'm hoping my writing will compliment her, will be more in tune to her original happy go fucking character, rather than simply a sex driven girl with no care for family or friends, like in the Queen and Her Drone, where she is more badass combat style, but doesn't care for common sense. In Evangelion, I believe Misato explained, or was it Lilith/Ritsuko, to Shinji that Angels were actually humans from the first race that gave up their human form to become avatars of Adam? I can't recall the exact details, but it was mostly due to Shinji's wish that changed everything, though, with Panty and Stocking appearing in Tokyo 3, maybe they caused one of SEELE's bases to be destroyed?
Brisingrstorm: Thank you for your review and your vote for me to continue this! I'm glad you've enjoyed the first chapter, and I hope you enjoyed this one as well!
Reality Deviant: Thank you for your review and your opinion for me to continue writing this story! I do hope that you look into the P&S series, as there are plenty of cursing, humor, sexual themes, and good character animations to poke fun at, especially if you know the references they make! As to why Misato told him to follow the girls, she had a feeling that two girls like Panty and Stocking were sure to have an interesting life or destination ahead of them. So, what better choice was there for her to force Shinji to make the choice of following them to Daten City, when he was preparing to leave to America anyway?
Either way, again, I thank you readers and reviewers for taking the time to enjoy this story! I do hope that you enjoyed this chapter, and I hope to hear your opinions even more than before. Until next time everyone!