Creation began on 10-21-16
Creation ended on 12-05-16
Neon Genesis Evangelion
To come so far
Kensuke didn't feel comfortable to be back inside Unit-04. It just didn't feel right, anymore. Maybe it had something to do with the subconscious fact that his mind had felt elsewhere for nearly four years in another world with a missing friend while only two days went by while he was sleeping, but that didn't change the fact that more time went by there than here. And now, here he was again, two more days after recovering from barbiturates being informed that the project to send his consciousness back and forth between the two worlds was on hold until the Giovanni Corporation fine-tuned their equipment and NERV needed him back inside the Eva.
"His synchronization is at fifty-one percent, Ma'am," went Maya to Ritsuko, evaluating Kensuke's synchronization ratio.
"So, is it true about what he said about Shinji?" Hyuga asked Maya.
"Well, he clearly believes it."
"But how can something like that be possible?" Shigeru questioned. "What, because of the blackout, the lack of power caused the Giovanni Corporation to be unable to monitor Shinji and him, and, as a consequence, nearly four years went by in that other world?"
"Four years in another world, living a life far different from what consists as normal," Maya expressed, wondering how Shinji could actually endure living just a year in that Pokemon world.
"Right, like here is normal," Hyuga retorted kindly. "They must've had good times traveling."
"They were in four regions, filled with towns, cities, forests, mountains, rivers and oceans," Shigeru sighed. "It's wanderlust, being able to visit so many places in search of creatures that you can't find anywhere else."
-x-
"…So, what was it like to spend nearly four years traveling with him, Fourth?" Asuka asked Kensuke as they walked down the hall to the showers after finishing up the synchronization testing.
"What do you mean?" He asked her.
"I mean, what kind of places did you visit? What kind of people did you meet? What trouble did you get into?"
"Most of the trouble was people that treated Pokemon like they were tools instead of friends. It's mostly up and down mountains, getting in and out of forests, traveling by boat…or the Rei Express as Shinji put it whenever we traveled by riding on his Gyarados' head and back."
"That red sea serpent that you say saved his life when he was drowning in the ocean water?"
"He keeps Rei as part of the six Pokemon he can have at any given time on his journey through any region. She's an often-kept member of his on-hand roster. The Pokemon he nicknamed after you is another of the often-kept Pokemon on his roster, and she got better in the last three years since he caught her after finding out she was abandoned."
This surprised Asuka.
"Really?" She asked him.
"Yeah. She even evolved during his participation in the Kanto League where he got third place. Not as proud as she once was, though, but is still one of Shinji's power houses."
"What about you? He has a Pokemon he nicknamed after you, right? He keep that one, too?"
"No, not as much as he used to. He evolved, too. I didn't expect it to grow up into a large bird that Shinji appointed as the leader of his menagerie of Flying Pokemon. Shinji had to get goggles to protect his eyes whenever he flew on his back because the Bird Pokemon was undeniably fast. He had achieved his true potential and knew that he had to allow others to do the same, so he stepped aside to let Shinji train other Pokemon of that time."
They then parted ways into their gender-restricted locker rooms.
I hope Shinji's doing alright until I can find a way back to him, Kensuke thought, stepping into a stall and turning the hot water on. I hope my unexpected departure hasn't kept him from facing the Gym Leaders he still needs to face in order to enter the Sinnoh League.
-x-
Thud! The Gengar fell after being incinerated by Asuka's enhanced Flamethrower, earning Shinji his second win in the gym match.
"Gen…gar…" Gengar groaned.
"Gengar is unable to continue," went the male referee, raising his left arm's flag to Shinji. "Shinji wins the second round!"
With the battle between them over, Asuka just returned to looking like a regular Charizard with the arm braces she had on when she was a Charmeleon.
"Graurgh!" She roared.
"Well done, Asuka!" Shinji praised her.
"I may not understand how you're able to make your Pokemon do the things they do," said Fantina to him, curious at how he was able to make make his Charizard and Gyarados turn into enhanced and different-looking Pokemon, "but I doubt you can make them do so more than once every now and then!"
"That's a wager you'd win," Shinji assured her; ever since his time in the Johto Region, Rei, Asuka, Kensuke and even Toji among some of his Pokemon that he ended up rotating were somehow able to do something that, while temporary and only during certain battles, changed their appearances and made them appear much stronger than other Pokemon of the same species. "I don't know what it is or how they're able to do what they're able to do, but it doesn't violate any of the rules of any matches, just as evolving doesn't violate any of the rules. I do hope to understand it one day. If it is something new or something that has been around, but only seen very rarely, then it's gotta be a phenomenon that has been around for years."
"Let's see how well you fare against my Mismagius!"
Shinji saw her throw her third Poke Ball onto the field and unleashed her third Pokemon, Mismagius. Fortunately, his fear of Ghost Pokemon was conquered during his time in the Johto Region when he caught a dozen Pokemon there, including some of the Legendary Pokemon associated with that region.
"Come out, Rei!" Shinji said as he threw out Rei's Poke Ball, unleashing his Shiny Gyarados.
-x-
"…Anyway, these are just some of the Pokemon he caught over the past three years in the Johto and Hoenn Regions before we ended up in the Sinnoh Region," Kensuke explained to Misato, Asuka and Rei when all three just came to him and asked him what occurred when he was with Shinji before he was brought back to this world.
"What kind of Pokemon…is this…Ghastly?" Rei asked him, pointing to the name in the list.
"Ghastly are Ghost Pokemon," he explained. "Basically, Pokemon that have ties to the afterlife."
"And what are…Skarmory?" Asuka questioned, pointing to the other name he wrote down.
"Skarmory are a type of Flying Pokemon that we saw while in the Johto Region. They were unique amongst the other Flying Pokemon because no other had the Steel-Type."
"Steel/Flying-Type?" Rei spoke.
"Yeah. He caught about ten of them."
"And how many of these…Tropius did he ever catch?" Misato asked him, pointing to the name of the Pokemon he wrote down.
"The Grass/Flying-Type Fruit Pokemon?" He responded. "He caught eight of them in the Hoenn Region. But for a while, he kept one with him so that we'd have an available source of edible fruit when we were in inhospitable places."
"Tropius…have edible fruit?"
"Yeah."
"Squawk?" They all looked at Pen-Pen, and Kensuke was immediately reminded that he was at Misato's place.
The warm-water penguin had pointed to a Pokemon name that caught his attention.
"Piplup?" Kensuke asked him, and the penguin nodded. "Penguin Pokemon native to the Sinnoh Region. They're one of the region's Starter Pokemon for trainers to begin with. When he saw some Piplup, he actually thought about you, and caught about twenty of them in the wild."
"Squawk?"
"I try to imagine what would happen if all the Pokemon Shinji caught were to end up here?"
"Probably end up changing up what's left of the animal kingdom here," suggested Asuka.
"Say, what type of Pokemon is this…Lugia?" Misato asked Kensuke, pointing to the name of said creature.
"Oh… Lugia is…was…one of the Legendary Pokemon that Shinji was able to catch," he answered her. "That was a great challenge for him. A Psychic/Flying-Type."
-x-
Thud! Fantina's Mismagius fell to the ground, incapacitated from Rei's enhanced Hydro Pump and Dragon Rage attacks.
With its defeat, Shinji had won the gym match.
"Impressive," Fantina expressed. "And with only a Charizard and Gyarados, no less. How did you get so strong?"
"I trained them over the last three years," he answered her, stroking Rei's head. "Other than my bond with them, that's all I can really say."
"Quite the dedication you have."
She then presented him with the Relic Badge as proof of his victory over the Hearthome Gym.
"Thank you," Shinji bowed his head to her.
"So, where will you be going for your next badge?" She asked him.
"The Pokemon Gym in Canalave City," he explained.
"Careful over there. They use Steel Pokemon. The Gym Leader's the father of the Gym Leader in Oreburgh City."
"So I've been told."
-x-
"…So, Lugia, Entei, Moltres, Zapdos and…Mewtwo?" Asuka asked Kensuke, trying to make sure these names he wrote down were of the so-called Legendary Pokemon that Shinji had managed to capture.
"That's right," he answered.
"They each sound powerful," said Misato to him.
"They were all powerful in their own way," he told them. "Going after any one of them was like trying to enter Hell and escape it with something of value you couldn't find on Earth. I once told Shinji that he shouldn't try to catch Pokemon of this sort. It was when we were looking for a Zapdos that was in a cave system in Hoenn, I told him that he was going to get killed if he tried to catch one, even if he was used to getting electrocuted by Electric Pokemon. All he said was that even if that was a risk, it was his risk to make if it meant getting closer to home. Heh, even after three-and-a-half-years, he still didn't have an answer to a question a Gym Leader from the Kanto Region had asked him."
"What was the question?" Rei had asked him.
"Even if he caught enough Pokemon to find his way back here, would it all be worth it in the end? Even after all this time traveling, he didn't have an answer. Who knows if he'll ever."
"What a question," said Asuka. "Wait, he's been electrocuted before?"
"Many, many times. I don't know how he was able to endure shocks, burns and physical blows from every Pokemon he's either faced or trained, but he has some will of steel…or diamond."
"He nearly gets killed every time in the Eva, but he's able to survive things that would normally harm a person enough to kill them?" Misato questions.
"Pilot Aida?" Rei spoke, looking at the list of Pokemon names he wrote down. "This Legendary Pokemon here. Mewtwo. Is that…really how its name is spelled?"
Kensuke looked the name and nodded that it was spelled right.
"What kind of Pokemon is this…Mewtwo?" Asuka asked.
He recalled the time Shinji spent talking to who he considered one of the most unique Pokemon because its very existence was not all that different from any other creature made by people trying to play God.
"Mewtwo is…was a unique Psychic Pokemon…that was made by some people that were playing God with nature."
"Playing God with nature?" Misato asked.
"I mean, it was a clone of another Pokemon that most believe to be extinct now."
"So…he caught a Pokemon…that was…copied from another Pokemon?"
"Yeah."
Suddenly, Rei couldn't help but think back to some words that echoed in her mind a while back from before she met Shinji: Even if she died, she could be replaced. But Shinji caught a Pokemon that, apparently, couldn't be replaced, no matter what.
"Any idea how many Legendary Pokemon there are out there?" Asuka asked.
"Last time Shinji and I ever checked," Kensuke responded, "there are more than twenty of them out there. Extremely rare, extremely powerful…and extremely hard to find."
-x-
"…Hmm?" Shinji went, traveling through the air on Asuka, noticing a Pokemon belonging to the Kanto Region flying farther away from where they were. An Articuno at this time of the evening?
It was an Articuno, and the fact that it was flying in the air of the Sinnoh Region meant it was another opportunity for Shinji to capture another Legendary Pokemon and take another step closer to home.
"Asuka, follow that Articuno," he told his Charizard.
"Grr," she growled in compliance, turning in the air and following the large, blue bird.
"Eevo!" Misato perked up on Shinji's left shoulder.
"We might get lucky this time, Misato," he told her. "If we capture this one, we'll have the whole trio of Legendary Birds."
"Eevo!"
"Grr!"
They followed the wild Articuno towards a mountain range, where it entered a cave.
Asuka landed on the ground within the cave and let Shinji and Misato off.
"Thanks, Asuka," he praised his Charizard. "Let's go add an Articuno to our bunch."
-x-
"Legendary Pokemon?" Ritsuko questioned after Misato explained to her that she was going to see Antonio Giovanni to see if they had acquired any new footage of Shinji through their video experiments with Palkia.
"Yeah. It turns out Shinji needs to catch those, as well if he wants to get back here." Misato told her as she grabbed the tablet.
"So, he has to travel through time to find those?"
"No, they exist in the present. They're just hard to find."
"If they're hard to find, then how can he be sure that they exist?"
"Because he's not the only person that looks for them. There have been others, over the various years, in other regions, that have spent their lives looking for these rare and invaluable creatures. He's even caught five of them."
"Five, really?"
"I believe he was lucky and fortunate enough to catch that many out of the many that he has caught since he ended up there. He's been electrocuted countless times trying to catch a Zapdos…and in the air, no less."
When Misato left right out, Ritsuko was left pondering what to inform Commander Ikari about the Third Child's transcendental achievements.
-x-
He stood in front of the Articuno, entranced by its beauty and eerie glow. Any thoughts of catching it faded away from his mind at that moment. It was completely different from when he caught Zapdos and Moltres when he encountered them.
"Eevo," went Misato, getting Shinji's attention.
"After I saw you flying here, I wanted only to catch you and get another step closer to home," Shinji said to the Articuno, taking out the Ultra Ball he had with him, "except now, I can't find it in me to carry out that desire."
"Grr?" Asuka went, confused at how Shinji could suddenly not want to catch this rare and mighty Pokemon that would help him achieve his goal.
"I am sorry," Shinji apologized.
Articuno's red eyes stared deeply into the boy's dark eyes, seeing no measure of cruelty, no desires for control over the world or to even destroy, but a lingering desire to return to this world that seemed on the brink of something awful. But there was a deep-seated affection for his Pokemon that spanned almost four years into the past and was going forward into the unwritten future of this person.
"Another day, perhaps," he told the Ice/Flying-Type Pokemon. "Until we meet again, Articuno."
Turning to leave, Shinji felt a sudden chill in the air and dropped his empty Ultra Ball.
A Blizzard attack? He thought, turning back to the Articuno, seeing it taking flight in front of him. "Whoa."
-x-
"…Mister Aida?" Misato questioned, seeing Kensuke in the chamber with Antonio and Palkia. "What are you doing here?"
"You're not the only one with concerns about Shinji, Ms. Katsuragi," Antonio told her, sitting at the primary control console while the rest of the work crew were re-positioning cameras around Palkia's cage. "Mister Aida contacted us earlier this evening and asked if he could come down."
"Just to confirm how Shinji was doing," Kensuke explained his reason.
Antonio flipped a switch on the console and the monitors went static as they tried to perfect their broadcast signal into the Pokemon world. It went on for a few more seconds until the static ceased, showing Shinji, barely changed and within a cave with two creatures beside him.
"Just look at him," Misato sighed, relieved that he was still alive.
"He's facing something," Kensuke expressed, and the image rotated to show Shinji's back…and a large, blue bird with a long, glittering tail and large wings. "Oh, my… That's an Articuno."
"Is that a Legendary Pokemon?" Antonio asked him.
"Yeah, and if he catches this one, he'll have the whole set of Legendary Bird Pokemon of the Kanto Region."
A ball floated in between Shinji and the Articuno…and the blue bird turned to red light, transported into the ball, which then fell in front of Shinji.
PING! The ball beeped, and Shinji picked it up.
"This was…not what I had expected from a Legendary Pokemon at all," Shinji said, and the ball disappeared from his hand.
"Why'd the ball disappear from his hand?" Misato asked Kensuke.
"Likely because he has six Pokemon with him right now," he explained. "As a Pokemon Trainer, he can only have six Pokemon at any given time."
"Then, where do the rest go?" Antonio asked.
"Back to Pallet Town, where he started as a Pokemon Trainer and where all his other Pokemon are kept until he requires them for different battles or contests."
"We should probably find a clearing and set up camp for the night," Shinji told the other two Pokemon with him.
"Grr," went the winged dragon that Kensuke identified as a Charizard that was the final stage of the species the Charmeleon Asuka was from.
"Eevo," responded the Eevee Misato.
Suddenly, the screens all went static.
"Dammit, the signal's getting interference," Antonio muttered.
-x-
Now that he had the complete Legendary Bird Trio, Shinji was another step closer to his goal of getting home to his world, but he found himself thinking of the question Sabrina had asked him when she told him one of the ways he was to get home, whether or not what he did was worth the effort in the end.
I wish I could answer that question, he thought, looking up at the night sky through the opening in his tent, but even after all these years, I'm not sure I can answer it until after I manage to get back to my world. I hope that by then, I'll have the answer that I seek.
A Pokemon Trainer for nearly four years, approximately one-thousand Pokemon to his name, three Pokemon League experiences that helped him unlock more of his potential as a trainer and gain a greater understanding to his Pokemon…and still, despite having come so far, he had yet to get any closer to the answer he seemed to avoid.
-x-
"…That's odd," Antonio went.
"What is it?" Misato asked him.
"We're picking up a different signal," he explained.
Then Palkia, as if affected by whatever was affecting the experiment's transmission, raised its head up and unleashed a blast of energy that surprised everyone.
"Whoa!" Kensuke gasped.
The blast of energy penetrated the cell Palkia was inside, but it didn't damage it. It reached a section of wall away from it, and bounced off, like something was wrong with the very beam itself, taking shape into a misshapen sphere that shrunk and rolled towards the control console. When it reached it, it stopped beside Kensuke, where it turned into a military-themed backpack with a name tag on the left strap.
"What the…" Misato said, confused.
"My backpack!" Kensuke gasped, picking it up.
"Your backpack?" Antonio asked him.
"When I didn't disappear after we left Cinnabar Island and showed up at Viridian City, he got me this in case I would be around for while. The fact that he fought in many battles and doesn't buy junk, he's pretty much a millionaire in a way and (he opened his pack and slowly checked its contents)… Oh, my God."
"What?" Misato asked.
Kensuke pulled out a small ball from inside the pack and showed it to them.
"Might be nothing, but might be what I think it is," he spoke cryptically, and pressed the button on the small ball, which then expanded into a baseball-sized ball, which then opened up, releasing a streak of light into the room that landed in front of the cell of Palkia.
The light faded and revealed a large, possibly reptilian humanoid with bluish skin, dark underwear, some sort of belt…and four arms.
"I knew it!" Kensuke gasped, approaching the four-armed creature. "It's great to see you again, Brute-Chan."
The creature looked at him…and then wrapped him in a bear hug.
"Machamp!" It spoke, recognizing its owner, even after this long.
"You know this creature?" Antonio asked, and the creature released Kensuke.
"Yeah. Shinji and I met him during our time in the Johto Region. This is Brute-Chan, my Machamp, a Fighting-Type Pokemon."
"This is your Pokemon?" Misato gasped.
-x-
"This is your Pokemon?" Shinji awoke to the voice of a woman the next morning, feeling as though he heard it in his mind.
"Misato?" He uttered.
"Eee?" His Eevee awoke.
"Oh, uh, good morning, Misato," he greeted her.
-x-
She couldn't believe it was possible, but here it was in front of them. Misato was astounded by the Machamp, the second Pokemon to be in this world. Even more astonishing was just touching its arms, feeling its muscles.
"How did you get such a creature?" She asked Kensuke, who sorted out all of his backpack's contents to show the people what he had.
"Shinji and I were visiting a dojo in Cianwood City in the Johto Region when he fought at the Cianwood City Gym, which specializes in Fighting-Type Pokemon. The gym leader was so enthralled by Shinji's Pokemon that he offered him his Machamp, but Shinji declined and suggested that I was better suited. I'm not even a Pokemon Trainer, but it was never too late to get into the profession…or just travel with one as your companion. So…that's how we met."
"Champ!" Brute-Chan went, picking Misato up and holding her over his head with all four arms.
"Whoa!" She gasped, never anticipating that it could lift her so high.
"Yeah, I was surprised by Brute-Chan's strength, too," Kensuke expressed, holding the camcorder Shinji had acquired and gave him to record their exploits and the battles and contests he participated in, and then at the various memory cards that hadn't to have no doubt held the long hours of footage that they could go through for weeks.
Antonio looked down at and picked up one of the red devices that Kensuke had set out. They looked like small, video games.
"These are the Pokedex systems that are supposed to have information on the Pokemon of whatever region it's from?" He asked the teen.
"Yeah. That's Shinji's Kanto Pokedex, his first one."
Antonio aimed the Pokedex at Brute-Chan and the device lit up with information and a picture of the creature.
"Machamp, the Superpower Pokemon, and the evolved form of Machoke," said Dexter. "By using its four arms, it is able to level a mountain within minutes. It is said that trying to perform acts of care and dexterity causes its limbs to become entangled. Machamp is among the fiercest Fighting Pokemon in existence."
"Incredible," Antonio expressed.
Brute-Chan that set Misato down and walked over to Kensuke, raising his lower right arm up to him in a fist.
Kensuke responded with a fist bump in turn.
-x-
"…I must say, I am deeply impressed by you capturing all three Legendary Birds, Shinji," said Prof. Oak to him when he arrived at the Pokemon Center in Canalave City and contacted his lab in Pallet Town after two days of flying on Asuka to give Rei and his feet a rest.
"Except I didn't really capture it," Shinji explained to him, having seen the Articuno being observed and sketched by Tracey behind Prof. Oak. "I mean, I wanted to, but after seeing it, I just…couldn't bring myself to do it. It…took my Ultra Ball and captured itself."
"Not surprising. Some Pokemon are so enthralled by certain people that they'll follow them, regardless of previous intentions."
"Yet, as easy as that seems, it defeats the purpose of a true capture where the Pokemon tests the trainer's worthiness. Well, anyway, I'm going to face the Gym Leader once I locate the gym. I didn't expect to find a bunch of islands to be the entire city of Canalave upon finding it. I'm going to need Fenikkusu and Pyro to backup Asuka against the Steel Pokemon we're bound to face, since the gym specializes in Steel-Types."
"Do you know which Pokemon you'll be sending over for the time being?"
"Yes. Toji and Sakura. I've been meaning to give them time to train with the others."
During the time he was in the Johto Region, his Larvitar and Chikorita had, due to his training regimen with them, evolved into their final stages as Tyranitar and Meganium, respectively. While he periodically swapped them and Kensuke out for his other Pokemon to train and face others in matches and make it to the Pokemon League, he kept returning them to his roster every now and then. He even swapped them out one time for his two Nidoran that he nicknamed Suzuhara and Horaki after the family names of Toji and Hikari, respectively, back when they were Nidoran and then evolved into Nidorino and Nidorina, respectively.
"I'm sure the Gym Leader will be most impressed by the spectacular variety of Fire Pokemon you'll be using," Prof. Oak told him, and they began to swap his Tyranitar and Meganium for his Moltres and Entei. "I wish you the best of luck."
"Thank you, Prof. Oak," he responded, holding the Ultra Ball that contained his Fenikkusu and the Fast Ball that contained his Pyro.
-x-
To say that Asuka, Rei and Misato were fascinated by the video proof of Shinji's adventures in the Pokemon world was under advisement. They were beyond fascinated, they were impressed with his recorded victories in the Kanto League where he got third place before Asuka, his evolved Charizard fell from both her injuries and from fatigue at the claws of a Blastoise that weakened her. Then, his gym matches in places like Azalea Town, Goldenrod City, Olivine City and Blackthorn City of the Johto Region up until his improvement in the Silver Conference that was the Johto League's designation where he got second place with the aid of his Tyranitar nicknamed Toji and additional Pokemon that he caught and rotated.
Even Toji and Hikari, who couldn't believe it when Kensuke and Asuka informed them of the footage, were surprised to see Shinji alive and well…and looking like he was actually having a good time.
"Just look at him," went Toji, seeing Shinji atop his Gyarados' back. "He's riding a giant sea serpent without any fear."
"It almost makes me want one of those creatures as a pet," added Hikari, though she'd prefer a smaller animal, like the Furret that Shinji caught or evolved from a bunch of Sentret.
"I could show you Brute-Chan, if you like," Kensuke offered, holding the Poke Ball that had his Machamp after it was decided by the Giovanni Corporation that it was best not to separate the four-armed Pokemon from its owner, so long as he didn't think of using it to cause harm.
"No thanks," she declined.
"Is that the Pokemon called Mewtwo?" Rei questioned Kensuke, pointing to the Pokemon that looked like some sort of gray and purple cat that stood up like a man.
"Yeah," he answered her. "That's Mewtwo…though Shinji prefers to call him Master…as in the master of his own destiny instead of being used as a tool or claimed as property because he was made by some scientists."
"The master of his own destiny?" Rei questioned, confused.
"Instead of doing what others decide, you make your own choices," went Toji, seeing Shinji clasp wrists with the Psychic Pokemon after he caught it, showing his friendship.
"You are Master now," said Shinji to the Mewtwo. "Master…of your own destiny. You decide your fate, who is friend and who is foe…and where your place in the world is."
"I am…Master," the Mewtwo responded, "and you two are friends."
"So, Kensuke, how do you intend to explain your new houseguest to your father?" Misato asked him, unable to comprehend how the world would even accept that a non-Angel creature was currently owned by a fourteen-year-old boy.
"That Brute-Chan is well-behaved, can pick up the heavy furniture and doesn't take up space when he needs to rest," he explained.
"He's likely going to freak out when he sees the arms."
-x-
"…I accept your challenge, young Ikari," said the Canalave Gym Leader, Byron, to Shinji, who, despite being a Pokemon Trainer himself, left the teen slightly unnerved by his devotion to digging fossils that he left his family in Oreburgh City where his son ran the gym.
If anything, this man just reminded him of his own father, only he wasn't the head of a paramilitary agency or forced his son to operate in dangerous conditions with no regard to his safety. The guy just dug holes and faced other trainers to reward badges to the ones that defeated him to get into the Sinnoh League.
"Well, Misato," he expressed to his Eevee, holding his Ultra Ball in his left hand. "Let's get ourselves another badge with all our effort."
"Eevo," she responded.
"We didn't come all this way just to back down."
To be continued…
A/N: Sorry to leave you with another cliffhanger. I aim to do another time jump to get Shinji closer to his goal of getting home. What do you think of Kensuke having a Pokemon of his own in the Eva world? Also, the nickname for Mewtwo seemed most appropriate for it because it had to be able to decide its own destiny and not be controlled by its makers like in the films.