Creation began on 08-17-17

Creation ended on 10-15-17

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Meet Kirby

NERV was in a tight situation right now. Not only were they dealing with the Angels in less than a week, but the person they had spent eleven years looking for had come back from…someplace they weren't even sure existed, was unchanged from the day he supposedly went missing, and was inadequate for their Evangelion program due to his lack of physical maturation. They needed thirteen-fifteen-year-olds, not some three-four-year-old toddler that hated his father for abandoning him shortly after the death of his mother. And they were now getting complaints from concerned citizens that the paramilitary agency was turning Shinji into a lab rat because of his unique circumstances, hoping that they could replicate his so-called agelessness for personal or economic gain.

"His return has caused a riot to form in Tokyo-3," Ritsuko informed Gendo in his office, two days later.

"They're demanding that Shinji be treated like a person," added Fuyutsuki, agreeing with the public over the agency, "not a laboratory specimen."

"Still, it's amazing he has survived for this long unchanged."

"It doesn't mean a thing if you and others are poking and prodding him every few hours and asking him questions he won't answer or doesn't know how to. When was the last time he ever got any good sleep? Probably too long ago that he misses that over being here."

"We'll see if he can attempt synchronization with the Eva," Gendo decided.

"Ikari," the sub-commander reacted, "he couldn't sync with the Eva, no matter how much you expect him to, due to his unchanged appearance. And…doing such will only further tarnish this agency more."

"What do you propose, then, Fuyutsuki?" He asked.

"Nothing that you would agree with."

-x-

Among many things here that he would've enjoyed more on Popstar, Shinji didn't like the sense of confinement that he was getting from NERV ever since he was brought down to the Geo-Front. And the worst part of his return to the Earth…was that his father couldn't or wouldn't do the one thing that would've been the first step in the right direction between the two. This…just made the boy miss his home away from the blue marble that lost any right to be addressed as home. This made him miss the people there that welcomed him, despite his pain, despite his swelling anger towards his father.

As he lay on his cot in the room he was put him, trying to recover from the last round of blood drawing the adults had done on him, he looked at his necklace of Popstar, drawing at least some comfort that if things didn't go well here, he could always go back there. Back to clear skies, pleasant winters, happy autumns, joyful beaches and friendly communities.

"You always build it better the second time around," he uttered.

Suddenly, the alarms went off like crazy, indicating that something was wrong.

-x-

The Angel had shown up much earlier than it was expected to…and demolished a dozen tanks and jets as it made its way to Tokyo-3. People ran to whatever shelter they could, desperate to get away from the monster, but the Angel ignored them in favor of its goal to reach what was there in Tokyo-3 over all else. Nothing from bullets to missiles were affecting its trek to the chosen destination.

-x-

Kirby saw the Angel attack the people in front of it, but even though it disregarded the people that were fortunate enough to survive its unprovoked trek, it didn't ease the jolly alien to see them suffer. And he thought of Shinji, who might've been one of the casualties or was going to be one unless the creature was stopped…and he needed to stop it. For Shinji's sake.

"Poyo," he uttered, getting into his ship and making his course toward Earth.

-x-

"…ETA is one hour and eighteen minutes," said Shigeru to Commander Ikari.

"What's the status of Unit-01?" Gendo asked Ritsuko.

"On standby, awaiting deployment," she answered him.

"But Rei can't pilot it," expressed Misato, reminding them that their primary pilot was still in recovery from the failed Unit-00 activation.

"We won't be using the First Child," Gendo stated. "We'll be using the Third Child."

That caused a silent uproar of disgust in Central Dogma. It was already bad enough that NERV was getting negative press about their leader's ill treatment towards his son, but now the idea of sending the unchanged child out into a war he didn't know about, in a weaponized cybernetic organism he probably had no knowledge of, to face an enemy he couldn't hope to comprehend was cruel and unjustifiable. There wasn't even a question of whether or not the boy could even fit in the seat that was too big for him, let alone sync with the Eva.

"Ikari, we can't," Fuyutsuki defended the boy against his father. "He might not have aged a day since he disappeared to wherever he says he went to, and his speech fluency is better than a regular child's, but his chances of synchronizing with the Eva are practically nonexistent."

"We have no choice," Gendo stated; in truth, he was just convinced that the boy could sync with Unit-01, regardless of his appropriate age deficiency.

"What is that?" Hyuga questioned, pointing to something new on the holographic displays showing the Angel as it waded through Tokyo-2.

Something star-shaped had flown in from the sky…and out popped a small, pinkish creature.

"No way," some of the lower personnel expressed.

Fuyutsuki looked at the pink creature as satellite imagery became more clarifying, and down at the drawing of the jolly person Shinji claimed had saved him years ago.

"He was…telling the truth?" Ritsuko wondered.

-x-

The Angel was much larger than Kirby anticipated, but he wouldn't back down. All he needed was a piece of the the enemy and he could fight back better with the total sum of what this one was capable of.

"Poyo!" He shouted, using his Final Cutter move and managing to get a piece of the Angel's right arm. "Poyo!"

Then, he inhaled the severed piece and began the copying process. His mass increased and a faceplate identical to the Angel as his pink exterior turned a dark shade of green.

"Star Warrior Kirby!" He identified himself. "Sachiel Mode!"

-x-

Shinji was brought into Central Dogma on Gendo's orders to help clarify the identity of the creature that was fighting the Angel, and couldn't believe that Kirby was still around; he had expected the jolly fellow to return to Popstar.

"Shinji," went Fuyutsuki to him, "is that…Kirby?"

The boy looked at Kirby's new form and nodded in the positive.

"Why is this…Kirby here?" Gendo asked him.

"I don't know why he's here," Shinji defended; he really hadn't expected the alien to be here. "You'd have to ask him."

If this was Shinji's way of talking back against his father, he gave no indication of it.

On the screens, Kirby fired eye beams at the Angel, which tried to defend with its arms. Then he kicked the distracted Angel backwards, sending it several feet close to the outer limits of the city.

"Kirby's fighting the Angel," Fuyutsuki stated to Gendo. "Very…heroic."

"That little guy?" A man questioned.

-x-

Kirby saw the Angel's core and knew instinctively that he had to destroy that to stop its threat to the planet. His arms glowed with the power of the Angel and he shot like a bullet towards the core.

Sachiel feared for his life and erected his AT-Field, but it was pointless to try. Somehow, this creature had assimilated his powers and was using them against him; trying to defend himself against this thing was like trying to defend against himself. It was…as though he were facing himself.

Crack! Kirby tore right through the core and shot out Sachiel's back.

The red sphere fractured and exploded into countless pieces, and the Angel fell backwards.

Kirby then inhaled the pieces of Sachiel's core reverted back to his original state.

"Poyo!" He cheered over his victory, floating in the air.

-x-

"…He defeats the Angel…and then just floats in the air like nothing happened?" Some of the personnel asked.

"Kirby's a jolly hero," said Shinji. "He doesn't take anything serious after he deals with it."

"Spoken like someone who knows?" Misato asks.

"He saved me eighty-two times, despite my efforts to stay out of danger."

But all Gendo saw was a new threat to his scenario. Anything that wasn't under his control was viewed as a threat, even if it was viewed as some sort of miracle.

Ring-ring! A phone rang and Fuyutsuki picked it up.

"Fuyutsuki. Yes? I'll make sure he's informed." He spoke before hanging up. "That was the UN. They want to know if we knew about this pink phenomenon that just took out an Angel."

To be continued…

A/N: One Angel down…and more changes to come.