THE ANTHOLOGY OF SHINJI AND REI
by Gunman

Disclaimer: I do not own Evangelion or their characters.

Summary: A series of stories evolving around Shinji Ikari and Rei Ayanami.

Authors Notes: This first chapter is a preview only chapter of the ideas I'm still working on. More are to follow.

2-22-2022.

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Preview 1

Shinji Ikari is immortal.

During The Battle Of The Snow Pass, in the year 1590, 21-year old Shinji is killed, pierced through the back by a spear, and left to die. However, when he wakes up, he is shocked and confused as well as alone, and heads to the nearest town for help.

It is on the way to the town that he encounters a trio of other immortals like him.

One of them is a 1,600 year old Roman named Marcus Octavius.

The second is a 1,307 year old Scotsman named Colin MacLeod.

The third is an Asian warrior named Jin-Kei who is 2093 years old.

Shinji senses their presence, and finds them fighting against each other. However, Jin Kei appears behind the boy silent as a shadow.

"I am truly sorry for what I must do, child." Jin Kei said as he rushed towards both Marcus and Colin with his sword out.

Jin gets into the middle of the fight and manipulates the pair of them in such a way as to get his sword at Colin's throat, Colin's sword at Marcus's throat, and Marcus's sword at his throat.

"What are you doing?" Marcus asked, trying to break free of Jin's grip.

"What must be done." Jin Kei said as he twisted his body with his sword, which had the desired effect of twisting Marcus's and Colin's sword in turn with his own.

Jin Kei's sword slices off Colin's head, Colin's sword slices off Marcus's head, and Marcus's sword slices off Jin Kei's head.

Colin took some comfort in the fact that his sword would end Marcus's life.

As a result of their triple beheadings, their combined Quickenings exploded and surged into the nearest immortal, Shinji.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Shinji shouted in immense pain as the Tri-Quickening surged into his body.

(Seaside Castle of Japan, 1592)

"Come, Rei-chan!" the Japanese vampire shouted to his daughter.

"Father? What is happening?" Rei asked.

"The hunters have found us!" Saya shouted.

"Come on! We have to get out of here!"

The family fleas their castle in Japan. The hunters and villagers are firing wooden stakes at them from crossbows, killing Rei's two cousins

"NO!" their mother shouted.

"There Will Be Blood For This!" their father shouted and leapt to the attack. He kills the hunters before they can reload their stakes.

"This is intolerable! We're vampires! We're superior to any human!" her father said.

"Not when those humans possess the knowledge of how to defeat us." her mother said.

"They know our weaknesses and how to exploit them! Even In The Dead Of Night!"

Rei and her parents managed to get away while the rest of her family was being killed off.

Their journey is a long one, far from the majestic shores of Japan. The family eventually came to Europe, where they settled in the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania, building a new castle for which to live. A task that takes about fifty years using mind-controlled mountain villagers.

However, after about 38 years of living peacefully, feeding off the occasional traveler, word of their existence finds the hunters of Europe, and they track them down and manage to kill off the Ayanami family, until Rei herself was the last.

There, in the old castle built into the side of a mountain, Rei lives silently for a hundred years with only the creatures of the night as her companions.

She had no idea that her life of loneliness would soon end.

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Preview 2

"We're heading to Val." Toji Suzuhara said.

"The ice planet? For what purpose?" Count Marok asked.

"Not that it's any of your concern, but we're hunting a dragon." Toji said.

"A Valian Ice Dragon? Why would you do that?"

"It's tradition for The Prince of the Rokarian Empire to hunt and slay a dragon, as his father and grandfather have done in the past. He has to do this in order to take the throne."

"And we're his bodyguards." Shinji said.

"Right."

"Then shouldn't he hunt this beast alone?" Count Marok asked.

The pair looked at each other, then the Count.

"You clearly haven't met the boy." Toji said with a huff.

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Prince Shion is the heir to the Rokarian Empire

A spoiled, selfish and often cowardly boy, Shion is assigned a new bodyguard detail, which happens to include Shinji

As a right of passage, the prince was sent to slay a dragon on a distant planet

However, the dragon nearly killed Shion, but does kill several of the soldiers assigned to guard him, but Shinji manages to kill it instead.

Shinji leaps onto the dragons head and jams his blade into the back of the dragons neck, piercing its spinal chord and ending its life.

Asuka Langley Sohryu is there, spying on the prince for the Ayanomani Royal Family, and witnesses Shinjis heroism and skills in killing the dragon

Shion takes credit for the kill, but while his family is proud of him, (Emperor Solmand, Empress Sareen, his uncle The Duke, and his grandfather Sokarus) Asuka reports the truth back to her leaders, who were already en route for an arranged marriage meeting between their daughter, the beautiful Princess Rei, and Prince Shion.

Rei has seen the video that Asuka took of Shinji slaying the dragon. She is immediately smitten with the young warrior.

Asuka, being the princesses best friend, decides to arrange a meeting between the two. Because she is also impressed with Shinji.

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Preview 3 teaser

Rei Ayanami is 22-year old woman who has been alone on her space craft, the Orbiter 6, ever since she was born

Her parents died when she was just a little girl, due to an accident with the oxygen recycler

It would only have had the capacity to provide oxygen for three people for 10 years, so... they committed suicide so that their daughter would live a good 30 years it would take to reach their intended destination: Alpha Centauri 3.

Aside from eating, sleeping, and exercising, Rei watches old videos that her parents brought with them. She is alone.

When she reaches a floating space station called Geofront 1, she finds that the sole person aboard the station is a young man named Shinji Ikari.

Shinji is a mechanic, and the sole survivor of the station after a vicious pirate attack when he was 14 years old. That was more than 10 years ago.

Rei explains that she is having trouble with her ship, and asks if he can help her.

Shinji agrees to help her, since he finds her incredibly beautiful and he is lonely as all get out. She is the first woman he has seen in ten years.

Shinji is the first man she sees in her life, and because of this, Rei becomes instantly attracted to him because of the pheromones he is unintentionally giving off.

After Shinji fixes the recycler, as well as other devices and systems on her ship, Rei asks him to stay for dinner. Shinji agrees.

It is during dinner, Rei seduces him.

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Preview 4

"We've got another problem." Misato said.

"What?" Kaji asked.

"Rei recorded everything."

Misato shows Kaji and the others the recording, showing Shinji actually doing everything he said, saving the ship multiple times, while the crew was either engaged in an orgy or unconscious. It even included Shinji getting attacked by the alien xenomorph and nearly getting killed, before he killed it.

And all this while the crew were having sex with each other. It even showed Ritsuko seducing Maya and the catgirl requisitioning triple their normal supplies. Even some things they didn't need.

"Okay, we need to destroy this." Kaji said.

"What? Why?" Misato asked.

"Because! If anyone found out what really happened... WE'D Get Fired! None of us would ever get another job aboard a starship, and worse... everyone would find out what we really do on this ship!" Kaji explained.

Misato looked at Kaji.

"We messed up, Kaji! We were the ones having sex while Shinji was fighting for his life. Fighting for our lives! He piloted the ship away from space pirates through as asteroid field, while we were unconscious. He fought off a vicious alien that somehow snuck aboard our ship to feed off of our reactor. Not to mention how hard he works just to keep this ship running while we were doing nothing to help! He turned misfortune around. And all while we were doing absolutely jack! He saved our lives!"

"And potentially ruined our reputations. If this gets out..."

"HE ruined it?! You're more worried about your reputation than his life?" Misato gasped. "He could go to prison for decades!"

"And what will happen to us? I'm concerned with this being the end of our careers! I'm concerned with never being able to travel the galaxy, doing what we want. I'm concerned with losing our freedom!"

"You can get a blowjob any time, any place, from any one, and you're worried about not being able to have fun anymore?"

"Of Course! The ship isn't just part of a job, it's freedom! Our freedom!"

"So it's Shinji's life, or our reputations?"

"It's our careers on the line. We have to do what's best for us."

"If it wasn't for Shinji, we'd be dead, or worse!"

While the crew was arguing about whether to save their own skins or tell the truth, Asuka and Rei went down to the brig where Shinji was lying on the bunk.

He was just staring up at the ceiling while he laid on the padded bunk.

"How are you doing, Ikari?" Rei asked.

"I'm fine. Least I can get some rest now." Shinji moaned as he stared at the ceiling.

"I owe you an apology." Asuka said.

"Okay." he said simply.

"You don't seem to be taking this very seriously!" she snapped.

"The whole crew is going to sell me out, just to protect the fact they were behaving depraved and acting totally irresponsible."

"And you think we're gonna do that as well?"

"You saw the xenomorph that nearly killed me. You didn't say anything. Rei doesn't seem to care one way or the other. Plus she can be reprogrammed at will. And my opinion is rather unimportant. So... yeah." he said with a tired expression.

Normally Asuka would have been angry and upset, but in this instance she realized that he was right. Shinji had saved their lives when they were unconscious, been diligent in his work while the rest of the crew was off having an orgy, and nearly been killed by a vicious alien creature while they were completely unaware.

"So you're not even going to fight?" she asked.

"There is no fight. The battle is lost before it can even begin. Everyone is pretty much against me. And after everything that happened... I have no reason to care anymore." he sighed.

"You don't care? If it wasn't for you... we would be dead."

"You're welcome." he said tiredly as he rolled over to try and get some sleep.

Rei looked at Asuka, and Asuka looked back.

Asuka grabbed the androids hand and pulled her out of the brig.

"Where are you taking me?" Rei asked.

"To Get Reprogrammed!" Asuka snapped.

'Ikari was right!' Rei thought.