One Big Happy Family
Sugar! Spice! And everything nice! These, with an accidental dose of Chemical X, were the ingredients used to create the perfect little girls. Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup have, every day, used their powers in an effort to make the world a better place. And over the course of their interference in the Angel Wars of Tokyo-3, one Shinji Ikari became inspired by their example...
I've had this stewing in my head for a year and a half or so, ever since I got to see The Powerpuff Girls movie. Which was awesome.
Utonium household, Townsville, United States. August, 2025
At last, the culmination of Shinji's dream. For ten long years, he had worked tirelessly for this day. Almost as literally as could get, he was but one step away from seeing his dream to fruition.
He took a moment to recall how he'd gotten where he was, and then slowly withdrew the semi-automatic handgun from his desk drawer and loaded a bullet into the chamber, before lifting it to his own head.
Tears of shame and regret running down his face, Shinji murmured, "I'm so fucked up..."
A gunshot echoed through the second floor laboratory, and Shinji's body crumpled to the ground.
Tokyo-3, Japan. February, 2015
Confusion. Betrayal. Anxiety. These were the emotions flooding through Shinji's heart.
He hadn't really wanted to come to this strange place and meet his father, but he had done exactly that, out of a faint hope for... for what, exactly? Reconciliation? Forgiveness? Even Shinji himself didn't know what he'd come for anymore.
And yet here he was: a hundred miles away from anything safe or familiar, stuffed inside a giant robot he'd never heard of, shoved in front of a monster to fight, and without any idea of what he was supposed to do.
For what reason? For that girl he didn't know, whom his father would've sent to die if Shinji refused to pilot?
It was a noble sentiment, Shinji supposed, but he certainly didn't feel particularly heroic or noble.
He tried to make Eva move, tried to do what he was told. But he couldn't. His defeat was inevitable. His mind wasn't focused, and in all honesty, his heart wasn't in it.
The monster, which the NERV staff had called an Angel, struck Eva with energy blasts, making Shinji feel like his skin was going to burn off.
As he began to lose consciousness, he saw a peculiar light streak through the sky. A light of three colors - blue, pink, and green.
He recognized what that meant. He passed out, just a little bit hopeful.
Garbage? Epic? Epic garbage? As always, dear reviewers, YOU decide!