"Hmm... well, Scully, it seems a giant foot crushed Wanderer D's little
hut."
Scully looked at Mulder, then at the giant footprint that took a
considerable space around the fragments of the once-happy-go-lucky-
fanfic-writer. "I'm sure there's a logical explanation."
Mulder showed her a folder.
"What's this?"
"I think it's some of his fanfiction... pretty good stuff I might add."
Mulder answered.
"Mulder... I thought you hated Fanfics."
"Yeah... I don't know why I said that. I didn't even know those were
Wanderer D's fics..."
Scully grabbed Mulder and kissed him.
"Huh?" she let him fall to the ground. "Why are we acting this way?"
Mulder didn't answer, and Scully didn't like the silly smile he had.
"That's it! Mulder! Wanderer D isn't dead! Wanderer D is making us act
OOC!"
"That just proves he doesn't own us..." Mulder said sagely.
"..."
"Scully, I think were the Disclaimer."
"Hah! If that were true I would say he doesn't own Slayers or Evangelion
either!" Scully said rising her fists to the air.
Mulder Deadpanned. After a few seconds so did Scully.
"I can't wait for a revenge fic." She muttered dragging Mulder away
from the scene.
She then stopped and kissed him again. "ARGHHH!!! This wasn't supposed
to happen until later!"
Mulder didn't complain.
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EvaSlayers Chapter 3
By Wanderer D
Misato shut the yellow folder with the NERV logo and let it fall
over her desk.
A couple of pictures of Lina, attached to the folder with a red staple
looked silently at her.
She smiled briefly at the commotion Lina had caused when they took
the pictures, the girl had thought it was some kind of spell and had
demanded to have it explained to her!
Her smile faded slowly as she leaned forward on the table and rested
her chin on her crossed arms.
'Lina Inverse', seemingly just another name, in reality just another
life to be exploited by NERV. Under the circumstances of her
appearance it was doubtful they would let her go whether she accepted
to pilot an EVA or not.
Ever since taking Shinji in she had felt things change, she had
supposedly been prepared to alienate all feelings for the sake of
humanity, but the conflicting emotions that overwhelmed her when
she got her young charge and watched him fight... and suffer... had
instead reinforced her internal battle between treating the children
like weapons -objects- or pilots -people-.
It made it all the harder for her to try to convince her new charge
to pilot one of those... things.
"That's it. I need a beer."
Mistato emptied a beer can in one gulp. "Ah! That's the way to..."
She then noticed that nobody was paying attention to her, instead,
both Lina and Shinji were looking gloomily at the 'eggs' she had
prepared. The fact that they weren't complaining about it and that they
were eating it was a dead giveaway that something was wrong.
Well. It didn't matter. She had to take Lina to NERV HQ today.
"Lina, have you thought over the job offering?"
"uh... huh" Lina mumbled.
Shinji was a little more... loud. "MISTATO! DON'T TELL ME YOU'RE FOR
REAL!"
"Yes Shinji, I am. Now, Lina?"
"Uh? What was that?"
"I asked if you had thought over the job offering..." Mistato calmly
repeated herself.
"Yeah, sure." She didn't sound enthusiastic about it, but...
"Excellent! Welcome to NERV!" She firmly shook Lina's rather flaccid
hand and handed her a folder that read: WELCOME TO NERV.
Gendo hung the telephone, and looked straight ahead for a moment. He
smiled slightly, and dialed a number. Shortly a voice replied.
"Yes, Sir?"
"Get me the NERV branch in China."
"Yes Sir!."
"And tell them we have selected the fourth child."
"Okay Lina, what you have to do is concentrate."
"Right!" Lina shut her mind and tried to concentrate on being one with
this machine. She knew why she had agreed. She didn't want to think
about... no! She shouldn't, wouldn't think about them!
Ritsuko looked at the stats. They had started decreasing a moment, but
Lina had gotten a grip again and was pulling them steadilly up.
The girl was muttering something, so she put up the volume so she could
hear what she was saying.
"...stupid Mazoku!... why Gourry?... why did you... love... why did you
all die?"
Apparently Lina was unaware of what she was saying, concentrating like
Ritsuko had said.
Her friend's faces flashed in her mind, one after the other gaining up
speed. Naga smiling, Zel turning, Gourry smiling, Amelia looking at
her, Gourry jumping, Zel, Naga, Gourry, Xellos, Gourry, Amelia...
It all stopped suddenly in a bright white flash.
"I love you Lina..." Gourry's voice whispered, before everything turned
black.
Everyone at the test center looked from the unconscious Lina to the
numbers in the screen.
A red 51% was clearly marked by the red numbers.
"No way!" whispered a tech operative.
"I wonder what that was all about?" Ritsuko muttered to herself.
Lina woke up in the hospital bed. Ritsuko stood up when she saw her
awake.
"Well, Lina, we have postponed the tests for today, I'll drive you home."
Lina nodded silently, then turned to look to her side. "Nice flowers..."
Ritsuko looked sharply at the vase with red and white roses that stood
silently over the small table next to Lina's bed, a small card between
two thorns. That wasn't here before... and she hadn't seen anyone enter
the room.
"I wonder who brought them?" She said as she grabbed the small card and
opened it.
"THAT IS A SECRET." she read aloud.
"How... irritating." She turned the card around for any sign, and
incredulous looked at the back of the card and read the second message.
'INDEED, RITSUKO, INDEED.'
She let it fall as if it was a spider and had bitten her, and looked
around.
Lina blinked. "Um... what is it Ritsuko?"
Ritsuko composed herself and picked the note, offering it to Lina. "Tell
me Lina, what does this say?"
"um... 'get well'"
"What!" Ritsuko grabbed the note, and yes, it said 'Get well' in bold
letters.
She blinked a couple of times. "Oh."
The next day at school everyone remained silent as Lina sat down. Classes
hadn't started yet, and they still had a couple of minutes before the
teacher arrived.
As soon as she was seated everyone gathered around her and started talking
at once.
"Wow! Whatever did you do yesterday Lina?!"
"I wonder how much time it took the teacher to get out?"
"Could you show me how to do that?"
"Was that magic?"
"How did you learn to do it?"
Lina slammed her hands on her desk and stood up. "Enough!"
Everyone fell silent. Lina sat down.
Everyone started talking again.
Lina let her head fall into her crossed arms. "Why me?" she muttered.
Shinji sat down, and promptly Toji and Kensuke joined him.
"Hey Shinji!" Toji greeted as he sat down next to him. Kensuke only muttered
a salute as he also sat down looking at some pictures he had with him.
Toji looked like he had cleaned the inside of the fireplace and hadn't
bothered
to wash off the soot.
"What happened to you?" Shinji asked, before Toji could answer, Kensuke
muttered:
"Lina torched him for trying to grab her b-" Toji's hand closed over
Kensuke's
mouth.
"Don't you dare." He whispered.
Shinji looked over Kensuke's shoulder at the pictures. It was Lina.
"Where did you get those?" he asked.
"Well... you didn't expect me to stay here while that goldmine walked away
from our class room the other day, right?" Kensuke answered. Shinji could
see
that some of the pictures were in fact from the restaurant they had stopped
at. "Wow. Can't let the others see Lina hugging that guy." He said as he
pulled Xellos and Lina's hug out from the group of pictures. He glanced
around
to make sure no one had seen him and tore it to pieces.
"Who's that, anyway?" he asked Shinji.
Before he could answer another voice rose from behind Toji, Kensuke and
Shinji.
"That's the new teacher."
"Really? How come?" Toji asked as he turned around. "And how would you
know?"
Xellos smiled at him. "Guess."
The three of them fell to the ground startled as Xellos walked to the front
of
the class.
Lina wasn't paying attention, but the rest of the girls were.
"Who's that?" one asked.
"I heard he's the new teacher!"
"Really?"
"He's SO cute!"
"Well class, since this is my first day as your teacher, I would like
each and everyone of you to tell me your name so I can take list and
identify you in the future -if there is one-." Xellos announced after
stopping and spinning in place so he could face the 'students'.
"Also it would be a good moment to ask ME something. One question
only. Why don't we start with you?"
He said pointing at Shinji, who stood up a little bit unsure.
"C'mon Shinji! You can do it! Now state your name!"
"Um... Ikari, Shinji."
"Good lad!" Xellos congratulated him. "Now your question."
"Ah... are you really our new teacher?"
"Yes. Now, sit down."
"Now you!" Xellos said pointing at Rei. "What's your name Rei?"
"Ayanami, Rei."
"Your question?"
"... Why are you asking the names of people you already know?"
"To set an example."
Lina had, by now, recognized the voice. "What are you doing here?" she
asked rather venomously.
"I'm your new teacher."
"Like hell! What happened to the other one?!"
The Grand Canyon, 2:30 A.M.
"[sigh!] Are you sure it was around here, Mulder?" A female voice asked.
"Yes, Scully. The locals agree that the strange sounding meteorite fell
somewhere around here."
"And what do you think you'll find?" Scully asked using her flashlight to
light her partner's face.
"I don't know... there!" Both quickly ran down a slope to the smoking
crater.
"... looks like an old man!" Mulder muttered.
"... is that a ruler in his hand?" Scully asked looking a little closer.
Back to Tokyo 3:
Xellos smiled at Lina. "That's a secret."
"You've got to be kiddin' me." Toji muttered.
"You're not a teacher, Xellos!" Lina insisted.
"I'm surprised of you, Lina. Now, show a little more respect or you're
going to stand in the hall."
"Like hell!"
The other students pulled back. They had heard Lina had somehow torched
Toji, and they had all seen the knife that held the teacher in place. In
other words, you didn't mess with Lina Inverse.
Five minutes later Lina stood outside the classroom holding two buckets
full of water.
A 'shadow snap' held her in place, while a 'nullify magic' circle ensured
she didn't try anything funny.
"And to think I was happy to see him..." She muttered. Her scowl slowly
receded into a sad smile. "And I still am."
A few seconds later Rei stood next to her holding two buckets herself.
She blinked a couple of times. "Rei? What are you doing here?"
"It seems Xellos sensei encourages student participation."
"Tell me about it." Muttered Shinji standing, buckets in hands, next to
Lina.
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Well, for those of you out for blood there's my private email, okay?
wandererd@hotmail.com
Anyway, Lina faces her first Angel next chapter!
And questions like "What is SPAM really made of or What is Xellos
teaching the kids will probably be adressed then.
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