OK, round two is ready to go...as always, commentary is
appreciated.
When last
we left the story,
young SHINJI IKARI was
waiting at Goura Station to be
picked up by one MISATO KATSURAGI,
a priestess of the Way of the Holy Light of Yui.
Little does he know that SACHIEL, the 3RD ANGEL,
is headed that way as well.....
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"What I thought of Shinji the first time I saw him
was..'Well, he's cute enough..kind of lonely-looking
though, with those sad puppy eyes of his'. So strange how
he turned out, seeing how quiet and shy he was then..a
total change from now. I think he liked me though."
-Misato Cardinal Katsuragi, July 2018
Book 1, Chapter 1, of the New Genesis of Man
All the sudden, things had gone straight from bad to
pure Hell. One minute Shinji was huddling under the
awning at Goura station, waiting for this crazy priestess
woman of his father's to show (Are priestesses really
allowed to wear bikinis? He wondered, glancing at the photo
she sent him). The next, the awning lay crushed under the
remains of what may have once been a fighter plane, now a
burning wreck.
Luckily for Shinji, several odd things happened in
that one moment. First, an odd whistling roar from above
caught his attention. Second, a 60-foot tall monster-flick
refugee on his left caught his attention. Third, a shiny
blue sportscar caught his attention by roaring up the
tracks, over the bank, onto the station, and popping the
door open. Lastly, a pair of arms grabbed him, yanked him
into the car, and crushed him close to two rather large,
round, soft objects. This definately caught his attention,
and held it this time. Misato would be proud to know she
had cured Shinji of ADD, but she was busy speeding back
DOWN the track, while half holding, half glomping a rather
startled teenage boy.
"Hi Shinji, nice to finally meet you, I'm Misato," she
remarked casually.
"Mrmplgh mm mmrmm grphl mrf. MRGHF GRF!!," was
Shinji's muffled reply.
(For those of you that don't speak Mrphlf, the translation
goes something like, "Nice to meet you too. LEMME GO!")
Misato blinked, then noticed Shinji was turning blue,
at least, where he wasn't turning red. Not wanting him to
die of either embarrasment or suffocation, she did as asked
and released him. This would do much to reassure Shinji,
especially because now she might use her hands intead of her
left foot to steer the car with.
Maybe.
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"She's NUTS! I mean, positively off her rocker!"
-Attributed to Shinji Ikari, on being asked by
Dr. Ritsuko Akagi on his first impression of Misato.
The rest of the drive back up the Goura line to Tokyo-3
went uneventfully, giving Shinji a moment to study his
driving companion. Misato katsuragi was tall, in her late
twenties, with cascading purple hair ("Purple? Well, I
guess if he lets his priestesses wear bikinis...") and a
snug-fitting black silk dress, covered by an oversized red
leather jacket. Dangling from somewhere Shinji's head should
not have been, but had been earlier, was a small gold cross,
the only religious-looking thing about the woman. She
noticed him staring at her and smiled.
"I don't look like a priestess much, now do I?" she
asked sweetly.
"Well, no..it's not that..just that..."
"Oh, don't worry, I won't get offended that easy. You
need to not worry so much. Things are fine!"
"Fine? I hardly call a giant whatever that thing was
fine!" Shinji exclaimed, a look of disbelief on his face.
"Just what was that thing, anyway?"
Misato blinked and raised an eyebrow at him. "Tense
little thing, aren't you? But, I guess you have a right
to be, huh? That 'thing', as you call it, is an Angel."
"Angel? You mean, a 'messenger from God'?"
"Well," Misato frowned, "Not quite. We're still not
sure WHAT the Angels are, or why they are attacking. What
we do know is that they are almost impervious to conventional
weapons, and incredibly destructive. This one just...
appeared..about an hour ago, out in the ocean near Goura.
It's headed to Tokyo-3, but the JSSDF is keeping it occupied
while we get ready to launch our OWN ultimate weapon."
"Ultimate weapon?" Shinji asked (This is beginning to
sound like Mazinger or something..wierd)
"Yes. It's why part of the Church was sectioned away
into a paramilitary organization, called NERV. I'm the
Operations Manager on site; and your father, Pontiff Ikari,
is general overseer of the project, among his other duties."
"My father.." Shinji seemed about to say more, then
became quiet once more.
"It'll be the first time you two have seen each other
in a long time, right? I bet you have a lot to say to
each other, huh?"
Shinji's expression turned dark and angry. "You have
NO idea." he said.
Misato just started at him, atonished at the change
his father's name brought upon Shinji, and kept driving.
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"My first glimpse of an Eva..was scary. More so than
the Angels themelves..it worries me when a weapon is more
terrifying than the enemy you use it on."
-Shinji Ikari
"Good. Then you'll be here soon, and he's with you,
safe and sound. Good. Yes, we're just about ready here.
Loaded up, and ready to launch. Radar shows the target
only five miles behind you, and catching up. Hopefully
she's ready this time. Bye."
*click*
"That was Misato, your Holiness. The Third is with
her, and the Angel right behind them. Unit-01 is ready on
your word."
"The word is given, Dr. Akagi. Bishop Fuyutsuki, I
leave all this in your hands. Proceed."
"Yes, your Holiness."
A moment later, after the Pontiff had left the control
room, Kozou Fuyutsuki sighed. "His first meeting with his
son in six years..It could to get ugly."
Ritsuko nodded, "Yes."
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Yes, I know I promised Gendo and Shinji would meet here but..it would take about twice this
much space to do it, and I think I should save that for another file.
Thanks to Johnathan Gators for corrections galore..
now if I could only figure out why I had Ishamael on the
brain..also thanks to David Brown for his help on military
divisions..you can expect a saner JSSDF to get creamed in
the rewrite of ch.1, which I will likely post on the web
at some point.
Part 3 of chapter one coming soon...Gendo vs.Shinji, Sachiel vs. Unit-01+Shinji,
Live on "FFMLWF smackdown!" in a one-fall, to the death, smash-em-up!