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Jeffrey "OneShot" Wong


  Shinji was silent. He couldn't believe how observant Ritsuko and Misato
were. 
They really seemed to be able to figure things out based on the very
little 
facts that they had. 
  It seems like he had underestimated them.
  Shinji sighed.
  "It's a long story..."
    


<new stuff 11/25>



  Both women were absolutely shocked at what they heard. Initially, they
both thought Shinji was crazy to actually believe that he was some kind
of god and from another world, but when he started going in to detail his
past and revealed sensitive material that no one but a select few was to
know about Nerv's true objective, they started listening.
  They spoke most of the night, Shinji spending it explaining everything.
Whether or not they believed him, he had no real idea.
  "So that's why you knew Rei was a pilot?" Ritsuko asked.
  Shinji nodded, "Yeah, because she's a pilot along with me when I went
through this before. I also know that a girl named Asuka Soryu Langley
will be the next pilot you bring in. Toji will come afterwards,"
  Misato said, "Wow, you're right. Asuka was chosen to be relocated to
Tokyo-3. For you to know that must mean that there's some kind of
information leak on Nerv's tightly guarded secrets or you know what
you're talking about,"
  Shinji chuckled, "Misato, actually, there are things about Nerv that
you don't even know. For instance, Ritsuko here has higher security
clearance and knows a lot of Nerv's true purpose,"
  "Like what?" Ritsuko believed Shinji was bluffing.
  "Like the Human Instrumentality Project," Shinji said without pause,
"Like the fact that Nerv is here strictly to repel the Angels and that
after that's done and over with, Seele, a secret organization, will try
and implement Third Impact,"
  Misato turned toward Ritsuko, "Is that true?"
  Ritsuko's silence told volumes.
  "How come I was never informed of this?" Misato asked.
  "How did you get this information?" Ritsuko demanded an explanation.
  Shinji nearly shouted, "Are you not listening me? I already told you,
I'm the future version of the Shinji you're supposed to have helping you
out. What does it take to convince you?"
  "Fine, tell me a little bit about myself," Ritsuko said.
  "You're the daughter of Naoko Akagi," Shinji said, "She was the creator
of MAGI, the main computer for Nerv. Your mom killed herself by jumping
off the control center tower. You're a habitual smoker who will quit upon
a suggestion from a man you like,"
  "A man I like? Who?" Ritsuko blushed.
  "You haven't met him," Shinji shrugged, "His name's Ranma but that's
it. Anyway, is that reason enough to believe me?"
  Ritsuko was silent.
  "Fine, what do you know about me?" Misato asked, still skeptic but
ready to believe him.
  Shinji turned toward her and said, "When you were young, you went with
your dad on an expedition in Antarctica. You were the only one that
survived from when Second Impact occurred. You have a scar across your
chest from that incident,"
  Misato was stunned speechless.
  "What do you know about Seele?" Ritsuko asked, wondering if it was all
right to ask such a question, what with Misato being there. However,
since they were both in the thick of things, perhaps it didn't really
matter.
  "Seele is a secret organization that even you don't know much about,"
Shinji said, "It's headed by a person named Lorenz. That prick of a
father of mine works for Seele. They're interested in causing the Third
Impact which result in humans evolving to a higher life form and to
become one with God,"
  "Is this all true?" Misato asked Ritsuko.
  "Y-yes," Ritsuko said.
  "How come you never told me?" Misato asked.
  "Because," Ritsuko said, "It's on a need to know basis,"
  Shinji smirked, "Here's some stuff you don't know. After all the Angels
are defeated, Seele will kill everyone working for Nerv, including you
two,"
  "W-what?!" both females said.
  "Do you believe me yet or should I go on?" Shinji asked patiently.
  "I believe you," Misato said truthfully, "But please go on. Tell us
more. What's this thing about you becoming God or something and needing
to kill God?"
  Shinji said, "I dunno much about that. I'm in such a world of shit that
I dunno how the heck I'm gonna get out of it,"
  Misato asked, "How so?"
  "Like I said, I'm from an alternate version of this world," Shinji
began, "That's why I know everything that I know. That also explains why
I don't look fourteen, because I'm not. I'm older. Anyway, there was a
guy that helped us out when Seele tried taking over Nerv. His name is
Ranma. This guy reached the level of God. He gave up those power and
passed it on to someone else, a Goddess named Urd. Now, I'm in a
situation where that same guy someone went corrupt and is now trying to
kill Urd. Basically, it's old-God trying to kill new-God,"
  "What happens if he succeeds?" Misato asked, at the edge of her seat.
  "All ceases to exist," Shinji said, "You guys are here fighting Angels
to save humanity. I'm basically the next level up from what you guys are
dealing with, on a whole grander scale. I hafta fight God to save all
that exist,"
  "That doesn�t explain why you're here in the first place, or frankly,
how you got here," Ritsuko commented.
  "I'm here for Unit-01," Shinji said.
  At that moment, the front door exploded inward due to breeching charges
placed on it from the team of highly-trained soldiers situated outside
the apartment. The explosion was so loud that it disoriented the
apartment occupants as they found themselves looking around to see what
had happened, their ears ringing.
  "What's going on here?" Ritsuko was totally confused, looking around
trying to figure out what had just happened.
  "What the?" Misato said as she noticed four highly-armed soldiers enter
her apartment. Her eyes widened as she realized that it was some kind of
SWAT team. Why were they there?
  From out of the corner of her peripheral vision, she caught sight of
Shinji running straight toward the group of soldier. It seems he had
gotten his bearings and assessed the situation far quicker than her or
Ritsuko.
  Shinji, knowing his and Misato's and Ritsuko' lives were in danger,
reacted instinctively as he grabbed the front-most incoming soldier by
the forearm, twisting at an awkward angle, dislocating his shoulder, and
sending the soldier flying in to the second incoming soldier, both of
them falling to the ground.
  Before the third soldier was able to react in time, Shinji punched him
hard in the fact, his neck cranking backwards at an awkward angle.
Unfortunately for Shinji, the solider instinctively squeeze the trigger
of his assault rifle as he fell backwards unconscious, a bullet catching
him right in the left shoulder.
  A white piercing pain shot through Shinji's entire left shoulder as the
bullet entered through the front part of his left shoulder and exited
through his back portion. This caused his entire left arm to go limp as
Shinji winced in agonizing pain and fell to the floor, clutching at his
shoulder with his working arm.
  One of the soldiers stepped on Shinji's shoulder, pinning him in place,
the pain making him unable to move.
  "G-get off m-me!" Shinji sneered, trying to fight back the excruciating
pain.
  Misato and Ritsuko were still in a state of disorientation when they
looked over and assault rifles trained on them. They immediately raised
their arms in surrender, not wanting to be shot and killed.
  They watched in confusion as the two closest soldiers walked right up
to them and individually struck them with the butts of their assault
rifles, both of them sent in to unconsciousness.
  "Clear," one soldier called out, "Targets subdued,"
  A minutes later, Gendo entered the apartment. 
  He looked down at Shinji, a puddle of blood forming around the young
man. His visage showed no emotions of concern for Shinji.
  Shinji looked up through the tears of pain to see Gendo.
  "Now what are we going to do with you?" Gendo said.
  It was then that the butt of the forth soldier's assault rifle struck
Shinji in the back of his head, sending him in to unconsciousness.  

  Shinji's head throbbed when he woke up a day later.
  Getting hit in the back of the head with the butt of an assault rifle
was something he didn't not care to repeat. Funnily enough, a hangover
probably felt worse than what Shinji was feeling.
  He shook the cobwebs from his head and looked about. He looked down at
himself and found himself in a hospital bed. His left arm was in a sling,
his shoulder bandaged up.
  He moved his left arm around in a bit but felt no pain.
  "Why am I bandaged up?" he asked himself. 
  He proceeded to removed the bandages to see what kind of wound he had
that merited him being all bandaged up. To his confusion, he found no
wounds, not even a scratch. 
  "Wait a minute, wasn't I shot?" he asked himself. He had a vague
recollection of what had happened but his memory was a bit hazy. Perhaps
he suffered some form of brain damage when he was hit in the back of the
head and knocked unconscious.
  His eyes widened as he suddenly recalled what had happened to him. He
had been shot and knocked unconscious. He had been talking with Ritsuko
and Misato at Misato's place when it was suddenly stormed by soldiers
wearing masks, some form of SWAT members.
  "What the heck happened back there?" he asked himself.
  After a short while, he came to the realization that he would most
likely not find out any answers any time soon.
  Great, yet more unanswered questions.
  First thing first, he should figure out what happened to him. He had
been shot but there were no wounds. Did that mean his body had somehow
healed completely?  
  "Man, I would be nice if I had some kinda AT field like Ranma," Shinji
commented, "Then I wouldn'tve gotten hurt in the first place. Who knows,
maybe that might happen sometime down the line,"
  He scratched his head, "Why did the place get stormed by those
soldiers?"
  Knowing that he was asking questions he could not answer, he decided it
was best to worry about the situation at hand. First, he needed to know
where he was.
  Looking about, he noticed that, although he was in a hospital bed, he
was not in some kind of hospital room. He was in some kind of cylindrical
room with a giant circular steel door on one end of the room. The door
looked like the interior side of a vault door, no handle or lever on his
side. The room looked to have a ceiling fifty feet high.
  "Where the hell am I?" he asked himself.
  "You're in a holding cell," came a low voice, a voice Shinji instantly
recognized.
  Shinji looked up and saw Gendo looking over him from the safety of a
balcony around forty feet high up. The image of Gendo looking over him
moments before he was knocked unconscious flashed through his mind. It
made him suddenly realize that Gendo had something to do with the
storming of Misato's apartment.
  "How long was I out?"
  "A day," Gendo answered, "I'm surprised you've recovered so quickly,"
  "Why have you brought me here?" he asked.
  "Because you know too much," Gendo said, "I don't know how you managed
to know as much as you do, but you know way too much and you're a
liability to the Human Instrumentality Project,"
  "How did you know that I know?" Shinji asked.
  "Misato's apartment, much like all operatives of Nerv, is bugged,"
Gendo said, "You've been under close observation ever since you refused a
blood test. When it was revealed what you know, the appropriate actions
were undertaken,"
  Shinji's hands clenched in to fists. How come he never figured that
out, that Misato's apartment was bugged or that he had been watched all
this time? Then again, he still had a lot to learn and needed to learn
from his mistakes.
  "What happened to Misato and Ritsuko?" Shinji asked, remembering
catching Misato and Ritsuko being knocked unconscious out of the corner
of his eyes.
  "They're in a holding cell much like you," Gendo said, "They know too
much. I don't need to have them running knowing what they know,"
  "But you need them," Shinji said. Surely, Gendo would not have them
killed. That was just a thought that Shinji would not consider. They
played too important a role in the grand scheme of things.
  Gendo smiled, "That's what you think,"
  "What are you going to do with them?" Shinji sneered.
  "They're going to be executed,"
  Shinji saw red as he exploded with anger.
  "I'm going to fucking kill you!" Shinji shouted, jumping out of his
bed.
  The blankets fell to his feet to reveal that he had been wearing
nothing under his clothes. However, the fact that he was completely naked
didn't seem to bother him one bit, a sense of modesty taking a backseat
to something as dire as Misato's and Ritsuko's safety. It was all his
fault. 
  He shouldn't had told them.
  Shinji looked around, brainstorming on a way to get out of that room.
  He ran up to the door and tried to open it, realizing that it was
useless to try since there was no way of opening the door from the
inside.
  "Don't even bother," Gendo said, "You're never going to open the door
from the inside,"
  Shinji didn't hear Gendo's words as he knew he had to get out of there.
He punched at the door a few times, his fist becoming embedded in it. The
sounds of Shinji's fist hitting the door reverberated loudly in the room.

  Shinji went about hitting the door with open-palm strikes, the door
shuddering under such an intense barrage of blows.
  From the balcony, Gendo had this shocked look on his face as he
witnessed Shinji hitting at the door. It was a two-ton door yet Shinji
was hitting it with such force that it looked like it wouldn't hold for
long.
  "Let me the hell out!" Shinji shouted, continuing to punch at the door.
  After a few more punches, he suddenly realized something. There was an
easier way of getting out of there.
  He jumped up and did a triangle jump off one wall and landed on the
balcony, right in front of a shocked Gendo. 
  With no sense of caring for how much he would hurt his father, Shinji
reached out and grabbed Gendo by his neck, hated for him even more
evident than the first time around. 
  "Where are Misato and Ritsuko?!" Shinji sneered.
  Gendo was in a state of shock from witnessing what he had witnessed.
Given the time, Shinji would've broken a two-ton door using nothing but
his punches. Above that, he had just reached a balcony located forty feet
high up by jumping.
  Shinji actually took pleasure in slapping his father to get him to come
to his senses. He felt bad about it, like he was some kind of sadist, but
he couldn't help but feel good as well.
  "Where are Misato and Ritsuko?" he asked again.
  It wasn't until Shinji slapped him a second time did Gendo respond.
  "You're not going to get an answer from me," Gendo said.
  Shinji's jaw tightened. He found himself hating his father even more,
"Fine, have it your way,"
  He threw his father off the balcony where Gendo landed on the ground of
the room down below, hard. He made sure his father didn't land in the bed
situated in the middle of the room, so he would have a hard landing and
perhaps get hurt in the process.
  The fall knocked Gendo unconscious and Shinji couldn't help but smile.
  "How do you like me now, prick? I'm not that same boy you thought I
would become!" Shinji's voice echoed in the room as he shouted down at
his father's unconscious form.
  Shinji ran off down the balcony and through the door located on the
other side.
  He needed to save Misato and Ritsuko.
  It would only be a matter of time before the entire building knew he
had escaped.

  Shinji shivered as he tried to make heads or tails of where he was
within Nerv Headquarters. He had never seen this section of the building
before. It also didn't help that he was stark naked and it was fairly
chilly in the building.
  "Bah, I'd rather go naked than wear my father's clothes," Shinji said,
continuing to sneak around.
  Shinji found himself sneaking down a long stretch of corridor, grateful
that the door, although all of them locked, were in alcoves where he
could hide from the few guards patrolling about.
  "Damn, wouldn't it be nice if an Angel attacked now to cause
confusion," Shinji commented, "That would help me sneak around much
easier,"
  He had the funny feeling that he was in some kind of holding facility
located within Nerv because there were many guards walking about. With
nothing on his person and the guard easily being able to see Shinji's
approach down the corridor, Shinji realized he needed to be stealthy.
  After a moment of hiding, he came up with a plan.
  He knocked at the wall by the alcove where he was hiding. The sound
echoed loudly in the expansive corridor. He had seen this in a video game
before.
  "Huh? What was that?" a guard heard the noise. 
  To Shinji's surprise and delight, the guard started walking in the
direction of the alcove. When the guard was close enough, he dashed out
from there and grabbed the guard from the side, making sure to pin the
guard's arms to his side.
  When he grabbed a pair of breasts, he realized that the guard was
female. When he got kicked between the legs by the struggling guard, he
realized that she was definitely female since no guy would ever hit a guy
in that area. That was just wrong.
  Shinji keeled over, the wind knocked out of him.
  However, he never leg go. There was a good chance that she was armed
and would use her firearm if she got one of her arms free.
  "Take off your clothes!" Shinji said. He needed clothes more than him.
He did not want to run around naked.
  "Rape!!" the female shouted when she heard his comment and noticed
Shinji was naked.
  "No!! I'm not trying that!!" Shinji shouted, flushing a deep shade of
red.
  The surprise made him let go where he suddenly found the girl making a
mad dash down the corridor, running for her life, shouting that there
was, not an intruder, but a rapist, loose in Nerv!
  "You've got it all wrong!! It's all a misunderstanding!! I meant to say
'Give me your clothes'" Shinji chased after her, not wanting her clothes,
only wanting her to know that he meant her no harm.
  "Pervert!" the girl shouted, continuing to run away.
  As he chased after her, they came up to an intersection where he caught
sight of a male guard walking around the corner to inspect what all the
commotion was about. He didn't know what hit him for Shinji landed an
open-palm strike on his chest, sending him flying bodily in to a wall
where he then fell to the floor, knocked unconscious.
  Shinji quit chasing after the girl so he could stop by the unconscious
male guard. He quickly searched through the guard for something he could
use, finding a pair of keys.
  "Sorry about that," Shinji said toward the retreating girl's back.
  He threw the keys right at her, missing her by mere inches as she
disappears around a corner. The key continued to sail forward where it
landed a good deal down the corridor.
  "Damn, everyone's gonna know about me," Shinji muttered.
  Knowing that there was nothing much he could do, he proceeded to strip
the guard of his pants. As he was putting them on, the corridor was
suddenly bathed in red light as an alarm was sounded. 
  Knowing that it was best to get out of there and fast, wearing nothing
but a pair of pants, Shinji ran off down one of the other corridors.
  He needed to find Misato and Ritsuko, fast.

  Misato heard the alarm as she sat in her holding cell.
  She was wondering what she was going to do. The holding cell she was in
was similar to that of an isolation chamber. There were no windows and no
light. There was a giant steel door that had a small opening in it for
when food and water were to be passed through to her. 
  She had no idea if it was even day or night.
  She had no real idea how she had gotten there. The last thing she
remembered was talking to Shinji before she heard a loud noise and the
butt of an assault rifle hitting her.
  She rubbed at her cheek where there was a large gash under her right
eye. She got that when she had been struck. The gash was closed up with
stitches but there would be a scar there forever. 
  A girl's face was her life and now she had a scar on that precious face
of hers. Whoever did this to her, she would make them pay...provided she
lived through this ordeal.
  She felt humiliated also for she was naked as she sat on the concrete
platform that had been her chair and bed for the past day or so since she
had woken up in that room. She had spoken to no one since, not even
receiving a response from whoever was giving her food through the small
opening in the door.
  She had a funny feeling her friend Ritsuko was in that same situation.
  She also had a funny feeling that she and Ritsuko would most likely be
executed. If all that Shinji had told was true, then they knew too much
and would be considered a liability to that secret organization, Seele.
  Through the door, she managed to hear someone's voice, Shinji's voice.
  "Misato! Ritsuko! Where are you?"
  "Shinji?! Is that you?!" she called out, running up to the door,
shouting through the small opening.
  "Yeah, it's me. Misato, I hear you! Where are you?" she heard the
reply.
  "I don't know! Can you just follow my voice?" she shouted out, "I'm in
some kind of holding cell. There's a giant steel door,"
  She stuck her arm out, hoping that that would do some good.
  She felt a great sense of relief when she felt Shinji's hand closing
around hers, "Please, get me out of here,"
  "Don't worry, I'm here," his voice sounded like water to a girl dying
of thirst, "Stay away from the door. I'm gonna break through it,"
  "H-how?" she said.
  Her question was answered when the door suddenly bent-in toward her
when Shinji hit it with a well-placed front kick. After a few swift
kicks, the door finally fell off its hinges, falling inward and narrowly
missing hitting Misato.
  Misato brought her hands up to shield her eyes, the incoming light
hurting her eyes. It would take a few minutes for her eyes to adjust to
seeing light again.
  "How'd you do that?" she asked, Shinji's silhouette against the light.
  "I kicked it down. Oh man, y-you're naked!" Shinji's eyes widened,
blushing.
  Misato tried covering herself up. However, since she had nothing to
cover herself with, it was a rather futile gesture. The first thing she
covered up was the scar on her chest.
  "It's okay," Shinji said, "There's nothing to be embarrassed about.
Like I said, I know about the scar and the story behind it. Stay here,
I'll be right back,"
  Misato stayed where she was. She watched as Shinji picked up one of the
hinges and from the broken-down door and took it up in to his hands. As
she watched him as he peeked out the side of the door and down the
corridor, she noticed that he was half naked, wearing nothing but a pair
of pants that seemed to loose for him, his waist to small for the pants.
  She watched as Shinji suddenly jumped out in to the corridor and threw
the hinge, running off in that direction a second later.
  "What the heck did he just do?" Misato asked herself.
  A moment later, Shinji entered the holding area again, carrying with
him an unconscious man. He dropped the man by his feet and proceeded to
undress the man.
  "Here're some clothes," Shinji said, throwing Misato the guard's pants
and shirt.
  "What's going on here?" Misato asked, proceeding to get dressed in the
clothes that she knew were too big for her.
  "I'm sorry," Shinji said.
  "Sorry? For what?"
  "For getting you in to this," he said, peeking back out the door, "It
was my fault for telling you about myself. If you didn't know all this
stuff about me and Nerv, none of this would be happening to you and
Ritsuko,"
  Misato was silent. Shinji was right. She was pretty sure if Shinji had
never told them what he knew, they would not be in such a situation.
  "C'mon, we hafta find Ritsuko and get the heck outta here," Shinji
said.
  "No, we need to find Ritsuko and get you in to Unit-01," Misato said.
  "Why? It's not like I can get anywhere since it still needs a power
supply," Shinji scratched his head.
  "What are you talking about? Don't you hear the alarm? That's the alarm
for an Angel attack!"
  "What?!?" Shinji's eyes widened, "How's that possible?"
  "What do you mean?" she asked.
  "The next Angel isn't supposed to attack for around two weeks. This
doesn't make sense,"
  
  Misato found herself staring at Shinji's muscular back as she followed
closely behind. In her hands was a pistol, taken from the unconscious
guard Shinji had brought in to her holding cell. She felt more
comfortable having a gun in her hands than not.
  "Please, don't carry that gun," Shinji had asked her, "It makes me
nervous,"
  "If you're right and they're out to get us, then we need protection,"
Misato said.
  "I know, but a gun can kill people," Shinji said.
  "That's the point," Misato said.
  Shinji gestured toward a set of keys and a door hinge in his hands,
"I've got these. There's just as effective at knocking a person out but
without risking killing them,"
  "How so?" she asked.
  "I can throw these things at them," Shinji said, "I've got good aim,"
  Misato smirked. This kid was crazy to believe something like that would
work.
  "Do you know where we are? Do you know where we can find Ritsuko?" he
asked.
  Misato looked around, "We're in 'Block Z', the holding area of Nerv. If
Ritsuko's in a holding cell, she should be somewhere around here,"
  "Ritsuko! Where are you?" Shinji called out, figuring that would be the
best course of action.
  "The guards are going to hear you," Misato said.
  "I know, but what can we do about it?" Shinji said.
  "Shinji?" they heard Ritsuko's voice from down the corridor.
  Shinji called out, "Ritsuko. We hear you,"
  Misato followed Shinji as he ran down the corridor. They stopped in
front of a large steel door similar to the one that was in front of
Misato's holding cell.
  "Ritsuko, you in there?" Shinji asked the door.
  "Yes," came the reply.
  "All right, stay away from the door," Shinji said, "I'm gonna knock it
down. I don't want it to fall on you,"
  Misato assumed a cautious stance as she readied herself to return fire
if any hapless guard wandered down their corridor and saw them and fired
in their direction.
  From out of the corner of her eyes, she curiously watched Shinji,
wondering what he was going to do to knock down the door.
  Her eyes widened when she saw Shinji executed front kick at the center
of the steel door, the door bending inward from the intense impact.
  "Holy shit!" Misato gasped when she noticed the damage. Shinji had just
kicked the door and nearly broke it. The door was solid steel and
probably weighed several hundred pounds!
  Shinji kicked it a few more times, each kick having a devastating
effect on the door. As he kicked at the door, he suddenly stopped and
veered around, throwing the set of keys he had in his hands down the
corridor.
  Misato looked over and caught sight of a burly unsuspecting guard being
hit by the set of keys in the chest and falling to the floor unconscious.
She found herself angry with herself for paying too much attention to
Shinji to notice the guard before he did.
  Shinji returned to what he was doing, kicking the door one last time.
  The door fell inward where it hit the ground with a loud clank. He
walked up to the entrance and looked in. Seeing Ritsuko naked, he gave a
quick apology and ran off down the corridor, Misato just staying where
she was, wondering what she should be doing.
  Her eyes widened as she watched Shinji pick up the rather burly man and
carrying him over his shoulders with ease as he came back to the entrance
of Ritsuko's holding cell.
  Dropping the guard by the entrance, he proceeded to undress the guard.
  "How the hell did you do that?" Misato asked Shinji.
  He just knocked down a door that weighed several hundred pounds, and
made of steel for that matter, by kicking it several times. He also
picked up a three hundred or so pound guy and carried him over here like
it was nothing.
  Shinji continued to undress the guard, "Training. I've been trained to
be capable of doing stuff like this. Whether or not I was trained
specifically to deal with this kind of situation, I have no idea,"
  Shinji, finished undressing the guard, threw the clothes in to the
holding cell where Ritsuko readily accepted it and proceeded to get
dressed.
  Although a bit flushed, he made sure not to look as Ritsuko got
dressed.
  When Ritsuko finished getting dressed, he spoke.
  "All right, let's get going,"

  Shinji, Misato, and Ritsuko emerged on foot from a tunnel and on to the
surface area.
  It had taken a good ten minutes of running before they reached the
surface from Nerv. They would've gotten up there quicker had Ritsuko not
needed to stop to catch her breath, a result of her smoking.
  "I really need to quit smoking," she said, gasping for air.
  "I wonder how Rei's doing against the Angel," Misato commented, looking
around. She felt bad that she could not be commanding Rei from the
control center, but due to the situation at hand, that would not be
possible.
  "Oh my god! What the heck's going on here!?" Shinji gasped, pointing.
  Misato and Ritsuko looked at where Shinji was pointing and caught sight
of Unit-02 in fierce battle with the Angel, an Angel that looked much
like a pink squid with two whip-like arms.
  "Say, isn't that Unit-02?" Misato asked, recognizing the EVA from the
documents she had read.
  "Yes," Ritsuko seemed a bit confused, "That's rather strange. Nerv
wasn't supposed to receive a second pilot for a few weeks from now,"
  "That's Unit-02! That's Asuka's EVA!" Shinji said, "What the heck is
she doing here now? She wasn�t supposed to show up for several weeks!"
  Shinji began pacing back and forth, "Why's everything getting so messed
up? This world's timeline is changing from the way it's supposed to go. I
don't understand why this is happening,"
  "Why, what's supposed to happen?" Misato asked curiously.
  "None of this, that's for sure," Shinji said, "This Angel isn't
supposed to attack for around two weeks from now. And when it does
attack, I'm supposed to be fighting it. Asuka isn't supposed to show up
for several weeks from now,"
  Misato said, "It could be because of what you're doing that's causing
this to happen,"
  Ritsuko said, "That's probably most definite. From the way things look,
I think Asuka was brought in early to compensate for what's happened
between you and us. Afterall, you were a pilot. Since you were taken out
of the equation, someone needs to replace you,"
  "I think you're right," Shinji said, smiling, "Man, you're so good with
your deductions,"
  Ritsuko smiled, "Thanks,"
  "Looks like bringing Asuka was a good idea on Nerv's behalf," Misato
commented, "Asuka's doing real well against the Angel,"
  Shinji looked up toward the outskirts of Tokyo-3 where he saw Unit-02
mounted on the Angel and stabbing it in the core with a knife and holding
the blade there as the Angel tried to fight back. Before long, the Angel
stopped struggling, unable to continue fighting, unable to come to the
aid of the young man that accidentally summoned it.
  Shinji sighed as he started to comprehend how, for him, everything had
suddenly gone to hell in a basket.
  Nerv would soon be looking for him and Misato and Ritsuko once it was
discovered that they escaped. The last place they could go was back to
their respective homes. Asuka had defeated the next Angel, removing
Shinji's chance at having Unit-01 eat the core. And last but not least,
Nerv would most definitely not sit idle while he tried to get in to
Unit-01 for when the next Angel attacked to make it eat its core.
  Shinji sighed, shaking his head in disbelief.
  "I'm so screwed," Shinji said.




<all ive got so far...>



Asuka: OneShot, you better not have me fall in love with Shinji in this
fic.

OneShot: ..............

Misato: I don't mind if you have me fall for Shinji in this fic.

OneShot: Um, Misato, what are you, some kinda pedophile?

Misato: Actually, Shinji's of legal age in this fic.

OneShot: .............. 




-OneShot
Jeffrey "OneShot" Wong
http://www.anime.sobhrach.com/~jeffwong/index.html


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