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Jeffrey "OneShot" Wong



  "He'll be in for a surprise when he doesn't find you there," Gendo
added, 
"He'll also be in for a surprise when he finds out you betrayed him. I
doubt he 
ever suspected that you contacted Nerv back then, when you were away from
that 
hotel. What's funny is that even if you didn't betray him, you would've
been 
found anyway since you also had a tracking device implanted within you.
At least 
now, I knew where you stand, with Nerv, not my so-called 'son',"
  Ritsuko remained silent.
  Had she made the right choice in betraying Shinji?


 


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  Shinji continued to sneak through Nerv, making his way toward the lower
level where the holding cells were.
  He was a bit confused why he wasn't bumping in to guards. If security
had been  upped so much, then how come he had yet to bump in to a guard.
It felt as if security hadn't been changed since the last time he had
been there.
  Little did he know that the security had been reallocated to different
sections of Nerv just so he could wander down toward the holding cell
area unseen. It would make his capture easier since there would be no
where he could go once he was there and approached.
  He ducked in to an alcove when he caught sight of a guard walking
around.
  "Good, that's more like it," he told himself, "Something would seem
fishy if I didn't bump in to any of them,"
  He continued down, totally unaware that he was being watched every step
of the way on hidden security cameras. He had made sure he looked for
security cameras, finding none along the way. Little did he know that all
the cameras were hidden and that he still had a lot to learn.
  When he heard footsteps, he ducked in to a nearby alcove, waiting
patiently for the guard or guards to wander by, ready to incapacitate
them if they saw him.
  "You! Come out with your hands up!" he heard a loud voice, "We know
you're hiding!"
  Shinji gulped. 
  "I repeat! Come out with your hands up!" he heard the voice again.
  "Shit," he muttered to himself, wondering how the heck he was found
out. He made sure he wasn't seen.
  He peeked his head out from the alcove where he saw nine armed guards a
good distance down the corridor, all of them lining it from one wall to
the other wall, in kneeling positions, automatic weapons trained toward
him.
  "Damnit," he muttered to himself, "How the heck am I gonna be able to
take out nine of them?"
  He checked his pockets. He had enough batteries. This made him feel a
bit better. The problem was that he was very sure he wasn't skilled
enough to through nine well-aimed batteries without a single shot being
fired toward him.
  "If you do not come out with your hands up, we will not hesitate to use
tear gas," he heard.
  Shinji sighed. He couldn't believe it. He had so much to learn. He was
only in Nerv for no more than five minutes and he had already been
caught.
  Hundreds of actions and consequences flashed through his mind. Should
he just surrender or should he fight? He could probably take three of
four of them out but he would inevitably get shot in the end. 
  Not wanting to get shot, Shinji stepped out from the alcove, hands up
in the air.
  "Drop him," he heard one of them, mostly the captain, say.
  He saw a flash come from the barrel of the center soldier. Suddenly, he
felt a surge of pain envelope his leg as a bullet entered and exited
through his right leg.
  Shinji immediately fell to the floor, unable to stand, the pain
excruciating. Although the bullet hadn't struck a major artery, blood
still squirted everywhere.
  They shot me, Shinji thought through the tears of pain falling down his
cheeks. They goddamn shot me anyway! I did as they wanted to me to do but
they shot me anyway!
  "Y-you mother f-fuckers!" Shinji shouted, clutching at his leg. He
found himself feeling faint seeing so much blood, especially that much
blood coming from his body.
  He was suddenly grabbed by five soldiers, one grabbing each appendage
and the fifth one grabbing him by the back of his neck, pinning him to
the ground on his stomach. 
  "L-let go of me!" Shinji sneered, trying to squirm, the pain from his
leg preventing him from fighting back with all his might.
  He couldn't believe how brutal Nerv operatives were. However, now that
he knew how they were, he would not take them lightly. He would no longer
be reserved about hurting them. Since they had no qualms about hurting
him, he would do the same toward them.
  "You're not so tough," one of the soldiers made a comment.
  Before Shinji could see who said that, the butt of one of the soldier's
automatic weapon rained down on the back of Shinji's skull, knocking him
unconscious.

  Shinji's head was throbbing as he seemed to balance on the thin line
between consciousness and unconsciousness.
  He opened his eyes slowly. 
  It took him a moment for him to notice that he was looking at the
floor. It was moving past him as he was being carried along. He felt his
arms being handcuffed behind him, and hand on each arm holding him up,
his feet dragging along the floor. 
  His head really hurt and he had no idea where he was being taken to. He
also didn't know why he was even awake in the first place but made no
movement to indicate that he was conscious. He knew he had been hit hard
in the back of the head with the butt of one of the soldier's weapon. 
  However, what shocked him was that he was actually conscious. The last
time he had been struck, he was out for a day or two. 
  This time, he was getting up once again, but only around five minutes
had probably elapsed.
  Because of the way his leg was hanging, he was able to see his right
leg as he was being dragged along. He noticed that there was no more
blood flowing from the bullet wound. Did that mean he had already healed
up? Was that possible?
  He made a very small attempt to move his right leg, steeling himself
for the pain that he would feel when he tried. However, to his surprise,
he felt no pain.
  My leg seems to have healed already, Shinji thought. I don't feel pain
anymore so I guess it's okay now. I guess my powers are starting to take
effect, that being some kinda weird healing factor. However, why does it
hafta be something like that? I'd rather not get hurt instead of having
some kinda fast healing ability. That way, I won't hafta feel pain in the
first place.
  He continued to let his body remain limp since he was sure the two
soldiers thought he was still unconscious. And judging by the pairs of
feet walking by him as he was being dragged along, he figured there were
three people escorting him, two carrying him and one walking ahead of
him.
  Not knowing what was in store for him and not wanting to find out the
hard way, Shinji opted to make a move. He needed to break free.
  Gritting his teeth, Shinji used brute strength to break out of the
handcuffs. When the handcuffs snapped, the three soldiers escorting him
looked shocked.
  Shinji, hands free, hit the guy to his right with a open-palm strike,
sending him crashing in to the wall where he slumped to the floor
unconscious.
  He didn't care if the man got hurt or not. Shinji was very angry for
what they had done to him, shooting him like that and he was going to
vent that anger on them, even if it was something Ranma had preached
again, fighting in anger.
  As the guy to his left reached for his firearm, Shinji turned around
and kicked the man right in the chest, but not before he managed to fire
one round, unable to bring the gun up in time, the bullet hitting the
floor.
  The man was hit with such force he became partially embedded in the
left wall where he then fell forward and on to his stomach, unconscious.
  With two opponents down and one more to go, Shinji faced forward where
his gaze rested on the man that had just turned around when he heard the
firearm go off. 
  Shinji sneered when he saw the man. He recognized the man as the person
that shot him. Without a second thought, Shinji reached out and grabbed
the man by the arm as he reached for his firearm. Hand firmly on the
man's arm, Shinji jerked the arm toward him, bringing the man staggering
toward him and off-balance where he used his free hand to punch the man
right in the face. The momentum of the man staggering forward and
Shinji's incoming fist hitting him in the face knocked him unconscious
even before his feet kept moving forward and his head went back and
downwards where he crashed to the floor.
  Shinji looked down both corridors where he saw no one.
  Looking about, he came to realize that he was in the medical center of
Nerv. It seems like he was being escorted to the medical center where the
wound to his leg was to be treated before he would be taken to a holding
cell. It was too bad none of them realized that he seemed to have this
uncanny ability to heal quickly, far quicker now than ever before. 
  He went over to the unconscious soldiers where he took their individual
firearms, breaking them in to tiny pieces, pocketing a few small bits and
screws in case he needed to throw them for protection. After a short bit
of searching, he found a set of keys where he used them to remove his
broken handcuffs, taking care to pocket the keys, just in case.
  "What do I do now?" he asked himself.
  He looked at the three unconscious soldiers.
  "I need to hide them,"

  Shinji broke down a door that led to a random room. He had kicked it
down, his hands full since he was carrying with him three full-grown
adult guys. They were all heavy and it made it feel like he was wearing
close to two weight vests.
  Entering the room, he dropped the guys on the floor of the room, not
even taking care to be gentle. Actually, he kind of threw them to the
ground, secretly hoping they ended up getting more hurt. They got off
easy since they were already unconscious. They shot him for God's sake.
They should suffer and feel the same kind of pain he felt then.
  "Hmph," Shinji snorted in contempt.
  He took several deep breaths, pushing aside the obvious anger he
harbored toward Nerv operatives at the moment. He needed to keep a level
head and not let his emotions get the better of him. Ranma had trained
him better than that.
  Shinji glanced around in the room, taking in his surroundings. It only
took a moment for him to realize that he was in some kind of medical
recovery room. Actually, it looked familiar.
  He had stayed in this particular room on his world. It had been the one
where he had woken up in after he had had been hit in the chest by the
particle beam from the Angel currently attacking this world's Tokyo-3.
  "Wait, if this is the room where...." Shinji thought aloud.
  He went over to the bed that was located in the corner.
  Walking up to it, he was surprised at who he saw.
  It was Rei, sleeping soundly, still recovering. 
  "R-Rei?" he asked. 
  This was the first time he had seen her since his arrival on this
world. He couldn't help but feel a great sense of elation at having seen
her, even though she probably had no idea who he was.
  Rei opened up her eyes and regarded Shinji.
  This startled Shinji since he had not expected her to suddenly wake up.
  She said nothing.
  "Um, h-hi, Rei," Shinji gave a meek smile.
  She continued to say nothing. This made Shinji feel very awkward. She
was very much like the Rei he used to know back then, when he first got
to know her on his world. The Rei he got to know was more open, albeit
slightly. Of course, that was because of Ranma's impact on her life that
made her a bit more open and approachable, him having made her realize
there was more to her life than just piloting an EVA.
  "Who are you?" she asked, showing no signs of worry of her own safety
at the thought of there being a complete stranger in her room.
  "Um, I'm Shinji," he replied, "Shinji Ikari,"
  "Are you related to the commander?" she asked, her curiosity piqued.
  Shinji shook his head, "No. No relation,"
  It wasn't that he was ashamed to be related to Gendo, but felt it would
be better to lie. Actually perhaps he was ashamed to be related to Gendo.
  Rei closed her eyes again, him seemingly no longer of interest to her.
  Knowing that there was no real reason to be talking to her or to be in
contact with her, he figured he might as well give her some parting
words.
  "Rei, I know you don't know me, but there's a lot more to just piloting
an EVA. I hope you take that in to consideration,"
  With that said, Shinji left the room.
  Rei opened her eyes again and spoke to herself in soft voice.
  "What else could I possibly do other than piloting an EVA?"

  Shinji had an idea.
  Seeing finding Rei recovering in one of the medical rooms made him
think about Asuka who was also most likely recovering somewhere. He
should find her and see how she was doing. He didn't know what he was
going to do after he found her, but he figured he'd stumble his way
through the encounter after he found her. No need to worry about things
ahead of time. The only thing he had planned was to tell her to use the
Lance of Longinus against the Angel and hope that she would take his
consideration to heart and actually try and convince Nerv to allow her to
do so. 
  He proceeded to check out random rooms, using the keys he picked up to
open them up. He was lucky because it seemed like there was one master
key to all the rooms and he had found out which one it was after a few
failed attempts.
  Along the way, he had incapacitated four guards and hid the unconscious
people in the room nearest to where ever they were knocked out. He had
used plastic bottles of pills he swiped from Rei's medical room to knock
them out, very happy that those plastic bottles were just as effective as
throwing batteries. 
  "Sorry," Shinji had said to one guard as he carried her and gently
placed her down in a room before resuming his search for Asuka. Funnily
enough, he had once again bumped in to and knocked out the female guard
that he had accidentally groped not too long ago the last time he was
there.
  Searching several more rooms, he eventually came across Asuka's room.
  He was very happy to see her, a familiar face in his chaotic world.
  Asuka clad in what looked like a medical gown that looked more like a
pair of pajamas and was resting peacefully in her bed. Upon closer
inspection, she looked like she was sleeping and not recovering from some
close-death encounter with the Angel. There weren't even bandages wrapped
around her chest or head. 
  "Asuka," he called out in a soft voice.
  Asuka stirred slightly and opened her eyes. It took a moment for her
eyes to focus on Shinji and for her to recognize him.
  "Shinji?" she rubbed the sleep from her eyes.
  Shinji smirked, "Yeah,"
  "What are you doing here?" she asked, remembering where she was. She
was in the medical center of Nerv. So why the heck was Shinji doing in
Nerv?
  Shinji ignored the question, "Are you okay? You look like you took
quite a beating up against that Angel,"
  She nodded, still confused, "Yeah, I'm okay. All I suffered was a
concussion,"
  Shinji scratched at his chin, "Oh yeah, I guess I shouldn't be
surprised. Unit-02's got more armor than Unit-01,"
  Asuka looked at him, still very confused, "What are you doing here?"
  "It's a long story," Shinji gave a meek smile, "Let's just say that I
wasn't completely honest with you when we first me,"
  Asuka continued to regard him intently, not really knowing what to say
or do.
  "I'm not the person you think I am," he said, "You may think I'm crazy,
but I'm actually from some different world. The point is is that I know
quite a bit about this world and what's going on. I also know how to
defeat the Angel you just tried fighting. You need to use the Lance of
Longinus to do so,"
  "Lance of Longinus?"
  "It's a weapon that's stored deep underneath Nerv in Central Dogma," he
answered, "I'm sure you know nothing about this because Nerv is keeping
you and basically almost everyone else in the dark about what's really
going on behind the scenes,"
  "W-why are you telling me this?" she asked.
  "Cause I'm here to help you," he said, "You are, just like how I was,
being used by Nerv as some kinda pawn and I don't want that to happen.
Actually, it's not Nerv but Seele, but since Nerv is a part of Seele..."
  "Seele?" she asked.
  "Like I said, it's a long story," he said, "At the current moment, what
we've gotta worry about is that Angel. That's why I'm telling you about
using the Lance of Longinus. I already contacted Nerv about using it, but
I don't know if they'll listen to me. At least with someone like you
knowing about that, it might carry more weight,"
  "W-what do you want me to do? I'm still confused," she said.
  "Just make a suggestion of it to my father," he said, "Knowledge of
that weapon is highly classified. At least with more people knowing about
that weapon existing, there's a higher chance that it would be used
instead of its existence being denied,"
  "Suggest this to the commander?" she asked.
  Shinji nodded.
  Asuka became defensive, "I knew it! You lied about Gendo being you
father!"
  Shinji's lips became a thin line. He had accidentally let it slip. He
wasn't such a good liar afterall.
  "Why did you lie to me?" she asked.
  Shinji sighed, "I didn't want you to know. It would've made an already
complicated situation even more complicated,"
  "What, you can't trust me?" she felt a bit offended.
  Shinji was silent for a moment, "No. It's not that I don't trust you.
It's just that with less people knowing about who I really am, the
better,"
  "And who are you really?" she asked again.
  "I told you, I'm from another world," he said matter-of-factly, "In a
sense, I'm from this world's future and I know you and many people on
this world and already know what's going to happen to this world. I'm
here for other reasons, but along the way, I'm trying to help this world
out, that being in helping you defeat the Angels. This is actually
probably the main reason why I didn't tell you, because I didn't wanna
hafta explain everything and just help you out behind the scenes,"
  Asuka was silent for a moment. She then asked, "How do you know me?"
  "You exist on my world," he said, "We know each other and since you are
exactly like her, I already know what kinda person you are,"
  "This is all so....insane," Asuka commented.
  Shinji said, "Anyway, I'm glad you're okay. I just came to check up to
make sure you're okay. In my world, I tried fighting that Angel and I
nearly died. Now that you're okay, I can rest easy and go about taking
care of several other things,"
  "Like what?" she asked.
  "Like I said, it's a long story,"

  Shinji sneaked down the corridor, making not a single sound.
  As he was making his way out of the medical section area and toward the
corridor that would lead to the stairs down to the holding cell area when
he saw three individuals walking down the corridor in his general
direction.
  He quickly ducked in to a room he had previously checked out and waited
nervously for them to walk by. After the three individuals walked by, he
peeked out of the room toward their backs and recognized two of them, one
of them being Gendo and the other being Ritsuko, escorted with a lone
Nerv guard he didn't recognize.
  Shinji had this shocked look on his face because he knew that that was
Ritsuko walking alongside Gendo.
  "What the hell?" Shinji was extremely confused.
  Not really knowing what to make of what he saw, he waited until they
disappeared around a corner and silently followed them.

  "Is he okay?" Ritsuko asked Gendo.
  "Does it matter?" Gendo replied in a cold voice, "Whether or not he's
hurt is trivial. Now that he is in our custody, we're to extract whatever
information from him that we can,"
  Ritsuko said nothing. She couldn't believe Gendo could be such a cold
man. This was his son she was referring to or at least as close to being
his actual son without actually being his son.
  "Go check up on Asuka," Gendo told her, "Tell her she will be deployed
to attack the Angel once again,"
  "With the Lance of Longinus?" she asked. She didn't care about the
guard escorting them knowing since he was a guard with high-security
clearance and was aware of many Nerv secrets.
  "No," he said, "We will have her self-destruct Unit-02. The heat shield
will be arriving here within the hour. She will be briefed to use it as
cover so she could maneuver Unit-02 within effective radius of its
self-destruction.
  Ritsuko's lips became a thin line. She had assumed that that was the
course of action Nerv would take. Human pilots really were expendable,
what with the dummy project having been radically rushed and already
nearing the conclusion of their experimental stage. It was amazing how
technology could rapidly increase when humans were forced to do so,
especially given this world's current situation.
  She had found that out about the dummy plug project nearing completion
when she had been snooping around in Nerv computers before, a fact she
had not told Shinji nor Misato. 
  "I highly recommend again it," Ritsuko said.
  Gendo turned toward her, unconvinced but curious, "Oh?"
  "Shinji had made a comment about the next Angel amphibious," she said,
"We are located near the water. If you self-destruct Unit-02, the water
would rush in to fill up the crater and make it easier for the Angel to
get Nerv. If we self-destruct Unit-02, we will harming ourselves more
than need be,"
  Gendo thought about it for a moment before he said, "That may be the
case, but I've made my decision. We can not risk using the Lance and
having it lost,"
  Ritsuko was silent for a moment before she said, "V-very well. I
understand. I'll go tell Asuka to get ready to deploy,"
  Ritsuko turned down a corridor heading for Asuka's medical room while
Gendo and the guard headed off toward the room where Shinji had
supposedly been taken to after having been taken in to custody.
  Shinji, whom had been unseen following behind them but close enough to
have heard what they said, paused as he contemplated who to follow.
  After a short while, he chose to follow Ritsuko. 
  He needed to talk to her and find out what was going on with her. Why
wasn't she in a holding cell? Why was she walking alongside Gendo like
she was working for him once again. That is, not unless......
  "Say it isn't true. She betrayed me....."

  Ritsuko entered Asuka's room. She walked up to Asuka's bed, wondering
what she was going to say to Asuka.
  She and Asuka had never met and here she was supposed to command her to
get ready to deploy. She was Asuka's superior so the young girl had to do
what she was told. However, what pained Ritsuko so much was that Nerv
would not hesitate to send a young girl to her death.
  Ritsuko smiled. She had guessed that and this obvious confirmation of
just how much everyone were considered nothing but pawns to Nerv, Seele
to be more exact. Shinji was right and she was glad she never doubted him
for a second. However, she had gone back to Nerv to save Asuka. Since
Asuka didn't know she was a pawn, it was Ritsuko's obligation to help her
out even if it meant basically betraying Shinji's trust to get back in to
Nerv. Although she regretted Shinji getting shot, she had noticed his
weird healing ability and assumed it would be enough to get him out of
his current situation.
  That way, when they met up within Nerv, she could help him get in to
Unit-01. Afterall, with Nerv thinking she was once again working with
them, they would not suspect a thing until it was too late when she
helped Shinji in to Unit-01. Also, she would already be within Nerv and
Shinji wouldn't need to worry about getting her in there to help him out
in the first place. 
  Ritsuko walked up to the young girl named Asuka. She was a bit
surprised to see Asuka staring up at the ceiling, wide awake, seemingly
in deep thought.
  "Asuka," Ritsuko called out.
  Asuka sat upright and turned her attention toward Ritsuko.
  "Who are you?" Asuka asked.
  "My name is Ritsuko Akagi," Ritsuko stated, "I'm here to tell you
something,"
  The door behind her closed, startling both Ritsuko and Asuka. The two
of them turned their attention over by the door where they saw Shinji.
  Shinji had a rather angered look on his face.
  "W-what are you doing here?!" Ritsuko's eyes widened.
  "I woke up before they took me over to where ever they were taking me,"
Shinji said in a cold voice, "What are you doing here?"
  "I-I came here to get Asuka," she said, still surprised.
  It took a moment for her to compose herself. She shouldn't be all that
surprised that no one knew he was up and running about. There were no
cameras in the medical area of Nerv so he could sneak about without being
detected. The thing that surprised her so much was that he was actually
up and running about after having been shot.
  "You betrayed me," Shinji commented, his voice cold, "Of all people, I
can't believe you betrayed me and sided with Nerv,"
  Ritsuko held her hands up defensively, "Hold up. Don't misunderstand,"
  "What's there to misunderstand?" Shinji said, "You never believed what
I said and have resumed working for Nerv once again,"
  "I never said that," Ritsuko said, "Just hear me out,"
  "What's going on here?" Asuka was very confused.
  "I'm waiting," Shinji said.
  "Yes, it does seem like I betrayed you and came back to Nerv," she
commented, "But I did it for a good reason. I came to the conclusion that
I would be more useful to you if I was within Nerv than trying to help
out from the outside. At least with me in here, I can be of more help to
you, especially in getting in getting Unit-01 activated,"
  "What do you mean?" Shinji was skeptic.
  "I came to get Asuka out," Ritsuko said, "Nerv plans to have her
self-destruct Unit-02 to defeat the Angel. I had a feeling they would do
that and came here to try and convince them otherwise. I believed my word
would carry more weight. Unfortunately, it seems like that isn't the
case,"
  Shinji was silent.
  "I made a bad judgment call," Ritsuko said sadly, "I came back to try
and convince the commander to use the Lance like you suggested, but he
didn't budge. I chose to come back to Nerv because defeating the Angel is
of the highest priority on my list,"
  "What, you didn't even consider that he would not take your
suggestion?" Shinji asked.
  "Yes, I did," she said, "Unfortunately, you won't like what my plan
would've been,"
  "And what plan would that have been?" he asked curiously.
  "I'm here to try and save her, by trying to convince the commander to
make her use the Lance and not self-destruct Unit-02 as I expected," she
said, "That's the only consideration I've thought of. Since that would
not happen, I would've let her be sent to her death and just waited
around for your arrival to help you out,"
  Shinji couldn't believe what he was hearing, "Oh my god! Just like
that, you would send Asuka to her death?! What kinda human being are
you?!"
  "One that is putting priorities first," Ritsuko steeled her feelings,
"The utmost priority is defeating that Angel. If we can't defeat that
Angel, then we can't help you,"
  Shinji was very angry, "I-I can't believe you would do something like
that. You're not the Ritsuko I know. She would never let something like
this happen,"
  "I'm not the same Ritsuko that you know," she said softly, "I may be
very much like her, but considering the circumstances we are currently
facing...."
  Shinji said nothing. She was definitely right. He knew Ritsuko and
Ritsuko would most likely think in that fashion. She tended to think in a
very logical fashion and putting priorities ahead of others was a very
logical way of thinking. The problem was that she didn't seem to consider
other options.
  "Unfortunately, there's gonna be a change in plans," Shinji said,
"Cause Asuka isn't going up in Unit-02,"
  "What's going on here?" Asuka asked loudly, "What the heck is all this
talk about my being sent to my death and Unit-02 being self-destructed?"
  Shinji turned toward Asuka, "Let's just say it's too hard to explain.
Things suddenly became very complicated,"
  "Um, unfortunately, it became much more complicated," Ritsuko said,
"Misato's been captured,"
  "What?!?!" Shinji's eyes widened.
  "It turns out that Misato and I as well had been tracked all this
time," she said, "I found out there was a tracking device implanted
within the two of us, under our skin," She tapped at the stitched up scar
above her right eyebrow, "They don't know that I know this. I knew that I
will eventually be found," she said, "I betrayed you first to hide my
true intentions. At least this way, Nerv really believes I betrayed you,
when in reality, I knew I was eventually going to be brought back in to
Nerv as a traitor. At least this way, I can secretly help you out from
within. Anyway, the point is is that Misato has the same tracking device
implanted within her and they have her in custody and are bringing her in
as we speak,"
  Shinji pinched his nose, "God, can this get any worse?"
  Ritsuko gave a meek smile, "Unfortunately, yes,"
  "Now what?" Shinji asked, "It can't possibly get any worse,"
  "Unit-01 in no longer in Nerv anymore. It was moved to Nerv
Headquarters in Germany," Ritsuko said with much regret, "That means
having Unit-01 consume a core is no longer a possibility,
  "Oh, you've gotta be shitting me!"

  Gendo entered the medical room where he was expecting to find Shinji
unconscious and restrained. However, upon entering, he didn't see what he
was expecting.
  All he saw was an empty room. 
  Believing the guards had accidentally taken their target to the wrong
room, Gendo used his good hand to bring the two-way radio he had in his
hand up to his mouth.
  "Where is the target?" he talked in to the radio, "He is not in his
designated room,"
  "I'm here now," he heard Shinji's voice.
  Gendo turned around, surprised.
  He found himself facing Shinji face-to-face. Shinji had quickly sneaked
his way over toward the room Ritsuko had told him he was supposed to be
taken to in hopes of meeting up with Gendo and giving him a piece of his
mind.
  "H-how did you-?"
  "You're underestimating me," Shinji said, a battery in his hand. The
moment he saw Gendo make any sudden move, he would hit him with it
without a moment's hesitation.
  "What do you want?" Gendo composed himself.
  "How's the arm?" Shinji took pleasure in asking, noticing the sling
Gendo was wearing.
  Gendo narrowed his eyes.
  "I can't believe you send Asuka to her death without so much as a
second thought," Shinji sneered, talking more to himself to sooth his
anger toward Gendo than directly talking to the man, "But then again,
you're a prick and would've sent me to my death without hesitation
either, huh?"
  Gendo remained silent. His finger was still pressed on the button on
the radio and he knew it would only be a short time before security
personnel would be storming the room to take him down. It was best to
just let Shinji talk and waste time.
  "I've got plans for you," Shinji said, "I'm not going to let that
happen,"
  "And how do you plan to do that?" Gendo asked curiously, abiding his
time.
  "Screw you," Shinji said, "I ain't telling you anything. What you
should know is that whatever you do, I'll be in your face doing what I
can to stop you and  your stupid secret agenda,"
  "You're going up against impossible odds," Gendo commented.
  "So are you," Shinji said, "You really think you'll be able to
double-cross Seele? You're going to die just like everyone else in Nerv
when the time comes. I already know you what you plan on using Rei for,"
  Gendo's eye twitched as he suddenly released the button to the radio.
He didn't want anyone on the radio hearing what Shinji was saying. It
seemed like Shinji knew some very personal things about him that no one
knew and he didn't want it to work against him and plant a seed of doubt
in to Seele.
  "You plan on using her to cause the Third Impact immediately after all
the Angels are defeated," Shinji continued on, "You're doing all of this
just so you could be with my mom. Well guess what? All of this crap that
you're doing and will be putting through isn't justified, no matter how
much you care for my mom and want to see her again,"
  Gendo's eyes widened. How was it possible that Shinji knew something
like this about him? Was it really true that he was from some kind of
other world? He was really skeptical and had originally thought he was
some kind of spy from a rival corporation sent there to cause anarchy
within Nerv.
  "Well guess what, I don't care how much you care about mom. I know you
became the man you are because she's gone." Shinji sneered, "I know that,
had she not disappeared, you would not be doing all of this. I heard from
my friend, Ranma, that you were actually a pretty okay guy, not as
cynical and jaded as you are. However, that was on a different world. On
a different world, I was just a normal person, something far better than
what I wanna be doing now, all of this. I learned to live with it. And so
should you,"
  "Who are you to cast judgment on whether or not I should deal with what
hand I've been dealt?" Gendo found himself angered.
  "Tough shit! Good night!" Shinji said, throwing a battery and hitting
Gendo right in the face, sending his head cranking backwards where he
fell to the floor unconscious.
  Shinji walked over to where Gendo was, contempt in his voice.
  "I hope that hurt,"

  Shinji sneaked his way toward the Nerv security center. 
  He was alone, Asuka and Ritsuko having gone off toward the EVA bay. 
  Realizing that he was basically screwed beyond belief, what with him
Unit-01 no longer being in Nerv, he had immediately thought of a
contingency plan. 
  The only one he could think of was to make his way to the security
center. It was located right by the medical area and there was a good
chance he would not be seen. Ritsuko had told him that there were hiding
cameras all around heart of Nerv and that he needed to take out the
security center before he went about sneaking through Nerv without the
risk of getting caught. 
  "That's easier said than done," Shinji had said to Ritsuko.
Unfortunately, that was his only course of action since his back was up
against the wall and he had nothing much else to go back.
  Hoping he wasn't being too overconfident, he believed that he might
have a chance of carrying out his plans. After he took out the security
center, or rather, take out everyone in there that could see him on the
screen and report him, he would then head down toward the command center,
hopefully without much trouble since no one was currently aware of him
conscious and wandering about. Ritsuko would be there waiting for him. He
needed to get there and knock out all of the personnel there so Ritsuko
had the entire command center to herself. He had around ten minutes to
carry all of this out since that was as long a time that Ritsuko and
Asuka could stall before Asuka was sent out once again in to battle.
  From there, he would have to make his way down to the EVA bay and
switch with Asuka and go out in Unit-02 and fight against the Angel. He
would use the shield to get in close enough to the Angel to absorb its
core.
  Shinji chuckled, somewhat delusional, "Gee, could this get any worse?
I'm alone in Nerv and I have only four batteries to throw for
self-defense," 
  "Freeze!!!" came a shout.
  Shinji turned around where he saw five guards pointing automatic
weapons toward him. The guards had finally located Shinji after having
heard his voice on the two-way radio Gendo had been holding. 
  Shinji instantly recognized them as soldiers and not Nerv guards. They
were dressed in fatigues and were wearing masks. 
  Before his mind could register what was going on, his body took action.
Not wanting to get shot again, he leapt toward one side where he ducked
in to a nearby alcove, a barrage of bullets spraying the area where he
had been standing a second ago.
  Shinji hid in the tiny alcove as bullets whizzed by. He checked his
pockets. He had no batteries or plastic pill bottles, the guards that had
him custody having confiscated them. He had nothing to defend himself
with, his element of surprise already gone, and five guards with
automatic weapons were shooting at his general direction from down the
corridor.
  "Great! Just great! This can not get any worse!"
  The interior of Nerv suddenly became bathed in red lights as all of
Nerv was alerted of Shinji's whereabouts.
  "What the fuck? Why won't some Plot God just take a dump on my face
while he's at it?!!" Shinji said.
  He quickly looked about, trying to think of an immediate plan.
  He turned his attention toward the door right next to him. It was one
of the rooms he had checked through previous in his efforts to locate
Asuka. He decided to head in and look for something to throw.
  Entering the room, he quickly scanned through it for small objects,
finding none. It was most unfortunate that most rooms were empty of
everything but a bed for where people could recover. It seems all medical
supplies were kept in some kind of main supply room located elsewhere in
the medical center.
  Searching through the draws that lined one side of the room, he found
nothing of use, most of them containing medical gowns and cotton swabs.
  "Yeah, like I can knock people out throwing cottons balls," Shinji
said, continuing his search. He knew he probably had no more than a
minute before the guards would approach the alcove and eventually enter
the room.
  He checked his pockets a second time, just in case he missed something
the first time around.
  He heard a clank coming from the alcove. Looking over he noticed a
small cylindrical container rolling in to the room after having bounced
off one side wall of the alcove.
  Shinji immediately recognized it as some kind of tear gas container.
When white smoke started shooting out from one circular end of the
cylinder, it confirmed his fears.
  Without thought, he ran over and picked it up the object and ran over
to the door, peeking the top of his body out from the alcove and throwing
the container toward one of the guards, hitting him in the chest and
sending him down to the ground unconscious.
  The container continued to spew tear gas, forcing the nearby guards to
immediately grab their fallen brethren and drag him and retreat a good
distance away from the tear gas where they had air to breath.
  Entering back in to the room, Shinji wiped at his teary eyes and
coughed several times, almost vomiting from having gotten a lungful of
the gas that second or so he was holding the container. 
  He looked around for something to throw, searching through the draws
again as if object had magically appeared where it wasn't before
previously. He even checked his pockets again to make sure everything had
been taken from him, as if he missed something the first and second time
around.
  Looking over toward the bed, he wondered if he could use the mattress
as some kind of shield as he ran from the room carrying it, dismissing it
when he realized the bullets would pass through it easily and hit him on
the other side.
  His eyes widened when he saw the round objects on the edge of each
bedpost. Without wasting a second, he grabbed the round object and
snapped them clean off the bedposts, unaware that he just snapped metal
off metal.
  Running back over toward the door, he kicked the second tear gas
container out of the room when it bounced off the alcove wall and rolled
in to the room.
  He peeked his body out and threw two of the four round objects, hitting
two guards in the head and knocking them out before he ducked back in to
the alcove as a bullets whizzed by him and down the other side of the
corridor.
  He waited a good twenty seconds of continuous bullet spraying before he
peeked back out, throwing the two remaining round objects and hitting the
remaining two guards in the face and knocking them out as well.
  Shinji breath a massive sigh of relief when he looked down the corridor
and saw all five guards incapacitated. He ran out of the alcove and
proceeded to head down the corridor in the opposite direction. After
several steps, he stopped and turned back around, running up to the five
unconscious guards, breaking the weapons by smashing them on the ground
before he proceeded to frisk them from some kind of objects that could be
thrown.
  "Jeez, these guys carry grenades?!" Shinji's eyes widened when he
recognized it. He had seen pictures of it in one of Kensuke's war books
on his old world, and it looked much the same.
  He decided to pocket them, five in total, a guard carrying one each.
They would make for excellent projectiles. Of course, he wouldn't bother
pulling out the pin.
  As Shinji was done searching them, he looked down the corridor where he
was supposed to head and saw four guards rushing toward him. They spotted
him and ducked in to nearby alcoves, two to each adjacent alcoves, their
weapons trained on him.
  Shinji mind raced a mile a minute as he looked around. There were no
nearby alcoves so he instinctively brought up one of the unconscious
guards like a human shield.
  The guards didn't open fire, scared of hitting their brethren. Shinji
picked up one of the tear gas containers and threw it toward their
general direction, hoping the tear gas would force them out of the
alcoves where he could hit them with well-aimed grenade throws.
  When the tear gas canister didn't go off, he realized he was supposed
to pull a pin or something much like a grenade.
  He picked up another one from a nearby unconscious guard and quickly
scanned the back of it. It gave no instructions on how to use it. He
noticed that there was one pin on it and guessed that he had to pull it
before he threw it. 
  He pulled the pin and threw it, the tear gas container that is. The
container rolled to a stop right by where the guards were. A second
later, smoke started billowing from the object. 
  Shinji threw the four grenades, hitting each guard in the back of the
head and knocking them out as they tried to make a run for it and away
from the debilitating smoke.
  "Wow, those things work real well," he commented.
  He picked up the guard and carried him as he walked down the corridor.
After several steps, he came to realize that there was an easy way of
doing things.
  "This guy's about the same size as me," he commented.
  He ran in to the same room where he had taken cover. He proceeded to
strip the unconscious man of his military uniform, leaving him wearing
nothing but his boxers and undershirt.
  Shinji then stripped and got in to the uniform. It took no more than
one minute for Shinji to switch outfits completely, even putting on the
man's boots and body armor. Perhaps it was because this was a
life-or-death situation that made him work so quickly and efficiently.
  Donning the ski mask, Shinji nervously stepped out of the room in back
in to the corridor.
  There was no one there, at least not yet.
  He ran down the corridor, hoping his disguise would come in handy.

  Shinji entered the security room.
  There were two guard in there at the time, both of them busy scanning
through the dozens of monitors looking for the intruder or anyone
suspicious. Nerv had reason to believe that the intruder was roaming the
facility incognito and were busy looking for anyone that was acting out
of the ordinary.
  "What are you doing here?" one guard asked.
  Shinji said nothing, rushing forward and executing an open-palm strike
on the man's chest, sending him flying backwards in to a giant machine
used to record all the cameras where he fell forward and on to his
stomach unconscious. 
  Before the other man could reach, Shinji turned toward him and grabbed
his right arm, snaking under it and pivoting so that he came back up and
was standing behind the man. 
  With the man's arm firmly in his grasp, Shinji pivoted on one foot
which made the man off balance and stagger in a circular fashion trying
to stay afoot. As the man staggered in on direction, Shinji then suddenly
pivoted the other direction, twisting the man's wrist hard, flipping them
man over completely where he landed on his back hard, the wind knocked
out of him. A swift punch to the gut knocked the man out. 
  Shinji removed his mask and wiped his forehead. Wearing the body armor
and outfit was making him very hot. He was also wasn't able to move quite
as well in the outfit and really wanted to change.
  He looked down at the two unconscious men. Neither of them were his
size, the both of them overweight and much larger than him. Besides, it
would be no use since the most important thing was to cover his face.
They knew what he looked like and the mask worked very well.
  Sighing, he placed the mask back on and looked at the giant console in
front of him that had dozens of monitors.
  "Jeez, I can't believe there are so many monitors," Shinji commented,
scanning through them.
  He caught sight of a camera in the locker room. It was the locker room
where Asuka and Rei and he would change in to their pilot suits. His eyes
widened when he saw Asuka through that monitor, very naked and proceeding
to change in to her pilot suit.
  "Jeez, what a buncha perverts!" Shinji muttered, his gaze still on the
monitor. He found himself staring at the screen a little bit too long
before he quickly turned his attention away.
  "Okay, Asuka's taking her time heading to the EVA bay like I asked," he
said, "That means I've got around six minutes before she needs to be
inside Unit-02. If I don't get to the command center in time, she'll
hafta refuse to go out and they will most likely force her out there and
to her death,"
  Shinji broke the firearms the guards had on their person and proceeded
to drag the them out of the room. This was because he wanted them safe
from the explosion that would occur when he used his two remaining
grenades to blow up the monitoring console. This would make it very hard
for Nerv to know of his whereabouts.
  Before he went back in to the security room, he grabbed a set of keys
from the guards. Those would come in handy since he had run out of things
to throw. This way, he could use individual keys to use as projectiles.
  "Trust me, Asuka. I'll getcha outta this," Shinji said, having noticed
how nervous Asuka looked on the monitor when he glanced at it again. She
wasn't supposed to know about what was in store for her. 
  She was supposed to have been told to use the shield, which was
currently in the adjacent bay, to use it to get in close to the Angel,
given the false information that the Angel only had ranged attacks where
she would be able to kill it by hand once close enough. There, she
would've been blown up with Unit-02 when it was self-destructed remotely.
Since she now knew of what was going to happen, she didn't know what to
do. It was quite a predicament for her, actively preparing to go to her
death, depending her life on a young man she barely knew but had told her
that they actually knew each other, a man that she didn't know if she
could trust since he had lied to her initially. What had she gotten
herself in to?
  Out of pure coincidence, Shinji glanced toward a random monitor where
he saw a familiar figure walking down the hallway, surrounded by four
figures seemingly escorting her. Taking a closer glance, he recognized
the escorted figure as none other than Misato.
  Her hands were handcuffed behind her back, two guards walking in front
of her and two guards behind her, all four of them carrying automatic
weapons.
  "Goddamnit!" Shinji said, "As if what I'm doing now isn't impossible
enough?!?"
  He glanced at the screen and recognized that area being displayed. It
was right by the front entrance.
  "Maybe I can intercept her on the way to the control center," Shinji
said.
  He took the two grenades from his pocket, very nervous about pulling
the pins. He had no idea how long it would be before the grenades went
off. However, he definitely didn't want to be around when it did.
  Pulling both pins, both grenades in one hand, Shinji shoved his arm
right through the metal control panel, shoving it all the way up to his
shoulder. He let go of the grenade, satisfied it was embedded deeply
enough to utterly destroy the console and quickly turned around and left
the room.
  Once outside the room, he grabbed the two unconscious guards and
dragged them down the corridor a safe distance away. 
  When the two grenades exploded, Shinji was nowhere near the area,
already in full sprint toward Nerv's front entrance.
  "Misato, here I come,"
  
  Misato gritted her teeth in anger.
  She couldn't believe she had been captured. She had tried so hard to
get away but couldn't. She had no idea how they had managed to find her
so easily either. At least she didn't go down without a fight. She had
managed to take out shoot two pursuers before she ran out of bullets and
had to surrender.
  Her face her. She had been punched by one of the pissed-off guards that
had watched two of his brethren taken down by a single woman and have
vented his anger toward her.
  "You're lucky you ran out of bullets," the man sneered toward Misato's
back, "If you hadn't I would've enjoyed blowing your brains out,"
  "Fuck you," Misato sneered.
  A kick to the small of her back sent her tumbling forward where she
slid to a halt on her stomach a good distance down the corridor. The
other three guards pretended like they saw nothing, them also very angry
toward Misato. They felt the need to slap her around a few times for what
she had done but wasn't quite brave enough to so like the one that had
kicked her.
  Misato made her way up to a sitting position, a defiant look on her
face.
  "You bitch!" the man walked up to her and slapped her, making her cut
the interior of her cheek against her teeth. A small trickle of blood
fell from her lips as she returned her acid gaze on the man.
  Hidden in an alcove, Shinji's hands tightened in to fists. He became
enraged at what he was seeing. Unfortunately, he could do nothing. The
guards were too far away for him to approach them without them getting
suspicious. Sure, he was incognito, but there was a chance that they
would be suspicious of seeing just him and approaching them instead of
looking for the intruder.
  He watched as they just watched as Misato had to help herself back up
to her feet and then giving her a quick shove to get her moving along.
  When they got closer and closer, Shinji decided he was going to take
the bully guard with his bare-hands. He wanted him to see what was coming
to him for what they had been doing to Misato. He was going to take
pleasure in teaching them a lesson.
  When the walked by the alcove, Shinji stepped out of the darkness to
face them, grabbing one unsuspecting guard as he walked in front of
Misato and threw him hard in to the other guard walking in front. Both of
them didn't know what hit them and were knocked unconscious easily,
sliding to a halt on top of one another a good distance away.
  Shinji then immediately dashed forward and executed a move labeled the
'splitting mountain', a devastatingly powerful technique that had it
where Shinji dashed forward and pivoted around at the last second and
slammed his back in to the opponents chest, sending the hapless guard
tumbling unconscious a good fifty feet down the corridor.
  Before the final guard to react, Shinji threw his keys at the man's
weapon, throwing it with such force that the weapon broke right in half
and fell to the floor in two pieces.
  "What the?" the man looked down at his hands.
  When the man tried to pull out his standard issue hand gun, Shinji
kicked it out of the man's hands.
  Misato had this rather confused look on her face as she wondered who
this soldier savior of hers was.
  Shinji pulled off his mask and walked right up to the man. The man
stood a good head taller and probably thirty pounds heavier. However,
Shinji seemed not one bit intimidated.
  Misato's eyes widened as she recognized Shinji. He looked like a drink
of water to a woman dying of thirst. She was incredibly relieved and
happy to see him.
  The man and Shinji stared at each other.
  "You think you're all tough bullying Misato like that? Why dontcha try
that with me?" 
  The man regarded the young man and smirked. He found it amusing that
this little man standing before him seemed to be challenging him to a
fight.
  Shinji slapped the guy on the side of the face in what was best
described as a 'bitch slap'. Unfortunately, the man fell to the floor
unconscious like a sack of potatoes, Shinji accidentally having slapped
him a bit too hard.
  "Let's see you if you smile now," Shinji smirked, waiting for the man
to get back up.
  The man didn't get back up. Instead, he, like all the other guards,
remained motionless where they lay.
  Shinji walked up to the guy, figuring the man was playing possum. When
he noticed he had accidentally knocked the guy out, he sighed.
  "Damn. That was no fun,"



<all ive got so far...>

Ranma: Hey, I just realized something.

Misato: That's you've been around for around a hundred years and haven't
had sex once making you more celibate than even the Pope?

Ranma: Um, no.

Misato: That OneShot had actually made his webpage in to a psychological
example of 'conditioning' because readers because they seem to have
realized he updates at '12AM EST' and seem to check his webpage at around
that time all the time?

Ranma: Um, no.

Misato: Then what?

Ranma: I noticed that when you pick your nose, and smell your finger,
your snot smells nasty. That's weird because you can't smell that snot
when it's actually in your nose.

Misato: ..............




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

  

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