Disclamer�� Neon Genesis Evangelion is owned by Gainax
and the various
DCU charaters are property Time Warner.
This is a co-written fic by Fusionblaster(myself) and
Classic Cowboy.
It can also be found on FF.net at:
http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1762850
�[]: Thoughts
�
�
�Chapter 3: First Meetings
�
Back then, Shinji took a *lot* of crap from a lot of
people.� Especially when Angel attacks went bad.� A
good deal of it was from Toji and me, but that's
beside the point.� He took insults that no one would
have blamed him for striking back at and didn't.� I
don't think any one of them could bring themselves to
say anything close to it now. It's just not done.� Not
to *him*.
�
Period.
�
---Kensuke Aida
�
3 weeks later in Shinji's school a young man was
upset� "Kensuke are you sure you saw him coming this
way?"��
�
His bespeckled friend rolled his eyes "Yes I'm sure."
�
"You realize you've said that every school day for the
last THREE weeks." Touji was obviously annoyed with
his friend.
�
"I know that but its like the guy can just disappear
at will.� Besides aren't you taking this just a bit a
too far?"
�
"TOO FAR!� Because of that son of a bitch my sister is
in the hospital!�� I have to do this."
�
Kensuke got an apprehensive look on his face "Come on
Touji he's the biggest guy in the class. I mean he's
friggin HUGE!"
�
"He's not that much bigger than me.� Besides guys like
that are always slow. I'm the fastest in the school.
He'll never lay a finger on me."
�
As they were talking both felt a gust of wind.� "What
ever Touji.��� There's just something about him."
�
"Oh stop with you stupid hero worship alright.� He's
just some stupid punk and I'm going to show him the
consequences of his actions.� What is taking him so
long anyway?"
�
"Well he wasn't that far away when I came over
here...." Kensuke got an apprehensive look on his face
and walked around the corner.
�
Touji just stood there waiting for him until his
friend returned and when he did he looked dismayed�
"Don't tell me."
�
Kensuke nodded "Yep he got away again.� I swear it's
like he can fly or something."
�
--
�
While the two friends broke into an argument over the
ability of Kensuke to locate people the person they
were trying to locate was on a hill overlooking the
city of Tokyo-3. He was alone at this scenic point
leaning against a steel railing that kept people from
getting too close to the cliff face. This was not the
first time he ever came here.� Misato took him there
after his first battle.�� Every day after school he
came here to think.
�
[What am I?]� He unconsciously gripped the handrail
and began to squeeze.�[Is my Uncle right?� Am I just a
freak?] Then he noticed that he had crushed the
rail.�[There is your proof right there that I'm not
normal.�� No one should be able to do that and not
know it. Hell Misato nearly freaked when I cleaned the
apartment that first night there.�� The last thing I
need is her thinking I'm a freak.�Things were bad
enough with Uncle on the farm when I accidentally
broke the equipment with my bare hands.]
�
[Shinji turned his back to the city.� So I guess this
is it for me. No one can know.�� That's the way it has
to be.� She doesn't need to know she's living with a
freak.]� Shinji then pulled out his SDAT and put it
on. He turned around to watch the city till the
sunset.
�
--
�
Berlin-2, Germany
�
A man in a suit and tie walked down the hallway of
NERV Germany Branch with a suitcase in hand. His
ponytail bounced behind him, and rubbed his unshaven
face before he entered the command center.
�
"Ah, Mr. Ryoji, we were beginning to wonder if you
would join us," the commanding officer stated with a
raised eyebrow.
�
"We didn't help fund the construction of Evangelion
Unit 02 for me not to show up and make the boss ready
to beat me down again."
�
"Again, isn't he getting a bit old for that?" the
female commanding officer smirked.
�
"You'd be surprised what the old man can do these
days," Mr. Ryoji nodded, before turning his attention
to the screen, "So that's our four eyed monster, huh,
Natalie?" he said with a wink, making the commander
blush.
�
"All systems ready, Synch Ratio is strong, all lights
green," one of the control workers stated from her
station.
�
"Ok, then, open a comm with the pilot," the commander
stated. "Asuka, can you hear me?" She asked as a
window popped up on the screen with a redheaded girl
with bright blue eyes and a dull look on her face.
�
"Yes, can we do something fun yet?" the girl groaned.
�
"Ok, Asuka, I want you to try walking now," the
commander stated as if she was speaking to a five year
old.
�
"Walking? WALKING! Is that it? Mien Gott! I have never
�" The girl ranted.
�
"Just do it, Asuka!" The commander snapped, and the
girl groaned again before the Evangelion began taking
steps forward.
�
"Walking � walking � see? I'm walking � can we do
something fun YET?" Asuka complained.
�
"Klugschei�er, (smart ass)" the commander said under
her breath, "Ok very good, Asuka, now there is a
weapons platform fifteen meters ahead of you. Go to it
and draw the assault rifle and stand by."
�
Unit 02 sluggishly made its to the platform and pulled
the Assault rifle, "Got it, can I shoot something
now?"
�
"Yes, we will have multiple targets pass up, try to
hit them directly on the target," the commander
instructed.
�
After a several minutes of target practice, the
commander spoke up again, "That's enough for today,
Asuka. Excellent job! You had a 70% accuracy rate."
�
"70%?" Asuka gasped, "The sights are off on the stupid
gun or the targeting computer on my 02 has a bug, you
WILL get on that, won't you?"
�
"Of course, Asuka, now move back to the elevator
platform, good work today," the commander said as the
window closed and she sat down roughly, "Thank god
that's over."�
�
"I take it the pilot's hard to handle?" Ryoji asked,
watching the woman rub her temples.
�
"She's a pure ball of energy, Kaji," the commander
stated.
�
"I'll talk to her, see if I can't calm her down a
little," he replied.
�
"Good luck. She has a hard enough time working with
women," the commander shook her head, "Even worse with
men, she thinks all males, human or otherwise are all
perverts."
�
"I might persuade you otherwise," Kaji smirked.
�
"Ha! After last night you can't tell me-" the
commander shot, but covered her mouth quickly turning
crimson.
�
"See? I knew you liked that, didn't you, babe?" Kaji
laughed, before flashing a grin and a wink, "So, are
you going to come back to my room again tonight,
Nate?"
�
"I � um � is ten too late?" the Commander whispered
shyly.
�
"Perfect, see you then," Kaji turned toward the door,
"Now gotta go put my charms on Ms. Sohryu."�
�
---
�
"70%, there's no way that can be right," Asuka
growled, stepping out of the women's locker room,
"That good for nothing commander probably read it
wrong, yeah, that has to be it!"
�
"Awe, did the lil girl get a bruise on her ego?"
stated a voice from behind her.
�
She spun around to see Kaji leaning against the wall
beside the door, a smirk plastered on his face, "Who
the hell do you think you are?" Asuka snapped. "You
were probably just standing there trying to get a peak
of me naked, weren't you? Dirty old man!"
�
"Hey! Who's old?" Kaji replied, a hurt look on his
face.
�
Asuka snorted and crossed her arms, "What do you want,
jackass?"
�
"Just to talk to a lovely young woman, that's all,"
Kaji replied taking Asuka's hand and moving down to
kiss it.
�
"Oh go take a cold shower, crap face," Asuka snapped,
jerking her hand away.
�
'This girl's trying my patience,' Kaji thought, taking
a deep breath, "If you keep up that attitude, you'll
never be a good Eva Pilot, not as good as the pilot of
Japanese's Unit 01 anyway."
�
"WHAT?!?" Asuka screamed, getting in the surprised
Kaji's face, "You listen, and you listen good, you
long haired freak! I AM the greatest Eva Pilot every
to be born, I AM better then any of the other Eva
Pilots, AND I am not going to listen to YOU telling me
crap that is just THAT: CRAP!"
�
"Crap? You want crap, Asuka, I'll tell you what crap
is," Kaji asked, his demeanor making him seem a lot
bigger. Asuka stared up in Kaji's narrowed eyes and
took a small step back, "Crap is your piloting skills,
your fighting skills are pathetic, and your ego is
nauseating. When you get over yourself and finally
pull your head out of your ass you MIGHT actually make
a decent Eva Pilot, but until then I don't even want
to hear you making pathetic excuses and blaming your
green mistakes on everyone else but who is REALLY
responsible: YOU! Am I clear, young lady?"
�
"W-What � did you say your name was again?" Asuka
asked, her head bowed, her ginger bangs hiding her
eyes.
�
"Huh? My name's � um � Kaji Ryoji, why?" Kaji asked in
confusion.
�
"Ryoji?" Asuka asked, looking back up with a smile and
stars sparkling in her eyes. "Doesn't Asuka Langley
Sohryu-Ryoji sound nice, Kaji?"
�
"Um � I � err � I've gotta go, Ms. Sohryu, I'll � uhh
see you around!" Kaji turned, but gulped when the girl
grabbed his arm and started snuggling against it.
�
"KAAAAAAAAAAAJIIIIIIIII, Don't leave me alone � stay
with me, pleeeeease?" Asuka whined, gripping his arm
so tight Kaji couldn't feel his forearm or hand
anymore.
�
'Great � she likes strong guys,' Kaji thought while
rolling his eyes, 'if the old man could see me now �
he'd probably laugh his ass off.'�
�
--- ������������������������������
�
A few days later Shinji was sitting in his class in
his seat staring out the window.�� Class was about to
dismiss for lunch when he noticed someone was next to
him.� He turned and saw his classmate Touji Suzuhara
glaring down at him.��
�
"You and me outside right now!"
�
[What does he want?]� Shinji thought to himself.�� He
only knew the boys name he knew nothing about him but
the third child followed him outside.� As soon as they
reached the roof of the school Touji spun around and
socked Shinji solidly in the jaw.�� The fact that one
went down wasn't surprising but that both did was.
�
"MY HAND!��GODDAMNIT!"� Touji was up quickly hopping
around in pain and his friend Kensuke tried
momentarily to calm him down and then turned to the
calmly sitting Shinji.
�
"WHOA!� What are you made of steel?"
�
Shinji just looked at the hopping boy then looked down
at the ground. "I'm sorry."
�
"Sorry? SORRY!"�Touji ran up and hauled Shinji back up
to his feet.� "You're damn right you're sorry!��
Because of you my little sister is in the hospital for
god only knows how long!"
�
�
�Shinji continued looking away from the raging student
"What else you want me to do.�� I can't change what
happened."
�
"YEAH WELL MAYBE I OUTTA THROW YER ASS OFF THIS ROOF
AND SEE HOW YOU TAKE THAT TOUGH GUY!" At this Point
Kensuke grabbed onto his friend and attempted to
pacify him.
�
"Come on Touji...�You can't do that. You'd kill
him.�Hell, just hitting a pilot is probably a bad
idea."
�
"Ikari." A soft voice came from near the door to the
staircase.� It stopped all three boys quickly.� They
all looked over at the bandaged form of Rei Ayanami
"We just received an emergency call.� I'll see you
there." Then she turned and quickly walked away.
�
Shinji slipped from Touji's grip and jogged after the
First "Hang On.� I'm coming too."�
�
The two best friends stood there quietly for a
moment.� Then Kensuke commented as he pushed up his
glasses "I think he slipped away again."
�
"BITE ME!"
�
--
�
Some time later in one of the many shelters in and
around Tokyo-3 Kensuke and Touji were sitting waiting
for the clearance to leave.� However the otaku was
getting frustrated with the lack of footage of the
battle.
�
"Damn!�� They're doing it again."
�
Touji looked over at his friend, "Doin what?"
�
Kensuke showed his friend the screen on his
TV/Camcorder combo unit.� On it was just text showing
nothing of the battle that was about to occur.�"Its
all words again.� They never show us civilians
anything and this is just sooooo big!"
�
Touji just looked over at his friend, "You really do
get off on this stuff don't you?"
�
"Come on I just to need to see it once.� At this rate
I'll never see it...unless" Kensuke just stopped and
got a thought full look on his face.��
�
Touji looked over just in time to see it "Uh oh...I
know that look Ken.�� That look never leads to any
good."
�
"Touji... Lets sneak out."
�
"ARE YOU NUTS!� WE'D DIE!"
�
"QUIET YOU!"� Seeing that his friend had calmed
somewhat he continued. "That could happen if we stayed
here anyway.� Don't you think YOU should see this."
�
"What you talkin about?"
�
"That Robot protected all of us in that last fight.��
You didn't even think about that before you hit the
pilot."
�
"Not that it did me any good.� My hand is still sore
from that."
�
"That doesn't matter now.�He's out there doing it
again.��Don't you think you owe him one?"
�
"Alright I'll go but only to make sure you don't get
yer ass killed."
�
"Riiiiiight."
�
Touji called out to a girl sitting near by "Hey Class
Rep...Kensuke and me gotta hit the can."
�
Hikari Hokari the Class Representative for the boys
class rolled her eyes at Touji "That's Kensuke and I�
and make it quick."
�
--
�
Once they made it outside Kensuke shot off like a
bullet to a nearby hill.�� His timing was perfect as
just as he got to a perfect vantage point they spotted
the Angel.� Touji quickly voiced his opinion of it
"Damn that's an ugly bastard."
�
Suddenly from what seemed to be a building a massive
door opened and out stepped Evangelion Unit
01.��Quickly it drew its Rifle and fired.�Round after
round pounded the angel till it was clouded in smoke.�
Kensuke pumped his fist in the air and continued to
record it.� "ALRIGHT HE GOT HIM!"�
�
"Well at least this time the new kid did it right."��
However their joy was short lived as suddenly twin
purple glowing whips shot out of the smoke and lashed
at the Eva.� Fortunately only the rifle was destroyed
as Shinji fell backwards into a building.
�
Touji's jaw dropped. "He's getting his ass kicked
already?"
�
"I'm sure he's just getting warmed up.� There is
nothing to worry about."� However his optimism was not
to be rewarded as when the defender of humanity arose
only to continually retreat from the whipping attacks
of the Angel.� More than a few buildings were sliced
right threw as Shinji fell back awkwardly.� "Okay
maybe we should worry."
�
"You think?"� Then with a mighty snap the umbilical
cable was destroyed and 01 fell on its rear against a
building.
�
Kensuke looked over to his best friend "Well it could
be worse."
�
"HOW?"
�
"They could be right here."�Then both boys looked over
at the battle.� "Hey... where'd the Eva go?"
�
Then they looked up "INCOMING!" and both boys did what
came natural.� They screamed their lungs out and
cowered.
�
With a mighty strike and shake of the earth Unit 01
struck the hill the boys were standing on.� Touji
looked up.� "I'm alive� Ken!"� He turned to his left
and was truly glad to see his friend alive and whole
next to him.
�
"I'm here Touji� in once piece and damn am I glad I
actually went to the bathroom before coming up here."
�
"Me too Kensuke��Holy Shit that was close."� Then both
boys realized how close it really was when they both
noticed that they were between two of the Eva's
fingers.�They then looked up at the face of the Eva,
which appeared to be looking right back at them.
�
Then Kensuke looked back in the direction the giant
was launched from just to see the Angel floating above
them "I have a bad feeling about this."
�
Touji looked up "THIS IS BAD!� VERY BAD!"
�
The angel lashed out but the Eva did something that
surprised Touji.� It grabbed the whip-like appendages
and held on.� "Why don't he just get clear?"
�
"It's because we're here.�If he moves we're dead."
�
For about a min things were deadlocked like that.� The
boys were both scared out of their minds but the
started moving uphill in hopes of getting away.� Then
they heard loud hiss and they noticed that a large
tube labeled Eva-01 had come out the back of the neck
of the mecha.�
�
>From a loudspeaker they heard what seemed to be a
familiar voice "Come on you two, get in!"
�
Kensuke froze and Touji for a moment had to pull him
along toward the waiting plug.� Then the otaku shot
forward like a bat outta hell towards it.�Both boys
quickly climbed up and jumped into the plug. Only
realizing as they hopped in that it was filled with a
liquid and before either even thought of climbing out
they were sealed in.
�
Touji freaked about the fact that he was breathing
what he thought was water and Kensuke worried about
his camera. Then they both noticed who was sitting in
the pilots seat.� It was Shinji.
�
"It's that damn guy!"
�
Shinji didn't even turn around to reply "Be quiet,
you'll distract me."
�
Kensuke, thankfully, successfully restrained Touji.�
Any further commentary from them stopped when they
heard a female's voice "Shinji get out of there now
and get back to a retrieval elevator now."
�
Neither boy knew who the woman was giving orders but
both riders agreed.� Neither one though heard the
pilot muttering something "I must not run away.� I
must not run away."
�
Quickly Shinji had the Eva use its legs to kick the
Angel back down to the foot of the hill.
�
"Alright Shinji use retrieval path 34 its on the other
side of the hill."� Shinji however had another idea.��
Pulling out the Progressive knife from the sheath in
its shoulder compartment.� With a feral cry he
commanded Unit 01 to charge the already advancing
Angel.�� Simultaneously 3 voices, one female and two
male, cried out the same thing "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU
DOING?!"
�
The Angel struck first and Shinji cried out in both
anger and pain as he felt the arms to run right threw
his Eva.� The Eva paused and Kensuke and Touji both
screamed in terror.��� Then with fury renewed the Eva
closed the distance between them and stabbed the Angel
in the core. Shinji continued to cry out as he tried
to force the knife deeper into.� Other than a second
woman's voice counting down the remaining power there
was no since of passing time.� It was if it was a war
of wills between Shinji and the Angel.� Just as Timer
reached 3 the Glow from the core and the tentacles
faded.� Shinji had won.� After the power went out in
the Eva Shinji's shoulders slumped as if a great
weight had been lifted from him.
�
Slowly Touji approached Shinji "Ikari� Hey man, are
you alright?"
�
Shinji just leaned back into the seat "I'm fine�� I'm
fine."
�
No one in the plug believed it.
�
�
�
To Be Continued....
�
�
�
Fusion Blaster: Well There is that.��� Hopefully this
chapter lets y'all know while Shinji may have gifts
he's not completely different from cannon.� Plus you
get Cowboy's take on how Kaji met Asuka.� We figured
it'd be cool to show her in Germany for the occasional
change up.��Well now we also have our first on screen
Angel battle.� From an never before seen POV...well as
far as I know anyway.� It just struck me tonight as I
wrote this to do the battle from primarily the POV of
Kensuke and Touji.� Hope y'all like it.� Drop a
review.
�
Classic Cowboy: Asuka's little background scene was a
blast to write and I hope you all liked it. In the
words of the announcer of Toonami: The best is yet to
come! Enjoy and don't forget to review!
�
�
=====
What about reality, you ask?
Well, as far as I'm concerned, reality can go take a flying F%&^ at a rolling dough-nut.
-Stephen King.
"Isn't sanity really just a one trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is the one trick--rational thinking-- but when you're good and crazy, the sky is the limit!"
-The Tick
"Put a red shit on it. It's done." -Me
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