Konnichiwa! Genki des'ka! This is my first Eva fic. Yes…. It had to be a Romance/A&A.there's a bit of humour in there too…
It takes place after the failure of initiating third impact.
Disclaimer. I recently looked in the mirror. No matter how hard I try, I can't scrunch my face up to look like the creator of Eva, so I guess I don't own it… (My plan to own Gainax is well underway…. Mwahaha….)
Oh well…. Enjoy reading.
Jan e!
Killak Asanohoshi. (Midian Alathsui)
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Chapter one: Of New Beginnings
It was a warm summer's day in Tokyo 3. Well… what was left of it after the attack by SEELE. Repair work was underway, and all seemed to be good. However… one fifteen year old boy could have been having a better time…
Ikari Shinji. Pilot of Unit 01, and all around good-guy, was not having the best of days.
No-one who had been under Asuka's Nazi influenced methods of torture and interrogation could have ever considered it the best of days.
At the precise moment in time, Shinji was held against the wall outside the bathroom by his shoulders, trying to come to terms with what seemed to be the fast approach of his incipient doom. Asuka was way past the red faced stage, and was very rapidly turning an unhealthy shade of purple.
"BAKA HENTAI! WHAT EXCUSE CAN YOU COME UP WITH TO PREVENT ME FROM RIPPING YOU TO SHREDS, OR PUNCHING YOU TO YOKOHAMA!"
"I…. I…" stammered Shinji.
"NONE? NOT EVEN A WORD!" Asuka screamed.
"Wait… I do have an exc… a reason…." He spluttered on.
Asuka, surprisingly, backed off.
"OK. I'll give you ten seconds to tell me…" she said in a voice hovering on the verge of rage.
"IwokeupreallyearlyandIdecidedtohaveashowerbutiwasreallytiredafterlastnightsoiopenedthedoorwithoutlookingbecauseineverexpectedyoutobeupsoearlyImsorrypleasedontkillme!"
Asuka's face turned from angry to confused.
"What the fuck did you just say!" she sighed in apparent weariness.
"Well, I woke up this morning really early and decided to have a shower. Since we were up really late last night helping Misato get into bed, I was tired and not paying attention, so I walked in without looking. I never expected you to wake up so early, that's why I didn't look. There, that's it"
Shinji looked at Asuka almost pleadingly as she considered his excuse on the "Pervert's excuse meter" she had in her head.
"Alright Shinji. You better make me the best breakfast I have had in a while"
"OK!" said Shinji happily, relieved that he was being allowed to escape with his life.
He ran down the stairs at speeds unknown to man, leaving Asuka on the landing. Misato smiled from her bedroom door where she had watched the whole thing unfold. She was impressed that Asuka did not explode, but she was even more impressed that Shinji had managed to say that many words in ten seconds.
She giggled, and walked over to Asuka and put a hand on her shoulder. To Asuka's credit, she only jumped 2 feet in the air at the surprise. She turned and scowled at Misato, who was valiantly trying to suppress laughter.
"C'mon Asuka! You'll be late for school if you don't hurry."
Asuka rolled her eyes, but walked down the stairs to the kitchen. The smell of sausages and bacon reached her nose. She smiled inwardly…
It was the typical "Thanks for not killing me" meal Shinji prepared for her. She sat at the table, and waited for the food to be brought to her. She was in uniform, and Shinji wasn't. She knew Shinji was going to be late for school, but she knew he didn't care, as long as he was alive.
She hummed along to the song that Shinji was humming, and was surprised by a now happy Shinji turning around and smiling at her. She felt a blush creep up her cheeks, but she suppressed it.
The tension was broken by Misato entering the kitchen, again startling Shinji by her clothes (or lack of them, in this case.). She walked up to the fridge, removed a Yebisu, and downed the beer in one. Giving her customary impersonation of a Shaolin Monk's war cry, she then threw herself into a chair, and picked up chopsticks. Shinji placed food in front of her and Asuka.
Asuka ate her food happily, while a still tired Misato actually tried to eat sausage and bacon with chopsticks. She was almost succeeding, until she lost her concentration when Shinji handed her a fork. She stared at the piece of cutlery blankly, tipped her head in thanks, and proceeded to continue eating with her chopsticks. Shinji resisted the urge to die laughing, and Asuka seemed in a similarly hysterical mood.
Breakfast was finished without speaking, and Asuka picked up her Bento box, and left the house, shouting a quick goodbye to the inhabitants. Shinji rolled his eyes, and went to his room to get ready, knowing that he would be late for school.
On the other end of Tokyo 3, Ayanami Rei was having what could be called a "mundane" morning. She had risen early as usual, and contemplated her existence for a while, before changing for school, eating her breakfast, fixing herself sandwiches for lunch, and then leaving her apartment.
All this was done in silence.
She walked toward school, and thought for a while.
What is the reason for my continued existence? The angels have gone, and it seems that EVA are no longer required. Commander Ikari's scenario seems to have failed, and yet I have not been replaced.
She then turned her thoughts to another matter.
I know that I am the third Rei to have been released by Commander Ikari. I seem to have retained some memories from the other two Reis. Memories about EVA. Memories about the Commander. Memories about…Shinji. These memories invade my mind at irregular times, usually when I least expect them…
I think of when Shinji opened the escape hatch of my entry plug. The look on his eyes as he realised that I was alive. No… that one of my previous incarnations was alive…
However, I remember he was crying… he asked me to smile… I did that, and he started to turn red. I wonder why.
She had reached the gates of the school, regarded her watch, and realised that she was early by ten minutes. She smiled. At least she was still punctual. She entered the school, and saw Asuka in the classroom, early for a change. However, Shinji wasn't there.
Asuka turned to regard the blue haired girl. She gave her a wicked, teasing smile.
"Ohayo kosaiamasu, Wondergirl… Do anything fun over the weekend?"
Rei turned to Asuka.
"Greetings, Pilot Soryu" She responded with a small bow.
Asuka's expression turned from one of teasing to one of annoyance.
" 'Pilot Soryu'?" she said indignantly "The angels are gone! There is no need for us to pilot EVA anymore! How dare you call me a pilot!"
Rei looked at her in the usual neutral fashion, before responding.
"You have been working with EVA since you were 7 years of age. EVA is all you have known, and the only career you have known. There is still the potential threat of the angels. Since third impact was avoided, you are only on standby till the next mission."
Asuka looked at Rei in a disgusted fashion.
"You always justify the shit that comes out of your mouth. Try to get real…."
"Why would excrement be leaving my mouth?" Rei cocked her head to the side.
Asuka's head was almost pulsating. She was about to explode. Luckily, Hikari entered the room in time to take Asuka's rage off Rei.
"Ohayo, Asuka!" Hikari said happily
"Why are you so happy?" said Asuka, disgusted that someone could be happy when she wasn't.
"Oh, I went to this great restaurant! The food was great, and the movie was good too!"
"You couldn't have had that much fun on your own… Who were you with…?"
"Ermm…. Well," Hikari blushed, looking away. Asuka's question went unanswered for the whole morning, and Hikari seemed to be the only one in the class in complete bliss, so it was obviously the result of an external party, and not a member of 2A.
The Teacher droned on about Second Impact. He never even knew that third impact had been avoided, or that everything he taught was wrong, as NERV had hidden all the facts.
All the people in the class were dreary. There seemed to be no break from the monotonous dialogue the teacher spewed out.
However, when the angel alert alarms came on, people seemed to wish that they were back in the class.
The three children sprinted outside, and were greeted by Section 2 agents. They were surprised, as Section 2 was meant to have been disbanded. The agents took them to NERV headquarters in a black sedan at speeds only known to Misato.
At NERV, they ran to the elevator that led to the Cage. Asuka wasn't too happy, but Shinji was pissed off.
"HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE!" he burst out suddenly.
Both the other female pilots turned to regard him. Asuka looked worried (slightly), and Rei looked only mildly curious, yet her eyes betrayed her emotion.
Strangely, Rei spoke up.
"Ikari-kun? Why are you reacting this way?" she asked softly.
Shinji then turned to Rei, and looked kindly, before his face hardened.
"Why are the angels here? The testament of Adam is over! This has to be a false alarm!"
"Well, Ikari-kun… If it isn't…. will you fight with us?" Rei sounded concerned.
Asuka's lower jaw made a very clear, clunking sound as it hit the elevator floor. This was Wondergirl. This was the machine… the terminator…. Rei showing emotion is illegal…
Then Asuka piped up.
"Shinji! You know that we need to fight, as the world depends on us! Stop sulking or Wondergirl will start crying."
Rei looked at her in a neutral fashion.
"Crying? I have only done this phenomenon once in my life, I believe… However, my emotional state is not important, Pilot Soryu. The only thing that should be on your mind is defeating the Angel…"
Asuka thought she had victory.
"AHA! Then why does Shinji concern you!"
Rei's Stare continued to bore through her head.
"Pilot Ikari currently has the highest synch ratio. He is necessary for any battle against the angel."
Asuka's ego dropped fifteen floors. She looked away, grumbling.
Shinji felt slightly disappointed that Rei's only concern for him was on a professional basis, and not for his personal well being…
The elevator arrived at the Cage. The three pilots walked out into the control centre. They looked at the Eva. They hadn't been here for a month. All the painful memories came back in a flood.
Shinji almost visibly flinched as he looked onto the eyes of Unit 01… no…. his mother…
He had fought in this machine for a year and a half, and it had been quite a recent discovery that the soul within the machine was his mother's.
That discovery had nearly ripped his sanity away from him… The fact that he had talked with his mother when he got absorbed into the LCL... It was meant to be an impossibility, but it was reality…
Asuka remembered how she was nearly driven insane by a mental assault... She remembered fighting the MP EVAs... All these memories hurt...
Rei... she remembered fighting because she was told to... She remembered the happiness she felt when Shinji saved her... It seemed only she had some happy memories involving Eva...
Shinji looked at Ritsuko. She had looked younger, as if the stress of ages had been lifted off her. However, now she looked as she had during the battle of the 12th angel.
Shinji was about to speak, when Ritsuko cut him off.
"It's not an angel. However, I think you'd better look at this."
The children looked at the monitor, and they saw an EVA. It was strange. It was like the others, except it had black wings protruding from its back, and it carried a huge broadsword and shield. Its red eyes glowed, and it seemed to be waiting for something.
Then, the comms light turned on.
"We are being hailed!" said Maya.
"By who?" asked Ritsuko.
"The EVA outside."
"Let's hear it."
The screen turned on to show the entry plug of the EVA. The person inside had wings and seemed to be hidden in shadow, as there was no illumination in this EVA.
Then, the figure spoke in a dramatic voice.
"Naratimianisu. Saragato tilawa Shinji… Alathsui conlo kotanodso hobaro… ANATORAME!"
They all looked confused. Then, Rei spoke up.
"Ikari-kun. He wants to have a duel with you." She said simply.
Everyone turned to Rei, with surprised expressions on their faces.
"You can understand him?" said Ritsuko, her voice awed.
"Yes"
"How…" said Shinji.
"That is the language of the Angels. He probably speaks Japanese, but he has to speak angelic when asking for a duel."
"I don't want to fight him…" said Shinji.
"You have no choice…" said a voice from above.
Everyone turned to look at the figure on the walkway with astonishment and disbelief.
He was meant to be Dead!
"You have no choice…. My Son…."
Authors note.
That was my first chapter of my first EVA fic... Please review!
Let me know if I should continue...
I'll try to get started on the next chapter.
Cya!
Killak Asanohoshi...