Shinji-gelion
DISCLAIMER: This following fan fiction was solely based upon Evangelion. I do not take any amount of credit in this story at all, except for my own ides.
Another note: the characters in my story will act different than the course of the series. They are in fact out of character(Or, known as OOC), don't flame me because of it. I.e. Rei actually has emotions and Shinji has a backbone. I hope you enjoy my fiction version, of one of the best anime series to exist.
( Authors Note: 2012, I am editing my Fanfiction for grammar and spelling in the hopes of keeping it as it was but more readable.)
Shinji looked around. This was where he was supposed to be.
"Hey where is Misato?" He was supposed to meet a Katsuragi Misato but she wasn't here. "This sucks!"
It was then an incredible gust of wind blew Shinji backwards a few feet. Shinji covered his face and stood his ground. He looked up to see a huge monster and a set of helicopters flying backwards. Maybe it was the J. S. D. F. (Japanese self-defense force {those who have read Outlanders will get the joke here}) but he didn't think they could deal with something like this. The power of the wind from the angel walking by caused power lines to wave and buildings to creek. Unfortunately the angel was a little too close. A huge foot appeared over head and came crashing down. Shinji rolled sideways and got up, only to be knocked back down by the impact of the step. Dust was kicked up and small rocks were lifted shortly. Then a blue car pulled up and swerved just up to the side of Shinji. The passenger door was kicked opened.
"Hey, am I late? Get in!" A strikingly beautiful woman commanded Shinji. Shinji quickly obliged.
"Wow! That was close." Shinji made the obvious comment. Soon they were off on their way and hopefully out of range.
"Hi. I'm Misato, Katsuragi Misato. You got the note." Shinji nodded as they sped away.
"Yeah I got the note, which didn't explain much. You need to tell me what's going on."
"Ah, well, I will get around to that in good time. Right now we need to get you away from this angel before it kill us both."
"That would be appreciated. I guess you know my name but I am Ikari Shinji. Um, pleased to meet you Misato-san."
"Like wise. Okay! Time to watch my driving skills. Hold on Shinji."
"All right."
The helicopters flew around in an obviously strategic pattern and fired an abundance of missiles at the Angel. They had no effect. Taking almost no impact the monster looked hardly annoyed. The monster swung its giant arm and knocked them out of the sky and small screams could be heard fading away. Some helicopters were ripped through, while others lost their rudders. The groaning of engines ceased only to cold terror as they hit the ground with horrific impacts and violent crashes. The ground was temporarily lit up with bright flashes of orange and yellow spreading out blinding its surroundings.
Shinji was attempting to catch up on what was going on, however Misato had decided to use binoculars to see the action and was leaning over the car in a very fan service type of way. It was had not to look. Shinji swallowed a little.
"That's odd, all the helicopters are moving away...wait! Oh, crap! They're going to use an N2 mine. Get down." With that Misato pulled the young boy down and behind the blue car which was almost a safe distance away. Staying crouched and behind it she hoped it would provide a small form of defense to the shock wave that was soon to hit. With a small curse and gritting of her teeth she embraced herself and Shinji as everything went white. Then silence followed by horrific sounds.
The last helicopter signaled for the release of the N2 mine it pulled away with great speed and veered off to the left. An explosion equal to that of an atom bomb went off and seemed to obliterate the target. The ground shook and everything boomed with ear popping noise.
"Unit 1, confirm visual."
"Unit 1 here, target is still operational."
"Aargh! That was our best shot and nothing. Ikari, we're only handing this over to you because our weapons have no effect. I trust you won't disappoint us." Stated the general.
There inside a very sheltered and confined building stood many members part of the defense of Japan.
A very strong voice with utter confidence rang out.
"Of course, that is why NERV exists."
"It seems that they are using AT Fields." The second commander of NERV commented.
"Conventional methods were never a match for the angels." The commander named Gendo agreed.
"Yes, it would seem that mankind has to fight once again."
"The angel is just standing there. I wonder what it's doing." Shinji pointed out.
"Yeah, yeah. Now help me put the car back on its wheels and not on it's side." Shinji sighed and then obliged. It creaked after an enormous amount of effort and force was placed upon it. It teetered and wobbled back and forth until it had just enough momentum to flip back on its wheels. Shinji let out a sigh from the effort as Misato wiped her brow. Soon they were back on the road and driving, after Misato claimed she was grabbing some batteries for government use. Shinji didn't believe her.
"Hey, where are you taking me anyway." Misato tossed a NERV book in his lap.
"Here. Remember? Oh, well. You're not what I expected you to be, you know."
"Really? Same here, I thought you'd be a little more mature." Snapped Shinji. Misato growled and fish tailed the car a little.
"Hey! Keep the car on the road. I didn't come with you just to die."
"You seem to have an attitude." There was no immediate response nor none to follow. Shinji was deep in thought.
Father. Father! FATHER! His father. The sole cause for his grieve in his life. His father had left him. Left him! The anger in him just swirled and grew more and more. How long had it been? He couldn't remember. He was too young at the time to remember. He did remember his teacher though. Yoshiro-sensei had taught him many things. Shinji was glad for his teaching but in all his teaching, he had never taught him how to deal with his emotions. He was a very docile person. Shinji swore to himself never to act the same way as his teacher. Pent up anger and rage at his father was left in him to fester for years. There were many things he wanted to say to his father. He used to cry as a kid. He would cry himself to sleep.
His teacher told him.
"It's okay, cry now. Soon you won't be able to cry. You must grow up for yourself and protect yourself. Be strong. No more tears. Tears prove nothing and help even less."
As a result Shinji hated his crying and his father. His father made him cry and so he hated his father. When he saw his father it was time to set things straight. The years of misery growing up without a family and the knowledge, that his father didn't want him. Years in waiting for when he would see him. Time for him to wish his father dead and time to wish he could kill him. It all circled in his head. It drove him insane sometimes. Shinji no longer cried. No one would make him cry. His father would not make him cry. He tried to wipe the emotions from his mind.
There was time to relax before they arrived at NERV, where he would meet his father. Shinji realized he was gritting his teeth and Misato was staring occasionally at him. He let himself relax and unclenched his teeth.
Gendo looked to Fuyutsuki, "Ready unit one in the cage."
"But we don't have a pilot." Responded Fuyutsuki.
"We have one, he'll arrive here shortly." Gendo said with utter confidence again.
The blue car pulled into what seemed to be a modified elevator designed to carry cars.
"So you know you're going to see your father right?" Misato asked. There was a long pause and then Shinji answered.
"Yes." With a certain vehemence in his voice.
"I take it you two don't have a good relationship." It was more of a question than a statement. Shinji exploded,
"He left me when I was a child..." Shinji calmed himself. "I'd rather not talk about it. I grew up with my teacher and learned to deal with my problems on my own."
"All right, I understand." Suddenly Shinji's eyes were taken in with the most beautiful atmosphere.
"Wow! A Geo front. Neat!" Looking at it made mere words shallow. The surrounding atmosphere could bring a grown man to his knees. It was indescribable and carried a certain beauty. It was like reaching to touch something out of grasp but seeing it in front of your eyes. Shinji knew from reading books that there were breath taking places but this was something more. Something beyond what he knew or had imagined. For a while everything around disappeared. It was Shinji and the GEO front. Nothing else and nothing else was important. As the elevator continued to descend he was deprived of his vision and greeted with a crash of cold steel to bring him back into his real world. A world he still didn't understand, and he was almost sure with the meeting of his father, a world he would begin to hate even more.
"That's right."
Somewhere in the depths of NERV a voice came over the loudspeaker. "Doctor Akagi. Please report to Katsuragi Misato."
"Damn it! Is she lost again?" A very mature blond woman cursed after getting out of the water and removed her swimming gear. Pulling on her white lab coat she went to intercept the problem.
Shinji found himself wandering around with Misato.
"I'm sure we'll find the place soon." Misato assured.
"Somehow I should have expected this." Shinji stated.
"You know, your getting a little too cynical for my liking."
"Did your father leave you when you were three? I think I grew up just as expected but I'll try to be more polite if it satisfies you!" They both watched as the elevator opened. A blonde woman entered.
"Why do you waste my time?" She started right out. Misato looked a little embarrassed.
"Um, sorry. It won't happen again. How are the tests going..." Misato continued. Shinji tuned them out and read his NERV book as they discussed some 'o-nine factor' among test results. He didn't really care about the woman who had just appeared or what they were discussing. NERV was a big place and this could take awhile. He wanted to keep his mind set on the task at hand. Meeting his father. The elevator doors opened to reveal a dark room concealed and a seemingly damp climate. The words on his book could no longer be read and with a snap he looked up.
"Okay! Who's the wise guy that turned out the liiihiiiii...? Oh crap! What is that!" A gigantic purple metal face seemed to stare right into Shinji's soul. Shinji found himself involuntarily jumping back.
"Shinji." 'The' very confident voice rang out. Shinji stopped gaping and looked up to see his father. Every memory and feeling rose to the surface.
"Father." Shinji answered back with a vehemence that dropped the room temperature a few degrees. "Why am I here?" Shinji demanded
"Because I called for you." Gendo answered back.
"And why now? After all this time?"
"Because I have a use for you."
"I'll show you a use! Get down here and I'll use you as a punching bag!" Gendo blinked once. This was not an expected reaction. His voice faltered a little.
"You will pilot the Eva."
"Hell no!" Gendo looked to a monitor.
"Ready Rei for unit one." Fuyutsuki answered back.
"But she's hasn't healed yet."
"She's still not dead and that's good enough."
Shinji watched as a very injured but beautiful girl was wheeled out. Shinji shook with rage. His father was a bastard.
Rei tried to get up but an energy blast from the monster shook headquarters and knocked her down. Without thinking Shinji dived in a desperate attempt and caught her. Looking up he saw a huge piece of ceiling descend upon him. He put one arm around the injured girl to protect her and the other to attempt to lessen the blow while gritting his teeth. 'Damn it', he thought, they were going to be crushed. It was in that moment that the water like surface swelled and was broken as a huge purple arm shoot through the water and sheilded them both. The huge chunk of rubble was reflected off and shot straight at Gendo. The glass protected him as the rubble shattered harmlessly against it.
"Eva unit 01 moved by itself." Misato got up from her protected position and nearly yelled.
"That's not possible!" Said Akagi Ritsuko.
"Was it to protect Shinji?" Questioned Misato.
Shinji didn't hear what was going on around him. Right now he was infatuated with Rei. He gently tried to support her and she groaned in pain. He reached one arm back to find his hand covered in her blood. He cried for her. For what had been done to her and whatever his father was doing to her.
"I'm sorry." He whispered sincerely and gently to her ear. "I'm so sorry. For my father and for everything. I'll protect you. You'll see."
Through Rei's deep pain she managed to make out what he was saying. It was a a blur and her head was spinning but she was used to this. Gendo needed her and she would do as he asked. Something was wrong though. The hands clutching her were smaller. There was something much different about it. Her head was throbbing madly and it took every bit of effort and straining to conceive what was said to her. Who would be foolish enough to say something so ridiculous. It didn't make sense. No one had protected her in the past. She didn't know what to do. Instead she embraced the pain which was all she knew right now. She tried to stay awake and look at the person's face. Who was holding her? It wasn't Gendo. She was more confused and her head throbbed. She faded out of conscience.
Shinji looked up with a renewed vengeance. He would avenge this girl, for everything.
"Okay Father. I'll pilot it."
Misato and Gendo and Ritsuko along with Fuyutsuki were at the control center ready to command Shinji who was now in EVA unit 01 and on the surface. Shinji felt a little weird and the test process didn't help either. He was now breathing liquid. That didn't seem right to him. Ritsuko was still mumbling in disbelief.
"85% sync ratio. It's insane. No training and it still slowly climbing. It's like they're bonded. Rrrrgh. 85% sync ratio. 85% sync." Misato ignored Ritsuko but was a little impressed.
"Okay Shinji. We need you to take a step forward" Misato started. Shinji was still steaming with emotions. He looked at the monster and pictured it with Gendo's face.
There was a slow groan emitted as the giant foot moved up a little and then took a step forward. When the foot hit the ground it caused a shock wave that crushed the glass of a nearby telephone booth. The glass shattered instantly only to litter the surrounding ground. The next foot twitched a little and then the robot was flying into a charge. Picking up horrendous amounts of speed and launched him self in the air, performed a flip and shot feet first into the monster. It recoiled in pain and flew backwards landing in a heap and scraping along the ground, taking out buildings and structures with its giant head. This was Shinji's pay back. He yelled aloud in rage and launched into more attacks at the object of the girl's pain.
Misato looked to Ritsuko, who was finally paying attention and blinked twice. She struggled in spurts of attempts to get the words out.
"D-d-d-d-di-di-did-did y-y-you-you t-teach him t-t-t-to d-do that?" Ritsuko also finished blinking and shook her head in earnest. Gendo faltered a little, he was not used to doing this. He smiled a little. Shinji would be just perfect. Absolutely perfect.
The angel turned its head and heard something pop. It wailed with agony. Shinji jumped on top of the angel and went for the two fist beating method. The angel went into a dead state and then tried to attach itself in an attempt to self-destruct. Shinji gave a mighty uppercut, which sent the angel up and back several feet. Shinji ran forward. The angel's arms stretched forward and hit the robot cranium.
"Aaaaarrrghhh!" In rage unit one went low and charged into the angel knocking it through three buildings. Shinji pulled out the prog blade and went for the exposed core. Instantaneously an A.T. field went up to protect the harmed angel. Shinji was knocked back and shook with rage. Nothing could stop him now. The battle was his. Nothing would deny him stopping the threat. He threw all his emotions hatred and rage into the effort. He needed to stop this thing with everything he had. The EVA reached forward putting it's hands through the field and with a mighty force broke through the field dispelling it. He used the EVA to power drive the monster down to the ground and jumped upon it. After a few strikes from the Eva, who was holding it down, the core cracked and exploded the chest apart covering the nearby buildings. A wall of flame erupted and unit 1 walked out and away from its battle. It continued forward and stopped dead. With a break of silence the head fell off the EVA and crashed to the ground with a metallic ring.
Misato slowly turned to Ritsuko who at this point had temporary lost her logic because no logic seemed to exist and commented the obvious.
"The target has gone silent sir. Sync ratio has dropped to 55% and staying steady." Gendo looked to her and gave a nod of acknowledgment. Misato ran off, after excusing herself and went to find Shinji. Her legs moved as fast as her body would allow but it still seemed slow. She had just gotten this boy. To think that it was all over already caused her to tremble in cold fear. After what seemed an eternity she arrived at the Eva cage. Shinji had ejected himself and was sitting on the ground rocking himself and shaking constantly. Misato slowly approached him and sat beside him and tried to comfort him. Although she could barely stop shaking herself.
"I can't stop shaking. I just...without prior...destroyed...I." A tear rolled down his cheek. Something he rarely ever did. He was crying again. Why? For that girl?
"That girl...How is she? Is she okay? She has to be okay! That's why I did this.." Shinji was hysterical now. Misato struggled to hold him.
"I have to go see her...or what was this for? Why? Not for my father! Not again! Not to let him use me! I..." Shinji stopped. Misato hugged him tighter and just comforted the shaking boy.
"It's okay Shinji. Everything is done for now. We'll see Rei soon enough, she's alright." Misato lifted her hand from Shinji's forehead and felt a little bit of warm liquid run down her arm. It was blood. Her eyes looked to his in more terror.
Shinji smiled weakly.
"It got me once. Good too. When it hit the head case...a shard of glass..." Shinji no longer had the strength to speak. He gently passed out in her arms. Her eyes followed the trail from the wound and traced it to the Eva. She picked up the light unconscious boy and walked nearer to the plug entry. There was blood. Lot's of blood. She guessed just under the lethal amount to lose. She felt the gorge in his forehead now and rushed to the sick bay. She wouldn't let him die now. Not after all this had happened to him.
Shinji opened his eyes and immediately checked for the wound. It was almost completely gone. He turned his head to the left, an empty bed. He turned his head to the right. He gasped. Rei was sitting there. She was still bandaged but better. She looked to his eyes.
"It was you, wasn't it? You held me and promised to protect me right?" Shinji just nodded. He saw Rei's face become confused and her voice became quieter. She pushed out the words. "I ... Thank you. By the way. I...regret I was not to the qualifications of the needed..." She stopped. Shinji just was staring. His eyes looking into hers. She didn't understand why. Then there was a tingle but she couldn't grasp it. She ignored it. Then Shinji said the one thing Rei could have never anticipated.
"You're beautiful."
"What?
"It's almost like a chivalry thing. I fought to protect someone so beautiful in mind and soul. I only wish I could have stopped it before it hurt you." Shinji sat up.
"Why did you want to protect me?"
"Haven't you ever wanted to protect someone?"
"I pilot EVA to protect everyone."
"But not someone special?"
"No." Rei thought a moment. "Am I someone special you wanted to protect."
"I think you are and that's what matters. I don't really have much right to say this. I really don't know what I am getting into. But something about you makes me feel... complete. I want to be near you."
"I don't understand..." Her mind wasn't working. She was too confused. She couldn't discern what this boy wanted with her. She struggled with her words.
"So... You will protect me? This is what you want?" Rei asked looking into those deep eyes on the boy.
"Yes, I want to be there for you. That's all I know. Just that I want to be there for you."
There was an awkward silence. Shinji decided to ease her mind since she was looking so confused. "So, are you going to show me around?"
Rei found herself walking with Shinji around the compound she had memorized. Shinji had his arm around her. She felt safe like with Gendo but it was different. A feeling she never had felt before, not even with Gendo.
"Tell me. How long has my father requested you to do this?"
"Since I was able to synchronize. The angels came later."
"You should smile more." Again Shinji caught her off guard. Her face showed nothing. "Do you know what happens to little me next?"
"Yes. Misato will be in charge of finding your lodging."
"Really? Will I be anywhere near you?"
"I...I don't kn..."
"That seems like a good idea Ikari." A voice said form behind them. Shinji and Rei turned to see Misato behind them.
"Are you okay Shinji?" Misato asked before giving an understanding hug. Rei felt a twinge of something she couldn't identify but stayed indifferent.
"You're going to put us together?" Shinji asked after Misato was sure he was okay.
"You wish." Shinji blushed. Rei found herself chuckling quietly which earned an eye from Misato. Rei didn't laugh and thus she stopped being very confused once more. This boy was causing strange effects on her
"I think I'll take care of both of you at my place. Any objections?" Neither one spoke. Soon they were in front of the man in charge of placement. He nodded his understanding and explained to Ritsuko, that it would be awkward for the Ikari's to live together.
"Well, do you think my father will approve?" Shinji guessed. He was just stating the obvious for lack of words that had left his mouth. Misato noted this and chuckled inwardly.
"Now Shinji, you wouldn't have any OTHER intentions, would you now?"
"Uh, well I..."
"I'm sure we'll be fine together." Said Rei without understanding the implications. Misato blinked, Shinji blushed.
"Right, well, I'll set up the rooms. Yes. That's what I'll do. You two can transport yourselves home by 9:30pm." Misato walked off in a daze. Rei blinked at Misato's reaction. In her mind she didn't perceive a problem with herself being near Shinji. Shinji had said that he wanted to be near her, this was a way to continue Shinji's desire. She also hoped the tingles she was getting could be explained.
"So...did you want to go somewhere? Maybe a walk?" Rei nodded. The walk was quiet at first. They just walked side by side with almost no contact. Finally Rei broke the ice the only way she knew how.
"There will be more angels."
"Well that killed the mood."
"What?"
"Rei, do you know what love is?" Rei stopped. She thought for a second and answered.
"Love is supposed to be a feeling that exists between two people that have a deep understanding or care for each other more than they can express."
"You said that like you read it out of a dictionary."
"I did." Shinji stopped. He tried to think of how he could express this.
"Rei, love is something more. It's a feeling like this." Rei eyes went wide in shock as he kissed her. She didn't know what to do at first. He was there, his eyes were closed and their lips were touching. It seemed like a normal process but there was something more just like he said. She just stood there for a while and then she too closed her eyes and returned the kiss. He gently put his around her waist. They stood there for a long time just kissing. No other movement, just embracing each other and kissing. After a time Shinji pulled out the kiss and looked at her.
"Love is something I feel for you. I know I don't have the right to say that but I feel so strong for you. I'm sorry for my actions. I understand if your angry and it won't happen again."
"Ikari, how do you make me tingle?" Rei asked.
"Sorry?"
"When you say things like you want to protect me and you want to be near me, I tingle. I don't know why. And when you kissed me a felt something too. More than the feel of your lips on mine but something I don't know. How do you do that? Why do you do that? Why do you think you love me?"
"I don't know Rei. It's all new to me too. I just do what I think I feel is right. It felt right to kiss you. That's why I did. When we kissed I just couldn't stop. Until I realized you weren't kissing back. I guess it was stupid."
"Many things are stupid. I don't know if kissing is stupid but I don't know what it does other than make me tingle and... I don't know what else to do when you do things like that."
"Okay. You're right. We should just be near each other. I shouldn't do things like that. Not right now."
"Ikari, it takes time to walk. If we don't go soon we will be late for Misato's time limit."
"Yes, your'e right. But one thing Rei, call me Shinji okay?"
"Okay Shinji. I'm... glad... that you could show me such things. Let's go home."
The door opened and Misato ran to it.
"Where the hell have you been it's...9...: 31... P.M." She trailed off as they let go of their hands. Shinji looked embarrassed and sad at the same time. "I might have to keep you two separated. It's rare the Rei holds someone's hand Shinji"
"What is wrong with holding Shinji's hand?" Rei asked. Misato shook her head.
"We, talked a lot about some things. We lost track of time. I'm sorry Misato." Shinji walked down the hallway and located his room. The doors were labeled. "I'll, uh, see you in the morning?" Rei agreed with a nod. She then surprised herself when she emitted a small girly giggle. She closed the door and hit the sack, lest anymore-strange things happen to her.
Shinji felt his lips for a second. Maybe Rei didn't understand some things but neither did he. All he wanted was to be near her and to kiss those lips again. He banished the thought from his head. Tomorrow was another day. Love took time and he didn't even know if that was what he felt. He only knew that he felt good. With that thought he drifted to sleep thinking of Rei.
Authors note: This has been updated as of May 21, 2012. I am trying to finalize my Chapters thus far. More excitement to come for first time readers in the next chapters. ^_^