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Spoilers For The Thing (1982)

Chapter 2: Something Different

Cut to Bennings getting stitches in his leg where he got shot.

"Ow!"

"Oh, come on. Four stitches, barely grazed you." Doctor Cooper said.

"What were they doing flying that low? Shooting at a dog…...at us?" Bennings responded.

The doctor shrugs and grabs utensils to cut the stitches.

"Hm, stir-crazy…..cabin fever who knows." the doc say finishing the stiches.

"Jeez, this is already painful." Touji said.

"When does the dog turn into the monster?" he said look over to Kensuke.

"That's not until around the 30 minute mark." Kensuke responded.

"But I'm not to sure anymore, if Shinji was supposed to be MacReady. He would have simply poured himself a drink, not two. Besides when was Shinji ever able to handle any kind of alcohol, let alone Scotch?"

"It could be because he's taller, almost like he's spent years in this new world." Rei hisaid

Everyone looked over to her, waiting for an explanation.

"Not only has he grown in height, but he bears resemblance to his father." she said looking down. A look of disgust on her face. Fortunately it was shared by Asuka, so she continued

"While I can't see his aura to tell what his age would be. I'd say he'd be around 20 years of age."

Silence fell upon the group.

Movie: (Sounds of roller skates) "Maybe we're at war with Norway." the character of Nauls said in the background.

Though no one was really listening at this point.

"This movie just robbed Shinji five years of his life?" Asuka asked Rei with the old fire she once used to make herself stand out. Rei simply nodded with concern. Asuka looked at the TV, not even seeing the movie anymore.

"When I find the thing that did this, I'm going to RIP THEM IN HALF LIKE A FATALITY MOVE!" she nearly screamed.

"Unfortunately, that actually happens to one of the characters." Kensuke said scared of attracting the red demon's rath. It failed though, and she set her sights on him.

"Kensuke, what the hell is this monster? And if we can get in contact with Shinji, what do we warn him about?" she asked with an aura of murderous intent.

"I don't know! The monster is like a virus, it can infect you and take on your likeness after killing you. I know which characters become The Thing, but I don't know when."

"We don't even know if we can get in contact with Shinji." Kaworu said stating the obvious. "Wait look…" he said drawing attention back to the TV.

Everyone focused back to what they were doing before.

Shinji put down a gas can that was being salvaged from the burned helicopter wreckage. He still had those goggles on and his hair had a bit of snow in it.

"Loaded with Kerosene, I count 15 cans." he said to the two other men with him.

Soon the doc and the commander came over.

"Ikari!" Gary (commander) shouted.

"Shinji, get your gear on!"

Shinji looked at the two, then at the sky in disbelief at what he just heard. Only to look back at them and started to get going.

"So, they know it's Shinji and not the character whose originally in the movie. Not only that, but Shinji is just as if not taller than all of them." Asuka said out loud slowly sitting down next to Rei again.

Rei and Kaworu taking in this information as well.

Cut to the three men walking over to the helicopter.

"It may not clear up for a week,"

"Yeah."

",and we're the closest to 'em". Doc said to Shinji while he was walking up to the Doc. Shinji was carrying equipment, and still wearing those goggles.

"It's alright by me Doc. I'm just letting you know we're taking a chance." Shinji said while putting his equipment down.

"Quit gripping, Ikari." Gary said. Shinji then turned to him.

"If those clouds keep moving over the sun were going to get a white-out. If we get caught in that you scratch one doctor and one pilot." he said. His tone similar to that of how he would talk back to his father.

"This is real thin. It'll clear once you get up." Gary responded.

Shinji still had the same look of concern on his face.

"It's up to you Shinji, if you don't wanna fly we don't fly." the doc said hesitantly.

Shinji gave him an honest look.

"You really wanna save those crazy Germans, huh?"

"Norwegens."

"Shit." Shinji nearly whispered and cringed.

"Which way doc?" he said begrudgingly. Throwing his equipment into the back while the Doc got into the passenger seat.

"Southwest!" the doc shouted over the sudden pick up in the wind.

"Your going to have to read the map because I'm going to be busy." Shinji said getting in.

The engines started up as Shinji took the controls. In the back of his mind, he thought about the first time he held a joystick. How he so desperately wanted to feel the fear of dying, if it meant piloting a machine that was being backed up by his closest loved ones.

Cut to inside the rec room as Nauls and Palmer look out the window at the helicopter.

"Mac's really taking it up, huh?" Nauls questioned.

"He knows what he's doing." Palmer responded, putting on….a very familiar headset. And walked away, past the ping pong table where the dog laid underneath….watching.

As the group watched Shinji take the helicopter, Asuka realized something about that headset. She got up and rushed into Shinji's former room. Looking into the cold empty space, she ran over to the night stand next to the bed.

The SDAT player was gone.

"Shit!" Asuka shouted banging her hand on the night stand.

"WHO'S DOING THIS?!"

Rei and Kaworu ran in after her, seeing Asuka hunched over leaning on the stand…..and also something else.

Both came to Asuka's side, but Kaworu focused on what appeared to be an aura of life. Sitting prominently on the woodwork, was what looked like writing. What he saw made him experience pure anger and frustration for the first time.

"An angel did this." Kaworu said looking at Asuka and Rei as he clenched his fist. Both were surprised, but took it in stride.

"We killed them all." Rei responded in disbelief. Kaworu pointed to where he looked. She then focused on the nightstand as well, the familiar aura of an Angel laid across the wood panelling. She looked away and winced, holding onto Asuka even tighter now.

"I guess one still remains."

Asuka caught on quickly.

"What do you see?" she asked.

Silence for a brief moment.

"Writing…...spelling out 'He'll die alone. Just like he should have lived.'" Kaworu responded.

The three of them all tensed….."Lilim" they said in synch.

"O SHIT!" shouted Kensuke from the other room.

While Asuka, Rei and Kaworu rushed into the other room. Kensuke, Toji, Hikari, Sayaka and Kyoko watched as night fell upon the camp. In the background, Stevie Wonder's Very Superstitious played in the background. Only for the movie to cut inside and focus on Bennings waking up and hitting the voice over radio.

"Nauls, will you turn that crap down?! I'm trying to get some sleep! I was shot today!" he nearly shouted over the radio.

"Oui, Bwana. Will do." Nauls responded. Only for him to completely ignore Bennings.

After more ominus shots of that resulted in Sayaka and Kyoko holding on to Kensuke tighter.

"It's okay, I'll let you know when the scary stuff is about to happen." Kensuke told both of them.

"Oh you better." Sayaka responded.

"We barely made it through Nightmare On Elm Street, now we have to watch a virus monster attack one of our friends." Kyoko also said.

Kensuke would have teased them, after all they didn't want to fall asleep after that one. Resulting in some good time spent awake, but the king of talkers kept his mouth shut.

After the final ominus shot, the movie focuses in on the dog walking down a hallway. It looks into one room, then proceeds to the next one where the shadow of a man is on the wall.

"OH SHIT!" Kensuke shouted.

Everyone in the room looked quickly over at Kensuke. He would've gotten up if his girlfriends were not hanging onto him for dear life. The three who ran into the other room came running behind him.

"WHAT!?" everyone shouted.

"THAT'S…..THAT'S…...SHIT! WHAT'S HIS NAME, HE HAS THE GREY SWEATER! THAT'S HIM! HE'S GOING TO GET INFECTED!"

The movie then faded to black shortly after the dog entered the room. Right as the shadow turned its head to look at the dog.

"If we can get in contact with Shinji, we can warn him." Kensuke said looking over at Asuka.

"Shit! Alright! How do we get in contact with Shinji? You two were able to reach him when Lilith attacked!" Asuka said turning to Rei and Kaworu.

"Yes, but not after Doctor Akagi was able to interfere with its DNA." Rei responded.

"Not to mention, Lilim is more than just an Angel. It can bend reality to its will…" Kaworu said, then while looking back to the TV.

"But again, Shinji destroyed it. He rejected the world that created us, how can this world still affect our own?"

"That's just the thing, how did it survive?"

Soon, they stopped questioning and went to join the others when Shinji and Dr. Cooper landed. Though not before addressing the elephant in the room.

"What the hell happened when you guys entered Lilith?" Toji asked confused. Only to feel a tug from Hikari and looks from the three other pilots. All four of them saying with distant looks.

"You don't want to know."

This freaked Toji out, as well as the other Kensuke, Sayaka and Kyoko. Though everything went back to normal when Hikari turned Toji to face her.

"Trust me, you don't want to know." she said before kissing him and hugging his shoulder.

After getting a shiver down his spine, he simply kissed his girlfriend's head and joined her in watching the movie.

Shinji landed the helicopter outside of the remains of the Norweigen base. Together the Doctor and Shinji entered the base wearing their full protective gear. This includes the sombrero that MacReady had in the original version. When they opened the door and stepped inside, Shinji pulled out a shotgun for protection and made their presence known.

"Anybody there!?" he shouted over the dying helicopter engines.

"Hey Germany!"

"Their not German Shinji their Norwegian."

Slowly the two moved through the dark hallway, they took their protective gear off when they got further in. The holes in the wall and the axe lodged into a door would normally send shivers down any normal man's spine. Yet Shinji passed these by as if they meant nothing. Even the doctor looked in awe at how stone faced he was during this.

Speaking of that door, they eventually shoved it open and came to what looked like a tech room. Similar to the one that Window's maned back at the base. After looking around more, the Doc noticed a trail of blood leading to the computers. Where a body sat in front of the desk.

"Shinji!" the doctor said signaling him to come over.

Shinji turned on one of the nearby lanterns, and made his way over to where the Doctor was. Together, they looked at the body. The man had commited suicide, with cuts across both his wrist and neck done by the razor in his hand. The blood had frozen to form icicles that hang off the man's frozen body. His face frozen in what seemed to be excruciating pain.

"My god, what the hell happened here?" he asked Shinji.

Shinji's face might have been stone faced, but his eyes had the same look of disturbed horror.

"Come on, doc." he said without even looking up.

Shinji made his way over to the other equipment with the doc following behind him. They entered what seemed to be a lab, with more holes in the wall as well. The Doc looked down and saw some paperwork covered in snow. He bent down to pick it up and brushed the snow off.

Shinji went over to a nearby desk and brushed the snow off a box.

"Portable video unit." he said.

"Anything?" he asked turning to the Doc.

"It's all in Norwegien." the doc responded while packing up some of the notes into his bag.

Shinji looked around a bit until he heard more noise coming from the Doc.

"What are ya doin' Doc?" he asked.

"It could be important work. I wanna take it back with us." the doc said looking up to Shinji.

"Well it's getting late. Let's hurry it up. I'll check out the last few rooms." Shinji said before turning around and proceeding down the hall. The Doc continued to pick up more notes and Shinji wandered into what seemed to be a storage room for….

"Hey, Copper, come here!" Shinji shouted.

The Doc picked up the last few notes and made his way over. He first saw Shinji standing next to something, when he entered the room he saw a massive block of ice. With a giant hole in it. The Doc joined Shinji by analysing it up close.

Both of them didn't say a thing, they were both too stunned to say anything.

As they got outside, they started to talk a little more.

"Maybe they found a fossil, the remains of some animal buried in the ice, and they chopped it up." the doctor said walking out first with Shinji following him.

"But where is it?"

The Doctor felt Shinji's hand grab his arm. The Doc turned to see Shinji staring at something else in the snow.

"I think I found it." Shinji said letting go of the Doc and walking in a different direction.

"What is it?" the doc asked following behind and then seeing….

What appeared to be a dead body…...but of what?

Gasoline cans surrounded it, and it was covered in burn marks. It also seemed to have multiple hands, feet ...and two faces merged together.

"What is that? Is that a man in there or something?"

"Whatever it is, they burned it up in a hurry." Shinji responded.

Shinji approached it, shotgun pointed right at the thing's head. He stopped when got right next to it and squatted down. Getting up close really made the smell of gasoline more potent, but it allowed Shinji to see something…..

"What do you think Shin-" before Doc could finish. Shinji sprung up and shot the head off.

Blood went everywhere across the snow.

"Jesus Shinji! What's wrong with you?" the doc shouted.

Shinji turned around, a little shell-shocked. Soon his face went calm, but his eyes were the same dead isolated look he always had.

"Sorry Doc, first I saw the blood move. Then the entire thing….." he turned and looked back at it.

"Help me find a shovel."

Shinji passed the Doctor as he gave Shinji one last look of confusion, but then wrote it off as feeling jumpy. Made sense for the environment they were in.

Author's Note: I don't know whether or not to start completely rewriting the entire story. Having things jump scare everyone like in the new movie and the video game. Or just stick to the script, with Shinji changing things here and there.

Let me know what you guys want to see.

Leave reviews, I don't mind criticism.

And of course, Happy Halloween.