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Chapter 4: Mr. Angel’s Neighborhood
After some serious roof hopping Shinji managed to arrive at Nerv headquarters. The crews were already finished outfitting Eva 01 for combat and were standing by waiting for the order to begin the launch sequence. Shinji ran into the nearby change area and donned his plug suit and threw the neural interface units onto his head and jumped into the entry plug.
Misato’s voice came over the intercom. "Hey Shinji you ready?"
"Not really but hey didn’t stop me last time."
/ Technically it did stop you, I had to take over and save our ass. /
^ Shut up Ranma minor technical oversight ok. ^
From the control room.
"Launch Eva 01"
Inside the entry plug Shinji put a CD into the custom installed CD player.
% Exit Light, Enter Night, Take my hand. We’re off to never never land he he…%
Inside the control room Misato’s eye was twitching.
"Ok who’s idea was it to put a kick ass stereo into an Eva?"
Scanning the room she saw nobody blink.
+ I thought it was a good idea. + thought Gendo but of course he wasn’t going to say anything. + At least the boy’s got good taste in music. +
The purple and green Eva rocketed to the surface, again it’s head snapped up upon reaching ground level. When the restraining bolts were released the Eva ran out of it’s cage and to the nearest weapons cache where it grabbed a gun. Shinji crouched behind a building waiting to get a clear shot at the incoming Angel. Then he saw it. It was like a giant slug oozing along the ground, except that it was hot pink with two eyes on the top and two translucent whip like tentacles. Shinji lunged out from behind the building and pumped a few hundred rounds at the Angel’s general direction.
"Shinji get out of there you can’t see the target, retreat and obtain a visual, pattern blue remains!" Misato was yelling but Shinji didn’t hear her. He was too busy avoiding the tentacles that were trying to tear him apart. He was using his own AT field to shield his arms and using them to block the whips, but it still stung when he blocked.
^ Damn it the stupid gun didn’t work. ^
/ Guess you’re going to have to take it down the old fashioned way. /
^ Kick it’s ass. ^
/ Kick it’s ass. /
^ Well then… ^ "Let’s rock and roll!!" Increase volume.
% Everybody was Kung fu fighting, those cat’s were fast as lightning…%
Shinji lunged out but the Angel wouldn’t go on the defensive, it kept attacking him, and it was all Shinji could do to keep himself from being dashed to pieces.
Then one solid hit later the Eva was embedded in a hillside with an advancing Angel.
Shinji looked to his right side and saw a girl and a boy on the hill next to his hand. He noticed the girl was Ranko, and the boy was about a year older than her. The strange thing was that he had fangs and was wearing a red bandanna with black spots.
"Major I can’t just leave them there they’ll be killed."
Misato sighed. There was no other way she had to let them into the entry plug.
"Make it snappy that Angel’ll be on you in less than two minutes."
Shinji hit the emergency hatch release and the entry plug slid out.
"Get in." He called over to them.
Ranko rushed over dragging the boy with her. The boy seemed hesitant about getting into the entry plug.
"Get in stupid, it’s not cold water, see, he didn’t change into a girl." To this the boy relaxed a bit but was still nervous about getting into the plug.
Shinji shut the hatch and got the Eva moving just in time. The Angel shot one of it’s tentacles right were Eva’s head was. A tenth of a second later and Shinji would have had one world class headache. As it was the tentacle just missed and he was able to land a fairly forceful side kick to the Angel’s core. A small crack developed, but was healed a second later.
^ It’s no good I can’t beat it, it’s too fast none of my attacks are fast enough to penetrate it’s defenses. ^
/ Then you’ve just got to use something faster. /
^ But Ranma I’m not fast enough to do the amogouriken. ^
/ You may not be yet but the Eva is. Try Shinji I believe in you. /
Klaxons brought Shinji back to reality from his little chat with Ranma. The Angel had cut Eva’s main power cable.
"What are you doing stupid, taking a nap, get in there and fight."
"Shut up and let me drive Ranko."
^ Alright I’ve got 5 minutes to beat this thing. One minute if I use the amogouriken, got to make this count. ^
"Katchu Tenshin Amogouriken!" yelled Shinji as he made Eva’s arms move at the speeds that made the Amogouriken technique famous for the users ability to pluck chestnuts out of a fire without being burned.
All two thousand five hundred fifty seven punches hit their mark. The Angel’s core went silent, and both Eva and Angel stood there motionless, as if in a dance where time just stopped.
Misato, Ritsuko, and Gendo were standing over Shinji who was sitting in a chair in Gendo’s office.
"What were you thinking? When that timer started I told you to get out of there, why did you stay?" asked Misato. + And it had better not have anything to do with a certain deceased martial artist, or I’m going to get violent. +
"I had to beat the Angel, that’s my job isn’t it?" he looked up at Gendo and narrowed his eyes ever so slightly "Victory and survival of the human race," he looked at the floor "no matter what the cost."
"But you could have been killed."
/ It is a martial artists duty to protect the weak and the helpless even if it costs him his life. /
"It is a martial artists duty to protect the weak and the helpless even if it costs him his life."
^ Hey quit putting words in my mouth. ^
/ You seemed to need as much help as you could get. /
Gendo spoke up. "You’ve been spending way too much time with Ranma haven’t you?"
"It’s not like I have any choice in the matter, I’m sure Ranma doesn’t like it much."
/ Actually I love it. Beats being dead any day. What are you saying? Am I a bad roommate? /
Gendo put his hands together infront of his face, he steepled his pointer fingers.
"Shinji, Ritsuko you’re dismissed." He said in his monotone voice. "Misato I want you to stay."
After they had left. "Yes sir what would you like."
"In your opinion have you noticed any changes in my son ever since he met Ranma?"
"As a matter of fact sir yes I have. He’s only been here two days but he seems to have grown up quite a bit, and his courage and confidence have really shot up. Ranma seems to have had a definite effect on him, but of course I didn’t know him until two days ago so my opinion is probably flawed."
"It is not, it seems my son has grown himself quite a pair these past couple of days."
"Pair of what sir?"
"Balls captain, my son is a wimp, or at least he was a wimp until he took a dive in those Jusenkyo springs. It seems meeting the undefeated Ranma Saotome has done him a world of good."
"If you don’t mind me asking sir, just how exactly do you know Ranma?"
"It was a long time ago. I used to go to Furinken High school in the Nerima district of Tokyo. There was this girl there by the name of Akane Tendo. She was beautiful, every guy in the school wanted to date with her, but it was decreed by this guy named Kuno that you could only date with her if you beat her in fair and square combat."
"Sounds pretty corny if you think about it."
"Yeah I know, I even tried my hand at it once, got knocked on my ass so fast I barely knew what happened. Anyway one day this guy named Ranma shows up, and it turns out he was engaged to Akane through his parents meddling. It took a while but eventually everyone gave up on Akane because once they saw how much Ranma cared for her we all knew we didn’t stand a chance."
"So he loved her did he?"
"Very much, but they fought a lot. In fact as I remember it she was one of the few people who could actually defeat him, you see she had this devastating hammer attack, I still can’t figure it out. Anyway it turns out that his father engaged him to several other women, I think it was two or three others besides Akane, then there was that crazy woman Kodachi, she was after him too."
"Sounds like a harem."
"Not really, for some reason Ranma was considered a stud, and therefor all the women were naturally attracted to him. Then the mayhem started after one of his fiancée’s great grandparents started teaching him and a few others some really dangerous techniques, like the Katchu Tenshin Amogouriken, and the Hiru Shoten Ha. There were guys always trying to kill him, like his best friend, I think his name was Ryoga Hibiki. Yes that’s right. I think that was his son in the entry plug today. That’s more or less it, it ends with the great grandmother that taught him those techniques killing him because he wouldn’t marry her granddaughter according to some stupid law in their village. And that brings us to today."
"I think I understand things a bit clearer now. Is that all you wanted sir?"
"No. I would like you to get ahold of Harley Davidson Japan and get them to custom build Shinji his bike, then get over to the motor vehicle center and requisition him a Nerv license. Oh and on the bike make sure there’s lots of chrome." He narrowed his eyes and placed them closer to his steepled fingers. "Lots of shiny chrome and some cool sunglasses and a leather jacket."
Misato twitched a bit but saluted. "Yes sir."
"And Misato you will not repeat any of this to anybody, that is an order."
"Y… Yes sir."
"Dismissed."
All alone in his huge office he stared at the tree of life on his ceiling.
+ I just hope that the introduction of this new variable doesn’t interfere with the equations, or the schedule. +
He leaned back further and his chair tipped backwards and laid him flat on his back with his legs twitching in the air.
In a blue sedan driving along the damaged road systems there was a good fight going on.
Inside the car were Ranko, Reika, and an older woman with short dark blue hair with a white streak down the front.
"And just what were you thinking young lady? You know that when the sirens go off you’re supposed to get to a shelter and stay there."
"Aw mom lay off ok we got chewed out enough by those Nerv guys, for just being there."
"Don’t aw mom me, both of you are grounded for two weeks."
Both of them groaned.
The older woman calmed down a bit. "Now Ranko, I want you to tell me everything that happened."
"Alright, well his name is Shinji Ikari, he’s a pretty good fighter." She looked down at the floor mat. "He beat me."
"That’s all right you know you’re uncle Ranma used to beat your father all the time. So why did you challenge him anyway?"
"That jerk stole my move!"
"And what move was that?"
"He stole my Mouko Takabisha, that was mine."
"I thought that you and your father were the only ones who could pull that off."
"So did I but he did it so he had to have stolen it."
"Well what happened in the eva? How was it inside?"
"Well it took bro here a while to figure out that the stuff in the plug wasn’t water. I had to tell him that Shinji didn’t change so it was ok."
"So Shinji’s cursed eh?"
"Yeah, but that’s not all, he did this really cool move, what was it he called it again? The Ka… Kat something."
"Katchu Tenshin Amogouriken" Reika decided to pipe up. He had been silent for most of the trip since he was being chewed out.
"Yeah that’s it do you know anything about it mom?"
"It’s an amazon technique, your aunt Shampoo can do it, you should ask her to teach it to you sometime. If Shinji is Jusenkyo cursed he might have learned it at the local Amazon village."
"Could be but it was still cool."
"Ranko you said Shinji was cursed, what does he turn into?"
"He turns into a girl mom." Pausing for a second "About 16 or 17 years old, red hair, pigtail. She looks like me except he’s better built to boot."
Akane’s grip on the steering wheel tightened and she went death white.
"Are you ok mom?" Ranko reached over and shook her mom softly.
"Y… Yeah I’m ok just a bad memory."
The car continued on.
Chapter 5: New Friends and Old
After the Angel was defeated, Shinji got his reward, 25,000 yen and a long weekend. But that was three days ago. As he looked back on those three days he remembered that he and Ranma had gone to the mall to spend his 55,000 yen. Their first stop was the clothing store, to procure some new clothes that would not leave Ranma in such a compromising position each time the transformation took effect. They settled on a sleeveless latex suit just slightly bigger than Shinji. It was a perfect form fitting fit for Ranma. (Which was partially the reason they got it in that size, he had a great female body and wanted to show it off, (mostly to get free stuff)) and an oversized T-shirt.
Their next stop was the athletic store to pick up some weights and other equipment. Shinji had to get the clerk to help him carry the equipment to the door. He then ducked into a nearby empty store where the clerk was sleeping on the job, and kicked in the transformation.
Ranma easily carried the weights as they walked through the mall. With only 500 yen left, they decided to go home and start Shinji on his training schedule right away.
For the next three days Shinji worked out hard. He only stopped to make supper, go to the bathroom and sleep. By the time Monday came around he was exhausted, but his hard work seemed to have paid off slightly. For three days of work his muscles were already starting to show some definition and ripple. They were still very small but they were responding amazingly well to the conditioning. Ranma thought that they were progressing a little too fast. There was no way that his muscles should respond to training this fast, it wasn’t humanly possible. But then again it wasn’t humanly possible for a boy to change into a girl by getting hit with cold water either, so he put it out of his mind and just accepted the fact.
It was now Monday and Shinji had to go to school. He was sore, all over. Even his teeth hurt.
/ Morning sleepyhead. You’ve got to get to school today. /
^ Shut up Ranma, I’m sore all over and it’s all your fault. ^
/ Go ahead blame the dead man, I warned you to put that heating rub on last night but did you listen, noooooo. /
Shinji rolled over on his side. Right onto a sleeping Pen Pen.
The penguin was not in the least happy to be rolled on. It started pecking him and kicking with it’s feet.
Shinji rolled off him right onto the floor.
/ A nice hot shower should cure that weightlifters hangover you’ve got there. /
He started crawling towards the shower, again not noticing the ‘Occupied: Do not Enter’ sign.
A wet naked Misato watched as Shinji crawled by in his boxer shorts into the shower. This time he managed to reach the water faucet and turn it on to a semi respectable temperature. She finished drying and went out to make breakfast.
+ He must really be sore, serves him right though for working out like that. Although he’s really starting to show. +
Ranma was right the hot water relaxed his muscles and he walked out of the shower with a towel around his waist.
When he’d finished dressing he went to put on his Nerv hat.
/ You gotta put it on backwards, that’s cool. /
^ Backwards, Ranma that is so 20th century. Here in 2014 we wear our hats inside out and to the back. ^
/ You sure you know what’s cool? /
^ Positive, besides what would they think if they saw the Nerv logo. ^
/ Whatever you say kid. /
Shinji walked out of his room looking fairly cool and about a year older than he actually was. He froze when he saw the feast that was before him.
Curry scrambled eggs Misato style, beer, hashbrowns in beer (with curry sauce), more beer, Microwaved pancakes (in beer and imitation syrup), even more beer, Corn Flakes in beer. (I’ve actually tried the Corn Flakes in beer it actually tastes pretty good but it must be a Canadian ale like Molson ice, or Labbat blue or light)
Misato was busy chowing down on the Corn Flakes and beer. The only thing that didn’t have beer or curry in it was Pen Pen’s food, raw fish and rice. Shinji eyed it hungrily. Pen Pen warked grabbed his bowl and ran away from Shinji who was chasing him. Misato chose not to notice Shinji chasing her pet and her pet’s food around the apartment. She finished her food and slammed back the rest of her beer, and looked at her watch.
"Shinji you’re going to be late for school."
She got up and left for work.
Shinji stopped chasing Pen Pen around and looked him squarely in the eyes.
"One day penguin, one day you’re going to find her cooking in your bowl, on that day you will suffer the wrath of her bad cooking, and maybe you’ll survive and learn to share the wealth." With that he left.
Pen Pen warked, waddled over to his fridge, pulled out a Bud Light.
"Do bee do bee doooo."
Shinji made it to school in plenty of time, but as fate (me) would have it he could not get anywhere. In his path was the infallible Kaechi Kuno.
"Halt foul sorcerer Ikari. I know of your wicked deeds and how you are holding the fair pigtailed girl hostage and bound to your will. I Kaechi Kuno shall defeat you and free her from your wicked grasp."
^ Who is this guy? And where does he get this stupid idea that I’m some kind of sorcerer or something? ^
/ He’s a Kuno, that line was never known for it’s brains, but if I’m right and Nabiki’s his mother, he really should know better than that. /
"Or if you would prefer I will spare you my wrath, and you will release the fair maid and pay me 5000 yen."
/ Well at least we know his mother taught him well. /
"You want her released from my control, then you’ve got to beat me first."
/ What the hell do you think you’re doing? The last thing you want to do is enforce his paranoid delusions. /
^ Trust me I know what I’m doing, I can’t lose. ^
/ Great now as long as you don’t get killed we should just be fine. /
Kuno charged, his bokken held high above his head readying for the strike.
Shinji just stood there.
Kuno started his swing, Shinji sidestepped, spun around and landed a full force 360 front crescent kick (like Guile from SF2) right to Kuno’s ass, instant Low earth orbit martial artist.
/ Nice. Still your landing after the kick and follow through still need some work. /
^ Yeah I think I gave him too much backspin though, I’m not sure if he’ll even make orbit. ^
Meanwhile at Nerv Headquarters.
"Sir we’ve got outgoing!"
"Nature of the target?" responded Gendo in his usual monotone voice.
"It’s not an Angel, could be a missile."
"Is there a heat signature?"
"No sir, it could be a dropper missile."
"Could it be a LEOMA?"
"Sir there hasn’t been a confirmed case of Low Earth Orbit Martial Artist, in over ten years."
Gendo thought for a moment.
"You’re right, arm the tachion interceptor missiles and shoot it down."
A few button presses away.
"Missiles away sir."
A few minutes later.
"Target remains!"
"Hmmm then it has to be a LEOMA. Jan, erase all computer records and conveniently ‘lose’ two tachions from our inventory."
"You mean cover it up, sir?"
"YOU mean cover what up?"
Meanwhile back at the school.
Shinji was bored, he’d heard the same boring stories about how the Second impact changed society. He decided to nod off and leave the learning to Ranma.
Ranma however had another idea. He wanted to look up some old friends.
He had Shinji’s knowledge of computer systems, and had learned a lot about hacking from reading stuff on the internet 3. Whereas when he was alive he couldn’t use a computer to save his life, now he was hacking government agencies.
/ Hmm let’s see here. Akane Tendo. Oh man she married Ryoga, let’s see two kids, Reika and Ranko. Ukyo married Kei, two kids Shichu and Kaneda. Wow Mousse finally married Shampoo, two kids Hariku and Choja. Man these are weird names. Seems everybody turned out just fine without me. /
The bell rang and woke Shinji.
^ What are you doing don’t you know hacking is not right. ^
/ You can stop one but you can not stop us all. Isn’t that part of the hacker’s creed. /
^ I give up. ^
In the hallway he was stopped by a large boy and a smaller boy with glasses.
"Shinji I know you’re the pilot of that stupid robot, and that you were the one who stepped on my sister."
He threw a punch at Shinji’s head, which he dodged.
"Uh Touji I don’t think you should be doing that."
"Shut up Kensuke, I know what I’m doing."
"I’m sorry about your sister but I had no choice." Shinji shot back.
"Yeah right. Like I’m supposed to believe you." He launched another punch, which Shinji just dodged.
"You don’t understand I am the only one who can pilot it."
"You’ve got to be kidding me, a big operation like Nerv has to use kids to pilot the robots, ha you expect me to believe that you were the only pilot, fat chance." Yet another punch.
"You’re right they did have another pilot."
"Then why didn’t you let him fight that thing, you obviously hadn’t been in it before, and couldn’t drive worth a damn."
"The reason I had to pilot the damn thing is that the other pilot is Rei."
Touji was taken aback. He stopped attacking. "Rei? She’s a pilot. I always knew she was weird but this is just a little much. Why didn’t you let her pilot then?"
"Do you know why Rei hasn’t been to school in a while?"
"No."
"The reason why is because she was almost killed in one of the tests and if she’d gone out there to fight that Angel she would have died."
"Why couldn’t you have just let the military kill that thing."
"Conventional weapons have no effect, if I hadn’t killed it, everybody would be dead, do you understand, if the Angels win Second Impact is going to look like a firecracker."
"I… I’m sorry, I didn’t know you had that much responsibility."
"It’s ok, truce?"
"Alright. My name’s Touji and this here is Kensuke."
They both turned to look at Kensuke who was furiously scribbling notes about the conversation for analysis later.
"He’s a military nut."
Kensuke finished. He turned to Shinji.
"That’s it? Any more."
Shinji walked up to Kensuke and smiled.
"Sure there’s a lot more but if I tell you, I’d have to kill you." He raised his finger and poked the middle of Kensuke’s forehead. "Bang."
Shinji looked down at his watch.
"Oh man I’m late, I’ve got to get home, Misato’s going to kill me."
In unison. "Who’s Misato."
"She’s looking after me when I’m working for Nerv." He grabbed his CD books and the trio ran out of the school. Touji not looking where he was going ran right into Misato’s chest.
He looked up, and started babbling incoherently. Shinji caught up with him.
"Hey Misato."
"Hey Shinji, I’ve got a surprise for you."
"Huh?"
"Just come on. And bring your friend."
As they were walking.
"I’m Kensuke, mam." He looked up at her insignia and her rank indicator. "And you must be Captain Katsuragi."
Misato’s eyes widened. "How did you know that."
"Well Shinji told us that he was staying with a person named Misato, I deduced it must be a Nerv officer, and since you’re the only Captain in Nerv Japan, I figured it must be you."
"But how did you… Oh never mind."
Touji was still mumbling something, he was happy.
"And the sexually stunned idiot over there is Touji. Give him a while, he should be ok."
They rounded the gate. Misato tossed something at Shinji. He looked down at it, it was a card key with an American bald eagle on the back.
"You mean?"
She nodded. "Mm hm." He looked around at the street, there it was, a brand new 2014 hog, almost exactly to his specs. It had a bit more chrome than he’d asked for (actually he didn’t even think of chrome but looking at it now, he was glad it had. It was beautiful.) On the gas tank was a tastefully done green dragon on a black gas tank. Underneath the dragon were the words Eva Unit 02. The license plate was blatant advertising. ‘Nerv 1’ it read. Shinji thought that doing a little PR work for the organization was a small price to pay for such a sweet ride. On the passenger’s seat there was a black leather jacket with a big Nerv symbol on the back, and a pair of ‘Terminator’ style sunglasses.
"Shinji what’s with you?" Kensuke asked.
"Oh sweet, thanks Misato she’s beautiful."
"Oh yeah one more thing, your access card is now also your drivers license."
Shinji donned the jacket and the sunglasses.
He turned around.
"What’da ya think?"
"Shinji what are you doing!" Kensuke shouted.
"Don’t worry man, it’s just a perk of the job."
"Where do I sign up?" asked Touji looking over the bike.
Misato seeing that Shinji was totally enthralled with his new toy turned and headed for her car. She knew he was too smart to ride without a helmet, and she knew that he knew how to drive. (She checked into his background in Russia and learned that he had been taught how to drive by his teacher when he was twelve.)
Unfortunately for the citizens of Tokyo 3 Misato’s driving was not as impeccable as Shinji’s as she tore around a corner almost killing three pedestrians and coming millimeters away from sideswiping a truck.
"So Touji, Kensuke you guys want a ride?"
They both looked nervously at each other.
"Uh maybe some other time."
"Suit yourself."
Shinji inserted the key card and pushed the electric start, the bike roared to life. As always the Harley’s had a distinctive rumble. In the early 21st century Harley Davidson had to work on the ‘acoustics’ of the exhaust system, since anti pollution laws prohibited the massive exhaust output required for a deep resonance frequency.
He rumbled off into the distance looking really impressive.
"I think I’ll be walking for a while."
Touji nodded.
"Let’s go visit your sister."
They walked off towards the central hospital.
Shinji was having a great time, he’d never ridden an actual motorcycle before. All they had in Russia were old BMW’s and some crappy Japanese crotch rockets, they gave really horrible rides, not like this. He leaned back and eased down the throttle. The quad V-engine came to life and propelled the bike at ease down the street. He was about to open her up to see the exact limits of his new bike, when he saw a lone figure wandering down the street. He had a backpack and a headband on.
/ Hey that looks like a Hibiki. He’s probably lost. /
^ I think I’ll go ask him. ^
He eased the bike up beside the wandering boy.
It was Reika.
"Hey Reika, want a ride?"
Reika turned and looked at him. He amazingly recognized him as Shinji the pilot boy.
"I don’t think I should."
"You’re a Hibiki aren’t you?"
"Uh yeah."
"Are you lost?"
Reika scratched the back of his head and laughed stupidly.
"Yeah I’m totally lost, I can’t figure out why this GPS system never seems to work."
"Hop on I’ll drive you home."
"How do you know where I live?"
"Onboard computer navigation, I just look up your address and it guides me there."
On the road neither of them noticed that the clouds were gathering.
Just as they pulled up to the gate of the dojo it began to pour. Both of them transformed. Ranma had a hard time unzipping the jacket, it was custom made for Shinji and didn’t fit her, and it would not give or tear, so it was a tight fit.
He looked on the road and there was a small black piglet trying to pull his clothes and pack towards the house.
Ranma picked up the piglet, and the other stuff.
He looked down at the piglet.
"Well at least we know you’re a Hibiki all right. Let’s go get you some hot water"
Ranma was holding the now pig Reika way to close to her chest, it was too much he passed out.
/ Oh great just like Ryoga could never get close to a woman without passing out or blowing a blood vessel. /
^ Look at it this way at least he’s not squirming. ^
They entered the house. Ranma noticed that it looked amazingly similar to the Tendo dojo except there was a lot less damage.
/ If this is an almost duplicate of the original, then the kitchen should be this way. /
Ranma walked in the direction that the kitchen should have been. He began to smell something resembling food coming from the kitchen. He opened the door and there she was standing at the stove cooking away, his mind froze.
She heard the kitchen door open and turned to look at who it was.
"Oh hello Ranko, I thought you weren’t going to be home for a while." She stopped talking. Her expression turned to one of anger.
"Ranko Saotome, didn’t I tell you never to dye your hair, and how many times have I told you to stop stuffing your bra.
"Huh?"
Akane stormed over to Ranma and grabbed him by the ear and hauled him over to the sink. She shoved his head under the tap and started scrubbing as hard as she could.
"Damn it Ranko what did you use? I guess we’ll just have to let it wear out." She reached into the shirt to remove the tissue paper from her ‘daughters’ bra but instead found a latex jumpsuit over all natural breasts.
Her eyes widened and she jumped back.
Ranma was getting furious. "What the hell was that for you uncute tomboy!"
Akane not knowing what was happening pulled her new and improved mallet from behind her back. "Alright who are you?" she demanded.
"You don’t recognize me?"
^ Duh of course she doesn’t recognize you to her your dead remember. ^
It suddenly dawned on her, and she relaxed on the mallet a bit.
"Wait you’re that kid pilot aren’t you, the one who almost stepped on my kids, Uh Shinji isn’t it?"
"Sort of, it’s a long story, you’d better sit down." And as an after thought. "Jeez Akane you’ve really let yourself slide."
That was the last straw, she’d already been insulted twice by this person and that last one was the last straw.
"Whoever you are NO BAKA!!" She raised the hammer and prepared to pummel the girl in front of her.
Ranma saw the attack coming and decided that the best way out was to disarm her.
"Katchu Tenshin Amogouriken!" In three seconds flat he’d reduced the wooden mallet to a pair of finely crafted chopsticks.
Akane slowed to a dead stop and looked at the remains of her best mallet. She looked at the girl.
"N… No It couldn’t be, he’s been dead for twenty years."
Ranma nodded his head.
"Ranma?"
He nodded again.
"You can’t be alive, you’re dead!"
"Who says I’m not."
With that Ranma ran up and jumped at Akane knocking her down and giving her a really deep kiss.
Reika chose a really, really, REALLY bad time to wake up. There was his mother, on the floor, being kissed by a girl that looked almost exactly like his sister. He gave off a high pitched squeal and then keeled over.
Ranma and Akane broke the kiss to look at the source of the noise. There was Reika on the floor on his back with blood gushing out of his nose like a water fountain.
Akane rushed over to her son sending Ranma tumbling. She picked him up and quickly turned him over and stuffed some tissue up his nose and placed him on his stomach in the sink. She rushed to the closet and grabbed some cleaning tools and quickly cleaned up the blood before it could stain. Then she smelled something, the dinner was burning.
"Oh no."
"As good a cook as ever I see." Ranma had his back turned to her.
WHAM.
There was Akane standing behind him holding a giant mallet.
"What the hell was that?"
"It’s my stealth mallet, you never see it coming."
Ranma staggered over to the table and sat down, Akane checked on her son and placed him on a dish and carried him to the table as well.
When she sat down Ranma began his story about how he’d gone to Jusenkyo, gotten killed and how he’d met up with Shinji and their current situation.
"Well that’s more or less it." He looked around and saw a family picture. In it was Akane sitting down with Reika and Ranko around her, Ryoga was standing in the background facing the wrong way, with a total lost look on his face.
"Hey Akane, what happened to my mom?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well why did you agree to take care of Ranko for her?"
"You mean you don’t know?"
"Know what?"
Akane took a deep breath.
"Ranma, Ranko’s YOUR daughter."
A dull thud.
"Ranma?"
Chapter 6: Revelations 3: 16
When Ranma awoke Akane was standing over him.
"Oh Akane you wouldn’t believe the dream I just had. I dreamed I died, then was reincarnated in the body of this kid in this strange future. I dreamed that you were old and had married Ryoga, and had one of my kids. Crazy isn’t it." He opened his eyes more and saw that the illusion of his young Akane was replaced by and older version of her."
"It wasn’t a dream stupid it’s real."
Ranma shot bolt upright. He scanned the room and indeed it seemed to be real.
"Akane? What? How?"
"How can Ranko be yours if you died before I conceived her." She helped Ranma to a sitting position, then took her seat. "After your body was brought back to Japan Dr. Tofu decided to take your semen and have it frozen, just in case. About four years after your death, and a year after he married Kasumi, he told your three fiancées about what he’d done. He gave us the option of having invitro fertilization so that we could all have a child by you. Ukyo and Shampoo went first. I had just had Reika here, so I didn’t feel like having another child for a couple of years."
"But why?"
"I needed to Ranma, after you were gone we all missed you. We needed something of yours so…"
"So why?"
"I don’t know. I’ve been asking myself that question for the past 14 years. I have no idea why we did it. I think it was because we loved you and couldn’t see you just die after all that you’ve done for us. It just wouldn’t be right."
"I see. So I’ve got a daughter." He smiled. "I’m a dad, does she know?"
"Not really she believes that she was just named after her uncle Ranma who died, she has no idea that she is not Ryoga’s child."
"And she’s ok with this?"
"Well we decided that when she was old enough we would tell her the truth. For now I don’t think it would be good if she knew the truth, let alone that you are her father. I think that would really screw her up."
"Well it looks like our daughter got the best of both worlds, my good looks and martial arts abilities and your violent temper."
Wham.
^ You deserved that you know. ^
/ Yeah I know, but I get my kicks off it. /
^ You’re sick you know that. ^
/ And your stuck with me so there. /
^ Your impossible you know that. ^
" What were you saying about violent temper?"
"N… Nothing dear. Is she cursed?"
"Yeah she is."
"But she’s a girl, don’t tell me that she turns into a guy."
"Yes she does. And let me tell you giving her a bath as a baby was terrible. We had to use warm water so that Ryoga wouldn’t change, then we had to have spray shields so that she wouldn’t piss on us, you know how it is with baby boys and warm water."
"Wait a minute you knew about Ryoga’s curse, when did you figure it out?"
"About the second night, when I realized why you two fought so much, and that bandanna was a dead giveaway."
"But why didn’t you say anything? I mean we went to so much trouble to hide it from you and you knew all along."
"It was fun to watch you try. I also liked hitting you when you picked on him."
"I liked being hit I guess."
"Pervert."
"You got it."
Reika was waking up and Akane saw this. She pressed a few pressure points and the little pig fell unconscious once again.
"Akane I’ve been meaning to ask you, how’s Ryoga been? I mean as a husband."
"Ryoga’s been a wonderful husband, I mean I still would have preferred you, but he loves the children and me. He has been great, but before we got that augmentation put in his brain to curb his wanderings do you know how many times I had to say ‘ Ryoga I’m over here.’ Or ‘to the left. No the left you idiot, that’s up, here I’ll do it myself.’"
"I see the lost boy gene was passed down to Reika."
"He’s not as bad as his father was he can usually make it back home in an hour or two."
"But it’s only a ten minute walk."
"I said he’s not as bad, I usually get Ranko to guide him places."
"Well score one for cumulative genetics. So about Ranko I was wondering if I could train her. She has such potential Akane, I can see so much of myself in her."
Akane leaned back considering Ranma’s proposal. It was true that Ranko took after her biological father in many ways and martial arts was one of these ways. Being thoughtless, putting her foot in her mouth, and being incredibly stupid at times were the other traits. There was certainly no way Ranma could do any harm by training her. She would be overjoyed to learn from somebody who was not Ryoga.
"Very well, but it must not interfere with her school and if another one of those monsters shows up you will take her with you, wherever you are going is that clear."
"Very clear, mother. By the way whatever happened to my folks?"
Akane took a moment to compose herself. "Well after you died but before second impact your mother was devastated, she had to be put in an institution and strapped down to keep her from committing seppuku because she thought she had failed at being a mother. But after Shampoo gave birth to little Choja your mother’s attitude changed, she had a grandson. Then Ukyo had Shichu a few days later and your mother had her hands full with the both of them. After I had Ranko she couldn’t believe it, her son had three children and she had three grandchildren. All of the children know her as grandma but they think it’s just because it’s because of their last name. Sometimes I think your mother still misses you. I think you should go visit her."
"I think I will, but you’ll have to give me the address Mr. Morality here won’t let me hack government agencies to get information anymore."
She laughed a little before handing him a piece of paper with everybody’s addresses on it. Her mood grew more somber.
"As for your father. Well a few weeks before second impact dad and Mr. Saotome got the perfect plan to get rid of Happosai. They captured him in a steal box with spirit wards and heavy chains on it. The chartered a boat to take them to the Antarctic where they planned to bury him in the deepest hole they could dig."
"And then second impact happened right?"
She slowly nodded her head.
"So my old man’s dead then."
"Yes I’m sorry."
"Don’t be at least he took the old freak out with him."
"Yeah I guess so."
"So what else happened."
"Well Kasumi finally married Dr. Tofu you should have seen the wedding, Dr. Tofu was so nervous that he accidentally said ‘I do’ to the coat rack on the way in, then to every person in the church, for a minute there we thought he’d gotten himself married to Betty."
"Is he still like that?"
"No but hearing Kasumi talk about the honeymoon, she had to hog tie him before jumping on top. She still does it sometimes just for the entertainment value."
"Oh man that’s rich, I would never have thought Kasumi was into bondage."
"Neither did anybody else, but she was always so quiet so nobody knew she was such a wild woman underneath."
"Does she have any kids?"
"Yes her name’s Jenifer, she looks like Kasumi except that her hair has a bright blue streak down the center."
"Hey Akane what about Nabiki and Kuno. Is Kaechi their kid?"
"So you’ve met Kaechi. Yes he is their son. Kodachi was killed by second impact and Kuno got hit on the head really, really hard. This damaged his brain and he turned normal. Shortly after that he proposed to Nabiki and she accepted."
"Weird. What else…" The cell phone rang. Ranma answered it.
"Yeah… Now? I guess." He hung up the phone. "Hey Akane you got any hot water around here?"
"Yeah, why?"
"I’m going to have to cut our visit short, they need Shinji back at the base for tests."
"Oh Ranma, couldn’t you just wait a little while longer I’m sure, Ryoga would like to see you. He won’t admit it but I think even he missed you."
"I’m sorry, but we have to go, it’s his job you know and he must go when called, it’s just the way things are. I’m sure you’ll see me again."
Akane returned from the kitchen with the water.
"Before I have to go." He looked up at her. "Akane if we get killed, defending the world, know this, I love you." He then poured the water on himself. Shinji bowed.
"Nice meeting you mam." Then he got his jacket on turned and left.
That night when Ryoga got home.
"Daddy, Daddy I saw mom kissing another girl."
Ryoga looked up to Akane for an explanation.
"It’s a long story dear. I’ll tell you tonight. Ryoga the table’s this way."
Chapter 7:
Shinji got on his bike, and rode off towards Nerv HQ.
^ She was pretty nice although don’t you think you went a little far kissing her as a girl? ^
/ You’ve never been in love have you? You wouldn’t understand. /
^ No I guess I wouldn’t. Say you want to see what this puppy’ll do? ^
/ Huh? /
Shinji slowly opened the throttle and the quad V came to life. As they rocketed down the streets of Tokyo 3, The local law enforcement did nothing.
^ This is great I can break the law and since I’m Nerv they can’t do a thing to stop me. ^
/ Power corrupts /
^ And absolute power corrupts absolutely. Don’t worry I’m just trying her out to see what she can do in case I ever need to use it. ^
/ Watch where you’re going ! /
^ Oh all right. ^
They managed to make it to make it to HQ in one piece. When Shinji walked into Central Dogma he was greeted with a bucket of cold water courtesy Ritsuko Akagi.
"Well Ranma shall we?"
"Shall we what?"
"Well we’d like to know if you can synchronize with the Eva in your girl form."
"Doesn’t the manual state that only kids born nine months after second impact can synchronize with an Eva?"
"Well we have to try anyway, just in case you can’t change back and we have to get you to pilot an Eva."
"Oh all right, just tack it onto Shinji’s pay."
As the manual would confirm Ranma could not sync with Eva 01.
"Ok that failed now we’re going to test your physical abilities."
For the next two hours they had Ranma and Shinji running, jumping, punching and kicking, and using Ranma’s specialized techniques. From these grueling tests they learned that when Shinji is using Ranma’s martial arts abilities there personalities become more synchronous. Shinji was tapping into Ranma’s unconscious to use his special abilities. This led Ritsuko to devise a new experiment. They used a psionic wave emitter to suppress the other person.
They first tried to subdue Ranma and then tested Shinji again. They found that he could do the martial arts moves that he had already learned and memorized in his own mind, but was unable to do the Amogouriken or the Takibisha. She then subdued Shinji’s consciousness and tried to sync Ranma in Shinji’s body with Eva 01 with mixed success. It was true that he did pass the threshold but not by much. He only synced at 29%, which would be useless in combat.
After everything was all over Ritsuko had tons of new data to analyze, the rest of the staff were so tired that they slept where they fell. Shinji himself was also tired. He’d never done so much work in such a short period of time, but he had to go home and make supper so that they wouldn’t be killed by Misato’s cooking.
When he walked out of the door he noticed a girl with blue hair and a few bandages on hobbling on crutches away from the complex.
/ Hey that’s Rei. Shinji we should probably give her a ride. /
^ You’re reading my mind. ^
/ Of course I am. /
Shinji rumbled up beside the still injured girl and killed the engine so that he could talk to her.
"Hey Rei, would you like a ride?"
She turned to look at him with her one good eye. Shinji felt a little creeped out. Her eye was red and lifeless. She showed no emotion, there was no life in her. She looked like the walking dead.
"I… I mean if you want to. I just thought that it would take you so long to get back home walking like that."
"Yes."
She climbed onto the back of the bike behind Shinji and put her helmet on.
/ Weird /
^ Agreed. Hmm let’s see, she lives on 34 Tabito street. Let’s go. ^
The bike roared to life and Shinji started off for Rei’s appartment. When they reached her apartment, Rei got off the bike and placed the spare helmet back where it belonged. She turned and headed for her apartment. Shinji followed. When they entered her place he noticed that it was extremely Spartan, and a mess. There was a pile of dirty dishes in the sink, the floors probably hadn’t been washed since she moved in. Her bed sheet hadn’t been changed in months and had blood stains all over it. There were used bandages littering the floor.
"I am safe now, you should not worry about me." Said Rei in an unemotional tone.
"Well that’s good."
^ What the hell do I say, she’s like ice. ^
/ Sorry my specialty is overly emotional women, the only ice woman I had to deal with was Nabiki and Rei here’s deriving new meanings for cold. /
^ I wouldn’t exactly call her cold but she’s not acting normal. I wonder what she’s been through. You know she acts a lot like my father. ^
/ Nah. Maybe you should try to excuse yourself so that you can get home yourself. If Misato cooks I’m going to throw up. /
"Uh Rei. I kinda have to get going now, I’ve got to cook supper tonight."
"Goodbye then." She turned and went into the bathroom.
"Strange."
Shinji let himself out and drove to Misato’s. He made it just in time to stop her from making her masterpiece dish. Curry noodles and beef in beer marinade. Supper went off without a hitch, except for the fact that Pen Pen got into the beer marinade and was stumbling all over the apartment.
In Gendo’s office.
Yes it would be best if Rei were to stay close to Ranma and Shinji so that they can protect her. Authorize the move for tomorrow. + It is too late in the project to replace Rei, she is crucial to the success of the project, if anything were to happen to her the project would be in jeopardy. + Gendo steepled his fingers, tipping his chair back. The chair fell over and he was left laying on his back with his feet in the air.
The next day was a Saturday. Misato was awakened early by the phone.
"Hm…. Um hmm… k." She hung up the phone and slowly crawled out of bed. She’d just been ordered to care for Rei Ayanami and that they were to move her into her apartment today. This was not so bad if it had fully sunk in but being 7 in the morning and Misato not having her first beer, she couldn’t fully comprehend the implications of this.
She went into Shinji’s room and woke him up with a good swift kick in the ass. She then shuffled off to the kitchen to make herself some breakfast.
After everyone had woken up fully Shinji started making phone calls. (actually he only called Touji and Kensuke) He knew they may need help moving Rei. He also knew that Touji and Kensuke would work for free just to be near Misato, each for their own reasons.
Shinji was first to leave for Rei’s apartment to get everything ready for Misato when she arrived with the truck. He knocked on her door and she opened it and led him inside.
"Well where should we begin?"
"The closet." She said in her atypical monotone voice.
Shinji moved over to the closet and opened it. Inside he found 15 school uniforms like the kind she’s always wearing. He packed them into a box. He then moved over to her drawers and proceeded to pack her socks and her underwear. On her desk there were some small trinkets and various other effects. Once these were packed he turned to her.
"Ok what else?"
"That is all."
"That’s it?" he said in a shocked voice.
"Yes that is all."
Just then Shinji heard a knock on the door. He went to answer it. There he saw Misato, Kensuke and a dazed Touji.
"Well let’s get to work, where do we start?"
Shinji handed her the box.
"Ok now where’s the rest of it?"
"That’s it Misato, I’ve looked, the dishes belong to Nerv’s cafeteria. The bed is part of the apartment and there is nothing else."
"Damn it and I requisitioned this truck expecting to make a few trips hauling stuff and this is all she has."
Rei was emotionless. She stepped past Shinji and got on his bike.
"Well I guess that’s that." Misato got back into the truck. The reason for Touji’s condition became obvious, the fact that he got the middle seat of the stick shift truck, he was obviously enjoying himself.
Shinji who had taken it easy on Rei the other day had no intention of ‘taking it easy’ on her now. He cranked that quad V to half throttle and rocketed down the streets. Rei clutched onto him like Shampoo used to grab Ranma, but this was not a sign of love, it was a sign of fear, and maybe, thought Shinji, a little bit of exhilaration. They arrived at the apartment and Rei disconnected herself from Shinji’s torso and walked into the building confused at the new feelings she felt while on the bike with Shinji. One of them was definitely unpleasant, but the other was a total rush. About halfway through the ride the first feeling subsided replaced entirely by the second. She would have to ask Ikari about this.
Sunday was turning out to be a normal day, except for a giant double pyramid Angel hovering over Tokyo 3.
Inside Nerv Headquarters Misato was giving orders like a drill sergeant. Unit 01 stood on the launch pad ready for battle.
Inside the entry plug Shinji got ready for battle. He selected his Tribute to Black Sabbath album and pushed play. He then skipped ahead a few songs to Supernaut and got ready to rock and roll with another Angel.
The Eva shot to the surface and Shinji attempted to take a step off the platform.
"Misato! The docking clamps don’t …" The rest of the transmission was static as the Angel fired and hit Eva 01 square in the chest.
"Retrieve Unit 1 now!" yelled Misato.
When Ranma woke up in the infirmary, Rei was standing over him staring. He could only think of three things.
Chapter 8: Angels Strike Back
Rei was just standing there staring at him. Of course he wasn’t Shinji but he wasn’t going to let on that he was actually Ranma. That would be letting her off the hook too easily and he wouldn’t be able to have any fun screwing with her head. Maybe he would even get a smile out of her.
/ She is kinda cute but she’s just too creepy with those red eyes and lack of emotion. Guess I’ll have to put some extra effort into this one. /
Completely forgetting that he was useless around women, and his initial failure with Akane, Ranma decided to try to get Rei to open up.
"You’re awake."
"Yes I am. Thank you Rei."
"Thank you? Why?"
"You stayed here to watch over me. Thank you."
"Commander Ikari told me that I should watch over his son, so I am here."
/ Frigid little bitch ain’t she. /
Ranma wanting to pour on the charm decided to get up, completely oblivious to the fact that he wasn’t wearing anything. Rei looked down then straight ahead.
"What are you doing?"
"Well if I’m going to thank you properly I thought I should do it standing. I have to bow you know and that’s really hard to do when I’m laying in the bed."
Ranma closed his eyes and faced Rei. He bowed deeply. Shinji woke up and took control right at the pinnacle of the bowing motion.
^ So what have I missed? ^
/ Not much I’m trying to get Rei to loosen up a bit. She’s too uptight. She stayed by our bedside all the time we were unconscious. /
^ Then why are we bowing? ^
/ I’m trying to thank her. /
^ Ok now why are we bowing to Rei naked? ^
/ Naked? /
^ As in clothing impaired. ^
/ Sorry /
^ You owe me one you bastard. ^
/ Hell now that she knows what’s under the hood she might give you the courtesy of showing you hers. /
^ Like hell. ^
/ It could happen. /
Shinji still ninety degrees from upright reached over and draped the bedsheet around himself.
"Is that how one gives thanks to another person?" asked Rei in an inquisitive voice.
"Uh more or less."
Misato walked in.
"Ah Shinji you’re awake. Good are you well enough for a briefing?"
"I feel fine, except for a slight burning in my chest."
"Don’t worry about that it’s just a little residual feedback from the Angel’s attack. Ok you’ve been out for 5 hours. During that time the Angel has positioned itself directly over HQ and has begun to drill it’s way through the many armored layers that are above central dogma. We’ve tried conventional weapons including the new XP-580 particle accelerator gun. The problem is that the Angel has a defensive range of four kilometers, and nothing we have has that type of range. We estimate that it will penetrate the Geofront within ten hours."
"Let me have another crack at it."
"No it’s too dangerous."
"But Misato the only reason that it hit me was because I couldn’t move. If I could move around I could probably dodge it’s beam and kill it."
"No that first blast almost killed you and besides the Angel is hovering too high off the ground for your Eva to reach it."
"So what are we going to do?"
"Don’t worry Shinji I’ve got a plan."
The scene is a Japanese highly classified weapons hangar. There is a massive mumeson accelerator gun that is designed to destroy incoming targets up to 25 kilometers away. It is surrounded by technicians. Misato dressed in an incredibly (illegal in all provinces and most states.) mini skirt and string top with 10 cm heels and fish net stalkings walked into the hangar making sure to put a little extra ‘bounce’ in her step. She put on an extremely convincing ‘dumb blond’ act claiming that she was lost. While all of the technicians were trying to come to her aid, Rei in Unit 00 quietly lifted up the roof and took the gun, the ‘snuck’ off the base. (as well as a 25 story tall robot can sneak anywhere)
After Misato had managed to dislodge a few gropers and various other lechers she arrived back on base. + Maybe I should have just let Shinji go and fight the damned thing. + She thought as she entered Central Dogma.
Ritsuko was the first one to spot her.
"What isn’t Nerv paying you enough?"
"Shut up Ritsuko this is what I had to go through to get you that new toy."
"Couldn’t you have just asked the army for the gun? I mean we are above the army and we can get anything they’ve got."
"Doh!"
"Well now that we’ve gotten that out of our system would you like a quick rundown of what we’ve got planned or is Juan waiting for you on the corner?"
"I said shut up Ritsuko."
"Ok, Ok well you got the gun and that’s good. The bad thing is that we’ll need to black out all of Japan to power the bloody thing."
"Damn it that means that my VCR’s timer won’t record X-files."
"Cut it out ho. It’s the best we can do. Now if the Angel manages to fire first we’ve managed to rig up this shield here."
"Isn’t that the old space shuttle Discovery’s outer hull?"
"Yup we think it’ll withstand a full 10 seconds worth of the Angel’s weapon."
"And after that?"
"Charcoal. And the end of the world."
"Groovy."
In the pilot’s change room Shinji was practicing his kata’s trying to remember how the newest one that Ranma had taught him went. He was almost finished a flawless execution when Gendo walked in. This minor disruption caused him to lose his concentration and screw up.
/ You have to learn to tune out the world. If you can get into the ‘zone’ you will be completely focused and you won’t make any more mistakes. Now try it again, and see what he wants. /
^ At the same time? ^
/ Yes. /
Shinji began again.
"Yes father what do you want?"
"Shinji you’re going out there again, if you fail there will be no second chance, no rewind to go back and make it all better. The plan outlined by Captain Katsuragi will work, I am ordering you to follow it exactly, I do not want anything unexpected do you understand, NO heroics." He turned to leave and just as he was reaching for the doorknob Shinji replied.
"Isn’t that what you’re paying me for?"
Gendo hung his head and grumbled but let it slide.
Shinji in Unit 01 were laying on a hillside with the gun tucked under his left shoulder. He was listening to Misato go on about the targeting system and how this one shot would overload the breakers and there wouldn’t be enough time to get off a second shot so he shouldn’t miss. Rei broke in over the Eva to Eva communications.
"Goodbye Shinji. I won’t let anything happen to you."
"Rei…"
Just then the green light came on in his entry plug signaling that the operation was about to commence.
Shinji pulled down the targeting helmet and watched as the computers figured out the optimal firing sequence. The triangle and the square got closer and closer to each other. Shinji just waited. When the targets turned red and started flashing Misato yelled.
"Do it now Shinji!"
To which Shinji pulled the trigger.
A bright blue beam shot from the end of the gun. Highly charged mumesons travelling at 0.9999999 c shot towards their target. At the exact same moment the Angel fired. The gravitational field created by the highspeed particles interacting with each other caused both shots to be deflected. The Angel’s shot hit the transformers behind Shinji. Shinji’s shot hit a Starbucks, killing several caffeine addicts who had disregarded the sirens in order to enjoy another cup of coffee.
"It’s firing again, Shinji, Rei get out of there!" yelled Misato over the intercom but it was too late. The Angel’s second shot was right on target this time. Shinji covered his eyes and blanked out.
From what eye witnesses described next Rei did her job and shielded Shinji from the full effects of the blast. Unit 01 stood up and brought it’s hands together and a glowing ball started to form. By the time the full Mouko Takabisha was ready Unit 00 had already sustained 4 seconds from the Angel’s attack and the outer plating was already severely melted.
The blast from Unit 01 hit the Angel and vaporized it instantly, there was nothing that remained.
Unit 00 hit the ground at the same time that the emergency plug eject system was engaged in Unit 01. Shinji exploded out of the plug in mid air and landed on the ground running towards the downed Unit 00.
When he arrived eyewitnesses described as he tore the entry plug plating off Unit 00 with his bare hands, then pull the plug out onto the grass, tear the plugs door off it’s hinges and drag the unconscious pilot out onto the grass just as the emergency rescue personnel arrived on the scene.
Later outside Gendo’s office Shinji and Ranma were sitting on the bench. Ranma was having a severe talking to with Shinji.
/ Just what the fuck happened out there? /
^ I still don’t know what you’re talking about I just woke up 5 minutes ago. ^
/ Shinji you ripped the plating off Unit 00 and saved Rei, now I know that that’s not fucking humanly possible, I mean Ryoga was strong but even he couldn’t have done
that! /
^ Done what? I have no idea what you’re talking about. ^
Ranma then replayed the entire scene as he saw it.
^ I don’t believe it. Are you sure you didn’t do it? ^
/ Positive, I wasn’t in control. /
^ Well I wasn’t in control either. ^
/ Well then what happened? /
^ I have no idea. ^
