After taking several days off as a break from writing, I'm back once
again to try and finish this series. This is a bit smaller of an update
than usual, but that's because my wrists kinda hurt from snowboarding
yesterday^_^;;;;;;
If you missed previous parts/chapter this series/fanfic, you can find it
on my webpage at http://www.anime.sobhrach.com/~jeffwong/
Enjoy^_^
Jeffrey "OneShot" Wong
"Fine, what is it?" he asked, becoming serious again.
"Rather then let the army try and blow up the Angel," Misato said, "You
can fight your way through the convoy escorting the truck carrying the N2
mine and steal it. That way, you can use it to blow up Nerv and Lilith up
with it,"
Shinji burst out laughing hysterically and said in a sarcastic voice,
"No problem. I'm sure they'll let me do that,"
"Hey, I didn't say it was going to be easy,"
<new stuff 12/20>
Shinji didn't like what he was seeing.
In the far end of GeoFront, by the exit of the tunnel, he saw a tank.
Waiting a few minutes, he found himself looking at four tanks one on each
corner of what looked like a heavily armored transport truck. Surrounding
the truck and walking along side it, using the tanks as cover, were more
troops than Shinji cared to acknowledge. He lost count somewhere around
forty.
"You've gotta be kidding me," Shinji said, "How the heck am I supposed
to deal with all that?! Ranma would have trouble dealing with that stuff
and he can shoot ki-blasts!! All I have are a buncha rocks!!"
He looked at his hands. No, he didn't have a bunch of rocks. He had
only a handful of rocks. A bunch of rocks usually meant at least eight or
more. A handful was less than that.
He wondered if he had magic rocks. Maybe he could hit one soldier where
it would bounce of that guy and proceed to hit in to another soldiers and
bounce of that guy and in to another one and so on.
"Yeah, like that would work," Shinji said.
He was grateful that Misato and Ritsuko and Asuka weren't around. They
were still in the command center.
He sighed. He was basically their last and only line of defense from
being taken in. It didn't take a genius for anyone to know that they were
all going to be shot at with extreme prejudice.
"Damn, I'm in so much trouble," he muttered to himself, knowing that he
was way in over his head. So what if he had this weird ability of
brushing off or at least surviving fatal wounds? It still didn't mean he
would be able to take on an army. He was no Ranma.
"Man, I need another Angel around to distract 'em," he said aloud,
"With them constantly worrying over an Angel, maybe then, perhaps I might
have a chance,"
The color drained from Shinji's face as he suddenly realized what he
had just said.
"Oh no. Oh no. Oh no,"
He quickly turned around and headed back in to Nerv.
Shinji entered the command centered, terrified with what he was going
to hear.
He ended up accidentally getting shot, the bullet grazing right by his
face, only causing a superficial scratch on his face. It only lasted for
an instant before it healed up completely. The funny thing was that
Shinji didn't even realize he had gotten hurt.
"Jeez!" Shinji said, "You almost took my head off!"
"I-I'm really really sorry!" Misato said profusely, "I was panicking
over what's happening. My mind had wandered,"
Misato didn't even realized she had even shot him, Shinji having healed
so quickly that she didn�t even see the wound before it disappeared.
"Are you okay?" Asuka asked. She had been next to Misato, supposedly
keeping vigil. She even had a gun but Shinji assumed that it was more for
show, that she would never be able to bring herself to actually fire it
at some human being like Misato seemed to have no problems in doing.
Shinji nodded, "Yeah, I'm fine,"
"We've got bad news," Misato said.
Shinji gulped. He didn't like the sound of that.
"Ritsuko, Shinji's here," Misato called out.
"Did you think about another Angel attacking us?" Ritsuko said, her
head popping out of the console panel, "There's an Angel on the way! We
now have two Angels to deal with!"
Shinji's silence said volumes.
"You did, didn't you?" Ritsuko said.
He nodded, "I didn't mean to,"
Ritsuko climbed out of the console, "Unfortunately, it seems like you
accidentally did and an Angel's on its way,"
Shinji thought about it for a moment, "Which Angel?"
"How the heck should we know?" Misato asked.
"What did you do?" Asuka asked.
He held up his hands defensively, "I didn't doing anything. It was
purely by accident,"
"Whatever the case, we are in serious trouble," Misato said, "We've got
one Angel just outside of Nerv Headquarters, an army on its way, and last
but not least, a second incoming Angel around five minutes out to see and
from reaching here,"
Shinji sighed, "This is not bad,"
"Not good?" Misato asked, "The moon falling to Earth is not good. At
least that way, there's a chance the human race can live on. This is
worse than that since there is no way we can stop it from causing Third
Impact,"
Shinji shook his head, "Maybe, just maybe, there is a chance,"
"And what plan have you got?" Misato asked, "I ran out of plans long
ago,"
"We can try and use Unit-00 to self-destruct it and take out both
Angels at once," Shinji commented, "We just hafta wait until the next
Angel is close enough to Nerv and the other Angel so that we can take
them both out,"
"We can't," Ritsuko said, "Unit-00 is inoperable. It can't even move,"
"What the heck is wrong with it anyway?" Shinji asked.
"It's in pieces," Ritsuko said, "Its arms, legs, head and torso are all
separated. After the incident where it went berserk, it was dismantled so
it could be thoroughly checked out to see what made it go berserk,"
Shinji sighed, "Damn. So I guess my plan of using Unit-00 goes right
out the window,"
"Maybe not," Misato said, "Mention of Unit-00 self-destructing got me
thinking about something. Perhaps we can't take Unit-00 out and take out
the Angels. However, what's to stop us from self-destructing it within
Nerv,"
Shinji's eyes widened, "You're right. That's a great idea. We can take
out Nerv and Lilith along with it. Rather than trying to self-destruct
Nerv through reprogramming MAGI, we can just self-destruct Unit-00 within
it. It'll produce the same results,"
Ritsuko said, "That's not possible,"
"Argh!" Shinji wanted to cry, "Why not?! Why must everything be so
hard?!"
"I'm sorry," she said, "If you want me to tell you why not, then I
won't tell you. At least this way, you can still feel a sense of hope
even though hope is just denying yourself reality,"
Shinji sighed, "Please. Go on. How come it isn't possible?"
"In order for it to self-destruct, you have to have Unit-00 assembled
completely," she said,
"Why is that?" Shinji asked.
"It's the way the EVAs are built," she answered, "Keep in mind that
Unit-00's self-destruction is meant to be used a defensive
countermeasure, so it could never fall in to the wrong hands. We would
rather destroy the EVAs than to have it stolen from us, which is probably
why MAGI did so with Unit-02, what with the fact that you were,
technically, stealing Unit-02. The point is is that the EVAs weren't
designed to have its self-destruction used as a form of offensive attack
against Angels but rather an defensive one from being stolen,"
Shinji sighed, "I guess you have a point. Damn, I guess we're back
where we started,"
"Not really. We've got a second Angel to worry about," Misato said,
"We're far off worse now than before. I hope this is as bad as it could
get,"
"Looks like the only thing we've got to go by is getting that N2 mine
from the incoming army and using it to destroy Nerv and Lilith along with
it," Ritsuko said.
"Damn, what the heck am I gonna do?" Shinji said, "I saw what I'm up
against. There are tanks out there. Tanks!"
"But you're invulnerable to bullets," Misato said.
Shinji shook his head emphatically, "No! You're wrong. I can and have
gotten hurt. When I get hit, it hurts. Sure, it lasts only a split
second, but it still hurts like I got shot,"
"But it only last a split second," Misato asked, "Think of it as
getting a quick electric shock or something. You feel it one second, and
then you don�t feel it anymore the next second. Don't let the initial
shock be what scares you from doing what you need to do,"
"This is getting shot," Shinji said, "not receiving some kinda static
shock in case you're wondering. And this isn't just regular bullets,
these are military bullets. Full metal jackets or whatever they're
called. They're a lot bigger than regular bullets,"
Everyone was silent. Shinji was in quite a fix. '
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