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Jeffrey "OneShot" Wong


  Shinji found himself looking face-to-face with the Angel. 
  Now that it had finally recuperated from the massive fall from the
surface, the Angel was healed well enough to do Shinji's bidding. Little
did Shinji know that the Angel had been unable to respond to Shinji all
this time until it had healed up well enough to do so. It not moving or
attack Nerv due to lack of water had nothing to do it. It had all been
because it just waited there all this time to recuperate so it could help
Shinji.
  The Angel waited for Shinji's command.




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  Shinji gulped as he glanced up at the Angel. 
  He was currently experiencing the single most terrifying thing he was
ever experienced in his life. The first time he had ever been sent out to
fight an Angel in Unit-01 in his own world wasn't as terrifying.
  He was so close to the Angel that he could feel its hot breath. This
was odd because he never realized Angels were even living creatures. He
thought they had been some kind of energy based creature instead.
  Shinji stood perfectly still, like the way a spider would in the middle
of the wall when the lights were turned on, as if standing still was a
good enough camouflage from being seen.
  A good several minutes passed in complete silence, the only sound heard
being the water still streaming in to GeoFront. 
  The silence was broken when a indiscernible object traveled down the
column of seawater and crashed on the floor of GeoFront.
  Even though the massive body of the Angel in front of him was blocking
his view, Shinji didn't need to see what had fallen to the ground to know
what it was. The incoming Angel had finally reached GeoFront via the
opening much like the previous one currently right in front of him.
  Shinji gulped, wondering what he was going to do.
  To his surprise, the Angel seemed to turn its giant head around to
seemingly greet its brethren. 
  Shinji choose that opportunity to make a break for it, running toward
Nev. He didn't know what he was going to do, but he needed to run away.
That was the only thing he wanted to do at the moment and that was what
he intended to do.
  When the Angel turned its attention back toward Shinji and saw him
running toward the Nerv entrance, it made no movement or showed any
indication of following after him. 
  Because of the intense mental stress he was under, what with the fact
that the Angel was right behind him and saw him running away, Shinji's
legs didn't move as fast as he wanted them to move.
  They felt heavy and was being hindered by the knee-high water level.
  To his utter shock and surprise, he ended up tripping over his own feet
and falling right in to the water, sliding a short distance to a stop.
This made Shinji suddenly realize that perhaps seeing a girl trip while
running away from a killer at the movies wasn't so laughable since it was
happening to him. The mental stress was making him unable to concentrate.
That seemed to rather contradict things since the adrenaline coursing
through his body should've given him a heightened sense of awareness and
concentration. Unfortunately, it seemed like the mental stress
overwhelmed whatever adrenaline could provide.
  He turned around so that he was on his backside, propped up by his arms
but facing the Angel.
  When the Angel scooted forever ever-so-slightly to help Shinji to his
feet, wanting to gently close its mouth over him and pick him up, Shinji
panicked and scooted backwards.
  "Get away from me!!" he shouted.
  The Angel stopped, its teeth stopping mere inches from closing over
Shinji's body. As if it understood exactly what Shinji had said, it
proceeded to back off, scooting backwards, a massive ripple of water
forming in its wake.
  Shinji watched in speechlessness as the Angel continued to scoot
backwards and backwards until it could move back no more, its back ending
up pressing against the farthest wall along the circular perimeter that
was the GeoFront. Funnily enough, even though it reach that point, it
continued to scoot backwards as if a wall wasn't there, much like the way
a robot would continue to scoot backward even if something was blocking
its path.
  He didn't know what to make of it. He happened to glance over toward
the column of incoming seawater and caught sight of the other Angel
standing there, its form hidden within the water.
  Shinji didn't need to see it to know which Angel it was. It was the
Seventh Angel, the one he and Asuka had fought against that has split in
to two Angels back on his world. However, on this world, the Angel was
only a single entity, the way it looked before it split. It basically
looked like a giant dark-green humanoid with prong-like fingers and a
core right in the middle of its chest. It looked very much like the Third
Angel, the very first Angel that attacked Tokyo-3 when he arrived here.
  Shinji stood there, wondering what the Angel was doing. The Angel
didn't move. It continued to stand there, as if waiting for something.
  Is it hurt, he wondered. He assumed that that was why the Angel wasn't
moving in the first place, that the impact that had occurred from the
fall from the surface had damaged it and it was recuperating.
  A minute or so passed before Shinji started believe this, that the
Angel was recuperating.
  Shinji glanced around and noticed the debris all over the place that
used to be tanks. There was a giant trail-like indentation in the ground
there Shinji could see was caused from the other Angel's extreme weight
as it scooted along the ground. It eventually filled up with seawater
within seconds. 
  Among the debris, he was able to make out the vague outline of what
used to be the truck. It looked like nothing more than a flat piece of
metal. He was able to recognize the truck because it was merely a
different color from the tanks and such.
  Shinji couldn't help but feel utterly defeated as he realized that the
truck was crushed. That meant the N2 mine was crushed, along with any
hopes of blowing up Nerv with it.
  Not really knowing what to do, Shinji turned around and headed in to
Nerv. He hoped to God that those Angels would remain where it was and not
do anything for the time being.
  He needed to talk to Misato and Ritsuko.
  Perhaps they might know what to do.
  
  Shinji entered the command center.
  Misato didn't take a pot shot at him like usual. Perhaps it was because
she and Asuka and Ritsuko were both gazing in wide-mouthed shock at the
giant screen that the command center overlooked.
  "Guys!" Shinji said, "We're in big trouble!"  
  "I-is the other Angel in GeoFront?" Misato gulped, praying that she
wasn't seeing what she was seeing. MAGI indicated that there were now two
Angels within GeoFront.
  Shinji reluctantly nodded, "Unfortunately, yes, there are,"
  "Oh man, this is really bad," Asuka commented.
  "Yes, it is," Shinji added, "To make matters worse, the first Angel
crushed the truck that contained the N2 mine. The N2 mine was crushed as
well,"
  Misato sighed, "Man, I wish an N2 mine was what it was, a damn mine, so
that weight would've set it off. Unfortunately, that isn't the case,"
  "W-what are we gonna do?" Shinji asked, dying to hear of an answer.
  Everyone in the room was silent.
  "We're out of ideas," Misato said, "The N2 mine was our last and only
hope,"
  Shinji said nothing. He hated to but he had to agree with Misato with
something like that. They were basically done for. There was nothing that
could be done.
  "Please say that you have, through some form of miracle, gotten through
MAGI and reprogrammed it," Shinji said in a pleading voice toward
Ritsuko.
  Ritsuko was silent for a moment before she said, "I'm sorry, but
that'll never be the case. I don�t have enough time. The command center
will be below water well before I can reprogram MAGI,"
  Shinji sighed. He wanted to break something really badly. He was so
frustrated. How could things have gone so wrong in so little time?
  He rested his back against a console and slid to the floor.
  "I'm out of ideas," he said sadly, "All is lost. We might as well give
up,"
  "T-there's gotta be a way!" Misato neared the brink of tears. Shinji
had been the column of support for her and she believed he would be the
last person to give up hope. Seeing him giving up hope was extremely
demoralizing, especially to someone that was depending on him for moral
support.
  Shinji chuckled, "What way? We've got two Angels just outside Nerv.
We've got no time to blow up Nerv. Even if we do, we've got no way of
plugging up that hole to bide us enough time. And not only that, we've
got no control over the Angel. Even if the Angels weren't here, we are
still screwed since there's no way to stop the incoming water. The Angels
being in GeoFront just makes a hopeless situation all the more hopeless,"
  The room became deathly silent.
  "We've only got one course of action left," Shinji said, getting back
up to his feet.
  "And what is that?" Ritsuko asked.
  "We give up on this world," he said, "I'll open a portal and bring you
guys back with me,"
  "What's gonna happen to this world?" Misato asked, worried about what
she was going to hear.
  "It's going to be destroyed when the Angels succeed," Shinji said,
"Humanity will cease to exist on this world. You guys will become the
only surviving members from this world,"
  All three girls said nothing.
  "W-we can't let that happen," Misato said, "We can't let this world be
destroyed,"
  "What the hell am I supposed to do?!" Shinji shouted, "Kill the Angel
with my bare hands? And not just one Angel, but two of them! Have you
seen them? The aquatic one is literally the size of a aircraft
supercarrier. The other one is as big as an EVA! How am I to defeat these
kinda beings?"
  "B-but you can't die," she added.
  "That won't help for anything!" he answered, "I have nothing that can
physically hurt an Angel! All I have are a buncha rocks!"
  "Have you tried throwing them at the Angels?" Ritsuko asked.
  Shinji's eyes twitched, "Me? Throwing rocks at an Angel? How the heck
are my rocks going to hurt when N2 mines don't hurt them?"
  "I'm just trying to think of anything," Ritsuko said, "For all we know,
maybe you might have some special ability that you don't know about that
perhaps allows your projectiles to have special properties. Keep in mind
that you can throw coins able to penetrate body armor. Maybe it isn't
because you throw them that hard but because they have special
properties,"
  "It couldn't hurt to try," Misato added.
  Shinji hung his head low.
  "All right, I'll try," he said, "I can't believe it's come to this,"
  Shinji headed out of the command center.
  
  Shinji laughed to himself as he walked down the corridor toward the
entrance.
  He was sure that Ranma had never been in such a situation as hopeless
as this. 
  Shinji's only course of action was throwing rocks at an Angel. Talk
about crazy and hopeless. 
  He paused.
  Wait, Ranma has been in hopeless situations like this before, Shinji
realized. Ranma was stabbed through the heart with the Lance of Longinus
from behind and had to kill seven Angels by himself. Somehow, through
impossible odds, he had managed to overcome those odds. Sure, it was at
the expense of his life, but the outcome could've been far worse had he
not overcome those odds.
  "So what the heck does that mean?" he asked himself, "Am I supposed to
sacrifice myself like Ranma did to get outta a hopeless situation? Heck,
I can't even do that! I have to survive this or all of existence is at
jeopardy and not just a world's humanity,"
  He sighed.
  He climbed over the debris as he headed toward the entrance. He stopped
for a moment and glanced over toward the giant slab of rob that had
pinned him underwater not too long ago. He was very confused as to how he
had managed to get the rock up in the first place. He remembered
struggling as hard as he could to lift the rock off himself, much to no
avail. However, at the very last second, right as he was about to black
out from lack of oxygen, he seemed to have shoved the rock off himself,
as if he had summoned some kind of hidden reserve of strength he never
knew he had.
  And judging by the looks of things, he seemed to have shoved the rock
because it was laying by the far end of the corridor, as if it had been
precariously thrown.
  He couldn't help but notice several puncture holes in the rock but
thought nothing of it. 
  "What the heck? They look like giant teeth marks," he commented.
  After a moment, he dismissed the thought.
  Climbing over the debris and wading his way through the rising water,
Shinji exited Nerv where he looked over toward where the two Angels were.
They were doing the same thing as when he left before. One Angel
continued to scoot backwards in to the GeoFront wall while the other just
stood right where it was.
  Shinji scratched his head, "I wonder why the heck that Angel is doing
that? It should just stop since it isn't going to go anywhere,"
  The Angel suddenly stopped scooting backwards.
  This confused Shinji.
  "Huh?" he scratched his head, "That's strange. It suddenly stopped the
moment when I said it should stop..."
  Shinji's eyes widened.
  "N-no way!" he gasped.
  He turned his attention toward the Angel on the far end of GeoFront.
  "Come over here," he motioned.
  To his utter shock, the Angel actually proceeded to scoot along the
ground toward him. 
  Believing it was a pure coincidence, Shinji said, "Stop!"
  The Angel stopped.
  Shinji turned toward the humanoid Angel hidden inside the column of
incoming seawater, "You, kill that Angel," He pointed toward the aquatic
Angel.
  The humanoid Angel did nothing. It didn't move. This led Shinji to
believe that it was perhaps too badly damaged from the fall to respond. 
  "Wait, perhaps that's why the other Angel didn't respond at first,"
Shinji said.
  Shinji glanced toward the aquatic Angel and pointed toward the humanoid
Angel.
  "Kill that Angel!" he said.
  He watched as the aquatic Angel seemingly did what it was told. It
scooted over to where its brethren was. Without any form of hesitation,
it opened up its massive mouth and bit down on the Angel. It then lifted
its head, Angel still in its mouth, half of its body within and half
without, and began to violently shake its head back and forth, much like
the way a crocodile would bite in to something before wringing it back
and forth.
  Shinji couldn't help but feel a queasy feeling as he saw the humanoid
Angel being ripped to shreds, the half of the Angel body torn right off
and falling to the ground with thunderous force.
  He watched as the aquatic Angel actually tilted its head back and
opened its mouth, as if to swallow the Angel. When the part of the body
of the Angel that gored in its teeth feel down in to its mouth and
disappeared, Shinji realized that it did just that, that it was
proceeding to eat the hapless humanoid Angel.
  He watched as the Angel went about devouring the other half what was
left of the torn Angel, chewing it a few times before swallowing it as
well.
  It took no more than ten seconds for the aquatic Angel to devour the
human Angel. When it was done, it stopped what it was doing, as if
waiting its next command. It didn't even seem to react at all to the fact

  Shinji didn't do anything for a good couple of minutes, trying to
comprehend what he had just seen.
  After a minute or so, he said, "Turn around in a circle,"
  The Angel did just as it was told, proceeding to scoot around in a
circular fashion. It looked very much like a dog chasing its own tail.
  "Stop!" he shouted.
  The Angel stopped what it was doing.
  "Kill yourself!" he said, wanting to know for sure, without a shadow of
a doubt, that none of all of this was a coincidence.
  Without hesitation, the Angel grew to twice its size, as if suddenly
becoming bloated. A second later, it self-destructed. 
  A massive explosion ensued, so large and powerful that the shockwave
sent Shinji flying through the air where he landed a good distance away
from the blast. Luckily for him, he wasn't hurt. 
  He was definitely shocked, but he wasn't at all hurt. When the smoke
cleared up, the only trace of the Angel was this giant crater over by
where the column of incoming seawater was, slowly filling up as seawater
flowed in to it.
  The blast was intensely powerful, but because the Angel had been so far
away, the explosion never reached Shinji. Perhaps it was because GeoFront
was a confined area that it made it seem like the Angel was a lot closer
than expected. The blast looked to have been no more powerful than an
eight of the power of the N2 mine set off short after he arrived on this
world.
  "Holy shit!" Shinji gasped. 
  He finally realized that it really wasn't a coincidence that the Angel
was doing what he told it to do. The fact that it seemed to kill the
other Angel upon Shinji's command was probably good enough but it killing
itself afterwards confirmed Shinji's assumption one hundred percent.
  He couldn't believe his luck. He could control the Angels!!!
  Shinji ran back in to Nerv to tell the others about the amazing
discovery he had found out. As he climbed back over the debris he glanced
over at the rock. Seeing the teeth mark suddenly made him realize
something, that the marks on the rock was actually the teeth marks from
that aquatic Angel. That was why the Angel was so close to Nerv when he
managed to gasp for air.
  Shinji couldn't help be feel a sense of sadness as he realized what he
had done.
  He had just killed the Angel that helped him.

  Shinji entered the command center.
  "Guys, I've got good news!" he had a big smile on his face. Now that it
was determined that he could summon and control the Angels that he
summoned, they seemed to be in much better position than they believed.
Having the Angels on Shinji's side meant a huge weight lifted from his
shoulders.
  Misato approached Shinji, "We know. The two Angels are gone. All thanks
to you,"
  Without saying another world, she placed both her hands on Shinji's
cheeks and gave him a passionate kiss. Shinji's body froze, unable to
comprehend what was going on.
  "What the hell are you doing!?!" Ritsuko shouted at Misato. 
  "Hey!!!" Asuka shouted very loudly. She looked down at the gun in her
hands and contemplated shooting Misato in the head. Of course, she chose
against it.
  When Misato broke the kiss, Shinji had this dazed look on his face.
  "Sorry, but I couldn't help it," Misato said warmly, "I have no idea
how you defeated those Angel, but you did an I had to kiss you for it,"
  Shinji tried to say something but was at a loss of words.
  "You're sick, Misato," Ritsuko said, "What are you, some kind of
pedophile? He's fourteen!"
  "No, he's not," Misato answered, "This is the future version of Shinji
we are supposed to know so that's perfectly fine,"
  "What kinda logic is that? That's still sick," Ritsuko said.
  "You're old! How can you kiss Shinji like that!" Asuka said.
  "What did you say?!" Misato's eyes widened, "I'm not old!"
  "Compared to someone like myself you are!" Asuka said.
  "What the heck's going on here?" Shinji tried to say.
  "So what? You're just a little girl," Misato commented, "Me, I'm a
woman,"
  "Ha, judging by the way you act, I beg to differ," Asuka snapped.
  Shinji pinched the bridge of his nose, "W-what the heck just happened
here?"
  Ritsuko, wanting to get things under control, asked, "Shinji, what
happened out there? MAGI indicates that both Angels were defeated,"
  "Um, yeah," Shinji nodded, scratching his head, "They were defeated. I
think I defeated them," Of course, he wasn't too sure if it was really
him. Perhaps indirectly, he defeated them.
  "How'd it happen?" Misato asked, very curious, forgetting her argument
with Asuka.
  Shinji took a step away from her, a bit cautious. Sure, the kiss did
feel nice, but it made him seriously confused. Besides, he was in love
with Emiko and nothing was going to change that and he wanted to make
that perfectly clear.
  "Sorry," Misato waved a dismissive hand, "I guess I got caught up in
the moment. You have no ideas how happy I was. I guess, um, I got a
little too happy,"
  Shinji stood where he was for several moments, wondering if he should
trust what she said.  
  After a moment, he cleared his throat, "Well, let's just hope that
doesn't happen again. Keep in mind that I have someone else back home. I
don't want to create some kinda misunderstanding,"
  He glanced out of the corner of his eye. He couldn't help but notice
Asuka seemingly disappointed his comment.
  This can not be happening, he thought. There's no way Asuka could
possibly have some kinda crush on me. There's no way. The Asuka I know
can't seem to stand the sight of me. This Asuka is the exact same one as
the one I know so there's no way something like this could be possible.
  "Um, let's just pretend that never happened," he said.
  "Okay," Misato said, smiling slightly, "Don't get me wrong, Shinji. I
like you. Try not to misunderstand, that kiss was just something done on
the spur of the moment,"
  Shinji said, "Um, okay. I'll believe you,"
  Ritsuko cleared her throat, "Anyway, back on to the subject, how'd you
go about defeating the Angels?"
  Shinji was grateful for the change in subject, "I found out that I
really do control the Angels,"
  "How so?" Ritsuko asked, "That still doesn�t explain how you defeated
both of those Angels,"
  "I had one Angel kill the other one and then kill itself," he smiled
  He went on to explain everything that had happened. He mentioned about
how he was pretty sure one of the Angels saved his life by lifting that
massive slab of rock that was pinning him underwater. He then went on to
explain how he seemed to notice that the Angel suddenly responded to what
he said.
  "How's that possible? You tried to make the Angel respond to you and do
what you wanted it to do but it did nothing," Misato commented, "That
doesn�t make sense,"
  Shinji said, "It think I know why. The Angel didn't respond initially
because it was damaged from the drop from the surface. It was probably
regenerating from the damage it sustained so it wasn't able to respond
until after it finally regenerated itself back to health,"
  "Hm, now that I think of it, you have a point," Misato said, "It can
probably explain why the Angel didn't readily attack Nerv. If the Angel
can actually move on land like even though it's meant to move around
underwater, it could've easily attacked Nerv right after entering
GeoFront. But because it got damaged in that fall, it had to spend all
its time regenerating,"
  He nodded, "Right. That's what I believe as well. It makes sense. When
I tried to have the other Angel respond to me, it didn't. That's because
it was regenerating after that initial fall as well,"
  "Did they respond to your voice or to your thoughts?" Ritsuko asked.
  Shinji shrugged, "I'm not too sure. It responded to my voice, that's
for sure. I never tried to find out if they actually responded to my
thoughts. Keep in mind that I was just shocked at what was happening and
never thought that far ahead,"
  "Have you found anything else out?" she asked.
  Shinji smiled, "Yeah, I also found out that I can't get hurt anymore,"
  "What are you talking about?" Misato asked.
  "I got shot probably several hundred times," he answered, "But I felt
nothing. I didn't feel any of the bullets hit me,"
  "Are you sure?" she asked.
  "Yeah," he nodded, "I'm definitely sure. Look at my clothes. They're
all messed up from all those bullets hitting me. They're tearing through
my clothes but not hurting me,"
  "I was about to ask you about that, your clothes being all torn up,"
Misato commented.
  Shinji walked over to one of the unconscious guards by the command
center entrance. He proceeded to check through them for someone that was
around his size.
  "What are you doing?" Ritsuko asked.
  "I'm just looking for someone my size," Shinji said, "I need a new
change of clothes. What's weird is that when I was getting shot, the
bullets were actually passing through me. That's my clothes are so messed
up on both sides, the bullets were going in one side and coming out the
other. That's very strange,"
  "How's that strange?" Ritsuko was confused, "Your powers are probably
finally kicking in,"
  Shinji stripped one of the guards of his clothes and quickly excused
himself, heading for the nearby restroom. He entered a few minutes later
clad in different clothes.
  "What was I saying before?" he said, "Oh yeah, my powers. It seems as
if my power are kicking in all weird. If I'm to eventually have powers
similar to Ranma, then bullets should bounce off me or something like
that, not pass through me. I remember a while back when I was dealing
with the God-version of Ranma and seeing him hit with things and it not
passing through him like it did for me. If it did, ki-blasts would've
gone through him and just incinerated his clothes and such but it
didn't,"
  "Maybe projectiles will eventually start deflecting off you," Ritsuko
commented, "Keep in mind your powers are finally starting to surface,"
  "I guess," Shinji said, "Man, it would be nice to know when my strength
starts kicking in. That would be really useful. I nearly drowned because
I couldn't lift a rock. It fell on me when I was getting shot and the
entrance way collapsed right above me,"
  "How heavy was the rock?" Misato asked.
  "I dunno, probably around ten tons," he said as if it were nothing, "I
couldn't even budge it,"
  "Hm, perhaps it was because it weighed around twenty thousand pounds!"
Misato said, "Do you have any idea how heavy that is?"
  "I know it's heavy but it's really strange," Shinji said, "These powers
of mine seem to be showing up just fine but my strength seems to increase
only slowly,"
  "Well, didn't you say your strength increases every time you heal?"
Misato asked, "If you were getting shot left and right, then you
should've gotten incredibly strong for when that rock fell on you,"
  "If that were true, then I should've gotten plenty strong over that
short period of time to lift that weight," Shinji commented, "But I
didn't. It's as if something else is triggering my strength to get
stronger but I dunno what. I keep trying to envision myself stronger but
that doesn't seem to help. It's as if I don't understand fully how to
'will' something to work, that being my body. I keep thinking of myself
able to shoot ki-blasts but it never seems to happen. The same thing goes
for my strength increasing,"
  "Perhaps you shouldn't think like that," Asuka said, silent until now,
scratching her chin.
  "Huh? Whatcha mean?" Shinji asked her in confusion.
  "Perhaps you should not try and 'will' yourself to be stronger," the
young girl said, "Perhaps you have to go about it in a different way,"
  "Can you explain?" he still didn't understand what Asuka was saying.
  Asuka said, "Perhaps rather than 'will' yourself to be stronger, 'will'
for something to be lighter,"
  The room became silent.
  "Whoa, I never thought of that before," Shinji said.
  "When I was with you and you were trying to tilt that car over, I
remember you saying aloud something along the lines of how the car should
start tilting," Asuka commented, "When you were trying before, you
weren't able to tilt it because it was resting against a telephone pole.
When you made that comment, it tilted. Perhaps rather than trying to
envision yourself getting stronger, you need to envision other things to
accommodate you rather than the other way around,"
  Shinji walked over and picked up a gun from the stockpile that had
built up nearby from Misato constantly collecting from the guards that
she took out.
  He tried squeezing it in his hands. Unfortunately, he wasn't physically
strong enough to use his gripping power alone to crush a gun. 
  "Okay, right now, I'm trying to picture myself stronger but that
doesn't seem to work," Shinji said, trying to test out Asuka's theory.
  Everyone watched, wondering what Shinji was up to.
  "Okay, now, I'll picture the metal around the gun being very
malleable," he said, thinking just that.
  When he squeezed his hand, the gun broke in to pieces.
  Shinji's eyes widened, "Oh my god! It works! It really works!"
  Everyone cheered. It was as if the extreme problems Shinji had to go
through were finally starting to change in to good fortune.
  Shinji grabbed Asuka and picked her up, "Thank you! Thank you for
realizing that!" When he realized what he was doing, he put her down,
"Sorry,"
  Asuka blushed a deep shade of red, "Um, n-no problem,"
  "Man, it seems like things are finally starting to look up for us,"
Shinji smiled, "Man, if I knew about all of this, like the fact that the
Angels would've helped us out all this time, it would've made everything
so much easier,"
  "But didn't you try and 'will' to Angels for help then?" Misato asked.
  Shinji shook his head, "No, not until just recently. Keep in mind that
I, like everyone else, thought that the Angels were here for other
reasons. It seems like they're here all because of me,"
  "Y-you think that could mean that they're here solely for you? And not
to cause Third Impact?" Misato dared to ask.
  "I think that could be it," Shinji said, "I think it's safe to think
that. If they were here to cause Third Impact, then the Angel that saved
could've easily caused Third Impact. I remember being face-to-face with
it and it did nothing, as if it was waiting for me to command it. Why
would it have just waited when it could've just went on to break in to
Nerv to cause Third Impact,"
  "Wow, if that's true, then-" Ritsuko began.
  "Right, that means we don't have to worry about Third Impact," Shinji
interrupted.
  "This is great!!!" everyone cheered.
  Shinji couldn't help but feel a great great sense of relief.
  "It seems like things have turned a hundred and eighty degrees,
everything now in our favor," he smiled.
  "Well, now that we know that, we still have Nerv to worry about,"
Ritsuko said, "What are we going to do about the other Angels to come? We
should still destroy Nerv and Lilith along with it, to eliminate the
possibility of there being a Third Impact,"
  "I guess you're right," Shinji said, "If we're gonna worry about that,
then we need to worry about plugging up that hole to stop the water,"
  "Why dontcha just will the hole to seal up?" Asuka suggested.
  Shinji smirked, "That won't work. I actually tried that. Perhaps it'll
just be a matter of time before I actually can do that. I have a funny
feeling that even though I now understand how my strength comes about, I
still can't lift overly heavy objects. My powers are surfacing and it's
just a matter of time before I start really understanding them,"
  "So what should we do about plugging the hole up?" Misato asked, "If
the hole isn't going to plug itself up, then we must do something about
it,"
  Shinji smirked, "I've got a good idea,"
  "What?" everyone asked.
  "I'll just summon another Angel and have it shift the aircraft
supercarrier from sea and in to the crater so it'll help clog it up. It
won't stop the water coming in completely, but it should definitely slow
it down enough for Ritsuko to complete her job,"
  "That's a good idea," Misato said.
  Shinji paused to think. After a minutes, the command center was bathed
in a red light as an incoming Angel was detected.
  "Wow, so that was really you, huh? You summoned that Angel," Misato
couldn't help but be amazed. Actually, everyone else was impressed.
  "And this is no ordinary Angel either," he said, "I summoned a special
Angel,"
  "What do you mean?" Misato asked.
  "I summoned Ranma,"

  Shinji and Asuka emerged from Nerv and waited patiently for the arrival
of the Angel that Shinji expected, an Angel that looked exactly like
Ranma but wasn't necessarily him.
  Misato and Ritsuko weren't there, the two of them still in the command
center, Misato keeping vigil while Ritsuko continued to reprogram MAGI.
  The Angel arrived in GeoFront, choosing to enter through the opening in
the GeoFront ceiling. 
  Upon first seeing the Angel, Shinji couldn't help but feel a sense of
resentment, relief, and confusion at the same time. This was because the
Angel looked exactly like Ranma when he had wings.
  Shinji just regarded the Angel for several moments. 
  Asuka regarded the Angel, not knowing what to do.
  "First things first, I'm gonna give you a name," Shinji said, feeling
very awkward. This was because it really felt as if he was really talking
to Ranma. Deep down inside, he knew that this Angel wasn't Ranma.
However, deep down inside, he really wanted the Angel to really be him so
he could just break down and cry over all the trials that he had to
endure to reach this point.
  "If you wish, Kami-sama," the Angel responded, "What name would you
like to give me?"
  "I'm gonna call you....Ranma," Shinji said after a long pause, "Um,
please, call me Shinji,"
  "All right," the Angel named Ranma said.
  "The name means a lot," he said, "Don't shame it,"
  "I won't," Ranma said.
  Shinji regarded Ranma for several long minutes. He wanted to tell Ranma
everything so badly but he knew it would be useless. He wanted to ask the
Angel could never answer. He could only get the answers from the real
Ranma. 
  "I hate you for what you've put me through," Shinji wanted to say, "I
hate you for throwing this in my face and making me have to deal with it
all alone. I hate you for killing everyone. I hate you for letting
yourself get corrupted. Why do I hafta go through this?"
  Shinji never said those words. Saying those words were useless.
  "Does, um, is that was Ranma really looks like?" Asuka asked, wondering
why Shinji was silent for so long, wanting to break the silence.
  "Yeah," Shinji said softly, his thoughts elsewhere.
  The Angel cast a glance toward Asuka, wondering who she was or why she
was there. Since she seemed to be of no harm or immediate threat to
Shinji, then he would do nothing in return.
  "Um, I'm a good friend of Shinji's," Asuka said, blushing slightly. She
wondered if saying 'good friend' was pushing it. 
  The Angel said nothing, continuing to regard her.
  "She's my friend," Shinji said to Ranma, "Um, look out for her like you
would, um, look out for me,"
  "Very well," Ranma replied.  
  Shinji was silent. It was so weird. The Angel sounded like Ranma but
didn't quite speak like him. Rather, it seemed to be Ranma only on a
extremely superficial aspect only looking like him and nothing else.
  Asuka regarded the Angel for a while. She had to admit that that if
this Ranma person really did look like that Angel, then he was quite a
handsome man. However, she didn't understand what was so special about
that man that would make all the girls in that picture Shinji showed her
seem to like him. Surely women couldn't be that superficial and like a
guy purely on his looks.
  "I have a task for you," Shinji said.
  "What would you like me to do?" Ranma asked.
  "I need you to plug that hole up," Shinji said, pointing toward the
opening in GeoFront's ceiling, "There's a aircraft supercarrier just
around five miles out to sea from Tokyo-3's shoreline,"
  "What about that aircraft supercarrier? What would you like me to do
about it?" Ranma asked.
  "Find a way to commandeer it and get it stuck in the hole," Shinji
said, "I need to have the hole plugged up. Um, if you have problems, come
back to me and ask me,"
  "I'll do as you command," Ranma said before leaping up in to the air
and heading toward the column of water, disappearing in to it and
proceeding to fly upward through it toward the surface.
  When the Angel was gone, Asuka turned toward Shinji.
  "So, that's Ranma, huh?" she asked.
  Shinji shook his head, "No. He just looks like him,"
  "How come you summoned, um, him in particular?" she asked curiously,
"There doesn't look to be anything special about him,"
  "Well, if I can summon Angels, then I summoned the most powerful one of
them all," Shinji said.
  "H-he's the most powerful of them all?!" Asuka's eyes widened.
  Shinji nodded, "Yeah. The Ranma I know, before all of this happen,
could defeat all the Angels we've encountered on his own. This particular
Angel, the one that looks like him, is his equal if not better. In a
sense, sending this particular Angel out to do that task is equivalent to
sending out Ranma himself to do it,"
  "You think the Angel will succeed?" Asuka asked, still wondering what
was so special about that Ranma person that her alternate self seem to
have a crush on him. He looked old, much too old for a young girl to have
any feelings toward. But then again, she was fourteen afterall.
   "Probably," Shinji commented, "Ranma's a really competent person. If
this Angel's even half as competent, then it's most likely the Angel will
succeed as well,"
  "Man, you're making this Ranma person out to be some kind superhero,"
Asuka commented, "Surely no one can be that good,"
  Shinji shrugged, "Heh, you'll be surprised,"
  "Well, I think the way you go about things is very well done," Asuka
commented, "You do thing very well. I may not know much about this Ranma
person and only heard about him from what you've told me, but it seems
like you do things just as well as he does,"
  Shinji smiled slightly, "Thanks,"
  "So, what should we do now?" she asked.
  He turned around and proceeded to head in to Nerv.
  "We need to go and find everyone in Nerv and evacuate them," he said,
"All the people that have been knocked out, we need to get them to
safety. Nerv's gonna blow up several hours from now so we don't want
anyone up being blown up with it,"
  "Okay," she said as she followed Shinji.
  Shinji paused by the giant slab of rock.
  "What's up?" she asked curiously.
  "Hold up," he said, "I wanna try something,"
  Asuka watched as Shinji walked over to where the giant rock slab with
teeth-marks were. She watched as he attempted to lift it with all his
might, much to no avail. 
  "Well, I guess that proves my point," Shinji said.
  "What point?" she asked.
  "Even though I now know how to lift heavy objects, it's still
restricted," he said, "I guess I can only lift up to a certain weight
through 'willing' a object to be lighter. However, it seems like my
powers aren't strong enough that I could 'will' any object to be light,"
  "It'll show up all in due time," she commented.
  "I hope so,"

  Shinji gulped as stopped in front of the room where Rei was.
  He wondered what he was going to say to her to get her to leave.
Afterall, she had no idea who he was.
  She was part Angel so perhaps she was obligated to do what he wanted
her to. Of course, he knew he could never bring himself to do something
like that to her.

  






<all ive got so far...>

(Ranma is watching some anime in living room. Misato enters room.)

Misato: God, it's freezing in here.

Ranma: You really think so?

(Misato takes off all her clothes.)

Misato: Of course, my nipples are so hard they could cut glass.

Ranma: ..................

Misato: But then again, maybe it's not because it's cold in here.

Ranma: ..................



-OneShot
Jeffrey "OneShot" Wong
http://www.anime.sobhrach.com/~jeffwong/index.html


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