[FFML][EVA][Fanfic][2ND DRAFT/Expanded] Eva - Reality Bites: Part 1
Thanks to the replies I got from the first draft of this story, I've
expanded it and will be doing additional stories as part of this
setting. Mostly small ones. CMD is big enough that I really can't do
another huge series right now.
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Eva - Reality Bites
Part 1
Neon Genesis Evangelion characters and situations created and Copyright
by Gainax, Project Eva, ADV Films - Used without permission
Eva - Reality Bites story created, written, and Copyright 1998 by Jim
Lazar
<Speech text in angle brackets are thought by character.>
All other speech is in Japanese, although written in English in this
story of course.
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Spoiler warning: This story contains references to episode 26 of the
original Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series. If you have not seen that
episode, this story may contain spoilers. Also, some understanding of
that episode is useful to fully enjoy this story fully. This story has
no connection with any of the Eva movies.
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Naughty words warning: There be some bad words in this here story.
Rather than bleep them out or tone them down, I'm just warning you.
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Naked people warning: There be some naked people in this story. Unlike
the Eva anime, they do have nipples and other bits. Of course, you
have to use your imagination to see them anyway.
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Sex warning: No sex to speak of in this story. Well, some talk of sex,
but no actual sex acts.
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Warning warning: There are no more warnings in this story.
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"Unit 01, Angel at 9 o'clock."
"I've got it. Asuka, take the Angel on your right. I'll take this
new one," Shinji called out. He quickly adjusted his Eva's controls and
his Eva Unit 01 lumbered to engage the new threat.
"Who put you in command!" an angry female voice replied over the
intercom.
Shinji sighed. It was like this every time they piloted the Evas.
"Just do it, you're closer to that one!" Shinji yelled back.
"Jackass," Asuka replied. Then her Eva Unit 02 launched a volley
of high-powered bullets at her target.
"You'd be better off using hand to hand with that Angel," a calm
female voice informed Asuka.
"When I want your advice, I'll ask for it!"
Shinji was wrestling with an Angel that was twice the size of his
Eva. He tried to get his progressive knife into the Angel's eye, but
the eye kept moving around the body to avoid the knife.
"Damn it!" Shinji cursed. An explosion rocked Shinji's entry plug.
He turned his Eva's head to find the source. It was Unit 00. "Rei!"
"I am undamaged," Rei replied.
Shinji returned to trying to kill his Angel. He grinned as he
finally found the eye with his blade. The Angel exploded underneath him
and sent him flying backward to land on top of Eva Unit 02.
"Get off of me, Shinji!" Asuka called.
"I'm not doing this because I like you!" Shinji screamed back. He
tried to move his Eva off Eva Unit 02, but the Angel Asuka was fighting
had wrapped an elastic arm around both of them.
"Hey look! Shinji and Asuka are doing it!" Touji called out.
"Pervert! Just fight your own Angel and leave the lovebirds
alone!" Hikari scolded Touji.
"We are not! Our Eva's are just tangled up!" Asuka insisted.
"Very well, I'll take care of this," Rei said.
Soon, Eva Unit 00 deftly destroyed the Angel holding Units 01 and
02 in their doggy style position. As the Angel exploded, the three Eva
units were blasted in all directions.
Touji was chasing a glowing Angel through the streets of Tokyo-3
in his Eva Unit 03 and used his Eva's flexible arms to strangle the
glowing Angel in front of him. With a sickening sucking sound, the
Angel's head popped off and a bloody mess fell to the ground. "Cool!"
Touji exclaimed.
"Oh, that's just sick," Hikari said, holding back her lunch. She
then pivoted her Eva Unit 06 quickly to dodge the Angel who was rushing
at her back. With a graceful sweep of her long progressive sword, she
cut the Angel in half. She smirked. Poetry in motion is the best way to
deal with Angels.
"Nice form, Hikari," Kensuke called out, just as he used his Eva
Unit 05 to toss an Angel into a energy barrier that the ground forces
had erected nearby. The Angel exploded along with a chorus of song.
"Hey! Quit hitting on my babe!" Touji snapped.
"I'm not a babe! You Neanderthal!"
Shinji had gotten his Eva Unit 01 back to it's feet and was
scanning for an Angel to attack. He spotted one advancing on the group
of Evas from his left, he raced off towards it. "Die!" he screamed, as
he grabbed a huge rifle from a nearby ammunition building. He swung the
rifle up and blasted the Angel repeatedly. The Angel's advance was
slowed by his shots, but not stopped.
Suddenly, Eva Unit 00 was in front of Shinji. It was facing him
and appeared to be grinning, but that couldn't be. Shinji was so
surprised at it's appearance that he didn't even get an arm up before
Unit 00 thrust it's progressive knife deep into his Eva's head. The
knife sliced through the armor of Unit 01's head and projected out the
back. A dark red liquid oozed out. Shinji saw Unit 00 start to pull
Unit 01's arm off before his controls all went dead and he was left in
darkness.
"Damn it! Why did you do that, Rei?!" Shinji shouted, but got no
response since his systems were all dead.
After he had run through every swear word he knew, and some that
he just made up, his entry plug opened up. Shinji crawled out. Rei was
standing over him in her school uniform. Rei grinned and put her hand
on her hips. She said, "That's for looking at my panties this morning!"
"That was an accident!" Shinji insisted.
"Yeah, right. Hikari filled me in on you and the Idiot Trio," Rei
said.
"Fine then. If all it cost me was losing a dumb VR game, it was
worth it for a peek at your panties!" Shinji snapped back at Rei,
grinning. "A nice pick lace, with little hearts on them...if I remember
correctly."
Rei blushed. He had gotten a good look at them after all. "That's
the last time you're ever see them! Pervert!" Rei informed Shinji and
stormed out of the game area.
Shinji watched her leave, then was joined by Touji and Kensuke.
"Oh yeah...she has the love jones for me," Shinji said.
"She hides it well," Kensuke said, smirking.
"So, Shinji...what was it like to hump Asuka?" Touji asked.
"Huh? Oh...that was nothing."
"Tell me about it... I didn't even feel it," Asuka said, as she
walked up behind the Idiot Trio. "But since I have seen you naked it
actually was pretty realistic." She smiled at them and made her exit.
"Hey! It was cold this morning!" Shinji shouted at her back.
"Bitch," he muttered.
"Okay you three morons! Get out of the game area and we can see
how pitifully you did," Hikari commanded, then herded them out. The
next group of Eva pilots crawled into the game entry plugs.
-E- -V- -A-
They all sat in the food court at the shopping center where the
Evangelion game center was. "That was a fun game, until Rei killed me,"
Shinji remarked, glaring at Rei.
Rei stuck her tongue out at Shinji, then took a sip of her drink.
"If only those Eva units were real. It'd be really cool to pilot
them," Kensuke said, examining a book of schematics of the game Evas.
"I guess, but Shinji would want his to anatomically correct,"
Asuka remarked.
"I already said that was an accident!" Shinji insisted.
"Shinji loves Asuka. Shinji loves Asuka!" Touji and Kensuke
taunted.
"Cut that out!" Shinji yelled.
Ignoring the three stooges, Hikari was examining their scorecards.
"Looks like Rei beat us all on points scored."
"How the fuck did she do that?" Asuka screamed.
"Well, she got a big bonus for killing Shinji," Hikari explained,
pointing to the scorecard.
"Well, that's easy enough to emulate," Asuka remarked, grinning at
Shinji.
"Damn. No fair ganging up on me! Asuka, you're just mad because
you're not number one anymore!" Shinji exclaimed.
"Well, we'll see how 'Wondergirl' does in tomorrow's game."
"Tomorrow?" Rei asked.
"Well, can't beat me and then not give me a rematch. Can you?"
Asuka asked, then smiled at Rei.
"You're on, Asuka," Rei replied, then added, "We can take turns
killing Shinji."
Shinji grew pale.
Kensuke looked up from the blueprints, adjusted his glasses, and
said, "Maybe I'll use Unit 01 tomorrow. It seems to respond a little
quicker than the later models.
Shinji yelled, "No! I always use Unit 01!"
"He's so set in his ways, isn't he?" Rei asked Asuka.
"Yeah, but if you hit him hard enough he bends," Asuka quipped.
"Rei...how did you know about Unit 00, anyway? It's not listed in any
of the Eva books."
"Oh...I used to play Eva down in Osaka-2. One of the Eva-heads
down there discovered the secret prototype Eva in the program," Rei
explained, awkwardly.
"Is that how you found out how to override the lockout on killing
your teammates?" Touji asked.
"Yup. Just wait till you see what I show you tomorrow," Rei said,
smiling knowingly.
-E- -V- -A-
The gang walked home from the mall, Rei and Hikari brought up the
rear. "So...is Asuka really Shinji's girlfriend?" Rei asked Hikari,
softly.
Hikari replied, "Not that I know of. They just grew up together."
Upon hearing this, a small smile crossed Rei's face. She watched
Shinji's butt as they walked. She had a large smile by the time she got
home.
"I'm home!" Rei called out as she walked in her front door.
"Welcome home, Sis!" Ritsuko replied. "Mom's still at her new job,
so it's microwave lasagna again!"
"Can't you just nuke a different instant meal for once, Big
sister?" Rei called as she pulled her school uniform off.
"No," Ritsuko replied, poking her head into Rei's room. "How was
your first day at school?"
"Not bad. I met some kids...they are a little strange, but
nice...I guess," Rei said.
"Any cute boys?"
"Err...maybe," Rei replied, blushing.
Ritsuko smiled. "What's his name?"
"No, it's not that...honestly," Rei insisted.
"Right," Ritsuko replied, unconvinced. "What did you do after
school?"
"Me and the gang went and played Neon Genesis Evangelion at the
mall."
Ritsuko raised an eyebrow and smiled. "Already 'The Gang', huh?
Did you tell them that your mother designed that game and you probably
have more hours in the entry plug than anyone else in the world?"
"No, it didn't come up."
-E- -V- -A-
"I'm home!" Shinji called as he walked into his family's
apartment.
"Welcome home, Shinji!" his mom called back.
Shinji tossed his books into his room, went to the kitchen, and
rummaged through the refrigerator.
"Don't spoil your appetite, Shinji. Dinner is in an hour," his
mother informed him.
"Okay, Mom," Shinji replied, but kept looking through the
refrigerator. <Nag, nag, nag,> he thought, as he pulled a can of soda
out and a leftover pork bun.
He inhaled the pork bun, thinking he should have nuked it first.
Then he chugged down the soda on his way to the bathroom. He washed up
and then sunk down into the tub.
He sat silently with his eyes closed.
"Is this really the world you want?" a female voice said.
Shinji opened his eyes and saw Rei standing over him. Naked.
"Rei!" Shinji gasped, then tried to cover himself. Then he
realized that he wasn't in the bathroom anymore, although he was still
naked. "What's going on," he asked, as he scanned the large empty
theater he found himself in.
"Your dream world isn't perfect," another female voice said,
behind him.
Shinji looked back at Asuka, who was also naked. "Asuka? But...my
mom is alive and I don't have to see my friends die and don't have to
pilot a real Eva and I don't have to kill and even my dad seems human.
It seems perfect to me."
Rei said softly, "There is no perfect world. You created this
world with what you considered a set of perfect conditions."
"But after that initial starting point everything will start
changing as people interact with each other," Misato said, from
Shinji's left.
Rei added, "No person is an island."
Shinji looked at Misato and wasn't surprised that she was also
naked. "Seems okay to me so far."
"But, it's not real," Asuka said.
"Reality bites! I'll take this world any day!" Shinji exclaimed.
All three of the women faded out saying, "We'll see."
Shinji awoke from the dream he was having about the new girl. "Rei
has a naughty side, apparently." He grinned.
"Shinji, dinner!" his mom called from outside the bathroom.
"Coming!" Shinji replied, then got up and dressed.
[End - Part 1]
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Author's notes/ramblings:
This is a quick story that came to mind after seeing the final episode
of Neon Genesis Evangelion. It's based on the alternate reality that
Shinji briefly envisioned. As with some of my other stories, it's grown
a bit over it's initial conception, so I'll be writing multiple parts.
Unlike my big series, Childhood of a Modern Dynasty, this one isn't as
tightly plotted, but I do have an end point in mind. I just don't know
when exactly I'll get to it (much the same as CMD).
Revision 0.1
July 14, 1998
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