Crossover Fan Fiction / Neon Genesis Evangelion Fan Fiction / Tenchi Muyo Fan Fiction ❯ Reason And Accountability ❯ Red Goo ( Chapter 44 )

A portal opened. I sighed and got my rain boots. I don’t use them often, but this was a place that required them. I stepped through and found the read hair girl cursing continuously in German and Japanese and English.

“Asuka Langley-Soryu?” I asked her. She stopped to opened her remaining eye to stare at me.

“Ugh. Who are you? Why are you back?” she demanded. There was a fair amount of blood leaking from her ruptured socket, and she had a broken arm, both legs were broken so she could not stand up and a broken arm. This was sympathetic damage due to her high synchronization rate with her mother inside the evangelion, which had melted away. The red goo sea, in which I was standing in my galoshes up the ankle sloshed as I approached the girl and cast Healing Hands. Her arm straightened, then her ribs popped back into shape and then her legs, one bone at a time. She yelled with each snap and then the good in her eye firmed up and reformed into her blue eye once more. Her bruised cheeks reformed and regained their healthy color. I played the spell on her a bit longer to be sure, including fixing a problem in her fallopian tubes that would have caused her infertility. It will also make her periods less painful.

“I’m a high school student in Japan. But that isn’t important. I have good news. I can take you back to Germany. They have free tuition for all college students. Maybe you can find a nice boyfriend there who will distract you from the the nightmares you’ll be suffering over that last battle,” I suggested. “Most German men smoke and many have scraggly beards, and I know you have a type.”

“Who are you, really?” she demanded awed at the healing I’d just done.

“Someone who works for a higher power and didn’t like your ending things here,” I answered. I gestured to the portal and tugged her through it in her red plugsuit. She game through on reflex and we were standing in Cologne. She looked around, realized what city we were in and sighed in disgust. Cologne is the most liberal city in Germany, and their beer lacks carbonation, though the schnitzel is a bit dry.

“You’ll have to figure things out for yourself. I don’t have any money to give you,” I said, but she waved me off and staggered towards the lighted doorway of a bar nearby. Well, she’s showing plenty and would probably be taken for a cosplayer, except for the smell of blood she was still coated in. The pod fluid is basically oxygenated blood plasma, after all. I sighed and stepped into another portal, finding myself back in my laundry room. I took off my boots and rinsed them in the sink there, then mopped up the remainder from the tile floor. So gross.

Another portal appeared. I listened to it, and then put the boots back on again, stepping through to the same damned place I’d been when this started, only finding Shinji’s sister Rei crawling out of the red goo sea.

“Ah, Rei-san. Glad to see you here. You’ll be glad to know your brother is doing well. He has a girlfriend who suits him in another world from this one. Would you like to join him?” I asked her. She looked at me for a moment, considering. She stood up and wordlessly took my hand. Rei is a woman of few words, and no words when that would do.

We entered a portal and arrived outside Shinji’s apartment. I rang the buzzer. I heard some thumping inside and he pulled the door open.

“Rei? It’s you!” he said happily and pulled her into a hug. Hitori has been good for him, apparently. Normal human gestures and touch are now something he can do. I peered around, not seeing her nearby.

“Shinji. I’m hungry,” she said very quietly. I shut the door behind me and left the two siblings to get settled.