Neon Genesis Evangelion Fan Fiction ❯ Lurking within the soul ❯ Dreams ( Chapter 1 )

Broken

A young boy tossed and turned in his bed while his dreams turned into nightmares. The 14 year old boy always had weird dreams but this dream was different.
Dreamscape
“Where am I?” he said to himself as he surveyed his surroundings.
This dream setting was not in a dark, grungy cell or corpse infested battle fields like usual but instead it was in a bleak, endless void of….nothing.
“Why am I here, I can’t see any-ouch!” his sentence was cut short when he suddenly stepped in something, he picked the object to find out that it was a broken piece of mirror. As he looked up from inspecting it he gasp, gone was the void and in its place were many shattered mirrors.
“What the hell!” he said to himself, full of confused rage but that rage turned into cold fear when he looked into the mirrors and saw his reflection.
Each mirror was different, portraying himself differently. One held a reflection of himself with cuts and bruises all over his body and his head was shaved bald, another was a reflection of his five year old self but in shackles and looked as if he was trying to hold back tears while another presented himself with normal clothes on but he had a silver collar around his neck and his head was also shaved bald.
What startled him the most was that in each reflection of himself he was younger and his eyes were dead and emotionless. As he continued to look at the reflections, they started to distort and melt into metallic ooze. Shinji backed away but it was like the ooze knew where he was, like magnets the ooze started to ooze it's way to the the confused and trapped boy.
When the ooze touched him he was immobilized “Co-, Col-, Cold” he tried to get out as the ooze slowly merged into his body “Sto-, please STOP!"

Shinji Ikari awoke with a cold sweat and a very loud alarm clock.
He turned the alarm off and slowly dragged himself into the bathroom for his morning shower. As he got out the shower he slowly looked at his body. He had the face of a 14 year-old- boy but his body said otherwise. He was lean but very toned with 6 packed abs and dusted with a slight tan even though he rarely went outside. Instead of checking for normal teenage objects like facial impurities Shinji studied his arm. His right arm held six scars (three on the front and three in the back) that intertwined like chains binding his arm to the rest of his body.
When he asked his teacher he said that Shinji was in a car accident with parents and the hospital had to re-attach his arm even though he couldn't remember the accident or his parents for that matter. The explanation was probably the lamest lie ever told in the history of man kind but at least the old man tried.
Shinji knew that his teacher was just hiding the truth of his past. However, Shinji only had certain flashbacks of his previous life so he didn’t even know what fully happened to him. He only knew that he was reconstructed to be a weapon and that his life was horrendous.
“I destroy life” he thought as he remembered what happened to him. A biological humanoid warfare weapon Shinji repeated in his head. He never knew why his teacher would make up such weird things about his past when he truly knew what he was. 'Wonder how I got this arm though' he thought trying to dredge up some type of evidence from his past that would justify his unusual circumstance. However his mind came up to blood red blurs and darkness. Shinji decided to fix himself some breakfast as he walked down the old creaking stairs to the kitchen.
Shinji never really had an appetite something to do with one of his numerous experiments that he encountered but could not recall. “It’s what normal people do” Shinji said out loud repeating what his teacher had said. As shinji sat down to eat he looked at his hands. They held some scars but nothing to turn heads or to cause alarm. He began to wonder why he didn't have any scars. The place that he was kidnapped to was a slave/ experimental warfare facility; he should have some scars. He just concluded his appearance as a way the government hid their mistakes. After Shinji finished his breakfast and did his chores he pondered whether to go to the library or go to a museum. He decided library.
As Shinji walked out the door to go to the library he decided to check the mail. Most of the mail was bills and scams but one piece of mail caught his eye. It was from Gendo Ikari at NERV.
“Gendo Ikari” thought Shinji, wondering where he had heard the name before. The name seemed a little funny but then he remembered his teacher telling him that Gendo Ikari was his father. “Father” Shinji whispered. While Shinji slowly opened the letter and a card fell out and a book but he didn’t pay attention the only thing he could think about was one word; father. As he pulled the paper out he read the words ‘COME” in big bold letters. Shinji stared at the letter thinking “Father you abandoned me to a place where I was tortured and used”. As Shinji thought this over he started to become angry and without knowing it he crushed the paper he was holding. “What do you want with me” Shinji whispered “...Father.”
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Explanation: shinji is a little emotionless. He is quiet but he does have a backbone. He likes to keep to himself and he has no friends. He is very intelligent. Shinji only remember certain parts of his life not everything that happened to him. He only remembers the most prominent events like he knows that he was a full human that the camp had reconstructed to become a weapon. Keep reading to find out more!