Neon Genesis Evangelion Fan Fiction ❯ Shinji's Odd Jobs ❯ I hate this job! ( Prologue )

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Shinji wants to quit Nerv. After a deal with his father, he's out job huntin (....and fails). Suddenly, Death comes a knokin' and lookin for an apprentice of the trade... Thus, a whole new dimesion of occupational opportunities has been opened for the Third Child...

Anime/Manga: Neon Genesis Evangelion Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Supernatural | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 08.29.2001 | Pages: 10 | Words: 2.9K | Visits: 913 | Status: Teaser

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Shinji 's Odd Jobs

Another frigging Eva fanfic by Raiden_X_

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Prologue: I hate this job!

[Shin-chan's lovely suite]

*Groan! *

It was midnight and Shinji was busy sulking
in his room.

It has been one of
those days, when you don't want to wake up; everything fucks and everybody
sucks. He really doesn't know why, but he wanted to justify; i.e. ripping
someone's head off. All he could do right now is break human contact in the
privacy of his own room.

In his ears, the scolding
and the taunts are still fresh.

"Shinji, you're sync
rate is very low! You should try harder!"

"Don't you dare take a
peek at me, you Baka-hentai!"

"Shinji, you're grades
are dropping! I need to see some improvement, you hear!"

"Baka-hentai! Make
dinner NOW! It's Misato's turn and I don't want to die yet!"

"Pilot Ikari, you disappoint
me…"

That last comment from
his father sent his morale at it's all time low.

In times like this, his
SDAT can't even soothe his throbbing anguish. His homework wasn't helping any.

Sirens blared suddenly.

"Aaargh! Great! Just
great…" He spat out sarcastically. Standing up from his desk, his SDAT fell
from his hands accidentally and landed on the floor with a big *Thud!*.

Meters
of tape began spilling out and making knots.

Before the master of
this dimension left, he slammed his head five more times on a wall in grief.
there was a very worn-out grove on that spot.

<Where
am I going to get money to fix that thing?>

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[Nerv headquarters]

"The
enemy is heading towards Nerv HQ from the northeast region. You are to intercept
this target when it arrives at the beach." Misato stated.

"This angel seemed
to have the same properties as the 3rd and the 7th angel. A
pre-emptive attack from the recon units has divulged that this creature could
multiply like the 7th angel but it's replication limit is unknown. It had
regenerated and merged itself at the ocean before proceeding here." Added
Ritsuko.

"Hai!"
Asuka was ecstatic.

"Hai." Rei was
just being Rei.

".....Hai..."
Shinji was feeling dead at the moment.

"Is
there something wrong, pilot?"

"No
sir..."

"Oh
yeah, I forgot! Since you and pilot Sohryu didn't have a
synchronization training recently, both of you must be more alert this time
around. I couldn't trust you with a pallet rifle for this mission because you
have been receiving the lowest synch ratios this month. you are to combat the
target with the progressive knife, understood?" Misato was very disappointed
at the young Ikari due to his recent performances lately.

"Hai..."

"Serves you right,
Baka!" Asuka taunted.

"........"

~~~~~~~~29 minutes
later...

[Battlefield]

All three Evangelions laid
sprawled at different areas of the battlefield. Unit 02 was thrown over at the sea,
butt first. Unit 00 was sent crashing at a beach resort 49 miles away. Unit-01
was being used as a wrecking ball at the tall hotel buildings. Each Eva was
being double teamed by a pairs of angels. 20 minutes ago they were on a roll
into beating the crap out of this celestial conqueror, until it started making
copies of itself.

Only Shinji was making
any real progress right now, and he's getting beat up.

Asuka and Rei could
still stand and fight, but they couldn't keep their enemies stay still for a few
seconds. The pitch black darkness of the night didn't give them a chance at all.

The Third Child's
offenders are keeping still, It's Shinji whose being thrown around. All he could
afford right now is an occasional punch and jabs here and there because his
knife was destroyed earlier.

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[Entry plug, Unit-01]

Shinji managed to run
away from his torturers. He's now hiding under a pile of 'Holiday Inn' hotel
rubble. the black pair of entities were walking around like monkeys, trying to
find their toy.

"..............."

The com-link to the
mobile headquarters was malfunctioning within the first few hits.

The internal battery
supply alerted that he had only 5 minutes left.

His brain formulated two
choices:

1)Wait here and let the
life supports fade so that he could avoid being angel food, but 3rd impact would
occur.

2)Stand up and die
anyway. The others must be doing fine without me, I'm just a nuisance to them..

Either way, he dies.

*Sigh* he opened his
bleary eyes once more.

"HMMM..."
There was a murmur heard inside the cockpit.

He felt the familiar
feeling of dread as Death checks in if he could claim his soul.

Just like that. Over
there. The guy with this bad ass scythe floating menacingly before him.

"WHAT THE
HELL!!!" The young Ikari screamed as he realized that the shrouded spirit
was indeed his fears being solidified.

"..........."

"A...a...are you
really Death?!"

"IT'S THE
SCYTHE, ISN'T IT? THEY ALWAYS NOTICE THE SCYTHE. THE CURSED THING ALWAYS GIVES
IT AWAY..." The dark figure did what appears to be what
people call 'sulk'.

"Um... er... So, is
it my time to go now?" Shinji has been looking forward to the afterlife
ever since he joined Nerv. A chance to be with his mother again was worth all
the pain he endured.

"MAYBE."

"E-excuse me?"

"I DON'T
KNOW." Death attempted a shrug. Human stuff are very hard to
simulate.

"Then, what are you
doing here? You went all the way here to scare the shit out of me just for
fun?!!!" The Third Child was getting all worked up right now.

"I JUST
DROPPED BY TO SEE IF I COULD TAKE YOU NOW. "

"Wait a minute, are
you saying that you don't know when I'll die?"

"YES
AND NO."

"What do you
mean?"

"EVERY MORTAL
HAS A PREDESTINED APPOINTMENT, BUT WITH THIS CELESTIAL WAR OCCURRING IN
YOUR DIMENSION, YOU AND EVERYONE ELSE'S APPOINTMENTS MIGHT BE PROCESSED EARLIER
THAN ANTICIPATED." The shrouded figure held out a bony hand with an
hourglass with Shinji's name written on a small plaque.. The sands were having
fluctuations in gravity; It was either falling downwards or falling upwards.

"..............."

"HMMM...
LOOKS LIKE YOU WOULDN'T BE THE FIRST TO DIE; THE OTHER PILOTS ARE IN DEEP
PERIL..." The scythe wielder checked someone else's hourglass
and faded out.

"Hey, wait! Take me
instead!" Shinji cried out.

Being left alone again,
he sobbed and cried out for his poor luck.

<What am I saying?
We're all going to die anyway! I could still rid of my pathetic life yet!> He
laughed hysterically.

Something suddenly
snapped in his brain. Time seemed to stop.

<But... Asuka, Rei
and the others...> His expression grew dark again

<I-I... I can't let
that happen!> Pain and grief engulfed him as he clutched his head in agony.

Apparently, an Angel tripped
over Unit-01's head.

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[Battlefield ]

A pair of black titans
stood petrified, staring at the beast that they have awakened with morbid
fascination.

Not even the angels
could see through the darkness of the night, but they were guided by the aura
that each Evangelions emit. Right now, all of their senses focused on a pair of
unholy green light that glowed viciously in the dark.

That roar. That
blood-curdling howl that would make a tyrannosaurus blush. It echoed to the
eclipse on the moon.

The entities that stood
far away from the awful cry got alarmed. For even though they are cold blooded
beast themselves, they knew fear. And nothing is more scary and horrible as a
tormented soul seeking retribution and retaliation.

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[Entr y plug, Unit-00]

Unit-00 was sprawled,
bleeding LCL on the sand.

"Pilot Ikari?!"
Rei managed to say. The familiar howl haunted her ears once more.

More shrieks from
different owners were heard. It sounded like a mutant goat's death cry as it was
being torn limb from limb, and the truth isn't really that far off.

From her end of the
battlefield, the two identical angels left her for dead. A bigger threat to
their victory has emerged, and it's presence needs to be eradicated immediately
at any cost.

Unconsciousness overwhelmed
the First Child as the entry plug got automatically ejected.

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[Entry plug, Unit-02]

Asuka may be all beat
up, but defeat is something she disliked to accept. She knew that Rei was
already retrieved by Nerv and and she's going to be next. She had to focus her
brain to repel the ejection command. All the Second Child wants to do now is to
die trying to destroy these cruel Angels, but that simple wish was being left
not granted for her assailants have turned their backs to her and proceeded to
another prey.

They were ignoring her.

All her troubles brought
her nothing, not even an honorable demise.

"Come back here you
Idiots!!!" Asuka willed her Eva into stabbing one of them with her broken
progressive knife, and failed. But it's purpose to drive back the attention to
her succeeded.

Unit-02 was back again
on the wet sand in a split second. The angel stood on top of her Eva and was
preparing to stab her with it's own spike lance.

"Kom, susser
Todd." She says, staring at the pointy end defiantly.

The angel grinned
maliciously.

Suddenly, Asuka's death
was postponed. Instead, she stared shocked at the horrible scene before her. Her
ex-killer died at the hands of a bleeding Unit-01.

The poor being got torn
inside-out and let out a blood-curdling screech.

She fainted at the sight
of that evil purple grin in front of her.

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[Entry plug, Unit-01]

The Third Child was
trying to calm his breathing down. All that running and ripping flesh with his
bare hands were taking it's toll on the poor lad.

<I... I did it... I
killed them all...>

The boy lifted his hands
and examined them. All he could see is the blood and gore his Evangelion has
made.

"A murderer...
that's all I am..."

~~~~~~~~The next day...

[Nerv HQ, Commander's
office]

"I resign."
the boy declared.

"Again,
pilot?" Gendo seemed to be irritated.

"Yes..."

"Any particular
reason?"

"I can't go on... I
don't like to kill anymore."

The commander took off
his glasses and and wiped them with the cloth from his pocket.

"Will this be
permanent this time? I can't have you waste anymore valuable resources from
sending a private train back to your foster home every time you decide to take a
'break' from your occupation.

"... I....I'm
staying here in Tokyo-3."

"Hmmm?"

"I only wanted to
quit this job. I wouldn't leave my friends yet."

"You do know that
your stay in this city and all your expenses are paid by Nerv, am I
correct?"

"Er... yeah."

"If you're leaving
Nerv, then you will have to provide for yourself alone."

"..........."

Wearing his lens again,
the commander initiated his patented 'steepled-hands on face maneuver(TM)'.

"I presume that
this resignation request isn't permanent, is it pilot?"

"..........."

"Very well, since
you couldn't make up your mind once again, I'm willing to make a deal. You will
have two week's time to decide. After two weeks, you may either stay as a pilot
of Nerv, or work in another occupation in the city. If you chose to leave Nerv,
then the monthly pay for your accommodations in Major Katsuragi's residence will
be terminated. You may also decide to stay there if you wish but you will have
to provide the money to pay for the bills yourself. Do you understand?"

"......Yes
sir." The younger Ikari was overwhelmed by the implied responsibility of
living for himself.

"Do you wish to
reconsider, like you always do?" His father taunted.

"No sir." The
boy willed all his courage to accept his terms defiantly. He won't back down
this time around.

"Very well. You are
dismissed, pilot."

His son stood up left
the dimly lit office.

Gendo was surprised at
his offspring's unexpected behavior. Different feelings towards the boy emerged.
Disappointment, curiosity and admiration were now focused at Shinji.

Pulling out a cell phone
from his drawer, he sighed.

<The old men would not like
to hear this. I got to handle this carefully.>

*Ring!*

*Ring!-*

{Sir?}

"The Third Child
would be job hunting soon. See to it that he doesn't get hired."

~~~~~~~~A week passes
by...

[Shin-chan's lovely
suite]

The young Ikari drew
another red line at the classified ads.

He was rejected by every
occupation he signed for, even as a garbage man. Asuka keeps laughing at his
poor luck. She teases him that he couldn't get a proper job without going to
college like she had done. But the major rained on her parade once she mentioned
that the she is still a minor also and couldn't receive legitimate occupation
unless she would go for prostituting and such shady buisiness..

What the boy noticed
during his quest is that the employers seemed nervous around him.

<I didn't even tell
them that I'm a pilot... >

He has to find a job
that could at least pay the rent at Misato's. The major disapproved of him
leaving Nerv and all, but offered to let him stay in the apartment if he still
wanted to resign. Shinji wouldn't hear any of it. The young Ikari wanted to at
least find a job so he could stay and share paying the bills. He knew that his
guardian's income wouldn't suffice if he freeloaded on her expense; most of her
money goes on beer.

<Maybe I could live
here as a maid... > He thought as he inspected his broken SDAT one more time.

<Nah... Asuka would
make it more of a living hell than it already is with Misato... >

<I fold... I have to
apologize to father for this travesty.> he crumpled his newspaper and stuffed
it in the trash bin.

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[Misato's apartment, Living room]

The Second Child and the
household penguin are watching TV. It was another boring day. The major was in
the kitchen, finishing her reports and papers due signing.

*Knock, knock!*

Asuka's eyebrows
furrowed.

*Knock, knock!*

<Why would anybody
knock when they could just ring the damn door bell->

*Knock, knock!*

"Shinji! Get the
door!" She hollered.

<-and what kind of a
freak would be knocking with a chicken bones?>

"For once Asuka,
would you stop slaving around Shinji and answer the door already?" Misato
said irritated from the kitchen.

"Oh, Shut up!"
Asuka snapped back. Implied laziness in her part was not taken lightly by Asuka.
She doesn't want to be compared with her guardian's lifestyle, but she couldn't
call Misato lazy either if she wanted to live longer.

The red haired girl stud
up gruffly and answered the door.

"What do
want?" she yelled out at the visitor.

"I'M HERE FOR
SHINJI IKARI." The tall shrouded figure spoke in gothic booming voice.

Asuka wasn't impressed.

"You dummkopfs! It
isn't October, and there isn't any Halloween here in Japan!"

"...................?"

"Shinji! Your other
stooges are here!"

"Touji and Kensuke?
Send them in, please." The young Ikari called out from his room.

Asuka would have bashed
Shinji's head in for ordering her like that, yet he did say please...

"Hey! careful with
that thing, you almost sliced my head off!" The German pilot hit the back
of Death's head. The huge scythe was laid down carefully to avoid further
beatings from the feisty red-head.

Asuka seemed to have
noticed that either Touji or Kensuke used a helmet for a head on their costume
or the person being carried on top has a very hollow head.

"That's a cute
costume you got there guys!" Misato said as she took a peek at what's going
on. She noticed also that the scythe looks very real... but then again, maybe
she had to much beer today.

If one would look
microscopically, tiny air molecules and atoms were being sliced clean whenever
the get near on the blade's edge.

After giving a big burp,
she threw the can of Yebisu at the trash bin.

The Grimm Reaper floated
swiftly towards Shinji's door.

*Knock, knock!*

"It's open."
Said the boy from inside.

"HMMM...
" doors were one of the things he still haven't fully understood
yet. his bony arm seemed to get all jittery every time he hold a knob. Instead
he just precipitated through the door like he always do.

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[Shin-chan's lovely
suite]

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"
The young Ikari yelled out in absolute terror. his face became pale as if he saw
a ghost or something of that category.

"GOOD
AFTERNOON TO YOU, MORTAL."

"I-It-It's
you!" Shinji stuttered.

"HAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Asuka
was laughing like an idiot from outside.

"The Idiot actually
got scared at that crappy costume!" she said out loud. Misato can't help
but join in the laughter.

"Wu-wha-what brings
you here, sir?"

"I'VE HEARD
THAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A NEW OCCUPATION... "

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End of Prologue

Next Session 1: Death's new apprentice

Author's Jibah-Jaba:

This a new story I cooked up after reading the Discworld
novels by Terry Prattchet,

(Mort, Soul Music, The Hogfather and Reaper man)

I know that I have been
procrastinating too much with my other fics, but I got problems that I have to
sort out first so please, bear with me.

Please send any comments
or suggestions at raiden_x_@hotmail.com

See ya!