- Location
- Spain
Or they'll get hit with dimishing returns on their DNA from trying to make too much awesome and fail horribly.
Coupled Effort [NGE]
Or they'll get hit with dimishing returns on their DNA from trying to make too much awesome and fail horribly.
- Location
- Australia, mate
Oh man, let's hope it doesn't overflow and loop around to become terrible.Or they'll get hit with dimishing returns on their DNA from trying to make too much awesome and fail horribly.
Ranma-sensei
Sorcerer
- Location
- Citrix Receiver
- Pronouns
- Weatherdependent
Or they'll get hit with dimishing returns on their DNA from trying to make too much awesome and fail horribly.
The DNA of Kyoko and Gendo combined....
And the world shudders.
And the world shudders.
Chapter 1 Omake 2: Unit One goes on a rampage
FTFY.
Gendo: Shut it down!
Maya: It's ignoring the codes! All I'm getting is a... diamond ring with a broken diamond in the setting?
Ristuko: *blanches* Commander, I need to attend a conference in... Buenos Aires... on the 21st.
Gendo: What? Now's not really the- Ritsuko, today is the 21st.
Maya: *deadpan* Planning on using the planet as a shield, senpai?
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As long as it's grandbabies, why would Yui care?
Chapter 1.5
Ranma-sensei
Sorcerer
- Location
- Citrix Receiver
- Pronouns
- Weatherdependent
Short update today as I'm still struggling with the broken nose.
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Rei looks at her, and she could swear there is sheepishness in her expression."I seem to be unable to operate the manual override."
Asuka snorts in amusement. "I wouldn't expect you to." She flexes her biceps. "It takes muscles few girls our age have to operate this thing." With that she grabs the crank with both hands and turns it with relative ease.
Shinji, finally fully amongst the living – if sporting a light headache - only mutters, "And she made me do it, last time."
"So, what's the plan?" Shinji's purple Evangelion crawls right behind Unit Two.
"Well, first off, stop ogling my mother's ass." Asuka grins when Shinji turns green in her in-vision display.
"Yuck. Gross." Inhaling deeply, Ikari tries to concentrate on the LCL's taste. "Much better. Now, seriously, what are we gonna do?"
Asuka turns business-like: "This Angel's AT field is laughably weak, so why not let Wondergirl practice? Ayanami, you take point."
"Understood." Rei's picture pops up beside Shinji's.
"You cannot be serious!?" Shinji's display almost jumps at her. "This... thing ended the world!"
Asuka smacks her face and shortly panics before realizing that she isn't wearing her glasses inside the entry plug. "Shinji, I swea--"
"I object." Rei bursts out. Uncharacteristically grinding her teeth, she plows on: "I did not e--"
"Oh, but you did!" Shinji cuts her off and his girlfriend starts cursing under her breath. "You made me God! What did you think would happen!?"
There is a snarl and all pretense of control falls away as Ayanami's mask finally snaps in two: "Listen here, brother!" she practically spits the term. Here eyes start glowing faintly and the skin above her eyebrows seems to bulge, "Were it not for your frakked-up EGO, I wou--"
"ENOUGH!!!" Unit Two kicks Unit One's head with enough force to toss it back into Unit Zero's face. "Stop squabbling like rivaling siblings and focus!"
"But, she--" Shinji is petrified mid-sentence when Asuka's display comes up close and she makes a sharp 'zip your mouth' gesture.
"Shinji, es steht mir bis hier."[8] The Second Child holds the flat palm of her hand at the height of her throat while fixing him with a glare that by all means should start his LCL boiling. "Wenn wir hier fertig sind, klärt Ihr beide das, verstanden!?"[9] she snaps at her husband-to-be.
Shinji's jaw sets despite the fear in his eyes. "I--"
"Hast Du mich VERSTANDEN!!?"[10] Asuka's eyes speak pure murder.
"Ja, Schatz." [11] He lowers his eyes in defeat.
"Gut." [12] The redhead takes a deep breath and then swings her Evangelion around to kick in the final ventilation grate to the main shaft. "Now, be a good boy and hand Ayanami your rifle, then follow me out." With that she swings upward out of the tube.
Grumbling, Shinji does as she told him, not even acknowledging Ayanami as he practically tosses her the rifle. He then follows Asuka out, together with her blocking the shaft crosswise as Rei climbs out and gets into position.
Unnecessarily, she announces this fact: "I am in position." Despite her calm tone, her mask is still not back up, and Asuka can still see the anger in the blue-haired girl's eyes.
"Good." Asuka checks her tactical data feed. "Fire at will." Just then the first of Matariel's acid starts burning through her Eva's sympathetic connection and she inhales sharply. "Damn it. Now, Ayanami!"
"Firing." Three short bursts of gunfire riddle Matariel with holes, and the spider-like Angel collapses, the remnants of his core falling trough the grate and fully disintegrating on the way down.
"Well done." Asuka closes her on-board analysis tool. "And now I need your command codes."
"Why?" asks Shinji.
"Because, stupid..." she grinds out, her eyes going wild, "somebody and his sister decided to talk about having lived through all this before inside their GODDAMN ROBOTS!!" Asuka inhales slowly and holds out her hand in a demanding gesture. "Now give me those codes!"
Shinji has the good grace to look sorry. "...Okay."
Rei, who finally managed to calm down, gives a little embarrassed cough. "Sending code."
The German grins internally. 'They're totally like twins.' She shakes her head fondly as she opens one of her private tools.
[8] Shinji, I've had it to here.
[9] When we are done here, you'll both resolve this, understand!?
[10] Do you UNDERSTAND ME!!?
[11] Yes, honey.
[12] Good.
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She catches up with the other girl at the surface entrance. Ayanami looks a the winder for the manual override and appears slightly lost. Asuka gingerly leans the still woozy Shinji against the wall and asks. "What is it, Ayanami?"Rei looks at her, and she could swear there is sheepishness in her expression."I seem to be unable to operate the manual override."
Asuka snorts in amusement. "I wouldn't expect you to." She flexes her biceps. "It takes muscles few girls our age have to operate this thing." With that she grabs the crank with both hands and turns it with relative ease.
Shinji, finally fully amongst the living – if sporting a light headache - only mutters, "And she made me do it, last time."
*NGE:CE*
"So, what's the plan?" Shinji's purple Evangelion crawls right behind Unit Two.
"Well, first off, stop ogling my mother's ass." Asuka grins when Shinji turns green in her in-vision display.
"Yuck. Gross." Inhaling deeply, Ikari tries to concentrate on the LCL's taste. "Much better. Now, seriously, what are we gonna do?"
Asuka turns business-like: "This Angel's AT field is laughably weak, so why not let Wondergirl practice? Ayanami, you take point."
"Understood." Rei's picture pops up beside Shinji's.
"You cannot be serious!?" Shinji's display almost jumps at her. "This... thing ended the world!"
Asuka smacks her face and shortly panics before realizing that she isn't wearing her glasses inside the entry plug. "Shinji, I swea--"
"I object." Rei bursts out. Uncharacteristically grinding her teeth, she plows on: "I did not e--"
"Oh, but you did!" Shinji cuts her off and his girlfriend starts cursing under her breath. "You made me God! What did you think would happen!?"
There is a snarl and all pretense of control falls away as Ayanami's mask finally snaps in two: "Listen here, brother!" she practically spits the term. Here eyes start glowing faintly and the skin above her eyebrows seems to bulge, "Were it not for your frakked-up EGO, I wou--"
"ENOUGH!!!" Unit Two kicks Unit One's head with enough force to toss it back into Unit Zero's face. "Stop squabbling like rivaling siblings and focus!"
"But, she--" Shinji is petrified mid-sentence when Asuka's display comes up close and she makes a sharp 'zip your mouth' gesture.
"Shinji, es steht mir bis hier."[8] The Second Child holds the flat palm of her hand at the height of her throat while fixing him with a glare that by all means should start his LCL boiling. "Wenn wir hier fertig sind, klärt Ihr beide das, verstanden!?"[9] she snaps at her husband-to-be.
Shinji's jaw sets despite the fear in his eyes. "I--"
"Hast Du mich VERSTANDEN!!?"[10] Asuka's eyes speak pure murder.
"Ja, Schatz." [11] He lowers his eyes in defeat.
"Gut." [12] The redhead takes a deep breath and then swings her Evangelion around to kick in the final ventilation grate to the main shaft. "Now, be a good boy and hand Ayanami your rifle, then follow me out." With that she swings upward out of the tube.
Grumbling, Shinji does as she told him, not even acknowledging Ayanami as he practically tosses her the rifle. He then follows Asuka out, together with her blocking the shaft crosswise as Rei climbs out and gets into position.
Unnecessarily, she announces this fact: "I am in position." Despite her calm tone, her mask is still not back up, and Asuka can still see the anger in the blue-haired girl's eyes.
"Good." Asuka checks her tactical data feed. "Fire at will." Just then the first of Matariel's acid starts burning through her Eva's sympathetic connection and she inhales sharply. "Damn it. Now, Ayanami!"
"Firing." Three short bursts of gunfire riddle Matariel with holes, and the spider-like Angel collapses, the remnants of his core falling trough the grate and fully disintegrating on the way down.
"Well done." Asuka closes her on-board analysis tool. "And now I need your command codes."
"Why?" asks Shinji.
"Because, stupid..." she grinds out, her eyes going wild, "somebody and his sister decided to talk about having lived through all this before inside their GODDAMN ROBOTS!!" Asuka inhales slowly and holds out her hand in a demanding gesture. "Now give me those codes!"
Shinji has the good grace to look sorry. "...Okay."
Rei, who finally managed to calm down, gives a little embarrassed cough. "Sending code."
The German grins internally. 'They're totally like twins.' She shakes her head fondly as she opens one of her private tools.
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Translations:[8] Shinji, I've had it to here.
[9] When we are done here, you'll both resolve this, understand!?
[10] Do you UNDERSTAND ME!!?
[11] Yes, honey.
[12] Good.
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Ranma-sensei
Sorcerer
- Location
- Citrix Receiver
- Pronouns
- Weatherdependent
Thank you.Wirklich, sehr gut. More tightly written than the original version (which was pretty good itself).
Is the comma intentional? Because it changes the meaning slightly.
My German isn't that good. Took it in college $$^ years ago. I meant "For sure, very good." My version probably wasn't idiomatic.Is the comma intentional? Because it changes the meaning slightly.
(Shouldn't try writing German to a native speaker.
)
Ranma-sensei
Sorcerer
- Location
- Citrix Receiver
- Pronouns
- Weatherdependent
No, you should, and it was almost perfect - the comma just makes it from a compliment into a reassurance, nothing more.My German isn't that good. Took it in college $$^ years ago. I meant "For sure, very good." My version probably wasn't idiomatic.
(Shouldn't try writing German to a native speaker.
GeshronTyler
Kleiner Giftzwerg
Aparently Shinji doesn't understood that in the previous "run through", they were all broken victims, with Rei experiencing the added strain of being only a fragment of an inhuman soul, that only wanted the peace of oblivion.
Character Notes 4: Shinji's Baggage & Attitude
Ranma-sensei
Sorcerer
- Location
- Citrix Receiver
- Pronouns
- Weatherdependent
To reiterate what I said in the original thread:
To elaborate on that: Asuka spent some time after Third Impact carrying him around as dead weight - not in the literal sense, mind you!The Coupled Effort SB thread said:
Then, something bad happened to her and Shinji had to either help her or lose her.
After that, things slowly got better, but suffice it to say that they both got their baggage.
Chapter 1.6
Ranma-sensei
Sorcerer
- Location
- Citrix Receiver
- Pronouns
- Weatherdependent
Ha! This time I'm first.
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"Good job, guys!" Misato claps her hands together as the three teenagers climb out of their plugs. "Debriefing will be tomorrow, seeing as we're still mostly without power. Your phones should be working fine, though." She then twists her fingers apologetically. "Sorry, but you'll have to walk home; I gotta oversee the cleanup."
"It's alright." answers Asuka when she is finished vomiting most of the LCL out of her lungs, "We'll walk Wondergirl home." The captain smiles at that.
"Thanks, Asuka." The redhead's only answer is a snort, as some LCL is still stuck up her nose.
"Yeah, yeah." she mutters. "But you better thank me only after you're sure I don't kill them both before we get there."
"Ooookay then." Misato sweatdrops. "Off you go, kids."
A few minutes later, Asuka sighs contentedly as the warm water from the shower pours down on her skin and mingles with the soap to rid her body of the last bit of this damned tang. "Sorry, Ayan-... Can I call you Rei?" she says over the sounds of sponging down and washing of hair in both their stalls.
"You may." comes the again quite emotionless sounding voice of her... sister-in-law? 'Now, that's gonna take some getting used to!'
"Rei..." she starts again. "I'm sorry for how Shinji treated you the last few... since all of this happened," she says, managing to change the sentence to something inconspicuous-sounding at the last moment.
"I should have interfered earlier." she adds a few moments later as she finishes washing off the last of the soap.
"It is not a problem." says Rei as she opens Asuka's stall door. The German raises an irritated eyebrow, but merely sighs and turns the water off. "But this is not the place to discuss any of that."
"We really gotta work on your social skills, girl." Asuka says as she accepts the towel from the albino.
After picking Shinji up, they retrace their steps to exit the Geofront. All the way up, Asuka keeps herself firmly interposed between her two peers.
"So..." The redhead clasps her hands behind her back. They just left the Nerv complex and are headed for the blue-haired girl's apartment building, but still conversation does not come from either of the two people with her. "What gave us away?"
"You mean aside from the fact that 'big brother'," Rei mockingly makes air quotes, though her expression seems almost calm, again, "practically told me and that the two of you behaved differently, the last time around?" This gets her a double-take. And another one, just to be sure.
"Huh." The Second Child grins. "Rei Ayanami made a joke. The world's gonna end."
"Yeah, great." mutters Shinji, pouting and putting his hands in his pockets, "Give her ideas, now." This earns him a hard dope-slap and he shuts up.
"Don't listen to him, Rei. He just blames you for his being a wimp in the past." Asuka inhales deeply. "Ah, being a teenager again." This earns her a double-take. "What?"
"How old are you?" Having let her mask slip off once they were out of sight of Nerv, Ayanami now looks and behaves almost like a normal girl. Which makes it even more jarring for the redhead to be asked her age, but she shakes it off.
"Twenty-two to -four, we're not really sure. But when you're the only people left on the goddamn planet, time doesn't really matter, now does it?"
"No, I suppose not. Interesting," Rei takes her chin in her hand. "My sending my own spirit back in time was at the very pinnacle of Third Impact, mere seconds before control shifted to Shinji. Curious. I did not think that the ripples could have gone so far. I was estimating a year, two at the most before the tear in space-time closed."
"Well then, Doctor Ayanami..." Asuka turns around and crosses her arms over her chest while going backwards, "How come, then, that we are here?"
"That, I do not know. What I do know, however..." The First Child points forward, "is that we have arrived at my lodgings."
Asuka stops and half-turns, then arcs a dubious eyebrow at the building. "This is where you live?"
"Yes. You seem uncomfortable with that fact." Rei studies her face curiously.
"Uncomfortable? UNCOMFORTABLE!!?" Asuka very nearly starts hyperventilating as her temper flares up. "Rei, these accommodations are every kind of wrong!"
"Wait 'till you see her apartment." mutters the still sulking Shinji under his breath while the three of them ascend the stairs.
"You can't be serious!?" Torn between disgust at the rundown building and immeasurable anger at the Commander, the bespectacled girl looks at Shinji incredulously. "You mean to tell me you knew!?"
Then Ayanami opens the door.
"Was zum Teufel STIMMT NICHT MIT DIR!!?" [13] screams Asuka, whirling around at Shinji. She then turns back, determination in her eyes, barking, "Rei!"
The albino stands to attention, genuine fear in her eyes.
"Pack your things. You're moving in with us."
Ayanami nods dumbly and hurries inside to comply.
"Seriously..." mutters the fiery redhead as she flips open her cellphone. Typing speed dial number Three on it, she slowly walks into the apartment and her face screws up in disgust.
"Yeah, Misato? Ayanami's place is a dump." She sighs angrily when Misato says something.
"No, of course not. Because a dump's cleaner!
"Now listen: Since she can't live here, she's gonna move in with us. What? No, that's not a problem." She grinds her teeth at yet another question. "No, I said it's not A PROBLEM!! Now make it happen!" she shouts into the receiver, then snaps the phone shut. "You done?"
Rei nods timidly, her satchel clutched to her chest. Asuka raises another eyebrow as she takes it from her.
"Girl, you got a lot to learn..." She sighs, takes the briefcase and turns around. "Shin--"
That's when her eyes fall on the bedside table.
"What is this?" she says as she moves closer, Shinji following behind.
Rei raises a single eyebrow. "The medications I took before I came back. Read the labels."
Asuka does so and starts to feel more and more faint, the satchel hanging half-forgotten in her numb fingers: "Diazepam... Methoxetamine... Benzodiazepine... Loprazolam?"
She whirls on Rei, throwing her hands up as she does... and stops short at a smack-and-crunch close to her.
She turns slowly, dread making her stomach feel heavy...
"Oh my god, Shinji!" The satchel finally falling from her fingers, Asuka rushes to her fiancé's side and drops to the ground.
Shinji is laying crumpled against the wall, his forehead a big red lump and his nose dislodged and bleeding freely.
"Oh Shinji, I am so sorry!" cries Asuka, stroking his hair in near-hysteria.
"Don't... be," he pants. "How... would bou now I bas bebind bou?"
Asuka, in near-hysteria, flinches and gives a small cry as a hand squeezes her shoulder.
"Here." A wet cloth being forced into her free hand snaps her out of her nervous breakdown.
She turns to look at Rei. "Thank you." Taking the rag, she then carefully wipes the blood from Shinji's face. Taking another cloth from Rei's hands, she wipes it across his forehead.
"Oooowwwww..." Trying to put a hand to his nose, Shinji grimaces.
"Shh, no." Asuka intercepts his movement and gently takes his hand away from his face. "I'm so sorry, Shinji," she whispers sadly, "I-I..."
She swallows. "I..." Taking a deep breath, she plows on: "I think I broke your nose. I'll..." She helplessly motions with her free hand.
Shinji gives her a slow nod and sits up against the wall, then scrunches his eyes closed again.
Asuka carefully checks his nose and then yanks the dislodged part forcefully back toward the middle, ripping a pained yell from Shinji.
"Come on," she then says, trying to swing him across her back, "let's get this checked out before we go home."
"'m fine," protests Shinji, refusing to be piggy-backed around twice in the same day.
He promptly wobbles and almost falls, Asuka rushing to steady him.
"Please, Shinji," she pleads, "Let me carry you to the hospital."
"No." Showing considerable spine, Shinji steadies himself on Asuka's arm and tries to smile, though the end-result is more a hideous grimace.
"At the least let me support you," Asuka begs. "Come on." Laying Shinji's arm around her neck, she supports his waist with one arm while grabbing the handrail with the other, guiding them both down.
"Rei," she says to the girl behind them, and the albino looks up from her satchel she picked up. "Get some of those useless agents. They must give us a ride."
"I will secure transportation." The blue-haired girl carefully squeezes past them and then descends at a fast pace.
By the time they reach the bottom, a nervous Section Two agent helps her steady Shinji and puts them both into the car.
Rei turns around in the front passenger seat: "Are you alright, Shinji?"
"'m fine, I tell ya." Shinji waves her off, his eyes almost crossing, and droops a little.
"This is the nicest he has been recently," Rei comments dryly.
Asuka nods absently, tenderly caressing his cheek: "Yeah, brain's probably flooding him with pain-dulling semio-chemicals. I hope he can forgive me," she adds in a whisper.
Rei gives a small smile. "I do not think that he ever blamed you." She notices Shinji nodding off – or maybe lose consciousness, she cannot be sure – and leaning against his redheaded companion.
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*NGE:CE*
"Good job, guys!" Misato claps her hands together as the three teenagers climb out of their plugs. "Debriefing will be tomorrow, seeing as we're still mostly without power. Your phones should be working fine, though." She then twists her fingers apologetically. "Sorry, but you'll have to walk home; I gotta oversee the cleanup."
"It's alright." answers Asuka when she is finished vomiting most of the LCL out of her lungs, "We'll walk Wondergirl home." The captain smiles at that.
"Thanks, Asuka." The redhead's only answer is a snort, as some LCL is still stuck up her nose.
"Yeah, yeah." she mutters. "But you better thank me only after you're sure I don't kill them both before we get there."
"Ooookay then." Misato sweatdrops. "Off you go, kids."
A few minutes later, Asuka sighs contentedly as the warm water from the shower pours down on her skin and mingles with the soap to rid her body of the last bit of this damned tang. "Sorry, Ayan-... Can I call you Rei?" she says over the sounds of sponging down and washing of hair in both their stalls.
"You may." comes the again quite emotionless sounding voice of her... sister-in-law? 'Now, that's gonna take some getting used to!'
"Rei..." she starts again. "I'm sorry for how Shinji treated you the last few... since all of this happened," she says, managing to change the sentence to something inconspicuous-sounding at the last moment.
"I should have interfered earlier." she adds a few moments later as she finishes washing off the last of the soap.
"It is not a problem." says Rei as she opens Asuka's stall door. The German raises an irritated eyebrow, but merely sighs and turns the water off. "But this is not the place to discuss any of that."
"We really gotta work on your social skills, girl." Asuka says as she accepts the towel from the albino.
After picking Shinji up, they retrace their steps to exit the Geofront. All the way up, Asuka keeps herself firmly interposed between her two peers.
"So..." The redhead clasps her hands behind her back. They just left the Nerv complex and are headed for the blue-haired girl's apartment building, but still conversation does not come from either of the two people with her. "What gave us away?"
"You mean aside from the fact that 'big brother'," Rei mockingly makes air quotes, though her expression seems almost calm, again, "practically told me and that the two of you behaved differently, the last time around?" This gets her a double-take. And another one, just to be sure.
"Huh." The Second Child grins. "Rei Ayanami made a joke. The world's gonna end."
"Yeah, great." mutters Shinji, pouting and putting his hands in his pockets, "Give her ideas, now." This earns him a hard dope-slap and he shuts up.
"Don't listen to him, Rei. He just blames you for his being a wimp in the past." Asuka inhales deeply. "Ah, being a teenager again." This earns her a double-take. "What?"
"How old are you?" Having let her mask slip off once they were out of sight of Nerv, Ayanami now looks and behaves almost like a normal girl. Which makes it even more jarring for the redhead to be asked her age, but she shakes it off.
"Twenty-two to -four, we're not really sure. But when you're the only people left on the goddamn planet, time doesn't really matter, now does it?"
"No, I suppose not. Interesting," Rei takes her chin in her hand. "My sending my own spirit back in time was at the very pinnacle of Third Impact, mere seconds before control shifted to Shinji. Curious. I did not think that the ripples could have gone so far. I was estimating a year, two at the most before the tear in space-time closed."
"Well then, Doctor Ayanami..." Asuka turns around and crosses her arms over her chest while going backwards, "How come, then, that we are here?"
"That, I do not know. What I do know, however..." The First Child points forward, "is that we have arrived at my lodgings."
Asuka stops and half-turns, then arcs a dubious eyebrow at the building. "This is where you live?"
"Yes. You seem uncomfortable with that fact." Rei studies her face curiously.
"Uncomfortable? UNCOMFORTABLE!!?" Asuka very nearly starts hyperventilating as her temper flares up. "Rei, these accommodations are every kind of wrong!"
"Wait 'till you see her apartment." mutters the still sulking Shinji under his breath while the three of them ascend the stairs.
"You can't be serious!?" Torn between disgust at the rundown building and immeasurable anger at the Commander, the bespectacled girl looks at Shinji incredulously. "You mean to tell me you knew!?"
Then Ayanami opens the door.
"Was zum Teufel STIMMT NICHT MIT DIR!!?" [13] screams Asuka, whirling around at Shinji. She then turns back, determination in her eyes, barking, "Rei!"
The albino stands to attention, genuine fear in her eyes.
"Pack your things. You're moving in with us."
Ayanami nods dumbly and hurries inside to comply.
"Seriously..." mutters the fiery redhead as she flips open her cellphone. Typing speed dial number Three on it, she slowly walks into the apartment and her face screws up in disgust.
"Yeah, Misato? Ayanami's place is a dump." She sighs angrily when Misato says something.
"No, of course not. Because a dump's cleaner!
"Now listen: Since she can't live here, she's gonna move in with us. What? No, that's not a problem." She grinds her teeth at yet another question. "No, I said it's not A PROBLEM!! Now make it happen!" she shouts into the receiver, then snaps the phone shut. "You done?"
Rei nods timidly, her satchel clutched to her chest. Asuka raises another eyebrow as she takes it from her.
"Girl, you got a lot to learn..." She sighs, takes the briefcase and turns around. "Shin--"
That's when her eyes fall on the bedside table.
"What is this?" she says as she moves closer, Shinji following behind.
Rei raises a single eyebrow. "The medications I took before I came back. Read the labels."
Asuka does so and starts to feel more and more faint, the satchel hanging half-forgotten in her numb fingers: "Diazepam... Methoxetamine... Benzodiazepine... Loprazolam?"
She whirls on Rei, throwing her hands up as she does... and stops short at a smack-and-crunch close to her.
She turns slowly, dread making her stomach feel heavy...
"Oh my god, Shinji!" The satchel finally falling from her fingers, Asuka rushes to her fiancé's side and drops to the ground.
Shinji is laying crumpled against the wall, his forehead a big red lump and his nose dislodged and bleeding freely.
"Oh Shinji, I am so sorry!" cries Asuka, stroking his hair in near-hysteria.
"Don't... be," he pants. "How... would bou now I bas bebind bou?"
Asuka, in near-hysteria, flinches and gives a small cry as a hand squeezes her shoulder.
"Here." A wet cloth being forced into her free hand snaps her out of her nervous breakdown.
She turns to look at Rei. "Thank you." Taking the rag, she then carefully wipes the blood from Shinji's face. Taking another cloth from Rei's hands, she wipes it across his forehead.
"Oooowwwww..." Trying to put a hand to his nose, Shinji grimaces.
"Shh, no." Asuka intercepts his movement and gently takes his hand away from his face. "I'm so sorry, Shinji," she whispers sadly, "I-I..."
She swallows. "I..." Taking a deep breath, she plows on: "I think I broke your nose. I'll..." She helplessly motions with her free hand.
Shinji gives her a slow nod and sits up against the wall, then scrunches his eyes closed again.
Asuka carefully checks his nose and then yanks the dislodged part forcefully back toward the middle, ripping a pained yell from Shinji.
"Come on," she then says, trying to swing him across her back, "let's get this checked out before we go home."
"'m fine," protests Shinji, refusing to be piggy-backed around twice in the same day.
He promptly wobbles and almost falls, Asuka rushing to steady him.
"Please, Shinji," she pleads, "Let me carry you to the hospital."
"No." Showing considerable spine, Shinji steadies himself on Asuka's arm and tries to smile, though the end-result is more a hideous grimace.
"At the least let me support you," Asuka begs. "Come on." Laying Shinji's arm around her neck, she supports his waist with one arm while grabbing the handrail with the other, guiding them both down.
"Rei," she says to the girl behind them, and the albino looks up from her satchel she picked up. "Get some of those useless agents. They must give us a ride."
"I will secure transportation." The blue-haired girl carefully squeezes past them and then descends at a fast pace.
By the time they reach the bottom, a nervous Section Two agent helps her steady Shinji and puts them both into the car.
Rei turns around in the front passenger seat: "Are you alright, Shinji?"
"'m fine, I tell ya." Shinji waves her off, his eyes almost crossing, and droops a little.
"This is the nicest he has been recently," Rei comments dryly.
Asuka nods absently, tenderly caressing his cheek: "Yeah, brain's probably flooding him with pain-dulling semio-chemicals. I hope he can forgive me," she adds in a whisper.
Rei gives a small smile. "I do not think that he ever blamed you." She notices Shinji nodding off – or maybe lose consciousness, she cannot be sure – and leaning against his redheaded companion.
*NGE:CE*
Translation:
[13] What the devil IS WRONG WITH YOU!!?
- Location
- Spain
Ha! This time I'm first.
Damn, twenty minutes late on my update!
The first thing that came to mind when I read that was Rei pulling off a Sousuke Sagara and appearing with an APC or something.
And Asuka sure has a mean punch. An involuntary one, but still.
- Location
- Australia, mate
Whoopsy. Should always look before flailing around angrily, Asuka.
Ranma-sensei
Sorcerer
- Location
- Citrix Receiver
- Pronouns
- Weatherdependent
Not quite. Just like you, she forgot what she was holding - and a filled leather satchel to the face is no laughing matter.
Addendum: I had a forty-five minute headstart on you.
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- Location
- Spain
BadRoad
a thousand miles
So, just what would that cocktail do to someone?
- Location
- Spain
I think making them into emotionless Canon!Rei is the correct answer.
Rajvik_wolfboy
Wolf amongst the stars.
- Location
- Florida
very bad things, the kind of things that a normal pharmacologist would warn the person with the scrips against mixing them together. Although DollRei would be about acurate when they were concious
grommile
nasty-minded old cynic
- Location
- NERV-Mercia
- Pronouns
- Traditional/Animate
"What is this 'free will' of which you speak?"
Jonen C
F.M.D.G.
- Location
- Lincopense, Ostrogothia, Suecia
Well, this is just my lay guess, but canon-Ayanami shouldn't be too far off the mark, in most cases.
BadRoad
a thousand miles
That would have been my guess too, but I was kind of hoping we had a doctor or pharmacist or something in the thread.
Rajvik_wolfboy
Wolf amongst the stars.
- Location
- Florida
i think it came up in Stryp's story Advice and Trust, and we had confirmation from someone there