Always Late
Lacking in coffee, sleep, and brains
- Location
- Ohio
Or the fact she deliberately fucked with Rei's housing?
Ignis Aurum Probat [Neon Genesis Evangelion]
- Thread starter shadenight123
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Science
If you're reading this, omae wa mo shindeiru.
- Location
- Killeen, TX
You hear that? That's Misato's "Shinji x Rei" sinking.
Also, loving how much like mature adults Gendo and Shinji handled this.
RexHeller
Title Incoming. Please Hold.
- Location
- Somewhere else.
Personally, I think it's about getting her to pilot again.
Gendo: Asuka, get in the giant robot.
Asuka: No way No how. There is absolutely nothing you can offer-
Gendo: I'll forbid Rei from talking to Shinji.
Asuka:...
Gendo: Well?
Asuka: I'm thinking about it.
trob030490
Professor Kokonoe
- Pronouns
- she/her
Didn't she say she literally cannot due to her mother's reaction to her locking her out?
I suppose that could theoretically be a lie, but she's been pretty up front with Shinji otherwise.
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RexHeller
Title Incoming. Please Hold.
- Location
- Somewhere else.
To be honest, I don't remember.
trob030490
Professor Kokonoe
- Pronouns
- she/her
It also came up in that conversation with Rei that ended with Rei playing the "my boobs are bigger" card.
- Location
- National Capital Region, USA
Did can still be true. It's possible that the situation with Shinji and Rei has motivated Asuka to make another attempt at getting in the Entry Plug and forcing her mother to talk to her. I think she would like to be back in the Pilot's seat again.
I have the feeling that Misato is actually egging on the Rei/Asuka feud for Shinji's body in an attempt to bring Asuka back in as a pilot in some compacity.
- Location
- National Capital Region, USA
Entirely possible she's doing it to keep Rei and Asuka from retreating into bad psychological places when the possible implications of being functionally immortal start to sink in. Letting them retreat into the sort of withdrawn hedgehog-hermit state like Shinji of canon would be bad for them both. And this sort of plan is very Misato.
Always Late
Lacking in coffee, sleep, and brains
- Location
- Ohio
That seems to be way too late, at least for Asuka. Rei's probably absolutely OK with her nature.
- Location
- Canada
As long as they're alive, it's never too late to help someone.
- Location
- National Capital Region, USA
And we've seen plenty of evidence that Asuka doesn't want to stay feeling the way she is. She's actively reaching out to Shinji. A bit too actively, since it's making him nervous, but Asuka is that desperately lonely and afraid she'll stay that way forever in immortality.
Chapter Thirty-Seven: "ab ovo usque ad mala"
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Chapter Thirty-Seven: "ab ovo usque ad mala"
Shinji distinctively remembered his apartment to be different. He also remembered it cleaner. Finally, he remembered it being only his apartment. Perhaps another man would have viewed it as some form of heaven. He, on the other hand, saw only hell.
"There was the need to refurbish everything," Asuka said as she held a checklist in the crook of her left arm, her right hand holding on to a pen as she began to cross a few things. "Also, the main walls had to be redone to properly hold all the weight."
Shinji stared at the giant television that covered most of the wall of the living room, even as he aptly ignored Misato, sprawled on the sofa with a can of beer in her right hand, wearing gym shorts and a white tank top. The woman was apparently watching some sort of fashion show, snorting every now and then. Rei was sitting by the table of the living room holding a book in her hands, and glancing every now and then in his direction with an awkward shuffling of feet, or what felt like it.
"I took the liberty of changing your bed to something that could accommodate more than one person," Asuka continued, "I had two bathrooms installed. Unfortunately you and I are going to have to share one-" she spoke, but Shinji wasn't really feeling the displeasure in her voice. "The walls have been reinforced, the alarm is directly linked to Nerv Headquarters, and there is an underground tunnel meant to connect through a bullet train straight to the Evangelion's docking bay." Asuka smiled. "Never again late for your job."
"Isn't it nice, Shinji?" Misato said from the sofa. "I get in on all of this delicious stuff too," she smiled brightly. "It will be like being back in college..." she mumbled next, "When I still got laid."
"I didn't hear that," Shinji said most aptly, coughing in his closed hand and turning to look at Asuka, who beamed him a smile. "So this...was what you and my father talked about?"
"Well, that and something else I'm not allowed to disclose," Asuka said, "But maybe a candlelight dinner later tonight?"
"I will have to be present," Rei said from the table, "I am supposed to be Shinji's bodyguard due to the recent aggression of the Angels."
Asuka said something in German that Shinji could have easily translated, but decided not to. He decided not to because they were quite hefty curses and suggestions for Rei which weren't meant to be repeated in any civilized setting.
"I'm sorry," Rei replied quite calmly. "But I don't speak barbaric baby-talk."
Asuka's eyes narrowed on the blue-haired young woman. "Uh~ Someone just got burned," Misato said, standing up to lazily plop an arm on the sofa, gazing at the cat fight that would probably erupt, unless something was done to calm it down.
"W-Would anyone like something to eat?" Shinji hastily said. "I can cook something up-" as he moved in-between the two, opening the fridge, he realized it was awfully empty. Rather, it was so empty the emptiness of the fridge itself made Shinji feel empty and dead inside, like the desolate barren whiteness of the fridge itself, without even a piece of ice or a lonely forgotten cobweb.
Emptiness had a soul, and it felt lonely, and its name was fridge.
"Supermarket trip it is," Shinji said as he sharply closed the fridge and turned abruptly, moving to leave the house without having even checked his own rooms. Rei stood up, closing her book and starting to follow him.
"I'm coming too!" Asuka exclaimed as she dropped her checklist on a nearby desk, moving to grab her jacket. "We'll go with my car, it will be faster that way-"
"We'll go with my car," Shinji answered in turn, showing off a pair of keys that he had religiously kept into his pockets until then, "It's finally arrived from Europe, so-"
"I call shotgun!" Asuka yelled.
Rei, in answer, slowly opened the cabinet by the entrance and pulled out a shotgun from inside it in order to pass it to a shocked Asuka, who actually stared at the weapon wondering how it had made its way into the house she had built. She was sure she hadn't put it there just as much as she was sure of the hidden cameras in Shinji's bedroom. Which meant nothing, because she clearly hadn't put cameras into Shinji's bedroom. The microphone inside his pillow was simply a way to hear his breathing when he slept. It totally was different from installing cameras, wasn't it?
Shinji's next step did not come as the young man stared at Rei's utterly non-frazzled expression. Misato glanced at them and broke out in laughter, shaking her head at the same time. "N-No! Don't bring the guns out! They're my guns!"
"Then I'm sorry, Langley," Rei said as she placed the shotgun back into the cabinet, closing it, "It appears you may not use the shotgun."
"M-Misato!" Asuka yelled at the older woman, "Since when do you keep weapons!?"
"They're gifts from Kensuke!" Misato retorted, "He's the only one who remembers my birthdays," she added with a sigh, before draining her can, and swiftly moving over to open a second one near her. "Buy me more beer while you're at the supermarket!" she said in the end, waving them goodbye.
Shinji stood in front of his car with a bright, cheerful smile on his face. Asuka did her best to hide her grimace, while Rei simply took the seat by the driver's side without a care in the world.
"It's a Prius," Asuka said, as if the word meant anything.
"She's a hybrid model," Shinji nodded as he took the driver's seat. "Everyone, buckle up."
He didn't understand why Asuka began to claw at the window by her side after he took to the street. Was he going too fast? He reckoned that thirty kilometers per hour was enough in the city center, but perhaps he was to go slower?
"I'm eternally young, but I don't want to spend my eternity inside this car!" Asuka suddenly yelled, "Go faster or let me drive!" as she said that and unbuckled her belt, she pushed herself in the space between the two forward seats. "Tell him something too, Wonder Doll."
"I find this speed pleasant," Rei replied, her eyes on the passing scenery of people walking the streets with all of the normality they could muster, as if not afraid of yet one more sudden Angel attack. Perhaps they had grown used to it. Either one lived in constant fear, or one let it go, accepting that there were events that could not be controlled.
Shinji parked the car in one of the supermarket's parking slots, and gingerly proceeded to grab a shopping cart. When he shopped, he was at peace. There was something cathartic in the act of buying food, but at the same time...he was going to have to cook for everyone else, wasn't he? He inwardly regretted the thought, but as Rei seemed to be looking around vaguely interested in purchasing her own meal, Asuka stuck by his side, humming pleasantly.
"Maybe Ayanami's not so bad," she said suddenly. "Especially because she's like, what, mostly your mother?"
Shinji cringed, and coughed. "Could we please not discuss this here?" Shinji whispered. "And why don't you tell her that?"
"Why should I?" Asuka replied with a shrug. "If she's going to interrupt me, then she can just take the heat. I guess she'll be a horrible mother-in-law, but I'll live with it to make you happy."
Shinji nervously chuckled, "I...I guess?" he glanced away, and then blinked as he realized Rei had meanwhile returned with a plethora of canned food. "Rei?"
"We need to ensure provisions," Rei answered. "Electrical outings are common."
"Not in my house they aren't," Asuka said with her chin raised up in pride, "There are three backup generators, of which one works under sunlight, another with wind power and the last one is a gas model. We're never going to be without electricity. Just like the heating system is a true marvel of engineering, designed to consume as little as possible while ensuring every inch of the house is properly maintained at its best temperature-"
Rei inclined her head to the side, shot Asuka a puzzled look, and then nodded. "I see. Then why was the shower water cold this morning?"
"Must be a problem with the pipes," Asuka said while averting her gaze. "I'll have a look at them."
By the time the shopping was done with, Shinji had understood two things. The first was that Asuka actually liked eating instant food, or prepare sandwiches. The second was that Rei believing in cost-effective food that could last for a long time in order to minimize the amount of trips to the supermarket.
Was he the only one who knew where the fresh produce section was?
The cashier gave a look at the trio, and then grinned. "Shopping with the family?" she asked, much to Shinji's desperate eye widening and silent why are you doing this, unknown cashier?
"Yeah," Shinji replied awkwardly. Rei was his...mother, of sorts. That...he had to talk with her too. He had to talk with her, and then later talk with his father and-and talk with a lot of people, actually. No, more likely, he needed to talk with his therapist. Although he wondered how he was going to phrase that particular sentence. My mother's death traumatized me, but not as much as discovering she's been cloned by my father. Yes doctor, I am not mad, and I did not hallucinate the DNA exams. Oh, yes, I'll follow the nice men in white jacket!
No, perhaps it was best to keep this for himself.
As the bags were filled, the total rattled off and paid with his credit card, he began to push the shopping trolley away. He glanced at Asuka, who remained tranquil and smiling by his side.
"It doesn't bother me," she said, glancing up towards him. "This one wasn't the type to ask how young I was, or how old the other guy was, and she didn't even call the cops secretly, or try to prevent me from buying alcohol even though everything checked in. Oh, also I automatically assumed you meant we were married when you answered yes," Asuka continued with a teasing grin, "I'll get the documents around for you to stamp."
"That's-" Shinji winced, "I'm sorry."
"What for?" Asuka replied with a small shrug. "It's not your fault," she added with a smile. "It's the fault of those that put me inside the Evangelion without even knowing what it would do to me," she continued in a murmur. "But life's too short to waste it moping, or drinking, or vomiting, or doing stuff I'd best not mention. So, let me drive your car, pretty please?"
Shinji knew, against all odds, that he shouldn't have.
He did it all the same, and found God in the prayers sent to ensure he would not die.
Shinji distinctively remembered his apartment to be different. He also remembered it cleaner. Finally, he remembered it being only his apartment. Perhaps another man would have viewed it as some form of heaven. He, on the other hand, saw only hell.
"There was the need to refurbish everything," Asuka said as she held a checklist in the crook of her left arm, her right hand holding on to a pen as she began to cross a few things. "Also, the main walls had to be redone to properly hold all the weight."
Shinji stared at the giant television that covered most of the wall of the living room, even as he aptly ignored Misato, sprawled on the sofa with a can of beer in her right hand, wearing gym shorts and a white tank top. The woman was apparently watching some sort of fashion show, snorting every now and then. Rei was sitting by the table of the living room holding a book in her hands, and glancing every now and then in his direction with an awkward shuffling of feet, or what felt like it.
"I took the liberty of changing your bed to something that could accommodate more than one person," Asuka continued, "I had two bathrooms installed. Unfortunately you and I are going to have to share one-" she spoke, but Shinji wasn't really feeling the displeasure in her voice. "The walls have been reinforced, the alarm is directly linked to Nerv Headquarters, and there is an underground tunnel meant to connect through a bullet train straight to the Evangelion's docking bay." Asuka smiled. "Never again late for your job."
"Isn't it nice, Shinji?" Misato said from the sofa. "I get in on all of this delicious stuff too," she smiled brightly. "It will be like being back in college..." she mumbled next, "When I still got laid."
"I didn't hear that," Shinji said most aptly, coughing in his closed hand and turning to look at Asuka, who beamed him a smile. "So this...was what you and my father talked about?"
"Well, that and something else I'm not allowed to disclose," Asuka said, "But maybe a candlelight dinner later tonight?"
"I will have to be present," Rei said from the table, "I am supposed to be Shinji's bodyguard due to the recent aggression of the Angels."
Asuka said something in German that Shinji could have easily translated, but decided not to. He decided not to because they were quite hefty curses and suggestions for Rei which weren't meant to be repeated in any civilized setting.
"I'm sorry," Rei replied quite calmly. "But I don't speak barbaric baby-talk."
Asuka's eyes narrowed on the blue-haired young woman. "Uh~ Someone just got burned," Misato said, standing up to lazily plop an arm on the sofa, gazing at the cat fight that would probably erupt, unless something was done to calm it down.
"W-Would anyone like something to eat?" Shinji hastily said. "I can cook something up-" as he moved in-between the two, opening the fridge, he realized it was awfully empty. Rather, it was so empty the emptiness of the fridge itself made Shinji feel empty and dead inside, like the desolate barren whiteness of the fridge itself, without even a piece of ice or a lonely forgotten cobweb.
Emptiness had a soul, and it felt lonely, and its name was fridge.
"Supermarket trip it is," Shinji said as he sharply closed the fridge and turned abruptly, moving to leave the house without having even checked his own rooms. Rei stood up, closing her book and starting to follow him.
"I'm coming too!" Asuka exclaimed as she dropped her checklist on a nearby desk, moving to grab her jacket. "We'll go with my car, it will be faster that way-"
"We'll go with my car," Shinji answered in turn, showing off a pair of keys that he had religiously kept into his pockets until then, "It's finally arrived from Europe, so-"
"I call shotgun!" Asuka yelled.
Rei, in answer, slowly opened the cabinet by the entrance and pulled out a shotgun from inside it in order to pass it to a shocked Asuka, who actually stared at the weapon wondering how it had made its way into the house she had built. She was sure she hadn't put it there just as much as she was sure of the hidden cameras in Shinji's bedroom. Which meant nothing, because she clearly hadn't put cameras into Shinji's bedroom. The microphone inside his pillow was simply a way to hear his breathing when he slept. It totally was different from installing cameras, wasn't it?
Shinji's next step did not come as the young man stared at Rei's utterly non-frazzled expression. Misato glanced at them and broke out in laughter, shaking her head at the same time. "N-No! Don't bring the guns out! They're my guns!"
"Then I'm sorry, Langley," Rei said as she placed the shotgun back into the cabinet, closing it, "It appears you may not use the shotgun."
"M-Misato!" Asuka yelled at the older woman, "Since when do you keep weapons!?"
"They're gifts from Kensuke!" Misato retorted, "He's the only one who remembers my birthdays," she added with a sigh, before draining her can, and swiftly moving over to open a second one near her. "Buy me more beer while you're at the supermarket!" she said in the end, waving them goodbye.
Shinji stood in front of his car with a bright, cheerful smile on his face. Asuka did her best to hide her grimace, while Rei simply took the seat by the driver's side without a care in the world.
"It's a Prius," Asuka said, as if the word meant anything.
"She's a hybrid model," Shinji nodded as he took the driver's seat. "Everyone, buckle up."
He didn't understand why Asuka began to claw at the window by her side after he took to the street. Was he going too fast? He reckoned that thirty kilometers per hour was enough in the city center, but perhaps he was to go slower?
"I'm eternally young, but I don't want to spend my eternity inside this car!" Asuka suddenly yelled, "Go faster or let me drive!" as she said that and unbuckled her belt, she pushed herself in the space between the two forward seats. "Tell him something too, Wonder Doll."
"I find this speed pleasant," Rei replied, her eyes on the passing scenery of people walking the streets with all of the normality they could muster, as if not afraid of yet one more sudden Angel attack. Perhaps they had grown used to it. Either one lived in constant fear, or one let it go, accepting that there were events that could not be controlled.
Shinji parked the car in one of the supermarket's parking slots, and gingerly proceeded to grab a shopping cart. When he shopped, he was at peace. There was something cathartic in the act of buying food, but at the same time...he was going to have to cook for everyone else, wasn't he? He inwardly regretted the thought, but as Rei seemed to be looking around vaguely interested in purchasing her own meal, Asuka stuck by his side, humming pleasantly.
"Maybe Ayanami's not so bad," she said suddenly. "Especially because she's like, what, mostly your mother?"
Shinji cringed, and coughed. "Could we please not discuss this here?" Shinji whispered. "And why don't you tell her that?"
"Why should I?" Asuka replied with a shrug. "If she's going to interrupt me, then she can just take the heat. I guess she'll be a horrible mother-in-law, but I'll live with it to make you happy."
Shinji nervously chuckled, "I...I guess?" he glanced away, and then blinked as he realized Rei had meanwhile returned with a plethora of canned food. "Rei?"
"We need to ensure provisions," Rei answered. "Electrical outings are common."
"Not in my house they aren't," Asuka said with her chin raised up in pride, "There are three backup generators, of which one works under sunlight, another with wind power and the last one is a gas model. We're never going to be without electricity. Just like the heating system is a true marvel of engineering, designed to consume as little as possible while ensuring every inch of the house is properly maintained at its best temperature-"
Rei inclined her head to the side, shot Asuka a puzzled look, and then nodded. "I see. Then why was the shower water cold this morning?"
"Must be a problem with the pipes," Asuka said while averting her gaze. "I'll have a look at them."
By the time the shopping was done with, Shinji had understood two things. The first was that Asuka actually liked eating instant food, or prepare sandwiches. The second was that Rei believing in cost-effective food that could last for a long time in order to minimize the amount of trips to the supermarket.
Was he the only one who knew where the fresh produce section was?
The cashier gave a look at the trio, and then grinned. "Shopping with the family?" she asked, much to Shinji's desperate eye widening and silent why are you doing this, unknown cashier?
"Yeah," Shinji replied awkwardly. Rei was his...mother, of sorts. That...he had to talk with her too. He had to talk with her, and then later talk with his father and-and talk with a lot of people, actually. No, more likely, he needed to talk with his therapist. Although he wondered how he was going to phrase that particular sentence. My mother's death traumatized me, but not as much as discovering she's been cloned by my father. Yes doctor, I am not mad, and I did not hallucinate the DNA exams. Oh, yes, I'll follow the nice men in white jacket!
No, perhaps it was best to keep this for himself.
As the bags were filled, the total rattled off and paid with his credit card, he began to push the shopping trolley away. He glanced at Asuka, who remained tranquil and smiling by his side.
"It doesn't bother me," she said, glancing up towards him. "This one wasn't the type to ask how young I was, or how old the other guy was, and she didn't even call the cops secretly, or try to prevent me from buying alcohol even though everything checked in. Oh, also I automatically assumed you meant we were married when you answered yes," Asuka continued with a teasing grin, "I'll get the documents around for you to stamp."
"That's-" Shinji winced, "I'm sorry."
"What for?" Asuka replied with a small shrug. "It's not your fault," she added with a smile. "It's the fault of those that put me inside the Evangelion without even knowing what it would do to me," she continued in a murmur. "But life's too short to waste it moping, or drinking, or vomiting, or doing stuff I'd best not mention. So, let me drive your car, pretty please?"
Shinji knew, against all odds, that he shouldn't have.
He did it all the same, and found God in the prayers sent to ensure he would not die.
NewAgeOfPower
Engineering Pornagrapher Extraordinaire
- Location
- An Certain Hive of Scum & Villainy, known as NYC
Asuka is scaring me.
- Location
- Elsewhere
"...so that's why I have such trouble with relationships, I'm eternally young."
"That's tough. Wait, I heard there was some guy who was a pilot too. You could try to start a relationship with him!"
"...yeah, I may have had the same idea at some point, but it looks like I came on a little strong..."
"How bad was it?"
"...I mean, c'mon, it's been 147 years, 4 months and 13 days! How long are restraining orders supposed to last?! Isn't there some Statute of Limitations or something?!"
"...the fact that you know the exact date makes me think it hasn't lasted long enough."
Mechasaurian
Big Bossu
- Location
- Lost among fields of history
- Pronouns
- They/Them
Shinji distinctively remembered his apartment
RexHeller
Title Incoming. Please Hold.
- Location
- Somewhere else.
Both Asuka and Rei scare me. Misato meanwhile is just not helping.
Why?
She's just listening. Errr... I mean she's just recording his breathing to ensure he continues to breathe during the night! Sleep apnea is no joke, ya know?
Meanwhile Rei instead takes the direct approach by simply standing over Shinji as he sleeps.
Which to his dismay, he finds out when he wakes in the middle of the night and screams at the sight of two glowing red eyes staring at him in the dark.
One day Shinji, Rei, and Asuka come home and they see Misato holding up three paper cut out figures of themselves.
"Fight! Fight! Fight!"
"Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!"
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- Location
- National Capital Region, USA
~sweatdrop~
I suspect Rei just made that shit up on the spot.
Ah... thank you, Rei?
That's both creepy-stalkerish... and sad & lonely.
Shinji, the only reason I can't say 'My grandmother drives faster!' is she's been dead for 30 years... and I bet she still drives faster than you. Move it!
"Maybe because you're such an ice cold bitch you chilled it on contact. ...oh, I'm sorry, did I say that out loud, Rei?"
Distinctly, Shade. Distinctly.
Always Late
Lacking in coffee, sleep, and brains
- Location
- Ohio
'from the egg to the apples'?
*reads on*
That is the most pretentious way I've ever seen someone title a grocery run chapter.
Good job.
Weight of what?
1. Ah. The weight of Misato's beer collection.
2. And to also absorb the shock of you smash-cutting the three-pilot+Misato living arrangement in.
3. Does this mean Misato's getting an actual character now?
And now I see how Asuka got this whole thing approved.
Oh quit griping and continue your vendetta against your life and liver.
The 'something else' being some detail on Rei.
Aaaand there's the buzzkill on Asuka's mood.
Which Rei is enjoying immensely.
MISATO! SHUT THE FUCK UP AND DRINK YOUR BEER!
Unhealthy dependency, thy name is Asuka.
1.
rofl: Nice one Rei. 2. We already did YandeRei, it's going to be a bit harder to fit your name into a Yandere-pun Asuka. But you are officially one.
... with how much you drink out of depression? How are you, and your neighbors for that matter, not dead?
Joke 1: But no comment on Rei's privileges.
Joke 2: Eh, it wouldn't do anything to your AT-Field anyway.
Then stop bitching and screw each other already! Or did Kensuke dump you too after he realized his sexy military goddess drank her body weight in Yebiso, Boa and Sake every day?
No thanks, it's not clearly killing you fast enough. Maybe some vodka, or good ole american moonshine.
Ah. Asuka's a speed freak.
And the fact that it's annoying Asuka has nothing to do with that whatsoever.
I'm with Shinji. Not sure how to feel about this seemingly overture to be nicer to Rei.
... Rei, isn't being a hardcore survivalist Kensuke's thing?
Clearly Asuka learned from the EnergieBunker in Hamburg.
Uh huh. Clearly.
Because Fuck You Shinji.
I see this going one of three ways:
1. A hit squad killing Shinji's therapist.
2. Shinji's therapist being brought into NERV's confidentiality and Shinji being told in no uncertain terms what he can and cannot discuss with the therapist, and that they will know if the agreement is broken.
3. Shinji gets a NERV therapist who's under Gendo's orders to manipulate the guy.
Why do I imagine Asuka learned to drive from Misato? Or that Asuka's laughing maniacally right now?
grommile
nasty-minded old cynic
- Location
- NERV-Mercia
- Pronouns
- Traditional/Animate
I think it's already been established that Asuka drives like she's a regenerating immortal
- Location
- Elsewhere
Alternatively, you can turn on Eco Mode.
You won't be getting anywhere fast then.