N.G.Evangelion - When Angels Deserve to Die

Disclaimer: Same one as in the first part.

Chapter One:


\"Man, that was so cool... wasn\'t it, Shinji? Touji... Though.... The girl... I feel sorry for you, Shinji... Having to work with her....\"

Shinji remained silent, preferring to not remember the embarrassment of wearing one of Asuka\'s spare plugsuits. Touji nodded. \"Yea...boy, was she a loudmouth!\" the dark haired boy leaned back in his chair, looking up at the roof. \"And that voice....\"

\"She\'s so different from Ayanami...\"

Shinji nodded, and looked over at Touji, who was lounging on a bench. \"Ah, you might want to be careful...if you keep sitting like that, you\'ll probably fall down and hit your head...\"

\"Third Child! Wait up!\" Asuka said, running to catch up with them. \"Misato wanted you to show me around.\" She looked at the other two. \"Please tell me there are some better people to hand out with around here than THOSE two.\"

Touji mouthed, \'the horror....her voice...\', nudging Shinji in the ribs and grinning. The other boy looked back at Asuka, and hoped that she couldn\'t read lips...otherwise... He blinked that thought away. \"They\'re my friends....my only friends...\"

\"Disgusting...\" She grimaced. \"Then just point me to the school... I have a feeling I can do better. Maybe the First Child will show me around.\"

\'What a bitch..\' The other boy mouthed standing behind her. \"Ayanami usually doesn\'t hang out with anyone... But if you want... The school\'s that way.\" He said pushing up his glasses as he pointed.

Touji made a bland face, then put an arm around Shinji, and caught him in a headlock as they resumed walking. \"Ah, who cares? After all, the walk is nice, even if there\'s a shrill noise in my ears, right, Ikari?\"

Asuka glared at them and huffed storming off ahead of them. \"No class... Too bad I couldn\'t catch Kaji... for a ride this morning. At least he\'s someone worth talking to.\"


There was another boy making his way down the street, his face shielded by a newspaper. All that could be seen was a slight glimpse of red spikes. /Man, what a mess./ he chewed on a donut as he read the news about the US base, which was on a print-out concealed in the paper. /Good thing they moved the third one, and that the fourth was recovered.../ He picked up his pace, jogging blindly across Asuka\'s path.

Asuka didn\'t see him and crashed into him. \"Hey! Watch where you\'re going!\" She growled without looking.

The boy looked up at her sourly. \"Thanks for the advice, you....\" Then he blinked, and rolled up his newspaper, poking her with it. \"Who are you?\"

She looked at him shocked. \"I\'m Asuka Langley Soryu.\" She said matter of factly. \"Who are you?\"

He blinked. \"Uh...Jack.\" He poked her again. \"You\'re...the Second Child, right?\" His blue eyes looked into hers. \"Pilot of Evangelion Combat-type Unit 2?\"

\"Yes.\" She nodded.

Kensuke elbowed the others. \"She\'s occupied - let\'s go.\"

He stood up, and offered her his hand. \"I was the pilot for both Units 3 and 4....before the accident, anyway. Neither of them are in the country yet. They called me the Sixth Child...\" There was a slight grin on his face. \"I assume the others are also around here somewhere, right?\"

\"That Loser\'s the Third Child.\" She pointed to Shinji.

\"Hey! Shinji\'s not a loser.\" Kensuke started.

Touji nodded. \"He\'s got way more experience at this than you!\" he added, shaking his free fist as he kept Shinji in the headlock. Jack grinned at them.

\"Phft.\" Asuka turned, her hair falling neatly around her. \"Then why is it he needed Ayanami\'s help his second time out, and nearly got killed his first time out?\"

Touji was about to retort, then started to think. Then he shrugged. \"Eh...bad day?\" he offered weakly. Shinji, getting flustered, managed to slip free. He straightened out his clothes, and resumed walking.

Jack was watching them, amused. \"I guess this is something that happens every day, I take it?\" he asked, brushing a few loose spikes out of the way of his eyes.

Kensuke looked at him. \"Spoiled Gaijin.\" He snapped then ran to catch up. \"Hey, Ikari, you\'re okay, right?\"

\"I wouldn\'t know. I just got here.\"

Jack looked back at Asuka. \"Same here. I\'ve already got my NERV clearance, of course. Anyway, I don\'t know when mine gets here....or which one they\'ll let me use....\" He put his hands over his head, and whistled to himself.

\"Probably Wonder Girl\'s... Since they don\'t seem to want to risk her as much... I don\'t see what\'s so special about her...\"

Touji caught up to Kensuke and Shinji. \"Wow, it\'s almost like our own World War II re-enactment...\" He nudged them both. \"Germany AND America going after Japan...get it?\"

Kensuke groaned.

Jack nodded. \"Yea...the only one I ever got used to was number four...and that one wasn\'t meant for fighting...\" He rubbed his arm with a slight frown. \"It can sure tear things apart though.\"

Shinji gave Touji a look. \"That wasn\'t very funny.\" This resulted in him getting noogied. \"AH! What was that for?!\"

\"I see.\" She smiled. \"This means I still have the only functional combat unit.\"

\"Bleah....mine\'s the only one with an S^2 generator...\" Jack said, before slapping his hand over his mouth. \"...I said that out loud, didn\'t I?\"

Touji gave him a look. \"I felt like it.\"

\"WHAT!?\" She looked at him. \"No way... They told me that wasn\'t even ready yet...\"

Jack frowned. \"It\'s not...that\'s what blew up the Second Branch of NERV-2....the EVA\'s not even close to being repaired yet...and I can\'t stand using unit 3....in that one, it\'s like someone\'s watching me, and spying on me...\"

\"Nonsense... They\'re machines.\" Asuka scowled. \"You\'re as foolish as Ikari is.\" With that she started for the school.

Shrugging, he followed her, reading his paper. /I know better, but I can\'t say.../ \"Well, that\'s what it feels like....it\'s probably just a glitch in my data...it\'s not like we Americans are that good with building computers that last more than a month, right?\" he said.

\"Right.\" Asuka nodded.

He continued, with a grin. \"But we still won both wars, frauline..\"

She gave a small smirk. \"Remember who let you win one though.\"

Kensuke looked back. \"They look to be bonding...\" He pushed his glasses back up.

Jack made a face. \"...I see I have met my match. In hair color as well as wit.\" He folded his newspaper under his arm, and looked up ahead of them for a moment. \"So, what colors are the other...robots?\" he asked.

\"Mine\'s red. The first Child\'s is White....\"

Touji nodded. \"Well, at least that gets her off out back, right Shinji?\" He stopped noogieing him, and looked up at the school as they neared it.

\"..Trim, but mostly blue... And Third Child has a garish one... Purple, green, and orange. Looks like a four year-old chose the colors.\"

Jack smirked. \"Mine were black with white, and platinum with some black. They had the same physical appearance too...twins, you could say...\"

\"Interesting..\"

He shrugged. \"They were both designed by the same people, at the same time. One was the second combat model, the other was the S^2 and Dummy Plug test version.\" He grinned. \"I always liked them, because they had this air of...something, you know? That indescribable quality. A lot like most women, actually..\"

\"What would you know about Women?\"

He laughed. \"Not much. I try not to ask too much....I end up getting hit over the head with things...so I only know the biology, and that women don\'t like perverts, idiots, and lazy guys....at least, all the women I met didn\'t..\"

She looked as if she was debating hitting him

\"See? That\'s what I mean.\" He rubbed the back of his head, and grinned. \"Though oddly enough, most of the people I worked with were women....I guess they were a little easier to work with than grown-up men...one technician, who later got fired, was such a prude he wouldn\'t listen to any of my suggestions....want to know what happened?\"

\"Hm... sure.\"

\"The S^2 model went berserk on us...I had to go out, and stop it with unit 3....only of course he was an idiot who ignored me, so it turned out that the power umbilical was damaged...I guess it was a lot like fighting an Angel, only one with the same advantages as you...Thankfully the same time mine went dead, the S^2 conked out as usual. So, we fired his ass, and I had to take over the program for a couple of months..\" Jack shrugged. \"I managed to get everything back on track until we got a new tech for it. I got to learn a lot about the overall program, and that Unit 0 was the...\" he snickered. \"...the orange-creamsicle model...\" He burst out laughing.

\"WHAT? No, they didn\'t color it like that, did they?\"

He nodded. \"Orange and white, I swear. The only parts that are the original colors are the face and eye...I heard they changed it because it looked...juvenile. I can say one thing though...Thank whatever looks out for us that it wasn\'t PINK....\" His face was serious when he said that.

She snickered. \"They wanted to make my Eva pink. I told them no because it clashes with my hair.\"

Jack made a face. \"Once, some ass dyed my plugsuit pink. AND my hair. Seems they slipped something in the LCL fluid....I got them back though...heh heh. Let\'s just say they learned that not everything chocolate coated is a GOOD thing..\" He shivered slightly. \"My hair...PINK....that was just evil.\"

The bell rang and she cursed in German. \"We\'re late!\"

\"Then...we run like the bunny rabbits.\" That said, he started running, the newspaper flapping from under his arm. \"Nice cursing, by the way.\"

\"Thank you.\" She ran after him.

Jack opened the door, and held it open for her. \"If I just ran in, you\'d smack your face in the door...\" he explained.

She slowed. \"See all Americans aren\'t total jerks... or are you the exception?”

He shrugged. \"Depends. Most men I met seemed too full of themselves most of the time. Plus, I can tell you\'d kick my ass if I let the door smack you, right?\" he grinned slightly.

She smirked.

\"I\'ll take that as a \'yes\'. Or whatever you say in German. After you, then.\" He moved the door open more, and waved her in.

\"Ja.\" She entered brushing the hair out of her face.

\"Ah. That also means \'goodbye\' in Japanese, I believe,\" he followed her. \"So...what class are we in? I\'m still incredibly new to the place. However, give me something like an EVA, and I\'m in heaven. I\'m more of technician kinda guy, not a fighter. All I learned, I blame on my supervisors.\"

\"I don\'t know... This is my first day here too.\"

\"I believe I should say \'damn, we should\'ve followed the other three...\', huh?\" Jack scratched the back of his head.

\"Guess they were helpful..\" She stopped at the map and grinned. \"There we are.\" She pointed to a classroom then started for it.

He followed after her. \"What fun....late on the first day....what\'s next? Something falls on my head? Or something blowing up?\"

\"Maybe Angels and you\'d have to sit out?\"

\"Bleah...well, as long as nothing tries to kill me, I\'m happy. Oh, if I ever get any records of the old color for the prototype, you\'ll be the first to see them.\"

She opened the door to the classroom.

He walked inside. \"One good turn deserves another, I suppose....\" He spotted Shinji and the others in the back. \"And they got here ahead of us.\"

\"You two must be the new students. We have a seat near Ikari and Ayanami...\"

Jack nodded, and took one of the seats. He unrolled his newspaper, and started reading again. \"Well, at least it\'s not as bland as the last place I spent most of my time in...\" he commented.

\"Why don\'t you introduce yourselves before taking your seats.\"

\"Agh....never had to do that back home...\" He stood back up. \"Okay, I\'m Jack. Hi. Yes, I don\'t have a last name, because I\'m an orphan. No mother, no father, no siblings. I\'m good with electronics, large weapons management, and a bunch of other stuff I was adopted to do by the military...any questions? No? Oh, I also have an IQ of about 300...I lost count after a while. That\'s what people tell me, anyway.\"

Asuka wrote her full name on the board then went on about growing up in Germany and her high IQ.

Jack made a slight face. /Ick. Well, as long as we don\'t start arguing over quantum physics, I\'m happy./ He pulled a small sketchbook from his pants pocket, and opened it to a worn page. He glanced over at the other three boys. \"So, you guys like EVA, huh?\"

Kensuke nodded. \"Hey, sorry about ditching you with her..\"

Jack shrugged. \"No problem...we got along pretty good...\" He slid over the book. \"Here\'s something you won\'t see for a while. It\'s a picture I drew of EVAs 3 and 4.\" True to his word, incredibly-lifelike portraits were there of the twin units. \"They\'re both mine, though I prefer number four...the platinum one.\"

\"Wow..\"

Touji looked at them. \"Pretty good...\" Shinji looked at them, and squinted a bit.

\"Yeah, I know....the rounded head makes them look odd. It\'s intimidating when you see them coming straight at you, with that slouched posture, because at low-light, they look like monsters...giant monsters...especially the black one.\" Jack started looking at his newspaper again. \"I can\'t say too much about the hardware in them, but the third was the second combat-type, and the other is a proto-type for a new power source....very secret stuff. They had friggin\' cool guns too.\"

Kensuke grinned. \"Please just tell a little...\"

\"Well, they were the standard stuff...the stuff NERV has here...then there were what we called \'American\' guns...revolvers, something that resembled a machine rifle, but was actually a shotgun...we also had some energy weapons, but thanks to improper storage, some of them burned out pretty fast. In other words, the American NERV built the cool stuff, but had to do it with utter garbage...even our EVAs needed constant repair...\" He reached into his pocket, and pulled out a black piece of broken metal. \"This is the last example. Part of EVA-03\'s chest plating after it started fragmenting. I told them to SLOWLY cool it down, and what do they do? Spray it down with liquid nitrogen...Can\'t help it, I guess. Not all Americans seem to care about maintaining the EVAs we had, since not once did we have an angel attack...we had an \'incident\' once though. All I can say to non-official personelle is that thanks to a new system, one EVA went berserk, and we had to use the other to shut it back down. That\'s when I became head of the US EVA program for about two months.\"

He grinned in awe. \"Hear that Shinji?\"

The quiet boy nodded. \"Seems like people relied on you on lot...were you ever...pressured into it?\" he asked softly. Jack scratched the side of his face.

\"No, can\'t say that I was...I had nothing else to do in my life, so I took it as the opportunity to indulge my intellect. As it is, I\'ve probably got the most experience with the EVA systems, and made myself a nice bit of money out of it in the process...I mean, it pays good to be the guy doing most of the work. Though lately I\'ve spent most of my time in a plugsuit, in the pools. Nearly froze my rear off.\"

Asuka overheard their conversation and sighed.

Jack looked over at her. \"What? You never froze your...rear end...off in the cooling pools?\" He had a slight grin. \"Back at the Second Branch, they were colder than what the Antarctic used to be. And I was the only one crazy enough to just wear a plugsuit and leather jacket.\"

\"Be lucky it was cold though... Or you would have burned yourself from the Unit.\"

He gave her a look. \"..I knew this would happen the moment you said your IQ rating, you know.\"

\"Hmph, just because you\'re two points higher doesn\'t mean a thing.\"

Touji nudged Shinji again, and whispered, \"Looks like she found someone else to peck at.\"

She grinned. \"I\'ve at least fought an Angel.\"

Kensuke muttered. \"With Shinji\'s help.\"

\"What was that?\" Asuka turned to him, balling her fists in anger.

Jack regarded her sourly. \"And I\'ve gone up against a berserker EVA...by myself...with about three minutes worth of power...I don\'t see the difference.\"

Shinji began looking for a means of escape.

Kensuke sighed looking over the drawings still, trying to ignore Asuka. \"She\'ll stop soon anyway...\"

Jack shrugged, and crossed his arms over his chest. \"Well, I\'d say more, but the only proof for it would be for me to actually use one of them...and the odds of that happening soon is slim....The third unit\'s being examined by the First Branch in the States, and they\'re too afraid to let NERV have the fourth one...\"

Asuka looked at him. \"I didn\'t see you in the EVA... That\'s right, because you\'re not Special.\"

Kensuke grinned. \"You know when you say it that way... Seems you should ride a small bus.\"

Jack began to whistle, and looked through his paper again. \"You know, you two are like two of the scientists that worked for me when I overlooked everything...\"

\"Why you...\" Asuka heard Jack and looked at him.

Touji could guess what Jack was going to say next, and he clapped his hand over his mouth to stop from laughing.

\"Soryuu, sit down.\"

She flushed and fell into her seat.

Kensuke had caught what Jack had said and glared at him. \"Me... her... no way.\"

Jack just grinned as he leafed through his paper. \"I only call \'em as I see \'em,\" was his response. He leafed through the notebook again on Kensuke\'s desk, and went to a sketch of EVA-00. \"Have an orange coloring pencil handy?\"

Touji checked Kensuke\'s case. \"Nope...\" He looked over at Rei, who was silent the whole time. \"Do you have one?\" he asked the pale girl, who had been looking to the front of the class. Silently, she produced on, and handed it to Jack. He took it, and looked at her.

\"Thanks....I think I know her...\" As he spoke, he began coloring in the sketch with the orange pencil, and lightly bit his tongue. When he was finished, he let them see it. \"Okay, is this done right? Or have I colored it wrong?\"

Asuka looked. \"What is that?\"

Kensuke bit back a laugh.

\"Well, judging from what I managed to piece together, this should be the old color scheme for the prototype...\" He scratched his head. \"I haven\'t actually seen the thing, so I probably messed it up.\"

\"Shinji, Doesn\'t Ayanami pilot the prototype?\"

Shinji nodded. \"Yeah....I thought you knew about that already...\" Touji was looking at the sketch intently.

\"Why don\'t you ask her?\" Kensuke asked.

\"It...makes me want to go buy....a creamsicle...\" Jack commented slowly, as he checked through his pockets. \"Anyone have five bucks on them?\"

\"Ask Wonder girl? I don\'t even think she can talk.\"

Kensuke shook his head. \"You\'re in Japan. It\'s Yen.\" He grinned.

Rei looked up for a moment. \"i can talk....i just choose not to. i don\'t see a problem with that.\"

Asuka gasped mockingly. \"It lives.\"

Jack gave him a slight glare. \"If you want the sketchbook, don\'t complain.\"

Kensuke looked to Touji wondering if he\'d shut her up.

Touji checked his pockets as well. \"I want one too....\" he moaned. He looked over at Shinji. \"Hey, you think we should get some ice cream after this?\"

\"I\'m in. I\'ll get you some Jack. But Gaijin\'s gotta get her own.\"

\"I\'m not a Gaijin. That\'s derogatory for an American. I\'m German.\"

Rei resumed reading the book she had in her hands after Jack had handed the pencil back to her. \"Children, please..\" he said, grinning. \"Keep this up, and I\'ll turn the car around, and all you\'ll get will be liver and onions.\"

\"Ayanami, would you like to join us?\" Kensuke asked hoping to get a slight rise out of Shinji.

\"Hmph, who needs you boys. I have a real man.\"

Rei looked up for a moment once more. \"i do not see how a simple drawing can make everyone want ice cream..\" she commented. \"however, i shall go anyway. the commander said i should watch the sixth child, and make sure he did not start...\'tagging\' things.\"

Jack made a face. \"He\'ll never forget the graffiti I put all over the Second Branch, will he?\" he griped.

\"Sure it\'s not to watch Ikari?\" Kensuke asked.

Rei looked at him closely. \"i cannot say.\"

Touji looked over at Asuka. \"I didn\'t know she liked older men...next thing you know, she\'ll be making eyes with Shinji\'s father...\" he said loudly.

Kensuke shuddered.

\"You guys are pervs. I\'m coming too. Wonder Girl can\'t deal with the four of you on her own.\"

\"I am not a perv. In fact, now I\'m going to see if they need a new pilot for Unit 2.\" Jack made a snooty face at Asuka.

\"WHAT?! You\'re not going anywhere my unit two!\"

Jack wagged his finger at her, and smirked. \"I bet I can do better...after all, I\'ve piloted two different EVAs, while you\'ve only piloted the one. Unless you think you could do a better job than me...\" He smirked broader.

Asuka looked at him. \"That a challenge?\"

Jack looked thoughtful, then made a whiffing hand gesture, before speaking in French.

Shinji and Touji blinked, blank and uncomprehending. \"Uh...what\'s he saying?\" Touji scratched the back of his head.

Kensuke looked at them and shrugged.

Shinji stared, not used to English, and certainly not French. It was all Greek to him.

\"In Japanese or German, idiot. I want the others to know you accepted my challenge.\"

Jack gave her a slight smirk. \"I accept most graciously.\" He bowed, eyes bright with glee.

Touji whispered, \"I think he\'s up to somethin\'...\" to Kensuke and Shinji.

She smiled. \"Hear that?\" She looked at Rei and Shinji. \"If I can beat the great Ikari, then you should be nothing.\"

Ken nodded. \"Wish we could go watch. It would be worth it to see someone hand her ego back to her after crushing it.\"

Shinji looked away, a light red on his face. As usual, Rei was hardly concerned. \"do what you want.\"

Asuka remembered the Icecream. \"We\'ll compete after our snack.\" She grinned grabbing his arm to lead him to the ice cream shop.

\"Ack?\" Jack replied, looking at the others for some help. Shinji stood up slowly, Touji dragging him as well. Rei sighed, and closed her book, slipping it into her satchel.


To Be Continued.....