Turn of the lights... (And fall down the stairs) Prepare for.... -------------------------- Mystery Ecchi teather 3000 -------------------------- Episode 5: Crossing borders: ---------------------------- First things first, this is a Msting of a work of fanfiction, any characters inhere are used without authorisation of their respective owners. NeonRanma1.htm is by Khyron KingKiller, and he's welcome to it. this is just another form of C&C, don't take it personall :-P Oh, before i forget, this contains adult material, so if you're not above 18, i urge you to look away from it, i'm not responsible for your actions, so if you read this, you'll be the blame of all your actions, not me :) Well, on with the show! ----------------------- After a few dosen failures to make a comunications device, Mike was growing inpatient, he had been surrendered to a madman, and had no way to flee out of his grip... "Mike, what if we severed the data-uplink of Microhard?" Tom asked, "That way, they can't force those horrid movies, series & fics upon us!" Mike looked at his friend, "If i do that, the satelite will detonate, killing us..." Tom sighed upon hearing this... "What about a message in a bottle?" Crow asked. Suddenly, the red light starts blinking. "Sigh, Wacko Jacko is calling" Mike said. "Ah, hello my dribbling fools, how are we feeling?" the mad one asked. "As good as ever, that last fic wasn't THAT bad." Mike said, but the bot's faces clearly suggested otherwise. "What??? You survived that with your sanity intact????? How is that possible??" Forrester could not believe his ears, there was no way they could have survived that horror! "Well then... maybe this next mix-up will drive you into insanity!" he sneered, tapping the button, sending the Fic to the satelite. All: We've got FanFic SIGNNNNNNNNNNNNNN! ----------------- Door 6: It's made out of rice, you eat a way through Door 5: It's made out of beer bottles, you drink a few and fall over the rest Door 4: It's made out of Lego blocks, you break it apart Door 3: It slides open from the middle. Door 2: It's made out of barbie dolls, you burn them with a flamethrower Door 1: It's made out of furbies, you put them aside carefully ----------------- Legal stuff : All the characters depicted below do not belong to me in any way. Crow: I just cleamed them as my own! Tom: Crow, that's STEALING! I am not doing this for profit, honest! Mike: Who would pay for this crap anyway? I have the greatest respect for Rumiko Takahashi, creator of Ranma 1/2, and the creators of Neon Genesis Evangelion. Tom: And that's why i'm butchering their characters! I write for the sake of fun and don't really have their permission to do this to their patented characters. Please don't be mad at me. Crow: I'll be good, i promise! Mumbo Jumbo: I have taken several liberties with this work. Since I do not have a full understanding of the realities and relationships of both worlds, there are sure to be errors and changes of "reality" in this fic. Mike: 'Both worlds'?? Tom: Is this a Sliders fic? Casting of each character from the Ranma 1/2 universe to the Evangelion universe is purely whimsical and out of the blue, Crow: ARGH!!! CROSSOVER FIC!!!!!!!! Mike: I don't know about you guys, but i don't like the sound of that... there are some serious alterations in some of their history and background to make things mesh a little more but I hope it will be for the better. Tom: But if it sucks, then so be it! The identities and personalities of said characters are a combination of both Eva and Ranma. Mike: Thus making Evanma? Crow: Nah, creation means inovation, i doubt the author knows that.. Tom: Don't flame the author, or we'll get flamed too! A mix of Eva's heavy seriousness and a dash of Ranma style wackiness to get rid of Eva's mother of all head aches type plot. Crow: I believe the headache part... Any praise will be appreciated, if you must criticize, please do it gently. I have a sensitive ego. Mike: I'll tell my mother!! LeeKing Works proudly presents: Tom: Nothing!! Absolutely nothing!! Sorry for wasting your time! Crow: Nice try Tom, nice try... Tom: D'oh! Neon Ranma Evangelion By Khyron KingKiller Mike: The Sensitive ego guy! Part 1: The Unexpected Hero Tom: Isn't that a movie title? Mike: No, that's The Unexpected Guest Crow: Oh no!!! It's a Point'n Click Adventure!!! Mike: Argh!! Run!!! *When I wake up in the morning, I hunger for a smile. I face each day, alone again. With out a friend. Seems right somehow, that sorrow mars my brow. I move from place to place, at such a frantic pace. I'm never sure where I am now.* Tom: Wow, Mike.... that was deep! Mike: I'm touched! Tom: D'oh! System failure! Mike: That's windows for you... Ranma Ikari, stopped the song. He opened his eyes to the light of the setting sun. Mike: Ranma Ikari??????? Argh! That headache will be here sooner then i tought.... Amber light unable to color his dispassionate gaze. He was alone in the train speeding towards Tokyo 3. Crow: You're on a highway to hell! He received a letter with a picture of a woman in a blue dress named Kasumi telling him that he had been transfered again. Tom: The woman in Blue!!!! Crow: You can leave your hat on! To Tokyo 3 this time. Mike: Tokyo 1 was still fighting Godzilla, and Tokyo 2 is being blown up by the Akira Project. Since he had been on his own, nearly ten years of his sixteen years of life, Crow: He's been on the run THAT long?? Ranma had been transfered from school to school, place to place, house to house more often than he cared to keep count. Tom: After all, he wasn't that good at math anyway It was expected though. His father never let him stay in one area for too long. Never let him have a home. Mike: I'll break his free will by moving him all over the country.. Bwahahah! The rhythmic sound of the train seemed to offer him no comfort and so he tries to find solace in the music that he plays over and over with his Walkman. Crow: Thunder! Nanana nanan na na na! Thunder! He is a serious looking young man. His Chinese red vest and dark pants were practical and rugged, reflecting his character. His pony tail sways like a tail behind him but he pays it no mind. His mind troubled by the letter he holds in his hands. Tom: 'Dear son, i have found 3 brides for you... they will fight over and with you, and make your life a living hell.... With Love, Dad' The hell?? Why do I move so often? A man who can't be in control of his destiny is unhappy. But, even if I could stay and live a normal life, would I be happy? Would I even know what a normal life is? Mike: It's bad enough i had that sex change operation! He spent the rest of the trip quietly scowling. Unnoticed by him, Tokyo 3 became visible just as the train climbed the last of the mountains that rimmed the city. The golden splendor of a city awash in a setting sun's amber light. Tom: Ooooohhhh.. Pretty lights! **************************************************************************** Crow: Look! It's full of stars! Several miles away, a war council is targeting a threat that has proven so far unstoppable. Mike: How dare Microsoft ignore our courtrulings and release Win98??? "How can the thing still be standing!" Tom: Must be running QNX... D'oh! A man in an officer's uniform looked on with disbelief at the central monitor showing an Angel ignore an entire helicopter wing's missle barrage, enough firepower to wipe out an army of tanks. Crow: They're taking on a devine force with an Apache Copter? The Angel was roughly humanoid in proportions with wide shoulders and long gangly limbs but the size of a building and had an odd green color with it's 2 "faces" on its chest. Tom: Two-Face? Didn't Batman stop him last week? A dark haired young woman muttered as she frantically read stats and analytical reports pouring in from the computers. A rock in the sea of chaos. Mike: Alcatraz on a bad day? Based on current data, the Angel was emitting a highly potent energy field that was neutralizing everything sent its way. Rockets, missiles, shells slammed into it but did not damage it, nothing could penetrate the shield. Crow: The shield can't take much more of this Capt.! she's gonna blow! "The A.T. field is still operational. The chances of our forces doing even a marginal job of slowing it down doesn't make it worth the risk. I say we let our forces retreat." Tom: Nah, what good is cannon fodder if you retreat them? "Sir, the attack choppers are approaching visual range and awaiting orders!" One of the swarming techs yelled from bellow the command balcony. Mike: Orders? what orders? "Tell the choppers to engage!" An older man ordered. He looks directly at the eyes of the young woman. Daring her to say anything. Crow: Speak and i make you strip infront of me! "Fool!" She turns her back to where the three shocked generals look down upon her from their raised command centers. But Lt. Nabiki does not care about the pride of stupid old men or for any threat that they might issue. Mike: Silly old men! She was the best analytical mind NERIMA had and she was integral to NERIMA. Tom: this is soooooo wrong..... Problem was that NERIMA was part of the U.N. and that meant having to work with stubborn old generals and convince them that they could not do things the old way and still get results. A hard thing to do when you are young enough to be their grand daughter. Crow: Not to mention their mistress! On screen, the Angel blasts away the choppers casually with beams of light that shoots from its three fingered hands. The light takes on an almost solid quality as a chopper gets impaled on a spike of light. The Angle Mike: Angle?? flings its at another chopper, resulting in a fiery display of futility and the Angle continue with its march, undeterred. Tom: A walking angle????? Argh my head... "Nabiki, the Angel has decimated the choppers, heavy losses expected! Casualty list incoming!" A tech yelled. Tom: Stop yelling, i'm not deaf you know! "Well general, has enough of your men died or should we wait until they are all slaughtered before you let me handle this?" Nabiki said casually as she sips her coffee. Crow: That's cold... **************************************************************************** Kasumi accelerated her car way past the speed limit. Her hair long brown streamed behind her from the force of the wind coming from her open window. Tom: Born to be wiiiild! She listens to her radio for reports on the Angel situation and frowns. Besides her on the passenger seat is a picture of a boy in a red chinese vest. "Oh my, Ranma please be safe." Tom: Ack! Mike: Tom, you're dome's smoking again... **************************************************************************** A man in a stark black business suit stood infront of a man in a white lab coat who was seated behind his desk. The main in white laced his hands together and smiled coldly. "It has begun Soun." Crow: When did Burns get there? Soun nodded. It was time. **************************************************************************** Crow: Anyone know a good star joke? Ranma was curious. After the train had stopped and he got off, he had seen no one. Mike: Do i stink THAT much?? The whole city seems to be empty. He walks about a bit, seeing the buildings and the signs and birds perched on wires but no people. The streets were desolate, not a single car was running. Where was everybody? Crow: Watching the 'Dinasty' reruns! Mike: Ack! He walked on, carrying his pack to the empty streets. It felt odd to be standing in the middle of the street in the city with no one around him. Tom: Maybe i should run around naked now? He sometimes wished that he could be absolutely alone but the erie wrongness of walking in an empty city made him reconsider. A city should be a place were people were all around you. A place where you could hear chatter and laughter and the simple sounds of people simply being. The setting sun shined in his eyes and the birds paid him no notice high on their wire perches on the posts. Mike: Now you listen to me you stupid burds, pay attention to me! Ranma felt his pony tail stand on end. Something was very, very wrong. Tom: Oh no! i'm in a CROSSOVER! ARGH!!!!! He felt it again, the shaking of the ground that seemed to move even the tallest buildings. Crow: Godzilla! Tom: Come with me! Tadada tada dadada!! The birds took flight and left him there, wondering and sweating from an unexplainable fear. Earthquake? No..too regular to be an earthquake.....His ears strain to hear a pounding sound. It was something coming his way... Mike: Fatboy Slim in town? "What the hell!??!" The Angel came into view. A green misshapen monster whose sheer size made the tall sky scrappers around it seem almost puny in comparison. Mike: The sky scrapers on the other hand were as tall as it. Ranma was stunned at just how small he was compared to the thing. Unfortunately as he was starting at the thing, the Angel continued walking, its foot almost squashing him flat. Tom: Was he starting the Angel, or starting to walk? or startInG TO Mike: *sigh* Here we go again... Lisa, i need a new head for Tom Lisa: Coming right up! Crow: Mike, when did you install that Intercom? Mike: Last night, why? Crow: Just wondering.... "Aaah!!!" Ranma felt the shock wave from the step fling him away. A few more feet and he would have been squashed flat. He was nothing to this monster but the Angel seemed to have heard his cry and looked down. Crow: Puny insect you! Me crush puny insect! Mike: Hey, how did that coin get inhere? Ranma felt the Angel's unspoken malice. He was dead. Tom: He's a zombie then? Mike: How ya feeling Tom? Tom: Like brand new! Just before the Angel could kill him, another monster appeared. Leaping from out of nowhere, a giant purple shape tackled the Angel and sent it away from Ranma just as a car tore through the ruined streets and parked right infront of him. Crow: Intence action scene! In the driver's seat was a smiling young woman motioning him to get in the passenger seat of a blue Thunderbird. Ranma didn't think about where she came from or any other logical questions he might ask under normal circumstances. She was offering a ride, he wanted one. He was in the car in one leap. Crow: A cute girl in a Thunderburd? I'm coming! "Buckle up Ranma!" The woman said as she expertly shifted the gears and cranked up the engine. Ranma did as he was told and tried to make some sense about what just happened. Mike: Unfortunatly, his little brain was incabable to grasp the consept of angels, and he had a mental breakdown! "What the hell was that thing?!?!!" Ranma asked his mysterious savior. "That was an Angel silly! Didn't your father tell you all about it?" The woman smiled. "By the way, my name is Kasumi. I'll be in-charge of you during your stay here in Tokyo 3." Kasumi said happily once she had a clear stretch of relatively straight road. Tom: SPEED!!!!! ************************************************************************** Crow: It's snowing again... "Eva01's synchronization ratio is fluctuating! Motor control failure imminent!" Tom: Oh look, a mecha running windowsCE! "The core is experiencing neural feedback loops! Eva01 can't last much longer!" Mike: Loops? Definatly Microsoft then! On a giant screen we see that the giant robot, Eva01 is being beaten about by the Angel. We hear some cries of pain and klaxons blaring as the Angel and Eva01 fight on with Eva01 clearly losing. Tom: They should have sent Adam! A punch cracks the Eva's face plate and the Angel's eyes light up, a portion of the Eva turns molten, burning through and through as a solid beam of light stabs its side. Mike: That angel was previously working for a garage Something sickeningly like blood pours out of the wound. One of the Eva's arms hangs by its side, twisted and useless. "There is nothing more it can do. Tell Eva01 to retreat." Genma said as he observes the battle on his platform. His face betrayed no emotion as the Angel continued to beat at the struggling Eva. Eva01 kicked at the Angel and sent it staggering away before it collapsed in a heap by a hatch. The huge hatch opened and quickly drew the Eva down inside as the Angel stood. It was too late to pursue once the hatch closed. Crow: Where did it go? "What now Genma?" Soun asked. Unlike his friend. Soun was visably shaken. Sweat had started to form at his temples and his skin was pale. Tom: Must have aten Akane's cooking "Now we repair Eva01 and send it back out again with a new pilot." Mike: It shouldn't take more then a few weeks to fix anyway. Tom: But by then it'll be to late! Mike: ... D'oh! "But we don't have anymore pilots!" The edge of panic was in Soun's voice. "What will I tell the council!?" Crow: The truth, that you are stuck in a crossover! "A new one will be delivered, have faith old friend." Genma smiled. Soun saw his friends cold smile and wondered if he should relaxed or worry even more. He knew Genma well enough to know that he had another of his surprises up his sleve. If Genma said a pilot was going to arrive, then a pilot was going to arrive. Even if there was going to be hell to pay for. ************************************************************************** Back at the UN battle command center, the main monitor still shows the Angel moving along to its destination, Tokyo 3. The potential loss of life if the monster reached the city was expected to be nearly total. Another Impact. The end of man. Crow: Luckally, woman was still there! "Gentlemen, I believe it is time for the final resort." A general said. An instant hush fell over the chaotic battle station and the three officers from the U.N. looked at each other for silent conformation before the each bought out a key on a chain from under their uniforms. The tension was high and every eye in the chamber was on them as they unlocked a secret panel on their dash boards and presented their right hands to the scanner. As one, they punched in their own personal launch codes and gave the order. "Release the N2....." Tom: N2? It's N64 you bloody moron! Crow: I don't think he's talking about consoles there Tom Tom: Oh... ************************************************************************** Ranma took the opportunity to try to catch his breath once they finally stopped on a plate. The woman was talking to someone on a mobile phone and using a pair of field binoculars. He didn't notice it before but she was wearing a very nice dress. It was conservative yet somehow managed to show her full figure. She had big cross necklace between her bosom and her long skirt swished along as she paced. Tom: HHhmmm... Boobies... "Yes he's here in the car with me. Don't worry about it, he's fine. I'll get him there as soon as I can okay? Bye now." Kasumi was looking at the Angel through her binoculars as she noticed that the air units surrounding it were leaving except for one bomber carrying.... "Oh my! Ranma! Get Down!" Crow: I have that special feeling again! Kasumi did what she could to cover Ranma. A second later, A mushroom cloud sprang from the ground and the sky turned blood red. The air turned hot as a furnace and A sound like the fall of heaven boomed. When the shockwave passed by, it hit the car hard enough to flip it over and roll away from the road and end up on its side. Tom: Thus spraying them both with radioactive dust, burning then to death! Mike: Not likely... There was a hellish yet strangely beautiful quality to the scene of total burning destruction created by a nuclear weapon. Crow: Anyone calling a Nuke beautifull needs his brain checked out... ************************************************************************** "WE DID IT!!!" Crow: We're no virgins anymore!!!! A general cheer rose and the three officers relaxed in their chairs. Pats on the back were exchanged and every one was laughing happily. "Sir, the choppers have circled back and are reporting that...this can't be right...the Angel is still standing!!!" Tom: Angel! Angel of Harlem! "WHAT!!!" Mike: HE SAID THAT THE ANGEL IS STILL STANDING!!! Tom: My ears! The main screen lights up to show the birds eye view of the angel and it is indeed still standing amid a totally devastated field. There are cracks on its surface and it is leaking what might be green blood in some place but it was still standing and still apparently "alive". Breathing with gill like structures on its sides and slowly regenerating. There is a stunned silence as everyone looks on. The N2 was the last resort and they only managed to delay it.... Crow: Should we tell them that they're fighting a devine force there? Mike: And stop them from getting killed? Nah ************************************************************************** "Are you alright Ranma?" "Yeah, I'm fine." Being tossed around in the car fazed him a resilience was one of his virtues. Tom: HuH? "Alright then, all together now. Heave!" Kasumi and Ranma pushed the fallen car together and the car falls over right side up easily, much more due to Ranma surprising strength than Kasumi's effort. The thing looks like it really took a beating. Crow: It just survived a nuke! What ya expect? The windshield was cracked. The roof looked like a crumpled sheet of paper and one the wheels didn't seem to be as level as the others but it still looked like it could run, which was all that mattered now. Mike: Run little car, run! Be free from this evil fic! "Um...Miss.." "Please call me Kasumi. We'll be working together for quite a while as I understand." Kasumi wondered just exactly why Ranma was so important. He was given a level ten security clearance and was cleared by the higher ups a little too quickly for her taste. Something was amiss. Crow: I'm sure it was a boy when i picked her up! And where did my bottle of water go? "Where are we going anyway?" Kasumi was cut short in her musing. "To NERIMA." ************************************************************************** "We admit it Soun. Our forces are useless against the Angel. It is now all up to you. Can Evangelion handle it?" A general asked. Had Soun said no he still would have left NERIMA anyway. The place was too dangerous for a general such as himself. Soun despised cowards but he kept his expression clear. They had all worked hard to reach their goal. "It is what NERIMA was built for." Soun said simply. Crow: NERIMA Can't be defeated, and Titanic won't sink!.... D'oh! ************************************************************************** While somewhere else, in a location so classified it isn't even officially real, Genma was dealing with the true powers that be. The men and women who ruled what was left of the world through the UN, or in this case, to the old ghoul who was the current and probably head of the UN till her death, Cologne. Tom: Look! Grammar abuse! "The curse of the Angels is upon us once again Genma. You have the secrets you requested. Are your Evas enough to handle this threat?" Mike: If not, i'll call Adam too Genma smiled slightly at the ancient looking old woman with the glowing red eyes. To anyone else, it would be called a mocking grin but with Genma, it just seemed so natural no one could accuse him of mockery. "The secrets you have shared with me were pitiful to begin with old woman. My Eva's will win, with or with out your scrolls." Mike: With or without you! ************************************************************************** Ranma stared in awe at just how big NERIMA really was. An underground base miles under a city. Amids the rubble of a pre-impact city, Nerima stood like a magical kingdom. A fairy tale land with its own floodlight stars and techno towers. A special car elevator had lowered Kasumi's now battered clunker down to the base. With a maze of walkways and levels with sublevels, terminals and quarters, Ranma couldn't help but stare in awe at the huge base. Still, this place gave him the creeps too. Where the hell were all the people anyway? It was just like the city above. An empty shell. Only Kasumi's calming presence kept Ranma from panicking. Crow: And have him a hardon! Mike: Crow! Ranma walked with Kasumi into the central building. He marveled at the vastness of the place, after a few minutes of passing by empty hall ways and clearing security locked door, they arrived at a dark hall after passing through a few dozen more armored security doors. He could sense the vastness of this room place even though it was pitch black dark and he silently wondered why the place was so dark. When the lights were turned on he gasped. Crow: for he had entered the Red Light District! He was facing a giant robot! A purple monster that only had its head visible for the rest of it was immersed in a red solution that smelled suspiciously like blood to Ranma. There was a dark haired young woman in the room with them, she had come from another door and she faced them both. Tom: She then started singing 'happy burthday' & stripped down! "Kasumi! Thank god you're here! I've done the pre-start up checks and Eva 01 is as ready as it'll ever be and now all we need is the pilot." The young woman spoke into a speaker mike built in her head set. "Commander Ikari, the new pilot has arrived, is there time for a debriefing?" Mike: I don't want to be a nag and all, but shouldn't you first have a briefing before you can do the debriefing? Tom: I dunno.... "Negative, the threat is too close. He'll have to learn on the go." Crow: It's GUI driven, even my grandma can pilot it! Ranma gasp as he looked up. High above the stench of blood was his father, Genma Ikari in his sterling white lab coat. The man looked down at his son dispassionately and they eyed each other. No love was lost between these two. "Ranma, I want you to pilot Eva01." Mike: But father! I failed my drivers licence! Tom: D'oh! "Just what makes you think I'm going to do that old man!" Ranma fairly bristled and his pony tail stood on end. "You send me away for ten years and now you expect me to come running and pilot a dumb robot for you on your say so!? Think again old man!" Just then, the entire base shook as if hit by an earthquake but the sound of an explosion was too clear, the base was under attack! Crow: It's that or Akane's Cooking! "Ranma! There is no time! I designed the Eva to fight the Angels and either you pilot the Eva or go back to where you came from boy! I have no need for you if you won't be a man and pilot the thing." Tom: Do you know how much gas that thing uses? Ranma stared up at his father with disbelief. His mouth hangs slack before anger clenches it."Fine then! Pilot the thing without me!" Then Ranma walked off. Leaving Kasumi and Nabiki by the bridge. Mike: I'll go play with my imaginary friends then! Soun looked at the boy walking away and sweat trickled down his brow. "Genma! We need that boy! We don't have any other pilots!" "There is Ranko." "WHAT!!??!" Crow: HE SAID "THERE IS RANKO!!!" Mike: Crow! My ears! "She's not dead Soun, I can still use her." Tom: Use & abuse her as much as i like.. hehehehe As Ranma was about to walk out the door, a bed was wheeled in by a medical crew. Ranma saw the occupant of the bed was a girl. A beautiful, buxom red haired young girl. One of her eyes was under a patch and a cast covered one arm. Her sides were bandaged and blood seemed to be seeping out of them. Mike: Eeeeuw! Blood! They made eye contact for a few moments as they passed by and Ranma felt part of him tearing as he realized that she was to pilot the robot in his place. The girl was clam and serene, a direct contrast to the fear and confusion he felt. Tom: Clam????? Ark! The girl was struggling to get up as they wheeled her close to the robot. Her breath came in harsh gasps and pain lanced through her everytime she moved but she did not stop trying to sit up. Crow: Life's a bitch! She could hardly get off the bed. How did they expect her to pilot the thing in her condition!??! Tom: Well, by using the mouse off course! Another explosion followed and the base shook harder this time. Every one was sent off their feet as the sheer power of it sent shock waves rippling throughout the base. Ranma was sent sprawling and looked up in time to see the light fixtures falling straight for him! He threw his fist up in a desperate move and a churning sound emerged. A metal fist like the hand of a monster shot out of the blood red water and smashed the falling debris aside. They sailed straight into Genma and would have crashed into him if the reinforced glass bubble didn't stop the debris. Tom: How convieniant! Everyone was silent as Ranma rushed to where the girl lay on the floor. Her bed was toppled by the quake. He lifted her up gently and winced in sympathy as even his gentlest touch seemed to be causing her to gasp in pain. His hands felt the wetness of blood from reopened wounds and his face firmed in resolve. Damn his father for doing this! Crow: I'll pilot the robot and step on him! Bwahahaha! "That wasn't supposed to be possible! The entry plug isn't even in yet!" Nabiki mumbled to herself as she looked at the giant metal fist rising out of the water. "That shouldn't have been able to move..." Tom: Should should should, what a nag! Kasumi walked to where Ranko lay in Ranma's arms. She could see that Ranma's hands were covered in blood and she knelt down and tried her best to staunch Ranko's wounds as Ranma moved her onto the fallen mattress by the floor. Genma was heartless! How could he let this girl pilot the Eva in her condition! Mike: Pump her up with steriods and adrinaline of course! "I'll do it...." Kasumi looked up to see Ranma looking down at the wounded girl. "I can't let her do it now can I? I guess pop gets what he wants this time..." Tom: Good ol' Pops, always gets what he wants Kasumi reaches out to touch his shoulder and lent him her support as she nods to Nabiki. They had a new pilot for Eva01. ************************************************************************** Nabiki calmly observed the chaos of the war room as her techies worked to get Eva01 synchronized with Ranma. Mike: Whoa! New word! Techies! She still couldn't believe the miraculously high 40% synchronization ratio Ranma was able to achieve on his first try with the Eva. Crow: So he's Adam! Now i get it! A robot so complex they had to invent a whole new system to control it. A system that was the ultimate in merging man and machine, synchronization meant that the machine would read the pilot's thoughts and use them as its commands. Reading and sending messages directly to the pilot's nervous system, Mike: thus overloading the pilot's neural cortex, and reducing him to a plant! it was an ambitious project when they first started but the only one that seemed feasible. It was also very dangerous. Mike: As the aforementioned overload could happen too soon! The sheer fact that Ranma hadn't collapsed or ended up a gibbering mess as he synchronized made Nabiki think of how special this boy really was. It took an iron will to control the monstrous Eva. He was probably the only person in the world capable of piloting the thing right now. Crow: I want FOOD! I want FOOD! I want SEX! Whoops! "I can't believe it! There is no rejection in the neural net. The feed back is optimal and every system is green. Not bad for a pilot who has never done it before." Tom: Everything's perfect, but Miss Nabiki still uses 'Not bad'?? "It won't mean a thing unless he can actually get it to fight." "CONCENTRATE ON YOUR JOB!!!" Nabiki regreted showing her temper but it was better than letting them stew. She needed them focused at their job. Crow: Her tempers have a job???? "Ranma, we're going to flood your cock pit with synchronization fluid alright, don't worry about it. You can breath the stuff." Crow: His cock??? Or his Pit????? Tom: Ark! Onscreen, they could see Ranma's expression turn from quizzical to panic as the cock pit started to flood with synchro fluid. Mike: His cock is in the pit???? Either he didn't understand a word she just said or his survival instincts were kicking in. Tom: Lemme out of this fanfic! After holding his breath for what seemed to have been a record breaking period, the boy finally let his breath go and inhaled the fluid. He coughed up a bit and looked queasy for a while but that was to be expected. Crow: Whoa! The colors man! The colors! "Oh my, Ranma are you alright?" Kasumi asked as she prepared the papers containing the information she needed to walk him through the Eva's controls. Tom: Now where did i put that Windows98 manual? "Yeah...just a little sick..." From the breathing fluid or the thought that he was going to go fight the monster he saw earlier with a robot he knew next to nothing about. He didn't know and tried not to think about it too much. At least the girl will be safe. Mike: She'd better show some 'gratitude' if i survive this damn it! "We're going to launch you a few blocks from the Angel." Nabiki spoke, ignoring Kasumi and Ranma's conversation. There was too little time left for that. "The Eva has it's weapons, the sonic knife, inbuilt and its power source is the plug attached to its back. Even without the plug your unit has 5 minutes of emergency power. Do you understand me Ranma?" "Yes." I think. Tom: Shouldn't that be: "Yes, i think"? Mike: Nah, just smile & nod "Good. Launch in 10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1...0..." Crow: -1 -2 -3 -4 Ah, found the button -5 GO! Ranma gritted his teeth as the robot was shot up from the underground complex like a rocket by the launching pad under it. His blood tried to rush into his legs and he locked them up to try to keep from passing out. The path the robot took was twisted through out miles of tunnels through the earth and reinforced shielding but the speed never abated. He wondered how they managed to do that as soon as the ride came to a jarring halt. A door fell away from infront of the robot and Ranma saw the Angel at a distance. Tom: not hard to miss a towering mecha like that... "Eva's A.T. field is active." Crow: But an ATX is better! "The Angel's A.T. field is fading out! The space between them is clear!" Mike: I have no idea what i'm saying, but it sounds cool! Nabiki crossed her fingers. Her work was done, it was now all up to Ranma. A.T. fields were alien technology but it seemed like the Eva was everything Genma said it would be. A clear space was between the two. It was now a one on one fight to the finish. Tom: Finish him! hehehe Mike: Lame... very lame Tom: Ah bite me! "Ranma, I want you to listen to me alright. Try walking in the Eva first. Just Relax and think about putting one foot infront of the other." Kasumi said gently. Crow: Think happy thoughts! Think happy thoughts! Think happy thoughts! Ranma did as he was told and the Eva shuddered as it put on foot infront of the other. There was a collective gasp far bellow as the people saw that Eva01 was indeed operational. Mike: My god! It actually works! "The boy is a gift from god!" Nabiki smiled as she typed in the commands to let the weapons depots show highlighted in the Eva's monitors. Her smile was short however as the Eva did something newborns who just learned how to walk do. It tripped. Face first, and right at the Angel's feet. Tom: D'oh! Ranma panicked because the Eva's synchronization made it seem like the Angel reached down and picked him up by the face. With a strength he could hardly comprehend, the Angel grabbed his arm and started to twist. Ranma screamed in agony and tried futilely to pry off the Angel's grip. Mike: I'm touched by an angel!!! Help!!! "Ranma! Get a hold of yourself! That isn't your arm!" Nabiki cried but her cries were unheard. A mere moment later, a sickening crunch could be heard and Ranma fell silent. Crow: There goes my cookies "Neural net in the left arm has been severed!" Tom: Mike, is that a bad thing? Mike: How the hell do i know? "Synchronization ratio at 30% and dropping!" Crow: Hurry, pick up the pieces! "Nabiki! Get him out of there!" Kasumi cried as she saw the white faced Ranma go into shock. She did not know much about the Evas, but she knew that whoever synchronized it felt any damage that was inflicted upon it. Mike: Cool! Modern torture device! Ranma must feel like his arm was just ripped apart. Crow: *ouch* "Eject the entry plug!" Sweat started to flow out of Nabiki. Damn this machine! Why did it have to be piloted by children! Tom: I dunno, author's will? "The system's not responding! The plug has been damaged!" Tom: D'oh! Onscreen, they could see the Angel thrashing the Eva at its leisure. An explosion sends the Eva crashing through a building. The Angel picks it up by the face and its three fingered hand glows and flash in rhythm as it blast away at the Eva's head. Ranma claws at the Angel ineffectively with one hand but the Angel ignores his desperate attempts. Mike: Hehe That tickles! "Helms structural integrity has been breached!" "Quick! Shut down the synchronization!" Nabiki pushed aside one of the techs and started working at the console furiously but nothing changed. Unit Eva01 was not responding. Crow: Quick! Press !!! One final flash of light and the Eva is sent reeling away with a beam of light stuck in its head. It crashes and imbeds itself in a building and the head lolls forward sickeningly as something that resembled blood gushes out of the wound. Tom: How can a beam of light get stuck somewhere? "The brain case has been damaged!" "All systems shutting down!"   "RANMA!!!" Kasumi cried. ************************************************************************** Gasping, Ranma clutched his face. Opening his eyes, he tried to focus. He was in a bed. He was alive. That was all he knew for sure but something kept nagging at him. Tom: Kasumi! For god's sake! Not here! Mike: Tom! Something that didn't quite fit in. Yes...now he knew what it was. "The ceiling is unfamiliar..." ************************************************************************** Nabiki and Kasumi were surveying the site of the battle. Salvaging as many parts of Eva01 as they could. A crane was already lifting the battered power plug. The rest could be salvaged later. Whatever could be salvaged anyway. Tom: This not, this not eighter... hmmm, this screw is still usable! "Eva01 really got trashed didn't it Nabiki." "Your telling me, the council is going to have to have a heart attack when I give them the estimate it'll take to get it up and running again." The shorter woman muttered. Her attention focused on directing the salvage crew. Mike: And if it doesn't give them a heart attack, me in a latex suit will! "At least Ranma is alright." Tom: Ranma? Who's that? "Which reminds me, how is the pilot?" Nabiki asked while looking at her friend from the corner of her eyes. Crow: Must avoid eyecontact! Kasumi shrugged. "They can't find any physical damage and neural scans show that he's clean but he says he can't remember a thing about the fight." "That's good enough for me. The shock to his system could explain the short term memory loss. A few days rest and he should recover enough to regain it." ************************************************************************** Ranma was slumped in a chair, in a hospital. He was waiting for Kasumi to pick him up when a bed was being wheeled by the corridor. It was the girl again. The pilot. She was much better now and was not so deathly pale anymore. Mike: Ah.. The miracles of blood transfusions! She was silent as she passed him by on her bed but she never let her gaze leave his. Ranma locked his gaze with hers and felt his breath catch. There was something about her that seemed to call out to him....Ranma stared at her solemly. He was still staring numbly after she was wheeled out of his sight. He was so intent at the girl that he didn't notice Kasumi standing right next to him. Crow: some kind of martial arts master he is... didn't even notice Kasumi! "Falling for her Ranma?" Tom: No! Of course *thud* Aw! Ranma looked for the source of the sound and frowned before realization hit him and his cheeks reddened. "N..N.No! I was just curious that's all." Crow: I was wondering how she looked without clothing... D'oh! Spoke outload again! Kasumi smiled at Ranma. He was so cute when he blushed. Kasumi led the shaken Ranma to the elevator. When the elevator opened, Genma was there. Father and son didn't say a word to each other and Ranma made no move to share the elevator with him. The elevator door closed and Kasumi sighed as she thought of what Ranma's life must be like. Tom: Soooooo boring... ************************************************************************** "He's assigned where!?" Kasumi said as she looked at Ranma's papers, it said that Ranma was going to be living alone in an abandoned section of old Tokyo just outside the base. Underground. With no one around for miles. Crow: Maybe they don't want him to spread? Tom: he's not a disease Crow, but this fanfic is... Conditions that could drive one insane. What kind of father was Genma? Tom: One that changes into a Panda, why? "Commander Genma chose the site for its proximity to the base." A run of the mill secret service man told her. It was scary how they all started to look alike after a while. They were the only personnel in the base that she had no direct authority over and had no practical use as Nabiki would say. Crow: they don't gamble, so they're no use to me As far as she could tell, they were sent here by the U.N. to watch things. That was how much the U.N. trusted NERIMA. Tom: Not alot apperently. "But he's just a kid! you can't expect him to live alone like that! The place is practically a ghost town! Half the buildings there should have been condemned years ago! He'll be the only living soul for miles!" Mike: Your point is...? "Its alright Kasumi. I've lived alone all my life. I'll be fine." Kasumi looked at Ranma and felt admiration and pity at the same time. So brave yet so lonely. Well, not if she can help it! Mike: I'll show him what wild passionate sex is! Crow: Mike! A few phone calls later and Kasumi was happily leading her new room mate to her car. Crow: My new boytoy! Mike: Crow... The worn out Ranma dozed off after a moment just as Nabiki phoned her from her mobile. "Kasumi, heard your playing baby sitter to our newest pilot." Nabiki's voice was flat and expressionless but Kasumi caught a hint of disbelief in it. Tom: The hint of disbelief tried to flee from this evil fic! "It IS practical Nabiki, as chief of personnel, I'll be able to keep a close eye on him and cut the cost of living quarters off your budget plan. Isn't it great? Its shocking how Commander Genma treats his own son though, didn't even bat an eye lash when I took over his care." Mike: And what's this with him dressing like a woman all the time? "Well, that's the commander for you. Just don't try to put any moves on him okay? He has had more than enough excitement for now." "NABIKI!!!" Kasumi misjudged her friend. She DID have a sense of humor....at least she hoped she had. Tom: She's a Vulcan? "We'll talk some more next time, we're still up for that dinner right?" "Yeah, Ranma and I shall see you there." They stopped by a grocery store to pick up some ingredients. Ranma remained silent through it all. As if his mind was still in shock. Kasumi felt pity for Ranma and wished she could do something to snap him out of funk. Mike: I know what would snap me out of it if ya know what i mean! Kasumi thought about it and decided to let Ranma see what he had accomplished. Driving to a hill overlooking the city Kasumi invited Ranma to take a look. "Ranma, do you see that city over there?" Tom: City? What city? Ranma looked at where Kasumi pointed but he couldn't see the city she was talking about. All he could see was a desolate stretch of concrete. "I don't see a city." Crow: Whoa! Good call Tom! "Look closer Ranma." Mike: Here's a mircoscope Ranma looked closer and something changed. Entire blocks moved and sections of steel doors opened up like magic to let what looked like buildings spring forth from the ground. Ranma was held breathless as the city Kasumi spoke of rose from under the safety of the Geo shield. Just as the sun truly set, the light of the city flickered to life and the darkness only highlighted the beauty of the city's towering buildings. "This city is Tokyo 3 Ranma." She said as she saw his bewildered face. "This is the city you saved." ************************************************************************** Recollection "Come in Ranma, this is your home now." Mike: Klinic for the mentally insane... Hey! Ranma felt a vague sense of deja vu as he followed Kasumi into the dark doorway. For one irrational moment, he was actually afraid to switch open the lights because there might be another giant robot infront of him. When the lights were flicked on, he gasped. Tom: For there WAS another robot in front of him! Ranma was pretty much a bachelor. His idea of cleaning was at best, primitive and basic. Here, in her apartment, the floors shined like polished wood. The furnishing looked like it came from a magazine. The kitchen looked like a master chef's dream. The whole place was simple yet it was made so grand by the fact that there was a certain sense of homeliness that Ranma couldn't even begin to describe. It was as if house keeping became a perfected science here. Crow: Do we really need to know that? "You've had a long day Ranma, would you like to take a bath?" Kasumi took the bags of groceries and headed for the kitchen. Mike: That's another way to say 'You stink' "Um...not really. I just want to go back to sleep." Crow: Sleep sleep sleep! That's all he does! Just like my ex! "Oh please don't go to sleep yet dinner won't be ready till later!" Ranma's stomach growled and reminded him that he had nothing to eat except hospital food for quite a while. Tom: Hospital food is made to give the people a reason to go home! "Hm....dinner won't be ready until later so if you want to eat now there are some snacks in the fridge." Kasumi said as she headed for the bathroom. "I'll be taking a bath, its been a long day." Crow: Damn! I should have gotten that door installed first! Ranma smiled as he walked to the biggest refrigerator he had ever seen, he was liking the idea of living here a whole lot more already. When he opened it, he rubbed his eyes and pinched himself several times. Inside was the most picture perfect spread he had ever laid eyes upon. Fried chicken, tuna cassorole, tossed salad, cakes, and even a long eared black piglet was in it and sandwiches and...and....a long eared black piglet??? Mike: Ryoga!!! What did they do to you!? Ranma picked up the tray where the strange delicacy was. The piglet was resting in a bed of lettuce and had a bandana around its neck that acted as great garnishing that went well with the usual apple in the mouth. Ranma smacked his lips as he imagined how it was going to taste like. Not bothering to fetch the silverware, Ranma bit into it. Crow: But shouldn't you first skin an animal? "BWEEEE!!!!!" The pig was alive!!! Spitting it out just as Kasumi came running in to check the commotion, the furious pig bit back at Ranma, latching itself to his arm. Mike: FOOD!!! "Ow! Leggo leggo!!!" A few stratigically placed punches convinced the pig to stop chewing his arm and it ran behind Kasumi's feet, hissing and growling at Ranma. Tom: Is that A: A Dog, B: A Cat or C: Ryoga?  "Oh my! Ranma, what happened!?" Crow: err.. It attacked me without reason! That's it! "The pig is ALIVE!!!!" Ranma's eyes widened as he realized that Kasumi had run out of the bath naked. Her ample bosom was doing some interesting motions whenever she drew a breath and her wet slick skin highlighted every curve of her body. He felt his eyes drift towards the region between her thighs and he forced himself to look at her face and ONLY her face. Crow: Tom: Sayyy.. Mike: Tom, No! Kasumi picked up the pig and tried to calm it down. "Of course its alive Ranma. P is a product of the Jusenkyo program." Then she saw his face and realized that she was naked. Blushing furiously, she held the pig infront of her and jumped back into the bath. Crow: What good will that do if she doesn't close the door? ************************************************************************** Ranma sat in the bath and tried to forget seeing Kasumi naked just a few moments ago. What a way to start a relationship! At least life here won't be dull. Tom: But why were my pants to small all of the sudden? He sighed as the warm water lossened all the muscles that had knotted up since piloting the Eva. Trouble was that baths seemed to let memories flood back into him, even the most painful ones.... *********************************************************************** Pain...there was pain and nothing else. He was vaguely aware of shouting in the distance but he couldn't make any sense out of what was being said. The Angel was so strong! Even inside the Eva it seemed like the Angel was a head taller than him. His left arm was broken and his face was caught in the thing's grip. There was light and flashes like a heart beat and his skull felt like it would crack after each beat. The light felt like something stabbing his eye. Mike: Oh cool! torture scene! After one great flash, his skull did crack. He was beyond pain now, he was in hell! He felt his life gush out of him and his eye was pierced. He was only being held up by a building he crashed into now. Everything was going dark....he was dying. Crow: Again? he's got more lives then a cat! ************************************************************************** "All systems are down." Tom: That's it, i'll install NetBSD! "Life support is off line." Crow: Now that sucks! "Eva's A.T. field is dead!" Mike: And not just the A.T. field i think "Synchronization has been severed, no response from the Eva....it's....silent...." Tom: I think he means 'flatline' "Nabiki, please do something!" Kasumi begged Nabiki. Her heart froze as her friend shook her head. Crow: But then her eyes widened, as she saw Nabiki rip of her own head & started juggling with it! "I'm sorry Kasumi...." There was nothing they could do. The Eva was their most potent weapon but there just was not enough time for her to understand it. Its strengths. Its weaknesses. She turned away from the screen in disgust at the cold way her mind was already planing ways on how to gather data from this battle for possible future references. A boy just gave his life and all she could do was make foot notes about it! Tom: Well, better make those funeral notes then The room grew silent. A small moment of silence for Ranma. Kasumi bit back tears and stared resolutely at the screen. The silent monitors and the sight of the Eva, beaten. High up on a platform observing the scene before him like a master strategist, Genma pressed his palm into a panel. After a brief scan, his command chair's arm opened and a red button rose up to him. He pressed the button, then the screens flared back to life. Crow: Oh no you don't, you die when i tell you to die! ************************************************************************** No....don't want to die. The Eva's one remaining eye glowed with fury. Burried thoughts surfaced from deep within Ranma and the Eva unit responded. His world was red as blood. Ranma felt his fury rising as he stood to face the Angle once again. Crow: Look! there's that Angle again! Unnoticed, his left hand healed and fused together instantly as his stance became more feral. Tom: But i tought it was his arm that was damaged.... Stooped and crouched low, the hands formed claws with its fingers, gripping and releasing in excitement! Ranma lifted his head and cried in a voice so monstrously deep it echoed into the night! "MeoooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooow!!!!!!!!" Mike: The Neko-Ken always works.. Bwahahaha! ************************************************************************** "The Eva has reactivated!!" "Synchronization at 50% and rising!! "Neural scans have gone hay wire, life support status is still unknown!!" Crow: It's worse then he's dead Jim! "What the hell is going on!?" Nabiki looked at the monitor. Eva 01 was had gotten up and looked like a tiger eyeing its prey. She could feel her hope well up as Eva 01 refused to die and stalked closer to the Angel. First it walked, then it became a trot, soon the Eva was hurtling at the Angle at a dead run. Tom: Only to run into a building as the Angel stepped aside The Angel lifted a palm and shot a beam of light to stop the charging Eva. The light connected and an explosion that could be felt even in the deepest corners of Nerima occurred but the Eva hardly slowed a step and ran into the Angel, tackling it and smashing through several buildings in its wake. When the dust cleared, the Angel was down on its back, only a shimmering light surrounding it kept the Eva from harming it. Mike: Use the force Ranma! The A.T. field. The Eva attacked the field itself and its hands clawed apart the A.T. field like it was made of thin cloth. Tom: You know, if the A.T. field is made out of energy patterns, that's impossible! The Angel tried to fend off the Eva but its arms were caught. It gripped the green arms into one hand and casually wretched them apart. Green ooze squirted out of the now deflated arms. Attacking with mindless fury, metal hands like claws ripping and clawing away at what could have been the Angle's vitals and at the heart of it, a red globe that shimmered with power. Crow: He's beating up the Angle and an Angel? The Angel must have known that it was going to die because the last thing it did was wrap itself around the Eva and self destructed. A tall nuclear cloud like a cross proclaimed the last moments of the monstrous Angel.... ************************************************************************** "The Angel's A.T. field has vanished....." Mike: So have the rest of Tokyo3.... "Sensors indicate blast strength to be way over N-2 strength level! Shelters 3 and 4 have been damaged. Sending emergency team right now." Tom: Sir, our giger meter just blew up, is that a bad thing? "What the hell happened to Eva 01!!" Nabiki stared at the screen as the Eva started to materialize out of the haze of debris. Crow: Scotty beam me up! Eyes aglow and hulking along like a monster from the nightmares of its creators. The walking Eva silenced the room. Not a breath could be heard as the Eva walked back home. Then, amid a pile of boulders, it tripped and fell flat on its face. There is an even greater silence as everyone gawks. "Oh my...." Tom: Ten bucks that that last line was from Kasumi! ************************************************************************** Groping about in a dazed fashion. Ranma wondered what was happening. He felt disoriented, detached somehow. Something metallic fell from his face and Ranma wondered what it was. Turning it over, he saw that it was a mask like the giant robot he saw before only it's right eye was torn apart. Feeling a fear so primal Ranma couldn't describe it, he turned on his hands and knees. He saw his reflection in a building that should have towered over him. HE was the giant robot. He couldn't think and he couldn't reason with his state of mind but he somehow knew that the bloody, alien, one eyed face staring back at him was Eva 01. It was him. It was Eva 01. Time slowed again as Ranma felt something stirring in him. His right eye seemed to flow and ripple in place for a moment and he felt a strange sensation as the missing eye regenerated. Green eyes. Dark eyes. His eyes. Eva's eyes.....eyes.... Tom: Ark! Logic chipset overloading again!!! ************************************************************************** Ranma shuddered as the memories came flooding back. He remembered everything. Now all he wanted to do was forget. ************************************************************************** End Part 1 Mike: The end? Really??? Tom: Let's get outta here! Crow: Right behind ya! Back in the science lab, Mike was looking at the scematics he made for his communications device... "This should work... i think" Suddenly, Sirens went on, and Lise called Mike to the Bridge! When Mike came to the bridge, he could see an energyvortex. "Lisa, what the hell is that," He asked. "It's a highly concentrated Engerypattern, origins onknown" was Lisa's reply. Slowly, the Energy mass started to materialise into the shape of a human being... After all the dust & light was gone, both Mike & the Bots stared at the sight... Infront of them was the most beautifull girl they had ever layed eyes on! Moments passed as the girl looked around her, trying to recognise the place, untill she noticed Mike & the bots that is... "Err... where am i?" the girl asked at Mike. "Y.. Y... You are on the Satelite of Pain... who are you? How did you get here?" he asked her... "Oh, how impolite of me, my name's Lum, and i got here by accedent, you see, i found this strange looking machine at home, and suddenly i was here!" Then Mike noticed the red light blinking, and tapped it. "Hello Mike, i'd like to introduce to you my new assistent, Frank, he'll be assisting me in all my experaments now." The mad scientist said. Frank, who looked at the viewscreen suddenly noticed Lum. "Who's da babe Doc?" he asked at Forrester, who noticed her too. "What??? How did she get upthere??? Who is she??" he shouted. "her name is Lum, She teleported inhere by accedent sir" Mike replied... "Teleported? hmm... i'll leave ya now, i have to report this... Frank, push the button!" "Yes sir!" *blip!* "Who were those?" Lum asked. "Oh, just our neighnourhood nutcase and his new sidekick" Tom awnsered. "Oh..." ------------------------- The real end Oh my, number 5 already! Unlike the previous ones, this is actually quite a good fic, with few errors, and no sickening parts in it, which was good, i needed a break :) I hope you liked it, and that you recognise all the music references :) This is Amon Re, signing off :-)