Shinji watched from the car as Misato drove at high speed towards NERV headquarters. He knew his father was just going to screw him over but he was raised to do as he was told. He winced as a 40 foot giant the TVs called a Demon, or something like that, slowly walked through the city obliterating everything in its path. He found it odd as usually the army would have dealt with this thing by now. He knew they had some super weapon, well, everyone knew they had some super weapon; they just refused to admit it.
He listened to Misato's end of her phone call and puzzled by its meaning, "What's taking them so long?" A short pause later she continued, "Inspection? What do you mean inspection? We don't have time!" Shinji could almost hear her teeth grind, "I know it's a part of the agreement, but there is a 40 foot monster destroying Tokyo-3. And that doesn't happen every day!"
Shinji was curious as to what made the woman wince like that but didn't ask. She continued, "Point. Listen ask them to send one or two out for now, just to minimize damages, at least. Units seven and eight will suffice."
There was a long pause before she continued, "What the hell??? Why would he refuse to send them?" Another short pause later, "Fine, I don't care; just get something out to slow it down. And open gate L5 now, I'm taking that way in. And the first one to argue gets to explain the delay to them." She then hung up her cell before speeding up towards an apparent reinforced wall.
Shinji almost screamed as they continued speeding, he knew this crazy woman needed him alive for some reason, and somewhere deep inside he found his danger sense praying they would crash. Perhaps that was what scared him the most. He calmed down when he realized they stopped on some weird elevator as it began a rapid decent. Trying to calm his frayed nerves he started muttering his mantra, "I won't run away, I won't run away, I won't run away, I won't run away."
It could be forgiven for him missing the grin on Misato's face. When the lift stopped he was walked down an isle then when the lights in the room came on he became terrified. He looked to his right, and there was a row of giant multicolored 40 foot tall monsters, he looked to his left, and there was a row of admittedly cute girls with predatory grins, and tight revealing suits. Then he spun around and saw Misato standing well back but reaching for something.
Misato smiled timidly at the scary girls, ordering them when one is out of reach over the phone is one thing, telling them in person is another, "So what do you girls think."
Gulping Shinji slowly looked at the girls realizing why his father called for him; he was sold out by his old man, literally this time. The first girl, a blond practically slid over and looked him over like she might, well, nothing in his mind got that level of visual inspection. After a moment she nodded, "Looks good so far, let's see later if you kept your promise."
One by one the group of girls came over, except for three and all gave similar responses. One of the remaining shook her head and just walked towards one of the giants and rode an elevator up. He then heard his father's voice and spun around, "I trust everything is satisfactory."
Sharply, one of the two remaining ones shot back, "I don't know, doesn't meet my requirements."
Misato replied from behind him, but before he could turn he was splashed with water, "That's why we got this remember."
Looking at his wet clothes he noticed something. Two somethings actually, then he noticed something missing when he checked. He looked at the remaining pair and saw one with a perverted blush, and the one who yelled before wolf whistled, then calling back, "So far so good, but we still need to… run tests…"
Gendo looked down and frowned, he had not planned things to go this way, but somehow the Eva's were produced quicker than planned. Even Seele was quick as lightning in finding the pilots. It astounded him. Worse yet was that he still didn't know what they were up to or who they were. He yelled back down, "Fine, but they can be run later, now do your jobs. First child…"he was cut off as a blond with twin pigtails looked at him sharply. After a brief look of terror he regained his composure, "Usagi take point, Units 00, through 05 will launch."
Shinji-chan never noticed the clips slipped into his hair, nor did he really notice what was happening until he realized she was being loaded into one of the giants, looking up in shock he cried out, "What are you doing."
Misato and another blond woman the same apparent age smiled back, "Getting you ready to pilot unit 03." That was the last thing he saw for a while as they locked him in.
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Somewhere in the Minato ruins of Tokyo-1 Seele was meeting, however with Gendo absent they had their disguises off, "So,"started Luna, "it finally happened."
Artemis snickered, "Yep the girls finally made the demand and followed through."
Luna sighed, "About time, I was sure if it took longer Setsuna would have had to do something herself."
"Who said she didn't?"
Artemis looked at his future daughter, "I'd rather not know." Artemis sounded definite in that.
Ranma laughed, he was now into middle age, but still looked in his late twenties, "Cheer up Artemis. I am sure it wasn't that bad."
The white cat growled back, "Want your neko-ken back?"
Ranma shook his head, "Shame for Shinji, it's just too bad my little brother takes after pops so much."
Luna smirked a very uncat like smirk, "Most guys dream of that situation."
The pigtailed fighter shook his head, "He was raised listening to my horror stories of the times back in Nerima, and swore he would never do something to get himself in that situation. Shame he trained his stamina so much; that would have been his only out."
Artemis looked confused, "I thought he trained his running away skills."
The reply made him feel stupid, "How do you train to run far, fast, and long without stamina."
Luna nodded, "Not that that will help him now, how do you out run nearly a dozen horny girls piloting 40 foot robots?"
Ranma shook his head, "I tried to tell him hiding is better, but he wouldn't listen."
Luna paused a moment, "I remember you mentioned once that his mantra was "I won't run away?"
Ranma nodded, "Gendo may have taken his wife's name, but he is still a Saotome, and so is his son. So the Saotome final attack is still something he has claim to."
Artemis grinned, "Pity that."
After that they could only share a laugh and go home, after all everyone was happy, well except Tokyo-3 residents, Nerv staff, Shinji, and the Youma but they don't really matter.
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Seele and Pluto are the only ones awake and have been awake for quite some time, some pranks need the proper amount of prep time after all.