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Kaiju Slaying For Death And Profit Ch 30

Good evening y'all, sorry for the late post. But I'mma be exceedingly busy tomorrow, so I figured it would be best to post this tonight instead.
Lemme tell ya, this chapter fought me pretty hard. But I was able to finish it to my satisfaction in the end. It is a little shorter than usual, but at the same time, if I try to lengthen it purely for the sake of word count, I feel that it would be made lesser. Brevity is the soul of wit and all that.
Anyways, here is chapter, please let me know your thoughts in a comment. Next chapter of Saving Yourself will go up on the first weekend of august. I'll probably post pics of my miniatures or something during July.
For now, have chapter, hope you enjoy.
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Misato forced herself to hold in her sigh. The people at NERV were doing poorly enough as it was, she had to at least maintain the façade of confidence.
Yes, the last time Shinji had been indisposed for a long time had been two months, but it was different. Sure, he’d been comatose, but at least the illusion of sleep let people convince themselves that he was resting, gathering his strength for the next battle.
Now? Now NERV had had a whole month seeing him act like an animal and communicate exclusively in monosyllabic grunts. It was a significantly less dignified end to the hero they’d all pinned their hopes on.
The proposal to strap him to the Eva and seeing what happened was being considered more and more seriously with each passing day. The truth of it was, they couldn’t afford to lose a single Evangelion, even if it would be much harder to control or direct. He could at the very least be used as a distraction.
The analyst who proposed the idea had apparently fallen down the stairs, resulting in multiple contusions, lacerations, and broken bones. This happened in a section of the complex that didn’t have any stairs for several dozen meters. The security system had mysteriously had a glitch and needed to be reset when it happened. But the numerous witnesses that saw the event happen all gave the same story.
This included the security guards. And two of the three investigators that were assigned to the case agreed.
Misato held back another sigh.
It didn’t help that she found herself agreeing with the analyst. If things became desperate enough, her only recourse would be to strap Shinji in the Eva and pray.
Silver lining, if things got that bad, falling down a non-existent set of stairs would be the least of her problems.
No, what she needed to worry about was the utter powder keg that NERV had become. Shinji’s fan club had clearly gotten completely out of hand. But Misato wasn’t certain there was anything she could do about it, the latest incident showed that it had infiltrated too many levels of NERV. She couldn’t be certain who she could task with investigating, even if she did, could she truly trust whatever report she received?
It was quite the precarious position, and the only positive in it was that she was fairly certain that Shinji was unaware of the existence of his fan club. Judging by how he handled being popular with the school’s delinquents, knowing he had a fervent fan club would only make him uncomfortable, before he started issuing orders.
Not to mention, said ‘fan club’ had, in a way, become important to NERV’s operations. Morale at NERV was, to put it simply, nearing rock bottom. The ace was crippled, the second best’s record was spotty with her last combat action resulting in her near-total defeat, the third best and most experienced Pilot drove a machine that was, to put it simply, bad. The rookie that had shown a lot of promise had been so traumatized by her experience that she refused to even get near an Eva, and her replacement got good scores on tests, but was untested in the only way that truly mattered.
But morale among those Misato suspected of being part of Shinji’s ‘fan club’ was steady, one might even say it was high. Many of them were utterly certain Shinji would recover before the next Angel reared its head, and that certainty served to buoy the spirits of others who weren’t part of Shinji’s fan club.
Yet.
This time, Misato was unable to suppress her sigh.
She could at the very least be honest with herself in her own head. It rankled that, if she was correct in her suspicions, Misato was literally watching a cult form before her very eyes, and there was nothing she could do about it, because that cult was currently too useful not to make use of in the fight against the Angels.
Properly harnessed and directed, a fanatical cultist would hold and follow instructions where a sane person would run away or surrender.
The Seekers of Revelation had proven that handily.
A part of her was disgusted with herself, but that wouldn’t stop her taking advantage of it. The Angels would pay, that’s the only thing that mattered in the end.
“Man, you’d think there was a funeral or something.”
Misato froze, then turned slowly to look over her shoulder. Standing behind her, properly dressed, bathed, and eating a sandwich; was Ikari Shinji. He took another bite of his sandwich with a bored expression as the technicians of the Control Room took in his presence.
He blinked and looked around, seemingly noticing for the first time the effect he’d had on the crew.
He chewed quickly, swallowed noisily, wiped his mouth with the back of his hand and finally said. “What?”
The cheering was thunderous.
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Maya did what she could to fight the blush that wanted to burn her face to ash as she remembered the feeling of Mister Shinji filling her. She found herself squirming and forced herself to stop.
Hana must absolutely never learn of Maya’s…contribution to healing Mister Shinji’s mind. She’d never hear the end of it.
Maybe Kaede.
Speaking of Kaede, she had cheered the loudest at the Control Room when Mister Shinji walked in with his head held high.
“You’d think someone important had come to visit.” Mister Shinji grumbled in the briefing room.
Maya sighed.
Did he truly not realize how important he was? He certainly wasn’t the kind to play at being coy.
The morning had been…nice. She’d woken up in Mister Shinji’ arms, his front pressed to her back, while Rei was pressed to her front. She’d remained still as long as she could so as not to wake them, that, and the feeling of Mister Shinji’s stiff manhood pressed against her behind had been rather exhilarating if she were honest with herself.
Of course, then he’d woken up, and he’d immediately had his way with her, Rei waking up and joining in had not made things easier to bear.
Maya shook her head. Last night and the morning had been the most intensely erotic events in the entirety of Maya’s life, and she’d been utterly at the mercy of a boy nine years her junior. She wasn’t entirely certain what that said about her but say something it certainly did.
Plus, Mister Shinji and Rei had then made her kneel and taught her how to ‘properly clean him’ and the feeling of his penis in her mouth had certainly been interesti—
“Maya?” Mister Shinji asked.
“YES!?” Maya squeaked, jumping in her station and coming to attention.
“Any idea when Ritsuko is gonna get here?” He asked, rocking back and forth on the chair he was sitting on.
“I uhh. No, Mister Shinji.” She answered.
He sighed. “Maya, I told you, drop the ‘Mister.’”
“Of course, Mister Shinji.”
He grunted, the sound almost a growl that stirred something in Maya’s belly and made her clench in a way that made her feel acutely empty, and she couldn’t help but think about what exactly had repeatedly made her feel overfull last—
Ooookay! Mind out of the gutter, Maya!
“Any word on when Hikari will be here?” Shinji asked.
Asuka sighed. “She’s…she’s still not recovered from her exposure to the Angel. Physically she’s fine but mentally…”
“She hasn’t been able to synchronize with an Evangelion since the, erm, the event.” Maya said. “Her psychograph showed that she was under severe strain before you arrived and relieved her. NERV is exploring what the best treatment might be.”
Mister Shinji sighed. “Well, she probably doesn’t wanna talk to me so…”
“You should see her.” Rei said. “You protected her, she’ll be happy to see you.”
Mister Shinji’s only answer was a grunt.
Mister Nagisa walked into the room and made a beeline for Mister Shinji.
“Why?” He asked, his voice intense as he stood over Mister Shinji.
Mister Shinji raised an eyebrow. “You’re gonna have to be a bit more specific.”
Mister Nagisa’s eyes narrowed. “The battle against the last Angel. You nearly destroyed yourself to protect Horaki Hikari. Why?”
Mister Shinji grunted. “It’s what anyone would have done.”
“You’re wrong.” Mister Nagisa denied. “The leadership bemoaned that you had done that. They’d have much rather she had fallen than losing you, you are the more valuable Pilot. You know this. Yet even though you didn’t have a reason to, you all but sacrificed yourself for the wellbeing of someone who did not benefit you in any way. Why?”
Mister Shinji sighed. “A few years ago someone got lost in the mountains. A days long search was launched in order to find them. During the search, three people died, the mountain is a treacherous and dangerous place you see. But the person was found, they were rescued, and the endeavor was declared a success.”
Mister Nagisa scowled. “There was a net loss. And I don’t see how that relates to my question.”
Mister Shinji hummed. “It was a success because the person was saved, period, end of discussion. People are just like that. That’s the wonderful thing about being a human.”
Mister Nagisa shook his head. “If we extrapolate that logic, that means that you would willingly die for the sake of saving a random person. But you are too important for that. Your death would be a severe blow to the Endeavor, why would you risk that for the life of someone whose death will not impact the survival of humanity?”
Mister Shinji looked at the grey-haired boy for a long time before he said. “I read a story about a disaster once.”
“What does a story have to do with my question?” Mister Nagisa demanded.
Mister Shinji continued as if he hadn’t spoken. “It happened on a beach after a monsoon, you see. The storm had made the seas rage, and the tides had thrown a whole lot of starfish onto the beach. Many learned people worried as to the ecological damage that would be caused by the death of so many starfish. Talking heads talked, people worried, and the learned people made plans to help the environment recover from the damage.
“One of these very learned people chose to look at the beach with his own two eyes. He was a professor at a university you see, and he’d just happened to be vacationing nearby when this disaster happened. So he went to that beach to take his own notes. As he bemoaned the damage that this would cause to the ecosystem in that section of the sea, he noticed something weird.
“A little boy was on the beach, throwing starfish back into the ocean. He looked like he had been at it for hours, and he hadn’t made any noticeable impact at all. Curious, the learned man went over to the boy and asked him what he was doing.
“The boy said, ‘I’m tossing the starfish back into the ocean.’ So the man explained to him that the damage would be too severe, that the ecosystem would be thrown out of order, that there was no way he would be able to throw enough starfish back into the ocean to stop the extinction or the knock-on effects that would be caused by the death of so many starfish. While the man explained all of this, the boy continued to walk through the beach, finding live starfish and throwing them back into the water.
“The learned man, seeing this, got angry at the boy. ‘Don’t you see that what you’re doing doesn’t matter?’ he asked, ‘All you’re doing is wasting your time, you cannot stop or reverse the damage, there is no point, you won’t make a difference no matter what you do!’ The boy picked up another starfish, turned to the man, and said. ‘I’ll make a difference to this one.’ And threw it back into the ocean.” Mister Shinji rested his cheek on his hand and sighed.
Mister Nagisa remained silent for a long while before speaking. “So…you’re saying you’re the boy?”
“No.” Mister Shinji said, standing up. “That’s just some story about a boy wasting his time throwing starfish into the ocean. I’m going for drinks, anyone want anything?”
“I want a sunny apple.” Rei said immediately.
“I’ll take one too.” Asuka said.
Maya raised her hand.
“Okay good.” Mister Shinji said, then turned to Mister Nagisa. “As for you. You’re thinking too hard. That’s not always a bad thing, but sometimes, you need to stop thinking and just do shit. You want anything?”
Mister Nagisa stared at Shinji for long seconds before saying. “I’ll have some water.”
“One of everything, got it.” Mister Shinji said and walked out.
Mister Nagisa watched him depart before saying. “I do not understand him at all.”
Asuka scoffed. “Join the club.”
Maya however, disagreed. She smiled and turned back to her station to get back to work.
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Kaiju Slaying For Death And Profit Ch 29

Howdy y'all, hope you've had a good weekend.
Sorry for the silence, work was...urg, and next week isn't looking much better honestly.
It doesn't help that the first half of this chapter fought me something fierce.
This chapter was an attempt to follow the Evangelion tradition of 'show something happened, then show how everyone got to that situation,' but in written form. Hopefully you lot will enjoy it.
Warning, this chapter contains 'the sex' and not the 'they kissed with pants on and the screen faded to black' sex, so keep that in mind when you choose a location to read it.
With that said, hope you like it, please drop me a comment.
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THREE WEEKS AGO
[You will explain yourself and your actions to this august body!] Snarled Monoloth 04. [Two Pilots incapacitated, one of them the ace, with likely permanent debilitating brain damage! The prototype portable nuclear reactor burnt out! Two Evangelions requiring extensive surgery and refit to be rid of corrupted parts! The Spear of Longinus lost!]
[You will explain yourself forthwith, Ikari.] Monoloith 02 demanded in a quiet, emotionless tone that indicated much more danger than 04’s passionate rage.
Fuyutsuki felt a bead of sweat roll down his forehead, and did not dare wipe it away.
Gendo sat, his brow dry, his back straight, his hands clasped in front of him. Outwardly calm.
He took a deep breath, and as he released it, his back bowed, his shoulders hunched, and his head drooped. “I cannot explain myself satisfactorily. This failure was caused by my weakness.”
The silence that followed in the conference room was deafening. It was all Fuyutsuki could do to maintain his mask.
Just before the silence would have stretched too long, Gendo continued. “When I saw Unit 01 falter. When I saw the Corruption Index rising. When I saw Pilot Ik-My son’s vitals plummeting…I-” He took off his glasses and rubbed at his eyes with a white-gloved hand. “I had to. I thought I was stronger than this, but I wasn’t. This body has my apologies, and if it desires it, my resignation.”
The quiet reined for a while before the uproar began.
Two out of the fifteen called for Gendo’s head.
Four screamed that the former two did not understand the importance of family.
Five were unsure. The other four bided their time with silence.
It was quite a while before order, or at least silence, was reestablished.
SEELE deliberated Ikari Gendo’s fate seemingly in silence, before Monolith 05 spoke. [Your failure was indeed monumental, but several members of this body understand your circumstances. It would be difficult to let go of one’s legacy, as that will be denied to each of us once we become immortal. While this failure is potentially catastrophic, it is also, notably, your first of this magnitude. As such, this body will not demand your resignation, Director Ikari.]
Monolith 01 continued in a warning growl. [But do not mistake this for mercy or forgiveness. We may understand the reason behind your actions, but it remains true that this setback puts the ultimate effort at severe risk of failure. See that you do not commit another such failure, you do not want to face the wrath of this body.]
Gendo bowed where he sat. “You have my most sincere gratitude and apologies.”
Between one breath and the next, SEELE disconnected.
Neither Gendo nor Fuyutsuki dared speak until they were several floors away from the meeting room.
Fuyutsuki sighed, the release of tension nearly sending him to his knees as he leaned on the wall of the elevator. “How did they buy that coming from you of all people?”
“It lets them believe they have another handle, another hook with which to control me.” Gendo stated, his hands clasped at the small of his back. “Not to mention, it sounds plausible enough to be believed. It helped that we were successful in our efforts to control the narrative.”
They rode in silence for some time before Fuyutsuki asked. “How much of what happened in there was an act?”
Gendo did not answer his question.
TWO WEEKS AGO
Nagisa Kaworu did not understand.
This was not unusual, there were many things he did not understand. Most of them about humans.
Most humans had an instinctive understanding of each other; with a mere look they often as not knew what another human was feeling and began feeling the same, or opposite thing themselves.
Except, of course, when they didn’t.
He found the lack of consistency quite vexing.
Then there was the embodiment of lack of consistency which currently most vexed him. Ikari Shinji, a young man who was the lynchpin of NERV’s defense against the Angels.
Horaki Hikari, a young woman, recently made a Pilot, one with one Angel kill under her belt (assisted by Asuka Langley Sohryu and under tutelage by Ikari Shinji). A Pilot he was sent explicitly to replace due to inconsistent and unacceptably poor Synchronization.
A young woman who, days before he arrived, managed to claw her way to ‘acceptable,’ thus remanding him to the title of ‘backup Pilot.’ His studies had shown that he should have been indignant, but hadn’t bothered because that would have been too much effort.
He did not understand. The trade had been a poor one.
Ikari Shinji had thrown himself against the Angel, and withstood a memetic assault for several minutes, if the interruptions of the Thirteenth’s song caused by pain were any indication, he had stepped into an unfamiliar battlefield and struck back at a being literally born to fight in that front.
Yes, he ultimately lost the battle, but if there were to be a rematch Kaworu could not help but wonder if the Thirteenth would manage to repeat the feat, so quick had been Ikari Shinji’s improvement in the unfamiliar battlefield.
Ikari Shinji, an objectively extraordinary example of Humanity.
Horaki Hikari, an objectively unextraordinary example of Humanity.
The loss of the former could spell disaster, none of the other Pilots could match his record. Only Kaworu could match his synchronization, and while Asuka Langley Sohryu was a graceful combatant, Kaworu doubted she was capable of matching Ikari Shinji’s ferocity and resilience. By his reckoning, had she been the one to battle the Thirteenth, her mind would have shattered. At best putting up cursory resistance before folding under the Thirteenth’s probing light.
In the short exposure Horaki Hikari had to the Thirteenth, Ikari Shinji had somehow deduced this. He had comprehended that the Thirteenth’s light shattered minds.
So why had he put himself at that risk? Had he thought he could withstand the Angel’s might without injury? Did he know he couldn’t? If so; why had he made that trade? His health and sound mind, for a Pilot who could at best accomplish a fraction of what he could?
Logic dictated that he should have sacrificed Horaki Hikari, make use of the information thus gained to make a more suitable strategy, then neutralize the Thirteenth.
The exact opposite of what Ikari Shinji had done.
His studies had shown a number of likely reasons for such an action. Human males had shown a proclivity to sacrifice their lives for a woman who carried or had carried a child of theirs, or that they believed to be theirs.
But the one he was in a relationship with was Ayanami Rei. And while Ayanami Rei had been involved in the battle against the Thirteenth, even being the one to deal the killing blow, she had not been the reason why Ikari Shinji put himself at risk.
Nagisa Kaworu did not understand.
And while Ikari Shinji had proven to be refreshingly straightforward once it was made obvious to him that he did not need to treat him as he did a baseline human, his current condition did not lend itself to answering Kaworu’s questions, as he had often done in the days preceding the arrival of the Thirteenth.
Still, there was one who might be able to answer some of his questions. The one who was, truly, most like him.
And not like him at all.
It was somewhat vexing that she had been correct when she told him she was not like him anymore.
Ikari Shinji seemed to have that effect.
Kaworu went to the room Shinji was being kept in, making sure to go when it was Ayanami Rei’s turn to watch over him, that duty being split between Ayanami Rei, Ibuki Maya, Sato Kaede and on occasion Asuka Langley Sohryu.
There had been more volunteers, but it had been deemed that had too many been allowed, it would have been disruptive to NERV standard operations.
He stood at the open door to Ikari Shinji’s room, not meeting the gaze that settled on Kaworu with the intensity of targeting lasers.
“Ayanami Rei. Can we talk?” He asked without inflection in his voice.
As Rei pondered, Shinji made a wordless rumbling growl, stopping only when Rei patted his thigh. Once she did that, he barked out a monosyllabic sound and began studying the room.
“Yes.” She answered quietly and walked closer to Kaworu, he stepped into the room but stopped a few meters short of entering Shinji’s Social Space. Likewise, Rei walked forward until she was just within Kaworu’s Social Space, both of them having taken Shinji’s lesson to heart. “What do you need?”
“I just want to know why.” Kaworu began, but found he wasn’t certain how to properly voice his question.
“Why what?” Rei asked as Kaworu looked for the right words.
He waved vaguely in Shinji’s direction. “Why this? It should be Horaki Hikari there, Shinji is objectively far too important to sacrifice for the sake of that Pilot. Had his superiors had their way, that’s exactly what would have happened. So why did he do what he did? Why risk ending up like this? I cannot understand.”
Rei looked at Shinji, his face a mask of concentration as he looked at them. “Because that’s who Shinji is.”
If he were speaking to someone else, Kaworu would frown. But the two of them did not need the spectacle. “That does not answer my question.”
“It does.” Rei said, turning back to him. “You just cannot understand the answer.”
“Then explain it in a way I would understand.” He pressed.
“Shinji has decided he will protect the lives of everyone in this city.” She said, once again turning to Shinji, her face taking a very human expression. “So, no matter what he says, no matter how much he grumbles. He will put himself at risk, to protect everyone and anyone he thinks deserves it. All while making those in charge think he is only doing it for a paycheck.”
“But…why?” Kaworu demanded. “What does he get out of it? What repayment is he expecting? He put the rest of the endeavor at NERV at risk for the sake of one single person. That’s highly illogical.”
Rei shrugged. “Logic doesn’t enter into it…or maybe it does. Just not a logic we can understand.”
“And as a result, NERV lost its best Pilot, for the sake of its worst.” Kaworu pressed. “How is that a good trade?”
“It’s not about trading.” Rei answered. “Shinji did it, because that’s who Shinji is. If he had taken what you are saying into consideration, then he wouldn’t be my Shinji.”
“But now your Shinji is lost.”
“He isn’t.” Rei said with complete conviction. “He will come back to me.”
Kaworu tilted his head. Could this be an ability of hers that differed from his? She was of Lillith, while he was a hybrid of Adam and Lillith. It stood to reason that what they could do would differ. “How can you be certain? I saw the medical reports.”
Rei turned to look Kaworu in the eye. “He has never failed me before. Even when I was sure that all was lost, that he was lost to me forever; He found a way to ignore the laws of thermodynamics so he could come back to me. This will be no different.”
“That’s illogical.” Kaworu stated.
“Perhaps so.” Rei said, then her lips quirked into a knowing smile. “Or perhaps, it is just logic you cannot understand.”
ONE WEEK AGO
“France, Germany, Spain, Italy…the whole of the United Nations has begun producing Evangelion.” Hyuga Makoto said, sitting on a bench at the GeoFront. “The facilities have been in construction for years, and they’ve incorporated all of our advancements in production of Evangelion parts, both biological and electronic. They’re unlikely to suffer the setbacks NERV did while developing the technology.”
Misato grunted and continued tossing bird feed at the pigeons. “But why? Do they think we’re about to be flooded with Angels? And where will they even find the Pilots? Who will train them?”
Makoto sighed. “About that.”
“What?”
He leaned back and looked at the enormous dome that comprised the ‘sky’ of the GeoFront. “Maya asked me to look into something. Miss Sohryu claims she wrote a manual on how to properly train Evangelion Pilots.”
“That would have been useful when trying to train Hikari, why didn’t she submit it for approval?” Misato asked.
“She did.” Makoto said. “Nine years ago.”
“What!?” She hissed.
“I was able to track down the paperwork. It was submitted to Gehirn and it started the review process, and that’s where it ends. There is nothing, not a single other mention of Miss Sohryu’s work. And if it had the lessons she taught Miss Horaki…”
“It stands to reason that anyone can use it to train a Pilot to, at the very least, adequacy.” Misato said slowly.
“Which would point to its loss not being accidental.” Makoto said.
“It’s sabotage.” Misato agreed. “Some group has been sabotaging the fight against the Angels from the get-go.”
“What I don’t understand is why?” Makoto asked. “There must be a reason! But for the life of me, I do not understand why anyone would risk literal extinction!”
Misato shook her head. “It’s all related.”
“Ma’am?”
“The lost training manual, the mass produced Evas, hell, maybe even the Seeker’s of Revelation. It’s all connected.” She said, suppressing the urge to begin pacing. Makoto remained thankfully quiet, letting her concentrate on working her way through her thoughts. “From the get-go, NERV has been sabotaged. Not enough to see us fail, no, but enough that we’ll be weakened. Imagine what would have happened if we didn’t have Shinji.”
Makoto scowled. “Assuming we’d survived at all…we’d have blown through our R&D budget to repair Tokyo-3, we might well have simply lost the entire city and been forced to relocate the HQ.”
“Exactly, with a little luck, we would be barely holding on, perhaps on our last wit, doing our best to scramble to prepare for the next Angel.”
“So…exactly what we’re doing right now?”
Misato rolled her eyes. “Yes, but from a worse position. We’d have less weapons, perhaps less Evas, our stronghold would be even more damaged, we’d have taken more casualties. If, after the last Angel had fallen, we were then forced to turn to a new threat, depleted, exhausted, barely holding on…”
Makoto’s eyes widened. “We’d be easy pickings.”
“The UN isn’t fighting the Angels.” Misato murmured, angrily tossing more bird feed at the swarming pigeons. “They’re fighting the next World War; they’ve been fighting it from the start.”
“What can we do?” Makoto asked, his hands balling up into fists.
Misato gave him a smile that she hoped hid her true feelings. “You let me worry about that. You just keep your head down, prepare for the next Angel, and keep me informed if you see anything strange. I’ll tell you your part of the plan when you need to know it.”
Makoto sighed. “Always two steps ahead, ma’am. Very well, you can count on me.”
“Thanks.” Misato answered and dropped her smile when he left.
Now to come up with an actual plan. After all, this wasn’t something she’d be able to solve by simply pointing Shinji at it and setting him loose.
TODAY
Rei was happy, and sad, and angry.
That was new.
Before her Shinji came, she’d struggled to recognize any one emotion from another, her world had been a grey thing, one that inflicted itself upon her.
But her Shinji had brought light, and with it, color. New thoughts and new sensations.
Before, she would have been content to merely die, to return to the warm nothing she vaguely recalled. To be forced to become another herself, as she’d already done once before.
But now, such was unconscionable.
Now, if she went back to the warm nothing, she’d not have her Shinji.
She wanted her Shinji.
Her belly warmed at the sight of him.
Her eyes itched to behold him.
Her hands burned to touch him.
Her mouth watered at the scent of him.
Her loins ached for him.
She had held herself back, out of fear that if she indulged, he’d be taken from her. It was paramount that her Shinji’s father believed she was still his doll.
How wrong she’d been.
Her nose wrinkled at the stink that reeked off her Shinji.
That Angel had soiled him. It had draped itself across him, sought to enter him, and though her Shinji had fought it, its stench remained.
She wanted to be rid of it, but she couldn’t. Not at NERV headquarters.
Which is why Rei had convinced Ritsuko that transferring to his apartment was her idea. From there, Ritsuko had made a very detailed report about how the more familiar surroundings might aid in his recovery.
It had not been too difficult to ensure that Maya was the one who was given guardianship over Shinji and her. Out of all those who helped, Maya had been the most devoted. She was the one most deserving of what Rei planned.
After all, she could wash away the stench that clung to her Shinji, but if she had the opportunity, why not replace it with a bouquet that was more pleasant?
Maya had been nervous at first, awkward, her attempts at conversation stilted. So, even though she felt impatient, Rei had bided her time, waited for the woman to lower her guard.
Now she sat at their table, attempting to compile a program on her laptop, wearing a shirt with a collar so loose Rei could see one strap of her bra, and shorts that left her lovely legs on display. Maya absently ate a potato chip as she worked, her determined gaze on her laptop’s screen.
Shinji had taken to walking around the apartment, checking the doors and windows as he did every day and night, but had retired to his room.
Rei used the remote Shinji had built for her, the one that overrode the feed on the hidden cameras, replacing what they saw with the routine of the last few days.
She walked to Maya, the older woman too engrossed in her work to notice her. Rei had pondered on how to go about this next part, her research showing many ways it could be accomplished. But she’d ultimately asked herself what Shinji would do and went with that.
As such, Maya seemed quite surprised when Rei, who had taken to wearing an outfit much like Maya’s, dropped onto her lap, straddling her. “Miss Ayanami? Wha-hmph!”
Rei didn’t let Maya get far with her question; she leaned forward, captured the older woman’s lips, and wrapped her arms around Maya’s head.
Maya made a number of noises, most of them adorable, her hands roaming Rei’s body, trying ineffectually to push her away. When Maya’s mouth opened in an attempt to speak, Rei took the opportunity to slip her tongue into the older woman’s mouth and made use of everything she had learned by kissing her Shinji.
Maya’s struggles redoubled, her tongue dueling with Rei’s in an attempt to push it out of her mouth, but resulting merely in deepening the kiss. Once Maya’s struggles weakened, Rei stopped holding Maya’s head with one arm, and slipped that hand inside the woman’s shirt, palming her breast and caressing, pinching, and slightly scratching the soft flesh.
Maya moaned into the kiss, her face bright red, squirming under Rei’s touch.
Rei finally understood why Shinji did that to her, watching and feeling Maya squirm adorably beneath her brought an interesting, but very pleasant heady feeling.
Rei pulled back slightly, breaking the kiss as a test.
“M-M-Miss Ayanami!?” Maya hissed. “What do you think you’re doi-hmph!”
Judging the woman as ‘not ready’ Rei continued. Maya was, unfortunately, just smart enough to make things problematic. So Rei did to Maya what Shinji did to her, to push her to the point where she’d do anything, agree to anything, so long as he wouldn’t stop.
Maya did try to push Rei back, but the analyst was svelte less due to an exercise regime, and more due to her diet. This was not a bad thing, she was soft in all the right places, and she certainly wasn’t unhealthy. But this did mean that she did not have the strength to forcibly stop Rei even when Rei was smaller and lighter, and Rei had a slight suspicion that part of Maya didn’t want Rei to stop.
Every time Rei broke the kiss, Maya’s protests and questions were quieter, more confused, each time the older woman’s resistance to Rei’s touch lighter, each time Maya’s body was more welcoming. Until her legs were eagerly spread, her hips pushing forward into Rei’s fingers, her hand inside the woman’s unzipped shorts.
Rei broke the kiss again. Maya made a series of noises that could charitably be considered a mix between a whine and a question.
Rei judged the woman to be ready.
She brought her fingers out from the woman’s vulva…no, what did Shinji call it? Ah yes, from the woman’s pussy. They were drenched with Maya’s…juices. Rei licked her fingers curiously; she’d only ever tasted her own and Shinji’s. She found the taste tart, but pleasant, very much to her liking.
She then pressed her fingers to Maya’s lips and calmly commanded. “Clean them.”
Maya’s face scrunched up cutely, but her mouth opened obediently, allowing Rei to slip them inside the woman’s mouth and to begin playing with her tongue the way Shinji did with hers.
“You might be wondering why I am doing this, Maya.” Rei murmured, absently licking a bead of sweat on the woman’s cheek. “I assure you; it is not without purpose. You will help me heal my Shinji.”
Maya’s eyes widened and locked onto her own, but she didn’t say anything, as her mouth was currently occupied.
“Yes. This needs a woman’s touch.” Rei said, running her other hand down Maya’s neck, shoulder, side, hip, then pressed into the woman’s mons. “But it can’t be me. It’s too dangerous. You are needed, Maya.”
Rei removed her hand from Maya’s mouth, who immediately started asking questions, questions Rei answered by shoving her tongue inside Maya’s mouth and enjoying the taste of the woman’s pussy on her tongue.
Not long after that, Rei led a naked Maya by the hand, her full-body blush making the taller woman look adorable, and pulled her into Shinji’s room.
Shinji sat on the bed, absently snapping the pieces of a torn apart Rubik’s Cube back together, so the six faces would have the proper colors. That is, until he noticed the naked Maya, who was hiding her nipples with one arm, and the dripping lips of her pussy with her other hand.
“M-Mister Shinji. I-I umm…” Was as far as she got before squeaking as Shinji swept her off her feet and tossed her roughly onto the bed. “W-Wait! Please be gentl-EEP!”
Shinji knelt between her legs and dove at her pussy like a starving animal, in seconds, Maya was moaning and whimpering.
Rei climbed into the bed beside Maya, studying the woman’s face as Shinji ate her out. “Describe it, Maya.”
Maya made several more noises, then hissed as Rei pinched one of her nipples in ‘punishment.’ “Describe it.”
“I-I…t-tongue!” Maya said, then hunched forward as she came, her eyes widening as Shinji kept going. “T-Too much!”
But Shinji didn’t listen, his hands roamed Maya’s body, caressing, pinching, scratching, each time drawing a new noise from the older woman who was soon weeping as she came again and again. Rei helped her keep the noise down by kissing her and holding one of her hands.
When Rei felt Shinji move, she broke the kiss, not wanting to miss a moment of what came next.
Shinji removed his clothes by simply pulling them until they tore. His penis was big, pulsating, intimidating. Over twenty centimeters from base to tip, its length thick and veiny.
Maya had just enough presence of mind to say. “T-There’s no way that’ll fit.”
Before Rei could say anything to reassure her, Shinji pressed against the lips of Maya’s pussy, and thrust forward in one smooth stroke, neither fast nor slow, until his hips met against Maya’s. The older woman huffing as he filled her.
“How is it, Maya?” Rei asked, licking a tear that slipped out of the woman’s eye.
“F-Full.” Maya gasped.
Not waiting for her to get used to the feeling of being filled, Shinji pulled back, then pushed forward again, his pace fast but deliberate, his hands roaming Maya’s body. Rei pressed her hand down on Maya’s mons, intensifying the pleasure for her. He began to groan and grunt as he sped up, the sound of flesh slapping flesh filling the room as he became more frantic.
“M-Mister Shinji! Stop!” Maya called out, pushing him away with her free hand even as her legs locked around his hips. “W-We shouldn’t! I-This isn’t! I’m going t-!”
Shingi growled as he thrust into her to the base, his body locking up.
Maya gasped. “Oh god, I feel him! He’s…inside! Inside me! We need t-eep!” Maya’s complaints fell away as Rei reached down and played with the woman’s clit, her fingers quick and dexterous, pushing her over the edge so she came again, forcing her body to milk Shinji inside her.
He sighed and pulled out of her, the older woman lying in a puddle, her skin glistening with sweat and a very pretty pink color. Rei transitioned to straddling her, licking the sweat off her skin. “We just need to do this enough, Maya.” She said as the older woman shivered beneath her. “And he’ll come back to us.”
“W-Whah? H-How do you-eep!-how do you know?” Maya asked.
Rei released the woman’s nipple so she could answer. “All my research into the topic indicated that love heals all wounds.”
Maya blinked, then shivered as Rei once more began suckling on her nipple. “L-Love heals all wounds? D-Did you read a romance novel and thought it held any answers!?”
Before Rei could answer, she felt a few tugs as a pair of very powerful hands took hold of her shorts and pulled them literally apart.
Looking back, she saw Shinji take hold of her hips, his face a mask of concentration.
“Wait.” She said as he thrust into her moist pussy, pushing his penis forward until he was pressing firmly against her deepest point, filling her to the extent that it was a little painful.
It was then that Rei realized she might have made a slight miscalculation.
Then he started moving, and she very quickly lost the capacity for thought.
NOW
Maya shivered beneath me, whimpering as she came again, her cunt milking my cock from base to tip as I once again filled her already stuffed cunt. I let go of her shoulder, her skin red with my bitemark. She really didn’t seem the type to get off on pain, it really is the quiet types you have to watch out for.
Maybe I should feel guiltier about having my way with her, but the damage was already done, she had made herself my woman forevermore, so now it fell to me to ensure she had a long, happy, fulfilling life.
Also dick her down but good.
I pulled out of her, Rei’s lips immediately closing around my softening member, her head bobbing eagerly up and down as her ‘cleanup’ very clearly was just a blowjob and an attempt to get me hard again.
And even though I didn’t have sexual calibration, I was in a young body and my Template granted me superhuman stamina, so it wasn’t long before mini-me was at full mast and ready for more. I lay Rei next to the prone Maya and thrust into her welcoming cunt.
“Well, I’m glad, nothing much happened, while I was indisposed.” I said between pants as I thrust repeatedly into her. The vague and extremely embarrassing memories of the last three weeks flashing through my mind as Rei had explained while I fucked Maya some more.
“I was, very worried, and lonely.” Rei said, running her hands and nails over my chest, the light scratches making me lose control momentarily and jackhammer into her for several strokes to her very vocal delight before I regained control. “Don’t you, ever leave me, alone again.”
I put her legs on my shoulders, then bent down until her face was pressed against my chest, making her groan as this position let me really press inside her. “I’ll do my best.” I grunted, increasing my pace, there was something about Rei’s cunt, it was nearly supernaturally good.
Probably the Angel part of her. Either that, or I was an idiot and imagining things.
Either way, I didn’t last very long, her coming and milking my cock sending me over the edge as I filled her.
Rather than cuddle, she once again pushed me back, took my cock in her mouth, and blew me until I was at full mast, then presented Maya’s quim as a prize, an invitation I didn’t ignore, filling the nearly insensate woman once again.
“Mister Shinji.” She moaned as I ground against her, enjoying her warmth and wetness. “Please let me rest.”
I chuckled into her ear, turned her head roughly and kissed her. Her mouth tasted of potato chips and her own cunt, an interesting mixture, though not a wholly unpleasant one. I broke the kiss long enough to answer. “I don’t think I will.”
I enjoyed her whimper and began fucking her at a fast pace.
Starting tomorrow, I was going to have to make up for lost time, see what Gendo and SEELE had gotten up to, see about making certain everyone was prepared for the coming Angels, and a myriad of other things. For now?
Maya moaned, calling out my name as her cunt massaged me, hugging me tight when I drew back, then welcoming me home as I thrust in.
For now I would enjoy myself, the world could wait.
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Kaiju Slaying For Death And Profit Ch 28

Howdy y'all, hope you're having a good weekend.
I got so much done! Feels good to finish a bit earlier than usual!
I wrote a solid third of this during the week during lunch at work. And then had to throw that third away and rewrite it yesterday, because this went a direction I wasn't fully expecting.
Still, in the interest of 'it's Evangelion' it's introspective and kinda fucky. Though a little less concentration on 'woe is I and all things around me' and more 'this is why this guy is warped the way he is, but hey, at least he's trying.' Kinda thing.
Essentially, the way I prefer my fucky introspection scenes.
If nothing else, I hope you lot find it entertaining. I have a feeling it's not for everyone, but I tried. Also, this chapter is almost 5800 words. It's kinda a lot. XD
Lemme know in a comment if you liked or didn't.
Or don't, I remain not the boss of you.
Have a good weekend, and if you're on the US (which the bulk of y'all are) have a good Memorial Day. And stay safe.
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Maya sighed and straightened up the infirmary room, Mister Shinji’s eyes roaming about as he continued to stare at everything in the room with childlike fascination.
She absently wiped a line of drool that had leaked down his chin and wished there were more people who could approach Mister Shinji without causing a violent reaction.
To date, that list consisted of Maya herself, Rei, Asuka, some of the younger nurses, and one of the male nurses. Most of the doctors had learned not to ignore his wordless warning growls when one of them had to undergo reconstructive surgery to fix his shattered cheekbone.
Mister Shinji was terrifyingly strong, there were some theories that he had myostatin-related muscle hypertrophy on top of his tricho-dento-osseous syndrome. His current condition making it obvious in retrospect exactly how much the boy held back and controlled himself on a day-to-day basis. Even so, all of the nurses and most of the doctors braved the likelihood of bodily harm to treat him. They had to. He was simply too important.
Maya was pretty sure that Horaki would be fine to approach too, but the girl was in a fragile state, and it did not seem like a good idea to risk her seeing what had become of Mister Shinji.
After all, they’d effectively lost their star pilot because she cried for his help specifically.
“Any improvement on his condition?” Major Katusagi asked from the door, she shuddered as Mister Shinji’s eyes focused on her like targeting lasers the moment she made a noise. She decidedly did not meet his stare, and did not look directly at Maya.
Another lesson that had been learned the hard way by an unfortunate doctor.
Maya sighed. “I don’t know, ma’am. I want to say yes, but that could just be me being optimistic.” She absently wiped drool away again. “He seems more directly aware than last week. And he’s had less violent episodes, which could mean healing of his cognitive centers…”
“Or it could mean that we’ve learned how to work around what sets him off.” Major Katusagi muttered.
“Exactly.” Maya sighed.
“What about his condition?” The Major asked after a thoughtful silence.
Maya shook her head. “As best as we can tell, the pressure in his brain from the multiple brain hemorrhages he suffered battling the Angel have stabilized. Unfortunately, the areas damaged were not the ones responsible for motor control, those we could fix quickly. The damage is, unfortunately, concentrated on the regions of the brain we do not know much about.”
“Meaning, no change.” Major Katusagi surmised.
“Right.” Maya said. “Since his condition is stable, there have been talks about moving him to his apartment. The hope is that the familiar environment might shake something loose in there.”
The Major sighed but nodded. “Keep me appraised.”
Her order given, she stepped back carefully and slowly, and making no sudden movements, left the room.
Yet another painful lesson learned by an unfortunate member of the medical staff.
Maya smiled at Mister Shinji, absently wiping drool again, his eyes snapping to her face. “You’ll be alright, Mister Shinji.” She said.
He did not vocalize, but he took hold of her wrist in a gentle grip, then stared in fascination at her hand.
She wasn’t worried, he’d yet to hurt her except accidentally. Which, to her, meant that the Miracle Child was still in there, doing his best to come back to them. To finish what he’d started, and save mankind.
And he would.
Somehow.
Still, as he placed one of her fingers in his mouth and absently sucked on it, she couldn’t help but wonder: what was going on in there?
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Zero zero zero, zero zero zero, zero zero zero, zero zero zero, two three five.
000,000,000,000,235.
------------CCXXXV.
Strange, that the most hated number was the only anchor I could find.
I remember the searing pain as It tried to burrow into my mind, as It tried to extract my secrets. I remember the agony of struggle, biting the reaching hands and probing fingers.
I remember my mind bending under the strain.
I felt myself spiral, I reached for who I was, what I was, where I was, but always only one thing answered my probing.
------------CCXXXV.
The utter certainty, that I was not the First.
The absolute knowledge that there were at least two-hundred-and-thirty-three versions of me, running around the multiverse. And One from whom we had all been copied.
For a decade and a half, I hated that number. Even as grateful as I was to it.
Prime Me knowing Himself well enough to understand, that not knowing for certain would destroy Us.
We were homogenous, far more alike to each other than we were unique.
It made sense, we were the same person. Decanted from clone vats with copied memories. Our responses to said memories modified, negative memories muted, the satisfaction of just retribution heightened.
Just enough so we’d be the same person, but with a negligible chance of having the Prime’s suicidal tendencies.
All of Us accepted the work deal. That didn’t happen often, even with exact copies of an individual, make enough attempts, the clones will eventually make a different choice. Choosing impulsive and reckless immediate satisfaction instead of a decade and a half of grueling work as an investment for the future.
It was a Statistical Anomaly, that one-hundred-percent acceptance of the work deal. To trade away fifteen years of life for a leg-up on the exam, and if not used, a bonus to one’s start as an Agent.
That was noted on Our files.
000,000,000,000,235.
Fifteen years of work in the Slutlife Engineering Mechanics Electricians and Nano-machinist division, yes there was a Geas involved, no, even the Geas’ removal did not make it easy to only think ‘engineering division,’ it was that ingrained in all who worked in SEMEN.
We could all look up what We all got up to.
Very few of Us died at work, say what you will about Slutlife, but they guarded their assets jealously. Individuals learned in mechanical engineering were not as easily discarded as janitorial staff.
Fair? No.
Did that stop me from taking advantage of being a ‘High Priority Asset for retrieval and rescue’ whenever the facility I was in was attacked? Absolutely not.
One learned not to become friends with those who weren’t HPAs, it wasn’t worth the heartbreak.
There was a very good reason why piloting a Slutlife Construction Vehicle gave hazard pay, and it wasn’t the suit’s design.
Completely unrelated, while the mining and construction tools installed into the SCVs were subpar for combat, the things they could do to even a heavily augmented humanoid body were truly horrific.
Zero zero zero, zero zero zero, zero zero zero, zero zero zero, two three five.
I floated through a sea of shattered cells of information. Synapse spasms buffeting what little cognition I could coalesce around the Number.
I flinched as Johnathan’s severed finger splatted against my cheek, staining my beard red with his blood, he looked at his hand where his careless handling of a power tool had removed it.
“Goddamn it Johnathan! Again!?” I snarled, turning off my own tool, setting the safeties, removing the power source, and locking it to my harness. Only then picking up the severed finger.
“You know, the worst thing is it doesn’t hurt.” Johnathan said, wiggling the bleeding appendage.
“Turn your shit off, dumbass!” I shouted, using my HUD and admin privileges to remotely shut down his adamantine saw, the most cost-effective way to cut through a Titan’s plasteel armor plates while minimizing the need for personal protective equipment.
“Oh right, thanks Alex.” He said, still not doing anything to staunch the bleeding.
“Shut the fuck up and engage your safeties! Then fuck off to the healers! We’ve got a quota to meet and I’m not doing your share again!” I shouted.
I didn’t hear Johnathan’s response, drifting away through the sea of shattered bits of me. That information node felt important, but not enough to fight to keep hold of it. I needed something else.
Something fundamental, something that could serve as a foundation.
Alex, a chosen name. It wasn’t my name, my name was S-000,000,000,000,235. But ‘Alex’ was the name my entire clone line chose as their own.
There was one other name we all considered, but none of us had felt worthy of it. We knew the Prime took that name, and we all, seemingly collectively, agreed to leave it to him.
More alike than different, our clone line is.
It makes sense, we are literally copies of the same person.
Zero zero zero, zero zero zero, zero zero zero, zero zero zero, two three five.
I strode through the office, projecting confidence and contempt.
The former far more difficult than the latter.
I held on to the information, to the memory, it felt solid.
No, it felt Important.
It was easy to hold tight. The synapse pathways well-trodden.
Part of the Foundation of whoever was ‘me.’
I delved greedily, desperately, into the memory.
I strode through the office, projecting confidence and contempt.
The former far more difficult than the latter.
I shipped out to Boot tomorrow, after that, I would survive the exam, I would become a full Agent.
I had already put in a request to leave Class A, and it had been accepted, a privilege that not many are granted.
But a Legacy Contract? That made for a hell of a bargaining chip.
Class A could not take Boot away from me. If they even made the attempt, I could bring untold levels of hell down on them.
And worse, at least in their eyes, they would be forced to compensate me for the trouble.
Fucking Class A.
I reached the office marked on my HUD and slammed the door open. “The hell do you want?”
Inside the office was an entirely normal looking human man, his black hair perfectly coifed, his black business suit immaculate, his chin covered by just enough stubble to accentuate the line of his jaw. His ice blue eyes cold, calculating, unsurprised, looking dispassionately down at my boots where I stood on top of his rug.
His rug, of Alderaanian make if I wasn’t mistaken, was a warm peach color, and looked sinfully soft and fluffy.
I had tracked mud and engine oil onto it.
Did I seriously walk all the way here barefoot so I could put my dirty boots on right outside to force someone to clean the mess and in the hopes of ruining someone’s immaculate, expensive, and irreplaceable rug?
No, I obviously did not. Who would ever be that petty?
The soles of my feet always had those bruises and cuts due to gravel, thank you very much.
“Prospective Agent, welcome. May I call you Alex?” He asked, his voice soft, high for a man, perfectly polite.
“No.” I snarled. “What do you want? I need to pack my shit and leave.”
He smiled, his perfectly straight white teeth barely visible through the perfectly genuine looking gesture. “Of course, Prospective Agent, thank you for coming.”
“What. The Hell. Do you want?” I repeated, grinding the soles of my boots into the rug.
I wasn’t out of Class A yet, but for all intents and purposes, I was out, these fuckers had no power over me lest I change my mind and chose to stay, so I felt I could let loose fifteen years of resentment.
In small, petty ways, sure. But those were the most annoying. The knowledge that someone went needlessly out of their way to make your day slightly worse.
Would I get far more satisfaction out of building a shotgun and punching some holes through these ‘people’ with it?
Yes, yes I would. This is Class A, anyone that chose to stay here had it coming.
But it wouldn’t be enough, it wasn’t worth it. I couldn’t do anything more than minor petty acts without either dying, or far worse, giving them the excuse they needed to keep me in Class A. And fuck Class A in particular.
If he cared about my defacing of his rug, he didn’t show it.
“Very well, I’ll cut to the chase. I want you to accompany me for a short tour. Through this tour, I will attempt to convince you to stay in Class A. It shouldn’t take more than thirty minutes.”
“No. I’m leaving.” I said, turned around, and walked straight into an invisible force field.
“I’m sorry to say, that your choices are to give me about thirty minutes of your time, or to wait in this office for thirty days.”
I turned around, snarling. “You can’t hold me! I have Boot tomorrow, and I prepared an audit to be begun if I miss it!”
“You won’t!” He said happily. “The moment you stepped through that door, a time dilation field was put in place. Once those thirty subjective days have ended, you may leave, your day will only have advanced by thirty seconds.”
Shit.
Dammit.
FUCK!
“I want it in writing.” I snarled.
He provided a contract. It was very short and to the point, no legalese or any other issues or ‘gotcha!’ clauses, a rarity for anyone dealing with the Company, and Class A specifically.
I agreed to spend less than one hour listening to his proposal. In return, I would be given seven times the requisition slips I would normally receive for a month of work. It very stringently stipulated that there was no other service being bargained for by the agreement on the contract.
Knowing these fucks were up to something, I strongly considered parking my ass on this fucker’s rug and waiting out the full thirty days.
But while I was willing to be very petty, I wasn’t willing to subject myself to a month of pissing and shitting on this guy’s rug if I’d have to live in this office for a subjective month. So I signed.
“Excellent!” He said, waving a hand, the contract vanishing in a burst of flame. “Come with me.”
He walked toward the door of his office and stepped through.
Reluctantly, I followed.
We stepped out onto a sealed platform with art-deco style architecture and decorations, one entire wall a single unblemished panel of glass. Through that glass, I saw something that made my mouth drop open.
I saw a world.
I saw my world.
Mine in every sense of the word.
As I pressed my hand against the cool glass, I felt my mind connect with the nearest Electro-Noospheric Node, it recognized me, welcoming its Master home.
My mind opened slowly, greedily, limited omniscience unfolding through my cognition.
It wasn’t just a planet, it was an entire solar system.
The star was encased in a Dyson Sphere, every unit of the awe-inspiring power it produced captured and flawlessly harvested, processed, and utilized.
In this system, materials were mined, refined, shipped, worked, forged, assembled.
Tools from the humble knife, to the Sonic Screwdriver.
Weapons from the humble bayonet, to Matter Annihilators.
Vehicles from tricycles to star ships.
Tanks, Armored Personnel Carriers, War Jacks, Mechs, Titans, Colossi, Gargantuans.
Flak Jackets, plate carriers, powered armors, personal shield units, planetary shield units.
Bolt action rifles, semi auto weapons, fully automatic smart guns, arc weapons, plasma guns, lasrifles, particle projector cannons.
And not just weapons.
Ovens, microwaves, flashlights, tablets, laptops, Personal Computers, Implants, Prosthetics.
Mining and manufacturing equipment, forklifts, seed ships, cloning vats.
A mothership that could take a colony of thousands to a new world, land safely to act as a new world capital, and the ability to be dismantled into several cities or a singular arcology with full manufacturing capacity, everything necessary to create a new civilization.
Every city in this solar system was an arcology, every arcology was simultaneously a manufacturing center and had nature parks where the ecosystem that had existed on that region of the planet was immaculately preserved.
Quadrillions of citizens, trillions of soldiers, uncountable tons of materials shipped in every second, even more materiel and goods shipped out.
And it was hardened against a siege. If all materials being shipped in were to halt right this instant, there was enough material, foodstuffs, and water in each arcology to not only maintain the same pace of manufacture to meet orders for three years, but to triple the production to create new machines for the defense of the system.
I needed only to think, and I could see each individual worker or soldier in my system, gauge their health, what they were doing. I could dole out encouragement and punishment at my whim.
Or I could see the entirety of the system, see the vassal systems that paid tithe to this beating heart of manufacture, each of those vassal systems having been made to be independent, but without access to certain optional goods that many others could provide, but only I provided at-cost to those who were my vassals and paid their tithe, aside from the guarantees of protection.
An armada consisting of one mothership, fifteen ships of the line, fifty-five capital ships, one-hundred-and-fifty destroyers, and five hundred supply ships jumped into apparent FTL through their Alcubierre Drives, but I knew they could also use Hyperspace Drives to navigate there, or use Warp Drives to dive into the Immaterium, itself becalmed, this universe’s equivalent of the Chaos Gods chained, enslaved, and bent to my will, forced to create or undo warp storms at my demand, to propel my ships faster, or to destroy incoming armadas.
That armada was on its way to one of the most distant vassal systems. To repel an invasion by…something that could obstruct even my Sight. That’s why I was sending enough firepower to level entire planetary systems.
I could feel Me in the Noosphere, I knew I was here, there was amusement there, an acknowledgement from an elder to a younger sibling he hadn’t seen in decades.
Or perhaps centuries.
“What is this?” I found myself whispering in awe.
“This is your system.” The A-hole said neutrally, but I could see the envy in his gaze as he looked at the planet we gazed down upon.
We were in a ring, a ring of steel that surrounded the world, its anchors down to the surface doubling as space elevators.
“This entire system is yours, or perhaps it is more accurate to say it will be yours.” He continued. “This is what happens if you stay with us, with Class A. You build this, in a decade. Well, not all of it, but the seed of it. That’s what we want, we want you to stay with us and build this.”
I worked my jaw. “Why do you need me?” I wanted to demand but barely managed to whisper. “Even if this is a pocket dimension to gaze into a potential future, you can use the step-by-step guide, you wouldn’t need me to stay in Class-A, you could just copy my work.”
“We tried!” He said amusedly, with an undercurrent of rage. “But you from the future planned for that, we can only see up to a point where we could do this ourselves, and the ‘now.’ For this,” he waved past the glassteel viewport. “We need you, you, with the Legacy Contract. We need someone who so thoroughly embodies not one, but two of the Big Seven, one with the rare will to bend those Vises to his betterment. In short…we need you, to be you.”
This is why he brought me here, why I was treated with kid gloves as far as coercion, hell, this is probably why I was an HPA.
They couldn’t coerce me too badly, anyone who built this could literally walk away from the Company, even the White Hats would forgive nearly anything for this level of manufacturing capability.
If I was, indeed, the one who built this, then they needed me to hold them in high enough esteem that I wouldn’t just walk away. They couldn’t shit on me too badly until they knew whether or not I was or wasn’t the one that made this.
I felt ‘My’ amusement grow, and knew that this, too, was intentional. The only reason ‘I’ hadn’t left the Company, cast off their shackles, the only reason why ‘I’ maintained a cordial relationship was because it amused Me to see Class-A bring younger versions of Myself here, to try and tempt us into staying.
And I knew, right then, that I was made part of a truly awe-inspiring prank.
They saw a slave world, vassals, quadrillions of wage-slaves that could be thrown at a problem, moved from one spreadsheet to the other to make up numbers as needed.
I saw Susan who studied technical manuals while she took a break from her primary occupation as a homemaker, wife of Albert, who was working his shift at the factory to support his family, he and Susan had talked about it, and he was picking up extra shifts to fund not only Susan’s education, but to buy shares into a colony ship that would be launched later in the year, as they were launched every year. He was a father of three, and he did not dream of once owning a plot of land to call his own, he knew he would have it.
A simple setup, a simple story, but variations of it were repeated over and over, trillions of times. People working for betterment, their own and that of their children.
Homelessness was outlawed. If you had a hard enough downturn that you lost your property, you were sent to an arcology, you were provided a room, nutri-paste that tasted like clean air but would sustain you, and opportunity would be made available to you. If you did not find work after an allotted length of time, work would be found for you.
Councils and representatives were formed into governing bodies, but only those who had been in the military could run for office, and only those that served with dedication, honor, and distinction could hold positions of actual power.
The quadrillions of people all prayed to their guardian deity, their benefactor who created and ran their civilization. Who they had tangible historical record of taking to the field and wielding the power only a God could wield directly in their defense.
They venerated his Wives, living saints who acted as go-betweens and curved His rages, for though He tried to be a just God, He was not infallible.
It was a protectorate, a theocratic military autocracy. One built, ran, operated, managed and ultimately owned by a benevolent dictator who was not shy about using His power for the betterment of His people.
It was a system, no, a civilization set up with the express purpose of minimizing suffering while allowing people the chance to grow and strive for greater things, and have the opportunity to achieve said greater things.
Class-A would never be able to comprehend this. They saw only the manufacturing capacity, and the quadrillions of people happy to be enslaved. They did not see the armada that left as the fulfilment of obligation, but that it was being sent out purely to guard ‘My’ investment.
They coveted this place, this result, but were incapable of understanding how it could be achieved. So they chose the only option available to them.
Wait.
Wait until they found which of my Clone Line would finally agree to build this for them.
And I knew, beyond the shadow of all doubt, that this version of Future Me had chosen to involve me in the absolute greatest practical joke. One that spanned literal millennia, and several dozen realities.
Because He shared His serial number with me, and He and I were not the same.
And the moment He saw His younger self, then His Time Loop would be completed, the one weakness that He had made sure not to counter. The one weakness he let Class A think he’d forgotten to cover.
The moment His Time Loop was closed, and His Younger Self reached a certain level of advancement, He would activate that defense and sever his connection with Class A and the Company. Robbing them of the vast riches He had cultivated and grown over the eons. Leaving them without the feather in their cap, without the shining jewel in their collection.
He did not need to tell me this. It’s exactly what I would have done.
It was difficult not to cackle in delight. An effort successful only thanks to my sympathetic connection to Older Me, who cackled in delight for me.
“Yeah well.” I whispered, feigning rage and spite. I cleared my throat, glared over my shoulder at the Corporate Devil and stated. “I refuse.”
The mask he called a smiling face gained a crack. “Please, reconsider.” He said, his voice still smooth and professional. “Would you truly throw this away, purely to spite us? The Class who brought you to life?”
I grinned. “Nothing brings me greater joy than standing in front of puffed up, moronic, lazy, worthless A-holes like you, who come to me and beg for scraps in an attempt to ride my coat-tails into greatness and telling them…‘No!’” My grin became a fairly convincing snarl, Older Me laughed even harder, beating his heels against the floor like a child not only at the elation I transmitted to him, but at my flawless insertion of a reference. “Now pay me, and get the fuck out of my way, I need to prep for Boot and my exam.”
Powerless to change my mind, incapable of getting the result his superiors likely had demanded of him, he gestured to the portal behind him. “It’s a shame that you’d rather wallow in your petty hatred than to take your rightful place of prominence. So be it.”
“Yeah fuck off.” I said, walking through the portal back to his office, and grinding my still quite dirty boots on a clean section of his rug, then off to Boot, and then, my well-deserved Adventure.
000,000,000,000,235.
I held on to the memory. It was vast, weighty, strong.
Foundational.
It gave me a starting point, something to use as a more powerful anchor than the Hated Number. The memory gave me the ability to piece my shattered cognition into a ‘before’ and ‘after.’
Long shifts at Titan Maintenance happened ‘before’, grueling work meant to weld a disparate group into a cohesive whole went ‘after.’
Tirelessly, I worked, assembling the jigsaw puzzle that slowly became my cognition. The more I pieced together, the faster it came.
Waifu’s Pride, a Titan, pitted and scarred from fighting, deemed too far gone, its cognitive pathways and cogitator cores too damaged to bother repairing, the work order was to disassemble the mighty mechanical beast for parts, scrap the rest.
It had come near the end of the shift, so it received a stay of execution.
I had stayed, and worked over the next sixteen hours, tiredly but unceasingly, refusing to leave the beast to such an undeserved ignominious fate.
Before.
I watched helplessly as Stacy, the stupid bitch demanded to see a draft officer’s manager. The man, exasperated and thoroughly done with any shit, waved. Anabelle was cut down due to her proximity to the flag bearer, bringing my squad from five, to two, in seconds. Alan was soon separated from me.
After.
I held Rei’s svelte, trembling body, she ground her hot clothed sex against my covered groin as she clumsily but desperately kissed me.
After.
I lay on the ground, the rest of my ‘team’ sleeping. I considered summoning a sandwich but decided not to risk it. The drill sergeant might decide to be more of an asshole than strictly necessary and punish my midnight snacking.
Was I tired? Yes I was exhausted, but I’d worked enough triple-shifts at SEMEN for physical exhaustion to not be enough to drag me under when thinking about uncomfortable things.
If I succeeded, if I became an Agent…I’d be a slaver. Not much of a choice, really, that was the whole thing about Slutlife.
Yeah, it’d be nice to be the Big Damn Hero, but I wasn’t Superman or Captain America. I had a measure of tenacity, but I wanted more than a ‘thank you’ for a job well done. And the Stamp…the Stamp was too powerful not to use. Either as a weapon…or to take what I wanted.
If I wasn’t careful…I’d become the thing I hated, an unfeeling jackass with a menagerie of beautiful but brainless slave women who he doesn’t even see as people. I’d seen enough of those to last me a lifetime, no need to have one staring at me from the other side of a mirror.
So, I made a promise, if only to myself. I’d only use the Stamp as a weapon, to be rid of a threat I couldn’t otherwise defeat, to turn an agent against a threat I otherwise cannot deal with…and if I used it on someone, then it would fall to me to make it worth it for them. I took their everything, so I’d have to give them everything, all they could ever want or need to live a happy, fulfilling life.
It would be my duty, my responsibility, the repayment for taking them and making them mine. And just like Prime Me, I was loath to shirk my responsibilities.
My mind made up, I was finally able to sink into an exhausted sleep.
After
I hung from the safety harness, throwing a middle finger at the guys as they laughed at my misfortune. It wasn’t even my fault! It’s not my job to do maintenance on the gantries! Fucking hell, it would be hours before I could be extracted. I felt my soul try to leave my body as the Warlord Titan, Waifu’s Pride activated even though it was currently unmanned. It reached out with its Plasma Annihilator and, gentle as I would be picking up a bird, nudged me up onto the gantry. “I uhh…Thanks.” I said lamely.
Its warhorn was deafening as it vibrated my marrow, but I took it in the spirit it was meant. Besides, a little tinnitus never hurt anyone.
Before.
I looked down at Maximus with a smile and ran the cheese grater down his arm again. “These collars really are a marvel, you know? Complete immobilization, protection from shock, and forces the wearer to remain awake?” I picked up a handful of salt and rubbed it into the wounds. His breathing remained artificially steady. “I mean, joke’s on me, right? The title of the class is enhanced interrogation, why the hell would I think that it’d be anything other than a torture fest? Fuck me, right?”
I ran the cheese grater down his leg until the skin was fully peeled, then rubbed in the salt. “I mean, can you blame me?” I asked conversationally and received no answer. “I thought Boot was supposed to be about learning and shit. How the hell was I supposed to know that it would be ‘torture innocent people to death or drop out of Boot, the class’? False advertisement I tell you.”
He did not answer as I ran the cheese grater down his stomach. “I mean, at least I noticed the clause in the syllabus, that we ‘could only torture the innocent until the final hour of the final night’ but the class ends in the morning after the final night, you know? So I took me a gamble Maximus, I did do me a gamble. And hey, considering that nobody’s stopped me, I guess it paid off!”
His eyes bulged as I very carefully ran the cheese grater along his dick until I’d removed the skin and cut into the organ, then nearly popped out of his skull when I rubbed in the salt.
“Though I’ve gotta say, what you did to those poor women? Oof, and let me tell you, I’ve seen some shit, Maximus, I’ve seen some shit. But that perverse mind of yours takes the cake, way to live up to the stereotype you alt-Rome fuckwad. I mean, yeah, I could do something worse. But come on. You’re actually staying in Class A!” I held up the cheese grater. “If you recover and become a full Agent? You’ll never live this down, Maximus, you’ll always be cheese grater dick! Cheese grater dick! Not only that, but I’m making you literally salty about it! Oh, oh I am a comedy genius, don’t you agree, Maximus?”
My only response was his artificially even breathing, and the dripping of his blood.
“Don’t worry! Salt’s a coagulant…probably.” I said, rubbing more salt into his wounds. “Anyways, I’m pretty sure I’ve done enough to pass, so I just want you to know.” I peeled his eyelid open and grinned down at him while holding a fistful of salt. “From here on? It’s personal.”
After.
On and on it went, the cognitive synaptic spasm I called ‘me’ growing stronger by the memory. Working faster and more efficiently with each puzzle piece set in its rightful place. Until, with a triumphant growl, I emerged from the fog of my thoughts and thrust deeply into Maya’s welcoming cunt, blowing my load against her deepest point as she gasped in ecstasy, her legs trembling as I held them too tightly in a mating press, her body covered in scratches and bite marks, and the occasional bruise.
I blinked, looking around, I saw we were in my apartment, my and Rei’s room to be precise.
“Uhhh.” I said as Maya relaxed into a pile of well-fucked goo beneath me. Next to her lay Rei, her sweaty body flushed, equally scratched, bit, and bruised, and leaking my come out of the puffy lips of her quim.
…huh?
“I love you Mister Shinji.” Maya mumbled absently, her hands running idly over my shoulders and back. My HUD dinged and informed me I’d captured Ibuki Maya through love confession.
Fuck!
While I was grappling with how guilty I should feel about that, and thinking of exactly what I’d need to do to make sure Maya lived a long, happy, fulfilling life, Rei looked up, smiled, and spoke through her ragged, gasping pants. “Hello Shinji…I’m glad to see, you’re thinking again.”
“Uhhh.” I said eloquently, quite sensibly confused as all hell.
Maya giggled, seemingly uncaring of the rather awkward and uncomfortable position she was in, the walls of her channel lovingly squeezing my still hard dick.
“Rei.”
“Yes?”
“What the fuck did I miss!?”
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