From: "JOYCE K WAKABAYASHI" Subject: [Eva/RGU][FanFic] Revolutionary Girl Asuka I like challenges so when someone challenged me to create something that would pair off Rei and Asuka, this is what I came up with. I also happen to like Utena though the series is lighter in tone than what I've written. Enjoy. No lemon, I just can't write it. Intro: Once a princess wept at the grave of her mother, abandoned by her father. She was befriended by a prince who gave her a rose ring, saying they'd meet again. So impressed by him, she decided to be a prince who wouldn't need to depend on others, so strong that she could protect a princess. But was that a good idea? Revolutionary Girl Asuka Asuka walked unto the school grounds, smiling to herself. She was dressed in pretty uniform that was a boy's uniform, but accesorized to look like something like a soldier's uniform with pretty shorts to show off her legs. One of the teachers had of course challenged her dress, but she had pointed out that the rule book didn't say that she had to wear a girl's school uniform, just a school uniform. "Hi, Asuka." yelled some of the girls. She waved at them. It's good to be popular, she thought. She walked into the school hallway, when she noticed a beautiful garden full of roses. She smelled the scent. Hmmm, it smells just like the roses from the funeral, she thought. She looked at her rose ring. Then she noticed a blue-haired girl in regular school uniform watering the roses. Hikari ran up to her. Asuka said, "Hi, Hikari. Who's that watering the roses?" "You don't know? That's Rei Ayanami-Himemiya. Most people just call her Himemiya. Oh, look, there's Touji." They watched as he scolded Rei, then slapped her so she fell on the ground. "Damn, that's harsh," said Asuka. She said that mostly because it surprised her so much and it offended her sense of justice. "That boy is in need of a come- uppance." Hikari said doubtfully, "I wonder if they have had some sort of quarrel." "Even so, it's too much." They were walking down the hall when they saw everyone crowded around something. Asuka pushed her way to the front and saw that it was a love letter Hikari had sent to Touji. She ripped it down, but then saw Hikari run away in tears. "Hikari, Hikari!" That does it, Asuka thought, I'm going to teach him a lesson. She clenched both her hands into two tight fists. Asuka ran to the fencing room where Touji was practicing with his sword. "Were you the one who tacked that love letter by Hikari on the wall for everyone to see?" "What of it? Incho keeps yelling at me and following me around." What a bully, she thought. "I challenge you to a duel." She grabbed a wooden training sword from the nearby rack and said, "En garde, bastard." Touji saw the rose ring on her ring finger and said, "Where did you get that?" "Someone gave it to me when I was young, why?" "I have that same ring." He showed her a ring that was identical to hers. "You must be the new duellist." "I don't know what the hell you're talking about." "I'll fight you. Meet me at the arena behind the school after school. There's a path that'll show you the way." *** Kaji, Misato and Ritsuko were observing all this from afar. Kaji said, "If it can not break out of its egg's shell, a chick will die without being born. We are the chick. The world is our egg. If we don't crack the world's shell, we will die without being born. Smash the world's shell for the Revolution of the World." *** She found her way to the door, which opened to show a huge rose. She found a huge spiral staircase. Damn, she thought, it's a long way just to fight. She noticed something on the way to the top that she had never seen from school. In the sky was an upside down city full of skyscrapers. What the hell is that, she thought. At the top, she saw Touji and Rei standing there. Rei was in a fancy blue dress and a tiara, looking impassive. Asuka stared at them in confusion. "What is Rei doing here?" "She's the Rose Bride. She belongs to the person who wins her. They say that whoever wins her gains the power to revolutionize the world. That is after you've fought off all the duellists." "She's not your girlfriend? She's someone you won?" said Asuka in disgust. "I didn't come up here to win a person. I came here to avenge my friend's honor, you baka. What is that city above us?" "I don't know. I think it's a mirage." he said. "It's one of those things I guess neither of us will know what it is. It's called Tokyo." "What are the rules?" Touji made a sour face. "You don't know?" "What do you think?" He scratched his head. "Well, the rules are simple enough. She's going to put a rose on my lapel. She'll put one on yours. Whoever knocks the rose off with their sword wins. That's basically it." "Sounds crazy, but I'm up for it." said Asuka. Then she saw something that really surprised her. Rei leaned back and said, "Rose of the noble castle. Sword of Dios, come forth and obey your master." A handle of a sword appeared on her bosom. Touji pulled it out and said something Asuka didn't quite catch except for "the power to Revolutionize the world.". Dios, Asuka thought, that's Spanish for God. This is getting seriously strange. Still, she held the sword she'd picked up in the fencing room. *** The day after, she found herself assigned to a dorm room with Rei in an empty building. The first room she'd seen was filthy. Oh, they expect me to live here, she thought. Then she heard a noise at the end of the hall. A light was seen under the door. She opened it. . In the room, she found Rei wringing out a washcloth. The room was clean and all ready for her to move into with a table with three chairs and two beds laid out. "Good morning, Asuka-sama," she said. "Don't call me Asuka-sama. I find it creepy." "Yes, Asuka-sama." This girl seriously freaks me out, she thought. "I told you to cut that out." "The other girls do." Rei said quietly. "Well, it's kind of an in-joke. But you say it like it's serious. Oh, what the hell is that?" She pointed at the weird looking bird walking around. "Oh, that's Pen-pen. He's my friend." "Why are you here?" "You won me. As the Rose Bride, I have to attend to the needs of the duellist who wins. I then become engaged to the person." "Mein Gott, don't you protest?" "I'm not supposed to do anything except what the duellist who wins me wants me to say and do. That's the fate of the Rose Bride. That's the way it's always been." Asuka was about to say another sharp thing when a thought came to her. The school she was at was a combination of elementary, junior high and high school. If Rei had lived here all her life, this could've been going on ever since kindergarten. How long as this game been going on. I must find out what all this revolution business is, she thought. She must've thought of herself and been treated as a toy from the very beginning. The very thought made Asuka want to scream, but it made her realize that Rei's behavior wasn't something that was intentional in the sense that she wanted to be this way, but that she had been made into this thing. The thought made her shiver. She turned to look at the girl who was now placing breakfast on the table. If I don't win those duels, she's just going to be somebody else's toy. Still, it makes me mad that she doesn't stand up for herself. It made her want to slap her. Then she thought. Then that would make me just as bad as Touji and the other people. "Rei, how long has this game been going on?" She glanced at Asuka then looked back at the food she was arranging on the table. "As long as I can remember. Breakfast is served." *** "Rei is not a doll for you to play with." Asuka said. She could see the doll at the feet of her mother hanging by her neck, its head twisted off. "I hate people who try to make people dolls. Who the hell are you to try to make someone into a doll for you to do whatever you want. I've decided to make sure that as long as I live, nobody else is going to be treated like a doll." Rei stood impassive nearby, dressed in her dress and tiara. Touji and Asuka fight. Hmm, thought Asuka, this guy's no pushover. He was pretty powerful and he had a really good sword. "Asuka, ganbatte!" Rei suddenly said. That took Touji by surprise. Asuka took that opportunity to slash the rose off his lapel. Touji stood stunned. Asuka frowned and said, "I hope you're satisfied now." Rei said to Touji, "You did well. Sayonara." Then she walked off with Asuka. Asuka turned to her and said, "I want you to understand one thing. I didn't do it for you. I did it for my own reasons." "I see.." "I just hate dolls. I hate seeing people play with people like they're dolls. I decided that I wouldn't tolerate it. Sounds crazy, I know." "No, it's not crazy." Asuka saw a flash of light from the cliffs. Someone is watching all this. I'm going to put a stop to all this. After all, I'm a prince, she thought. I'm ready for anything. She took a look at Rei, who was actually smiling a little. Now that I've got a princess to protect. THE END