However, he could only follow in the wake of a woman who seemed to be caught up in some sort of pull that he couldn't see. "Umm... are we gonna be goin' ta place that's important?"
"It is to me," she answered simply. "Why do you want to know?"
"I just figured that ya might be goin' off in a strange direction...."
"If I am, it'd be your fault."
"Mine?"
"Yes, yours. You're the one who brought all this up. You have to know that it wouldn't be something to ignore."
"Well, yeah.... But...."
"What?"
"Is there gonna be anyplace that we can stop at? I haven't eaten for a while now...."
Misato growled in frustration, and reached over to take hold of one of his arms. That gave her a handhold to drag him into a convenience store, where she started grabbing junk food off of the shelves. When she had a bag full of nutritionally challenged edibles, she dropped enough money for the bunch next to the register with a quickly scribbled note, and dragged him back outside. This time she didn't try to talk to him though, as she spotted a store that interested her down the street, and quickly managed to get a way into the shop.
"Here. Eat this," she told him, shoving the bag of junk food into his arms.
He blinked at the bag, and then at her. "What 'bout ya?"
"I'm going to watch some television."
"Uh.... Okay...."
The NERV captain didn't wait for his answer, as she was already heading for what she had come there for. She found the player that she needed, and managed to get it properly set up. Fortunately, she didn't need to have someone with Ritsuko's smarts there to help her, as she was perfectly able to get the playback to look viewable with a little tweaking, which she'd hoped for as soon as she'd seen the electronics store that she was now standing in. Doing so allowed her to get to start up and watch what she had wanted to see.
At the beginning, it was a simple enough thing, even if it was rather creepy. What she was seeing was very close to the people and places that she encountered on a daily basis. Making it more weird was the fact that she could actually see a lot of this stuff easily happening. Still, it had seemed to be simple enough, with some of it expected.
And then she got to the 'good stuff'.
As soon as what she started comprehending what she was seeing, it became clear that this was not a simply taken kids' show, or a creepy recording of things to come. Instead, she was getting to see a lot of dark and dangerous things, and knew that it wasn't exactly the sort of thing that one would want to consider. It might not have been the same pigtailed boy there as was with her, but she was managing to find it rather... believable. After all, she'd never known many people who actually totally trusted the Commander, though this was certainly showing a side of him that proved that he shouldn't be trusted at all. She skimmed through a lot of it, but when she saw major events, she could recognize the rather malicious nature of them. Heck, she was discovering that what was going on around her was certainly not as innocent as she might have hoped. In fact, things were rather nasty, and she didn't even want to go into the freakishness that was the whole 'Rei' situation.
Glancing over, she saw that Ranma had wolfed down the last of his snacks, and was apparently looking for something else to eat. Not that she minded that, as it was understandable why that would be the case. Yet, he was also the only difference between her world, and the animated version of it that she'd just seen.
Turning her eyes back to looking at the images of scheming, betrayal, and insanity, she bit her lip while:
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