Shinji really shouldn't be doing this. It's not the physical-strength perspective that's a problem - it's his general health. It's the simple fact that shoving rocks around is likely as not to leave him too exhausted to think for the next week.

But honestly, that sounds really nice right about now, after everything on the jaunt went straight to - well. Tartarus. Very fucking funny. (He's really glad he hasn't heard that asshole who stole the ambrosia on the network, or he'd be very, very tempted to go break his nose. Did the kid think for one second about what that place needed?)

So he steps up to the boulder as well. "Stays put at the top if there's two people. I don't think it knows what to do with that."

And then he can open a door to his room and get them the fuck out of Disco Hell. Seriously, it's colored like something that'd fit right in with the other Tartarus.