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A/N The much anticipated event has arrived, the second chapter in the Shinji ZERO saga. I had intended to put this after the normal Shinji ZERO but decided against it. Now on with the show

UPDATE a crucial line has been added to this chapter that will actually affect the outcome of the story, Reread to find it

Shinji ZERO Second

Part 1

Normal life

3 weeks and counting, 3 weeks since with their friends and family at their side, and despite both being 16, Shinji and Asuka Ikari married.

Though Asuka had moved her stuff into Shinji's room the pair still lived in the same flat as the rest of their rather odd family.

Shinji was enjoying his new life, in the past year he had been absorbed by another Eva, his and Asuka's mothers had returned, he had discovered the girl who understood him best was in fact his baby sister, had met another sister, he had fallen in love with and married the girl of his dreams, and the fight against the angels had ended. Though he occasionally had to fight, it was no longer a painful experience.

Sure the Eva's still had a feed back for the pilots but it was only a tingle of what it use to be. With the new Core system and new plug designs Syncing with an Eva wasn't needed anymore, thus little to no feed back. He looked down at the girl sleeping in his arms and smiled

'Yeah things have gotten good'

He remembered everyone in schools reactions the day he and Asuka announced their engagement. For months every guy in the school waited for Asuka to dump Shinji. They all sulked the day they came back to school from their honeymoon. Had she just been dating Shinji they might have had a chance, now she was married to him, they had a snowball's chance in hell.

He felt Asuka stir beside of him; he looked back down at his wife a small content smile on her face.

'My wife, I'm gona have to get use to this…its nice though'

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Ritsuko sat at her terminal in the GeoFront.

She was looking over the Plans sent to her by the US Nerv base, plans for a miniaturized version of the Evangelions. A series scaled down to roughly 20meters in height from the ridiculous 55 meters of the previous series. With the reduction in height would come the reduced need for materials, thus nearly 2 of the new units could be built for the cost and materials of just one of the old.

Unlike the old ones these new Evangelions, or Eva Type 2, would use a centralized cockpit instead of an entry plug. This new cockpit would be placed in the same location of the Entry plug socket on the old units and would be eject able. Internally the cockpit controls would look identical to the new system on the old Evas, while the cockpit monitors would be Semi-panoramic, meaning that it would be a single monitor which would show only what the Eva would see through its eyes.

Ritsuko smiled, these units would also be constructed with the new Micro Fusion reactors sitting where the old unit's cores were, giving an unlimited amount of power.

In place of the umbilical socket sat a pair of rocket thrusters which drew their fuel from the exhaust of the fusion reactor. The pair of thrusters were powerful enough to pick the machine up and allow it to jump thrust for short distances.

Other than size they appeared to be nearly identical to the old types with a few discrepancies in proportion such as slightly bulkier legs and feet.

She glanced over to the monitors showing the old Evangelions sitting in the launch bays still. She then looked over at her assistant Maya Ibuki who was also looking over the New Eva's schematics

"You know Maya we may be able to retire the old Eva's to back up duty if the commander gives us the go ahead to build new units from these plans"

"I hope so ma'am, the old Eva's could still come in handy though"

The older scientist just shook her head

"No, with these new ones we won't need them anymore; they are more efficient in almost every way. They are 20 percent faster and there Armor is more resilient the only real problem is that they are mostly mechanical so they don't have AT Fields, at least not a very strong one. No Maya I think the only way the old Eva's will ever see the light of day again is if there is another angel attack with is highly unlikely"

"It's really a pity though"

"Yes, you do grow attached to them, but we can't help it, we have to stay ahead of the curve if we want to survive"

Maya thought for a moment

"Well, I guess we can look on the bright side"

"And that is"

"None of use will ever be out of jobs"

"That's true, the struggle against mad men will never be over, and thus we will always be needed"

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Shinji and Asuka sat at the breakfast table with Rika and Rei. Their mothers had already gone to work and Misato and Kaji were still asleep. Everyone sat happily eating their toast and eggs Shinji had cooked for them. After they had finished the 4 grabbed their things and headed for school.

On the way Asuka glanced over at her two sisters in law. Rika and Rei were chatting away like normal sisters; even Asuka had to smile a bit. Once the two of them had opened up making friends with them had been easy. Rei was most surprising of all, though she had kept her calm analytical nature, she was friendlier, maybe not outgoing like Rika, but easier by far to get along with and talk to.

Asuka had also noticed the changes in Shinji as well; he had opened up though he would usually be like Rei, calm and collective. But he had also developed a since of humor as of late, one Asuka herself enjoyed. She loved this new side of him.

Then there were the things he only did with her, the time spent alone with him was the most cherished thing she had. The way he held her made her feel safe and secure, she knew he would always be there for her, he would never judge her, he would never leave her, and she loved it.

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Lunch that day was spent the way it had been since everyone returned to Tokyo 3. Rei, Rika, Shinji, Asuka, Toji, Kensuke, and Hikari would sit on the school roof and just chat about random things while they ate. Everyone was rather surprised to find out that in the interim betwine classes Kensuke had asked Rika out, and they were now a pair. Toji, who was now dating Hikari, was grilling him to no end.

"So Kensuke, got any plans yet"

"Not for what you're thinking I don't"

The two stooge's perverted minds had calmed down quite a bit after they found out Misato was married, even more so when Toji started dating Hikari.

"Oh come on kensuke, I know how you think"

Ok maybe Kensuke calmed down more than Toji

"No I don't, I respect girls more than that"

That got Asuka smirking, she turned to Hikari

"Look another stooge has learned, now if we can just get the last one to get the point"

Hikari just sighed

"He's not that bad, but I guess so"

Shinji just shook his head, Asuka leaned her head over onto his shoulder.

The school councilors had gone nuts when they got the news that Shinji and Asuka were engaged, all of them tried and failed to make them reconsider, saying that they were to young. They ate their words.

Asuka nuzzled against his shoulder, he knew what that meant and he put his arm around her shoulder and let her relax.

Rei and Rika sat still talking as one would expect two sisters who got along to. Rika though was sitting beside of Kensuke, holding his hand.

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Yui and Kyoko sat on the bridge looking over the schematics for the New Evas with Ritsuko and Maya. They were impressed with the plans the American base had sent, also with the fact that a prototype of the new design would be arriving in two weeks.

With permission form the UN council Nerv would construct 6 units, 3 to replace the old Evangelions and 3 new units to be piloted by the 5th 6th and 7th children.

As Yui looked over the plans she was impressed, some of the optional equipment was light years ahead of anything the Old Eva Series had.

The new A Type equipment was the same as the old B type (the classic shoulder plates). The new B Type equipment was a flight pack with a high power energy rifle attached to it by a power cable.

The C Type equipment consisted of a thruster pack with a pair of detachable long progressive swords attached to the sides.

The D Type equipment was a thruster pack with a pair of flip over, long range, positron cannons attached to moveable mounts on either side. Impressive to say the least, Yui just shook her head

"So the Americans are sending us this equipment with the prototype"

Ritsuko nodded, Misato would be here in an hour and she was going to love this

"Their also sending a new positron rifle which has to be attach to the old Eva umbilical cables to be used"

Kyoko was taken back a bit

"It's that powerful"

"It's as powerful as the old rifle we used on the 5th angel and can pierce an AT Field, that's what it was designed for"

Yui nodded, Kyoko was impressed to say the least

"How soon till we start construction"

"Once we get the prototype we can begin"

"Good, how does the commander feel about this?"

"He's pleased really, this will allow us to retire the old Eva's and relegate them to back up duty. That means we can pretty much cut power to most of the umbilical cable points in the city. That in its self will allow us to save enough money to build the Type 2 unit 06"

Maya spoke up

"Ma'am were ready for the tests today"

"Good, this test will start the phase out of the old units and will start the introduction of the new Type 2's"

Yui sat back in her chair and thought for a second

"Kyoko, What about professor Fuyutsuki's pet project"

She smirked

"You mean the Gabriel, the keel was laid this morning in the US, and it will be ready in a few months"

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Misato was ecstatic, a new model of Evangelion with more firepower than two of the previous units combined. And with the addition of the fusion reactors they had limitless power

"So Ritz, were getting a new unit in two weeks and after that we start construction of 6 of our own"

Ritsuko nodded

"That's about it, what time is it?"

"About 3:30 why"

"When will the children arrive?"

"About 40 min"

"Good"

She hands 3 folders to Misato

"These are the specifications on the new units; once they arrive I want them to read these before they come to the cages"

"Alright, how many units will the US base be building?"

"Seven"

"Seven units"

"Yep"
"isn't that a bit much"

"not considering what were up against, nearly every government in the world has the plans for the Eva MP Types, we cant be to careful"

"That's true; well I wonder how they'll take it"

A/N So what do you think so far, I hope this isn't to big of a change but all technology goes that way

It gets smaller better stronger and faster as time goes on. To me the miniaturization of the Eva's would only have been a matter of time had the series gone on.

UPDATE

Now the question begs, what exactly is Gabriel. It's a ship that you should know from my mention of it

Till chapter 2

The Evangelion Type II