I Don't own Gainax or NGE so don't sue me because I am innocent and poor.

In the seclusion of the room in his uncles house, Shinji cried.
He cried and he cried and he cried over what had happened. His life had become a joyless and empty job of acting out the motions, day in and day out. Even after two years he felt the pain as keenly as if he had been left their just the day before.
He looked at the piece of paper on his desk through streaming eyes.

Dear parents and guardians Each student at Shiori elementary has been assigned a new international penpal as a way to get to learn about other cultures, a variety of countries have agreed that this is a step towards nations growing together in our time of crisis.
Your new penpal is from: The Reunified Nation of Great Britain Your penpals name is: James Fosdyke Please log onto .com to talk to your new friend.
Thankyou for participating Your Principal

Shinji looked at the paper for a few seconds.
the thoughts that occupy his head are dark, he's seven years old, he should be... having fun.
the bully's were the worst, young and foolish, he had nievly tried to stand up to them, believing what his teachers said about all bullies being cowards.
That went wonderfully.

Feeling he had no one to talk to he decided to log on to the site, maybe his pen pal would be his friend.

he logged onto the old computer his cousine had hooked up to his room and logged onto the site.
*S-Ikari: Hello, I m Shinji... I'm your'e pen pal.
*J-Fosdyke: Hi Shinji, I m James. How are you?

this was a promising start, he hadn't been rejected out right...

*S-Ikari: I'm not feeling very good, and I have to go to school tomorrow too!
*J-Fosdyke: That's not good at ALL! What's wrong Shinji?

Shinji stopped suddenly, could he tell this person what was wrong? How would he react? Before he could stop himself Shinji started typing.

*S-Ikari: Mommys dead, Daddy left me and I have no friends...
*J-Fosdyke: ... Well thats a bit worse than having to go to school tomorrow, but I have AWESOME news for you.
*S-Ikari: What is it?
*J-Fosdyke: You have a friend now :)
*J-Fosdyke: So I'll tell you about me and then you can tell me about you, ok?
*S-Ikari: ok :)

Over the next hour and a half the two seven year olds exchanged life stories. It turned out James was an orphan himself and was being raised by the SAS in England, after hearing Shinji s story he helpfully commented on what he thought of Gendo and used several descriptive words that no seven year old child should know.

And thus begun a friendship that would last a very long time, one friend lending his sensitivity, and the other his confidence... if not for the horrendous destruction James Fosdyke caused, not just personally (which was a not inconsiderable sum on its own), but also through influencing Shinji, he would have been the ideal friend.

2016 AD tokyo 3 all normal lines are out of order due to the state of special emergancy wonderful thought Shinji what use is a phone line if it gets turned off in emergencies, surely that s when you need it. He picked up his Duffle bag and thought of his father, the man who abandoned him all those years ago He sighed looking around the deseted town, he wondered what the emergency was.

Strange. He looked back on his childhood, it was one that he looked at with a skeptical eye while trying to think of the good times,
he was going to need those memories soon, however few and far between they were. He smiled as he thought of James, without him there would have been a lot less, the exuberant Englishman had urged Shinji to do some of the truly fun things in his life, making him more confedent and more normal.
Now then back to business he looked around himself looking for any sign of his contact, he smiled a bit when he thought of the photo she had sent him. I l have to thank her for that though I wonder where she is. He looked around thinking Maby I should find a shelter before he stopped.
He saw a girl on the other side of the street, she had short cut blue hair and deep, piercing red eyes, she was wearing a school uniform that seemed to match her hair colour. Shinji blinked and she was gone.

I must be going nuts Suddenly there was the scream of jet engines and Shinji looked up at the sky to see two hi-tech air craft go sooming overhead,
the were shortly followed by what could only be described as a monster.
It was a huge black giant with a large red orb dominating its midsection, its face was a skull mask that sent a chill down his spine, and it was using its claws to tear planes that could go at super sonic speeds out of the sky.
As he stared at the only movement he made was a small twitch under his eye. 'If I don't move it can't see me oh wait that's dinosaurs.' The monster turned to look directly at him and Shinji took a deep breath. "well fuck." Just in time a blue sports car skidded in frount of him and the door flung open. "Shinji, get in!" He didn t need to be told twice, diving into the seat he closed the door and gappeled with his seat belt. He turned to his rescuer and recognised her as the lady in the photo, though this time she was whereing some sort of uniform rather than a bathing suit.

Being a normal 16 year old boy, he was slightly disapointed by this fact. Captain Katsuragi? he asked whilst gripping the side of the car so that he didn t get hurt by her exuberant driving style.
"Yep, you must be Shinji Ikari. Before you ask, that was an Angel, and we are going to go see your fathe- oh shit" she stopped mid sentence. "What?" Shinji asked "their about to drop an N2 mine on the Angel." she murmured

"well then I suppose since we re about to die I might as well say, thanks for the picture Captain, it really brightened my day."

Misato skidded the car to a halt and threw herself over Shinji, shielding him with her body, she tensed for a second waiting for the explosion that didn't seem to be coming she opened an eye.

"I guess it was a false-" she was interrupted by the truly earth shaking explosion that happened just after the expected moment.

-KABOOMBOOM-

When the sound had stopped and the light that had left a huge hole in the sight of her eyes had cleared, Misato noticed what position she had forced Shinji in when she covered him. 'You okay down there Shinji?' she asked him impishly, from under her breasts and in a state that could only be described as marshmallow heaven there was a muffled affirmative as his hand shot to the sky with a thumbs up.