In the event that there is more than this chapter, feel free to skip it if you want. This is just some notes about why I am doing this story in the first place and I highly recommend that everyone reads this first.

Author's Note: Let me first say that I haven't found any Big Hero 6/Neon Genesis crossover fics on this site aside from one story that involved Shinji and Aunt Cass getting together (Yeah…didn't like that story for obvious reasons, mostly a 21 year-old Shinji dating a woman described as being almost 40 and her nephews approving of it) and wanted to rectify it.

No, I'm not making a Shinji/Cass fic. This is something different.

Also, this is one of two crossover ideas (well, maybe three) that I had and wanted to do for quite some time. So you people might want to look out for them in the future... :)

What inspired me to do this? Well, aside from the fact that no one else has done it before, I kept coming across summaries for Neon Genesis fics that can be boiled down to "What if Shinji was raised by this character and became a badass mother*cker by the time that his father contacted him?" I honestly find that notion ridiculous since canonically speaking, Shinji maintains the highest kill count among the Angels. Pretty sure that on its own would prove something.

Anyways, I always found it odd that in an attempt to "fix" Shinji's character, the writers take away the aspects of his personality that made him Shinji to begin with and therefore, a major part of the series itself. His love/hate relationship with his father, his struggle to connect to others (a.k.a. the Hedgehog's Dilemma), his confidence issues, and his self-loathing. While writers keep the first one intact, they have him practically become a people person who is able to defrost the biggest of ice queens and courts them. Sorry, but Asuka is gonna need more than just a few weeks to overcome a lifelong trauma of connecting with others.

So, I thought that if I wanted to do an actual Neon Genesis fic (aside from one shots), I ought to keep his character consistent. In terms of doing a crossover and using the "What if Shinji was raised by…?" bit, I wanted it to make sense. So, partly thanks to Promises of Wandering Hero with the concept of Character X being raised as Character Y, I figured that in order to make the concept just mentioned work, I would need Shinji to become a character with similar characteristics and appearances to himself.

That's where Hiro comes in. Hiro might be smart and a superhero, but many people have pointed out that he is a pretty insecure kid. I mean, prior to the movie, his only friends were most likely his older brother and their cat.

Also of note is that Big Hero 6 is a world of healing, contrasting with Neon Genesis, which is a world of pain and struggles. Note that I don't envision this as a Fix Fic. I simply want to tell a story and make sure that its good.

Also, also, the strange fact that people are quick to call Shinji a pussy even though he was abandoned by his father as a toddler, emotionally manipulated by the same man, gets no respect for his work as a pilot despite doing the most in fighting the Angels, gets emotionally and sometimes physically abused by Asuka – she even throws him out of his room when she moves in in the 10th episode – and virtually had no real support system to speak of. Oh, and he was forced to kill the only person who ever said to him "I love you."

Meanwhile, Hiro loses his brother and people are nothing but sympathetic towards him and never call him a pussy or want him to get over the loss. Some fics even take his Woobie status up to an eleven in stories which I find ridiculous.

The point being: Both characters have similar traits to one another, yet Shinji gets dealt a short hand by fans. That's just not fair. And its not fair that Shinji's canonical personality is considered pathetic even though he ultimately gives humanity a second chance at the end of the series.

In case this hasn't been apparent yet: potential spoilers for Neon Genesis fans since I am virtually going through the story in this fic my own way.

Additional inspiration for other aspects came from the Neon Genesis Evangelion fics listed below:

Once More, With Feeling by Crazy-88

Neon Metathesis Evangelion by Octo8

Kyrie Elesion by Da Games Elite

Mobile Fighter Evangelion by Ultra Sonic 007

Sorry for the long AN, just had to get this all out there without it being ignored in favor of the first chapter. This is meant to explain my motives for this story. And I repeat, this is NOT a fix fic. This is simply a story that I want to tell. Who knows, though? Maybe it'll end with Shinji being the 17th Angel all along and Kaworu will simply propose to him to save the world. XD

Or not. I'm not telling much here :)

Enjoy!