Darkened Exodus: Evangelion Prologue:
This story starts directly after Third Impact ends and follows on from the EoE movie. I've not screwed with the past plot line (And if I have, please e-mail me and I'll correct it as soon as I can).NOTE: Care has been taken to ensure character realism! Oh, Evangelion belongs to GAINAX and not me, Enjoy!

Author's Rants: This is my first Eva fic I'm a really big fan of the series and I hope you'll enjoy reading my fics as much as I enjoyed writing them. Please remember I'm open to suggestions on the fics at all times,
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Darkened Exodus: Evangelion
Episode 0:1 Impact Aftermath

The tide had come in .And the Lilith blood washed against Asuka's feet. She quivered a little from the sensation she felt through the plug-suit (Lemon writers, back off!). She looked over her shoulder and saw Shinji removing a familiar looking cruisifics from a make-shift wooden cross. She tried to get to her feet, she noticed the bandages wrapped round her left arm. She removed them and felt her arm, not a scratch or scar to be seen .She stood herself up and walked over to Shinji.

The sky was painted red and the Lilith body continued to sink into the ocean. Shinji was still facing the cross, Asuka came up behind him. She extended her arm outward and slowly moved it forward to touch his shoulder; she stopped just before she reached it.

"Do you think they're all o.k. Asuka?" Asuka snapped her arm against her waist and walked around to face him.

"How the hell should I know, Dunkopf! You're the one who saved the world." He was glad she still had her sarcastic tone, he smiled and walked away from her, clutching Misato's cross.

"Weirdo."

Muttering this she saw Shinji looking at the ocean and shaking, she walked over beside him.

"I'm sure they'll be fine; Misato, PenPen, Rei -"

"Not Rei."

"What do you mean?" She saw tears falling from his face; he was pointed across the blood red ocean. Asuka looked up and saw the half of the giant Rei's head sink, slowly into the water.

"Oh God." She covered her mouth with her arm and fell to the ground, crying. After a brief moment of weakness she dried her eyes and stood up straight. Shinji was still crying. She grabbed his arm, he turned round and she looked into his blood-shot eyes.

"If you cared for her, you wouldn't cry. Do you think that's what she would want?" He shook his head and dried his eyes.

Asuka turned away from the head and tried to find something to say." I have a question, where the hell are we?"
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Darkened Exodus: Evangelion
Episode 0:1 Choices made, consequences given
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"I'm still here."

"Indeed you are"

"... But why"

"Who knows? He left to be with her."

"I know, I think that was his plan from the start"

"We should go and see who else has returned."

After a brief pause, commander fyutsky and Dr. Akagi left Commander Ikari's office and proceeded down to the ruined command centre. Whilst walking down the corridor, Ritsuko noticed the bodies of her NERV colleagues; she couldn't tell the difference between their blood and the bakelite liquid Misato had released in the base.

"So they choose death, arrogant bastards." She thought as she walked through the corridor. They entered the command centre. Ibuki was sitting at her console, but her to friends weren't.

"Status!" The commander yelled. Ibuki wiped the tears from her eyes and started typing on her console.

"..two pilots, Asuka and Shinji, no Rei."

"No there wouldn't be, get whatever staff you can and get our systems running, and doctor - go into the MAGI and restore the primary drivers."

Ritsuko stared down at the three MAGI computers. She cast her eyes over to the large grey box marked "Casper". She pushed her glasses up her face a little. She walked down the long stairs leading to the three super- computers. She stopped in front of the Casper computer terminal. She smiled down at it as she removed the entry hatch. She crawled in at began repairing the systems.

"Hello again, mother."

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In the dark corner of the third cranial NERV, a woman lay on the floor, reborn.

"Goodbye Kaji, I'm glad I got to see you one more time, but they need me here, my consionous won't let me do otherwise."

Misato rose to her feet and put on her jacket. She flicked her hair over her shoulder and went to find her friends.

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"NERV and their children have stopped the instrumentally project, they are holding all the cards."

"Indeed, we must commission Germany and China to create the next production models."

"Agreed" The obelisks of SEELE, still marked sound only, hovered in their black room, they were missing a few members.

"And Keel?"

"He would not return, we must move on, NERV will be ours or be destroyed. If we are creating new Evas we will need pilots, what has the Marduk organization said?

"They haven't found any new third level candidates; we will be informed when they do."

"Good, then all is under way, and maybe this project will not be a total waste." "What do you mean?"

"Look at these readings at impact point."

"My god."

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After finding their way back to the city, Asuka and Shinji found their way back to their home. They took the stairs as the elevator was broken. They got in, the bell rang and they begun their ascent. There was an awkward silence between them. They remembered the people they saw on their way home. Confused and scared, this was how they acted to start with, them some started returning to their homes and third impact became a strange dream to them. This disturbed the two pilots, Asuka especially as she went through all that agony and people didn't even thank her. Shinji just walked on by, paying no attention to the civilians that were reborn. Asuka looked round at Shinji as he walked passed the people, she wondered why he didn't stop to help, to comfort them, or her. The bell on the elevator rand again, both children got out and approached the apartment door. The door slid open and the pilots walked in, everything was the same. Same floor, same chairs, same table, same fridge that Misato kept her fifty gallons of beer. Shinji slid open one of the doors, PenPen was lying in his bed, sleeping. Shinji gave him a little push; he woke up and turned round to face Shinji. He smiled at the little penguin and stroked his coat; PenPen tilted his head a little to the left and wondered why all this affection was being lavished on him. He curled back in his wicker basket and resumed his sleep.
Shinji left the penguin alone, he closed the door as he left the room, he turned round to speak to Asuka but found she was gone.

"Asuka." He said softly, but no answer. He went through to the room in which they used to sleep. She was also sleeping. Shinji gathered his things and put them back in the room which was originally his. When he had rearranged the room as he wanted, he went through to the kitchen to get a soda. He drank it quickly, he crept quietly across the house to his room, he was just about to close the door he heard a voice:

"It's yours for tonight, but if you are thinking on keeping it I will end you."

Shinji smiled at the red headed girl threatening him. He closed the door and slipped into his bed. At the point were the real and dream worlds meet, Shinji Ikari muttered three words.

"Good night Asuka."

*** Yay first chapter finished, thanks for reading and please review. The next chapter is coming soon and hopefully it will be a little longer. Bye, Dark Eva.