Everything in this story belongs to whoever made Neon Genesis Evangelion, Some things are borrowed/inspired by the Adeptus Evangelion.

Chapter 1 "Rearrangements

August 12th 2015, Tokyo -3, En-route to NERV Geofront,

Shinji Ikari was walking after school to an access lift, that would take him for his daily simulation training session. It had been very demanding week, as Ramiels attack had ruined much of Tokyo-3, including the Tokyo-3 junior high school, and they were forced to use abandoned courtyard as their classroom. This however did not mean that teachers would give them any reprieve , in fact it meant the opposite as they had missed a lot of school.

They had to speed up the lesson plans and assign massive piles of homework to make up for lost time, and the only one not struggling to meet the various deadlines was Rei, which was cause of lots of discussion and theories. Some suspected that she was being favored by teachers because of her status as Pilot and her connection to Gendo Ikari, the de-facto leader of Tokyo-3. This argument was quickly shot down by class representative Hikari as she had seen her turn in the assignments, plus Shinji was Pilot and Gendos son and he was struggling as much, if not more so than other students.

The fight against Ramiel had not gone as expected as after the first exchange of fire it had revealed a new type of attack: EMP pulse. It had wiped out the support grid for the positron cannon and forced them to go into close quarters to disable it. Luckily the attack had apparently depleted its power reserves and disabled its beam weapon for a short time, just enough for the Evas to close in.

The close combat had not been possible if not for the fact that some of the positron cannon's support capacitors had miraculously survived the EMP pulse, and had been used to supercharge Unit-01s internal batteries for increased longevity as Ramiel had proved it was not limited to just ranged fire and dragged the fight far beyond Evas normal operational limit. It had morphed into spinning crystal blades, split smaller drones off itself to unleash mini-positron beams, utilized A.T field blasts and shockwaves, used its sonic shriek to disable Unit-01 and regenerated any sort of attack until it morphed into another form to release the full power of its positron beam but simultaneosly revealing its core and leaving it open for an attack.

This was proven to be a fatal mistake as it's focus on Unit 01 allowed the previously thought-to-be-disabled Unit-00 to attack it at it's core with a fragment of the spaceshuttle hull shield and destroy it. Before it's death it managed to release a massive positron beam attack and another Emp pulse at all directions, destroying much of the surrounding areas and heavily damaging both of the Evas.

Yesterday they had finally managed to repair the simulation training system, though Rei and Unit-00 were still out of commission so they couldn't practice some much needed team manouvers.

After arriving at Geofront he was briefed on his exercise by the command crew and put into the simulator. The new and improved simulator did not require any movement from the Unit itself as all that happened was now purely virtual data, not just the target holograms. This saved up money on power to get Eva moving, ammo, targets and allowed more unusual scenarios and dynamic battlefields.

"Okay today we're going to do training exercise with friendly conventional forces against multiple smaller enemies, around twice the size of a main battle tank".

As Shinji demolished the smaller enemies and was subsequently beaten because of over-reaching beyond his supporting forces and was summarily swarmed by dozens of the enemy, Misato was in a conference with Commander Ikari and Vice-commander Fyutsuki.

"He will arrive in two weeks, and the second child will arrive in three weeks Major. Inform Pilot Ikari and make the necessary preparations," said the Vice-commander.

"Yes sir!" responded Misato and left for the command bridge.

"Are you sure that it's wise to gather all of our strength here in Tokyo-3 ? Our other installations will be defenseless against Angels," he continued after Misato had left.

"The scrolls have told us much, and the Angels won't start attacking our other assets just yet," responded Gendo, "and even then we have increased conventional defenses to delay them until Evangelions can arrive".

"True enough, but are you sure that he is ready for combat, as he and his Unit were considered failures by the program, for they were too unstable?"

"Desperate times call for desperate measures and Ramiel showed us we need more Units to challenge the Angels. In addition here he can be protected, as I fear others may take advantage of his unstability and use him against us."

After leaving the entry plug and changing to his normal attire Shinji was debriefed on his performance.

"You really need to learn to cooperate with conventional military or you'll be overextend your position and be overwhelmed, just like in the simulation," commented Makoto Hyuga.

"I know but if I have to stay near the support units I cant use Evas full mobility and have to constantly avoid collateral damage, so I can't use Unit-01 effectively".

"Well just get used to it because Unit-00 isn't going to be repaired for a long time and its not like we can pull out a new Eva and a pilot everytime someone get incapacip-

"Actually we can!" interrupted Misato as he entered the command bridge.

"And where were you during the exercise, Misato-san, you were supposed to be providing me orders and battlefield info?," said Shinji "And what do you mean we can?!"

"Treat it as an unusual scenario, sometimes command crew is out of the fight too. As for your second question, Commander has ordered two more Evangelion Units and their pilots to be moved over here, Unit-02 and Unit-03".

"WHAT! Are you saying there were others and i was pulled here for shits and giggles with no training and no foreknowledge?".

"No, you weren't. The other pilots were in the other side of the world, at NERV Germany and NERV Nordic Union".

In the turmoil after the second
impact Sweden, Finland, Norway, the remains of Denmark, Iceland and mostly melted Greenland formed into the Nordic Union to protect each other.

Each of the states was allocated a number of seats in the ruling council that did most of the governing and one of them was elected president by Peoples vote. Norway had nine seats, Sweden and Finland both had eight, Denmark had been mostly destroyed by the rise in sealevel and had three, Iceland had four and Greenland had five. It was relatively intact after the Second impact and became a superpower equal to or arguably surpassing Germany. It contributed the second largest amount of forces to the UN and had the largest navy in the world

"They are sending Unit-03 here through the Northern Sea Route,across arctic sea. It will be here in two weeks to help us defend Tokyo-3," She continued.

"Why do they send it here only just now ?" Shinji asked.

"Because we've been having control issues with it. Remember the footage from your fist fight when Unit-01 went berserk ?"

"Yeah..."

"Well it's like that but constantly"

"Isn't that a good thing, I mean I wouldn't have beaten Sachiel without it."

"Yes it's occasionally good but when it happens constantly it's a danger to those around it, " she replied. "The collateral damage from the few combat operations with Unit-03 present caused massive collateral damage and high casualties. "

"And now they are bringing it here ?"

"Yeah, the danger of losing is too high and Ramiel demonstrated that lone evangelions won't be able stand against the angels for long."

"What about 03s Pilot, who is it ?"

"Jonathan Wulff,Fourth Child, born in Norway on 12th of March 2001 , a few months older than you, early history not available in records, recruited at 6 years old, lost his lower right leg in an unspecified accident. From what I've been told he's quiet unless talked to and an obedient boy."

Misato handed him a file with a photo of a plain looking, slightly pale boy with black hair and crutch in his right hand supporting his weight as he stared expressionlessly at the camera.

"Great, another Rei."

"Don't be rude to him as he'll be your only teammate until Unit-02 and the Second child arrive."

"Wonderful. And when's that going to happen."

"It's two and half months to that so you shouldn't worry about that for a while."

"Great, almost three months stuck with a psycho to keep my back."

"He's not the psycho, the Eva is."

"Whatever. Same thing in practice. "

Chapter 1 End