Disclaimer: Super Robot Wars belongs to Banpresto, along with the mechs. Evangelion belongs to Gainax... to be short, I don't own them.

Well, this is an attempt at a crossover between SRW: Original Generation and Evangelion. Hope you enjoy it. Beta readers are welcome, English is not my native language.

STAGE 1: START!


It was the end of days for humanity.

Lilith stood, her wings of light visible from beyond the edge of the Solar System. In her hands lied the souls of humanity, quite literally. Despite what you may think, Lilith isn't happy with the events.

Inside her mind, three woman had a serious talk.

"This is wrong. My offspring have messed up big time. And this kid was caught in the middle. What do you know about it, Ayanami?"

Rei, clad as always in her school uniform, looked to the floor and said nothing. She found that few could bear to look Lilith in the eye in her hour of rage. Lilith sighted explosively.

"You've just pleaded yourself as guilty of this situation, alongside with that other bastard. I'm disappointed. You, as a part of me, should know better than this. Instead, you acted like Eve, always silent and being the yes sir of that.... argh, I give up." Lilith turned to the other woman, who looked at her, unflinching. "Your intentions ended up corrupted. The kid is strong, I grant you that, but I don't think he should belong to this world. Only death will come for him."

Yui Ikari let her mind drift. She made the ultimate sacrifice to ensure that Humanity would have a future, but her husband ruined everything. She expected more from him. Her eyes turned to the shadow that was her son's soul. An upside of this situation is that she could read humanity as a book, thanks to Lilith's power and generosity. She bit her lip, before looking again at the goddess. "He does not deserve to die. After all that he suffered, I guess he should have the future I planned for him to have, had Gendo done what was right. Is there no other choice for him?"

Lilith smirked. "When I said he couldn't come back, I didn't mean he should die. I was merely suggesting to send him somewhere else, where he can heal and grow to be what he could be. It is far away from here, but it is nothing for me. But first, he has the right to make the last choice. Come forth, Shinji Ikari!"

From the sea of souls, the one belonging to the Third Children approached Lilith and took the form of the boy's body. He looked around, cowering in fear as he saw the fire in the eyes of the Second Angel. "Y- Yes?"

The angel ruffled his brown hair, giving him a reassuring smile. "Fear not. I called you because you are the only one to make the choice that will define Humanity from now on. Will their AT Fields come up again, bringing all the pain form lack of communication and comprehension? Or will humanity stay like this, without pain, but without being able to grow and evolve? It is your choice, and yours alone."

His storm blue eyes looked to his mother, then to Rei, then to Lilith again, who waited patiently. His mind raced, trying to process all that he saw in the egg of souls. The pain, the hatred, the sorrow... but also the love, the friendship and the compassion. Closing his eyes, he allowed himself a smirk before facing Lilith again. "There are many bad things in humanity, but all is not lost. There will always be good in the hearts of people, no matter how they try to hide it. I believe... I believe we should have another chance to live."

Lilith nodded. "Ask, and you shall receive. If they have enough strength in their hearts, then they will return to the world. Life will go on."

Yui stepped forward, hugging Shinji. "As long as people exist, they can find their heaven. As long as the Sun and Earth are in their places, humanity will move on... and when the time comes, where the Sun goes supernova and scorches Earth... even then I doubt that humanity will be extinct. Such is the blessing of the Fruit of Knowledge."

Lilith sighed. She hated what she was about to say, but it was needed. "But their destiny is not your own, Shinji Ikari. There's not much here left for you, and I believe there you heaven is in a place far from here. Take your time to talk with your mother. When you are ready, talk to me again. I will be waiting."


In the middle of some plains, a red robot impaled another robot in the chest with his arm-mounted stake. The impaled robot' sensors flickered and died, and it fell to the ground, its oversized limbs spread open. Inside the red robot, Kyosuke Nanbu sighed. The Bartools, somehow, were back. Although they weren't trying to get human beings like they did in the beginning of the ODE Incident, their reaction time seemed faster and their grasping of the concept of tactics was way better. Looking to his left, the ATX Team leader saw a robot shaped like an angel dispatching several Bartools with sword strikes and fire support from a white mech with a long rifle.

Lamia Loveless, the green haired pilot of the Angelg, was pissed off. She still remembered what Juergen did to her after Lt. Kyosuke recovered her, and she wasn't happy to see these nightmarish mechs again. Grabbing her sword on a reverse grip, she slashed the torso of a nearby enemy, while shooting another with her Shadow Lance. Her attacks hit the chests of the AI controlled robots, piercing their engine and blowing them up. Suddenly, she was thrown forward as another one managed to get a lucky shot on her back.

'Damn. Forgot to pay attention to my back,' she thought, turning in the balls of her mech's feet and facing the new threat, only to see it blown up by one of the white PT's accurate shots. Suddenly, a comm channel was opened, and Lamia looked into the face of a smiling blonde, clad in red.

"Looks like he was trying to get an advantage from behind, eh? They don't know a thing about the proper way to treat a lady!" said a grinning Excellen Browning, pilot of the Weissritter.

Lamia nodded. "Thank you for the help, Excellen. How long until reinforcements arrive?"

Execellen's gaze diverted itself from the comm screen as she dodged and fire at another Bartool with her arm-mounted Triple Beam Cannon. "Ten more minutes, and Bullet should arrive with the Aggressors and the SRX Team. Until then, we must hold off, although I think that won't be a problem." she noted, looking to her left side.

Lamia did the same, only to see Alteisen Riese dispatching several Bartools with a discharge of steel pellets from his shoulder Claymores. The robots seemed to hold for some moments, before giving way to the titanium ball fury coming from the ATX Team PT.

Excellen clapped in joy. "Oh, they always fall for that one," she says, before approaching the other mech and letting loose a burst of energy from her Ochstan Rifle. The enemy units, knowing that attack pattern, dodged quickly...

… only to find themselves slaughtered by the Angelg's Illusion Arrows and the Split Missiles from the Riese. The resulting blasts played hell with their tight formation, with the wrecks of destroyed units hitting the others, causing a chain reaction that neutralized half of the group. The remaining units were rewarded with fire from the Chain Gun mounted in the left arm of the red mech, along with an improvisation from Lamia, who kicked the closest AI robot to the ground and finished it off, stabbing her sword in its chest. The Bartool shuddered and deactivated, before the Angelg lifted off, dodging a burst of laser fire from one of the other enemy units.

With their superior numbers, the white and pink robots recovered their advantage, forcing the EFA pilots to remain defensive and take potshots at the coming tide.

Excellen gave them a little gift, courtesy of her mech's missiles, before hitting one Bartool with her rifle. The robot staggered, its optical systems damaged by the improvised melee weapon, and made himself a great target for the Weissritter's Plasma Blade. The blonde pilot took the chance and cleaved the enemy unit in half, letting it fall to the ground where it lied, motionless. 'Hurry up Bullet, this is getting a bit too much for us...' she thought, her personal trooper shaking from a glancing hit from the ODE system-controlled units.


The talk between Shinji and his mother was long and sad, but in the end, it made the boy come to peace with himself. He hugged his mother once more, letting his tears flow freely. "I wish I could stay with you after all that happened... why should I go away?" he asked. He did not understand the reasons behind Lilith's reasoning.

Yui ruffled his hair, before looking him in the eyes. "Shinji, this pains me as much as it pains you, but I don't even know if I can return to the living after this is all over. Besides, Lilith believes there's a better place for you, you heard it yourself. I'd like to believe her. What you've gone through... that was not in my expectations the day I entered EVA." She wiped some tears from the face of her son. "I believe this is the best for you. This time, nothing could go wrong."

The boy chuckled. "Yeah, worse than this it can't be"

"You're not happy for seeing me, young man?" Yui feigned indignation. Shinji opened and closed his mouth, attempting to answer, before he looked to the grin his mother had in her face and realized she was teasing him.

Taking a deep breath, he stood on his feet. "Well, I guess there's no use in delaying this moment anymore." Mother and son then walked to Lilith once again.

"So, are you ready, young one?" the angel asked.

Shinji nodded. "There isn't much left to do here, is it? Humanity will return. I am sad I cannot return with them, but if you believe there's a place somewhere else that I can call paradise... then I will search for it." He paused, before speaking again, his voice betraying his sadness. "Goodbye, mother."

Yui's face was covered in tears, but she still found strength in her heart to say the words she dreaded the most. "Goodbye, Shinji. I love you, son."

Lilith's face was a mask of serenity, but she, as the origin of humanity, felt their pain as it was hers. Still, it was for the best. No one could ignore his ever-present kindness, even after all the things he lived through. "Shinji," she finally said, "it is time now. Farewell."

With that, the Third Child vanished. Lilith sighed. "He won't go alone. I had a certain... someone, who suggested that he takes someone with him." With a wave of her hand, a soul left the others, and joined Shinji inside the Entry Plug, recovering the physical body it had before.

Inside the plug, Shinji felt like someone fell on top of him. A familiar voice whispered on his ears, making a simple request. The pilot smiled, and nodded, before losing consciousness. The Entry Plug ejected itself from Unit-01, and vanished, leaving behind a trail of light, like a reversed shooting star.

"It is done. Now, humanity will return... most of it. There are some people that do not deserve to live... SEELE... and your husband. You will be the judge for this one, Yui."

Yui Ikari nodded, as she faced her husband once again. She stepped forward, and gave him no time to talk, kicking him in the crotch. He fell on the ground, screaming in pain as he heard the words of hatred coming from the woman he loved the most in the world. "Gendo, you fool! I tried to bring a better future to our son, but you had to go and MESS IT UP! I trusted you, goddamn it! I though you were better than this! But no, you had to ruin everything. I know what you have done mister, and if you think you can return, you are mistaken. Your soul will be torn apart when this is over. And the SEELE council will go with you. You have failed me."

"Please, Yui..." the commander of NERV tried to reply, before his word was cut by his pissed off wife.

"I'm not hearing anything from you, you sick bastard. Damn you for your crimes." She turned away from him, not before she showed Gendo the pain of having the crotch kicked twice.

Lilith grinned. Yui Ikari's anger was like the fury of nature itself. "And now... time to undo Third Impact." She opened her arms, wings of light shining brighter than the sun, and the souls left the place that contained them, returning to the places where they came from. Again, the world was covered in white crosses, as the first people found themselves returning to the world.

The revival of humanity had begun, and Unit-01 floated before Lilith. Yui awaited the final destiny of her home in the past ten years, and her final destiny. The angel grabbed the petrified biomechanical being, and threw it gently, allowing it to escape Earth orbit and proceed to deep space.

'And this is the way it ends...' Lilith felt her body weakening, but she wasn't feeling any fear of death. The only thing she felt was a pleasant warmth and a sense of peace she never thought she would feel. She smiled. 'It's so warm... feels so good... is this... happiness?' A silent burst of light filled the Earth, and with that, Lilith was gone, along with those who wanted Third Impact to happen.


Things were not looking good for the EFA pilots still fighting the Bartools. They had several scorch marks from the lasers, and their ammo supply was growing thin. Angelg, thanks to an energy regeneration system, still has enough power to keep firing, taking advantage from the feints of the other pilots, allowing her shots to destroy multiple opponents.

Still, it wasn't enough, as they were surrounded. Weissritter was forced to land, the Tesla drive severely damaged. One of the Bartools threw himself at her, and prepared to deliver the finishing blow. He pointed the cannon to the chest of the blonde's mech...

… but was blown up by a accurate shot. Looking in the direction of the shot, the pilots saw two mechs, one of them pointing a large rifle at the army of Bartools that stood before them. A large, brown battleship covered the sky behind them, unloading more robots, ready to join the fray.

Meanwhile, a giant, red mech holding a katana appeared form above, slashing or crushing many units due to it's sheer weight.

Kyosuke sighed in relief. At last, reinforcements. A Comm window opened to his left, and the face of Tetsuya, captain of the battleship, appeared on the screen. "Lieutenant, is everybody all right?"

"Yes, we're fine Captain, we only got some scratches and are low on ammo."

The brown haired captain nodded. "Board the Hagane, I'm sure your units need some repairs. It's happening again, only without the abductions..."

"Understood." replied the pilot of the Alteisen, before relaying the order to Lamia and Excellen.

Meanwhile, the remaining Aggressors and the SRX Team, along with Bullet and his red Grungust, were dispatching Bartools like no tomorrow. Kai had shown the reason why a mass produced Gespenst shouldn't be considered a piece of junk, punching consecutive enemies with his mech's Jet Magnum. Arado and Seolla, the pilots of the Wildwurger and the Wildfalken, as well as the first reinforcements that arrived on the field, engaged in a variation of the Twin Bird Strike designed for eliminating large numbers of enemies instead of concentrating on just one of them.

In fact, the regular tactics of the members of the EFA elite squads were redesigned after the conclusion of the ODE Incident, bearing in mind the fact that the enemy could know their current tactics, and trying to find possible solutions for that situation.

Aya and Rai fired their long range weapons, distracting the Bartools, that were promptly dispatched, courtesy of Ryusei's TK Knuckles. The mecha otaku grinned as he whipped out one of his G-Revolvers and fired some shots, that struck true in their targets. Three more blossoms of smoke and fire appeared in the skies, as the R-1 landed on the ground.

All the pilots received the same message: "Clear a path, Hagane firing the Tronium Cannon". No sooner had they done that, an intense beam passed, cleaning up most of the Bartools that composed the remains of the strike force. The stray survivors tried to flee, but their unprotected backs were giant targets for the EFA pilots, that took the chance to shot them down like turkeys.

Meanwhile, a familiar Entry Plug had landed in the battle field. Although it was a messy landing, nobody noticed it until after the AI units were all shot down.

Seolla was the first one to notice the strange object. 'Hmm? How strange...' she mused to herself, while doing a deep scan of the object.

The result made her eyes grow to the size of saucers. She opened a comm channel to the Hagane, feeding them the images and the scan results. "Captain, I found a strange object. It has life signs coming from the inside!"

The captain of the Hagane stared at the white-haired pilot. "Hmm... the object has no visible markings that could reveal its affiliation... Retrieve it with Arado, please. We'll see what's inside in the hangar."

The female pilot nodded. "As you wish. Arado, you heard the captain, let's go!"

Carefully, the two mechs grabbed the ends of the entry plug, carrying it safely to the entrance of the hangar bay of the Hagane. Inside, Shinji and the other passenger of the former cockpit of Unit-01 were still half stunned, but could clearly feel they were being moved. They said nothing, though. They were tired, it was pitch black inside the plug, and there was nothing they could do.


Stage 1 Complete!

And the damn Bartools are back! I hate those guys, that's why I chose them as the villains. Prepare to see 101 ways to kill a Bartool in this fic.

As it happens with my other fic, I will be shooting canon with the Weissritter's Ochstan Rifle.

See ya!