Neon Genesis Evangelion, the End of Evangelion, and the Rebuild of Evangelion are owned by Hideaki Anno and written by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto. I own no elements from the original Manga, TV show, or Rebuild and EOE films but my OC's.

That said, Please Enjoy The Show!

Chapter 1: The Devil's Return

Earth, high atmosphere

"Pursuit Squadron, report both EVA's current positions."

"Pod 02-Dash has now reached operable altitude. Now in the targets orbit."

"And Pod 08?"

"Experience problems in orbit due to lack of altitude, will be in operable range shortly."

"Understood. 02-Dash will have to solo this operation then."

"Acknowledged. Pod 08 will as supporter here on out."

"Transition from shift to seven."

"Pod 02-Dash now passed point of no return."

"And NEOS?"

"They haven't noticed the Pods, ma'am. We should be safe with the Akrid they're dealing with as long as they don't send out any drones or Evas."

"Let's hope so… Otherwise we'll be dealing with NEVEC or Akrid, would be a hell of a lot worse….."

"Pod 02-Dash entering Area 88!"

"Roger. Operation US is a go!"

"Understood, Pod 02-Dash now entering final operational orbit."

"Now transferring to deceleration."

"Turning RCS, confirmed activation."

"Stage one, engine ignite!"

"No problems in posture-control system."

"Combustion initializing." High above Earth, in the beautiful infinite black sky of stars and dots of white, a single star-like object of metal proportions came to life with powerful engine cells. If pushed higher and higher, before finally the engines faded as the object found itself floating completely in the silence. "S1C combustion a success!"

"Contact ring is now ready for separation."

More voices rose with speed as the star split apart, four of the points leaving the body as triangles with flashing points. The metal pieces steadily hovered away from the remaining body, which split from its second half and roared to life with engines once more. Once more voices spoke reading success or other layouts in the Operation as more parts detached form the whole.

A pair of large triangular objects hovered along, held together by a center point which seemingly was designed as a shield or body of a shuttle. The triangular sides had large engines at their ends, the whole painted gun metal grey with red outlining holding the machinery together. The object began rising, before slowly descending back to the blood red form of Earth, clouds hovering softly as the object stuck out above the surface. Its pilot watched through her red helmet, eyes studying the area as the holographic readouts on the Entry Plug's sides read out to her. "Unit is on intercept course with target package." A voice rang out through the Plug, making the pilot grip the controls tighter. "Eighty measures till contact."

"Confirm the target."

"Contract point is unchanged."

"Maintaining Shift-M, no casualties."

"02-Dash, prepare for rendezvous point." The radio rang once more as the pilot of 02-Dash began readying her grip, flexing her fingers and the controls of her 'weapon.' "08's lacking altitude, so it'll only be able to assist for 96 seconds before re-entry. So finish this fast."

"Reflective waves detected in targets space."

"NEVEC?"

"No, not Evas or the NEOS Station. They're jamming us however!"

"More than likely NEOS's auto-defense system array." Bullets of light flashed passed Pod 02-Dash as it hovered across the darkness. "Don't worry, I ain't alone, meow."

The bullets flew by before a wave of explosion surrounded Pod 02. "Burst shockwaves detected! Contact in three… two….!"

Pod 02's pilot shuttered as its A.T Field lite up, the explosions sending waves of power through the Plug. "Second wave incoming: it's a Pattern Blue."

"Troublesome bunch eh?"

"Approaching object identified…. Confirmed, it's the Mark.04-A."

The object moved with speed faster than that of a jet, it's 'A.T Field' acting like a thrust which helped it slam into Pod 02's Field. The Mark.04-A was not much to say: a generic grey disc with small purple wings sticking out the top with yellow lightings, and two pairs of fast moving needle-like legs that tried cutting through the A.T Field.

"Crap, it's an Anti-A.T Field!" The pilot cried out, watching as the Field's began nullified long enough for the legs to cut through. The legs forced away the Field and revealed several inner cannons which fired at Pod 02. The shields of Pod 02 came to life, blocking out the bullets before finally giving way. "Damnit, half this crap is useless!"

The shield was ripped away from the 'Pod' itself, revealing an Ex-NERV Evangelion, more specifically Evangelion Unit-02 Dash. The Eva still held its red, black, white and yellow colors, with several oranges spots on the head crest just above the repaired right eyes. Its whole left arm was replaced with a bulky gatling gun like weapon, black and red to match the new shoulder pylons.

"And this stupid helmet has to go!" The pilot gripped the helmet, ripping it off completely to reveal Asuka Langley Shikinami, left eye covered by an eye patch yet still holding her orange hair and glaring blue eye. "How the hell Shiro used these damn things in combat is something he took to the grave with him! And Network Four-Eyes, stop that damn singing! It's pissing me off!"

Unit-02 Dash's A.T Field rose fast and on time, as Mark.04-A slammed its legs into the Field. It forced the EVA back before its shot away, exploding into a ball of fire. "Support was 2 seconds late!" She snapped, glaring down to her supporter. Lower down was another Evangelion, EVA Unit-08. This EVA, unlike Unit-02 stood out more with a light pink color scheme, with white, green and yellow add on lines and topped off with a eight green-eyed helmet.

"And you were three seconds before final position." The pilot claimed with a cocky tone, grinning under her own blue and pink helmet. "It's called adaptation, Princess. Try and keep up with me!"

Unit-08 sat without its engine cells, shields covering its form as its snipe rifle stood out like an antenna. Mark0.04-A's attempted to assault Unit-02 Dash as it continued forward, exploding before the Nemesis Series drones could get close enough. "Just passed the Fullerene Shift, now entering Final Defense Area 89." Asuka reported, blinking as the target drew closer to Earth and herself. "Target's on the move!"

The 'target' as called was a large metal cross like cage, with four box arms sticking all directions as it slowly descended. "No time to correct orbit!" Asuka yelled out, pulling up as she shot out several couplings at the target from her grapple cannon-arm. "I'll have to brute this!"

Unit-02 Dash went sailing past the target, but the cross held firm to the zero gravity like an anchor as it pull the EVA back fast. The Ex- Second Child glared up and reeled the grapples, pulling her towards the cross object. Both the EVA and cross object came into contact with the engine cells on Unit-02 Dash snapping into place with a roar of power.

The engine flared harsh as they forced the EVA and target object back into orbit, letting Asuka sigh in slight relieve. "Combustion terminated." She called out, looking to see the booster cells detach from her Unit-02 D's shield and fly out into space. She heaved in air, glaring to her side. "Target successfully captured. Returning to base."

"Roger, we'll be waiting at the retrieval point." A voice called from the radio. "Callout sign is Saturn VI."

"Roger." An alarm blared once more, and Asuka looked to see a Pattern Analysis screen come to life. The Analysis was Blood Type Blue. "The hell?! Another Pattern Blue, where the hell is it?!"

Unit-02 looked from to side, but failed to see the drone reveal itself from underneath the cross. Or above it….? The box sides opened, letting them sail out more to form 2 familiar designed pairs of thin, metal paper like arms. "Object is identified as a Mark.04-B! It's deploying field-reflective coating!" Asuka yelled out, glaring with annoyance. "And so close to a successful re-entry, the cunts…. Network Four-Eyes, I need support!"

"Nope, no can do!" Unit-08's pilot yelled out, releasing its rifle and kicking off the shield cover to give a final wave as she descended. "Have phun! See you at the surface!"

"God, you are so useless!" Asuka screamed in anger, pulling her EVA under the target object and proceeding to kick it away. She failed though, as the drone kept a firm grip to the cross. "No one told me about this when I signed up!"

The metal arm like tethers fixed themselves into the center, finally becoming a large halo which shined brightly above the pair. Asuka's eye widened, and a faint echoing noise found its way to her ears and eyepatch. She gripped her now light blue flashing eye cover tightly, trying to look away from the light that surround Unit-02 Dash. "Damnit, what's with the light?!" She cried out, her EVA trying to look away as the light pulsed more around its head. "My A.T Field isn't neutralizing it!"

"I have to kill that damn core block!" She stated, before glaring with a frown as she saw the core began rushing up one of the tendril arms. "And just when I speak…. Where are you going?!"

Light flared all around her EVA and the object as the operation was seemingly giving away, with the LCL in the Entry Plug burning more and more. "Damnit, I can't maintain my altitude angle!" She cried out in realization, watching as her EVA continuously spiraled downward. "My EVA's going to collapse!"

"02-Dash, capture of Evangelion Unit-01 is top priority!" The voice of her superior on the radio yelled out, making her growl. "Do not let that damn EVA go, even if Unit-02 is lost!"

"No shit it's the priority!" Asuka yelled out through the alarms and LCL bubble, glaring at the "SOUND ONLY" communication screen. Unit-02 pulled itself up, before the Mark.04-B fired a beam which tore off the EVA's left arm. Asuka screamed through the pain with more explosions following close, her eye landing on the coffin which housed the person she once called 'friend.' "Why don't you help me out huh?! Stupid fucking Shinji!"

Then, as if God or Shinji himself seemed to answer her prayers, Asuka got one hell of a response.

The coffin side exploded with a crack which shed a red glow. From out of the crack crackled a beam of raw power, which cut apart the many halo rings around Asuka's EVA and the coffin. The rings exploded apart as the beam followed the Mark.04-B drone, burning apart the tendril it road on before cutting the drone itself. An explosion of energy ensued, leaving a now wondering and confusion Asuka to stare at the glowing eye of Unit-01.

For a moment, she swore it wasn't the Evangelion Unit-01 she fought with during the Angel War. No, it felt human and familiar…. It felt like she was having a silent, only eye conversation with Shinji, the real Shinji Ikari.

She could feel the emotions mixed in her chest swelling up at the sight of it, and while she tried to hide them it was clear all across her face.

She watched finally as the eye seemed to water slightly, as it in joy, surprise or fear, before it closed, leaving her alone. "….. Idiot….." She muttered, looking down to their home with a slightly saddened look as her EVA and Unit-01's coffin began re-entering Earth's atmosphere.

As it did, now far hovered a large asteroid like structure, with a large building in the center with several towers poking out above and a large cannon underneath. Explosions occurred all across it as machine cannons and shielding came back. "This is NEOS Station reporting in to Stormbreaker. WILLE and NERV Jump Drones had been dealt with. Evangelion Unit-01 has entered WILLE's airspace, no chance of recovery over."

"Roger, this is Unit-10 at Stormbreaker HQ. Continue monitor of AAA Wunder and fleet till further notice."

"Understo-."

"Unidentified object in northeast sector! It's moving towards us!"

"Pattern Yellow: it's an Akrid!"

"What the-?!" NEOS weaponry came to life once more, beams of light rushing out with bullets following to hit the object. The object, or rather creature, roared across the whole of the station and Earth, going right through the station rock and hull with a fiery explosion all across the right side. The creature's armor tough skin shinned across the fire and sunlight, rushing downwards with another echo of demonic feat. "Damn it, this is NEOS reporting in again! We have an unidentified Cat-G Akrid moving towards Earth, its moving at rapid speeds! We attempted to intercept but its rammed right through us! It may be heading to your location, over."

"Must have sensed the Thermal Energy we're loading….. Acknowledged, we're moving out. Maintain current watch and repair NEOS as soon as possible."

"Understood. NEOS, out."

On the surface, staring up into the dark night, a young boy watched with interest as he saw Unit-01 began entering Earth's atmosphere. He smiled; he felt his friend's older brother pulse with power not far, which only helped to confirm his knowledge of the coming times. "Welcome home, Shinji Ikari." Kaworu Nagisa spoke aloud, smiling as he stared to his future friend before turning his head back. "We've been waiting for you…."

In a lone chamber, silent yet alive, a lone person slept. He'd slept for so long in waiting he hadn't known when or where he was, all he knew was he'd felt it. Something he never thought he'd feel again. "Shinji…." The name echoed through its 'home'. "Shinji, I…..

I've missed you, brother…."

A/N: Yes, the rumors are true: I am alive! And I'm back to write the sequel to Evangelion: You Are(Not)Null. Sadly, I won't be able to keep uploading chapters every three days like before as my STAAR testing is coming up next week and I'm going to be working my butt off to pass, so wish me luck if the next chapter comes up next friday! Now I don't have a specific time for uploading just yet with tests and all, so I will try and squeeze time into making new chapters for possibly every weekend or every 2 weeks so yeah...

That said, this is the KnightOfZ3R0 signing off!