Prologue
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The night air on the rooftop was refreshing, especially after such a hot day. Shinji Ikari closed his eyes as he embraced it, the nearby tremors caused by the rampaging angel lacked the fear it once would have had to him, even as it turned its sights upon him. "Shinji, what are you doing?!" Misato screamed at the monitor of NERV control quickly hearing Asuka's voice right after her outburst with one of her own, "What's that idiot doing?! He's lost it!" Misato had no idea what was going through Shinji's mind, the Shinji she knew would have been terrified, but ever since that incident, it's been like…
"It's like someone else is in the cockpit…" Ritsuko said, completing Misato's thought. "Asuka, Rei, distract the angel!" Misato finally commanded, responded with a silent nod from Rei and a resentful one from Asuka, "I am going to strangle that idiot when I get my hands on him!" Both EVAs made their way toward the angel who now rearing back with its large hand. "We're not gonna make it!" Asuka cried out as the angel swung forth, its hand burying itself into the skyscraper, sending large chunks of concrete and steel falling to the streets below. Parked cars -abandoned upon the evacuation- were crushed like toys, the streets themselves now nothing more than craters peppered in between the nearby buildings. The angel slammed its hand down again, causing the building to buckle. Grabbing it with its other hand, it tore off the crumbling upper half before turning to strike EVA Unit 0 with it, however, by this time Misato found herself unable to watch as any hope for Shinji vanished, her gaze falling to the floor.
How could she let this happen? Perhaps if she had watched over Shinji a bit more carefully after what had happened two days ago, she might have prevented this.
"Commander!" Lieutenant Hyuga called out as his widened eyes became fixed upon the monitor, forcing Misato's gaze to rise as well; eyes widening just as well from what she found herself witnessing. It was Shinji, standing upon the building top across the street. It seemed utterly impossible, like a feat from a character out of one of Hyuga's manga. No one could jump that far, could they?
Meanwhile, Shinji finally opened his eyes revealing a bright crimson hue in his irises as well as a streak of the same hue running up now spiked hair. Such a radical change was topped off by a large devilish grin as the Third Child assumed a pose, crying out with a much different voice,
"Ore…sanjou!!"