Okay, since so many people complained on how crappy my other Eva fanfic was, here's one that actually has something to do with the Eva storyline.

Alpha or Omega: The Opening of the Gates of the Apocalypse

Chapter 1: Encore of Third Impact

Shinji was choking Asuka with his hands. Her arm moved up weakly and brushed his face. He stopped and started to cry. Asuka looked at him.

"I feel sick," he said.

Even though she was terribly weak, Asuka pushed Shinji away from her as he started to throw up.

"You baka! You nearly threw up over me!" she screamed.

Shinji didn't listen to her. LCL dripped out of his mouth as well as some other things. Asuka looked away. It was too disgusting.

"Are you done yet?" she asked sharply.

"Yeah," muttered Shinji.

"Good, cause I really don't want to keep staring at that head."

Shinji looked up. It was Lilith's, no, Rei's head. Half of it had already started following off.

"I did that," he said sadly.

"What?"

"After you were, well, I came out in Unit 01," Shinji admitted, "Then the MP Evas started the preconditioning for the Third Impact. I-I killed Lilith, no, Rei, in the end by not accepting it."

"You prevented the Third Impact?" Asuka said, astonished.

"No. I only halted it. It still occurred, but we were left behind."

"You mean of all the people that you could have chosen to stay with you, you chose me?" said Asuka.

Shinji only nodded in reply.

"Just perfect! I don't know whether I should feel honored or ashamed that you chose me."

Shinji had expected this, but the anger in him had been growing for some time. When Asuka looked at him again, she was scared out of her wits. The glare on his face was like the time Commander Ikari had gotten mad.

"S-Shinji, why are you looking at me like that?" Asuka asked, hoping desperately that he wasn't about to start choking her again.

"Nothing." Shinji shifted his glance again.

Asuka looked at him. Shinji would always be like that. A coward. However, now she realized that even he had his limits. She didn't dare test them now.

"Shinji, can we leave here?" she asked politely, not wanting to make him mad.

"Yeah." He started walking.

"Umm, Shinji, I can't get up."

He stopped and helped her help. Asuka still had to lean on him as the two went. After about twenty minutes, they stumbled upon a few of the surviving command vehicles that were used to attack NERV. However, how they survived was a mystery, since the entire area had been basically destroyed by the massive explosion.

"I'm going to try to find some food," said Shinji.

He set her down gently and went into one of the units. There were packs of military rations and spare uniforms. Behind some bars were weapons. Most of them were high-power rifles. Shinji looked at them. He doubted that he would need them. Then he saw several pistols. He found a key amazingly enough, and opened the cage. He took one of the pistols and several cartridges. Then he grabbed some backpacks also in the cage. He filled them with as much food as he could. There were still three backpacks left. He put the gun in on and put some spare clothes in it as well. The other two he just stuffed in two small tents, a field stove that was currently dismantled, and a few other things he thought would be useful like a field kitchen set. He then left the unit.

"Hungry?" he asked Asuka.

She nodded. Shinji took out the field kitchen set and started warming up the rations. He gave one to Asuka and ate one himself.

"Shinji, what are we going to do?" she asked. For the first time in years, Asuka Langley Soryu was unsure of what to do.

"Find a place to stay," said Shinji, "Tokyo 3 is gone. We need to find a place with food and shelter."

"But, didn't the explosion destroy nearly everything?"

"These survived," said Shinji, "though I don't know how. We'll camp out for the night here. Tomorrow we can start traveling."

Asuka nodded. It was almost a relief that someone else was making to decisions. After they had eaten, Shinji helped her into one of the command vehicles. He helped her settle down and then went to another one to sleep.

Well, all of you shouldn't be complaining that much. This is a completely different turn from my other fic. Actually, I just wrote this because the other people who said my other fic was bad didn't say anything intelligent to tell me why.

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