"Momma Momma, they picked me momma!" A cute red-haired girl is running down the halls of a hospital yelling in joy. "They say I'm an elite pilot, everyone is so nice, now I won't be lonely, even without daddy!" The girl is smiling from ear to ear as she races towards a door at the end of the hall "Look at me, look at me MOMMA!!" the girl opens the door and the smile on her face recedes, the first thing she notices is a doll hanging from the roof and right next to it the shape of a lady, her mother, hung by her neck...
"Synch ratio at zero...I'm useless." Asuka Langley Soryu was lying in a tub, filled up to the half way point with water, naked mumbling to herself. A man dressed in a suit and with slicked back hair walks in and addresses her.
"Asuka Soryu? We're from Nerv, we are here to take you back." The man pulled out a radio and began to talk to Nerv personnel. "We have secured the second child, we are returning to base immediately."
"Misato, the second child has been secured safely." Makoto Hyuga reported to Misato Katsuragi who had a look of concern plastered on her face.
"Seems odd that it would take them a whole seven days to find her, right as the fifth arrives..." Misato's mind no longer trusted Nerv after the Rei incedent and questioned everything now.
"Could my feelings be right...Rei, why is it my mother comes to mind when I think of you...what are you doing with them father?" Shinji was lying down on his bed, with his hand covering his eye looking up at the ceiling, he was slowly slipping into a depression.
"Gendo...did you know my cat died? I hadn't been able to take care of it recently so I left it to my grandmother, but...now I can't even see it ever again." Ritsuko was sitting with her head lowered in shame, in a dark room with a luminescent Nerv logo acting as the only source as light.
"Ritsuko Akagi, why did you destroy the dummie plug system?" Gendo Ikari stood in a very powering stance.
"The dummy plug system..." Ritsuko lifted her head "...I did not destroy your dummy plug system...I DESTROYED REI IS WHAT I DID!!" Ritsuko started to cry.
"I will not ask again...why!?"
"I am no longer happy...even when you make love to me...why don't you just use my body like before and get it over with!" Ritsuko hung her head again.
"I am dissapointed in you."
"How, you never had expectation in me in the first place." The logo lights abruptly turns off and Ritsuko is left alone. "What am I supposed to do now, mother?"
"I wonder where Asuka is" Shinji stood in front of Evangelion Unit 02 and began to think 'What would be the point in seeing her anyway, would we talk about what happened to Rei?'
Shinji now stood in front of a very large lake created by an N2 mine. 'Everyone has been evacuated...thanks to me I have no one left I can call a friend...Asuka,Misato, mother what should I do?'
Shinji hears a soft tune hummed to his left he recognizes the song from his time spent playing classical music on the cello, Ode To Joy as taken from the poem written by Friedrich Schiller.
"Music, it is good...it revitalizes the mind and soul, it truly is the high point of the Lilim society...don't you think so? Shinji Ikari?" Shinji hears the voice of the mysterious gray haired boy sitting on a statue to his left.
"My name...how do you..." Shinji wondered how the boy could know his name and never of met him before.
"You do not realize how famous you are do you Shinji?" Shinji just shook his head.
"Well...you know my name, who may I ask are you?" Shinji looked him in the eye and realized his eyes are red 'Just like Rei...'
"Nagisa. Kaworu Nagisa...I am a selected child, much like yourself, I am the fifth." Kaworu provided a softening smile at the end of his sentence.
"You are the fifth child...I did not know, pleased to meet you Mr. Nagisa." Shinji gave a small smile in return.
"Please call me Kaworu, Mr. Ikari."
"Mr. Ikari? You can call me Shinji as well" The boys just stood there smiling at each other and Shinji began to think 'why do I feel so easily able to talk to this boy?'
A\N: This is where the story deviates from the original episode 24 story line
"Madam Katsuragi, Asuka was transferred to the hospital, it seems that on her way back to headquarters she slipped from conciousness and has not awoken." Maya Ibuki reported to Misato Katsuragi from her seat.
"Really? What does The Magi say about her?" Misato was worried that she might of gotten sick while gone.
"They think it is just stress from her dropping Synch Ratio" Maya Ibuki was reading the status report from The Magi directly from her computer.
Misato was about to respond when a transmission was recieved on Maya's intercom.
"uh hu...okay...yes...that is good news, Misato...it seems the fifth child is here...he just arrived with Shinji." Maya reported to Misato, Misato walked away with a simple wave good-bye.
"Shinji!" Mistao caught Shinji just as him and Kaworu got off the elevator. "You have a Synch Ratio test today to test Mr. Nagisa's..."
"please..." Misato was cut off "...call me Kaworu" Kaworu smiled politely at Misato.
"o...k...well...to test...Kaworu's...abilities in an Eva." Misato eyed Kaworu suspiciously but them turned to Shinji who just nodded in response.
"Yes ma'am" Misato then walked off in the other direction as Shinji and Kaworu followed closely behind.
The rythmic beep of machines could be heard as a man stood over the unconcious body of a red-haired girl.
"Soon...soon Seele's plans will be realized, Ikari and all of Nerv will soon see the full impact...third impact" The man chuckled to himself as he put on a gas mask and opened a small canister.
A\N: This chapter was kind of small...KIND OF!?!?!? LOL...but...I feel proud that I have started it...I hope that I will have many positive reviews...and that you all enjoy :D