I'd like to say some stuff about the reviews I got: HK2, I care nothing about flames. I think they are funny, in fact. Also, I was signed off of AOL before I could change the Ch title. Though I guess that you can't see it anyways, lol. I was raised in Goku/Bulma fanfiction world, and that's the dialect I'll speak with. wutdaheck, in one of the episodes (14th one, I believe), they said that Unit 00 was repaired JUST BEFORE the 9th angel's attack. This also explains why she wasn't a part of the recovery efforts of the 8th angel. Also, that was they way it was meant to be, with the 5th angel and the 5th child. And a note to both of you: it's 2:08 pm right now, 17 hours and 13 minutes till I posted this story. I consider two reviews very good. Oh, this isn't my first story. It's probably my tenth, though you will never see my others.

The 5th, Chapter One, "Who is he?"

Shinji was surprised to see a boy about his age, perhaps a little younger, walk past them on their way to another harmonics test. Not only was he too young to work here, really, but he wasn't dressed like a NERV employee. He was wearing blue jeans and a horizontally striped black and grey shirt. He was looking forward as he walked until he passed by Rei, Asuka, and Shinji. Shinji felt suddenly afraid as he locked his eyes on him, piercing him with his small green eyes. His hair looked like claws pointing slightly forward, ready to slice Shinji apart with one rake. He looked at the other two in turn; Rei had the same look on her face that she always had, but Asuka seemed to have the same reaction as Shinji. It seemed like eternity, but they finally turned down another hall, out of his sight. Shinji only just then realized that he'd been holding his breath, and started breathing again.

"OK, who was that guy, and why is he in NERV? He creeped me out!" Asuka complained.

"He could be the new EVA pilot," Rei said monotonously.

"Right, Wonder Girl, where's the new EVA, then, huh?"

"There was a large air shipment that was one complete EVA. It arrived just before the 7th angel's attack."

"But. the third EVA isn't completed and the fourth is still in the early test stages!" Shinji exclaimed. There were no EVAs ready to pilot, so why would they send one?

"Affirmative, but this was neither the third nor the fourth. This looked more like a bird."

Shinji was about to ask why an EVA would look like a bird, since none of the ones he knew of were flight-capable, so a bird's design would just hamper it in battle, but they reached the preparation rooms for the harmonics test, and couldn't continue their conversation.

Who is he? He can't be the fourth child, they keep saying that they're nowhere near finding the fourth child, but at the same time he's too young to be NERV personnel. Who is he?

The harmonics test went well; Shinji had gained four points, making him only 62 less than little miss man Asuka.

That night, Shinji couldn't seem to get the mystery out of his mind.

Could they have made an EVA flight-capable? Is it even possible? If so, then why isn't mine?

The next day at school, something else happened that confused him even more.

"Class, I would like to announce that we have a new student! He's from America. His name is Drake Hoffman. Drake, please stand up and tell us about yourself," Shinji's overexcited Algebra teacher said.

Over at the front of the room, near the door, the same boy that Shinji had seen in the halls stood up, looking annoyed that he had to do this.

"My name is Drake, I am 14 years old, my favorite subjects are Calculus and Physics, and my hobby is breeding Betta fish, also known as Siamese Fighting Fish," he said, sitting down quickly.

"Well, apparently our new student isn't too happy about having to do something like this. It seems I talked to him while he was talking to himself!" the Algebra teacher said, indicating his t-shirt, which said pretty much the same thing. A few members of the class laughed a bit, but Drake seemed to be relaxing, closing his eyes.

A couple of minutes later, while Mrs. Shitsu, the Algebra teacher, was explaining how to find the slope of a line, Drake sat up and typed something on his computer.

I'm going to leave it at that, since I'm assuming (I know I shouldn't assume, it makes an ass out of u and me) that HK2 doesn't want something longer. I am referring to the comment about the length of a chapter.

::announcer-type voice:: What will happen on the next episode of "The 5th"? Who is this mysterious child, and what is he doing on his computer? More importantly, will Rei EVER confess her love for Shinji? What about Shinji's love for Rei?! Find out the answers to the first two questions on the next episode of THE FIFTH! Melissa, my sister: Well, you can't really call it an EPISODE, per se, it's more of a chapter. Me: ARRRGGGHHH!!! ::seems to be struggling as he brings his hands up in a strangling position, fighting not to KILL his little sister::