Disclaimer: I don't own Neon Genesis Evangelion.

WELCOMING COMMITTEE

"We're sorry, due to the special state of emergency no lines are currently available. This is a recording".

Two figures stood by the street phone, both male and both highly annoyed. The younger because the phone lines turned up to be useless, the older because something was screwing around with his senses.

Right now one Ikari Shinji was moderately pissed. Seeing as the phone booth was the closest thing around he decided it will do for now. With a sharp kick the booth bent inwards as it was forced into the wall.

"Now, now Shinji violence usually doesn't solve problems." Intoned Shin

"Doesn't mean it's not therapeutic." Came the equally sarcastic reply

"I never said it wasn't" the duo shared a glance and a grin "Seems the captain is rather late."

"Yeah" Shinji frowned looking at the picture Captain Katsuragi Misato had sent him, before stowing it away in a pocket "But what bothers me is that "emergency" status. Something doesn't feel right"

Shin hummed his agreement not two seconds before a loud explosion signified the arrival of trouble. A dozen or so combat hover-vehicles backed away from a gigantic anthropomorphic figure stepping forth from a nearby hill. Missiles screamed through the air before slamming straight in the creature, a great fireball engulfing it for a moment. As the smoke cleared the monster looked to be undamaged.

"Well holy shit it's the Jolly Green Giant!" exclaimed Shin, sarcasm and shock mingling in his voice.

"Ya don't freakin' say!" The assaulting V-TOLs contuinued their fruitless assault. Suddenly one of the giant's hands lined up with an attacker. A glowing lance shot out of its palm hitting the machine, destroying it instantly. "You know" Shinji commented "these guys are gonna get their asses handed to them".

"That they will, unfortunately" agreed Shin. Moments after that a V-TOL crashed a few meters in front of them. Sachiel apparently decided to step on it for good measure, the unused ammo exploding violently, however the explosion was interrupted by a swiveling blue car. The door opened instantly to reveal one Katsuragi Misato shouting "Get In!" Shinji jumped in, Shin wasn't far behind. Just as the Angel was about to make a new brand of "Three Canned Humans" Misato shifted in reverse, getting them out of the way, then hit the throttle, the car rocketing forward and out of immediate danger.

"Thanks for the save" quipped Shin "Would've been great though if you were on time and we didn't have to go through that"

Misato grunted absent-mindedly, her thoughts occupied at the moment 'Why the hell are there two of them?'


The car kept moving, steadily covering the distance to NERV, as everyone steadied themselves. Misato calmed her mind and put up "observation mode": there were two guys in her car, a younger teen around 14-16 riding shotgun and an older teen no young man around 19-20-something. The young one looked somewhat in likeness with the profile she had read, he must be Ikari Shinji. But the other one was a mystery. Shinji looked about 170 cm tall, with athletic build and rather short spiked up hair; he was wearing some kind of biker jacket with a white button-up shirt underneath, black jeans and boots. He looked pretty much ok for a kid. The backseat passenger was a different story. Male, about 185 in height, Caucasian with a pale complexion and shaved to perfection, short black hair and, undeniably, purple eyes. He was dressed completely in black – black trench coat; black shirt; black jeans with a long and delicate looking silver keychain on the side; black combat boots. He, along with Shinji, was looking through the window; staring at the Angel. Before Misato could start her interrogation his voice pierced the silence.

"So, that is what has been messing with my senses since we arrived – an Angel." The monotone comment hung in the air until Misato asked "Yes it's an Angel, but tell me how you know that – its classified information!" Not taking his eyes of the invader Shin continued cryptically"Oh I know a lot of things Miss Katsuragi"

"Oh really? Do you mind telling me exactly who are you? I've half a mind to stop and drop you off right now!" exclaimed the annoyed driver.

"Off course Captain: my name is Sesshomaru Shin, I am Shinji's mentor and best friend. We've traveled together for nearly 10 years." During the introduction purple eyes met brown ones in the rearview mirror. Shinji decided now was a good time to diffuse the situation" Don't worry Miss Katsuragi, he's alright, I can vouch for him." The captain grumbled something in response "So Shin you said it's an Angel. Care to elaborate? It certainly isn't like any other angel we've met"

"Yes, quite. What we're looking at right now is an Angel class assault construct. Composed of organic material and often exotic elements, powered by a mysterious type of core system no mortal knows about, it is the pinnacle of non-sentient constructs used by the High Heavens in war, specifically in seek and destroy missions. It's not sentient but isn't stupid either, trust me. I've heard about those a few times even seen depictions of several models, but I've never thought I'd see one up close. That is, see one and live to tell about it. The High Heavens keep most of their arsenal rather secret."

The brakes screeched and the car grinded to a halt. Partially because Misato wanted to see how the battle is going, and partially because of what she just heard." Ok first that is total bull and second where the hell did you learn stuff like that!?!" She got a smile and a shrug for answer. Huffing she opened the window on Shinji's side and leaned through it zooming on the battlefield with a pair of binoculars.

Shinji turned to face his long-time friend, an amused expression on his face; he got a raised eyebrow in return.

"No, they're going to use an N2 mine! Get down!"

An impossibly bright flash of white made an appearance. With inhuman speed Shin raised his hand and chanted

"vultus aegis contego"

A bright blue shield, much like a sapphire, formed on the car's side. The shockwave hit, roaring in their ears, then passed. Everyone scrambled out of the car.

"My car! How..? It's completely undamaged!" Misato was in denial. "Yeah undamaged, in contrast to my energy reserves which are severely depleted. But yea worry about the car! It's no big deal we survived a nuke unscathed – the car is important."

The amount of sarcasm was so great it wasn't even funny. Misato leveled a glare at Shin which he returned full force. Shinji sweatdropped 'Oh,Yeah, they'll get along just fine. And I'm the Queen of England'

"How the hell did you do that?" Shouted the purple headed beauty. "You just said some words and…I don't know!?"

Shin sighed "Look Miss Katsuragi…"

"Ah, Misato is fine" she chirped in.

"Ok, Misato, it's a very long explanation and I don't think we have the time. The N2 mine didn't do much damage to the Angel I think. We better get moving."

"I guess you're right. Let's go"


"Yeah, don't worry, safety is my top priority."Misato was speaking on the brick sized satellite phone. The dynamic duo traveling with her was barely able to stifle their snorts of laughter"Ok just make sure you have a train car ready…an express naturally…ya…ok see ya later"

Shin couldn't keep it in anymore"So what's new on the grapevine?" he asked snorting with laughter.

"Or should we say brick-vine?" Added Shinji, seeing where his friend was going, breaking down in laughter too.

"Oh, hush you two!" Misato was pouting, being the butt of a joke "It's state of the art..."

"More like straight from a wall..." she couldn't even finish.

"State of the art… straight out of Wall-mart!" The guys collapsed in laughter for a second time. One look at Misato's confused face made them go off again. 'Males and their humor' she grumbled mentally. They entered a tunnel, soon after that the car was secured and the car-train was on its way.

"Hey Shinji do your have your ID card with you?" asked Misato

"Yea sure" he took it out of a pocket and handed it her "Say Misato, are we gonna see my father?"

"Yeah sure. It's why you're here, right?"

"Che, the bastard wouldn't ask for me to come if he didn't need me to do something for him"

Just then the tunnel ended and the car-train entered the Geofront.

" Wow! A Geofront! It's amazing. And the city is here, underground! Awesome!" Shinji's head couldn't keep up with his eyes – turning left and right trying to take in everything at the same time.

"Impressive" remarked Shin while scrutinizing the base "I've seen geofronts before and lots of underground bases. But I've never seen anything this big. "

After they got off the train and out of the car respectively they headed in the maze called Nerv Central.

"Uh, Shin, dude, didn't we pass this spot like a couple of times already?" whispered Shinji to his partner. He only received an amused smile while his gaze was pointed to a nearby wall. There were four vertical lines scratched into it. Shin reached out and scratched a diagonal line over them. Apparently Misato had seen this little exchange and was more than a little irritated 'Well they make this things to be used' she thought as she dialed away on her cell.

"Would the Director of Project E Dr. Akagi Ritsuko please contact the Head of Operations Captain Katsuragi immediately?"

Two turns later they were in an elevator, headed up. After a ping the doors opened and an attractive blond wearing a one piece swimsuit under a white lab coat entered. The elevator continued upwards.

"Ritsuko!"

"Why are you wasting my time Captain? We're short on time and manpower as you well know" growled out the woman

"Ah, sorry!"

"So, is this the boy?" Shinji grunted intelligently, engrossed in some brochure Misato had given him earlier. Shin decided to pick up the slack.

"Yes, that he is." He replied casually"And this is what Nerv's leading scientists are wearing around the labs, eh? Among such beautiful staff I might consider an application."

Ristuko had the decency to blush while Misato snorted with laughter at her friend's verbal defeat. The scientist was however curious about the interloper Misato had brought in." And who might you be?"

"Ah, where are my manners? I am Sesshomaru Shin, respected mentor and esteemed friend of this ass" he said while gesturing in Ikari's direction. A second grunt was heard. Akagi raised an eyebrow 'Gendo won't be expecting this.' She grinned mentally 'Things are getting interesting.'

The two women made small talk about work; excluding the two males. Shin noted the words "unit 01"; "unit 00" and a few others as topics that needed investigation.

At some point they entered a room completely encased in darkness. Shin's night vision assisted him in recognizing the face of a mech in front of them.

"Shinji, giant mech dead ahead, the face is in front…"A short telepathic message later and Shinji was aware of the little psych trap and was formulating his counter.

The lights went on and the small group came face to face with Evangelion Unit 01

A/N Greetings all. Many thanks to all who read, if you liked it or have some criticism - review away. I'm sorry for not updating my other story but it's a lot of work reconstruction two big timelines just on memory. In between being dead in the GYM(my friend saved me with resurrection potions in the form of energy drinks), being dead in school(my MP3 player acted as a scroll of rejuvenation) and being dead on my bed( I had to sleep that one off) I didn't have much time to write. Hense the reason why, like any self-respecting author of fanfiction, I'm writing this at 4 in the morning. Many apologies for any mistakes, I'm still looking for a beta. Will update in a couple of days. Probably.