Author's note: Well, I'm still kicking, so let's see how Shinji handles piloting…and meeting with Gendo. Quick note: there's a specific reason I'm using the Hellsing anime (and yes, I do like the manga better, but the anime is still badass). Also I think I have picked the pairing, ShinjixKaworu! Still there? I'm just kidding, if the story keeps going it will (more than likely) be Shinji and Asuka. But Rei will be important to Shinji. Oh, hope you don't mind that I used Shinji's nap to skip the geo-front bit. Let's begin!

Part 3: Go…to…sleep

Shinji sighed as he and Captain Katsuragi passed the same intersection again. He merely held his suitcase and nodded as Misato explained she still wasn't used to the layout of NERV headquarters. Though in private, Shinji considered it too be quite embarrassing to not know the layout of one's workplace after two month's. Still, according to the map he was holding, the base was extremely large and complicated, so some leeway could be given to the Captain. The base itself was quite odd. Every thing was mechanized; the very floor he and Misato were standing on was a conveyor belt. Yet another element that disturbed him was that many hallways were ridiculously large in height and width, as though they were meant for moving giant beings through. His thoughts were interrupted as the next door opened and a woman with dyed blonde hair and a beauty mark, who was only wearing a lab coat and a blue-green one piece swimsuit.

"Hi there, Ritsuko." Misato sheepishly greeted.

The woman, Ritsuko, looked firmly at her and asked, "Why are you wasting my time Captain? Don't you know that we're short on both time and manpower?"

"Sorry," Misato replied.

Ritsuko sighed and looked over at Shinji. "So is this the boy?"

"Yes, according to the Marduk report, he's the third child." Misato said.

"Pleased to meet you." Ritsuko said.

Shinji did a bow and kissed her hand. "Shinji Ikari, at your service Ms…

"That's Dr. Akagi," Ritsuko said, blushing in surprise.

"He certainly isn't like his father!" Misato said. She then asked Shinji, "why didn't you kiss my hand?"

"At the time, my hands were dirty with motor oil, I would hate to have ruined your lovely hands." Shinji replied then kissed Misato's right hand.

Misato pulled her hand back and blushed.

"If my asking would be no hindrance to either one of you," Shinji said readjusting his shades, "what do you mean I'm the third child?"

Ritsuko composed herself and said, "you'll find out soon enough."

Shinji decided to leave it at that.

A few elevator rides and a boat trip, during which Shinji clung on to his attaché case tightly, later found the trio entering a large room. The whole way there, Shinji had noticed strange things that looked like giant hands or arms and had listened to the doctor and Captain speak of an 09 system, which apparently didn't have a high chance of success. He started getting quite curious about the happenings around him, especially when the door to the room they had just entered closed, leaving the three of them in complete darkness.

"What's going on Captain?" He asked, moving his fingers towards the lock on the suitcase he was holding.

The lights suddenly came on, revealing the face of a purple behemoth. Shinji looked on the thing with a great sense of awe and wonder. It must have been over a hundred meters tall, and was covered in purple armor. It had a long horn on its head and two eyes of flame. Its neck was covered in orange and bits of green could be spotted upon it.

"I don't believe this was in the manual, Dr. Akagi." The boy said, still looking at the thing.

"Yes, we purposely left this out," The doctor explained, "This is humanity's last hope, the evangelion."

The teen kept looking at the evangelion and asked, "so this is what my father has been working on?"

"Correct."

Shinji looked up and saw his father, Gendo Ikari, standing in a glass and steel observation room. He was wearing a dark blue coat with yellow trim, black pants, red shirt, red tinted glasses, white gloves and a beard.

"Father," the lad stated without a trace of emotion as he stared at the man through his sunglasses.

"It's been a while," the man said in an equally non-emotive way.

"Not long enough." Shinji muttered.

"We're moving out." Gendo said.

"Wait a sec!" Misato exclaimed. "Unit 00 is still in cryo-stasis! Wait a minute! You're gonna use unit 01?"

"There's no other way." Ritsuko explained.

"Wait! Rei can't pilot it can she? We don't have a pilot!"

"We just received one"

"You're serious?"

Ritsuko faced Shinji. "Shinji Ikari, you will pilot."

"Well, finally, the question of my being here has been answered," Shinji said, "Now, is that the only reason I was sent for?"

"Correct" Gendo said.

A small look of disappointment crept over Shinji's eyes, "Well, considering I have no interest in playing with your toy, interesting color scheme by the way, I'll just go back to London." He then opened his suitcase and extracted some documents. "I'll need you to sign these though first. They're letters of apology, regarding the underhanded tactics you employed to coerce the Hellsing organization. They say you were incorrect and the paperwork was in order, Sir Integra Wingates Hellsing is my guardian and manager of affairs. They also state that you deeply apologize to Sir Integra for threatening her with legal action."

"I don't listen to the demands of an arrogant woman or an idiotic Butler who incorrectly filled out paperwork. Though you may leave if you wish." The commander of NERV said.

Shinji gritted his teeth. "Why don't you come down here and repeat that?"

"I also don't listen to the demands of a height challenged brat."

"I'm glad you have a base big enough to fit your ego. I hope next time you wait a few more decades before contacting me." Shinji then headed back towards the door he had just come in.

"Shinji wait," Misato said as an explosion rocked the base, a sign that a certain green giant was getting closer, "don't you care what happens to this city?"

"This city is under NERV's jurisdiction, so responsibility lies with you all." Shinji said coldly.

"The only way we can defeat the angel is by using an eva, Shinji. It's the only thing that can break an AT field." Ritsuko said, which caused the boy to stop and turn around, "and only children like you can pilot it."

"So its called an AT field, interesting." Shinji murmured. "So, if I pilot this, I can defeat the angel?"

Ritsuko nodded.

Shinji pondered on this, it was quite an intriguing offer. As he did this, the door opened and two nurses and a doctor came in wheeling a patient with pale white skin and blue hair, the same girl he had seen earlier that morning! Except now she was in a tight white suit and had a bandage over her right eye and her arms were heavily wrapped.

"What is this?" Shinji asked.

"She is our alternative," Gendo explained, "as you said, this is our responsibility."

"What kind of a man sends an injured girl into combat?" Shinji yelled, his teeth gritted.

"Bring those forms and I'll sign them, then you can go back to that loudmouth woman and senile butler you seem to care so much about." Gendo said with only the slightest of annoyance.

"I've had enough," Shinji muttered. He unfastened the locks on the case and reached inside, but as he did, he heard wailing from the hospital bed. He looked over and saw that the pale girl was trying to sit up. She was obviously in great pain.

Suddenly, another explosion rocked the base. The girl started to fall off the bed but was caught in mid-air by Shinji, who had moved with unprecedented speed from where he had been standing. A support beam had also fallen, but the giant eva, which had not moved till that point, blocked it with its right arm. Everyone but Shinji, the albino, and a smiling Gendo, started to try and make since of this event.

Shinji placed the girl on the hospital bed. "What is your name?" He asked.

"Rei," the girl said before squealing in pain.

"Rei, I want you to go to sleep." He pulled his shades down enough so she could see his eyes, "go…to…sleep."

Rei fell asleep on the rolling bed and Shinji reconnected her IV. He then pushed his glasses up and said, "I'll pilot your stupid toy." He then thought, "this isn't over though."

A few minutes later, Shinji found himself sitting in a cockpit wearing white hairclips and no vest or tie. They had also confiscated his suitcase and shades. The man who he had handed the suitcase too had almost broken his back trying to move it. The sunglasses he had handed to Ritsuko while keeping his eyes closed. He listened as the techs babbled on.

"Harmonics seem stable. Synch ratio is…2?!!"

"I guess we shouldn't have expected that much, but…"

"Wait, Synch Ratio is climbing, 10, 20, 27, 30!"

"Shinji, are you doing anything?" Ritsuko asked.

"With all due respect, Dr. Akagi, I have'nt even moved a muscle since I entered this thing."

"We are'nt getting any pulse from your cardiac monitors"

Shinji pressed his neck. "Are you sure about that?"

"Oh, uh yes, were now getting readings."

"Now filling the plug."

A foul smelling liquid started to seep up around Shinji and fill the plug. His eyes widened into a look of terror.

"What is this?" Shinji screamed.

Ritsuko explained, "Just breath it in like you do air. Once you do, your blood will be directly oxygenated.

Shinji waited for the end to come, but as the liquid surrounded him, he didn't feel weak at all. Whatever it was, it certainly wasn't water. After a few minutes, he finally heard what he had waited for.

"EVA LAUNCH!"

Shinji suddenly felt himself being smashed down as though he was ascending rapidly. After a few seconds, he finally reached the surface. Around him were buildings he had been walking past on foot mere hours ago. On the other side of the city stood the Green and bone angel, now with two masks and a freshly regrown arm

"Releasing locks."

"Shinji," Ritsuko said, "focus on walking."

Shinji pushed his hand against one of the two sticks in the cockpit and thought of walking. The Eva slowly took a step.

"He's walking!" Ritsuko exclaimed excitedly.

"Huzzah. I can now walk to my doom." Shinji thought. Unfortunately, this thought caused the eva to suddenly lurch forward and fall.

"wait, his synch ratio just jumped to 41?" wondered a tech named Maya Ibuki.

The angel took advantage of this time and went over to its fallen foe and picked it up. It then grabbed hold of the purple eva's head and left arm and pulled on both. Pain shot through Shinji's arm.

"Shinji that's not your real arm!" Misato said.

Shinji's eyes widened as Sachiel snapped the arm and broke it. He bit his lip as his own arm exploded in pain. Sachiel then picked him up by the head and started to slam an energy spike into it. Shinji closed his right eye as pain shot through it. Could things get any worse?

"Looks like your having a rough time fish boy." A haunting voice laughed.

"Master, what do you want?" Shinji thought, "I'm a little busy right now."

"Why didn't you use Walter's gift?"

"I'm supposed to only use that in an emergency."

"Then the day you use it is going to be special indeed!" The voice chuckled, "But how will you defeat this thing?"

"I can handle it."

"Show me! Come on! Hurry! The anticipation is…HURRY! HURRY!"

The rage at his master, father, and the angel swell up and started to flow through him and into the eva.

Meanwhile…

"One more hit and the brain case will be destroyed!" Maya exclaimed.

"Shinji!" Misato screamed.

On the monitor, the third angel was shown readying its spike to initiate its last attack. Suddenly, the eva it had been holding struck out and grabbed the angel's left wrist with its right arm, stopping the spike from firing. It then gripped until the angel was forced to release it. Unfortunately, the angel then smacked the eva in the stomach with its right and sent it crashing into a nearby building.

"Shinji! Are you all right?" Misato asked.

Instead of answering, Shinji started chanting

"Target is confirmed"

"Releasing control art restriction to level 2"

"Situation B, the Cromwell approval is now in effect"

"Hold release until target is silenced."

A red symbol appeared on the back of Shinji's shirt and his red eyes lit up with eerie delight. His canines extended. His hair extended and turned black. A long tongue rolled from his mouth and licked his lips. Any trace of the normally polite teen was gone.

Sachiel kept heading toward its foe, when all of a sudden it was surrounded by red mist as far as its eyes could see. Any trace of its foe was gone. It opened its eyes and a large blast appeared, but no sound came or vibration from the explosion was felt.

"Are you even trying?"

Sachiel turned but could not find the source of the voice.

"Behind you."

Sachiel turned again and once again failed to see anything but the red mist.

Meanwhile…

The staff of NERV watched the fight in utter bewilderment as they saw Sachiel ignore Unit 01 and turn around again. Unit 01 in the meantime had stood up and, to the amazement of the techs, regenerated its left arm. It then headed over to the angel and made its right hand flat and pulled it back as far as it could.

"One more turn."

Sachiel turned once more and found itself face to face with the purple behemoth. The Unit thrust its right arm forward right through the orange AT field and shoved it into the angel's red core.

"That wasn't supposed to happen." Shinji said. He was quite surprised that the angel had not been reduced to dust. He was also quite embarrassed as his right hand was stuck in the core and wouldn't come out.

The voice in Shinji's head started to laugh maniacally. "Well, fish boy, I appreciate the homage, but it looks like it could use some work."

"Just a second." The young midian protested as he tried to get the arm out.

"Looks like you have more pressing matters."

Shinji looked in horror as the angel's eyes lit up and it's body wrapped around his arm. Sachiel then exploded.

A few minutes later…

Shinji's body had reverted to normal, well as normal as red eyes on a non-albino were. He looked out the view screen as he slowly passed out from exhaustion and was met with a surprise; he caught a reflection of his eva in a nearby skyscraper. The face armor had been blown off in the explosion, and what faced him now was a grotesque brown head with green jelly eyes.

"What on earth did I just pilot?" He wondered before passing out.

Author's note: EEE, that didn't go so well. Still things will be on the up and up (I hope). Gendo will get some wrath next chapter, so stay tuned. Next chap will also be a bunch of flashbacks and you'll find out two more things that are in the suitcase. I'll try and have it up by Tuesday or Wednesday night. Shinji isn't as powerful as Alucard by the way, and don't expect him to use vampiric powers in angel battles. I hope you get why the Synch ratio was off (Yui). I also apologize for messing the order up on the launch. I hope you found the hand thrust funny, I thought it would be funny if someone tried it and messed up. Still, if you want to keep reading here's the ad.

Part 4: Photo

Why should you not diss Hellsing to Shinji's face?

Who was Shinji's first crush?

What will Shinji do when Misato makes him eat?

And some Omakes.