Long time no see. Sorry I'm late posting this, i really need to be more organized. I plan to post two chapters every month, on the 15th. So feel free to follow as I have a clear and direct idea that I am working with, the idea is here and as this is a remastered edition, the basic outline is written. As I've written ahead, i can tell you that chapter 9 is where the major changes and added scenes are added.

Thank you to any followers that have followed this, i hope you are not disappointed

CHAPTER 2: HOLLOW

Ritsugo came to fetch me a couple of minutes later. She told me that she saw Asuka, the red head, via the CCTV footage apparently she screamed at Ikari for even thinking I was the sixth Child. She had slammed her locker shut before she had cussed 'i can't believe they let anyone walk in from the street!'

"Well, maybe she's right." I sighed

"Don't give up just yet, look I'll show you."

She lead me to the holding bay, and there it was and EVA, my EVA. Pure white painted steal, a meteoroid face and thick red eyes. I had to let out a small gasp. The door opened behind us, I didn't notice until Ritsugo say to someone other in the room. "Yes, good work Shinji! I leave you too it"

I turned around. The young pilot was there, ugh what was his name again?! Anyway, he was out of his pilot suit and in a normal white school shirt and black trousers, completely unremarkable. He held in his hand an array of objects, pen, a note pad, a piece of paper which on it was Japanese symbols and a black box, which turned out to be a translator. He showed me these, and smiled uneasily.

I nodded and beckoned him forward with my hand. He gave me the translator and the Japanese symbol page and we shared the note pad. After a bit of explaining we had a pretty good system. Shinji would write down a sentence in Japanese and I would find the symbol, these were known as Hiragana; type it in on the translator, read the question. Then I would type in my answer and any questions I had in to the device and copy what I saw on the screen. This worked because Shinji, unlike Asuka, had a lot of patience.

"Where are you from?"

"England"

"So you're the sixth child?"

"i guess, everyone keeps saying "sixth" what does that mean?"

"Sixth... As in 'Sixth child'" Shinji explained

"Am I stuck with that nickname now?"

"Looks like it"

"Great! Anyway, who are you?"

"Shinji, are you alright? I remember my first day. I know what you're going through"

"I'll be fine, what was it like?"

"I had to pilot an EVA without any training. And passed out"

"Ow! What's it like?"

"Scary, but these nothing else like it. So what about your family? It's a long way from home?"

"Yes, my family think I've been kidnapped. I bet is something like that for yours as well?"

"No!"

"What do you mean?"

"My father knows I'm here!"

"Well, they said it was nation security that's what Ikari said, he planned it all"

"Commander Ikari?"

"Yeah"

"He's my father"

"Oh, well, I bet he's causing my parents a huge amount of grief. What's up with the redhead?"

"She's just a little upset, don't worry, I'll bring her round" as soon as I'd translated this we both smiled. I was getting the hang of this. At least that we've been able to come up with a commuting system.

After Shinji left, I got to work on familiarizing myself with the EVA and the entry plug. It was cramped and I felt a little claustrophobia inside it. The Japanese inside it didn't help at all. I knew that one day soon, I'd need to go outside in one of these suits, and when that day comes... it might be my last.

I was found, again at around 5 o'clock. I had no idea where I'd be staying the night, especially in a foreign country, so I decided to kip inside the EVA itself. It was warm and enclosed and with travel journey and jet lag, I was aching for some rest.

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"Sixth, Sixth!" Shinji was rattling my shoulder. And I woke up, I found that I had used my jacket as a quilt and I was curled up like a kitten.

"What?" I asked, I think he understood I said, or what I meant anyway, because he picked up the notepad and wrote something down quickly. I, still rubbing my eyes and yawning loudly, I looked and what he'd written and was able to translate.

"Are you sleeping here? Or coming with us? Trust me; our place is a lot better than inside this junk"

Shinji lowered himself from the ladder, and I, still stretching followed.

. Captain Katsuragi was impatiently tapping her foot on the ground. "Shinji, you were supposed to be here 30 minutes ago!"

"Sorry, I had to find the Sixth"

"Shinji, I'm not exactly in the money position to look after 3 of you" Katsuragi explained. Although speaking Japanese, I knew what was going on. I wrote something down and handed it to them,

"I'm sure I don't belong to you people, I'll go back, don't worry about it"

Katsuragi looked down guilty at the note, "Shinji, where did you find him"

"He was sleeping in his pod ma'am"

"Dammit, someone should have sorted this out before now! Damn, fine. Just for tonight. I'll sort it all out tomorrow morning."

Shinji quickly explained, and I think lied that it was mention that I'd be staying with them. I nodded and followed.