Misato stood on the command bridge, watching the monitors. There'd been no activity, Angelic or otherwise, since the previous day. "Thank God," she thought. "We're going to need a long time to recover." "Misato," came Ritsuko's voice from behind her. She turned around. "Yeah?" "You need to read this." Ritsuko handed her a folder. "These are your orders from Commander Ikari, regarding the creature that appeared yesterday."

Misato read the information about Godzilla in disbelief. "God... this is all real?" Ritsuko shrugged. "Who knows? These are mostly just theories, but based on what we know, they seem to be correct." Misato swore. "The Angels were bad enough, but now we have to deal with this thing as well?" She turned the page to see the section on Nerv's planned response.

"EVA-Ex.01? What the hell is that?" she muttered. "It's an experimental design that was tested for a bit, then deactivated," Ritsuko replied. "It has more mechanical components than biological. The design was concluded to be too complex and expensive to proceed with." "What, has it got wheels instead of legs?" Misato joked. Ritsuko cringed. "Well... yeah." "The fuck?! Seriously?!" Misato sighed. "Who the hell did you get to pilot it?"

She looked out of the window to see Ex.01 suspended below the plane, the Austrian Alps passing below them. "Japan should be fun," she thought. "And I finally get to use this thing for real. So much for not being needed anymore!"

She smiled as she opened a bag of crisps, enjoying the idea of racing through Tokyo-3 and kicking ass in the bizarre Eva. She looked back down at Ex.01. "Ready to have some fun, sexy?"

Rei watched as Shinji spoke with his friends at lunch time. He didn't actually speak that much. Toji and Kensuke carried most of the conversation, with Shinji speaking up every now and then. "Would simply being with them make them consider me part of their social group?" She got up and moved closer to them. "... that Sakura's going to be fine, but just seeing it... it was... y'know, let's talk about something els - Ayanami?" Toji looked up at her. "Everything alright?" She shifted her gaze from Shinji to him. "Everything is alright. I would..." she stopped, the words seemingly lodged in her throat. Her face was getting hot again as well. "... I would like to sit down with you three."

Toji and Kensuke stared at Rei, the mute anti-social girl, in disbelief. Shinji smiled. "I'd like that, Ayanami." She picked up a nearby chair and put it down near them. As she sat down, Toji recovered from his surprise. "So, Ayanami... how've you been going?" Rei frowned slightly in confusion. "Going where?" Toji chuckled. "No, I mean, how are you feeling, what's happening in your life, stuff like that."

She thought for a moment. "I now live in the same apartment as Ikari, which makes me feel good." Shinji looked at her in surprise. "But there are some things that I don't know about." She remembered the previous night, and when Shinji had entered her first apartment. "Ikari, why do you react in that manner when you see me nude?"

The three boys, and Rei's heart, froze. "What am I meant to say?!" Shinji thought, panicking, vaguely aware of a vibration against his thigh."Uh... well, i-it's just... y'know... it makes things... uncomfortable." Shinji watched in dismay as Rei's expression went from confused to hurt. "Why... why does it make things uncomfortable, Ikari?" she asked quietly. "It's... it makes things.. too... too sexual for me." Rei's eyes grew wider. "Ikari, I have no intention of bearing your offspring. I'm... sorry if I gave that impression."

Shinji's panic grew. "What do I do now?!" he frantically wondered. Fortunately, Asuka soon came over, unaware of their conversation. "Come on, idiot, Misato wants us at HQ. Perhaps try turning your phone on next time?"

"This is Godzilla." The three pilots looked at the creature on the screen. "What is it, a Dinosaur?" Asuka muttered. "No. It's a heavily mutated deep sea creature," Ritsuko declared, watching the incredulous faces of the pilots. "In 1954, radioactive waste was dumped into the Pacific. Professor Goro Maki, a Japanese scientist working with the US Department of Energy, discovered a deep sea creature eating the waste. It soon began developing at an alarming rate. Maki believed that it's body had altered to use radiation as an energy source, and that it could develop the ability to evolve almost instantly to suit it's environment." The image on the screen was replaced by footage of Godzilla's mutation in the battle with 00. "We now know that it can evolve, but we don't know if Maki's predictions about future evolutions will come true." She paused for a moment. "Professor Maki came from Odo Island, where they have a myth about a living god, named Godzilla. Maki believed this creature was the perfect organism, and he named it after that myth."

"So how do we kill it?" Asuka growled. Misato stepped forwards. "Godzilla doesn't have an AT field, but it can still shrug off almost anything we throw at it due to it's tough skin. However, Rei has shown that an Eva can hurt it by directly attacking the exposed flesh on it's back. And if we can hurt it, we can kill it."

Shinji raised his hand. "What about the Angels, though? Won't they still be attacking?" Misato nodded. "Yes, we can assume they will be, and for that reason we're getting reinforcements. EVA-Ex.01 left Germany this morning, and should be arriving later today. Units 03 and 04 have had their production schedules moved up as well." Asuka leaned forwards. "And who's the pilot for Ex.01?" Misato checked her files. "Her name is..."

Several hours later, Misato and the three pilots stood near the hangars of a nearby airbase, watching as a large aircraft with Ex.01 slung underneath it approached. The Eva made for a bizarre sight, with four mechanical, spider-like legs, each with a giant wheel at the 'foot'. In place of arms were two more robotic appendages, one grasping a lance, the other having large pincers. "Seriously?" Asuka raised an eyebrow. "I can see why it was scrapped."

Rei glanced at Shinji. "Ikari, I apologise if I made you feel uncomfortable today. It's just... I don't know what to do in social situations." Shinji smiled. "It's okay, Ayanami. You aren't used to being around other people for so long, are you?" She shook her head. There was a loud crash as the Eva fell to the ground. The transport plane's engines rotated until they were vertical, and it descended to the tarmac. Misato grinned. "Okay then, let's go and say hello to our new roomie!" Asuka's head snapped around. "What?! You didn't say she'd be living with us!" Misato shrugged. "Where else would she stay?"

"You must be Captain Katsuragi!" a cheery voice called out. They watched as a brown-haired girl ran towards them, the base's lights reflecting in her glasses. "And you three must be..." she quickly sniffed the face of a shocked Asuka, then darted to Shinji and Rei, doing the same to them. "... the other pilots!" She flashed a grin at Asuka's agape mouth. "Pleased to meet you all, I'm Mari!"