Evangelion/Naruto X-Over

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At Nerv headquarters, Unit-01 had been withdrawn from battle and was loaded into the eva cage.

"The Target has gone silent!" Aoba reported.

"What's Sasuke's status?" Misato demanded.

"He's alive." Hyuga answered.

"Unit-01 has been recovered. Send it to the seventh cage." Maya ordered.

"I'm going to the cage, take over for me please." Misato asked as she left Nerv central command via the elevator.

"Unit-01 secured." Maya reported.

"The pilot's brainwaves are extremely erratic! His cardiac readings are very weak!" Hyuga announced as the monitors are giving warning signs of Sasuke's condition.

"Increase power to the life support systems, give him a heart massage!" Ritsuko ordered.

"Rojer." Hyuga complied and the defibrillator built in Sasuke's plug-suit pulsed Sasuke's body. "Heartbeat stabilised." He reported.

"Force-eject the entry-plug. Hurry!" Ritsuko commanded and the entry-plug was removed from the evangelion. "Emergency LCL discharge." She ordered.

"Roger." Maya complied and the LCL is being discharged from the entry plug.

"Come on! Open the hatch. Come on!" Misato pleaded on the phone as she's in the elevator arriving at the eva cage. And the entry-plug opened with steam escaping from the seams and Misato noticed Sasuke is unconscious with his nose bleeding.

"Sasuke." Misato gasped.

Meanwhile on the surface the angel positioned itself above Nerv headquarters and began to drill.

In Nerv hospital, Misato was following the unconscious Sasuke as the nurses was wheeling the hospital bed until they arrived at the emergency room and Misato can no longer follow him. The plug-suit was removed from Sasuke and he was placed in a hyperbolic chamber.


Later, on the surface a decoy of Evangelion Unit-01 but it was painted mainly purple was moved towards the angel, the decoy raised an pistol and pointed it at the angel and the angel fired it's particle beam cannon and destroyed the decoy.

"Its accelerated particle beam cannon has hit the balloon. The decoy has been vapourised." Aoba reported.

"Right, just as I thought." Misato said to herself as she's formulating a plan.

Later in the briefing room, the Misato and the bridge crew has been gathered to formulate a plan to destroy the angel.

"From the data we've collected. We're assuming that the angel automatically attacks any implements that comes in a certain range." Aoba reported.

"So there is an one hundred percent probability that anything enters that range will be targeted. It's too risky for close range combat in an eva isn't it?" Hyuga questioned.

"What's the status of its AT field?" Misato inquired.

Hyuga changed the monitor displays to reveal the video of the angel being hit with Sasuke's Pheonix Fire Jutsu and the Senbon Chidori and both videos revealed the visible AT field.

"It's still active. It's strong enough that the spacial changes in phase are visible." Aoba answered.

"Needless to say, using conventional means of attack, guided missiles, artillery, bombs or even Sasuke's Jutsu would inflict more damage on us than on the angel." Hyuga concluded.

"He'll won't like to hear that but, offensively and defensively it's almost perfect, a real flying fortress!" Misato agreed. "What's the angel's current location?" She inquired.

"At this moment, the target is directly above us, penetrating the Tokyo-3 null zone." Aoba answered and another monitor displays a video of the angel drilling towards Nerv headquarters from the surface. "A giant shield with a diameter of 17.5 metres is boring through towards Nerv HQ." He continued.

"That's it then, it appears that the enemy is going to attack Nerv HQ directly." Hyuga announced.

"Sassy bastard!" Misato sneered. "What's its estimated time of arrival?" She demanded.

"6 minutes, 54 seconds AM just after midnight, by that time it will have breached all 22 levels of defense armour and will penetrate headquarters itself." Aoba answered.

"Less than 10 hours. I wonder what Sasuke would've planned in my place." Misato thought as she watch the shield began to struggle through the first armour plate.

"The shield had contacted the first armour plate." Hyuga anounced.

Misato gasped, "What kind of condition is Unit-01 in?" Misato asked.

"Well Unit-01's defensive armour is melted down to the second layer, but the good news is that the central control unit has sustained no damage." Ritsuko reported from the eva-cage,

"If it wasn't for pilot Uchiha's quick reaction, it could've been a lot worse." Maya followed.

"It will take two hours to install replacement parts." The technician declared.

"Understood, what's Unit-00's status?" Misato inquired.

"The reactivation of Unit-00 shouldn't be a problem, but there is still a feedback error remaining." Maya answered.

"So it wouldn't..." Ritsuko concludes.

"Survive combat." Misato followed.

"What is the condition of Unit-01's pilot?" Misato ordered.

"No physical damage, he seems just to be knocked out. So he'll have no problems piloting the eva when he recovers." Hyuga answered as Rei is watching over Sasuke as she nurses a old cracked pair of glasses.

"Who are you, pilot Uchiha?" Rei thought.

"Enemy arrival: Nine hours and fifty five minutes." A voice over the overhead speakers announced.

"Talk about a high pressure situation." Misato commented.

"Why don't we raise a white flag or get pilot Uchiha perform another miracle?" Huyga suggested.

"Before we do that, there's one more little thing I like to try." Misato schemed.


At the training grounds at Kohona, Shinji is sparring with Anko and he gained many cuts and bruises from the hits he had taken.

"Don't shut your eyes! You must stare danger in the eye!" Anko ordered as she lands a front kick into Shinji as he flinched.

"I'm trying!" Shinji protested as he recovered and countered with a crescent kick and Anko blocked it .

"Not good enough!" Anko countered as she caught his foot and got Shinji off-balance and he fell onto the ground but he manged to break his fall. Then Shinji snarled and hooked his right leg around Anko's left ankle then quickly applied the pressure with his left foot in a side-kick position on Anko's left shin which caused her to fall down as well which caused Shinji to give a vicious grin of victory but Anko countered by throwing kunai knives at him. Shinji quickly leaped out of the line of fire and countered with shurikens but Anko vanished in a puff of smoke which was later reveals a log with embedded shurikens in her place.

"Substitution Jutsu." Shinji thought as he recognised what Anko had done then he noticed Anko coming down from above doing a series of hand signs and a snake emerged from the sleeve of her coat and wrapped itself around Shinji's neck.

"You're getting better, but you're still dead." Anko commented with a vicious grin.

"But I did everything that you had taught me." Shinji protested.

"However, you must learn to see beneath the underneath." A third voice reproved and Shinji turned to face the person who had arrived and was relieved it was Kakashi who happened to be reading his orange book.

"Okay pay attention wimp!" Anko commanded.

"Would you please stop calling me that." Shinji protested.

"If you can beat me, it's a deal. Now listen up!" Anko ordered. "I gonna teach you how to do a striking shadow snake, by the way that's how I strangled you." She beamed and she showed Shinji the had signs. "Now you try it." She instructed.

Shinji did the hand signs, "Striking shadow snakes!" He invoked and a snake escaped from his sleeve and it struck a training post.

"Very good Shinji you did it. It sucks that it's only one snake but it's a start." Anko praised. "Now what brought you here Kakashi?" She inquired.

"Oh, it's just that Lady Tsunade has been waiting very patiently for Shinji to meet her at her office about roughly 30 minutes ago." Kakashi answered emphasising "very".

Anko blushed and looked sheepishly with a grin at Shinji. "Okay we're finished go to Tsunade." Anko ordered and Shinji went with Kakashi to the Hokage's tower. "His daddy better watch out when I'm done with him." She thought.

At Tsunade's office Team Gai were bored and Tsunade was pacing. "What's taking Shinji so long!? I should have sent Kakashi to get him." She muttered.

"Well I could've went to retrieve him but you insisted." Gai insisted.

"Yeah and you would've spent all day with him and Lee practicing Tai Jutsu!" Tsunade countered then there was a knock on the door. "Enter!" She called and Shinji and Kakashi entered the office.

"You asked for me?" Shinji asked.

"Shinji, do a tranformation Jutsu!" Tsunade ordered.

"Okay, transform!" Shinji invoked and transformed into a perfect copy of Kakahsi including his orange book.

"Good, drop the transformation and do a clone Jutsu!" Tsunade continued.

"Uh, Iruka-sensei only just taught me about a week ago." Shinji stammered.

"Good that means you had time to practice." Tsunade countered.

Shinji did a hand sign, "Clone jutsu!" he invoked and two duplicates were created.

"It's good enough for me, Shinji catch!" Tsunade ordered as she threw a forehead protector at Shinji and he caught it but it sent him into a wall.

"I think she threw it a bit hard." Kakashi observed.

"He's fine, right Shinji?" Tsunade called.

"Yeah." Shinji groaned as he dusted himself and examine the forehead protector.

"Well then congratulations you had just graduated and now officially a genin but we'll worry about the paperwork after your first mission." Tsunade announced.

"First mission?" Shinji questioned.

"Uh, should Shinji be assigned to a squad before he's sent on his first mission?" Gai reminded.

"Don't worry, I already did that, Shinji is assigned to Team 7 but since I'm training Sakura and Naruto is already assigned with Team 8 and already have left Kohona, I'm assigning Shinji to be with Team Gai for this mission." Tsunade explained as she mentioned Naruto darkly.

Shinji noticed the boy with white eyes and long brown hair stared at him. "So we're doing some D ranked missions?" The boy who was annoyed asked.

"Now Neji, D ranked missions can be perfect to help Shinji settle into our fabulous team. In fact it will give you guys more opportunities to train and show Shinji the power of youth!" Gai boasted.

Neji snorted and another boy who appeared to the clone of Gai approached Shinji. "I'm Rock Lee and he's the best ninja in the village Gai-Sensei!" Lee announced.

"Uh, I'm Shinji Ikari." Shinji introduced.

"Well Shinji looks like the good news is now that you're now a ninja, but..." Kakashi announced.

"There must be a catch." Shinji discerned.

"Yeah, you belong to me." Kakashi intimidates and Shinji gulped.

"Okay now you guys know each other now here's your mission: Before I had sent out Naruto with Team 8, he had rescued three men who request our services. They come from Katabame gold mine, one of the most abundant mines in all the land of rivers. About six months ago a bunch of goons calling themselves the Kurosuke family showed up, ran the magistrate out of town, they taken over the village. Apparently they're killing people left and right." Tsunade explained.

"That is unforgivable!" Lee shouted.

"Once these men have regained their strength, your objective is to escort them back to the Katabame mine and take out this Kurosuke family. A simple mission really, they're probably just a bunch of money grubbing hoodlums." Tsunade instructed.

"This sounds like a "C" ranked mission." Shinji muttered.

"What did you say Ikari!?" Tsunade demanded.

"I just think this is a "C" ranked mission I not sure I feel ready for this." Shinji stammered.

"Shinji we're stretched out as we are and it's impossible to form a new team now. Also what you had demonstrated by holding your ground against Mizuki and the extra training from Anko indicates that you are ready to handle a "C" ranked mission." Tsunade reminded.

"Shinji what you had done have impressed me and Kakashi and I also know that you should be able to handle yourself. Besides my fabulous team will be with you as well so you're in good hands!" Gai boasted with a shiny grin and a thumbs up.

"Right, Neji Hyuga you're team leader and get Shinji up to speed." Tsunade ordered.

"I rather not but I'll give it a go." Neji responded and he bowed and left.

"Oh Shinji, put that forehead protector on!" Tsunade snapped and Shinji complied and placed his forehead protector around his forehead. "Better." She commented and Lee and Shinji left to chase after Neji.

"Um sorry about that, they have no manners you know. Uh wait up you guys!" The girl apologised and left after Neji, Lee and Shinji.

"Hey Neji where are you going?" Shinji asked the he heard a window shattered and noticed a chair flew out of that window and landed on a chunin guard.

"I'm going to see the villagers to see when they're ready to leave, after that either Tenten or I'll let you know when to meet at the main gate." Neji answered.

"Right." Shinji acknowledged.

"Good, I suggest you get your things ready." Neji suggested and left to the hospital.


A few hours later, Shinji and Team Gai were at the main gate of Kohona with the villagers with all their supplies packed.

"Alright, we keep a close eye on our friends here as we head for Katabame, then deal with the Kurosuki family once we arrive." Neji briefed.

"There is a shop that is very close to that village, it can be our home base." Lee suggested and Neji nodded.

"Why do you know about that out there?" Tenten asked.

"Sorry that is a surprise for the journey." Lee answered with a grin.

"I have a bad feeling about this." Shinji thought.

"Right, let's move out." Neji ordered.

After many hours of traveling, Shinji had been practicing with team Gai and Lee helped him work on his Taijutsu and Tenten assisted him with weapons fighting and Lee had even shared a story of his marathon run with Gai-Sensei which lasted for three days which surprised Shinji. As they are approaching the shop Lee was struggling to to keep pace.

"Ah, are you okay?" Shinji inquired.

"I'm fine it's just my body aches just thinking about it. I am so sleepy." Lee answered.

"Are we close to that shop?" Shinji asked as he is beginning to get worried.

"Ah, I almost forgot how thick the scent of curry around here. It is so spicy." Lee announced as he sniffs the air.

"I can smell it too. We must be close." Shinji agreed.

Then Lee was suddenly alert and pointing to the direction right in front of him.

"I was right! It is just up ahead! The curry shop of life!!" Lee boasted which got the attention of the three villagers, Tenten and Neji as he ran towards an elderly lady who was in front of the shop and excitedly greet her. "Grandma Sanshou! Long time no see!" He greeted.

"He must really love this place." Shinji commented.

"So um this is Lee's shop then?" Tenten questioned.

"Um Neji I wonder what does Lee really like about this place?" Shinji asked.

"I don't really want to know." Neji answered as he was watching the villagers.

"That mountain is the Katabame gold mine." One of the villagers announced pointing towards the mountain and Shinji, Tenten and Neji turned to face the mountain.


Later everyone was seated and Lee was testifying how the curry saved his life and Sanshou also remembered her encounter with Lee and Gai and also testified how she and Karashi had cooked a meal for Lee which saved his life. Then the meal was served and Shinji stared at his plate of rice with the black substance which he can only assume it is the curry.

"Now grandma Sanshou went into all trouble making us curry. So let us dig in!" Lee proposed. "I cannot wait!" He commented as Shinji was gasping and everyone else watched as Lee took a spoonful. As he was chewing, his face began to sweat and went red. "Delicious!" Lee boasted and he began to eat his curry rapidly.

Everyone else took a spoonful and reluctantly ate it and their faces went red and their eyes bulged and they nearly pass out from the overwhelming strength of the spice.

"I wonder if anyone else can cook this kind of curry." Shinji panted as he was overwhelmed by the strength of the spice.


At the Strategic Self Defense Force lab, Misato was presenting the requisition order to the staff who were testing the prototype automatic positron cannon.

"For this reason, we, the Special Institute of Nerv, hereby requisition this automatic positron rifle cannon from fifteen hundred hours today." Misato announced.

"Oh, no... You might want it, but it's simply insane!" The head scientist protested.

"We will do our best to return this close in its original condition. Thank you very much for your cooperation and have a nice day." Misato assured then she sneezed. "This is embarrassing! How could I sneeze at a time like this." She thought as she wiped her nose. "It's all yours Rei take it away!" She ordered and Unit-00 lifted the roof to access the prototype. "Be careful! That's a piece of precision machinery." She warned.


Back at the shop of the curry of life Sanshou had briefed Lee about the her grandson Kirashi's departure from home to become strong and his choice to join the Kurosuki family. Lee slammed his hands on the table and began to brood.

"Oh please you must not worry yourself son. I'm not blaming you." Sanshou assured.

"Too late now." Tenten groaned as she recovered.

"I am responsible for this! Neji, I request to incorporate the rescue of Kirashi into our mission. We will bring him back from the route of evil he has taken!" Lee requested as he raised his hand.

"Very well." Neji resigned as he recovered. "We will use this shop as a base of operation and start scouting the village then we can come up with a strategy and make our move." He briefed.

"Rojer!" Lee acknowledged then Neji turned to face the villagers.

"You three have better stay behind here. If we face the Kurosuki family things will definitely get dicey." Neji ordered.


Later during the evening Neji was watching from the bedroom window and Lee was having his supper.

"This is terrible!" One of the villagers panicked as he entered into the ninja's bedroom. "Rokusuke! He's, he's, he's gone!" He announced and Lee gasped.

"He must've gone to town alone! That bastard fool!" Another villager cursed.

"Shinji is already in pursuit! Neji, if those guys found them then..." Tenten announced.

"We must go after them!" Lee urged.

"Let's hurry!" Neji agreed. "I need to talk to Shinji after this." He thought.

At the base of the mountain where Katabame gold mine is located, Shinji remained a certain distance from Rokosuke attempting to shadow him in order for Rokosuke not to notice him. Then Rokosuke stopped in horror right in front of a man who appeared out of the ground, then he shrieked in horror and he collapsed unconscious. Shinji remained hiding to study what the man was going to do next and he noticed that the man had long black hair, pale skin and golden serpent like eyes then the man turned and faced directly where Shinji was hiding. Shinji gasped in horror as his heart began to beat faster as the man smiled.

"Please come out, you know that I know that you are hiding in vain." The man requested and Shinji slowly come out of hiding and approached the man.

"Who, who are you? And how did you know I was shadowing this villager?" Shinji demanded but nervously.

"I see you have a spine after all, I am Orochimaru." Orochimaru answered and Shinji gasped.

"An, Anko-Sensei warned me about you..." Shinji stammered.

"Oh and this is the best she could do with you. I'm disappointed and I thought my former student would've got you straightened out by now." Orochimaru provoked.

"What do you want from me!?" Shinji demanded getting furious.

"Shinji Ikari, you are the only link that can get me to Sasuke Uchiha and you will be a great help to me." Orochimaru answered with a viscous grin.


At Nerv hospital, Sasuke slowly awoke and immediately sat up and looked around then the door to his room slid open which admitted Rei who was pushing a cart wich has a meal and a new plugsuit. Sasuke stared at her as she approached him.

"Pilot Ayanami." Sasuke greeted her.

"Please don't show up looking like that pilot Uchiha." Rei requested.

Sasuke gave a confused look on his face then he realised that Rei had noticed that he was not modest and quickly pulled the bedsheets up to his shoulders with a growl with a slight blush on his face.

"I have been sent here to brief you on the operation Yashima timetables." Rei announced and she pulled out a red book and began to read out the contents. "The operation will begin at midnight zero hundred hours. Prior to that, pilots Uchiha and Ayanami will arrive at the cage by seventeen thirty. At eighteen hundred, Unit-01 and Unit-00 will activate. At eighteen o five, both units will be deployed, they will arrive at the temporary base at Mount Futago at eighteen thirty. Then they will await further orders." She summarised.

"I assume that Misato found a way to get around the angel's AT field." Sasuke assumed.

"I believe so, it will involve the use of a automatic positron rifle which will destroy the angel." Rei responded.

"Which means she's using brute force." Sasuke concluded.

"Here, this is a new one." Said Rei as she threw Sasuke's new plugsuit on his bed. "Your meal." She continued.

"When shall we be departing?" Sasuke asked.

"We will be departing in sixty minutes." Rei answered. "Captain Katsuragi and Doctor Akagi will be waiting for me in the cage." She continued and she turned to leave. "Goodbye." She farewelled and the door slid closed behind her.


Meanwhile not far from Kohona at an hideout, Itachi and Kisame were discussing on Itachi's adventure at Tokyo-3.

"So Itachi, you claimed you had found your brother and not only that you had even encountered beings of great power that can even rival the power of the bijuu." The dark shadowy figure demanded which seemed to have multiple piercings and wild hair.

"Yes and they're artificially constructed and can be controlled a human being and I had witnessed that they were able to destroy a bijuu." Itachi answered.

The members of the Akatsuki murmered about the information that Itachi had disclosed. Then Kisame stepped forward.

"Our team will volunteer to return to that world and attempt to secure an artificial bijuu." Kisame volunteered with a vicious grin and the shadowy figure went into deep thought.

"It will not jeopardise our original plans, but I want to send additional two teams along with you. Sensori and Deidara will sent along with you along with you as well." The shadowy figure announced.

"Tobi wants to come too! Tobi will be good." Tobi pleaded.

"Must he come!?" Another figure who has his head sticking out of a venus fly trap complained.

The shadowy figure paused for a moment. "Zetsu, you and Tobi will scout out that place called Tojyo-3." he conceeded, knowing the consequences if he refused.

"We're ready." Itachi declared and Kisame, Tobi, Zetsu, Deidara and Sensori nodded, then the shadowy figure and the remaining members of the Akatsuki surround the relic and did a series of hand signs.

"Don't fail me." The shadowy figure intimidated. "Dimensional Travel Jutsu!" He invoked and in a bright flash, Itachi, Kisame, Deidar, Sensori, Zetsu and Tobi are gone.


On the balcony of the school, Sasuke's classmates including Touji and Kensuke were waiting impatiently and getting bored as the sun is setting.

"They're really late, we oughta evacuate to the shelter." Touji suggested.

"No way! I've hacked into my dad's data files. I'm absolutely sure this is the time it said." Kensuke defended.

Then a bright flash caught the boys off guard and a blast of wind knocked some of the boys off the edge of the balcony. Touji and Kensuke both recovered and looked up to the source of the bright light and they both noticed six figures wearing black cloaks with red clouds on it. One had a wrapped huge sword sheathed on his back and his face was blue with blue hair, the next had a orange swirl mask with a single eye hole, followed with another who's face is half black and half white with green hair and appears to have a venus flytrap leafs sprouted from the collar of his cloak, next there's a young man with long blonde hair but his left eye seems to be artificial, another seems to be masked and hunched and finally one the one who Touji and Kensuke already met: Itachi Uchiha.

"No it can't be!?" Touji gasped.

"Hey great entrance Itachi! Maybe we should finish them off." The one with the wrapped huge sword suggested as he drew his wrapped sword and pointed it towards Touji and Kensuke.

"No Kisame, we're not here to draw attention to ourselves. We're leaving." Itachi ordered and the remaining cloaked figures nodded and they all leaped away.

"That was too close. Should we tell Sasuke?" Kensuke asked.

"Are you out of your mind?! Sasuke will go berserker if he finds out. Besides, we better get help now!" Touji stressed.

"Okay I'll keep an eye on the injured." Kesnuke agreed and Touji departed to find help as the hill moved and an tunnel opened up to admit Unit-01 and Unit-00 as they were headed for Mount Futago. "I hope Sasuke doesn't find out about this." He thought.


Later at the briefing after the automatic positron cannon has been set up as well the entire supply of power from all over Japan to feed it. Misato is briefing Sasuke and Rei on their mission to destroy the fifth angel.

"The automatic positron cannon is not designed for field operations." Rei stated.

"Point taken, but we have no choice. This is the most expedient way of achieving our goal." Ritsuko justified.

"Listen up! Here are the battle plans for the operation: Rei, your Unit-00 will be the gunner." Misato briefed.

"Understood." Rei acknowledged.

"Sasuke, your Unit-01 will be engaging the angel and provide cover for Unit-00." Misato continued.

"Right." Sasuke acknowledged with a vicious grin on his face.

"The reason for this arrangement is because Sasuke has a higher synch ratio with Unit-01, his training as an ninja and the feats he's capable of. Also due to the feedback error, Unit-00 is not yet ready for direct combat." Ritsuko explained.

"How soon do we move out?" Sasuke asked.

"The operation will commence less than half an hour." Misato answered.

"Also Sasuke, when you are defending Unit-00, you will be using a shield that used to be a part of the space shuttle for re-entry. The electric magnetic base coating guarantees it will stand up to the enemy's particle beam for at least seventeen seconds." Ritsuko informed.

"So use the shield sparingly and only when the angel attacks Unit-00, got it." Sasuke acknowledged.

"Rei, this operation will require an exceptionally high degree of precision. Since the positron beam is influenced by the earth's gravity, magnetic fields and rotation, it will not fire in a straight line. You must remember to adjust for these deviations. You must penatrate the core precisely." Ritsuko reminded and Rei nodded. "Also be aware that before you can fire the rifle a second time, you will first have to wait for the unit to cool then replace the fuses and reload. You got to hit it the first time." She informed.

"Understood." Rei acknowledged.

"It's time! Get geared up." Misato ordered.

After Sasuke and Rei got changed into their plugsuits, Sasuke began to explain to Rei about chakra.

"Okay, now to focus your chakra, you need sit and relax and focus your chakra to your hand sign like I showed you." Sasuke instructed.

Rei complied and as she began to focus her chakra, she felt energy flowing through her body like a river, flowing to her hand sign. "Is this correct, pilot Uchiha?" She asked.

"Yes, now concentrate and the more you do this exercise, the better you'll be able to control your chakra and extend your supply as well." Sasuke informed then an alarm sounded and Rei opened her eyes and she stood up.

"It's time let's go. Goodbye Sasuke." Rei announced.


23:59:57, 23:59:58, 23:59:59, 00:00:00, both Sasuke and Rei are now in their evangelions and the operation begins, at the temporary command centre Misato co-ordinates the battle.

"Commencing operation." Hyuga announced.

"Listen Rei, we're entrusting you with the energy of the entire nation of Japan. I'm counting on you." Misato reminded.

"Rojer." Rei acknowledged.

"Initiate primary connection, do it!" Misato ordered.

"Initiating power transmission from districts numbers from 1 through to 803." Hyuga complied.

"Voltage is rising, water exchange unit is reaching pressure zone." A female staff member announced.

"All cooling systems operating at full power." Hyuga announced.

"Temperature stable. No problems detected." A male staff member reported.

"Rojer. Positron charge is nominal." A female staff member announced.

"Initiate second connection." Misato ordered.

"All accelerators are engaging." The female staff member announced.

"Activate convergence unit now." Maya ordered.


At Nerv headquarters, Commander Gendo Ikari and Sub-Commander Kouzou Fuyutsuki are observing the operation.

"Transmitting all power to Mount Futago temporary substation." A male staff member complied.

"I wonder what surprises Pilot Uchiha have in store this time?" Kouzou wondered.

"No matter what, he has a lot of use here and as long as Itachi doesn't surface, I have Sasuke under my complete control." Gendo assured then a staff member approached.

"Umm commander, there's a problem..." The staff member announced.

"Then out with it! We don't have all day." Kouzou interrogated.

"A confirmed report came in. Itachi Uchiha had been sighted at Tokyo-3 school!" The staff member reported and Gendo went into deep thought. "Not just that, five more individuals were with him, all of them wearing the same outfit, it's assumed that they're all armed." He continued.

"This is not to be discussed with anyone, is that understood corporal?" Gendo demanded.

"Yes sir." The staff member answered.

"You are dismissed." Gendo dismissed returned into deep thought.

"No problems reported with third connection." The male staff member announced.


Back at the Mount Futago temporary base, Unit-00 is arming the positron cannon and positioned itself in a sniper position.

"Release final safety systems." Misato ordered.

"Release final safety lock." Hyuga complied, and in Unit-00 Rei focused her chakra and began to concentrate to lock her positron cannon onto the angel. "Error correction for earth rotation and gravity is 0.0009. Voltage is 0.2 short of critical. 7th to 10th connections engaged, transmitting all energy to the positron rifle!" He announced.

"Sasuke, engage the angel now!" Misato ordered.

As soon Sasuke received the order, he activated his sharingan and Unit-01 with the shield attached to its right arm threw 3 positron knives towards the angel as it charges towards it, but the knives were deflected by the angel's AT field. The angel builds up its chakra as Sasuke predicted and fired its energy beam at Unit-01 and it disappeared in a puff of smoke with a huge piece of mountain left in its place and the beam vapourised it, leaving a crater.

"30, 29, 28, 27, ..." Hyuga counted down the time for Rei is able to fire the rifle and achieve a solid hit.

"Fire style: Fireball jutsu!" Sasuke invoked as Unit-01 breathed out a huge concentrated fire stream towards the angel, burning the street in front of the angel but it was unharmed.

"22, 21, 20, 19, ..." Hyuga continued to count down then the angel began to aim it's energy beam towards Unit-00.

"High energy output detected inside the target, it's aimed at Unit-00!" Maya announced.

"No! Not again!" Ritsuko stressed.

"Sasuke, cover Unit-00 now!" Misato ordered.

Sasuke was already moving Unit-01 to cover Unit-00 and crouched with the shield facing the angel and the angel fired its energy beam and directly hit the shield. After several seconds as Rei is concentrating to lock onto the target, then shield began to melt.

"Are we ready!?" Misato demanded.

"7 more seconds!" Hyuga answered.

Just as the shield become useless, Rei managed to get a lock and fired the positron cannon, the positron beam had penetrated the angel's AT field and pierced through the angel's core.

"Yeah! We made it!" Misato cheered as the angel caught fire and lied on the ground silent.

Unit-01 collapsed onto the ground and Rei gasped. "Is Sasuke injured?" She thought, then she noticed the back panel of Unit-01 opened and the entryplug emerged from the evangelion with the LCL discharging. Later Rei noticed the hatch opening and Sasuke was struggling to climb out. Then Rei also decided to leave her evangelion and ran towards Sasuke.

"Is the angel..." Sasuke asked.

"The operation was successful." Rei interrupted and Sasuke looked at Rei. "Sasuke, I want to learn more of your ways, I am curious about life as a ninja." Rei stated.

"First, I am an avenger Rei. You must choose your own path." Sasuke responded.

"I don't understand. I was only to exist just to pilot the evangelion." Said Rei.

"Do you want to pilot it?" Sasuke asked.

"I am bonded to it." Rei answered and Sasuke sighed at her answer. "Why do you choose to be an avenger?" She asked.

"I am to restore honor to my clan, that certain someone had taken everything that was precious to me and I will destroy him in return." Sasuke answered darkly.

"I have nothing else Sasuke, I am bonded to all people." Rei stated.

"So you would pilot the evangelion to protect all people?" Sasuke inquired.

"Yes, what would that make me?" Rei asked.

"A protector." Sasuke answered.

"Then I choose my path as a ninja and eva pilot to be a protector as you chose your path to be an avenger." Rei announced.

Sasuke was satisfied with Rei's answer and believed Rei had chosen her path with her free will and for the first time in a long time Sasuke cracked a genuine smile and Rei returned hers.

TBC

In the next chapter, Sasuke will meet Asuka and this will definitely rock an air craft carrier!