Disclaimer: I do not own the copyrights to Gundam Wing, Endless Waltz, Evangelion, or any songs that are used in this story. All copyrights belong to their respective owners.

Readers Note: This is a re-post. Also this contains major spoilers for Evangelion, so if you haven't seen the whole series I wouldn't recommend reading this.

Neon Genesis Evangelion

&

Gundam Wing

Evangundam

Chapter 10: Stay or Go?

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The decision was hard to make for Shinji. He sat at the table with Johan and Haruka trying to figure out whether he should report his findings or to simply keep quiet as always. The answers would not come as easily to Shinji, so outside assistance was needed.

"I did find the tear." He said, "That means we can go home, but I don't want to go back to that. I told you how it is for me back there. You tell me, would you go back to that?"

Johan closed his eyes and shrugged, "I don't know." He said, "If you feel that badly about it, do you want to stay here?"

"That's the other part, I know that I can't stay here because this isn't my place."

Haruka added her own thoughts, the same thoughts that brought Johan back to his Gundam, "Home is where the heart is Shinji. If your heart is back there then I would go back to it and hell with everything else."

Shinji looked them both, "I will."

Shinji immediately got up and went off into the crowds.

"Where do you think he's going?" Johan asked

"He's probably going to look for the other Evangelions to tell them about the tear."

"There's something else that concerns me." Johan said, "From what we've heard from the Evangelions we have to hope that they won't tell Nerv about us."

"Why do you say that?"

"If Nerv knows about this Universe, my guess is that they'll try to exploit the situation."

Beyond the crowds away from Johan and Haruka, Shinji had found Asuka and Misato. He sat down at their table with his eyes wide and his mouth open ready to state his discovery.

"What is it Shinji?" Misato asked

"I found the tear." Shinji stated, "We can go home."

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After the party was over, the sun was setting over the sea to the west of the Sank Kingdom. The Preventers and the Evangelions stood at the foot of the tear getting ready to enter it. This was the moment that they had been waiting for such a long time. Now this was it they were going home, whether it'll cause Shinji pain or not, didn't matter.

The Evangelions had changed back to their clothes that they had arrived in a month ago. Shinji's white shirt and dark pants, Asuka's dress, and Misato's clothes with her red coat they were ready.

"Let's go home already!" Asuka bellowed

"Patience." Quatre called, "You'd do good to learn patience, Asuka."

The good-byes were said.

"Good bye." Heero said

"Have a nice life." Duo smiled

"Take care." Trowa waved

"I wish you all happiness." Quatre grinned

Wufei simply bowed to the Evangelions.

Kazuki gave a thumbs up to the Evangelions, "Go kick the Angels ass!"

"May you all have peace." Miliardo said

"Bye, me droogs." Alexandria winked

Johan smiled, he walked towards Shinji Ikari, he reached into his pocket and pulled out a tape, "This is for you." He said, "It's become customary that we give a gift to whoever visits our world."

Shinji took the tape and looked at it, he knew that it would fit in his tape player but he wondered, "What's on it?" He asked

"A special selection of songs." Johan smiled, "Enjoy it, but before you go I should tell you Shinji to be careful when you go back home."

"Why is that?" Shinji asked.

"I have a feeling that you'll encounter some real rough times ahead, just keep your head up and your will strong."

"I'll try." Shinji said, "but I have something for you." He reached into his pocket and pulled out two odd looking objects, "These are sync nodes from my Eva. I'd like you to keep them as a reminder of me."

Johan took the sync nodes, "We won't forget any of you." Johan made his farewell

"Neither will we." Misato acknowledged, "We hope to see you again in the future."

"Good bye." Shinji waved

"See you later." Asuka smiled

The three stepped through the tear to their own world as the tear closed on both sides like a door that was closing. Except the tear closed like that of an iris for a camera, each diamond side, shrinking down to a center, until the tear was completely closed.

The Evangelions were now in their own home, a place that they had missed for a month.

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On the other side of the tear in the Evangelions home universe they looked around and found themselves on a hillside looking out towards Tokyo-3. They saw the buildings that still stood as proud as they ever have. Nothing was damaged, so that mean in whatever time had passed between both worlds, no angel attacks were made.

The three of them looked almost shocked as if they had been in a cave and were now seeing the world for the first time. The three of them looked out wondering if Nerv had signed the death certificates, since they had been gone for the past month.

Suddenly Misato's cell phone rang, he picked it up, "Hello?" She spoke into it.

"Misato," A woman's voice came through, "it's Ritsuko."

"Hi, Ritsuko. How long we're we gone?"

"Gone?" Ritsuko asked as if shocked by electricity, "You didn't go anywhere. You left from the tear near your apartment and now we just detected a tear in the mountains. You didn't go anywhere. So please report back to headquarters and give a report."

"We're on our way." Misato said as she hung up and slipped the cell phone into her pocket.

In this world it was as if they hadn't left, even though they spent all that time in hiding with the Preventers it should have been that same amount of time here. Why wasn't it? That was the question that Misato had on her mind, but for now she had to tell Shinji and Asuka this.

"That was Ritsuko." She explained, "She said we didn't leave, we left from our apartment building and arrived here. No time passed here."

"Isn't that a good thing?" Asuka said

"I guess so." Misato shrugged, "Now they're asking us to give a report on what happened while we made the trip. I think we shouldn't tell them about the Gundams or what happened over there."

"Why not?" Asuka asked, "We were heroes over there."

"I have a feeling that the tear was opened for a reason and that was to help the Gundams. If we didn't they would have been killed. Now that we've helped them, our task is done over there. Let's get back to what we have to do and defeat the angels. So promise me, both of you that you will not share any of these experiences with anyone, not even with each other."

"I promise." Shinji said

Asuka reluctantly agreed, "I agree." She moaned

"Let's get back to Nerv." Misato exhaled

As the two walked down into the city of Tokyo-3, Shinji suddenly felt something in his pocket. He pulled it out and it was the medal he received the Congressional Shield of Peace and Honor. He held the gold and silver medal in his hand thinking back to all of what he experienced in the Gundam universe. He even thought back to the visions he had while he was in the Zero room. Why was he shown that, was it all just random data or was it a premonition of the future? That will be left to the whims of time. Shinji shoved the medal into his pocket and pulled out the tape that the Gundam Pilot had given him. He placed it into his tape player and began to listen as he followed Asuka and Misato back to Tokyo-3.

Is this the real life
Is this just fantasy
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go,
A little high, little low,
Anyway the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me,
To me
Mama, just killed a man,
Put a gun against his head,
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead,
Mama, life had just begun,
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
Mama oooh,
Didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters
Too late, my time has come,
Sends shivers down my spine
Body's aching all the time,
Goodbye everybody, I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama oooh (any way the wind blows)
I don't want to die,
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all

End…

Author's Notes: I felt that it would be appropriate for the Evangelions to not share with their co-workers about what had happened while they went through the tear. The reason I did is because I feel that if Nerv were to get their hands on it then who knows what they could have done to the Gundams or to their pilots for that matter. So I simply had Misato, Asuka and Shinji keep this experience to themselves. The song that I picked was Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, the reason why I picked this one is because of a music video I once saw that was set to this song. I felt that it fit Shinji quite nicely so that's the reason for this song.

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