Diamond Shaped Fortress

DISCLAIMER: I still don't own anything.

As the alert klaxons made noise and Shinji was rushing to the locker room to get his plug suit, Rei was getting ready for her first battle.

The bridge staff was furiously trying to get some info about the Angel, but to no avail.

As Shinji was running to his EVA, he kept thinking about something: 'That Angel on the monitor doesn't have any tentacles or arms, so it must have some kind of beam weapon.'

When he reached his plug and closed the hatch, he called over to Misato: "Hey Misato, what is the location of the Angel?"

"It's currently at the countryside, over the northern part of the Geofront." The captain answered.

"Is it staying in position?" He asked.

"Yes. It has released some kind of a drill to reach this place." She answered.

"How long it will take it to penetrate the surface?"

"18 hours 9 minutes."

"Send a decoy."

"Why?"

"So we can find out how this thing attacks."

Makoto didn't wait for the order and punched in the command.

The decoy appeared from the Angels left, one mile away and when the decoy raised the weapon, the Angel shot it.

Ritsuko spoke up: "A particle beam. Strong enough to penetrate an AT field."

Misato then said: "So hand to hand combat is out of the question."

"Yup. So what are we going to do?" The blond asked the purple head.

Misato kept thinking.

During the time, the pilots climbed out from their plugs when they were not going to get moving yet.

They walked next to each other and Shinji initiated the conversation.

"So Rei, how would you handle this Angel, since we can't get close enough to use our knifes?"

"We should try to shoot it. But our weapons are not strong enough to penetrate the AT field." Was her reply.

Shinji thought about that for a while and said: "Rei, you are a genius." And he ran towards the command bridge.

When he got there, he noticed Maya and two other computer technicians, as well as the blond doctor and his guardian. The commanders were nowhere in sight.

"Hey Misato, so we have a sniper rifle that is powerful enough to penetrate the Angels AT field?" He asked her.

"Sniper rifle we have but it's not powerful enough." She answered.

"I might have just the thing." Shinji and Misato turned to look at the doctor.

"JSSDF has a new positron cannon, that works as a sniper rifle for the EVA, so if they only could assemble it and we could get all the power of Japan in that gun, the charge should be have enough power to punch through the field." She explained.

"It might work. I'll get the approval and you call the JSSDF to get that gun ready for use." Misato said and ran to the Commanders office.

15 hours later.

Approvals and everything was settled and the pilots were briefed for the mission.

Now they were just waiting for the order to proceed.

(A.N. The pilots were waiting in the same way they were in the series and everything worked in the same way, except the hospital scene.)

Shinji spoke up to Rei. "Rei, are you nervous?"

"Yes." Was her blunt reply.

"It's understandable. But I will cover you with that shield and you will be okay, if you don't panic." Shinji tried to reassure her.

"Thank you for the advise Shinji. And if we survive this, we can go to have that dinner you offered."

"That's right Rei. Just let the targeting computer to lock on target and then pull the trigger. You will do just fine, I'm sure of it."

"Thank you Shinji. You know how to calm me down. And I won't let you down.

And I will not miss." Rei said back.

"That's the spirit Rei. Never hesitate." Shinji said.

Rei looked at the clock in her wrist and said. "It's time Shinji. Let's do this."

They entered their entry plugs and went to their positions.

Everything was ready and now Rei was waiting for the computer to lock on.

"The weapon is charged and ready to fire." Maya called out.

"Rei, FIRE!" Misato exclaimed.

Rei fired the gun.

The beam cut through the air towards the Angel and penetrated the orange wall.

The Angel fell to the ground and died, exploding.

Everyone in the control room cheered for their victory.

Shinji and Rei walked to the elevators and began their decent in their EVAS resting place.

During their decent: "Rei said to Shinji over the inter – comm.: "That was a brilliant move to cover our presence from the Angel using the AT field."

"I just thought that one up and I wasn't even sure if it would work, but it did. But now it's time for us to go to the dinner."

"Yes Shinji. Let's go, because I'm starving." Rei said.

Shinji nodded and closed the link. Then Ritsuko appeared to monitor on his right: "Using At filed to mask your presence was a great move Shinji. Now we can use that as our advantage."

"You are right doc. But let's skip the congratulations for later and call it a day."

Shinji said.

"We will do that. Good work Shinji." Ritsuko said.

"I just stood there. Rei pulled the trigger." Shinji said back.

"Yeah, but The Angel didn't notice you, because you invented a new trick for the AT field."

"So the glory goes 70-30 for Rei and I." Shinji said.

"Well that's one way to put it, but great job nonetheless."

"Thank you." Shinji said and closed the comm.-link.

When the EVAs arrived at the destination, the pilots climbed out and went for their showers.

Authors Note: This chapter is not as long as you expected, but longer then the previous one, if only for a little bit. The reason for this is that I'm not very fond for chapters that are just action, so I cut it short, but the scenes where is the romance is the thing I like. There will be some action in the next chapter and guess who's coming over. And how will a certain someone's react when they meet each other.

Next chapter in progress.