Third Impact AU. Shinji Ikari survives Third Impact only to find out that the end of everything is just the beginning...

The world returned to life after the third impact. Slowly. A decade passed since the sea turned red and the sky was filled with monsters. As the last soul marred by the impacts walks ashore, two higher beings look down upon the world they have wrought.

What would happen if we had everything we ever wanted? What if certain tragedies, in the past, were averted? One would normally think this would make a better world. Some old traumas could be gone. But the new pains could be worse.